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 From hence I went to Coire, or Cear, the head Town of the Grisons. The Bishop and the Clergy of the great Church, with some few others living within the precincts of the Cloister of the great Church, are Catholicks, and perform their Devotions in the Church without controll: the rest of the Inhabitants are Swinglians, and possess the Town, yet they suffer the Bishop and his Clergy to live quietly in the midst of them. They shewed me here in this Church, divers fine Reliques, especially the Head (enchased in Silver) of our ancient British King Lucius, the first Christian King that ever made profession of Christian Religion, and the first who helpt to plant it here. The ancient Church Office here relates all this, as their Church Books shewed me.

From the Grisons I went to the Country of the Valtaline; a Country subject to the Grisons and keeping its fidelity to them even when it would not have wanted assistance from Spain and Italy, if it would