G. Gualterius After this he gave the Original Briefe to the Master of the ceremonies of his Highness who was Signior Carlo Pompeati Canon of the Cathedral Church of Trent a person famous for his birth and education who read it with a lowd and clear voice and then gave it into the hand of the Notary there present My Lord Hoâ—sterius added some latine words which began Though this thing in open view c. He sate down and was covered according to instruction And here then the cushion being brought before him which as we said before was laid on the last step of the Altar the Queen conducted thither by the Arch-Dukes quickly and freely kneeled down upon it Holstenius presented her the printed forme of the Profession saying to her the following words This is the solemn and usual form of Professing the Catholick faith the holy Church of Rome useth and her Maâ—esty is to read before me and the witnesses here present with a clear and distinct voice and afterwards with her own hand subscribe And both the Arch-Dukes standing about the Queen together with Don Antonio Pimentel as witnesses desired her Majesty with a clear distinct and lowd voice read the following Profession I Christina believe with a firme faith and professe all and every thing contained in the Creed of Faith the holy Roman Church usâ—th namely I believe in one God the Fatheâ— Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth of all things visible and invisible and in one Lord Jesus Christ the onely begotten Son of God and borne of his Father before all times God of God Light of Light true God of true God begotten not made consubstantial to the Father by whom all things are made who for us men and our salvation descended from the Heavens and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and made man crucifiâ—d also for us and suffered under Pontius Pilate and was buried And arose the third day accordâ—ng to the Scriptures and ascended into Heaven sits at the right hand of his father and is to come again with glory to judge the quick and the dead of whose Kingdom there shall be no end And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of life who proceeds from the Father and the Son who together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified who spake by the Prophets and in one holy Catholick and Apostolical Church I confesse one Baptisme in the remission of sinnes and expect the resurrection of the dead and the life to come Amen I firmly admit and embrace the Apostolical and Ecclesiastical Traditions and the other observances and constitutions of the same Church I likewise admit the sacred Scripture according to the sense our holy Mother the Church hath held and holds to whom it belongs to judge of the sense and interpretation of the holy Scriptures neither will I ever receive and interpret it but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers I likewise professe seven true and proper Sacraments of the new Law instituted by Christ Jesus our Lord and to the salvation of mankind though al to every one are not necessary namely Baptisme Confirmation Eucharist Penance extream Unction Order and Matrimony and these to conferre grace and of these Baptisme Confirmation and Order cannot be reiterated without Sacriledge I receive and admit the received and approved rites of the Catholick Church in the solemn administration of these Sacraments I embrace and receive all and every thing which have been designed and declared in the holy Council of Trent concerning Original sin and justification I also professe that in the Masse there is offered up to God a true proper and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there are truly really and substantially the body and blood with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and a conversion made of the whole substance of the bread into the body and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood of Christ which conversion the Catholick Church calls Transubstantiation I likewise confess that under each kind Christ is whole and entire and a true Sacrament to be received I constantly hold there is Purgatory and the souls there detained are helpt by the suffrages of the faithfull And that in like manner the Saints raigning together with Christ are to be honoured and invocated and that they offer up to God prayers for us and their reliques to be held in veneration I firmely assert the images of Christ and of the blessed Virgin as also of other Saints are to be had and retained and due honour and reverence to be given to them I likewise affirm the power of indulgences is left by Christ in his Church and their use very healthfull to Christian people I acknowledge the holy Catholick and Apostolical Roman Church to be the Mother and Mistress of all Churches And I promise and swear true obedience to the Bishop of Rome the successor of Saint Peter the chief of the Apostles and Vicar of Jesus Christ And all other things delivered defined and declared by the sacred Canons general Councils and especially by the holy Council of Trent I undoubtedly receive and professe and the contrary and all heresies whatsoever condemned rejected and anathematiz'd by the Church I also condemne reject and anathematize This true Catholick faith without which none can be saved which I here professe willingly and do truly hold the same entire and inviolable I will by Gods assistance most constantly retain and confesse and as much as in me lies endeavour that the same may be held taught and preacht by my subjects and those under my command I the said Christina doe promise vow and swear so help me God and these holy Evangelists CHRISTINA Her Majesty read the said Profession with such forcible expression that all remained no less astonisht than toucht with compunction at such an heroick resolution and here 't was observed that at every new period or parcell of the Scripture aforesaid her Majesty lifting up her head and fixing her eyes in the countenance of Holstenius with the freedom of her sight shew'd what resolution and affection her heart labour'd with so as this generous action so soften'd the minds of the assistants that from the eyes of many the teares out of tenderness trickel'd down in abundance The said Holstenius was not able to suppress them without difficulty and violence while he thought with what melting affection the mind of his Beatitude would have been mov'd if he had seen that action the noblest and most memorable of all to be seen in the world Her profession being ended and the oath contain'd in it taken Holstenius stood up and recited the following Verses and Prayers O Lord God of vertues convert us and shew thy face and we shall be safe Arise O Christ and help us and deliver us for thy name sake Let thy
remaining in Rome and sent him the fresh Letters for his Holinesse to the end he should present them as he did on the first day of July The Pope at that advice representing in his countenance and testifying in his words the joy and content news so good and so great did deserve call'd happy his Papacy for bringing a Queen to his feet with motives and resolutions so worthy and unparalell'd whereupon he reply'd t was necessary her Majestie ere she came into Italy or at least ere she enter'd the dominions of the Church should publickly make Profession of the Catholick Faith she before had made privately for if at her entrance into the said dominions it appear'd not she was now a Catholick she could not there be receiv'd with those demonstrations of honour his Holinesse had design'd her All things were easily reconcil'd and in the mean time fresh Letters came likewise out of Spain from that King to the Pope to whom they were presented by the Duke of Terranova Ambassadour for his Catholick Majestie in Rome The Queen having caused all things to be pâ—ovided for her journey with expressions of Kindness and gratitude gave all thanks to the Arch-Duke and the Miniâ—ters of the Catholick King for her noble entertainment and here as in each other place she had done she made her unexpressible magnificence and splendour appear by presenting his imperiall Highnesse with a proud and generous Swedish horse with a Sadle Bridle and Pistols enricht all with Diamonds to the value of above thirty thousand Crowns the Earl of Fuensaldagna with a horse like the other and Furniture worth above Ten thousand Crowns and all the other Officers and Servants with Donatives to the value of above ten thousand Pistolls to their admiration who conceived this Princesse as provident as generous had cause to reflect on the future necessities into which she might easily fall but they were deceiv'd for the same generosity and freedome with which she had parted with her Kingdoms made her more liberall than ever On the 22. of September in the year 1655. she departed from Bruxels accompany'd by the Arch-Duke and all the Nobility as well the Gentlemen as Ladies two leagues without the City and at her going out was saluted by all the Canon on the walls and the Musketeers placed in order every where as she pass'd Her Majestie departed highly satisfy'd with the honours received from his imperiall Highness a Prince indeed of so Noble a spirit and so great a mind that he shews he conserves in his heart the ancient and still stronger impressions of the valour and vertue peculiar to his most royall House being worthy in fine of the love veneration applauses and obsequiousness of all That night she lay in Lorrain some seven leagues distant a great City encompass'd with strong and ancient walls fill'd up with earth and famous for the Military successes of which it hath been the Theater in our time Those Senatours had offer'd and prepared her a lodging but her Majestie refusing it was content to be receiv'd by the Magistrates at the gate with the inhabitants in Armes and the discharging of the Canon a Present of 24. great bottles of wine presented to her in the name of the City according to the custome in that Countrey The Queen had with her of her own domesticks about fifty Persons among whom was Monsieur Liliecron Gentleman of her Chamber Monsieur Apelgren her Taster four Grooms of the Chamber two maids of Honour the one a Swede the other a Fleming Sigre Retius a Spaniard her Treasurer Monsieur Gillbert a Frenchman her Secretary three Italians Musitians Father Guemes the Dominican who went in a secular habit to serve there the better and more easily the Queen in saying Masse privately six Pages six Groomes and diverse other servants together with thirty souldiers of her Guard three Coaches and foure Waggons of baggage To these was joyn'd Don Anthony della Cuera di Silva a Spanish Gentleman of eminent quality of a very great spirit and most courteous and affable Lieutenant General of the Cavalry of Flanders and Serjeant major General of the battle He waited on the Queen with the title of her Majesties great Master of the Horse accompanied with the Lady his wife Madam de Broy of a very Noble family in Flanders and the chief Maid of Honour to the Queen a Lady of much vertue and noble deportment who carried with them eighteen servants of their own Don Anthony Pimentel follow'd likewise the Queen as extraordinary Embassadour of his Catholick Majesty to her to assist her and serve her in the journey with a train of twenty men for the purpose Diverse other persons afterwards of quality accompanyed her among whom was Don Francis Dessa of Portugal a Gentleman nobly born and of very great valour in recompence of his merits design'd to the command of General of the Artillery of the Kingdom of Naples who had ten persons with him The young Earl of Buquoy formerly Page to the Arch-Duke who went to Rome with the Eearl of Trassigny his camrade both Gentlemen of Flanders Don Romano Montero a Spanish Serjant Major no lesse famous in war with his sword than renowned in peace for his pen. Don Bernardino di Liepa of Sivill a youth of much spirit and great expectation Messieurs de Gans brothers and Monsieur Pos Hollanders Monsieur Levit a Fleming with many other persons of Honour and Civility so as the Queens Court was grown very numerous being about two hundred persons in all who were all at the Queens charge except the retinue of the Embassadour Pimentel who travelled by himself and at his own cost On the 23 of September her Majestie din'd at Louvaine a chief town in Brabant and one of the greatest in the low Countreys being renown'd for the wars past When the University had waited upon her she went that evening to Montaga some five leagues remote where she visited a miraculous Image of our Lady The next day she passing through Bering din'd there and came that night to Becht a village eight leagues distant In the morning betimes she dined in Steinbruch a village three leagues farther The Earle of Isenghien Prince of Mamines a Spanish Gentleman of a very noble family and Most eminent parts Governor of Gelders and the town of Rurmond overtook the Queen here with a regiment of foot a regiment of horse to invite her to this City where her Majesty was received by the souldiers in armes and discharging all the Canon being royally treated and defray'd by the said Prince Here she saw a rare firework and her Majesty din'd publiquely alone waited on at table by the foresaid Prince and the most conspicuous Officers of war As soon as her Majesty arrived in Ruremond the Bishop the supream Senate of of that Province and the chamber of accounts came to wait upon her All the night they made fireworks in the
horsemen full of chief Ladies and the rest of the Queens Court. At the entrance into the City she was welcomed with the discharging of fifty pieces of Ordinance many Mortarpieces and thick Squadrons of Musqueteers who wiâ—h many other Souldiers stood in ranks in the streets the houses being adorned wiâ—h rich furniture and the concourse of people very great Her Majesty was lodged in the Arch-Dukes Palace his Highnesse accompanying her to the lodgings designed her where he presently left her to her rest But the Citizens in the darknesse of the night made every where resplendent with bonefires the joy and content of their hearts for having with them a Princesse of so high a condition The End of the Second Book The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Third Book The Argument THe Pope receiving advice of the Queens departure from Bruxells towards Italy declares foure Nuntii to receive her on the confines of the Churches Dominions His Beatitude dispatches to her my Lord Luke Holstenius She continues her journey through Germany Holstenius arrives in Inspruch where her Majestie is royally received There she makes publick profession of the Catholick faith performed with great solemnity She departs from Inspruch with great satisfaction She arrives at Trent and is magnificently served by the Prince the Bishop She passes through the State of Venice and is regally received in the Territory of the Duke of Manrova She departs thence and enters the Churches dominions AS soon as the Pope had advice of the Queens departure from Bruxells his Holinesse on the sixth of October sent for my Lord Luke Holstenius principal Apostolical Notary Canon of St. Peters Church and Keeper of the Vatican Library a person very famous for his learning and erudition and a Gentleman of the City of Hembourg To him he imparted the purpose he had of sending him to be assistant at the profession of Faith his Holinesse understood should be made by the Queen ere she came into Italy or at least into the Churches Dominions He therefore gave him order to prepare with all diligence for his journey and when his Beatitude had declared four extraordinary Nuntii to receive her on the confines of the Ecclesiastical State to wit my Lord Hanibal Bentivogli Arch-Bishop of Thebes my Lord Torreggiani Arch-Bishop of Ravenna my Lord Carraccioli Dean of the Clark of the Chamber and my Lord Cesarini Clark of the Chamber persons of great vertue and nobility he consigned them their instructions and two briefs each of which was to them of the following tenor To the Reverend Bretheren Hanibal of Thebes and Luke of Ravenna Arch-Bishops as also to our beloved Sonnes Mr. Innico Carraccioli and Philip Cesarini Clarkes of our Apostolicall Chamber Alexander the VIIth Pope REverend Brethren and beloved Sons Greeting and Apostolicall benediction Your approved wisdom in acting affairs and singular faithfulnesse and devotion to us and the Apostolicall Sea with other deserving vertues accompanied with the noblenesse of your Families with which we know you manifoldly adorned by the Lord are the cause we use gladly your help in a businesse of great weight firmly hoping in the Lord that in the execution thereof you abundantly will satisfie our expectation Wherefore through our Apostolicall authority by vertue of these presents we create constitute and depute you extraordinary Nuntii of us and the Sea Apostolâ—call aforesaid to receive in the name both of us and the same Apostolicall Sea our most dear Daughter in Christ Christina the Illustrious Queen of Swedland in her journey to this our renowned City any thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Dated at Rome at St. Maries the greater under the ring of the fisher on the XXIXth day of October 1655. In the first year of our Papacy G. Gualterius On the 10th of October in the evening the Breifs with the letters and instructions were consignd'd to my Lord Luke Holstenius by my Lord Julius Rospigliosi Arch-Bishop of Tarsus Secretary of state to his Holiness One of the Breifs was for the Queens Majestie which by us shall be register'd in it's place the other for their Highnesses the Arch-Duke Charles Ferdinand the Arch-Duchess Charles the second Duke of Mantoua the Prince the Bishop of Trent and the Bishop of Bâ—essanon On the 10th then of October the foresaid Holstenius departed from Rome with all secresy accompany'd by order of the Pope with Father Mâ—lines the Jusuit a man of great ability and withall well inform'd of the Genius as well of the Queen as her Court he haveing been in Swedland as aforesaid for a while with particular satisfaction to her Majestie He arriving in Bologna on the 19th of October had advice that the Queen was at Franckfort on the 6th so as fearing she might get to Inspruch before him he resolv'd to send before him by post as he did the said Father Malines to the end at all adventures he might beseech the Queen to be pleas'd to stay in Inspruch till he came Conferring in Bologna with Cardinall Lomellino the Legate he consigned to him the Popes Breif of the following tenor To our beloved Son Cardinal Lomellino of the holy Church of Rome Legate of Bologna OUr beloved Son greeting and Apostolicall benediction Our beloved Son Luke Holstenius of our houshould principall Apostolicall Notary Canon of the Church of St. Peter and Keeper of our Vatican Library is going into Germany to act by our command affairs of high concern appertaining to this holy Sea whom as famous for his piety as his various and solid learning and esteemed by us for his faithfulnesse if you shall with all courtesie receive you will do a thing worthy of our love towards you and becomming your own inclination to such men And we impart to you our Apostolicall benediction Given at Rome at Saint Maries the greater under the ring of the fisher on the 10th of October 1655. in the first year of our Papacy Natalis Rondininus He went afterwards to Mantoua on the 21th but found not there his Highness who was gone to Casal The same evening he visited her Highness the Dutchess Mary in the Monastery of S. Vrsula but told her not the business that carry'd him into Germany for her Highness haveing many Nunns about her and being thick of hearing he could not tell her of it without speaking loud and discovering it to many other persons there present Here the Marquis Octavius Gonzaga gave him a particular relation of what had past in Franckfort about the Queens journey and her traine and he quickly sent the newes of it to Rome and to the Cardinall Legates He going thence to Trent arriv'd on the 24th and waited on the Prince the Bishop presenting to him the Apostolicall Breife the contents of which were To our Reverend Brother the Bishop of Trent Alexander the VIIth Pope REverend Brother greeting and Apostolicall benediction
assuring him of his Highnesses great joy and content for his arrivall He afterwards heard most gladly and with due attention the perfect relation Holstenius gave him in order to the conduct of this most weighty business of which till that time he had had no notice telling him in reality that all things were prepar'd in that state for the honour alone of her Majesties passage and therefore it displeas'd much his Highnesse than he had not had some knowledge of the business of her Profession since the subject of the Comedies entertainments should not have been profane but sacred and agreeable to the quality of the function On the first of November divine Office was celebrated in the Arch-Dukes church by a mitered Abbot where their Highnesses were present together with all the Court and excellent musick was sweetly accompanied with so tunable a consort and harmony of trumpets tabours and drums that as a new thing and unheard of before it pleased their curiosity extreamly The Queen was to hear it at an open publique window and was very well satisfied and delighted After dinner Holstenius went to visit Don Antony Pimentel Ambassadour of Spain and discours'd long with him on the points of his Commission The Ambassadour reply'd with the Courtesy and prudence of a very able minister and Compleat Cavalier that there would be no difficulty in order to the publique profession which troubl'd him most nor concerning the rest Holstenius shew'd him a Coppy of the said profession which was printed on purpose in Inspruch with great characters that the Queen might have no trouble to read it as also he communicated to him the form of the absolution which was printed and the necessary interlocutions for this act The Ambassadour read all the writeings and carri'd them speedily to the Queen to consult them with her Majestie He returned soone after told him the Queen found not any opposition in them but was rather ready to perform whatsoever should be pleasing to his Holiness as likewise she acknowled'd it for a singular favour that his Highness had sent him for this function whom she wisht to see and hear offering him audience at that very instant My Lord Holstenius was cloath'd then in black down to his heeles to distinguish this visit from that to the Arch-Dukes which he made to them cloathed in purple so as he desired the conveniency of a quarter of an hour to go back to his lodging and change as he did his cloathes So quickly returning he was soon introduced to her Majesty who at the second reverence Holstenius made to her in the middle of the roome between the door and a little table on which the Queen stood leaning her Majesty went towards him some two or three paces receiving him with a smile and a cheerful and pleasing countenance My Lord Holstenius spake to her in order to his instructions and when she had replyed to the congratulation and expression of his Holinesses fatherly affection she said about the principal businesse of her profession the Embassadour without doubt had assured him before of her readinesse to do all things which by order of his Holinesse were commanded him and seeming impatient to performe them out of hand she resolved of her selfe the said function should be on the following Wednesday the third of November When her Majesty had answered to the heads proposed to her by Holstenius he confirmed the pleasure she took in seeing he was sent unto her for this purpose by his Holiness She discoursed with him with much affability shewing she was particularly informed of his qualities his eminent learning and singular erudition in the Sciences She spake with much praise and great esteem of his vertuous labours as well sacred as prophane She curiously inquired of the rare books that are kept in the Vatican of the learned men in Rome and particularly of the Cardinals and Prelates shewing she was very well informed as well in the general as particularly of the Court of Rome and going on in telling him she thought it her good fortune to be able to make use of a person of his quality at Rome for the seeing of the Libraries Antiquities and other curious things Holstenius presented her his Holinesses Brief of the following tenor To our most dear Daughter in Christ Christina the illustrious Queen of Swedland Alexander VII Pope Our most dear Daughter in Christ Greeting and Apostolicall benedection As soon as we heard your Majesty embracing in Bruxels though not openly the integrity of the Romane to wit the Catholique faith had risen out of the filth of old errâ—rs and that the holy Ghost had created new wisdom in you what joy over flowed our soul no force or strength of words can expresse This our greatnest gladnesse to which hardly any thing could be added in appearance was in a high manner encreas'd by your journey begun towards this place to the end you might reverence the Trophyes of the Apostles the faith which was commended by the Apostles own mouth and us whom though unworthy Christ would have in Peters stead and his own to bear rule o're his Church upon Earth In doing of which you not onely will equall the never dying praises of the famousest Princes who thought it a glory to them to depose their triumphall Ornaments and Laurells at the feet of the Fisher and the Bishops of Rome but likewise from the City it self the Mistris of rightly believing and teaching draw the precepts of true and heavenly learning Yet because not without some hurt unto them who assume to themselves a vain opinion of knowledge and onely are wise among themselves so much light lyes yet hidden under the bushel at ought at length to shine out to all from an eminent place that they by these examples and foot steps may likewise come in We send to your Majesty our beloved son Luke Holstenius of our Houshold principal Apostolical Notary Canon of the Church of St. Peter and Keeper of our Vatican Library a man for his knowledge in all learning and singular piety very dear unto us who may be assistant to you in your publique profession of the Catholick faith according to the ancient and accustomed manner of the Roman Church and by whom our great love to you and the joy we have received may more fully be declared But we firmely hope in him who hath wrought in you so mercifully salvation your Majesty will be wanting in nothing that may shew you not unworthy of this most ample benefit and that by your ready obsequiousnesse and hearty obedience you will testifie to all you have earnestly sought and most ardently received the Catholick faith By the sad Luke our fatherly and most loving benediction more to this purpose your Majestie will receive for whom we most earnestly begg all happinesse of God and that he would strengthen the power his right hand hath wrought marvellously
subscribed I Sâ—gâ—smond Francis Arch-Duke of Austria Bishop of Auspurge c. have been a witnesse and subscribed I Don Antonio Pimentel de Prado Embassador of the Catholick King have been a witnesse and subscribed I Luke Holstenius Canon of Saint Peters in Rome have received this Profession and sâ—bscribed Which were likewise afterwards authenticated with the Act of a publick Notary and with the legality of the Arch Dukes Records in the following form In the name of Christ Amen In the year of our Lord 1655. and the eighth indiction on the third of November in the first year of the Papacâ—e of our most holy Father in Christ Alexander the seventh at Inspruch in the Dioces of Brixia about noone in the Arch-Dukes Church of the holy Crosse before the high Altar the most noble Lady Christina Queen of Swedland personally there present freely and delâ—berately on her knees with a clear voice before the above-written witnesses required thereunto in the face of the Church and touching the holy Gospells pronounced this subscribed profession of the Catholick faith Which Profession of faith being ended the most illustrious Queen and Right Honourable and most reverend Lord Luke Holsienius Canon of Saint Peters in Rome and one of the houshold and continual attendance at the table of our most holy Father in Christ very favourably required of me the Notary under-written that in order to this businesse I would make one or more publick instruments in perpetual remembrance of the thing And because I undernamed publick Notary was present with the witnesses at the publick profession of the Catholick faith made by the most illustrious Queen Christina c. and received by the most Reverend Lord Holstenius in the name and stead of the Roman Apostolical Sea according to the order appointed by the holy Council of Trent by vertue of his Apostolical delegation both it and the subscriptions to set dâ—wn I have both seen and heard In testimony therefore of this I have made this present publick instrument have written it with my own hand subscribed and published it and with the usual seal of my Office of Notary being thereunto required have confirmed it Dated as above Nicholas Zerzer the Arch-Dukes Counsellor Secretary and publick Notary by Papal and Imperial authority We N. N. President Chancellor Regents and Counsellors of the Provinces of the upper Austria belonging to the most Illustrious Prince Ferdidinand Charles Arch-Duke of Austria c. do witnesse the above named Nicholas Zerzer the Arch-Dukes Counsellor and also Secretary of the Provinces of the higher Austria is a legal and authentical Notary as abovesaid and therefore to his writings and publick instruments in judgments and out here and every where a full and undoubted faith may and ought to be given In testimony whereof we here present have confirmed it with the Arch-Dukes Seale Dated at Inspruch the 8th day of November 1655. John Christopher Castner of Castenstein Counsellor to the Arch-Duke and President of the Arches Her Majesty remaining in Inspruch thought it good to write this following letter to the King of Swedland the contents of which were Dear Brother I Am happily arrived here where I found the Permission and Order of his Holinesse to declare my self what I am and have been long ago I think my self fortunate in obeying him and have preferred this glory before that of reigning o're the potent Dominions you possesse You should like my resolutâ—on though you thought it not good since to you 't is so profitable and so glorious However I protest unto you I have not at all changed the sense of the friendship I have ever had for you nor the love I owe Swedland which I will preserve as long as I live and eternally be Dear Brother Your most affectionate Sister and Friend CHRISTINA Inspruch Novemb. 4. 1655. Two houres after dinner the Queen went from Inspruch with all her attendance accompanied by their Highnesses some part of the way and waited on by the Baron of Freyberg together with all the Officers and the same train that went to meet her being alwaies very generously defrayed by that Prince to the very last confines of his state The same evening the Queen went from Inspruch Holstenius dispatcht a Courier to the Cardinal Legat of Ferrara advising him of her Majesties advance towards that place and that he might be sure she would be in the Churches dominions on the two and twentieth following In the mean time he continued in Inspruch to perfect the publick instrument of the act of Profession in the Notaries acts and here on that account he being necessitated to expect till the next day after noone he departed then likewise and overtook the Queen just as she was going out of Stersen after dinner on the tenth On the eighth at night her Majesty lay at Motera a little town of Tyrole between Inspâ—uch and the mountain Prainer and the following morning arrived there from Inspruch the Baron John George Clinig Gentleman of the Chamber to his Highnesse and Count Francis di Lodrone Gentleman of the Chamber to Prince Sigismond to visit her Majesty in the name of their Masters to enquire of her health to wish her a good journey and see if she wanted any thing Complements used by Princes among one another in like cases The Queen dispatcht presently the Lord Lilliecron Gentleman of her Chamber to Inspruch to return their Highnesses complement and thence pursued her journey going that night to Stersen a little town seated not far from the foresaid mountain of Prainer in a large space of a very fertile plain shut up on all sides by high mountains From Stersen her Majesty went to Bressanon whom the Bishop and Prince of the City my Lord Anthony Crolino met with a noble traine and lodged with all magnificence that night The day after on the eleventh having dined at Colmar a place that was halfway her Majesty arrived that evening at Bolgiano a very great Town between the mountains in the spatiousest place of the plain where the clear river Adice made navigable carries with a rapid current all the Merchandize sent into Italy from those noble Faires which are usually kept foure times a year A little before they arrived at Bolgiano a Courier came to Holstenius dispatcht from the Legat of Ferrara and the Nuntii to have an assurance of the way by which her Majesty would come into the Countrey of Ferrara to wit if through the state of Venice or of Mantoua but he being unable to give them any answer of that the Venetians having then not declared by what place they would give her leave to passe he detained the Courier till he knew their resolution The four Nuntii were departed now from Rome with Signior Fulvie Servanzii one of the Masters of the Ceremonies and Signior Nuntiato Baldocci one of the Computists of the Apostolical Chamber and with a great retinue and baggage answerable to the greatnesse
in learning The great piety of his Catholick Majesty The Princes of Germany which visit her Majesty in Hambourg The pretences of the Prince of Conde to the Queen of Swedland who visits her Majesty The Princes and Cavaliers who waited on her Majesty in Antwerp Count Pontus della Garda waits on her Majesty The profession of the Catholick Faith made secretly by the Queen of Swedland'n Bruxels Ponte del lac and its description The passage of the Queen of Swedland through Cullen The passage of her Majesty through Franckfort The passage of her Majesty through Auspurge The Palace of Ambre and â—ts Sâ—â—tuation The profession of the Catholick Faith made publickly by the Queen of Swedland in Inspruch The passage of the Queen through the state of Veniâ—e The passage at Ponte Felice The preparations made for the solemne Cavalcata of the Queen The Palace Farnese the lodging of her Majesty when she went from the Vatican The Persons which depart with the Queen from Flandres towards Italy The Persons appointed to wait on the Queen in her lodgâ—ngs at the Vatican The parly of her Majesty with the Prince of Holstein The publick Act of Profession made by the Queen of Swedland in Inspruch The sumptuous Preparation in the Church of Giesu with what store of people King Gustavus past into Germany The presents made by her Majesty to the Arch-Duke and others in Bruxels The presents of a Coach Litter Chair and an ambling Nag made by the Pope to the Queen The presents made to her Majesty by his Holiness in the Palace Farnese The presents made to the Queen by Prince Panfilio Q THe qualities of Cardinal Pio Bishop of Ferrara The qualities of Cardinal John Baptist Spada Legat of Ferrara The qualities of Cardinal Donghi The qualities of Cardinal Rossetti The qualities of Cardinal Acquaviva The quality of the Family Martinozzi of Fano The qualities of Cardinal Homodei Legate of Urbin The qualities of Cardinal Rondinino The rare qualities of the Queen of Swedland The eminent qualities of the Princess of Rossano The Queen goes to the publick Consistory to kiss the Popes feet The Queens admirable wit The revenues reserved to herself by the Queen of Swedland The Queen writes to the General of the Jesuits The Queen dispatches to Rome Father Casati The Queens departure towards Flandres The Queens sudden departure from Hambourg The Queens departure from Bruxels The Queens departure from Inspruch The Queens departure from Bologna The Queens readiness to comply with the Popes desires The Queen dines publickly with the Arch-Duke of Inspruch The Queen treats with the Jesuits The Queen is visited by Count Todt The Queens royal entertainment at Landsperg by the Ministers of the Duke of Bavaria The Queens entertainment in Inspruch The Queens entertainment by the Prince of Trent The Queens entertainment by Cardinal Spada Legate of Ferrara The Queens entertainment in Imola by Cardinal Donghi the Bishop of the Place The Queens entertainment in Forli The Queens entertainment in Cesena The Queens entertainment in Rimini The Queens entertainment in Sinigaglia The Queens entertainment in Ancona The Queens entertainment in Loretto The Queens entertainment in Macerata The Queens entertainment in Tolentino The Queens entertainment in Camerino The Queens entertainment in Foligno The Queens entertainment in Assisi by Cardinal Rondinini The Queens entertainment in Terni The Queens entertainment in Gallese The Queens entertainment in Câ—prarola The Queens satisfaction in Pesaro The Queen presents her Scepter and Crown at Loretto The Queen visits her Mother The Queens journey through Denmark The Queens journey from Hambourg into Flandres The Queens Aparel The Queens eminent vertues The Queens visits the Church of St. Peter The Queen goes to the Church of St. James of the Spaniards The Queen goes to the Church of Giesu The Queen visits the Monastery of Torre de Specchi The Queen goes to St. John Lateran The Queen sees the famous reliques of S. Peters The Queen visits the Nuns of Campus Martius The Queens answer to the States of Swedland R THe Reasons and motives which incline the Queen of Swedland to change her Religion The resolutions of the Queen of Swedland to turn Catholique The resolution of the Queen of Swedland to support her resolutions by the Catholick King The renouncing made by the Queen of Swedland The return of the Queen from Upsalia to Stockholme The return of the Arch-Duke to Antwerp to complement the Queen and invite her to Bruxels The reception of the Queen of Swedland in Rutemond Prince Robert Palatine visits her Majesty The noble reception of the Queen in Rotembourg The return of Count Montecuccoli to the Queen The recreations of her Majesty in Inspruch The recreations of her Majesty in Ferrara The reception of her Majesty by Cardinal Lomellino Legate of Bologna The return of her Majesty from Assisi to Foligno The reception of the Queen in Spoleto by Cardinal Fachenetti The recreations of her Majesty in Spoleto The reception of the Queen at the Gate of St. Peters The recreations of her Majesty in the Palace of Prince Panfilio The royal lodgings in Revere S THe straight of the Sound and its description Count Stemberg sent into Swedland by the Queen The sumptuous Bridge ore the Po. The noble Scaffold erected in the Palace of the Prince Panfilio T. The noble Tilting in Bologna V. THe voyage of Father Malines and Casati Jesuits into Swedland The noble Vineyard of Prince Panfilio W WIrtzbourge and the quality of the place The Wars made by the Crown of Swedland under Queen Christina Z. Zibbery and its description FINIS The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The First Book The Argument IN this Book â—â—e described the qualities of Gustavus Adolphus King of Swedland The education of the Princess Christina his onely Daughter Her Assumption to the Crowns The form of her Government The motives and true Causes of her conversion to the Roman Catholique religion and what hath occur'd in her Majesties renouncing of her Kingdm I Write in my History the end of the life of Gustavus Adolphus King of Swedland who dy'd in the height of his fortunes in the bloody battell of Lutzen a Prince who with the fame of his valour had chain'd the affections of his subjects drawn after him the attendance of strangers and purchased veneration and respect among his enemies themselves Never any Prince was beloved so well nor so faithfully serv'd They who could not see him desir'd at least his Picture to reverence it as the Idea of Military valour He was tall of stature and of a Majestique aspect which induced in all admiration and reverence love and fear together The hue of his flesh was white and well colour'd and his hair and yellow beard render'd him so resplendent he was stiled by many the King of Gold but he hardly arriv'd to the thirty eighth year of his age His first inclination to Arms was
respect and veneration discover'd her Majestie had a good disposition towards Catholiques and therefore with dexterity by opening and enlarging the way so wrought that every day her satisfaction and confidence of him receiv'd augmentation When the Ambassy was finisht Parera prepar'd to be gone in September 1651. het Majesty more frequently than before began to send for the Father aforesaid In the end on the 12th of August retyring with him into her inwardest lodgings and saying she would tell him a business of consequence said thus in his ear Father Macedo you are the first Jesuit I knew and as by the practice and relation I have of your vertue I sâ—ppose I may be confident of your faithfulness and prudence so now since you are to depart I desire by all means you 'l procure me sent hither two Italians of your Society expert in all Knowledge who under the colour of Gentlemen than desire to see the world may stay in my Court that I without suspition may make use of them to which effect I 'le write too by you to your Generall The Father comply'd wiâ—h her Majestie with expressions and a sense peculiar to news of that consequence and giving her due thanks for her confidence of him and offering to serve her with fidelity he swore to be secret Macedo come home full of joy and consolation and beginning to consider of the manner how to execute diligently her Majesties desire resolved to ask leave as he did of the Ambassadour to go see for his own curiosity the fair and great City of Hamburg but could not obtain it so as he return'd to the Queen and told her of the difficulties he hid met with Her Majestie hearing him of a setled resolution to serve her reply'd you may go and say nothing The Father inform'd that the Vessell which should carry him was then in the Haven of Balen 35 miles distant and ready to set sayl towards Lubeck went to take his last leave of the Queen who gave him a letter of credence written and subscrib'd with her own hand and directed to the General of the company of Jesus who then was Father Francis Piccolomini Father Macedo concluded his expressions with humbly beseeching her to consummate her holy inspirations to which she reply'd that if she had known the Roman religion had been best she would have embraced it and that he should cause the two Fathers she desir'd to be sent with whom she might freely discourse and without all suspition having nothing else to say but entreat him again to be secret and quick The Father being licenc'd to depart went out of the gate behind the Court which looks towards the Sea and pass'd in a Feluca to a Rock where he remained that night since he could not reach the Vessell by day The day after he arrived at Balem whether one was now come dispatcht by the Queen at the instance of the foresaid Ambassadour to arrest him and carry him to prison but as he had secret order from her Majestie to let him escape if he found him he fain'd he could not find him and took horse and returned to Stockholm and the Father embarqued himself and sayled towaâ—ds Lubeck on the 2d of September where twelve daies after he arriv'd The Ambassadour soon gave out the Father was a Knave by his flying away in that manner and others divulged he was become a Lutheran and married From thence he arriving in Hamburg steer'd his course towards Nurenberg and finally having run many dangers came to Rome on the 18. of October 1651. Father Piccolomini the Generall of the Society dyed a little before so as he delivered the letter to Father Goswin Nikel who was then Vicar-Generall and afterwards Generall a man of great parts and born in the City of Cullen He embrac'd with great zeal a business of that consequence and as 't is the particular profession of the Society aforesaid to search all the parts of the world to convert to the holy faith both Heretiques and Infidells in which they employ very freely whatsoever is given them in charity and quickly made choice of Father Francis Malines a Reader of Divinity in Turin his Country and Father Paul Casate of Piacenza a professour of Mathematicks in ' the Roman Colledge at Rome men besides integrity of life of most exquisite understanding and great knowledge that as persons desirous to travell and see the world they might without delay take their journey for Swedland They arrived in Venice on the second of December 1651 the one comming out of Piemont and the other from Rome On the twelfth of the said month they departed and prosecuted their journey notwithstnnding the extremity of the weather and only in the beginning of March got ro Stockholm being hinder'd on the way by reason that Father Malines hurt his foot by the fall of his horse which made him keep his bed many daies In the mean time Father Godfrey Franchenius a Jesuit and a man that was truly Apostolicall and of excellent parts was brought by a Tempest from Denmark into Swedland who had frequently treated with the Queen and not without profit but not being able to stay there without being known he before was departed and gone into Flanders These two Fathers arriving in Stockholm were presently conducted to the Queen as Italian Gentlemen and Passengers And albeit her Majestie dissembled in the beginnning they so soon perceiv'd her good disposition and admir'd too in her then 25. years old a soul undeceived and exempt from vanity and the greatness of the world and filled with so equall a Knowledge of all things that she seem'd onely nourisht with the marrow of morall Philosophy Not long after she declared her self resolv'd by a holy inspiration to embrace the Catholick faith and renounce for it her Kingdoms and all humane greatness though there she was not onely esteemed but ador'd with a fuller and more absolute authority than any of her time There 's no doubt but she would very gladly have resetled in Swedland the Catholique faith if she could have overcome the great and many difficulties that lay in the way Too evident was the danger of spoyling the consort of her resolutions if they had smelt the least in that kind Besides too the uncertainty of the end much time was required and hazard of her conscience in which she was impatient to continue without the profession of the Catholique religion and she could by no means profess it occultly When she had with the said Fathers long discussed the means that were fittest for the compassing of her Majesties intentions she determined to let the Pope know her resolution and to send unto him with her letters the said Father Casati who was to inform himself particularly of all that was necessary for her future stay in Rome which then was her design she supposing the said City most fit for her abode not so much for
Bonefires discharging of Canons Mortarpeices and ringing of the Bells which being in that Countrey well tun'd use to make a gratefull harmony Her Majestie lighting at the Palace the Arch-Duke accompany'd her to the lodgings assign'd her which she found hung with the most excellent and pretiousest Tapestries that are made in that Countrey And because 't was somewhat late the Arch-Duke soon dismissed himself leaving her to her repose and so they all did The rest of the night and the two other following many Bonefires were made with discharging of the Ordinance and ringing of the Bells The same Evening the Prince of Conde Francis Duke of Lorraine and the greatest of the Court came to waite uppon her privately and because t was Christmas Eve they suspended other Ceremonies to give no disturbance to devotion On the said 24. of December towards the Evening the Queen accompany'd by his imperiall Highnesse went into the Arch-Dukes farthest Chamber and there in the presence of him of Earle Fuensaldagna the Ambassadour Pimentel the Earle of Montecuccolâ— and Don Agostino Boreno Navarra the Secretary of State made secretly profession of the Roman Catholick Faith before Father Guemes a Dominican This Religious man came from Spain into Flanders with the Ambassadour Pimentel in the quality of his Secretary and as he before had been privy to the businesse so was chosen for this function to keep it the more secret since occasion so requir'd In the foresaid action a thing of some reflection succeeded which was as the Queen had made an end of professing her Faith while Father Guemes said the word I absolve c. all the Ordinance of the City were discharg'd to the wonder of all that assisted at the Function without notice given to the Magistrates who onely had order to have them shot off indeterminately neare the time On Christmas day the Queen accompany'd by the Arch-Duke and all the Grandees of the Court went to the Chapell where there was most rare Musick and an excellent Sermon Her Majestie past afterwards into a great hall where she dined in Publick together with the Arch-Duke where the order held at Wilbrouch was observed in sitting The Earle of Castelmendo a Portugese and Gentleman of the Chamber to his imperiall Highnesse was Cup-bearer to the Queen and Count Atemis a Dutchman Sewer The ambassadour Pimentel the Grandees of Spain assisted standing at the Table but with their hats on All the rest which were many and the chief of the City stood uncover'd On St. Stephens day the Queen likewise dined in publick and afterwards went in Coach to the Court where the Princesses and Ladies of qualitie were proudly adorned for the purpose In her Majesties return to the Palace all the Coaches waited on her one by one in a row and the greatest part alighted to attend her who receiv'd them with courtesie and singular affability to answer the esteeme very highly deserv'd by those Ladies who usually intermeddle with Masculine spirits in the management of the greatest affaires That evening an extraordinary fire-worke being to play the Queen went to see it invited thither by the Arch-Duke Seven weeks together she remained in the Palace treated with all magnificence by his Highness nor was there any want of entertainments of various exercises and vertuous and noble Passetimes among which in the last dayes of Carneval a Play was recited in Musick which was the noblest thing could be seen On the Tenth of February she went from the Arch-Dukes Palace to lodge in the Duke of Egmonts at her Majesties own charge where she was some time employ'd in receiving the visits not onely of the Princes Princesses Ladies and Gentlemen but of many learned Persons which came from all parts either as lines to the centre or as rivers to the Sea Here her Majestie twice a week used some vertuous exercises for the entertainment of her noble and elevated mind which she did continue till the death of Queen Mary Eleonora her Mother which happen'd on the twelfth of March 1655. in Stockholm This so sad news she receiv'd by the Baron of Spaur a Gentleman formerly of her Chamber and Resident in France dispatched to her by the King of Swedland At this sorrowfull advice she quickly retir'd to a house without Bruxells call'd Tervoren and remain'd there three weeks to divert her afflictions returning thence afterwards to the City where all did condole with her Majestie she likewise put on Mourning in her mind depriving it of all recreation and Passetime Now Father Malines was return'd from Spain to Rome with the Letters of the Catholick King to Pope Innocent to accompany the Queens but it being thought afterwards the conjunctures then were not altogether proportionable to the quality and convenience of so weighty and important a businesse they deferr'd the presenting them for the reasons we shall register more diffusely in its place in the universall History Things pass'd in this manner for some months the Queen entertaining still her self in Flanders in the mean time Innocent the tenth having reigned ten years three months and twenty two daies gave up his soul to God in the age of eighty and one year on the 7. of January 1655. The sacred Colledge after the obsequies and usuall congregations went into the Conclave on the 18th of the foresaid Month and at last came out gloriously on the 7. of the following Aprill with having assum'd to the Papaly Cardinaâ—l Fabius Chigi of Sienna who with the name he took renew'd the immortall and still more happy memory of Pope Alexander the third his Countreyman and Kinsman I cannot expresse the joy and applause with which by all Christianity his election was receiv'd as made with quietnesse liberty and an exact balance of his merits The Heretiques themselves who by reason of the length of the Conclave occasion'd by the power ana discord of the factions were not wanting to murmur when they heard of so worthy an election commended it with opinions of esteem respect and reverence and all was but due to the merit of a Person and name so plausible and Majestick who with the fame of great presag'd a Principality full of Zeal and Christian edification and therefore most sutable to the necessities of Christianity The Queen was glad of this so happy newes justly hoping to find in the new shepheard of Christs flock that charity and resolution her necessities could promise themselves from a heart remov'd from all private interest and wholly intent to the honour alone of God the exaltatation of his Church and the happinesse security and repose of all Christendome The Queen then determining to give an account out of hand to his Holinesse of all that had succeeded as well of the profession she had made as the reasons that had mov'd her to conceale it of her desire to goe to Rome to give him all obedience and kisse his Holinesses foot quickly wrote to the foresaid Father Malines now
in you Given at Rome at St. Maries the greater under the ring of the Fisher on the 10th day of October 1655. in the First year of our Papacy Natalis Rondinnius And the Queen very reverently received it and read it all presently She with a modest blush shewed the evident signes of the joy in her heart for the fatherly and loving expressions of his Holinesse her Majesty apprehending the forcible sense of the Vicar of Christ to whom she had given long since the liberty of her thoughts and affections and concluded she would by her letters as soon as the could thank his Holiness for it Her Majesty supt privately on the first of November but was waited on by some Ladies who desired that honour for their own satisfaction Among whom was the Princess Mary Claâ—dâ—a Hundbissin of Schaumbourg who presented the water for her hands and the Countess Piccolomini the little Arch-Dutchesses Lady of Honour the Napkin Princess Catherine Countess of Spaur was the Cupbearer and Sewer There were too besides Princess Mary Fuggerin Countess of Weisenhorth the Princess of Trocbenpach the Princesse Mary Brigit Countesse of Artzh the Princess Malaspina and the Princess Anne Teresa of Stoplar Her Majesty was publickly feasted on Tuesday by their Highnesses the Arch Dukes with regal magnificence and sumptuousnesse The Queen sate alone at the upper end of the Table under a cloath of Stare with a very great carpet on the ground The Arch-Dukes were on her right side a little way off from her Majesty but under the same Canopy the Arch-Dutchess alone on her left side o're against the Arch-Duke and Pimentel the Spanish Embassador below the Arch-Dukes The Marquis Lonati and the Lord George Olstein gave the water for her Majesties hands and the Arch-Duke himself presented her the Napkin taking it from the Lord Wâ—itkunight chief Gentleman of his chamber Baron Sigâ—smond of Welsberg Gâ—ntleman of the Chamber to his Highness was her Cupbearer and the Baron of Stakel-bourg likewise Gentleman of his chamber was Sewer Her Majesty accompanied by their Highnesses together with all the Court wâ—nt after dinner to a Palace called D' Ambre without Inspruch where she saw with much delight a great quantity of ancient medalls of gold and silver together with other metalls collected long since by Arch-Duke Ferdinand as likewise many very ancient manuscripts and other fine curiosities conserved in that place In the mean time my Lord Holstenius attended to the ordering of the necessary things for the function of the following day He instructed the Notary the Master of the ceremonies the Priests and other Clerks which were to be assistent as well at the act of Profession as at the solemne Masse Holstenius was to sing to the end that each doing his part the function might go on with order quietness and decorum as it happily succeeded The Queen desired this action might be as pâ—blick as could be and conspicuous to the World and therefore instead of going into the Church by the gallery within she resolved to go thither through the publick street which goes between the one and the other to which purpose in the morning the said street was covered over with boards as well for honour as conveniencie The Queen cloathed in a gown of black silk very plain and without any ornament but a crosse of five faire and rich diamonds at her breast lead by the Arch-Duke was met at the gate of the Church with a solemne Procession of all the Priests and Clerks of the Court and by the two Benedictin Abbots of that Province the one of Tegernsee and the other of Marieberg both with the Miter Rochet and Crosier staffe The one gave her holy water and the other presented her to kisse a very fine Cross of Christal of the Mountain My Lord Holstenius followed after the Abbots who after a low congee to her Majesty and their Highnesses the Arch-Dukes caused one of the Abbots to begin Come O Holy Ghost c. which was sung with most excellent Musick The Queen following the Procession went into the Quire of the Church where a chair was prepared with a kneeling place before it covered with cloath of gold A cushion of the same cloth of gold was laid too upon the last step of the Altar below and a chair of velvet for Holstenius o're against the place of the Epistle Here then Holstenius stood up before the chaire expecting when the Queen the Arch-Dâ—kes and all the Cavaliers would sit down in their places Then he beheld by all with silence and attention began with a loud voice to declare his Commission by the Popâ—s express Brief of the following tenor To our beloved son Luke Holstenius Priest of Hambuâ—g Canon of St. Peters in Rome one of our family and continual attendance at our table Alexander the VIIth Pope BEloved son Greeting and Apostolical Benediction whereas we have received not without the spiritual joy of our mind that Christina the noble Queen of Swedland born of heretical parents and bred up and instructed in heresies illuminated by heavenly light and knowing the way of truth desires to renounce the same heresies and returne by the blessing of God into the bosome of the holy Roman Church we who by our Pastoral function are chiefly obliged to attend unto this that if any Sheep wander from the path of the truth they may be brought back into the way of salvation being very much confident in our Lord of your singular piety prudence zeal of the Catholick relâ—gion and the honour of Gods house of our own free motion sure knowledge mature delâ—beration and out of the fulnesse of our Apostolical power by vertue of these presents do grant and impart to you the free and full power of absolving by our authority in both Courts the said Queen Christina from these heresies all excommunication suspension interdict and other ecclesiastical sentences censures and punishments howsoever incurred by her for the same whether any juridical or extra-juridical abjuration or any at all preâ—â—dâ— but in place of abjuration her Profession of the Catholick Faith according to the Articles long propounded by the Apostolical Sea some healthful pennance being enjoyned her and other things you shall know to be expedient for the good of her soul and we grant and impart the same power of reconciling and receiving the said Queen into the bosome of the holy Roman Church some publick Notary beâ—ng used about the Acts aforesaid we willing to your sole attestation without any any witnesses your subscription onely added full and absolute belief should be given Notwithstanding the Apostolical universal or special constitutions published in general provincial or other Councills the decrees use and stile of the Office of the holy and general inquisition and all other things to the contrary Given at Rome at St. Maries the greater under the Ring of the Fisher on the tenth of October 1655. in the fiâ—st year of our Paâ—pacie
be acted several times The composition of the words was by Signior Giouanni Lotti and the musick by Tenalia both persons very famous With such recreations the Prince entertained her Majesty till the last night of Carneval in which he made wonderfully appear his own wit and generosity for after a royal collation and abounding with all the new fruits they could get in despight of the harshness of the season he conducted the Queen into a great roome adorned with most splendid and inestimable furniture where she saw sitting under a state the furniture in a moment vanish out of the Chamber a fair Sea there appearing in a beautifull prospect and ingeniously contrived within that narrow place she saw then immediately Venus and Cupid descend from above in a Chariot drawn by two Pigeons without seeing what supported it in the aire insomuch as the Queen and all that were there were amazed and astonisht Venus being come to the earth with her Son heard Cupids complaints who accused the Ladies of Tybur for being too rigid and the authority of his Mother not appeasing his anger he shot some arrowes towards the Ladies and together with Venus returned to the Chariot both of them singing joyntly the praises of her Majesty As they vanished they sang a little song inviting some Ladies who formerly were followers of Cupid to give with a dance some refreshment to them he had subdued The machine vanishing away from the sides of the maritime scene issued forth eight Ladies of the Princess aforesaid most splendidly apparrel'd with lighted Torches in their hands and danced a rare dance establishing love with those unstable motions and securing the motions of the will with the measure of short distances After this the room was refurnisht as before and her Majesty was so highly contented that she publickly declared she had not seen any thing in Rome to her greater satisfaction The words were composed by the said Prince Don Camillo who presented her Majesty with a song made by him on her renouncing of her Kingdoms which was much commended by her she celebrating the Prince for a very vertuous person and deserving all praise and applause Still in all these actions the Princess of Rossano was accompanyed by many Princesses and Ladies and severall Princes and Cavaliers were with the Prince who had every day rich cloaths with strange and new inventions The same did the Princess who had Jewels of inestimable value This Princess with her prudence and most noble carriage made it evidently appear her mind is as illustrious and generous as her family is great she being the Niece of many Popes and allyed to many Potentates in Italy The Abbot Caesar Malvicino and Signior Carlo Centosiorini the former the Secretary and the latter the chief Gentleman of the horse to the Prince aforesaid still assisted at these functions as likewise Signior Mario Raviera his Excellences domestick Gentleman who applyed himself to it very earnestly In Carneval-time notwithstanding these vertuous entertainments her Majesty shewed her piety in visiting severall Churches and particularly that of Giesu where with a most splendid preparation the forty hours were exposed On a scaffold in fine order appeared six mountains the arms of his Holiness on the top of which according to the prophecie of Isaiah they saw the Church sitting in a beautifull manner who while with her left hand she supported the cross with the other pointed at the sublime throne of glory on which they discovered the Saviour of the VVorld On the two contiguous mountains were erected two figures representing Religion and contemplation while the theological vertues plac't on the three mountains below did court and attend her At the feet of the mountains they saw come from all parts throngs of people to do homage to that great Monarchess and captivate their understandings convinced in obedience to the Catholick Faith Those personages afterwards appeared who thought it a thing of glory and desert to preferre the reproach of the cross before worldly greatness They represented too the Princes Kings and Emperours who shewed they regarded not their titles but to have some worthy argument to make known to the VVorld their esteem of the true Religion while for the love of it they despised those dignities There were likewise Princesses and Queens whose piety was as generous and as the famous Painters had given life and eloquence with their pensills to the Pictures so they were all contented with their state but in a certain manner confessed they were conquered with the modern miracle of a couragious and masculine woman who remarkable in the midst of the rest with a countenance breathing majestick as well as devotion the more she endeavoured to obscure the titles of a Queen acquired them the more The three Crowns and Scepters the victimes offered up by her to the Catholick Faith she did not now behold but every one admired them and it seemed she would plant them in that mountain she judging it worthy to have Scepters for trees and Diadems for flowers where Monarchs and Princes excited by her singular example might instead of birds build their nests To this great Lady the supream Commandress of the mountain bowed her face as if she had said many daughters have heaped up riches and thou exceedest them all You would have thought in so pleasing a sight the holy Church sucking consolations with her eyes and milk as it were from so many breasts as there were triumphant soules encreased to the eyes of the beholders and with those mountains quickened with some invisible breath was raised much higher Behind the Mountains and Personages they discovered severall fine distances which was all in the low region But the eye looking upwards entered into a Paradise which being wide open while it would be a Spectator of what was done on earth became a delitious and fortunate spectacle to way-faring men It extended it self in many circles proportionably still greater and abounding with beautifull figures of knots Seraphins Cherubins Angels and Saints even to the top of the Arch and profundity of the royal Court the receptacle of glory which could not be bounded with limits fine knots appearing without the Arch. The most holy Sacrament the Ascendent and Horoscope of the holy Church was in the midst of Heaven as it were nor could they discern how or where it reposed and yet it stood fast The blessed soules adoring it as they shewed they enjoyed its glories so likewise presaged by vertue of its influences greater happiness to the Catholick VVorld and it seemed they heard them say to those mountains enjoy peace O Mountains at which tidings they shall skip for joy like Ramms for the hope they saw they had The Father eternall was Spectator of all whom we there represent as when he had finish'd the VVorld and said all was good so there he appeared supported in himself and joyning together the high with the low the Earth with the Heaven made one
well within as without the Kingdom hath sufficiently made known the vivacity of his Spirit the readiness of his wit and constant fidelity He is of a most affable behaviour a vigorous judgement great foresight and rare capacity in every affair His wit is refined with experience his mind very sprightly and his thoughts aime only at glory and an excellent report He is full of solidity in his discourses of wariness and dexterity in affairs and sincerity and sweetness in his carriage being especially a friend unto vertue with which he deservedly attracts to himself the encomiums and praises of every one that know him Besides the said Comedy he presented her Majesty with a stately collation of most excellent sweet-meats and in extraordinary abundance and gave her a fine Ball danc'd after the French fashion by some nimble and agile Savoyards with which the Queen was very highly satisfied On the first day of Lent her Majesty went to the house of the Prince of St. Gregory to behold the sollemne Cavalcata with which the Pope accompanyed by the sacred Colledge and the rest of the Court went from the Vatican to Aventino to visit there St. Sabina the Church of the Dominicans This Convent is famous for severall memorialls of the residence there of the glorious St. Dominick After dinner she went likewise to that station where the Father Generall received and attended her as likewise the chief Fathers of that order which met there that day On the second of March her Majesty went to the Church of Madonna della Scala the discalceate Carinelites an order she loved well At the Gate of the Church the was received by Father Joachim di Giesu Maria the Generall accompanyed by the most eminent Friars of that order While she prayed before the most holy Sacrament a very fine Motetto was sung Thence passing into the Convent she went into the Oratory which she found richly hung and adorned with Pictures Mottos and Emblems Here she heard Mass at which the devotion of her mind was augmented with exquisite Musick She then honoured a pretious relique of a foot of St. Teresia the foundress of that order and heard a Latin oration recited by one of those Fathers The day after which was the first Friday in March she visited St. Peters as she did all the Fridayes of the moneth aforesaid for the gaining the treasures of that famous indulgence She was pleased afterwards to visit the Colledge of the English where the good and generous zeale of Pope Gregory the thirteenth erected under the instruction of the Jesuits a place of refuge for the English youth who retaining the true seeds of the Catholick Religion should recurre to this City the common Country of all to be the better setled in their Faith with the Sciences and Piety they learn there This Colledge had desired ever since her arrivall in Rome to testifie to her their dutifull respects and Father Edward Courtney the Rector employed soone his parts in composing a book in which are contained the Elogies of above fifty Saint the Queens or daughters of the Kings of England he adding to each Elogie some verses very handsomly applyed to this Princesses rare qualities She came thither accompanyed by divers Princes and Cavaliers and particularly by my Lord Torreggâ—ani who had invited thither her Majesty she going into the Church dedicated to the glorious English Martyr St. Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury found it finely adorned and abounding with the Pictures of Saints the Kings of England lent them by my Lord Somerset Chamberlain of Honour to the Pope and a Gentleman nobly borne who was likewise there Her Majesties prayers were accompanyed with most admirable musick and a harmony of Viols in which the English excell She sitting down afterwards under a state had recited to her a short Latin oration with some verses by two of those young Scholars they presenting to her the said book of printed Elogies which her Majesty most courteously accepted On the day of St. Thomas of Aquin the solemne Feast of the order of St. Dominick her Majesty went to the Church of Minerva of the Fathers aforesaid one of the chiefest of Rome as well for the service of the Church as the sacred Congregation of the Cardinalls held in that Convent every Wednesday in the morning of the holy office of the greatest importance in Rome The rooms where they hold the said Congregation were seen by the Queen as likewise all the Convent her Majesty remaining highly pleased with the magnificence both of the one and the other She was received and attended by the Father Generall and Father Raymund Capisucchi Master of the Sacred Palace and one of the examiners of the Bishops a Prelate of much vertue and rare parts which are the more remarkable by the ancient Family of the Capisucchi which as appears by authentick writings and is gathered from the very same arms is a branch sprowted out of the most noble stock of the Counts of Tunn in Germany the head of which now is the Prince Arch-Bishop of Saltzbourgh a Gentleman of most eminent qualities Her Majesty had likewise some thoughts of seeing the curious study of the Knight of St. Stephen Sir Francis Gualdo of Rimini a Gentleman well deserving of the learnedest of the ancients which he gave to his most Christian Majesty but the ill weather and the greater affairs of this Princess have not yet permitted her to behold it I therefore forbear to speak of the said study till a fitter opportunity be presented me The Queen then continuing her vertuous entertainments at the beginning of Lent introduced the spirituall exercise of a devout oratory in her Palace every Wednesday which was ordered by the Prince of Gallicano They began the second Wednesday in March and the history of Daniell was recited in musick a composition well becoming the said Prince In the second Oratory Father Rho the famous Preacher made a Sermon in the third Father Spinola in the fourth Father Nicholas Zucchi all Jesuits in the fifth Father Spinelli a Celestine and in the sixth Father Don Carlo di Palma a Theatine all Persons of great learning and worth But behold us at the end of these our relations The sincerity of my Penne which cannot deliver truly to Posterity the glorious name of Christina great without the true Characters of a perpetuall Panegirique concludes that as 't is doubtless this great Princess deserves for a thousand respects the greatest obsequiousness and complyance in order to her eminent qualities and parts so 't is to be hoped the fortunate Climate of Rome the Epilogue of Celestiall and humane felicities will deserve the good fortune to enjoy and serve her long 'T is certain as this Queen with the incomparable endowments of her mind and the franke resolutions of her heart like the Sun among the Starrs may justly pretend to be singular in the World so Rome the sacred the great and majestick Phoenix among the Metropolitan Cities
of Christianity may best of all others give a happy long and fit entertainment to her Majesties glorious fortunes FINIS The life and qualities of Gustavus Adolphus of Swedland His stature The Turk was jealous of his fortune His remarkable sayings His Conquests With what Army he pass'd the Sea Christina his only daughter succeeds in the Kingdom The education of this Princesse Her wonderfull wit On whom the Government of the Kingdom depended on her minority She learnt diverse tongues She makes great Progresse in learning She begins to assist at the Council of State and afterwards takes the Government upon her She administers her self the greatest affairs She makes her self belov'd and fear'd She contemns all delicacy She makes war and then peace with Denmark to her advantage She is honour'd by all the Princes of the world Heavens is propitious to her The reasons which give motives to the true knowledge Important observations Her own vertue makes her see the truth She examines the life and conditions of Martin Luther She perceives the falsities and untruths spread by him She fortifies them with some important examples She detests heresie She resolves to turn Catholique She sends a Jesuit to Rome In her letter to the Father General of the Society She desires two Fathers of the Society may be sent to her The Father Generall receives her letters very gladly He sends two Fathers into Swedland Their journey Their arrivall They are courteously receiv'd She treats secretly with them and determines to inform the Pope of her resolution Don Antonio Pimentel is in Swedland for his Catholique Majesty The Queen imparts to him her thoughts And resolves to rely on the Catholique King Father Malines the Jesuit is dispatcht to the Court of Spain for that effect Father Guemes a Dominican arrives in Swedland and her Majesty makes use of him She informs him of the business and sends him into Spain Her negotiations The King of Spains sense of the news The King of Spain's perplexity With great piety he undertakes the business and writes to the Pope The States of Swedland make instance to the Queen Her Majesties answer Charles Gstavus Palatine is declared and substituted in the Kingdom after the death of the Queen She trusts wholly in God She resolves to forgoe her Kingdoms She is disswaded but without effect The renouncing follows The ceremonies of this action A generous act of her Majesty She gives some advertisements to the King her Successour The Prince Palatine is anointed King of Swedland The Queens return to Stockholm and her departure She makes them believe she will go into the Island of Holland The affliction of the people for her departure Her Majesties journey She visits the Queen her Mother She gives out she will change her journey She dimisses divâ—rse of the Court. She puts on mans cloaths to pass unknown She passes the straight of the Sound She comes to Hambourg She speaks with the Prince of Holsteria and concludes the marriage of his daughter with the King of Sweden She is Visited in Hambourg by diverse Princes of Germany She is feasted abroad by the Landgrace of Hessen She departs on the suddaine from Hambourg Differences between the Crown of Swedland and the City of Bremen Her Majesties journey from Hambourg to Antwerp She is known in Munster She arrives in Antwerp The applauses with which she is seen in that City The Arch-Duke sends to complement her The Prince of Condes pretences not admited He visits the Queen as a private Gentlemen Many Iricys and great Lods come to â—isit the Queen The Emperour sends Earle Montecucoli to complement her Majesty She goes conceal'd to Bruxells The King of Spaine sends Don Antony Pimentel extraordinary Ambassadour to the Queen The Aâ—ch-Duke returns to Antwerp to invite the Queen to Bruxells Her Majesties entrance into Bruxells The rejoycings with which she is publickly received in Bruxells She makes secretly profession of the Catholick faith She eats in publick She is alwaeis inclin'd to Noble and worthy entertainments The Queen her Mother dies The death of Pope Innocent Cardinall Chigi is assum'd to the Papacy With the applause of all Christianity The Queen gives an account to the Pope of her desire to come to Rome Letters from the King of Spaine to his Holiness Presents made by her Majestie to the Arch-Duke in Flanders and others Her departure from Bruxells The quality of her Majesties Traine The persons of quality that accompanied the Queen Her reception in Ruremond She passes through Cullen The continuation of her journey She is visited by the King of Scotland And by the Elector Palatine Afterwards by Prince Robert She goes from Steinhaim She arrives in Rotemburg She comes to Nordlinguen To Donavert Earle Montecuccoli returnes dispatcht again to the Queen from the Emperour The Queens letter to the Arch-Duke of Inspruch She goes privately to Auspurge to see the most remarkable things The Queen is met by the Officers of the Elector of Bavaria She is treated sumptuously in Landsperg She enters Tyrole The Arch-Dukes of Inspruch go to visit the Queen privately in Seefelt Her Majesties entrance into Inspruch The honours done her by their Highnesses the Arch-Dukes His Holinesse resolves to dispatch to Inspruch my Lord Luke Holstenius He elects four Nuntii to receive the Queen on the Confines of the State Ecclesiastical Breifes consignâ—d to my Lord Holstenius Father Malines the Jusuit goes with the said Holstenius to Inspruch The Breife to his Eminence Lomellino Cardinall Legate of Bologna My Lord Holstenius arrives at Mantoua The Popes Breifâ— to the Prince of Trent The Breife to the Arch-Duke Charles Ferdinand My Lord Holstenius is received by the Arch-Duke with much Courtesie The honours done to my Lord Holstenius Father Malines is sent to discover the will of the Queen The Popes Breife to the Arch-Dutchness of Inspruch My Lord Holstenius visits the Baron Ghirardi The expressions of the said Baron My Lord Holsténius visits the Ambassador Pimentel He imparts to him his Holinesses intention And he to the Queen who submits to the Popes pleasure My Lord Holstenius hath audience of her Majestie Her Majestie discourse with my Lord Holstenius His Holineses Breif to the Queen The Queen dines publickly with their Highnâ—sses the Arch-Dukes Her Majesty visits the Palace of Ambre She goes into the Church publickly The Order of the Church for performing the function of the Catholick profession The contents of the Popes Brief to my Lord Holstenius The Act of the Catholick Profession made by the Queen The Queens great generosity The absolution given to the Queen by my Lord Holstenius The joy for this profession The Recreations and plays recited before her Majestie The forme of the subscription of the act of profession Her Majesties departure from Inspruch The Arch-Duke sends a Gentleman to visit the Queen Her Majesty returnes the Arch-Dukes Complement The honors done her Majesty by the Bishop of Bressanon The Baron of Fermiano comes to