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So the grand master after a few days went toRome, leaving his knights and army under com-mand of a locum-tenens. How and with whathonours the grand master was received by thePope 1 is not for a person of little eloquence like meto say; and the shortness of this small book (saysFont anus) prevents me even attempting it. Thecardinals came out beyond the walls to meet him(as is seldom the case, save the Pope alone); andseveral of the Roman barons and princes, and thediplomatic corps, amongst whom the French am-bassador Anna de Montmorency, afterwards Con-stable of France, his own nephew . 2 As to theprocession within the metropolis, came the rest ofthe diplomacy, and archbishops, bishops, prelates,the various degrees of the hierarchy. The grandmaster rode surrounded by the Papal guards, allSwiss, with their music and halberds, exactly asthat ferocious nation advance to battle. There wasalso a numerous squadron of cavalry, and theprince of the city with his whole court, and all themagistrates on horseback. That the gray-hairedgrand master was the universal admiration andwonder, with grand discharges of artillery fromCastle St. Angelo as he passed it, and was conducted

1 On the 1st of September, says Bourbon : 80.

2 Bosio: par iii., lib. ii. 20.