66 By the name of Gregory I. and II. you excommunicated Leo the Isaurian Emperor. "In the year 1076, by the name of Gregory VII. you deposed Henry IV. Emperor. "By the name of Celestine III. you excommunicated Henry VI. Emperor. "By the same name you excommunicated Leopold Duke of Austria. "By the same name you excommunicated Alphonso X. King of Galicia and Leon. "By the name of Innocent III. you deprived Philip Augustus King of France. "In the year 1245, by the names of Gregory IX. and Innocent IV. you deposed Frederic II. Em peror. "In the year 1303, by the name of Boniface VIII. you deprived Philip the Fair, King of France. "In the year 1512, by the name of Julius II. you deprived Lewis XII. King of France. દર "In the year 1538, by the name of Paul III. you deprived Henry VIII. King of England. "In the year 1570, by the name of Pius V. you deprived Elizabeth Queen of England. you issued out your edict in the year 1563, to order Joan Queen of Navarre to appear before your tribunal at Rome, to answer for the crime of rejecting your authority. "By the name of Paul IV. "In the year 1589, by the name of Sixtus V. you delivered a famous (or rather an infamous) oration, applauding the murder of Henry III. King of France, by a Jacobin Friar, as both admirable and meritorious. "By the name of Urban II. you prohibited Bishops and Priests from promising allegiance to Kings and Princes. "By the name of Martin V. you forced the Emperor Sigismund to violate his covenant and promise, and made that diabolical decree, that Faith must not be kept with Heretics. "By the name of Clement IX. you presumed to deprive James I. King of England of his right to the crown, even before he ascended the Throne, and afterwards attempted to destroy both him and his parliament by gunpowder. "By the name of Clement XI. you declared the treaty of Charles VI. Emperor, to be null and void, (so far as it did not appear to the interest of your government) although repeatedly confirmed by oath, and "By the name of Gregory VII. you not only dethroned Basilius King of Poland, but you did by an express and imperious edict, prohibit the Nobles of Poland from electing a new King without your consent, contrary to every divine law of our Sovereign Lord the King. "And in furtherance of your most evil and traitorous designs, you, the said ANTICHRIST, did, for the purpose of promoting rebellion and insurrection, wilfully and knowingly adhere to, and confederate with some of the most notorious and violent enemies of our Sovereign Lord the King. And as such false traitor, did feloniously and maliciously hold.such communication with the aforesaid rebels, with intent to alter and overthrow the constitution of the kingdom of our Lord. And our Sovereign Lord the King from his royal state, titles, and power, to depose and deprive, and our Sovereign Lord the King to death put. You, the said ANTICHRIST, with other false traitors, did in several countries, erect and establish most awful, dreadful, and diabolical courts for the trial and punishment of all those who refused to own your unlawful authority. To these courts or tribunals, you gave the name of Holy Office of Inquisitions, where every cruelty that devils could invent was employed by your commission. You also appointed to superintend these works and mansions of darkness, such false traitors as were zealously attached to your treasonable designs, and did confer on them the title of Holy Fathers of Inquisition, Holy Inquisitors, &c. "And in furtherance of said treason and rebellion, You, the said ANTICHRIST, with other false traitors, did presume to declare that you had, by divine right, power to introduce into the highest seat of dignity in heaven, some of the most notorious rebels against our Sovereign Lord and King. You did therefore (what you call) canonize a considerable number of such false traitors as Saints in heaven, both men and women, for the purpose of promoting your awful rebellion, by withdrawing the allegiance and affections of thousands from our lawful Sovereign, by venerating and adoring those creatures of your own forming, and thus promoting rebellion and treason in all the world to the utmost of your power. "And in further prosecution of said wicked designs as aforesaid, You, the said ANTICHRIST, did wilfully and maliciously, by open proclamation, give encouragement to the most detestable Murderers, Traitors, Robbers, and Villains, that could be collected together on earth. And did for such Murderers and Rebels appoint several places, called Holy Places of Refuge, where every infamous character lived in safety by your orders, in defiance of every divine and human law, for the purpose of promoting rebellion and treason against our Sovereign Lord the King. "And further to promote treason and rebellion, as such false traitor, You, the said ANTICHRIST, did, wickedly and feloniously, with other false traitors, proclaim the presumed power, to grant to those who were rich enough to purchase them, Indulgences, which administered remission of all sins, however enormous in their nature they might be. You did therefore, especially in Germany, in the year of our Lord, 1517, (when you were known by the name of Pope LEO X.) employ several persons connected with you to circulate and sell the said Indulgences for money; particularly a Dominican Friar, and false traitor, known by the name of JOHN TETZEL, who in describing the efficacy of these rebellious Indulgences, among other enormities said, that even had any one deflowered the mother of God, he had from you where withal to efface his guilt. And he also boasted that he had saved more souls from hell by those indulgences, than St. Peter had converted to Christianity by his preaching. "You likewise commissioned other false traitors to plead in the defence of said rebellious acts, when they were opposed by one who rejected your authority. And one CAJETAN, a rebel in your employ, did declare in support of your usurped power, that one drop of Christ's blood, being sufficient to redeem the whole human race, the remaining quantity that was shed in the garden and upon the cross, was left as a legacy to the church to be a treasure, from whence Indulgences were to be drawn and administered by the Roman Pontiff, or you, the said ANTICHRIST. And of these and other awful expressions you were the author when you were called Pope CLEMENT VII. Το "And in furtherance of said treason and rebellion, You, the said ANTICHRIST, with other false traitors: did wickedly, wilfully, and maliciously, murder and cause to be murdered many hundred thousand subjects of our Sovereign Lord the King, who refused to own your assumed supremacy. enumerate all the said murders would be a task impossible for men, if not for angels to perform: But you did, by various instruments, put to death upwards of a million of the people called WALDENSES and ALBIGENSES, whom you persecuted with fire and sword for several centuries. And you also burnt very many faithful preachers of the kingdom of our Lord. And you did, on the |