deduceth the like authority and jurisdiction, to his Successor the Bishop of Rome."-Note on Matt. 14: 29. Rhemist's New Test. published by the Pope's authority.

Mr. Historical Truth was then further examined by the Attorney General.

Q. Are you acquainted with the prisoner's hand-writing?

A. Perfectly so.

Q. Do you believe that this is the hand-writing of the prisoner at the bar?

(The papers were then delivered to him.)

A. I do believe it is: he never disowned it. Many thousand copies have been published by his orders.

Q. Did you ever know the prisoner to make similar declarations in support of his cy?

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A. Yes. If I should relate all that I have taken notes of, none in this court could survive half the time it would take to read them.

Q. Is the prisoner owned as Lord and Sovereign by those who act under him, called Bishops or Priests?

A. Such take an oath at their consecration (so called) that they will from that time forward be faithful to St. Peter, and to the Holy Roman Church, and to their Lord the Pope, and his successors canonically entered; to help them to defend and keep the Papacy, and the rules of the Fathers. And they not only swear to be faithful, but also to be obedient

And not only to endeavor to preserve and defend the Rights, Honors, Privileges, and Authorities of the Pope, but to increase and advance them, and to the utmost of their power to cause the Pope's commands to be observed by others as well as themselves. The first part of the oath I have alluded to was framed when the prisoner called himself by the name of Pope Gregory VII.* but several additions have since been made.

Q. When the prisoner was known by that name, did he not give more evident proof of his rebellious authority, than ever had been known before?

A. He did. When he was known by the name of Hildebrand, or, as he was often called, Hellbrand, on account of his tyrannical disposition, he planned the most traitorous designs, which he afterwards brought into effect, though not to the extent of his ambitious views. By the name of Gregory VII. he became outrageous, and impiously attempted to subjugate to his jurisdiction, the Emperors, Kings and Princes of the earth, and to render their dominions tributary to him at Rome. Such infamous behavior has frequently been called by his deluded followers his pious and apostolic exploits. His government was one continued scene of tumult and slaughter.

I need only refer to his own epistles, signed by this name, to prove more of his traitorous

*See Decretal, L. 2. Tit. 24. C. 4.

conduct than it would be proper for me now to trouble the court with. I shall briefly state, that he drew up an oath for the King or Emperor of the Romans, from whom he demanded a profession of subjection and allegiance.* It is a well known fact, that France, deceived by the subtlety of the prisoner, contributed more than all other nations to the establishment of his dignity and dominions. Yet he pretended that this kingdom was tributary to him, and commanded his legates to demand yearly, in the most solemn manner, the payment of that tribute. He wrote an insolent letter to Philip I. King of France, to whom he recommended an humble and obliging carriage, from the consideration that both his kingdom and his soul were under his dominion, who had the power to bind and loose him both in heaven and earth! Nothing escaped his all-grasping ambition; he pretended that Saxony was a feudal tenure, held in subjection to him, to whom it had been formerly yielded by Charlemagne, as a pious offering to St. Peter. He also extended his pretensions to the kingdoms of Spain and England, and other countries; and had his success been equal to the extent of his insolent views, all the kingdoms of Europe would have been tributary to the prisoner, on the pretext of his being the Vicar of Christ, and Prince over all nations and kingdoms.

*See Book ix. of his Epistles, Epist. 3.

Q. Did he not in the exercise of his rebellious authority, depose kings and princes when called by this name?

A. He deposed, and treated in the most shameful manner, the Emperor Henry IV. And he dethroned Basilaus II. king of Poland, with all the circumstances of infamy that he could invent. After pulling him from his throne, he dissolved the oath of allegiance which his subjects had taken, and by an express and imperious edict prohibited the nobles to elect a new king without his approbation. Demetrius Suinimez, Duke of Croatia and Dalmatia, was raised by the prisoner to the rank and prerogatives of royalty, in the year 1076, and solemnly proclaimed king by his legate at Salona, upon conditions that he should pay an annual tribute of two hundred pieces of gold to him as to St. Peter, at every Easter.

Q. Did he not call himself by a variety of high and imperious titles?

A. Yes: he not only assumed the appellation of Universal Bishop, but also of Sovereign Pontiff, Christ's Vicar, Prince of the Apostles, God on earth, Lord God the Pope, His Holiness, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, Prince over all Nations and Kingdoms, the Most Holy and Most Blessed, Master of the Universal World, Father of Kings, Light of the World, Most High and Sovereign Bishop, &c.*

*See Council of Siena, printed at Paris 1612. Pius V. bull to Queen Elizabeth. Newton on the Prophecies, vol. ii. p. 366. Mosh. Eccl. Hist. Edwards' Hist. Redemption, &c.

And he has frequently declared that his power extended to things Terrestrial, Celestial and Infernal. He also presumed to qualify and invest with the same ability, the different orders of Priests who acted under his rebellious government.

Q. Has not the prisoner at the bar claimed adoration from the very creatures who elected him?

A. He has; when he was occasionally elected he was clothed with (what are called) the Pontifical Robes, crowned and placed upon the altar. The Cardinals then kiss his feet, and this impious ceremony is called Adoration. They first elect, and then they worship him. When the prisoner was known by the name of Pope Martin V. on the medals of him then coined, two are represented crowning the Pope, and two kneeling before him, with this inscription, "Quem creant adorant,"-whom they create they adore.* When he was elected by this name, the Emperor Sigismund kneeled down before the whole Council of Constance, kissed his feet, and worshipped him. It is a fact universally known, that deluded by the artifices of the prisoner, several emperors and kings have thought it an honor to kiss his toe, being misled by his assumed titles of Vicar of Christ, &c.

*Bonanni Numismat. 'Pontific. Romanor. Daubuz, p. 381. Mosh. Abr. Eccl. Hist. 2 vol. p. 352. Dub. Edit.