the Infante accompanied with the Favourite and his Brother found the Queen upon the point of rendring her last Breath The King asked her Benediction but the Infante was not able to say any thing having both his Heart and his Voice seized and all he could do was to burst into tears Isabel de Castro uncovered the Queens Hand which the King and the Infante kissed and the Favourite having told the King it was enough he went out saying Adieu Adieu and an hour after the Queen expired On the Munday was her Funeral the King and the Infante casting the holy Water upon her Corps which they accompanied to her Litter in which they carried her to a Covent of Barefoot White-Friars to be there Deposited till that of Religious Women of the same Order of which she was the Foundress was finished where she had a mind to be Buried As this Princess had been in her Life-time so she will be after her Death a perfect Model for all Princesses She was no sooner Dutchess of Bragansa but her Address and her Resolution put the Crown upon the Head of her Husband who had such Confidence in her that he Communicated the most Important 〈◊〉 of the State to her which had such great Success that the greatest Politians admired her Conduct When she was Regent she yet better manifested the Geniâ—â— she had to Manage the State for as she was assisted by no Body and that the Burthen of the Kingdom lay upon her she expressed an Indefatigable strength both of Body and Mind and conserved by her Prudence what she had Conquered by her Coâ—â—age So soon as she was undeceived of the Vanity of the things of this World she had a mind to Discharge her self of the Care of those Affairs If she did not do it it was because of the difficulty which she found in the executing of her Design besides some made it to her a scruple of Conscience Moreover as she had always a great deal of Moderation in her Prosperity so she supported all those Disgraces which Heaven sent her with much Constancy They remarked as a thing rare in either Sex when they have the soveraign Authority in their Hands that she had so little Resentment for the Persecutions they had made her suffer she seemed to take a pleasure in them so much she feared to oppose Religion But the Infante had not so much Moderation for he would not Pardon the Favourites whom he accused to be the Authors of them which irritated them in such sort that they confounded all things with the King They again raised up the ancient Reports which they had before spread abroad That he had no affection for the King and that he aspired to the Crown They enquired into his Discourses into his Exercises and into the Persons that came to him to endeavour to gain some pretext to censure his Conduct The King witnessed his hatred against those who Complemented him and an affection for them who Estranged themselves from him and forbid at the same time very many from coming into his Palace and testified to many others that their Affairs were not Expedited because they went thither What did they not do to take off Don Rodrigue de Meneses first President of the Parliament from the Infante How often did they try to enforce on him Impressions against him How often by offers enough to have shaken any Man but he did they attempt it All the Presidents of the other Tribunals were continued in their Charges but he â—â—ly was refused that Grace They would then have sent him in Quality of Viceâ—â—y to the East Indies but he found too many Charms in the Person of the Infante to go to exercise that Charge which was given to John Nunes de Acuntia who was also ty'd to the Prince Don Rodrigue de Meneses Simon de Vasconcellos and Sousa and Christopher de Abnada were all the Gentlemen that remained to him But as he had not enough to appear at the Entry of the Queen he went and demanded of the King permission to augment their Number to which he yielded and told him by Henry Anriquez de Miranda that he gave him power to name them himself The Infante presently named Lewis de Silveira Count de Sarsedas Don Vasco Labo Baron de Alvito Michael Carlos de Tavora General of the Artillery in the Province Tras os Montes and Lawrence de Lencastre but going to the Palace to thank the King he found he had changed his mind In the mean time he heard the Queen had left France and he thought to serve himself with the occasion of the good News to ask of the King these Gentlemen which he had chosen by his permission but the King would not yield to it Upon this the Infante having said That he he was astonished to see his Majesty would not approve of the Choice which he had made by his Permission The King replied That his Ancient Officers had abandoned him because they were not able to endure his ill Humour So the Infante finding himself Obliged to let the King see that they did not Retire for any Cause but for their own particular Affairs He would have shewn the King a Billet left by Antony de Miranda Anriquez when he retired but he would not see it It is one of the Injustices of those who are in Authority over others that they would not have the Truth made manifest to them when it is not for their Advantage for fear their Falsity should not continue with them But it was supposed that the King did this because he was constant to his Favourites who would have the Infante to have taken again his Ancient Gentlemen who had quitted him because they were their Creatures nor would they yield to let him have the other because they were suspected At this time the Infante came very feldom to Councel the Favourite however fail'd not to give him an account of the Affairs of the Realm but not in truth to ask his Advice but only to tell him what had been resolved on in Council But he had oftentimes that from common Report which they come to communicate to him from the King as a Secret The King and the Infante lived together after this manner when they had advice that that Navy which brought the Queen appeared at the Cape Rogue in the Morning the 2d of Aug. 1666. The Admiral on which she was aboard cast Anchor a little above Betlehem and in the Evening she came to Land in the presence of all the People who were ravish'd with her Beauty and her good Grace The King was the only Person who was not in hast to see her and in lieu of going to receive her from on Board he stay'd to do his ordinary Exercises The Marquess de Ruvigny General of the Naval Forces which had conveyed the Queen went to salute the Infante whom he found accompanied with none but Don Rodrigue de Meneses for Simon de
his advantage as they might perhaps publish in their Quarters To the Navies an Order to withdraw from Lisbon and wrot to the Count St. John that neither he nor any other whatsoever should go out of his Province without order This perswaded the Infante that the design was laid to make war upon him both by Land and Sea so that having known by all these signs there was no more hopes for him of Justice against the Count He presented a new Request to the King supplicating him that he would once more give order to examine this Affair which was expressed in these Terms It hath pleased your Majesty to let me know by the Councellors of State the Marquess de Marialva the Marquess de Sande Ruy de Moura Telles that you have resolved never to consent to the removal of the Count de Castelmelhor which I demanded to facilitate the justification of my Complaint and this Resolution is grounded upon the advice of Noble persons whom it hath pleased your Majesty to consult Your Majesty desires that I determine and make my Answer presently because the State may not continue in the trouble it is Although I ought to conform my self to whatever it hath pleased your Majesty to resolve upon as I have not been wanting to do in all my actions there remains nevertheless Liberty to demand of your Majesty that it will please you to examine my request a second time for good and all since this hath been done in affairs of less importance there is more reason it should be permitted in this the consequence of which is the loss of an Infante only Brother to your Majesty and your Majesty's most faithful Servant I infer Sir from this Resolution that the Count will not clear himself but with Arms in his hand and without depriving himself of that Authority which your Majesty hath given him leave to take appearing to day with greater lustre than ever he had done before designing by it to cast a terror on the spirits of the people to decide by violence a civil affair for he caused an assembly to be where they might collect their opinions by the noise of Drums and so little attention that some did not so much as understand the Proposition that was made to them as it is easie to be remarked in the declarations that they made Those also who gave their opinion in favour of the Count did it on foundations contrary to the end and motive of my Request because I did not demand that the Count should either retreat or be exiled without security but only a suspension from his great power to the end that if during that time he be found guilty he might lose both his Honour and Life and on the contrary if he justifies himself he may conserve both the one and the other with all his Charges This proceeding Sir lets us see with what precipitancy they have acted who examined the grounds of this affair there having been more of solidity in the opinions of Martin Alfonsas de Mello John de Roxas d'Asevedo and Pedro Ferdinand Monteiro these last named having seen by the experience of twenty-seven years a great many Crimes which they have examined of high Treason being thereby very intelligent in that matter Doth not Francisco de Lucena furnish us with an example against whom the complaint only of some particular Gentlemen was found sufficient to put him into Prison and yet they will not allow mine to be sufficient to gain an Order for the Count to retire for some days although he should leave for his defence his Kindred his Friends his Creatures and your Majesty himself He thinking it better to suffer this blot upon his Honour and Reputation than to expose himself to the danger of the Issue and engage you to declare that the cause was your own than to stand to the trial of the truth By this resolution your Majesty hath let us see the Interests of the Count are inseparable to the Crown to the prejudice of the only Infante and the only Successor your Majesty hath at this day or that you shall have until those shall be born which I expect shall break that order As if the Interests of an Infante should be different from those of the Crown when he meddles with those of a Favourite whose boldness is gone so far as to perswade your Majesty to order all those Gentlemen whom I use to see at my Palace to come there no more because there runs a report that I have made my complaint to the people But this pretence which he hath taken the better to hide his pernicious intentions is taken away and ceases by the obedience of these Gentlemen He would have it believ'd that your Majesty cannot be a King if he should be at any time removed from about your Majesty although it were but for some days believing this the best way to lessen my Glory and that of all the Nobles of the Realm Arming against me as he at present doth Horse and Foot doth it not justifie my former complaint And although your Majesty believes that what hath pass'd was for another cause the event will let you know that it was only a pretence by which he abuses your Majesty For in fine it must needs be that I am the object of all this Tumult or they have not distinguish'd me from those against whom they Arm. If it be the first is there any thing more offensive If the other it must be that they have not counted me in the number of those whom they meant to defend else wherefore did they not advertise me to think of my security wherefore did they send none to defend my Palace wherefore never did they impart to me the cause for which they took up Arms And lastly why this precaution of redoubling the Guards It is against the Infante Sir it is against the Infante that the Count de Castelmelhor takes Arms in the eyes of all the Nobles and of all the people of the Realm raising trouble in the State and terror in every spirit so that none may have liberty to do any thing against him But however it is not Arms that can dismay the Infante Don Pedro for if they should have the power to affright him he would tear open his Veins to let out that Blood which was not answering to his Birth and the Example of the Kings his Predecessors I say this Sir for fear that any should believe if I should retire I go to look for succour The Count hath put this business in such terms that both of us cannot be safe and it must be that I perish or he be removed That which gives me a most mortal grief is I too plainly see your Majesty would rather consent to the loss of me than the withdrawing of the Count sacrificing to his Violence my Life my Officers and all those that take my part enforcing me by this pressing necessity which I have forseen
five or six nights after which she promised that she would cause the King to return to the Queen after the same manner as before Things being in these terms and the Queen seeing no Remedy for these evils and dangers to which she exposed her self more and more every day believed that she could no ways save her Conscience her Estate her Repose nor her Honour but by declaring this which she had so carefully hid hitherto for the making null her Marriage And this is the Second Point which I have said is to be considered in the Dissolving of this Marriage being the manner in which they proceeded which we shall clearly and faithfully make known by these following Articles I. The Queen that she might withdraw her self out of the fear of those dangers which I have already spoken of and which were inevitable so long as she should continue in the Palace and being willing to make her Declaration with the security of her Liberty and her Life was resolved to leave it and to retire her self into the Covent of St. Claire called Esperance which is the most considerable and the best regulated in Lisbon and indeed she did as secretly retire her self thither as she could the 22 d of November 1667. 2. This Retreat of the Queen and the Declaration which she made the next Morning of the Motives she had thereto both to the Clergy Nobles and People which her Majesty had made to be called together for that purpose instead of surprising them as one might have imagined made them to make all at the same time one Answer believing very much that she had stayed there long enough and that they had long expected such a Resolution and they were not less informed than surprised at what her Majesty had so long suffered and had so long deferred that they approved of all she had done and intreated her that she would declare the Nullity of her Marriage which was so important and so necessary to the Health of the State but they would never approve of that which her Majesty spake of at the same time of returning into France because her Person and her Assistance would now be more necessary to them and more profitable than ever for the Realm and to save it from the dangers which threatned it when she was at Liberty And that all the City of Lisbon would testify the same general Approbation which they had given of her Retreat 3. The Queen the same day of her Retreat sent to the King by the Count de St. Croix Master of her House and a little after by the Bishop of Targa a solemn Declaration of that which she was obliged in her Conscience to say which was of the Nullity of her Marriage and most humbly to intreat his Majesty to permit that Affair so necessary to the Health of their Souls and to that of the Realm to be judged according to the Forms and Canons Ecclesiastique to the end that being free she might return into France with the good will of his Majesty and without losing his Favour To which the King answered by Writing signed with his own Hand and confirmed by Oath upon the Evangelists as may be seen in the Papers of the Process after he had consulted the Doctors and Divines whom he had called together for that purpose that he would Acquiess that by the sole motive of his Will and by the duty of his Conscience he declared by the Advice of the Theologists which were two Dominicans and one Jesuite that he did believe his Marriage with the Queen was Null because she being a Virgin he had never been able to Consummate the Marriage with her It is very true that the King was Arrested before he had made his Answer and Declaration to that of the Queens but it ought to be taken notice of First That he had before done it Verbally some time before his Detention in talking familiarly to one of his Domesticks who Deposed it afterwards Secondly That his Majesty was not yet Arrested when the Queen demanded that Declaration but after he had received that of the Queens he took two or three Days time to consult with the Doctors and Divines about what he should be obliged by his Conscience to answer It happened that the Night following he was Arrested by an Arrest from his own Council Thirdly That this Detention was neither Resolved nor made upon the Queens Retreat nor upon her Declaration no otherwise than if that had never been but for a necessity far different and more urgent than that so that the Declaration the King made some Days after that of the Queens and after he had taken time enough to think thereon and to satisfie his Conscience and to know the Thoughts and Resolutions of those Divines ought not to be reputed Invalid for want of Liberty or that he was Arrested for that Cause Fourthly That these Divines which his Majesty had Assembled did declare after they had heard him that he was obliged in Conscience to Answer as if he were at full Liberty and that there was nothing that should oblige him to conceal the truth as may be seen by their Depopositions Fifthly That since that when they had demanded of the King in divers Meetings if he Approved or Disapproved the Declaration he had made He always roundly affirmed it and with an Oath he Approved and Ratified it both for the discharge of his own Conscience and of the Queens And Lastly When the Judges Deputed by the Chapter to go to his Majesty to signifie the Sentence which they had given and which was pronounced for the Nullity of his Marriage did demand of him if he would Acquiess therein or whether he would Appeal He answered without Hesitation that he would Acquiess acknowledging they acted according to Justice as may be seen by the Acts of the Process 4. After so universal an Approbation given to the Retreat of the Queen the Council of State attending for the Assembly of the States of the Realm which should have been called together a Month before contrary to the mind of the King to remedy the Disorders of the Realm and of his Government seeing they were not able to Assemble so soon as those Affairs required and foreseeing otherwise all Portugal would be lost it they did not apply some speedy Remedy It was secretly resolved that the King should be Locked up in his Apartment with all the Civility that could be and to put the Regency and the Government of the Realm into the hands of the Prince until they should see what the States General would resolve of which was Executed without any Noise at Night on the 22d or 23d and the end of this Detention was to hinder the King from Flying away with the Count to the Fronteirs or elsewhere out of the Realm as they had understood he had Premeditated to do a Month before Or else seeing for the space of several Years the Misgovernment of his Majesty and since
they might give Repose and Tranquillity to the Realm and being in doubt if from the first Marriage there might not arise some hinderance to it because of the publique Honesty they had recourse to our Well beloved Son Lewis de Vendosm Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church who at that time was our legat a Latere and of the Holy Apostolick See with our most dear Son in Jesus Christ the most Christian King of France who granted to them a Brief of Dispense which they demanded of him upon that Impediment and it being addressed to the Grand Vicar and to the Official at Lisbon to either of them or both together the said Prince and the said Princess were by Virtue of the said Dispensation Contracted in Good earnest in the Face of the Church in Marriage after the manner that was ordained by the Sacred Councel of Trent and after they Consummated the said Marriage in hope of having soon Successors But because in the same request it hath been remonstrated to us that the said Prince and the said Princess as our most respectful and most devout Children and of the Holy Apostolick See do most ardently desire that we should provide for the security of their Conscience and for the tranquility of the Realm After having maturely considered and Examined all things with some of our Venerable Brothers the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church and with other great prudent Persons and most knowing and Skilful in the Sacred Canons and in Theology and very well vers'd in these Affairs and being also willing as far as God shall enable as to be benignly favourable to the said Prince Don Pedro and the said Princess Maria Isabella we do absolve them and hold them absolved by Virtue of these present Letters from all Excommunications Interdicts Suspensions and all Ecclesiastick Sentences Censures and pains a jure vel ab homine that they may have incurr'd upon any occasion or cause whatsoever and so often as by it they shall have incurred any to the end that by Virtue of these presents only they may obtain what they desire And being desirous to satisfie the Request which hath been humbly presented in their Name upon the Confidence that God hath given us of you and of your Fidelity towards us and the Apostolique See of your Learning Prudence and Integrity And besides for that we have no certain Knowledge of all that which hath been declared to us thereupon we do Ordain and Command you by these presents to make with all possible discretion all together or at least three of you if that some of you cannot be there to assist by any lawful Impediment a diligent research and an exact Information of all that which hath been averr'd thereupon And if by this search and this Information you find the truth of those things which have been represented to us to hold good and particularly that the first Marriage Contracted as hath been said between the King Alphonso and the aforesaid Princess Maria Isabella was never Consummated with which we very strongly charge the Conscience of every one of you that you break asunder and dissolve by and under oùr Apostolique Authority in all that shall be necessary even against the Will of the said King Don Alphonso the tye of the said first Marriage Contracted as aforesaid between the said Princess and the said King Don Alphonso and which hath been declared null and not Consummated notwithstanding that which hath pass d from the beginning and what might have now pass'd for good and notwithstanding if in time yet to come it should appear good and firm and that it is hath been and should be good and valuable And further we do order you to dispence with under the same Authority the said Prince Don Pedro and the said Princess Maria Isabella as to the Impediment of publick Honesty in such sort that they may freely and lawfully continue the aforesaid second Marriage notwithstanding the said Impediment and all that hath been reported thereupon and from any other Impediment that they may have therein of what Nature soever it be that may arise or appear at what time soever notwithstanding also all Apostolick Constitutions of General Councels Provincials and Synods or any other whatsoever We will also that you declare under and by the same Authority that you make grant and devise by vertue of these present Letters that all what hath been abovesaid may profit and serve in all and in every part fully and wholly to the said Prince Don Pedro and to the said Princess even from the day of the second Marriage which hath been Contracted by them as if these present Letters had been granted before the Contract of Marriage and put in execution by you according to their form and tenure Declaring Pronouncing and assuring for Successors lawful those Infants born and to be born of the said Second Marriage as hath been said Contracted in good earnest in the Face of the Church because by the plenitude of our Apostolick Power we give grant you the power by Virtue of these present Letters to do all these things injoyned Moreover we decree farther That neither the aforesaid King Alphonso nor any other persons which ought to be expressed and especially and particularly nominated to have any Interest in the things herein above expressed or to pretend to have any in any manner whatsoever not having consented or having been appealed Cited or heard and that the causes for which these present Letters have been granted were not sufficiently verified and justified or for any other legitimate cause Right or Priviledg either under any Colour or pretence whatsoever or also any Clause of Right shall never at any time blame retract violate our Counsel as surreptitious or attained by fraud nor make Nul neither for any fault of our Intention or by the consent of those who have or ought to have interest therein or for any other default how great or Essential soever it be or that might be in a particular Declaration these our present Letters And that no body may be able to obtain or Commence any thing of Right of Fact or of Grace nor to get nor prevail in Judicio vel extra illud against these Letters had obtained and granted of our own proper motion and with the same plenitude of Apostolick Power Further we will and declare that these present Letters continue for ever firm valid and Efficacious and that they have and obtain their full and entire Effect And lastly that they serve fully and wholly without any Limitation to the aforesaid Prince Don Pedro and to the aforesaid Princess Maria Isabella and to all others either at present or to come to whom they may any ways appertain And also that after this manner only and no otherwise we will that it be judg'd and decreed in this Affair by all the Judges in Ordinary or Delegates be they either Auditors in causes of the Apostolick Courts or Cardinals of the Holy
Roman Church or also Legats à Laterè Nuncio's of the Apostolick See or others who have or may have any preheminence or power from all and every one of whom we take away all power and Authority to Judge and Interpret after any other sort And wee declare Nul and Voyd all that shall be enterprised against what hath been here above reported The Rule of our Chancery Apostolick de jure quaesito non tollendo and that of Boniface the Eighth of Happy Memory our Predecessor de una dicta and that of the General Councel de duabus dictis and all other Constitutions and Ordinances Apostolick Special or General made in general Councels Provincials or Synods or any other thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding Given at Rome from St. Mary Major under the Seal of the Fisher the 10th of Decemb. 1668. in the 2d year of our Papacy Signed J. G. Slusius The Judges to whom this Brief was directed having approv'd the Deeds contain'd in the Request gave Sentence which follows Christi Nomine Invocato Having seen the Brief of his Holiness which hath committed to us the Judgment of the Impediment publicae honestatis upon the Dispensation which it makes mention of and the Articles of Justification and the proofs which hath been given thereto as well as all the Instructions Certificates which have been joyntly made thereupon it appears That the most Serene Lord Don Alphonso the Sixth King of Portugal and Algarves being married to Maria Frances Isabella de Savoy the said Princess press'd in Conscience to pursue in Justice the Nullity of the said Marriage which she had contracted in Fact with the said most Serene King because of the perpetual Inabibility which was in his Person to consummate the said Marriage and that indeed he had not consummated it during the Sixteen Months that they had lived together as Man and Wife Which Cause was pleaded before the Vicar-General of the Archbishoprick of Lisbon and other Judges nominated by the Chapter of the said Archbishoprick before whom it in right lay in the vacancy of the said Sea It appears that the Cause was prosecuted even to a definitive Sentence by which the said Marriage contracted between the said King and the said Princess was declared Null because of the aforesaid perpetual Inability of the said Lord and King Don Alphonso to consummate the said Marriage with the said most Serene Princess Maria Frances Isabella de Savoy It appears that this Sentence was publish'd and judiciously signified to the said Lord the King Don Alphonso who declared in Terms reported by the Register of those Acts That he was willing it should be executed and that he did not at all desire to appeal which Declaration hath been signed by the King himself It appears that the three Estates of the Realms of Portugal and the Algarves who were at that time assembled at Lisbon did propose to the most Serene Prince Don Pedro Regent of the Realm and did supplicate him to Espouse the most Serene Princess Maria Frances Isabella de Savoy to give repose to the State and to secure the Royal Succession and that also they did make the same Proposition and the same Prayer to the said most Serene Princess It appears that for the Impediment publicae Honestatis the most Serene Prince Don Pedro not be-being able to Contract this Marriage with the said Princess they had recourse to the most eminent Cardinal de Vendosme Legat à Latere to his Holiness and of the Holy Apostolique Sea with the most Christian King of France to the end that he might dispense with that Impediment publicae Honestatis It appears that this Brief of Dispence was directed to the Vicar-General or to the Official of the Archbishoprick of Lisbon and that it was presented to the Bishop of Targa who at that time officiated the Functions of the said Archbishoprick who conformable to the Power therein given him and with all the accustomed Formalities did dispense with the said Impediment publicae Honestatis of the said Prince of the said Princess It appears that by vertue of this Dispensation and with the Trust and Confidence thereof the Lord Prince Don Pedro was married according to the Rule of the Holy Council of Trent to the said most Serene Princess Mary Frances Isabel of Savoy and that they did Consummate the Marriage of which there already is born one Daughter It appears that the said Prince and the said Princess being married in good earnest and in the face of the Church and living together in a Conjugal Life for the greater security of their Conscience to the end to deliver it from scruple and the State from trouble they had recourse to his Holiness that he might approve confirm and ratifie the said Marriage and take from them all Scruples that might arise which Grace his Holiness afforded them by the Brief above reported recommending this Affair to Judges who are therein named to the end that they finding just the Request of the said Prince and Princess they might after they had made full inquest and all necessary Informations to discover the Truth of the Facts upon which it was founded dispence with the said Impediment publicae Honestatis of the said Prince and Princess and of all other Impediments that might happen cancelling abrogating and declaring null the Tye and Bond of the former Marriage Contracted between the most Serene Lord the King Don Alphonso and the said most Serene Princess Dona Maria Frances Isabella de Savoy The whole being seen and considered and chiefly in consideration of the Brief hereunto annexed by the Apostolick Authority to us committed we do hold our selves bound faithfully at the Request of the said Prince and Princess to justifie them So that conformable to the said Brief we do dispence with the said Prince and most Serene Princess to the end that they may continue and abide in the said Marriage which they have well and lawfully Contracted without having regard to the said Impediment publicae Honestatis which resulted from the first annulled Marriage And we Declare for Legitimate and born in lawful Marriage the Infanta which through the Will of our Lord God has been born of this second Marriage and for Legitimate and born in lawful Marriage all other Children which shall hereafter be born without any lett or trouble from any Ordinances and Apostolick Constitutions to the contrary From Lisbon 18 Feb. 1669. Diego de Sousa Antonie de Mendosa Martin Alphonso de Mello Lewis de Sousa Emanuel de Magalhans de Meneses The Prince having rendred Thanks to his Holiness for his Benignity and Paternal Love which he had witness'd both to him and the Kingdom some time after he received this Brief To our dearly beloved Son in Jesus Christ the Prince Don Pedro Brother to the King of Portugal and Algarves Clement the IX OUR dearly beloved Son in Jesus Christ Health and Apostolick Benediction c. We having diligently travell'd in your