interred between the very Wall and the Altar where they were taken up. They have already too, as the Monks told us, begun to juftify themselves by Miracles. At the Corner of one of the Cloifters of this Convent are bury'd 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 feen it printed.

Capto a Milite Cafareo Francifco 1. Gallorum Rege in agro Papienfi Anno 1525. 23. Feb. inter alios proceres, qui ex fuis in proelio occifi funt, occubuerunt duo illuftriffimi principes, Francifcus Dux Lotharingia et Richardus de la Poole Anglus Dux Suffolcie a Rege Tyranno Hen. VIII. pulfus regno. Quorum corpora hoc in cœnobio et ambitu per Annos 57. fine honore tumulata funt. Tandem Carolus Parker a Morley, Richardi proximus confanguineus, Regno Angliæ a Regina Elizabethá ob Catholicam fidem ejectus, beneficentiâ tamen Philippi Regis Cath. Hifpaniarum Monarche Invictiffimi in Statu Mediolanenfi fuftentatus, hoc qualecunque monumentum, pro rerum fuarum tenuitate, chariffimo propinquo et illuftriffimis principibus pofuit, 5. Sept. 1582. et poft fuum exilium 23. majora et honorificentiora commendans Lotharingicis. Viator precare Quietem.

Francis the 1ft, King of France, being taken Prifoner by the Imperialifts, at the Battle of Pavia, February the 23d 1525, among 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.

Eighth. Their Bodies lay buried, withour Honour Fifty-feven Years in this Convent. At length, Charles Parker of Morley, a near Kinfman of the Duke of Suffolk, who had been banifh'd 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 beft his flender Ábilities could afford, to his most dear Kinfman, and these moft illuftrious Princes, recommending a better and more honourable one to the Lorrainers. Paffenger, pray for their Soul's Repose.

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 Sixth. He fought very bravely in the Battle of Pavia, and was magnificently interr'd by the Duke of Bourbon, who, tho' an Enemy, affifted at his Funeral in Mourning. Parker himself is buried in the fame Place, with the following Inscription.

D. O. M.

Carolo Parchero a Morley Anglo ex illuftriffima clariffima ftirpe. Qui Epifcopus def. ob fidem Catholicam actus in Exilium. An. xxx1. peregrinatus ab Invictif. Phil. Rege Hifpan. honeftiffimis pietatis & conftantiæ præmiis ornatus moritur Anno a partu Virginis, M. D. C. x1. Men. Septembris.

To the Memory of Charles Parker of Morley, an Englishman, of a moft Noble and Illuftrious Family; who,

who, a Bishop elect, being banish'd for the Catholic Faith, and, in the Thirty-firft Year of his Exile, honourably rewarded for his Piety and Conftancy by the most invincible Philip King of Spain, died in September 1611.

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 Statue in Brafs, of Marcus Antoninus on Horfeback, which the People of the Place call Charles the Fifth, and fome learned Men Conftantine the Great.

Pavia is the Ticinum of the Ancients, 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 Bifhop of Salisbury fays, that he ran down with the Stream 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 ftill a River, in the beautiful Defcription he has given us of it.

Caruleas Ticinus aquas et Stagna vadöfa
Perfpicuus fervat, turbari nefcia, fundo,
Ac nitidum viridi lentè trabit amne liquorem ;
Vix credas labi, ripis tam mitis opacis
Argutos inter (volucrum certamina) cantus
Somniferam ducit lucenti gurgite lympham. Lib. iv.

Smooth and untroubled the Ticinus flows,
And through the Crystal Stream the fhining Bottom
fhows:

Scarce can the Sight difcover if it moves;
So wond'rous flow, amidst the fhady Groves,
And tuneful Birds that warble on its Sides,
Within its gloomy Banks the limpid Liquor glides..

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A Poet of another Nation would not have dwelt fo long upon the Clearness and Transparency of the Stream; but in Italy one seldom 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 curiously adorned, but of a Gothic Structure.

I could not ftay long in Milan without going to fee the Great Church that I had heard fo much of,. but was never more deceived in my Expectation than at my first entering: For the Front, which was all I had seen of the Outfide, is not half finish'd, and the Infide is fo fmutted with Duft and the Smoke of Lamps, that neither the Marble, nor the Silver, nor Brass- 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 itsWeight render'd it improper for that part of the Building. But for the Reafon I have just now men tion'd, the Outfide of the Church looks much whiter and fresher than the Infide; for where the Marble is so often wafh'd with Rains, it preferves itself more beautiful and unfullied, than in thofe Parts that are not at all expofed to the Weather.. That Side of the Church indeed, which faces the 'Tramontane Wind, is much more unfightly than the reft, by reafon of the Duft and Smoke that are driven against it. This Profufion of Marble,. tho' aftonishing to Strangers, is not very wonderful in a Country that has fo many Veins of it within

its Bowels. But tho' the Stones 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 feveral little Images which make up the Equipage of thofe that are larger. There are indeed a great Multitude of fuch as are bigger than the Life: I reckoned about two hundred and fifty on the outfide of the Church, tho' I only told three Sides 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 a St. Bartholomew, new-flead, with his Skin hanging over his Shoulders: It is esteemed worth its Weight in Gold : They have inscribed this Verse on the Pedestal, to fhow the Value they have for the Workman:

Non me Praxiteles, fed Marcus finxit Agrati.

Left at the Sculptor doubtfully you guess, 'Tis Marc Agrati, not Praxiteles.

There is, just before the Entrance of the Quire, a little Subterraneous Chapel dedicated to St. Charles Borromee, where I faw his Body, in Epifcopal Robes, lying upon the Altar in a Shrine of Rock-Crystal. His Chapel is adorned with abundance of Silver Work: 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 so 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