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

§ 107. This Pope Gregory 6th. (who was John Gratian the Roman Arch-Presbyter, that Werner saith was illiterate and made him a fellow Pope) is very variously described: Baron. and Bin. and some others make him an honest man that ended the Schism. Cardinal Benno maketh him Simoniacal that hired them out to get the Papacy: Baron▪ and Bin. for this revile him as a malicious liar. They say that Gregory, for punishing sacrilegious villains by the sword that cared not for Anathema's, was accused by the Romans that now lived by theft and rapine, as a Simonist and a murderer. Conrad being dead and Henry his Son made Emperor, he being in Italy held a Synod at Sutria near Rome where all the four Popes causes were examined: And the three former were deposed, that is, deprived of the revenue which was parted among them, and this Gregory 6. (say most authors, and even Hermannus that wrote in those very times) was deposed, (but saith Baron. he honestly resigned.) And the Roman Clergy being found so bad, that none were fit for the place, the Emperor chose (say most, or caused to be chosen saith Bin.) the Bishop of Bamberg in Germany called Clement the 2d.

§ 107. This Pope Gregory 6th. (who was Iohn Gratian the Roman Arch-Presbyter, that Werner saith was illiterate and made him a fellow Pope) is very variously described: Baron. and Bin. and some others make him an honest man that ended the Schism. Cardinal Benno maketh him Simoniacal that hired them out to get the Papacie: Baron▪ and Bin. for this revile him as a malicious lyar. They say that Gregory, for punishing sacrilegious villains by the sword that cared not for Anathema's, was accused by the Romans that now lived by theft and rapine, as a Simonist and a murderer. Conrade being dead and Henry his Son made Emperor, he being in Italy held a Synod at Sutria near Rome where all the four Popes causes were examined: And the three former were deposed, that is, deprived of the revenue which was parted among them, and this Gregory 6. (say most authors, and even Hermannus that wrote in those very times) was deposed, (but saith Baron. he honestly resigned.) And the Roman Clergy being found so bad, that none were fit for the place, the Emperor chose (say most, or caused to be chosen saith Bin.) the Bishop of Bamberge in Germany called Clement the 2d.