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

§ 120. CCCLXXXVI. Fluentius, Bishop of Florence, published that Anti-christ was come. ¹Whether he told them who he was I know not: But An. 1105. A Council of 340 Bishops was there called, to try him for that dangerous doctrine; and finding that Prodigies and Calamities drew him to believe it, they chid him as a weak Man, and warned him to talk so dangerously no more, (you may know why.)

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§ 121. CCCLXXXVII. When the young Henry began his Rebellion against his Father, he called An. 1105. a Council at Quintilineburg, where he solemnly called God and Angels to witness, that it was not out of desire to Reign that he did what he did, nor to depose his Father, but to restore them to the Obedience of the Church, lamenting his Father's obstinacy against it: And he profest his Obedience to the Pope, and drew divers revolted Archbishops to do the like.

§ 122. CCCLXXXVIII. An. 1106. A Council with the Nobility or Princes was called by Henry junior at Mentz, where the old Emperor was again Excommunicated, and forced to resign his Sceptre to his Son; and this by those Princes, Prelates and Nobles, that had sworn Allegiance to him, supposing themselves absolved from all their Oaths by the Pope. Now it was that the three Archbishops violently divested him. When he asked them, what was his fault, and they said, Simony, in the Collation of Bishoprics and Abbeys, he adjured them (the Bishops of Mentz, and Colen, with the Bishop of Worms) by the name of the Eternal God, to say whatever he took of any of them: And they said, Nothing. He thanked God that so far their own tongues justified him, when their Bishoprics might have brought him no small Sum.