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A02895	The pageant of popes contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the yeare of Grace 1555. Deuided into iii. sortes bishops, archbishops, and popes, vvhereof the two first are contayned in two bookes, and the third sort in fiue. In the vvhich is manifestlye shevved the beginning of Antichriste and increasing to his fulnesse, and also the vvayning of his povver againe, accordinge to the prophecye of Iohn in the Apocalips. ... Written in Latin by Maister Bale, and now Englished with sondrye additions by I.S.; Acta Romanorum pontificum. English	Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Studley, John, 1545?-1590?	1574 (1574)	STC 1304; ESTC S100602	276,183	440

to loue honour and serue with all humilitie in Iesus Christ our most noble soueraigne to pray for the most blessed continuaunce of her maiesties raygne ouer vs to graunt vs as trewe subiects to hate her enemies as those that wyshe our confusion especially the Pope of Rome and all suche euen to the deathe as in his behalfe or for any iote of his accursed superstition would forbeare but to wysh well vnto her maiestie The Lord gyue vs the harts to beware renounce and abhorre the secrete societie and friendshippe of all those that seeke to trouble her quiet gouernement as the ennemies of goddes glory That neyther one affection nor other cause vs to winke at theyr sedicious wordes nor to iudge fauourably of the corrupt doinges and sayinges of suche hollowe hartes whiche twoo thynges haue muche emboldned leude attempts but that hauinge suche proofe of their practyses we may henceforth become euen iealous in the behalfe of Religion and of our most gracious Prynce and be ready euery man lawefully in his vocation to beate downe blasphemie againste God and to suppresse the broode of sedition in the shell before it be hatched readye to flye That England may neuer hereafter become a neast and filthye cage of those foule byrdes that are bred in the bosome of Rome Amen Amen FINIS Laus Deo Diuers cases wherin the Pope doth sell Dispensation contrarye to Gods Lawe and his owne Canons and the price of the dispensation according to the rate in his Courtes ¶ Dispensations for dronkards IF a dronkard wil haue a cōgregation in his owne house he must paye for his licence xxx Turons or poundes of Towrs vii ducates and vi Earlines If he will haue licence to erecte a newe publicke Synagog three score Turons xv ducates For licence to heale with assistaunce a dronkard payes vi Turons ¶ Dispensations for such as haue bin or are to be promoted being vnder age If a boye of sixe yeares old wil take that step to priesthoode called Prima Tonsura the fyrst clyp he must pay .ix. Turons two ducates ix Carlines If one at sixtene yeares or as sone as he coms to be xvi wylbe Subdeacon his fee is .xii. Turons iii. Ducates viii Carlines At xvii yeres .vi Turons ii Ducates At xviii yeares to be Deacon .xii. Turons At .xix. yeres .vi. Turons To be Priest at xxii yeres .xii. Turons ii Ducates x. Carlines At .xxiiii. vi Turons ¶ For licence to take Orders He that taketh the first clyppe and the foure lesser orders not of his ordinarie payeth ▪ iiii Turons one Ducate ix Carlines To take all holy Orders or but ii or onely one of any body the fee is xii Turons ii Ducates x. Carlines To take orders without the time eyther one or more or al .x. Turons ii Ducates If any come to receiue Benediction to the vse of an Abbot .xxiiii. Turons vi Ducates To the vse of a Byshop .xxiiii. Turons ¶ Dispensations for those that vvant some of their lymmes to take Orders If any wantinge some member be admitted to Clarkeship in any of the lesser orders he payes vi Turons ii Ducates If any such be admitted to orders or to executiue function he paies xvi Turons iiii Ducates If any that lacketh fingers be admitted to a single benefice his fee is .xii. Turons iii. Ducates vi Carlines If any be blinde of the right eye xvi Turons xii Ducates If any be blynde of the lefte eye so as he maye holde the booke in the middest of the altare and the blemishe be not great xxx Turons vii Ducates vi Carlines He that hauinge but one stone or none wyll be priest payeth .vi. Turons ii Ducates He that hath gelded hym selfe .xii. Turons iii. Ducates vi Carl. ¶ Dispensations for vvilfull murthers He that is a wylfull murtherer maye haue a Dispensation to enioye one benefice but if that suffice him not then for the seconde if that serue not then for the thirde and together with the absolution he payes .xii. Turons iii. Ducates vi Carlines And that he may enioye the priuileges of the clergie .xviii. Turons iiii Ducates ix Carlines And if he require iii benefices .xviii. Turons iiii ducates ix Carlines A Byshop or Abbot or the head of any Order or one of S. Iohns knightes paies to be absolued from wilful murther fifty Turons xii Ducates vi Carlines That a wylfull murtherer maye be secretly admitted into holy Orders and to mynister at the altar by dispensation or to any ecclesiastical lyuynges in the court of conscience onely paying .xxxvi. Turons ix Ducates If one man be gyltye of many murthers at one fraye and one tyme he payes xxxvi Turons .ix. Ducates But for .ii murthers in diuers frayes he paieth fyfty Turons xii Ducats vi Carlines He that killeth his father mother brother or sister payeth for his pardon for any one of them iiii Turons ● Ducate 8. Carlines And so he that killeth his wyfe and if he aske lycence to marrye another he payes viii Turons ii Ducates ix Carlines And for all they that assist a man in murthering his wyfe the pardon is dearer by ii Turones for euery such ¶ For murthering of priestes If a laye man kill a priest vi Turons ii Ducates If he kill a single clearke or a priest in holye orders that is forbidden to execute his office vi Turons ii Ducates If one man kill many priestes at one time and in one fraye he fines but vi Turons If diuers at diuers times for the first the whole fine and for euerye one of the rest halfe That he who hath bin a priestkiller maye obtaine ecclesiasticall liuinges the dispensation is ii Turons ii Ducates ¶ For killing a laye man For one laye man onelye .iii. Turons i. Ducate iiii Carlines If one kill diuers in one conflict he fines but for one ¶ For murthering of children If the father mother or kinseman murther a childe iiii Turons i. Ducate viii Carlines If a straūger do it iii. Turons .i. Ducate iiii Carlines If the husband and wyfe both do it vi Turons ii Ducates If a woman take a pocion to kill the fruite in her wombe Or if the father giue it to the mother the price of their indulgēce is iiii Turons i. Ducate viii Carlines If a straunger offer it iiii Turons i. Ducate v. Carlines ¶ For charminge and vvitchcraft A woman witch or enchantresse after shee hath renounced her sorceryes payeth vi Turons ii Ducates For heretickes For absolution from heresye before a man haue renoūced it by oath so as he may be receyued againe to enioye all priuiledges as before in ample maner the price is xxxvi Turons ix Ducates For sacriledge theft fyring houses rapes periurye and such like Absolution with restoring of the parson in ample forme in euery one of these cases is xxxvi Turons ix Ducates For frailtye of the fleshe Absolution for fleshlye frailtye in any Uenerius acte committed by one of the clergye though with a nonne within and without the abbey

peace draw on the time is nie at hand That tyrants rage shal shortned be er many years be rōne This cruel kind that ioyes in bloud shal wasted be done Rome hath beheld her prelats al ēbrewd in their own gore Three cruel ones yet shal she se and then shal be no more The death of next Melchiades shal ende the bloudy age His karkas being buried then peace shal all assuage 31. Melchiades MElchiades an Aphrican being a man very religious and a leader of the Christiā flocke proceaded in preaching the Gospell and in the affaires of the truthe so farre vntill he spent his bloud for it vnder Maximinianus Galerius And in the profession thereof died Anno 314. Reade the Ecclesiasticall history of Eusebius bishop of Caesaria concerning manifolde and vnaccustomed cruell deathes of the sainctes of that time Cursulanus Platina Stella and other the Popes flatterers doe falsely father vpon these martyrs whole loades of decrees and lyes that the lewde inuentions of their ceremonies might be established by the authoritie of these men For they are not afraide for the aduauncement of the Popes trone with these vnclenly dregs to staine the bloud of sainctes and defile this beautiful face of the primatiue churche being through continuall persecution euer agreable to Christe the head therof But what wyse man can thinke that suche simple ministers and pastours of Gods worde as the bishops then were dwelling in holes dennes and corners and looking for nothing but dayly death vnder tyrantes should haue minde of pontificall pompe stately buildinges or Papisticall solemnities when as they had neither churches nor dwelling houses The churche as yet obtained no peace they liued not yet in vnprofitable idlenes neither had they the chiefe pleasures of the worlde But those were the imaginations which false prophetes according to their custome deuised for their bellies sake But Sabellicus speaking of the saluage persecution of the churche vnder Dioclesian saythe alleaging it out of Eusebius that the Christian flocke was plaged at this time by the iudgement of God because sinne began to growe vp in the churche aboue measure and the priestes seemed nowe rather to sauour of tyranny and not humilitie and therefore when this persecutiō came it was rather a reformation of the churche corrupted by ease and peace then a scattering thereof Whereby it semeth that euen then God geuing but a pauze of persecution and whyle tyranny did but staye to breathe it selfe they began to decline and growe crooked yet is it not to be thought that they were caried so farre away as yet to newe fashiō and transport with māglinges addicions the Christian religion as the Papistes dreame they did And thus is the popishe synagoge groūded on vntruthe But it were a fond matter to beleue these scoffes toyes contriued for priestes aduauntage as our forefathers haue done we should rather trie of what spirites they be as S. Iohn commaūdeth whether they be of God or no. Iohn 4. For many false prophetes haue crept into the worlde Hetherto the pastors were starres shining in the firmament of the churche as well in life and manners as in doctrine and preserued in his right hande who walked in the middest of the seuen candelstickes Apocal. 1. Hetherto they were counted Angels reuealing the euerlasting wyll of almighty God purely without mans diuices 32. Syluester the first AFter that Melchiades was put to death Syluester a Romaine succeded in the ministery of the woorde but because that the tyrant Maximinus continued his bloudy persecution against the Churche Syluester was fayne to hide him selfe and to lyue solitarily in the hille Soracte But at the length it pleased God to laye his terrible hand vpon the persecutour Maximinus forcing the tyrant to reclaime his cruel decrees against the Christians Touching the death of Maximinus who among other tyrantes was a Scorpion to the Christians it is to be noted that Eusebius writeth first in the eight booke and 28. chapter of his ecclesiastical history thus First in the secrete partes of his body arose an impostume then in his bowels grewe a fistulowe within the whiche a great swarme of woormes and magettes gnawed and deuoured his guttes wherof arose a noysome stinke so ranke that no man could by any meanes abide it beside the ougly loathsom sight of the soare it selfe so that some of his phisicions not able for the horror of it to endure to dresse him were put to death by his cōmaundement Afterward the disease increasing all his body was swollen and rankled with it so that with extremitie of his panges and fainting through honger he fel down and lay sprawling on the grounde Then all his body by the hande of God was terribly enflamed and burned exceadingly odious to beholde so that the scorched fleshe being by little and little eaten awaye pyned and consumed he was so disfigured and deformed his feauter so vaded that a man could discerne no resemblance of his former shape His gastly and naked carkasse was euen as an image of drye bones And yet the glowing heate boyled more feruently so that the marrowe fried out of his bones and his eyes all moisture being wasted dropped out of his head Thus his limmes and members through scalding heate ranke disease rotting one from an other his body laye miserably as it were a graue to the soule vntil the tormentes thereof wrested out from his cancred harte to acknowledge Christe Iesus and to repent his bloudy persecuting the cause of this his woful ende the last persecutour Eusebius lib. 10. cap. 8. Furthermore it pleased the almighty to woorke so graciously in the hart of the noble Emperour Constantine that by his procurement the churche at the length obtained peace vniuersally so that euery mā might safely returne to his owne countrey and citie whereupon Syluester returned to Rome and was the firste Romaine byshop that escaped martyrdome There are many some indifferent but moste detestable grosse and fonde decrees falsely fathered vpō this Syluester as halowing of Chrismes geuing of orders confirming of children decking of churches couering of altars making masse priestes annoynting and attiring of them and of making the howsell to be God called deifying the host of worshipping and preseruing it Also touching coyfes hoodes corporals albes mitars palles cloathes churching kerchiefes for women rochettes sacrifices ceremonies chappels anoyling of the sicke with a rablement of diuers other Iewishe and Heathen ceremonies Platina Polidor Virgill and other the Popes parasites slaunder this Syluester that he tooke vpon him in steade of a golden crowne to weare a mitar after the Phrygian fashion Touching certaine miracles whiche are also with like credit sayde to be done by this Syluester Mantuan wryteth thus Fast. lib. 12. Men talke of many miracles that Syluester hath wrought But authour yet sufficient hath neuer forth ben brought Nor witnesse good to proue the same therfore I let alone Such things as fables fondly faind for our religion Condemneth toyes

misordred all And stately tables combred are with fishe of larger sort So Gregories laws ●r kept wher nede doth bear a sīple port That in the shallowe brookes and floodes to find his fare As for the great grown fulsom fishe in depth of seas they are But holy peers that do with Peters line and gredy hooke Down to the bottom angle can eche sort of fishes brooke Gregorie gaue tapers to the churche and furnished it with quier Psalmodis Canticles Oades Hymnus and other Heathen ceremonies He buylded sixe Monasteries of his owne coste in Sicilia and dedicated Agathas churche He forbad that women should resorte to abbeyes or that Monkes should resorte to Nonneries Also he woulde not haue Mōkes baptize neither Nonnes to be Godmothers He forbad him that had bene twise married to bee made priests And that priestes should geue testimony of honest life by taking an oathe He was an vphoulder of pardons but not a seller of them He was the first that gaue pardons vpon certayne dayes to suche as frequented the churche He entertained straungers at his table He ayded the Mōkes of Hierusalem with necessaries and gaue stipendes to three thousande maydes He allowed by decree the first fiue counsels He forbad that sainctes Images should be brokē or that one of the Clergie should at the Emperours commaundement serue in the warres or that there should bee twoo Metropolitanes in one Prouince He would haue a bishop to be consecrate but ones and would haue the laste will and testament of euery man to be ratified He made foure bookes of Dialogues to boulster vp Purgatorie He allowed hallowing of ashes washing of feete worshipping of the crosse and mass●s to be saide for the dead and wherin the Papistes horribly belie him he deliuered Traian the Emperours soule from hell He cōtemning the Britaines sent Augustine a Monke to reclaime the English Saxons to the churche of Rome He reft from London the right of the Archebishoprike and translated it by the same Augustines meanes to Caunterburie Al these thinges did Gregorie as Patriarke of Rome and died a confessour Anno. 604. But although he doted in many supersticions yet more is falsely fathered on him thē euer he did or thought 33. Sabinianus SAbinianus borne in Thusca was a Prelate of no value who for the hate he bare to his predecessour Gregorie after he had published certaine flaunders against him cōmaunded that his bookes should be burned This man being the last of the Romaine Patriarkes commaūded that the howers of the daye shoulde bee deuided by ringing of belles for the ecclesiasticall offices that they should haue continuall burning lampes in the churche At lengthe he died an infamous death through feare that he conceiued of a terrible vision which he sawe in the night time An. 606. The Christian deedes of Gregorie NOwe to say somewhat touching the Christiā sayinges and doinges of the foresaid Gregorie he fought stoutly against the supremacie of the Popishe kingdome in the very entraunce of the Popedome and hewde in pieces with sharpe tauntes the title of vniuersal Patriarkeship saying that suche an one was the foreronner of Antichriste an hipocrite a tyraūt and Lucifer the vsurper of Gods power He commaunded certaine Images that were of wonderfull excellent workemanship to be throwen into the Riuer Tiber least religion should be corrupted by them He commaunded prayer and fasting for the asswaging of the pestilence He reclaymed the Gothes from the Arrians to the vnitie of the church He wrote Homilies in a pleasaunt stile following S. Augustine Hee xpounded the moste part of the holy bookes of the Bible He by common consent defaced the name of vniuersall byshop And professed him selfe in his wrytinges Seruus seruorum Dei seruaunt to Gods seruauntes whereby he might shewe howe farre he was from all ambicion and desire of soueraintie This title his posteritie hath continued bearing the name but forbearing the humilitie that belongeth therunto At the length Gregorie did greatly lamente to se that howling and chaūting in the church had so taken place that preaching of the Gospell was neglected Beholde quoth he among other sayinges the worlde is full of priestes yet in the lordes haruest are founde fewe labourers We haue taken vpon vs the office but wce do not discharge the office Brethren I thinke that God suffereth dishonour of none more then of priestes for the moste parte If they se any liue in lowly estate or liue continently they scorne them Consider therfore what becōmeth of the flocke when Wolues are made shepeheardes These take charge of the sheepe who are not afrayde to endaunger the liues of the Lordes foulde but they chaunge the office of their blessed function to the encrease of their ambicion We leaue Gods cause ronne to worldly affaires we enioye the place of holines and are entangled with earthly matters so that Baptist Mantuan saith of him in the thirde booke of his Fastor In speache he was ful eloquent his workes are yet in store He speaketh still and by his workes he shall do euermore He taught the quyristers to sing in sōgs was his delight Huldricus bishop of A●gusta sheweth a wonderful story of this bishop in his Epistle to Nicolas the first the effect whereof is that this Gregorie did firste cōmaunde priestes to liue single life but afterwarde when he perceiued that they were geuen secretly to fleshly pleasure and that hereupon many children were murthered hee disanulled that commaundement and sayde that it was better to mary thē geue occasion of murther For whē on a time he sent a certaine woman vnto a fishepoole to take fishe there were founde in the same poole sixe thousande heades of infantes that had bene drowned therein whiche he perceauing to procede of forced single life with sighing and sorrowing he reuoked that Canon For as that Huldericus sheweth they accompanied not onely with virgins and wyues but also euen with their owne kindred with mankind yea and that whiche is horrible to be sayde with brute beastes After the tyme of this Gregorie ensued more blindnes thē was before The puritie of doctrine decayed the churche was darkened maruelously with mans tradicions For Monkery with his manifolde supersticions waxed great Herewithall sprang vp sale of masses and praying to the dead and the Lordes supper began to be an offering for the dead Bishops also being deluded with visions of spirites or rather of diuels began to reuolte from the doctrine of faithe to put affiance in good workes and mans satisfactiō as appeareth of Gregorie As it is euident of Gregorie who in his Dialogues to Theodolinda a very superstitious woman telleth of dead men that appeared and craued to haue prayers and suffrages This while Christianitie began to fall to ceremonies forthwith blinde supersticion by meanes of Monkery began to crepe in ▪ Gregorie as is mentioned before sent Augustine a Romaine Monke and other his compaignions to the Englishemen Anno. 596. not to preache Christe vnto them whose doctrine

poorest At this time the Venetians spoyled the Anconitās because they vsinge trafique into Dalmatia woulde paye them no tribute yet the Pope would not defende them as he ought to do beinge tributaryes to the Church and though in words he were hasty yet in his doinges a slouggarde and dastard The Anconitans therefore being destitute of the Popes ayde gathering themselues together brast out of the Citye vppon the Venetians besieging it draue them awaye with great damage But the Pope vsinge the aduise of Iohn Caietan who thē ruled all because by his ayde he came to be Pope he sent his Embassadours both to Michael Paleologus the kinges of the West to moue them in his name to make peace amōge themselues and to prouide to send their powers against the Sarracens which if Paleologus would not do keepe the vnitye promised he woulde giue his Empyre from him to Charles kinge of Sicill He prophesyed by the course of the starres that he him selfe should liue longe and tould this to euery man in his vanitye as one whose wante of discretion was euident to euery man But behould while he thus vaunted his cunninge in prophecyinge and constellations openlye in a certaine chamber which for his pleasure hee had builded in his Pallaice at Viterbium the fourth day after fell downe sodainlye Anno 1277. After this ruine wherein he perished myserablye he was founde the seuenth day after hauinge raigned viii monthes Valerius called the place which fell downe Gamesters hall and Stella calleth it the precious Chamber for the Pope had builded it so gorgeouslye for his pleasure After his death the seate was voide through great contention vi monthes 129. Nicolas the thirde NIcolas the third a Romaine called first Iohn Caietan after vi monthes with great discention and brauling of the Cardinals obtayned the seate Charles king of Sicil was as Senatour president in their consistorye who was very vrgent to choose some Frenchman Pope and therefore this Nicolas hauing gotten the place purposinge to abate the power of Charles toke from him the Vicarship of Hetruria filled Italye full of broyles And for his owne lucre hee perswaded Peter kinge of Aragon to clayme the kingdome of Sicill sayinge that it belonged to him by the inheritaunce of his wyfe Constance which liked Peter but note the sequeale Peter with a great nauye went to Sardinia and there wayted whē some motions should arise in Sicill for the Sicillians making a conspiracy against Charles and the Frenchmen appointed a daye that as soone as at eueninge a bell should be tould the Frenchmen shoulde be forthwith murthered both man woman child wherein they were so cruell that they slue euen women with child But this horrible deede was not doone vnder Pope Nicolas but in the time of his successour Martin the fourth Also this Nicolas toke to himselfe the Senatourship which Clement the fourth had bestowed on Charles and forbad for euer that any Prince or kinge should be so hardy to desire or take vppon him that dignitye By his falsehoode it came to passe that Flaunders Bononia the royaltye of Rauenna which longe time were vnder the Emperour became subiect to the Pope Amonge other buildinges that he made aboute Rome he enclosed a warrante of hares w t hye walles wherein euen in his Popeship he vsed often to hunt He bestowed syluer cases for the Apostles heades he was reproued of many for making his nephewe Berthold Earle of Romundiala for another of his nephewes beinge a Dominican Cardinall because he sente him Embassadour into Hetruria For Platina and Stella and other complaine that he loued his kindred to well so that he bestowed withoute lawe on them that which he had filched frō other for he toke perforce from some nobles of Rome certaine Castels and bestowed them on his freindes He made the Gibelines being seditious mē magistrats at his owne lust in Florence and els where to defende and maintaine his tyrannye Also he purposed to make two kinges of the stocke of Vrsines the one in Lombardye the other in Hetrury but while he purposed this he dyed sodenly of an Apoplexye without speakinge any worde Anno 1281. in the fourth yeare of his Popeship and yet it was thoughte by his goed complexion he should haue liued much longer Some saye that one foretolde the death of this Pope by the rysinge of the riuer Tiber which then happened The report is that of a concubine he begat a sonne that had hayre and clawes like a beare it is written in Iohn Noueomagus in illustrationibus Bedae 130. Martin the fourth MArtin the fourth a Frenchman called before Simon was nexte made Pope by the Cardinals of Fraunce who then were the greater nomber He woulde not be Crowned at Viterbium because he thoughte that Citye was excommunicated because they had made a tumult against the Cardinals for the Viterbians entring into the consistorye apprehended the Cardinals and put them in prison dryuinge out and contemninge the house of Vrsins therefore Martin going to an olde towne called Oruietus did there kepte all his solemnitye made viii Cardinals the same daye to strengthen his power Also hee did not onelye entertaine curteouslye kinge Charles comminge to him but also restored to him the dignitye of Senatorship which Pope Nicolas had taken frō him which thinge displeased many because it should make seditiō in the Citye the Vrsine being now returned and their ennemyes driuē out for Charles for the hatred conceyued against Nicolas was sore bente against the Vrsines But Pope Martin meaninge to worke warelye did much set by Matthew de Aquisporta a Franciscā of the house of the Vrsines a Cardinal bishop of Portua He excōmunicated Peter king of Aragon who went about to inuade the kingdome of Sicil w t his nauy against Charles also he gaue his kingdome for a ●ooty to one that did desire to enioy it He released his subiectes from their allegeaunce callinge him an vsurper of Church goodes But Peter defyinge all this did by the helpe of Paleologus obtaine the kingdome of Sicill the Sicilians also beinge able no longer to sustayne the pride Iust of the Frenchmē at the perswasion of Iohn Prochita conspired against Charles and ringinge the belles did at once without anye regarde murther all the Frenchmen Pope Martin amonge other thinges graunted to the Romaynes libertye to chose two Senatours of the nobilitye and excommunicated Paleologus He made warre against the Forolinians He bestowed great pryuiledges vpon the begging fryers and as he was taking his accustomed recreation with his chapleins as Carsulan testifyeth a certaine secrete disease came vppon him which after hee had sayd it panged him extreamlye he dyed Anno 128● and yet the Phisicions coulde finde no token of death in him Some write that this Pope in the first yeare of his Popeship receyued into his familiarity the concubine of his predecessour Nicolas but to auoyde the like chaunce that

it shal be sufficient to declare but some of the least Theodoricus lib 1. cap. 14. sayth that Clement with his Cardinals beinge in Campania sente for their Captayne Bernard de Cazala with other men of warre oute of Gascony and Britany who should passe ouer a certaine bridge vpon Tiber nighe Rome but they that kept the bridge wtstoode them whereupon all the Citye was in an vprore many ran out disordered to defend the bridge against Bernard and his Brytaines who entred perforce and in this conflict there were slaine as some thincke 8. hundred Romaynes and the rest beaten backe into the Cittye wherof arose great howling crying lamenting through Rome But the Romaynes to reuenge themselues fel vpon al such as mighte seeme in the Citye to fauour Pope Clement as al those that were borne beyonde the Alpes both Frenchmen and Spaniards that were weake and vnweaponed in the Citye they spared neither man womā nor childe parson nor degree some they murthered some they chained in prison the women they vsed vilanouslye without al shame bishops and noble men they spoyled robbed and long imprysoned with great misery This hurly burly continued long Yea I saw then sayth Theodoricus certaine matrones of Rome desirous to enflame the Romaine Citizēs against the courtiers strangers to iastle them ruffiantly in the streates and without al honestye to spit and slauer in the faces of the courtiers both of men and women But while the freinds of Pope Vrban did thus within the Citye molest the freindes of Clement a certaine Frenchman being Captaine of Angel Castel and keeping it to the vse of his countryman Clement and his Cardinals did leuel a certaine engine out of the Castle against the Citye discharging and shooting arrowes pellets violently into Rome amonge the Romaines and courtiers and with this shotte he ouerthrew shooke downe and fyred many houses Thus was the Citye in a myserable broyle and in these tumults were slaine diuers noble men Iohn Vrsine Rainolde his brother and one Honoratus with Angelus lieuetenant of Rome diuers other estates stept vp in armes in the quarell of Clement assaulting the Citye round about Rainold layde siege against it at S. Agnes gate a whole month so that the Romaynes were robbed of their cattell and durst not peepe out of the Citye to followe their husbandrye during this storme Whereupon Charles the Emperour and Lewis kinge of Hungary at the humble sute of Pope Vrban sent to Clement their Embassadours desiring him to yeld vp his Papacy for the ending of these sturres tending to the ruine of the Church and Christian estate but Pope Clement and his Cardinals in steede of reasonable answeares vsed the Legates vilanously keeping some of them in pryson some they racked cruelly and by this meanes all christēdome was deuided some as Almany Bohemia Thuscia Lombardy England Polony Denmarke Sweueland Norwaie Prusia Frizland with diuers other countryes toke part with Vrban and likewise many countryes with Clement Vrban made Charles king of Sicil and Clemēt set vp Lewes of Andegana against him for it to the spoyle of much bloud Manye other notable historyes are written of this Clement which for tediousnesse are ouerpassed onely I note that which Theodoricus sayth that he being Cardinall vnder Gregorie the xi was cause of the destruction and lamētable spoyling of the Citye Cesanate hauing charge of the souldiours that did it as is shewed in the said Gregorie Also at the same time he sould the Citye Vercels vnto a couple of tyrants to the great confusion of the same Citye in like maner but those tyrants Caleatius and Barnabonis hauing ful possession thereof robbed this Cardinal againe of all the treasure which they had payde him But when he sate in the Papacye he was so prodigall in spendinge the Church goodes that he graunted to euerye man especiallye noble men large pentions farmes landes at an easye rent 145. Boniface the ix BOniface the ix borne in Naples was first called Peter Thomacell being but a yonker scant xx yeares old but a toughe and sturdy fellow he was made Pope by consent of those Cardinals that remayned in Rome Theodoricus sayth that he could neyther write nor singe and that when he was chosen he knewe not what belonged to the greate charge of the Papacye and when supplications were offered him he handled them so vntowardly as if he had neuer beene brought vp in the Court of Rome neyther could he vnderstand the contentes thereof When any aduocates during his gouernment moued any matter debated in his consistorye he neuer vnderstoode them but woulde bolte out an vndiscrete aunsweare to their demaundes At the first during the liues of certaine good Cardinals he durste not openlye commit simonye thoughe priuilye he vsed his brokers therein but they being dead after vii yeares he vsed it openly First he toke the first fruictes of all abbeyes and great Churches voyde and ere the lyuing were bestowed the money must be payed yea often he was heard to wishe that the money being payed the party might not enioy it that he might be payd new first fruictes againe by another This was the chiefest of those xxvi Neapolitans whō beinge of his alleance Pope Vrban made Cardinals at Nuceria who as Crantzius sayth beinge confirmed established did forthwith confirme those things which Vrban had decreed touching the Iubely to be kept euery xiii yeare the feast of the visitation of the virgin Mary and indulgences pardons for the worshipping of Christes bodye But by his couetousnes and simonye because al benefices were sould for moneye vsurye waxed so rancke in Rome that it was counted no sinne sayth Theodoricus in his time yea oftentimes vsurye was required openlye euen in the presence of the iudges and officials And againe there was no sute made to the Pope for anye matter but that brybes must be giuen for speakinge The fifte daye of Nouember in the first yeare of his raigne hee his Secretaryes and his chamberlaynes set benefices to sale so impudently offering and trying who would giue most so that al men laughed it to scorne At which time he gaue vnder seale any benefice where soeuer were it in his disposition or no his gift to take place vpō the death of the incumbente and this kinde of sale lasted longe in the Courte of Rome so that many poachers ran vp and downe the countrye to espye where were any olde or sicke prelate therevpon poas●ed to Rome to purchase a graunt of his lyuing so that sometime the Pope sould one benefice to diuers parties and vsed to set downe in the dating of it that the secōd third or the fourth graunt should stande aboue and before the rest and therefore after diuers grauntes of one benefice yet some purchased one after al with this clause to defeate the rest notwithstanding al former or after graunts and for more assurance the last should be antedated Thus the Pope played pollage so long till all men being