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A27210	The present state of the universe, or, An account of I. The rise, births, names, matches, children, and near allies of all the present chief princes of the world, II. Their coats of arms, motto's, devises, liveries, religions, and languages, III. The names of their chief towns, with some computation of the houses and inhabitants ... IV. Their revenues to which are added some other curious remarks, as also an account of common-wealths, relating to the foregoing heads.	Beaumont, John, d. 1731.	1694 (1694)	Wing B1623; ESTC R13456	71,782	106

with eight Diadems which terminate in a Mond Or. The Motto to his Devise on the Reverse of his Medals is Pietas Justitia coronant His Livery is of a Red Colour He professes the Protestant Religion according to the Doctrine of Luther and uses the Danish Language which is a Dialect of the High-Dutch III. Haffen or Hafnia by the Dutch called Copenhagen or the Haven of Merchants seated near the Sea in Seland the greatest Island of the Baltick lying near the main Land of Scaudia is the chief City of Denmark and one of the best Ports and most frequented of the Northern Seas It s of an orbicular form the Houses for the most part built of Clay and Timber tho there are many beautiful Edifices among them it s commended for a spacious Market-place and has in it a Palace-Royal built of Free-stone in form of a Quadrangle but of no great Beauty or Magnificence Some say it to be near as large as Amsterdam but not so full of Inhabitants Near Elsenore a Village much frequented by Seamen as their Ships pass by the Sound is seated the strong and magnificent Castle of Cronenburg built with incredible Charge and Pains by King Frederick the Second the Foundation of it being laid on huge Stones sunk into the Sea and so fastened together that no Storm or Tempest how violent soever is able to shake it well fortified as well as founded and mix'd of a Palace and a Fort being since the first building of it the most constant Residence of the Kings of Denmark who from hence may easily discern each Ship which sails through the Sound By the Commodity of this and the opposite Castle the King secures his Customs and greatly strengthens his Estate the Castles being so near and the Streight so narrow that by the addition of some few Ships he may keep the greatest Navy that is from passing by him A little South of the Castle of Cronenburg is an Island called Ween a Dutch mile in length but not quite so broad it was given by King Frederick the Second to the famous Astronomer Tycho-Brahe that living retired from all but his own Family he might with more conveniency attend his Books There is in this Island the Castle Uranopolis or Urenburg where the greatest part of his Mathematical Instruments are preserved in safety The said King Frederick the Second built also for a place of Pleasure Fredericksburg among Woods of Beech trees where the King has a fine House and a little Park In this Kingdom are the Knights of St. Mary or of the Order of the Elephant instituted by King Frederick the Second As in England the Knights of the Garter in France the Knights of the Holy Ghost in Spain the Knights of the Golden Fleece in Portugal the Knights of the Sancta Crusada in Tuscany those of St. Stephen in Poland the Knights of the White Eagle c. This King has a Throne made all of Sea-Unicorns Horns Dronthein seated on the River Nider is the chief Town of the Kingdom of Norway The Cathedral Church there is the largest of any in those Northern Countries The Viceroy of Norway ordinarily resides at Bergen The Revenues of the King consists in Imposts laid on Ships which pass through the Sound of which he is said to take one per Cent. on the Merchandises Sometimes there pass three hundred Vessels in a day from several Ports through this Streight which makes the Tribute considerable He has also a Revenue of Crown-Lands and a great yearly Toll made of the Cattle which pass into Germany as also of the Fish transported into other Countries yet it s conceived that the Treasures of this King are not very great partly because there is no other important Commodity but Fish to draw Merchants thither and partly that there is not any one Town of any great Traffick in all his Realms for the entertaining of Commerce The House of Sweden ABout the beginning of the last Century the Nobility of Sweden growing weary of the Tyranny of Christian the Second King of Denmark elected Gustavus Son of Eric of Wasa à Grypsholm first Governour then Duke and last of all ann 1523 King of Sweden Gothland the Vandals Nordland Finland c. and from him is descended Charles the Eleventh of the House Palatine of the Deux ponts the present King born Dec. 24. 1655 whose Father dying while he was but five years of Age the Government of his Person and Kingdom were committed to ihe Queen his Mother and five great Senators of Sweden viz. to Count de Brahe who was Grand Bailieffe Couut Wrangel who was Constable Count de Stembock who was Admiral Count de la Gardie a French Man by Birth who was Chancellor and the Baron de Bond who was Treasurer He was declared Major Dec. 24. 1673. The Contract of Marriage of this King and of the Princess Ulrica-Eleanora-Sabina youngest Sister to the present King of Denmark was signed at Copenhagen May 7. 1680 and on the sixteenth of the same Month it was consummated at Schutturup On the fourth of December following the Queen made her publick and solemn Entrance at Stockholm where she was crowned Queen the next day She was born anno 1656 and has Issue living by the King 1. Hedewig-Sophia born Jun. 26. 1681. 2. Charles the Hereditary Prince born Jun. 17. 1682. 3. Ulrica-Eleanora born Jan. 21. 1688. The present King of Sweden has one natural Brother Count Gustavus Carlson II. He bears quarterly In the first and fourth Azure three Crowns Or two in Chief and one in Base for Sweden In the second and third Barry Argent and Azure a Lion Or crowned Gules for Finland On the whole quarterly in the first and fourth Sable a Lion Or crown'd arm'd and langued Gules for the Palatinate of the Rhine In the second and third Fuzele in Bend Argent and Azure of twenty one pieces for Bavaria The Crest is a Royal Crown garnished with eight small Flowers and closed by as many demy Circles terminating in a Mond Or which is the Crest of Sweden The Supporters are two Lions Or crown'd with the same His Livery is of a blue Colour He professes the Protestant Religion according to the Doctrine of Luther and has many Calvinists in his Dominions He uses the Swedish Language which is a Dialect of the High-Dutch III. Stockholm is the Capital City of Sweden and the usual place of the King's Residence it s a noted and well traded Port and very strong being situate in Marshes and built on Piles like Venice most of the Houses are covered with Copper The Castle of this City is conceived to be one of the strongest Holds in the World fortified with four hundred Brass Pieces many of which are double Cannon The Artillery of Sweden is so great that it s said they have above eight thousand Brass Pieces of Cannon Heylin counts in all the Kingdom of Sweden but one thousand four hundred and seventeen Parishes but many of

the Emperor should have what he pleased so he might have freedom to see the sight and parted with his House accordingly The Palace of the Seraglio contains three Courts one within another the Buildings yielding unto those of France and Italy for the neat contrivances but far surpassing them for cost and curiousness The Grand Seignior has many other considerable Cities the chief is Grand Cairo in Egypt which is eight miles in compass and being viewed from a high place it presents a most delightful prospect the Mosques being built of various Colours and very beautious and the other Houses tho but two stories high having generally their Roofs raised with Turrets for Coverings and being all surrounded with Palm Trees and Gardens Alexandria also in Egypt has been a considerable Town belonging to the Grand Seignior it s at present full of Ruins and but poorly inhabited the cause is imputed to the illness of the Air during the Months of July August September and October which is thought to proceed from this that the greatest part of the Houses are built on solid Vaults which serve as Cisterns to keep the Waters of Nilus whence the Air becomes corrupted and inclines to Diseases He has also the City of Babylon in Chaldea not the ancient Babylon but another City going by that name situate forty miles more North maintained chiefly at present by the Trade of Aleppo and being seven miles in compass IV. The Turkish Empire being of so vast an extent in three parts of the World viz. Africa Asia and the better part of Europe must of necessity yield an immense Treasure a certain Author says he has under him seventy Kingdoms and three Empires The Revenues consist chiefly in Tributes raised on the People and in Customs and these are paid for the most part in Silver As for the Gold which is raised it proceeds from four Sources whereof two are foreign and two of the Country One of the first is the Trade of the English French Dutch Italians Moscovites and Polanders who bring Ducats from their Countries The other is their annual Tribute of the Cham of the Lesser Tartary the Princes of Transylvania Moldavia Valachia the Republick of Ragusa and a part of Mingrelia and of Russia ought to pay the Grand Seignior in Gold which amounts to considerable Sums One of the two Sources of the Country is the Spoils of the Bacha's all their Monies which for the most part is Gold coming to the Grand Seignior at their Deaths the other the Revenue of Egypt which amounts yearly to twelve millions of Livres Beside this yearly Income the Turk has a secret Treasure consisting of such stores of Gold as have been laid up by the Ottoman Princes and in this private Treasury when Ibrahim this Emperor's _____ came to the Crown there were four thousand Bags of Gold each containing 15000 Ducats of Gold or thirty thousand Crowns which Summ makes three hundred and sixty millions of Livres Some have affirm'd the Grand Seignior to be Proprietor of all the Lands under his Dominions and that Fathers do not leave the Succession to their Children which is a great mistake for the right of inheriting according to the degrees of Blood is not only granted the Turks but likewise to the Greeks they paying the Grand Seignior only about three per Cent. at each change of Heir PERSIA I. HIstorians make eight Dynastyes of Persian Kings The fifth of these Dynastyes was begun in the person of Tangrolipix the first Persian King of the Turkish Race ann 1020 who is mentioned by me in my foregoing Account of Turky This Race failing the sixth Dynasty began in Haalon made King of Persia by Occata the Great Cham of Tartary ann 1260. This Tartarian Dynasty ended also in Persia with the Race of Tamerlane and the seventh Dynasty of the Turcoman or Armenian Race began in Ussan Cassanes ann 1472 he being the Son of one of those poor Armenian Princes dispossessed by Bajazet the First Emperor of the Turks and restored by Tamerlane who grew at length to that power that he overthrew in a pitched Field Zeuzes the last of the Tartarian Race and slew him This Dynasty of the Turcoman or Armenian Race continued till 1496 that Alanat the last King of it was overthrown and slain by Hysmael one of the Sophian Race and Faction The Quarrel and Occasion was thus Mahomet the Impostor and first Emperor of the Saracens by his last Will and Testament bequeathed the Succession of that Estate to Haly his near Kinsman and Husband to Fatima his eldest Daughter but Abudezar Haumar and Osman three powerful Men and the chief Commanders of the Army in the time of Mahomet successively followed one another in the supreme Dignity After their Death 's Hali enjoyed that Honor for a little while supplanted first and afterwards vanquished by Muhavias a great Man of War who succeeded in it and to secure himself slew Hasen or Ossan the Son of Hali and eleven of his Sons a twelfth escaping called Musa Ceredine from whom Hysmael Sophi abovementioned was lineally descended who after his Victory and being crowned King or Shaw of Persia altered the Form of Religion making Hali and himself the sole Successors of Mahomet and condemning Abudezar Haumar and Osman with the Turks as Rebels and Schismaticks Hence proceeded the Bloody Wars betwixt them and the Turks the Persians burning whatsoever Book they found concerning those three and the Turks holding it more meritorious to kill one Persian than seventy Christians This Hysmael Sophi was the Founder of this eighth Dynasty of the Persian Kings ann 1505 from whom is descended Cha Soliman the present King of Persia at his coming to the Crown called Cha Sophi he came to be King ann 1665 his Father great Cha Abas then dying himself at that time being thirty five years of Age. It s a remarkable Passage concerning the change of this King's Name and his being twice crown'd which was on this occasion It happened some time after his being crowned that he grew indisposed in his Health and his Physician had tried several methods on him without success whereupon the King's Mother growing impatient fell severely on the Physician and charged him for being either Fool or Traitor that he did not cure the King The Doctor finding himself so hardly put to it had no way to shift himself but by charging the Fault on the Stars and the Astrologers and told her if the King languished and could not recover a perfect health it proceeded not from any Failure in him or his Medicines but for that the Astrologers had not taken the Aspect of a fortunate Constellation at the time of his Coronation The Physician was back'd by all his Friends at Court and particularly by one of the King's Astrologers who had a secret hatred against the Prince of the Astrologers who had been appointed to observe the favourable hour for the King's Coronation and the former made out the mistake astrologically

to the Grandees of the Court so that the King and Queen Mother were possessed of the truth of what the Physician had averred The chief Astrologer seeing how things went was forced for fear of drawing on him somewhat worse not only to forbear contradiction but withal to applaud what was said and upon this second Inauguration the King changed his name as is said before which was judged unfortunate to the State and he began as he thought to find himself better afterward Note that the word Cha in the Persian Tongue signifies King and that tho many call all the Kings of Persia Sohpies some modern Accounts say it is an Error so to do and that Sophi is a proper name or rather a name of the Religion of Hali it signifying wise and knowing in the Law II. Concerning this King's Arms there are various opinions According to his Picture to be seen in many places there is a Sun Or in a Field Azure According to some ancient Books of Heraldry the Kings of Persia have a white Banner charged with an Eagle displayed and crowned Or. Another Author assures us they give the Cressent as the Turkish Emperors with this difference that there is an Hand added to it Others maintain that beside their bearing the Cressent they cause it to be carried before them when they walk in Ceremony and that all Mahometan Kings have the Cressent in their Arms and that Blazon and Coats of Arms are not much used in those Countries but that in lieu they make use of some Marks Another says they bear Or with a Dragon Gules and another says Or with a Buffalo's Head Sable Others say they give the Sun and Moon and others a rising Sun on the back of a Lion with a Cressent and in truth this is their Emblem and Hieroglyphick and the Armenians Subjects to the Persian that are at Paris say that these are the Arms of this Crown and our Merchants at London who have lived in Persia many years affirm this to be the great Seal of the King of Persia His Livery is of a _____ Colour He professes the Mahometan Religion according to the Doctrine of Hali the Turks following that of Osman and he uses the Persian Language which is not limited within the Provinces of the Persian Empire but used also in the Court and Camp of the Great Mogul and some parts of Zagathay and where it s not vulgarly spoken it s studied and understood by persons of the more eminent sort as the Latin by the Gentry of these Western parts so that he that has this Language may travel over all the East without an Interpreter III. Hispaan seated on the River Senderut is the Capital City of Persia and the ordinary place of Residence of the Kings The Town and Suburbs are almost of as great extent as Paris but the number of the Inhabitants is much lesser The greatest part of the Houses there are but of one story or two at most they are built of Bricks only dryed in the Sun and generally they have flat Roofs as generally in the East and have Terasses on the tops The Fronts facing the Streets are very mean and the Mens Apartments are very neat as for those of the Women Strangers are no ways permitted to see them Each considerable House has a Garden belonging to it where they do not now suffer the great number of Plane Trees to grow which formerly made the Town at a distance seem like a Forest The streets are narrow oblique and very dark because for the greatest part they have Arches made on each side of them for walking dry They are not paved wherefore the Dirt is very troublesome in the Winter and the Dust in the Summer The Town-Walls are only of Earth He has a Seat of Pleasure at Tawgebawt it s of no great Receipt but for the Cost and Ornaments of it and for the Delightfulness of the Gardens adjoining to it not yielding to any in this large Empire and for Grotto's Ecchoes Labyrinths and other Excellencies of Arts perhaps not fellowed in the World especially considering that it stands in the midst of a Sandy Desert IV. Pontier a late French Writer tells us that the King of Persia has fifteen millions of Crowns annual Rent His Revenues arise from the Fishery of Pearls found on his Coasts from the Mines of the old and new Rocks of Turky Stones from the Customs and the Sale of all sorts of Merchandizes which pay proportionably to the price they are sold at And each publick Hall built for the Entertainment of Travellers pays the King a Tribute The Government of the King of Persia tho it be despotical and severe has a great deal less of the Tyrant in it than any other of the Mahometan Kings or Princes these cherishing their Brethren maintaining Nobility amongst them and encouraging Industry which makes them to be better served than the Turk or Tartar to both whom they are far inferior both in Power and Treasure Their Officers of State and Men of principal Employment for the most part are Eunuchs as generally in all Empires of the East such persons being thought most trusty because abstracted from the Obligation of Wife and Children they study more the Prince's Service than their own Advantages Grand Tartary and China I. THE Chronicles of China tell us of three hundred and forty Kings which for the space of 4000 years there Reign'd and that the Country being without Rule or settled Government before was first reduc'd into Order by one Vitey by whom the people were instructed in Physick Astrology Divination the Arts of Tillage Shipping c. Of this Kings Race there are said to have been two hundred and seventeen Kings who held the State 2257 years The last of them was Tzaintzon who being ill Neighbour'd by the Scythians not yet call'd Tartars is said to have built that vast Wall extended four hundred Leagues in length parting Tartary from China having at the end of every League a strong Rampart or Bulwark continually Garrizon'd and well furnish'd with all warlike Necessaries This Wall in reality is only a continuation made good of a Chain of Mountains dividing the two Countries there being a Work of the like Nature tho not for the same use in the Kingdom of Peru in America of which I have given an account before Now this King Tzaintzon being slain by some of his Subjects who found themselves burthen'd and wasted with this Work the Race of these Kings ended and then several Princes of Chinese Families held the Government one after another and afterwards several Tartar Princes China being Conquer'd by the Tartars and made a Province by them till about the year 1269 when a Chinese nam'd Hugh a mean Person but of great Courage rais'd to himself a strong Party and drove the Tartars out of all and was Crown'd Emperour of China taking to himself the name of Hungus by some Writers commonly call'd Hombu that is a famous Warrior and

in all Barbary which equals Fez in Greatness Beauty and Number of Inhabitants Some count in it twenty eight thousand Housholds and seven hundred Mosques the chief of which is Carnven being a mile and an half in compass the Roof is large and high raised it s one hundred and fifty yards in length and eighty in breadth there is a College called Amadorach a most curious and delicate Building it has three Cloisters of admirable Beauty supported with eight square Pillars of divers Colours the Roof is curiously carved and the Arches of Mosaick Work of Gold and Azure The Gates are of Brass finely wrought and the Doors of the private Chambers are of inlaid Work This College cost the Founder three hundred and eighty thousand Crowns There are about one hundred hot Baths well built with four Halls to each and certain Galleries without where they put off their Cloaths when they go to bath themselves IV. As for his Revenues he is absolute Lord of the whole Estate and of his Subjects Goods and Bodies He has the Tenth and First Fruits of all Fruits Corn and Cattle tho many times contented in the Name of the First Fruits with one in twenty He receives the fifth part of a Ducat for every Acre of Land throughout his Dominions the other four parts for every Fire and as much for every Head above fifteen years of Age. Of Merchandize he receives of every Native two in the hundred of every Alien ten and has a large Impost upon every Mill. When any of his greater Officers or Judges die he is sole Heir of all their Goods and yet advances great Sums by the Sale of those Offices And upon extraordinary Occasions he levies what Taxes he pleases but commonly he is pretty moderate in them HABESSINIA I. THE Emperors of the Habissins and Kings of Upper Aethiopia pretend to be descended from Solomon and Magueda or Nizaule as Josephus names her the Queen of the South or of Sheba The name of the present Emperor is Malec Saghedus The genuine style of an Epistle written by him to the Pope was thus Libellus Epistolae à Malec Saghedo Rege Regum Aethiopiae perveniat ad Sanctum Patriarcham Romanum II. The Arms of this King are usually said to be the same with those of the Tribe of Judah viz. a Lion Rampant in a Field Or with this Motto Vicit Leo de Tribu Judah But others say his Arms to be Luna a cross Portate Mars charged with a Crucifix Sol betwixt two Scourges of the Second He professes the Christian Religion but is a Schismatick and owns the Patriarch of Alexandria He uses the Aethiopick Language which is a Dialect of the Hebrew but the Dialect there used by the Persons of Quality and the Learned is the Amarick III. He has scarce any considerable Town People living there most in Tents IV. His Revenues are not in Ready Mony but consist of the natural Products of his Country by an even way of Tribute some pay Gold others Horses Cows Oxen Sheep Bread Corn Ox-hides and Garments c. MONOMOTOPA I. THE King of this Country was baptized with his his whole Court by one Gonsalvo a Jesuit by the name of Sebastian that being the name of the then King of Portugal ann 1560 but he caused the said Gonsalvo to be put to death afterwards at the solicitation of four Mahometans whom in the end he also caused to be slain II. His Arms are Azure two bearded Arrows in Pale Or. Some give him a Dart and a Pickax III. His Capital City is Monomotopa the Houses are made of Wood and Earth bound together with a sort of Bitumen they are but two stories and are covered with Straw or Branches of Trees the tops are raised like a Tent they are contrived to lie open after such a manner as to be refreshed by the Winds which reign according to the diversity of the Seasons all their Fronts resemble each other and are painted with divers Colours and embelished with many Figures they mix certain Gums with those Colours which make them resist the Injuries of the Weather The Emperor's Palace is not without its Beauty CONGO I. IN the Reign of John the Second King of Portugal ann 1490 the Discovery and Conversion of the Kingdom of Congo happened the then King there being Christened John from whom the present King is descended and continues of the Roman Religion according to a Relation given by the Capucins ann 1665. II. His Arms are Gules a Cross Argent cantoned with four Escutcheons of the same each charged with five Roundles Sable placed in Saltier These Arms having been formerly given one of the Kings of Congo by Don Alphonso King of Portugal Others say these Arms in their beginning were Gules a Cross flowered Argent charged in the midst with an Escutcheon Azure charged with five Besants Argent placed in Saltier within a Border Azure charged in each Angle with two Cockle-Shells Or. Others say his Arms are Mars five Swords meeting in Base Sol which Coat was taken by Alphonso the Second Christian King of Congo because in the Battel which he fought against Panse Aquitine he and his Soldiers saw or fancied they saw such a Number of shining Swords hanging in the Air with their Points turned directly upon the Enemy III. His chief Town is S. Salvador which is of large extent and well peopled the Houses are built with Wood and Branches of Trees bound together with a little Earth mixed with Lime IV. The only Money of this Kingdom is Cockle-Shells tho the King has great Treasures from Mines of Silver and other Metals from the Sale of Slaves from Elephants Teeth c. FINIS Advertisement to the READER AS to the Account here given concerning the Chief Princes of the World and the several Heads relating to them I well know that the last year a small Book was printed in 120 relating to the first Head of mine viz. The Births and Names of the Chief European Princes I know also that a few years since a Book was set forth in Latin by a German Writer giving a Genealogical Account of the Chief Princes of Europe which Book was translated into English and publish'd also the last year But it cannot be said that I transcribe from these for it s well known to many Gentlemen in London that the year before Mr. Gadbury set forth the Births of some European Princes in his Almanack I had a Collection of them ready for the Press Indeed as for what Princes have been born since that time I have now and then made use of those Books tho their Births are also to be found in our Gazettes And as to the Rise of the European Princes I have generally followed the said German Author tho I only briefly intimate the Rise and Descent of each Prince in his direct Line and do not deduce an entire Genealogical Series of them according to the several Branches of their Families as he has done As to the Blazon of the Princes Coats of Arms and some other particulas in the Work I have chiefly followed two French Writers in them viz. Manesson Mallet in his Geographie Universelle and Gedeon Pontier in his Cabinet des Gran●● As to the greatness and Populosity of Cities I have chiefly used Sir William Petty's Account of them and some things I have taken from Dr. Brown's Account of his Travels relating to them And as for other Matters I have us'd several Authors according as things have occur'd to me in my Reading and inserted what I have otherwise receiv'd by information Upon the whole I conceive a brief view of the World according to the Heads set down by me may be grateful●● and usefully instructive to Gentlemen tho I cannot 〈…〉 them with that accurateness or rendred them 〈…〉 as a second Edition set forth by me or some other industrous Hand hereafter may afford FINIS