426 Church.- H i f lory Of Bifhopf Vie Emilie. § Anno 352 Innoc, the 6tb. is made Pope of Av:ignion: All Italyveal rowLoda flill kept in blood: One Barnace1#s Lorded it as Ruler at Rome : The Pope vic, died, P raftily lets NicolasGencii out of Prifon to let -up againft him ; Nicolas gets the better and killeth him: but domineering too much is next kilt'd him- fclf. 1347. The new Emperor Charles is Crowned in Italy. The Ro- mans put the power into (even Citizens called Refrnmers of the common wealth. The Pope lets Mago King of Cyrusagainff the Reformers, and bids him pull themdown. But trouble -came near him : Our King Edward con- gaed the French,and took theKing and his Son PhilipPrifoners, nobly-reieaf- ing thePrifoners upon promife that they would tight againtt him no more, . which they prefently brake ; ThePope dieth. § 2 56. Having long faidnothing of the Greek affairs, I here only briefly fay; that theutterconfüfïon of their imperial Succeifions bymurders and ti- furpations, and the continued confulìons of their Church affaira over face the divifionsofthe Orthodox Neflorians ,Eutychians,Monotheliras,&e maketh it both'a hard and unpleafant task to give any exaa account of their Bifhops, Synods and manifold contentions, -which furthered the ruine of the Empire. Their divifions gave the Latines opportunity to takeConJtan- tinople 1zo4. which they kept 58 years, and then loll it. Bsldr'in was the fall Latine Èmperour whom the &elgarians conquered, and toók Pri- fòner Anno o 205. and kept fixteen months, and then put him to death. Henryhis brother fucceeded hint r2o6and. died-r.216. Peterfucceedthhim that married his filler (or daughter) and is quickly flain by Theodorus Lafceris. Robert fucceedeth his Father Peter 1261. Theodore Lafcaris was Emperor chofen by the Greeks and kept Court at Nice: He defeated the Turks, and flew their Sultan, and died, /222. John Duce: his Son in Law fücceedeth him, and 1255. his SonTheodore Lafcaris fucceedeth him and died 1259. leaving a Son John of fix years old : Michael Paleologus putting out Johns eyes at ten years old, ufurpeth the Empire, and by a ilratagem of Alexius Cefar with 800 men taketh ConJtantinople; and feigned a reconciliation with Rome, and died iz82, and for his feem- ing reconciliation with Rome his Son Andronicus and the Clergy denied him Chriftian burial. Andronicus fucceeded : His SonMichael eying, his Grandfon Andronicus depofeth and banifbeth him,and taketh the Throne:. he reigned 8 years, and died r34r. He committed his twoSons to yob. 'Cautacuzenus: The Udell Son John reigned 27 years, and Manuel his bro- ther fucceeded him 1384. and his Son John fucceeded him 1419. Confiar- tine the 8th. began 1445, andAnno 1453, May 29th. the Turks tookConjfan- tinople ; and fèt up their Empire. §,257. Anno:1355. Under Innocent the 6s1.í. was another ToletaneCoun- cil : fhort and tweet; worth the noting : (by authority of Blafius Arch Bifhopof Toleten.'ilia. CLeft faitbfutChrifíiins fbould be burdened miti, the weight offin (orfaultinefs) by tranfgreßng provincial Confíitutions, when Di- vine piety bath mercifully put them under an Ole yoke and light burden, we ord,Rin, tax holy Council approving it Sat the Provincial confitutions of our Pre- decets
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