Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...however, that the brief was kept a secret at Rome: no notice of it occurs in the journal till the entry of the 6th of July: " We r This memorial, and the signa-This is stated in Codde.s diary, tures, are printed in the Batav.Sacr., from the Pope.s own information, ii. p. 518. Dec. 20, 1701. heard to-day from Holland, and were astonished at the c a: Av. intelligence we received respecting De Cock." When the news was made public, indignation, even on the part of Ultraraontanes, was unbounded. Here, they said, was the head of a great national Church suspended by the mere will of the Pope, his accusers never named, their charges never communicated, his faults not even specified in the instrument of his disgrace. It was a stetpro ratione voluntas which appears to have staggered the most thorough-paced advocates of Papal supremacy. It was further observed that, crying as would have been the injustice of such a summary dismissal from the vicariate apostolic, the outrage was intensely aggravated by the fact that the brief evidently contemplated the prelate's archiepiscopal as well as vicarial functions, as involved in the same sentence. Hyacinth de Archangelis, a famous Eoman canonist, even published a " consultation," in which he designated the whole proceeding as null and void. 17. The course of events must now carry us into ProcccdHolland. War was raging over Europe, and the'iE! messengers between Rome and Utrecht found but a precarious and tedious journey between the forces of Boufflers and Villars, of Marlborough and Prince Eugene. The brief of suspension did not reach Bussi, Internuncio at Brussels, till the 8th of June; and he then, in the curtest of notes, announced to the Chapters of Utrecht and Haarlem the...
