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

§ 176. The Pope having conquered the Emperor by Cursing, is past doubt now of Conquering Rome, (for such Men were Bishops by Conquest, and not by Consent.) To Tusculum he goeth, and now demandeth of the Romans, that they abrogate the Office of the Consuls: But finding this too hard a task to be done at once, he maketh a bargain with them, that none should by the People be chosen Consuls, till they had taken an Oath of Fidelity to the Pope, in his own proposed words, and that they would never do any thing against his dignity. And so Alexander goeth the third time to Rome, and calls a Council; but quickly dyeth, when after twenty years contention, he thought he was new settled in peace, An. 1185.

§ 176. The Pope having conquered the Emperor by Cursing, is past doubt now of Conquering Rome, (for such Men were Bishops by Conquest, and not by Consent.) To Tusculum he goeth, and now demandeth of the Romans, that they abrogate the Office of the Consuls: But finding this too hard a task to be done at once, he maketh a bargain with them, that none should by the People be chosen Consuls, till they had taken an Oath of Fidelity to the Pope, in his own proposed words, and that they would never do any thing against his dignity. And so Alexander goeth the third time to Rome, and calls a Council; but quickly dyeth, when after twenty years contention, he thought he was new setled in peace, An. 1185.

§ 177. Onuphrius, after Radavicus Frising. Joan. Cremon. Abb. Ursperg. &c. saith that it was this Pope Alexander, that first ordained that the Clergy and People being excluded from the Election of the Pope, (and so he was no true Bishop) the choice should be in the Cardinals shut up in Conclave, and go by two third parts of their Votes, to avoid Schisms for the time to come. Onuphrius saith, that he had the writing of Pope Lucius the 3d, that saith, he was the first that was chosen by the Cardinals scrutiny, (though the Cardinals in a looser way were lately made Electors before.)

§ 177. Onuphrius, after Radavicus Frising. Ioan. Cremon. Abb. Ursperg. &c. saith that it was this Pope Alexander, that first ordained that the Clergy and People being excluded from the Election of the Pope, (and so he was no true Bishop) the choice should be in the Cardinals shut up in Conclave, and go by two third parts of their Votes, to avoid Schisms for the time to come. Onuphrius saith, that he had the writing of Pope Lucius the 3d, that saith, he was the first that was chosen by the Cardinals scrutiny, (though the Cardinals in a looser way were lately made Electors before.)