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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44752	A survay of the signorie of Venice, of her admired policy, and method of government, &c. with a cohortation to all Christian princes to resent her dangerous condition at present / by James Howell Esq.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3112; ESTC R14157	254,948	257

any sort subject to the secular Jurisdiction or he who foundeth a Church were worthy of so rude a chastisement as if he had committed som great Crime moreover that in the moneth of May last the Senat having regard to another Law made in the year 1536. wherby was prohibited the perpetuall alienation of Lay-mens possessions within the City and Signory of Venice to Ecclesiasticall persons without permission of the Senat under certain penalties instead of revoking that Law as their duty requir'd they had renew'd it and extended the penalty to all their Dominions as if it were lawfull for temporal Princes to ordain any thing for the exercising of any Jurisdiction or to dispose in any sort without the Ecclesiastics and particularly of the Pope of the goods of the Church specially of such goods as have bin given to the Church of persons spirituall and other places of devotion granted by the faithfull for remedy of their sins and discharge of their consciences That these Ordinances tending to the damnation of souls to public scandalls and also contrary to the Ecclesiasticall Liberty were of themselfs void and of no validity as furthermore he declar'd them to be such no man being oblig'd to observe them on the contrary that they who had made the Statutes or any like or they who had further'd them had incurr'd the Churches Censures and depriv'd themselfs of all such possessions as they held of the Church as also their estates and demains were subject to other penalties in such sort that they could not be absolv'd unlesse they revok'd all such Laws and re-establish'd all things in their former estate That therupon being plac'd in the Soveraign Throne and not being able to dissemble or indure these things he admonish'd the Republic to consider well the danger wherinto they had cast their souls upon this occasion and to seek remedy betimes otherwise in case of contumacy he commanded under pain of Excommunication latae sententiae that the afore sayed Lawes ancient and modern shold be abrogated That this Monitory shold be publish'd in all places throughout the Republic expecting from them an account herof if not upon notice had from his Nuntio he wold proceed to execution of the Penalties and to such other remedies that were meet remembring the reckoning that he was to give to God at the day of Judgment and that he could not in duty dissemble when the Authority of the See Apostolic was diminish'd Ecclesiasticall Liberty trod under foot the Holy Canons neglected the right of the Church and Clergy violated Of all which the charge lay upon him affirming that he was not induc'd hereunto for any worldly consideration for he desir'd nothing els but the glory to acquit himself of his Apostolicall function and as he intended not to usurp anything upon the secular Authority so he wold not permit the Ecclesiastic shold be diminish'd he concluded that if the Republic wold conform they wold deliver him from much pain which he endur'd in their behalf and they might still retain the Lands which they held of the Church That the best means wherby she might prevent the incommodities that might fall upon her from Infidells were to conserve the Church-men in their rights who watch in perpetuall prayers to God for her conservation The Senat with much maturity ponder'd these Breves and therupon sent to confer with their learnedst Counsellors in the Civill Lawes amongst whom they admitted Paul of Venice of the Order of the Servites an eminent Divine and Canonist with other Padouan Doctors to consult what answer they shold return the Pope The Republic also sent to consult other Doctors themost renowned of Europe for sound knowledge as Henry the VIII of England had don touching the legality of a divorce with Katherine of Aragon Having receav'd the judgments of the learnedst men in France and Spain specially of Giacomo Monochio President of Milan a man much cried up in those daies for learning the Senat fram'd the Answer to the Popes Monitory as followeth That with much grief and wonder they understood by the Letters of his Holines that their Laws observ'd carefully through so many Ages and never question'd by any of his Predecessors the revokement wherof wold shake the very Foundations of the Republic were reprehended as contrary to the See Apostolic and that they which made them having bin persons eminent for merit and well deserving of that See who are now in heaven were noted for Violaters of Ecclesiastic Liberty that according to the admonition of his Holines they had examined with much exactnesse their Laws Old and New but had not found anything which a Soveraign Prince might not have well ordain'd without any just offence to the Popes Authority it being a thing evidently belonging to a secular Prince to have regard what Companies are erected in h●…s Dominions as also to prevent the building of such Edifices as in time to com might be hurtfull to the public safety and though their State abounds with Churches and places of piety as much as any other yet when they saw it convenient they never refus'd to permit new Foundations themselfs contributing liberally therunto That in the Law against perpetuall alienation of lay goods unto Ecclesiastics the question being of things purely temporall they could not be tax'd to have don any thing contrary to the Canons or Decrees That if the Popes have power to forbid the Clergy to alienat any goods of the Church unto persons secular without leave Princes may do the same and take Order that the goods of seculars shall not be alienated to the Clergy without permission nor do the Ecclesiastics lose any thing bequeath'd unto them herby seeing they receave a price answerable in value to the immoveable adjoyning that it tends to the great prejudice not only of the temporall State but also of the spirituall to weaken the Forces of the Republic which by such alienations is depriv'd of necessary services and which in effect is a vangard or fortresse for all Christendom against Infidels That for these reasons the Senat could not perswade themselfs to have incurr'd any Censures since secular Princes have by Divine Law from which no human Law may derogat a power to establish Laws in things temporall as also that the admonitions of his Holines have here no place wher the question is not of any thing spirituall or any way trenching upon the Pap●…ll Authority much lesse yet could they beleeve that his Holines so ful of Piety and Religion wold persist without knowledge of the cause in his Comminations This was the substance of the Senat 's Answer remitting themselfs further to their Ambassador extraordinary Ther happen'd a businesse in Savoy about this time which might have scatr'd the Venetian being much of the same nature for Pope Paul hahaving notice that the Duke of Savoy had commanded the Bishop of Fossano to depart out of his Dominions the Pope being incens'd therat did so menace the Duke with Excommunication

Nor are ther any Women admitted to the Christning but only the Nurse who hath the charge of the Child The next day the Father sends to evry Goship a Marchpane and evry of them sendeth back som present or other to the Child according to the custom of the Citty Their greatest magnificence and charge is at the nativity of the Child for then they wonderfully exceed not only in the sumptuousnes of their Banquetts but also in rich furniture and adorning of their houses Likewise ther is no place on Earth wher the Funerall of the meanest Cittizen is solemnizd with greater Ceremony and Expence nor is ther any Countrey wher strangers find better entertainment and live in greater security The Plesures Recreations and Pastimes of the Gentlemen are of divers kinds among the rest they take great delight in Fowling making great matches who can kill most Fowle in a day turning still the end therof to banqueting and plesure They have Boats of purpose calld Fisolari so nam'd from Fisolo which is the name of the Bird they seek after In evry of these Boates they have six or eight servants apparrell'd in blewish or greenish garments suited as nere as they can to the colour of the Water These row the Boat up and down turning her suddenly to evry side as they are commanded by their Masters who sits close with his Peece or Bow wholy intentive upon his sport If he chance to misse when he shooteth the Fisolo divers under water and where he riseth again thither they turn their Boats with much nimblenes Divers Boates use to goe to this pastime which is very chargeable to the Gentlemen Upon their return they hang the Fowle they have killd out of the Window as Hunters do upon their Dores the heads of Beares Bores Hares taking it as a great reputation to kill more of these in a day than their fellowes can The Dukes of Venice have by ancient priviledges confirmd by sundry Emperours authority to create Erles and Knights and likewise Poetts Laureat with either of which dignities the Prince of Venice doth use to honor and reward persons of merit and virtu The Dukes have oftentimes matchd in the greatest and royallest Houses of Christendom which alliances with forren Princes growing suspected to the Commonwealth ther was a Law made in the yeer 1327. that the Duke might not marry the Daughter of any Stranger though by priviledg and adoption he had obtaind the right and title of a Venetian Gentleman And in the yeer 1383. it was ordaind that he shold not marry the Daughter Sister or Kinswoman of any forren Prince without the licence and consent of the great Councell The Dukes of Venice were wont in times passd to honor themselfs with high and Princely titles as calling themselfs Dukes of Venice Dalmatia and Croatia Lords of a half part and a quarter of the whole Roman Empire c. which vanity of titles was taken away in the yeer 1360. and utterly prohibited and this title only allowd I. D. By the grace of God Duke of Venice c. The common coin is stampd with the inscription of the Dukes name then in being but it is against the Law that any Duke shold ingrave imborder or paint his peculiar Coat of Armes in any Ensignes Banners Gallies Seats of Justice or public places of honor but only within the Precincts of the Palace Yet is He buried with all the Princely magnificence that may be Being dead His Bowells are taken out and His Body embalmd after which He is kept divers daies openly in the Hall attended by the Senators as sayed before His Herse being coverd over with a large Cloth of rich Gold and his Sword and Spurres lying athwart of the Herse He is wayted on to His Grave by all the Fraternities of the Cittie and the Churchmen with an innumerable company of Torches Next follow the Officers and chief Servants of the Dukes Familie all apparrelld in black with Hoods ore their heads and a long train Next them com the Senators all in Scarlett and grain signifying the Cittie of Venice to be ever free therfore ought not to mourn at the death of any Prince how virtuous soever With this pomp they passe to Saint Marks Place where the Beer is lifted up on high nine times that evry one might take his perpetuall farewell of Him Then is He carried to the Church and a solemn Funerall Oration is made for Him then the Senators return to the Palace and presently proceed to the Election of a new Duke which they cannot do by the ancient constitution till the other be first under ground and so Corruptio unius est generatio alterius Privat Instructions given to Cardinall F. when he was sent Nuntio to Venice IT being the main designe of this Discours to make the Reader perfectly acquainted with this Mayden Republic it will not be amisse to insert here the Instructions that were given by Pope Gregory to his Nuntio when he was employd upon an extraordinary Legation to the Signorie of Venice for it will conduce much to understand the stile of the Signorie and compliances that must be usd in that Court THe first Discours your Excellency shall hold with the Prince and Signorie of Venice shall ayme at two ends The one to expose unto his Serenity the plesure of his Holines therin declaring the ocasion and aymes of your Legation The other to expresse the particular affections you bear to that most excellent Signorie Touching the first it shall suffice that you follow the tenor and substance of your Commission having a speciall charge not to recede from it in any materiall point Touching the second it is referrd chiefly to your own election and judgment what to deliver for endearing your self to the Duke and Senators And in generall you may say that what employment soever his Holines had cast upon you you had esteemd it a high favor being entirely addicted to Him and the Holy Seat But that you were far more obligd to his Holines that He vouchsafd to employ you to his Serenity and that most illustrious Republic because you had a long desire to renew the memory of that servitude and high affections which the Arch-Bishop your Oncle had vowd to the Signorie to whom both your parentage and person will be ever well affected Besides you held it a great honor that you had to negotiat with a Prince so full of Majesty and Grandeur being the Head of the greatest the most florishing and best orderd Commonwealth in the world In so much that after the service of his Sanctitie you will preferr that of his Serenity before all other and that you will be ever ready to make it good in effect as well as in affection and turn your words to actions and that you stand there most ready to give proof therof Moreover that the bent of your endeavors and study will be to preserve and improve the paternall love which his Holines beares towards