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their Councils abridged. 391 Mend a Presbyter without the judgment of his Chapter. That a Perjured Clergy-man is to be perpetually deprived, and may notgoverna ,Church. That in cafe of ambiguity ofwords,we muff have recourfe to the common undirftand- ing of them, with divers others. § t 8 3. Alexander dying, Lucius the 3d is the firff chofen by the Cardi- nals, according toAlexander's Lateran Council, (as is aforefaid.) And to per- fe& the Papacy, having got the choice of theBifhop out of the hands of the Clergy and People of Rome, his Flatterers next perfuade him to put down the Order and Name of Senators, which attempting, his Party by. the Cities infurre&ion had their eyes put out, and the Pope forced to leave theCity ; and at Luca, while he provoked Princes to fend Soldiers to Jerufalem and Afsa, he dyed. 4 t 84. CCCCXXX. One Council this Pope had at Verona, as they fay, where the Emperor Frederick met him, and follicited him to reftore all the Bithops and Clergy depofed that had adhered tohim and the Anti-Popes. The Pope confented, but faidbe could not do it without another Council: (By which it appeareth, that this at Verona was no true Council. ) § t 85. Urbanite the 3d is next Pope, called Turbanus, as an Incendiary, by 4b. Urf,Oergenfbut better fpoken of by Platisw ; he fate above one year. It's Paid that he dyed of grief for the lofs of `jerufalem in his time. CCCCXXXI. ACouncil he had at Paris, they fay,for `, erufalem,too late. § 186. Gregory the 8th fucceedeth him two months, and dyeth. § 187. An. r 187. Clement the 3d fucceeded him,who importuneth the Chriffian Kings to recover ferufalem. The Emperor Frederick, theKing of France, and Richard King of England, go in perfon. The Emperor was drowned inAfsa, as he was wafhing himfelf in a River. The reff do much, but all to littlepurpofe, but to the great deftru&ion of many Chriffians. The Pope fendeth an Army into Sicily to claim it for the Church, becaufe theKing dyed childlefs : There alfe. bloody havock is made. An. 11.88 An Affembly at Paris- furthered the Holy War, (Binnius will call it a Council.) § t 88. Though this Clemens fate but three years, and five months, he end- ed the longWar between theRomans and the Pope,granting"them their Sena- tors, but depofing their Patricius or Head, that Union might not tfrengthen them. § 18 Cieleftine the 3d comethnext, who to get Sicily fromTattered, gets out -03

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