Astra dedit superis, cætera cuncta sibi.

¶ Responsio Romanæ curiæ contra Imperatorem.  

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A response from the Court of Rome against the Emperor

Foxe text Latin

Pars quoque papalis ... mens tua cedat ei. &c.

Translation

John Wade, University of Sheffield

The papal party also counters that of the emperor in this way. We grant that you reign, with the proviso that you be subject to Peter; for Christ creates both rights for us. The spirit and the body are effectually subject to me. I hold earthly things in my body and heavenly things in my mind; whence, by holding heaven, I loose and bind earth. The pope is seen to reveal the heavens, to touch celestial things. For he is entitled to give, to take, to bind, to loose everything. To him the new law and the old law have given every right: the ring and the staff, although they are thought to be earthly things, of right belong to heaven. What they seem to signify is: have regard to the laws of God; let your mind give way to him, etc.

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Pars quoque papalis sic obuiat Imperiali,
Sic dans regnare, quod Petro subiiciaris.
Ius etenim nobis Christus vtrumq; parit.
Spiritus et corpus mihi sunt subiecta potenter,
Corpore terrena teneo cælestia mente
Vnde tenendo polum, soluo ligoq; solum.
Aethera pandere, cœlica tangere, papa videtur.
Nam dare, tollere, nectere, soluere cuncta meretur,
Cui dedit omne decus lex noua, lexque vetus.
Annulus & baculus quamuis terrena putentur,
Sunt de iure poli, quæ significare videntur.
Respice iura dei, mens tua cedat ei. &c.

In conclusion the emperour being ouercome so much with the vayne reasons of the popes side, and fearing the daungerous thunderbolt of this curse (talking with princes, and perswaded by his friendes) was fayne to condescend to the vnreasonable conditions of the pope. First to ratify his electiō: notwithstāding (the other pope whom the sayd Emperour had set vp) yet was a liue: secondly, that he shoulde resigne vp his right and tytle in matters pertayning to the election of the pope, and inuesture of Bishops.

This being done and graunted, and the writinges therof set vp in the church of Lateran for a triumph, of the Emperour thus subdued: the pope maketh out after Gregorious his fellow pope, being then in a towne called Sutrium. This Sutrium, being besieged and takē, Gregory was also taken. MarginaliaGregorius brought into Rome, by the pope, hys face to the horse tayle.
Ex Platina. Vincentio stella. &c.Whom Calixtus the pope, sitting vpō a Camel (his face to the Camels tayle) brought him so through the streetes of Rome, holding the tayle in his hand in steede of a bridle: and afterwarde beyng shorne, was thrust into a Monastery.

MarginaliaThe Imber dayes by whō they were brought in and when.
Dist. 76. cap. Ieiunium.Amongest manye other actes done by this glorious pope, first he established the decrees of the papall see agaynst this Emperour. He brought in the foure quarter fastes, called Imber dayes. Dist. 70. cap. Ieiunium.

MarginaliaThe order of monkes, Præmonstratenses.By the same Calixtus, the order of Monkes called Præmonstratenses, were brought in.

Farther, by him it was decreed to be iudged for adultery, if any person (by his life time) had put from him either bishoprick or benefices: grounding vpon this scripture of S. Paul to þ^e Romanes: Alligata est vxor legi viri, quamdiu vir eius viuit: eo defuncto, soluta est a lege viri. &c. MarginaliaScripture clerkly applied of the pope.That is: the wife is bound to the law of her husbād, so long as the husband liueth: after he is dead, she is lose from the law of her husband. &c.

MarginaliaPriestes & ministers compelled to leaue their wiues.Item, the same Calixtus holding a generall councel at Rhemis, decreed: that priests, deacons, and subdecōs should put away their concubines & wiues: or els, who soeuer was found to keepe his wife, to be depriued of benefice, and all other ecclesiasticall liuinges: wherupon a certaine English writer made these verses following.

O bone Calixte, nunc omnis clerus odit te,
Quandam præsbyteri poterant vxoribus vti
Hoc destruxisti, postquam tu papa fuisti. &c.

That is word for word.
The hatred of the clergie, hast thou good Calixte,
For some time priestes might vse theyr wiues right,
But that thou hast reiected, sēce pope thou wast elected.

And thus much of Romaine matters: Now to our countrey story agayn. MarginaliaAn. 1109.After the death of Anselme before mētioned (who deceassed þ^e yere of our Lord. 1109. after he had bene in þ^e see xvi. yeares) the church of Cant. stode voyde v. yeares: and the goods of the churche were spent to the kynges vse. And when he was prayed to helpe the church that was so long without a pastor, his aunswere was: pretendyng that where his father and brother, had accustomed there to set the best, tryed, & approued men that might be found: to the entēt therfore that he might do the same (in chusing such, whiche either should equallthe former examples of them before, or at least folowe their footestepes as nere as they could) he tooke therin the more time and laysure. And so with shift of aūswere dalyed out the tyme, while he had filled his cofers with the commodities of that benefice. MarginaliaThe bishoprike of Ely first plāted.Henry first byshop of Ely.The same yeare (after the death of Anselme) the kyng conuerted the abbey of Eley to a byshoprike, whiche before was vnder the byshoprike of Lincolne: placyng their Herney byshop of Bangor the first bishop of that see. And as of late yeares before this, diuers wonders were sene: as starres falling from heauen so thike, that they could not be nombred at the settyng forth of the christians to the holy land: Iornalens. A blasing starre ouer Constantinople: A spring boylyng out bloud (sene at Finchamstede in Barkshyer) iij. wekes together an. 1090. Gisburnens. After that, the firmament appearyng so red, as it had ben all on fire: Also ij. full Moones appearyng together, one in the East thother in the West (on maundy thursday) with a blasing starre in the same yeare appearyng about the takyng of duke Robert, hauing a white circle inclosing it, an. 1106 Iornalēs: also w^t an eclipse of þ^e sūne darkened after that: Marginalia1110.
Trent dried vp.so likewyse about this present yeare an. 1110. was sene þ^e floud of Trent, about Notyngam, so dryed vp frō mornyng to 3. of the clocke at after nonne, þ^t men might go ouer it dryshod, Gisburnens: MarginaliaAn earthquake.Also in Shrosbery a great earth quake happened: MarginaliaMoraine & pestilence.
Ex Gualthero Gisburnensi.And after that folowed a sharp winter, great moraine of beastes, and pestilence of men, as Gualterus Gisburnens. recordeth: Moreouer the same autor mentioneth, that nere about the same yeare, þ^e lyke vadyng of water happened also in the floode of Medewaye: Marginalia1113.And in Thamis betwene the bridge & the tower, & vnder the brydge (frō mydnyght to þ^e next euenyng) was so gret an ebbe: þ^t a vnnumerable sort of people & childrē waded ouer, scarse knee depe in the water: the sea withdrawyng his tyde x. miles from hys accustomed course. Roger Houed. Gualt. Gisburnens. &c. MarginaliaWiceter consumed with fier.In the whiche yeare also as the sayd autor, and Iornalens. do testifie, the citie of Worceter, by casualitie was cōsumed with fier. Marginalia1114.Also the citie of Chester an. 1114. Roger Houedenus.

MarginaliaRodulphus archbishop of Cant.
Thurstinus archbishop of Yorke.The next yeare folowyng, Rodolphus byshop of Rochester (an English man) was promoted to be archbishop of Canterbury: and Thurstinus the kynges chapellaine was elect archbishop of Yorke. Who beyng content to receaue his benediction or consecration of þ^e see of Cant: yet because he refused to make his profession of obediēce to þ^e same see, he was by þ^e kyng depriued of his dignitie.

MarginaliaDissension betwen Thurstinus of Yorke, & Rodulphus Archb. of Cant. for subiection.Then Thurstin (by the instigation of certaine of his clerkes at Yorke) tooke his iorney to Rome: who there makyng his cōplaint to pope Paschalis, brought w^t him a letter from the pope to the kyng: where among other wordes, was conteyned as foloweth: MarginaliaThe letter of pope Paschalis to K. HēryAudiuimus electū Eboracensis ecclesie virum sapientem & strenuum sine iudicio ab Eboracensi sequestratum ecclesia: quod nimirum diuinæ iustitiæ & S. Patrum institutionib. aduersatur. Nos quidem neq̀ Cant. ecclesiam minui, neq̀ Eboracensem volumus præiudicium pati, sed eam constitutionem quæ a. B. Gregorio Anglicæ gentis Apostolo inter easdem ecclesias constituta est, firmam censemus illibatamq̀ seruari. Idem ergo electus (vt iustitia exigit) ad suam ecclesiam omnibus modis reuocetur. Si quid autem quæstionis inter easdem ecclesias nascitur, præsentibus vtrisq̀ partibus investra præsentia pertractetur. &c. In English thus.

MarginaliaEx Gualthero Gisburnensi. Ex Gulie. De pontif. Lib. 4. Ex Roer. Houed. Fabia. &c.We heare and vnderstand, that the archbyshop electe of the church of Yorke (a discreite and industrious man) is sequestred from the church of Yorke: whiche standeth agaynst both diuine iustice, and thinstitution of holy fathers. Our purpose is, that neither the churche of Cant. should be empayred, nor agayne that þ^e church of Yorke, should suffer any preiudice: but that the same constitution whiche was by bless. Gregory (thapostle of the English nation) set and decreed betwene those two churches: should remayne still in force and effect inuiolate. Wher-