with all diligence For whome also Ioyeuse being very solicitous made a vow to the B. Virgin of Loreto for his recouery and to good effect For within few houres breath beginning to passe more freely Espernon lifted vp his eyes and by litle litle comming to himself knew his friends about him Wheruppon Ioyeuse seeing him of vnderstanding for the vehemency of his paine was something abated and perceiuing that he felt the greatnes of his danger he came vnto him and bydding him be of good comfort persuaded him to haue great confidence that our B. Lady of Loreto would help him to whome a litle before he had made a vow in his behalfe asking him whether he would ratify it which seeing he could not confirme by wordes he signified by the becke of his head An admirable thing to be said within few houres he receaued all his senses to geather with his voice and in few dayes arose out of his bed in perfect health Wherfore being very mindefull of so great a benefit he sent a certaine man to Loreto to performe the said vow with reuerence The gift of the Duke of Espernon By whome he dedicated two Angells of a Cubit of solid siluer which shine continually with burning lights on either side the feete of our B. Lady to be a monument to posterity that the vse of that light was restored vnto him by the intercession of the B. Virgin of Loreto Claudia of Turnon imitating this piety of the French Princes sent a siluer figure of the Castle of Turnon either as a votiue gift for the preseruing of her Castle or els as a voluntary to obtaine the protection of the B. Virgin for the same wherin was written THIS IS THE FIGVRE OF THE CASTLE OF TVRNON The worthy gifts and piety of William Duke of Bauaria of other Princes of Germany CHAP. VI. AS SOONE as the constant fame of so euidēt a miracle in a most noble Prince Vict. Brig was published and knowne in Germany many of the Nobility were stirred to visit reuerence the House of Loreto with gifts Of whome VVilliam Duke of Bauaria deserued the first praise and commendation a man for wealth and piety without controuersy the chiefest of the German Nation who taking no small ioy for the recouery of the Marques of Baden his kinsman also well remembring his Fathers munificence to the B. Virgin of Loreto sent and brought to Loreto donaries of Princely munificence Among the gifts which he sent were a most excellent horse a plate of siluer inclosed in Ebony which doth represent our B. Lady carrying the sweet child IESVS in her lappe with S. Ioseph the companion of her slight into Egipt a siluer Candlesticke hanging very notable for weight and workmanship For the weight is eighty pound and the worke such that foure and twenty branches as it may seeme shoot out of the same stēme all so exquisitly and orderly disposed that they may distinctly hold so many wax candles which doth hang continually in the sacred Cell of the B. Virgin before her glorious Image as a very worthy gift of the Duke of Bauaria But in this it is more notable that he hath also endued it with a yearly pension For by name of a dowry the Duke sent with it a perpetuall stipend that euery yeare vpon forty festiuall and solemne dayes the same might burne before the B. Virgin with foure and twenty white Candles of wax Soone after the Duke himself followed his gifts and foure onely accompanying him to Loreto with fresh horses he posted thither vnknowne the yeare 1585. The exceeding modesty of so great a Prince made his piety the more notable For contemning humane delicacies that he might tast the diuine more aboundantly he esteemed the publicke and magnificent lodgings assigned for the intertaynment of Princes lesse then a priuate and meane hospitall For insteed of the trouble and state of a Princely Court desiring to giue himself to religious quietnes he went very familiarily to the Fathers of the Society of Iesus of which order he hath deserued great honour and lodged with them certaine dayes being very well contented with ordinary fare and intertaynment But so great vertue could not long be kept secret For the Gouernour of Loreto vnderstanding of the comming of the Duke of Bauaria came presently vnto him and very curteously inuited requested vrged importuned to giue him intertaynmēt but at last seeing that he refused it with a most resolute mind he departed frustrated of his desire And the modesty of the Duke was as notable in the Church as in his lodging For a footstoole to kneele vpon and a chaire to sit in being prepared for him with Princely state he so contemned them that he did not so much as looke at them because he came not to seeke sumptuousnes but piety and deuotion in the House of our B. Lady of Loreto Further in the most maiesticall Cell of the B. Virgin his christian humility and piety was so notable that others may admire it For he prayed among the multitude with such submission of mind and body as that you would haue taken him for one of the people because he did often as I belieue recall to mind the humility of the Sonne of God who when he was in the forme of God there exinanited himself taking the forme of a seruant He was so long in praier that he might seeme to dwell in the sacred House of the B. Virgin and at his departure left behind him as notable signes of his munificence as of his piety and deuotion The vvorthy gift of the Duke of Bauaria His chiefest gift was a little booke of solid gold which being diuided three manner of wayes in foure leaues seemeth to containe beautifull pictures and Images wrought in precious stone The couer wherof is made of gold orient pearle and rich iewells with admirable art and hangeth by three chaines of gold comming through a gold ring to be fastened in a great Saphire This gift is said to be worth eight thousand Crownes and there is scarce an other to be found among all the donaries and Treasure of the House of Loreto which strangers behold with more delight and desire so greatly doth the ornature the exceeding beauty of the inward pictures and Images themselues delight the eyes of the beholders art seeming to contend with the value of the thing it self He also gaue a golden Image of Christ our Lord representing his glorious Resurrection and his comming out of the Sepulcher which doth glitter with diamondes Carbuncles This exceeding piety of the Duke of Bauaria was an example to many great men of Germany to salute and reuerence the B. Virgin of Loreto with gifts whose cōming happened afterward in the Popedome of Xystus V. Notwithstanding the Duchesse of Brunswicke brought siluer attire for the B. Virgin imbrodered with gold The gift of the Duchesse of Brūsvvick and goodly furniture for the Altar shyning with pearle
immortall fountaine of saluation by her that as the most wretchedest of all women was the occasion of bringing all misery on our heads so the most glorious not only of women but of all creatures whatsoeuer should direct and guide vs vnto our former state of blisse againe Wherfore blessed Mother of mercy and the most comfortable refuge of all offenders giue eare and harken I beseeche thee to these plaints of thy vnworthy suppliant Neyther the voice of a wretched sinner nor his poore wishes and praiers alone durst presume to present thēselues before so singular a Patronesse to intreate so great a benefit as pardon peace and grace for thy distressed England if the merits of all holy Apostles Prophets Martyrs Confessours Virgins deuout Matrons yea and that nothing at all may be wanting euen thy owne aboundant well-deseruing merits themselues did not come to intreate to request and to call vnto thee in behalf of this out-cast and abandoned Iland If it be exceeding ioy and contentment to thee to haue Loreto glorified and most reuerenced of all places in the worlde worke meanes with thy beloued Sonne that this vnfruitfull vineyard may haue the earth and soile of her harte sowne with that heauenly seede which at Loreto is most aboūdantly powred from heauen into the soules of thy deuout Clients that all the people of our Countrey may reioyce not only to haue vnderstanding but also to see planted in their soules the beautifull flowres of the mysticall Paradise where the spirituall Adā CHRIST IESVS our Lord and Sauiour was framed and made mā of the virginall earth of thy body where he found all delicacies and dainty fruites of vertues the sweetest flowers which heauenly grace could produce and the comfortablest nourishment and food which Angells taste Amidst which was made and framed the Lord of Angells in thee the earthly Paradise of this world and the ioy of our God which doth well shew that thou indeed O glorious art the Paradise which was neuer defiled neuer was stained with any imperfection nor neuer sawest the least blemish of earthly corruptiō Witnes herof not only the glorious Resurrection of Christ our Lord thy Sonne thy most happy Assumption into heauen both in body and soule but the very precinct the circuite and the place where this Paradise was planted those very walls I say and the rest of the sacred House of Loreto it self which by a great miracle haue stood from the very time that you liued till this day without any alteration or change at all either by default of antiquity or iniury of the weather declaring vnto vs the rare wonders and mercies of Allmighty God who by his only will doth make mortall things immortall in a sort for euer VVherfore that the gate of this Paradise may allwayes be open and that all may haue free passage to gather the sweete flowers seedes of vertue which vndoubtedly do cure both spirituall corporall infirmities request intreate importune thy Lord thy Creator thy Sauiour thy Sonne that the Angell may terrify prohibite no longer that the fiery sword of wrath reuenge may be remoued that in Loreto all may come to tast of the tree of life whose fruit doth not only heale and take away sinne but also doth so comfort all them that be in distresse and misery that neyther death nor the fruites therof can haue power to raigne in them any longer but that the sacred fountaine of life it self which there was made man to saue man by thy B. merits and most holy prayer may most happily be planted giuen and bestowed on man to the well-fare of his euerlasting felicity and desired saluation TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL AND RIGHT VERTVOVS Gentlewoman M. ris M. B. T. P. VVisheth increase of vertue and true felicity in IESVS CHRIST CONSIDERING with my self right vertuous M. ris M. to whom of mortal creatures euen next after that glorious Virgin the Mother of our mercifull and great God I might present and deliuer this discourse being as it were the gate of the flourishing place where the true spirituall Paradise was planted to be opened for the well-fare of our distressed Countrey me thought none could better performe so singular an office of duty towards B. Mary of Loreto than they who with the example of Virginall purity haue euē from their cradle beene allwaies specially deuoted to that place and haue much desired to heare and to read the meruailous wonders of so mercifull a Patronesse that their soules might be fully replenished and happily blest with the great comfort of so diuine a benefit Among whome who may be iudged more worthy than shee in whome from infancy the disposer of these celestiall graces hath dwelt both by name grace And that she may allwaies dwell in your religious hart to the increase of your noble vertues and to the good of many soules to you deuout M. ris M. I present this small token of my dutifull affection that by your singular piety and true Christian zeale towards this miraculous place others may know what vnfayned happines if any be on earth this little booke doth set before their eyes For as by her glorious merits and the disposition of the Father of mercies B. Mary of Loreto hath deserued the principality and to be Queene of all heauenly creatures so by the sanctification and will of Mary the most sacred House of Loreto hath euer beene the first of all places consecrated to her name on earth and that in so meruailous a manner that the most B. Queene of Angells doth bestow her Angelicall benefits so bountifully in this place that there is none although he doe not visit her with corporall presence if conueniently he can not but in spirit only that departeth hence without the speciall reward and blessing of Loreto such a fountaine of sanctity haue the merits of this Virginall Queene produced for our miseries infirmities that O wonder these burdēs seeme as it were to be remooued and taken from vs during our aboad in that Paradise which B. Maries habitation touchings and vertues haue truly sanctified for the good well-fare of her Suppliants for euer Which you deuout M. ris M. knowing to be true will not cease this haruest-tyme of your life to gather into the treasury of your hart all spirituall seedes of celestiall glory with more singular example and zeale of the honour of her your Patronesse of your owne perfection and the good of all that shall concurre with you in this most profitable seruice of the heauenly Queene And that you may most faithfully performe it heere once againe you your self and they by you receiue the full view of that true flourishing vineyard and of all her heauenly fruites that among such variety you may make speciall choice of some of her odoriferous vertues which haue so singular a quality that they neuer change their first beauty but still adorne the soule with greater purity than the brightest planets these
of the reuerēce of Loreto and doth tremble to heare the name of Mary of Loreto mentioned whome many times that country-people thinking to haue robbed spoiled of her wealth were taught by many great miracles and infinite losse of men not to touch nor approach vnto her but to reuerence and honour her with religious respect and deuout wordes Only England of all nations vnder the sunne doth not know doth not honour and reuerence this glorious Paradise of the earth VVhat is she worse than Turkes and heathen people who dare not attempt any hostility nor vtter any irreuerent thing of Loreto being taught this fruitfull lesson by their great harme Truly for that presumptuousnes which maketh thee O England to say that Saints cannot heare our praiers that Mary the Mother of Christ is no better than other women that she can not heare nor help her Suppliants But if the Catholicke Church can not teach thee if Turkes if heathenish people cannot informe thee let wonderfull workes of God this miracle of the world the meruailous benefits bestowed on mankinde in this most sacred place by the praiers of the Mother of God make it manifest vnto thee that Christ doth heare his Mothers praiers and that the contrary irreuerent impious and blasphemous opinion doth bring dānation of body soule to all those that belieue such fancies diuellish inuentions as to contemne to deride to detract the Saintes of Allmighty God wheras the contrary that is to honour to reuerence and by humble praier to intreate the help the assistance and the aid of his Saintes is so pleasing acceptable and deere in the sight of his diuine Maiesty that he doth confirme this beliefe of his Catholike seruants with dayly innumerable miracles from heauen wherby the contrary is so confoūded detested hated by Allm. God himself that he can do no more to make thē to know see their detestable dānable errour indeed their heresy as palpable Christs Conception who would not see the ouershadowing of the holy Ghost and the vertue of the Highest descēd on the B. Virgin in her litle house of Loreto who would not be present at all the wōders that Christ wrought in that litle place of his aboad who would not allwaies most effectually desire to pray with his body in Loreto before the glorious Images of IESVS MARY that his mind may be carried to greater ioy than wordes can expresse O what increase of vertue will come to your soules to thinke that B. Mary the Mother of God doth worke in your hartes all those miraculous cures which she hath donne in the bodies of her suppliants what ioy will it be to your harts to see your sinnes taken away to feele the working of the holy ghost in your breasts to see damnation turned into saluation deepe auersion into sweet imbracing loue These things are so wonderfull and admirable that nothing can be more desired of your soules Therfore giue your selues to Mary offer your selues to Mary consecrate your harts and wills wholy to Mary and Mary will allwaies be with you in Loreto she will teach you to pray she will be an exāple still before your eyes in your behalf before the Altar of his diuine presence she will also offer vp euery Aue Maria euery deuout naming of Iesus to the increase of your holines on earth to your great cōfort in all your tribulations to the full accomplishment of your heauenly Crowne in the Paradise of eternity Your Welwiller T. P. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND Lord Peter Aldobrandino CARDINAL Of the Holy Roman Church HORATIVS TVRSELLINVS VVISHETH FELICITY THE prouidence of Allmighty God doth appeare in many great and wonderfull things Right honorable Cardinall but specially in this that he hath made his B. Mother the Patronesse and parent of mankind For seeing that humane imbecillity was subiect to innumerable chaunces he euer determined to appoint such a keeper and defendresse vnto the same as chiefly aboue all others both would could deliuer their health euery way beset with dangers blesse their life with true happy goodnes For our mighty God hath made his B. Mother a companiō of his diuine maiesty and power as far as may be lawfull long agoe bestowing vpon her the speciall prerogatiue and principality of all heauenly and earthly creatures According to whose will as much as the protectiō of mankind doth require he moderateth the earth the sea heauen and nature it self at whose intreaty and by whome he bestoweth diuine treasures and heauenly gifts on mortall men that all may vnderstād that whatsoeuer doth flow from that eternall and most sacred Fountaine of goodnes to earth that it doth flow vnto vs by Mary his most B. Mother What region therfore what people what nation is there where the Patronage of Mary is not illustrated with miracles consecrated with Houses adorned with titles But among all the sacred Houses dedicated to the B. Virgin Mother of God one House of Loreto doth excell which with the fame of her name hath both filled the whole world and also for the space of these many ages is reuerenced dayly more and more with the concourse and frequency of all people and nations For as other Churches of our B. Lady are for the most part the refuges of particular Citties Coūtries so this seemeth to be the common refuge of all people and nations And therfore to you Peter Aldobrādino I specially dedicate the History both of this House Church aswell in the name of our whole Society which you fauour with singular beneuolence as in my owne who for the same cause must needes confesse my self to owe more to your singular humanity than I am able to performe Nether must any meruaile why we write this History in Latin for they erre by some mens leaue be it spoken and measure the thing rather by the loue which they beare to their natiue tongue than by the truth it self if any thinke that more fruite of a History may be receiued by this our late and Tuscane lāguage than by the old Latin tongue For the Tuscane tongue doth not much passe the boūds of Italy it self which heerafter an interpreter of this History may satisfy but the Latin tongue doth go far neere almost through all people and nations that the Roman language may extend further than in times past the Roman Empire did And if the protection of the B. Virgin of Loreto be shewed to all Countreys of the world truly with good reason we may wish that her glory and fame may go as farre as the Christian Religion reuerence hath donne Wherfore most honorable Cardinal with that benignity wherwith you are wont to receiue our Men receiue this small gift of our Order and permit the most famous name of Peter Aldobrandino to be carried ouer most remote nations and countreys togeather with the History of Loreto that it may be a monument
of infinite labour the profit nothing answerable vnto the labour he is reported to haue said VVe must desâ—st from a vaine worke and imploy our selues in more profitable and certainer commodities of the House of Loreto which may correspond to the expectation of men So from leuelling the hill he bent his care and industrie to build the Popes Pallace appointed for the intertaynment of Noble men Whereupon in short time great part thereof was finished polished and furnished so magnificently that in the same Kings and Popes themselues might lodge most honourablie Of three partes therof one was then finished which being seated on the right hand of the Church is directly extended from the setting of the sunne which in length is an hundred Cubits in breadth foure and twentie and fiue and twentie in height besides the greate ground-works added on the North side to make the building equall And this part of the Pallace hath a double Porch of great State which doth consist of 15. Arches and almost as manie great Columnes of large compasse as well aboue as below Truly a notable worke and very excellent both for sight and vse The House of Loreto is adorned with Chappels and Heauenlie Signes CHAP. XI THIS part of the building of Loreto was not whoâ—â—e finished by the Pope when principall Men began to adorne the Chappell 's of the Church The chiefest in that worke was Rodulphus Pius the Cardinall of Carpa who as we said before succeeded Card Contareno in the Patronship of the House of Loreto and being a very godly vertuous man he adorned the Chappell which was designed to keepe and Minister the most holie bodie of Christ The Chappell of the Prince of Bisinia Of the Archb. of Altouico Of the Card. of Trent Of the Card. of Augusta with excellent pictures of marble worke guilt whose example stirred other great Men to imitate that ornament of piety The Prince of Bisinia adorned the Chappell of S. Anne the Bishop of Alâ—o-Vico the Chappell of the B. Virgin visiting S. Elizabeth the Cardinall of Trent the Chappell of the Rosarie the Cardinal of Augusta the Chappell of S. Iohn Baptist some with pictures and others with pictures and implastered workes Of the Duke of Vrbine But of all in this kinde the munificence of the Duke of Vrbine did far excell who adorned his Chappel not onely with white marble carued with maruailous art but also with most beautifull pictures made by Bacorio and Zuchero two notable Painters Whiles the Church was adorned of mortall men with striuing emulation it altogeather wanted not immortall ornaments For at that time I find that the olde wonder of the flames of Loreto was renewed after a new manner In the night time a fierie Pillar as it were shyning with great brightnes was seene to stand ouer the Church of Loreto Annal. Laur. Rier from whence by litle and litle it went towards Macerata a famous towne of Picene 14. miles from Loreto at last rested ouer the Church of S. Marie surnamed of the Virgins in the Suburbes of Macerata which wonder the FraÌ„ciscan Capuchines whose Monastery was in the Suburbes very carefully and often obseruing after the morning office of diuine seruice wheÌ„ before day as their manner was they retired themselues into the next wood to serue God they gaue it out that to their thinking our B. Ladie did descend from heauen in likenes of a heauenly flame vpon her Natiue House and from thence went vnto another Church which was dedicated to her name by that meanes to make it knowne to mortall meÌ„ that that Church was also deare vnto her And the woÌ„derfull multitude of miracles which shortly after were wrought in the same place seeme most manifest proofes of the heaueÌ„ly signe which did illustrate that yeare which was memorable for the departure of Paul the third who publishing the celebritie of the Iubiley against the 50. yeare put of mortalitie and passed to an immortall life leauing the care and the praise of the Iubiley to his Successour Pope Iulius the III. instituteth a Colledg of the Society of IESVS at Loreto CHAP. XII IVLIVS the third according to the vse of former Popes with his authoritie coÌ„firmed the Indulgences Immunities Annal. Laur. Rier and Benefits of the House of Loreto And calling to mind that deuine saying The benefits of Iulius the 3. Holynes becoÌ„meth thy House O Lord by lawes which he caused to be set downe by the Cardinal of Carpa excited the Clergie and People of Loreto to greater perfection of life Then from the discipline of the Inhabitants turning his care to the ornature of the place it self he also caused the sacred furniture to be well increased the marble staires in the Church Porch to be laid the entrie to be paued with brick for seemlinesse of the place diuers priuate houses to be built ouer against the Porch whereof we haue spoken either to grace the street or els for benifitt of the Inhabitantes At last the vppermost roomes next to the Bishops lodging before rude inhabitable were well fitted to dwell in assigned to the Societie of Iesus For the Pope well knowing that the amendment of corrupt manners by meane of a well ordered Confession is the greatest fruite of holy Pilgrimage decreed to prouide fit Penitentiaries for the Church of Loreto most famous with the Pilgrimages of all Nations And albeit there wanted not holie godlie Priests yet their scarcitie or vnskillfulnes in strang languages made lesse profit than indeed was requisite Therefore the Pope considering all thinges through the exhortatioÌ„ of the Cardinall of Carpa thought it for the best to admit the Fathers of the Societie of Iesus to help the Priests of Loreto that there might be some who with their knowledge of languages might inuite the Pilgrims to the expiation oâ— their sinnes and might also imploy continuall and diligent labour in hearing the Confessions of strangers Twelue Fathers were chosen for that purpose for whose mayntenaÌ„ce allowance sufficient was made out of the reuenewes of the House of Loreto Their dwelling was in the vppermost part of the buildings which at that time were voide assigned them the 54. yeare of this age This was the beginning of the Colledge of the Societie of Iesus at Loreto small truly but to no small good of the Inhabitants and Pilgrims For the greatest care of the Fathers was to purge the soules of the Pilgrimes them that dwelt beyond the Alpes by confession to instruct all such rude people as were ignorant of the mysteries of Christian beliefe and to excite euery one to the zeale of a godly and Christianlike life And how fruitfull and profitable their labour was both to the Inhabitants and strangers is more fitting to leaue it for others to coniecture than for me to write But that this College of the Fathers was not onelie pleasing to mortall men but euen to our B. Ladie her self the daylie increase and
small store of siluer a bow and an excellent quiuer of arrowes not so gratefull and acceptable for value as because the gifts were rare and the giuer himselfe to be admired At that time Gaspar Doctus a Venetian was Gouernour of Loreto who putting the other Donaries on the Altar coÌ„manded that the bow and the quiuer of arrowes should be set vp ouer the doore of the most Sacred Cell for a monument of the miracle to posteritie Also the partie of whome I haue spoken being set at libertie by the Bassa brought with him the hand-writing of his Patrone for a testimonie of the miracle which Gaspar translating out of Arabian into the vulgar tongue would haue preserued for an euerlasting memoriall therof and the same turned into latin is this That which the great and mercifull Lord of the world would haue to happen vnto vs. A certaine thing chauncing to me my self from aboue I Corcutte the Bassa not to faile in my dutie and to haue some monument of so greate a wonder to be extant to posteritie will relate the whole matter in order A great impostume growing in our breast and certaine death being at hand and also despayring of health by means of Physitians my slaue came vnto me and with great confidence vttered these wordes vnto me If you will promise me libertie I will pray to the Mother of my God to restore you your former health Out of hand sending for the notarie I secured him libertie if he performed his promise Whereuppon my slaue kneeling downe presently on the ground and making certaine signes on himselse with his hand requested me to say after him repeating these words before me I implore the helpe of our B. Ladie of Loreto Saying after through the goodnes of God I recouered For which cause manumitting my slaue I gaue him this testimonie with votiue gifts for a monument of my Reuerence and gratefull mind towards B. Marie the mother of God the Almightie who hath made vs whole The House of Loreto is enriched with the Donaries of Noble men CHAP. XIX THE House of Loreto was not more graced with miracles thaÌ„ with gifts in time of Iulius the third The Cardinall of Augusta brought to the B. Virgin of Loreto for a gift The gift of the Card. of Augusta and of many others a vestment of gold of curious worke a neck-lace of a 150. orient pearles notablie graced with golden stones of equall distance and a coyne of gold haÌ„ging beautified with gemmes and precious stones Cardinall Cesius siluer ornature for the Altar The Cardinall of Carpa costlie furniture of cloth of gold for the Bishop celebrating diuine seruice with solemnitie and an other of cloth of siluer wrought with curled gold Cardinall Medices who afterward was created Pope by the name of Pius the 4. a suite for the Altar of cloth of gold Bernardine San-Seuerino Prince of Bisinia his owne Image of siluer to the brest of no small weight and ornature of crimson veluet for the Priest the Altar Hercules Duke of Ferrara goodly ornature of damaske wrought with great flowres of golde for the Altar Priest and Ministers celebrating diuine seruice with solemnitie Vidobaldus Duke of Vrbine a suite for the Altar and the Priest of cloth of gold The Duke of Grauine ornature for the Priest of the same stuffe The Viceroy of Naples golden vestments imbrodered for the Priest and ministers to vse in time of solemne seruice The Marques of Mantua vestments of siluer for the same to vse in like solemnitie Portia Cesia a golden Cope The Countesse of Palena in Abruzzo a neck-lace of golde and precious stones Constantia Leiua a Spaniard a Crownet of gold of one pound weight There was also a worthie gift sent out of Germanie from Ferdinand king of the Romanes that is to say a siluer Image of the B. Virgin of a foote a half of 31. pound weight at whose feete doth lye prostrate Anne the Queene of Bohemia pourtured in siluer which hath a double inscription in the base The one before FERDINAND THE MIGHTIE AND POTENT KING OF THE ROMANES OF HVNGARIE AND BOHEMIA ARCHDVKE OF AVSTRIA c. SENT THIS SILVER IMAGE TO BE OFFERED TO THE B. VIRGIN OF LORETO THE YEARE M. D. LII IN THE MONETH OF MAY. The other behinde FERDINAND KING OF THE ROMANES OF HVNGARIE AND BOHEMIA ARCHDVKE OF AVSTRIA c. IN MEMORIE OF ANNE HIS BELOVED VVIFE DEDICATED AND CONSECRATED THIS HER IMAGE OF SILVER TO THE B. VIRGIN OF LORETO IN PERFORMANCE OF A VOVV VVHICH VVAS MADE FOR HER RECOVERIE Marcellus Ceruinus the Cardinall knoweth by reuelation in the sacred Chappell that he should be Pope CHAP. XX. IN this meane while Marcellus Ceruinus the Cardinall a man famous for learning and sanctitie had made his dwelling in a towne neere to the House of Loreto Annal. Laur. Rier The pietâ—e and deuotion of Card. Cerninus called Monte-fano which he accompted his natiue soile choosing indeed a very conuenient place to visit the natiue Cell of the B. Virgin from whence he came to Loreto with great zeale and deuotion to say masse in the most Maiesticall Chappell of the whole worlde After the decease of Iulius the third there happeneda certaine thing in sight and euent most meruailous to Marcellus Ceruinus the Cardinall celebrating diuine seruice at Loreto as he was accustomed A very white and a beautifull doue flying peaceably vp and downe ouer his head in the presence of many people sometimes rested on the haÌ„ds of the Sacrificant sometimes on the Missal it self which filled them that were present with great admiratioÌ„ woÌ„der The Priest who as the vse is assisted the Card. in tyme of the dreadfull Sacrifice thinking it to be some ordinary doue come thither by chaÌ„ce assaied to driue her away But the Cardinall well remembring that here to sore in former ages sometimes Bishops had beene designed from aboue by the manifestation and shewing of a white doue forbad him to disquiet her Whereuppon he permitted the heauenly doue to rest till the Sacrifice being ended she flew away of her owne accorde Shortly after a heauenly vision confirmed the truth hereof vnto him For Marcellus being called to Rome by a messenger of the Popes death would not commit himself to his iourney and to the election of the new Pope vntill he had saluted the B. Virgin of Loreto according to his custom And the sacred day of the B. Virgins Annunciation being at hand did more inuite his godly minde Therfore coÌ„ming to Loreto the day before and shutting out the rude people on the Festiuall day he began to say masse with great attention in the most Maiesticall Cell of the B. Virgin And in time of the dreadfull Sacrifice a litle after the beginning of the Canon remembring the Church depriued of her Pastour and recommending her most effectually to God and the B. Virgin our B. Lady accompanied with many heauenly spirits The reuelation vvhich vvas shevved to