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5 Sancta Lucia five years. Most of these nuns were Senitors’ daughters.Fifteen (all pregnant) were sent home to their father’s palaces; the lady prioress and the rest were banished for ever; the nunnery was razed to the groud; the revenues were given to the poor, and the church converted to an hospital. Here our travellers separated, Arthur returned homeward, and Lithgow proceeded to Greece and Asia; but first visiting Padua, Verona, and Ferrara. At Padua he staid three months learning Italian of one of his countrymen, Dr John Wedderburn, an eminent mathematician, who afterwards settled in Moravia. At his return to Venice, he embarked in a carmoesalo Zara Nova, in Dalmatia; but meeting with a violent storm, they were driven for shelter into the port of Parenzo, in Istria. Thence sailing by the isles Briani, the ruins of Pola, the isles Sangego, Osero, &c. on the 8th. day they arrived at Zira, where our traveller got a passage into a Greek carmoesalo for Lesina, the largest island in Adriatic. He afterwards sailed successively to Ragusa, and the island of Corfu. Near thothe [sic] island of St. Maure the vessel was attactedattacked [sic] by a Turkish galley of Biserta, from which after a long and doubtful fight they