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 go see his precious Treasure in the old Pallace, or else go privately and hear how Justice is ministred there. For the Great Duke Francis gave order to Buontalenti, a rare Architect, to break a window from this Corridor into the great Room in the old Pallace, where the Magistrates render Justice, but yet so privately, that none should perceive it. The Architect did it, by setting up there the Dukes Armes at large, and breaking a window behind them so imperceptibly, that the Great Duke through the little holes made in the six Boulés of his Armes, could both hear and see how Justice was rendered there by his Officers. And one day hearing a poor woman oppressed by an unjust sentence, he sent for the Judges, and reprehending them severely, he reversed the former sentence, and hearing the Cause a-new himself, pronounced Sentence for the poor woman.

7. This long Corridor led us to the new Pallace, called the Palazzo di Piti, because it was begun to