Toledo for Spain and of Carthage for Africk Then for the East parts of the Empire there was the Patriach of Alexandria for the Diocese of Egypt of Antioch for that of the Orient the Primate or Arch-bishop of Ephesus for the Diocese of Asia of Nicomedia for that of Pontus of Bizantium or Constantinople for that of Thrace of Thessalonica for the Diocese of Greece and of Justiniana prima for that of Dacia Amongst all which was a mutuall correspondence and Co-ordination for the generall Government of the Church maintained by Letters of intercourse which they called Literas Format as and Communicatorias but no subordination and much less subjection unto one another as doth appear most evidently by the Canons of the Councill of Nice assigning to the three great Patriarchs their peculiar bounds according to the custom of the former times As for the Diocese or Patriarchate of the Popes of Rome it contained in it those ten Provinces which were immediately subject to the Prefect or Provost of that City an Officer instituted first by Augustus Caesar that is to say the Provinces of Tuscia and Umbria Picenum Suburbicarium Campania Apulia and Calabria Valeria Samnium Lucania and the Brutii in the main land of Italie and the three Ilands of Sicilie Corsica and Sardinia In which regard I mean as to the immediate Government of those Provinces by the Praefect of the City of Rome as they are called Regiones Suburbicariae by Ruffinus an Italian Writer so antiently the Pope himself was called Urbicus or the City-Bishop as appears plainly by Optatus who calleth Pope Zepherinus Zepherinus Urbicus But the Popes were not long content with that allotment growing up daily by a steddy and constant watchfulness upon all occasions to increase the Grandour of that See and taking to themselves the honor to be Vindices Canonum the strict and punctuall preservers of the antient Discipline which took extremely well with all sorts of people Till in the end from being Vindices Canonum they came to be Interpreters and at last the Rulers or rather the Over-rulers of the Canons and from chief Labourers in the Vineyard they became the Landlords which was the honor aimed at and at last obtained by the foresaid Boniface whom that cruell and butcherly Tyrant Phocas made the Head of the Church the sixty sixt Bishop and first Pope of Rome the Latine word Papa coming from the old Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying a Father A Title at the first common unto other Bishops as is evident to any one who hath read the Fathers but after this appropriated unto those of Rome Of these Popes their Succession and times of Government our Chronologers are very uncertain not one of them that ever I had the luck to see agreeing exactly with another The reasons whereof as I conceive are 1. The frequent Vacancies and 2. the many Schisms which have happened in it and 3. the Anti-Popes in them created the Writers of those times accounting him onely among the Popes to whose faction they were most devoted This Catalogue ensuing I have collected principally out of the Tables of Helvicus Freigius Bellarmine and Onuphrius whose differences I have reconciled as well as possibly I could premonishing the Reader that where the number of yeers which every Pope is found to sit in the Papall Chair make not up the full number from his first admission to the coming in of his Successor it must be understood of some Schism or Vacancy hapning in the Intervall by which the tale is to be made up And for the difficulties which occur amongst the Antients in the first Succession some placing of them thus Linus Cletus Clemens some Linus Clemens Cletus and finally some others putting the Clemens first I know no better way to compose the same than to affirm as many of the Fathers do that S. Peter and S. Paul were Co-Founders of the Church in Rome S. Peter of the Church of the Circumcision and S. Paul of the Gentiles each of them being Bishop of the Church of his own foundation and then to draw down the Succession in this manner following The Bishops of Rome A. Ch. 44 1 S. Peter Bishop of the Churches of the Circumcision 70 2 Cletus or Anacletus Successor to S. Peter in the Churches of the Circumcision 23 59 1 S. Paul Bishop of the Churches of the Gentiles 70 2 Linus Successor to S. Paul in the Church of the Gentiles 11. 81 3 Clemens having succeeded Linus first in the Church of the Gentiles did after An. 93. succeed Cletus also in the Church of the Jews reckoned by some the next Successor to S Peter because the next who after him had the charge of the whole the Church of the Gentiles not being founded or not distinguished from the other till some years after Peters coming 103 4 Anacletus 9 112 5 Evaristus 9 121 6 Alexander 10 m. 5 d. 131 7 Sixtus 10 142 8 Telesphorus 12 154 9 Hyginus 4 158 10 Pius 9 167 11 Ancetus 8 m. 9 175 12 Soter 4 179 13 Eleutherius 15 194 14 Victor 9 203 15 Zepherinus 18 221 16 Calistus 5 226 17 Urbanus 6 m. 7 d. 233 18 Pontianus 5 238 19 Antherus 1 239 20 Fabianus 14 253 21 Cornelius 2 255 22 Lucius 1 m. 8 256 23 Stephanus 3 m. 3. 260 24 Sixtus or Xistus II. 2 262 25 Dionysius 10 272 26 Felix 2 m. 5 d. 775 27 Eutychanus 8 283 28 Caius 13 296 29 Marcellinus 8 304 30 Marcellus 5 309 31 Eusebius 2 311 32 Miltiades 3 314 33 Silvester 22 336 34 Marcus m. 8 337 35 Julius 15 m. 5 352 36 Liberius 15 cui vivo Felix suffectus 367 37 Damasus 18 385 38 Syricius 13 398 39 Anastasius 4 402 40 Innocentius 15 417 41 Zosimus 1 m. 4 419 42 Bonifacius 5 424 43 Celestinus 8 m. 5 432 44 Sixtus III. 8 440 45 Levo magn 21 461 46 Hilarius 6 m. 10 468 47 Simplicius 15 m. 5 483 48 Felix III. 9 492 49 Gelasius 4 497 50 Anastasius II. 2 499 51 Symmachus 15 514 52 Hormisda 9 523 53 Jannes 2 m 9. d. 526 54 Felix IV. 4 530 55 Bonifaâ—ius II. 1. 532 56 Joannes II. 3 535 57 Agapetus 1 536 58 Silverius 1 537 59 Vigilius 18 555 60 Pelagius 5 560 61 Joannes III. 13 573 62 Benedictus 4 578 63 Pelagius II. 12 590 64 Gregorius Mag. 14 609 65 Sabinianus 1 the last of the Roman Bishops not having that arrogant Title or Universall Bishop or head of the Church The Popes of Rome challenging a Supremacy over all the Church 606 1 Bonifacius III. 3 607 2 Bonifacius IV. 8 615 3 Deus-dedit 3 618 4 Bonifacius V. 5 m. 10 624 5 Honorius 13 637 6 Severinus 2 639 7 Joannes IV. 2 641 8 Theodorus 7 m. 5 649 9 Martinus 6 654 10 Eugenius 2. m. 9 657 11 Vitalianus 14 671 12 A-Deo-datus 5 677 13 Domnus 1 m. 5 d. 679 14 Agatho 4 683 15 Leo
my way I return again both to the place and to the Authoe In whose evidence besides what doth concern the imposition of the name of Christian upon the body of the faithful we have a testimony for Saint Peters being Bishop of An lock the first Bishop thereof of the Church of the Jews therein as lest as is said positively by Eusebius in his Chronologie Saint Hierome in his Catalogue of Ecclesiasticall writers Saint Chrysostonze in his Homilie de Translatione Ignatii Theodoret Dialog 1. Saint Gregory Epistol lib. 6. cap. 37. and before any of them by Origen in his sixt Homily on Saint Luke With reference whereunto and in respect that Antioch was accompted alwaies the principal City of the East parts of the Roman Empire the Prefect of the East for the most part residing in it the Bishop hereof in the first Ages of Christianity had jurisdiction over all the Churches in the East as far as the bounds of that Empire did extend that way To which by Constantine the Great the Provinces of Cilicia and Isauria with those of Mesopotamus and Osroent were after added Containing fifteen Roman Provinces or the whole Diocese of the Orient And though by the substracting of the Churches of Palestine and the decay of Christianity in these parts by the conquests of the Turks and Saracens the jurisdiction of this Patriarch hath bin very much lessened yet William of Tyre who flourished in the year 1130. reciteth the names of 13 Archiepiscopal 21 Metropolitical and 127. Episcopal Sees yielding obedience in his time to the See of Antoch Since which that number is much diminished Mahometanism more and more increasing and Christianity divided into Sects and factions insomuch as of three forts of Christians living in these Countreys viz. the Maronites Jacobites and Melchites onely the Melchites are subordinate to the Church of Antioch the others having Patriarels of their own Religion And first for the Melchites who are indeed the true and proper Members of the Church of Antioch and the greatest body of Christians in all the East they are so named in way of scorn by the Jacobite and Maronite Schismatick separating without just cause from their communion The name derived from Malchi signifying in the Syriack language a King or Emperour because adhering to their Primate they followed the Canons and decisions of preceding Councils ratisied by authority of the Emperour Leo by whom subscription was required to the Acts thereof and were in that respect as we use to say of the Kings Religion Conform in points of doctrine to the Church of Greece but that they celebrate divine service as solemnly on the Saturday as upon the Sunday subject to their true and original Patriarch who since the destruction of Antioch doth reside in Damaseus and on no terms acknowledging the authority of the Popes of Rome Next for the Maronites they derive that name either from Marona one of the principall Villages where they first inhabited or from the Monasterie of S. Maron mentioned in the first Act of the Council of Consumople holden under Mennas the Monks of which called Maronites were the head of their Sect. Some points they hold in which they differ from all Orthodox Christians others in which they differ onely from the Church of Rome Of the first sort 1. That the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father onely without relation to the Sonne 2. That the Souls of men were created all together at the first beginning 3. That male Children are not be Baptized together but at severall times by one and one 4. That Herenques returning to the Church are to be re-baptized 5. That the Child is made unclean by the touch of his Mother till her purification and therefore not Baptizing Children till that time be past which after the birth of a Male Child must be forty daies of a Female eighty 6. That the Euchirist is to be given to Children presently after Baptism 7. That the fourth Mariage is utterly unlawfull 8. That the Father may dissolve the mariage of his Sonne or Daughter 9. That young men are not to be Ordeived Priests or Deacons except they be maried 10. That nothing Strangled or of blood may be eaten by Christians 11. That Women in their monethly courses are not to be admitted to the Eucharist of to comeinto the Church 12. And finally which was indeed their first discrimination from the Orthodox Christians that there was but one will and action in Christ the Fautors of which opinion had the name of Monothelies Of the last kind 1. That the Sacrament of the Lords Supper was to be administred in both kinds 2. and in Leavened bread 3. that bread to be broken to the Communicants and not each man to have his waser to himself according to the first Institution 4. Not reserving that Sacrament 5. not carrying any part of the confecrated Elements to sick persons in danger of death 6. That Aleriage is nothing inferiour to the single life 7. That no man entreth the Kingdome of Heaven till the General Judgement 8. That the Saturday or old Sabbath is not to be fasted 9. nor the Sacrament upon dates of fasting to be administred till the Evening They withdrew themselves from the See of Antioch and set up a Patriark of their own many ages since but the certain time thereof I find not conferring on him for the greater credit of their Schism the honourable title of the Patriarch of Antioch His name perpetually to be Peter as the undoubted Successour of that Apostle in the See thereof Dispersed about the spurres and branches of Mount Libanus where they have many Townships and seattered Villages of which four are reported to retain in their common speech the true antient Syriack that is to say 1. Eden a small village but a Bishops See by the Turks called Aechera 2. Hatchteth 3. Sherrie 4. Bolesa or Blousa little superiour to the rest in bigness or beauty but made the seat of their Patriarch when he comes amongst them At such time as the Western Christians were possessed of these parts they submitted to the Church of Rome but upon their expulsion by the Turks and Saracens they returned again to the obedience of their own Patriarch on whom they have ever since depended His residence for the most part at Tripolis a chief Town of Syria but when he came to visit his Churches and take an accompt of his Suffragan Bishops who are nine in number then at Blousa as is said before Won to the Papacy again by John Baptist a Jesuite in the time of Pope Gregory the thirteenth who sent them a Catechism from Rome printed in the Arabian language which is generally spoken by them for their instruction in the Rudiments of that Religion yet so that their Patriarch still retains his former power and the Priests still officiate by the old liturgies of those Churches in the Syriack tongue So that this reconciliation upon the matter is but a matter of complement on
then in former times in the reign of David king of the Axumite Aethiopians who in a war against Dunmus king of the Humerites in Arabia Felix solemnly vowed to the God of the Christians to become one of his Followers if he got the victory And so accordingly he did sending his Ambassadors to the Emperor Justinian for some Bishops and other learned men to instruct his people The particulars of those Opinions wherewith they have since corrupted the purity of the true Religion I find thus registred 1. They use to circumcise their Children both males and females 2. They baptize the males 40 and the females 80 dayes after their circumcision 3. After the receit of the Sacrament they are not to spit till Sun-set 4. They profess but one nature and one will in CHRIST 5. They accept only the three first General Councels 6. Their Priests live by the labour of their hands for they allow them nothing and permit them not to beg 7. They baptize themselves every Epiphany day in Lakes and ponds because that day they suppose Christ to have been baptized by John in Jordan 8. They eat not of those Beasts which in the old Law are reckoned for unclean 9. They keep the Saturday or Jewish Sabbath equally solemn with the Lords Day 10. They administer the Eucharist to Infants presently after Baptism 11. They teach that the Reasonable soul of man is derived from their parents by Seminal propagation 12. That Infants dying unbaptized are sanctified in the womb by vertue of the Eucharist received by the Mother after her Conception And finally they shew a Book of eight volames writ as they say by the Apostles assembled at Hierusalem for that purpose the Contents whereof they observe most solemnly These are the most material points in which they differ from the Tenaries of the Catholique Church And there are other points in which they differ only from the Church of Rome as viz. 1. Administring in both kinds 2. Without either Elevation or Reservation 3. Rejecting massie Images and 4. Extreme Unction 5. Allowing the first marriages to their Priests and Bishops and 6. in renouncing all relation to the Pope of Rome who to the business of these Churches is a very stranger and so hath been from the very first foundation of them For it appeares by the Canons of the Nicene Council extant in the Arabick and translated into Latine by Pisanus that the Patriarch or Abuna as they call him of these Abassine Churches was in those times subordinate to the Alexandrian confirmed in that Supremacie by the Fathers which were there assembled and constantly ever since approved and practised by these Churches in the Liturgies whereof the name of the Alexandrian is remembred before their own To this Patriarch by an antient priviledge belongeth the seventh place in the Sessions of all General Councils the Archbishop of Seleucia or Babylon only interposing betwixt him and the Patriarch of Hierusalem Elected by the Abassine Monks of St. Antonies Order remaining in Hierusalem and confirmed by the Patriarch of Alexandria of which Order and of whose jurisdiction he must alwayes be he is sent into this Country to take his charge where in some points of Civil nature he hath equal priviledge with the Emperour himself and in Spiritual hath the sole power of excommunicating an obstinate Sinner All other Ecclesiastical Dignities from the Bishoprick to the lowest Benefice are conferred by the Emperour onely The principal Mountains of it in the former times had the names of 1 Prionotus 2 Isius 3 Monodactylus 4 Gaurus and 5 Mons Satyrorum all of them in that part which was called Trogloditica 6 Garbala 7 Elephas and 8 Maste in the Isle of Meroe the rest of the Country flat and level or the hils not eminent Rivers of most note 1 Astapus now Abanni arising out of a great Lake called Coloe now the Lake of Barcena 2 Astaboras now Tacassi both falling into the River Nilus 3. Nilus of which before when we were in Egypt whose spring unprofitably sought for in the elder times is now said to be out of the Lake Zembre in the other Aethiopia eleven Degrees beyond the Aequator whence passing through spacious Desarts large Lakes and many great Kingdoms he at last entreth into this Here in some places strugling amongst broken Rocks and less free passages he falleth with such a wonderful noise into the Vallies beneath that a Colony planted by the Persians neer one of these Cataracts so they call those huge fals of his were so dulled and deafned with the noise that they were fain to abandon their habitations Nor doth it only dull and deafen the neighbouring people but the very hils do seem to tremble at the noise it maketh Of which thus the Poet Cuncta tremunt undis multo murmure montis Spumeus invictis albescit fluctibus amnis Which may be Englished in these words The noise the Mountains shakes who roar for spite To see th' unvanquish'd Waves cloth'd all in white Of these Cataracts there are two most noted the one called Catarractes Major in the borders of this Country towards Egypt but South of both the Cities of Philae and Pselcis Aethiopian cities the other called Catarractes Minor not far from Elephantis a City of Egypt neighbouring to Syens the last City of that Country towards this So turbulent is this River amongst the Hils And yet as terrible as these fals are supposed to be one may divers times see the Country people in a little Boat not able to contain above two persons to venture down them without fear appearing after they have been long tossed in the waters a great distance off as if they had been shot out of an Engine Nor is he of such quiet passage in the open Countries but that the Inhabitants of this Kingdom are fain to cut many Ditches Sluces and By-channels to receive his waters which if not curbed and lesned by such wayes as these might by some sudden overflowing much endanger Egypt in respect whereof the Sultans of Egypt have paid for long time to the Abassine Emperors an annual tribute Which when the Great Turk supposing it a needless charge had once denied this people by the command of their Emperor did open their Sluces and break down the Dams whereby the water fell so violently and so fast into Egypt that the Turk was not only glad to continue the tribute but to give them great sums of mony to make up their works But others say that this acknowledgment was paid by the Egyptian Kings not so much for keeping up the waters from drowning Egypt as for fear the Habassine Emperors should divert the Stream and so deprive that Country of the benefit of it But I incline rather to the former Here are also said to be some Lakes of that poisonous nature that whosoever drinketh of them doth either immediately fall mad or else is troubled for long time with continual drowsiness Of which thus Ovid Aethiopesque
them though of different judgement 7 Dan. Tossanus the Hebrician To which we may adde 8 Calvin also who though he had his birth in France had his being here and never grew to any eminency in Fame or Learning till he was setled in Geneva For matter of Religion it is of a very mixt condition also in all these Countries that of the Romish onely have publick countenance in the Dukedom of Savoy and Piemont but so that the Reformed is tolerated in some parts thereof especially in the parts next Dauphine to which the neighborhood of Geneva gives a great increase In Switzerland there are four Cantons which are wholly for the Reformation viz. Zurich Bern Basil and Schaffhausen Seven that stand wholly for the Doctrin of the Church of Rome i. e. Uren Switz Underwalden Lucern Zug Friburg and Solothurn in Apenzel and Glaris they allow of both The Grisons are confusedly divided betwixt both Religions but the Italian Praefectures admit no other but the Romish The cause of which division came upon the preaching of Zuinglius a Canon of the Church of Zurich who being animated with Luthers good success in Germany began about the year 1519 to preach against the Mass and Images and other the corruptions of the Church of Rome In which his party so increased that on a publick Disputation which vvas held at Zurich the Mass was abrogated in that Canton by the authority of the Senate Anno 1526 and Images destroyed at Bern 1528. After which prosperous beginnings the Reformation began to spread it self amongst the Confederates and had prevailed further both in France and Germanie but for a difference which arose betwixt him and Luther about the Sacrament of the Supper in which Luther did not only maintain a Reall presence but a Consubstantiation also in the sacred Elements which Zuinglius maintained to be only a bare sign and representation of Christs blessed body For reconciling of this difference wherein the enemies of both did extremely triumph a conference was held between them at Marpurg a town of Hassiae by the procurement of that Lantgrave but without success Luther professing that he durst not agree in that point with Zuingulius ne Principes suos interpretatione tantopere Pontificiis exosa magis invisos redderet for fear of drawing too great hatred on the Princes of his own profession From this time forwards all brake out into open flames the names of Ubiquitarians and Sacramentarians being reciprocally cast upon one another to the great hindrance of the cause which they had in hand yet so that the Lutheran opinions got ground in Germany the Zuinglians amongst these Mountains and in France it self and finally prevailed by the meanes of Calvin in many parts of Germany also But hereof more hereafter in convenient place As for the story of those Countries before they were divided into so many hands we are to know that the old Inhabitants hereof mentioned before were conquered severally by the Romans as shall be shewen in the description of the severall Provinces Won from the Romans by the Burgundians in the time of Honorius the Western Emperor they became'a member of their Kingdom except the Country of the Grisons and some parts of Switzerland which fell under the Almans united afterwards in the new Kingdom of Burgundy of the French erection when subdued by that Nation But Charles the Bald the last of the French Kings of Burgundie having united it to the Kingdom of France divided it into three Estates that is to say the Dukedom of Burgundie on this side of the Soasne the Dukedom of Burgundy beyond the Soasne and the Dukedom of Burgundy beyond the Jour This last containing the greatest part of all these Alpine Provinces except Piemont onely vvas by the sayd Charles given to Conrade a Saxon Prince the sonne of Witikind the third and younger brother of Robert the first Earl of Anion by the name of Earl of Burgundy Transjurane or Burgundy beyond the Jour Rodolph his sonne and successor by Eudes the King of France his Comin German was honoured with the title of King to make him equall at the least with Bosâ—n Earl of Burgundie beyond the Soasne whom Charles the Grose Tabour the same time had made King of Arles But Rodolph finding it offensive to the German Emperors abandoned it on the death of Endes and took to himself the title of Duke The residue of the story we shall have in the following Catalogue of The Earles Dukes and Kings of Burgundie Trnnsjurane 1 Conrade the first Earl of Burgundie Transjurane 890 2 Rodolph Earl King and Duke of Burgundie Transjurane 912 3 Rodolph II. elected King of Italie against Berengarius which title he exchanged with Hugh de Arles who vvas chosen by another Faction for the possession of the Kingdom of Arles and Burgundie on the assuming of which Crown he resigned this Dukedom to his Brother 4 Boson the brother of Rodolph the second succeeded his brother in the Dukedom of Burgundie beyond the Jour as afterwards he succeeded Rodolph his Brothers sonne in the kingdom of Arles and Bnrgundie 965 5 Conrade sonne of Boson King of Arles and Burgundie and Duke of Burgundie Transjurane 990 6 Rodolph III. sonne of Conrade who dying without issue lest his estates to Henry surnamed the Black the sonne of his sister Gisela by Conrade the second Emperor and King of Germanie united so unto the Empire till by the bounty and improvidence of some following Emperors it was cantonned into many parts of which more anon It is novv time to lay aside this discourse as to the generall condition and affairs of these Alpine Provinces and to look over the particulars beginning first with the estate of the Duke of Savoy situate wholly in these Mountains and lying next to Italie where before we left THE DVKEDOM OF SAVOY THe Dukedom of SAVOY is bounded on the East with Millain and Montferrat in Italy on the West with Dauphine in France on the North with Switzerland and the Lake of Geneva and on the South with Provence and the Mediterranean The Country of so different nature that it cannot be reduced under any one character and therefore we must look upon it in the severall parts into which divided that is to say 1 the Principalitie of Piemont and 2 Savoy specially so called 1 PIEMONT in Latin called Regio Pedemontana because situate at the foot of the Mountains as the name in both languages imports is bounded on the East with Millain and Montferrat on the West with Savoy on the North with the Switzers and on the South it runneth in a narrow valley to the Mediterranean having Montferrat on the one side Provence and a part of the Alpes upon the other The Country wonderfully fertile compared with Switzerland and Savoy which lie next unto it but thought to be inferior to the rest of Italie It containeth besides Baronies and Lordships 15 Marquisates 52 Earldoms 160 Castles or walled places and is so
is said to be like a Flea quickly skipping into a Countrie and soon leaping out of it as was the Expedition of Charles the 8th into Italie The Dutch is said to be like a Lowse slowly mastering a place and as slowly yet at last driven out of their hold as was their taking and losing of Ostend and Gulick The Spaniard is said to be like a Crabb or 〈◊〉 inguinalis which being once crept into a place is so rooted there that nothing but the extremity of violence can fetch him out again In which I think I need not instance it being generally observed that the Spaniards will endure all possible hardship before they will part with any thing that they are possessed of It is used also for a By-word that the Italian is wise bâ—fore-hand the Dutch in the time of action and the French after it is done a wisdom much like that of the antient Gaul Nor are they less Litigous than the old Gauls were Insomuch as it is thought that there are more Law-sutes tryed among them in seven years than have been in England from the Conquest till the time of King Iames. They are great Scoffers yea even in matters of Religion as appeareth by the story of a Gentleman lying sick on his death-bead who when the Priest had perswaded him that the Sacrament of the Altar was the very Body and Blood of CHRIST refused to eat thereof because it was Friday Nor can I forget another in the same extremity who seeing the Host for so they call the Consecrated Elements brought unto him by a lubberly Priest said that CHRIST came to him as he entred into Hierusalem riding upon an Asse As for the Women they are sayd to be wittie but Apish Wanton and Incontient where a man at his first entrance may find acquaintanâ—e and at his first acquaintance may find an entrance So Dallington in his View of France describeth them But I have since heard this Censuâ—e condemned of some uncharitableness and the French Gentlewomen highly magnified for all those graces which may beautifie and adorn that Sex And it is possible enough that it may be so in some particulars though it be more than any man would guess at that cometh amongst them For generally at the first sight you shall have them as familiar with you as if they had known you from your Cradle and are so full of Chat and Tattle even with those they know not as if they were resolved sooner to want breath than words and never to be silent but in the Grave As to the persons of this People they are commonly of a middle stature and for the most part of a slight making their complexion being generally hot and moist which makes them very subject to the heats of lust and easily inclinable unto those diseases which are concomitants thereof their Constitution somewhat tender if not delicate which rendreth them impatient of Toil and labour and is in part the cause of those ill successes which have hapned to them in the Warres in which they have lost as much for want of constancy and perseverance in their enterprises as they have gained by their Courage in the undertaking And for the Women they are for the most part very personable of straight bodies slender wasts and a fit Symetrie of proportion in all the rest their hands white long and slender and easily discernable to be so for either they wear no Glâ—ves at all or else so short as if they were cut off at the hand-wrist To these the Complexion of their faces and the colour of their hair too much inclining to the black holds no true Devorum T is true the Poets commend Leda for her black hair and not unworthily Leda fuit nigris conâ—â—icienda comis as it is in Ovid. But this was specially because it set off with the greater lustre the amiable sweetness of her Complexion For in that case the Hair doth set forth the Face as shadows commonly do a Picture and the Face so becommeth the Hair as a Field Argent doth a Saâ—le bâ—aring which kind of Coat our Critical Heralds call the most fair But when a Black hair meets with a Brown or swarth Complexion it falls much short of that attractiveness of beauty which Ovid being so great a Crafts-Master in the Art of Love did commend in Leda The chief exercises they use are 1. â—enxis every Village having a Tennis-Court Orleans 60. Paâ—s many hundreds 2. Danâ—ing a sport to which they are so generally affected that were it not so much enveighed against by their strait-laced Ministers it is thought that many more of the Frenth Catholiques had been of the Reformed Religion For so extremely are they bent upon this disport that neither Age nor Sickness no nor poverty it self can make them keep their heels still when they hear the Musick Such as can hardly walk abroad without their Crutches or go as if they were troubled all day with a Scâ—atica and perchance have their rags hang so loose about them that one would think a swift Galliard might shake them into their nakedness will to the Dancing Green howsoever and be there as eager at the sport as if they had left their severall infirmities and wants behind them What makes their Ministers and indeed all that follow the Geneâ—ian Discipline enveigh so bitterly against Dancing and punish it with such severity where they find it used I am not able to determine nor doth it any way belong unto this discourse But being it is a Recreation which this people are so given unto and such a one as cannot be followed but in a great deal of Company and before many witnesses and spectators of their carriage in it I must needs think the Ministers of the French Church more nice than wise if they choose rather to deter men from their Congregations by so strict a Stoicism than indulge any thing unto the jollitie and natural Gaiety of this people in matters not offensive but by accident only The Language of this People is very voluble and pleasant but rather Elegant than Copious and therefore much troubled for want of words to find out Periphrases besides that very much of it is expressed in the action the head and sholders move as significantly toward it as the lips and tongue and he that hopeth to speak with any good grace must have somewhat in him of the Mimick A Language enriched with great plenty of Proverbs consequently a great help to the French humour of Scoffing and so naturally disposed for Courtship as makes all the people complementall the poorest Cobler in the Parish hath his Court-Cringes and his Eaubeniste de Cour his Court-holy-water as they call it as perfectly as the best Gentleman-Huisher in Paris Compared with that of other Nations the Language of the Spaniards is said to be Manly the Italian Courtly and the French Amorâ—us A sweet language it is without question the People leaving out in their pronunciation many of
in King Iames his reign tending to the advancement of such uniformitie be not interrupted For other things certain it is that London is the antienter Citie as being an Archbishops See in the time of the Britans when the name of Paris was scarce heard of a Bishops See at the first conversion of the Saxons increased so much in wealth and honour from one Age to another that it is grown at last too big for the Kingdom which whether it may be profitable for the State or not may be made a question And great Towns in the bodie of a State are like the Spleen or Melt in the bodie naturall the monstrous growth of which impoverisheth all the rest of the Members by drawing to it all the animal and vitai spirits which should give nourishment unto them And in the end cracked or surcharged by its own fulness not only sends unwholesome fumes and vapours unto the head and heavy pangs unto the heart but drawes a consumption on it self And certainly the over-growth of great Cities is of dangerous consequence not only in regard of Famine such multitudes of mouthes not being easie to be fed but in respect of the irreparable danger of Insurrections if once those multitudes sensible of their own strength oppressed with want or otherwise distempered with faction or discontent should gather to an head and break out into action Yet thus much may be said to the honour of London though grown by much too bigg now for the kingdom that it is generally so well governed and in so good peace that those Murders Robberies and outrages so frequent in great and populous Cities beyond the Seas are here seldom heard of 2 York in the West-riding of that Countie the second Citie of England as the old Verse hath it Londinum caput est Regni urbs prima Britanni Eboracum à primâ jure secunda venit That is to say In England London is the chiefest Town The second place York claimeth as its own And so it may being indeed the second Citie of the Kingdom both for same and greatness A pleasant large and stately Citie well fortified and beautifully adorned as well with private as publick Edifices and rich and populous withall Seated upon the River Ouse or Vre which divides it in twain both parts being joyned together with a fair stone Bridge consisting of high and mighty Arches A Citie of great estimation in the time of the Romans the Metropolis of the whole Province or Diâ—cese of Britain remarkable for the death and buriall of the Emperour Seveâ—us and the birth of Constantine the Great by consequence the Seat of the Primate of the British Church as long as Christianity did remain amongst them Nor stooped it lower when the Saxons had received the Faith and notwithstanding those mutations which befell this Kingdom under the Saxons Dancs and Normans it still preserved its antient lustre and increased it too Adorned with a stately and magnificent Cathedrall inferiour to few in Europe and with a Palace oâ— the Kings called the Manour-house the dwelling in these later dayes of the Lord President of the Court or Councell here established by King Henry 8th for the benefit of his Northern Subjects after the manner of the French Parliaments or Presed all Seiges 3 Bristol the third in rank of the Cities of England situate on the meeting of the Frome and Avon not far from the influx of the Severn into the Ocean in that regard commodiously seated for trade and traffick the Ships with full sayl coming into the Citie and the Citizens with as full purses trading into most parts of the World with good Faith and Fortune A Town exceeding populous and exceeding cleanly there being Sewers made under ground for the conveyance of all filth and nastiness into the Rivers Churches it hath to the number 18 or 20 reckoning in the Cathedrall and that of Ratcliff The Cathedrall first built by Rob. Fitz. Harding Sonne to a King of Danemark once a Burger here and by him stored with Canons Regular Anno 1248. but made a Bishops See by King Henry 8th Anno 1542. The principall building next the Church an antient Castle a piece of such strength that Maud the Empress having took King Steven Prisoner thought it the safest place to secure him in 4 Norwich the 4th Citie of the first rank of which more hereafter 5 Oxford the first of the second rank of English Cities seated upon the Ouse or Isis but whether so called as Vadum Isides Ouseford or the Ford of Ouse or Vada boum as the Greeks had their Bosphori in former times I determine not An antient Town and antiently made a seat of Learning coevall unto that of Paris if not before it the Vniversity hereof being restored rather than first founded by King Alured Anno 806. after it had been overborn awhile by the Danish Furies but hereof as an Vniversity more anon This only now that for the statelinesse of the Schooles and publick Library the bravery and beauty of particular Colleges all built of fair and polished stone the liberall endowment of those houses and notable encouragements of Industry and Learning in the salarie of the Professors in most Arts and Sciences it is not to be parallelled in the Christian World The Citie of it self well built and as pleasantly seated formed in the Figure of a Crosse two long Streets thwarting one another each of them neer a mile in length containing in that compasse 13 Parish Churches and a See Episcopall founded here by King Henry 8th Anno 1541. The honourary Title of 20 of the noble Family of the Veres now Earls of Oxon. 6 Salisbury first seated on the Hill where now stands old Salisbury the Sorbiodunum of the Antients But the Cathedrall being removed down into the Vale the Town quickly followed and grew up very suddenly into great Renown pleasantly seated on the Avon a name common to many English Rivers which watereth every street thereof and for the populousness of the place plenty of Provisions number of Churches a spacious Market-place and a fair Town-Hall esteemed the second Citie of all the West 7 Glocester by Antonine called Glevum by the Britains Caer Glowy whence the present name the Saxons adding Cester as in other places A fine neat Citie pleasantly seated on the Severn with a large Key or Wharf on the banks thereof very commodious to the Merchandise and trade of the place well built consisting of fair large Streets beautified with a magnificent Cathedrall and situate in so rich Vale that there is nothing wanting to the use of man except onely Wine which life or luxury may require 8 Chester upon the River Dee built in the manner of a quadrate inclosed with a wall which takes up more than two miles in compasse containing in that compasse 12 Parish Churches and an old Cathedrall dedicated antiently to S. Wereburg Daughter of Wolfere K. the Mercians and Visitress of all the Monasteries of England but
multum aeris habet ex eo fuso fit aes as that Author hath it It is one of the least of the Belgick Provinces containing in it but 125. Villages and no more then five walled Towns or Cities viz. 1. Limbourg which gives name to the whole Estate pleasantly seated on an hill amongst shady woods under which runneth the River Wesdo which having watered the whole countrey emptieth it self into the Maes well built and fortified with a very strong Castle mounted upon a steep Precipice of no easie accesse 2. Walkenbourg called by the French Fauquemont a reasonable fair Town with a large territory two Dutch miles from Maestricht conquered from Reynold Lord hereof by John the 3. Duke of Brabant 3. Dalem a little Town with a Castle the territory thereof extending beyond the Maes conquered by Henry Duke of Brabant of that name the second 4. Rhode le Duck a little old Town with as old a Castle half a league from Walkenbourg 5. Carpen situate between Gulick and Colen beautified with a Collegiate Church and a strong Castle in which there is a Governour with a good Garrison for defence of the place Each of these Towns hath jurisdiction on the parts adjoyning but with appeal unto the Chancery of Brabant The ancient inhabitants of this â—act and the Bishoprick of Leige adjoyning were the Eburones When it was first made an Earldome I am yet to seek but of an Earldome it was made a Dukedome by the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa anno 1172. Henry one of the Dukes hereof marryed his daughter Margaret to Godfrey the 3. Duke of Brabant which gave that house some colour to pretend unto it backed with a better title on the death of an other Henry the last Duke of Limbourg whose next heir Adelph sold it to John Duke of Brabaâ—t pretending to it in the right of the former marriage anno 1293. But Reynold Earl of Gueldres thinking himself to have a better title then Adolph in right of Ermingrade his wife the daughter of Herman a late Duke hereof put in his plea and challenged it by force of Armes but being vanquished and taken prisoner by the said Duke John in the battell of Woranem was fain for his release to release all his claim and title to the Dukedome of Limbourg after that quietly enjoyed by the Dukes of Brabant till they fell both together to the house of Burgundie The Armes hereof are Argent a Lyon Barrie of ten pieces Or and Gules 8. LVICK-LAND OR The Bishoprick of LEIGE Westward of Limbourg but a far mightier estate then it lieth LVICK-LAND as the Dutch or the Bishoprick of LEIGE Leâ—diensis as the Latine and French writers call it anciently under the protection of the Dukes of Brabant and afterwards of the Princes of the house of Burgundie as Lords of that countrey By some accompted of and described as a part of Germany but for the reasons before mentioned I shal place it here environed on all sides with the Belgick Provinces that is to say with the Dukedome of Limbourg on the East with Brabant on the North and West on the South with Luxembourg The Aire hereof is very wholesome and the Earth as fruitfull abounding with all kinde of grain and fruits some store of wine and as for flesh fish fowle and venison it hath very great plenty and that too of an excellent taste But the chief riches of this Countrey is under ground consisting in mines of Lead and Iron and some few of Gold quarries of Albasier mingled with all sorts of Marble rich veins of Brimstone and unexhaustible pits of Coal which last it hath in such abundance that there is digged within the compasse of one league of the City of Leige not only sufficient for that great City but so much overplus as being sold at mean prices about the countrey amounts unto 100000. duckets of yearly value The Coal much sweeter then elsewhere and of a nature contrary to all other Coal in that it is kindled with water and quenched with oyle and the strong servour of it taken off by casting salt on it The whole countrey containeth 24 walled Towns and 1800. Villages the principall of which are 1 Leige or Luick in Latine Leodium situate in a pleasant valley environed with hils the Meuse entring it in two branches accompanied with four lesser Riverets which make in it many delightfull Ilands The compasse of it about four miles the ordinary buildings very fair all built of stone the Bishops palace a magnificent and sumptuous piece the Churches in number forty of which eight are Collegiate 32. Parochiall all of them for their riches and bounty excelling all in any City of France or Germanie Besides these there are so many Convents Mâ—nasteries and religious houses about the Town that taking all together they amount to an hundred all of them of such fair revenues so well endowed and the Religious persons there of so great authority that it is cailed the Paradise of Priests and that deservedly It is also an University of good Antiquity wherein were Students at one time 9. Kings sons 24. Dukes sons 29. Earls sons besides Barons and Gentlemen the greatest part of which were Canons of the Church of S. Lambert which is the Cathedrall of the City Yet notwithstanding it hath tasted of the malice of fortune as well as others being first destroyed by the Danes then by the Normans twice taken and once destroyed by Charles of Burgundie anno 1468. Subject it is unto the Bishop as Lord temporall of it from whom being long since made an Imperiall Ctiy there lyeth an Appeal to the Chamber of Spires 2. Dinand upon the Meuse near Namur of very great traffick till destroyed by Charles of Burgundie in the same year with Leige hardly recovered of which wounds it was again sacked by K. Henry the 2. of France anno 1854. 3. Maeseck upon the Meuse or Maes also a league from whence is the fair Nunnery of Thuren of the same nature with that of Mentz and others spoken of before the like to which there is near 4. Bilsen another Town of this Bishoprick the Abbesses of each having the priviledge of coyning both gold and silver 5. Lootz by the Dutch called Borclom in the county of Diostein made a county in the time of Charles the Great the title and possession of Vgier the Dane so famous in the History of Gallen of France and others of the old Romances 6. Franchimont which gives the title to a Marquesse of the Bishop of Leige 7. Centron or S. Truden a fair Town so called of the Abbie dedicated to that Saint 8. Huy or Hoey so called of a violent River which there runs into the Meuse 9. Tungres the chief City of the Tongri which together with the Eburones were once the Inhabitants of this tract in which are still the ruines of a Temple consecrated to Hercules Anciently an Episcopall See translated hence to Maestreicht and at last to Leige and
the first Apostle of this People but a yeer before The Bishops of Wurtzburg by this grant were possessed hereof as long as any of the house of Charls the Great did possesse the Empire But his posterity failing in the person of Conrade anno 910. Otho the first who next but one succeeded Conrade invested Conrade husband to Luitgardis his daughter with this Country giving him withall the title of Duke of Francony Four Princes of this house possessed it that is to say this Conrade surnamed Salicus and after him three Henries father son and nephew successively enjoying the Imperiall dignity by the name of Henry the third fourth and fift This Henry the last Prince of the male line of Conrade dying without issue Franconia fell to Frederick Barbarossa Duke of Schwaben as next heir to Henry by the Lady Agnes his Sister married to Frederick the Antient Duke of Schwaben the grand-father of Barbarossa But that house being also extinct in the person of Conradine anno 1268. and no one heir pretending to the rights thereof the Bishops of Wurtzburg challenged it on the former grant content to let some great ones have a part of the spoil that he and his successours might enjoy the rest By means whereof it came to be divided betwixt the Bishops of Wurtzburg Bamberg Mentz the Electour Palatine of the Rhene for antiently the Palatinate and the Bishoprick of Mentz were but parts of Frankenland the Marquesse of Onolsbach the Earls of Swartzenberg Henneberg and Hohenloe and as many of the Free or Imperiall Cities as are seated in it Thus every one did gather sticks when the great Oak fell the title of Duke of Francony remaining notwithstanding to the Bishops of Wurtzburg 1. WVRTZBVRB the Metropolis of Franconia the seat and residence of the Bishop who is Titulary Duke hereof is situate on the Mein or Moenus in a pleasant plain environed with Meadowes gardens and fruitfull mountains and very well fenced with walls trenches bulwarks and other Arts of modern fortification well peopled and for the most part handsomely and neatly built Passing over the Bridge built of free stone on many large and spacious Arches you come unto a fair and pompous though ancient Castle the ordinary dwelling of the Bishop and yet so strong that the many vain attempts of the Boores and Citizens apt to pick quarrells with their Prince made it thought impregnable to which the situation of it on the top of an hill added some advantage but it proved â—erwise when besieged by the King of Sweden anno 1631. who after a short but stout resistance took it by assault Other townes of most note which belong to the Bishops of Wurtzburg are 2 Forchein where it is said that Pontius Pilate was born 3 Gemand at the meeting of the Meine and the Sal or Sala 4 Chronac 5 Staphelstein 6 Hockstad of which little memorable But to return unto the Bishop as chief Lord of all he is called in the refined Latine of these times Herbipolitanus but commonly Wurtziburgensis differing in sound but not in sense For Wurtzburg is no other then a town of Worts situate amongst plants and gardens as before is said and Herbipolis made up out of severall languages doth signifie no more then a City of Herbs By whom the Episcopall See was here first erected and how the Bishops hereof came to be intituled unto their Estates hath been shewn already The manner how the new Bishop is admitted and the old interred may be worth our knowledge On the decease of the former Bishop the Lord Elect attended with a great train of horse is to make his entrance Assoone as coming within the Gates he alights off his horse and putteth off his robes and being attired in a poor and despicable habit begirt about with a rope bare-headed also bare-footed he is conducted by the Earls of Henneberg Custel Wortheim and Reineck to S. Saviours Church being his Cathedrall The Dean and Canons there meeting him ask him what he would have to which he modestly replyeth that though unworthy he is come to discharge the office unto which he is called Then the Dean thus I admit thee in the name of this whole Chapter committing to thy care this Church of Saint Saviours and the Dukedome thereunto belonging in the name of the Father Son and holy Ghost Which done he putteth on his Episcopall habi â—yeth Masse and from thence passeth to his Castle where he gives entertainment to all the Company The living Bishop thus invested proceed we next unto the buriall of the dead whose body being embowelled is kept in the Chappell of the Castle his heart preserved in a vessell of glasse The next day he is carried to the Monastery of Saint James holding a Crozier Staffe in his right hand and a sword in his left buried with which the next day after in the Church of S. Saviour As for the Revenues of the Bishop they must needs be great the Bishop hereof in the time of Charles the fift compounding for his peace with Albert Marquesse of Brandenbourg at the price of 220000 Crownes in ready money and entring into bond to pay all his debts which amounted to 350000 Crownes in ready money and entring into bond to pay all his debts which amounted to 350000 Crowns more by which we may partly guess at the richnesse of his Exchequer and partly at the greatness of his Intrado 2. The second great Lord of Franconie is the Bishop of BAMBERG a City seated on the Mein not far from Wurtzburg the little River Regnite falling there into it supposed by Mercator to be the Granionarium of Ptolemy and to have took this new name from the hill Baba so called from Baba daughter of Otho Duke of Saxon and wâ—â—e of Aâ—bert 〈◊〉 Earl hereof upon which it is situate the right name being Babemberg remember that Bâ—g in Dutch signifieth an Hill and contractedly Bamberg A City delectably seated amongst mountaines and pleasant gardens and in a soil exceeding fruitfull of all necessaries and yeelding Liquorice in great plenty the birth-place of Joachimus Camerarius one of the great lights of Germany and a See Episcopall the Bishop of which is exempt from the power of his Metropolitan subject immediately to the Pope and Lord of many fair towns and territories in this Countrey but much diminished since the time of Charles the fift the Bishop thereof then being giving to Marquesse Albert above mentioned for a cessation from arms anno 1530. no lesse then 60 of his Lordships most of which fall unto the share of the Marquesse of Onaldsbach besides the tutelage or Guardianship of his Wards and Clients Of those which are remaining in the hands of the Bishops the principall are 1 Gragingliac 2 Schleistat 3. The third great Lord to be considered is the Marquesse of Onaldsbach or Ansbach who is Master of no small part of this Countrey but his Estate as those of the other German Princes confused and intermixt with
Alphonso eldest son of John zealous in the advancement of the Christian Faith and for that opposed by Panse Aquitine his younger Brother whom with a very small Army zealously invocating the assistance of Jesus Christ he is said to have vanquished A Prince who during his long reign of 50 years did seriously promote the Gospel and caused all Idols in his Kingdom to be overthrown and Churches to be built and furnished in convenient places 3 Pedro the son of Alphonso in whose time was founded the Colledge of 28 Canons in the Cathedral Church of S. Cross in the Town of S. Saviours 4 Francisco the son of Pedro who reigned not long 5 Diego or James one of the kinsmen of Francisco in whose time Religion growing into discredit by the scandalous lives of some of the Secular Clergie John the 3. King of Portugal sent four Jesuits thither who are said to have converted in five moneths 5000 persons and to build three Churches 6 Henry the brother of Diego after a sharp War touching the Succession in which were slain all the Portugals of S. Saviours except the Priests at last succeeded not long after slain in battell against the Anziques 7 Alvarez the son of Henry forced by the Jagges or Giacchi to abandon Congo and betake himself together with the Portugal Priests to an Iland of the River Zaire where he continued till restored to his Crown by the aid of Sebastian King of Portugal after by famine he had lost almost all his company 8 Alvarez II. Son of Alvarez the first who much sollicited Sebastian and Henry Kings of Portugal to send him a new supply of Preachers the old store being wasted in the Ilands of Zaire 9 Alvarez III. Son of Alvarez the 2. not being born in Lawfull wedlock was opposed by one of his Sisters and a younger Brother both of lawfull birth whom he overthrew Anno 1587. and in the place of the victory founded a Church in honour of the Virgin Mary Touching the Forces and Revenues of these Kings of Congo I am able to say nothing certain but that he is a Prince of great power and riches His Riches visible by the great treasures which he draweth from the Mines of silver and of other Mettals in his Kingdome from the trade of Cockle shells the only money of his Realm which he keeps wholly to himself the great gain which he makes by Slaves and from Elephants teeth the presents which he hath in way of Tribute from the King of Angola And though it be not easie to say what he layeth up yeerly because he hath not his Revenue in Coin as most Princes have yet it is thought that he is as rich and well furnished with all things as any Monarch in Africk As for his Forces they consist most in the multitudes of his Subjects which were they well armed and used to the Wars would make him formidable to the rest of the African Princes And though he hath no garrisons or Towns of war but must crust if once invaded unto Castles of bones yet he doth rest secure enough from all fear of danger except out of Europe being able to raise against his Rebels or any of his invading neighbours 400000 men out of Bamba only all armed according to their manners and 70000 men at least well exercised in Wars against the Jagges from the Province of Batta besides what may be drawn from his other Provinces The Arms of this King are Mars five swords meeting in Base Sol which Coat was taken by Alphonso the second King in this Catalogue because in the battell which he fought against Panse Aquitine he and his Souldiers saw or supposed they saw such a number of shining swords hanging in the Aire with their points turned directly upon the Enemy And so much for Aethiopia Inferior OF THE ISLES OF AFRICK IN tracing out the Isles of AFRICK we must observe another course then that which we have taken in Europe and Asia these Ilands not belonging to any part of the Continent nor under the command of any great Prince in the accompt of whose Estates they might be considered but being all of them independent and sui juris and therefore to be handled by themselves apart In our Chorographie of which and the stories of them as far forth as my Authors will direct me in it I am now to travel begining first with those that lie in the Red-Sea or Indian Ocean and so proceeding by the Cape of Good Hope to the Streits of Hercules that from thence we may have the shorter passage into America and there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conclude our journey These then we will consider either joynt or separate as delivered to us by the names of 1 The Aethiopick Ilands 2 Socotara 3 Madagascar 4 Mohelia 5 S. Helens 6 S. Thomas 7 The Princes Iland 8 The Gorgades or Ilands of Cape Vird. 9 The Canaries or the Fortunate Ilands 10 Madera 11 The Iland of Holy Port and 12 The HESPERIDES 1. THE AETHIOPICK ILANDS 1. THE AETHIOPICK ILANDS so called because they lie upon the Coast of Aethiopia Superior which were onely known unto the Antients are more in number then in weight some of them situate within the Streits of the Red Sea or the Gulf of Arabia others without those Streits in the open Ocean 1. Of those within the Streits not reckoning such as lie upon the shores of Arabia Felix of which we have already spoken there is 1 Asiarte or Astrata now called Cainssa 2 Ara Palladis so called from some Altar of that Godess which was there erected 3 Gypseris by Plinie called Cyris but Gypsus in Justinians Code renowned in former times for its plenty of metals 4 Macaria or the fortunate Ilands so called from the fertility and pleasures of it 5 Orneon or the Isle of Birds from the great plenty of Birds which was found therein 6 Daphnis by Ptolomie called Daphnine opposite to a famous Port-town of the same name in the Continent 7 Bacchias so called from Bacchus unto whom consecrated 8 Anti-Bacchias so named because opposite to it 9 Acanthine supposed by some to be now called Anghotina 10 Insula Diodori conceived by the Learned to be the same which is now called Babel Mandel and giveth name unto the Streits or entrance of the Bay of Arabia now called the Streits of Babel Mandel 11 Isidis Insula memorable for a Temple dedicated to the Godesse Isis and for a well frequented Port called Portus Isidis the same which is now called Pascua as Bel-forest thinketh 12 Mundi an Iland in the Bay of Avalitos opposite to a noted Emporie of the same name of the shores of that Bay Besides all which we find in Ptolomie two Ilands by the name of Thrisitides two more called Chelonitides or Cathratae two others passing by the name of Gomadeae together with the Isles of Myron Pan and that called Insula Magorum which make up one and twenty in all but of no note or observation in