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england_n	henry_n	king_n	pope_n	16,586	5	6.9376	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30476	Dr. Burnet's travels, or Letters containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany, &c written by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing B5934; ESTC R9984	167,242	250

at once as the Italians do upon the Building and Finishing of their Palaces and Gardens and that afterwards bestow so little on the preserving of them another thing I observed in their Palaces there is indeed a great series of Noble rooms one within another of which their apartments are composed but I did not find at the end of the apartments where the Bed Chamber is such a disposition of rooms for back-stairs dressing-rooms closets servants rooms and other conveniences as are necessary for accommodating the Apartment It is true this is not so necessary for an apartment of State in which Magnificence is more considered then convenience but I found the same want in those apartments in which they lodged so that notwithstanding all the riches of their Palaces it can not be said that they are well lodged in them and their Gardens are yet less understood and worse kept then their Palaces It is true the Villa Borghese ought to be excepted where as there is a prodigious collection of bas reliefs with which the Walls are as it were covered all over that are of a vast value so the statues within of which some are of Porphiry and others of Touchstone are amazing things The whole grounds of this Park which is about three miles in compass and in which there are six or seven lodges are laid out so sweetly that I thought I was in an English Park when I walked over it The Villa Pamphilia is better scituated upon a higher ground and hath more Water-works and twice the extent of the other in Soil but neither doth the House nor Statues approach to the riches of the other nor are the grounds so well laid out and so well kept But for the Furniture of the Palaces of Rome the publick apartments are all covered over with Pictures and for those apartments in which they lodge they are generally furnished either with red Velvet or red Damask with a broad gold Galloon at every breadth of the stuff and a gold Fringe at top and bottom but there is very little Tapistry in Italy I have been carried into all this disgression from the general view that I was giving you of the Popes Palace I named one part of it which well ingage me into new digression as it well deserves one and that is the Library of the Vatican The Case is great but that which is lodged in it is much greater for here is a collection of Books that filleth a mans eye There is first a great Hall and at the end of it there runs out on both sides two Galleries of so vast a length that tho the half of them is already furnished with Books yet one would hope that there is room left for more new Books then the World will ever produce The Heidelberg Library stands by it self and filleth the one side of the Gallery as the Duke of Vrbins Library of Manuscripts filleth the other But tho these last are very fair and beautiful yet they are not of ●●ch Antiquity as those of Heidelberg When it appe●red that I was come from England King Henry the VIIIs Book of the seven Sacraments with an inscription writ upon it with his own hand to Pope Leo the X. was shewed me together with a collection of some Letters that he writ to Ann Bolen of which some are in English and some in French I that knew his hand well saw clearly that they were no forgeries There are not many Latin Manuscrip●s of great Antiquity in this Library some few of Virgils I saw writ in Capitals But that which took up alm●st half of one day that I spent at one time in this place related to the present dispute that is on foot between Mr. Schelstrate the Library-keeper and Mr. Maimbourg concerning the Council of Constance The two points in debate are the words of the decree made in the fourth Session and the Popes confirmation In the fourth Session according to the French Manuscripts a Decree was made subjecting the Pope and all other persons whatsoever to the Authority of the Council and to the Decrees it was to make and to the Reformation it intended to establish both in the Head and the Members which as it implies that the Head was corrupted and needed to be reformed so it sets the Council so directly above the Pope that this Session being confirmed by the Pope putteth those who assert the Popes infallibility to no small straits For if Pope Martin that approved this Decree was infallible then this Decree is good still and if he was not infallible no other Pope was infallible To all thi● Schelstrate answers from his Manuscripts that the words of a Reformation in Head and Members are not in the Decree of that Session and he did shew me several Manuscripts of which two were evidently writ during the sitting of the Council and were not at all dashed in which these words were not I know the hand and way of writing of that Age too well to be easily mistaken in my judgement concerning those Manuscripts but if those words are wanting there are other words in them that seem to be much stronger for the superiority of the Council above that Pope For it is Decreed that Popes and all other persons were bound to submit to the decisions of the Council as to Faith which words are not in the French Manuscripts Upon this I told M. Schelstrate that I thought the words in these Manuscripts were stronger then the other si●ce the word Reformation as it was used in the tim● of that Council belonged chiefly to the correcting of abuses it being often applied to the regulations that were made in the Monastick-Orders when they were brought to a more exact observation of the rule of their Order So tho the Council had decreed a Reformation both of Head and Members I do not see that this would import more than that the Papacy had fallen into some disorders that needed a Reformation and this is not denied even by those who assert the Pope's infallibility but a submission to points of Faith that is expresly asserted in the Roman Manuscripts is a much more positive evidence against the Pope's Infallibility and the word Faith is not capable of so large a sense as may be justly ascribed to Reformation But this difference in so main a point b●tween Manuscripts concerning so late a Transaction g●ve me an occasion to reflect on the vast uncertainty of Tradition especially of matters that are at a great distance from us when those that were so lately Transacted are so differently represented in Manuscripts and in which both those of Paris and Rome seem to carry all possible evid●nces of sinc rity As for the Popes confirmation of that Decree it is true by a General Bull Pope Martin confirmed the Council of Constance to such a period but besides that he made a particular Bull as Schelstrat assured me in which he enumerated all the Decrees that he confirmed and among