Excerpt from The History of Great Britain, From the First Invasion of It by the Romans Under Julius Caesar, Vol. 10 of 12: Written on a New Plan Alexander'v., and was acknowledged as pope by the church of En gland But this was fo far from putting an end to the fchifm, that it added one pope more to the number To that now, 'and for fisveral years after, there were no fewer than three infallible heads of the church, and keepers of the keys of the kingdom of heaven, at once; who gave one another very bad names, which was not the worit proof of their infallibility. Alexander V. Died May a.d. 14ro., and was fucceeded by Balthafar Coffa, a Neapolitan, who afl'umed the name of John XXIII.. But John was depofed, a.d. By the council of Conitance, for he refy, contumacy, perjury, fimony, adultery, in ceflzhand a thoufand cheats '8. Benediet XIII. (peter de Luna) was alfo depofed; and Ange lus Corarius (gregory XII.) having refigned, the chair of St. Peter was confidered as empty, and Odon de Colonna, cardinal-deacon of St. George; was placed in it, who took the name of Martin V. But as Benediel: XIII. Did not fubmit to the fen tence of depofition, and even had a fucceifor, named Clement VII., the 'fchifm was not fully terminated till A. D. After it had continued more than half a century, had occafioned great confufion in the Chriltian world, and put all the princes and dates 'in Europe to incredible ex pence and trouble. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.