THE HISTORY OF THE POPE S, FROM THE Foundation of the SEE of ROME, TO THE PRESENT TIME. VOL. IV. By ARCHIBALD BOWER, Efq; And, in the latter Place, Counsellor of the Inquifition. STOR AR NEW-YORK LONDON: Printed for the AUTHOR; And to be had at W. SANDBY's, at the Ship, oppofite St. Dunstan's Church, M.DCC.LIX. REPAIR BEG. NO. 8 3 6 5 '87 TH HE Reader will excufe the Smalnefs of this Volume, as I have published it at this Time to fatisfy the World, as early as I could, that I am determined to purfue the Work I have undertaken. Ample Amends shall be made in the next Volume for what is wanting as to Size in this; and the Whole fhall be comprised, the Public may depend upon it, in Three Volumes more. I need not inform the World why the Publication of this Volume has been so long delayed. S PAUL, Ninety-Second BISHOP of Rome. DESIDERIUS, TEPHEN dying, the People were divided in. Year of the Election of his Succeffor, fome declaring for Chrift 757. the Deacon Paul, Brother to the late Pope, and Paul chofen.. fome for the Archdeacon Theophylactus. This Divifion occafioned a Vacancy of one Month and five Days. But the Nobility, the Clergy, and the Magiftrates, all warmly promoting the Interest of Paul, his Party prevailed in the End a. And this is the only Infiance, that occurs in the whole Hiftory of the Popes, of two Brothers fucceffively raised to the Papal Chair. The new Pope, fenfible that unless Pepin, who of a Bifhop had Courts the made him a Prince, maintained him in that Rank, he would foon Favour of from a Prince be degraded again into a Bishop, did not wait till he Pepin, was ordained to engage his Protection; but quite unmindful of the. VOL, IV. a. Anaft. in Paulo.. B Affairs |