they were taken up. They have already too, as the monks told us, begun to justify themselves by miracles. At the corner of one the cloysters of this convent are buried the duke of Suffolk, and the duke of Lorrain, who were both killed in the famous battle of Pavia. Their monument was erected to them by one Charles Parker, an ecclefiaftic, as I learned from the infcription, which I cannot omit tranfcribing, fince I have not seen it printed. Capto a milite Cæfareo Francifco I. Gallorum rege in agro papienfi Anno 1525. 23. Feb. inter alios proceres, qui ex juis in prælio occifi funt, occubuerunt duo illuftriffimi princepes, Francifcus dux Lotharingia et Richardus de la Poole Anglus dux Suffolcia a rege tyranno Hen. VIII. pulfus regno. Quorum corpora hoc in cœnobio et ambitu per annos 57 fine bonore tumultata funt. Tandem Carolus Parker a Morley, Ricbardi proximus confanguineus, Regno Angliæ a Regina Elizabetha ob catholicam fidem ejectus beneficentia tamen Philippi Regis Cath. Hifpaniarum Monarche invictiffimi in Satu Mediolanenfi fuftentatus, boc qualecunque monumentum, pro rerum fuarum tenuitate chariffimo propinquo et illuftriffimi's principibus `pofuit, 5. Sept. 1582. et poft fuum exilium 23. majora et bonorificentior a commendans Lotharingicis. Viator precare Quietem. Francis the first, King of France, being taken prifoner by the imperialifts, at the battle of Pavia, February the 2 d. 1525, among the other noblemen who died in the field, were two moft illuftrious princes, Francis duke of Lorrain, and Richard de la Poole, an Englishman, duke of Suffolk, who had been banished by the Tyrant King Henry the eighth. Their bodies lay buried without honour fifiy fifty-seven years in this convent. At length, Charles Parker of Morley, a near kinsman of the duke of Suffolk, who had been banished from England by Queen Elizabeth for the catholic faith, and was fupported in the Milanefe by the bounty of the catholic King Philip, the invincible monarch of Spain, erected this monument, the best his slender abilities could afford, to his moft dear kinfman, and thefe moft illuftrions princes, recommending a better and more honourable one to the Lorrainers. Paffengers, pray for their fouls repole. This pretended duke of Suffolk was Sir Richard de la Poole, brother to the earl of Suffolk, who was put to death by Henry the eighth. In his banishment he took upon him the title of duke of Suffolk, which had been funk in the family ever fince the attainder of the great duke of Suffolk under the reign of Henry the fixth. He fought very bravely in the battle of Pavia, and was magnificently interred by the duke of Bourbon, who, though an enemy, affifted at his funeral in mourning. Parker himself is buried in the fame place, with the following infcription. D. O. M. Carolo Parchero a Morley Anglo ex illuftriffima clariffima ftirpe. Qui Epifcopus def. ob fidem Catholicam actus in Exilium. An. XXXI peregrinatus abInvictiff. Phil. rege Hifpan. boneftiffimis pietatis & conftantie præmiisornatus moritur Anno a partaVirginis, M.D.C. XI Men. Septembris. To the memory of Charles Parker of Morley, an Engi fhman of a moft noble and illuflricus family; who, who, a bishop elect, being banished for the catholic faith, and, in the thirty-first year of his exile, honourably rewarded for his piety and conftancy by the most invincible Philip King of Spain, died in September 161. In Pavia is an univerfity of seven colleges, one of them called the college of Borromee, very large, and neatly built. There is likewife a ftatue in Brafs, of Marcus Antoninus on horfeback, which people of the place call Charles the fifth, and fome learned men Conftantine the great. Pavia is the Ticinum of the antients, which took its name from the river Ticinus, which runs by it, and is now called the Tefin. This river falls into the Po, and is exceffively rapid The bishop of Salisbury fays, that he ran down with the ftream thirty miles in an hour, by the help of but one rower. I do not know therefore why Silius Italicus has reprefented it as fo very gentle and still a river, in the beautiful defcription he has given us of it. Ceruleus Ticinus aquas et stagna vadofa, Smooth and untroubled the Ticinus flows, fhows: Scarce can the fight difcover if it moves; A poet A poet of another nation would not have dwelt fo long upon the clearrels and transparency of the ftream; but in Italy one feldom fees a river that is extremely bright and limpid, moft of them falling down from the mountains, that make their waters very troubled and muddy; whereas the Tefin is only an outlet of that vaft lake, which the Italians now call the Lago Maggiore. I faw between Pavia and Milan the convent of Carthufians, which is very fpacious and beautiful. Their church is extremely fine, and curioufly adorned, but of a gothic ftructure. I could not stay long in Milan without going to fee the great church that I had heard fo much of, but was never mere deceived in my expectation than at my first entering: For the front, which was all I had feen of the outfide, is not half finished, and the infide is fo fmutted with duft and the smoke of lamps, that neither the marble, nor the filver, nor brafs-work fhew themselves to an advantage. This vaft Gothic pile of building is all of marble, except the roof, which would have been of the fame matter with the reft, had not its weight rendered it improper for that part of the building. But for the reafon I have just now mentioned, the outfide of the church looks much whiter and fresher than the infide; for where the marble is fo often washed with rains, it preferves itself more beautiful and unfullied, than in thofe parts that are not at all expofed to the weather. That fide of the church indeed, which faces the Tramontane wind, is much more unfightly than the reft, by reafon of the dust and smoke that are driven against it. This profufion of marble, though aftonishing to ftrangers, is not very wonderful in a country that has fo many veins of it within its its bowels. But though the ftones are cheap, the working of them is very expenfive. It is generally faid there are eleven thousand statues about the church; but they reckon into the account every particular figure in the hiftory-pieces, and several little images which make up the equipage of those that are larger. There are indeed a great multitude of fuch as are bigger than the life: I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church, though I only told three fides of it; and these are not half fo thick fet as they intend them. The statues are all of marble, and generally well cut; but the most valuable one they have is St. Bartholomew, new-flead, with his fkin hanging over his shoulders it is esteemed worth its weight in gold. They have inscribed this verse on the pedestal, to fhew the value they have for the workman. : Non me Praxiteles, fed Marcus finxit Agrati. Left at the sculpt or doubtfully you guess, 'Tis Marc Agrati, not Praxiteles.. There is just before the entranceof the quire, a little fubterraneous chapel dedicated to St. Charles Borromee, where I faw his body, in epifcopal robes lying upon the altar in a fhrine of rock cryftal. His chapel is adorned with abundance of filverwork. He was but two and twenty years old when he was chofen archbishop of Milan, and forty-fix at his death; but made fo good use of fo fhort a time, by his works of charity and munificence, that his countrymen blefs his memory, which is ftill fresh among them. He was canonized about a hundred years ago: and indeed if this honour were due to any man, I think fuch publicfpirited |