The history of monastical conventions, and military institutions with a survey of the court of Rome. Or, A description of the religious and military orders in Europe, Asia and Africa, for above twelve hundred years, being a brief account of their institution, confirmation, rules, habits, and manner of living; the qualification of their institutors, and the time of their respective institutions, extending to either sex, &c. Together with a survey of the court of Rome, &c. in all the great offices, and officers ecclesiastical and civil dependant thereon; as also the ceremonies of the consistories, conclave and those that have been used in the creation of cardinals; election of the high-bishop or pope, and his triumphant coronation procession, and that of his taking possession of the Lateran Church in Rome; with what is observed in his sickness, an the manner of solemnizing his funeral obsequies; with many other things worthy of note, according to what has been recorded by candid authors

People / Organizations

• J. S. (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for H. Rhodes next door to the Swan-Tavern near Bride-Lane in Fleet-street, 1686.

Publication year

1686-1686

ESTC No.

R29342

Grub Street ID

112341

Description

[12], 197, [7] p. : ill. ; 12⁰

Note

Frontis. = ill.Citation/references Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), S66