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A47947	Il cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa, or, The history of the cardinals of the Roman Church from the time of their first creation, to the election of the present Pope, Clement the Ninth, with a full account of his conclave, in three parts / written in Italian by the author of the Nipotismo di Roma ; and faithfully Englished by G.H.; Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa. English	Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.; G. H.	1670 (1670)	Wing L1330; ESTC R2263	502,829	344

solemn Entry of the Queen of Sweedland I heard an Expression of a Roman that gave me so great scandal that from my Cradle I was not in greater perplexity than at that time and all upon occasion of the Grandeur the Pope had usurp'd under pretence of Religion Being one day in St. Peters Church to see the aforesaid Queen Baptiz'd and observing the Pope and Cardinals with most incredible Majesty walking about in most sumptuous Habits I turn'd about to my Camerade and told him in my judgement I did believe there could not be richer Cloaths seen in the whole World The Roman heard me and crowding himself towards us gave me this answer The Habits Sir of the Pope Cardinals and Prelats are very rich indeed but my Wife shews her bare breech for it Neither my Camerade nor I gave him any answer suspecting him for some Court Spye that use to insinuate themselves as it were by accident into peoples company and speak ill of the Pope to make discovery of what their affections are But this poor Roman spake as he thought by the rest of his discourse making it plain how miserable the people of Rome were that were forc'd to deny themselves bread to enable them to pay the Taxes and Impositions laid upon them by the Pope So as the poor man concluded that the Catholick Religion in the Ecclesiastick State was the cause of the distress of the people and of all the pleasures and extravagancies in the Ecclesiasticks To this purpose I remember a certain Sermon I heard in a Covent in Rome and in the presence of two Cardinals one of them Sacchetti but the others name I have forgot The Sermon and the whole design of it made such an impression in me I think of it a hundred times a day and shall in this place insert the most memorable part of it The Preacher was a bare-footed Franciscan he seem'd a poor pittiful creature to look on but he was the more experienc'd in morality and declaim'd with that zeal and vigor against vice he rais'd devotion in the hearts of his whole Auditory The first Sunday in Lent this Holy Father being got into the Pulpit in the presence of two Cardinals and a very great Auditory besides after an Ave Maria and two or three cringes with his knee as is usual rising up again upon his feet he put his Cappuce or Cowle upon his head and pulling it down so low that we could scarce see his eyes in which posture having paus'd a while without speaking a word fixing his eyes upon the Cardinals that stood before him without naming any Text at all he breaks out abruptly into these words St. Peter was a fool St. Paul was a fool all the Apostles were fools the Martyrs were fools and all the Primitive Saints of the Church of Jesus Christ our Redeemer were fools The Cardinals at these words grew as insensible as Statues the people on the other side stood gaping in expectation of what would follow most of us imagining there was some mystery in the business and I among the rest admiring what freak this should be was very well contented to attend whilst the Father after some moments of silence which he had used on purpose to observe the distraction of the people began his discourse as followeth You that are Prelats do not you believe you shall be sav'd Yes good Father we do I know your answer And you of the common sort of people you are certain of Paradice Without question you will say yes Yes say I By turning night into day by feasting sporting and luxury with travelling all day in your Coaches and seeing Comedyes at night with wearing of Purple and Scarlet Silver and Gold and having your Silken trains carryed after you in the Street yes by spoyling the Walls of the Church to adorn the Walls of your Chambers and by taking from Christ to bestow upon the World is it in this manner O Romans you would be Saved The Apostles certainly and all the Saints of the Primitive Church might have been Saved the same way and then as certainly they were mad-men and fools to wander up and down in solitude and misery begging their bread for the love of God They were out of their wits to run up and down bare-foot and bare-legg'd preaching of Repentance and lying whole weeks together upon the ground and at last indure Injuries Imprisonments Persecutions and Death you are mistaken O Romans the Apostles and Primitive Saints were full of Sanctity and Prudence it is you are the fools to propose a new way of Salvation to your selves invented by your own intemperance and vanity you you are the fools you are the mad-men that think to save your Souls by ways not only contrary to the Precepts of the Gospel but against all reason whatsoever And these were the express words that he us'd which as soon as I went home I set down in writing lest I should forget them After this the Father named this Text Ductus est Jesus in Desertum admiring his patience which he apply'd with several places of Scripture and arguments of his own very proper for such select matter to us with great fervour and zeal I went home very well satisfi'd with the Preacher but in great apprehension for him believing as an Article of my Faith he would have been burnt next day in the Inquisition I was beginning a Psalm of Mercy for his Soul but my memory was too weak to go thorow with it but if I had my labour had been but lost the good Father had no need of it at all for he continued his Preaching in the same Church and with a greater concourse than before to my no small admiration for this I am certain of a Heretick nor the worst Enemy the Church of Rome had not only durst not but could not have found out more ignominious language against the City of Rome when two Cardinals were present To speak the truth that Sermon put a thousand thoughts into my head about matters of Religion which indeed are those I do most naturally apply my self to I would willingly have given any thing I had been absent and have repented me several times of going to Church that day and not without reason for from that day to this it has still run in my thoughts with what difference and contrariety they live now to the manner they lived in the minority of the Church when this City flourish'd with Godly men and Martyrs If a Heretick be ask'd whether he thinks to be saved or not I mean such a one as would cheat his own Father minds nothing but Roguery a continual Swearer and Debaucher one that goes to Church only for fear of the Magistrate ask such a one what he thinks of his Salvation and he will tell you he is most certain of it if you ask by what means he will answer with greater arrogance still by vertue of the blood of our Saviour that was

of the Cardinals being fast in those Chains and part of them intimidated by the threats of the Perugians they agreed upon the Election of a Bishop of Gascoign and so Cardinal Colonna proposing the Bishop of Burdeaux who was a great lover of the King of France he was chosen by common consent and a Courier sent post to him who was then at his Bishoprick to know what name he would carry he reply'd he would not change the name he was Baptiz'd with which was Clement and so he was accordingly publish'd to the people After publication in the usual place the Cardinals dispatch'd several Messengers to the New Pope to intreat him to hasten his journey to Italy But his Holiness being instructed by the King of France made answer That the Flock was to follow the Shepherd and not the Shepherd the Flock commanding the Cardinals immediately to repair to him in France and particularly in the City of Poictiers as they did The transferring of the Apostolick See into France by Clement the 5th displeas'd the Italians highly so that Clement being dead the Chair was vacant for two years and upwards the Italian Cardinals not enduring a French Pope to be chosen least if the Italians should fail and the French increase the residence should be always in France The Conclave was held in Lyons but without the formality of being shut up according to Gregories decree for they went and came at their pleasure The number of the Cardinals was 23 twelve French and eleven Italian the Italians would have the Pope purely Italian or of any other Nation but he should promise to continue his residence in Italy The French seeing themselves more in number and every day incouraged by their friends and allyes stood firm to their principles and would have none but a French Pope which at length they obtain'd by reason that the Conclave was held in France In this manner after so great a vacancy Giacomo di Cahors Bishop of Porto was created Pope by the name of John the 22. who as soon as he was created departed from Lyons and with his whole Court took up his residence at Avignon where he dy'd in the ninetieth year of his age 1335. after he had reigned eighteen years The Cardinals lost not so much time to find a Successor for John as they did to make one for Clement for the next week after they went into the Conclave at Avignon they agreed to choose Fra. Giocomo Cardinal d●l Titolo di Santa Prisca of the Family of du Four in France he was a Cistercian Monk though others believ'd him a Carmelite The cause why they came so soon to an accord was no other but because the Italians understood very well the inability of their party to contend with the French who were resolv'd to have the Pope of their Nation besides they growing by degrees to be acquainted and pleas'd with the Country and the humour and liberty of the French they condescended with alacrity to what they must of force have consented to though for three year they had been of a contrary opinion and the rather because the said Fra. Giacomo was worthily qualify'd for so honourable a dignity which he receiv'd if not with an universal at least with the applause of all France and call'd himself Benedict the 12th Clement the 6th Innocent the 6th and Vrban the 5th were all French and created at Avignon and for the same reasons almost their Conclaves were dispatch'd for which Benedicts was hasten'd In the year 1370. Peter Belforte of Lemousin who took the name of Gregory the Eleventh was created at Avignon likewise who thought good to transfer the Apostolical Chair from Avignon back again to Rome a thing almost incredible for so many French Popes succeeding one another they had so weakned and debilitated the Italian party that there was no Italian Cardinals amongst them all and of the French there was more then twenty Several reasons are alleag'd that mov'd Gregory to that resolution but particularly these following The first was that he saw all Italy in arms not only by the wars betwixt Venice and Genoa but by a resolution several Cities had then to shake off the yoak of their servitude and re-establish themselves in a state of Liberty which he believing to be occasion'd by the absence of the Pilot from the Vessel of Rome he began to think of re-setling his Pontifical residence in Italy The second was reprehending one day a certain Bishop his familiar that he left the Bishoprick to follow the Court the Bishop confidently reply'd And you who are Pope of Rome why are you in France Why do you give example to others to repair to their Churches Others will have it that a Letter from Saint Bridget upon whom his Holiness look'd as upon a true Saint contributed much in which she advis'd him as from God to return to Rome Be it which way it will he gave order for twenty Gallies to be ready in the Rhone pretending to go some whither else with them because he suspected that the French who had so much advantage by the residence of his Court in France would obstruct it if they had the least notice of his removing the See to Rome But indeed they took not the least umbrage or allarm at all the preparations which were made as not imagining possible a French Pope would put such an affront upon his Nation So as they had notice of it only when his Holiness was at Sea being past as far as Genoa and from Genoa to Cornetto where being weary of his Gallies he made the rest of his voyage by Land and being arrived at Rome he began to accommodate apt Medicines and specifical to the Maladies of Italy But whilst this good Pope was exercising his Pastoral cure with extraordinary zeal he dyed in the year 1280 of a great distemper in his Bladder after he had reigned six years in France and five in Italy After the death of this Pope the Church began to be miserably torn with new schisms which began to arise betwixt the French and Italian Cardinals each Nation choosing its own Pope in its own manner the French not able to digest the affront they receiv'd from Gregory in transporting the See from France into Italy departing privately from Rome they remov'd to Fondi and being arriv'd there they us'd many invectives and Satyrs against Vrban the sixth whom they had already with the Italian Cardinals Elected in Rome they pretended they were forc'd to it by the people of Rome otherwise it was was never their intention to make an Italian Pope For these reasons the Chair in their judgements being vacant by the favour of Joan Queen of Sicily who was their friend they chose another Pope which was Roberto a Cardinal with the Title of the Holy Apostles he was of Geneva and particularly of the antient family of the Conti in that City he took upon him the name of Clement the seventh From Fondi Clement