sand persons. MarginaliaThe popes two sonnes seruing at the coronation.At this coronation, the popes. ij. sonnes did serue and minister to their father. Lewes Cardinal of Hostia did set on his head, þ^e pontificall Diademe, MarginaliaThe valuation of the popes crowne.which was estemed at. 30. thousand crownes. It were lōg here to recite the whole order and solemnitie of the processiō, or the popes ryding about the Citie. First proceded the pope vnder his Canaby of cloth of gold, hauyng on hys head a triple crowne, and blessing the people as he went. By hym went the Marques of Rotelen, and Conrade of VVinsperge, leadyng his horse by the bridle. MarginaliaThe popes diner and seruice.The processiō finished, they went to dinner, which lasted foure full houres, beyng excessiuely sumptuous: where þ^e popes ij. sōnes were butlers to his cup. The Marques of Salutze was the stuard. &c.

Of this Fœlix, thus writeth Volaterane in his thyrd booke, MarginaliaVolat. lib. 3.that he beyng desired of certeine of the Ambassadours, if he had any dogges or houndes, to shewe them: he willed them the nexte day to repayre to hym, and hee would shew vnto them such as he had. MarginaliaA note for our gentlemen, and lrodes, to learne how to hunt, and what dogges to keepe.When the Ambassadours, according to the appointement, were come, he sheweth vnto them, a great number of poore people & beggers sittyng at his tables at mete, declaryng, that those were his houndes, whiche hee euery daye vsed to feede: huntyng with them (hee trusted) for the glorye of heauen to come.

And thus you haue heard the state of this Councell hetherto, which Councell endured a long season, þ^e space of. xvij. yeares.

MarginaliaThe death of Sigismund the Emperour.About the. vi. yere of the Councel, Sigismund þ^e Emperour dyed, leauyng but one daughter to succede hym in his kyngdomes: whom he had maried to Albert. ij. duke of Austriche, whiche first succeded in the kyngdome of Hungarie and Boheme, being a sore aduersary to the Bohemiās: MarginaliaAlbertus 2. Emperour.
An. 1438& afterward was made Emperour. an. 1438. MarginaliaThe death of Albertus 2.and reigned Emperour but two yeares, leauyng his wyfe, whiche was Sigismundus daughter, great with childe. After whiche Albert, succeded his brother Frederike. iij. duke of Austrich, in the Empire. &c. wherof more (Christ willyng) hereafter.

In the meane tyme, Eugenius hearyng of the death of Sigismund aboue recited, began to worke the dissolution of the Councell of Basill, & to trāsferre it to Ferraria, pretendyng the commyng of the Grecians. Notwithstandyng the Councell of Basill, throughe the disposition of God, and the worthynes of Cardinall Arelatensis, constantlye endured. Albeit in the sayd Councell were many stoppes and practises to empeche the same, MarginaliaThe plage at Basill, in tyme of the councel.beside the sore plague of pestilence, which fell in the Citie, duryng the sayd Councell. In þ^e which plague tyme, besides the death of many worthy mē, MarginaliaÆneas Sylu. sicke of the plage at Basill.Aeneas Siluius also him self, the writer and cōpiler of the whole history of that Councell sitting at the feete of the bishops of Turnon, & of Lubecke, lay sicke. iij. dayes of þ^e same sore, as is aboue touched, & neuer thought to escape. They þ^t dyed, departed with this exhortation, desiring men to pray to God, that he would conuerte þ^e harts of them þ^t stocke to Eugenius as pope, agaynst that Coūcell, as partly is afore noted, & now repeated agayn for þ^e better marking. MarginaliaThe constant zeale of Arelatensis to the truth.Arelatensis beyng most instantly exhorted by his frendes to flye that daūger, could by no meanes be entreated to auoyde, fearyng more þ^e daunger of þ^e church, then of his own lyfe.

Beside these so great difficulties and obstacles to stay and hynder this councell, straunge it was to behold the mutation of mens mindes. Of whom, suche as fyrst seemed to fauour the councell, after did impugne it: and such as before were agaynst it, in the ende shewed them selues most friendes vnto the same. The chiefe Cardinals and Prelates, the more they had to loose, the sooner they slipt away, or els lurked in houses or townes nere, and absēted them selues for feare: so that the stay of the councell most rested vpon their Proctors, Doctors, Archdeacons, Deanes, Prouostes, Priors, and such other ofthe inferiour sort. Whereof Aeneas Syluius in hys. 183. epistle maketh this relation, MarginaliaÆneas Sylu. epist. 183.wher one Caspar Schilck the Emperours Chauncelour writeth to the Cardinal Iuliā in theese wordes: MarginaliaThe welthy prelates slyde away from the councell.Those Cardinals (sayth he) whych so long time magnified so highly þ^e autority of the church, and of generall councels, seeming, as though they were ready to spend their liues for the same, now at the sight of one letter from their king (wherein yet no death was threatned, but onelye losse of their promotions) slypt away from Basil. MarginaliaWelthy prelates afraid of truth.And in the same epistle deridingly commendeth them, as wyse men, that had rather lose theyr fayth, then their flocke. Albeit saith he, they departed not far away, but remayned about Solotorn, wayting for other commaundementes from their Prince. MarginaliaFide quam plebe, care re malunt.
Promotiōs choke the cleargie.Wherby it may appeare, how they did shrinke away not willingly, but þ^e Burse (quoth he) bindeth faster, thē true honour.

Quid enim saluis infamia nummis? That is to say: what matter maketh the name of a man, so hys money be safe? Hæc Aeneas.

Moreouer in one of the Sessions of the said councel, the worthy Cardinall Arelatensis is sayde thus to haue reported, that Christ was sold for. xxx. pence: but I (sayd he) was sold muche more deare. Marginalia60. thousād crowns offred by pope Eugenius, for the betraying of Arelatensis.For Gabriel, otherwyse called Eugunius, Pope, offered. 60. thousande crownes, who so woulde take me, and present me vnto him. MarginaliaArelatensis taken and reskued.And they that tooke the sayd Cardinall, afterwarde excused their fact by an other coulour, pretending the cause, for that the Cardinals brother, what time the Armiaks wasted Alsatia, had wrought great dāmage to the inhabitaunts there, and therefore they thought (said they) that they might lawfully lay handes vpon a Frenche man, wheresoeuer they might take him. At length by the byshop of Strasbrough, Rupert, & the sayd citye, the matter was taken vp, and he rescued. MarginaliaGods defence toward his seruantes.Wherein, no doubt, appeared the hand of God, in defending his lyfe from the pestilent daunger of the Pope hys aduersary. MarginaliaEx paralip. Abb. Vrsper.Ex Paralip. Abbat. Vrsper.

And thus far hauing proceded in the matters of this foresayd councell, vntill the election of Amadeus, called Pope Fælix. v. before we prosecute the rest, that remaineth thereof to be spoken, the order and course of tymes requireth to intermixt withall the residue pertaynyng to the matters concluded betwene this councell, and the Bohemians, declaring the whole circumstances of the Ambassade, their articles, disputations, and aunswers, which they had fyrst in the sayd councell, then in theyr own countrey wyth the Councels Ambassadours: also with their petitions and answers vnto the same.

MarginaliaThe story of the Bohemians prosecuted.Touching the story of the Bohemians, how they beyng sent for, came vp to the councell of Basill, and how they appeared, and what was there cōcluded and agreed, partlye before hath bene expressed pag. 778. Now, as laysure serueth frō other matters, to returne againe vnto the same, it remayneth to prosecute þ^e rest that lacketh, so far as both breuitye may be obserued, and yet the reader not defrauded of suche thinges, principallye worthy in the same to be noted and known.

The Bohemians then (as is before declared) hauing alwayes the vpper hand, albeit they were accursed by þ^e new bishop Eugenius, yet it was thought good that they should be called vnto Basill, where as the councell was appointed. Wherupon Cardinall Iulian sent thether before, Iohn Pollumair doctor of þ^e Law, and Iohn de Ragusio, a diuine. Who comming vnto Basill in þ^e moneth of August, Anno. 1431. called by their letters vnto þ^e councell, Iohn, Abbot of Mulbrun, and Iohn Gelhusius, monke of the same cloyster: which mē for the dexteritie of their wit, and experience & knowledge of countreis, were very meete and necessary for Ambassades.

Within a few dayes after, Iulianus also came thether, as he had promised, & immediatly sent out Iohn Gelhusius, & Hammon Offenbourg, a Senatour of Basill, fyrst