ADVERTISEMENT. HENRY Viscount Cornbury, who was called up to the House of Peers by the title of Lord Hyde, in the life time of his father, Henry Earl of Rochester, by a codicil to his will, dated Aug. 10. 1751. left divers MSS. of his great grandfather, EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON, to Trustees, with a direction that the money to arise from the sale or publication thereof should be employed " as a beginning of "a Fund for supporting a Manage or Academy for riding "and other useful exercises in Oxford;" a plan of this fort having been alfo recommended by LORD CLARENDON in his Dialogue on Education. Lord Cornbury dying before his father, this bequest did not take effect. But Catharine, one of the daughters of Henry Earl of Rochester, and late Duchess Dowager of Queensberry, whose property these MSS. became, afterwards by deed gave them, together with all the monies which had arisen or might arise from the sale or publication of them, to Dr. Robert Drummond, then Archbishop of York, William then Earl of Mansfield, and Dr. William Markham, then Bishop of Chester, upon Trust for the like purposes as those expressed by Lord Hyde in his codicil. The present Trustees, William Earl of Mansfield, John Lord Bishop of London, The Right Hon. Charles Abbot, Speaker of the House of Commons, and the Rev. Dr. Cyril Jackson, (late Dean of Christ Church, Oxford,) having found the following unpublished Work amongst these MSS. have proceeded in the execution of their Trust to publish it: and it is presumed that the following information may be fufficient to establish its authenticity. The The Manuscript is comprised in 407 folio pages fairly In committing this work to the Press, no alteration from Proposed subject of inquiry.—Papal usurpation of Supremacy erin the dominions of other Princes-that Supremacy never looked upon in Catholic times as a part of Catholic Religion. The first thirty-three Popes.-Reign of Constantine-Charac- ter of the Emperor Julian.-Irruption of the Goths into Italy.-Mode of electing Popes prior to the decree of Pope Nicholas II. A. D. 1060.-Irregular elections from Pope Gregory VII. A.D. 1073. till the decree of Pope Honorius III. A. D. 1227-Elections of Celestine V-Clement V.- and John XXII.-His Doctrines censured by the Univer- sity of Paris-His Jurisdiction denied by the Council of Spires.-Succession of Popes to Julius III. A. D. 1549.- PAPAL USURPATIONS. Origin of the Papal Power.-Contests between the Emperors of Constantinople and the Kings of Italy.-Reign of Jus- tinian.-Denial of the Pope's spiritual authority by the Church of Milan.-Liberties of the Gallican Church.- Papal right to depose Sovereigns first asserted and exer- cised by Pope Constantine.-Ancona and Ravenna obtained by the Pope.-Charlemagne obtains the right of approving the election of the Bishops of Rome-introduces the Papal power into France. Subjection of the Clergy to the see of Rome established in Germany.-Gregorian office and mass introduced into France by Pepin.-Appeals to Rome first allowed in France by Louis le Debonnaire.-Peter-pence established in England during the Heptarchy.-Four Popes together.-Leo IX. claims the sole right of calling General Councils and depriving Bishops.-The Bullarium-Pallium. -Annates.-Perpetual Vicars.-Legates.-Alexander II. claims for the Pope to have the government of all the Churches.-Spain refuses to suppress the Gothic Missal.- Ecclesiastical laws made in England by William the Con- |