Cardinal Bellarmine Sworn.

Q. Are you the Bellarmine that wrote what is called Fifteen Marks of the True Church, to prove the Church of Rome the only true Church, &c.?

A. I am.

Q. Do you know the Prisoner at the bar? A. Yes, I am intimately acquainted with him. Q. Are you not a Roman Catholic by profession?

A. I am.

Q. Did you not write and publish several books, to vindicate his authority?

A. I did.

Q. Did you publish in your 4th book de Pontiff, as follows: "In good sense and judgment, Christ hath given to Peter, (and consequently to the Pope) the power of making that to be sin, which is no sin, and that which is not sin, to be sin ?"

A. Let me see the copy.

It was shown to him.

Q. Do you acknowledge it to be your own writing and publishing?

A. I do acknowledge it.

Q. Did you publish this book, with others, by the Prisoner's authority?

A. I did. I acted by his commission, and was supported by his government.

A number of Emperors, Kings, and Princes were now called as witnesses, who were either excommunicated, or deposed, or dethroned, or

assassinated by the Prisoner. Some appeared also who were otherwise treated. And perhaps a greater number of crowned heads never appeared in any Court before.

Phillipicus Bardanes, Emperor of the Greeks, Sworn.

Q. Do you know the Prisoner at the bar? A. I do. He lived at Rome when I knew him. Q. Did he ever presume to usurp any authority, as the Vicar of Christ?

A. He did; within a little better than a century, after he first obtained the title of Universal Bishop, he excommunicated and condemned me.

Q. Will you relate to the court, the pretext assigned by the Prisoner for his conduct to you? A. I ordered a picture which represented the VI. General Council to be pulled down from its place, in the Church called St. Sophia in Constantinople. And as I perceived the people fast verging to the worship of Images, I sent to Rome a mandate to remove all Images of that nature from places of worship. The Prisoner, who then went by the name of Constantine the Universal Bishop, immediately opposed my decree, ordered six, pictures of Councils to be placed up in the porch of St. Peter's, assembled a Council at Rome, and condemned me as an Apostate. Tumult and insurrections followed as the consequences, which the year following deprived me of the Imperial Throne.

Q. Was the Prisoner at the time he condemned you, established as a Temporal Prince at Rome?

A. No, he was not. tained his supremacy, he always appeared to be aspiring after it. He was subject to me as his Emperor.

But from the time he ob

Emperor Leo, the Isaurian, Sworn.

Q. Did you not profess to be a great enemy to the worship of Images?

A. I did. What the Emperor Bardanes begun I resolutely carried on.

Q. Did the Prisoner at the bar ever presume to contradict your edicts, and exercise authority over you, as the Vicar of Christ?

A. He did. I issued out an edict in the year 726, to forbid the worshipping of Images, and also to remove them all, except that of Christ's Crucifixion, from all places of worship. The Prisoner then opposed me in the most outrageous manner. He passed a sentence of Excommunication against me, and declared me unworthy of the Christian name. No sooner was this formidable sentence made public, than the Roman and other Italian Princes, subject to me, violated their allegiance, and rising in arms, either massacred or banished all my deputies or officers.

Q. Will you relate to the Court some of the effects that followed?

A. When I first proclaimed my decree, a number of my subjects, who were deluded by the Priests and Monks, who acted for him, raised in rebellion the islands of Archipelago, ravaged a part of Asia, and afterwards reached Italy. The Prisoner (who was the author and ringleader of

these civil commotions and insurrections,) had ordered me to revoke my edict against Images, and upon my refusing, his anathemas followed. However, being exasperated by these violent proceedings of this haughty Pontiff, I resolved to make him and his Italian rebels feel my displeasure; but I failed in the attempt. More irritated than discouraged by this disappointment, I assembled a Council at Constantinople, ordered all Images to be burnt, and inflicted a variety of punishments upon such as were attached to that idolatrous worship. The deluded followers of the Prisoner, being supported by him, continued to rebel. And at last it ended, after much blood being spilt, in the Italian provinces, being torn from the Greek Empire.

Q. What name did the prisoner go by, when you knew him?

A. He was known by the name of Constantine, afterwards he assumed that of Gregory I. and Gregory II.

Emperor Constantine, Sworn.

Q In what year did you succeed to the Imperial Throne?

A. In the year of our Lord 741. I am the son of Leo, who resigned his sceptre to me.

Q. Are you acquainted with the conduct manifested by the Prisoner at the bar to your Father, and did he presume to treat you in the same manner?

A. I recollect his base conduct to my Father. He was excommunicated; all his subjects in Italy

were absolved from the obligations of the oath of allegiance which they had taken, and prohibited from paying tribute to, or showing him any marks of submission and obedience. I followed my Father's steps, and in a Council assembled at Constantinople, in the year 754, condemned both the worship and use of Images. I met with the same treatment from the Prisoner, as my Father did, while I endeavoured to the utmost of my power, to extirpate idolatry from my dominions.

Q. Did the Prisoner excommunicate you by the same name as he did your Father?

A. His Ecclesiastical interdict was sent forth, first by the name of Gregory II. and afterwards Gregory III.

Emperor Leo IV. Sworn.

Q. Look at the Prisoner at the bar. Do you know him, and by what name do you know him? A. I do know him. He lived at Rome, and was known by the name of Pope Adrian.

Q In what year was you declared Emperor? A. In the year 755.

Q Did you continue long on the Imperial Throne?

A. No. Only about five years. Three Emperors who preceded me had zealously opposed Image worship, and I followed their example. But a cup of poison, administered by the impious counsel of my perfidious and profligate wife Irene, rendered me incapable of performing the functions of royalty. The Prisoner and my wife.