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A02895	The pageant of popes contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the yeare of Grace 1555. Deuided into iii. sortes bishops, archbishops, and popes, vvhereof the two first are contayned in two bookes, and the third sort in fiue. In the vvhich is manifestlye shevved the beginning of Antichriste and increasing to his fulnesse, and also the vvayning of his povver againe, accordinge to the prophecye of Iohn in the Apocalips. ... Written in Latin by Maister Bale, and now Englished with sondrye additions by I.S.; Acta Romanorum pontificum. English	Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Studley, John, 1545?-1590?	1574 (1574)	STC 1304; ESTC S100602	276,183	440

as is before mentioned who came to Rome and besieged it wyth a great armye and after one or two battailes was wyth his companye put to flight The Emperour willinge to ende this sciesme sent to Rome Otho archbishop of Collen with his auctoritye to debate the matter who comming to Rome began with a sharpe oration to reproue the intrusion of Alexander to amplifye the Emperours auctoritye in the election of the Pope But the mischeuous Hildebrand puft vp with his late victory did interrupt Otho and stoutly defended the Popes doing auouching that the election belonged onely to the clergye whereunto Otho the bishop in this case more fauouring the Pope then his maister did easelye giue place and desired to haue a councell at Mantua to appease the matter Wherin was decreed that a man oughte not to heare masse of a priest that laye with a concubine that maryed priests shoulde leese their liuings And yet their children wyth the Popes dispensation might take orders That the Pope should be chosen onely by Cardinals But this Alexander perceyuinge at the length sayth Benno that it was but for a pollicye of Hildebrand that he was made Pope by the Emperours ennemyes to spite him withall began to mislyke of it with himselfe and on a time as he was preaching to the people he tolde them that he would not any longer enioye the Apostolicall seate without the Emperours good will and professed opēly that he would send letters to the Emperour for the same purpose Hildebrand hearinge this was forthwith so enraged that presentlye he began to mumble curse and fret and could scant keepe his hand from the Pope till masse were done Masse beinge done he toke the Pope and wyth a troupe of armed souldiours he led him into his chamber where with his fistes he buffeted and bepomelled him shamefullye rating and taunting him wyth rayling and reuiling wordes because he would go aboute to seeke the Emperours fauour And from that time forwarde Hildebrand because he saw him so simple allowed him but fiue shillinges a daye to spende and the rest of the reuenues he retayned to himselfe and casting Alexander into prison he purloyned a great masse of money Alexander beinge thus in the miserable bondage of Hildebrand in an eueninge dyed God knoweth whereof and the same houre Hildebrand was enstalled Pope by his garrison of souldiours without consente of the people or clergye because he feared that if he had delayed it another shoulde haue bene chosen None of the Cardinals subscribed to his election vnto the which when the abbot of Cassia came Brother quoth Hildebrand ye haue lingred ouer longe you quoth the abbot haue hied you ouer fast who ere your maister the Pope be yet buryed haue vsurped his place contrarye to the Canons Hildebrand being thus chosen how he liued howe he draue the Cardinals from him howe he tormented them miserablye how he poysoned the world w t heresyes how often he committed periurye howe great many conspiracyes he raysed it is harde for manye men to vtter But most of all the bloud of many Christiās which by him and his meanes haue beene miserablye shedde do crye oute vengeaunce on him Thus and much more doth Benno the Cardinall write of him 98. Gregorie the seuenth GRegorie the seuenth was first called Hildebrand borne in Hetruria a notable cōiurer and great Magician he gat to be Pope by his saluage sorcerye bloudy meanes He forsaking the abbey wher he was monke gat to one Laurence an archpriest of whom he learned his notorious enchauntments which the sayd Laurence had learned of Pope Syluester the seconde There was greate familiaritye betweene this Laurence Theophylact Iohn Gratian Hildebrand being archpriests or Cardinals of Rome wherby this Hildebrand by his subtiltye bare all the swaye w t Theophylact while he was bishop vnder the name of Benedict the ninth and so he cōtinued in his factious dealing in al other Popes times till he came to the place himselfe Benno Cardinall wryteth of him that when hee listed hee would caste of his sleeues and skip and daunce in forme of sparkles or flames of fyer and with these myracles he deluded the eyes of the simple people bearing them in hande it was a signe of his greate holinesse And sayth Benno because the deuill could not openlye persecute Christians by Pagans he practised craftelye to ouerthrowe the name of Christe by this counterfaite monke vnder the colour of religion Diuers auctors do write that this Hildebrand or hellybrand rather by the helpe of his companiō Gerardꝰ Brazutus poysoned vi or vii Popes so to open himselfe a gap to come to be Pope and yet hee in these broyles behaued himselfe so subtellye that no man could charge him therewithall that it was rather thought he sought to shonne the Popeship And yet when in name he was not Pope yet was he the onely instrument and contriuer of all their doings and deuises and began to worke by litle and litle vnder other which he brought to perfectiō in his owne time Under coulour of religion and godlines he practized all treachery and mischiefe He accused Pope Alexander his maister because he had craued the Emperours assistaūce against his aduersaries His accusatiō was this that he was vnmeete to be Pope according to the Canons who cōtrary to the Canons had craued ayde of a prophane Prince cast him into prison where he wrought his death forthwith ere he was buryed vsurped his place He imparted his treasure sayth Benno to Brazutus and to a certaine Iewe that were his companions and by theyr meanes he purchased the voyces of diuers who ere that Alexander was buryed cryed out amayne Peter the Apostle hath chosen Hildebrand to be Pope so they set him in the Popes throne callinge him Gregorie the seuenth And this was done in the thousand yeare after the destruction of Hierusalem in the which yeare the Popes began to challenge take vppon them the name office and power of Christe for it was proclaymed at the enstalling of this Gregorie that he was created the true vicar of Christ Gregorie applyed vnto himselfe those thinges that are spoken in the 7. Psalme of Christe Hee altered the lawes of God for where the Scripture licēceth al estates to marrye he barred the clergye therof forcing thē to vow single life aboue their abilitye Now was the Scripture in him fulfilled prophesyinge of the warre of Gog and Magog which this Gregorie broched so perillouslye to all Christendome as the like neuer happened which his companion Vrban the second did execute Gregorie at the first entrye to his Popeship began to vrge such canons as he had in his auncestours time procured against priestes mariage and the bestowinge of benefices by temporall men which hee did not of purpose to take away the abuse of byinge and sellinge of ecclesiastical lyuings but with a fayre showe to abridge Princes and other estates of their preeminence in that matter whereby

and ●yre Oft to rebell whose burning breath set all the world on fyre Who hath blasphemd our glorious God w t thousand mischiefs more Loe to be briefe such is the beast of whom I spake before Which earst discouered was by Bale among the rockes of Rome And by the painfull penne of S. is into England come That euery man may know the same and learne to shone the beast Who while she lorked close did spye mankinde by East and Weast Accept therfore my friendes good will that thus his trauell spent Prayse God for it and him for payne that this vnto thee sent FINIS THE FIRST BOOKE of the Pageant of Popes S. Peter not bishop of Rome FOR so muche as the Bishops of Rome haue claimed and doo still clayme their vsurped supremacy by right of inheritāce and succession from Peter because he as they pretend was bishop of Rome at the least .xxv. yeares and so tied all this dignitie and prerogatiue whiche they fight for to his chayre for euer It shal be therfore nedeful to consider how likely it is to be true that Peter continued bishop in Rome according to their boasting This matter shal be the better displayed if these three pointes be layde open to the readers eye that is the yeare that Peter came to Rome the yeres that Peter sat at Rome and the death of Peter ¶ Of S. Peters comming to Rome Touching the time of his comming to Rome their own histories doe wryte so vncertainly that it semeth more certaine that he neuer came there First their legendary of saintes liues called Passionale counteth that he came not there till the xiii yeare of Claudius and that should be the 55. yeare of the incarnacion of Christe and 22. yeare after his death Platina saith that in the second yere of Claudius being the xi yeare after the death of Christe Peter cam to Rome being the head of the worlde partly because he perceiued that this was a seate pontificali dignitati conuenientem fit for pōtifical dignitie partly because of Simon Magus Thus he maketh that partly ambicion and dignitie drewe Peter to Rome there to take his ease contrary to the duty and doing of the poore paynfull and godly Apostle who as he had in charge by Iesus Christe trauailed stil from place to place not for the dignitie of a bishop at Rome but to plant the Gospell throughout the worlde Orosius sayth he came soner euen in the beginning of the raigne of Claudius lib. 7. cap. 6. Fasciculus temporum saith he came not till the fourth yeare of Claudius Eusebius saithe that by Gods especiall prouidence he came to Rome Euestigio sub ipso Claudij imperio Out of hande vnder Claudius his raigne Peter came to Rome because of Simon Magus Vspergensis saith some reporte that he came in the beginning of the raigne of Claudius some saye not till the seconde yeare Other saye that he came not till the fourth yeare of his regiment Againe some thinke that he came in the beginning thereof but toke not vpon him to be byshop till the fourth yeare of Claudius Other thinke that he was bishop forthwith as sone as he came Sabellicus saith that he came to Rome altero anno regiminis eius Claudij in the second yeare of Claudius his regiment Naucler saith that he came to Rome in the fourth yere of Claudius and began his bishoprike the same yeare in Rome in secunda generatione vol 2. It were to long to recite all the opinions of Peters cōming to Rome and his enstalling but by these it may appeare howe the Romaine Iury can giue no certain verdit vpon suche vnconstant euidence ¶ The continuance of Peter in his Bishoprike S. Ierome sayth he raigned xxvii yeares Beda sayth he sat at Rome xxix yeares Fasciculus Temporum hitteth it iump and misseth not one daye saying he was martyred by Nero after he had bene bishop of Rome xxv yeres vii monethes viii days The moste do agree to this accompt as Vspergensis Platina and other that he raigned not aboue xxv yeares ¶ Peters death NIcephorus sayth he was buried in the xxxvii yeare after the death of Christe Of these premisses this is to be gathered that Peter came to Rome at the furthest in the fourth yeare of Claudius and that is the xiii yeare after the death of Christe and raigned there xxv yeares at the least and was put to death there in the last yeare of Nero being the 38. yeare after the death of Christe This semeth to be moste probable and in taking this tyme we shall seme to deale most fauourably with the papiste who would so fayne deriue this bastard braūche of Romain prelates from the holy Apostle so that if it can be proued that Peter sat not bishop of Rome these xxv yeares then must the Pope seke out a new petagrewe for his succession falsely fathered vpon Peter his auncient continuance of hundred yeres being disproued by the scripture being more auncient can proue nothing for lawfull regiment but rather improue him of vnlawefull vsurping for so long time And therfore for the more euidēt vnderstanding hereof it shal be moste cōuenient to conferre the yeares of the Emperours with the yeares of Christ his incarnation and death whiche for the more ease I haue set foorth in this table folowing wherein appeareth that our sauiour Christe suffered death in the 33. yeare of his age in the 18. yeare of Tiberius who raigned in all 23. yeares therof v. yeres after Christes death The next is Caligula raigning three yeares x. monethes viii dayes Then succeded Claudius for 13. yeares 8. monethes and 28. dayes Last was Nero continuing 13. yeares 10. monethes and 18 dayes all whiche time being added together doth make almoste 37. yeares whiche is the time that Peter lyued after the death of our sauiour as Nicephorus testifieth The yeares of Christes incarnatiō The yeares after Christes death The yeares of the Emperours The yeares after Paul conuersion 33 Christ died Tiberins 18   34 1 19   35 2 20 Paule con 36 3 21 1 37 4 22 2 38 5 23 3 39 6 Caligula 4 40 7 2 5 41 8 3 6 42 9 4 7 43 10 Claudius 8 44 11 2 9 45 12 3 10 46 13 4 11 47 14 5 12 48 15 6 13 49 16 7 14 50 17 8 15 51 18 9 16 52 19 10 17 53 20 11 18 54 21 12 19 55 22 13 20 56 23 14 21 57 24 Nero. 22 58 25 2 23 59 26 3 24 60 27 4 25 61 28 5 26 62 29 6 27 63 30 7 28 64 31 8 29 65 32 9 30 66 33 10 31 67 34 11 22 68 35 12 33 69 36 13 34 70 37 14 35     Galba   Whether Peter were bishop of Rome before the death of Christe seing there is no question to be made it nedeth not to be spoken of for the time after his death it followeth that for the first

the ennemy of Christe whiche neuerthelesse should speake like a Dragon like an euill spirite and should rage as vnmercifully as the firste beast did whiche destroyed Peter and Paule and great companies of fainctes whiche with her charmes should so bewitche the worlde and with monstrous workes should growe into suche admiration that none might by or sell but such as had the seale or the name of the beaste in his forehead But as touching the name of the beaste he shewes it mistically by these letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ch X St reciteth it to be discussed This saith Iohn is wysedome let him that hath vnderstanding accompt the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his nūber is this 666. Apocal. 13. What meane thefe markes but that wee should searche the time wherein this beaste should arise from the earth and the bottomlesse pitte and should destroye the Christian common wealth But howe shall a man apply it if he haue not the certaine time when Pompeie toke the scepter from the Iewes according to the notable prophecie of Iacob entring the temple prophaned the Sanctum sanctorum But that was done as Iosephus wryteth in the time of Tullius consulship the 60. yeare before Christe was borne To these three score yeares adde six hundred vntill after the death of the sayd Gregorie the great who prophecied that he should be Antechriste whiche would be compted vniuersall bishop or head of all churches Therefore marke well what kinde of times happened in the 666. yeare after Hierusalem was taken by the Romaines Pompeie being their general and you shall se straunge matters fal out at the time that this Phocas was Emperour of whome VVilliam Stantphurdius wryteth as foloweth The Empier Phocas chokes and doth the Popedome first aduaunce By wicked writts about his Empier sent for to enhaunce And to confirme moste sure foray vnto the after age The premacy of Rome and of the dragon that doth rage Against Gods power Furthermore applie this misticall number of 666. containing highe wisedom in i● frō the time of Christes birth or from the tyme of his passion or from the xv yere of Domician at whiche time the reuelation was written and stil ye shal finde some mōsterous thing wrought in the church But to returne to the matter of Englande In the yeare of Christe 593. Colman Harding and Fabian saye that the raigne of the seuen kinges at one time began whereby 173● yeares after Brutus their first king the royall estate of the Brytishe king ceased For as Paulus Diaconus writeth in his fourth booke the Britaines founde t●at the Saxons were in steade of succourers suppressours and cruell ennemies vntrusty warring rigorously vpon them who had entertained them for ayde Anno 596. the foresaid Augustine sent from Gregorie came into Englande who at his comming did not reproue but maintaine and vpholde the wicked treasons the horrible robberies the slaughters more cruell then were Neroes whiche the Saxons cōmitted Anno ▪ 600. Gregorie gaue to Augustine his byshops pall Thereby as was sayde London was spoyled of her right without all order to the destruction bothe of the commonwealth and of religion and finally the vndoing of the Brytishe kingdome and thereupon are sumptuous tēples builded Before that time the Britains had their churches dedicated to eternall God the father and to our sauiour his sonne Iesus Christe But afterwarde the Saxōs did cōsecrate their temples to Images and dead sainctes ▪ Anno. 604. the Christiā Emperour Maurice being slaine Phocas an adulterer and a murtherer obtayned the seate imperiall and in him the maiestie of the Caesars and the moste noble Empire of the Grekes decayed together As for the Romaine Empire that was weakened and empaired yea and at length brought to nothing by meanes of the Popedome whiche he had graunted and established Anno 606. in Nouember and December as Paulus Diaconus writeth in his 18. booke euen at the rising and beginning of the Popedome there appeared a wonderfull great blasing starre There were straunge sightes and monsters of the Sea shewed them selues to the terrour of many Thus in the time of this Phocas murderer of the Emperour whiche is to be noted as a misterie concerning the Popes Papistrie and Mahumets religion began bothe together at one time which corrupted darkened and weakened the doctrine of the sonne of God in many regions For in another yeare of the same Phocas as Bibliander writeth Mahumet recited the Alcoran so that saieth hee the Egles three heades awaked all at ones according to the heauenly vision in the fourth booke of Esdras that is to saye Phocas him selfe Pope Boniface Mahumet the Arabian now followeth the thirde troupe of Romishe Popes whiche is deuided into fiue partes The firste parte of this thirde troupes of the Popes or Romaine Antechristes prophecied of by the names of Sodome or Egypt Apocal. 11. vntill the time of Pope Iohn the eight 1. Boniface the thirde ABout this time the bishoppers of Constantinople endeuoured to obstaine the title of vniuersall bishop and to haue their Church called the head of all Churches vsing these fonde reasons that because the Emperour beinge chiefe of all Princes kepte at Constantinople therefore that shoulde be the chiefest Church and there the chiefe bishop This ambitiō enflamed many to speake and wryte against it but especiallye the late Gregorye who in this wyse reproued Iohn bishop of Constantinople for the same Sayinge None of my predecessors although the Emperours began first in Rome and were wont to byde there onelye and yet do keepe the title thereof durste take vppon them this title of vniuersall bishop And againe Gregorye sayd plainlye that such a one was the forerunner of Antichrist Yet notwithstanding that the Church of Constantinople with great infamye preuailed not herein because that Antichrist or the whore of Babilon according to the 13. of the Reuelation should be in the Citty builded on seuen hilles that is Rome it selfe For so diuers auctors testifye that onelye Rome is knowen to be builded on vii hils and certaine it is that when this Reuelation was written Rome was then the greatest Cittye being built on seuen hils as Mantuan testifyeth in the life of Syluester speaking of S. Blaze at the ende of the first booke And the fulnesse of that time prophecied of now drawing nighe this Boniface the thirde Anno 607. by the meanes of Phocas the Emperour an adulterer traytour and murtherer of his Lorde and soueraine Maurice the Emperour with his wife and children was aduaunced to be bishop of Rome with much hurley burley and greate tumulte and in despite of manye bishops and Churches standinge against it he is extolled confirmed and worshipped as Lorde and Prince of all bishoppes By great sute but greater bribery he obtayned of the sayde bloudye Emperour that Rome should be called the head of all Churches partlye by the same reasons that Constantinople vsed as Platina sayth that where the heade

dominicans he left to the Church great store of treasure he kept diuers concubines he dyed of an ague while he was hyring one Zotus a conning painter to por●rature the storyes of martyrs in his newe buildinges Anno 1342. Of whom these Uerses were made Iste fuit vero laicis mors vipera clero Deuius a vero turba repleta mero About this time Iohn Stratford beinge bishop of Canterbury did greatly abuse king Edward the thirde both in defraudinge him of his treasure when he needed it most in his warres in Fraunce and refusing obstinatly afterward to come at the kinges commaundement to aunsweare vntill time place serued according to his owne pleasure Benedicts cōmon sayings were these to be noted Be thou such a sonne as thou desirest to haue cosens The euil ma● dreadeth death but the good man feareth him more Those thinges that thou hast learned keepe by reading and get by learning those thinges that thou wantest It is as great shame to haue no freindes as to chaunge them oft It is more dishonour to a Prince to be ouercome with benefits then by force of armes 139. Clement the sixt CLement the sixt borne in Lemonia by professiō a Benedictine called before Peter Rogers being abbot of Phisca succeded Benedict at Auenio This mā with his faction troubled the Romaine Empire aboue measure for he excommunicated sayth Naucler all the Princes lordes and bishops that consented to the doings of Lewis To deface the Emperour he created Uicountes and made them Uicares of the Empyre Lewis on the other side appointed other Uicares to gouerne the Church Ierom Marius in his booke called Eusebius Captiuus doth thus set out the rigour of Pope Clement Clement the sixt sayth he much giuen to women honour and auctoritye prouoked with diuelishe furye set vp bills in wrytinge vpon Church doares wherein he threatned the Emperour to be punished w t more cruell tormentes vnlesse he woulde obey the Popes minde and that within three dayes and would giue vp his right of the estate imperiall Great was the cruelty of this Clement voyde of clemency The Emperour commeth to Frankeforde and preparing with all diligence to do all that was commaunded besought the Pope by his Embassadours to pardon him and to receiue him to fauour But the Pope aunswered the Embassadours that he would neuer pardon Lewis vnlesse he would first confesse all his errours and heresyes and yelde vp the Empire and put into the Popes hand both himselfe his children goodes possessions to dispose them at his pleasure would promise that he would neuer more enioy any part thereof without the fauour of the Pope deliuered a certaine fourme of of these articles in wryting to the Embassadours cōmaūding them to carye the same to Lewis The good Emperour least if he did not thus submit himselfe it mighte bee cause of slaughter and sedition receiued the order taken by the Pope and looking vpon it was content in such wyfe to saue Christian bloud and therefore he did not onely set his seale to it but gaue his oath to performe all Which when the Pope heard he waxed angrye But note whether hee toke the Emperour to fauoure and whether he shewed anye token of good will by that which followeth Lewis shewed that order to the Princes electours and oratours The Princes detested and abhorred certaine of the articles because they were deuised by the Pope to the confusion of the Empyre and therfore they promised sufficient ayde to the Emperour if as he did before he would maintaine the libertye and honour of the Empyre They sence Embassadours desiringe the Pope not to exact those articles that tended to the vtter subuersion of the Empyre and the oratours crauinge and doing nothing els came awaye againe But Clement blaming Lewis onelye for all did purpose the destruction of him and his children he cursed him cruelly euen at consecrating the Sacrament He renued all the extreame processes which Pope Iohn had giuen out against him he pronounced him to be an heretick and scismatick He charged the Princes electours to choose another Emperour He deposed the Archbishop of Mens both of his bishoprick and auctoritye of electorship because he knowing the Emperours innocencye and vngiltiues woulde not abuse his maiestye But the other electours being brybed with money by Iohn king of Bohemia as the bishop of Colen who toke viii Thousande markes the duke of Saxonye two Thousande markes did appoint his sonne Charles to be king of the Romaynes whō this vncurteous Clement did allowe afterward in open consistorye But who is able to report the horrible bloudshed and warre that arose in the Empire by meanes of this mischiefe wroughte by Clement for kinge Edward the thirde of England slue xx Thousande Frenchmen and Iohn king of Bohemia father to Charles was slaine with many nobles But Lewis yet takinge thought because of the Popes processes not medling with the gouernment of the Empyre was by the Popes procurement poysoned in a cuppe whereof he dyed Thus wryteth Marius Lo by these kinde of treacheryes haue the prelates of Rome brought the Empyre to the low ebbe and poore estate that it is at this daye for the sayde Charles whom they against all lawe created to make his sonne to succede him did so corrupt the electours wyth bribes and fayre promises that he morgaged to them the cōmon reuenues of the Empyre which they enioye to this daye and therefore the Romaine Empyre cannot aduaūce it selfe againe For then the Electours cōpelled Charles to take an oath that these pledges should neuer be reclaymed whereby at length it came to passe that the Empyre being thus decayed the Turke inuaded the Church of Christ destroyed it wonderfullye and it is by the especial grace of God that Mahomets blasphemye doth not wyth fyre and sworde rage ouer all Christendome c. This Pope Clement now at the fiftye yeare renued the Iubelie beinge absent caused it to be celebrated at Rome Anno 1350. for his aduauntage and sayth Premonstratēsis there were fiue Thousande straungers comming in going out at Rome as might wel be counted dailye within the said yeare He made at seuerall times xii Cardinals whereof some were monkes some his nephewes and kinsemen beside he promoted diuers other to dignityes bestowed cost on diuers buildinges He gaue licence to the bishop of Bamberge to absolue those that toke parte wyth Lewis but vppon these conditions first that they shoulde sweare fealty to him as to the Uicar of Christe secondly that they should beleue that the Emperour hath no power neither to make nor marre the Pope thirdlye that they should acknowledge none to be Emperour whō the Pope had not confirmed While his companiōs and seruaunts went to dinner leauing onely his chamberlayne with him he fel downe sodeinly dyed of an impostume Anno 1352. This Clement sayth Marius toke vpō him so prodigally in his Popedome that he gaue to his Cardinals in