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A Journey srom Colen to Vienna,
wherein the Treaty of Peace was held with good accommodation in it,
though with no success, in the year 1675. In the Church of St. Zfrful&
is her Tomb, and £he Tombs of divers of the Eleven thousand Virgins,
maptyred by the Huns, Upon the Monument os St.'Vrfula is this In-
scription ;
Sepulchrum Sanslae Vrfula? indicio Columbae deteclum.
Upon many of the Tombs which are old, are Crosses and Lamps. Ma-
ny Bones and Heads of the Martyrs are also kept in this Church. The
Cathedral is dedicated to St. Peter, and is very large, but not xwished.
The Body of the Church hath four rows of Pillars within it. The
Quire is handsome and very high: behind it are believed to be the
Tombs of the three Wise men which came from the Eatt to worship our
Saviour, or the Kings of Arabia, of whom it was prophessed that they
sliould bring Gifts, commonly called the three Kings of Colen : Mel-
chior, who offered Gold, Gafpar Frankincense, and Balthafar Myrrh.
Their Bodies, as the account goes, were firtt removed to Conftantino-
pie by Helena, the Mother of Conjlantine the Great; then to Milan by
Euflorsius Bishop thereof; and they have now rested at Colen for above
five hundred years, being transsated from Milan hither by Rainoldus
Bishop of Colen, in the year 1164. There are also divers other Monu-
ments of Bifliops, and Noble Persons in Brass and Stone, and one in the
shape of a Cattle with six Towers. The Canons of this Church are all
Noblemen; among whom the Duke of Newburg, who ordinarily resides
at Dusseldorjs, about twenty Englifh miles below this City, upon the
Rhine, hath two Sons. In a Church dedicated to all the Apossles, they
ssiew us a Tomb,which being opened by Thieves,intending to plunder
it, the Woman buried in it arose up and went home, and lived with
her Husband divers years after. In one of the Streets is a Tower, or
rather one Tower upon another, which seems to be ancient, now made
a Prison. Upon another Ruine also in the Streets lies a Tomb made
out of one Stone ; of which sort of Tombs there are many in this City
and other places; but the greatest number of them I ever saw was at
Arles in Provence.
The Senate House is Noble, having a fair Tower upon it, from
whence there is a good prospedl over the City. Upon the Front of
the Senate House is a Man in Buffo relievo, fighting with a Lyon, who,
• as it was related to me, was formerly one of the Consuls, who having
had a contest with some Clergy-men about the Government os the Ci-
ty, on a suddain they caused a Lyon to be let in upon him : upon
which occasion he behaved himself so well, as he delivered himself, and
slew the Lyon.
The Elector or Archbishop of Colen hath two Places in the City,
but by agreement between him and the Town, he is not to ttay
here above three days together. Only this present Archbishop, upon
the coming down of the Imperial Forces, and his loss of Bonna, took
Sanctuary here in the Convent of St. Pant ale on, where he continued
a great while.
The City is Imperial and Free,and yet it doth Homage to the Elect-
or, much after this Form: VPe sree Citizens of Colen promife to the
Archbifhop, to be saithful and savourable unto him as long as he preferves
us
A Journey srom Colen to Vienna,
wherein the Treaty of Peace was held with good accommodation in it,
though with no success, in the year 1675. In the Church of St. Zfrful&
is her Tomb, and £he Tombs of divers of the Eleven thousand Virgins,
maptyred by the Huns, Upon the Monument os St.'Vrfula is this In-
scription ;
Sepulchrum Sanslae Vrfula? indicio Columbae deteclum.
Upon many of the Tombs which are old, are Crosses and Lamps. Ma-
ny Bones and Heads of the Martyrs are also kept in this Church. The
Cathedral is dedicated to St. Peter, and is very large, but not xwished.
The Body of the Church hath four rows of Pillars within it. The
Quire is handsome and very high: behind it are believed to be the
Tombs of the three Wise men which came from the Eatt to worship our
Saviour, or the Kings of Arabia, of whom it was prophessed that they
sliould bring Gifts, commonly called the three Kings of Colen : Mel-
chior, who offered Gold, Gafpar Frankincense, and Balthafar Myrrh.
Their Bodies, as the account goes, were firtt removed to Conftantino-
pie by Helena, the Mother of Conjlantine the Great; then to Milan by
Euflorsius Bishop thereof; and they have now rested at Colen for above
five hundred years, being transsated from Milan hither by Rainoldus
Bishop of Colen, in the year 1164. There are also divers other Monu-
ments of Bifliops, and Noble Persons in Brass and Stone, and one in the
shape of a Cattle with six Towers. The Canons of this Church are all
Noblemen; among whom the Duke of Newburg, who ordinarily resides
at Dusseldorjs, about twenty Englifh miles below this City, upon the
Rhine, hath two Sons. In a Church dedicated to all the Apossles, they
ssiew us a Tomb,which being opened by Thieves,intending to plunder
it, the Woman buried in it arose up and went home, and lived with
her Husband divers years after. In one of the Streets is a Tower, or
rather one Tower upon another, which seems to be ancient, now made
a Prison. Upon another Ruine also in the Streets lies a Tomb made
out of one Stone ; of which sort of Tombs there are many in this City
and other places; but the greatest number of them I ever saw was at
Arles in Provence.
The Senate House is Noble, having a fair Tower upon it, from
whence there is a good prospedl over the City. Upon the Front of
the Senate House is a Man in Buffo relievo, fighting with a Lyon, who,
• as it was related to me, was formerly one of the Consuls, who having
had a contest with some Clergy-men about the Government os the Ci-
ty, on a suddain they caused a Lyon to be let in upon him : upon
which occasion he behaved himself so well, as he delivered himself, and
slew the Lyon.
The Elector or Archbishop of Colen hath two Places in the City,
but by agreement between him and the Town, he is not to ttay
here above three days together. Only this present Archbishop, upon
the coming down of the Imperial Forces, and his loss of Bonna, took
Sanctuary here in the Convent of St. Pant ale on, where he continued
a great while.
The City is Imperial and Free,and yet it doth Homage to the Elect-
or, much after this Form: VPe sree Citizens of Colen promife to the
Archbifhop, to be saithful and savourable unto him as long as he preferves
us