Here begynneth the table of the rubryshys of the boke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye whiche sayd boke is departyd in to foure partyes ...

¶Whether the pope may moeue werre ayenst the Empe¦roure or not ¶Capitulo iij^o·

SIth that it is so swete maister / that the Emperoure may not nor ought not to moeue werre ayenst the pope / I aske the wether the pope may moeue hit ay¦enst hym / for it shulde seme naye / seynge that he is lieutenāt to Ih̄u cryste in erthe so he oweth to ensewe his steppes whi¦che were all peasyble nor neuer helped hym wyth werre and wyth this he sayd to hys apostles / that they shulde not vse of lordshyppes as do prynces and lordes / ¶Item with this said saint pol / that they of the chyrche ought not to Reuenge hem / but ought to ouercome by suffraūce / I ansue¦re the puttynge thees reasons apart / & all other suche / that the pope without faille may moeue werre ayenst the emperoure

in som cas / that is to wite / yf he by aduenture be heretyke or scysmatike / It yf he wolde vsurpe the ryght of the chyrche & take from her hir patrymonie and hir enherytaūce & Iurisdy¦cyons / and wel I say to the / that in thees cases / he onely may not make hym werre / but shulde be holden all Crysten pryn∣ces and other namely of the empyre / to help the pope as som tyme it happed to the pope Alexaundre the thirde of thys name / the whyche persecuted of the emperoure went for hys refute to the kynge of Fraunce that putte hym ayen in to hys place / and nothynge it were that som shulde saie / that god saide to saynt peter / that he shulde putte his knyfe agay¦ne in to the shede / whiche was for to saye that with noo gle∣uys the chirche shulde not smyte / For he sayde not that he shulde cast hit awaye from hym / but that he shulde putte hyt vp in to the shethe ayen / whiche was to be signyfyed / that he shulde kepe hyt for the tyme to come / For atte that owre he wolde not vse of hyt in dede /