knowledg in the affaires of the world all the prerogatives peculiar to a Gentleman well bred He is of Ferrara of the ancient and noble family of the Counts Rossetti now Marquisses who abounding more in vertue than yeares by the glorious Pope Vrban the eighth the lover of the learned and vertuous was sent as an Apostolicall Minister into the Kingdom of England to that Queen There he did all he could for the advantage and good of the Catholique Religion and ran there great dangers in those persecutions as more plainly may appear by a letter to him of the 13th of July 1643. from his Eminence Cardinall Francis Barberino nephew to Vrban in order to his preferment of the following tenor The troubles of our Countrey and of Christendome will have a short truce that I among so many disgusts may have some time to breath seeing your Eminences great labours rewardâ—d with the Purple God be pleased with the tranquillity of Italy to open to the way that by your continuall paines he may grant the same to all of the Catholique Religion and that by your endeavours your toylings and dangers not unknown to the world it may again flourish in the land of great Brittaine to the end this dâ—gnity deserved so well by you may not be deprived of the happy effects your Eminence hath desired and cooperated on your part for the publique good And I humbly Kiss your hands c. Your Eminences most humble and most affectionate Servant Cardinall Barberino The end of the fourth Booke The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Fifth Book The Argument THE Queen advances from Faenza to Forli Cesena and Rimini accompanied by the foresaid Cardinall Legat of Romagna On the confines of the state of Urbin She is met by that Vice-Legate and Cardinall Legate and enters Pesaro where she is treated and royally entertained She passes from Fano and Ancona She arrives at the holy house of Loretto and consecrates devoutly her Scepter and Crown to that glorious Virgin She goes to Macerata thence to Tolentino and afterwards to Camerino She comes to Foligno goes to Assisi there visits the famous temple of Saint Francis and is splendidly entertained by Cardinall Rondinino then returnes to Foligno THe foresaid Cardinall Rossettti taking leave of the Queen Signior Fulvius Petrocci da Arieti Governour of Forli appeared with a numerous retinue of Gentlemen of Romagna come expresly with excessive rich cloaths and fine liveries to honour their Legate and augment the splendour of this Princesses reception The foresaid Prelate when he had humbly waited on her Majesty being very well satisfied with the courteous correspondence he found in the Queen went before to Forli whence advancing some miles the said Legate with the train not onely of six Coaches of his own full of Gentlemen of his family with which he waited on her in all his Legation but likewise came with 25 more with 6 horses apeice set forth by the Gentlemen of the Province who flockt to attend him in her first reception The gate without and within as likewise the walls though weak in that City were garnished with souldiers partly divided into squadrons and partly ranked in files The Magistrate there called il numero met her at the entrance with a troupe of the City and having presented her with their dutifull respects waited on her to the place very regularly beautified with lights The Ornament of the fire with which was represented the Majesty of so great a Princess by so much the more spread its light with greater splendour by how much the more the night was the darker Hieroglyphicks disposed in various manners were seen there to flame alluding to the joy of the people for her fortunate arrivall The Queen being enterd her lodgings and breathing there a little was invited to honour an Academy with her presence in which severall compositions in Italian and Latine were recited among which took greatly a discourse made by Signior Ridolfus his Eminences Nephew and an Ode of Pindarus by Signior Lodovick Tingoli a Person as conspicuous for his birth as famous for the vertuous and rare qualities of his minde and who is indeed the cheife ornament of Rimini his Countrey with other Compositions of the most esteem'd Poets of the Province Her Majesty supp'd privately and having the next morning heard Mass in the Dome din'd in publique with the said Cardinall Legate with the order observed in other places The foresaid Signior Ridolphus was her Cup-bearer the Governors brother the Sewer twelve principall Gentlemen of the City assisting at the service of the table The Town is seated in an open Countrey very fertile and pleasant inhabited by people of Courage and Spirit who retain the martiall nature of their first founders After dinner her Majesty departed from Forli carrying with her in his Holinesses Coach the Cardinall Legat being attended by all the train She passed the famous Rubicon but with greater glory than Caesar since he advanced thither to seize on the liberty of his Countrey and she after the renouncing of her paternall Kingdome came thither to arrive to the Empire of Christ Her Majesty continued her journey towards Cesena passing through Forlimpopoli a little Town where her Majesty was welcomed by the squadrons of foot being received between the souldiers standing in rowes through all the Countrey as she went In approaching to Cesena she found set in array diverse Batalions of foot was met by Signior Richard Hanniball Romano the Governour accompanied with many Gentlemen a horseback who alighting did complement the Queen and congratulate her arrivall The same thing was done by the cheif Standard-bearer Count Joseph Fantaguzzi with the Magistrate who all rode together before her to her lodging prepared in the palace of Count Lelius Roverelli a noble ancient family and cheif of that City where some Gentlemen in armour tilted one against another in the place Here her Majesty supp't privâ—tely and because it was late went to her repose without other entertainment Cesena is one of the chiefest Cities in Romagna of very great commerce and populous enough in regard of its bigness It lies at the foot of a mountaine the lower part of which is washt by the river Savius It hath a Castle on the hill with some fair and strong old fashion towers built long agoe by the Emperour Frederick the Second On the 2. of December the Queen went out of Cesena on horseback accompanied by the Legate who was likewise mounted on a Neopolitan courser of an Ermine colour which being observed by the Queen for his goodness and she seeming to like him extreamly was presented her by him He had likewise given her in Forli two globes of silver the one representing the earth and the other the sphaere most diligently engraven and supported by two statues of silver done by Algarbi of great value My Lord
THE HISTORY OF THE Sacred and Royal Majesty OF CHRISTINA ALESSANDRA QUEEN OF SWEDLAND With the Reasons of her late Conversion to the Roman Catholique Religion As also a Relation of the severall entertainments given her by divers Princes in her Journey to Rome with her magnificent Reception into that City LONDON Printed for T. W. and are to be sold at the Signe of the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard 1658. To the glory of the Age and Compendium of Honour and Nobility her Grace the Dutchess of RICHMOND and LENOX May it please your Grace THE golden-Apple on which was this Inscription be it given to the fairest Paris presented to Venus as surpassing the others in beauty The same condition is annexed to this History which belonging of right to the fairest most justly is presented to your Grace as surpassing all others in the beauty of the body and mind And whom should a Queen so renown'd for her vertues and eminent qualities make her addresses to if not to your Grace who like the glorious Sun among the lesser lights out-shines all other Ladies with the rayes of your Graces rare vertues and admirable parts These reflections Madam invited this great Princess to recurre to your Grace who like the River Nilus disdains to mix the waters she brings from a Paradise with any other streame Since the offering then Madam is no waies unworthy of your Graces noble Altar where Hecatombs are only to be sacrificed be pleased not to lessen it in your Graces esteem because presented by Madam Your Graces most humble and most devoted Servant IOHN BURBERY TO THE READER IN the Catastrophe of the accidents which still are reducing this Age into a large abridgment of all that are past the resolutions and talents of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland have an eminent place That a Queen by birth of a spirit so sublime and the Epilogue of all vertues should depose her Scepter voluntarily and fall at the feet of the Vicar of Christ to receive there in his blessings a crown of Paradise in such a resolution as too much surpasses the capacity of man and not only custome The World peradventure hath not seen any other that to purchase the true Faith hath abandoned his own Kingdoms and to be enriched with the Jewels of Heaven hath divested himself of the treasures of the earth I therefore have begun to compose a particular History of it and hitherto have gone on with delight for it contains not only a great Princesses rare qualities and Prerogatives but likewise the entertainments she hath till now received of the greatest Princes and Monarchs of Christendom so as it may truely be said Christina the great in her resolutions and receptions could meet with nothing equall to her great desert but the mind and piety of a Philip and an Alexander Some perhaps may think I have employed my Pen in certain little things not suitable to the Majesty of the History but let them remember the knowledge of individuums and the memories of particular men provided they deserved well of fame encrease still in credit and delight with Posterity In case they persist in the rigour of their scruples they will easily be satisfied if they read alone that part which pleases them most Farewell WE the Reformers of the study at Padoua having seen by the testimony of our Secretary that in the book intituled the History of the sacred Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland by Count Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato printed in quarto in Rome there is nothing repugnant to good manners nor the interests of Princes grant licence to Francis Baba to print it he observing the Laws in this case and presenting a Copy for the publick Library of Venice and another for that of Padoua In Witness whereof c. Anno Domini the 24. of May 1656. John Donado Reformer Andrew Pisani Procurator and Reformer FRANCIS VERDIZZOTTI SECRETARY AN INDEX Of the most remarkable things contained in this present HISTORY A DOn Antonio Pimentell goes into Swedland by order of his Catholique Majesty Advertisments given by the Queen to the new King of Swedland The affliction of the people for the Queens renouncing her Kingdoms The arrivall of the Queen of Swedland in Hambourg The arrivall of the Queen of Swedland in Antwerp The applauses with which she is received in Flandres The Arch Duke sends to complement the Queen and goes afterwards thither in Person Don Antonio Pimentel extraordinary Embassadour of his Catholique Majestie with the Queen of Swedland The assumption of Cardinall Fabius Chigi to the Papacie and the generall applauses for his exaltation The Marquis of Anspach visits her Majesty Auspurge and its description The absolution given her Majesty by my Lord Holstenius The Marquis Andreasi complements the Queen in the name of the Duke of Mantoua The arrivall of the Queen in Rome who went presently to kâ—ss his Holinesses feet The affability of the Queen Academies instituted by her Majesty in her own Palace The answer of Don Antonio Pimentel to the Queen B. THe Briefs of his Holiness consigned to my Lord Holstenius The Briefs for the Prince of Trent The Brief for the Arch-Duke of Inspruch The Brief of his Holiness to the Queen of Swedland The Brief of his Holiness to the Queen presented to her by the Nuntii at her entrance into the Churches Dominions The Brief of his Holiness to the Cardinall Legates a Latere Count Bucquoy complements the Queen in the name of his Catholick Majesty C. CHristina succeeds in the Kingdom of Swedland Her education and admirable wit She learns divers Languages makes great progress in learning begins to assist at the Councell and afterwards takes upon her the Government She herself administers the affairs and is beloved and feared She is a great lover of vertue despises all delicacie She makes War and then Peace with the King of Denmark She is respected by all the Princes of the World She hath divers inspirations She discovers the errours of the Lutherans The reasons which move her to the knowledge of the truth With her own vertue she makes herself capable of the truth She examins the life and condition of Luther She perceives the falsitie and lies spread by him She fortifies herself with some important examples She abhors heresie She thinks to turn Catholick She imparts her designe to Don Antonio Pimentel She trusts wholy in God She resolves to quit her Kingdoms Her generous Act. She goes privately to see Bruxels The ceremonies in receiving the Queen in the Church The Cavaliers of Verona which met her Majestie The Cavalcata of the Cardinal Legates in their going to Olgiata The complements of several Gentlemen to the Queen at the Vineyard of Pope Julius The Castle of St. Angelo is seen by the Queen The Colledge of Sapienza The Church of the Greeks The Roman Colledge The rare things in the said Roman Colledge The Comedy intituled the Triumph of piety acted in the Palace of the
promoted by a Genius as noble as generous which made him desirous of glory and ambitious of greatness Prudence was still his companion eloquence and sagacity accompanying his discourses vivacity and affability his treaties and resolution and courage his enterprizes In great affairs he wanted not Providence readinesse and Constancy and the force of his wit and strength of his mind was still most resplendent in difficulties he nobly contemning the Lawrells and Palms which were not augmented by labours and water'd with pains Before the Battell he appear'd not so terrible and dreadfull as gentle mild and mercifull when he had obtain'd the victory being undaunted in dangers vigilant in occasions and wife in each affair A Prince in fine of great understanding and knowledge in all things He was followed with a greater affection and applause than any Commander before him He gave satisfaction to all with his praises hopes or mildnesse and especially his sincerity actions of vertue being written by him with indeleble Characters He never forgat services whether little or great but rewarded and valu'd them He was very wittie in his sayings and most affable in company still treating and speaking to all without pride and frequently asking when he pass'd by his People and Souldiers how they did what they would and desired To his Table and Court while he was in the field he admitted all Gentlemen and private Commanders he usually saying a table is the torment of a secret and a net to catch friendship and affection He could not abide ceremonies and complements affected and to those unacquainted with his Genius hee said or caused others to say they should reserve their Courtship for the Queens minds of honour for he was in the field to teach how to fight and not to lead a dance He was most severe in punishing the Souldiers offences and exact in providing for the peoples security He like a true souldier to give an essay of the greatness of his mind undertook not any enterprize which was without danger he that exhorted him to a care of his life acquiring his displeasure It seem'd to him undecent for a Prince of a warlike constitution to have the thoughts of death he thinking the counsell proceeded from fear which advis'd him to take heed of himself He called him happy that dy'd in his trade the volunteer death taking pay under him that feareth him not His designs were alwaies great but greater after the battell of Lipswick he aspiring to the Empire of Germany Even the Ottoman power began to reflect on the fortune and valour of this King who used to say he wondred the Ancients so easily obtain'd their victories and those of his time with such difficulty to whom when represented it proceeded from the difference in wâ—aring and now the expugnations of Cities and fortresses are harder he reply'd he did not value the difference of arms nor of times but that of the courage That the world was the same each age had it's Mines and Countermines offences and defences and that he could war like Alexander be victorious with Hanibal and equall Caesars Progresses who had the mind of Alexander the skilfulnesse of Hanibal and Caesars undauntednesse In the space of two years he drew to his party either by the force of arms or the motives of his power and reputation of Fortresses Cities and wall'd Town to the number of a hundred and ninety He won many battels in the field but crown'd with that of Lipswick his triumph having conquer'd the most experienc'd and most fortunate Commander of his age and an Army old in battels He passed the Seas and enter'd into Germany with a very little Army but as a small snowball rowling down a high Mountain becomes a great globe so he passing from one enterprise to another could number at his death above 100000 foot and 80000 horse which made up ten Armies together with other bodies all under his colours Nothing but the heresy of Luther eclipsed his high qualities who if he had follow'd the steps of his Ancestors not swerving from the path of the true faith would have been the Heroe of Kings He left no other Progeny than Christina his only Daughter born on the 16. of December in the year 1626 a Princesse of so noble enendowments and so elevated a spirit that 't is not any wonder if she representing in part the living image of her great Fathers vertues give cause to believe Gustavus yet remaines to the world in his specie although not in his individuo Now as their good education who are to have succession in Kingdoms and principalities is the chiefest foundation of the peoples felicity this Princesse us'd a diligent manuring of her mind bequeathing her self to the exercises of vertue to be afterwards able to outstrip with her years the duty of age 'T was therefore observ'd that from the first moments as it were of her life and understanding she began though a child to procure the enlightning of her intellect a command ore her reason limits to her will a curb to her affections a rule to her actions and strength â—o her body She was not seven years old when instructed in the elements of the Latin tongue and letters and having now discover'd what promise she could make to her self in the Progresses of her studies by the quicknesse of her spirit and most singular judgement she fell to the cultivating her mind with the most sublime sciences as those which administer the true lights not to erre in the Pilgrimage of the world and the gaining of Heaven In her minority five Ministers and Officers of the Crown which were the most conspicuous had the government of the Kingdom to wit the great Admirall bastar'd Brother co Gustavus her Father the great Chancellour Axellius Oxestern the great President Gabriel Oxestern the great Constable James of the Garde and the great Treasurer another Gabriel Oxestern In the mean time to her other applications aforesaid she added the instructing of her self in the knowledge of different tongues to make her self the fitter and more capaple for the management of the Kingdom in which she made most eminent Progresses And as the best books are incorrupt Counsellours and Oracles which without the least request even answer to our thoughts so she in reading there employing her best hours endeavour'd to learn there the way to govern well This Princesse advancing with her years in Vertues and Sciences measur'd every ones ability so well with the subtlety of her judgement that though a girle she penetrated the hidden designes of her principall Ministers of whom she made use to draw to her self the totall direction of the affairs of the Kingdom so as she gain'd great veneration free'd her self from the subjection in which some pretended to hold her and beginning to rule shew'd she had not any need to lay the Kingdoms weight on any others head than her own insomuch
that she began when seventeen years old to assist at the Council of the State and in the eighteenth year being out of her minority took upon her the Government on the very same day the War against Denmark was hy the Crown of Swedland declar'd notwithstanding that against the Emperour together with his confederates was most vigorously prosecuted She alwaies made use of knowing and able persons and when any one assum'd to himself more authority than was fitting she found out a way to moderate his animosity She alone did administer all the publique affairs and determin'd them with much ease and satisfaction She alone would treat with Ambassadours and the Ministers of Princes giving audience without the Secretaries of State or any of her Councellours she her self giving answer to the propositions made her as well by her subjects as forraign Princes This Queen though young knew at the same time how to make her self feared and belov'd by her people and strangers She secretly sounding the genius and thoughts of every one so us'd them to the bridle of obedience and respect that she saw her most formidable Commanders though accustom'd at the head of their Armies to make the world affraid to conserve still in her presence a reverence accompany'd with a fearfull obsequiouness On the other side with the nobleness of her mind she still so oblig'd them with offices of such love and affability that she animating their affections encreas'd still towards her self their respect and obedience the true props of a Kingdom She beheld every writing presented her and quickly and with a clear voice recited it in it's language and with her own hand wrote usually the Orders of importance being as shy and heedy in imparting the secrets of her mind as curious and cunning in penetrating those of others She generally affected all Natitions vertue alone being only the object of her love She sought to mend the bad with severity and make the good better with favours and rewards so as 't is no wonder that honour and the rarest conditions that sute with worthy men were seen to flourish more in her Palace than in any other Court No Prince ever favour'd more lovers of vertue than this Queen her Majesty taking very great delight to discourse with knowing Persons and endeavouring to have near her the learnedst of each Nation whom she highly rewarded She had her maids of honour in the Court for decorum and her own entertainment but they never withdrew her from her studies and exercises of vertue No extreamity of weather nor heat of the Sun nor Snow Wind Tempests and Rains nor any other injuries of the season or accidents could induce her to that care of her self which was due to her royal condition She supposed great actions walk'd not well with delights and the Soul had no greater impediment in the gaining of vertues than the body bred up and foster'd in them labour exercise sobriety and vigilance she counting as parts of her strong and vigorous mind The glorious enterprizes which seconded the felicity of her Majesties invincible arms are already eternall in Histories After eight months cruell War and the famous success of her arms she concluded a peace with his Majestie of Denmark to her great gain and honour and afterwards establisht that of Germany not without great advantages to Swedland and then too when she thought it convenient for the ends which she aim'd at in her mind She hath made renoun'd and famous the City of Stockholm with the rule of her directions and the happy remembrance of her government she having nothing more in her thoughts than the causing her Kingdom to abound with arts and wealth Her Throne was the Theater of Glory and Justice no Princess being ever beheld of so free a mind and a courage so undaunted But she thought in the mean time of her great retreat towards Heaven that she might not repent she had been in the World As her great and noble parts did charm the hearts of all that treated with her to the fame of them flying with speed to the most remote Nations produc'd soon the usuall effects of curiosity calling many of the curious and most knowing out of Italy and France to admire her 'T is impossible to express the Civility and Courtesie with which she received every one and particularly her great liberality in gratifying caressing and rewarding the vertuous All the Princes in Europe amaz'd at her famous prerogatives either in their own Persons or else by their Agents endeavour'd to reverence and serve her To her great and conspicuous endowments nothing was wanting but the light of true Religion but Heaven not suffering so beautifull a soul and so good a mind to wander in the darkness of falsehood was so kind to her in his influence to cause great and wonderfull effects Divine grace awaken'd her searching understanding and Heavenly inspirations began to alarum in her mind the Survay of the dissonancies falshoods and untruâ—hs of the Sect she profess'd But the business was nice and she thought it not good to trust her motives to those Ministers credit whose knowledge she had formerly measur'd with more accurateness and wariness She consider'd with her self that as God was still the same so his faith was the same and the foundation of all truth insomuch that with reason he could not suffer any thing to be alter'd and dissonant in the knowledge of that Individuum which should be only one and still uniform to it self She therefore began to discover the weakness of the reasons which Luther and others sustain'd their new opinions and fallacie with and began to discern that the sacred Scripture understood and respected with that Purity and Candour with which 't is received and taught in the Catholique Church furnisht her with clearest arguments to convince their untruths She perceiv'd some sacred books were refus'd by the followers of Luther for no other cause but their own meer capticiousness and only for condemning their errours That of those they retain and have in such esteem the greatest part they alter adulterate and falsifie and so variously interpret that 't is not any wonder amongst such dissentions confusions resembling so many Hydra's head innumerable Sects are multiply'd and produc'd yet all disagreeing and contrary to one another Nay that now the word of God was so vilify'd that each foolish tradesman or ignorant woman durst shamelesly interpret the highest mysteries of the faith which hardly the most knowing and most sublime wits understand That the Sects did encrease or decrease as assisted and fomented here on earth yet faith is a rare gift of Heaven insomuch as the followers of novelties having nothing of assurance nor probably the true sense t was surer to rely on the uniform and agreeing interpretation of so many Saints the Catholique Church hath had in all ages for doctrine and integrity of life so renowned and eminent 'T was therefore too evident
a madness to depart from their common consent and adhere unto those who without the reputation of goodness and vertue have for their own passion and private advantage endeavoured to darken the world to confound it and vizard it with many chimeras and malignities To these her reflections the wise Queen added diverse other weighty considerations and amongst them this seem'd to have force that by the continu'd succession of Popes and uniformity in Rights and Doctrine the Church of Rome though tost by fierce tempests invaded by her enemies armes and molested with contrary Doctrines had allwaies like the Palmtree grown higher and been still more resplendent and glorious Her Majestie observed that the very same Nations and particularly the Septentrional which now do live out of the lap of the Roman Church have more than any others for many ages past had the Catholique faith in veneration and produc'd many men who with their holy lives have enobled the world and with their souls beautify'd Heaven That the writings esteem'd the most learned the famousest actions the conspicuousest vertues and most refin'd wits have been the perseveres in the Catholique faith insomuch that as examples more forcibly perswade us than precepts it seem'd to her impossible so many good men so intelligent and so learned should have been blind to follow so tenaciously and so long the opinions and doctrines which hereticall Ministers represent to the simple and Ideot for falsities and errours Besides she consider'd the very same Protestants confess'd the Spaniards the French and Italians were of a more elevated spirit and more compos'd mind of more profound Knowledge and a civiller and soberer behaviour than all other people of the world and that amongst these of the Northern Inhabitants themselves he was most valued that was best acquainted with the customs and dictates of the Nations aforesaid insomuch that though Arius had in Spain spread the poyson of his heresie and France had both open'd her bosom and arms to the errours of the neighbouring Countries yet those great Kings and most of the Nobility without ever changing their opinions among so many accidents had continu'd in the obedience of the Catholique Church and the Vicar of Christ which afforded a strong argument for the goodness and truth of his faith Her Majesty received an additional force in her mind that the Authors of heresies could never yet shew when how or why the Catholique Church did prevaricate in her faith nor where and in whom perpetuated and conserv'd it being very necessary the true Church should alwaies have endur'd in some part But the consideration of the qualities of the Authors of heresies made a very strong breach in this Princesses heart her Majestie being now well inform'd that interest alone and the pleasures of the flesh not the benefit of the publique nor integrity of the mind were the Councellours and Promoters of these novelties She examin'd Martin Luthers conditionâ— and the other opposers of the Catholique Church and found they were men of an ill life sensual and extreamly ambitious whereupon like seditious persons who in a State-Government do cloak their pretences with the zeal of the publique good and the service of the Prince against whom they fight they never had other design than the ruine of the State and Monarchy of the Church in revenge of the wrong they pretended to receive in their minds in that the Popes of Rome comply'd not with their boundless desires so as she foresaw in the end that when Luther began to impugne the value of indulgences by depressing the authority of the Pope he did it out of envy and anger that the care of delivering them in Sermons was committed to others and not to himself as he had desir'd That when Purgatory was condemned by him he being unwilling to admit any pain did remain to the souls which dy'd in the state of grace 't was meerly his invention either to discredit more the said indulgences or let loose the reins to sensuality since the contumacy is the greater when the punishment is represented the less That when he deny'd fastings Pennance Confession the single life of Priests the intercession of Saints the Mass the Ornaments and Images of the Church and the like it onely proceeded from his inward design to make the people follow him who are apt to believe what allureth the senses and furthers the appetite of nature as likewise his principall motives for promoting his wickedness had their rise from his unplacable hatred of the Pope as one that condemned his errours To this pious Queen the resolution of Henry the eigth King of England seem'd too sacrilegious and wicked who withdrew from the obedience of the holy Church a Catholique and well compos'd Kingdom and onely for the pleasing of his humours and abandoning and debasing himself in the loves of Anne Bullen She dislik'd the unworthy actions of those Princes of Germany who spoiling the Churches had seized the revenues of so many Orders of Religious who in honour of our Saviour and the Heavenly Court had employ'd them in sacred Temples to glorifie and exalt him But more than all the rest she came to the Knowlege of the truth by considering how unseemly it was to believe the Holy Ghost would use such men that were vitious and unworthy for reforming of his Church while there were so many others renown'd for their Doctrine and sanctity With these speculations and the guide of the holy Fathers exactly perpended by her she saw a great light before her eyes whereupon as in the way long chosen by her she discover'd great stumblings and disturbances so among these new lights she walking in the best and readiest paths began to examine particularly the substance and foundation of the truest religion With great rewards she invited to her the famousest men in the Lutheran profession and under the colour of learning what they knew extracted with admirable dexterity the sum of their belief and understanding Truth the only Catholique and Roman religion among the black darkness of so many opinions and contrary doctrines began to shew her cleanness and beget in her mind a great loathing of the manifest falsities and immoderate absurdities which usually by the malice of hereticall Ministers with great industry are instill'd into the minds of unwary and simple people In the mean time Don Joseph Pinto Parera the Portugall Ambassadour arrived in Swedland making his entrance into Stockholm about the end of July with whom as his confessour was Father Anthony Macedo a Portugess together with his Companion Father John Ardrada both Jesuits The Queen inform'd of all was glad of that encounter by her so desir'd insomuch as concealing in her mind a resolute inclination to the Catholique faith she began in her discourses and treaties to shew some esteem and affection to Father Macedo He on the contrary side observing the Queen when she spake of the Pope to shew much
respect and veneration discover'd her Majestie had a good disposition towards Catholiques and therefore with dexterity by opening and enlarging the way so wrought that every day her satisfaction and confidence of him receiv'd augmentation When the Ambassy was finisht Parera prepar'd to be gone in September 1651. het Majesty more frequently than before began to send for the Father aforesaid In the end on the 12th of August retyring with him into her inwardest lodgings and saying she would tell him a business of consequence said thus in his ear Father Macedo you are the first Jesuit I knew and as by the practice and relation I have of your vertue I sâ—ppose I may be confident of your faithfulness and prudence so now since you are to depart I desire by all means you 'l procure me sent hither two Italians of your Society expert in all Knowledge who under the colour of Gentlemen than desire to see the world may stay in my Court that I without suspition may make use of them to which effect I 'le write too by you to your Generall The Father comply'd wiâ—h her Majestie with expressions and a sense peculiar to news of that consequence and giving her due thanks for her confidence of him and offering to serve her with fidelity he swore to be secret Macedo come home full of joy and consolation and beginning to consider of the manner how to execute diligently her Majesties desire resolved to ask leave as he did of the Ambassadour to go see for his own curiosity the fair and great City of Hamburg but could not obtain it so as he return'd to the Queen and told her of the difficulties he hid met with Her Majestie hearing him of a setled resolution to serve her reply'd you may go and say nothing The Father inform'd that the Vessell which should carry him was then in the Haven of Balen 35 miles distant and ready to set sayl towards Lubeck went to take his last leave of the Queen who gave him a letter of credence written and subscrib'd with her own hand and directed to the General of the company of Jesus who then was Father Francis Piccolomini Father Macedo concluded his expressions with humbly beseeching her to consummate her holy inspirations to which she reply'd that if she had known the Roman religion had been best she would have embraced it and that he should cause the two Fathers she desir'd to be sent with whom she might freely discourse and without all suspition having nothing else to say but entreat him again to be secret and quick The Father being licenc'd to depart went out of the gate behind the Court which looks towards the Sea and pass'd in a Feluca to a Rock where he remained that night since he could not reach the Vessell by day The day after he arrived at Balem whether one was now come dispatcht by the Queen at the instance of the foresaid Ambassadour to arrest him and carry him to prison but as he had secret order from her Majestie to let him escape if he found him he fain'd he could not find him and took horse and returned to Stockholm and the Father embarqued himself and sayled towaâ—ds Lubeck on the 2d of September where twelve daies after he arriv'd The Ambassadour soon gave out the Father was a Knave by his flying away in that manner and others divulged he was become a Lutheran and married From thence he arriving in Hamburg steer'd his course towards Nurenberg and finally having run many dangers came to Rome on the 18. of October 1651. Father Piccolomini the Generall of the Society dyed a little before so as he delivered the letter to Father Goswin Nikel who was then Vicar-Generall and afterwards Generall a man of great parts and born in the City of Cullen He embrac'd with great zeal a business of that consequence and as 't is the particular profession of the Society aforesaid to search all the parts of the world to convert to the holy faith both Heretiques and Infidells in which they employ very freely whatsoever is given them in charity and quickly made choice of Father Francis Malines a Reader of Divinity in Turin his Country and Father Paul Casate of Piacenza a professour of Mathematicks in ' the Roman Colledge at Rome men besides integrity of life of most exquisite understanding and great knowledge that as persons desirous to travell and see the world they might without delay take their journey for Swedland They arrived in Venice on the second of December 1651 the one comming out of Piemont and the other from Rome On the twelfth of the said month they departed and prosecuted their journey notwithstnnding the extremity of the weather and only in the beginning of March got ro Stockholm being hinder'd on the way by reason that Father Malines hurt his foot by the fall of his horse which made him keep his bed many daies In the mean time Father Godfrey Franchenius a Jesuit and a man that was truly Apostolicall and of excellent parts was brought by a Tempest from Denmark into Swedland who had frequently treated with the Queen and not without profit but not being able to stay there without being known he before was departed and gone into Flanders These two Fathers arriving in Stockholm were presently conducted to the Queen as Italian Gentlemen and Passengers And albeit her Majestie dissembled in the beginnning they so soon perceiv'd her good disposition and admir'd too in her then 25. years old a soul undeceived and exempt from vanity and the greatness of the world and filled with so equall a Knowledge of all things that she seem'd onely nourisht with the marrow of morall Philosophy Not long after she declared her self resolv'd by a holy inspiration to embrace the Catholick faith and renounce for it her Kingdoms and all humane greatness though there she was not onely esteemed but ador'd with a fuller and more absolute authority than any of her time There 's no doubt but she would very gladly have resetled in Swedland the Catholique faith if she could have overcome the great and many difficulties that lay in the way Too evident was the danger of spoyling the consort of her resolutions if they had smelt the least in that kind Besides too the uncertainty of the end much time was required and hazard of her conscience in which she was impatient to continue without the profession of the Catholique religion and she could by no means profess it occultly When she had with the said Fathers long discussed the means that were fittest for the compassing of her Majesties intentions she determined to let the Pope know her resolution and to send unto him with her letters the said Father Casati who was to inform himself particularly of all that was necessary for her future stay in Rome which then was her design she supposing the said City most fit for her abode not so much for
the honour of her person as because she being there independent of any other Potentate whatsoever in Christendom might employ the endowments of her mind in the service of God and his Church by her Majesties interposing in many affairs of Christendom for the which without doubt there was no want at all of ability in her Majestie She sent then the Father to Rome in the Month of May of the year aforesaid but omitted at that time to make any motion to the Pope because she was not able to renounce so soon her Kingdom and in the mean time they had no suspition at all of those resolutions with which Pope Innocent was assistent to the business But Father Malines remained in Swedland well treated by the Queen while her Majesty disposed and so ordered her affairs that by the States of Swedland Charles Prince Palatine deputed before to the Crown after her was after her renouncing it admitted to the Kingdom which done she might securely depart In fine when she was to discover her mind and compleat her resolutions she began then by declaring her intentions to Monsieur Bordolot a French man and now Abbot of Massay her trusty Physitian to the end he repayring to the Court of France and making no mention at all of the business of religion might onely treat there if after her renouncing the Kingdom she might sojourn in France as likewise she had thoughts of dispatching Father Malines to Rome with her letters to the Pope While Bordolot and Malines prepared to be gone the Queen having made a discovery of the exquisite judgement and great prudence of Don Antonio Pimentel who with the Title of Gentleman sent from the Catholique King to complement the Queen and procure between their Majesties a good correspondence had been some Months before in that Court where he had with his rare parts purchas'd very great credit and fame resolv'd to trust him with her thoughts and make use of his assistance and counsell in a business of that consequence This Gentleman heard attentitively the Queen and was as much comforted as astonisht at the strangeness of the news And when he had considered how meritorious in Heaven how famous in the world and beneficiall to Christianity so glorious an action would be he represented to the Queen the necessity of supporting it by a Prince no less powerfull than pious that he accompanying with her dispatches the letter she sent to the Pope might make authentick the credit of so great and so heroique an act for the compassing of which the Catholique King seem'd fit to her Majesty The Queen therefore consigned to Father Malines letters for his Holiness Cardinall Chigi then Secretary of State to the Pope and for Father Nikei the Generall of the Jesuits and likewise gave him order that as secretly as he could he should go into Spain to procure the dispatches of his Catholique Majesty to the Pope in order to which she gave the said Father letters for the Catholique King and Don Lewes de Aro supposing besides besides that Don Antonio Pimentel being come to Madrid whither he was called might adde credit to her letters and solicit the effecting their Contents And as the greatest thing that troubled her Majestie consisted in secresy to remove every shadow of suspition she desir'd that the Father might go another way and not embarque himself with Pimentel For the very same reason it seemed not good to the Queen that Father Casati returned to Hamburg from Rome should repass into Swedland to avoid the renewing of the jealousies and suspitions had formerly of them especially she knowing some letters had been intercepted which Casati had written to Malines by which they understood that they were both engag'd in the very same business and had common interests Father Malines departed from Stockholm on the 3d. of May 1653. having stayed there something more than a year and two months The length of his voyage from Swedland to Lubeck occasioned by the contrary winds and his not finding suddenly shipping in England whither he went for that purpose out of Flanders were the cause he arrived not at Madrid till the second of August where he stayd certain months without having any news of Pimentel or negotiating any thing since his order was not to begin till he had first received her Majesties letters which were to be sent after Don Antonio aforesaid departed from Stockholm in the following August and embarquing at Gottembourg advanced not far when the Ship that sprang a leak constrain'd him back thither while the Vessell was repairing he went to the Court which then was removed to Vesten where he received order from Spain to stay there yet a while The Queen hinder'd by that accident to make use of Pimentel substituted in his place Father John Baptist Guemes a Dominican who was in Denmark with the Earl of Rebogliedo the Spanish Ambassadour to that King and being to negotiate some business appertaining unto the said Earl in the Court of Madrid was to have and expect the conveniency of embarquing himself with Pimentel to which end in the month of July 1653 he arrived at Gottembourg but the Ship as aforesaid coming back and he being commanded by Pimentel to continue with him went thence with him to Vesten The Queen knowing he was a man of great prudence and other rare qualities and considering she could give no suspition by his going into Spain since they knew long before he went for the affairs of Rebogliedo she lost not the conjuncture of making use of him for the treating of that in Madrid which she had design'd should be done by Pimentel She therefore informed him of the matter and wrote to Father Malines whom before she had order'd to make no attempt of any thing without new advice which he was to expect before he promoted any busâ—ness Father Guemes departed with her Majesties dispatches and Pimentel's on the ninth of October and after many troubles and impediments arriving in the Catholique Court in the month of March 1654 very earnestly sollicited there the Kings letters to the Pope to accompany the Queens and so honourably so faithfully proceeded in this business of consequence that her Majestie afterwards declaring she was infinitely satisfied was most confident of him by making him her Confessour and using him in her hardest and most scrupulous resolutions Though not onely by the mouths of the foresaid two Fathers Malines and Casati together with the Dominican and the letters of Pimentel himself his Majestie was fully inform'd and assured of all things yet he could do no less than remain surpriz'd a while at the news of so great and so strange a resolution it seeming to him a difficult thing that a Princess of that spirit and of so sublime a judgement could abandon her Kingdoms her Country and subjects whom she loved so tenderly and protected to lead a private life without that great Command for this only
reason to live quietly in the Catholique religion his Majesty discoursing with himself that though the said Queen was not able in publique at least she could have exercis'd in private the true faith in her own Kingdom and perhaps with more advantages to the Catholique religion especially since surrendring the Scepter unto a new King who might be of a turbulent and warlike disposition was to open peradventure the way to some of those enterprizes which in the afflictions of Christianity might cause greater dammages to the interests of Catholiques than among the applauses of the world get glory and repose to the Queen He consider'd too wisely that the things of the world have nothing that is constant but inconstancy and that women particularly notwithstanding they have courage and spirit are subject to change so as he was not able with his solid Intellect to judge securely of a single appearance nor thought he it agreeable to his gravity and decorum to engage himself in any thing without sounding more fully the business and reaching the bottom of the motives from which a resolution so great and so little in use was deriv'd But afterwards assur'd that many heroicall vertues and eminent parts abounded in the Queen with the motive of which she knew the world was one of those enemies that is conquer'd by flying and albeit a woman had strength to trample under her feet its forces allurements and charms and conquer her self The King was so taken with her Majesties magnanimous action that out of his most pious zeal to the honour of God and the Catholique Church he not onely with great fervour accompanied her Majesties letter to the Pope but exhibited all his protection for the journey and entire satisfaction of so noble and so vertuous a Princesse After the peace of Germany the States of Swedland having soon bent their thoughts for the settlement of the Kingdom had likewise found it necessary to provide that the Masculine succession fayling in the blood Royall some one might ascend the Throne quietly and peaceably and the rather since the recalling the suffrages of the ancient elections did not seem good to them they knowing by experience that kind of dominion as not very durable and unsafe had often been replenisht with tumults and calamities whereupon they unanimously agreed that her Majesty pleasing her self with a husband that was not of a different religion nor suspected by the States should establish in her Progeny the security of succession They therefore made severall instances to the Queen and often sollicited the effect of their desires The Queen who in her mind had greater designs making use of the pretence of being unwilling by marriage to subject her own liberty to any declar'd that as she had been born free so she likewise would live and die free She boastingly said all the Kingdoms of the world were a price below the value of liberty which onely was the pretiousest Gem in her Crown That she knew the chast wits were still the most vigilant most lively and the fittest for all things which require understanding spirit and prudence The States seeing her firm in resolving not to marry pretended at least to appoint her a Successour to the end that she fayling there might be no difficulty in a new Kings election And because whatsoever we can most of all wish for in a Prince consists in his valour his prudence and goodness in the meeting of all the four Orders of the Kingdom the qualities and parts of the most conspicuous personage being maturely examin'd all gave their votes and applauses to the foresaid Prince Charles Gustavus Palalatine as one who descending by Birth from Emperours and Kings and having till that time commanded the Swedish Amies had given in all occasions great experiments of his valour and prudence Besides he being passionately belov'd by the people and souldiers could desire no clearer arguments of his merit for his exaltation to the Crown establisht in his Person by his substitution in the Kingdom if Christina should fail Some Polititians divulged to meddle in their discourses with so great an affair the Queen was not pleased the gate of dominion should be opend to this Princes desire since this being the most sensible of humane affections and that which soonest toucheth the quick they might see again acted on the Stage the offences of those times in which many men thinking nothing to be villanous and wicked have trampled under foot to compasse soon their ends all respects obligations honour and conscience But the said Polititians have fail'd in the conceit which perhaps they imagin'd their discourses would have rais'd while that they measur'd her Majesties thoughts and resolutions with their own ordinary rule of the interest of State The Queen's designs had solider motives and deeper foundations She sought to gain a Kingdom where Angells inhabit and therefore lost that willingly where men have their residence The Queen could not erre in the reason of State who secur'd to her selfe that of God She labour'd to know God in true greatnesse and felicity and God made himself known to her by giving her judgement and vigour to seek what few did desire and to despise that which all covet after For what concern'd humane reputation and glory she had learnt she could not better make happy and prolong the short periods of her life than with the report of one of the most glorious resolutions that had ever been heard She therefore very charitably and freely agreeing to surrender her Scepter to the foresaid Prince Palatine contrived a way with which without discovering her thoughts she frankly might renounce the possession of those States which were no longer hers because by her Majesty exchang'd for those of Heaven She thought that she had not the lustre of any vertue while she sate on that Throne which was not illustrated with the splendour of true faith The Queen lov'd God and therefore could no longer love the world To mount to the greatnesse of Heaven 't was necessary she should fall from the height of terrestriall felicity This her Majesties resolution discovered to some she most trusted it seem'd strange to them she would abandon voluntarily the dominion of a Kingdom than which there is not any thing more desired on the earth as in the change of a Prince both the Cities and Inhabitants are oftentimes subject to hurtfull alterations so with the apprehension of future events and the want of the happinesse they enjoy'd they particularly were troubled and discontented and labour'd to remove her from that her opinion with very strong reasons and resembling the quality of the matter of which they discours'd They knew the new Kings â—enius and the martiall inclinations of his Captains so as they were â—ffraid it might prove one of those punishments which with the appearance of a blessing is cast upon them whom God will chastise They doubted though the Queen loved peace and
a good correspondence with the neighbouring Princes that the Genius and Interest of her Majesties Successour would not be the same who probably at his entrance into his principality would have the ambition to make ostentation of his valour and foment his Commanders desires To convince her understanding and divert her from so great a resolution many of the knowing'st and zealousest Ministers whom her Majestie did the honour to trust with her design of renouncing her Kingdom but not with her change of religion advanced so far to presage unto her unlucky events but nothing could retain her in her motion which she urged with all speed Now all things appertaining to that renunciation were in readiness and nothing was wanting but to solemnize it with those publique functions requir'd in such Cases Many Feasts being therefore now made together with tiltings for a happy prediction of the new Kings Coronation in the end on the 17th of January 1654 they brought it to a period The Prince Palatine would have had it deferr'd till the following July while his cloaths and other things becoming the magnificence of this unusuall spectacle were prepar'd But the Queen admitting no delay prevented these demurs with all diligence while each little minute seem'd too long to her for the the finishing her secret intentions She therefore came out of her lodgings that day about nine of the clock in the morning and appear'd in the great open gallery of the Court accompany'd by the Senate and the Grandees of the Palace She wore a stately robe embroyder'd with Crowns of gold and with a comly gravity walking up and down among a great company of Gentlemen and other who out of curiosity came to see so renown'd and unusuall a function sate down in a chair under a Canopy of Silver nobly wrought and adorn'd Here the Lord Zchering Rosemâ—hain a Senatour of the Kingdom read with a loud voice the instrument of donation which her Majestie made to the said Prince Charles Gustavus Palatine and a Patent in which the new King engag'd to the said Queen three Islands and diverse revenues issuing out of Pomerania with other regalities to the yearly value of two hundred thousand crowns Her Majestie accepting the writings rose up and taking the Crown from her head deliver'd it to the Earl Peter Bracch great Praefect and principall Senatour of the Kingdom The Scepter Sword Globe of gold and a Key she consign'd to four great Personages and Ministers of the Kingdom to wit to Count Gustavus Horn Generall of the Militia to Count Gabriel Oxerstern to Count Oxerstern great Chancellour and Count Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie great Treasurer The Queen had nothing left to put off but the royall Robe and she seeing that those to whom it belonged deferr'd to unty it unty'd it her self and in throwing it down sported with her maids of Honour and was pleasant with them while there was not any one in so great a number of persons that could forbear weeping to see this so generous action of the Queen to whom the hearts of all paid the tribute of duty and affection The royall robe being depos'd she was begirt with a very white garment and here with a majestique affability turning towards the Nobility and people with a loud and clear voice and great freenesse of mind pray'd a quartern of an hour with such efficacy and sweetnesse that all remaining equally dazled with the splendour of so much vertue and soften'd with the pleasantness of the manner had such an affection as admits not of comfort nor receives moderation After this with a long and most prudent discourse she advertis'd the new King of many things appertaining to the Kingdoms good Government and affectionately recommended to him the Queen her Mother her Friends and all her Subjects whom she loved so firmly and so she return'd to the very same room whence she came leaving all the people in the darknesse of confusion and bitternesse of sorrow for the losse of that Sun which so long had govern'd them with the influence of his rayes The Prince Palatine two hours after was conducted to the Cathedrall by the Arch-Bishop of Upsalia where he was anointed King and receiv'd the royall ensignes and the next day after the solemn oath was given him by all the four Orders of the Kingdom In these solemnities severall sorts of money of gold and silver â—ere scatter'd up and down as well by the Queen as the King Those by the King had his Picture on the one side and the words Carolus Gustavus and on the other a regal-Crown with these words a Deo Christina Those by the Queen had her Picture on the one side and on the other a Crown with these words Et sine Te. The day after the usuall Oath of loyalty being perform'd to the King by the States the Queen visited and honour'd by all departed from Upsalia towards Stockholm The King accompany'd her to the Mannour of Merstad which is half the way and all the Senatours Gentlemen and chief Ladies of the Court waited on her to Stokholm where she stay'd three daies Here all desired to see her and to be seen by her who receiv'd them with such courtesie and kindnesse that they there made discovery of the pleasure she took to leave them all mindfull of her vertues and government She had made them believe she would go live in the Island of Holland fifty leagues distant from Stockholm in the fair Castle there with a great Park of Deere where the Kings were accustom'd to retire for their pleasure With this report she departed from Stockholm three hours after the setting of the Sun She would depart by night not to see their affections and tears who apprehended the want of so great a Queen and so good a Mother Yet from the royall Palace to the gate of the City the concourse of the people was great but the affliction much greater which oppressed their senses every one as immoveable and mute with their eyes cast down on the earth giving to understand a weighty sorrow hath neither tears nor sighs sufficient to expresse it The King had sent the greatest part of the Court to accompany and attend her among whom were the Lord Charles Soop a person of great quality with the charge of high Steward the Lord Tersen Gentleman of the Chamber and of much desert and vertue with six other Gentlemen of his Majestie all of noble families and merit the Lord Vlifeldt great Master of Denmark retyr'd long since into Swedland under his Majesties protection the Senatours Earl Todt and Baron Lind with Eal Donoau Lievetenant Colonell all three personages of high worth and eminent parts with severall others In her going out of the City she was saluted with the Artillery from the walls and the ships and as she past along the Governours of Forts and Provinces waited on her with their Souldiers She travail'd all
night and the next day in the evening arriv'd at Nikopin the residence of Queen Mary Eleanora her Mother a Princesse of most admirable qualities where she onely stay'd so long to embrace her and give her the last farewell the separation from whom was as sensible peradventure to her as that of her Kingdom In this she went voluntarily far off from the fruition of a very great happinesse and in that went from her who had bequeath'd to her her own blood The same night without taking any other repose she continu'd her journey towards Norkopin a City and Port of the Sea eight leagues distant from Nicopin which was one of the Forts her Majestie had reserved to her self Here she stay'd a day to repose she having not yet slept since her departure from Stockholm The next day she went to Linkopin five leagues farther where she stayed a day and from thence to Junkopin a fortresse fourteen leagues off where she rested that night The day following she advanced to a house of a Swedish Gentleman call'd Giornornotte eight leagues off and here taken with a Plurisy or stitch in her breast she was forc'd to stay eight daies As soon as she was well she gave out she would go another way and instead of advancing towards the foresaid Island of Holland she went towards Alstat a Town situated in Aland a Province which ten years before the Sweeds had taken from the King of Denmark This City is indifferently handsome encompast with strong walls and from the said house some fifteen leagues distant Here she stay'd two daies and dismissed not only the officers of the King who were to wait upon her to the foresaid Castle of Holland but Brodin too the Lutheran Minister who had accompany'd her from Stockholm retaining with her the Senatour Soop and the Earl of Donoau Arriving at Laolin a Castle in the said Province five miles from Almstat she caus'd the same night her hair to be cut and putting on mans cloaths took the way the next morning towards Ingilholm a little Town of the Province of Blekingem belonging to the King of Denmark taking no body with her but the foresaid Lords Soop and Donoau the Earl of Stemberg a Swedish Gentleman of eminent esteem and her great Master of the horse the Lord Wolfe Gentleman of her Chamber and Mr. Apelman her Secretary with three Grooms of the Chamber about nine in all giving out she was the Earl of Donoau a Swede who went to see the world which she did to passe through Denmark without being subject to invitations and entertainment From Ingelhom she came the same night to Helsingbourg a Port of the Sound which is an arm of the Sea about a league in breadth through which passe all the Ships which from the Baltique Sea do sail towards the West where the Danes search usually the Vessells and receive a certain tole She pass'd it in little boats and arriving at Helsenor on th 7th of July when she had refresht her self a little while continu'd her journey with diligence yet omitted not to visit the noble Castle at Federichbaug seated in a very fine prospect three leagues onely distant from Helsenor which as the place of the delights of the Kings of Denmark was sumptuously adorned She came at three hours in the night to Rotschilt a little City seated on the side of a Lake and from thence went to Korsor a Port on the Baltique Sea and the same night pass'd the Bect a branch of the Sea about four leagues broad which divides the Province of Zeland from Funen which belong all to Denmark On the 9th of July at the rising of the Sun she arrived at Nibork which was o're against Korsor a Port of the Sea Here she entertained her self till the Waggons were prepared for travailing which are all cover'd and very commodious like the Caroches in France and the Coaches in Italy She went then to Obensee the Metropolitan City of the said Province of Funen a wall'd Town and full of old Turrets indifferently handsom and civill where the Court of Denmark resides a certain month of the year two leagues near the said Port. She stay'd there that night and passing the next day through Kolding a Towre on an narrow arm of the Sea which serves for a Haven though it be between the land where the King uses somtimes to sojourn she arrived at Hadversleve a little place and encompast with old walls She continu'd thence her journey and the following night came to Flensbourg the chief City and a Port of the Sea of the Province of Jutland renown'd for the great traffique it holds with the North and the West On the tenth she pass'd through Rensbourg a wall'd Town and lay that night at Jetzcho an open place By break of day the next morning she advanced towards Altennau a City belonging to the Earl of Oldembourg between whom and the City of Hambourg there is an ancient quarrell that Earl pretending to greater jurisdiction over a bridge of Hambourg where he receives a little tribute from Altennan near two little leagues the Queen came to Hambourg on the very same day a good while before the setting of the Sun yet she enter'd the Town and remain'd there unknown till the following day and then putting on womans apparell she was seen and known by all Having stay'd there a day she went to Neummunster a City remote a daies journey to see Prince Frederick of Holstein with whom she remained a day treating and concluding the marriage of the King of Swedland with the Princesse Hedvyck Eleonora his Daughter The King of Swedland had discover'd to the Queen his inclination to this match and entreated her favour in the businesse provided her Majesties consent went with his The Queen who could not chose but be glad after giving him a Kingdom to give him too a wife concluded it quickly to the equall obligation of both parties to her She afterwards returning to Hambourg stay'd there till the 30th of July Five daies after her Majesties arrivall the Court which stay'd behind as aforesaid overtook her at Hambourg It consisted of about fifty persons besides the Coaches diverse horses and the baggage with whom were sigre Gustavus di Liliecron a Gentleman of eminent worth and most excellent parts the wife of the foresaid Earl of Stemberg with three of her women Sigre John Wrangell Sigre Silvekron her Steward Doctor Wenleu her Physitian and some Musitians all which took the very same way through Denmark This King having had private notice of her Majesties passage through his Country and ambitious to expresse his devotions to her went presently with his wife and all the Court to Kolding and under the pretence of going a hunting met on purpose her retinue and hearing that her Majestie was there came out of his Coach to look into those of the Swedes but for all his sollicitude and earnestnesse not finding the Queen and assur'd she was
the City and twelve other Footmen in several liveries of the Magistrates and three Trumpets The Magistrates at that time were Count Iohn Baptist Ferretti Signior Tomaso Tomasi Belaâ—dino Galli Knight of James Signior Flamineo Scalamonte Captain Ierome Bompiari and Signior Vincent Balestrieri both Commenders of the order of St. Stephen All these alighting from their horses in the name of the City did complement her Majesty the said Count Feretti speaking to her as their Prior. The Queen standing up received their complement with her usual and Majestique Civility The twelve Pages were left with her Majesties Coach to attend her the Magistrates remounting and continuing their journey towards the Apostolicall Palace The souldiers stood in rankes along the streets and the houses were adorned with fine tapistries Being come to the Palace she found in the first hall near the gate the Principall Ladies of the City standing in a stately circle who handsomly paid her their respects waiting on her to the door of her Chamber whom her Majesty received and treated with all Kindnesse and affability Having stai'd a little while in her Chamber it wanting then an howre to night she resolved to go see the famous Arch of Trajan the Emperour all wrought with fine Marble The Senate and People of Rome erected it in honour of him of Plotina his wife and Martiana his Sister who were held in veneration as Deities in that time as by the inscriptions read there may be gather'd Her Majesty went thither in a Chaire attended by the Nuntii and the Governour in Coach with others of quality She was welcomed with many tires of artillery from Rivellino which is in the mouth of the Haven from the Ships and other Partes towards the Sea In her Majesties return she observed two Arches of the Apostolicall Palace to wit the first towards the place repolisht of late and with an old inscription which said 'T is made Celestiall while the Princely Sun beholdes the Arche And two great Arms one of the Pope now raigning and the other of the Queen with the Motto in the midst of them The Starr's and Wind favouring In the second they read The immortall vertue of Christina Queen of Swedland raises me to a veneration of her Majesty This Arch of stone reduc'd into the forme of marble of Verona was on the superficies of the Pillars Bases Chapiters and great medalls wrought in Gold and upon it were erected the arms of her Majesty between two great statues one representing the heroicall vertue and the other liberality and under that was written By yielding she o'recomes by flying quells her enemyes And under the other By parting with her Kingdom she her Empire hath extended And over the arms in a great thick Pastboard By going it encreases That evening about an houre in the night all the Piazze and streets being resplendent with the fires and the lights her Majesty went from her lodgings to those that look't into the Piazza There near the stairs stood a painted machine of wood 36. hands breadths high which with six Mountains a starre and two Oakes represented the arms of his Holyness At the foot of these Mountains was the Tyber which under one hand held a great armes out of which instead of water it actually cast wine with the other supporting the arms of the Queen on which a Lyon lean'd On the one side there was a Virgin which had recourse to the Tyber and on the other a statue which sustaining in her hand Trajans Arch represented the City of Ancona this Motto being at the foot of the Virgin I return safe This machine was full of fire-workes which took very handsomly Many compositions were made in honour of her Majesty among which were certain verses of Count Paul Ferretti a Cavalier of much vertue and of an anâ—ient Family and Noble he descending from Ulderick Ferretti Lord of the County of Ferretta above Basil towards the County of Burgundy who had a daughter marry'd to Albert the second Duke of Austria The Queen afterwards supp'd in publick in the roome before the Chapell with the Nuntii and Spanish Ambassadour they taking place of him Signior Stefano Renincasa presented the water for her hands and the Marquis Francis Tassoni the napkin The Commender Alexander Fanelli was Sewer and Cavalier Caesar Nappi her Cupbearer and every time her Majestie dranke the signes being given before the Canon of the Fortress were discharg'd My Lord Lewis Gallo Bishop of Ancona the principall Cavalier of Osimo a person of try'd prudence in the charges and mannagement of affairs sustained by him for the holy Sea supposing the Queen in order to his instructions from Rome should quickly have come to his Cathedrall which is the Church of St. Ciriack seated on one of those Promontoryes caused it to be hung with rich Tapistrye and caused too the Altars to be deck'd with the pretiousest Ornaments But he could not have that honour for the said Church being far off from the Palace and on a craggy Mountain the Queen went not thither but instead of going thither the day following when she had heard Mass in the Chapell of the Palace she seeming desirous to see the famous Reliques kept there the Nuntii by the Popes authority gave order that to the said Chapell of the Palace two Canons should bring them with assistance of other Gentlemen and one was the tip of the iron of the lance which open'd the side of our Lord Jesus Christ left in Ancona by the Ambassadour of Bajazet the Emperour of the Turkes in the year 1492 when he passed through that place towards Rome where he gave to Innocent the eighth the head of the speare of the same iron the other the right foot of St. Anne the Mother of the most glorious Virgin Mary with the flesh and the bones given likewise to the said City by the Patriarch of Constantinople Paul Paleolgus in the year 1380. the Queen kneel'd before them and kissed them with great devotion My lord Holstenius who as Canon of the Church of St. Peter had many times handled the relique of the said head of the speare not only assured her Majesty 't was true but likewise affirm'd the colour of the rust was the same as also Pope Clement the eighth passing through Ancona towards Ferrara had that of Ancona confronted with the other of Rome This function being ended the Bishop went to wait on her Majesty who received him most courteously After breakfast she continu'd her journey towards Loretto accompany'd by the said Governour with all the retinue to the bridge of Arciato the Confines of Ancona The Magistrates waited not upon her as at her arrivall because the Master of the Ceremonies told them 't was not necessary At her going away she was saluted by all the Artillery and departed highly satisfy'd with her reception and the honours done her by that noble City Ancona is seated on the side of a Mountain which extending it self
in the Church 'T is three miles from the Sea and chearfully seated being fortified with regular walls and strong rampards and flankt with great towers and bulwarkes Without the gate is a little Borough full of Inns and Chambers to be hired for the lodging of great store of people who flock to this devotion continually the most venerable and miraculous of all Christendome From the top of this holy Mountain the Queen was delighted in beholding in a very fine prospect the Sea many Castles and Townes built here and there on those Mountaines and hills She was pleas'd too in seeing towards Ancona the Promontory Camero under which lies Sirolo a place much renowned for the famous Crucifix She observ'd too the scituations of Osimo and Urbin and the Castle of Cincolo built by Titus Labienus of whom Cicero speakes bitingly On the 11th in the Morning having break-fasted a little she departed from Loretto about 16 houres being saluted by the Artillery and Muskets and accompani'd by the Governour to the confines of Recanati where she found some Coaches with six horses full of the Gentry my Lord Gallio Sonne to the Duke of Alvito of Mollan Governour of the Marke a Person of high quality who when he had complemented the Queen went into his Coach and return'd to Macerata the Metropolis of that Province and his residence to wait uppon her there The Queen pass'd through Recanati a little City three miles distant from Loretto and seated on the ridge of a high Mountain encompass'd with hills and little Mountaines very pleasant and fruitfull and begirt with old walls with some ancient towers She was receiv'd at the gate by Signior Luigi Bighi the Governour and the Magistrates the cheif of which were Signior Marius Massucci Bonfrancesco Vulpiani and James Angelelli the principall Gentlemen The streets not onely abounded with Souldiers standing in rankes but were finely hung with tapistries though it rained very hard and in that manner her Majesty was accompanied to the other gate She would have staid a little in this place to see in the great Church the Sepulcher of Pope Gregory the 12th who in the Councell of Constance renounced the Papacy but the weather being ill she continu'd her journey Four miles farther in a very spacious feild they saw by the order of the Marquiss Tassoni aforesaid above 8000. Souldiers of horse and foot reduced into squadrons who with frequent volleys saluted her Majesty She passing the river Potenza which divides and waters a fine and pleasant valley bordering on Mountaines and fruitfull hills arrived in the end at the Arch of Pio near the gate of the City The foresaid Arch is so call'd as long since erected by the Cardinall Charles Emanuel Pio of happy memory who for his glorious Government of that Province was generally applauded and commended by the People By the said Governour Gallio and the Magistrates her Majesty was met with many Gentlemen on horseback and the said Magistrates complemented her with all due respect The Arch was beautified with Pictures Figures Mottos Hieroglyphicks and Inscriptions in the praise and honour of her Majesties arrivall the streets being richly adorned and the Souldiers standing in rankes Twelve Pages of the principall families were nobly attir'd to attend on her Majesty The Queen went in her litter to the Palace her lodging where many handsome Ladies most splendidly apparrelled waited on her on of them called Sigra Girolama Ciccelini complementing her Majesty in the name of the rest which the Queen very courteously returning they went to their houses and her Majesty supp'd privately On the 12th in the Morning she arose betimes and according to her custome went to the Church of St. Julian which is the Cathedrall where the Bishop my Lord Silvestri had erected a fine Arch with various Figures Mottos and Inscriptions in praise of her Majesty At her entrance into the Church she was receiv'd at the gate with the usuall ceremony of the Chapter and Clergy and Te Deum was Sung with most excellent musique Afterwards she heard Mass and returned to the Palace where when she had breakfasted she advanced towards Tolentino ten miles remote At her going away she was accompanied by the said Governour to the confines of that Dioces and saluted by the Souldiers with Morter-peices and Muskets her Majesty being very well satisfied with the honours that City had done her the most noble and most famous of the Marck which is indifferently big and seated on a Mountain but not steepy and large where the Governour of the Province resides From Macerata her Majesty advanced towards Tolentino on the confines of which they found three thousand Souldiers by order of the Marquiss Tassoni reduced into squadrons by the Sergant Major Mutius Campani Being arriv'd at the gate of the City my Lord Francis Maria Monaldi the Governour waited on her as likewise the cheif standard-bearer Doctor Nicholas Rotilini and the Priors Signior Joseph Gualtieri Signior Anthony Capiccioni and Bartholmew Martini with the rest of the Magistrates and the principall Persons of the Town Her Majesty passing afterwards through the streets which abounded with Souldiers and were hung with tapistries alighted at the Church of St. Nicholas where she was received with the accustomed ceremonies and saw both the arms and the hands of the said Saint the Porrenger he used to eat in and his miraculous blood which as 't is affirmed hath often been seen to melt and to move when some sinister accident befell Christianity as it happened when the Turk got the Kingdome of Cyprus and lately Canea in the Kingdome of Candia This relique is held in great veneration and kep't in the Altar of the Chapell of the Saint aforesaid and when it is shewed the Magistrates are by who keep the keyes of it Her Majesty went from the Church to her lodging in the Pallace of Duke Sanesio which was splendidly furnish'd where she did eate privately and was entertained by the Nuntii till supper was ready On the 11. of December when her Majesty had heard Mass and breakfasted she departed from Tolentino with the traine of my Lord Gallio the Governour of the Province This City encompass'd with old fashion Walls and slight Towers is seated in the bottom of the said valley watered by the River Chianti whose Bishop is likewise the Bishop of Macerata the two Bishopricks being united together The Queen advancing towards Camerino went the way of Valcimarra and Saravalle and arriving at Belforte a wall'd Towne on a Mountain three miles distant from Tolentino found my Lord Casanatta the Governour of the City a horseback accompany'd by many Gentlemen and Cavaliers and a troop of horse in good equipage who came to the Confines of his Government to receive her As soone as her Majestie appeared he alighted and complemented her waiting on her all the way At Valcâ—marra they found 300. foot and as many more near the City where
well within as without the Kingdom hath sufficiently made known the vivacity of his Spirit the readiness of his wit and constant fidelity He is of a most affable behaviour a vigorous judgement great foresight and rare capacity in every affair His wit is refined with experience his mind very sprightly and his thoughts aime only at glory and an excellent report He is full of solidity in his discourses of wariness and dexterity in affairs and sincerity and sweetness in his carriage being especially a friend unto vertue with which he deservedly attracts to himself the encomiums and praises of every one that know him Besides the said Comedy he presented her Majesty with a stately collation of most excellent sweet-meats and in extraordinary abundance and gave her a fine Ball danc'd after the French fashion by some nimble and agile Savoyards with which the Queen was very highly satisfied On the first day of Lent her Majesty went to the house of the Prince of St. Gregory to behold the sollemne Cavalcata with which the Pope accompanyed by the sacred Colledge and the rest of the Court went from the Vatican to Aventino to visit there St. Sabina the Church of the Dominicans This Convent is famous for severall memorialls of the residence there of the glorious St. Dominick After dinner she went likewise to that station where the Father Generall received and attended her as likewise the chief Fathers of that order which met there that day On the second of March her Majesty went to the Church of Madonna della Scala the discalceate Carinelites an order she loved well At the Gate of the Church the was received by Father Joachim di Giesu Maria the Generall accompanyed by the most eminent Friars of that order While she prayed before the most holy Sacrament a very fine Motetto was sung Thence passing into the Convent she went into the Oratory which she found richly hung and adorned with Pictures Mottos and Emblems Here she heard Mass at which the devotion of her mind was augmented with exquisite Musick She then honoured a pretious relique of a foot of St. Teresia the foundress of that order and heard a Latin oration recited by one of those Fathers The day after which was the first Friday in March she visited St. Peters as she did all the Fridayes of the moneth aforesaid for the gaining the treasures of that famous indulgence She was pleased afterwards to visit the Colledge of the English where the good and generous zeale of Pope Gregory the thirteenth erected under the instruction of the Jesuits a place of refuge for the English youth who retaining the true seeds of the Catholick Religion should recurre to this City the common Country of all to be the better setled in their Faith with the Sciences and Piety they learn there This Colledge had desired ever since her arrivall in Rome to testifie to her their dutifull respects and Father Edward Courtney the Rector employed soone his parts in composing a book in which are contained the Elogies of above fifty Saint the Queens or daughters of the Kings of England he adding to each Elogie some verses very handsomly applyed to this Princesses rare qualities She came thither accompanyed by divers Princes and Cavaliers and particularly by my Lord Torreggâ—ani who had invited thither her Majesty she going into the Church dedicated to the glorious English Martyr St. Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury found it finely adorned and abounding with the Pictures of Saints the Kings of England lent them by my Lord Somerset Chamberlain of Honour to the Pope and a Gentleman nobly borne who was likewise there Her Majesties prayers were accompanyed with most admirable musick and a harmony of Viols in which the English excell She sitting down afterwards under a state had recited to her a short Latin oration with some verses by two of those young Scholars they presenting to her the said book of printed Elogies which her Majesty most courteously accepted On the day of St. Thomas of Aquin the solemne Feast of the order of St. Dominick her Majesty went to the Church of Minerva of the Fathers aforesaid one of the chiefest of Rome as well for the service of the Church as the sacred Congregation of the Cardinalls held in that Convent every Wednesday in the morning of the holy office of the greatest importance in Rome The rooms where they hold the said Congregation were seen by the Queen as likewise all the Convent her Majesty remaining highly pleased with the magnificence both of the one and the other She was received and attended by the Father Generall and Father Raymund Capisucchi Master of the Sacred Palace and one of the examiners of the Bishops a Prelate of much vertue and rare parts which are the more remarkable by the ancient Family of the Capisucchi which as appears by authentick writings and is gathered from the very same arms is a branch sprowted out of the most noble stock of the Counts of Tunn in Germany the head of which now is the Prince Arch-Bishop of Saltzbourgh a Gentleman of most eminent qualities Her Majesty had likewise some thoughts of seeing the curious study of the Knight of St. Stephen Sir Francis Gualdo of Rimini a Gentleman well deserving of the learnedest of the ancients which he gave to his most Christian Majesty but the ill weather and the greater affairs of this Princess have not yet permitted her to behold it I therefore forbear to speak of the said study till a fitter opportunity be presented me The Queen then continuing her vertuous entertainments at the beginning of Lent introduced the spirituall exercise of a devout oratory in her Palace every Wednesday which was ordered by the Prince of Gallicano They began the second Wednesday in March and the history of Daniell was recited in musick a composition well becoming the said Prince In the second Oratory Father Rho the famous Preacher made a Sermon in the third Father Spinola in the fourth Father Nicholas Zucchi all Jesuits in the fifth Father Spinelli a Celestine and in the sixth Father Don Carlo di Palma a Theatine all Persons of great learning and worth But behold us at the end of these our relations The sincerity of my Penne which cannot deliver truly to Posterity the glorious name of Christina great without the true Characters of a perpetuall Panegirique concludes that as 't is doubtless this great Princess deserves for a thousand respects the greatest obsequiousness and complyance in order to her eminent qualities and parts so 't is to be hoped the fortunate Climate of Rome the Epilogue of Celestiall and humane felicities will deserve the good fortune to enjoy and serve her long 'T is certain as this Queen with the incomparable endowments of her mind and the franke resolutions of her heart like the Sun among the Starrs may justly pretend to be singular in the World so Rome the sacred the great and majestick Phoenix among the Metropolitan Cities
of Christianity may best of all others give a happy long and fit entertainment to her Majesties glorious fortunes FINIS The life and qualities of Gustavus Adolphus of Swedland His stature The Turk was jealous of his fortune His remarkable sayings His Conquests With what Army he pass'd the Sea Christina his only daughter succeeds in the Kingdom The education of this Princesse Her wonderfull wit On whom the Government of the Kingdom depended on her minority She learnt diverse tongues She makes great Progresse in learning She begins to assist at the Council of State and afterwards takes the Government upon her She administers her self the greatest affairs She makes her self belov'd and fear'd She contemns all delicacy She makes war and then peace with Denmark to her advantage She is honour'd by all the Princes of the world Heavens is propitious to her The reasons which give motives to the true knowledge Important observations Her own vertue makes her see the truth She examines the life and conditions of Martin Luther She perceives the falsities and untruths spread by him She fortifies them with some important examples She detests heresie She resolves to turn Catholique She sends a Jesuit to Rome In her letter to the Father General of the Society She desires two Fathers of the Society may be sent to her The Father Generall receives her letters very gladly He sends two Fathers into Swedland Their journey Their arrivall They are courteously receiv'd She treats secretly with them and determines to inform the Pope of her resolution Don Antonio Pimentel is in Swedland for his Catholique Majesty The Queen imparts to him her thoughts And resolves to rely on the Catholique King Father Malines the Jesuit is dispatcht to the Court of Spain for that effect Father Guemes a Dominican arrives in Swedland and her Majesty makes use of him She informs him of the business and sends him into Spain Her negotiations The King of Spains sense of the news The King of Spain's perplexity With great piety he undertakes the business and writes to the Pope The States of Swedland make instance to the Queen Her Majesties answer Charles Gstavus Palatine is declared and substituted in the Kingdom after the death of the Queen She trusts wholly in God She resolves to forgoe her Kingdoms She is disswaded but without effect The renouncing follows The ceremonies of this action A generous act of her Majesty She gives some advertisements to the King her Successour The Prince Palatine is anointed King of Swedland The Queens return to Stockholm and her departure She makes them believe she will go into the Island of Holland The affliction of the people for her departure Her Majesties journey She visits the Queen her Mother She gives out she will change her journey She dimisses divâ—rse of the Court. She puts on mans cloaths to pass unknown She passes the straight of the Sound She comes to Hambourg She speaks with the Prince of Holsteria and concludes the marriage of his daughter with the King of Sweden She is Visited in Hambourg by diverse Princes of Germany She is feasted abroad by the Landgrace of Hessen She departs on the suddaine from Hambourg Differences between the Crown of Swedland and the City of Bremen Her Majesties journey from Hambourg to Antwerp She is known in Munster She arrives in Antwerp The applauses with which she is seen in that City The Arch-Duke sends to complement her The Prince of Condes pretences not admited He visits the Queen as a private Gentlemen Many Iricys and great Lods come to â—isit the Queen The Emperour sends Earle Montecucoli to complement her Majesty She goes conceal'd to Bruxells The King of Spaine sends Don Antony Pimentel extraordinary Ambassadour to the Queen The Aâ—ch-Duke returns to Antwerp to invite the Queen to Bruxells Her Majesties entrance into Bruxells The rejoycings with which she is publickly received in Bruxells She makes secretly profession of the Catholick faith She eats in publick She is alwaeis inclin'd to Noble and worthy entertainments The Queen her Mother dies The death of Pope Innocent Cardinall Chigi is assum'd to the Papacy With the applause of all Christianity The Queen gives an account to the Pope of her desire to come to Rome Letters from the King of Spaine to his Holiness Presents made by her Majestie to the Arch-Duke in Flanders and others Her departure from Bruxells The quality of her Majesties Traine The persons of quality that accompanied the Queen Her reception in Ruremond She passes through Cullen The continuation of her journey She is visited by the King of Scotland And by the Elector Palatine Afterwards by Prince Robert She goes from Steinhaim She arrives in Rotemburg She comes to Nordlinguen To Donavert Earle Montecuccoli returnes dispatcht again to the Queen from the Emperour The Queens letter to the Arch-Duke of Inspruch She goes privately to Auspurge to see the most remarkable things The Queen is met by the Officers of the Elector of Bavaria She is treated sumptuously in Landsperg She enters Tyrole The Arch-Dukes of Inspruch go to visit the Queen privately in Seefelt Her Majesties entrance into Inspruch The honours done her by their Highnesses the Arch-Dukes His Holinesse resolves to dispatch to Inspruch my Lord Luke Holstenius He elects four Nuntii to receive the Queen on the Confines of the State Ecclesiastical Breifes consignâ—d to my Lord Holstenius Father Malines the Jusuit goes with the said Holstenius to Inspruch The Breife to his Eminence Lomellino Cardinall Legate of Bologna My Lord Holstenius arrives at Mantoua The Popes Breifâ— to the Prince of Trent The Breife to the Arch-Duke Charles Ferdinand My Lord Holstenius is received by the Arch-Duke with much Courtesie The honours done to my Lord Holstenius Father Malines is sent to discover the will of the Queen The Popes Breife to the Arch-Dutchness of Inspruch My Lord Holstenius visits the Baron Ghirardi The expressions of the said Baron My Lord Holsténius visits the Ambassador Pimentel He imparts to him his Holinesses intention And he to the Queen who submits to the Popes pleasure My Lord Holstenius hath audience of her Majestie Her Majestie discourse with my Lord Holstenius His Holineses Breif to the Queen The Queen dines publickly with their Highnâ—sses the Arch-Dukes Her Majesty visits the Palace of Ambre She goes into the Church publickly The Order of the Church for performing the function of the Catholick profession The contents of the Popes Brief to my Lord Holstenius The Act of the Catholick Profession made by the Queen The Queens great generosity The absolution given to the Queen by my Lord Holstenius The joy for this profession The Recreations and plays recited before her Majestie The forme of the subscription of the act of profession Her Majesties departure from Inspruch The Arch-Duke sends a Gentleman to visit the Queen Her Majesty returnes the Arch-Dukes Complement The honors done her Majesty by the Bishop of Bressanon The Baron of Fermiano comes to