3 ChurclrIliflóry of Dfhops rozia ofereth the Dominion of Rome to his own Brother Hugo, on con- dition he would Marry her : Fle accepteth the Condition; andfecretly er.- vT tering the Cafile of St. Angelo, after he had committed Incefi with her, his Brother's Widow, be defpifed the Romans. When his Son-in-Law Al- bericus, by his. Mother Marozia's Command, poured oat Water to waJh his .Elands, he firoke him on the Face for pouring too much. To Revenge this Wrong, Albericus fiir'd asp the Romans to a Defeëlion; and having by Affatált of the Caflle, put to Flight his Father-in-Law Hugo, he command- ea his Mother Marozia, and his BafiardBrother, the Counterfeit Pope ,John, to be kept in Prifon; its which the violent Invader dyed, being vio- lently call out, after for five ''ears, andfella Months, he had ratherfil- thily Defiled, than Ruled the Apoflolich -Seat. ] Saith Binius out of Luit praesdus and Baronies: Calling him a Montter; and yet Magnifying Rome, becaufe fuch were Obeyed. 4. 36. CCCX. Anno 93z. A (mall Council at Erford in Germany, un- der Ring Henry, decreed, a. That Holy-Dayes be kept for an Honou- rable Commemoration of the Twelve Apoftles, and Falling on the E- vens. 2. That no State-Meetings be kept on the .Lord's-Dayes, or o- ther Holy-Dayes; nor Chriftians" then cited to the Courts of Jutlice. 3. Nor when he is going to Church. 4. That fcandalous Minifters be tryed. 5. That no privare Chriftian make, or impofe any Faft on him- felt, without the Bifhop, or his Mitlionaries Confent. (An unreafona- ble ilfurpation ? Muft the Bithop needs know all the Reafons that e- t.7 very Man hath for Falling, and be Judge of them? But fure, the Bi- (hop's Diocefs' had not then fo many hundred Parifhes, and fo many Counties, as they have now : Elfe, by that time, the Bifhop and his Corn- miffary hadheard a Hundred Thoufand, or Fifty Thoufand Perfons, tell him, what Reafons they had toFart befrdes the common Faits, at any time, or on any fpecial Occafions, much of his time would be taken up. §. 37. Anno 93 5. ACouncil at Rhemes againft Church Robbers, &c. 4. 38. Anno 936. Leo the Seventh was made Pope, after yohn the Eleventh. In that time Hugo, that was got away from Albericus, had got an Army, and Befieged Rome. A Match was made for Albericus to Marry Hugo'sDaughter : And fo. Marozia's Husband' and Son were agreed, by the means of Odo, Abbot of Cluniac. ¢, 39. Henry, Ring of germany, the Glory (faith Baronies and Binitts) of Chriflian Religion,' dyed at this time ; who, after many other Nati- ty Converted alfo the King of Denmark to the Chriflian Faith: and left his Son Otho, the Heir of his Piety and Valour. Yet are not o- ther Papifis afhamed to fay, That all thefe Nations were Converted by the Pope who was the great Scandal, that hindred the Converfion of' -the World. §, 40. But (fay the fame Authors) Manaffes, Biftop cf Arles, now troubled the Church : Being an Ambitious Man, not contented with his Seat, by the meant of Hugo King of Italy, he alto invaded the Bifhopricki of Verona, a,
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