call the evidences and shew by them, that the Prisoner at the bar is guilty of the charges laid against him in the indictment. It is for you to decide upon the guilt or innocence of the Prisoner, as you on your oath, shall be of opinion is agreeable to the case. If the charge is not supported you will of course acquit him.

Mr. Historical Truth, being called and sworn, was examined by the Attorney General.

QUEST. Have you been acquainted with Antichrist, the Prisoner at the bar?

ANSW. Yes. I have known him for many centuries. He has often employed my pen.

Q. Where did he live when you knew him? A. At the City of Rome in Italy.

Q. Do you recollect at what period you first became acquainted with him?

A. I knew him before he claimed the title of Universal Bishop, but from the time he usurped it I have taken particular notice of him.

Q. In what year did he first assume that title? and what name did he then go by?

A. In the year of our Lord 606. He was then known by the name of Pope Boniface III.

Q. Are you acquainted with any circumstances that contribute to the establishment of the Prisoner by that title?

A. I am.

Q. Will you briefly state them to the court? A. Yes, I recollect well, that for a long time there was much dispute between the Prisoner at the bar, and another person, who went by the

name of the Bishop of Constantinople, about who should have the title and power connected with it, as head of the Church. The Emperor of Rome, Mauritius, with all his family, consisting of six sons and two daughters, being murdered by Phocas, who usurped the Roman Government, and who being sanctioned by the Prisoner, he in return conferred on him the title of Universal Bishop.

Q. Do you recollect on what pretext the Prisoner at the bar founded his claim to this title?

A. On a supposition that the Apostle Peter had been at Rome to found the Church of Rome, as Mother and Mistress of all Churches. And that our Lord the King had delegated him with power to invest his successors with the title of Vicar of Christ, &c.

Q. Was it from ignorance or wickedness, do you suppose, that the prisoner was first led to arrogate his supremacy.

A. I do believe that it proceeded from wickedness. For it never could proceed from ignorance as his predecessor Gregory, who was Bishop of Rome, had openly declared to the knowledge of the Prisoner, "That whosoever calls himself, or desires by others to be called Universal Bishop, "is a forerunner of Antichrist." He also knows that he never had been owned by that title before Phocas granted it to him, and he also well knows now that he was not universally acknowledged after his usurpation.

Cross-examined by Counsellor Quibble, Counsel for the Prisoner.

Q. You say that you have been long acquainted with the prisoner, were you intimately acquainted with him?

A. Yes.

Q. On your oath, do you or do you not believe, that when the Prisoner at the bar first claimed his title, that it never was his intention to aim at further power?

A. It is probable, that he might not have intended to have carried his rebellious arms so far at first, but he soon convinced the world what he would do when he obtained the power.

Q. Did he not style himself Servant of Servants?

A. He did, but acted as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Phocas, the Emperor, examined by the Solicitor General.

This witness being a prisoner, was brought into the court attended by two of the keepers of the black gulf, and made a most awful and terrific appearence.

Q. Are you Phocas the Roman Emperor? A. Yes. My name is Phocas, and I am called Emperor of Rome.

Q. Did you know the Prisoner at the bar,

at Rome?

A. Alas I did, to my sorrow.

Q. Will you relate to the court, what you know of the prisoner, during your residence at Rome?

A. I am compelled to do it by the constraining hand of justice. I look forward with terror, to that great and tremendous day, when the Judge of the world, will constrain me to make a more public declaration. When I came to the throne, which I obtained by means the reflection of which adds to my misery, the prisoner at the bar, then Bishop of Rome, so insinuated himself into my favor, that I readily granted his request, and by an edict established him by the title of Universal Bishop. I was led to this measure by my ignorance of the real motives of the prisoner and of true religion. And as I detested the Bishop of Constantinople, and stood in need of the prisoner's influence, I sanctioned his claim.

Q. He was therefore principally by you established in his supremacy?

A. Yes.

Cardinal Baronious examined by Mr. Impartiality.

Q. Do you know the prisoner at the bar? A. Yes. I am intimately acquainted with him, as thousands know by my writings. Q. Of what religion are you?

A. I am a rigid Roman Catholic, and have long acted by the prisoner's authority.

Q. Are you acquainted with the way and

manner in which the prisoner first obtained the title of Universal Bishop?

A. I wrote and published to the world, that Phocas the Emperor, after he had murdered Mauritius and family, and usurped the government established Boniface III. Pope of Rome, by the title of Universal Bishop. Anastasius and Paul Deacon wrote nearly the same, and many have confirmed the testimony I have given.*

The Clerk of the Crown then read the following extracts which had the prisoner's signature to them.

"Christ made Peter the chief, that from him as from a certain head he might diffuse, as it were, his gifts into the whole body; for that having taken him in CONSORTIUM INDIVIDUA TRINITATIS, into the Partnership of the UNDIVI DED TRINITY; he would have him called that which the Lord himself was saying, thou art Peter, and upon this Rock I will build my church."t

Signed, BONIFACE VIII.

"Peter saith St. Bernard, walking upon the waters as Christ did, declared himself the only Vicar of Christ: which should be Ruler, not over one people, but over all. For many waters are many people. And from hence he

*See Anastasius, "De vitas Pontificum." Paul Diacon, "De rebus gestis Longobard." lib. 4. cap. 34. In Mauratorii "Scriptor, rerum Italicar." tom. i. p. 46.

tSexti Decret. L. 1, Tit. 6. cap. 17.