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
For falling off from the Emperour to France Rome came to be sacked by the Duke of Burbon and the Pope himselfe with his Cardinalls to be taken Prisoners 4. For crossing our King Henry the eight and deluding him in the Divorce from his brothers wife Queene Katharine he lost his Supremacy here in England and for his lewd life otherwise made his See infamous Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse revertar Cum leuo aut Meretrix Scurra Cinaedus ero Vile Rome adiew I did thee view but hence no more will see Till Pimpe or Punke or Iade or Spade I doe resolve to be 4. Palengenius that lived in his time sets out the corruptions of these daies in his Capricorne some say he died of the lowsy disease others by the poysonous smell of a Torch This Pope might passe for a Clement and mercifull man indeed in regard of his successor a Romane 5. PAUL the third A. 1534 who prostituted his sister Julia Farnesia to Alexander the sixth that he might be made Cardinall committed incest with his own daughter Constantia and poysoned her husband Bosius Sforfia to enjoy her the more freely so in a jealous humor he used his own sister upon suspition she played false with him but for pressing on his Neice Laura Farnesia in the like matter Nicholas Quercen her husband taking him in the Act gave him a marke that he carried with him to his grave 2. Being Legate at Ancona under Pope Iulius the second he cozened a Lady under pretence of marriage to yeeld to his Lust who upon discovery of the delusion fell almost distracted yet brought him that Peter Aloysius afterward Duke of Placenâ—ia where he was slaine for his horrible villanies especially that upon Cosmus Cherea not to be named 3. To this Incest and maintaining 45000. Courtezans his Necromancy comes as a Complement He conferred with Gauricus Servita and other of the damned Crew who were alwaies at his Elbow 4. Fâ—om this Popes piety we had the Councell of Trent and Order of the Jesuits and King Henry the eight Excommunicated and our England given Primo occupaturo some will say a worse there could not be But let them consider his successor and Countryman and Legate in the Councell of Trent 6. A.D. 1550 IULIUS the third Who as soone as he was chosen not without great stirres gave his Cardinalls hat to a Sodomiticall boy whom he had abused called Innocentius to the repining Cardinalls who asked a reason of it What reason had you saies he to chuse me Pope Fortune favours whom she pleaseth 2. Iohn Casa Arch-bishop of Benevent Deane of the Apostolicall Chamber in this mans time Printed a Book at Venice in defence of Sodomy By whom Francis Spira was seduced to revolt and dyed desperately 3. This Pope was the man that would have his Porke forbidden by his Physitian Al despetto de dio in despight of God and maintained that he had more cause to be angry for the keeping back of his cold Peacock Pye then God had to cast Adam out of Paradice for eating of an Apple 4. From the same man we had the Reconciliation and blessing of the Mother Church so submissively taken from the hands of Cardinall Poole in Queen Maries daies that cost the lives of so many Innocents by various Executions 5. Whereupon one Vvalterius describes the Sea of Rome under him in this Tetrastichon Roma quid est quod te docuit praeposterus ordo Quid docuit jungas versa elementa seies Roma Amor est Amor est qualis praeposterus unde haec Roma Mares noli dicere plura scio What 's Rome even that preposterousnesse doth show What 's that spel't backward then thou soon maist know Backward 't is Amor love what love nay hold It is a male loue odious to be told And Beza plaies upon three evacuating Basons which this Pope was wont to have at hand in his beastly surquedry I nunc Pontifices Germania dira negato Omnia Clausa suo jura tenere sinu And now will cursed Germany deny The Pope hath * Alluding to the word that signifies Laws and Broth. Iura that he thus let fly No sure this Pope let it fly at both ends and his life went after Another of the Tridentine Legats 7 MARCELLUS the second an Hetruscan A.D. 1555 was quickly foysted into the place The rather because he was sickly and in likely-hood could not keep it long 2. He had been Schoole Master to Peter Aloysius esteemed the Lutherane worse then Turks perswadeed Charles the fifth and Ferdinand rather to turne their forces against them then the Mahometanes 3. Paulus Vergerius must not stay in the Councell of Trent but why forsooth He believed not the Legend of St George and S. Christopher whom Paul the third before had left out of the Breviary The Bishop of Claudia Fossa Iames Nanclant must be likewise discharged for holding the Scripture to be above Traditions and William of Venice for saying the Councell was above the Pope But the short time he Poped it abridged his farther proceedings which being but 23. daies a Neopolitâ—ne 8. PAUL the fouth continues the Line A.D. 1555 who wrote a book for reforming the Church to Paul the third when he was Cardinall wherein he taxed most of the same abuses that Luther did but the case was altered when he came to have power in his own hand 2. He was a great Patron of the Jesuits and Inquisition which had made away by Vergerius reckoning in his time 150000. persons under pretext of Religion England had her share by Queen Maries Clergy It was this Popes Legate Cardinall Caraffa that gave this blessing to the devout Parisians Quandoquidem Populus decipivult decipiatur In as much as this people will be deceived let them be deceived He was so hated for his cruelty that immediatly upon his death the people burnt the Prison or rather slaughter-house of the Inquisition beheaded the Popes Statua and threw it into Tyber and razed all the Armes of the Caraffa's they could fall upon One of the house of the Medices by the Spanish faction is after foure months thrust into his place 9. A.D. 1560 PIUS the fourth who abrogates the Acts of his predecessors and persecutes his kindred makes Charles Borromeus Cardinall who after proved a Saint 2. The Nationall Councell the King of France held at Poyters he handsomely defeats by setting on foot again the Councell of Trent 3. Thither he cites the Protestant Germanes and French Hugonotes with Calvin among the rest by the Bishop of Cumane But their answer was that the Pope had no Authority to call Councells much lesse to carry things at his pleasure A free Councell they were willing for where Gods Word might take place and not be overswayed with politique Projects 4. Queen ELIZABETH took order that none of his Legats should set footing here in England which hath sped the better for it ever since 5. She was designed to be
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.
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
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
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
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
Excommunicated for it but that was hindred by some by respects much moving there was for Reformation by the Legats of France and Germany at least for the Communion in both kinds hopes thereof were given but the Councell was broken off and nothing performed 6. Venery and Luxury as 't was thought by this Popes best friends shortned his daies More pious his successor was esteemedâ— 10. An. 1566 PIUS the fifth a Lombard especially for Curbing the Whoores about Rome whom he commanded to be marryed or whipt and if they died in that Course to be buried in a Dunghill 2. He shewed himselfe resolute also against the Turke and was of confederacy with the Spanyard and other Christian States in the Victory at Lepanto 3. But otherwise amongst Christian Princes that were not wholy at his beck played the Turke himselfe Had a hand in the Death of Prince Charles of Spaine in the making away of our King James his Father in most of the Treasons against Queene Elizabeth whom he solemnely Excommunicated by a Bull which one Felton set up upon the Bishop of Londons Gate for which he was Executed This Bull our Bishop Jewell so bayted that his Piety dar'd not to reply His instruction was to Caesar by his Legat Commendinus Nec fidem aut Sacramentum infideli esse servandum Neither Faith nor Oaths is to be kept with Infidells an excellent position to convert Infidells and credit Christian Religion The Bononian 11. GREGORY the 13th followes A. 1572 by whose procurement after the Queene of Navarre had bin poysoned by a payre of Gloves was that Butcherly Massacre in Paris which was celebrated at Rome with publique Triumphs 2. He interposeth for the disposing of the Kingdom of Portugall voyd by the Death of Sebastian in Africk But Philip of Spaine laying hold of it he congratulates the Conquerours 3. He alters the Kalender but could not effect with Caesar and divers other Princes his new stile which anticipates 10 dayes in the old accompt should be followed which is done notwithstanding amongst some States for politique respects 4. The Archbishop of Cullayne Gilbert Truchchesius is outed of his Archbishoprick by his Excommunication because he Married and the doting Governour of Malia sang a Nunc dimittis to him adding postquam oculi mei viderunt salutare tuum For mine eyes have seen thy salvation which his Holinesse took in very good part as belonging to him Next comes blustering in from Marca Ancona 12. SIXTUS the fifth An. 1583 who first falls upon Henry the third of France for killing the Guises and not plaguing the Protestants as he would have him to have done then he Excommunicates him and when he was Butchered by a desperate Monke James Clement with a poysoned knife his Holinesse praiseth the fact in a set Panegerick amidst his Cardinals comparing it with the works of Creation and Incarnation 2. He blesieth the Banner of Spaine against England in the famous expedition of 88 but to no great purpose Afterwards commends Queene Elizabeth for a very excellent Governesse 3. Quarrells with Spaine for Naples and carryed such a heavy hand over the Iesuits that he wiped them of a great masse of money so that they forged that the Devill carryed him away in the habit of a Coachman two yeares before he should have done it by Compact But the Pope had bestowed those two yeares of his own age to make a Youth otherwise under age ripe for the Gallowes Whereupon Bellarmine being questioned what he thought of this Popes ending sagely gave his censure Quantum sapio quantum capâ—o quantum intelligo Dominus noster Papa descendit ad infernum and yet to this Pope he dedicates his Controversies Lesse adoe there was with the Gennoway that ascended the Chayre 13. A.D. 1590 VREANE the seaventh who kept it but a fortnight and then left it to 14. An. 1590 GREGORY the 14th of Millaine one of the Tridentine Grandees as his predecessors were but there he held a shrewd position that Bishops by Gods Law are tyed to refidency 2 He held also a Iubilee and exhausted the Treasury of the Church in the Warres of France which Sixtus before had sealed by an Oath to be imployed for the recovery of the Holy land 3. He Curses Henry of Navarre as a relapsed Heretique but the Parliament of France laught at his Bulls and adjudged them to the fire by the hand of the Hangman 4. The King wished the Prelates to cramme the Papacy with no more Annales from France but to create a Patriarch of their own 5. The Pope sends hiâ— Nephew Francis Generall to the French Warres but could nor resist the Fever and Stone at home which ended him before he could end one yeare in his Papacy a Bononian 15. INNOCENT the ninth could not hold in so long An. 1591 Yet for the two moneths he was in he expressed an hatred against the King of Navarre and a good liking of the Jesuits 2. It may be observed here to shew the frailty of humane Condition and poore assurance of great places that one yeare foure moneths and three dayes made an End of foure Popes The Florentine 16. CLEMENT the eight kept the place longer A. 1592 to do more mischeife He begins with Henry of Navarre and presses him so close that at the last he made him to turne Papist before he could be quiett in his Kingdome 2. Neither then was for first a woman then Botrerius his own Cup-bearer through the instigation of the Iesuits afterward John Chastell a student of theirs attempted his death Which Ravilliac their Villaine at last effected and all for sooth because he had entred upon the Kingdome being absolved only by the Bishop of Biberico and not by the Popes Clemency 3. To get a playster therefore for this Sore Perron the Apostata must be sent Embassadour to Rome where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pope gives absolution reciting the 11 Psalme and at every verse gently striking with his rodd the prostrated suppliants which he should have lashed more roundly 4. As he did indeed Caesar Estensis whom he Excommunicated and got from him the Dukedome of Ferrara and added it to St Peters Patrimony which was more then the poore Fisherman's owne Father could ever get him 5. He dispensed with Cardinall Albert of Austria to marry Isabella Infanta of Spaine but afforded not the title of King to the great Duke of Moseovia desiring it of him because he inclined too much to the Greeke Church 6. The Alexandrians some say submitted unto him He dispensed with Henry of France to put away Queene Margaret and marry with Maria de Medices laboured what he could that King Iames should not succeed Queene Elizabeth here in England was much troubled with the Gowte but eased as he saith when Arch-duke Maximilian kissed his gowty Golls Hiâ— Countryman 16. LEO the eleventh that took his place A.D. 1635 came in with this Motto over his Arch-triumphall Pageant Diguus est Leo in virtute Agni accipere
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
HOMINIBVS CVM VITIIS BELLVM Let 's quarrell with our faults not with our friends 5. His Wife was Theophania the Easterne Emperours daughter by whom he had 14. An. C. 984 OTHO the third that succeeded him in verifying the prophetique verse Otho post Otho regnabit tertius Otho 1. Being but tenne years old at his Enthronizing his towardlinesse was such that he attained the title of Otho the kind and as the phrase went then Mirabilia Mundi the Miraâ—le of the World 2. Some put the Institution of the seaven Electors upon him A more difficult businesse he found to rectify the unruly Popes whose damnable ambition brawles and Schismes took off the best Emperours from better employments abroad 3. His word was VNITA VIRTVS VALET Vnited valour performes 'T is thought he was poysoned in Rome by Crescentius widdow in a paire of gloves 15. A.C. 1002 HENRY the second is chosen by the seaven Electors to succeed him he had the title of Henry the holy and Lame before Duke of Bavaria being of the blood of Otho the great some say his sonne others his Nephew 2. Having subdued all the enimies of the Empire he dealt so effectually with Stephen of Hungary that the most of them were brought to embrace Christianity 3. His word was NE QVID NIMIS Least overdoing prove undoing Kunegundis his Empresse is said to have lived by mutuall consent untouched with him This accompanied with other virtues was made meritorious to Saint him Some difference arose amongst the Electors concerning his successor but 16. CONRADUS the 2d called Salicus as much as to say A.C. 1024 as Aulicus a Courteour ended it Alsted Pezelius fetcheth the name from the river Sala in Franconia The great commotion in Italy he appeased with singular valour dexterity where besieging Millaine he was deterred by a vision the Monkes would have it of frowning St Ambrose which caused him to leave the enterprize 2. The deadly Feud betwixt the Guelphes and Gibellines brake out a fresh in this mans daies in regard he was a Gibbelline as all the Franconians whereas their neighbours of Suevia were entirely for the Guelphs 3. His Motto was a notable rule OMNIVM MORES TVOS IMPRIMIS OBSERVATO Observe all mens carriages but especially thine owne He was buried at Spire with his Empresse in the Cathedrall of his own erecting amongst the rest of his Linage as the inscription shewes Filius hic Pater hic Avus hic Proavus jacet istic Hic Proavi Conjux hic Henrici senioris his sonne 17. HENRY the third surnamed Niger Black Henry A.C. 1039 was elected to succeed him He married the daughter of Canutus the Dane then Raigning here in England Subdued the Hungarians and Bohemians who were alwaies mutining But thence was called away to Italy to keep the peace amongst the Popes who were like to pull St Peters chayre in peeces between them Three of them he deposed Benedict the 9. Gregory the 6. Sylvester the 3. And chose successively Clement the 2. Damasus the 2. Leo the 9. and Victor the 2. Taking an oath of the Citizens that they should not any more chuse a Pope without the Emperours consent In him decayed the glory of the Romane Empire 3. His saying was QVI LITEM AVFERT EXECRATIONEM IN BENEDICTIONEM MVTAT He that stinteth strife changeth a curse into a blessing The remedilesse ruine of Church and State hastned as it should seeme his death His sonne very young 18. A.C. 1056 HENRY the fourth succeeds him who growing up under the carefull education of his Mother proved a valiant and wise though an unfortunate Prince 2. In 62. Battailes which he waged in person for the most part he became victorious 3. For standing for his right in Election of Popes he was crossed especially by Gregory the seaventh known by the name of Hildebrand and his complices who twice Excommunicates him then sets up Rodolph Duke of Saxony his sworne Subject to rebell against and depose him bestowing on him as freely a Crowne and Empire as ever the Divell offered all the Kingdomes of the World to our Saviour Math. 4. but this project failing with the desperate and deplorable ruine of Rodulph 4. Notwithstanding his unimperiall submission in an unparallel'd manner at the Castle of Canusium and receiving there Absolution His own sonnes Henry and Conrade must afterward be set up against him 5. Whereby at length wearied and broken after tenne years Raigne he was deposed and driven to that exigent that he desired only a Clerkship in a house at Spire of his own foundation which was Barbarously by the Bishop of that place denyed him 6. Whereupon he brake out into that speech of Job Miseremini mei amici quia manus dei tetegit me 7. His usuall speech was MVLTI MVLTA SCIVNT SE AVTEM NEMO Many know much but few as they should know themselves Greife killed him and made way for his sonne 19. A.C. 1116 HENRY the fifth to succeed him 1. He urged by Pope Paschall to renounce his right in chusing Popes and Bishops Investiures by Staffe and Ring utter refuses it The Pope thereupon makes no more adoe but Excommunicates him 2. The Emperour rights himselfe by casting the Pope into Prison which brings him to covenant with the Emperour that he would lay no farther clay me to those Imperiall rights 3. For confirmation of which agreement and priviledges the Pope takes the Consecrated Host and deviding it into two parts gives the one to the Emperour and reserves the other to himselfe with an Excoration in these words Magdeburg Hist. Cent. 12. c. 8. Let him be devided from the Kingdom of Christ who shall presume to violate this Covenant bound up between you and me 4. Yet this held not no sooner had the Emperor turn'd his back the Pope had liberty of breathing but this knott is easily loosed by him that tyed it so solemnly and Calixtus his Successour so haunted the Emperour with furies that he was forced to quirt all his rights in that behalfe His word was MORTEM OPTARE MALVM TIMERE PEIVS It is not good to wish for death but worse to feare it He Marryed Maud the Daughter of our King Henry the First but dyed Childlesse His successor was 20. A.C. 112 LOTHARIUS the second Duke of Saxony chosen by the Nobles 1. He was much opposed in the beginning by Conrade and Frederick his predecessors Sisters sounes but by mediation of St Bernard of great esteem in those dayes a reconciliation was made between them 2. For the setling of Pope Innocent the 2d whom the Romans had violently unchayred he marches to Rome soone right 's all that was amisse is Crowned by the reestablished Pope which as a transcendent accident is pictured on a wall with these subscribed verses Rex venit ante fores jurans prius urbis honores Post homo fit Papae jurans quo dante Coronam The King came to the gate and sware he would uphold the
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
Bullingbrook for his freedome to have things reformed In his absence seâ—zeth upon his whole estate Bullingbrook returnes when the King was in Ireland The People flock to him The King resignes his Crowne to him is committed to Pomfred Castle there assaulted by eight Assassines valiantly kills foure of them and so is slaine himselfe 2. WIthin compasse of this Section are remarkable 1. The strange Vsurpation of Popes to make good or disanull the Titles of Kings and Demising of Kingdomes to Farme 2. The bringing in of Auricular Confession and Transubstantiation not for informing but infatuating Gods People 3. The persecutions of the poore Waldenses not for detestation of their Tenents which they laboured not to examine but out of a Iealousie lest these mens plaine dealing should discover their drifts and marre their Maâ—kets 4. The protestations of Wicliff and his followers against the grosse Superstition brought in by Monkes and Friers in Doctrine Discipline notably scourged by Ieffery Chaucer the Learned and Famous Poet of those times 5. Lastly upon remissnesse in Government and neglect of execution of Iustice the breaking out of such Out-Lawes as were Robin Hood and Little John with their Comrades or starting up of such Impostors and Villaines as were 1. William Longbeard under Richard the first a sharp reprover of Vice and Disorders in the Common Wealth Himselfe at last being found to be a Murderer that had fleaed a man and a Whoremaster that had used his Concubine in a Church and a Witch that worshiped at home a familiar in forme of a Catt 2. John Poydras a Tanners sonne of Exeter that stood upon it that Edward the second was a Changling substituted in his Cradle for him who was the right Heire to the Crowne 3. Iohn Wall a Preist 4. Wat Tyler 5. Jack Straw 6. Jach Shepherd with 7. William Lister their Captaine would make all Leveli without distinction of King or Subject Master or Servant INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Henry the second consented to the Murther of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury 2. The cause he suffered for were pertinent to saint him 3. Expiatory Pennance enjoyned for that murder were fit for a Preist to propose or a King to undergoe 4. King Iohn could forfeit his Kingdome to the Pope or the Pope let it to Farme 5. He were poysoned by a Monke or dyed otherwise 6. Queene Isabell were not more to blame for prosecuting her Husband Edward the second then the King was for sticking so close to Gaveston 7. King Richard the second were starved to death or barbarously Butchered by St Piers of Exton Lancastrians DYNAST V. SECT II. THus farre the Plantagenets have continued in an unquestionable right line Now followes the division of the Houses of Lancester and Yorke three of each succeeding in their order Of Lancaster we have 1. A.C. 1399 HENRY the fourth surnamed Bullinbrooke 1. This man backt his usurpation of the Crowne by Parliament Wherein John the Religious Learned and resolute Bishop of Carlile openly contradicted but could not be heard whereupon the Duke of Anmerle his Cosen Then the Percyes joyning with the Scots and French together with Owen Glendore and his Welch make a strong head against him 3. But in the Battell of Shrewsbury Henry Hotspurre is slaine outright Douglas the valiant Scot taken but released without ransome The Earle of Worcester beheaded Owen Glendore pursued by the Prince into Wales and famished there in the Woods 4. The like successe he had in discovering and suppressing the Earle of Northumberlands Rebellion with some Nobles and the Scots his Complices 5. Intending a voyage into the Holy Land he is arrested by an Apoplexie acknowledged to his sonne who had seized upon his Crowne upon supposall he was dead the little right he had to its and so by his Death leaves it to his eldest sonne 2. A.C. 1412 HENRY the fifth of Monmoth 1. At his first entrance he cashiered all his dissolute companions that followed him when he was Prince Reformes abuses in the Commonwealth growes upon the Clergy but was Politiquely diverted by Henry Chichesly Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to imploy his forces for the recovering of his Title to France 2. Vpon which he enters having cut off Richard Earle of Cambridge brother to the Duke of Yorke who by Treason would have prevented it takes Harflew gave the French with the oddes of about sixe to one an admirable overthrow at Agencourt where more Prisoners were taken then their surprisers whose throats were cut upon an after Alarum by Robinet of Bonvill 3. In a Sea-fight before Harflew the French had another extraordinary overthrow 4. He subdues all Normandy and takes Cane and Roane 5. The Dolphin of France being in disgrace by rifling his Mothers treasure and murthering John the young Duke of Burgoyne an agreement is made that Henry should marry Katharine the Kings Daughter of France and so succeed him in the Kingdome 6. This was Proclaimed and Performed accordingly He keeps his Court at Paris as Regent with incomparable Magnificence Returnes with his Queene into England who is delivered of a Sonne at Windsor upon which he is said to have spoken Prophetically I Henry of Monmoth shall remaine but a short time and gaine much but Henry of Windsor shall Raigne long and loose all 7. In his returne into France to rescue his friend Philip Duke of Burgoyne he sickneth and dyes at Bloys leaving his Sonne to succeed him but of nine Months old 3. HENRY the sixth of Winsor 1. A.C. 1422 His Protector was Humphrey Duke of Glocester Regent in France Iohn Duke of Bedford Manager of many weighty businesses at home Thomas Duke of Exeter his three Vnkles 2. All went well in Erance of which he was Crowned King in Paris untill the Seige of Orleance where Ioane the Sheapherdesse of Lorraine put in with her devices which wrought much mischiefe but at length she was taken and executed 3. Mountecute the valiant Earle of Salisbury and the Lord Talbot failing all things in France went to wrack till all was lost 4. Humphrey Duke of Glocesters murther the Kings Marriage with Margaret poore King Rayners daughter of Scicily with the Rebellion of Blewbeard and Iack Cade weaken the affaires at home 4. Richard Duke of Yorke sets on foot his Title to the Crowne got it by Parliament so farre forth as to be Heire apparent to Henry who was taken Prisoner in the Battle at St Albone but in prosecution of that businesse he lost his life with his Sonnes young Rutland 5. Notwithstanding at length Edward Richards Sonne the right Heire overthrew the King in Towton field and so recovered his Due 2. FAlling in with these times may be observed 1. That as Popes had deposed Kings now the Councells of Constance and Basill deposed Popes and set other in their places without the suffrages of Cardinalis 2. The perfidious dealing with Iohn Husse and Hierome of Prague which the Bohemians then complained of and yet sticks to Rome as an
chalenge a Supremacy over all Bishops which so earnestly was opposed in John of Constantinople 2. Math. 16. Io. 21. It were not a grosse oversight to have neglected the urging of Thou art Peter and feed my sheepe If in these Texts it had been conceived that the Supremacy was granted by our Saviour to S. Peter and the Popes his Successors 3. The Clergyes withstanding Boniface the second 's endeavour to name his Successour were not prejudiciall to the Popes Infallibility 4. Gregory the great were the author of the foute bookes of Dialogues ascribed to him 5. He Gott Trajanus soule out of Hell by his Intercession 6. Sabinian brought in the first use of Bells into Churches 7. He were knockt in the head by Gregories Ghost for abusing and defaming him when he had gotten his place SECT VI. Vsurping Nimrods VVEE have seen the best of the Tolerable Arch-Bishops and Patriarchs 38 Vsurping Nimrods become their Successors for about 250. yeares in this order 1. BONIFACE the third a Romane A.D. 606 This man obtained of Phocas an adulterous Assassine who had most brutishly slaine his Master the Emperour Mauritius that Popish supremacy which to this day is so much stood upon 2. Platina Then came the name of Pope to be appropriated to the Romane which formerly was usuall to other Bishops and Volumus Jubemus We Will and Command Rom. 13. not I beseech you Brethren to be the stile of a Priest This brought in the Quaere that Platina scarce replyeth unto Quantum reddat Episcopatus non quot oves pascuae in co sunt What is the Bishopricke worth not what opportunity is in it to get soules 3. Many strange Prodigies ushered in this supreame head of the Church A Commet of a stupendious magnitude P. Dlaconus L. 18. Sea-monsters shewing themselves to the terror of many and Mahomets publishing of his Alcharon to make worke on both sides for the faithfull to defend themselves Here then is began the Kingdome of the Beast Revel 13. But this usurper continued not a yeare before he was forced by death to part with all his pompe to 2. BONIFACE the fourth an other Italian A.D. 607 who set as good a face upon the matter as his predecessor He changed the Pantheon of mother Cybele and the heathenish Pagods to be a Fane for the blessed Virgin and Martyrs and thereupon instituted Allhallan-day 2. Turned his Fathers house into a Monastery and endowed it with revenues ' to farten some Monkes he might make use of But amidst his many endeavours he leaveth his seate and businesse to his Successour 3. An. D. 615 DEUS-DEDIT or Theodorus another Romane This man ordred that Gossips should not marry 2. Some say he was Cardinall of S Iohns Aera Christiana or year of the Lord. and S. Pauls being so stiled by Gregory the first who first brought in the account from the Birth of Christ He is reported to have cured a Leeper with a kisse yet in his time such a Leprosy raigned so disfiguring men that they could not be knowne And then Impious Cosroes of Persia having gotten as he thought the Crosse of Christ placed himselfe in the midst Ciacon that on the Right-hand and a Cocke on the left in contempt of the Trinity which he paid for afterwards 4. An. D. 618 BONIFACE the fifth comes in this mans roome of the fame Country Asyla He did little worth the noting but only priviledged Murtherers and Theeves that tooke sanctuary should not be thence plucked out to suffer by the hand of Justice His Countryman 5. An. D. 626 HONORIUS the first succeeds him This Pope was censured by the third Councell of Constentinople to be a Monothelite but Onuphrius Ciaconius Bellarmine and Baronius with diverse others of that side labour to quitt him 2. He clothed S. Peters Church with Iupiter Capitolinue coate and instituted the feast of Exaltation of the Crosse leaving 6. A.D. 639 SEVERINUS a Romane to doe lesse from whom Isacius the Exarch of Italy tooke away the Laterane treasury to pay his Souldiers for which Severinus severity dared not to Anathematize him for Popes as yet were the Exarchs creatures so was 7. An. D. 641 IOHN the fourth a Dalmatian who with the remainder of the Treasury of the Church redeemed some exiles of his Countrymen 2. He busied himselfe more then need about the celebration of Easter and the translating of Martyrs bones Yet wrote into England against the Pelagian Heresy 3. Vnder this Popes nose Rhotharis of Lombardy placed two Bishops in one Sea the one a Catholique and the other an Arrian 8. THEODORUS a Graecian that followes him A.D. 642 was the Bishop of Jerusalem's sonne He makes bold to deprive Pyrrhus Patriarch of Constantinople for the Heresy of the Acephalies who differed not much from the Monotholites 9. An. D. 649 MARTIN the first an Italian that comes after him bestirres himselfe in decking of Churches and appoynting of Holy-dayes and commanding Priests to shave their Polls and to keep themselves single 2. For being too forward in deposing Paul the Patriarch of Constantinople he was fetcht to Constantinople by Constantius the Emperour De Rom. l. 4. c. 12. and banished into Pontus where he dyed Bellarmine straines himselfe to justify this Pope against some imputations of the Magdeburgenses but 10. EUGENIUS I. the Romane that succeeds him A.D. 654 was lesse active and sped better Yet he would have Bishops to have prisons for their Priests who were so bold with the Pope himselfe that when his Holinesse had received hereticall Letters from the Patriarch of Constantinople they threatned that they would interdict him from saying Masse before he had burnt them 11. An. D. 665 VITALIANUS his Countryman followes in a more troublesome time Wherein Constans the Greek Emperour came to Rome and after some complements of kindnesse rifles it especially of the gay Pictures and rich Statue's 2. Maurus Arch-bishop of Ravenna is excommunicated by this Pope but retorts the same kindnesse upon him againe 3. Theodorus a Greeke and one Hadrian an African are sent hither into England by him to bring in the Lattaine service being the yeare 666. just the number of the Beast of which the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Baleus Reckoning give a shrewd account Monkery was much in request in this mans dayes Which having a period way is given to 12. A DEO DATUS or Theodatus his Countryman An. D. 669 who formerly was a Monke and in the Popedome did little besides the repairing of Erasmus Monastery in Mount Caelius of which he ahd been 2. Ciacon He decreed that Maurus Arch bishop of Ravenna should not have Christian buriall in regard he denyed to stoop to the Sea of Rome as Reparatus his successor did 3. Earth-quakes Comets and Tempests much amazed men in this mans time Amidst which 13. A.D. 676 DONUS the first a Roman succeeds him he so layes about him â—iacon that
Winchester and of the 24 seats thereof amongst the Welsh Lancelot du Lake Tristram and Gawen are named for his chiefest Knights and these names at this day are commonly given in Baptisme amongst us whereupon most conclude with Ieffry of Monmoth and Leland that there was such a valiant man against Newbrigensis and Pollidore that question it but all except against the Monkish fictions that are put upon him 2. King Henry the second upon bearing of a Welsh Bard chanting his Acts and death with his interring at Glassenbury sent to search the place where his corps were found with his faire Queene Guenevers the Brittish Helena's as her name imports In a Battle with his Cosen Mordred who laid a claime to the Kingdome at Commelford in Cornewall he received his deaths wound but slew outright the Rebell Duke Cadors sonne of Cornewall 6. A.Ch. 543 CONSTANTINE the third succeeds him who after diverse bickerings with Mordreds sonnes that stood for their right at length flew them both having taken sanctuary whereof Gyldas pittifully complaineth But himselfe soon found the like measure by a Nephew of Arthur's 7. A.Ch. 546 AUREZIUS Conanus a man sufficiently valiant and liberall but hearkning too much to Sycophants and embrewing his hands in the blood of his kindred he became soon odious and left his place to his sonne 8. An. C. 548 VORTIPORUS He valiantly withstood the intrusions of the Saxons yet Gildas declaimes against him also as a Tyrant and a dissolute libertine which made way the easier for the Nephew of Aurelius Conanus 9. An. C. 552 MALGO a Duke of Britaine He was a most personable man and therewithall a hardy King Yet his Imperfections were so notorious that he could not escape Gilda's lash who termes him a Tawny Butcher a Beare a contemner of Religion and an oppressor of the Clergy words unfit for a Clergy man to give or a King to beare some say that thereupon out of remorse of Conscience he betook himselfe to a Monastery but quickly threw off his cowle againe and ended his life in such desperate courses One worse then himselfe 10. CARETICUS is put into his place An. C. 586 This the Saxous soon espied and finding the dislike between him and his Subjects which he delighted in rather then appeased They aime at a Conquest of the whole Land and get Gurmundus an Arch Pyrate of Norway others say a King of the Africans then being in Ireland to assist them in it 2. He comes with all his Forces The King flies to Chichester the befiedgers by a stratagem of tying fire to Sparrowes ang so leting them flye into the Towne amongst Thatched houses and dry straw quickly fired it Careticus escapes into Wales which was with Cornewall the chiefe hold left for the poore Britaines Saxons then roame up and downe at pleasure and as some say called the whole Country Hengistland which now we call England 3. After 24 years of this streightning of the Britaines 11. An. C. 613 CADWAN Duke of North-wales becomes Governour of his Country Austine the Monke had before arrived amongst the Saxons sent by Pope Gregory and converted many of them to Christianity but carrying himselfe too high at a meeting with the British Bishops at a place thereupon called Austines Oake in Worcester shire no agreement was made between them not long after a Massacre was executed upon the harmelesse Monkes of Bangor wherein 2000 were slaine som say not without Austins instigation by wild Ethelfrid the Pagan King of Northumberland 2. This barbarous cruelty Gadwan leads his Forces to revenge but the matter by mediation was so composed betwixt them that they ever after continued friends untill his dying day to whom succeeded his sonne 12. CADWALLO An. C. 635 He joyning with Penda King of Mercia killed Edwin King of Northumberland with his sonne Osfride in the Battle at Hethfeild for which he it bitterly taxed by Beda but Beda being a Saxon is observed not to speake the best of the Britaines and soothed by the Romane Faction of Austins breed accounted the dissenting Britaines though better Christians then themselves little better then Pagans 2. Others acquit Cadwallo for a Noble Prince and a great defendor of his Country and scourge of their adversaries His sonne 13. An. C. 683 CADWALLADER proved not so successefull Notwithstanding at the beginning he had the better of those Saxons that opposed 1. In a great famine that fell upon all his territories he was forced with his Nobles to forsake his Country and sojourne with his Cosen Alan King of Little Britaine 2. In the interim his Pined Subjects were oppressed by the Saxons He about by his returne to relieve them is diverted by a Dreame some make it the appearance of an Angell and so goes to Rome on Pilgrimage there turnes Monke dyes and is there buried Where interred was with him the last of the Brittish Monarches Such an influence had Dreams and fancied apparitions and forged Sawes and the like delusions upon suspicious dispositions 2. WIth this last Distance or Ranke in the British Dynasty Contemporize 1. The Sourse of Mahumatisme by the Alcaron in the East 2. The Propagation of Papall Pompe and Superstition in the West betwixt which it was no marvaile if 3. Paganisme also tyrannized being conceited as senior to both as here it did by the barbarou Saxons upon the Poore Wasted and forsaken Britaines INQVIRES 3. Whether 1. Vortiger with Rowan his Saxon wife were consumed with wild fire from his besiegers or with Lightning from Heaven 2. The Rocks of Stone-heng were brought thither out of Ireland by Merlins Inchantments or Vter-Pendragons forces 3. Igren the Dutches of Cornewall could be so deluded without some connivence of her own as to mistake Vter-Pendragon in stead of her Husband 4. The story of Arthur be for the most part fabulous 5. That Pattent be undoubtedly from him that is alleadged to justify the Antiquity of the Vniversity of Cambridge 6. Austine the Monke arriving for the Saxons conversion to Christianity might not be suspected to have had a finger in the Massacre of the 2000 Monkes of Bangor 7. Cadwallador may be excused that forsook his distressed Country to become a Monke Saxon Heptarchie DINASTY II. 1. THE Dynasties of the Britaine 's having been exhibited in the former seaven Parcells The second of the Saxons succeeds and expires at the beginning of the Danish Government 2. It usually is divided into the Saxon 1. Heptarchy 2. Monarchy 3. The Heptarchy is intricated with diverse bickerings and Changes that puzzell the Memory and may be so farre only touched upon as they preface to the Monarchy which brings us to our direct discending line againe 4. In it are reckoned these seven petty Kingdomes 1. KENT 2. SUSSEX 3. EAST-SAX 4. EAST-ANGLES 5. MERCIA 6. NORTHUMBERLAND 7. WEST-SAX Of all which some particulars only may be pickt out which are most remarkable In KENT with Hengist the first invador seventeene or eighteene are said to Raigne An. C.