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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40038	The history of Romish treasons & usurpations together with a particular account of many gross corruptions and impostures in the Church of Rome, highly dishonourable and injurious to Christian religion : to which is prefixt a large preface to the Romanists / carefully collected out of a great number of their own approved authors by Henry Foulis.	Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669.	1671 (1671)	Wing F1640A; ESTC R43173	844,035	820

I pray you to bow down your ears and favourably hear me And then he tells to these Apostles a long tale in vindication of himself Quapropter confidens de judicio misericordia Dei ejusque piissimae Matris semper Virginis Mariae fultus vestra authoritate Saepe nominatum Henricum quem Regem dicunt omnesque fautores ejus excommunicationi subjicio anathematis vinculis alligo Et iterum Regum Teutonicorum Italiae ex parte omnipotentis Dei vestra interdicens ei omnem potestatem dignitatem illi regiam tollo ut nu●lus Christianorum ei sicu● Regi obediat interdico omn●sque qui ei juraverunt vel jurabunt de Regni dominatione a juramenti promissione absolvo Ipse autem Henricus cum suis fautoribus in omni congressione belli nulla vires nullamque in vita sua Victoriam obtineat Vt autem Rudolphus regnum Teutonicorum regat defendat quem Teutonici elegerunt sibi in Regem Ad vestram fidelitatem ex parte vestra dono largior concedo omnibus sibi fideliter adhaerentibus absolutionem omnium peccatorum vestramque benedictionem in hac vita in futura vestra fretus fiducia largior Sicut enim Henricus pro sua superbia inobedientia falsitate a Regni dignitate jusiè abjicitur ita Rudolpho pro suo humilitate obedientia veritate potestas dignitas conceditur b Agite nunc quaeso Patres Principes sanctissimi ut omnis mundus intelligat cognoscat quia si potestis in Coelo legare absolvere potestis in Terra Imperia Regna Principatus Ducatus Marchius Comitatus omnium hominum possessiones pro meritis tollere unicuique concedere c. Wherefore trusting in the judgement and Mercy of God and his holy Mother the Virgin Mary back'd by your Authority I do hereby excommunicate and curse the said Henry whom they call King and all his favourers and partakers And I do again in the Name of God Almighty and you interdic●●he said Henry the Kingdom of Germany and Italy and take from him all Royal Power and Dignity and command that no Christian shall obey him as a King and all who have or will swear obedience to him I absolve them from the said Oaths As for Henry and his partakers let them neither have strength or force in any Battle nor ever gain Victory But for Rodulph chosen King let him govern and defend his Kingdom of a It seems the Pope would keep Italy to himself Germany And in your names I do give bestow and grant to all those who shall adhere faithfully to the said Rodolph absolution of all their sins and your Benediction in this life and in that to come For as Henry for his pride disobedience and falsity is justly deposed from his Royal Dignity so i● the same Royal Power and Dignity given to Rodolph for his humility obedience and honesty Go on therefore and assist most Agite igitur Apolostolorum sanctissimi Principes quod dixi vestra autho●tate interposita confirmate ut omnes nunc demu● intelligant si potestas in Coelo l●gare solvere in Terra quoque Imperia Regna Principatus quicquid habere mortales possunt auferre dare nos dare posse c. Platina vit Pont. holy Fathers and Princes of the Apostles that all the World may understand and know that you who can binde and loose in Heaven can also on Earth take away Empires Kingdoms Principalities Dukedoms Marquessdoms Earldoms all mens Possessions and give them to any other c. Platina here again much differing from Baronius I have placed the latter part of Platina in the Margent that one may give a light and addition to the other The Emperour informed of this harsh dealing against him calls a Synod at Brixen in the County of Tirol in Germany next the Territories of the Venetians where several Bishops of Germany Italy and France met who declare the Pope Gregory guilty of Simony Vsurpation Persecution Perjury Homicide Negromancy or Conjuring and other crimes for which they depose him by Vote and elect into his place as Pope a W●●●rt or G●●●rt or W●chert●s or 〈◊〉 or ●●gbert Guibert Archbishop of Ravenna who call'd himself Clement the Third This done the Emperour Henry marcheth against Rodolph both Armies meet in Misnia not far from Geraw where they contend v●●antly for an Empire But at last Rodolph having the misfortune to have his right-hand cut off he was carryed to Mersburb for ease and cure but there he dyed Some b H. Mut●us lib 15. pag. 130. Jo. Na●cier gen 37. p. 708. ●●lmold Hist Sel●● c. 28 29 30. Authors report that perceiving himself neer his end by the great effusion of bloud to some Bishops then about him he shew'd the cut off right-hand confessing it to be a just judgement because by that he had formerly sworn his Allegiance to Henry Before this Ba●tle hapned c An. 1080. Sigebert an Author then living tells us that the same year Gregory undertook to Prophesie that this year the false King must dye meaning Henry but it seems his Friend and Champion Rodolph proved to be the man Rodolph thus dying was buryed very nobly of which magnificent Funeral when some ask'd the Emperour Why he would permit such pomp to a Rebel Henry replyed ingeniously I wish all mine Enemies were as honourably buryed Rodolph being thus slain Germany began to submit so Herny An. 1081. perceiving not much work there to do resolves for Italy to perfect what he had begun and thitherward he marcheth with his Clement the Third but by the hardness of the Winter he could not be there as soon as intended yet at last he enters Italy marcheth An. 1082. against Rome layeth siege to it which was famous for the many skirmishes and length it continuing three years In the mean time the unruly Germans elect against Henry one Herman but he wanted strength to make any great Opposition The next year Henry took the d Civitas L●●●mana Vatican and Clement the Third was Inthronized as Pope and the e An. 1084. year after this he took the City it self But Hildebrand with his Cardinals and some other friends had withdrawn themselves for security into the strong Castle St. Angelo where all the Imperial Force could not reach them or make them submit knowing they should be relieved In the mean time Henry and his Wife Bertha are Crown'd Emperour and Empress by Clement in the Lateran From which time Baronius begins to reckon this Henry for an Emperour though he had Ruled twenty seven years before all which time he acknowledgeth to be no Emperour and so makes a vacancy for so many years and all this nullity because he was not Crown'd by a Pope And this is the humour of many Roman Historians though others account without any such Papal Ceremony Gregory perceiving himself at a loss had formerly