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The history of monastical conventions, and military institutions with a survey of the court of Rome. Or, A description of the religious and military orders in Europe, Asia and Africa, for above twelve hundred years, : being a brief account of their institution, confirmation, rules, habits, and manner of living; the qualification of their institutors, and the time of their respective institutions, extending to either sex, &c. Together with a survey of the court of Rome, &c. in all the great offices, and officers ecclesiastical and civil dependant thereon; as also the ceremonies of the consistories, conclave and those that have been used in the creation of cardinals; election of the high-bishop or pope, and his triumphant coronation procession, and that of his taking possession of the Lateran Church in Rome; with what is observed in his sickness, and the manner of solemnizing his funeral obsequies; with many other things worthy of note, according to what has been recorded by candid autho
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