in regarding and contemplating the auncient money precious stones or Images and Portraitures In the Romane consistorie Gregorie King of Boheme was condemned an heretike depriued of his kingdome and after the Pope by his Legate sollicited the Princes of Almaine and the king of Pannonia to inuade the kingdome of Boheme which they did and the said George was cast out of one part thereof Chron. Euseb In the moneth of September a Legate arriued in France to breake the pragmatike Sanction vnto whom Iohn de S. Romain the Kings Proctor generall would not consent for any menaces of the said Legate but said hee would rather loose both his office and goods before hee would yeeld to doo any thing so greatly to the preiudice of the Realme and Common-wealth The Towne of Liege was put to fire and sword by the Duke of Bourgongne because they had put their Bishop in prison who was his Nephewe by his sister as is reported by the Chronicle of Eusebius Others say he was his brother by his wife the Duke of Bourbon his daughter Frederic the third vpon deuotion went to Rome in winter Chron. Euseb Pope Paul hauing made alliance with the Turkes ioyned in league also with the Venetians Chron. Euseb The Pope Paul held Platina the Historiographer in prison wrongfully but his successor deliuered him He destroyed the Abbreuiataires in hatred of his predecessor who had reduced the said estate into order At that time it was a Colledge of learned and studious people in Diuine and Ciuill Lawes Poets Orators Historiographers c. See Naucler He set the Iubile from 25. yeares to 25. yeares not for the saluation of soules but rather to drawe new money vnto him saith Fasci Temp. There is found in the booke of Stanislaus Ruthen a thing worthy to bee noted That is that this Paul hauing read certaine Poesies that were made against him and his daughter began to weepe and amongst his friends began to accuse the rigour of the lawe of his former predecessours which forbadde Priestes to marrie for as much as hee which ought not onely to bee the head of the Church but also of continencie sawe that each one had talke of his daughter to his great dishonour and had theyr eyes continually vpon her And although shee were most excellent in beautie yet did it grieue him that men should thinke that hee had engendred her in whoredome Seeing hee knew well that there was a lawe ordained of God whereby shee might haue bene borne in wedlocke had it not bene for that singlenesse that is the defence for Priests to marrie which hindred it Therefore he had determined to haue set vp againe the marriage of Priests but he could not execute it because death preuented him For as he perswaded himselfe that hee should liue long he was suddenly taken with an Apoplexie and died suddenly hauing well supped the night before After this time the Popedome fell and decayed more and more The Kingdom of Cyprus The Venetians got the kingdome of Cyprus First the yeare 1470. they had established in the kingdome one Iames bastard of Cyprus against Lewis sonne of the Duke of Sauoy and the Queene Charlotte his wife daughter of Iohn king of Cyprus the true heire of that kingdome But for the better vnderstanding of the matter you must know that the said Venetians gaue to the said bastard in marriage Katherine the daughter of Marke Corrario a Gentleman of Venice who vpon their commaundement had ayded the said bastard in all his affaires against the said Lewis of Sauoy and the Queene Charlotte his wife euen to cast them out of Cyprus This Katherine was solemnly adopted a daughter by the Signiorie of Venice but it was not but for to adopt also the kingdome therewith But the said king bastard with his Venetian wife espowsed the cause of their death for as soone as she was espied to bee with childe the Venetians poysoned the said king caused a fame to runne that he died of a Fluxe of the belley and that hee had left his wife and the childe she was with his heire recommending them vnto the Seignorie of Venice When then shee was brought to rest they did with the chide as they had done with the father And they tooke the said Katherine which they called Queene and brought her to Venice and from that time they ceased and tooke possession of the said Kingdome which they haue held since the yeare 1470. vntill this day saith Iohn le Maire Of this Iames bastard and of the oath he made vnto the Souldan see Naucler Sixtus or Sistus fourth of that name a Geneuois by Nation borne in the Towne of Sauonne called before Francis de Ruere generall of the order of Friars and Cardinall of S. Sixtus after the death of Paul succeeded in the execrable Chaire As the solemnitie of his Coronation was done whilest they carried him in his Litter to the Church of Laterane hee was in great daunger of his life in a mutenie which arose suddenly in such sort that he was assailed euen with stones and forsaken almost of all that accompanied his Litter This Pope was very liberall towards his and bore them such an affection that in fauour of them he did and agreed vnto many things against all right and reason He promoted vnto the dignitie of a Cardinall before all others one called Peter de Ruere one of the same order and Nation and had bene nourished from his Infancie with a brother of his called Hierome although it seemed this man was borne foolishly to spend money For in two yeares that he liued after he consumed in all dissolution and violence the summe of 200000. Skutes besides many debts he left Iohn Textor in his Officine makes mention of this Cardinall and saith that in two yeares he spent in dissolutions vanities and incredible luxurie 300000. skutes The yeare 1475. a Citizen of Trent lost in the weeke before Easter commonly called the passion weeke a childe of two yeares olde And hauing sought him through all streetes in the Towne and not finding him he suspected he was carried away by the Iewes which inhabited there Wherefore he got him towards the Magistrate making great sorrow and deliuering his suspitions The Sunday following the Iewes told the Bishop that they had found a childe betwixt the floud called Rusch and the house of Samuel a Iew which the force of the water had cast vp there Certaine men were appointed to visit the childe which was found in the house of the said Samuel with his garments all wette his body was marked with diuers prickes Being asked how this childe came there they answered they knew not but that the fiercenesse of the water had driuen him thither But as soone as they were put to the Racke they confessed and rehearsed the case in order that is to say how they had consulted and chosen amongst them one Tobias to steale a Christian childe and to crucifie him at Easter
Religion then that of the Protestants Moreouer if they thought good of it hee had a great desire to send Theologians and learned men into Amaigne or else if they woulde they might sende theyr learned Diuines into Fraunce to communicate together of certaine points of Religion The Senate of Auspurge receiued the doctrine of the Gospell The 24. of Iuly the Town of Munster is besieged and by might taken by the Count d'Obersten Captaine of the Armie and by their Bishop About the end of the moneth of Ianuary Iohn de Leiden Head of the Anabaptists Coipperdolin and Chrechring his companions being tyed to postes were slaine at Munster the Head alone confessing his fault and something repenting Henry King of England had by his wife Anne Bullen a faire daughter called Elizabeth The Emperour entred into Prouence with his Armie but wanting victualls for his Campe he was constrained to retyre to Gene. A great number of his souldiers dyed and amongst others his Lieutenant Anthonie de Leue. Francis the King of France his eldest sonne dyed at Tournon vpon Rosne of the age of 18. yeares Sebastian de Moncucul an Italian was drawne with 4. horses For giuing him poyson as it is said Perone besieged by Henry Count de Nassau and by Adrian d'erouy Count de Reux There arose a great sedition in England against the King For that bee had plucked downe and banished the Popes authoritie The Emperour by Sea returned from Genes ouer into Spaine Alexander de Medices Duke of Florence is slaine by Lawrence his kinsman promising him the enioying of a Ladie his neighbour of excellent beautie Iames the fift King of Scotland espowsed Magdaline king Francis his eldest daughter The Emperours Armie in Artois vnder the conduction of Florent de Bure tooke by force S. Paul besieged Terouanne but could not winne it The eleuenth of October was borne Edwarde King Henry his sonne of England of Iane Semer which he tooke to wife after Anne Bullen Anne de Mont-mourancy is created Constabled France which is a soueraigne degree of honour which office had bene vacant 15. yeares since the reuolt of Charles de Bourbon The Emperour and the king Francis assembled Nice where the Pope was to make a peace betwixt them and although they accorded not in the principall yet they concluded a truce betwixt them for tenne yearers Margarite the Emperors bastard-bastard-daughter after the death of the aforesaid Alexander is married vnto Octauian the Popes sonne in lawe Henry of England caused the Relickes of S. Thomas of Canterburie to be taken out of his Schrine and made them publikely to be burnt The Emperour and king Francis met at Aignes mortes in Languedoc and entertained one an other Charles d' Egmond Duke de Gueldres deceased very olde and William Duke of Cleues possessed his Countrey as well by the dead mans will as by the Nobilitie of the Countrey Castelubro a Towne of Illyrica in the gulfe of Ambracia is taken from the Turke by the Emperour and the Venetians allied together Touching this Pope Paul amongst a great number of his acts I will recite but this litle following that the world may know how great their sanctitie is which the Papists maintaine with an his voyce to be Peters succors and the Vicars of Iesus Christ This Paul was an Astrologian a Magician and Diuine and amongst his most familiars had one called Denis Seuila a Magician whom therefore afterward hee made a Cardinall with one named Gaurice of Portugall Cecius and Marcell Negromancians and wicked villaines Of these did hee enquire the fortune of himselfe and his bastards He got his red hatte in this maner Hee had a sister called Iulia Farnese which hee deliuered to Pope Alexander that hee might be a Cardinall and Bishop of Hostia and to finde meanes to pay his debts For those good Popes commonly are so inflamed with whoredome that they make no difficultie to promise redde hats and Bishopprickes to such as will bring them their sisters or else that which is more horrible their young bretheren to violate Many by such practises obtaine great riches fatte Benifices And as Agrippa saith there is no shorter way then that to come therevnto This murderer poysoned his mother and a Nephewe to this end that all the succession of the Farneses might fall vpon him Moreouer seeing the other of his sisters whose carnall company he had sometime had followed too openly the maners and conditions of them of the house of Farnese and that shee loued more the company of others then his hee poysoned her also Beeing a Legate in Marke d'Ancone in the time of Iulius the second hee most wickedly abused a maide issued of a noble house of that Towne For hee counterfeited and disguised himselfe feigning to bee one of the Gentlemen of the Legates house so vnder the colour of a promise to marrie her deflowred her Who after shee knew the truth what hee was and that shee was not his legitimate wife but his whore at the least by the Canon lawe shee became almost out of her wittes And of this marriage came that great Porteenseigne and Captaine of all Buggerers and Sodomites Peter Lewis As one Nicholas de Chesme found him one day adulterously abusing his wife Laurea Farnese who was the saide Pauls Neece hee wounded him so well with his dagger that hee carried the marke thereof all his life Hee slewe with poyson Bosuis Sforza the husband of his daughter Constance whom before hee had often vsed as his whore to the ende hee might more at his ease and with greater libertie enioy her This Dotard very tyrannously oppressed them of Peruse and droue from the Seignorie Ascanius Columne a very iust Prince This detestable Robber and Rouer tooke and vsurped for himselfe the Towne of Camer after hee had driuen away the Lady thereof which was a woman endowed with a rare and singular religion and prudence and did so much with his practises with Cardinalls that hee exchaunged the said Citie of Camer which was not his owne with the townes of Parme and Plaisance to the end to make his sonne Lewis Lord maister of them Which act afterward by a iust iudgement of God was cause of the death of the said Peter Lewis He often consulted with his Cardinalls how hee might hinder a Nationall Councell in Almaine and commaunded his Embassadors that they should enflame the hearts all Princes against the King of England Anne de Cleues sister of William Duke of Cleues is accorded in marriage to the king of England In the moneth of Maya Comete appeared in the ayre and almost the same day deceased Elizabeth the Emperours wife In August Castelnouo in Illirica is taken againe vpon the Emperor by Barbarosse the great Turkes Lieftenant almost all the garrison of the Spaniards slaine The Citizens of Gaunt rose vp against Mary Regent in the lowe Contries for the Emperour for which cause it was need-full for him to haste
I say not Father Take to thy selfe now the treasures the Tapistries and the Prouince of Mustapha and gouerne it at thy pleasure Is it possible I should fall into thy spirit infamous man without all humanitie against all right to put to death so valiant a person as neuer was nor shal be the like in the house of Ottomās Ha ha I will take good order that thou shalt not impudenly vaunt glory that thou hast done the like to me And straight drew his dagger and strooke it so farre into his owne bodie that he fell downe dead vpon the earth Which so soone as his Father knew he made a maruellous mourning and yet left not to seize vpon all his goods which caused a tumult in the Campe of Mustapha but it was nothing in regard of that they did after they knew of his death In such sort that Solyman to the great danger of his life was constrained to chase away Rostan and to dispoile him of all his honours and dignities This death came wel for the Christians whose great enemy Mustapha was who tooke great delight in sheading their blood It brought also such great displeasure vnto the Turkes that therevpon followed amongst them this prouerbe Gietti Soltan Mustaphat That is all we thought on is ended in Musthapha For they thought that he would haue enlarged their Empire which they looked for at no other hand The French tooke Verceil in the Countrey of Turin but seeing they could not keepe it they spoyled pilled it and retyred Edward King of England being in his mortall bed in the moneth of May Northumberland caused one of his sonnes to espowse Iane Suffolke the Kings cousin This King of the age of 16. yeares dyed the 6. of Iuly to the great damage of Christian Religion So soone as Mary was peacibly Queene of Englande at her arriuall at London she caused to be tooke out of prison the Duke of Norfolke and the Bishop of Winchester a pernicious man and made him Chauncellor The Emperours Hoast after it had raced Terouane marched into Artois and there in the moneth of Iuly forced Hesden which the king of France had a litle before taken There was slaine Horace Fernese the husband of the kings bastard daughter and a great number of Gentlemen prisoners A battaile in Saxonie vppon the Riuer of Visurge betwixt the Duke Maurice and the Marquesse Albert wherein Albert was vanquished and Maurice victorious strooken with a bullet whereof he dyed two dayes after A deare victorie bought with death Michael Seruet de Ville-neuisue a Spaniard a pernicious hereticke hauing of long time written execrable things against the Trinitie proudly maintained them at Geneua after long detention the participation of the Councell of the Churches and faithfull Common-wealths of Suecia finally in the ende of October was condemned by the Lordes of the said Towne to be burned aliue The hardnesse of his heart was such that being vpon the wood hee would neuer confesse Iesus Christ the eternall sonne of God but only the sonne of Dauid and the sonne of the eternall God In England by the decree of all the Bishops of the kingdome then assembled the Edicts and statutes of the deceased King Edward concerning Religion were defaced and made voide and the Popish doctrine approued and allowed Albert agreed with Augustus the brother of Maurice by meanes of the King of Denmarke and of the Elector of Brandebourge Iane Suffolke Queene of England as is said by King Edwards testament and the three sonnes of the Duke of Northumberland were declared culpaple and condemned of Treason Iohn Alasco a Polonian Gentleman with a great number of the French and Flemish Churches flying from England did wander and stray a certaine space of time into Denmarke and Saxonie seeking a place to dwel in But they were euery where refused not only of a place of habitation but also they were commaunded to get them out yea in winter time not suffering them to remaine in their hauens The cause of this inhumanitie and inhospitalitie was their difference for the doctrine of the Supper of the Lorde whereof we haue before touched Finally a place was allowed them in East Friseland in the Towne Emden where a Church was open for them and granted by the Countesse of the said Emden a true Christian Princes Ferdinand being at Vienna reiected the supplication of the Estates of his Countrey which demaunded to permit the administration of the Supper of Iesus Christ whole vnder both kindes Iohn Fredericke Duke of Saxonie after his deliuerance from captiuitie agreed with the Duke Augustus and he acquited to him and his heire Males the Electorship the Country of Misne and the Townes where the Mines be yet he held vnto himselfe the name and Armes of the Elector The 20. of February Sibille of Cleues wife of the said Iohn Frederic dyed at Vinaine Eleuen dayes after the said Frederic also deceased happily in his Country amongst his children and other friends and the same day that he dyed was borne vnto the Elector Augustus a sonne named Alexander Thomas Wiat an Englishman conspired and rose vp against the Queene of England because of the straunge marriage she enterprised with Phillip the Emperours sonne On an other part of the kingdome Henry of Suffolke gathered people against her The one and the other were declared enemies of the Commonwealth taken and at diuers times beheaded The 12. of February Iane Suffolke King Edwards cousin germaine instituted heire of the kingdome by his testament was with her husband beheaded After them was made a great butchery of heads at London and Westminster where the Queene then was Elizabeth also her sister was imprisoned vpon her suspition Sienna was besieged by the Pope and the Duke of Florence Peter Stosze which defended it made a sallie vpon them and ouercame a great number of their people Charles Duke of Sauoy spoyled of the greatest best part of his Countrey dyed leauing Emanuell Philebert his sonne heire King Henry about the end of Iune tooke Bouuines Dinan Marienbourge Bius and wasted all the Country besieged Renty vpon the Marches of Artois but the Emperour comming and skirmishing together the king departed in the moneth of August remouing his siege from thence The Kings Armie in Tuscane which Strosze conducted was surprised by the Imperialists and for the most part ouerthrowne Phillip the Emperours sonne arruied the 19. of Iuly in England the 24. following the marriage was made betweene him and the Queene at Winchester The Marquis Albert chased from his Country withdrew into Lorraine and after to the king of France The Emperour caused a Fort to be builded nigh the place where Hesden was Cardinall Poole in a full assembly of all the Estates of the kingdome of England commenced the 12. of Nouember was restored into his dignities goods and honours of which he was depriued by King Henry the eight
to the Princes Army arriued vpon the marches of Limosin where an hotte feauer tooke him and carried him out of the world the 11. day of Iune leauing for Commander of his troupes Wolrad Count de Masfeld who brought his Army nigh to the Princes foure daies after this accident and performed greatly his due with the other Lords that accompanied him in all the rest of this warre hereof is a witnesse that which happened in the encounter which was the 25. of that moneth at what time if a great ruine had not come the Army of the Catholicke Romanes had bene ouerthrowne yet they loft a great number of their auantgard and afterward the Princes got many places in Poictou Although the Princes were strong yet they neuer ceased to demaund peace but their Herauld was not suffred to carrie their request vnto the king so warre was continued and the Princes besieged Poiters where they lost time and many people by diseases happening in their Campe. Whilest things were thus confused in Fraunce and Flaunders the Emperour Maximilian the 18. day of August suffered the Lords and Gentlemen of the Archduche of Austrich to enioy a free exercise of Religion in their Townes Villages and Castles after the doctrine of the confession of Ausbourge The 27. of the same moneth Cosme de Medices Duke of Florence was created and after solemnly proclaimed at Rome great Duke of Thuscane by the declaration of the Pope Pius the fift The Parliament of Paris condemned the Admirall as guiltie of treason who notwithstanding was of great authoritie in the Princes Army couragiously acquiting himselfe of the charge he carried without any apprehension of the daungers wherevnto he was still subiect by murderers and poisoners which were daily sent to sley him One of which who had once bene his chamberlaine was put to death for the like attempt by the sentence of the Princes Lords and Captains of the Army the 21. of September After the one Army had long time sought the other finally they encountred in the plaine of Montcontour the third of October and there was a generall battaile wherein after great losse of both sides but more of the Princes especially of their Lansquenets and a part of their French footemen the field remained vnto the Catholicke Romanes which made great triumphes thereof through Europe But in lieu of following their victory they stayed vpon the siege of the Towne of S. Iohn d' Angeli which was yeelded to them by composition at the end of certaine weekes during which time the besieged occupied themselues so well that the Catholickes lost many thousands of men and that of the most resolute of their troupes by meanes whereof the Princes had meanes to reassure theyr people to gather in their forces and to prouide for the affaires of warre so that the Catholickes found themselues againe to begin The sixteenth of Nouember the Duke of Alua caused to bee published in the lowe Countries certaine Letters of absolution and pardon of the king of Spaine for such as were absent and would returne into their houses but this deceit serued for nothing but to bring in birdes too much alreadie tamed with the too much violence of so bloudie a Fowler The 24. there was discouered in England a coniuration or rebellion of certaine Earles which would haue planted Poperie in that Kingdome But the Queene prouided there so well for all things that their forces remained wholy vnprofitable The third of December S. Iohn d' Angeli was yeelded by composition Sansac other Catholick Romanes were shamefully chased from before the Towne of Vezelay in Bourgongne after great losse of his brauest souldiers to the number of 150. The rest of the yeare passed in diuers exployts of warre heere and there to the great hurt of both parts and to the ruine of the kingdome In the beginning of the yeare 1570. the Princes and Lords of the Religiō of the kingdome of France desiring peace had diuers negotiations about it but at that time nothing was concluded but warre continued the Churches then being very desolate The Theologians of the Countrey of Saxony being then in great contention for the intelligence of certaine Articles of Christian doctrine namely of Iustification of free will of good workes of things indifferent and of the presence of the body and bloud of Iesus Christ in the Supper By occasion whereof they assembled themselues in a Towne of the Duchie d' Aumale called Zeruest where by the stepping in of a certaine Doctor of Tubingue called Iames Andrew a man then very renowmed in all Almaine through the Prouinces whereof hee had not ceased certain yeares to runne to cause that monstrous opinion of the vbiquitie of Christs body to be receiued by the meanes whereof the errors of Nestorius and of Eutiches auntient heretikes and their complices are againe renewed there was made a certaine agreement which after was reiected and controwled by diuers Theologians Heerevpon afterward happened greater troubles which euen at this day doo endure by the practises and slaunders of that vbiquitarie Doctor Whilest the Christians contended with their voyces with their writings and blowes of sworde in diuers places of Europe and that the Westerne Antichrist sought by all meanes to maintaine his tyrannie the Antichrist of the East did what hee could by meanes of Selim Soliman his successor the Turke to encrease his domination For Selim sent his Embassador who arriued the 27. of March at Venice and denounced warre against the Venetians if they refused to yeeld him the I le of Cyprus Which they refusing there was preparation for warre on both sides The 4. of Aprill the Ministers of the Churches of Lithuania and Sathogitia comprehended in the kingdome of Polongne held a Sinode in the Towne of Sendomire where they agreed vpon certaine Articles touching the Mediatorship of Iesus Christ and the holy Supper to the end they might all agree in one concordance of doctrine During this time the troubles of France continued The Electors Palatin and of Saxonie assembled at Heidelberge with certaine Princes and great Lords of Almaine for to honour the marriage of Duke Cassimere who espowsed Elizabeth daughter of the Duke of Saxonie sent large Letters to the king to exhort and induce him to enter into a pacification About the end of Iune the king of Polongne and the Muscouite made a truce for three yeares The Muscouite was then sore troubled with extreame famine In the moneth of Iuly the estates of the Empire were assembled at Spire to prouide for the affaires quietnesse of Almaine The Emperor was there in person with his two daughters Marie and Elizabeth which were affianced vnto the kings of Spaine and France vnto which they were sent In the moneth of August the Duke of Alua put to death in the Towne of Antwerpe a great number of souldiers of the garrison of Valenciennes for a mutinie against
Trent made great a sonne and two nephewes of his ratified the promises of marriage of the Prince of Nauarre with Margarite of France whereof his predecessor made difficultie and carefully and readily prouided for the good assurance of his temporall greatnesse The ninth day of Iune Iane d' Albert Queene of Nauarre an excellent Princesse amongst all them of her time daughter of Henry d' Albert and of Margarite d' Valois sister of king Francis the first going to Paris to giue order for diuers things requisit for the honor of the Prince her sonnes marriage fell suddenly sicke and died to the great griefe of them of the Religion and of all persons that loued the rest of France which this Princesse had procured by all meanes The 12. of Iune the Duke de Medina Coeli being sent from Spaine into Flaunders to gouerne in the Duke of Alua his place was shamefully ouerthrowne by them of Flushing lost 12. hundreth Spaniards 16. ships and foure of them were burnt in his presence hee sauing himselfe by flight The bootie was very great and almost inestimable On the 15. day an alliance was confirmed at Paris betwixt the King of France and the Queene of England who sent thither the Lord Clinton her Admirall The 16. the Prince of Orange published the causes wherefore hee againe tooke Armes against the Spaniards and their adherents in the lowe Countries The 25. certaine Gentlemen of Frise with good troupes holding the Prince of Orange his part seized vpō Dordrec and other places of Holland which ioyned themselues on that side The exercise of Religion was again set vp to the great despite of the Duke of Alua and the Spaniards Three dayes after the Prince of Orange writ at large vnto the Emperor shewing him the causes of that warre In the mean while certain Almain Lords leuied Reiters to succour the Duke of Alua. Sigismond August king of Polongne died the first of Iuly without heire-males which gaue occasion vnto Katherine de Medices Queene mother and Regent in France to send Embassadors into Polongne to the end to obtaine the Crowne for Henry Duke d' Antou her second sonne then liuing The 19. of Iuly the Emperour put the Prince of Orange to banishment from the Empire and pronounced him acquited from all priuiledges and rights and all his goods confiscated if he continued with strong hand to enter into the lowe Countries This notwithstanding the Prince pursued that which he had begun But in this moneth of Iuly 7. or 8. thousand French men marching to the succours of the besieged at Monts in Hainaut before they came there were defeated their chieftaines taken and they of Monts straighter kept in The Prince passed Rhene tooke Ruremond the 4. of August Louaine yeelded Maligues and certain other Townes were surprised After he drew towards Monts to succor his brother But the news of the pitious estate of Frāce brought such a change that the Prince was constrained to cut off his way to enter his troupes and retier himselfe into Holland whether he was called by the estates of the Countrey being accompanied with a small number of people This retrait so encouraged the Duke of Alua hauing now nothing to hinder him that the 21. of September he made himselfe maister of Monts by composition and kept promise with the Count Lodowick causing him safely to be conducted vnto the lands of the Empire After this Maligues was abandoned by them which the Prince left there and all other places before taken were taken againe into the hands of the Spaniards From Monts the Duke went towards Malines the first day of October Certaine Burgesses and all the Cleargie met him with Crosses and Banners but it serued for nothing for as much as they had receiued the Prince into their Towne he gaue the pillage and spoile of the Towne to the souldiers which tooke their pleasure there three daies slew many men and violated many women and maidens Whilest the lowe Countrie Churches sobbed thus vnder such tempests they of France which were thought should haue enioyed some long rest were rudely beaten and as it were flatly ouerthrowne by a maruellous straunge accident Wee haue before spoken of the death of the Queene of Nauarre as she came to Paris about the marriage of the Prince her son This Prince afterward called the King of Nauarre Henry de Bourbon his Cousin Prince of Conde Gaspar de Coligni great Admiral of France le Count de la Rochefoucand the Marquesse de Reinel many Lords Gentlemen and Captaines which had alwaies borne Armes against the Catholike Romanes came to the Court about that marriage at the kings request This marriage hauing bin solemnized vpon Monday the 18. of August the Friday following the Admirall was grieuously wounded with the blowe of an Hargabush shot out of a certaine window by a man then not sufficiently knowne called Maureuel a waged murderer yea one of the most execrablest manquellers of the world who afterward by the iust iudgement of God lost the same arme with which he gaue that detestable blowe The Sunday following the Admirall was most traitorously slaine in his chamber and cast dead out of the windowes vpon the pauement where he was knowne of Henry Duke of Guise After they rushed vpon the other Lords Gentlemen Captaines which were slaine also some within the Castle de Louuine others without This was done betimes in the morning All that day and morning was employed by such as they call Catholicke Romanes in sleying men and women of the Religion many not sparing women bigge with childe no nor litle children They continued this the dayes following but not in so great number because the murderers found not any more to sley The day of the wounding and the Sunday the King dispatched Letters expresly vnto the Gouernours of the Prouinces whereby he aduertised them that that disorder hapned besides his knowledge and to his great griefe by the practises and enmities of the house of Guise and that he determined to take good order therefore in the meane time hee would that his Edict of pacification should in each point be maintained Briefly he imputed the Admiralls wounding and death whom in the said Letters he called his Cousin to the particular quarels of the houses of Chastillon and Guise But meer contrary on thursday the 28. hee declared and caused to be published that that massacre and horrible murder had beene done by his expresse commaundement and to preuent a conspiration of the Admirall and his partakers wherof notwithstanding neither he nor his Councellors made it appeare nor could produce any profit although it was much prooued and desired of many Whilest great and litle were thus hungring and thirsting after innocent bloud the same Sunday the 24. of August certain Priests by Art made a great Thorn-tree in the church-yard of S. Innocent flourish at noone time of the day and cryed a myracle a myracle This
the promulgation of the Councell of Trent and the constitution of the Inquisition was vrged by the Popes Legate against the intercession of the Senate and the liberties of the Church of France That in England by the treacherous practises of the Iesuites the hearts of her maiesties subiects were drawne from their alleagiance As for the Scots such matters were set abroach euen in the Court that those of the better sort and such as studied for the common good and peace of the realme by the dissention of some Nobles and the Kings youth were banished which vnlesse it were presently remoued it would hazard the estate of their Church and raise warre betweene England and Scotland The miseries of Belgia it being so ouerpressed by the Spanish powers and they euery day encreasing promise no good successe to their Church In Heluetia by the Popes contributions subtilties and the most turbulent preachings of the Iesuites these two yeares haue bene ciuil warres Insomuch that the Bernates imbracers of the reformed Religion should be oppressed by the power of the D. of Sauoy The Churches of Suecia stand wauering whilest the Popish ceremonies are there kept and Iesuites frequent the Court and feare least their perswasions should alienate their King And for Germanie in the which by the care sinceritie of the most mightie Princes the surest and safest harbours are giuen to the Churches the Pope doth what in him lyeth to confound and ouerthrow In Coloine he hath stirred vp such tragedies against that Princely Elector the ende whereof vnlesse it be brought vpon his owne head he hopeth wil be the confusion of all Germanie This Embassage although it was beningly receiued of all the Princes to whom it came yet new disputations troubles arising in France about the death of Alanson the dangers encreased D. Chytreus Georgius Ernestus the last Prince of Henneberge died this present yeare Idem Elias Thacker was hanged at S. Edmonds-Bury in Suffolke and Iohn Copping for spreading certain bookes seditiously penned by one Robert Browne against the booke of commō praier established by the lawes of the realme their bookes as many a could be found were burnt before them I. S. Iohn Lewis who named himselfe Abdiot an obstinate heretike denying the Godhead of Christ and holding diuers other detestable heresies much like to his predecessor Mathew Hamond was burned at Norwich Albertus Alasco free Baron of Lasco Vaiuode or Palatine of Syradia in Poland arriued at Harwiche in Essex and on the last of April came by water to Winchester house in Southwarke where he remained for the most part of his abode Frances of Valois Duke of Alanson attempted diuers exployts in the lowe Countries the issue whereof fell out to his misfortune wherefore feeling himselfe sicke he retyred from Dunkerke towards Fraunce where hee fell into so straunge a iudgement that euen the Phisitians beganne to doubt him for a flixe of blood issued so continually out of his nose and mouth that they were still forced to hold him a Basen whereinto hee voyded the cleare and pure blood whereof he dyed Some say this happend either by his riotousnesse in the lowe Countries or for griefe of the hard successe of his affaires there or by Salcedas meanes that was executed His death weakened the most drowsie heads it brake all the bonds that staied the proceedings of the League and caused it presently to waine at Chalouns Rhemes Troy Dyon and Mezeiuel Historie of France The tenth of Iuly William Nassau Prince of Orange in the one and fiftie yeare of his age was slaine with a Bullet by Balthazar Gerardus otherwise called Serach See Genebrardus This villaine beeing taken aliue confessed that hee was neither set on by the French nor Spanish but did it of his owne minde thinking that thereby hee did God good seruice foorthwith hee was punished with such a death as the qualitie of so hainous a fact deserued Yet a certaine writer of Coloine setteth him downe for a Martyr See Dauid Chytraeus H. Earle of Darbie by the Queenes maiestie was sent Embassador to Henry the third the French King the 30. of Ianuary to inuest him with the order of the Garter Hyperas the eight day of April and Briges which next to Gaunt is the chiefe Citie of Flaunders a little before the Prince of Orange his death in the moneth of May was recouered by the Prince of Parma all former offences forgotten so that they would restore the Catholicke religion of Rome and performe true allegiance to the king of Spaine Assoone as the League perceiued that diuers Townes had made great fiers for ioy of her byrth it was presented to the Pope that he might giue it his blessing auouch it for his and declare it to be for the Catholicke Apostolicke and Romish Church But Gregorie the 13. desiring to shewe himselfe the Father of all Christians and a Pastor and not a dispearser of his flocke considering that the raising of Armes against a most Christian Catholicke king was wholy contrary to the doctrine of the Gospell the examples of Christ and his Apostles and the lawes of policie and state certified the Leagues Deputies that he could not approue their inuentions and to conclude sent them back againe without an answer And not long before he dyed hee said to the Cardinall Est that the League should neuer haue Bull Letter nor Commission from him for hee knew not what they meant and that hee would not serue for a fire-brand to kindle a warre which he could by no means quench In the prime of this yeare the first of April S. Walter Raleigh tooke his voyage for the discouery of that land which lieth between Norembega and Florida in the West Indies and returned in August following preparing afterwards for a second voiage S. H. Gilbert attempted to discouer with intention this country of Norembega to settle an English Colonie there in the yeare 1578. accompanied with a company of Gentlemen of good calling and ten sailes of all sorts of shipping but the iourney tooke no successe for all their ships inforced by some occasion or mischance made their present returne that only excepted where his brother S. W. R. was Captaine who tooke his course to the West Indies but for want of vittailes other necessaries when he had sailed as farre as the Ilands of Cape de Verde vpō the coast of Affrica he was cōstrained to set saile and returne for England But S. H. G. enterprised the voyage the second time and set to sea with three shippes and pinnases this yeare 1584. in which iourney he lost his life This yeare also S. W.R. encouraged by the reports of his men of the goodnes of the soile and the fertillitie of the country which they had discouered the last yeare past and now by her maiestie called Virginia furnished with 8. sailes of all sorts set them to the sea appointing S. Richard Greenfeeld his Lieutenant enioyning him either to
Rodolphe although hee had this opinion that Amurath would deny that the truce was broken by him notwithstanding knowing that it is the Turkes custome not to restore those Cities which they had once taken maketh all the power he can to resist his Forces M. G Belg. William Lantgraue of Hesse a most wise vertuous learned Prince being 70. yeares of age departed this world William Duke of Brunswicke the sonne of Ernestus a Prince of most sincere Religion dyed likewise leauing behind him seuen sonnes whom he had by Dorithie the daughter of Christian the third King of Denmarke D. Chytraeus At this time deceased likewise Iohan 3. King of Suetia the Father of Sigismond the 3. King of Poland As the Leaguers were promised great things by the Estates of Paris and the partakers of Spaine held it for a most certaine troth that the Duke of Parma would returne yet the third time with puissant Forces to doo some notable exployt thereby to couer the shame of his two former voyages and so to assure the K. of France to King Phillip or to the Princesse his daughter But death cut off the thred of his life together with his enterprises the 2. of December 1592. His bodie was carried to Parma and buried without any great solemnitie in the litle Chappell of the Cappuchins with this Epitaphe Alexandr Farnesius Belgis diuictis Francis obsidione leuatis vt humili hoc loco cadauer eius reponeretur manaauit 3. nonas Decem. 1592. Et vt secum Mariae eius coniugis optimae ossa iungerentur Genebr The Senate and the people of Rome caused his statue to be made and set vp in the Capitoll M. G. Belg. After much conference commings goings Letters and answers frō the deputie on each side the supplications of those which desired in such sort that the king who since he withdrew himselfe from the Court of France for 15. yeares before had made open profession of the reformed religion cōtrary to the aduice of his Ministers went to see heare Masse sung in the Cathedrall Church of S. Denis the 25. Sunday of Iuly where he was receiued of the Archbishop of Bourges and other Prelates with certaine peculiar ceremonies peculiar receiuing which was incontinently published throughout the Realme with diuers censures as well of the Catholicke nobilitie as also of those of the religiō wherof not one followed this example The Preachers belonging to the League publike priuately before after the truce their discourses at Paris other places were that the Masse which they sung before the king was but a deceit That the Pope should not recatholize him that it was lawfull for the people to rise against him his officers that it appertained to the Sorbonists to iudge whether the Pope ought to receiue him as King And if peraduenture hee should doo it neuerthelesse hee might be held for an hereticke and one excommunicate that it was lawfull for any particular man to kill him that should say he was vnited to the Catholicke Romane Church D. Chytraeus The Parisians and other Townes that held for the League desired that the King of Spaines daughter might be marryed to the Duke of Guise and so be crowned King and Queene of France Ernestus Duke of Pomerian a Prince endued with singular vertues most bountiful to the Churches Vniuersities departed this life leauing his successor Philippus Iulius of the age of seuen yeares who was committed to the custody and protection of Bogislaus Chytraeus In Poland the marriage of Sigismond the 3. king thereof and Anne of Austrich the daughter of Charles the Archduke was solemnized Idem In Belgia Maurice Count Nassau the sonne of William Prince of Orange and Gouernour of Holland tooke the Mount Gertrude a Towne well fortified bordering on the confines of Brabant and Holland when for three moneths he had besieged it and they by force and famine were constrained to yeeld although Petrus Ernestus Count Mansfeeld to whom after the death of the Duke of Parma the king of Spaine committed the gouernment of the lowe Countries labours in vaine by his forces to raise the siege At Aquisgrane the dissention in Religion raised great tumults but they of the reformed Religion had the worst The Turke spoyled and deliuered many Townes in Hungarie and Croalia but comming with his Forces to Gomorra he was most valiantly resisted He not only presecuted at this time the Christians but the Persians also vpon some cause vnkowne the truce being broken and inuaded them with two hundred thousand men where he made great hauocke sparing none After this the Christians had a notable victorie ouer the Turkes in Hungarie and did kill in fight put to flight more then fiue thousand of the Turkes Charles Guise Duke de Maine vnder the colour of restoring the Catholick religiō in France were confederate with the Pope and the King of Spaine against Henry the 4. K. of France and Nauarre therefore out of euery Prouince of the kingdome elected certaine Embassadors to holde a Parliament at Paris there to determine and set downe for a Catholike king Pope Clement the eight sent Phillip Cardinall of Plaisans And the King of Spaine his Embassadors At this time the King of France was againe excommunicated Afterward the Duke of Guise the sonne of him that was slaine by Henry the 3. being of the age of 25. yeares was nominated and elected King by certaine of the confederates but the Senat Parliament of Paris not admitting that any one should be King vnlesse he were of the blood royall he was not proclaimed neither would the Guise beare the citie thereof D. Chytraeus Vpon this the King of France as before is declared bare-footed with a candle in his hand went to the Temple of Saint Denis and being confessed to the Archbishop of Bourges and absolued of his heresie had solemne Masse and remoued the Preachers of his late professed Religion out of his Court. At Riga in Liuonia the Kings Commissaries amongst their affaires of the Estate vrged them for the restoring of the religiō to the same estate it was determined with king Stephen and the Churches likewise that the Iesuites should be againe admitted into the Temple of S. Iames and Mary Magdalen whom the yeare before the incensed Citizens had expulsed So by these meanes that the Senate and people of Riga should hold all the other Churches within the Citie and the suburbes with all the goods profits and reuenewes belonging to them But the Senate and Citizens refusing to entertaine the Iesuites as being most vnquiet turbulent spirits and the very brands of discord and sedition as also the better part of them desirous to keepe and continue in their Citie one onely religion of the confession of Augusta Or if they should altogether obey the Kings authoritie and the present necessitie of the time and fate thinking it better the secular authoritie as King Stephen had set it
Subtilties of the Romane Court. Deceits of the Roman court Notable misteries O true Bulls That is of Sathan Marcel 2. The Popes Character is to be an enemie vnto the truth Marcel Inquisitor generall Ierome Vida Cremona The cause wherefore Vergerius was put from the Councel Paul 4. Theatin before hee was Pope confessed the truth A tumult at Geneua Vlpian victualled Mariēbourg The Lucarnois demanded the Gospell Dissention of the Supper renewed by thē of Breme Hambourge The death of Frederick Palatin A wonder in the Country of Aouste Pruse receiueth the confession of Ausbourge Iohn Functius Comete Parracide of three childrē Iourney at Ratisbone The returne of Charles the fift into Spaine The death of Dauid George Ferdinād 1. Of the Spanish Inquisition Martyrs of Spaine Other Marties of Spaine Diethmarsois brought vnder the yoke The death of Paul the 4. Pius the 4. elected Pope The marriage of Phillip King of Spaine with Elizabeth of France The state of France An. 1560. vnder Francis the 2. which died in the moneth of December The estate of Scotland The death of Melancton Warre in Piemont The begining of troubles in France Notable executions at Rome King Charls the ninth sacred Reconciliation of the Prince of Conde and Duke of Guise A conference at Poissy about matters of religion The death of Shuvenckfeld The state of France Frances Maximilian crowned king of the Romans and of Boheme The death of Peter Martyr The Duke of Guise slaine and peace made The estate of Almaine The Kings Maioritie A citation frō Rome against the Queene of Nauarre The Bishop of Wirtzbourge slaine Battaile betweene the Danes The end of the Councel of Trent The death of Musculus The death of Hiperius The death of Caluin A battaile betwixt y e Danes and Snedes Maximilian The death of Ferdinand The estate of the Flemish Churches War at Malte Deluges Warre in Hungary The death of Pope Pius 4. The death of Conrad Gesner An Edict against the Religion in the lowe Countries Pius 5. The violent death of the king of Scotland A league in Flaunders against the Inquisition War in Hungary Selim succeeded Soliman Iohn Functius others beheaded War against Iohn Frederick of Saxonie Images burst in the lowe Countries Troubles in the lowe Countries Continuation of troubles beginning of warre in the lowe Countries The death of the Duke of Brunswick Certaine Bayliwickes yeelded to the Duke of Sauoy The Duke of Alua commeth into the lowe Country and his first exployts The second ciuil warre in France Great deluges in Italie Cassimere bringeth succours to them of the Religion Reisters in France Siluer stayed The death of the Duke of Pruse The Prince of Orange and the Count of Hochstrate iustifie themselues Open warres in the lowe Countries The Counts d' Aigmont and d' Horne beheaded The Count Lodowick ouerthrowne The Prince of Orange taketh Armes The miserable estate of the Churches The death of the Prince of Spaine The king of Snede Three Moones at one instant Treuers besieged Exercise of Religion in Austrich The third ciuill warre in France A conference at Aldebourg Reisters in France The Queene of England tooke three Spanish ships The Duke de Deux Ponts leadeth an Armie into France Confiscations in the lowe Countries The Prince of Conde slaine An Imperiall Iourney The Popes present to the Duke of Alua. The death of the Sieur de Andelot Exercise of Religion in Austriche Great Duke of Thuscane An arrest against the Admirall The battle of Montcōtour Pardon of the Duke of Alua. A coniuration in England A continuation of warre in France Troubles for matters of Religion in Almaine The Turkes denounce war to the Venetians A Sinode in Polongne Exhortation vnto pacification A truce An Imperiall Iourney Executions to death The 3. Edict of pacificatiō The death of Iohn Brencius the father of vbiquitie Deluges in Friseland France and other Countries Nicosia taken Marriage of the King of Spaine Earthquakes Marriage of the King of France Deluges in France An Imperiall Iourney Peace betwixt Denmarke and Snede Vaiuoda of Transiluania A disputation against the Anabaptists A league against the Turke Raining of corne Rodes of the Muscouites Famagoste yeelded A strange Sun A Nauall battaile at Lepante A conference at Dresde The Duke of Nothfolke beheaded Strange wonders in Pruse Fire in Wirtzbourge A sharp winter Exactions of the Duke of Alua and resolutions in Flaunders Appearance of rest in France The death of Pope Pius the 5. and election of Gregory 13. The death of the Queene of Nauarre The ouerthrow of the Duke de Medina Coeli Alliance The Prince of Orange iustified himselfe to the Emperour The death of the King of Polongne War in y e lowe Countrie Horrible murders in Frāce A new starre Exploits of warre in Holland and Zeland Sieges of Rochel and Sancerre The siege and losse of Harlē Warre in Barbary Requescens ouerthrowne and Middlebourg yeelded Henry de Valois king of Polongne Peace betwixt the Venetians the Turke Troubles in France The ouerthrow of the Duke Christopher and of the Count Lodowick The death of Camerarius The death of Cosme de Medices Antwerpe pilled by the Spaniards The second besieging of Leiden A fire at Venice Bruxelles The taking and death of Montgommery The death of Charles 9. Leyden deliuered The death of Selym. The aftaires of France The estate of the lowe Countries The king of Poland lost his kingdome The death of Bullenger Rodolphe crowned king of Hungarie Boheme and of the Romans The estate of France The estate of low Country The death of Sinder A new king of Poland The death of Maximilian Rodolph 2. Rodolph 2. The death of Fr. Palatine of Khene The estate of France Salentinus Iohn de Austrich Mathias Archduke of Austria Sebastian King of Portugall The Parliament at Blois Syr Martin Forbisher Croisada A Comet Warre and other acccidēts in the lowe Countries Cassamire The Prince of Parma created Duke Free exercise of the reformed religion Malcontents The reformed Church at Antwerpe Prince of Parma An heretike burnt at Norwiche The estate of Almaine Irish rebellion Thomas Stukely The 2. voyage of Sebastian with his Army into Affrike The death of Sebastian Molucs death Mulei Mahamet drowned Hamet proclaimed king Monsieurs voyage into Flaunders Institution of the order of y e holy Ghost Maistricht taken The Turkes Almaine The death of Henry King of Protugall An Earthquake K. Phillip The death of the Duke of Sauoy The tyrannie of the Duke Alua. A blazing Star A Proclamation against Iesuites The death of Q. Anne Iesuites D. of Aniou The crueltie of a father Richard Atkins burned for religion The Queene of France discontented with king Phillip D. Alanson Ouids tombe The Prince of Orange shot Cardinall Albert. A Priest died for feare The death of the Duke of Alua. Charles Borgia The new Calender set forth by the Pope D. Saunders Amia banished Scotland The King of Nauarre Albertus Alasoo The death of Fr.
D. of Alanson The Prince of Orange is slaine Syr H. Gilbert S.W. Raleigh S.R. Greenfeeld Bruges recouered The refusall of the new Calender The death of the Duke of Brunswicke Iohannes Basilides The Christian Churches at Constantinople The Patriark of Constantinople Seminaries banished An insurrection about the new Calender The Popes death Sixtus 5. A notable act of the Seignory of Venice The Prince of Saxonie prisoner The League The K. Edict 18. of March 1585. against raising of men Antwerpe yeeldeth to the king of Spaine S.F. Drake The Pope excommunicated the king of Nauarre and y e Prince of Conde The death of Augustus The death of the L. Russel Heluetians The death of the Queene of Scots The Death of S. Ph. Sidney Augusta Bathorus dieth Iames K. of Scots besieged and taken M. Cauēdish voyage about the world Contention about the election of the king of Poland Maximilian Sigismond D. of Guise Max. taken prisoner Maria de la Visitatione K. Phillip asketh counsel of Maria de la Visitatione The Spanish Nauie A tempest diuideth them S. F. Drake A strategem The Prince of Conde poisoned The Duke of Guise slaine The generall troubles and tumults in this yeare Poland Q of Scots England Turkes Italie Guise The Pope angrie with Henry the 3. He threatneth excommunication Huguenots The death of the Queene of France The king of France excōmunicated The K is slain by a Iacobin Friar The Death of the king of France H. the 3. The victory of Harens The siege at Paris Phillip displeased with the Pope A Fleete for Lisbone Friar Lewis de Baltram Priests recanted The Popes great treasure An heretike burned The marriage of the King of Scots The battaile at Yurie The death of Carls Bourbon The death of Sixtus 5. Vrban 7. The death of Pope Vrban Magus Bragadinus D. de Maine Gregorie 14 A Iubily A tumult at Cracouia about religion An act against the Popes buls The death of Gregory 14. A Dearth Innocent 9. The escape of the Duke of Guise The death of Innocent 9. Clement 8. Xeques Mulei his sonne becommeth a Christian The death of the Duke of Parma The end of the yeare 1592. Dissention in Religion The Turkes ouerthrowne D. of Guise The King of Fraunce conuerted A motion for recalling of the Iesuites into Riga Peter Barrier The death of Nemours Sigis K. of Poland H. crowned K. of France Mathias Arch-duke of Austria An expedition against the Turke Note D. Lopes The Turkes ouerthrowne The King of Fraunce wounded The death of Amurath Mahomet Wars proclaimed against Spaine The king of France is absolued by the Pope Arbertus the Cardinall made generall The D. de Maine restored to fauour The Duke of Aumale Arch-duke of Austria He winneth Callais Fere yeeldeth An English Nauie for Spaine The Fleet for India burned The Spaniards seeke reuenge and are crossed The death of Anne Q. of Poland The Church troubled Iacobus Fatricius The death of Amurath 3. An Edict against Iesuits Maximilian commeth to Agria The death of Alphonsus Embassadors from Marocco Embassadors from Moschouie Three times of the Christian Church The first from the preaching of the Apostles vntill Phocas distinguished into three periodes Of the first periode of the first time of y e Church Of the second periode of the first time of the Church Of the third periode of the first time of the Church The second time of the Church frō Phocas vntil Charls 5. The first periode The second periode The third time of the Church from Charles the fift til this present time
he writ to many But finally being tormented by the filthinesse and stench of the place in the end he yeelded his spirit to God the yeare 308. Eusebius a Gretian by Nation a Phisitians sonne after Damasus succeeded in the gouernment of the Romane Church in the great persecutions in the time of Maxentius the horrible Tyrant The Authours of the Ecclesiasticall history make no mention of this Eusebius The booke of Councells attribute to him three Decretall Epistles The first to the Bishoppes of Gaul The second to the Egiptians The third to the Bishoppes of Tuscane and Campania His ordinances contained in those Epistles are these in effect That sheepe shall not draw their Shepheard or Bishop into Lawe vnlesse he denie the Faith That a mayd which shall be espowsed only by words of the present time may enter into Religion That the Sacrifice of the Aultar be consecrated not in cloath of silke but in linnen cloth and such like bables which the infamous fauourers of the seate of Popes haue not beene ashamed to assigne to those good and faithfull Ministers of the Lorde to disfigure and defile with their orders this honest face of the primitiue Church which follow his head Iesus Christ in continuall persecutions to establish their seate of perdition and to pollute the bloud of those holy Martyrs But contrary Eusebius trauailed much in the haruest of the Lords word as well at Rome as other where in the time of persecutions vnder Maxentius vntill that as Christianus Mattoens saith hee finished his life by martyrdome the yeare of the Lord 309. But amongst Histogoriographers there is great diuersitie for the number of yeares Licinius born in Dare was made Augustus companiō of the Empire with Maximin Galari after the death of Seuerus the yeare of our Lord 308. He was a warlike man and Slauonia was first giuen him to gouerne after the East he was noble although he came of a pesant he shewed himselfe cruel towards the children of Galerius his ally He was an enemy vnto letters as hauing no knowledge no not to write his owne name And he called the liberall Arts a publike poyson and pestilence Euseb lib. 4. ca. 13. He deserued praise in that he repressed abuses the boldnesse insolencies of the brauest of his Court which he called the Moathes and Rattes of his Pallace He raigned 14 yeares liued 60. See Pomp. Laet. Constantine the great sonne of the Emperour Constantius and Helena S. Ambrose in his funerall Oration of Theodosius saith that hee was a seruant in a stable and was borne in England Hee was instructed in the Militarie Art vnder Galerius He tamed the Sermates a fearce Nation barbarous brought their Duke captiue to Galerius who cōceiued enuy at the glory of this yong Prince whereof being aduertised he retired from Rome towards his Father into England who dyed soone after By the fauour of Princes he was declared Emperour the yeare 309. The Senate writ vnto him Letters to aduertise him of the euil gouernment Maxentius for the great cruelties hee exercised at Rome wherevpon he marched towards Rome and pursued Maxentius who retiring into the Towne made couer Tyber with Boats nye the bridge Miluius which by subtil deceit as hee thought he made ioyne together to deceiue Constantine and to haue drown'd him whē he followed him But he himself as furious first comming out to flie not remembring his owne stratageme that hee practised for an other entred on horsebacke with a fewe people vpon the bridge where he was drowned in Tyber the 6. yeare of his Empire For this happie deliuerance honors were giuen to Constantius so he acquited Italie and Affrike For his Father had only left him the Gaulois and Spaine and would so haue contented himselfe had it not bene for the warre that Licinius raised making himselfe Cesar and was established in the East Maximian as we haue said with his great griefe had forsakē the Empire being greeued so long to lead a priuate life did his best by the meanes of Maxentius his sonne chosen Emperour to returne to the Empire but because hee succeeded therein not well he retired towards his sonne in lawe Constantine vnto whom he had giuen his daughter Fausta and sought by ambushes to cast him out of the Empire Which Fausta perceiuing well reuealed to her husband preferring him before her father Wherefore the sonne in lawe besieged him at Marcellis tooke him aliue and bad him choose whatsoeuer kind of death he would He strangled himselfe with a cord or girdle And so this wicked and bloudie man which had shead so much Christian bloud vnluckily finished his life of his age sixtie Licinius at the first had some great familiaritie with Constantine and to please him made a shew to loue the Christians in so much that he married Constance the sister of Constantine and by a mutuall consent together caused to publish lawes for the Christians but afterward comming againe to his nature and forgetting the honour that Constantine had done him began to conspire against him because Constantine so fauoured Christians whose enemie he declared himselfe alleadging this cause that in their assemblies they prayed for Constantine and not for him Licinius then beganne the persecution by his owne house after he stretched it farre by Lawes and Edicts into the Prouinces of the East forbidding especially Bishoppes to make assemblies and Sinodes Secondly that men and women to auoyd scandalles and offence not to assemble at prayers Thirdly that such as were appointed prisoners as transgressors of Edicts should not be visited nor succoured in paine to incurre the like condemnation c. He then set himselfe against the Bishops not openly for feare of Constantine but made them die secretly by his Committees Euseb Lib. 10. Chap. 8. In the Towne of Sebasta Losias killed in a poole fortie souldiers whose Martirdome Basile the great described and other Martirs which were cruelly murdered Licinius increased more and more his crueltie but the Lord sent Constantine to represse him who experimented against him the Forces of the Gaules and Italie hauing ouerthrowne him in Hungarie and pursued him into Macedonia where he repaired his forces He was chased into Asia and in the end yeelded himselfe seeing he was vanquished by sea and by land and was sent into Thessalonica to liue priuately yet could he not so escape the true vengeance of his boldnesse crueltie and infidelitie For hee was slaine by Constantines souldiers about the yeare of our Lord three hundred twentie and foure after some writers Melchiades the thirtith Bishop succeeded in the Church of Rome and was of Affrike after Damasus A man of great pietie and a true seruant in the holy Ministerie of the Gospell and in the affaires of the truth of God vntill hee was put to death vnder Maximin Galerius the yeare of the Lord 314. Read herevpon the Ecclesiasticall History of Eusebius where he reciteth diuers cruell kindes of death wherewith the
Anastatius a litle after died with lightning he was of the age of 88. yeares the 25. yeare of his Empire Hormisda was renowned for his great almes done to the poore and for condemning the Manichean heresie which sproong againe and for burning their bookes Boetius was put to death by the commaundement of Theodorike the Arrian Iustine the auncient Emperour raigned nine yeares In his youth he kept swine then he kept oxen after he was a Carpenters man About the age of 16. yeares he beganne to follow the warre and by craft came to the Empire For hauing receiued a great summe of siluer to buy the suffrages of Princes Captaines and other for an other he subtilly bought them for himself and so was chosen but he caused all them to die for whom he had receiued the said siluer A Councell at Gerone in Spaine at this time A Councell at Satragosse In the 7. Chapter of the said Councell it is said Whosoeuer receiueth the Eucharist and eateth it not let him be excommunicated for euer This is in the second volume of Councells In the 16. Chapter If any Clarke vpon presumption of vanitie or by dissolution make himselfe a Monke let him bee excommunicated Brigide a virgin in Scotland dyed the yeare 524. of whom many fabulous things are inuented Iustin after his election sent Embassadors vnto Hormisda the Pope to confirme the Apostolike authoritie and to bring peace to all Churches He cast out of Constantinople all the Eutechian Heretikes and Arrians and reuoked from exile all such as Anastatius the Emperour before had banished and Temples were taken from the Arrians and giuen to the Catholiques Theodorice much grieued that Iustin should againe driue away the Arrians in despight determined to torment the Town of Rome Iohn Pope the first of that name a Tuscaine gouerned the Church three yeares at Rome Hee with the Bishop of Rauenna and certaine Senators and Councellors of Rome were sent to Constantinople by Theodorice King of Italy to the end that the Emperour should restore to the Arrian Bishops and Priests their Churches otherwise he would put Rome and Italie to fire and sword As this company approached neare the towne the Emperour Iustin with all his Cleargie and all the people of the Towne met them and the Emperour casting himselfe at the Popes feete saluted him Iohn then being receiued in such honour expounded the cause of his comming and seeing hee could not bring Iustin to Theodorics will began to weep and besought him to helpe the ruine of Italie and of the Catholiques Then rose there vp a great lamentation on the Ambassadors side and of the Auditors euery one seeing Religion to be in so great hazard if the Arrians were restored and on the other side the great dissolation of Rome and Italie Finally the request of the Embassadors obtained the opinion of which was that for a time the cause of the faith might tarry behinde to procure the saluation of the Towne and of Italie The Emperour consented to the restitution of the Arrians suffering them to liue after their owne lawes and statutes but for all this the Pope Iohn and his companions got nothing heereby For the honourable entertainment which the Emperour gaue them was suspected of Theodorice wherefore hee put the Pope in prison at Rauenna where hee finally died in great miserie pouertie and infection and the other Embassadors were likewise with him This was a notable iudgement of God vppon such as set behinde the cause of Faith for a temporall commoditie Peace restored to the Catholiques in Affrike by Hilderic King of Vandales who reuoked from exile all such as his father had banished notwithstanding his father on his death-bed had charged him that he should neuer giue helpe nor support vnto Catholiques Affrike was afflicted vntill this time namely about 74. yeares Some histories say that the Towne of Antioche was by an earthquake wholly destroyed Iustinian the Emperor Iustins Nephew by his sister raigned 38. yeares He set his studie to repaire the estate of the Commmon-wealth by Bellisarius Felix the fourth Pope of that name ruled foure yeares Supp Chron. He was great Grand-father of S. Gregories father There is attributed vnto him the ordinance of extreame Vnction grounding his ordinance vpon the words of S. Iames the 5. Chapter He caused to be builded at Rome the Temple of S. Cosme and of S. Damian and repaired the church of S. Saturnin which was burnt The Feast of the Dedication euery yeare ought to bee obserued and celebrated In this time Cassiodorus compiled in one the Historie which is called Tripartite Boniface ruled at Rome two yeares and more There was great contention and discention in his election For some had chosen Discorus but hee died about a moneth after and so ceased the diuision wherefore hauing prooued the feare thereof hee ordained that three dayes after the Popes death if it were possible there should bee an other elected to shun sedition This was hee which did seperate the people from the Cleargie as they were hearing the diuine Seruice as they called it Iohn the second of that name called Mercurius borne at Rome gouerned the Church three yeares The Vandales tooke ende in Affrike 96. yeares after it was occupied by Gensericus the Tyrant an Arrian And Affrike was made tributary to the Romane Emperour by Bellisarius Iustinian sent the confession of his faith with his owne hand and seale to Iohn the second In the second volume of Councels Item he sent vnto him a Cup of Gold and two of Siluer and certaine Challices Gregorie Bishoppe of Langres was married Fascicul Temp. The Councell of Toledo the second Agapetus a Romane ruled one yeare His father was a Priest called Gordian Iustinian was seduced by Athemius the Eutychian Bishop of Constantinople Agapetus was sent to Constantinople by Theodatus King of the Ostrogothes in Italie to appease the Emperour and to haue pardon for the fault hee had committed in putting to death Queene Amalasontha the wife of Theodorice by whom he was admitted into the Kingdome Agapetus comming to Constantinople contention arose betweene him and the Emperour And after many threatnings against Agapetus Iustinian finally left his errour was quieted and cast Anthemius out of his Bishopricke and there appointed one Mennas in his place at the exhortation of Agapetus Vnto Agapetus is attributed the ordinance of Processions on Sundayes about the Temples The Temple of S. Sophie was builded at Constantinople by Iustinian Germaine Bishop of Paris excommunicated the King of Fraunce Herebert because he left his wife Iugebergne Abb. Vrsp Eleutherius Bishop of Tornay Medard Bishop of Noion Gildard Bishop of Rouan in this time Iordain a Monke after came to be a Bishop of the Gothes a Chronicler of the Ieastes of the Romanes and of the Gothes Abb. Trit Syluerius Pope or Liberius borne in Campania in Italie the sonne of Hormisda Bishop who as is said was
15. yeares Lewis the young 7. of that name 40. King of France raigned 43. yeares He vpon superstition went into Spaine vpon pilgrimage vnto S. Iames. Ascalon was taken of the Christians beyond the sea Suppl Chron. Edessa a Citie of Mesopotamia was taken of Alaps a Prince of Turkie the Christians put to death and women violated vpon the Aultar of S. Iohn Baptist saith Naucler Fulco King of Ierusalem fell from his horse as he ran at an Hare and died Naucler and Chron. Euseb Baudwin 3. and 5. King of Ierusalem succeeded him Celestine Pope 2. of that name an Italian before called Guido a Priest Cardinall of S. Mark hauing ruled 5. monethes and 8. dayes died of the pestilence Lucius Pope 2. of that name borne at Boulongne before a Priest Card. of S. Crosse named Gerard ruled about one yeare This man willing by force to take away the dignitie of the Patrician from the Romanes was on the body wounded with the blowes of stones by the common people R. Barns And being oppressed with the Romanes hee sent vnto the Emperour who beeing occupied otherwhere could not succour him He did all he could to incite Christians to warre beyond the sea because he had receiued newes how the holy Land was in daunger to be lost for the Christians Iohn le Maire Some say he died in a sedition Others that he died of the Pestilence Supp Chron. and Fascic temp Eugenius Pope third of that name borne at Pise a Monke of Cleruaux Disciple of S. Bernard Abbotte and Cardinall of S. Anastasius at Rome ruled eight yeares and foure monethes He was constrained by the Romanes whom hee had excommunicated with Iordan the Patrice to flie from Rome and shaking the dust off his feete against his enemies hee got him into France not onely to shunne the feare of the said Romanes who with force of Armes chased him away but also to encourage and drawe on the French King Lewis to the succours of the holy Land He celebrated then a Councell at Vezelay in Burgoigne and there caused S. Barnard with his liuely voyce to vtter out all the mischiefe like to fall vnto the holy Land After which speech of S. Barnard the King vowed to giue succours to the Christian Princes beyond the Seas and the Queen Helionor his wife promised to follow him and with them many Princes Barons and Noble men of France Also the Emperour Conrade the third Alphonsus King of Spaine Henry King of England and many other Princes and Prelates yet in this voyage they did nothing worthy of memorie and this was the second vniuersall voyage as Iohn le Maire saith but the third expedition to goe into Ierusalem The first vnder Vrbain and the second vnder Paschal Anno. 1101. Eugenius also assembled a Councell at Rhemes and called thither Cardinalls and other Prelates of whom hee was consecrated as appertained And there S. Barnard confuted by disputation and vanquished Gilbert Poretaine Bishoppe of Poitiers an excellent Clarke who erred in touching the vnitie of the Trinitie There were made many decrees for Monkes that they should not leaue their Monasteries nor Baptise nor carrie children vnto Baptisme that they might not enioyne penance nor giue absolution that they might not visit the diseased nor assist the funeralls of the dead Briefly that they might not apply themselues vnto secular businesses but remaine sollitarie in theyr Monasteries That the husband or wife ought not to enter into Religion and the marriage should not be broken if one of the parties contradicted it nor without the consent of the Bishop if both parties accorded There was also ordained for the maintenance of schooles and for prouision of Doctors and Masters After those things done in France Eugenius returned vnto Rome where hee was honourably receiued of the people but soone after died at Tiber where he went to recreate himselfe His body was brought to Rome and buried in the Temple of S. Peter Suppl Chron. In this time raigned Gratian the Monke who compiled the Decretall Which Eugenius approoued and commanded to be read through all Vniuersities Supp Chron. Petrus Lumbardus Bishop of Paris compiled the bookes of Sentences Petrus Commestor wrote the Scholasticke Historie Auicen and Auerrois liued in this time excellent in Phisicke By the writings of Saint Barnard wee may knowe how in this time beeing so miserably corrupted he stroue against the impietie of Popes and the Ecclesiasticall sort See his 67. Sermon where he calleth them the Ministers of Antichrist In the Sermon 57. In the booke vnto this Pope Eugenius and in the 33. Sermon vpon the Cant. he often saith that Prelates are but pilates He reprooueth Eugenius that leauing the word of God he aduanced humane traditions Hugo Cardinall in his Postile vpon S. Iohn alleadgeth that S. Barnard said in a certaine place It seemeth ô good Iesu that all the Vniuersitie of Christians haue conspired against thee and they are the chiefe of the coniuration which obtaine the Primacie of the church At the end of his dayes hee shewed well that hee perfectly knew the true doctrine of the Iustification by Iesus Christ on whom only was his refuge reiecting all other sanctities and righteousnesse His writings yeeld a certaine witnesse of him The Emperour of Constantinople Emanuel sent victuals to the Christians beyond the Seas but like a traitetous wicked man hee mingled chalke amongst their floure whereof infinite people died He gaue also guides vnto the Emperour Conrade which conducted him through solitary places Insomuch that he lost all his souldiers As much also almost came vnto the king of France yet they both got into Ierusalem The Emperor Conrade the King Lewis and Baudwin King of Ierusalem being in Ierusalem determined to assaile Damas. Naucler Aluisius Abbot of Auchen and Bishop of Arras died in this iourney of the holy Land in a towne called Philopolis Simon Bishop of Noyon at Selencia Bishops Abbots and Monkes trotted then in voyages beyond the Seas Norway receiued then the faith which was then S. Barnard died of the age of 36. yeares Naucler Conrade the third Emperor returning from his voyage of Ierusalem died at Banberg 1152. Frederic first of that name surnamed barbarous sonne of Frederic Duke of Souanbe who was brother of the said Conrade was chosen Emperour This was a Prince of a good spirit hardie of great stature and faire of face his haire and beard was redde affable and gracious After his election hee ledde seuen times his Armie against the Italians which rebelled against him Anastasius Pope 4. of that name a Romane Abbot ruled the Romane Church one yeare or two 4. monethes and 24. daies They qualifie him a great Almes-giuer of many priuiledges vnto religious people of Challices very sumptuous and of repairing Churches Adrian 4. of that name borne in England a man learned before called Nicholas-breakspeare the sonne of one named Robert a Monke and Priest of the Temple of S. Albons
Others that they would not pay it and so was there a schisme in the Churches of Almaigne Naucler Petrarke dyed about this time So did Boccace of the age of 62. yeares Abb. Trit Simon de Cassia was in this time and S. Bonauenture whom Gregorie 2. made Cardinall and Bishop of Albe Abb. Trit Amurathes was slaine with the blowe of a Dagger by the seruant of a Christian called Seruianus For that the said Amurathes had slaine his maister Peter de Premonstre hath left by writing that in this Popes time there was a kinde or new Sect of diuellish people as well men as women which without any shame daunced hardely And he said that in the yeare of the Lord 1375. they came frō Aix in Almain into Henaut and from thence into France Some said this signified the returne of Pope Gregorie his Cardinals to Rome These thought they daunced in a flood of blood although such as were present with them saw no such thing The common people iudged that these people were ill baptized by Priests which keep whores and harlots and therefore they determined to haue risen vp against the Cleargy to slay them and pill their goods but that God remedied it by the meanes of certaine coniurations that which followeth in the said author The yeare of Christ 1375. the English men and Brytons with other people to the number of fortie thousand and more fell vpon the Countries of Alsarce and Sangania and tooke Cities and Castles and raced them to the ground violated virgins and wiues burned Churches and Monasteries and after many other tyrannies they attempted also vpon the Bernois but a great multitude of them and their Duke were slaine and discomfited by the said Bernois at Frowenbrun the rest were assailed by other Swisses and were ouerthrowne and so they all perished miserably Fascic temp The Emperour Charles sought to stretch out the limits of his kingdome of Boheme partly by siluer and partly by warres and other meanes which was cause that he gaue to Iohn Henry his brother the Countrey of Morauia to the end he might renounce the right he had in the kingdome of Boheme Long time after he also caused the Princes Electors to elect Wencelaus his sonne King of the Romanes Finally after many requests hee obtained that he demaunded the yeare of grace 1376. and gained the Princes which elected Wencelaus King of Romanes being but 15. yeares of age After his coronation he espoused Ihehanne or Iane daughter of Albert Counte of Holland and Duke of Bauiere But the yeare following Charles dyed which was the yeare of grace 1378. and of his Empire 33. Hee was an Emperour worthie of praise sauing that he regarded more his kingdome of Boheme then the publike weale of his Empire For knowing his Sonne should succeede him in the Empire hee corrupted the Electors by great and faire promises the which being not able to accomplish hee gaged vnto them the publike taxes and tributes and brought the Romane Empire into that calamitie wherein it is at this day For the Electors retaine that vnto themselues which should be the Emperours A great number of the poore of Lyon were burnt at Paris in the place de Greue The Sea of Histories The Colledge of Benuais was founded at Paris the yeare 1372. otherwise called the Colledge des Dormans because it was founded by three brethren called Dormans the one was Bishop of Beauuais the other Archbishop of Angiers and the other Chauncellour of France Wencelaus sonne of Charles fourth of that name was chosen king of the Romans beeing but 15. yeares of age at the pursuite of his Father and crowned at Aix la Chappelle with his wife the daughter of Albert Duke of Bauiere and Counte of Holland But this Wencelaus was euil made of bodie and spirit his bodie crooked and of an effeminate courage He was borne at Nuremberge and his mother dyed at his byrth Assoone as hee was made king of Boheme and of the Romanes incontinently he gaue himselfe to all Idlenes and dissolution following his pleasures caring for nothing but to make good cheare And because he vsed great tyrannie in the end the Barons of the kingdom tooke him kept him in prison the space of 4. moneths til he was brought forth by his brother the Marquesse called Iohn but he became no better His subiects then seeing that all the Country was infected with his orders tyrannies whoredomes dissolutions they complained to his brother Sigismond king of Hungarie and he was againe taken and imprisoned in Austriche but escaping out of prison he returned into his kingdome and returned to his first manners The Electors of the Empire often admonished him but hee cared not therefore he was depriued of his Empire at Bopard Baiazet fourth King or Emperour of the Turks the sonne of Amurathes after the death of his Father slewe his brother Soliman traiterously and so alone enioyed the Empire of the Turkes the yeare of the world 5335. after Christes Natiuitie 1373. To reuenge the death of his father he made war against Marke Lord of Bulgaria ouercame and slewe him and so subiected a great part of his Country A little after he ouerranne Hungarie Albania and Walachie and did great hurt tooke many Christians and led them into Thracia prisoners In his enterprises and affaires he was so hotte and so suddaine that he was called Baiazet Hildrin that is to say thunder from heauen He brought vnder as it were all Greece being aided with the goods and graces of nature both in body and spirit He besieged Constantinople by the space of eight yeares Wherevpon the Emperour sailed into France requiring succours which was graunted him yet got Baiazet victorie of the French Hungarians Almaines Syrians and Misians in one assembly against him after hee returned to Constantinople and there was no other meane to conserue the Empire of Constantinople but that Tamberlan who was Lord of a certaine Countrie of East Scythia towards Parthia hauing as it were an infinit number of people put to the sworde in one onely battaile on the Mount Stella where Pompey fought with Mithridates 2. hundreth thousand Turkes and ouercame Baiazet and bound him with chaines of Gold and put him into a Cage of Iron and so ledde him through all the Countreys of Asia and Syria In the which miserable estate the said Baiazet died He raigned twentie and sixe yeares Edward King of England who had so many victories in France died of the age of 74. yeares the yeare 52. of his raigne Charles the 4. and Wencelaus his sonne came into France to accord the French and the English but they returned without doing any thing because of the death of the Queene and her daughter Isabel The Pope Gregorie after he had done all that belonged to a good Pope as Platina saith being tormented with an intollerable paine of the blather deceased the yeare of the Lord 1378. Some say that
from the Sonne as the Father They agreed also to Purgatorie and the Romane Pope to be the primate of the Catholicke Church which they had neuer done before now but euer were of contrarie opinions But as soone as they were come to their Countrey againe at the perswasion of Marcus Bishop of Ephesus they againe denied the two last Articles Plat. Vola and Naucler It is straunge that the Grecians which haue beene so slowe to acknowledge and confesse so true a doctrine of the holy Ghost are now so quick and light to accord so friuolous and false a thing that is to receiue and beleeue against all holy scripture that there is a Purgatorie and Romane Pope to be Primate of the Catholicke and Vniuersall Church wherevnto the first generall Councell had openly resisted in the time of Constantine the great In the said Councell of Florence the Armenians and Indians were also brought into the vnion of the Romane Church and promised to keepe and maintaine the Sacrament of Confirmation Naucler This Pope Eugenius confirmed Annates vpon all Benefices Hee Canonized S. Nicholas Tolentin of the order of the Hermits of S. Augustine Bessarion Cardinall flourished and his house at Rome was open to euery man of knowledge like a Colledge Vadian Sigismond of the age of 70 yeares died and was buried in Hungarie in the citie called Albe His wife Barbara was without all religion and without God insatiable in all paliardize and whoredome Shee mocked her damzels because they fasted and prayed saying they must liue iocondly and merily and take all their pleasures during this life for after death the soule perisheth with the bodie The Councell of Basill continued still and proceeded against Eugenius the fourth who after many times cyting and not appearing was publikely deposed by the authoritie of the Councell the tenth of Iuly Eugenius mooued herewith incited the Dolphin of France who after was called king Lewis the 11. to lead a great Armie in to the Countrey of Ferrara and Alsarce and to come to Basill Wherefore the said Councell brake vp and herevpon came many mischiefes See Naucler Albert the fift of that name Duke of Austrich and second king of the Romanes of that name sonne of Albert the fourth Duke of Austrich was scant 10. yeares olde when his father died of poyson fighting against Iosse Marquesse of Morauia but being yer vnder Tutors which were his vncles there was great strife betwixt them for his tutelage Therefore Vienna and all the Countrey of Austrich endured great calamities till Albert came to age and was dispatched of his tutelage and planted a peace in Austrich which was before full of theeues and of Intestine warres After the yeare 1422. he espowsed Elizabeth the doughter of Sigismond and had with her in marriage the noble Townes of Maruia But after the death of Sigismond he was chosen king of Hungaria by the consent of all the principall of the Countrey and Crowned the yeare of grace 1438. After this he was also made king of Bohemia and that came because there was a great alliance betwixt the Kings of Boheme and the Dukes of Austrich whereby they had ordained betwixt them that whensoeuer one of the houses remained without heire-male of the other they should create a king He was also chosen king of the Romanes by the common accord of all the Princes Electors The yeare 1459. the 17. day of Nouember in the Councell of Basill after the deposition of Eupenius the Cardinalls elected Amedeus of Ayme Duke of Sauoy and called him Felix the fift so came into the Church the 23. schisme and diuision which endured the space of sixteene yeares Some followed Eugenius others Felix some said they were newters and so obeyed neither one nor the other The Kings of France England Spaine Scotland obeyed the Pope Eugenius For although he was deposed yet held he good during his life This Councell of Basill assembled with great authoritie was notwithstanding dissipated and broken by one onely Pope That of Constance deposed three and ordained the fourth This could not bring about to depose one Fasci Temp. In the Councell of Basill it was forbidden that secular Princes Councellors and Communalties vpon paine of excommunication should not bee so hardie to greete and submit the Churchmen with tallies and common collection Fasci temp Augustine of Rome was condemned an heretike in the said Councell and there was confirmed the Conception of the Virgin Marie to bee kept as a solemne Feast But to the contrarie see Epiphanius in his 3 Booke and 12. Tome 68. and 69. heresie See also S. Bernard in the Epist 154. to the Canons of Lions The said Councell then confirmed that the Virgin Marie was conceiued without originall sinne it also confirmed her visitation In this time was a Councell held of the French Church at Bourges in Berry and there was published the pragmatike sanction which is all the marrow and substance of the Canons of the Councell of Basill to bee expresly obserued for euer Iohn le Maire The Duke Aime of Sauoy after the death of his wife Margarite of Bourgongne had left his Ducall estate and withdrew himselfe into an hermitage pleasant and delightfull called Ripaille vpon the Lake of Lansanne which he had caused to bee sumptuously builded and so left the gouernment of his signiories to his eldest sonne Lewis father of Duke Phillebert of Sauoy Beeing then in his said place of Ripaille the said Duke Anne with tenne knights all hermits wearing great beardes and simple cloathing and writhen staues full of knottes in great renowne of sanctetie of life was by the said Councell elected to be Pope as is said the 17. of Nouember the yeare 1439. and the 17. day of December the election was denounced vnto him and he went vnto Basill and was there solemnly crowned in the presence of two of his eldest sonnes Before this ceremonie his Beard was taken from him and in a small time he learned the Romane office He created some Cardinalls of great estimation and vertue Iohn le Maire The Emperour being called to goe into Hungarie sound himselfe greatly tormented in the moneth of August with an intollerable heate which hee thought to haue taken away by colde viands which brought to him a fluxe of the belley euen to bloud whereof he died the yeare 1439. nigh Strigoma after hee had beene Emperour almost two yeares Hee left two daughters and his wife with childe who soone after brought forth Ladislaus Frederic Duke of Austrich after Albert was Emperour of Rome He loued peace and rest restrained and brideled easily them of Austrich which stirred strifes and commotions So extinguished he the warre alreadie commenced by Matthias king of Hungarie by agreement with him Likewise this Frederic making warre against the Flemmings to haue his sonne Maximilian whom they detained prisoner appeased and contented them by the punishment of some and so taking and receiuing his
by reason of the desolatioÌ„ of the Citie and the smal number of Musulmans Now since such multitudes professe the religion of Mahomet that they need more Churches it is meete that the Christians should yeeld to them After this the Spanish Liedger at Venice wrote that Amurathes had spoyled all the Christian Temples and made them his owne and had commaunded to be done so with them at Ierusalem his anger was so great towards the Patriarke that hee caused him to be bound in chaines to be shamefully carried through the Citie and from thence sent him to Rhodes One cause of his anger towards him was that he vnderstood that he had receiued the Popes new Calender into Greece other Christian churches of the East to the great offence of many An other for that he pronounced a sentence of diuorcement against a mightie man in Greece who the better to be reuenged vpon the Patriarke renounced his faith turned Turke liuing afterwards in Amurathes Court and continually incyting him against the Patriarke Finally when in a Synode it was decreed as the Turke willed that a company of the Grecians shouuld be carried into the Desarts and there erect a Colonie and the Patriark had said it was very hard iniust Theophilus Hieroneonaclus Perachonnius told the Turke hereof who abdicated the Patriark and put Pachonnius in his place who being a rude and vnlearned man after hee had beene in the place one yeare was remooued and Theoseptus succeeded who was inaugurated the yeare 1585. William Carter of London at a Sessions in the Old-bayly was there indighted arraigned and condemned of high treason for printing a seditious and traiterous booke in English Intituled A Treatise of schisme and was for the same according to sentence pronounced against him drawne hanged and quartered I. St. Two and thirtie Seminaries Massing Priests and other late prisoners in the Tower of London Marshall-sea Kings bench and other places were embarked in the Mary Marlin of Colchester to bee transported ouer into the coasts of Normandie to bee banished this Realme for euer by the vertue of a Commission from her Maiestie before specified In the beginning of this yeare at Riga in Liuonia a great hurly burly happened amongst the Citizens about the Popes new Calender which presently burst out into open sedition D. Chytraeus Henry Archbishop of Breme Osuaborge Padeborne Duke of Saxonie the sonne of Frances the elder a Prince endued with vertue wisedome clemencie and learning in the flower of his youth being of the age of 35. yeares was called out of this World Idem Pope Gregorie the thirteenth of that name a Bolonist called before Hugo Boncompagno beeing of the age of eightie yeares dyed at Rome the eleuenth day of Aprill when he had ruled in the Sea the space of thirteene yeares and a litle more This Pope renewed the hatred of his predecessor Pius the fift against the Queene of England and so practised by all manner of meanes one while by force as it appeareth by the great Armada sent into Ireland and had a miserable ende an other while by craft and deceit as was seene in the great traytor Parry and others by him sent who had also miserable end It was the common voyce and fame in Rome that this Gregorie before hee was Pope and also beeing Pope had his concubine of whom hee had also title sonnes which said vnto him such Graces as made him to laugh and beeing Pope such was the grace that Phillippicus his sonne said that the Pope his father gaue him 5000. crownes a yeare M. Cyp. Val. Felix Pereto called Sixtus 5. was borne in a Village called Montalto neare to the Citie of Firmo which is in the Marches of Ancona he was of the order of the Franciscans Cardinall of Montalto In this Pope the common saying of Spaine was fulfilled Rex por natura y papa por ventura A King by name a Pope by aduenture for so poore was his father that hee was a Swine-heard Felix in his childhood was very poorely brought vp but shewing some sparkes of wit a gentlewoman for Gods sake cloathed him with the habit of S. Frances and entreated the Warden to receiue him into his couent where hee studied the liberall sciences and schoole diuinitie and in those sciences hee much profited In the end being now of age he was made Inquisitor In which office such was his carriages as feawe could abide his crueltie and so it hapned that he called before him a Magnifico of Venice who being come hee intreated discourteously inhumanely This gentleman vnaccustomed to hâ—â—re such iniuries and disgraces as by that which after he did for reuenge to the L. Inquisitor appeareth stomacked the matter A feawe daies after this Gentleman encountred the Inquisitor and when he sawe him he commanded his seruant with a good cudgell which he carried to abate the fiercenesse of the vnhappie Pereto Felix being thus cudgelled returned to Rome and recounted his mischance to Pope Pius 4. The Pope hereat disdaining sent him backe to Venice with much more authoritie and power then before When hee was returned to Venice hee presented his commission to the Seignorie The Seignory beeing wise and knowing the quarrelous humour of this man and well perceiuing that hee came with a desire to bee reuenged commaunded a Waxe candle to bee lighted and Felix if hee were wise precisely to depart theyr dominion and iurisdiction before that candle were consumed This Felix vnable to doo otherwise returned eftsoones to Rome and complained to the Pope The Pope seeing this man meete for his seruice made him Maister of his Pallace After this when the Spanish Inquisition of all men how high so euer feared and liked of none held the Archbishoppe of Tolledo for suspected of heresie the Pope sent Felix into Spaine to heare this cause The Generall of the Franciscans the chiefe dignitie among them now happened to die This dignitie gaue the Pope whom a feawe yeares after the same Pope made Cardinall In the conclusion when Gregorie was dead Felix by the meanes of his good friends in Spaine was made Pope and called himselfe Sixtus the fift This name he tooke in memorie of Sixtus 4. who was as he a Franciscan Friar M. Cyp. Val. This Pope talking one day of his base birth and parentage saide that hee came from a most illustrious house for said hee the vpper part of the roofe thereof beeing alwaies torne and vncouered the Sunne daily made it most glorious with his beames Anthonius Ciracella de vitis pontificum The Princes of the Empire with the K. of Denmarke sent their Embassadors in the moneth of March to the Emperor at Prage to entreat for the enlargement of Iohn Frederick Prince of Saxonie whom hee held in prison the space of 18. yeares which although the Emperor condiscended to in word only yet he bound the captiue Prince with such hard conditions that he had rather
of Rome 78 Massacre in France 606 Marcus Bishop of Rome 108 Martirs suffer diuers tormeÌ„ts 58 Martir the word when vsed 89 Martirs of the Pope differ from them of the Church 315 Martyrain builded in Ierusalem 89 Maxentius drowned in Tyber 82 Maximian chooseth his owne death 83 Maximilla and Prisca Prophetessâ—â— 219 Maximin hath his hand and tongue cut off 200 Matild the harlot of Gregory the 7. is called S. Peters daughter 305. Shee giueth all her goods to the Pope 319 Marquesse 366 Maurus the Romane and Faustus the Italian teach the Monasticall life 175 Malcontents 629 Maximilian dyeth 622 Moluchs death 632 Mulei Mahamet drowned 632 Monsieurs voyage into Flaunders 632 Mariade lauisitatione 666 Max. taken prisoner 666 M. Cauendish voyage 661 Marcus Bragadinus 675 Mauricius beheaded with his wife and children 182 Macrin Emperour 56 MenaÌ„der Disciple of SymoÌ„ Magus 14 Max. Emperour 483 Mendicant Friars 384 Messe the word how it was vsed 87. His Introite 150. Augmented 163. Called the Gregorian office 167. Inuention of the word 181. Song after the Romane manner 112. Celebrated in Latin Ibid. Augmented with Gloria in excelsis 220 Metropolitanes and Archbishops 90 Michael Emperour of Constantinople 213 Millaine taken made subiect to the Empire reuoulteth 35. After a siege of 7. years is sacked 564. Reedified and called Alexandria 365 Ministers 14 Myracles lying 200 Myracles apparitians forged 322 Mytre of the Pope 468 Monkery planted 192 Monkes heretikes banished from Rome 181 Monkes blacke priuiledged 185 Monkes of three sorts 124 Monkes may not carry to baptize 182 Monkes may not bee kept in Monasteries against their wills 218 Monkes rents 226 Monkes voluptuous 242. Commaunded to marry Monkes of England haue by gift the 10. part of the kingdoÌ„e 265 Monkes priuiledges 143 Monkes Venetians and of the Mount Oliue 437 Monasteries founded 146 Montanus and his heresie 17 Moses brother of Calapine 451 Marcus Aurelius 40 Meldriades king of R. 84 N NAples conquered by Charls the 8. 443 The disease of Naples 436 Nero persecuteth the Christians and killeth himselfe 21 Nicasius Bishop of Rhemes slaine 178 Nicholaites 314 Nichomedia the seat for the Easterne Emperours 287 Names of dignities 252 Nunnes and inuention of theyr habits 337 Nunnes dispensed with to marry 344 Normanes receiue the faith 290 Norway receiueth the faith Ibid Hath a priuiledge to sing Masse without wine Ibid. Notaries and Protonotaries 54 Nerua Emperour 27 Nicholas 1. Pope 241 O OBseruation of daies 154. Of betters Ibid. Ocham and Dante 's held for heretikes 428 Office of a king 83 Office of a subiect Ibid. Office of a Bishop 91 Office of Priests 93 Office of Deacons 95 Olympus Bishoppe of Carthage suddenly burnt 89 Order of the holy Ghost 632 Ouids Tombe Orange receiueth the Gospell 125 Orange sacked 227 Orchanes 2. Emperour of the Turkes 409 Ordinance of Bigamies 166 Of orders 167 Of extreame vnction 174 Of protections 185 To say Masse toward the East 187 To celebrate prayers of Baptisme and the Supper with an high voyce 188. Of the feast of Candlemas Ibid. Of punishing heretikes 20. Of the 7. Canonical houres Ibid. CommemoratioÌ„ of the dead at Masse Ibi. Of Lent not vniuersall 213. To sing the Creed on high 205. Of offering bread and wine Ibid. Of lamps burning in Churches 184. Aultar coucred with cleane cloathes Ibid. That the Corporall should be kept clean Ibid. That a Bigant should not be made Priest 290. Of the exaltatioÌ„ of the holy Crosse 287. Of the signe of the Crosse Ibid. Of burial out of Churches 223. Of Organs 231. Of supplications against thunder Ibid. Of bearing children to baptisme 274. To kisse the Pix or Masse 275. That Popes should bee made with consent of the Emper. 28 That Clarkes should bring vp no dogges nor haukes That a lay man should not lay hands vpon a Clarke 292 Ordinances humane made equall with the word of God 3018. Ordinance of Pope Vrban 2. 331 Ordinances execrable 318 The order of Clugny 256 Of the Carmes 399. Of William Hermit Ibid Of the Trinitie 362 Off the bretheren of the hospitall Ibid. Of the Iacobins confirmed 372. Of the Caelestines 391. Of the Pawlines in England 400 Order of the Iesuites 406 Foure new orders of such as were crossed 318 Orobite heretikes in Bohe. 463 Organs first in vse in France 221 Origines 54. His fall his end 64 Ostragoths made warre with Belizarius 185 Otho the first 267 Otho the second 274 Otho the third 300. He causeth his wife and the Adulterer to be burned 318. He is poysoned 321 Otho the 4. excommunicated of the Pope 365 Othoman the first Emperour of the Turkes by litle and litle vsurpeth vpon Europe 388. P PAganisme 216 Pallace of Auignon burnt 209 Paleologue Emperour 399. He is excommunicated Ibid. Palladium carried to Constantinople 103 Pantheon builded 27 Pantheon burnt 26 Pantheon dedicated to the Virgin Mary and to all Saints 459 The Papaltie returneth to Rome 437 It decayeth 444. It was voyd 2. yeares 447 Pope ratified by the Exarche 224 He is elected without the Emrours authoritie 235. Consecrated with a new ceremonie Ibid. Pope defender of Idolatrie 232 The King of France holdeth his bridle 224 Pope authorized of the diuel bestoweth the kingdomes of the world 224 Pope condemned by a Pope 220 Goeth on Procession on foot 212 Abuseth the Emperour 226. Cause of schisme in the Empire 233. Transgresseth his owne lawes Is called God 236 Deposed and againe restored 266. Entereth by diuellish Art 221. Slaine in adulterie 300 Disgraded and after banished 310. He studieth Necromancie 399. Appeared after his death 301. A Symoniake 312 Chosen by corruption 317. Is an Apostate Ibid. Pope elected at Rome an other at Senes 319. Recouereth S. Peters Patrimonie by Armes Ibid Called Prince of Sodome seruant of the seruants of God 179. He is shewed to be Antichrist 138. He will be iudged of no man 290. Hee may bee deposed by the Councell 293 Popes imitators of Doiclesian 296 Excommunicated 298. Rise against Emperours 301. Doo crowne Emperours sell publike benefices 317. Chaunge their names prooued by the shame fast parts 277 Popes schismatikes ane Simoniniakes 326 Three Popes at once Ibid. Make warre with one another Excommunicate one an other 327 Papists runne to false myracles 243 Papinianus slaine 57 Paternus Monke burnt in his Cloyster for the vow of obedience 323 Poulian Pope 54 Probus Emperour 70 Paschal 1. Pope 250. Patricke Bishop of Soissons 302 Giueth the Countrey thereof to the Church of Rome Ibid. Patrician 226 Paul his parents and place of his birth 8 Paul conuerted 9. Led to Felix 18. Sent to Rome Ibid. Paul Samosatenian 68. Condemned by the Councell of Antioche Ibid. Paul heretike 98 Paul Patriarhe condemned 114 Parma created Duke 628 Prince of Orange shot 640 Hee is slaine 645 Poland troubled 666 Patriarch of Constantinople 65 Prince of Sax. prisoner 653 Prince of Conde poysoned 665 Priests reconciled 672 Peter Barrier 683 Peace betweene Fr. and Spaine
depriued both of his wife and of his Principalitie and dyed without children Naucler and Corno Abb. Calixtus prepared an Armie against Roger but the Popes death came betwixt and Innocent the second pursued the enterprise One called Iohn a Patriarke of the Indians came vnto Rome and rehearsed to the Pope and Cardinalls in a Councell that by a myracle S. Thomas the Apostle came euery yeare to giue the Eucharist vnto the good and refused the wicked Naucler Miracles and apparitions are on all sides forged The Emperour Henry the fift bearing a long time an hatred vnto the King of France assembled a great Armie to runne vpon him taking occasion that hee was at the Councell which the Pope Calixt held at Rheimes wherein he was excommunicated and vaunted that he would destroy the Citie of Rheims where the said Councell was held but when he perceiued the Kings power which met him with the precious standard called the Auriflame he desisted from his enterprise and returned into his Country Iohn le Maire Pomerania receiued the Christian Faith Nancler Honorius Pope second of that name borne at Imola in Italie a man of base condition yet learned gouerned the Romane Church 5. yeares 2. moneths Before he was called Lambert Bishop of Ostia and was promoted rather by the ambition of some then by the consent of the good Supp Chron. He inuested Roger of the Duchy of Pouille after the said Roger had done vnto him homage who also was King of Sicilie The same Robert author of the order of Premonstre went to Rome vnto the Pope obteined what he desired cōcerning y e order Nauc Arnulphe Arch-bishop of Lion had at this time a singular grace in preaching who after he had preached in Fraunce and Italie came vnto Rome But because in his Sermons he rebuked too sharply the vices the delights and pompes of Church-men he was slaine Honorius feined to be grieued therat yet he made no search for the murderers Plat. and Sabel Bonifa Simo. say that hee did this in fauour both of the Nobilitie and of the common people The yeare of Christ 1125. Henry the 5. died in the Citie of Vtreict without heire male Lothaire in the Almaine tongue Luder the sonne of Count Gebhard who was slaine in the warre by Henry the fourth as hath bene said being created Duke of Saxonie was chosen Emperour a man of great industry and prudence and persecuted the race of the Emperour Henry whereof arose many troubles For Frederic and Conrade Dukes of Souanbie were a long time Rebels vnto him Finally S. Barnard Abbot of Cleruax reconciled these two brethren with Lothaire Hugo a Saxon by Nation and surnamed of Victor a Theologian of Paris was at this time in Paris Amongst his writings are found many complaints against the disordinate life of Clarkes in this time It is he whom some say that at Masse as he lifted vp the body of our Lord there appeared a litle childe which said vnto him Eate me And he abhorring it said hee could not eate him vnlesse he hid himselfe againe vnder the bread and straight it came so to passe and he eate him Who sees not that this is a fable inuented to proue the new doctrine of Pascasius and Lanfrancus And yet this is against their doctrine and especially against that of Thomas Aquine in the third part question 76. Charles Count of Flaunders Nephew of Lewis King of France was traiterously murthered as hee was on his knees in the Church of S. Donatus in Brugis in Flaunders The murtherers were certaine villaines of the Countrey which were grieuously punished in sundry maners Sigeb Baudwin the second who was the third King of Ierusalem died in a Monkes habit whom Fulco succeeded Naucl. Chron. Sigeb Innocent Pope 2. of that name a Roman gouerned 14. yeares After his coronation he attempted mortall warre against Roger the Norman Who first named himselfe King of Naples but in the end Innocent was ouerthrowne in battaile and ledde away prisoner Whilest he was in prison the Romanes elected Peter Leon the sonne of a puissant Romane Citizen But Innocent after he had agreed with the said Roger was constrained to goe into France for succour towards King Lewis le Gros of whom hee was honourably receiued Being come into France he held two Councells one at Auerne and an other at Rhemes in Campaigne From France he retired towards the Countrey of Liege where he found the Emperour Lothaire who also promised all the assistance he could by meanes of which hee returned into Italie Anacletus the Antepope stole away all the treasures and Reliques of the Church to wage them which were of his band he died with griefe and his Cardinals craued pardon In the Councell held at Rheimes Subdeacons were commaunded to liue without marriage vnder paine to loose theyr Benefices There became a contention betwixt the Pope the king of France because that after the death of Alberic Archbishop of Bourges the Pope sent one called Peter by him consecrated Archbishop of the said place to reside and rule there but the King reiected him neither was be receiued into the Towne because he was created without his knowledge Sigeb Innocent agreed set a peace betwixt the towne of Pise and the towne of Genues and raised them vp vnto Archbishops A Sinode at Rome at this time ordained that no Lay-man should presume to lay hand vpon a Clarke vnder paine of excommunication from which none could absolue him but the Pope vnlesse he were at the poynt of death for then his Bishop might absolue him 17. Quest 4. Chap. Si quis suadente diabolo In this time was Richardus de sancto victore and Hugo a Monke of Corbie in Saxonie who wrote the booke de clanstro animae Peter de Balard an hereticke of this time said that the passion of our Lord Iesus Christ was onely giuen vs for an example of patience of vertue and of loue he shewed vnto vs. Wherefore he was condemned with all his writings by the Pope Innocent S. Barnard writ against him Writers say that one called Iohn of Time if it be a thing worthy the credite liued 361. yeares that is to say from the time of Charlemaigne whose Councellor he was and died in this time Naucler and Suppl Chron. The Emperour Lothaire went to Rome to restore Innocnt according to his promise The faction of the Guelphes for the Pope and of the Gibellins for the Emperour began in this time Naucler Lothaire returning from Italie the second time after hee had deiected Roger of Pouille and Calabria died of the pestilence nigh Trent amongst the Mountaines in a poore lodging saith Naucler But Palin saith that he died at Verona the 13. yeare of his Kingdome and the 7. of his Empire leauing one daughter called Gertrude Conrade 3. of that name Duke of Souabe sonne of Frederike of Haulte Staufen and of Agnes daughter of Henry the fourth obtained the Empire