PASTOR AND PROFESSOR

Avignon is a city detaehed from the earldom of Provence given or sold by Joane^ the fîrst queen of Naples and countessof Provence unto Clément^ 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 ^-as 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 gênerons princess who parted with such large morsels of her patrimony and inheritance on such cheap and easy ternis^ did immediately publish a Bull prohibiting and condemning ail aliénations of her estate to be made by her for the future. She was a minor under âge i^hen 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 naoïes were Charnier and Brunier. They wereboth mosi cordial friends as long as they lived^ and bave entailed that golden band of amity as a most precious jewel and legacy unto their children^ descendants and posterity. Ând this hereditary love and amity continues among them inviolably unto this day^ as I bave been credibly informed by several of the abnepotes of the great Charnier^ to the sixth génération.

Thèse two canonists travelled together unto Rome^ but upon what account^ whether through necessity of business^ or induced by curiosity^ or upon the score of dévotion 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 Ântichristian Beast some few weeks. But they soon had their belly's Ml of the mystical Babylon^ of her abominations and most abominable practices and