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

O holy Bishops and Councils,¹ that take it to be no sin to lye and forswear, if it do but deliver the People of God! But the Pope's patience would not hold at the charge of Heresy, but after great expectations, he told them that [That Church had never had Heresy: yea, the same Church had quelled all Heresies—And Ego rogavi pro te, Petre, secureth it. As much as to say, Though I confessed an Heresy before I was aware, now I tell you, the same thing is an Henrician Heresy in others, and none in me.

O holy Bishops and Councils,¹ that take it to be no sin to lye and forswear, if it do but deliver the People of God! But the Pope's patience would not hold at the charge of Heresie, but after great expectations, he told them that [That Church had never had Heresie: yea, the same Church had quelled all Heresies—And Ego rogavi pro te, Petre, secureth it. As much as to say, Though I confest an Heresie before I was aware, now I tell you, the same thing is an Henrician Heresie in others, and none in me.

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§ 133. CCCC. An. 1116. A Roman Synod to end a strife between the two Monasteries, Cluniacens. & Cassinens.

§ 134. Platina tells us how the Pope sent the Pisans to fight against the Saracens at Sea; and when they were absent, the Lucenses sought to take their City, but the Florentines honestly came and repelled them; for which the Pisans gave them two Porphyretice Columns.