Pietas Romana et Parisiensis, or, A faithful relation of the several sorts of charitable and pious works eminent in the cities of Rome and Paris the one taken out of the book written by Theodorus Amydenus ; the other out of that by Mr. Carr.

V. The Hospital of St. Roche.

In the year of Jubile 1500. under Alexander the sixth, another Sodality was instituted and devoted to St. Roche; which, near the Church of St. Hierom of the Illyrians, bought of the said Illyrians a peice of ground, upon which they erected an Hospital, and joyned it to a very fair Church both built by the same Sodality.

There are belonging to the Church eighteen Priests, and four Acolites. In the Hospital are received in lodgings apart for both men and women of all sorts, that have sores, or be sick

of Fevers, that here they may be cured of them. But they have a particular care of Tradesmen, as of Mariners, Hosts, Carpenters, Plasterers, Ministrels, Confectioners, Fish-mon∣gers; &c. For by the charity of such men the Hospital hath received a great addition: They make no less then fifty beds dayly in the healthi∣est times, and in the sickly can supply an hundred.

The care of all is committed to a Sodality, who also on the day of the Assumption of our Lady give portions to some poor Virgins. And because this Hospital at first served onely for men, Antony-Maria Salviati Cardinal (a man often to be named for his great munificence to pious uses) adjoyned to the former Hospital another great Fabrick for women; and en∣dowed it with a revenue: the Inscription upon it testifies both.