Note 105 — CHAP. V.
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Footnote 105:
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So jealously are these relics kept, that even sovereigns cannot go up where they are preserved, without being first appointed Canons of the Basilica. The Emperor Frederic III, and afterwards Ladislaus son of the king of Poland, and Cosimo III grand-duke of Tuscany went up dressed as Canons of St. Peter's.