aid their Councils abridged. 3 z t After Herveus, one'Seulphus was Arch-Bithop of'Rhemes. Heribert Earl of Aguitane, confidering that the Bithop of Rhenes. Anointeth -the King of France, bargained to havehis Son made next Bithop; that thereby he might get the Crown. In haft Seulphuris Poyfoned, bccatrfe they could not flay till he dyed. Heribert's Son, not yet Five Years old, is made Arch-Bifhop. (0 fce.'us in audition, fay Baronies and Binius,) This monircus Eletlion, (fay they) never -before feen or heard of in the Chriflian World, nor nperhaps thought of, Pope John did not only not difal- low, but ratifyed... -- Andby this Fall, the Infamous Pope gave an Ex- ample to many Princes, not only in that, but the following Ages, ( Alas, for Grief!) to procure Lads that were their Kindred, to be thrill' into The Chitf Sc et, (or Bifhopricks) to the great Mifchief of the Church.] A Work (fay they) indeed, worthy fuch a Pope, whom an Infamous We- -man, by an Infamous t+ork, had thrufl into St. Peter's Chair, u. Were filch Villaines as Infallible as others? Did their 'Lore, 'Honefty, and Chatlity fail; and yet, Were they fecured againft the ';Failing of their Faith ? Or, Had they a Sincere Faith, that had no o- ther -Grace ? And, Could thefe forgive Sins, and deliver Souls out of Purgatory ? When he had fate Fourteen Tears, or Sixteen, ( faith Baronet and Bi. nius) Marquefs Wido, by the Perfwafion of his Wife Marozia, ( Pope Sergius Whore) for the fake of his Brother Peter, whom they hated, -raft him out of his Seat into a Prifon; where fhcrtly after, he was Choked with a Pillow: And fo the Invader, and unjuft Deteiner of the Apoflo- liclZSeat, had an End worthyof his Wickednefs. And he, that by the Im- pudent Mother, Theodora, had violently feiz.ed on the Holy Seat, by 'her as Impudent Daughter, was by God's jtf. yud-mnent Ejelled, Imprifoned, and Deprived both of it, and of his Life. Ex Luitpr. eft Frodoaldo, Baron. Sí. 35. CCCIX. Anno912. A Synod at Confluence, decreed as againft Ince(t, That none Marry within the feventh Degree of Kindred, Was that Divine Law? S. 32. Two or Three other Synods at Trofleium are mentioned, about final' Matters ; and One at Duisburge, to Excommunicate force that -put out the Bithops Eyes. 4. 33. The next Pope, is Leo the Sixth; and Dyed after Seven (or Six) Months, and Fifteen Dayes. 34. Next, Anne 92g. fucceeded.Stephenthe Eighth, (or Seventh) and fate but twoYears, one Month, and fifteen Daycs. How they were. fo fa(t - difpatched, I omit. 6. 35. Next comes the Son of Marozia, Pope Sergius his Ballard, call'd 7ehn the Eleventh: His Mother, and Father=in-Law, Wido, got him in_ Anno 93 e. even when he was a Lad under Age. His Brother Albericus, ( faith Baronies) did keep this Pope in Prifon to his Death. -But the Cafe was this, l(vid. Bin. p. 5o5 5.) [Wido being Dead, Ma- T t rozia 111
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