Madame Fe|lice the popes daughter hir request.Insomuch as Madame Felice his daughter (ioi|ning with hir the petitions of manie others) beseech|ing him with great importunitie, to create cardi|nall Guido de Montfalcon being hir brother by the mothers side, he answered roundlie, that he was not worthie of that degree. He made not his affections conformable to their desires. In that last action of life he shewed no parcialitie in worldlie causes: his present debilitie could diminish nothing of his anci|ent resolution, but expressed in all things the same constancie and seueritie, togither with that iudge|ment and force of mind which he had before his sick|nesse: in which firme estate and disposition of spirit, he receiued deuoutlie the offices of the church, and the one and twentith daie of Februarie he ended his course of these mortall and present paines. He was a prince of incredible constancie and courage,The descrip| [...]on of pope Iulie, and his properties. but so full of furie & vnrulie conceptions, that the reuerence that was borne to the church, the discord of princes, & the conditions of times, did more to staie him from his ruine, than either his moderation or his discreti|on; worthie no doubt of great glorie, if either he had béene a prince secular, or if that care and intention which he had to raise the church into temporall great|nesse by the meane of warre, had béene imploied to exalt it by the meane of peace in matters spiri|tuall.

Neuerthelesse, he was lamented aboue all his predecessors, & no lesse estéemed of those, who hauing either lost the true consideration of things, or at least ignorant how to distinguish and peise them rightlie, iudged it an office more duelie apperteining to popes to increase the iurisdiction of the sée apostolike by armes and blood of christians, than by good example of holie life and due curing and correction of corrupt maners, to trauell for the sauing of those soules, for whom they glorie so much that Iesus Christ hath na|med them his vicars in earth: and therefore it is a good consequent that he is a branch or rather a brand of the diuell, as one concludeth against him, saieng:

Impius est igitur natus cacodaemone papa,Antith. Christ. & pap [...] pag. 26, 28.

Turpibus & genijs est homicida satus.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time the warres yet continuing betwéene England & France, Prior Iehan (of whom ye haue heard before in the fourth yéere of this kings reigne) great capteine of the French nauie, with his gallies and foists charged with great basilisks and o|ther artillerie, came on the borders of Sussex in the night season,Brighthelm|ston in Sus|sex burnt. at a poore village there called Bright|helmston, & burnt it, taking such goods as he found. But when the people began to gather, by firing the becons, Prior Iehan sounded his trumpet, to call his men aboord, and by that time it was daie. Then cer|teine archers that kept the watch folowed Prior Ie|han to the sea, and shot so fast, that they beat the gallie men from the shore; and wounded manie in the foist, to the which Prior Iehan was constreined to wade and was shot in the face with an arrow,Prior Iehan capteine of the French galies shot into the eie with an arrow. so that he lost one of his eies, and was like to haue died of the hurt: and therefore he offered his image of wax be|fore our ladie at Bullongne, with the English arrow in the face for a miracle.