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THE Third Volume OF Historical Travels OVER EUROPE Containing the most Select Curiosities of ITALY THE Various Constitutions of Government under several Sovereign Princes and States their Strength their Riches and Revenues the sundry Customs Manners Coyns and Trade of the People Together with A Particular Description of the City of ROME the Conclave the Election of the Pope and Promotion of the Cardinals Accompany'd with a Great Number of Remarks never yet before imparted to the World Done out of French LONDON Printed for Hen. Rhodes at the Star the Corner of Bride-Lane in Fleetstreet 1694. TO THE READER 'T IS very true that several have set forth Descriptions of Italy but 't is no wonder that all Geographers should be Ambitious of making their Court to a Country that was once the Mistress of the World The Author is also very brief I must confess but many timas succinct Manuals are better Companions for a Gentleman then large Volumes They will go by Water with him and ride in his Coach where weighty Folio's would be too cumbersomo and unweildy Besides the Author himself assures ye that though he has not been so tedious as others yet that you shall meet in the succeeding few Chapters not only with Novelties which are pleasing to all Men but with an infinite number of most curious Remarks which never yet before were committed to the Press and which were the Observations of a Great and Learned Cardinal in some particulars and as to others of an Eminent Person who by means of his Publick Employments and his long Residence in the Courts of several Princes of Italy had gain'd a peculiar and perfect knowledge of the Country a great Argument of the Truth of what is offer'd to your View that there is much in a little and all clean from Fabulous Report Now then after these Encouragements to heighten your Curiosity I think it not convenient to add any more for fear of putting a long Epistle before a little Book HISTORICAL TRAVELS OVER EUROPE ITALY CHAP. I. Of Italy in General ALthô above fourscore Authors have wrote the Description of Italy nevertheless it is not known from whence it derives its Name Some deduce it from Oxen or Bulls which in the ancient obsolete Greek were called Itali and for the feeding of which Italy was then in high repute Others will have it so called from one Italus one of the first Kings of the Country It formerly bore the Names of Saturnia Ausonia Oenopia and Hesperia which it receiv'd from several Princes and renowned Captains that regin'd therein at several times This part of Europe is seated in the middle of the Temperate Zone between the 28th Degree and a half and the 42d and a half of Longitude and between the 37th Degree and a half and 48th and a half of Latitude It is bounded to the North by a ridge of Mountains called the Alpes which separate it from Germany and Switzerland to the West by the Alpes also and the River Var which divides it from France and Savoy to the East by the Mediterranean Sea otherwise call'd the Adriatic Sea or the Golph of Venice and to the South by the Tyrrhene or Tuscan Sea Where it is longest to take it from the Frontiers of Savoy to the farthest extremity of the Kingdom of Naples it extends it self about 280 French Leagues or 450 Italian Miles But the breadth of it is not all alike sometimes 30 in other places 40 60 80 and 100 French Leagues resembling a Boot that seems to kick at Sicily to force it into Africa Most Geographers divide Italy into four parts the first comprehends the ancient Lombardy wherein are contain'd the States or Dominions of the Dukes of Savoy Mantua Parma Modena Milanois the Republic of Venice Genoa and some other Petty Principalities The second includes the Ecclesiastical State and Tuscany The third the Kingdom of Naples And the fourth the Islands of Sardigna Sicily Corsica c. The Air is very wholsome and very temperate over all Italy except in the Ecclesiastical State where certain malignant Fevers are very rife and were much more frequent before the use of Ice in Summer to cool their Drink Italy produces in great plenty whatever is necessary for the support of Human Life as Corn Oyl Oranges Citrons Pomegranates with all sorts of Fruits and Flowers There is to be found both Sugar and Cotton in the Kingdom of Naples besides great store of Silkworms very good Horses and Bufalo's The
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Chalon's may pass for the second City of Champaigne for the beauty of the Streets Market-Places and Buildings and the Antiquity of it for that in the time of Julian the Apostate it was look'd upon as one of the Principal Cities of Belgick Gaul The Cathedral is remarkable for the Tower that adorns it very large and very high There is also in this City a Generality and a Presidial Court Troyes is another very fair City and very Ancient with a Presidial Seat and a Bailliage The Cathedral is consecrated to St. Peter wherein are preserv'd many pretious Curiosities Among the rest they pretend to shew yee some Locks of Christ's Hair one of the Dishes made use of at the Last Supper a Tooth of St. Peter's and the Body of St. Helena which still appears to be fresh Charleville has this peculiar to it that though the Duke of Mantua be Soveraign Lord of the City yet the Gates the Walls and the Castle of Mount Olympus belong to the King of France Sens seated upon the Confluence of the Seine and the Yonne is the Seat of an Archbishop and a City both large beautiful and very ancient The Cathedral of St. Stephens is very remarkable for the Front of it adorn'd with variety of Figures and two Stately Towers for the Largeness of the Body of the Church for the Richness of the Chappels the Antiquity of the Tombs the Base of the Cheif Altar where is to be seen upon a Table of Gold enrich'd with a great Number of Pretious Stones a Representation of the Four Evangelists and in the middle a St. Steven kneeling To this City also belongs a Presidial Court and a Bailliage There are several other Cities in this Province of Champaign as Langres Auxerre c. of which I omit to say any thing in particular in regard I never propos'd to my self to make a particular Description of all the Cities of France designing only an account of what is most worthy the Curious View of a Traveller CHAP. XXVI IN regard our Monarch has United the Dutchy of Lorrain to his Crown whether by right of Conquest or by vertue of a Donation and Resignation which Charles III. made to His Majesty in 1662 I find my self bound to add in this place a short Description of it It is bounded by Champaigne to the West by Luxemburgh to the North by the Rhine to the East and by Burgundy to the South It extends it self Forty Leagues from East to West and as many from South to North. It was the Allotment that fell to Lothair who gave it his Name and the Germans still call it Luttheringe The People have been always accompted Warlike and at this day the Lorrainers are look'd upon to be good Souldiers Nanci seated in the Middle of a Plain with a Chamber of Accompts and a Seneschalship is the Chief City of Lorrain where formerly the Dukes kept their Courts The City of Metz is very Ancient as being formerly the Capital of the Medromatrices it is the Seat of a Bishop and Lewis XIII honour'd it with a Parlament in 1633 which renders it the most Considerable of any in the whole Province The Cathedral is Consecrated to St. Stephen where there is to be seen a Vessel of Red Porphyrie all of one piece above Ten foot long wherein the Holy Water is put This Province abounds in all sorts of Cattle and is furnish'd with Salt-Pits It affords also Mines of Iron and Lead and at the foot of the Mountain Volege the People find Pearls Azure Stones and Materials for good Looking-Glasses Toul Verdune are also both Bishopricks And this is all I have at present to say of Lorrain For as for the Conquer'd Countries I have a design God willing to treat of 'em in a Particular Volume under the Title of The Conquests of Lewis the Great I shall only observe that under the Conquer'd Countries I Comprehend Artois Luxemburg Hainault the County of Namur and part of Flanders of which the Principal Cities are Arras Cambrai Tournai Douai Valenciennes Lisle Dunkirk Luxemburgh Mons and Namur all which Impregnanable Places are in the hands of the French The End of the First Tome Books Printed for Henry Rhodes next Bride Lane in Fleet-street 1. 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Door and at an Overture about Eight Fathom in circumference it the top of the Church This Building was formerly cover'd with Plates of Silver afterwards of Copper and since that with Lead but now Lastly at this day with Large Stones There are a great many Hospitals in Rome every Nation having one particularly belonging to it But the Hospital of the Trinity erected by Clement VIII actually maintains Five thousand Persons not to mention such as come by chance In the Apostles Church there is to be seen every year an Election of Twelve Gentlemen and one Prelate for the distribution of Alms to such as are asham'd to make known their Necessities and to the end they may be the more easily discovered there are several Boxes Lock'd up and set up in Publick Places having little Grates at the top wherein they who are in want may put in little Notes containing the Places of their Abode There are also Houses for young Girls of Ten or Twelve years of Age when their Parents are not able to provide for 'em for fear lest Poverty should tempt 'em to prostitute themselves There is another House over the Gate of which is to be read this Inscription Per le Donne mal maritate For the Women ill Married Where they put such Women as are unfortunately Married or cannot agree with their Husbands and where they stay till their differences are reconcil'd and that the one or the other testifies a desire to live peaceably together All sorts of lewd Strumpets that signifie a desire to Repent and Reform their Lives are admitted into St. Mary Magdalains in Corse and are there maintain'd all the rest of their Lives Nor are they Lock'd up by force as in the Spinning-House in Amsterdam but they must see no Men unless it be their Confessor and their Physitian They who report that Brothel-houses are permitted in Rome say true but not when they add that the Pope approves 'em and receives a Tribute from ' em For there is a great difference between approving and conniving Judaism is no more approved in Italy then in England and Holland thô the Jews are suffer'd in all these places and have their Publick Synagogues And the Popes are so far from laying any Tribute upon the infamous Traffick of the Daughters of Joy that they have been the Founders of several Hospitals for the maintenance of young Girls whose Fathers and Mothers are not able to keep 'em lest Poverty should tempt them to Libertinism and they are maintain'd in those Houses till they are of an Age to Marry or enter into a Religious House and they that are dispos'd to Marry have a reasonable Portion allow'd 'em proportionable to the Match that offers it self and every Annunciation Day there is a considerable Sum of Money distributed in the Dominicans Church to 300 young Virgins that are in those Hospitals The Laws in respect of common Prostitutes are very rigorous they are forbid to come into the Assemblies of Honest Women or to frequent the places where they walk to take the Air they must not go in a Coach in the Day time nor stirr out of their Houses in the Night nor may they converse together to the end they may have no opportunity to encourage one another to debaucherie They are forbid upon pain of exemplary Punishment to admit any company into their Houses during Lent nor during the Advent They are bound to Register their Names in the Publick Registers kept on purpose for the Curtisans who by that means are lookt upon as infamous for ever They are not admitted to the Holy Communion nor Buried in Holy Ground but in the nasty places along by the Walls of the City Lastly they cannot make a Will so that if they leave any Estate behind 'em which is very rarely 't is all confiscated for the Benefit of the Hospitals for young Virgins Those Places which they call Catacombs are certain Subterraneal Walks or Caverns where the Primitive Christians performed the Exercises of their Religion during the Persecutions of the Pagan Emperors and where they privately also held some Councils The Catacombs most known in Rome are those that open into the Churches St. Pancras St. Sebastian St. Agnes and St. Laurence They who have gone through 'em report That they run almost quite under the City even under the River Tiber. These Vaults are for the most part about Five Foot High and Three in Breadth By the sides of which lie the Bodies of several Saints and Martyrs from whence the Pope causes the Holy Bodies to be taken up and Presents 'em to Princes and Ambassadors by such Names as his Holiness thinks proper to give ' em There are some Places in these Catacombs where People are forc'd to crawl along upon their Bellies for Twenty or Thirty Paces and several Persons that have gone thither to visit the Tombs of the Ancient Christians have laid their own Bones in the same place For being engag'd too far without good Guides they have lost themselves either their light failing 'em before they can find the way out again or else being stifl'd with the smoak of the Torches The Palace of St. Peter's of the Vatican where the Popes usually reside in Winter is seated in the Burrough the best fortify'd place in all the City This Palace is of a very vast extent in regard it côntains above 5000 Rooms and Chambers It has three rows of Galleries adorn'd with Pictures representing the Principal Histories of the Old and New Testament In the Chambers also are an infinite Number of Marble and Alablaster Statues more especially there is a Stone to be admir'd in the Imperial Chamber upon which Nature has form'd the Image of Pius V. more exactly then any Pencil could have drawn it upon Cloth This Palace so call'd from the Name of the Hill upon which it is seated was begun in the Pontificate of Nicholas V. and finish'd under Leo V. but was embellish'd with Painting and Statues by Sixtus V. Clement VIII Vrban VIII and their Successors who have made it a Palace fit for the Residence of the Severeign Pontiffs In the midst of the Gallery that leads to Belvedere stands the Vatican Library which is lookt upon to be the fairest and the most famous for Number and Curiosity of Books in the World There are an infinite Variety of Manuscripts in Hebrew Greek Latin Arabick c. Writings upon Leaves of Wood and Tablets of Wax of which they made use before the invention of Paper There is a large Manuscript Hebrew Bible and another Hebrew Bible written upon pieces of Parchment roll'd up from whence the Latin word Volumen with another Manuscript written upon the Leaves of a Tree as the Custome was in those days whence the Latin word Folium for the Leaf of a Book Lastly There is a Greek Bible which as they assure us was one of the Seventy Copies of the Seventy Interpreters who Translated the Old Testament by the Command of