could neuer be gotten out againe But as Fabian saith they wer cōtinually abiding in one place or other till the time of Hardikinitus the last king of the Danes blood as the English Chronicle calleth him Fabian the 6 part cap. 198 who is called also Canutus of other And they did so ouerspread and ouerflow the land The Danes called Lord Danes in Englishmens howses that as Fabian telleth the Danes were as Lords in priuate mens houses and they called them Lord Danes They imployed the husbandmen to care sow the ground to works of al druggery as Fabiā saith the Dane held his wife at his pleasure his daughter seruant And when the husbandman came home he should scarsly haue of his owne as seruants had as Fabian reporteth it Yet for feare and dread in euery suche house where they had rule they called them Lord Dane But after the Danes were voyded the land in despite derision of them it was turned into a word of reproch whē one wold rebuke an other he would as Fabian saith for the most part call him Lurdane Lurdaine a word of reproch Is not this a notable glasse of experience in our own Countrie also to warne all true Englishmen to be warned and armed against all inuasions and forraine forces if they wil be maisters owners of their owne houses of their wiues childrē goods as by experience in their own Coūtrie heretofore they may see in such cases As we haue looked into the leaders Captains of the Saxons so let vs hear of the Captaines leaders of the Danes into this land The leaders of the Danes Fabian the 6 parte Hubba Hunguoar or Hungar Guttran or Garmund Fabian the 6 part cap. 172 Vnder king Etheldredus the 3. son of king Adaulphus Hubba Hunguoar or Hungar were Captaines and leaders of the Danes into the land Vnder king Aluredus one Guttran or Gothian or Garmund as the English Chro. calleth him was the great leader ruler of the Danes with whō king Alured made cōpositiō that he should be christned 20. of the cheefe and principall persons of them were Christned with him And he allotted to him East Anglia contayning Norfolke and Suffolke and parte of Cambridgeshire to abyde in But greedie Guttrū could not be satisfied with these coūtries for while he liued he continued a tyrant by the space of eleuen yeres An other Captain called Ciyto landed in East Englande vnder Edward surnamed the Elder Clyto And at last vnder Egelredus king of this land driuen to flie first into the Wight Swanus Fabian the 6 part cap. 198 Canutus Fabian the 6 part cap. 24. Edmund Ironside after into Normādy they aduanced their kingdom vnder Swanus king of Denmark after him vnder Canutus his son with whō king Edmund surnamed Ironside first diuided the land and after his death by treason of Edricus Canutus alone reigned ouer the whole land Thus of the leaders of the Danes and their diuiding of the lande and how at the last the whole land fell to their share Nowe though Hubba and Hungar their Captaines were slaine as Fabian reporteth out of Polichronicon Fabian the 6 part cap. 170 yet Captaine Hungar still remaineth Captain Hūgar the Dane who hungreth after the fat of this land and fain wold be bringing in of forraine forces to haue dealings in the land and in diuision to make thēselues a partie as the Saxons and Danes did and that they may fall a sharing the lande as Saxons and Danes did before and at length get the land and all as they did And by whatsoeuer name they bee called if wee looke into the right qualitie and disposition of suche though they are not captaine Hūgar in name yet in true meaning and intent they are of his right rase for they hūger after the land wold fain haue diuision amongst vs that they may make themselues a partie and so haue their confederates in the land to winde themselues in and at last to winne the land Though captaine Guttrum or Gurmond be dead Captaine Guitrum or Gurmond who coulde not bee satisfied with a share of great Countries in England but played the Tyrant and cutthroate still yet such greedie guttrans or gurmands remaine who gape ouer the Realme ready for occasions and woulde faine satisfie their greedy guts with the rauen and ransacking of it And is there any that hath true Englishe blood in him that can betray his owne Countrie and cast it as a pray into the rauening iawes greedy guts of such Guttrons or Hungars God keep our Prince and Realme from such Hungars Guttrons that continually gape ouer her and vs to deuoure vs and giue true wisedome to all naturall subiects of England by such experience and examples of our Countrie heretofore to be warned against all such as practise by confederating themselues with forraine forces to bring suche Captaine Hungars or Guttrons vpon vs whose hunger cannot bee quenched but out of the body and bowels of this land Thus of the inuasion of the Danes and their leaders The inuasion of the Normans Fabian the 6 part ca. 217. After the Normans inuaded this land vnder William the Conquerour and king Harold being slaine in the field they subdued it The Normans had the preheminences of honours and offices in both estates The Englishmen were vnder them Fabian the 6 part ca. 222. and great tributes were laid on them and after sundrie attempts by sundrie persons made in vain the Englishmen learned to serue straungers into whose hands God had put thē The Romans The Romans ruled in this land had so good liking thereof that Seuerus the Emperour after his great victories of the Parthians and Arabians Seuerus the Emperor imploied himselfe here Fabian the 4 part cap. 61. and for the defence of the Coūtrie against the inuasion of the Pictes he caused a wall of Turues to be made of the length of 122. myles as Polichronicon witnesseth and at length in a battaile himselfe against Fulgenius Leader of the Pictes who inuaded the lande hee was slaine and buried at Yorke Fulgenius leader of the Picts The Troians The Troians vnder Brute first entered the lande and well liking the fruitfulnesse thereof determined heere to pitch their dwelling and by the Riuer of Thames they built a Citie which in remembrance of their owne Countrie they called Troy-nouant London and which after was enlarged by King Lud and was called Luds Towne and which nowe is called London as Fabian reporteth Thus of the experience examples and case of our Countrie touching forraine forces and inuasion of strangers If any warning will serue seeing God hath set vp so many warninges spectacles in the experience of our owne cases in our owne Countrie we should now receiue warning and be wise in such cases vnlesse wee will be still strangers in our owne stories and affaires
Monsters that the fame of them should not be hard to wound the tender sent of nature that neere them there might be no speach of theÌ„ Would God such monsters in nature that are ready to betray their own Countries were so far from vs that we might not heare the fame of them much lesse that we should need to feare them But the greatest daunger is when they are in the bossome and bowels of our Countrie which secretlie gnawe in them and are readie to eate through them They may be compared to Sobna of whom the Prophet Esai maketh mentioÌ„ who was greatly aduauÌ„ced of the godlie king Hesechiah Sobna Esai 22. outwardlie bare his countenance that he would liue and die with him made for himself a sepulcher in Herusalem as if he would lay his bones there But he had a false hart a lingering in his hart after the Assyrians the enemies to his Prince and Countrie which made inuasion on them And his false hart deceiued him for he was carried away captiue into a far CouÌ„trie according to Gods threatning by the Prophet there he ended his life in confusion God deliuer vs from such Sobnaes that haue lingering harts after the enemies of our Prince Countrie whatsoeuer countenaÌ„ce outwardly they make and lay open their trayterous harts and practises against the sacred person of our prince her royal estate our Countrie Thus of those that haue lingering in their harts after inuasions of forraine forces The 11. cheefe matter The 11. is what hath been the case of this Realme in inuasions of forraine forces and strangers heretofore and of other Countries in like case and what should be our refuge and stay against such inuasions Our own Country doth minister to vs sufficient experience in the case Of inuasion of strangers and forraine force The fouÌ„taines are small that feede great riuers Of small occasions at first as out of fountaines issue grow and flow out great floods gulfes that ouerflow whole Countries We may see the experience in king Vortigerne his time King Vortigerne Aurelius Vter Who being distressed by troubles at home and fearing ciuil wars inuasioÌ„ by Aurelius Vter the sons of king Constantine whose death by treason he had procured and practised before sent for forraine forces Panims Saxons for his aid The inuasion of the Saxâ—â— Horsus Hengist Fabian in his Cron. the 5. part cap. â—3 Then came in Horsus Hengist the Saxons first into this land for Vortigerne distrusting his own subiectes affied himselfe in strangers forrain forces in the end he was himselfe vnhorsed discoÌ„fited by Aurelius Vter whoÌ„ he feared and the whole land was made a bootie pray for the Saxons They caÌ„e in first stealing in by troupes after troupes companies after coÌ„panies The Caspian Sea Plinius nat ra Histo 〈◊〉 6. cap. 3. Like the Caspian Sea stealeth in and breaketh in at streightes at first as Plinie writeth but after mouÌ„teth into a great Sea ouerfloweth in the maine land First Horsus and Hengist came in with their coÌ„panies after the fame spraÌ„g of the fat of the land FabiaÌ„ the 5. part cap. 83. Ella Porch Fabian the 5 part cap. 94. Vffa Fabian the 5. part cap. 96. as Fabian saith one Ella a Saxon came in with his 3. sons landed in the south part of BritoÌ„ And after came in a Soxon named Porch with his two sons of whoÌ„ the hauen Porchmouth is called as FabiaÌ„ noteth And one Vffa a Saxon with his troupes intruded himselfe into Norfolke and Suffolke and other Saxons in other places Finally as Catterpillers they deuoured the fat and fruite of the land they raigned the Britons serued This may be a president and mirror for Englishmen to looke into to see what hath beene the case of their Country when strangers and forraine forces haue come vpon them Let vs perticulerlie looke into the storie of Hengist Hengists storie it is notable and worthy to be renued in remembrance of Englishmen When Hengist so liked the land Ronouen Hengists daughter Fabian the 5 part cap. 82. that he thought to plant himselfe here he sent for Ronouen his daughter who came in with 16. saile After he had got footing in the land first he conteined himselfe in certaine boundes but after at a Sea he brake ouer the bankes and ouerflowed the maine land He obtayned of king Votigerne first so much land as he could lay out with a Buls hide which he cut out into thonges and hee compassed a great circuit of ground with it Thongcastle Fabian the 5 part cap. 83. and built him a Castle thereon and he called it thonge Castle And after he left cutting out of thonges out of the Buls hide and be fell to cutting out Prouinces and Countries out of the maine land in the East part of Briton Then in steed of Thongcastle Fabian the 5 part cap. 89. Hengist king of Kent Fabian the 5 part cap. 95. Ella his kingdome Fabian the 5 part cap. 94. Vffa his kingdome Fabian the 5 part cap. 96. hee made himselfe kinge of Kent and raigned there 24. yeeres and after him Ochra his sonne ruled other 24. yeeres This kingdome endured aboue 300. yeeres as Fabian rehearseth out of Polichronicon Ella another Saxon set vp his kingdome ouer the South Saxons Aurelius being then king of Briton And Vffa an other Saxon reigned ouer the Eastangles now called Norfolke Suffolke Thus they fel a deuiding the land amoÌ„gst theÌ„ first they came in for aide of king Vortigerne when diuision was in the land and after they fell to deuiding the land and making shares to themselues till they got land and al. Will not such examples of our owne experience in our owne Countrie heretofore make Englishmen wise against al practises of inuasions and forraine forces What hartes or bowels of nature haue they which can haue any lingering hope after forraine forces Doe they looke to aduaunce themselues in the ruins of their Countrie Either they knowe not or haue forgotten the saying of Caesar Caesar I loue treason but I hate the traytor The verie heathens abhorred them notwithstanding they reaped benifite by them Let all true harted subiectes of England beware of them which by the dore of diuision at home would let in forraine forces to make their shares out of the bodie and bowels of our Countrie The inuasion of the Danes Let vs looke into the inuasions of the Danes also which is an other glasse of like experience for all true Englishmen to looke into In the first inuasion of the Danes when they descried diuision in the land they ioyned themselues with one part made theÌ„selues a partie with the West Britons against Egbert king of west SaxoÌ„s Fabian the 6 part cap. 158 And after they had made themselues a partie in the land so had their confederates in the land they
bishoppe Aeneas Syl. in Hist Austral he was a Monke by profession of the superstitious order of Cistertians died amongst the Monkes of that order in the abbate of Moromond so that no exception can be taken against his religion of those that are of the Bishoppe of Romes side to disclaime against him Touching his great skill and experience in stories he was of great fame and renowne for it and wrot a storie from the beginning of the worlde to his owne time He liued about the time of Frederick the first Emperor of that name to whom he was neere in blood and he began to write his storie but before his death he could not finishe it Thus of the nobilitie authoritie religion and geeat skill in stories of Otto Bishoppe of Frising Nowe let vs heare his owne wordes touching the matter wee haue in hand Otto Fris Epis anna lib. 5. cap. 35. Lego relego saith hee Romanorum regum imperatorum gesta nusquam inuenio quenquam eorum ante hunc a Romano Pontifice excommunicatum vel regno priuatum nisi forâ—e quis pro anathemate habendum ducat quod Philippus ad breue tempus a Romano Epipscopo inter poenitentes collocatus Theodosius a beato Ambrosio propter cruentam caedem a liminibus ecclesiae sequestratus sit I reade saith he and reade ouer againe the actes of the Roman Kinges and Emperours and no where I finde any of them before Henry the fourth to haue been excommunicated of the Roman Bishoppe or priued of his kingdome except parhappes one say it to be deemed for a curse Philip. Theodosius that Philippe of the Roman Bishop was set for a small time in the nomber of the penitentes and that Theodosius for a bloody slaughter was of blessed Ambrose sequestred froÌ„ the ingresse of the Church Thus farre Bishoppe Otto his wordes He maketh his auow vpon his skil experience of stories being a famous writer of them that before Henry the fourth hee neuer cold finde any Rom. Emperour of king excoÌ„minged cursed of any Bishop of Rome though he had red and red ouer againe their stories Thus of his authoritie touching this case Now let vs looke into that time when the bishops of Rome began to adueÌ„ture such practises against christian Emperours and Princes Reue. 20. It was about the time that Sathan was let loose out of his chaine as in the Reuelations we reade that Sathan was bound of the Angell 1000. yeeres in the bottomlesse pit and after that hee must bee loosed for a little season Grego 7. Gregorie the seuenth Pope of that name which cursed first Henrie the 4. Emperor of that name was about the yeere of our Lord. 1072. as Platina the writer of the popes liues maketh computatioÌ„ Platina in vita Greg. 7. he was called Hildebrand the monke before And in the Councell of Brixia of 30. Bishops assembled there Concil Brixi he was charged to be Manifestus necromanticus phitonico spiritu laborans Ab. Vrsperg in an 1080. idcirco à vera fide exorbitans that is an open Necromancer and one that wrought by a Familiar or euill spirit and therfore is straid from the true faith Worm a coÌ„cil an 1076 And in the Councell of Wormes of the Bishops assemble there hee is charged with heynous crimes with periuries with abuse of noueltie with infamie Ab. Vrsperg in an 1074. at his death at Salern whether for feare of Henrie the 4. whom hee had cursed before hee was faine to flie hee confessed to a Cirdinall that was familiar with him that hee was set on by the Diuell to reare vppe discorde and warres it Christendome Io. de Heraul lib. de statu eccle ex Ante And taking remorse and sorrowe for it commaunded him to pray forgiuenesse of Henrie the fourth for him and that he should release him of the excommunication against him It is maruell though after a thousand yeeres the Diuel as it were turned loose in the worlde beganne thus to rage in the Romane Bishoppes and to curse and banne Christian Emperours and Princes which so highly were praised for princely qualities and vertues of famous writers of their owne side as before I haue rehearsed about that tyme Gregorie the 7. called Hildebrand did as a brand of hell set Christendom a fire with diuision discorde ciuill and mortall warres And as Bishop Otto voucheth in his trauell of stories of the Roman kings and Emperours hee could neuer finde any of them excomminged or cursed of a Roman Bishop before Henry the fourth of this Gregorie the seuenth was excomminged and cursed as we haue hard before Henr. 4. Grego 7. Was hee not a fit instrument of the Diuell to giue the on set of such diuelish discord ciuill warres rebellions and bloodshed in Christendome And if wee look neerer to the thousand yeeres mentioned before out of the ReuelatioÌ„s after which Sathan should be loosed out of his chaine Syluester 2. Syluester the 2. Pope of that name the great Necromancer Sorcerer Platina in vita Syl. 2. and that wrought by the Diuell in the Sea of Rome was then Pope about the yeere of our Lorde 1000. or 1002. as Platina Charanza Charanza in summa con others set downe the account As if assoone as Satan was let loose out of the bottomelesse pit and of his chain to goe about to deceiue the people which are in the foure quarters of the earth as in the Reuelation S. Iohn writeth Reue. 20. he did take vp his place on earth in the Roman Sea in Siluester the seconde who was about the 1000. yeere after Christ or two aboue as commonly they account Hee as Platina the writer of Popes liues and officer to them as Abbat Tritenhemius of him witnesseth Platina in vita Syl. 2. came to bee Pope by the helpe of the Diuell and on this condition that after death wholy he should be his After Platina telleth how at his death the Diuell deceiued him by mistaking the worde Hierusalem supposing that he should not die till he came to Hierusalem but sodainly he was ouertaken in a place called Hierusalem in the Church of S. Crosse at Rome And he telleth also out of one Martinus that by the clattering of bones and sweat of his graue Syluester the 2. his graue they prognosticate the death of the Pope as the coÌ„mon opinion was There folowed him sundry sorcerers necromancers wicked Popes in the Sea of Rome as Bâ—dict the 9 Benedict 9. who as Platina reporteth appeared in a monstrous shape after his death Platina in vita Bene. 9. because of his monstrous life And in Syluester the thirde Platina in vita Syl. 3. the same Platina saith the Popedome was come to that state that hee got it that with briberie and ambition could carrie it Beno the Cardinall Beno the Cardinall reporteth that from Syluester the second to
Gregorie the seuēth famous sorcerers and inchaunters were Bishops of Rome and that there was striefe betweene Syluester the seconde disciples in the diuelish art who shoulde succeed in the place This Gregorie the 7. was reputed also in the Brixian Councell Brixian coūcell to bee a Negromancer to worke by a Familiar And before him as Otto the aforesaide Bishop saide hee neuer could reade that any Romane Bishop did excōminge and curse the Romane Emperor and King Otto Frisin Episc So that this practise of Popes against christian Emperours and Princes according to his vouching beganne much about that time when Sathan was loosed from his chaine out of the bottomlesse pit to goe about to deceiue the people in the foure quarters of the earth he took possession about that time in Bishops of Rome in the Sea of Rome which were Negromancers and Sorcerers as Syluester the seconde and other his successors amongest them and about those times was Gregorie the seuenth Grego 7. who was the first as Otto pronounceth of his experience in the Romane stories that excōminged and cursed a Roman Emperor and king and priued him of his kingdome Yet notwithstanding Henrie the 4. thus excominged and cursed af Gregorie the 7. raigned about 50. yeeres sawe Greg. the aforesaid cut off with his curses Vrban the second likewise that followed him Thus about that time the Diuell let loose raged in the Romane Sea and Bishops against Christian Emperors Princes with cursing and banning of them and priuing thē of their Empires forgetting that they call themselues his Vicars whose kingdome as Gagwin the deuout father and writer of their owne side said was not of worldly things but heauenly things Then followed such diuision and discord in Christendom and such outrage of rebellion warres and bloodshed as Bishop Otto greeuing at the very rehearsall thereof saith Otto Frisin Episc ana li. 6. cap. 36. that a certain Ecclesiasticall writer compareth those times to the most vglie darknes of Egipt And the Abbat of Vrsperg saith that vnder Hildebrand the Monke called Gregorie the 7. Ab. Vrsperg in Chron. in an 1072. who excomminged and cursed first Henrie the 4. Romana respulbica omnis ecclesia nouis inauditis scismatum erroribus periclitari caepit The cōmon wealth of Rome and the whole Church began to be plūged in perils and errors of new scismes such as were neuer heard of before And the bishoppes that were present in the Councell of Wormes The councell of Wormes charge him with abuse of noueltie What maruaile when he was the first in Bishop Otto his iudgement which took on him to excomminge curse a Roman Emperor to priue him of his kingdome And whereas it belonged to the right of the Emperours to confirme the Roman Bishop after he was elected before the Emperors confirmation ratifiyng the election he was not coūted right Bishop of Rome as Cusp saith speaking of Grego Io. Cuspin in vita Henr. 4. the 7. his time Mos enim tū erat Pōtifices ab Imperatoribus confirmari vt superius saepe annotauimus For the custome then was that Bishops of Rome shuld c yet this Gregorie the 7. The Imperiall right to confirme the Bishop of Rome elected contrary to custome right of the Emperors rushed into the Roman sea wtout confirmatiō of the Emperor but assoone as he was warm in the sea hee began to curse ban the Emperor whose confirmation he should haue had to haue been the right bishop of the sea Therof began to spring spread great scismes diuisions in Christendome when not only the right of the Emperors was violently encroched of the Bishop of Rome but also he fell a cursing and banning the Emperor whose confirmation he should haue had What did the Diuell about the time loosed out of the bottomlesse pit more desire The Diuell raged by disobedience in the Bishops of Rome then to tread vnder feet the ordinance of God by wilfull disobedience outrage against Christiā Princes by cursing thē for whom they shoulde pray by stirring rebellions ciuill warres against them setting their owne subiects to be contrary to them to take a contrarie course to the ordinance of God Thus after 1000. yeeres the Diuell did rage in the Roman Bishops against the supreame soueraignties states in christēdom shewed himself directly contrary in them to the great ordinance of God If it were the ordinarie right of the Empire to confirm the bishops of Rome as the continual course continuance therof in such a number of his predicessors bishops of Rome the witnes of their own writers is plain euidēce therof wherfore should Hildebrand called Gregorie the 7. Gregorie the 7. an intruder without confirmation of the Emperor of a Monk Archdeacō before intrude himselfe into the sea of Rome wtout confirmatiō of Hen. the 4. Emperor not only rent away the vsuall right of the Empire but also rent the Empire and Christendome with rebellions ciuill warres bloodshed treasons and such like outrages and rent the Emperor himselfe from his Empire life also by cursing and banning him and stirring vp his own subiects to rebel against him and of his life and Empire to bereaue him Thus the Romane Bishop or rather the Diuell raging in the Romane Bishop turneth the regiment and state of Christendome vpside downe and began a contrary course to the right of the Emperiall regiment and custome of confirmations heretofore For to Henry the 4. by his imperial right the confirmation of Gregorie the 7. to be Bishop of Rome did appertaine Gregorie the 7. so far is from recognising that right to which so many his predecessors stouped Gregorie the 7. summoneth Henrie the 4. to apparance and answere that as Lucifer mounting about all estates not onely he shaketh his necke out of the collor but imperiouslie citeth and by presumptuous processe calleth for the Emperor to make his apparance before him to put in answere to causes to be obiected to him els vnlesse he stoupe to his commaunds to whose confirmation hèe should haue stouped himself he shuld be cursed and priued of the Empire This was so vnquoth and strange attempt that Otto freelie confesseth hee neuer read the like by any Romane Byshop doone to the Romane Emperor and king before Ab. Vrsperg in an 1072. The Abbat of Vrsperg saith that because without consent of the king hee pressed to bee Pope by fauour of the Romanes some held that hee was not lawfullie placed but that like a tyrant he vsurped Thus the Abbat himselfe mentioneth the great gall of Gregorie the 7. his proude Popedome which began with presumption proceeded to cursing ended with great bloodshed in christendome Cuspinian also reporteth the same Plerique saith hee illum sine regis consensu non agnouerunt legittime electum Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 4. after he had
hand was wounded for his periurie A warning to all treason and rebellion against his Prince This may be example to all estates and persons to keepe their hartes and hands true to their Prince according to Godes ordinance least Gods vengeance fall on their harts heads as it did vpō Absolon the traytours hart and vppon their hand which they lifte vp against their Prince as it did vppon the right hand of Duke Rodolph rufully repenting for it Thus the example of Duke Rodolph by whom and how hee was set on of his rebellion and euill successe last of his rufull repentance Now will I discourse the storie of Henry the 5. Henry the 5. his rebellion against Henry the 4. his father The Order the treason and rebellion against Henry the 4. his owne father And for the more orderly treating of it I will referre my selfe to these cheefe pointes First of his cause and pretence and setting on to this treason and rebellion against his father Secondly of the vnnaturall and parricidial warre of the sonne against the father Thirdly of the taking and deposing of Henry the fourth Fourthly of his death and crueltie shewed on his corpes Fiftely of the mone and iudgment of their owne wryters of his case Laste of all of the iudgement of God on Henry the 5. in the ende Thus the order of my discourse◠this storie The first The cause pretence of rebellion of Henry the 5. against his father The first is his cause and pretence and setting on to that horrible treason and rebellion against his owne father The cause and pretence of his treason and rebellion against his owne father was Pope Gregorie the seuenth Pope Vrbane the second and Pope Paschal the second their curses on Henry the fourth his father and withall their priuing him of his Empire What the cause and his desert was that the Popes thus cursed and priued him let vs heare out of their owne writers The Abbat of Vrsperg very parciall on the Popes side against the Emperour noteth this to bee the cause Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1075. Because two Popes of Rome solemnly cited the Emperor to make his apparance at Rome before them and he came not and for contempt against them and because he would not submitt himselfe to them he was of Gregorie the seuenth excomminged and cursed then of Vrbanus the second after of Paschal the second Another cause by Albertus reporte is aleaged out of the aunsweres of the Bishop of Mens and Wormes to the Emperour when they came to depose him for Simonie in collating Bishoprickes Abbacies which they cal the inuesting of Bishoppes and Abbates Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 20. by the hande of Princes into their royalties they hould of them Thus as in the right of their imperial prerogatiues The imperial right in inuesting of Bishoppes Abbates c Emperours haue held and continued from the time of Charles the Emperour surnamed the great and vnder 63. Bishoppes of Rome aboue 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And after the thousand yeere that the Deuill was let lose out of the bottomlesse pitte Reue. 20. as out of the Reuelation I haue noted he raged in the Bishoppes of Rome against the principates of the earth making a quarrell for inuesting Bishoppes and Abbates by ley hand to the royalties of their dignities which they termed simenicall heresie I wil lay downe the wordes of Iohn Cuspinian concerning the cause Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 5. who was a man of great authoritie and a counceller to Maximilian the Emperour and though he were of their Religion yet without partialitie layeth down the cause Discordiae somes erat saith he talis The cause that bread the discord was such Now 380. yeeres and moe from Charles the great vnder 63. The case of inuestiture for which Popes cursed Emperors Bishoppes of Rome it was lawfull for the king to collate Episcopal dignities Abbatices by a ring a rod which now by authoritie custome most auncient preuileges by the space of so many yeeres was established But after Popes ordeyned that eccelsiasticall dignities or inuestiture might not of any ley parson bee collated and they were excomminged that were inuested in that sort Hitherto Iohn Cuspinian his wordes in the storie of Henry the fift Albertus Cranz Deane of Hanburg Alb. Cranz Sax. lib. 5. cap. 37. and a writer of their owne side doth thus speaking of Henry the 5. lay downe his iudgment of the case If saith he the Emperour meaning Henry the 5. who after was cursed of the Pope likewise for the same cause that he rebelled against his owne father did aske nothing but only the inuestiture of the lands called the graunt of the royalties the free elections to Churches and Abbaies reserued in the vacation he seemeth to demaund right Thus Albert his wordes touching the cause of inuestiture only he doth not like that the prouision for the person shall goe with it for the which he sayeth the controuersie was betweene the kingdome and the priesthood The Abbat of Vrsperg also speaking of the reconciling of Henry the fifth to Pope Calixtus sayth Ab. Vrsp in an 1122. hee did relinquishe the inuestiling of Churches which the German kinges so long hadde exercised and which hee purposed neuer during life to haue left least thereby he should preiudice the honour of his kingdome Thus Vrspergensis And yet otherwhere hee raueth against Henry the fourth Abbas Vrsperg in an 1106. for resisting the Popes censures and calleth him Nabuchodonezer and Iulian and sheweth his euill affected minde to him and his partialitie in wryting his storie which of Cuspinian also is noted Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. though in religion he be concurring with him Thus the bishoppes of Rome about that time that Sathan was loosed out of his chaine made schismes and hurleburlees in Christendome by encroching the auncient right of the mperiall prerogatiue touching the case of inuesting aforesaid which continued in the body of the Empire from Charles the great the first Emperour of the West after the diuision of the Empire and vnder 63 Bishoppes of Rome and more then 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And because Henry the fourth would not yeeld vppe this imperiall prerogatiue and the auncient right of the Empire he was cursed of Gregorie the seuenth and other Popes and priued of his Empire though he continued Emperour about 50 yeeres lacking one as the Abbat confesseth And after that auncient right imperiall prerogatiue thus confirmed by authority Abbas Vrsperg in an 1102. custome and most ancient priuileges as Cuspinian witnesseth was called Simonicall heresie In the Lateran councell vnder Paschal the 2. Paschal 2. in Lateran councel who cursed Henry the fourth the father and Henry the fifth the sonne for the case of inuesting and for their mainteyning the Emperial prerogatiue therein and who himselfe had released the inuesting of
fall in trauaile with their wicked plattes Plin lib. 8. cap. 17. Panthers and Pardes haue spottes by nature without in their bodies but they haue spots of hypocrisie infidelitie and treason in their soules Serpents haue many wreathes Mathe. de Lâ—b in obser hypocrites traytors haue many wyles Conuoluulus according to the name windeth and bindeth it selfe about plants and plucketh them down The shuts and springs of the hearbe called Impia Plinii Plin. lib. 24. cap. 19. Math. in lib. 4. Dios cap. 572. doth ouergrow the principall stump or stocke Cassutha hath no rootes of it selfe but liueth on other herbes and lodeth them When the winding Beathwine is ridde from plantes they prosper the better They are daungerouse shoutes that ouergrowe the stocke that norisheth them That lacke rootes of fidelitie themselues wil liue of them and lade them whome they would bring downe Is is good cheifely for Princes persons of high estate to looke into their housholds and to those that are neere to them and about them to rid from them wicked and vnfaithfull imphes daungerous to their persons and estate which would like the shuts of the hearbe Impia ouerclime them or like Cassutha ouerlay and ouerlade them lacking the rootes of true fidelitie in them The example of Dauid in looking into his houshold The example of the Propheticall king Dauid maye bee a mirror principally for all Princes and estates of honour and high callings in the wisdome of God out of his word to looke vnto their estates and housholds and those that are neere them and vse to be about theÌ„ and into their gouernments as he layeth downe example in himselfe his owne estate Psal â—01 houshold gouernment First hee looketh into his own estate touching God by whose wisdome vnlesse hee be directed all wil runne on wheeles headlong He prayeth therefore to God for vnderstanding let me haue saith he vnderstanding in the way of godlines when wilt thou come vnto me I wil walke in my house with a perfect hart I wil take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sin of vnfaithfulnes there shall no such cleeue vnto me A froward hart shal depart from me Thus how he looketh into his own estate and prayeth for the conduicte of vnderstanding from God to lead a godly life and maketh profession of the vprightnesse soundnesse of his hart that he will clense his hart from vnfaithfulnesse and frowardnesse Then hee sheweth from whom he wil withdraw his hart and countenance and whom by his princely power hee will suppresse Who so priuilie saith he slaundereth his neighbour him will I destroy who hath also a proud looke and high stomacke I wil not suffer him And after he sheweth whoÌ„ he wil haue in his houshold There shall none that worke deceit or with a deceitfull hand or deceitful person as some expound the sence dwel in my house The word Remiia is expouÌ„ded of some by the substantiue of some by the adiectiue Such are they that contriue craftes warpe wiles work by sleight conuaiance legerdemaine to beguile deceiue others He ioineth an other fit mate vnto him he the telleth lies saith he shal not tarry in my sight He detesteth such as pernicious persons in court the are deceitful liers 〈◊〉 not Hist lib. 9. câ—â— 36. who with lies slaunders pray on others with their euil tongs As Purpura the fish with his sharp tong perseth the shelles of other fishes so prayeth on them so there is no armour of proofe of sufficient defence against the lying tongues of such which perse through al defences of truth They hoise vp the sailes of their tongues say as the Prophet Dauid describeth them with our tongues say they shal we preuaile Psal 12. we are they that ought to speake who is Lord ouer vs. And as Purpura the fish aforesaid hath in his mouth the humor which is the mother of the right orient purple colour so thogh they pearse with their tongues as Purpura doth yet they carry in their mouthes such orient colours with which they so paint out their lyes Plin. lib. 9. cap. 36. Carneades Plin. nat lib. 7. cap. 30. as though there were none other truth Cato said it was hard to finde truth wheÌ„ Carneades spake because he painted out his owne purposes left truth dim hardly to be discerned So hard it is to discerne truth when they speake whose tongues are embrued with lies Of such liers the Prophet sayeth they shal not tarry in his sight After he hath shewed whom he will abandon from his court hee sheweth likewise whoÌ„ he wil place plant mine eyes saith he ar to the faithful of the earth that they may dwel with mee Who so leadeth a godly life he shal be my seruant Thus by the directioÌ„ of Gods spirit he maketh choise of his houshould whoÌ„ he wil haue nere about him Valerian the Emperor his Courte â—useb eccle hist lib 7. cap. 10. of Eusebius is commended as a Church of God because of the godly faithfull that were in it till after he relapsed to bee an open enemie and persecutor of the Church of God Epist ad Phile. Rom. 16. 1. Cor. 16. Iosua 24. The houses of Philemon Priscilla Aquila are commended of S. Paul as little Churches Iosua the noble Prince and the chosen captain of Gods people after the death of Moses setting himselfe and his housholde as example to the people saide I and my house will serue the Lord. And the people prouoked and encouraged by his example said wee will serue the Lord also Abraham Isaac Iacob Ioseph and the Patriarches had the like godly care of their housholdes to haue the godly and faithfull dwelling with them God blesseth Countries kingdomes for the godly faithful that are found in theÌ„ Egypt had the great blessing of God vnder king Pharao by the gouernment of Ioseph Ioseph Gen. 41. Iacob Gen. 46. Daniel 1. and for the receite of Iacob the Patriarche and the faithfull people of God God blessed Darius his kingdom in the chief gouernment of Daniel and for the faithfull seruants of God Dan. 6. Nehemiah â— â—â—d 2. Nehemiah as he wayted at the cup of Athaxerxes was heauie of heart cheare for the breaches and ruines of Ierusalem the Citie of God and God gaue him fauour thereuppon in his suite to his Prince for the people of God and God blessed king Athaxerxes for him and the fauourable support of his people Eliakim Eliakim in the court of the godly king Hezekiah is called a father of suche as dwell in Hierusalem Esay 22. and in the house of Iuda Suche are the blessings of God in Courtes of Princes and gouernmentes of Countries God blesse the Prince Court and Countrie with such godly and faithfull Eliakims Daniels Nehemies Iosephs and blesse our Prince with long and prosperous raigne ouer vs to the singuler