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Of the construction and consecration of this holy place we read in an inscription on marble over the door that leads into the sacristy, in the following words: CUM HOC TEMPLUM MARCO EVANGELISTÆ DICATUM MAGNIFICIS SUMPTIBUS CL. V. COSMI MEDICIS TANDEM ABSOLUTUM ESSET, EUGENIUS QUARTUS ROMANUS PONTIFEX MAXIMA CARDINALIUM, ARCHIEPISCOPORUM, EPISCOPORUM, ALIORUMQUE SACERDOTUM FREQUENTIA COMITATUS, ID CELEBERRIMO EPIPHANIÆ DIE, SOLEMNI MORE SERVATO, CONSECRAVIT. TUM ETIAM QUOTANNIS OMNIBUS, QUI EODEM DIE FESTO ANNUAS STATASQUE CONSECRATIONIS CEREMONIAS CASTE PIEQUE CELEBRARINT VISERINTVE, TEMPORIS LUENDIS PECCATIS SUIS DEBITI SEPTEM ANNOS TOTIDEMQUE QUADRAGESIMAS APOSTOLICA REMISIT AUCTORITATE, A. MCCCCXLII.
De Dominis, discontented with the non multum supra quadringentas libras annuas which he received in England, and pining after the duodecim millia Coronatorum promised by the Pope, resolved to leave our shores. James was indignant. Bishop Hall tried to dissuade him from his purpose.
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