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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31399	A short account of the life and death of Pope Alexander the VII with a description of his funeral machin, and elegies erected in St. Peter's Church in Rome : together with an exact relation of the particular ceremonies performed at the creation and translated out of the Italian copies printed at Rome by P.A., Gent.	Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.; Cavalli, Stefano, 1521-1577.	1667 (1667)	Wing C1579; ESTC R5006	14,390	34

EPITAPHIUM WIthin this Marble doth Intombed Lye Not One but All a Noble Familie A Pearle of such a Price that soon about Possession of it Heaven and Earth fell out Both could not have Him So they did Devise This Fatall Salvo to divide the Prize Heaven Share 's the Soul and Earth his Body take's Thus We lose all whilst Heaven and Earth part stakes But Heaven not Brooking that the Earth should share In the least Attome of a Piece so Rare Intends to Sue Out by a new Revize His Habeas Corpus at the Grand Assize JOHN● FLOWRE A 〈◊〉 ●●COUNT OF THE ●IFE and DEATH OF ●●pe ALEXANDER the VII ●ith a Description of his Funeral Machin 〈…〉 Elegies erected in St. Peter's Church Rome Together with Exact Relation of the particular ●eremonies performed at the Creation and Coronation of this present POPE CLEMENT the IX With A CATALOGUE of all the CARDINALS Translated out of the Italian Copies printed at Rome By P. A. Gent. London Printed for Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain 1667. THE PREFACE TO THE READER Courteous Reader IN this small Peice thou wilt see a true plain and lively draught of the Pomp and Grandeur of the Pope and of his great Council the Conclave of Cardinals And also meet with a number of the Formalities and Ceremonies of the Romish Church Some of which I was once in a mind not to have inserted but that would not well be done without spoyling the Narrative and falsifying the Translation which I have closely followed in all but the Relation of Pope Alexander the Seventh his last Sickness and Death and in regard that it was stuffed up with so much Complement and Flattery I chose rather to extract the most material passages and substance of it and omit the rest for which I beg the Reader 's Pardon and favourable Construction of my Intent to serve him hoping that he will excuse those errors which my hast in finishing hath made me commit also such literal faults as have escaped the Press A short Account of the Death of Pope ALEXANDER the VII HAving out of some Italian Papers undertaken to draw a Succinct Account of the last Sickness and Death of the late Pope Alexander the Seventh I was afraid that the work would seem but maimed and imperfect if I should not insert some Passages relating to his first Rise and Advancement to the Papal Dignity I have therefore given this following Hint to that effect for satisfaction of such as being unacquainted with his History desire to have some knowledge of his Beginning before I come to speak of his Latter end which is the principal Scope of this short Narrative Pope Alexander the Seventh was Native of the City of Sienna in Tuscany and descended of the ancient Family of Ghisi who in his younger years growing eminent for his great parts and Learning was promoted at his riper age to the Bishoprick of Imola in the Territories of the Church and therein behaved himself with so much Prudence and Policy giving manifest Proofs upon all occasions of his great Capacity for publique Employments that he was made Vice-Legat of Ferara then Inquisitor of Malta and afterwards sent Nuncio to Cullen and Munster at the Treaty held there for a General Peace And having undergone all these Offices and in them acquired much honour and reputation he received as a reward of his great merits a Cardinal's Cap in the Year 1652 in the Month of February from Pope Innocent the Tenth and was admitted into the number of the Purpurati After which as a greater Testimony of the Pope's favour to him he was constituted Secretary of State and in that Employment continued till the Death of the said Pope and his own Election to the Papacy unto which he the rather attained as was supposed to cross the Designs of the Faction of the Barbarini At his first Creation that he might gain the hearts of the Common-people he used all means to express his Charity to the Poor amongst whom he distributed great Sums of money the like he did for the Deliverance of Prisoners and for beautifying and building many Churches and other publique Structures not only in Rome but also in several places in the Estate of the Church wherein he exhausted most part of his treasure and politickly refused all Presents which were made him by such as intended thereby to insinuate themselves into his favour as in particular three rich Coaches with six Horses apiece from the Cardinal de Medici the Cardinal Arach and the Prince de Pamphilio And amongst the rest a Damask Bed embroidered with Gold from that grand She Statist Donna Olympia the Bosom Favourite of his Predecessor Innocent the X. He filled all the vacant and most considerable Offices so soon as he was established in his Throne with very eminent and deserving Persons and amongst others he conferred on the present Pope Clement the Ninth the Place of Secretary of State To be brief during his whole reign which was almost Thirteen years he gave evident testimony of his Zeal for advancement of the Interest of the See of Rome shewing great moderation and indifferency toward the several Factions always shunning as much as he could the adhereing to any one of them in prejudice of another But that I may not go beyond the limits of my intended brevity which was only to give you this small Account for the better understanding of what follows and that I might not be thought abruptly to begin the subsequent Discourse of his last Sickness and Death I do therefore now wave further particulars of his Life and proceed to the intended Relation The Pope being seized with his old Distemper in the beginning of the last Lent and fore-seeing the Danger which threatned him without expecting any other advice of his Physicians was willing to prepare himself for the great passage which he fore-saw that in a short time he was to make from this Life to another and intending in thefirst place to dissintangle himself from all external business that he might be able with less distraction to apply himself to the internal Concernments of his Soul on the 13 day of March of this present Year 1667 new style he called a Consistory whether being apparelled in the accustomed habit he went in Person although much cast down by his Infirmity yet recollecting all the Spirits and Vigor which were left him he constrained himself to perform that great Function Wherein he promoted to the Cardinalship eight of those select persons whom he supposed for their great worth and labours bestowed for the good of the Papal See had merited the advancement to so high Dignity But his Disease increasing four days after he was Assaulted by a grievous fit from which he concluded that his Sickness was mortal and notwithstanding it grew more and more violent daily yet for all this he had thoughts of performing the long Ceremonies of Holy Thursday to prepare himself for