Roman Church in the which are dead all the Saints that have ever been to this time and out of which there is no Salvation Inspire me with these Sentiments at the Pâ—â—nt of my Death and do the same for all my Associates I protest again O my Dear Angel That under your Guard and Protection I would depart this Life with a mighty confidence in your Succours and with a plain and entire hope in the Mercy of my God Combat in that moment the Enemies of my Salvation Receive my Soul at its going out of the Body Render Jesus favourable to me after Death I protest likewise my Blessed Angel That I demand moreover from the bottom of my Heart to partake of the Merits of the Blood of my Saviour I detest all the Sins I have committed by Works Thoughts or Words I pardon all mine Enemies I would die with the Cross fastned to my Heart to signifie that I found my Hopes upon the Merits of him who has stain'd it with his Blood I protest also O most faithful Friend who will not abandon me in this my last Passage that through the desire which I have to go to Heaven I am ready to suffer all that which the Justice of my God shall think fit to inflict See I am ready to quit my Parents my Friends and my Body to be eaten with Worms and one day to rise again See I am ready to suffer the greatest Evil the most grievous Maladies even the Pains of Purgatory that I may satisfie for the Enormities of my Sins I protest lastly O my most Dear and most vigilant Guide That I constitute you the Executor of the last Will of my Soul Say to Jesus at that Moment that which perhaps I shall not be able to say That I believe all that which the Church believes That I detest all my Sins because they displease him That I cast my self upon his Love That I hope in his Mercy That I die willingly because he is so pleas'd That I recommend my poor Soul and the Souls of all my fellow Associates into his Hands That I love him more than all Creatures And that I would love him to all Eternity Amen See here some Lines of the Character of a Modern Roman Saint One might search the Scripture long enough before one could find several of these But while Rome makes such Saints I doubt they are canonized too soon Yet at a venture this Man is become a Saint in much esteem in the Church of Rome and is honour'd with Altars Chappels Festivals Litanies Alms Communions and in a word with every thing that can be done by Man to the Honour of Almighty God These Protestarâ—ons the People are exhorted to renew and to make for themselves when ever they Communicate and are encourag'd thereupon to hope they shall die the Death of the Righteous An Indulgence of Forty days is granted to every one that enters himself in this Brotherhood on the day of entering the same An Indulgence of Forty days is granted to every one that shall recite these Protestations as often as he does recite them The same mighty Favour is granted to those that shall recite the Office of the Holy Angels which is too long to be inserted here or the Chaplet which has been mention'd before or the Litany of the Holy Angels for every day whereon they say it In time perhaps the Society may grow richer in this sort of Wealth It is time for us now to take leave of them The Great Church of the City was formerly St. Gudule dedicated to St. Michael but it seems the property of it is alter'd and the Angel has been forc'd for some years to give the Honour and the Place to the Saint for it is now called the Church of St. Gudule When Count Lambert and the Bishop of Tournay says Story translated the Body of St. Gudule from another Church in this City to this of St. Michael they enlarged this Church considerably at a great Charge and endowed it with a good Revenue and consecrated it anew dedicating it to this Saint who was as they say a Princess descended of the Family of Charlemaigne In this Church is a Chappel to the holy Sacrament which at the time we went in had the greatest number of People The Altar was very richly adorn'd There was standing over it a tall Portal which seem'd to be Silver under which the Sacrament is wont to be set when 't is produc'd only to be seen and ador'd but it was not then there Besides this several other things about the Altar seem'd to be Silver Six large Silver Lamps hung up before the Altar and two very stately Chrystal Candlesticks with many Silver Sockets round them for Candles these last were a late Present made by the Electour of Bavaria to this Chappel Here is kept in this Church in a little Golden Chest and is shown only upon a particular Holiday once a Year the Miraculous Sacrament Miraculous Sacrament as they call it which is such a Wafer as the Papists use in celebrating the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to which the following Story belongs In the Year 1369. as some of the Historians of this Countrey put it one Jonathan a Jew with an ill Design bought of a Certain Curate of St. Catharine's Church a Box with three consecrated Wafers in it He being afterwards kill'd by some Persons his Enemies his Wife gave the Box to their Son named Abraham with the Hosties in it He upon a Good-friday took an Hostie out of the Box and in contempt of our Saviour went about to stab and cut it with his Knife when at every Wound he made in it there issued Blood The Woman his Mother admiring the Miracle immediately became a Christian And having discover'd the matter to the Messires Peter and John Valvius the former Curate of St. Gudule the latter of St. Nicholas the Wickedness of the Jew was publish'd so that Wencesleus then Duke of Brabant and Johanna his Wife having diligently examin'd the matter caused Abraham and other Jews that had joyn'd with him in the Impiety to be burnt alive before the Church of St. Catharine The Examinations about this matter and the whole Process are said to be kept in the Chamber of Accounts of Brabant The Duke and Dutchess in a solemn Procession attended this wounded Hostie to the Church of St. Gudule and reposited it there and a Holiday was appointed to commemorate the Miracle and a solemn Procession in which it should be carried about and be shown to the People This Day is kept in â—â—ly and we have at this present being the 24th day the fresh News at the Hague that a mighty Confluence of People came to Brussels to be present at this Solemnity insomuch that the City had scarce room enough to hold them It is said the Archbishop of Mechlin perform'd the Service attended by four Abbots that he carried the miraculous Hostie in the Procession and that
upon that ground do require of the People when they come to them that they begin and make to them the Confession of their whole Liâ—e-past even notwithstanding that they had made a general Confession at the last Jâ—bile They put in practice the maxim of Mr. Arnauld in his book of frequent Communion which is That those who want a sincere and pure love of God ought to be separated from the Holy Communion It is indeed a heinous crime with the Jesuits to insist upon the absolute necessity of the love of God either to fit men for this Communion or for their Salvation These Priests are said to impose hard and rigorous Pennances for very small Crimes Many of them particularly at Rotterdam Delft and the adjacent places pronounce the Sacramental words of Baptism Absolution Marriage and Extream Unction in the Vulgar language when they administer these Sacraments Some pronounce those words twice That is first in Latine and then in Dutch and that without fear of committing Sacriledge by this Repetition of the sacred words which do not operate the second time that which they signifie They condemn and disparage in their Sermons and Books which they distribute among the Protestants the rich and costly furniture of Altars and the magnificence of consecrated Vessels They with Judas to put them in good company call this a wast of expence and a true Luxury And for the most part they make so little account of Indulgences especially of those which are to be applied to the Souls in Purgatory by way of suffrage that there are many and those some of the Principal among them who refused to publish others who very negligently publish'd that of the Year 1690. granted by Pope Alexander VIII which is the more surprizing says this person because the Catholicks of Holland have been wont to have a particular devotion for these things especially for the Indulgence which is granted to the general monthly Communion for the living and the dead These Gentlemen he says do particularly declaim against this and endeavour to abolish the use of it They speak of Purgatory in a very unworthy manner and yet worse of the Relicks of the Saints They publish that we are not bound to believe that the Saints know the Prayers which men make to them They do not content themselves only to leave out the Title of Immaculate which their Ancestors were wont time out of mind to give to the Blessed Virgin in the Dutch Creed nor to change the Phrase in the Angelick Salutation Blessed aâ—t thou above all Women into this Blessed art thou among Women But they have also gone further than all this and have taken away from this Salutation all that which transforms it into a Prayer leaving out these words Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us Poor sinners now and in the Hour of our Death And the retrenching of this is the more scandalous he says because these words are the only ones which the Protestants disapprove of in the Ave Mary And he concludes 't is an infinite thing to go about to recount all the like novelties which they run into they are so numerous Be it so These things I leave to the Wise to make their use of and to consider what use might perhaps be made of them when his Majesty shall be able to find a Person to reside in those Countries who has a due Sense and Veneration for Religion and a Zeal to encourage and promote Reformation and who would make the Excellent way of Worship used in the Church of England and admired abroad by all judicious persons that know it as publick and notorious in his Family as he could God grant such a time may come To Jansenius in this Lecture succeeded his Friend Libertus Fromondus a follower of his Opinions and the Editer of his Book By additions of later times the Faculty of Theology here is augmented to Nine Professions And the ordinary College or Society of this Faculty is made up of Eight Doctors whom they call Legents and Regents Because to these alone belongs the Authority of governing the School of Theology and the Students of the Faculty and of examining the Students in order to their taking of Degrees and these alone enjoy the Emoluments of the School And these when any of their number dies chuse another into his place whom they judge the most fit for it At length those of the Religious Orders are allow'd admission into this College but with this restriction that there shall never be two of the same Order in this Society at the same time There are in this University of founded Schools and Colleges 32 besides the Colleges Colleges of the Religious Orders Some of these are appropriated to the Arts some to Languages to History to Politicks some to other particular Faculties And some are not confin'd to any one sort of Study but serve in general for all There are some Colleges to which certain annual Sums are left by the Founders for provision for so many Students which not being ordinarily enough to provide them their diet they must supply the remainder out of their own Stock In others there is a full and sufficient provision so made for their Diet. In others besides Diet they are allow'd by the Foundation Fire and Candle and some further assistance for their Studies These allowances they call here Purses They are for the most part annexed to such and such Colleges and expresly design'd for the encouragement of particular Studies which therefore they who enjoy them are bound to follow Some Purses are given which leave the Possessors at liberty in what College they will to reside and so to what Study they please to apply themselves Every College has its President who has the direction of the Manners and Studies of the Students and the Care of the Family And besides him there are Visitors either appointed by the Founder or deputed by the University or by the Heads of the particular Faculties It is their business to admit to the Enjoyment of the Purses belonging to the College to visit at stated times in the Year and enquire into the Studies and Manners of those who enjoy the Purses and to Audit the Accounts of the College once in a Year I went into some of the Colleges and found them built round a Court in one corner of which from the bottom to the top was the Presidents Apartment in another place the Chappel And all the Rooms below were of some general use as Dining Room Kitchin and the like Over the doors of some we should see written Schola Physices or Schola Logices c. In two Stories above were the Chambers for the Students The Jesuits that first invaded this City were Jesuits but two they could do no great feats therefore more were added to the Number at length they were strong enough to build a College or Castle being assisted by a good Legacy left them by Torrentius
l'Eglise The Church believes that she was after her death receiv'd into Heaven both in Body and Soul but he brings no Testimony for it He acknowledges that the little Treatise concerning the Assumption of the Virgin Mary among the Works of St. Jerom is none of that Father's Writings and that the Homilies on this Festival among the Works of St. Augustin are none of his He destroys too the pretended Testimony of Denis the Areopagite and so leaves the Story rather confuted than confirm'd Dupin Nouvelle Bibliotheque speaks of that Treatise among the Works of St. Jerome what is worth observing here The 10th Letter says he on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is written by some Latin Author who liv'd when the East was infected with the Errour of the Eutychians who would acknowledge but one Nature in Jesus Christ as he observes himself and this was what came to pass long after the death of St. Jerom. He that wrote it says he set it out under the name of St. Jerome that what he says of the Blessed Virgin might be the more valued And the better to colour the Cheat he pretends to direct it to Paula and Eustochium persons to whom St. Jerome did truly write Altho ' he enlarges upon the Commendations and Prerogatives of the Virgin yet he says it was not certain whether she was risen from the Dead and her Body carried up into Heaven or not This Treatise says he further tho' supposititious was inserted into the Office of the Church by Paulus Diaconus and Alcuinus in Charlemaign's time And since that it has made up part of the Lessons for the Feast of the Assumption in the Old Breviaries of France and Italy Thus speaks Dupin of this matter But notwithstanding the uncertainty of this Fact the Church of Rome celebrates a Day to commemorate this to her Honour which is the 15th of August and a Plenary Indulgence is granted to encourage the Devotions of this Solemnity in this Church the form of the Publication of which in the Year 1696 was as follows Plenary Indulgence Upon the Feast-day of the glorious Assumption of the H. Mother of God Mary in the Cathedral Church of this City of Antwerp granted to all Faithful Christians by Innocent the 11 th Upon such a day the 15th of August being the Feast-day of the Glorious Assumption of the H. Maid and Mother of God Mary there is to be obtain'd Plenary Indulgence not only for those who are entred or shall enter themselves in the Brotherhood of the same Mother of God foremention'd but also for all other Believers in Christ who having true Repentance being confess'd and nourish'd by the Holy Communion shall visit the Cathedral Church and the Holy Maid in her Chappel there and there piously pray for the Union of Christian Princes the Extirpation of Heresies and the Advancement of our Mother the Holy Church Which Indulgence shall begin from the first Vespers and continue to the Sun-setting of the Feast-day it self Upon the Feast-day it self at Eight a Clock in the Morning shall a Sermon be preach'd by the Reverend Chanoine and Pleban of the same Church At half an hour after 10 shall the Solemn Mass be said in the aforesaid Chappel by Afternoon at two a Clock shall be the solemn Vespers at 4 a Clock the Sermon by of the Order of the Reverend Fathers the Brothers of our Lady After the Lauds of the most Reverend and H. Sacrament shall follow the solemn Laud to the Honour of the Holy Virgin and Mother of God Mary with extraordinary Musick Through the whole Octave and the followin Week shall the Service be perform'd as follows At 7 a Clock in the Morning shall be the solemn Mass At 8 upon working-days the Sermon shall be preach ' by c. Every Evening the solemn Laud shall begin at half an hour after 5 so that upon the Thursdays in the two Weeks the Laud of the Venerable shall be perform'd at 5 Clock and during the second Week the Church shall be kept open till Ten a Clock for the convenience of the devout Souls who shall walk the accustomed course to the Honour of the Holy Mother of God Recommending it to all devout persons that they would be found in this service Upon Sunday being the 19th day at 8 a Clock shall preach Upon Sunday the 26th shall the solemn Mass be said at 7 a Clock by the Illustrious and most Reverend the Bishop of Antwerp At 8 a Clock shall again preach the Reverend Chanoine and Pleban of the same Church and in the Evening after the Laud shall the Benediction be given by the same Reverend Person And the more to excite the Devotion of the Christian Catholicks his Reverence John Ferdinand Bishop of Antwerp hath granted to all Faithful Christians who shall upon the Feast of the Glorious Assumption and every day of the whole Octave with devotion of Heart hear the solemn Mass or to the Honour of the Virgin shall walk the way of the general Procession praying to Almighty God for the Union of Christian Princes the Extirpation of Heresies and the Advancement of our Mother the H. Church 40 days of Indulgence and that repeated for so many times as they shall have done what is aforesaid Upon Monday the 27th shall be perform'd in the same Chappel at 8 a Clock in the Morning a solemn Mass of Thanksgiving for all the Benefactors of the aforesaid Chappel of the H. Mother of God Note If any person whether Man or Woman shall have the Devotion to enter themselves in the Ancient and Renown'd Brotherhood of the Holy Maid the Masters of the said Chappel shall be at all times sitting ready to receive them in their usual place Upon which day of their entrance they obtain a Plenary Indulgence and Acquittance from all their Sins if having true Repentance and being confess'd they shall receive the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar Moreover Plenary Indulgences are there to be obtain'd also upon particular Feast Days of the Holy Mother granted by his Holiness Pope Innocent the 11th as also on all Saturdays to every Priest that says the Mass for the Souls departed is the priviledge granted for relieving and delivering out of Purgatory one-Soul of those who were entred in the aforesaid Brotherhood All to the greater Glory of God and his most Holy Mother Mary Thus is it confess'd that all this elaborate Devotion is design'd as well to the Honour of the Virgin Mary as of God And is all this no more than with the Spirit of Charity to desire her Prayers As much as this comes to is repeated 8 or 10 times a Year upon the several Festivals they assign to her Is all this necessary to engage her Assistance Are not here Divine Honours in the most solemn manner paid to her when all this is done for her Honour as well as for God's and even that which done as is pretended for God's Honour But let them know that
there were 8000 Wax Torches and Flambeaus carried before it I doubt not but some mighty Indulgence was the Lure that brought so many People together and perhaps it was a new one granted in consideration of the late Sufferings of the City for these Occasions bring Money both to Priests and People At the place where this Hostie is kept in this Church there hangs up a Table on which are written these Verses following which relate the matter in short Quisquis ades summi quem tangit cura Tonantis Dum proper as coeptum siste viator iter Hic tibi viva caro aeterni Sapientia Patris Christus adest vivus panis una salus Invida Judaeûm quam dum laniare laborat Impietas meritis ignibus ecce ruit Quare age divinos bic funde Viator honores Funde Deo dignas supplice mente preces If this Story were true it might be reckon'd a miraculous Confirmation of the Truth of Christian Religion but it does not all conclude for the Absurdity of Transubstantiation tho' 't is very likely it was at first but a Juggle contriv'd for a pretended Proof of that as it is to this day reputed a mighty one I will allow it to be the best they have In this Church as I remember I saw an Altar with an Image of the Virgin over it which has an Inscription belonging to it that calls her Maria pacis On the Front of the great House before-mention'd call'd the Bakers there is somewhat relating to this matter One sees there two Inscriptions in great Letters which run cross the whole Front the one of which is A Peste Fame Bello libera nos Maria Pacis The other is Hic Votum fecit Elizabetha pro Pace publica I suppose this Elizabeth to have been Isabella-Clara-Eugenia Daughter of Philip the second King of Spain who married her in the Year 1598. to Albert the Sixth Arch-Duke of Austria whom he made Governour of these Countries This Inscription speaks fully out what they mean by their Application to the Saints and downright asks of the Virgin Mary that she would deliver them from the Plague Famine and War It speaks too their Opinion of Images while the Prayer is made as their Phrase is to that particular Virgin Mary and the People in common Talk will say One Virgin Mary has done a great many Miracles but another has done nothing at all There are a great many Convents of Friars and Nuns in this City for these people commonly chuse the most populous and pleasant places to retire from the World and mortifie themselves in many of them were beaten down by the Bombs out of the French King 's ardent Zeal to promote the Roman Religion The Dominicans had a large Church here the Dominicans Walls and Cover of which are up and they were saying Mass at two or three sorry Altars in it to be doing for something doing something coming A large Division of this Church which is almost half of it was before and is design'd again for the Chappel of the Rosary The Rosary is a Set of Prayers to the Virgin which if you will believe them she her self order'd and assisted St. Dominick to recommend to the World a thing that has done mighty matters but chiefly has well provided for this Order and fatned them up as Hogs for the Slaughter For as the Institution of this blessed The Rosary From of Devotion is deriv'd from this Order so they have all the Profits of it The Chappels of the Rosary belong to them and the Brotherhood of the Rosary are their People and are joyn'd to them and all the mighty Priviledges and Indulgences granted to the Rosary are dispensed by these Monks and by Virtue of these matters there is no sort of the pretended religious Orders who look more jolly and fat and shine with their own Grease more than these Butcherly Fellows This method of Devotion has drawn in such multitudes of People of the Roman Communion and makes so great and considerable a part of the Worship and Devotion of that Church that one should give a very imperfect Account of the State of Religion in the Roman Church without somewhat a distinct Account of the Devotion of the Rosary I shall therefore produce some of the most observable Particulars which I have met with relating to this matter wherein we shall see a great deal of dull and tedious trifling under the Name and Pretence of Devotion a deal of impious Idolatry in the Worship of the Virgin if ever there was or can be such a thing as Idolatry in the Worship of a Creature and we shall see the main business of Worship turn'd into Applications to the blessed Virgin and in a word the Christian Religion turn'd Marian. What the Rosary is The Rosary or Garland of Roses is a Set of Prayers to the Virgin Mary intermixed with the Lord's Prayer These both one and other are number'd by the Beads which one shall so often see in the Hands of the People in Popish Countries especially when they go to Church The String of Beads is tied together at the ends and has commonly fifty small and five greater Beads in the round and there are besides about ten◠I think of the small Beads with one great one upon a little strait String with a Cross which hangs to the other On the smal Beads they say so many Ave Mary's as these Prayers to the Virgin are commonly call'd because they begin with the Words of the Angel's Salutation of her when he came to tell her she should be honour'd with bearing the Messias To which Salutation they have added moreover that of Elizabeth and a Conclusion in the Form of a Supplication to the B. Virgin The whole Prayer runs thus Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou above all Women and blessed is the Fruit of thy Womb Jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us poor Sinners now and in the Hour of our Death This Prayer is repeated ten times and then comes the Lord's Prayer which is repeated as often as the great Beads come The whole Rosary or Garland of Prayers consists of this String of Beads three times repeated which comes to fifteen times ten Ave Maries and fifteen Pater Nosters When and upon what occasion the Rosary was instituted This method of Devotion so erroneously partial to the Virgin whom they pray to ten times in it for one Prayer to Almighty God has no other Foundation but a Story as impudent as silly and evidently devised to derive it from the Blessed Virgin her self Indeed this does but help to fill up the Parallel between Rome Heathen and Popish and if Numa Pompilius might pretend to derive his Rules of Religion from a Goddess why might not the holy Dominick derive his from such an one too Thus then as they say this great and divine Institution as brought into the World When the holy Dominick had
prospect was for the most part bounded with Hills that were near enough for us to view distinctly what is upon them We saw some which show'd at the steep sides of them the Rocks which lifted them so high But the greatest part of our prospect presented to our sight a rich and useful Country The sides of the Hills cover'd with Vineyards the tops with Corn Fields the lower grounds were divided between Meadows Hop-grounds of which we saw many and Orchards and Gardens we see all this intermixed with many Houses and some little Villages it is certainly one of the most various and delightful prospects that which we had here VVe lookt down from hence over the tops of the Steeples in the City If our time and the fear of Rain would have permitted we could willingly have staid a great while here We went down from hence into the City another way on purpose to go through a Vineyard which we saw below us to observe something of the manner of such a thing which was new to us and went down a very steep descent by it which was made something the more easie by steps of Stone laid into the Hill but not without some care for our Necks This City is plentifully furnisht with curious Springs of delicate Water These feed some publick Fountains which run continually Many private Houses have a good Spring to serve them In Leige there are 8 Collegiate Churches 34 Parochial Churches and of those belonging to religious Houses so many as to make the number amount to above an Hundred in all The great Church of the City is Dedicated Church and Treasury of St. Lambert to St. Lambert who was mention'd before and he is honour'd as the Patron or Protector of the City There is by it a large Cloyster which goes round a Garden-Platt that is now neglected The Arch'd Roof of one side of the four that the Cloyster consists of was beat with the Bombs The Church is very large but has little Finery in it At the West end is a Chappel to St. Lambert at the bottom of the broad middle Isle with the Altar set within against the Partition We got Admission into the Quire upon our desire to see there the Treasure of St. Lambert What was shown us for this is as follows After they that show'd it had taken away from above the Altar at each end a Silk Curtain and behind that two boards there appear'd two things in Silver which were wrought into the form of a Church they were set one over another and seem'd to be all the four about 3 Feet long and a Foot and half in height One of them had a blew Enamel as I suppose for we kept with other Viewers a due distance in several Partitions upon it They did not stir these from the Places and they were set so that if they had Ends or another side of Silver we could not see it and therefore I do not doubt but we saw all of them that was to be seen There were three Men about the showing of these one with a Surplice on and the other two in Scarlet Gowns such as they wear when they attend at Divine Service Some People besides us that saw them fell upon their Knees at the appearance of the two first Pieces and continued so till the last were shown and all were cover'd again There hung up a large Silver Lamp before the High Altar by four times 3 good big Silver Chains and they very long ones too The Piece of Painting over the Altar represented the pretended Assumption of the Virgin Mary Over the Altar and over those things foremention'd at the bottom of the Picture stood four Farge and tall Silver Candlesticks with long Tapers of Yellow Wax in them In the middle of these upon a large Pedestal which seem'd to be Silver stood a very tall Cross which appear'd to be Silver gilt the Body upon it was Silver The Quire here is very large In the middle of it stands a large Tomb all of Brass On the West end of the Tomb is the Effigies of a Man as big as the Life in a Bishops habit kneeling upon a Cushion with his hands joyn'd and lifted up in a praying Posture and with his Face towards the Altar At the other end stands a Skeleton to represent Death who is put looking towards him and in the Posture of beckening to him and calling him between these two and upon the aforesaid Tomb lies a Chest which is somewhat roundish both in the upper and lower Parts of it along by this lies a Bishop's Brosier and â—all this work is in Brass Round the top of the Tomb there is an Inscription in Latin which signifies That Erard à Marca who govern'd this Diocess 36 Years built this Tomb for himself while he was yet aliveâ—nd in Health He has left behind him the repute of every good Man and is remembred with great Veneration and esteem as a great Benefactor to his Diocess He repaird many things in this City which were fallen to decay He rebuilt some necessary Castles from the Ground and the Walls of some of the Cities belonging to this Principallity he died much lamented in the Year 1538. We went into the Church of St. Andrew which is on the great Market-place at the time of Compline There hung up about the Church many Coats of Arms painted upon little Wooden Shields Under one was written with a Name these words Pastor hujus Paroechiae under another with a Name Captain of this Parish under another Lieutenant of this Parish There is a great deal of Marble in this Church about the Altar Pieces and well polisht of curious sorts and very handsomely built up and much of the flower'd Work of it was guilt with Gold The High Altar of the Church was very finely adorn'd we could not conveniently go up near enough to see what the Painting over it contain'd At the top of the Work about it and near the top of the Church was set up a very large Canopy of Scarlet Velvet as I remember with a Gold-galoon up on the Seams and a deep Gold-fringe round at the lower edge of it In the middle of this was an Embroidery of Silver to represent a Dove with Raies of Gold embroider'd all about as darting from it This was put up for the sake of Whitsontide we saw in some other Places the like thing upon this Occasion The Ornaments before the Altars here were very rich being of Scarlet and other colour'd Silks with many broad Gold-flowers upon them and some of them had a deep Gold-fringe laid across from one end to the other about a Foot distant from the top according to the usual manner At the East end of the North Isle was an Altar which had over it a piece of Painting that I shall take notice of In the upper part of it there is set their common absurd and impious Representation of the Holy Trinity towards the middle of
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