their Councils abridged. 341 red of the revenues before they refigned to the fourth ; no doubt lea- ving him his part: This it is for Bithops to be great and rich, which will afcertain wicked men to Peek them. But if Wernerxs fay true that this yohan. Gratianrrs,made Gregory 6th. was illiterate,he was a ftrange Roman Arch-Presbyter before, and a ftrange Pope after, but greatly to be commended that would ordain a fellow Pope that could read. § tos. This horrid monftrous villain called Benedio the 9th. Cano- nized Simeon an Anchorite at Trevirs. Do you think he was not a good judgeand lover of Saints? He crowned Conrade the Emperor who came into Italy to matter the Bifhop of Milan that rebelled, fay Baron, and Bin. and many other great things he did. § 106. Even in thefe times there wereCouncils held. i. One at Ly-. moges, to judge Sc. Martial to be an Apoftie, and to agree toexcom- municate the fouldiers that robbed and plundered, and to curie their horfes andarms, and deny Chriftian burial to all the Countrys where they prevailed, fave the Clergy and poor, &c. Another at Beativois on the fame occafion. And another at Tribal-, unknown for what. § 107. This Pope Gregory 6th. ( who was iohn Gratian the Roman Arch-Presbyter, that Werner faith was illiterate and made him a fellow Pope) is very varioufly defcribed : Baron, and Bin. and force others make him an honeft man that ended the Schifin. Cardinal Benno maketh him Simoniacal that hired them out to get the Papacie: Baron, and Bin. for this revile him as a malicious lyar. They fày that Gregory, for pun- ifhing facrilegious villains by the fword that cared not for Anathema's;was accufèd by the Romans that now lived by theft and rapine, as a Simo- nift and a murderer. Conrade being dead and Henry his Son made Etn- peror, he being in Italy held a Synod at Sutria near Rome where all the four Popes caufes were examined : And the three former were depof- ed, that is, deprived of the revenue. which was parted among them, and this Gregory 6. (fay molt authors, and even Hermanneos that wrote in thole very times) was depofed, (but faith Baron, he honeftiy refign- ed.) And the Roman Clergy being found fo bad, that none were fit for the place, the Emperor chofe (fay molt,. or caged to be chofen faith Bin.) the Bifhop ofBarnberge in Germany called Clement the ad. § to8. The Emperor fetling the Bifhop ofBamberge, Clem. 2. in the chair, returned and took the laft Pope 'Gregory with him to avoid conten- tion; and Clement went after with Hildebrand and dyed by the way the 9th. month after his Creation. Benedict hearing this invadeth the Papa- cy again, the third time, even that villain that was firft ofthe four, and held it eight months after this, fo yet we have divers Popes. § 109. An. 1067. A Council is held at Rome by Clem. 2. agáinft Simony. § aso. Poppo Bifhop of Brixia is made Pope, by the Emperor and the common futfrage, fay Bar. and Bin. (an. 1048.) But faith Plating "and others, it is reported that he made the poyfon with which the Citizens
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