remembrance of him in their Arms. The Archbishops of Mayence as Chancellours of the Empire keep the Archives of the Empire and the original Register-books where are registred the names of all the Princes and Estates who have a Voice in the Diets When the Emperour is dead they give notice to the other Electors and signifie to them a day to set upon a new Election Mayence Aschaffembourg are the ordinary places of Residence of this Prelate who has thirteen Suffragans Strasbourg is one Of late years there has been united to this Archbishoprick the Bishoprick and Principality of Wormes Mayence has had seventeen Archbishops from S. Boniface to Anselm Francis Frederick Forty Bishops preceded them the first was S. Crescens and the last Gervilio This Archbishoprick yields ordinarily to its Archbishop six or seven hundred thousand Crowns of Annual Rent its Dominions contain twenty five Bailiwicks and a great many Tolls on the Rhine and on the Main This Elector is Dean of the Electoral Colledge he crowns the Emperour on his Lands The Election is made ordinarily at Francfort on the Main though not by an indispensable necessity because the Emperours have formerly receiv'd the Crown at Aix la Chappelle and of late years at Francfort and elsewhere The Elector of Saxony contested the Election with Ferdinand the First because he was elected at Cologne Mayence which was formerly an Imperial Town lost its Priviledges by the Assassinate of Arnold de Zellenouë its Archbishop The Chapter is compos'd of twenty four Capitulary Canons that is to say who have a deliberate Voice they are all Gentlemen I will not pass with silence a thing which pass'd in this Town An. 745. It s Prelate Boniface not believing that there were Antipodes accus'd of Heresie before Pope Zachary of whom he was Legate Vigilis Bishop of Saltzbourg because he had maintain'd the contrary both in his Pulpit and in a Book which he compos'd whereat some Church-men being scandaliz'd accus'd him to Boniface who caus'd him to be condemn'd as an Heretick alledging that St. John Chrysostom S. Austin and other Fathers of the Church had not believ'd a new World and that to set up a new was to introduce a new Jesus Christ. Zacharie writ on this subject two Letters to Boniface which are inserted in the general Sum of the Councils We can no longer doubt of a new World since the discovery of Christopher Columbus It has been said since of this Archbishop Boniface that he was as ill a Geometer as he was a good man. There is seen in this Diocess an ancient Tower famous in History call'd Meusthur that is to say the Tower of Rats in a Lake where Hatton the Second of this name was devour'd by these Animals An. 914. through a divine punishment Some Authors relate that they gnaw'd away even his name wheresoever they found it The Jews were expell'd from Mayence Anno 1433. The Invention of Printing SOme attribute to John Guttemberg Gentleman Native of Mayence some say of Strasbourg the Invention of Printing about the year 1440. under Pope Eugenius the Fourth Chasteauniere de Grenaille says that it was in the Town of Haërlem sometime an Episcopal Town where it was invented that it was Laurence Coster who first invented this Art and that after having begun to work upon it and having profited and advanc'd in it one of his treacherous Servants call'd John Faustus pocketed up and carried away to Mayence all the Letters and other Instruments serving for Printing in a word the whole Trade in a Christmas-night whilst his Master and all the Family were at the Midnight-Mass Boxhornius in his Book entituled the Theatre of Holland has written in favour of Haërlem as also Petrus Scriverius Naudé has declar'd himself for Mayence There are seen on the house of the said Laurence Coster Citizen Keeper of the Royal Palace of Haërlem these words MEMORIAE SACRVM Typographia Ars Artium omnium Conservatrix hic Primum Inventa circa annum 1430. And moreover the Statue of Coster with this Inscription VIRO CONSVLARI Laurentio Costero Harlemensi Alteri Cadmo Artis Typographicoe circa annum Domini 1430. Inventori primo benè de literis ac toto orbi merito hanc Q. L. Q. C. Statuam quia oeream non habuit pro Monumento posuit gratissimus M. Joli Chanter of the Church of Paris has very well remarkt that we must not think strange of the difference of these two dates 1440. and 1430. which are in these Inscriptions because Boxhornius makes the Invention of Printing more ancient by ten years telling us that Coster laid the first Foundations An. 1420. The late Dean of Munster call'd Malinchrot maintains that the Invention of Printing belongs to Mayence He has compos'd a Book in Quarto which has for title de Ortu Progressu Artis Typographicoe which was printed at Cologne An. 1639. Parival says in his Book entituled Les Delices de la Holland p. 86. that the Chineses a long time since invented Printing that it was polisht at Mayence and thence convey'd all over Europe but that the Honour belongs to Laurence Coster and the immortal Glory to Haërlem Adrian Junius says that the first Characters for Printing were of Beech-wood whereof Coster bethought him afterward of Lead then of Tin. Others say with more likelihood that they began to print at Haërlem with Tables of Box or of Brass ingraven after the Chinese manner The Book entituled Speculum nostroe Salutis printed at Haërlem and at Mayence is very ancient as also the Catholicum Januense it 's a Latin Dictionary call'd Prosodia It was compos'd by a Religious man of the Order of St. Dominick and printed at Mayence An. 1460. That of the Dominicans de la rue S. Honore is of the year 1629. The first Bible was printed at Mayence by John Faustus and Peter Schoeffer his Son-in-Law An. 1462. and the year following S. Austin de Civitate Dei in the same Town Martin and Michel Vlriques were the first who exercis'd in Paris the Art of Printing An. 1470. The Latin Bible was printed at Paris Anno 1512. Those of Robert Stevens came forth at Paris An. 1528 and 1532. The first Huguenot Bible was translated from Hebrew into French by Peter Olivetan vulgarly Oliveteau and printed at Neuchastel in Switzerland An. 1535. by Pirot Picard The Bible of Vatablus was printed by the same Robert Stevens An. 1557. in three Volumes in Folio The Sieur Joli above-mentioned says in his Book entituled Voyage fait à Munster autres lieux voisins An. 1646 and 1647. a remarkable thing which is that to adjust the difference betwixt Haërlem and Mayence concerning the Invention of Printing it may be concluded from a Book of Bertius that Coster at Haërlem lighted on the Invention of Printing after the manner of the Chineses and that Guttemberg and Faustus invented afterward at Mayence the moveable and changeable Characters for composing syllables and words because Scriverius shew'd
du Chesne Coulomb Gautruche and others He governed the Ship of St. Peter eight years and four months His body lies at Marseilles in the Church of the Abbey of St. Victor after having first continued eleven months deposited in the Church of Nostre dame de Dons at Avignon where he died the 19th of December of the year 1370. The Cardinals celebrated his Obsequies with the accustomed Ceremonies He is in the Catalogue of canonized Saints In the House of Roure there have been two other Popes viz. Sixtus the Fourth and Julius the Eleventh both of Genoa Gregory the Eleventh of Limosin called formerly Peter Roger of the House of Beaufort which subsists still in that of the Marquess of Canilhac in Auvergne was Son of William Earl of Beaufort and of Jane Sister to Pope Clement the Sixth Before his Exaltation he was Canon of the Church of Paris Dean of the Cathedral of Bayeux and then afterwards Cardinal by the Title of St. Mary la Neuve His Prophecy was Novus de Virgine fortis It is he that founded for perpetuity in the Church of Nostre dame of Paris the station that is dayly kept there at nine a clock in the morning before the Altar of the Virgin. He died at Rome the 27th of March of the year 1372. some say Anno 1376. others Anno 1378. Two hundred years after his death the Italians erected a new Monument of Marble in his memory in the Church where he was buried as an acknowledgment of the Benefits received from him and caused to be graved on it this Epitaph in great Letters Christi Saluti Gregorius XI Lemovicensi humanitate doctrinâ pietateque admirabili qui ut Italiae seditionibus laboranti mederetur sedem Pontificiam Avenione diu translatam divini afflatus numine hominumque maximo plausu post Annos LXX Romam foeliciter perduxit Pontificatûs sui de Anno VII S. P. Q. R. tantoe Religionis Beneficii non Immemor Gre. XIII P. Opt. Max. comprobante An. ab or be Redempto MDLXXXIV The Italians call the time during which the Holy See was at Avignon till its re-establishment in Rome the years of the Transmigration of Babylon The Church had two hundred forty four Popes from Saint Peter to Innocent the Eleventh There remains yet to come twenty five according to the Prophecies of St. Malachie Primate of Ireland and then will happen the great day of the General Judgment which will close the door of Time and open that of Eternity These Prophecies are not proposed as Articles of Faith for who is the man that can know the times and the moments This is reserved to God alone Jesus Châ—ist said to his Apostles that no body knows the hour of this great Day All that is said is grounded on conjectures and on adjusted senses because the Law of Nature lasted two thousand years the written Law two thousand years it is thought that the Evangelical Law will continue so long Nothing can be said thereon for certain nor concerning the Popes to come before their creation The future Popes conformably to the Prophecies mentioned are these 1. POenitentia Gloriosa 2. Rastrum in Porta 3. Flores Circumdati 4. De Bonâ Religione 5. Miles in bello 6. Columna excelsa 7. Animal Rurale 8. Rosa Vmbriae 9. Vrsus velox 10. Peregrinus Apostolicus 11. Aquila rapax 12. Canis Coluber 13. Vir Religiosus 14. De Balneis Etruriae 15. Crux de Cruce 16. Lumen in Coelo 17. Ignis Ardens 18. Religio de Populata 19. Fides Intrepida 20. Pastor Angelicus 21. Pastor ex Nautâ 22. Flos Florum 23. De Medietate Lunae 24. De Labore solis 25. Gloria Olivae These Prophecies are inserted in a book called Lignum Vitae composed by Arnold Vvion Benedictin St. Malachie began them by Coelestin the Second to the coming of Antichrist and died Anno 1298. in the Abbey of Clairvaux in the arms of St. Bernard who has writ his Life These two great persons are buried the one by the other behind the High Altar The chief Princes of Italy after the Pope are the five following The Duke of Savoy VIctor-Amé the second of the name Duke of Savoy Prince of Piemont Marquess of Saluzze c. was born Anno 1666. professes the Catholick Religion he shews in the tenderness of his age a viril Judgment which raises admiration in Foreign Ministers and gives great hopes that he will one day be Master of the excellent Qualities of his Father which will live in him by the care of his Mother Regent who being ignorant of nothing that ought to be known took care of his Estates during his minority and appointed him persons whom she made choice of for forming his Manners and Conduct The Dutchess laid down the Regency Anno 1680 into the hands of her Son. This Prince gave her his thanks for the care she had taken of his Person and of his Estates and pray'd her to continue to assist him in the Government I shall set down but part of his Coat of Arms though very excellent and most noble because his Scutcheon is extreamly charg'd They may be seen at large in some good book of Heraldry and those of other crowned heads I shall say onely that the Dukes of Savoy bear the silver Cross for having relieved the Isle of Rhodes and repelled the Turks An. 1315. and that for acknowledgment the Knights gave them the Cross with this Motto FERT which signifies Fortitudo ejus Rhodum tenuit I shall also say that these Dukes bear the Arms of the Kingdom of Cyprus This Crown gives them the Title of Royal Highness They are descended from the ancient House of Saxony They were called in the first place Earls of Morienne then Earls of Savoy till Amedée the Eighth whom the Emperour Sigismond created Duke Anno 1416 or 1417. It was Amé the Fifth surnamed the Great who caused Mahomet the second of the name Emperour of the Turks to raise his Siege from before the City of Rhodes The House of Savoy has been acknowledged Soveraign for above six hundred years it has assorded many Empresses and Queens Turin in the Plain of Piemont on the Bank of the Po is the capital City of the Dukes Territories Chamberry is of Savoy and has a Parliament The Court of this Prince is very splendid his Royal Highness holds it at Turin where there is a great Garison The Dukes new Palace is one of the finest of Italy it is composed of four Pavillions with great piles of Lodgings joyning to it and in a great Court is seen the brazen Figure of Charles Emanuel the Second on a Horse of Marble represented to the life The old Palace flankt with four great round Towers guarded with a large Trench and which faces a large void space is embellished with a fair Gallery filled with excellent Pictures which represent the Christian Princes and the Genealogy of the Dukes of Savoy The little Chariot with six horses
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
'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
Daughter of late Gaston of France Duke of Orleans and of the deceased Marguerite of Lorain Cardinal Bonzi performed the Ceremony in the Chappel of the Louvre From this Marriage are issued two Princes and a Princess Anno 1531. Florence changed its Popular Government into a Monarchical under the authority of the Emperour Charles the Fifth and had for Prince Alexander de Medices Nephew to Pope Clement the Seventh And Anno 1569 Pope Pius the Fifth gave to Cosmus Successor of Alexander the Title of Great Duke of Tuscany for having sent into France bands of Souldiers against those of the pretented Religion the Authors of the first Wars of Religion and made him see his Bulls executed Florence is the Capital of the whole State on the River Arne and the place of abode of the Great Dukes This Town has two strong Castles and a Citadel The Duke lives in the Palace on the Model of which that of Luxemburg at Paris was built Its Galleries are very curious and very rich there are seen in a Hall Chairs of silver a Service of massie gold two Spheres the one of the Heavens and the other of the Earth both of cast Brass artistically made the barrel of a Gun and its battery of Gold made by one of its Dukes great Candlesticks with feet of Amber a great Loadstone And in another Hall a great many of the Works of Titian of Michael Angelo and of Raphael Vrbin and an infinite number of other Wonders The Garden contains many excellent Figures those of Adam and Eve are accomplisht Pieces it has large and beautiful Walks excellent Knots large Trees pleasant Fountains great Cisterns and fine Flowers The Chappel of St. Laurence is the Mausoleum of the Dukes it is very large and of a round figure in the inside they have not spared Jasper Porphire Alabaster Pearls c. the outside is of the fairest Marble that could be got Under the Chappel is the Vault where are many Tombs In the Chappel is placed a Tabernacle made of Saphirs Diamonds Emeralds and Rubies which was formerly kept in a Cabinet in one of the Great Dukes Galleries and dazeled the eyes of the Spectators The Palace of Strosses is famous for its structure The Great Dukes Houses of Pleasure about Florence are Pratolino Prato Petraria Baroncelli Carregio Poggio Imperiale and Poggio Cajano Florence has the Title of Archbishoprick Cardinal Nerli heretofore Nuncio in France is seated in it The Cordeliers keep there in their Church the Robe of St. Francis. Sienna and Pisa are also Archiepiscopal Seats The Academy of Florence has given the Publick a Dictionary which rectifies the Italian Tongue A certain person said once pleasantly on this subject That as the Searce separates the Flour from the Bran this Academy has purified by its Dictionary the Tongue of the Country separating the good terms from those that are not so He that would know the origine of the word Academy may consider that it is on the occasion of a place near Athens which Academus gave to Plato to teach Philosophy in that the name of Academy is since given by way of excellency to illustrious Assemblies where Sciences are cultivated You must observe that this name is general Plato had his Academy Aristotle his Lyceum Zeno his Porticus Epicurus his Gardens divers Sciences were there taught The principal Towns near Florence are Sienna Pisa Legorn a strong place and a Sea-port Pistoya Volaterra Fiorenzola Radicofanis and Portferraya another Sea-port By reason of the liberty of Conscience that is at Legorn there are several sorts of Nations Jews Greeks Turks Armenians and Christians walk all together there in the great Piazza Four Popes have issued from the House of Medecis Steven the Tenth Leo the Tenth Clement the Seventh and Leo the Eleventh two Empresses and two Princesses who have been Queens of France to wit Katherine de Medecis married to Henry the Second Mother of three Kings Mary de Medecis Spouse of Henry the Fourth called the Great This Princess will never die in the memory of the people She gave excellent Fountains throughout all Paris caused the Queens Court to be planted with a great number of Trees which have been augmented by Loüis the Great and caused that august Palace of Luxembourg to be built which is visited and frequented not onely by Parisians but likewise by Strangers who admire the Structure and Symmetry with the rest It is inhabited by two great Princesses of the Royal Bloud Mademoiselle de Montpensier Soveraign of Dombes and Madam de Guise Dutchess of Alencon Tuscany has afforded many Popes the sole Town of Sienna has given Alexander the Third of the Family of Bandinellis Pius the Second and Pius the Third of the House of Picolominy Alexander the Seventh of that of Chisi Clement the Ninth was Native of Pistoya A Historiographer of Brandenburg relates that Pope Pius the Fourth having an intention to give the quality of King to a Duke of Florence the Emperour being advertised of it by an Embassadour answered Italia non habet Regem nisi Caesarem Others believe that this Answer was given by Charles the Fifth when he was spoken to concerning the restitution of the Town of Milain to Duke Ludovick Sforce who had deposited it in his hands Some think that the Italian Tongue is more pure at Sienna than in the rest of Italy Many think that those persons talk much after the same rate as those who say that better French is spoken at Blois and at Saumur than at Paris which seems a Paradox for there where the Court is the French Academy the greatest Preachers of the Kingdom and a most renowned Bar the Language ought to be most pure and polite This may be a little Problematical because the diversity of Nations that are at Paris cause the corruption of the Language You must observe that Sienna has a flourishing Academy and that almost all the Towns of Italy have Academies we see them mentioned in a book of the Academy of the Abbot Bourdelot containing divers Researches It is to be had at Thomas Moettes in Harp-street at the signe of St. Alexis The Duke of Mantua Charles the Third of the House of Gonzaga Duke of Mantua Cath. His Arms are Argent a Cross Pattee Gules between four Eagles Sable on the whole an Escutcheon quarterly first gives a Lion Rampant Or and 3 Bars Sable He resides at Mantua a very large strong and pleasant City which was built by Manto the Prophetess Daughter of Tiresias It is esteemed more ancient than Rome by 670 years It is scituated on the Lake Benar which has ten leagues circumference This Town has some Bridges on which a man may walk guarded from the Rain in some places that of St. George is five hundred paces in length Mantua was made a Marquisate An. 1433. by the Emperour Sigismond and a Dutchy Anno 1530. by the Emperour Charles the Fifth in favour of Frederick de Gonzaga The Dukes Palace is very
the others are also of a great price The Head of St. Loüis King of France is at Paris in the holy Chappel of the Palace Jean d'Eureux Queen of France took it from the Treasury of St. Denis and put in its place parcels of all the Relicks that are in the said holy Chappel There is seen in the same Treasury of St. Denis a Cup of Tamarisk-wood in which St. Loüis drank to keep himself from the Spleen A Vessel of an oriental Agate esteem'd one of the most pretious pieces of the Treasury for its largeness antiquity and work It 's believed that Ptolomy Philadelphus caused it to be made and that it was working with the point of a Diamond for thirty years Another Vessel of Gold in the form of a Salver adorn'd with Granats Jacinths and with a great white Saphire in the midst on which is seen the Effigies of King Solomon seated in his Throne It is judg'd that it appertained to this Monarch as also a great Vessel of Rock-Christal by reason of some Inscriptions in Samaritan Characters A Gamahaea in an Agat-stone expressing the Image of the Queen of Saba Many Crowns of Gold and Silver that of Charlemain St. Loüis Henry the Fourth Loüis the Thirteenth and Loüis the Fourteenth Each of these Kings has given to the Treasury two Crowns one of Gold the other of Silver gilt That of Charlemain which is carried to Rheims to serve at the Coronation of our Kings with the other Royal Ornaments is all of Gold adorn'd with great Rubies Saphirs and Emeralds The Crown of St. Loüis is likewise of massie Gold adorn'd with very beautiful pretious Stones amongst others with a Ruby valued at a hundred thousand crowns in which is inchast by the Kings order a Thorn of the Crown of the Son of God. There is seen the Image of the same St. Loüis grav'd on a Ring with these two letters S and L that is to say Sigillum Ludovici because he made use of it to seal his Letters All the Kings have shewn themselves liberal to this Treasury some Abbots of the Order have also given to it particularly Abbot Suger His two little Pots are not common the one is of Rock-Christal the other of Beril cut with the point of a Diamond His Chalice is made of a very fair oriental Agate In this Treasury are kept a great many Swords that of Charlemain that which St. Loüis brought with him at his first Voyage from the Holy Land that of the Pucelle of Orleans Joanne d'Arc and also the Sword of Turpin who having been made Archbishop of Rheims afterwards bore Arms against the Infidels There are seen there many other Pieces of Antiquity So much for a Sample of this Treasury He that desires to see more may go to St. Denis where a Religious man shews it every day at two of the clock in the afternoon Those that cannot come to see it may read a little Book in 12º entitul'd Inventaire du Tresor de S. Denis where all the Pieces are briefly describ'd according to the Order of the eight Presses where they are shewn This little Book is printed at Paris by Pierre de Bost Rue S. Jacques at the signe of St. Francis near St. Severin The Tombs of the Kings of France DAgobert the First eleventh King of France and St. Loüis the forty fourth have their Tombs in the Quire of the Church and many other Kings and Queens In the common Vault of Rites repose Henry the Fourth Mary de Medicis his Wife Loüis the Thirteenth Anne of Austria his Spouse The Duke of Orleans the Kings Uncle Madam de Montpensier his first Wife Henriette-Marie Queen of England Henriette-Anne her Daughter the first Wife of Monsieur the Kings Brother and others The Monument of Francis the First is out of the Quire on the side of the Cloister in a rais'd Monument They count five Kings out of the Quire on the Gospel-side Marshal de Turenne is in a Chappel near the high Altar Loüis the 14th has caus'd a Monument to be rais'd in his memory and in acknowledgment of the great Services he did to France After his death many Services and Funeral Prayers were said for him in the principal Churches of Paris Bertrand du Quesclin Sancerre a Gentleman of Britany Constable of France has his Tomb for his Fidelity and Valour amongst those of the Kings by the order of Charles the Fifth called the Wife Clouis the first of the name the fifth King of France and Clotilde his Spouse have their Mausolea at Paris in the Abbey of St. Genevieve in the Quire. Other famous places of Devotion and Pilgrimages greatly frequented in the Kingdom and favour'd with the kindest Aspect of Heaven THe Church of Nostre-Dame at Paris in the Isle of France that of the Abbey of St. Genevieve and the Chappel of the Hospital of the Holy Ghost Nostre-dame de Grace near Gallion in the Diocess of Roüen Nostre-Dame de Chartres in Beausse Nostre-Dame de L'Epine near Chalons in Champagne Nostre-Dame de Liesse in Picardy Nostre-Dame de Bologne on the Sea. Nostre-Dame de la Deliverance and Mount S. Michel in Normandy Sainte-Reine in Burgundy Nostre-Dame d'Alizor near Lyons Nostre-Dame de Loisiere and la Chartreuse of Grenoble in Daulphine St. Maximin Saint Baume and St. Martha in Provence Nostre Dame de Rochefort in Languedoc les Avignon Nostre-Dame de Grau called la Grenoüillade at half a league from Agde Nostre-Dame de Consolation half a league from Beziers and Nostre-Dame de Gignac in the same Diocess Nostre-Dame de Liviniere in the Diocess of S. Pons of Tomiers Nostre-Dame de Lorme and Nostre-Dame d'Alen in the Diocess of Montauban Nostre-Dame de Ladreiche a league from Alby The Hermitage of Nostre-Dame de Moinier in the Territory of Pompignan on the top of a high Mountain in the Diocess of Nismes St. Sernin at Tolose where are the entire Relicks of many of the Apostles Nostre-Dame d Alet and Nostre-Dame de Roqueville three leagues off Nostre-Dame de Garaizon in the Diocess of Ausche Nostre-Dame de Verdelez at Cadiliac near Bourdeaux Nostre-Dame de Nazareth in Britany three leagues from Dinan and Nostre-Dame de bonnes Nouvelles at Rennes Nostre-Dame d'Ardilliers in the Diocess of Anger 's in Anjou Nostre-Dame de Mibonnet a league from Moulins in the Diocess of Authun in Bourbonnois Nostre-Dame de Clery near Orleans on the Loire Nostre-Dame du Puy Nostre-Dame de Fridieire and Nostre-Dame de Pitie in Auvergne This is without the Town of Chaude-Agues on a sharp Rock Abbot Cholmerl is the Founder Nostre-Dame de Banelle and Nostre-Dame de Sabar are in the County of Foix in the Diocess of Comminges Nostre Dame de Quezac in Givodan near St. Maur the Abbey of St. Bennet in the Diocess of Mande Nostre-Dame de Roquemadou and Nostre-Dame de Liaurou in Quercy in the Diocess of Cahors Nostre-Dame de Cignac in the Diocess of Rhodes The House of Arpajou has given it great
of the great number of Gardens Fields Meadows and Vineyards that are within its precincts Abbeville seems one of the greatest of the Kingdom by reason of the great Ponds and large Gardens that are within it Chastelleraud Thoüars Niort Fontenay-le-Comte Saint Maixant Lusignan Partenay la Roche-sur-You Champigny la Ganache and others are Towns of Poictou Poitiers is the Capital as Xantes is of Xaintonge Alez Anduze Ganges Sumene and Vigan are those of Sevenes Sauve Saint Hippolite de la Planquette S. Jean de Gardonenque la Salle de St. Pierre Varelaugue and Saint Etienne de Valfrancesque in Sevenes are as good as little Towns. Those of Givodan are Mande Marvege Canourgue Florac Quiesac St. Chely and Chanac which is the ordinary place of residence of the Bishops of Mande Messire Sylvestre de Marsillac caus'd the Castle to be fortified I saw there in his time Arms for five hundred men This Prelate contributed to the reducement of Rochelle Meyrvueich and Barre are two Towns in the Neighbourhood The Capuchins have in that Country three houses establisht for the Mission one is at Sauve the other at Vigan and the third at Florac We cannot say of their Churches or Chappels that they are too beautiful which a Father General of their Order said in the course of his Visitation of that of Riom in Auvergne when complaining of the Guardian who had made it stately by what he built he spake in these terms Iste Pater concavit Regulam sancti Francisci Patris nostri Viviers Vans Aubenas Tournon Annonai Privas Villeneufve-le-Berg Pradeles and le Pouzin are of Vivarais Le Puy Saint Paulian Mounistrol Crapone are in Velay In the conquered Countries these are considerable In Flanders Dunkerke Gravelin Hesdin Bapaume Arras Tournay Courtray Lisle Doüay Condé Bouchain Aire Valenciennes Cambray S. Omer Gand Ypres and many others These three last places were conquer'd in the beginning of the year 1677. Maestrich was surrendred to the Hollanders by the Treaty of Peace concluded at Nimeguen the tenth of Aug. 1679. Dunkerke was taken by the Prince of Condé then Duke d'Enguien An. 1646. and by Marshal Turenne An. 1658. It was for some time in the possession of the English because they provided a Naval Army and much contributed to the taking of it and of some other places and therefore five millions were given to his Britanick Majesty for resigning this Town to the Dominion of the French. Before Arras was in the possession of France there was seen in imbost work over one of its gates a Cat pursuing Rats with this Inscription Les Francois prendront Arras Lors que ce Chat prendra ces Rats The French will take Arras When this Cat takes these Rats At present there is onely the letter p of the verb prendront taken away the word rendront remaining which signifies Restore There is seen in the Cathedral Church a fair and antient Library In Alsatia the chief conquer'd Towns are Brisac Colmar Haguenau Schelestad Philipsbourg was retaken by the Imperialists the 17th of September 1676. with an honourable Capitulation Our French-men took in its place Fribourg in Brisgaw Philipsbourg has been under the dominion of France thirty two years In Lorrain the most remarkable are Nancy Metz Toul and Verdun In Franche-Comte Bezancon Dole Grez and Salins In Roussillon Perpignan Colioures Salses Canet the Episcopal See was at Elne Du Chesne Father Boussingaut and A. Jovin de Rochefort have given a particular description almost of all the Towns There has been printed lately in Holland a Book intituled Theatrum Vrbium Rivers FRance as another terrestrial Paradise has four beautiful Rivers viz. the Rhone the Loire the Seine and the Garonne An Author calls them the four Royal Rivers The Rhone takes its rise at the foot of the Mountain St. Godart it comes from the Alps of upper Valois and is not far from the Rhine and Danubius The Germans call it Rhoden from an ancient Town called Rhodays Some count it as one of the three greatest Rivers of Europe It runs through the Lake of Geneva passes at Lyons Vienne Tournon Valence at St. Esprit Avignon Tarascon Beaucaire and Arles The Saone the Doux the Lizaire the Gardan the Durance and other Rivers enter into it The Loire takes its origine at the foot of Mount Gerbier of Jou in the Parish of S. Martial of the Diocess of Viviers it is call'd by this name from a Country-house near its source called Loire which is in the Parish of St. Eulalie of the same Diocess five leagues from the Town of Pardeles in Vivarez and six from that of du Puy in Velay It casts forth water at its rise as big as a mans thigh Mount Gerbier is so call'd because it has the figure of a Gerbier that is a stack of Corn. Those are in an errour who affirm the origine of the Loire to be in Sevenes because Sevenes is not Vivarez though contiguous to it neither is Vivarez Sevenes or Velay These three Regions are entirely distinct and are as it were little Provinces that are incorporated in that of Languedoc The Loire passes at Roanne Nevers la Charité Gien Gergeau Orleans Blois Amboise Tours Saumur Nantes and at the Bridge of Cé This River is the longest of the Kingdom it carries Vessels about a hundred and sixty leagues from Roanne as far as Nantes or to Brevian If it be not very deep it is large and very full of Sand wherefore Vessels often run a ground there It passes through the midst of the Kingdom and divides it almost into two equal parts The source of this and of Alliers are near each other Alliers le Cher Auron Lindre the Saudre the Huine the Loire the Sarthe the Mayenne the Vienne the Clein and other Rivers discharge themselves into this River which has its beginning and end in France The Seine comes from the Mountain Vogesus in the Dutchy of Burgundy S. Seine gave it its name it being the nearest place of note to its source This River passes at Chatillon Nogent Montereau Melun Corbeil Paris Mantes Vernon Roüen and at Pont de Larche Its Rivers are the Marne Yonne the Oyse the Ayne the Eure and others The Ayne enters into the Oyse the River call'd the Loire passes at Montargis and receives the Channel of Briare for the communication of the Loin and the Seine for Paris This Channel was made under Henry the Fourth The Garonne issues from the Pyrenean Mountains near a place call'd Gadeloup Its source is affirm'd to be in the little Valley of Aran. It passes at Tolose at Moissac Agen Marmande Cadillac and at Bourdeaux Its Rivers are the Taru the Lot and the Pordogne The Epithetes of these four Rivers are RHodanus rapidus Ligoris latus Sequanus profundus Garumna obliquus Rhone the rapid Loire the large Seine the profound Garonne the oblique because it wrests in and out The Poets call the Rhone by reason of its rapidity the hasty the swift the precipitate
at Senez not observing that it was at Sienna in Italy 1423. besides that the Town of Senez was then destroy'd and reduc'd to a pitiful Village There is an expectation from Rome of Bulls for the translation of the Episcopal See and Chapter of Senez to Castellane For these two hundred years and more its Bishops have labour'd for this Work to no purpose Messire Loüis de Villeserin has resum'd so just a designe and has transferr'd his Officialty his service and his ordinary Residency to the Town of Castellane This Diocess is one of the most considerable and most ancient of Provence This Prelate has set up a Confraternity of St. Francis of Sales in the Chappel of the Religious Women of the Visitation of St. Mary of Castellane he has also establisht in the same Town a Society des Dames de la Charite and has made other excellent Institutions which take from Usurers all sorts of occasions of maintaining their wicked Commerce and comfort the Poor Vence fifty two from St. Vsebius to Messire Loüis de Thomassin Lord and Baron of Vence where he has upheld the Rites of the Church with an extream vigour in which and on other occasions he has shewn himself a most zealous Defender of the Episcopacy and of the Ecclesiastical Discipline which appear'd by a famous Decree of the Council of State which he obtain'd An. 1679. The Archbishoprick of Tours TOurs an hundred and thirteen Bishops and Archbishops from S. Gassien to Messire Michel Amelot formerly Bishop of Lavaur Some Authors call the first Bishop of Tours Gratianus the Archives and Registers say Sanctus Grassianus and all the Canons of this Church pronounce it thus saying even in their Litanies S. Grassiane or a pronobis The Suffragans are in great number Anger 's S. Brieux le Man 's Quimper or Cornoüaille Dol S. Paul de Leon S. Malo Nantes Rennes Triguier Vannes Anger 's has had seventy two Bishops from S. Defenseur to Messire Henry Arnaud S. Brieux sixty one from Bishop Adam to Messire N. de Coëtlogon Le Mans seventy four from S. Julien to Messire Loüis de Lavergne Montenard de Tressan first Almoner of Monsieur Philippes of France onely Brother to the King. He succeeds Philippes Emmanuel de Beaumanoir de Lavardin after having been first Bishop of Vabres Quimper sixty two from Corenthin to Messire Francois de Coëtlogon Dol sixty seven from S. Samson to Messire Matthieu de Thoreau formerly Agent-General of the Clergy of France Dol has had formerly the Title of Archbishoprick wherefore the Bishops bear in their Arms the Archiepiscopal Cross S. Paul forty eight from S. Paul de Leon to Messire Pierre de Nebout de la Brousse S. Malo seventy one from S. Maclou to Messire Sebastien de Guemadeuc President of course of the Estates of Bretany formerly Agent-General of the Clergy he was nominated to the Bishoprick of Beziers which he did not occupy through a motion of love for his Country Nantes ninety four from S. Clair to Messire Gilles de Beauveau de Riveau He succeeds Messire Gilles de la Baume de la Valiere Rennes seventy four from S. Clair Moderan to Messire Jean Baptiste de Beaumanoir de Lavardin Triguier sixty one from S. Tudgual to Messire Ignace de Saillant He was formerly Captain in the Kings Armies and there were few there like him who joyn'd Valour with Understanding and who on all occasions could shew equally a strength of mind and that of the arm He was since Superiour of the House of the Priests of the Oratory of S. Honorius at Paris and Assistant of the Father General Vannes eighty nine from S. Patern to Messire Loüis Caset de Vautorte formerly Bishop of Leitoure The Archbishoprick of Aix AIx seventy Bishops and Archbishops from S. Maximin to the most Eminent Cardinal Jerôme Grimaldi This Eminency draws his Origine from the Princes of Monaco He was Vice-Legat of the Patrimony of S. Peter Nuncio Extraordinary at the Court of the Emperour and Nuncio in France where he receiv'd from the Kings hand the Cardinals Cap. The Suffragans are Apt Sisteron Prejus Riez and Gap. Apt has had sixty six Bishops from S. Auspice to Messire Jean de Gaillard Bishop and Prince of Apt formerly Theologal of the Church of Coûtance Sisteron sixty one from Valere to Messire Jacques Potier de Novion Freius seventy one from Acceptus to Messire Lucid Aquin formerly Bishop of S. Paul de Trois Châteaux Riez seventy seven from S. Prosper to Messire Nicolas de Vallavoire Gap forty four or forty five from S. Demetrius to Messire Nicolas de Meliand Guillaume de Mescatin formerly Canon Great Keeper and Count of Lyons who died An. 1679. preceded him as the last Bishop save one The Archbishoprick of Paris PAris has had eighty seven Bishops and five Archbishops S. Denis was its first Bishop Pope Gregory the Fifteenth made this Town being the Capital of the Kingdom an Archbishoprick at the request of Loüis the Thirteenth An. 1622. The first Archbishop was Messire Jean Francois de Gondi Commander of the Kings Orders The second Cardinal de Retz Jean-Francois-Paul de Gondi He was made Coadjutor of the Church of Paris An. 1643. and resign'd his Archbishoprick An. 1661. into the Kings hands who gave him the Abbey of S. Denis He would have laid down his Cardinals Hat An. 1675. to retire himself from the World the Pope and his Consistory did not think it convenient finding him necessary in the Conclaves and it mist but little in one but he had been rais'd to the Soveraign Pontificate He died the third Cardinal of his House his Hat was of the nomination of France The third Messire Pierre de Marca he was Councellor and afterward President of the Parhament of Pau Intendant of Justice and Visitor-General in Catalonia and Roussillon Bishop of Couserans Archbishop of Tolose and then afterward Minister of State and Archbishop of Paris He receiv'd the Bulls some days before his death and did not occupy the See. This Great Person is buried under the Archiepiscopal Chair His Book in folio De Concordia Sacredotii Imperii has been read by the Learned and examined at Rome The fourth Messire Hardoüin de Beaumont of Peresixe a great defender of the Priviledges of his Church formerly Tutor to Loüis the Great and Bishop of Rhodez He writ the History of Henry the Fourth and has been very liberal in giving Alms he gave at one time ten thousand Livres towards a Building for the Priests of the Congregation and Mission of St. Lazarus at Paris and during his Archiepiscopacy assisted poor Gentlemen and others with his Revenue This Prelate re-united the jurisdiction of all the faux-bourg S. Germain des Prez and other places to the Archbishoprick of Paris with an extraordinary vigour by solemn Decrees The fifth Messire Francois de Harlai de Chanvalon Commander of the Kings Orders Duke and Peer of France and Purveyor of Sorbonne He was honoured with
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
the Citadel the twelfth Julius Caesar caus'd this great Town to be built whilst he was at Terouanne and the Emperour Charles the Fifth was born and baptiz'd there An. 1500. his Cradle is yet shewn there His Statue is seen in a Market-place on a Pedestal The Episcopal Church is call'd S. Bavon the Bishoprick is worth 30000 Crowns and the Prebendries 2 or 3000 Livres Father Boussingout relates that the Organ of the Church of Saint Michael has three thousand Pipes in a Book entituled The Guide of the Low Countries The most Christian King gave the Government of this place to Comte de Montbron It was restor'd to his Catholick Majesty by the Treaty of Peace concluded at Nimegen betwixt France and Spain In this Town a Cathedral-Church was built and detacht from Tornai An. 1559. by Pope Paul the Fourth at the request of Philip the Second King of Spain The 16th of March 1678. the King judg'd it convenient for the good of his affairs to withdraw his Troops from Messina which he had a long time kept there for the service of those of Messina who had implor'd his assistance The Duke de la Fueillade who succeeded the Duke of Vivonne permitted above four thousand Inhabitants of the Town to embarque themselves they being desirous to come into France to avoid the rigorous consequences of the Spanish Policy The third of May the Town of Ypres surrendred it self to the King it has the title of a Vicounty His Majesty gave the Government to the Marquess de la Trousse Lieutenant-General of his Armies Captain-Lieutenant of the Company of M. le Dauphin The third of May the Town and Fort of Lewe in Brabant were taken from the Spaniards by the Valour and Dexterity of the Sieurs Calvo and de la Breteche this person executed the Enterprize This place is incompass'd with a Marsh a great Trench and a Fore-trench full of water twelve foot deep The fifty Swimmers under the conduct of the Sieur de Cremeau Captain in the Regiment of Piemont did a bold action in passing courageously the waters with their Swords betwixt their teeth being assisted by two hundred Musketeers who openly advancing themselves fired continually on the Enemies to favourize the passage The 31th of the same month the Marshal Duke de Navaille took Puicerda Capital of Cerdaigne The King lessen'd six millions of Livres of the Tailles of the year 1678. and reduc'd them from forty millions to thirty four to be distributed or divided in all the Generalities and Countries Taillables His most Christian Majesty lessen'd them yet more by two millions An. 1679. The Tailles began under St. Loüis to maintain the charge of War against the Infidels in the twelfth age and the Gabelle or Impost on the Salt under Philip called the Long in the thirteenth age of the Incarnation Ancus Martius introduc'd it a long time before at Rome he has been blam'd by some and approv'd by others particularly the Emperour Justinian who assur'd that without the Gabelle it was impossible to make the Republick subsist because the Quiet of the People is preserv'd by Arms Arms by Pay Pay by Imposts Tributes and Tolls The Emperour Nero would have abolish'd the Gabelle but the Senate opposs'd it alleaging that to diminish the publick Revenue was to ruine the Empire In the month of July of the same year 1678. an ill Accident happen'd in America to the French Squadron commanded by the Count d'Estrées six or seven Men of War and five Fly-boats were lost near the Isle of Birds about ten leagues from Curassow being cast by the rapidness of the Currents on Rocks which are there high Many persons in them were drown'd Seven Vessels were sav'd viz. the Duke the Thunder the Star the Lyon the Vigilant the Merillon the Tempest three Fireships and two Flutes Of the Peace betwixt France Holland Spain the Emperour the Elector of Brandenburg and Denmark THe Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Holland was sign'd at Nimegen at the house of the Marshal d'Estrades An. 1678. the tenth of August about midnight The French and the Dutch embrac'd each other with tenderness and shew'd a great Joy to see their ancient Friendship perfectly reestablisht The Marshal d'Estrades Son of the Marshal of this name arriv'd the 15th of the same month from Nimegen at Saint Germains in Laye where he presented his most Christian Majesty the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and the States General of the Vnited Provinces The Ratifications were exchang'd the 20th of September and the 29th following the Peace was publisht at Paris with the accustomed Ceremonies The 5th of October the Marshal d Estrades Embassadour of the most Christian King and the Sieur Beverning Embassadour of the Estates General caus'd publick Rejoycings to be made at Nimegen for the Peace betwixt France and Holland In the same year the 17th of September the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain was sign'd at Nimegen about eleven of the clock at night in the house of the Holland-Embassadours The Ratification followed some time after as also the publication An. 1679. the 5th of Febrnary the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and the Emperour was sign'd in the Chamber of Sir Leoline Jenkins Embassadour of England by the Marshal d'Estrades and the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissi Embassadours Plenipotentiaries for the most Christian King and by the Bishop and Prince de Gurk Count Kinski and the Sieur Stracman Embassadours Plenipotentiaries for the Emperour Signor Bevilaqua the Popes Nuncio has the reputation of having much contributed to this Peace The Treaty of Peace betwixt the Emperour and the King of Sweden was sign'd the same day by the Plenipotentiaries of the Emperour and by Count Oxenstern and Sieur Oliwenkans Embassadours Plenipotentiaries of Sweden The 19th of April the Ratification of the Emperour was exchang'd with that of the most Christian King. The 26th this Peace was publisht at Paris with the ordinary Ceremonies The 29th of June the Sieur Pomponne Minister and Secretary of State and the Sieur Minders Envoy Extraordinary of the Elector of Brandenburg sign'd the Treaty of Peace betwixt his most Christian Majesty and the Elector of Brandenburg Some time after the Peace was likewise sign'd betwixt France Sweden Denmark and the Duke of Holstein Gottorp The Marriage of the Princess Mary-Loüise of Orleans with the King of Spain ANno 1679. the second of July after the suit which the Marquess de los Balbazez made of Mademoiselle in the name for the King of Spain the Chancellor of France the Marshal Duke de Villeroy the Sieurs Colbert and de Pomponne Ministers and Secretaries of State were nominated by the King for drawing the Articles of the Contract of Marriage which was sign'd the ninth by the Commissaries nominated and the Marquess de los Balbazez Embassadour Extraordinary of Spain The 26th of August the Contract of Marriage of the King of Spain was sign'd in the King of France's Closet by all the Royal House and by
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Man and Wife married together Hambourg Capital City of the Dutchy of Olsatia is govern'd also as a Republick it is entirely for Trade and rich strong by Sea and Land The Danes and Swedes have many times besieg'd it separately and it has always defended it self There has been compleated of late years a Channel for the joyning of the Oder and the Elb for the transportation of their Merchandise which comes to Hambourg by Sea both to avoid the Sound at the entrance of the Baltick Sea where they were fain to pay a Tribute to the King of Denmark for their Merchandise and to shorten a great reach at Sea which they were forc'd to make This Town is Lutheran and has a publick Library which is open twice a day in the morning and after dinner It has also two Synagogues of Jews amongst whom Manuel Tessera is esteem'd ther ichest of Germany he is judg'd to have five or six millions he is call'd the rich Jew France keeps a Resident in this Town it 's the Sieur Bidal We shall speak elsewhere of Mayence Cologne Tréves Magdeburg Lubec Heildeberg and some others Munster is the Capital City of Westphalia it is call'd in Latin Monasterium by reason of a Monastery which was made an Episcopal Church Thence it is that at present its Inhabitants are called Monasterians It s Bishop is a Prince of the Empire the Emperour Charlemagne gave him the Principality on condition of paying Homage to the Empire Its last Bishop save one Christopher Bernard de Galen kept a good Garrison in the Citadel which he built This Prelate died An. 1678. his life was Military wherefore being in danger of dying An. 1674. some person made on him this Epitaph Now in his Tomb will rest from strife Who never rested in his life An. 1678. his Coadjutor the Bishop of Paterborn took the government of this Bishoprick which is worth above two hundred thousand Crowns of annual rent as we are assur'd The Towns-men keep the Town of Munster Many Revolts and Seditions happen'd there before the Citadel was built the Inhabitants shut the Gates of the Town one day against their Prelate who entred there with Sword in hand after nine months siege An. 1661. Munster is famous as well for the Treaty of Peace concluded there betwixt the Crowns of Europe An. 1648. as by the imaginary Kingdom of the Anabaptists who made themselves Masters of this place An. 1534. They created for their King John Buckold a Taylor vulgarly call'd John of Leidon because he came from thence or was there born When he appear'd in publick accompanied with his Court he had two Pages on horseback by his sides whereof one carried his Crown and the Bible and the other his Sword. He created Judges to whom he gave imaginary Kingdoms and sent abroad in the World twenty eight of his Disciples to preach his Faith who were all put to death but one This new Tyrant was orecome after a siege of fourteen months standing by the Bishop of the Town call'd Francis Count de Valdec assisted with some Circles of the Empire and Buckold was put in a great Iron Cage to end there his days miserably This Cage is seen on a Tower of the Church of St. Lambert on the outside with two others on the two sides of it I have noted the chief Errours of the Anabaptists in the Tract of England Magdeburg is famous for its Book of Centuries in eight Tomes in Folio compos'd by Matthias Flacius Illiricus Johannes Wigandus Mattheus Judex and Basilius Faber These Centuriators have compil'd in this Work the History of the Church We shall say somewhat more of this Town in the Article of the Elector of Savoy Nuremberg is a great Town and of a great Trade some persons think the Emperour Nero to be its Founder and that since it is call'd Nuremberg It is then very ancient Ausbourg Capital of Soüabia is also very ancient since Caesar Augustus gave it its name its Walls are flanckt with many Towers its Arsenal is very considerable The Lutherans presented in this Town to Charles the Fifth their Confession of Faith made by Melancthon Soüabia draws its Etymology from Suevia or Suecia because the Swedes liv'd there some time after having first reduc'd a part of Germany under their Obedience Francfort on the Main is very famous as well because the Election of the Emperours is there made as for its great Fairs and Markets and also for its beautiful Palaces Francfort on the Oder is the Capital of the new Marcha of Brandeburg Passau is divided into three Towns which are Passau Instad and Ilstad which compose one very great one The Bishops Castle is very stately Nôtre-Dame of Passau is famous throughout all Germany for its Miracles it is seated in the Church of the Capucins a man must ascend about three hundred steps to come to its Altar Visbourg is the Capital of Franconia Brunswick the chief of a Dutchy in lower Saxony Its Prince who is Soveraign resides ordinarily at Wolfembutel in a very fair Palace on the River Echer Inspruc is the first in dignity of the County of Tirolis formerly the place of residence of its Counts and then of some Archdukes and Princes of Austria We see there the August Palace which the Emperour Ferdinand the Second caus'd there to be built Bremen on the Weser is the Capital of its Dutchy it has the Title of Archbishoprick Hanover resembles Nismes in bigness Spire in the Country of Austrasia is the Imperial Chamber which is as the constant sitting Parliament of the Empire The Imperial and Hans-Towns THe Free or Franc-Towns to the number of about eighty four are Imperial because they owe Homage to the Empire and have in their Arms an Eagle entire or divided their Body has two Voices at the Diets of the Empire The four Capital Hans-Towns are Lubec Cologne Brunswic and Dantzic They are call'd Hans because they are divided into four Anses or Corporations and that they are particularly associated for Commerce The Maritime Towns of Germany and those which were on the Rivers trading with them made a League to oppose themselves against the Incursions of the Huns and other barbarous Nations for rendring their Commerce free and secure The chief Towns from the Gulf of Finland which is at one end of the Baltick Sea to the mouth of the Rhine entred into this League and call'd themselves Hans taking their name either from the Theutonick Sea because they were scituated on this Sea the word Ansee signifying on the Sea or from the Oath made of joyning hands for affording each other a mutual assistance the Germans calling the hand Han or else from the Assembly which is held for deliberating together call'd in the old German Tongue Hanza and in that passage of the Evangelists where it 's said that the Jews held an Assembly against the Son of God the German Bible renders the word Assembly by Hanza There were receiv'd in this Confederation
but the Maritime Towns of Germany which had right of shutting and opening their Gates be it that they were subject to a Prince or that they were free some Kings have authoriz'd them Sixty six Towns are call'd Hans because they are associated and confederated with the four Capital Hans-Towns The Archives of the League are at Lubec which is the Capital of all the Hans League it has right of assembling all the others with the advice of five confederate Towns that are next it Lubec has for its confederate Towns Hambourg Rostoc Wismarc Strasbourg and Lunebourg Stetin Anclan Golnous Gripswal Colberg Ptargard and Stolp Cologne Brunswic and Dantzic include the others You may see thereon the great Atlas and particularly the Books on this subject of the four Capital Hans-Towns Archbishopricks of Germany THe Archbishopricks of Germany are Mayence Treves Cologne Magdeburg Saltzbourg Breme and Prague Chief Bishopricks VIsbourg Bamberg Strasbourg Spire Liege Munster Paderborn Minden Hildesheim Onasbruc Verden Halberstat Brelau the Cardinal Landgrave of Hesse occupies this last which is in Silesia The Abbey of Fulde is famous throughout all Europe for its Antiquity and for its great Riches it is certainly affirm'd to be worth a million of Livres of Rent It is in Buchow betwixt Hesse Franconia and Thuringia Cardinal de Bade has possess'd it a long time The three chief Abbeys of the low Countries are Saint Vaast of Arras Saint Berlin at St. Omer and St. Pierre of Mont Albin at Gand. Cardinal de Bouillon has the first Germany has few Archbishops and few Bishops in comparison of France some Authors have counted thirty nine others thirty six Principalities and Lordships of the Empire and its Division THis Empire contains above three hundred Principalities or Lordships It is divided into ten Circles Austria Bavaria Soüabia Alsatia or the upper Rhine the Electorate of the lower Rhine Westphalia upper Saxony lower Saxony Franconia and Burgundy compose the ten Circles Alsatia and Burgundy belong to France These Circles compose the General Diets of the Empire where all Affairs are transacted The first Body is that of the Electors The second the other Princes be they Lay or Ecclesiastick The third is that of the Free or Franc otherwise Imperial Towns. The most usual division of Germany is into Vpper and Lower in the Upper are put the Switzers Alsatia Soüabia the Dutchy of Witemberg Bavaria Franconia the Palatinate of the Rhine Bohemia Moravia Silesia Austria Stiria Carinthia Carniola and Tirol In the Lower the seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries Liege Lorain Cleves Juliers the three Electoral Archbishopricks Westphalia Hesse Saxony Thuringia Misnia Lusacia Silesia the Marquisate of Brandenburg Pomerania Mekelbourg Holsacia or the Country of Holstein The chief Rivers DAnubius the Rhine the Elbe the Oder and the Veser Danubius arises in Soüabia a great Map very exact of Samson Geographer in Ordinary to the King shews us its rise in the Principality and County of Furstemberg This River contains above sixty Rivers some say a hundred whereof there are about thirty capable of bearing Vessels It has this particular with the Po that it runs from West to East even to its mouth It is the greatest and longest of all Europe excepting the Volga according to a Geographer which flows in Muscovy Men give Danubius above seven hundred leagues in its course it waters above fifty great Towns without counting an infinite number of Castles and Burroughs passes through the Eastern Empire which the Great Turk possesses in Europe and that of the West which belongs to the Emperour of Germany After having flow'd a long while it discharges it self into the Euxine Sea which is call'd the Black Sea or Mar Magiore This River and the Rhine are not far the one from the other at Constance and Schashuysen The Rhine comes from the Alps of the Grisons it has two sources which make each a stream the one is near a Village call'd Fort-Rhen and the other is not far from Mount S. Gothard These two Sources after having flow'd separately some leagues some say ten unite themselves together This River passes at Croire and other places before it enters the Lake of Constance here losing it self for a while it issues forth again with violence and receives the River Aar which much enlarges it because it contains the Waters of great Lakes and Rivers in Switzerland The Nekar the Mosele the Main the Lippe and a great many others give a great addition to it An Author says that sixty two Rivers enter this It waters Bâle Brisac Philipsbourg Spire Wormes Mayence Cologne and other Towns. It parts it self into two Channels at Tholus where is the famous Fort Schenk The left Channel is call'd the Wahal and joyns it self with the Meuse near its mouth The Rhine disgorges it self in Holland into the Ocean its course is above two hundred and fifty leagues They say that the Rhine was plac'd as a bound betwixt France and Germany but Monarchs do not tye themselves to Rules of Geographers and their Sword does not always agree with the Compass The Elb begins in Bohemia in the Mountains near Schimidberg passes at Cogingretz Toschen Dresde Meissen or Mesen Torgan Witemberg Dessau or Dessan Magdeburg Hizaker Lavembourg Harbor Hambourg and at Glucstad Stade is near the Elbe Elster Cadburgz Moldave Sale joyn with this River The Oder takes its Origine in Moravia near Dolmutz which is the Capital of it flows at Ratibor Oppelen Breslau Crossen Francfort and at Stetin Ratibor Oppelen and Breslau are Towns of Silesia Crossen is the Capital of the Dutchy whose name it bears Varthe Noisse Boler and other Rivers joyn themselves to the Oder The Weser takes its Origine in Saxony of Naumbourg near the Dutchy of Saxony of Altenbourg passes at Hamelen Minden Breme and other places Leina Aler Ecker Inerst and other Rivers enter into the Weser Leina waters Hanover Aller Zel and Ferden Ecker Brunswic Inerst Hildeshein Some years since the Duke of Lunebourg took the Town of Brunswick in despite of all the Efforts of the Duke of this name The Electors of the Empire An. 1679. THere are counted many Soveraign Princes in Germany though feudatory to the Empire The chief are the Electors who have power of chusing by their Suffrages the Emperours of Germany The Archbishop and Elector of Mayence ANselm Francis Frederic of Inghelheim Archbishop of Mayence Prince and Elector of the Empire Great Chancellour of Germany Legate of course of the holy Apostolick See. Catholick He was elected the 7th of November 1679. being forty years of age Before his Election he was Archpriest of Mayence and Governour of Erfort A Wheel Or in a Field Gules and over it an Electoral Cap compose the Arms of this Elector The first Elector of this Church was call'd Villigise Son of a Cartwright for evidence of it he kept through Humility a Wheel in his Chamber to put him in mind of his Extraction wherefore his Successors have kept it in