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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19061	A true relation of the last sicknes and death of Cardinall Bellarmine Who dyed in Rome the seauenteenth day of Septe[m]ber 1621. And of such things as haue happened in, or since his buriall. By C.E. of the Society of Iesus.	Coffin, Edward, 1571-1626.	1622 (1622)	STC 5476; ESTC S118645	54,744	172

exteriour action endomage his body wherfore he receaued it kneeling on the ground with singular humility after some collection made according to his wōt which endured for some while he began to talke with the Generall about his buriall and the manner of his funeralls which he did with so great peace of minde so familiarly as if in his health he had spokē of going to dinner or some other light and ordinary matter Much he desired to be buryed like a Religious man all his discourse tended A true religious Spirit thereunto For first he requested to be buryed in the common vault vnder the groūd for so in Italy they vse to bury where others of that Order are ordinarily layed then that his funeralls might be plaine in such manner as i● he had dyed in the Society and had neuer been aduanced being very earnest that no pompe or splendour accustomed for other Cardinalls might be made for him that they would not open and enbalme his body but bury it entiere as they doe others and finally that his dead body presently after his death might be conueied secretly to the Fathers Church called the Casa professa there be interred none intermedling with the Exequies but the said Fathers as they vse to do for their own in such cases The Generall not to trouble him being in those tearmes made no semblance of any mislike howsoeuer he thought it not conuenient that all should passe in that order Wherefore conferring with the Pope therin some things were reuersed for his Holines would haue him buryed like a Cardinall but with meaner pomp he would haue him embalmed would haue the other Cardinalls to be present sending also his owne Quiristers thither in the rest he condescended to what he had determined as after shal be shewed The same day some six or seauen houres after his receauing he demaunded He is anneyled the other and last Sacrament of the sicke Extreme Vnction I meane which he requested the sooner to receaue because he would be sure he sayd not to be depriued of it or to take it when he should not know well what he did take he was now in his perfect senses and therfore might receaue it with deuotion as he did and answered Amen with great compunctiō of hart at ech seueral vnction and now with greater serenity of mynd then before he expected his last cal and cōming of our Lord to take him out of this vale of misery and bring him where he might see Bona Domini in terra Psal 370 viuentium the ioy of our Lord in the land of the liuing And for that some Sectaries of these dayes had bruted abroad that he had fauoured their cause of which he was the He maketh a Protestation of hi● Fayth destruction or had recalled some of his opinions he entreated Fa. Andraeas Eudaemon-Ioannes then present that he would testify in some writtē record that whatsoeuer he to wit the Cardinall had written or printed concerning matters of Fayth against the Heretikes and Heresyes of these tymes that now on his deathbed he did most resolutely auouch againe ratify and confirme the same caused this his attestation to be written and subscribed by diuers that were present as by his two Nephevvs certayne Fathers of the Society some of his owne seruants and I doubt not but the sayd Father out of the great loue and dutifull respect which he alwayes bare the Cardinall will very willingly discharge this debt in some work that he shall shortly set foorth if his health doe not hinder him as it hath done many others of his most commendable profitable endeauours Being thus armed for his last encounter and in great tranquillity and peace of mynd he began agayne to cast backe his eyes on his life past to see what therein might trouble his conscience or breed any feare in him at that straite account before God which now hourely he did expect to be called vnto and after See the tēder conscience of this most holy and innocent Cardinall all his discussion search he said vnto Father Minutoli that no one thing so much troubled him of all that he had done in his life past as that he had left his Church Archbishopricke of Capua where by his continuall residence he might haue done more good to the honour and glory of God and good of those soules committed vnto his charge then in any other place that heere in Rome it seemed that he had lost his time and had done nothing of any weight or moment wheras yet he was well knowne to leese no tyme that he could well spare was imployed in all matters of most importance which concerned the whole Church the proper office of a Cardinall as the sayd Father told him which is not so much to attend to a particular member as to the common profit of the whole body for as Saint Leo Leo. epist will noteth publica praeferenda sunt proprijs ibi intelligenda est ra●io vtiliatis vbi vigilat cura communis Moreouer sayd the Father you can haue no scruple in this matter which you did by commaund of the Pope whome you were bound by your rule to obey consequently your aboad not being of your seeking but his enforcing it cannot be imputed to you as a fault but contrarivvise is commendable as proceedinge from exact Obedience which you could not refuse Indeed sayd the Cardinall so the Bellarmin would not leaue his Church and keep the rents matter passed and I plainly signifyed vnto Paul the fifth that I could not in conscience not residing in the place keep the Archbishopricke in my handes therfore desired him in case he would haue me to remaine in Rome that I might altogeather renounce the Archbishopricke that men might not iustly charge me and with reason say He hath forsaken his wife and yet keepes her dowry and therfore leauing the one I renounced the other and yielded vp all entierly as well charge as profit into the Popes handes without euer making any mention of allowance for my selfe to be deducted from thence So he And yet he might haue substituted a Suffragan and kept at least two parts of three had he beene so disposed but he renounced all freely and wholy and after the renuntiation made sute to the Pope to allow him somwhat for his maintenance hauing now only left him the title of a Bishop without a Church the dignity of a Cardinall without any liuing and charge of seruantes without hauing so much rent as to pay his Cooke the Pope allowed him as he had in Capua allowed himselfe foure thousad crowns and for that one part of this summe was leuied by way of pension on the rents of the Church of Capua though it were done much against his will he neuer ceased til his death yearly out of his smal allowance to bestow something on the poore Monasteryes of that Citty