¶Anno dm̄ .M.iiij.
SIluester the seconde was pope af¦ter Gregorius foure yere. And he was made pope by the helpe of the de∣uyll / to whome he dyde homage / for he sholde yeue hym all thynge that he desy¦red. And he was called Hylbert. And his enmye gate hym the grace of the kynge of Fraunce / and he made hym the bys∣shop of Remensis / but anone he was de¦posyd. And after he gate the grace of the Emperour / and was made the bys∣shop of Rauennie / and after the pope / But he had an ende anone / and so ha∣ue all that put theyr hope in fals deuyl¦les. ¶Yet men truste in his saluacyon / for certayne demonstracyon of his sepul¦cre / and for the grete penaunce that he dyde in his laste ende. For he made his honde and his legges to be cutte of / and dysmembred in all his body / and to be caste out at the dore to foules / & thenne his body to be drawen with wysde beest•• and there to be buryed where some euer they rested as an honde. And they stode styll at saynt Iohan lateranensis and there he was buryed. And that was syg∣ne of his saluacyon. ¶Iohannes the xviij. was pope fyue monethes. ¶Io¦hannes the .xix. was pope after hym fy∣ue yere. And these two dyde lytell thyn∣ges. ¶Henricus the fyrst was Empe¦rour in Almayne .xx. yere / this Henricus was duke of Barry / and all accordin∣ge he was chosen / for his blessed fame and good name the whiche he hadde. ¶And it is redde / that many of these dukes of Barry were holy men not all oonly in absteynge of flesshely desy∣res / but also in vertuous lyuynge. And this man had a syster that was an holy as he / the whome he yaue to wyfe vnto the kynge of Hungry. And she brouht all Hungry vnto the ryght byleue & the crysten fayth. And his wyues name was (sancta Konnogundis) with whome he lyued a virgyn all his lyues dayes. And also he dyde many a bataylle / as well in Ytaly / as in Almayne ayenst the re∣bellyous / and prosperyd ryghtwysly. At the laste with a blessyd ende he deces∣syd. And in the lyfe of saynt Laurence he and his wyfe be put for ensample•• / ¶ Benedictus was pope after Iohanes .xi. yere. This man had grete stryfe in his dayes / for he was put out / and a no∣ther put in. And this Benedictus after