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
in an Reg. Fran lib. 5. then of his iudgement and after his execution This Hebert Countie of Vermendoies humbly inuited Charles surnamed the simple king of France to lodge at his castle of Peron as he returned out of ciuill warres against Robert the sonne of Eudo who contrary to his alleageance had seased certaine Cities and holds of the kings inheritance whome the king had slaine in the field The king surnamed the Simple casting no perils though Earle Heberts wife were sister to Duke Robert late slaine of the king in the fielde vouchsafeth his courteous inuiting and came to lodge with him After great feasting when the king was lodged and his strength sequestred from him Hebert by the setting on of his wife in reuenge of her brother Roberts death taketh the king prisoner and maketh him away that neuer he was enlarged and raigned againe Thus of Heberts treason against his Prince vnder colour of inuiting him to his castle and lodging him Now of his iudgement vnder Lewes the 5. After the making away of king Charles by treason of Hebert Lewes the 5. his son reigned in his place Hee in reuenge of Heberts treason deuiseth this manner of iudgement that Hebert out of his owne mouth vnwares and in a pretensed case shoulde pronounce sentence of death vpon himselfe Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 5. This deuise and plat was furnished in this sort As hee sate in councel with his Lords in the Citie of Laon whither this Hebert was also warned procured to be present as Robert Gagwin a famous writer of the French story reporteth it a suborned Poast came thither in Englishe mans array with a letter of hast praying the kings presence and being brought to presence he deliuered the letter And at the secrete reading therof by the king his Secretary to him the king smiled The Lordes as if his smiling boded good said they trusted there was good newes out of England Then hee saieth that one Herman as Gagwin telleth it Fabian the â— part ca. 186. but as Fabian saith one of his owne cosins and especiall friends of England moued him of a case in his letter asking his iudgement and resolution in it He proponeth the case among theÌ„ to heare their opinions and iudgements of the case The case was of a countrie or husbandman that inuited his Lorde to his house and there murdered him Say my Lordes saieth he as Gagwin vttreth his speech what death you deeme and iudge him worthie of Theobald of Blois a sage Counceller first gaue seâ—tence Theobald of Blois his iudgement that though he was worthy of sundrie tortures yet it seemed good to him that the hangman should trusse him at the gallowes strangle him with a rope And after his verdit all assented to it and Earle Hebert also accorded to it Earl Heberts iudgemeÌ„t out of his owne mouth on himselfe and his own sentence was as it were the cord to trusse him vp Iudgement out of his owne mouth was giuen on himselfe there remained no more but execution The Foxe was taken in his owne case Thus iudgement was contriued in a deuised case and Heberts mouth pronounced iudgement of death vppon himself Now of the execution Sodainly rushed in the crue appointed of the king before they caught giltie Hebert Earl Heberts execution and according to his owne sentence carried him to a hill without the citie of Laon hoised him to the Gibbet or gallowes and before the hangman straÌ„gled him Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 5. the king turned to him as Gag reporteth and said Thou Hebert art the same countrieman that madst away my Lorde and father and thy Soueraign in prison bonds now according to thy desert suffer thy deserued death Thus Heberts iudgement was deuolued on himselfe and his treason against his Prince returned on his owne head May it not be a mirror of gods iudgement touching the ende execution of traitors which intrap others with treasons sodainly are trussed vp themselues Little thought Hebert to hang at the gallowes at Laon when he came to the kings presence to sit with the Lords in couÌ„cell Little know traitors what sodainly will befall theÌ„ Gods reuenge ruÌ„neth after theÌ„ and will sodainly ouertake theÌ„ He was too suttle for the simple king As a guest the king came to his house but as a lamb he fell into the butchers hands God seeth not this Hebert saith in his hart there is no God to reuenge Psal 14. as Dauid saith of that Nabal the is the foolish wicked maÌ„ His wife wil haue her reuenge of her brothers death Hebert is the executioner of reuenge See how gods iudgemeÌ„t meateth him his owne measure He commeth to Laon as a guest inuited to sit in couÌ„cell his own mouth vnawares giueth iudgement on himself The crue appointed carieth him away to make him away As by treason he made away his Soueraign vnawares so by gods iustice he is taken vnawares for his secret treasoÌ„ hath open executioÌ„ The hill on which Hebert was haÌ„ged Heberts hill was after called Heberts hill Edric Edric the traitor had his head exalted on a high gate or his head body cast into a stinking ditch as some say Elfric had his eies plucked out Elfric Sir Andrew Hardikell Sir Roger Mortimer Sir Andrew Hardikell sir Roger Mortimer were drawn as traitors to death God giue al grace to bee warned by the example of Hebert of France Edric Elfric of England such like traitors against their Soueraignes set vp by Gods prouidence to raigne ouer countries Thus of the treason iudgement and executioÌ„ of Hebert Earle of Vermandois in France Now let vs brieflie tell of the strange execution of Queene Brunchild wife sometime to Sigisbert king of Mees or Austracia according to FabiaÌ„ for her manifold treasons murders of Princes of her owne blood Queene Brunchild Shee is noted in the storie to haue been the death of ten Princes of royal blood beside others She sette her owne sonnes and brethren Theodobert and Theodorich on blooddie warre together and one to teare out an others throate And after king Theodobert was slain in the warres by treason and Theodorich by poyson made away shee set vp a base of Theodorich called Sigisbert against king Clotare who discomfited him and took Brunchild in the field on whoÌ„ all the hoast cried a shamefull death as Gagwin telleth Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 2. and after shee was beaten with a cudgell foure times king Clotare commaunded her to be set on a horse and to bee carried about all the hoast then by the haire of the head and armes to be tyed to the taile of a wilde horse and so to bee trailed and drawne to death And this was the 〈◊〉 iudgement and execution of Burnchild king Clotare Let 〈◊〉 heare likewise of the strange iudgement and execution done on the traitors
The Lorde keepe me from laying my hand vpon the Lords annoynted So far the Scripture Dauid honored king Saul in the field though he pursued him to death 1. Sam. 24. And humbly hee honoured the person of his Prince euen in the feild and amides the forces furniture of warres For after he came out of the caue where he had so much adoe to qualifie the rage of his souldiers and restrain them from running vpon king Saul he cryed after Saul saying O my Lord the king And when Saul loked behind him Dauid inclined himselfe to the earth and bowed him as the Scripture sayth and after spake to him Notwithstanding that kinge Saule continually sought his blood and in armour lay in the feild against him yet hee honoured the person of his Prince in the middest of the warres And his person was so precious in his sight that he coulde suffer no bodilie harme or violence to be done to him insomuch hee had remorse for cutting off the lappet of his garment What hartes then or rather what addamantes in steed of hartes Zacha. 7. haue they as the prophet Zacharie saith of the Iewes which liuing vnder the peace and protection of so mercifull a Prince can finde in their hartes so much as to thinke any trecherie or violence to her royall person who hath bene so good a mother of her countrie and so pitifull a nurse of the Church of God Epist ad Philemone by whom the bowels of Gods saintes haue beene refreshed as of Philemon Paul sayth and who hath fostered her faithfull subiectes in the blessings and benifites of God which so aboundantly vnder her gouernment so many yeeres God hath bestowed vpon vs. If therefore there be any remorse of conscience to God and his ordinance if there be any bowels of good nature in vs to our naturall and leige Soueraigne if there be any valew of true worthinesse in vs let vs shewe our loue loyaltie and hartie fidelitie to her and honour her royall person as Dauid did the person of his Prince and gard her from al violence in respect of Gods ordinance and the manifold blessinges which vnder her so manie yeeres we haue receaued and that God may blesse vs for our loyaltie and honoring the person of our Prince as he did blesse his faithful seruant Dauid Though his loyalty seemed to be lost touching king Saul yet it was not lost with God for Gods blessngs more abundantly followed fell on him Beside Dauids loyaltie to king Saul was a comfort to him in his troubles 1. Sam. 26. he found such comfort of conscience by it in his troubles that he said to king Saul Behould like as thy life was much set by this day in my eies when he came on him as he lay fast a sleepe so let my life be set by in the eyes of the Lorde that he may deliuer me out of al tribulations So the loyaltie that he shewed to his Prince in respect of God he found aboundantly againe with comforte of conscience in his greatest troubles and his owne life was precious is the sight of God Abigael As Abigael the vertuous woman said to him The soule saith she of my Lord shal be bound in a bundel of life with the Lorde thy God 1. Sam. 25. and the soule of thy enemies shall God cast out as out of the middle of a slinge What comforte and encouragement may this bee to the hartes of true subiectes to their Prince since God blesseth loyaltie and it is a comforte to the conscience in troubles and as their Prince is precious in their sight so for their loyaltie their owne life is more precious in the sight of God Besides this Dauids comfort in the righteousnes of his cause 2. Sam. 25. Dauid tooke comforte of the vprightnesse and innocencie of his cause and thereof hee saide The Lorde rewarde euery man according to his righteousnesse for the Lorde hath deliuered thee into my handes and I would not lay my handes vpon the Lordes annoynted So farre the Scripture And before he said to Saul when he saued his life in the caue 1. Sam. 24. vnderstand and see that there is neither euill nor wickednesse in me yet thou huntest after my soule to take it The Lord bee iudge betweene thee and me and auenge thee of me and let not my hand be vpon thee So farre the Scripture God tooke the iudgment into his handes and deliuered Dauid and auenged his cause of Saul So God hath taken of late the iudgment of the cause into his handes and hath deliuered our gracious Prince reuenged her cause of her enemies the vprightnesse and innocency of her cause is great comfort to her in the sight of God God vouchsafe long as Abigael said to Dauid to binde her soule in a bundle of life and long to locke vppe her life from all her enemies as a iewell of comfort to his Church and our Countrie Thus of the example of Dauid his loyaltie and fidelitie to the person of king Saul notwithstanding he persecuted him to death and howe God blessed him for it The Sixt is the example of the famous fidelitie of one Lylla a Briton and heathen man The 6. cheefe matter in the defence of the royall person of his Prince As I haue layed out at large the example of the loyaltie and fidelitie of Dauid to the person of king Saul so I will set downe breefely the example and fidelitie of one Lylla a Briton in the defence of the royall person of his Prince Fabian in his Cronicle of Englande the 5. part cap. 130. When Edwin king of Northumberland at a Citie beside the water of Darwent in Darbishire being smallie accompanied was sodenly assailed of a murderer and swordman as Fabian calleth him by Quincelinus kinge of the West Saxons hired to it Lylla a Briton his famous fidelity in the defence of the person of his Prince who ranne on him with a sworde that was enuenimed one Lylla the kinges trusty seruant vnarmed and disgarnished of weapon thrust his bodye betweene the traytors sword and the king and saued the king his life with losse of his owne And yet through the bodie of Lylla with the thruste of the sword the king was wounded also because the wound was poysoned it was more hardlie cured A worthy example of famous fidelitie in defence of the royall person of the Prince worthy to liue in the memorie of al faithfull subiectes as a glasse to be set before their eyes to encourage and emboulâ—eÌ„ them as a walle to set their bodies bowels in defence of the royal person of their Prince against the swords of al traytors enemies Though Lylla be dead in person many huÌ„derd yeeres since yet his loyaltie liueth still in the bowels of faithfull subiectes ready to thrust their bodies against the swordes of all traytors and enemies to the royall person of their
Gagwin â—n anna Reg. Franc. lib 2. Holderich the traitor iâ—â—reward and seeing Gods iudgement on them vtterly they may shun and detest them The wickednesse of traitors commeth on their owne heads their mischief on their own pates What was Holderich the olde and ranke traitour and murderer his rewarde who of Fredegonde Queene of Soisons in Fraunce was hired to murder Queene Brunchild in her Courte Hee was putte to torture and the bastinado And after hee came to Queene Fredegond for her reward shee charging him with cowardice caused his hands and feete which in treasons and murders long he had abused to bee cut off and that was the traitours rewarde The two Traitours that of the same Fredegond were set sent to kill Sigisbert king of Mees or Austracia according to Fabian in his campe Ro. Cagw in annali Fran. â—ib 2. awaiting their time committing the murder were hewen of the souldiers in peeces Edricus the traitor Edricus surnamed of StrattoÌ„ was a rank traitor first to Egelred after to king Edmond surnamed Ironside after him to king Canutus the first king of Danes that after Edmond reigned ouer the land to his own country in the inuasion of Danes How euer the Prince changed Edricus did not chang but was a traytor to his Prince a traytor to his Country He was grown in great estate of honour vnder king Egelredus and vnder others after But hee coulde not containe himselfe in his estate He turned truth into treason With many treasons hee trauailed and hee reaped the reward of his treasons in the end Because it is a notable example of our owne Countrie and worthy as a spectacle to be set vp to warne all I wil open it more at large Edricus was from a low state and birth as Fabian saith by king Egelredus first aduaunced to bee Duke of Mercia Fab. in chro 6. par ca. 199 and hee coÌ„mited the conduct and regiment of soldiers vnto him And when vpon the kings commaundement hee hadde assembled the west Saxons to withstand the entrie of the Danes vnder Swanus their king and the hoastes should ioyne Edricus sicke when he should fight Edricus fayned himselfe sicke and fled from his people to the great aduantage and comfort of the enemies Thus when it coÌ„meth to a dead lift Fabian in Chro. the 6. part cap. 198 Edricus treasoÌ„ in the battaile treason betrayeth al. And vnder king Edmond called Ironsid in a battaile in Worcestershire as Fabian telleth it when the Danes were like to be discomfited Edricus the traytor pight a dead mans head on a speares head and cryed to the English hoast Fabian in Chro. the 6. part cap. 240 that it was the head of kinge Edmond to daunt the courages of English men and to set the Danes agog vpon them But king Edmond sped him to that parte of the field and so incouraged his souldiers that he had rather the better then the woorse After Edricus fearing the great courage and good successe of kinge Edmond and to saue his land as Fabian saith humbly shued to be receiued into his grace and fauour Fab. in chro 6. par ca. 204 swore to bee true subiect to him But olde trecherie would not suffer new sworne truth to take place in him for after when the hoasts of king Edmond and Canutus mette at Ashdown Edricus after long sight fled to the coÌ„fort of the Danes Thus fighting and flying it was all one with Edricus for when hee should fight he would flee or be sick and haue some excuse and with smooth words set forth matters of small importance Edricus the traytors excuses His flying out of the battaile at Ashdowne he did so excuse as Fabian saith that no man might charge him with any defaulte Hee would turne himselfe vnto manye excuses as Poets fayne that Proteus kinge of Egypt would turne himselfe into manie formes Proteus king of Egypt because the manner was of the Egyptian kings to weare on their heades the formes and forepartes of a Lion Bull Dragon Caro Ste. in dictio Hist Poe. or armes of their estate and sometimes a tree or fire or fragrant ointmentes and thereof Poets fayned of Proteus that he chaunged himselfe into many formes So Edricus could change himselfe into many formes of excuses Hee was eloquent of speech as Fabian sayth and false of heart Fabian in Chro. 6. part cap. 199. and with faire wordes would blanch out fowle treasons Hee was onely constant in his inconstance warbling with a wayward minde and doubling in dealings of great importance He practised treason gainst his owne Country for the Danes vnder kinge Egeldredus and vnder kinge Edmond after him Fabian telleth the reporte of Guido King EdmoÌ„d killed at the withdraught howe by his and Edricus his sonne their treasons Edmond came to his death As hee satte at the withdraught Edridus his sonne awayting him strocke him with a speare into the fundament wherof shortely after hee died Then Edricus the father with great haste sped him to king Canutus Edricus the traitors head exalted on the highest gate who then with king Edmond reigned ouer halfe the lande for by composition for ending of ciuill warres the land was deuided betweene them and hee thought for his tidinges greatly to haue been exalted But king Canutus according to Guido his reporte cammaunded his head to be stricken of and pight on a speare and exalted vpon one of the highest gates of London Chronica Fructus temp the 6. parte Thus according to that storie Edricus was exalted for his treasons which returned to his own head Though it seeme fabulous to Polidore that Chronica Fructus temporum telleth of king Edmonds death and Edricus treason yet because of the straÌ„gnes of the deuise I wil note it This Edrick of Stratton inuited king Edmond to lodge at his house and at night as the king should goe to his lodging in the way was set vppe a beautifull Image with a bowe bent and an arrowe in it and when the king approched to see it anone it discharged the arrowe and shot the king through the bodie for it was an engin made for that purpose to lure the king to the gase and to slea him And after that Edricke his report to king Knoght thereof for Canutus so is called hee abhorred him for his treason and as a traytor commaunded him to be bound and cast into the riuer of Thames Thus Chronica Fructus temporum rehearseth the storie or the deuise in steed of the storie as it seemeth to Polidor Fabian noteth out of Marian the Scot another varietie of the storie that king Edmond dyed at London of naturall sicknesse for there out of the same Marian he telleth that after the death of king Edmond Edricus flatterie Fabian in Chro. 6. parâ— cap. 205. this Edrick grew in such deepe fauour with king Knoght or Canut by his sugred wordes as
and against all euill spirites and their instrumentes by whom they worke and all that practise by them Of the euill spirites and those that are set on by them The end of the second branch of this matter is that the euill spirites and those that are set on by euill spirites and worke and practise by them may haue no power against her Arnobius the auncient father witnesseth that apostasie and falling from God and true faith idolatrie blaspheming slandering gods truth such like wickednes are the workes of euill spirits as likewise mischiefes outrages treasons and such like haynous offences are For the wicked are set on by euill spirites to suche outrages the euill spirits do worke by them as by their engines and instruments they worke practise by euill spirites King Saul consulted with the Witch that wrought by the euill spirite 1. Sam. 22. and the next morrow he was slaine 2. Reg. 21. Manasse king of Iuda in the highest of his great idolatrie wickednes gaue himself ouer to witchcraft and sorcerie after great tribulations sent of god on him he hūbled him self to God 2. Chro. 33. and by repentāce was reclaimed Ahaziah king of Israel when hee lay on his sick bed 2. Reg. 1. sent to Baalzebub the idol of Ekron for coūsell and help 2. Reg. 1. but God by the Prophet Elias sent him answere that he should not come downe off the bed on which hee was gone vp but shuld die the death Iulian the Apostate After Iulian the Emperor became an Apostate and reuolted from the faith of Christe hee gaue himselfe to monstrous sorseries was roused with euill spirites cōtinually against the faith of Christe carried headlong to his own destruction Licinius the wicked Heathen Emperor in his wars against Constantin the christiā Emperor surnamed the Great Licinius the Emperor sought after sorseries Witches Inchāters those that wrought with euil spirits they sang al one song to him Eusebius de vita Constan lib. 2. as Euseb witnesseth that he should carry the victorie away but Licinius lost the field after lost his life Panim Emperors sorcerers against Constantine the Emperor The Panim Tyrants and Emperors which warred vpō Const aforesaide bare thēselues greatly bold of their inchauntments nigromācies as Eusebi reporteth because those things wer exercised of the Tyrants as Eusebius saith Eusebius de vita Constātini lib. 1. Constantinus deū quaesiuit adiu torē sought for help of God gaue himself deuoutlye to prayer by the helpe and power of God he triumphed ouer all the Tyrants and ouer all the euill spirites and the workers by them So likewise heartily let vs pray to god for his continuall protection and safecondit of the royall person estate of Elizabeth our Queene and that by the ministratiōs of holy Angels blessed spirites at his appointment cōtinually attending her she may triūph ouer all euill spirits those that are set on whet on by them and work and practise by them And the more heartilie and earnestly let vs pray for the continual watch of gods prouidence the attendance of holy Angels about her because in the kingdome of Antichrist darknes idolatrie and error the euill spirites doe most preuaile haue power in their minds by error in their affections to set them a fire to mischiefes and outrages against the Churche of God and against Princes whom God hath raised as pillers in his Church to comfort and support her by the authoritie they haue receiued of God against her enemies and who as Iohn saith in his Reuelation bring their glorie and honor vnto the citie of God Reue. 21. and whose principates on earth doe serue to the setting foorth of the glorious Gospell of our Sauiour Against such Princes the euill spirites are mad and continually touse the minds of the wicked and inflame their euill affections and dispositions against them but by the prouidence of God and ministration of holy Angels appointed to them of God the wicked ones are drawn into the destruction thēselues that they deuised for them Beware therfore that we giue not our selues ouer to darknesse in steed of light to error in steede of truth to infidelitie in steed of true faith to wilful contempt of the worde of God the state and gouernment the ministerie and godly lawes for true religion by publike authority established For where error idolatrie infidelitie hate of Gods word blaspheming of his truth is rooted there the euill spirites delight to dwell As Paul calleth them the spirites of error 1. Tim. 4. so they imploy all their forces to holde men in grosse errors Arnobius Afer lib. 6. 8. cont Gentes Arnobius the auncient father sheweth how they were wont to worke in the idols of Heathen and in dead images as assistants to them lying signes and wonders so farre as God permitteth by them And ioyne thēselues also as assistants to thē which are instruments of error idolatrie vnbelief disobedience The Valentinians Iraen lib. 2. cap. 57. The Valentinians againste whose blasphemous heresies Iraeneus the ancient father and Martyr hath written took on them as workers of myracles but their myracles he calleth magicall illusions magick mockeries and fantasticall shewes and gases to the seducing and destruction of men Marcus the sorcerer Iraene lib. 1. cap. 9. Marcus the seducer and sorcerer as Iraeneus witnesseth of him had Diabolū paredrū id est assessorem a familiar or assistant Diuell and by magick and nigromancie took on him to prophesie and to enspire others to doe the same and chieflie seduced abused women of great wealth and in the ministration of the Sacrament he laid snares by magicke as delutions and mockeries to seduce soules Tertullian telleth Socrates that Socrates the famous Philosopher among the Heathen was wont to say Si daemonium permittat Tertul. in Apolog cap. 4◠If his Diuell or familiar would permit him and yet he could not saue him from sentence of condemnation execution in Athens Simon Magus Simon Magus the great nigromancer vnder Claudius the Emperor at Rome as Iraen saith was Statua honoratus propter magiam Iraen lib. 1. cap. 20 Honored with an image set vp to him for his magicke and nigromancie Menander Menander his Disciple likewise greatlie vaunted and vaunced himself to such as wold become his Disciples Iraen lib. 1. cap. 21. and with his heresie learne sorcerie and magick of him May wee not see the right successors of Simon Magus the great Sorcerer at Rome in the Sea of Rome Syluester 2. In Syluester Bishop of Rome the second of that name the great Nigromancer and Sorcerer Plati in vi in Syluest 2. who by sorcerie and help of the Diuell as Platina the Italian writer of the liues of Popes and an officer to them witnesseth came to be Pope and
foorth lay open the great Patron practiser of treasons The first principall matter rebellions such like disloialties against Christian Princes and Countries which is the Bishop of Rome his adherents followers and practisers for him and by colour of authoritie from him And intreating hereof I will folow this order 1 First I will shewe what engine the Bishop of Rome hath vsed continuallie vseth in the practise of such things by excommunicating cursing and banning of Princes and cursing and interditing of Countries What time chieflie hee began to vse this engine of cursing and banning Princes countries and practising of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties against them By what meanes the Bishop of Rome and his fellowes doe manage and carrie on their practises of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties against Princes and Realmes Of the iudgments of God vpon the cursing banning Popes Thus the order of my proceeding in this part The first is what engine commonly hee vsed and still vseth in such practises The vsuall engin of Bishops of Rome in managing plats of treasons THE vsuall engine which the Bishop of Rome commonly vsed and vseth still in the managing and carrying on of plats and practises of treasons and rebellions against Christian Princes is the excommunicating cursing and banning of them wherein they take on them as if their sentences came from Peter and Paul out of heauen but they open as it were Hell mouth on earth by cursing banning Christian Princes and Realmes and by procuring and practising treasons against the royall persons of Princes and conspiracies and rebellions against their estates and gouernmentes and periuries of people against the othes of their allegiance and shedding of innocent bloode and such other outrages as we haue seene in their plattes but that God hath preuented their practises Though we haue a glasse of present memorie and especially in our owne Countrie set before our eyes of such practises yet by looking into stories of auncient record we shal see how with this vsual engine of excommunicating cursing banning he hath afflicted Christian Princes and Countries heretofore Henry the fourth Emperour of that name Henry the 4. Emperour Io. Cuspin in vita Henr. 4. of Iohn Cuspinian is praysed for a godlie Prince and of such renowne in warres that he fought more battailes in his owne person then either Iulius Caesar or Marcus Marcellus did who carried the prize of that prayse in the world Yet he was excōmunicated cursed of three Popes Gregory the 7. Gregorius 7. Vrbanus 2. Paschalis 2. Vrbanus the 2. and Paschalis the 2. And notwithstanding hee raigned about fiftye yeeres lacking one and sawe the Corses of two of the foresaid Popes notwithstanding their curses Henry the fifth of that name Henry the 5. Emper. rebelled against his owne father and deposed him And Pope Paschal the second as it were blewe vp the trumpet to that vnnatural and parricidial warre as their owne wryters Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1105. and the Abbat of Vrsperg himselfe termeth it Yet after because he would not yeeld to the Popes demaunds and commaundements against his prerogatiue and right he was excominged cursed of 3. Popes as his father before him was Paschal 2. Gelatius 2. Calixtus 2. of Paschal the second Gelatius the second Calixtus the second Notwithstanding he raigned as king 20. yeeres as Emperour 14. yeeres and saw 2. of the foresaid Popes raked on earth before him while he reigned Fridericus 1. Imp. Frederick the 1. Emperour of that name was so valiant and victorious a Prince that his death in the Countrie of Armenia in his exploit against the Soulden and the infidels as the the Abbat of Vrsperg Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1187. Io. Cusp in vita Frid. 2. sayth was an in estimable losse to Christians and besides his valiantnesse in warres Iohn Cuspinian greatly praised him for a peacemaker at home and that hee beganne his reigne with making peace reconciling al rancors and reuenges aunswering to his name therein which signifieth as Vrspergensis Cuspinian noteth asmuch as riche of peace Abbas Vrsperg in an 1152. And yet notwithstanding he was such a peacemaker at home and so valiant a Prince abroad and ventured and ended his life in the countrie of infidels and is so highly commended of the Popes owne wryters he was excominged and cursed of three Popes also Hadrian 4. Alexand. 3. Vrbanus 3. Hadrian the fourth Alexander the third and Vrbanus the 3. and the 4. Pope named Lucius the 3. Lucius 3. predecessour to Vrbanus the third last named of the foresaid three cursing Popes beganne brawles also against Frederick the aforesaid Abbas Vrsperg in an 1176. for pacifying whereof a diet was apointed at Verona and there in the consultation the Pope died So this noble Emperour thus commended of the Popes owne wryters as the Abbot of Vrspergensis Otto Bishop of Frising Iohn Cuspinian notwithstanding of 3. Popes was cursed downe right The fourth was entred into circumstance of cursing but he died and notwithstanding the cursing conspiracies and bloody broyles of the Popes against him foure of them turned vp their heeles before him Io. Cusp in vit Fride 1. Abbas Vrsperg in Chro. And he maugre of their curses reigned 37. yeeres The Abbot of Vrsperge wryting of the end of this noble Emperour cannot conteine himselfe though he were a piller of the Popes side from giuing condigne commendations to him He calleth him a most Christian Prince triumphant in warres couragious curteous and he commendeth his clemencie in vicorie to all sortes Thus the Abbot himselfe powreth out prayses on him though the Popes powred out the poyson of their curses on him Otto Bishoppe of Frising so admired and honored this noble Emp. that he wrat 2. Otto Fris Epis de rebus gestis Fride 1 bookes of the actes of his chiualrie Radeuini praepositi vel canonici supplementum Merula the mouthi and being preuented by death that he could not ende his storie Radeuinus a Canon of his Church put too a supplie of two other bookes to them As for mouthie Merula who in his storye of the vicountes calleth this noble Emperour a barberous Prince regard is not to be had for he saith the like of other kings of Germanie Io. Cusp in vit Fride 1. which exelled in pietie and clemencie as Cuspinian noteth and he followeth his common vaine which hee sheweth in carping and biting the learned men of his time as Philelf Petrarch Dante 's Valla Politiam Beroald and others His iudgment is partiall in reporting the stories betweene the Emperours and the Popes Merula partial to Pops And as Cuspinian noteth being ignorant of the actes of Frederick he followeth Plattina and Blondus the Italian wryters of stories and fowly faleth eftsones Such not onely are partiall to Popes in writing their stories but sometimes parties with them Platina As Platina
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
of Vrsperg proceedeth in his answere to Bishop Otto Such things also saith he otherwhere and in our times haue bin seen to be done yet though the Roman Bishops doe ascribe and take to themselues the doing thereof we find saith he these things to bee done by diuine iudgement the sinnes of Emperors so requiring Princes and people vniting themselues to resist them Heere hee rippeth vp the roote out of which such actions grow the diuine iudgement for sinnes of the Emperors stirryng vp Princes and people against them and that the Bishop of Rome doth but take it on as if hee by cursinges did cut of Emperors Princes from their estates and carued out kingdomes at his pleasure The Abbat to his former saying putteth two examples the one of Fredericke the first Emperor of that name Frederick the first who was excomminged cursed of the popes Hadrian and Alexander and other there successors yet neuer lost the Empire So Philip the sonne of the same Frederick Philip the Emperor notwithstanding the cursings of Celestin the 3. about our time saith the Abbat neuer lost the Empire Thus the Abbat voucheth these exāples to shew that Emperors and Princes though excomminged of Popes yet notwithstanding kept their soueraignties estates kingdoms Emperors excōminged of popes kepe their empires as Frederick Philip and manie other And hereof we haue a mirrour of the great mercie of God in the heauenly happie light of his word Queene Elizabeth in Elizabeth our Soueraigne sent of God who by diuine prouidence notwithstanding the cursings of proud Popes not onelie keepeth her royall right and seat but for their cruell curses hath receiued boūtiful blessings of God not only shewed on her Royal person but on the whole Realme Euen right as the Prophet Dauid saith Though they curse Psal 109. yet thou shalt blesse they shall arise and bee confounded but thy Seruant shall reioyce God giue all subiects grace with true hearts to pray to God that he will turne their cruel curses into aboundance of blessinges on her Royall person and estate and his Church and our whole Countrie Thus what time chieflie the Roman Bishops began to practise suche things against Christian Emperors and princes of Bishop Otto his protestation of the Abbat of Vrsperg his answere how by diuine prouidence notwithstanding the cursing of popes christian Emperors haue kept their soueraignties estates and Realmes heretofore The 3. chiefe point of the first matter The third chiefe matter of my first part is by what means the Bishops of Rome doe manage and carrie on their practises THE vsuall meanes of their practises is after their cursing to set on Subiects against their Princes Greg. 7. Rodol Duke of Sueuia as Gregorie the 7. did set on Duke Rodolph of Sueuia or as Platina noteth of Saxonie or as Vincentius of Burgundy or as Cuspinian Coūtie of Reinfield to rebell against Henry the 4. Emperor his Soueraigne and not only subiectes but the sonne to rebell against his owne father as Henry the 5. Henricus 5. against Henry the 4. Emperor of the name his own father In these two exāples as glasses set before vs wee may see the treacherie and practise of the Bishops of Rome against Christian Emperours and Princes Briefly I will set down the first touching the rebellion of Duke Rodolph against Henrie the 4. The exāples of Duke Rodolph and Henry the 5. and his repentance for it The latter example I will lay foorth at large because it is a notable storie to set foorth the horrible treasons vnnatural warres and raging rebelliōs not only of subiects but of the sonne against his own father Soueraigne Lord vpon pretence of the Popes excōminging cursing the father for executing of the popes curse And therfore in the Popes cause it is counted pietie though it be ioyned with treason rebelliō vnnaturall outrage against his own father Touching the first example of Rodulph against Henry the fourth I will note his setting on his rebellion Duke Rodolph his setting on to rebellion and after his repentance He was set on to falsifie his faith and to rebell against Henry the fourth by Pope Gregorie the 7. called Hildebrand the monk before and to pul him on to this troublesome action with all hee sent him a Crowne or diademe with this posie or word Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 7. Albertus reporting it Petra dedit Romain Petro tibi Papa coronam The rocke that is Christ gaue Rome to Peter the Pope hath giuen the Crowne to thee Thus he allured him to trayterous rebellion against his Prince to whom he had sworne fidelitie Now of his rebellion Euil chiued the Crowne that Pope Gregorie had sent him Henry the fourth whom the Pope had cursed notwithstanding wore and bare the Crowne by Gods prouidence giuen to him Rodolph that of the Pope receiued the Crown could not escape notwithstanding the curse wrath and iudgment of God in this worlde for his periurie treason and rebellion against his Prince but that he repented in the ende So whom the Pope cursed God blessed Rodolphos Rebellion The sequel of the rebellion Whom the Pope blessed God cursed Touching the sequele of the action in this world Rodolph with the Popes blessings spedde euill Henry the Emperor with the Popes curse wan the field Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. Rodolph discomfited hauing his right hand cut off as the Abbat of Vrsperg reporteth it was carried out of the battaile to Morisburg and straight after died Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 5. Albert telleth that he was carried out of the field to Herbipolis wounded in the right hand whereof he dyed Thus of Duke Rodolph his rebellion Duke Rodolph his repentance Now let vs heare of his repentance Whē Duke Rodolph sawe the stump of his hand he said to them that set him on there present This same is the right hand with which I haue sworne fidelitie to my Lorde Abbas Vrspergensis in chro Behold now I leaue my life with his reigne See you to it which made me clime to this place should haue led me the right way following your aduertisementes Thus wofully he moued himselfe to the Bishops that set him on Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 7. Albert thus reporteth it that he sent for the nobles Bishops of his side to Herbipolis elata dextra in astantes and lifting vp his hand saith he to those that stood by Duke Rodolph his dolefull mone for his rebellion this is the right hād with the which I sware to Henry my Lord but by your vrging so oft with such euil hap I haue fought against him goe fulfill your fidelitie to your king for I shal goe the way of my fathers so he died Thus the rufull words of Duke Rodolph repenting his rebellion before the nobles Bishops of his side His conscience not onely his right