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

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