Death of William Wilford 1398 A Substraction of Obedience from the two Contendants for the Papacy published in France and other places XXI VII  An Assembly of the Clergy in France which ordered the Substraction May 22. Henry Andernacus Blaisus Andernarius John de S. Bavon Rich. de Lavenham John de Werden flourished The Death of Gerhard de Zutphen Dec. 4. 1399  XXII Rich. II. K. of England is deprived of his Kingdom and Henry Earl of Lancaster chosen King VIII   The Death of Nicholas Eymericus Jan. 4. 1400  The Electors of the Empire depose the Emperor Wenceslaus Joseph Marquess of Moravia his Nephew was chosen in his room by the Archbishops of Mentz and Colen but dyed six Months after Robert Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine is chosen and crowned Emperour I. IX   Maximus Nilus Damilas Demetrius Cidonius John de Campscen Philip d'Otterburg flourished The Death of Simon of Cremoxa 1401  II. Robert goes into Italy with an Army and is beaten by Galeaccius Vicount of Milan and forced to return into Germany X.   The Death of Bartholomew Albicius December 10. 1402  III. XI Isa-Zelebis is slain by his Brother Soliman who is declared Emperour of the Turks    1403 The Subtraction of Obedience to Benedict XIII is taken off in France on certain Conditions IV. XII  An Assembly of the Clergy in France held at Paris May 28. which took off the Subtraction  1404 Benedict proposes ways of Union to Boniface who dyed Octob. 1. The Cardinals of his Party chose on the 12 of the same Month Cosmatus Melioratus de Sulmona who took the Name of Innocent VII Ladislaus King of Naples makes himself Master of Rome and drives out Innocent V. XIII   Lucius Colutius presents to the King of France a Petition for the Florentines against the Faction of the Gibelines 1405. Innocent VII is recalled to Rome and Ladislaus's party driven out VI. XIV    1406 A New Subtraction of the French from their Obedience to Benedict Innocent VII dyed and the Cardinals of his Party chose Angelus de Corario who took the Name of Gregory XII upon condition he should procure the Peace of the Church by way of Cession VII XV.  An Assembly of the Clergy of France held at Paris Dec. 21. which renewed the Subtraction The Death of Lucius Colutius May 12. 1407 A Neutrality published in France in regard of the two Contenders for the Papacy Divers Embassages by the two Contending Popes and King of France to heal the Schism but all to no purpose IX XVI    1408 King Ladislaus makes himself Master of Rome April 25. The Cardinals withdraw their Obedience from the two Contendants and retreat to Pisa to make a new Election Gregory excommunicates them Benedict sends abusive Letters to the King of France His Couriers are arrested Process made against them and they are put in Prison IX XVII  An Assembly of the Clergy of France held at Paris from Aug. 11. to Nov. 5. which prescribed the manner of Mens behaviour under the Neutrality so long as the Schism lasted The Death of Hen. Kalkar The Death of Antonius Butrio Octob. 7. as some say but as others in 1417. A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE Ecclesiastical Authors Of the Fourteenth AGE and their WORKS BONIFACE VIII CHosen in 1294 dyed Octob. 12. 1303. His Genuine Works which we have A Composure of Decretals called Sextus divided into five Books Constitutions Letters and Bulls extant in the History of the Difference of this Pope with Philip the Fair. In the Collection of Bulls and in the Annalists JAMES CAYETAN Cardinal Nephew of Pope Boniface was made Cardinal in 1295. His Genuine Work c. A Treatise of the Hundredth Year of Jubilee DINUS de MUGELLO Professor of Law Flourished in the beginning of this Age and dyed about 1303. His Genuine Works c. Several Books of Civil Law A Commentary upon the Rules of the Canon Law ENGELBERT Abbot of Admont Flourished at the same time His Genuine Works c. A Treatise about the Rise Growth and Fall of the Roman Empire Works Lost. See the Catalogue of them p. 49. STEVEN de SALAGNAC a Preaching Frier Flourished in the beginning of this Age. His MS. Work A Treatise of the Original of the Friers Preachers ANDREW of New-Castle a Preaching Frier Flourished in the beginning of this Age. His Genuine Works which we have A Commentary upon the first Book of the Sentences RAINERIUS de PISA a Preaching Frier Flourished in the beginning of this Age. His Genuine Work Pantheologia or a Theological Dictionary WILLIAM de NANGIS a Monk of S. Dennis Flourished till 1301. His Genuine Works c. Part of his Chronicle His Chronicles of the Kings of France The Lives of S. Lewis and Philip the Hardy BENEDICT XI Pope Raised to the Papacy Octob. 22. 1303. dyed July 8. 1304. His Genuine Works c. Letters about the quarrel of Boniface and Philip the Fair In the Acts of Boniface and Philip the Fair. THOMAS WICKE An Englishman and Canon Regular His Genuine Work c. A Chronicle of England A Work Lost. A Treatise of the Abbots of Osney JACOBUS de BENEDICTIS Flourished in the beginning of the Age dyed in 1306. His Genuine Works c. Hymns and Proses JUSTUS a Cistercian Abbot Flourished in the beginning of this Age. His Genuine Work c. A Sermon at a Chapter of his Order JOANNES DUNS Surnamed Scotus a Grey Frier Flourished in the end of the third and beginning of the fourth Age and dyed in 1308. His Genuine Works which we have See the Catalogue p. 52. RICHARD de SIENNA Cardinal Flourished in the beginning of the Age and was one of those whom Boniface employed to compose the sixth Book of the Decretals Works Lost. Some Treatises of Law PETRUS de DACIA Flourished about the same time A Work Lost. A Kalendar PETRUS de BOSCO an Advocate and a Nameless Author Flourished in the beginning of this Age. Genuine Works c. Two Treatises against the Pretended Authority of the Pope over the Temporalties of Kings HENRY STERO A Monk of Altaich flourished till 1306. Genuine Works c. The Annals of Germany The History of the Emperors Rodolphus c. EVERARDUS Arch-deacon of Ratisbonne flourished about 1310. A Genuine Work The Continuation of the Annals of Stero JOANNES de JOINVILLO Martial of Champeigne flourished till 1310. A Genuine Work The Life of S. Lewis SIFFRIADUS A Priest flourished about 1310. A Genuine Work Part of his Chronicle of Germany HAITO A Canon Regular of Praemonstre Entred the Order of Praemonstre in 1290 and flourished till 1310. A Genuine Work which we have The History of his Voyage into the H. Land JOANNES MONACHUS Cardinal was made a Cardinal in 1294 and died 1313. A Genuine Work An Apparatus to the Sextus CLEMENT V. Pope raised to the Papacy in 1305 and died
Office by Radulphus de Rivo The Instruction of Pastors by Franciscus Ximenius Letters and Bulls of Pope Clement VI. Innocent VI. Urban V. and Gregory XI Letters Acts and divers Pieces concerning the Popes which sat at Rome and Avignon in which are several things Remarkable about the Schism and the Contendants for the Papacy An Alphebetical Table of Canons by Matthew Blastares A Treatise of the Causes or Questions about Marriage by the same Author The Calendar of Isaac Argyrus Canons and Rules of Councils in the VIIth Chapter Treatises about the Ecclesiastical and Civil Power and Jurisdiction The greatest part of the Letters of Boniface VIII and the Acts made about that time A Treatise of the Regale and Sacerdotal Power by Peter de Bosco The Treatise of an Anonymous Author upon the same Subject A Treatise of the same Matter by John of Paris A Treatise of Aegidius Romanus A Treatise of Harvaeus Natalis The Summary of Augustinus Triumphus about the Power of the Church A Treatise of the Jurisdiction of the Emperor and the Authority of the Pope The Treatise of Alvarus Pelagius of the Complaint of the Church A Treatise of the Eccesiastical and Secular Power by Ockam who also Compos'd Eight Questions upon the same Subject His Treatises against John XXII and His Treatise of the Power of the Emperor The Defender of the Peace against the Usurp'd Jurisdiction of the Roman Bishop by Marsilius Patavinus who also made A Treatise of the Translation of the Empire A Treatise of the Ecclesiastical Power by Radulphus de Praeles The Dream of the Green by Philip Mesorius An Information of the Nullity of the Procession form'd by John XXII against Lewis of Bavaria Some Treatises of Franciscus Mayronius A Treatise of Durandus about the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction The Acts of the Conference of the Clergy and John Cugieres about the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction by Petrus Bertrandus A Treatise of the Original and Use of Jurisdictions or of the Spiritual and Temporal Powers by the same Author A Treatise of the Zeal and Affection of the Princes of Germany to Religion by Lupoldus de Bamberg A Treatise of the Rights of the Empire by the same Author A Treatise of the immediate Cause of the Ecclesiastical Power by Petrus de Palude Works of the Canon-Law A Commentary upon the Rules of the Canon-Law by Dinus de Mugillo An Apparatus to the Sextus by Cardinal Le Moin A Gloss upon the Summary of Raimundus de Pennaforti by John de Friburg A Treatise of the Elections of Prelates by William de Mandagot A Commentary upon the Summary of the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia call'd Oculus by Berengarius de Fredol Novels or a Commentary upon the Five Books of the Decretals Two Commentaries upon the Sextus Glosses upon the Clementines The Tree of Consanguinity Feudal Questions about Marriage and Interdicts A Summary of Affiances Marriage and degrees of Consanguinity by Johannes Andreae A Commentary upon the Sextus by Albericus Rosatus A Dictionary of the Civil and Canon-Law A Treatise of Ecclesiastical Interdicts and a Table of the Texts of Scripture quoted in the Decretals by John Calderin The Commentary of Henry Boich upon the Five Books of the Decretals the Sextus and the Clementines A Commentary upon the Sextus and a Repertory of Civil and Canon-Law by Antonius de Butrio The Commentaries of Zabarel upon the Five Books of the Decretals His Commentary upon the Clementines A Treatise of the Authority of the Emperor to suppress Schism by the same Author A Commentary upon the Decretals by Baldus Commentaries and other Works upon the Holy Scripture An Abbridgment of Scripture by Petrus Auroelus The Postil of William of Paris upon the Epistles and Gospels A Commentary upon Seven Psalms by Tho. Jeisius Other Commentaries of his upon the Scripture and the Works of Thomas Aquinas Commentaries upon the Proverbs of Solomon the Four Gospels and Revelation by Vitalis de Furno Postils upon all the Books of the Bible by Nicholas de Lyra. His Moral Commentaries A Commentary of Ludolphus upon the Psalms in their Spiritual Sense 230 Lectures upon the Book of Wisdom by Robert Holkot Lectures upon the Song of Songs and upon the Seven first Chapters of Ecclesiasticus by the same Author The Commentary of Gregorius Ariminensis upon St. Paul's Epistles and the Epistle of St. James A Postil upon the Gospels by Simon de Cremona The Commentary of Nicholas Gorham upon the New Testament A Commentary upon the Psalms by Michael Aignanus under the Name of an unknown Person A Commentary upon the Psalms by Peter Herentals Works of General History A Treatise of the Rise Growth and End of the Roman Empire by Engelbert The Chronicle of William Nangis and his Continuers The Chronicle of the History of England by Thomas Wicke The Annals and History of Germany by Henry Stero and his Continuers The Life of St. Lewis by Joinville A Chronicle of Germany by Siffridus A History of the Voyage into the Holy Land by Haito Letters and other Acts concerning the Difference between Boniface VII and Philip the Fair. See Chapter 1st Letters and other Acts concerning the Affairs of the Templars See Chapter 2d The Annals of Ptolemaeus Lucensis from 10 to 1303 who also Compos'd a Chronicle of the Pope and Emperors The Chronicle of Nicholas Trivet The Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross or the means to recover the Holy Land by Manuel Sanutus who has Letters upon the same Subject A Treatise of the Translation of the Empire by Marsilius of Padua Other Treatises upon the same Subject by Jordanus Saxo. The Lives of Clement V. and John XXII by Bernard Guidodonis who has Written The Lives of St. Fulchran and St. Glodesindis and the History of the Order of Grandmont and the Monastery of St. Augustine at Limoges and the Acts of the Earls of Tholouse The Lives of Jesus Christ St. Joachim St. Ann and the Virgin Mary by Ludolphus a Carthusian The Chronicle of Henry a Monk of Ribdorff from 1275 to 1372. The Flowers of History by Matthew Florilegus The Chronicle of Albert of Strasburg from 1270 to 1378. The Chronicle of England by Henry Knighton His History of the Deposition of Richard the IId The Ecclesiastical History of Nicephorus Callistus The Life of Jesus Christ by Cabasilas The Byzantine History by Gregorias An Abridgment of the Oecumenical Councils by Nilus The History of Cantacuzenus Works of Particular History The Treatise of Stephen Salagnac a Preaching Frier in Honour of his own Order The History of the Church of Ageris by William le Maire A Chronicle of the Kings of France by William Nanges who also Writ the Lives of St. Lewis and Philip the Hardy The Life of St. Walpurga by Philip Bishop of Eichstat The Life of Thomas Arch-Bishop of Crete by the Knight Meserius A Voyage into the Holy Land by Baldensel The Letters of Arnoldus Cescomes to require Aid against the Saracens A Chronicle of the Bishops of
for that of Sabina John Busche finished his Chronicle of VVindesem Nicolas of Cusa and John Capgrave die August 12th The Death of VVilliam of Vorilong and Theodore Laelius 1465 II. XXVI  1465. A Censure of the Faculty of Theology at Paris against some Propositions maintain'd in the Schools in Fouara Street  John Beetz John Soreth Alanus de la Roche Flourish'd Laurence Valla died aged 50 Years and James of Clusa aged 80 Years Henry Kalteisen died on the 3d of October 1466 III. XXVII  1466.   1467 IV. XXVIII  1467. The Institution of the Order of Minims by St. Francis of Paule  The Death of Anthony of Rosellis John of Turrecremata died the 28th of September James Perez was made Bishop of Chrysopolis on the 1st of October 1468 V. XXIX  1468.   1469 VI. XXX  1469. The Institution of the Order of St. Michael by Lewis XI  Roderick Sance of Areval finish'd his History of Spain 1470 VII XXXI  1470. A Censure of the Faculty of Theology at Paris against a Proposition of John Meamer about Ecclesiastical Power A Conclusion of the same Faculty about the Truth of some Propositions of the Creed  Henry Harphius or of Herp Gabriel Barlette John Baptista Platina Alexander of Imola John of Lutrie Laurence Cabaneus Dominic of Dominici Louis Dona. Conrad de Rodemberg Stephen of Caiete George Melitoris Tilman of Ravensburg John Wessel or of VVessales VVilliam Forleon Ambrose Coriolan Benedict Stendel of Halles Sifroy Bishop of Cyrene Godeschalcus of Meschede Flourish'd 1471 Paul II. dies on the 25th of July Sixtus IV. is chosen on the 2d of August XXXII Henry VI. King of Enggland is restor'd by Louis XI and driven away and kill'd quickly after by Edward    Denis Rickel died on the 12th of March aged 69 Years Thomas of Kempis on the 24th of July aged 70 Years and John Soreth on the 25th of the same Month. Henry of Pizo. John Tinctor Flourish'd 1472 II. XXIII  1472.  Conrade of Elten Conrade of Zaberne John of Dorsten Angelus the Saxon Flourish'd John of Gruistrade died February the 12th The Death of Cardinal Bessarion Giles Charlier died the 23d of November 1473 III. XXXIV  1473. A Bull of Sixtus IV. in favour of the Regulars Mendicants The Council of Toledo Martin the Master takes the degree of Dr. in the Faculty of Theology at Paris Robert Gaguin is chosen General of the Order of Trinitarians 1474 IV. XXXV The Death of Henry IV. King of Castile Ferdinand of Arrigon who Married his Daughter Isabel succeeded him  1474. Sixtus IV. puts off the Jubilee for 25 Years  Jerom Sabonarola enters into the Order of Friars Preachers The Death of Alanus de la Roche 1475 V. XXXVI  1475.  Theodorick of Herxen Nicolas of Warhenheim Michael of Milan John Cousin Henry Prudens Flourish'd John of Hagen or of Indagine died about this Year 1476 VI. XXXVII  1476.  John of Circy is chosen General of the Order of Cistercians John Beetz died the 23d of July 1477 VII XXXVIII  1477. A Censure of the Faculty of Theology at Paris about a Proposition concerning the Trinity The Council of Orleans Robert Fleming wrote a Poem in Commendation of Sixtus IV. John of Circy disputes stoutly against the Commendations of Monasteries in the Council of Orleans and the next Year after in the Council of Tours The Death of James Zenus 1478 VIII XXXIX  1478. A Bull of Sixtus IV which put an end to the Differences between the Parish-Priests and Regulars Mendicants The Council of Tours Dominick de Dominicis died the 17th of February The Death of Heâ—â—y Harphius and Laurence Calcaneus 1479 IX XL.  1479. A Condemnation of the Errors of Peter of Osma at Toledo and at Rome  John Raulin takes the Degree o Doctor of Divinity at Paris The Death of John of Latrie 1480 X. XLL John King of Arragon dies on the 16th of February Ferdinand V his Son succeeds him and unites in his own Person the Kingdoms of Castile and Arragon  1480. The Pope approves the Office of the Conception of the Virgin composed by Bernardin de Bustis  Augustine Patricius Canon of Siena wrote his History of the Councils of Basil and Florence John de Deo Bernandin de Bustis John Picus of Mirandula Peter Shottus John Kimne of Duderstat John Manburne Arnold Bostius or Boschius George Phranâ—a Gabriel Biel. John Baptista Salvis or de Salis Flourish'd John de Indagine died about this Year 1481 XI XLII Alphonsus the King of Portugal dies on the 28th of August John II his Son succeeds him  1481.  Matthias Palmier finish'd his Continuation of the Chronicle of Matthew Palmier Pacificus of Novara Angelus de Clavasio John Baptista Trovanala or Novamala John Losse Charles Fernand. John Fernand. Marfilius Ficinus Wernerus Rolwink of Laer Flourish'd John Baptista Platina died aged 60 Years 1482 XII XLIII  1482. A Censure of the Faculty of Theology at Paris against a Proposition about Indulgences  Peter Natalis finish'd his Catalogue of Saints Bernard Aquila Anthony of Baloche Bernardin of Tome Robert Caraccioli Michael of Milan Nicolas of Creutznach Nicasius of Voerde Benedict Capra John Andrew Flourish'd Martin the Master died aged 〈◊〉 Years 1483 XIII XLIV The Death of Louis XI King of France on August 29 Câ—arles VIII his Son succeeds him Edward IV. Ring of England dies Richard III. Duke of Glocester his Brother having put his Nephews to Death usurps the Crown  1483. A Censure of the Faculty of Theology at Paris against some Propositions of John de Angeli about the Hierarchy  Augustine Patricius is made Bishop of Pienza John Trithemius is chosen Abbot of Spanheim The Death of Francis Diede 1484 The Death of Sixtus IV. on August 12. Innocent VIII is chosen on October 29. I. XLV  1484.  The Death of George Melitoris and Henry Prudent 1485 II. XLVI  1485. The Council of Sens. Peter Brutus William of Aix la Chapelle Baptista of Ferrara Flourish'd The Death of Tilman of Ravensburg 1486 III. XLVII Henry of Richmond the Son of John Brother to Henry VI. King of England kill'd Richard Duke of Glocester and by Marrying Elizabeth the Daughter of Edward IV united in his own Person the Rights of the Houses of York and Lancaster to the Crown of England and was the 7th King of England of the Name of Henry  1486. A Censure of the Faculty of Theology at Paris against some Propositions of John Merchant a Friar Minor about St. Francis A Censure of the same Faculties against some Propositions of John Lailier A Petition of Lailier to the Official of Paris A new Censure of the Faculty against Lailier Lailier's Retractation and his Absolution by the Bishop of Paris The Condemnation of Lailier by the Pope A Censure of the same Faculty against some Propositions of Morality  Conrade of Redemberg died
for him recommends him to the Popes mercy for absolution The CXXXVIth Letter is to Adela Countess of Chartres telling her that if his inclinations were for War and broils he had the offer of such potent succours as might Enable him to create her great disturbance but Peace he had always desir'd and thought it had been firmly setled between them till he had the News of her Son William's rash Oath to ruin him and his Church that out of respect to her he had hitherto forborn to Excommunicate him and hoped she would contrive some means to prevent all such irregularities for the future The CXXXVIIth is to the Chapter of Beauvais concerning one of their Canons who was prosecuted by an Action of Law in the King's Court of Justice Ivo minds them that by the orders of the Church no Clergyman is to be Cited before any but the Ecclesiastical Judges and that if they have Courage enough they ought to endure any thing rather than the loss of their Rights and Privileges but if they cannot resolve to suffer in defence of them he can only advise them to submit to what they cannot remedy and assist them by his Prayers for their prudent Behaviour and good Success The CXXXVIIIth Letter to Volgrin and Steven Arch-Deacons of Paris is occasion'd by the great contests among the Clergy of that City about the Election of a Bishop Ivo declares he will never consent to any Election that is not made by the unanimous consent of the Clergy and People and Confirmed by the Metropolitan and his Suffragans he admonishes them not to be sway'd by hatred or Ambition and wonders at their consenting to a hearing of this cause before the King In the CXXXIXth he puts Daimbert Arch-Bishop of Sens in mind that the contest about the Election of a Bishop of Paris ought to be determined by him in Consistory and that he should Convene the Bishops his Suffragans for that purpose when and where he pleas'd In The CXLth he Asserts that no Man-ought to Scruple assisting at Divine Service or receiving the Sacrament from the hands of a Priest suspected of Scandal or notorious for an ill Life In The CXLIst he assures Richard Bishop of Albane and Legat of the Holy See that he should as heartily rejoyce at King Philip's absolution as he had griev'd at his being Excommunicate if it might be for the Honour of God and of the Holy See to grant it that though he somewhat doubts of the Sincerity of the King's Conversion yet he will not oppose his being Absolv'd but advises that the Ceremony be perform'd as publickly and Solemnly as is possible and rather at any other place than at Sens He tells him moreover he would willingly appear at the Council he Summons him to if he will obtain for him the King's Passport without which he dares not venture abroad his Majesty having been incens'd against him for these Ten Years past This Letter was written in the Year 1104. The CXLIId is a Letter of Thanks to Mathilda Queen of England for the Bells she had given to the Church of Chartres and her promise of repairing and New-Adorning that Church The CXLIIId carries Ivo's acknowledgments to Robert Earl of Meulan for the kind reception he gave to Richard Abbot of Preaux and Prays him to hasten the Restitution of the goods of his Monastery The CXLIVth informs Pope Paschal of what was done in the Assembly of Bishops call'd together at Baugency by his Legat Girard Bishop of Albane to be witnesses of the Separation of King Philip and Bertrade He tells him they were both ready to Swear upon the Holy Evangelists that they would Forbear all Carnal knowledge of each other the Legate would have had the Bishops have given judgment upon them but they declin'd it and so the whole came to Nothing Ivo therefore prays the Pope to put an End to this matter and dispense with the King as far as he can He acquaints the Pope also that Gualon not finding it possible to get possession of the Bishoprick of Beauvais because of King Louis's Oath against admitting him he hopes he may be Transfer'd to the See of Paris to which he has been also Elected by the Clergy and People of that City In The CXLVth he intreats Manasses Arch-Bishop of Rheims to determine as speedily as may be whether Gualon shall continue Bishop of Beauvais or not In The CXLVIth he acquaints Daimbert Arch-Bishop of Sens that the Clergy and People of Paris have unanimously Elected Gualon for their Bishop and that since no Bishop can be Translated to another See without Leave from his Metropolitan and the Popes Dispensation he prays him to use his interest at Rome to obtain one for Gualon In The CXLVIIth he intercedes with Pope Paschal to dispense with the Oath taken by the Chapter of Chartres not to admit into their Fraternity the Sons of such as had been Servants to any one so that they may hereafter be allow'd to admit the Sons of any of the Earl of Chartres Domesticks or the Officers of the King's Revenues and assures his Holiness that without abating of the Rigour of that Oath the Church of Chartres could never enjoy any Peace In The CXLVIIIth to Hildebert Bishop of Mans he determines that a certain Man who as he writes had promised Marriage to his Concubine in her Sickness was bound by the Law of God to acknowledge her afterwards for his Wife In The CXLIXth he exhorts William Arch-Bishop of Rouen to Expel out of the Diocess of Lisieux the Sons of Count Ranulf Flambard who had seiz'd upon it and to substitute in their place the Arch-Deacon of Eureux In the CLth he excuses himself to Pope Paschal for not coming to the Council held by him in the Month of March of which he had not Notice time enough before hand In The CLIst he complains to Walter Bishop of Beauvais of his having Consecrated Odo Abbot of St. Quintin in that City without his consent and contrary to the Opinion and desires of the Fraternity of that House In The CLIId he Stirs up Ledger Arch-Bishop of Bourges to Vindicate a certain Earl of his Country who had formerly shewn himself his true Friend from the abuses he suffers under In the CLIIId he Earnestly exhorts William Arch-Bishop of Rouen and Gilbert Bishop of Eureux to drive out of the Bishoprick of Lisieux Ranulf Bishop of Durham in England and his two Sons who had possess'd themselves of that Diocess In The CLIVth he advises Robert Earl of Meulan to petition the King of England not to countenance the usurpations of Ranulf In the CLVth to Odo Arch-Deacon of Orleans Ivo Treats of this Question if a Woman who has commited Fornication and is great with Child may Marry and concludes that in strictness no great Bellied Woman ought to have Carnal knowledge of any Man but considering the infirmity of the Flesh St. Paul advises Men to use their own Wives for avoiding
being design'd for the Church under the Protection of the Holy See In the Sixth directed to the Clergy of Tours he confirms the Excommunication pronounc'd by his Legat against Fulcus Earl of Anger 's by reason that he did not break the Marriage between his Daughter and William Son of Lord Robert The Seventh is a Confirmation of the Privileges granted the Abbey of Cluny by his Predecessors The Three following relate to the Legateship of Cardinal John de Creme into England The Last Address'd to the Bishops of the Province of Tours to exhort them to Observe the Decrees of the Council of Nantes The Letters of Innocent II are very many In the First he confirms the Judgment of the Council of Jouare against the Associates of Thomas The Letterâ— of Innocent II. Prior of St. Victor as likewise against those of Archembaud Sub-Dean of Orleans adding several Punishments which were before Omitted By the Second he gives all the Lands which the Princess Matildis enjoy'd in Italy and which she had left to the Holy See to the Emperor Lotharius and Henry Duke of Bavaria his Son in Law on condition that they swear Fealty and do Homage to the Church of Rome and moreover to pay yearly a Hundred Pound in Gold The Third is a Confirmation of the Immunities and Revenues belonging to the Church of Pistoia in Tuscany Address'd to the Bishop of that City The Five Letters following are written to the Patriarch of Jerusalem and Antioch and the other Bishops of the East for Conservation of the Dignity and Rights of Fulcus Arch-Bishop Tyr. In the Ninth he confirms the Grant made by Pope Honorius II. to Roger of the Kingdom of Sicily Dutchy of Apulia and Principality of Capua together with the Title of King The Next following contain the Condemnation of Peter Abaëlard and Arnold de Bresse The Twelfth is a Privilege granted to the Abby of St. Memme In the Three Next he confirms the Power of the Arch-Bishop of Hambourg over the Bishopricks of Denmark Sueden and Norway In the Sixteenth he Admonishes Hugh Arch-Bishop of Roan to comply with the King of England his Master and to permit the Abbots of Normandy to pay Fealty and Homage to him In the Seventeenth he acquaints King Lewis that he is Arriv'd in perfect Health at Cluny By the Eighteenth he commands Geofrey Bishop of Chartres and Stephen Bishop of Paris to restore to Archembaud Sub-Dean of Orleans and his fraternity the Benefices and Goods that had been taken from them In the Nineteenth he orders the same Bishop of Paris to take off the suspension which he had awarded against the Church of St. Genieveve The Four next relate to the Abbey of Vezelay to which he orders an Abbot and whose Privileges he confirms In the Twenty fourth he commands Alâ—isus Abbot of Anchin to take care of the Church of Arras of which he was Elected Bishop In the Twenty fifth he confirms the Rights and Privileges of the Bishop of Bamberg In the Twenty sixth he receives Hugh Arch-Deacon of Arras under protection of the See of Rome The Fourteen Letters which follow concern the Privileges and Revenues of the Abbey of Cluny and in the fifteenth he recommends himself to the Prayers of this Monastery The Forty second is a piece of a Letter wrote to Otho Bishop of Lucca concerning those Witnesses who are related to either Party In the Forty third he acquaints Guigue Prior of the Great Charter-House that he has Canoniz'd Hugh Bishop of Grenoble and farther Commands him to write what he knows of his Life or Miracles There are also five more Letters which belong to Innocent II. and relate to the Affairs of Germany and two concerning the Church of Anger 's The first are at the end of the 10th Tome of the Councils and the two last in the 2d Tome of the Miscellanies of Monsieur de Baluze We have but three Letters of Celestine II. IN the First he acquaints Peter the Venerable Abbot of Cluny with his Accession to the Pontificate The Letters of Celestine II. In the Second he confirms the Donation of the Church of St. Vincent to the Order of Cluny by the Bishop of Salamanca In the Last he orders the Arch-Bishop of Toledo to restore to the Bishop of Orense some Parishes which the late Bishop of Astorgas had seiz'd upon The Letters of Pope Lucius II. are about Ten. BY the First he gives Peter of Cluny to understand that he has made a Truce with Roger King of The Letters of Lucius II. Sicily By the Second he demands aid of King Conrade against the Italians who were revolted and who had chosen Jordanes for a Patrician In the Third and Fourth he confirms the Primacy of the Church of Toledo over all the Churches of Spain The Fifth contains a Privilege granted to the Abbey of Cluny In the Sixth he submits the Monastery of St. Sabas to the Abbey of Cluny By the Seventh he Commands the Abbot of St. Germain's of Auxerre to discharge the Servants of the Abbot of Vezelay who were Bail for him and he moreover removes the Suit before Godfrey Bishop of Langres In the Eighth he confirms the Judgment given by Pope Paschal against those that had kill'd Artaud Abbot of Vezelay and forbids their being receiv'd any more into any Monastery By the Ninth he orders the Count of Nevers to restore to the Abbey of Vezelay whatever he had taken from it And by the Tenth he enjoyns St. Bernard to warn the said Count from exacting any thing from the aforesaid Abbey The Letters of Eugenius III. are in a far greater number THE First Address'd to Lewis King of France is an exhortation to the Croisade to encourge the retaking Eugenius III. the City of Edesse with all others that had been Conquer'd and in a word to defend the Holy-Land from Invasion He therein confirms all the Privileges granted to the Knightâ— of the Cross by his Predecessor Urban and moreover puts their Wives Children and Estates under protection The Letters of Eugenius III. of the Churches and Bishops then he prohibits any Process being issu'd out in prejudice of the said Knights till they were either Dead or return'd from their Voyage Next his Will is that they be paid Interest for the Money they had Permits them to Mortgage their Estates to the Churches without equity of Redemption warns them not to be at a needless charge about unprofitable Equipage but to lay the most part out in Arms Horses and other Instruments of War And lastly he grants them Remission and Absolution of all their Sins which they shall have Confessed with an humble and contrite Heart By the Second directed to Thibaud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury he Commands and Provides that the Bishop of St. David's shall be subject to the See of Canterbury and likewise requires the two said Bishop's Attendance at Rome the Year following on St. Luke's day that he may Judge farther of the matter The
the Sollicitations of those of Ottogar King of Bohemia who thought the Empire had been assured to him tho some Historians say that he refused it Rodolphus was crowned the same year at Aix la Chapelle and the next was confirmed by the Pope in the Council at Lions and acknowledged in an Assembly at Nuremberg by all the Princes of Germany except Ottogar King of Bohemia who refused to be there Rodolphus declared him a Rebel and required him to deliver up Austria and many other Provinces which he pretended belonged to the Empire Ottogar refusing to deliver them Rodolphus declares War against him and lays siege to Vienna in 1276. Ottogar came with an Army to its assistance and the King of Hungary to that of Rodolphus but yet they did not come to a Battel the Princes of Germany interposing their Authority to make up these Differences 'T was agreed that King Ottogar should content himself with Bohemia and Moravia and should restore Austria Stiria Carinthia Carniola and the other Provinces to Rodolphus for the performance of which he should take his Oath and to the King of Hungary those Cities which he had taken from him as well as the Hostages and Treasures that he had of his This Peace did not last long for the King of Bohemia not caring faithfully to perform these Articles and being very angry that he should be thus forced to submit to Rodolphus provides a new Army and comes to set upon the Emperor but he lost the Battel and his own life Rodolphus took Moravia from Wenceslaus the Son of Ottogar about eight years old leaving him Bohemia under the Tuition of his Uncle Otho Marquess of Brandenburg He gave Austria to his eldest Son Albert whose Posterity took the name of Austria as more illustrious than that of Hapsburg The Establishment of Rodolphus lessen'd Charles the King of Sicily's Authority in Italy Pope Charles despoiled of his Authority by the Pope Nicholas III. took from him the Vicariate of Tuscany and the Quality of Senator of Rome and in recompence received of Rodolphus Romagna and the Lieutenancy of Ravenna which he gave to the Holy See leaving all the other States of Italy in a sort of liberty dependant upon the Empire But it would not content the Pope that he had deprived Charles of his Authority in the upper Italy he had a design to get the Kingdom of Sicily from him too and about this deals with Peter King of Arragon as Heir of the House of Suabia by his Mother Constantia the Daughter of Manfred This gave occasion to the Conspiracy that was laid by Sicily rebels against Charles The Sicilian Vespers Charles his defeat and death John Lord of the Island of Crocida whom Charles had rob'd of his Possessions against this Prince and all the French that were in Sicily which did not break out till after the death of Nicholas when the Sicilians massacred all the French in the Kingdom on Easter Sunday 1282. Charles coming to revenge this cruel Action the King of Arragon enters into Sicily with his Army and amuses Charles with a Truce His Admiral Soria lays siege to Naples in the year 1284 and having defeated Charles his Troops takes his Son Charles the Lame Prisoner and sends him into Arragon Charles had enough to do to keep Apuleia and Calabria and not being able long to survive his Misfortunes died at Foggia in Apuleia the 7th of January 1285 leaving his Son Charles the Lame his Heir who got out of Prison in 1287 but on condition that he should renounce all Pretences to Sicily Yet he was no sooner got out but he made himself The division of the Kingdom of Sicily be crowned at Rome King of Sicily and Apuleia on the 28th of May 1289. Alphonsus dying some time after Charles made up the matter with Dangianus his Successor the latter renouncing his Pretensions to the Kingdom of Sicily on condition that Charles of Valois should lay down his to Arragon Yet for all this Charles the Lame could not enjoy Sicily in peace for Frederick the younger Brother of Dangianus to whom Alphonsus by his Will had left this Kingdom got himself crowned King by the Sicilians so that Charles was never in possession of any but the Continent the Kingdom of Sicily as it is called being from that time divided into two one beyond the Pharos of Messina which is the Island of Sicily the other on this side of that Tower call'd the Kingdom of Naples The Emperor Rodolphus ended his days at Germesheim near Spire the last day of September The Reign of Adolphus 1291 having reigned eighteen years He laid the foundation of the prodigious Greatness of the House of Austria but he laid down as it were the Empire of Italy by neglecting to go thither as well as by selling his Power over many Cities of Tuscany Adolphus Earl of Nassaw was chosen into his place the 6th of January 1292 and crowned at Francfort He peaceably enjoyed the Empire for some years but the German Lords being discontented that he had not allow'd them a share in a sum of Mony that the King of England had given for help The deposing of Adolphus against France and seeing that he had not authority nor strength sufficient to maintain the peace of Germany deposed him in 1298 and in his stead elected Albert Duke of Austria Son of the Emperor Rodolphus Adolphus defended his right but the fortune of War quickly decided Election of Albert Duke of Austria the case in favour of Albert Adolphus being defeated and kill'd in the first Engagement near Worms in the month of July After his death Albert was elected anew and crowned at Aix la Chapelle and remain'd in peaceable possession of the Empire of Germany CHAP. II. The Life Letters and other Writings of Pope Innocent the Third INNOCENT the Third before he was raised to the Pontifical Dignity went by the The Life of Pope Innocent III. name of Lotharius He was born at Anagni being the Son of Thrasimond of the Family of the Earls of Signi and of Claricia a Roman Lady He studied at Rome Paris and Bologn and being upon his return to Rome was ordained Subdeacon by Gregory the 8th and when he was but 29 years old was made Chief Deacon by the Title of S. Sergius and S. Bacchius by Clement the 3d. His Learning and Merit made him be unanimously chosen by the Cardinals on the very day of Celestin the 3d's Death which happened on the 8th of January 1198 although he was then but very young and no more than Deacon He was consecrated Priest the 21st of February the same year and raised to the Pontifical Throne on the Sunday next after the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Antioch After having satisfied the People by the ordinary Largesses and received an Oath of Allegiance from them he made an Order forbidding all Officers in the Court of Rome to take any Fee or
his Writings Constantine Acropolita Logothetes Mark and Job Jasites against Veccus and so did a Monk nam'd MARK and JOB JASITES who compos'd a Book sometime before the other two against a Writing of the Emperor Michael and an Apology for Joseph We may likewise reckon among the Greek Authors GREGORY ABULPHARAJE an Arabian Gregory Abulpharaje an Arabian of the Sect of the Jacobites or Melchites who compos'd an History of the Dynasties which ends at the 683 year of the Hegira that is Anno Christi 1284. He was in great esteem in the East His Tract was Publish'd in Arabick and Latin by Dr. Pocock and Printed at Oxford in the Year 1663. CHAP. VI. Of the Councils held during the Thirteenth Century THere is scarce any Age wherein more Councils were held in the West and wherein more Laws Constitutions and Ordinances were made than in this of which we are giving you an History The Councils held during the Thirteenth Century The Popes Arch-Bishops and Bishops were all in a particular manner engag'd in reforming the Church in regulating the Manners and Conduct of Ecclesiasticks and in informing them of their Duties This is the Subject matter of most of the Canons and Ordinances of the Councils and Synods held in this Century Therein the manner how the Clerks ought to be habited and the Life they ought to lead are adjusted the Luxury and the Disorders of several are Condemned with the utmost Severity Therein they have a great many Instructions about the Administration of the Sacraments the Celebration of Mass and the Ceremonies of the Church There the Bishops Priests and the other Clergy are inform'd of their Functions and Office Therein Plurality of Benefices is Prohibited and Residence Enjoyn'd and a great many Proviso's made about the Collation of Benefices Therein a great many Laws are Enacted relating to Ecclesiastical Causes and to prevent the Abuses which several made of the Commissions they took out of the Holy See Therein are Renew'd and Confirm'd the Privileges and Immunities of the Clergy and the Penalties inflicted on those who offer any Violence to their Persons or Estates or seise upon their Tithes Therein new Methods are found out to Punish Hereticks and to support the INQUISITION lately set up Therein Sorcerers and Usurers are Condemned Therein all the Faithful are enjoyn'd to be present at the Parochial Mass on Festivals and Sundays and to confess themselves and receive the Communion at least once a Year These are the Principal Matters treated of in the Canons of the Councils of which we are going to give you a Particular Account according to the Order of Time wherein they were held The Council of Sens in the Year 1198. MIchael Corbeil Arch-Bishop of Sens being come to the Town of La Charité at the instance of the Bishop of Auxerre whether the Bishops of Nevers and Meaux were likewise come and having The Council of Sens in the Year 1198. made enquiry what Hereticks there were in that Place they found that Reginald Abbot of Saint Martin at Nevers and the Dean of the Cathedral Church of that City were accus'd of Heresie and that there were a great many Accusers and Witnesses against them They Suspended them and Cited them to Auxerre where they made their Appearance The Abbot would not make his Defence but appeal'd to the Holy See before his Process was drawn up The Arch-Bishop of Sens without regarding this Appeal continu'd the drawing up his Process and cited him to the Council which was to be held at Sens. The Tryal of the Dean was likewise referr'd to that Council that so they might have time to receive the Depositions of Witnesses on both sides The Council was held at Sens in the Year 1198 and the Bishops of Troyes Auxerre and Nevers were there present The Abbot of St. Martin appear'd before these Prelates and endeavour'd to make his Defence but seeing his Affair was like to have no success he renew'd his Appeal Tho' it was against all Form and the Bishops were not oblig'd to take any notice of it yet they would not pronounce any thing against him upon the account of Heresie but condemn'd him for other Crimes whereof he stood Convicted and for the Scandal he gave and depos'd him for ever They afterwards sent to the Pope the Depositions drawn against him which imported that he had asserted That the Body of Jesus Christ went into the Draught and that all Men would one day be saved As to the Dean there were not Evidences strong enough to Convict and Condemn him but since there were a great many Presumptions against him because of his intimacy with Hereticks they would not give him Absolution but sent him to Rome Innocent III. after he had heard him and examin'd his Process order'd that he should clear himself by the Testimony of Fourteen Witnesses and wrote to the Arch-Bishop of Sens that he would admit him to clear himself and restore to him his Benefice after he had done it The Abbot of St. Martin having likewise remov'd his Cause to Rome the Pope referr'd him to Peter Cardinal of St. Mary his Legate in France and to Odo Bishop of Paris We are inform'd of this Piece of History by the Letters of Innocent III. and by the Chronicon of Auxerre wherein 't is said that those two Hereticks were of the Sect of the Poblicans The Council of Dalmatia in the Year 1199. TWo Legates of Pope Innocent III. in Dalmatia one of whom nam'd John being only a Chaplain The Council of Dalmatia 1199 and the other call'd Simon a Sub-deacon made Twelve Orders for the Clergy of that Kingdom wherein they prohibited Simony renew'd the Law of the Celibacy of Ecclesiasticks fix'd the Times of Ordinations and the Intervals betwixt them approv'd of the Ancient dividing of the Church-Revenues into four Parts enjoyn'd the Secrecy of Confession provided for the security of Ecclesiasticks by declaring those Excommunicated who abus'd them and by prohibiting them from being carry'd before secular Judges prohibited Marriages between Relations to the Fourth Degree enjoyn'd Clerks to have the Clerical Tonsure condemn'd the Laicks who collated Benefices and those who receiv'd them from their Hands excommunicated those who retain'd the Treasures of the Church and such who left their Wives prohibited Bastards from being admitted into Holy Orders and forbad the Ordaining any one who was not full Thirty Years Old The Council of London in the Year 1200. HUbert Arch-Bishop of Canterbury call'd a Council at London in Westminster-Castle against the Prohibitions The Council of London 1200. which the Earl of Essex Lord Chancellor of England had made wherein he Publish'd several Injunctions By the First he orders That the Words of the Canon of the Mass shall be pronounc'd distinctly and sincerely by the Priests without relying too much upon them In the Second He prohibits Priests from saying two Masses a day without urgent Necessity and when a Priest shall be oblig'd to
50 William Rubion a Grey-Friar 66 William Thorn a Benedictine Monk of Canterbury 75 76 William de Wallingford an Englishman 81 William Wodford or Wilford a Grey-Friar 77 The End of the Alphabetical Table of the Ecclesiastical Authors of the Fourteenth Age. An Alphabetical TABLE of the Councils hold in the Fourteenth Age of the Church A. Years Pag. THE Council of Anger 's 1365 108 The Council of Avignon 1326 102 The Council of Avignon 1337 103 The Council of Ausche 1300 92 The Council of Ausche 1308 94 B. THE Synod of Bayeux 1300 92 The Synod of Beziers 1351 107 The Council of Bourges 1336 106 C. THE Council of Chateaugonthier 1336 106 The Synod of Colen 1300 92 The Council of Colen 1310 94 The Council of Colen 1322 102 The Council of Compeigne 1301 93 The Council of Compeigne 1304 ibid The Council of Compeigne 1329 105 The Council of Complutum 1326 ibid The Council of Complutum 1347 107 The Council of Constantinople 1340 85 The Council of Constantinople 1341 ibid The Council of Constantinople 1344 ibid The Council of Constantinople 1346 ibid The Council of Constantinople 1341 ibid The Council of Constantinople 1355 86 F. AN Assembly at Francfort 1338 29 L. THE Council of Lambeth 1330 110 The Council of Lambeth 1351 111 The Council of Lambeth 1362 ibid The Council of Lavour 1368 108 The Council of London 1310 18 The Council of London 1321 110 The Council of London 1328 ibid The Council of London 1341 111 The Council of London 1342 ibid The Council of London 1343 ibid The Council of London 1382 77 The Council of London 1391 ibid The Council of London 1396 ibid M. THE Council of Macclesfield 1332 111 The Council of Macclesfield 1362 ibid The Council of Mentz 1310 19 The Council of Marsiac 1326 103 The Council of Marsiac 1330 105 The Council of Melun 1300 92 N. THE Council of Narbonne 1374 108 The Council of Nogarol 1303 93 The Council of Nogarol 1315 100 The Council of Noyon 1344 107 P. THE Council of Palenza 1388 109 An Assembly of Paris 1302 5 An Assembly of Paris 1303 8 9 The Council of Paris 1310 17 18 The Council of Paris 1314 99 The Council of Paris 1323 100 An Assembly of Paris 1329 64 A Council of Paris 1346 107 An Assembly at Paris 1398 40 An Assembly at Paris 1403 41 An Assembly at Paris 1406 43 An Assembly at Paris 1408 47 The Assembly of Pisa 1408 45 2 The Council of Pennafiel 1302 105 1 The Council of Presburg 1309 94 R. THE Council of Ravenna 1310 18 The Council of Ravenna 1311 97 The Council of Ravenna 1314 98 The Council of Ravenna 1317 99 The Council of Roan 1325 106 The Council of Ruffec 1327 105 S. THE Council of Salamanca 1310 18 The Council of Salamanca 1335 105 The Council of Saltzburg 1310 94 The Council of Saltzburg 1386 109 The Council of Saumar 1315 100 The Council of Senlis 1316 ibid The Council of Senlis 1317 ibid The Council of Senlis 1326 105 The Council of Sens 1320 100 T. THE Council of Toledo 1323 101 The Council of Toledo 1324 ibid The Council of Toledo 1339 106 The Council of Toledo 1347 107 The Council of Toledo 1355 108 An Assembly at Tours 1308 15 V. THE Council of Valladolid 1322 100 The General Council of Vienne in Dauphine 1311 1312 12 18 95 Y. THE Council of York 1367 111 AN Historical Account OF THE CONTROVERSIES IN RELIGION AND OF OTHER Ecclesiastical Affairs IN THE Fourteenth CENTURY CHAP. I. Of the Differences between Philip the Fair King of France and Boniface VIII as well during his Papacy and his Successor Benedict XI as in the Vacancy of the Holy See and in the Beginning of the Papacy of Clement V. BEnedictus Cajetanus a Native of the City of Anagni in the Campaign di Roma was The Election of Benedictus Cajetanus named Boniface 8. chosen Pope December 24. A. D. 1294 after the Voluntary resignation of Celestine V. and assumed the Name of Boniface VIII He immediately after his Elevation to the Papal Dignity entertained a Design of rooting entirely the Gibeline-Party out of Italy and so make himself absolutely Supreme as well in Temporal as Spiritual Affairs over all the Kingdoms of Christendom And of this he gave plain intimations not only in the Accommodation which he purposed to make between Philip the Fair The beginning of the quarrel between the King of France and the Pope about the Earl of Flandâ—â—â— King of France and Edward II. King of England by his own Authority but also in receiving the Appeal of Guy Earl of Flanders made to him against the said King of France and to that end sending his Legate the Bishop of Meaux to that King to require him to give Satisfaction to the Earl of Flanders and in case he refused to Summon him to Appear before the Pope that the Difference between them might be decided before his Tribunal Philip the Fair being highly offended at these Proceedings told the Legate That it belonged not to the Pope to concern himself with the Temporal Affairs of Princes and Soveraign Lords That he had a Court of his own to administer Justice to his Subjects and Homagers and that he would Acknowledge none his Superior but God only The Legate departed without effecting any thing but the Pope in the Year 1296. published a Bull wherein having complained that The Bull of Boniface forbidding to Levy any Tax upon the Clergy Kings exacted from the Clergy Subsidies Tithes and other Imposts which the Clergy payed them without leave from the Holy See He forbids all the Clergy to pay any thing out of their Estates to the Laity or to give their Consent to any Imposition without Permission from the Pope And all Emperours Kings Princes or other Lords and Judges to exact nothing of them upon Pain of Excommunication and Interdict This Bull concerned the King of France more than any other because he had levyed Money upon the Clergy to defray the Charge of the War whereupon this Prince put out a Declaration on the 17th of A Prohibition of the King to carry Money out of the Kingdom August the same Year whereby he Prohibited the carrying of any Silver coined or uncoined out of his Kingdom or any Strangers to remain there The Pope thereupon sent him a very sharp Bull in which he sets forth that this general Prohibition is prejudicial to his Subjects and if he had a design to extend it to Ecclesiastical Persons it is a rashness which he styles Folly and that deserves Excommunication and if he had been induced to set out this Edict upon occasion of the Ordinance made lately in favour of the Liberty of the The Pope's Bull against this Prohibition Clergy it was an ill Pretence because his Decree contained to new Constitution but only confirmed what had been formerly ordained by Canonical Decrees under new Penalties and that he did not
This very much displeased the Pope But that which made the Pope and the King of France fall out downright was the Judgment which the former gave between the King the Earl of Flanders and the King of England by which he ordained that Philip the Fair should restore to the Earl his Daughter whom he kept Prisoner since the Year 1296. to Marry her as he pleased as also some Lands he had taken from him and that he should go into the East to make War upon the Infidels The Pope dispatch'd a Bull of this Judgment The Pope's Bull in favour of the Earl of Flanders and put it into the hands of the English Ambassador who carried it to Paris But when it was read in the Presence of the King of Charles Earl of Valois his Brother of Robert Earl of Artois and the Earl of Evreux the Earl of Artois snatched away the Bull in a rage and threw it into the Fire Swearing That it should not be so and the Pope should not revenge himself at the Cost of the Kingdom The King protested That he would not put in Execution what the Pope had Decreed but as soon as the Truce was expired he would begin the War afresh In the Year 1300. Boniface published a Jubilee in which he granted Plenary Indulgences The appointment of a Jubilee by Boniface to all who should visit the Churches of St. Peter and St. Paul at Rome decreeing that the same thing should be renewed every Hundred Years The opening of the Jubilee drew a great Concourse of People to Rome and Boniface to make the Soveraign Authority which he pretended to have over the Temporality to be owned appeared at the Ceremony one while in his Pontifical Habit and another in Imperial Robes and took for his Motto Ecce duo gladii The King not willing to quarrel with the Pope downright sent to him the same Year Boniface quarrels a-new with the King William of Nogaret Baron of Calvisson in Quality of an Ambassador to give him Advice of the Alliance he had made with the Emperor who on his part likewise sent him an Ambassador The Pope had no great regard to the one or the other blamed the Election of the Emperor and threatned him that he would cross it if he did not give him Tuscany said many disobliging things of the King and did all he could to break off the Alliance between the two Princes Nogaret who understood the ill Designs of the Pope upbraided him therewith to his Face which exasperated his Spirit and made him yet more a verse than before to the King's Interests Boniface proposed to the Christian Princes a Crusado to go into the East against the Infidels The Bishop of Pamiez Envoy to the King gives iâ—l Language and is Arrâ—sted He sent Bernard Saisset Bishop of Pamiez a Bishoprick he had Erected in the Year 1296. in spite of the King with Orders not only to set forward this Expedition with Philip the Fair but likewise to demand the Enlargement of the Earl of Flanders and his Children The King refusing to hearken to these Proposals the Bishop forgot the respect he owed the King telling him That he held nothing of his Majesty but that he owed all to the Pope whose Subject he was both as to Spiritual and Temporal Concerns threatned to Interdict the Kingdom and maintain'd the Pope's Temporal Power over Soveraign Princes The King offended at this Procedure caused this Bishop to be accused of divers Monopolies which he had exacted and of Rebellion and ordered him to be cited before the Parliament where appearing he was sent to Prison Boniface enraged at this Imprisonment in the Month of February in the Year 1301. sent James Norman Archdeacon of Narbonne to the King to order him to set this Bishop at Liberty The which the King did putting him nevertheless under the keeping of the Arch-bishop of Narbonne his Metropolitan to punish him for his Rashness according to the rules of the Canon Boniface not content herewith required that the King should set him at full Liberty and give him a Grant of all his Goods After that by a Bull of the 4th of December in the same Year he suspended the Favours A Bull against the King's Privileges and Privileges he had granted to the King of France and his Successors and to his Counsellors Clergy or Laity and particularly those he had granted for the Relief of the State and decreed that the Clergy without his consent should not Pay the King what he demanded under the Title of Tenths or Aid though he had consented to it and had given time till the 1st of November in the Year following to make Report of the Privileges to the Holy See to the end they might be Examined Two days after he set forth another Bull wherein he declares that God had established him A Bull of the Soveraignty of the Pope and against the Rights of the King over Kings and Kingdoms to pluck up to destroy to scatter to build that the King of France ought not to think he has no Superiour and is not Subject to the Pope that he who is of that Opinion is a Fool and an Infidel He therein Discourses with the King about the Summs of Money which he exacted of his Subjects He therein complains that he had fill'd the Benefices and Prebends vacant in the Court of Rome without the Pope's Leave that he had seized on the Goods of the Clergy that he vexed them with several Grievances particularly the Church of Lions though it be out of the Bounds of his Kingdom by receiving the Revenues of the Cathedral Churches during the Vacancy which he falsly calls a Right belonging to the Crown He orders the Prelates Chapters of Churches and Doctors of Divinity in the Kingdom to attend him in order to provide for the Reformation of the Realm He inveighs against the King's Evil Counsellors and exhorts this Prince to undertake the Holy War By another Bull of the same Date directed to the Prelates Chapters of Cathedrals and other Doctors of the Realm he writes to them that not being ignorant of the Oppressions which the Clergy suffer from the Kings his Officers Earls or Barons he has taken up a Resolution after he had communicated it to the Cardinals to Summon them to Rome He orders them to appear there on the First of November following with Powers and Instructions necessary and Promises them that Care should be taken for the Preservation of the Honour and Freedom of the Gallican Church and the Reformation of the State He writes the same thing to the Abbots in a Bull very like it But to the end his Bull might make the deeper Impression he made an Abridgment of it in these words Boniface the Bishop a Servant of the Servants of God to Philip King of France Fear God and keep his Commandments We will you to know that you are Subject to us both in Spirituals and Temporals
the Year 1409 and arriv'd at Pisa April 25th with whom were sent also Thomas an Abbot the Earl of Suffolk John Colme Kt. and Richard Canyngston Doctor of the Laws Dachery's Spicileg Tom. 6. p. 346. the Archbishops of Mayence and Collen arriv'd at Pisa. In the 6th Session the Bishop of Salisbury Ambassador from the King of England made a Discourse to the Council taking for his Text the Words of the 83d Psalm Justice and Judgment are the preparation of your Throne from which he exhorted the Fathers of the Council to Peace and said he had full Power from the King his Master as to all things which were to be treated of in the Council Nothing else was done in this Session and the next was appointed to be May the 4th In the mean time the Cardinals of Bourdeaux and Spain arriv'd at Pisa. The Council being Assembled on the Day appointed Peter de Ancharano a Dr. of Bologne made a Discourse wherein he answered some Questions propos'd by the Ambassadors of the King of the Romans altho' they were absent for they had withdrawn themselves from the 21st of April after they had publish'd on the 9th of the same Month an Act of Appeal against all that the Council had done or should do and show'd That the Objections were of no Force That the Competitors had been lawfully Summon'd That the Council had Power to proceed against them That the Intention was to procure the Peace of the Church and on the contrary the Design of the Ambassadors of the Duke of Bavaria was to hinder it In this Session Commissioners were Nam'd to receive and examine the Depositions of Witnesses that should be produc'd by the Proctor of the Council who were the Cardinals of Landi and St. Angelo for the two Colleges the Bishops of Liseaux and the three Drs. for France and one Dr. for England It was also ordain'd That the Council should send Deputies to Laodislaus who call'd himself the King of Sicily to pacifie him The next Session was put off to the 10th of May. In a Congregation which was held before the General Assembly of the 8th Session the Council nam'd Deputies to assist in the Assemblies of the College of Cardinals that all things might be done by common Agreement The same Day the Cardinal of Albano told the Assembly That he was inform'd that the Ambassadors of Peter de Luna wou'd quickly come to Pisa and that they must consider how they should be receiv'd About this there was a Consultation the next Day being the 9th of May and on the Day following being that of the Session the Proctor of the Council requir'd That they should Decree that the Union of the two Colleges was lawfully made That they were now become but one College That they should declare the Calling of the Council to be Legal by them That the Council was held in a secure and fit place That it represented the Church Universal and that the Cognizance and Decision of what concern'd the Union and Peace of the Church and the Extirpation of the Schism belong'd to them When it was demanded If all of them were of this Opinion the greater part answer'd affirmatively But the Bishops of Salisbury and Evreux remonstrated as to the first Head of this Demand That there could not be an Union of the two Colleges as long as the Cardinals of Benedict obey'd him as they did while all the rest refus'd to acknowledge Gregory the 12th That it was necessary there should be a general withdrawing of Obedience from them Many more Things were said upon this Subject The Patriarchs of Alexandria the Germans and French were of this Opinion but the Cardinals of Benedict who had not yet withdrawn their Obedience from him could hardly be brought to any Resolution in this Case In fine the Proctor of the Council having mounted into a Pulpit demanded still That in consideration of the Contumacy of the two Competitors who were notoriously guilty of continuing a Schism in the Church by their Collusion contrary to the Oaths they had taken the Council would pronounce and declare That from the time it had been manifest the two Competitors had no mind to procure the Peace of the Church by the means they had sworn to make use of it had been lawful to subtract Obedience from them and that now they ought no more to be obey'd He ask'd if this was the Opinion of the whole Council and every one answer'd in the Affirmative with Joy except two Bishops the one of England and the other of Germany But notwithstanding their Opinion the Matter was determin'd according to the Demand of the Proctor and the Patriarch of Alexandria having mounted into a Pulpit together with the Bishop of Salisbury pronounc'd the Definitive Sentence by the Authority of the Council The Proctor demanded That it should be drawn up in the Form of an authentick Act which was granted him and the next Session was put off to the 8th Day that the Commissioners might have time to examine Witnesses The 9th Session was held the 17th of May and the Act of Subtraction which had been drawn up by some Doctors and review'd in private Congregations was then presented and the Proctor demanded that it should be read in full Council The Patriarch took the Act mounted into the Pulpit and read it with a loud Voice It contain'd That the Council judg'd it had been lawful to subtract Obedience from the two Competitors ever since it was evidently prov'd That they had no mind to procure Union by the way of Resignation as they had sworn to do That all Christians ought to subtract the Obedience from them That the Council did Null and make Void all Sentences which the Competitors might have given or should give against those that did subtract Obedience from them That those who were Judges in the Council might be Witnesses against them That the Commissioners might draw up Articles of Accusation and a Verbal process of Interrogatories as they should think convenient In the 10th Session which was held the 22d of the same Month the Proctor caus'd the Advocate to inform the Council That the Commissioners had heard Witnesses and put the Depositions in Order and that they were ready to make the Report of them to the Council by the Mouth of the Archbishop of Pisa. The Council agreed to this Proposal and Deputies were sent to the Church-gate to know if any of the two Competitors who had been cited to hear the Depositions of Witnesses would appear but they not being present nor any one for them they were declar'd Contumacious and it was ordain'd That the Prosecutors might proceed further to draw up a Process against them and publish the Depositions of the Witnesses After this the Arch-bishop of Pisa went up into the Pulpit and caus'd to be read the Articles propos'd against the Competitors in the 10th Session and observ'd upon each Article by how many Witnesses it was prov'd and of what