Chap. IV. through P o r t u 
You enter into the Church by five Arches tv.'enty eight 
Foot, high and fourteen broad j the Length of the 
Church is three hundred fixty four foot, and its Breadth 
two hundred and thirty ; its whole Fleighr, from the 
Floor to the Crofs on the Top of the Cupola, is three 
hundred and thirty foot ; the Architefture is of the 
Dorick Order % it has fix Ifles, two of vAich make a 
Crofs, the other four meeting into a Square ; it has be- 
fides this .twenty four noble Arches, fifty large Windows, 
and thirty nine Galleries with Silk Curtains ; There 
are here alfo no lefs than twelve noble Croffes of Jaf- 
per-fione, fet over fo many Chapels, and forty Altars, 
in their peculiar Chapels, beautified with excellent Pic- 
tures of the Saints. 
The Floor of the Church is pav’d with grey and 
black Marble, and the Ifles are illuminated wuth a vaft 
Number of large Silver Lamps *, the Middle Ifle alone has 
fourteen Balconies of two Yards three Quarters in Length. 
The grand Chapel is magnificent beyond what can be 
imagined, its Length is tv/enty Foot, the Breadth fifty, 
and the Height an hundred ^ you afcend into it by the 
middle Iflej by twelve Steps of the finefl: Jafper of Fifty 
three Foot long ; the Chapel is parted Irom the Body 
of the Church by curioufly wrought - Rails of Brafs 
gilt ; the Paintings are very excellent here, fuitable to 
the reft : It contains four Sorts of Architefture, which 
are ninety three" Foot high, and forty nine broad, the 
firft of the Dorick Order with fix. Pillars, the fecond of 
the lonick with as many, the third is Corinthian^ and 
the fourth the Compofite, with two Pillars ftiftaining the 
Roof and Arches; they are all of the beft Jafper, cu- 
rioufly polifli’d, the Bafes and Capitols of Brafs gilt : In 
one of the Pillars of the Dorick Order is the- Cujlodia 
or Place where the Sacrament is kept; on each Side is 
an Original of Penigrino an Italian, or\<t reprefenting 
our Saviour’s Birth, the other the Adoration of the 
three Eajtern Kings ; the four Evangelijis, in Brafs gilt. 
Hand on the Sides of the 'Pillars ; In the lonick Order 
is painted S. Lawrence^ Martyrdom, by the fame Peru- 
grino: On the Sides are two Originals, one of Chrift 
tied to a Pillar to be fcourg’d, the other reprefenting 
Chrift bearing the Crofs,. by Frederico Zucchero, anti 
four Statues of Brafs of as many ancient Fathers of the 
C.hurch : In the Corinthian Order you fee the Affump- 
tion of our Lady, and on the Sides the Refurredlion, 
and the Defcent of the Holy Ghoft, ail Originals, paint- 
ed by the fame Hand : Between two Pyramids are two 
brazen Statues of S. Jndrew, and S. James the Patron 
of Spain ; the Compofite Order has but two Pillars, and 
in the Middle of them our Saviour on the Crofs, S. 
Peter and S. Paul on the Infide, and the Virgin Ma~ 
ry and S. John on the Outfides ; they are all four 
of Brafs, gilt, and thirteen Foot high each. 
The Cujlodia or Box wherein the Sacrament is kept, 
is of a ground Figure, made of various Stones ; its 
Height is fixteen Foot, and its Diameter feven and a 
half, fupported by eight Columns of Diafpare, imitating 
the Rainbow in their various Colours ; they fay, that 
this Stone is not to be wrought but by Diamonds, and 
that the Workmanlhip of this coft eighty thoufand 
Ducats. Over the Cujlodia you fee the Statues of the 
twelve Apoftles, and at the Top the Refurrehtion .of 
our Saviour. You enter into this Chapel (called the 
Segrario) by two Doors of Jafper, one on each Side, 
and afcend to the Altar by ten Steps of the fame Stone^ 
which alfo furniihes the Materials for the Floor ; it has 
its Light through a curious Cryftal Window on the 
Fall fide with Iron Bars gilt ; it is beautified with Pic- 
tures reprefenting the Myftery of the Eucharift, ’ with 
a Rainbow and many Angels over it. On the right 
Side of the Altar you fee five Statues in Brafs upon their 
Knees, of the Emperor Charles V, his Daughter, and 
two of his Sifters ; on the other Side are placed the 
Arms of Spain, 'SNiCi five Statues underneath correfpond- 
ing to the others, ^jiz. one of King Philip II, of his 
Qiieen Anne, of two of his former Wives, and of his 
Son Charles. Under this Altar is the Pantheon or Bu- 
rial-place of the Kings of Spain of the Aujlrian Fa- 
mily, of which more hereafter. This Church has re- 
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ceiv’d much additional Beauty by the excellent Paint- 
ings of the facred Hiftory by the rare Hand of Lu- 
quejio an Italian. 
'15. Among their Relicks (bf which, they fay, they 
have fomething of every Saint) they fhew fome of the 
Hair of our Saviour and the blcffed Virgin, as alfo 
fome of their v^earing App'arel, fome Thorns of his 
Crown, and one of the Nails wherev;ith he was nail’d 
to the Crofs, fome Remnants of his purple Habit, di~ . 
vers Relicks of St. John the Baptrsl, of the Apoftles, 
Martyrs, and the entire Body of S. Lawrence, the Head 
of S. Jerome, and the Hedds df feVeral dthdp Saints. 
They rdl you, that they have no lefs than five hundred, 
and fifty Fixes and Chalices of Gold, Silver and Chry- 
ftal, among v/hich they fhew one faid to have been of- 
fered to our Saviour by one of the three Eaftern Kings. 
In the Middle of the Ifle is tht Choir, fronting the Chapel, 
its Length is ninety fix Feet, its Breadth fifty fix, its 
Fleight -forty eight, the Floor cover’d with the fame • 
JMarble as the Church, and the Walls painted with 
the Martyrdom of S, Laurence and S. Jerome, the 
firft by tiomulo, the laft by the juft mention’d Lu- 
quefio, who has alfo painted the Glories of Heaven on 
the Top : It is illuminated by a Chryftal Branch of 
twenty eight Lights, ' the Frefent of the late King 
Charles II. and has two Orde/s of Seats curioufly 
wrought with precious Wood : On each Side is an 
Organ, with crofs Galleries gilt,' and in the Church 
are fix more, one of Silver, the Gift of Charles the 
Fifth. 
The Sacrifly is a hundred and eight Foot long, and 
thirty broad, the Pavement of Marble of divers Co- 
lours, and the Cieling and Walls painted with the beft 
Originals (thirty four in Number) of facred Hiftory, 
the Gift of Philip IV. by the greateft Mafters in that 
Art, viz, ‘Titian, Raphael Urhin, Paulo Veronefe, Tinier et, 
Andrea del Sarto, de Bordonon, Guido Bolcgnefe, Annihal, 
Caracche, Van Dike, and others. Near the Sacrifty you 
defeend by Steps of the beft Marble into the Pantheon, 
containing the Sepulchres of the Kings of Spain of the 
Aujlrian Family, being efteem’d the fineft Piece of this 
kind in Europe. Over one of the Gates, (vvhich are of 
Brafs gikj underneath the Arms of Spain, you fee upon 
a black Marble this infeription in golden Letters : 
i). O. M. 
Locus Sacer mortalitatis exuvits 
Catholicorum Regum 
A Rejtauralore Vita, cujus Ara Max, 
Aujlriaca adhuc pietate fuhjacent. 
Opt at am Diem expehlantium. 
^lam poll fuam Jedem fibi L? fuis 
Carolus Cafarum Max. in votis hahuit, 
Philippus Ildus Regum Prudentiffimus elegit^ 
Pkilippus nidus vere plus inchoavit, 
Philippus IVtus 
dementia, Conjlantia, Religione Magn. Auxit, 
Ornavlt, ahfoMt ; M. D. C. LIV. 
The Arms of Spain, cut in precious Stone and richly 
gilt, are placed here between two Statues of Brafs gilt, 
one reprefenting the Fall of Man the other the Hope of a 
Refurredlion. T hisDoor brings you by the beforemention’d 
Steps of the fineft Jafper and Marble into the Pantheon, 
which is overcrufted with the fame, and moft artificially 
polifhed ; its Form is round without, and ocftagonal 
within, in each of the Squares being repofited the Urns for 
the Royal Bodies^ four in each Square ; there were then 
in all twenty fix of thefe Urns, of grey Marble, fupport- 
ed by four Lion’s Paws of Brafs gift ; of the fame Me- 
tal there is an oval Figure in the middle of each of thefe 
Urns, containing the Names of fuch royal Perfons as 
are interr’d there, in black Letters. In the. Square 
fronting the Door ftands the Altar, and upon it a large 
Crofs of Brafs gilt, fixed within another of black Mar- 
ble, of which alfo the whole Altar is compos’d, except 
that it has fome curious. Ornaments of the choiceft Por- 
phyry : On each Side of the faid Crofs ftands a Pillar 
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