Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§ 47. CCLXXX. In another Council at Rome, An. 865. the Pope restoreth Rhotaldus: For Hincmarus at last let him out of Prison, and let him go to Rome, but would neither go nor send thither any Legates himself, as the Pope required, for his own and the Synod's defence.

§ 48. CCLXXXI. An. 866. A Synod at Soissons wrote to the Pope about Hincmarus, and against encouraging false Ordinations, unless after privately confirmed, &c.

§ 49. CCLXXXII. The Pope was so busy and troublesome with the French Bishops, making himself Judge in matters that he knew not, and restoring those that they deposed, that An. 867. a Synod at Tr•cas wrote to inform him of all that had passed for 33 years; how Ebbo and his Synod of Bishops had slandered and deposed the Emperor Ludovicus Pius, and how he did it to please Lotharius; and when Ludovicus was ⟨p. 273⟩restored how he fled; and when Ludovicus was dead how Lotharius with the base temporizing Bishops restored him, and after he had been condemned and resigned his place, returned to the exercise of it and ordained divers; and how upon the prevailing of Charles against Lotharius he was cast out again: and how after Lotharius got the Pope to appoint the hearing of all again when he was condemned, and how after this he was made a Bishop in Germany, and Rhemes was ten years ruled by two Presbyters, and how the Pope Paschal chose this Traitor to preach to the Heathens near him, and how Hincmarus was chosen, &c. as aforesaid. Such trouble did a Usurper put the Churches to.^*

§ 49. CCLXXXII. The Pope was so busie and troublesom with the French Bishops, making himself Judge in matters that he knew not, and restoring those that they deposed, that An. 867. a Synod at Trcas wrote to inform him of all that had passed for 33 years; how Ebbo and his Synod of Bishops had slandered and deposed the Emperor Ludovicus Pius, and how he did it to please Lotharius; and when Ludovicus was