and the East Indies to the Portugals, placing the Meridian which passeth by the Azores, for their limits.
Pope Pius the 5. pronounced a sentence of degradation and deposition against Elizabeth Queene of England, and caused Ireland to rebell against her, as Genebrard writeth, an. 1581. of his Chronicle, saying, Sanders and other Catholickes, war∣ranted by a Bull made by Pope Pius the 5. made warre in Ire∣land against the Queene, for their countrey and for religion.
With the like iniustice Henrie the 3. king of France, ha∣uing bene deposed by Sixtus the 5. and excommunicated, was not long after killed by Iaques Clement a Iacobin.
Anno 1592. monitorie Buls were sent from Rome by Pope Gregorie the 14. into France, whereby King Henrie the fourth was declared incapable of the Crowne of France; which Buls (by a Decree made by the Court of Parliament then resident in Tours, bearing date the 5. of August,) were torne in peeces and burnt by the hand of the common executioner.
The Pope pretends that he may depose soueraigne Princes for heresie, as he pretended against Queene Elizabeth, and Henry the fourth late King of France deceassed: Or for be∣ing vpholders of hereticks, as Henry the third: Or for want of capacitie and weaknesse of spirit. So Pope Zacharie in the Canon Alius, in the 15. Cause and 6. Question, boasteth, that he deposed Chilperic King of France, and translated his king∣dome to Pepin. Or for violating the priuiledges of Monaste∣ries, as it is declared in the pretended priuiledge of the Abbey of Saint Medard in Soissons, which is added to the end of Pope Gregories 1. works. Or for attributing vnto themselues the collation of Prebends and Benefices, which was the cause for which Pope Boniface the 5. thundred at Philip the Faire, and gaue his Realme to Albertus the Emperour.
By this meanes affaires haue bene much altered: for before this vsurpation, Emperours deposed and punished Popes, as subiects to their Empire.
The Emperour Constantius, sonne to Constantine the Great, draue Liberius Bishop of Rome, out of Rome, and banished him to Beroe, and put Felix in his place, giuing Liberius fiue