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chased of the kyng to be byshop of Winchester, wherof runneth these verses.
Filius est præsul, pater Abba, Simon vterq̀,
Quid non speremus si nummos possideamus:
Omnia nummus habet quod vult facit addit & aufert
Res nimis iniusta, nummus sit præsul & Abba. &c.
CloseFilius est præsul ... & Abba. &c.
John Wade, University of Sheffield
The son is a bishop, the father is an abbot and each is a Simon:
What would we not hope for if we were to possess money?
Money has everything because it wants, it makes, it adds and it takes away.
It is all too unjust a thing, a bishop and an abbot made by money.
Ye heard a litle before of the death of pPope Hildebrand: after the tyme of which Hildebrand, the Germaine Emperours began to lose their autoritie and right in the Popes election, and in geuing of benefices. For next after this Hilbebrand, came MarginaliaPope Victor the 3.Pope Victor by the settyng vp of Matilda, and the duke of Normandye, with the faction and retinue of Hildebrand, who likewise shewed himselfe stoute agaynst the Emperour. But God gaue the shrewd Cow short hornes: MarginaliaPope Victor poysoned in hys chalice.For Victor beyng poysoned (as some say in his chalice) sate but one yeare and a halfe. Notwithstandyng the same imitation and example of Hildebrand cōtinued still in them that followed after. MarginaliaA comparison betwene Hildebrand Pope of Rome: And Ieroboam kyng of Israell.And lyke as the kyngs of Israell followed most part the steppes of Ieroboam, till the tyme of their desolation: so for the greatest sort all popes followed the steppes and procedyngs of this Hildebrand their spirituall Ieroboam: in maintaitainyng false worship, and chiefly in vpholding the dignitie of that sea, against all rightfull autoritie, and the lawfull kyngdome of Syon. MarginaliaThe order of Charter mōkes beganne.In the tyme of this Victor, began the order of the Monkes of Charter house, through the meanes of one Hugo Byshop of Gracionople, and of Bruno Byshop of Colen.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaPope Vrbanus the 2.Next to Victor sate Vrbanus the. ij. by whom the actes of Hildebrand were confirmed, & also new decrees enacted agaynst Henricus the Emperour. MarginaliaTwo Popes in Rome.In this tyme were two popes at Rome: Vrbanus & Clemens. iij. whom the Emperour set vp. MarginaliaThe order of Cistercian or white monkes beganne.Vnder Pope Vrbane, came in the whyte Monkes of Cisterciane order, by one Stephen Hardyng a Monke of Sherborne (an Englishman) by whom this order had his begynnyng in the wildernes of Cistery, within the prouince of Burgoyne as witnesseth Cestrēsis. Other write that this Hardyng was the ij. Abbot of that place, & that it was first founded by the meanes of one Robert Abbot of Molisme in Cistercium, a forest in Burgundy. an. 1098. (persuaded perchance by Hardyng) and afterward in the yeare of our Lord 1135. it was brought into Englād by a certaine man called Espek, which builded an Abbay of the same order called Merinale. In this order the mōkes did lyue by the labour of their hands. They payd no tythes nor offrynges. They weare no furre nor lynyng. They weare red shoes their coules white, and coate blacke, all shorne saue a litle circle. They eate no flesh but onely in their iourney. Of this order was Bernardus. &c.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaSynodus Romana. uel placentina.This Vrbanus held diuers Councels: one at Rome, where he excommunicated all such lay persons, as gaue inuestiture of any Ecclesiasticall benefice. Also all such of the Clergy as abiected themselues to be vnderlynges or seruauntes to lay persons for Ecclesiasticall benefices. &c.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaSynodus Claromontana.An other councell he held at Claromount in Fraunce. Where among other thynges the Byshop made an Oration to the Lordes beyng there present, concernyng the viage & recoueryng of the holyland, from the Turkes and Sarasins. The cause of which viage, first sprang by one Peter a mōke or heremite: who beyng in Ierusalem, and seyng the great misery of the Christians vnder the Paganes, made therof declaration to pope Vrbane, and was therin a great sollicitor to all Christian Princes. By reason wherof, after the foresayd Oratiō of Pope Vrbane, MarginaliaThe viage vnto the holy land.
The number that went.
The captaines of them which wēt to the holy land.30000 men (takyng on them the signe of the crosse for their cognisaunce) made preparation for that vyage: whose Captaines were Godfrey duke of Lorayne with his two brethren, Eustace, and Baldwyne: the Byshop of Podye: Bohemunde Duke of Puell, and his nephew Tancredus: Raymunde Earle of S. Egidius: Robert Earle of Flaunders, and Hugh Le Graund, brother of Phillip the French kyng. To whō also was ioyned Robert Courthoyse Duke of Normādy with diuers other noble men, with the foresayd Peter the Heremite, who was chief causer of that viage.
At that tyme, many of the sayd noble men layd theyr lādes and Lordships to morgage, for to prouide for the forenamed viage: as Godfrey Duke of Lorayne, who sold the Dukedome of Boloyne to the Byshop of Eburone for a great summe of money. Also Robert Curthoyse Duke of Normandy layd hys Dukedome to pledge to hys brother William kyng of England for x. thousande poundes. &c.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaAn. 1096.Thus the Christians which passed first ouer Bosphorus: hauyng to their captaine Peter the Heremite (a man perchaunce more deuout then experte to guide an army) beyng trapped of their enemyes, were slayne & murthered in great number amōge the Bulgares, and neare to the towne called Ciuitus.
MarginaliaThe actes of the Christians in their viage to win Hierusalem.When the nobles and the whole army met together at Constantinople (where Alexius was Emperour) passyng ouer by Hellespontus goyng to Ierusalem, they tooke the cities of Nicea, Eraclea, Tarsis, and subdued the countrey of Cicilia, appointyng the possession thereof to certaine of their Captaines.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaAntioche taken of the Christians
1098.Antioche was besieged, and in the. ix. moneth of the siege it was yelded to the Christians by one Pyrrhus: about whiche season were fought many strong battayles to the great slaughter and desolation of the Sarasins, & not without losse of many Christian men. The gouernaunce of this citie was committed to Boamunde duke of Puell, whose martiall knyghthode was often proued in tyme of the siege therof.
MarginaliaThe slaughter of the Persian infidels.And not long after Corbona, maister of the Persians chiualry was vanquished and slayne, wyth an hundreth thousand infidels. In whiche discomfiture were taken 15000. camels.
MarginaliaHierusalem conquered by the christians
Ex Henric. Lib. 7.Ierusalem the 39. day of the siege was conquered by þe Christians. Robert Duke of Normandy was elect to be kyng therof. But he refused, hearyng of þe death of K. William of England: wherfore he neuer sped in all his affaires well after the same. Then Godfrey captaine of the christiā army was proclaimed þe first king of Ierusalem. At the taking of the citie was such murder of men, that bloud was congeled in the streete the thicknes of a foote. Then after Godfrey raigned Baldwine hys brother. After him Baldwyine the seconde nephew. Then Gaufridus duke of Gaunt, and after hym Gaufridus his sonne: by whom many great battailes there were fought agaynst the Sarasens, and all the countrey therabout subdued saue Ascalō, &c. And thus much hetherto touching the viage to the holy land. Now to our owne land agayne.
About this tyme (as Mattheus Parisiensis wryteth) the kyng of England fauoured not much the sea of Rome, because of their impudent and vnsatiable exactions, which they required: MarginaliaThe kyng of Englandes iudgement agaynst the Pope.
Ex Math. Paris.neither would he suffer any of hys subiectes to go to Rome, alleagyng these wordes, in the author thus expressed: Quòd Petri non inhærent vestigiis, præmiis inhiatires, nec eius potestatem retinent, cuius sanctitatem probantur non imitari: that is, because they follow not þe steps of Peter, huntyng for rewardes, neither haue they the power and autoritie of hym, whose holiness they declare themselues not to follow, &c.
MarginaliaDecrees of Pope Vrbanus.By the same Vrbanus: the seuen howers, which we call septem horas Canonicas, were first instituted in the Church.
Item, by this pope was decreed, no bishop to be made, but vnder the name and title of some certayne place.
MarginaliaIoā Stella.Item, that Mattens and howers of the day, should euery day be sayd.
MarginaliaNauelerusAlso euery Saterday, to be sayd the masse of our Lady: and all the Iewes Sabboth to be turned to the seruice of our Lady, as in the Councell of Turon, to the which seruice was apoynted the Antheme, Ora pro populo, interueni pro clero, intercede pro deuoto fœmineo sexu.
MarginaliaDist. 31.
Eos qui. 15. q. 6.
Iuratos.Item, all such of the clergy as had wyues to be depriued of their order.
Item, to be lawfull for subiectes to breake theyr othe of allegeaunce, with all such as were by the Pope excommunicate.
Marginalia30. q. 8.
quod autem.Item, not to be lawfull both for husbande and wyfe to christen one child both together, with matters many mo.
By the said Pope, thus many chapters stand written in the canon law. Dist. 7. Sanctoruum, dist. 31. Eos. qni. 1. q. 1. Si qui dist. 56. præsbyterorum, 11. q. 3. quibus. 15. q. 6. Iuratos, 16. q 7. congregatio. 19. q. 2. Statuimus, 23. q. 8. Tributum, 30. q. 4. quod autem. &c.
MarginaliaExample of Gods rightfull iudgement in punishing cruell murther.In the 6. yere of this kynges reigne: Malcoline king of Scots (which foure times before had made great slaughter of old and yong in the North partes, as is before shewed) brake into Northumberlād with all the power he could make: and there by the right iudgement of God was slaine with his sonne Edward, and also Margaret his wyfe sister to Edgar Adeling, aboue mynded, a vertuous and deuout Lady, within 3. dayes after.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaAnselmus made archbishop of Cant.The same yeare he gaue the Archbishoprike of Caunterbury (after that he had deteined the same in hys owne handes 4. yeares) to Anselmus Abbot of Becke in Normandy.
This Anselme was an Italian in the Citie of Augusta borne, and brought vp in the Abbey of Becke in Normandy: where, he was so straite a follower of vertue, that (as the story recordeth) he wyshed rather to be wythout