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A69462	Pietas Romana et Parisiensis, or, A faithful relation of the several sorts of charitable and pious works eminent in the cities of Rome and Paris the one taken out of the book written by Theodorus Amydenus ; the other out of that by Mr. Carr.; De pietate Romana. English	Ameyden, Dirk, 1586-1656.; Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674. Pietas Parisiensis.; R. H., 1609-1678.	1687 (1687)	Wing A3033; Wing W3450; ESTC R10919	86,950	204

perhaps their cause requires Now to prevent this mischief there are Visitors appointed every month to visit the prisons and whom they find there deteined either for crimes or for debt and judge injured they take care to have dismissed or to release the punishment inflicted or to moderate it It belongs to that Sodality for charity late mentioned tho they be liberal to the poor also yet principally to intend this that by all means they may afford what help they can to the imprisoned And therefore they depute some Prelate whose office it is to be present with the Chamberlains at the visitation of the prisons and to assist the guilty in their cause to the utmost And to do it the better there are adjoined to him with an honorable Salary two Proctors who seeing and examining the Process of the Guilty endeavour to defend them what they can both by words and writing The poor prisoners have much need of these For tho the Apostolick Chamber hath allowed them an Advocate and a Proctor for their defence yet so great is the number of the causes that oft times these are not sufficient This Sodality likewise besides this diligent defence of the guilty prisoners do thrice every week furnish bread to those among them that need it and to the sick send a Physitian and very largely provide Physick and all other things necessary for their recovery In the foregoing Chapter we told you that this Sodality did maintain a Convent of Priests at St. Hierome's out of this Convent they order some to go every day and say Mass to the Prisoners that they may not want that comfort Besides this extraordinary charity towards the prisoners which is practised by this Sodality There are also in Rome many other persons which go from door to door begging bread and money for them among whom are those religious men of the Society of Jesus Again that other Sodality of the Florentines called the Sodality of Mercy upon certain festival days in the year make great Dinners for the prisoners Again the Preachers often stir up the people to give more liberally by telling them that the money gathered is for the prisoners By all which good offices some succour is afforded to that most miserable state of men and the punishment of such wretches is not quite taken off yet at least in a great measure eased There is yet another pious Sodality in Rome for the benefit of poor prisoners in the Colledge of St. John de Pinea near the Minerva consisting of Roman Citizens and Officers of the Court much honoured by the munificence of Pope Sixtus the fifth This Sodality every Monday sends certain Visitors into all the prisons to take the names the Country the Cause the Judge and the Notary of those that are newly committed and with great charity and diligence sollicite the Judge and Notary that each ones cause may be brought to speedy trial It is a custome likewise of this Sodality twice every year That is upon the Feast of the Nativity and Resurrection of our Lord for all the prisoners of debt under a hundred Crowns freely to pay their Creditors what each one oweth and delivering them out of prison to give every one a Crown in their purse and to send them home to their own houses CHAP. IX Of the plentiful provision of Dowries for poor Maids IN this charitable work as in all other it will be evident that the common-Parent Rome excells all other Cities of the world by that very great number of Dowries which are there yearly bestowed Nor is it easy to set down the certain number of them For altho the Dowries arising out of certain pious Legacies be constant and uniform and the account of them easily cast up yet besides these there are innumerable other Dowries given by certain Sodalities Who because they intend not this kind of charity only but other sorts also do therefore set aside for Dowries proportionably to the stock of their yearly Revenues So that if they have laid out more in other good works the less remains to be given in Dowries and if but little in others almost all is distributed in these And again because those particular Dowries especially which arise out of legacies come not always to publick notice I must content my self to speak of those onely which I my self have come to know Upon New-years day then that Society of the Holy Name of God founded in the Church of St. Mary's Supra Minervam distributes certain Dowries to young Maidens On the seventh of January the Sodality of Inholders give more Dowries On the fourteenth of January there is a Legacy to that purpose of St. Hillary's Chappel in the Lateran Church And on the same day the Sodality of St. Julian of the Flemmings give Dowries to the Maids of their Country On the second of February the Sodality of the most Holy Sacrament in the Church of St. Mary's in Via lata give their Dowries On the ninth the Sodality of St. Apollonia give theirs in the Church of the Augustines On the twenty fifth of March the Sodality of the Annunciation Supra Minervam exceed herein all the rest giving Dowries every year that day to above two hundred young Maids And I suppose this Sodality gave the first beginning to this good work Wherein they were much helped by Pope Leo the tenth and likewise Pope Vrban the seventh left them his sole heirs The Dowries that this Sodality furnisheth are distributed to these young Maids every one led up between two noble Matrons cloathed in white and with their heads veiled by the Pope himself who with his own hands delivers to each one a Purse with a Bill in it for the receiving of so much money and this he doth publickly at the time of high Mass Upon the twenty fifth of March other Dowries are given by the Sodality of Cooks Panterers and Pasterers in the Church of St. Vincent and Anastasius On the first of May Dowries are bestowed by the Sodality of the Muletiers in the Church of St. Anthony On the twelfth day the foresaid Sodality of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin by a particular largess give Dowries to Maids of Siena only On the nineteenth day the same Maids of Siena receive their Dowries from the Sodality of St. Katherine of Siena On the twenty sixth day the Sodality of Neapolitanes give their Dowries in the Church of the Holy Ghost which belongs to that Nation On the ninth of June the Sodality of St. James vulgarly termed Scossacavallo On the eleventh day the Sodality of Nazarius and Celsus in a Church of that title On the ninteenth day the Sodality of all the Officers belonging to the Capitol in St. Maries of Ara-caeli And on the same day the Sodality of St. Francis de Paula in his Church On the twenty fourth day the Sodality of Piety of the Florentines which differs from that other Sodality of Mercy of which we shall speak anon On the