and with his sicke weake voyce so encouraged his Souldiers, that Roger was droven out of Pepignan, the City held by Philip so distempered with this alarum, that he grew sicke and dyed the fifteenth of October, two moneths after Peter, Pope Martin the fourth dying the same yeare, 1286. to shew great Princes, that their chiefe designes are crost by death.
It was now decreed in a Counsell at Lions, that the Cardinals meeting after the Popes death, should not come out of that Conolme untill they had chosen the Pope, which begun upon occasion of the tedious Election of the former Pope, and the Decree is still observed. Thomas Aquinas now dyed, being a subtile dis∣puter: But Bonaventure, John Duns, called Scot, and Gabriel Biel succeeded, and were famous schollers.
And to conclude, hee was a Prince borne for a testimony to that obscure age, and for corrupted times, to bee a patterne to all Kings and Princes of re∣ligion,