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 INNOCENT X, 
 
 Publifhed formerly in the Italian Tongue, 
 
 By Mr. AlIC HAEL WRIGHT, 
 
 Chief Steward of His Excellences Houfe at Rome. 
 
 And now made Eng/ijh, 
 
 With feveral Amendments, and Additons. 
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 ^W E W Months are not yet paft, from 
 % mj prefenting Tour Majeftj an Ac^ 
 count of this Great Emiaff), in the 
 Italian Tongue j fince which, the 
 importunity of feveral honourable 
 Ferfons, for the having it in Englijh, fo far prevailed, that 
 there feem'd a kind iff necffty, of complying with their 
 defires. And 
 
And before tohofe Feet could it le more jujlly 
 laid, than Tour Majefites > and that in a dodle refpeci : 
 The one, in that the former, firft appear d in the World, 
 under the Vatronage, of Her moji Serene Higbnefs, The 
 Late D lit chefs /?/Modena, your mo ft lllujlnom Mother-, 
 The other, in that you are not only Heir of Her Vertices, 
 but fo Exjuifite a Judge in both Languages. 
 
 Nor has it yet been venturd on as a Tranfla- 
 tion, but a new Original, with feveral Alterations, and 
 Additions to the former [which the flrcightnefs qf Time 
 would not then permit] and in that refpei^ alfo, implores 
 lour Gracious Acceptance, 
 
 But I detain Tour Majefiy too long : Let not 
 The ^cen he angry, and Til fpeak this once : Live Koyal 
 Ala dam, The Great Example of Tour Sex ! Live, The Joy 
 of England, and Eternal Glory of the Houfe of Efte! 
 And fince nothing lefs can add to. it, make it yet more 
 Glorious, in a Prifice ^/Wales. | 
 
 Your Sacred Majeftys 
 
 Mofi Obedient, Devoted, 
 
 Loyal Subje^, and Humble 
 
 Servant, 
 
 Michael Wright. 
 
A N 
 
 ACCOUNT 
 
 HIS EXCELLENCE 
 
 THE EARL OF 
 
 Caftlemaine's Embafly, 
 
 To His Holinefs, 
 
 INNOCENT Xr" &c. 
 
 T having ftill been the Cuftom 
 of all the Great Princes, in 
 Communion with the Church 
 of Rome ( on their firft accef- 
 iion to the Throne) to fend an 
 Embaffador to that Court, His Majefty thought 
 it became Him alfo to do the like • And in pur- 
 fuance thereof, among the number of able per- 
 fons, which (to the glory of the Englifh Nation) 
 this Court never wanted, none (widiall due 
 
 B refpe6t 
 
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 refpefl: to the reft) flood fairer in His Majeftys 
 eye, for that Negotiation, than The Right Ho- 
 nourable, Roger Earl of Caftlemaine, A Nobleman 
 of an Antient Family, Polite Learning, ready 
 parts, and who, by a well-digefted Travel, and 
 Experience in Forreign Courts, had render'd 
 himfelf qualifi'd, for the greateft Tr uft. 
 
 On him therefore, as a perfon Farm Nego-^ 
 tm. His Majefty conferr'd the Honour, of His 
 Embaflador Extraordinary to His Holinefs lnnoce?it 
 the Xr^'' now Pope of Rome : A Prince, whole 
 open hand, to the Late Defence ofChriftendom, 
 may (to pafs his other Vertues) put it out of que- 
 ftion, whether He received more Honour frorn 
 The Chair, than He has added to it. 
 
 In (hort, all preliminary matters being ad- 
 jufted, and his Commiflion, and Credentials re- 
 ceiv d. His Excellence The Lord Emballador, 
 made ready for his Journey j and having fornVd 
 hisEnglifh Retinue, of feven Gentlemen ,fix Pages, 
 three Valets de Chamber, and fuch other menial 
 
 fervants. 
 
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 fervants, and equipage, as could be then got 
 
 ready, moft of them were fhipt oflF, about fix 
 weeks before him, for Legbome, with Orders to 
 wait him there -, himfelf having refolv'd, to make 
 his Journey through Vrance : And that, that, might 
 be the eafier. His Excellence took to him as his 
 companions. The Honourable Thomas Arundel Efq^ 
 GrandfontotheLord Armdd oi Warder, now Lord 
 Privy-Seal ^ Henry Tic hi a me Efq- eldeft Son of 
 Sir Henry Tichhrne, Liev^- of the Ordnance ^ The 
 Honourable Thomas Rate life Efq; Son of the Lord 
 Ratelife ; Barth.Walmefley, oiDunkan-Hall, in the 
 County ofLaneafier Efq^ And Tho.Egglefton^of Eggle-- 
 fion,m the fame County Efq; (which three laft, went 
 before, and met his Lordlliip at Fan's) And having 
 taken leave of their Majeftys, there remain d no- 
 thing, but to fet forward on his Journey. 
 
 On the 5^^- of Fei. 1^85. S. V. His Excel- 
 lence took water for Greenwich, accompany *d with 
 feveral Noble Perfonages, that brought him fo 
 far on his way ^ where, after a hearty fare wel, and 
 
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 the repeated Wifnes, of a good Voyage, and as 
 
 fafe a Return, he imbark'don board the Heneretta 
 Maria Yacht, Capt. Veshy Commander, who lay- 
 there for him, and received him, with the ufual 
 ceremony, of fiering Guns, as in like cafes. 
 
 His Excellence defigning to be Incognito 
 all the w^ay, had none now with him, but }Av, Arun- 
 del, Mr. Ticbkrne (before mentioned) Mr. Lidcott 
 (lince that time. Sir John Lidcott) Secretary to the 
 Embafly ; Mr. Michael Wright, Steward of his 
 houihold i Mr. Stephen Viper, Gentleman of his 
 Horfc; Signior Francifco, his Italian Secretary,- 
 Mr. Nicboks Tiirnys, Sewer • two Pages, two of his 
 Chamber ; and fome half a dozen others of his 
 Family, for his ordinary fervicc on the Road ^ 
 and with thefe, the Yacht put off that Evening, 
 for Diepe -, his LordChips Plate, Furniture, Liverys, 
 and other the Impedimenta of fo long a Journey, 
 being left behind, with order to take the oppor- 
 tunity of the iirfl: wind,andexpe(5l further orders, 
 at Civita Vecchia, the Port of Rome, 
 
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In two days and a half his Excellence 
 arrived at Biepe, where, notwithltanding his refo- 
 lution, and endeavours of having paft the whole 
 Journey, in as much privacy, as the occafion 
 would bear , he received the Complements, of 
 the Governour, and City, in a manner urging 
 him, that his Excellence would be pleas'd to per- 
 mit himfelf, and the Magiftrates of that City, to 
 pay him fome publick refpe6t: ; which, his Lord- 
 fliip would by no means hearken to, but fent 
 two of his Gentlemen to acknowledge, the cour- 
 tefie, and reprefent to them, the refolution be- 
 fore mentioned. 
 
 From Diepe, his Excellence, ( with the 
 Gentleman of his Horfe, a Page, and a Valet de 
 Chamber) took Poft for Roan ^ and thence, to P^- 
 ris, where the reft of his Servants foon after ar- 
 riv'd : And in the eleven days his Lordfhip ftay'd 
 therewith the fame refolutions, of being Incognito, 
 it was not yet pofllble, to avoid the numerous ca- 
 relles that were daily made him i for ( beiides 
 
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 the Extraordinary Envoy of England, and the reft: 
 
 of our Nation (who according to their duty, al- 
 moft hourly attended him) The mofl: Eminent 
 Ranutiii, Apoftolick Nuntio to that Crown^ the 
 Marfhal /^'Hi^w/>rj-,and other confiderable Perfons 
 of the French Court, were not wanting, in their 
 perfonal Vifits : And here it was, that the mofl: 
 Reverend Monfignior C^;/^/,Vice-Legat in Avignion, 
 fir fl; apply 'd to his Excellence, that he would be 
 pleas'd to take that City in his way, and to ac- 
 cept of fuch entertainment there, as might at 
 lead teffcifie the fatisfadion they receiv d, in be- 
 holding once more, an Englifh Embaflador in that 
 City : Nor did the Vice-Legat think this Invi- 
 tation fo iufficient, but that he feconded it at 
 Lions, and in a manner preft it, beyond the power 
 of a refulal ; Whereupon the Lord Embaffador 
 difpatcht Mr. WYtght, to Avignion, to complement 
 his Lordlliip in his name, and withall to fignifie 
 to him, that his Excellence accepted his kindnefs, 
 provided it did not prejudice his defign,of pafling 
 privately, even to Kome . About 
 
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 About twenty niiles fhort of Avignion, 
 
 Mr. Wright was met by the Vice-Legat's Secre- 
 tary, where he not only waited his Excellence's 
 coming, but had laid all crofs Roads, with a luit- 
 able attendance, left poffibly, by defign, or ac- 
 cident, his Excellence might have paft him, fome 
 other way : In ftiort, the Secretary having under- 
 ftood the occafion of Mr. Wright's coming, gave 
 him a Letter to his Lord, vvliich, with his Excel- 
 lence's commands, he prefented the Vice-Legate 
 further afluring him, that the Lord EmbafTador 
 would be with his Lordfhip, within a day, or two, 
 after him. 
 
 Whereupon, the Vice-Legat order'd the 
 whole Garrifon to be in Arms, and that all ths 
 Cannon, (hould be ready for fiering, upon his 
 Excellence s entry ; And the next afternoon wen!: 
 out, toward the Roan, himfelf, with a noble and 
 fplendid Equipage : The Horfe with their Banner 
 difplay'd, led the way, then follow'd his LordiTiip 
 the Vice-Legat's Coach, in which, with himfelf, 
 
 were 
 
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 were the Confuls, fome chief Magiftrates, and 
 Mr. Wright, furrounded by a Guard of Swizts, 
 and a numerous train of Foot-men, in rich Li- 
 veries : Then follow' d five other of his Lordfhips 
 Coaches, and after them, about fixty others, with 
 the Nobility, and Principal Perfons of the City 
 in them, and a fuitable number of Laquies, and 
 other attendance, in which order, they march'd 
 to the River fide, where, for near three hours, 
 they expefted his Excellence s arrival ^ but no- 
 thing appearing that evening, they return'd^ and 
 the next day, marcht out as before, when at laft, 
 about Sun-fet, they might fee a cover'd Barge, 
 wherein his Excellence was : On this, the Vice- 
 Legat, and his company lighted, and approacht 
 bis Barge i nor had his Lordlhip fooner fet his 
 foot on fhore, than he made up to the Vice- 
 Legat, and after mutual embraces (and the Lord 
 Embafladors Complement, to the Nobility, and 
 a full (hout of the people) his Excellence went 
 into the firft Coach, with the Vice-Legat, and 
 
 the 
 
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 the Confuls, and then all march'd back, through 
 a multitude of Torches to the City. 
 
 Upon the fir ft entry, the Drums,Trum- 
 pets, and Joynt-voices of the people, fpake his 
 Excellences welcome ^ which was anfwerd, by 
 the Cannon, from the Walls, and from thence 
 ( through a Guard of Souldiers on either hand, 
 the Balconys and Windows, fo ftuck with lights, 
 that one would have thought the City, fome new 
 Conftellation) they came to the Pope's Pallace ; 
 w^iere, the Vice-Legat having condufted his 
 Lordfhip, to the richeft, and nobleft apartment, 
 left him a while, with thofe Noble Perfons, that 
 had waited on him to the City ,- and having put 
 on his Prelatical habit, came back again, to make 
 his more folemn Vifit, which his Excellence (af- 
 ter the Vice-Legat's departure ) accompany'd 
 with the fame Nobility, return'd him again, in 
 his own appartment. 
 
 During this time, the Vice-Legat had 
 invited thofe Englifh Cavaliers (that accompany'd 
 
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 the EmbafTador) with two chief Military Officers, 
 and ten Principal Officers of the City, to bear 
 his Excellence company, at Supper, which was no 
 lefs fumptuous, than magnificent : It confided 
 of four fervices, each, of nine grand Diihes, and 
 fourteen Inter-mefles, and to render it yet grea- 
 ter, it wanted not the pride of the Italian Mufick. 
 
 About the middle of Supper, his Ex- 
 cellence began A health to His Holinefs,at which. 
 He, and all the company flood bare-headed, and 
 fix great Guns were fire'd ; which in all refpedls, 
 was as pund:ually obferv'd, when the Vice-Legat 
 return'd it, in A health to our Soveraign, The 
 King of Great Britain -, Nor is it to be forgotten, 
 that during this time of Supper, his Excellence's 
 Gentlemen, were nobly treated, in another Ap« 
 partment. 
 
 The day following, being the Veaft of the 
 Afinuntiation, the Vice-Legat, and the before men- 
 tioned Noble Perfons, conduced his Excellence, 
 to High Mafs, in the Jefuits Church of that City ^ 
 
 where. 
 
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 where, after a moil folemn, vocal, and inftru- 
 mental Mufick, the young Nobility, Scholars of 
 the Colledge, prefentcd the Lord Embaflador, 
 with Devifes, Epigrams, and other compofitions, 
 more immediately relating to His Majefty, and 
 His Dominions j fuch few of which, as they came 
 to hand, were thought fit to be inferted, and 
 that, the rather, becaufe the Englifh Nation (how- 
 ever difcontinu d, this laft Century) had once, a 
 more than ordinary Genius, and aptnefs, that 
 w^ay i as he that (hall turn Hall's Hemy the 8^'^- Sir 
 Fbilip Sidney, oxCamldens Remains, may find much 
 of this kind, and (perhaps) not unworthy his 
 time. And they, w^ere fuch as thefe. 
 
 A Stock of Bees, flying to an empty 
 Hive, the King-Bee in their Head. The word 
 ( unde aberr aver ant ) Whence they had fled aftray. 
 Intimating thereby, the general defedion of His 
 Majettys Kingdoms, and voluntary return, to 
 their former obedience. 
 
 A Kite, hovering in the Air, and Chick- 
 ens, 
 
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 ens, running under the Hen. The word ( — D//C, 
 perfos congregat-" ) It gathers em again. Denoting 
 thereby, The good effefts of His Majeftys Indul- 
 gence, when all His Subje<5ls,howllividedfoever 
 among themfelves, run under His wing for fhel- 
 ter, againft the Tyranny of thofe Penal Laws, 
 which, have either difperft them ^nto other 
 Countreys, or made them uneafie at home. 
 
 The morning Star. The word ( ^-Biei 
 prdvim a/ma) —Forerunner of the Day. Shewing 
 thereby, Ihat the Day is not far behind ; And 
 that His Majeftys Subjefts (fince theDay-fpring 
 from on High,had vilited them) want not a Light, 
 to guide their feet, into the way of peace. 
 
 A Ship half found ring in the Sea, The 
 Polar-Star inthe Clouds: The word (Diim vide am 
 fatis eft— ) 'tis yet enough I fee 't— fignifying 
 thereby, that England (which may be well expreft 
 by a Ship) can never mifcarry, whilft ihe fees her 
 great Monarch, or Cjinofiire, to direft her. 
 
 Thefe, and the like, not without parti- 
 cular 
 
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 cular Elogies, totheLord EmbafFador, were the 
 entertainment of the morning ; and that over, 
 the whole company return d to the Palace, where, 
 a Dinner, even fuperiour to the Supper, waited 
 them, and that, Co beautifully garniilit, with in- 
 termixt Figures, relating to the Triumphs of Eng- 
 land, that the like, had been fcarce there before, 
 or to be feen any where again, if his Excellence 
 the Lord EmbafTador, had made no entertain- 
 ment at R.ome. 
 
 And that it might not be faid of Avig- 
 nion, as once of Rome , That they were [Vopulus v'lro- 
 rum, dcerant famina ) A people of men, ^^•ithout 
 women. It was refolv'd among the noble Ladys 
 of the City, to make the Complement entire, by 
 bearing a part in the Symphony ^ And to that 
 purpofe, they met in the houfe oiSignior deBlewac, 
 a principal Gentleman of that City, and therein 
 too, fo glorioufly attir'd, as they had defign'd a 
 conteft, between Art, and Nature ^ for could they 
 have wanted Lufter in themfelves, the fplendor 
 
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of their Jewels, fpake them no lefs, than clad in 
 Star-h'ght. 
 
 In fhort, they made his Excellence, and 
 the Perfons of Honour with him, an invitation to 
 an evening divertifement of Cards, which his 
 Lordfhip accepted ^ and after an hour or two's 
 mirth, took leave, and retir d to the Palace, where 
 he was honour'd with a fplendid Banquet, and 
 the morning following, with another, in regard 
 his Excellence had refus'd, the Vice-Legat's ob- 
 liging violences, of having detained him longer ; 
 but nothing prevailing, he was attended out of 
 the City, with the fame folemnity he firft entred 
 it; nor could the Vice-Legat be perfwaded to 
 look back, till he had conduced his Excellence 
 fix miles on his way, where at laft, the Horfe be- 
 ing drawn up, the Coaches ftopt,and all the train 
 allighting, they made a circle about his Excel- 
 lence, and the Vice-Legat ^ when after mutual 
 embraces, and the Pathetick acknowledgments, 
 of the obligations receiv'd, his Excellence 
 
 mounted 
 
 
mounted the Vice-Legat's firft Coach, and fet 
 forward to Cavaillon, 
 
 Nor was his Lordihip fooner arriv'd 
 there, than the Magiftrates honour d him with a 
 folemn Vifit, Speech, and Banquet ,• fo difficult it 
 was to pafs any way, but the report of his com- 
 ing, flew before him. 
 
 From Cavaillon his Excellence came by 
 Litter to St. Majfimine -, thence to Canes, "XxiA. thence, 
 to Ni^a, where he took boat for Genoa ; But paf- 
 fing by Monaco, the Matter of the Telacca, was ob- 
 lig'd to come on (l:iore, and fo difcovefd whom 
 he had aboard ^ on which, he was ftopt, till ad- 
 vice was fent to the Prince, who immediately 
 difpatcht his Secretary, and a Knight of Malta, 
 to irtvite his Excellence to his Caftle -, which, his 
 Lordfhip (with due fenfe of the obligation) refu- 
 fing, fent Mr. Lidcott andMrJrr/^/^f, to comple- 
 ment his Highnefs, with his acknowledgments of 
 the honour intended him,and to further fignifie, 
 the Lord Embaffadors refolutions, ofpaffing In-* 
 cognito. How- 
 
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 However,the Prince would take no denyal, 
 but came in perfon to the water fide, and having 
 at laft prevail'd, conduded his Excellence to his 
 Palace, or Caftle, fcituated on an impregnable 
 Rock, (Drums, and Trumpets founding, and 
 great Guns fireing ) where the magnificence of 
 of that night, and the next morning, came (hort 
 in nothing, of Him that made it : Nor would his 
 Highnefs yet fulFer his Lordlhip to depart, till 
 Himfelf, his Court, and Ofiicers, had brought 
 him to the Felucca^ the Guns not giving over, till 
 the Boat was out of fight. 
 
 From Monaco, the Lord Embafladorpaft 
 St. Re?no, Nola, and Savo?ia,mthout much trouble ^ 
 and at laft arriv'd at Genoa, where the moft ferene 
 Republick fent three of their Gentlemen, of the 
 firft quality [Sphiola, Grimaldo, and Durano) to 
 complement his Excellence, and (notwithftand- 
 ing his privacy ) to (hew him the Town : They 
 proffer'd him alfo a Gaily to Civita Vecc'm -, which 
 laft civility, being (with all refpeft) refus'd, his 
 
 Lord- 
 
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 Lordfhip from Genoa, came to Ligome, Where His 
 Eminence, C^ird'msilHoward of Norfolk, had alrea-»- 
 dy fent, the Gentleman of his Horfe, to comple- 
 ment his Excellence in his name, and wait on him 
 to the End of his Journey : Cap^- Nanglc alfo ( on 
 the part cf the Grand Duke ) and Mr. B^il ( with 
 the Enghih Faftory) ftood ready to receive him 
 at his landing, and to condu6l him (as they did) 
 to the houfe, which his Highnefs had order'd for 
 Him i There hisLordfhip found not only all ne- 
 ccflary Provifions, but a fplendid Regal, of very 
 curious Wines and Sweet- meats; for which Ge- 
 nerofity [Co natural to that Great Prince) his Ex- 
 cellence ient him next day (by the Secretary of 
 theEmbafly) his Acknowledgment and Thanks 
 to Amhrogiana ( about thirty miles ciF ) and then 
 took Poft for Rome ; lying at Aiontefiafcone, in hopes 
 of having pafsd Viterko early, and undifco- 
 verd: But he could not out-do the Diligence 
 of Monfignior Vincentini the Governour, who 
 mec him fome miles out of Town, and bringing 
 
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 him to the Palace, gave him a very great and 
 noble Collation. 
 
 Three Polls diftant from Rome, his Ex- 
 cellence was met, by a Coach and fix Horfes, from 
 his Eminence, the Cardinal of Norfolk ; the next 
 Poft, by another from her Highnefs the Dutchefs 
 ofModcna (Mother to Her Majefty) in v^ hich, was 
 the Count Codek her Secretary ; and one other, 
 from the Refident of Portugal, with fomc of his 
 Gentlemen in it ; as alfo with one of my Lord 
 Embailador's own Coaches, made for him,againft 
 his arrival. 
 
 A little on this fide Ponte Molle (being a 
 mile and half lliort of Rome ) was the Lord Car- 
 dinal himfelf, with Signior Paolo Fal(:onkri,{a Flo- 
 rentin Gentleman, that had been in Bigland with 
 the Duke) and afterwards ( nor undefervedly ) in 
 high etteem with his Excellence : Here, after the 
 ufual complements and ceremonies were ended, 
 the Lord Embaflador went into the Cardinal's 
 Coach, and fo came together, to his Eminence's 
 
 i Palace 
 
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 Palace in Rome, upon Ea[ler Eve, S. N; about ati 
 hour after Sun-fet ^ where, Himfelf, and Family, 
 were magnificently treated, for about ten days, 
 till Prince Vrmpbilios Pallace, in the Via^:^a l<Javona, 
 could be put in order, for his fxcellences 
 fervice. 
 
 His Excellence was no fooner thus ar- 
 riv'd, but the Grandees began their Complements 
 of Congratulation, by their Secretaries, which 
 lafted for three days, and then my Lord return'd 
 them in like manner, his thanks ; it not being the 
 Cuftom of Rome, for Perfons of that Rank, to re- 
 ceive, or give Perfonal Vifits, except privately and 
 underhand, till they have publickly waited on 
 His Holinefs 
 
 About the Wcdnefday after, his Excellence 
 (being now a little repofed ) lent to the Pope for 
 a private Audience, wliich was granted him, the 
 following week -, and then taking four of his own 
 ordinary Coaches, and fome few Domellicks, he 
 was in the evening condufted by Cardinal Howard 
 
 to 
 
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 to the Vatican Palace, and fo by the back-ftair s 
 to His Holinefs ; who (as it may be eafily fup- 
 pos'd) receiv'd him with particular fatisfadlion, 
 and to the great Joy alfo of all the People,vvho in 
 no fmall numbers got together; dio' ufually fuch 
 Audiences are perform'd without any noife or 
 ftir : And when his Excellence was return'dhome, 
 he found the Pope's Matter of the houfliold, with 
 feveral of his under-officers there attending, who 
 had brought the prefents of welcome, vi^. All 
 forts of Fowl, Wines, Sweet- meats, and other De- 
 licacies of that nature. 
 
 Thefe preliminaries being now fettled, 
 and pa(t, his Excellence fell upon the moft 
 troublefome part of his Embafly ^ I mean, his 
 Equipage, and preparations for his publick En- 
 try : Troublefome I may callit,linceEmbafradors 
 in this Court, have exceeded in Iplendor and 
 magnificence, all the world befides ; and whether 
 his Lordfhip kept not up the Port and Dignity of 
 his great Mafter, the Reader is to judge by what 
 follows. This 
 
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 This Equipage (befides what was ah-ea- 
 ready prepard) confided in ftupendoiis Coaches, 
 moft rich Liveries, and ftore of Horfes, of great 
 value i and becaufe the Brocard, Imbroidery, 
 gold Lace, Fringe, Scarlet, &c. were all to be be- 
 Ipoken, 'twas eafily forefeen, that the laid Fntry 
 could not be at fooneft, before Michaelmas j In the 
 mean time, tho' the Embaflador could not vifit, 
 and be vifited, with the fame Pomp, as when pub- 
 lick, yet his ordinary Expence was the fame -, for 
 he weekly attended the Pope, had the fame nu- 
 merous Family, and Retinue,kept the fame Table 
 for his Friends and Acquaintance, and had about 
 forty Horfes, fliill in his Stable. 
 
 Artizans in all places have the lame 
 methods, and perform their promifes alike ,• for 
 how prefling foever his Excellency's Officers were, 
 they could not yet be ready, till the end of 0/?/?- 
 her i and juft when every thing was thought fi- 
 niftit, the Pope fell fo ill of the Gout, and his 
 ufual Defluxions, that two months paft, without 
 
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 his giving Audience to any ftranger, ho, not to 
 the Duke of Modenahimklfy who arriving at Rome, 
 in Novemhr, could not receive his Benedidion, 
 till the beginning of the following January • du- 
 ring which time,his Excellence had the great Ho- 
 nour and fatisfaftion, of often feeing a Prince, fo 
 every way accompliih't, and one too, that was 
 infinitely kind, and obliging to him. 
 
 His Holinefs being now recover d, and 
 the eighth of January appointed for this great 
 Solemnity, it will not be perchance ungrateful 
 to the Reader ( fince the Preparations and Pomp 
 of it, confifted in the Pope's, and King's Ai'ms, in 
 the Coaches, Liveries and Attendance ) if before 
 I further proceed, I defcribe firft in words the 
 Particulars, and then (hew the Draught, and 
 Pifturesof them. 
 
 The Wood-work on which the relpecftive 
 Arms werepainted,and placed,were 24 foot high^ 
 and 1^ broad ; the edges of it being carv'd,or cut 
 out, according to the Parts of the Figures that 
 
 reach'd 
 
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 reach'd thitherward - The Boards were not only 
 bract, and kept together, with feveral great 
 Beams, but had above 800 weight of Iron about 
 them, fo that being lifted up with great labour 
 and pains, to the firft ftory, they had the breadth 
 ofthePalajce-Gate between themj and beneath, 
 juft over the Gate, ftood the Arms of his Excd^ 
 lence in a Round, about two yards diameter, and 
 encompafs'd with great Branches of carv'd Palms, 
 painted proper. ' 
 
 The Arms of His Holinefs were as follow cth. 
 
 They were painted by a diligent hand, 
 not in black and white, but in their proper Co- 
 lours, thofe places only excepted, which were 
 covered,and fhadowed with Gold ; not tranfgre{^ 
 fing however, the order of the defign ; and plac t 
 on an elevated piece of Archite(3:ure, on each 
 fide whereof, ftood an Angel fupporting the 
 gilded compartment, with interwoven Palms, and 
 Lawrels, the top of which was crown'd, with A 
 Triple Crown, the PontificialKeys, and Cordons. 
 
 Under 
 
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 Wnder the Arms, as in a large Plain, ter^ 
 minating in a Pedeftal, were divers Figures, 
 double the life ; the firft of which, reprefented 
 the Church, in a grave majeftick female Figure, 
 cloathed in white, girt about her ; A tranfparent 
 Veil, and a Glory round her Head^ her 
 feet naked, with Sandals ^ her upper Garment, a 
 rich Mantle, embroider'd with Gold ^ in her right 
 hand (leaningupon an Antique Altar, in which, in 
 Bdffo Kiliroo, was expreft, the Manna of old, fal- 
 ling upon the Children of Ifrael) fhe held a Pa- 
 triarchal Staff, and extended the other, to re- 
 ceive Britannia. 
 
 Upon the Altar, lay the Sacred Scrip- 
 ture, on aCufhion ofCrimfon Velvet -, and befide 
 it, the figure of a Church, by which ftood, a ve- 
 nerable, aged perfonage, with a flaming Lamp, in 
 his hand erefted, reprefenting piety ^ And un- 
 der the Churches feet, A Mufti, in a pofture of 
 rage, and defpair -, the Alcoran in his hand, ruf- 
 fled, and torn ^ and by him, a vanquifht Bajfa^ 
 
 his 
 
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 his Enfigns, of Bows, Arrows, Scimiters, Horfe- 
 tail, &c. all reverft. 
 
 Britannia, was a female figure, A mural 
 ( or embattled ) Crown, on her head, and A ( Ci- 
 vick Garland, or) Wreath of Oak-leaves, about 
 her temples ^ cloathed in a Royal Robe, lin d 
 with Ermins ^ her Scepter, and Globe, on which, 
 w^s Britannia, in Capital Letters, lying on a pur- 
 ple Cuihion by her ^ her felf on the left knee, 
 making an obeyfance to the Church, and was 
 attended, by prudence, and valour. 
 
 Prudence, another female figure, had 
 her head, and breaft, adornd with Pearl, and 
 in her Left hand, a ftaff, with a Serpent twin'd 
 about it. 
 
 Valour, was reprefented by Hercules, in 
 a Lyon s Skin -, his Club, on his Shoulder, and 
 trampling on envy, who with her Snakes about 
 her, and one twifted on her right arm, lay raving 
 at Britannia. 
 
 Underneath that, an Oval of Gold, fup- 
 H ported 
 
2^ 
 
 ported by two Sphinxes, and adorn d with Law- 
 rels, wherein was reprefented the River Tyher, by 
 an old man, lying at length, and leaning on an 
 Urne, or Vafe of water 5 A Wreath of Reeds on 
 his head -, in his left hand, an Oare, in his right, 
 k Cornucopia: On his right fide, lay a Wolf, fuck- 
 ling two Children ( the Symbole of Rome ) on his 
 left, A perfpeftive of the Bridge of St. Angelo ; 
 and under all, in Golden Capital Letters, the 
 word, Tjiris. As may be feen in the firft printed 
 Figure, 
 
 rhf 
 
jra^UviJUj Jviuhacl Camers rmqe^Jal . 
 
 Arnolds Y.'W<utar]vontJi£ jc 
 
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 The Kings Arms. 
 ^nr^Hey, with the Garter, Supporters, &c. were 
 -*" rais'd, on another kind of Architefture, 
 adorned, withRofes, andThiftles 
 
 Under them, was Britannia, crown'd, 
 and Wreath'd, as before; but here, fitting, in a 
 full Majefty : In her right hand, A Scepter, and 
 A Globe ( infcrib'd Britannia ) in the other ^ Her 
 Veil, ofa Gold Colour richly embroider'd at the 
 bottom ', Her Mantle, as before -, Sandals on her 
 feet, with Ligaments, to the mid-leg, after the 
 old Roman manner ; and trampling an armed Fi- 
 gure, that lay facing Her, and ftrughng to get 
 up againfb Her : In his right hand, was a drawn 
 Sword, and on his Helmet, a plume of Orange- 
 tauny Feathers; The firft Colours at Edge-hill, 
 againft King Charles the Firft. 
 
 On her left hand, in the middle, ftood 
 Hercules, dreft as before, but now, leaning on his 
 Club, and in his left hand, an Azure Tablet, with 
 the Royal Motto ( DIEU ET MON DROIT ) 
 
 in 
 
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 in large Capitals of Gold, on it ; His left 
 foot, ftood firm on the Bafe, and his right, de- 
 prefs'd a groveling Figure, holding in the one 
 hand, a Proteftant-Flail, and in the other, a 
 Scroul, with the word RrM/(7, in like Letters of 
 Gold. 
 
 On the other fide o^ Hercules, was the 
 Figure of St. George (the tutelar Saint of England) 
 A rich Helmet, and plume of red Feathers, on 
 his head ^ His Mantle, and Cro fs on his Breaft, 
 of the fame Colour ; A Sword by his fide ; The 
 reft of his habit, after the old R^jttz/z// : He ftood, 
 trampling an Hy^r/?, which, inftead of Serpentine, 
 had humane heads; her Wings difplay'd, as en- 
 deavouring to get up again, whilfthe, fattens his 
 Lance in one of them, more remarkable than the 
 reft. 
 
 Under that, inaUke Oval of Gold, 
 fupported, and adorned, as the former, was re- 
 prefented xhQ^ivQt Thames, by the Figure of an* 
 old man extended, with a like Wreath on his 
 
 head. 
 
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 head, leaning alfo, on a Vafe of water ; on his 
 left arm, an Oare ; and on his right, A Cornnco-^ 
 pa, with many Ships, and Boats, in perfpedive : 
 And beneath all, in like Letters of Gold, the 
 word, Tamefis 5 as in the Second Figure. 
 
 I I have 
 
2. 
 
 Phikpvw MtchoA Cam&rs.PiTUjchat 
 
 Arno LIU'S V". ^^sUrlowt jc'Ay ■ 
 
 
I 
 
 31 
 
 Have done with the front, and now 'tis fit. 
 
 that I enter the Palace, which was great in it'$ 
 felf, and great in his Excellences Family, con- 
 fiding of above an 100 Perfons, 60 of which were 
 in Livery ; and thofe for the Pages ( being eight 
 in number) of Crimfon Velvet, their Cloaks, 
 Lac't above half a yard deep, with broad Gold 
 Lace, with little intermixtures of blew, white, 
 and black Silk ^ They were alfo lined with a rich 
 Brocard, the ground blew, with flowers of Gold ; 
 and their habit underneath, of the Roman Faihi- 
 on ; to wit, Dublets and Trunks, Lac't as before; 
 and trimm'd very thick with Gold and blew Rib- 
 bon : They had all black Caftors Lac't, white 
 Feathers i Bands, andCuflFs, of fine G^/;^/^ Point ; 
 embroider d Gloves, filk marble-coloured Stock- 
 ings, and gilt Swords. 
 
 The other ^2 Liveries, were of fine 
 Scarlet lin d with filk Brocard, fuitable in Co- 
 lour, and Flower, to that of the Pages ^ 30 of 
 thefe wore Cloaks, with the fame Gold and blew 
 
 Lace, 
 
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 Lace, fix rows deep: The others, being running 
 Foot-men, and Grooms, had Coats, and Bree- 
 ches laid over, with the fame Lace : And blewfilk 
 Stockings, black Hats, edg d with a broad Gold- 
 galoon, and gilt Swords. 
 
 Befides theft, and four Valets de Cham-- 
 bre, ( with under officers, of all forts ) his Ex- 
 cellence had Fifteen Gentlemen of Fafhion, who 
 waited in his Lordlhips Ante-chamber, to attend 
 in giving, and receiving Vifits^ nor were theft 
 of mean condition ^ there being among them, of 
 the Urfini, Spiiiok^ and Bentiveglio Families -, fo that 
 'tis no wonder that the very wages his Lordfhip 
 paid, reckoning the board wages of the Italian 
 Servants ( for they eat ufually at their own hou- 
 fes ) came to near 2500 pound /^r a?mum. 
 
 The Palace it felf, confidering it's Sci- 
 tuation, Grandeur, Painting, ^c, is reputed the 
 beft in Rome, and was by that Prince (a lover of 
 the Englijb Nation) as well furnifht, with Da- 
 mask, Velvet, and Embroidery, asCoft, or Art, 
 
 could 
 
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 eould contrive it ■ befides, there was a private, 
 
 well-adorn'd Chappel, and two Englifli Chaplains 
 
 to officiate and look after it. 
 
 In the Stable, his Excellence had five 
 compleat fetts, of Coach-horfes (to wit) four, for 
 the Town, and a lighter fett, for the Campaign, 
 befides feveral pairs, for ordinary ufes, with 
 faddle-horfes, and others for baggage and the 
 like i fo that there wanted nothing now, to make 
 a full equipage, but fuitable Coaches ; and of 
 thofe, there were thirteen in number. 
 
 The firft Coach. 
 
 The defign of this, was altogether poe- 
 tical, and alluding to the Sea ,• and therein, be- 
 fides the exquifite carv d Wooden-work, and en- 
 graven Iron-work, not only the figures hereafter 
 mentioned, but the very Wheels,Pearch, and even 
 the meanefl: part of the whole (as the Pole,Swivel- 
 tree,Spring,Tree Tranfum,&c. which were carv d 
 with Oak-leaves, Acorns, and Ivy-leaves) were 
 all, richly gilded. 
 
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 The fpokes of the Wheels, were carv d 
 
 into large fpreading Foliages, each fpoke, being 
 cut out of the main timber, fix Inches thick, and 
 nine broad ; and the rings, or out-circles of the 
 Wheels, as alfo the Nails, were carv'd with Oak- 
 leaves, and ScoUop-lhells. 
 
 Inftead of the Fore, and Hind-ftandards, 
 the body of the Coach, was fupported, by four 
 Tritons, as big as the life, exaftly carv'd, and 
 gilded ; having on their heads, wreaths of Sea- 
 weeds, and fo loaden with Feftons, of Rofes, 
 Thiftles, Lillies, and Acorns of Gold ^ that they 
 feem'd to bend under the Coach, as confefling 
 the immenfe weight. 
 
 Under the fore-part of this Machin, 
 iffu d two large Dolphins, their Tails inter-woven 
 upon the Pearch, and all the Ipaces adorn d, with 
 heaps of Conche-marine, Scollop-fhells, and 
 other things, proper to the Sea. 
 
 The Foot-board, reprefented a triple 
 
 Scollop-Qiell, carv'd one within another ; under 
 
 ,; which. 
 
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 which, a little winged Genius ftretcht out its felf, 
 
 and looking back in the Coach-man s face/eem'd 
 
 to point with his arm, which way he was to drive. 
 
 On the (houlders of the right hand 
 Triton behind, lean'd a large figure, reprefenting 
 Britannia, crown'd with Oak-leaves, and Turrets, 
 and aloofe Garment, flying about her. 
 
 On the others, lean'd a majeftick figure, 
 of the fame bignefs reprefenting Neptune, with a 
 fpiked Crown, on his head, his hair, and beard 
 ruffled, and a like flying Garment about him : 
 Britannia and He, extend each an Arm, andfo bore 
 up The Imperial Crown of England. 
 
 Under the Tritons, on the right, and 
 left, lay a Marine-Lion, and Unicorn, in propor- 
 tion to the other figures -, their fore-feet, finny, 
 and refting on large Foliages, their Tails twilled 
 in the intermediate fpaces, where alfo, were two 
 Genii -, the one, curbing the Lion, the other, the 
 Unicorn, with a kind of flying Bridles, of gilded 
 metal, like Ribbon ; and he that was next Neptune, 
 
 held 
 
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 held His Trident : In the reftof the fpaces, were 
 heaps of Scollop-fhells, &c, alluding to the Sea ; 
 fo that befides the excellency of theDefign, and 
 Workmanfhip, the whole carriage appeared, as 
 one mighty mafs, of entire Gold. 
 
 And now for the Coach its felf, the 
 outfide, or Leather part thereof, was all cover'd 
 with Crimfon Velvet ( which, with what went to 
 the Harnefs, Coachman's Cufhion, Braces, 
 Strapps, &c. took up 120 yards ) And over the 
 fides, or extream parts of the Velvet, was a rich 
 Gold Embroidery, of rais'd-work, and on the 
 Curtains before, behind, and on each fide (ac- 
 cording to the Italian fafhion) were large em- 
 broidered Loops, a foot long, and eight Inches 
 broad; and all other the void fpaces, as the 
 Doors, Pannels, &c. were fiU'd with flouriflies, 
 of the like embroidery, and all the feams, and 
 edges of the faid outfide, and corners, were ei- 
 ther gold Galoon, or Fringe, of the fame. 
 
 The four Vafes, or Knobbs, at the 
 
 corners 
 
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 corners of the Coach, were three foot high above 
 the roof, which falling back again on it, in large 
 Foliages of gold needle-work, and fpreading 
 along the outfide of the Valence, in a freeze- 
 work of fix Inches high, met and joyn'd in the 
 middle, by a large Scollop-£hell of the fame 
 work. As may be feen in the third, fourth, and 
 fifth Figures. 
 
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 ^TT^H E infide of the Coach, was lin'd through, 
 
 with a rich Brocard of Gold, and all the 
 Curtains before, behind, and on each fide, as alfo 
 the Cufhions, were of the fame, and took up, 
 above an hundred yards. 
 
 The Cufhions, and middle Seat, were 
 edg d with a deep, Gold-fringe, and the Curtains, 
 proportionably ; Round the Valence, was a much 
 deeper and richer Gold gimp-fringe, and round 
 the Corniili (where the Valence joyn'd with the 
 Roof) was a rais'd Embroidery, about a foot in 
 breadth,with large Branches that i>iotforth,at the 
 corners, and fides j which Valence alfo, was lin'd 
 with Cloth of Gold. 
 
 In the middle of the Roof, was his Excel- 
 lence's Coat of Arms, with Supporters, Mantling, 
 Coronet, &c. all of embofs'd Needle-work of 
 Gold, or according to their proper colours ; and 
 thefe were in length, five feet, and in breadth, 
 three, or better. 
 
 There were alfo, feveral Taffels, of Gold, 
 
 to 
 
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 to tye back the Curtains ; and all the main Har- 
 nefs,as well as the Braces, Strapps,and lefler parts, 
 were not only covered with the fameCrimfon 
 Velvet, but edg'd every where, with a thick Gold 
 Galoon ; and embroidered alfo, on all the meet- 
 ings, and remarkable places, with Rofes, of the 
 
 fame work. 
 
 The cheeks of the Bitts, were double- 
 gilt, and the Bofles embroidered, with a rais d- 
 work, upon cloth of Gold, in the figure of Rofes ; 
 All the Padds were alfo covered widi Embroide-' 
 ry, and the Buckles (an 140 in number) laid on 
 with the fame. 
 
 The Poflilion's Saddle, was of the fame 
 embroider 'd Velvet, richly laid ; and the very 
 Stirrups, were cover d, and edg'd as theHarnefs ; 
 and on each Horfe s head, hung nine Taflels of 
 Gold, to compleat the Grandeur. 
 
 The Second Coach, 
 
 That, was little lefs than the firft ^ the 
 outfide alfo being covered with Velvet, but the 
 
 colour. 
 
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 colour, blew ; The Harnefs, Braces, &c. cover'd, 
 
 and edg'd, as the firft ; The Embroidery ,BuckIes, 
 
 Knobbs, &c. little differing, in richnefs, but de- 
 
 fign: For the Knobbs, were not fo diffufe, and 
 
 fpreading ; and the doors, and void places, had 
 
 His Majeftys Cypher, crowned, and furrounded 
 
 with Palms, nothing inferiour in contrivance, to 
 
 the firft. 
 
 The infide, was of a rich Brocard, of 
 blew, and Gold; Fringd, Lac't, and Lin'd, as 
 the firft i and on the roof, his Excellences Arms, 
 after the fame manner, tho' not fo large : The 
 Carriage, Wheels, &c. carv d and gilt, but in- 
 termingled, here and there, with blew ; and the 
 fore, and hind-parts, varioufly beautifi'd, with 
 Feftons of Rofes, Thirties, Floures de Lis, A- 
 corns, &c. 
 
 The Figur^es of the whole, were feven, 
 all richly Gilt 9 on the top of the fore-ftandards 
 near the Coachman, two naked Boys^ He on 
 the right, bearing in his hand a Golden Tre-foil, 
 
 M and 
 
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 and his fellow, a Palm ; and in their other hands, 
 each held a Gilt Shield ; on the firft of which 
 was his Excellences Paternal Coat, and on the 
 fecond, his Creft, handfomly adorn d, and pain- 
 ted. 
 
 On the Corners of the hind-ftandards 
 ( being the moft conl]3icuouspart of the Coach) 
 fate two other Boys i and two more, below ^ The 
 firft, holding in his right hand a Rofe, and reft- 
 ing the other, on theEfcutcheon of England; The 
 fecond, A Thiftle, and the Efcutcheon of Scoc^ 
 land; The third, A Floure de Lis, and theEfcut- 
 cheon of Fr^//^^ ; The fourth, A Laurel, and the 
 Efcutcheon of Ir^fa^, in the fame manner as the 
 
 firft. 
 
 In the middle of thefe Figures, as it 
 were under a Canopy of Foliages, and the fame 
 under her feet, fate A Majeftique Female Figure, 
 reprefenting Britannia: la her right hand, half 
 extended, (he held a Rofe, and a Thiftle of Gold ; 
 in the-other, a Lance ; and on her knee, lean'd 
 
 i a large 
 
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 a large Shield, charg d with the Crofles of Uni- 
 on ; and laftly, over the top of the faid Stand- 
 ards and Foliages, were fixt four Crowns, moft 
 exquilitely Carv d, and Gilt ^ thatof£;?^/^;z//, be- 
 ing mounted much above the reft ; as in the 
 fixth, feventh, and eighth Figures. 
 
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 The Third Coach. 
 
 ^TT^Hisalfo, differ'd little in richnefs, or large- 
 -*■ nefs, from the two former, tho' in the ma- 
 terials, it did ; for inllead of Velvet, and Em- 
 broidery, on the out-fide, it was cover'd with 
 Leather, edg'd with Gold, and Silk Lace, and 
 Gilt mafly Brafs-work, fo richly, and curioufly 
 wrought, that the two frames, that held the 
 glafles, before and behind, eoft 300 Koma?ii 
 Crowns, which is little lefs, than an too pomid 
 Englijh. 
 
 The infide, was Crimfon Velvet, Ern4 
 broidered round, about half a foot deep, with^ 
 Flowers of Gold, at the joyning of the Cieling, 
 and Valence, and at the bottom thereof, hung 
 a rich Fringe, of Gold and Silk ; The Curtains 
 were of Damask, Embroidered, with large Lcx)ps 
 of Gold, and edg'd with a Fringe, fuitable to 
 the Valence, as were alfo the Culhiofts, and.Qfr 
 thex ufual parts of a Coachr^^-"-^ -^-^ - 
 
 The Carriage, Wheels, &c. were carv'd 
 N into 
 
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 into great Foliages, and differ'd proportionably, 
 from the two former, in that they were half. Gilt, 
 and half. Black ; and the Harnefs, Braces, &c. 
 all edg'd, with Gold, and Silk Lace, and cover'd 
 with Gilt Brafs-work, fuitable to the Coach its 
 felf 
 
 The Fourth Coach. 
 This alfo, was of Leather, with Brafs- 
 work, lin'd with Crimfon Velvet, feam'd, and 
 beautifi'd, as the third ; The Curtains alfo, were 
 of Damask, edg'd as before ; nor was there any 
 Embroidery, except that, of his Excellence Cy- 
 pher on the Cieling, encompalfed with Palms of 
 Gold ; nor the Carriage gilt, but only carved 
 withFeftons, and large Foliages. 
 
 This was his Excellences common 
 Coach, when he went privately through the 
 ftreets ; as was the fecond, when his LordlLip 
 made publique Vifits, to thofe of great quality ; 
 for, the firft was never us'd, but at fome Solemn 
 Audience, extraordinary Fun6Uon, or A firft 
 -■^" \n Vifit 
 
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 Vifit to the Cardinals, and Perfons of the high- 
 eft note ; and then they were all drawn, by fix 
 Horfes a piece. 
 
 The other Coaches. 
 
 His Excellences three next Coaches, 
 were all alike, of Leather, adornd with Silk- 
 Lace, and well-Gilt Brafs-work, all Lind with 
 Damask, Curtains of the fame, and all things 
 elfe fuitable. 
 
 Thefe, and three others, which were 
 alfo lin d with Velvet, or Damask, were for his 
 Excellences Domefticks, and Attendance, when 
 he went abroad ^ for his extraordinary Vifits, 
 were ever, with ten Ccaches, and his other, with 
 five, or fix ; nay, this was the ufual number, even 
 when his Lordiliip went Incognito ; nor were thefe 
 yet all his Coaches, for thefe were two, or three 
 other little ones, for MefTages, and common ufe. 
 
 The 8^^" of January being come, and The 
 Pope (as I faid) pretty well recover'd,in the morn- 
 ing about an hour after day-break* the foremen- 
 
 tioned 
 
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 tioned Arms of his Holinefs, and his Majefly 
 ( which had been fet up fome days before ) were 
 uncover'd, with a FlouriQi of Trumpets, which 
 drew a great concourfe of people into the Piazza, 
 every one admiring, both thedefign, and large- 
 nefs of them ; Between two or three in the after- 
 noon, the Chief Prelates, with the Pope's Officers 
 (85 in all) came to attend his Excellence, who at 
 the fame time alfo, receiv'd the complements of 
 the Cardinals, Princes, and Great men of Rome, 
 by their Relations, and Gentlemen, that brought 
 their feveral Coaches to wait on him,to the Pope's 
 Palace. ' '^"'^ 
 
 About fourin the evening, his Excel- 
 lence fet out, and (to (hew his particular RefpecS: 
 to the Place) was himfelf, in the Roman Habit, vi^. 
 Cloak, Doublet, and Breeches ^ His Suit of a rich 
 Brocard, the Ground Black, with great Branch't 
 Flowers of Gold, and lac'd thick,with deep Black 
 Flanders Lace, and a broad Gold-gimpt foot to 
 iti His Trimming was of Gold and black-wrought 
 
 Ribbon, 
 
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 Ribbon,"and his Band, of the beft Venetian Pointy 
 
 And that all things might correfpond. He had 
 
 great (lore of Excellent Diamonds in his Hat, 
 
 Wrifts, Sword, Shoes, &c. and where ever elfe 
 
 they could well appear. 
 
 There were with him ten Coaches, in 
 
 his own Livery, fuch as has been before defcribVi : 
 
 In the firft, was The Lord EmbafTador, with fix 
 
 Arch-Bilhops, and on his left hand, Monlignior 
 
 Bar^oUni, who had been Nuncio in Vrance : Before 
 
 this Coach, went 32 Footmen, 22 in Cloaks, and 
 
 10, inclofe-body'd Coats, and at the Boots, the 
 
 Pages, all in Livery, as has been alfo, before 
 
 mentioned: By them, the Dean, or Chief of the 
 
 Foot-men, in black Velvet, the Gentlemen of the 
 
 Horfe following, on A manag d Neopolitan,richly 
 
 caparifon'di Then foUow'd, his Excellences 
 
 other nine Coaches, all fill'd with Prelates ; and 
 
 after them, their own, with thofe of the Cardinals, 
 
 publick Minifters, &c. fill'd ( as was faid ) with 
 
 Gentlemen, that had been fent, to wait on the 
 
 O Solemnity .; 
 
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 Solemnity; the whole train, amounting to the 
 
 number of three hundred and thirty Coaches. 
 
 The weather, was fomewhat rainy, but 
 
 that hindred not, even the Streets (as well as the 
 
 Balconys, and Windows ) from being crouded 
 
 with people, all (houting and crying out. Viva il 
 
 gra?id Re i Ingelterra ! Live the Great King 
 
 of England ! In a word, fo general were the 
 
 Acclamations , through the whole progreft, 
 
 that. That of Flinj, to Trajan, upon His entring 
 
 Rome, might not improperly be apply 'd, to this, 
 
 of The Lord Embaflador, Non atas qiimqaam, non 
 
 valetudo, non fexm retardavit, quo minm oculos infolito 
 
 fpe^aculo impkret : Varvidi nofcere, oflentare javene^, 
 
 mirari fenes, JEgroti qiioquey reli^o medentium impetio, 
 
 ad confpeeium, qiiafi ad falutem proper are. Nor Age, 
 
 want of Health, or Sex, with-held any one, from 
 
 feeding his Eyes, with the unwonted fpe(5tacle : 
 
 Children, prattled what it was ; young men, 
 
 (houted ; old men, ftood in admiration ! Nor 
 
 would the fiek, obferve their Phyficians, but 
 
 ran 
 
5f 
 ran as faft to kcX as to meet their Health. 
 
 His Excellence being come to. Mo?it^- 
 Cavallo (where the Pope then Refided) found the 
 Soldiers drawn up before the Gate -, fo that en- 
 tring the Palace, He alighted at the foot of the 
 great Stairs, and was received (the Lay-perfons 
 of Quality preceding, and the Prelates following) 
 at the Portal of the Great Hall, juit on the Top 
 of the faid Stairs, by Monfignior Mugiafchi the 
 Chamberlain, who, with other Purpled Officers, 
 conducted him to the Anticamera, and thence 
 ( after a little repofing ) to the Bedchamber it 
 felf ) for his Holinefs's Indilpofition, hinder'd 
 him from going to the Sala Kegia, where fuch 
 great Embafiies, are ufually firft received. 
 
 The Pope was clad in Red Silk, with a 
 lac d Linnen Rocket, and fate in a Crirafon Vel- 
 vet Chair, not far from his Bed: And as foon as 
 his Excellence had made his three Obeyfances 
 (the laft, being down to the feet) he received his 
 Benedidion, and fo feated himfelf juil before 
 
 his 
 
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 his Holinefs, who after an hours difcourfe, dif- 
 mifs'd him : From thence, he was brought to 
 Cardinal Ctlos Apartment, where he ftay'd about 
 half an hour ^ and then taking Coach again, was 
 recondufted, to his own Palace, by the Light of 
 thirty, or forty White- Wax Flambeaux. 
 
 The next day, his Excellence with the 
 fame Equipage, vifited Cardinal Ludovifio, Dean 
 of the Sacred College, who (in Funftions of this 
 nature) reprefents the whole Body ; and the day 
 after, the Queen of Sweden 5 and then, the parti- 
 cular Cardinals, as they lay moil convenient ^ 
 But before this, his Excellence, to acknowledge 
 the continual obligations, plac't on him by the 
 great Prelates of Kome, invited them all ( in ho- 
 nour of the King his Matter) to a mighty Enter- 
 tainment, on the 14^^' of the Current Month, 
 which was order'd as follows. 
 
 The Great, or outward Hall ( which is 
 one of the faireft and beft proportioned Rooms, 
 that can be feen any where) was furrounded with 
 
 long 
 
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 long Tables, cover'd with excellent Linnen, and 
 
 fiU'd, with wonderful quantit;ies of Fruit, Sweet? 
 
 meats, Parmegian Cheefe, and other delicacies, 
 
 belonging to the Defert, orlaftCourfe\; For thus 
 
 are the Italians wont at their Solemn Feafts, 
 
 that by expofing to the Spedrators, one part of 
 
 the Entertainment, they may better judge, what 
 
 the whole will be ; About thirty Butlers, and Af- 
 
 liftants attended here, and at the upper end of 
 
 the faid Hall, under a Canopy (after the mode 
 
 of the Place) ftood a magnificent Cupboard, of 
 
 all kind of Plate, guarded by Swille ^ and over 
 
 againft it, was that of Glafles, which were of 
 
 Venice, in great ftore, and of all forts ; Three 
 
 other large, and richly furnifh'd Rooms were to 
 
 be pail, before ye came to the place where they 
 
 din'd ; and in the laft of them ( under another 
 
 Canopy ) was a great Cupboard of curious Gilt 
 
 Plate, for his Excellence's particular ufe, and 
 
 fervice,guarded by fome of the Engliili Servants ; 
 
 and was fo extraordinary, that it drew as many 
 
 P Spectators 
 
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 Speftators to it, as did any one thing elfe ; Nor 
 
 would they hardly believe it to be other, than 
 
 of pure Gold, tho' they were told the contrary • 
 
 and even thofe that were convinc d, could not 
 
 but confefs, that Artificers in England wtvQ fu- 
 
 perlative. 
 
 The Dining-Room, was that gay and 
 pleafant Gallery, fo remarkable alfo for its 
 ilPainting, it being of Vtetro di Cortonas doing, the 
 greateft Matter in his Time • Its ufual furniture, 
 was double Rows of Statues, in proportionable 
 Niches; but now (byreafon of the Time of the 
 year) his Lordihip order'd it to be hung with rare 
 Tapeftry -, and in the middle of the fide, op- 
 pofite to the coming in, was plac d a Cloth of 
 State, Embroider'd with Gold, under which, was 
 the King's Picture, as big as the Life, fitting 
 Crown'd on his Throne, and clad, in his Regal 
 Habit. 
 
 The Table was fitted to the length of 
 the Room, and being cover d with fine Damask, 
 
 was 
 
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 was encompafs'd, with about eighty fair arm'd 
 
 Velvet Chairs, which touch'd one another ; only 
 
 between every four, there was place left for a 
 
 Carver, and over againft him, for a Sewer ; So 
 
 that each eiqht Perfons, had thefe two Officers to 
 
 attend them as to the Eating Part ^ and behind, 
 
 every one had a Servant, to bring whatfoever he 
 
 wanted, or defired. 
 
 The breadth of the faid Table was 
 eight foot ( which might eafily be allow'd, the 
 Room being 24. wide ) and thro' the middle 
 of it, from one end to the other, ran a Range of 
 Hiftorical Figures ( fome almoft half as big as 
 the Life ) which the Italians, call Trionfi : They 
 are made of a kind of Sugar-Pafte, but model- 
 led, to theutmoft skill of a Statuary ; So that 
 they are afterwards, fent as Prefents to the great- 
 eft Ladies ; and their ufe at Entertainments, is 
 to gratifie the Eye, as the Meat, Muj(ique,and 
 Perfumes, do the other Senfes. 
 
 Between thefe, ftood great Vafes of 
 
 ArtijScial 
 
Artificial Flowers ^ and ( to fill up the emp- 
 ty fpaces of the middle ) there were a wonder- 
 ful Company of Birds in a flying pofture, on 
 lefler Plates • and as many Lyons, Unicorns, and 
 Eagles, on larger, alluding to the fupporters, 
 and bearings, of both their Majefties : An entire 
 defcription of which, as the Table flood all to- 
 gether, may be feen in the ninth Figure. 
 
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 loweth. 
 
 The firft four, wtr^oi Juno, Cjtele, Nep^ 
 tunCy and Vulcan, in Chariots, drawn over large 
 Foliages; thereby reprefenting, the four Ele- 
 ments, as if each of them, had paid a Tribute to 
 the Table ,• as in the eleventh and twelfth Fi- 
 gures. 
 
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 -*" Trees, theHieroglyphicks ofVidory.and 
 Imprefs, of his Excellences Family ^ and under 
 them, feveral Nymphs, fitting on Foliages, and 
 reprefenting the Moral Virtues, as in the thir- 
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 -*■ of His Majefties Royal Virtues ; where, up- 
 on heaps of Arms, and Trophies, in the jSrft, 
 ilood Juftice, and Peace, entwin d - with their 
 proper Symbols m then hands ^ in the other. 
 Valour, and Vidory, as in the Fourteenth Fi- 
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 -*• Mprha, the one transform'd into a Lawrel ^ 
 the other, into a Tree of her own Name, as in 
 the fifteenth Figure. Intimating thereby, That 
 His Majefty, whofe Vidories had planted Him 
 Lawrels in His own time, wanted not the Myrrhe 
 of His Virtues, to embalm Him to pofterity. 
 
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 yi N D ill the midft of all, over againft his 
 ■^ ^ Majefties Pidlure (of which, before) flood 
 a Machine of fix feet, and two inches high, re-* 
 prefenting on the one hand, the Figure of the 
 Church; on the other. Time, drawing Truth 
 out of a Cloud, thro' which, the Sun breaking 
 forth, A winged Heroe, with a Spear in his hand, 
 chas'd Fraud, and Difcord : And on the Bafe, 
 lay a difmemberd Hydra ^ thereby denoting. 
 Rebellion fuppreft, and vanquifh't : And over all, 
 flood His Majefties Arms, as may be feen in the 
 tenth Figure: And on the Reverfe thereof, thofe 
 of his Holinefs, according to the firft Figure. 
 
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 ^T^ HIS large Table, having ( as is fuid ) thefe 
 -*• adornments in die middle, had between 
 them, and the Napkins ( which were alfo moil 
 artificially folded ) two Rows of Afliets, or In- 
 termeflcs, on either fide, fill'd with all forts of 
 relifhing bits, wdiether fait, fweet, or foure^ as 
 Pickles, Butter, flices of delicate Bacon, Bolog- 
 na-Sauciges , Taratufoli , Compofts , &c. all 
 which, flood in the abovefaid Order, for two 
 5;\^hole days, ( according to the Roman way } that 
 every ones curiofity might have fo me {hare in the 
 Entertainment : And truly, the Concourfe was 
 fo infinite, that the Palace had bin certainly 
 fack't the fecond day, had not his Excellence 
 forefeen the danger, and therefore, provided a 
 Company of Swiflers, for all the Gates and 
 Avenues, 
 
 As for the Feaft it felf ( which began 
 about one ) it confided of tw^enty four Imperial 
 DiChes, to every Mefs, or eight Perfons ^ and thefe 
 ^he Italians call Imperial, by reafon of the large- 
 
 nefs. 
 
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 nefs, and richnefs of them ; as fill'd, with vvliaf- 
 ever Art could devife, orlnduftry procure; Two, 
 of each of the faid twenty four, \vere ferved in 
 at a time, and plac'd by the Servers, before the 
 Refpedive Carvers, who cutting of every thing, 
 gave it to the Servers, and they, to each Gueft 
 in their Diftrid:, whether he eat of it, or not ; 
 And as the Trumpets, and loud Mufique from 
 the Balconies, ufher d in the Meat, fo the fofter 
 ( which confifbed of Voices, Lutes, &c. ) enter-* 
 tain'd all, whilft they were eating. 
 
 Towards the middle of Dinner, his Fx- 
 cellence { who fate at the upper end of the 
 Table ) flood up, and ( calling to his Cup-bearer 
 for a Glafs of Wine) began the Popes Health,- 
 and ( within fome fmall time after ) the Kings, in 
 the lame manner, and order ; which was prefent- 
 ly pledg'd with the utmoft demonftrations of 
 Joy, and Satisfaction. 
 
 And now, the Company ( who had a- 
 bandond themfelves to mirth) beginning to be 
 
 fatisfied. 
 
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 fatisfiedjthe aforefaid twelve coiTri[€s,or changes 
 were by the Officers ( to avoid tedioufncfs ) con- 
 traded to ten ; and then, the Triumphs, and 
 other Ornaments, being taken away, they 
 cover'd the whole Table, with all kind of 
 Sweet-meats imaginable ; which after a little 
 time ( as the Liberty or Confidence of the jB:an- 
 ders by encreaft ) were all fnatch'd, and carried 
 away. 
 
 Thus ( after three hours ) ended this 
 Famous Entertainment, with univerfal fatisfad:i- 
 on, and applauie: And tho' the Delicacy of the 
 Meats, Wines, and other Liquors, as well as the 
 Abundance (which fed above looo Perfons) 
 was wonderful, yet the Order, feem'd more fur- 
 prifing ; for every one not only eat, and fate at 
 cafe, but was all the while as well attended, and 
 as readily ferved, as if he had been at a private 
 Feaft: Nay, all confeft and declar'd, that 
 the common Fate of Feafts, vi^, Beuery-Caldo 
 € Mangiar Vreddo, Drinking hot and Eating cold; 
 
 T was 
 
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 was here, wholly changd to the contrary. 
 
 And now the Month of January was 
 over, when feveral Great Perfonages, and Aca- 
 demies in Komt, thought fit to Complement His 
 Majelly, in (hewing perfonal Honours to his Em- 
 baflador. The firft, was the Queen of Sweden, 
 who had prepar'd an elegant compofition of Ita^ 
 /M;?Lyricks, in Honour of HisMajefties Acceffion 
 to the Crown ,• which being now ready, and her 
 Palace fitted for it. Her Majefty appointed it to 
 be celebrated on the beginning of Vekaarj, and 
 therefore invited his Excellence, to be prefent 
 at it. 
 
 It was perform'd in her great Audience 
 Room, adorn d with extraordinary Pictures, and 
 Lights : At the upper end, under a cloth of 
 State, was plac t a rais'd Chair for Her Majefty ^ 
 and at the other, a large Theater, with rifing 
 Benches, for the Mufick -, on either fide alfo 
 were cover'd Benches, the one for the Koman La^ 
 dies, the other, for their Husbands, or Relati- 
 ons; 
 
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 ons : And now the Ladys being plac t, and every 
 thing elfe in due order, The Lord Embaflador 
 led the Queen to her Throne,and fate himfelf.on 
 a Veh^et Stool, under the firfl ftep of it, with a 
 RowofEnglifh Gentlemen, and other Cavaliers 
 of Her Majefties Court, (landing about him. 
 
 The compofition, was lung in Dia- 
 logue, by five perfons, reprefenting, London, 
 Thames, Fame, The Ruling Genius, and The Genius 
 of Kekllion • with a Chorus of an hundred 
 Voices, and an hundred and fifty mufical In- 
 ftruments. 
 
 The fubjcft was, The Encomiums of 
 the Englifli Nation, and their Great Monarch, 
 James the Second ^ with the Augury alfo, and 
 AfTurance, of happy fuccefles, under the Domi- 
 nion of fo mighty a Prince : About the middle 
 of which, andjuft before the firfl: Chorus, there 
 was a fudden flop ; when Monfignior Vrancifco 
 Albani, A Prelate (and now Secretary of the Pope's 
 Briefs) fl:ept into a Pulpit, there ready prcpar d, 
 
 and 
 
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 and in A florid Italian Oration, firft addifefTing 
 to the Qiiecn, continu'd the Argument, thro' a 
 world of matter ; but how to bring that world 
 into a Compendium, or Map, will be a queftion. 
 In fhort, he trac'd His Majelky, from his 
 infancy, to his riper years ; and his early cou- 
 rage, to his full manhood : Follow'd him,through 
 all his various fortunes, at home, and abroad : 
 His exemplary A6lions in France, and Flanders, 
 where, to capacitate him for Admiral of the 
 Ocean, Viftory fhook of her Pinnions, as refol- 
 ving, never to part from him : He further went 
 on. That Fortune had provided new Darts, to 
 wound his fuccedion, yet they broke themfelves, 
 on what they were {hot at ^ nay , all her tryals con- 
 feft his maftery, and inftead of overthrowing, did 
 but contribute, to the faftning his roots : Nor 
 ought I ( continued he ) in the day of fo much 
 joy, to have mention'd it, but that it was not un- 
 pleafant to Hercules, to look back, on his paft 
 toils. 
 
 But 
 
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 But now, in that the appearance of Day, 
 had difperll the Clouds, All the Ideas, he could 
 fancy to himfelf, towards the forming A Statue 
 of publicic Felicity, were confpicuous in His 
 Majefty : Witnefs, his Jnflicc, in governing by 
 his Laws: His Goodnefs, in forgetting nothing, 
 but Injuries : His Clemency , in being ever 
 readier to pardon, than offenders to ask it: 
 His Lilernlitj, in the Patronage of Art?, and 
 Arms ; And laftly, his Vrudencc, in advancing 
 the Trade of his Kingdoms ^ thereby fupplying 
 the defed: of Time, and joyning divided Britain, 
 once more to the Continent : And therefore, if 
 fuch were his dawn, what muft his full Day be ? 
 Or what would we the reward of all? Even that 
 God give him the accomplilliment, of the Pro- 
 mife to Abraham, and multiply his feed, as the 
 Stars of Heaven. 
 
 Nor was it fooner fpoken, than eccho'd 
 back again, by a Chorus (as before) of an hun- 
 dred Voices, and an hundred and fifty Inftru- 
 
 V ments -, 
 
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 merits ^ And from thence, the Dialogue went on, 
 
 intermixt with three other Chorus's, crying out. 
 
 New Laurels ! New Falms ! Viciory, Vi^ory, ViBory ! 
 And at laft, the whole, clos'd with this fourth. 
 Live King of an exalted Name ! 
 Lfvc ever, in the top of years the fame ! 
 And as He*s Great in Britain, even. 
 Let Him ie Great in Rome, and Great in Heaven ! 
 And with this, ended the Entertainment 
 of that evening, but not the (^een s incHnations 
 of honouring his Majefty, for it was for feveral 
 days together, again prefented, to the general 
 fatisfaftion, of both Court, and City. 
 
 A Queen had led the way, and his 
 J^miaence Cardinal Pampbi/io (in whofe Brother's 
 1 alace, his Excellence then dwelt) A perfon of no 
 ordinary literature, iharp witted, eloquent, and 
 (which every Age has not to boaft of) A Vurpa^ 
 rated Foet, made his Lordihip the next invitation, 
 to his Palace, in the Corfo (a long Street in Rome 
 where, during the Carnival, all people appear in 
 
 Mafqiierade ) 
 
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 Mafquerade ) where, after a fplendid Entertain- 
 ment, he was further carefs'd, with an Excellent 
 Tragedy, fiing in Kecitativo : The Subje6t, was A 
 particular Complement to His Majefty, in the 
 Hiftory of St. Dimna, an Irilli Martyr ^ The f tage, 
 beautifully fet out with proper Scenes ^ and the 
 Argument, interwoven with fuch variety of noble, 
 yet furprizing Accidents, that it appear d altoge- 
 ther worthy of the elevated Genius, of himfelf, 
 that wrote it. 
 
 Nor flood it with the Grandeur of The 
 B/zr^^/vW Family, to flip this opportunity of (li ow- 
 ing the v^'orld that real refpe^l which their Good- 
 nefs, and Gallantry, made them always declare 
 was due to the Crown of England • For Cardinal 
 Francifco Earkrini (not long fince Dean of the Sa- 
 cred College) was Unckle to Carlo, his prefent 
 Eminence, and had been Prote6l:or of the Ene- 
 lifh Nation at Rome ; as had been heretofore (if I 
 millake not) Pope Urhn the Eighth • famous for 
 his humanity and good nature : This Family 
 
 alfo, 
 
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 alfo, was ally d to the moll Illuftrious Houfe of 
 Ep, and confequently, to Her now Majefty, 
 our great and gracious Queen : Under this 
 double obligation, was the faid Lord Cardinal, 
 when he invited his Excellence, and feren other 
 Enc^lilli men of quality, to an Entertainment at 
 his Palace, on the Shrove-Tuefday following, being 
 the Eve of the Carnival, vi^. The Earl of Salhhry, 
 the honourable Henry Sidney, and Thomas Katcliff'e, 
 with Mr. Arundel!, Tichhrn, Wame[lej, and Eggleflon : 
 And that there might not be wanting perfons of 
 the hii^heft Order in the Church, he invited, 
 their Eminencys, The Cardinal of Norfolk (Pro- 
 testor, of the Englifh, and Scotch) Cardinal Alteri 
 ( Protector of the Irifh ) Cardinal Vnmphilio , 
 before fpoken of, and Monlignior Barter ino, 
 his Nephew, one of the twelve principal Of- 
 ficers of the Apoftolick Chamber. 
 
 The day being now come ( out of cu- 
 riofity and pleafure to vievv,the not to be paralleled 
 Statues, and Paintings, of that Palace) his Excel- 
 lence, 
 
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 lence, with his company, came early ^ when ha^ 
 ving pad the large Court, famous for the Sculp- 
 ture about it, he was led to a magnificent Stair- 
 cafe, which brought him into a more magnifi- 
 cent Hall, where the Cardinal receiv'd his Excels 
 lence i and by the Antichambers, conducting 
 him through the reft of the Palace, Ihovv'd him 
 the ineftimable Colleftions, which nothing but a 
 like Family could have brought together ; After 
 this, he led the Embaflador to his Library, infe- 
 rior (perhaps) in nothing to the Vatican, but the 
 Manufcripts, and that it is not The Vatican. And 
 here it was, that his Eminence, prefented his Ex- 
 cellence, with forty Books, Folio's, and others, 
 exquifitely bound, and Printed by the care 
 and Beneficence of this Family ^ and here alfo 
 the Cardinals who w^ere invited, came to 
 them. 
 
 The Hall before-mentioned, was the 
 place of this Entertainment, where that fcarcely 
 to be expreft Cieling (the hand alfo of Vistro ds 
 '■^^ - X Cortona^ 
 
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 Cortona, was ( if yet poflible ) out-done, by the 
 coftly Hangings ^ wherein (with all the Maftery 
 of Art, Colours, and Defign) were expreft, the 
 moft conliderable a£tions of Pope Vrtaji the 
 Eighth i and upon a Freeze under them. The 
 Hiftory of Dckrah : And at the upper end of 
 all, A full Picture of His Majefty, on a fprightly 
 Horfc, trampling, The many-headed Monfter of 
 Rebellion, under his feet. 
 
 The Hall its felf, was fet round, with 
 Crimfon-Velvet Chairs, edg'd with a deep Gol- 
 den Fringe, and in the middle, upon a fmall 
 rifing, flood a Table of thirty foot long, and fe« 
 ven broad ; through the length of which, ran a 
 range of Triumphs, andbefide them, other leller, 
 of Arts, Peace, Wai'^ Vidiory, with their refpe- 
 dive Symbols, and Trophys : Nor was the num- 
 ber of the Services, the vaftnefs of the Difhes, the 
 variety of the luterHrxiefles, and relifhing Plates 
 round every Trencher, the plenty, and choice of 
 Wines,- the ndbieneis of the Delart, excellence of 
 ' the 
 
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 the Mufick, and great Order of the whole, in any 
 
 wife difproportionate, to the magnificence of the 
 
 place, or the perfon, that made it : And if it fell 
 
 fhortinany thing, of that of the Lord Embaila- 
 
 dor's, it was not, that his Eminence's intention, 
 
 was not the fame, but the company lefs. 
 
 The Entertainment lafted above two 
 hours, and from the Hall, they withdrew into a 
 curioufly hung Room, w^hich was a ready con- 
 veyance into all the other parts of the Palace ; 
 and from hence they came into A fecond, hung 
 with Crimfon Velvet, and beautifully adorn'd 
 with Statues, and Pidures, of ineftimable value • 
 where, his Eminence had prepar'd, an excellent 
 compofition,of Vocal, and leftrumental Mufick, 
 in honour of His Majefty, and this glorious Em- 
 bafly. 
 
 From thence, his Excellence, and their 
 Eminences in Cardinal Earkrms Coach (the reft 
 of the Coaches following) drove thro' the Corfi 
 (of which, before) And thence, to the Palace of 
 
 Cardinal 
 
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 Cardinal Famfhilio, where his Excellence receiv d 
 a fecond Re^al, and the fatisfaflorv Entertain-" 
 ment, of the Tragedy before rnention'd. 
 
 This of the Lords Cardinals, begot an 
 Emulation in The Literati, nor was it long, ere 
 they follow d the example: The firil of this kind, 
 were the Fathers of the Gregorian, or Kcman Col- 
 lege (founded by Pope Gregory the 1 3^^-) w4io in- 
 vited his Excellence, to an Entertainment of the 
 Mufes, on the 25^^- of the fame month ; At which 
 time, he came largely attended, with Fx.oman Pre- 
 lates, and other great men ; and was receiv'd at 
 the Gate, not only by the Rector, but by the 
 Afliftants, and chief members of that Learned 
 Body^ for, as for the General himfelf, he was 
 lately dead, and the Vicar fick, even to keep his 
 Bed. At his entrance they expreft their fa tisfa- 
 ftion and joy, by ringing their Bell, and aflourifh 
 of Trumpets : Then having with much ado paft 
 the throng'd Court, and view'd the Infcription, 
 erefted (in honour of His Majefty, and that days 
 
 Solemnity) 
 
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 Solemnity) over the F/frMco, tHat lead^ intd the 
 firft Hall, his Lordihip was at the great Door of 
 k, met by the Prefect of the Studys, who in a 
 ■fliort, but elegant Latine Oration, accofted him, 
 to this eflfed. 
 
 That amidfl: the noife of the world ap^ 
 plauding, and rejoycing at his Excellence's Ar- 
 rival at Rome, The Gr-egerian Academy, neither 
 ought to be filent, nor indeed, could it : In their 
 name therefore, he firft re|dyc't with His Holi- 
 nels, in that it happened in his Pontificat, and 
 that James the Second, itiguS in England, and 
 hnocenp the XI'^* in Kome: In the next place, he 
 gratulated. To The Chriftian World, fo Great A 
 Defender of the Faith ; To Britain, (^een of the 
 Ocean, fo potent an Aflertor : And lattly, To 
 his Excellence, his EmbafTy ^ And ftil'd His Ma- 
 jefty, 1 he moft Great King of Great Britain, m 
 that he had chofen, fuch an Embaflador,- the 
 one, only fit to chufe the other, to be chofen. 
 3" ^ -.- And now his Excellence had a full Pro- 
 '. Y ipea 
 
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 fpea of the Hall it felf, the further end of which, 
 was one entire piece of Archite£ture, in Perfpe- 
 aive i where, under a Regal Canopy, upon A 
 Throne, rais'd four Steps, and a round Pedeftal 
 of equal height, between two ereded Female 
 Fif^ures, vii. Scotland admiring, and Ireland re- 
 joy cing, fate a Third, on a Lion couchant, re- 
 prefenting England ; On her head fhe bore a Mu- 
 ral Crown i in her right hand, A Scepter ; and 
 her left, held the Helm of a Ship : Upon the 
 Cornifhes over that, fupported by large Pillars, 
 w^ere Their Majeftys Piftures ( as done in Brafs ) 
 wreath'd about, with Laurels, and Palms, each 
 alfo fupported, by two Angels : And fomewhat 
 over that, in the middle between both. His Ma- 
 jeftys Arms, with their wonted Quarterings, Gar- 
 ter, and Supporters, {landing on Feftonsof Ro- 
 fes, and Thiftles : And on a proportionable Ar- 
 chitrave to the whole, four large Urnes, or Pots 
 oflncenfe. 
 
 The^ Walls on either jGde, were hung 
 
 with 
 
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 with Arras, of Silk i and upon a Gornijli over 
 them, feveral Shields, and Tablets, of De^ife^, 
 Epigrams, and Elogies, in honour of His Majefty, 
 and that days occafion : Among the number of 
 which, it may not be unpleafant, to divert the 
 Reader, with fome of them. -^-f ' 
 
 A Ship, her Sails furl'd, and lying clofe, 
 againft the weather. The word (— U^i noxia per^ 
 flant) While dangers are air o ad. Signifying thereby, 
 A Temped may (hake, not rend a wife man s 
 Sails; And therein alfo. His Majeftys prudence, 
 in giving way to the Storm, which fo much 
 threaten'd him, before he came to the Crown. 
 
 A Leopard regardant, /. e. looking back 
 on his ipots. The word ( Ornant, non maculant--) 
 They kautifie, not ilemijb. Intimating thereby. That 
 all the obloquies againft His Majefty, when Duke 
 oiXork, are fo far from giving him any Blot, that 
 they rather add, fo many Flowers to his Crown. 
 
 A Cannon, firing. The word ( — ikf^//- 
 [lira dat i^/m) 'Tk the true Levil hits. Thereby de-* 
 
 noting. 
 
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 noting, That thofe true meaFures, His Majefty 
 
 took of his AfFairs,gave Him,'anki his Kingdoms, 
 the happinefs, they now enjoyr^^'^ - ^ ,8r.aii'?;^Hq3 
 "^n '^'Tlrnrf^ Shield, with an Umio, or fpike of 
 Steel, in the Centre. The word [Verendv,- S fe^ 
 riendo) By hearing, and fujhhg. Thereby (hewing, 
 His Majeftys readinefs to receive, and repel, the 
 force of his Enemies. Kl ..^.xi.:.^, 
 
 A Horfe, ready appointed for War, 
 beating the ground, and (as it were) neighing 
 for the Battla The word [•^^Animoqae paratior-*--) 
 More ready in himfelf Intimating thereby, his in-^ 
 vincible Refolution. ^'^- 
 
 A Marriners Compafs, the Needle to 
 the North. The word ( ^o femel, hue femper-^ ) 
 Once, and ever. Thereby denoting. His Majeftys 
 conftancy. '' ' 
 
 nf^A Lion, tofling a large Orbicular Fi- 
 gure. The word [-^-Et tanto in pondere ludit) And 
 under the great weighty He plays. Alluding thereby, 
 
 to His Majeftys expcditioufnefs, and happy dex- 
 terity, 
 
terity, in the eafy difpatch, of fo many his 
 weighty Affairs. 
 
 The Sun, throwing his Beams over a 
 Landskip. The word ["Circumfpkit omnia-) He has 
 an e)6, on nil. Thereby intimating. That no part 
 of his Dominions is fo remote, but that he bears/ 
 a particular regard to it. 
 
 A Harp, fullftrung. The word [Smmis 
 confentit S imis) And every firing accords. Denoting 
 thereby, That (notwithfbanding their diverfity 
 in Opinions) all His Majeftys Subjed:s, meet in 
 one Confort, /. e. a general fatisfa6lion, and de- 
 h'ght, under his happy Government. 
 
 Laftly (for I intend not a Volume) A 
 Bee,flying round a Garden, of Herbs and Flowers. 
 The word [Non legit inf eel os^) She takes no poifonous 
 Tlant. Pointing thereby at His Majeftys Judgment, 
 that he makes choice, of the Beft men. 
 
 Befides thefe, there were feveral other 
 Odes, Epigrams, and Elogys, on larger Tablets, 
 in honour of His Majefty, his Late Royal Bro- 
 
 Z ther, 
 
8^ 
 cher, and the particular accidents of his now 
 Majeftics life ; One among the reft, more imme- 
 diately relating to The Emhafly, in which ( al- 
 luding to his Excellence the Lord Fmbafladors 
 Name, ofVnlmcr] under the Emblem of A Palm, 
 -or Date Tree, was reprefcnted, That it is the 
 Nature of that Tree, not to yield to any weight, 
 but rather, to endeavour the more upwards : In 
 ihort, they giaitulate The Omen -, forctel Him, 
 Vi(!:lory over his Enemies, of which alfo, that 
 Tree is the Symbol, And wifh him, A ?rince, of 
 mnnj Valms. 
 
 From thence in thepafTage to the Grea- 
 ter Hall, by the Humanity Schools of Grammar, 
 Syntax, Poetry, Rhetoricic, &c. Several Prince- 
 ly youths, (chief of the Cafarean, Mnttbean, hi-' 
 ferial, Vnmfhilinn, and Altierian Families) ftood 
 before the doors of their refpedive Schools, and 
 fliluted his Excellence with Diftichs ^ and from 
 thence, by a fair afcent, he came up to the Hall 
 its felf, which was ftatelily furnifh't, with Da- 
 mask, 
 
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 mask, and Tapeftry hangings, heighrned with 
 Gold. 
 
 Towards the end of ir, was crefted A 
 Theatre, on which ilood the Rhetorick Madcr, 
 who complemented his Excellence in a Latine 
 Heroick Poem of 571 Verfes, the Sum and Ar- 
 gument of which, was this. 
 
 He took his rife, from the year, or 
 t\vo, before HisMajefties acceffion to the Crown, 
 And thus fabled ; That the Genius of Enzknd 
 having ( by reafon of the late villanous Plot ) 
 found every thing, in diforder at home, had tra-^ 
 veird all the Provinces of Europe^ and finding 
 them fuccefsful in their Affairs, began to con- 
 fult, whether Fortune ( whereby yet, he meant 
 no other, than that Divine Providence which is 
 always awake for the good of Mmkind ) had not 
 foriaken his Cduritf ey, and being half doubtful 
 in iti refolv d to go in queft of her : To which 
 purpofe, having advice, that fhe had betaken 
 her felf, to the Imperial Eagle, he f ollow'd her 
 
 from 
 
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 r.om place, to place, and at laft found her at 
 the firft unfaccefsful Siege of Buda : where, ha-^ 
 ving laid before her, the clofe Argument, of not 
 preflmg Fortune, againfl; Fortune -, He encou- 
 rac^es her with the certainty of the next Cam- 
 paign, and only begs her, that during that va- 
 cancy, (he would take a Journey into England^ 
 which wanted nothing, butherprefencc* to com- 
 pofcit. 
 
 * Inihort, the Genius prevails, takes For- 
 tune into his Chariot, and ( after a full-wrought 
 Poetical defcription of the Journey ) brings her 
 into England • where the firft thing they met with, 
 was the death, of King Ckr/^J the Second ^ and 
 two Rebellions, then rifing, againft his Brother 
 and Heir, His now^ Majefty : This Fortune (that 
 ever hated the profane rabble) cover'd the Kings 
 Arms, difperft the Rebels, and having feated 
 him, in the hiiperial Throne, return d back to 
 the Eagle, for its next more fuccefsful expedition 
 againft £//^/7. And with this, ended the Solera- 
 
 nity, 
 
%9 
 
 riity, which was all perform'd, in the Latine 
 tongue. 
 
 The next, was that of The CU men tine 
 Colledge, founded by Pope Clement the Vlir''- -, 
 which, albeit it be governed by religious per- 
 fons, has in it yet, an Academy of The Literati, 
 and (befides their more ferious (ludys) The 
 young Noblefs, and Gallants, are train'd up, in 
 all thofe Exercifes, that may render them ufeful, 
 either for Peace, or War : Hither alfo his Excel- 
 lence was invited i and cam j fully accompany'd 
 with Prelates, Cavaliers, and others ^ nor was 
 the Entertainment lefs learned, tho' for the moft 
 part,the Compofition was in, the Vulgar Tono-ue • 
 for the Italian wits, by critically confidering it 
 in their Academies, have at length render d it, 
 both Polite, and Elegant. 
 
 His Excellence was receiv d at the firft 
 Gate, by the Fathers, and young Noblemen 
 Conviftors, with A double range of Trumpets^ 
 and thence, conduced into' tlie Gffe'at Hall, rich- 
 
 Aa ly 
 
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 so 
 ly adorn d widi Paindngs, and Damask, fring'd 
 with Gold J Where he was feated on A Veh^et 
 Chair rais'd, and befidehim, hung A full Pic- 
 ture of His Majefly, under a Royal Canopy ; 
 over which, (tood the Imprefs of The Acadmicks 
 ( by the name oiThe Extravaga/its ) vi^. two Palms, 
 folded into the Figure of a Warlike Hand-bow. 
 The word ( placidls, coeant inwiitia ) Let Arts, and 
 Arms, join hands. Thereby fignifying, That Gowns, 
 and Swords, are not fo incompatible, but they 
 may very well meet, in the fame perfons. 
 
 The Entertainment began, with a pre- 
 lude of Mufick, Then flood out, A Noble 
 Youth (AMarchefe) of about feventeen years 
 ( who aifo bore a part, in the following Exercifes, 
 of Vaulting, Dancing, Fencing, and Horfman- 
 (liip ) and carefs'd His Excellence, in a fmart 
 Oration, to this purpofe. 
 
 That the old Hittorys of Rome, muft 
 give place, to modern Annals ^ In as much as 
 the Glorys of the jfirft, were more belxev d, than 
 
 true. 
 
9^ 
 
 true, thefe on the contrary, carry d in them, 
 more of truth, than credibility. 
 
 That the multitude of people, made 
 Rome, look bigger, than her fdf, and Rome now, 
 might be found, in Rome again. 
 
 That Glory, lay not in quantity, but 
 quality, and that the brave men, not the number, 
 made A Monarchy great, and IlluftriouSi For 
 other wife, Vices, and Privation (that in defpight 
 of Noble Enterprifes, had dellroy'd Confines ) 
 might fet up for Soveraignty, among the Ver- 
 tues. 
 
 That the Trophys of The Auguft Fagle, 
 furpafs d not yet, thofe of The winged Lion ; And 
 tho' Antiquity, might pride its felf, in her Ahxan^ 
 dei\ Cafars, &c. yet the real Grandeur of all, was, 
 to be found in James the Second, and what was 
 prodigious in them, render'd not only probable, 
 but certain in him. 
 
 Then making an Excurfion, on the 
 Praifes of The Pope^ The Emperors Viftorys 
 
 over 
 
^2 
 
 over the Turk ; The Queen of Sweden, Patrohefs 
 of their Academy ; The Lord Enibaliador, and 
 his Embafly, he thus, came back to Kis Majefty : 
 Let jamei' the Second Hve ! to the Terror of Evil 
 doerS; and the Example of Heroes : Live 1 he Glo- 
 ry of Britain, and Glory of the Capitol ! And with 
 him, encreale The Triumphs of Hungrirj con- 
 quer d, and Greece, wounded. 
 
 Laftly, in the name of the Academicks, 
 he befoiight his Excellence, to accept that Ad- 
 drefs, fo much the more afFe6lionate, by how 
 much the lefs artificial • And to temper their 
 boldnefs. That he would yet content himJelf, to 
 repeat with them, what Varim Geminus, once faid 
 tohi^Cafar ; ^li de te "jacoh aadent dicer e, viagni^ 
 tiidincm tuani ignorant, qui non aiident, Humanitatem, 
 They that prefume to give an account of Thee, 
 lames, underftand not Thy Greatnefs, and they 
 that dare not oiFer at it, know nothing of Thy 
 Clemency. 
 
 This ended with a Chorus of Mufick ; 
 
 And 
 
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 And then, were rehearft feveral fhort Epigrams 
 (of half a dozen, or a dozen Verfes) Stania wife, 
 by the like Noble Youths, in honour of The 
 J^ope ; The King ,- The QUeeh ,• The Qiieen of 
 Sweden ^ The lateDutchefs of Modena ^ The now 
 Duke ,• The Lord Emballador ^ And Cardinal 
 Aiiolino, Prote6l:or of the Academy • Which alfo 
 was anfwered by a Chorus of Mufick. 
 
 Then follow'd the exefcife of Vaulting, 
 on the Horfe, perform' d by fix Noble Youths, 
 with lingular dexterity, and variety- and after 
 fome refpite of Mulick, thofe other, of Dancing, 
 and Fencing, by the fame, or like Youths. 
 
 The firft, was an high Dance, by one 
 fingle perlbn i And after that, A Duel of two. 
 The fecond Dance alfo, was fingle ; and after 
 that, a Due! of two. 
 
 The third Dance, w^as a French Minuet, 
 of two. And after that, askirmifh of three ^ One, 
 defending himfelf, againfttwo. 
 
 The fourth Dance, was in a figure of 
 
 Bb fix/ 
 
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 fix ; And after that, a Duel of two. 
 
 The fifth Dance, was in a figure of four • 
 
 And after that, a skirmilh of three : One, with a 
 
 Sword and Dagger, defending himfelf, againft 
 
 two Swords. 
 
 The fixth Dance, was a Saraband of 
 fix ; And after that, a skirmifh of eight ; four, 
 againft four ^ with a flourilli of Trumpets. 
 
 The feventh Dance, a figure of eight. 
 The eighth Dance, was a French Minuet of two ; 
 And after that, a skirmifh of eight ^ and clos'd 
 thofe exercifes, with a Chorus of Trumpets. 
 
 And now, while the Academicks were 
 preparing themfelves for their riding the great 
 Horfe, His Excellence was entertain'd with A 
 Symphony of Mufick 5 and that over, conduced 
 into A Gallery, which lookt into the riding 
 Court, from whence, he beheld all the Exercifes 
 of Horfmanfhip, perform'd by eight Noble 
 Youths of The Academy ; which ending, his 
 Excellence was recondufted to his Palace. 
 
 Nor 
 
9$ 
 
 Nor was it long, ere a like feftivous in- 
 vitation, was made him, by The Academicks of 
 the Infecondi, for the 21 of ^/n/followingpi where, 
 accompany d with a numerous train of Prelats, 
 and others, he was as fplendidly receiv'd, and 
 entertain'd, with even the height, of Rhetorick 
 and Poetry, in honour of His Majefty, Himielf, 
 and The Embafiyi more pafticularly, with a 
 problematical difcourfe, (in Italian) whether 
 The Victorious Arms of the Chriftians in Hun^ 
 gaij, and Greece, or The Generous Indulgence, 
 of the King of Great Brittain ( uniting thereby, 
 his Subjefts ) were more conducing to the peace 
 of Chriftendom ? 
 
 And now his Excellence ( having re- 
 ceiv'd Orders ) prepar d for his Return ^ and 
 therefore ( to begin where he ought ) he ac- 
 quainted the Pope, that ( with his permiflion ) 
 the next Audience, fhould be that of Congee • So 
 that on the fifth of May he came in great ftate to 
 the Palace, and after an hours Private Difcourfe 
 
 or 
 
^6 
 or thereabouts, he receiv'd the Embraces, and 
 Benedidion of His Holinefs, with the ufual Pre- 
 fent, of a Pair of Beads, at which hung a Gold 
 Medal of our Saviour. 
 
 This Ceremony being thus over, His Ex- 
 cellence was to take his leave of the Queen of 
 Sweden, and after her, of every Cardinal,* all 
 which being in a fortnight's time perform'd, he 
 chang d his Livery, and ( ordering his Dome- 
 fticks to make ready, with all poflTible haft for his 
 Journey) he put himfelf wholly Incognito i 
 that is to fay, neither to give, nor receive Vifits, 
 unlefs about Bufinefs, and that, privately, and 
 by theBack-ftairs alfo : But an Accident inter- 
 rupted this fo neceflary a Retirement, to one 
 that had fo great a Family to difpofe of, and £0 
 many Home-Affairs to fettle, before he ftirr'd. 
 For the four new Cardinals ( Ciceri, Vetrucci, Ca^ 
 ra fa and Medici) who had been long mew'd up, 
 were on the 24.^^- Current to receive their Hats, 
 in open Confiftory ^ which being the only Pub- 
 lick 
 
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 lick Papal Solemnity, fince his Lordfhips Recep- 
 tion, it was thought fit (by the whole Court) that 
 he fhould have a more particular Inwtation, as 
 he had, and which, he readily comply'd with. 
 
 About ten in the morning that day, his 
 Fxcellence (attended by all hi^j own People) came 
 to the Palace, where he was Receiv d by the Of- 
 ficers, and condufted to the Great Gallery, from 
 whence he might fee Cardinal de Medici s Caval- 
 cade, or Solemn Proceflion on Korfe-back ; for 
 in this manner was every Cardinal formerly wont, 
 to come to his Firft Audience, accompany'd by 
 the Sacred Colledge, and Prelates, on Mules, the 
 other Grandees, and followers, on Horfes : But 
 the Charge being exceffive, none had forfeveral 
 years perform'd it, nor could it be more pro- 
 perly reviv d, by any one, than a Prince of fo 
 much Wealth, and Greatnefs. 
 
 The other three Cardinals having been 
 excus'd Riding, came privately before, and by 
 noon, the reft j and then, his Excellence went 
 
 Cc to 
 
^8 
 to the Popes Inward Antichamber , where he 
 found the Coneflalle Colonna attending ; for he, 
 and the Duke de Bracciano, are the only Romans, 
 that are Vrincipi del Soglio ^ that is to fay. Princes 
 that can fiand [on great Dajs) under the Canopy, or Cloth 
 of State: His Lordlhip and he, having faiuted 
 each odier, and difcours'd for a while, die Pope 
 came out, and after his Benedidiion (they, and 
 fome of the Bed-chamber preceding ) he was 
 brought to the Veftry,- where being Pontifically 
 Rob'd, and Mitred, by two Cardinal Deacons 
 (to w^it, Maldachini, and Tamfilio) his Excellence 
 took up his Train, and fo follow^'d him to the 
 Throne, in the Room where the Conlidory was 
 then held ^ {landing clofe by him on his Right 
 hand, and difcourfing ftill with him, during the 
 Cafmes, and Intervals of the Fundion. 
 
 The Funfibionit felf confifted chiefly, 
 in the Pope's Bleffing the people ^ the Salutations 
 he received from the Cardinals ^ and his Pray- 
 ers { at his giving the Hats ) that God would 
 
 incline 
 
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 incline each of them, faithfully to ferVe his Di-* 
 vine Majefty, in their refpe6live Stations ; and 
 fo ( after two hour s ) he return d in the former 
 order. After which, his Excellence took the op** 
 portunity of taking his fecond leave, of all his 
 Friends, and ( after many kind Adieu's ) was 
 conducled to his Coaches, which, together with 
 his Liveries, never appear'd more magnificent, 
 nor ever happen d to be more defcanted upon, 
 than at this time: For being all intermingled > 
 with the (lately Equipage of Cardinal de Medici, 
 The people had a fit opportunity to compare, 
 and give their judgments of both, which was 
 highly in favour of his Lordfhips. 
 
 Our Embaffador being again recir d, 
 every Servant was at hberty to look after his par- 
 ticular bufinefs ; and in three weeks, the Ba^eagc 
 was made up, and All Perfons ( as well Tradef- 
 men, as Domettici^s ) paid off: And to obviate the 
 millakes, which Chance or Malice, might after 
 his Departure occafion ; He order d ( ten day^ 
 
 before 
 
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 before he llirr'd ) PrintedBills tobe patted up in 
 the moft Remarkable Quarters of the City, 
 which gave notice of his intended Journey, and 
 willed every one to repair to the Palace, 
 that had any Dues, or Pretenfions : But fo far was 
 this, from creating trouble, to his Excellence or 
 Officers, that it gave the Town occailon to ad- 
 mire, and wonder, nay, confefs it, a thing not 
 only unufual, but fcarce heard of before, in thofe 
 parts ; For thro' the whole courfe of this Embafly, 
 no man (after the ftating of his Accounts) ever 
 ask't twice for his money ; nor was any Bill (upon 
 what place foever drawn) which was not pun6tu- 
 ally, and precifely fatisfied. 
 
 And now his Excellence (having dif^ 
 pos'd of his Engliili Servants, and Baggage, fome 
 to return by Sea, others by Land) began his own 
 Journey the 23. oi June, by night, becaufe the 
 Heats were exceiTive •, and by Poft, for expedi- 
 tion-fake, according to his late Orders : Him- 
 felf rid in a handfom, commodious Callelh, 
 
 made 
 
lOI 
 
 made purpofely for that fervic'e ; and was at- 
 tended by his Secretary, his Sewer, a Page, a 
 Valet de Chamhre, and a Running Footman -, and 
 overtaken on the Road, by the Gentleman 
 ofhisHorfe, whom fome neceflaryBufinefs had 
 hinder'd, from fetting out with him. But before 
 we leave Kome, it may not be amifs to recount 
 an Affair, which his Lordlhip fully fettled, before 
 his departure. 
 
 One Ykri ( a ?tedmo?ittfe of quality, and 
 banifh'd thence, a while fince) after he had lux- 
 urioufly fpent vaft fums at Vark, Vienna,and other 
 places, man'd out to Sea (in Perfon) a Privatier, 
 under the Folifi Banner, tho' that Kingdom, has 
 no one foot of Land, near Salt-water: When 
 Roving in the Mediterranean, he met (towards the 
 Coaftof £^;'/^) two Englifh Ships, xht Jerufalem 
 and another -, and making them both Prizes (the 
 laft, becaufe fhe wanted a fufScient Pafs, and the 
 other, for having the New Ba[[a of Tripoli, with 
 bis Family, on Board) carry'd them direftly for 
 
 D d Malta r 
 
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 Malta : The News of this Irifult, being divulgd 
 every where, the L^^/j^r;/-Fa6tory prefently 
 made Applications to his Lordihip, and ac- 
 quainted him, that if this paft without fatisfa- 
 <5lion, not only all Chriftian Men of War, but 
 every Privatier, would be ftill fearching, and 
 difturbincr their Merchants : That the Turks 
 would do the like alfo ; and all people (for the 
 future) would load on the French and others, 
 that could prote<5l them from fuch dangers, 
 and Inconveniencies • Nor were thefe Gentle- 
 men the fole Plaintiffs, but Letters came from 
 the Conful of Tripoli, nay the Baffa himfelf, de- 
 firing his Excellences Help, and Afliftance. 
 
 His Excellence, who ( by his former 
 Travels in the Leva?it) knew the Turkifh Juftice, 
 which ufually, makes the National Traders, feel 
 the (mart of fuch Accidents, borrow'd Mr. Ha?H 
 ford ( Gentleman of the Horfe to the Cardinal 
 of Norfolk) and fent him in all haft, for Malta -, 
 having firft communicated the whole Affair, to 
 
 the 
 
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 the Embaflador of that Order, then Refiding at 
 Rome, 
 
 By the Time Mr. Hanford got thither, 
 Vlori had again put to Sea, and given the Ba^a 
 his Liberty, upon fecurity of 30000 Dollars ; but 
 reprefented the matter fo falfly, that many 
 thought, he had fome Right on his fide ^ how- 
 ever, the aforefaid Gentleman foUow'd his Fxcel- 
 lences Inftru£tions fo well, that he fecur'd all 
 further Embeazlements of the Goods; Enform'd 
 the Ea[fa (by Letter) what Care His Majefty had 
 taken of him ; comforted his Wife, and Servants, 
 who were before, in the utmoft Defpair ; and 
 brought alfo an Inventory of what was taken, and 
 what remain d behind. 
 
 Nor was his Excellence on his part idle 
 at Rome ; for he acquainted all the Neighbour- 
 ing Princes, and Governours with the fa6t ; af- 
 fur d them, that if the King had not Juftice done 
 him, He would doit himfelf ^ writ kindly to the 
 B^lfa j left Letters at Genoua, Leghorn, and Naples, 
 
 for 
 
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 for our Men of War ( that call'd in ) to purfuc 
 the Pirate : And laftly, fatisfi'd every body in 
 the main Point, to wit, of having Infidels, and » 
 Enemies on Board ; For he not only let them fee^" 
 the Determination, and Pradice of the State of 
 Venice, the Grand Duke, and others, upon Corn-* i 
 plaints of ours in Uke cafes, but fhevv'd them, 
 how the contrary Procedure, would be a won- 
 derful prejudice to All Chriftendom ^ for feeing 
 our Merchantmen, carry a hundred Forreign 
 Chriftians, to one Turk, if Turks, and their 
 Goods, were lawful Prize to the Chriftians, they 
 alfo muft be fo to the Turks, and confequently, 
 run the lame Rifque in their Perfons, and Effects, 
 which now (as 'twas evident to every body) they 
 were abfolutely out of danger of, tho' the Bar-^ 
 <5/z7-Pirates, or the Grand Signiors Fleet, (hould 
 meet them at Sea, and even knew, who they 
 were. 
 
 In fhort, after much Negotiation, his 
 Excellence made Flori ( as a Bandit or Out-Law) 
 
 totally 
 
10^ 
 
 totally abandon the Sea ^ Caus'd the Priz'd 
 Goods, and Perfons, to be Rellor'd to die B^.ffa ; 
 Had the Security, for his Ranfom, declar'd Null ; 
 Sent his Money, and Jewels, found in the hands 
 of the Captain of the Jerufalevi to Tripli; and 
 forcd the Veilel it felf (now difcountenancd 
 every where, and wanting all manner of Necef- 
 faries) to run into Villa Franca, where being de- 
 ferted by the Officers, and pillag'd by her own 
 Men, ilie remain'd as a kind of Wreck : And 
 thus ended this Affair, to the Great Honour of 
 HisMajefty, and the Reputation, and full Settle- 
 ment, of the Englifh Navigation, thro' the Ale- 
 dmrraman; Nor did his Excellence fail of recei- 
 ving many Thanks from the Ba^a ( who in the 
 end, lotl no very great matter ) and Acknow- 
 ledgments from all our Merchants in Italy, and 
 our Turky Company aifo. 
 
 On the 23 d. of June (as before) his Ex- 
 cellence left KomCy accompany 'd by Cardinal 
 Howard, the Earl of Salisiiirj, Sir John Lytcott, and 
 
 Ee other 
 
10^ 
 
 other Perlons of Qaaliry* in feveral Coaches, to 
 the nrltPofti and having there] taken hk Lea V0 
 of them, and particularly of his Eminence (li^ 
 remarkable for his exemplary Life, and Fngliflh 
 Temper^ And who (^^to/z/^/dike) chofe rather, 
 to change his Country, than any one Article of 
 the Catholick Faith) He profccuted his Journey, 
 with great fatisfaclion as to the Heats, andDuft^ 
 but not to the Ceremony, which he now hop d, 
 to have been wholly free from ^ For heno fooner 
 arrived (the following night) at the fird Villagq 
 in the Grand Duke's Territory, but he met there, 
 his Highnefle's OflScers ( with all neceiFary Re- 
 freihments) that expected him : From hence (af- 
 ter fome ftay in a Chamber particularly furniflVt 
 for that purpofe) he went on, and arriv'd (a little 
 before Sun-riling) at Kadicofani, where he found 
 a Bed put up for him ^ and not only Wines, and 
 IVovifions of all forts (even Ortolanh and the 
 like ) but the Duke's f^ervants, and Cooks at- 
 tending ^ And in the fame manner was he ftill 
 
 treated 
 
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 treated, where-ever he Repos'd, in this Generous 
 Prince's Dominions, as well on this, as on that 
 fide Florence. 
 
 J^lt*.vv^- At Florence, his Highnefs order'd Duke 
 Salvlatis Palace (which is the beft in Town) to be 
 put in Order for his Lordfliip ^ where he was 
 brought as foon as he arriv'd -, and where Count 
 [Magolotti, with great Attendance, w^as ready to 
 Receive him : His Excellence ( after he had been 
 in Bed, and well refre(ht) w^ent to Court to wait 
 on the Duke ^ and from him, was carried to the 
 Prince's Apartment, whom he fainted alfo. Next 
 day, they both came to fee his Excellence, and 
 in the Evening, he waited on the Great Dutchefs, 
 .at her Villa, about a mile out of Town, where 
 the Beautiful young Princefs alfo was. On the 
 Third day, the Duke invited his Excellence to fee 
 ^e running of Barbs, after the Italian manner i 
 which being ended, he took leave of his High- 
 nefs, and of the Ducal Family, who were all, then 
 prefent together i And having after Supper ac^ 
 
 knowledgd 
 
io8 
 knovvledg'd his Obligations to Count Magohtti 
 { who never left him from firit to kit ) he took 
 Pofl, and ftill found the fame Treatment on the 
 way, where -ever he pail in the Grand Duke's 
 Territories. 
 
 Eoldgna was the next City of confc« 
 quence ; and this, his Lordfhip pafs'd at break of 
 day, leaving his Secretary to complement the 
 Cardinal Legat, and fo follow to the defignd 
 Refting-place, about ten miles fhort of Modcna j 
 where (as foon as the Poft-Mafter could give no- 
 tice) Prince Cafar UEfte was picas' d to come him-* 
 felf j And carrying away his Excellence,they were 
 foon met on the Road, by the Duke's and Cardi- 
 nals Coaches, with Perfons of Quality in them, to 
 complement fowelcom'd a Stranger. 
 
 Tis difficult to exprefs the wonderful 
 Entertainment his Lordfhip found here; and 
 therefore, not to leflen it by a low, and flat Re- 
 lation, I flball content my felf in faying. That his 
 fixcellence was lodg'd in the Palace it felf ^ had 
 
 feveral 
 
109 
 feveral Gentlemen, Pages, and Officers, particu- 
 larly to Attend him ; was feafted by His High- 
 nefs, both in Town, and at his Delicious Villa 
 of Safoli ; receiv'd all the Carefles imaginable 
 from the incomparable Cardinal ; and in lliorr, 
 that nothing was wanting in this llluftrious Prince^ 
 or in his moft Serene Family, that might exprefs 
 the high Veneration, and Efteem, they all had, 
 for our Mighty Monarch, fo great in himfdf, and 
 fo happy in his Glorious Confort. 
 
 The Emballador's ftay here, was about a 
 week, and as Prince Ccefar ( out of his profound 
 Refpe(5l to the King and Queen) met him (as was 
 faid) feveral miles from Modem, fo he conduced 
 him as far out of the City on the other fide, and 
 then with Embraces left him, having firft gi- 
 ven Neceflary Orders for his paflage thro' Reg- 
 ^/i7 ( which was about midnight) as alfo thro' 
 all other places of this flourifhing Dukedom. 
 Nor did his Excellence make any further ftop 
 till he came to Lyons : for he paft Milan, fend- 
 
 t? f ing 
 
no 
 
 iiio- only a Complement, by one of his Gentlemen, 
 to theGovernour: And as for Turin, the D Like 
 and Dutchefs, were then at one of their Palaces 
 in the Country. 
 
 At Lyons, his Excellence was fore d to Re- 
 frelh himfelf for a day or tv/o : And now the\yea- 
 ther being alter'd to the worfe, his Journey to Va- 
 ris, was neidier foPleafont.nor Eafy, as otherwife it 
 would have been : But all the Inconveniencies of 
 it, were well repair'd, by the Noble Treatment he 
 found at our Envoy's Mr. Skclton, who having 
 in his long Miniftry abroad, ilill kept up the , . 
 Dignity of the Charad:er he bore, was now, far 
 from being behind in it : He met therefore his 
 Lordfhip on the Road^lodg'd him in his houfe -, 
 feafted him there -, accompany'd him to Verfa-^ 
 Ules, to wait upon the King ^ nor would he let 
 him ftir in a fortnight^ that is to fay, till he was 
 probably fure, that the Yatcht (which was fent for) 
 would be attending at Calls, and fo his Excellence 
 at his Arrival found it : But the Winds with-held 
 
 him 
 
V -> 
 
 III 
 
 him for two days, from going to Sea ^ after which 
 fetting Sail, he landed in two days more at Gre-sn" 
 wick, and fo came to London, flaying only there,till 
 he could put himfelf and Attendants into Mourn- 
 ing ; for at his leaving V ranee, he receiv'd the ill 
 News, of the Death of that Excellent Lady, the 
 Dutchefs of Modena, who had been fo particu- 
 larly kind to him, and .whom he left well, or at 
 leaft far from ill, at his departure from ?Kome. 
 
 To conclude then, on the 1 2^^- of Aii-^ 
 
 « 
 
 giijl 1(^87. his Excellence went to Windfoi\ where 
 the King owning his Services, very gracioufly 
 gave him His Hand to kifs, as did alio Her Ma-* 
 jefty, who w^as pleas'd to acknowledge, that he 
 had fully anfwer'd her expedation. 
 
 And thus ended this Great Embaffy, in 
 w^hich kind, no King has done more, and no 
 Embaflador, that had not ftudy'd his Mafters 
 Honour, more than his own Profit, would have 
 done fo much. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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113 
 
 Ufo/i the foregoing Account of his Excellency the Earl of 
 Caftlcmaine's Emia(fy Extraordinary to 
 Rome, Anno 1^87. 
 
 E T Mighty Cc^far not difdain to view 
 
 / Thefe Emblems of his Power and Goodnefs too : 
 
 A Tnort Eflay, but fraught with Caefars Fame, • 
 
 And ihcws ho^y diftant Courts eftcem his Name. 
 
 Here ma} ft Thou fee thy wondrous Fortunes trac'd 
 
 With Suir'ringsfirft, and then with Empire gracU 
 
 Long toft with Storms on Fadion s fwclling Tide, 
 
 Thy Conduct and thy Conftancy was try'd -. 
 
 As Hcav'n dcfign'd thy \'irtue to proclaim,' 
 
 And Ihew the Crown deferv d before it camei 
 
 Troys Hsro thus, when Troy cou d ftand no more, 
 
 Urg'd by the Fates to leave his Native Shore, 
 
 With reftlefs Toil on Land and Seas was toll, 
 
 Ere He arriv'd the fair Lavinian Coaft. 
 
 Thus Maro did his mighty Hero feign : 
 
 Auguflu6 claim'd the Chara(5ter in vain, >• 
 
 Which Br it tains Ccffar only can fuftain j 
 
 Permit, dread Sir, my Miife, though mean, to own 
 
 A Truth to A/bioTiy and to Europe known. 
 
 You are what Virgil feign'd his Prince to be, 
 
 Your Valour fuch, and fuch your Piety. 
 
 G g Now 
 
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114 
 
 Now The fern Deeds wc can receive for True, 
 And Hercules was but a Type of You. 
 He made the fierce Lemdian Monfter bleed, 
 From ^^z-^-Fadion You have Albion freed. 
 The Paths of Glory trod, and Danger paft, 
 Jud Hcav'n allows a peaceful Throne at laft, 
 At Home to fhew th' Indulgence of a God, 
 And fend your peaceful Miniflers abroad. 
 
 While ? aimer haflens to the Roman Court, 
 (And fraught with Worth that Honour to {iipport) 
 His glorious Train, and pafling Pomp to view, 
 
 (A Pomp, that cv'n to Rome it fclf was new) 
 
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 Each Age, each Sex the Latian Turrets fill'd : 
 Each Age and Sex in Tears of Joy diftillU 
 While Wonder Them to Statues did convert, 
 Thofc fjcm'd to Live that were the Works of Art. 
 Emblems and Figures of fuch Life and Force, 
 As, wanting Speech, did to the Eye difcourfes 
 And fhew, what was defpair'd in Ages paft, 
 An Univerfal Language found at laft. 
 
 Hail ? aimer y hail Illuftrious Minifter ! 
 To C<xlar, Brittain-, Fame and Virtue dear, 
 Cc^far to reprefent, Great d^efars Voice, 
 Nam'd CaJ}lemai?ie,thQ BrittiJhShorcs rejoycej 
 And Tyher's Banks applaud Great C^^fars Choice. 
 
 How 
 
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 How therefore cou'd the Mufes filent be ? 
 And None can want a Mufe that writes of Thee! 
 From Thine, not Phabm Tree, my Song I'll raife, 
 And Crown d with Palm, I will contemn the Bayes. 
 
 N. Tate, 
 
 P|arEPIOT S)i mi-\iy^,@^ XxfJiTOplo ^e^oLu^fiov 
 
 Ap/^IWj TBS 3" iTTTrys , TjlxSi Pwu.)) e(p» 4 
 
 . Ex; jaofS S0'5ri' 10?^;/ e-B^c^ Ma'^pJj' ; 
 'PeojAxtluj ByiTH tLuj dp^v oihi ai^ovjcu , 
 rid g oDfAn; TniJi'TPn at ^sc "jrKvjoci f^e^- 
 
 7P£M LATINE. 
 
 TEmpus erat , quo R O G E R 1 1 vifura triumphum 
 Lucebat Latia culta feneftra nuru. 
 Tunc mirata Viri pompam, currufque nitentes 
 
 Auro, Flaminia Roma videnda Via, 
 Ecquid, ait, toto divifos Orbe Britannos , 
 
 Viribus inlignes, dixerat efle Maro? 
 Romano fefe Imperio junxere Britanni , 
 
 Et pompa hxc noftras occupat una domos," 
 Qu3eque olim innumeris fpe(5tacula vidimus annis ] 
 
 Juffu ROGER II prsebuit una dies. 
 
 D. Jojephi de Juliis in Bihliotheca Vaticana, tsf in Collegia 
 Urbano de Propag.Fide Gr<ecx Lingux Profefforis. 
 
 Among 
 
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 Amongfi the Nmerotis Voevis prefentedto his Excellence ly 
 r/;^ Roman T^/V.f, only this- out of thofe infer ted 
 in the Italian Account of this Famous 
 Emh(Jj', is tranjlated 
 
 By N. Tate. 
 
 WHen Palmers mighty Triumph now came one, 
 With Latian Dames the Crouded Cafements fhone. 
 Old Rome his Train and Chariots did furvey, 
 dir?lhidf ^"^ feem'd again in the * Flaminian Way. 
 
 his E\ce'- 
 
 JusEnlrv:" Do wc (fays fhe) as Uaro fiing, ftill find 
 
 The hardy Britains from the World dif-joyn'd. 
 The Brittijh Empire with the Roman meets, 
 Onefplendid Pomp unites their diftant Streets 5 
 And Palmer by one happy Day at laft. 
 Renews the Triumps of the Ages paft. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 E R R A T A'S. 
 
 Folio 8. line 2. for Swits, read Switztrs; fol. 8, 1. 8. for Anmianuy x\ AtUnianti ; fol. 2a.' 
 1. 14. for Attendanc , r. Attendants ■-, fol. 47. 1. iz. for Attendance^ r. Attendants; fol. 5^ j. 
 1. 12. for SvJiJJe^T. Stuitzers ; fol. 73. 1. if. for we, v. be; foL yZ.\.ultAot dejartiX.defert;'io\.Z. 
 1. I r. r. Lord Ratcliffe, /we Earl </Dunwarren water. 
 

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