out and thrown in also lastly his head was cut off and fixt upon the most eminent place of the City and his body divided and parts of it sent to the chief places in the Kingdom As for Robert Graham he was thus punished a Gallows was raised in a Cart then he had his right-hand nailed to it and so drawn along the streets whilst the Executioners with burning Pincers tâ—re pieces from his Shoulders Thighs and suchlike fleshy places which were farthest from his Vitals thereby to keep him the longer alive and in greater pain yet did these terrors bring little repentance to him as may be ghâ—st by his impious answer for being asked during all these tortures How he durst lay hands on his Prince made this Reply That if he had Heaven and Hell at his choice he durst leap out of Heaven and all the joys there into the flaming bottom of Hell At last having all his flesh almost pull'd off his Heart and Intrails were thrown into the fire his Head stuck up and his Quarters sent to several places for a terror to others And here I shall hastily pass by the unfortunate Raign of King James III how his own Subjects covenanted against him confined or forced him to Edinbourgh Castle and at last came to open Battel against him at Bannoch-Burn not far from Sterlin where his Army being beaten he was after in cold blood murdered in the Mill but whether this abominable murther was done by Patrick Lord Gray Robert Sterling of Keer or Andrew Borthwick a Priest or all of them must be left as their Histories hath it uncertain Sect. 4. The deaths of Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fifth Kings of England BUt leaving Scotland here might I treat of the miseries of England at the same time of the long but unfortunate Raign of good Henry VI of his dethronement and which was worst of his year 1471 murther in the Tower of London as the common opinion goeth by a Bacons Hist Hen. VII pag. 2. Richard Duke of Glocester afterwards call'd Richard the III. Though Mr. b Hist Rich. III. pag â—0 Spondan calls him a Martyr an 1471. § 6. Buck of late would deny the fact and clear the said Richard from this and all other imputations laid to him by all other Historians The body of this King Henry was carryed to Chertsey in Surrey and there buryed in the Monastery belonging to the Benedictines And 't is said that many Miracles have been done at his grave above two hundred of which was gather'd into one c Vâ—d Harâ—sfield Hist Eccles p. 595. Volume nor was there any disease but they say was cured by him Blind Lame Dumb Kings-evil and what not And as if these were not enough they make him cure another Miracle viz. a Woman that used to go with Childe above d Ib. p. 596. two years Richard III envying the fame of Henry if we may believe King * Spelman Concil tom 2. pag. 71â— Henry VII removed the Corps from Chertsey to the Chappel of Windsor where he was also worshipped by the name of Holy King Henry and here they say that his Red-velvet-Hat e Stow pag. 424. heal'd the Head-ach of such as put it on their heads there his body rested for a time but now his Tomb being taken thence it is not commonly known what is become of his body 'T is true King Henry VII had a desire to have it removed to Westminster to which purpose the Abbot desired the f Spelâ— Concil pag. 712 71â— consent of Pope Alexander VI. King Henry VII also desired to have this Henry VI Canonized to which purpose he wrote to the said Alexander who gave the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Durham g Spelm. pag. 720. Authority to inquire into his Miracles and Life Nor did Henry VII cease here but Alexander dying he sollicited h Harpsfield pag. 594. Julius II very earnestly and some think that had the King lived a little longer he had obtain'd his request But this I shall leave with these words of Edward Hall These and other like Offices of Holiness Ed. Halâ—'s Châ—on fol. 223. b. caused God to work miracles for him in his life-time as old men said By reason whereof King Henry VII not without cause sued to July Bishop of Rome to have him Canonized as other Saints be but the fees of the Canonizing of a King were so great a quantity at Rome more then the Canonizing of a Bishop or a Prelate although he sate in St. Peters Chair that the said King thought it more necessary to keep his money at home for the profit of his Realm and Country rather then to impoverish his Kingdom for the gaining of a new Holy-day of St. Henry remitting to God the judgement of his will and intent And here passing by the cruel death of the young Innocent Prince Edward eldest Son to this King Henry VI in cold bloud after the fight at Tewkes-bury I might come to Edward V and shew how he was deposed by his Uncle Richard by means of his wicked Instruments Stafford Duke of Buckingham Dr. John Shaw Brother to Edmond Shaw Gold-smith then Lord Mayor of London and suchlike and from this I might lead you to the making away of the said young Innocent Prince Edward and his Brother by the means of the said Richard III but because all Histories will not exactly agree upon the manner how I shall refer you to the Chronicles themselves where the juggle if not the murthers may be seen at large Sect. 5. The troubles in Spain and the miseries of Don Henry the Fourth King of Castile and Leon by reason of his proud and rebellious Nobility IF we look into Spain we shall finde those Territories miserably wasted by Tumults and Rebellions we might see how the young King of Castile Henry III was so neglected by his proud and L. de Mayâ—â—â— Hist d' 〈◊〉 liâ— 18 19 20 21. greedy Nobility who pocketed up his Revenues that once he was forced to pawn one of his Robes for two Shoulders of Mutton to help out his Supper And we might see their Rebellions against his Son King John II whose troublesome Reign might be an Item to Kings to beware of confiding in and favouring too much one Subject by the neglect of the rest And the unhappy end of the Constable Don Alvaro de Luna may be a caution to the greatest favourites in their carriage for Kings at last in whose protection lyeth their greatest safety may be perswaded to leave them to Justice and then no mercy can be expected from the solong-abused Law and People But proceed we to greater troubles and misfortunes then these This King John II had by his First wife Maria of Arragon HENRY IV King of Castile and Leon. Leonora Catharine dyed young Second Wife Isabel of Portugal Daughter to D. Jean Master of S. Jago Son to John I. King of Portugal Alphonso whom
Germany dyed at Ratisbone 921 910 Lambert was slain by Hugo Earl of Milan as he was hunting or Regenspurg in December    Conrade Duke of Franconia came thus to the Empire After the death of Lewes the Nobily met and elected Otto or Otho Duke of Saxony but he being old desired to be excused and so recommended this Conrade to their choice and so was accordingly Crown'd at Aix by Hatto Archbishop of Mentz  912   This Conrade Otho dying a year after this Election was very jealous of Henry Duke of Saxony Son to the said Otto who got him the Empire and upon this suspition endeavour'd his ruine several times both privately and openly for which some censure him of ingratitude But at the last he made amends for all appointing this Henry his supposed Enemy to succeed him in the Empire  915 Berengarius formerly mentioned was now again declared and anoynted for lawful Emperour by Pope John the Eleventh or Tenth and so a § 3. Baronius before this year will not acknowledge him for a lawful Emperour with which exception I shall not trouble my self but let him and others like it as they please Henry the first sirnamed Auceps or the Fowler for his love of b Vid. Boecler p. 244. Birding Son to Otto Duke of Saxony thus got the Empire Conrade his enemy finding himself sick and neer his end throws by all his jealousie and interest assembled the Nobility together 920   and made a long Speech to them in commendation of this Henry whom he desired them to accept for Emperour after his death they consented to it onely Everard Brother to Conrade grieved a little that he was not the man but Conrade perswaded him to Patience Then causing the Sword Scepter Robes and the other Imperial Ensigns to be brought him he order'd his Brother Everard to carry them to Henry which he obey'd and lived a faithful Subject to Henry    This Emperour Henry used also an excellent piece of moderation Arnold Duke of Bavaria having by his many Rebellions much troubled the Empire Henry rais'd a great Army against him and both parties being ready to joyn battle Henry though half certain of a Conquest desired to speak with him and then to Arnold so laid open the wickedness of Rebellion with a promise of pardon and favour that Arnold presently submitted himself to him and lived ever after a faithful Subject to him  923 Rodulph Duke of Burgondy was call'd into Italy against Berengarius he went thither with a great Army and call'd himself King of Italy some call him Emperour   924 Berengarius was overcome by Rodolf and being in the City of Verona the onely place then left him he was murther'd by the treachery of one Flanbert whom this Berengarius had prefer'd a An. 924. § 1. Baronius saith that Berengarius was deservedly kill'd However Flambert was hanged for it by one Melo friend to Berengarius  926 Hugo Earl of Arles in Province was call'd into Italy by the Nobility against Rodulph and at Pavia was saluted King of Italy Upon which Rodolph left Italy and return'd into Burgondy of which he is call'd King Henry the Emperour perceiving himself neer death he commended his Son Otho to their choice  932 Arnold Duke of Bavaria intended to make himself King of Italy but Hugo in fight overcame him and so that design fail'd Otto or Otho sirnamed the Great the first of that name as they a Otherwise the Second if you reckon from julius Caesar the Eighth Roman Emperour being call'd Marâ—us Silvius Otno commonly say and so we shall take him upon the death of his Father Henry was declared Emperour and accordingly Crown'd at Aken or Aix by Hiltibert or Hildebert by Pedro Mexia corruptly call'd Olderick a Narrative of all the Ceremonies of that great solemnity you may read in b Mogunt pag. 677 678 vid. Boecler p. 282 283 290 291. Nicholas Serarius 936   Lotharius Son to Hugo was by his Father at Pavia declared King of Italy and so they both ruled together Yet though thus he was declared acknowledged and Crowned for Emperour in Germany c Anno 962. § 1. Baronius will not allow  937 Rodulph dyed in Burgondy him that Title or Honour till above twenty years after that he had got his Consecration from or by the Pope viz. 962.    Henry his Brother rebell'd against him by the bad counsel of discontented a Eberard Everard and others and though he was several times pardoned yet he as often rebell'd but some say that at last submitted himself and acknowledged his fault and so obtain'd a full pardon  946 Hugo dyed in Province Luidolphus Eldest Son to Otto rebell'd also which was the occasion of great mischief but at last he also submitted the Emperour being on hunting Luidolph came to him bare-headed bare-footed kneel'd before him and with abundance of tears confessing his fault desired pardon which moved Otto so much that he commanded him to arise and with tears of joy forgave and restored him to all his former honours and so he continued obedient till his death some few years after    But the most implacable and dissembling enemy that the Emperour Otto had was Frederick Archbishop of Mentz  949 Lotharius Son to Hugo call'd King of Italy dyed in Italy   950 Berengarius the Second was call'd King of Italy    Albert or Adelbert Son to Berengarius was call'd King of Italy with his Father Of Otto's particular actions in Italy at his several times being there I shall not here inlarge   Against these two the Emperour Otto march'd into Italy and made them flee or submit OTTO  962 Otto that had formerly been call'd Emperour of Germany was in this year Crown'd and Consecrated Emperour in St. Peters Church at Rome by Pope John the Twelfth And thus he is acknowledged Emperour by both parties Baronius and others being so zealous that they will let the West want an Emperour for many years if nâ—t consecrated by his Holiness Thus we see the pretty whims and variations of Time and Pride by the too much easiness and credulity of the one side with the cheat of a terrible zeal on the other that whereas formerly a Pope could not be without the Emperours approbation the case is alter'd and forsooth a Caesar cannot Rule without the Popes Consecration As for Berengarius and his Son they were forced to yeild up their interest to a An. 964. Otho Though the b An. 965. next year after Adelbert or Albert the Son with the assistance of the Lombards made some opposition against the Emperour and for some three years held up his head by War In the mean time his Father Berengarius the Second b dyeth in Germany and was buried at c An. 966. Bamberg After which Albert was over-power'd by
her King and elder Brother Henry and conjures them also to loyalty to throw away all private Interests and Factions and conclude in a firm peace and union The Confederates perceiving that they wanted an Head and so a main pretence to countenance their Arms to the people and that whatever they had hitherto gained was more by their dissembling then strength that also the Pope Paul II had censured them if they continued in open wars For King Henry was held an obedient son to the Bishops of Rome for which Calixtus III had sent him formerly an Hat and a consecrated Sword which they use to bless upon Christmas-Eve at night laying them upon the Altar where they say Mass And farther they recollected that upon Henries death Isabella was like to be Queen whereby they could procure no favour or benefit to themselves by opposing her peaceable desires Upon these considerations they consented to an Agreement so Articles are drawn up a Peace concluded on Donna Isabella is declared Princess of the c Las Asturias formerly of a larger extent is now â— little Province between Galicia Leon and Biscay lying upon the Cantabrian sea 'T is twofold Asturia de Oâ—iedo and Astur de Santillana As the Heirs of England are called Princes of Wales and those of France les Dauphins so are those to the Crown of Castile call'd Princes of the Asturias Upon what occasion this â—hort Scheme may shew Alphonso XI had amongst other Children Henry a Bastard Earl of Transâ—amara took the Kingdom from the Tyrant Pedro and stab'd him with his dagger he had John I. who had Henry III. Don Pedro el Cruel had amongst others a bastard call'd Constancia she was marryed to John of Gant Duke of Lancaster son to Edward III King of England Upon the death of Don Pedro sirnamed the Cruel though his bastard-Brother Henry II. seised upon the Crown and was acknowledged for King yet John of Gant Duke of Lancaster pretended the right to lye in him by reason of his Wife Constance and made some bustle about it Henry dying there succeeded his son John I. with whom and Lancaster a peace was concluded Lancaster to renounce all his Title to Castile and King John to marry his son Henry to Lancaster's Daughter Catherine which accordingly was accompish'd so both their pretensions united And for more honour Don Henry the young son was to be call'd Prince of the Asturias since which time the eldest sons of Castile were call'd Princes and the younger are titled Infantas This hapned about the year 1388. And so much by the way concerning the Title of Prince of Asturias yet do I finde Jehan Froissart who lived at this time to tell us that Henry was call'd Prince of Gallicia in his French Edition 1530. vol. 3. fol. 96. and fol. 143. In the old English Edition vol. 2. cap. 154. fol. 170. and cap. 176. fol. 214. Asturias and lawful Heir to the Kingdoms of Castile and Leon with their dependants What troubles hapned in Castile after this treaty being not considerable I shall pass over Donna Isabella now declared Heir several matches were consulted of but she secretly joyned her self with Don Fernando Prince of Girona and the eldest son living to John II King of Arragon At this marriage King Henry was greatly vext as being contrary to his desire and without his knowledge But at the long run the King becomes more pacified and at last a 1474. dying she succeeds as Queen of Castile and Leon although some busled for Joane the supposed Daughter of King Henry but she is generally thrown by as a bastard being begot of his Queen Joane by one Don Bertrand de la Cueva afterwards prefer'd for his kindness being created Earl of Ledesma Master of Santiago and Duke of Albuquerque As for Henry himself he is by all esteem'd as frigid and uncapable of such loves Not long after John II King of Arragon b 1479. dying that Kingdom was united to Castile by the fortunate former marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella Here might I descend into the troubles of Navar and tell how Don Carlos Prince of Viana took up Arms against his Father John King of Navar and Arragon Upon which quarrel began the great Factions of those of Beaumont and Grammont the first adhering to the Prince and the latter to the King and the feuds of these two potent Families was one of the main causes of the loss of Navar to the Spaniard those of Beaumont assisting Don Ferdinand in the conquest against their own King and Country Of which more hereafter In short the Prince being not able to keep the field withdrew himself to Naples for sometime thence returns endeavours new troubles upon which he is taken and secuâ—ed Upon this the Catalonians rebel and though Prince Carlos was set at liberty and c Some say he was poyson'd by his Step mother D. Joane to make way for heâ—â—â—son Ferdinando to the Crown of Arragon dyed presently after yet they continue their Treasons The people of Barcelona publickly declare King John an Enemy to his Country and so they would withdraw themselves from his obedience And the Catalonians sent to Henry IV. of Castile to desire him to take them under his protection they being resolved no more to obey the Crown of Arragon Don Henry accepts them so they set up the Banners of Castile At last after a tedious War they are vanquish'd forced to submit and King John giveth them all freely a pardon But of Spain more in the next Century A CONTINUATION OF THE REBELLIONS AND Treasonablepractices OF THE ROMANISTS Particularly in Spain Scotland and Ireland From the year MD. to MDC BOOK VI. CHAP. I. 1. John and Catherine King and Queen of Navar deprived 2. Pope Julius II. Sect. 1. John and Catherine King and Queen of Navar deprived THe Conquest of Navar being acted suddenly we year 1500 shall make the story of it but very short At the beginning of this Century we finde John d'Albret or Don Juan de la Brit and Donna Catherina King and Queen of Navar which had boasted it self a Kingdom almost DCCC years Ferdinand II King of Arragon having by his marrying with Isabella Queen of Castile enlarged his Authority and Dominions as also by his banishing the Jews and subduing the Moores to him in Granado made his Government more secure cast many a greedy a Jo. de Bussieres lib. 15. § 16. Spondan an 1512. § 21. thought upon the seising the Kingdom of Navar and then all of Spain Portugal excepted would be his own At last opportunity good enough as he thought offer'd it self which was thus Pope Julius II. a zealous Hotspur falling out with Lewis XII King of France Fernando sides with the Pope and having rais'd an Army not onely demands passage for it through Albrets Territories but the command of his strongest Castles and Fortifications and which was most the possession and custody of Prince Henry eldest son to Navar
Abbots Priors and Lady Abbesses and the whole number of these Roman-Nonconformists would not amount to 200. But waving her Religion I finde the greatest crime objected to her is her cruelty against others for their opinions in Religion and with this her Adversaries have made no little noise in the world To this I shall return some satisfaction with as much brevity as can be all this being but a digression and by the by As for several years of her Reign not one Priest had suffered death so when they did as afterwards I fear many of them are yet held for blessed Martyrs who justly dyed as wicked Traytors And in this I would have the unbyass'd Romanists but to consider That even long before the Reformation a 25 Edw. 3. cap. 2. IT was Treason to compass or imagine the death of the King the Queen or their eldest Son and Heir b Ib. It was â—reason to Leavie war against the King or to adhere to the Kings enemies or to give to the said Enemies aid or comfort c Cokes Institut part 3. chap. 36. 13 Rich. 2. Stat. 2. cap. 2. It was Felony to bring or send into the Kingdom any Summons Sentence or Excommunication against any person of what condition soever d 16 Rich. 2. cap. 5. He incur'd a Praemunire that got such Bulls or Excommunications from the Pope e Coke part 3. chap. 84. None was to go out of the Realm or beyond seas without the Kings leave or license f Of these things see more at large in Coke's Institut part 3. cap 36. and his Reports part 5. fol. 12 15 17 21 22 23 27 28. and Bishop Bramhals just vindication of the Church of England from Schism cap. 4. It was of old expresly against the Law of the Land to procure or bring in any Bull of Excommunication against any subject much more in all reason against the Soveraign in respect it gave way to Forreign Authority the Popes Excommunications according to our old Laws being of no force in England g Coke Institut part 3. cap. 67. It was not lawful for any Subject of England to take a Pension c. of any forreign King Prince or State without the Kings license although the said Princes or States be in Peace or League with England Let the honest Romanist farther consider that before any Priest did suffer death it was Enacted that a 28 Hen 8. cap. 10. and 5 Eliz. c. 1. THey should incur a Praemunire who did any ways assert or teach the Pope to have jurisdiction over or in this Kingdom b 26 Hen. 8. c. 13. It was Treason for any to write or affirm the King to be an Heretick Infidel Schismatick Tyrant or Vsurper c 13 Eliz. c. 2. It was Treason to bring procure or publish any Bull from Rome d 13 Eliz. c. 2. It was a Praemunire so to acknowledge the Popes jurisdiction as to bring or procure from him any Agnus Dei Crosses Beads or Pardons being trinkets and trifles of themselves not worth a Rush but as they are held privy Tokens of Papal Obedience or Allegiance Here we see a fair way of Caution and he is a madman and no Martyr who will needs hasten his own death when neither God nor man requires any such indiscreet Zeal at his hands Christianity and Salvation being not destroy'd by these Laws the substance of them being in force when the Romanists themselves confess England was of their side and the Law-givers declare as appears by the Prefaces to the Acts that these Regalities and Laws tended for the better Government Constitution Peace and happiness of the Kingdom of which we are to suppose them to be best Judges seeing no Article of Faith confirm'd either by the Holy Scriptures or the Primitive Church were null'd or made void by these Statutes Yet the better to expose the Queen and render her actions odious all the world over they were very careful to publish what lyes they could of her pretended cruelties amongst whom we may account John Gibbins Robert Parsons Jesuits and John Fen Priest who were the chief Authors of that Pamphlet call'd Concertatio Ecclesiae in Anglia Add to them the Book call'd Ecclesiâ—e Anglicanae Trophaea drawn in Pictures in the English Collâ—â—ge at Rome by Nicholao Circini ingraven by Jo. Bapt. de Cavalleriis and publish'd by Gregory XIII his Approbation anno 1584. where people are said to be worryed in Bears skins c. and printed by Bartolomeo Grasso To vindicate the English-Romanists from the false Aspersions and falsities against their Soveraign and Country mention'd in this Book I finde a e Over throw of the Protestants Pulpit-â—abels against Mr. â—â—â—shaâ— pag. 10. Romanist I. R. whether May the Priest I know not though I am f Tho. James corrupt â—â— Fathers in the Appendix to the Reader told that such an one wrote against Mr. Crashaw as this also diâ— to offer something by affirming that there was never any such Book printed in the English Colledge at Rome But nothing is got by this since it cannot be deny'd but that the foresaid Book was printed at Rome and publish'd by the Popes express Authority as appears by his Breve prefixt And farther the foresaid supposed cruelties were painted upon the Colledge-Walls by Nich. Circini by order and appointment of the English there Nor need we trouble our selves to shew the disaffection of the English of that Colledge to their Queen and Country seeing Histories do testifie their Actions and a A. Mundy the English Roman liâ—e Travelers their railing and bitter words To these we may add Richard Verstegan who put forth a Book call'd Theatrum Crudelitatum Haereticorum Nostri Temporis where in his Pictures he offers to view the former lying Bear-skin Tales Of this man because he afterwards afforded some light to Antiquities and our Historians are silent of his life and extraction a word or two by the by His Grand-father was call'd Theodore Rowland Verstegan born in Gelder-landt came into England about the latter end of King Henry VII marryed here and presently after dyed leaving a Son nine months old who afterwards to get a livelihood took upon him the profession of a Cooper in London Nor is this any discredit Wolfangus Musculus his Father being of that Trade This Cooper was Father to our Richard Verstegan which Richard was born in the Parish of St. Catherines in London he gave himself to the study of good Letters and imployed himself in Painting which makes me think that he engraved the Cuts in his own Books as the Learned Hevelius doth now Being a Zealous Romanist he left England went into the Spanish Netherlands where he compos'd the foresaid Theatrum Crudelitatum the Verses were made by b Vid. Delic Poet. Belg. vol 1. pag. 760 761 762 c. Johannes Bochius born at Bruxels but if I mistake not Register to Antwerp Afterwards the Rebellious League
all before them another Fleet is prepared to invade England and for a further encouragement as well of English as others to be assistants in this enterprise their Lord high Admiral draws up a Proclamation which was printed and published and you may Dr. Mat. Sutcliff's Blessings on Mount Gerizzim or the happy Estate of England pag 292 293 294 295. take it as followeth as I meet with it COnsidering the Obligation which his Catholick Majesty my Lord and Master hath received of God Almighty to defend and protect his holy Faith and the Apostolical Roman Church he hath procured by the best means he could for to reduce to the ancient and true Religion the Kingdoms of England and Ireland as much as possibly hath been in his power And all hath not been sufficient to take away the offence done against God in damage of the self-same Kingdoms with scandal of whole Christianity yea rather abusing the Clemencie and Benignity of his Catholick Majesty the heads and chief of the Hereticks which little fear God have taken courage to extend their evil Doctrine with the oppressing of Catholicks Martyring them and by divers ways and means taking from them their lives and goods b b He hath forgot the Spanish Inquisition forcing them by violence to follow their damnable Sects and Errours which they have hardly done to the loss of many souls Which considered his Catholick Majesty is determin'd to favour and protect those Catholicks which couragiously have defended the Catholick Faith and not onely those but such also as by pusillanimity and humane respects have consented unto them forced thereunto through the hard and cruel dealings of the said Catholicks Heretical Enemies And for the execution of his holy Zeal he hath commanded me that with force by Sea and Land which be and shall be at my charge to procure all means necessary for the reduction of the said Kingdoms unto the obedience of the Catholick Roman Church In Complement of the which I declare and protest that these Forces shall be imploy'd for to execute this holy intent of his Catholick Majesty directed onely to the common good of the true Religion and Catholicks of those Kingdoms as well those which be alreadie declared Catholicks as others who will declare themselves such For all shall be received and admitted by me in his Royal Name which shall separate and apart themselves from the Hereticks And furthermore they shall be restored to the Honour Dignity and Possessions which heretofore they have been deprived of Moreover every one shall be rewarded according to the Demonstrations and Feats which shall be shown in this Godly enterprise And who shall proceed with most valour the more largely and amply shall be remunerated with the goods of obstinate Hereticks Wherefore seeing Almighty God doth present to his Elect so good an occasion therefore I for the more security Ordain and Command the Captains General of Horse and Artillerie the Master General of the Field the Captains of Companies of Horse and Foot and all other Officers greater and lesser and men of War the Admiral General and the rest of the Captains and Officers of the Army that as well at Land as Sea they use well and receive the Catholicks of those Kingdoms who shall come to defend the Catholick Cause with Arms or without them For I command the General of the Artillery that he provide them of Weapons which shall bring none Also I Ordain and straitly command that they have particular respect unto the Houses and Families of the said Catholicks not touching as much as may be any thing of theirs but onely of those that will obstinately follow the part of Hereticks in doing of which they be altogether unworthy of those favours which be here granted unto the good who will declare themselves for true Catholickes and such as shall take Arms in hand or at least separate themselves from the Hereticks against whom and their favourers all this War is directed in defence of the honour of God and good of those Kingdoms trusting in Gods Divine mercy that they shall recover again the Catholick Religion so long agone lost and make them return to their ancient quietness and felicity and to the due obedience of the holy Primitive Church Moreover these Kingdoms shall enjoy former immunities and priviledges with encrease of many others for time to come in great friendship confederacie and traffick with the Kingdom of his Catholick Majesty which in times past they were wont to have for the publick good of all Christianity And that this be put in execution speedily I exhort all the faithful to the fulfilling of that which is here contain'd warranting them upon my word which I give in the name of the Catholick King my Lord and Master that all shall be observed which is here promised And thus I discharge my self of the losses and damages which shall fall upon those which will follow the contrary way with the ruine of their own souls the hurt of their own Country and that which is more the honour and glory of God And he which cannot take presently Arnis in hand nor declare himself by reason of the tyranny of the Hereticks shall be admitted from the Enemies Camp and shall pass to the Catholick part in some skirmish or battel or if he cannot he shall flee before we come to the last encounter In testimony of all which I have commanded to dispatch these presents confirmed with my Hand sealed with the Seal of mine Arms and Refirmed by the Secretary underwritten Though Father Parsons was very solicitous to understand the W. Clarkes Reply unto a Libel fol. 65. success of these preparations yet he did not expect any great matters to be performed by them and so it fell out to the no small grief we need not question of many Romanists And to augment the sorrow of the Hispanioliz'd Faction the death of the Spanish King hapned the same year to whom succeeded his son Philip III of whose attempts against Queen Elizabeth you may hear in the next Century The end of the seventh Book THE HISTORY Of the HOLY League AND Covenant IN FRANCE BOOK VIII CHAP. I. An INTRODUCTION to the HOLY LEAGUE THE Beginning of this Century had like to have been year 1502 troublesom to Germany by a mischievous League designed in the Bishoprick of Spire by a Company of barbarous clownish rustick High-shooes and so by the Germans t is Nicol. Basel Addit ad Chroâ— Naucleri p. 394. L. ur Sâ—râ—â— Com p 3â— call'd Bundiscuch These like our Levellers were to raise themselves into as high a Grandeur as any by swearing to reduce all other men to their meanness by equalling all mankind into the same condition by rooting out all Magistracy Dignities and Laws As for the Church which is continually struck at by Traitors and such Sacrilegious Wretches she was not to escape their Villanies they designing to rob her of her Revenues Titles and Decency to
vilifie and discourage her Priests thereby to make her contemptible to very Pagans yet for all this as all other Rebels do they make a grand shew of Zeal and Religion appointing such Prayers daily to be said for good success viz. The Pater Noster and Ave Maria and these five times a day and as a word of Cognizance they had the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist And thus constituted they were resolved to give no quarter but kill all their Opposers as Enemies and Traitors to God But by the assistance of the Emperour Maximilian I. and Lodowick the good Bishop of Spire this intended Rebellion was crushed in the very bud by a timely discovery being quell'd which occasioned the deserved punishment of several of the chief Undertakers But from this we shall proceed to another sort of Leaguers or Covenanters who carried on their Rebellions with more success and vigour which had like to have ruin'd the whole Kingdom of France In this League there were three Families chiefly concern'd of whom for the better understanding of the History we shall with all haste speak a word or two not that we design to set down all their Children leaving that to the Heralds but onely those who may afford some light to the more common Readers of this short Essay of the French League The Families are those of I. VALOIS ending by the death of Henry III. II. BOURBON next Heir to the Crown beginning with Henry IV. King of France and Navarre III. GUISE assisted by their Chief LORRAIN FRANCOIS I. de VALOIS Henry II. de Valois King of France wounded in the eye at Tilt by Count * Beheaded at Paris as a Rebel 1574 and the sentence of Treason revoked 1576. Montgomery of which he died 1559. François II. King of France died 1560. Charles IX King of France died 1574. Hen. III. King of France murdered by a Monk 1589. François Duke of Alençon Anjou Brabant c. died 1584. Catherine de Medicis daughter to Lorenzo Duke of Urbin Cousin to Alexander Duke of Florence She died at Bloys 1589. By the death of King Henry III. the Line of Valois so called from a little Territory North-East of Paris betwixt Picardy and Champaigne fail'd and that of Bourbon as next Heir succeeded to the Throne in the Person of Henry IV. ALENCON a Town in lower Normandy it was formerly an Earldom but King Charles VI. raised it up to a Dukedom 1414. though †Le â—ray ostat de la France pag. 65. du Verdier by a mistake would make us believe that it was made a Dutchy by King Lewis IX surnamed the Saint BOURBON This Family is so named from a Town in Aquitaine call'd Bourbon with a differâ—nce of l'Archambault to distinguish it from another in Burgondy call'd Bourbon l'Ancien but by corruption of speech Bourbon Lancy It was erected from a Barony into a Dukedom by Charles IV. surnamed le Bel 1327. It would be endless to speak of the Antiquity of this Family according to some men and for its Commendations * Les Antiquitez pâ—g 628. du Chesne hath said enough by affirming that the Women of it were born to people Christendom and the Men to defend it They draw their relation to the French Crown from Robert Son to S. Lewis IX Charles de Bourbon the first Duke of Vendosme died 1536. Antoine de Bourbon married to Jane daughter and heiress to Henry d'Albret second King of Navarre and so by his Wife became King of Navarre He was wounded at the siege of Rouen of which he died 1562. Henry III. King of Navarre and the IV. of France was murdered 1610. Charles the old Cardinal de Bourbon by the Leaguers called King Charles X. He died in prison 1590. Lewis de Bourbon Prince of Condé slain at the battel of Jarnac 1569. Henry Prince of Condé died 1588. Henry born 1588. died 1646. Charles the Younger Cardinal of Vendosme after the death of his Uncle called of Bourbon died 1594. He was Head of the Thirdlings or third party Françoise Daughter to René Duke of Alençon died 1550. VENDOSME a Town in Beausse was from an Earldom erected to a Dukedom by King Francis I. 1514. CONDE ' a Town in Hainault or Henegow whence these Princes of the House of Bourbon took their Title GUISE This Family is a branch of the House of LORRAIN the Antiquity of which hath been undertaken by François de Rosieres born at Bar-le-Duc and Archdeacon of Thoul and so being born a Vassal to that Family we may allow him to ramble as far as he pleaseth for Originals and though he Preface his History with Adam and his Children yet his modesty alloweth him to fetch this Family no higher then the story of Troy as it was the fashion of old Monkish Tale-tellers to draw the beginning of most Kingdoms from the Legendaries of that scatter'd People Lotharius Emperour of Germany and the rebellious son of Lewis le' Debonnaire made his younger son Lotharius or Lothaire King of those Territories which from him were called Lorrain as if it were Lotair-Riick and Lot-Reyck the Dominion Possession Jurisdiction or Kingdom of Lotaire or Lotharius which was then in a far larger extent then that which is now the Dukedom to which now the name only belongs René Duke of Lorrain who also call'd himself King of Sicily and Hierusasem and his eldest Son Duke of Calabria Philippe Sister to the Duke of Guelderlandt and after his death her Husband René took upon him that Title also Antoine Duke of Lorrain Bar Counte de Vaudemont Marquess de Pont died 1544. Renee daughter to Guilbert de Bourbon Count of Mont-pensier died 1439. François Duke of Lorrain died 1545. Charles III. married to Claude daughter to Henry II. King of France He died 1608. François Count de Vaudemont Charles de Lorrain a Cardinal chosen to be Bishop of Strasburg which occasioned great troubles He died 1607. Henry II. Duke of Lorrain Nicolas Conte de Vaudemont and Duke of Mercoeur died 1576. Charles de Lorrain Cardinal de Vaudemont Bishop of Toul He died 1587. Philippe-Emanuel Duke of Mercoeur died 1602. Louyse de Lorrain Wife to K. Henry III. of France Claude Duke of GUISE Baron de Joinville came to the Court of France and obtain'd the Government of Champaigne and Burgondy He married Antoinette daugher to François Counte de Vendosme she died 1583. This Claude de Guise was the first and top of that House which by his children divided it self into these following branches François Duke of Guise kill'd by Poltrot at Orleance 1653. Anne d'Este Sister to the Duke of Ferrara and Widow to this Francis Duke of Guise was afterwards married to the Duke of Nemours Henry Duke of Guise kill'd at Bloys 1588. Charles Prince of Joinville after his Fathers death call'd Duke of Guise Charles Duke of Mayenne died 1611 Catherine wife to the Duke of Nevers Henry slain before Montauban 1621. Lewis Card. de
also 1563. Spondâ—n §. 48. 49 50 51. Davila p. 191. sollicited to use his Authority against the Queen of Navarre which would give a greater color and encouragement for others to attaque her accordingly because she was of the Reformed Religion He falleth to work publisheth a Citation or Monitory against her concluding that if she did not turn a Romanist within six moneths he would deprive her of her Dominions and give them to any that would conquer them At this the French King is not a little troubled looking upon it as a thing of dangerous consequence as the common cases of all other Kings nor did he like that any third party should have any pretence to seize upon those Territories which lay so near to and convenient for Spain whom possibly he might suspect though it is said that Philip complemented Queen Jane with an assurance that he would protect her and her Dominions against any that should assault them Besides this another thing happened which did not a little perplex the King the Council of Trent as they call it being now ended Cardinal de Lorrain desired the Pope to use his Interest with the French King that it should be receiv'd and approv'd of in his Dominions that he would root out the Huguenots that he would break the late Peace made with year 1564 them that he would punish the Accessors to the death of Guise c. And that these Petitions might carry the greater awe an Embassadour is sent as from the Pope the Emperour the King of Spain and the Duke of Savoy to demand them from Charles who is not a little puzled how to behave himself in this case For to refuse the Council of Trent would render him suspect to the Pope to receive it would be against the Liberties of the Gallican Church to make war against the Huguenots would not advantage him as he had found by experience and he did not much care for Forein assistance to extirpate them quite was not probable to be done and if he should he must destroy many of his nearest Relations however so weaken and impoverish the Kingdom that at last it might bâ—come a prey to a third party As for the death of the Duke of Guise Poltrot who shot him was executed for it and though he had accused Admiral Coligny Beza and some others as Instigators of him to it yet they had publickly disown'd it both by Oath and Declarations besides Poltrot did vary in his Accusations and so his Credit not possitively to be stood to However the King by his cunning doubtful Answers and Delays wheedled all these things off to the no small trouble of the Guisians who hoped for a war and troubles that being the only way to raise themselves and carry on their designs Yet was not the House of Navarre free from danger for Pius V. advised 1568 Spoâ—d § 26. the Queen-mother to seise upon their Dominions seeing Queen Jane was an Heretick or if she approv'd not of this that he might by his Papal Authority appoint one of the Family of Valois to be King of those Territories that for his part if neither of these liked her he was resolved to give to the King of Spain that part of the Kingdom which Jane possessed I suppose he did not mean all those Territories in France which for her Son she governed as Queen of Navarre but only that little spot of ground which lieth North of the Pyrenean Mountains in Gascogne which the French do call the lower Navarre having St. Jean-Pied-de-Port St. Pelage and a few other little Towns in it But which of them the Pope meant is no great matter for both of them if gain'd must be won by the Sword which it seems at this time Philip had no mind to whereupon this went no further then a vapour and so I leave it But nothing can more clearly demonstrate the intent and design of the year 1572 Guisards then the Massacre of Paris a slaughter so much the worse because of its long contrivance before the action viz. almost * Davila p. 346 350 355 356 357. two years for so long was it concluded on before where the †Id. p. 370. Duke of Guise was very urgent and earnest that the young King of Navarre and his young Cousin the Prince of Condé the next Heir to the Crown after Navarre should be both slain with the rest but others though cruel enough oppos'd this as not willing to imbrue their hands in the Bloud Royal which would seem so abominable all the world over But whether at this time the Guisards had any design to secure themselves of the French Crown I shall not say any thing though that they had afterwards is apparent and confest by all Historians And thus much by the way though one might enlarge himself on this bloudy story by observing how the King endeavouring a vindication of himself did make the thing worse by his many Contradictions as appears by his * Vid. Ernest Varamund de Furoribus Gallicis Letters and Declarations Sometimes declaring how sorry he was for the death of his Cousin the year 1572 Admiral how the Massacre was acted without his knowledge how it was contriv'd and done only by those of the House of Guise upon some quarrel between them and the Admiral that it was not in his power to hinder it he having enough to do to secure and guard himself his Queen his Brethren the King of Navarre c. in his Palace the Louvre that he is for peace and desires all to keep the Edict of Pacification c. Othertimes he declareth that the Massacre was done by his express will and commandment that it was acted for the security of himself and Friends that the Admiral and Huguenots had plotted and determined to destroy him his Queen his Brethren the King of Navarre c. Now orders all of the Reformed Religion to be turn'd out of their Imployments Places and Estates and then that they shall be * Davila p. 735. massacred after the same manner all France over c. And as a forerunner to all these slaughters happened the sudden death 12 June of Jane the stout Queen of Navarre who being come to Paris upon earnest Invitations about her sons Marriage was as is commonly believed poisoned by order of the King and Queen-mothers private cabal Certain it is though all the rest of her body was dissected and open'd to view yet the King would * Thuan. l. 49. not by any means let her Head be touched he knowing as †p. 364. Davilla saith that the poison of the Perfum'd Gloves prepar'd for her had only wrought upon her Brain But for all this the Marriage went on and was solemniz'd between 18 August the young King of Navarre for now Henry after the death of his Mother took upon him the Title of King being before only call'd Prince and Margaret Daughter to Henry II. of
end if it had not been by the instigation of their zealous Priests and Jesuits though born Subjects such as were Father Archer White Ractor Mulrony Leinagh c. Mahonne O Dullany a Priest Edward Raghter a Dominican A Continuation OF THE HISTORY OF THE Romish Treasons AND USURPATIONS BOOK X. CHAP. I. Divers Plots against Queen Elizabeth and King James Rawleigh's Designs against King James The Life of Father Parsons THIS Century might afford us several dismall Contrivances against the Crown and Prosperity of Great Britain but of some I shall but slightly touch as being commonly known and in others I must not be too critical and open lest I should offend against Sir Walter Rawleigh's Prudential Rule Not to follow Truth too near the heels lest she should kick back and strike out my Teeth And here I might speak at large of the several Designs as well of Puritan as Papist to hinder King James from his true succession to the Crown of England as sometimes endeavouring to make him odious to Queen Elizabeth to prevent her declaring for him as by telling her of the King's intimacy with Clement VIII which they endeavoured to year 1599 make out to her by a Letter of his to the said Bishop a thing had it been true might not have deserved such a Censure as Deprivation seeing the Pope may be as civilly treated with as other Potentates a thing not to be denied by any but an Impertinent Puritan or an Irrational Enthusiastick But they hoped that her Jealousie of Religion augmented by her Age and some Expressions in the Letter might perswade her to make Mountains of Mole-hills and in such a pet to declare some other to the Crown which as some hoped might have brought such troubles upon the Kingdom that in the hurry a Romanist might have slipt himself into the Throne to which so many pretended But she was too wise to be cheated by such Toys presently she perceiving the drift she suspected the cheat And a meer forgery it was in respect of King James though his knavish Secretary Balmerinoch * Propenderet animo ad Religionem Romanam Rob. Johnston Hist Rerum Brit. p. 448. one warping towards Popery had given some ground for such a story For he by the Instigation of his Kinsman Sir Edward Drummond a Romanist had penn'd a Letter to the said Clement VIII in favour of the Bishop of Vaison a Scotch-man for his preferment to a Cardinalship which by shuffling in among other Letters to be signed the King had hastily a dangerous oversight where are knavish Secretaries set his hand to the other sealing it with the Royal Signet entrusted to him by his Office Queen Elizabeth by the by challenged King James with this But he protested his Innocency by denying any such thing so did James Elphingston Lord Balmerinoch who also got Drummond to forswear it Raleigh and other Enemies to the Scotch Title could then proceed no farther though they had used such Interest at Rome as to get a Copy of it which they shew'd to the Queen as the Original and she to Mr. David Foulis the King's Agent who satisfied her Majesty by proving to her by the Testimony of her Stationers that the Date of the Letter was older than the stamp or mark of the Paper whereby it could not be the Original and so might be a Cheat as well as a Copy But afterwards * Mat. Tort. pag. 47. 1608 1609. Bellarmine retorting this Letter to the King Balmerinoch was farther examined and tried who confest all was condemned of Treason and as a Traytor to be beheaded but by Queen Ann's Intercession was pardoned A man he was of good Parts but especially knew how to filch pilfer and embezel Church-Lands and if it should be possible for a covetous man as he was to be honest yet 't is certain that he who robs God and the Church can never be a Friend to the King but for his own Interest Queen Elizabeth is now old and weak cannot live long so 't is needless to attempt any more against her Person whose death they daily expected and it might anticipate their quickest Designs No man's right and succession to the Crown is so much fear'd as that of King James and therefore to prevent Him must be the main Care and Contrivance There was one Francis Mawbray Son to the Laird of Barnebowgall who had lived some while in the Infanta's Court at Bruxels he they year 1601 say undertook to take this rub out out of the way by killing the King to which purpose he intends for Scotland but taketh England in his way At London one Daniel an Italian Fencing-Master discovers the Plot to the Queen she for a further trial hath them both seiz'd on and sent into Scotland Mawbry supposed guilty is cast into Edenburgh Castle whence thinking one night to escape out of a Window by his Bed-sheets which proving too short he fell upon the Rocks and so dyed his Body was hang'd for some time then quartered and fixt upon the Gates and several places of the City This failing another Design is in hand In Italy Ferdinando I. the Grand Duke of Tuscany by the intercepting of some Letters discovereth a Plot to take away King James his Life by Poyson The Duke who had formerly been a Cardinal moved with the Fame of the King's Learning and Virtue and it may be had some hopes of his Conversion upon the former false Letters resolved to discover and prevent it At this time Mr. Henry Wotton sojourned in Florence and was well acquainted year 1602 with Signior Vietta the Duke's Secretary upon whose Commendations Wotton is pitched on to be the Messenger The Letters and excellent Antidotes against Poyson such as were not then known in Scotland were delivered to him who disguised under an Italian Garb and Name of Octavio Baldi hasteth to Scotland cometh to the King discovereth himself and the Conspiracy and after some stay returneth to Florence He was afterwards Knighted by King James and famous for his Learning Languages and Embassies In these Designs against the King's right to the Throne Pope Clement VIII was not wanting who intended the Crown for some of his Friends Card. D'Ossat Let. 191. 268. 272. And perceiving that some in England were tampering to promote the Interest of the Lady Arabella in this case he thought it best to deal warily He had a mind that the Duke of Parma should enjoy the Crown but this upon better thoughts he supposed would not be feasible by reason that Arabella's Interest might be too strong And therefore Parma being married he casts another way about and thinks upon Cardinal Farnese younger Brother to Parma who being unmarried might be wedded to Arabella and so did not question by their joint Forces and Interests to carry the Crown To carry on this business nothing was thought more convenient than to unite all the Romanists in England that their Cause might not suffer by any dissentions amongst
229 His body denyed burial 229 230 Henrician Heresie what 230 Henry V Emperour kisseth the Popes Toe ibid. Henry VI Emperour how Crown'd 262 Henry VII Emperour his death 301 302 Henry Son to John d'Albret King of Navar Excommunicated and declared Deprived by Pope Leo X 346 Henry King of Navar protests against the Declaration and Excommunication of Pope Sixtus V 512 513 Hen. VIII King of England Supreme Head of the Church declar'd deprived of his Dominions 399 400 401 402 c. Paul III ' s Bull against him 404 405 Rebellions in the North against him 406 His Apology undertook by William Thomas 407 Hen. III K. of France his troubles from the Leaguers Book the 8th He steals privately out of Paris 524 Submits to the D. of Guise 525 Closes in with the King of Navar 540 His Name dash'd out of all Prayer books ibid. A Monitory Bull sent out against him by Sixtus V 540 541 542 543 Is murdred by Fryar Clem. 547 The Action rejoyced at and vindicated by the Covenanters 548 and the Chieftains of Rome 549 550 551 c. Henry IV King of France his troubles lib. 8. cap. 7. Declared Heretick and deprived of his Dominions by Gregory XIV 577 Murdred by Ravaillac 640 to 648 Hildebrand vid. Gregory VII Hugonots the Grandees of them massacred in one day 416 The action commended and applauded publickly 416 417 Hungary bloudy actions there 308 Ors Hypato Duke of Venice slain 183 I JAmes VI K of Scotland plots against him by the Romanists 366 367 368 369 370 c. Designes against his taking the Crown of England 676 677 678 Imposes the Oath of Allegiance defends it 709 710 711 c. Jesuits foolish stories of their Founder and Order 5 6 They have two Consciences 45 Jesus Christ childish stories of him 16 c. 29 Marryed to several 16 22 Not so much worship'd as were others 17 Ignatius Loyola his lying stories 5 6 Images troubles about them 163 164 Ingratitude 229 The Spanish Invasion 451 to 459 The Spanish Royal Standard blest 453 454 Joane Pope 180 John King of England his troubles 274 Joh. K. of Navar deprived 343 344 Ireland troubles there against Q. Elizabeth 384 385 386 387 to 397 Articles between Francis I K. of France the Earl of Desmond for the conquering it 385 386 A Rebellion raised there by Tir-Oen 648 649 The Irish send a slanderous Letter to the Pope against Queen Elizabeth 649 They are thanked for their Rebellion by the Pope 651 Defended by the Divines of Salamanca and Valladolid 667 668 c. Irene murthers her son Constantine 169 Donna Isabella Sister to Hen. IV K. of Castile invited to accept the Government refuses declared Princess of the Asturias and lawful Heir to the Kingdom of Castile and Leon 341 Succeeds in the Kingdom 342 Julio II Pope deprives John d'Albret K. of Navar and gives his Kingdom and Dominions to Ferdinand II K. of Arragon 344 Of a Warlike disposition 347 348 Interdicts Lewis XII absolves his Subjects gives his Kingdom to any that will take it takes away the Title of MOST CHRISTIAN from the French and confers it on the King of England ibid. the first Pope that wore a long beard 350 Holy Junta of Spain against Charles V 357 358 361 c. Justinian II Emperor of Constantinople his troubles 161 162 His Nose 162 K Kennith III King of Scotland murder'd 211 Kings are but Asses 38 Must kiss the Popes Feet ibid. Lead the Popes Horse ibid. Hold his Stirrop ibid. Carry up water for the Popes hands ibid. Carry up his meat ibid. Carry the Pope on their shoulders ibid. May be deposed by the Pope 41 42 c. May be deposed by Bishops though poor 53 Compar'd to Asses 38 to Dogs 43 May be deposed by their Subjects 86 87 c. May be kill'd by their Subjects 95 96 c. For how many Causes Kings may be depos'd 107 108 c. Their murder defended by a B. D. of the Sorbonne 503 L Lambert Emperour slain 190 Holy League and Covenant in France the introduction to it 483 484 485 486 to 494 The Articles of the Holy League 494 495 496 497 The Leaguers sollicite their cause at Rome with Pope Gregory XIII 506 Their Declaration drawn up in the name of Cardinal Bourbon whom they call first Prince of the Bloud 507 508 Their Council of Sixteen at Paris vid. Paris Some Preachers set on work by them to bespatter the King and his actions 518 519 Their insolences against King Henry III after the death of the Guises 529 534 Their Holy Vnion 535 They send Messengers to the Pope with private instructions to act 536 Card. Bourbon declared King by the Leaguers 562 563 c. Leo III Emperour troubled about images 163 264 L. Lessius bad Principles 74 75 Lewis le Debonnaire Emperour depos'd 170 171 c. 177 Lewis IV his eyespull'd out 189 Lewis VII of France Interdicted 254 Lewis IV Emperour his troubles 303 304 Lewis XII of France Interdicted 347 Calls a Council at Pisa to depose Pope Julio 349 Roderigo Lopez his treasons against Queen Elizabeth 461 462 463 Designes to poyson her ibid. Loretto's Chappel and flying story 23 Luidolph his humble submission 194 Those of Lyons joyn with the Leaguers 537 Their Declaration ibid. The form of their Oath 533 M THe Office of Majordom Maire du Palais first set up by Clotaire the I 165 One Landregesile first chosen to that Office ibid. Ebroin the first that advanc'd that Office ibid. Malcolme King of Scotland murdred 208 Malcolme II King of Scotland murdred 214 Gregory Martin's Pamphlet against Queen Elizabeth 437 Virgin Mary abused with lying stories 4 5 7 8 c. 21 29 Her kissing and marrying 8 9 Her kindness to whores 9 Equal to Christ himself 11 12 Her bloud better then Christs bloud 13 How hurried into Heaven 14 We must bow at the Name of the Virgin Mary 40 Queen Mary of England in her 5 years Raign put above 260 to death for Religion 418 Mauritius Emp. murther'd 153 c. The D. of Mayenne goes to Paris is made Head of the Leaguers 538 539 Refuses peace is proclaimed Traitor all his adherents 539 Medici the wicked designs of the Pope upon that Family 331 Giuliano murdred by Bandini de Pazzi 332 Lorenzo wounded but escapes ibid. Michael Emperour of Constantinople murdred 182 Miracles lying and forged 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. 21 22 23 24 25 c. 134 135 184 199 207 247 266 Monegario Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Cardinal Montalto his Letter to the General Council of the holy Vnion about the murther of Hen. III 549 550 551 c. N NAples its troubles 330 John Nichols an account of him 434 O OAths of Allegiance 60 Endeavour'd to be in France 57 58 59 Opposed in England 73 74 75 76 77 First framed 709 710 The Pope sends out two Breves against the taking
Germans protection but by all means they perswaded Lotharius never to comply with his Father and having thus vented their wicked counsels they returned to their Lodgings The Emperour Lewes was not idle all this while but kept his Spies on foot by whom he understood the design of this Conventicle Upon which next morning he sends to his Son Lothaire advising him not to be rul'd by such wicked counsel nor to trust to such false Friends who had rebell'd against their Soveraign and would in time to aâ—dvantage themselves desert him too for all their present fair promises desiring him to leave the Confederates and to come to him where he should be lovingly received Lotharius at last thinks it best to obey his Fathers good advice and accordingly goeth to him where he was accepted with the dearest affection of a Father The Conspirators inform'd of this knew not what to do but at last thought it best to perswade the Vulgar to Sedition and so presently gave out that Lotharius was seis'd upon closely clapt up in prison and by the appointment of his inraged Father was presently to suffer unless by violence he were released The people upon this hurry into Tumults and so in a tumultuous manner reel towards the Palace breathing forth nothing but destruction and the relief of the supposed Prisoner and in this fury fall upon the Emperours Life-guard who loyally and valiantly for preservation of their Master defend the Palace-gates and keep off the inraged Rabble and Confederates Lewes informed of this outrage and danger resolved to undeceive them and taking with him Lothaire shew'd themselves to the insolent Rebels whom he desired his Son to satisfie and pacifie Lotharius having commanded silence and obtain'd it informed the people of their mistake and in a large Speech declared the agreement and amity between his Father and himself The multitude by this means being pacified the whole design of the Faction and Rebellion fell to the ground by which means Lewes obtain'd so much courage and authority that he had the chief of the Confederates seis'd upon and in publick Parliament convicted of high-Treason and so condemned to death But such was the mercie of the Emperour that he onely had the Clergy-men deprived and some of the Laity for security sake confined to Monasteries And as for his Rebellious Son Pepin forgetting all animosity he received him into the height of his paternal affection And having thus eas'd himself of one Rebellion he sent for his Empress Juditha from the Abbey of Poictiers whom yet he would not receive to his bed till according to his Laws she had purged her self from all the crimes and objections lay'd against her And thus peace being made between him and his Children he dissolved the Parliament sending his Sons to their respective charges viz. Lotharius to Italy Pepin to Aquitaine and Lewes to Bavaria But not content with this favour and mercie to compleat his Charity after the holy Feast of Easter was finished he by a general Act of Oblivion pardoned all those whom he had before punished deprived or confined freely granting to every man the liberty of departing and injoying what they did formerly according to their own humours and pleasures Now we might suppose that all would be quiet the chief of the Rebels by the Emperours mercie not onely being shamed but obliged into loyalty but we shall finde the contrary For the aforesaid Bernardo having by his intreaty procured another Parliament to be held for the publick clearing of himself from all accusations lay'd against him accordingly he came and according to the unjust and heathenish custom of those times offer'd to prove his innocencie by Combat but none appearing to fight him by Oath he publickly prov'd himself unguilty The Emperour to satisfie all parties sent to his Son Pepin who seemed the greatest Enemie to be present at this meeting and purgation of Bernardo But Pepin doth not presently obey but protracts the time till the Parliament was dissolved and all finished which affront so much incens'd Lewes that he commanded Pepin to be seis'd upon who at last giving his Keepers the slip escaped and fled to Aquitaine where upon what account I know not he got Bernardo to revolt from the Emperour and joyn with him in the same Rebellion But Pepin being seis'd upon again was to prevent his farther mischief carryed whence he had most sway and confined to Trevers in Germany but from this restraint and judgement he also escaped and being at liberty made it his whole design to molest and oppose his Father filling all places he could with Insurrections which so incensed Lewes that seeing by fair means he could not reclaim his Son he deprived him of all jurisdiction over and to Aquitaine and whatever else he possest giving the same to his Sons Lotharius and Charles Pepin seeing himself thus deprived of all resolved to make others as bad as himself and first he felt the pulse of his Brother Lothaire which with a little bad counsel he moved to beat according to his own desire and in this humour they both resolved to renew the Rebellion to depose their Father and so rule all and to this Treachery their a Ipsique Antistiâ—es Buccinatores belli pâ—ae caeteris voce scripto opâ— multo maxime exemplo sactionem promovent Jo. de Bussiers Hist Franc. Tom 1. p. 359. Prelates and Clergy were the main Trumpeters by their preachments scribling and bad Example According to the plot the Sons march'd against their Father Pope Gregory the Fourth coming from Italy some say with Lotharius to the quarrel but whether to end it or foment it I cannot swear but the report went then strong that the Pope assisted the Sons By this time the Armies drew near one another in Alsatia and were ready to joyn Battle in a large Field call'd by the Germans b Lugenfeld i. e. the Field of lyes or deceit between a Campus Mendacii Basel and Strasbourg But here the Pope seem'd to offer his assistance to a reconcilement The Sons perceiving that the more they delay'd the stronger they would grow by the hourly coming over to them of some of the Emperours Army desired Pope Gregory to enter into a treaty with their Father who accordingly goeth to Lewes whom he found armed amongst his Officers and Army To be short time is thus delay'd for several days and then conditions granted by the Emperour with which Gregory returns to the Confederates But this was the ruine of Lewes for whilst this design was cunningly driven on the Sons by their Agitators had so wrought with the Imperial Army that the morning after Gregory's return they did not onely run away by piece-meal but upon a sign given by whole Troops Regiments and Squadrons they basely revolted and march'd over to the Sons leaving the poor Emperour onely attendant with a few of his faithful and loyal Servants from which cheating and treacherous action the place hath ever since to
force the friends of Sergius being there more powerful Formosus to get himself eas'd of these troubles and enemies sends privately to Arnulfe and invites him to his assistance  892 Guido or Wido Duke of Spoleto in Rome is crown'd Emperour by Pope Formosus for which he confirmed those Donations pretended to have been formerly given to Rome Arnulphus having rais'd a potent Army marcheth into Italy and at last gets before Rome it self which he summoned to yeild but they refuse upon this layeth siege to it and several times attempted to take it but to no purpose being still beaten off At last he became Master of it by an unexpected accident which was thus  893 Lambert Son to Guido his Father yet living was also declared Emperour by the same Pope a An. 904. But Baronius though he doth confess this yet will not let him begin his Empire till after the death of Lewes the Fourth Son to Boson viz. An. 904. But upon what account he doth this I know not But b Vid. Jo. Gualt Chron. Chronicorum tom 2. pag. 163. Onuphrius makes him the sole Emperour after the death of his Father Guido viz. 894. But in another c De Regn. Ital. An. 896. place he will not let him be Emperour till 896 and then Crown'd by Pope Stephanus A d Lepusculus Car. Sigon de Regno Italiae an 896. Leveret or young Hare being one time got neer the Army and affrighted with the noise of Souldiers ran towards the City  894 Guido or Wido dyeth in Italy a party of the Souldiers in a frolick ran after her the Roman Watch seeing them run so siercely towards the City and not knowing the cause thought they came to assault the City and ran away The Germans seeing this opportunity made up to the Walls which some of them presently sâ—al'd whilst other with a Ram batter'd down the Gate And thus they enter'd the a Uâ—bs Lâ—onina so call'd by Leo the Fourth who compassed it about with a Wall that it might not lye open to all Invasions An. 848. 〈◊〉 vit Lâ—onis the Fourth Vatican and so took the City Sergius fled but all his partakers who opposed Arnulfus were slain without mercy    Arnulphus being conquerour had himself Crown'd Emperour with a great deal of pomp in St. Peters Church by Pope Formosus and the Romans take this Oath of Allegiance to him 896 899 b De Regno Italiae Carolus Sigonius saith that in this year Lambert was anoynted Emperour by Pope Stephanus the Sixth having declared the Coronation of Arnulph to be voyd and null c Testor Deum omnâ—sque Devos per Divina Mysteria juro me quoad vivam fore in potestate Imperatoris Arnulfis neque Lamberti aut Matris ejus rebus fauturum neque ut dignitatem alâ—qâ—am adâ—pâ—scantur aâ—t hanc â—bem servitute premant operam daturam Sigonius de Regno gâ—orâ—â— An. 896. I profess before God and all the Saints and swear by the holy Sacraments to be a true Subject to the Emperor Arnulf so long as I live and never to favour the party of Lambert or his d Agestruda Ageâ—trudâ—s or â—ngultrude Mother or to assist them to the obtaining of any dignity or to their bringing this little City into Bondage    This done Arnulf quits Rome and Pope Formosus dyeth after whom Bonifacius the Sixth sits a few days and then Stephanus the Sixth who was an Enemy to Formosus and all his actions wherefore they say he presently calls Lambert to Rome whom he creates Emperour and declares the Coronation of Arnulf by Formosus to be voyd    Sigonius loco cit  898 And for the better confirmation of Lambert in the Empire as about this time we are told how Pope a Coquaeus Antimorn tom 1. pag. 477 478. John the Tenth or the Ninth call'd a Synod of LXXIV Bishops Lambert himself being also there at Ravenna In which amongst other things Arnulph is declar'd no Emperour and Lambert held for the onely Caesar and if so then it must be either in 898 or the next year as is probable from the sitting of this Pope John according to Onuphrius About this time Arnulphus quitted this world    Lewes the Fourth Son to the Emperour Arnulph his Father being dead was solemnly elected by the Germans at Forchaim in the Bishoprick of Bamberg in Frankenlandt he was but very young and so had Governours or Tutors appointed for him and he was Crown'd at Aix by Hatto the Tenth Archbishop of Mentz 900 900 Lewes the Fourth Son to Boson Earl or King of Province was call'd into Italy to oppose Berengarius of whom formerly and by Pope Benedict the Fourth was declared Emperour   An. 904. Berengarius and he had some fighting but at last Berengarius cunningly as some say seis'd upon him at Verona pluck'd out his Eyes of which he dyed   presently after viz. 904. Historians do now and then mightily mistake these two Leweses one for another and sometimes by their grand errours about these other divided Emperours the History of these times are very obscure   a Anno 904. § 2. Baronius tells us that this Berengarius enter'd Rome with a great Army and commanded Pope John to Crown him Emperour which accordingly was done but no sooner was he gone from Rome but the Pope desireth Lambert to come thither whom he publickly Crown'd for Emperour and having call'd a Synod at Rome and the business proposed the Coronation of Berengarius was declared void but that of Lambert was pronounced legal and so they held him for Emperour By the by take one story of Equivocation Adelbert or Albert Earl of b By some old Authors Babenberg Bamberg in Franconia rebell'd against the Emperour and in this broyl slew Earle Conrade Lewes besiegeth him in Bamberg but after many attempts found no probability of taking it or him Upon this the aforesaid Hatto Archbishop of Mentz perswades to policie and undertakes the plot Hatto goeth to Albert in his strong Castle of Bamberg promiseth Serar Hist Mogunt p. 671. Rosse p. 140. his pardon however to restore him safe again to his Castle Albert goeth out with him towards Lewes but being gone no farther than the next Village Theurstat Hatto pretends the conveniency of dining Upon this they return to Bamberg dine and then go to ask pardon of Lewes whither being come as a Traytor he is condemn'd to death Albert challengeth Hatto of his promise who replyeth That he had kept it because he had once return'd him safe and sound to his Castle And so Albert was beheaded but how Hatto dyed Authors will not agree  904 Lambert Son to Guido though he had formerly been declared Emperour yet Baronius will not let him begin to Rule as Emperour till this year being just after the death of Lewes the Fourth Son to Boson Lewes the Fourth of
Otho had his Authority and Title taken from him and not long after he d An. 968. dyed And thus much in brief for the better understanding the jumbling and crossing of Emperours Sect. 3. The hurly-burly amongst the Popes themselves whereby their personal Succession is shaken ANd now methinks it will not be amiss by the by somewhat to take a view of the tossings tumblings and hurly-burlies of the Popes whilst these Politicks â—â—re acting which may affor'd some farther light to the former story Though I shall not here undertake to give you an exact series of the Popes for this time not knowing where certainly to finde or have it the chief of their own Authors not in this agreeing and yet every day we hear the meanest of their Tribe brag that they can shew a continued and uninterrupted Succession but many talk of Archery who never saw Robin Hoods Bow and some may talk of succession who never undertook to compare their Historians or Chronologers And he who in this and the timing of their Popes shall make their chiefest Authors agree not onely those who have diligently read over the ancient Writers but also with sweat and pains view'd and compar'd their Monuments and Originals as they call them in the Vatican it self shall do more than Baronius or any other that have done to this day But to the business in hand We heard formerly how Pope John the Ninth or Eighth was imprisoned by the Romans for favouring the Empire of Lewes the Third and how after this unconstrain'd on his own head he took upon him the Whim of nulling the Coronation of Lewes and crowning Charles the Grosse for Emperour After this John we have a An. 882. Martinus or Marinus some calling him one way some another if the first you may call him Martinus the Second if the other then Marinus the First of whom there is nothing observable but that he obtain'd the Popedom by b Malis artibus pontisicatum adeptus Pâ—atina indirect and unlawful means After him we have c An. 884. Adrian the Third who was of so d Tanti animi fuit great a spirit as Platina saith that he made a Law that in creating of Popes the authority of the Emperour should not be expected or required but we shall not finde this always observed After him followed e An. 885. Stephanus the Fifth or Sixth who is said to make this Decree f Dist 10. c. 4. Coâ—f pag 575. Whatsoever the Church of Rome doth ordain or appoint must be observed by all And now we come to the beginning of some notable garboyls and cross-grain'd actions upon the score of the Election of Formosus Pope after the death of Stephanus of which thus briefly Formosus before his Popedom was Bishop of Porto from which Pope John the Ninth or Eighth had deposed him Excommunicated him and degraded him to a meer Lay-man who departed the City having sworn never to return or to be Bishop again After this Pope Martin or Marin absolves him from his Oath and restores him to his dignities After the death of Stephanus the people of Rome fell into Factions one party chusing this g An. 891. Formosus for Pope the other elected one Sergius of a powerful acquaintance related to the Marquiss of Tuscane then chief of the Tusulans But Formosus kept the Chair though the great Guido or Wido also favour'd Sergius Yet at last not able to withstand such opposition he calls in to his assistance Arnulph the German Emperour who takes Rome beats away Formosus his Enemies and is by him Crown'd Emperour of which formerly and at last Formosus dyeth Upon the death of Formosus h An. 896. Boniface the Sixth Son to Adrian the Bishop is chosen Platina i Chron fol. 301. da Bergamo and some others make him lawfully elected and speak nothing against him but k Pag. 576. Coeffetean will have him to come in by Faction and one that had been formerly for his wickedness degraded by a Synod at Rome of his Deaconship and Priest-hood let them agree about it and if they can of the years of his Pâ—pedom After him we have Pope Stephanus the Sixth Son of a Cardinal Priest he was of the Faction of Sergius and so grand an Enemy to Pope Formosus though they say Formosus made him Bishop and gave him the See of Anagni that he did not onely abrogate and null all his Orders rescind all that he had done but which was most inhumane he commanded and that publickly in a a Habito Concilio Platin. Luitprand l. 1. c. 8. Sâ—gonius de Regno Ital. l. 6. Council his body to be dig'd out of the grave and his rotten carkass adorned with Priestly Garments to be placed in the Popes Chair and then gravely examin'd him why he durst take upon him to be Bishop of Rome and this formality of tryal being finished and the Corps condemn'd he had him disrobed of his Vestments and commanded his b Coquae us tom 1. pag. 477. three or c Plâ—tina two fingers wherewith he used to bless the people to be cut off and thrown into the River Tiber and the rest of his body as d Ilâ—â—sto del corpo fece sepillire nella sepoltura de secolari simplici villi Baronius and Platina saith was buried amongst the simple and vilest Lay-men Nor was this all but he also degraded whom Formosus had Ordain'd and himself gave them new Orders And which was most of all he had all these actions confirm'd by a Synod at Rome their own e Tom. 1. p. 477. Coquaeus doth confess And all this because he thought Formosus no true Pope f Pubâ—ice in Concilio Episcoparum decernit Formosum nunquam fuisse legitimum Pontificem Bellarm. de Pont. Rom. l. 4. c. 12. being elected against his former Oath And this he confirmed by a Council or Synod g Addit ad Platin Onuphrius at the inhumanity of this action seemeth so much troubled that he will not take it for any thing but to be a meer fable and lye but in this case one Swallow makes no Summer especially when Platina Coquaeus Bellarmine Baronius and the whole body of their Historians both before and after Onuphrius and Platina tells us that in his time Pius the Second being dead by the Conclave was elected for Pope h An 1464. Pietro Barbo a Venetian who being a comely and proper person intended to take upon him the name of Formosus but some Cardinals well versed in History perswaded him from it by setting this Formosus as a bad man before him upon which he call'd himself Paul the Second Nor need we trouble our selves any farther for the proof of this sacrilegious story against Onuphrius their French Champion i Il n'est donc point besoin d'amasser les Tesmoignages des Autheurs pour exaggere l'enormite de cette action puisque nous avoüons
John h De schismate lib. 3. cap. 9 10 11. Theodorick à Niem who lived two hundred years ago and was Secretary to several Popes is very zealous in vindication of the Imperial Authority and indeavours at large to prove that Emperours have Authority to depose Popes John being dead the Romans chose Benedict the Fifth without the consent of Otho contrary to their Oaths which so troubled the Emperour that he marcht against the City besiegeth it and takes it deposeth Benedict degradeth him of his Priestly Orders and resettles Leo. And here I finde the Romanists in a grand bussle to preserve their Succession not being able to agree about the lawful Pope i An. 963. § 38. Baronius k De visib Monarch l. 7. § 687. Sanderus and some others will have Benedict to be a true Pope But Onuphrius rejects him as a l Annot. in Plat. vit Benedict V. Schismatick and in plain terms calls him an m Epit. Pontif Anti-pope and will acknowledge none but Leo the Eighth to be authentick yet him Baronius will not place amongst the legal Popes and n Cron. pag. 827. Genebrard confesseth that their Historians in this cannot agree o Tom. 1. pag. 486. Coquaeus for the honour of his Church would gladly reconcile all yet I know not when they will all pitch upon the Infallible Pontif. Nor is it in this case alone that they are nonplust to make good their personal Succession and point you out the true Vicar for they are in this to seek in several other persons as their own p De visib Mon. l. 7. § 692. Sanderus is forced to confess But to return Leo the Eighth being dead the Romans sent to Otho to know his advice about the next election who sent to Rome the Bishops of Spire and Cremona in whose presence was elected John the Fourteenth or Thirteenth Son of a Bishop yet the tumultuous Romans imprisoned him also in the Castle St. Angelo upon which the Emperour returns to Rome and severely punish'd the Authors of these garboyls After his death their Authors are again at odds about the Order of the next Vicars with which I shall not trouble my self but follow Platina After John comes Benedict the Sixth who by the advice of Cardinal Bonifacius was also imprisoned in the Castle St. Angelo and there strangled or famish'd Then followeth a Onuphrius in his Pontifices Maximâ— set out by Jo. Gualter in his Cron. Cronicorum doth not name any such Pope Donus or Doâ—â—nus the Second after him Boniface the Seventh who occasioned the murther of Benedict the Sixth some will not reckon this Boniface amongst the truâ— Popes But Benedict the Seventh thrusts this Boniface out of the Church who rich with the robbing of Churches fled to Constantinople Benedict dying John the Fifteenth or Fourteenth succeeds which being known to Boniface the Eighth he returns imprisons John who is starved and Boniface once again is Pope after whose death John the Sixteenth or Fifteenth is Pope he was the Son of Leo a Priest and they say begot in b Coquaeus pag. 488. lawful Matrimony After him there is another John who was forced to leave Rome for fear of Crescentius a powerful Citizen there But the people being informed that John had desired the assistance of the Emperour Otho the Third desired him to return to Rome and all should be quiet John consents and is honourably received there Crescentius and the chief Authors of these troubles confessing their faults Platina and kissing his Feet Yet Crescentius grew haughty Otho marcheth into Italy Pope John dying the Emperour at Ravenna appointed to be Pope his Cousin Bruno a German whâ— call'd himself Gregory the Fifth And this c L' Empereur au contentement de tout le monde establit en sa place son Nepueu Bruno qui depuis fut nomme Gregorie Cinquiesme Coef pag. 601. Coeffeteau confesseth was done to the satisfaction and content of all men and this may be one Argument of the Imperial Power But yet we have not peace for Otho the Third being no sooner return'd but Crescentius who was made Consul by the Romans oppose the German interest so that Gregory was forced to flee into Germany for assistance In the mean time the Romans chose for Pope the Bishop of Placentia who calls himself John the Eighteenth Upon news of this Otho returns into Italy takes Rome and besiegeth Crescentius in the Castle St. Angelo at last Crescentius yeilds upon hope of pardon and is slain and as for this Pope John he had his hands nose and ears cut off his eyes pluckt out then set upon an Asses back with his face towards the Tail and so led about the City And thus was Gregory the Fifth restored Platina saith that this Pope Gregory the Fifth granted the Germans liberty of chusing their own Emperours by the Electors but Onuphrius affirmeth it to have been done first by Gregory the Tenth Another dispute ariseth about the Papal Authority in this case and d De Translat Imp. Bellarmine is zealous for his Patrons but for answer to him I shall refer you to e Hermannus Conringius who can tell you of f De Imper. Germanici Republica p. 106 c. others We need not question the misery of the Romish Church which as we have here seen hath been govern'd for so many years onely with an high-hand The Popes themselves being given to all manner Baron an 912. § 5. of corruption and wickedness not he that was the best but he who was the strongest sitting in the Infallible Chair a thing that their own Authors do much complain of and declare their wicked stories with grief insomuch that a Hoc vero uno infaelix quod per annos fete 150. Ponfices circiter 50 a virtute majorum prorsus de fecerint Apotactici Apostaticive potius quam Apostoliâ—i Cron. p. 807. Genebrard himself doth declare that for almost an hundred and fifty years there ruled in Rome neer fifty Popes wicked people being rather Apostates than Apostolical But yet he would gladly quit the Romans from the blame all which he throweth upon German Emperours but how deservedly let any judge the Otto's being commended in story for their affection to the Roman See nor did they use to trouble Rome with their company but when they were call'd thither to quell the Tumults and Seditions But this by the way may be enough to see that Rome it self is as capable of Treason Rebellions Murders and Seditions as other places by them made incapable of Salvation But before I end this I must observe that sometimes as John the Eleventh or Tenth John the Thirteenth or Twelfth to serve their turns they will grant one to be a true Coquae pag. 482 483. Pope though illegally elected and at other times for their own ends will deny one to be a true Pope meerly for some fault in his Election nor can they always agree
this doughty Question d An. â—157 § 13. What is it not in the power of the Pope upon cause to take away or give the Empire to whom he pleaseth and thinks worthy for whosoever shall receive the Empire without his consent is no Emperour but a Tyrant and an invader And so I leave his Holiness to make good cheer with this Infallible Doctrine and the German Electors to shake their ears having nothing to do according to this Principle but to gape for expect and obey the Dictates and Hests of the Pope who is as cock-sure as Infallibility it self and whose Power and Authority is far above Pembrokes Parliament that would do all things but make a man a woman and a woman a man The end of the fourth Book A CONTINUATION year 1200 OF THE REBELLIONS AND Treasonable practices Of the ROMANISTS In Deposing and Murthering of their Emperours and Kings From the Year MCC to the Year MD. BOOK V. CHAP. I. 1. The Murther of the Emperour Philip. 2. The Emperour Otho the Fourth deposed 3. The troubles and deposing of the Emperour Frederick the Second 4. The Guelfs and Gibillins with other troubles of the Empire Sect. 1. The Murther of the Emperour Philip. THe Emperour Henry VI dying the Germans fell into divisions some chusing Philip his Brother and son to Frederick I and Duke of Schwoben whilst others elected Otho Duke of Brunswick for Emperour Both parties would willingly have the Pope then Innocent III to befriend them But Philip though the Popes Legat honoured his Coronation in Germany by his a Pet. Mexâ—a fol. 416. presence and also b Sporidan anno 1198. § 7. â—bsolved him from his former Censures yet the Pope himself had such an a I◠§ 8. Bzov. anno 1198. § 13. hatred to him for the cause of his Father and other Relations that he would by no means permit of his Rule yet he would fairly tell Philip's Ambassadors that he neither would nay nor b Se nequaquam contra jâ—s aut â—as posse aut velle decernere Bzov. anno 1199. § 22. could decree any thing but the right yet he as confidently affirmed that it was his jurisdiction to c C. Venerab de Elect Bzov. anno 1199. § 24. approve of or reject an elected Emperour And having thus voted himself an Infallible authority he though the Germans had formerly chose young Frederick son to Henry King of the Romans and sworn Allegiance to him declares himself for Otho Excommunicates Philip and all his partakers But passing by the several mischiefs that fell upon Germany by these Divisions Otho at last being not able to withstand Philip the Pope was consulted for a Peace who desired on his part that the Emperours Daughter should be married to his Holinesses Nephew so to renown his own Family in Italy with divers Lands but at this d Rex Principes audita Romaâ—â— Pont. petulantâ—a in â—iâ—â—m permoâ— Naucler Gen. 41. p. 802. malipert request the Germans d laught heartily Well at last it was concluded that Philip should Marry his said Daughter to Otho to make way for which he should be divorc'd from his first Wife Mary Daughter to the Duke of Brabant and be espoused to Beatrice Daughter to Philip for which the Pope must grant another Dispensation to null their propinquity in blood All this being done Philip is to be Emperour and after his death Otho And the Pope is now as infallible for Philip as he was formerly for the other Yet here peace lasted not long this which Philip hoped to have been his quiet was his ruine for the Palsgrave Otho de Witâ—lspach having been formerly a Suitor to Philip's Daughter and seeing himself thus deprived of her for it might be till now he might have some hopes though Philip had formerly e Besold Sâ—nops-Hist Univers p. 435. denyed him for a murther that he committed is resolved to revenge himself on her Father To this purpose he conveys himself to Bamberg where the Emperour then was and joyning to him Eckenberg Bishop of the same City whom yet I finde much f Jo. Gault Cron. Cro. â—icor pag. 1101. Tom. 1. commended and some others he goeth to the Palace where the Emperour that day after dinner had laid himself down on his bed being newly let bloud Witilspach calls at the door and Philip being informed who it was commands the door to be open'd though he had then none with him but his Chancellor the Bishop of Spire and a Page without any weapons the Palsgrave at his entrance draws his Sword and wounded the Emperour in the throat of which he presently year 1208 dyed and then he and his Complices fled but Witilspach himself was not long after slain by Philips Steward This Murder was committed in the year 1208 according to this old Distich Anni milleni bis quatuor atque duceni Extant quando pius Rexoccidit ense Philippus Sect. 2. The Emperour Otho the Fourth deposed PHilip being thus murder'd Germany was mainly troubled by the a Hoc uno Phâ—lippo perempto Germania summis Insidus Pont. Rom. agitata Naucler pag. â—0â— Treacheries or ground-deceipts of the Pope as one of their own Historians words it But now Otho IV goeth currant for Emperour Pope Innocent b Bzev an 1208. § 2. 1209. forbidding any to be elected but him whom also he lets know how much he is beholden to his Holiness for undergoing a great deal of ill will for his sake how zealous he had been for his promotion and bids him have a care of the hopes or designs of young Frederick and suchlike good words Otho IV being acknowledged and elected in Germany goeth to Rome for his Coronation where he must also dance attendance at the Popes Sâ—irrop Yet peace would not continue the Romans and Germans falling out above a thousand of the Emperours men were slain which did not a little trouble Otho who c Naucler pag. â—05 suspecting the Pope as contriver of that uprore withdrew himself from Rome and demanding several Lands as belonging to the Empire by force endeavoured to have them Innocent admâ—nisheth Otho of his actions telling him that he the Pope is appointed year 1210 and set up over all Nations to root out destroy and break in pieces c. And then Excommunicates him and all his Partakers and at last deprives him by Censure from his Empire and absolves all his Subjects from their Oath and Allegiance which they had sworn and owed to him All which Censures are also hasted into Germany and pronounced by Sigefrid Archbishop of Mentz whose Commendatory riming Epitaph is as followeth Migrans vir fidus quinto Septembris in Idus Praesul Sigfridus fulget Coelo quasi sydus The Germans terrified at the Papal Fulminations withdrew their Obedience from Otho and according to the Popes desire Elected year 1212 young Frederick for Emperor alledging that it was his right year 1213 to be Emperor because he had been
d Platin. ib. Genebrard l. 4 p. 1080. Carranza sum Concil pag. 879. sold However he loved something else as well as Money or else he is shrew'dly belyed For Janus Pannonius who lived in his time and was Bishop of Funfkirken by the Hungarians call'd Eutegyhazac commonly known by its Latine name Quinque-Ecclesiae in lower Hungary and well acquainted with the affairs at Rome This Janus I say as soon as this Paul II came to his Popedom sent him good e Delit. Poetar Hungar. pag. 250. advice but a little after we finde the matter alter'd for thus he quits his Holiness Pontificis Pauli ne testes Roma requiras Ib. pag. 284. Filia quem similis te docet esse marem Pope Paul ' s a man Rome seek no farther tryal He gat a daughter makes it past denial And again thus Sanctum non possum patrem dicere possum Cum video natam Paule secunde tuam I cannot call thee Holy Paul but rather Now I your Daughter see can call you Father And in another place thus he sings to the same purpose Cum sit filia Paule sit tibi aurum Quantum Pontifices habere raros Vidit Roma prius Pater vocari Sanctus non potes at potes Beatus To him succeeds Sixtus or Xystus IV of whom Cornelius Agrippa gives this noble Character That he built at Rome a very famous a Sed recentioâ—ibus Temporâ—â—us Sixtus Pontifex Maximus Romae Nobile admodumâ— Lupanar extrâ—xit Romana scorta in singulas Hebdomadas sulâ—um pendent Pontifici qui census annuus non nunquam viginti millia Ducatos excedit adeoque Ecclesiae procerum id munus est ut uno cum Ecclesiarum proventibus etiam lenociniorum numerent mercâ—dem Sic enim ego illos supputantes aliquando audivi Habet inquientes ille duo Beneficia unum curatum aureorum viginti alterum prioratum dâ—catorum quadraginta tres Putanas in Burdello quae reddunt singulis â—debdomadibus Julios viginti Hen. Corn. Agrippa de vanitat scientiarum cap. 64. Bawdy-house but this you may suppose was for the profit of his Holiness for the same Author goeth on and tells us that every Curtisan of Rome payes every week to the Pope a Julio every Giulio is about an English Six pence which yearly rent sometimes surmounts the sum of twenty thousand Ducats And how his Disciples gain'd under him the same Agrippa assures us that he hath heard them thus cast up their Incomes and Rents He hath two Benefices one Cure worth twenty Ducats a Priory worth forty Ducats and three Whores in the Brothal-house which every week brings him in the gain of twenty Giulios i. e. ten shillings This Agrippa was in this time so famous for all manner of Learning that he was courted by all Persons and all Countries though some object to him the Magick Art but to quit him from this Monsieur b Apologie pour les Personages souâ— zonnez de Magâ—e cap 15. pag. 400 401 c. Naude hath lately written a large Apologie whither I refer the Reader And c Lib. 22. sol 259. Volaterran tells us that this Pope Sixtus IV loved his kindred so well that to prefer them he would go against and violate all Laws Humane and Divine a great pity that such a fault should over-cloud so excellent a vertue To him succeeded Innocent VIII who is said to have followed year 1483 on the same trade and thereby to have clearly gain'd sixteen Children eight Boys and as many Daughters before his Popedom but to mend the matter they now say he was d 〈…〉 Tom. 2. pag. 204. Câ—efâ—â— p. 1209. marryed and so honestly had them before he obtain'd the Papal dignity But e Lib. 22. â—â—l 261. in 〈…〉 Alexand Volaterranus doth more than hint that they were Bastards by comparing him and them to Pope Alexander VI and his off-spring As for Pope Alexander VI who succeeded this Innocent I need not say much seeing all the Roman Historians themselves do confess him to have been a Monster amongst men and that as he basely got his Popedom viz. by Simony so lived he ever after very wickedly Before his Popedom he enjoyed one a Or Vanocia or Vannocia or Lanosia or Lanozia Onuphrius in vita Alex. Jo. Marian de rebus Hispan lib. 26. cap. 2. Zanoccia and afterwards reserved her for his especial Curtisan he had by his love to Women four Sons and Daughters the best of the latter sort was call'd Lucretia with whom he was thought a little too familiar as her two Brothers were also wherefore upon her was this Epitaph Hoc jacet in Tumulo Lucretia nomine sed re Thais Alexandri filia sponsa nurus Lucrece by name Thais indeed lyeth under this stone Alexanders Daughter his Sons Wife and his own At Tournay in Flanders there is an Epitaph which will somewhat Fran. Sweert pag. 515. out-riddle this of Lucretia Cy gist le Pere cy gist la Mere Cy gist la soeur cy gist le Frere Cy gist la famme le mary Et n'ya que deux Corps icy Here lyeth the Father and here lyeth Mother Here lyeth the Sister and here lyeth Brother Here lyeth the Husband and here lyeth the Wife Yet here are but two bodies to make all this strife Many biting Verses might be collected against this Alexander out of the works of that so famous Italian Poet Jacobus Sannazarius or Actius Syncerus being call'd both wise Mantuan and such other like Scholars that then flourish'd but it would be to no purpose seeing they confess the worst of him and all since are ashamed of him As for the manner of his death take it thus according to c Lib. 6. Guicciardin Caesar Borgia his Son resolving to poyson Adrian Cardinal of Corneto sends some Flagons of poysoned Wine to the Vineyard where they with the Pope were to sup The Pope coming too soon before any other Wine was brought and being very thirsty Borgia's man not knowing of his Masters design but thinking it to be most excellent Wine fill'd some of it to the Pope who drank heartily It chanced at the same time Borgia came and through ignorance pledged his Father who having took some Antidotes before and being young and lusty lived though he indured an hard sickness but his old Father Alexander VI dyed upon it But Dr. d Pag. 1â— 12. Coeffeteau will rather follow Onuphrius viz. that it was the Pope himself that contrived the poyson to take away several Cardinals the better to inrich himself by the seizing upon their wealth and that the man through mistake gave onely the poysoned cup to Alexander and his Son Borgia whereby the rest escaped and this makes the Pope more wicked and may well enough be believed for Guicciardin confesseth that this Pope and his Son used this trick several times to the murthering of several Cardinals against whom they had but the least pick. Here I
the people in opposition to Henry Crowned King ISABEL upon her Brother Henry's death Queen of Castile and Marryed Ferdinand of Arragon whereby those two Crowns were joyn'd This Henry IV succeeded in the Kingdoms of Castile and Leon year 1454 after the death of his Father John II. Henry was civil and courteous never Thou'd any body were he never so mean he was also liberal a lover of peace but that which spoil'd all he was too careless in his Government not desiring to trouble himself much with the affairs of his Kingdom which with his Clemency made his proud Nobles neglect and in the end despise him To tell all his misfortunes would be too tedious In short several of his Nobility made a League against him one of the chief of whom was Don Alphonso Carillo the Archbishop of Toledo They carryed their plot cunningly and secret and if a discovery should happen they had either fair pretensions or a jugling carriage with which they knew it was an easie matter to pacifie the King The King had notice of their League and desired to confer with the Marquess De Villena one of their Chieftains and some others they refuse to come to him At last De Villena upon Hostages given to his party and a safe-conduct meets the King but comes well provided and guarded with his Faction and Friends by whose assistance he was so strong that he resolved to seize upon the King and the Infanta's Isabel and Alphonso and once made year 1464 a violent attempt upon the Court but finding the King who had notice of the Plot too well provided turn'd all ofâ— with a fair excuse and the King was too apt to pardon and believe all to be for the best Another time they had laid a plot to be let in secretly into their Lodgings there to seize on the King the Queen the Infanta's and to dispatch their Enemies but this was by chance also discover'd and so prevented yet would not the King punish Villena because he had given him his word of security These failing they contrived to seize upon him under pretence of a Conference but of this also the King having intelligence he prevented their Treachery The Covenanters finding their plots discover'd flee to open Arms and draw up several Articles against the King and the better to countenance their Cause they pretended great care and friendship to the Kings Brother Alphonso At last a kinde of peace is struck up Alphonso declared Heir to the Crown and Commissioners on both sides appointed to end all differences and Alphonso is sent to the Confederates to render them more peaceable by his presence and their thus enjoying of what they desired Now the King hoped nothing more than an happy peace but he found himself betray'd on all hands For whilst the Commissioners were consulting the Archbishop of Toledo and Don Frederick the Admiral made shew as if they had fallen out with Marquess De Villena were weary of the League and so came over to the King to whom they profer'd their service His Majesty rejoyceth at this but was presently in troubles again by reason of the treachery of his Commissioners who being won over by the Confederates had consented to a dishonourable peace whereby nothing remain'd to the King save onely the name And this grief was doubled by another misfortune for he having sent to Don Gomes de Cacerez Master of Alcantara and Don Pedro Puertro Carero Earl of Medillino his trusty friends to come to him it fortuned that whilst they were upon their journey they met with Alvaro Gomes Secretary to the King and Ganzalo of Sahavedra one of the Kings Commissioners both now turn'd to the Confederates These two Traytors told the other two Nobles a smooth and sad story of the Kings displeasure against them how he had given order to have them seiz'd on and so it would not be safe for their Lordships to fall within the reach of the King These Lords thus falsely perswaded of the Kings displeasure forgot their honours and joyned themselves also with the Leaguers But yet the Kings misfortune grew worse and worse for the Archbishop of Toledo and the Admiral carryed themselves so cunningly that Henry ever put his greatest confidence in them And though he was secretly advised not to trust too much to them nor to commit any Forces to their charge assuring him that they waited but that opportunity and then would deliver them with themselves over again to the Leaguers yet to all these Informations would he give no credit but confer'd upon them several places of strength furnish'd them with money and gave them Commissions to raise Souldiers with an Order to meet him with their Forces at Arevalo which place he designed with their assistance to besiege To â—his Siege the King goeth and wondering the Archbishop came not he sent Fernand Badajos one of his Secretaries to hasten his March The Secretary meets him and his Troops marching towards Avila the Rendevouz of the Confederates delivereth his message but from the Archbishop gets nothing but this answer Tell your King from me that I am weary both of him and his affairs and that shortly the true King of Castile shall be known This was sad news At the same time cometh information that the Admiral also had play'd the knave seiz'd on Valladolid proclaimed young Alphonso King so joyned himself also with the Rebels At which the King full of grief and amazement kneel'd upon the ground lifting up his hands to Heaven thus humbly pray'd O Lord God! unto whom belongeth the defence and protection of Kings and by whom they reign I recommend my Cause unto thee and commit my life into thy hands I yeild thee infinite thanks that it hath pleas'd thee thus to punish me for mine offences which are worthy of a sharper scourge And I confess that the same which I suffer is very small in respect of my deserts May it please thee O Lord that these troubles may diminish the pains which are due to my soul in regard of my sins and if it be thy will that I shall pass through these miseries and afflictions I beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to give me patience to endure them and reason and understanding to guide my self in them In the mean time the Confederates meet before Avila before June 1465. which City in the plain fields they erect a great Scaffold on which was placed the Statue of King Henry in a Mourning Habit sitting in a Regal Throne the Crown on his head the Scepter in his hand and the Sword laid before it Upon the Scaffold the Archbishop of Toledo with some others ascended and a Paper was read by which Henry was degraded it contain'd four chief points I. As deserving to be deprived from the dignity of a King at which the Archbishop took the Royal Crown from its head II. That he was no more worthy to administer Justice at which the Earl of Placencia took
and all these as a security of Albrets good behaviour to him and to be restored again when Ferdinando thought good King John thought these demands unreasonable justly suspecting a difficulty of ever outing the Castilians if they were once so strongly setled in his Dominions especially at this time when the Factions of the two Families Gramont and Beaumont had made some disturbance with him at home and the last of them wishing too well to Fernando Add to this there was no necessity of such demands for passage seeing they might march several ways into France without troubling Navar. Thus Albret fearing the worst by smelling out the designe thought to strengthen himself by joyning interests with the French King The backwardness of Navar being known Pope Julio falls a Bulling with the consent of his Cardinals declaring John d'Albret and Catherine his Wife with their Posterity for Hereticks and Schismaticks so deprived of all Royal Dignity and Honour freely giving their Kingdom and Dominions to Ferdinand or any that will take the pains to have them Ferdinand now thinking that the Popes blessing and cursing gave him right and title good enough to the Kingdom And having his Army ready in Alava a little Province between Biscay and Navar made it march on a sudden under the command of Don Fadrique de Toledo Duke of Alva Grand-father to Don Fernando d'Alvarez de Toledo Duke of Alva so noted in the Netherlandish Histories and who after that in a little time conquer'd Portugal to the obedience of his Master Philip II. For the Narrative of which I shall refer those that desire to read it to Jeronimo Conestaggio of Genuoa But the Portugais 1640 make quicker work in regaining of it from Philip IV. And so they might without a wonder if they surpass the Castilians so much in courage as b Antonio de Sousa de Macedo relates it a Lusitania liber l. 3. c. 9. But to return the Castilians made such haste that they entred Navar before Albret expected them which so amazed his unprovided Court that he presently b July 22. 1512. fled for it into France leaving his Queen Children and People to shift for themselves All hopes thus lost the Queen with her son Prince Henry and three Daughters two days after quits Pamplona to follow her husband whom having overtaken she thus amongst other speeches tartly upbraids c O Roy vous demeuâ—erez Jean d'Albret ne pensez plus au Royaume de Navatre d'Autant que pour avoir esté superfluement boâ— vous en avez esté moins estimé des vostres vous estes pardu vous vostre Royaume L. de Mayerne l. 25. pag. 1191. O Roy vous demeurez Jean d'Albret ne penses plus au Royaume de Navarre que vous avez perdu par vostre nonchalance Olhagaray p. 455. O King King thou shalt remain John d'Albret and never think more of the Kingdom of Navar for that having been superfiuously good you have been the less esteem'd of your subjects and have undone your self and your Realm Thus the Kingdom of Navar became an easie prey to Ferdinando from which time it hath continued an Appendix to the Crown of Spain whilst the French are forced to be content with its empty title As for Albret though he was a lover of splendour and learning himself being well skill'd in Heraldry and a great Collector of Books for his Libraries yet he made himself cheap by being two good-natur'd and too familiar even with the meanest of his Subjects so that when it came to a stress his former freedom rendred his name of Majesty contemptible Nor gain'd he a little Ill-will by his wholly affecting the French modes and humours too light and Airy for a Mountanous rough-hewn people especially such who breath nothing but the Spanish air but which was most his preferring many Strangers or Forreigners not onely by giving them good Estates but by intrusting them with the greatest Offices and Places in his Kingdom whereby the Natives grumbled to see themselves so neglected and sleighted To these we might add the Factions amongst the Nobility but that which was the fountain of all was his giving of himself up so much to his a Vid. Michel Baudier Hist du Cardinal Ximenes pag. 106 107. pleasures that he wholly neglected the Government not troubling himself with the management of any thing in it nor caring how things went right or wrong so they would but let him alone to his own fancie so thus like some other Kings he had the Title others the sway and Authority so that he himself lost nothing by the want of these his Dominions seeing he carryed the name of King along with him whilst the Spaniard took the trouble and care of Government upon him And all such are but pictures of Kings Francis I. King of France who succeeded Lewis XII to whom our Albret fled who for his great love and care to the Church Learning and his people is so renown'd by all Historians upon his death-bed with his blessing gave his son Henry II. these two Rules First fear God Then be careful for the good of your subjects Upon which excellent advice the famous French Antiquary Lawyer and Poet Steven Pasquier by the folly of Latinizing names call'd Paschasius compos'd this following Epigram Nato haec Franciscus dixisse novissima verba St. Paschas Epigram lib. 5. vid. Delit. Poet. Gal. vol. 2. pag. 971. Fertur in gemitus prosiluisse pios Imprimis venerare Deum Charissime Fili Mox tibi sit Populi cura suprema tui Dixit occubuit Duo ne Praecepta putato In duo peccat qui peccat in alterutrum Nam cui nulla Dei cuâ—a est nec cura suorum est Et cui non populi est cura nec ulla Dei est Frances whilst death was closing his heavenward eyes Bequeath'd unto his Heir thus his advice First worship God dear son Then see you bend Your ways as most to your subjects good may tend This said he dyed Nor think these Rules but two For who breaks one must break the other too Since who loves not God loves not his own affair And who slights his peoples good for God can't care Thus was Albret the loss of himself and Kingdom it being a certain Rule that subjects take their influence from the actions of their Princes an active vigorous and valiant King infusing courage into his meanest vassal whilst the negligent and effeminate and all such are observed to be too good natur'd and so negligent which in a King is worse then tyranny renders the people unactive and though jealous yet careless which stupidity makes them more stubborn because they see themselves tyrannized over and abused by such base-spirited cringing favourites as usually domineer under the Protection of such breathing Statues of Kingship But to return And yet who can be but troubled at the sad fortune of poor Albret who dyed of grief
all and that he had a designe to kill the Queen but at last falls into a rage denyeth it layeth his bloud upon the Queen and the Judges and summons the Queen to answer for his bloud before God However he is condemn'd and afterwards b executed in the Palace yard a 2 March 1584 5. And here it will not be amiss to tell what this flaunting and boasting Parry was seeing his impudence pretended great kindred worth and no small favour abroad His Father was call'd Harry ap David who kept an Ale-house in a little Village Northop not far from the River Dee in Flintshire in North-Wales his Mother was a Bastard begot by one Conway the Priest of Haulkin a poor Parish close by Upon the death of his Father his Elder Brother kept the Ale-house and did so after our Parry was executed The Traytor now in hand was one of the younger Sons and was call'd William ap Harry according to the custom of Wales When young he learned a little to write and read went and served one John Fisher of Chester who pretended to the Law with him he continued some years serving as his Clerk in which time he learned the English Tongue and at some spare hours went to the Grammar-School where he got some skill in Latin About the year 1560 he ran away from his Master got up to London where for some time he lived after a shirking fashion all his study being to fill his belly and cover his back at last he found a good Master and by degrees with him and other Masters he got some money in his purse He scorns his old name ap Harry but call'd himself Parry pretending a kin to all of that name and from his Mother Daughter to one Conway a Priest he pretends a kindred to the Family of Sir John Conway and so allyed to the foresaid Edmund Nevil Thus having voted himself a Gentleman he marryeth a rich Widow in South-Wales she dyeth he lives bravely wastes all and runs into debt His chiefest care is for some time to avoid the Serjeants at last he falls in with a rich Widow Mrs. Heywood old enough to be his Mother and her at last he marryeth but lyeth with her Daughter ruines the Estate and runs far in debt to Mr. Hugh Hare of the Temple aforesaid whom in his Chamber he endeavour'd to assassinate and is himself executed for Treason Of this ap Harry or Parry several Couplets were made in those times some of which for diversion take as followeth where you may see his life and Qualities also Epitomized William Parry Was ap Harrie By his name From the Ale-house To the Gallows Grew his fame Gotten Westward On a Bastard As is thought Wherefore one way Kin to Conway Hath he sought Like a Beast With Incest He begun Mother marryed Daughter carryed him a Son Wales did bear him France did swear him To the Pope Venice wrought him London brought him To the Rope Wherewith strangled And then mangled Being dead Poles supporters Of his quarters And his head And thus much for Parry and his Treasons which stuck so close upon the Papal Reputation that their Index Expurgatorius commands the whole story to be dasht out of Thuanus CHAP. V. 1. Babington c.'s Treasons against the Queen 2. The Romanists endeavour to inveâ—gle the more ignorant People to them by their false and cheating Exorcisms Sect. 1. Babington c.'s Treasons against the Queen THe former Treason was scarce ended when another begun which was briefly thus In the English Seminary at Rheimes in France there were some who pin'd their faith so much upon the Popes sleeve that they thought his Authority could do any thing and that the Deposing Bull of Pius V against Queen Elizabeth was dictated by the Holy Ghost thus wickedly perswaded they Cambd. Annals an 1586. thought it meritorious to take away her life and to dye in the attempt would be a glorious Martyrdom Amongst the rest Dr. William Gifford Rector of the Students there and the finisher of the Book call'd Calvino-Turcismus William Reinolds of whom formerly was its first Author He and one Gilbert Gifford and one Hodgson Priests so inculcated this treasonable Doctrine into one John Savage said to be a Bastard that he willingly and solemnly vowed to kill the Queen To make the day more sure John Ballard an English Priest of Rheimes plyeth it about England and Scotland to carry on the Cause and to prepare his Disciples then goeth into France to treat with Don Bernardin de Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador there and some others about the invading of England Having done his errand he returns to England to forward the designe gets to London where in a Souldiers habit under the false name of Captain Foscue he agitates his plots At London he opens the business to one Mr. Anthony Babington of Dethick in Derbyshire a young Gentleman rich well bred and somewhat learned he had a little before gone to France without License and faln in acquaintance with the Archbishop of Glascow Ambassador for the Queen of Scots and Thomas Morgan an English Fugitive but a great stickler for her Babington is against an Invasion as fearing it would not take effect as long as the Queen lived Ballard tells him that that need not trouble him because Savage had sworn to kill her Babington likes the murther but moves that five other resolute Gentlemen might be joyned to Savage This agreed on they carry on the designe for the Invasion In the mean time Babington giveth notice to the Queen of Scots of the designed Murther and desires her that The Heroical Actors in this business might be rewarded or else their Posterities if they perisht in the attempt for so he worded it And in this conspiracie several Gentlemen of Quality were assistants Sir Francis Walsingham that saithful and cunning Secretary by his Spies discovers all and informs the Queen and in this Gilbert Gifford Priâ—st who lurk'd in England under the name of Luson to minde Savage of his Oath was somewhat assistant to Walsingham who had such a liberal hand to intelligence that though he left himself poor yet so trusty he was to his Soveraign that there was scarce a plot against her but some of his Spies were intimate and Actors with the chiefest of them This Plot having run on for some time the Queen thought it dangerous to go too far so Ballard is apprehended Babington jealous of a discovery he with some of the Confederates hide themselves in St. Johns Wood near the City Notice being given of their withdrawing they are proclaimed Traytors at last are found and seized on and the rest of their Fellow-rebels Fourteen of whom were a September 1586. executed in St. Giles's Fields where they used to meet and consult about the Murther and Invasion Sect 2. The Romanists indeavour to inveagle the more ignorant people to them by their false and cheating Exorcisms THe English Romanists about this time had
not exempted from the guilt of the offence although he escaped the punishment But let others dispute the Priviledge of Ambassadors and so I leave him as I finde him CHAP. VI. The Spanish Invasion THe greatest Enemies the Queen had were those whose births oblig'd them to obedience but whether their Religion its interest or some bad Principles of the Parties prompted them to such Treasons let others judge 'T is certain the Jesuits and other English Priests were the occasion of the Queen of Scots her ruine they still thrusting her on to so many inconveniences against the Queen and Kingdom that Elizabeth was the sooner perswaded to consult her own safety by taking away that which sought her overthrow As for these people when they saw no hope of restoring the Roman Religion either by Mary of Scotland nor her Son they Camden anno 1586 began to finde out new Masters and none more fit for them then the Spaniard whom they vapour'd to be Heir to the English Crown And concerning this a Vita Vincent Laurei Card. pag. 72. Ruggerius Tritonius Abbot of Pinaro in his life of Cardinal Vincentius Laurens tells us an odd passage viz. that Mary the Queen of Scots the day before she suffer'd death did under her own hand in the French Tongue declare that her Son James should not Inherit England if he remain'd a Protestant but that the right of the Kingdom should be translated to Philip of Spain And these Papers were sent to the said Cardinal Laureus being by Sixtus V. made Protector of Scotland who gave them to Conde Olivares then Ambassador for the King of Spain at Rome with order to send them to his Master Philip and this did Robertus Titius publish though without Tritonius the Authors knowledge and then living in Italy 1599. dedicating it to Cardinal Montalto And this is somewhat agreeable to one of the charges laid against her at her tryal that she sent a Letter to Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador wherein she promis'd to give her right of England to the King of Spain if her Son James would not be of the Romish perswasion The first of these Stories b History of Queen Mary James VI pag. 120. Mr. Sanderson looks upon as a meer trick and fable and whether she was really so concern'd for her Sons Religion as to use any means for his conversion to Popery King James can tell best himself and thus he saith c Monitory Preface to the Apology pag. 34. In all her Letters whereof I received many she never made mention of Religion nor labour'd to perswade me in it so at her last words she commanded her d Viz. Melvyn Master-houshold a Scotish Gentleman my servant and yet a live she commanded him I say to tell me that although she was of another Religion then that wherein I was brought up yet she would not press me to change except my conscience forced me to it For so that I led a good life and were careful to do Justice and govern well she doubted not but that I would be in a good case with the Profession of my own Religion But whether she undertook to give away the Title of England from her Son was no great matter it being against all Law Justice and Reason she having no power to dispose of the Inheritance of England yet the Romanists when all other endeavours fail'd to rob King James of his Kingdoms and life had the confidence about the year 1613. to a Jesuitica per unitas Belgii provincias Negotiatio E 4. publish a book affirming King James to be but a meer cheat or counterfeit and a mock-King denying him to be the Son of the aforesaid Queen Mary But laying aside such Forgeries that the Spaniard hath had a designe not onely to rule these Islands but to be the Universal Monarch hath been the opinion of many men amongst others I finde b Dessein perperuel des Espagnols a la Monarchie Universelle Pâ—inted 1624. in quarte one hath made an Extract from their Original Papers whither I shall refer the Reader But whatever his former attempts have been of late he hath rather lost then gain'd And though Naples Flanders Arragon Catalonia c. might do him some injury if they were in the possession of others yet as they stand divided and in a posture of defence he can never grow rich by their Coyn. But to return home Where we happen in the year which above an hundred years year 1588 before the famous German Astronomer Johannes Regiomontanus had affirm'd would be most wonderful The Prophesie it self Originally in the German Language went about by Tradition and Johannes Schoenerus repeated them to the noted Bohemian Mathematician c Ephemeridum Novum Ec. 10. Cyprianus Leovitius who first publish'd them 1577 which because they have made a great noise in the world though I finde no great matter in them seeing such general predictions may serve almost for any year take thus in the Original Tausent funff hunderâ— achtsig acht Das ist das Jar das ich betracht Geht in dem die Welt nicht under So gschicht doch sunst gross merctlich wunder Often have I been troubled at the fate Of the year fifteen hundred eightie eight And if the world it self don 't end you 'll see For its events most wonderful 't will be In this year I think France was the greatest sufferer the Covenanters or Leaguers there by their Barracado's forcing the King Henry III out of Paris and he to prevent his greater danger cut off the Cardinal and Duke of Guise which occasion'd so much war and his own Murther And besides these two the third party in that Kingdom viz. the Hugonots received a great loss by the Death of the Prince of Conde suppos'd by some to be poysoned England was in some fear and at some charges by the noise of the Invincible Armada but Spains loss was inestimable by its overthrow The Lord Maitland Chancellor of Scotland undertook in short thus to give us the year a Poet. Scot. vol. 2. pag. 138. Papa Dei petit Orbis Iber Dux Guisius Orci Regna annus mirus si potientur erit And b Id. pag. 133. Andrew Melvyn hath a Copy of Verses somewhat to the same purpose Upon this great Navy c Poet. Germ. vol. 6. p. 310. Simon Stenius d Poet. Gall. vol. 3. p. 655. Adeodatus Seba Beza and several other Forreigners bestow'd their Poetry to the no small trouble of the Index Expurgatorius which was forced to take the pains to casheer some of them For some years had this great Fleet been in preparing from several parts in the world but the History of the preparations fight and victory I shall leave to other Writers and follow mine own designe Certain it is the Spaniard scarce doubted of a Conquest which made one thus to despise the Queen Tu qui Romanos voluisti spernere leges Hispano disces subdere colla
March crying V. ve le Roy all things are carried peaceably all pardon'd and kept in their Places and Offices but Cardinal Pelleve Archbishop of Rheims a furious Covenanter now lying sick in Paris and inform'd what was a doing angrily said that He hoped yet the Arms of the Spaniards and good Catholicks would drive that Huguenot out of Paris which said he died All the Kings enemies had liberty to depart The Legat though the King desired him to stay returned for Rome the Spanish Embassadours and Forces marched away and several * Their names in Mem. de M. Nevers v l. 2. l. 718. Frenchmen jealous of their own Villanies quitted the City and others the Kingdom And now both Parlement of Paris and the Sorbonne Doctors wheel about and declare themselves dapper fellows for King Henry IV. and the Parlement of Paris puts forth a Decree the summe of which was Nulleth and maketh void all Decrees and Oaths made or taken against King Henry IV. since Dec. 20. 1588. Nulleth all that hath also been done against King Henry III. commandeth all to speak reverently of him and that those shall be proceeded against who were any way guilty of his murther Revoketh all power formerly given to the Duke of Mayenne forbids any to yield him any obedience under pain of Treason and under the same penalty commands the House of Lorrain to acknowledge Henry IV. for their King Commandeth all people to forsake the League or Union Revoketh all that hath been done by the late pretended States General at Paris and that for the future they assemble not And that the 22th of March shall for the future be kept as an Holy-day c. De Villoutreys Paris 30 March 1594. The King thus prosperous many places seeing small hopes left submitted themselves The Duke de Elboenf of the House of Lorrain maketh peace the Duke of Lorrain himself is inclinable but Mayenne d'Aumale and some others stand out obstinately As for the Spaniards they seeing the League ruin'd fight for their own Master Philip under that notion beginning a war with France to them the Duke of Aumale submitting himself and Interest rather then to his own Sovereign and Mayenne followed almost the same steps joyning with them though he did not absolutely submit himself to them Thus the League daily losing ground Lorrain maketh a Truce or Peace with the King and Guise seeing little else to trust to renounceth the Covenant and compounds with His Majesty But that all hopes might not fail another attempt must be made upon the Kings Person The * Memoirs du Duc du Sully tom 1. p. 169. Jesuits Capuchines and other Religious Zelots had formerly contriv'd his murther and †Mem. de la Ligue tom 6. p. 263. Lâ—urâ—nce Bouchil Hist de la justice criminelle de France tit 11. ch 15. François Jacob a Scholar of the Jesuits at Bourgeâ— had boasted and threatned his death but here we meet with a fellow that will endeavour to be as good as his word His name was Jean Chastel son to a Draper in Paris a young man of a wicked life and bred up in the Jesuits School Having consider'd with himself what an abominable life he had led resolved to do some noble and meritorious action for the benefit of Religion thereby to wash and wipe out the stains of his own crimes and offences And having often heard it preach'd from the Pulpit discoursed of and disputed in the Schools where he conversed that it was not onely lawful but glorious to kill Heretical Kings and particularly Henry of Bourbon Thus nurs'd up he concluded nothing could be more meritorious to himself and acceptable to God and Man then the taking out of the world Navarre whom he was taught to believe to be truly no King but a damnable Heretick and Persecutor of the Church Thus resolved he year 1593 imparts his design to his father and the Curate of Saint André in Paris And now being fully confirm'd in the gloriousness of the action and being well prepar'd for the attempt he will take the next opportunity The King with several Nobles being at the Louvre in the Chamber of the fair Cabrielle d'Estrees by him for love-sake made Dutchess of Beausort Jean Chastel amongst the rest had boldly thrust himself in At last getting near the Kings person he out with his knife offering a stab at his Throat or Heart but the King by chance then stooping to one in 27 Decâ—mâ— complement received the blow or wound upon his upper lip which also struck out a tooth The Villain upon the blow let the knife fall and having mixt himself with the Company designing to slip away it could not presently be known who was the Criminal till the Count de Soissons by chance casting his eyes upon Chastel and perceiving him in an amazed and affrighted condition seiz'd on him by the arm upon which the fellow presently confest and which was more boldly vindicated the action Upon this wound Perron made a long Copy of a Vide â—â—spâ—nâ—se le Pâ—rnâ—sse com 1. fol. 13 14 c. verses and so did b Poet. Bâ—lâ— toâ— 1. p. 500 501. Baudius c Poet. 〈◊〉 tom 3. p. 718 719. Seba and others upon the Parricide and Pyramide The by-standers would have cut the Villain to pieces but the King wiser then their passions commanded he should not be hurt so he is had to prison tried and condemned to have his flesh pull'd off with hot Pincers his right hand holding the knife to be cut off and himself drawn in piâ—ces by four horses which accordingly was done the Parricide shewing no sign of grief or pain The Father of Chastel was banished his house before the Palace pull'd down and a stately Pyramide erected in its place with many Inscriptions in Golden Letters upon it casting no small reproach upon the Jesuits The Inscriptions at large you may see in other * Lud. Lucâ—s Hist Jâ—suit l. 4. c 3. Jâ— Wâ—ius Lectiâ—â— Memor bâ—o 〈…〉 tâ—m 3â—â—â— c 4. Mem. de la Ligue tâ—m 6. p. 266 c. Writers Of Chastel and the Jesuits thus saith part of it Huc me redegit tandem herilis filius Malis magistris usus schola impia Sotoricorum eheu nomen usurpantibus c. On another side of the Pyramide amongst other words were these Pulso praeterea tota Gallia hominum genere novae ac malificae superstitionis qui rempub turbabant quorum instinctu piacularis adolescâ—ns dirum facinus instituerit On the fourth side of the Pyramlde was the Arrest or Decree of Parlement against the said Chastel and the Jesuits part of which relating to the latter take as followeth The said Court doth likewise ordain that the Priests and Students of the College of ††This Jesuits Câ—llege â— Parâ—s was 〈◊〉 housâ—â—f Guiilaume de Prat Bishâ—p â—f Clermont He â—eâ—mitteâ— tâ—â— Jâ—suâ—ts tâ—â—liâ— and 〈◊〉 thâ—râ— 1564. and when he died he left it
dignetur adhibere eidem committimus commendamus Datum in Castris nostris Catholicis XXX o Martis M. DC Sanctitatis vestrae Obedientissimi filii fidelissimi subditi a a Tir-Oen O Neale b b Ja. Fite-Thomas James Desmond c c Florence Mac Cartie Mac Cartie More d d Dermond Mac Owen Cartie Dermond Mac Cartie alias Mac Donogh Tyrone daily growing more powerful in Ireland Queen Elizabeth to stop his career sends over Sir Charles Blunt Lord Montjoy as Lord Deputy of that Kingdom and the Presidency of Munster being void by the unfortunate death of Sir Thomas Morris who was slain by the Rebels She also at the same time sent over Sir George Carew well acquainted with the Countrey to be Lord President of the Province of Munster Of this Sir George Carew by the way He was Son to George Carew Doctor in Divinity Archdeacon of Totness in Devonshire afterwards Dean of Windsor c. Sir George was by Queen Elizabeth made Lord President of Munster by King James Baron of Clopton and by King Charles I. Earl of Totness was Master of the Ordinance and Privy-Councellor to both the said Kings He was a faithful Subject a valiant and prudent Commander an honest Councellor a Gentile Scholar a lover of Antiquities and a Patron to Learning Besides his Translations out of French he wrote a large History of his Three years Transactions in Munster in which other accidents of Ireland are interwoven 't is Printed under the Title of Pacata Hibernia In which either Mr. Stafford the Publisher or the Printer hath committed several gross oversights both in the Latin and English Parts Besides thefe he hath in four large Volumes collected several Chronologies Charters Letters Deeds Monuments and other Materials belonging to Ireland To which Manuscript Collections having been much beholden in my Irish Narratives I thought it fit in these few lines gratefully to give the World notice of it wishing that others of the Nobility would as they ought to do follow his generous and industrious Example thereby to advance the honour of their Countrey and Families and not live like idle Heirs of their Ancestors Titles That the credit of Nobility may once again advance and the Honours and Titles might not be ashamed of the Persons that vainly bear them And thus much by the By of the gallant and honourable Earl of Totness who dyed in the City of Wâ—stminster without Issue in the year MDC XXIX the XXVII of March In the mean time the Rebellion goeth on in Ireland and the better to encourage their Sin and Treason the Pope sends a Letter to the Irish commending them for their taking up Arms or acting such villanous Exploits And to all that do any way assist the said Tir-Oen he gives a full pardon and remission of all their sins meriting forsooth as much as if they had fought against the Turk or endeavoured the recovery of the Holy-Land The Letter it self being but short take as followeth Clemens PP VIII UNiversis singulis Venerabilibus fratribus Archiepiscopis Episcopis Praelatis nec non Dilectis filiis Principibus Comitibus Baronibus ac populis Regni Hiberuiae Salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Cum jam diu sicut accepimus vos Romanorum Pont. Praedecessorum nostrorum ac nostris Apostolicae sedis cohortationibus adducti ad vestram libertatem recuperandam eamque adversus Haereticos tuendam conservandam bonae memoriae Jacobo Giraldino primum qui durum servitutis juguâ— vobis ab Anglis Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae desertoribus impositum summo animi ardore depellere dum vixit pro viribus procuravit Deinde Johanni Giraldino ejusdem Jacobi Consobrino E novissime dilecto filio nobili viro Hugoni Principi Onel dicto Comiti Tironensi Baroni Dungenaniae Capitaneo Generali Exercitus Catholici in Hibernia conjunctis animis viribuâ— praesto fueritis ac opem auxilium praestiteritis ipsique Duces eorum milites manu Domini Exercituum illis assistente progressu temporis plurima egregia facinora contra hostes viriliter pugnando praestiterint in posterum praestare parati sunt Nos ut Vos ac Dux Milites praedicti alacrius in expeditionem hanc contra dictos Haereticos opem imposterum etiam praestare studeatis spiritualibus gratiis favoribus vos prosequi volentes eorundem Praedecessorum nostrorum exemplo adducti ac de Omnipotentis Dei misericordia ac beatorum Petri Pauli Apostolorum ejus authoritate confisi vobis omnibus singulis qui praedictum Hugonem Ducem ejusque Exercitum Catholicae fidei assertores propugnatores sequimini ac illis vos adjunxeritis aut Consilio Favore Commeatibus Armis aliisque bellicis rebus seu quacunque ratione eis in hac Expeditione operam dederitis ipsisque Hugoni Duci ejusque exercitus militibus universis singulis si vere poenitentes Confessi ac etiam si fieri poterit sacra Communione refecti fueritis plenariam omnium Peccatorum suorum veniam remissionem ac eandem quae proficiscentibus ad bellum contra Turcas ad recuperationem Terrae Sanctae per Romanos Pont. concedi solita est misericorditer in Domino concedimus non obstantibus si opus sit nostris Decretis de non concedendis Indulgentiis ad instar ac in susceptionis Indulgentiarum occasione anni Jubilaei aliisque Constitutionibus Ordinationibus Apostolicis ceterisque contrariis quibuscunque Verum quia difficile foret praesentes nostras ad omnium quorum interest notititiam pervenire volumus ut earum exemplis etiam Impressis manu alicujus Notarii Publici subscriptis ac sigillo personae in dignitate Ecclesiastica Constitutae munitis eadem fides ubique habeatur quae eiisdem praesentibus haberetur Datum Romae apud Sanctum Petrum sub Annulo Piscatoris die XVIII o Aprilis MDC Pontificatus nostri Anno IX M. Vestrius Barbianus The Rebels thus fortified with the Pope's Blessing never doubted but with the fame of this Benediction so to encrease their numbers as to be able to carry all before them and utterly free themselves from their obedience But herein they found themselves deceived For Montjoy the Lord Deputy what with the Soldiers he found in Ireland and the new Recruits from England so followed the Rebels in Vlster and other places that some of them were forced to submit and Tyrone was forced to secure himself in Bogs and such like Fastnesses And in the Southern parts of the Kingdom in Munster Sir George Carew the Lord President what by his policy cherishing by counterfeited Letters distrust amongst the Rebels so making divisions amongst themselves and what by his Industry and Valour taking most of their strong Holds from them several of them were forced to lurk in corners for their security and others content to submit themselves to the Queen's Mercy and Protection But most of these submissions were but counterfeit and feigned
Queen Elizabeth 454 455 456 Francis Duke of Anjou his death 502 Suspected by poyson Ibid. Causes the Guisard to rejoyce Ibid. Don Juan d'Aquila lands in Ireland with Spanish forces 658 c. L'Auspespine the French Ambassador in England plots the murder of Queen Elizabeth 450 B BAbington's treasons against Queen Elizabeth 445 446 Baldwin II Emperour of Constantinople deposed 279 Fran. Baroncello his pranks at Rome 306 Cardinal Baronius bad Principles 78 The Barricadoes 523 Pierre Barriere his plots against the King 589 Becket vid. Thomas Cardinal Bellarmines bad Principles 68 69 Berengarius murther'd 192 John of Bilboa his imposture 360 361 Birket constituted Archpriest of England 720 Blois the Assembly of the States-General meet there 527 The D. of Guise rules all there ibid. Boniface VIII Pope his life and actions 282 c. Cardinal Bourbon declar'd King 562 Bow at the name of the Pope and Virgin Mary 40 Richard Bristow's bad Principles 62 66 C CAelestine V Pope 282 283 Alphonso Carillo Archbishop of Toledo chief of the Rebels against Henry IV King of Castile and Leon 337 338 c. Catherine Queen of Navar deprived 343 344 Robert Cecil threatned in a Letter from the Romanists 707 708 Charles III le Gross Emperour depos'd 185 First dated his Letters from the year of Christ 186 Charles III le simple King of France deposed 203 204 Carlos I King of Spain chose Emperor called Charles V 353 His going from Spain into Germany opposed by the Spaniards 353 354 Chastel stabs the King 596 Childerick II King of France and his Queen murdred 160 Childerick III King of France deposed 165 166 His Subjects absolv'd from their Oaths of Allegiance by Pope Zachary Ibid. Clement VIII thanks the Irish for their Rebellion 651 Sends a Letter to Tyrone the Rebel 655 Fryar Clement kills Henry III of France 547 The Prince of Conde poysoned 521 Conradino King of Naples beheaded 281 Constantines Donation a meer cheat 117 118 c. Constantine V Emperour of Constantinople murdred 169 170 The Covenant vid. League Council of Sixteen vid. Paris Culene King of Scotland murther'd 211 D DAndalo in a Chain under the Popes Table 307 Deodato Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Desmond ' s Plots against Ireland and Articles with Francis I. King of France 385 386 Proclaim'd Traitour 390 His death 392 Devils abused 27 28 The Devil confess'd his sins and loved the Mass 28 Pray'd for that his sins might be forgiven 136 S. Dominick his lying stories 5 Donald V King of Scotland imprison'd 183 Duffe King of Scotland murder'd 208 209 210 Duncan King of Scotland murder'd 215 E EDict vid. Vnion Edmund King of England murther'd 205 Edmund Ironside King of England murder'd 214 Edward King of England sirnamed the Martyr 206 207 Edward II King of England his deposing and murther 309 310 Edward VI insurrections in the North and West against him 408 409 Queen Elizabeth leaves out the word HEAD and is stiled onely Supreme Governour 400 Her Vindication 410 411 c. to 423 Her commendations by Forraigners 411 Defended from cruelty in putting some Romish Priests to death 413 414 416 Declared in a Bull of Pope Pius V Excommunicated Deprived and Deposed 419 Her mildeness and mercy towards Romish Priests 419 420 421 422 423 Who were put to death for Treasons not for Religion Ibid. Deposed by Pope Paul IV Her murder designed by Pius V 426 Her Subjects absolv'd from their Oath of Allegiance by his Bull 427 to 431 Insurrections in the North against her Government 432 Attempts to kill her 445 446 Several plots against her 675 676 c. Empire its troubles by the Papal arrogancie 303 England not subject to the Papal Power 233 234 Equivocation 190 Exorcisms used by the Romanists to inveigle the ignorant people 446 447 448 449 St. Ericus IX King of Swedland kill'd 252 Erick VI King of Denmark beheaded 279 Erick VII murdred ibid. Ethus King of Scotland imprison'd 183 Exorcisms cheating 27 F FAbritio Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Felton condemned for Treason not for Religion 419 Esteemed as a Martyr by the Romanists 433 Florence wicked designs against it by the Pope 331 332 c. Folly of Heathens 1 2 Formosus Pope his troubles 196 197 His body drag'd out of the grave and his fingers cut off 197 198 France the holy League and Covenant there 483 More stirs there upon the deaths of the Guises 529 The people's Declaration 530 S. Francis his childish stories 2 3 4 Frederick I Barbarossa his troubles 254 c. Frederick II Emperour troubled and depos'd 266 G GAlla Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Father Garnet his life 696 to 707 The story of his straw 704 705 Gerberg a Nun drown'd in a Wine-vessel 178 Gibbelines their Story 270 Giovanni Duke of Venice banish'd 183 Men held for Gods 1 2 God abused and blasphemed 29 30 Gradenico Duke of Venice murder'd 183 Gregory I against a Vniversal Bishop 154 Commendeth the murther of Mauricius 155 156 Calls himself servant of servants 156 Delivers Trajans soul out of Hell 157 Gregory VII his power 218 219 c. Deposed by a Synod at Worms 220 By another at Brixen 226 Dyeth and is Sainted 227 Gregory XIII his explication of Pius V his Bull against Queen Elizabeth 435 436 Jac. Gretser his bad Principles 69 Guelfs their story 270 Guisards several designes against the House of Navar as the chief of that of Bourbon 488 489 490 Their under-plottings against Henry III of France 494 495 496 to 502 Their designes against the House of Bourbon 502 And to make themselves next Heirs of the Kingdom 502 503 c. Look upon Cardinal Bourbon as first Prince of the Bloud rather then the King of Navar 507 Duke of Guise holds a Treaty or Conventicle with some Spanish Commissioners and others and the agreement at that Cabal 505 Has a meeting of the Chieftains of the House of Lorrain at Nancy 520 Presents several propositions to the King ibid. Comes to Paris has the acclamations of the people 522 The Queen-Mother sent to treat with him 524 His insolent demands 524 Refuses to swear Allegiance to the King and plots to take away his life 528 Is kill'd at Blois ibid. Cardinal of Guise kill'd by the Kings order ibid. Gunpowder-Treason vid. Treason H LOng Hair of great value 167 Hare occasion'd the taking of Rome 187 Harenscaran punishment what 256 257 Heaven abused with lyes 29 30 Henry II King of England his troubles by Thomas a Becket 235 236 c. His grief and penance for Beckets murther 247 248 Henry IV King of Castile and Leon his miseries by his proud rebellious Nobility 337 c. They make a League against him ibid. Designe to kill him 340 Henry IV Emperour his troubles and deposition 218 219 c. Deprived 220 224 225 His strange Humility and Submission 222 Crown'd at Rome 226 Depos'd by his son 228 229 His poverty and death