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usurpation, as he did apply Babylon to Rome. 

 Charles the fifth, emperor, who was accounted one 

 of the pope s best sons, yet proceeded in matter tem 

 poral towards pope Clement with strange rigour : 

 never regarding the pontificality, but kept him pri 

 soner thirteen months in a pestilent prison ; and was 

 hardly dissuaded by his council from having sent 

 him captive into Spain; and made sport with the 

 threats of Frosberg the German, who wore a silk 

 rope under his cassock, which he would shew in all 

 companies; telling them that he carried it to stran 

 gle the pope with his own hands. As for Philip the 

 fair, it is the ordinary example, how he brought 

 pope Boniface the eighth to an ignominious end, 

 dying mad and enraged ; and how he stiled his re 

 script to the pope s bull, whereby he challenged 

 his temporals, &quot; Sciat fatuitas vestra,&quot; not your 

 beatitude, but your stultitude ; a stile worthy to be 

 continued in the like cases ; for certainly that claim 

 is mere folly and fury. As for native examples, here 

 it is too long a field to enter into them. Never 

 kings of any nation kept the partition-wall between 

 temporal and spiritual better in times of greatest 

 superstition : I report me to king Edward I. that 

 set up so many crosses, and yet crossed that part of 

 the pope s jurisdiction, no man more strongly. But 

 these things have passed better pens and speeches : 

 here I end them. 



But now to come to the particular charge of this 

 man, I must inform your lordships the occasion and 

 nature of this offence : There hath been published 



