264 THE HISTORY OE THE ORDER OE [book m.

him assign him a part of his own throne—the right-

hand part of it, as seat, where he should be invited

to sit at all times, whether the Pope was present or

not—a seat on a perfect level with the Pope himself,

and above all others; where he might sit or stand

as he pleased, and not like other princes, who were

obliged to stand leaning against the wall. All which

„ „ ^ , the said three functionaries, for their own1524 7 T . .

discharge, set down from the oracular living

voice in a regular legal document now before me. 1

“ And one of the earliest fruits of Clement’sbenevolence, is that he has given him Yiterbo, themost delicious city of the Papal dominions, and themost magnificent, after Pome, to be his residence,and that most accomplished knight at the head,and of his household, has just gone to prepare hismaster’s habitation, while I am closing this journal,”says Fontanus, whom I quit with regret. Buthere the noble-minded lawyer closes his unpre-tending, most persuasive narrative.

Various, too, had been the embassies to theseveral Courts of Europe; those to England beingconfided to the Turcopolier, Sir William Weston,and another English knight, whose name is notmentioned. The Pope having once been of theorder, and having spent, not indeed his childish,

1 Appendix, cxcv.