and Nature for the Title prefixt to the Decree for condemning these Propositions runs thus The Decree of our most holy Lord Innocent the XI by Divine Providence Pope by which he hath condemned 65 Propositions of Casuists as at least scandalous and pernicious in practice and hath forbidden the defending and publishing of them by any one under the pain of Excommunication ipso facto and that to be reserved to the Holy Apostolical See This Decree was publisht at Rome in the usual places on the 4th of March 1679. by Francis Perin Cursor to the Pope and Court of Inquisition In December 1682 an Imperial Envoy arrived at Rome to give the Pope an account that the Turks were making very great preparations for a War in Hungary the Pope very readily gave assurance of his Assistance both against the Turks and Count Teckeley who had been some time in Arms in Upper-Hungary and January the 8th a Congregation was held to consider of the best way to give assistance to the Emperor and resolved That the Tenths of all Ecclesiastical Benefices in Italy and Spain and where the Popes Power is acknowledged except in France shall be employed for carrying on this War and in the mean time for present Occasion remitted 200000 Crowns to the Emperor at Vienna He also wrote to the French King to agree the Differences with his Neighbours and assist against the Turks and the French King's Envoy at Vienna declared his Master desired a lasting Peace between him and the Emperor and that he would be ready to assist with his Forces against the Turks But at the same time a Domestick of the Envoy's was found to have Correspondence with Count Teckeley and secur'd the French Troops had about a year before forced in upon the Magistrates and seiz'd Strasburgh which he refused to re-deliver And the French King both now and for some time after so alarm'd the German princes that they could not assist the Emperor promoting in many ways the Turks Invasion of the Empire and assisting Teckeley with Money This last the Pope charged him with and urged it as one ground for his displeasure when the Disputes were about the Regale which suspicion the King endeavoured to remove though with little satisfaction to the Pope And since it will be my part to give an account of the large Assistances the Pope gave both to the Emperor the King of Polâ—nd and the Venetians in carrying on the War it will not be impertinent to give yearly a short account of the Success that ensued thereupon The Turk published his Declaration of War against the Emperor containing many Blasphemous Reproaches of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ which in the Consequence was the occasion of his own Deposing though by his own Soldiers May the 8th 1683 his Holiness had an account that according to his desire the King of Poland had entred into League with the Emperor for assisting in the War which was to be Sworn to by each of their Cardinal Protectors at Rome for every Prince and State that own the Pope for their Head hath a Cardinal at Rome who joyns with his Ambassador if there be any residing there or else alone to take care of the Affairs of that Country at Rome and is call'd the Protector of such a Realm or State Cardinal Pio was for the Empire and Barbarin for the King of Poland In June the Pope sent to the States of Venice to persuade them to enter into the same League with all the Encouragements he was able In the latter end of July this year the Turks besieged Vienna much sooner than was expected the Emperor Court and many Inhabitants speeded out of it almost surprized Count Staremberg the Governor made a very brave Defence notwithstanding the many violent Assaults of the Turks and before Relief came kill'd near 20000 of them The Duke of Lorraine lay with the Emperor's Forces not far off expecting the King of Poland and other Succors to raise the Siege the Turks therefore sent a Body of 15000 Turks and Tartars against him but he kept his Ground killing many of them and foreing the rest to return to their Camp General Dunewald possessed himself of a considerable Post on the Forest near Vienna which if the Turks had been possessed of it might have been difficult for the Christian Armies to have joyn'd September the 9th the King of Poland with his Army and and other Forces came and the whole Christian Army amounted to 64400 fighting Men. On the 12th of September they attack'd the Turks in their Camp and in a short time totally routed them the Turkish Horse fled and there were about 25000 Foot kill'd in the Camp their Baggage two millions of Money 60000 Tents and vast Riches were taken the Garison was brought to its last extremity their Bombs being spent many Cannons burst the Turks were lodg'd in their Ditches so that the Shot from the Garison could not annoy them and the Soldiers within were reduced brought from 15000 to 5000 these sallied out and assisted at the Fight also It was said the Turk lost during the Siege and at the raising 70000 Men. The Christians Chiefs at this Battle were the King of Poland the Electors of Saxony and Bavaria the Duke of Lorraine Prince Waldeek two Princes of Baden Prince D'Anhalt Duke of Croy Prince de Salme Margrave of Brandenburgh the Landgrave of Hess the Prince of Hanouer two Princes of Newburg four Princes of the House of Saxony three Princes of Wirtemberg the Prince of Hobenzeller c. In May this year the Emperor sent to the Pope to desire to grant him the Tenths of the Ecclesiasticks in the Hereditary Countries and for leave to turn Church-Plate into Money towards carrying on the War against the Turks The Pope for the present returned Answer That he would see the War first begun But in August following he called a Congregation and it was resolv'd that a Tax after the Rate of 6 l. per Cent. should be laid on all the Ecclesiastical Revenue per Annum for 10 years in Italy and that the Emperor might renew the Imposition of One pound per Centum upon the Clergy in the Hereditary Countreys for the War The King of Spain in Answer to the Popes Request sent One hundred and seventy thousand Crowns to the Emperor on the same account In November the Pope having notice of the taking of Gran by the Duke of Lorrain receiv'd it with Joy and remitted Money to his Nuncio at Lintz for the Emperors use and sent 30000 Crowns to the Vice-Roy of Croatia to encourage and enable him to assist in the War And being desirous to have the War carried on effectually he not only renew'd his Perswasions to the Venetians to enter into the League offering them the Tenths of the Ecclesiasticks within their Dominions for their assistance but labour'd a Peace between France and Spain and the Empire and was very much troubled he could not effect it then In February
the Venetians entred into League for six years with the Pope the Emperor and the King of Poland to join in War against the Turk and that no Truce or Peace should be Treated of or Concluded with the Turks but by joint Consent By this the Pope engaged himself to pay the Venetians 50 thousand Crowns a month and to maintain six Galleys at Sea during the War The Pope hereupon borrowed 3 millions of Crowns of the States of Genoua This year died Cardinal Caesar Fachenetti and also Cardinal Arch-Bishop of Bologne whereby 21 places were vacant in the Colledge of Cardinals In April 1683 the Pope sent his Brief to France wherein he consents that the Revenues of the Abbies of St. Denis and St. German shall be employed towards the maintenance and for the use of the New-Converts in France The Dauphiness having been last year deliver'd of a Son Created Duke of Burgundy the Pope was desired to be Godfather which he consented unto and promised to send some Blest Clouts for the Child but this was delay'd from time to time until May the 3d 1683 and then the Bishop of Fano was sent as Nuncio Extraordinary with the Present When he landed he was forbid to come to the Court or Paris but ordered to stay at Orleans until the King returned from Alsace which he did so that it was the 22d of July before he could have private Audience of the King 1684. For the carrying on the War this year against the Turks the Pope sent the King of Peland 300 thousand Crowns and a considerable Sum to the Cossacks to encourage them to join with the said King To the Emperor he sent 100 thousand Crowns and also granted the States of Venice the Tenths of all Ecclesiastical Revenues within their Dominions And June the 5th the Popes Nuncio by his Order distributed 200 thousand Florius the one half for such Hungarians as had forsaken Count Teckeley the other half for a Field Hospital for sick and wounded Soldiers He sent also his Galleys to assist the Venetians in the Levant August the 26th the Venetian Ambassador gave the Pope an account that they had this Summer taken the Island of Sancta Maura and what Councils were agitated for further Designs whereat the Pope much rejoyced and told him that his Galleys should Winter in some convenient Port in the Adriatick to be ready to join theirs the sooner next year but in the beginning of December they arrived at Civita Veccbia not being able to Winter abroad without Recruits having lost in this years Expedition 100 Soldiers and 200 Seamen and Slaves They took this year also Prevesa from the Turks In September the Pope sent another Supply of Money to his Nuncio at Vienna to be employed in the War the Emperor having sent several times Auxilliaries to his Army that had besieged Buda which was most vigorously defended by the Garison notwithstanding the many Assaults and violent Attempts made by the Dukes of Lorrain and Bavaria with the loss of many Men on both sides They continued the Siege although the Sarasquier with a potent Army of the Turks had attempted several times to raise it until November when in regard of the Season of the year loss of 12 or 14 thousand Men and near 8000 sick and wounded and the Serasquier continuing so near the Camp as to hinder their Foraging they were forced to raise it and put the Foot in Boats on the Danube while the Horse stood in Battalia lest the Turks should attempt them and so carried off their Men and Artillery without the loss of a Man However the Emperors Forces in Upper Hungary made some progress by beating some small Parties and taking in some Fortresses The King of Poland appear'd with his Army in the Tartars Territories but return'd without doing any thing considerable On a Letter from the French King to desire it the Pope granted a Dispensation for a Marriage between the Duke of Savoy and Madamoiselle and in August the Popes Nuncio had Audience of the same King touching the business of the Regale and after presented the King from the Pope with a Sable set with Diamonds and Pearl and to the Queen a Rose of Diamonds of great value for he took all occasions to be obliging and respective to the King save wherein he thought the Rights of the Romish Church were concern'd or his own Government and therein he would never notwithstanding many applications be brought to yield in the least In October a certain Printer was taken out of the French Ambassadors Quarter which he as others claimed as Franchises exempt from the Popes Officers of which the Ambassador complain'd and declared he would not go to Court until the Printer were restor'd to his liberty nevertheless the Pope continued him in Prison till he had sufficiently suffer'd for his Offence In December at the Request of the Ambassador for the Republick of Venice the Pope gave leave to that State to buy Corn in his Territories so willing was the Pope to advance the War for in yielding thereto he lost his Income that he should have received for so much as they bought which was very considerable as will better appear by the great Imposition that lies upon all Corn that grows in St. Peters Patrimony of which it cannot be impertinent to give this short account Donna Olimpia who rul'd the Church and State of Rome during the greatest part of the Pontisicat of Innocent the Tenth began this Tax or Impost on Corn and all the Popes who have Reigned since have found so great advantage by it that it hath been still continued and it is at present a very considerable part of the Ecclesiastical Revenne The Substance of the Law or Ordinance is this That no Person whatsoever is suffered to sell Corn to any Strangers but all those that raise any are obliged to sell it at a price certain to the Ecclesiastical Chamber which is not above one moiety of the real value and then the Chamber sells it again at double the price and at a lesser measure so that what comes in at 5 Shillings is sold out at 12 Shillings In the Popes Dominions there is no Person either in City or Country who is permitted to make his own Bread but every one is obliged to buy it of the Bakers who are appointed by the Chamber In each Village there is but one Baker establisht in Rome and the great Cities are several They are all obliged to buy a certain quantity of Corn of the Ecclesiastical Chamber for one whole year to come which they pay for at the delivery of the Corn at the Rate of ten Crowns the Salme or Measure whereas the Chamber bought it in of the Owners for 5 Crowns the large measure and although the Bakers may not have vended all they were obliged to take in the year before yet must they take out the like quantity again and return what they had spare at 5 Crowns the Salme into the
to satisfie themselves with the honour thereof without pay Yet intending to do such things that would render himself obnoxious to ill Men he encreas'd his number of Archers wherein he took all the care he could to have such Men listed as were discreet and sober not given to quarrels or apt to commit Insolencies as the Corsi had done in Pope Alexander VII time which gave him great trouble for upon affronting the French Kings Embassador he sent an Army into Italy which oblig'd that Pope to disband them and erect a Pillar with an Inscription of their Banishment and for what Cause In the next place for due administration of Justice that Criminals might no longer secure themselves in priviledg'd places which were many and very large and for long time had been the common shelters of Villains and the worst of Men he would not allow such places for the future to be Sanctuaries tho they were the Houses of Ambassadors and great Princes in Rome and in pursuance thereof caused a famous Bandito to be seized at Riccia a Seat of the Prince Chigi which was done without any opposition tho afterward the French and this Pope had great contests about it The Pope also confirmed the seventeen Articles which were signed in the Conclave of Cardinals a little before the time of the Election which other Popes in the like case have failed to do These for the most part tended to a Reformation of Manners and to amendment of those abuses which were crept into the Church That himself might be a pattern of Temperance and Sobriety he retrencht the expences of his House and lived so frugally that his own Table diet exceeded not five shillings a meal he reproved the vanity of the Cardinals in their fine Cloaths and Liveries and outward Gaities not becoming the gravity of Men of their Order contrary to other Popes who labour'd to dignifie 'em with honours And because the Corruption of the Church as it began so continued by ill Men's being in it who were commonly preferr'd by Friendship or Mony and not for deserts he appointed four Cardinals and four other Clergy-men to examine the Lives and Manners of such who aspired to the Degree of Bishops ordering them to admit none thereto suspected or in the lest blemished with ill Fame or debauched Conversation or taxed with Ignorance And to shew his dislike of such debaucheries and prevent Temptations he drove out of Rome the Curtesans and Strumpets and persons openly Scandalous and Dissolute in their Manners and Behaviour and in particular banisht a Gentleman of Quality into Germany for endeavouring to ravish a Lady He put down Gaming-Houses and forbad all lewd and unlawful Assemblies wherefore those sort of Men did account this Popes reign but a dull time and were weary of it long before it expir'd Tho in truth Conversation hath been free and unlimited for tho at Rome there is no Printed News yet in the Anti-chambers of Cardinals Ambassadors Princes and particularly at the Queen of Swedens all the News of Europe was usually discours'd not without animadversions or reflections upon it And tho Learning be not much in Vogue there yet those that would apply themselves to it might meet with no discouragements and a general outward Civility according to the Italian way was practis'd over the City and strangers kindly receiv'd being not obnoxious in their Speeches so that they may live there without any molestation and discourse freely enough of any thing that is the common subject of Civil Conversation And for the rights and properties of the meaner people in regard the Barons of Rome by the priviledge of their Nobility were above the reach of their Creditors the Pope ordered Cardinal Cibo to take an account of such Creditors as would bring it in what any of these priviledg'd persons owed them and to pay their dues out of the Chamber causing such persons to assign the Debts due to them to the Chamber which could better deal with them by proceedings out of the Exchequer Many have accounted him Covetous and one that made it his buisness to heap up Wealth and probably there might be more reason to lay that to his charge rather than other vices and one thing they take notice of is That he hath not rais'd any publick Structure or Building for the glory of the City as other Popes have done who advancing their Families at publick expence if not oppression were willing to do somthing of that Nature to stop the Peoples Mouths or else for vain-glory and to perpetuate their memories to Posterity But this Pope found the Chamber greatly in debt by the ill management of affairs before him and also did not know what occasion he might have to defend his Dominions if the Turk had prevail'd at Vienna or the French King should have invaded a people long accustomed to ease and luxury But he hath parted with great store of Mony to carry on the War against the Turk And one particular Act of generosity in this first year of his Reign is observable Christina Queen of Sweden having the greatest part of her Revenue from Sweden stopt through the necessities of the Times the Pope in recompence thereof for her comfortable livelyhood allowed her a Pension of 3000 l. per Annum Having done these things at home he now looks abroad and considering the Turk as the Common Enemy of Christendom he writes Letters to the Emperor the Kings of France and Spain to be at Peace offering himself for Mediator and to assist in it in Person provided the place appointed for the Treaty were some City of the Catholick Religion and animated the King of Poland to continue his War against the Turk for the recovery of Kaminiec and to be reveng'd on the Vizier Kuperlee for taking Contribution from the City of Leopolis and remitted to him the Sum of 50000 Crowns to assist him therein 1677. Whilst the Pope labour'd for Peace abroad the better to repose himself and advance the Affairs of the Church which never have thriven in War unless in some Cases to divert War from Italy the Popes have been incendiaries to raise it in others places and thereby may be said to get advantage I say while he labour'd for Peace among others those very persons whose good he design'd thereby did make but an ill requital tho no advantage could accrue to some of them The first accident that had like to set Rome in a Tumult was this The King of Spains Embassador without the Popes leave pretending the French for his Example knowing his Master wanted Soldiers in Sicily adventured to make some levies of Men at Rome People knowing the hardship his Soldiers used to endure came in slowly to list themselves and a rumour was spread that he had hid Men in Cellars which getting wind among the Vulgar glad of a pretence to be tumultuous and egg'd on by a secret malice they had entertain'd against that Nation they affronted them in all
Chamber And this brings in a very great yearly Incomb but is a very great Oppression both to the Occupiers of Lands and so to the Landlords and also to the Poor who if they have Bread cheap can make better shift to live upon the less of other Sustenance and this in 33 years time has been almost the ruine of the Ecclesiastical Estate so that the Country is much unpeopled and a great part of the Land lies uncultivated because it is not worth while to manure it and to raise Corn when the Price will not answer the Cost and Rent of the Lands It was moved to this Pope a little before he died to release this Tax he answer'd to this purpose That it would not be thankworthy for him to do it when he could not live to enjoy profit by its continuing and therefore he would leave it for his Successor October the 5th Cardinal Francesco Albizzi died at Rome in the 92 year of his age and two days after Cardinal Basadonna died by which there were 23 Vacancies in the Colledge of Cardinals and the Pope was moved to add more Cardinals to the Sacred Colledge which he did not seem to deny but disliked Persons propos'd to him for that Advancement He was now very much indisposed in his Health of which he was always very careful so that upon the least indisposition he presently kept his Chamber and sometimes his Bed of this illness he soon recovered but afterward fell very ill of the Gout and kept his Bed 3 weeks In December the Pope wrote Letters both to the Emperor King of Poland and States of Venice earnestly exhorting them to make good Preparations for the War against the Turk the year ensuing and his Nuncio assured the Emperor that the Pope was raising a great Fund to assist him and the other Princes in the War in which if there should be occasion his Holiness would employ the Treasures of the Church and the Pope gave Absolution to all such as should contribute to the carrying on the War In January 1682 the King of Spain's Ambassador at Rome was made Vice-Roy of Naples and shortly after took upon him the Government wherein he hath acted very honourably for the King and worthily for the Subjects and was belov'd and esteemed by all sorts of People for in few years he redressed such Abuses that seem'd past cure or at least required an Age to correct them He repressed the Insolence of the Spaniards so much at Naples that the Natives had no occasion to complain of the haughtiness of their Masters for he proceeded against the Spaniards with no less severity when they gave cause for it than against the Neopolitans He took the Pay of the Soldiers so immediately into his own Care that they who before his coming were half naked and robb'd such as pass'd on the Streets of Naples in day-light were afterwards exactly paid well disciplin'd and so decently cloathed that it was a pleasure to see them He examined their Musters also so exactly that he was sure never to be cheated by false Lists He brought the Markets and Weights of Naples to a true Exactness and whereas the Bread was generally too light he sent for Loaves out of the Markets and weighed them himself and by some severe Punishments on those that sold the Bread too light he brought this matter to a just Regulation He also retrieved the Reputation of the Courts of Judicature that were before generally thought corrupt and it is believed he had Spies to watch in case the Trade of Bribes should continue to go on He fortified the Palace which was before his time so much exposed that it would have been no hard thing to have made a descent upon it But the two things that raised his Reputation most were his extirpating of the Banditi and the Regulation of the Coyn it is well enough known what a Plague the Banditi have been to the Kingdom for going in Troops they not only robb'd the Country but were able to resist an ordinary Body of Soldiers if they had set on them These travelled about seeking for Spoyl all the Summer long but in Winter they were harbour'd by some of the Neopolitan Barons who gave them Quarters and thereby did not only protect their own Lands and Friends but had them as so many Instruments ready to execute their Revenges on their Adversaries a thing very grateful to the Italians This was well enough known at Naples and there was a Council that had the Care of reducing the Banditi committed to them who as they catched some few and hanged them so they fined such Barons as gave them harbour and it was believed that those Fines amounted to near 150 thousand Crowns a year but still the disease went on only now and then a little Blood let which never went to the bottom of the Distemper But when this Viceroy entred upon the Government he resolved to extirpate all the Banditi and he first let all the Barons understand that if they harbour'd them any more a little Fine would not save them but that he would proceed against them with the utmost severity and by this means the Banditi could find no Winter-quarters so they betook themselves to some Fastnesses among the Hills and resolved to make good the Passes and to accomodate themselves the best they could amid'st the Mountains the Viceroy sent a great Body against them but they defended themselves for some time vigorously and in one Sally kill'd 500 Men but at last seeing themselves to be hard press'd and hearing that the Viceroy intended to come against them in Person they accepted of the Terms that he offered them which was a Pardon for what was past both for Life und Gallies and Six pence a day for their Entertainment in Prison during Life or the Viceroy's Pleasure and so they rendered themselves They were kept in a large Prison and now and then as he saw cause for it he sent some few of them up and down to serve in Garisons and some went to serve the Venetians against the Turks and did good Service And thus was this Country quieted and in entire Security which for many Ages notwithstanding often vigorous Endeavours to suppress them had been continually infested with Robberies and Pillages to the hazard and frequent almost ruin of Travellers As to the Coyn it as all other Spanish Money being Square was so subject to Clipping that the whole Money of Naples was become light and far below the true value which he resolved to redress he considered that the crying down of Money that had passed on the publick Credit would be a robbing of those in whose hands the Money happened to be when such Proclamations were put out and therefore took a Method that was more general in which every one would bear his share and no particular Person crushed more than other he laid some Taxes on the whole Kingdom and procured some to bring in Plate to be coyned
and when he had got such a quantity as might serve for a necessary Circulation he call'd in the old Money and gave out new of full weight according to the Sums that he received of the old light Money not respecting its weight or real Value This Year in Sept. the Pope receiv'd the welcome News that he had succeeded in his endeavours for an Agreement betwixt the Emperor King of Spain Princes of the Empire and the French King whereby he had hopes the War against the Turk would be carried on the better which did succeed accordingly He had also another pacifick work to do at this time which he earnestly laid his hands to which was to compose the Breach between the French King and the States of Genoua and since the Pope was concern'd in it what he obtain'd will not well appear unless there be a short Narration of the concern in which he engaged himself In May the 17th this year without any apparent discord or demand of any thing the French King sent Men and Ships well provided before Genoua and after the usual salutes of Friendship between the French Ships and the Fort the States sent six Deputies to complement the Admiral and to know the occasion of their being come thither who answered That their King was not well pleased with the conduct of the States and that he required them to quit the Protection of Spain and joyn four new Galleys they had built to the French Fleet and allow the French to have a Magazine for Salt in Genoua and to send four Senators on board their Admiral to ask their Kings Pardon c. These demands without any colour of right did not a little surprize the Senators but necessitated them to send in answer that if they did not draw off they should give orders to their Fort to fire upon them and after two hours expectation of their going off when they did it not the Fort by order of the Senate first fir'd Powder only and a ter with Ball which was presently return'd from 10 Galleys of the French that continued in their Post with shooting Bombs into the City day and night untill the 28th of May and then they made a descent both on the East and West side of the City but being beaten back they return'd to their Ships with the loss of 200 men slain and 32 taken prisoners and thus with their own cost and damage and no manner of advantage more then damaging others they went off to Sea tho' at their departure they threaten'd a return It was reckon'd that in this time they had often shot 130 Bombs in one Night and in the whole 14000. of which about 2000 might break in the Air and 4000 fall short in the Sea So that about 8000 might do Execution the Dukes Palace was quite beaten down and both he and the Senators forced to remove It was accounted that the City within the outermost wall 25000 Houses whereof not less than 500 were broken down or spoil'd tho' there was not above 120 persons kill'd by the Bombs or fall of Houses some of these Bombs were shot two Miles and weighed 150 English pound weight and 57 pound weight of Charge The Pope made application in their behalf to the French King and in the Truce lately made between that King and Spain Genoua was comprehended saving that the French King would reserve liberty to procure satisfaction of the Republick of Genoua and in September following the French Fleet came before it again but the Sea proved then so boisterous that the Ships could not ride at Anchor and were forced to put off to Sea and afterwards they appear'd before it but put off a second time the Senate sent thereupon to desire the Popes further Mediation in their behalf which he willingly embrac'd and sent a Courier to his Nuntio in the French Court to know what the King yet demanded and in October he held a Congregation of Cardinals to Consider of the affairs of Genoua at which time the Courier return'd with Letters to the Pope and the French Ambassador at Rome purporting that the French King expected that the Senate should send the Doge or Duke and four Senators to France to ask the Kings Pardon After several Messages by the Popes mediation not without great reluctancy of the States of Genoua an Agreement is made and the 12th of February 1684. these Articles were signed viz. That the Doge and four Senators shall repair to some place in France before the 10th of April next following whence they shall continue their Journey to the place where the King is and being admitted unto Audience in their Robes of Ceremony the Doge shall in the name of the Republick declare their great regret for having displeas'd his Majesty and shall use such other submissive and respective Expressions as may best manifest the sincere desire the Republick has to deserve for the future his Majesties kindness That on their return to Genoua they shall re-enter on the exercise of their respective places and functions That the Republick shall dismiss within a Month the Spanish Troops which they have received into any of their places and do by the present Treaty renounce all Leagues and Associations made since the first of January 1683 That the Republick shall reduce their Galleys to the same Number they were three years agone and shall disarm those they have sitted out since That the Republick shall restore what can be found remaining of the effects taken from the French and his Majesty in lieu of other reparations for the losses sustained by his Subjects is content the Genoueses shall give such a sum of Money as the Pope shall think fit for repairing Churches and Convents at Genoua that were ruin'd or damnify'd by the Bombs c. That the Republick shall pay 100 thousand Crowns to the Count de Fisque but without prejudicing the reasons they have against the said Count and his Majesty promises that he will not support with his Arms c. the Pretention of the said Count but will leave them to be decided by the methods of Justice the King will give the Doge and Senators such favourable reception as may satisfy them of the return of his Royal kindness and after they have perform'd the Function they were sent for they may return to Genoua His Majesty declaring that no other conditions or demands shall be imposed upon them but such as are agreed by this Treaty all Acts of Hostility to cease in a Month and all Prisoners to be set at Liberty In April 1685. the Doge and Senators came to Paris according to the abovesaid Articles 1685. March the 29th the Popes Nuntio had Audience at the Dyet in Poland wherein he did in the Popes name exhort them to a vigorous prosecution of the War against the Turks promising considerable supplys of Money from his Holiness for that service and the Pope himself assur'd Cardinal Cibo that he would continue his assistance
to the Emperour In June the Popes Galleys joyned the Venetian Fleet near Corfu and about August they took Coron a very considerable place in the Morea and in the end of the year the Venetian Envoy gave the Pope an account of the good success that their Fleet and Army had this year had in gaining ground of the Turks in the Morea to his great satisfaction and in November the Popes Galleys return'd home to Civita Vecchia without any considerable detriment The Duke of Lorrain with the Imperial Army went on prosperously in Hungary and took the strong Town of Newheusel from the Turk which had been in a manner blockt up near twelve months and also obtained a very considerable Victory over the Turkish Army who had besieged the Imperial Garison of Gran to make a diversion The King of Poland made a great appearance this year but did little it was suppos'd the French Kings Money overweigh'd the Popes The Republick of Venice named four persons to the Pope for his Holiness to choose one out of them to fill the place of the Auditor of the Rota vacant by the death of Signior Palucci that place being always held by a Venetian In September Cardinal Paulo Savelli de Montalio dyed at Rome in the 63d year of his Age and 20th of his Cardinalship whereby there became 27 vacant places in the Colledge of Cardinals The Pope to encourage brave undertakings against the Turk advanced one Dunstar an Englishman to be Lieutenant of his Guards as a reward or shewing his Valour lately at the siege of Coron occasion'd by a lusty Turk who came forth out of the Garison brandishing his Scymiter and Goliah like sent a bold Challenge to the Venetian General that he was there ready to fight any single man of his whole Army for several hours none durst undertake the Combat till it coming to the Ears of this Dunstar whole pay was but 6 d. a day he acquainted his Captain that he would embrace it and being brought before the General Morosini he enquir'd of his name and Country who told him that he was an Englishman bred up near the Bear-Garden in Southwark the General commended his resolution and so he went forth with a good Backsword in his hand and engaged the Turk who with his Scymiter made a stroke to cut off Dunstar's head but he warded off the blow and gave the Turk a cut on the Hamstring which enrag'd him greatly and at a second blow brought him down to the ground and then cut off his head searched his bosom which the Turks use as a Pocket and found 200 Chequins and some Jewels the Hilt of his Scymiter was set with precious Stones the Conquerour bore them all off and presented them with the Turks head at his Generals feet who only accepted the head and gave him the rest with a reward suitable to his Merit and afterwards his Captain presented him to the Pope with a relation of his Exploit upon which he was advanced as aforesaid November the 21. Things being a little quiet betwixt the Pope and French King his Ambassador at last had Audience of his Holiness acquainting him that the King his Master had resolv'd to refer to his Arbitrement with the approbation of the Duke and Dutchess of Orleans the pretensions the Dutchess had by the death of her late Brother the Elector Palatine to certain Lands and the Moveables for these the Dutchess claimed as not belonging to her Brother as Elector but in his natural Capacity and so to her after his decease as nearest ally'd The Ambassador added that the chief motive that induc'd his Master thereunto was to take all pretences from the Princes of the Empire of excusing themselves from assisting against the Turks and that for that reason his most Christian Majesty would not do any thing that might disturb the Peace of the Empire The Pope shew'd all tokens of his favourable acceptance of this Declaration which if it had been real would have been the greatest satisfaction the French King could have given the Pope but he too well knew the contrary and that tho' he did not with his Arms at present molest the Empire it was not out of good will but while he prepar'd by building some new Forts and fortifying others on or near the Rhine for the better carrying on his work when he thought it convenient for his purpose which accordingly he did in 1688. by sending forces into the Palatinate and taking several places and harrasing the Country c. However the Pope sent notice to the Emperour of the French Kings Declaration touching the Dutchess c. And now preparations must be made for the next Campagne in December therefore the Nuntio acquainted the Emperour that his Holiness had remitted to him 400 thousand Florins to be employ'd for that purpose and the Clergy of the Hereditary Countrys brought in their Contributions to the Popes Nuntio at Vienna the Pope also sent a brief for raising an extraordinary Contribution on the Clergy in Spain and desir'd his most Catholick Majesty to assist the Venetians with his Galleys which tho' he did not consent unto yet he ratified a Treaty the Venetians had made with the Governor of Milan for raising forces The Nuntio at Poland continued his applications to that King assuring him to receive from the Pope 500 thousand Florins and to provide cloaths for 6000 foot Soldiers and Money towards a train of Artillery and in February the King assur'd the Nuntio that he would be in the field before the end of May next and command his Army in person the Nuntio therefore employ'd 500 thousand Florins which the Pope had remitted to him in providing Magazines c. for the War without putting it into the Kings Treasure having for two years past had experience that it never turn'd there to good account for the design it was intended he sent also a considerable sum of Money for raising 12000 Cossacks to joyn the Polish Army 1686. In May the Popes Forces were put on board his Galleys and in June they joyn'd the Venetian Fleet and directed their course to Old Navarino in the Morea and soon became Masters of it and then sate down before New Navarino and having intelligence that the Serasquier of the Morea was advancing towards them with 10000 Men and destroyed all the Country as he marched General Conningsmark leaving some Forces to maintain the Siege with 14000 men hasted to encounter him and totally routed the Turkish Army and return'd to the Siege where the place was speedily surrendred to him and having Garison'd both these considerable places he set sail and made Modon which was also surrendred unto him and shortly after he obtained two considerable Victories over the Turks near Napoli di Romania In August the Fleet blockt up 12 of the Turks Galleys eight whereof they took the other four escaping by Night the Land Army also took in the Castles of Argos and Termini and August the 29th
if he should prevail against the Christians when he had strengthned himself and had more leisure The Sophy at length gave answer in seven Letters two to the Pope two to the Emperor and three to the King of Poland the result of all was That the Sophy is in Peace with the Turks and that his Conscience will not permit him to violate his Oath by which he had confirm'd it in declaring War against the Turk In March the Pope remitted a 100 thousand Crowns to his Nuntio at Vienna for the service of the next Campagne Cardinal D'Estrees told the Pope that the French King would religiously observe the Truce and good correspondence with the Emperor yet went on to Fortify places on the Rhine In February the Pope resolv'd to maintain 1000 Men at his own charge to assist the Venetians in Dalmatia and Signior Imperiale Treasurer General of the Chamber went to Civita Vecchia to give orders and hasten the fitting of the Galleys against May that Month being appointed for the Rendezvous of the Popes Galleys and those from Malta and Tuscany who had all along heretofore joyned the Popes to assist in the Morea 1687. In July the Popes Maltese and Tuscany Galleys did not think fit to joyn the Venetian Fleet for fear of infection the Plague having been amongst them tho' it was assur'd that now the Fleet was clear however they fear'd there might be some remains in Napoli di Romania but his Holiness wrote to the Senate That in case his Galleys could be serviceable to them towards Dalmatia they should have Orders to Sail thither Towards the end of July the Venetian Fleet in the Gulph of Lepanto Landed some Soldiers and beat the Turkish Army found Lepanto and several other places presently abandoned by the Turks which they made themselves Masters of with some Guns at Sea they took almost all their Naval Force being 14 Galleys The Popes Galleys c. at length having adventur'd to joyn the Venetian Fleet with the assistance of these they also took Castle-Novo in Albania and discomfited the Turks Army there the Vessels from this place used much to infest the Adriatique Sea which made the gain of it the more considerable there were found in it 700 Christian Slaves who had been taken by the Turks this year which the Conquerors released getting besides a very considerable booty which had been taken by Pyracy This year the Venetians likewise took Athens and the Turks having abandon'd Corinth and set fire to it the Venetians entred it and had the Keys of the Castle of Totnes deliver'd to them Thus in a little time the Venetians became Masters of all the Morea being 500 Miles in Circuit but the Fortress of Malvasia and now the Season of the year requiring it the Popes Galleys c. return'd homewards and in the beginning of November arriv'd at Civita Vecchia On the 10th of August the Dukes of Lorrain and Bavaria Generals of the Imperial Army obtained a very great Victory over the Turks Army near Siclos It was said the Turks Army consisted of 100000 of which between 8000 or 10000 were kill'd on the place and as many drown'd the Imperialists also took all their Cannon Tents and Baggage of very great value with the loss of not above 500 Men. After this the Duke of Lorrain passed the Danube but found the Country so scarce of Provision and Forage that he was forced in October to retire towards his Winter-Quarters to refresh his Men but General Dunewalt with some of the Imperial Army that were left with him and the assistance of the Croatian Militia took Buezin and Walpo and surprised Esseck where at the Imperialists entrance at the one end of the Town the Turks fled out at the other Mines were ready charg'd to have blown up the Castle at their departure but their haste to be gone prevented firing them and the Imperialists being speedily by the Inhabitants directed to them took out the Powder And thus was this Campagne compleated with the possessing the chief Passage the Turks had into Hungary The Arch-Duke Joseph Son of the Emperor was by consent of the Dyet December the 9th Crowned King of Hungary On the 18th of December that considerable place Agria was surrendred to the Imperialists that stayed in Hungary It was taken by the Turks 1596 and had continued in their possession until this time The Pope had formerly taken the Assignments of several Noblemens Creditors because he could better deal with them than others as is noted before This year in June He gave Orders for seizing the Estate of the Duke of Bracciano for payment of his Debts notwithstanding the great Sollicitations of his Relations and Friends to the contrary The Dutchess who was Sister to the Duke of Noirmonstier parted the latter end of this Month for Paris hoping to find out some means whereby to prevent the absolute sale of their Estate and consequently the ruine of that ancient Family which is a Branch of the House of Ursini In the beginning of July several Congregations were held in presence of the Pope upon occasion of the Quietists whom he was thought to favour and was reproach'd in France as though he had suffer'd a Heresie to grow up under his Nose and spread it self through the whole Church In August another Congregation was held on the same account where it was Decreed that Dr. Molinos should publickly Recant several Propositions drawn out of his Books his Letters and the Confessions of some that had been apprehended and imprison'd by the Inquisitors for those Opinions But this business of the Quietests is so considerable that this History would be imperfect if I do not give a farther account of it for in February and March before this came so home on Dr. Molinos there were imprisoned by order of the Inquisitors 200 Persons some whereof for their Rank Learning and Piety were very much esteem'd at Rome who were supposed to have imbibed the Doctrine of Molinos it will be therefore necessary to begin with some account of him Michael de Molinos was a Spaniard of a good and wealthy Family He entred into Priests Orders but had never any Ecclesiastical Benefice so that he seemed to have Dedicated himself to the Service of the Church without designing Temporal Advantage to himself He passeth in Italy for a Man both of Learning and good Sence but hath to good way of Reasoning to maintain his Opinion His course of Life hath been exact so that the Pope who looked chiefly at the practice of Men not well indeed understanding or concerning himself in the Mystery of Divinity said of him That though he might err yet he was a good Man and therefore to depress him in the Popes favour and calumniate him to others the Jesuits who became the Prosecutors of him and his Followers suggested that he was of a Vicious Life and Conversation It is true he never practised those Austerities that are so much magnified in the Church of Rome
Bavaria Canonically chosen thereunto shall attain to a lawful Age hath thought fit if it shall so seem good to our Holy Father the Pope that the Administration of the Temporalties of the said Church be given to the aforesaid Joseph Clement and that the Administration of the Spiritualties be likewise committed to him on this Condition that he exercise the same joyntly with the Bishop of Hierapolis Suffragan and Canon of the said Church who shall be understood to be deputed to this Co-administration during the pleasure of his Holiness and the Apostolick See And Report being hereof made his Holiness favourably approved the Sentence of the Sacred Congregation Given at Rome the fifteenth of September 1688. Signed as the former In December following the Emperor's Minister by order of the Pope required the Cardinal of Fustenburg and his Party of the Canons to own Prince Clement of Bavaria as their Arch-bishop and Elector of Cologne on pain of Excommunication And afterward six of the Canons who had taken part with the Cardinal not appearing upon Summons of the Official of Cologne were by publick Sentence deprived of their Benefices and Ecclesiastical Dignities May 7. Cardinal Crescentio and on the Ninth Cardinal Felice Rospiglosi died at Rome whereby there were eight places void in the College of Cardinals In June there was a terrible Earth-quake in Naples and other Towns thereabout even perceived at Rome many Persons were destroyed by the fall of Buildings Palaces and eminent Structures A Famous Church of the Jesuits one of the finest in all Italy tumbled down and the neighbouring Town of Benevento was quite demolished The Pope therefore sent large Sums of Mony in particular 50000 Crowns unto Naples for the relief of People that suffered by this sad Calamity This Earthquake continued several days more or less with some Intervals the People feared it would last a whole Moon as one did in December 1456. and therefore many retired into the Country in hopes of more Security but by the violent Storms and Rain which followed the Earth-quake such sudden Floods arose that several were drowned and all People extreamly terrified by the frequent and violent Shakings of the Earth mighty Thunder and Lightning great Hail-stones Besides which a Mountain also split in sunder the Earth opened and out of it issued black Vapors and Flames of Fire the Sun appeared incircled with a Flame about it the Sea though at Calm strangely retired in three times All which Prodigies so terrified the Inhabitants of Naples that scarcely a third part of the People remained therein July 25. being St. James's day began publick Rejoycings at Rome for the Birth of the Queen of Englands Son There was held a Chappel of eighteen Cardinals who assisted at High Mass and Te Deum was sung with rare Musick in the English Church which was richly adorned and the Cardinal of Norfolk made great Expressions of Joy at his Palace Sir John Lydcot Agent at Rome then for King James the Second shewed all the Demonstrations of Joy usual on such extraordinary Occasions viz. A very large Picture or Emblem was set up over his Palace-gate relating to the Subject which consisted of an Effigies of a Child adorned as a Knight of the Garter and about it several Trophies relating to the Prince of Wales Kings of England and Warlike Exploits with the then King and Queen of England's Pictures on each side and the Pope's over it Not only the Windows of his House were illuminated but he had divers Pots of combustible Matter flaming set upon Posts before his House and distributed 1100 Lanthorns with the King's Arms upon them to be hung up with Lights in them before the Neighbouring Houses and a Fountain of Wine ran for three days upon the second day he provided a whole Ox the Belly whereof was fill'd with Fowls c. to be roasted for the common People and entertained divers Persons of Quality in his Palace with all Rarities The Wine and good Cheer had so fill'd the common Peoples Bellies and Heads that they made returns with shouting and noise so that it was said not only the Musick in the Palace was deaded by it but the Drums Trumpets yea the very Chambers and Mortars were not to be heard The Pope was God-father to this Child whose Baptism was defer'd to October 15. 1688. and was represented by his Nuntio in England for as King James had sent an Ambassador to complement the Pope so the like in return was done by him and his Nuntio made his publick Entrance at Windsor in the beginning of July 1687. but the Pope knew how to use his Mony otherwise than to be at so great Charge as the King of England's Ambassador had been at in Rome for his Nuntio had only four Pages twelve Footmen and three Coaches of his own when he made his publick Entry The Pope made Cardinal Pallavicino Legat of St. Vrban and upon his Creation he is reported to have made a learned Speech in the Consistory in relation to the Queen of England's Son and gave a piece of Mony to all that would fetch it at St. Peter's Church where there resorted about 30000 Persons In August the Lord Thomas Howard Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great Britain had Audience of His Holiness The Pope confirmed the Election of the Baron of Plettenbergh to the Bishoprick of Munster 1689. The Difference between the Pope and the French King not being yet composed April 30. the Marquis of Laverdin left Rome and returned to Paris in July following and the 26th of the same Month the Pope's Nuntio left Paris in order to return to Rome And the Pope's Apprehensions encreasing that the French King might make some Attempt on Italy he made great Preparations to be in a Posture to defend himself by daily enlisting more Men providing Ammunition fortifying and reinforcing his Garisons and denying Audience to the Cardinals d'Estrees and d'Este they and the Duke of Savoy's Minister at that Court prepared themselves for their Departure The Pope resolved also to make use of his Spiritual Weapons and threw his weightiest Thunderbolt Excommunicating in the severest manner all Persons of what Degree or Quality soever that shall usurp possess or separate from the State of the Church any part of its Lands Dominions c. or that shall seize upon any part of its Revenue or that shall interrupt or hinder the Commerce on the Coasts and Seas of the Ecclesiastical Estate as likewise those who shall attempt the calling or appealing to future Councils or that shall write against the Pope or Church Which Bull was affixed at all the usual publick Places in Rome and was ordered to be sent into France that so that Crown might not pretend Ignorance At this time the French King declares War against Spain and before or since against the Emperor and some of the German Princes as likewise against England Scotland Holland c. So that though the Pope had all his Life-long
of Athens and the Fortresses of Dulcigno and Maona with all the Morea and that the Turks should pay the Venetians 400000 Ducats towards the Charge they had been at in the War The Poles demanded Caminiec to be deliver'd up to them The Envoys gave answer That they were tied up to the Propositions they had made and could not recede from them or give any answer to their Propositions until they had sent to inform the Port of them and had receiv'd thence further Instructions It was discoursed of offering them fifty days and that if a Peace were not after that concluded the Envoys should be sent to Raab and detain'd there during the War in return for that the Grand Seignior had secured Count Caprara when he resided in quality of the Emperor's Ambassador at Constantinople No Peace ensued for the French Minister at the Port represented to the Divan or Council That his Master was entred into the heart of the Empire with an Army and that he had put all the Princes and the Estates thereof into a great Consternation wherefore the Emperor had withdrawn his Forces out of Hungary for the defence of the Empire and that his Master being now actually in War with him the Grand Seignior would have a favourable opportunity by continuing the War to recover the ground he had lost and promised on his Masters part a powerful Diversion to the Empire Upon which the Divan resolved to continue the War and gave orders for new Levies c. As to the War against the Turk little can be said of it in the time I am limited to viz. the Pope's Death the Venetians had then made but little Progress in this years Expedition April 17. Prince Lewis of Baden was appointed by the Emperor to command his Army against the Turks which consisted of 32000 Germans besides Hungarians and Croats that should joyn him on his march He pursued the War with very great Success The Tartars in the beginning of this year made an Incursion into Russia from whence they carried a great number of People into Slavery having defeated some Troops that got together in hast without due order or conduct to oppose them And since I have often mentioned the Tartars and their Incursions take this short Account of them They are a Savage sort of People that have few Towns or Villages in their Country but live for the most part in the Fields and Woods removing from place to place with their Children and Cattle in great Troops or Bands where they can find Sustenance They breed up Horses with great Difficulty for their use practising them to live two or three days without Meat or Water so that in the training of them to it they loose many when they go into a neighbouring Country to Pillage they ride on one of these Horses and lead another to carry away their Plunder or change in riding as they see occasion and for themselves they provide a good piece of raw Flesh of a Horse or other Beast and putting it under their rude Saddles they ride upon it and in a days time the heat of the Horses back will have stew'd it sufficiently and then as they are hungry they tear or draw out a piece of the Flesh and devour it without any Let or Hinderance in their Journeys but they that have Milch'd Mares sustain themselves by drinking their Milk And thus they will with great speed travel 2 or 300 Miles till they meet with People or Spoil which they take and carry away before Troops can be assembled to attack them Their Arms are only a kind of Sword or Scimiter with which they spare not to cut off the Heads of such as will not yield to them When they joyn the Turk they march in the Van without any order Robbing and killing as they please Those of them in Caminiec this year did often ride forth Robbing and Spoiling the King of Poland's Country and 2000 of them brought in 300 Wagons laden with Provisions into the Town which did formerly belong to the King of Poland and he hath often attempted as he did this year to regain it but without Success In June the Moscovites met and engaged a very great Body of them and on the place and in pursuit kill'd 3000 of them April 19. Christina Queen of Sweden died at Rome In the year 1655. she renounced both her Religion and her Kingdom she had been educated in and own'd the Protestant Religion but after she was Queen she was perswaded to change it for the Roman Catholick and considering her Subjects could not bear the Propagation hereof which her new Principles obliged her unto she resign'd her Kingdom unto her Kinsman Charles Gustavus and apparelling her self in the Habit of a Man she stole away and passed through Denmark and the Lower Germany and came by way of Holland into Brussels where she changed her Habit and in the Privy-Chamber of the Arch-Duke Leopold then Governor of the Low-Countries made her self and Design known and on Christmas-Eve in the presence of him and several of his Nobles she abjur'd the Heresies of Luther and made Profession of the Roman Catholick Faith She resolved to spend her days at Rome where she might live and enjoy her Religion in the most pompous and splendid manner and not only delight her self in the Conversation of Grave Cardinals and Learned Men which she loved but also gain Favour of the Pope and have recourse to him for Pardons Indulgences and his paternal Benediction But the Plague raging that year at Rome she defer'd her Journey thither almost a Twelve-month until the City and Country were restored unto Health Alexander the Seventh was then Pope and she signified her Intentions to him who gave her License to come but desired she would make another solemn Abjuration at Inspruck to prepare and dispose Italy for her more solemn Reception When she was on her way in Germany the Pope sent Luke Holstein the Keeper of the Vatican Library to make her Majesty a Complement in his Name which Person he thought would be very acceptable to accompany her in her Journy being accounted one of the Learnedst Men of that Age. When she approached near Rome he sent four Nuntio's to meet her at her entrance into the City she was met by two Legates a Latere who with a pompous Train conducted her to the Vatican Palace where she was lodged with the Royalty appertaining to a Queen Many and various were the Ceremonies which passed at the Reception of this Great Person after which on Christmas-day she was confirmed by the Pope in St. Peter's Church who superadded the name of Alexandra to Christina She continued her abode at Rome to the day of her Death and out-lived that Pope and Clement the Ninth and Tenth and died a little more than a quarter of a year before Innocent the Eleventh in whose time by reason of Wars in Sweedland the yearly Stipend of one hundred thousand Crowns which she reserved
Napoli di Romania the chief City in the Morea was surrendred unto the Generals Morosini and Conningsmark and then the season of the year requiring it the Auxilliaries return'd homeward and the Popes Galleys arriv'd at Civita Vecchia October the 21th his Troops much weakned by sickness of whom the Pope took great care and bestowed Medals on his Officers The Imperial Army set forward toward the Campagne this year in May that part under the Duke of Lorrain's Command consisted of 55000 another under the Duke of Bavaria of 35000 The Muster-Rolls exactly taken in June in all parts of Hungary engag'd in the War as well Field as Garrison was Of Imperialists and Hungarians 75230. Of Auxilliaries 28700. Amounting in the whole to 103930. The 17th of June the Duke of Lorrain invested Buda in Hungary the second time wherein was a very strong Garison being 12000 Foot and 3000 Horse with store of Ammunition and Provision as expecting to be besieg'd and having had time enough to provide it being a year and half since the former siege was raised In August the Turks came with a great Army to raise the Siege and when they came near 8000 were sent before to force their way into the City the Duke of Lorrain drew out a detachment and met fought and drave them back with loss to their main Body and before night return'd with his Men within the Line of Circumvallation The Turks encamped not far off and frequently parties that had advance Money given them were sent to get in to the relief of the Garison some whereof did obtain their Ends but never attempted the Dukes Camp with their whole body September the 2d after two months and ten days close Siege with the loss of a great number of Officers and Soldiers on both sides this strong and eminent place was taken by Assault in the sight of the Ottoman Army in an hours time the first entrance was on that side the Duke of Lorrain made the Attack at the time of the Assault the Garison was reduc'd to 5000 men whereof 3000 were kill'd and 2000 taken prisoners who were employ'd in burying the dead and cleansing the ditches It was now 158 years since the Turks first took this City being led by Solyman the II. 1526. and it was gain'd back by the King of Hungary 1527. but regain'd by the same Solyman 1529 since which time it hath continued in the Turks possession tho' it hath been divers times besieged before this in vain this was very welcome news to the Pope who caused 20000 Crowns to be distributed among the Soldiers wounded at the Siege and gave 50000 more towards repairing the Fortifications of that place and sent a further supply to the Emperour towards paying his Army The Duke of Lorrain marched after the Turkish Army for they decamped quickly but their march was so hasty also that they got over Esseck Bridge before he could reach them and the time drew on for such of his Army that were to have Winter Quarters in Germany to return so that the main business of this Campagne ended Nevertheless the Imperial Forces that remain'd in Hungary had considerable advantages against the Enemy for in October the 23d the Turks and Tartars coming to raise the Siege of Segedin were beaten by the Imperialists and the Town yielded the Town and Castle of Chonad was taken by General Wallis and also the Castle of Five Churches and Syclos yielded to Prince Lewis of Baden who marching towards Esseck the Garison of Darda quitted the Fort leaving their Cannon c. behind them and the Prince march'd on and burnt 800 yards of Esseck Bridge and taking Coposwar was satisfy'd in his this years success and took up his Winter-Quarters June the 4th the Popes Nuntio in Poland assisted by four Bishops of that Country gave the King the Benediction and the King went immediately to head his Troops his own Army consisted of 30000 the Lithuanians had 15000 and the Cossacks Auxilliaries near 10000 in all 55000 men the Nuntio had provided a Magazine at Limberg and other Frontier places and also a Field-Hospital for sick and wounded Soldiers With this Army the King marched toward the Black-Sea and annoy'd the Turks and Tartars in those parts and afterward obtained a great Victory over them but want of Forage hindred his intended march toward the Danube and the season requiring it he return'd to Winter-Quaruers The Muscovites enter'd into League with the King of Poland this year and engaged to enter into the Crim of Tartars Country but made only an appearrnce for nothing of Action occurr'd but the Nuntio to give his Holiness an account that the King of Poland had not only appear'd but done something which he accordingly did with a request of a further supply and the Pope being willing to encourage and reward him for the least services did in November remit to him 300 thousand Crowns And now the Pope having had an account from all places of the successes the Christians Arms had this year obtain'd against the Infidels caused Te Deum to be sung in the Vatican Chappel in testimony of his thankfulness to God for the same This year a differance happen'd between the French King and the King of Spain as well by reason the Viceroy of Gallicia had seized a French Ship with Money at Guoyn and for the seizure of other Ships at Malaga after the late Truce was concluded between the two Crowns but before the News of it arriv'd at those places as also for that the Spaniards had rais'd 500 thousand Crowns on the French effects in the West-Indies whereupon the French King sent 20 men of War and blockt up the Port at Cadiz so that no ships could pass in or out there The Pope by his Nuntio's in both Courts apply'd himself to make up these breaches and at last brought them to an accord so that the Viceroy restor'd the Money to the Captain of the Ship and the King of Spain entered into an Engagement that as soon as the Ships came home from the West Indies the 500000 Crowns should be repaid to the Frenâ—h Ambassadour in that Court the other matters were likewise accommodated and a peace of Commerce at the West-Indies setled between the two Crowns whereupon the French Fleet sailed off from Cadiz and at the return of the Spanish Fleet the Money was paid to the French Ambassador and the seizures made by the French King on the Subjects of Spain in the French New Conquests were taken off Since the time of the Emperour Charles the V. by an agreement the King of Spain yearly on St. Peters Eve with a great deal of ceremony is to present the Pope with a White Spanish Genet by way of acknowledgment for the Kingdom of Naples this year it was not offer'd according to place and order of Ceremony as it ought to have been so that the Pope refus'd to receive it looking upon it that a breach in a small point might
Room against the middle of the Table was the Kings Picture at large in his Royal Robes and over against it divers Hieroglyphick figures with the Kings Arms over them The Ambassador having now done his part he was complemented by several great Persons and Academies in Rome being invited to splendid Entertainments accompanied with Musick Orations Poems Plays Masks Dances and other Exercises as every one thought sit to set forth the respect they bore to the King in the Person of his Ambassador The first that invited him was the Queen of Sweden then Cardinal Pamphilio Cardinal Fran isco Barbarini the Fathers of the Gregorian or Roman Colledge the Clementin Colledge the Academicks of the Infecondi and lastly he was entertain'd at the Popes Palace at the Ceremony of giving Cardinals Hats in open Consistory for the Pope was prevail'd with at length to make a new creation of Cardinals and four that is Ciceri Petrucci Caraffa and Medici receiv'd their Hats the 24th of May 1687. Other Hats had been sent where the Cardinal resided as to the Cardinal of Furstemberg c. and now the Ambassador takes his second leave of the Pope and had his Benediction again for his being present at this Ceremony obliged him to see his Holiness tho' he had before had his Audience of leave the Benediction with a pair of Beads at which hung a Gold Medal of our Saviour and on the 23th of June 1687. he left Rome and return'd homeward I do not find that this Ambassadour was much caressed by the Pope but rather slighted for on his telling the Pope that if he were not better used he would leave Rome the Pope reply'd You are Master of that as you please Whether it were because as some say the Pope was a Protestant in his Heart and did not favour the designed Perversion of England or as others with more probability out of his covetous temper because it was look'd upon that little profit was like to accrue from England to that See at least for his time Or rather because the King of England was link'd in alliance with France betwixt whom and the Pope there were continual differances Or lastly which is chiefly insisted upon because the King of England was altogether influenced by the Jesuits and the Ambassador now there gave himself intirely up to their conduct whose Mortification this Pope always endeavour'd and not without reason for as to their Religion he liked not their Morals and as to their Power in all Christian Princes Courts it exceeded his and they were got into such a condition that if differences should arise between him and them they were likely enough to give him some check and in the mean time lessen'd him in that Grandeur of Government which he aspir'd unto by their interposing in the State Affairs of most Nations without concerning themselves with him at all therein He looked upon them as a distinct and Independant Society Subject to none but their General from whom alone they receive all their prefrements and to whom therefore they pay an absolute Obedience without reserve and that they had got great riches in all places and only us'd it for the advantage of the Society This year 1686. November the 5th the River Tyber swell'd to that prodigious height that it not only drown'd the Neighbouring Country but put several quarters of Rome under water which continued to the 7th and then the waters began to decrease this Inundation was not so high as one that happen'd in the year 1657. yet did an unspeakable damage drowning several people and a great number of Cattle and overthrowing many houses and part of the wall of the Castle of St. Angelo and damnifying one of the Bassions so much that it was in danger to fall the Pope took care to have the People assisted with Boats and Provisions and what else they should want 300 Men were employ'd suddenly to build up the wall of St. Angelo's Castle and assistance was given to people towards their losses The Pope now to give some ease to his Subjects took off the Impositions upon Provisions which was farm'd at 65 thousand Crowns per annum In the beginning of December Father Charles de Noyeles General of the Jesuits dyed and in July following the Society chose Father Thyrso Gonsales a Spaniard for their General who had a contest in himself whether he should visit the French or Spanish Ambassador in the first piace he would willingly have wav'd visiting either but that could not be admitted he at length resolves it and visited the French first at which the King of Spain ordered the Jesuits in his Dominions not to own the new General and the French King in retaliation forbade several Religious Orders to obey their Generals being Spaniards On January the 30th 1686. The Duke D'Estrees who had resided 15 years at Rome in the Quality of Ambassador from France dyed of an Apoplexy The Pope now resolv'd to take the opportunity to put the Bull effectually in Execution for regulating of the Franchises which hitherto he had been easy in and accordingly did abolish the Franchises of the Palace of Farnese where the late Ambassador had had his residence and caus'd the Sbirris or Officers of Justice to appear therein of which the Nuntio at Paris acquainted that King who seem'd not willing to quit that point He afterwards let him know also that the Queen of Sweden had voluntarily quitted the Franchises of that quarter adjoyning to her Palace at Rome admitting the Sbirris to execute what belong'd to their Office therein the King notwithstanding shew'd an unwillingness to admit it and hence grew another Controversy between the Pope and the French King as shall be shew'd hereafter And now its time to be making preparations for the next years War In February the Popes Nuntio in Poland undertook to provide Magazines with Provisions c. for the Army of that King and in March the Prince of Lubmirki Great Marshal of Poland came to Court where the Muscovite Ambassadour gave their reasons why they did not advance further the last Campagne and promised for the next year with their Auxilliaries to have a brave Army in the Field Another Ambassador from thence was also at Vienna who went away well satisfy'd yet in the latter end of June they return'd to the borders of Muscovy after they had made some little incursions into the Tartars Country without ever seeing an Enemy The Pope Emperor and King of Poland had formerly sent Envoys to the Sophy of Persia at Hispahan who were there a year before they could be admitted to audience to have answer to the Letters they brought which were to set forth the advantage the Christians had gained over the Turks in the late Wars and to encourage him to bring an Army at so considerable a juncture of time as this was which if omitted he might expect not only to be frustrate of such another opportunity but be also set upon by the Turk