The Life and Reign of Innocent XI., Late Pope of Rome [Signed T.L.]. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1690 Excerpt: ...th, hask)iur, and it was bUeyed thatfhose Fine amounted, ita.pear. 5-6 thousand Croups a.year; but itjjt tr'disease went On, -wly rlew.ani then ajittle Biobd, ktv; which never went to the bottom of the, Diitcrmper. rlBit.wo.tfeisykeioytr'edupoathe, Gpvernmen, t, heresolved toiextirpafte; all the and he hr#.kt all theBa'roro understand, that if they harbour'd them a&y more, a little fine would not lave '.them, .but that he would proceed against them with the utmost severity, and by'this means thetanditi could find noWinjer-iarters.10 hy betook themselves to soraeFastr Besses among the HUs, pdiesolved tomakeigood the Pastes, and to accomo date themselves the b&tlicy-Gouidamidthe oiintaihsi the Viceroy sen;; a great Body against them, but they defended themselves for some time, Vn. goroufly, and in one Solly kill'd 500 Men but, at last, feeing themlelvei to be hard press'd, and hearing-that the Viceroy intended to come against themin-Perfon, they, acceptedof the Termsthathe offered them, which was i Pardoftforwhat was, past, both for Life nndjGaliies, . and Six pence a day for their Entertainment in Prison during Life, or, the Viceroy's Pleasure j and so they rendered themselves: They werekgpt, in a large Prison, and.now and then, as he saw cause for it, he sent some few' of them up and down to serve in Carlsons, and-some went to serve the Venetians against the Turks, and did good Service. And thus was this Country quieted, and in entire Security, which, for.many, Ages, (notwithstanding often vigorous Endeavours to suppress them, ) had been continually infested with Robberies and Pillages, 10) hehazard, and frequent almost ruin of Travellers. As to. the Coyn, ic, as all other Spanish Money (being Square, ) was so subject to Clipping, that the whole M