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, in the Reign of Henry the Sixth. He fought very bravely in the Battel 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 bury'd in the fame Place with the following Inscription. D. O. M. Carolo Parchero a Morley Anglo ex Illuftriffima clariffima ftirpe. Qui Epifcopus Des, ob fidem Catholicam actus in Exilium An. XXXI. peregrimatus ab Invictiff. Philip. Rege Hifpan. honestissimis pietatis & conftantia pramiis ornatus moritur Anno a partu Virginis, M. D. C. x1. Men. Septembris. In Pavia is an Univerfity of Seven Colleges, one of 'em call'd 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 that runs by it, and that is now call'd the Tefin. This River falls into the Po, and is exceffively rapid. The Bishop of Salisbury fays, that that he ran down with the Stream Thirty Mi les in an Hour, by the help of but one Rower. I don't know therefore why Silius 1talicus had reprefented it as fo very gentle and ftill a River, in the beautiful Defcription that he has given us of it. Caruleas Ticinus aquas & Stagna vadofo Smooth and untroubl'd the Ticinus flows, Scarce can the Sight difcover if it moves; So wond'rous flow amidst the fhady Groves, And tunéful Birds that warble on its Sides, Within its gloomy Banks the Limpid Liquor glides. A Poet of Another Nation would not have dwelt fo long upon the Clearnefs and Tranfparency of the Stream, but in Italy one feldom fees a River that is extreamly bright and limpid, most of 'em falling down from the Mountains, that make their Waters very troubled and muddy, where-as C the the Tefin is only an Out-let of that vaft Lake, which the Italians now call the Lage Maggiore. I faw between Pavia and Milan the Conyent of Carthufians that is very spacious and beautiful. Their Church is extreamly fine, and curiously adorn'd, but of a Gothic Struc ture. I could not stay long in Milan without going to fee the Great Church that I had heard fo much of, but was never more deceiv'd in my Expactation than at my firft entering: For the Front, which was all I had feen of the Outfide, is not half finifh'd and the Infide is fo fmutted with Duft, and the Smoak of Lamps, that neither the Marble, nor the Silver, nor Brafs-Works show 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 render'd it improper for that part of the Building. But for the Reafon I have just now mention'd, the Outfide of the Church looks much whiter and fresher than the Infide; for where the Marble is fo often wash'd with Rains, it preferves it felf more beautiful and unfully'd, than in those Parts that are not at all expos'd 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 Smoak that are driven against it. This Profufion of Marble, tho' astonishing to Stran gers, gers, 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 'em 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 Hiftory-pieces, and feveral little Images that make up the Equipage of thofe that are larger. There are indeed a great Multitude of fuch as are bigger than the Life: I reckon❜d above 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 'em. The Statues are all of Marble, and generally wel cut; but the most valuable one they have is a St. Bartholomew, new flead, with his Skin hanging o'er his Shoulders: It is esteem'd worth its weight in Gold: They have infcrib'd this Verfe 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, 'T is Marc Agrati, not Praxiteles. There is, juft before the Entrance of the Quire, a little Subterraneous Chappel, Dedicated to St. Charles Borromae, where I faw his Body, in Epifcopal Robes, lying upon the Altar in a Cafe of Rock-Crystal. His Chappel is adorn'd with abundance of Sil C 2 ver ver Work: He was but Two and Twen. ty Years old when he was chofen ArchBishop of Milan, and Forty Six at his Death; but made fo good ufe of fo fhort a time, by his Works of Charity and Munificence, that his Countrymen bless his Memory which is ftill frefh among 'em. He was Canonis'd about a Hundred Years ago, and indeed if this Honour were due to any Man, I think fuch Publick fpirited Virtues may lay ajuster Claim to it, than a four Retreat from Mankind, a fiery Zeal against Heterodoxies, a Set of Chimerical Vitions, or of Whimsical Penances, that are generally the Qualifications of Roman Saints. Miracles indeed are requir'd of all that afpire to this Dignity, because they fay an Hypocrite may imitate a Saint in all other Particulars, and these they attribute in great Number, to him I am fpeaking of. His Merit, and the Importunity of his Countrymen, procur'd his Canonization before the ordi'nary time; for 'tis the Policy of the Roman Church not to allow this Honour, ordinarily, 'till Fifty Years after the Death of the Perfon that is a Canditate for it; in which time it may be fuppos'd that all his Contemporaries will be worn out, that could contradict a pretended Miracle, or remember any Infirmity of the Saint. One would wonder that Roman Catholicks, who are for this kind of Worfhip, don't generally addrefs themselves to the Holy Apostles, who have a more unquestionable |