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Chaplets os
Beads -were
invented by
Urban II.

J Nch> J'ojwge Vol. I.
Deis, Measures of the Height of our Lady, and
such like Commodities.
We saw some Chaplets whose Beads were like
Goose-Eggs; these are for the great Days of De-
votion. You must know, moreover, that there
is no Person there, who affirms not himself to be
descended from the Race of one who law the ar-
rival of the Holy Houfe. All of them have heard
their Grandfathers relate, that their Ancestors
heard it from their Great-Great-Grandfathers ;
as those who live now fail not to transmit the
same Story to their Children, and their Childrens
Children. And must not one be very incredulous
that refuses to believe such a Tradition ? I am,

Loretto, Feb.
16. 1688.

SIR,
Tour, &C.

LETTER XX.

RECANA-
TI.

HELVIA
RICINA.

S I R,
AS we pass’d thro’ Recanati, which is a little
City on the top of a Hill, three Miles from
Loretto, I stopt a while to see the great Church :
I cou’d find nothing in it worthy of Observation,
but the Tomb of poor Pope Gregory XII. who,
you know, was deposed from the Pontificate by
the Council of Rifa ; together with Teter de Luna,
who assirm’d the Name of Benedift XIII. and was
Pope of Avignon.
Ten Miles from thence, in a most fruitful
Country, on the Bank of the Rotenz,a, we past
thro’ the Ruines of the City formerly called
Helvia Ricina, where there are still to be seen
pretty