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 The Voyage of Italy Page 64 in the Council, who proceeded to their definitions, by the ancient tradition of the church, found so plainly and unanimously in those Fathers. Those quotations make six volumes in folio: and this was it, which our adversaries call, the sending down of the Holy Ghost to Trent, in a Cloak-bag when it was only the sending down of these faithful testimonies of the Tradition of the Church, gathered out of the most ancient and authentic copies.

The letters Henry the VIII of England to Ann Bolen his mistress then, in his own hand writing, some in English, some in French, but all are amatory. It is easy to imagine them written by him, if you compare the hand-writing of the?e letters, with those two verses written by the Kings own hand in the frontispice of the following book, to wit.

The book which the said Henrywrote against Martin Luther, and dedicated it by a couple of Latin verses written with his own hand in the Frontispice of it, to Pope Leo the tenth: which book purchased to King Henry the honorable title of defender of the faith.

Then I was shewn the Library of the Duke of Urbin, who dying without Heirs Male, bequeathed his Library to the Vatican Library here. In this, I saw many rare Manuscripts written Parchment, and painted in  miniature: especially that Book, whose Margins are Painted by a rare hand, and wonderful diligence, all the insects in nature, in their lively colors and true resemblance.

Over against this Library, they shewed me in the fame Room, the Library of Heidelberg, sent