and their Councils abridged. 32 Verona, and of Trent, and of Mantua, and ,of Milan it felf i (O now the Church profper'd !) Saying, That he did it by the Example of the Prince of the Apofiles; who at once poffcffed Rome, Antioch, and Alex- andria. ] Ex Guitpraud. (And could the Pope blame him, that would be Bithop at the Antipodes, and have all the World ?) But its orange, that Men thould talk of Bifhops Ambition, as of a flrange thing, in the Year 937. 41, Anno939. Pope Stephen the Nineth was chofen by Otho of Ger- many, without the Cardinal-Clergy, who had neither Power, nor Vir- tue enough, to choofe: And the City was under the Power of Albe- ricus,. whoTyrannized over them: And becaufe he had not the Choice he caufed tome Fellows fo to cut and mangle the Face of the Pope, that he would never after be tech abroad, but kept clofe till he dyed ; which was after Three Years. This Otho refolved to Revenge on Al- berieus : And aIfo, the War between Hugo, and Albericus, broke out again. Platina faith, That Hugo was about to Revenge the Pope, but then Dyed. 4.42. A Synod was at Narbon, to end the Contention of two Bi- fhops, about the Extent.of their Dioceffes, and Jurifdíflion. 4:43 CCCXI. If yet you perceive not the fad State ofthe Church, by Men's firiving for Church-Dignities; a Council at Soifons, Anno 940. will tell you more. You heard before, how the Earl of Aquitane had got his Son to be made Arch- Bithop of Rheines: The Child in coats, was but Five Years old: It happened, that he was put out a- gain for his Infancy, or Non-Agc; and Artaldus, a Monk, chofen is his (lead. This Council of Bifhops, was to decide the Cafe between the two Arch-Bifhops. The Objection againfl` one, was his Infancy, and his Father's ill means to bring him in: The'Objeftion againfl the other was Perjury; He had fworn, that he would never accept an Arch-Bifhoprick: (Alas! Mutt the Church of France be Headed by sinus, one of thefe; an Infant, or a Perjured Monk!) The Synod cafe out ío the Perjured Monk, and judged the Seat to the Infant, as being law. ,'J fully Chofen ; ( Power made it aLawful Call. ) And the Bifhops went in cbro- to , hemes, and Confecrated him. nie. 4.44 In the Year 92ó. the French Nobles, by content at Soiffon;, had Revolted fromKing Charles; becaufe he took Haganon, aMan of low Quality, into his Privy-Council, and made him Great : Her- veus, Bithop p.f Rheines, had partly healed this Breach. But, Anna 9zz. it broke out again; and the Nobles chofe Robert King, andHer- veus Confecrated him: But this Rebellion was their Ruin. Threes Years after dyeth Heavens And the next Year, Robert Fighting a- gainft Charles,. was (lain at Soiffons; yet his Army conquered the King's. Shortly after, Rodolph Duke of Burgundy, is called in by the Nobles, and made King; as if the Kingdom had been void. Charles, on pre- tence of a Treaty, is. led by Halbert to aCaille; vend thencecarryed T t .z to
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