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In Valence^ ^ourg and other Places, we obferved Mea- 
fures of Corn cut in Stone, and little Portals to let the 
Corn out of them. 
6. Orange is blit a fmall and meanly built City, and 
the Walls are hot confiderable, but there are Outworks 
'which if well look’d after, would render it very ftrong, 
by Reafon of its Situation in a Plain. The Caftle is 
built on the highefl: End of a long Ridge of a Hill ; 
it was formerly of greater Strength, when it had walled 
Bulwarks round aboyt, which the French King, in this 
Prince of Orangeh Minority, caufed to be blown up 
with Gunpowder, when at the fame InPcant, (thirty) ail 
Roman Catholicks were overwhelm’d in the Ruins, The 
Governor is Count de Dhona^ but his Deputy or Lieute- 
nant is a Frenchman and a Fapifi, Within the Caftle 
were now about a hundred Soldiers, who civilly admit- 
ted us into the Caftle, and lliewed us many great Pie- 
ces of Cannon, and their Armory ftored with Arms 
enough for 5000 Men. In the Middle of the Caftle 
is a very deep Well of good Water, cut out of the 
Rock. C. Mariui^S) Arch, and la Torre ronde are Anti- 
quities without the Walls ; on fome of the Engravings 
of the Arch was written, BODUUCUS. The Circus 
is a ftately Ruin within the Wall. 
The People here are very civil, and of a much bet- 
ter Humour than the French j when the French King had 
the City in his Pofteflion, many of the Gentry turn’d 
Papifts, I'he Univerfity is not confiderable, having 
about four Profeftbrs, and one of them is one Guy, 1 
think a Scotchman. The Roman Catholicks have now the 
Ufe of the Cathedral : The Inhabitants of this Principa- 
lity are at leaft half Proteftants, and who were fenfible 
of the Change of Governors. On the Tower of the 
Maifon de la Ville, we faw many falfe Weights nailed to 
the Wall. The Prince hath a Parliament here of both 
Religions, and hath pafted a publick Amneftia of all 
Offences, wherein he calls the King of England, and 
the MarquiS of Brandenherg, his Uncles and Tutors. 
In a poor Woman’s Houle, we faw an old Roman 
Pavement of Mofaick Work, very curious repre- 
fenting a Cat with a Rat in its Mouth j round about 
were Squares. 
7. ^th. Giving four Livres and fifteen Sols for three 
Horfes and a Guide, we travelled a ftony Way tW|0 
Leagues, in a Country where Thyme, Lavender, Box, 
IRc. grew plentifully, many Mulberry and Olive-Trees 
planted in the Fields ; we paffed by Chajteau neuf, on 
the right Hand of us, and a League further ferried the 
River la Nafque, paying for each Horfe one a League, 
thence riding nigh the Rhofne, we entered Avignon 
at Port St, Lazar e, upon which Gate was written. Clave 
Petri tuta. Having ftiewed our Bolletins of Health, 
which we took at Grenoble, leaving our Fire-Arms with 
the Guard, and taking a Note to lodge in the City, 
we came to a Sign of a Town call’d St. Flour, where 
we lay till Monday the feventh of Auguji. 
In the Cathedral, a fmall Church fituated on the 
Rocks nigh the Windmills, we faw ain ancient Monu- 
ment of Benediblus XII. Pope, a Miller’s Son. The Pa- 
lace is adjoining, guarded by Soldiers, Chigi Cardinal 
Padrone is Legat and Governor, M. Columnia Vice-Le- 
gat, who (they faid ) was fuddenly to be removed, be- 
caufe he had given fome Sufpicion to the French King, 
by making a kind of Fort before the Palace Gale, and 
laying up a large Quantity of Corn. On the Outfide 
of the Palace where the Prifon is, are pidlured, hanging 
by the Heels, the chief of the late Rebellion againft 
the Pope j and in the Bando 200 Piftoles are promifed 
to any Perfon that can bring the Head of any one of 
them *, thefe Rebels live in Safety at Villeneuf, a Place 
t’other Side of the Bridge, juft crofs the Rhofne, v/hich 
belongs to the French King, who hath threatned to 
burn alive any that fliall offer to lay Hands on them. 
Monfignor Lomellino. is the new Vice-Legat, 
I'hc Dominicans Church is a large Building of one 
Arch. The Cordeliers Church is larger in the Sacrifta-, 
they (hewed us a round leaden Box with a leaden Me- 
dal, plain on one Side, and on the other the Figure of 
Laura, and thefe Letters, M. L. M, J. which is inter- 
preted by fome, Madonna laura morta face. This Me- 
I P P o N s Travels Book II. 
dal with Italian Verfes on her, written by Petrach, in a 
neat Charafter was found in that Box, lying at her 
Breaft, when Francis I. took up her Body, who alfo 
made Verfes on her in French, which are kept with 
the others. In an obfcure Chapel we faw her Tomb- 
Stone. 
In St. Martial'* s Church we fearched for Caftmir King 
of Poland*^ Monument, but could not be informed 
where it was 5 nigh the Altar is a very ftately Tomb 
that reaches almoft to the Top of the Church, and be- 
low lies the Figure of a Bilhop, and over him our Sa- 
viour and the Apoftles Effigies, and fo upwards are 
many Marble Figures. The Celejiins Church hath a 
Marble relievo Altar, which they fay is but of one Piece, 
having many Figures in it : The Pidture of a Skeleton 
drawn by King Renatus, who gave the Altar. In the 
Middle of the Choir is a handfome Monument of Cle- 
ment VII. Pope. In along Chapel adjoining, is the 
Legend pidlured of S. Peter of Luxenbourg. 
The Coining-houfe is oppofite to the Palace, and has 
a new fair Front. The Jefuits have a pretty Chapel, 
and an indifferent Studium ; in the Area of it are Dials, 
with Diredlions to know what it is o’Clock ; in fuch 
Cities as are under Kings, and in fuch as are under 
Commonv/ealths, the one is called Horologium Reginm, 
the other Ariftocraticum, in which they have placed Ge- 
neva. The Gate on the Rhofne Side is open every Day, 
but befides that, there is but one more open at a Time, 
and that they change every Week. About 700 Italian 
Soldiers in the City. Here are fome Palaces and good 
Houfes, but the Generality of the Buildings are mean, 
and the Streets narrow ; the Inhabitants are in Fear 
every Night that the Rogues ftiould creep in at their 
Windows. 
8. The nth. Giving fifteen Livres of France, we 
hired three Horfes and a Poftilion, who guided us firfl; 
over the long Bridge at Avignon crofs the Rhofne, which 
Bridge is entire on the City Side, but broken on the 
Side of France, and repaired with Wood. It feems 
to have been a Roman Work, is built of Stone, and 
paved (though now much defaced) like that at St* 
Efprit, and it is more bending againft the Stream. 
Some Way on the Bridge ftands a Centinel, and the 
Avignon Searchers lodge there, to ftop and enquire into 
Merchants Goods. When we were almoft over the 
Bridge, our Poftilion paid about one Sol a Horfe. At 
the End of the Bridge is Villeneuf, a Village, and a 
little Way thence on the River Side, S. Andre, a ftrong 
Place of the French King’s. Leaving thefe Places be- 
hind us, (without entering them) we rode among fome 
Vineyards, and then travelled a ftony Way over little 
Hills, till we came by Remoulin, a fmall walled Place, 
about a fhort Englifh Mile thence ; we arrived at Pont 
du Gard, a ftately Antiquity, well defigned by Dr. Bar- 
grave, and defcribed in Golnitz and Deyron*& Antiqui- 
ties of Nifmes. A League from hence we dined at 
Sejignan, a fmall Village ; and in the Afternoon rode 
a direcft and level Way between Olive Fields, (the 
Olive-Trees were much mortified by the Extremity 
of the laft Winter) and after three Leagues riding, 
arrived at Lutzenbourg, -a good Inn without the City of 
FUfmes. 
We faw the Amphitheatre, the Outfide whereof is 
very entire, and is two Stories high, the Steps or Seats 
are ruined, and the Arena filled with Houfes. Over the 
great Entrance are two half Bulls in Stone, and on the 
Outfide is a Wolf fuckling Romulus and Remus ; alfo a 
Triple and Priapus, or Penis winged, and the Figure of 
a Woman holding by a Bridle. In a private Houfe 
we faw Eagles excellently well made in Stone 5 a double 
Statue of a Woman having two Bodies and four Legs, 
it was made without a Head, but now they have fixed 
on it, the Head of an old Man *, fome will have this 
to be the Statue of Geryon, but Deyron contradiiffs it. 
A fmall Piazza call’d Place de Salamandre, from 'a Pil- 
lar with a Salamander upon it. Ea Maifon ^mrre is 
a fair Antiquity within the City, being one Pile of Build- 
ing, adorn’d with Statues, Pillars, iAc. Within the 
Port de la Couronne are many old Infcriptions, and an 
ancient Statue with his Hands upon his H§ad. 
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