their Councils abridged, 2.45 tbofc that were for them, we might better fee which had the better manage- ment. § i 14. CCXLIV. The Clergyhad for many hundred years abrogated Goo's Law, [ He that fheddeth Man's Blood, byMan(hall his Bloodbe flied; ] and had put Pennance for the punifhment inflead of Death : But.. now at laft the murdering of one johìta Bifhop ( inhonefle inaudite mordridatus, as they then fpake ) they were put to find fóme harder Penalty to Ewe the Clergies Lives :: And fo they fet great Fines -of Money on the Murderer's.; andmore than fo, He that wilfully murdereda Bilker muff eat noflefb,ner drink any Tine as lmg as he lived." If Murder now had nogreater a punifhmenr; . Bithops would fèarce be fafe any more than others. This was at aCouncil at a Village called Theerius, or .Dietenhoven. . § i 5. Next fucceedeth Pope Stephen at Rome ; Platina faith Stephenthe' 4th, Anafiafzas and Birtnius fay Stephen the 5th.. Platina and others fay that he Reignedbut feven months; .4nafláfus and others fay feven years , and feven months. Platina faith he was the Son of f ulius a Roman; Anaflafurs faith. he was the Son of Marinus*. * It's like' Charles dying, the Empirecame to his SonLudovicus called Pius, his Bra= 7111100 Ma- thers dying alfa. TheBithops of" Italy ( faithPlatina and others) ftir'd up onup'brius Bernard to rebel againft him ; but he was conquered, and put to death i as faüh, was álfo werethe Saxon Rebels. Pafchal firft fiacceeding, Stephen .is made Pope his name.., without the Emperor's knowledge; for whichhe excufed himfelf, as forced by the People thatchofe him : TheEmperor pardon'd it, but demandedobe dienceas to their Ele&ions for the time. to come. Platina in ' nit: Paibal.l. i s who faith that Pafchal was fufpe&ed.of the Rebellion.of Italy;butdifclaim= edit ; and that the Emperor .re-afl'umed many Cities to the.Empire, to pre vent new Rebellions. Some fay that Bernard was but blinded : Among others banifhed foe Treafon,were Anfelm Bifhop of Milan, and Theodulfe Bifhop of Aurelia, ( Orleance) fo that Italy and France joined in.the.Treafon. See Petay. Hill, Aland. li. 8. c. 8.. § 116: CCXLV. Ludovicus Piss was fó careful to reform the Bítliops and Clergy, that he railed their ill will againft him, being too pious for them that fhould have been the Teachers of Piety; yea,fa flothful did they grow, that though his Father andhehad done extraordinary works for the promo., ting of Learning and Godlitìefs;yet Learning in his days grew to fuch de- cay, that LearnedMen became the common contempt, and few of them were to be found ; but Wealth and .nriodittiosowere the.ftudy,. care,and in- tereft of theBithops..... Yet in his timeat Aquifgrane, there was a Council thatwrote,' inftead of Canons,the moft excellent Treatife for the Teachingand Government of the Teachers and Governors ofthe Church, (betides the regulationof Monafte ties) that ever any Council did before them Not in their own words, . but iathe fveral Sermons, and páfläges of the chief Fathers, . ( Ijidore, Thermo, , frregcry,;;
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