be a president for a greater in future time Notice being sent hereof to Spain That King order'd it should be done in all respects as the Pope requir'd This year upon Easter-Eve the Earl of Castlemain Ambassador from King James the II. of Great Brittain arriv'd at Rome it being the Custom of Princes who own the Pope to be Head of the Church on their first access to the Crown to send an Ambassador to that Court to notify the same to his Holiness Cardinal Howard met him on the way conducted him to his Palace and entertain'd him and his Family very magnificently about 10 days while â—amphilio's Palace was making ready within a weak he had private audience of the Pope being conducted by Cardinal Howard he then fell upon preparations for his publick Entry the splendor and magnificence whereof was such that the Artizans were press'd to hasten it yet it was about the beginning of November before every thing could be fitted and then the Pope fell so ill of the Gout that he could not have audience before the 8th of January and then not in the publick Hall where Ambassadors are usually on such solemn Occasions receiv'd but in the Bed-Chamber Take here a short account of it which you may find at large in Mr Wrights Book on that Subject with Figures of the Arms Coaches c. In the Morning the Arms of the Pope the King of England and the Ambassadors which had been set up some days before above the Gate of the Palace covered were uncover'd with a Flourish of Trumpets the whole was of a prodigious bigness the wood-work whereon the Popes and the Kings Arms were painted being 24 foot in height each and 16 in breadth with supporters on each side devises and Ornaments above and Hieroglyphical figures underneath double the Life one among divers others under the Pope was a Woman clad in White representing the Church and one under the Kings was Britania as she is usually painted the Ambassadors Arms were placed over the Gate being in a round about 2 yards diameter About 2 of the clock in the Afternoon the Prelates with the Popes chief Officers came to attend the Ambassador who received also at the same time the complement of the Cardinals Princes and great men of Rome by their Relations or Gentlemen that brought their several Coaches to wait upon him to the Popes Palace He set out about four in the Evening having six Arch-Bishops in his own Coach and Monsignior Barrolini he had ten Coaches in his own Livery all fill'd with Prelates after which came their own Coaches and others that were sent to attend fill'd with Gentlemen that brought them His first Coach was covered with Crimson Velvet richly embroidered with Gold and lined with a Broccard of Gold with a rich embroidery round the Cornish and in all the void places with abundance of Gold Lace Fringe and Embroidery On the Curtains were embroidered Loops a foot long and eight inches broad the Velvet for Coach Cushions Harness Braces c. amounted to 120 yards the four Vases or Knobbs at the corners of the Coach were three foot high above the roof the body was supported by standards of large carved Images of Tritons and besides divers other Images all the Wood-work to the very spokes of the Wheels were all carved representing Leaves of Oak and Ivy gilt with Gold insomuch that all the Carriage seem'd to be a Massy-piece of Gold The second did almost answer the first being of Blew Velvet A third also very rich in Gold Lace and Gilt Brass-work but covered with Leather and all the rest of the Coaches were Noble and Rich. Before the first Coach went 30 Footmen 20 in Cloaks and 10 in close bodied Coats by the side of it eight Pages and the Dean or Chief of the Footmen in Black Velvet The Gentleman of the Horse followed on a Managed Neapolitan Horse richly Caparison'd the Ambassadors other Coaches had each of them six Horses also and a Groom to attend every one The Livery men were 60 in Number the Pages in Crimson Velvet their Cloaks lin'd with Brocard Blue and Gold laced with Gold Lace mixt with a little White Blew and Black Silk above half a yard deep with rich trimmings of Gold and Blue Ribbons with Feathers in their Hats Poynt Crevats and Cuffs and every thing else very fine The other Liveries were all of Scarlet lined with Silk Brocard and very richly laced The weather was somewhat Rainy yet this splendid shew drew abundance of spectators and thus being come to Monto Cavallo where the Soldiers were drawn up to receive him he was conducted to the Pope and after some stay with him he went to Cardinal Cibo's Aparment and afterwards with the help of Flambeaux return'd to his Palace The next day he visited Cardinal Ludovisio Dean of the Colledge the day after the Queen of Sweden and several others in the same Equipage On the 14 rh of January he gave a noble Entertainment to divers of the great Prelates at Rome in this manner The Entrance was a great Hall surrounded with long Tables furnished with Sweetmeats Fruit and other Delicasies at the upper end being a Cupboard of all kind of Plate and another of Glasses then passing through three Rooms richly furnished in the last of which was a Cupboard under a Canopy of curious Gilt Plate they entred the Dining-Room where was a Table that held 80 Arm'd Velvet Chairs with a space between every four Chairs for a Carver on the one side and a Sewer on the other so that there were eight persons to a Mess with those two Officers and a Servant behind each person to attend The breadth of the Table was eight foot and through the middle ran a range of large Historical Figures ten in number made of a kind of Sugar-Paste sent afterwards as Presents to great Ladies and to fill the vacancies betwixt them were variety of Birds and Beasts of the same make On either side these stood two rows of Intermesses of all relishing bits whether Salt Sweet or Sowr only where the Carver and Sewer were to stand was a void place on each side the Middle range for two large Dishes of meat to stand which were fresh brought in for twelve courses being 24 Imperial Dishes to every Mess but to avoid tediousness they were contracted to ten courses and so but 20 Dishes of which every one was served from the Carvers whether they eat or not and then the Triumphs and Ornaments being taken away the whole table was covered with all kind of Sweetmeats imaginable which at last the standers by snatch'd and carried away The entertainment lasted 3 hours each course was served up with loud Musick and while they eat they were entertain'd with soft Musick as Voices Lutes c. there was plenty of all sorts of delicate Wines and other Liquors wherein the Ambassador about the middle of the Dinner began the Popes and the Kings Healths on one side of the
Room against the middle of the Table was the Kings Picture at large in his Royal Robes and over against it divers Hieroglyphick figures with the Kings Arms over them The Ambassador having now done his part he was complemented by several great Persons and Academies in Rome being invited to splendid Entertainments accompanied with Musick Orations Poems Plays Masks Dances and other Exercises as every one thought sit to set forth the respect they bore to the King in the Person of his Ambassador The first that invited him was the Queen of Sweden then Cardinal Pamphilio Cardinal Fran isco Barbarini the Fathers of the Gregorian or Roman Colledge the Clementin Colledge the Academicks of the Infecondi and lastly he was entertain'd at the Popes Palace at the Ceremony of giving Cardinals Hats in open Consistory for the Pope was prevail'd with at length to make a new creation of Cardinals and four that is Ciceri Petrucci Caraffa and Medici receiv'd their Hats the 24th of May 1687. Other Hats had been sent where the Cardinal resided as to the Cardinal of Furstemberg c. and now the Ambassador takes his second leave of the Pope and had his Benediction again for his being present at this Ceremony obliged him to see his Holiness tho' he had before had his Audience of leave the Benediction with a pair of Beads at which hung a Gold Medal of our Saviour and on the 23th of June 1687. he left Rome and return'd homeward I do not find that this Ambassadour was much caressed by the Pope but rather slighted for on his telling the Pope that if he were not better used he would leave Rome the Pope reply'd You are Master of that as you please Whether it were because as some say the Pope was a Protestant in his Heart and did not favour the designed Perversion of England or as others with more probability out of his covetous temper because it was look'd upon that little profit was like to accrue from England to that See at least for his time Or rather because the King of England was link'd in alliance with France betwixt whom and the Pope there were continual differances Or lastly which is chiefly insisted upon because the King of England was altogether influenced by the Jesuits and the Ambassador now there gave himself intirely up to their conduct whose Mortification this Pope always endeavour'd and not without reason for as to their Religion he liked not their Morals and as to their Power in all Christian Princes Courts it exceeded his and they were got into such a condition that if differences should arise between him and them they were likely enough to give him some check and in the mean time lessen'd him in that Grandeur of Government which he aspir'd unto by their interposing in the State Affairs of most Nations without concerning themselves with him at all therein He looked upon them as a distinct and Independant Society Subject to none but their General from whom alone they receive all their prefrements and to whom therefore they pay an absolute Obedience without reserve and that they had got great riches in all places and only us'd it for the advantage of the Society This year 1686. November the 5th the River Tyber swell'd to that prodigious height that it not only drown'd the Neighbouring Country but put several quarters of Rome under water which continued to the 7th and then the waters began to decrease this Inundation was not so high as one that happen'd in the year 1657. yet did an unspeakable damage drowning several people and a great number of Cattle and overthrowing many houses and part of the wall of the Castle of St. Angelo and damnifying one of the Bassions so much that it was in danger to fall the Pope took care to have the People assisted with Boats and Provisions and what else they should want 300 Men were employ'd suddenly to build up the wall of St. Angelo's Castle and assistance was given to people towards their losses The Pope now to give some ease to his Subjects took off the Impositions upon Provisions which was farm'd at 65 thousand Crowns per annum In the beginning of December Father Charles de Noyeles General of the Jesuits dyed and in July following the Society chose Father Thyrso Gonsales a Spaniard for their General who had a contest in himself whether he should visit the French or Spanish Ambassador in the first piace he would willingly have wav'd visiting either but that could not be admitted he at length resolves it and visited the French first at which the King of Spain ordered the Jesuits in his Dominions not to own the new General and the French King in retaliation forbade several Religious Orders to obey their Generals being Spaniards On January the 30th 1686. The Duke D'Estrees who had resided 15 years at Rome in the Quality of Ambassador from France dyed of an Apoplexy The Pope now resolv'd to take the opportunity to put the Bull effectually in Execution for regulating of the Franchises which hitherto he had been easy in and accordingly did abolish the Franchises of the Palace of Farnese where the late Ambassador had had his residence and caus'd the Sbirris or Officers of Justice to appear therein of which the Nuntio at Paris acquainted that King who seem'd not willing to quit that point He afterwards let him know also that the Queen of Sweden had voluntarily quitted the Franchises of that quarter adjoyning to her Palace at Rome admitting the Sbirris to execute what belong'd to their Office therein the King notwithstanding shew'd an unwillingness to admit it and hence grew another Controversy between the Pope and the French King as shall be shew'd hereafter And now its time to be making preparations for the next years War In February the Popes Nuntio in Poland undertook to provide Magazines with Provisions c. for the Army of that King and in March the Prince of Lubmirki Great Marshal of Poland came to Court where the Muscovite Ambassadour gave their reasons why they did not advance further the last Campagne and promised for the next year with their Auxilliaries to have a brave Army in the Field Another Ambassador from thence was also at Vienna who went away well satisfy'd yet in the latter end of June they return'd to the borders of Muscovy after they had made some little incursions into the Tartars Country without ever seeing an Enemy The Pope Emperor and King of Poland had formerly sent Envoys to the Sophy of Persia at Hispahan who were there a year before they could be admitted to audience to have answer to the Letters they brought which were to set forth the advantage the Christians had gained over the Turks in the late Wars and to encourage him to bring an Army at so considerable a juncture of time as this was which if omitted he might expect not only to be frustrate of such another opportunity but be also set upon by the Turk
Bavaria Canonically chosen thereunto shall attain to a lawful Age hath thought fit if it shall so seem good to our Holy Father the Pope that the Administration of the Temporalties of the said Church be given to the aforesaid Joseph Clement and that the Administration of the Spiritualties be likewise committed to him on this Condition that he exercise the same joyntly with the Bishop of Hierapolis Suffragan and Canon of the said Church who shall be understood to be deputed to this Co-administration during the pleasure of his Holiness and the Apostolick See And Report being hereof made his Holiness favourably approved the Sentence of the Sacred Congregation Given at Rome the fifteenth of September 1688. Signed as the former In December following the Emperor's Minister by order of the Pope required the Cardinal of Fustenburg and his Party of the Canons to own Prince Clement of Bavaria as their Arch-bishop and Elector of Cologne on pain of Excommunication And afterward six of the Canons who had taken part with the Cardinal not appearing upon Summons of the Official of Cologne were by publick Sentence deprived of their Benefices and Ecclesiastical Dignities May 7. Cardinal Crescentio and on the Ninth Cardinal Felice Rospiglosi died at Rome whereby there were eight places void in the College of Cardinals In June there was a terrible Earth-quake in Naples and other Towns thereabout even perceived at Rome many Persons were destroyed by the fall of Buildings Palaces and eminent Structures A Famous Church of the Jesuits one of the finest in all Italy tumbled down and the neighbouring Town of Benevento was quite demolished The Pope therefore sent large Sums of Mony in particular 50000 Crowns unto Naples for the relief of People that suffered by this sad Calamity This Earthquake continued several days more or less with some Intervals the People feared it would last a whole Moon as one did in December 1456. and therefore many retired into the Country in hopes of more Security but by the violent Storms and Rain which followed the Earth-quake such sudden Floods arose that several were drowned and all People extreamly terrified by the frequent and violent Shakings of the Earth mighty Thunder and Lightning great Hail-stones Besides which a Mountain also split in sunder the Earth opened and out of it issued black Vapors and Flames of Fire the Sun appeared incircled with a Flame about it the Sea though at Calm strangely retired in three times All which Prodigies so terrified the Inhabitants of Naples that scarcely a third part of the People remained therein July 25. being St. James's day began publick Rejoycings at Rome for the Birth of the Queen of Englands Son There was held a Chappel of eighteen Cardinals who assisted at High Mass and Te Deum was sung with rare Musick in the English Church which was richly adorned and the Cardinal of Norfolk made great Expressions of Joy at his Palace Sir John Lydcot Agent at Rome then for King James the Second shewed all the Demonstrations of Joy usual on such extraordinary Occasions viz. A very large Picture or Emblem was set up over his Palace-gate relating to the Subject which consisted of an Effigies of a Child adorned as a Knight of the Garter and about it several Trophies relating to the Prince of Wales Kings of England and Warlike Exploits with the then King and Queen of England's Pictures on each side and the Pope's over it Not only the Windows of his House were illuminated but he had divers Pots of combustible Matter flaming set upon Posts before his House and distributed 1100 Lanthorns with the King's Arms upon them to be hung up with Lights in them before the Neighbouring Houses and a Fountain of Wine ran for three days upon the second day he provided a whole Ox the Belly whereof was fill'd with Fowls c. to be roasted for the common People and entertained divers Persons of Quality in his Palace with all Rarities The Wine and good Cheer had so fill'd the common Peoples Bellies and Heads that they made returns with shouting and noise so that it was said not only the Musick in the Palace was deaded by it but the Drums Trumpets yea the very Chambers and Mortars were not to be heard The Pope was God-father to this Child whose Baptism was defer'd to October 15. 1688. and was represented by his Nuntio in England for as King James had sent an Ambassador to complement the Pope so the like in return was done by him and his Nuntio made his publick Entrance at Windsor in the beginning of July 1687. but the Pope knew how to use his Mony otherwise than to be at so great Charge as the King of England's Ambassador had been at in Rome for his Nuntio had only four Pages twelve Footmen and three Coaches of his own when he made his publick Entry The Pope made Cardinal Pallavicino Legat of St. Vrban and upon his Creation he is reported to have made a learned Speech in the Consistory in relation to the Queen of England's Son and gave a piece of Mony to all that would fetch it at St. Peter's Church where there resorted about 30000 Persons In August the Lord Thomas Howard Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great Britain had Audience of His Holiness The Pope confirmed the Election of the Baron of Plettenbergh to the Bishoprick of Munster 1689. The Difference between the Pope and the French King not being yet composed April 30. the Marquis of Laverdin left Rome and returned to Paris in July following and the 26th of the same Month the Pope's Nuntio left Paris in order to return to Rome And the Pope's Apprehensions encreasing that the French King might make some Attempt on Italy he made great Preparations to be in a Posture to defend himself by daily enlisting more Men providing Ammunition fortifying and reinforcing his Garisons and denying Audience to the Cardinals d'Estrees and d'Este they and the Duke of Savoy's Minister at that Court prepared themselves for their Departure The Pope resolved also to make use of his Spiritual Weapons and threw his weightiest Thunderbolt Excommunicating in the severest manner all Persons of what Degree or Quality soever that shall usurp possess or separate from the State of the Church any part of its Lands Dominions c. or that shall seize upon any part of its Revenue or that shall interrupt or hinder the Commerce on the Coasts and Seas of the Ecclesiastical Estate as likewise those who shall attempt the calling or appealing to future Councils or that shall write against the Pope or Church Which Bull was affixed at all the usual publick Places in Rome and was ordered to be sent into France that so that Crown might not pretend Ignorance At this time the French King declares War against Spain and before or since against the Emperor and some of the German Princes as likewise against England Scotland Holland c. So that though the Pope had all his Life-long