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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35775	A Description of the seven United Provinces of Netherland wherein is set forth the quality of the country, the productions of the soyl, the trade, manufactures, customes manners and dispositions of the people, the constitution of their laws, the number of the towns, cities and fortification, the original, strength, greatness and riches of each city : together with an exact map of the whole county wherein is laid down the scituations of every city, town, village, castle, fort, and every other remarkable place throughout the whole of the land.		1673 (1673)	Wing D1169; ESTC R13200	17,044	25

de Q●●elandea though it be so intermixt and united with Friesland that many think it to be part of that Country is nevertheless a State of it self and used to Lave a Lord of their own whom they gave a particular Title to And as they are now under the High and righty States General of the Unit●● Notherland have their Voice among them and send their Deputies to the Hague It is not only the Head-City but the only City of this Country and as some hold called of Ptolomy Phileum of Pliny Phylleum It took its name from Grunias a Trojan Gentleman or as Munster writes a French Gentleman which opinions may both be true since the French confidently affirm they had their original from the Trojans The Friese Historiographers hold that this Grunius was the son of Gailo and that his great Grandfather was called Friso from whom Friesland seems to have taken its name which Grunius having this small but brave quarter for his share built this City of Groeningen and called it after his own name It hath many flowing and standing Waters led to it by many great Rivers part made by Nature and part by mens hands It is a large fair Populous and strong City full of brave and Lordlike Houses It s chief Church is a very stately building and dedicated to the honour of St. Martin and was formerly under the Bishoprick of Munster in Westphalia but was by King Philip the second it self advanced to the Honour of a Bishops See That learned man Rodolphus Agricola was a Citizen of this City who with his own hands made an Organ which is yet to be seen here as a great rarity In the year 1614 the States General erected an University in this City and have spared no cost to furnish it with Learned men from all parts The Authority of this City is very great and extends it self very far For first it hath Eastwards and Westwards under its jurisdiction a very large Country and many Villges in it Northwards it hath acknowledgment from all the Country that lies between its Walls and the Sea which is a very fat soil and especially good for the feeding of Cattle This Country as was said is called the Ommelanden In Groeningen the People live very handsomly like Citizens as in a free Republique for the City hath great Priviledges and Franchises from their Princes Judging all Causes both Civil and Criminal according to their own Laws the Princes keeping there only a Stadt-holder as the States General do in Civil Causes but in Criminal they act according to their own pleasure shewing Mercy or Justice to whom they please even as absolute and Sovereign Lords do They used to pay their Prince but 12000 Gilders a year Dam is a small Village though it hath formerly been a considerable Town for in the year 1536 its Walls were broken down by the Emperours Forces and as is said are not to be re edified or a Moat to be made about it It suffered also much in the foresaid Spanish Troubles Delf-ziel a handsome Village lying on the wash of the Sea hath formerly been a strong Hold but several times demolished and rebuilt It suffered also very much in the last spanish Troubles Of the associated Cities and Countries S'Hertogenbosch or Boisleduc hath four Members under it Kempenland Peeland Maesland and the Land of Oosterwijck in which lie the Towns of Helmont Eyndhoven Megem and Grave s'Hertogeabosch hath its name from a Wood which formerly stood there belonging to the Duke of Brabant Bosch in that Language being called a Wood and Hertogh a Duke so that it is Dukes wood or as the French call it Boisleduc It is a great brave strong populous rich and well-moated City which hath several times been inlarged it is six miles in Circumference hath seven Gates and as many Bulwarks It hath very strong Wall● 〈…〉 38 Wooden-Bridges many fair Churches Cloy●●●●● 〈◊〉 other places of devotion It was made a Bishoprick in the year 1554 〈…〉 C●●hedral Church is dedicated to the honour of St. John The People are notable Warricurs and lived much upon Plunder till in the year 1629 Frederick Heanrick Prince of Orange after a severe Siege reduced it to the obedience of the States General Of the Marquisateship of Bergen-Op-Zoom BErgen is called Bergen-Op-Zoome because it lies on the River Zoome It was advanced to the dignity of a Marquisateship by the Emperour Charles the fifth in the year 1513. It lies so near the Sea that it may be accounted among the Sea-Towns It is now one of the strongest Frontier-Towns of the tenited Notherlands Of the Barony of Breda BReda lies upon the small River of Mercke It is a pleasant city in which among other fair Buildings is to be seen the Palace of the Barons of the same place who are sprung from the Imperial House of Nassow This Palace was first founded by one Earl Hendrick of Nassow It hath double Moats full of Water as about a Castle The City is so well furnished with Ravelins and Bulwarks that now it is reckoned one of the strongest Places of the United Netherlands The Barony stretches far and hath great Revenues to which is incorporated the Lordship of Steenberg Rosendal and Oosterbout It is famous for the two great Sieges laid to it by the Marquiss Spinola and the Prince of Orange It belongs to the Prince of Orange Of the City of Maestricht MAestricht is an old large fair and well-scituated 〈◊〉 ●aking its name from the Mase whose stream divides it in the 〈…〉 laid over with fair Sto●● Bridges In this City are two Churches of Canons in one of which named St. Servaes the Duke of Brabant used to be Canon Here is also the stately House of Bissen sufficient to entertain a King and all his Retinue This City was reduced to the obedience of the States General in the year 1632. Of the Earldom of Vroon-bof the Town of Grave and Land of Kuyck GRave is a small but strong Town It is the Head-Town of the Land of Knyck and accounted one of the strongest T●●ns of the United Netherlands Roofendal is a very fair Village lying on a River that abounds in Shipping It belongs to the Prince of Orange Lille lies on the Scbelde It hath been a very fair Lordship but since the aofresiad Spanish Trobles it is made a great strong and invincible Fort. In Flanders Hulst a reasonable strong and good Town is one of the four Ambachts 〈◊〉 under it twelve Villages It was reduced to the obedience of the States General as also was Ses van Gent in the years 1644 1645. Axele also a reaschable good Town but not walled about It is also one of the four Ambachts and hath under it seven Villages Sluys in Zealand hath o●e of the fairest and strongest Sea Havens in all Europe in which 500 Ships may easily ride It is double-wall'd and is so strong a Town that it is counted invincible Right against Slays is the Island Casant with a Village of the same name Hereabeuts is the Forts and Places of Aerdt●borg● a small Village Osse●dijck ter Neuse the Philippines Biervlient formerly a good Town but now a strong ●orfication All which we shall for bravlty here pass by and reser you to the May wherein you find the scituation of every City Town Village and places of smaller Note throughout the whole United Netherlands FINIS