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A31475 The ceremonies of the vacant see, or, A true relation of what passes at Rome upon the pope's death with the proceedings in the conclave, for the election of a new pope, according to the constitutions and ceremonials, as also the coronation and cavalcade / out of the French by J. Davies of Kidwelly.; Ceremoniale historico e politico. Part 5. English Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.; Davies, John, 1625-1693. 1671 (1671) Wing C1677; ESTC R17737 34,452 113

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to kiss his feet and then he is carried to the ordinary apartment of the Popes and the Cardinals retire to their Palaces The first thing that is broken about the Conclave is that part of the walls which shuts up the Lodg of the Benediction over the Portal of the Church There the principal Deacon-Cardinal goes and places the Cross and cries out to the people Vivat N. who is made Pope and hath assum'd the name of N. Some days after the Pope is crown'd in St. Peter's Church To that end the Cardinals the Embassadors of Princes and the principal Lords about the Court wait on him at his Apartment whence they accompany him to the Church and even into the Sacristy whether he is carried in a Chair There he is clad in his Pontifical habit and at his coming out thence he ascends a portable Theatre upon which stands his Pontifical Chair and is so carried up to the Altar cross the Church then ordinarily full of people assembled to see that Ceremony Nay in some parts of the Church there are Scaffolds set up for the principal Lords and Ladies of eminent quality who are desirous to be Spectators of that celebrious Action He is preceded by the Cardinals and Embassadors while all the people kneeling echo out their acclamations of Long live Pope N. Just at his coming out of the Sacristy and his going up the said Theatre is performed the Ceremony of setting fire to Flax fastned at the end of a stick and held up as high as his person with these words Sancte Pater sic transit gloria mundi Holy Father thus does the glory of the world pass away as an advertisement to him that he suffer not his heart to be surpriz'd with vanity at that Elevation while he sees all the people under his feet In the midst of the Church the same Ceremony is reiterated and is again performed a third time when he is come up to the Altar Being come down from the Theatre he says a Pontifical Mass whereat the most eminent amongst the Embassadors or Princes who had accompany'd him minister to him at the washing and presenting the Towel At which Mass there are some extraordinary prayers said as we find them in the Ceremonial The Mass ended he is carried to the Lodge of Benediction where in the Presence of all the people then assembled in the spacious place of S. Peters the Chief Deacon-Cardinal takes off his Mitre and sets on his head the three Crowns or Triple-Crown telling him that he is to consider himself from thenceforward as the Common Father of Kings and Princes for the maintenance of Peace amongst them That done he gives the Benediction and is afterwards carried back to his Apartment There is yet another thing he is to do after his Coronation which is to go and take possession of his Bishoprick which is St. John's of Lateran To do that he appoints what day he thinks fit The streets through which he is to pass are hung with Tapistry and there are some Triumphal Arches erected representing the most remarkable Actions of his Holiness's life And this is the order of the Cavalcade and Procession Four light Horsemen of the Guard go first to clear the way then come the Carriers of the Valises and Mails belonging to the Cardinals then the Judges and Fiscalls of the Covernour of Rome the Gentlemen of the Retinue of the Cardinals Then all the Princes and Roman Lords who ordinarily go confusedly to avoid contesting about precedence and have belonging to them a great number of Pages and Halberdiers sumptuously cloath'd Then follow the ordinary Gentlemen of the Pope's House in Scarlet Robes Then the white Gennets presented every year by the King of Spain by way of Homage for the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily are led one after another having their Harness of Crimson-Velvet with fringes of gold and bosses of silver then come the white Mules and three Litters one of Scarlet and the others of Crimson-Velvet both within and without and gold fringes Then the Pope's Trumpeters his Taylor carrying his Valise and the ten Officers of the Palace the Consistorial Advocates in Garments of a violet-colour furr'd with Ermine about the neck all the honorary Camerarii in violet Cassocks and scarlet Cloaks four of whom carry at the end of a staffe every one of them a Hat of the Pope of Crimson Velvet with fringes of gold Then follow several Roman Gentlemen who have been Conservators that is to say Consuls in their Garments and Caps of black Velvet and after them the Apostolical Prelates in black Garments The Auditors of the Rota in their ordinary habit the Master of the Sacred Palace who is always a Jacobin-Frier the Embassador of Bologna and Ferrara the Captains of the several Quarters of Rome richly clad and the principal of them whom they call their Prior is in a Garment of Cloth of Gold marching between the two Chancellors of the Roman people Then the three Conservators of Rome in Vests of Cloth of Gold and Caps of black Velvet and their Horse-cloathes with fringes of Gold On their left hand do ordinarily march the Chiefs of the houses of the Ursini's and the Col●●●…i's or one of them when they cannot agree about precedence Then come the Embassadors and after them the Cross-Bearer and with the Cross of his Holiness the four Masters of the Ceremonies with red Cassocks and violet Cloaks fourscore Estaffiers of the Pope's for he is oblig'd at his coming to the Papacy to take all the most ancient Standers among the Estaffiers of the Cardinals and Embassadors of Crowns whom they call Palfreniers to distinguish them from the Estaffiers of persons of a lower rank as in France they who are called Lacqueys when related to persons of of ordinary Quality are named Valets de pied when they belong to Royal persons and Princes Then follows the Governour of Rome and after him the Pope's Pages when he has any follow afoot and bare-headed Next them immediately is conducted the Pope himself in a close Litter having on each side of him the two grand Overseers of the High-ways clad in black on Horseback and bare-headed and all those who march between the Pope's Cross and his Holiness what condition or quality soever they be of are oblig'd to be uncover'd After his Holiness follow all the Cardinals mounted on their Mules the Patriarchs Arch-Bishops Bishops and other Prelates two and two every one according to their Quality and the whole Pomp is brought up and clos'd by the two Companies of the light Horsemen of his Holiness's Guard armed cap-a-pied Being come to St. John of Lateran's the Pope puts off his ordinary Habit and puts on the Mitre and Hood and takes up his Seat in a Throne which is prepar'd for him in the entrance of the Church where the Canons of it come and kiss his feet Then he goes to the Church-door which he finds shut They give him the Key to open it Te