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Show ( 8 ) ceas'd Adminill:rator, and atl the Senators and Lords. of the Kingdom, who for an operi Re- Pdr;. 6)· hellion had formerly depriv'd him of his Dignity, and confin'd him to a Monall:ery. The Bi!hops produc'd a Bull of Excommunication againll: them aU; and in purfuance of that Sentence, all uhe Senate, ninety Lord£, the Confuls and Magifl:rates of the City, riay the whole City, was maJTacred to make an honourable A-Fag. 112. mends to one injur'd Prelate. The very dead Body of the deceas'd Adminiftrator was dug up, and expos'd amongft the mangled Carcafes of his antient Friends. So that here we fee the Clergy call'd the Lords. and Commons to a fcvcre Accpunt a~ well M the King. Af. ter this the King of Denmark having put the whole Adminiftration into the hands of the Clergy, they began to think the Church no longer in Danger, and rais'd no Rebellions again!!: him, but imploy'd all their time iti heaping up Mony, by theConfifcations of the Goods and Ell:ates of thofe that were daily outla\'l'd. The whole Nation confpir'd againft them and King Cbrifiian, under the Conduct of Guftavus the Firll:. King Chriftian being defeated upon his landing in Norway, and taken Prifoner, Guftavus was at liberty to· red refs the Di[orders of his Kingdom, which Account of were great. His fir~ Contell: was with the·. Sweden, Clergy, who (accord log to my Lord Bifbop of !.'· 18o. Briftol's Account) bad been the Authors of m~cb Confufion in former Reigns: To prevent wh!ch for the future, fays his Lordfhip, the Kmg took all occafions to dir:riinilh their Revenues; and introduc'd the Reformation . . At which re· markable time the former dependance upon the Court oj Rome, whillt the Kiogdorn Wld ( 9 )' in Popery, being call: off, it is to be wonder'd how this Docrrine of th ~ King'£ being accountable to none but God, was not found out by the Clergy, ~or fo much as the le3fi: mention made of It. The true Caufe of which feems to be, that the Priefts were not in their hearts reconcil'd to the Reformation, brought in by the Proteftant Religion. Of which we find two very remarkable Inftances, . puticularly rel~ted by !uffendorf: The firft w~s in the Pulfencf; Re1gn of Kmg 'John the Third; King 'John Introdua; tho he was educated a Prote!l:ant, yet having to the Hi/P~, been very converfant with a great many Ro- ofEurope, man Catholicks, and being influenc'd by his P·482•48 ~ Q]teen, who was a Papi!t, had refolv'd tore- 11:ore by degrees the Roman Catholick Reli-gion. To this end he caus'd a new Liturgy to ~e publilh'd,. wherein a great many of the Pop11h Ceretnomes were to be us'd in the Adminiftration of the Sacraments, and Confe-cration of Bilhops and Pricll:s; which new Li· turgy was confirm'd by a Convocation of the Clergy of the whole Kingdom, except one Province that belong'd to the King's Brother. After King 'John's Death, Sigifmund his Son was refolv'd to go thro with what his Father had begu~: He declar'd · openly for Popery, and rece1v'd a Nuncio from Rome, contrary . to the Laws of ,the K!ngdom. _And tho he P. 4gs; fo~emnly prom1s d at hts Coronation to main- 48~~ tam the Laws of the Realm, and the Prate- Pant Religion ; yet he foon took Refolutions quite contrary to his Promife.' Several Bi· fu?ps a_nd great Numbers oft he Clergy join'd w1th h1m., and this occafion'd a very remar~ kable Revolution in the Kingdom.' Duke Charles (being ihc ne:lt hoteftdni Hiir) a'nd the Stated - c ~3te~'c'f |