A counterblast to M. Hornes vayne blaste against M. Fekenham Wherein is set forthe: a ful reply to M. Hornes Answer, and to euery part therof made, against the declaration of my L. Abbat of Westminster, M. Fekenham, touching, the Othe of the Supremacy. By perusing vvhereof shall appeare, besides the holy Scriptures, as it vvere a chronicle of the continual practise of Christes Churche in al ages and countries, fro[m] the time of Constantin the Great, vntil our daies: prouing the popes and bishops supremacy in ecclesiastical causes: and disprouing the princes supremacy in the same causes. By Thomas Stapleton student in diuinitie.

M. Horne. The .128. Diuision. pag. 79. a.

Levves the Frenche King, called S. Levves, vvho as Antoninus saith, was so instructed, euen from his infancy, in all the wisedom of diuine and good orders, that there was not found his like, that kept the law of the high God, &c. made a lawe against those that blasphemed the name of the Lorde: adioyning a penalty of a whote yron to be printed in the transgressours forehead. Also in the yere of the Lorde .1228. He made a Law against the Popes fraudes, concerning the preuentions and re••eruations of the reuenues, and dignities Ecclesiastical, complayning that the Pope had pulled from him, the collations of all Spirituall promotions: ordeining that from hence foorth the election of Bisshops, Prelates and al other whatsoeuer, should be free, for∣cible, ād effectual to the electors Patrones ād collatours of thē. Also the same yere he set forth an other Law agaīst Simony: cō¦plainīg of the bieyng ād sellīg of ecclesiastical dignities. He made also certain godly Lavves against vvhoredome and Fornicatiō. Laste of all in the yeere of the Lorde .1268. he set foorth the Lavve, commonly called Pragmatica Sanctio, vvherein in amongest other Ecclesiastical matters against the Popes pollinges he saith thus: Item, in no case we wil that exactions or greuous burdens of money, being laide on the Churche of our Kingdome by the Courte of Rome, where∣by our Kingedome is miserably impouerished, be leuied or ga∣thered: nor any hereafter to be layed, excepte only for a rea∣sonable,

godly and moste vrgent cause of necessity, that can not be auoided: ād that the same be don by our expresse (.438.) biddinge, and commaundement of our own accord. (.439.)

Notes

• Antonin{us}.
• Append. Math. Pa∣risiens.
• Fabian.
• Append. Math. Pa∣risiens.
• The .438. and 439. vntruths. One in false trās∣lating, the other in vnfaith∣ful nip∣ping.