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A07768	The mysterie of iniquitie: that is to say, The historie of the papacie Declaring by what degrees it is now mounted to this height, and what oppositions the better sort from time to time haue made against it. Where is also defended the right of emperours, kings, and Christian princes, against the assertions of the cardinals, Bellarmine and Baronius. By Philip Morney, knight, Lord du Plessis, &c. Englished by Samson Lennard.; Mystère d'iniquité. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.	1612 (1612)	STC 18147; ESTC S115092	954,645	704

Clement by authoritie Apostolicall made Lucino Viconte and Io●● his brother his Vicars in Milan with absolute authoritie and power ouer all the places they held in their hands In like manner he appointed Mastinus de Scaliger to be his Vicar at Verona William Gonzaga at Mantoa and Rhegio Alberto Carrara at Padua Opizo d'Este at Ferrara Modena and Argento All which places did vndoubtedly formerly belong to the Empire Blondus Decad. 2. l. 19. The same course Benedict the twelfth entred into which beeing preuented by death he could not accomplish and finish As also Lewis out of his imperiall authoritie placed Iohn de Vico his substitute at Viterbo Galeot Malatesta and his brethren at Rimini Pesara and Fano Antonio de Montefeltro at Vrbin Gentile de Varano at Camerino Guido di Polenta at Rauenna Senabaldo Ordelaffi at Furli and Cesena Iohn Manfredi at Faenza and Lewis Alidosio at Imola places no question pretended to be Papall Now the Venetians amiddest these tumults apprehending opportunitie found meanes to rise by the ruines of the Empire As also during these dissentions one Nicholas Laurentius notarie or Chauncellour of the Capitoll at Rome attempted to expell the Senators out of Rome to inuade the Capitoll to summon the people to recouerie of libertie to whom such multitudes flocked that all Italie was onely attentiue on him and his proceedings nay diuers forrainers visited him by Embassadours he enstiled himselfe Nicholaus Seuerus and Clemens the Tribune of libertie peace and justice and the famous deliuerer of the Roman Common-wealth Machiavel l. 1. Hist Florent And Petrarch speaking of his beginnings with great admiration by and by reprehends him because he flattered the worser sort of people Where is now become saith he thy redeeming spirit Where is that same consulting genius of good actions with which thou wert supposed to haue daily conference for it seemes such things could not be performed by a man and it is verie wonderfull how this man desisted from his commendable initiations But distrusting the issue of his innouations hee stole priuily out of Rome and went into Germanie to Charles the fourth to haue some treatie with him who being of a base disposition sent him bound to Auignion to the Pope condemned to perpetuall imprisonment where the Popes yet remained as it were in an hired and borrowed habitation When Robert King of Sicilie dyed he left Ioane his neece by the brothers side his heire to whom by Testament he allotted Andrew his cousin for her husband But Ioane being married a little while grew into great detestation of him and thereupon caused him to be slayne in the Citie of Auersa and then she chose Lewis of Tarento another cousin of hers to be her husband Lewis king of Hungarie came to bee reuenged of Andrew his brothers death but Ioane not daring to attend Lewis presence consulted of flight and so she and her husband retired into Prouence committing her selfe to the Popes protection who through the intercession of Guido Cardinall of Porto her kinsman made her peace vpon this condition That he might be restored to the kingdome That Lewis her pretended husband should lay downe the stile of king and be contented vnder him with that of Prince and that the king of Hungarie after her death Pandolf Collenucius l. 5. Blondus Decad. 2. l. 10. Matt. Villani ● Annal. 1. Jac. Card. Papiensis 〈◊〉 Epistolis shold to succeed al her rights titles And that you may not suppose the Pope laboured herein in vayne behold the reward of his arbitration The Citie of Auignion together with the Countie a part of her fathers enheritance was graunted to the Pope but yet this vnder a certaine shew and color of sale as if the sale of the Citie had not counteruailed the Tribute which Ioan was yet to pay out of her kingdome since her obtaining the dignitie Blondus speaks verie plainely out of Petrarch The Pope did not all this meere gratis for he enioyed the citie and countie of Auignion her fathers Patrimonie and the payment of money was changed into the payment of a Fee or Recognition which Ioane formerly crowned had promised for her kingdome Mathew Villanus writes in deed that it cost him three hundred thousand florins whereof the discharge of the sayd pension and arrerages was a part He at would but know what valuation the Court of Rome made of this purchase let them read the Epistle of Iames Cardinall of Pauia about this matter when a motion was made of restoring it againe to the house of Anjou We must prouide by all meanes saith he Henricus Reb. dorff in Annalib that the Roman See loose not her patrimonie beyond the Alpes It is a refuge to distressed Popes an hard bit in the mouthes of the Italians to curbe them from too licentiously disturbing the Church If we cannot be quiet here in threatning onely to transferre our selues to that Citie of ours we worke our owne peace Boniface as formerly you haue heard had ordayned the Iubilie to be celebrated euerie hundreth yere promising many great indulgences and Clement knowing what profit it turned him to would needs haue one also in his time wherefore in the first yeare of his Pontificat let the Reader obserue his zeale he brought it to euerie fiftie yeare so as himselfe being absent it might be celebrated at Rome and this was done the better to reconcile the Romans to him who should be greatly enriched hereby And because it concernd him so nerely he sent thither foure Cardinals his Legats with plenarie power if need required vpon this occasion to reforme the state of the Citie of Rome His drift was indeed vnder this pretext to haue put downe the Senators but though the Roman mouthes watred at the gaine and lucre of a Iubilie yet could hee obtayne no further of them but that in the election of Senators contrarie to the auntient custome there should be this addition A Papa declarabuntur they shall be declared by the Pope In the Records of many famous Cities there is yet at this day a Bull extant which he pubisht vpon the proclamation of the Iubilie Legitur haec Bulla in Tractatu de materijs Jndulgentialibus Ioan. Phesteo Professoris Friburgensis anno 1472. wherein these clauses are expresly set downe Whosoeuer by way of pilgrimage determines to come to this citie he means Rome the same day that he goes out of his Inne onwards on his iourney he may chuse a Confessor or Confessors both on the way and in any other place whatsoeuer to which Confessours by our authoritie we giue full power to absolue all Papall interests as if we were there in proper person Item we graunt that if being trulie confest he dye in the way that he be absolutely freed and discharged of all his sinnes And no lesse we expresly commaund the Angels of Paradise that his soule being quite set at libertie out of Purgatorie they immediatly conuey it into

THE MYSTERIE OF INIQVITIE That is to say The Historie of the Papacie Declaring by what degrees it is now mounted to this height and what Oppositions the better sort from time to time haue made against it Where is also defended the right of Emperours Kings and Christian Princes against the assertions of the Cardinals Bellarmine and Baronius By PHILIP MORNEY Knight Lord du Plessis c. Englished by SAMSON LENNARD Falleris aeternam qui suspicis ebrius Arcem Subruta succensis mox corruet ima tigillis LONDON Printed by Adam Jslip Anno Dom. 1612. TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE HENRIE Prince of Wales Sonne and Heire apparent to our Soueraigne Lord the King IF the Lord du Plessis most high and mightie Prince hauing finished this his worke out of that reuerend and honourable conceit hee had of your Fathers greatnesse that vnfained loue which true religion wrought in his heart and that hope he had of his future endeuors to beat downe Antichrist thought it a sinne though a stranger to thinke of any other Patron but himselfe to whom hee might dedicate these his labours much more I his naturall subiect linked vnto your Highnesse his naturall sonne with the same bond rapt with the same admiration fed with the same hope must say hauing finished these my labours Cui dicâre debeam ambigere nefas For the same reasons that moued him must likewise encorage me your greatnesse must encourage because the same being a Princelie branch sprung from that Royall stocke your religion must encourage because the same which your worthie father and all the Fathers of the Primitiue Church haue made profession of your hopefull endeuours must encourage because the same for what he conceiues of your Princelie father the whole world expects should be performed if not by his by your hand His pen hath made way for your sword and his peace if God giue long life may farther your warres Glorious be his peace and your warres and Gods glorie the end of both His Highnesse can best iudge what is fitting we can but wish and if hee haue begged at Gods hands with Hezekiah That there may be peace in his daies we all say Amen and with one voyce we all crie out Let there be peace vpon Israel onely we wish he may neuer haue reason to say as Dauid did I seeke peace and when I speake thereof they are bent to warre they intend mischiefe And therefore renowmed Prince leauing your royall father to Gods peace and his owne hearts desire giue me leaue though altogether vnworthie in a matter of such moment to aduise yet to wish with du Plessis that I may liue to march ouer the Alpes and to trayle a pike before the walls of Rome vnder your Highnesse Standard It was my first profession oh that it might be my last The cause is Gods the enterprise glorious O that God would be pleased as he hath giuen you a heart so to giue power to put it in execution Jn the meane time whilest our hopes are in the bud let me humbly beseech your Highnesse till my sword may doe you seruice to accept of the poore endeuours of my vnskilfull penne and as it hath pleased your Highnesse not long since graciously to protect my sorie labours bestowed vpon Charron his three bookes of Wisedome so now to pardon my boldnesse in vndertaking a worke so farre vnbefitting my strength and to protect my infirmities The God of heauen euer blesse your Highnesse and euer defend you from Antichrist and his bloudie designements that you may liue and liue long euen in perniciem to the ruine of him and all his Antichristian rabble Amen Amen To your Highnesse most humbly deuoted SAMSON LENNARD TO THE RIGHT REVErend Fathers in God GEORGE Archbishop of Canturburie and Metropolitan of England and IOHN Bishop of London RIght Reuerend and my verie good Lords I am bold out of that duetie I owe to two so great Prelats and pillars of this our Church of England to present vnto your learned and judicious censures my vnlearned and simple labours bestowed vpon a worke worthie the reading in it selfe howsoeuer by my vnskilfull pen it may be disfigured I confesse I was vnfitting amongst a thousand to vndertake a worke of such consequence and yet better I as I thought than none being a Mysterie fit to be layd open to as many as can read it in their mother tongue My good Lords pardon such faults as either by too much speed or too little skill or otherwise haue slipt my pen There is nothing past that may not be amended in a second edition if your Grace shall be pleased to giue the encouragement The God of heauen as he hath multiplied his gifts and graces vpon you fit for so high a calling euen in the highest measure so euer assist you with his holie spirit in that great worke you haue vndertaken to his glorie and the good of his Church Your Graces and Lordships in all dutie to be commaunded SAMSON LENNARD TO THE READER GEntle Reader I haue once againe aduentured my selfe vpon your gentle censures with this onely request That though perhaps a curious eye may find faults ynow yea sometimes where there are none you would be pleased to doe mee this fauour that if at any time you shall find mee to disagree sometimes from the Latine copie sometime from the French not to condemne me without the examination of both because in this translation I haue followed both the one and the other as occasion was offered and as I found them agreeing in one and the same sence This is all I request and so much the rather because I know the most vnskilfull is more readie to iudge than he that can iudge iudiciously S. L. TO THE FRIENDS AND FOLlowers of the Church of Rome LEt me once againe my brethren and friends speake vnto you and though perhaps I shall seeme to importune you ouer much yet it is with the same importunitie which the Apostle commends to his disciple 2. Tim. 4. v. 2. Be instant in season and out of season yea with that wholesome and opportune importunitie wherewith we pluck those that are neerest and deerest vnto vs euen by the haires of the head out of the furious rage of fire and water wherewith we pinch and prick those euen till they bleed that are dying of a Lethargie What shall I then say vnto you To some that are floating or rather fleeting betwixt many opinions and to others that haue alreadie stept ouer the threshold gotten one foot out of Babylon the huge height and greatnesse of the Popedome like a scar-crow is obtruded She is old indeed and by how much the more strucken in yeares in so much that she lyes groueling vpon her bellie by so much the more stupendiou● Whereas contrariwise the reformed Church being little and of small continuance either by the noueltie thereof or the pouertie is contemptible And here that common crie of the Iewes

which without wrong done vnto his Authors he could not conceale For Hermannus a Chronicler of those times and Leo Bishop of Ostia had witnessed before That the Romans being wearied with the wickednesse of Benedict expelled him and substituted though not without money Siluester in his place And that some few monethes after Benedict with the helpe of his kindred and friends recouered it againe who that he might with more libertie betake himselfe to his owne pleasures he substituted Iohn the Archpriest Herman in Chron. Leo l. 2. c. 80. Otho Frisingensis supra who was accounted almost the more religious he would haue said the more hypocrite And of all three Otho Frisingensis recounteth before vnto vs the pitifull estate that Rome was then in I my selfe saith he haue heard it in the city from the Romans themselues To conclude Baronius calls those three false Popes tricipitem Bestiam a Beast with a triple head rising from the gates of hell Where is then that See against which the gates of hell cannot preuaile Now Cerberus himselfe as that which the Poet speakes of is choked with a ball of pitch And where is that euer-running spring of the spirit of God or in whom did it now reside This ball of pitch saith he a certaine good man and a zealous called Gratian made for them Baron an 1045 1044. and see how he did it He went to the aforesaid men and persuaded them with money to forsake the See and to Benedict he left the reuenues of England because he seemed to be a man of greatest power and authoritie The Romans in recompence thereof as to the purchaser of their freedome made him Pope who was Gregorie the sixt I aske now Whether this transaction may bee borne with amongst the Canonists or whether all this may redownd to his profit without simonie And to say the truth for this either cause or pretence of cause hee was afterwards in the Councell of Sutri by the authoritie of Henrie the Emperour and the consent of the Romans expelled his See and the Bishop of Bamberge who was Clement the second installed in his place chosen from amongst strangers because alas therefore there were none capable thereof at Rome But Baronius is much grieued with these words Leo Ostiens l. 2. c. 80. who calls this election a detestable presumption of the Emperour Henrie and doth vehemently endeuour to proue that therefore the Popedome of Clement could not be lawfull But in all this time when will he find vs any Pope and how will he fill vp that gulfe of pretended succession which they so much boast of Except he meane to supplie it with the abhominations of Benedict the ninth who yet continuing euen after the death of Clement thrust himselfe thrice into the chaire We must not forget that you may vnderstand that the libertie of the Churches was not yet wholly taken away that Henrie the King of Germanie in the yeare 1006 held a Synod at Frankford whereof Dithmar thus speaketh Dithmar l. 6. The generall Councell is appointed at Frankford by the King and was visited by all those that are on this side the Alpes Which was done to make Bamberge a Bishopricke and being done Eberard was nominated Bishop by the Emperour and consecrated by Willegisus the President of the Synod and all this without the knowledge or consent of Rome Henrie his sonne likewise called another Councell in the yeare 1047 An. 1047. wherein he sharply repressed all simoniacal persons Glaber saith Glaber l. 5. c. 5. Coadunare fecit He assembled as well the Archbishops as the Bishops c. And for a conclusion after he had pronounced a curse against all those that had committed simonie he protesteth and saith As God hath giuen me of his meere mercie the Crowne so will I freely giue that which belongs to his religion Here is no mention made of Rome But Baronius wittily after his manner saith That he thinkes that Clement the second was at this Synod though without any Author for saith he the Emperour ought in duetie to giue his helping hand vnto him by this his Edict which he likewise performed in fact But suppose that Pope Clement were present thereat and in all these proceedings not remembred doth it not hurt his cause the more So likewise in Spaine in the yeare 1012 there was a Councell held at Leon Baron vol. 11. an 1012. ex script Anto. August art 16. Glaber l. 3. c. 8. in which thus spake the Fathers We say they are met together at Leon and by the commaundement of King Alphonsus the fift we haue made these Decrees which are intituled The Decrees of the King Alphonsus and Geloira the Queene And in France in the yeare 1017 a Councell was called by King Robert touching the cause of Heresie notwithstanding that he by the testimonie of all the writers of those times was commended for his pietie and deuotion 40. PROGRESSION Of the wicked inuentions of Hildebrand and the Popes of this time to enlarge their power and authoritie Of the doctrine of the redemption of penitentiaries by whom and when it came in Of the fained myracles of Alexander the second to deceiue the people Of the troubles that arose in Milan through the Popes intrusions there Of the Peter pence that were granted at this time by diuers Princes to the Pope Damianus Bishop of Ostia exclaimeth against the lasciuious life of the Roman Clergie THe thirtie yeares that follow vnder diuers Popes vsing rather the magistracie than ministrie of Hildebrand who especially swayed in those times gaue occasion vnto them to vsurpe againe that which the Emperour Henrie the second had taken from them by restoring that auncient law which was made in a solemne Synod betwixt Hadrian the first and Charles the Great and was in force vnder the gouernment of his whole race and afterwards confirmed vnder the Othoes and other Kings of Germanie This Hildebrand was by nation a Tuscan by profession a Monke of Clugnie He obtained that dignitie by bad meanes as Cardinal Benno and the Roman Archpriest doe witnesse The minoritie of Henrie the third the sonne of the Emperour Henrie the second being a child of fiue yeares of age and brought vp vnder the tuition of Agnis his mother as the minoritie of Princes produce many times weake counsellors was a great occasion why Hildebrand abusing his youth did dare to enterprise so much But the diuell especially by his messengers thrust himselfe into the businesse whilest they that they might the more easily obtaine that they desired abused the people vnder the name of two pretended Heresies the one was Simonie the sale for siluer or other thing equiuolent thereunto of Ecclesiastical charges though at that time there was nothing at Rome more cōmon where the Popedome it selfe was set to sale to whomsoeuer would giue most where the Popes sold all Ecclesiastical dignities and themselues to the diuell as we haue often seene

Gregorie the seuenth would take vpon him to describe vnto vs the Idea of a most wicked Pope R. Why then hath he marked eight or nine Popes with the same coale and as many Cardinals Neither is Benno the only author of these narrations since we haue produced before such and so many witnesses of the like things Thirdly this Benno saith he was a Cardinall created by the Antipope Clement the third and therefore no friend of Gregories and Onuphrius saith he placed him among the Cardinals of Clement R. How easie a matter it is to lye where there is no man to contradict But Benno who could not foresee Bellarmines fiction named himselfe among the Cardinals that were created before Hildebrand Leo saith he the Archpriest of the Cardinals and Benno and Hugobaldus and Iohn Onuphr de Pontisicibus maximis Alexand 2. Clement 3. and Peter Cardinals ordained before his time Natro Innocent and Leo consecrated by himselfe And Onuphrius himselfe among the present Cardinals promoted by Alexander the second the predecessor of Gregorie nameth Benno a German a Prelat Cardinall afterward the Archpriest of the Church of Rome This is that Benno no doubt who in the title of his booke is described by these names for he that by Onuphrius is placed vnder Clement hath no other but the title of a Priest And so the testimonie of Benno stands yet good In the meane time it is to be noted That this Magitiā that is this disciple or feudatarie of the diuels is the very same that thundered so loud that spit his fire and flame against the lawfull mariage of Ecclesiasticall persons and who for this verie matter filled both Church and common-wealth with fire and ruine which putteth vs in mind of that which the Apostle spake to Timothie That in the later times some shall depart from the faith 1. Tim. 4.5 c. 2.3 and shal giue heed to spirits of errour and doctrines of diuels which speake lyes through hypocrisie and haue their consciences burned with a hot yron forbidding to marie c. And from hence he confesseth before that he raised this doctrine Adde hereunto That it was about the middle of these times that the disputation grew hot about the carnall presence of Christs bodie in the Sacrament vnder the Popes Victor and Nicholas the second Hildebrand being the brand that kindled it who made Berengarius subscribe vnto it That all the faithfull in the Sacrament doe really teare with their teeth the bodie of Christ which Thesis neuerthelesse in these dayes is with them accounted hereticall And to say the truth they really teare the bodie of Christ who by their ambition doe miserably teare in peeces the Church of Christ Baronius endeuoureth to defend Gregorie in all things Baron an 1073 art 16. yea following the other extreame he striues to make him a Saint He begins with his natiuitie He was saith he borne at Soane in Tuscane the sonne of a Carpenter And hereby he thinks he hath gotten much because saith he our Sauiour taking our flesh vpon him by reason of Ioseph his father was called the sonne of a Carpenter But which is more from his infancie he wrought myracles For being a child and playing at the feet of his father who was hewing of timber with the chips that flew from it before he knew letter in the booke he formed certaine characters that being joyned together expressed that Dauidicall Oracle Psal 72. Dominabitur à mari vsque mare Psal 72. His Dominion shall be from sea to sea which the princelie Prophet did once speake of our Lord and Sauiour What could he gather from hence but that this Gregorie as it was foretold should leape into Christs place inuade the throne of God himselfe From what spirit did this wicked blasphemie proceed and consequently what was this myracle but that of Pytho which the whole remainder of his life made good Secondly he cries out against Cardinall Benno calling him schismatike and a man in no sort to be beleeued c. But we haue shewed Bellarmine out of Onuphrius that he deceiues himselfe in this point neither can a Cardinall be called a schismatike when for so long a time together these Popes contended one against the other neither of them both approued by Baronius To conclude is Benno alone Doth not Sigebert a writer of these times so many other recited by Auentine so many Bishops assembled in generall Councels of Germanie France Italie speake the same An. 1074. Doe they not giue the same testimonie of his violences poysonings Negromancies Thirdly he endeuoureth to excuse the loue of Gregorie and Mathilda But how doth he it By contradicting all historie He thinkes he hath proued that this Mathilda maried to Azo Marquesse of Este which mariage Gregorie did vndoe is not the same that is here spoken of which wee will giue him leaue to dispute with his owne fellowes and friends But so long as he doth acknowledge that this Mathilda of whom we speake was first maried to Godfrey le Bossu Duke of Loraine that presently by the authoritie of Gregorie they made a diuorce with the great offence of her husband that this diuorce saith he was not for any cause of consanguinitie which he proueth not for any impotencie for he maried another and had children by her not for fornication for he might haue maried another Yet saith he this diuorce was lawfull because so great and so holie a Father did it by his authoritie permitted it Doth not he giue vs reason to beleeue what the historie told vs before And to say the truth with what face could this holy man familiarly conuerse with Mathilda farre from her husband from whom by his authoritie she was diuerted seduced taken How seemely a thing was it for her to follow him in euerie place to accompanie him for him to sit with her in Councell in Consistorie in Senat Did this become the modestie of a virgine if so he will haue her or if one that had beene maried the grauitie of a matron who ought to haue beene the more modest the more bashfull the more solitarie by how much the more subiect she was to calumnie by reason of her diuorce At the last when she was fortie fiue yeares of age according to Baronius after the death of Gregorie this virgine maried Welpho a young man the sonne of the Duke of Bauaria Will any man now vpon the faith of Baronius warrant her chastitie nay her virginitie or admit of his excuse That it was done for the good of the Church Baron an 1085 art 14. by the commaund of Vrban the second At the last it pleaseth him to couer all this turpitude with fables That the garments of Gregorie after his death wrought myracles as Pauls Semicinctia did in the Acts of the Apostles which selfesame power and vertue was in the apparell of Gregorie And to proue this true he alledgeth the Legend of S. Anselme Lucensis Yuo

to Bishop Benedict that it seemed to be taken from an Epistle euidently supposed to bee Calixtus the first which if we marke either the sence or manner of stile we shall find to sauour of no antiquitie and the like besides was supposed by diuers others and all the learned among them euen before these controuersies were Furthermore that it is likely that this Benedict was he that is mentioned in the first creation of Cardinalls made by Calixtus in the yeare 1120 An. 1120. as we read in Onuphrius With the like credit they attribute the Decree of single life to Calixtus the first which this second Calixtus ended An. 1119. being President of the Councell at Rheimes in the yeare 1119 That all maried Priests should be degraded But let the Reader judge with what spirit these good Bishops were led that in the same Councell they pronounced authentike the historie of Charles the Great Fasciculus Temporum Ann. 1119. Matthaeus Paris in Henric. 1. Rogerus de Houend Huntington in Hen. Ranulph in Polychro l. 7. c. 7. written by the Archbishop Turpin euen and by the judgement of Baronius fabulous and ridiculous In England likewise in a Synodholden at Westminster the Cardinall Iohn of Creme his Legat caused to be published after diuers disputations Summum scelus esse To be a great wickednesse to arise from the side of a harlot for so they called the lawfull wiues of Priests to goe to create the bodie of Christ He notwithstanding hauing the same day made and consecrated the bodie of Christ was the night following surprised in the companie of an harlot as many Authors of that time doe affirme and for the most part Monkes A thing so manifest as could not be denied whereby he changed that great honour he had gotten into the greatest dishonour and reproach and by the iust iudgement of God with shame discredit returned to Rome And so the staine of Discipline doth always accompany the corruption of doctrine Matt. Westmonasteriens in Chron. Baron to 12. an 1125. art 2. sequent Baronius wold call this historie into doubt because Mathew of Westminster addeth that this good Cardinall had for his excuse That he was no Priest but a corrector of Priests who neuerthelesse saith he was a Priest But he did not see that it was spoken in that sence wherin Abbots denied to be Monks because they were the gouernours masters of Monks that is to say they were not Monkes onely And what he addeth besides is all friuolous An. 1124. Now about the later end of the yeare 1124 Lambert Bishop of Ostia succeeded Calixtus who through his diligence had brought the Emperour Henrie vnder the yoke of bondage and was called Honorius the second and not long after died Henrie without heire which caused diuision in the Empire one part holding for Lotharius Duke of Saxonie the other for Conradus Duke of Sucuia who murdered each other with mutuall wounds An. 1125. whilest in the meane time Honorius and his successors lost no time Honorius purposing to inuade the Normans in Apulia the onely obstacles in Italie of his greatnesse Romwal Episc Salernitan in Chron. stirred vp all the nobilitie to armes against them Pardoning all their sinnes that should die in this expedition for him and remission for the one halfe onely that should liue So vsed he his Indulgences to the destruction of Christians An. 1127. And yet neuerthelesse finding the matter full of danger determined with himselfe to make peace with Roger yeelding vnto him the title of Duke of Apulia and Calabria vpon condition he should hold them of the See of Rome And not long after in the yeare 1130 he died Neither would I willingly omit Guilielm Tit. l. 3. c. 23. 25. An. 1130. that at the same time William an Englishman was created Archbishop of Tire in an assemblie of the King and Patriarch and the Peeres of the realme and soone after consecrated by the Patriarch of Hierusalem for hitherto there was no speech to attend the Buls of Rome This William to the end he might get the more authoritie to himselfe goeth to Rome to obtaine the Pall which Honorius was verie readie to giue vnto him But it is expresly noted by the Author that he made this voyage Inuito renitente suo consecratore Against the will and liking of the Patriarch Waremond who can consecrated him And so through the wicked ambition of the Prelats he got power and authoritie in the East countries Neuerthelesse Stephen the successor of Waremond was chosen not long after by the Clergie and people without the helpe of Rome OPPOSITION But among the enterprises of these Popes there were not wanting those who barked at the theefe vndermining the wall of the Church Hildebert Bishop of Mans famous in that Age in a certaine Epistle speaking of the Court of Rome saith Their proper function is Inferre calumnias deferre personas afferre minas auferre substantias that is to say To slander to backbite people to threaten to carrie away other mens goods Their praise is to seeke businesse theft in peace among weapons flight victory in banquets Imploy them in your causes and they delay them imploy them not and they hinder them If you solicite them they scorne you if you inrich them they forget you They buy processe they sell intercessions they depute arbitrators they dictate iudgements and when they are pronounced they reuerse them c. They denie vnto Clergie men their due reuerence to the Nobilitie their originall honour to superiours their place to equalls their familiar meetings and to all iustice They loue not any kind of men of what order or of what age soeuer In the Palace they are Scythians in chambers Vipers in feasts Scullions in exactions Harpies in discourses Statutes in questions Beasts in their treatises Snailes in their bargaines Bankers Stonie in vnderstanding woodden in iudgement firie in stirring vp anger yron in forgiuing In friendship Leopards in their meriments Beares in deceits Foxes in pride Bulls and Minotaures in deuouring Their firmest hopes are in changes they loue best doubtfull times and yet still fearfull of their villanie through a guiltie conscience Lions in their counsells Leuorites in armies They feare peace least they should be shaken off warre least they should fight Whose nosthrils if they vent the ayre of an rustie purse thou shalt presently see the eyes of Argus the hands of Briarius and the wit of Sphynx In another after that he was made Archbishop of Tours he complaineth to Honorius the second Hildebert in Epist ad Honor 2. That all things were brought by Appeale to Rome which we saith he on this side the moutaines haue not yet heard much lesse learnt in our holie ordinances that all Appeales are to be receiued at Rome and if perhaps such a noueltie hath risen That all Appeales without difference be admitted the Pontificall censure will perish and the strength of