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of Eight a Year,, without reckoning the Muficians and 

 Singing-Boys. 



Gthcdral. This Church, which was the firft Stru&ure in Lima, was 

 by Francis Pizarro put under the Invocation of the AJJum- 

 ption \ but Pope Paullll. having made it a Cathedral in the 

 Year 1541, alter' d it to that of S.John the Evangelift, to 

 diftinguiih it from that of Cuzco, which had that Name be- 

 fore. It was Suffragan to Sevil till the Year 1546, when 

 the fame Pope made it Metropolitan ; and the Suffragans 

 to it are the Bifhopricks of Panama, Quito, Truxillo, Gua- 

 inanga, Arequipa, Cufco, Santiago, and La Conception of 

 Chili. 



r Archbijhops. The firft Archbilhop was Von Fray Jeronimo de Loayfa, 

 a Dominican. He alfembled two Provincial Synods > the 

 firft on the 4th of Otfober 1551, at which never a Suffra- 

 gan was prefent, but only the Deputies of the Bifhops of 

 Panama, Quito, and Cufco : The fecond was open'd the 

 2d of March 1567 > theBifliopsof La Plata, Ql*ito, and 

 La Imperial, were prefent at it, with the Deputies of the 

 other Chapters. He rebuilt the Church then ruin'd, and 

 cover' d it with Mangrove Timber. 



The 3d Archbifliop, Don Toribio, is reckoned a Saint. 



The 9th, Don Melchor de Linnan y Cifneros,^upon the 

 Death of the Marquis de Malagon, was appointed Vice- 

 roy, Governor, and Captain General of the^ Provinces of 

 Peru : He was the firft in whom thofe two Dignities were 

 united, which indeed do not feem compatible in the fame 

 Perfon. 



"Eight Pa- The City of Lima contains eight Pariflies. The firft is 

 rijhcs. t h e Cathedral, which has four Curates and two Vicars, 

 which is contrary to the Canon Law, whereby only one 

 Curate is affign'd to a Church, becaufe one Body is to have 

 but one Head. The Church is handfome enough, well 

 built, and has three equal Ifles. In it is preferv'd a Piece 

 of the Crofsof CHRIST. 



The fecond is that of S. Anne, which has two Curates 

 and one Vicar, 



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