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

§ 108. The Emperor settling the Bishop of Bamberg, Clem. 2. in the chair, returned and took the last Pope Gregory with him to avoid contention; and Clement went after with Hildebrand and dyed by the way the 9th. month after his Creation. Benedict hearing this invadeth the Papacy again, the third time, even that villain that was first of the four, and held it eight months after this, so yet we have divers Popes.

§ 108. The Emperor setling the Bishop of Bamberge, Clem. 2. in the chair, returned and took the last Pope Gregory with him to avoid contention; and Clement went after with Hildebrand and dyed by the way the 9th. month after his Creation. Benedict hearing this invadeth the Papacy again, the third time, even that villain that was first of the four, and held it eight months after this, so yet we have divers Popes.

§ 109. An. 1067. A Council is held at Rome by Clem. 2. against Simony.

§ 110. Poppo Bishop of Brixia is made Pope, by the Emperor and the common suffrage, say Bar. and Bin. (an. 1048.) But saith Platina and others, it is reported that he made the poison with which the ⟨p. 342⟩Citizens poisoned his predecessor Clem. 2. And that he seized on the place by violence without any consent of Clergy or People, it being now the custom for any ambitious man, that could, to seize on the Popedom; but God, saith Plot, as a just revenger resisted him, for he dyed the twenty third day of his Papacy. Yet the Romans had again taken an oath in Clem. 2d's. time to choose no Pope without the Emperor's licence. For the Romans were become so wicked and factious that they were not to be trusted in such a thing.

§ 110. Poppo Bishop of Brixia is made Pope, by the Emperor and the common suffrage, say Bar. and Bin. (an. 1048.) But saith Platina and others, it is reported that he made the poyson with which the