MarginaliaA false miracle well spied out of the kyng.tyme, brought to the presence of the sayde Alinore the kinges mother: saying, how that he had hys sight again restored at the tombe of king Henry her late husbande, in so much that she was easelye perswaded the miracle to be very true. But king Edwarde her sonne, knowing the man a long tyme to be a vyle dissembler, and a wycked person, vsed to lying and crafty deceauing: disswaded his mother not to geue credite to the vile vagabon, declaring that he knew so well the iustice of his father, that if he were aliue, he would twyse rather plucke out both his eyes, then once restore hym one. Notwithstanding, the queene the mother remaynyng still in her former fonde perswasion, woulde heare or beleue nothing to the contrary, but was so in anger with her sōne, that she byd hym depart her chamber, and so he did. By the example whereof may easely be conceaued, how and after what sorte these blinde myracles in those dayes and synce haue come vp among the blynd and superstitious people. For had not the kyng here bene wyser then the mother, no doubt but thys would daue bene roong a miracle, and percase king Henry bene made a saint.

MarginaliaEx codē chro.But as thys was a fayned miracle and false no dout, so in the same autor we reade of an other maner of myracle sounding more nere the truth, & so much the more likely, for þ^t it serued to the cōuersion vnto christiā faith: to which vse properly, all true miracles do appertayne. MarginaliaA true miracle.The miracle was thys. In the reigne of thys king, and the latter yeare of hys reigne, Cassanus kyng of þ^e Tartarians (of whom commeth these whom nowe we call Turkes) which fighting agaynst the Souldian kyng of the Saracens, in the plaine of Damascus, MarginaliaVictory against the Saracens.slew of them C. thousand of Saracens: and again, at Babylon fighting with the sayd Souldian slewe hym in the field, and CC. thousand of hys Saracens, calling vpon the helpe of Christ, and therupon became Christian. Thys Cassanus I say, had a brother a Pagane, who being in loue with the daughter of the kyng of Armenia a christian woman, desired of her father to marye with her. Whervnto the king her father would not agree vnles he promised to be a christian. Notwithstanding, the other being stronger in power, & threatning to get her by war: the king at length was forced to agree. In conclusion it happened, that the childe being borne betwixt them was ouergrowen and all roughe with haire, lyke to the skyn of a Beare. Which childe being brought to the father, he commaunded it to be thrown in the fyre and burned. But the mother desiring first to haue the child baptised, caused all thynges therunto to be prepared. The infant being three tymes in water plunged, after the Sacrament of holy baptisme receaued: incontinent was altered and turned from all his hairye roughnes, and seene as fayre and smothe skynned, as any other. The which thyng after the father sawe and behelde, was christened himself and all hys house. &c.

MarginaliaMarton college builded in Oxford.In the reigne of this kyng, Walter Marton byshop of Rochester, buylded Marton colledge in Oxford. In whose reigne also liued, Henricus de Gaudano, Arnoldus de villa noua, Dantes and other mo. And Scotus called Duns. MarginaliaI. Scotus, dūs.Who in his 4. booke of Sent. Dist. 18. complaineth of the abuse of excommunication and of the popes keys. Where as before, excommunicaton was not vsed, but vpō great and iust causes, and therfore was feared: now saith he, it is brought forth for euery trifling matter, as for not payng the priestes wages. &c. and therfore sayth he, it groweth in cōtempt. Vnder the same king about þ^e begynning of his reigne, was the yeare so hote & so dry: that from the moneth of May, vntill the moneth nere of Septēber fel no rayne, in so much þ^t many dyed for heat, and the vulgare people in their rekenyng of yeares, dyd count the tyme from the sayd dry yeare long after.

MarginaliaPope Clement v.After pope Benedictus aboue mentioned, succeded Pope Clement the v. who translated the popes court toMarginaliaThe popes court translated to Fraunce.Auinion in Fraunce, where it remayned the terme of lxxiiij. yeares after. At the coronation of this Clement, was present Philip kyng of Fraunce, Charles his sonne and duke Ihon duke of Britanie, with a great number of other men of state and nobilitie. MarginaliaA slaughter of nobles at the pōpe of the popes coronation.At which coronation, they being in the midle of the pōpe or procession, a great wall brake downe and fell vpon them: by the falle wherof, duke Ihon with xij. other were slayne, kyng Philip hurt and wounded, MarginaliaA carbuncle in the popes miter valued at 6000 Florens.the pope stroken from his horse, & lost out from his mitre vpon his head a Carbuncle, estemed to the value of vi. thousād florens Plat. de vit. pont: MarginaliaEmperour no emperor except he were by the pope confirmed.by this Clement was ordeined, that the Emperour, though he might be called king of þ^e Romanes before, yet he might not enioy the title and right of the Emperour, before he was by him confirmed. And that the Emperours seate beyng vacant, the pope should reigne as Emperour, till a new Emperour was chosen. MarginaliaThe templares put downe.By him the orders of the Tēplaries (who at that tyme were to abhominable) was put downe at the councel of Vienne, as hereafter (Christ willing) shalbe declared. MarginaliaThe feast of corpus Christi.He also ordeined and confirmed the feast of Corpus Christi, assigning indulgēces to such as hard the seruice therof. And as Pope Bonifacius afore heaped vp the booke of Decretals, called Sextus Decretalium: MarginaliaSeptimus decretaliū, called the Clementines.so this Clement compiled the vij. booke of the decretals, called of the same Clement, the Clemētines. MarginaliaHenricus vi. Emperour poysoned in the host.In the time of this Pope, Henricus the vi. of that name Emperour, was poisoned in receauyng the Sacrament by a false dissembling mōke called Bernard, that feined him selfe to be his familiar frend, which was thought to be done not without the consent of the popes legate. The emperor perceiuyng him selfe poysoned, warned hym to flee & escape away, for els þ^e Germains would sure haue slayne him, who although he escaped him self, yet diuers of his order after that with fire and sword were slayne.

As this Pope Clement the v. had well prouided now (as ye haue heard) against þ^e Empire of Rome to bring it vnder his girdle: insomuch that w^tout þ^e popes benedictiō, no Emperour might take the state vpō him, &c. MarginaliaPaleologus Emperour of Constantinop. excommunicate with all his adherentes by pope clement, for not suffring the Greciās to appeale to Rome.
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Note the practise of the Romishe prelates.Now he procedeth farther to entermedle with the Empire of Cōstantinople. Where he first exerciseth his tyrannie and power of excommunication, agaynst Andronicus Paleologus Emperour of Constantinople, an. 1327. declaryng him as a schismatike, and heretike, because he neither would nor durst suffer the Grecians to make theyr appeale from the Greke churche to the Pope, neither would acknowledge him for his superiour. &c. Wherby it may appeare, that the Greke churche did not admitte the Popes superioritie, as yet nor at anye tyme before. Saue onely about the tyme of Pope Innocēt the iij. an. 1202. at what time the Frenchmen with there captaine Baldwinus earle of Flaunders, ioyned together with þ^e Venitians: were set against the Grecians, to place Alexius to þ^e right of the Empire of Cōstantinople, vpon condition (as writeth Platina) to subdue the Greke churche, vnder the church of Rome. MarginaliaPlatinain vit. Innocentij.Whiche Alexius beyng restored, and shortly after slayne: the Empire came to the Frēch men, with whom it remayned the space of Lviij. yeares, till the commyng of Michael Paleologus in the dayes of pope Gregory the ix. Who restored the Empire from the Frenchmen, vnto his pristine state agayn. MarginaliaWhen and how long the Greke church was subiect to Rome.During all which time of þ^e French Emperours, the Greke church was subiect to Rome, as by the decretals of pope Gregory the ix. may appeare. Then folowed after this, þ^t the foresayd Michael Emperour of Cōstantinople being called vp to a councel at Lions by Pope Gregory the x. about the controuersie of proceding of the holy ghost (as is aboue specified) and obedience to the church of Rome: there, because the sayd Michael the Emperour dyd submitte him selfe & the Grecians, to the subiection of Rome (as testifieth Baptist Egnat.) he therby procured to hym selfe such grudge and hatred among the Greke monkes and priestes: that after his death they demed him the dueMarginaliaEx Baptist. Egnat Rom. princ. lib. 7