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A31006	The history of that most victorius monarch, Edward IIId, King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, and first founder of the most noble Order of the Garter being a full and exact account of the life and death of the said king : together with that of his most renowned son, Edward, Prince of Wales and of Aquitain, sirnamed the Black-Prince : faithfully and carefully collected from the best and most antient authors, domestick and foreign, printed books, manuscripts and records / by Joshua Barnes ...	Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712.	1688 (1688)	Wing B871; ESTC R7544	1,712,835	942

by a Detestable temerity presum'd to Usurp unto himself the Imperial Name and to exercise the Offices of the Empire in Italy and Almaine contrary to the Processes and Prohibitions aforesaid incurring thereby besides other Penalties the Sentences of Excommunication and Anathema And finally adding Presumption to Presumption and Excesses to Excesses he doubted not to March to the City of Rome where he brake forth to that Madness of Impiety that designing to stir up the Mischief of a General Schism both to the City and the World he attempted to set up a certain Hypocrite a Man of Devillish Presumption Peter de Corbarils by Name as the Image of horrid Abomination in the Apostolick Seat for Bishop of Rome And that as much as in him lay was by force effected He honoured him as Pope and then and there upon his Consecration or rather Execration received de Facto the Imperial Crown To say nothing of the many other Mad Proceedings or rather Detestable Receedings by the said Lewis and Peter done thrô Heretical Presumption For which our said Predecessor pronounced the said Lewis to be deprived of his Power Honour and Dignity and using against him who was ensnared in the Errors of such Heresies and Schisms the Sword of Apostolick Power as also against all others who should adhere unto him or afford him Help Counsel or Favour or knowingly have hold or call him Roman King or Emperour He Published not only the Penalties and Sentences of Excommunication and Anathema but also all other Penalties and Sentences as against Favourers of Hereticks and Schism and declared them to be by Law Enacted as in divers Processes by Our said Predecessor had is more fully contained As to all which Penalties however by the said Lewis deserved and against him by the just Sentence of the Church promulged if being truly Penitent he had Humbly submitted himself to Mercy he might have found the said Church Gracious and that she would have received him as the Prodigal Son returning from far with open Arms into her Bosom ready to sacrifice for him in her large Returns of Praise to God the Fatted Calf Again We added in the foresaid Letters that althô of all the foresaid Excesses by the said Lewis committed against the said Processes by our said Predecessor made against the said Lewis Justice so requiring we had and also have notice yet that we might snatch him from out the Jaws of Eternal Death being deliver'd from the bonds of his sins after that we were taken up to the Heighth of the Chief Apostleship We gratiously received his Messengers several times sent unto Us and had many Conferences with them about his being Reconciled which was to be obtained by his bringing forth the Fruit of true Repentance And thereupon the matter hung to be conferr'd on further on Terms assigned wherein certainly it was not our Fault that there was no further Progress made in the Affair of his Reconciliation Wherefore most Dear Son we then thought fit to require Your Highness by those Letters and to entreat You that prudently considering and calling into your most inward Meditation the weight of those Penalties into which they should fall and of those Sentences which they would incurr and with what Dangers and Difficulties they would enwrap themselves who to the said Lewis so notoriously by all condemned of Heresie and Schism so odious to all Christendom before he had obtain'd the favour of Reconciliation from the said Church should rashly presume to afford any Help Counsel or Favour or should knowingly and wittingly give unto him as unto an Emperour or King of the Romans the Honour or Title of a Royal or Imperial Name you would take care to withdraw your self and wholly abstain from contracting Leagues of any Familiarity or Friendship with him or rendring unto him any Reverence and Honour as unto a King or Emperour untill the said Lewis should merit to obtain the Grace of the said Churche's Reconciliation that so the integrity of your Good Name and the unspotted Brightness of your Race might be preserved But when an unwelcom and unpleasing Rumour was lately brought unto us That You O Son thô you had heard our Reports and wholsom Advice which proceeded from the Fountain of Charity have not only presumed to the hazard of your Safety and Reputation which with Grief we speak to enter a League and Confederation with the said Lewis and to him to adhere and to give him Favour Help and Counsel thô he is not yet reconciled to the Church nor acquitted of those Penalties and Sentences wherein because of the Premises and many other Offences he is known to have been by our Predecessor involved and althô the Processes of our said Predecessor are not released but remain yet in their full Force whereby as is premised heavy both Spiritual and Temporal Penalties and Sentences are inflicted upon all and singular of whatsoever Preheminence Dignity State or Condition even thô they excell'd in the Pontifical or Royal or any other Ecclesiasticall or Secular Dignity whatsoever who should adhere unto the said Lewis or afford him directly or indirectly publiquely or privately Counsel Aid or Favour or to him as Emperour or King of the Romans yield Obedience or assign and ascribe the Stile of King or the Name Imperial Nay which alas is known to be more pernicious and damnable if there be any Truth in these Relations You have de facto accepted from the said Lewis under the Name of Emperour the Office of Vicarship thrô all Almain and Germany and all and singular the Provinces or Parts thereof Whereas the said Lewis is neither King nor Emperour as is premised On pretence whereof You are said to have commanded by your Minatory Letters and more straitly to have enjoyned on severe Penalties several Prelates of Churches and Ecclesiastical Persons beneficed in the Lands of the Empire but persisting in due Devotion and Fidelity to Us and to our See that they should appear before You as Vicar of the said Lewis in Almain Germany and the Parts aforemention'd to hear the Equity of his the said Lewis's Sentences and Judgments and of your Commands and to yield unto the said Lewis or to You in his Name their Recognitions and Homages for their Lands Goods and Rights which they hold of the Empire Concerning You therefore O our Son considering the Wisdom of You and your Council we cannot sufficiently admire that when You as we have heard in order to the Recovery of those Rights which you say belong to you have travelled toward the Parts of Almain not without the detriment of sundry Great Persons and the exceeding profusion of Expences and have made many Preparations to that purpose now at last you have despised the Processes of our said Predecessor and damnably brought into contempt the Penalties and Sentences aforesaid into which You have most manifestly involved your Self if what we hear of You be true not without most horrid Scandal which sullies the

Glory of your Family And all this notwithstanding we have never offended You nor have done any thing against You althô we have also understood that it hath been falsly and deceitfully suggested to you by those who neither love You nor your Safety nor your Honour how we gave out of our Chamber a great quantity of Money to our Most Dear Son in Christ the Illustrious King of France in Aid of his War and also granted unto him the Institution of all Ecclesiasticall Persons in all Churches of his Dominions which Matters are known to be void of all manner of Truth For such things were never demanded of Us nor should we by any means have granted them had they been never so instantly requested of Us nor did we grant the Tythes to the King of France against You but against the Germans adhering to Lewis and Enemies to the foresaid Roman Church who were then even ready to invade the Realm of France as the common and known Report went as is expresly contained in the Grant of the said Tithes For it was not our Intention to administer fuel of Discord against You or to help them with any Supply but rather extreamly desiring that both your Kingdom and the Kingdom of France should enjoy Peace and Concord Unanimity and Prosperity We have to that purpose by our Letters directed to your Highness and to the said King of France and by our Legats de Latere Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church sent to those Parts with most ardent Desires travailed and cease not yet nor shall cease to travail that between You and the said King and both your Realms the serenity and brightness of Peace may shine forth Yet You O Most Dear Son giving as it seems credit to the foresaid false and lying Suggestions have shew'd your Self an Enemy and Persecutor of Us and of the said Roman Church and do invade and usurp the Honours and Rights of Us and of the said Church to whom the Government and Administration of the Roman Empire it being void as now it is known to be do of full Right belong by molesting the Prelates and Ecclesiasticall Persons who persist as is premised in due Devotion and Fidelity to Us and by endeavouring to withdraw them to the Obedience of the said Lewis being as is premised sententially condemned of divers Heresies Schisms and other Crimes and by the just Judgment of God and the Church deprived of all Kingly and Imperial Right if ever any hath or did belong unto him to perform a Recognisance and Homage or to You in his Name by attempting to induce them by coactive Methods and Comminations But I would to God O Son before you involve your self any further in these most dangerous and detestable Matters that you would seriously consider and set before the eyes of your Mind with mature Deliberation the hazardous Labyrinths and knotty Snares into which some who are more sollicitous about their own than your Affairs by their subtle and most exquisite Arts endeavour to involve You and to lay a Burthen upon you which by all means they desire to rid themselves of not easily supportable if you diligently attend the Circumstances nor without the hazard of your utter Ruine Nor would We have you ignorant how that our foresaid Predecessor in a certain Constitution made formerly by him with the Advice and Counsel of his said Brethren did promulge Excommunications and other heavy Sentences against all and singular of what State Dignity or Condition soever they should be whether Patriarchal or any other Superior as Pontifical or Royal who without the special Licence of the Apostolick See should presume to assume the Name of Vicar or of any other Office within the Lands of the said Empire it being void as then it was and now also is void as was premised or being assumed to retain it beyond the space of two Months or being laid down to reassume it any ways If they should remain refractory and would not obey and intend to the same We therefore who toward You O Son could not shut up our Bowels of Fatherly Compassion but are inwardly touch'd with Grief of Heart seeing such things devised as tend to the detriment of You and of your Honour and Estate Fame and Safety do entreat your Magnificence require and more earnestly exhort you in the Lord nevertheless persuading you by sound and fatherly Counsel that taking the Premises together with what else may occurr unto you into serious Consideration and moreover holding for certain and remembring that the said Lewis as we premised is neither King nor Emperour and that nothing which he hath done or shall do as long as he hath been and shall be bound by the said Processes Penalties and Sentences was or is valid or of any Authority Stress or Moment and that it is dangerous and very much to be feared by You to commit your Self to the uncertainties and hazards of War especially being involved in all the foresaid Processes Penalties and Sentences from which you cannot be deliver'd but only by the Apostolick See which has expresly kept in her own hands the Absolution therefrom and so becoming a Persecutor and Enemy of God and the said Roman Church From which things the Lord of Mercies protect and defend You. You should also consider diligently that thô it is natural for Man to sin yet perseverance in Sin ought to be reckon'd Diabolical and proper to Devils and that from these horrid Errors to which perhaps you have declined being seduced by the Serpents subtlety before they grow more deadly and stink worse and putrifie in the sight of God and Men We desire You to hasten back and to direct your feet in the right Way pleasing God and agreeable to your Condition Safety and Honour and rather than despise the Decrees of the said Cardinals who sincerely love You and your Realm to acquiesce in the mutual Reformation of Peace between You and the said King it being a thing so pleasing to God and desirable to Men. And surely it seems to Us that althô the Office of the said Vicarship might now have lawfully been assigned yet it would not become your Honour who are such and so Great a King and Prince and are known in the world to be ennobled with such a Royal Name and Title to be called the Vicar of any Temporal Lord whatsoever How much less then did it or doth it become your Eminence to be called his Vicar who as often aforesaid hath no Authority at all but is alas defiled with the blemish of so many Crimes and involved in such and so many heavy Penalties and Sentences together with all his Adherents And now know O most Loving Son that if you shall acquiesce in these our wholsom Admonitions thô You have been so moved as to fall We will effectually reach forth our Gracious Hand as far as by Gods Assistance we shall be able to raise You up again But otherwise We cannot forbear since

Skill diverts that deadly Matter that is hastening to those Parts of the Body where the Receptacle of Life is to other Parts where that very Poyson which was design'd for present Destruction cannot be suspected At this Our Care he Storms Holy Father he Storms is uneasie and complains he who sought by his subtle Devices to find Us unadvised and unprepared But without doubt it was more Discreet for Us according to the Theory of War which teaches that he more avoids the Inconvenience of War who carries it further off from his own Country to go forth into another Realm to fight against our Notorious Enemy with the joynt Power of our Allies than alone to expect him at Our own Doors Let not therefore the Envious Information of Our Detractors find Place in the meek Mind of Your Holiness or create any sinister Opinion of a Son who after the Manner of his Predecessors shall always firmly persist in Amity and Obedience to the Apostolick Seat. Nay if any such Evil suggestion concerning your Son should knock for entrance at your Holinesses Ears let no Belief be allow'd it till the Son who is concerned be heard who trusts and always intends both to say and to prove that each of his Actions is just before the Tribunal of Your Holiness presiding over every Creature which to deny is to maintain Heresie And further this we say adjoyning it as a further Evidence of our Intention and greater Devotion that if there be any One either of our Kindred or Allies who walks not as he ought in the way of Obedience towards the Apostolick See We intend to bestow Our Diligence and We trust to no little purpose that leaving his Wandring Course he may return into the Path of Duty and walk Regularly for the future Again there is One thing which by Your Holinesses leave having heard of many We must declare thô the more We think of it the more cruelly it stings Our Mind and that is that the Hand of Our Adversary who notoriously Labours now as formerly for Our Destruction when no Body made War against him nor he against any Body but Us was even at that time armed out of the very Patrimony of Christ Which unkindness that the Kings of England Our Predecessors those Illustrious Champions of Christ those g g Fidei Athletas DEFENDORS of the FAITH those zealous Assertors of the Right of the Holy Roman Church and Devout Observors of her Commands that either They or We should deserve this Unkindness We neither know nor believe And thô for this very Reason many do say We say not so that this Aiding of Our Enemy against Us seems neither an Act of a Father nor a Mother towards Us but of a Step-Mother yet notwithstanding We constantly avow that We are and shall continue to Your Holiness and Your Seat a Devout and Humble Son and not a Step-Son Hence We hope not without Reason that Our Humility being made Greater and Firmer by this that it deserved not any Ill-turn from Your Fatherly Charity will receive a more exuberant Encrease of Favour that what it laid upon Us who were Innocent Your tender Compassion which at first was wanting will now endeavour to Recompense unto Us with Goodness And this Account of Our Right and of the Injuries thus multiply'd against Us We intimate to the Preheminence of Your Sacred Dignity that Your Holiness who best know the Measure of Good and Just and in whose Hands are the Keys to open and to shut the Gates of Heaven upon Earth as the fulness of Your Power and Excellence of Your Judicature requires if there shall appear Reason may favour Our Right We being ready not only from Your Sacred Tribunal which is over all but from any Body else Humbly to receive Information of the Truth thô contrary to Us if any one knows it And We who freely submit to Reason will embrace any other Truth which shall be given to Us to understand with Full and Humble acknowledgements But because You ô Fathers are superscribed in these Our Letters who are for Your condign Merits called to partake in the Cares and Counsels of our Lord the Chief Bishop and assist by his side to give the Knowledge of Salvation to the People of Christ We are willing to open these things also to Your Knowledge that knowing the Justice of Our Cause You may pay that Duty unto Truth which You owe and to which with urgent Requests We excite Your circumspect Wisdome which is wont equally to weigh the Rights of every Man without accepting of Persons And if in any thing that we have done there shall be found any flaw We Request herein better Advice from You and desire to be profitably informed being ready in all our Actions to yield to Reason Given at Antwerp the 16 of July An. Dom. 1339. III. This Letter of the Kings was shortly after thus Answer'd by the Pope whose Name was Benedict the XII BENEDICT the Bishop h h Haec Epistola extat etiam apud Rainald ad An. 1338. §. 59. ex Tom. 4. Epist Secr. 380. tisdem verbis quibus apud Walsingh Servant of the Servants of God to his most Dear Son in Christ Edward King of England Greeting and Apostolical Benediction Being long since Desirous that You should follow the Commendable Footsteps of Your Progenitors Kings of England who were Famous for the Fulness of their Devotion and Faith towards God and the Holy Roman Church and have shew'd forth the Splendour of their Nobility untainted And wishing that these Qualities might shine more Eminently in You thrô that Fatherly Love and Charity wherewith We affect both You and Your Realm We remember how We directed Our Letters to Your Highness among other things recounting unto You that those Excesses which had been wickedly perpetrated with a complication of manifold and heinous Offences by the Noble Lord Lewis of Bavaria long since as was told You thrô Discord Elected King of the Romans against God and the said Roman Church and against Pope John the XXII Our Predecessor of Happy Memory could not escape Your Notice which as being Notorious to the whole World We took Care to recite in Our Letters not all since the Repetition thereof would have been too long and tedious but some of them as follows For the same Lewis contrary to the Processes of our said Predecessor and his Inhibitions made and had by the Advice of his Brethren the Cardinals of the same Roman Church containing divers Spiritual and Temporal Penalties and Sentences enter'd Italy and openly admitted into his Familiarity several Hereticks Publiquely and Notoriously condemn'd of Heresie himself also Asserting manifest Heresies and upholding and maintaining Hereticks who openly taught the detestable and horrid Errors of the foresaid Heresies and knowingly or rather madly approving Heretical Opinions sent an Evidence of that his Approbation by divers Letters Sealed with his own known Seal to the Peril of other Nations And afterwards