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A14210	The Romane conclaue VVherein, by way of history, exemplified vpon the liues of the Romane emperours, from Charles the Great, to Rodulph now reigning; the forcible entries, and vsurpations of the Iesuited statists, successiuely practised against the sacred maiestie of the said empire: and so by application, against the residue of the Christian kings, and free-states are liuely acted, and truely reported. By Io. Vrsinus ante-Iesuite.; Speculum Jesuiticum. English	Beringer, Joachim.; Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 24526; ESTC S118919	126,713	245

yours not so at leastwise in such worldly maner as you vse it For being nouell and conuersant in pompeous habiliments in Lordlie appellations in rich patrimonies in commerce in treaties inuestiture of Princes in maintaining of garrisons in rigging of gallies in entertaining of noble men and captaines for seruice how can it chuse but by plots and deuises to maintaine these worldly charges and titulary honors cleane contrary to the example of Christ the doctrine of the Apostles and the modesty of the Primitiue Church you shall bee constrained to mingle the leuen of the Lord with the abomination of Baal and in stead of preaching and praier your sole function to spend your times in perfecting and preuenting your own imaginations and your enemies designements For I know the kingdome of heauen is not of this world neither will flesh and blood respect you as they ought if as you say you should carry lowly shewes and truely practise Christian humilitie but you know where your reward is laid vp Imitate this good Emperor and thinke with your selues that in this he followed your sayings and not your doings Imitate you your sayings but saie and doe and then will the world turne their bitter reprehensions to sweetest Sonnets in praise and admiration of your liues Embassies And here I craue pardon for digression Againe to the History Albeit most of the Princes of Germanie Ecclesiasticall and secular namely Eberhard of Salisburg Seyfrid of Ratisbone Sibot of Augusta Bishops Leopold of Austria Otho of Merouia and Barnard of Carinthia Dukes with many other Nobles did to their vtmost labour with the Pope to reconcile his displeasure against Caesar then residing at Capua yet could not his Maiesty obtaine promise of pardon vntill he had giuen assurance to pay into the Churches exchequer by the hands of the Master of the Teutonick order the summe of one hundred and twenty thousand ounces of gold Is this to forgiue thy brother seauenty times seuen Or can sinne and trespasses be washed away by Masses of mony O impudent merchant Antichristian impostor The price being made pardon followeth and the Emperor inuited to a riotous feast where amongst many dishes simulata Amicitia I assure you is carried vp for a seruice For the Emperor was scarce vpon his way towards Germanie to represse the sonne of Henrie who with the Lombards and Thuscians had rebelled against him but he is openly giuen to vnderstand by the Princes that by messengers in the name of the Bishop they haue strict commandement not to acknowledge any man of the Emperors family for King and moreouer that hee had conspired with the states of Italie to disgrade him of all imperiall iurisdiction Whereat Caesar being full of discontent hauing tamed his rebells hee plagueth the mutinous Cities of Hetruria and Lombardie The Pope is now become more then mad and to disgorge melancholy for otherwise it will stifle him againe the third time he curseth the Emperor with book bell and candle And to be sure at this blow to tumble him quite downe from the height of all Imperiall dignity first hee treateth a league with the Venetians Then by the counsel of the Kings of France and England hee summoneth a councell to be celebrated at Rome in the Lateran wherein is a great dispute about the vtter abolishment of the regall authority of Fredericke Before the first sitting the heads of the Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul with due solemnity are carried round about the City And lastly in the Cathedrall Church of Saint Peter he maketh a sermon full of Commiseration proclaimeth the Croisado and promiseth life euerlasting to as many as shall take vp armes against his Maiestie Frederick being giuen to vnderstand that the Croisado was now proclaimed against him which was neuer from the daies of Adam heard of to be divulged against any but Turks and Infidels waxeth exceeding angry and directeth his forces to the walls of Rome combatteth with the Romanes rowteth them with a miserable slaughter and spareth not a man marked with the Crosse To some crosse-wayes he commanded foure words to be giuen Others had their heads clouen a crosse and the Clergie-men hee willed to be shauen to the quick and the signe of the crosse to be imprinted vpon their bald pates that so they who were but said to be signed with the Crosse might be so signed indeed Afterward by a long and tedious siege hauing forced Furentia and hearing that the Pope had sent forth his Legats to summon the English and French Prelats to the Councell he shutteth vp by sea and by land all passages and by the seruice of the Pisans taketh some Cardinals and many Prelates passing by sea and committeth them to prison Two Cardinals hee drowneth and assigneth to the gallowes some Abbots and Bishops but especially the Popes brother for their vnpardonable treasons Whereupon this good holy father sorrowing to see so many of the Lords annointed for treason to be so sharply vsed by Frederick became so moued and distempered at the indignity that falling into sicknesse through griefe of minde hee departed the same way which his beloued Sons had but lately foregone Celestine the fourth succeedeth and intendeth to proceed in the steps of his predecessor against Frederick had not death summoned him to attend another businesse in a fitter place For hee sate Bishop but eighteene daies and then was poisoned in drinking Innocentius the third succeeded whilom the Emperours deuotest friend but now his most bitter enemy persecuting his Maiesty with more furie then any of his deceased predecessors And thus it fell out Baldwin the Grecian Emperor hoping to play the part of a good Christian in supplying the office of him who was vtterly degenerated from all remembraunce of his owne function and calling laboured what hee could to set vnity betweene these two mighty monarchs for so is all Popery in truth though not in shew But the Bishop hauing no mind to hearken to so Christian-like a motion dealeth with the Geneois hauing a Nauie at that time riding at anchor in the Port of Centumcellae to transport him vnto Lyons in France and there illuding both Princes for their kindnesse and paines-taking proclaimeth a concionable causeth Fredericke to bee cited yea himselfe in the end of his Homely citeth him and for default of appearance although his sufficient substitute Thadeus Suessanus a most famous Lawyer humbly desired his Furiousnesse but to allow him a sufficient returne whereby hee might haue conuenable time for his repaire to Lyons he denieth him respit accurseth him depriueth him of al Imperial honors absolueth his subiects abetteth them in despight of Frederick to make choice of some other Most impudently alleadging so did euer the Pharisies by Christ because otherwise they could not effect their wills very vile false and forged suggestions against him as blasphemies periuries sacrilege and such like stuffe which see in C. Apostol de sent re iudicata lib. 6. The

into the same place of the riuer This stratagem being f●ustrated they fall to a second but will be seene in neither They suborne eight creatures of their owne with plenty of crownes to set Landa on fire One of them mistaking the night and laying his traines was taken by the watch with an other of his companions a counterfeit Monke and both hanged Being also deceiued in the execution of this Gunpowder plot they fall to a third and send forth a certaine Mountebank resolute to death accompanied with some such fellowes as himselfe to set to sale in the Emperours Campe poysoned rings bridels and spurres so deadly inuenomed that if the Emperour had touched any of them he had surely perished But his Maiestie being fore-warned causeth this Marchant to be watched and apprehended Commandeth him to be examined but finding that he scorned both questions and torments without more a-doe hee sendeth him to the gallowes Hadrian as we told you being choakt with a Fly the Cardinals begin to wrangle about the choise of a successor For two and twentie being the Emperours aduersaries would haue chosen Roland of Siena one of those Cardinals whom a little before Hadrian had sent Legat vnto Frederick and Frederick had banished Germanie But nine others adhearing to the Emperor by the suffrages of the Prefect of the Citie and the people created Octauianus a Romane borne Priest and Cardinall of Saint Clements and stiled him Victor But these rash elections being likely to foster infinite dissensions It was agreed betweene the Electors of both parties that neither of the Elected should be confirmed before it was agreed vpon at all hands who should be the Man and the contention quite silenced But the Rolanders being the maior partie falsifying their oathes proclaimed the election of Roland and new christned him Alexander the third From hence arose a mighty Schisme Victor remaineth at Rome Alexander flieth vnto William King of Sicil and there the twelfth day after his election is confirmed Pope And to preuent that this dissension should not draw with it the finall destruction of the Church of Rome by his legats hee intreateth the Emperour Frederick that by interposition of his authority he would vouchsafe to put end to the Schisme The doubtfull issue of a new Schisme much troubled Frederick wherefore finding that both the Elettos being orderly consecrated he could not lawfully determine the strife without the authority of a Councell after the examples of Constantine Theodosius Iustinian and other Emperors knowing that the summoning thereof appertained vnto him he nominateth the day of the Assembly to be held at Papia and thether he warneth both the Bishops to appeare promising also to be there in person to take cognizance of eithers greeuances After proclamation whereof Alexander goeth to Anagnia whereat the Emperour being angrie for his contempt despatcheth his letters vnto him by Daniel and Herman Bishops of Prage and Verdim citing him by the name of Bishop and not of Pope to appeare at the Councell Alexander reiecteth Caesars Ambassadors most contumeliously and in very arrogant termes telleth them plainly That the Romane Bishop was to bee iudged by no mortall creature They doing no good vpon Alexander retire towards Octauianus him they salute as Pope and accompany to Papia There the Councell being assembled and the cause vpon sufficient witnesse through all circumstances iudicially examined Victor is declared Pope and so acknowledged by all the German Bishops by the commandement of Caesar At which pretended iniury Alexander being mooued he accurseth Fredericke and Victor and forthwith dateth his letters of iustification vnto all Christians Kings and Potentates That what He did was done with equitie and good reason But at his returne into the City finding many new vpstart aduersaries openly opposing against him he went to Tarracine And there going on shipbord purposely there layde for him by William of Sicil hee retyred into France where by the good leaue of Philip assembling a Conuenticle in Claremount in all hast he proclaimeth his curse against the Emperor and the Antipope His Maiesty albeit he foresaw the mischiefes likely to arise vpon this dissension notwithstanding he continueth his siege against Millan vntill enforced by famin and wants the inhabitants voluntarily surrendred the City at discretion This dispatched he sent his Ambassadors to the French King to desire that he would call a Councel at Didion Whether if hee would bring his Pope then would his Maiesty also promise to bee there and with him to bring his Pope also What answer these Ambassadours receiued it is not truely known but so much is recorded to memory that the Earle of Blois gaue the Emperor his faith that the King his master would not faile to be there Whereupon at the prefixed day the Emperor with Victor kept promise and pitched his tents neere Didion Thither came also Henrie the second and William kings of England and Scotland But Alexander could not only not be perswaded to come vnder pretence that the assembly was congregated by the Emperor and not by him but he also so wrought with Philip that he came vnto the place indeed but before the Emperor where washing his hands in the riuer hard by forthwith by the voice of an Herauld he summoned his Maiesty as if herein he had satisfied his oath and so departed Wherewith the Emperor the Kings the other Princes being much agreeued wished Victor to returne to his Popedome and they retired euery man to his own home Victor ariued at Lucca in Hetruria fell sicke and died in whose place succeeded Guido Bishop of Cremona called Paschal the third And vnto him at Goslaria the Emperor and all the Princes and Bishops of Germany did their reuerence Alexander who was yet in France to keep Rome in obedience constituted Iohn the Cardinall his Vicar generall and regranted liberty to the Romanes to chuse their owne Consuls prouided that they were such as were fauorites of his faction Then departeth he from France into Sicil foorthwith returneth to Rome and is willingly receiued of the Romanes and Guido reiected Whereupon the cities of Italie incouraged by the comming of Alexander to hope after liberty contrary to their oathes sworne before vnto the Emperor they reedified Millan but lately razed and subuerted by Caesar Then at the instigation of Alexander they enter into actuall rebellion they inuade the Emperors ministers and fauorits some of whom they expell and some they murder Then vsing his further councell and assistance they proceed to the building of a new City called Alexandria in honor of Alexander and contempt of Frederick culling out of euery City fifteen thousand men for inhabitation vnto whome they deuide the territory and assigne portions whereupon to build their dwellings Vpon intelligence of these rebellious combinations Caesar leuieth an armie and prepareth for Italie where inforcing certaine of the rebels to composition he besiegeth Alexandria but this siege proued nothing honourable for

by the French called in against Astulphus King of the Lombards for calling vpon Steuen the second for his Subsidy money Euery man that is any thing seene in Historie knoweth the Romane Empire being by the prowes of Charles the Great transferred from the Grecians to the Germanes how the Emperours of Germanie haue beene harried by the incredible subtilties and combinations of the Romane Bishops wearied with most lamentable warres and lastly the goodly and most flourishing forces of the Empire by their vngodlinesse disvnited impouerished and wasted Surely the remembrance of these times are so distastfull and lamentable that I had rather wash them out with teares then aggrauate them by speech But fithence our Pen is fallen into repetition thereof I perswade my selfe that it shall proue neither a digression from my proiect neither impertinent from the point of our Argument to Paint out in most liuely colours what hath beene the humilitie obseruancie loyaltie obedience of the Roman Bishops manifested throughout all Ages sithence the dayes of the aforesaid Charles towards the most worthy Germane Emperors their very good Lords and especiall benefactors ❧ Charles the Great TO begin therefore with the Frenchmen who first transferred the Empire from the Grecians to the Germanes who liueth so ignorant that knoweth not with what immunities and honourable indowments they adorned the Romane Clergie First Charles surnamed the Great to his eternall renowne deliuered that Sea being most grieuously laide vnto by Desiderius King of the Lombards to the vtter confusion of his Armie Against Herisigus Duke of Benouent he likewise defended his frontiers And presently after that hee restored Leo the third to his Sea at Baryona being expulsed from Rome by the faction of his aduersaries ❧ Lewes surnamed Pius This man was Emperour in the yeere of Christ eight hundred and fourteene at what time Egbright gouerned the West Saxons and first called our Countrey Anglia LEWES succeeding his father Charles as the Romane Chronicles record with no lesse liberalitie granted vnto the Romane Bishops and his successours the Citie of Rome together with his Dukedome and defended the iurisdiction and dignitie thereof euen to the imputation of superstition Notwithstanding neither the remembrance of the good seruices of the father nor the vertues of the sonne could so farre foorth wey with Gregorie the third as to suppresse much lesse to mitigate his diuelish intendments once conceiued against this Lewes For the Warre being on foote betweene Lewes and his sonnes He as it behoued an Apostolicall Bishop sought not to quench the fire of this vnkindnesse betweene father and child but being sent by Lewes into the Campe of his sonnes to capitulate the Peace with condition to returne againe vnto the Emperour reuolting from Lewes he remained with his sonnes and like a true Apostata abetted and complotted this vnnaturall dissension so farre foorth that the father was taken and being committed to most seuere imprisonment with his yonger sonne was finally thrust into the Monasterie of Suessons Behold here a most strange precedent of ingratitude in children against their dearest Parents and the detestable impietie of a Bishop against a most innocent Emperour both equally gilty of like periurie and disloyaltie From that time although the Royal Diademe continued for some certaine Ages in the posteritie of Lewes neuerthelesse their hellish humors did no more spare the issue then in former time it compassionated the Parent And no maruaile for this was the onely marke that they shotte at that hauing once shaken off the right which the Emperour pretended in the confirmation of Bishops they might with more securitie euer after haue meanes to ouertop them in greatnesse Which their most prouident proiect was long a hatching neither could it bee deliuered to discouerie before the yeere eight hundred ninetie fiue At what time Charles the Grosse departing out of Italy to warre vpon the Normans who at that time miserably infested the Sea coasts of France Hadrian the third layed hold vpon this opportunitie and in the very beginning of his Pontificie made his complaint vnto the Senate and people of Rome That in the Election of Bishops the Imperiall authoritie was not to be stood vpon but that the Suffrages of the Clergie and the people ought alwayes to be free By this Decree he disseysed the Emperours of their whole right which but lately they possessed both vpon the Bishops and the Citie Thereby pointing out to his successors a course how to attempt proiects of higher nature in future ages And surely from those times what vpon the deficiencie of the issue of Charles the Great which had most fortunately Gouerned the Empire for the space of one hundred and odde yeeres and what in regard of that most horrible Schisme proceeding from that Chaire of pestilence managed betweene the Bishops themselues by mutuall Murders Poysenings and all other kind of enormities their continued machinations against the Emperours some-deale ceased vntill they reassumed a new occasion of plotting reiterating their former courses against Otho the first Emperour of Germanie ❧ Otho the Great He was chosen Emperour in the yeere nine hundred thirtie and sixe In England reigned Adelstan FOr at what time in the Reigne of Otho Iohn the thirteenth Noble in trueth by Birth but most base in conuersation Gouerned the Romish Sea and polluted Peters Chaire with ryot gaming pandarisme and Women c. At that very same instant likewise Berengarius Duke of Lombardie amongst many other Cities forbore not to presse hard vpon the Citie of Rome also The Cardinals grew discontented aswell at the Popes Epicurisme as at Berengarius his Tyrannie Two of them more agrieued then the rest whether vpon scruple of conscience or in remembrance of the greatnesse of the Romane name or in hatred of the Pope resolued to pray in aide of Otho a Prince of that time much celebrated for his vertues amongst the Loraners the French the Hungarish the Danes and all the other barbarous people vnder his obedience throughout that part of the world Whereupon calling some others to Councell by letters and messages they solicite Otho that he would vouchsafe to assist the declining estate of the Church and Common-wealth That hee would represse the Tyrannie of Berengarius cruelly raging vpon the Christian people And that he would not let to deliuer the Church from so fell and impure a beast The Bishop comming to the knowledge of these passages first cut off three of his fingers that indited the Letters and then slit his Chancellors nose for giuing approbation thereunto But Otho who thought it not fitte to leaue the Church succourlesse in times of danger hauing amassed all necessaries for warfare marcheth into Italy with fiftie thousand Souldiers Expelleth both Berengarius and his sonne Adelbert then speedeth towards Rome Where arriued although the inhumane cruelties of the Bishoppe were not vnknowne to his Maiestie Yet in reuerence of the Apostolicke Sea at first hee decreed no hard or vnbeseeming censure

pronounced against the Prince of the Romans Now with what sequell this Hildebrand striued masteries to arrogate this temporal authority from Henry the fourth Otto Frisingensis also whom Bellarmine not vndeseruedly for his parentage his learning and integrity of life tearmeth Most noble doth relate vnto you But what mischiefes what warres what hazarding of battailes followed hereupon How often was miserable Rome besieged taken and sacked It greeueth mee to record how a Pope was set vp against a Pope a King against a King Finally the turmoyle of this tempestuous season produced so many miseries so many schismes so many shipwracks of soules and bodies that those times onely what by the massacres of persecution and what by the perpetuity of mischiefes gaue sufficient arguments to approoue the infelicity of humane misery So that those daies were compared by a certaine ecclesiasticall writer to the palpable and darke mists of Aegypt For the foresaid Bishop Gregory was inforced from the Regall City and Gibert of Rauenna was thrust into his place Hereunto saith one of the tender hearted Romanists that it mought be that Gregory did this vpon a good intension of the heart let God iudge but it can not be defended that he did it iustly discreetly or by warrant of his calling but that he erred foully following the humours and counsels of men in arrogating that vnto himselfe which was none of his due Where by the way our aduersaries may learne in auoiding of shedding of Christian bloud that notwithstanding all the Pope could do by his excommunications and curses for fiue and twenty yeeres space a great faction of the Clergy and Laytie sided with the Emperour so that Gregories ouersight could be no small fault in that he called not into his consideration That it was the office of so eminent a pastor to haue studied all the points of christianity peace and humility by suffering the faults of one man rather to escape vnpunished then to haue ingaged the innocent and harmelesse people through his priuate desire of reuenge in an Ocean of misfortunes For it is manifest that all which we go about in the feruour of zeale and to good intents is not alwayes done to good purpose Moses in zeale to his countryman slew the Egyptian yet he sinned Oza in zeale to vphold the Arke of God touched it and dyed Peter in zeale to our Lord and his master stroke off Malchas his eare and yet he was blamed An inconsiderate zeale doth oftentimes produce mischief and inconuenience In regard whereof he ought not to haue excommunicated the Emperour in participation of whose offence such multitudes of Christian soules were interessed that without apparant schisme and disunion of vnity in the Church and common weale it could not be remedied This is but the same Councell which for many Ages past that great light of the Church S. Augustine did religiously and aduisedly admonish vs of and prooued the warrant thereof out of the writings of S. Paul Whose opinion the Church from thencefoorth held so forceable reasonable and acceptable that it vouchsafed to auouch it in warrant of their Canons For confirmation whereof let vs take notice how Hildebrand behaued himselfe after the feeling-smart of these monstrous miseries by his troubled conscience and the testimony of antiquity with reiection of bare assertions and cauills of dubiae fidei Pope Hildebrand saith our Authour alias Gregorie the seuenth died in banishment at Salerne Of this man I find it thus recorded Volumus vos scire c. We will that you who are to be carefull ouer the Ecclesiasticall flocke take notice that our Apostolicall Lord Hildebrand called also Gregory now vpon the point of death called vnto him one of the twelue Cardinalls whom hee best loued And he confessed to God to Saint Peter and before the whole Church that he had greeuously sinned in his pastorall Office committed vnto his charge to gouerne and that by the perswasion of the diuell hee had raised greate wrath and hatred amongst the sonnes of Men. Then at last he sent his foresaide Confessor vnto the Emperor and the vniuersall Church that they would deigne to inuocate his pardon for that he perceiued that his end drew nigh And presentlie he put on the Angelicall vestment and released and reuersed vnto the Emperour and all Christian people aliue and dead Clarkes and Laie the Censures of all his Curses And commanded all his followers to depart from the house of Deodoricus and the Emperors friends to aproach Such were Iohn the nineteenth twentith and one twentith Sergius the fourth Benedict the eight Siluester the third Gregory the sixt Clement the second Damasus the second Leo the ninth Victor the second Stephanus the ninth Benedict the tenth Nicholas the second Alexander the second For from Siluester the second to the time of that most infamous impostor Gregorie the seuenth All the Roman Bishops applied those studies and therein far excelled the Aegiptian sorcerers 4. Blasphemers LEO the tenth of whom before Iulius the third This man made it his common exercise to reason in contempt of the Deity Was especially delighted in the flesh of Pork and Peacocks But when the Physitian admonished him to refraine from Hogges-flesh for that it was an enemie to the gowty disease wherewith his Holinesse was at that time afflicted and neuerthelesse would not abstaine His Physitian I say forbad his Steward to serue vp any more Porke Which when his Holinesse obserued he demaunded for his dish His Steward made answere that his Physitian had forbad it The Bishop replied Al dispetto didio bring me my Pork Againe when at dinner time hee had espied a Peacock which was not toucht Keepe me quoth he this seruice colde for my supper and let it be ready by an houre for I meane to inuite certaine guests But at supper perceiuing many hote smoaking Peacocks but missing his colde one all pale with anger hee belched out most horrible blasphemy against the diuine Maiesty Which when one of the guest-Cardinals obserued Let not your Holinesse quoth he be so angry for so small a trifle Where to Iulius replied If God were so farre forth angry about an Apple that therefore he spared not to cast our first Parents out of Paradise shall it not be lawfull for me his Vicar to be offended for being cousoned of my Peacock sithence a Peacock is of more worth then many Apples 5. For swearers and equiuocators THe Papal Canons doe teach that the Romane Bishop may absolue frō oaths dispense with vowes and release a periured person Whereupon it is not to be wondred at to finde so many periured and faithlesse Papists swarming in euery corner of the world The Councel of Constance ouer-awed the Emperor Sigismond to the violation of his oath to deale with Iohn Hus according to the fore-said Canon by that law to burne him vt supra Gregory the thirteenth by the Breue wrote vnto the Papists of England that Rebus sic