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

villanie to attaine to that promotion which whilom was accustomed to bee bestowed onely vpon vertue But God the most iust reuenger of such wickednesse preuented him and the three and twentie day after his vsurped installment sent him to accompanie the dead in the place of darkenesse ❧ Henricus quartus He raigned in the yeere of Christ 1056. in Germanie In England Edward the Confessor ALbeit that euen hitherto from the dayes of Charlemaine the Romane Bishops being generally possessed with the spirit of Supremacie by sleights and deuises did continually oppose themselues against the Maiesty of the Empire and left no practise vnattempted that might weaken or discountenance the Emperors soueraignty that so they might dispose of all things at their pleasures without all feare of controlment yet was it not the will of Almighty God to suffer them as yet totally to cast off the yoke of duty by warrant of Holy writ inuested vpon Princes and great personages placed in Authority But what can humane wisedome plead in search of Gods purposes perdere quos vult Iupiter hos dementat For now the malice impiety and treason of the Roman Clergy together with their diabolicall ambition especially vnder that figuratiue Dragon Gregorie the seuenth grew like a violent tempest so outragious and exorbitant that those times may truly be recorded to be the daies which vtterly razed blemished and wounded the Maiesty of this famous empire with the fatall ruine of glory and Honor. For this mischieuous monster not contented to haue poisoned six Bishops and to haue deposed his Master Alexander for imploring assistance from the Emperor Neither mindfull of the fauours which Henrie surnamed Niger had afforded him in curteously dismissing him from perpetuall Imprisonment seperated from the company and sight of all mortall creatures whereinto as we told you before he had beene condemned with Gregorie the sixt At what time the Normans raged through Apulia Calabria and Campania partly relying vpon the great wealth of Matilda a most potent woman in those daies and partly animated to see the Empire distracted with most dangerous wars raised by the warlike Nation of the Saxons against the Emperor scarce three yere seated in his gouernment together with the reuolt of the Germane Bishops whom the Impostor our perpetuall aduersary had seduced from the seruice of their Master Then I say this man first of all other against the custom of his predecessors absolutely vsurped vpon the Papacy without all consent of the Emperor before that time alwaies accustomed to be mediated in the Election of these Bishops And in future to preuent the residue of the Bishops and Abbots from seeking their confirmations at the Emperors hands he set forth a decree vnder pain of Excommunication That hee had not onlie power in heauen to bind and to loose but also that he had plenitude of iurisdiction in Earth to take away and to giue Empires Kingdomes and Principalities Then began he impudently to boast to vsurpe vpon the temporall and Supreme iurisdiction and that by a law of his own coyning to esteeme of Kings and Emperors as tenants at will to imprison Caesars Ambassadors opposing against his insolencies finally leading them through Rome in ignominious manner to expell them the city Henrie albeit he were infinitely perplexed with the war of Saxonie yet knowing that this nouell and vnvsual pertinacie of the Bishop was not to be forgotten calleth a Councell at Wormes wherein audience being giuen to the Ambassadors which came from Rome and Hildebrands disloyall Letters being read besides the Saxons all the German and French Bishops made a Decree That sithence Pope Hildebrand a fugitiue Monke first of all other incroched vpon the Papacie without the good liking or priuity of the Romane Emperor constituted of God to be his Soueraigne Lord and that contrarie to the Custome of his Predecessors contrarie to law and contrarie to his oth of instalment And moreouer had vsurped vpon both iurisdictions the temporall and Ecclesiasticall as the Decij and worshippers of false Gods were accustomed to doe That ipso facto he was deposed from his Bishoprick for sheep were no longer to be intrusted to the keeping of such a woluish Shepheard One Rowland a Clerke of Parma was dispatched to Rome with letters containing the sentence of the Councel In whose Name he was commanded to interdict Gregorie from all Ecclesiasticall Function and moreouer to enioyn the Cardinals that making choice of another for Bishop they should present him to the Emperor In like maner Caesar himselfe dateth his Letters vnto Hildebrand to the Clergy and the Roman people commanding according to the Iniunction of the Councell That himselfe should returne to a priuate life and That they forsaking Hildebrand according to their accustomed Priuiledges should proceede to the election of a New Pastor At the receit of this newes Hildebrand became not so much lenified as furiously exasperated and insolently imboldned For whereas before he had Excommunicated but some certaine of the Emperors familiars whose aduice he presumed Caesar to haue vsed in these his proceedings now presumeth hee by nouell president to Excommunicate Caesar himselfe in a hellish conuenticle against the order of Christian piety ratified by the sacred Canons of Holy writ Him I say he prescribeth depriueth of all kingly Authority dispoileth of his Kingdom and absolueth his Subiects from their oths of obedience Behold he was no sooner risen from the Seat wherin he sat to Excommunicate Caesar but the Chaire being lately made of strong and new timber suddenly by the prouidence of God in most terrible manner was rent into a thousand shatters manifestly foreshewing That by that rash and vnaduised Excommunication this cruell Scismaticke should proue the Author of a most fearefull diuision in the Church of God And surely these were neither blind nor idle predictions For the Princes and German Bishops taking notice of the Curse some vpon a vaine superstition some in hope of bettering their estates and others in remembrance of their ancient hatred against Henrie at the next assembly of the States threatning a Reuolt vnlesse he would suppliantly desire forgiuenesse of the Pope now resolued to come into Germanie brought the controuersie vnto so narrow a pinch and his Maiesty into such mistrusts of despaire with the dispoiling him of his reall possession That he was fain to promise the Princes that hee would goe vnto the Pope and personally craue absolution at his foot Wherupon putting off his regall habiliments with his wife and yong sonne barefooted and clothed in canuasse being made a spectacle for Angells and men to admire at in a most bitter winter and a most dangerous kind of trauell commeth to Canusium where the Pope then resided There before the gates of the City fasting and sutor-like from morning till euentide he danceth attendance Meane while Hildebrand within amongst whores and shauelings laugheth him to scorne Three daies he patiently indureth this lamentable affliction desiring admittance

beene In high proportion meated from That side The Tables to this Booke The first declaring how many Emperors haue beene either Excommunicated or constrained to kisse his Holinesse Feete Emperrours Excommunicated by Otho the fourth Innocent the third Henry the fourth Gregorie the 7. Henry the fift Paschal the second Frederick the first Adrian the fift Philip the sonne of Frederick Alexander the 3. Frederick the secōd Innocent the third thrice by Gre. the 9. Conradus the fourth Innocent the fourth Lodowick the Bauarian Iohn the 22. Benedict the 12. and Clement the VI. Emperours Constrained to kisse the feet of Charles the great Iustian Emperor of Constantinople Luit Prandus king of Lomb. Crescentius Consul c. Otho the first Frederick the first Henry the fift Sigismund Charles the fift Adrian the Pope Stephen the second Iohn the xvij Iohn the xvij Alexander the third agroofe c. Paschal the second Of Martin the fift and Eugenius the fourth Of Clement the seuenth The second deuided into Sections seuerally epitomizing the liues of the Popes with the vices whereunto euery one hath in particular beene addicted viz. who haue beene 1 Atheists 2 Arrians 3 Magitians or Coniurers 4 Blasphemers 5 Forswearers and equiuocators 6 Turkish Pentioners 7 Mad-men and tyrants 8 Warriours and bloud-succours 9 Traytours and mouers of seditions 10 Parricids and impoysoners 11 Whoremasters 12 Adulterers 13 Incestuous persons 14 Sodomites 15 Pandars 16 Bawdes 17 Bastards 18 Drunkards 19 Couetous persons 20 Church-robbers 21 Simonianists 22 Ambitious persons 23 Monsters 24 Vnlearned persons ❧ Liues of the Popes 1. Atheists LEo the tenth who hearing Cardinall Bembo speaking to a point concerning The ioyfull message of our Lord answered most dissolutely It is well knowen to the world through all ages in how great stead that fable of Christ hath profited vs and our associates This man neither beleeued heauen nor hell after our departure out of this life And such were Alexander the tenth Siluester the second Paul the third Benedict the nineteenth Iohn the thirteenth Clement the seuenth Gregory the seuenth 2. Arrians Anastasius the eleuenth Liberius and Felix 3. Magitians and Coniurers ALexander the sixth this man made a league with the diuell vpon promise to procure him the Papacie Paul the 3. obtained the garland in Astrology and in that kind of speculatiō which is assisted by the ministery of diuels He altogether kept familiar acquaintance with Negromancers such like notable impostures and starre-gazers to learne the faults of himselfe and his children Siluester the second as well seene in these diabolical Arts as his Predecessors gaue himselfe wholly to the diuell vpon condition to aduance him to the Papacie Benedict the ninth obtained the same sea by charms spels inchantments Before his instalment in company of his associates in woods and remote places he was accustomed to inuoke euill spirits and by Negromantike toyes to worke women to his filthy lust Iohn the thirteenth at dice would call vpon the diuell and in merriment carouse a cup of wine to his diuelship Of Clement the seuenth we read that he was a Geomantique and Simonianist Gregory the seuenth laboured the Papacie by the same Arts. He was the first that euer presumed to excommunicate an Emperour And that was Henry the fourth vnto the end of whose legend if you please you may with pleasure and to good purpose add these true and vncontrolable records With the forme of his Outlary vpon earth we will not trouble you but with his impudent presumption in banishing his soule from heauen a place wherein I feare such persons haue smallest interest ad perpetuam rei memoriam I will not faile to informe you Then thus Agite igitur Apostolorum sanctissimi Principes quod dixi vestra authoritate interposita confirmate vt omnes nunc demū intelligāt si potestis in caelo ligare soluere in terra quoque imperia regna principatus quicquid habere mortales possunt auferre dare vos posse Ediscant nunc Reges huius exemplo omnes seculi principes quid in coelo possitis quantique apud Deum sitis ac deinceps timeant sanctae Ecclesiae mandata contemnere Hoc autem iudicium cito in Henricum exercete vt intelligant omnes iniquitatis silium non fortuito sed vestra opera è regno cadere Hoc tamen à vobis optauerim vt paenitentia ductus in die iudicij vestro rogatu gratiam à Domino consequatur Actum Romae Nonis Martij indictione tertia Courage then ye most chosen Princes of the Apostles And what I haue thundered by the deputation of your authorities ratifie I beseech you that now at last all people may vnderstand that as ye are of power in heauen to binde and to loose so likewise that you are of no lesse potencie on earth to giue and to take Empires Kingdomes and Honors with whatsoeuer the inhabitants of this world may peculiarly challenge By the example of this man let Kings and Princes of the earth now learn what are your prerogatiues in heauen what your credits with God that henceforth they may feare to contempe the awards of Holy Church Execute I beseech you this sentence with speede vpon Henry that all the world may perceiue that this sonne of iniquity was disinthronized by your operation and not by destinie Yet thus much I request of your clemencies that after repentance in the day of iudgement he may obtaine pardon of our Lord at your intercession Giuen at Rome the Nones of March the third indiction to the rarenesse and nouelty of which president to auoid exception and to confound such quarrelsome spirits let them heare what the wisedome of that vpright Bishop Frisingensis a man for discent zeale and learning most eminent reporteth and the rather for that he was almost an eie-witnesse vnto those times Lego relego saith he Romanorum regum Imperatorum gesta nusquam inuenio quemquam eorum ante hunc a Romano Pontifice Excommunicatum vel regno priuatum I read and read againe the Chronicles of the Roman kings and Emperors and in no age can find that euer a Romane Bishop excommunicated or depriued any one of them from his kingdome before this man meaning Hildebrand And again in his first book of the gests of Frederick Gregorius septimus saith hee qui tunc vrbis Romae Pontificatum tenebat eundem Imperatorem tanquam a suis destitutum anathematis gladio feriendum decernit Cuius rei nouitate eò vehementius indignatione motum suscepit Imperium quò nunquam ante haec tempora huiusmodi sententiam in Principem Romanorum promulgatam cognouerat Gregory the seauenth saith he at that time Pope of Rome resolued to smite with the sword of Excommunication the foresaid Emperor as forsaken of his people At the nouelty whereof the Empire was so much the rather mooued with indignation for that before those times it neuer had known such a sentence to haue been