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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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1Pope Alexander the third did not only with martial armours resist the Godly and noble Emperor Frederick, but at the last through the might of other princes, subduing him, compelled y• aforesaid Emperor, before he would give him absolution, & be at one with him, to lye flat down upon the ground before him in the sight of the people: and the pope setting his foot in the emperors neck, cried out with a loud voice and sayd: Scriptū est: Super aspidem et basiliscum ambulabis & conculcabis leonem & draconem. That is to say. It is written. Upon the Adder & the Cockatrice shalt thou walk and thou shalt tread down the lion & the dragon. In the year, &c. 1161. Nauclerus▪ Sabel. Jaco. Phil. Joan. Char.
1Pope Alexander the thyrde did not only with martiall armours resiste the Godly and noble Emperour Frederike, but at the laste thorow the might of other princes, subduing him, compelled y• aforesayd Emperour, before he wuld geue hym absolution, & be at one with him, to lye flatte down vpō the ground before hym in the syght of the people: and the pope setting hys foote in the emperors necke, cried out with a loude voyce and sayd: Scriptū est: Super aspidem et basiliscum ambulabis & conculcabis leonem & draconem. That is to saye. It is written. Upon the Adder & the Cockatrice shalt thou walke and thou shalt treade downe the lion & the dragon. In the yeare, &c. 1161. Nauclerus▪ Sabel. Iaco. Phil. Ioan. Char.
- 1A charitable act of so holy a father.
This pope made & compelled Lewis King of France,1 and Henry King of England to be his lackies & to run on foot by him, the one holding his horses bridle on the right side the other on the left side, leading him with great pomp through the city Totiacum unto Ligris. Chroni. Sigebertus.