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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44712	A discours of the empire, and of the election of a king of the Romans, the greatest busines of Christendom now in agitation as also of the Colledg of Electors, their particular interests, and who is most likely to be the next emperour / by J.H.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3065; ESTC R4781	35,171	133

wheras a Boore or Plebean is condemn'd according to the quality of his offence to carry only a Chair from one County to another such a peculiar punishment ther was of old in France for wheras ther was a law call'd la loy de la chevelure that none shold wear long hair but the Nobles he who had committed any degenerous offence was adjudg'd to have his hair cutt off before the tribunal of Iustice and so was degraded from being a gentleman his honor going away with his hair and so made a Roturier or Yeoman The story tells us that the Emperour Frederique Barbarossa made Hermannus Count Palatin of the Rhin and ten Counts more to carry doggs above one German mile for the praedations and ill balancing of dollars with other insolences they had committed while he was in Italy warring with the Pope against whom we read he had twelve pitched battails Such another clash the Emperour Conradus had with Guelphus Duke of Bavaria who bore up a good while against him at last the Emperour recruting his Army with Italian Auxiliaries shut up the Duke in VVinsberga and beleagred him so close that he was ready to famish And the Emperour having bin provok'd so farr that he had vow'd to put all to fyre and sword The Duchesse being a comely couragious Lady went through the throng of the army into the Emperours tent and made such a flexanimous speech which so melted the Emperour that he publish'd a proclamation that for her sake all the Women of VVinsberga shold have safe conduct to depart and carry away upon their backs as much of their most precious wealth that they could bear Herupon the Dutchesse took the Duke upon her back and evry wife by her example her husband mayds and unmarried women took up their brothers and kindred and so all marched out The Emperour being much taken with this witty peece of humanity publish'd a generall act of Amnestia and so the Duke was redintegrated into his favor This memorable story I couch'd once into verse being a task impos'd upon me and the Epigram runns thus Tempore quo Bavarum superârat Roma Guëlghum Seria festivo Res fuit acta joco Conradus victor VVinsbergam oblesserat Vrbem Hinc fame Deditio facta premente fuit Matribus at miserans Bavaris sponsaeque Guelphi Induperator iis tale Diploma dedit Quaelibet ut Mulier tuto cum Rebus abiret Quas humeris posset sustinuisse suis Cum reliquis Comitissa novo Diplomate nixa Inde viros portant pondera grata suos Pendebant collo nati nataeque lacertis Sic abiit licita Faemina Virque fugâ Hac delectatus Caesar pietate pepercit Omnibus atque novum cum Duce faedus init But to return where we left another cause of the Empours decay was that being often reduc'd to som exigents for want of money they us'd to have recours to the richest Imperial towns for a supply who us'd to lend them money and the Emperours payed them their money back with immunities Many towns in Italy got their necks out of Caesars yoak this way and som of them very cheap as Florence for it cost her but six thousand Crownes and Luca ten thousand c. In so much that the liberties of most of the free Citties of Italy much more of high and low Germany sprung out of the necessities of the Emperours wherby their power as well as their glory did daylie decline Adde herunto that the Bishopps of Rome feather'd their nests from time to time with the Eagles plumes specially in Italy for besides the City of Rome and the Countreys adjacent such was the high reverence the Church had in those daies that many other territories were given to the Apostolical See and since by well devoted Princes Insomuch that the Pope is grown herby to he a great temporal Prince for the state of the Church extends above three hundred miles in length and about two hundred miles in breadth It contains the Dutchy of Ferrara Bologna Romania the Marquisat of Ancona Sabina Perugia with a part of Toscany the Patrimony of Saint Peter and Latium in these there are above 50 Bishopricks He doth signorize also over the Dutchy of Spoleto and the Exarchat of Ravenna he hath the Towns of Benevento in the Kingdom of Naples and the County of Venisse in France call'd Avignon he hath title good enough to Naples also herself and Calabria but rather than incurr the diplesure of the King of Spain his Champion and chief supporter of his Chair he is contented with an annual heriot of a white Mule with a pursfull of pistols about her neck He pretends also to be Lord paramount of Sicily Urbin Parma and Masseran as also of Norway Ireland and England since King Iohn did prostrat our Crown at Pandulpho his Legats feet His Dominions reach from one Sea to another viz. from the Tyrrhene to the Adriatique and these Territories run through the center of Italy which enables the Pope to do good or harm to the Princes about him and makes him capable to be an Vmpire or a potent Enemy his authority being mixt twixt secular and spiritual for he can use the sword and thunder-bolt of Excommunication at plesure And to return to our chief subject most of the Countreys pointed at before being feathers of the Eagle did much decrease her strength Moreover as the Roman Church did this way impair the power of the Empire so the Reformed Church and the difference of Religion in Germany did much enfeeble it For those Princes who turn'd Lutherans daylie encroach'd upon and impropriated the demeans of the Church which was a great support to the Emperour being more devoted to him than to the secnlar Princes But to go a little more particularly to work we will not rove in Asia and Afrique where so many mighty parts of the Continent fell from the Roman Empire nor will we look so farr back in Europe as to speak of the defection of Spain France and Great Britain which was the first Province that fell from Rome though indeed Rome may he sayed to have fallen first from Her being not able by reason of warrs she had in other Countreys to protect the Britains against the Picts as England sayes now in point of Religion that she had never fallen away from Rome unlesse Rome had fallen from her self I say we will not look so fart back but come to more modern Times since the Empire came within the German pale The Suisses were one of the last that revolted who being summon'd to the Imperiall Chamber at Spire they sent a rough hewn Ambassadors totell the Imperial Councel in these words Domini confaederati Heluetii vos vicinos suos salvere jubent mirantur verò quod tam crebris citationibus c. The Lords Confaederats of Switzerland do greet you their Neighbours but they wonder that by your so frequent citations you wold disquiet Them therfore they pray and exhort you