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 from Naples every year, shews what the other parts of Italy could do for a need, if they were put to it by necessity, Nay, lam of opinion, that the very Sacristy of Loreto, the Gallery of the Duke of Florence, and the Treasury of Venice, would upon an emergent occasion of a Gothick, or Turkish invasion, be able to maintain an army for five years space; and the Plate in Churches and Monasteryes, would be able to do as much more, if the owners of it were soundly frighted with a new Gothick irruption. As for the Riches of particular Princes in Italy, I will speak of them, as I view their States here below.

In fine, as for their Religion, its purely that which other Countryes call by the name Catholique, and which in England they commonly call, the Religion of the Papists. And though there they think to nickname the Catholick by calling him Papist, yet the well instructed Catholick knowing that the name of Papist, comes not from any Sect-master, as, Soci-