WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

9 6 or thereabouts, he receiv'd the Embraces, and Benediction of His Holinefs, with the ufual Pre- fent, of a Pair of Beads, at which hung a Go ld Medal of our Saviour. This Ceremony being thus over, His Ex- cellence was to take his leave of the Quee n of Sweden, and after her, of every Cardinal j all which being in a fortnight's time perform 'd, he chang'd his Livery, and (ordering his Dome - fticks to make ready, with all poffible haft for his Journey) he put himfelf wholly Incognito; that is to fay, neither to give, nor receive Vilits, unlefs about Bufinefs, and that, privately and by the Back-ftairs alfo; But an Accident inter- rupted this fo neceifary a Retirement, to one that had fo great a Family to difpofe of, and fo many Home-Affairs to fettle, before he ftirr'd. For the four new Cardinals ( Ciceri,Vetrucci, Ca- raffaandMediei) who had been long mew'd up, were on the 2^. th - Current to receive their Hats, in open Confiftory ; which being the only Pub- lick