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A JOURNEY OVERLAND
within the Venetian Dominion, as aforesaid. Then came
wee to Lotho (10 miles), a walled Cittie1, before which
runneth the River Sera2, bearinge small vessells, with a
broken wooden bridge, soe past it over by boate (10 miles),
and dyned att the Catt and the bell. From thence to
Mallignano, a small Towne, and lodged att the Eagle
and Home3.
The wth. August, 1620. Att Eveninge wee came to
the greate Cittie of Millan (20 miles), and dyned att the
Three Kings4, after which, my Lord beinge in his Coach
and on his way, was mett by El Conde de Leria, Governor
of this Cittie and Dukedome under the King of Spaine5,
soe that our Journey was stopped for that tyme, my Lord
goeing back to our lodging with him, where hee stayed
a quarter of an hower and departed. Towards night my
Lord went to visitt him, and then to proceede next
morninge. In this short space and in this famous Cittie,
I went to the Domo" or high Church, where lay the bodie
of Carolus Boromeo, late Cardinal] of this Cittie, whoe
dyed about thirty-six yeres since, and was Canonized for
a Saint some twelve yeres agoe7, now in great reverence
1 Lodi. See Coryat's Crudities, vol. i. p. 254 f. Compare Rawl. MS.
D. 120, fol. 30, "Lodi, the first towne of the Duchy of Milan."
2 The Serio. Lodi is, however, on the Adda, of which the Serio is
a tributary.
3 Malegnano. I have found no other reference to the inn at this
place nor to the one at Lodi.
4 "Milan...When you come thither, I would wish you lodged at the
Three Kings...where you shall be exceeding well entertained." Har-
leia.11 Miscellany, vol. v. p. 37, "At Milan...there is...a house the sign
of the Three Kings." A Brief Account of the Roads of Italy (in 1775).
The Auberge des Trois Rois at Milan is mentioned in an Itine'raire of
1819, and the Tre Re at Milan appears in a Nouveau Guide of 1829.
5 Leria appears to be a copyist's error for Feria. In State Papers,
Foreign, vol. 23, the Duke of Feria is mentioned, in June, 1621, in
connection with a strife as to the right of passage of armed Spanish
Soldiers between Crema and Corvasco. Feria, who was Governor of
Milan and commander of the Spanish troops in Germany, died in
Bavaria, in 1634.
8 The Duomo or Cathedral of Milan.
7 " Carolus Boromeo, a New Saint in Millan." Author's Index.
A JOURNEY OVERLAND
within the Venetian Dominion, as aforesaid. Then came
wee to Lotho (10 miles), a walled Cittie1, before which
runneth the River Sera2, bearinge small vessells, with a
broken wooden bridge, soe past it over by boate (10 miles),
and dyned att the Catt and the bell. From thence to
Mallignano, a small Towne, and lodged att the Eagle
and Home3.
The wth. August, 1620. Att Eveninge wee came to
the greate Cittie of Millan (20 miles), and dyned att the
Three Kings4, after which, my Lord beinge in his Coach
and on his way, was mett by El Conde de Leria, Governor
of this Cittie and Dukedome under the King of Spaine5,
soe that our Journey was stopped for that tyme, my Lord
goeing back to our lodging with him, where hee stayed
a quarter of an hower and departed. Towards night my
Lord went to visitt him, and then to proceede next
morninge. In this short space and in this famous Cittie,
I went to the Domo" or high Church, where lay the bodie
of Carolus Boromeo, late Cardinal] of this Cittie, whoe
dyed about thirty-six yeres since, and was Canonized for
a Saint some twelve yeres agoe7, now in great reverence
1 Lodi. See Coryat's Crudities, vol. i. p. 254 f. Compare Rawl. MS.
D. 120, fol. 30, "Lodi, the first towne of the Duchy of Milan."
2 The Serio. Lodi is, however, on the Adda, of which the Serio is
a tributary.
3 Malegnano. I have found no other reference to the inn at this
place nor to the one at Lodi.
4 "Milan...When you come thither, I would wish you lodged at the
Three Kings...where you shall be exceeding well entertained." Har-
leia.11 Miscellany, vol. v. p. 37, "At Milan...there is...a house the sign
of the Three Kings." A Brief Account of the Roads of Italy (in 1775).
The Auberge des Trois Rois at Milan is mentioned in an Itine'raire of
1819, and the Tre Re at Milan appears in a Nouveau Guide of 1829.
5 Leria appears to be a copyist's error for Feria. In State Papers,
Foreign, vol. 23, the Duke of Feria is mentioned, in June, 1621, in
connection with a strife as to the right of passage of armed Spanish
Soldiers between Crema and Corvasco. Feria, who was Governor of
Milan and commander of the Spanish troops in Germany, died in
Bavaria, in 1634.
8 The Duomo or Cathedral of Milan.
7 " Carolus Boromeo, a New Saint in Millan." Author's Index.