A confutation of the Popes bull which was published more then two yeres agoe against Elizabeth the most gracious Queene of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, and against the noble realme of England together with a defence of the sayd true Christian Queene, and of the whole realme of England. By Henry Bullinger the Elder.

¶How great calamities and how great mischieues the Bishop of Rome hath brought vpō kyngdomes and nations in Christendome these foure hundred, yeares and more, in put∣ting downe kinges, and remouyng kingdomes, and discharging subiectes of theyr dew fealtie and allegeance, by the fulnesse of their power, a brief historicall declaration or wyndyng vp.

VPon occasion of the fore mentioned storie of Grego∣rie the vij. and kyng Rafe, I will procede from the tyme of the said Gregorie, almost vnto our age, by the space of foure hundred yeares and odde, briefly compyling and knitting together how great calamities, and how great mischieues the Bishops of Rome haue wrought to kingdomes and nations in Christēdome these foure hun∣dred yeares and more, in deposing kings, transposing king∣domes, and discharging subiectes from their faith and alle∣geance, by the fulnesse of their power to the intent that euē by this horrible butcherie, and confusion of all thinges, and the sorowfull rehearsall of most lamentable aduentures, all people in Christendome may learne to know in déede what the Bishops of Rome be whom they still honour, and with all aduisednesse and constancie, to beware of those Romish Prelates, as of a dispatching plague both to kingdomes and common weales, the poyson of peace and welfare, the au∣thors and firebrandes of treasons, warres, ciuill slaughters, and all most miserable calamities, and worthely hated of God and all good men.

In the yeare of our Lord .1045. there arose a very great and noysome schisme in the Citie of Rome, betwene thrée Bishops, Benet the ix. Siluester the iij. and Gregorie the vj. which turmoyled the Church of Rome very daungerous∣ly and outrageously. Of this schisme Otho Frisingensis writeth thus:* 1.1 About this tyme there was a shamefull con∣fusion of the Church of God in the Citie of Rome, by rea∣son of three Intruders that sealed vpō that sea at once, who (as I my selfe being in the Citie haue heard the Romanes report) led there a beastly and shamefull life. And Beno the Cardinall in the life of Hildebrand, the Church (saith he) by these mēs meanes (meaning the iij. Bishops) was torne a sunder with a sore schisme, mortall warres, and vnmea∣surable slaughters: and almost choked with horrible here∣sies, by giuing men poyson to drinke vnder colour of hony. And Platina in the life of Siluester the iij. sayth: The Bi∣shoprike was come to that point, that who soeuer could do

most by bryberie, and ambition, I say not by holinesse and doctrine, he onely obteined the state of dignitie, the good mē beyng borne downe and reiected: and the rest that is writ∣ten fréely inough agaynst the most corrupt maners of the Court of Rome. But the Emperour Henry the third of that name, surnamed the Blacke, a godly and stout Prince, gathered a chosen armye in Germanye, and enteryng in∣to Rome, called a Councell, and deposed those three By∣shops, placing in their roome one Swigger the Byshop of Bamberg whom they call Clement the second.

Hereunto Cardinall Beno addeth:* 1.2 Which thinges be∣yng stoutly accomplished: the Emperour Henry condem∣ned Gregorie the sixth and his disciple Hildebrand (who afterward was Byshop of Rome by the name of Gregorie the seuenth, and would not forsake his master, but folowed him euen in his vttermost aduersitie) to be banished into the partes of Dutcheland. Notwithstandyng, beyng decei∣ued with ouermuch gentlenesse, and by meanes therof loo∣king neither to the Church, nor to himselfe, nor to man∣kind, he gaue the new Idolaters to much scope, whom he ought rather to haue shet vp in continuall prison, that they might not haue infected men, nor neuer bene heard of any more. But after the sayd Gregorie the sixth was dead in exile. Hildebrand became his heyre as well of his wicked∣nesse as also of his money. Thus much saith Beno.

But Hildebrand beyng vnthankfull the Emperour for his deliueraunce,* 1.3 kept still the hatred which he had once conceiued agaynst him in Germanie. For after he had by violence and euill slightes thrust himselfe into the Bisho∣prike by the name of Gregorie the vij: he bent himselfe wholly to oppresse Henry the fourth the sonne of Henry the third, of purpose to reuēge the carying away of his mai∣ster Gregorie the sixth and of himselfe into Germanie, and to confirme and stablish the souerein power of his Bishops sea, that the Popes might not hence forth stand in feare of the Emperours. And truly, Henry the third is reported to be the last Emperour that was able to bridle the Romane

Byshops and to kéepe them vnder coram. For although there succeded many noble and valyant Emperours in the Empyre, which did set themselues stoutly against the Bi∣shops, and cast some of them downe from their seate: yet had none of them so good lucke in bridlyng them as had Hē∣ry the third. For the rebellion that was begon by this Gre∣gorie the vij. and anone after continued by his scholers, and stubbornely increased by their successours, did so breake through by mayne force, that the Emperours were able to do litle, were they neuer so earnest and stoute. Yea and the time was now come, that y^e foresayinges of the Prophetes and Apostles must be fulfilled.

* 1.4Therfore Gregorie the vij. hauing inuaded the seate, & trusting that occasion was giuen him to oppresse the Empe∣rour Hēry the iiij. and to bring to passe the thing that he had purposed in his minde now many yeares afore: first put∣teth forth a Bull against the Emperour, wherein he layeth sore to his charge, & burtheneth him with greuous crimes, by spreading those letters of his ouer all Italie, Germanie, & Fraunce. Also he assayth to besotte the mindes of certeine Princes of Germanie, and to draw them to his side. Which thing folowed his hand a litle to luckely.* 1.5 Afterward becom∣ming more bold by reason of the fauour of the Princes, he aduentureth to excommunicate the Emperour, & to giue sentēce agaynst him y^e he should be deposed frō his Empyre or kingdome, and to discharge all his subiectes of their faith & obedience that they ought vnto him.* 1.6 He had learned this, not of the Prophetes or Apostles, nor yet out of the holy Scriptures: but of his predecessors Zacharie the first, Ste∣uen the second Adrian the first, and Leo the third. Further∣more he cōmaundeth the Princes to chose another kyng in stede of Hēry that was excommunicated: & least they might not know whom he would haue chosen, he sendes them a crowne with this Antichristly verse ingrauen in it.

As Christ the Rocke the Crowne to Peter gaue So Peter would that Rafe the same should haue.

Certeine princes therfore which had conspired among thē¦selues chose Rafe of Rhynefild duke of Sweueland,* 1.7 y^t Em∣perors own sisters sonne, and crowned him at Mens. Not∣withstanding the townesmen kéeping themselues true to the Emperor, were very sore gréeued at the treason that was wrought against him: wherefore arming themselues in hast, and rushing into the church, they slew as many as they met of Rafes partakers, and set the church on a swim with blood. Afterward they flew also to the palace, and set fire vpon it: and they folowed the matter so whottely, that the King, and the Bishop of Mens had much a do to escape and saue them selues by flight.* 1.8 Anon after there ensued so great a broyle through all Germanie, that no pen is able to expresse worthely, the sorowfulnes of these times. They that kept themselues true to the Emperour, were by the Hildebrandines, Gregorians, or papistes, called heretikes, schismatikes, symoniakes, traytors, Nicholaites, and for∣nicaters, that is to wit, because the priestes tooke wiues, which thing the pope forbad them to do. Yea truely all pla∣ces were filled and ouerfilled with iniuries, raylinges, mur∣thers, burninges, vprores, betrayinges, rauishings, and all maner of horrible and vnspeakable wickednes. Further∣more, religion was brought into vtter contempt almost with all men. Of all which things, the stories of these times beare witnes most aboundantly. And this was the fruit of the fulnes of that popish power, wherby he deposeth kings, transposeth kingdomes, and dischargeth subiectes of theyr fayth and obedience. They that kept themselues faythfull to the Emperor, were fayne to thrust their Bishops out of their cities, as ranke traytors to the Emperor. And y^e prea∣chers in many partes of Germanie,* 1.9 maintayning the Em∣perors part, enueighed very sore against the Bishop, affir∣ming him to be Antichrist, and Rome to be Babilon: wher∣of whoso desireth more, let him read the fifth booke of the Germane historie, of Iohn Auentine, in the leaf 426.

Neuertheles when Rafe the popes king was after ma∣ny

vnfortunate battelles dispatched out of the way: left vnhappy Germanie might take breath againe, or the Em∣peror haue neuer so little rest: the byshop by hys pollicies brought to passe,* 1.10 that the Saxons set vp Herman prince of Loraine in Lucelbrough, to be their king against the Em∣peror. But thys man also by the vengeance of God, was slayne, and a great sort with him in the assault of a certaine castle, by a stone that a silie woman cast downe from the wall, after the same maner that Abimelech the sonne of Ge¦deon was slayne, and so he came to a miserable ende. But all this coulde not staunche the Byshoppes vnappeasable hatred, and outrageons crueltye, agaynste the Em∣perour: for he set vp a third aduersary and Antiking a∣gainst the good Emperor,* 1.11 that is to wite, Egbert the Mar∣ques of Saxony, who also a fiue yeares after, was beset by the Emperors gard in a mil besides Brunswike, and there miserably slayne.

* 1.12Thys most wicked and cruell monke Gregory, lefte of his schollers after him, whome he had so noozeled in his mis∣cheuous deuises and horrible artes, that when they were placed in the byshops sea, they were neuer a whit méeker toward the Emperor, then he was. Among these are rec∣koned Urbane the second, whome (not without cause) the Cardinall Benno termeth, Makebrooyle: and Paschall the second. Both of them were Monkes of Benets disorder, both of them most deadly enemies to the emperor, bearing the benemous rancor of Hildebrand in theyr brest,* 1.13 and ex∣ecuting the same in their horrible déedes: for Urban stirres vp the Emperors sonne Conrade Liuetenant of Italy, vn∣naturally against his father. And Paschall armeth hys o∣ther sonne Henry the fifth, a stout prince, vngraciously a∣gainst his most noble father also. The tragedie is most cruell and horrible, which these two sonnes played by the egging and incensing of the pope. D. Robert Barnes in the life of Paschall, and many other Storywriters set out the same at large. The Emperor growing very aged, and

being at length tyred with vnmeasurable toyles,* 1.14 and most bloudy battelles, (for they write that this Emperour was driuen by the leudnes of the popes, to fight thrée score and two pitched battelles: wherein he went beyond both Mar∣cus Marcellus, and also Iulius Cesar, of whom Marcellus fought thirtie times, and Cesar two and fiftie times in like manner) as he thought to haue fallen to composition of peace, and was iorneying towardes Mens to the generall Dyet of the Empyre: he was trayterously apprehended in hys way contrary to assurance geuen, and most shame∣fully and cruelly bereft of his crowne and robes of estate at Ingelhen by the Byshops of Mens, Colon, and Wormes. It is a lamentable story, the which is diligently described by Albert Krantz, in the xxx. chapter of hys fifth booke of the Saxon affayres.

At length when the good Emperor being pyned wyth sorow had yéelded vp his soule vnto God at Liege,* 1.15 and was buryed in a certayne Abbye there: the pope and hys faction would not admit the bishop, and clergie, & people of Liege to the communion, till they had digged vp the Emperoures body agayne, and bestowed it in an vnhallowed place. These blissed fathers burned in so vnreconcileable hatred, that they could not be satisfyed with theyr most cruell, and continuall troubling of him while he was a liue, vnlesse that like a sort of Hienes, they also wreaked theyr téene w^e outragious woodnes, euen vpon the holy corse of him being dead. These truely are the most woorthy fruites of that vn∣measurable power of the romish Bishops. I will not re∣hearce here, what Calixt the second, an other scholler of Hildebrandes,* 1.16 which came out of the kenell of Cluniak, wrought against Henry the fift, with whom he would not come in fauour againe. till he had graunted the Bishop of Rome the right of inuesting bishops in Germanie: which thing had hetherto belonged to the Emperoures. Then at length he absolued the Emperor from the bond of excom∣munication,* 1.17 wherein they had wrapped the sonne, as well ••••

(not without cause) do call pope Nocent.* 1.18 The hatred that thys man bare toward Philip was whotter then euer was the hatred of Uatinius. And that was chiefly for two causes: both for that he was of the house of the Dukes of Sweueland, which had alwayes set it selfe, and as yet dyd still set it self agaynst the tyranny of the Bishops of Rome: and also because he had geuen and assured to hys nephew Frederike the second, hys brothers sonne, the kingdome of Sicill, which was the lawfull dowry of his mother Quene Constance descended to hir by right of inheritaunce frō hir father: wherunto the pope also made claime. The Bishop therfore sought by all meanes to inforce the Princes of the Empyre to admit Barchtold prince of Zaring for Empe∣rour. But when thys deuice of pope Innocentes tooke not place, the holy father fell into such a rage, that he burst foorth into these wordes: Eyther the byshop shall plucke the crowne from Philippes head, or els Philip shall plucke the byshops mytre from the byshops head. And byanby dealing with the Princes of Germanie for the choosing of a new Emperor,* 1.19 he excommunicated Philip. Some therefore of the conspyracie, chose Otho duke of Saxonie to be king a∣gainst him: of which doing sprang vp innumerable mis∣chéeues. For these two princes maintayned bloudy warres one against an other, and oftentimes encountred with ex∣céeding great slaughter. But yet had Philip alwayes the vpper hand. These calamities ar described by Iohn Auen∣tine in the seuenth booke of hys stories, the 458. leafe. And yet for all thys,* 1.20 Otho could not make the Bishop to lyke so well of him and of his seruice, but that he excommunicated him also, and depriued him of the Imperiall stile, and relea∣sed the princes of theyr othe, which were sworne to him as Emperor. With lyke fury were Honorius the third, and Gregory the nynth (but Gregory with most deadly fewd) caryed against Frederik the second,* 1.21 * 1.22 which succéeded Otho in the Empyre. Gregorie the nynth was Innocent the thirdes nephew: whose most stately, ambitious, and bolde

nature bearing hatred ouermuch in mind, did singularlye vtter it self in all hys sayinges and doinges. Thys Byshop alyeth himself in leage with the greatest part of Italy a∣gainst the Emperor. Afterward he publisheth thrée bulles against him, wherin he calleth Gods anoynted king, beast, heretike, and all to naught: straightly charging all fayth∣ful Christians, that they obay not the Emperour as a crea∣ture all to cursed. There be six bookes of epistles of one Pe∣ter Uynes, wherein these thinges and other of the same sort are to be read, like as they be set out also by Cuspinian, in the life of Frederik the second, and by other storiwriters, and also by Iohn Auentine in the vii. booke of his stories. No man that séeketh to be brief (as I do at this present) can in few wordes comprise the miseries, slaughters, and most bloudy treasons, which the popes that bayted thys Frede∣rik the second, (and specially thys Gregory the nynth) styr∣red vp in Italy and throughout all Germanie, and other realmes, by those bulles of theyrs like to this Bull (for the deuyll is no chaingling) which is now put foorth by Pope Pius the fifth, against the Quéene of England. Truely the partaking of the Gwibelines,* 1.23 and Gwelfes, which sprang vp vnder Innocent the second were greatly renewed and spread abroad far and wide through all Italy by the practise of thys Gregory the nynth. Of which things Nauclerus in his story of pedegrées 42. fol. 826. writeth thus: This desire of partaking is at this time crept so far abroad, that there is no citie, nor people which remayneth vntouched of that most pestilent infection. For citie against citie, shyre a∣gainst shyre, one part of the people against another parte, haue gone together by the eares from thenceforth euen vn∣to our dayes, without any other cause to moue them, saue onely these parttakinges. Neyther onely are the antesig∣nes deuided that are borne to the féelde, but also euen the coloures of thinges, the fruites of the earth, the fashions of apparell, the gate of men, the knacking of theyr fingers, and the gaping of their mouthes, geue an incling or resem∣blance

of whither part they be. Thus much sayth he.

* 1.24And (to warn you hereof also glauncingly by the way) by these and many other such like prankes, any man may vnderstand how faythfully the Byshops of Rome for all theyr stout and loud bragging, haue endeuoured to kéepe christen folke in the vnitie of fayth and christian charitie, séeing it appeareth more clearly then the sonne light, that there was neuer any man in the world, that hath more sowly disseuered, cutte of, and rent a sunder the vnitie of fayth, and of Christes body, through parttakinges, strifes, and factions, then the very bishops of Rome themselues.

* 1.25But what shall I say of Innocent the fourth, whome they call the glory of the Canonistes? Thys man strayned himself at leastwise to match hys predecessors, if he did not also passe them, in persecuting of Frederik. Therfore when he had called a Counsel at Lions in Fraunce, and summo∣ned the Emperour Frederike thither: he read sentence of condemnation against him solemnly in the Counsell, that he should be depriued of the Empyre, and of all hys king∣domes, according as the cause of hys depriuation, and the forme of the sentence geuing, are written in the chapter ad Ap. de sent. & re iud. Lib. 6. and also reported by Col∣lenutius the storiwriter about the end of Frederikes lyfe, and yet the sayd Frederik was on hys way thitherward, and had come thither, but that he was called backe againe by hys frendes, and was faine to returne into Italye by reason of a slaughter that the popes complices had made of the citizens of Parma. Immediatly wheruppon certain princes of Germany, beying bewitched with the popes hy∣pocrisy and mischéeuous slights, did at his appoyntmēt and instigation choose Henry the Lantgraue of Thuring to be Emperour against Friderik.* 1.26 And moreouer at the same popes commaundement, the Crosse was preached euery where against the Emperour.

* 1.27And lest any man might be ignorant what this strange misterie of preaching the Crosse meaneth: ye shall vnder∣stand

that the papistes in those dayes had found out a spyke & spawne new maner of preachyng the crosse. For it decla∣red not the Crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ, that is to say his death which is our life, accordyng as the Apostles, and their Apostles, & the disciples of them preached in old time. But it published the open defiances and warres which the pope made, not at his charges but at other mens, accordyng as Daniels prophesie imported.* 1.28 And truly this new maner of preachyng the crosse began at the first agaynst the Sara∣cenes vnder Vrbane the ij. in the tyme of the Councell of Clermount, when the holy warre was Decréed. But after∣ward, if the popes had denounced any as heretikes, and iud∣ged them to be rooted out by force of armes for the same: They sent out their preachers as vaūtcorrours to preach a Croysie to the people, that is to wit to blow vp a trumpet, persuading yea & by the popes authoritie cōmaunding, that as many as were able to beare armour, should take y^e signe of the crosse vpon them, & serue the Bishop of Rome in his warres. And if these good felowes behaued themselues mā∣fully, (that is to say, if they slew y^e heretikes without mer∣cy, & spoyled all that euer they had) there was promised thē full remission of sinnes, and euerlasting life. All this busi∣nesse is by the storywriters of late times called a Croysie. Also together with this souldierfare, the Bishop (like as he doth yet still at this day) was wont to inioyne his seruaūts fasting, penaunce, & praying, therby to craue good successe of their enterprises at Gods hand. In this straunge preaching of the Crosse, the begging Friers shewed thēselues stoutest seruauntes of the Popes: and of those also the Dominicane Friers (commonly called the Friers preachers) were sorer felowes then the rest, wherin they resembled their founder Dominike very wel. For one Bernhard of Lucemborough a Frier of the same order, in his beadroll of heretikes sayth thus:* 1.29 At such time as S. Dominike with xij. Abbotes of the order of Cistertiū preached the Croysie against the heretikes of Albigia, y^e Catholikes (that is to say, the Crossed papists) slew a hundred thousand of them. Of whom one hundred &

foure score continewing in their stubbornesse agaynst the Church of Rome, chose to be burned rather then to abiure their heresie. Which thing was also done. And S. Dominik abode x. yeares in those quarters, in the office of preaching and weeding out of heresie, when all the rest returned home to their owne. Thus reporteth he of his owne founder & of that butcherie.* 1.30 Wherby it appeareth, that y^e pope had good cause afterward to canonize him and make hym one of his Saintes. Neither is it without cause y^t Dominikes mother being great with child of him, dreamed that she bare in her wombe a dog (or as other say, a wolfe) with a firebrand in his mouth, wherewith he did set the whole world on fire, &c. But I will returne to my matter.

* 1.31Therfore at the Popes preaching of y^e Croysie, the Lant∣graue of Thuring addressed himselfe to the warres. Againe there is running to weapon on both sides, agayne wretched Germanie is by the Popes incēsing rent a sunder, & woun∣ded with her owne weapons, and slayne with ciuill encoun∣ters. Conradus Duke of Sweueland the sonne of Fride∣rike & proclaimed king of Romanes, encoūtering the Lant∣graue of Thuring, vanquisheth, chaseth, and sleaeth all his hoste, for all their being marked with the Crosse. The same yeare the Lantgraue dyed of a wound.* 1.32 The princes of Ger∣manie that tooke the popes part, being not yet made the wi∣ser by their so great miseries, but fauoring the Pope more then their owne countrey: set vp another king against Fri∣derike and his sonne Conrade. For Pope Innocent sent his Legate Cardinall Peter Capuce into Germanie, who calling the princes together to Colon, caused them to chuse Williā Earle of Holland, king, agaynst Friderike & Con∣rade. Which thing wrought new broyles in the Empyre.

* 1.33And forasmuch as Pope Innocent had excōmunicated king Conrade also: He ceased not to persecute his sonne Corradine the rightfull heyre of Puell and Sicilie like∣wise, and to dispossesse him of his fathers heritage. In which matter, Alexāder the fourth, Vrbane the fourth, and Cle∣ment the fourth which succeded next, shewed themselues

no flothfull folowers of Innocentes steppes.* 1.34 Wherof Cor∣radine set forth a publike proclamation, wherin he lamen∣tably reckeneth vp the sore wronges, which those Bishops did vnto him. And first he declareth how Innocent the fourth anoyed him being yet an innocent and fatherlesse, yea and committed to the wardship of the Church, by berée∣uing him of his kingdome and dealing it among his owne graundchildren and kinsmē. After whom folowed Alexan∣der, and he allured another mā to take his kingdome from him by force. And Vrbane also shewing small vrbanitie to∣wardes him, called Charles king of Fraunce out of his owne Realme, to take possession of the kingdome which was due to the sayd Corradine by descent from his father. And Clement voyde of all clemencie set vp the sayd Char∣les as counterking agaiust Corradine, and so most wrong∣fully spoyled the right heyre of his inheritance. By meanes whereof he was compelled to séeke his right by rightfull force of armes, which was wrongfully withheld him by the wrongfull demeanor of the Bishops. These thinges are to be read in the Chronicles of Nauclerus. Duryng this broyle, Pope Clement the fourth hearing how Cor∣radine was raysing a power in Germanie: did put forth a Bull, wherby he forbade all faithfull Christiās to call Cor∣radine king of Sicill, or to giue him any Councell, or ayde agaynst Charles, whom he had crowned king of Sicill for a péece of money.* 1.35 Thus the pope blowes vp the trumpet, & the Christians fall together by the eares again. It commes to hand strokes: at the first the Germanes get the better hand, and the Frenchmen are put to flight. But when the Germanes brake their aray, and fell more gréedely to the riffeling of the baggage of their enemyes thē was méete for them: the Frenchmen fallyng againe in order of battell, gaue a fresh charge vpon them vnwares, and sleaing them down as they were escattered, obteined the victorie. There were taken two Princes, Corradine king of Sicile and Duke of Sweueland, and Fridericke Duke of Austriche, who had takē part with Corradine to ayde him. Also there

were other Lordes and noblemen taken, who were all ca∣ryed prisoners to Naples & there kept in very streyt ward. It is reported that Charles wrate to the Pope for his ad∣uise what he would haue done with the prisoners: and that the Pope amōg others aunswered:* 1.36 The life of Corradine is the death of Charles, and the death of Corradine is the life of Charles. But Robert Earle of Flaunders the sonne in law of Charles, by whose aduise he had gotten the victorie, remembring the state of mens affaires, counseled Charles to make peace, and to bynd vnto him by bond of a∣lyance these two young Princes of excellent towardnesse, borne of the noblest houses in Germanie, and the ofspryng of Emperors, wishing that Corradine should haue Char∣les his daughter, and Frederike his néere. But whyle the tyme was prolonged in these consultations. Robert retur∣ned home, and then the bloud royall was condemned to death.* 1.37 And so the xxix. of October beyng Monday, in the yeare of our Lord. 1268. a place was couered with purple, & there was Fridericke first beheaded with an axe. Whose head Corradine taking vp and kissing it with teares, la∣mentably bewayled the cruell death of that giltlesse young Prince his deare frend of whose destruction he himself was the cause. Afterward hauing greatly complayned of the bit∣ternesse and trecherie of his enemyes, who contrarie to all right & conscience (whereas of all others he was most inno∣cēt and blamelesse) had bereft him of the heritage which his father, graundfather, greatgraundfather, and graundfa∣thers graundfather had purchased with their bloud, and ha∣uing committed his case to the souerein iudge, calling vpon God the reuenger of trayterousnesse and murther: he ap∣pealed to Christ our Lord and God, and to his iudgement seate, and cried vnto him for vengeance, with castyng his gloues vp to heauenward, and then in his owne right be∣queathing these kingdomes to his Cousin Peter king of A∣ragon whose graundmother was sister to the Emperour Friderike, he held out his necke vnfearefully to the execu∣tion and had his head striken of: lastly, eleuen noblemen

of Sweueland and Italie suffered the same execution, A∣mong whom Gerhard of Pisa a noble gentlemā was one. Within a few yeares after,* 1.38 Peter king of Aragon began to lay clayme to Sicilie. And the Westerne Frenchmen haue now about ij. hundred foure score and seuen yeares striued with the Spanyardes for those kingdomes, with exceding bloudshed, and wasting of the countreys. But in the sayd two Princes were extinguished the lynes of the Dukes of Sweueland and Austriche, two of the auncientest and no∣blest houses of Germanie. Afterward Rafe Duke of Has∣purge a Swicer, seased vppon both the Duchies, and be∣stowed them in Fée vppon his two sonnes Albert & Rafe: of whom, Rafe was made Duke of Sweueland, and Al∣bert Duke of Austriche.

I haue recited this pitifull and lamentable storie out of Iohn Auentine somewhat the more at large,* 1.39 bycause that in it, as it were in a cleare glasse, a man may behold the bloudthirstie nature of the Popes, bearing hatred in minde most spitefully, of couetousenesse and ambition vtterly vn∣satiable, malitious in all respectes, outraging with beastly woodnesse and crueltie. And also to what point the Bulles of the Romish Bishops haue driuen kingdomes and com∣mon weales, casting downe some and aduauncing other∣some, at the pleasure of the Bishops, and also acquitting the nobilitie and commons of their fealtie and obedience dew to their Princes.* 1.40 Now if any man in way of obiection de∣maund, wherefore God giueth these beastes leaue to ou∣trage agaynst all good men, and to bring to passe so great thinges, and not rather ouerthroweth the seate & them that sit in the seate: the aunswere is ready shapen. The Scrip∣tures must néedes be fulfilled, and specially the prophesie which Daniell vttereth in these wordes. The Horne that grew vp, had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his looke was grimmer then all his felowes. And he fought a battell with the Saintes and preuailed against them, vn∣till the auncient of yeares came, and iudgement was giuen to the high Saintes: and so forth as foloweth in the vij. and

eight chapters of Daniell. In the last end of their reigne, when there shalbe great store of wicked folke, there shall stand vp a king of a stoute countenance, that vnderstandeth riddles: and he shall excell in strength, howbeit not by his owne power: and he shall make wonderfull hauocke, and speede his matters prosperously, and trouble the strong, and the holy people, and he shall bring his businesse to passe luckely, through his owne wylinesse and craftes. Also he shall presume great things in his hart, and being furnished with store of thinges he shall spoile many men. Further∣more he shall set himselfe against the highest Prince, and shalbe broken in péeces without handes.* 1.41 For S. Paule al∣so hath sayd, that Antichrist shalbe slayne (that is to witte in the hartes of the faythfull) not with swoorde, speare, or gunnes, but with the breath of the Lordes mouth, and be quyte done away at the commyng of the iudge to the last iudgement of the world.

* 1.42But like as the former Bishops aforesaid drew the Frenchmen into the kingdome of Sicill, Naples, & Puell: So the latter Popes, that is to say Adrian the fifth and Ni∣colas the third sought all the meanes, that could be, to haue them dispossessed of the same,* 1.43 the one of them calling in the Germanes, and the other calling in Peter of Aragon with the Spaniardes, against the Frenchemen. Contrariwise Martine the fourth aduaunced Charles the French king againe whom Nicolas had displaced, and restored him a∣gaine to his former state. Howbeit to no purpose. For all at one same time the Frenchmen were diminished with a sore slaughter at an Euensongtime of the Sicilians and dri∣uen out of the Isle,* 1.44 and Peter of Aragon receiued in. Who also vanquishing the sonne of king Charles in a battell vpō the Sea not farre from Naples,* 1.45 caried him away prisoner into Spayne to the great grief of his father. And Charles himselfe sayling ouer into Aphrike, pyned away for pensi∣uenesse, a iust punishmēt as many men then iudged, for his most shamefull & vniust putting of the ij. Princes of Swe∣ueland & Austriche to death at the instigation of the Pope.

But Martine the fourth beyng moued with Charles miserie,* 1.46 excommunicateth Peter of Aragon, and giueth his kingdome for a pray to him that would inuade it, assoyling his subiectes from the bond of their othe, and finally pro∣clayming a Croissy against him. Besides this, he sent Am∣bassadours into Fraunce to king Philip, and commaunded him to inuade the kingdome of Aragon out of hand.* 1.47 Once againe therfore when the Pope had sounded his trumpet, they met together in mortall battell by the riuer of Ge∣round. And at the first the Frenchmen had the better: but anone after the Spanyardes get the vpper hand. What néedeth many wordes? there was a miserable and sorowful slaughter, all thinges were wasted farre and wyde, & bloud was shed without measure.

As soone as Martine was dead byanby there steppes vp another Hyen,* 1.48 Honorius the fourth. Who (least there might be any abatement of miserie) calleth Rafe of Has∣purge king of Romanes out of Germanie to Rome, there to receiue the name of Augustus, & to recouer Campain, Calabrie, Puell, and Sicill to the Romane Empyre by driuing the Frenchmen and Spanyardes from thence. For the which matter,* 1.49 Rafe sommoned a Parlament at Wirts∣burge, & thether there came a very great resort: vnto whō Probus a Diuine of Tubing, the Bishop of Tull made an Oration, wherin amōg all other thyngs, How long I pray you my right deare brethren (sayth he) will these Romish kytes abuse our patiēce, I pray God I may not say our foo∣lishnesse? How lōg shall we beare with their trecherie, co∣uetousenesse, pride, & superfluity: This worst kind of Arch∣sinagoges will neuer leaue, till it hath brought all men to beggerie and slauerie. This mischief hath growen through our debate. It is our debate that setteth those rakehelles in their ruffe. Neither is it possible for vs to maynteine peace and godlinesse, as long as they reigne. Not long ago they set the Sarons and Sweuians together by the eares. Af∣terward they depriued Friderike the second, a Prince most profitable for the common weale, and Conrade his sonne

and foure Princes of Sweueland, of Empyre and life to∣gether. They haue sowed the séede of discord in Germanie. Besides this, when Corradine that noble young gentlemā of excellent towardnesse who neuer did harme, sought to recouer the heritage of his aunceters by the law of all na∣tions, they tooke him prisoner by craft and pollicie, and put him to death. They set the Sweuians and Frenchmen of Westrich at warre one against another: and then stirred vp the Spanyardes against the Frenchmē: and now they labour to set vs at oddes with the kinges of Spayne and Fraunce, our owne kinsmen, which came in old tyme out of Germanie. And so forth as foloweth in the same Bi∣shops Oration, in the seuenth booke of Auentines Chroni∣cles, the 15. leaf. What mā reading or hearyng these & such other like doinges of the Romish Bishops, can take them for Apostolike men that preach peace to folke, and not ra∣ther for apostaticall Bellonase, cursed féendes, and the very furies or hellhoundes themselues?

* 1.50About this time Meynhard the Earle of Tyroll, ente∣red into certein Castles that belonged to him by right of in∣heritaunce,* 1.51 which notwithstanding, the Bishop of Trent auouched to be his & was not ashamed to make clayme to thē being none of his. And whē the Earle would not surrē∣der them, Pope Nicolas the 4. layd his curse vppon him. By meanes wherof he inforced the Earle to write an Apo∣logie, wherin amōg other thinges, he sayth: who is so stely∣harted or (to speake more truly) so blockish a beast, y^t he cā with quyet minde suffer the pride, statelynesse, trecherie, craft, outrage, wickednesse, prodigalitie, and couetousenesse of these rakehelles? Is the séeking of othermens riches and kingdomes, is fighting for glorie and dignitie, is oppressing of silly shéepe, is sleaing, is warring, is this géere (I say) is this to féede shéepe and to loue the flocke? And seing that they being our seruauntes, will against the right of all Re∣almes be our maisters, yea and make their Lordes serue them contrarie to the lawes and word of God: if they be not Antichristes, what els I pray you be they? And so forth

as is to be read in Auentine in the vij. booke of his Chroni∣cles, the 720. and 721. leaues.

Boniface the viij. (euen by the record of Platina) the ar∣rogātest Bishop one of them that euer was,* 1.52 * 1.53 and the author of the vj. booke of Decretals, wherof somwhat hath ben said afore, bare very sore grudge against Philip K. of Fraunce, and at last breaking forth, sent a Legate with his Buls to Paris, commaundyng the king to resigne the Realme of Fraunce to the Apostolike sea. But the king would suffer no such Buls to be published in his Citie & kingdome. Yea rather the Frechmen tooke them from the Legate & burnt them in the fire, and draue the Legate out of the Realme as a trouble of the state. Furthermore the king greatly accu∣sed Boniface, and charged him with so heynous and vgly crymes, as the storywriters, for the foulenesse of them, are ashamed to report. Yet procedeth he for all that, to rayse vp troubles in Fraunce, to commaund the king to depose him selfe from his kingdome and to resigne it to the Church of Rome, and to assoyle the Lordes and gentlemē of their othe of fealtie, wherby they were boūd to the king. But the king being no whit abashed at those fond cursinges, gaue streight charge to all his subiectes that none of them should come at Rome or send any money thether. And at the lēght he foūd the meanes to haue the most proud and stubborne Prelate himselfe cast in prison, where he dyed within xxxv. dayes after, being as he deserued, consumed with frettyng for sor∣row and spight.

Clement the v. being as proud and as great a troubler of Realmes as his predecessours,* 1.54 * 1.55 Cursed the Uenetiās and certein other notable commō weales, and abandoned them to the spoile of all men onlesse they returned to the obediēce of his sea, and so he compelled the Uenetiās to send Ambas∣sadours with submission vnto him. The Ambassadour that was sent was Fraunces Dandalus, who afterward was made Duke of Uenice. Much a do he had to come to the Popes presence. At length he had a cheyne of yron clapt a∣bout his necke, & was fayne to lye couched at the pope Cle∣mentes

table too too basely and filthily, so long till the popes displeasure was (with much ado) ouercome,* 1.56 and then he as∣soyled the Uenetians from his excōmunication. Afterward Dandalus bare the name of Dog bicause he had couched at the Popes table like a dog. The reporter hereof is Sabelli∣cus about the end of the vij. booke of his ix. Enneade. But who could haue looked vpon this orped sight without grief, vnméete for the cruell Turke, & much more for a mercyfull Apostle? With wisedome therfore must they be mad, who soeuer they be that after so many horrible examples of wic∣ked and shamelesse vilanie and tyrannie, do stil reuerence and worship the bishops of Rome, & recouer not their sight, ne learne to know them by their vertues & to shunne thē. They be sore deceiued, which hearing these and such lyke thinges, say stil, that the Apostolike sea must not be iudged by the liues of the wicked vnthriftes that sit in it: and that the same is holy and to be obeyed neuerthelesse. For if by the sea Apostolike they meane the Apostolike doctrine and ministerie of the Church: these thinges are alwayes holy and vnspotted: and although those that be in the ministerie & preach the Gospell be vncleane, yet neuerthelesse, the sea Apostolike, that is to wit the Apostolike doctrine must be obeyed still, according also as it hath ben sayd afore. But if by the sea Apostolike, they meane the Popish kingdome or rather tyrannie, wherby they chalenge to themselues abso∣lute souereintie in matters perteinyng to God aud man, as well in Ciuill as in Ecclesiastical matters, through the ful∣nesse of their power: then is it no lesse a pestilent seate and vncommended vnto vs by any word of God, then they that sit in it be most deadly and pestilent plagues. And therfore they that sit in it are to be eschewed, and the seate it selfe is to be lothed as an abhomination, of all good men. But now I returne agayne to my abridgement of stories which I haue broken of.

* 1.57The same Bishop to the exceding great domage of Ita∣lie, called thether the Emperour Henry of Lucembrough the vij. of that name, agaynst the faction of the Vrsines, who

were of the Gwelfes, and against Robert king of Puell: with whō he encountered twise with reasonable good lucke. Wherupon the Bishop began to feare least the Emperour should grow too great. Therfore according to the crabbed∣nesse of the Bishops, began to fall to the byasse of his prede∣cessours, and shanke aside to Robert of Puell whom the Emperour had condemned as traytor to the Empire, & re∣uersed the Emperors sayd sentence giuen by law. And whē the Emperour hasted to sease vppon the kingdome of Sici∣lie, for which he had ben called out of Germanie at the first: one Bernard of Mount Polician (as Fasciculus Temporum reporteth) a Frier of S. Dominikes order, or a Frier prea∣cher, dispatched him at Bonconuent by putting poyson into the Sacrament of the body and bloud of our Lord & giuing it vnto him:* 1.58 surely a straunge & horrible example. And they alledge that the Frier was corrupted with promises & bry∣bes by the Emperours enemyes, or els he durst not haue attempted this so horrible a déede.

Iohn the xxij. after many attemptes against the Empe∣rour Lewes the iiij. disfeated him of the Empyre and vsur∣ped it wholly to himselfe.* 1.59 For he published a Bull and in o∣pen wordes named himselfe father and Prince of all Chri∣stendome through the whole world, & the high Gods lieue∣tenaunt, in whom rested the highest power and souereine dominion of the Empyre, to be disposed by his commaūde∣ment, iurisdiction, and authoritie, and to be bestowed as his frée gift vpō whom he listed.* 1.60 And about the end of the Bull he commaūdeth Lewes to resigne vp the Empyre and title of king within thrée monethes, and neuer after to take that dignitie vpon him, but by the leaue and appointment of the Pope. And if he obey not, he commaundeth all his Lordes temporall and spirituall, to forsake their Prince, and to compell him to obey the Pope. This Bull was published the xv. day of October the yeare of our Lord God. 1323. But Lewes asked the aduise of all the Clerkes that were best séene in the lawes as well of God as man, through Germanie, Italie, and Fraunce, at Paris, Bononie, Pa∣dua,

and other Uniuersities:* 1.61 who gaue an agreable aun∣swere, That the Popes doinges against the Emperour are contrarie to Christian doctrine: & that the Pope was out of his wittes and made hauocke of Christes people for desire of dominion: and that the Emperour was not subiect to the Pope, but the Pope to the Emperour. For the seruaunt of seruauntes ought not to beare rule,* 1.62 but rather to do seruice to such as sit at the table.

* 1.63But the Bishop cryes out that all these which gaue the Emperour this aunswere, are heretickes, and he excommu∣nicateth them all with the Emperour and burneth their bookes. The Emperour for all this, called a Parlament a∣bout the matter and sommoning a Counceil, deposed the Pope. For he was openly proclaymed for an heretike, a ty∣raunt of the Church, and a troubler of the common peace, and thereunto his image was burned in the Marketsted. Neuerthelesse when Iohn the xxij. was dead,* 1.64 Clement the sixth continewed the displeasure still agaynst Lewes, com∣maunding him likewise to depose himselfe from the Em∣pyre. Yea he proceded yet further, and reuiuyng all Iohn the xxij. processes,* 1.65 denounced the Emperour to be an here∣tike and a schismatike, moreouer commaundyng the Elec∣tors to chuse another king by a tyme appointed, except they had leuer that the Bishop himself should giue them a king. They therfore obeying his manaces chose Charles Mar∣ques of Morania. But for asmuch as the better part of the Empyre was displeased both with the Pope & with Char∣les, and sticked still to Lewes their true souerein Lord and Emperour: it came agayne to swordes drawyng on both sides, and there was burning, wasting and sleayng, the ac∣customed frutes of the Byshops of Rome, which neuer brought tydinges of peace, but alwayes blew vp the trum∣pet to battell.

* 1.66 And least Italie and Naples might take breath any while from their slaughters and wastinges:* 1.67 Vrbane the sixth of that name made sute to Lewes the puissant king of Hungarie, that he should send Charles Duke of Durace

into Italie with an host of Hungarians: for he would be∣stow the kingdome of Sicilie vpon him. Therfore when he came to Rome, he crowned him king of Sicilie, howbeit in such wise, as he departed with certeine of the best Earle∣domes in the Realme to the Bishops neuew.

Againe least Clement the Antipope might séeme of lesse authoritie then Pope Turbane,* 1.68 * 1.69 he crowned Lewes Duke of Angeow a sideman of his, kyng of Sicilie, who imme∣diatly enters into Italie with threescorethousand mē. Then folowed spoilyng, burning, and sleaing againe, and all ma∣ner of crueltie was exercised on either side, verely by the in∣stigation of these good and peaceable Apostles the souerein Shepeherdes of the Church of Rome. I wittingly passe o∣uer here many outrageous doynges of the Bishops, which the storywriter Theodoriche of Nyem prosecuteth very largely and truly in his thrée bookes of the Schisme.

Now come I to Martine the fifth that was created Bi∣shop at the Councell of Constance:* 1.70 who being nothing vn∣like his predecessors, gaue Sicilie in Fee to one Aloyse of Sicilie, against Alphons king of Spayne. Wherupon rose againe not a few nor small calamities.* 1.71 * 1.72 The same Byshop was the cause of the Ciuill warre in Beame, and that the Germanes that went into Beame with a great power, brought nothing thence but dishonour & very great losse. I will not pursue the slaughters, burninges, wastringes, & mi∣series of that warre. They be described at large by Aenaeas Syluius in his Historie of Beame. The same author set∣teth out the horrible and blouddy practises that Eugenie the fourth and his successor Martine the fifth vsed to ouer∣throw the Councel of Basill. And it hath ben shewed alrea∣dy how great mischief y^e same Eugenie the fourth brought vpon Christendome, when he inforced kyng Ladislaus vn∣to vnhappie warre, contrarie to his othe made vnto Amu∣rathes Prince of Turkye.

Pius the second,* 1.73 and Sixtus the fourth were forewarder to feates of armes then to peace and preaching of the Gos∣pell. They neuer yelded an inche to any Prince, but in∣deuered

most scoutly not onely to maynteine,* 1.74 but also by hooke and by crooke to increase the maiestie of their sea.* 1.75 The histories beare witnesse hereof abundantly.

I will not any further report what the Byshops of Rome haue committed in our age and within the remem∣braunce of man, least I trouble the gentle reader to much for they be better knowen then that they néede to be re∣hearsed. For who knoweth not how great lawlesnesse they haue abused, in transposing kingdomes, in dischargyng sub∣iectes from their dew faithfulnesse and obedience in putting downe and settyng vp of kynges, and in hatching of most blouddy and mortall warres?* 1.76 The horrible trecherie of A∣lexander the sixth agaynst Charles kyng of Fraunce is well inough knowen,* 1.77 in that he made him take armes vp∣pon him, and called him into the kyngdome of Naples a∣gaynst the kyng of Spayne: and yet for all that did byanby after most trayterously take part with the Spanyardes a∣gaynst him.

* 1.78Iulius the second a Lombard practised the Uenetian warre, which being the greatest and sorest of all others con∣tinewed eight yeares,* 1.79 with excedyng great bloushed before it could be ended: and stirred vp Lewes kyng of Fraunce agaynst the Uenetians: and byanby after led not onely the Uenetians, but also all the puissantest Princes and peo∣ple of Europe agaynst Lewes. Also he behaued himselfe af∣ter such a sort in the matter of calling a Councell, that euen the Papistes themselues do greatly blame him and finde fault with him in that behalfe. Yea and euen Onuphrius Panuinius hath blamed this dealing in Iulius the second.

* 1.80Leo the tenth not onely appeased not the troubles styr∣red vp by Iulius, but also continewed them, doubblyng mischief vppon mischief,* 1.81 armyng nation agaynst nation, and kéepyng promise neither with Germanes nor with Frenchmen.

* 1.82Clement the seuenth passed Leo and some of his predo∣cessours. For first he tooke part with the Emperour, and af∣terward slipt away to Fraunces the French king,* 1.83 to whom

he was the occasion of a very great losse. For in the kyng∣dome of Naples, (whether Lawtreche had brought his ar∣my very well appointed by the instigation of the Pope) he lost the greater part of his armye by reason of an vnmercy∣full plague that fell vpon them. The storie of Frijndsperg Captein of the Almaine souldyers auoucheth in the eighth booke and the hundred and thréescor the leafe, that of foure∣score thousand, there remained alyue scarcely one thousand and seuen hundred.

What troubles Paule the third the Romish Byshop wrought vnto Germanie,* 1.84 the warre that was made in the bowels of Germanie commonly called the Protestauntes warre,* 1.85 witnesseth. For he sent an armye of Italians pri∣uily into Germanie, and set the Germanes together by the eares among themselues. Which thyng the storywri∣ters setforth at large.

As for the outrages of Paule the fourth they be better knowen by reason of his horrible actes yet fresh in remem∣braūce,* 1.86 then that they néede to be set forth in many wordes.* 1.87

But all this whole declaration tendeth chiefly to this end:* 1.88 partly that such as haue not yet learned to know the Romish Bishops, and therefore do reuerence and honour them still, may learne to know them euen by their abhomi∣nable sayinges and doynges, bearing in minde this faith∣full forewarnyng of the Lordes, Ye shall know them by their frutes: and therfore should also so iudge of them, as their sayinges and doynges teach folke to iudge of them: wherwithall be interlaced by the way here and there, some iudgements of certein godly and wise men in former ages, concernyng the Bishops of Rome: and partly that all Re∣almes and all common weales (which will not wittingly and willingly perishe) (and specially thou noble Realme of England,) should hereafter not onely make no account of the Popes Bulles tyrannously deposing kinges, wrong∣fully transposing kingdomes, and wickedly assoyling sub∣iectes of their dew faithfulnesse and obedience: but also cast them away and tread them vnder foote as they be worthy.

Ye haue heard how great calamities the Popes haue of∣tentymes wrought to kyngdomes and nations by such ma∣ner of Bulles. And he is a wise man that can learne to be∣ware by other mens harmes. Therfore if ye be wise and loue to liue at ease, kéepe your promise that ye haue made, and obey the Princes whom God hath set ouer you: mayn∣teyne peace, and eschew warres as well inward or Ciuill, as outward or foreine. And that God may voutsafe to per∣forme these thyngs vnto you, pray ye faithfully and diligēt∣ly vnto him, perseuer ye stedfast in true godlynesse and in the Gospell of the sonne of God, and cast ye away all the Popish toyes, superstitions, and Idols all together. The Prince of peace voutsafe to graunt you these thynges, who at hys commyng into this worlde, brought ty∣dinges of peace to the world, and at his goyng out of the world left his peace to those that be his, euen our Lord Iesus Christ graunt you them, to whom be glorie for euermore world without end. Amen.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Hist. lib. 6. Cap. 32.
• * 1.2

  The maister & y^e scholer were both witches.
• * 1.3

  The cause of Gregorie the seuenthes ha∣tred toward y^e Emperor Hē∣ry the fourth.
• * 1.4

  Gregory the 7. agaynst y^e Em∣perour Henry the fourth.
• * 1.5

  1076.
• * 1.6

  Excommuni∣caters of Prin∣ces.
• * 1.7

  1079.
• * 1.8

  Sorowful tur∣moyles in Ger∣manie.
• * 1.9

  The Germane preachers a∣gainst the pope, whom they call Antichrist.
• * 1.10

  1083.
• * 1.11

  1086.
• * 1.12

  The disciples of Gregory the seuenth.
• * 1.13

  The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 stir vp the sonnes against their father.
• * 1.14

  See to what point the popes draue the Em∣perour.
• * 1.15

  Malice ceaseth not against the dead.
• * 1.16

  Calixt against Henry y^e fifth.
• * 1.17

  1122.
• * 1.18

  Innocent the third against the Emperour.
• * 1.19

  1199.
• * 1.20

  1212.
• * 1.21

  1219.
• * 1.22

  Gregory the nynth against Frederik the second.
• * 1.23

  The Gwelfes & Gwibelines.
• * 1.24

  In what wise the bisshops of Rome haue in∣deuored to keep folk together in christen vnitie.
• * 1.25

  Innocent the fourth agaynst the Emperor.
• * 1.26

  1248.
• * 1.27

  The preaching of the Crosse.
• * 1.28

  1095.
• * 1.29

  These thynges were done vn∣der Innocent the thyrd.
• * 1.30

  Frier Domi∣nike Canoni∣sed for a saint.
• * 1.31

  Kynges chosen agaynst Fri∣derike the se∣cond.
• * 1.32

  The death of y^e Lantgraue.
• * 1.33

  Corradine. duke of Swe∣ueland is op∣pressed by the Pope.
• * 1.34

  1266.
• * 1.35

  1268.
• * 1.36

  O blessed say∣ing of a but∣cherly Bishop.
• * 1.37

  The Princes are put to death and in thē sur∣ceaseth the aū∣cient ofspryng of the Dukes of Sweueland and Austrich.
• * 1.38

  See here the cause of the lōg warre for Si∣cilie & Naples betwene the Frenchmē and y^e Spanyardes
• * 1.39

  Why these thynges are re∣hearsed.
• * 1.40

  Why God suf∣fereth so horri∣ble thynges a∣gaynst hys Saintes.
• * 1.41

  2. Thes. 2.
• * 1.42

  The wonder∣full inconstan∣cie of the By∣shops of Rome
• * 1.43

  1278.
• * 1.44

  1283.
• * 1.45

  1285.
• * 1.46

  The Spa∣nyardes are set at oddes with the Frenchmē.
• * 1.47

  1285.
• * 1.48

  1286.
• * 1.49

  The Byshop of Tull against the Popes.
• * 1.50

  1289.
• * 1.51

  The Earle of Tyroll against the Pope and the Byshops.
• * 1.52

  1301.
• * 1.53

  Boniface the viij. agaynst the K. of Fraunce.
• * 1.54

  1307.
• * 1.55

  Clement the fifth agaynst y^e Uenetians.
• * 1.56

  Frances Dā∣dalus made a Dog.
• * 1.57

  The Empe∣rour Henry the vij. is poysoned
• * 1.58

  1313.
• * 1.59

  Iohn the 22. a∣gainst the Em∣perour Lewes the fourth.
• * 1.60

  See his sham∣lesse boldnesse.
• * 1.61

  The iudge∣mēt of the Do∣ctours in the chief Uniuer∣sities in the Emperours behalfe agaynst the Pope.
• * 1.62

  Luke 22.
• * 1.63

  1327.
• * 1.64

  Clement the sixth agaynst Lewes the 4.
• * 1.65

  1346.
• * 1.66

  1381.
• * 1.67

  The Hunga∣rians are called into Sicilie.
• * 1.68

  1383.
• * 1.69

  The French∣men are called into Sicilie a∣gaynst the Hū∣garians.
• * 1.70

  1423.
• * 1.71

  1428.
• * 1.72

  The warre in Beame.
• * 1.73

  1458.
• * 1.74

  1471.
• * 1.75

  The Popish kingdome con∣••••••••••
• * 1.76

  Pope Alexan∣der the vi.
• * 1.77

  1494.
• * 1.78

  Pope Iuly the second.
• * 1.79

  1508.
• * 1.80

  Pope Leo the tenth.
• * 1.81

  1515.
• * 1.82

  Pope Clement the seuenth.
• * 1.83

  1525.
• * 1.84

  Pope Paule the thyrd.
• * 1.85

  1546.
• * 1.86

  Pope Paule the fourth.
• * 1.87

  1557.
• * 1.88

  The conclusiō of the whole discourse.