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Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful…Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull…
Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful soldiers that the Devil either by his grand captains the emperors, or by his most dearly beloved sons and heirs the popes, have most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poisoned doctrines wherewith that great read dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his traitorous practises and designs, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, and our most religious Sovereign Lord King James. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and divers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull souldiers that the Diuell either by his grand captaines the emperours, or by his most deerly beloued sonnes and heyres the popes, haue most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poysoned doctrins wherewith that great redde dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his trayterous practises and designes, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie, and our most religious Soueraigne Lord King Iames. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and diuers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.
London: printed by George Eld and Ralph Blower, 1615
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Charles, the son of the aforesaid Pipinus, confirmed the gift of his Father unto the Pope, and added thereunto the city and Dominion of Venice, Histria, the Dukedoms of Foroinliense, Spoletanum, Be•e•entanum, and other more possessions to the patrimony of Peter, making him the Prince of Rome and Italy, wherefore the Pope entitled him, most Christian King, and ordained him only to be taken for Emperor, and made him Patricium Romanum; and Caroloman, Carolus his eldest brother, being •ead, Bertha his wife, with her two children, came to Pope Adrian, to have them confirmed into his fathers Kingdom: the Pope, to show a pleasure to Carolus, would not agree, but gave her, and her two children, and Desiderius the Lombard king, with his whole Kingdom, wife and Children, into the hands of Carolus, who led them into France, and kept them in servitude during their lives.
Charles, the sonne of the aforesaid Pipinus, confirmed the gift of his Father vnto the Pope, and added thereunto the citie and Dominion of Uenice, Histria, the Dukedomes of Foroinliense, Spoletanum, Be•e•entanum, and other more possessions to the patrimony of Peter, making him the Prince of Rome and Italy, wherefore the Pope intituled him, most Christian King, and ordained him onely to be taken for Emperour, and made him Patricium Romanum; and Caroloman, Carolus his eldest brother, being •ead, Bertha his wife, with her two children, came to Pope Adrian, to haue them confirmed into his fathers Kingdome: the Pope, to shew a pleasure to Carolus, would not agrée, but gaue her, and her two children, and Desiderius the Lumbard king, with his whole Kingdome, wife and Children, into the hands of Carolus, who led them into France, and kept them in seruitude during their liues.
By this Adrian, and Pope Leo his successor, was Carolus Magnus proclaimed Emperor, and the Empire translated from the Grecians to the Frenchmen, in the year 801.