and Benefits By his Victory shewing himself their King And by his Clemency their Father He had his Court in his Camp His Palaces In his Tents And his Shows In his Triumphs He had Children in lawful Wedlock Of which he was afterwards deprived Lest if he should leave behind him a greater than Himself He himself should not be the greatest But if a less his race should degenerate His Religion was equal to his Valour Nor did he sight less for the next World Than for this Hence were Monasteries and Hospitals Built at Warsaw The Temples of the Calvinists Destroyed in Lithuania The Socinians driven out of the Kingdom That none might have Casimir For their King Who would not have Christ For their God The Senate from Various Sects Was reduced to the Communion Of the Catholick Faith That they might obey the Laws of the Church Who made Laws for the People Hence was the famous Title of ORTHODOX Given him by Alexander the Seventh Finally having out-gone The highest pitch of Humane Glory When he could do nothing more illustrious He willingly laid down his Crown In the Year M. DC LXVIII And then those Tears Which his Reign had never extorted from any Flow'd from the Eyes of all Who Bewailed the Departure of their King As it were the Death of their Father When he had spent the residue of his Life in the Offices of Piety At length hearing of the loss of Caminiec That he might not out-live so great a Calamity Being wounded with the Love of his Country He dyed The XVII of the Calends of January M. DC LXXII His Royal Heart he left to the Monks of This Monastery Of which he had been Abbot As a Pledge of his Love Which they lamenting inclosed In this Tomb. In one of the Chapels behind the Ouire you may further observe two Tombs of Marble belonging to two of the House of Duglas one of the principal Families in Scotland Having seen these things there remains nothing more of singular note in the Church On Festival Days the divine Office is here Celebrated with great Pomp and Majesty and there is scarce any Company of Regulars who perform better The Order of St. Benet hath been in the Possession of this House ever since it was first Founded by King Childebert And the Church according to the opinion of some Historians stands in the same place where was formerly a Temple dedicated to the Goddess Isis whose Statue remain'd here till the last Age at which time an old Womâ—n being seen saying her Prayers before it it was by order of the Superiours removed out of the Church and broken to pieces In the inward parts of this Convent the Refectory is worth seeing which is great and one of the fairest of the Kingdom It hath lights on both sides The Glass of which is very handsome tho' old At the end of this Room is a Stair-case that leads up to the great Dortor which Stair-case is a hardy piece of Building And you must not neglect to visit the Chapel of our Lady behind which is something of the same design with the Holy Chapel at the Palais Report says That both were built by the same Architect who lies buryed here But without tarrying long in viewing thesâ— things you ought to go to the Library which takes up all the upper Room of that Arm of the Cloister next the Church It is in truth none of the fullest but in recompence of that all the Books are the choicest and of the best Editions that can be met with In the last Age when there was not such plenty of Libraries as at present this here was esteemed the principal Library of Paris And at this day if it doth not continue all out of the same reputation for Printed Books yet for Manuscripts none will dispute the precedency of which we can no where meet with so great a Quantity nor such Choice ones unless it be in the King's Library These Manuscripts are kept at the further end in a little Chamber by themselves which Room is full of them from the top to the bottom Here are some of all Subjects but chiefly of Religion by means of which great Lights several faults of Printers and ill Copiers have been discovered and amended In a little Press in the great Library they preserve several Volumes more choice and rare than the rest amongst which is one called The Psalter of St. Germain it being supposed to have been used by that Saint who lived about the Year 560. in the Reign of Childebert King of France and Justinian Emperor in the East Formerly this Book was kept in the Sacristy among the Reliques but in regard it was so often desired to be seen by curious persons it was removed hither It is written in Letters of Gold and Silver upon a Purple coloured Velom and contains all the Psalms of David There is also in the same place a very ancient Missal which according to all appearance is more than 900. Years old Certain Tablets of the Antients made of small Boards of Cedar with a kind of Wax or Varnish finely spread over them upon which they writ with their Stile or Steel Bodkin and several other singularities of such sort which deserve to be considered above all one great Volume full of Attestations of the Belief of several Greek Bishops touching Transubstantiation Which Attestations the Learned M. Arnauld with much pains procured from Constantinople by the means of Monsieur de Nointel Ambassador from France to the Port for Authorities against those of the pretended Reformed Religion who maintained that the Greek Church was of their Opinion Having said thus much of the Library the Reader will not be displeas'd if I give some account of those Excellent Works which the Learned Monks of this House have lately publisht of which the most useful and most considerable is St. Augustin's Works which they have interpreted and corrected according to the most antient and authentique Manuscripts in all the Libraries in Europe of which they have had an account We have already received five great Volumes to which the publick have given an universal applause and they are continually employ'd about publishing the rest with the same Purity One may justly say That there has not been any thing undertaken in this Age of greater importance and advantage to Religion in regard all the Disputes that of late Years have happen'd among Divines on the subject of Grace have risen from the different interpretation of that Father The Church is obl ged to these Learned Monks who deserve no less Glory for their Pains than they have had Trouble in the undertaking before they could bring the Work to this Condition Father Dom Luc d'Achery a Monk of this House hath publisht the Spicilegium and hath continued it to the Thirteenth Volume in Quarto in which he hath collected together several antient Pieces hitherto hid in the Libraries of his Order and which had been lost in oblivion
at present that Custom is alter'd It ought to be observ'd that the famous Erasmus of Roterdam did for some time dwell in this Colledge Next to this Quarter we ought to go into the Rüe Saint Jacques which Street begins at the Little Châtelet at the end of the Petit Pont. The Little CHATELET THis is a kind of antient Fortress composed of a great mass of Buildings open in the middle and served formerly as one of the Town-Gates as did also the great Châtelet this was when Paris had no greater Extent than the Isle of the Palais This Building was repair'd by King Robert under whom France enjoy'd a Peace of two and forty years during which that good Prince had convenient time to amass a very great Treasure which he deposited in this Fortress notwithstanding the great Bounties which he bestowed upon Churches and his great Charities with which he relieved the Poor Some Antiquaries will not allow this place to be so Antient but say that it was Built by Aubriot Provost of Paris the same person who Built the Bastille and that he did it to restrain the Insolences of the Scholars of the University who often used to make Invasions on the Townsmen and thereby occasioned very great Disorders THE RUE SAINT JACQUES THis Street is almost all inhabited by Booksellers by reason of the Neighbouring University The first thing of Note that you observe here is The Church of Saint Severin which is very Antient and one may think so in regard the Patron himself was the Founder Who lived in the Reign of Clovis and was by him invited out of Savoy where he was at that time a Hermite to come into France and cure him of a grievous Fever with which that King was afflicted and was at last cured through the Prayers of this Holy Man During his abode at Paris he dwelt in this place at that time very solitary where there had been already built a small Chappel in a Wood Dedicated to St. Clement Having remain'd here some time he resolved to return to his former dwelling but as he past by Château-Landon a small Village in Gatinois he met with two Priests who dwelt there in the reputation of Sanctity he stopt his Journey and after two years abode with them he dyed there Childebert caused a Church to be built in the same place which is at present an Abby of St. Augustine's Order of the Congregation of St. Geneviéve It is not well known when this Parish-Church was built but according to Appearance it is not above 200. years old There is nothing to be seen in it of Curiosity it being but an old Gothick Building not very regular and very dark in some places The great Altar was finisht but a while ago it is composed of eight small Marble Pillars disposed in form of a Semi-Circle which support a Dome cut in half as it were with some Ornaments of Brass gilt which shew very handsomly it is the Workmanship of Monsieur le Brun. In the Church-Yard the side next the Church is raised a Tomb upon which in a demicumbent Posture is the Figure of a Young Lord of East-Friseland who dyed here being a Scholar of this University His Name was d'Embda The Tomb was built by his Mother's Order a Lady extraordinarily afflicted at his Death he being her only Son and the Presumptive Heir of Friseland The two Epitaphs on his Monument are as follow Nobilitate generis Comitum Orientalis Phrisiae animi corporisque doâ—ibus praeclaro D. Ennoni de Embda Civitatis Embdensis Praeposito ac electo Satrapae propter certam hujus corporis resurrecturi spem ac in amoris sinceri testimonium avia materque pia unico suo filio qui bic ex studiorum â—ursu patriae ac amicis omnibus magno cum luctu anno aetatis suae XXIII morte praereptus est hoc monumentum statuerunt ANNO DOMINI 1545. 18 JULII To Enno d'Embda of the Noble Family of the Earls of East-â—riseland and of a beautiful Mind and Body Provost of the City of Embden and Chief Magistrate elect in sure hope of the Resurrection of the Body and in Testimony of their sincere Love his Grand-Mother and Mother to their only Son who was here snatch'd by Death from his Studies to the great Grief of his Country and Friends in the XXIII Year of his Age erected this Monument In the Year of our LORD 1545. 18. of July On the other side of the Tomb are these Verses Quid fuerint nostra haec recubans commonstrat imago Quid sim quam teneo putrida calva docet Peccati hanc poenam nobis ingenuere parentes Cujus sed Christus solvere vincela venit Hunc miht viventi spes qui fuit morienti Aeternam corpus quale habet ille dabit Peccati fidei Christique hinc perspice vires Vt te mortisices vivisicetque Deus What once I was this Image doth disclose And what I am the Carcase under shews This said reward of Sin our Parents gave But our deliverance from Christ we have He 's now my Hope when dead as when alive A Body Glorious like his own he 'll give Of Sin Faith Christ this Tomb the force displays Who mortifies himself him God will raise On the other side of the Rüe Saint Jacques as you enter into the Rüe Galande which Street butts upon the former there stands a very antient Church named Saint Julien le Pauvre which doubtless was formerly an Hospital Gregory of Tours in the ninth Book and the ninth Chapter of his Works mentions it and tells us That coming to Paris on certain private affairs he Lodged in this place at such time as they had taken a Notorious Cheat who pretended he had brought from Spain certain precious Reliques among others some of St. Vincent and St. Felix with which no doubt he would have abused the Credulity of the Parisians But when his pretended Reliques came to be examined they found in his Bag nothing but the Roots of divers Plants the Teeth of Moles the Bones of Mice with the Fat and Claws of Bears Which things being apprehended to serve only for some Magical use or other they were all thrown into the River The Cheat himself was committed close Prisoner and put in Chains according to the Custom of those times This happen'd in the Reign of Chilperic who was unhappily slain just entering into his Palace at Chelles as he return'd from Hunting about the Year Five hundred Eighty four A little further on in the Rüe Saint Jacques is The Church of Saint Yves built in the year 1347. at the Charge and Care of a â—amous Confraternity of Bretons at that time residing at Paris and who caused Divine Service to be there Celebrated daily by certain Ecclesiasticks whom they hired On the side of this Chappel lyes The Rüe des Noïers which hath been of late enlarged and thereby render'd much more commodious than formerly The MATHURINS THE Convent of these
Frontiers of his Kingdom especially in Italy he left the Work to be done by his Son Henry the Second who neglected or at least had not a Conveniency of doing it The Professors all the while read their Lectures in the Colledge of Cambray and remain'd in this Condition till under the Reign of Henry the Great who in the Year 1609. on the 23. of November sent the Cardinal du Perron the Duke of Suilly first Minister the President de Thou and a Counsellor of Parliament named Monsieur Gillot to view the Situation of the place and if there was sufficient Room to raise the Building projected It should have been composed of a main Front and on each Hand two Wings with a Court in the midst of which should have been a Fountain The lower Rooms were designed for Schools and the first Story on one side for the Royal Library which was then at Fountainbleau and is at present kept in the Rué Vivien The Professors also should there have had their Lodgings which would have been of great advantage but these excellent Projects were never executed by reason of the Tragick Death of that great King of whom France was rob'd in a time when she least expected it Queen Mary of Medieis his Illustrious Wife to second the Zeal of the King her Husband resolved to finish what he had begun and to that purpose she her self with her Son Lewis XIII at that time but nine Years old went to the place The Young King laid the first Stone and the Work was carried on with fervency but in the end it was once again broke off and remains as we see it having never been thought of to be continued from that time to this There is but one side finisht and that stands in the same place where formerly stood the Colledge called de Treguier The Professors are paid by the King and are a kind of Body distinct from the University to which however they are subject They enjoy the same Priviledges with the Officers of the King's Household and the Rector of the University is not permitted to dispose their places nor to prohibit their Exercises which he may do to all other Professors They have always been persons of singular Note and extraordinary Merit The most Famous have been in the Greek Tongue Adrian Turnebe Native of Andeli in Normandy who dyed in the Year 1565 being but Fifty three Years of Age. Denis Lambin succeeded him and hath left behind him many excellent Works In the Hebrew Tongue Francis Vatable originally of Picardy he hath writ several Commentaries upon divers Authors much esteem'd Gilbert Genebrard Doctor in Divinity of the Order of St. Bennet and Prior of St. Denis de la Chartre near the Pont Nostre-Dame He was Elected Arch-Bishop of Aix in Provence and dyed in March 1597. There are extant several Works of his the Catalogue of which are at the end of the Book Entituled La Liturgie Sainte The formerly mentioned Calignon was another Professor here for this Tongue he hath composed a Grammar which is much esteemed Ralph Baines an English-man who writ three Books of Commentaries on Solomon according to the Hebrew Phrase which he Dedicated to Henry the Second In the Mathematicks there have been Oronce Finé Native of the Town of Briançon in Dauphiné and Paschal du Hamel who succeeded him In the Latin Eloquence Barthelemy Latomus and John Passerat The two most famous among those who have taught Philosophy here were Francis Vicomereat originally of Verona and Peter de la Ramée of Cuth in Vermandois who lived about the Year 1568. Finally those who have most excelled in Physick are Vidus Vidius Jacques Silius of Amiens and John Rioland These are those whose Names are of greatest Note on the account of the Learned Works which they have left behind them One can hardly find out any one Colledge that has produced more Learned Men than this although it be of no great Antiquity Over against this last mentioned Colledge is The Commandery of St. John de Latran which depends on the Order of Malta It is a great piece of Ground full of Houses ill built in which lodge all sorts of Workmen not Masters who may here manage their several Trades without being disturb'd by the Jurates of the City That which is here worth seeing is the Tomb of Monsieur de Souvré this is he who dyed Grand Prior of France and who built some years before his Death that fine House at the Temple While he was only Commander of St. John de Latran he caused this Tomb to be raised in the Church It is all of Marble his Effigies lying upon a great Urne of the same accompanied with two Terms rising out of their Guénes which are Channell'd and very well wrought All this Monument is exactly Beautiful and of a very singular Design It is the Work of Monsieur Anguerre one of the ablest Sculptors that France ever produced The Body of Monsieur de Souvré is not interr'd in this place but only his Heart There is nothing else remarkable The Church in which this Monument is Erected is very antient and ill built As you leave this place and go on in the Ruë Saint Jacques you come to The Colledge du Plessis which was formerly call'd the Colledge of St. Martin by reason that its first Founder Geoffrey du Plessis Secretary to Pope John XXII had a very great Devotion to that Saint But the Cardinal de Richelieu to Eternize the Founder's Memory restored it to his Name and after he had Rebuilt it magnificently he caused it to be called The Colledge du Plessis de Richelieu This Colledge hath the best contrived and handsomest Lodgings of all the University and is also the fullest of Pensioners and Scholars The Doctors of the Sorbonne have the Direction of this Colledge and place the Principal and Regents A little higher in the Street is The Jesuits Colledge OVer the Gate you read this fair Inscription COLLEGIUM LUDOVICI MAGNI The Colledge of Lewis the Great It was formerly called the Colledge of Clermont being built for the Scholars of that Town in imitation of some other Colledges of the University In the last Age Messire Guillaume Duprat Bishop of Clermont being at the Council of Trent on behalf of this Kingdom of France contracted there a particular Friendship with certain Fathers Jesuits whom he met with at that Assembly he conceived so high an esteem of their Learning and Piety that at his return he brought them with him into France to instruct our Youth in humane Learning but more especially in the Purity of the Romish Religion which at that time was disturb'd with the Heresie of Luther and Calvin This Prelate brought in his Company to Paris Father Paquier Broüet with several others of that Society whom so long as he lived he entertained in his own House but at his Death left them by his Testament Three thousand Livres of Rent and a very considerable