's are these Saint Cloud and Villiers Cotteret which belong to Monsieur Chantilly to M. le Prince there is seen even at this day in his Menagery a Pelican 150 years old having a bill of Ivory The Isle Adam belongs to M. the Prince of Conti Reinci to the Princess Palatine Annet to the Duke of Vandôme the Palace of Ecoüan to the Dutchess of Angouleme Gros-bois to the Marquess of Pienee Ruel to the Duke de Richlieu Verneüil to the Duke of this name Liancour to the Prince of Marcillac Villeroy to the Duke of this name Chaville to M. the Chancellour le Tellier Sceaux to M. Colbert la Cheurette to M. de la Vrilliere Berni to the Marquess de Lionne Chilly to the Marquess d'Effiat Conflans Les-Charenton to M. de Harlay Archbishop of Paris Maisons Vaux Saint Mandé Meudon are also places very agreeable Chassan is another House of Pleasure joyning to Harcueil it belongs to the Abbot of S. Germain des Prez Cardinal Francis de Tournon first Commendatory Abbot of the Abbey of the said S. Germain caused it to be put in order we see there his Arms which are Seme of Flower-de-luces Mademoiselle de Montpensier increases the number of delightful Houses by that which she purchased of late years at Choisy This Princess causes a beautiful Palace to be there built The House of the Dean of Pontoise seven leagues from Paris has one of the fairest Prospects and Terrasses of the Country the Terras is entirely on Rocks Messire Steven de Burtio de la Tour Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbone and formerly Priour and Professour of the said House Knight of the Order of the King under the Title and List of Saint Michael Count of the holy Apostolical Palace and Preacher is Dean When the general Assembly of the Clergy is held at Pontoise the President lodges at his house We see at the entry of this Town as we come from Paris a famous Abbey of Religious Ladyes called de Maubuisson I omit to name many other Ornaments because it would be too tedious to number them Houses and Places of Devotion neer Paris THe pious places about Paris that are most frequented are Mount-Valerian the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis Nostre Dame des Anges otherwise des Bois against the Hermitage of Coubron Nanterre in memory of St. Genevieve Nostre Dame des Vertues S. Prix Nostre Dame in the Forrest and Hermitage of Senar Saint Roch is very famous at Pont-carré they come thither the day of its Festival from all parts Saint Spire is visited for the Falling Sickness We must say something here of Mount-Vale rian If Mount-Valerian vulgarly called le Tertre be not rich it is nevertheless frequented We see there represented to the life the whole History of the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ Round about the top of the Mountain there are seven Chappels or Oratories representing the seven Stations and on the top Calvary on which Jesus Christ is beheld crucified on a tall Cross betwixt two Thieves that the representation of the Order of the Crucifixion should be more lively and plain and also that after the faithful have plung'd themselves by all these exteriour and sensible Objects in the meditation of the Death of Jesus Christ they may die to the World and then rise again with him in a newness of a spiritual life They preach there every Sunday and Festival day and every first Friday of each month there being a great concourse of people that comes from all parts On the day and Feast of the place which is that of the Exaltation of the holy Cross the 14th of September there have been sometimes 30 or 40000 persons either on the Mountain or in the Way The fraternity of the Penitents of Paris goes thither in a Procession yearly some days of the year On Good-friday three different Preachers preach there the Passion successively The Queen who is a Pattern of Piety and Devotion visits this holy place from time to time The Church is serv'd by Priests who live in a Society Messire Michel de Bougi Abbot of St. Vrbain a person of Birth and Merit is Purveyor and the Abbot Hardy Doctor of Sorbone is Superiour The Office of Purveyor is for perpetuity and that of Superiour triennial Under Anne of Austria Queen of France there was a great Law-suit for the possession of this place betwixt the Secular Priests and the Dominicans This business gave much trouble to the Abbot de Bougi and to Master Lafont in his life-time Principal of the Colledge of Narbone The Congregation of the Priests of Calvary on Mount-Valerian was establisht An. 1633. by Letters-Patents of Loüis the Thirteenth who sent for a Priest expresly for this effect a man of a holy life called Charpenter who had already instituted it on the Mountain of Betharan in Bearn which resembles Mount-Valerian The Hermites have been in possession of Mount-Valerian for these 800 years according to an humble Remonstrance made An. 1622. to Cardinal des Retz by the Priests of Calvary There was seen there for some time a recluded Hermite The Treasure which is in the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis and the Tombs of the Kings of France deserve that we should say something of them The Treasury of St. Denis THe Church of the Abbey of St. Denis is extreamly visited both by reason of its Patron and for its Treasure and for being the Burial-place of the Kings of France King Dagobert the First of the name caus'd it to be built and to be covered with silver This Prince Founder of the Abbey died the 19th of Jan. of the year 648. There is seen in the Treasury a Missal written by the hand above 800 years since and a Manuscript above eleven hundred years old which contains the four Gospels written in Characters of gold and silver on Velam of a purple colour A Book of Velam covered with silver containing the Works of St. Denis the Areopagite Another Book written by hand which contains the Epistles and Gospels of the great Feasts Gold pretious Stones and great Pearls cover it Moreover another Book concerning the Ceremonies and Prayers of the Kings Coronation In a rich Cross-case a foot and a halfs length of the true Cross One of the Nails with which the Son of God was fastened to the Cross a Thorn of the Crown and some of the Spunge with which they presented him Gall. Some of the Myrrh which the Magicians presented him one of the Pitchers in which he chang'd Wine into Water at the Wedding of Cana in Galilee and a great many Shrines wherein Relicks are kept A great Cross of massie Gold cover'd with pretious Stones and set round with oriental Pearls A little Crucifix made of the wood of the true Cross The Heads of St. Denis St. Hilary and St. Bennet are extreamly rich The Miter of the first is of Gold and all cover'd with pretious Stones and oriental Pearls those of
excellent Baths particularly those of a place call'd Plombieres whose warm waters are of a great vertue it 's a work of the Romans The Salt-work of Dieuse furnishes Salt to Alsatia that of Rosieres to the three Bishopricks They make no farther use of Marsal and Salone because the others supply abundantly The Switzers take their Salt in Franche Comte The Mountains are fill'd with Mines of Brass Lead Silver Alabaster and particularly of Iron The Forests are full of Game We see there Glass-houses the Sieur de Rochefort says in his Book of Voyages T. 4. p. 374. That there is sometimes danger in seeing them alone when they are in a retired place in the Woods because the Workmen may throw a man into the Furnace to make their Glass as clear and beautiful as Crystal wherefore in regard he would not that they try'd it on him he contented himself with seeing that of Venice and went on his way The Lorainers will not grant this Article The Soyl is so dispos'd to bring forth Trees that if it were not till'd it would all run up to a Forest All Lorain is forty leagues in length and thirty in breadth An. 1220. one of its Dukes Matthew the Second caus'd an evil Justice to be flea'd by reason of the Thefts he had committed and his Skin to be put on the Judicial Seat for his Son to sit on to whom he gave the Office and the terrour of being us'd after the like manner This Prince followed the Example of Cambyses King of Persia with this difference that he caus'd the Judge Chunrad to be flea'd after his death but the other caus'd Sisames to be flea'd alive The House of Lorain has yielded many Saints The Marriage of Prince Charles of Lorain PRince Charles the Fifth is married with the Queen Dowager of Poland the Sister of the Emperour Leopold the Bishop Count Kalonitz gave them the Nuptial Benediction assisted with two other Bishops in the presence of their Imperial Majesties and of all the Court in the Church of Loretta of Neustad The Marriage was consummated the sixth of February 1678. The tenth of February the King of Spain honour'd Prince Charles the Fifth above-mention'd with the Coller of the Order of the Golden Fleece GERMANY LEopold the First of the name of the House of Austria Emperour of Germany was born the 9th of June 1640. was chosen King of Hungary An. 1655. King of Bohemia An. 1656. elected King of the Romans An. 1658. and crown'd Emperour at Francfort on the Main An. 1659. where the three Ecclesiastical Electors and the Elector Palatine repair'd the others sent thither their Embassadours as also the King of France the King of Spain and others The Emperours of Germany are Catholicks The Empire bears Or an Eagle displayed sable membred langued becked and adorn'd with a Diadem Gules It has for Device Vno avulso non desicit alter The Livery of the Emperours of the House of Austria is yellow The 14th of October 1676. the Emperour Leopold some time after the death of the Empress Margaret of Austria Daughter of Philip the Fourth King of Spain and Sister of the Queen of France declar'd for his future Spouse the Princess Mary Magdalen-Therese-Eleonor of Newburg The Marriage was consummated at Passau the 14th of December following The Bishop of that Town bless'd it assisted with two Prelates he of Aicstad was of the number Their Imperial Majesties made their solemn Entries at Vienna the 20th of January 1677. The Canons of the Arsenal were carried on the Ramparts and all the Citizens put themselves in Arms by the order of the Magistrate Count Montecuculi was declar'd Prince of Amalfo the 31th of March 1678. The 26th of July of the same year on the day of S. Anne the Empress was brought to bed of a Prince who is call'd the Archduke of Austria He was given at the Font of Baptism the names of Joseph James John Ignatius Antony and Eutache The Dutchess of Newburg presented to the Empress her Daugher a Bed and a Cradle of silver Vienna in Austria on the Danubins is the Capital City and the ordinary place of residence of the Emperour His Palace is August though it appears very ancient It has four Pavilions The chief Imperial Houses of Pleasure in the Country LVxembourg Favorites Neustad Kanisburg Ebersdorf and others The Church of the Capucins of Vienna is the ordinary bural place of the Emperors of the House of Austria in a Vault and many Obsequies are solemniz'd for three days in the Church of the little discalceated Augustins The Cathedral-Church is dedicated to S. Steven The Coronation of the Emperour with the signification of the three Crowns THe Emperour is crown'd ordinarily with three sorts of Crowns the first is of Iron the second of Silver the third of Gold. The Crown of Iron denotes the Strength which an Emperour ought to have that of Silver signifies the Pureness that of Gold the Charity The Emperours formerly went to Milan to receive the Crown of Silver and to Rome for that of Gold at present they go no longer the Pope confirms the Election and Coronation Since Charles the Fifth no Emperour has been crown'd by the hands of his Holiness At Aix la Chappelle is kept the Crown of Iron with one of Silver and at Nuremberg many Ornaments which are made use of at the Coronation of the Emperours There are to be seen there the Dalmatica of Charlemagne the Imperial Mantle the Globe the golden Scepter and the Sword the golden Bull also enjoyning him that is elected Emperour to receive at Aix la Chappelle the first Crown which is of Iron and if he receives it elsewhere the Imperial Ornaments are carried thither and a great Sword after the Persian fashion The Emperour after his Coronation receives the Oath from the Imperial Towns the Town of Strasburg refus'd it praying Count de Hanau who had Orders to receive it for Leopold to assure the Emperour that they would continue within the bounds of Duty and Acknowledgment towards his Imperial Majesty but that having not taken an Oath to any of his Predecessors for three hundred years they would not swear and could not innovate any thing You may see thereon Loüis du Mai Knight in his Book of the State of the Empire T. 1. p. 365. and T. 2. p. 203. The Emperour does not command absolutely out of his Hereditary Countries but governs by the way of Diets which are General Assemblies and as it were Estates General He is the Chief of the Empire and the Electors are the principal Members His hereditary Estates are those of Austria and Bohemia those of Hungary are Elective The Golden Bull. THe Constitutions of the Empire are contain'd in the Golden Bull which is a little Book its Original is writ on Parchment containing twenty four Leaves and thirty Chapters the twenty three first were publisht at Nuremberg 1356. the tenth of January and the other seven at Metz in the same year
a Brief to those that are not present at Rome in the Consistory As to the Hat it is given kneeling from the hand of the Pope unless a person be employed in some important Embassie to the holy See in this case the Pope sends it to the Cardinal newly created to authorize him the more and render him more venerable His Holiness's Courrier that carries the Hat from Rome carries with it the form of the Oath of Fidelity and delivers all into the hands of the Prelate appointed to perform that Ceremony which is splendid You must observe that Cardinals that have not received the Hat cannot be Legates of the holy See till they have first taken it as the above-mentioned Claudius Vaurus informs us In the Ceremony of opening the Mouth that is to say in the permission the Pope gives to new Cardinals to opine and to give their Votes and Suffrages he says to them Aperimus vobis os tam in collationibus quam in Consiliis atque in electione summi Pontificis in omnibus actibus tam in Consistorio quà m extra qui ad Cardinales spectant quos soliti sunt exercere In nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen You must observe it was in use above an Age that if a Pope died whilst a new Cardinal had his mouth shut he might enter if he please into the Conclave but he could not be elected Pope nor give his Suffrage for any person unless the sacred Colledge the See being vacant by a special Act of Grace gave him an Active and Passive Voice as it did to Cardinal Conty Pope Pius the Fifth has declared since by a Decree of the 26th of January 1571 That this closing of the mouth does not deprive the new Cardinal of his power and principal Function which consists in the Election of the Pope Gregory the Fifteenth brought in use the Election of Popes by secret Suffrages that the Cardinals might be more free in giving their Votes Formerly 't was said Non fit bis in die Scrutinium Now it is performed in the morning after Mass and in the Evening after the Hymn of the Holy Ghost Vrban the Eighth gave Cardinals the Title Eminentissiums he caused the body and writings of Marc. Anthony de Dominis to be burnt after his death for an example Dominis was Archbishop of Spalathra anciently Salona in Dalmatia Alexander the Seventh received Christan Queen of Sweden into the Communion of the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Church Observations on the reducement of Jubiles under what Popes and in what times BOniface the Eighth Anno 1300. ordained that the celebration of the Jubile should be performed every hundred years both to pay to God solemn acts of Thanksgivings at the end of each Age and that Christian Rome should not have less acknowledgment for the true God than Profane Rome shewed heretofore to its Idols by the centenary sports or games which it solemnized with an extraordinary concourse of people Clement the Sixth established it for the time to come from fifty to fifty years answering to that of the Hebrews and in consideration of the number of fifty consecrated by the visible descent of the Holy Ghost and also by reason of the shortness of mans life because few persons enjoyed the benefit of this great Treasure Vrban the Sixth as Gretserus tells us reduced it to thirty three years in memory of the thirty three years that the Son of God passed on the Earth Paulus the Eleventh desiring that every man should partake of so great a favour abbreviated the time and established it from twenty five to twenty five years Thomas Friard in his Book of the Jubile taxes this of falshood alleadging that Paul was dead three or four years before this reducement and that it was Sixtus the Fourth his Successor before General of the Cordeliers who fixt it at this number of years If this Writer had dived to the bottom of this matter and had read the Popes Bullary thereon he had found that Paul ordained it as it appears by his Bull. It is true that he could not celebrate it because death prevented him In a word he had seen that the one ordained it the other confirmed and executed it Anno 1473. Du Chesne has it express in his History of the Popes And the Abbot Le Maire Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen Doctor of Sorbonne great Vicar and Archdeacon of Chartres a learned and most eloquent man understands it so in his Book of the Jubile This Jubile has ever since been observed and practised to this time Besides the ordinary and set Jubiles at certain times there are some extraordinary ones which the Church opens in her urgent necessities to obtain some favour from Heaven We shall remark here cursorily that what Boniface called a plenary Indulgence of all sins Clement the Sixth and his Successors have given it the name of Jubile which marks a publick rejoycing in God Liberty Remission time of Propitiation according to Josephus and according to the Septuagint Under the ancient Law the Jubile was publisht with a sort of Trumpet made of a Rams horn Having proposed to my self in this Work to give an account of some curious and remarkable things in the States of each Soveraign on the Earth I shall briefly note here the Ceremony that is used at Rome at the Opening and Close of the Jubile and other things worthy memory The Opening of the Jubile THe opening of it is performed ordinarily the 24th day of December on Christmas-eve by the opening of the holy Door which is so called because by its opening and entrance we enter into Grace and become holy by practising what is ordained by the Bull of the Jubile On the day and Feast of the Ascension of the Son of God which precedes the holy Year two Priests after having read the Gospel read the Bull the one in Latine and the other in Italian and publish the approaching Jubile His Holiness on the Christmas-eve following goes a general Procession the Cardinals the Secular and Regular Clergie the Ambassadours of Christian Princes and the Officers of the City of Rome and all the common people accompany him and about noon he comes to the door of St. Peter of the Vatican which is walled up then the Pope strikes three stroaks with a silver Hammer against this Wall which is presently thrown down the door is washt with holy Water it 's opened the Company enters into the Church they sing Vesperas with all solemnity and at the same time the Pope sends three Cardinals to open the doors of the Churches of St. Paul of St. John Lateran of St. Mary Major where the same Ceremonies are used The Silver Hammer is a Symbol of the Popes power which Jesus Christ gave him by giving him the Keys of St. Peter the Hammer was formerly of Massy Gold. The Penitentiaries in such Solemnities are near the Popes Person to shew that he communicates his Jurisdiction to
in their harness all cover'd with pretious Stones is an Ornament and many other Rarieties The Metropolitan Church called the Dome dedicated to St. John is the depository of the holy face-cloath on which we see imprinted the face and other parts of the body of the Son of God. The other Towns of Piemont are Vercelli Susa Turée Mondevis Ast Carignan Carmagnolo St. Tas. Susa is the first that is found at the entrance of Italy at the foot of the Alps ten leagues from Turin Pompey established there a Colony which gives testimony of its antiquity It has passed for the Capitol of the small Principality of the little King Coetius This Country is fertile Provisions are cheap and Silver scarce because there is no Trade Susa which is in Persia is more renowned than that before-mentioned because the great Assuerus who commanded from the Indies even to Aethiopia an hundred twenty seven Provinces and other Kings have held there their Court. Piemont has two or three Rivers whose banks afford Gold it is found divided into slender parcels called Threads The way of gathering it is noted in a book intituled Conversations de l'Academie de l'Abbé Bourdelot in the Chapter of the Philosophers Stone which was the subject of a long Conference The principal Towns of Savoy after Chamberry are Anneci St. John de Morienne Monstier in Tarentaise and others Montmebian is the strongest place Savoy was called by this name as who would say Sauve-voye or safe-way and this since it was purged of Way-Robbers and Murtherers who rendered the ways dangerous and unpassable or else from a Village called Sabbatie or Sabaudie which Ptolomy and other Geographers place under the Alps. According to the opinion most followed it took its name from Sabaudus Archbishop of Arles who made it Catholick Its Mountains bring forth many Monkeys These Animals sleep six months of the year they have the mussel and ears of a Squiril and four long and sharp teeth the legs short great nails on their feet and the hair rough Chimney-sweepers bring of them to Paris they are easily taken when they are asleep The Latines call this Animal Mus Alpinus There are a great many in the Mountains of Switzerland Chateauniere deGrenaille tells us that persons that cannot sleep or that are tormented with the Cholick find themselves relieved by rubbing their belleys with their fat Many Mountaineers get Strumous swellings by drinking Snow-water which by its erudity and ill quality causes the glandulous swelling about the throat Mount Cenis and little St. Bernard are the principal passages of the Alps for Italy Great Mount Cenis is the ordinary Road of the Posts of France and little Mount Cenis is a shorter way but more uneasie We find there the invention of a sort of Sled on which a man sitting advances in less than half a quarter of an hour a league by sliding on the Snow from the top of the Mountain to the bottom There are persons trained to this exercise called Sled-drivers who guide the Sled by stopping it when it is necessary with a great Prong of iron which they fix in the way On the top of the Mountain there are houses which they call the Ramass where the Sled-drivers are by whom men cause themselves to be driven on a Sled when they go to Lasueburg We find on the right hand the Chappel into which those persons are carried who are killed by the extremity of the cold in their Journey and on whom is found no mark of their Religion When persons so killed are discovered to be Catholicks they are buried in the next Catholick Church-yard If they are Protestants they are carried into the next Church-yard of theirs Those that go into this Chappel fancy they are in the Kingdom of the Dead the Air is so subtile that those bodies do not putrifie there are many of them entire with their flesh skin and hair without having changed but a very little of their colour They are placed in order upright against the walls of this Chappel a place of sadness and melancholy Mount St. Gothard which is the passage from Switzerland has also a Chappel of persons frozen to death Our Lady of Laghette is very famous two leagues from Nice The greatest part of the Tombs of the Dukes of Savoy are in the rich Abbey of Haute-combe on the Lake Bourget The Dominions of this Prince may be seventy leagues in length and thirty or forty in breadth and in some parts above fifty Spain would have swallowed them up in the minority of Charles Emanuel the Second but France opposing it made them give over the Attempt His Royal Highness has four houses of pleasure about Turin which must not be forgotten to wit that de la Grande Venerie Royal that of Valentin and those of Mirefleur and of Rovili Purpurat must also be added to the number Nor must we omit la Generale which belongs to President Truchy a Minister of State of a great understanding and equally zealous for the service of his Prince At the beginning of the year 1679 the Abbot d Estrade at his return from his Embassie from Venice where he resided three years was sent to this Court with the Character of Embassadour of France his entry was very solemn He succeeded to Duke Villars chosen for the Embassie of Spain where he formerly was and the Marquess Ferrero was appointed Embassadour of Savoy with the most Christian King. The Ratification of the Marriage of the Duke of Savoy with the Infanta of Portugal was at Lisbone the 18th of Aug. 1679. The 19th of September following the Sieur of the Red hat Deputy and first Syndick of the Town of Geneva accompanied with Sieur Pittet and others had Audience of Madam Royal to give her satisfaction concerning some subjects of complaint that she had made against that Town at the beginning of her Regency He gave her to understand in a fine discourse how sorry his Masters were for all that had happened that their-intentions had never been to do any thing that was disagreeable to so great a Princess and that they humbly suppli'd her to forget all that was past by a motion of Generosity and to let them feel the effects of her good will towards them He addressed himself afterwards to his Royal Highness and gave him to understand the desire the Town of Geneva had to merit his good will and the part they took in the glory that the Prince acquired by his Marriage with the Infanta of Portugal Heiress of so great a Kingdom These Deputies were presented each before their departure with a Chain of Gold. The Great Duke of Tuscany Cosmus the Third Great Duke of Tuscany of the House of Medices Cath. He bears Or with five Roundles Gules and one in cheif Azure charged with three Flower-de-luces Or. This Prince is Son of Ferdinand the Second of Victoria de la Roüere he married the 19th of April 1661. by Proxie the Princess Louïse Marguerite of Orleans
full of all kind of Deer Joüin de Rochefort has excellently particulariz'd this Royal House Versailles THere is nothing more agreeable nothing more sumptuous nor magnificent than the Palace of Versailles Silk Gold Silver Pearls and Pretious Stones Paintings and Tapestry enrich it and yet infinitely more the presence of the Master Its Gardens are vast and charming and the water falls the finest that may be seen How admirable is the great Park with the great Channel which is thirty two fathoms wide nine hundred in length the two Horses that stand at its entrance in a fierce posture as those of Montecavallo in Rome draw on them the fixt eyes of the Passengers The Vivarium contains all sorts of wild Animals By the rule conveniunt rebus nomina saepè suis Versailles deserves to be called by this name because his Majesty pours there ordinarily his Favours and Blessings in a profuse manner on those who have the honour to be known to him This place is another Terrestrial Paradise for delights I think I give it its Elogy in saying It 's the work of Loüis the Fourteenth worthy of its Author so I say all The famous Painter Apelles being to represent the greatness of a Giant and considering that he could not include so great a Body in so small a space he be thought himself to represent only the Thumb with this Inscription at the bottom of the Picture Ex ungue Leonem The Lyon is known by his Claw that is to say from the proportion of this Thumb the greatness of the rest of the Body might be known A Greek Orator thought he had made a full Panegyrick on Philip King of Macedon by saying that he was Father of Alexander Cum te patrem Alexandri dixi totum dixi I judge also that the Elogy of Versailles is compleat after having said that it is the Work of our present King because this word in expression drains and consummates all its praises Non datur ultra The Ambassadors of Forreign Princes admiring this House of Pleasure say that it belongs but to a King of France to make the like I do not particularize it because we see on this subject a large Book which gives the entire description of it Paris ALL the Towns of the Kingdom govern themselves according to the motion of that of Paris which they look on as the Primum Mobile and as the Capital It is Royal Sacerdotal and the seat of the Prophets and one of the greatest and most famous of all Christendom They count in this famous City a Million and a half of persons the pleasant River Sein passes through the midst of it and wrests itself in and out at parting from it as though it were unwilling to leave it and to render it yet more agreeable the River Ourques is brought to it to supply the Trenches on the side of Montmartre by the cares of Sieur de Manse Treasurer-General of the Royal Hunting and Hawking Saint Denis Consecrated there the Churches of St. Steven of the Greeks that of Nostre Dame des Champs and that of St. Bennet of the University which was called before of the Trinity those of St. Denis of Charters and of St. Symphorien are very ancient Phillip the Second called August made an end of Building the great and stately Temple of Nostre Dame about the year 1200. It s Structure is admirable this Cathedral Church contains sixty six fathom in length twenty four in breadth and seventeen in heighth one hundred and twenty Pillars forty five Chappels a great many doors over the three chief there are twenty eight Statues of Kings of France of the holy Mysteries of our Religion which excites the Piety of the faithful There are three hundred eighty nine steps to the place where the Bells are the Towers are thirty four fathom in heighth above the Earth This place is lookt upon as the lowest of Paris the Office is there celebrated after a Divine manner Miracles are there wrought Matins are sung at Midnight six of its Canons have been Popes to wit Gregory the Ninth Adrian the Fifth Boniface the Eighth Innocent the Sixth Gregory the Eleventh and Clement the Seaventh fifteen or sixteen Canons of the same Church have been Cardinals Abbot Parfait the ancientest Canon of this Church has composed a fine Book containing the number of Popes Cardinals Bishops and Archbishops that this Metropolis has afforded and other singularities since St. Denis to Messire Francis de Harlay de Chanvalon The late Dean Messire John de Contes Counsellor of State in ordinary consummated in the practice of the Church has often governed this Diocess to the satisfaction of all men He dyed full of years the fourth of July 1679. His most worthy Nephew Abbot Mony who walks in his steps succeeded him as Heir to his Vertues his Actions are accompanied with sweetness prudence gravity and modesty His Brother Abbot Bongueret Canon in the same Church is very learned in the Science of the Canon-Law This Chapter is a Nursery of Bishops This City contains Eleven Chapters a great number of very fair Parishes whereof some are equal to good Bishopricks above sixty Colledges it was once propos'd to have them reduced to six because many of them are one-ey'd so call'd because there is nothing done in them as in many other Kingdoms This Town contains also an infinite number of Religious Houses excellent Fountains Aqueducts many Bridges amongst which Pont-neuf which is all of stone surpasses all the rest We see in the midst of it a Monarch who was in three rang'd Battles which he gain'd in thirty three Rencounters in an hundred and forty fights and in three hundred Sieges of several places it 's Henry the 4th excellently represented on a Horse of cast Copper and at the end of it the Clock of the fair Fountain of the Samaritan and Loüis the Thirteenth on another Horse of cast Copper with excellent Devises on the Pedestal in the midst of the Place Royal which is one of its ornaments with the Queens Tour. The Place Royal was begun to be built Anno 1604. It 's there where Coaches go the Tour where they run the Ring and use other publick Divertisements The new Hôtel Royal of disabled men called otherwise the Hôtel of Mars as large as a Town built for the place of residence and entertainment of Souldiers that are lamed and dismembred in the Army for the service of the State is a Monument of the acknowledgment and gratitude of Lewis the Fourteenth and a subject of the great care that the Marquess de Louvois has taken for the perfection of this Work. The Fort of the Observatory for Astronomers is worthy consideration Before that part of St. Germains formerly called le Fauxbourg St. Germain des Prez and others were taken into the Town there were counted twenty four doors that of Saint Anthony is Royal the figure of the King on Horseback is over the Triumphal Arch. The late
the year 1677 on the Porch of the Church of Colledge Mazarin were placed on the Pedestals of the Body of it advanced from the front over square Pillars Pilasters the four Evangelists St. Matthew St. Mark St. Luke and St. John with their Attributes On the right hand backward on the like Pedestals the four Doctors of the Greek Church according to their place St. Basil St. Athanasius St. John Chrysostome and St. Gregory of Nazianze and on the left hand the four Doctors of the Latin Church St. Gregory the Great St. Ambrose St. Austin and St. Hierome According to the Order of time in which they lived we range the Greeks thus St. Athanasius St. Basil St. Gregory of Nazianze and St. John Chrysostom in the Latine Church St. Ambrose St. Hierome St. Austin and St. Gregory In placing the figures they have gone according to dignity They say that the Effigies of Loüis the Great will be placed before this Colledge in a great Place which will be called Dukal This Colledge is incorporated to the University with all its rights and priviledges The Sieurs Foucaut le Foüyn and Mariage have taken much pains for perfecting this Colledge Some persons of Quality having assured me of the satisfaction they received in the relation I made them of the House of President Perrot near the Colledge I shall set down the particularities that I observed in it An. 1677. The House of President Perrot THis House which faces the Louvre has five Balconies on the Seine besides its Scituation uniformity neatness and conveniency it 's esteemed curious for its Ancient Pieces and for large Pictures made by Apelles's They are expos'd in the great room of Paintings which has windows on both sides We see there Anthony de Bourbon King of Navarre Henry the Fourth Loüis the Thirteenth vested with the Royal Mantle and with the great Collar of the Order and Loüis the Fourteenth clad like a Roman and M. the Dolphin betwixt the late King and the present in a round or oval over the door of the entrance and Philip of France Duke of Orleans standing by Loüis de Bourbon Prince of Condé with his Father and his Grandfather and the Duke d'Enguien with his Children the Queens and Princesses are by the sides of their Spouses In the midst of this Gallery is plac'd a large sheet of Velam in Miniature set in a frame which contains the Genealogy of the Bourbons from St. Loüis to the year 1679 and on the back part of the Velam are represented the Combats Rencounters Sieges Battels and Victories gain'd by the Prince of Condé Loüis de Bourbon Amongst some Pictures that adorn the Chappel that which is against the Altar is accomplisht and to express the thing better it 's a consummated piece of work or a Master-piece representing the seven Sacraments of the Church the Archduke Leopold admiring this Piece would have given a thousand Pistols for it if the Master would have sold it him It was permitted his Highness to cause a Copy to be taken of it Neer the Chappel-door we see the present Prince of Condé mounted on a War-horse represented to the life In some Chambers we find many other Pictures that of the Nativity of the Son of God that of Lot having drank to excess before his two Daughters to which nothing can be added The rowling Desk composed of divers Tables which is in the Library is of a very rare structure and convenient for those that compose some laborious Piece all the edges of it are gilded and the Boards or Planks hold a great many Books in folio When you are near it without changing place with one of your fingers you make the Desk turn and bring before your eyes the Books that lead to your designe but you must first place them Atabalipa one of the Incas of Peru would not have esteemed it much for his use for he threw on the ground a very excellent Book presented to him alleadging for a reason that it spoke not a word to him though they made him believe it would teach him a great many things he could not make it speak I believe he would have soon imitated a King of Congo to whom Emanuel King of Portugal having once sent Lawyers with good law-Law-books he sent back the Doctors and caused the Books to be burnt thinking they would serve but to introduce Cavilling and put Confusion in the Understandings of his Subjects whereas he said they had need but of Reason and a good common Sence which is related in a History of Portugal This Prince added that he should still continue a Friend to him that had sent them him taking the good will for the deed In the Garden of the same House I saw a tryal made of a great Burning-glass in the presence of M. the Prince which burnt a great Block set opposite to the Sun and which wonderfully magnifies and multiplies Objects The two Gladiators and other Figures of massie cast Copper which are Ornaments of the Garden are Pieces artificially made Each Gladiator holds his Buckler with one hand and his Sword with the other whose postures are much esteem'd The Venus is highly priz'd as also another Figure drawing a Thorn out of its foot The great Iron Arbour is very beautiful and very high rais'd under which persons breath the cool Air and fragrant Smells during the Summer-heats On the side of it are the Grotto's and Waters The Dido striking a Dagger into her breast is represented to the life the Vrns are considerable The Master of this House considering that good ought to be communicative has for some years past made his Garden common to the Publick for walking and has sometime given to some great Lords and others the satisfaction of seeing the Cormorant-fishing which is a Royal Divertisement I think it not strange that the Emperour and other crown'd heads divert themselves with it In this Capital City of the Kingdom there are many Houses whereof Wonders may be said which I pass by because to run them over it would take up a Volume I shall onely adde that persons curious in wonderful and transcendent things should see the Rooms of Anticks of the Louvre and the Tuilleries the King and Queens Closets their Apartments and Furniture the Kings Library which contains above 40000 Volumes an infinite number of Manuscripts in Hebrew Arabick Greek Latin and many of History and Policy the remarkable Medals the curious Shells a famous Burning-glass known throughout all the Earth many Books of Migniature and other Curiosities the two Galleries of Palace Mazarin that of the Palace of Luxembourg containing in great and various Pictures the Adventures of Queen Mary de Medicis we see there her Birth her Life and her Death The Palace Royal belonging to Monsieur merits to be visited as also the Royol Academy of Paintings and Carvings the Galeries of M. le Prince and others Houses of Pleasure about Paris THe fair and delightful houses next the King
The principal small Rivers are THe Charente the Somme the Saonne Alliers the Tarn the Lot the Dordogne The Somme is famous in Picardy it begins by a Saint and ends by another which are S. Quentin and S. Valery Hau Peronne Amiens and Abbeville are water'd with it The Charente passes through Angoumois and Xaintonge waters the Towns of Angoulesm and and Xaintes The Saône coasts along Burgundy passes at Châlon and Mascon and goes to Lyons It s source is near Lorrain Its Waters are stagnating and dull The Poets have call'd it the Tardy the Slow the Sluggish Bouche Larroux and others are of Burgondy Allier waters Bourbonnois and goes to Moulins The Tar crosses Rovergne and Albigeois passes at Millain Albi and at Montaubon The Aveiron renders its Waters at Rhodes the Agout at Castres Puilaurens and Lavoir the Lot at Cahors divides Quercy and Agenois The Dordogne waters Limosin and Perigord its source is at the foot of Mount Or in Auvergne it passes at Bretenoux Sarlac Bergerac Sainte Foy and at Libourne It 's the fullest of Fish of any in the Kingdom and particularly fertile in Salmons The Gave and the Gave water Bearn The Vilaine and others Britany Aremorick Vien and Tarion Limosin The Dour in Gascogne passes at Tarbes Aire Dax and at Bayonne the Bidouze enters into the Dour The Vienne the Chein and the Vouzelle are in Poictou The Auron the Cher and the Indre in Berry The Orbe the Brille and Drome in Normandy The Sarthe the Huine and others in le Maine The Loir the Dive and others in Anjou The Eure in Beausse The Doux which was once bitter in Franche Comté The Marne and the Vesle in Champagne The Isaire and the Drac in Daulphine The Izaire rises in Savoy passes at Grenoble enters with the Drac into the Rhône near Valence and not at Vienne as an Author has written If he never was at Valence he ought to have had a good Geographical Map which would have kept him from committing this oversight To the Izaire has been given the name of Serpent because it torns and wrests very much It 's by way of allusion that it 's said Draco Serpens evertunt Gratianopolin Those are two scurvy Rivers very rapid Some years since the Serpent overthrew the Stone-bridge of Grenoble which has since been rebuilt The Durance and the Varthe are in Provence the first waters Sisteron and Cavaillon it 's very rapid and apt to do mischief being of the nature of certain persons full of gall and bitterness Fish cannot live in it The Varthe is pronounc'd the Val. The Ardeche and the Cetze water Vivarez The Aude and the Eraut are in Languedock the first passes at Aleth and at Carassome An arm of this River waters Narbonne by a great Channel which divides it into two parts The Eraut breeds a great number of Trouts descends from Sevenes joyns it self to the River Are passes at Ganges at la Roque at S. Basil and goes to Agde One of the Barons de la Roque has preserv'd the Catholick Religion in his place of residency which is very strongly seated and which has been the Sanctuary of the Catholicks of the Country in the times of the Wars of Religion It is known by tradition that Beza being come thither from Ganges to preach his new Doctrine he was expelled by that Lord. The Lady of the place was seduc'd before and the Inhabitants passionately desir'd to hear him preach because it had been represented to them that he preacht nought but the pure Word of God and the Reformation of the Age and that he was an extraordinary Preacher Beza was already got into the Church de la Madelein when the Baron came from his Castle accompanied with his Domesticks and with Partisans and Halberds This River Eraut before it reaches Ganges coasts along by the Baronny of Sumene The present Baron formerly one of the Kings Counsellours in his Court of Accounts Tributes and Finances of Montpellier has a very fair Castle at Roger by le Causse against the Mountain Esperou where there are Simples of a very great vertue The Physitians of Montpellier go ordinarily there every year a simpling a man is perfumed when he passes through its Meadows all deckt with Flowers There has been found there sometime an Herb which pulls off Horses shoes and which creates hunger in persons that tread on it The ancient Castle of Roger during the Wars of Religion was a place of Refuge for the Catholicks thereabout The Pretenders to Religion laid a heavie hand on it by demolishing a part of it two several times If we nam'd in Bearn the Gave and the Gave it 's because there are two of them we may also say the Gandon and the Gandon in Sevenes and in Languedoc compos'd of many Streams and Rivers One passes at St. Jean de Gardonenque at Mialet and at Auduze The Marquisate of this Town is in the ancient House of Aire-Baudouze and has given the Church three or four Bishops the Town has also given some they are found all nam'd in the Book intituled Gallia Christiana The present Marquess commands a Regiment bearing his name The Barony of Ganges which is not far from Auduze is made a Marquisate of late years in the House of Tude Its Marquesses have had Regiments and some particular Governments The Chevalier de Ganges was chosen to command the Regiment which the Estates of Languedoc granted the King An. 1677. The other Gandon passes at Alez a pleasant Town for its fair and vast Meadow-ground We see there yet some Reliques of the most beautiful Garden which the Constable Montmorency caus'd to be made there This Gandon passes before the ancient Castle of S. Martin de la Fare The Family of this Marquess is originally of lower Languedoc the Frontier of Sevenes near Alez It 's an Illustrious and ancient House of which the late high and mighty Lord Messire Jacques de la Fare Marquess de la Fare Vicount de Montclar Baron de la Salle Lord of Bastide S. Martin Soudorgne Paupidor and other places has had many Children He married the Daughter of Comte de Lussan from which Marriage are issued nine Sons and four Daughters Of the males there are eight who long time serv'd his Majesty in his Armies and have had considerable Employs Let us make an of end our Gardons they descend from Serenes and meet under the Village Ners three or four leagues from Nismes and pass under the famous Pont du Gard to go find the impetuous Rhône Pont du Gard. FRance is oblig'd to the Romans for having built for it on two Mountains this famous Bridge which contains three the one on the other The building is of Free-stone of a surprizing breadth and length the stones are without Lime-mortar or ought else to bind them The highest Bridge was built to uphold an Aqueduct for conveying waters to Nismes for its embellishment and for a perpetual memory Some
and five from Apel who was nominated Successor of N. Marguerit This Diocess has been Suffragan sometimes of Tarragone sometimes of Narbonne Elne is three leagues from Perpignan The Archbishoprick of Lyons LYons a hundred twenty two Bishops or Archbishops from Potin to Messire Camille de Neufville de Villeroy Archbishop and Count of Lyons Primate of the Gauls and Commander of the Kings Orders and Lieutenant General for his Majesty of Lyonnois Forez and Beaujolois The Suffragans are Authun Chalons or Saone Langres and Mascon Authun a hundred eighty four from S. Amant to Messire Gabriel de Roquette Successor of Loüis d' Attichi He is President of course of the Estates of Burgundy Administrator Spiritual and Temporal of the Archbishoprick of Lyons during the vacancy of the See. Pope Innocent the Eleventh granted this Prelate the Pallium the third of October in the year 1678. Though the Church of Authun enjoy'd this priviledge from the Pontificate of St. Gregory the Great its Bishops have not been able to obtain it for many Ages whatever instances they have made Messire Gabriel de Roquette received it from the hands of the Archbishop of Lyons Messire Camille de Neufville of Villeroy with the ordinary Ceremonies in the Church of the Carmelites of the faux-bourg S. Jacques of Paris the 21 of May 1679. It is to be observ'd that it 's said to the Pope the day of the Ceremony of his Consecration when he puts on the Pallium Accipe Pallium sanctum plenitudinem Pontisicalis Officii Chalons seventy six from Donatien to Messire Henry-Felix de Tassis Dean of the holy Chappel of Vincennes Langres ninety three from Senator to Messire Loüis de Simianes de Gordes Duke and Peer of France Count of S. Jean de Lyon and first Almoner of the Queen The Bishop of Langres carries the Scepter at the Ceremony of the Consecration and Coronation of the King. The Duke of Burgundy bears the Crown and puts the Sword by the Kings side The Peers appear with a Circle of Gold on their heads in the form of a Crown There are Princes and Lords chosen to represent the Peers whose Peerages have been reunited to the Crown Mascon seventy seven from S. Placide to Messire Michel de Tilladet The Archbishoprick of Bourdeaux BOurdeaux seventy two Prelates from S. Gilbert to Messire Loüis de Bourlemont Auditor of the Rota The Suffragans are Agen Condom Angoulesme Lusson Rochelle Perigeux Poitiers Xaintes Sarlat Agen sixty one Bishops from S. Caprasi to Messire Jules Mascaron Preacher in Ordinary to the King. He was Bishop of Tulles The Pope propos'd him in his Consistory for the Church of Agen. Condom twenty three from Raymond Goulard to Messire Jacques de Mattignon who succeeds Messire Jacques Benigne Bousset Tutor to M. le Dauphin and at present first Almoner of Madam the Dauphiness and Author of a Book entituled The Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church on matters of Controversie Angoulesme sixty seven from S. Auson to Messire Francois de Pericard Lusson thirty from Pierre de la Voirie to Messire Henry de Barillion Rochelle joyn'd with Maillezais twenty four The Episcopal See was remov'd from Maillezais to Rochelle An. 1648 by a Bull of Pope Innocent the Tenth and with Letters Patents of Louis the Fourteenth The first Bishop of Maillezais was call'd Gaufrid Pauvrelle and the two first of Rochelle were Jacques Raoul and Messire Henry de la Valle de Boisdauphin de Sable Perigueux seventy from S. Fronto to Messire Claude le Boux Preacher in Ordinary to his Majesty Poitiers a hundred and five from Liberius to Messire Hardoüin Fortin de la Hoguette formerly Bishop of S. Brieux He was Agent-General of the Clergy of France Xaintes sixty six from S. Eutrope to Messire Guillaume de la Brunetiere du Plessis Geté formerly Archdeacon and Canon of the Church of Paris and grand Vicar of the two last Archbishops This Prelate at his coming to the Pontificate having found in the Field of his Church the Darnel whereof it is spoken in the Gospel that the man enemy had sown there during the darkness of the night tore it up without unrooting the good seed by his skill and dexterity Sarlat thirty one from Raymond de Roquecor to Messire Loüis de Salagnac The Archbishoprick of Arles ARles eighty seven Prelates from S. Trophime to Messire Francois-Adheimar de Monteil de Grignan Primate Prince of Salon and of Montdragon Commander of the Kings Orders Messire Jean Baptiste Adheimar de Monteil de Grignan was nominated his Coadjutor an 1666. and consecrated at Vzes an 1677. He preacht in Advents before their Majesties and has made fine Speeches to the King as deputed by the general Assemblies of the Clergy The first Archbishop of Arles was called S. Cezaire The Town glories in having given birth to eleven of its Bishops and Archbishops which are St. Honorat S. Aurelien Pierre Ainard Imbert de Guieres Michel de Morieres Hugues Bouardi Bertrand de S. Maleferrat Bertrand Almaric and Gaspart du Laurens I remit those who would have an ample relation on this subject to a Book newly compos'd by the Abbot de Port Native of Arles which contains excellent Remarks he has entitul'd it The Ecclesiastical and Secular History of Arles it 's the third Book wherewith he has gratified the Publick The first is a fine Book of Prayer the second a fine Rhetorick The Suffragans of Arles are Orange Marseilles Toulon and S. Paul Trois Chateaux Orange eighty eight Bishops from Constance to Messire Jean Jacques d'Obeille Marseille seventy one from S. Lazarus Brother of Mary Magdaleine and of Martha to Messire N. d'Estampes Toulon fifty from S. Honorat to Messire Vint-Mille du Luc before Bishop of Dignes S. Paul sixty eight from S. Sulpicius to Messire Loüis-Aube de la Roquemartine The Archbishoprick of Ambrun AMbrun seventy nine from S. Marcelin to Messire Brulart de Genlis The Suffragans are Digne Glandeve Grasse Nice Senez Vence Digne has had fifty two Bishops from S. Domninus to Messire Francois de Tellier who was nominated to this Bishoprick an 1677. He was before the Queens Almoner Curate and Archpriest of the Church of St. Severin of Paris Glandeve thirty one from Fraternus to Messire Leon Bacouë formerly Cordelier He succeeds Jean-Dominique Ithier Those are deceiv'd who have written that the See of Glandeve has been at Antibe they would say true if they said that the Episcopal See was transferred to Grasse because at Antibe they abus'd the Bishop of the place Grasse sixty three from Armenterius to Messire Loüis-Aube de la Roquemartine Dean of the Church of Arles Nice is in the nomination of Savoy Senez thirty three from Vrsus to Messire Loüis-Anne-Aubert de Villeserin Commander of the Kings Orders Some Authors have said falsely that Senez has been honour'd with a Council because having found cited in some Books Concilium Sinense they thought that it was a Council held
Episcopal See. Toul eighty six from Mansuet to Messire Jacques de Fieux Prince of the Empire Verdun ninety four or ninety five from St. Sanctin to Messire N. de Bethune Bishop and Count of Verdun and Prince of the Empire He succeeds Messire Armand de Monchi d' Hoquincourt The Rank and Seats of the Prelates THe Archbishops and Bishops have Rank and Seat in the General Assemblies of the Clergy according to the antiquity of their Consecration The Prelates which are Dukes and Peers of France have the precedency above the others at the Ceremony of the Consecration of the Kings and in the Seats of Parliament and enter with their Coaches into the Court of the Louvre Agents General of the Clergie of France THe Clergy has two Agents General at Court to mind Eccesiastical affairs the Archbishops and Suffragan Bishops name them alternatively They hold their Charge five years because at each General Assembly of the Clergy two are created who are deputed each by the Province which names at his turn Messieurs the Abbots of Maretz Colbert and of Bezons Doctors of Sorbonne were created Agents An. 1680. having been nominated the one by the Archbishop of Rheims and the other by him of Narbonne Bourges and Vienne gave Agents An. 1675. It is observ'd that there is no Prelate who has been Agent-General of the Clergy but that he understands affairs for as men do business so business makes men The Clergy has also its Treasurer call'd otherwise Receiver-General Those that would know the continuation and succession of all the Archbishops and Bishops of France must read a Book of a great labour in four Volumes in Folio compos'd by the Sieurs de Sainte-Marthe entituled Gallia Christiana there are seen there a great number of Popes Bulls the day of the creation of the Prelates their Qualities their Arms the names and the number of Abbeys This Work was printed An. 1656. and is worth a thousand other Impressions There is to be seen also another Book on this subject which has for Title Series Episcoporum Pierre Frison has given the publick Gallia Purpurata Since some time the King seldom gives Archbishopricks to Ecclesiastical persons if they are not actually Bishops These Archbishopricks contain many Suffragans under them our Conquests increase the number The sole Province of Languedoc has had to this time twenty two Bishops and as many Barons entring yearly into the Estates The Duke of Verneüil is Governour of this Province the Marquess de Cauvisson the Comte de Roure and the Marquess de Montanegue are Lieutenants General for the King and Messire Henry d'Aguessau Master of Requests and President of the Grand Council is there Intendant of Justice Polity and Finances He succeeds Messire Claude de Bezons Counsellor of State in Ordinary who liv'd there a long time and who manag'd well the Kings affairs We shall remark in favour of this Province that the Law of Aubeine or Escheatage has no place here by priviledge and exemption of the King nor in the Vicounty of Turenne Laurence Bouchet Advocate in the Court of Parliament of Paris is formal in the point in his Book entituled La Bibliotheque ou Tresor du droit des Francois in which are treated civil criminal and beneficial matters govern'd as well by the Ordinances and Customs of France as decided by Decrees of Soveraign Courts summarily extracted from the most famous French Lawyers and Practitioners and compar'd in many places with the Laws and Customs of Foreign Nations This book was printed at Paris An. 1629. There may be seen also thereon the book of the Province which contains its Priviledges The ordinary List of the Parliaments of France and the time of their erection PAris Tolose Grenoble Bordeaux Dijon Roüen Aix Rennes Pau and Metz. There are added Tornai and Dole its Parliament was plac'd at Bezancon An. 1674. Perpignan has a soveraign Council which judges without appeal as also Pignerol Brisac and other places That which the French call Parliament that is to say conference and debate concerning things belonging to Justice the Spaniards name Soveraign Council and the Savoyards the Senate The Parliament of Paris was made of constant Session on the place by Philippes le Bel An. 1302. and according to Chorier An. 1288. It was before liable to be remov'd from place ro place The 19th of May 1678. Loüis the Fourteenth nominated Messire Nicolas Potier Chevalier Lord of Novion and of Vilbon President of the Cap to the place of first President of this Parliament This place has been long due to his Merit to his Integrity to his great Lights and to that long experience of the Parliament-house which he has acquir'd with an indefatigable and wholly wonderful Assiduity He has rendred himself considerable on all occasions and particularly on those great days which he held at Clermont in Auvergne 1665. Tolose was instituted by the same Philippe le Bel and in the same year as Paris An. 1302. and made fixt An. 1443. and according to Chorier An. 1320. Its first President is at this day Messire Gaspart de Fieubet Grenoble by the Dolphin Loüis Son and Successor of Charles le Bel who confirm'd Anno 1453. by his Letters-Patents that which the Dolphin had done Its first President at this day is call'd Denis le Goux de la Berchere Bourdeaux by Loüis the Eleventh An. 1462. Bourdeaux and Grenoble sit by turns That of Bourdeaux was transferred some years since to Condom and afterward to Marmande from Marmande to la Reole This Parliament has at present for its first President N. d Olide by the voluntary demission of Messire Arnaud de Pontac Dijon by the same King Loüis the Eleventh An. 1476. Messire Loüis Laisne Chevalier Lord de la Margrie after having been many years Counsellor to the Grand Council Master of Requests and having exercis'd divers Intendances of Justice Polity and Finances in Guienne Normandy Burgundy and had many important Commissions in Languedoc for the Kings service and in his Armies was created for his merit first President of the Parliament of Dijon An. 1653. and has kept the place with all the Splendour Honesty Honour and Understanding imaginable so far that his Majesty judg'd him necessary in his Council where he has been one of the most employed in the Affairs of State and of the Finances Messire Nicolas Brulard has been some years first President of this Parliament Roüen was establisht by Loüis the Twelfth An. 1499. The Author of the book entituled L'Etat de la France sets this Parliament after that of Tolose he speaks in these terms The Soveraign Court of Normandy regulated under the name of Echiquier by Philippe le Bel An. 1302. was made perpetual by Loüis the Twelfth An. 1499. though it did not bear the name of Parliament but under Francis the First An. 1515. Messire Claude Pellot is here President since his Intendances of Justice Aix An. 1501. by Loüis the Twelfth Late Messire Geofrey Camus
King of France who had a Jesuit for his Confessor the other Kings Successors of this Prince make use of them since and the greatest part of other Monarchs and Potentates The 28th of April 1675. the Senators and Sheriffs of the famous Town of Messina specially impower'd in the name of all the Inhabitants took on their knees the Oath of Fidelity to the Invincible Loüis the Fourteenth King of France and of Navarre from the hands of Loüis Victor de Roche-Choüard Prince of Tonnai-Charente Duke of Vivone and Lieutenant-General for his Majesty in the Town here mentioned and in the other places of the Isle of Sicily since Mareschal of France At this Ceremony and other important actions assisted Francois-Auguste de Valavoir Marquess of Vaux Melchior de Thomai Lord of Chateauneuf and others The French soon got possession of lands by the taking of Scaleta Augusta Taormina Merilli and other places In the same year 1675. the 19th day of the month of July the Shrine of Saint Genevieve was carried processionally about the Town of Paris for fair weather which was obtain'd as soon as recourse was made to her Prayers before the obstinate Rains laid waste the Country and the Corn for above two months the hopes of the Labourer and Vineyard-keeper were fallen It was twenty three years that the Relicks of this Saint had not been carried An. 1676. the 22th of April happen'd the great Naval-fight in Sicily as far as Augusta and Messina betwixt the French Fleet and those of Holland and Spain The French gain'd a great Victory Michel-Adrien Ruiter was so dangerously wounded that he died some days after The Sieur du Quesne signaliz'd himself there and shew'd the braveness of the French who since some years are become firm Sea-men The King of France declar'd War against the King of Denmark the 28th of August of the same year because contrary to the Treaty of Peace at Copenhagen An. 1660. betwixt Sweden and Denmark for the performance of which his most Christian Majesty gave his Guarentie his Danish Majesty did not cease from making War on the King of Sweden who had not contraven'd to this Treaty of Peace An. 1677. on Ash-wednesday there was a defeat of a Squadron of fourteen Dutch Vessels in the Port of Tobago by the Comte d'Estrées Vice. Admiral of France This Island Tobago which is one of the Isles Antilles in America gave the name to Tobacco or has taken that This simple was formerly call'd the Herb Nicotian because the Physician Nicot brought it into Europe Some call it the Herb of the Queen for having been first presented to the Queen of Spain It is extreamly in use in moist Countries because it dries and sometimes too much After Meals Pipes and Tobacco are set upon the Table the men and women think they are not able to live without it because the Tobacco evacuates as they say the evil humours of the brain Joüin de Rochefort relates that in the Town of Worcester he was askt whether in France the Scholars when they go to School carry Tobacco as those of England He tell us that when the Children go to School they carry in their little Bag with their Food a Pipe fill'd with Tobacco and that at the hour of taking it every one lays down his Book to kindle his Pipe and that the Master takes with them and teaches them to hold their Pipe and to smoak All sorts of persons are seen to smoak in Flanders even to the religious men and women The Bull of Jubilé of the holy year which is celebrated from twenty five to twenty five years was publisht at Paris at the beginning of the month of March in the year 1677. At the same time also wâ—s publisht the Jubilé of the Exaltation of cuâ— holy Father Innocent the Eleventh The first Jubilé lasted two months the other a fortnight whereof we have spoken in the Tract of Italy At the beginning of April Cambray and St. Omer were reduc'd to the Obedience of his most Christian Majesty St. Omer the second Town of the County of Artois is seated on the River Aa The 11th of April Philip of France got the Battel of Cassel The 14th of July the King receiv'd a Courier from the Marshal de Navaille who commanded the Army in Catalonia bringing news of a great advantage gain'd by the Kings Army over the Spanish Troops commanded by Comte de Monteri Vice-Roy in Catalonia In the same year the Town of Arles which was once the Capital of the Kingdom of Arles and of Burgundy rais'd for the glory of the King in the middle of the Place a stately Obelisque which was found buried in the Gardens of Madam de l'Hote scituate in the Trenches of the Town The Sieur Roubin Member of the French Academy of this Town presented the Draught to his Majesty The Obelisque is fifty two foot high without comprizing the Pedestal which is seven foot diameter all of a piece The 25th of October of the same year 1677. Messire Etienne Daligre Chancellor and Keeper of the Seals of France died at Versailles in the house of Chancery aged eighty five years and a half The 27th the King created Chancellor and Keeper of the Seals of France Messire Michel le Tellier who took the Oath presented him by his Majesty the 29th following The indefatigable Marshal de Crequi who has gloried in exposing himself for a long time in the dangers of War whereof he carries many honourable marks on his body for the service of our Monarch has perform'd according to his wont Military actions worthy of his Courage and Valour and particularly in the Campagne of 1677. against the Imperialists The taking of the Town and Citadel of Fribourg in Brisgaw by this Marshal deserves to be particulariz'd This important place opens the Hereditary Countries takes from the Emperour a part of his Dominion Fribourg has belong'd to the Dukes of Zeüringuen and afterward to Comte Egon of Fustemberg for having married Agnes their Heiress his Descendants were Masters of it to the year 1386. The Inhabitants of the Town gave up themselves to the Duke of Austria Marshal Horn and the Duke of Weimar besieg'd and took this place three times for the Swedes An. 1632 1634 1638. Marshal d'Humieres reduc'd to the Kings Obedience the Town of Saint Guillain by his Valour and Forecast the tenth of December of the same year 1677. This place is about two leagues from Mons its Abbot is Lord Spiritual and Temporal and the Abbey is the chief of Hainalt The 12th the Count d'Estrées having taken the Forts which the Hollanders held in the Isle of Gorea at Cape-Vert made himself Master after a long Navigation of the Isle of Tobago and of many Duch Men of War. An. 1678. the first day of March the Town of Gand Capital of the Country of Flanders was invested by the Marshal d'Humieres and taken by his most Christian Majesty on composition the ninth of the same month and
on Christmas-day This Book treats of the Election of the King of the Romans of the Ceremonies that ought to be observ'd in the Election of the Emperour and of his Authority of the Devoir and Priviledges of the Electors and other Officers of the Empire and also of the means to preserve Peace The Emperour Charles the Fourth of the House of Luxembourg made this Bulle call'd by his name the Caroline in the presence and with the consent of the greatest part of the Princes Lords and other Estates of the Empire This Edict comprehending the Fundamental Laws of the Empire was seal'd with a great round Seal not on Wax nor on Lead nor on Silver but on Gold to shew that as this Metal is incorruptible and the noblest of all so that the Laws which this Bulle contains being the principal of the Empire ought not to be chang'd The Seal is fasten'd to red and yellow Strings of Silk on one side of it there is the Effigies of the Author seated in his Throne vested with the Imperial Mantle the Crown on his head the Septer in one hand and the Globe of the Empire in the other with this Inscription Carolus IV. divina favente Clementia Romanorum Imperator semper Augustus Bohemiae Rex On the other side there is a Castle with two Towns and this Devise Aurea Roma and in the circumference Roma Caput Mundi regit orbis fraena rotundi There is an Inscription on both sides because the Seal is impress'd and engrav'd on both sides on a great Medal hanging beneath the Bulle It is reported of this Prince that in recompensing the Treason of three Captains of Philip of Austria his Enemy as they deserv'd he caus'd them to be paid 600000 Crowns which he had promis'd them but it was in false Coin The Traytors complaining the Emperour said to them Go too false Money is well enough for those who have falsified their Faith to their Prince Prerogatives of the Emperour THe chief Prerogatives of the Emperour are to create Kings to require the Towns of the Empire by Proclamation to attend him on occasion to give the Investiture of Fiefs the Power of Legitimating and other Priviledges Fourteen Emperours of the House of Austria THe Empire has been in divers Houses according to the pleasure of the Electors There are counted fourteen Emperours of the House of Austria to Leopold reigning at present The first was Rodolphus of Alsatia Earl of Habsbourg Writers take notice of him for that before his Election as he was hunting a Priest carrying the Sacrament to a dying Peasant he alighted off his horse and made the Priest get up upon him and afterward taking the horse by the reins he accompanied the Sacrament a long difficult and troublesome way till he came to the Hut of the poor sick person This extraordinary act of Piety and Religion has been so well recompens'd by God that since that time this house is aggrandiz'd and rendred Illustrious throughout the whole Earth The Castle of Habsbourg the original Seat of the Emperours of the House of Austria is two leagues from Bâle there are now onely the Ruines to be seen the Switzers not suffering it to be rebuilt The chief Towns of Germany VIenna Prague Presburg Aix la Chappelle Ratisbonne Erfort Dresden Munic Strasbourg Hambourg Mayence Cologne Tréves Munster Magdeburg Lubec Nuremberg Ausburg Heyldeburg Francfort on the Meine Passau Visbourg Brunsvic Inspruch Bremen Brandenburg Berlin Hanover Francfort on the Oder and others The four Wood-land-Towns Valdshoüet Lauffembourg Seckinge and Reinfeld are so call'd because they are built in Woods The four Rustick Towns are Cologne Ratisbonne Constance and Saltzbourg Vienna is a Bulwark of Christendom against the Turks the Emperour Ferdinand the Third and Leopold Ignatius his Son fortified it with large and deep Trenches growing broader and broader from the bottom to the top with twelve great Bastions and high Ramparts There are but six Gates to pass into this Town and they are always shut before Sun-set those that come late from walking enter by a Wicket at the Gate of Italy which they must open with a silver Key Solyman the Second Emperour of the Turks besieg'd this Town with 300000 men the 26th of September of the year 1529. and was forc'd to raise the Siege the 14th of October following after having lost there a great part of his Souldiers some say fourscore thousand men A great number of Bassa's and other Commanders heads were planted on the Walls of this place which vigorously held out twenty Assaults Notwithstanding this firm Resistance Solyman would not withdraw himself till they had permitted him to cause the Crescent to be set up in Vienna this was accorded him pro bono pacis and as a Memorial of this Siege The Crescent is to be seen on the Pyramidal point of the Steeple of the Cathedral-Church of S. Steven The Town was not then fortified as it is at present being now the strongest of all Germany It s Bishop is Suffragan of the Archbishop of Saltzburg who has eleven The University of Vienna was founded by Albert the Third There are seen in the Emperours Library fourscore and seven Paper-writings hung up where it is exactly treated of the Vniversity of Paris of its Statutes and Priviledges The Plague destroy'd An. 1679. a world of people at Vienna and in all Austria Prague is the Capital City of the Kingdom of Bohemia whereof we shall speak elsewhere Presburg is the Capital of that part of the Kingdom of Hungary which the Emperour of Germany possesses there since the loss of Ofen or Buda occupied by the Great Turk Komorre and Javarrin are two Bulwarks of Christendom on that side This Kingdom contain'd formerly Transylvania Valachia and Moldavia thence it is that the two Emperours of the West and East pretend each that the Princes of these three Estates receive from them the Investiture Attila King of the Huns and Hongarians is very famous in History for using Fire and Sword where-ever he came He stil'd himself Son of Mundizic of the Race of the Great Nimrod Native of Engad and through the divine bounty King of the Huns Goths Medes and Danes the Terrour of the World and the Scourge of God. This Enemy of Mankind march'd with an Army of five hundred thousand men France forc'd him to retreat and kill'd him a hundred and fifty thousand men at Arms under Merovius being seconded by Aetius a Roman Patricius and with Theodoric King of the Westergoths An. 454. In Hongary they call the Horse-men Hussars and the Foot-Souldiers Heiduques Aix la Chappelle has the first place in the Diets of the Empire Charlemagne made it the head of his Empire on this side the Alpes he was there born and there died There are seen without the Town hot and cold Baths which are famed as being Medicinal Its Inhabitants pay no Toll in any place of the Empire Marshal de Crequi made himself Master of this place for his
the three Kings or Magi who adored the Son of God in the Manger and it is believ'd that they are there entire The Church of St. Vrsula is famous by reason of the eleven thousand Virgins cast by a Tempest on the coasts of Germany There are seen an infinite number of bones all round the walls of the Quire in high Cupboards and many Tombs in the body of the Church and on an Altar many heads of silver where is that of St. Vrsula The Colledge of Sorbonne a Member of the faculty of Divinity of Paris has for Patronesses this holy Daughter of a King and her Companions Cardinal Baronius says in his Annotations on the Roman Martyrologie that the true History of these Virgins is lost thence it comes that we find many uncertain things of it Mr. Joli Canon of the Church of Paris has said remarkable things of it in his Book entituled A Voyage made to Munster in Westphalia and many other neighbouring places An. 1646 and 1647. Printed by Francis Clauzier Father Boussingault in his Guide of the Low Countries p. 101. and 219. says that the Church St. Mary of the Capitol has two Bodies and two Quires in the one of which the Canons say their Office and in the other the Canonesses where the one being on one side and the others on the other they sing the Praises of God. There is a like thing practis'd at Nivelle in Brabant the Canons come on certain days of the year into the Church of the Canonesses to sing with them The Abbess as Lady spiritual and temporal of the Town of Nivelle it being of her Jurisdiction presides in the Chapter the Canons and Canonesses joyntly confer the Benefices which are vacant by the death or by the marryage of the Canonesses The Ladies wear in the Church a Rochet with a black Mantle over it which trains on the ground a starcht Linnen-cloath on their arm instead of the Aumusse or the furr'd Ornament worn by Canons and a Couvre-chef on their head St. Bruno Founder of the Charthusians was born at Cologne and Mary de Medicis dyed there the third of July 1643. In the same year dyed Loüis the Thirteenth and Cardinal Richelieu Cologne has had eighty Bishops and Archbishops from Matternus to Maximilian Henry of Bavaria seventeen Bishops preceded there the Metropolitans St. Agilulfe was its first Archbishop Pope Zachary declar'd this Church Metropolitan An. 744. The Suffragans are Munster Minden and Osnaburg An Observation on the three Ecclesiastical Electors YOu must observe that the three Ecclesiastical Electors have no Passive Voice in the Assemblies of Election that is to say they cannot nominate themselves Emperours they may nominate and give their Suffrages for others but not for themselves it having not been judg'd proper that one and the same head should wear the Miter and the Imperial Crown and one and the same hand carry the Cross and the Sword and to the end that since they cannot arrive at the Crown they may keep the other Electors within the bounds of their devoir Another Observation on the Lay Electors THe Secular Electors may nominate themselves Sigismond of Luxembourg King of Bohemia nominated himself after the death of Robert of Bavaria and the other Electors acknowledging his merit gave him unanimously their Voices and Suffrages The Ecclesiastical Electors are elected by their Chapters who may exercise the Archiepiscopal Functions during the vacancy of the See but not the Electoral The Electoral Habit. THe Electoral Habit comes near that of the Presidents of Soveraign Courts That of the Ecclesiastical Electors is of Scarlet Cloath and that of the Lay Electors is of Crimson Velvet They are all lin'd with Hermines as likewise their Cap. There are some of them to be seen drawn at large with their ceremonial Habits in one of the fairest and richest Galleries of Duke Mazarin formerly belonging to the Cardinal of this name The King of Bohemia instead of the Electoral Cap wears a Royal Crown on his head You must observe that An. 1673. the Town of Cologne was chosen to treat there of a Peace betwixt the Kings of France and of Great Britain and the Hollanders and the Assembly was held at the Convent of the Carmelites a place very convenient His most Christian Majesty sent thither for his Plenipotentiaries the Duke of Chaulne and the Sieurs Courtin and de Barillon who arriv'd there the first the King shewing that he would not retard the work of Peace where so many Princes concern'd themselves though loaded with Victories They were followed by three Embassadours of Sweden who had a deference of Honour from all the rest they being then in quality of Mediators Two Plenipotentiaries came afterward from England and they expected for third the Earl of Sunderland chief of the Embassie During his absence Sir Joseph Williamson perform'd for him Those of Holland came to the number of four and afterward the Plenipotentiaries of Spain who had no other quality but of Envoys The Elector of Cologne had one Embassadour Prince William of Fustemberg the Elector of Brandenburg sent thither the Baron of Zminzin who had a Colleague The Emperour deputed the Baron d'Isola and others and the Bishop of Munster sent two there He was one of the Parties concern'd This Illustrious Assembly had no success because the seizing and carrying away by force the person of Prince William of Furstemberg by the Imperialists though vested with the character of Plenipotentiary in a place which ought to be a Sanctuary oblig'd his most Christian Majesty considering the Laws of Nations violated to recal his Nimegen was since made choice on for renewing the Conferences of the general Peace The Duke de Vitry the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissi and the Sieur de Mesmes Count of Avaux were appointed Plenipotentiaries of France Anno 1675. Marshal d' Estrade succeeded the Duke de Vitry. The 11th of August 1677. the Bishop and Prince of Gurc chief of the Embassie of Germany for the Conferences of the Peace arrived at Nimegen accompanied with Count Kinski and with Sieur Straman his Colleagues who went before him All the other Plenipotentiaries repair'd thither The Estates of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries appointed for their Plenipotentiaries the Sieur Hieromy Beverning Lord of Teylingen Curator of the University of Leiden the Sieur William of Nassau Lord of Odik Cortegene c. and the Sieur William Haren Grietman du Bildt The Treaties of Peace and of Commerce Navigation and Maritime affairs betwixt France and the States General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries were concluded at Nimegen the 10th of August 1678. In the same year the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain was sign'd and the year following 1679. that of France and of the Emperour whereof we have spoken elsewhere The Elector and King of Bohemia THe King of Bohemia one of the seven Electors formerly the Emperours great Cup-bearer is at present the Emperour himself Cath. His Arms
ancient Dukes of Pomerania The whole was concluded by a magnificent Entertainment where all the Burgesses that came were admitted The 19th of December 1677. this Elector gave a publick Audience in his Camp before Stetin to the Envoy of the Cham of Tartary Precopites His Electoral Highness sate in a Seat of Crimson-Velvet trim'd with Gold on a Scaffold rais'd two steps cover'd with a rich Turky Carpet This Envoy had three Letters one from the Cham one from the Sultan Galga his eldest Son for his Electoral Highness and one for the Electoress consisting of Complements and offerings of Service The 26th of December of the same year the Town of Stetin Capital of Pomerania surrendred it self to his Electoral Highness after a vigorous resistance of six months siege The 24th of the same month the Capitulation was concluded and sign'd on both sides The 26th in the morning the Composition being made his Electoral Highness commanded two thousand men to possess themselves of the Gate of the Bastion c. His Electoral Highness granted the Town ten years Exemption and the liberty of Fishing that the Inhabitants might employ the publick Revenues in the reparation of the Ruines of the Churches and his Highness took on himself the reparation of the Cathedral The Elector gave to Baron Orflin Camp-Marshal of his Army the government of Pomerania as Count Wrangel enjoy'd it in his life-time and made Major-General Suering Governour of Stetin and Col. Barstel Commander under him The Siege of this place cost his Electoral Highness four hundred thousand Crowns in Powder Bullets and Shot according as some relate This Elector made his solemn Entry into the Town of Stetin the sixth of January 1678. on Twelf-day and after having heard the Sermon and receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity from the Magistrates and the People the Medals which his Highness had caus'd to be made were distributed to the People In the Evening he retir'd into his Camp whence he parted the eighth to return to Berlin where they gave him an August Reception This Elector was not satisfied with giving Orders for repairing Stetin with all possible diligence but moreover he would adde there new labours for rendring this place of Importance more strong than it was before The 22th of Octob. 1678. the Town of Stralzond surrendred it self by composition to his Electoral Highness who made there his publick Entrance the 30th of the same month The Elector granted the Inhabitants an Exemption for ten years from all the Impositions that they were wont to pay to capacitate them to re-establish themselves because of two thousand houses that there were in the Town before the Siege there remained not fifty which were not consum'd with the fire The 17th of November of the same year Gripswal incurr'd the same fate the Elector receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity of the Inhabitants the twentieth of the same month This Town has the title of University it 's half a league om the Sea. The Swedes entred Germany forty or fifty years since assisted with the Protestants against the Catholicks At the beginning of the year 1679. all the Estates of the Elector of Brandenburg resolv'd to erect for this Prince a Statue of cast Copper in the Town of Berlin in memory of his great Victories This Prince has restor'd to the King of Sweden the places that he had taken from him Stetin is of the number which is the onely place that his Electoral Highness insisted on keeping because it had cost him so much and that it was the Seat of the ancient Dukes of Pomerania his Predecessors There is seen at his Court a Fugitive to whom the Father General of the Capuchins spake on a day in these words with Tears in his Eyes Religion has given you Honey and you return it back Gall. An. 1680. Vrslan Aga Envoy of the Cham of the Crim-Tarters presented the Electoress from the Cham's Wife a Shift of Egyptian-Cloath and a sort of Buskins embroidered with Gold such as are worn by the Sultans The third of Jan. 1681. Prince Loüis of Brandenburg fourth Son of the Elector of this name married the Princess Loüise onely Daughter of the late Prince Bogeslaus Radzevil she being 14 years of age a very rich Heiress This Princess possesses above 40 leagues of Land in Lithuania on the frontire of Livonia where she has two places well fortified The Elector Palatine CHarles Count Palatine of the Rhine Prince and Elector of the Empire Great Treasurer of the Imperial House was born 1651. Calvinist He bears quarterly in the first and fourth Sable a Lion Or crown'd of the same arm'd and langued Gules in the second and third Lozenge Argent and Azure of twenty one pieces and then a Mond Or in a Field Gules which belongs to the Electorate Heidelberg is his capital Town in the lower Palatinate on the Necar It was taken An. 1621. by the General of the Emperour Ferdinand the Second The Tower where the Clock is is very high and of a very excellent Architecture Manhein is the Fence of the whole Country there is a very fair Palace there where the Prince ordinarily resides Charles Loüis Father to the present Elector was admirably skill'd in the Civil Law he has been heard to dispute against publick Theses dedicated to his Electoral Highness with such a strength of Spirit that he has put to a stand both Defender and Master Books are no less worthy of a Prince than the Military Art Minerva and Mars are both Children of Jupiter Alexander the Great read Homer's Iliads and Odysses Julius Caesar has left us his Commentaries Alexander Severus read Plato's Republick Tulliee Offices and Horace The great Captain Scipio studied the Institution of Cyrus Tiberius and Adrian the Works of Ovid. Charlemagne King of France and Emperour read the Scripture the Fathers and particularly the Works of St. Austin made Rules for the Reformation of the Church entituled Capitula Caroli Magni Charles the Fifth King of France nam'd the Wise caus'd the Latin Bible to be translated into French and caus'd other Versions to be made S. Loüis Francis the First and other Kings of France have lov'd Learning and learned persons Alphonsus the Tenth King of Castile compos'd Books â—â— the Civil Law fine Astronomical Tables and even the General History of Spain it has been observ'd that he read the Bible fourteen times St. Bruno in his Book entituled the present state of the Affairs of Germany with the Interests and Genealogies of the Princes of the Empire reduces the Estates of the Prince Palatine to ten Bailiwicks and notes his Revenue he has inherited five hundred thousand Livres of Rent since the death of the Palatine of Simmeren Uncle of Charles Loüis and formerly his Tutor The Elector Palatine and he of Bavaria are of the same Family The House Palatine is the eldest Frederick the Fifth Count Palatine elected King of Bohemia had the Electoral Dignity taken from him An. 1623. at the Diet of Rat
place of Residency of this Court. There is a great Bridge and a little River under it call'd Manzanarez on the occasion of which an Embassadour said to the Emperour Charles the Fifth Less Bridge or more Water The Kings Palace is call'd Pallasso del Rey otherwise Palasso Real The eldest Sons of the King of Spain are called Princes of Austria as in France Dolphins in England Princes of Wales in Portugal Princes of Algarves and in Savoy Princes of Piedmont A relation whereof I could quote the Author tells us that a man must be clad in black to speak to his Catholick Majesty I know the contrary by Spaniards who have had the honour to speak to him in grey Clothes I may believe that a man must appear before him in black Clothes when he is in Mourning and be in a decent habit The Coach-men sit on one of the horses which go at the Draught-tree since the time that the Coach-man of Count Alvarez who sate before the Coach reveal'd a Secret of his Master which he had overheard The same thing is practis'd in Germany The chief Houses of Pleasure belonging to the King and out of Madrid are IL Campo il Retiro Aranjues le Pardo the Escurial and Jarzuela The Spaniards make of this last save one the eighth Wonder of the World. Philip the Second laid oâ—r twenty Millions in building it he caus'd the Escurial to be built both in memory of the Victory which he gain'd over the French An. 1557. at S. Quentin in Picardy on the Somme the tenth of August being S. Laurence's day and for having caus'd the Church of S. Laurence of S. Quentin to be beaten down whereupon he made a Promise to God to cause a finer to be built in Spain in the honour of the same Saint and a Monastery where the Monks of S. Hierome are magnificently seated The King has a Seat in the Refectuary and a great Palace without the Convent After the Library of the Vatican which is the first of the World that of these Monks has been greatly valued There is seen at il Campo a great Park for the divertisement of Hunting great Ponds and Gardens At il Retiro otherwise call'd Buen Retiro there is seen Philip the Fourth on a Horse of cast Copper The King passes there the greatest heats of the Summer by reason of its Waters and fine Grotto's of different kinds The fine Walks are there as green in the Summer as in the Spring-time There is a strange Figure there standing in the midst of a great Cistern casting forth water from all the parts of its body which is made use of for watering in a moment a Garden of the Palace full of all sorts of Flowers There is also seen there Gardens full of Fruit-trees At il Pardo are the Pictures of all the Kings of Spain The ancient Palace of one of the Kings of the Moors call'd Halambra is remarkable for being flankt with thirty Towers it is on one of the little Hills of the Town of Grenada The chief places of Devotion IN Madrid the Church of our Lady Almudena and that of Athoca are very famous Our Lady of Athoca call'd according to the Language of the Country Nostra Senora d'Athoca is at Madrid as the Church of our Lady at Paris for Piety and the concourse of People It 's there where the Te Deum is sung Saint James of Compostella in Galicia is a very famous place of Pilgrimage the French Pilgrims that go thither pass over the Trembling Bridge It is thought that this Bridge is so call'd by reason of the flowing of the Sea which coming to press against it makes it tremble It 's a roguish Bridge of wood a little River passes under it The Apostle S. James the Greater is the Patron of all Spain His Relicks are under the great Altar of the Metropolitan Church of Compostella his Figure representing half his body is over it his Pilgrims Staff is on the side of the Quire and his Head at Toulouse in the Church of S. Sernin It 's there where the Pilgrims begin their Pilgrimage S. James has been seen to fight for the Spaniards against the Sarasins holding in his hand a white Standart with a red Cross in it in the time of King Ramires who being assisted with his Apostle charg'd so briskly the Enemies that he cut in pieces 60000 on the place Charlemagne King of France was at Compostella to honour St. James and caus'd his Church to be built Since the Kings of Spain have been Catholicks they have always honour'd him I have read a Relation of divers Voyages in which the Author says that St. James suffered Martyrdom at Compostella It 's a roguish Memoire which has been given him I remit him to the Books of the Acts of the Apostles to the Ecclesiastical History and to the holy Martyrology and he will find that it was at Hierusalem that Herod caus'd him to be beheaded This Apostle having continued some time in Spain return'd to Judoea his Disciples after his death carried him from the Port of Joppe presently to Fa where they embarkt for Spain and after having sail'd all along the Mediterranean Sea and pass'd the Straight of Gibralter they took on the Ocean the course of Galicia where they landed and disembarkt the body of the Saint in the Town of Irisflavia where he continued hidden and unknown till it was miraculously discover'd by a Star which appear'd there This place has been call'd since Compostella that is to say Campus stelloe S. James the Lesser suffered also Martyrdom in Hierusalem whereof he was Bishop he was thrown headlong from the top of the Temple to the bottom and cudgell'd to death After S. James of Compostella Mount Sarra is another place of Piety and of Pilgrimage very much frequented It 's a Mountain in the middle of Catalonia on which there is an Abbey of the Order of S. Bennet and where thirteen Hermites have each their little Cell and little Garden The Angelical Chappel call'd otherwise our Lady of the Pillar is very famous at Saragossa Buterius says that S. James being in Prayer about this Town with his little Flock and being very uneasie that he could not convert in Spain above nine persons whereof there were eight Jews and one onely Spaniard the holy Virgin brought by Angels from Judaea into this Country appear'd to him near the River Eber on a Pillar of Marble some say of Jasper who comforting him foretold to him the Conversion of this People by the Ministry of his Disciples and that St. James rais'd her since this Chappel where this Pillar is seen and on it the Figure of the Virgin holding her Son in her arms This Church is esteem'd the most Ancient of Christendom amongst those that are dedicated to the holy Virgin. The Division of the Spanish Monarchy ITs Kingdoms or to say better its Provinces were formerly to the number of fourteen by counting thus Castille Leon Arragon Catalonia Valencia