3 36 Church-Hi f ory of Dbops 4. 83. yawl the 16th. (alias 17) is paffed over by Birdies : Onuphri- ass faith, that he Reigned four Months : Platina faith, he ded the tenth Year, and frxth Month, and tenth Day (a great difference;) 4. 84. Gregory the 5th. is next, made Pope (faith Plat.) by Otho 3d his Authority for Affinity: But (faith Plat.) The Romans make Cref- centius Conftl with chiefPower; whoprefently made John Bifhop of Placentine Pope ; who came to it by the confine of the Roman Clergy and People, to whom the choice belonged, though force leave him out : Otho cometh to defend his own Pope; Crefcentius fortifieth City and Caftle againf him The People dare not refift, but open the City Gates : Crefcentius andPepe John fyeth to the Caftle; and in hope of Pardon, yields : Crefcentius is Killed by the People in his paffage John bath kit his Eyes put out, and then his Life; and Gregory the Eleventh Month is reftorea : Binius faith, that Johns Hands were cut off, his Ears cut off', and bis Eyes pulled out; end after fet on an Aft, holding the Tail in his Hand, was carried a- bout the Streets. . 85. This Pope and Otho the 3d. agreed to fettle the Elerlion of the Emperour, as now it is on the 7. Electors. The caule of great a Confufions, and Calamities was, that the Emperours did not dwell at Rome; and fo left Popes then to fight, ftrive, and fin, that elfe would have lived fubmiflìvely under them. Conftantine, Carolus Mag. or O- tho, might have done much to prevent or cure all this. The Papifts would fain prove this the work of a Roman Synod, (to fettle the Ele&ors) that they may prove that it is they, that mull make and unmake Emperours. But they can fhew us no Inch Council. Onuphrius hath written a Treatife to prove'th_t this was after done by Greg. Loth. For which Binius reprehends him, as believing`Aventi- nus. But this is a Controverfy handled by fo many, that I (hall refer the Reader to them: and whether the (even Electors only, or all the Feu- datories chofe. Baronies and Binius maintain, that all came from the Authority of the Pope t that Greg. 5th. Ordained the choice of the Emperour to be by all the Feudatories of the Empire; that the Council at Lyons, un- der Innocent 4th. Petted it upon Seven, but not all the fame that are now Elee`ors; and that the Princes after fetid it on there fame Seven, they know not who nor when. For the right under(landing of many fuch matters ; I only mind the Reader of this one thing, that as the contention of Princes, and the fuperilitious fear of .11nathematizing had made the Papal, and Prela- tical Power then very great, in letting up, and taking down Princes; fo it was ufual for their Affcmblies, even thofc called Councils, to be miau of Men Secular and Clergy ; Kings and Princes, and Lords being prefent with the Eifhops, as in our Parliaments ; and ufually the great- eft Princes r led all. Therefore, to afcribe all to thePepe and Prelates, that
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