and their Councils Abridged. eleeeorr and that Pall be made hereafter, unlef's it be otherwife exprefly ordained in fuels as Pall be made, (hall oblige the trangreffour$ only to the penalty of them, ,but not (ad culpam) to faultinefs (or fin) Its worth the Inquiry how far all other Canons and humane penal Lawes are thus to be expounded. § 258. Anno 1362. Another French man is made Pope, called 'Urban the 5th. He Pent Ægidius to fight for him in Italy (ftill broil'd. in Wars)) and died. § 252. Anno r37o. Petrus Bellfortir that was made Cardinal before he was 17 years old is made Pope of Avignion, and called Greg. the r rth. So far was all the world from obeying the Pope, that Italy lull fought againfi him: Thither he fends an Army, bloodshed and mifery overfpread- eth the Country. , The Pope at lafi fàw that his abfence gave his Eni- mies advantage, and not daring to let the French know left they fhould have flopt him, he flipt away to Rome, and thither removed his Seat, that hadbeen at Avignion 7o years, to the great joy of the City, impoverifh'ed by the abfence of the Court. § 26o. Anno r 378. Gregory the r Id) being dead, the PeopleofRome flock to the Cardinals, and cry to them to choofe no more Frenchmen leaft the Seat be again removed, but an Italian , and the heft man that could be found, leali all fhould run to utter confufion. Thirteen Cardinals were Frenchmenand four Italians : The French were for a French Pope; but they fell out among themfelves, while part ofthe French were for one, and part for another, bywhich it fell out that Barthol. Epife. Barenfis, aNeapo- litane was chofen., an extraordinary good Pope. TheCardinals cryed out that the People of Rome had by tumult, force, and arms conftrained them to the choiceof this man (Vrban6.) and they fled to thong holds ; but at lall came to Rome andowned the Pope : But when he told them, that he would not go toFrance, and reproved their wicltednefs, and told them how feverely he refolved to ptanifh them if they amended not, they got away and declared, that Vrban was a falfe Pope, chofen by the Peoples tumults and force, where the Cardinals were not free, and that the Seat was void, and they chofe another (Cardinal Gebennenfu) and called him Clement 7th And fo whereas for feventy years there had been a Pope at Avignion, and noneat Rome, now for forty years more there were two, one at Avignon, and one at Rome ( and fometimes three). And indeed it paffethmy skill toknow how the Avignion Popes were Bifhops of Rome, who never law Rome, nor any of thePeople , any more than heis a true Schoolmafter that never faw the School or Scholars. And now the two Popes fall to fightingfor it , and the French Pope fend- ing an Army of Britons again($ the Italian Pope; at firil they beat the Ro- mans, but next were fo deftroyedby them, that few fcaped home to bring the news. The Italian bloody Wars í}i11 continue, efpecially between the Venetians and Genouefer. Then had the Venetians the fiat Guns : The Neapolitans 2 alto 427.
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