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and put an end es the power of the many petty tyrants that 
furrounded the city of Rome o ona fides Se he year 1060, 
the pall at the ate) hands, who refufed to g 
iti ee — 
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higher preferment. When this council broke up, Nicholas 
went to Florence, where he died the fame ee after a fhort 
s defcribed by 
ning, Of a very lively 
genius, and of a eae Hea in the purfuit of any under- 
ing on which determine ays, he was 
chafte beyond fulpicon, wand that his benevolence knew no 
bounds. in his letters are ftill extant ; one of which 
is directed to Edward the Confeffor, king of England, and 
contains a confirm the privileges granted to the 
of Weltmintter, and the reft chiefly relate to the 
ecclefiaftical affairs of France. They. are inferted in the 
i — e Colle&t. Conciliorum 
s Il, pope, whofe family name was John 
Cajetan, was a native of ee. — defcended aes a branch 
of the spe family of the Urfi He was elected to the 
n November 1277, and faintly after his 
Andronicus, to contirm the union seed upon at the coun- 
d ‘lee {wore to a . ace which were fub- 
e fame year, 
e to his diploma of 
In return a this Lberalty, the pope obliged 
any, de- 
td 
aa 
of ek ee to = dignity ae ig of the Romans. 
of sear. 
nity of fenator of Rome, enferred upon him by pope 
Clement hk ., and then iffued a bull, forbidding any emperor, 
ng, prin , duke, marquis, count, or Vea &c. from 
Fected hereafter to that office. The fame bull or- 
see ae the on dignity fhould not be conferred 
3 at the end of 
choo 
anal to eae ‘Charles, that he became a party in projecting 
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that pgtneigar pala formed by John of Procida, and 
Peter, king o 7 _ poe Charles out of the ifland, 
which is ae b e of the * Sicilian ie re = 
Before this pe a was eee for exécution, he 
Suriano, near Viterbo, in the year 1280, after a ponuhcae 
of two years, and almoft nine months. He is praifed on 
account of his excellent moral qualities ; 
ro) an extra- 
called “The Conft word in it, 
4 8 e Cc 
. is attributed . treatife «* De 
’”? and five of his “ Letters’? are given i 
er r. 
NicHo.as IV e, formerly known es the name of 
Jerome ‘A fooli, detherded from humble nts, was born 
e took hi d in the 
an 
from thence into Tartary, to daiton 
fidels. Afterwards he ene cardinal by p 
Nicholas ILI., by whom, aad y Paes riu 
employed on various miffions. By Mar 
a to the bifhopric of Paleftrina, and on 
Honorius was raifed to the high dignity of pope. 
At his coronation, out of gratitude to Nicholas III., wh 
had created him a member of the facred college, he took 
the name Nicholas IV. Soon pial his prin he interefted 
phonfus made his 
ae ae aioe, almoft imonediatels ‘afterwards, his brother 
James, who fucceeded him, refufed to ratify the treaty. 
At t length, in 1292, Nicholas, finding that he paid no re- 
ard to hi3 repeated admonitions to furrender the ifland of 
ate em an of Et hio iae But the objet which 
fee aa to occupy his attention more than every thing elfe, 
was the defperate fate of the Chriftians in the Eaft, who 
were now reduced to the greateft extremities of weaknefs 
and 
of it t 
