opposing Pope Innocent the third in Stephen Langtons preferment to the See of Caterbury sleighting the Monks and vexing them 3. Their Combinations forced him after the Interdicting of the Realme for six years three moneths and sixteene dayes to render his Crowne to Pandulphus the Popes Legate and take it againe in Fee-Farme at the Rent of a Thousand Markes yearely which exasperated his Nobles against him howsoever it warped the Pope and Clergy to be for him 4. His Bickering abroad with the French and at home with his Barons made his Raigne very Tragicall which ended at Swansted Abby by Simon the Monkes Poyson as some say and gave way to his sonne 4. A.C. 1216 HENRY the third who Crowned between nine or tenne yeares Old 1. Cleared this Realme of the French who had Invaded it by the Popes interdiction by William Martiall Earle of Pembroke his Protector 2. Hubert De Burgo Earle of Kent did him much good service for which he had small recompence 3. His immoderate and exasperating favours cast on Strangers drew on the Barons Warres in which an Insanum Parliamentum held at Oxford appointed twelve Peeres in prejudice of his Regality The Earles of Leicester and Glocester are the greatest sticklers in it who took Prisoners the King with his brother Richard King of the Romanes and his sonne Prince Edward in the Battle of Lewes in Sussex 4. He confirmes Magna Charta The Earles fall at deadly fend between themselves Prince Edward tels the King of it and joyning with Glocester Rights himselfe by the Ruine of Leicester in the Battle of Eversham in Worcestershire 5. London is threatned to be Burnt by the King for taking the Barons part 6. Glocesters service failing of expected Favours repines to no purpose and undertakes to goe to the Holy Land but shrinking that enterprise is performed by Prince Edward and his Heroick Princesse Elianor who suck'd out there the poyson of an invenomed wound given him with the hazard of her owne life whereby he recovered He did there great service untill he was called back to succeed his Father that dyed after fifty six yeares Raigne by the Title of 5. EDWARD the first commonly called Longshanks A.C. 1273 1. He brought the Welch with their Valiant Prince Lewillin under the English Subjection 2. Conquered Scotland being at Variance who should be King brought thence the Marble Chayre in which the Scottish Kings were wont to be Crowned spoken of before 3. Hesleighted the Popes Inhibition to forbeare Scotland and in the Parliament of Lincolne under the subscription of the Peeres utterly renounced Pope Boniface his Supreame Authority 4. He banished the Jewes for their Exactions and Censured the Judges and Officers for their Corruptions 5. Vpon his Death-bed charged his sonne to continue the Banishment of Pearce of Goveston and to convey his Heart to be buried in the Holy Land 6. Of his sixteene Children which he had by two Wives Elianour of Spaine and Margaret of France 6. A.C. 1307 EDWARD the second surnamed Carnarvan the first English hereditary Prince of Wales succeeds him 2. He against his Oath calls Gaveston twice out of Banishment permits him to convey beyond the Seas his Iewels with a Table and Tressels all of Beaten Gold 3. In place of Gaveston beheaded by the Nobles he takes the Spencers Father and sonne to be his Favourites worse if it might be then Gaveston 4. At Estreveline and twice afterwards he received three notable overthrowes by the Scotts to the losse of all his Interest there and the Devastation of the Northerne parts of his Kingdome 5. Vpon these preposterous events Iohn Poydrus an Exeter man would needs prove the King a Changling and said himselfe was Long-shanks sonne But his claime was quickly strangled with an Halter 6. To right these wrongs the Barons by a Parliament get the Spencers banished The King recalls them the Barons take Armes receive a great overthrow and two and twenty of them are Behoaded The Spencers the more insult 7. The Queene flyes with the Prince into France is deserted by her bribed Brother the French King and commanded to returne by the Pope finds favour with Robert of Artois Earle of Henalt and Sr Iohn his brother returnes by their help into England is assisted by the Barons takes the King and the Spencers at Bristow The Londoners behead Walter Stapleton Bishop of Exeter for withstanding the Queenes proceedings The Spencers are executed the King is Deposed in Parliament sent to Killingworth as Prisoner and thence to Barkly Castle where he was barbarously Spitted to Death leaving his sonne 7. A.C. 1327 EDWARD the third otherwise calied Edward of Windsor to governe better 1. He surprised Mortimer the Minion of his mother and Executed him at Tyburne who had by his pernicious plotting caused King Edward the second to be made away by an Amphibologie Edvardum occidere nolite timere bonum est To shed King Edwards blood Refuse to feare I hold it good And the Scottish Ragman to be redelivered in the Non-age of this King whereby the English laid claime to Scotland together with their Black Crosse so that the People cried out Vae pueris terrae saepissime sunt ubi guerrae Woe to the Land where Rulers age Is not mature to stop mens rage 2. Notwithstanding the King repaired this afterward by the overthrow of the Scotts at Hallidowne Hill which wiped off their contumelious Rime made upon their Victorie over the English in his Fathers dayes being this Long Beards heartlesse Painted Hoods witlesse Gray Coates gracelesse Make England thriftlesse And also in taking their King David the valiant Bruces sonne Prisoner at Nevils Crosse in his absence in France by the Queene and placing in Edward Balioll to be King 3. Against the French by himselfe and this Valiant sonne Edward the Black Prince He obtained eminent Victories at Cressay and Poycters In the last of which their King John was taken and brought into England 4. He Founded the Order of the Garter first quartered his Armes with France In his old age was much abused by a Strumpet Alice Pears 5. After he had seene the death of his Victorious sonne Edward the Black Prince he died peaceably at Sheene in Surry leaving to succeed him his Grandchild the Black Princes sonne 8. RICHARD the second 1. A.C. 1378 He misled by his Favorite Michael De La Poole and other Syeophants incurres the hatred of his People Iohn Wall Priest Watt Tylor lack Sraw and Jack Shepherd raise a Rebellion against him which happily was quieted by the Maior of London's William Walworths mortall blow given Watt Tylor 2. Thirteene Commissioners were appointed to see matters reformed but it came to nothing 3. An Invasion of French with twelve hundred Ships under Sayle against England by Gods providence were utterly scattered Iohn of Gaunt his Vncle Warreth successively in Spaine and himselfe in Scotland 4. He continues his hatred against his Nobles executes diverse of them Banisheth his Cosen Henry of
by the fall of a new house But others say this was the end of 8. IOHN the 21. a Portugall Physition A.D. 1277 Platina passes him for a vaine man and thereupon inferres Nescio quo pacto compertum est ut viri quidam admodum literati ad res agendas parum idonei videantur We see for action Learning availes not when The greatest Clearkes proves not the wisest men 2. He was a Writer notwithstanding and favourer of Schollers which was the least care of 9. NICHOLAS the third a Romane An. 1277 He inclosed a Warren of Hares for his holinesse recreation 2. Was ravennous for his kindred raised the quarrell between Peter of Aragon and Charles of France for Sycily whence grew the Massacre of the French called Sycilian vespers wherein all sorts of French upon the Toll of a Bell were cruelly Butchered 10. A.D. 1281 MARTINE the fourth a French-man that succeeded thereupon Excommunicated Peter of Aragon but he contemned it and strengthned himselfe by Paleologus 2. He kept the Concubine of his predecessor Nicholas and removed all Pictures of Bears from his pallace least the beholding of them should cause his sweet heart to bring forth a Beare His Excommunication of Peter of Aragon is continued by 11. A.D. 1285 HONORIUS the fourth a Romane who did little else but confirme the Augustine Friars and cause the white Carmelites to be called our Ladies Brethren so much was not performed by 12. A.D. 1288 NICHOLAS the fourth a Franciscan Italian who dyed some say of griefe to see both Church and State in such remedilesse Combustions After two years scolding of the Cardinalls 13. A.D. 1294 CELESTINE the fifth an Italian formerly an Anchorite was chosen He resolving to be strict in reforming the Church was guild by one that fained himselfe to be an Angell and spake through a Trunke in a wall Celestine Celestine give over thy Chayre for it is above thy ability 2. The French King perswaded him to hold it but he decreed that a Pope might quit his place as he did to turne Hermite againe But that preserved not his life from the jealousy of 14. A.D. 1294 BONIFACE the eight a Campanian that thus cheated him for he caused him to be imprisoned and made away 2. Of this Boniface it is said that he entred like a Foxe raigned like a Lyon and dyed like a Dogge 3. He threw ashes into the Arch-bishop Porchets eyes on Ash-wednesday because he was a Gibelline brought in the Iewish Jubely carryed two swords before him and shewed himselfe as well in Imperiall Robes as in Papall habilliments to expresse that he had power of both swords in that Church out of which there is no salvation 4. For his Excommunicating Phillip the Fayre of France and his cruelty against others he drew upon himselfe an infamous death by the hands of those he had formerly banished 5. John Cassiodores Epistle in Bale shewes how lamentably England suffered by him A much better Pope was little 15. BENEDICT a Lombard a Sheapheards sonne A.D. 1303 who would not acknowledge his poore mother when she came to him Lady like but caused her to put on her Shepheardesse apparell He absolved the King of France Excommunicated the murtherers of his predecessor Boniface desired to compose all brawles but was poysoned at length in a figge 16. CLEMENT the fifth a French man that succeeds An. 1305 transferred the Court to Avignion where it continued 70. years governing Rome the while by deputy Cardinalls 2. At the pompe of his Coronation much hurt was done by the fall of a Wall and the Pope lost a Carbuncle out of his Mytre valued at 6000. Florens 3. He rooted out the Templers favoured the Knights of Rhodes Excommunicated the Florentines Lucians and Venetians whose Ambassador Francis Dandalus sent to pacify him he chayned under his table to feed with the doggs 4. From the Councell held by him in Vienna we have the Clementines of the Canon Law Henry of Lutzenburg the Emperour a little after was poysoned in the host by one Bernard a Monke whom presently he forgave and wished him to shift away to save his life The Pope dyes of the fluxe after two years His Countryman 17. IOHN the 22. succeeds him A. 1316 He Sainted Thomas of Aquine and Thomas of Hereford flead a Bishop and afterwards burned him because he had offended him 2. Challenged a Supremacy over the Greeke Church but they wished the Divell to be with him as God was with them would by no means Crowne the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria who contemned it and was otherwise Crowned King of the Romanes Whereupon he deprives him but not without stout opposition Occam Marsilius and Iandunus taking the Emperours part 3. He held the soules to dye with the body but was condemned for it by the Parisians the Councell of Constance Durandus Thomas Wallis an English man and others He lived longest of any Pope and dyed richest 18. A. 1334 BENEDICT the 12. also a French man succeeds him opposes at first Lewis the Emperour but afterward falling out with the French King takes the Emperours part who notably had defended his Royalty in an assembly of the Peeres of Germany 2. He reformed some Orders or rather disorders of the Monkes bought Francis Petraches beautifull sister with a great summe of Money of her brother Gerard to make some use of her Had these Rimes made on him when he was gone Hic situs est Nero laicis mors vipera olero Devius à vero cuppa repleta mero Laicks bane Clerks viper here lyes Nero's trunke Fardle of Lyes a Butt of Wine stark drunke 19. A. 1342 CLEMENT the sixth his Country man proves more violent then his predecessor 2. To diminish the Emperours authority he creates Vicount Vicars to rule the Empire which caused the Emperour to institute such other Vicars to governe the Church 3. This and other things so netled his Clemency that upon no Termes he would be reconciled with the Emperour except he put himselfe and all his into his Holinesse disposition 4. For quietnesse sake and to prevent the shedding of Christian blood the Emperour doth it The Princes of the Empire exclaime against the Popes tyrannicall conditions The Arch-bishop of Mentz is deposed for but speaking on the Emperours behalfe The other Electors bribed set up his sonne Charles to be King of the Romanes he to settle himselfe morgaged speciall portions of the Emperiall Revenues never againe recovered whereby the weakned Empire was exposed to the Turkes invasion 6. In England also this Pope made so bold as to bestow Bishopricks and Benefices at his pleasure But our Edward the third would admit of no such intrusion 7. T is thought by his meanes the hated Emperour was poysoned and his Holinesse breathed his last Bale by an Impostume after he had tyrannized so long and cozoned the World by his yeare of Inbilee and blasphemous Indulgences His Countryman 20. An. 1352 INNOCENT the sixth a Lawyer by pinching and
England Denmarke Norway some adde also part of Sweden together with Scotland were wholy subject unto him 3. His Iealousies of Ironsides Children moved him to send his sonnes Edward and Edmund to Swanus King of Denmarke to be dispatched but he abhorring such Villâ—ny transfer'd them to the King of Hungary where Edmund dying Edward Married Agatha the Emperour Henry the fourths Daughter by whom he had Edgar Etheling the surviving Heire of the Crowne of England which he could never recover 4. To strengthen his Title what he might he takes Emma to wife King Etheldreds Widdow M. Lambard makes good Lawes extant in the Saxon tongue and Latine gave one hundred Talents of Silver and one of Gold for St Augustince Arme which he bestowed on Coventry as a memoriall of his Zeale though not according to knowledge 5. He had Issue by Emma his second Wife the faire Gunhilda and Hardy-Canutus Gunhilda was Married to the Emperour Henry the third where falling into suspition of Incontinency she was vindicated by her English Page overthrowing in her quarrell a great Gyant Hardicanutus was designed to succeed by his Father here in England but was put by in his absence by his Brother 2. A.C. 1038 HAROLD called Harefoot by reason of his swiftnesse Earle Goodwin withstands his entrance but by secret prevailing meanes was soone made his friend 2. A Letter is forged in Queene Emma's name to bring over her sonnes Edward and Alfred which she had by Ethelred to claim their Right to the Crowne Alfred comes and by Earle Goodwin is made away with all those that came with him at Gilford 3. Emma is banished but courteously entertained by Baldwin Earle of Flanders Harold thus secured as he thought from Competitors lives loosly dyes speedily and without Issue leaves the Kingdom to 3. A.C. 1041 HARDICANUTUS who made it his first worke to disintombe his Predecessors Corps and threw it into Thamisis but some Fishermen more courteous recovered it and buryed it againe in St Clements neare Temple-Barre 2. His recalling his Mother Emma and half Brother Edward and entertaining them respectively deserves commendations As also the prosecuting Earle Goodwin and the Bishop of Worcester for Prince Alfreds death but the Earle quitted himselfe by his Oath and a rich Present and the Bishops questioning is said to be for the Murther of the Kings Taxe-Collectors in Worcester by the inraged Citizens for which their City was afterwards consumed with fire 3. His Epicurismo left an ill Custome to all posterity Foure times a day his Table must be covered to invite men to Intemperancy Through which at a Marriage he is thought to have Choaked himselfe at Lambeth most rejoycing to be rid of him in memory whereof Hock-tide a Feast of scorning was a long time continued after In this third Heire expired the Danish Line and the Saxon revived againe in 4. EDWARD the sonne of Ethelred Emma A.C. 1043 commonly called the Confessour 1. To gaine the more love of his Subjects at his first entrance he remitted the Taxe of Danegilts so greivous to the Commonds collected the Lawes of his predecessors into a body for the administrationof Iustice which some say are the ground of our Common-Law though the Pleading be altered since the Norman Conquest 2. He was threatned by the Dane See M. Lambards Archnom and vexed by Griffith the Welch Prince who was quelled by Harold especially who was imployed against them Betweene him and the potent Earle Goodwin were such debates that twice came to the hazard of dangerous Battles if wise mediation of the Nobles had not prevented them the death of which Earle is reported to be his Choaking with a bitt of Bread upon an imprecation laid on himselfe that that might be his last if he had a hand in the death of the Kings Brother Prince Alfred though some say he died of the deadpalsie 3. Grafton In this man's time Coventry purchased its Freedome from Earle Leofrie by the Riding of his Countesse Godina naked through it but such order was taken by the Townesmen that shutting up all Doores and Windowes none beheld it 4. His unnaturall dealing with his good Mother Emma and vertuous faire Wife Editha Earle Goodwins Daughter cannot be excused For upon a poore surmise of Incontinency with Alwin Bishop of Winchester his Mother in his presence was put to the Ordalium to passe Blindfolded between nine glowing Coulters which she did untouched and his spotlesse Queene Editha denied Marriageright perchance for hatred to her Father and with one Waiting-maid to live disrespected in a Nunnery 5. Such actions so opposite to Gods word should Saint no man The first curing the Kings Evill is referred to him and thence to have continued to his Successors More Laudable was his respect to Edgar Etheling Grandchild to to Ironside by his sonne Edward the Out-law that died in banishment whom he intended for his successour and he had the best right to it but he being young and wanting meanes and friends to support him 5. A.C. 1066 HAROLD sonne of Earle Goodwin makes bold to take the place a man of excellent parts and approved valour as the Welch and others which he subdued in his Predecessors time found to their cost 2. He droven by Tempest into Normandy was affianced to young Adeliza Duke William's Daughter with whom he Covenanted upon Oath to make him successour to Edward in the Kingdome of England 2. But this contract he held as a nicity or complement and constrained Oathes no way to bind wherein he soothed himselfe but God is not mocked and usurpations thrive not long 3. Three Enemies at one time assault him Tosto his owne Brother Harold Harefager or Fairelocks of Norway and William Duke of Normandy The two former he manfully quelled but fell under the hand of William in that famous Battle of Hastings in Sussex the setter up of the next Dynasty 2. IN those times whiles Princes sought the ruines one of another Popes grew up to dispose of them and their Kingdoms and those that protested against such deformities and enormities could not be heard INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Canutus had the largest Dominious of any that ever Ruled in this Kindome 2. St Augustines Arme were worth so much as he gave for it 3. Edward the sonne of Etheldred deserved the Title of Confessour 4. Our Common-Law have its grounds from his Collections 5. Ordalium by hott Coulters be fit to purge suspition of Incontinency 6. Stopping the rights of Marriages without consent for a time of both Parties be not directly against Gods word 7. Harold were bound to keep his Oath to William of Normandy for the Crowne of England in prejudice to Edgar Etheling the apparent right Heire Of the Normans DYNASTY IV. THe Fourth Dynasty is of the Normans to the Plantagenets and hath in it 1. A.C. 1067 WILLIAM the Conquerour the seaventh Duke of Normandy the sonne of Robert begotten on Arlot a poore Skinners daughter whom he affected for her
drove away a Basiliske from S. Lucies Chappell dispensed with Ethelwolfe to leave his Monastery and raigne in England for which courtesy the Monkish King gratified his Holinesse with yearly Peter pence And these were the chiefe imployments of these jolly Prelaetes when once they grew to be puffed up with Supremacies and Donations 2. IN this Distance are met with 1. The Popes excommunicating and Deposing of their fellow Bishops and Patriarchs Dethroning and Monkifying Kings Constituting and deluding Emperours and maintaining Idolls against them 2. Here about the yeare 666 the number of the Apocalypticall Beast Phocas the Parricide that slew his Master Mauritius Boniface the purchaser of Supremacy of that villanie by Symony And Mahomet the Grand Impostor brake forth together whom the Saracens soon followed to the devastation and hazarding of all Christendome 3. Which the Learned of those times Isodorus Hispacensis Venerable Bede Haimo Strabus Rabanus to which may be added Damascene whom some write turned afterward Mahumetan and Paulus Warenfredus the first Postillator might Lament rather then withstand INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Maurus Arch-Bishop of Ravenna served the Pope in his kinde to Excommunicate him for Excommunicating him first 2. It smel't not of Antichristian Pride in Pope Constantine to permit the Emperour Justinian to kisse his feete 3. The Eastern Emperours were in the right in withstanding the having of Images in the Church 4. It be lawfull for Kings to forsake their Callings to become Monkes 5. Popes may dispence with the Oath of Alleageance to Princes 6. They may Depose Kings and translate Empires 7. It be lawfull to eate Horse-flesh notwithstanding the Popes Inhibition SECT VII The Fourth ranke of Luxurious Sodomites AMbition having attained the top of desire melteth quickly into Luxury No marvell then if after Vsurping Nimrods Luxurious Sodomites come to take their turnes for the space well neere of two hundred years in this order 1. IOHN the eight otherwise tearmed Pope IOHANE An. D. 855 a Lasse of Mentz in Germany that ranne away with an English Monke of Fulda in Mans apparell and studied with him at Athens till there he dyed 2. Thence this Virago came to Rome and so learnedly trussed her poynts that after Leo's death she was advanced to Saint Peters Chayre 3. Where for two years and a halfe she celebrated Masse gave Orders freed the Emperour Lewis from his Oath to Aldegisus Crownes Charles the Bald Thomas Harding takes up the Controversy between the two Hinomares established the learned Photius in the Patriarchship of Constantinople wrote a learned Letter to the Prince of Moravia wanted nothing requisite to an excellent Pope but the right Gender 4. The defect of which discovered it selfe in her going to the Laterane between Colosses and S. Clements where without a Midwife she was delivered of somewhat and her life together for which her successors have since baulk't that unlucky way and provided a hollow seate of Porphyry to prevent such after-claps 5. This story of Dame Johane Onuphrius Bellarmine Baronius Vid. Io. Wolfium in Memorabilib and their followers would decry by all meanes possible but we have fifty at least of their own suffrages against them 2. BENEDICT the third a Romane An. D. 857 was chosen in her roome but not without putting in security into the Deacons hand that he was of the masculine Gender he was withstood saith Ciaconius by one Anastasius but to no purpose 2. He made shew of great humility and therefore would be buried not in but without the Threshold of Saint Peters Church 3. A.D. 858 NICHOLAS the first named the Great a Romane kept a greater stirre deprives Iohn of Ravenna for not stooping unto him 2. Swaggers with Michaell the Emperour of Constantinople about Photius the Patriarch and writes him an Epistle which is much stood upon 3. Vntill this mans time Anastasius the Librariaen wrote the lives of the Popes but after untill Clement the second one William another Librarian who passeth under the name of Damasus 4. Onuphrius Platina and Ciaconius complaine much of the negligent registring and confusion of their Popes Lives notwithstanding their succession is made such a convincing argument 5. He was stiffe against Priests Marriage but taken downe by a resolute Epistle of Huldrick a Germane Bishop 4. An. D. 868 HADRIAN the second a Romane also comes next The Emperours Embassador excepted against his Election without their Masters consent but were deluded by an answere that a worthy man was chosen and so must put up their pipes 2. He kept a great stirre to bring the Bulgarians under his virge which was first yeelded unto but it held not to purpose 3. By his violence he outed the Learned Photius of Constantinople and gott Ignatius againe into his roome by the eight Synode of Constantinople 4. The Emperour Lotharius came to Rome to receive Absolution of him which is much stood upon as also the platforme he gave of Lawes for the Kingdome of Aragon After this mâ—n is named by Onuphrius Ciacon Bellarmine and others John the 8th counting Pope Johane for no body but Platina their senior reckoneth 5. A.D. 873 IOHN the ninth a Romane also He Crowned three Emperous Charles the bald Charles the grosse and Lewis the Sutterer for holding too much with whom he was Imprisoned by the Romanes but escaping gott into France where he did somewhat in a Councell at Trecas 2. After returning to Rome he beat the Saracens out of Italy and Sicily and wrote as some thinke foure Books of the Life of Gregory the Great 6. MARTINE the second a French man takes his place A.D. 883 whom Ciacon and others against Platina call Marinus the first so well they agree in their names and reckonings 2. Platina saith he gott the Popedome by ill meanes Bale adds that his Father Palumbus was a Conjurer Fasciculus temporum cryes our Heu heu Domine Deus c. and bitterly laments the iniquities of those times 7. An D. 884 HADRIAN the third a Romane that followed made them worse He decrees the Emperour should have nothing to doe in the Popes Election 2. The Romanes conceived great hopes of him for his resolution but Death abridged it And 8. STEPHEN the fifth a Romane takes his place A.D. 885 Onuphrius Ciacon and Bellarmine call him Stephen the sixth misliking Platina's reckoning 2. No Act of his is left worth the noting but that he abrogated the purging of Adultery and Witchcraft by going over burning Coulters and casting the suspected into the Water 9. A.D. 891 FORMOSUS Bishop of Portua then recovers the Chayre but not without great opposition of Sergius the Deacon 2. This man was held guilty of his predecessor Iohn's imprisonment thereupon fled and forsooke Rome and turned Layicke but Pope Martino absolves him for money sets him right againe so that by the same Bursae gratia he gat to be Pope 3. Wherein he did nothing of note besides the varnishing of Saint Peters Church 10. BONIFACE the sixth a
and Iohn de Rupe-Scissâ 5. Raymund of Pinnasort a Spaniard of Bercinona composeth the booke of Decretalls Plat. Ciacon whi◠this Pope alloweth In these courses especially against the Emperour old 40. CELESTINE the fourth a Lumbard An. 1241 would have persisted but that almost at his first entrance he tooke a potion that marred his stomack and sent him to his predecessors One Robert Sommerton or Sommerlet an English man because he was upon election to be Pope by the like means was set going the same way 21. weeks the place lies voyd till the Emperour at the request of Baldwine the Easterne Emperour and Raymund of Tholose freed the Cardinalls he had in Prison to goe to an Election Revel 13. This pack of Sorcerers by some is tearmed the Kingdome of the Dragon 2. IN the compasse of this Period are found 1. Besides a knot of Conjurers and Poysoners 2. A Crew of Divelish Rebells abusing Religion to varnish their damnable designes 3. A rable of Orders of Munks that disorder all things 4. Wrangling Sophistry set on foot by Lanfranch Lombard Albertus Magnus with otheir Sects and Factions 5. Canonists glosing and descanting upon their Master Gratian the Collector of the Decrees 6. Comestor with lying Legendaries 7 Hildegardis Katherine of Seene and some other such Shee-Prophetesses notwithstanding Anselme and Bernard and the Hugoes de Sancto Victore and de Sancte-Claro are of better account The vexations of the poore Waldenses and barbarous usage of Learned Beringarius were wonderfull and of long Continuance as their Histories set out at large doe manifest INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Necromancy may be a tollerable way to Ecclesiasticall preferment 2. Pope Sylvesters Brazen head were the same with our Roger Bacons or of any other temper 3. Iohn Gratian the Conjurer had the Popedome at an easy rate for 1500l of Benedict the 9th 4. The Sub-Deacon that poysoned Pope Victor the third in the Chalice and Hildebrand that threw the consecrated host in to the fire believed Transubstantiation 5. Hildebrand aliàs Gregory the 7. poysoned sixe or seaven Popes before he could get the place for himselfe 6. Saladine with the Saracens did lesse hurt to Christianity in the East then the Popes with their Complices in the West 7. The Waldenses in the maine held the same opinions with the Protestants of latter times SECT IX The sixth Ranke of Devouring Abaddons FRom Aegyptian Magitians we fall upon Devouring Abaddons who strengthned their side by multitudes of Monkish Ianizaries that wasted for about 250. years following all that lay before them the leader of these was 1. INNOCENT the fourth of Genua A. 1243 he denounced the fourth Excommunication against the Emperour Frederick who had been his greatest friend held a Councell at Lions and deposed him set Henry of Thuring in his place and after him William of Holland and a great company of Crusiados that the Pope had marked for his own beasts but the Emperour crossed their Crownes as he met with them and Nobly defended himselfe untill he was poysoned at length by the Popes meanes and finally smothered by his bastard Manfred 2. This Pope was the only Patron of the foure orders of begging Locusts Dominicans Franciscans Carmelites and Augustines who hatched under him those addle eggs of Summaries Sophismes Repertories Reductories Quodlibets Exorcismes Breviaries Ritualls and the like 3. He offered to sell the Kingdome of Sicily to Henry the third at a reasonable rate being none of his own and quarrelled with our Robert Grostead Bishop of Lincolne who withstood him stoutly and contemned his Excommunication 4. And after his death is said to have minded the Pope by a thumpe on his side with his Crosyers staffe and this Item Veni miser in judicium Dei come wretch to Gods judgement and so eased the world of this Tyrant He left behind him Apparatum ad decretales an Apology against Peter de Vineis with other tracts mentioned by Ciacon and his successor a Campanian 2. ALEXANDER the fourth A.D. 1254 This man is all for Apulia Excommunicated Munfred diverted the money gathered to recover the Holy Land to work his own ends at home pilled England so farre that Fulke Bishop of London exclaimed against him one Leonard told his Legate that Churches were under the Popes tuition not fruition to defend not to expend and a Clearke he sent to be Prebend of Paules against the Kings Chaplaine was slaine in a tumult 2. He made for money Richard Earle of Cornwall Henry the thirds brother King of Germany whereupon a rime was made Nummus ait pro me nubet Cornubia Romae My purse tells me a quick dispatch 'Twixt Rome and Cornwall for a match Condemnes the bookes of William de Sancto Amore leaves 3. A. 1261 VRBANE the fourth his successor being formerly a Patriarch of Ierusalem He continued his sting against Manfred of Sicily and wrought Charles the King of France his Brother to be his death 2. Withstood the Romanes as much as he could who had set up a new Magistrate amongst them called Bandenses having power of life and death 3. Vpon solicitation by Eva an Anchoresse but as Onuphrius will have it by a drop of bloud distilling from the host in a Priests hand he instituted the feast of Corpus Christi day 4. Albertus Magnus and Aquinas are referred to this mans time 4. An. 1265 CLEMENT the fourth a French man is next who had before a Wife and three children 2. He brings in the French to get Naples sent Octobonus into England to take the value of all Church Revenues But he summoned by Death to a reckoning in a great Hubbub of the Cardinalls 5. A. 1271 GREGORY the tenth a Lombard was thrust into his place whereupon came the verses Papatus munus tulit Archi diaconus unus Quem Patrem Patrum fecit discordia fratrum An Arch-deacon the Papall Incomes gathers Whom Brethrens discord Father made of Fathers 2. He held a Councell at Lions at which was present Mychael Paleologus the Greeke Emperour and acknowledged the Laterane tenent of the proceeding of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne which twelve times before they had withstood 3. Bonaveuture was by him made Cardinall and Peter de Turantesia Cardinall of Hostia Radulphus of Auspurge Crowned Emperour but would not goe to Rome to have it Quia vestigia as he said ipsum terrebant because the Foxe saw no safe returne Peter de Tarautasia succeeds him by the title of 6. INNOCENT the fifth a Burgundian An. 1276 the first Pope of the begging Fryars being the same Peter Tartaret that wrote upon the Sentences and other workes 2. He endeavoured to set Peace amongst all but dyed before he could effect any thing 7. HADRIAN the fifth a Genoway followes A. 1276 named before Octobonus the same that kept so great a stirre here in England in the Raigne of Henry the third 2. Platina Vide Pitgah Evang. p. 182 He dyes before he was consecrated some say
librum solvere septem signacula ejus But foure times seaven dayes had not past before a burning Feaver or somewhat else put the Lord Cardinals upon a new Election of 17. A.D. 1605 PAUL the fifth an Italian Bellarmine and Baronius were named with him but the place needed not so much learning whatsoever learning this Pope had such Inscriptions were afforded him and well taken PaV Lo QV Into VICe Deo Christianae Reipublicae Monarchae invictissimo Pontificiae omnipotentiae conservatori acerrimo Morneus in praef Myster Iniquit out of which inscriptions in the three first words we have the number of the Beast 666. 2. Of no lesse importance are those other Attributes Gens Regnum quod non servierit illi in gladio in fame in peste visitabo super gentem illam ait Dominus Ier. 27. And Dedit dominus potestatem ut omnes populi ipsi serviaut potestas ejus potestas aeterna regnum ejus quod non corrumpetur crunt Reges Nutritij tui c. Vultu in terram demisso pulverem tuorum pedum lingent Isa 49.3 For not stooping therefore to his power and titles a powder plote was set on foot by Garnett the Iesuite and others his Complices here in England to blow up the King and the whole State 4. The state of Venice was interdicted notwithstanding this Popes vsurpatious whereupon the Jesuits that sided with him were banished diverse of other Orders stuck close to the state against the Pope and his learned Cardinals Bellarmine and Baronius where Baroniu's exhortation to his Holinesse Surge and Manduca arise and eate the Venetians would not well goe downe till Cardinall Joyous of France was faine to patch up the matter without the least disparagement to the Venetians 5. The Oath of Alleageance which our King Iames most justly required of his Subjects was forbidden by Breves from this Pope but that learned King with His owne Penne so justified his own right that his Holinesse declined the encounter 6. Suarez Bellarmine Becan and others that interposed against the Supremacy of Kings within their own Territories were censured by the Sorbon of Paris and other Papists At length in France Cardinall Peron Cowed them to allow in some sort of the Councell of Trent 7. In the breach between Cesar and the County Palatine a great taxe was laid upon all the Clergy of Italy towards the upholding of the Catholique cause and a new Order of Knighthood erected at Vienna under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin St Michael and St Francis to root out all Heretiques Saxon joynes with Cesar against the Protestants contrary to the determination of his Divines of Jene and Wittemberg 8. The great Controversies between the Iesuits and Dominicans concerning the immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin is smâ—thered rather then decided a Jubile held to bring in money and so Mort VVs est VICeDeVs 18. GREGORY the 15th of Bononia succeeds him An. 1621 elected by way of Adoration 1. He instigates the French against the Protestants Saints Ignatius Loiola with Teresa Isodorus Gonzaga and Koska of the same Society quarrells with the Venetians for entertaining Greeks when they warred not with Infidells to whom the Venetians replyed that they held all Infidells that opposed their Common-wealth 2. The Illuminati in this mans time keep a great quarter in Spaine which some hold a kind of Protestant Round-heads and multiplied to that height that the Inquisitors were faine to winke at them After two years blustering with much adoe among the Cardinalls 19. VRBANE the eight A. 1623 a Florentine that now holds it was chosen in his place 24. Cardinalls grew sicke in this hot businesse whereof tenne lost their lives with diverse others 2. He first casts about to advance his kindred among whom Cardinall Barbarino is now the man 3. The jarres between the French and Spanish for the Valtoline could not be composed by him the French were first blamed for favouring the â—rotestants cause in Germany and entring into League with them But now the Spaniard is disliked and upon the King of Sweeds victorious proceedings the Spanish Legas was told by his Holinesse that the tyranny of his Master gave just cause of rejoycing at the Heretiques prosperous successe 4. The Jesuits found no friend in him for he hath quite cashiered the shee Iesuitesses which under hand grew to an Order very advantagious to that society Garassius one of their Company wrote a summe of Divinity which their Generall had approved but the Sorbon utterly condemned And upon a Pett taken for being stopped from a Bishopricke which the King of Spaine through Count Olivares procuring had bestowed upon a Jesuit That Iesuit writes directly against the Popes power and Contends that he can doe no more out of his Diocesse then another Bishop and that his Bulla Coenae thundred for formality against his Master every yeare is but a Bable 5. The Arch-bishop of Spalata playing Iack of both sides and passing from hence to Rome met with worse entertainment there then he found here Father Paul was wounded for standing for his Venetians and one Barnes an Englishman led Captive to Rome for expressing himselfe too much against the Iesuits in the behalfe of Kings This Pope seems to be a more polite Scholler then many of his predecessors by the bookes he hath written and not so Barbarous as many of them have been The Lord open the eyes of all those that sit in darknesse whom the God of this world hath blinded that they may see the truth and emâ—race it AMEN 2. INto this Period fall so many varieties of high concernment that they can hardly be glanced at 1. The erecting of new Vniversities Wittemberg Frankeford Marpurg c. Especially in Germany 2. Famous writers of the Reformation Luther and Melancthoâ— in Saxony Zuinglius and Oecolampadius in Helvetia Calvin and Beza in France Peter Martyr and Zanchius from Italy with others in other places of no lesse eminency which with admired Learning and Industry have maintained Gods truth against the Tridentine Engineers of the Romanists and the voluminous Iesuits their Emissaries As also against the domestique underminings of Socinus Armiâ—ians and their partizans 3. The wasting combustians between the Imperialists and Sweadish France and Spaine Polonians and the Turke each requiring a particular History INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Luthers Reformation were not at first undertaken out of Emulation rather then conscience 2. The Difference between Lutherans and Calvinists stands in such termes of opposition as may admit of no Reconcilement 3. The conventing of the Councell of Trent were not rather for politique ends then Reforming of any thing amisse in Religionâ— 4. The voluminous Disputes and Comments of the Iesuits be not more for ostentation in Divinity then Edification 5. The Madnesse of the Auabaptists and their Enthysiasts be not as dangerous to States as the projects of the Iesuits 6. The Dissentions of Christian Princes be as advantagious to
the Church of Rome by bestowing on it the power of the Exarches and Romandiola to stop as some say Cerberus chapps with such bits least they should worry him as they had his predecessors Notwithstanding he had no mind to travell to Rome for his Coronation Quia me vestigia terrent faith he as the foxe observed concerning repairing to the Lions denne many paths lead thither but few tracts appeare of returners 3. He had many children and matched sixe of his daughters to so many Princes the seaventh remaining a virgin His usuall Motto was MELIVS EST BENE IMPERARE QVAM IMPERIVM AMPLIARE Better it is to governe well that a man hath then to inlarge his Dominions many Cities in Italy purchased their freedome of him before his death he endeavoured to settle the Empire upon his sonne Albert but it was carried against him especially by the Elector of Mentz and 2. A.C. 1291 ADOLPH Earle of Nassau had the place a man of too mean a fortune to uphold the Majesty of it Our Edward of England sent him a round snmme of mony to uphold his rights but he was forced to use it to supply his want 2. His saying was ANIMVS EST QVI DIVITES FACIT It is the mind not the Purse which makes man rich but he found by experience they would doe well togither 3. In a quarrell between him and Albert of Austria who had the better purse he was forsaken of his friends and slaine by his Enimies of whom 3. A.C. 1298 ALBERT the chiefe succeeds him This man was the Sonne and Heire of Radulphus the first surnamed Austriacus in regard of his wife Elizabeth he got Tyrol and Carinthia to be annexed to it 2. Victorious he is said to be in twelve severall Battles the most of which might be rather termed Skirmishes Of 21. children which he fathered eleaven came to age and were honourably disposed of 3. In this mans time seaven things happened very remarkable 1. The removing of the Papall seat from Rome to Avignion in France 2. The subversion of the Knights Templass 3. The setling of the Knights of St Iohns in Rhodes 4. The Scaligers in Verona and the 5. Estei in Ferrara 6. The firsti Iubilee at Rome in the West And 7. the beginnings of the Ottomans in the East 5ly His Motto is said to be QVOD OPTIMVM ILLVD ET IVCVNDISSIMVM That which is best should most take us as in it selfe most pleasant He was treacheroufly slaine by his Nephew and his complices in which place his sonnes afterward built a Monastery His successor was 4. A.C. 1308 HENRY the seaventh of Lutzeâ—burg a pious prudent and valarous Prince 2. Having composed matters in Germany he hastneth to doe the like in Italy where all discipline was out of frame Was Crowned in Rome in the Popes absence by three Cardinalls omitted no opportunity to give all content notwithstanding he was tumultuously droven out of Rome by the faction of the Vrcini and through hatred of the Florentines poysoned in the Eucharist by one Bernard an hired Monke 3. That passeth for his Motto which he uttered upon the first feeling of the operation of the Poyson CALâ—X VITAE CALIX MORTIS The Cup of life is made my death Which made way for the succession of 5. LEWIS of Bavaria an able and resolute man A.C. 1314 Against whom by the Popes faction and some Electors was set up Frederick of Austria Alberts soune and Lewis was twice excommunicated which he little regarded and was told by our Occam who stood up in his defence with this resolute saying Defendas me ô Imperator gladio ego defendam te verbo protect me with the sword and I will justify that thou doest by the word 2. In this siding on all sides Lewis having the better of Frederick they come to an agreement both keep the title of Emperours but Lewis hath the Power and right In his time the Countesse of Holland is said to have had as many Children at a Birth as there be daies in a yeare He deposed Pope Iohn the 22. and put Nicholas the fifth into his place Lyra then flourished whose Comment upon the whole Scripture is Worthily esteemed at this day 3 His Motto was SOLA BONA QVAE HONESTA Those things are only good which may stand with honesty others attribute to him this HVIVSMODI COMPARANDAE SVNT OPES QVAE CVM NAVFRAGIO SIMVL ENATENT Englished by our Queen Mary which we have in a Breviary of hers under her own hand to a certain Lady when she was Princesse to be seen in the Archives of our Oxford Library Get you such goods which may in a Shipwrack be carried away with you Some say he dyed of an Apoplexy others that he was poysoned by the Austrian faction of his competor at a Banquet in a Burgraves house in Norimberg This is agreed upon that 6. A.C. 1346 CHARLES the fourth the Kings sonne of Bohemia succeeded him Against him were set up our Edward the 3d of England Frederick of Misnia and Gunter of Swartzburg but Edward waved the dignity with such trouble Frederick was satisfied with money and Gunter poysoned 1. In his journy into Jtaly to be Crowned all was fish with him that came to nett so that for his capacity he was termed the Stepfather of the Church and this put upon him that he would sell the Empire if he might find a Chapman to gaine by the bargaine 3. But with these enormities he had joyned many excellencies As himself was Leâ—rned so he much favoured Scholers Founded the Vniversity of Prague set forth that Golden Bull called Lex Carolina wherein he requires that Emperours should be good Linguists to conferre themselves with Embassadours and prescribes what solemnity should be used in electing and authorizing Emperours according to the Eminency of their place 4. In this time florished Wicliffe and Richard Armacanus for Divinity Bartholus and Baldus for Law renowned ever since A Rattcatcher led forth with Taber and Pipe most of the Children of the Towne of Hamel in Germany who followed him into the side of a Mountaine opening and were never more after heard of The number also that dyed of the Plague in those dayes is incredible 5. His Motto was OPTIMVM EST ALIENA FRVI INSANIA It is a wise way to make use of other mens Madnesse which his sonne 7. A.C. 1378 WENCESLANUS for whom he purchased the Empire had scarce the witt to doe 1. He granted diverse Priviledges to the Noringbergers for a Load of Wine executed Barthold Swartz for inventing Gunpouder 2. Bajazâ—â—â— the furious Turke this time was like to have overrunne Europe but was recalled and overthrowne by the unresistable Tamberlane and carryed about within a Golden Cage to be trod upon as a foot-stoole when he mounted on Horseback 3. The Motto put upon him was MOROSOPHI MORIONES PESSIMI None are more pernicious Fooles then those that are between Hauke Buzzard sots in serious matters but wise enough to doe
Immogen to wife and furnish him with a Navy to seeke his fortune 3. This Navy upon a two daies sayling brought him to an Iland that few Geographers have met with named Leogitia or Lergetia There he stumbled upon an Oracle which in great devotion he consulted with in this Poeticall rapture Diva potens nemorum terror Sylvestribus apris Cui licet aufractus ire per aethereos Infernasque Domos Terrestria jura resolve Et dic quas terras nos habitare velis Dic certam sedem quâ te venerabor in avum Quae tibi virgineis templa dicabo choris Thou Goddesse that dost rule The Woods and Forrests greene And chasest foaming bores That flee thy awfull sight Thou that maist passe aloft In any skies so sheene And walke in dismall cells Through places voyd of light Discover fates behest Direct our cause aright And shew where we shall dwell According to thy will In seats of sure abode Where Temples we may dight For Virgins that shall sound Thy praise with voyces shrill It is to be supposed he was told that it was a shee Oracle of Diana with whom he complements accordingly and from whom in his sleepe he receives this gentle answere in the same straine he had courted her Brute sub occasum solis trans Gallica Rogna Insula in Oceano est undique clausa mari Insula in Oceano est habitata Gigantibus olim Nunc deserta quidem gentibus apta tuis Hanc pete namque tibi sedes erit illa perennis Hìc fiet natis altera Troia tuis Hìc de prole tua reges nascentur ipsis Totius terrae subditus orbis erit Brute farre by West beyond the Gallish land is found An Isle which with the Ocean sea inclosed is about Where Giants whilom dwelt but now is desart ground Most meet where thou maist plant thy selfe with all thy route Make thither ward with speed for there thou shalt find out An everlasting seat and Troy shall rise anew Vnto thy race of whom shall Kings triumphant sprout That with their mighty power shall all the World subdue 4. More here is said then verified and promised then performed upon this he goes on and meets with the valiant Coroneus and other Trojans in his way whom he associate to them he had 5. They arrive in France overcome Goffarius the Pictish King of Brittaine who quarrelled with them to his cost 6. From thence hoysting sailes he arrives at Totnesse in Devon Coroneus in wrestling breaks the neck of Gogmagog the Giant some say over Dover Rocks others over the Clifs of Plymmouth Howe For which and other services he is made Duke of Cornwall so called after his name 7. Brute settles the government in the rest of Albion and changeth its name into Brutaine and builds Troynovant now London leaves to his second Sonne Camber that portion then named from him Cambria now Wales to his youngest Albanack the nor therne parts termed from him ALbania But Loegria now England designed was for the inheritance of his eldest sonne 2. LOCRINE A.M. 2879 This man upon notice of his brother Albanact's death that was invaded and slaine by Humber King of Hunnes together with his brother Camber sets upon the Invader slaies him and throwes his body into the river neere the overthrow which thence at this day retaines the name of Humber 2. In this Battaile was taken the faire Lady Elstrild whom he kept for his Paramore untill his jealous wise Guendolen Coreneus of Cornewalls daughter slew him in Battle captivated the distressed Elstrild with the young Sabrina her danghter which she had by Locrine both were thrown into the River which of the daughters name is termed Sabrina or Severne 3. Afterward for a while she took the government into her own hands and mannaged it in the non-age of her sonne 3. MADAN whom she had by Locrine A.M. 2914 before the breach between them He seemed to be inheritor only of his Fathers Lusts and Mothers fiercenesse and is noted to be monstrous in the one and tyrannicall in the other 2. Ranulph Cicestren His death is reported to be correspondent to his beastly life being devoured by Wild beasts amongst which he fell in hunting leaving behind him his sonne 4. MEMPRICIUS to succeed him A.M. 2954 With him his brother Manlius callengeth an interest in the Kingdome but under colour of a Treaty he was soon dispatched out of the way 2. Sâ—cured then from Competition and opposition he plungeth himselfe into all kinds of unnaturall Lust which made him odious to his Subjects and rendred him as a prey to be intombed as his father was in the Paunches of wild beasts to make way for a better successor his sonne 5. A.M. 2974 EBRANK commended for a great builder from whom we have the Cities of Yorke Edenburgh in Scotland 2. He is farther noted to have subdued some parts of France Germany by his 20 Sonnes which he had by 21 Wives whereof the forwardest was Assaracus that led on the rest 3. His thirty daughters sisters to those Sonnes were sent into Italy to Alba Sylvius to be married to Trojane Nobility to whom the Sabines refused to joyne their Daughters Thus having plotted the propagation of the breed of Troy he leaves the prosecution to his sonne 6. A.M. 3034 BRUTE Greene-shield but he did lesse then the Green Knight is said to have done in the tale of Valentine and Orson Some say he attempted somewhat upon France and built somewhat in Britaine all as much as nothing His Sonne 7. A.M. 3046 LEILL that followed is remembred only in the name of Caerleill continued amongst us where he built a Temple and placed a Flamen Acts of devotion neglected by his predecessors In this Temple he was intombed 8. A.M. 3071 LUD Hurdibras his sonne that succeeded is more commended he appeased the stirres raised in his Fathers time 2. Builded Canterbury and Winchester and Mount Palladoure now Shaftbury where Aquila nor a bird as Geffery of Monmouth tells us but a Wisard so called was held an Oraclist 3. Some what he was also for Temples and Flamins But his sonne 9. A.M. 3100 BLADUD went beyond him He was bred in Athens and thence returned a great Mathematitian and Magitâ—an brought foure Philosophers with him which he placed in Stamford Professors having made that place a kind of an Vniversity 2. Builded Bath and by art produced those Hot Waters which yet there continue committing the conservation of them to Minerva 3. But presuming to flye with artificiall Wings and Spells he fell from Apollo's Temple now Poules in Troynovant and so ended his daies 10. LEAR his sonne took the Government A.M. 3111 and built Leicester Famous for his three daughters Gonorilla Ragan and Cordeilla The two eldest professed great love unto him till they had gotten all that he had and his Kingdome between them then their Husbands Hunnius Duke of Cornewall and Maglanus of Albany took the advantage of the forlorne old
Graston Leland 1. in setling Archflamines in London Yorke and Carleon Built Billings gate and the Tower of London 7. and so died honourably and was buried with great pompe leaving his sonne 3. A.M. 2588 GURGUINTUS to succeed him Vpon denyall of the Tribute granted to his Father Beline by Guiltdake King of Denmarke he passed thither with an Army and by Force recovered the continuance of the Payment of it 2. In his returne he mett with Captaine Partholine with a company of vagrant Spaniards that sought a place to dwell in whom he fixed in Ireland 3. This Partholines brother Cataber is said in earnest by some to have Founded the Vniversity of Cambridge Gaius 4. A.M. 3607 GUINTHOLINUS his sonne followes him the more famous for his learned and prudent Wife Martia from whom the Saxons had their Lawes Marthehelog translated unto them by King Alfred 2. He is said to have built Warwick about the time that Alexander the Great was borne leaves to succeed his sonne 5. A.M. 3640 SICILIUS guided by his mother in his nonage In his time the Picts got footing in the Marches of England and Scotland whom his sonne 6. A.M. 3642 KIMARUS a dissolute and carelesse young Prince never endeavoured to remove he was treacherously slaine in Hunting and 7. A.M. 3644 ELANIUS his sonne or brother that took his place in only named whose Bastard 8. A.M. 3652 MORINDUS had more mettell in him and was much magnified for his comely personage and courage but rashly encountring alone a Sea-monster that devoured all before him after a furious conflict he was also devoured by it leaving five sonnes of which 9. A.M. 3660 GORBOMAN proved a good Prince He repaired Temples Grafton â—ellinsh promoted Sacrifices according to the blind devotion of those dayes Built Cambridge and Grantham which others deny and say it was Canta another Towne inclosed with walls wherein some Philosophers were placed destroyed afterwards by the Saxons He dying without Issue 10. ARCHIGALLUS his brother takes the place A.M. 3671 but Deposed by the Nobles for his oppression untill the third brother 11. ELIDURUS finding him discontented in a Wood A.M. 3676 as he rode on Hunting lovingly restored him to his Royalties and then upon his death Raigned after him which was not long before 12. A.M. 3693 VIGENIUS and Peridurus the two youngest brethren bandied against him and shared his meanes betwixt them Vigenius dies and Peridurus for his cruelty was slaine by his Nobles so that Elidurus was freed out of Prison to Raigne the third time between whom and Helie there passing about 180 yeares Monometensis and others have made bold to name 33 Kings to take up that time But herein there is no agreement in names number or whether they were before Dunwallo or succeeded Elidurus Graston Hollinsh Polltdor Virgil. whereof Hollinshed hath a digression in the History of England lib. 3. c. 8. The names therefore of these Fayrie Kings may be well omitted of whom nothing is noted but the name to pitch upon 13. HELIE From him some think A.M. 3800 the I le of Elie took his name others say noe but from a multitude of Eales into which the Married Preists with their Wives and Children were transformed that refused to obey St Dunstanes Ordidinance that Preists should live single but that derivation is more probable that is deduced from Helig LLoyd which signifies in Brittish a Willow by reason of the plenty of Willowes which there grew 2. This Holye had three sonnes Lud Cassibilane and Nennius Nennius came not to raigne but 14. LUD succeeded his Father and reformed Lawes A.M. 3801 augmented Troynovant and thereupon called it Ludstowne now London His brother Nennius was offended with it conceiving thereby that the name of Troy should be forgotten Ludgate more plainly beares his name without offence 2. Some say Baynards Castle others that the Bishop of Londons Pallace was built by him for his Court 3. He left two sonnes behind him Androgeus and Theomantius who in their Nonnage fell under the protection of their Vncle Cassibellane the foreman in the next Distance 2. VVIth those times concurre 1. The latter Kings of the Persian Monarchy and former of the Greeks 2. The beginning of the Scotish Monarchy by Ferâ—usius crowned upon the fatallstone brought by Gathelus out of Spaine that hath this Inscription Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum Invenient Lapidem regnare tenentur Ibidem Except old sawes do faine and Wissards witts be blind The Scotts in place shall raigne where they this stone shall find 3. Aspiring of the Romanes to overtop all those that had gone before them INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Any of Mulmutius Dunwallo's or Marcian's lawes may be now distinctly shewen 2. Brennus that sacked Rome were a Britan or a Gaule 3. Irelands first Inhabitants were Spanish exiles under the conduct of Captaine Partheline 4. The Vniversity of Cambridge were Founded by Cantaber Captaine Parthelin's Brother 5. Morindus encountring alone the Seamonster express'd not more vanity then vaâ—lour 6. The Transforming of Marryed Preists into Eales be not as hansome a Metamorphosis as any in Ovid 7. It were not surly vnadvisednesse in a Senator of Rome to hassard his owne head and of many others for some incivility offered to the gravity of his Beard Romane Tributaries DISTANCE V. THE fifth Distance is extended to King Lucius the first Christian that Raigned among the Britaines and begins with 1. A.M. 3095 CASSIBILLANE in whose time the Britaines were first Conquered and made Tributaries to the Romanes 2. He was brother to Lud and had the Kingdome cast upon him by reason of the nonâ—age of Luds sonnes Androgeus and Theomantius 3. Iulius Caesar at that time imployed in the subduing Gallia being informed they had underhand supplies from Britaine takes vantage thereupon to invade the Ile where partly by Stormes at Sea that wracked his Navy partly by Valour of the Inhabitants under this Kings conduct Territa quaesitis ostendit terga Britannis He Britanes sought but Force to quell did lack And like a Coward shew'd his fearefull back As Pompey in the Poet object 's to his disgrace 4. Lucan Our writers say farther that Nennius the Kings brother meeting with Caesar hand to hand got his sword from him but with it a knock on the pate Monomelens that cost him his life within fifteene dayes after 5. At length upon a quarrell between the King and his Nephew Aadrogeus concerning one Evelin who had slaine the Kings kinsman and was countenanced therein by the young Prince matters came to that height that Androgeus revolts and calls back Caesar from France and assisteth him to the overthrow of his Country This rendred him so hatefull that Cassibellane dying without Issue the younger sonne of Lud 2. A.M. 3921 THEOMANTIUS was preferr'd to the place He quietly paid the Tribute to the Romanes which his vnkle had promised to Caesar administred Iustice at home and protected his Subjects from Forreigners
handsomenesse and comely dauncing which by chance he beheld among her country companions 2. After the overthrow of Harold with little lesse then the losse of 68000 men on both sides in Battle field he quickly brought under the rest of the Kingdome The Kentish men circumvent him by a stratageme and thereby retained their ancient Customes and Liberties 2. Edgar Etheling the right heire formerly wronged by Harold with the discontented Earles Edwin and Morcar make some resistance but to no purpose Edgar flyes with his Mother and Sisters into Scotland where King Malcolme entertaining them nobly takes Margaret his Sister to Wife and by his constant and effectuall standing for him Edgar was reconciled unto the Conquerour and had Royall allowance from him 3. To those insurrections that here vexed him his eldest sonne Robert added a more unnaturall in Normandy which he hastening to appease was in Battle Vnhorsed by his own sonne whom upon submission he was content to pardon for the time 4. The Church found no friend of him whose Revenues he alienated and burthened with unusuall taxes not sparing the poore meanes of Vniversity Colledge in Oxford which must be diverted from the Students 5. Besides the imposing of the Norman Lawes he left the Doomesday Booke in the Exchequer containing a Survay in generall of all England For a groat to short in payment of some dues required he forced the Monkes of Ely to lay downe a 1000 markes notwithstanding for all this the Pope bucks him and allowes his doings and Title 6. He depopulated about thirty miles in compasse Cambden iâ— Hantshire and outed the Inhabitants to make a forrest for Wild-beasts which pleasured not himselfe so much as it proved unluckie to his Posterity The plainnesse of these times of Letting Lands is worth the comparing with the intricate prolixity of our times Then it passed for good From me and mine to thee and thine As good and as faire as ever they mine were To witnesse that this is sooth I bite the white waxe with my tooth But now we find it otherwise 7. After all these transactions abroad he is summoned by Death as he was in Normandy but had the place of his buriall compounded for before he was interred and then the Grave proved too little for him that had proved so great a Conqueror in the World His second sonne 2. A.C. 1087 WILLIAM Rufus by Arch-Bishop Lanfrankes working for him gets the place 1. He is strongly opposed by his elder brother Robert whom he calmeth with promising faire words without performance and Robert joynes in the famous expedition to the Holy Laud with Godfrey of Bullaine 2. As his Father began so he persisted to withstand Papall intrusions He sleighted the Popes Binding Loosing and held it bootlesse to invocate Saints Curbed Anselme Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and taxed the then swelling Clergy for their Pride Luxury Idlenesse and Avarice Heard a Disputation of the Iewes who bribed him to favour them against the Christians but they lost the day and their mony togither 3. A Groome of his chamber on a time bringing him a paire of Breeches of three shillings price was blamed of him and commanded to furnish him with a paire fit for a King that should cost a marke He goes and presenting him with a meaner paire which he said cost so much yea Bellamy or by St Lucies face saith the King they are well bought such was the frugality of those times and difference from ours 4. His liberality to Religious persons and places shewes that he was not voyd of Religion though he could not endure Appeales to Rome and his building the Towre in London and Westminster Hall of 270 foot in length and 74 in breadth are sufficient testimonies of his Magnificence 5. His death was casuall by the glance of an arrow from a tree Cambden in Hantshire ex G. Mapes shot by Sir Walter Tirrell at a Stagge in the New Forrest wherein foure Abbies and thirty fixe Parish Churches had been demolished with the removing of all the Inhabitants to make roome for Beasts or Doggs game as one calls it Rex cervum insequitur Regem vindicta Tyrellus Non bene provisum transfixit acumine ferri The King the Stagge vengeance the King doth chase Tyrells hard hap concludes this Tragick case Also Richard his brother and Robert his Nephew came to their untimely ends in the same place so dangerous it is to prove Abaddons especially in consecrated things A Colliars Cart that removes him thence brake in the way and left him in the dirt whence he was after taken and buried as a King in Winchester dying without issue his Scepter descended to his brother 3. A.C. 1100 HENRY the first surnamed Beauclark for his Learning He was wont to say that an unlearned King was a Crowned Asse 1. Great stirres he had with his brother Robert who returning from Ierusalem where he was made King to possesse England but missed of it and at length lost Normandy togither with his eyes by his unnaturall brother 2. He Married Maud King Malcolmes daughter of Scotland by her Mother Margaret lineally descended from Edmund Ironside to strengthen his title to the Kingdome 3. As his predecessors did so he stoutly denyes the Popes incroachings Curbs Anselme that continued Romes agent establisheth the Lawes of Edward the Confessor Holinshed and addes other convenient of his owne 4. A.C. 1114 He is said to have held the first Parliament which he ordained should consist of Three Estates of which himself was the Head Martin A great Bickering began in his time between Canterbury and Yorke for priority which continued a long time after till Canterbury carried it And Cardinall Cremensis the Popes Legate sent hither to interdict Priests Marriages was taken in the Act with a common strumpet which he excused in saying he was no Priest himselfe but a corrector of them 5. The drowning of his sonne William with diverse other Nobles was repaired in some sort by the Marriage of Maud his Daughter first with Henry the fifth Emperour of Germany and he dying without Issue next with Jeffery Plantagenet Earle of Anjoy by whom she had Henry Fitz Empresse Heire apparant to the Crowne But his Grand-father dying unexpectedly by eating of Lampresse and he not upon the place 4. STEPHEN of Blois steps in A.C. 1135 sonne to Adeliza daughter to the Conquerour and holds it which was the cause of no small stirres and blood-shed especially it being against his Oath which he had taken with the Nobles for the Empresse Mauds succession and first brake it The Bishops excused it that it was for the good of the Church but Perjury promotes not Piety 2. Lesse he could not expect then continuall oppositions from the Empresse and her sonne Henry to recover their right wherein after various successe and windings on either side At the Battle of Liucolne notwithstanding his Herculian laying about him with his slaughtering Axe the King himselfe was taken Prisoner
indelible Character of Antichristian cruelty 3. The successe of usurpations which as most commonly they are undertaken with treacherous cruelty so ever they are attended with Repinings Insurrections Massacres and ending alwaies in shame and confusion INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Henry the fourth for Policy Henry the fifth for Valour Henry the sixth for Sanctity exceeded most of their Predecessors 2. Those may be justly censured for Traytors that take up Armes against a manifest V. surper 3. Henry the fourth repented on his Death-bed the wrong usurping of the Crowne 4. Henry the fift's dissolutenesse in his youth experienced him the better to governe 5. King Henry the sixth were a better Christian then King 6. His Queenes violentstirring did not rather hurt then further his cause 7. Ioan of Orleance were no other but as Magdalene Blewbeard and Jack Cade amongst us a cheating Impostrix The House of Yorke DYNAST V. SECT III. THE three of the House of Lancaster having thus Acted more then their parts three other of the House of Yorke succeed upon a better Title of whom the first was 1. A.C. 1461 EDWARD the fourth 1. He by main Valour overthrew Queene Margaret and her Partizans that opposed his Title 2. But by suddain Marriage at home with the Lady Gray a Widdow when he had ingaged himselfe by the Earle of Warwick to the Lady Bona of France he exasperated Warwick against him who with much bloud-shed at length Vnâ—rownes him and restores Henry againe yet living 3. Edward by the Duke of Burgoyne recollects himselfe and with the help of his Brethren Richard of Glocester and George of Clarence who formerly had taken part with Warwick overthrowes Warwick with his Complices and kills him in Bornet Fields Imprisoneth King Henry againe in the Tower where he is Murthered most say by the Duke of Glocester as his sonne Prince Edward was afterward at Tewxbury where the House of Lancaster had the last overthrow In those catching times a Iest of one Burdet a Mercer in Cheapside telling his sonne if he would ply his book he should be heire to the Crowne meaning his owne house that had that Signe cost him his life 4. He sets on foot his Title to France enters upon it with an Army but comes to Composition represses the Scottish incursions by Glocester his Brother and brings them to such Tearmes as he liked 5. George Duke of Clarence his brother clapt into the Tower some say for Treason others from a Dreame the King had that one whose name began with Gâ—should ruine him and his posterity was shortly after found drowned in a Butt of Malmesey The King sickneth upon this and 't is thought hastned to his end by the same hand and leaving the Crowne to his sonne 2. EDWARD the fifth A.C. 1483 who of the age of thirteene comming from Ludlow to London to be Crowned was Trayterously seazed on by his perfidious Vncle the Duke of Glocester the Duke of Buckingham and the Lord Hastings 2. Glocester gets himselfe to be Protector and under pretence of safe Custody mewes up the King with his younger Brother Richard in the Tower procures himselfe to be Proclaimed King by the name of 3. RICHARD the third 1. A.C. 1483 He endeavouring to make a League with the French was deservedly rejected for his Villanies 2. By meanes of Sr Iames Terrill Forrest and Dighton King Edward the fifth with his brother Richard were Smothered in the Tower between two Featherbeds 3. The Bishop of Elie Doctor Morton put the Duke of Buckingham upon the Plott of unkinging Richard and setting the Crowne on Henry of Richmond then beyond the Seas who to make good his Title should Marry with the Princesse Elizabeth King Edwards Eldest Daughter 4. Buckingham looseth his life in the pursuit Morton escapeth to animate Henry in the prosecution 5. Richard plotted by corruption to have Henry made away but to no purpose His Queene Anne dies suddainly to make way for his plotted Incestuous Marriage with Elizabeth his Neece 6. Henry of Richmond Lands at Milford Hauen the Welchmen and others flock unto him 7. Henry and Richard meet at Bosworth Field where the Tyrant after desperate Valour shewen is slaine by Henry his Corrivall How odious his Tyranny was to all appeares somewhat by these Rimes made against his Partakers The Ratt the Catt and Lovell the Dogg Rule all England under the Hogge And Lockey of Norfolke be not too bold For Dickon thy Master is bought and sold This put an end to the bloody contentions between Yorke and Lancaster In which were Fought here in England tenne set Battels five in Henry the sixt dayes The Battell first of St Albones 2. Black-heath 3. Northampton 4. Wakefield 5. Tawton and so many more in the Raigne of King Edward the fourth 1. Exham 2. Banbury 3. The Battell of Loosecoats 4. Barnetfield 5. Tewxbury bâ—sides this concluding Bettle at Bosworth which put a period to the Raigne of the Plantagenets 2. COoncurrant with this Dynasty were 1. the continued persecution of the Waldenses and Hussites which here in England had their share under the name of Lollards 2. The Deposing by the Pope of George Pogeibracius King of Hungary for Favouring them 3. The base and blasphemous Rosary of the Dominican Fryers set on foote by Alanus de Rupe who sware that the blessed Virgin was Married unto him whoÌ„ he makes a Midwife and a Gossip to one Lucia calling her sonne Marianus which being worthyly inveighed against by our Mr Fox in his Martyrology out of an old Manuscript yet hath of late been set forth againe with more trash of the same sinke expressed with artificiall Pictures and Dedicated to the Princes Isabella Clara Eugenia 4. With these notwithstanding contemporize the never to be forgotten Scourgers of the Turkes John and Mathew Huniades with the renowned Scanderbeg and nearer home 5. the French maintainers of the Pragmaticall sanction and our Fortescue a great Assertor of our Lawes with others INQVIRES 2. Whether 1. Edward the fourth be more to be commended for his Vabour then censured for his Lascivious Vanities 2. His Death were hastned by finister means 3. Burdet of Cheapside had not hard measure to be hanged for a lest concerning his Signe of the Crowne which had no relation to the Crowne of the Kingdome 4. Edward the fifth were Smothered in the Tower or dyed of greife and sicknesse 5. Perkin Warbeck were a Counterfeit or really Richard Duke of Yorke conveyed out of the Tower 6. It were likely that Richard the third had His is Arme withered by the Witchcrafts of the Queene Mother and Jane Shore 7. The horrid Crimes and deformities he is charged with were rather forged by Malevolents then proved The Tudors DYNAST VI. THe fourteene Plantagenets thus expiring with Richard the third Five Tudors take their turnes in this manner 1. A.C. 1485 HENRY the seaventh by marrying Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the fourth unites both the Houses of Yorke and Lancaster 2. He was much vexed by
King Henry the eight Vnhorsed him King Edward the sixth Banished him Queen Mary indeed recalled him and with some hot Waters revived him so the Heroick Queene Elizabeth set him packing againe And her Learned successor King James hath so stab'd and branded him with his Penne that his Sonne our Sacred King CHARLES is too well Catechized and throughly grounded for permitting him to have any setling here or countenance hereafter To these times are referred the famous Sea-fight of Lepanto and 88. wherein Turke and Pope felt Gods hand against them INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Henry the seavenths surest claime to the Crowne were from his Queen Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the fourth 2. The executing of Edward Plantagenet the young harmelesse Earle of Warwicke ill became a Statist that professed Christiaenity 3. Henry the eight proved a better Defender of the Faith by rejecting the Popes Supremacy then retaining it 4. Edward the sixt's Reformation be free from the most and greatest exceptions that Novelists have made against it 5. The Martyring of Protestants in Queene Maries daies were not rather through the blondinesse of some Praelates then out of her own disposition 6. There were ground to suspect that Queen Elizabeth ever conspired against her Sister 7. Her passing the Statute of improvement hath not conduced more to the benefite of the Church and Vniversities then the Benificence of many of the chiefest Founders put together The Stuarts DYNAST VII THE Tudors breathing out their last Excellent in Elizabeth STUARTS take their turne by an Vnquestionable Title as Lineally descended from Margaret the eldest Daughter of Henry the seventh of these we have enjoyed 1. IAMES the first of England but sixt of Scotland Rex Pacificus 1. He attained the Crowne without the least Contradiction but greatest applause of all 2. For his Constancy and admirable Ability in maintaing the Truth of the Gospell against Popery Two Treasons were Plotted against Him that of the Preists Watson and Clarke with others misled by them and that Prodigious Project of the GVN-POWDER VILLANY Pope Clement the eight had formerly charged his Cronies here in England by a Bull not to admit Him King without a Toleration first obtained But God be praised it lay not in his Holinesse disposing 3. His exquisite Learning and exact Iudgment in Divinity was eminently apparent in the Conference at Hampton Court in his Publique Disputations in the Vniversities and interposiing his Censure in the weightiest Matters And last of all in his excellent Works set forth to the view of the World in one Volume 4. Now as these admirable Parts of his were a Curbe to the Schismaticall humours at Home so his Advice and Aide availed especially in composing differences abroad amongst the Reformed Churches To this end He sent certain Select and Worthy Divines to the Synod of Dort and his Letters to others whereby the world might witnesse how truly he stuck to his Motto REX PACIFICVS He caused the Bible to be Translated into English by Select Devines and set forth more exactly then formerly it had been done 5. And so this blessed Peacemaker when He had Peaceably Raigned Twenty two Yeares and upward in Peace departed in his Bed leaving his Peaceable Raigne and Virtues to his SONNE 2. CHARLES the first whom God of his Infinite mercy preserve to Raigne long over us c. 2. MEmorable things in King Jame's time serioussy to be commendad to Posterity are 1. The Translation of the Holy Scripture into English more accurately then it had beene formerly performed 2. The Conference at Hampton Court for the examining and setling Church Discipline against nibbling Sectaries 3. His sending Divines to the Councell of Dort and interposing for upholding Truth and Virtue against Innovators abroad 4. His quelling the Popes utmost forces drawne up by the Iesuits in point of Supremacy so that since that defeat we have little heard of it 5. The setting forth of his Works concerning matters of Divinity and State and sending them to be Libraried in both his Vniversities the like cannot be shewed of any Prince whatsoever 5. His enlarging the Priviledges of the Vniversities by granting them Burges in Parliament and Augmenting the Professors places in Divinity Law and Physick with ample and magnificent Additions 6. His miraculous discovery of the Popish Powderploet And thereupon the contriving of the Oath of Allegiance to discover true-hearted Romanists from Traytors and setting a day apart for solemnizing the remembrance of so admirable a Deliverance 7. Lastly in his time brake out that desolating Germane Warre which he endeavoured to prevent but God hath reserved to himselfe wholy to extinguish for which and the like pacifications all true Christians are bound to PRAY INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Parsons Doleman against King Jame's Title to the Crowne of England were not as ridiculous as perfidious 2. Learning ever more flourished in these Kingdomes then in King Jame's and Queene Elizabeth's dayes 3. The like Library can be shewen to that Erected by the Famous Sr Thomas Bodley in the Vniversity of OXFORD throughout the World 4 The Beneficence of Sr Henry Savill for Mathematique Professors or Mr William Cambden Clarentius for History or Sr Iohn Sedley and Dr White for Philosophy and of other for other Faculties have not exceeded the Liberality of most former times 5. The Building in these times for private or publique Vses have not equalized or outvied the Magnificence of former Ages 6. Discoveries Plantations and Trades abroad were ever more frequent or better Thrived 7. Any Nation have proved more ungratfull for such Multiplied Blessings then this of Ours for which especially we now justly Suffer Concerning History of Professions As also Naturall Various and Vaine Narrations 1. FRom the Histories of Successions in States or Families there will be an easy descent to the Histories of Professions Designing the Famous men in all kind of Faculties 2. Wherein a briefe may be taken of the Lives and Workes of 1. PHILOLOGISTS 2. HISTORIANS 3. MATHEMATICIANS 4. PHILOSOPHERS 5. PHYSICIANS 6. LAWYERS 7. DIVINES 3. These make up the Seven courses of the Encyclopaedia so much aimed at by roaving Witts which catch at all and take nothing in regard they fixe not upon one certain Study and make not the rest subservient unto it 4. PHILOLOGY takes up in its walke 1. Grammer 2. Rhetorique 3. Pâ—etry 4. Logicke 5. Anagnosticke or the method of reading Authors profitably 6. Critiques See Polanus de legendiâ— Authoribus cum fructu Alsted Encyclop Vossius de Historicis corrective and directive 7. Didactiques or the Art of teaching others with facility which we have learned by great industry 5. In HISTORY the Lives of the Ancient and Moderne Writers may be looked after in that particular especially we desire to be informed of which is observed by diverse of our Chroniclers more fully by Mr Isaacson and Sir Richard Baker 6. For MATHEMATIQUES the Lives of 1. Arithmeticians 2. Geometricians 3. Perspectivists 4.
Cincius Fregepanius who set upon the Conclave bang'd the Cardinalls unhors'd the new Pope untill the people rescued him and made Fregepane submitt 2. Then the Emperour Henry came upon him and set up one Maurice Burdine by the name of Gregory the eight against him so that he was constrayned to fly into France where he shortly dyed of a Pluresie haveing first Excommunicated the Emperour freed the Templers from the subjection to the Patriarch of Ierusalem Burdine the Emperours man could not hold the place But 23. A.D. 1119 CALIXTUS the second a Burgundian gott it 2. He continues the Excommunication against the Emperour in a Councell of Germany makes the Emperour yeeld unto him and so absolves him but abuses his Pope Gregory whom he had made by setting of him upon a Camell with his face towards the tayle and then thrusting him shauen into a Monastâ—y 3. He appointed the foure Fasts decreed it Adultery for a Bishop to forsake his Sea was much against Preists Marryages whereupon our Simon of Durham made the verses O bone calixte nunc omnis clerus odit te Quondam Presbyteri potâ—rant uxoribus uti Hoc destruxisti postquam tu Papa fuisti Ergo tuum merito nomen habent odio The Clergy the now good Calixtus hate The heretofore each one might have his Mate But since thou gotten hast the Papall throne They must keep Puncks or learn to Lig alone 24. HONORUS the second an Italian comes next A.D. 1124 but with great opposition of two others that were set up against him 2. From this man John Cremensis was sent hither into England to dash Preists Marriages But in his greatest heat of urging his Commission he was found a Bed with a Whore 3. Platina tels us that one Arnulphus Bale adds an Englishman was Martyred in Rome for Preaching against the Clergies pompe and luxury His Countryman 25. INNOCENT the second enters upon the place A.D. 1130 he was opposed by an Antipope ealled Anacletus backt by Roger King of Sicily who forced this Pope to fly into Germany and France to be righted 2. The Emperour Lotharius with an Army setled him in his seat 3. But Roger King of Sicily hath another bout with him Imprisoneth him and his Cardinalls till he had gotten of him to be pronounced King of both Scicilies which was done and then Scicily was reckoned St Peters Patrimony So easie it was then for Popes to bestow Kingdoms in which neither by Divine nor humane Law could they clayme any interest His successor a Tuscan 26. A.D. 1143 CaeLESTINUS the second put in by Conradus the Emperour sate so short a time that nothing is noted of him not much longer remained 17. LUCIUS the second a Bononian A.D. 1144 for when he went about to abrogate the Office of Patricians and with Souldiers beset the Capitoll he was so pelted with stones by the Citizens that he soone resigned his life and place to 28. EUGENIUS the third a Pisan St Barnards Scholer A.D. 1145 to whom he wrote his Books of Confideration 2. But Eugenius more considered the enlarging of his place and power and therefore would not permitt the Romanes to chuse their owne Senatours nor their Patricians to beare any sway 3. This grew to such a quarrell that the Pope was faine to leave Rome and fly into France whence after some time and matters accommodated he returned and dyed at Tyber 29. A. 1153 ANASTASIUS the fourth took his place a Romane but did nothing in it worth the noting only he gave a great Chalice to the Church of Laterane whilst William our Arch-bishop of Yorke was poysoned in the Chalice 30. A. 1154 ADRIAN the fourth an Englishman succeeds before called Nicholas Brack-speare 2. This man would not suffer the Consuls in Rome to have any power and condemned Arnold of Brixia for an Heretique in holding with them 3. He quarrelled with Frederick the Emperour for not holding Hostler like his stirrop and afterwards Excommunicates him for clayming his rights and writing his name before the Popes for which the Emperour defends himselfe by a Letter 4. Great stirres there were also between him and William of Scicily concerning Apulia wherein William had the better and at length gott to be stiled King of both Sciciles 5. When with his Cardinals he had conspired to ruine the Emperour and had sent a Counterfeit to stabb him and an Arabian to poyson him he was choackt with a fly that gott into his Throat which verified that he was wont to repeat often There is no kind of life upon earth more wretched then to be a Pope Yet this lessened not 31. A. 1159 ALEXANDER the third an Hetrurian but that he opposed his Soveraigne in a more treacherous manner 2. He was chosen indeed in a strong Factionâ— of Victor Paschalis Calixtim Innocentius all clayming the place 3. The Emperour comes to Papia for to appease the stirrs sends for Alexander who insteed of obeying Excommunicates the Emperour and his Oposites and by the French Kings favour and his owne Purse settles himselfe in Rome 4. The Emperour comes with an Army to correct his insolency but Hartman Bishop of Brixia by effectuall perswasions turnes him from the Pope against the Saracens 5. There being Victorious and returning he was surprised by the Popes Treason who had sent his exact Counterfeit to the Souldan that he might not misse in laying wait for the man 6. Being apprehended therefore with his Chaplaine as they went to Bath themselves in a River of Armenia brought before the Souldan the Picture discovered him The Souldan uses him nobly appoints his Ransom then guards him home as farre as Brixia 7. The Princes of the Empire unite to revenge the prodigious Treason the Pope betakes himselfe to Venice where Duke Sebastian protects him Otho the Emperours Sonne is sent with an Army to hemme him in and not to fight untill his Fathers comming This charge he neglecting is overthrowne and taken Prisoner 8. The good Father to preserve his Soune is forced to submit in St Marks Church in Venice He prostrates himselfe before the Pope who setting his foot on his Neck with that of the Psalmist in his mouth Super Aspidem Basiliscum Thou shalt walk upon the Serpent and Adder and the Emperour replying non tibi sed Petro the Beast goes on mihi Petro to me as well as to Poter 9. This end after much trouble had that remar kable businesse The Pope gratified the Venetians as he had reason made his conditions with the Emperour at his pleasure and so returnes to Rome 10. Henry the second our King was much vexed by this Pope for the death of Thomas Becket of Canterbury whom the Pope made St Thomas for withstanding his King Soveraigne And upon the Kings submission to the lash granted to Him and his Heyres the Title of the Kings of England Hinc autem observatum est saith Flatina ut omnes Anglici à Romano Pontifice Regni jura recognoscant
Hence it is observed that all Kings of England must acknowledge the Pope for their Land-Lord In this proud Popes time the poore Waldenses stood up for the truth and increased amongst all persecutions To this Pope Nicholas Maniacutius wrote mad verses extant in Onuphrius where he concludes Scimus Alexandrum per soecula commemorandum As long 's there is a Goose or Gander We must remember Alexander He kept the place 21 yeares and more 32. LUCIUS the third his Countryman sooner quirted it An. 1181 1. At his Election by the Cardinals the Romanes were so much exasperated that they abused all his Partizans setting them upon Asses with their faces backwards and disgraceing them with the like Contumelies for offering to abolish their Consuls 2. The Pope gets to Verona and condemnes their doings exhorts the Christians to resist Sultan Saladine in the East but to no purpose somewhat he did for Luca where he was borne gives over to 33. VRBANE the third a Millenois A.D. 1185 He animates the Christians against Victorious Saladine and would have Excommunicated the Emperour Crantzius because he honoured not his Holinesse in all his projects whence some termed him Turbanus but he was prevented by death As also was 34. A.D. 1187 GREGORY the eight an Apulian his Successour who was very earnest the same way to set the Christians upon the Saracens that the Popes might rule all in their absence 2. Endeavouring to agree the Pisans and Genuans he was poysoned as t is thought amongst them 35. A.D. 1188 CLEMENT the third a Romane that Succeeded him prevailed more in setting forth the expedition against the Saracens 2. For upon his instigation Frederick the Emperour Philip of France and our Richard Cordelion with other Worthies undertook the businesse but performed little 3. Vpon the death of William of Scicily this Pope puts in to make that Country Tributary to Rome but the Scicilians found an Heyre Tancred Williams base Sonne to hold it 4. He Excommunicated the Danes for maintaining the Marriage of their Clergy but composed the dissention about superiority between the Citizens of Rome and the Clergy by granting the Senators and Patricians their right Which controversie had continued from Innocent the second to this Clement the third fifty yeares together 36. A.D. 1191 CELESTINE the third a Romane that succeeds being an old man yet is for this holy Warre as his Predecessors had bin for having a sting at Tancred of Sicily he gets Constance King Rogers lawfull Daughter out of a Nunnery and Marries her to the Emperour Henry the sixth with condition that he should out Tancred and admitt the Pope a sharer in the conquered Kingdome 2. When Henry came with his Empresse Constance to be Crowned by him in Rome he did it not with his hands but feet setting it on and spurning it off againe with this saying per me Reges regnant I have power to make and unmake Emperours 3. He sets all Princes almost together by the Eares that Rome might gain by making them friends Whereupon Vspergensis cries out rejoyce ô Mother Rome because all rivers of Treasures flow into thy Ocean c. Hellish was this Celestine but 37. INNOCENT the third a Campanian that follows A.D. 1198 more contraried his name 2. He held the great Councell of Laterane under pretence of recovering Jerusalem but it was for deposing the Emperour for witholding as it was pretended some Church-rights At which time Anricular Confession was established and the Cup taken from the Layty in the Communion 3. It was this Popet resolution against Philip the Emperour only because he was chosen without his liking Either I will Vn-crowne him or he shall Vn-throne me Whereupon he raysed the Otho 's against him who at length slew him And yet this Champian could not so please the Pope but upon clayme of the Imperiall rights he must needs be Excommunicated 4. He bore a heavy hand over our King Iohn deposed him interdicts the Kingdome for six years together upon his restoring by his Legate Pandulph tynes it at the yearely rent of 1000 Marks to be held of the Pope in Fee-farme 5. He was terrible against Preists Marriages whereupon we have these Verses by an Oxford man Prisciani regula penitus cassatur Sacerdos per Hic Haec olim declinatur Nune per Hic solum articulatur Cùm per nostrum Praesulem Haec amoveatur Old Priscians rule hence forth must hold no more 'T was Hic Haec Sacerdos heretofore But now poore Hic must lye alone perforce For his deare Haec our Prelate doth diverce And an 100 were burnt in one day in Alsatia for holding the free use of meates and Matrimony Almericus Bones were burnt after his death because living he had spoken against Images in Churches This man must have all differences between Princes devolved to his Decision After him 38. A. 1216 HONORIUS the third a Romane continues to be a Stickler for the holy Land 2. He Crownes Frederick the Nunne Constanc's Sonne against Otho the 4th and notwithstanding for clayming his rights afterwards Excommunicates him 3. Confirmes the Orders of Dominick and Francis and sets them against the Waldenses grounded upon certaine Dreames which Innocent his Predecessor had fore-boading these mens service in that behalfe 4. He caused 400 Scotts to be hanged and their Children Gelded for burning their Bishop who had Excommunicated them in his owne Kitching and exacted by Otho his Legate of every Cathedral amongst us Two Prebends to help to pay scores of Mother Laterane which gave occasion to this Rime O Pater Honori multorum nate dolori Est tibi decors vivere vade mori O Father Honori borne for a sad story To live is it glory Death is to good for ye So he died and left a worse in his place 39. A. 1227 GREGORY the ninth a Campanian This man thrice Excommunicated Frederick the Emperour whom he had sent to recover the Holy Land that he at the more case might get Apulia and Lombardy from him in his absence 2. With much adoe and at a deare rate the Emperour gets his absolution but his Holinesse raiseth new stirres against him that so exasperate him that Satynicall verses as it were of defyance past between them Many of the Clergy suffered in the broyles amongst which the Popes brother was hanged for his Treasons 3. Dominick Francis and Anthony of Padua are Canonized a deadly feud fell between the Papaline Guelphes and Imperiall Gibelines which in a manner to this day continues 4. To affront the opinion that the Pope was Antichrist strongly urged by the Waldenses and the Emperours Preachers out of the Revelation of S. Iohn Cyrill a Grecian the third president of the White Fryars or Carmelites obtrudes certain tables of silver written as he said by Gods own finger and delivered him to publish which shew an other gats progresse of the Church then the Apocalips foretell and are illustrated by the Comments of Abbat Ioachim Gulielmus Cisterciencis