their Councils abridged. 345 " he made her a Nun.] A Presbyter witneffed that this Bithop rook "him and delivered him to his followers, who tormenting him by ma- "ny torments, which is more wicked, did with {harp nails pierce his "genetals, and by fuch violence forced him to give them ten pounds "of denaries : The Bifhop hearing thefe accufations defired time and "Council, and going to the Arch-Bithors of Befanzon, and Lyons, o- "peneth his fecrets to them and defireth them to plead his caufe. But "the man involved in the guilt of fuch villanies (who but the day be- fore had been the accufer of a- faulty Brother, and teeing the mote in "anothers eye, had not fees the beam in his own , but moved for "the other mans damnation being himfelfdefervedly to be condemned,) "was not only unable to excufe himfelf from the objected crimes, but "afro the tongue of his advocate (the Arch- Bithop) was by God fo fi- "lenced that he was not able to (peak a word for his defence. For "the Arch- Bifhop of Befanzon where he prepared himfelf to plead for "him and excufe his crimes, fuddenly found himfelfdifabled in his' voice "by God, And when the Arch Bifhop of Befanzon found himfelf fo dif= 0c abled by miracles, he gave figns to the Arch-Bithop of Lyons to (peak "for this his Brother in his Bead; who rifng up laid that the accufed "Bifhop Both confers that he fold Orders, and that he extorted the mo- ney from the laid Priett, but that he did not do the tormenting atti- "ons mentioned by him ; other things he denyed, but before the next "day he fled from the Council. And another Bithop (of Nevers) con- "fetled that his Parents bought his Place, and depofed himfelf: and " botìie other Bifhops confeffed Simoniacal entrance. The Pope excom- "municated many that fled from the Council. He renewed Tome old "neglefted Canons, as I. That no man be promoted to Church-Govern- "ment without the ELECTION ofthe CLERKS sand the PEOPLE, &c, Y y CHAP.
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