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A29826	A brief account of some travels in divers parts of Europe viz Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli : through a great part of Germany, and the Low-Countries : through Marca Trevisana, and Lombardy on both sides of the Po : with some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, and the baths and mineral waters in those parts : as also, the description of many antiquities, habits, fortifications and remarkable places / by Edward Brown.	Brown, Edward, 1644-1708.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5111; ESTC R7514	234,342	240

large Farm-house not far from thence belonging to a rich Wine-Merchant of Belgrade From hence we travelled by Night to the noted River Morava or Moschius the chief River of this Country which arising above in the Mountains in two streams the one named Morava di Bulgaria the other Morava di Servia after uniting runs into the Danube at Zenderin or Singidunum opposite to the Rascian shoar we passed this River at a place which was broad somewhat deep and rapid and therefore not without some fear and the continued loud prayer of the Chiaus in Turkish and of the Couriers Ora pro nobis This passage put me in mind of the swist River Varus in the Confines of Provence and Italy which I passed on Horse-back with two men going by me on the lower side shoving up my Horse lest the current should bear him down By this River Morava the commodities of Servia and part of Bulgaria are brought into the Danube and so dispersed and up the current of the same River are brought Salt and other commodities from Hungary Austria and the neighbour Countreys Not far from this River was that great slaughter of the Turks by Hunniades who with ten thousand Horse set upon the Turkish Camp by Moon-light slew thirty thousand and took four thousand Prisoners victoriously returning unto his Camp Where he left Vladislaus and George Despot of Servia We arrived at length at Halli Jahisar or Crushovatz in Bulgarian a considerable place where there is an handsom Church with two fair Towers Then travelling the whole day through Hills and Woods we came to Procupie which some will have to be Villa Procopiana in Turkish called Vrchup Here we stayed till the next day being lodged in a Ragusean Merchants house where we were well entertained The Priest being of the Roman Church spake Latine which is a Language not ordinary in these parts and enquiring of me after Latine Books I presented him with one called Manuductio ad coelum which he kindly accepted and gave me a wrought-coloured Handkerchief and some little things of those parts They had also a Physician who had some knowledge of Simples and ordinary Compositions His manner was to go into the Market-place every morning and invite all persons who stood in need of his assistance to resort unto him From hence we came to Lescoa or Lescovia where I could observe little besides a large Tower which seemed to be ancient but without Inscription We passed much of our time at a great Fair which happened to be at that time kept in a large enclosed place with great resort of People where I thought it seasonable to present the Chiaus with a Feather he having lost his the day before and we found some want thereof for hereby we travelled with more Authority through all places This Town is seated upon the remarkable River Lyperitza which may well be called the Maeander of Maesia for it runs ●o winding and crankling between the Hills that in the space of less than twelve hours we passed it ninety times This called to my mind the River Taro in Italy which parting from the Dominions of Parma I passed forty times before I came to Fornovo The next day we travelled over the Mountain Clissura one of the Spurs or Excursions of Mount Haemus We were much surprised at the gallant appearance thereof for the Rocks and Stones of this Mountain shine like Silver and by the light of Sun and Moon for I passed it once by day and another time by night afforded a pleasant glittering show as consisting of Muscovia glass whereof I brought some home with me This Mountain surely cannot be much unlike that mentioned by Olearius in his Travels into Persia between Permeras and Scamachia where he relates that he saw a Mountain of Lapis Specularis which when the Sun shined upon it looked like a heap of Diamonds We descended in a narrow rocky way by the strong Castle of Kolombotz or Golobotz and came unto Vrania seated at the bottom of the Mountain Clissura this is a strong Pass which the Castle commands and locks up the passage The Hills between Servia and Macedonia are a part of Mount Haemus which under several names is thought to extend from the Adriatick to the Euxine Sea admitting of several passages which Philip King of Macedon took a special care to shut up against the Neighbouring Nations Which when he had done he thought himself secure and that from thence no Enemies could come at him except they dropped out of the Clouds Some have thought that from the middle Peaks of Haemus a man might see both the Euxine and Adriatick Seas and King Philip made tryal of it but we find not that he satisfied his curiosity therein nor do I think any hath done it Being upon high Mountains and more inclining to the Adriatick Sea I viewed all about but found that the high Albanian Hills did cut off all long Prospect From Vrania we passed to Comonava near which there is still a Greek Monastery upon the side of the Hills From thence to Kaplanlih or Tigres Town but why so called I could not learn Then to Kuprulih or Bridge-Town where there is a considerable River named Ps●nia and a good Bridge built over it This Town was casually set on ●ire while we were in it and a great part of it burnt down the fire encreasing much before we got out of it Here we met with many persons who brought the Tribute and a Present of Hawks out of Wallachia unto the Grand Seignior then residing at Larissa From hence by Isbar we came to Pyrlipe first passing the high Mountains of Pyrlipe in Macedonia which shine like Silver as those of Clissura and beside Moscovia Glass may contain good Minerals in their bowels The Rocks of this Mountain are the most craggy that I have seen and massy Stones lye upon stones without any Earth about them and upon a ridge of a Mountain many Steeples high stands the strong Castle of Marco Crollowitz a man formerly famous in these Parts Then through a Plain Country we came to Monaster or Toli a great Place well peopled and pleasantly Seated Here the Sultana who was great with Child at Larissa was designed to be delivered and lye in All accommodations being ordered to that purpose where I afterwards heard she was delivered of a Daughter who lived not long after The Turks who have a high opinion of Alexander the Great would have been glad to have had a Son of the Empire born in Macedonia From hence to Filurina and Eccisso Verbeni where there are Acidulae of good esteem the Springs large and plentiful Before we descended the Hill which leads to this Town we had a sight before us of the famous Mount Olympus about Seventy miles off and on the left hand we saw the Lakes of Petriski and Ostrova they have a Traditi●n that one of these Lakes was made by taking great stones out of the side of the Hills whereby the

and Slaves which are often met with in those Countries together with the variety of their hard Fates and Accounts how they fell into that Condition some by Treachery some by Chance of War others by Plagiary and Man-stealing Tartars who plentifully furnish the Turkish Dominion some fixed to one Master others having been sold unto many and at distant Places But their Condition is most desperate who are Slaves to the Court and belong to the Grand Seiignior for they are never to be redeemed Of which kind I met with one at Egribugia in Macedonia attending at the post-house who though he had no hard Office yet was extremely dejected upon this misfortune of Non-redemption In Thessaly also I met with one Sigismund who had been a Slave to several Persons and in several Countries He was an Hungarian born at Gran and taken at the Battle of Barachan under Count Forchatz in the last Wars first served a Turk then sold to a Jew who proved a hard Master then to an Armenian under whom he so well acquitted himself that his Master gave him his freedom and he made a shift to come to Larissa where the Emperor 's Resident entertained him I was very much pleased with his Conversation being a worthy honest and good natured Man and had maintained his Christianity in his several Fortunes He spoke Hungarian Sclavonian Turkish Armenian and Latin shew'd me the Draughts of many Monasteries Abbies Moschea's and considerable Buildings in Armenia Persia and Turkey and I hope by this time he is in his own Country The Turks who are well acquainted with the Captives of several Nations make observations of them so they say a Russian is best for the Oar a Georgian makes a good Courtier and an Albanian a good Counsellor A Turk in our company observing a Georgian Captive much dejected at his Condition encouraged him and bid him be of good cheer telling him he might come to be a great Man and one of the best in Turky The first time I went to have a sight of the Grand Seignior Osmund Chiaus made no great haste forward and when I asked him the reason he replied I take no great pleasure to be too near him and afterwards when he talked of some Bassa's who had been strangled and I added that in this respect he lived more happily than any Bassa he said such things must be patiently put up all our Lives are in the Sultan's hands in your petty Kingdoms and States Men are Tryed and Convicted but our great Empire cannot be so maintained and if the Sultan should now send for my Head I must be content to lay it down patiently not asking wherefore and I remember his Words were that in this Country we must have patienza fin a perder la testa e poi pa●ienza patience even to the loss of our Heads and patience after that We had frequent Memento's of Mortality by Graves and Sepulchres as we passed especially near Belgrade For the Turks are commonly buried by the High-ways yet their Tombs are not ordinarily splendid consisting only of a Stone erected at the Head and at the Feet yet some set up Stones of two three or four yards high Some have a Turbant carved upon the Stone at the Head and others set up two Pillars of Stone some proceed farther and raise the Sepulchres as with us and afterwards place two Pillars upon them one at the Head and another at the Feet At Scopia I saw fair ones after this manner and two Sepulchres in one of them but the best way I observed in these Parts is by building a Pavillion supported by four Pillars As we travelled to the South from Jagodna in Servia I saw upon the side of a Hill a large Turkish Tomb about four yards long and a square place covered by it which the Chiaus told me was the Tomb of one of their Saints and accordingly performed his Devotions at it and at other Places on Thursday Nights and Friday's I observed the Women to visit the Sepulchres and pay their Devotions at the Tombs of their dead Friends This Gigantick Saint that lay buried here was certainly a fit Man in his time to wield the holy Club with which the Turk does propogate his Religion and Dominion and if he were as long as his Tomb he was as formidable a Person as any of the Patagonian Gyants painted upon the Southern Part of divers Maps of America with long Arrows in their Throats I must confess it seems strange to me that the Stature of Man should be extended to that height Mr. Wood an ingenious Person who hath made very fair and accurate Maps of the Streights of Magellan the Islands therein and the Coast from the River of Plate to Baldivia in the South-sea told me that he had seen divers Graves in the Southern Parts of America near four yards long which surprized him the more because he had never seen any American that was two yards high and therefore he opened one of these long Sepulchres from one end to the other and found in it a Man and a Woman so placed that the Womans head lay at the Mans feet and so might reasonably require a Tomb of near that length But to return into the rode for our diversion we sometimes met with Turkish Fairs which are ordinarily kept in some large ground enclosed and divided into Streets and Passes according to the variety of Commodities to be sold where a Man may recreate himself with multiplicity of Fripperies and things different from those of our Parts and cannot want variety of Musick which though but mean proved some diversion unto us The first Fair we met with was at Lescoa or Lescovia upon the River Liperizza in Servia It was no small comfort to us to find the Country so free from the Plague which we only met with at Prestina a large Town on part of the Plains of Cossova when we came into that Place we were entertained in a very good House and brought into a large Room well accommodated with Carpets and other Ornaments where we found a Turk lying sick of the Plague The Chiaus after the Turkish Humor made nothing of it but some others were not so contented and therefore we removed and travelled in the Night till we came to a Gypsie's House amongst the Hills where we were well accommodated The Turks were much pleased to see me write when I came into any House I pulled out my paper-Paper-book to set down what I observed which when they perceived they would come about me taking notice of the Paper and binding of the Book wondring to see me write so fast and with such a Pen which was made of a Goose Quill they usually writing with a hard Reed cut like our Pens Many carry about them an handsome brass Ink-horn which they hang by their sides their Ink is good Paper smooth and polished whereon they will write very fairly as I have to show in the Sultan's Pass which I

to conduct us and that no man could or ought to stop him whereupon the Cadih said the Chiaus must not be hindred in his journey nor the Post-master be unconsidered and so presently called for the Post-masters Book and with his pen made of a reed set down a Sultanine to be allowed him in his accounts to the Tefterdar and bade us good morrow and wished us a good journey In the European Turkish Dominions which I passed I could not but take notice of the great number of Christians for excepting great Cities or where the Souldiery reside they are generally all Christians whereof the great body is of the Greek Church who live patiently under the Turkish toleration If there should happen any considerable commotion among the Turkish powers it is highly probable they would sit still and be little active and if any Forces of the Latine Church should attempt the Conquests of these parts in all probability they would find very little assistance from them and I fear they would rather adhere unto their Turkish Masters Though Augustus thought it a point of wisdom to put some limit unto the Roman Empire yet I do not find the Turks are of his judgment but still endeavour to enlarge their Dominions and when I consider that people their hardy education sober course of life and obedience to their Superiors that no Bassa can easily intend a revolt but some others will discover him in hope to obtain his place or some great preferment and that they so punctually observe the duty of their Charges I am apt to think or fear if he who puts bounds to the Sea and saith hither thou shalt come and no further doth not out of his great mer●y put a stop to their further incursions they may probably obtain and conserve a far larger Empire and even all Europe unto the Western Ocean Certain it is that they are unsatisfied with their present bounds and look beyond Hungaria and I have heard them say we must in due time come to Beatch for so they call Vienna and try our fortunes again At this day the Star and Half-moon are above the Cross upon the Steeple of the Cathedral Church of St. Stephen in the Emperor of Germany his Imperial City of Vienna and it grieved me to see in all the Con●ines a sort of Cross which our Heralds do not dream of which is a Cross Lunated after this manner whereby the Inhabitants as they testifie their Christianity so they acknowledge the Turkish power A Cross with Half-moons set over the Churches in the Country which payeth contribution to the Turks in Hungary The Star and Half-moon upon the Steeple of St. Stephen's Church at Vienna Le●pold stadt pag●● A JOURNEY FROM KOMARA OR GOMORA TO THE MINE-TOVVNS IN HUNGARY AND FROM THENCE TO VIENNA BEING at Komara and having satisfied my curiosity as far that way as the Christian Dominions extended I pursued my intention of seeilng the Copper Silver and Gold Mines in Hungary and being unwilling to return again to Presburg so far about to get into the road towards them I attempted a nearer passage although there be few who go that way And therefore I travelled along the North shoar of the Island of Schut till I came to the Confluence of the River Waag and Danube and then passed over to a Fortification raised since the last War called Gutta it lies in a Marish ground between a branch of the Danube the Waag and the Swartz within a mile of Newheusel which we plainly saw from the Steeple of the Church at Gutta and could distinguish the buildings within it as the Bassa's Pala●e formerly belonging to the Arch Bishop of Presburg The Church in the middle of the Town the Tower to the Moske and others But this nearness to Newheusel proved not only dangerous but destructive to it in the beginning of the year 1685. after that the Turks had sent great Recruits from Buda ●or the Count of Zabor having burnt the Suburbs of Newheusel and taken several Prisoners the Turks to revenge it made an excursion and burnt the Town of Gutta and put all the Inhabitants to the Sword Their Boats here are of one piece of wood in which notwithstanding they venture themselves and pass the greatest Rivers with them in this Fort were 130 men commanded by Captain Matthias Fruhwurdt From hence by Forchatz we came to Schella where there is another Fort built to hinder the Turks from passing the River Waag for hereabouts th● Tartars broke over burned and ruined the whole Country about in the late war in such manner that it remains still desolate at half a miles distance from this place is a hole in the Earth which burns like Solfaterra by Naples From hence we went to Schinta a large Fort and built long since to command the River and the Country about There is a Tower in the middle four Bastions and many good pieces of Cannon At the entrance there hanges a great Rib a Thigh-bone and a Tooth which I judged to be of an Elephant having seen the Skeleton of one and also such bones as these hang up before the Emperor's House at Laxambourg those bearing the name of the bones of a great Heathen Virgin and these of a Gyant We came afterwards to Leopolstadt a noble regular Fortification with six Bastions where the Young Count de Souches commanded to whom I delivered Letters and received many favours from him Afterwards I passed the River and came to Freistat a large sair Town but lately burned by the Turk Count Forchatz hath a handsome Castle here and a large House in the Town whereof I took the draught The Lutherans had also a School or College here but ruined with the rest of the Buildings They are Tributaries to the Turk paying yearly eight Hungarische almost four pence of our money for every head whether of Man Woman Children Sheep Oxen or Horses The Children are educated to hardship and the Women seldom marry twice They bathe much and use sweating naked in Stoves holding their feet in warm water They use Cupping-glasses also very much and scarifications In the Convent of the Franciscans were onely twelve Friars left and the Roman Christians in these parts have few other Priests but Monks Two Hungarian miles from Friestat lies Banca where in a low ground near the River are fifteen Baths into three of which the River-water is now entred the River Waag continually wearing out its banks by reason of its rapid course Twenty years since there were also hot Baths on the other side of the River but are now covered with the cold stream These Baths leave a white sediment in all places and tinge Copper and Silver immediately as black as Ink Hard by these Baths is a Quarry of Stone and some Veins of Chalk which were very pleasing to behold the Chalk being of all colours except green and the colours so finely mixed as a painting or marble Paper doth not equal it We being

and they were sure to have the countenance of the Emperor I found them also much affected with the English Society in other parts of Germany At the University of Altorff I was much enquired of concerning it and a Magistrate of Nurnburg who had got a Tilescope from London invited me to his House to practice the way of using it Der Herr von Aldershelme of Leipsick a Person of great Curiosity was very inquisitive after the same Society And of late years the Curiosi of Germany have held Learned Conventions and Correspondence and printed their Observations at Leipsick And since my Return into England I have been sollicited from Cassovia in Vpper Hungary to send the Transactions into those Parts During my stay at Vienna I went unto a publick Anatomy of a Woman that was beheaded the Lecture lasted so long that the Body was Nineteen days unburied It was performed by a Learned Physician Dr. Wolfjtregel who read in Latin to the satisfaction of all persons What I most particularly observed therein was this The Pyramidal Muscles very plain and large the Vterus larger than is usually observed the Cartilago Ensiformis double the Lungs very black the Eye was very well shown he produced an artificial Eye of Ivory and another large one of Pastbeard and Paper contrived and made by himself the Muscles of the Pharynx Larynx Os Hyoides and the Tongue after their dissection he reduced very handsomly into their proper places again to shew their natural situation and position The Anatomy-Theatre was of capacity to receive above an hundred persons but of Anatomy-Theatres until of late there have been few in Germany or none And when I was in the Anatomy-School at Altorff near Nurenburg that learned civil Professor Dr. Mauritius Hoffmannus told me that the same was the First in Germany Paulus de Sorbait Prime Professor Physician unto Eleonora the Empress Dowager and Knight of Hungary was the Rector Magnificus Zwelfer who writ Animadversions upon the Dispensatory of Ausburg was in great repute in Vienna and had built for himself a Noble House in the City but he died some time before my coming thither In fine the University is noble their Advancements considerable their Privileges great and they have the power of life and death from Ancient and later Concessions of their Dukes and Emperors But the greatest lustre unto Vienna is the Residence of the present Emperor Leopoldus he was born in the year 1638. he was Son unto the Emperor Ferdinand the Third he was baptized by the Names of ●●●opoldus Ignatius Franciscus Balthazar Josephus Felicianus His lest Brother Ferdinand King of the Romans died of the Small Pox his Fathers time His Brother Carolus Josephus Master of the ●uto●ick Order dyed 1662. He married Margareta Infanta of Spain ●ughter unto King Philip the Fourth whose Children died Infants vertuous affable grave and worthy Prince and seemed to me to ●e very happily here in the love and honour of his People Soul●iers and Clergy His Person is grave and graceful he hath the Austrian Lip remarkably his Chin long which is taken for a Good Physiognomical mark and a sign of a constant placid and little troubled mind He is conceived to carry in his Face the lineaments of four of his Predecessours that is of Rudolphus the First of Ma●●imilian the First of Charles the Fifth and Ferdinand the First He was very affectionate unto his Empress who though but young was a modest grave Princess had a good aspect was zealous in her Religion and an Enemy unto the Jews He shewed also great respect and observance unto the Empress Dowager Elconora who was a sober and prudent Princess well skilled in all kind of curious Works and delighted sometimes to shoot at Deer from a Stand or at other Game out of her Coach He was also very loving unto his Sisters beautiful and good Princesses whereof one the eldest was since married unto that Noble Prince Michael Wisnowitzski King of Poland And afterwards to Charles Duke of Lorain He speaks four Languages German Italian Spanish and Latin He is a great Countenancer of Learned Men and delights to read and when occasion permits will pass some hours at it The worthy Petrus Lambecius his Library Keeper and who is in great esteem with him will usually find out some Books for him which he conceives may be acceptable While I was there he recommended a Translation of Religio Medici unto him wherewith the Emperor was exceedingly pleased and spake very much of it unto Lambecius insomuch that Lambecius asked me whether I knew the Author he being of my own name and whether ●he were living And when he understood my near Relation to him he became more kind and courteous than ever and desired me to send him that Book in the Original English which he would put into the Emperors Library and presented me with a neat little Latin Book called Princeps in Compendio written by the Emperors Father Ferdinandus the Third He is also skilful in Musick composes well and delighted much in it both at his Palace and the Church which makes so many Musicians in Vienna for no place abounds more with them and in the Evening we seldom sailed of Musick in the Streets and at our Windows And the Emperors delight herein makes the Church-men take the greater care to set off their Church-Musick for he goes often to Church and not to one but divers especially the best Conventual Churches and in his own Chappel some of his own Compositions are often play'd He hath also excellent Musick in his Palace both Vocal and Instrumental and his private Chappel is well served where besides the excellent Musick there are always eight or ten Counts Pages to the Emperor who serve at the Altar with white wax Torches in their hands and after the manner of the Italian Princes divers Eunuchs to sing For his Recreations abroad he delights much in Hunting especially of the wild Boar in due seasons I have known him bring home six Boars in a morning Some stout persons particularly count Nicholas Serini would encounter a wild Boar alone but at last he unfortunately perished by one which hath made others more wary since and therefore when the Boar is at a Bay the Huntsmen so stand about him that the Emperor or other great persons may more safely make use of their Boar-spears upon him Surely there are great numbers of them about the Country for they are no unusual or extraordinary Dish in the City though of a delicious and pleasing taste They feed upon Acorns Beech-mast and Chesnuts upon the spring or sprout of Broom Juniper and Shrubs and upon the roots of Fern and will range into Corn-fields and come out of Forests into Vineyards The Huntsmen are notably versed and skilful in that Game for though they see it not they will distinguish a wild from a common Swine and guess whether that which they hunt be Male or Female old or young large or small

would be much surprized to find such a notable one here as may compare with them especially upon the extreme Borders of the Learned part of Europe The number and nobleness of the Books doth much exceed the receptacle or place which contains them as making no fair shew at the entrance and somewhat wanting light But as for the number and value of the Books they are of opinion here that it yields unto none but rather excels any other Library in Europe There was a place designed for the building of a fit receptacle for them but I know not how a Theatre for Comedies is now built in that place It is divided into eight Chambers or Rooms which are so well filled that many Books are fain to lie upon the Floor and the Shelves stand so close that there is but just room to pass between them The Manuscripts stand distinct from the printed Books according to their Languages being divided into six Classes Theological Juridical Medical Philosophical Historical Philological There can scarce be a more admirable Collection than the Manuscripts in part of the first Chamber of Hebrew Syriack Arabick Turkish Armenian Aethiopick and Chinese Books It was begun at least the Books began to be placed in this receptacle by Maximilian the First but hath been much encreased by succeeding Emperors most of them since Rodolphus the First being much addicted unto Learning there having been large accessions from many noble Libraries and most upon the cost of the Emperors The choicest Books in the famous Library of Buda of King Matthias Corvinus Son unto Huniades are now in it The notable Library of Wolfgangus Lazius who was Library-Keeper was brought hither and Three thousand Books of Johannes Sambucus are now in this Repository Augerius Bushequius sometime Library-Keeper hereof added much unto it and in his two Turkish Embassies procured a great number of noble Greek Manuscripts at Constantinople which are inscribed with his own hand Aug. de Busbeck emit Constantinopoli A great many were added from the Library of the Learned Johannes Cuspinianus Library Keeper and Councellor unto the Emperor The notable Libraries and Mathematical Instruments of Tycho Brahe Kepler and Gassendus were purchased for it But the largest accession was made by the noble Library of Count Fugger which consisting of sixteen thousand Volumes was purchased by Ferdinand the Third Many were brought some few years past from the Ambrasian Library by Inspruck by the Learned Petrus Lambecius Library-keeper Historiographer and Councellor unto the present Emperor who hath also an excellent Library which is like to be added unto the Imperial He then reckoned the Volumes in this great Library to amount at least to Fourscore thousand and by this time that number may be increased for he adds some yearly And the number might almost be endless if they would make use of their privilege for the Emperor ● at h a right to have two Books of all that are printed in Germany They have also a great advantage at Vienna to acquire good Manuscripts from the Turkish Dominions for the Emperor is obliged to have a Resident with the Grand Sei●nior wheresoever he moves or orders him to be even at the last fight of St. Godart the Emperor 's Resident was in the Turkish Camp And when I was at Larissa in Thessaly the Resident Signor de Casa Nova was inquisitive after Books to be found among the Greeks in Monasteries and other places And this Emperor like his Father will spare no cost toward such Acquiries By the especial favour of my noble Friend Lambecius I went many times into this Library and he was so courteous as to let me have what Books I desired unto my private Lodging He would shew me divers Books upon what Subject I required and offered me a sight of what Books he thought rare and estimable and amongst others I could not but take notice of these following A Letter of the present Emperor of China in the Chinese and Tartarian Languages unto the present Emperor of Germany weaved in a very fine Roll. Another old Roll written in unknown Letters yet a little resembling the Greek A Book in the Runick Language A very fair Manuscript of Ptolomy with the Maps drawn in Colours The oldest Manuscript and true Exemplar of Livy in large Letters without distinction of Words or Sentences very uneasie to be read a thousand years old and brought not many years since from the Library near Inspruck An old fair Greek Manuscript of Dioscorides written eleven hundred years since in very large Letters without distance of Words or Accents wherein all the Plants are lively painted also the Pictures of Dioscorides Galen Pamphilus Cratevas and other ancient Physicians bought of a Jew at Constantinople for an hundred Ducats by Busbequius A Book of Geometrical Propositions demonstrated in the China Language Another fair one in the China Tongue with Pictures A noble old Greek Manuscript in great uncial Letters without stops points or distance of words An ancient Greek Manuscript of the Book of Genesis in large Letters without distance or accents thirteen hundred years ago wherein are Forty eight Pictures or Draughts in Miniature or Water-colours much conducing to the knowledge of ancient Habits the manner of Feasting postures at Meals waiting of Servants and Musical Instruments Wherein I could not but take notice of the Golden Spot upon Joseph's breast and the manner of the Execution of Pharaoh's Baker his head being put through a forked piece of wood and his Hands tyed behind him A fair Book of Albert Durer wherein are many fine Paintings in Miniature or Limning as also a Sphere and within it a Globe carved and painted by him A fair Book of Michael Angelo wherein besides many rare things in Architecture are all the paintings and designs of the Belvedere in little A fair Alcoran in Arabick interlined with the Turkish to explain it The Bible in the Coptick and Persian Languages Luther's own Bible marked with his own Hand and interlined by him with Notes in many places A fair Greek Manuscript of the New Testament fifteen hundred years ago written in Letters of Gold upon Purple There was also a Magical Glass obtained by the Emperor Rodolphus whereby to see Appariti●ns and converse with Spirits which some conceive to be the same or of the like nature with that used by Kelly Of ancient Greek Roman and Gothick Medals and Coyns in Gold Silver and Copper to the number of sixteen thousand Among the Copper Coyns they pretend to have two of the Emperor Marcus Otho I let fall some Drops into this Ocean adding some Coyns Intaglia's and Inscriptions not to be found in that large work of Gruterus which having found in the Emperors further Dominions and Turkish parts long out of his possession where there had been no great enquiry after them were shewed unto his Imperial Majesty by Petrus Lambecius and so well accepted by him that he said I might have the use of what Books

great measure remarkable though Verona being now very ancient there is no good account at this day to be found who was the founder of them or by whom or at what time they were first built it is manifest however that they long since did good service and that in the civil wars of the Romans between Caesar and Pompey Augustus and Antonius Vitellius and Vespasian Severus and Julian and others this was a considerable place of strength and sided with Caesar against Pompey took Augustus's part against Marcus Antonius was for Vitellius against Vespasian long after held out for some time for Maxentius against Constantine the great The Emperor Gallienus took such particular care in fortifying Verona that he left his name to the Town and divers inscriptions upon the wall for the Roman Empire being much divided in his time and the force of the foreign Nations encreasing in many parts he expresly commanded to render the walls of this place strong which being feated in the jaws of the Alpes was more likely to be swallowed first by the Northern Nations Theodoricus Amalus that great Conqueror and excellent King of the Goths was in succeeding times marvellously pleased with Verona amplified and adorned it rebuilt and fortified its walls which were rendred notwithstanding in after ages more considerable by the Emperor Charles the great and his Son King Pippin who made this the head City of Italy In latter times Albertus Scaliger brother to Mastinus Scaliger the first Soveraign Lord of Verona and his Son Canis Grandis more fully enlarged and fortified Verona against the Incursions of the Germans And the Venetians last of all have built large Bastions about itstrongly faced with Brick The City within is convenient and beautiful the Piazza a handsome long Square the Streets large and the Town being built part upon the Plain and part upon Hills makes the variety of the Prospect more pleasing looking somewhat like the beautiful City of Lyon in France There are many good Houses Giusto's Palace is particularly fair and his Gardens delightful in which I saw the Aloe Plant in Stem and Seed the Stem or Stalk being about twenty Foot high the Churches are beautiful among which Saint Anastastus is one of the fairest and the Cathedral and many others of them are antient this City being converted to the Christian Faith by Saint Euprepius their first Bishop Seventy years after Christ St. Zeno their Eighth Bishop is their Patron who lived in the time of Gallienus and Four and Thirty of their Bishops besides are Canonized Peter Martyr was also Born in Verona who was assassinated between M●lan and Coma was Canonized by Pope Innocent the Fourth and lies splendidly Entombed in Milan Besides these great Religious Men others though not so Famous for Piety have notwithstanding been living ornaments to their City among which the excellent Poet C. Valerius Catullus is one of the first whom Ovid mentions Mantua Virgilio gaud t Verona Catullo And Martial complements in this manner Tantum magna suo debet Verona Catullo Quantum parva suo Mantua Virgilio C. Cornelius Nepos was also born in the territories of Verona to whom Catullus gives his Book Cui dono lepidum uovum libellum Arido modo pumice expolitum Corneli tibi namque tu solebas Meas esse aliquid putare nugas Cornelius Nepos excellently skilled in Antiquity is said to have written a Chronicle of the Roman Affairs and other works and the Lives of Illustrious persons among which the life of Pomponius Atticus is only extant C. Aemilius Macer a good Poet was also of Verona He lived in the time of Augustus Caesar and wrote of Plants Birds and Serpents Saepe suas volucres legit mihi grandior Aevo Quaeque nocet sorpens quae juvat herba Marcer The next is Lucius Vitruvius a great Architect and whose Statue with other famous men of this City is set over the Court The more known Marcus Vitruvius who wrote the ten Books of Architecture was of Rome Caius Plinius Secundus was also an honour to this City and of latter days many learned men by being born and living here have added much to its credit as Torello Sarayna Onuphrius Panvinius who wrote expresly of the Antiquities of their own City Jeronimus Fracastorius Joannes Baptista Montanus Antonius Fumanellus Alexander Benedictus Gabriel Zerbus Joannes Arculanus who lived a hundred years here Guarinus Joannes Antonius Pantheus Joannes Baptista Bagolinus and the admired learned Lady Isota Nogarola who among other treatises wrote a dialogue in which she ingeniously discourses who sinned first Adam or Eve The Emperor Philippus was slain at Verona by his own Souldiers There was a Colony setled here by Pompey and one Pompeianus held out the Town against Constantine the great in the year 323. The Emperor Valentinian after that he made his Brother Valens partner with him in the Empire and placed him in the East visited this City and Theodorick the Conqueror of Italy and great King of the Goths lived long here Placidia daughter of Valentinian the third and of Eudoxia lived the latter part of her time dyed here and was buried in the Church of St. Stephen which was formerly their Cathedral in which Church lye also buried one and twenty Bishops of Verona forty Martyrs put to death in Dioclesian's Persecution and four of the Innocent Children But there are other things which still add to the beauty of this City Vrbibus Italiae praestat Verona superbis Aedibus Ingenio Flumine Monte Lacu i. e. Hills Rivers Lakes Buildings and Arts do grace Noble Verona above any place The Lacus Benacus or Lago di Garda is a very considerable Lake near this place which stretches it self from Peschiera on the South Thirty five Italian Miles to the North and is in some places Fourteen Miles broad and the Winds often blowing fiercely from the Neighbouring Hills make it rough and troublesome like a Sea Fluctibus fremitu assurgens Benace marino Cleopatra had once a design to carry her Ships and Vessels cross the Country through Aegypt out of the Mediterranean into the Red-Sea over that Isthmus or neck of Land which divides Africa from Asia which would have been a notable exploit yet considering that Aegypt is a flat Country which renders the design more feasible and that the Territory about this Lake is very Hilly it is an action no less to be admired which the Venetians effectually performed when they brought their Ships and Galleys out of the Adriatick over Land into the Lago di Garda to engage in a Naval Fight upon this notable Lake with Filippo Visconte Commander of the Milan Forces There are divers handsom Towns and Villages upon the side of the Lacus Benacus as Lacisium Bardolinum famous for the pleasant Bardolin Figgs Garda which gives it the modern name Malsesenum Ripa Tusculanum where there are still some remains of old Benacus which gave it the ancient appellation Maternum Salodium Desentianum

Passaw 120 Peneus 36 Petronel 14 Pfalts Castle 117 Philippus the Emperors Coyn 11 Pohunt 187 Pont du gard 210 Ponteba or Ponte Fella 86 Prague 162 Presburg 16 Prestina 33 Pyrlipe 31 Pythagon 35 Q. A Quarry of Stone 190 Quicksilver Mines 82 Quintin 109 R. RAb 16 Raspelhuis 97 Ratisbone 126 Relicks 183 Rivers 178 Roermonde 111 Roterdam 92 S. SAal 77 Saltatio Pyrrhica 10 Salt-mines 71 Samandria 28 Saviniere 186 Saxonies Electors rarities 167 Scaldis or Scheld 108 Scaliger Joseph 94 Schadt Wien 75 Schella 56 Schemnitz 57 Schinta 56 Sclavonian Language 8 Scopia 32 Sene or Sone 19 Sestri 221 Simerin a great mountain 75 Silver-mines 57 169 Skurman Anna Maria 102 Sleds of divers shapes 152 Sleeping in the night the manner in divers Countrys 156 Snow 87 Souches 143 Spà 186 Spire 122 Stable house at Dresden 167 Stadt 177 St Stephen's Church at Vienna 138 Stone Quarry 190 Straubing 127 Sultan Mahomet Han 37 Sultana 38 T. TAiamento or Tiliaventum 86 Tengnagels tomb 135 Ter-Vere 106 Teutonick order 123 Thessalia 40 Tiberius's Triumphal Arch 15 Tilts and Turnaments 175 Tirnaw 71 Tongres 109 Tonnelet 187 Topolchan 57 Tornovo 42 Treasure of the Emperor 147 Trenschin 70 Treviso 86 Trinity mine 57 Tun at Heidelberg 122 Turkish Tombs 50 V. VAcia or Waitzen 20 St Veit in Carinthia 76 Verona 200 Viaven 103 Vicegrade 20 Vicenza 199 Vienna 121 Villaco or Villach 87 Vitriol mine 65 Vlassing 107 Vomitoria 209 Vtrecht 101 Vnicorn's horns 101 W. WAllensteyn's Palace 164 Windschacht-mine 58 Wolfgangus Lazius 136 Z. ZEmbla 99 Zigeth 25 The Ziment new and old 68 Zirchnitz lake 80 Zisca 161 Znaim 161 Zoldfeldt with its antiquities 77 FINIS A Catalogue of some Books printed for BENJAMIN TOOKE at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard FOLIO HErodoti Halicarnassaei Historiarum Libri 9. Gr. Lat. Francisci Suarez Tractatus de Legibus ac Deo Legislatore The Works of the most Reverend Father in God John Bramhall D. D. late Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland With his Life Walsh's History of the Irish Remonstrance A Collection of all the Statutes now in force in the Kingdom of Ireland Sir Baker's Chronicle of the Kings of England Bishop Sanderson's Sermons Sir Hum Winch's Book of Entries Skinneri Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae M. T. Ciceronis Opera omnia cum decem Indicibus 2. Vol. Heylyn's Cosmography in 4. Books Matth. Paris Historia Angliae Dr. Nalson's Impartial Collections from the beginning of the late Rebellion to the murther of K. Charles the I. 2. Vol. Heraclitus Ridens or a Dialogue between jest and Earnest concerning the times compleat or any of them single QUARTO SEparation of Churches from Episcopal Government as practised by the present Nonconformists Schismatical By Henry Dodwel M. A. Dumoulin's Vindication of the Protestant Religion Phocena or the Anatomy of a Porpess dissected at Gresham-College The True Widow a Comedy By Tho. Shadwel The Beauty of Unity in a Sermon preached at Preston by Rich. Wroe B. D. Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chester The Vanity of the Dissenters Plea for then Separation A Sermon preached before the King at Windsor By Rob. ●●hfeighton D. D. Of Perjury a Sormon preached at the Allizes at Chester By John Allen M. A. Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chester A Sermon preached before the Hon. House of Commons Nov. 5. 1680. By Henry Dove D. D. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor of the City of London on the Feast of St. Michael By Henry Dove D. D. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty A Sermon preached before the King at White-hall Jan. 25. 168● being the feast of St. Paul's Conversion By Henry Dove D. D. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty Published by his late Majesty's special command The present miseries and mischiefs of sin discoursed in a Sermon before the Lord Mayor of London By Robbert Wensely Vicar of Chestlunt A discourse concerning the Devotions of the Church of Rome especially as compared with those of the Church of England Oratio Anniversaria habita in Theatro Coll. Med. Lond. a Georgio Rogers ejusdem Collegi Socio A Collection of Cases and other Discourses lately written to recover Dissenters to the Communion of the Church of England By some Divines of the City of London In two Volumes Causae Veteris Epitaphium Accedit Caussa Vetus conclamata Concavum Cappo-cloacorum or a view in little of the great Wit and Honesty contained under a brace of Caps A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Sir Roger Bradshaigh Knight and Baronet By Richard Wroe B. D. A Sermon preached before the King at Winchester Sept. 9. 1683. By Francis Turner D. D. Dean of Windsor A Sermon preached before Sir Henry Tulse Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Court of Aldermen at St. Bridgets on Easter Munday 1684. By Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester Almoner to his Majesty A Sermon preached before the King at Whitehall Nov. 5. 1684. By Francis Lord Bishop of Ely and Almoner to his Majesty The New Testament in the Irish Tongue and Character The Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr. John Gregory M. A. of Christs Church in Oxon. In two parts A Brief Account of Ancient Chur ch Government with a Reflection on several modern writers of the Presbyterians Ogygia seu rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia ex pervetustis monumemis fideliter inter se collatis eruta at que exsacris ac prophanis Literis prim arum orbis gentium tam Genealogicis quam chronologicis susslaminata praesidijs c. cum Catalogo Regum in Britannia Scotorum Authore Roderico O Flaterly Armigero A Discourse concerning a Guide in matters of Faith A Discourse concerning Invocation of Saints A Discourse concerning the Unity of the Catholick Church maintained in the Church of England A Discourse concerning Articular Consession as it is prescribed by the Council of Trent and practised in the Church of Rome Octavo and Twelves Two Letters of Advice 1. For the susception of Holy Orders 2. For Studies Theological With a Catalogue of the Christian Writers and Genuin Works that are extant of the first three Cenurys 8vo Some Considerations of Present Concernment how far the Romanists may be trusted by Princes of another persuasion c. 8vo A Reply to Mr. Baxter's pretended Confutation of a Book entitled Separation of Churches from Episcopal Government c. proved Schismatical To which are added three Letters written to him in the year 1673. 8vo A Discourse concerning the One Altar and the One Priesthood insisted on by the ancients in their Disputes against Schism 8vo Dissertationes Cyprianicae 8vo Two short Discourses against the Romanists 12o. These six written by Henry Dodwell M. A. late Fellow of Trinity College in Dublin Navigation and Commerce their Original and Progress By John Evelyn Esquire 8vo Of Gifts and Offices in the publick Workship of God In three parts By Edward Wetenhall D. D. Lord Bishop of Corke The Sceptical Chymist By Robert Boyle Esquire The Degrees of Consanguinity and Affinity By Robert Dixon D. D. 8vo Ele●chus Antiquitatum Albionensium Per Dan. Langhornium S. T. B. 8vo Chronicon Regum Anglorum ab Hengisto usque ad Heptarchiae finem Per Dan. Langhornium 8vo Poems and Songs By Thomas Flatman 4 th Edition 8vo Poems written on several Occasions By N. Tate 2 d Edition 8vo The French Gardinar out of French By John Evelyn Esquire 8vo Ataxiae Obstaculum 8vo Gardinerus de Trinitate contra Sandium The Catechism of the Church of England with Marginal Notes By Edward Wetenhal D. D. Lord Bishop of Corke Phaedri Tabulae ex recensione Chr. Wase The Country Persons advice to his Parishoners 8vo Cartes's Metaphysical Meditations with his Life By William Molyneux Esquire The Life of the Bishop of Munster The Aerial Noctilura 8vo New Experiments and Observations made upon the Icy Noctiluca both by Robert Boyle Esquire Idem Latin 12o. Thealma Clearchus a Pastoral History Cooper's Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae Vulgar Errors in Divinity removed A Manual of Examples for School Exercise Of the Subject of Church Power in whom it resides By Simon Lowth Vicar of Cosmus-Blene in the Diocese of Canterbury Dictionarium Trilingue secundum Locos Communes nominibus usitatioribus Anglicis Latinis Graecis Operâ Johannis Raij M. A. et Societatis Regie Sodalis 8vo Reliquiae Wottonianae 8vo Herbert's Country Person 12o. The Form of sound Words By Robert Wensely Vicar of Chestlunt 12o. An Enquiry into the Ministry of the Presbyterians 12o. Aero-Chalinos or a Register of the Air. By N. Henshaw M. D. Lingard's Letter of Advice to a young Gentleman 12o. Turkish History Turkish History Pineda cut of Cromerus Jornandes Monsieur de Fumee Pharibus Ma●●●● Livy Lib. 5. cap. 7. Pdolybius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sir Walter Rawleigh Malainsana Brerewood's enquiries By Aenaeas Sylvius Goritia Palma Nova Lib 7. The Mae● Rotterdam Del●t Hague Leyden Haerlem Amsterdam Vtrecht The Bosse Breda Gertruydenberg Dort Ter-Vere Middleburg Flushing Antwerp Brussels Brusle Maestreicht Roermonde Andernach Coblentz Baccharach Psalts Caste Mouse-Tower Bing Mentz Franckfort Darmstadt The River Neccar Heidelberg Nurenberg Rutisbone Straubing Lintz Corneuburg Znaim Iglau Czaslaw Cottenberg Prague The Princess Libussa Dresden Freiberg Silver Mines Brimstone Mines Leipsick Magdeburg Stadt Gluckstadt Heil●ge-landt Juliers Aken Rel●cks The manner of making of Brass The Baths of Aken The hot Fountain The Baths of ●orset A Mine of La●is Calaminaris Limburg Spà Geronster Saviniere Tonnelet Pohunt The making of Brimstone Liege A noble Quarry of Stone Tongres Lovain Ghent Bruges Ostend Newport Dunkirk Graveling Padoa Virgil. Aeneid 1. St. Anthony's Church at Padoa Vicenza Verona Athesis Plutarel V. rg 9. Aen● Ovid. Mount Baldus The Amphitheater at Verona Prud. The Arena The Portul● Sone●a The Podium Suggustum Imperatoris Martial Retiarius Famous Statues of old still preserved in Rome Ju●enal Secutor Prud. Threces Myrmillones Dimachari Laquearij Meridiani Statius ●●r●do●s Stat. Mantua Mincius Eridanus Ovid. Guastala Brescello Parma Fornova Taro. Borgo di Valle The Apennine Mountains