and Academy with many great Houses for the reception of Coaches lying in the street Mazarin and others The Library was judged very curious by the Kings of England and Denmark these two Princes saw it in the Palace Mazarin whence it was transported into the Colledge His Majesty of Denmark caused his to be built after the model of that it is long wide and very high and admits a great deal of light and has the prospect of the Louvre and the Seine it will be open twice a week to all persons of Learning on such days as shall be thought fit as that of the Abbey of St. Victor which is publick on Mundays Wednesdays and Saturdays and which is famous The Library Mazarin contains 30000 Volumes there are in it the chief Books of the Protestants Cardinal Mazarin made this pious and grand Foundation for many reasons amongst others for rendring the Inhabitants of the Conquered Countries before-mentioned as well French in their Heart as by Nation Divine Providence having prescribed â—â—mits to the life of all men the Founder of this Colledge dyed at Vincennes the ninth of March 1661 in the fifty one year of his age His Heart reposes in the Church of the Theatins his Body will be transferred from the Church of Vincennes into the Church of the said Colledge when Mass comes to be celebrated in it and it will be placed in a magnificent Mausoloeum there to wait the general Resurrection In the Month of May of the year 1677 on the Porch of the Church of Colledge Mazarin were placed on the Pedestals of the Body of it advanced from the front over square Pillars Pilasters the four Evangelists St. Matthew St. Mark St. Luke and St. John with their Attributes On the right hand backward on the like Pedestals the four Doctors of the Greek Church according to their place St. Basil St. Athanasius St. John Chrysostome and St. Gregory of Nazianze and on the left hand the four Doctors of the Latin Church St. Gregory the Great St. Ambrose St. Austin and St. Hierome According to the Order of time in which they lived we range the Greeks thus St. Athanasius St. Basil St. Gregory of Nazianze and St. John Chrysostom in the Latine Church St. Ambrose St. Hierome St. Austin and St. Gregory In placing the figures they have gone according to dignity They say that the Effigies of Loüis the Great will be placed before this Colledge in a great Place which will be called Dukal This Colledge is incorporated to the University with all its rights and priviledges The Sieurs Foucaut le Foüyn and Mariage have taken much pains for perfecting this Colledge Some persons of Quality having assured me of the satisfaction they received in the relation I made them of the House of President Perrot near the Colledge I shall set down the particularities that I observed in it An. 1677. The House of President Perrot THis House which faces the Louvre has five Balconies on the Seine besides its Scituation uniformity neatness and conveniency it 's esteemed curious for its Ancient Pieces and for large Pictures made by Apelles's They are expos'd in the great room of Paintings which has windows on both sides We see there Anthony de Bourbon King of Nâ—varre Henry the Fourth Loüis the Thirteenth vested with the Royal Mantle and with the great Collar of the Order and Loüis the Fourteenth clad like a Roman and M. the Dolphin betwixt the late King and the present in a round or oval over the door of the entrance and Philip of France Duke of Orleans standing by Loüis de Bourbon Prince of Condé with his Father and his Grandfather and the Duke d'Enguien with his Children the Queens and Princesses are by the sides of their Spouses In the midst of this Gallery is plac'd a large sheet of Velam in Miniature set in a frame which contains the Genealogy of the Bourbons from St. Loüis to the year 1679 and on the back part of the Velam are represented the Combats Rencounters Sieges Battels and Victories gain'd by the Prince of Condé Loüis de Bourbon Amongst some Pictures that adorn the Chappel that which is against the Altar is accomplisht and to express the thing better it 's a consummated piece of work or a Master-piece representing the seven Sacraments of the Church the Archduke Leopold admiring this Piece would have given a thousand Pistols for it if the Master would have sold it him It was permitted his Highness to cause a Copy to be taken of it Neer the Chappel-door we see the present Prince of Condé mounted on a War-horse represented to the life In some Chambers we find many other Pictures that of 〈◊〉 Nativity of the Son of God that of Lot having drank to excess before his two Daughters to which nothing can be added The rowling Desk composed of divers Tables which is in the Library is of a very rare structure and convenient for those that compose some laborious Piece all the edges of it are gilded and the Boards or Planks hold a great many Books in folio When you are near it without changing place with one of your fingers you make the Desk turn and bring before your eyes the Books that lead to your designe but you must first place them Atabalipa one of the Incas of Peru would not have esteemed it much for his use for he threw on the ground a very excellent Book presented to him alleadging for a reason that it spoke not a word to him though they made him believe it would teach him a great many things he could not make it speak I believe he would have soon imitated a King of Congo to whom Emanuel King of Portugal having once sent Lawyers with good Law-books he sent back the Doctors and caused the Books to be burnt thinking they would serve but to introduce Cavilling and put Confusion in the Understandings of his Subjects whereas he said they had need but of Reason and a good common Sence which is related in a History of Portugal This Prince added that he should still continue a Friend to him that had sent them him taking the good will for the deed In the Garden of the same House I saw a tryal made of a great Burning-glass in the presence of M. the Prince which burnt a great Block set opposite to the Sun and which wonderfully magnifies and multiplies Objects The two Gladiators and other Figures of massie cast Copper which are Ornaments of the Garden are Pieces artificially made Each Gladiator holds his Buckler with one hand and his Sword with the other whose postures are much esteem'd The Venus is highly priz'd as also another Figure drawing a Thorn out of its foot The great Iron Arbour is very beautiful and very high rais'd under which persons breath the cool Air and fragrant Smells during the Summer-heats On the side of it are the Grotto's and Waters The Dido striking a Dagger into her breast is represented to the
comfort the news sent him by the Nuncio of Turin that by the Cares of the Dutchess of Savoy above Four hundred persons in the Valley of Lucern within her Territories were brought back into the bosome of the Church and particularly the Minister Danas who made his Abjuration in the Cathedral Church in the presence of their Highnesses The Fourteenth of August his Holiness caused two Edicts to be publisht against the Luxury of Cloaths Queen Christian of Sweden began the first to put them in execution the Roman Ladies presently followed her example In the same year Commissaries were appointed by Innocent the Eleventh to examine some Bulls set forth by his Predecessors concerning some Office and Indulgence to consider whether these Bulls were observed according to their tenour An. 1679. at the beginning of the year a Decree was passed in the Vatican for retrenching from Cardinals a multiplicity of Places and for bestowing them on others who had not any it being not just that one should have all and the others nothing The Pope some days after appointed Commissaries for examining the Bull of Sixtus the Fifth who determined the number of Cardinals to Seventy and the report was he had a design to reduce them to Fifty in case this change might be found advantageous to the Church The Council of Constance limited them to Twenty four Pope Sixtus the Fourth to Thirty Alexander the Sixth to Fifty Leo the Tenth to Sixty five Pius the Fourth to Seventy six and Sixtus the Fifth to the number of Seventy answering to the Seventy Elders given to Moses for his assistants in the Government of the Synagogue time was there were but Twelve according to the example of the Apostles The Etymologie of the Name Cardinal his Institution and his Habit. THe word Cardinal comes from this that the first and principal Churches of Rome were call'd Ecclesiae Cardinales St. Austin calls the principal Donatists Cardinales Donatistas The first Cardinals were so call'd because they were the first and Chief Priests of their Churches They were appointed in so many streets of the City of Rome for taking care of the poor under Pope Sylvester After the death of this Prelate whilst things were calm in the Church they took upon them the care of the Baptism and Burial of the Faithful and always reserv'd to themselves the Jurisdiction they had on the Priests and Clerks of their Parish when the Popes sent them abroad as Legates They continued in this state till Gregory the Seventh at which time Henry the Fourth Emperor of Germany was excluded from the Election of the Popes who were chosen by the Clergy and by the People just as Bishops were Claudius Vaurus says on this subject in his Book Intituled The Court of Rome that when these Priests Cardinals Curats of Rome were Consecrated Bishops their dignity of Cardinal became void as inferiour to the Episcopacy Nevertheless in succession of time seeing themselves Bishops they desired of the Popes to leave them the Title of Cardinals the honorary Title of Cardinal has been given since to those that assist the Pope with their Councels in the Government of the Church St. Bernard in a Letter that he writ to Pope Eugenius calls them Collaterales Coadjutores Pontificis de toto orbe Judicaturos de toto orbe diligendes conformably to the words that the Pope pronounces at their Creation in these terms Maximâ dilectissimi filii Excellentissimâ dignitate donati estis ad Consilium Apostolorum vocati consiliarii nostri Conjudices orbis terrarum eritis Successores Apostolorum circa thronum sedebitis According to the same Claudius Vaurus they never wear Velvet nor Sattin and are ordinarily cloathed but of two colours Red and Violet they are in Violet during Advent and Lent from Septuagesima except the third Sunday of Advent and the first Sunday of Lent days mixt of joy and sadness in which they wear the colour of dry'd Roses participating of red and violet they are also in violet every Friday on Vigils at the four times and the day of the Commemoration of the Dead and wear no robe of silk There is an exception to this Rubrick because they were the red colour at the four times after Pentecoste on all the double Feasts that fall on Fridays out of Advent and Lent on the Vigil of the Nativity of the Son of God on the Creation and Coronation of the Pope in what ever time it happens on the Feast of St. Peters Chair at Rome and at other solemn Feasts and on days of publick joy for victories obtained and the like things The Cardinals that are Monks wear always the colour of their Order except the Hat and the Red Cap. We do not comprize the Cardinals Jesuits amongst the Monks because they are none Cardinal Bellarmine the ornament of the Purpurated Colledge was habited with Red as the others according to the time that then was with this difference that he wore the Habit of Jesuit underneath When a Cardinal is created Pope he has 24000 Duckets of Revenue every day The Continuation of the Actions of Pope Innocent the Eleventh IN the Month of March of the fore said year 1679. he caused all the Bishops of Italy to be writ to and enjoyn'd them to examine with great care all those that presented themselves to receive Holy Orders and not to give them but to fit persons and when the Church had need of them He presented Medals of Gold and Silver with his Picture on them to the Captains of the Dutch Vessels that brought Corn to Civita-Vechia According to the ordinary custom though tir'd on Holy Thursday in the Dukes Hall he performed the Ceremony of washing the feet of Thirteen poor Forreign Priests habited with white Cloath to each of which his Holiness gave afterwards a Medal of Gold and of Silver and waited on them some time at Table The Twenty first of June he sent to his Internuncio at Brussels the Sum of 60000 Livres for the subsistance of the Colledges which the English Catholicks have in Flanders and sometime after 60000 Crowns to be distributed to the Catholicks of England retired thither An. 1679. the fifteenth of October the Pope visited the Church dell Anima of the German Nation where he granted a Plenary Indulgence in form of a Jubile to pray to God to deliver from the Plague the Town of Vienna in Austria and the other Towns of Germany The Seventeenth the Pope called before him the Congregation establisht by Clement the Eighth for the Examination of Bishops for Italy and there caused to be examined the Father Gaetano Mirabello Theatin whom he nominated for the Archbishoprick of Amalfi Dom Carlo Berlinguier whom he nominated to the Archbishoprick of St. Severin and Dom Francisco Mogale for the Bishoprick of Isola during their Examination they answered always on their knees to all the questions that were made them by the Cardinals Prelates and Divines that were of the Congregation and
Bourdeaux whereof he performed the Function even till they had brought him the Decree of his Election with the Letters of the whole Colledge He took solemnly possession of the Apostolical Chair at Bourdeaux in the Cathedral-Church of St. Andrews caused himself to be crowned at Lyons the greatest part of the Cardinals rendered themselves there pursuant to his Orders the Kings of France of England and of Arragon assisted at this Ceremony The Italian Cardinals thinking to lead him to Rome he transferred the Holy Sea to Avignon where it continued seventy years or seventy two from Clement to Gregory the Eleventh who re-established it at Rome Anno 1375. At his first promotion of Cardinals he created ten all French-men In the third he made Cardinal William de Maudagout Archbishop of Embrun who was-born at Sevenes above the Town Vigan The Castle of Maudagout is at present Protestant and encompassed with Chesnut-trees His Arms are yet to be seen over the great Gate Clement built the Castles of Villandrault Budos and la Brede He governed the Church eight years ten months and some days died Anno 1314. in the Castle of Roguemaure scituated on the Rhone in the Diocess of Avignon and not of Nismes as some persons have said His Body reposes in Guyenne in the Church of the Canons of Vzste whereof this Prelate was the Founder See here a remarkable thing related by Andrew de Chesne in the Life of the Popes Clement whilst he was yet Archbishop of Bourdeaux having deposed Gautier de Bruge Cordelier Bishop of Poitiers Gautier in the bitterness of spirit appeal'd to the future Council and caused a promise to be made him that at the Article of his death his Appeal should be put into his hands which was executed his Body was carryed into the Cordeliers Church where some Miracles have since been wrought Clement coming to Poitiers and knowing that Gautier had carried his Appeal with him caused his Tomb to be opened to take it away for this intent he made an Archdeacon enter into it at Midnight who found the Appeal in the hands of the defunct which he could not possibly take from him till he had first sworn to restore it him with the consent of him that had Deposed him This being done Gautier open'd his hands and the Archdeacon taking the Appeal gave it the Pope but endeavouring to go forth of the Sepulchre he found he could not stir and said there was somewhat which withheld him till he had returned the Appeal into the hands of the Bishop deceas'd then he came forth with ease and the Pope conceiving a respect for the dead honoured from thenceforwards his memory and enricht his Tomb. Gautier was depos'd because he was more inclined for the Archbishop of Bourges than for him of Bourdeaux who contested for the Primacy of Aquitain Clement revok'd two Decrees of Boniface passed against France under him there rise a great disturbance betwixt the Vatican the Louvre Boniface was so animated against the Gibelins and those of their Party that he shew'd it openly in the person of the Archbishop of Genoa on an Ashwednesday Under the said Clement the Fifth the Errours of the Beguines and Begards or Begands of Germany were condemned and it is from thence that the word Bigot comes these Hereticks under the Mask of Religion with a serious and hypocritical countenance play the good companions Clement the Fifth removing the Holy Sea to Avignon transported thither the the Vatican Library and Martin the Fifth caused it to be carried back to the Vatican where it has continued since John the Twenty first or Twenty second of the Town of Cahors in Quercy Son of Arnaud d'Eusa or Dossa a Cobler was call'd James The Prophesie was De sutore Osseo Du Chesne says that the Holy Sea having been vacant two years and some days and that the Cardinals not agreeing in the Creation of a Pope they all consented to accept and receive him whom James d'Eusa Cardinal Bishop of Port should nominate which James seeing he nam'd himself and the Nomination was approved and confirmed by the Cardinals fearing lest they might have another that would less please them Father Gautruche says this is a Fable and that the Cardinals did not remit themselves to his judgement to choose whom he thought fit and that he did not name himself It 's a thing well known that by the way of Scrutiny and of Access it is descended under pain of Nullity of Election to choose a Mans self The way of Scrutiny and of Access both together is the most practised that of Inspiration and of Compromise are but rare and little us'd we call the way of Inspiration when all the Cardinals freely concur to acknowledge and proclaim unanimously one person for Pope The way of Compromise is when the Cardinals either at entrance into the Conclave or tir'd with the length of it refer themselves to one or to many amongst them to whom they give the power in the name of all to give a common Father to Christianity None of the Compromisaries can give his voice for himself but his Election will be void These three ways of Election contain many circumstances and conditions John was Bishop of Frejus and some time afterwards Archbishop of Avignon Pope Clement the Fifth made him Cardinal He made many good Foundations in the place of his Birth amongst others he founded the Vniversity the House of Carthusians and built a Bridge with a lofty Tower at one end of it on the River Lot on the side of the Capuchins It is he that introduced into the Church the custom of ringing thrice each day the Angelical Salutation He believ'd for some time that the Souls of the dead did not enjoy the Vision of God till after the General Judgment He made no Decree and retracted this Errour Loüis de Bavieres going to make himself Emperour against the forms and in contempt of the Holy Sea raised him an Antipope an Apostate of his Order call'd Peter de Corbare A Prelate has styled him the stinking Crow which had no place in the Ark. The Emperour after having received from his hands the Imperial Crown being constrained to quit Italy and to retire himself into Germany left this Ghost of a Pope to the mercy of the Guelphs who carryed him to Avignon where he ended his days in Prison Pope John the Twenty second rais'd in France and elsewhere Abbeys and Bishopricks into Archbishopricks He divided the Diocese of Tolouse into six that of Poitiers into three viz. that of Poitiers of Mailezais and of Lucon The Sea of Mailezais is at present at Rochelle since its reddition According to du Chesne this Prelate held the Government of the Church eighteen years three months and twenty days and according to Father Gautruche ten years and a half he dyed the third of December An. 1334. being 90 years of age He left after his decease 25 Millions to make War against the Iufidels in
Beziers and Nostre-Dame de Gignac in the same Diocess Nostre-Dame de Liviniere in the Diocess of S. Pons of Tomiers Nostre-Dame de Lorme and Nostre-Dame d' Alen in the Diocess of Montauban Nostre-Dame de Ladreiche a league from Alby The Hermitage of Nostre-Dame de Moinier in the Territory of Pompignan on the top of a high Mountain in the Diocess of Nismes St. Sernin at Tolose where are the entire Relicks of many of the Apostles Nostre-Dame d' Alet and Nostre-Dame de Roqueville three leagues off Nostre-Dame de Garaizon in the Diocess of Ausche Nostre-Dame de Verdelez at Cadiliac near Bourdeaux Nostre-Dame de Nazareth in Britany three leagues from Dinan and Nostre-Dame de bonnes Nouvelles at Rennes Nostre-Dame d' Ardilliers in the Diocess of Anger 's in Anjou Nostre-Dame de Mibonnet a league from Moulins in the Diocess of Authun in Bourbonnois Nostre-Dame de Clery near Orleans on the Loire Nostre-Dame du Puy Nostre-Dame de Fridieire and Nostre-Dame de Pitie in Auvergne This is without the Town of Chaude-Agues on a sharp Rock Abbot Cholmerl is the Founder Nostre-Dame de Banelle and Nostre-Dame de Sabar are in the County of Foix in the Diocess of Comminges Nostre Dame de Quezac in Givodan near St. Maur the Abbey of St. Bennet in the Diocess of Mande Nostre-Dame de Roquemadou and Nostre-Dame de Liaurou in Quercy in the Diocess of Cahors Nostre-Dame de Cignac in the Diocess of Rhodes The House of Arpajou has given it great Marks of its Devotion Nostre-Dame d Orient in the Diocess of Vabres These two places of Devotion are in Roüergne Nostre-Dame du Calvaire of Betharan in Bearn in the Diocess of Lascar Messire Pierre de Marca has said wonderful things of it in a Book entituled Traité des Merveilles Operées en la Chappelle Nostre-Dame du Calvaire en Betharan It was printed An. 1646. and An. 1648. the word Betharan signifies according to the Language of the Country a fine Branch and according to the Hebrew Tongue the House of the Soveraign and of the most High or the House of Greatness and Eminency In the Territory of the Tribe of Gad there was a Valley of this name which appears by the Book of Joshua The Mountain Betharan has the figure of that of the true Calvary of Jerusalem Many Miracles have been there wrought If Miracles were wrought in the Temples of the Protestants as in these holy places they would make them serve as Seals to their Doctrine and would make them sound forth with a high voice that the Saviour of the World gives the power to them as a most powerful and pressing means to cause the truth of their Faith to be embrac'd and because they have no Miracles they laugh at them To which I oppose that the Jews and Pagans rejected those of Jesus Christ and of the Apostles and with St. Austin that Miracles have been the motives of innumerable conversions to Christianity that Miracles are the Chains that hold us in the Catholick Church Our strayed Brethren chuse rather to suffer themselves to be bound by their own Imagination and by the consequences they draw from the Scripture according to their private spirits and without having either of our most dear Chains neither the antiquity nor the number nor the succession of Chairs nor the Miracles c. which have continued in the Roman Church from Age to Age since the time of the Apostles Let us return to our subject The Church of Nostre-Dame of Ardilliers which is one of the chief suburbs of the Town of Saumur is serv'd by the Oratorian Fathers Saint Maximin and Saint Baume by the Dominicans as also Nostre-Dame de Bonnes Nouvelles at Rennes Nostre-Dame de Rochefort by the Religious Benedictines Saint Reine by the Cordeliers Nostre-Dame d'Orient by the Capucins Nostre-Dame de Consolation de Bezieres by the Religious of St. Francis of Paul vulgarly called les Bons hommes The others by Canons and Secular Priests The twelve ancient General Governments of the Provinces were called together at Paris under Loüis the Thirteenth according to their rank and place in the States General 1614. THe Isle of France Burgundy Normandy Guienne Britany Champagne Languedoc Picardy Daulphine Provence Lyonnois and Orleanois Of these twelve great Governments many others are made Lyonnois comprehended formerly higher and lower Auvergne and also la Marche the higher and lower Bourbonnois Beaujolois and the Country of Forrests Orleanois contain'd Poitou Aniou Touraine Loudunois the Town and Government of Rochelle Angoumois le Maine Berry Pais Chartrain le Perche Nivernois and Vandosinois Xaintonge was of the Government of Guienne The Governours of the Provinces An. 1679. are these THe Town Provostship and Vicounty of Paris has for Governour the Duke of Crequy Peer of France Commander of the Kings Orders and first Gentleman of the Chamber to his Majesty He was made choice of by the King to go to Bavaria to carry the Marriage-Presents to Madam the Dolphiness Anno 1680. The Duke d' Estrées Peer of France is Governour of the Isle of France Soissonnois Laonnois Beauvoisis c. The Prince of Condé Lord Steward of the Kings Houshold has the government of Burgundy and of la Bresse the Duke d'Enguien has the survivourship of his Father The Duke de Montauzier Peer of France and Commander of the Kings Orders has Normandy he was Governour of Monseigneur the Dolphin The Duke de Roquelaure Guienne The Duke de Chaune Britany Marshal Duke de Vivonne of Montmart Champagne and Brie The Duke of Verneuil Languedoc he succeeds Arnand de Bourbon Prince of Conti whose Piety is crown'd in the Coelestial Court he died at Pezenas An. 1666. the 21 day of February and his body was carried into the house of the Carthusians of Villeneufe in Avignon This Prince compos'd two Books one is entituled Devoirs des Grands and the other Memoires du Prince de Conti the former contains very excellent Instructions The Duke d' Elbeuf is Governour of Picardy The Duke les Diguieres of Dauphiné The Duke de Vandôme of Provence Marshal de Grignan is sole Lieutenant-General of this Province he has also been Lieutenant-General of Languedoc The Duke de Villeroy Son of the Marshal of this name is Governour of Lyonnois Forests and Beaujolois The Marquess d' Alluye of Orleannois Blesois Dunois and the Country of Sologne Chartrain and Vandômois Auvergne has for Governour the Duke de Boüillon high Chamberlain Higher and lower la Marche the Marquess de S. Germain Beâ—upré Limosin the Count d' Auvergne Bourbonnois the Marquess de la Valiere Berry the Prince of Marsillac Francois de la Rochefoucaud Duke of Rocheguion Groom of the Stole and Chief Master of the Game of France Son of the Prince of Marsillac and Grandchild of the Duke of Rochefoucaut married An. 1679. in the Church of S. Roch of Paris Madeleine la Tellier Daughter of the Marquess de Lionnois Minister and Secretary of State and
An. 1360. Bartholomew le Noir was at Venice to cast Cannon to the end that the Venetians should make use of them to recover from the Genoeses Fossa Claudia about the year 1378. according to Sabellicus Blondus and others The use was receiv'd in France Anno 1425. at the time that an English Earl call'd Thomas of Montigni besieg'd the Town of Mans. Petrarch falsely believ'd that the famous Archimedes of the Town of Syracuse was the Inventer of Cannon because he conveyed great Rocks by Mathematical Springs into the near Vessels of the Enemies and burnt them with Burning-glasses The Chineses boast that a Demon shew'd the Invention to their first King above a thousand years before the Nativity of the Son of God SPAIN CHarles the Second of the House of Austria King of Spain was born the sixth of November An. 1661. He is Catholick and even so call'd It 's a Title given by Pope Alexander the Sixth to Ferdinand the Fifth and in his person to his Successors for having destroy'd in Spain the Moors and Sarasins He bears quarterly the Arms of Castille which are Gules a Castle triple tower'd Or and those of Leon which are Argent a Lion Gules and within an Escotcheon the Arms of his principal Realms which we should call in France Provinces The Kings Livery is of a yellow colour The ordinary Devise of some Kings of Spain is this Omnes contra me ego contra omnes Since Philip the Second the Town of Madrid scituated in new Castille is the ordinary place of Residency of this Court. There is a great Bridge and a little River under it call'd Manzanarez on the occasion of which an Embassadour said to the Emperour Charles the Fifth Less Bridge or more Water The Kings Palace is call'd Pallasso del Rey otherwise Palasso Real The eldest Sons of the King of Spain are called Princes of Austria as in France Dolphins in England Princes of Wales in Portugal Princes of Algarves and in Savoy Princes of Piedmont A relation whereof I could quote the Author tells us that a man must be clad in black to speak to his Catholick Majesty I know the contrary by Spaniards who have had the honour to speak to him in grey Clothes I may believe that a man must appear before him in black Clothes when he is in Mourning and be in a decent habit The Coach-men sit on one of the horses which go at the Draught-tree since the time that the Coach-man of Count Alvarez who sate before the Coach reveal'd a Secret of his Master which he had overheard The same thing is practis'd in Germany The chief Houses of Pleasure belonging to the King and out of Madrid are IL Campo il Retiro Aranjues le Pardo the Escurial and Jarzuela The Spaniards make of this last save one the eighth Wonder of the World Philip the Second laid out twenty Millions in building it he caus'd the Escurial to be built both in memory of the Victory which he gain'd over the French An. 1557. at S. Quentin in Picardy on the Somme the tenth of August being S. Laurence's day and for having caus'd the Church of S. Laurence of S. Quentin to be beaten down whereupon he made a Promise to God to cause a finer to be built in Spain in the honour of the same Saint and a Monastery where the Monks of S. Hierome are magnificently seated The King has a Seat in the Refectuary and a great Palace without the Convent After the Library of the Vatican which is the first of the World that of these Monks has been greatly valued There is seen at il Campo a great Park for the divertisement of Hunting great Ponds and Gardens At il Retiro otherwise call'd Buen Retiro there is seen Philip the Fourth on a Horse of cast Copper The King passes there the greatest heats of the Summer by reason of its Waters and fine Grotto's of different kinds The fine Walks are there as green in the Summer as in the Spring-time There is a strange Figure there standing in the midst of a great Cistern casting forth water from all the parts of its body which is made use of for watering in a moment a Garden of the Palace full of all sorts of Flowers There is also seen there Gardens full of Fruit-trees At il Pardo are the Pictures of all the Kings of Spain The ancient Palace of one of the Kings of the Moors call'd Halambra is remarkable for being flankt with thirty Towers it is on one of the little Hills of the Town of Grenada The chief places of Devotion IN Madrid the Church of our Lady Almudena and that of Athoca are very famous Our Lady of Athoca call'd according to the Language of the Country Nostra Senora d' Athoca is at Madrid as the Church of our Lady at Paris for Piety and the concourse of People It 's there where the Te Deum is sung Saint James of Compostella in Galicia is a very famous place of Pilgrimage the French Pilgrims that go thither pass over the Trembling Bridge It is thought that this Bridge is so call'd by reason of the flowing of the Sea which coming to press against it makes it tremble It 's a roguish Bridge of wood a little River passes under it The Apostle S. James the Greater is the Patron of all Spain His Relicks are under the great Altar of the Metropolitan Church of Compostella his Figure representing half his body is over it his Pilgrims Staff is on the side of the Quire and his Head at Toulouse in the Church of S. Sernin It 's there where the Pilgrims begin their Pilgrimage S. James has been seen to fight for the Spaniards against the Sarasins holding in his hand a white Standart with a red Cross in it in the time of King Ramires who being assisted with his Apostle charg'd so briskly the Enemies that he cut in pieces 60000 on the place Charlemagne King of France was at Compostella to honour St. James and caus'd his Church to be built Since the Kings of Spain have been Catholicks they have always honour'd him I have read a Relation of divers Voyages in which the Author says that St. James suffered Martyrdom at Compostella It 's a roguish Memoire which has been given him I remit him to the Books of the Acts of the Apostles to the Ecclesiastical History and to the holy Martyrology and he will find that it was at Hierusalem that Herod caus'd him to be beheaded This Apostle having continued some time in Spain return'd to Judaea his Disciples after his death carried him from the Port of Joppe presently to Fa where they embarkt for Spain and after having sail'd all along the Mediterranean Sea and pass'd the Straight of Gibralter they took on the Ocean the course of Galicia where they landed and disembarkt the body of the Saint in the Town of Irisflavia where he continued hidden and unknown till it was miraculously discover'd by a Star which appear'd there
afterwards they were precognized in the first Consistory for their due capacity In France by the Concordat betwixt Leo the Tenth and Francis the First those that are nominated to Bishopricks are not examined because they are all Doctors or Licentiats in Divinity in one of the Laws Canon or Civil which is a mark of their Capacity they make only a Profession of their Faith betwixt the hands of the Popes Nuncio or of the Metropolitan Princes destinated to the Episcopacy are dispensed from taking the Degree in the University nevertheless they are the first to study At the beginning of the year 1680 his Holiness caused all the Preachers to come to the Palace and exhorted them to preach particularly by their Example Singularities and curious and remarkable Actions of some Popes ST Clement the First instituted the Colledge of Apostolical Protonotaries for writing the Lives of Martyrs and of all the other Saints Claudius surnamed Vaurus writes that in his time a participant Protonotaries place was sold for 7000 Crowns of Gold and that it yielded of yearly Revenue 3 or 4000 Crowns that the participant Protonotaries which are in number twelve are ordinarily Masters of Requests for both Seals that they have rank and place in the Popes Chappel are cloathed with Violet wear the Rochet and the Hat with the Violet Band and Border have precedency of Prelates which are not consecrated are present in the half publick Consistory at the Canonization of Saints and other great Actions of the Pope have power to give the Cap of Doctor and to create Apostolical Protonotaries without the Walls of Rome The same Claudius Vaurus says that if the Apostolical Protonotaries are not much esteemed in France it 's because they are somewhat idle in performing their Function though haply this idleness be not blamable in them because there is want of matter for them to exercise themselves there being but few Martyrs and Saints at present within our Kingdom that oblige the Protonotaries to write their Lives St. Cletus was the first that inserted in his Letters these words Salutem Benedictionem Apostolicum St. Anacletus ordained that Ecclesiasticks should wear their hair short and confirmed by a new Decree that Bishops should be consecrated by three other Bishops Telesphorus a Grecian by Nation enjoyned the use of singing at Mass the Canticle of the Angels Gloria in excelsis Deo and impower'd Priests to say three Masses on Christmass-day St. Zephyrinus made the Decree of receiving the Communion at least once a year and not to proceed in Law against a Bishop accus'd of any Crime whatsoever without the authority of the holy See St. Lucius ordained that a Bishop should be always accompanied with some Priest to the end that his presence should oblige him to lead a regular life St. Sylvester the First the thirty fourth Pope was the first that erected an Altar of Stone which he consecrated and anointed with holy Oyl Before him they were made of Wood and portable by reason of the persecution that the Christians underwent under the Pagan Emperours which was so great that the thirty three first Popes suffered Martyrdom He was raised to the Pontificate in the beginning of the Empire of Constantine the Great who embracing Christianity gave joy and tranquillity to the Church and a secure Settlement after so many troubles and afflictions This Emperour after he was baptized enlarged the Christian Religion built Churches made Foundations for entertaining its Ministers with splendour and freed the Clergie from Taxes He transported the Seat of his Empire into Thracia to the Town of Bysantium called since by him Constantinople St. Damasus suppressed the Corepiscopi they were Priests whom the Bishops were wont to send into divers Villages and Burroughs of their Diocesses with a particular power to preach the the Word of God and to establish Ecclesiastical Discipline They were called Corepiscopi They were suppressed because they went often beyond their Commission doing Functions that belonged but to the Bishops themselves Some of them had the Episcopal Character St. Gregory the Great was the first who qualified himself Servus servorum Dei the Servant of the servants of God He took this Title to check the boldness of John the Faster Patriarch of Constantinople who took the Title of Vniversal Bishop The Emperour Phocas condemned the Arrogancy of this Prelate declaring by an Edict the contrary according to the judgment of the ancient Fathers and Councils who own'd the Church of Rome to be the Head of all others Pope Boniface the Third according to the common opinion introduced the use of Bells in the Church Anno 606. The learned Genebrard ascribes the â—â—vention to Pope Sabinianus who ordained Anno 604. that they should be rung at Canonical hours and at Mass The Bell is called Campana from a Province of Italy called Campania where it 's thought they began They were introduced into Greece Anno 865. by those that the Venetians sent to the Emperour Michael Baron 865. the Bell is made speak thus 1. Laudo Deum verum 2. Plebem voco 3. Convoce Clerum 4. Defunctos ploro 5. Pestem fugo 6. Festa decoro Those that have a mind to know more may read Paluoti Sergius the First caused the Agnus Dei to be sung at Mass Adrian the First ordained that the Papal Bulls should be seal'd with Lead and not with Wax for the longer continuance of the Seals Leo the Tenth made the famous Concordat with Francis the First Anno 1515. according to which it is permitted to the Kings of France to have the Nomination to Bishopricks and Abbeys These Benefices are called Consistorial because their vacancy is propos'd in the Consistory to be provided for The Pope reserves to himself a years Revenue from each of these Benefices and it is that which is called the Law of first Fruits which is paid when the Bulls are taken up Gregory the ninth caused the Book of Decretals to be couch'd in writing containing the Constitutions of the Popes to serve for the Canon-Law which is read in Catholick Universities Paul the Third obliged the Jews to wear the Yellow Cap to distinguish them from the Christians Gregory the Thirteenth reform'd the Kalendar Anno 1582. by cutting off ten days in October from the fifth of the said month to the 14th inclusively so that after the fourth of October the ten days following were leapt over and they counted the 15th the day after England Sweden Denmark and other Northern Countries that disown the Pope do not make use of this Kalendar which is called otherwise the Gregorian year but retain the ancient way of counting Thence it is that when Catholick Countries are at fourteen in the month the others count four and say in their dates the ancient or new Stile Famous Astrologers and Mathematicians were employed in reforming this Kalendar to take care that the points of the Equinoxes and Solstices should not change place for the future which had caused a
disorder in the day fixt for the Feast of Easter which ought always to be the Sunday after the full Moon of the Equinox of March. Pope Victor the First made a Decree to avoid concurring with the Jews and others who were called Quarto-decumans because they celebrated it the 14th of the Moon on whatever day of the Week it happened The Decree of this Prelate was confirmed in the first General Council of Nice Anno 1679 the Elector of Saxony caused a form to be presented to the Diet of Ratisbone for agreeing on a Kalendar to be received throughout the Empire of Germany Gregory the Thirteenth ordained that the Cardinals of Religious Orders who wore a black Cap or of the colour of their Order should wear it red like the others It was Innocent the Twelfth who gave the Cardinals in the Council of Lions the red Cap as an Hieroglifick that they ought to pour forth their bloud for the support of the Church as it results from the words which the Pope uses in putting it on their heads in these terms Ad laudem Omnipotentis Dei Sanctae Sedis Apostolicae ornamentum accipe Galerum rubrum Insigne singulare dignitatis Cardinalatûs per quod designatur quod usque ad mortem sanguinis effusionem inclusivè pro exaltatione Sanctae Fidei pace quiete populi Christiani augmento statu sacrosanctae Romanae Ecclesiae te intrepidum exhibere debeas In nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti His Holiness sends the red Cap with a Brief to those that are not present at Rome in the Consistory As to the Hat it is given kneeling from the hand of the Pope unless a person be employed in some important Embassie to the holy See in this case the Pope sends it to the Cardinal newly created to authorize him the more and render him more venerable His Holiness's Courrier that carries the Hat from Rome carries with it the form of the Oath of Fidelity and delivers all into the hands of the Prelate appointed to perform that Ceremony which is splendid You must observe that Cardinals that have not received the Hat cannot be Legates of the holy See till they have first taken it as the above-mentioned Claudius Vaurus informs us In the Ceremony of opening the Mouth that is to say in the permission the Pope gives to new Cardinals to opine and to give their Votes and Suffrages he says to them Aperimus vobis os tam in collationibus quam in Consiliis atque in electione summi Pontificis in omnibus actibus tam in Consistorio quà m extra qui ad Cardinales spectant quos soliti sunt exercere In nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen You must observe it was in use above an Age that if a Pope died whilst a new Cardinal had his mouth shut he might enter if he please into the Conclave but he could not be elected Pope nor give his Suffrage for any person unless the sacred Colledge the See being vacant by a special Act of Grace gave him an Active and Passive Voice as it did to Cardinal Conty Pope Pius the Fifth has declared since by a Decree of the 26th of January 1571 That this closing of the mouth does not deprive the new Cardinal of his power and principal Function which consists in the Election of the Pope Gregory the Fifteenth brought in use the Election of Popes by secret Suffrages that the Cardinals might be more free in giving their Votes Formerly 't was said Non fit bis in die Scrutinium Now it is performed in the morning after Mass and in the Evening after the Hymn of the Holy Ghost Vrban the Eighth gave Cardinals the Title Eminentissiums he caused the body and writings of Marc. Anthony de Dominis to be burnt after his death for an example Dominis was Archbishop of Spalathra anciently Salona in Dalmatia Alexander the Seventh received Christan Queen of Sweden into the Communion of the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Church Observations on the reducement of Jubiles under what Popes and in what times BOniface the Eighth Anno 1300. ordained that the celebration of the Jubile should be performed every hundred years both to pay to God solemn acts of Thanksgivings at the end of â—â—ch Age and that Christian Rome should not have less acknowledgment for the true God than Profane Rome shewed heretofore to its Idols by the centenary sports or games which it solemnized with an extraordinary concourse of people Clement the Sixth established it for the time to come from fifty to fifty years answering to that of the Hebrews and in consideration of the number of fifty consecrated by the visible descent of the Holy Ghost and also by reason of the shortness of mans life because few persons enjoyed the benefit of this great Treasure Vrban the Sixth as Gretserus tells us reduced it to thirty three years in memory of the thirty three years that the Son of God passed on the Earth Paulus the Eleventh desiring that every man should partake of so great a favour abbreviated the time and established it from twenty five to twenty five years Thomas Friard in his Book of the Jubile taxes this of falshood alleadging that Paul was dead three or four years before this reducement and that it was Sixtus the Fourth his Successor before General of the Cordeliers who sixt it at this number of years If this Writer had dived to the bottom of this matter and had read the Popes Bullary thereon he had found that Paul ordained it as it appears by his Bull. It is true that he could not celebrate it because death prevented him In a word he had seen that the one ordained it the other confirmed and executed it Anno 1473. Du Chesne has it express in his History of the Popes And the Abbot Le Maire Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen Doctor of Sorbonne great Vicar and Archdeacon of Chartres a learned and most eloquent man understands it so in his Book of the Jubile This Jubile has ever since been observed and practised to this time Besides the ordinary and set Jubiles at certain times there are some extraordinary ones which the Church opens in her urgent necessities to obtain some favour from Heaven We shall remark here cursorily that what Boniface called a plenary Indulgence of all sins Clement the Sixth and his Successors have given it the name of Jubile which marks a publick rejoycing in God Liberty Remission time of Propitiation according to Josephus and according to the Septuagint Under the ancient Law the Jubile was publisht with a sort of Trumpet made of a Rams horn Having proposed to my self in this Work to give an account of some curious and remarkable things in the States of each Soveraign on the Earth I shall briefly note here the Ceremony that is used at Rome at the Opening and Close of the Jubile and other things worthy memory The Opening of the Jubile THe
opening of it is performed ordinarily the 24th day of December on Christmas-eve by the opening of the holy Door which is so called because by its opening and entrance we enter into Grace and become holy by practising what is ordained by the Bull of the Jubile On the day and Feast of the Ascension of the Son of God which precedes the holy Year two Priests after having read the Gospel read the Bull the one in Latine and the other in Italian and publish the approaching Jubile His Holiness on the Christmas-eve following goes a general Procession the Cardinals the Secular and Regular Clergie the Ambassadours of Christian Princes and the Officers of the City of Rome and all the common people accompany him and about noon he comes to the door of St. Peter of the Vatican which is walled up then the Pope strikes three stroaks with a silver Hammer against this Wall which is presently thrown down the door is washt with holy Water it 's opened the Company enters into the Church they sing Vesperas with all solemnity and at the same time the Pope sends three Cardinals to open the doors of the Churches of St. Paul of St. John Lateran of St. Mary Major where the same Ceremonies are used The Silver Hammer is a Symbol of the Popes power which Jesus Christ gave him by giving him the Keys of St. Peter the Hammer was formerly of Massy Gold The Penitentiaries in such Solemnities are near the Popes Person to shew that he communicates his Jurisdiction to Confessors to whom he gives the power of Absolving from all Crimes and even in cases that are reserved to himself The opening of the Holy Door is an Hieroglyphick of the opening of the Churches Treasure whereof the Pope is the dispenser four doors are open'd to shew that persons are call'd from the four parts of the world The Doors are washt to intimate that those persons gain the Jubile who are cleansed from their faults and defilement by the vertue of the Sacraments and by the application of the Merits of Jesus Christ over the Holy Door they set the Name of the Pope that opened it last and the time The shutting up of the Jubile THe end of the year of Jubile being elaps'd the Pope on Christmass-Eve goes in Procession from the Apostolick Palace to St. Peters Church where after Vesperas are sung his Holiness appoints three Cardinals to go and shut the other three holy doors and at the same time himself accompanied with the Clergy and with all that is great and splendid in Rome marches processionally goes forth at the holy door blesses the Materials appointed to wall it up which is not open'd but the year of the Jubile lays the first stone with some pieces of Gold and of Silver and says in Latine what I turn into English Through the Faith and through the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ Son of the living God who said to the Prince of the Apostles Thou art Peter and on this Rock I will build my Church we lay this first stone for shutting this Holy Door which ought to be again thus shut in this year of Jubile In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost In what sence the Title of Holiness is attributed to the Pope against the Protestants THe Pretenders to Religion who love always to cavil and to mix Controversy in their Discourse conformable to what is said by the Latine Poet Navita de ventis de Bobus narrat Arator Enumerat Miles vulnera Pastor oves not able to endure that we give the Pope the Title of Holiness nor that we call the Doors before mentioned Holy thinking it a Blasphemy I answer them that they blame what they do not understand they ought to consider that there are three sorts of Holiness the first by Nature and Essence which is increated infinite incomprehensible and incommunicable to all other persons but to those of the most Holy Trinity The second by Consecration which is found in animate and inanimate things it is diversly caused by Prayers and Blessings by Oyl and by Unction The third Holiness consists in an Habitual Grace inviolable to sin The Catholicks do not say that the Pope is Holy by a Holiness of Nature or of Essence which belongs but to God alone who is the sole Original final Sovraign of all Holiness the Popes understand it so they own themselves sinners before God implore his mercy and make a confession of their sins When we call the Pope the Holy Father it is by Consecration the Priests the Prophets and the Kings were Anointed and Consecrated under the ancient Law as well as the new and now the Popes and the Abboâ—s are blest Churches Altars Tabernacles Crosses Chalices and Bells are holy things with a Holiness of Consecration which is an exteriour Sanctification If the Roman Church be call'd Holy why shall we not call him Holy that presides in it If the Body be called Holy the Head is not Profane The great Priest Aaron wore on his Tiara a Plate of Gold where these â—ords were Engraven Holiness to the Lord. Let us proceed to the other remarks and disquisitions Other Splendid Ceremonies IT 's at Rome where we see Seven other very curious and remarkable Ceremonies the Canonization of Saints the Coronation of the Pope that of the Emperour of Kings of Empresses of Queens and the Creation of Cardinals A touch in the Honour of Rome IF it be said of this Capital of the world that at present Rome is sought for is Rome because it has lost that vain splendour which it drew from its ancient Roman Emperours we say also that what she holds no longer by her arms she possesses by Religion Sedes Roma Petri quae Pastoralis honoris Facta Caput Mundi quicquid non possidet Armis Religione tenet It 's said of St. Peters Church at Rome and of St. Sernin at Tolouse Non est in toto Sanctior orbe locus Three desires of St. Austin ST Austin wisht to see Three things Jesus Christ on the Earth St. Paul in the Chair and Rome the Triumphante The Dominion of the Pope THe Vatican which is the Palace of St. Peter the Palace of St. John Lateran Castelgandolphi Mont-Cavallo otherwise Montquirinal and the Castle St. Angelo belong to the Pope he possesses the Patrimony of St. Peter the Dukedom of Spoleto Marcha Anconitana Romandiola the Dutchy of Benevent in the Kingdom of Naples the Dukedoms of Ferrara and of Vrbin Ceneda in the Marca Trevisano Montaldo and San Stephano on the side of the River of Genoa and the Country of Avignon in France c. You must observe that the Countess Mathilda made the Holy Sea Heir to her Lands which have since been call'd St. Peters Patrimony When the Roman Emperour is at Rome he lodges in the Vatican which is the Imperial Palace Civita Vecchia is famous for it's Port it s there where his Holinesses Galleys are
side of Piedmont it receives thirty Rivers into its Channel and a great many Lakes and Ponds its course is from the West to the East Popes by birth French-men and some passages of their Lives SYlvester the Second Vrban the Second Calixtus the Second Vrban the Fourth Clement the Fourth Innocent the Fifth Martin the Fourth Clement the Fifth John the Twenty second Benedict the Eleventh Clement the Sixth Innocent the Sixth Vrban the Fifth Gregory the Eleventh Sylvester the second of the name called before Gilbert or Gerbert born in Aquitain was a Religious man and Benedictine of St. Gerard of Aurillac in the Diocess of St. Flour and Tutor to Robert King of France and to the Emperour Otho the Third who raised him to the soveraign Pontificate He was first Archbishop of Rheims and then of Ravenna and lastly Pope which gave occasion for this Verse to be made on him Scandit ab R. Gerbertus in R. post Papa Regens est He was a great Mathematician which caused his Enemies to accuse him of Magick He was falsely charg'd for having in his Closet a Head of Brass by which the Devil answered what he askt He died the 12th day of May 1003. Pope Sergius his Successour writ his Epitaph which is yet to be seen and shews that he lived and died a holy man Vrban the second of the name was born at Chastillon on Marne Son of Milon He was called before his Exaltation Cardinal Otho Bishop of Ostia He excommunicated the Diocess of Compostella for having put their Bishop in prison and governed the Ship of St. Peter eleven years four months and eighteen days some say eleven years and a half He called into his Council St. Bruno Founder of the Order of the Charthusians He called the Council of Clairmont in Auvergne where he made the Enterprize of the holy War succeed which he called the Croizade because those that listed themselves were all crossed wearing a Cross sewn on their Habits He died An. 1110. Calixtus the Second was named Guy others say Guigue He was a Burgundian Uncle to Adelais Queen of France and near Cousin to the Emperour Henry He was Archbishop of Vienne in Daulphiné Suger Abbot of St. Dennis says that the night before his Election he saw as a Prognostick of his future Election a great Person that gave him the Moon to keep under his Archiepiscopal Cope fearing lest the Church might incur some danger by the death of Pope Gelasius He soon found the truth of this Vision seeing himself soveraign Pontife His Election was made whilst he was in the Abbey of Clugny An Anti-pope appeared at that time in Italy called Bourdin who was taken notwithstanding his intrenching and fortifying himself the Souldiers that took him mounted him on an old Camel and walkt him about the Streets publickly in derision with his face turn'd towards the Tail which they made him hold as a Bridle and afterwards he was confined to a perpetual imprisonment Calixtus assembled a Council at Rheims possest the Holy See about six years died the 19th of December 1124. In the time of his Pontificate St. Norbert founded his Order called Praemonstratensis from the place where he retired himself which is in the Diocess of Laon. Vrban the Second of the Town of Troy in Champagne was the Son of a Cobler and called James Pantaleon he recompensed the defaults of his birth by the eminency of his Learning and Vertue After having been Canon and Archdeacon of Laon and afterwards of Liege he was made Bishop of Verdun from Bishop he became Patriark of Hierusalem from Patriark Legate in divers places and then afterward Pope The Prophetick Motto was Hierusalem Campaniae When any one reproached him with the lowness and obscureness of his Birth he answered That the Nobility which is acquired by the gifts of the Understanding is more valuable than that which comes from Birth alone and that it consists in Vertue Those that are born Noble may say to their advantage and with truth that Jesus Christ was a Gentleman and the holy Virgin a Gentlewoman It is very true when Nobleness of Bloud is joyned with that of Vertue it is Perfection Superiours of an ignoble Birth may object that St. Peter who had the government of the Church was no Gentleman This Prelate after three years of the Pontificate left this mortal life the last day of September and according to Onuphrius the second day of October 1264. Clement the Fourth called before Guy Foucaut according to du Chesne was Native of the Town St. Gilles in Languedoc and according to Father Gautruche a Jesuit of a Village near Narbonne He was Bishop of Puy Archbishop of Narbonne and Cardinal by the Title of St. Sabine and Legate in England St. Loüis made him Counsellor of State because he was greatly skilled in the Laws Some think that he was elected Pope the 5th or 11th of February 1265. He crowned at Rome Charles of Anjou King of Naples and of Sicily with the ordinary Ceremonies in St. John Lateran's He had in his Arms an Eagle holding a Dragon in his Talons His Prophetick Motto was Draco depressus He died the 29th of November 1268. after three years and a half being Pope Martin the Fourth formerly Simon de Brie was Native of Mont-pincé or of the Village de Suci He founded the Chapter of Champeaux which is in the Diocess of Paris He was Treasurer and Canon of St. Martins of Tours and Cardinal by the Title of St. Cecil was elected Pope the 22th of February 1282. Under his Pontificate the year of his Election the French had their Throats cut throughout all Sicily This Massacre was called the Sicilian Vesperas because it was committed at the hour of Vesperas on an Easter-day O cruel Vesperas Peter of Arragon having an Army on foot under pretext of going into the Holy Land usurpt the Country at the sollicitation and detestable enterprize of a young Italian Gentleman a sworn Enemy to the French The Pope struck with a mortal grief excommunicated the Sicilians and those of Arragon for their Attempt and black Treason This Prelate created many Cardinals amongst others the Dean of the Church of Nostre Dame at Paris called Geofry de Barbo a Burgundian The Prophetick saying on this Pope was Ex Telonio Liliacei because he was Treasurer of St. Martins of Tours others say Liliacei Martini believing that this Church was adjudged the midst and the centre of France the Kingdom of Flower-de-luces God took him out of this World at Peruse the 28th or 29th day of March 1285. Two Miracles happened at his Burial Clement the Fifth born at Bourdeaux had for his Father Beraud Chevalier Lord of Villandrault Before his Exaltation he was called Bertrand Gout de Gutto He had in his Arms three Bars Gules in a Field Or the Prophecie was de Festis Aquitanicis The Cardinals continued ten months in the Conclave for the creation of this Prelate before Bishop of Cominges then Archbishop of
the Holy Land There have been more Popes of this name than of any other they count twenty three You must observe that the Pretenders to Religion endeavour to render ridiculous the Constitutions which John the twenty second made and compiled because he entituled them Extravagants not considering that they were so called because they were not included in the body of those of Clement which he publisht together Benedict the Eleventh some say Twelfth Native of Saverdun in the County of Fois in the Diocess of Pamiers Son of a Joyner was called before James du Four otherwise surnamed Novelli of the Order of the Cistertians was Abbot of Fontfroide The Prophecy was Frigidus Abbas He was Bishop of Pamiers John the Twenty second made him Cardinal For some time they called him the white Cardinal because of the colour of his ancient Religious Habit. When his Exaltation was signified to him he said through humility they had made choice of an Ass though he was very learhed and Doctor of Divinity in the faculty of Paris because he feared that he knew not well how to govern He did not suffer himself to be led by his Relations in the distribution of his Favours When his Niece was to be married he gave her a Portion but answerable to her condition He founded the Church and Colledge of the Bernardins in Paris He held the Holy See seven years and three months and died with a very good fame Anno 1342. Clement the Sixth of Malmont in Limosin was called Peter Roger or Rosier of the House of Beaufort He took occasion to bear Roses in his Arms for having been baptized in the Parish de Rosiers He was Bishop of Arras The Prophecy was de Rosa Attrebatensi He was also Archbishop of Sens and then of Roüen and Cardinal sub titulo SS Nerei Achillei He was chosen Head of the Church the 5th of May 1343. He made Cardinal Bernard de la Tour of Auvergne in the Diocess of Clermont He remembred that having been ill used in the Woods of Randan in Auvergne in the Diocess of Clermont by Robbers who stript him being at that time a Scholar and returning from his Studies at the University of Paris he was charitably assisted by Stephen Aldebrand Pryor and Curate of Thuret a Religious man of the Order of St. Benedict of the Abbey of St. Allire near Clermont who received him at his house and gave him a suit of Cloaths and Money to conduct him to the Abbey de la Chaize-Dieu whereof he was a profest Religious man Peter Roger giving thanks to his Benefactor and saying to him When should he be able to acquit himself of the Obligation he had to him he prophetically answered him It shall be when you come to be Pope He no sooner was entered into the Apostolical Chair but he sent for him as soon as he saw him he created him one of the first Officers of his Court and some time after Archbishop of Tolouse and afterwards Cardinal He was called Cardinalis de Thureto The adventure of Peter Rosier fallen into the hands of Robbers with the good reception and entertainment that he found in the Monastery of Thuret is taken from the Archives of the Abbey of St. Allire by the Father Vialard who is there a Religious man and who has also been Pryor and Curate of Thuret Messire Claudius de Broüez Pryor and Lord of Dorcet formerly first President in the General Election of la Basse Auvergne at Clermont furnisht me with this Memoire and Extract In the Abbey of St. Allire they say Peter Rosier and not Roger though the Register in Latine says Rogerius Clement the Sixth passed from this mortal life to the immortal the 6th of December 1351. Three Cardinals of his nearest Relations caused his body to be carried to the Abbey de la Chaize-Dieu according to his last Will and Testament It is held by Tradition that this Pope in his youth was Pensioner at Paris in the Colledge of Narbonne Innocent the Sixth of the Mountains of the Country Limosin formerly Steven Aubert or Albert was Bishop of Noyon and Cardinal by the Title of St. Pammachus Father Gautruche says that he was placed on the Episcopal See of Clermont in Auvergne He had six Mountains in his Arms the Prophecy says de Montibus Pammachii Pope Clement the Sixth took him into the sacred Colledge of Cardinals Being come to the Papacy he created Cardinal Andin Albert his Nephew then Bishop of Maguelone or Montpelier He succeeded Clement the Sixth the 18th of December 1352. In one of his Promotions he made Cardinal the Bishop of Nismes called Johannes de Blandiaco John de Blauzac of the Diocess of Vzes gave up his soul to God in the Town of Avignon the 12th of September 1372. his body was carried into the house of the Carthusians of Villeneuve where he had chosen his Sepulchre in his life-time Most persons render the Latine words Blandiacum by Blandiac the people of the Country turn it and pronounce it Blauzac and not Blandiac The Castle is Calvinist and the Village almost entirely Before Messire James de Grignan was Bishop of Vzes the Catholicks and Hugenots buried in this Village and at Chalmete and in some other places of this Diocess in the same Church-yard one amongst another This Prelate remedied this abuse not thinking it reasonable that the Dead should be put in holy ground who during their life-time would not come to Church to participate of its Sacraments M. Philippeaux de la Verilliere Doctor of Sorbonne succeeded him for some time as far as the year 1677. in which he mounted into the Patriarchal Chair of Bourges Cardinal Vrsin recommended him in the Consistory Vrban the Fifth called before William Grimoard of Grisac issued from the Illustrious and ancient House of Roure whose Earl at present Messire Peter Scipion Grimoard de Beauvoir Earl of Roure Marquess of Grisac Baron of Bariac and other Baronies Lord of Banes and many other places is Lieutenant-general for the King in his Armies and Provinces of Languedoc and particular Governour of the Town and Bridge du St. Esprit on the Rhone and other places This Prelate had for Father N. Grismoard Lord of Grisac in the Diocess of Mande in Givodan and for Mother Dame Amphilize de Montferrand He was first a Religious man of the Order of St. Benedict in the Conventual Priory of Chirac Abbot of St. Germains of Auxerre and then of St. Victor of Marseilles Innocent the Sixth having sent him into Italy on very important Affairs he acquir'd such a Reputation that the See being vacant the Cardinals assembled at Avignon in the Conclave elected him Pope with a common Consent the 27th day of September 1562 according to Onuphrius and because he was at that time in Italy fearing lest he should be kept there they sent to him to come away presently but without signifying to him his Election till his return in the Town of Marseilles
which was the 27th day of October as it appears by the Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Victor He was consecrated and crowned at Avignon in the month of November following being about twenty five years of age The Prophecy was Gallus Vicecomes When he received the news of his Election he pronounced the words of the Psalmist A Domino factum est istud est mirabile in oculis nostris We find in his Arms in the Popes Armorial an Oak forked Or in a Field Azure the name Roure signifying an Oak in the Gascoign Tongue The Country of his birth was exempted from Tributes by the Kings of France to honour the merit of his person He founded many Monasteries Churches and Colledges built two beautiful Palaces in Italy one at Orvietto and the other at Montefiasco He transported himself to Rome to allay some disorders and excommunicated Bernaboüe Viscount of Milan for having burnt two holy Religious men who had reprehended him with all sort of respect for his debaucht and tyrannical life causing his Subjects eyes to be torn out of their heads and to be strangled that hunted in his Lands contrary to his command whom he constrained to keep for him five or six thousand Dogs This great Prelate shewed to the people the heads of St. Peter and of St. Paul crowned Charles of Luxemburg Emperour St. Brigit Princess of Sweden received from him the confirmation of her Order We may see at large the good and admirable actions of this Pope in Platina du Chesne Coulomb Gautruche and others He governed the Ship of St. Peter eight years and four months His body lies at Marseilles in the Church of the Abbey of St. Victor after having first continued eleven months deposited in the Church of Nostre dame de Dons at Avignon where he died the 19th of December of the year 1370. The Cardinals celebrated his Obsequies with the accustomed Ceremonies He is in the Catalogue of canonized Saints In the House of Roure there have been two other Popes viz. Sixtus the Fourth and Julius the Eleventh both of Genoa Gregory the Eleventh of Limosin called formerly Peter Roger of the House of Beaufort which subsists still in that of the Marquess of Canilhac in Auvergne was Son of William Earl of Beaufort and of Jane Sister to Pope Clement the Sixth Before his Exaltation he was Canon of the Church of Paris Dean of the Cathedral of Bayeux and then afterwards Cardinal by the Title of St. Mary la Neuve His Prophecy was Novus de Virgine fortis It is he that founded for perpetuity in the Church of Nostre dame of Paris the station that is dayly kept there at nine a clock in the morning before the Altar of the Virgin He died at Rome the 27th of March of the year 1372. some say Anno 1376. others Anno 1378. Two hundred years after his death the Italians erected a new Monument of Marble in his memory in the Church where he was buried as an acknowledgment of the Benefits received from him and caused to be graved on it this Epitaph in great Letters Christi Saluti Gregorius XI Lemovicensi humanitate doctrinâ pietateque admirabili qui ut Italioe seditionibus laboranti mederetur sedem Pontificiam Avenione diu translatam divini afflatus numine hominumque maximo plausu post Annos LXX Roman foeliciter perduxit Pontificatûs sui de Anno VII S. P. Q. R. tantoe Religionis Beneficii non Immemor Gre. XIII P. Opt. Max. comprobante An. ab orbe Redempto MDLXXXIV The Italians call the time during which the Holy See was at Avignon till its re-establishment in Rome the years of the Transmigration of Babylon The Church had two hundred forty four Popes from Saint Peter to Innocent the Eleventh There remains yet to come twenty five according to the Prophecies of St. Malachie Primate of Ireland and then will happen the great day of the General Judgment which will close the door of Time and open that of Eternity These Prophecies are not proposed as Articles of Faith for who is the man that can know the times and the moments This is reserved to God alone Jesus Christ said to his Apostles that no body knows the hour of this great Day All that is said is grounded on conjectures and on adjusted senses because the Law of Nature lasted two thousand years the written Law two thousand years it is thought that the Evangelical Law will continue so long Nothing can be said thereon for certain nor concerning the Popes to come before their creation The future Popes conformably to the Prophecies mentioned are these 1. POenitentia Gloriosa 2. Rastrum in Porta 3. Flores Circumdati 4. De Bonâ Religione 5. Miles in bello 6. Columna excelsa 7. Animal Rurale 8. Rosa Vmbrioe 9. Vrsus velox 10. Peregrinus Apostolicus 11. Aquila rapax 12. Canis Coluber 13. Vir Religiosus 14. De Balneis Etrurioe 15. Crux de Cruce 16. Lumen in Coelo 17. Ignis Ardens 18. Religio de Populata 19. Fides Intrepida 20. Pastor Angelicus 21. Pastor ex Nautâ 22. Flos Florum 23. De Medietate Lunoe 24. De Labore solis 25. Gloria Olivoe These Prophecies are inserted in a book called Lignum Vitoe composed by Arnold Vvion Benedictin St. Malachie began them by Coelestin the Second to the coming of Antichrist and died Anno 1298. in the Abbey of Clairvaux in the arms of St. Bernard who has writ his Life These two great persons are buried the one by the other behind the High Altar The chief Princes of Italy after the Pope are the five following The Duke of Savoy VIctor-Amé the second of the name Duke of Savoy Prince of Piemont Marquess of Saluzze c. was born Anno 1666. professes the Catholick Religion he shews in the tenderness of his age a viril Judgment which raises admiration in Foreign Ministers and gives great hopes that he will one day be Master of the excellent Qualities of his Father which will live in him by the care of his Mother Regent who being ignorant of nothing that ought to be known took care of his Estates during his minority and appointed him persons whom she made choice of for forming his Manners and Conduct The Dutchess laid down the Regency Anno 1680 into the hands of her Son This Prince gave her his thanks for the care she had taken of his Person and of his Estates and pray'd her to continue to assist him in the Government I shall set down but part of his Coat of Arms though very excellent and most noble because his Scutcheon is extreamly charg'd They may be seen at large in some good book of Heraldry and those of other crowned heads I shall say onely that the Dukes of Savoy bear the silver Cross for having relieved the Isle of Rhodes and repelled the Turks An. 1315. and that for acknowledgment the Knights gave them the Cross with this Motto FERT which signifies Fortitudo
life the Vrns are considerable The Master of this House considering that good ought to be communicative has for some years past made his Garden common to the Publick for walking and has sometime given to some great Lords and others the satisfaction of seeing the Cormorant-fishing which is a Royal Divertisement I think it not strange that the Emperour and other crown'd heads divert themselves with it In this Capital City of the Kingdom there are many Houses whereof Wonders may be said which I pass by because to run them over it would take up a Volume I shall onely adde that persons curious in wonderful and transcendent things should see the Rooms of Anticks of the Louvre and the Tuilleries the King and Queens Closets their Apartments and Furniture the Kings Library which contains above 40000 Volumes an infinite number of Manuscripts in Hebrew Arabick Greek Latin and many of History and Policy the remarkable Medals the curious Shells a famous Burning-glass known throughout all the Earth many Books of Migniature and other Curiosities the two Galleries oâ— Palace Mazarin that of the Palace of Luxembourg containing in great and various Pictures the Adventures of Queen Mary de Medicis we see there her Birth her Life and her Death The Palace Royal belonging to Monsieur merits to be visited as also the Royol Academy of Painting and Carvings the Galeries of M. le Prince and others Houses of Pleasure about Paris THe fair and delightful houses next the King 's are these Saint Cloud and Viliers Cotteret which belong to Monsieur Châ—â—tilly to M. le Prince there is seen even at thâ— day in his Menagery a Pelican 150 years old having a bill of Ivory The Isle Adam belongs to M. the Prince of Conti Reinci to the Princess Palatine Annet to the Duke of Vandôme the Palace of Ecoüan to the Dutchess of Angouleme Gros-bois to the Marquess of Pienee Ruel to the Duke de Richlieu Verneuil to the Duke of this name Liancour to the Prince of Marcillac Villeroy to the Duke of this name Chaville to M. the Chancellour le Tellier Sceaux to M. Colbert la Cheurette to M. de la Vrilliere Berni to the Marquess de Lionne Chilly to the Marquess d'Effiat Conflans Les-Charenton to M de Harlay Archbishop of Paris Maisons Vaux Saint Mandé Meudon are also places very agreeable Chassan is another House of Pleasure joyning to Harcueil it belongs to the Abbot of S. Germain des Prez Cardinal Francis de Tournon first Commendatory Abbot of the Abbey of the said S. Germain caused it to be put in order we see there his Arms which are Seme of Flower-de-luces Mademoiselle de Montpensier increases the number of delightful Houses by that which she purchased of late years at Choisy This Princess causes a beautiful Palace to be there built The House of the Dean of Pontoise seven leagues from Paris has one of the fairest Prospects and Terrasses of the Country the Terras is entirely on Rocks Messire Steven de Burtio de la Tour Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbone and formerly Priour and Prosessour of the said House Knight of the Order of the King under the Title and List of Saint Michael Count of the holy Apostolical Palace and Preacher is Dean When the general Assembly of the Clergy is held at Pontoise the President lodges at his house We see at the entry of this Town as we come from Paris a famous Abbey of Religious Ladyes called de Maubuisson I omit to name many other Ornaments because it would be too tedious to number them Houses and Places of Devotion neer Paris THe pious places about Paris that are most frequented are Mount-Valerian the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis Nostre Dame des Anges otherwise des Bois against the Hermitage of Coubron Nanterre in memory of St. Genevieve Nostre Dame des Vertues S. Prix Nostre Dame in the Forrest and Hermitage of Senar Saint Roch is very famous at Pont-carré they come thither the day of its Festival from all parts Saint Spire is visited for the Falling Sickness We must say something here of Mount-Valerian If Mount-Valerian vulgarly called le Tertre be not rich it is nevertheless frequented We see there represented to the life the whole History of the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ Round about the top of the Mountain there are seven Chappels or Oratories representing the seven Stations and on the top Calvary on which Jesus Christ is beheld crucified on a tall Cross betwixt two Thieves that the representation of the Order of the Crucisixion should be more lively and plain and also that after the faithful have plung'd themselves by all these exteriour and sensible Objects in the meditation of the Death of Jesus Christ they may die to the World and then rise again with him in a newness of a spiritual life They preach there every Sunday and Festival day and every first Friday of each month there being a great concourse of people that comes from all parts On the day and Feast of the place which is that of the Exaltation of the holy Cross the 14th of September there have been sometimes 30 or 40000 persons either on the Mountain or in the Way The fraternity of the Penitents of Paris goes thither in a Procession yearly some days of the year On Good-friday three different Preachers preach there the Passion successively The Queen who is a Pattern of Piety and Devotion visits this holy place from time to time The Church is serv'd by Priests who live in a Society Messire Michel de Bougi Abbot of St. Vrbain a person of Birth and Merit is Purveyor and the Abbot Hardy Doctor of Sorbone is Superiour The Office of Purveyor is for perpetuity and that of Superiour triennial Under Anne of Austria Queen of France there was a great Law-suit for the possession of this place betwixt the Secular Priests and the Dominicans This business gave much trouble to the Abbot de Bougi and to Master Lafont in his life-time Principal of the Colledge of Narbone The Congregation of the Priests of Calvary on Mount-Valerian was establisht An. 1633. by Letters-Patents of Louis the Thirteenth who sent for a Priest expresly for this effect a man of a holy life called Charpenter who had already instituted it on the Mountain of Betharan in Bearn which resembles Mount-Valerian The Hermites have been in possession of Mount-Valerian for these 800 years according to an humble Remonstrance made An. 1622. to Cardinal des Retz by the Priests of Calvary There was seen there for some time a recluded Hermite The Treasure which is in the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis and the Tombs of the Kings of France deserve that we should say something of them The Treasury of St. Denis THe Church of the Abbey of St. Denis is extreamly visited both by reason of its Patron and for its Treasure and for being the Burial-place of the Kings of France King Dagobert the First
An. 1679. in the month of June the King gave in his Council to the Archbishop Duke of Rheims a place of Counsellor of State in Ordinary who seats himself as first Duke and Peer above the Dean of the Council immediately after the Chancellor of France Amiens has had seventy six Bishops from St. Firmin to Messire Francois Faure he was Preacher in Ordinary to the late Queen Mother Ann of Austria Beauvais eighty nine from St. Lucien to Messire Toussaint Fourbin de Janson Count and Peer of France and Vidame of Gerbroi This Prelate carries the Mantle Royal at the Kings Consecration and Coronation He was Bishop of Dignes and afterward of Marseilles and a long time Embassadour in Poland I speak of it in the Tract of the Sarmathians he was propos'd by the Pope in his Consistory for the Bishoprick of Beauvais though he had not been precogniz'd because a Precognization is not necessary when his Holiness proposes a Subject The Cardinals with a common voice gave him gratis a half of the Bulls The 27th of November 1679. he was received in the Grand Chamber of the Parliament with the usual Ceremonies and took there his place betwixt the Bishop Duke of Langres and the Bishop Count de Noyon in the presence of the Duke d'Enguien of the Prince of Conti of the Prince de la Roche-sur-Yon and of seventeen Dukes and Peers whereof three were Ecclesiasticks He gave afterward a Dinner to the Princes of the Bloud and to the Dukes and Peers Boulogne has had sixty six Bishops comprizing those of Teroüanne to Messire Nicolas Lavocat Billard sixth Bishop of Boulogne formerly Canon of the Church of Paris The first Prelate of Teroüanne was call'd Antimondus or Aumondus the first of Boulogne Antoine de Crequy Three Bishopricks have been made of that of Teroüanne that of Boulogne that of St. Omer and that of Ypres Châlons eighty nine from St. Mamet to Messire Loüis-Antoine de Noailles Count and Peer of France He carries the Ring at the Consecration and Coronation of his Majesty Laon seventy seven from St. Genebaud or Genebal to Cardinal Caesar d'Estrées Duke and Peer of France he carries the holy Vial at the Kings Consecration and Coronation This Eminency holds his Hat from the Crown of Portugal whereof he is Protector His most Christian Majesty gave him An. 1679. the Abbey of St. Claude in Franche-Comte vacant by the death of Dom John of Austria Noyon ninty two from Hilary to Messire Francois de Clairmont de Yonnere Count and Peer of France He carries the Wast-belt at the Kings Coronation Senlis eighty nine from St. Regulus to Messire Denis Sanguin Soissons eighty one from St. Sixtus to Messire Charles Bourlon The Archbishoprick of Narbonne NArbonne seventy one both Bishops and Archbishops from St. Paul the Proconsul to Cardinal Pierre de Bonzi the Queens Grand Almoner formerly Embassadour of France at Venice in Poland and in Spain He was Bishop of Beziers sometime afterward Archbishop of Tolose and for some great good is made Archbishop of Norbanne which of course constitutes him President of the Estates of Languedoc who look upon him as their Protector and the King considers him at the same time as a faithful Support of his Authority His promotion to the Cardinalship happen'd the 22d of February 1672. and his late great Uncle Jean de Bonzi who was grand Almoner of Queen Marie de Medicis was made Cardinal at the nomination of France and this by that of Poland His Embassies have gain'd him very great lights The Suffragans of Narbonne are Agde Aleth Beziers Carcassonne Lodeve Montpellier Nismes S. Pons de Tomires and Vzez Agde sixty five Bishops from Beticus to Messire Loüis Foucquet Lord and Count of the Town of Agde Heaven makes known to this Prelate by experience that the Felicities of the Earth are mixt with bitterness Aleth twenty one from St. Bartholmew to Messire Loüis Alphonse de Valbelle He succeeds Nicholas Pavilion who wisht that Superiours were infallible in their Sentiments impeccable in their Conduct and far from all surprize Beziers seventy two from St. Afrodisius to Messire Armand Jean de Rotondis de Biscara This Prelate pass'd from the Bishoprick of Dignes to that of Lodeve and from Lodeve to Beziers He is arrived from degree to degree to one of the most considerable of Languedoc by his merit and by the services which himself and his have rendred the State The Organs of his Cathedral-Church have the reputation of being the fairest of France Carassonne seventy three from St. Guimera to Messire Loüis de Bourlemon Auditor of the Rota Lodeve a hundred and seven from St. Florus vulgarly St. Flour to Messire Claude Antoine de Chambonas Montpellier sixty three to Messire Charles de Pradel comprizing those of Maguelone which was transferr'd to Montpellier under Pope Paul the Third An. 1536. The first Bishop of Maguelone was call'd Ether or Ethere and the first fixt at Montpellier was Pellicie the Seventh of the name Messire Charles de Pardel was nominated Anno 1675. Coadjutor of his Uncle whose great services rendred to the Church and State even to the exposal of his life once while he was Intendant of Justice helpt to recompence the science and desert of him who occupies the See at present Nismes ninty six from Crocus to Messire Jaques Seguier formerly Bishop of Lombez before Canon and Theologal of the Church of Paris The King considering that Heresie had laid very deep roots for a long time in the Diocess of Nismes and that it was a thing of importance to establish there a Pastor of an extraordinary Zeal nominated him to this Bishoprick an 1671. where this Prelate incessantly pursues the wild Beast which has spoil'd in divers places the Vineyard of the Lord. St. Tomieres nineteen from Raymond to Messire Pierre-Jean-Francois de Montgaillard Vzez sixty from Constance to Messire Michel Poncet de la Riviere Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbonne Bishop and Count of Vzez As soon as he entred into this Diocess infected with Heresie he began with the reformation of his Clergy and afterward cast the Apostolical Net and drew up into the Vessel of the Church many Fish I mean men according to the promise which the Son of God made to his Apostles that they should be fishers of men instead of fish Faciam vos fieri piscatores hominum The Town of St. Ambrose whereof he is Pryor and Lord knows it by experience where after having put the last hand to a very fair Church and having consecrated in an 1679. he gave in one day the Absolution of Heresie to forty seven persons The Archbishoprick of Bourges BOurges a hundred and two Prelates from St. Vrsin to Messire Phelipeaux de la Vrilliere St. Rodulphe forty fourth Bishop of Bourges was declared Archbishop Primate and Patriarch The ordinary Suffragans were eleven Albi Cahors Castres Clermont in Auvergne Limoges Mande le Puy Rhodez St. Flour Tulles and Vabres Since
Consistory did not think it convenient finding him necessary in the Conclaves and it mist but little in one but he had been rais'd to the Soveraign Pontificate He died the third Cardinal of his House his Hat was of the nomination of France The third Messire Pierre de Marca he was Councellor and afterward President of the Parliament of Pau Intendant of Justice and Visitor-General in Catalonia and Roussillon Bishop of Couserans Archbishop of Tolose and then afterward Minister of State and Archbishop of Paris He receiv'd the Bulls some days before his death and did not occupy the See This Great Person is buried under the Archiepiscopal Chair His Book in folio De Concordia Sacredotii Imperii has been read by the Learned and examined at Rome The fourth Messire Hardoüin de Beaumont of Perefixe a great defender of the Priviledges of his Church formerly Tutor to Loüis the Great and Bishop of Rhodez He writ the History of Henry the Fourth and has been very liberal in giving Alms he gave at one time ten thousand Livres towards a Building for the Priests of the Congregation and Mission of St. Lazarus at Paris and during his Archiepiscopacy assisted poor Gentlemen and others with his Revenue This Prelate re-united the jurisdiction of all the faux-bourg S. Germain des Prez and other places to the Archbishoprick of Paris with an extraordinary vigour by solemn Decrees The fifth Messire Francois de Harlai de Chanvalon Commander of the Kings Orders Duke and Peer of France and Purveyor of Sorbonne He was honoured with the Archbishoprick of Paris An. 1671. and created Duke and Peer of France An. 1674. It 's the first of this See who has born the Title of Duke and Peer which will pass from him to his Successors He was before Archbishop of Roüen and President in ordinary of the Assemblies of the Clergy of France He never permits any Priest to speak to him with his Hat off but himself is likewise uncover'd though he be a great Lord. The Suffragans of Paris are Chartres Orleans Meaux Chartres has had a hundred and five Bishops from S. Avent or Aventin some say Potentien to Messire Ferdinand de Neufville de Villeroy Counsellor of State in Ordinary formerly Bishop of S. Malo He was born at Rome under the Embassie of his deceased Father who caus'd the Statua of Henry the Great to be erected there This great Prelate is descended from great Ministers who have been cherisht by our Kings and who have govern'd the State with so much wisdom and prudence He has always had near him persons of eminent Learning Orleans a hundred and seventeen from S. Altin to Messire Pierre Cambout de Coaslin the Kings first Almoner Meaux a hundred and four from S. Sanctin to Messire Dominique de Ligni Successor of his Uncle Dominique Seguier The Archbishoprick of Albi. ALbi has had sixty eight Bishops from St. Clair to Gaspard de Daillon du Lude This Bishoprick very famous for its Revenue was made an Archbishoprick under Pope Innocent the Eleventh at the request of Loüis the Fourteenth in favour of Messire Hyacynthe de Serroni some time Bishop of Orange and afterward Lord Bishop of Mande Count of Givodan and first Almoner of the late Queen-Mother Anne of Austria whose Funeral-Oration he made at Paris in the head of the Clergy of France and of all that is most Illustrious in the Kingdom with the applause and admiration of all his Auditors His rare Piety his profound Learning the long and important Services which he has rendred the Church and State have rais'd him to this high Dignity His devise is Sidus flos lapis There has been counted to the year 1680. sixty eight Bishops of Albi the Abbot de Cam who dayly penetrates Antiquity has discover'd eight or ten more by reading the Councels and the Register and Documents of the Metropolitan Church of Albi whereof he has compos'd the History His merit oblig'd the first Archbishop of this See a lover of Learning and learned Persons to make him his great Vicar and to send him on his behalf to assist in the Estates of Languedoc of the year 1680. The Suffragans of Albi are the nearest to it Vabres Rhodes Castres Cahors and Mande Vabres has had twenty two Bishops from Pierre d'Olargue to Messire Loüis de Barrada The two first Bishops of this Diocess were of the ancient House of Olargue Rhodes fifty three from St. Amant to Messire Gabriel de Voyer de Paulmi Castres twenty nine from Deodat to Messire Michel Tuboeuf Cahors sixty four from Genulphe to Messire N. le Jay Mande sixty two from S. Severian to Messire Francois Placide de Baudri de Piencour He confirms those that are in the good way and recalls those that are astray Five Bishops of this Diocess enlarge the Catalogue of Saints The Archbishoprick of Cambray CAmbray has had nine or ten Archbishops from Maximilian de Berghes to Messire Christophle de Brias he succeeds Gaspar Nemius Many Bishops preceded them for some time those of Cambray were Bishops of Arras they were afterward separated The Archbishop of Cambray stiles himself Archbishop and Duke of Cambray Count du Cambresis and Prince of the Empire This Archbishoprick before the Wars was worth a hundred thousand Livres of Rent The Archiepiscopal Church has a very fair Body adorn'd with a high Steeple some persons think that its Bell call'd Mary-Fontenoise resembles in greatness to George d' Amboise of Roüen or to Cardaillac of Tolose or to that of Mande when it was in being whereof the Clapper is yet to be seen Charles the Fifth caus'd the famous Citadel to be built which is very strong by Scituation and by Art though the King of France took it in a little time and receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity from the Archbishop An. 1677. The Governour of this place being askt at Brussels by the Duke de Villa-Hermosa why he had yielded it so soon answered him in these very terms The King of France was before it in person and I believe if he besieg'd Hell he would fetch all the Devils out in case Hell could be besieg'd and taken by Mortals The Suffragans of this Archbishoprick are Arras Tornai Saint Omer Arras has had fifty three Bishops from Lambert to Messire Guidon de Seve de Roche Chouard Tornai forty eight from S. Plato to Messire Philiberg de Choiseul du Plessis Pralin formerly Bishop of Comminges He preacht the Funeral Sermon on the late Prince of Conti. The Canons of his Cathedral-Church are cloath'd in violet The Town of Gand depended formerly for the spiritual on the Bishops of Tornay as we shall see elsewhere Saint Omer ten from Gerard de Hamericourt to Messire Annes Tristan de la Baume Suse His Majesty chose him for a Diocess and a People newly conquered by reason of his particular merit and of his extream sweetness accompaâ—â—â—d with a like Address for governing them He was created before Bishop
entituled Speculum nostrae Salutis printed at Haërlem and at Mayence is very ancient as also the Catholicum Januense it 's a Latin Dictionary call'd Prosodia It was compos'd by a Religious man of the Order of St. Dominick and printed at Mayence An. 1460. That of the Dominicans de la rue S. Honore is of the year 1629. The first Bible was printed at Mayence by John Faustus and Peter Schoeffer his Son-in-Law An. 1462. and the year following S. Austin de Civitate Dei in the same Town Martin and Michel Vlriques were the first who exercis'd in Paris the Art of Printing An. 1470. The Latin Bible was printed at Paris Anno 1512. Those of Robert Stevens came forth at Paris An. 1528 and 1532. The first Huguenot Bible was translated from Hebrew into French by Peter Olivetan vulgarly Oliveteau and printed at Neuchastel in Switzerland An. 1535. by Pirot Picard The Bible of Vatablus was printed by the same Robert Stevens An. 1557. in three Volumes in Folio The Sieur Joli above-mentioned says in his Book entituled Voyage fait à Munster autres lieux voisins An. 1646 and 1647. a remarkable thing which is that to adjust the difference betwixt Haërlem and Mayence concerning the Invention of Printing it may be concluded from a Book of Bertius that Coster at Haërlem lighted on the Invention of Printing after the manner of the Chineses and that Guttemberg and Faustus invented afterward at Mayence the moveable and changeable Characters for composing syllables and words because Scriverius shew'd Bertius this Speculum Salutis whereof each Page was made on a Frame or Table engrav'd or cut as it were and not with separated Characters composing apart the syllables words and lines The Parthians wrought their Letters on Linnen-cloath after the manner of Embrodery The Invention of Powder and Cannon is more ancient it was invented An. 1354. We shall speak of it elsewhere The Archbishop and Elector of Treves JOhn Hugo de Dorsbec Archbishop of Treves and Bishop of Spire Prince and Elector of the Empire Governour of Prumb and President of Weisembourg Catholick He stiles himself Grand Chancellor of the Gaules and of the Kingdom of Arles He resides at Wilich He succeeds Charles Gasper Van Derleyen Coblens and Hermenstein are very strong places by reason of their scituation on the joyning of the Rhine and the Moselle they belong to his Electoral Highness It is said that the Revenue of this Archbishoprick may go yearly at eleven or twelve hundred thousand Livres The Archbishoprick comprehends twenty four Bailiwicks The Chapter is compos'd of sixteen Capitulary Canons none but Gentlemen are receiv'd Princes and Earls are receiv'd with difficulty This Elector and that of Cologne take their Seats alternatively when the Emperour is not present this alternation is made from week to week successively The three Ecclesiastical Electors are no longer deem'd Chancellors onely titular to the Kingdoms of France Arles Austrasia and Italy The 30th of August 1670. Christopher de la Fosse a Fleming of the Town of Mons having stil'd the Elector of Treves amongst his Titles Archchancellor of France and the Kingdom of Arles in a Thesis which he was to defend at Paris for his Doctorship he was hindred from defending the said Thesis Another good Writer has observ'd that when this Elector is call'd Grand Chancellor of the Gauls this is understood of the Country which the Roman Emperours possessed within the bounds of the ancient Gaul on this side the Rhine which was call'd formerly the Kingdom of Arles Treves call'd in Latin Augusta Trevirorum was built as Æneas Sylvius relates in the time of the Patriarck Abraham 2000 years before the Incarnation by Trebeta Son of Ninus King of the Assyrians who being driven from the Kingdom by his Step-mother Semiramis came and built this Town on the Moselle Alstedius says its founder was Trevir Son of Man King of Germany This place has been a Theatre of War having been taken and retaken in our time It has had 101 Bishops and Archbishops from S. Eucher to John Hugo de Dorsbec Popo was its first Archbishop The blessed Rhenanus assures us L. 3. de rebus Germanicis that the Church of Mayence and that of Cologne were formerly under that of Treves It s Vniversity is the most ancient of Germany The Archbishop and Elector of Cologne MAximilian Henry of Bavaria Archbishop of Cologne Bishop and Prince of Liege and Bishop also of Hildesheim Prince and Elector of the Empire Grand Chancellor of Italy and Legate ex officio of the Apostolick See has many other Titles Catholick His Arms are those of the House of Bavaria hereafter mention'd This Prince came into the World An. 1622. the 8th of October he succeeds his Uncle by the Father side Ferdinand of Bavaria of whom he was made Coadjutor An. 1643. and consecrated Archbishop by Fabius Chigi Nuncio to Pope Innocent the Tenth for the Peace of Munster who has since been Pope under the name of Alexander the Seventh The Archbishoprick has in its Arms a Cross Sable in a Field Argent Bona on the Rhine is the ordinary place of Residence of the Archbishop his Revenue from the Archbishoprick arises to six or seven hundred thousand Crowns The Chapter of the Cathedral Church is compos'd of twenty four Canons who are all Princes or at least Earls bare Gentlemen are not admitted there The day that the Archbishop takes possession of the Archbishoprick the Town though it be Imperial does him Homage in these terms We free Citizens of Cologne promise this day for this day and the days to come to N. our Archbishop of Cologne to be faithful and friendly to him as long as he shall preserve us according in our Rights Honour and ancient Priviledges we our Wives our Children and our Town of Cologne So help us God and his Saints The Archbishop obliges himself reciprocally in these terms We by the grace of God Archbishop of the holy Church of Cologne Elector and Archcancellor of the Empire in Italy to the end that there may be an amicable Consideration an entire Confidence and a sincere and inviolable Peace betwixt us and our dear Citizens and Town of Cologne do declare by these present Letters that we have promis'd and assur'd and do promise and assure in good Faith and without Fraud that we confirm all the Rights and Franchises written or not written old or new within and without the Town of Cologne which have been granted it by Popes Emperours Kings or the Archbishops of Cologne which we will never countervene In testimony of which we have set the Seal of our Arms to these Presents the c. The Archbishop was oblig'd to come every year to Cologne on Twelf-day and the Town gave him four hundred Florins of Gold with a hundred measures of Oats which he lost if he came not There has been a composition since for this Rent by a new agreement When he comes there he cannot stay there
of Plenipotentiary in a place which ought to be a Sanctuary oblig'd his most Christian Majesty considering the Laws of Nations violated to recal his Nimegen was since made choice on for renewing the Conferences of the general Peace The Duke de Vitry the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissi and the Sieur de Mesmes Count of Avaux were appointed Plenipotentiaries of France Anno 1675. Marshal d' Estrade succeeded the Duke de Vitry The 11th of August 1677. the Bishop and Prince of Gurc chief of the Embassie of Germany for the Conferences of the Peace arrived at Nimegen accompanied with Count Kinski and with Sieur Straman his Colleagues who went before him All the other Plenipotentiaries repair'd thither The Estates of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries appointed for their Plenipotentiaries the Sieur Hieromy Beverning Lord of Teylingen Curator of the University of Leiden the Sieur William of Nassau Lord of Odik Cortegene c. and the Sieur William Haren Grietman du Bildt The Treaties of Peace and of Commerce Navigation and Maritime affairs betwixt France and the States General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries were concluded at Nimegen the 10th of August 1678. In the same year the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain was sign'd and the year following 1679. that of France and of the Emperour whereof we have spoken elsewhere The Elector and King of Bohemia THe King of Bohemia one of the seven Electors formerly the Emperours great Cup-bearer is at present the Emperour himself Cath. His Arms are a Lion Argent arm'd and crown'd Or with a double tail noüed and pass'd in Saltier in a Field Gules Prague is the capital City its Dukes the Kings and Emperours have kept there a long time their Court it is divided into three the Small the Ancient and the New Praga ad Moldaviam fluvium the Molde waters it Its Inhabitants were govern'd by Dukes till Vratislaus was created the first King who was followed by many others till the Royal Line being extinct the House of Austria put themselves in possession of this Kingdom which has been made hereditary in the House of Austria by the Treaty of Peace of Munster The Ancients called Bohemia Bojemia or Bojohemia that is to say in the German Tongue the House or Residency of the Boyes a People of the Gauls who retir'd thither Some have said that this Elector was the last before that he was King His Chair at the Elections is of Sattin pursled with Gold and that of his Colleagues of Crimson Velvet onely Some would seem to say that he has onely a casting Voice and Suffrage when the other Electors do not accord for the Election of the Emperour but it is certain that he is effectively an Elector as the others and that his Royal quality gives him the first Seat amongst the Lay Electors Bohemia with the Provinces of Moravia and Silesia may be worth yearly twelve or thirteen Millions to its Prince The Emperour Frederic surnamed Barberossa made it a Kingdom it is he who said to Pope Alexander the Third Non tibi sed Petro. The Bohemians in the Ceremonies of the Mass sing the Epistle and Gospel in their Tongue and communicate under both kinds it has been permitted them as a thing which does not alter the essence of Faith The Town of Egra otherwise Eger belongs to this Crown the Gazettes often mention it There are pretious Stones found in the Mountains of Pinch whence is come the Proverb that men throw sometimes a Stone at a Cow which is worth more than the Cow The Inhabitants of Bohemia are call'd Bohemians with an Aspiration and the vagabond Egyptian Fortunetellers Boemians they appear'd in Europe An. 1417. They came from Hungary and Valachia Frontiers of Turky The Clocks of Bohemia are alter the Italian fashion they tell the hours there from one Sun-setting to the next twenty four hours consecutively Olmus is the capital Town of Moravia and Breslau of Silesia The Emperour Leopold declar'd Count Staremberg Chancellor of the Empire and Counsellor of his Privy-Council the 24th of January 1678. The Elector of Bavaria MAximilian Marie Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Prince and Elector of the Empire Great Steward of the Imperial House came into the World An. 1662. is Cath. His Arms are three Shields together the first Sable a Lyon crowned Or which belongs to the Palatinate the second is fusile in bend of 21 pieces Argent and Azure which belongs to Bavaria the third Gules an Imperial Globe Or which belongs to the Electorate Saltzburg has fâ—rmerly been the Capital of this Country at present it 's Munic a very strong place some call it in Latin Monachum others Monachium The Germans Munchen on the River Iser This Elector resides at Munic his Palace is one of the stateliest of Germany The great Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden having taken the Town and the Dukes Palace which he did not demolish by reason of its beauty possess'd himself of the Dukes sine Library where were rare Manuscripts which he caâ—ried into Sweden Queen Christian his Daughter gave liberally of them to some learned persons amongst others to the Sieur Vossius Canon of Windsor in England to the Sieur des Cartes and others The Castle of Schelesheim two leagues from Munic is a Country-house of Pleasure where his Electoral Highness goes ordinarily to take the diversion of Hunting His Buccâ—ntaurus passes amongst the curious for a Wonder of this Age. It is on the Lake of Staremberg which is a league over and six leagues in length It is held to be as beautiful and as large as that of Venice whereof I speak in its place This Elector raises eighteen or twenty thousand men and sometimes more his Revenue is considerable His Dukedom which is in upper Germany is divided into upper and lower Bavaria Munic Ingolstat and Freisingen are in the upper Freisingen has the title of Bishoprick and Ingolstat of University Ratisbone in the German Tongue Regensburg Passau Landshut Straubingen and many others are of the lower Bavaria The great Church of Munic is the Burial-place of its Dukes The Electorate the upper Palatinate and the County of Chamb were granted to the House of Bavaria and its Successors as long as the Male-line should hold accoâ—â—ing to the tenth Article of the Treaty of Munster In the last War between France and Germany the Elector Ferdinand Marie stood Neuter He dyed suddenly at Schelesheim at forty three years of Age. Pope Innocent the Eleventh celebrated Mass for the Soul of this deceased person and the Emperour caus'd the Funeral-Obsequies to be solemniz'd at Vienna in the Church of the discalceated Augustins The Empire has been divers times in the House of Bavaria Its Princes have married eight Daughters of Emperours and eleven Daughters of Kings and among the Daughters of this House six have married Emperours three have been married to Kings and two to Dolphins of France Three Electors are of the same
of late years amongst others he has settled in his House the Ducal Soveraignty of Prussia Moreover he has made a Communication of the Baltick Sea with the Ocean through the ministry of a French-man of Provence called Pierre des Chaises who undertook it and brought it to effect by the means of Channels and Rivers He fortified Berlin when it was believ'd to be lost This Prince came with his Forces before Ferbellin in the month of July of the year 1675. where he defeated the Swedes commanded by General Wrangel and notwithstanding the bloudy Fight on both sides his Electoral Highness cut in pieces about three thousand Swedes took a great number of Prisoners and took from the Swedish Army twenty two Standards and Ensigns eight pieces of Canon and the Baggage This Elector has got by conquest since of the King of Sweden Wolgast Wollin and Demmin The 29th of August An. 1679. he took from his Majesty of Sweden Anclan and the 30th he made there his Entrance with Madam the Electoress and the Electoral Prince His Highness passing in the Town alighted before the great Church where he heard the Sermon and assisted at the Te Deum which was there sung Thence his Highness went to the Guild-hall where he receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity from the Mayor in the Council-chamber and afterward of all the Burgesses before the Guild-hall and assur'd them that he would maintain them in all the Ecclesiastical and Politick Rights and Priviledges which they had enjoy'd under the Reigns of his Predecessors the ancient Dukes of Pomerania The whole was concluded by a magnificent Entertainment where all the Burgesses that came were admitted The 19th of December 1677. this Elector gave a publick Audience in his Camp before Stetin to the Envoy of the Cham of Tartary Precopites His Electoral Highness sate in a Seat of Crimson-Velvet trim'd with Gold on a Scaffold rais'd two steps cover'd with a rich Turky Carpet This Envoy had three Letters one from the Cham one from the Sultan Galga his eldest Son for his Electoral Highness and one for the Electoress consisting of Complements and offerings of Service The 26th of December of the same year the Town of Stetin Capital of Pomerania surrendred it self to his Electoral Highness after a vigorous resistance of six months siege The 24th of the same month the Capitulation was concluded and sign'd on both sides The 26th in the morning the Composition being made his Electoral Highness commanded two thousand men to possess themselves of the Gate of the Bastion c. His Electoral Highness granted the Town ten years Exemption and the liberty of Fishing that the Inhabitants might employ the publick Revenues in the reparation of the Ruines of the Churches and his Highness took on himself the reparation of the Cathedral The Elector gave to Baron Orflin Camp-Marshal of his Army the government of Pomerania as Count Wrangel enjoy'd it in his life-life-time and made Major-General Suering Governour of Stetin and Col. Barstel Commander under him The Siege of this place cost his Electoral Highness four hundred thousand Crowns in Powder Bullets and Shot according as some relate This Elector made his solemn Entry into the Town of Stetin the sixth of January 1678. on Twelf-day and after having heard the Sermon and receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity from the Magistrates and the People the Medals which his Highness had caus'd to be made were distributed to the People In the Evening he retir'd into his Camp whence he parted the eighth to return to Berlin where they gave him an August Reception This Elector was not satisfied with giving Orders for repairing Stetin with all possible diligence but moreover he would adde there new labours for rendring this place of Importance more strong than it was before The 22th of Octob. 1678. the Town of Stralzond surrendred it self by composition to his Electoral Highness who made there his publick Entrance the 30th of the same month The Elector granted the Inhabitants an Exemption for ten years from all the Impositions that they were wont to pay to capacitate them to reestablish themselves because of two thousand houses that there were in the Town before the Siege there remained not fifty which were not consum'd with the fire The 17th of November of the same year Gripswal incurr'd the same fate the Elector receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity of the Inhabitants the twentieth of the same month This Town has the title of University it 's half a league om the Sea The Swedes entred Germany forty or fifty years since assisted with the Protestants against the Catholicks At the beginning of the year 1679. all the Estates of the Elector of Brandenburg resolv'd to erect for this Prince a Statue of cast Copper in the Town of Berlin in memory of his great Victories This Prince has restor'd to the King of Sweden the places that he had taken from him Stetin is of the number which is the onely place that his Electoral Highness insisted on keeping because it had cost him so much and that it was the Seat of the ancient Dukes of Pomerania his Predecessors There is seen at his Court a Fugitive to whom the Father General of the Capuchins spake on a day in these words with Tears in his Eyes Religion has given you Honey and you return it back Gall. An. 1680. Vrslan Aga Envoy of the Cham of the Crim-Tarters presented the Electoress from the Cham's Wife a Shift of Egyptian-Cloath and a sort of Buskins embroidered with Gold such as are worn by the Sultans The third of Jan. 1681. Prince Loüis of Brandenburg fourth Son of the Elector of this name married the Princess Loüise onely Daughter of the late Prince Bogeslaus Radzevil she being 14 years of age a very rich Heiress This Princess possesses above 40 leagues of Land in Lithuania on the frontire of Livonia where she has two places well fortified The Elector Palatine CHarles Count Palatine of the Rhine Prince and Elector of the Empire Great Treasurer of the Imperial House was born 1651. Calvinist He bears quarterly in the first and fourth Sable a Lion Or crown'd of the same arm'd and langued Gules in the second and third Lozenge Argent and Azure of twenty one pieces and then a Mond Or in a Field Gules which belongs to the Electorate Heidelberg is his capital Town in the lower Palatinate on the Necar It was taken An. 1621. by the General of the Emperour Ferdinand the Second The Tower where the Clock is is very high and of a very excellent Architecture Manhein is the Fence of the whole Country there is a very fair Palace there where the Prince ordinarily resides Charles Loüis Father to the present Elector was admirably skill'd in the Civil Law he has been heard to dispute against publick Theses dedicated to his Electoral Highness with such a strength of Spirit that he has put to a stand both Defender and Master Books are no less worthy of a Prince