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 also buried, in the middle almost of this Church, an English Priest of great Virtue, by name More, of the Family of great Sir Thomas More; and heir of that family, if I mistake not. His younger Brother and he striving whether of them should be Priest, it was his prerogative of Age, which making him to be four and twenty before his brother, made him enter into Orders before him, and become Priest, leaving the Estate to his Brother, It was he that fet us out the 1 Life of Sir Thomas More, in English : at last retiring to Rome to be Agent for his Brethren the Clergy, having ended this Business there happily ( which was the procuring a Catholic Bishop) he ended his Life so too, and was buried here by his own Choice.

From hence I went to the Palace of Juftiniani, which is hard by. Here I saw so many Statues of the old heathen Gods, and fuch Rooms full of old Marble Feet of them, that you would almost: swear the Heathen Gods, when they were banished out of the Pantheon, had been committed hither as to a prison: or that some of the ancestors of this house had been Shoo-makers to the old Gods, and therefore was oblig’d to have their Lasts and Measures. For they had Gods of all sizes,seeing (as Varro saith) they had 30000 Gods. A world of these Statues are yet seen in the Gallery above, and in every Room in the House, which they clog, rather than adorn. And yet fcarce one of them but is a Palladium to this Family ; and would portend its fadden ruin if alienated. For as I remember the old Prince Jufiiniani dying without Heirs Male, left this Man his