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B10248	An exact survey of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Of their cities, castles, fortresses, and other their dominions there: With some remarques of their government, antiquities and memorable actions. Together with an exact map of the Seven Provinces: which is also to be sold alone. / Collected by T.W.	T. W.	1673 (1673)	Wing W118A; ESTC R186113	36,792	171

Vtrecht It hath two Chanels which pass through the Town Anno 1536 the beauty of it was much eclips'd by Fire but built up again fairer then formerly it was In this Fire there happen'd so memorable an accident that happily the like hath not been recorded in any Story In this town the Storks Nest almost in every house to breed the Fire being the third of May at which time the young Storks are grown pretty big the old ones perceiving the Fire to approach their Nests attempted to carry them away but could not they were so weighty which they perceiving never ceas'd with their wings spread covering them until they all perish'd in the Flames Jasper Veldius an Author of great estimation reports the same in 's Book of Storks This Town holds the third rank and suffrage for the Country of Holland It 's four Leagues from Leyden Near this Town is Loresendam a great and fair Village not far off it is Losdan and Voorburg the last a good Town In this Town was the Body of the Famous Hugo Grotius inter'd Anno 1584 William Prince of Orange was here shot with a Bullet by Balthasar Gerard a Burgundian It 's a Town of great Trade for Cloathing It 's the Birth-place of that Monstrous Heretick David George who call'd himself King and Christ immortal Gertruden-burgh Is a strong Town both by Nature and Art scituated on the left Bank of the River Merew it hath a good Garrison in 't so nam'd as Hondius supposeth from Geertruyd the Daughter of Pipinus de Landen who was a Religious Woman and liv'd here and Anno 664 here died Scheidam Hath a good Haven upon the Mewze it 's scituated upon a current of Water which comes out of the Country call'd Schie and from thence it takes its name In this place there is an Hospital call'd the New-dam which hath these Priviledges that a Burger dying within or without the Town or in the liberties thereof the best garment he leaves doth belong unto the Hospital The chief Trade of this Town is Fishing which they send into all parts Vlarding is hard by a small Village but formerly a strong Town Mausouluis is a fair Burrough two Leagues lower Woerden Is seated on a Moor and hath a strong Castle to it and cannot be approach'd because it may be overflown round about it Anno 1374 this Town was built by the Bishop of Vtrecht to awe his Subjects In this Castle the Admiral of Aragon was kept Prisoner a great while after the Battle of Flanders Worcom It 's beyond the River of Wahal on Brabant-side right against the strong Castle of Loveisteine a little lower on the other Bank stands Gorchom It 's well fortifi'd with good Ramparts Bulwarks and Ditches It did belong to the Earls of Horn. Neer this Town is the Castle and Territory of Altena being in ancient time drown'd but now it 's a Country full of good Pastures and is the Rampart of the whole Province Gorcum is one of the strongest Towns in the Netherlands It 's one of the Keys of Holland Famous for being a Prison to Hugo Grotius and of the Arminian Ministers The chief of the Holland-Villages is the Hague or Graven-Hague in Latine Haga Comitis because formerly the residence of the Earls of Holland So call'd as Junius supposed from Hagh which signifies a Hedge from the many Hawthorn-Hedges that grow thereabouts It 's rich in Wealth pleasant in Gardens and stately in Buildings having 2500 Houses amongst which the most magnificent is the Court built here Anno 1249 by William Earl of Holland now the Residence of the Prince of Orange It 's a Castle with Ditches and Gates It 's always guarded There are the Courts of Justice the States Chamber for the Province and for the Union whither all Causes are brought by Appeal and finally determin'd Here resides the Count Fischal of Brabant the States General the States of Holland and West-Friesland the Councel of State the Masters of the Chamber of Accounts of Holland the Councel of War every of these have their several Chambers Hard by there 's a Park 1501 Paces long Princes Earls Lords all sorts of people walk here and take the pleasure and profit of the place Not far from it you come to shady Walks which have at once the reverence and content of Heaven If you please to walk a little further you 'll see all Europe floating on the one hand by water carried on the other by Land to this great Mart of Christendom for Trade and Intelligence It 's no wall'd Town neither do the Inhabitants desire it for they had rather have it accounted the chief Village in Europe then the second City Not far from it is Hontstardick where the last Prince of Orange built a most stately House beautifi'd with Walks and Galleries Riisuick is another fair Village there the same Prince hath another House in a very pleasant scituation amongst Meadows and it 's a noble Prospect to those which come from Delft Anno 1574 at Scheveling neer the Hague the Sea brake in and carried away 121 Houses as 't is to be seen recorded upon a Picture in the Church The other Villages of Note are 2 Egmond 3 Brederode 4 Wassenare which is a fair and beautiful Town two Leagues from Leyden from hence the noble Family of the Wassemers fetch'd their Original They pretend to be descended from that Noble and Famous Captain Claudius Civilis of whom Tacitus makes honourable mention From them are descended the Duvenvords the Warmonds the Bouchorts the Polanes the Malenesses all the flower of the Dutch Nobility The three forementioned Townes anciently gave names to three ancient Families of which none so illustrious and renown'd as that of Egmond descended lineally from Radbolt Son of Agillis the King of the Frisons They were made Earls of Egmond by Maximilian the Emperour Anno 1592. Thierry of Aquitaine the first Earl of Holland built an Abby for Monks neer unto Egmond inrich'd with great Revenues In the year 1565 the Prince of Orange the Earl of Horn and the Baron of Brederode went with the Earl of Egmond to Dine in this Abby when they were to wash my Lord Abbot who was but a Monk took the three Noblemen by the hands to wash the Earl of Egmond coming to present himself the Abbot said unto him No for you are my Vassal it becomes you not to wash with your betters yea he offer'd to put the Towel upon his shoulder to give it to the other Noblemen when they had wash'd whereat the Earl was much discontented and went away Brederode is descended from Ziphard the second son of Arnulph the third Earl of Holland and Zealand who to avoid his Fathers displeasure retired into Friesland and married the Potestates Daughter of the Countrey by whom he had two Sons but being afterwards reconveyed to his Father he had certain Lands allotted him for his Portion which were measur'd by the great Rod the which in the Country-Language

is environ'd with a double Rampier and Ditch It hath many rich Towns under its Jurisdiction Anno 1599 't was beleaguered by D. Francisco de Mendoza High Admiral of Arragon but was enforced to raise his Siege with much loss and dishonour after he had begirt it 20 days The taking of this Town opens a Passage into Holland Vtrecht and the heart of Gelderland The Fort of Voorn Crevecoeur makes the Town impregnable with Hewsden a strong town and seated within an hours journey of Bomel and within two Leagues of Boisleduke Ghent Scituate on the Wael not far off At the first meeting of the Wael and the Maes stands the strong Fort of St. Andrews raised by the Arch-Duke Albert to command the passage of those Rivers But in the year 1600 taken in by Maurice Count of Nassau after Prince of Orange and ever since Garrisoned by the States to secure that Passage It 's the most Noble and strongest Fort in all the Netherlands It 's comprehended in five Bulwarks whereof three are upon the Banks of the Mewze and Wahal and the two other towards Haerwarden either of them having a platform to defend it with broad and deep Ditches without the which is a Counter-scarp the which hath also a Ditch round about it and small Forts to warrant it Ruermond Scituate on the mouth of Ruer Mondt in Dutch signifies a mouth or entrance and so of that word and Ruer is derived Ruermondt as many others are in that Country As Dendermond in Flanders Isselmond in Holland c. It 's five Leagues from Maestricht three from Venlo It 's a rich and populous Town both by Nature and Art full of Fortifications Ramparts and Bulwarks Under the Jurisdiction of Ruermond are comprehended Venlo Gelder Straten Wachtendonck and Erckelam all walled and strong Towns with those Boroughs of Montfort Vucht Nieustadt Kessel Middeter and Greytenberck Kessel stands a League from Ruermond a goodly Village with a strong Castle built upon a Mountain It 's called by Ptolomy Castelleum and he makes it the Metropolis of the Menapians Venloe A strong Town on the Maes the people are Martial and have in former times resisted an Imperial Army It 's half a League from Shalen and three Leagues from Ruermond In this Town the Duke of Cleve having lost all his Dutchy of Cleve and a great part of Juliers yielded himself to Charles the fifth Anno 1543. Gelder Heretofore of such Reputation that it gave Name to all the Country It 's within two leagues of Shalen It hath a good Castle and strong Fortifications Strael or Stralen A strong and well Fortified Town It 's a League and a half from Wachtendonck Arnhem Called by Tacitus and other Authors Arenacum It 's a large and well-built Town It 's seated upon the right Bank of the River Rhene half a League from Issel-Dort It was the ordinary Residence heretofore of the Dukes of Gelders who had here their Chancery and other Supream Courts of Justice established here Anno 1543 by Charles the fifth This is the third Capital City of Gelderland and had under it's Jurisdiction besides divers Villages Wageninghen It 's a strong Town seated on the Rhene It 's on all sides compassed with Moores and Boggs which makes it inaccessible It 's equally distant from Arnhem and Nimmegen and four Leagues from Culemburg Harderwick On the Zuyder-see burnt to the Ground Anno 1503 but since reedified and now more strong and beautiful then ever formerly The Haven is bad so as the Ships are forced to lie in the Road. Hattum Upon the Yssel a good Town and hath a strong Castle the Walls whereof are 24 Foot thick Within the Limits of this Dukedom stands the Town and Country of Culemburg It 's seated upon the bank of the River Leck a League from Buren and two from Vianen on the same side of the River It hath a goodly Castle in it It was erected into a Dukedom by King Philip the Second by reason of the fair Territory which belonged unto it Montford Is a Castle of importance a small Town It lies a League from Ruermond Wachtendonck A small Town with a Castle in it Anno 1588 taken by the Duke of Parma but Anno 1600 Count Lodowick surprized it for the States It 's very considerable by reason of its scituation Battenbourg Is a Town of great Antiquity with a noble Castle It being the first Castle which King Battus did build upon the Mewze in the County of the Sicambrians which now is Gelders The Baron of this place did make a great Revenue of the Toll and Custom which is paid by all Ships that pass that way From Batto Batavia took its name He was descended of the Catts people of Germany of whom Tacitus maketh honourable mention For Batavia signifies the Inheritance of Batto as one should say Battos-haur for Haur in the Dutch-language signifies Heritage Pliny calls this Isle The most Noble Isle of Batto Tacitus who was Commissary for Gaul Belgique makes mention of Claudius Civilis descended from Batto issued from a Royal Branch of the Catts from whom the ancient Town of Catwick had its Name for wic signifies either a Town or a Castle the Town or Castle of Catts And it 's observed that those Towns which end in Wic are the most Ancient and most Honourable This Batto was a great Patron of the Country a Person of much Honour and Gallantry The Romans laying great Impositions upon the Batavians he advised them to take up Arms against them which he being their Generalissimo they did and did much disable the Roman Forces insomuch as Tiberius Caesar coming to a Treaty with him and demanding of him why he had stirred the People to so long and bloudy a War he answered That the Romans themselves were the cause in that they had sent them Wolves for their Guardians not Dogs and Shepherds This and much more is reported by Dion a Roman Historiographer in his 55 and 56 Book ZVTPHEN IT 's bounded on the East with Westphalen on the West with that part of Gelderland which is called the Veleuwe on the North with Overyssel on the South with Cleveland It contains eight wall'd Towns besides many Villages that is to say Dortecum On the Overyssel rising out of Westphalen It 's a League from Doesburgh a good Town with a double Wall about it Doesburgh Seated on the Yssel Bronckhorst A County of it self It 's within a League of Zutphen seated upon the right side of the River Yssel A strong Castle in it and a Garrison Lochem Upon the River Berckel it 's two Leagues from Zutphen well Fortified and strong Heremburgh A good Town with a strong Castle It 's a League and a half from Dortecum Groll Taken by the Prince of Orange for the States Confederates Anno 1627. It is a strong Town wall'd in with Ramparts and Bulwarks having broad and deep Ditches Fortified with Casemates and Counterscarps It 's two Leagues from Bredefort Bredefort A small