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A14210	The Romane conclaue VVherein, by way of history, exemplified vpon the liues of the Romane emperours, from Charles the Great, to Rodulph now reigning; the forcible entries, and vsurpations of the Iesuited statists, successiuely practised against the sacred maiestie of the said empire: and so by application, against the residue of the Christian kings, and free-states are liuely acted, and truely reported. By Io. Vrsinus ante-Iesuite.; Speculum Jesuiticum. English	Beringer, Joachim.; Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 24526; ESTC S118919	126,713	245

reduced to their pristinate forme and integrity then no longer should wee behold the Christian people turmoyled in discords no Princes murdered no oaths of allegeance impugned no equiuocation iustified nor Turkish inuasions so powerfully maintained But of these abuses and many more mentioned by mine Author and still maintained but not with auncient obstinacie for want of this implored reformation let him that hath a stomach to bee informed read the Apology brought out of Spaine and printed at Antwarp in the yeare 1527. There in order shall hee finde as much as followeth the summe whereof drawen into heads shall suffice for this present 1 The Breues of Clement the seuenth wherein hee loadeth Caesar with as many calumniations as his witte could deuise and those most false and forged 2 The aunswere of the Emperour Charles the fifth vnto these forgeries 3 The second Breues of the Pope wherein vppon repentance that hee had falsly accused Caesar hee sendeth vnto his Nuncio to forbid him the deliuery of the former Breues 4 The answer of Caesar to these second Breues 5 An Epistle of Charles Caesar vnto the Colledge of Cardinalls desiring them that in case his Holinesse did continue either to denie or differ a generall Councell that they themselues would proclaime it Now that wee haue fully informed you how this halfe-deplumed Estritch hath notwithstanding opposed against the two last Emperours Ferdinand and Maximilian and not at this day feareth not to bee troublesome vnto their successour Rodolph As also how his patience hath beene nettled by the transaction of Passauia and the Edicts of peace deuised ratified and proclaimed by these three late worthy Emperours It shall not for a perclous vnto your wearied mindes I hope proue a loathing seruice if I shall in order recite vnto you at what warde his Holinesse at this day lieth considering that hee is not able any longer to set father against sonne and sonne against father in open action Prince against Prince and people against Prince and Prince against people These practises are reuealed and absolute now must they erect and but once erect an order to purpose An order that must commit all villanies and his Popeship not seene therein an order that must studie Matchiauell entertaine intelligence and able in it selfe to negotiat in Princes affaires without posting and reposting to the view of the world for their dispatches to Rome an order of all orders that euer were deuised the most cruell and truly bestial the bane of mankinde and the fire-brands of Christendome Of whom if any worthy pen would take the paines to indict a Legend the world should soone perceiue that they to the vnderpropping of this declining sea within these few yeares haue committed as many forgeries villanies and seducements to warre and murder as their Masters before them haue done in many Ages So furious are their humours so irregular their consciences to worke pleasing seruices to their politique Monarch Bound they are to auert whatsoeuer they shall thinke or know preiudiciall to the Romish sea Bound they are as much as in them lieth to hinder the propagation of the Gospel Then their calling being such their seruice such and such their vowes let vs learne amongst many of their actions by some few what peace in religion is to be expected from such persons that hereafter we may be able to discerne the man by his speech as the Lion by his clawes Notes of priuate passion HE that playeth the Prologue is Conradus Brunus attired in his third booke cap. 1. pag 305. oppugning railing and annihilating the Transaction of Passauia and the peace granted thereupon a peace so religiously ratified by such and so many hand-writings and so solemnly sworne vnto by such iust honourable and worthy personages At his first entrance you shall know him by his brazen face and now you shall heare him speake The Edict saith hee is friuolous void and at no hand to be obserued His reason because a Catholique ought not liue peaceably with such Heretiques for so should they neuer be offended nor abolished Yea so much the rather were the association so ordered to be abhorred and abominable for that a Catholique meeting one of them should be adiudged to haue assented to the peace But to offend them with whom there is no communion can be no breach of peace as whom the Lawes of the Empire doe subiect vnder a curse and expose to offence without punishment Finally whom all diuine and humane constitutions would haue to be vtterly extirpated The next that presenteth himselfe is Paul Windich in his booke de Haereticis extirpandis pag. 324. And hee termeth this religious peace to be nothing but a breathing a delay or a toleration pag. 327. He saith that in his minde he can but wonder at the madnesse of the Sectaries For foolishly auouching and so often babling out the Decrees of the Diets for the free exercise of their religion If I should stand to present you with Melchion Hosius and Posserinus who wrote whole discourses vnto Henry and Stephan Kings of Polonia to take into their serious cogitations the extirpation of the Euangelicall professors I should but weary you with words Two lines shall suffice With the Protestant Polonians the assurance giuen vpon Faith is at no hand to be obserued for that an oath ought not to be the bond of iniquitie Iames Menochius the Lawyer Consil 100. Num. 225. excuseth the Romane Emperor Sigismund in that he violated his safe conduct As concerning the which ouersight the impudent assertions of the Iesuits of Treuers are worthy the relation published in a certaine booke intituled The Concertation of the Catholicke Church Printed 1583. pag. 4. Husse did require safe conduct of Sigismund Sigismund signed it but the Christian world viz. the fathers of the Councel of Constance being Sigismunds superiors did disalow it Simanch a Bishop of Pacia that lying spirit blushed not to affirme in his Catholique Institution Cap. 46. Num. 52. That at no hand faith was to bee kept towards Heretiques no not vpon oath And therefore it was iustly decreed That against the tenor of the oath Husse and Ierome of Prage were burned and a Canon prouided That an oath made towards an Heretique was not to be regarded And at last concludeth That as warning thereof ought often to bee giuen so is it very necessary that it be often re-iterated and at no time to be silenced as often as any mention of this peace is obiected O! Why should I offend the chast cares of any good Christian with such infernall stuffe Smally hath he profited in the schoole of Gods word that in his owne conscience is not able to decide controuersies of much more cunning cariage then any of these In regard whereof I will here cease and affirme That in knowing of one you know all such is their malice in seruice of the Romish sea towards Emperor Kings Princes and free States Let him that hath a mind to bee further

villanie to attaine to that promotion which whilom was accustomed to bee bestowed onely vpon vertue But God the most iust reuenger of such wickednesse preuented him and the three and twentie day after his vsurped installment sent him to accompanie the dead in the place of darkenesse ❧ Henricus quartus He raigned in the yeere of Christ 1056. in Germanie In England Edward the Confessor ALbeit that euen hitherto from the dayes of Charlemaine the Romane Bishops being generally possessed with the spirit of Supremacie by sleights and deuises did continually oppose themselues against the Maiesty of the Empire and left no practise vnattempted that might weaken or discountenance the Emperors soueraignty that so they might dispose of all things at their pleasures without all feare of controlment yet was it not the will of Almighty God to suffer them as yet totally to cast off the yoke of duty by warrant of Holy writ inuested vpon Princes and great personages placed in Authority But what can humane wisedome plead in search of Gods purposes perdere quos vult Iupiter hos dementat For now the malice impiety and treason of the Roman Clergy together with their diabolicall ambition especially vnder that figuratiue Dragon Gregorie the seuenth grew like a violent tempest so outragious and exorbitant that those times may truly be recorded to be the daies which vtterly razed blemished and wounded the Maiesty of this famous empire with the fatall ruine of glory and Honor. For this mischieuous monster not contented to haue poisoned six Bishops and to haue deposed his Master Alexander for imploring assistance from the Emperor Neither mindfull of the fauours which Henrie surnamed Niger had afforded him in curteously dismissing him from perpetuall Imprisonment seperated from the company and sight of all mortall creatures whereinto as we told you before he had beene condemned with Gregorie the sixt At what time the Normans raged through Apulia Calabria and Campania partly relying vpon the great wealth of Matilda a most potent woman in those daies and partly animated to see the Empire distracted with most dangerous wars raised by the warlike Nation of the Saxons against the Emperor scarce three yere seated in his gouernment together with the reuolt of the Germane Bishops whom the Impostor our perpetuall aduersary had seduced from the seruice of their Master Then I say this man first of all other against the custom of his predecessors absolutely vsurped vpon the Papacy without all consent of the Emperor before that time alwaies accustomed to be mediated in the Election of these Bishops And in future to preuent the residue of the Bishops and Abbots from seeking their confirmations at the Emperors hands he set forth a decree vnder pain of Excommunication That hee had not onlie power in heauen to bind and to loose but also that he had plenitude of iurisdiction in Earth to take away and to giue Empires Kingdomes and Principalities Then began he impudently to boast to vsurpe vpon the temporall and Supreme iurisdiction and that by a law of his own coyning to esteeme of Kings and Emperors as tenants at will to imprison Caesars Ambassadors opposing against his insolencies finally leading them through Rome in ignominious manner to expell them the city Henrie albeit he were infinitely perplexed with the war of Saxonie yet knowing that this nouell and vnvsual pertinacie of the Bishop was not to be forgotten calleth a Councell at Wormes wherein audience being giuen to the Ambassadors which came from Rome and Hildebrands disloyall Letters being read besides the Saxons all the German and French Bishops made a Decree That sithence Pope Hildebrand a fugitiue Monke first of all other incroched vpon the Papacie without the good liking or priuity of the Romane Emperor constituted of God to be his Soueraigne Lord and that contrarie to the Custome of his Predecessors contrarie to law and contrarie to his oth of instalment And moreouer had vsurped vpon both iurisdictions the temporall and Ecclesiasticall as the Decij and worshippers of false Gods were accustomed to doe That ipso facto he was deposed from his Bishoprick for sheep were no longer to be intrusted to the keeping of such a woluish Shepheard One Rowland a Clerke of Parma was dispatched to Rome with letters containing the sentence of the Councel In whose Name he was commanded to interdict Gregorie from all Ecclesiasticall Function and moreouer to enioyn the Cardinals that making choice of another for Bishop they should present him to the Emperor In like maner Caesar himselfe dateth his Letters vnto Hildebrand to the Clergy and the Roman people commanding according to the Iniunction of the Councell That himselfe should returne to a priuate life and That they forsaking Hildebrand according to their accustomed Priuiledges should proceede to the election of a New Pastor At the receit of this newes Hildebrand became not so much lenified as furiously exasperated and insolently imboldned For whereas before he had Excommunicated but some certaine of the Emperors familiars whose aduice he presumed Caesar to haue vsed in these his proceedings now presumeth hee by nouell president to Excommunicate Caesar himselfe in a hellish conuenticle against the order of Christian piety ratified by the sacred Canons of Holy writ Him I say he prescribeth depriueth of all kingly Authority dispoileth of his Kingdom and absolueth his Subiects from their oths of obedience Behold he was no sooner risen from the Seat wherin he sat to Excommunicate Caesar but the Chaire being lately made of strong and new timber suddenly by the prouidence of God in most terrible manner was rent into a thousand shatters manifestly foreshewing That by that rash and vnaduised Excommunication this cruell Scismaticke should proue the Author of a most fearefull diuision in the Church of God And surely these were neither blind nor idle predictions For the Princes and German Bishops taking notice of the Curse some vpon a vaine superstition some in hope of bettering their estates and others in remembrance of their ancient hatred against Henrie at the next assembly of the States threatning a Reuolt vnlesse he would suppliantly desire forgiuenesse of the Pope now resolued to come into Germanie brought the controuersie vnto so narrow a pinch and his Maiesty into such mistrusts of despaire with the dispoiling him of his reall possession That he was fain to promise the Princes that hee would goe vnto the Pope and personally craue absolution at his foot Wherupon putting off his regall habiliments with his wife and yong sonne barefooted and clothed in canuasse being made a spectacle for Angells and men to admire at in a most bitter winter and a most dangerous kind of trauell commeth to Canusium where the Pope then resided There before the gates of the City fasting and sutor-like from morning till euentide he danceth attendance Meane while Hildebrand within amongst whores and shauelings laugheth him to scorne Three daies he patiently indureth this lamentable affliction desiring admittance

so Christian-like a confirmation The Bishop hauing ended his Oration the Pope commendeth the speach but withall replieth That the contents thereof and the matter in hand were of farre different arguments For albeit quoth hee that the matter whereof I meane to speake of be triuial passable yet can it not be denied but that there is cause of feare that hee who becommeth negligent in small matters will proue more negligent in greater At this the company rowsing their attentions and wondring what offence his Holinesse should intimate he goeth on saying As I alighted from my horse he held the left stirrope of my Saddle and whether he did it in mockage of vs or vpon some other like fantasie wee can not guesse for surely if he meant to haue honoured vs he knew that the right stirrope and that with the right hand ought to haue beene holden Caesar being nothing moued with this base prattle of the Bishop smiled and replied That he had not been brought vp to hold a stirrope you most Holy father quoth he are the first vnto whom we haue vouchsafed this office And by and by after his orisons forgetting his patience I would know saith he whether this office be to be done of dutie or of good-will If of good-will who would finde fault at an escape or ouersight If of dutie then wee thinke amongst friends there is small difference on which side the partie that meaneth to honour his friend approacheth Thus bandying a few bitter words they brake company but not without stomaking But the Emperour being a most prudent Prince dissembling what he had heard and seene to proceede from the hellish heart of this proud prelate the next day following re-inuiteth the Bishop to a second conference The Bishop approcheth the Emperour maketh speed to meet him and by his former ouersight being now become a better Prentize in his occupation layeth hold on the right stirrope and so leadeth his Holinesse into his pauilion Being set thus Hadrian thundereth Thine auncestors saith he Princes of the auncient world who made their holy repaire vnto this sea to receiue the crown at our hands were accustomed to manifest their loues towards vs by some notable emolument bestowed vpon S. Peters chaire thinking it their duties to preuent vs that so they might call the world to witnesse that they obtained our benediction and their inauguration with an eminent gratuitie So Charles after he had tamed the Lombards So Otho after he had subdued the Beringary And so Lotharius after he had repressed the Normanes merited the Imperiall diadem In like manner Let your Serenity restore vnto vs and the Church Apulia an appendancie of the Romish sea now arrogated by the Normanes and then shall you with our very good will obtaine as much as appertaineth vnto our loues to performe Vpon the reading of this Historie can any man call this Prelat servum seruorum who ashamed not to exact from so great an Emperour his Lord and Master as from a base and mercinarie souldier the laborious toiles and the extreame expence of warfare gratis Are conquests of Kingdomes surrendring of Prouinces and such like passages let any man tell me those spiritualia whereof our moderne Papists doe hold the Pope capable When the Nobility saw no remedie but Hadrians hand was as hard as Pharaos heart so that it were folly to expect a Coronation vntil at their proper costs and charges they had restored to the Apostaticall sea Apulia in truth an appendancie of the Imperiall right from William King of Sicil they thought it fittest to content his holinesse with this ouerture That sithence their present forces were wasted through continuall labour and indefatigable iourneyes that Caesar hauing leuied a new armie in Germanie would returne and accomplish his expectation The Bishop flaming what with indignation against William almost halfe dead to heare that against his will hee must volens nolens giue him time of breathing and re-inforcement shewing a countenance as if he liked well of their excuses allowed thereof and so dismissed them with promise that hee would set the crowne vpon Fredericks head These businesses thus dispatched the Emperour with the Bishop departeth from Sutrium and iournieth towards Rome Mid way certaine Romane Orators as full swolne with pride as their Master with disdaine accourt him with this rude welcom For their theame they begin to extoll euen aboue the skies the antiquitie of their Commonwealth At conclusion they fall in glorious termes to intimate That of mere good will the Roman people had called Frederick out of Germany ouer the Alps first to create him a citizen and afterwards a Prince of Rome but with this per-closse That the Romans stood ready to receiue him vpon condition That hee should confirme the fundamental lawes of the City That hee should bestow vpon the Romans who were to bid God saue him in the Capitol fiue thousand pound of gold That he shold defend the commonwealth from iniuries euen to the hazard of his own life And finally that he should confirme all these capitulations with an oth and thereto set his hand Fredericke beeing beyond meane inraged at these their mad and arrogant motions roundly taketh them vp for their follies in a most pithy oration and telleth them That the Empire descended vpon him not by any the least well-wish of the Romanes but by the meer vertue of the Germanes And perceiuing their knauery that vnder pretext of these demands they meant to gull him of mony he told them in plaine termes That he came not into Italie to bring it in but to carrie it out With which answer when these impudent shauelings were not satisfied but still vrged the Articles his Maiesty disgracefully commanded them to depart And perceiuing that their comming vnto him was but to put som trick vpō him he caused his men of war to fortifie the Church of S. Peter and the bastile of Leo. The day following he entred Rome the people following him with great applause and being honorably accompanied was crowned and blessed 4. Calend. Iulij in the fourth yere of his raigne The Emperor being about his Coronation in the Church of S. Peter the Romanes stomacking the businesse and betaking them to their armes kept the gates of the City shut vnder colour that the Emperour should bring in no forces to the preiudice of the Citie And perceiuing that Fredericks troopes had pitched their tents in the Neronean medowes through the gate of Hadrian they breake out into the Vatican to preuent Caesars souldiers from entring thereinto Caesars souldiers made strong resistance and driuing the inraged people from the Vatican into the City they slew about one thousand and tooke sixty prisoners whom the ceremonies being ended at request of the Pope the Emperor dismissed in safety and prouided for his returne into Germanie But before his departure it is reported that such a like businesse happened betweene him and the Pope which I thinke not

his Hetrurians leauied in Italie and his Sweuians raised in Germanie he beginneth with Alsatia next neighbour to Sweuia and wasteth it then falling vpon the Thuringer confederated with the Bohemian hee inforceth him to submission and routeth the Bohemian This done through the reconciliation of the Colennois at Confluence hee treateth a league with the Dukes of Brabant Lotharinge with whom and his associates descending to Aquisgran with great solemnity he is there crowned by the fore-said Colennois Finally meeting with Otho not farre from Colen he put him to flight and without his companions enforceth him to flie againe into England When the Princes perceiued these prosperous successes to attend Philip being now throughly wearied with these ciuill combustions by a generall consent they conclude to send an honourable Embassie to his Holinesse who vpon restitution of Philip into fauour should intreat his fatherhood to confirme him in the Rights of the Empire He giueth audience and returneth for aunswere that vnlesse Philip will giue vnto Richard his brothers sonne newly created Earle of Thuscanie Spolet and Marchia Anconitana with the daughter of Philip hee will neuer harken vnto the Emperours Ambassie Behold here another trick of Popish discontent By this match hee onely meant and hoped to inuest his Nephew in the perpetuall inheritance of these goodly Lordships Thus haue these Holy fathers long since accustomed vnder the habit of Saint Peter to fish rather to inrich their Nephewes their kindred and their Gossips then to be carefull ouer the Church and the common-weale yea in these respects they haue often moued warres so that the meanes by which God hath ordained to reconcile families to corroborat peace they haue inuerted to maintaine factions and to serue their owne purposes After the Embassadors had heard the proposed condition altogether impertinent to the businesse whereabout they had taken so much paines they tooke it as a strange motion That the daughter of a King should be affianced to the base Nephew of a Pope Howbeit not to offend his Holinesse they answered that they had no commission to treat of any such ouerture but desire that by some people of his owne hee would acquaint their Lord and Master with his Holinesse request Whereupon with more heat then good discretion he adioyneth vnto the Embassadors of Philip now vpon their returne Hugoline and Leo Cardinals of Hostia and Saint Crosses in Ierusalem Who arriuing at Augusta were honourably receiued and highly feasted but vpon notice of the proud and preposterous message of their Master nothing ashamed to violate the Constitutions of his Lord Peramount the King and his Counsell secretly laughing at the Legats discoursing vpon matters nothing tending to Peace and Absolution from Augusta the Court remoued to Spiers and so to Northius And there after long debatement the peace was ratified and the Bishops Nephew reiected vpon condition that the daughter of Philip whom the foole-Bishop eagerlie instanced should be affianced to Otho And that he liuing in priuate during the life of Philip after his death should succeed in the Empire Not long after this treatie Philip died for leauing Saxonie and for recreation sake retiring vnto Babenberg in Sweuia he was traiterously slaine in his Chamber there solely remaining after the opening of a vain by Otho of Wittelsback Nephew vnto him vpon whom Frederick as we told you before had bestowed Bauaria The cause of his discontent arose for that being a suter to his daughter in regard of some imputation of disloyaltie he had beene repulsed and the Lady by the Emperour her fathers good liking affianced to Otho After this lamentable regicide Otho by the generall consent of the Nobility assembled at Francofurt is saluted Emperour ❧ Otho the fourth OTho by consent of the Princes being thus installed in the Imperial throne setteth all things through Germany in good order and then with a warlike Armie marching by the vally of Trent hee passeth by Lombardie and so commeth to Rome to receiue the Imperiall diademe where by the Pope the Clergie and the people hee is heartely welcommed and honourably receiued And so much the rather the Pope studied to honour and gratifie his Maiestie for that hee had heretofore alwaies assisted his partie against Philip his predecessour But this extraordinarie kindnesse was of no long continuance betweene these new friends but being soone ripe soone vanished and turned into hatred For vpon the very day of the Coronation an affray began betweene the Dutch and the Romanes about the donatiues which the Emperors accustomed to bestow at this time amongst the souldiers so that as report went about one thousand and one hundred men were slaine and as many wounded Whereupon Otho being moued at so great an indignity complained vnto the Romans for reparation of amends which they promised but performed so slowly that the Emperor began to enter into suspition that the Pope himselfe became a fautor of the tumult whereupon hee departed towards Millan and there laying aside his Imperiall ensignes hee infested Tuscanie Mark Ancona and Romandiola vulgo S. Peters patrimony Moreouer in warlike manner he inuaded Apulia subdued the Dutchy of Capua and tooke from Frederick the second many other Cities pertayning to the kingdome of Sicil at that time mistrusting no such outrage Vpon intelligence hereof Innocent admonisheth Otho to restore the feodary possessions of the Church and to abstaine from further violence But Caesar not only reiecteth his admonitions but infesteth those possessions with more and more souldier-like depredations Innocent flyeth to Excommunication depriueth him of his Imperiall titles and absolueth the Princes of their oth of allegiance towards Otho And that more is prohibiteth vnder paine of damnation that no man serue account or call Otho Lord or Emperor It is reported that he caused the Princes anew to sweare vnto Frederick King of Sicil being as yet an Infant and him he made choice of to succeed in his place Whereupon Otho returned into Germany where albeit in the Assembly of Noremberg vpon complaint of the Popish tyranny and the cowardize of the Princes he had entred a strict bond of alliance with many and had moreouer taken sharpe reuenge vppon Herman Lantgraue of Thuringe by wasting his territories for that at the Popes commandement he had violated his faith yet at last being forsaken of his people hee was glad to retire into Saxonie where the fourth day after his royall mariage at Northuis with the daughter of Philip he fell sick and died ❧ Fredericke the second He raigned 1212. About the thirteenth yeare of King IOHN FRederick the second by the vniuersall consent of all Writers a Prince worthy all attributes of honour as well for his gouernment in peace as his cariage in warre vpon the deiection of Otho at the commandement of Innocent the third tooke vpon him the Imperiall Crowne at Aquisgran And in the yeare next following Otho departing at Perusium he was crowned at Rome and honoured with the name

that Iohn king of Bohemia Henry Duke of Bauaria had traiterously cōspired to elect a new Emperor he suffered himselfe with small intreaty to be disswaded from his former resolution of Absolution yea after the king of France his Maiestie had capitulated a peace full sore against his mind vpon request to haue it ratified by his Holines he flatly denied it cauelling that Lewes being now declared an heretike ought not again to be accounted a Christian at the kings plesure Thus may you see how the Popes were accustomed to play fast and loose with the German Emperors Well the Absolution by this nicity being adiourned and the Emperor well obseruing wherunto these pontifical policies tended summoneth the Princes and Electors to a Diet at Rensium There with ease by his affability liberality and clemency he so deuoteth their loyalties to his seruice that by solemne oath they not onely auow to maintaine and defend the honor of the Empire but they also decreed the Processes of Iohn late Pope of Rome returned against his Maiestie to be void and of no validity yea that a Bishop ought not to entertaine any such practises against an Emperour for that their iurisdictions were meerly of distinct natures Benedict dieth Clement the 6. succeedeth an effeminat Prelat extraordinarily ambitious of honor potencie Who had no sooner seated his foot in the chair of Lucifer but his furious Genius took such hold of his hart that in Latin Dutch libels affixed vpon church dores he summoneth his Maiestie vnder the censure of extream penāce within three daies space to make satisfaction to God the church meaning himself as also to desist frō further medling in the affaires of the Empire which limitation being expired no appearance recorded he proceedeth to sentence of cōtumacie Afterwards whē his Proctors craued forgiuenes with an offer to performe all iniunctions to vtmost he was not ashamed to motion so foule an attonement as neuer Pagan demanded of his Captiue slaue viz. That hee should confesse and acknowledge all his errors and heresies That he should resigne the Empire and simply commit his children and all his moueables into his tuition Where is now become O Lucifer thy pastoral humility where thy fatherly aspect where thy representatiue Holinesse Notwithstanding albeit the poorest refuse of the world would not haue accepted of these basest conditions yet this good Emperour fore-seeing that if he should not bend warre slaughter spoiles would ensue he receiued the pontificall libell signed it with his seale and swore to obserue it so farre forth humiliating his deiection that vpon relation thereof the whole Colledge of the scarlet-roabed-fathers could not chuse but receiue it with vnaccustomed admiratiō But the Emperor vpon sounder aduice considering with himselfe that without the consent of the Electors and of the Princes the estates of the Empire it was against the fundamentall Law to accept of any such Capitulation in the next assembly at Frankford hee causeth the tenor of the reconciliation to be read before the whole Assembly They giue sentence that it tendeth in most points to the preiudice and destruction of the state and therefore reiect it They promise to stand fast vnto his Maiestie in case as before he would re-assume his courage and resolutely defend the honour of the Empire And to conclude they dispatch an Embassie to the Pope with intimation that from thence-forth he should cease from such friuolous conuentions being purposely deuised to dishonour the Maiestie of the German Empire They arriue before his Holinesse they expostulate the rigour of the Articles to the preiudice of the Empire nothing else they inforce nothing else they demand But his Holinesse inraged like an illuded Tigresse layeth all the blame vpon Lewes with deeper hart-burning then before falleth into treatie with Iohn and Charles Kings of Bohemia heretofore ouerthrowne by Lewes and with their vncle Baldwin Archbishop of Treuers to destoy Lewes and his whole posterity The bargaine agreed vpon by these Pseudo Christians in the yeare of our Sauiour 1346. vpon Maundy-Thursday hee is most irreligiously accursed by Benedict and by the renouation of the Processe sent out by his predecessour Iohn declared an Heretique and scismatique To aggrauate the despight and by effects to shew the solidity of his religion hee commandeth the Electors within a proportioned time to make choise of another Loe the Emperor rather then he will be an instrument of slaughter and faction disgraceth his high calling by acceptance of basest articles but the Pope rather then he will want of his will vnico statu as the prouerb is will depose set vp commend dispraise blesse and curse and without all respects either of conscience or humanity set all Christendome on outrage to be reuenged on one creature Were this the practise but of One the imputation were excusable as a defect in manners but through the whole Legend of euery Emperours life you shall obserue the one abstinent yea timorous for conscience sake to defile euen his imaginations with humane blood the other rigorous wrathfull impatient and quarrelsome somtime vpon donatiues sometime vpon iura imperij and sometimes vpon non augmenting of Saint Peters patrimonie Which irreligious and Antichristian outrages albeit they know them in their consciences to be absolutely diabolicall repugnant to Christian Doctrine and pernicious to all ciuill society yet rather then any Pope or Popeling will let fall any one particle of vnlawfull vsurpation gained by any the wickedest of his predecessours words and workes shall flie at randon vpon euery occasion so that it would amaze a very Turke to heare with what shifts with what euasions and distinctions of spiritualia they will stuffe whole volumes in iustifying of their falsifications in wresting and curtailing of Authors in denying manifest Records in railing on their opposites and pressing mens consciences with miracles policies and impostures Insomuch that if words will not worke impostures shall seduce if impostures prooue fruitlesse swords shall walke if swords be preuented then poisons and treasonable practises shall put end to the controuersie Blood must satiate or the Church cannot be satisfied But to our History The Electors haue a peremptory day giuen them against which if they produce not their Anti-emperor the Pope protesteth by no irreligious reliques that rather then the Church shall want a Lieuetenant an Aduocate Himselfe must bee Captaine and chiefe Iustice hee will set vp One of his sole Election Well oaths must be kept inuiolable especially with traitors and so doth his Holinesse And thus he beginneth his web Henrie of Wittenberg Archbishop of Mogunce and one of the electors for his loiall adherency vnto his Lord and master to curry fauour with the Bohemians he depriueth of all his ecclesiasticall and temporall capacities and into his place he intrudeth Gerlace his Chaplein the Nephew of Adolph of Nassaw once King of Romans This new Papall Bishop in satisfaction of his Lord and masters