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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85757	The history of the sacred and Royal Majesty of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland with the reasons of her late conversion to the Roman Catholique religion. As also a relation of the severall entertainments given her by divers princes in her journey to Rome, with her magnificent reception into that city.; Historia della sacra real maestà di Christina Alessandra, regina di Svetia. English	Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo, Conte, 1606-1678.; Burbury, John.	1658 (1658)	Wing G2171; Thomason E1851_1; ESTC R23369	167,308	510

mercy O Lord be upon us as we have hoped in thee O Lord hear my Prayer and let my cry come unto thee Our Lord be with you And with thy spirit Let us Pray O God who shewest the light of thy truth to the erring to the end they may return into the way of justice grant to all of the Christian profession to reject those things that are contrary to this name and correctest those and dispersed gatherest them together and gathered together preservest them We beseech thee mercifully to pour on Chr●stian people the grace of thy union that all division rejected vniting themselves to the true pastor of thy Church they may be able worthily to serve thee OMnipotent eternall God receive this thy sheep with thy fatherly piety withdrawn by thy power from the jawes of the wolfe and renew her to thy flock by thy mercifull ben●gnity that the enemy rejoyce not at the dammage of thy family but that in her conversion and delivery thy Church as a pious mother may congratulate a daughter that is found O●od ●od who man wonderfully created according to thy image dost mercifully repair propitiously behold this thy servant and what is stolne from her by the hostile blindness of ignorance and deceit of the Devill pardon and absolve through the clemency of thy piety that receiv'd by the communion of thy truth shee may be united to thy holy Church through our Lord Jesus Christ thy sonne who liveth and raig●eth God with thee in the Vnity of the holy Ghost world without end Amen He afterwards sate down and was cover'd giving her absolution in the following forme God forgive thee and absolve thee from all thy sinnes and bring thee to life everlasting And I by Apostolicall authority wherewith I am impower'd to this purpose by the speciall Commission of our holy Lord the Pope Alexander the Seventh absolve thee from all tye of excommunication and interdict and other ecclesiasticall sentences censures and punishments howsoever incurr'd and receive thee into the bosome of our holy mother the Roman Church and restore thee to the holy Sacraments of the same and to the Communion and unity of the faithfull in the name of the Father and the Sonne and the holy Ghost Amen After this hee arose up again and gave her the benediction in the following words Confirme O God that thou hast wrought in us From thy holy Temple which is in Hierusalem Behold thus shall the man bee blessed that feares the Lord. Our Lord bless thee from Sion Who hath made Heaven and Earth The blessing of God Almighty the Father and Sonne and holy Ghost descend vpon thee and remaine alwayes with thee Amen Then the Queen stood up and was by their Highnesses conducted to her first place whither Holstenius repairing in a very low posture congratulated her Majestie and incontinently caus'd the Psalme to bee sung Make yee jubilation to God all the earth c. with musique of exquisite voyces of Organs Trumpets Tabours and Drums And while the said Prelate going into the sacristy prepared himself to sing the solomne Mass father Staudacter a Jesuit Preacher to the Arch-Duke made a Sermon in Dutch so elegant learned and so fit for that action that it ravisht the affections and applauses of all After Mass which was celebrated with the greatest sollemnity Holstenius stay'd on the last step of the Altar and began the Te Deum which was sung with the same harmony accompany'd by the roaring of above 50. Peices of artillary many Mortar-peices and an infinite number of muskets as likewise with the ringing of the bells The Mass was sayd after the Roman fashion as they do in Saint Peters and all were well satisfy'd with it The day after my Lord Holstenius sent to Rome an account of all that had succeeded The Queen wrote to the Pope and consigned the letter to Holstenius in which giving his Holiness information of that she had done she declared her self his most obedient daughter with expressions of much duty and very great respect These letters with others written by the said Holstenius to the Legates and Nuntii with the advice of all and with the Calculation that the Queen would arrive in Ferrara on the 22. of November on the fifth of the said month were sent by an extraordinary Courier who comming out of Poland past in hast towards Rome In the discourses Holstenius had with the Queen in order to her reconciliation to the Catholique Church he giving a hint that after the profession of faith she should receive the Sacrament of Confirmation and then the most holy Eucharist her Majesty said her desire was to communicate the first time in publique by the hands of his Holiness himself and asking him diverse particulars about confirmation said she heard in that function she might change her name or adde another to it and therefore would gladly to the name of Chr●st●na adde that of Alessandra in honour of his Holiness Holstenius reply'd the Pope himselfe at her coming to Rome would much better counsell her than any one else The Evening of the day in which the Queen made her profession was solemniz'd with diverse Bonfires of joy the ringing of the bells and roaring of the Canon and with a most noble and most excellent play represented in musique with very sumptuous machins and scenes which succeeded extreamly delightfull The subsequent night they likewise represented in musique a play called Argia a musicall tragicomedy with admirable prospects of scenes and of greatest curiosity The cloaths of the Actors were most noble and most splendid and the musique very exquisite his Highness having neither spar'd paines nor charges to get the best musitians of Jtaly It lasted six whole hours and her Majesty with the rest of the assistants beheld it with great pleasure and attention The other three dayes her Majesty stay'd in Inspruch she was allwayes entertained with vertuous recreations and both the said Playes were reacted since the tast being never orecharg'd while the appetite lasts they saw the Queen and the rest not yet cloy'd with that pleasure The day before their departure appointed on the 8th of December my Lord Holstenius visited Count Raymond Montecuccoli dispatcht from the Emperour not onely to assist at the possession but to waite on her Majesty to Rome and he was by this courteous Cavalier received with geat demonstrations of esteem On the 8th of December in the morning the Arch-Dukes and Don Antonio Pimentel the Spanish Ambassadour together with Holstenius subscribed 4 Copies of the originall of the foresaid Profession confirmed before by her Majesties own hand to the end that one of them should remain with the Queen one in Inspruch in the place of Records one in the Records of the Vatican Library and the other be sent to the Pope The Signature and Subscriptions under the over-written Profession were these Christina I Ferdinand Charles Arch-Duke of Austria have been a witnesse and