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its walls half a one; for though the laft was 

 quite ready, however, it had not yet been 

 confirmed by the pope. In the iirft they 

 do not receive every girl that offers her- 

 felf ; for their parents mufl pay about five 

 hundred ecus, or crowns, for them. Some 

 indeed are admitted for three hundred ecus^ 

 but they are obliged to ferve thofe who 

 pay more than they. No poor girls are 

 taken in. 



The king has ereded a hofpital for fick 

 foldiers here. The iick perfon there is pro- 

 vided withevery thinghewants, and theking 

 pays twelve fols every day for his flay, at-? 

 tendance, ^c. The furgeons are paid by the 

 king. When an officer is brought to this 

 hofpital, who is fallen fick in the fervice of 

 the crown, he receives viduals and attend- 

 ance gratis : but if he has got a ficknefs in 

 the execution of his private concerns, and 

 comes to be cured here, he muft pay it out 

 of his own purle. When there is room 

 enough in the hofpital, they likewife take 

 in fome of the fick inhabitants of the town 

 and country. They have the medicines, and 

 the attendance of the furgeons, gratis, but 

 muft pay twelve fols per day for meat, ^c. 



Every Friday is a market-day, when the 

 country people come to the town with pro- 

 vifions, and thofe who want ihem mufl 



fupply 



