Here the people appeared filled with indignation, and were so irritated, that the court could not proceed for several minutes. And it is probable, the Prisoner would have been dragged from the dock, and would have become the object of the vindictive rage of the populace, but for the Lord Chief Justice, who after obtaining silence, observed, that however hideous and numerous the offences of the Prisoner might be, it was just that he should have a fair and legal trial.

Mr. Historical Truth, again called.

Q. Do you know the handwriting of the Prisoner by the name of Pope Martin V.

A. I am well acquainted with it.

Q. Is this his writing? (Here it was shown him.) A. It is.

Q. (From a Juror.) Did you ever printed?

see it

A. I have. It is inserted in the Council of Siena, held a little after, and was printed in Paris, in the year 1612.

Lewis XII. King of France, sworn.

Q. Look at the Prisoner at the bar. Have you been acquainted with him?

A. I have been acquainted with him. He lived at Rome when I knew him, and was called Pope Julius II. Vicar of Christ and Prince of the Apostles.

Q. Did he not by this name assume a military appearance, and look more like a Warrior than a Priest?

A. He did. His delight was in carnage and blood.

Q Was it to support his usurped authority he became a warrior?

A. The reason he appeared as a military Pontiff, was not only to support what power and authority he had unjustly acquired, but to extend his territories and government over all nations and kingdoms, agreeable to his title, Prince over all Nations and Kingdoms.

Q. Will you relate to the Court, what you recollect of his character and conduct, as the pretended Vicegerent of Christ?

A. When I first became acquainted with him, I understood that it was common for him every few years, if not weeks, to assume a new title. He therefore had been known by a prodigious number of names before he went by that of Julius II. By this name he was guilty of the most odious vices, too detestable to be named, but which he committed without the least limitation or restraint. To this truly horrid list of vices, I must add, the most savage ferocity, audacious arrogance, and the most extravagant passion for war. He therefore lived in camps, amidst the din of arms, and was ever ambitious for that fame which is acquired from battles won and cities laid desolate.

The Prisoner had kept a standing army, to fight his battles, from the year 1054, when he was known by the name of Pope Leo IX. and often

laid towns and villages in ruins, and deluged nations in human gore.

By the name of Julius, he entered on his military enterprise by declaring war against the Venetians, and being strengthened by the Emperor, in alliance with me, he afterwards laid siege to Ferara. After this he turned his arms against France, and engaged the Venetians, Spaniards, and Swiss, to support him in this campaign. In short, the whole time he went by this name was one continual scene of military tumult, nor did he allow Europe to enjoy a moment's tranquillity.

Q. Did you not endeavour to check his military career and set bounds to his ambition after the alliance was broken between you and him?

A. I did. For although I had been deluded into his religious opinions, and was considered a Roman Catholic, yet provoked by this arrogant Pontiff, I resolved to turn my arms against him, and if possible overthow the power of Rome. That my design might be clearly understood, I ordered a medal to be struck with a menacing inscription, representing Rome by the title of Babylon on the coin.

Several Cardinals also, encouraged by the protection of the Emperor Maximilian I. and me, assembled a Council at Pisa in the year 1511, with the design of setting bounds to the Prisoner, so formidable by this warlike name. He, on the other hand, gave orders for a Council to meet in the palace of the Lateran in the year 1512, in which the decrees of the Council of Pisa were condemned and annulled, in the most inju

rious and insulting terms. He likewise prepared to proclaim his usurped power as the Vicar of Christ, and thunder out the most dire and tremendous anathemas on my head, but which he had scarcely accomplished, before he was compelled to change his audacious name, in the midst of his ambitious and vindictive career.*

Henry VIII. King of England, sworn.

Q. Are you the same King Henry that received from the Prisoner the title of Defender of the Faith?

A. I am.

Q How came he to bestow on you that title? A. At the time I owned his supremacy in England, I wrote a book against Luther and the Reformation in Germany. This I published in the year 1521, with intent to defend the power and government of the Roman Pontiff. He then in return gave me the title, which has been used from that day.

Q. Did he not after this anathematize, excommunicate, and deprive you for rejecting his supremacy in England?

In

A. He did. Being instructed in the principles of popery, I constantly looked to the Prisoner's absolving power, and unlimited indulgences. the year 1533, I published a divorce with Queen Catharine, and married Anne Boleyn, without his consent: not but he would have granted my request, however criminal in its nature, but for fear of displeasing the Emperor of Germany, to whom *See Father Paul's Hist. Council Trent. p. 3. Mosh. Eccl. Hist.

Catharine was aunt. The Prisoner then gave judgment against me, not for doing what I did, but for doing it without his authority as Vicar of Christ.

This proved the cause of my separation from him, for in the beginning of the year 1534, I issued out an edict, rejecting his supremacy, forbidding any of my subjects to carry any money to Rome, or pay the Peter's pence, (a common tax laid on countries that acknowledge the Roman Pontiff's authority.) I soon after chased out of England, all the collectors of this tax, and otherwise injured the coffers of the Prisoner at the bar.

Q. What name did the Prisoner go by then?

A. By the name of Pope Clement VII. Afterwards Pope Paul III. By this name he issued out his thunderbolt of excommunication, to deprive me of the kingdom, all my subjects of whatever they possessed, and to anathematize all my adherents. He also commanded all my subjects to deny me obedience, strangers to hold any commerce with the kingdom; and all to take up arms against me and my people, promising all who did, our property for a prey, and our persons for slaves. Q. In what year was this Bull issued? A. On the 17th of December, in the year 1538. Joan, Queen of Navarre, sworn.

Q. Did not the Prisoner at the bar presume to arrogate authority over you as Vicar of Christ on earth?

A. He did. During the sitting of the Council of Trent, he frequently designed to accuse me as