MarginaliaEugenias warred agaynst Sfortia and diuers other.and what other warres he raised beside, not only in Italy, but also in Germanie, agaynst þ^e citie & Coūcell of Basill, I shall not neede to make any long rehearsall. MarginaliaPope Fœlix.After his deposition, ye heard also how Fœlix duke of Sauoye was elected Pope. Wherupō an other great schisme folowed in þ^e church duryng all the lyfe of Eugenius. MarginaliaPope Nicholas. 5.After his death, hys next successour was pope Nicolas þ^e 5. who (as you before haue heard) brought so to passe with the Emperour Fridericke the. 3. that Fœlix was cōtented to renounce & resigne his Papacie to Nicolas, & was therfore of hym afterward receaued to þ^e roome of a Cardinall, for his submission: and Friderike for his workyng, was confirmed at Rome to bee full Emperour, & there crowned. an. 1451. MarginaliaEmperours are but kynges of Romaines, before they be crowned by the pope.For Emperours before they be confirmed and crowned by the Pope, are no Emperours, but onely called kynges of Romaines.

This Pope Nicolas here mencioned, for to get and gather great summes of money, appoynted a Iubile in the yeare of our Lord. 1450. at which time there resorted a greater nomber of people vnto Rome, then hath at any time before bene sene. At which time, we read in the story of Platina to haue happened, MarginaliaEx Platina de vitis.that I thought here not vnworthy to be noted for the example of the thyng. MarginaliaThe example of idolatrye punished.As there was a great concourse of people resortyng vp to the mount Vaticane, to behold the Image of our Sauiour, which there they had to shew to Pilgrims, þ^e people being thick going to and fro betwene the mount and the City, by chaunce a certayne Mule of the Cardinals of S. Marke came by the waye, by reason whereof the people not being able to auoyde the way, one or two falling vpō the Mule, MarginaliaThe fruite of idolatry.there was such a preasse & throng vpon that occasion on the bridge, that to the nomber of 200. bodies of men, and three horses, were there strangled, & on eche syde of the bridge many besides fell ouer into the water and were drowned. By meanes of which occasion, the Pope afterward caused the small houses to be plucked downe, to make the way broder. And this is the fruite that commeth by idolatrye. Ex Platin.

MarginaliaMat. Palmerius a Florentine, martyr.In the tyme of this pope, one Mat. Palmerius wrote a booke De Angelis, in defending wherof, he was condemned by the Pope, and burned at Corna. an. 1448. Ex Tritemio.

MarginaliaToling of Aues.After him succeded Calixtus the third, who amongest diuers other thinges, ordained both at noone and at euening, the bell to tole the Aues, as it was vsed in þ^e popish tyme, to helpe the souldiours that fought agaynst the Turkes: for which cause also he ordayned the feast of the transfiguration of the Lorde, solempnising it wyth like pardons & indulgences, as was Corpus Christi day. Also this pope proceding contrary to the councels of Cōstance and Basill, decreed that no man shoulde appeale from the Pope to any councell. MarginaliaS. Edmund of Cant. Canonised.By whom also S. Edmund of Cant. with diuers other, were made sainctes.

MarginaliaPope Pius 2.Next after this Calixtus, succeeded Pius secundus, otherwise called Aeneas Syluius, who wrote the. 2. bookes of Commmentaries vpon the councell of Basil before mēcioned. MarginaliaPrmotion choketh religion.This Aeneas, at the time of the writyng of those hys bookes, seemed to be a man of an indifferēt and tolerable iudgemēt and doctrine, from the which he afterward being Pope, semed to decline and swarue, seeking by all meanes possible, howe to deface and abolishe the bookes which he tofore had written.

MarginaliaThe Prouerbes of Pius.THe diuine nature of God may rather be comprehēded by fayth, then by disputation.

Christian fayth is to be considered, not by what reason it is proued, but from whom it procedeth.

Neither can a couetous man be satisfied wyth money, nor a learned man with knowledge.

Learning ought to be to poore men, in steede of syluer, to noble men in steede of golde, and to Prynces in steede of precious stones.

An artificial oration moueth fooles, but not wise men.

Suters in þ^e law, be as byrdes, the Court is þ^e baite, the Iudges be the nettes, & the lawyers be the fowlers.

Men are to be geuen to dignities, and not dignities to men.

The office of a Bishop is heauye, but it is blessed to him that doth well beare it.A bishop without learning may be likened to an Asse.

An euyll Phisicion destroyeth bodies, but an vnlearned priest destroyeth soules.

MarginaliaMariage of priestes allowed by Æneas Syluius.Mariage was taken from Priestes, not wythoute great reason, but with much greater reason it ought to be restored agayne.

The lyke sentence to this hee vttereth in his seconde booke of the Councell of Basill before specified, saying, peraduenture it were not the worst, that the most parte of priestes had their wiues: for many should bee saued in priestly mariage, which now in vnmaryed priesthode are damned. The same Pius also, as Celius reporteth, dissolued certaine orders of Nunnes of the order of S. Briget and S. Clare, byddyng them to departe out, that they should burne no more, nor couer a harlot vnder the vesture of Religion.

This Pius, if he had brought so much pietie and godlinesse, as he brought learnyng vnto his Popedome, had excelled many Popes that went before him.

It shall not be impertinent here to touche, what the sayd Eneas called Pius, the Pope, writeth touchyng the peace of the church, vnto Gaspar Schlicke, the Emperours Chauncelor, in his. liiij. Epistle.

MarginaliaEx epist. 54. Pij. secund. ad Gasparum Schticke.All men do abhorre and detest schisme. The way to remedy this euill, Charles the Frēche king hat shewed vs both safe & brief, whiche is, MarginaliaThe way to exclude schisme, is cōcorde of princes.that princes or their Oratours should conuent and assemble together in some cōmon place, where they may conclude vpon matters amongest thē selues. To bryng this to passe, it were nedefull, writinges to be sent againe to all kynges & princes, to send their Oratours to Strawsborow or to Cōstance, with their full authoritye, there to intreate of matters appertainyng to þ^e peace of þ^e church. Neither would it require so great expenses, for as much as we see þ^e yeare before. 300. gildernes to be sufficient. Constantine the Emperour bestowed not much more in þ^e cōgregatiō of the Coūcel of Niece. And this way could not be stopped: neither could þ^e pope or þ^e Councell withstand it, or make excuse, as though this might not easilye be done w^tout them. For why? the secular princes may conuent and assemble together, will they, nill they: and yet notwithstandyng, vnitie may there be concluded: For he should be an vndoubted Pope, whom all princes woulde obey. MarginaliaThe Popes Clergye will not abyde the fyre, eyther for prince or pope.Neyther do I see any of the clergy so constant to death, which will suffer Martyrdome, either for thone part or þ^e other. All we lightly hold that faith which our princes holde, Which if they would worship idols, we would also do the same, & not onely deny the Pope, but God also, if the secular power straine vs thereunto, for charitie is waxed cold, and all faith is gone. Howe soeuer it be, yet let vs all desire & seke for peace, þ^e which peace, whether it come by a Councell, or by assemblye of princes, call it what you wil, I care not: for we stand not vpō þ^e terme, but vpon the matter. Call bread and if you wil, a stone, so you geue me to asswage my honger. Whether you call it a Councell or a conuenticle, or an assemblye or a congregation, or a synagoge, that is no matter, so that schisme may bee excluded and peace established. Thus much out of the Epistle of Pius.

MarginaliaThe breath of this pestilent seat corrupteth all that sitte in it, what so euer they were before.By this may it appeare, of what sentence & minde this Pius was in the tyme of the Coūcell of Basill, before he was made Pope. But as our cōmon prouerbe sayth, honours chaungeth maners, so it happeneth with this Pius, who after he came once to be Pope, was much altered from that he was before. For where as before hee