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[English Translation] the music, & also below in front of the chamber, the table, where one holds communion to hold twenty people made of exquisitely worked marble. Opposite above the great door are beautiful & magnificent organs, which render a marvelously harmonious. On the other two sides a little higher than the last step are two galleries supported on boards capable of holding twenty people, in which are placed the musicians & players of instruments who attend the divine service every Sunday & solemn feast. This is approximately how all the Temples of this Kingdom are made as to the cemeteries, but for the grandeur & sumptuousness, they are much inferior. ============================== Of the lodgings & residences of the Bishops & Curate. CHAP. VI. Right against & adjoining these Temples the Priests of the false gods had very beautiful & magnificent palaces, in which the Bishops, Clergy, & Archpriests & Curates were lodged. Those of the Bishops M |
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