therefore others adjoining are always hired for the year of Jubile And as this and the other expences put them much in debt then so are they freed from that debt again in the other years wherein the layings out are not so excessive The year of Jubile 1600. being ended and an account taken of the number of Strangers here in the compass of that year entertained and booked they were found to be of men four hundred forty four thousand five hundred and of women twenty five thousand five hundred The order used in the practice of this charity is admirable As soon as the Strangers are arrived they all have the first night their feet washed and are refreshed the women apart by themselves from the men After thus washing in the Holy year a Sermon is made to them and then they are conducted to the table their meat being served-up as also their feet washed this first night usually by honourable persons The Supper ended they are conducted to Bed so without all noise that it may seem a kind of miracle that so many men of several nations accord so quietly together The time of their entertainment here is but for three days tho it be extended further to those who come from far To this pious work because the Revenues of the house are not able to bear so great a charge many and large charitable contributions are supplyed by others This is certain and to be admired that by the providence of God there was never yet wanting to furnish the table in a handsome manner For such Strangers as are Priests tho the diet allowed them be the same with the rest yet in reverence to their order they have a proper house apart destined to that use About the year of our Lord 1460. by the confraternity of St. Lucy between the Capitol and Marcellus's Baths and because it hath not a Church commodiously adjoining there is hired by the Sodality till they can build one of their own another large house wherein all the poor Priest may be entertained for a whole months space or longer if need be And this house that it may be publickly known wears this title in the front Hospitium Pauperum Sacerdotum Peregrinorum An House of Entertainment for such poor Priests as are Pilgrims or Strangers Like to this house there is another of later times erected by Don John Baptista Vives a Spaniard who buying a fair Palace standing at the foot of Collis Hortulorum in Rome designed it for such Strangers Priests such as are of those nations who have no particular Colledge of their own in that City and for the propagation of the Faith as the following Inscription on its Frontispeice declares added in Pope Vrban the Eight's Pontificate Collegium De Propagan in univer Mundum Per Sacerdotes Seculares Catholicâ fide Urbani VIII Anno primo And altho this Founder dwells himself still in this Palace yet was he no hindrance to the Priests living there but conversed with them and was often on his occasions permitted present at their consultations of which the chief scope is to propose advises ways and helps by which the Christian Catholick Religion may best be propagated over all the world Some of these Priests make no scruple voluntarily to offer themselves to be sent even into the Countries of Hereticks or Infidels either by preaching and good example of life to recover them from their errors or even by effusion of their own blood to assert the Catholick verity CHAP. XI Of National Hospitals for Entertainment of Strangers according to the Nation they are of BEsides the general places of receit for strangers forementioned many Nations because of the general confluence of them to Rome have here erected houses for the Reception of of their own Countrymen The first of these in honour to be named is that of the Germans dedicated to the Blessed Virgin under the title de Animâ or of the Soul It had its beginning An. Dom. 1350. upon occasion of the Jubilee by some of their own nation who having no Issue of their own gave up their houses for the Entertainment of such Strangers subject to the Empire as came to Rome and built them a Church tho not very large in honour of the Blessed Virgin on this condition That therein Prayers should be made to God by such Strangers as were there to be entertained for the Founders Souls and thence it had its name of St. Mary of the Soul By the munificence and charity of later times this house of entertainment hath been much enlarged a fairer add more capacious Church built and the Revenue thereof much increased Over it is set a congregation of twelve or fourteen men of the same Nation by whose prudence and authority it is menaged and laid out in pious uses especially in Hospitality to poor German Pilgrims at what time soever they come For to such there is provided for many days convenient dyet and lodging When they depart the town a peice of money do correspondent to the quality of the person is bestowed on them for their voyage The women have a house apart where are constantly maintained in a decent manner such as have been the Daughters and Wives of Germans To the Church for divine offices celebrated after a collegiate manner belong fourteen Priests a Sacrist an Organist four Acolytes Out of these Priests who are stiled the Chaplains is chosen one to have a care of the Pilgrims and to order them and therefore is named their father And whereas by a late Rule solemn High Mass is to be said early in the Morning he is not to dismiss them until they have heard it There is an house of Hospitality also for the French dedicated to St. Lewis with a fair Church adjoining It is governed by a Congregation of thirty persons twelve Frenchmen six Lorainers six Savoyards and six Britons and when any one of them dieth the congregation chooseth another in his room All things belonging to the Church are administred by twenty six Priests to whom Cardinal Contarello added eight Singers and an Organist that on Festivals sing the Service That Hospitality is ordered by three of the said Priests whereof one is always the Entertainer and the other two his Assistants by turns All Strangers of the French Nation that come are received here for three days and then are dismissed with some gratuity given them as a pious and charitable Token Such houses of Hospitality and publick entertainment are here provided for most other Nations namely such distinct houses for the Spaniards for the Fortugueses the Lombards Geroneses Low-Courtrica Bohemians Polonians Hungerians Illyrians Swedes Goths and Vandals for the Britons in France for the English the Scots the Indians and Armenians The House for the English was begun An. Dom. 1398. by John Shepard an English-man and then Inhabitant of Rome upon a sad accident happening upon an English woman straying up and down the City by night augmented afterwards by
not able of himself to discharge that peice of Charity The Third PART Containing the General Devotion towards GOD. CHAP. I. Of the publick Devotion of the Pope and Cardinals and People of Rome in observing Holy Festivals and Visiting Churches FIrst on all the chief Feasts of the year the Pope is publickly present together with the Cardinals at Morning and Evening Prayer and in the greater Solemnities himself sings Mass At which Masses there is always a Sermon in Latine unfolding the Gospel appointed by the Church for that day In Advent upon every Wednesday and in Lent upon every Friday there Preaches before the Pope and Cardinals some Religious Person learned and eloquent who with great Power and Christian liberty reprehends the vices of the greatest Prelates if any such are found faulty On the day of our Lord's Supper that is Maundy-Thursday the Pope with his own hands following the example of our Saviour doth publickly wash the feet of twelve poor men and after wipe them with a Towel and then giving them a dinner in which he himself serves at the Table suffers them not to depart till they have received every one a Garment and a summe of Money On the Feast of Corpus Christi the Pope with great Devotion carrieth in Procession the Blessed Sacrament about a great part of the Borgo On Ash-Wednesday he introduceth the Solemnity of Stations at St. Sabinas in his own person And in all these Solemnities the Cardinals do perpetually accompany him On the Feast of the Resurrection and Nativity of our Lord both the Pope and the Cardinals administer with their own hands the Blessed Body of our Lord to all of the Court rightly prepared The Pope also and Cardinals do often visit as their employments permit divers Churches of the City Here also we must not forget that great order of extraordinary Piety which Pope Clement the eighth instituted and transmitted to his Successors For that a holy Guard of men devoutly praying might never cease no not for the least moment of time in this City of Rome He ordained that Prayers for forty hours continuance should be still observed in a successive order throughout all the Churches of the City This takes its beginning for the first forty hours in the Popes own Chappel then passeth into St. Peter's next into St. John Lateran's and so in order into all the Collegiate Churches of the City The order and manner of these Prayers is thus The Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist beset with great company of Torches and Tapers is publickly exposed over the Altar immediately one of that College kneels before that Altar most intent to his Prayer for the space of an hour and that hour ended another succeeds him doing the like and then another him People of all sorts and condition during the same time night and day coming in by turns and making their particular private Prayers there until full forty hours are run out these finished the devotion is transferred to another College for the same time and afterwards to another until it returns as at first to the Popes Chappel again This Solemnity of the forty hours Devotion is celebrated in the most decent sacred and silent manner as is possible The Popes of Rome have also this custome for the averting of Wars between Christian Princes and upon other grand occasions to institute solemn Supplications Litanies and Processions wherein themselves are assistant going on foot a great part of the Town as from their own Palace unto St. Mary Major or some other Church of the City The whole Body of the Clergy preceding and singing the Litanies with an exceeding great Devotion The Piety also of the people of Rome as eminently appears in observing Festival days to the honour of God and also his Martyrs and Saints in which Rome far exceeds all other places There is scarce any one in the number of all the Saints that hath not some Church or Chappel dedicated to his name in this City And upon the Anniversary Feast it is adorned with handsome furniture and visited in great devotion by an infinite multitude of people especially by the chief and noble persons men and women and liberally supplyed with gifts and presents During the time of Lent-Fast there are always observed in some Church or other by the faithful people certain holy Stations out of antient Tradition which Stations are held in great veneration and celebrated by a great concourse of all sorts of People in a solemn manner And tho the Worship of God be still continued in all times yet the Solemnity of visiting the Churches is so great in the year of Jubile and so numerous the devout people that perform it as will hardly find belief I my self saith the Author lately saw in the beginning of this year of Jubile 1625. more than once above forty thousand persons upon one day devoutly going from Church to Church in very great fervour of Spirit and in comely order not one discomposed not one but what appeared with that modesty which becomes a Christian There are heard no prophane pratlings among them no wanton glances cast to and fro but every one having God present in his mind and his eyes fixed on the ground he walks upon either recites his Rosary or directs either mental or vocal Prayers with great affection to Almighty God That which I most wondered at in this matter was That all that great multitude consisted of the people of Rome for in that beginning of the year Strangers were not yet come thither They as it were endeavouring to give good example and to be Leaders to all others in the paths of Piety CHAP. II. Of the Patriarchal Collegiate and Parish Churches in Rome There are three chief and Patriarchal Churches in this City The first whereof is St. John's in Lateran the Episcopal See of Rome altho by reason of the unwholsomness of the air thereabouts and for greater security to the Popes their habitation hath now for many years since been translated from thence to St. Peter's in the Vatican where the Palace is grown as big as a little City This Church hath for its Founder Constantine the Great tho by its age falling into decay it hath been often repaired by several Popes The second Patriarchal Church is that of St. Peter's in the Vatican This also originally was built by Constantine the Great but since levelled with the ground and another in its place built far more magnificent The third Patriarchal Church is that of St. Maries ad Presaepe which is also called ad Nives because by a miracle of Snow falling there in August it was built in that place by John Patricius by intimation of Pope Liberius In all these three Churches there is dayly celebrated the Holy office of the Mass and the Canonical hours sung upon Festivals with Musick and the Organs to the praise and honour of Almighty God the Bestower of all good things There are also in this City twelve
more famous Collegiate Churches of Secular Priests In all which or in the most part Praises are sung to God always night and day and canonical hours observed with a Quire and Musick in some Festivals There are in Rome also sixteen other Churches Collegiate of Secular Preists which are either National Churches or peculiar to some Sodalities Of National Collegiate Churches eleven of Sodalities five In all which are observed likewise and sung dayly the canonical hours and at Evening Lauds to the Blessed Virgin and on Festival days they have their Musick and each Church is furnished with a sufficient number of Priests There are also in Rome eighty eight parish Churches some of the Collegiate Churches being also Parochial The Rectors of which are by their office bound to celebrate the Holy Mass for their Parishioners every day to be ready to baptize such as need it and to give the Holy Communion to all desiring it The Canons of the Church having also prescribed to Lay persons that they at least once in the year viz. at the Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ do receive the Communion in their own parish Church and whosoever faileth herein in Rome is publickly separated from the Communion of the faithful at the Festival of St. Bartholomew Whereupon every year a most exact account is taken of the number of all the Inhabitants of this City The Rectors of these Parishes make up an University among themselves and often meet and have excellent discourses about such things as belong to the care of Souls and sometimes they propose certain Theses in Theology to be publickly disputed To these Rectors also belongs the care of the House of entertainment for poor Stranger-Priests mentioned before Chapter the tenth These Rectors create an Officer whom they call Primicerius This man to those who are to be entertained in that house gives a Ticket directed to the Keeper thereof who having read the Contents without delay receives courteously the Bringers of it CHAP. III. Of the many Monasteries in Rome of Religious men and women reciting the canonical hours and offering up other Hymns and Lauds to God night and day and the Priests at due times celebrating the Holy Mass OF Monks in Italy there be twelve Congregations which commonly are called Gaudentes because their Institute permits them to enjoy a yearly Revenue These are distinguished by some title taken either from their Founder or from the place where they first founded And each sort of them have their several and very fair Monasteries in Rome Of these enjoying Lands and Rents the Author numbers twenty eight Convents in the City of Rome Of Mendicants whose institute permits them to enjoy no yearly Revenue the Author numbers to be in Rome Convents in all fifty one The Institution of those Societies are various Some taking the three Vows of 1. Poverty i. e. none having any Propriety but all their means in common and 2. Obedience to the commands of a Superior i. e. in all things lawful and 3. of Chastity or Celibacy Others living together without taking such vows and at liberty to relinquish the Society when they please only obliged during their stay to obey and conform to the orders thereof Some keeping a solemn Quire for celebrating the divine Service others hindred by several charitable offices to their neighbour omitting it and performing their Devotions apart The chief ends also and designs of their Institution are different Some more dedicated to retirement continual Mortifications as to the pleasures and contents of this life i. e. so far as health permits it in sleep diet clothes bed lodging company discourse c. the way to be weaned from all affection to any thing in this world accustoming themselves to night-watching solitude abstinence from pleasant meat or drink frequent fasting silence clausure not receiving visits from kindred or freinds hair-cloth hard lodging narrow cells and spending most of their time either in the publick praises of God by night and day in the Quire or in private Prayer or contemplation in their cells Others more designing an active life and the abounding in various works of Charity toward their neighbour whose purposes and employments are such as these For studying Divinity in order to the confutation and conversion of Hereticks For hearing Confessions Preaching and administring the Sacraments being assistant herein to the Secular Clergy and Parish Priests where these wanting their help Or For assisting the Bishop also in his government and being sent and employed where the necessities of his Diocess or Province seem to require it taking onely a single vow of Obedience i. e. in licitis to him as the Oblates of St. Ambrose founded by St. Carolo Borromeo Again For directing men in making their Spiritual Exercises and in all cases that concern their Conscience as to good or evil For giving Spiritual Exercises to such as desire Ordination into the Priesthood and instructing them in the duties and ceremonies of their office For the Education of youth in sound Doctrine and Christian Piety and in humane Learning and the Sciences in order thereto For reading Divinity to those young Students that are designed for the Clergy For expounding the Catechisme or Christian Doctrine to the more ignorant to Children to the poor For Missions to forlorn Villages and places full of ignorance and destitute of Spiritual Instructors but this with the Bishops Licence Or Missions also into remoter Countries for converting Infidels and Heathens to the Catholick Faith For the Education of Forreign youths who after being well instructed in the Catholick Religion may return into their own Countries Heathen or Heretical for the same Service For the Redemption of Captives For the governing of Hospitals or tending on the sick there or also tending on those labouring under infectious diseases For assisting when called for the Agonizants such as are dying and preparing them for a happy end For compounding and preparing several sorts of Medicines for the sick Lastly For being the Superintendents and Overseers of the Charities and Benefactions of others of what kind soever they be Colleges Seminaries Hospitals Schools c. persons so qualified as they are i. e. single and under a Vow of Poverty and Obedience or of enjoying in this world only necessaries and for unity in all their business steered by the commands of a prudent Superior being the fittest for any such trusts These among others are the Designs and Work of so many Religious Societies And thus are they diligently labouring some more chiefly in one of these employments some in another as their Founders and Constitutions variously direct and distinguish them which employments are here promiscuously put together and set down because it would be too tedious to distribute and apply them to the particular Institutions And in all these Convents and Religious Houses the Canonical hours and other Hymns and Lauds are dayly sung both night and day unless it be among those who professedly and
Holidays is added a Sermon and upon Sundays Holy Bread Holy Water the Procession and Prone that is a familiar explication upon the Gospel of the day for the forenoon together with a formal Sermon and Catechisme for the afternoon This is the ordinary practice all Paris over But the Pastors zeal for the instruction and inflamation of the people's hearts stays not here but further by himself or his order there are most eloquent Sermons made all the days of Advent and Lent save Saturdays by the same Preachers who are followed with a wonderful concourse of Auditors and a no less admirable quiet attention of so great a multitude Can then our Adversaries without affected malice pretend that the Papists are nousled up in ignorance which with the proud Manicheans they impudently object against them And as the dignity of Priests and height of pastoral functions is most venerable and dreadful so is their care as great as far as humanly can be devised to make a hopeful provision of young Priests to assist them in their life time and so to succeed in their places after their deaths And to this effect a Secular Priest and a great servant of God whose admirable works of Charity have made him famous all the world over as here below you shall see F. Vincent de Paul suggested an effectual means to the most illustrious and most reverend Arch-Bishop of Paris then being to wit above thirty years ago who highly approved and confirmed it and ordered it to be observed by all who should pretend for holy orders at his hands and it is still continued with like approbation by his command who doth now illustrate the said See viz. That all who should take holy orders should be obliged to make a spiritual retreat at St. Lazares where this Father Vincent governed for the space of ten days that none should rashly intrude themselves into so dreadful a Ministery And whereas this is a thing as worthy the approbation as imitation of all Bishops it may be of good use and edification to put down here the exercises in that holy retreat in particular Ten days then before the Collation of holy orders all the Ordinandi repair to St. Lazars sometimes fifty or sixty sometimes to the number of one hundred where they find bed and board and all things ready by God's providence without their care or cost and they are all most humanely and charitably received not so much into the house as into the bosome of the pious Inhabitants Two different Entertainments are made to them every day the one in the morning upon the chief heads of moral Divinity the other towards the evening of the vertues and qualities proper to their intended function There are Ten made in all of either kind The Forenoons Entertainment The first day They speak of the censures of the Church in general The second Of the said censures in particular as of excommunication suspension interdicts and irregularity The third Of the Sacrament of Penance as of its institution form effects and of the conditions necessary in the Confessor The fourth Dispositions to the Sacrament of Penance to wit contrition confession and satisfaction with indulgences The fifth Of divine and humane laws and of sin in general with the division thereof the circumstances the kinds causes effects degrees and remedies The sixth Of the three first commandments which contain man's duty to God and of the three Theological vertues with the vertue of Religion and its Acts. The seventh Is an explication of the other seven commandments which concern our neighbour The eighth Of the Sacraments in general and of confirmation and the Eucharist in quality of a Sacrament The ninth Of the Eucharist as it is a Sacrifice and of extream Unction and Marriage The tenth is the explication of the Creed with what is necessary to be known by every Priest and what they may teach the people thereupon with profit The Afternoons Entertainment The first day is of mental Prayer First the motives to it for Clergy-men Secondly wherein it consists Thirdly the method and means to perform it And in this they are exercised every day for some time The second day the Speech is of ones Vocation and of the state of a Church-man That this Vocation should be had before one presents himself to Orders wherein it consists and which are the marks of it with the means to know it and to correspond with it The third speaks of the spirit of a Clergy-man and shews how he is to enter into this spirit wherein it consists the marks of it the means to acquire it and to grow perfect in it The fourth treats of orders in general of their institution necessity matter form effects and differences with the dispositions necessary to receive them The fifth Of the first Tonsure with an explication of the doctrine of that Ceremony The obligations contracted by it The dispositions and qualities required The sixth A discourse of the lesser orders in particular their definition the matter form and functions with the vertues required to comply with them worthily The seventh Of the office of Subdeacon and the vertues proper to this order and particularly of Chastity The eighth Of the office of Deacon and the vertues proper to it particularly of Charity to our neighbour The ninth Of Priesthood and of the knowledge necessary for Priests to acquit themselves of their duty In the tenth is a discourse of the life of a Clergy-man wherein it is made appear that they who have received holy orders ought to lead a much more holy life than that of Lay-men with many advices to help towards such a life All these things they repeat in their conferences made afterwards the better to commit them to memory They make every day about half an hour of mental Prayer and conferences upon it afterwards to instruct such as are less exercised therein how to use considerations to move affections and to make resolutions They are dayly exercised in the functions of the orders which they are to take and in the Ceremonies of the holy Mass They are made to recite the office altogether and to observe the stops c. They are disposed to make their general confessions at least from their last general one and the next day they communicate high Mass They have seven hours to repose in by night and two hours of holy conversation every day this is after dinner and supper In which time they read the holy Scriptures and Molina of the dignity and sanctity of Priest-hood Upon Sunday after they have taken orders they assist at high Mass and communicate in thanksgiving for their holy ordination and so return to their own homes Thus they are most substantially and piously prepared which good dispositions are visibly observed to be followed with such blessed effects that great benedictions of admirable reformations in the whole Clergy of France are seen every where CHAP. II. Of the beginning and Progress of the
ungodly parents hands and placed them in this Hospital the care whereof was committed to five honest and able Burgesses who provided them of men and maids to serve them As all beginnings are weak so was this in particular Their small beginning stock would hardly reach to two meals a day till the Charity of some Burgesses added to their small pittance They are clad in blew Coats and Capps and the place affords them food and instruction till they grow up to years of discretion and then they are bound Apprentices to certain Journey-men of divers trades who to this purpose are admitted to live in certain houses all within the compass of the Hospital for certain years and by that means to pass Masters A Priviledge which the town allowed of for the good of those poor Children who by this means are enabled to gain their livelihood honestly by their labours without being a burthen or a mischief to the town c. They amount at present to the number of one hundred and fifty CHAP. VIII Of the Hospital of les enfants rouges or God's Children as a King of France would have them called in the Street Portfoin near the Temple And of the Hospital called the Misericorde or Work of Mercy PRovision being already made for poor Orphans of Paris as well Boys and Girls as also for Boys taken out of the hands of wicked parents still new inventive Charity sets up another Hospital for the assistance of other fatherless and motherless boys of the villages round about Paris being about ten or twelve years of age or under This blessed work was founded by that vertuous Lady Margaret Queen of Navar and Dutchess of Bar whom Belforest stiles the mirrour of the Ladies of her time To this the Charity of good people contributed and in tract of time built a new Chappel and other lodgings These are clothed in red to intimate Charity and as well these as the Blew-boys gain part of their livelihood by carrying Torches at the funerals of such as desire them They are now only about the number of forty Of the Hospital called the Misericorde or Work of Mercy Monsieur Anthony Seiguier the second President in Parliament was the noble Founder thereof extending it self to the number of one hundred Girls who are plentifully provided of all things necessary So that certainly this Charity could not mount to less all things considered than to thirty or forty thousand pounds sterling In the first place he raised them a fair and regular house from the ground with a very decent and competent Chappel thereto adjoining The house consists of three quarters a body as it were and two arms the fourth quarter being industriously left unbuilt to receive the morning Sun and so to afford a wholsome air to those young children It contains in the first story the lower rooms being imployed for Refectory Work-house Kitchin Wash-house and other offices four great Chambers singularly well peirced and aired in every one whereof there are twenty five iron beds with white coverlets each one having her bed apart They are modestly handsomely and wholsomely attired in Violet cloth and decent linnen and well fed Secondly He hath ordered that they shall all of them be such as want both father and mother Natives of Paris town or suburbs begotten in lawful marriage and destitute of all assistance Thirdly They must be six or seven years old before they can be admitted where they are entertained till they be twenty five unless haply they have leave for their own advantage to go to some religious house which desires them or to some good Lady Gentile-woman or Burgess to serve them or to learn some trade by their means and assistance and furnished with all necessaries They have over each Chamber a Mistress to keep good order among them and to breed them up in vertue and all convenient works under the conduct of a grave Governor and learned Doctor of Sorborne the chief Governor thereof Fourthly At their departure the house allowes each one an hundred Franks to help to settle them in the world in marriage or otherwise Finally The wise Founder of it bequeathed it to the direction and care of divers Councellors and Masters of Requests whereof a person of honour Mr. Monthalon was the chief in his kind as a grave and learned Doctor of Sorborne is always to be the chief and immediate Governor especially in Spirituality The first President of the Parliament and the Procurator general are also Sur-intendants honorarii of this place CHAP. IX Of the Hospital in St. German's Suburbs called la petit Maison Of the Hospital of the three hundred Blind-men called Quinze vingt And of the Hospital called The Providence THE Children of both Sexes being well provided-for as above the Charity of the good Magistrates was called to the care of poor aged and distressed persons as well men as women whose age and impotency hindred them to gain their living They are divided into two quarters the men living apart from the women This House was for the most part as well built as endowed by the bountiful Charity of Mr. Boulencour Counsellor to the King and President of his Chamber des compts who erected many lodgings and chambers for the lame and impotent c. They are furnished with meat drink and all things necessary from the grand Bureaux des pauvres as it is commonly called which is in effect the great Court of Audience in order to works of Charity of which I intend to make a particular description hereafter Further this Hospital receives poor Vagabonds as well Boys as Girls who have gotten scald Pates by lying in the streets or under Shop-stalls or otherwise who are diligently dressed purged and frequently cured as it hath happened to above two hundred in this place Here are also received poor Women who are subject to the falling sickness as also others who are distracted and run up and down the streets in a frantick manner who yet by good usage are often in length of time recovered to their wits The grand Bureau de pauvres provides this house with a Governor who is at present a very able Surgeon who out of his singular charity makes choice to dwell amongst those miserable Creatures the better to be able to assist them And he is so far from inriching himself by his loathsome practice that contrarily he freely spends his own fortunes upon them in making many Medicaments and compositions with hopes to cure their desperate infirmities as it often happens or at least to solace their pains This good man hath another of the same profession to assist him in that blessed imployment He liveth near to the place and fails not to be with them every day or even as oft as he is called-for to apply the remedies which the other provides according to his order And whereas this place serves also for a house of correction there are two prisons to tame incorrigible persons and to