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of plague was at length over; not an unhealthy-person in our company. The viceroy of Naplesdeigned to speak to us in the Chapel of the Ma-donna al pie della Grotta . 1 But the sulphury smellof Pozzuolo, pungent to unaccustomed nerves,causing headaches and sickness to several, our dearand grey-haired leader (who had been expelled histhrone and the country of his choice) thinking hecould have recourse to no one so justly as to thethrice-sacred Church of Rome, to inform it of hiscalamities went, by the concordant advice of hisfollowers, to Civita Vecchia, where a Spanish bishopreceived him with the due salutations in the Pope’sname, handing him a letter from the Pope whichhad missed him at Messina, and been remanded;which letter told him to do what he had already ofhimself resolved to do, and was doing ; 2 and thathis Holiness expected a visit from him and hisknights—which should be of congratulation, thatby God’s grace he and they had got alive from therabid Saracen—that his Holiness hoped before hisdeath to give an honourable seat and pacific city,where he and his order and the dispersed Rhodianscould live at ease.

1 Bosio : par. iii., lib. ii. 18.

2 Cod. Dipl, tteros., ii., Num. clxiii., ii. 184.—Appendix,cxciv.