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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	faith_n	time_n	true_a	3,193	5	4.3171	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47958	The present state of Genova with the articles of the treaty of Cession to the French king, and an account of the late actions of the French fleet, before it, and ofthe damages there sustain'd by the bombs and carcasses. To which is added, a letter from the Republick of Genova to the City of Argiers upon that subject.	Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.	1687 (1687)	Wing L1339; ESTC R217652	30,484	107

Sentiment of the Monks The Inquisition The Court of Inquisition is another piece of Pageantry in the way they manage it The Inquisitor is sent from Rome who is a Dominican Monk with a Secretary and Companion These three Fathers make up the Inquisition and can judg absolutely but nothing is put in execution but by express orders from the Senate which never gives them The Inquisitor exclaims and vexes himself but if his Complaints sound too loud the Senate sends him packing under pretext of reason of State and as turbulent There is no Religion but the Catholick professed at Genoa Since the time that St. Nazaras and St. Celsus preached the Gospel there no Heresie hath there taken footing And for that constancy in the true faith and the Wars they have had against Infidels the body of the State reckon it one of their priviledges that they cannot incur an Interdict nor general Excommunication no not from the Holy See Genoa cannot be excommunicated if in the excommunication his Holiness mention not the priviledg and expresly derogate from it That priviledg was granted them by Pope Innocent IV. Innocent IV. of the Family of Fresque of the House of Fieschi who being besieged in Gajetta with the whole College of Cardinals by Frederick II. was delivered by James and Nicolas Fieschi's his Nephews to whom Genoa lent them Galleys for that important Expedition So that these two Nephews making a shew of going against the Moors of Africa put back to shoar again of a sudden and coming to Gajetta took on board the Pope and Cardinals and carried them to Genoa and from thence to France where the Pope in presence of St. Louis celebrated the Council of Lyon The Council of Lyon. wherein Frederick the second was declared fallen from the Empire and another chosen in his place The religious Mendicants have stately Churches in Genoa and every Order hath two or three The Jesuits keep the publick Schools and have extraordinary credit with the Nobility The Senate are pious in appearance but in reality Machiavilians with a fair outside of Religion but little correspondence to it within being proud revengeful irreconcileable cruel and glorying in Usury saying that they have a Bull from the Pope which no man ever saw which allows them to take Interest at seven in the hundred and a good pledg besides There are twenty four Fraternities Fraternities established in Genoa and there is not one Genoese who is not enrolled in one or other of these Fraternities so that it may be said that under pretext of Devotion there are twenty four factions in Genoa who still feed that secret rancour which heretofore divided the State into Guelphs and Gibellins under the names of the Adorno's and Fregozo's and which is still entertained betwixt the Fieschi's and other Families the Fregoso's being Guelphs and the Adorno's Gibellins And as a mark of distinction betwixt those two parties the Fregozo's both Men and Women wear their Hair and Posies on the right side and a Turky blew and when they promise any thing they hold up the Thumb and close the Fist whereas the Adorno's wear their Hair on the left side put their Posies there and delight in green and when they assure any thing they point out the Fore-finger and close the rest of the Hand The Adorno's are of the Spanish faction and the Fregozo's who are inferiour in number incline to the French. Nevertheless the Nobility of late have withdrawn from these Fraternities and leave the people onely engaged in them whom they are willing to have divided into many little factions that they may not unite against the Nobility I forgot to tell that there is a Court which is called the Court of the Arsenal The Court of the Arsenal consisting of five Gentlemen and a Chancellour Their care is to cause Galleys to be built and to have always a certain number ready to be put to Sea. Excellent building of Galleys The structure of them is excellent the Workmen very skilful and the work perfectly good And to the end that the building of Galleys may not cost the Republick much they always build many more than they need and the sale of those that are superfluous supplies the charge of those which are necessary And hence it is that the Squadrons of Spain Naples Sicily and Sardinia are made up of Galleys built in the Arsenal of Genoa And that the prohibition made to them by M. de St. Olon on the part of the French King hath strangely stunned them through the apprehension of being obliged to dismiss so many able Artists that work in their Arsenal They have also established another Court The Court of the borders which they call the Court of the Borders to take heed that none of the Subjects of the Republick nor neighbouring Princes undertake any works upon the Rivers such as Milns Dykes or Canals that may be prejudicial to the Publick Besides the Revenue that I have mentioned there is a certain publick stock which is called the Peculio Peculio and is a Cash yearly reserved and put apart for urgent necessities No man whatsoever can know what it amounts to that 's a secret reserved for the perpetual Procurators the knowledg of it being kept even from the ordinary Procurators because they who manage the Peculio are accountable to no man which hath made it to be believed that they appropriate it to themselves as they do the Rents of certain Farms The Government as to Provisions The Genoese have an admirable Government as to the regulation of Provisions and Victuals that the People may have plenty and at cheap Rates Their conduct in that particular deserves not onely to be commended but also imitated by all Princes and especially as to Corn and Wine which are as the two Poles on which the life of man turns They take particular care to have always a sufficient quantity of both to supply the whole City for two years compleat As to the Corn As to Bread. they take this course They have publick Granaries which are four great square Houses with several vaulted stories one over another in each which are so many different Granaries and which for greater security are enclosed with a Wall that hath but one Gate well guarded All these Granaries together can hold a sufficient quantity of Corn to supply the Town for three years and as one is emptied another is filled with this prudent care that if it be a plentiful year and the Corn cheap the Granaries are filled double and if the year be barren and the Corn very dear they spend the time with the former Provision and wait till the following year to fill them again So that it is not to be thought strange if by so wise a conduct the Bread is no dearer at one time than at another the People being never sensible of the barrenness of the Earth which by divine Providence hath