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52 ''England Tho. Earl of Arundel''. Got leave to have it painted out, and so much the more willingly, because it had been given to the Pope by King Henry the VIII a little before his Schisme. Then the incomparable suits of ornaments for priest, Deacon, and Subdeacon, to be used in high Mass, which were given by King Sebastian of Portugal, and set all over with pearl, and these pearls were the first that came out of the Indies, and were in all eight hundred pound weight of pearl. The other rare things here were the Head of S. Laurence, which I saw near at hand, through a cristal: a peice of the spunge, in which the Jewes gave our Saviour gall to drink: the Camisia of S. Prisca a primitive Saint martyred in it 1400 yeares ago: the Crucifix in which is set under a crystal, a piece of the Holy cross carved with the passion of our Saviour in it: a thorn of our Saviours crown of thornes, which belonged to Pius Quintus: a cross set with Diamonds and Pearles, which the Pope wears at his brest