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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

Authority And the Hollanders stirring industriously to keep what was granted them The City of Vtrecht was then so strong that Pope Pius the second who liv'd about the year 1450 writes that the Bishop could raise at once 40000 armed men of his own People And though he were sorely opprest by his Neighbours to wit the Hollanders Gelderlanders and Frieses yet he could withstand them all and defend his City manfully against them Of the Lordship of Overyssel OVeryssel was called by the Latines Transisulana and as a translate of the word Overyssel because it lies on the other side of the River Yssel It hath three good divisions to wit Yseland or Zalland Drente and Twente It is a plain Country very fruitful and yields good Corn. It hath in it many small Woods very profitable to the Inhabitants and ten places that are indowed with large priviledges as namely Meppen Geelmuyden Coevorden Hardenberge Omme Almeloo Goor Diepenhem Delden and Enschede It hath eight walled Cities and above two hundred Villages among which some are very great and fair ones It consists of two Estates the first of the Officers and Gentry the other of the three Cities Deventer Campen and Swolle Deventer is a good and reasonable big City and very strong full of fair Houses and many publique Buildings well inhabited and full of People On the North-west it lies on a sandy Hill but all the rest of the City is encompassed with fair low Meadows which overflow with the upper waters The Yssel running along the Key or Wharf on one side serves it as a Moat The other sides of it are strengthened in part with a deep Moat and in part with a broad Haven Its walls are high and thick set with Towers and many Bulwarks and other strong Fortifications It is a City of great Trade by reason that it and the two other chief Cities of this Country have had an ancient confederacy with the Hanse or Aenzce Towns and were in the year 1495 put into the number of the free Imperial Cities and endowed with many large Priviledges Campen though it be accounted in Overyssel yet it lies on this side the Yssel is a great and fair City and well Traded yet formerly before the waters were grown so shallow it had a far greater Trade than now It is well fortified with Walls Towers Moats and Bulwarks It lies low on the Wash of the River which is very broad in that place which is a great strength to the City because the Citizens can when they please set it under water In the middle of it there is a fair strong Bridge over the River whose Locks are 90 Foot wide Some think this was the Road of Ptolomies Ships Others hold it to be the Port or Haven of Manarmanis Zwol lies on a Rivolet which falls into the Vider or Vecht It is a good and strong City having double Moats and Walls This City for its strength used to be the retreat and refuge of those of Vollenhove the common residence of the Governour and Councel of Overyssel in all times of War and Danger Vollenhoven lies upon the South-Sea A good city and well furnish'd by Water and Land with all necessary Provisions Here resides as aforesaid the Provincial Councel of Overyssel from whose Decrees there is no Appeal Steenwijck seems to be an old City though small The Soyl about it is rich in corn and affords in some places store of Turf whereby the City hath a reasonable Trade It used formerly to be a weak City but since the Wars with Spain it is grown very strong It hath formerly had a Castle but destroy'd in the year 1523. Hasselt is a good reasonable rich and strong City The old Village Ootmarsen was as Trithemius writes founded by Odemar King of France from whom it hath its name He built it upon the Grave of his special Friend Vechtan Oldeseel is held to take its name from the People of old called Salii it is a small Village and is the onely Village of Overyssel that is under the command of the Arch-Duke who ordinarily keeps a Garrison here Meppel is the first place in freedom of Overyssel an unwalled Town Gectmaryden a good and strong Castle Coev●●rden a very strong and famous place is the common thorow-fare for those that travel from Friesland the Onmelands Drenthe and Overyssel towards Germany It hath in the North-East a continual Moorass as far as to Wedden in the West a standing water which reaches beyond Hasselt and Swarteslays of the Earldom of Zatphen ZUtphen is the Head-City of the third quarter of the Dukedom of Gelder It is honoured with the Title of an Earldom and presides over the Cities of Does urgh Dodecum Lochem Grolle Brevoordt and Bro●ckhurst which last City is accounted an Earldom of it self As also is s'Herenberg accounted a particular Earldom in the quarter of Zutphen The City of Zutphen is so called as some write because it lies in a low quagmiry Soyl as if they would say Zayd-veers or South-Fen in English It is a good famous well-timber'd and strong City well fortified with Moats and Bulwarks on one side and on the other with Quagmires It lies on the right side of the Yssel which Pliay and M●la say is a branch of the Rhint and call it Flevam for inwards flows the Berkel which mingles its Water with the Yssel It was in former times very rich and Powerful as their Proverb witnesseth Nimmegen the oldest Ruermond the greatest Zutphen the richest and Acrnhem the pleasantest The chief Church is dedicated to the honour of St. Walburgh It is an old Church and well built for matter and form according to the fashion of the old and first Christian times The Earldom of Zutphen came under the Dukedom of Gelder by the marriage of Otto the first Gelders Earl with the Daughter of Gerlack Earl of Zutphen about the year 1082. Doesburgh as some Authors of these times say is the same City that Cornelius Tacitus calls Asciburgum it is a populous City and in the last War with the Spaniards made very strong to serve for a Fortress or Bulwark for the quarter of De Velnwe Dotecum a pretty good City hard by it Earl Hendrick of Gelder raised that famous cloister of Bethlebem which in the last Spanish troubles was most destroy'd Lochem a strong and well-scituate Town which during the aforesaid Wars was often taker on both sides Grolle a very strong Town was conquered by the States of the United Netherlands in the year 1627. Bredevoort also a very strong and well-provided Town Brenckburst a good Town raised as is said to a particular Earldom S'Heren-berge a good Town having under its Authority much Land at great distance from it so that it hath the Title of an Earldom formerly belonging to its own Lord the Earl William a brave Prince Of the Lordship of Grotaingen GRoeniagen with its circumjacent Countries and Villages which are great and many and commonly called