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that is all Its set in a frame of silver. The history of it is both long and known: & if any man be ignorant of it, let him read it in Baronius. There is also in the said Sacristy an other picture nailed high upon the wall, which was made by N. Carpi with his fingers instead of a pencil.
The Grot under S. Peters Church.Being now in the Sacristy, I got leave to go down into the Grot under this Church, with a practical Clericus with a lighted torch to shew me and explicate unto me the most considerable things that are there: as the tomb of S. Peter with an Altar over it, at which any Bishop or priest may say Mass: a world of ancient statues (set in the low Chappels, and in the wall of this Grot) which belonged to the old Church of S. Peter, and shewing the antiquity of pictures in Churches: the Tomb of the most honourable Churchman of our nation, Pope Adrian the IV, the onely English Pope that ever was: the tomb of the Emperour Otho the second, in a great porphiry shrine: the Tombes of divers othergreat
