An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same

Pape.

PApe, is an ancient name falsly arrrogated, or proudly vsurped by the Bishop of the onely Citie of Rome in Italie, and is commonly Englished the Pope, a name truely much frequented in our auncient yeere Bookes, specially in the times of those kinges, who too much abandoning their Imperiall authori∣tie, and abasing them∣selues farre beneathe their estate, were not ashamed to suffer an alien and out∣landish Bishoppe, that dwelt aboue fiftéene hun∣dred miles from them, to bee Soueraign ouer them in their owne dominions, and to take from them not onely the disposition of certaine small trifles of none accompt, but al∣so the nomination of Arch∣bishops, Bishops, Abbots, Deanes, Prouosts, appro∣priation of benefices, pre∣sentations to Parsonages, Vicarages, and general∣lie of all Spirituall per∣sons to their preferments

sometimes by lapse, and sometimes by prouision or otherwise, whereby the Kinges Princelie Prero∣gatiue was verie much a∣bridged within their own Realmes. For the repressi∣on wherof diuers statutes were made, but no sufficiēt remedy vntil King Henrie the 8. did cast off their yoke for him & his subiects.