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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65782	The Evropean mercury describing the highwayes and stages from place to place, through the most remarkable parts of Christendome : with a catalogue of the principall fairs, marts, and markets thorowout the same / by J.W. ... ; usefull for all gentlemen who delight in seeing forraign countries, and instructing merchants where to meet with their conveniences for trade.	Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1641 (1641)	Wing W182; ESTC R40678	54,951	256

first in the World that was dedicated to the Virgin Mary Here is a great Station and many Indulgences granted and confirmed by many Popes and in the said Church is buried the bodies of many Saints and there is kept for a Relick the Manger that our Saviour was borne in at Bethlehem and it is endowed with many vessels and ornaments of gold and silver which were given thereunto by divers Popes The fift Church is the Church of Saint Laurence out of the wals of Rome a mile in the way called Via Tiberia In the same Church lies the body of S. Laurence and the body of S. Steven and one of the stones that stoned him to death and the stone whereon Saint Laurence after his death was laid all being died with his blood and fat after he was taken off the Gridiron as also a piece of the Gridiron whereon hee was broyled with many other Relicks and Pardons granted thereunto by severall Popes The sixt Church is calld S. Sebastian out of the wall of Rome in the way called Appia which Church is endowed with great Indulgences and Stations especially in Lent There is yet in the said Church a Vault a Wal wherein the bodies of S. Peter and S. Paul lay hidden a certaine space and whosoever shall cause a Masse to be said at their Altar in the said church he shall free a soule out of Purgatory and under the said Church is the tombe of Calisto and there is great Indulgences granted neare unto the place where lyes the bodies of an hundred and seventy thousand Martyrs In the said Church is likewise the body of S. Sebastian with divers other Relicks of Saints The seventh Church is called the holy Crosse of Jerusalem and beares the title of a Cardinalship and here is a great Station in Lent great Indulgences especially on the days of invention and exaltation of the holy Crosse and the day of the consecration thereof And in the Chapell under the high Altar no women can go in thereunto And there lies the bodies of S. Anastio and Cesarco and there is a little Bottle or Ampolla full of the precious blood of our Redeemer there is likewise the Spunge wherewith they gave him gall and vinegar to drink when he was upon the crosse there are two thornes of his Crown and a Nayle wherewith hee was nayled unto the crosse and the Inscription which Pontius Pilate put upon his head and one of the Thirty pence for which he was sold and the holy Crosse whereon our Saviour was Crucified was kept here first which now is kept at S. Peters Church with infinit Relicks and Indulgences hereunto granted by divers Popes And so ends the Description of the seven Churches of Rome And to speak of the Pyramis which stands at S. Peters Church the two pillars whereon stand the Statues of S. Peter and S. Paul the Pantheon which was a Church built by the Heathens and dedicated to all the gods the ruines of the Amphiteatrum the Fountaines the Caves under the ground the ancient coines Statues the ancient ruines of the Roman Emperors Pallaces and the present Pallaces of Cardinals and Princes will take a man halfe a yeares time to view them well with the Monasteries Stages and Rodeways from Florence to Genoua First to Florence a city Then to Poggio m. 10 Cajano and Pistoia m. 10 Burgo Boggiano m. 10 Luca m. 12 Mazzaroso m. 1● Piatrasanta m. 10 Massa m. 6 Sarzana m. 10 Lereci m. 3 Here you may imbark your selfe for Genoua which is by water 65 m. and if you go by land you must go as followeth Rimed●o m. 10 Borghetto m. 7 Mattarava m. 6 Bracco m. 6 Scestri m. 6 Here you may imbarke for Genoua which is 30 m. by water but if by land as followeth Chiaveri m. 6 Renallo m 7 Recto m. 6 Bogliasco m. 5 Genoua m. 8 GEnoua is a most famous City both for buildings and antiquity and by the opinions of divers learned men it is more ancient than Rome It is proudly and stately built by the Sea-side neither is it all plaine nor all mountaines but partakes of both and is six miles in circuit and there is 30 Parish Churches therein whereof divers noble men are by Inheritance Patrons of some of them And now we will speak something of the Cathedral Church called S. Laurence wherein is a Chappel dedicated to S. Iohn Baptist And there is the ashes of the said S. Iohn kept in a silver chest well adorned and set with precious stones which ashes work great miracles among the rest this same particular That there raising a great storme upon the Sea to the endangering of the shipping and Port the said chest being carried by the Clergy of the said Church to the Sea-side the tempests did immediately and miraculously cease as my author says Likewise there is kept in the Vestry of the said Church a dish set with Emeralds of an inestimable price in the which our Saviour ate his Paschal Lamb according to the opinion of many Authors and it was taken and brought thither in the taking of Cesarea as in the Chronicles of Genoua appeareth more at large There is in the said City divers Hospitals built for the reliefe of the sick and the poore as also for Pilgrims and Travellers which are plentifully adorned with Riches for their maintenance And there are great Monasteries both within and without the said City worth seeing and there is a most faire Ars●nal for building of Galleis and other Vessels There is likewise a most famous Darsena or Mold made of stone out of the Sea very artificially by the labour of Man where the Gallies and small ships laden with wines lie and they may open and lock it at their pleasures with a chaine for security There is likewise the great Mol which makes the Port for the great shipping to lye secure which was likewise made of stone by the hand of man most artificially to the great expence of the City Stage from Genoua to Millan From Genoua a city Then to Pontedeimo m. 7 Buzzala m. 7 Borgo fornari m. 1 Isola m. 7 Arqua m. 7 Sirravalle m. 6 Bettolla m. 6 Tortona m. 8 Ponte Curon m. 5 Voghera m. 5 Pontarina m. 8 Cava by water m. 7 Pavia m. 3 Binasco m. 10 Milano m. 10 Summa tota of the miles 93 Stage from Milano to Antwerp by the way of Swizerland MIlano a most famous City in the Provine of Lombardy in Italy It being adorned with most stately Churches and Pallaces and fortified with an invincible Castle wherein lyes foure or five thousand Spaniards in Garrison for the defence of the City And there is a most stately Hospitall where any Travellers or Pilgrimes have very good entertainment for three dayes having plenty of meat drink and very good lodging and at his arrivall he shall have his feet washed by the Gentry of the City who serve by turnes and at his departure hee shall