place of Residency of this Court. There is a great Bridge and a little River under it call'd Manzanarez on the occasion of which an Embassadour said to the Emperour Charles the Fifth Less Bridge or more Water The Kings Palace is call'd Pallasso del Rey otherwise Palasso Real The eldest Sons of the King of Spain are called Princes of Austria as in France Dolphins in England Princes of Wales in Portugal Princes of Algarves and in Savoy Princes of Piedmont A relation whereof I could quote the Author tells us that a man must be clad in black to speak to his Catholick Majesty I know the contrary by Spaniards who have had the honour to speak to him in grey Clothes I may believe that a man must appear before him in black Clothes when he is in Mourning and be in a decent habit The Coach-men sit on one of the horses which go at the Draught-tree since the time that the Coach-man of Count Alvarez who sate before the Coach reveal'd a Secret of his Master which he had overheard The same thing is practis'd in Germany The chief Houses of Pleasure belonging to the King and out of Madrid are IL Campo il Retiro Aranjues le Pardo the Escurial and Jarzuela The Spaniards make of this last save one the eighth Wonder of the World. Philip the Second laid oâ—r twenty Millions in building it he caus'd the Escurial to be built both in memory of the Victory which he gain'd over the French An. 1557. at S. Quentin in Picardy on the Somme the tenth of August being S. Laurence's day and for having caus'd the Church of S. Laurence of S. Quentin to be beaten down whereupon he made a Promise to God to cause a finer to be built in Spain in the honour of the same Saint and a Monastery where the Monks of S. Hierome are magnificently seated The King has a Seat in the Refectuary and a great Palace without the Convent After the Library of the Vatican which is the first of the World that of these Monks has been greatly valued There is seen at il Campo a great Park for the divertisement of Hunting great Ponds and Gardens At il Retiro otherwise call'd Buen Retiro there is seen Philip the Fourth on a Horse of cast Copper The King passes there the greatest heats of the Summer by reason of its Waters and fine Grotto's of different kinds The fine Walks are there as green in the Summer as in the Spring-time There is a strange Figure there standing in the midst of a great Cistern casting forth water from all the parts of its body which is made use of for watering in a moment a Garden of the Palace full of all sorts of Flowers There is also seen there Gardens full of Fruit-trees At il Pardo are the Pictures of all the Kings of Spain The ancient Palace of one of the Kings of the Moors call'd Halambra is remarkable for being flankt with thirty Towers it is on one of the little Hills of the Town of Grenada The chief places of Devotion IN Madrid the Church of our Lady Almudena and that of Athoca are very famous Our Lady of Athoca call'd according to the Language of the Country Nostra Senora d'Athoca is at Madrid as the Church of our Lady at Paris for Piety and the concourse of People It 's there where the Te Deum is sung Saint James of Compostella in Galicia is a very famous place of Pilgrimage the French Pilgrims that go thither pass over the Trembling Bridge It is thought that this Bridge is so call'd by reason of the flowing of the Sea which coming to press against it makes it tremble It 's a roguish Bridge of wood a little River passes under it The Apostle S. James the Greater is the Patron of all Spain His Relicks are under the great Altar of the Metropolitan Church of Compostella his Figure representing half his body is over it his Pilgrims Staff is on the side of the Quire and his Head at Toulouse in the Church of S. Sernin It 's there where the Pilgrims begin their Pilgrimage S. James has been seen to fight for the Spaniards against the Sarasins holding in his hand a white Standart with a red Cross in it in the time of King Ramires who being assisted with his Apostle charg'd so briskly the Enemies that he cut in pieces 60000 on the place Charlemagne King of France was at Compostella to honour St. James and caus'd his Church to be built Since the Kings of Spain have been Catholicks they have always honour'd him I have read a Relation of divers Voyages in which the Author says that St. James suffered Martyrdom at Compostella It 's a roguish Memoire which has been given him I remit him to the Books of the Acts of the Apostles to the Ecclesiastical History and to the holy Martyrology and he will find that it was at Hierusalem that Herod caus'd him to be beheaded This Apostle having continued some time in Spain return'd to Judoea his Disciples after his death carried him from the Port of Joppe presently to Fa where they embarkt for Spain and after having sail'd all along the Mediterranean Sea and pass'd the Straight of Gibralter they took on the Ocean the course of Galicia where they landed and disembarkt the body of the Saint in the Town of Irisflavia where he continued hidden and unknown till it was miraculously discover'd by a Star which appear'd there This place has been call'd since Compostella that is to say Campus stelloe S. James the Lesser suffered also Martyrdom in Hierusalem whereof he was Bishop he was thrown headlong from the top of the Temple to the bottom and cudgell'd to death After S. James of Compostella Mount Sarra is another place of Piety and of Pilgrimage very much frequented It 's a Mountain in the middle of Catalonia on which there is an Abbey of the Order of S. Bennet and where thirteen Hermites have each their little Cell and little Garden The Angelical Chappel call'd otherwise our Lady of the Pillar is very famous at Saragossa Buterius says that S. James being in Prayer about this Town with his little Flock and being very uneasie that he could not convert in Spain above nine persons whereof there were eight Jews and one onely Spaniard the holy Virgin brought by Angels from Judaea into this Country appear'd to him near the River Eber on a Pillar of Marble some say of Jasper who comforting him foretold to him the Conversion of this People by the Ministry of his Disciples and that St. James rais'd her since this Chappel where this Pillar is seen and on it the Figure of the Virgin holding her Son in her arms This Church is esteem'd the most Ancient of Christendom amongst those that are dedicated to the holy Virgin. The Division of the Spanish Monarchy ITs Kingdoms or to say better its Provinces were formerly to the number of fourteen by counting thus Castille Leon Arragon Catalonia Valencia
Apparation happened on a day that St. Gregory the Great carried in a solemn Procession the Image of the Virgin at a time when the Plague wholly dispeopl'd Rome This Scourge ceased as soon as the Angel had sheathed his Sword. There is to be seen since in that place the Figure of an Angel in Marble The Emperour Adrian a great lover of Building caused this Fortress to be built which was the place where he was buried Pope Sixtus the V. left there five millions of Gold with a Bull defending all Popes under pain of Excommunication to alienate them but in the extremest necessity for the defence of the Popes and of the City Pope Vrban the Eighth caused this Castle to be well fortified placing in it the fairest pieces of Cannon that are any where to be seen there are six which were given by a King of England some of them are made of many Statues of the false Gods melted The Tower in the middle of it is so elevated that it commands all the approaches of the Town The Coridor of the Vatican-Palace reaching to the Castle St. Angelo is very convenient for the retreat of the Popes in times of War or of Sedition Other Ornaments of Rome IN Rome the beautiful Churches the fair Pillars the Antiquities the Popes Court the Aquoeducts the large Streets the Obelisks the Mausolea the Catacombi the Library of the Vatican draw the admiration of all men There is so great a number of Fountains that it's thought if they ran all into one Channel they would make a River and some think large enough to bear Vessels The Vatican draws its Etymology from Answers or Oracles which the Latines call Vaticinia It s Library is described by the Sieur le Gallois in his book intituled Traité des plus belles Bibliotheques de l'Europe It contains excellent Disquisitions and Curiosities It was printed at Paris An. 1680. The Rota is a famous Tribunal composed of twelve Auditors of different Nations the jurisdiction whereof extends it self on beneficiary and profane causes It 's thought they are so called because they sit in a Circle and roul about the most important differences of the Christian World. Their Judgments are called Decisions of the Rota and to express well their force and authority it suffices to say The Rota has thus determined The chief Towns of Italy with their Epithetes and Elogies are ROme the Holy Roma la Santa Naples the Noble Napoli la Gentile Venice the Rich Venetia la Ricca Genoa the Proud Genova la Superba for its Palaces and Buildings Milan the Great Milano la Grando Bolonia the Fat Bolonia la Grassa for the fertility of its Soil Ravenna the Ancient Ravenna l' Antica Padua the Learned Padua la Dotta for its University because good learning has always flourisht there According to Sabellicus we may place Mantua in parallel with Ravenna for Antiquity and with Bolonia for the goodness of its Soil Italy is called the Garden of Europe for its charming Delights and Beauty and according to the Proverb A man has seen no fine Country if he has not seen Italy I cannot end this Paragraph of the remarkable Towns of Italy without naming that of Melphi in the Kingdom of Naples which is famous for having brought forth Flavio to whom is attributed the invention of the Sea-Compass which shews Pilots the course they ought to steer the place whence they come and that whither they are going and where they are According to the common Opinion this Flavio of Melphi invented it the year of our Salvation 1300. It was called Boussole from Buxus or Buxeolus because those of the West put it at first in a Case of Box. The Sieur Faucher President of the Mint-concern says that it was called in France for above 400 years the Marinotte Some persons over-speculative think it may be presumed to have been in use in the time of the Children of Noah because they had Iron and the Load-stone proper to compose it and the knowledge of the Mathematicks Levinus and Pineda say that Solomon's Pilots made use of it to go to the Islands of Tharsis and of Ophir The Scripture notes that Solomon having equipt a Fleet on the Coast of the Red Sea Hiram King of Tyre furnisht him with his Sea-men skill'd in the Art of Navigation The Greek Poet writes that the Pole was observed in Navigation in the time of the Trojan War And the Latine Poet that men observed the Stars And thence some think that this could not be done without the Sea-Compass not considering that men before did nothing but coast about upon the Sea and sail in Roads After having mention'd the Town of Melphi on the account of Flavio that of Ferrara comes into my mind on the occasion of a great Lover of Learning viz. Coelius Calcagninus a Noble Person of Ferrara living Anno 1249. it was his will to be buried in his Library which has this Inscription on the door Index tumuli Coelii Calcagnini qui ibidem voluit sepeliri ubi semper vixit The chief Rivers THe River Po the Tiber Ticinus Doero Laddo Rubicon called now Pisatello Menzo Garrigliano Offranto in Poüille Arnus and others The Po is called by the Greeks Eridanus it passes at Turin Cazal and Valentia near Milan and at other places This River is famous amongst the Poets for the fabulous fall of young Phaeton its source is in the highest Mountain of the Alps called Montviso on the side of Piedmont it receives thirty Rivers into its Channel and a great many Lakes and Ponds its course is from the West to the East Popes by birth French-men and some passages of their Lives SYlvester the Second Vrban the Second Calixtus the Second Vrban the Fourth Clement the Fourth Innocent the Fifth Martin the Fourth Clement the Fifth John the Twenty second Benedict the Eleventh Clement the Sixth Innocent the Sixth Vrban the Fifth Gregory the Eleventh Sylvester the second of the name called before Gilbert or Gerbert born in Aquitain was a Religious man and Benedictine of St. Gerard of Aurillac in the Diocess of St. Flour and Tutor to Robert King of France and to the Emperour Otho the Third who raised him to the soveraign Pontificate He was first Archbishop of Rheims and then of Ravenna and lastly Pope which gave occasion for this Verse to be made on him Scandit ab R. Gerbertus in R. post Papa Regens est He was a great Mathematician which caused his Enemies to accuse him of Magick He was falsely charg'd for having in his Closet a Head of Brass by which the Devil answered what he askt He died the 12th day of May 1003. Pope Sergius his Successour writ his Epitaph which is yet to be seen and shews that he lived and died a holy man. Vrban the second of the name was born at Chastillon on Marne Son of Milon He was called before his Exaltation Cardinal Otho Bishop of Ostia He excommunicated the Diocess of Compostella for
having put their Bishop in prison and governed the Ship of St. Peter eleven years four months and eighteen days some say eleven years and a half He called into his Council St. Bruno Founder of the Order of the Charthusians He called the Council of Clairmont in Auvergne where he made the Enterprize of the holy War succeed which he called the Croizade because those that listed themselves were all crossed wearing a Cross sewn on their Habits He died An. 1110. Calixtus the Second was named Guy others say Guigue He was a Burgundian Uncle to Adelais Queen of France and near Cousin to the Emperour Henry He was Archbishop of Vienne in Daulphiné Suger Abbot of St. Dennis says that the night before his Election he saw as a Prognostick of his future Election a great Person that gave him the Moon to keep under his Archiepiscopal Cope fearing lest the Church might incur some danger by the death of Pope Gelasius He soon found the truth of this Vision seeing himself soveraign Pontife His Election was made whilst he was in the Abbey of Clugny An Anti-pope appeared at that time in Italy called Bourdin who was taken notwithstanding his intrenching and fortifying himself the Souldiers that took him mounted him on an old Camel and walkt him about the Streets publickly in derision with his face turn'd towards the Tail which they made him hold as a Bridle and afterwards he was confined to a perpetual imprisonment Calixtus assembled a Council at Rheims possest the Holy See about six years died the 19th of December 1124. In the time of his Pontificate St. Norbert founded his Order called Proemonstratensis from the place where he retired himself which is in the Diocess of Laon. Vrban the Second of the Town of Troy in Champagne was the Son of a Cobler and called James Pantaleon he recompensed the defaults of his birth by the eminency of his Learning and Vertue After having been Canon and Archdeacon of Laon and afterwards of Liege he was made Bishop of Verdun from Bishop he became Patriark of Hierusalem from Patriark Legate in divers places and then afterward Pope The Prophetick Motto was Hierusalem Campaniae When any one reproached him with the lowness and obscureness of his Birth he answered That the Nobility which is acquired by the gifts of the Understanding is more valuable than that which comes from Birth alone and that it consists in Vertue Those that are born Noble may say to their advantage and with truth that Jesus Christ was a Gentleman and the holy Virgin a Gentlewoman It is very true when Nobleness of Bloud is joyned with that of Vertue it is Perfection Superiours of an ignoble Birth may object that St. Peter who had the government of the Church was no Gentleman This Prelate after three years of the Pontificate left this mortal life the last day of September and according to Onuphrius the second day of October 1264. Clement the Fourth called before Guy Foucaut according to du Chesne was Native of the Town St. Gilles in Languedoc and according to Father Gautruche a Jesuit of a Village near Narbonne He was Bishop of Puy Archbishop of Narbonne and Cardinal by the Title of St. Sabine and Legate in England St. Loüis made him Counsellor of State because he was greatly skilled in the Laws Some think that he was elected Pope the 5th or 11th of February 1265. He crowned at Rome Charles of Anjou King of Naples and of Sicily with the ordinary Ceremonies in St. John Lateran's He had in his Arms an Eagle holding a Dragon in his Talons His Prophetick Motto was Draco depressus He died the 29th of November 1268. after three years and a half being Pope Martin the Fourth formerly Simon de Brie was Native of Mont-pincé or of the Village de Suci He founded the Chapter of Champeaux which is in the Diocess of Paris He was Treasurer and Canon of St. Martins of Tours and Cardinal by the Title of St. Cecil was elected Pope the 22th of February 1282. Under his Pontificate the year of his Election the French had their Throats cut throughout all Sicily This Massacre was called the Sicilian Vesperas because it was committed at the hour of Vesperas on an Easter-day O cruel Vesperas Peter of Arragon having an Army on foot under pretext of going into the Holy Land usurpt the Country at the sollicitation and detestable enterprize of a young Italian Gentleman a sworn Enemy to the French. The Pope struck with a mortal grief excommunicated the Sicilians and those of Arragon for their Attempt and black Treason This Prelate created many Cardinals amongst others the Dean of the Church of Nostre Dame at Paris called Geofry de Barbo a Burgundian The Prophetick saying on this Pope was Ex Telonio Liliacei because he was Treasurer of St. Martins of Tours others say Liliacei Martini believing that this Church was adjudged the midst and the centre of France the Kingdom of Flower-de-luces God took him out of this World at Peruse the 28th or 29th day of March 1285. Two Miracles happened at his Burial Clement the Fifth born at Bourdeaux had for his Father Beraud Chevalier Lord of Villandrault Before his Exaltation he was called Bertrand Gout de Gutto He had in his Arms three Bars Gules in a Field Or the Prophecie was de Festis Aquitanicis The Cardinals continued ten months in the Conclave for the creation of this Prelate before Bishop of Cominges then Archbishop of Bourdeaux whereof he performed the Function even till they had brought him the Decree of his Election with the Letters of the whole Colledge He took solemnly possession of the Apostolical Chair at Bourdeaux in the Cathedral-Church of St. Andrews caused himself to be crowned at Lyons the greatest part of the Cardinals rendered themselves there pursuant to his Orders the Kings of France of England and of Arragon assisted at this Ceremony The Italian Cardinals thinking to lead him to Rome he transferred the Holy Sea to Avignon where it continued seventy years or seventy two from Clement to Gregory the Eleventh who re-established it at Rome Anno 1375. At his first promotion of Cardinals he created ten all French-men In the third he made Cardinal William de Maudagout Archbishop of Embrun who was born at Sevenes above the Town Vigan The Castle of Maudagout is at present Protestant and encompassed with Chesnut-trees His Arms are yet to be seen over the great Gate Clement built the Castles of Villandrault Budos and la Brede He governed the Church eight years ten months and some days died Anno 1314. in the Castle of Roguemaure scituated on the Rhone in the Diocess of Avignon and not of Nismes as some persons have said His Body reposes in Guyenne in the Church of the Canons of Vzeste whereof this Prelate was the Founder See here a remarkable thing related by Andrew de Chesue in the Life of the Popes Clement whilst he was yet Archbishop of Bourdeaux having deposed Gautier
Abbot de Bourzaix thought that the Devises of this great Monument raised in the honour of Loüis le Grand should have been Latine alleadging that the Latine Tongue is the Tongue of Religion the Tongue of the Altar and of the Holy Ghost and many other reasons The Sieur Charpentier of the French Academy taking another way maintains that they ought to be in our Tongue in his Book intituled Defense de la Langue Francoise pour l'inscription de l'arc de Triumphe The same Town of Paris is honoured with the first Parliament of the Kingdom it is the Court of the Peers where our Kings have their Throne of Justice It has also a very ancient University known throughout the Earth for being very Learned and for making others so Charlemain founded it An. 791. We take always the Rector of the Faculty of Arts according to his ancient standing The Faculty of Divinity is composed of two publick Schools of that of Sorbone and that of Navarre the Sieurs Martin Grandin Guillaume de l'Estocque Gui Boust Jacques de Perrier Edme Pirot and Michael Antoine Vincent teach in the Colledge of Sorbonne Master Martin Grandin has dictated Divinity for these forty years It may be said of him Scivit in mundo Scibile quicquid erat The Sieurs Pierre Guischard Jean de Saussoy Claude de Febure and Briand Marion are Professors in the Colledge Royal of Navarre These two Houses have furnisht at all times great Men. The Religious Men and the Monks have their particular Professors in their Houses which have also brought forth great persons The Seculars and Regulars are compared to two Beams which uphold the Edifice of the House of God. The Abbot Coquelin Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbone Canon of the Church of Paris formerly Curat of St. Mederic and Prior of Sorbone was made Chancellour of the University in the Month of May of the year 1679. We promise our selves great things from him by reason of his eminent Learning and rare Eloquence whereof he has given and daily gives manifest proofs in the first Chairs of Paris To raise the dignity of his Charge of Chancellour and the merit of his Person there is nought wanting to him but that he occupy for some time the Chair of the Louvre Besides his being a great Orator which is a particular Talent and a great Schoolman he is also a great Historian and skilful in the Oriental Tongues He has outdone all his other knowledges by the Voyages he has made after the example of another Dedalus Melampius Pythagoras Homer and others Peerless Paris is particularly embellisht with the Palace des Tuilleries the Louvre the Palace of Luxembourg the Palace Royal these two last have changed their names with the Hostel de Condé de Conti de Soissons with the Hostel de Guise with that of the Grand Prior of France in the Temple with that of Angouleme of Vandôme of Palace Mazarin and of the Houses adjacent with a good Arsenal and the Bastille the Hôtel de Ville the Palace where Justice is administred the Hôtel of St. Paul recommendable for its Antiquity and for having been the place of Residence of some of the first Kings of France with the Hôtels of Lorrain of Turenne of Sully of Mayenne of Lesdiguiere of Elboeuf of Matignon of the Houses of la Baziniere and of Guenegaud of that of the Master of Requests Amelot Biseul in the Marsh of the Temple and with an infinite number of others with two high and great Towers of the Church of Nostre-Dame the Steeple of the holy Chappel of the Palace that of St. Jacques de la Boucherie the Towers and Steeples of St. Genevieve of St. Germain des Pres and of St. Victor with many Coupula's with the Dome of the Church of Sorbone the Dome of Val de Grace the Dome of the Jesuits of St. Loüis the Dome of the Religious Women of the Assumption and with that of the Colledge of the Four Nations founded by Cardinal Julius Mazarin We must observe that during this last War they have not forborn to enlarge their streets Colledge Mazarin its Institution Library and Academy THis Colledge was Instituted for the maintenance of Sixty Scholars Sons of Gentlemen who are there to be Lodged Dieted and Taught gratis whereof fifteen according as it is exprest in the Foundation must be of Pignerol and of the Territories and Valleys adjacent and of the Ecclesiastical State fifteen of the Country of Alsatia and other contiguous Countries of Germany twenty of the Country of Flanders Artois Hainault and Luxembourg and ten of the Country of Roussillon Conflant and Sardaigne In default of Gentlemen the Children of the chief Bourgers of the said Towns and Countries are to be received Fifteen persons must be drawn from the Colledge for the Academy without any distinction of the Countries mentioned The Colledge must be governed by the Doctors of the House of Sorbone amongst which there are to be four Inspectors one Grand-Master Twelve of the Ancientest Doctors who are to be under the Inspectors and grand Master All Classes are to be gone through there except that of Divinity the Scholars of each are to be Governed by the Principals and Sub-principals establisht for their Nation There will be in the Academy a Gentleman a Dancing-Master a Fencing-Master a Vaulting-Master a Master of the Mathematicks and necessary servants The Abbey of St. Michel in l'Herm seated in Poitou is assigned for the maintenance of the Colledge and Academy with many great Houses for the reception of Coaches lying in the street Mazarin and others The Library was judged very curious by the Kings of England and Denmark these two Princes saw it in the Palace Mazarin whence it was transported into the Colledge His Majesty of Denmark caused his to be built after the model of that it is long wide and very high and admits a great deal of light and has the prospect of the Louvre and the Seine it will be open twice a week to all persons of Learning on such days as shall be thought fit as that of the Abbey of St. Victor which is publick on Mundays Wednesdays and Saturdays and which is famous The Library Mazarin contains 30000 Volumes there are in it the chief Books of the Protestants Cardinal Mazarin made this pious and grand Foundation for many reasons amongst others for rendring the Inhabitants of the Conquered Countries before-mentioned as well French in their Heart as by Nation Divine Providence having prescribed limits to the life of all men the Founder of this Colledge dyed at Vincennes the ninth of March 1661 in the fifty one year of his age His Heart reposes in the Church of the Theatins his Body will be transferred from the Church of Vincennes into the Church of the said Colledge when Mass comes to be celebrated in it and it will be placed in a magnificent Mausoloeum there to wait the general Resurrection In the Month of May of
the others are also of a great price The Head of St. Loüis King of France is at Paris in the holy Chappel of the Palace Jean d'Eureux Queen of France took it from the Treasury of St. Denis and put in its place parcels of all the Relicks that are in the said holy Chappel There is seen in the same Treasury of St. Denis a Cup of Tamarisk-wood in which St. Loüis drank to keep himself from the Spleen A Vessel of an oriental Agate esteem'd one of the most pretious pieces of the Treasury for its largeness antiquity and work It 's believed that Ptolomy Philadelphus caused it to be made and that it was working with the point of a Diamond for thirty years Another Vessel of Gold in the form of a Salver adorn'd with Granats Jacinths and with a great white Saphire in the midst on which is seen the Effigies of King Solomon seated in his Throne It is judg'd that it appertained to this Monarch as also a great Vessel of Rock-Christal by reason of some Inscriptions in Samaritan Characters A Gamahaea in an Agat-stone expressing the Image of the Queen of Saba Many Crowns of Gold and Silver that of Charlemain St. Loüis Henry the Fourth Loüis the Thirteenth and Loüis the Fourteenth Each of these Kings has given to the Treasury two Crowns one of Gold the other of Silver gilt That of Charlemain which is carried to Rheims to serve at the Coronation of our Kings with the other Royal Ornaments is all of Gold adorn'd with great Rubies Saphirs and Emeralds The Crown of St. Loüis is likewise of massie Gold adorn'd with very beautiful pretious Stones amongst others with a Ruby valued at a hundred thousand crowns in which is inchast by the Kings order a Thorn of the Crown of the Son of God. There is seen the Image of the same St. Loüis grav'd on a Ring with these two letters S and L that is to say Sigillum Ludovici because he made use of it to seal his Letters All the Kings have shewn themselves liberal to this Treasury some Abbots of the Order have also given to it particularly Abbot Suger His two little Pots are not common the one is of Rock-Christal the other of Beril cut with the point of a Diamond His Chalice is made of a very fair oriental Agate In this Treasury are kept a great many Swords that of Charlemain that which St. Loüis brought with him at his first Voyage from the Holy Land that of the Pucelle of Orleans Joanne d'Arc and also the Sword of Turpin who having been made Archbishop of Rheims afterwards bore Arms against the Infidels There are seen there many other Pieces of Antiquity So much for a Sample of this Treasury He that desires to see more may go to St. Denis where a Religious man shews it every day at two of the clock in the afternoon Those that cannot come to see it may read a little Book in 12º entitul'd Inventaire du Tresor de S. Denis where all the Pieces are briefly describ'd according to the Order of the eight Presses where they are shewn This little Book is printed at Paris by Pierre de Bost Rue S. Jacques at the signe of St. Francis near St. Severin The Tombs of the Kings of France DAgobert the First eleventh King of France and St. Loüis the forty fourth have their Tombs in the Quire of the Church and many other Kings and Queens In the common Vault of Rites repose Henry the Fourth Mary de Medicis his Wife Loüis the Thirteenth Anne of Austria his Spouse The Duke of Orleans the Kings Uncle Madam de Montpensier his first Wife Henriette-Marie Queen of England Henriette-Anne her Daughter the first Wife of Monsieur the Kings Brother and others The Monument of Francis the First is out of the Quire on the side of the Cloister in a rais'd Monument They count five Kings out of the Quire on the Gospel-side Marshal de Turenne is in a Chappel near the high Altar Loüis the 14th has caus'd a Monument to be rais'd in his memory and in acknowledgment of the great Services he did to France After his death many Services and Funeral Prayers were said for him in the principal Churches of Paris Bertrand du Quesclin Sancerre a Gentleman of Britany Constable of France has his Tomb for his Fidelity and Valour amongst those of the Kings by the order of Charles the Fifth called the Wife Clouis the first of the name the fifth King of France and Clotilde his Spouse have their Mausolea at Paris in the Abbey of St. Genevieve in the Quire. Other famous places of Devotion and Pilgrimages greatly frequented in the Kingdom and favour'd with the kindest Aspect of Heaven THe Church of Nostre-Dame at Paris in the Isle of France that of the Abbey of St. Genevieve and the Chappel of the Hospital of the Holy Ghost Nostre-dame de Grace near Gallion in the Diocess of Roüen Nostre-Dame de Chartres in Beausse Nostre-Dame de L'Epine near Chalons in Champagne Nostre-Dame de Liesse in Picardy Nostre-Dame de Bologne on the Sea. Nostre-Dame de la Deliverance and Mount S. Michel in Normandy Sainte-Reine in Burgundy Nostre-Dame d'Alizor near Lyons Nostre-Dame de Loisiere and la Chartreuse of Grenoble in Daulphine St. Maximin Saint Baume and St. Martha in Provence Nostre Dame de Rochefort in Languedoc les Avignon Nostre-Dame de Grau called la Grenoüillade at half a league from Agde Nostre-Dame de Consolation half a league from Beziers and Nostre-Dame de Gignac in the same Diocess Nostre-Dame de Liviniere in the Diocess of S. Pons of Tomiers Nostre-Dame de Lorme and Nostre-Dame d'Alen in the Diocess of Montauban Nostre-Dame de Ladreiche a league from Alby The Hermitage of Nostre-Dame de Moinier in the Territory of Pompignan on the top of a high Mountain in the Diocess of Nismes St. Sernin at Tolose where are the entire Relicks of many of the Apostles Nostre-Dame d Alet and Nostre-Dame de Roqueville three leagues off Nostre-Dame de Garaizon in the Diocess of Ausche Nostre-Dame de Verdelez at Cadiliac near Bourdeaux Nostre-Dame de Nazareth in Britany three leagues from Dinan and Nostre-Dame de bonnes Nouvelles at Rennes Nostre-Dame d'Ardilliers in the Diocess of Anger 's in Anjou Nostre-Dame de Mibonnet a league from Moulins in the Diocess of Authun in Bourbonnois Nostre-Dame de Clery near Orleans on the Loire Nostre-Dame du Puy Nostre-Dame de Fridieire and Nostre-Dame de Pitie in Auvergne This is without the Town of Chaude-Agues on a sharp Rock Abbot Cholmerl is the Founder Nostre-Dame de Banelle and Nostre-Dame de Sabar are in the County of Foix in the Diocess of Comminges Nostre Dame de Quezac in Givodan near St. Maur the Abbey of St. Bennet in the Diocess of Mande Nostre-Dame de Roquemadou and Nostre-Dame de Liaurou in Quercy in the Diocess of Cahors Nostre-Dame de Cignac in the Diocess of Rhodes The House of Arpajou has given it great
the three Kings or Magi who adored the Son of God in the Manger and it is believ'd that they are there entire The Church of St. Vrsula is famous by reason of the eleven thousand Virgins cast by a Tempest on the coasts of Germany There are seen an infinite number of bones all round the walls of the Quire in high Cupboards and many Tombs in the body of the Church and on an Altar many heads of silver where is that of St. Vrsula The Colledge of Sorbonne a Member of the faculty of Divinity of Paris has for Patronesses this holy Daughter of a King and her Companions Cardinal Baronius says in his Annotations on the Roman Martyrologie that the true History of these Virgins is lost thence it comes that we find many uncertain things of it Mr. Joli Canon of the Church of Paris has said remarkable things of it in his Book entituled A Voyage made to Munster in Westphalia and many other neighbouring places An. 1646 and 1647. Printed by Francis Clauzier Father Boussingault in his Guide of the Low Countries p. 101. and 219. says that the Church St. Mary of the Capitol has two Bodies and two Quires in the one of which the Canons say their Office and in the other the Canonesses where the one being on one side and the others on the other they sing the Praises of God. There is a like thing practis'd at Nivelle in Brabant the Canons come on certain days of the year into the Church of the Canonesses to sing with them The Abbess as Lady spiritual and temporal of the Town of Nivelle it being of her Jurisdiction presides in the Chapter the Canons and Canonesses joyntly confer the Benefices which are vacant by the death or by the marryage of the Canonesses The Ladies wear in the Church a Rochet with a black Mantle over it which trains on the ground a starcht Linnen-cloath on their arm instead of the Aumusse or the furr'd Ornament worn by Canons and a Couvre-chef on their head St. Bruno Founder of the Charthusians was born at Cologne and Mary de Medicis dyed there the third of July 1643. In the same year dyed Loüis the Thirteenth and Cardinal Richelieu Cologne has had eighty Bishops and Archbishops from Matternus to Maximilian Henry of Bavaria seventeen Bishops preceded there the Metropolitans St. Agilulfe was its first Archbishop Pope Zachary declar'd this Church Metropolitan An. 744. The Suffragans are Munster Minden and Osnaburg An Observation on the three Ecclesiastical Electors YOu must observe that the three Ecclesiastical Electors have no Passive Voice in the Assemblies of Election that is to say they cannot nominate themselves Emperours they may nominate and give their Suffrages for others but not for themselves it having not been judg'd proper that one and the same head should wear the Miter and the Imperial Crown and one and the same hand carry the Cross and the Sword and to the end that since they cannot arrive at the Crown they may keep the other Electors within the bounds of their devoir Another Observation on the Lay Electors THe Secular Electors may nominate themselves Sigismond of Luxembourg King of Bohemia nominated himself after the death of Robert of Bavaria and the other Electors acknowledging his merit gave him unanimously their Voices and Suffrages The Ecclesiastical Electors are elected by their Chapters who may exercise the Archiepiscopal Functions during the vacancy of the See but not the Electoral The Electoral Habit. THe Electoral Habit comes near that of the Presidents of Soveraign Courts That of the Ecclesiastical Electors is of Scarlet Cloath and that of the Lay Electors is of Crimson Velvet They are all lin'd with Hermines as likewise their Cap. There are some of them to be seen drawn at large with their ceremonial Habits in one of the fairest and richest Galleries of Duke Mazarin formerly belonging to the Cardinal of this name The King of Bohemia instead of the Electoral Cap wears a Royal Crown on his head You must observe that An. 1673. the Town of Cologne was chosen to treat there of a Peace betwixt the Kings of France and of Great Britain and the Hollanders and the Assembly was held at the Convent of the Carmelites a place very convenient His most Christian Majesty sent thither for his Plenipotentiaries the Duke of Chaulne and the Sieurs Courtin and de Barillon who arriv'd there the first the King shewing that he would not retard the work of Peace where so many Princes concern'd themselves though loaded with Victories They were followed by three Embassadours of Sweden who had a deference of Honour from all the rest they being then in quality of Mediators Two Plenipotentiaries came afterward from England and they expected for third the Earl of Sunderland chief of the Embassie During his absence Sir Joseph Williamson perform'd for him Those of Holland came to the number of four and afterward the Plenipotentiaries of Spain who had no other quality but of Envoys The Elector of Cologne had one Embassadour Prince William of Fustemberg the Elector of Brandenburg sent thither the Baron of Zminzin who had a Colleague The Emperour deputed the Baron d'Isola and others and the Bishop of Munster sent two there He was one of the Parties concern'd This Illustrious Assembly had no success because the seizing and carrying away by force the person of Prince William of Furstemberg by the Imperialists though vested with the character of Plenipotentiary in a place which ought to be a Sanctuary oblig'd his most Christian Majesty considering the Laws of Nations violated to recal his Nimegen was since made choice on for renewing the Conferences of the general Peace The Duke de Vitry the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissi and the Sieur de Mesmes Count of Avaux were appointed Plenipotentiaries of France Anno 1675. Marshal d' Estrade succeeded the Duke de Vitry. The 11th of August 1677. the Bishop and Prince of Gurc chief of the Embassie of Germany for the Conferences of the Peace arrived at Nimegen accompanied with Count Kinski and with Sieur Straman his Colleagues who went before him All the other Plenipotentiaries repair'd thither The Estates of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries appointed for their Plenipotentiaries the Sieur Hieromy Beverning Lord of Teylingen Curator of the University of Leiden the Sieur William of Nassau Lord of Odik Cortegene c. and the Sieur William Haren Grietman du Bildt The Treaties of Peace and of Commerce Navigation and Maritime affairs betwixt France and the States General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries were concluded at Nimegen the 10th of August 1678. In the same year the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain was sign'd and the year following 1679. that of France and of the Emperour whereof we have spoken elsewhere The Elector and King of Bohemia THe King of Bohemia one of the seven Electors formerly the Emperours great Cup-bearer is at present the Emperour himself Cath. His Arms