A short account of the life and death of Pope Alexander the VII with a description of his funeral machin, and elegies erected in St. Peter's Church in Rome : together with an exact relation of the particular ceremonies performed at the creation and translated out of the Italian copies printed at Rome by P.A., Gent.
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- A short account of the life and death of Pope Alexander the VII with a description of his funeral machin, and elegies erected in St. Peter's Church in Rome : together with an exact relation of the particular ceremonies performed at the creation and translated out of the Italian copies printed at Rome by P.A., Gent.
- Author
- Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.
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- London :: Printed for Moses Pitt ...,
- 1667.
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- Alexander -- VII, -- Pope, 1599-1667.
- Clement -- IX, -- Pope, 1600-1669.
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"A short account of the life and death of Pope Alexander the VII with a description of his funeral machin, and elegies erected in St. Peter's Church in Rome : together with an exact relation of the particular ceremonies performed at the creation and translated out of the Italian copies printed at Rome by P.A., Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31399.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
Courteous Reader,
IN this small Peice, thou wilt see a true, plain, and lively draught of the Pomp and Gran∣deur of the Pope; and of his great Council the Conclave of Cardinals: And also meet with a number of the Formalities and Ceremonies of the Romish Church; Some of which I was once in a mind not to have inserted, but that would not well be done without spoyling the Narrative, and falsifying the Translation, which I have closely followed in all, but the Relation of Pope
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Alexander the Seventh, his last Sickness and Death; and in regard, that it was stuffed up with so much Complement and Flattery, I chose rather to extract the most material passages and substance of it, and omit the rest: for which, I beg the Reader's Pardon, and favourable Con∣struction of my Intent to serve him, hoping that he will excuse those errors which my hast in finish∣ing hath made me commit; also such literal faults as have escaped the Press.