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A69138	A treatyse of the donation or gyfte and endowme[n]t of possessyons, gyuen and graunted vnto Syluester pope of Rhome, by Constantyne emperour of Rome [and] what truth is in the same grau[n] thou mayst se, and rede ye iugement of certayne great lerned men, whose names on the other page of this leafe done appere.; De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio. English	Valla, Lorenzo, 1406-1457.; Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523.; Marshall, William, fl. 1535.	1534 (1534)	STC 5641; ESTC S107251	117,474	146

our lotte whiche in the Greke tonge is called Cliros of whō cometh this word Clericus is nat y e erthly dominion but y e heuēly The Leuites in the olde law which were Clerkes had nat ꝑte with their brethern wolde you y t we shuld also haue the portion of our brethern wherfore or for what intente shuld I haue riches possessyōs which am cōmaunded by y e wordes of my lorde nat to be careful so moch as for to morow to whō he sayd also these wordes Do nat gather or hurd vp treasur vpon erth Do nat possesse golde neither syluer neither money in your purses And it is a harder thing for a riche mā to ētre into y e kyngdome of heuen than it is y t a camell do passe through the eye of a nedle And therfore he chose to himselfe poore ministers and those which had forsaken all thinges that they might folowe him And he him selfe also was the ensample of pouertie So moche is euen but the handlyng of riches money enemy contrary to innocēcie and vertue nat onely the possessyon and dominion of them Onely Iudas which had the bagges dyd beare suche thīges as were sent dyde play the false traytoure and for the loue of money whervnto he was wōted He both repreued and betrayed his maister lorde and god I feare therfore o Cesar lest you wyl make me of Peter to be Iudas Herken also what Paule sayth We brought nothyng into this worlde and it is no doute that we shall also cary nothinge with vs from hence Hauing meate drinke clothes to be couered with all Let vs be cōtented therwith for they that couer to be made riche do fall into temptation and into the snare of the deuyll and into many desyers both vnprofytable and also noysome whiche do drowne men and cast them downe into dethe and perdition For couetousnesse is the rote of all euylles whiche certayne men desyring haue erred from the faithe and haue wrapped themselues in many dolours and sorowes But thou being the man of god flee eschew these thinges And do you Cesar bydde me receyue those thinges whiche I ought to eschewe and auoyde euen as venome or poyson And moreouer I praye you accordīg to your wisedome consyder what place tyme or leysure can be lefte among these thīges to make sacrifyce to do goddes seruyce The apostles whan certayn men gruged were miscōtent that their widowes wer dispised in y e daily ministeri made answer that it was nat mete or cōueniēt y t their selues shuld leaue y e prechīg of y e word of god ministre or serue y e table And yet to ministre to widowes is a farre other maner thyng than to exacte require tributes rentes customes collage than to haue care charge of the treasure house to paye soldiers wages to be entāgled with a thousād lyke cares busynesses No mā y t is y e soldiar of god entāgleth hīself with worldly busynes saith Paule Did Aaron and other that were of y e stocke of Leuy medle with the administratiō or ordring of any other thing than onely of the tabernacle of the lorde His sonnes bi cause they had taken other mennes fyer whiche was nat mete nor according into their sencers were brent and consumed with fyer sent from heuen And do you byd or will vs to take the fyer of worldly riches whiche is bothe forbydden and also prophane into the holy sencers that is to say into to the offyce and workes belonging to preestes Eleazar Phinees and other bisshoppes ministers either of the tabernacle or of the temple dyd they administre or medle with the ordring of any thinge but onely of that whiche belonge to the doinge of sacrifyce and to the worshippyng of god Do I say dyd they administre nay morouer might they haue administred any other thing if they wolde satisfye and fullfyll their offyce and dutie whiche thinge if they wolde nat do they shulde here the curse of the lorde which sayth Cursed be they whiche do the worke of the lorde rechelesly whiche execration or curse though it may falle vpon all men yet moste of all and principally vpon prestes O howe great is the offyce of a bisshoppe how greate a thinge is it to be heed of the churche how great a thynge to be made pastor and ouerseer and gouernour of so great a folde of shepe of whose hande shall be required the blode of euery lambe and shepe that shall perisshe and be lost To whom also it was sayd If thou louest me more then other do so as thou confessest and knoledgest thyselfe to do fede my lambes Agayne if thou doest loue me so as thou sayest fede my shepe And the thirde tyme also if thou louest me fede my shepe And do you Cesar wyll me to fede also gottes and hogges whiche can nat be fedde nor kepte all of one and the same herdes man Besydes this you ar willyng and aboutward to make me a kynge or raither an emperour that is to say heed chef of kīges But our lord Iesu Christ beyng both god man kynge preest whā he sayd y t his self was a kynge Herkē of what kingdome he did speke My kingdome saith he is nat of this worlde For if my kingedome were of this world doutles my seruauntes wolde fyght for me And what were the firste wordes of his preachinge and the thinge whiche he oftentimes rehersed in his sermons was it nat this Do you penaunce for the kingdome of heuen is approched and drawen nere The kingdome of god is approched to the which the kingdome of heuens shal be compared and lykened Did he nat whan he spake these wordes declare that the seculare kingdome dothe nothing apperteyne to him And therfore nat only he dyd nat desyre nor seche for suche maner kingdome but also whan it was offred to him hi wolde nat take it For whan he perceyued and vnderstode vpon a certayn tyme that the people had purposed appoynted in their myndes to take him and to make him kyng he fledde into y e solytarines of the moūtaynes whiche thynge he hath gyuen and taught to vs that be his successours for to be folowed nat onely by his example but also by his precepte and cōmaundemēt saying in this wyse The prynces and gouernours of the gentiles are lordes ouer thē And they whiche ar greattest do exercyse power and auctorite vpon them It shall nat be so among you but who so euer is wyllyng among you to be made greattest let him be your mynistre And who so euer wolde be chefest among you shall be your seruaunte lykewyse as the sonne of man hath nat come to be mynistred vnto but to mynistre and to gyue his lyfe for the redemption of many God in the olde tyme to let you vnderstand O

Cesar dyd constitute and set iuges ouer the chyldren of Israell to gouerne them and nat kynges he did hate the people desiryng to haue a Kynge that he gaue thē a kynge it was done because of the hardnesse of theyr hertes euyn lykewyse as for the same cause He had permytted and suffred them to diuorce from theyr wyues which thyng He had reuoked in the new law of the gospel shal I thā take or receyue a kyngdome whiche am scasely permitted or suffred to be a iuge Do you nat know sayth Paule that sayntes and holy men shall Iuge of this world And if the worlde shall be iudged by you are you nat vnmete personnes to iudge of small trifles Do you nat knowe that we shall iuge aungels Howe moche more than seculare thynges Therfore if you shall haue seculare iugementes make them iuges in suche maters whiche are moste contemptible and of least reputation in the churche or cōgregation But the iudges dyd onely iudge of matters being in contrauersie and strife betwen partie and partie they dyd nat also exacte tributes And shall I than exacte them whiche do knowe that our lorde demaunded of Peter of whom the erthly kynges toke tribute or payment of money of sonnes or elles of forayners and straungers And whan Peter had made answer that of forayners Christ sayd agayne Than are the sonnes free Wherfore O Cesar if all men be my sonnes as certaynly they be All men shall be free and no man shall paye any thing I haue no nede therfore of this your donation or gifte wherby I shall gette nought els but labour suche as in any wise I neither ought neither may suffre or abide ye and wherby I shall moreouer of necessite be constrayned to exercise power and auctorite to kille and slee to punisshe malefactours to make batayles and warres to ransake and spoyle cities to destroy regions with fyer and swerde For I can nat beleue that I could other wise than by these meanes be able to saue and mayntayne those thinges which you had giuen to me And if I shall do these thinges Am I a bisshoppe Am I the vicare of Christ Shall I nat than here him thondryng and terryble sayng these wordes to me My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations And thou hast made it a denne of theues I came nat into the worlde sayde the lorde to Iudge or condēpne the worlde but to delyuer it shal I which am his successour be the cause of many mēnes deth to whom it was sayd also in the person of Peter Tourne thy swerde agayne into his owne place for who so euer shall take the swerde in hande shall perysshe with the swerde It is nat laufull for vs so moche as to defende our selues with the swerde for Peter wolde haue defended his mayster whan he dyd cut of the seruauntes care And wyll you that we shall occupie the swerde for the cause of getyng or de●ēdyng and sauyng of ryches Our power is the power of y e kayes wytnesse the lorde whan he sayd to the wyl I gyue the kayes of the kyngdome of heuens what so euer thynge thou shalte bynde vpon erthe it shall be bounde also in heuens and what so euer thyng thou shalte lose vpon erthe it shall be also losed in heuens y e gates of hell shall nat preuayle agaīst them Nothyng can be added or putte to for to the augmētyng of this power of this dignite of this kyngdome with which who so euer is nat contente he desyreth a certayn other kyngdome to him selfe of the deuyll whiche was bolde to say to our lorde I shall gyue to the al the kyngdomes of the worlde if thou wylt fal downe vpon the grounde and worshyppe me Wherfore Cesar take no displeasure with that whiche I shall say play nat the deuylles parte with me byddyng me lykewyse as he bad Christe to receyue the kyngdomes of the worlde of your gyfte for I had leuer despyse them than possesse them that I may now speke somewhat of the infydeles but whiche I trust and hope shall be made faythfull beleuers do nat make me to them of the aungell of lyght an aūgell of darkenes whose hertes I desyre and couete to induce to the fayth and to godly lyuyng and nat to put the yoke of seruytude and boundage vpon the neckes of them and wyth the spirytuall swerde whiche is the worde of god and nat with the swerde of yren to subdue them vnto me lest they myght be made worse lest they myght wynche or kycke agayne and rebelle leste they myght str●● me with theyr horne leste they myght be prouok●● through myne erroure and faute to blaspheme and speake euyll of the name of god My desyre is to make them my derely beloued sonnes and nat my bondemen to adopte and chose them to my chyldren nat to bye theym to gendre and begette theym spyrytually and nat to make them my bonde seruauntes to offre the soules of them a sacrifyce to god and nat their bodies a sacrifyce to the deuyll Learne you at me saith the lorde whiche am mylde and humble herted Take my yoke vpon you and you shall fynde rest to your soules for my youke is swete and plesaunte and my burdayne lyght and easy Whose sentence in the mater here folowyng to conclude now and make an ende take you as gyuen bytwene you me Gyue to Cesar those thinges which apperteyneth to Cesar and to god those thynges which belong to god Wherfore it is so that neither you oughte to leue and forsake youre possesiyons neither I oughte to receyue and take those thinges that belong to Cesar which surely I wyll neuer receyue although you wolde offre them to me a thousand tymes At this oration of Syluester so godly and according for an Apostolyke man What coulde Constantine haue to laye agaynst it for himselfe any longer Seyng than that it is thus Are nat they which say y t this donation or gyfte of Constantyne was made in very dede iniurious agaynst Constantyne whom they iuge to haue ben wyllyng to disherite his owne children to weken and feblysshe thempire of Rome Are they nat also iniuryous to the senatours the people of Rome to Italy to all the West parte of the worlde whom they suppose to haue suffred thempire to be chaūged agaynst both goddes lawe and mans lawe Are they nat also iniurious agaynst Syluester whō they iuge to haue accepted the donation vnmete vnsemely for so holy a man as he was And are they nat iniurious also to the pope to whom they do iuge it laufull to possesse erthly kyngdomes to gouerne thempire of Rome and 〈◊〉 all these thynges hetherto spoken reherced apper●ayne here vnto only that it might appere and be open that Constantyne among so many impedimentes lett es wolde neuer gyue from him selfe

myrth ioye and pleasure And after he hadde caused hym so to be expulsed from thence he ceassech nat by his mortyferous dedly dartes many maner wayes to woūde other men to th ende y t he myght drawe away mankynde from the waye of the trouth and perswade all men and brīg them in mynde to be seruauntes to the worshyppyng of ydoles that is to say of the creatures and nat of the creator and maker of them to then tent that whom so euer he shall be able by his craftye gyles to blynde to entangle in his snares he maye cause them to be ponyshed with eternall payne But god takīg mercy tēdre pyte vpon his creature whō his owne selfe had formed and made sente his holye prophetes and by them shewed and gaue knolege of the lyght of lyfe that is to wytte the comyng of his sonne our lorde and sauyour god Iesu Christ And last of all he sent also his onely begoten sōne the worde of wysedome whiche came downe from heuyn for our helthe and saluatyon was begoten of the holy ghost and of the vyrgyn Mary The worde of god was made man and hath dwelled among vs nat leauyng that which he was before but takyng on hym to be that that he was nat before that is to wyrte beyng both parfyte god so as he was before parfyte man also whiche he was nat before And as god he wrought miracles and wonders and as man he suffred and beare the infyrmytes belongyng to the nature of man Thus we vnderstande the worde or sonne of god to be man and the same worde also to be god And it is in no wyse to be douted that y e same is both very god and very man accordyng to the doctryne and teachyng of our father Syluester he than chosyng .xii. Apostles gaue to them the lyght of knoledge and power to worke miracles strange thynges aboue the course of nature that by them innumerable people myghte be taught and brought to belefe of the trauthe We confesse knowlege that this our lorde Iesu Christe hathe fulfylled the lawes and the prophetes and that he suffred passyon and was crucifyed fulfyllīg the scryptures that he dyd ryse agayn from deathe the thyrde daye and that he ascended into heuyn and there dothe sytte on the ryght hande of the father and that from thence he shall come to iudge both quicke and dedde whose kyngdome shall neuer haue ende Thys is our trewe and ryght belefe shewed and tolde before to vs by oure moost blessed father Syluester we do therfore aduertise and counsayle all people and all maner of natyōs to embrace and holde faste this fayth to haue it in honour exercyse it to teache and preche it and in the name of the holy trinite to come vnto the gyfte of baptisme and with a reuerent herte and mynde to worshyppe and honour our lorde and sauyour Iesu Christ whiche with the father and the holyghost raygneth worldes without ende And whome oure most blessed father Syluester Catholyke and vniuersall pope or hedde preest doth preche teche for the very same lorde Iesu christ hauyng pite cōpassion vpon me a synner dyd sende his holy Apostels to vysyte vs and hathe illumynated and lyghtened vs with y e lyght of his brightnesse and withdrawīg and takyng a way darknesse hathe vouchedsafe me to come to the knowledge of the trauth for a great foule and abhomynable leprie was ronne ouer all the flesshe of my body and many leches phisyciōs resortyng vnto me dyd theyr vtter most cure to haue heled me but yet coude I nat by the labour or dylygence of any of them optayne remedy of my dysease and to be made hole ❀ Besydes this ther came to me also y e preestes of the Capitoly house sayng that a Cesterne myght be made in the capitoly house and be fylled with the hote blode of innocētes and that I must be bathed therin by whiche bathīge they sayde I myght recouer helthe and be clensed from that foule and horrible dysease accordyng therfore to the counsayles of them whan many innocente younglynges and babes were sought and broughte togyther and the wycked and cruell prestes withou● all pyte wolde haue cutte the throtes of them and so with the blode of them haue fylled the cestrene oure gratyouse highnesse with tendre pytie beholdyng the lamentable wepyng and waylyng of their mothers forthwith dyd abhorre deedly hate that so abhomynable and cruell dede And I than hauyng tendre cōpassyon vpon the sayde women cōmaunded the chyldren to be delyuered agayne to the remothers and lettyng them haue waggans and suche other thynges mete for the coryage of their chyldren and also gyuīg them giftes sent them agayne ioyonse and gladde to their owne houses and dwellyng places Whan this day was ended and past and restyng tyme of the nyght came on and oportunyte prouoked me to slepe and to take rest sodaynly the holy Apostels Peter and Paule were harde by me and sayd these wordes to me Bicause thou dyddest nat suffre the preestes to performe theyr synfull purpose but dyddest abhorre the effucyon and shedyng of innocētes blode we are sent to the from Christ our lorde and god to gyue the counsayle howe and by what meanes thou shalt recouer thy helth harken therfore to our message and do that thynge whyche we do counsayle and teche the to do The bysshoppe of this cyte Syluester fleyng the persecutyons hath hydde secretely in dennes of stones with hys clerkes in the mount of Soracte This Syluester thou shalte cause to be fetched vnto the and by his instruction thou shalt learne knowe the trewe cesterne of Christes professyon in the whiche cestrene after that thou shalt be dypped thryse all the poyson of thy leprye shall leue the and go clere frō the whyche thynge done make thou agayne of thy parte thys recompence to thy sauyour that by thy cōmaundimentes thou do renewe all the churches in the worlde and in this behalfe purge and clense thou thyne owne selfe that forsakyng all the wretchedde worshyppynge of ydoles thou mayste loue honour and worshyppe onely hym whiche alone is the lyuynge and the trewe God and fulfylle his wyll and pleasure Than whā I was wakened out of my slepe I dyd euyn so as I was taught of the Apostels to do and sendyng for the heyghest moste excellent father Syluester Catholyke Pope whiche hath illumynated vs gyuen vs lyght I declared to him all the wordes that the holy Apostels hadde sayd to me and what they had bydden me do and I demaū ded of him what goddes they were which are called Peter and Paule And he sayde that they were nat properly called goddes but he sayde that they were Apostels of our lorde and sauyour Iesu Christ ❧ I began than agayne to deman̄de of the same most blessed Pope whether there were any parfyte euydent ymages of these Apostels that by the pyctures myght knowe if it were

an interiection of meruaylyng or wondryng and that it is called Fides orthodoxa quasi recta glia where as in very dede orthodoxa betokeneth nat rectam glori●m but is as moche to saye as rectae opinionis of eighte opinion And they do pronounce this worde Simonem with the mydle syllable shorte whan in very dede they oughte to pronounce that worde with the mydle syllable longe euyn so as they do pronoūce this worde Platonem and this worde Catonē and many other lyke thinges which I passe ouer lest for the faute of certayne I might seme to blame and rebuke all popes These thinges haue I spokē to thentente that no man shulde meruayle if many popes coulde nat espye and perceyue that the donatyon of Constātine was but a famed or forged thyng allbeit yet I do iuge that this dys●eyte gyle was begōne and brought vp first by one of the sayde popes But you wyll saye why do nat the emperours to whose hurte this thynge dyd tourne denye the donation of Constātine but graunt and knowlege it affirme it and conserue or kepe it Forsoth this is an excedyng stronge argumente and a wonderfull defence for of what imperour speakest thou If thou doest speake of the Greke emperour which was the very ēperour in dede than wyll I denye that euer he confessed or graūted the sayde donation But if thou doest speke of the latyne emperoure I my selfe also wyll confesse thy forlong to be true For who is he which knoweth nat that the latyne emperoure was frely made of the daye Steuen as I w●ne whiche deposed and put 〈◊〉 the Greke emperoure bycause he wolde nat bringe helpe and ayde to Italye and made a latyne emperour so that the emperoure shulde receyue mo thynges of the pope than the pope of the emperour ▪ Doutles the pope the emperour departed and deuyded the empier bytwene them selues alone by certayne pactions and couenaūtes euyn as Achilles and Patroclus dyd deuyde bytwene them two alone the riches of Troye which thynge as me semeth euyn the very wordes of Ludouicus do declare and shew whan he sayth I Ludouike emperour of Rome do decree and graunt by this pacte of our cōfrontation to the blessed Peter prince of the apostles and by the to thy vycare lorde Paschalis beyng pope and to his successours for euermore be lykewise as you haue holden them of our predecessours in your power and dominiō euē vnto this tyme the cyte of Rome with the dukedome belongyng to it and all places within the precincte of the sayd cytie and all villages stretes territories belongyng to it both in the moūtayns and in the see costes hauens or al ryties castels townes and vyllages in the parties of Thustiab c. Ludouike do you make partes couenauntes or bargaynes with Paschalis the pope if these aforesayd thynges be yours that is to saye if they do appertayne to the empier of Rome why do you graunt and gyue them to another if they be his and be possessed of him what nedeth you to confirme them Agayne how lytell of the Romayne empier shall be yours if you haue lost y e very heed and chefe cyte of y e empier The Romayne emperour hathe his name of Rome Moreouer the residue which you haue in possessyon are they yours or do they belonge to Paschalis I suppose you wyll say that they are your owne Thā it foloweth that the donation of Constātine is of no strength seīg that you haue in your possessyon those thinges which were gyuen by him to the pope If it be of strength by what righte dothe Paschalis remitte or release the other thynges to you retayninge to him selfe onely those thynges which he hath in possessyon Is this it that is meaned by so great la●gytion of the Romayne empier of you towardes him or of him towardes you Thā do you worthely ▪ and nat without a cause call it a pacte that is as a man wolde say a certayne collutiō or false packīg bytwen you two But peraduēture you wyll say to me what shall I do Shall I go about to recouer by warre those thynges whiche the pope violētly wrongfully holdeth frō me That shulde nothīge auayle me for he is of more mighte power that waye than I am myselfe Shal I make clayme tytle to thē by right and lawe That coulde nat helpe for my right is no more but euen so moch as it shall please hī to graūt me For I came nat to the ēpier by the waye of inherytaunce but onely by pacte and couenaunte that if I wolde be emperour I shulde promyse suche and such thinges to the pope agayne of my parte Shal I say that Constantine gaue no whitte at all of the empier If I dyd so I shulde defende the cause of the Greke emperour and put my selfe clene from all the dygnyte of the empier For the pope saythe that he maketh me emperour vpon this condityon that I shulde be as a certayne vycare or deputie vnder hī and excepte that I wyll promyse so to be he wyll nat make me emperour And excepte that I wyll obeye him accordyng to my promyse he sayth that he wyl depose me agayne So that he wyll gyue these thynges to me I wyll cōfesse and knowlege all thynges I wyll promyse and couenaunte with him what so euer thynges he shall requyre of me But yet beleue me if I had Rome or Thustia in my possession nat onely I wolde nat than do as I do now but also it shulde be labours all in vayne for Paschalis to tell me that tale of the donation of Constantine whiche as I deme is falsly forged But nowe I do graunt and gyue those thinges which neither I haue in my possessyon neither do hope that euer I shall haue To enquyre and make serche of the popes right that appertayneth nat to me but to the emperour of Constantinople Now Ludouike you haue excused your selfe to me suffyciētly whatsoeuer other ēperour is lyke to Ludouike What ought to be demed of y e paction promise made bytwen other emꝑours the popes whan we do know so euydētly what Sigismūdus hath done which verily at all other tymes in all other poyntes was the best most valyaūte prīce but now in extreme age nat so hardy valyant as he was before whom we haue our selues sene hauynge but a fewe seruauntes or a small garde about hym to wander through Italy knowyng nat this day howe or where to haue his dyner to morowe lykewise to haue ben famisshed at Rome if Eugenius had nat giuen him fode but nat for nought for he extorted a donation of him This Sigismundus whan he was comen to Rome for to be crowned there themꝑour of the romains he coude nat be crowned by any meanes of y e pope but onely vpō this cōdition that he shulde alowe confyrme the donation of Cōstātine