44 Church- Hi1`ory of Bilimps, ` Apulianr, under the condue`i of his Nephew William, being flattered, conquered I and confounded, perijhed with their Captain mortally wounded. They fay there were there 'lain of Souldiours and valiantíiipendiary's of the Pope, four thoufand men : And the whole Countrey of the Romans lamented the 'bedding of f ' muchChriflian blood, The Pope thenwent toNaples, though weakened as with a plurifie in his fide, or ac wounded with a lance : And Cardinal Albus phyfiek, could not help him. For Robert of Lincoln feared notSinebald of Genoa; ` And be thatwould not bear him warning him when alive, felt him peircing him ` when dead. Nor did the Pope ever after enjoy one good day till night , nor ` one good night till day, but fleeplef and molefied. Thus M. Paris. 4Luad ca- c § 200. M. Paris, p.896 anno 1254. faith that Henry the third of England nièa aith obliged himfelf and his Kingdome unjufily '" to the Pope, under pain of be) néc.fa- ' being difinherited, to pay all the treafure which the Pope (hould lay out cele po. in his War for the King (that is, to have made him King of Sicily) cuic, net . And that the Pope having no mercy on England prodigally wafted its debu;c, c money, but thofevaft fums got by rapine were all loft. § 201. The fameAuthor faithp.g97. that when Pope Innocent lay dying (after the flrokeof the Bithop of Lincoln and the lots of his Army) and his followers lay crying about him, he opened his dying eyes, and fail, what do ` you mourn for you wretches? Do I not leaveyou all rich ? what would youhave more? And fo he died. § 202. CCCCXLIV. Anna 124s. Innoncent calls a Council called Gene- ral (their 13th. Approved) at Lyons of 140 Bifhops, where he heaped up accr,fationsagainftthe Emperour, whom Thadd,eurhis agent defended: And at Taft pronounced himfelt an excommunication and depofition, ab- folving all his Subje6s from their Oaths and Allegiance, and excommuni- cating all that fhould own and help him. Here you fee that more than one of their approved General Councils are for Rebellion and perjury, and the Popesdepofng Chriftian Empe- lours. In the fame Council fad Complaints were made from England of the pillaging or woful impoverifhingof the land by the Pope and King, but the Pope heard all filently and would give no anfwer. § 203. At this Council the Pope importuned the Electors to choofe another Emperour : fome rtfufed and Muck to the Emperour, Paying that it belonged not to the Pope to make or unmake Emperours : o- * oe Naf- thers obeyed him, and Pet upHenry of Haa. But the Emperour while favor Nol he lived kept up his offeffìon fn far as to make the Pope repent, and land, as P P P tberdiverfy faith 2rithemius was a weary of his life: But all Germany, Italy,&c. were called him, confounded by the fchim, or contention, one half (as is aforefaid) called Guelphes following the Pope and Henry, the other called Gibelines cleaving to the EmperourFrederick, to the 'bedding of abundance of Chritlians blood and the defolation of Countreys, and the (harne of Papal tyranny. § 204. Anno t 254. Alexander the 4tb was Pope. Matto. Paris tells us of a terrible dream that he had of Pope Innocents damnation, or mifery: But
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