PASTOR AND PROFESSOR

Avignon is a city detached from the earldom of Provence given or sold by Joane^the first queen of Naples and countess of Provence unto Clement, the Pope of Rome, for the sum of four score thousand golden florins of Fiorenza, i. e. of Florence in Tuscany. This bargain and sale was transacted and effected in the year of our Lord 1349. But the modest Pope, lest any one should suspect him guilty of any evil design upon this free and generous princess who parted with such large morsels other patrimony and inheritance on such cheap and easy terms, did immediately publish a Bull prohibiting and condemning all alienations of her estate to be made by her for the future. She was a minor under age when she executed this contract. In this city about the dawn of the Reformation there lived two advocates, doctors of the Canon-law, proctors and pleaders in the papal court at Avignon, whose names were Charnier and Brunier. They were both most cordial friends as long as they lived, and have entailed that golden band of amity as a most precious jewel and legacy unto their children, descendants and posterity. And this hereditary love and amity continues among them inviolably unto this day, as I have been credibly informed by several of the abnepotes of the great Chamier, to the sixth generation.

These two canonists travelled together unto Rome, but upon what account, whether through necessity of business, or induced by curiosity, or upon the score of devotion and religion, my author could not give me any certain or satisfactory intelligence. Yet thither they went, and tarried at Rome, the seat and throne of the Antichristian Beast some few weeks. But they soon had their belly's full of the mystical Babylon, of her abominations and most abominable practices and