A Discourse of Western Planting, by Richard Hakluyt  Chap. XIX.
Whereas Fraunces Lopez de Gomera, in the 19. chapiter of his
firste booke of his Generall Historie of the Indies, putteth
downe that Pope Alexander the VIth, of his proper will and of
his owne mere motion, with the consents of his Cardinalls, gave
of his free grace to the Kinges of Spaine all the iles and firme
landes which they shoulde discover towardes the west, and
therewithall alledged the Bull itselfe; I aunswer, that no Pope
had any lawfull aucthoritie to give any such donation at all.
For proofe whereof, I say that, if he were no more than Christes
vycar, as Gomera calleth him in that place, then he must needes
graunte that the vicar is no greater then his Master. Nowe, our
Saviour Christe, beinge requested and entreated to make a
lawfull devision of inheritaunce betwene one and his brother,
refused to do that, sayenge, Quis me constituit judicem inter
vos? Whoe made me a judge betwene you? What meaneth, then, the
Pope, not beinge spoken