December 15 22 168 6 157 Lambeth. I St. Mary Newington. The Total of the Burials this whole Year, 54082 St. Mary Islington. Of the Plague, 35428 Stepney Parish. This Week was added to theCity Parishes. St. Margaret Westminster. 27415 12102 In the Out-Parishes this Week of the St. Andrew's Holborn St. Bartholomew the Great St. Bartholomew the Lefs St. Bride's Parish Bride wel Precinct St. Botolph Alderfgate St. James Clerkenwell St. Leonard Shoreditch VOL. III. 18 2 I Decreased in the Burials, 84 Certain approved Medicines for the Plague, both to prevent that Contagion, and to expel it after it be taken; as have been approved in Anno 1625. as alfo in this present Vifitation, 1665. A cheap Medicine to keep from Infection. Take a Pint of new Milk, and cut 6 two Cloves of Garlick very small, put it in the Milk, and drink it Mornings 6 fafting, and it preferveth from In24 fection. .2 II 9 A Poffet Drink to remove the Plague from the Heart. 8 17 29 An Ale Poffet Drink with Pimper65 nel feethed in it, till it taftes strong of 9 it, drink often, removes the Infection, though it hath got to the very Heart. 8 2 16 An approved Remedy against the Plague. Take a Sprig of Rue, alias Herb-of 3 2 7 35 6 grace, and fhred it, and put it in a Figg or two, and eat it every Morning fafting. It keeps the Body from Infection, and purifieth the Blood. I A A fhort ACCOUNT of the LIFE and DEATH of Pope ALEXANDER the Seventh the Seventh; with a Defcription of his Funeral Machine, and Elegies erected in St. Peter's Church in Rome. Together with an exact Relation of the particular Ceremonies performed at the Creation and Coronation of this prefent Pope CLEMENT the Ninth; with a CATALOGUE of all the CARDINALS. Tranflated out of the Italian Copies printed at Rome. By P. A. Gent, Printed 1667. H AVING out of fome Italian Papers undertaken to draw a fuccinct Account of the lift Sickness and Death of the late Pope Alexander the Seventh, I was afraid that the Work would feem but maimed and imperfect, if I fhould not infert fome Paffages relating to his firft Rife and Advancement to the Papal Dignity. I have therefore given this following Hint to that Ef-fect, for Satisfaction of fuch as, being unacquainted with his Hiftory, defire to have fome Knowledge of his Beginning, before I come to fpeak of his latter. End, which is the principal Scope of this fhort Narrative. Pope Alexander the Seventh was Native of the City of Sienna in Tuscany, and defcended of the ancient Family of Ghifi, who, in his younger Years, growing eminent for his great Parts and Learning, was promoted at his riper Age to the Bishoprick of Imola in the Territories of the Church, and therein behaved himself with fo much Prudence and Policy, giving manifeft Proofs, upon all Occafions, of his great Capacity for publick Employments, that he was made Vice-Legat of Ferara, then Inquifitor of Malta; and afterwards fent Nuncio to Cullen and Munfter, at the Treaty held there for a General Peace. And having undergone all thefe Offices, and in them acquired much Ho-. nour and Reputation, he received as a Reward of his great Merits a Cardinal's Cap, in the Year 1652, in the Month of February, from Pope Innocent the Tenth, and was admitted into the Number of Purpurati: After which, as a greater Teftimony of the Pope's Favour to him, he was conftitured Secretary of State, and in that Employment continued till the Death of the faid Pope, and his own Election to the Papacy, unto which he the rather attained, as was fuppofed, to cross the Defigns of the Faction of the Barbarini, At his first Creation, that he might gain the Hearts of the common People, he used all means to exprefs his Charity to the Poor, amongst whom he diftri-buted great Sums of Money; the like he did for the Deliverance of Prisoners, and for beautifying and building many Churches, and other publick Structures, not only in Rome, but alfo in feveral Places in the Eftate of the Church; wherein he exhaufted moft Part of his Treafure,, and politickly refufed all Prefents, which |