‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎213] (234/508)

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from thence pafs to his Government of Flanders 5 that in England
the Catholicks had publick Churches open, and enjoy d Liberty
of Confcience : That in Italy the bulinefs of the Valtolin had
been referr*d to his Holinefsj but Pope Gregory dy'd without
determining it: That the King of Spain kept a great Army rea
dy in Milan about it 5 and that a League was made againft him
in Italy by other Princes 5 that Tome faid Don Carlo of Spain
was to marry the Heirefs of Lorrain^ and other like news^
which being of things either uncertain or futurej makefmall ac^
count of, till I fee the iffue.
May the feventeenth 3 By a Merchants Ship from Bajfora, we
had more certain intelligence by Lnigi Medices^ of Ramiro the
Venetian Conful at Aleppo, that Pope Gregory X y. dy'd on the
twenty ninth of July 1625. having been (ickonly five dayes.
The Relation of the Conclave faith that the Pope dy'd on the
eight of Jntyy the Cardinals enter'd into the Conclave on the
nineteenth;, and that on the fixth of Angufl Urban VIII. was
created Pope. That Card. Montato dy'd a little before the Pope 5
and Card. Lndovifio was made Vice-Chancellor in his ftead^
and the Chamberlainfhipjbeing vacant by the death of Aldobran-
^///^was conferred upon the young Cardinal of the fame name.
That the new Pope Vrban was fick for fome dayes after his E-
leftion 5 but afterwards recovering was crown'd upon the day of
S. Michael the Archangel*. That bcfides the Pope, almoft all
theCardinals fell fick through the inconveniences of the Conclave
in lb hot a fcafon 5 and many of them dy'd,, as Pignatelli, Ser-
ra, Sauii, Cozzadino , and Sacratij and the Card. Gherardi
and Aldobrandino remaining ftill grievoufly fick ^ and that of
the Conclavifts there dy'd about fixty 5 which indeed was a great
numberjfor a Conclave that lafted fo (hort a while. That
(TiZ/y) the Emperor's General 3 had given a great rout to Alber-
Jiat 5 and the Emperor's Affairs in Germany pafs'd very well.
That'twas true, a confederacy was m ad e'again ft Spain about
the bufinefs of the Valtolin between France, Venice, and Savoy,
but that it will proceed no further, becaufe Spain had depofited
the Valtolin in the hands of the Pope. That the Prince of Dr-
bin was dead, and confcquently that State would fall to the
Church , which is a thing of much importance. That at Venice
the Doge Pruili was dead, and a new Doge already elefted,one
Contarini an eminent Perfon. That there was a great Plague,
and that the King of France had fubdu'd almoft all the Garrifons
of the Hereticks, except which he alfo hop'd (hortly to
reduce to obedience. That the Efpoufals were pafs'd between
the Infanta of Spain and the King of England's Son, with hope
that he is already a Catholick. That they have given her in
dower the pretenfions of Holland and Zealand, and money, on
condition that Liberty of Confcience be granted in England and
four Churches for Catholicks built in LfW^,which was already
executed, publick Writings thereof going about in print 3 be-
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