Over against this is another vault, in which lie buried the bodies of
those Queens that had no sons at their death, and all the children of
their Kings that did not inherit. At the bottom of the stairs is the
Pantheon, built eighty feet square, and is, I guess, about sixty feet
over; the whole lining of it in all places is jasper, very curiously
carved, both in figures and flowers and imagery; and a branch for
forty lights, which is vastly rich, of silver, and hangs down from the
top by a silver chain, within three yards of the bottom, and is made
with great art, as is also this curious knot of jasper on the floor,
that the reflection of the branch and lights is perfectly there to be
seen. The bodies of their Kings lie in jasper stones, supported every
coffin by four lions of jasper at the four corners; three coffins and
three headstones are set in every arch, which arch is curiously
wrought in the roof, and supported by jasper pillars: there are seven
arches, and one in the middle at the upper end, and over against the
coming in, that contains a very curious altar and crucifix of jasper.
From thence we saw all the convent and the sacristia, in which there
were all the principal pieces that ever Titian made, and the hands of
many others of the most famous men that then were in the world.
After seeing the convent, and every part thereof, we saw the King's
palace, with the apothecary's shop, and all the stillatories, and all
belonging thereunto.
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