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

§. 66. A Council at Ravenna, of small importance, and one at Rome, to confirm Glastonbury-Monastery I pass by: and all the English Councils which Spelman hath given us by themselves. But it is worth the noting, that the famous Dunstan that banished Priests Marriage out of England, was the Favourite of these two Popes, John the 12. and 13th. ⟨p. 333⟩even much countenanced by the monstrous Pope that lay with two Sisters of his own, and made his House as a common Whore-house, if a Council under solemn Appeals to God, and Execrations, said true.

§. 66. A Council at Revenna, of small importance, and one at Rome, to confirm Glassenbury-Monastery I pass by: and all the English Councils which Spelman hath given us by themselves. But it is worth the noting, that the famous Dunstan that banished Priests Marriage out of England, was the Favourite of these two Popes, Iohn the 12. and 13th. ⟨p. 333⟩even much countenanced by the monstrous Pope that lay with two Sisters of his own, and made his House as a common Whore-house, if a Council under solemn Appeals to God, and Execrations, said true.

§. 67. The next Pope according to Platina, is Benedict (though Onuphrius and Binius put Donus next: saith Plot. Cintius a potent Citizen of Rome took him and laid him in Jail, and there strangled him: He wondered that neither Otho nor any other ever Revenged it: But Otho was now near Death, and could not have leisure to bring an Army out of Germany to Rome, every time that wicked Citizens and Popes f•ll out: Did the Universal Church own this man also? But (saith Plot.) Benedict's Merits were such as Cintius his reward importeth. But yet it was not well done of Cintius to meddle with the Pope were he never so bad: But alas (saith he) how the World is changed! For in our Age, Popes lay Citizens, faulty or suspected, in the same Prison, and then Macerate them.