in which many and innumerable heinous Crimes were committed in the Christian People, in Murders and Perjuries, in Sacrilege and Adulteries, in Rapines, in Burnings, either in the Churches of God, or divers other places, in Plunderings and oppressing of the Poor, by miserable usage, and almost unheard of among Christians; which all, as is aforesaid, reflect on the Author.
VII. In the divisions of the Empire rashly made by him, against the common peace, and the safety of the whole Empire, for his own will; and the Oath which compelled all the people to swear, that they would act against his ⟨p. 258⟩Sons as Enemies, when he might have pacified them by Fatherly Authority, and the counsel of his faithful People.
VIII. That so many Mischiefs and Crimes committed in the Kingdom committed to him, by his negligence and improvidence were not enough, which yet cannot be numbered, by which the Kingdom was evidently disgraced and endangered: but moreover to add to the heap of miseries, he lastly drew all the People of his power to their common destruction, when he ought to have been to his People the Captain of safety and of peace, when the Divine Piety had decreed to have mercy of his People by an unheard of and invisible manner, and by preaching in our ages.
For these things therefore, and in all these things which are before recited, confessing himself guilty before the Priests, (or Bishops) or all the People, with tears, and protesting that in all these things he sinned, he desired public Penance, that so he might satisfy the Church by repenting, which he had scandalized by sinning; and as he was a scandal by neglecting many things, so he professed he would be an example by undergoing due Penance.
And after this Confession he delivered to the Bishops the Paper of his Guilts and Confession for future memorial, and they laid it on the Altar; and then he put off his military Girdle and laid it on the Altar, and stripping himself of his secular Habit, he took the Habit of a Penitent put on him by the hands of the Bishops, that after so great and such Penance*, no Man after may return to a secular Militia.
These things thus done, it pleased them that every Bishop should write in his own Papers how the matter was done, and should strengthen it by his own subscription, and offer it to Prince Lotharius, thus strengthened in memory of the Fact.
in which many and innumerable heinous Crimes were committed in the Christian People, in Murders and Perjuries, in Sacriledge and Adulteries, in Rapines, in Burnings, either in the Churches of God, or divers other places, in Plunderings and oppressing of the Poor, by miserable usage, and almost unheard of among Christians; which all, as is aforesaid, reflect on the Author.
VII. In the divisions of the Empire rashly made by him, against the common peace, and the safety of the whole Empire, for his own will; and the Oath which compelled all the people to swear, that they would act against his ⟨p. 258⟩Sons as Enemies, when he might have pacified them by Fatherly Authority, and the counsel of his faithful People.
VIII. That so many Mischiefs and Crimes committed in the Kingdom committed to him, by his negligence and improvidence were not enough, which yet cannot be numbred, by which the Kingdom was evidently disgraced and endangered: but moreover to add to the heap of miseries, he lastly drew all the People of his power to their common destruction, when he ought to have been to his People the Captain of safety and of peace, when the Divine Piety had decreed to have mercy of his People by an unheard of and invisible manner, and by preaching in our ages.
For these things therefore, and in all these things which are before recited, confessing himself guilty before the Priests, (or Bishops) or all the People, with tears, and protesting that in all these things he sinned, he desired publick Pennance, that so he might satisfie the Church by repenting, which he had scandalized by sinning; and as he was a scandal by neglecting many things, so he professed he would be an example by undergoing due Pennance.
And after this Confession he delivered to the Bishops the Paper of his Guilts and Confession for future memorial, and they laid it on the Altar; and then he put off his military Girdle and laid it on the Altar, and stripping himself of his secular Habit, he took the Habit of a Penitent put on him by the hands of the Bishops, that after so great and such Pennance*, no Man after may return to a secular Militia.
These things thus done, it pleased them that every Bishop should write in his own Papers how the matter was done, and should strengthen it by his own subscription, and offer it to Prince Lotharius, thus strengthened in memory of the Fact.
- *Here is a new sort of Imposition of the Bishops hands, to depose a King so as never to be restored: But it failed.
