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in great functions: a great ring which he also weareth in such functions; its set with a fair Saphyr, and four great pearles: a fair Crucifix enameld and beset with store of pearl and Iewels: the Pope's Pallium which he wears in great functions: the fistula, or pipe of gold wherewith the Pope receives the consecrated blood of our Saviour in the Chalice upon great dayes: the rare Chalices of gold set with pearl, and yet more pretious for their workmanship than for their matter: the great Chalice of gold, into which the Cardinals put their written Votes in chusing the Pope by scrutiny: the five triple crownes called Regni, four whereof are set thick with precious stones and pearls of great value, and therefore ordinarily kept in the Castle Angelo: two mitres of the same richness: the chrystal Pixe in which the blessed Sacrament is kept in the Sepulcher upon Manday Thursday: in fine the book of the Gospels painted in miniature by the famous Giulio Glorio, for whose first picture here(of