3 88 Church-H :ory of Dhops and , The fldr that there: wasabout the Emperor's holding the Stirrup to Pope Urban, is recorded by divers Hiflorians : And how the Kings pf France and England did the like byAlexander ; And how this on debate was faid to be their due. The truth is,the Papifts Princes of Europe themfelves are beholden to the Proteftants, for redeeming them fromServitude,and their Kingdoms from the meet will and mercyof the Pope. § T76. The Pope having conquered the Emperor byCurfing,ispall: doubt nowof Conquering Rome,, (for filch Men wereBithops byConquefl,andnot by Content.) To Tufculum be goeth, and now demandeth ofthe Romans , that they abrógate the Office Of the Confins : But finding this too hard a task to be doneat once,he maketh a bargain with them, that none fhould by the People be chofenConfuls, till they had taken an Oath of Fidelity to the l Pope, in his own propofed words, and that they would never do any thing againft his dignity. And fo Alexander goeth the third time toRome,and calls aCouncil; but quickly dyeth,when after twenty yearsscontention,he thought he was new fetled in peace,An. ì185. §177. Onuphriois, after RadavicusFriifng. `°oan. Cremon. Abb. Urfperg. &c: faith that it was thisPope Alexander, that fir(' ordained that the Clergy and People being excluded fromthe Ele&ion of the Pope, ( and fò hewas no true$ifhop) the choice fhould be in the Cardinals.fhut up in. Conclave, and go by twothird parts of their Votes, toavoidSchifms for the time to come. Onuphrius faith,that he had the writing of Pope Lucius the 3d, that faith, he Was the firft that waschofen by the Cardinals fcrutiny, (though the Cardinals in a loofer way were lately-Made Electors before. ) He that is no Bifhop, is no Univerfal Bithop or Pope: But he that is not chofenby the Clergy or People of that Church, is noBdhop. TheMinor is proved by the Canonsof many Councils. § 178. The Epiflaes of Alexander are fo full of Ufurpation and Treafon againft Princes, that Binnius thought it befe to omit them, and give you but the Titles : But thofe that concern England are in Most Paris, whom Bin- nies referreth you to, though he oft reproach him for (peaking truth. Many are about rho. Becket Archbifhop of Canterbury,and againft the Emperorand the King of England, forbidding the Coronation of Henry the 3d , and fuf- . pending Roger Archbifhopof Tork for Crowninghim, and fuch like, to fhew how he was Kingof Kings. § 179. CCCCXXI: Of the Councils in Alexander's time recorded. by Binnius, the firfc is An. 116o. at Papiacalled by the Emperor which voted Vifíer
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