Disorder He reserved also the greater Causes to the Determination of the Diet of Poland contrary to the Privilege granted by Casimirus his Predecessor In 1569. Stephanus King of Poland proscrib'd them for taking part with the House of Austria against him which Quarrel was ended by the Mediation of the Neighbouring Princes In 1597. Vladislaus IV. had also some Controversies with this City about their Imposts The Protestant Religion is imbraced here the Roman Catholick tolerated No Man is admitted into the Senate except he be a Luthoran In 1596. the Senate granted the Jesuits the Monastery of S. Bridget and S. Maries Church but the City opposed it so vigorously that three Days after they were forced to recall their Edict In 1657. this City was forced to burn her own Suburbs to prevent their being taken by the Swedes It lies in Long 41. 30. Lat. 54. 20. Danube Danubius Ister is one of the greatest Rivers in Europe and no less celebrated both in Ancient and Modern Story Called Danubius and Ister whence Ovid. lib. 1. de Pont. Stat vetus Vrbs ripae vicina Binominis Istri The upper part next the Fountains was for the most part called the Danube and the lower from Illyricus or Sclavonia the Ister as Pliny saith by the Germans Donaw by the French Danube by the Italians Danubio by the Poles Dunay by the Turks Tunay It ariseth in the County of Bar in Suabia sour German Miles from Freiburgh to the East and nine from Basil to the North-East running North-East it passes by Vlm having received a great many smaller Rivers on both Sides which for Brevity I must omit At Leucy it entereth Bavaria and a little further from the South receiveth the Leck which passeth by Ausprugh and still continuing its Course as far as Regensburgh it then turns and runs more Easterly to the Confines of Austria where at Passaw it entertains the vast River Inn which comes from Inspruck and brings many other with it from hence it goeth to Vienna where it makes an Island then washeth the Walls of Presburgh the Capital of the Vpper Hungary where it divides and makes the Island of Schut at Comora it unites again and goes on to Gran bending its Course more Southerly from whence it passeth to Buda the Capital of all Hungary where it makes two other Islands one above Buda and another a little below Colocza The Sarawitz which comes from Alba-Regalis falls into it from the West then the Drave at Esseck then the Tibiscus a vast River of Vpper Hungary from the East and the Save again on the West by Belgrade which is the first Town of Servia from hence its Course is more East having Moldavia VValachia and Bialogrod on the North Servia and Bulgaria on the South where it makes many Isles and then entereth the Euxine or Black Sea by three great Outlets the two more Northerly being as it were reunited in the very Entry of them into the Sea Dr. Edward Browne in his Travels saith That at Crainburgh not far distant from the Head it appeared a considerable Stream a little after from the City Vlm in Suevia where it beginneth to be Navigable it continues a long Course passing by Ingolstad Ratisbone Straubing Passaw Lintz and Vienna unto Presburgh from whence through Hungary it makes a Course of above three hundred Miles before it passes by Belgrade It drinks in above sixty considerable Rivers and in a sober Account performs a Course of above 1500 Miles from its Rise to its Fall This River has had many Naval Fights upon it between the Turks and Christians At one time there were twenty Galliots eighty small Pinnaces and little less than a hundred Ships of Burthen employed upon it in a Siege of Buda At the Siege of Belgrade Mahomet the Great brought two hundred Ships and Galleys up the Stream the Hungarians sent so many from Buda down the Stream that after a sharp Encounter the Hungarians took twenty and forced the rest on shoar near the Camp so that Mahomet was forced to burn them to prevent their being taken by the Christians This perhaps is more than can be said of any other River in the World It abounds in good Fish as Trouts Perches large and delicious Carps exceeding saith Dr. Browne any I have seen c. some of which is every Year salted and sent into other Parts This River to conclude was for many Ages the Boundary on this Side of the Roman Empire and against the barbarous Nations accordingly the Roman Legions had their Stations upon its Banks they were the Founders of many of the Cities and many memorable Actions in those early Days happened near it sometimes between the Romans themselves and sometimes between them and the Barbarians Danvilliers See Damvilliers Daphne a delightful Village of old in Syria upon the Banks of the River Orontes five Miles from Antioch the Great Where was a large famous Cypress Wood consecrated to Apollo with a Temple to his Honour also and another to Diana and a Spring called the Fountain of Daphne The Romans for some time kept a Legion here till they found their Men effeminated by the Pleasures of the Place Pompey the Great charmed with its Beauty became a Benefactor to it Constantine M. built a House of Pleasure in it in the Year 326. Gallus caused the Body of the Martyr Babylas the Patriarch of Antioch to be transported hither whereupon it is said Apollo surceased his Oracle Julian the Apostate commanded the said Body to be removed in 362. After which the Temple of Apollo was so consumed in a Storm of Thunder and Lightning that in S. Chrysostom's time only one Pillar now nothing is remaining thereof And the Christian Emperors succeeding Julian erected Churches in its Room Darbon Alpheus a River in the middle of the Morea which falls into the Ladon which falls into the Orfea and divides at Pilus one Branch called Illiaco runs West and entereth the Ocean over against Zant the other Alpheo runs South and entereth the Gulph of Arcadia over against the Town of Stroffhad 20 Miles North-West of Arcadia Darby Derby Derbia is both a City and a County in England The County has Nottinghamshire on the East Leicestershire on the South Staffordshire on the West and Yorkshire on the North. The River Derwent divides it into two Parts running North and South and at last falls into Trent which is its Southern Boundary That Part which lies East of Derwent is plain and fruitful the Western Parts are more mountainous and barren but abound in Mines of Lead Iron Coals and afford good Pasture for Sheep In the South-East Part of this County upon the River Derwent lieth the City of Derby which first takes its Name from the River and then lends it to the County A fine rich well-traded City On the East Side it has Derwent covered by a Stone-Bridge on the South it hath a clear Rivolet called Mertenbrook and within it five Parish-Churches Thomas Lord
by the Germans Draw and Trave by the Hungarians Trab has its Rise from the Alps in Tyrol and running Eastward through Carinthia and Stiria entereth Hungaria at Serinwar where it receiveth the Muer out of Stiria and another from the Lake of Balatan in Hungary so dividing the Lower Hungary from Sclavonia it passeth to the Bridge of Esseck where a little lower it falleth into the Danube by two Mouths Dr. Brown saith it ariseth in Saltzburglant and falls into the Danube near Erdoed the old Tentobrigum after it hath passed from its Head about three hundred Miles About its entrance into Hungary it receiveth the Mur and far above this I found it a considerable River having passed it between Clagenfort and Mount Leubell in Carinthia by two long Wooden Bridges and an Island in the middle between them Dravenna See Trave Draun Drachonis Duras a River and Town of Austria the River falls into the Danube from the South a little beneath Lintz twenty six Miles West of Vienna and brings with it several other smaller Rivers Draunsee a Lake out of which this River riseth Drausen a Lake in Prussia in Poland near Elbing and Dantzick made by the Vistula Draw See the Drave Drayton a Market Town in the County of Salop in the Hundred of North Bradford upon the River Terne where it divides this County from Staffordshire The Houses of York and Lancaster fought a Battel here Drazzi See Durazzo Drente Drentia one of the three parts of Over-Yssel a Province of the Vnited States of Holland lying Northward and almost all covered with Marshes the chief Town of which is Coevorden or Coeworden The French possessed themselves of this Territory in 1672. and two years after abandoned it to the Hollanders Dresden or Dresen Dresda the principal Town of Misnia in the Vpper Saxony seated on both sides of the Elbe five Miles from the Borders of Bohemia and three above Meissen This City being in a pleasant and delightful place was in 800. fortified with Walls and Dikes against the Bohemians by Charles the Great The succeeding Princes have not been less careful of it So that it is for the strength and magnificence of the Buildings the best Town in Misnia The Elbe is here covered with a wonderful Bridge of Stone The Electors of Saxony have also made this City the place of their Residence and built here a strong Castle and a noble Magazine Dreux Drocum Durocasses Druidensis Pagus a Town in the Territory of Blasois in Normandy upon the River Blaise sixteen Miles from Paris to the West It is seated at the foot of an Hill a very ancient City and Earldom having an old decaying Castle Here in 1562. was a sharp Fight between the Hugonots and the Roman Catholicks in which the Prince of Conde was taken and nine thousand men of both sides slain In 1593. Henry le Grand besieged and took this Town in eighteen days The ancient Druides are supposed to have dwelt in it Drillae an ancient people of Cappadocia in the Lesser Asia towards the Euxine Sea betwixt Trebisonda and Cerasus in Xenophon's relation or Colchos in Arian's They had the reputation of good Soldiers Drillo Achates a River of Sicily it falls into the African Sea six Miles East of Terra Nova and has a Town upon it called by the same Name Drinawar See Drino Drino a River of Servia which riseth from the Mountains that part Servia from Albania and running Northward from Novomont by Prisen a little above Drinawahr Drinopolis a Town seated in an Island made by this River it receiveth the Lim and passeth into the Save five German Miles above Al◠the old Sirmium § Drino Bianco the White Drin is a River of Albania which ariseth from the same Mountains with the former but more East near Scopia or Vschup in Servia and running Westward takes in Drino Niero the Black Drin which ariseth from two Lakes in Albania being thus united with the former and two others from the North they pass Alessio and fall into the Bay of Drin Sinus Drinolius over against Manfredona in Italy Drista Silistria the principal City in Bulgaria Drivasto Triastum Drivastum an Episcopal City of Albania upon the Lake of Scutari under the Turk This See was a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Antivari Droan or Dron Drahonas a River in the Bishoprick of Treves Drobafaf Chromium the Scythian or Frozen Sea North-East of Russia and Nova Zemla Drogheda a City in the County of Louth in the Province of Leinster in Ireland called by the Irish Drogadagh and Treda upon the River Boyne twenty two Miles North of Dublin It has an excellent and safe Haven in Mr. Cambden's time well peopled and much frequented This Town falling into the hands of the Duke of Ormond in 1649. and stormed soon after by Oliver Cromwell September 11. of the same year he put all the Garrison which was about four thousand to the Sword and as to the Inhabitants spared neither Sex Age Poor or Rich but intirely ruined all before him not regarding the good Service this City had done in the beginning of the War by preserving the Reliques of the English Nation from the cruelty and rage of the Rebellious Irish Sir Arthur Aston the Governour perished with the Garrison It being the first place the Tyrant took in Ireland this cruelty was intended to strike a terror into the others that he might with the greater facility reduce the Kingdom under his Dominion and accordingly he had incredible success in all his future attempts It surrendred to King William in two days after the Fight at the Boyne Droinholm a Royal House of Pleasure of the Kings of Sweden one League from Stockholm Droitwich a Borough Town in Worcestershire in the Hundred of Halfshire upon the Banks of the Salwarp It returns two Members to the House of Commons and is a noted place for its Salt-pits La Drome Druna Druma a River which ariseth in the Confines of Gapencois in Dauphine in France and having watered Die and Crest falls into the Rhosne three Leagues below Valence Dronfield a Market Town in Derbyshire in the hundred of Scarsdale Drontheim or Druntheim Nidrosia called also Trondhem was heretofore the Capital of the Kingdom of Norway made an Archbishops See and a Metropolis by Pope Eugenius III. It stands on the Western Shoars of Norway seventy five German Miles from Bergen to the North and one hundred and ten from Stock-Holm to the North-West in Long. 28. 02. Lat. 64. 10. It s Latin name comes from the River Nider upon which it stands This City is now a very great Mart and has a large and a safe Harbour yet lies open without any Fortifications being in this more like a great Village than a City Heretofore much greater the many fires which have happened in it have lessened it and besides the Church of S. Olao which was once the most beautiful Church in all the North is now buried in its Ashes it has also
Aquitain in France upon a small River falling into the Vezere seven or eight Leagues from Perigueux and Bergerac Here there is a very long Subterraneous Caverne call'd la Caverne de Cluseau in which Altars Paintings and rooms are pretended to be discovered as if the Pagans had sacrificed in this place to the Infernal Gods Mirepoix Mirapisca Mirapicium Mirapincum a City of the Vpper Languedoc in France in the County of Foix upon the River Gers three Leagues from Foix to the East and eleven from Tolouse to the South Made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tolouse by Pope John XXII In 1318 having been before a part of the Diocese belonging to that Archbishoprick The Earls of this place in the War against the Albigenses for their bravery obtained the title of Mareschalls of the Faith Miron or Hued Icer Serbes a River in the Kingdom of Algier Miscow an Island in the Gulph of S. Laurence in the North America belonging to New France betwixt that Country and the Island of S. John small but very fruitful Missa Senna Sena a River of Italy which watereth Vrbino the Capital of the Dukedom of that name and falls in the Gulph of Venice four Miles from Signiglia to the North-West Called by the latter Geographers il Cesano Misitra Lacedaemon Sparta is an ancient and most famous City of the Morea seated upon the River Eurotas now called Vafilipotamo thirty Miles from Megalopolis to the South one hundred and twenty from Athens to the South-West and twenty from the nearest Shoar of the Mediterranean Sea This was the Old Sparta Long. 48. 50. Lat. 38. 31. It is situate partly upon a Plain partly upon the foot of Mount Tayget which within Cannon Shot closeth it on the North the River descending from some Hills on the North-West incompasseth it on the West and South In ancient times it was as Polybius saith forty eight Greek Stades in Circuit which is six English Miles but it had a very unhealthful Situation the Mountain on the North side cutting off the cooling Breezes and redoubling by Reflection the Violence of the Rays of the Sun which make it even now when there is so few Inhabitants in it subject to the Plague every Autumn besides the Mountain renders it weak and undefensible This City is said to be built about the Year of the World 2997. in the days of the Patriarch Jacob 1763 Years before the Birth of our Saviour which account if it be true makes Misitra 983 years older than Rome There was no City in the World that flourished so many Ages as this in Military Glory it had a considerable share in all those Actions which made the ancient Greeks so famous It had Kings also the longest of any of the Grecian Cities for many Ages two at once and when they took away the Power from them they preserved the name This City was never brought under the Power of any Stranger till Philopoemen a Macedonian who died in the Year of the World 3767. took and abolished Lycurgus his Laws Which is placed by Helvicus in the Year of the World 3767. one hundred and ninety one Years before the Birth of our Saviour After this it became so inconsiderable as to be rarely mentioned only we are informed the Greek Emperors made it the Appenage of their Elder Sons Mahomet II. stiled the Great was the first of the Turkish Princes who in 1458. or thereabouts possessed himself of this City and the Cittadel built in the latter times on the top of Mount Taygetus In 1473. the Venetians took the City from the Turks but not being able to master the Cittadel they were soon after forced to desert it In 1687. the Bassa of Misitra Articled with the Victorious Venetians to March away with only what the Garrison could carry This City is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Corinth at this day very small and little peopled Misnia Libonotria is a Province and Marquisate of Germany called by the Inhabitants Meissen or Meissnerlandt It is a considerable part of the Vpper Saxony bounded on the North by the Principality of Anhalt on the East by Lusatia on the South by Bohemia and Franconia and on the West by Thuringia The greatest part is under the Elector of Saxony who resides at Dresden the Capital City The other considerable Places are Leipsick Meissen Mersburg Naumburg and Zwicaro Misraim the most ancient name of Egypt Mistretta Amestrata a very ancient Town in Sicily in the North-West part of the Island upon the River Alaesum fourteen Miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea and fifty five from Palermo to the East Modbury a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Armington betwixt the Rivers Arme and Aune La Mocha an Island of the South Sea near the Kingdom of Chili in America Modena Mutina a City of Lombardy in Italy the Capital of a Sovereign Dukedom of the same name Seated in a Plain upon the River Secchia the greatest Bed of which runs four Miles more to the West but it has two Branches one runs under the Walls the other through the City of Modena and a little beneath the City unite and fall into the Panaro This City lies twenty Miles from Bologna to the North-West and forty four from Ferrara to the South-West It is naturally strong by its Situation fortified too and has had a Castle added of latter times for its greater security Ancient Story informs us this City was a Roman Colony of great Strength and Reputation and that M. Antonius besieged D. Brutus the principal Conspirator against Julius Caesar here but Hirtius and Pansa the two Consuls coming up Antonius was forced to raise the Siege whereupon followed a bloody Fight in which both these Consuls were slain in the Year of Rome 711. In the times of the Goths and Lombards it was intirely ruined but rebuilt by the Children of Charles the Great In 973. here was a Council held for the composing some differences amongst the German Princes This City is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ravenna Lo Stato di Modena Mutinensis Ducatus the Dukedom of Modena is bounded on the North with the Dukedoms of Mantoua and Mirandola on the East with the Territory of Bologna on the South with the Dukedom of Tuscany and the States of Luca on the West with the Dukedom of Parma It extends from North to South sixty from East to West forty five Miles heretofore under the Duke of Ferrara but the eldest Line of that Family failing in Alphonsus II. in 1597 the Dukes of Modena who were a younger Branch of the same Family put in their Claim for the whole Succession but were opposed by Pope Clement VIII Whereupon ensued a War which was ended by a Treaty the next Year the Pope keeping Ferrara and the Duke Modena as a Sovereign State Alphonsus d'Este the present Duke is the Third of this Line since the Sovereignty fell into this Family descended from a Race of Dukes which began
Vesle in the midst of an agreeable plain thirteen Leagues from Soissons to the East twenty four from Verdun ten from Chalons to the South-West and five from the Marne to the North adorned with four Abbeys a great number of Collegiate and Parochial Churches Religious and Ecclesiastical Houses Pope Sylvester II. was sometime Archbishop of this Church Pope Vrban II. a Canon Pope Adrian IV. an Archdeacon and P. Adrian V. Archdeacon and Chancellor Pope Leo XI held a Council here in Person in 1049 against the Vices of the times Pope Calixtus II. did the same in 1119 in which the Emperor Henry was excommunicated Pope Innocent II. the same in 1131 and Pope Eugenius III. accompanied with S. Bernard in 1148. In 1595. a part of a Roman Triumphal Arch bearing a Tablet of Romulus and Remus fed by a Wolf and in 1677. two more parts of the same one representing the Story of Leda the other the year with all its Months and Seasons were digged out of the ground here and esteemed as famous Monuments of Antiquity But whether first erected by Julius Caesar or Augustus or Julian the Apostate the Learned make but uncertain Conjectures The Territory of this City is called Râ—mois Reinfrew a City of Scotland in the County of Cuningham upon the Irish Sea or Dunbritan Fyrth not above five Miles from Glascow to the West Reinsbourg a Village one League distant from Leyden in Holland celebrated formerly for an Abbey of Benedictine Dames successively founded by two Earls of Holland and two noble Ladies who all lye interred in the Church where there is besides a number of stately Tombs of the Counts and Countesses and others of the old Nobility of Holland Remirmont Romaricus Mons a Town in Lorain at the foot of Mount Vauge upon the Moselle five Miles from Fontenay to the East and eleven from Colmar to the West in which is a noble Nunnery Los Remolinos Tarraconensis Juga a Mountain in Arragon Remorantin Romorantin a Town in Sologne in France Rendlesham an ancient Town in the County of Suffolk and the Hundred of Looes upon the River Deben in which the first Christian King of the East Angles Redwald kept his Court. Renelle Ranula Marronel a small River in Normandy which falls into the Seyne to the West of Roan Rennes Renes Vrbs Rhedonum Condate Rhedones Redonae Condate Redonum the Capital City of the Dukedom of Britagne in France and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours The Seat of the Parliament of the Province by the establishment of K. Henry II. It stands upon the River Vilaine which divides it in two twenty two Leagues from Nantes to the North and the same distance from Anger 's to the South-West A place of great antiquity being mentioned by Caesar and Ptolemy The ancient Dukes of Britagne made it their Residence About the years 1069 and 1263. there were two French Councils assembled here It hath divers Churches and Religious and Ecclesiastical Houses Renty Rentica a Town in Artois heretofore of great strength which in 1554. repelled the Forces of Henry II. King of France but in 1638. was ruined It lies five Leagues from Bologne to the East and four from Aras upon the River Aa which falls into the British Sea below Graveling in Flanders The late Baron de Renty so famous for his application to the actions of piety and his family originally derive their name from hence La Reole Regula a Town of France upon the Garonne in the Province of Guyenne adorned with a good Monastery Repeham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Eynesford Rerone Rero a small River in Lombardy in the States of Venice which watereth Vicenza and then falls into the Lesser Malamoco Reschet a City of Persia called by the Arabians Husum the Capital of the Province of Kilania Rescow Rescovia a City of Moscovy near the Borders of Lithuania and the Fountains of the River Wolga forty Miles from Tuver to the North-West and fifty from Bielka to the East The Capital of a Dukedom of the same name and has two Castles the Russ call it Rshewa Retel Retelium a City of Champagne in France upon the River Aisne the Capital of Retelois Eight Leagues from Reims and ten from Sedan to the West Near this place the Spaniards received a great Defeat from the French in 1650 under the Mareschal de Turene But in 1652. this Town was put into the Hands of the Spaniards by the Prince of Condy and three years after was retaken by the French It is honored with the Title of a Dukedom Retelois Retelensis Ager is a Territory in the Northern Parts of Champagne which was heretofore a Dukedom It lies between the Aisne the Bishoprick of Liege and the Dukedom of Luxemburgh the chief Towns of which are Retel Meziers Charlville and Donchery Retz Radesia a Dutchy in the County of Nantes in Bretagne in France in the Borders of Poictou at the Mouth of the River Loyre the chief Town of which is Machecou ten Leagues from Nantes to the North-West Reâ—el Revalia a great City and Sea-Port in Livonia called by the Russ Roliva The Capital of the Province of Esthonia It stands upon the Bay of Finland thirty three German Miles from Narva to the West and thirty seven from Riga to the North. This City was an Hanse Town and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Riga subject to the Crown of Poland till 1558 when being affrighted with the Threats of the Russ it was forced to fly to Christian III. King of Denmark for Protection Having been built by Waldemar or Walmar II. King of Denmark in 1223. This Prince not willing to engage in a War in his old Age refused their proffered submission But the next year Erick King of Sweden accepted it whereupon in 1563 there followed a sharp War between him and the City of Lubeck In 1569 the Swedes receiving a great Defeat a Peace was made at Stetin in 1570. Magnus Duke of Holstein being imployed by the Russ in the same year laid close Siege to Revel but with no success In 1577 the Rusi did likewise attempt it with the same success So that ever since it has been in the Hands of the Swedes This City as Olearius saith was built in 1230. Sold together with Narva and Wesemberg by Walmar III. King of Denmark in 1347 to Gosvin d' Eck Great Master of the Order of Livonia for nineteen thousand Marks of Silver About 1477 it began to be a place of great Trade by reason of its very excellent Haven and convenient Situation for the Trade of Russia and being thereupon grown great rich and insolent it broke with the other Hanse Towns in 1550. But the Russ taking Narva in 1558 and settling the Staple there and threatning Revel with a Siege they submitted to Sweden who have abated some of their Privileges to secure their Obedience Yet is it still a place of great Commerce and enjoying many Privileges
Writers of the middle Ages is called Scâ—dingum there belong to it two Castles and several Salt-Springs which are boiled up to an excellent white Salt This City was taken by the French in 1668 and again in 1674 ever since which last Date it has continued in their Hands by the peace of Nimeguen It hath four Parishes and divers religious Houses Sall Sala a Town in Westmannia in Sweden between Vpland and Nericia five Swedish Miles from Vpsal to the W. which has been much celebrated on the account of some silver Mines it had heretofore Sallant Sallandia that is the Land of the Salii a considerable part of the Province of Overyssel and one of the three parts of that Province towards the Yssel and Zuider Sea in which are the Towns of Deventer Zwol Campen and Steenwick Salisbury See Sarisbury Salme Salmona a small Town in Lorain the Capital of a Territory called the Principality of Salme which ever since 1460 has belonged to a Branch of the Family of the Rhine-graves It lies in the Borders of Alsatia within Mount Vauge twenty Miles from Nancy to the East Salnich Celidnus a River which in Pliny's time was the Southern Boundary of Macedonia it falls into the Adriatick Sea on the North side of the Crosfo della Valona in the Kingdom of Albania over against Ot ranto in Italy Salo. See Xalon Salon Salum a Town in Provence in France betwixt Aix and Arles which hath the honour of a Collegiate Church and divers religious Houses Being the more remarkable also for giving birth to the two famous Michael and Caesar Nostradamus's Salona a City of Dalmatia formerly a place of great Esteem and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Spalatro The Emperor Dioclesian retreated hither after his resignation of the Empire It espoused Caesar's interest in the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey and when besieg'd by Octavius it repulsed all his attempts with the greatest obstinacy and bravery That old City being ruined by the Sclavonians lies now in its Ruins near which the Venetians have built a Castle at the Mouth of a River both of the same Name five Miles from Spalatro to the North. This Castle is in the Hands of the Venetians Salonichi See Thessalonica Salses or Sausses Salsulae a strong Castle in the County of Rousillon built on an Hill by a Lake of the same Name in the Borders of Languedoc four Leagues from Perpignan to the North and two from the Mediterranean Sea West This Castle was built by the Spaniards against the Inroads of the Castle of Leucate but taken by the French in 1640 and confirm'd to them by the Treaty of the Pyrenees The derivation of its name is taken from the Salt-Springs near it Saltfleet a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Loutheaske upon the Sea much frequented in the Summer Season for its good Fish Salwarp a River in Worcestershire falling into the Severn Droitwich and Bromesgrove stand upon the Banks of it Saltzburg Juvavia Salisburgum Poedicum Hadriana a great City in the Circle of Bavaria in Germany which is an Archbishops See upon the River Saltzor and has a very strong Castle built on an advanced ground under the Dominion of its own Archbishop together with a very large Territory called the Bishoprick of Saltzburg This City stands nineteen Miles from Inspruck to the North-East seventeen from Munchen to the East and thirteen from Ilstadt to the South Historians do generally believe that it was at first the Capital of Noricum in which the ancient Geographers place it Made an Archbishops See in the year 798 in the times of Charles the Great having before been a Bishop's See in the fifth Century but the Goths sacking the City and destroying the Christians the succession to that See suffered an interruption nigh two Ages It was also for some time an Imperial and Free City but since exempted In 1195. the Emperour Henry VI. reduced it into ashes but being reedified it carries the name at present one of the best and strongest Cities in Germany Made lately an University too by an Archbishop of it under the Regency of the Benedictines and adorned with a new Cathedral in 1628 which passes for one of the most magnificent Piles in Christendom The Archbishoprick of Saltzburg Salisburgensis Ditio is a Province in the Circle of Bavaria in Germany between Carinthia and Stiria to the East the lower Bavaria and the Earldom of Tirol to the West Austria to the North and the Bishoprick of Brixen and Carinthia to the South The Bishoprick of Chiemzee is incorporated with this Archbishoprick The Archbishop besides is a Prince of the Empire and a Legatus Natus from the Roman See in Germany Saltzor Saltzach Juvavius a River of Germany which ariseth from Mount Taurus in the Earldom of Tirol and washing Saltzburg which has its Name from this River falls into the Inns between Oetingen and Branaw below Burehausen a Town of Bavaria Les Salvages two barren and desert Islands toward the Coast of Africa of the number of the Canaries only they swarm with Fowl Saluces Saluzzes or Saluzzo a Marquisate in Piedmont at the Foot of the Alpes heretofore a Fife of Dauphine and annexed to France but granted by Henry IV. to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy in exchange for la Bresse Beugey and some others on this side the Alpes about the year 1601. It is bounded by Piedmont on the North and East by the Dauphine on the West and by the County of Nizza on the South The River Po owes its head to Mount Viso in this Marquisate and the strong Fortress of Carmagnole is one of its dependencies It takes its Name from Saluzzo Salutiae the principal Town which ever since the year 1511 has been a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Turin It stands upon an Hill at the Foot of the Alpes about one Mile from the Po ten from Fossano to the West and twenty four from Turin to the South secured by a strong Castle and adorned with a most magnificent Cathedral This City was anciently called Augusta Vagiennorum Samachonitis or Semechonitis the Lake of Meroz made by the River Jordan in Palestine on the North of the Sea of Galilee About sixty Greek Stadia in length and thirty in breadth In the Winter swelled with the Snow from the Mountain Libanus Samandria See Spenderobi Samarchand Samarchanda Marchanda a vast City in the Asiatick Tartary one hundred Miles beyond the River Oxus the Capital of that Kingdom and the Royal City of that great Prince Tamberlaine who stiled himself Flagellum Dei the Scourge of God who about the year 1402 took Bajazet the Emperor of the Turks his Prisoner and died in the year 1406. This Prince bestowed his utmost care in adorning beautifying and enlarging this City built in it a very strong Castle and instituted an University But in what state it now is is not easily known Samaria a City of Palestine mentioned by Ptolemy and Strabo as well as
Targovisto Targovistum Targoviscum Tergovistus Tiriscum a great City which is the Capital of Moldavia and the Seat of their Princes The Natives call it Ternisch It stands in the Borders of Walachia up the River Jaloniza sixty Miles from Nigeboli to the North and a little more from Cronstad or Brassaw in Transylvania to the South in a Marsh Heretofore together with Moldavia under the King of Hungary And now returned under that Crown again See Moldavia Tariffa a City of Spain in Andalusia near the Streights of Gibraltar once a great and strong place but now almost ruined inhabited by a few though it has a Castle and an Haven It was recovered from the Moors in 1292. And Octob. 28. 1340. the Moors received a great Defeat near this place which stands four Leagues from Algezira to the West and six from the Coast of Barbary to the North. Tarne or le Tar Tarnis a River of Aquitain in France which springeth from Mount Losere in Givaudan and being improved by some lesser Streams watereth Millaud then entering Languedoc it visiteth Montauban where it is covered by a lovely Stone Bridge and a little beneath Moissac falls into the Garonne five Leagues above Agen. The present King of France has with great expence of late years made this River Navigable by Boats Taro or Tarro Tarus a River of Lombardy in Italy which ariseth from the Apennine in the Borders of the States of Genoua and running through a Valley of its own name and through the Dukedom of Parma falls thirteen Miles below Cremona into the Po. Upon the Banks of this River Charles VIII of France in 1495. defeated all the Forces of Italy assembled hither to stop him from going out of Italy Tarpeya a Lake in the Kingdom of Peru in South America near the City Potosi springing from a large Fountain in the middle of itself Tarragona Tarraco a City of Spain which in ancient time gave name to that part of Spain called Hispania Tarraconensis It was built by the Scipio's others say before the Roman Conquest Eratosthenes having mentioned it in the year of the World 2780. The Scipio's much enlarged it and therefore Pliny and Solinus make them the Founders Mela saith it was in his time the richest Maritim City on the Eastern Coast of Spain It was certainly a great Metropolis and had fourteen lesser Cities under it The Moors ruined the Roman City and rebuilt that which now stands walling it for the greater security It is now an Archbishops See and an University founded by Cardinal Gasparo de Cervantes Archbishop of this See in the Reign of Philip II. It stands at the Mouth of the River Tulcis now el Fracoli which affords it a small Haven on the Mediterranean Sea thirteen Spanish Leagues from Tortosa and fifteen from Barcelone In a decaying condition Long. 22. 53. Lat. 41. 58. In 1242. a Synod was held here to oppose the progress of the Doctrines of the Vaudois Tarsus Tarsos the Metropolitan City of Cilicia in the Lesser Asia upon the River Cydenum which divides it into two equal parts It took divers names from the Roman Emperours At this day it is called by the Inhabitants Terassa by the Turks Terfis by the Italians Tarso Now an Archbishops See six Miles from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Pope Clement IX bore the Title of this See before his Election to the Pontificate Long. 66. 14. Lat. 38. 56. This City deservs a particular veneration from all Christians because S. Paul the Great Apostle of the Gentiles was born in it and by that means pleaded its privilege to avoid some ill usages he had otherwise suffered This is also the Tarshish whither Jonas desired to pass when he took Ship at Joppe Joh. 1. 3. which the following part of his Story hath made so memorable Lyra and S. Anselme interpret the Tharsis of King Solomon whither his Fleet went to buy precious Merchandises for the Temple of this place also But others reject their opinion and we have no Concord amongst the Learned upon that question See Ophir Tartar Occhardus a River of Serica a part of the Asiatick Tartary from which that Nation took its name of Tartaria The Country is bounded on the West by Mount Imaus and on the East by China now thought to be called Suchur There is a City upon it of the same name Tartaro Tartarus Atrianus a River in the States of Venice which ariseth in the Territory of Verona and flowing East watereth Adria an ancient City then one part of it falls into that Branch of the Po called il Fuosa and the other into the River Adige Tartary Tartaria Scythae is divided commonly into the Great and Asiatick the Lesser and European Tartary For this latter see Krim Tartary Chersonesus Taurica and Precop The Asiatick Tartary is the far greatest Country in all Asia called by the Poles Tartarcka Bounded on the North by the Frozen Ocean on the East by the same Sea and China on the South by China India Persia and the Caspian Sea on the West by Russia The North Eastern Bounds upon Japan and China are utterly unknown It is not certain but that Asia and America may there meet or at most may be divided by a narrow Channel which could never yet be discovered This Country extends from the Mouth of the Nieper to the Cape of Tabin North-East one thousand German Miles and from the Mouth of the River Obb to the Wall of China South-East fifteen hundred of the same Miles perhaps it is much greater towards the North and East It is divided into Tartary properly so called Tartaria Deserta Zagathai Cathay and Turquestan these containing many Kingdoms some of which as to the names of them are as yet unknown to us The people are the most Barbarous of Mankind Bloody Fierce and Brutish The Country appears Barren Desolate Uncultivated without Cities settled Inhabitants Agriculture and fixed Limits The Princes are absolute Masters of their respective People which live in Hoards wandring with their Wives and Children in covered Waggons from place to place with their Cattle their only Wealth as necessity and the season of the year require This course of life has in a great degree fitted them for War Accordingly when ever they have broken in upon the Civilized World they have proved in every Age the Scourges of God In this last Age one of these Princes broke in upon China and in a few years conquered it Tarudante Tarodantum Torodantum the Capital City of Suz Heretofore subject to the King of Morocco but has now a Prince of its own It is great and populous about fifty Miles from the Atlantick Ocean and three hundred from Morocco to the South Tasso Thassos Thalassia Chryse an Island of the Archipelago one League distant from the Continent of Romania in the Morea and about seven or eight in Circumference divided betwixt Plains and Mountains which afford good Wine and Marble The Phoenicians anciently planted a Colony here
54. 20. Lat. 44. 15. Il Varo the same with Var. Vasento Casuentum a River of Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which flowing by Cosâ—nza falls into the Grati. In the Bed of this River Alaricus King of the Goths was buried as Jornandes faith who was one of those Batâ—arous Princes that sacked Rome Vasiligâ—red a City in the Dukedom of the little Novogorod in Moscovy upon the River Wolgâ— where it receives the Sure Vasilipâ—tamo â—uroâ—us a River of the Morâ—a Vasserburgh a Town in â—avaria where the Duke keeps his principal Treasures It stands upon the River Inn which almost incompasseth it seven Miles from Munchen to the East Vatzen or Veiâ—zen Vaâ—â—iâ— a City in the lower Hungary upon the Danube and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gran. Vauâ—luse quasi Vallis Clausa a Fountain in the Valleys of the County of Avignon in Provence at the foot of a Mountain famous for the frequent resort of the Learned Poet Petrarch thither about the year 1300 who honoreth it with the Title of the Queen of Founiains Some old remaining ruins upon the place are commonly to this day called Petrarch's house This Fountain forms the River Sourges Sulga very near its head assisted by the influx of a number of other little sources from the same Mountain Vaud See Waad Vaudrevange Valdersinga a Town in Lorain upon the River Saar ten Miles from Mets to the East and from Thionville which suffered much in the late German War but since rebuilt About a Mile from this place was built a very strong Fort called Saar Lovis Vauge Vogesus Vosagus a celebrated Mountain in France which extends from North to South between Lorain Alsatia and the Franche Comte in which it is called Mont des Faucilles out of it arise the Moselle and the Saone or Sosne There is a small Territory near it which by the French is called le Pais de Vauge and by the Germans Wasgow a part of the Dukedom of Lorain Vauge See Wasgow Le Vault Romana Ditio a District belonging to the Canton of Bearn in Switzerland betwixt the Lake of Lemane and the Mountain Jura Lausanne is its Capital City Formerly under the Duke of Savoy The French call it Vaux and Pais de Vaux La Vaur See Lavaur Vaux a small Territory near Orleans Vbeda a great populous City in the Eastern Part of Andalusia in Spain towards the Borders of New Castile one League from the River Guadalquivir to the North and six from Jaen or Gaën to the South-East This City was recovered from the Moors September 29. 1234 by Ferdinando King of Castile and besides a strong Castle has a very advantageous Stiuation Long. 17. 30. Lat. 38. 30. Vberlinghen Vberlinga a small but Imperial and Free City in the Circle of Schwaben upon the Lake of Constance towards the North two Miles from Constance Made an Imperial City in 1267 often taken and retaken in the Swedish War Vbii an ancient People who dwelt about the now Archbishoprick of Cologne and Dutchy of Juliers in the Circle of Westphalia in Germany the memory of their name being still preserved in a place there called Vbich Vchter-See Lacus Moratensis a Lake of Switzerland called also Murtensee by the Germans The River Broye flows through it and falls into the Lake called Newenburghsee Vdenheim the same with Philipsbourg Vdiaa the Capital City of the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies Vdine Vtinum a City in Friuli called by the Germans Weyden The Capital of that Province and the Seat of the Patriarch of Aquileja since the declension of that last City into ruin of old a Bishops See Brought under the subjection of the States of Venice in 1420 and built on the River Torre twenty Miles from the Adriatick Sea to the North eleven from Palma twenty from Goritia to the West and eight from Friuli Long. 35. 28. Lat 45. 46. Vecht Vidrus Vider a River of Westphalia in Germany mentioned by Tacitus and Ptolemy it ariseth five German Miles from Munster to the South-West and being augmented by the Aa the Dinchel and the Regge falls into the Zuyder Zee in Over-Ysselâ—â— eight Miles from Zwol to the North where it is called Swarte Water Veglia Vegia a Venetian Island upon the Coast of Dalmatia in the Adriatick The Sclavonians call it Kirk Veii and Vejentes an ancient People and City of Etruria near Rome Famous in the time of Romulus who himself made War with them But much more by the Victory they obtained over the three hundred and twelve Fabii being the whole Family except one Youth not of age to bear Arms who was left at home at the River Cremera in Thuscany by an Ambuscade in the year of Rome 177. Of which Ovid Vna Dies Fabios ad bellum miserat omnes Ad bellum missos perdidit una Dies See Cremera The Dictator M. Furius Camillus took and totally destroyed this City in the year of Rome 318. But it first endured a ten years Siege The tenths of its spoils were dedicated to Apollo Pythius by the Conquerors who had taken Oathes from the Soldiers never to rise from before the place untaken Velay Velauni a County in the Sevennes in Languedoc in France betwixt Auvergne Vivaretz Givaudan and Foretz The Capital City of it is Puy It was anciently the Country of the Velauni Separated into two parts by the Mountains Mezeres Pertuis and Meigal which are covered with Woods therefore called Velay beyond the Woods and Velay on this side of them Veletri or Veltri Veletrae a most ancient City and Colony in Campania di Roma taken by Ancus Martius King of the Romans Now a Bishops See but united to that of Ostia and under the Pope It is a pleasant spruce City twenty Miles from Rome to the East Veleuve a County in the Province of Guelderland in the Vnited Netherlands Harderwick is a principal City in it Venafro Venafrum a City in the Province di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples of great Antiquity a Principality and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capua Twenty two Miles from Capua to the North. Long. 37. 58. Lat. 41. 35. Venaissin or Venaisse Vindasanus Vindaucensis Venascinuâ— Comitatus a County in Provence in France between the Dauphiné to the North the Durance to the South the Rhosne to the West and Provence to the East In 1348 given by Jona Qu. of Naples and Countess of Provence to Clement VI. Pope of Rome and still together with Avignon subject to the Pope The now Capital of it is Carpentras Vaison and Cavailon in it are considerable Towns Avignon is not in this County as is believed tho it stands near it Vence or Vanze Vensiensis Vrbs Vincium Vintium Ventium Vidantiorum and Vinciensium Vrbs a City of Provence which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ambrun for some time united formerly with the See of la Grace but again separated Two Leagues from Antibes to the North and from the
Saviours Birth This is one of the greatest richest and best peopled parts of the Kingdom of Naples Absorus an Island and City on the Coast of Illyriam mentioned by Hyginus Abugana a Province in the Realm of Angota part of the Dominions of the Grand Negus Abuyo one of the Philippine Islands in the East-Indies between Luzonia and Mindanao in this and the rest the Spaniards have Forts and drive a great Trade with their American Territories Abutich heretofore Abydus a very eminent City of Egypt 22 Miles from Ptolemais to the North it stands upon the Nile Here was the Palace of Memnon and the Temple of Osiris so much celebrated in the ancient Poetry and Mythick History Long. 61. 20. Lat. 26. 50. Abydos a Fortress in Asia opposite to Sestos in Europe on the Hellespont both which are now called the Dardanelli made famous by the Love of Hero and Leander and by the vast Bridge here laid cross the Sea by Xerxes Abyla a Mountain in Afric answering to Calpe another Mountain in Spain on the European side of the Streight of Gibraltar they are usually call'd Hercules Pillars because they were the bounds of his Travels Westward This is now call'd by the Mariners Apes-Hill either corruptly from Abyla or as they say from the multitude of Apes there to be seen Abyso anciently Orinus is a River of Sicily which falls into the Sea between Syracusa and Pachynus or Cape Passaro the most Southern Promontory of that Island Aca Acre Acri or Acon a Sea-Port in Phenicia which was called by the Grecians and Romans Ptolemais the latter fixed here a Colony After the loss of Jerusalem in the times of the Holy War it was the Capital of that Kingdom for some time till being taken by the Moors it was intirely ruined it lies 24 Miles South of Tyrus Long. 66. 30. Lat. 33. 00. From this place the Knights of S. John of Jerusalem removed to Rhodes Acachuma the Achuma of Ptolomy a Town in Ethiopia which the Inhabitants take to have been the Residence of Maqueda Queen of Sheba Acada Sangarius a River of Bithynia Acadinus a Fountain in Sicily where they tried the verity of an Oath by writing it on a Board and throwing it into the Water where if it sunk it betoken'd it to be false Acafran otherwise Celef or Quinalaf a River of Mauritania now called Vetxilef Acamante or Acamas a Promontory on the West side of the Isle of Cyprus at this time known by the name of Crusocco or Capo di S. Epifanio Acanes two Cities of Guinea in Africa one called the Greater the other Acanes the Less Acanthus the antient Name of several Towns and Cities at this time unknown except one in Acarnania now call'd Erisso according to Sophian and another in Egypt now nam'd Bisalta Acapulco a City of New Spain in the Pacific Sea or Mar del Zur near 100 Leagues from Mexico where they usually imbark for Peru and the Philippine Islands Acarnania the antient Name of a Province of Epirus now by Niger said to be call'd Despotato parted from Aetolia by the River Achelous and Mount Pindus heretofore remarkable for the Luxury of its Inhabitants and the Excellency of the Horses there bred § A Town also there was of this Name in Sicily not far from Syracuse mention'd by Tully to have been famous for a Temple there dedicated to Jupiter which Temple was afterwards destroy'd by the Goths Acaxi a City of Japan 25 Leagues from Meaco the Capital City of that Kingdom Acaxulta a considerable Port in New Spain on the Shore of Mar del Zur about seven Leagues from S. Salvador between New Leon and S. Jago de Guatimala Accadia a Province on the North-East Coast of America part of Nova Francia seiz'd by the English and by them called Nova Scotia but return'd to the French upon the Treaty of Breda 1667. § Also a little City in the farther Principate of the Kingdom of Naples Accadie a Peninsula in New France Accara The Name of two Towns in Guinea the Greater and the Less between the River Volta and Fort S. George de Mina Accaraig or Accarig a Town in Peru near the River Parana called also the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Accaron Ekron heretofore a famous City of the Philistins now a poor Village and called by the same Name Accettura a little City in that part of Naples call'd the Basilicate Acci Guadix a City Bishoprick and Colony of Spain in the Kingdom of Granada nine Leagues from Granada East It lies at the Foot of the Mountains not far from the Head of the River Guadalentin it was taken from the Moors in 1489. The Bishop of it is under the Archbishop of Sevil. Accia a City and Bishoprick of the Island of Corsica now ruined and the Bishoprick united with that of Mariana Acdeniz the present Turkish name of the Egean Sea or Archipelago Aceldama a Field near the Valley of Tophet in Judaea to the South of Mount Sion and of the Valley of Jehoshaphat serving for a Burying-place for Strangers and Pilgrims that die at Jerusalem This Name signifying a Field of Blood was given it instead of that of The Potters Field because it was bought with the thirty Pieces of Silver which were the price of Judas his betraying our Saviour Acellaro by some call'd Abisso and Atellari the Elorus of the Antients a River in Sicily falling into the Sea near the Ruines of the old City Elorus Acerenza or Cirenza anciently known by the name of Acherontia a City of the Kingdom of Naples in the County called the Basilicate which is a part of Calabria this City lies upon the River Bradanum at the foot of the Apennine it was formerly an Archbishoprick but the City being in a declining state the See is united to that of Mateola Acerno or Acierno a little City in the Citerior Principality of the Realm of Naples 15 Miles from Salern to the East L'Acerra a City and Bishoprick of the Kingdom of Naples under the Archbishop of Naples and but 8 Miles distant from the Capital City it lies in Terra di Lavoro in the Road to Benevento Acesine a River in Sicily having its rise on the North of Mount Aetna said to be now called Cantara and Alcantara § Also the antient Name of a considerable River in Asia which falls into the Indus famous for the large Canes growing on its Banks § Another there is so nam'd in the Taurica Chersonesus or Przecop Acha Achza a River of Bavaria it flows through the Lake of Chiemeze and falls into the River Inns which last River falls into the Danube at Passaw Achacica Achachica Achiacica a Town of New Spain where there are several Mines of Silver it lies 18 Leagues North from S. Angelo Achaia is taken in a twofold signification either denoting the whole Country of Hellas or Greece still enjoying the same Appellation as well as that of Livadia by which Name also it is now call'd It contain'd the Provinces
almost Desert by reason of the Sands and venomous Creatures and want of Water it is almost twice as big as Europe Afrique Africa the Aphrodisium of the Antients a Town and Port in Barbary in the Kingdom of Tunis 20 Leagues from Mahometa Charles V. took it from the King of Morocco and demolish'd it Aga or Agag a Kingdom with a City of the same Name in the Upper Aethiopia Agades a Kingdom with a City of the Name in Nigritia in Africa tributary to the King of Tombut Agan or Pagan an Islet in the Eastern Ocean betwixt Chomocoan and Guagan where the famous Portegueze Magellan was assassinated as he was going in search of the Moluccaes Aganara or Aganagare a City on this side the Ganges in the East-Indies remembred by Ptolomy Aganippe a Fountain in Boeotia in Greece celebrated by the antient Poets Agaosi a People in the Kingdom of Bagamedri in the Upper Aethiopia The Agarens or Hagarens a People of Arabia Foelix descended from Agar and Ismael who went to war with the Tribes of Ruben Gad and Manasse in the time of Saul Their capital City is called after their own Name Agarena or Agranum When they revolted from the Roman Empire under Trajan that Emperor attempted the Reduction of them without success and since Mahomet was born amongst them they have been of his Religion Agarus Sagaris a River of the European Sarmatia which falls into the Danube in Moldavia now call'd Stiret according to Ortelius Agathyrse Agatyrium Agathyrna an antient City and Promontory in Sicily The Promontory is the same with that they now call Cape d'Orlando Agathyrses an antient People of Scythia applauded by Historians for their Hospitality to one another Agde a City in Languedoc in France the Bishop of which is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Narbone It is a fine and well built place seated at the mouth of the River Eraud which there falls into the Mediterranean Sea Agdus a famous Rock upon the Frontiers of Phrygia in Asia Minor Agen a City and Bishoprick in Guienne in France under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux and the Capital of the County of Agennois which gives the Title of an Earl It stands upon the Garonne where it receives on the opposite side the River L'Egers It is large beautiful and one of the best Cities of Aquitain being also the Birth-place of Joseph Scaliger about 15 Leagues from Bourdeaux to the North-East Aggerhuis a Province of Norway so called from a Castle in it It is bounded on the East with the Kingdom of Sweden on the South with the Sound on the West with the County of Bergen and on the North with that of Drontheim from which last it is separated by the Mountain Sevone It reacheth in length from the North to the South 240 Miles The chief Cities of it are Ansloga Fredericstad Saltzbeg and Tonâ—bâ—g The whole of it is under the King of Denmark Agion Oros Athos a Mountain in Macedonia in the Province of Jamboli call'd by the Italians il Monte Santo by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Holy Mount It runs into the Aegean Sea like a Peninsula it is joyned to the Continent by a Neck of Land of an Italian Mile and half which Herodotus saith was cut through by Xerxes It is 90 Miles in compass called by the Turks Scididag and Monastir by reason of the vast numbers of Monasteries in it being about 24 Cloisters of Caloirs or Greek Monks the chief of which are Garopedos and Agias Laura in which two are 600 Monks in all 5000. Most of these Monasteries are fortified to secure them from Pirats From hence the Patriarch of Constantinople fetches most of the Bishops he needs for his Patriarchate it being now the School or University of all Greece the Monks are all of the Order of S. Basil This Mountain lies between the Bay of Strymon on the North and that of Singo to the South Agira Agurium Argirium and Agnina Vrbs is a City in Sicily near Mount Aetna The Birth-place of Diodorus Siculus now called San Philippo d'Argirone Aglie a celebrated Castle in the Province of Canavois in Savoy which gives a Name to one of the most illustrious Houses in that Country Agmet the Emere of Ptolomy an antient City in the Province of Marocco sometime the Seat of that Empire and very populous and strong before Marocco was built Agmundesham a Corporation seated upon a small River which falls into the Isis a little above Vxbridge in the County of Bucks It sends two Burgesses to our Parliament and is not otherwise remarkable to my knowledge It stands 9 Miles from Vxbridge to the North-West and about 8 from Maidenhead to the North-East Agnabet or Agnetlin one of the principal Towns of Transylvania seated upon the River Harbach which falls into the Alt. In this place Q. Isabella assembled a Diet for the preservation of her Son which Martinsius dissolved and began a War upon his Master which ended in both their ruins Agno Clanus a River of Campania in Italy call'd afterwards Liris it riseth in Mount Tiphate and flowing West between Avella and Nola entereth Terra di Lavoro makes the Lake of Linterna and at last ends in the Sea of Tuscany between the Ruins of Cuma and the Mouth of the River Voltorno Agnone a Town in the Province of Abruzzo in Italy understood by some to be the antient Aquilonia Agobel a City in the Kingdom of Tremissen in Barbary understood by some to be the Victoria of Ptolomy Also another in the Province of Hea in the Kingdom of Marocco Agol a City in the Upper Aethiopia towards the Mountain Amara Agore Agorum a small City upon the River Cordevol in the Dominions of the Republick of Venice Agouges or D'Agouges a small River of Auvergne in France which falls into the Allier a little above San Porzain Agouste Augusta a City in Sicily built by Frederick the Emperor in 1229 upon a Peninsula which in the last Age was turned into a little Isle with a Bridge to communicate betwixt it and the Continent It has a very large Haven defended by 3 Cittadels to the Sea Taken by the French in 1675. and abandon'd by them in 1678. Agout Acutus a small River in Languedoc in France washing the two Cities of Castres and Lavaur it falls into the River Tarne Agra or Agara a new City seated in a Province of the same Name in India beyond Ganges It is the Capital of the Moguls Empire and his residence a rich and beautiful City built by Ekebar one of his Predecessors in the last Age upon the River Gemini It is of a vast circuit and adorned with a stately Palace on the other side of the River lies another City called Serandra which is well built and but a kind of Suburb to Agra Agragas See Gergenti Agramont Agramontium a Town in Catalonia in the Plain of Vrgel between Solsona and Lerida Agreable an Island in the Kingdom of Fez form'd by the
Tract of Sobarbe which has sometime born the Title of a Kingdom Ainzia a Tract in the County of Buchan in Scotland Aire Aturum the chief Town of Gascoine and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Aux it stands upon the River Adour in the Borders of the County of Armagnac four Aquitane Leagues above S. Sever and sixteen from Bajonne Aire Aria called by the Flandrians Arien by the Spaniards Ere it is a strong City in Artois seated in a Marsh upon the River Leye which falls into the Scheld at Gaunt taken by the French in 1641. and presently recovered by the Spaniards but it was retaken â— the French in 1676. and is now in their possession by the Treaty of Nimeguen It is 12 Leagues from Bologn to the East Aire Aeria by the Scotch Ayr is a small City and Sheriffdom in Scotland upon Dunbritain-Frith on the West of that Kingdom it stands 22 Scotch Miles from Donbritoun South-West Airu a River of Scotland which springs from the Mountains of Mar and unites with the Spei in Buchan The City Aire stands upon it Airy Airiacum a Village in Burgundy in Auxerrois near Clamecy Here was a National Council held in 1020. under Pope Benedict VIII Aisaâ—ce a small River in Normandy which joyns the Colsnon below d'Autrain Aisne Axona a River of France riseth in the Dukedom of Barois and flowing through the Provinces of Champagne and the Territory of Argonne and that of Soissons cuts the City of Soissons in two parts and at last ends in the River Oise a little East of Compeigne in the Isle of France Aix Aquae Sextiae a City of Provence in France It was a Roman Colony and is now an Archbishops See and the Seat of the Parliament of that Province a fair growing Town seated in a large Plain upon a small Rivolet about 15 Leagues from Arles and 13 from Avignon to the East Aix in Savoy an antient City at the foot of the Mountains between Chambery Annecy and Rumilly giving the Title of a Marquess It is famous for Mineral Waters Aix la Chapelle Aquisgranum called by the Germans Aaâ—b by the Dutch Aken by the French Aix by the Italians Aquisgrana it is an Imperial free City of Germany in the Circle of Westphalia within the Borders of the Dukedom of Juliers under which Prince it now is Charles the Great of France died here Jan. 24. 814. and here he was buried having been the Restorer of this City after Attila the King of the Huns had ruin'd it It was almost intirely ruin'd by Fire again in 1656. but is now rebuilding In 1658. there was a famous Peace made here between the present Kings of France and Spain Divers Councils have been held here This City stands 8 German Miles from Cologn 7 from Liege in a low place almost incircled with Hills Aizu a Province of Japan with a Town of the same Name which is one of the best in the Country Akerhuys a Sea-port Town in the County of Aggerhuys not above 15 Miles from Christianstadt in Norway Akerman Alba a City of Moldavia Akersondt an Island belonging to Norway in the German Ocean over against the Cape of Shagen Akertewe a City in the Isle of Maragnan on the Coast of Brasil Akill Achill Achillia a small Island on the Coast of Connaught in Ireland over against the County of Mayo Akroczim a City in the Palatinate of Mazovia in Poland fortifyed with a Castle Aksteede Acsteda a small City upon the River Lun in the Dutchy of Bremen in Saxony under the Swedes Akza a River of Georgia in Asia Al a River of Prussia believed by some to be the Guttalus of Pliny Alahanda See Eblaba Alacranes Islands infested with Scorpions in the New America 20 Leagues from Jucutan Aladuli the Turkish Name of Armenia major Alagon a River of Spain in the Province of Estremadura and Kingdom of Leon it falls into the Taio a little above Alcantara as Rodericus Sylva saith Alaine a small River in the Province of Nivernois in France Alais Alesia a City of Languedoc upon the River Guerdon at the foot of the Mountain Cevennes 10 Leagues from S. Esprit to the East Alalcomene Alalcomenium an antient City of Boeotia famous for a Statue of Minerva and the Tomb of Tiresias Afterwards call'd Ithaca says Plutarch and the Birth-place of Vlysses Alan a small River in Cornwal in England it falls into the Irish Sea at Padstow at the Head of it is a small Village called Camelford where King Arthur is reported to have been slain in Battel Padstow lies about 17 Miles West from Launceston Aland an Island of the Baltick Sea at the entrance of the Botner Sea under the Dominion of the King of Sweden Alar a River of Persia in Hyrcania falling into the Caspian Sea Alarcan Illarco a Town in New Castile in Spain Alares an antient People of Pannonia Tacit. Alaschâ—hir Hipsius Vpsu an antient City of Phrygia and sometime the See of a Suffragan Bishop Alatri Alatrium Alatrinum a City of Campania in Italy and a Bishops See dependent immediately on the Pope Mentioned by the Antients Alava a small Territory in Biscay in Spain Alba or Albe Alba Pompeia a City of Monferrat upon the River Tangro it is an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Millan heretofore subject to the Duke of Mantua but taken from him in 1631. by a Treaty of Peace and ever since under the Duke of Savoy This City of latter times having suffered great changes is reduced into a consumptive State for want of Inhabitants It is distant from Aste 12 Miles to the South Albana a City of Albania in Asia with a Port to the Caspian Sea Albania an antient Province upon the Caspian Sea in Asia Westward now call'd Zuirie under the Turks § Also a Province of Turkey in Europe which was antiently the Western part of Macedonia and part of Illyrium upon the Adriatique Ocean reduced under the Dominion of the Turks by Mahomet 2. It s chief Cities are Croia Durazzo c. The Inhabitants for the most part are Christians of the Greek Church Albany Albania call'd in Scotland Braid-Albin is a Dukedom in the highest part of Scotland as the Name imports the Seat of the Old Scots upon the declining Western part of Mount Grampus next Lorn and Argile Charles I. in his Infancy at two years of age was created Duke of Albany This Title was also conferred on the Lord Darnly his Grandfather and given by Charles I. to his Second Son afterwards James II. Albano Alba Longa the Mother of Rome from which it lies about 12 Miles It has been ruin'd many Ages It stood betwixt a Lake and a Mountain of the same Name There has been another Albano built near its Ruines which is a Bishops See a Principality and the Title of a Cardinal § Also a City with the Title of a Principality in the Kingdom of Naples Albanopolis an antient City of Macedonia in Greece Alba Julia. See Weissenburg
Brietius Ardee Ardea a River of Normandy which falls into the British Sea at Auranches near the Limits of the Dukedom of Britain Ardee or Atherdee a small Market-Town in the County of Louth in the Province of Vlster in Ireland King James II. lay encamped upon the Plains here with an Army of 20000 Men whilst the Duke of Schomberg and his Forces were so strongly entrench'd at Dundalk who not accepting of a Battle when it was presented by King James both the Armies retired soon after without fighting into their Winter Quarters November 1689. Ardembourg or Rodenbourg Ardenburgum a Town in Flanders Taken by the Hollanders in 1604. One League from Sluys Ardennes Ardenna Sylva call'd by the Germans Ardenner-waldt and Luitticher-waldt is the greatest Forest in all the Low-Countries it reacheth above 100 Miles in length as this day extending itself through the Dukedom of Luxemburgh the Bishoprich of Liege the South part of Henalt and to the Borders of Champaign it is taken notice of by Cesar and Tacitus Ardes a Tract in the County of Down in Vlster in Ireland upon the Lake of Coin in the form almost of a Peninsula Ardesche a River of the Province of Vivarets in France It passes by Aubenas to the Rhosne into which it discharges itself near S. Esprit and separates Languedoc from Vivarets Ardfeart a Town in the County of Kerry in the Province of Munster in Ireland Ardila a River of Spain whichriseth in Andaluzia and dischargeth itself into the Guadiana below the City of Olivenza in Portugal Ardmonack is a Territory in the County of Rosse in Scotland belonging to the Royal Family of Scotland Charles I. as second Son to King James I. had the Title of Baron of Armonack given him at two year of Age. Ardrach a Town in the County of Longford in the Province of Connaught in Ireland Ardres Ardra is a little but well fortified Town in the County of Guienne in Picardy in France it stands in the Marshes in the Borders of Artois three Leagues from Calis toward the South and a little more from Gravelin Francis I. and Henry VIII King of England had an enterview with each other near this Town in 1520. Both Courts appearing so magnificent that they call'd the place a Field of Cloth of Gold In 1596 Cardinal Albret took it for the Spaniards who did not keep it long § Also the Name of a Kingdom and City in Guiney in Africa Ardret Ardrathen or Ardrat Ardatum a City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Armagh in the County of Kerry in Ireland Are Arus a River of York-shire It arises upon the Borders of Lancashire and falls into the Ouse below York Arembourg Areburium a Town of the lower Germany lately adorn'd wiah the Title of a Principality it lies between Colen to the North and Treves to the South upon the River Aer 7 German Miles from Juliers to the South and 4 from the Rhine West Arequipa one of the most considerable Cities of Peru in America upon the River Chila 7 Leagues from the South Sea 70 from Cusco And a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima with a commodious Port. It is made rich by the Silver Mines of the Andes that are found within 14 Leagues of it In 1582. an Earthquake as the Country here is very subject to them almost shook it to peices In 1600 the Vulcano which stands by it broke out into terrible Flames They did use to bring the Treasure of Potosi hither but the difficulty of the Road has driven them to Arica Arestinga Liba an Island in the Indian Ocean towards the Provinces of Kherman and Dulcinca in Persia Arethusa a City of Syria which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Apamea § Another in Macedonia by some call'd Taino and Renina upon the Bay of Contessa § Also a Lake in Armenia Major near the source of the River Tigris Arezzo Aretium a City and a Bishops See immediately under the Pope in Tuscany in Italy Famous in the time of the old Romans Arg Argus a River of Swabia in Germany Passing by Wangen it afterwards falls into the Lake of Constance Argan a Town in New Castile in Spain A Council here held in 1473 enjoyns every Bishop to say Mass thrice and simple Priests four times at least a year and that none be preferred to Ecclesiastical Dignities who understand not Latin It seems the Learning and Devotion of that age went toutes par la main Argens Argenteus a River of Provence in France It arises from three several Sources then falls into the Ocean near Frejus Agentan Argentomum Argentomagum a City of Normandy in France upon the Vrne Argenten a Town in the Dukedom of Berry in France upon the Creuse Argentor a River in the Province of Angoumois in France falling into the Charente at Porsac Argentrevil Argentolium a small Town three Leagues from Paris There is a Priory in it dependent of the Abby of St. Denis Argile Argathelia a very large County in the Western parts of the Kingdom of Scotland upon the West of Dunbritaine Frith This was the first Country the Scots who came out of Ireland possess'd themselves of as is shewn by Camden out of Bede First also made a County or Earldom by James II. King of Scotland who invested Colin Lord Campbell with the Title of Earl of Argile in regard of his own and of the worth of his Family which is deriv'd from the antient Princes of this Country They have also saith Camden been made Lords of Lorn and for a good while General Justices of Scotland but the two last Earls were unfortunate Anginuses an Island of Greece where the Athenians under Conon obtained a great Victory over the Lacedemonians in the Year of Rome 347. Argipeeni an antient People of Sarmatia They never would go to War with their Neighbours Arglas is a small Town in the Province of Vlster in the County of Down in Ireland with a Haven belonging to it The Lord Cromwel of Oakham is Earl of this place Argonne a Territory part in Champagne and part upon the Borders of Loraine in France Beaumont and Clermont stand in it Argos the antient capital City of a Kingdom of the same name in the Morea now call'd the Province of Romania This Kingdom was Founded by Inachus contemporary with Moses or 346 years before him in Eusebius's Calculation It continued 546 Years then changed into a Republick which maintain'd several Wars with the Grecians The City has been first an Episcopal and next an Archiepiscopal See In 1383 the Venetians bought it In 1463 the Turks took it In 1686. General Morosini reduced it under the Venetians again Argos Amphilogium was a City of Epirus ruin'd long ago § There was another of the Name in Thessalia in Macedonia call'd now Armiro Argow one of the four parts of Switzerland taking its name from the River Arg upon the Borders of Constance Arguin Arguinum a small Island with a Fort upon
small Town in Pomerania in Germany upon the Baltick Sea which has yet a large Haven and a very fine Castle and a Lordship belonging to it near the River Bart. This place was yielded to the Swedes by the Treaty of Munster in 1647. taken by the Elector of Brandenburgh but restored to them again in 1679. it lies 3 German Miles from the Borders of the Dukedom of Mecklebourg and at the same distance from Damgarden towards the North-East and about 8 from Berghen in the Isle of Rugia to the West Bareyt a well built Town very handsom in Franconia in Germany The ordinary Residence of the Marquess of Brandenburg who has a noble Castle here Bargemon Bargemonum a Town in Provence in France 5 Leagues from the Sea in the Diocese of Freius upon a fertile little Hill heretofore one of the Apannages belonging to the Cadets of the House of the Earls of Provence It is now observable for a miraculous Image of the B. Virgin whose History is written by Lewis Sylvacane Barwick See Berwick Bari Barium a City in the Kingdom of Naples in a Province of the same name called Terra di Bari which has been long Honored with the Title of a Dutchy it is an Archbishops See well fortified and has an indifferent good Haven upon the Adriatick about 20 Miles distant from Poliano to the South-East and Trani to the North-West It has its name as Festus writes from Bara a small Island near Brindisi Brundusium the Inhabitants thereof building this City The Body of S. Nicolas Bishop of Myra in Lycia one of the Fathers who opposed Arius in the first Council of Nice is preserved in this City P. Vrban II. celebrated a Council here in 1098. in which Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury disputed the cause of the procession of the Holy Ghost and of the Union of the Eastern Church with the Western against the Greeks The Terra di Bari is a part of the antient Apulia Peucetia upon the gulph of Venice betwixt the Basilicate and Terra di Otranto Barilliana an Island at the mouth of the Danube Barjols Barjolum a Town and Bailywick in Provence in France in a very fruitful soil adorn'd with a Collegiat Church since the Year 1060. During the Civil Wars of France the Protestants took it in 1562. Those of the League retook it in 1590. Barking a Market Town in the County of Essex in the hundred of Becontree Barkshire See Berkshire Barkway a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the hundred of Edwinstree Barle-Duc a neat and beautiful City the Capital of the Dukedom of Barrois built by Frederick I. Duke of Loraine in 951 upon the River Ornain about 15 Miles from Nancy to the West and thirteen from Chaalons heretofore under the Dukes of Loraine but now incorporated into the Province of Champagne in France Barletta Barolum or Barulum a City situate in or near the place of the old Canusium in Apulia Peucetia in Italy an Haven or Sea-Port reckoned for one of the four strong Holds of Italy in the middle Ages It lies upon the Adriatick Sea about 24 Miles West of Bari 4 South of the Outlets of the River of Ofanto A large and beautiful City and the Seat of the titular Archbishop of Nazareth Barlinguas Erythiae a knot of small Islands upon the Coast of Portugal call'd by various names They lie between the C. de Rocca to the South and the C. de Mondego to the North and not above 2 Leagues from the Shores of Estremadura Barmach an extraordinary high mountain in the Province of Schirvan in Persia The ruines of several Fortresses appear upon it supposed to have been built by Alexander M. and demolished by Tamerlane Barnagasso one of the Kingdoms of Aethiopia which pays yearly to the Turks 1000 Ounces of Gold It s Capital City is Barva Barnavelt's Island in the Magellanique Sea was discovered by the Hollanders in 1616. It stands near Terra del fuego and the Streights of le Maire Barnet a Town in Hartfordshire memorable for a bloody engagement here betwixt the Houses of Lancaster and York wherein the latter carried the Victory It affords medicinal Waters Barnesley a Market-Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the hundred of Staincross Barnstaple a Market Town in Devonshire in the hundred of Branton upon the River Taw over which it has a spacious Bridge It sends 2 Burgesses to the Parliament Baroche a Town in the Kingdom of Guzerate in the Empire of the Great Mogul The English enjoy a good settlement in it Barra a small Kingdom in Guinea in Africa the King of which was engaged by the Dutch in 1663. to fall upon the English Factory there There is also a Town in Palestine call'd by this name Barrant a Marquisate in the Province of Guienne in France § Also a Fort upon the Frontiers of Dauphine and Savoy one League from Montmelian Storm'd and taken by the Duk. de Lesdignieres in 1528. Barrois See Bar. Barrab Arabia Petraea Barow a River of the Province of Leinster in Ireland which ariseth in Queens County in the Mountains of Sliew Bloemy and running Southward washeth the Eastern Side of Caterlagh and Laighlin after which it receives from the West another great River call'd Neure which divides Kilkenny a little further to the South it entertains the Sewer which watereth the Walls of Waterford and being thus augmented it entereth the British Sea about 20 Miles West of Cape Carn the South-Eastern Point of Ireland Bart Alisus Bardum See Barde Bartas a small Territory in the Province of Armaynac in France near Aux William de Saluste the famous du Bartas a Huguenot born in Gascoigne in 1545. and Author of the Poem of the Worlds Creation received his title from hence Barton a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the hundred of Yarborough upon the River Humber over against Hull Barva a City of Abyssinia near the River Marabu The Capital of the Kingdom of Barnagasso Basil Basilea written in two of the Lives of Charles the Great Basla in after times Basula and Basala by Cluverius Artalbinum It was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Besanzon after the ruin of Augusta Rauracorum which happened about the Year 800. Now the Principal City of Switzerland It has its name from Basiliana the Mother of Julian the Apostate but Valesius thinks the name rather taken from the River on which it stands which he supposeth was then so call'd It has a pleasant Situation and is adorned with many magnificent Structures and Churches watered by many sweet Fountains blessed with an healthful Air a valiant People and plenty of all things Very antient as being said to be ruin'd by the Almains in the Year 260. and suffered much in after-times from the Huns. It was beloved by Henry I. and II. In the Year 1368. much enlarged by Frederick Blackenheim Bishop of Strasburg and Administrator of the Diocese of Basil who first obtain'd a Charter of Freedom for it in the Year 1392. it was
Zaara in Africa betwixt the Kingdom of Gaoga and the Country of Lempta There is a Town in it of the same name Sands Scorpions and Monsters are almost the only things to be seen here Bere Regis a Market-Town in Dorsetshire The chief of its Hundred Bereberes an antient People of Barbary in Africa divided into 5 Tribes called the Mazamudins Zenetes Haoares Zinhagiens and Gomeres from which the Grandees of Africk derive their Original They came hither out of Arabia Foelix under Melech-Ifiriqui King of the said Arabia and in time made themselves Masters of a great part of Africk often Usurping upon each other for the Government till they were all Conquered by the Turks Berecynthus a Mountain of Phrygia in Asia Minor famous heretofore for the Worship of the Goddess Cybele who thence is styled Berecynthia Berenice See Bernish Berg or Berghen the Dutch and German names for Mons a City of Hainault § Also a Province of Westphalia in Germany lying along the Rhine betwixt the County of Mark and the Bishoprick of Cologne called the Dutchy of Berg and in Latin Bergensis Regio Dusseldorp is its Capital Town Bergamo Bergomum a City of Italy belonging to the Venetians which was once a part of the Dukedom of Milan a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Milan built with others by the Orobii call'd by Paulus Diaconus Pergamum and by the Writers of the middle Ages Bergamum This City is placed on the side of a Mountain the Foot of which is covered by large Suburbs it is great and Populous and lies between the River Brembo which 8 Miles further falls into the Adda and the Serio which falls also in the Adda It has a Castle called Capella and it lies 30 Miles from Brixia towards Milan to the West and the same distance from Como to the East from hence the Family of the Bergoma's take their name The same is the Capital of the Country adjacent called Bergamasco Bergen Bergos or Berga a City of Norway on the Northern Ocean call'd by the Natives Baern by the Germans Berghen It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Drontheim a celebrated Mart has a large and safe Harbour surrounded almost on all sides with high Mountains and lies in a winding Bay call'd Jelta fiored 12 Miles from the Ocean it has a strong Castle call'd Bergen-Hus and lies in the small Territory of Nord Horland which is Subject to the King of Denmark as King of Norway 23 from Linde Noes or the most Southern Point of Norway and 80 from the nearest Coast of Scotland at this day without dispute the best and richest City of all Norway But made more famous by the Valour of the English who in 1665. entred this Port and fell upon the Dutch East-India Fleet to their great damage and had certainly destroyed them all if contrary Winds had not given them time to draw their Canon ashoar to their defence Bergen op Zoom call'd by the French Bergue sur le Zoom is a small but strong City in the Dukedom of Brabant upon the River Schelde Erected into a Dukedom in 1533. and revolting with the Vnited Provinces was attempted without success by the Marques◠Spinola in 1622. So that it still belongs to the Hollanders It stands 7 Leagues from Antwerp towards the North and 5 from Breda to the South-West Bergen the chief Town of the Island of Rugen on the Coast of Pomerania in the Baltick Sea which has belonged to the Swedes every since 1630. Bergerac a City of Perigord upon the River Dordogne 5 Miles from Pergueux to the South and about 9 from Sarlat a rich and fine City The English had it heretofore in their possession They Fortified it and afterwards lost it about the Year 1371. It revoked upon the score of Religion in 1562. and was often taken and retaken In 1621. it submitted itself to Lewis XIII Bergue S. Uinoth a small City in Flanders taken by the French in the year 1658. and yielded to them by the Pyrenaean Treaty in 1659. Dignified with the Title of a Viscounty as likewise of a Chatelany with divers Villages under its Jurisdiction It has various Names and is sometimes call'd Groenemberg or Green-wich it lies 12 German miles East of Gravelinge and about one League and a half from Dunkirk Al. VVinocksberg Berkeley a Market-Town in Gloucestershire The chief of its Hundred upon the Banks of the Severn where stands the Seat of the noble and antient Family of the Earls of Berkeley Berkhamsted a Market-Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Dacor S. Brithwald Archbishop of Canterbury held a Council here in 698. In Latin Bergamstedum Beikshire Bercheria is separated on the North by the River Isis from Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire on the South by the River Kenet from Hantshire on the West it Bordereth upon Wiltshire and on the East upon Surry generally fertil and rich but especially the Vale of VVhite Horse The Right Honorable Thomas Howard was created the first Earl of Berkshire by Charles I. in 1625. He was second Coronation Earl as well as second Son to Thomas Earl of Suffolk in which Family it still is the present Earl being the fourth in the Succession Berlin Berolinum or Berlinum is one of the Noblest Cities in Germany It belongs to the Upper Saxony and stands in the middle Marquisate of Brandenburgh upon the River Sprew which a little further to the North falls into the Hamel This City stands in a Marsh very strongly Fortified being the capital of that Marquisate and the Residence of the Marquisses of Brandenburgh divided by the River Sprew into two parts that on the East side is call'd Berlin that on the West Coln or the Colony 17 German Miles from Magdeburg to the South East and 11 from Frankfort Built by Albertus Vnsus Prince of Anhalt In 1142. Bermudas or the Summer Islands are a knot of Islands on the Coast of Florida supposed to be 400 in number 1600 Leagues from England 1000 from Madera 400 from Hispaniola and 300 from Carolina which is the nearest Continent Accidentally discovered by John Bermudaz a Spaniard about 1522. Sir George Summers an English Man being in 1609. sent by the Lord de la Ware to Virginia stumbled again upon them and suffered Shipwrack here who was so taken with their verdure plenty and delightfulness that he neglected his return for England and with the Assistance of Sir Thomas Gates setled a a Plantation here in 1612. and in 1616. Capt. Tucker was sent after the first Adventurers with 500 Men who established themselves so well and fortified the Accesses so that it is now thought impregnable It is one of the most healthful places in the World none dying here of almost any other Distemper but old Age fruitful to a wonder abounding in all things needful for the Life of Man but fresh Water which is gotten with some difficulty from their Wells and Cisterns for they have neither Springs nor Rivers This Colony filled so fast
it afterwards in 1544. and kept it all his Life Edward the VI. in the Disorders of his Minority sold or surrendred it to the French again for a much less sum of Money than it cost the Crown of England to gain it The Bishop's See was translated hither from Tournay when the English took that City It lies in Longitude 22. 42. Latitude 50. 30. § Also a small Town in the Province of Gascoigne near the River Gers upon the borders of Bigorre Le Boulenois or the County belonging to Bologne lies in the North part of the Province of Picardy bounded on the West by the British Sea on the North by the County of Guisnes on the East by Artois and on the South by the County of Ponthieu from which last it is separated by the River Canche This County was once an Earldom of it self during which time it gave one King to England and another to Jerusalem Godfrey III. was the latter and King Stephen of England the other it continued so till Bertrand de la Tour the last Earl of it in 1477. sold it to Lewis XI of France who with mighty Ceremony did homage to the Virgin Mary and made her some Promises which his Successors never thought of keeping as may be seen in Dr. Heyli's Cosmography The Bolognese a Territory adjacent to the City of Bologna in Italy generally epitheted la Grassa from its Fruitfulness Dove si legano le vigne con salsâ—ccie where the Vines are tied up with Sausages says the Proverb Bolsena Volsinium a City of S. Peter's Patrimony in Italy which was the seat of a Bishop untill the Translation thereof to Orvieto It gives Name to the Lake Bolsena in which the Island of Matana stands where the Queen Amalazonte was put to death by the ungrateful Theodatus Bolsover a Market-Town in Derbyshire in the Hundred of Scarsdale The Duke of Newcastle has a Seat here Bolswert or Boleswart a Town in West-Friâ—sland in the Earldom of Holland about 3 Leagues from Leeu Warden Bolton a Market-Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Salford with the Title of a Duke of late to the Lord Marquess of Winchester Bolzano a small Town in the Vicentine in Italy under the Republick of Venice upon the River Adige Others place it in the Trentine and say it is a very Trading Place Bombon a Province of Peru in the West-Indies towards the River Xauxa Bommel Bommelia an Island beautified with a fair Town in the Dutchy of Guelderland The Town stands upon the River Maes two German Miles from Boislâ—duc towards Vtrecht and belongs properly as a Fee to the Dutchy of Brabant in the Confines of which it is but it is under the Vnited Provinces In 1672 it was taken by the French and deserted the next year after they had dismantled it The Island in which it stands is about thirteen Miles in length and lies between the Wael to the North and the Maes to the South call'd by the Dutch Bommelweert Some take it for the Insula Batavorum of Cesar Bon Bonna Ara Vbiorum and Verona Bonne is one of the principal Cities of the Bisho rick of Cologne and the usual Seat of that Elector upon the Rhine four German Miles from Cologne It was first a Roman Colony called Colonia Julia Bonna and frequently mention'd in the ancient Historians on that Account In the middle Ages it became a Free Imperial City Frederick of Austria was here elected and Crowned in 1314. against Lewis of Bavaria In 942. here was a Synod held In 1588. the Duke of Parma took it by Famine In 1673. the Prince of Orange took it from the French who had surprised it the year before and restored it to the Empire it has for a long time been exempted from the Empire and possessed by the Electors of Cologne Accordingly the Cardinal of Furstemburg in pursuance of his Election to the Archbishoprick of Cologne Jul. 19. 1688. took possession of it whose Pretences on the one side being justified by the King of France and on the other being opposed both by the Emperor and the Pope produc'd the general War that now flames among the European Princes And though Bonne in this Conjuncture was strongly inforced for its Security with a French Garrison yet after about a Months Siege by the Elector of Brandenburg with the Forces of the Allies under his Command it was obliged to surrender to them Octob. 12. 1689. This Town lies in Long. 28. 40. Lat. 50. 42. § Bonne Hippo a City of the Province of Constantine in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa upon the Mediterranean famous for it's being an Episcopal See heretofore in the Person of the Great S. Austin Hippo was quite destroy'd by the Caliphr in 651. This of Bonne was built near its Ruines and call'd by the Arabians Beled-el-Vgneb by the Christians Bonne as being the best and fruitfulest Country in Barbary The K. of Tunis built it a Castle in the year 1500. Charles V. Emperor destroy'd all its Fortifications in 1535. The Turks have since repaired it and it is provided with a little Port. § Also a Town in the Province of Fossigni in the Dukedom of Savoy upon the Rivulet of Menoy or Monole 3 or 4 Leagues from Geneva supposed to be the ancient Banta Bonaire one of the Leeward Islands of America which has its name from the Goodness of the Air. Taken from the Dutch by the Buccaniers in 1686. in 12 d. of Lat. Bonconvento a small Town in the Province of Tuscano in Italy upon the River Ombrone near Siena It was here that the Emperor Henry VII was poysoned in 1313. Boncourt a Village upon the River Eure in the Diocese of Eureux in the Province of Normandy in France Strangely consumed by an unaccountable Wild-fire in the 4 years preceding 1670. Boni a Town upon the Loire between Nevers and Orleans the ancient residence of the Knights of S. Lazarus an Order now abolished in France and incorporated with that of S. Maurice in Savoy Bonifacio a City in the Island of Corsica which has a Port belonging to it Thought to be the Palla of Ptolemy It is well built and traded and secured by one of the best Fortresses in Europe The Streights betwixt the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia receive the Name of le Bocche di Bonifacio from hence which Geographers conclude to be the same with the Fretum Taphros of Pliny the Fretum Etruscum of Ptolemy and the Sinus Sardonius of Eustatius They are sometimes also called le bocche di Beixonnere Bonneval a Town in the Province of Beauce upon the Loyre in France 6 Leagues from Chartres and 3 from Chasteau dun Boâ—h its Name and Rise is come from a great Abbey of the Benedictines here Bonneville Bonopolis the Capital Town of the Province of Fossigni in Savoy about 5 Leagues from Annecy and Geneva upon the River Arve at the Foot of the Mountains and at present but little considerable Bononia in Italian
large Suburbs a Castle and a very capacious Haven The famous Lucifer was Archbishop of this See in the Reign of Constantine M. Pope Hillary was born here and Martin King of Sicily died here in 1409. Long. 32. 12. Lat. 37. 30. The Cape Cagliari derives its Name from hence Cagli or Caglio Callium Cale Calle a small City in the Dukedom of Vrbino which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Vrbino seated upon the River Metro at the foot of the Apennine 14 Leagues from Vrbino to the South-West and the same Distance from Eugubio to the North-East It was under the Dominion of the Pope in 1289. Caiors or Cahors Doveona Divona Cadurcum the principal City of Quercy in Guienne in France upon the River Loth over which it has three Bridges It is a large fine and strong City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Alby ever since 1678. before which time it was under the Archbishop of Berry ten Leagues from Alby to the North and 45 from Bourdeaux to the East Pope John XXII being born here founded an University in it in 1331. The Bishops take the Title of Earls of Cahors Henry IV. King of Navarre besieged it in 1580. and reduced it in three Days since which time its Castle and Fortifications have been demolished Cajania a Province of Sweden which is often also called East-Bothinia between the Botner Sea Lapland and Finland Cajanâ—burg the principal Town within the former Territory which gives Name to it it lies towards Lapland upon the Lake Vla with a Castle for its Defence and Honor. Cajazzo Calatia a City in the Province of Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples about 7 Miles East of Capua near the River Voltorno and a Bishop's See under the Arch-Bishop of Capoiia It was considerable in the times of the Caesars a Colony having been setled there by Julius Caesar as Apianus Alexandrinus saith which on that account joyn'd with Augustus But now very small and in a declining Condition Cajenne an Island to the South of the Mouth of the River Cajenne which gives Name to it in the Province of Guyana in America under the French 18 Leagues in Circuit The River Cajenne springs from the Mountains near the Lake of Parima and continues its Course about 100 Leagues through the Country of the Galibes before it falls into the Ocean with this Island in its Embraces The Hollanders settled themselves here in 1656. and again in 1676. but were both times expelled by the French who were the prior Occupants Cajâ—tta See Gajetta Caifum or Caifung one of the principal Cities in China seated on the South of the River Croceus in the Province of Honan in Long. 142. 35. It was heretofore the ordinary Residence of the Emperors of China till the Year 1642. that the Usurper Lyncungh besieged it To drown whose Army the People piercing the Banks of the River Croceus which lies higher than the Town brought the Water upon themselves more than on the Enemy with so great an Impetuosity that the Houses were all overturned three hundred thousand Inhabitants drown'd and the whole Town changed into a Lake from that Day Caiman a greater and Lesser Island North of Cuba in the Gulph of Mexico known by the Tortoise-Fishing-Trade there Caiphas a City of Phoenicia at the foot of Mount Carmel and heretofore an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Tyre Understood by some to be the Porphyrcum of Polybius and Stephanus The Lords hereof were of high renown in the time that the Christians were Masters of the Holy land Cairo Babylon Memphis Cairus the Capital of Egypt and indeed the greatest City in all Africa by the Arabians call'd Alchair seated on the East side of the River Nile about 1 Mile from it there is a Passage from the River into it which divides the Town in the middle This City sprang out of the ruins of Memphis and Babylon which stood not far from it on the Western Shoar of the Nile and was built by the Saracens or Moors after they became Masters of Egypt the Califfs of which Nation for a long time resided here as did afterwards the Sultans In 1517. it was Conquered by Selim the Turk and it has ever since been in their hands but is now sensibly declined from what it was The Patriarch of Alexandria resides here who has six antient Greek Churches in the place there are many more belonging to the Cophtites for whose Conviction in the business of Nestorianisme a Council was held here in 1582. by the order of Pope Gregory XIII but without effect tho the Patriarch of the Cophtites had been first gain'd over to the Perswasion of the Latens They have an Aqueduct of 350 Arches which brings the water from the River to the Town It s chiefest Manufacture is Tapestry Three Leagues lower the Nile is divided into two Branches which make the Delta It is 8 Miles in compass and has at the South end of it a stately Castle the Palace of the Mamaluck Sultans built upon a Mountain which overlooks the City and a great part of the Country When the Turks took it it was very strong but Selim ruin'd a great part of it and that which remains serves for the residence of the Turkish Bassa who hath the Government of this Kingdom About 10 Miles from this City stand those famous Pyramids which have in all Ages been so much admired and are certainly the most antient Buildings in the whole World and may in all probability not perish before the general Conflagration Long. 38. 48. Lat. 36 40. Cairoan Cyrene an antient and once very noble City in Africa mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles and now almost ruin'd and depopulated by the Turks in whose hands it is seated right over-against Matapan the most Southern Cape of the Morea an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Alexandria and once famous not only for its Antiquity being built in the year of the World 3560. 143 years after Rome but also for Learning it having produced many noble Greek Writers and particularly Aristippus the founder of the Sect of the Cyrenaick Philosophers with the ingenious Areta his Daughter who succeeded him in his School The Country antiently call'd Libya Cyrenaica comprehending the Five Cities of Berenice Teuchire Ptolomais Apollonia and Cyrene derived its name from hence It had sometime the honour to bear the Title of a Kingdom For in the Year of Rome 658. we read of a Ptolomy surnamed Apion King of Cyrene nominating the Romans to be his Heirs The Libya Cyrenaica was afterwards call'd Pentapolis from these its Cities and now Mestrata Long. 50. 00. Lat. 31. 20. § Also a Town upon the River Capullia in the Kingdom of Tunis about 14 Leagues from the Sea Built in 652. by the Caliphs of Syria and adorn'd with a sumptuous Mosque where you see the Sepulchres of the Kings of Tunis For want of Fountains in so dry and barren a Soil as this Town stands in they
having been excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII rendred himself to the Pope's Discretion and thereupon received Absolution in the Year 1077. § This is also the name of a County in the Modenese in Italy near Parmesan Canstat a small City in the Dukedom of Wirtemburg upon the River Necker within one Mile of Stuttgard and five of Pfortzhaim to the East Cantabri an antient Valiant People of Spain being those properly of the Provinces of Guipuscoa and Biscay who withstood Augustus in several Rencounters and at last kill'd themselves rather than to submit to Servitude Canterbury Cantuaria Darvernum Dorovernia is the principal City in the County of Kent very antient and without doubt saith Mr. Camden famous in the times of the Roman Empire It stands on the Eastern Shoar of the River Stour called by the British â—uvwhern from whence it had its antient Names Being the Royal Seat of the Kings of Kent when Augustine the Monk came over to convert them it by that Means became the Metropolitan See of England The Bodies of eight Kings lye interr'd in the Cathedral as likewise the Body of Thomas Beckeâ— the famous Roman-Catholick Saint once Archbishop of this See There has been several Provincial Councils celebrated here The Coronation of King John and Queen Isabel his Wife the Marriages of Henry II. and Edward I. were all performed here Augustine the first Archbishop was consecrated in 568. Dr. William Sancroft the LXXVII in this Succession was consecrated Jan 27. 1677. It lies in Long. 24. 51. Lat. 51. 16. Two Burgesses are elected for the Parliament by the Corporation Canton a Province and City in the East of China suppos'd to be the Cattigara of Ptolemy which tho the least of their Metropolitan Cities is yet beautified with many triumphant Arches large Streets and goodly Bridges over a Navigable River running on the South side of it also fortified with deep Ditches eight Bulwarks and seated in a rich and plentiful Soil The Portugals drive here saith Dr. Heylin a wealthy Trade being permitted in the day time to come into the City but at night excluded and forced to find Lodgings in the Suburbs This City lies in Alvares Samodo's Map about Long. 125. and about 26. Lat. According to others in Long. 170.00 Lat. 24.00 See Quancheu The Switz Cantons See Switzerland Capace or Capaccio Caput Aqueum a City of the Principatus Citerior in the Kingdom of Naples and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Salerno in the place of Pesti which was ruined by Frederick the Emperor in 1249. though since rebuilt again This City lies 22 Miles from Salerno to the South in Long. 38 52. Lat. 40. 28. Caparra Capara a City of Extremadura in the Kingdom of Leon in Spain which stands in the middle between Emerita now Merida and Placentia Cap-D-Aguer the same with Santa Cruz in Africa Capelan a Mountain in the Kingdom of Pegu beyond the Gulph of Bengala in the East-Indies A Quarry of Precious Stones of divers Colours is found within it La Capelle a Fortress in the Territory of Tierache within the Province of Picardy towards the Frontiers of Hainault built in the last Age to oppose the Incursions of the Low-Countries about a League from the River Oyse It has been many times taken and retaken Capernaum or Capharnaum the Metropolitan City heretofore of Galilee in the Tribe of Naphtali towards the Borders of Zabulon near the Mouth of Jordan and upon the Coast of the Sea of Tiberias where our Saviour first began to preach S. Matthew was a Publican here when called to be an Apostle Since Solyman reduc'd this City into Ashes it has only been inhabited by a few Moors who ask Money of the Pilgrims that goe to visit the holy Places Capes a River of the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa springing from Mount Atlas and discharging it self into the Mediterranean near a Town call'd Capes where it makes a Gulph of the same Name Caphareus a famous Promontory on the East point of the Isle of Negropont otherwise now call'd Capo del oro and Capo Figera very dangerous to navigate The Grecian Navy seduc'd by Nâ—uplâ—â—s King of Eubaea by a false Light in revenge of the Death of his Son Palimedes by Vlysses being all said to have been shipwrack'd upon these Rocks Capitanata a Province of the Kingdom of Naples which in the more antient times was call'd Apulia Daunia bounded on the North and East with the Adriatick Sea on the West with the County of Molise and on the South with the Principatus Vlterior the Basilicata and the Bariano a very fruitful well watered Country the chief City is Manfredonia The Capitol Capitolium a famous Fortress of Old Rome founded by Tarquinius Prisous in the year of Rome 139. Perfected by Tarquinius Superbus in the year 221. Burnt in the Reign of Vitellius Rebuilt by Vespasian Burnt again by Lightning under Titus and reedified with very great pomp by Domitian who constituted a Quinquennial Celebration of Games which became an Aera by the Name of Agones Capitolini after the manner of the Olympiads Jupiter had a Temple here in his honour whence they denominated him Capitolinus In this place the Christians have built a Church call'd Ara Caeli dedicated to the B. Virgin Mary Capo D' Istria Caput Istriae Aegida the capital City of the Province of Histria in Italy See Cabo d'Istria Capo Cabo cap Cape de Aden Ammonium a Promontory in Arabia Foelix next to Africa in Long. 76. 30. de Alguer Atlantis in Mauritania Tingittana de Bona Speranza of Good Hope Is a famous Promontory upon the most Southern Part of Africa first discovered by Bartholomew Diaz a Portuguese in 1487. in 32 of Southern Lat. 50 of Long. It had this name given it by Emanuel then King of Portugal because he hoped by the doubling it a passage would be open by Sea to the East-Indies as it came to pass to the great enriching of his Kingdom The Hollanders near this Cape have a settlement of about 100 Houses with a strong Fort. The Natives are divided into several distinct Nations of Cornwall or the Lands End the most Western Point of England di Corso a Promontory in Corsica di Faro Pelorum the most Northern Cape of Sicily of Farewel in Greenland di Formoso in Guinea de Sierra Liona Hesperium Cornu supposed to be the most Western Point of Africa known to the Antients 70 Spanish Leagues beyond the most Southern Mouth of the River Niger de Verde the most Western Point of Africa in the Division of Nigritia South to the Mouth of the River Senega in 14 deg of Lat. There is an innumerable number of other Capes which the Brevity of this Work will not admit The Islands of Capo de Verde are a knot of small Islands by some taken for the Hesperides by some for the Gorgades of the Antients lying demicircularly with the Points to the Sea 150 Leagues off of Cape Verde under the Portuguese but
not all inhabited Capoua Capua a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples in the Province Di Lavoro at the foot of Mount Tifata 16 Miles North of Naples and 12 from the Tyrrhenian Sea in Long. 38. 04. Lat. 41. 00. A City that was never fortunate and is now declining into ruins It was built by the Lombards upon the River Voltorno and advanced to a Bishoprick by P. John XIV in 968. Two Leagues from the Ruines of the famous antient Capoua that delicious City as they call'd it which compared itself with Rome and Carthage and so debauched the Army of Hannibal with its pleasures in one Winter that they quartered there after the Battle of Cannae that they were not capable of beating the Romans any more In 1118 Pope Gelasius II. held a Council here in which the Emperour Henry V. was Excommunicated together with Gregory VIII an Antipope Cappadocia a Province of Asia Minor bounded to the East by the Lesser Armenia to the South Cilicia to the West Pamphylia and Galatia and to the North by the Euxine Sea It has been twice a Kingdom The first time for 470 years successively till the Romans overcame and changed it into a Province The second from the 12th Century to the year 1461. by the Title of the Kingdom of Trebisonde from the City Trebisonda till Mahomet II. Emperour of the Turks took and carri'd the King prisoner into Greece It is now known by the name of Tocat See Tocat Capraia Capraria Aegilium is a small Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea on the Confines of the States of Genoua between the Coast of Italy to the East and the Island of Corsica to the West to which last it belongs and is therefore subject to the State of Genoua it is 18 Miles in compass and has a Castle for its security against Pyrats full of Mountains but yet not barren nor unpeopled and chiefly abounds in Goats from whence it hath its Name and excellent Wines 36 Miles South from the States of Genoua and 24 from Corsica There is another Island of the same Name in the Adriatick Sea upon the Coast of Apulia and La Palma one of the Canary Islands was antiently call'd Capraria Caprarola a stately and magnificent Palace in S. Peters Patrimony in Italy 25 miles from Rome near Viterbo belonging to the D. of Parma and built in the last Age by Cardinal Alexander Farnese It is particularly remark'd for a whispering Room in it where four Persons at several Corners shall understand the lowest whispers of one to another whilst those in the middle of the Room cannot here a word that is said It is one of the noblest structures in all Italy Capri Caprea an Island belonging to the Kingdom of Naples famous for the Secession of Tiberius Caesar who lived here in great privacy in the latter part of his Reign spending his time in Debauchery and Villany It lies in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the Mouth of the Bay of Naples about 3 miles from the Cape of Campanella and is about 12 in compass The chief Town of it is called by the same Name and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Amalfi seated at the South End of the Island The Bishops best revenue comes from Quails which twice in the year resort in vast numbers to this Island whence some have called him the Bishop of Quails This Island is much mentioned in the Writers of the Life of Tiberius and other Roman Historians Capsa an antient Town in Libya Interior defended by the Sands and Serpents of the Desarts that environ it on all sides better than any Walls and Ramparts could do say Salust and Florus Carabes Pelusium the most Eastern Mouth of the Nile Carabogaana one of the Names of Moldavia Caragoza Caesar Augusta See Saragoza Caraman Caramania a Province of the Lesser Asia extended from East to West upon the Mediterranean Sea opposite to the Isle of Cyprus this Country had heretofore Princes of its own but has now for many Ages been subject to the Turks it includes the antient Provinces of Cilicia Pamphylia and a part of Caria One of the potentest Viceroys or Beglerbegs of the Turkish Empire takes his Title from this Province tho his Jurisdiction is somewhat larger The principle Cities in it are Cogni Antiochia and Satulia There is another Caramania or Carnania a large Country in Persia bounded on the East with Gedrosia or Circan on the West with Farsi Sublestan to the North and the Gulph of Ormus with the Indian Ocean to the South Containing the Provinces of Guadel Dulcinda and Ormus It is now called Kherman after its capital City which stands upon the River Bessiry The Northern part is rather barren but the middle is blessed with fruitful Vales. Caramit Amida Ammaea the capital City of Mesopotamia which is an Archbishops See upon the River Tigris Heretofore called Constantia from Constantius the Emperour The Romans in this place received a great defeat by the Parthians Long. 75. 00. Lat. 39. 30. according to the latest Maps It is secured with good Walls and 360 Towers Caragues Salvages of Peru in the Province of Quito towards the Coasts of the South Sea Caratcholi or Karakioles a People about the Mountain Caucasus in Asia descended from the Hunns and speaking the Turkish Language Caravacca or Crux de Caravacca so called from a miraculous Crucifix there preserved which they pretend was brought from Heaven by an Angel is a Village amongst the Mountains in the Kingdom of Murcia in Spain near the River Segura upon the Borders of Old Castile Caravaggio a Town in the Dutchy of Milan in Italy upon the Borders of the Bergamasco Where Francis Sforza Duke of Milan gain'd a signal Victory over the Venetians in 1446. Carbury a Town and Barony in the County of Kildare in Ireland and another Town in the County of Cork Carcanossi a fruitful and well cultivated Country in the South of the Isle of Madagascar where the French have established some Colonies not long since Carcassonne Carcassum Volcarum Tectosagum a City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Narbonne upon the River Atax l' Aude a little above its confluence with the Fresquel Famous for Cloathing and other mechanick Trades It stands 5 Leagues South of Aleth having a Castle Long. 23. 05. Lat. 42. 40. The Diocese belonging to this City is called Le Comte de Carcassonne the Earldom of Carcassone The antient Earls whereof were great protectors and favourers of the Albigenses Whence One came to be Massacred in the Church at Besiers in 1167. and a Second had his Estate confiscated to the Earl of Monfert by a Decree of the Synod of Mountpellier in 1214. and afterwards of the grand Council of Lateran in 1215. Carcinatus or Carentus the Western Bay of the Euxine Sea which shuts the passage into the Crim Tartary in that Neck of Land which makes it a Peninsula and is defended by the Fort Pericop that gives name to the whole Nation
Market-Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Frebridge which Elects two Burgesses for the Parliament The Haven here being many years since choak'd up with Sands has brought this Town into decay Caston a Market-Town in Norfolk in the Hundred of S. Erpingham Castor a Market-Town in the Division of Lindsey in Lincolnshire and in the Hundred of Bradley Castres or Chartreux Castrum Albiensium a City and a Bishop's See upon the North side of the River Gout in the County of Albigeois in Languedoc in France This Bishoprick was first instituted by P. John XXII in 1317. under the Archbishop of Berry but in 1678. it was put under the Archbishop of Alby from which place itstands 7 Leagues to the South and 10 from Tholouse to the East The Huguenots took and Pillaged it in 1567. It also honoured with the Title of an Earldom Castro a Dutchy and Town belonging to the House of Farneze the Dukes of Parma but likewise challenged by the Ecclesiastical State For in the Wars betwixt Edward Duke of Parma and Pope Vrban VIII this Town amongst others was seised for the Pope in consideration of the Arrears of a certain Rent reserved to the Apostolick Chamber from the Dutchy as held to be a Fief of the Church Innocent X. razed it entirely to the ground and in the place thereof erected a Pillar with this Inscription Here was Castro and annexed the Dutchy to his See But the said Annexation was conditionally revoked by the Treaty of Pisa in 1664. The admirable Palace of Caprarola stands in this Dutchy The Dutchy is bounded on the East by S. Peter's Patrimony the Siennese to the West the Mediterranean to the South and the Territory of Orvieto to the North. The City had the Honor to be a Bishop's See immediately under the Pope till the Year 1646 that Innocent X. transferr'd the See to Acqua pendente and quite destroy'd Castro as we said in revenge because the inhabitants happened to kill the Bishop that he sent thither to reside and govern It stood about 11 Miles from the Sea near Toscanella and Corneto environed with such Precipices as rendred the access to it very Difficult § A City in the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples being a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Otranto upon the Shoars of the Ionian Sea Ravaged by the Turks in 1537. who carried away a great Number of the Inhabitants into Slavery Some suppose it to be the Castrum Minervae of the Antients § There are others of inferiour Note One in the Hither Calabria near Cassano A second in the Province of Abruzzo call'd Castro Novo A third in the Campagnia di Roma A fourth in the Basilicate Another in the Island of Meleos c. Catadupi a People of Aethiopia about the Cataracts of the Nile deafned says Tully in Somnio Scip. by the Noise of them Catalognia a Province and Principality in Spain bounded on the West by the Kingdoms of Arragon and Valentia on the East and South by the Mediterranean Sea and on the North it has the Pyrenean Hills which separate it from France Heretofore it had Earls of its own who were under the Protection of the Crown of France but in 1137. it was annexed to the Kingdom of Arragon a mountainous but fertile Country and well watered with Rivers The Inhabitants are great Lovers of their Civil Liberties and being ill us'd by some Irish Soldiers which were quartered upon them in 1640. they revolted from Spain and call'd in the French but during the Civil Wars of France about 1652. they returned to their old Master the King of Spain again By the Treaty of Peace in 1659 the Pyrenees are made to divide the two Kingdoms of France and Spain Barcelona is the Capital City of this Country Catania one of the principal Cities of Sicily on the Eastern shoar of that Island about forty Miles North of Syracuse It has a Port made of late Years and is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Montreale On the South of it runs a small River called Judicello This City was built by the Chalcidian Greeks as Eusebius saith Charles V. wall'd and fortified it against the Turks and Moors by which Securities it grew Great and Rich but in 1669. it suffered very much by a dreadful Irruption of Mount Aetna which stands about 20 Miles North from it four Rivers with Fire or melted Rocks and Earth making their Way through the Territories of this City and bearing down all before them passed a Mile into the Sea before those Waters were able to conquer this outrageous Fire so that it was then thought the whole Island of Sicily would have perish'd Aetna is observ'd to overflow with Torrents of Fire every 15 Years K. Hiero died in this City The Remains of an Amphitheatre with divers Inscriptions and Marks of its Antiquity are yet to be seen Long. 39. 40. Lat. 37. 00. Our English Sandys saith That the Bay upon which it stands is but shallow and not capable of Ships The Country fruitful and the City being an Vniversity and not having much Trade is the more inhabited by Gentlemen Catanzaro Catacium a City in the further Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples with a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Regio 2 or 3 Miles from the Ocean between Squillaci and Nicastro Cataonia an antient City and Country in Asia Minor between Cilicia and Cappadocia in Strabo's time subject to the King of Cappadocia Bellona had a sumptuous Temple in her honour in this City to whose service above 6000 Men and Women were Consecrated under the direction of a Soveraign Priest who here resided Cateau or Catteau-Cambresis Castrum Cameracense a small Town in the district of Cambresis 5 Leagues from Cambray and 2 from Landreci The Treaty of Peace in 1559. by the French said to be so disadvantageous to them was celebrated here Ce Catelet a Town in Picardy upon the River Escaut and the Frontiers of Hainault and Cambresis Taken by the Spaniards in 1557. and once again in this Age but restored to the French by the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659. A considerably strong place Caterlagh Catherlogh Carlough Caterlogum a City in the Province of Leinster in Ireland on the West side of the River Barrow 30 Miles South-West of Dublin which Lionel Duke of Clarence began to Wall and Bellingham Lord Lieutenant of Ireland fortified with a Castle This is also the head of a County of the same Name Cathness Catnesia Cathanesia is the most Northern County in the Kingdom of Scotland on the North and East washed by the Caledonian Ocean on the West it hath the same Ocean and the County of Strathnavern in part and on the South it hath Sutherland Generally barren little inhabited yet it is a Bishoprick and an Earldom Catolica a Town in the Province of Romagna in Italy between Pesaro and Rimini so call'd in the third Century from the Catholicks of the Council of Rimini who
Wall and has a spacious Castle on the other side of the River supposed to have risen first out of the Ruines of Venta Silurum the Capital City of the ancient Silures four Miles distant from it Cher Caris a River which riseth in Auvergne near Clermont and running North-West through Berry and on the South side of Tours a little below this last it falls into the Loyre Cherazoul a Town in the Province of Curdistan in Asia in the Road from Ninive to Hispahan of very difficult access from the manner of its construction within a steep and cleted Rock Cherbourg Caroburgus a Sea-Port in Normandy in France which has a tolerable good Harbor ten Leagues West of Constance This Town was lost by the English in 1453. Honfleur and Beaumont stand near it Chersonesus Aurea See Malaca Some believe this to be the Land of Ophir of King Solomon's time Cherry-Issand an Island on the Coast of Greenland in the most Northern part of the World discovered to us and denominated accordingly by Sir Francis Cherry There are many Mines of Lead growing in it Chertsey A Market Town in Surrey the Capital of its Hundred not far from the River Thames over which it enjoys a Bridge The unfortunate King Henry VI. was first interred without Pomp here and afterwards removed to Windsor Cherusci an Antient and Valiant People of Germany that dwelled between the Elbe and the Weser having the Catti and the Hermonduri their Neighbours to the South East and West Their General Arminius is often mention'd with honour by Tacitus Cherwell a River in Oxfordshire at the confluence of which with the Isis stands the most famous University of Oxford Chesee Povillux a Town in Champagne the Inhabitants whereof claim the privilege to assist at the Coronation of the Kings of France and to convey the Holy Ampoulle or Oil pretended to be brought by an Angel at the Consecration of the first Christian King of that Kingdom from St. Rheimes to our Ladies Church in Rheimes Chesham a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Burnham Chester Civitas Legionum Cestria is a City and Bishoprick on the River Dee in the Westernpart of Cheshire whence often call'd West-Chester with a fair Stone Bridge over that River In this City it was that 7 Kings of the Scots and Brittains by way of Homage rowed King Edgar in his Barge from S. John's Church to his Palace himself as Sovereign holding the Helm The East-gate is accounted one of the stateliest in England and the Rows or Galleries made along the chief Streets for preservation against the Rain are very particular It was an ancient Roman Town call'd by Ptolemy Devana made a Bishops See by Henry VIII who put it under the Archbishop of York The ancient Earls of Chester fortified it both with Walls and a Castle It is now at this day a fine Place with 10 Parishes in it a County Palatine and the usual passage from England to Ireland It s Long. 20. 23. Lat. 53. 11. Cheshire Cestria hath on the South Shropshire on the East Stafford and Darby on the North Lancashire and on the West Denbigh and Flintshire towards the North-West it has a Promontory that runs a great way into the Sea It abounds more in good Pasturage than Corn well stored with Parks and watered by the Rivers Dee Weever and Mersey and the Cheese of this County is thought the best of England The Earldom of it belongs to the Prince of Wales Chesterfield a Market Town in Derbyshire in the Hundred of Scarsdale pleasantly seated between two small Rivers in a very good Soil King John made it a free Borough King Henry III. and his Barons fought that Battel hard by it in which Robert de Ferrers Earl of Derby was taken Prisoner and lost his Estate and Dignity King Charles I. advanced it to the Style and Title of an Earldom in the Person of Philip Lord Stanhop Anno 1628. whose Grandson at present possesses that Dignity Cheuxan an Island upon the Coast of the Province of Chekiang in China planted by above 70 small Towns and Villages of the Chinese Chewton a Market Town in Somersetshire the Capital of its Hundred also written Chewton-Mendip Chiampana Ciampa a Kingdom of the further East-Indies between Couchin-China Cambaja and the Mare Sinicum Pulocacien is the principal City of it Chiamsi a Province towards the South of China Chiangare See Galatia a Province of the Lesser Asia Chiapa a Province of New Spain in America watered by the Rivers Gryalva and rio blanco and for many Ages past inhabited by 4 different Nations of Indians It s Capital City is Civdad Real Chiarenza a Town in the Morea fifty five English Miles from Patras to the South It is a Sea-Port-Town Chiaromonti Claromons a considerable Town in the South-East part of Sicily in the Valley of Netina amongst the Mountains about forty Miles from Pachino to the West Chiavari Clavarum Claverinum a small but well inhabited Town upon the Coast of Genoua near Rapello in Italy towards the fall of the River Layagna The Genouese are said to build it in 1167. and after it had been ruined to rebuild it Chiavenne vide Claven Chichester Cicestria a City and Bishoprick in Sussex founded by Cissa II. King of the South Saxons After the Conquest it became a Bishops See the Chair being removed from Selsey a small Village not much above sive Miles to the Southward This City is seated on a River call'd the Lavant which encompasseth it on the West and South about six Miles from the Sea and almost in the Western Border of that County The Honorable Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton was created Earl of Chichester September 10. 1675 by Charles II. his Father It is a fair City with five or six Parish Churches and a Cathedral first erected by Radulph the third Bishop afterwards rebuilt and beautified by Bishop Seffrid the second of the Name when it had been almost consumed twice by Fire The Corporation elects two Burgesses for Parliament and would enjoy a better Trade were not the Haven choaked up that is next adjoining to â—it Chidley a Market Town in Devonshire on the River Tinge Chiemzee or Chiempsee Chiemium a City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Saltzburgh in the Dukedom of Bavaria about ten Leagues from Munich and Saltzburgh each It is no very considerable place An Archdeacon of Saltzburgh founded the Bishoprick in the year 1214. Chieri a Town in Piedmont where the French obtained a signal Victory against the Spaniards in 1639. It lies three Miles to the Eastward of Turino and was heretofore a Potent City and a Common-wealth but is now in Subjection to the Duke of Savoy Chifale an Island in the Gulph of Arabia Chilafa or Chielefa is a Fortress on the South of the Morea thirty eight English Miles North-West of Cape Matapan a Place of great Importance both as to its natural and artificial Fortifications and surrendred to the Venetians in 1686.
Rome 639. these People marched with an Army of 300000. fighting Men besides Women and Children in search of a New Country to live in And being joined by the Teutones the Ambrones the Tigurii and others in the way they ravaged Germany Istria Sclavonia the Grisons Switzerland till met and overcome by Marius in a very bloody Battle in the Field called Campus Marii between Aix and S. Maximin near the little River Arc in Province Anno Romae 652. Cimmerii the ancient Name of a People in Italy that dwelt in subterraneous Caverns near the Lake Averno and of another towards the Euxine Sea from whom the Bosphorus Cimmerius derives its denomination Whether of these two occasioned the Proverb Cimmeriae Tenebrae from the darkness of their habitations the Learned make a difference not worth the determining Cinaloa a Province of New Mexico in the South America bounded by Guadalajara to the South and to the North by the Vermiglian Ocean Cinan a great City in China in the Province of Xantum in the North-East of that Kingdom in Long. 145. Lat. 36. It is adorned with divers stately Palaces and Pagods The Jesuits have also a Church here and nine and twenty other Cities lie under the Jurisdiction of this Cinca or Cinga a River of the Kingdom of Aragon in Spain springing from the Pyrenees below Bielsa afterwards joining the Segre about Fraga and ending with the Ebro Lucan styles it Cinga rapax Ciucheu see Quancheu Cingary a People of Africa Cingcheu a great City in the Province of Xantung in China with a Territory containing thirteen Cities more The Territory is full of Hills yet not defective in the Necessaries of Life Ciolfa or Zulpha a Town of Armenia upon the River Aras desolated by Scha-Abas King of Persia and all the Inhabitants carried away into Persia and setled in Gilan and Hispahan there for to promote the Trade of Silks Cioutat a fair Town and a secure Port in Provence in France betwixt Marseilles and Thoulon adorned with divers Churches and Religious Houses Particularly at a Monastery of the Services hard by it there is a remarkable Fountain ebbing and flowing with the Sea The Name is but a Corruption of Civitas Ciradio a River of Corsica Circassia is a vast space of ground extended from the Cimmerian Bosphorus and the Fens of Maeotis on the Eastern Shoars of the Euxine Sea for the space of five hundred Miles reaching two hundred towards the North. A Country fitly seated for Trade but possessed by most Barbarous Tartars who delight only in War and roving they pretend to something of Christianity having been converted in the eighth Century but then they never enter the Church till they are old serving the Devil in their Youth and God in their Age when they can neither Rob nor Murder any longer Olearius placeth them upon the Western Shoar of the Caspian Sea They are subject for the most part to the Grand Czar Cirencester Corinium Durocornovium Cornovium an old Roman City in Glocestershire upon the River Churne about twelve Miles South-East of Glocester Here the four Proconsular ways made by the Romans crossed each other and vast numbers of Roman Coins Inscriptions c. have been digged up But this City was so ruined by the Saxons and Danes that what is walled in is not a fourth part of it inhabited the rest being Fields and Orchards the Inhabitants subsist mostly by Clothing It was taken by Prince Rupert by Storm Feb. 2. 1643. Cirenza See Acerenza Cirrha an antient Town in Phocis upon the Gulph of Corinth near the City Delphes to which it serv'd as a Port giving the Name of Cirrhaeus Sinus to a Part of the same Gulph Cirte or Cirtha an antient City of Numidia in Africa called afterwards Constantine being the Capital of the Province of Constantine in the Kingdom of Algier In this City we read in Salust that Jugurtha kill'd Adherbal the Son of Micipsa King of Numidia It became an Episcopal See in the Primitive Ages of Christianity A Council was assembled at it in 303. by Secundus Primate of Numidia wherein almost all the Bishops of that Province were convicted of the Crime of Traditores that is delivering up their Bibles to the Infidels in Persecution A Second in 412. whereat S. Austin assisted Cithaeron a Mountain of Boeotia consecrated amongst the antient Poets to Bacchus Citta di Castello Tifernum Tiberinum a Town in the Dukedom de Vrbino in the Ecclesiastical State upon the River Tiber 10 Miles from S. Sepulcher It has a small Territory annexed to it called il Contado di Castello under the Popes Dominion of which this City is the Capital Citta di Chieti Teatea a City in the hither Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples near the River Pescara 7 or 8 Miles from the Adriatick Whence the Order of the Religious Theatines derives their Appellation one of their Founders having sometime been Bishop hereof Citta-Ducale or Reale a City in the further Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples being a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Chieti It stands upon the River Velino 15 Miles from Aquila within the States of the Church Citta Nova a City of Histria in Italy with a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Aquileia at the fall of the River Quieto into the Adriatick In a bad Air and consequently little inhabited Called Nova because built since and a little below the Ruines of the antient Aemonia Citta della Pieve Civitas Plebis a small Town in the Perugine in Italy belonging to the Ecclesiastical State Citta di Sole a well fortified Town in the Province of Romagna in Italy upon the little River Fagnone belonging to the Grand Duke of Tuscany Citta Vecchia Medina or Melita a City in the Island of Maltha with a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Palermo situated upon a Hill in the middle of the Island having formerly been the Capital thereof Cittadelli Cittadella the Capital Town with a Port and some Fortifications of the Island of Minorca Civdad Real a City in the Province of Chiapa thence commonly it self call'd Chiapa in the South America being a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Mexico whereof the famous Bartholomeo della Casa was Bishop in the last Age. § There is of this Name a Town in New Castile in Spain upon the River Guadiana between Calatroua and Almagra The same is a large Town in a fruitful Plain but not very well peopled Civdad Rodrigo a City of the Kingdom of Leon in Spain upon the River Agujar and the Frontiers of Portugal It is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Compostella Supposed to have been built by Ferdinand II. in the Year 1200. for a Rampart against the Portugueze Civencheu a great City in the Province of Fokien in China with a Territory of the same Name annexed to it commanding six old Cities This City is extraordinarily traded and in its Temples Palaces triumphant Arches and Houses appears an admirable and magnificent Place A little West
that Agesilaus the Athenian General defeated the Boeotians in the year of Rome 359. In the third Century it became a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Athens Now a Miserable Village inhabited by none but Turks Coropa a Province in Guiana in South America between the River of Amazons and the Lake of Parymaea near the River of Coropatuba but not inhabited by any of our European Colonies Coronna Varonnum Adrobicum and vulgarly the Groyne a famous Sea-Port-Town on the North-West Shoar of Spain in Gallicia strong rich and full of people ten Miles from Compostella to the North and six from the Isle of Sisarga in Long. 8. 40. Lat. 44. 20. The Town stands upon a Peninsula and is almost surrounded by the Sea The Country affords excellent Iron Steel and several other Metals which cause the Port to be the more frequented Corozaim or Chorazim mention'd Matth. 11. 21. an ancient Town of Galilee in Palestine which was one of the ten that composed the Country of Decapolis It stood over against Capernaum upon the Banks of the River Jordan and near the Sea of Tiberias Corregio Corregium a great and populous Town in the Dukedom of Modena which had heretofore Princes of its own but in 1635. it came into the hands of the Duke of Modena it stands thirteen Miles from Regio to the North-East and twelve from Modena to the North between the Rivers of Navila West and Fossa Rossa East and has the honour of a good Castle Corsica called la Crose by the French and Corsega by the Spaniards is a considerable Island in the Mediterranean Sea in length from North to South 110 Miles in breadth 50 and its Circuit 280 100 Miles South from Genoua and 8 from Sardinia This Island has ever been ill inhabited by reason of the Asperity of a great part of it and the great difficulty of approaching it The Tusci or old Italians were the first Inhabiters of this Island who were conquered by the Carthaginians the Carthaginians yielded to the Tomans the Saracens followed these who finally in 1144. were subdued by the Genouese The Pisans and the Kings of Arragon have since contested with the Genouese but however that Republick has desended the place against all pretenders to this day There are five Episcopal Sees in it to wit Ajazzo Aleria Sagona Mariana and Nebio the three first under the Archbishop of Pisa the other of Genoua It is watered by the Rivers Liamon and Tavignan which both spring out of the Lake of Crena Bonifacio is its best Port and Basta the Capital Town There is a Cape call'd Corso which is the same with the Sacrum Promontorium of the Ancients Corschi the Name of a Numerous people in Persia living in Tents and descended from the Turks out of which the Sophy always composes his first Troops Corthestan Taurus Cortona Cortonium Corto a small but very ancient City in the Dukedom of Florence in Italy it lies on the Borders of the Estate of the Church and is a Bishops See made by Pope John XXII under the Archbishop of Florence four Miles from the Lake di Perugia to the North and fourteen from Arezzo to the South Corwey Corbeja Saxonica or Nova called by the French Corbie is a small City in West phalia which has an Abbey founded by S. Lewis King of France in 815. It lies upon the Weser nine Miles from Paderborne to the West Cosa Cosas a small River in the State of the Church which falleth into Garigliano Liris by Feretino and Veroli Cosano Cossano Cosa Cosanum a City of Calalabria in the Kingdom of Naples six Miles from the Gulph of Taranto and one and twenty from Rosano to the North. It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cosenza Cosenza Consentia the principal City of Calabria and one of the greatest in the Kingdom of Naples an Archbishops See seated in a fruitful Plain upon the River Crate which has belonging to it a strong Castle upon a Hill Alaricus XII King of the Goths died in this City In 1638. it suffered much by an Earthquake fourteen Miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea and thirty from Rossano to the West in Long. 40. 20. Lat. 39. 11. Cosir a City of Egypt upon the Red Sea written also Cossir Coslin Coslinum a Town in the Dukedom of Pomerania under the Dominion of the Duke of Brandenburgh upon a small River three German Miles from the Baltick Sea and six from Treptow to the East Heretofore the Seat of the Archbishop of Casmires but given from him by the Treaty of Westphalia to the present Possessor Cosmopolis a Town in the Isle of Elbe in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to the Duke of Florence which has a convenient and safe Port it lies over against Piombino twenty five Miles to the West Cosne Conoda Conium a small Town some place it in the Province of Beausse some in Nivernois upon the Loyre in France betwixt Nevers and Orleans often taken and retaken in the Civil Wars of the last Age there Cossa a ruined City on the Coast of the Tyrrbenian Sea six Miles from Orbitello to the East and seventy from Rome to the North destroyed by Charles the Great Ansidonia sprung out of its ruines which last is now in the Possession of the Duke of Florence Cossaques a Martial People inhabitants of the Province of Vkraine in Red Russia renowned for their great services done as well to Christendom in general as to the Crown of Poland in guarding the Frontiers of that Kingdom against the Tartars Nevertheless in some times guilty of great Revolts too which have occasion'd divers Treaties of Peace betwixt them and Poland They speak a Dialect of the Polonian Language and for Religion are a mixture of the Greek the Roman and the Protestant Churches Cosse a Seigniory in the Province of Maine in France near St. Susanne giving Name to a Family of Quality Cossaei an ancient People dwelling about a Mountain of Media whom Alexander the Great sacrificed to the Manes of his dear Ephaestion in a transport of Grief for his Death say Polybins and Diodorus Cossovia Campus Merulâ—â— a Plain in Bulgaria not very much exceeding Lincoln-Heath yet the Stage of great Actions Here the greatest Christian Army that was ever brought into the Field in Europe consisting of 500000 Men under Lazarus Despot of Servia fought with the Forces of Amurath I. and lost the day in which Battel Lazarus was slain and Amurath viewing the dead bodies was stabbed by Michael Cobloivitz a Christian Souldier left for dead in the field Amurath hath here a Funeral Monument to this day This happened in 1390. In the same Field was also fought that remarkable Battel between Huniades and Mahomet for three days together in which Huniades his Forces were beaten being very unequal in number This Plain is bounded by the Mountains of Negri to the South by the River Nesaus to the East by Nissa to the North and by Ibar to the West one hundred and thirty
to Count Teckeley who commanded the Action for seventy Rix Dollars Crosno Crosna a small City in the Black Russia in the Kingdom of Poland in the Palatinate of Primyslie near the Carpathian Hills and the Rivers Visloc and Jasiolde Crossen Crossa a City in the Province of Silesia and Kingdom of Bohemia upon the River Oder where it entertains the River Borber from the South about ten Miles above Franckfort This is the Capital of a small Dukedom which being many Ages ago mortgaged to the Duke of Brandenburg and not redeemed in due time has ever since been in his Possession Crotona an ancient City in the Further Calabria in Italy which is now a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio Milo and several other famous Athletae were Natives of this place in whose times it was no less than twelve Miles in circuit Croty a Sea-Port on the North side of the Somme in Picardy two French Miles from Asselane to the South and the same distance from Caen in Normandy to the North. Crouch one of the little Rivers of the County of Essex Crow or le Crou Crodoldus sometimes called Gonnesse is a River in the Isle of France which arising above a Village called Louvre five Miles East from St. Dennis falls into the Seine at S. Dennis Crowland a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Ellow upon the River Weeland in a very fenny low ground The best Streets of it are severed from each other not unlike Venice by interjacent Water-courses and the Causeys leading to it so narrow that no Carts can possibly pass which may justifie the Proverb saying All the Carts which come to Crowland are shod with Silver Croy a Village in Picardy two or three Leagues from Amiens giving its Name to a Family of Honor in the Low Countreys Croydon or Croyden Neomagus a Market Town in Surrey the Capital of its Hundred seated near the Spring head of the River Wandle nine Miles from London where the Archbishop of Canterbury has a Countrey House it has an Hospital for the Poor and a Free-School for Children founded by Archbishop Whitgift Crumaw or Crumeaw Crumaviae a Town in the Province of Moravia in Germany betwixt Brin and Znaim adorned with the Title of a Dukedom and a fine Castle Crussol a Seigniory in the Province of Vivaretz in France near the Rhosne giving its Name and the Title of Earl to an Honourable Family Cresiphon an ancient Town of the Kingdom of Assyria near the Tygris said to be built by the Parthians Cuama or Coama a River of the Kingdom of Sofala in Africa said to derive its Source from the Lake of Sachaf where it has the Name of Zamber towards the Mountains of the Moon the same Lake that the Moderns take to be the Head of the Nile Cuba an Island in the Bay of Mexico in America to the South of Florida which is one of the greatest that belongs to that part of the World It has on the East Hispaniola divided from it by a Bay of the breadth of fourteen Spanish Leagues on the West the firm Land of America on the South Jamaica at the distance of nineteen Leagues In length two hundred Spanish Leagues in breadth not above thirty five The greatest part of it is Mountainous but well watered Infinitely peopled when the Spaniards discovered it but they destroy'd all the Inhabitants and have not been able yet to people it themselves so that the greatest part is desolate This and Jamaica were the first Places of America which Columbus discovered in 1492. There are six Cities in this Island the principal of which is St. Jago on the South side and Havana a noble and well fortified Sea-Port on the North side under the Tropick of Cancer Cuckfield or Cuxfield a Market Town in Sussex in Lewis Rape Cuco a strong City by Situation upon a high Hill in the Kingdom of Algiers in Africa towards the River Major The Soil it stands in affords plenty of all things necessary for humane life Cucusa an ancient City of Armenia the Less upon the Frontiers of Cilioia and Cappadocia having formerly born the honour of an Episcopal See and the more remark'd in History for being the place whither S. John Chrysostom was banished by the order of the Empress Eudoxa Cuenca Concâ—a a City of New Castile in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo the Capital of La Sierra It stands in a Rocky and Mountainous Country upon the River Xucar twenty five Leagues East from Toledo and thirty four West from Valencia Built by the Goths out of the Ruines of a Roman City called Valeria not far distant The Moors became next Masters of it and kept it till 1177. when the Spaniards recovered it again Cueva a Town in the Kingdom of Castile in Spain giving its Name there to a Family of Honor. Cufa a City of Chaldaea or Yerach in Asia upon the West side of Euphrates sixty Miles South from Bagdet or Babylon on the Borders of Arabia Deserta and heretofore the Residence of the Califfs after that it was under the Persians and at present under the Turks being much declined from its ancient Splendor Wealth and Greatness Long. 79. 10. and Lat. 32. 00. forty five German Miles above Balsera North. Cuhiung a City and Territory of the Province of Junnan in China having Jurisdiction over six other old Cities and standing in a fruitful and pleasant Country that is provided with Mines of Silver and Precious Stones Cujavio Cujavia a Province of the Kingdom of Poland bounded on all sides by the greater Poland but the North where it has Prussia The chief Town is Brestia Brezestie ten Miles from Thorn to the South and thirty from Damzick Culhu Cullus a Town and Port upon the Mediterranean in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa where the River Collo or Culhu is discharged into the Sea betwixt Hipone and Bugia Culliton a Market Town in Devonshire the Capital of its Hundred Culm a City of Poland upon the Vistula in Prussia built upon a Hill This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gnesa though heretofore under the Archbishop of Riga built in 1223. by the Knights of the Teutonick Order but having suffered much in the Swedish Wars it is now almost desolate and the Bishop has removed his Palace to Colme three Miles more to the East Culm stands twenty Miles South of Dantzick and ten North from Waldislaw and is the Capital of a little Country adjacent called by the Inhabitants Colmischland Culembach Culembachium a small Town in Franconia upon the River Mayn near the Rise of it six Miles from Bamberg East and as many from Coberg South-East the Capital of a Marquisate belonging to the Duke of Brandenburg and part of the Burgravate of Noremburg between the Territory of Bamberg to the West Misnia to the North Bohemia and Bavaria to the East and Norimburg to the South belonging also to the Duke of Brandenburg Culembourg
ancient City of Nubia in Africa And a River of the same Name in the Kingdom of Morocco Cusco Cuscum a great City of Peru in the South America one hundred and twenty Miles East from Lima. It was the Royal City of the Kings of Peru adorned with a stately Temple dedicated to the Sun and divers noble Palaces and an admirable Fortress when the Spaniards conquered it but now dispeopled and ruined Yet it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima. Cussit a Province in Aethiopia Custrin Custrinum a City in the Marquisate of Brandenburg on the East side of the River Oder where it receives the Warta four Miles North from Franckfort a very strong Place Cuzagne a small Territory or District in Aquitaine in France Cuzt a large Province of the Kingdom of Fez in Africa lying eighty Leagues along the River Gureygure as far as to the River Esaha East of the Province of Temesen and containing all the courses of the Mountain Atlas betwixt those two Rivers Cyclades a Circle of little Islands in the Archipelago surrounding the Island of Delos call'd Paros Andros Zea Micoli Naxia Quiniminio c. Cyclopes the original Inhabitants of the Island of Sicily living about Mount Aetna whose extraordinary height mixt with fierceness occasioned many Fictions amongst the Poets Cydnus a River of Cilicia in Asia the Less passing by Cogni and Tharsus Alexander the Great took a desperate Sickness by bathing in it and some say the Emperor Frederick Barberaosse died of the coldness of its Water as he returned from the East in the year 1100. Cydonia the same with Canea in Candia Cylley Celia a City of Stiria in Germany upon the River Saana which a little lower falls into the Save it stands ten Miles from Lambach to the East and as many from Draburgh to the South-East The Capital of a County of the same Name and belongs to the Emperor of Germany there is in it two very strong Castles and many Roman Antiquities are thereabouts discovered Cynopolis an ancient City of the Kingdom of Egypt upon the Western part of the Nile remark'd heretofore for the Worship of the God called Anubis in it Cynthus a Mountain in the Island of Delos upon which the ancient Pagans built a celebrated Temple in the honour of Apollo who together with Diana was supposed to be born here of Lâ—tona Cyparissa an ancient Town of the Morea that did belong to the Government of Messene and imparted its Name to the Cape and Gulph adjacent Cyprus an Island of the Mediterranean Sea called by the Turks and Arabians Kubros about sixty Miles North from the Shoars of Syria and Anatolia and extended in length from East to West two hundred and twenty its Circuit about five hundred and fifty This Island is so very fruitful the Air so pleasant and the Hills abounding so with Metals that it was by all the Ancients call'd The Happy Island Ammianus Marcellinus saith it could build a Ship and fraight her out to Sea out of what grew here without the help of any other place The first Inhabitants were the Cilicians who yielded to the Phenicians as these did to the Greeks Ptolomy the last King of this Island knowing that Cato was sent against him by the Romans put an end to his own Life It continued in the hands of the Greek Emperors till 656. when it was conquered by the Saracens In 807. the Emperors recovered it but Richard I. King of England going to the Holy War in 1191. and being ill used by the Inhabitants made a Conquest of it for England and gave it to Guy de Lusignan whose Successors were dispossessed by the Templars in 1306. In 1472. the Venetians possessed themselves of it in 1560. Selim the Grand Seignor gained it from them whose Successor at this day enjoys it not without some Confusion and as occasion serves Insurrection of the Inhabitants against the Turks There are three considerable places in it Merovige at the West end Colosso on the South side and Famagusta on the same side more to the East and about eight hundred and fifty Villages Cypsella See Ipsala Cyr Ciropolis Cyrus the same with Carin Cyrene See Cairoan Cythera See Cerigo Cyziqua an ancient City of Asia built in the twenty fourth Olympiad upon the Propontis and honoured in the Primitive Ages of Christianity with a Metropolitan See under the Patriarch of Constantinople Over against the Ruines of it stands a little Island famous for the Marble that they call the Marble of Cyziqua Czaslaw Czaslavia a very small City in Bohemia upon the River Crudimka nine Miles from Prague to the East with a considerable Prefecture belonging to it John Zisca the famous Captain of the Hussites who so sharply revenged the deaths of John Hus and Jerome of Prague was here buried Czeben See Hermanstat Czenstokow or Czeschow Chestocovia a Town in Poland upon the River Warta twenty five Miles East of Breslaw ten North-West of Cracovia It is strong as well by Situation as its Fortifications Czeremissi a Province or rather a People of Moscovy reduced under the Empire of the Grand Duke in the year 1552. Lying on both sides of the River Wolga betwixt the Cities Novogorod-Nisi and Casan They are partly Mahometans and partly Pagans of the Race of the Tartars Czeremicz Sulonia a Town in Dalmatia Czernikow or Czernishaw Czernihovia a City and Dutchy in Poland upon the River Deszna which falls into the Nieper at Kiovia twenty eight Miles South-West of Szernikow or Czernihow This City is now in the hands of the Russ as also the Dukedom thereunto belonging called by the same name They belonged originally to the Russ and together with Novogrod were conquered by Vladislaus IV. King of Poland so that the Russ has only recovered what was his own Czernobel a Town in the Palatinate of Volhinia in Poland upon the River Vsz two or three Leagues from the Borysthenes of little consideration Czersk a Palatinate and Czesko a City upon the Vistula seven Polish Miles above Warzovia or Warshaw Czyrkassi Czyrcassia a strong Town in the Vkraine upon the Nieper twenty seven Polish Miles beneath Kiovia towards the Euxine Sea it has suffered great Extremities of late years from the Cossacks and Tartars being a Frontier to both those People Czyrknizerzee or Zirichnitz Lugeum a great Lake in the Province of Carniola in Germany extended the space of four Miles betwixt the Woods and Mountains towards Italy full of Fish ebbing and flowing extraordinarily and begetting a fruitful Soyl. D A DAbir or Debir an ancient City of the Anakims in Palestine near Hebron It had been formerly call'd Kirjah-Sepher i. e. the City of Learning as we read Judg. 1. 11. And was first taken by Joshua Josh 11. 21. afterwards by Othniel Judges 1. 13. with a reward of the General Caleb's Daughter given him to Wife for his Victory Dabul Dabulum Dunga a strong Maritime City with a large Port and a Castle at the Mouth of the
of the World it followed the Fate of Syria successively subject to all the four great Empires and famous under all But then the Conversion of S. Paul which happened in part near and in part within this City is one of the greatest things that has in the Course of so many Ages befallen it This was also one of the first great Cities the Saracens took from the Romans after a Siege of six Months in 636. by Omar the Successor of Abubecher In 813. it was made the Seat of one of their Califs Babylon being the second and Grand Cairo the third Conradus III. Emperor of Germany attempted in 1147. to reduce it without any good Success by reason of the Divisions amongst the Christians in the Holy Land In 1298. it was taken by Cassan the Turk and 30000 Saracens slain but the Saracens soon after recovered it About 1395. it became a Prey to that Flagellum Dei Tamerlane the great Scythian Conqueror After this it was subject to the Sultans of Aegypt till Selim I. about 1514. subjected it to the Ottoman Empire under which it still is This City is an Archbishop's See under the Patriarch of Antioch the Seat of one of the Turkish Visiers in a fruitful Valley so extreamly pleasant withal as amongst many Writers to gain the Title of the Paradise of the World Yet not mightily inhabited of later times being more visited by Pilgrims of the Turkish and Christian Religions than by Merchants The Current of the Trade running by Aleppo fifty Miles more North. It is now called by the Turks Scham Long. 69. 00. Lat. 33. 00. Dambea a City and Kingdom in Aethiopia in Africa near the Fountains of the Nile which has a Lake in it of the same Name twenty five French Leagues in Length and fifteen in Breadth incompassed on all sides by Mountains out of which arise a vast Number of Rivers to form this Lake called Bar-Dambea the Sea of Dambea in the Aethiopick Language And out of these Waters thus united the Nile springeth at some Distance from the Mounains See Nile There are twenty one Islands standing in this Lake the chiefest of which is Dek Damiata a City of Egypt upon one of the more Eastern Mouths of the Nile Anciently called Tamiatis or Damiata and now by the Arabians Damiat This City stands on the opposite Shoar to Pelusium and grew out of the Ruins of it Taken by the Christians in 1218. But in 1221. they were forced to restore it being involved in such Miseries by the Waters that were let loose upon them that they must otherwise have perished After this it was retaken by Lewis IX in 1249. who being afterwards taken Prisoner by the Sultan was forced to restore it as his Ransom after which the Saracens burnt it This is an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Alexandria and now a great well peopled City and one of the Keys of that Country Long. 63. 20. Lat. 31. 10. Dammartin or Dampmartin Domnum Martinum a Town in the Province of the Isle of France near Paris Adorned with a Collegiate Church and famous in French History for the Earls of the House that derive their Name from it Damor Leon a River in Phoenicia which ariseth from Mount Lebanon and falls into the Mediterranean Sea between Sydon and Bayrut Damut Damot or Damout a Kingdom of the higher Aethiopia heretofore under the Abissins but now torn from them by the Gala's It s Situation is towards the Lake of Zaire There are many Golden Mines in it and a City the Capital of the same Name Dampierre a Barony in the Territory of Aunis in France upon the River Boutonne or Voltunna Damvillers Damvillerum or Danvilliers Danvillerium a strong Town in Luxemburgh upon the River Maes seated upon a Hill five Leagues from Verdun to the North and about eight German Miles from Thionville to the West Taken by the French in 1637. and annexed to the Dutchy of Lorrain but in 1673. dismantled Danambre See the Nieper Danby an ancient Castle in the Tract of Cleveland in the North-Riding of Yorkshire seated near a large Park and Chase of the same Name First advanced to the Dignity of an Earldom by King Charles I. in the Person of Henry Danvers of the Line of the Lord Latimer to whom this Castle did anciently belong and afterwards upon the Default of Issue from the said Henry in the Person of Thomas Osborn created by King Charles II. Baron of Kineton and Viscount Latimer in 1673. and Earl of Danby the year after The now Marquess of Caermarthen from King William Dandalii an ancient People of Germany of great Power in the twelfth Century and so addicted to their Paganism that VValdemar King of Denmark with the Princes of Pomerania and Saxony were obliged to force them by Sea and Land to hear Christianity preached amongst them Dangala or Dancala a City of the Vpper Aethiopia upon the Nile in the Tract of Nubia whereof it is the Capital and in the Kingdom of Gorhani towards the North. Long. 52. Lat. 10. Danneberg or Daneberg a Town and County in the Dukedom of Lunenburgh upon the River Tetza four Miles from the Elb and seven from Lunenburgh to the South-East The Town has a Castle belonging to it The County belongs to the Duke of Zell and is extended from East to West upon the Elb between the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh to the North the Marquisate of Brandenburg to the South and East and the Dukedom of Lunenburgh to the West It had heretofore Earls of its own but Nicolas the last of them in 1303. sold it to Otto Duke of Brunswick Of latter Times it was under the Duke of VVolfembuttel and by him was granted in 1671. to the Duke of Zell Dantsick Dantzik Dantiscum Gedanum called by the Inhabitants and Poles Danske and Danzig by the Germans is a vast well fortified City of Poland the Capital of Prussia in the little Pomerania with a noble Haven and Castle upon the Vistula which a League below dischargeth it self into the Bay of Dantzick a Part of the Baltick Sea So watered by two other Rivers the Rodaun and the Motlau towards the South and West it has some Hills which in 1656. were first fortified against the Swedes This City is Imperial and Free belonging originally to the Empire Primislaus King of Poland in 1295. first walled it against the Knights of the Teutonick Order as Cromerus saith lib. 11. After this it was betrayed to the Marquess of Brandenburgh by one Peter Chancellor of Pomerania who being in wrath with Vladislaus Lochicus his Master King of Poland and the Castle thereupon surprised by the Teutonick Order who pretended to assist Vladislaus they demanded a vast Sum of Money which the Citizens refusing to pay they proceeded to take the City to plunder and slay great Numbers of the Inhabitants In 1310. Sigismundus Augustus took away half the Customs upon their Disrespect to his Ambassador who was sent to quiet them then in Tumult and
Vpper Gascony it ariseth in Armagnac and running Northward watereth Aux and Lectoure so falls into the Garonne over against Agen twenty five Miles above Bourdeaux Egesta or Aegesta and Segesta an ancient City of the Island of Sicily near the Promontory of Lilybaeum the inhabitants whereof are called Segestani in Pliny Eggiaford See Aland Eghmont a Town in the Northern parts of Holland which hath the honour of the Title of an Earldom two Leagues from Berverwick and within half a League of the same distance from Alâ—maer An Abbey of the Benedictines rendered it heretofore very considerable It gives Name to one of the principal Families in Holland Egli Thelis a River of Roussillon in Spain which riseth from the Pyrenean Hills and falls after a short Course into the Mediterranean Sea three French Miles North of Perpignan Egremont a Market Town in the County of Cumberland in the Hundred of Allerdale upon the Banks of a River not far from the Sea over which it hath two Bridges Cgrez Aegritia a River belonging to the Territory of the City of Basil called in the Maps Aegertz it ariseth from the Hills of Buchisgow and running North watereth Liechstall and falls into the Rhine three Miles above Basil many smaller Rivers fall into it before it reacheth Leichstall and one after but I cannot find their Names Egypt Aegyptus called by the Inhabitants Chibili by the Arabians Bardamasser by the Turks Misir which is very near the Hebrew Misraim by the Italians and Spaniards l' Egitto by the Germans Egypten Is the first the most fruitful most ancient most celebrated Kingdom of all Africa on the North it has the Mediterranean Sea on the East Arabia Deserta and the Red Sea on the South Aethiopia on the West Cyrene and the Deserts of Lybia The River Nile running the whole length of it and towards the Mediterranean Sea dividing it self into many Branches is the only cause of its Fertility by overflowing it every year in the Month of June It is saith Cluverius from the City of Pelusium to the Cataracts of the Nile one hundred and fifty Miles from the same place to Conza in the West it is one hundred Miles broad in some places towards the South as Mr. Sandys saith above Grand Cairo it is for a long Tract consined between barren Mountains in many scarce four in few above eight Miles broad But then he extends it from North to South five hundred and sixty Miles and in breadth one hundred and forty English Miles at the North end Long. from 60. d. to 67. South Lat. from 22. to 31. This Country was peopled by Misraim the Son of Chus the Grandchild of Noah by Ham and maintained its Liberty under Princes of its own till God gave them into the hands of Nebuchadonosor in the year of the World 3365. five years after the ruine of Jerusalem by the same Prince Yet that Empire lying far off and being much shaken by intestine Divisions they recovered their Liberty again Cambyses reduced them the second time in the year of the World 3425. Xerxes conquered them about the year 3473. And yet Artaxerxes Ochus was necessitated to reduce them again for they set up Princes of their own and beat his Generals so he went in Person and having driven their King into Aethiopia he levelled their strongest Fortifications and made them so weak and helpless that they have been in Servitude ever since This Prince began his Reign in 3587. Reigned twenty three years and conquered them in 3602. Alexander the Great became their Master next in 3620. to whom they most willingly submitted out of a detestation of the Persian Government Ptolomy the Son of Lagus began his Reign over them in 3626. and Cleopatra the last of his Posterity destroyed her self to avoid Captivity in the year of the World 3920. eighteen years before the Birth of our Saviour From thence forward they were under the Romans This wretched Nation called in at length Haymaria III. of the Saracen Califfs and by his help cast out the Greek Garrisons about 862. In 1163. another Race succeeded called the Turkish Kings or Califfs which ended in 1245. when the Mamalucks or Slaves of that Race deposed their Masters and erected an Elective Kingdom out of their own Body the Prince whereof was for many Ages chosen out of a number of Men who began in Slavery and whose Profession was War they were in some sort the Janizaries of that Age. Tonombeius II. the last of them in 1517. was forced to submit to the prevailing Valour and Fortune of Selymus one of the Ottoman Princes under whom that Nation still groans And now let any man compare the ancient and present Maps of Egypt and his Eyes will shew him in one minute the difference between the ancient and the later Government The fruitful and populous Land of Egypt styled by the Romans the Granary of their Empire that was of old overspred with Cities and Towns being now almost desolate and all its ancient Glory Magnificence Riches and People buried in Rubbish and Ruins Names of Places that have no Inhabitants or Pictures of Beasts and Antiquities is almost all that is to be found here Grandcairo Alexandria Rossetta and Damiata are the only considerable places left of three thousand Towns that Strabo says there were in his time and of the eighteen thousand that Antiquity beheld in the Ages before Christianity is almost totally extirpated here as it is in Barbary and whereas the ancient Egyptians acquired a mighty reputation over all the East by their good Literature which drew the Philosophers of Greece to travel to them and particularly Plato and Eudoxus to live amongst them thirteen years the Egyptians being the famed Inventors of most of the Sciences expressed after an admirable manner in Hieroglyphieks which with their Lunar years their Deities the long Dynasties of their Kings their Customs of Polygamy Government and Worship so charming to the Israelites have been the subjects of the Pens of the Learned in divers Ages Now an universal Ignorance and Barbarity possesses their Country But I must not be long in so short a Work Ehenheim Enheimium a small City in the Vpper Alsatia upon the River Ergel which falls by Strasburgh into the Rhine a little above three Dutch Miles from Strasburgh to the South-West The Name of the River in the Maps is Ergers and of the City Ober-Hehenheim This was once an Imperial Free City but now under the Dominion of the French who are repairing the Ruines they made in it in its Acquisition Eiala Helicon Eichfield or Eischfelt Eischfeldia a District in the Province of Thuringia in Germany to the South of the Dukedom of Brunsivick under the Jurisdiction of the Elector of Mentz The Capital of it is Duderstad Eichtelberg a Mountain in the Marquisate of Culemback in Franconia famous for giving Source to four Rivers in Germany comprehended by their initial Letters in the Word MENS that is the Mayn the Eger the Nab
it standing in the Confines of these two Countries or Kingdoms and sometimes ascribed to the one sometimes to the other It lies thirty Miles from Philippos to the East and seventy five from Thessalonica to the East Now under Bondage to the Turks Long. 50. 00. Lat. 41. 30. Emeley Auna Emelia a small City in the County of Tipperary in the Province of Mounster in Ireland in the Confines of the County of Limerick upon the River Eslason which falls into the River More or Broadwater Heretofore great populous and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Cashel in the same County This City lies twenty four Miles from Limerick to the East Emenia an ancient Name of Thessalia Emilia a Province of the antient Italy lying along the Emiliana via which denominated it from Ariminum to Placentia and comprehending a part of the present Estates of the Pope the Dukes of Parma Modena Mantoua and Mirandola Call'd also Flaminia Emmaus a Village in the Tribe of Juda in Palestine distant from Jerusalem about sixty Furlongs Luc. 24. 13. At which our Saviour after his Resurrection discovered his Person to two of his Disciples by sitting down to eat with them and then vanished out of their Sight It is mentioned by Pliny upon the Account of some remarkable Fountains there The Devotion of Christians had advanced it to the Dignity of an Episcopal See and built it a Monastery before the Turks converted it into a Village again much more desolate than before inhabited by the Arabians only Emmen Amma a River of Switzerland deriving its beginning from the Valley of Lemmethal and after the reception of some Rivulets falling into the Aar below Soleurre Emmerick or Embrick Embrica Emmerica a large fair and rich Town in the Dutchy of Cleves in Germany upon the Eastern Banks of the Rhine betwixt Cleves and the Fort of Skein adorned with a Collegiate Church ever since the year 700. It is in the Possession of the Duke of Brandenburgh The Hollanders took it from the Spaniards in the year 1600. The French from the Hollanders in 1672. who the year after put it into the Duke of Brandenburgh's Hands Empurias Emporiae Castrum Aragonense Tibulae a strong City in the Western Quarter of the Island of Sardinia upon the River Termo or Termi or Aragonese with a good Port and a Cittadel and a Bishop's See in Conjunction with that of Terra Nova in the same Island It is more vulgarly now called Castel Aragonese because it was the first Town the Spaniards of Aragon possessed themselves of after the grant of Sardinia by Pope Boniface VIII to James II. King of Aragon about the Year 1296. Ems Eems Amasius Amisius Amasia Amasis a River of Germany which riseth in the Diocese of Paderborne near Wrle in a very deep Valley from a slow but plentiful Spring two Miles and an half from Paderborne to the North then running Westward and taking in the VVrle the Dalke and the Luter three small Rivers it entereth the Bishoprick of Munster having first passed by Retburgh the Capital of a small Country and watereth VVidenbrug or VVarendorp and receives the Hessel from Ravensberg on the South so passing Eme and Tillegt it receives from the North the VVerse and a little lower the Aa which watereth the City of Munster then turning North it passeth the Rhine and takes in another Aa on the East so by Linge he proceeds to Meppen where it admits the Hase a considerable River on the East too then passing by Landegge on the West and Nienhus on the East it entereth East-Friesland at the Fort of Oort takes in Soste from the East and by Oldersum and Nendorp passeth by Emden which takes its present as well as ancient Name from it and the Bay of Dullart into the German Ocean Enchuysen Enckuysen Ancusanum Enchusa is a small City belonging to the Vnited Provinces in Holland in that Part called West-Friesland which has a large and safe Haven upon the Zuyder Sea and affords excellent Pilots not above three Miles from Horn to the East and eight from Amsterdam to the North It stands on the Western shoar at the Entrance of the Zuyder Zee and was one of the first Towns that revolted and turned out the Spaniards in 1572. It had been burnt in 1279. But rebuilt and qualified with the Privileges of a City by VVilliam Earl of Holland in 1355. Encre Incra a River in Picardy in France with a Fort of the same Name upon it which falls into the Some at Corvie Enderen See Adrianople Endromit Adramyttium a City of the Lesser Asia in Phrygia and a Sea-Port upon the Archipelago over against the Island of Metellino Mitilene called by Europeans Andramiti by the Turks Edromit as Leunclavius affirms and by others S. Dimitri It is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Ephesus and I suppose is that which is called Landimetri in the later Maps seventeen German Miles North of Smyrna The Bay is called by the same Name and sometimes extended to all the Sea between this Town and the Island of Metellino sometimes contracted to that only which entereth the Shoars of Asia Hofman confirms my Conjecture and shews that this City has a Phoenician Name from Bochart it stands in a rich and fruitful Soil mentioned by Livy lib. 37. by Strabo lib. 13. by S. Paul Acts xxvii 2. Long. 55. 00. Lat. 40. 40. Engaddi or Engedi an ancient City of the Tribe of Judah in Palestine situated in a fruitful Soil for Wine as the Comparison intimates Cant. 1. 14. King David had an Opportunity to kill Saul in a Cavern of a Mountain near this Place Ptolemy and Stephanus mention it Engern Angria the seat of the ancient Angrivarii a Town in the Earldom of Ravensberg in the Province of Westphalia in Germany seven or eight Leagues from Munster Famous for the Tomb of Witichindus a Duke of the Saxons of high Renown in the time of Carolus M. The Elector of Cologne stiles himself Duke of this Place Engers a fair Town and Castle with a noble Bridge over the Rhine in the Archbishoprick of Trier in Germany betwixt Coblentz and Andernach Engia or Egina an Island of the Archipelago towards Europe at the Mouth of the Gulph of its own Name which was the Sinus Saronicus of the Ancients to the East of the Province of Sacania in the Morea and near Athens The Inhabitants whereof in former Ages were in a Condition to dispute with the Athenians for the Soveraignty of the Sea It is about thirty six Miles in Circuit The Capital City Engia which hath been the Seat of a Bishop under the Archbishop of Athens since Christianity but now no more than a Village and the whole Island unprovided of a good Port. In 1537. the Turkish Admiral Barberousse took this Island from the Venetians who retaking it in 1654. ruined all its Fortifications and abandoned it to the Plunder of their Soldiers The Relicts of two Famous Temples the one dedicated to
said to contain eight Cities whereof Fochen is the chief forty eight walled Towns and 509200 Families Fodway a City in the Lower Hungary which was formerly an Archbishops See stands in view of Colocza a City twelve Miles distant from Buda Foeroe Feroae Provincia Feroensis Insulae Farenses by the Inhabitants called Feroier is a Province subject to the King of Denmark as King of Norway consisting of 17 Islands in the Northern Ocean which have Norway on the East Orkney and Scotland on the South-East Greenland on the West and Iseland on the North-West under 62 deg 10. min. of Lat. separated by deep and rapid Waters from one Mile long to 24 and from one to eight broad extending from North to South sixty Miles in breadth above forty all cultivated and inhabited Their Names are Fugloe Suinoe Wideroe Bordoe Kunoe Kalsoe Osteroe Nolsoe Stromoe which is the largest Waagoe Myggeness Kolster Hestoe Sandoe Skuoe Slorediemen and Sudoroe In Stromoe there is a good Harbor called Thorsehaven where the general Commerce of the Land is established and the King's Contributions kept under the Protection of a Fort built by Christian IV. King of Denmark Their Commodities are Skins Feathers Tallow Train-Oil Fish but especially Stockins whereof they export yearly above 60000 pair in their Trade to Iseland Norway and Denmark which they perform without Silver Money by adjusting their Prices and taking Ware for Ware Here is Angelica radix Rhodia plenty of high Grass and wild Cattel whence the Province bears a wild Sheep for their Arms. These Islands became first inhabited by the Norwegians about the year 868 being governed by their own Chiefs till reduced to the Obedience of the Kings of Norway in the Eleventh Century who at the same time erected them into a Bishoprick For in an Ordinance of Hagen Duke of Norway son to King Magnus dated in 1040. relating to this People which was confirmed to them by Christian IV. King of Denmark Feb. 4. 1637. we find Mr. Ellender mentioned with the Title of Bishop of Feroe Upon the Reformation Christian IV. translated this Bishoprick into a Provosâ—ship under the Bishops of Bergen which has since been subjected to those of Copenhagen upon the removal of the Commerce of Feroe from Bergen thither There are in all thirty nine Parish Churches divided into seven Church-Corporations as they call them and to each Corporation one Priest of the Faith of the Confession of Ausburgh who besides little Contributions from Communicants receives for Tithes not the Tenth but the fourth part of Corn Butter Wool and Fish and makes out the rest of his Maintenance for himself and Family by honest Working and Tillage At Thorsehaven there is a School for the Youth erected and endowed by Christian III. King of Denmark They speak the Danish and Norwegian Languages mixt and are governed according to the Laws of Norway See Lucas Jacobson Debes sometime Provost of Feroe his Description of the Islands and Inhabitants translated out of Danish and printed Lond. 1672. Foggia a small Town in the Capitanata in the Kingdom of Naples upon the River Cervaro seven or eight miles from the Adriatick Ocean There is a famous Custom-house here call'd La Dogana di Foggia Fogie Phocaea a Town in the Lesser Asia upon the Archipelago over against the Isle of Metelino seated upon the River Lohat Hermus called anciently Phociae and now Fochia or Foja Nova a very considerable Place and made more so by a Naval Victory obtained here by the Venetians over the Turks in 1649. Foglia Isaurus Pisaurus a River of Italy it springeth from the Apennine and running through the Dukedom of Vrbino falls into the Adriatick Sea at Pesaro Foix Fuxum or Fuxium a Town in Languedoc upon the River Lauriegne at the foot of the Pyrenean Hills from which the adjacent Country is called the County of Foix it stands six Leagues from the borders of Spain to the North and twelve from Tolouse to the South § Le Comte de Foix called by the Spaniards El Contado de foix is a County in Aquitain in France which was heretofore a part of Le Conserans but now contained in Languedoc there are sixteen Castellanies or Prefectures in it and the Cities of Pamiers Apamea Tarascon and Foix from which it has its name This gives a Title to a Noble Family of France frequently mentioned in all their Stories Fokien See Fochien Fokingham a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Aveland Foligni See Fuligno Folkeston a Market Town in Kent in Shepway Lath. It belongs as a Member to the Port of Dover containing formerly five Parishes now reduced to one Fondi Fundi a small City in Terra dâ— Lavoro a Province of Naples upon the borders of Campagna di Roma which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capua from whence it stands almost forty English Miles to the North-West and about fifty five from Rome to the South in a fruitful Plain about six miles from the Ionian Sea There is a Castle in Fondi It has the honour to be an Earldom and gives its Name to a Lake in the Vicinage In the year 1594. the Turks pillaged it The famous Admiral Barberoasse with some Troops of Pyrates made once a Descent upon it with a design to steal Julia de Gonzagua Widow of Vespasian Colonna one of the finest Women of that Age to make a Present of her to Solyman the Grand Seignior And narrowly missing her he set fire in revenge to the Town Il Lago di Fondi is a Lake that lies between the former City and the Sea which was heretofore very great and equal to that called the Pomptinae Paludes by the Romans but now reduced to a circuit of about four Miles as Baudrand saith who saw it in 1667. Font-Astoruge Orge a small River in Provence commonly called Sorgue in the County of Vendosme which falls into the Rhosne above Avignon Fontain-bleau Fons-Bellaqueus or the Fountain of fair Water is a most delicious Village in the Isle of France in the Territory de Gastinois not above one Mile from the Seyne and fourteen from Paris to the South In which Francis I. built a most stately royal Country House much improved by Henry IV. Lewis VII had before built a Castle here in 1169 and to it this noble House was added by his Successors in which was born Francis II. in 1â—â—4 Henry III. in 1551. Lewis XIII in 1604. Philip the Fair was also born in this Town in 1266. The Conference of Religion at this place May 4. 1600. in the presence of Henry le Grand King of France his Chancellors and Secretaries seven Princes and divers Bishops betwixt the Sieur du Plessis Mornay and James Davy Bishop of Eureux afterwards Cardinal of Perron upon an Accusation made by the latter that Du Plessis had falsified the Fathers in the Citations of his book against the Mass in no less than 500 places may be mentioned here as one of the most famous Occurrences as
the Ancients Frias Frigida a City in Old Castile in the Valley of Tobalina upon the River Ebro called Phrygia in the Roman Martyrology and by Lactantius Friburg in Brisgaw in Switzerland See Freiburg Fricenti or Fricento Aeculanum Eclanum Frequentum a small City in the Province of Principatus Vlterior in the Kingdom of Naples in Italy which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento but the Bishoprick has for the two last Centuries been united with that of Avellino This City is sometimes called Fricentum by the later Latin Writers now almost reduced to a Village It stands upon the River Tripalto Tripaltum at the foot of the Apennine fifteen Miles from Benevento to the North-East and twelve from Avellino in the Possession of the Prince of Venosa Fridberg Fridberga a City of Misnia in the Vpper Saxony upon the River Mult towards the Mountains of Bohemia four German Miles from Meissen Misna the Capital of Misnia to the South This City was besieged with very ill success by the Swedes in the great German War in 1642. though they were then possessed of all the other Towns in Misnia Also honoured with the Tombs of the Electors of Saxony § Fridberg Frideberga a small City in Germany in the Province of Weteraw which is Imperial and Free It has its Name from Frederick II. and is as much as Friederichberg by contraction Fridberg There belongs to it a Castle of the same Name which stands four German Miles from Franckfort to the North. Friedberg Fredberga a small Town in Bohemia in the Dukedom of Jawer Queiss Quissus towards the Mountains in the Borders of Bohemia eight German Miles from Jawer towards the West and five from Gorlitz to the North-East Fridericlis or Frīderica a small but very strong City in Brasil in America upon the Coast of Paraiba or La Capitania de Paraiba which was built by the Dutch and taken from them by the Portuguese to whom both this City and Province are now subject Friderick-Ude a Fort in Jutland upon the Streight of Midlefar built by Frederick III. King of Denmark taken and ruined by the Swedes in 1658. Fridericksburg a strong Fort in Germany by the City of Manheim upon the union of the Necker and the Rhine in the Lower Palatinate so called from Frederick IV. Elector Palatine who built it in 1610. After this it was taken and demolished by the Spaniards and since rebuilt by Charles Lewis Elector Palatine it is scarce three Miles from Heidelburg to the West and as many from Spire to the North. Taken by the French and afterwards burnt in 1689. § Fridericksburg the Castle and Royal Palace of the Kings of Denmark in Zealand three Miles from Croonenburg to the West and five from Copenhagen to the South-West famous for a Congress of the Kings of Denmark and Sweden in these later times This was heretofore called the Castle of Ebelholt and was the Monastery of the Holy Ghost of which William Parisiensis who is since Canonized died Abbat in 1201. Frederick II built this Castle Christian IV. his Son was born in it April 22. 1577. who very much beautified and adorned it § There is also a Fort and Town of the same Name in Guinea built by the Danes of late Friderickstad a small Danish City in South Jutland in the Dukedom of Sleswick built by Frederick Duke of Holstein and Sleswick under whom it is in 1622. It stands upon the River Eyder where it takes in the Trenna two German Miles from Tonning to the East five from Sleswick and four from Gottorp West § There is another City of the same Name in Norway upon the Baltick Sea fifty German Miles from Christianstad to the North-West in the Province of Agerhuis which is under the King of Denmark Friesach Friesacum Frisakum Virunum a small Town in the Vpper Carinthia but under the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Saltzburg seated upon the River Matuitz with a Castle on a Rock not far off Frigido Boactus a River dividing between Genoua and the Dukedom of Florence Frignana Friniana a Territory in the Dukedom of Modena at the foot of the Apennine the chief Town of which is Sestula towards the Borders of Bologna Frisch Narung an Island of Prussia at the Mouth of the Vistula Frischaff a long Bay in the same place upon which stand Elbing Frawenburg Brawnberg and Koningsperg Friseland Frisia called by the Dutch Uriessandt by the French Frise by the Italians Frisia is the Name of three several Countries 1. Friseland properly so called one of the States of Holland 2. East Friseland a Province in Germany 3. West Friseland properly the North part of the Earldom of Holland and sometimes there is a fourth added which is North Friesland or Jutland 1. Friseland Frisia Urieslandt Frieslandt Friseland in Dutch German and English is a Province of the Vnited Netherlands heretofore much greater than now for it reached from the Zuyder Zee on the West to the Bay of Dollert by Emden on the East and it was then divided by the River Lavica Lawers into two parts Frisia cis Lavicana now Groningen and Frisia trans Lavicana now called Friesland but since that Omland has been taken out of this Province too which has much lessened it it is now bounded on the South with the Zuyder Zee and Over-Yssel on the West and North with the German Sea and on the East with Groningen The principal Towns in it are Docum Francker Harlingen Leeuwarden which is the Capital and Stavenen 2. West-Friesland is a considerable part of the Earldom of Holland to which it has for some Ages been united with North-Holland on the South the Zuyder Zee on the East and North and the German Ocean on the West sometime called Kenmar The principal Cities in it are Alckmaer Amsterdam the greatest City in the Vnited Provinces Enchuysen Harlem and Hoorn This Country is generally Marshy and Fenny and unfit for Corn but very good Pasture the Air is also foggy and unhealthful and they want fewel too to rectifie it Charles the Bald gave these Countries then almost unpeopled by the Norman Pyracies to Thierrie Son of Sigebert a Prince of Aquitain with the Title of Earl in 863. from whom proceeded a Race of Princes seventeen in number which successively governed it till 1300. from which time they were subject to the Earls of Holland and together with Holland came to the House of Austria with Holland they revolted from the Spaniards in 1580. and joined in the League against them East-Friesland called by the Germans Oost-Freeslandt by the Inhabitants Oost Frise is a part of Westphalia a Province of Germany which heretofore was also called the Earldom of Embden from a City in it which though not great is much celebrated This Earldom is under a Prince of its own now bounded on the North by the German Ocean on the East by the Earldom of Oldenburgh on the South by the Bishoprick of Munster and on the West it is
is also a Fort of this name built by the Hollanders on the Coast of Coromandel in the Kingdom of Narfinga on the Bay of Bengala in the East-Indies Geliboli See Gallipoli Geluchalat Mantiana a Lake in the greater Armenia Minadoio saith it is now called Astamar it receives eight great Rivers and sends none out of it and is eight days Journey in compass Long. 80. Lat. 40. Gelise Gelisa a River in Aquitain in France which washeth the City of Eusse and falls into the Losse which falls into the Garonne five Miles beneath Agen to the West Geloni an ancient People of Scythia Europaea Neighbours to the Agathyrsi described to fleay their Enemies and make themselves Cloths of their Skins Mel. Alex. ab Alex. Gemblours Gemblacum a Town in Brabant upon the River Orne in the Borders of Namur five Miles from Brussels to the South four from Charleroy to the East and five from Lovain This Town has a Monastery in it and saw a bloody Fight near it between the Dutch and Spaniards in 1578. Baudrand Gemen Arabia Foelix Gemona Glemona a small Town in Friuli under the State of Venice Gemunder a Lake in Austria Genamani an Island in the Red Sea on the Coast of Aethiopia called Gythites by the Ancients in Lat. 25. 20. Genep or Gennep Gennepium a fortified but small Town in the Dutchy of Cleves in Germany two or three Leagues from Cleves upon the River Niers which there falls into the Meuse It belongs to the Elector of Brandenbourg tho the Hollanders keep a Garrison in it too who retrieved it from the Spaniards in 1641. Geneva Civitas Genevensium Januba Genabum Jenoba is the most Eastern City belonging to the Allobroges or Savoyards which together with its Bridge over the Rhosne is mentioned by Julius Caesar in his Commentaries It is great populous well fortified and built with a good Cathedral and Arsenal the Capital of the Province of Genevois and seated at the West end of the Lake of Lemane on the South side of the Rhosne in that place where this River comes out of the Lake seventeen Miles from Lion to the East and twenty six from Basil to the South upon the borders of Switzerland heretofore a very famous Mart which is long since removed to Lion and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Vienna and an University founded by the Emperor Charles IV. in 1368. The French call this City Geneve the Germans Genff about nine hundred years since in an ignorant and an unlearned Age it was called Gebenna the Italians call it Geneura Mercator believes it built in the Year of the World 2994. in the times of Asa King of Judah by Leman the Father of the Germans there is no need of pretences which can never be proved Caesar's Testimony and the Roman Inscriptions that are found here are sufficient proofs of its Antiquity by the latter it appears this was a Roman Colony It was indeed the last Town Northward in the Provincia Romana according to the ancient Division of Gallia We should have had more Roman Antiquities than we have too if this City had not in the course of so many Ages suffered very much from Enemies and Fire In the Reign of Aurelius Antoninus it was almost all burnt which Prince contributed so much to the rebuilding and bestowed such Privileges on it that it was called Aurelia for some time from him but upon his death reassumed its ancient name In the irruption of the Barbarous Nations into the Roman Empire it suffered the same Calamities with other Cities something sooner as being nearer the Frontiers but then it met with an early Restorer in Genebald King of Burgundy About three hundred and fifty years since it was burnt twice in seven years It has had the Counts of Geneva and the Dukes of Savoy at all times the great Pretenders to the Sovereignty over it and has always defended its Privileges manfully against them In 1412. when Amadaeus Duke of Savoy endeavoured to obtain a Title to this City by an exchange Joannes à Petra Scissa then Bishop and the Inhabitants agreed that if any Person should consent to the Alienation of its Liberty he should be treated like a Traytor These and the like Traverses of their Neighbour Princes forced them in 1535. to enter into a League with the Canton of Bearn which was to last for ever the change of Religion having then heightned their Neighbours Rage against them In 1584. having suffered a very sharp Siege and a miserable Famine by the help of the Canton of Zurich they prevailed so far as to force the Duke of Savoy and their Bishop to renounce all their Pretences They reaped no less glory from their defeating the Nocturnal Scalado of Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy in 1602. This City rejected the Ch. of Rome in 1535. Whereupon they applied the Revenue of the Bishoprick with the Tithes of the Territory of Gex to the maintenance of their own Ministry of the Reformation There has been a Roman Catholick Titular Bishop of Geneva ever since continued who resides at Anneci and with other the Titular Beneficiaries within this District obtain'd a Decree from the Parliament of Dijon Anno 1687. to be restored to their ancient Possessions But without success as for any effect it had upon the Government here who though they enter into no Alliance during the present War with the Confederate Princes yet stand upon their Defence against France The Preaching of Calvin Beza and Farellus the retreat of some English Protestants hither during the Reign of Q. Mary and of others in divers times from several Countries have distinguished the zeal of this place for the Reformation The Province of Genevois which derives its name from it is bounded by the Provinces of Chablais and Fossigny to the East the Rhone to the West and in part also to the North and with Savoy properly so called to the South There is lately published an exact History of this City by M. Spon and therefore I need add no more § The Lake of Geneva See Lemane Genezareth Genesara a Lake in Palestine between the Tribes of Zabulon to the West and the half Tribe of Manasseh to the East also called the Sea of Tiberias and Galilee which Lake is entered by the River Jordan at Capernaum and left at Sythopolis it is eighteen Miles long and seven broad on the Western Shoar stand Capernaum Tiberias and Bethsaida on the Eastern Corasain and Gersa The many Miracles our Blessed Saviour wrought upon and about this Lake have made it famous to all Ages and Nations Gengen or Giengen Rhiusiavia a small City in Schwaben near the Danube others say it is Rosenfield in the Dukedom of Wirtenburgh to which this ancient name mentioned by Ptolomy belongs The City Gengen lies between Vlm and Norlingen five Miles from each the second not above four Miles from Tubingen to the South but Giengen is not the same Town with Giesâ—ingen but lies about four Miles
it is a low Marshy or Hollow Soil and much over-spread with Waters It is great too and very fruitful having on the North the Zuider Sea on the West the German Ocean on the South Zealand and Brabant and on the East Vtrecht Guelderland and a part of the Zuider About sixty Leagues in Circuit therein containing twenty nine walled Towns besides others heretofore walled which enjoy the same privileges with those that are and four hundred Villages eighteen of the principal Towns have Seats in the Assemblies of the States General to wit Dort Haerlem Delft Leyden Amsterdam Goude Rotterdam Gorcum Schiedam Schoonhoven Briel Alcmaer Hoorne Enchuysen Edam Monnikendam Medenblik and Purmerend Yet the diameter of this Province may be traversed in six hours In former times it was more extended towards the East of Nimeguen it s District being then a part of Holland The Batavi a Warlike Nation possessed the greatest part of this Country in the times of the Roman Empire who were conquered by Julius Caesar with the rest of the Galls of whom this was then thought a part After the Roman Empire was overthrown in the West this Province being almost dispeopled by the Inroads of the Norman Pyrats was given by Charles the Bald to Thierrie or Theodorick a Prince of Aquitain Son of Sigebert about 863. with the Title of a Count or Earl his Posterity enjoyed it till 1206. in seventeen Descents when it passed to the Earls of Hainault in which Family it continued till 1417. and then it passed by the Surrender of Jaqueline Countess of Hainaule and Holland to Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy and so to the Spaniards When Philip II. treated this Free People ill they revolted and in 1572. submitted to VVilliam of Nassau Prince of Orange and in 1581. declared King Philip to have forfeited all his Sovereignty and having leagued themselves with their Neighbour States they defended themselves so well against that Prince by the assistance of Queen Elizabeth that at last they forced the Spaniards to acknowledge them a Free State And though the French King Lewis XIV by a sudden Surprize brought them very low in the year 1672. yet the next year they forced him to withdraw his Garrisons and recovered every inch of Ground from him The Prince of Orange though a Child in Age out-doing by the blessing of Heaven the oldest States-men and the most experienced Generals In the East-Indies the Hollanders are the Sovereign Governours of the Coast of Coromandel the Islands of Amboine Banda Ternate Ceylon and the City of Malaca part of the Islands of Sumatra and Celebes and divers places upon the Coast of Malabar § They have also given the Name of New Holland to a Region of the Terra Australis by them discovered in 1644. to the South of New Guiney and the Moluccaes To a Territory of Moscovia near the Streights of VVeigats by them named the the Streights of Nassaw upon the North Sea And lastly to a Country in the North America upon the Canadian Ocean betwixt Virginia and New France South-West of New England and East of the Irâ—quois in Canada But this latter has been been in the hands of the English since 1665. Holdenby a Castle belonging to the Crown in Northamptonshire where King Charles the Martyr was kept a Prisoner by the Parliamentarians from Feb. 17. 1646. to June 4. 1647. when by Cornet Joyce one of the Officers of the Rebels he was carried to Childersley and thence to Newmarket Here that afflicted Prince had leisure to compose that excellent Piece after his death Printed under the Title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which contributed more to the Re-establishment of his Children and the Reviving his oppressed Honour than all the Armies and Forces in the World could have done Holderness the most South-Eastern Promontory or Cape in Yorkshire called Ocellum by Ptolemy It lies North of Saltfleet a Town in Lincolnshire and shoots it self forth into the Sea a great way There are divers Towns in it King James I. created John Ramsey Viscount Hardington in Scotland Earl of this Place and Baron of Kingston upon Thames Anno 1620. The late Prince Rupert bore the same Title by the Creation of King Charles I. in 1643. which is now enjoyed by Conyers D' Arcie the present Earl of Holderness of the Creation of King Charles II. La Hougst Vast or Port de la Hogue Oga or Ogasti Vedasti a Haven or Sea-Port-Town in the Territory of Coutances in Normandy ten Miles from Bayeux to the West and sixteen from Caen to the same Holstein Holsatia that is as the Name signifies in the German Tongue the Hollow Stone or Rock or rather a Country overgrown with Woods and Forests as Holt signifies in the German Tongue is a Dukedom of great extent in the Lower Saxony in Germany though often comprehended in the Kingdom of Denmark because a part of it is subject to that Crown It was anciently a part of the Chersonesus Cimbrica bounded on the North by the Dukedom of Sleswick or South-Jutland on the West with the German Ocean on the East with the Baltick Sea and on the South with the Dukedoms of Bremen and Lunenburgh separated from it by the Elbe It is divided into four parts Dithmarsen Holstein Stormaren and VVageron The principal Cities in it are Lubeck and Hamburgh which are Hanse-Towns or Imperial Free Cities besides which there are Kiel and Rensburg in Holstein Krempend and Gluckstad in Stormaren Part of this Dukedom is under the King of Denmark and part of it under the Duke of Holstein The ancient Inhabitants were the Saxons our Ancestors who about 449. began the Conquest of Britain which perhaps were but some Tribes of the Cimbrians The rest which remained in Germany were conquered with the Saxons by Charles the Great and continued under the Empire till 1114. when Lotharius the Emperour gave Holst or Holstein properly so called to Adolf of Schaumburgh with the Title of Earl of Holstein whose Posterity enjoyed it till 1459. in eleven Descents when Christiern of Oldenburgh King of Denmark Sweden and Norway Son of Theodorick Earl of Oldenburgh and of Hedvigis Sister of Henry and Adolph the two last Earls of Holstein succeeded in the Earldom of Holstein The present Dukes of Holstein are descended from Christiern II. King of Denmark who died in 1533. From Christian III. one of his Sons are descended the Dukes of Holstein Regalis from Adolph another Son are derived the Dukes of Holstein Gottorp But this Work will not permit me to pursue these Lines any further Holt a Market Town in the County of Norfolk The Capital of its hundred Holy Island a small Island upon the Coast of the County of Northumberland not far from Berwick in which there is one Town with a Church and Castle and a good haven defended by a Block-house The Air and Soil not very grateful yet well accommodated with Fish and Fowl It s ancient Name was Lindisfarne a famous Episcopal
thirty Miles from the Confines of the Kingdom of Poland to the South fifty from Soczow to the East and a hundred and twenty from Caminieck to the North-East It is not improbable this is the Augusta Dacâ—â— but the later Geographers are very much mistaken in placing it in Moldavia when it belongs to Walachia The Vaivode or Prince of these Countries for the most part resides here having suffered much from the Cossacks of later times the Turks maintained a strong Garrison in it The present King of Poland in 1686. marching this way against the Turks and Tartars possessed himself of it leaving a Garrison but before his return there happened so great a Fire that when he came he was forced to withdraw his Forces and leave it to the Walachians to be repaired Jati Bathis a River on the West of Sicily which falls into the Bay or Gulph of Amar on the North side twenty five Miles South of Palermo Java a great Island in the East-Indian Sea two hundred Leagues in length and near fifty in breadth On the West it has Sumatra on the East some other small Isles on the South the vast Ocean plays full upon it and on the North it has the Island of Borneo at the distance of forty five German Miles It is divided into nine Kingdoms the greatest of which is the Kingdom of Bantam and next the Kingdom of Materan The whole Island produceth great quantities of Spice and is on that account much frequented by the English and Dutch The Dutch had heretofore the Fort or City of Batavia in this Island not contented with this about 1684. joining with a Son of the King of Bantam then in Rebellion against his Father upon pretence of assisting him they seized the City of Bantam took Possession of the English Factory and all the Goods belonging to the English and kept the old King a Prisoner in the Castle of Bantam But finding there were several Attempts to restore him to his former Possession in 1686. the young King by the Advice of the Dutch removed his Captive Father to Batavia See Batavia The principal Cities of this Island are Balambuan Bantam Batavia or Jacatra Japara Jortan Materan once the Capital of the whole Panarucan Passarvan Saraboy and Tuban The Southern parts were never yet much sought into and so not much known It lies between 130 and 140 Long and 5 and 10 of Southern Lat. § There is another Island near this called the Lesser Java Jaur Jauriu a small River in Languedoc which riseth near S. Ponthois and falls into the Orba near the Castle of Pujols Javarin Jaurinum See Gewer and Raab Jawer Jauria a City of Silesia in Bohemia small but indifferently populous and the Capital of a Dukedom and has also an ancient Castle it lies not two Miles from Lignitz to the South and about nine from Breslaw to the West The Dukedom of Jawer lies between Lusatia to the West Bohema properly so called to the South the Dukedom of Lignitz to the North and that of Swyednitz to the East Jayck Rhymnus a River of the Asian Tartary which falls into the Caspian Sea between the Rha and Jaxartes Olearius placeth it in the middle of the North end of that Sea Jaziges by Ovid styled Jaziges acres and by the Writers of the middle Ages Jaziges Metanastes were an antient People of Sarmatia Europaea who being almost entirely exterminated thence by Boleslaüs the Chast King of Poland and Lescus in the years 1264 and 1282. retired in great numbers into the Vpper Hungary Jazzo See Laiazzo Jberia an antient Name of the Kingdom of Spain in Pliny and Strabo taken from the River Iberus Ebro § Likewise of a part of Georgia in Asia now called Gagheti See Georgia Jcaria a Mountain of Attica in Greece in the antient Tribe of Aegeus Jda a Mountain of Troas in Asia Minor at the foot of which stood the famous City Troy Athenaeus says nine Rivers derived their Springs from it Therefore Horace stiles it Ida undosa And Diodorus makes it to be the highest in the Neighbourhood of the Hellespont Hence the Idaeus sinus took its Name which was otherwise called Andramyttenus sinus and now le Golfe Andramytti § A Mountain also of the Island of Candia environed with Forests and inhabited heretofore by the People Dactyli Idaei Jdanhas Igaeaita a ruined City in Portugal Jddle or Iddel a River in the County of Nottingham upon which Redford is situated emptying it self Northward into the River Dun. Idafa a Branch of Mount Imaus Jdria a Town in the County of Goritia incompassed with Hills on all sides and seated upon a River of the same name Remarkable for the Quick-Silver Mines in it See Dr. Brown's Travels p. 82 83. It stands ten Miles from Goritia to the North-West Jducal Atlas Major a vast Mountain on the South of Barbary in Africa Jdumaea Edom the Country of the Edomites mentioned frequently in Scripture was a Kingdom of the antient Canaan betwixt Judaea properly so called the Stony Arabia and the Mediterranean Sea It s principal Cities Dinhabah Avith Pai Rehoboth 1 Chron. 1. 43. c. where see the list of the Kings and Dukes of Edom before the time of the beginning of the Israelitish Monarchy David afterwards conquered and garrisoned it 2 Sam. 8. 14. But in the Reign of Jehoram King of Judah the Edomites revolted and made themselves a King 2 Chron. 21. 8. 10. and joyned with the Chaldaeans under Nebuchadonezar in the Siege of Jerusalem Hyrcanus in the Ages following made War against them so effectually that he caused them to turn Jews They were of the Descendants of Esau Jefferkin Capernaum a City in Palestine Jehan-Abad See Delly Jempterlandt Jemptia a Province in the Kingdom of Sweden which has Angerman to the East Middlepad to the South Helsing to the West and Norway to the North. It belonged to the King of Denmark till 1645 and then by the Treaty of Bromsbroo was resigned to the Swedes There are three Castles but never a City in it Jena a small City in Hassia in Germany upon the River Saal over which it has a Bridge under the Duke of Saxon Weimar two German Miles from Weimar to the East nine from Leipsick to the North-East and three from Naumburg to the South It has a small University opened here in 1555 by the Dukes of Saxony and a Monastery of the Dominicans founded in 1286. The Valley about it yields plenty of Wine Jende or Pajende Jendus a Lake in the Province of Tavasthia in Finland Jendo Jedo or Yendo the capital City of the Empire of Japan in the Island of Niphonia at which the Emperor since his leaving Meaco keeps his Court. A vast and magnificent City upon the Banks of the River Tonkaw or Toukon and near a great Gulph yielding variety of Fish The Palace Royal is a work of state the Temples and the Palaces of the Nobility attract the admiration of Strangers There is one Street
the Sepulchre which till then had been reverenced by all Men but Jews Ever since this it has been in the Possession of the Mahometans as they at times prevailed one upon another It continued under the Sultans of Egypt till 1517 when Selim Emperor of the Turks took it from them and under this Family it is at this day called by the Turks Elkods that is the Holy City It is at this day the principal Place in Palestine seated saith Mr. Sandys on a rocky Mountain every way to be ascended except a little on the North with steep Descents and deep Valleys about it which do naturally fortifie it for the most part it is environed with other not far removed Mountains as if placed in the midst of an Amphitheatre On the East is Mount Olivet separated from the City by the Valley of Jehosaphat which also circleth a part of the North and affords a passage to the Brook of Kedron on the South is the Mountain of Scandal with the Valley of Gehinnon on the West formerly it was fenced with the Valley and Mountain of Gthon Mount Sion lay within the City which stood upon the South side of it on the East side of this Mountain stood the famous Temple and between the City and the Temple the King's Palace Mount Calvary which formerly lay without the City to the North-West is now well nigh the heart of it the visiting the Holy Sepulchre being the almost only reason why Jerusalem at this day has any being The Inhabitants of it are not many for the most part Monks and Religious Persons of all Nations miserably oppressed by the Turks who seek all opportunities to impoverish and injure them This City stands forty Miles from Joppe and the Mediterranean Sea a hundred and sixty from Damascus to the South three hundred from Grand Cairo to the North-East and four hundred from Alexandria commonly believed to have been built by Melchisedech and called Salem from him It had divers Names of old expressed in this Distich Solyma Lusa Bethel Hierosolyma Jebus Elia Vrbs sacra Jerusalem dicitur atque Salem For above eleven hundred years together this City was the Queen of the East None ever so sacred yet none ever hath suffered greater Profanations than it The Emperor Titus erected a Temple here to Jupiter Capitolinus and Adrian in derision both of Judaism and Christianity engraved a Swine upon the Gate of Bethlehem dedicated a Chappel to Venus upon Mount Calvary another to Jupiter in the place of our Saviour's Sepulchre and a third to Adonis in Bethlehem all which continued till the Reign of Constantine the Great See Bethlehem and Calvary The Church of Jerusalem is the Mother of Christendom sanctified by the Death of Christ the Descent of the Holy Spirit the Preachings of the Apostles a General Council of the Apostles in the year 49 or 50 and the Martyrdom of S. James its first Bishop The Council of Nice allowed this Church the style and dignity of a Patriarchate tho at the same time subjecting it in point of Jurisdiction to the Bishops of Caesarea But in 553. in the fifth General Council or the second of Constantinople that Subjection was reversed and not only the See of Caesarea but Scythopolis and Berytus were made subject to this Church After Christianity received its Restauration by the Arms of Godfrey of Bouillon Jerusalem bore the Title of a Kingdom which continued from the year 1099 to 1187. in the Persons of about eight Christian Kings from the said Godfrey with possession of the Lands and Rights of a Crown But Frederick II. and others after who enjoy'd the Title of Kings of Jerusalem possessed no Land in Palestine It lies in Long. 69. 30. Lat. 31. 20. according to Mr. Fuller Others say Long. 69. 00 Lat. 32. 44. Ieselbas Margiana a part of the Province of Chorasan in the Kingdom of Persia Iesi Aesium a City in the Marchia Anconitana in the Dominions of the Church which is a Bishops See immediately under the Pope it is but small and stands upon an Hill by the River Jesi six Miles from the Confines of the Dukedom of Vrbino twenty three from Ancona to the West Iesselmeer or Gislemere a City and Kingdom under the Great Mogul lying North of the Kingdom of Guzarat on this side the Ganges the City is great a hundred and twenty Miles from the River Indus to the East and the same from Guzarat to the North. The Kingdom lies amongst the Mountains Terra de Iesso or Yezo Essonis Terra a large Country towards China and Japan discovered by the Hollanders in 1643. It is joyned by some to the North parts of Japan by others separated from it by a Streight of fifteen Miles broad All agree it is of a great extent from East to West The chiefest City is Matzumay which is the Capital of a Province of the same name but no European having yet setled here it is very little known The later Voyagers have discovered a Streight betwixt Tartary and this Country which they call the Streights of Jesso Iesual another Kingdom belonging to the Great Mogul in the East-Indies betwixt the Kingdom of Patna with the River Ganges to the West and that of Vdessa with the Mountains to the East The chief City is Rajapour Iesupol a very strong Town and Castle in Podolia in Poland on the Confines of Pocuock upon the River Bistris Ieter Jatrus a River of Mysia in the Lesser Asia Ietsegen and Iesten or Jetsengo two considerable Territories or Provinces in Japan in the Island of Niphon subdivided into divers other Provinces Jetsegen has the Region of Quanto to the East and Jetson to the West The latter is bounded by Jamaisoit to the West Iex and Jexdi Hecatompylos a City of Persia If Hypaea one of the Hyeres Iglaw Iglova Iglavia Giblova a City of the Kingdom of Bohemia but in Moravia upon the River Iglaw on the Confines of Bohemia twenty four German Miles from Prague and ten from Lentz This City is reasonably well peopled Igliaco Peneius a River on the West of the Morea Ihor a City and Kingdom at the most Southern Point of the Promontory of Malacca in the East-Indies over against the Isle of Sumatra distant little more than one degree and a half from the Line in Long 129. 31. The King is a potent Prince in these parts The City Ihor is situated upon a River which falls into the Ocean near the Promontory of Sincapura where it has a good Port. Iksworth or Ickworth a Market Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of Thingo retaining in its Name says Mr. Cambden the memory of the antient Iceni who dwelt in a part of this County The remains of a Priory founded by Gilbert Blunt sometime Lord of the Town and of a Guildhall are yet extant A Pot of Roman Coyns bearing the Inscriptions of divers Roman Emperors was digged up here not many years since Ila Yla Epidia one of the Western
Lewis VIII King of France which was afterward in 1267. set right by a Treaty when Lewis IX in consideration of a Marriage surrendered all his Right and Title as Son of the said Blanch to Alphonsus V. King of Leon and Castile Peter de la Marca Archbishop of Paris in his History of Bearn saith this Kingdom did not begin so early as the Spaniards pretend and endeavours to prove it But this is no place for Controversies Leon Leondoul Leona a City in Britagne in France on the North Shoar of that Province thirty three Leagues from Rennes to the West ten from Treguier and eleven from Brest to the North. This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toures one S. Paul being its most ancient Bishop about the year 600 the City is often called S. Paul de Leon from him it is the Capital of the Territory of Leonnois well fortified and has also a Castle and a safe Harbour upon the British Sea Heretofore the Seat of the Dukes of Britagne and the Country of the ancient Osismi or Osismii mentioned by Caesar whence its Latin Name besides Leona and Leonum is Civitas Osismorum § There is mention made of another Leon in Cappadocia in the Lesser Asia otherwise called Vatiza and thought to be the Polemenium of the Ancients S. Leonard a Town in Limosin in France and another in Nivergne Lepanto Naupactus Aetolia a Sea-Port in Achaia now Livadia called by the Turks Enebchti is seated in that part of Greece which the Ancients called Aetolia twelve Miles from Patras the Italians gave it the name of Lepanto it is seated not far from the entrance of the Western Bay of Corinth heretofore so called but now from this place the Gulph of Lepanto The City is built on the South side of a towering Mountain formed like a Cone on the top of which is a strong Castle surrounded with four strong Walls set at some distance one above another between which the Inhabitants have their Houses The Port is very handsom and beautiful and may be secured by a Chain the Mouth of it is so streight it will hold but a few Ships and those cannot go out and in at any time for want of Water It is seated in a pleasant Country filled with delightful Gardens yielding some of the best Wine in Greece and has on the East side a a fine River which serves their Mills then their Gardens and afterward all the City and Seamen The Turks have six or seven Mosques in it the Greeks two Churches and the Jews three Synagogues In 1408. it was under the Emperor of Greece but being too remote as things then stood for him to secure it Emanuel the Emperor assigned it to the Venetians who took care to fortifie it as it is now In 1475. Mahomet the Great the same that took Constantinople having gained Corinth besieged it with an Army of thirty thousand Men and after four Months spent before it was forced to retire with with shame and loss The Turks having found by this costly experiment the strength of this important place in 1499. made use of another method besides a victorious Army and a potent Fleet to terrifie them he imployed Bribes corrupted Hiâ—ronimo Tropo the Venetian Governour and by a Treachery altogether unworthy of Bajazet II. who was here in person possessed himself of it In 1571. Octob. 7. in the Gulph of Lepanto from five a Clock in the morning till night was fought the most bloody Sea Battel betwixt the Christian and the Ottoman Fleets that ever besel the Turks since the beginning of their Empire There in the same Gulph where the Emperor Augustus overthrew Marc Anthony The Christians lost eight thousand Men. Of the Turks five thousand were taken prisoners and about thirty thousand slain with Hali Bassaw their Admiral Of the Turkish Gallies one hundred and thirty were taken and above ninety others sunk burnt and destroyed The Generalissimo on the Christians side was Don John of Austria a Natural Brother to Philip II. King of Spain accompanied with the Flower of the Italian Nobility At the same time nigh twenty thousand Christian Slaves recovered their Liberty In 1687. the Venetians having in the three preceding years almost beat the Turks out of the rest of the Morea and resolved to begin this Campagne with the Siege of Patras their General Morosini Landed in the Morea near Patras on July 22. notwithstanding all the opposition of the Serasquier the 24. he fought and defeated the Serasquier and having thereupon taken in Patras and the Dardanell Castle on that side so called in imitation of those of the Hellespont he crossed to the other to Lepanto and found the Turks making all the haste they could to empty the Place for him whereupon he entred and took Possession of it for that Republick without striking one blow Thus was this important Place lost as basely as it was gained and the Cowardize of this Age has revenged the Treachery of the former It had in it one hundred and twenty Brass Canon And it is an Archiepiscopal City tho the Archbishop has used to reside at Larta The Gulph of Lepanto is formed by the shooting forth of two Promontories into the Ionian Sea from the Morea and Achaia called Capo Antirio and Capo Rione The first of which has the Castle of Patras the other the Castle of Romelia for its defence Leprus Pariedrus a huge Mountain of a vast height out of which Araxes and Euphrates spring Lera Igmanus Sigmanus a River of Aquitain in France more commonly called La Leyre which falls into the small Bay of Buch eight Miles from Bourdeaux to the South-West and the same distance from the Mouth of the Guaronne to the South Leresse See the Nieper Lergue Larga a River in Gallia Narbonensis Hoffman Lericee a small Town upon the Coasts of the Republick of Genoua in Italy at the Foot of the Rocks looking to the Sea It is taken to be the Portus Erycis of Ptolemy and Antoninus A frequented place for Embarkations four or five Miles from Sarzana and East of Sestri de Levante There is a Gulph by it separated by a Neck of Land from the Gulph of Spezza or Speccia Lerida Ilerda a City of Catalonia in Spain which in the Roman times was the Capital of that part of Spain they called Tarraconensis It is now called Leyda by the Inhabitants and Lerida by the Spaniards a strong place built upon a rising ground but declining to the River Segre Taken from the Moors in 1143. and made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona In 1300. here was an University opened at which Pope Calixtus III. took his Degree of Doctor of the Laws yet it never acquired any great Fame or Repute of later times it has suffered much from the French who have made many Attempts upon it But in 1646. in one of their Attacks they were beaten off and lost all their Cannon here This City lies twenty four Spanish
it at Hopton Heath it was again surrendred to Prince Rupert How long it continued in the King's Hands I know not but I find it taken by Storm by the King May 30. 1645. and retaken by Treaty June 18. in the same year by Fairfax after the fatal Battel of Naseby It s Long. is 21. 20. Lat. 52. 42. Sir Edward Henry Lee created Baron of Spellesburg and Viscount Quarendon was made Earl of Lichfield June 5. 1674. Lichfield has also the honour to be a County Corporate and besides the Cathedral shews three Parish Churches Lico Lycus a River of Phrygia in the Lesser Asia which watereth Laodicea and falls soon after into the Meander See Laodicea Licosia Ledrensis Vrbs the same with Nicosia the principal City of the Island of Cyprus Licostomo See Scotusa Lida a small Town which has a strong Castle built upon a Rock and is the Capital of a Territory in the Palatinate of Vilna in Lithuania under the Kingdom of Poland It stands upon the River Deta ten Polish Miles from Vilna South and seven from Novogrod severely handled by the Moscovites in 1655. Liddesdale a small County in the South of Scotland in the Borders of England which takes its Name from a River that runs through it It is bounded on the North with Tivedale on the West with Annandale on the South with Cumberland and on the East with Northumberland Lidkioping Lidkiopinga a small City in Westrogothia a Province in Sweden upon the Lake of Weâ—er and the River Lid three Miles from Marystad to the West forty five from Daleburg and thirty from Falkop to the North. Liechtenstein a Principality in the Province of Austria in Germany There is another Liechtenstein in the Trentine in Italy near Bolzano Liege Leodium a City of Germany which Lipsius calls Leodicum the Writers of the middle Ages Legia the Inhabitants Luyck the Germans Luttyck and the French Liege It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cologne a great and populous City built upon the Maes and annexed to the Low Countries yet a German City in the Circle of VVestphalia and under the Protection of its own Bishop fifteen Miles from Cologne to the West five from Aquisgrane ten from Louvain and three from Maestricht to the South It had a very strong Castle which was ruined by the French Though in the Protection of its own Bishop yet it is a Free Imperial City and herefore a pleasant Village situate in the Woods and Hills amongst sweet Springs which fell down from those Hills frequently visited by Landebert Bishop of Tongres who was afterwards slain here by Dodon a Servant of Pepin King of France The See was first settled at Tongres from thence removed to Maestricht and at last by S. Hubartus one of these Bishops settled at Liege It takes this Name from a small River which there falls into the Maes a vast part of the Ground within its Walls is not built but imployed in Vineyards and Orchards and withal so very fruitful that it may contend with Sicily In this City Charles the Great kept his Christmas in the year 769. Henry IV. died here of Grief in 1197. In the year 1131. Pope Innocent II. crowned the Emperor Lottharius in the Church of S. Lambert here Henry VI. reduced this City then in Rebellion in 1191. It is supposed by some to be built by Amborix a German Prince mentioned by Julius Caesar It suffered much from the Normans much also from one of the Dukes of Brabant who in 1212. took it and suffered it to be plundered six days together in the fifteenth Century Charles Duke of Burgimdy taking advantage of their Disagreement in the Election of a Bishop grievously afflicted it in 1468. and destroyed a part of it in this last Age it has been ill treated by its Bishops and the French taking it by surprize in 1675 the next year after ruined the Castle so that it is no great wonder if after all these Calamities the number of its Inhabitants are diminished The Baron D'Elderen great Dean of the Cathedral was chosen Bishop and Prince of Liege by plurality of Votes against the Cardinal of Furstenburgh August 17. 1688. The Bishoprick of Liege or Luyck is a part of the Circle of Westphalia though annexed to the Spanish Netherlands its ancient Inhabitants were the Eburones of old called Tungri also It is bounded on the East and South by the Dukedoms of Limburgh and Luxemburgh on the West by Brabant and the Earldom of Namur and on the North by the Vpper Guelderland Luxemburgh Namur and Hainault have every of them agrandised themselves with the Spoils of this Diocese The principal City is Liege the rest are Dinant S. Trayen Huy Maseich and Tongres besides these it contained fifty two Baronies eighteen walled Towns and four hundred Villages being no less populous than fruitful It is thirty one Miles long and fifteen broad the Valleys produce plenty of Grass the Plains of Corn the Hills of Wines the Mountains have their Quarries of Marble and Mines of Lead Iron and Brimstone and Pit-Coal in abundance Its Forests affords all sorts of Venison in great plenty besides the Maes which runs the whole length of this Country it has fourteen other Rivers some very considerable which both inrich the Lands promote Trade and afford them a great plenty of Fish and after all the Air is very temperate and healthful Lier Ledo a River in the Low-Countries Liere Lier a very strong Town in Brabant in the District of Antwerp seated upon the great Nethe which falls two Miles further to the South into the Ruypel This Town is under the Spaniards and is a Frontier against the Hollanders two Miles from Mechelen to the North six from Brussels to the North-West and three from Antwerp to the East Naturally very strong by its Situation and made much more so by Art See Lire Liesse or Notre Dame de Liesse a small Town in Laonnois County in Picardy famous for the Devotions there paid to a Chappel of the Virgin Mary Lieuvin a District belonging to the City of Lisieux in Normandy which lies between Auge to the West the Mouth of the Seine to the North the Territory of Roan to the East and the Territory d' Ouche to the South This was the Seat of the Lexovii a Gaulish Tribe and is now called Lexoviensis Ager from them Lignitz Lignitia Lignitium Hegetmatia a City of Silesia in Bohemia upon the River Katzbach Caâ—us which falls into the Oder not two Miles from Jawer to the North five from Glogaw and seven from Wratislaw It was heretofore under a Duke of its own together with a small Territory belonging to it and has a noble Castle at this day The Dutchy since 1675. is in the Emperor as King of Bohemia Ligor Ligorium a City of the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies upon the Promontory of Malaca near the Bay of Siam in the middle between the City of Judia Vdia or Odida the
Duke of his Family The French first Possessed themselves of this Dukedom under Lewis XIII in 1663 It was restored to this Family again by the Pyrenean Treaty in 1659. In the Year 1674 it was again reassumed by the French Charles Leopold the late Duke of famous memory being in the mean time employed by the Emperor as his General won more Honour than he could have done if he had succeeded his Uncle in his rightful Inheritance This great Prince died on the eighteenth of April 1690 suddenly in his forty eighth year at a Convent near Lintz in his Journey to Vienna his renowned Actions and high Merits making him extremely lamented He Married Elionora Maria of Austria Dowager of Michael King of Poland and Sister to the present Emperor by whom the Title to this Dukedom continues in the Family to his eldest Son Lorca Eliocrata Ilorcis a small but ancient City of the Kingdom of Murcia in Spain it was in the times of the Goths a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo But this See was since removed to Cartagena Nueva It stands upon the River Guadilentin in the Confines of the Kingdom of Granada ill peopled twelve Miles from Murcia in Long 19. 15. Lat. 38. 2. Lorne Lorna a County in the North of Scotland upon the Western Ocean bounded on the North by Loquabre on the East by Menteith on the South by Argyle and Cantyr and on the West by the Vergivian Ocean the old Inhabitants of this County were the Epidii as Cambden acquaints us Loretto or Lauretto Lauretum a small and a New City in the Marcha Anconitana in the Dominions of the Church made a Bishops See by Pope Sixtus V. in 1586. and in 1591. the Bishoprick of Recanati was for ever united to this new See It stands upon a long Hill three Miles from the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea fifteen from Ancona to the South very well fortified to preserve it from the Incursions of the Turks and has a Noble Palace But that which is its greatest yea it s only Glory is the Chappel of the Virgin Mary called La Santa Casa the Holy House Pilgrims out of all parts of Europe repairing hither to perform their Devotions to the Virgin This place was anciently a desolate Grove where in the Pagan Times some think there was a Temple of Juno Cuprana The Chappel that is so much esteemed is supposed to be the very Chamber in which the Queen of Heaven was her self Educated and received the Angel's Salutation They believe it was brought hither out of Palestine by Angels All this is proved by the Testimony of Grave Men and the Memorials of an innumerable number of Miracles which are believed to have been wrought here The Reader is not to suppose it was brought from Palestine hither at once no it was deposited after the taking of Ptolomais by the Saracens first in Dalmatia in the year 1291. Thence the Thieveries of that Nation occasioned her Remove three or four years after to a Wood in this Marquisate and from thence to a Hill and here two Brothers not agreeing She at last removed to Loretto Where saith Tursellinus She hath resolved to take up her fixed and as we hope if no grievous offence of the Inhabitants or Neighbours prevent it her eternal Rest her last Remove he assures us was in 1295. And if she has been able to digest all the Italian Sins for almost four hundred years we may well presume She will remove no more at least not in our Days Lorgues Lonas Leonas Leonicae a Town in Provence in the Diocese of Frejus two Leagues from Draguignan five from Frejus and fourteen from Aix situated in a fertile Soil and adorned with a Collegiate Church of the Foundation of Pope Martin V. in 1421. together with divers Religious Houses Lorris Lauriacum a Town in the Diocese of Anger 's and the Dukedom of Anjou in France remarked for a French Synod there assembled in 843. Losere a Mountain in Languedoc in which are the Fountains of the River Tarn that separates Aquitain from Languedoc This is a Branch of the Sevennes extended towards the Lower Languedoc six Leagues from Ghave or Javoux to the North-West and eight from Vzes to the South-East mentioned by Sidonius Apollinaris in his twenty fourth Verse Losse a River of Scotland in the County of Murray called by Ptolemy Loxa it watereth the North part of that County and falls into the German Ocean beneath Elgin the Capital of that County Lot Le Olda Loda a River in Aquitain in France which ariseth from the Sevennes a Mountain in Givaudan a County of Languedoc and flowing within one Mile of Mende a City in the County and soon after augmented by the Truer and some smaller Rivers and running Westward through Rovergne and Querey which latter it divides it at last watereth Agen Cassenneil and Clerac then falls into the Garonne near Aiguillon four Leagues beneath Agen. Whereas heretofore this River was passable by Boats only as far as Ville Neuve de Agen it is of late with vast Expence made Navigable as high as Chaors to the inestimable Benefit of this Province by the present King of France in 1677. Lothaine Laudonia a County in the South of Scotland bounded on the North by the Fyrth of Edinburgh on the East by the German Ocean on the South by Marches Twedal and Cluydesdale and on the West by the County of Sterling This County is thirty four Scotch Miles in length from East to West but not above ten broad for the most part It is the principal County in that Kingdom Edinburgh standing almost in the middle of it besides which it hath Lyth Dunbar and Dalkeith Lotophagi the ancient People of the Island now called L'isle des Gerbes upon the Coast of Africa under the Spaniards They are mentioned by divers of the Ancients with applause Lotreich or Lothar-reich Lorain Loudun Juliodunum a City of France in the County of Poictou six Leagues from Salmur to the South ten from Poictiers and eighteen from Amboise to the North-West from this City the circumjacent Country is called le Laudonnois which King Henry III. erected into a Dutchy and in the Writers of the middle Age this City is called also Lausdunum Lovenstein Lovenstenum a Castle or Triangular Fort in the County of Holland in the Island of Bommel at the union of the Vahal and the Maes over against Worcum four Miles from Vtrecht to the South and a little more from Dort to the East This Fort belongs to the States of Holland and lies in the Borders of Guelderland Lough the Irish word for a Lake Loughborough a handsom pleasant Market Town in Leicestershire in the Hundred of West Goscote upon the Banks of the River Stowre over which it has a Bridge and near the Forest of Charwood amongst fertile Meadows Lough Foyle Logia a River of Ireland in the Province of Vlster which by London-Derry falls into the Deucalidonian Ocean between the County of Derry and
Hemerum of Ptolemy once one of the greatest Cities in the World and the ancient Capital of this Kingdom It is seated on the South Side of the River Tansiff an hundred and sixty Miles to the East from the Atlantick Ocean and ninety from the Borders of Fez heretofore an Archbishops See very potent but the Royal Seat being many Ages since removed to Fez it is hardly a third part of what it was on the top of the Castle are three Globes of Gold one hundred and thirty thousand Barbary Ducats weight which could never be taken away as the Inhabitauts pretend because they are guarded by Spirits This City stands in a fine Plain five or six Leagues from the Mountain Atlas encompassed with very high strong Walls with twenty four Gates which may be reckoned to contain one hundred thousand Inhabitants It has a Fortress a stately Palace Royal and Colleges for Professors of the Sciences with divers Mosques enriched with the Spoils of the Christian Churches of Spain The Inhabitants glory in being Enemies to Christianity Long. 09. 20. Lat. 29. 30. Marogna Marognia Maronea Ismaros a City of Thrace â—seated at the Mouth of the River Sconenus three Miles from the Mouth of the River Mariza to the West and the same distance from Asperosa to the East Once a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Trajanople but now become the Archbishops See it self The Maronites Maronitae a particular Church of the Eastern Christians dwelling principally about the Mountain Libanus in Syria under a Patriarch of their own who resides at a Monastery called Eden Canobin on the said Mountain yet nevertheless there are of them in Tripoli Zidem Damascus Aleppo and Cyprus Their Name is diversly derived as from an Episcopal City of their Country called Maronia in S. Jerom from the holy Monk and Priest S. Maron whose Life Theodoret writes and whose Disciples strenuously defended the Decrees of the Council of Chalcedon against the Eutychians This person the Maronites say built them a Monastery in the beginning of the Fifth Century Also from another Maron an ancient Monothelite About the year 1180 William Archbishop of Tyre their Neighbour and Contemporary says that they did the King of Jerusalem great Service in the Wars with the Sarazens and exceeded then the number of forty thousand Their Patriarch assisted at the General Council of Lateran in 1215. under Pope Innocent the Third since which there have been several Embassies and Treaties of Reconciliation betwixt the Roman See and them under Pope Eugenius IV. in 1445. Pope Paul II. in 1469. Pope Clement VII in 1526. and 1531. Pope Gregory XIII in 1577. and 1584. Pope Clement VIII in 1596. Pope Paul VI. in 1612. Their Patriarch assisted again at the Fifth Council of Lateran in 1516. They speak a mixture of the Syriack and Arabick Languages but officiate Mass in Syriack only using the Missal of S. Ephraem Syrus and the Rites and Customs for the most part of the Greeks excepting that they consecrate in Bread unlevened Pope Gregory XIII Founded a College for their Youth at Rome Maros See Marish Marotto Misa a River in the Marquisate of Ancona Marpnrg Amasia Marpurgum a City of Germany in the Landtgravate of the Upper Hassia at the Head of the River Loghne which falls into the Rhine a little above Coblentz eleven Miles from Franckfort on the Maine to the North twelve from Cassel to the North-West and twenty from Cologne to the South-East It has a strong Castle built on a Hill heretofore a Free and an Imperial City but long since exempted for some time put under the Dominion of a Prince of its own now under the Dominion of the Landtgrave of Hesse Cassel Here was an University opened in 1535. which is now in some repute This City was taken by the Imperialists in 1647. But the Castle holding out they plundered and deserted it The Marquess of Baden in this City narrowly escaped Death his House having seven Cannon at once fired at it Some would believe it to be the Mattium of Tacitus and the Mattiacus of Ptolemy Marsal Marsalium a small but strong Town in the Dukedom of Lorain in France upon the River Seile in a Marsh five Miles from Nancy which stood a Siege of thirty four days in 1663. against the Forces of Lewis XIV So strong both by Art and Nature that it was thought it might have cost many Months to reduce it Marsala Lilybaeum a City in Sicily seated upon the most Western Promontory of that Island which had of old its Name from this City but is now called il Capo Boco Built by the Romans a magnificent populous Town and well fortified against the Turkish Pirats It stands fifty Miles from Palermo to the South twelve from Trapano and one hundred and sixty from the nearest Coast of Africa Near this City the Romans under Attilius Regulus gave the Carthaginian Fleet a very great Defeat There is a little River that runs near it called by the same Name Long. 36. 03. Lat. 36. 40. Marsan Marsianus Ager a small Tract in Gascogne the principal Town has the same Name which lies sixteen Miles from Dax to the North-East and from Bourdeaux to the South This Territory is watered by the River Midcux and hath been a Viscounty above six hundred years Marsaquivir a Spanish Port upon the Coast of Barbary in Africa near Oran Marseilles Massilia Masalia Phocais a City of Provence in France upon the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea seventeen Miles to the East of the principal Mouth of the Rhosne and fifteen West of Toulon It is a great rich populous City and now in a thriving condition the Suburbs having been lately added to it So very ancient that it is supposed to have been built by the Phoenicians Justin saith it was built by the Phocians in the Times of Tarquinius King of the Romans who in their way thithe contracted an Alliance with the Infant City of Rome and did great things in their Offensive and Defensive Wars against the Barbarous Galls That the Soil of their Country being barren they were forced to depend more upon Navigation than Agriculture for their Subsistence and would now and then exercise the then thought innocent if not glorious Trade of Piracy which led them round about Italy to the Mouth of the Rhosne and the pleasantness of the place allured them to go and settle there where they were kindly treated by the Galls the King granting them leave to build the City and marrying his Daughter to their General That these were the great Civilizers and Instructors of the Galls in Learning Arts and Architecture After this they managed some Wars against the Ligurians and became formidable to all their Neighbours having great success till they interposed in the Quarrel between Caesar and Pompey being in this more Loyal to that State than prudent in the estimation of their Forces for they pretended to interpose between those they were not able to force and
demolished by the English It has a Collegiate Church § There is another Meun in the same Province upon the River Inde betwixt Chateau-roux and Bruzancais § And a Third in the Province of Orleanois under the right side of the Loyre betwixt the City Orleans and Baugency Adorned with a Collegiate Church and taken heretofore by the Victorious English under the Earl of Salisbury In Latin Magdunum Meurs Meursia a small City of the Dukedom of Cleves though seated in the Bishoprick of Cologn which is an Earldom and belongs together with its Territory to the Prince of Orange by the gift of the last Countess in 1600. Yet the Duke of Brandenburgh lays claim to it as Duke of Cleves It lies two Miles from Rhineburgh to the South one from the Rhine to the West about ten from Cologn to the North-West and seven from Cleves to the South-West Meurtre Mourtre Murta Morta a River of Lorrain it ariseth from Mount Vauge and watering Nancy falls into the Moselle three Leagues above Pont Mouson Meuse Mosa the same with the Maes Mexico Mexicum a vast City in the North America the Capital of New Spain and of a Province of the same name in that Kingdom the Seat of the Spanish Viceroy of the West-â—naâ—es and an Archbishop's See This City stands upon the North side of a Lake of the same name in a most pleasant fruitful and large Plain and in great part surrounded with the Lake The Inhabitants pretend it was built in 1322. The Spaniards by the current and thread of their Story say it was built in 902. It was many Ages since the Royal Seat of the Kings of Mexico had then a great and splendid Palace called in their Tongue the Tepac but burnt together with the City when it was taken by the Spaniards in 1521. by Francis Cortez who rebuilt the City and made it the Capital of his Conquests Its Streets are great streight and beautiful its Churches magnificent its publick Buildings noble It has an Aquaduct three Miles long and many Monasteries John de Turre Cremata our Countryman Mr. Gage and some others have given large accounts of this noble City which is the greatest in America It has no Walls Forts Bastions nor any Cannon or Defence whatsoever beside what the number of its Inhabitants afford which is a part of the Spanish Jealousie for fear a Viceroy should set up for himself In 1527. Pope Clement VII made it a Bishop's See In 1547. Paul III. made it an Archbishop's See in which Year Cortez the Conqueror died It was made an University in 1551. by Charles V. As it is seated in a very low ground so it has often suffered very much by Inundations of the Lake particularly Septemb. 21. 1629. forty thousand of its Inhabitants were drowned to prevent this for the future they have with great Charges found out a means to drive part of these Waters other ways There is no way to the City but over three Causways on the North West and South sides the latter of which is the longest Long. 269. 00. Lat. 28. 30. eighty Spanish Leagues from the South Sea and the same distance from the Shores of the Bay of Mexico See Golfo di Mexico There are also two Lakes of Water called by the name of this City one of which is fresh Water seven Leagues long six broad the other is salt Water forty Leagues in compass Meydenburg See Magdeburg Meylandt the German Name for Milan Meyne See Mayn § Also a Mineral Spring much resorted to of late near the City Arles in Provence Mezaal a pretended Island in Aethiopia See Meroë Mezieres Maderiacum Meceria a City of France in Champagne in the Territory of Retelois built upon and almost encompassed with the Maes and very well fortified besides It stands not above half a League from Charleville four beneath Sedan to the West three from the Confines of Luxemburgh and sixteen from Reims to the North-East and hath a Collegiate Church Mezo Amyzon a City of Caria in the Lesser Asia still extant and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Sancta Croce being seated between Magnesia and Alabanda thirty Miles from Miletus now Melasso and the same distance from the Shoares of the Archipelago to the East Mezuma oppidum novum a City in the Kingdom of Algïer in Africa in the Province of Tenez between Algier and Tremesin Mezzaba a Province in Biledulgerida in Africa with a City of the same name by the great River between Zeb and Tegorarina to the West Mezzovo Pindus Miana Apamia or Apamea a City of Media Long. 79. 50. Lat. 34. 20. Miary a River in Brasil which receives the Ovaro Covo and divers other Rivers then falls into the Ocean near the Island of Maragnan upon the Coast of Brasil Micoli an Island of the Aegean Sea betwixt Nicaria to the East and the Islands Tenon and Andron to the North. One of the Cyclades called by the Antients Mycone and Myconos It produces Wine Cotton Barley and abundance of Game planted with one only Village which pays a yearly Tribute to the Turks Middleburgh Metelli Castrum Middleburgum Metelloburgum a Town in Zealand the Capital of the Isle of Walcheren made a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Vtretcht in 1559. by Pope Paul IV the Collegiate Church in 1561 being converted into a Cathedral and the Revenues of a famous Abbey that was here applied to serve for the use of the Bishoprick It is great rich populous extremely well fortified and has been under the Vnited Provinces ever since 1574 in which it was taken by their Forces from the Spaniards The Abbey is now the Town-house § There is a Town in Flanders under the Vnited Provinces two German Miles from Bruges to the North and an Island in the East-Indies both called by the same name Middlefart a Town in the Island of Fuynen in the Baltick Sea giving name to the Channel Middelfart or Middle-Passage betwixt this Island and Jutland Middlesex Middlesexia Trinobantes is bounded on the North by Hartfordshire on the West by Buckingham separated by the River Colne on the South by Surrey cut off by the Thames and on the East by Essex divided from it by the Lea. It is nineteen English Miles in length and sixteen in breadth one of the least Counties in England but its Fertility and nearness to London abundantly recompenseth this want of Extent The ancient British Inhabitants were the Trinobantes afterwards it was a part of the Kingdom of the East-Saxons White-hall and S. James the Royal Mansions of the Kings of England are both in this County to which may be added Hampton Court their Country House of Pleasure and LONDON the Capital of England is its Head The Honorable Charles Sackville Earl of Dorset is also Earl of Middlesex by a Creation of Feb. 4. 1674. Which Title was first bestowed by K. James I. in 1622. on Lionel Lord Cranfield Lord Treasurer of England whose Son James enjoyed the same and after
imagine that it was built upon the ruines of the ancient Vibo Valentia Montelimar Mons limarii a Town in Dauphine in France upon the River Rubion and about one League from the Rhosne It is a large handsome well peopled Town with divers religious Houses in it and a Cittadel Frequently taken and retaken in the Wars of Religion in the last Age but chiefly addicted to the Huguenot Party Monte Marano Mons Maranus a very small City in the Further Principate in the Kingdom of Naples which is yet a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento It stands ten Miles from Avellino to the East Monte Peloso Mons Pilosus Pelosius Pelusius c. a small but populous City in the Basilicate in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Acerenza tho exempt from his Jurisdiction This Bishoprick was instituted by Pope Sixtus IV. in 1643. It stands upon the Borders of the Dutchy of Bari betwixt Acerenza and Matera Montepulciano Mons Politianus a City in the Province of Toscana in Italy towards the States of the Church and the Lake of Chiano upon an Hill It hath the Title of an Episcopal See and may deserve a further Remark for being the Birth-place of the ingenious Angelus Politianus Monte S. Angelo a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples Montereau faut Yonne Mons Regalis Monasteriolum ad Icaunam a Town in Champagne where the Duke of Burgundy the sworn Enemy of the House of Orleans was basely murthered September 10. 1419. It stands seven Leagues from Melun towards Sens at the conjunction of the River Yonne with the Seine and had heretofore a Palace Royal to adorn it Montesia a Town in the Kingdom of Valentia which gave Name to an Order of Knights founded in 1317. after the abolishing of the Templars at this Town Monte-verde Mons Viridis a small City in the Further Principate in the Kingdom of Naples in the Confines of Terra di Bari which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Consa This See in 1531. was united with the titular Archbishoprick of Nazareth It stands upon the River Ofanto thirteen Miles from Consa to the East and twenty three from Acerenza Montferrat Montisferrat Monferrat Monferato Mons Ferratus a Province of Italy Honored with the Title of a Dukedom in 1570. It is bounded on the East with the Dukedom of Milan the States of Genoua on the North with the Territories of Vercelli Biella and Canavese on the West by Piedmont cut off from it by the Apennine and on the South the Dukedom of Milan So very fruitfull and well cultivated tho it be Hilly that it is thought to have its Name à Feracitate from its Fertility It has been ever since 1535 under the Duke of Mantoua to whom it came by the Marriage of Margaret Sister of Boniface the last Earl of this Country Heretofore the Territory of Canavese was a part of it which by the Treaty in 1631 was together with the rest of this Dukedom beyond the Po to the North granted to the Duke of Savoy The chief places under the Duke of Mantoua are Casale Arqui Nizza and Paglia Under the Duke of Savoy Turino Alba and Verua Valenza and Bassinia did together with Mondovi belong to it but now dismembred and annexed to the Dukedom of Milan Montgatz a Town in the Vpper Hungary in the County of Pereczas and an Episcopal See hereâ—ofore under the Greek Church so strongly fortified with Ditches and three Castles upon a Hill where nothing can command them that no Army without very great loss is able to approach it The Princess Ragotski a Roman Catholick Lady Wife to Count Teckely and Relict of the Prince Ragotski the last of that ancient and noble Family of Batori which hath furnished Kings to Poland and Princes to Transilvania held out this place in the behalf of her Husband against the Emperor in 1687 till after a Blockade of seven Months she was necessitated to surrender Jan. 25. 1688 upon these Conditions amongst others that she should deliver up all the Ensigns of Sovereignty in her custody wherewith Count Teckely had been invested by the Turk as Prince of Hungary and take the City of Vienna for her Prison not to remove thence without the Emperor's leave Montgomery Mons Gomerici a small Town in Lisieux in Normandy the Count of which unfortunately slew Henry II. King of France with a Launce in a Just in 1559 who afterwards joining with the Rebels against the Crown was beheaded more on the score of this old Misfortune than on the account of that Rebellion This Town stands two French Leagues and an half from Lisieux to the South and above three from Argentan to the North. Montgomeryshire Comitatus Montgomeriensis one of the Twelve Shires of Wales called by the Welsh Sire Trefaldwin Bounded upon the North with Denbigh on the East with Shropshire on the South with Radnor and Cardigan and on the West with Merionethshire Very Mountainous but being well watered with Rivers and Springs nevertheless very fruitful The ancient Inhabitants were called by the Romans Ordovices a valiant and warlike People hardly subdued in the Reign of Domitian Nor were they conquered by the English before the Reign of Edward I. This County takes its Name from a Town seated upon a high Hill in the Eastern Border towards Radnor between the Severn which riseth in this County and the Kemlet it has been walled on the North of it stands a fair Castle which saith Mr. Speed is now well repaired This Town was built by Roger de Montgomery a Norman Earl and from him had its Name Philip Herbert second Son of Henry Earl of Pembroke was by James I. in the year 1605 made Earl of Montgomery which Honor is now possessed by Philip III. who is the fourth Earl of this Family and succeeded William his half Brother in the Year 1674. It returns one member to the House of Commons Monthelon or Montolon a Town in the Dukedom of Burgundy near Autun which gives name to a family of honour Montignac Montiniacum a small Town in the Province of Perigord in Aquitain in France upon the River Vezereâ— here covered with a Bridge four or five Leagues from Sarlat and a little more from Perigeux The Castle of it used to be the Seat of the ancient Counts of Perigord for which reason they commonly surname it Montignac le Comté Montigni le Roy a Town in the County of Bassigni in Champaigne upon the Meuse which hath its source near it in Latin Montiniacum Regium Montilli or Monteil Some apprehend this place to be the same with Montelimar in Dauphine Some situate it in Languedoc and others upon the Rhosne And the reason there is this notice taken of it is a Council Assembled at it in 1208. against the Albigenses wherein it was resolved that Raymond VI. Earl of Tolouse the supporter of their cause should be cited to appear in Person at Valence
from Vratislaw to the South and the same distance from Oppeien to the West The Dukedom of Munsterberg lies in Bohemia in the Vpper Silesia now in the possession of the Emperour Bounded by the Dukedom of Grotkaw to the East that of Schweidnitz to the North and Bohemia to the West and South Munsterthal Vallis Monasterii a small Territory in the Canton of Gottespunt amongst the Grisons Munzarrum Taurus a Mountain in the Losser Armenia Muradal or El puerto de Muradal Saltus Castulonensis a passage over the Mountains of Morena leading to New Castile Andaluzia and the Borders of Portugal where Alphonsus King of Castile with the King of Navarre obtained so great a Victory over the Moors as to leave two hundred thousand of them dead upon the place There was heretofore nigh to it a Town called Castulo now a Village by the name of Caslona which gave it the Latin Name of Saltus Castulonensis Murat a small Town in the Province of Auvergne in France upon the River Alagnon at the foot of the Mountains three or four Leagues from S. Flour adorned with the Title of a Viscounty Murrana Crabra a River in Italy which ariseth in Campagnia di Roma and dividing into two Branches one falls into the Teverone two Miles above Rome the other runs through Rome into the Tiber. Murcia a City and a Kingdom in Spain The Kingdom is very small lies on the South of New Castile to which it is now united which bounds it on the North. The Kingdom of Valentia on the East the Kingdom of Granada on the West and the Mediterranean Sea on the South It is called a Kingdom because during its being under the Moors it had distinct Kings for many Ages The chief Cities in it are Carthagena and Murcia the Capital of this Kingdom It is seated on the River Segura in a pleasant Plain in the Confines of the Kingdom of Valentia three Leagues from Orihuela to the West six from Carthagena to the North-West eight from the Mediterranean Sea Retaken from the Moors in 1265. and being a considerable and pleasant place injoys the presence of the Bishop of Carthagena for the most part Muret Muretum a Town in the Province of Gascoigne in Aquitain in France upon the Garonne two Leagues from Tholouse near which Simon Earl of Monfort in 1213. obtained a great Victory over the Albigeois and Arragonois Peter the King of Arragon being there slain together with the Earl of Tholouse and above twenty thousand of their men § Also a small Town in the Province of Limosin in the same Kingdom Muro Muru a small City in the Basiilicate in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cosenza It is seated at the foot of the Appenine in the Confines of the Principate twelve Miles from Cosenza to the North-East and twenty from Acerenza to the West Murray Moravia one of the North-Eastern Shires of the Kingdom of Scotland of great extent from East to West on the North it has the German Ocean and Murray Fyrth on the East Buchan on the South Athole and Marr and on the West Loquaber It is in length ninety Scotch Miles and in its greatest breadth thirty The principal Town is Elgin which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Andrews but he is stiled Bishop of Murray not of Elgin Murray Fyrth Vara a great Arm of the German Ocean which pierceth the Eastern Shoar of Scotland On the North and West it has the County of Ross and on the South Murray and Buchan There is no Town of any consideration upon it except Chaurie Muscovy See Russia Mussidan a Town in the Province of Perigord in France upon the River Lille four or five Leagues from Perigeux famous in the Civil Wars of Religion in the last Age. Mut Vidua a River of Ireland Muya Mulcha the Niger a vast River in Africa Mycone See Micoli Mygdonia a Country of the ancient Macedonia betwixt the Rivers Strymon Stronona Axius Vardari and the Gulph of Aiomana Apollonia Antigonia Amphipalis c. were its principal Cities § The same name was anciently also given to a Country in Mesopotamia lying along the course of the River Mygdonius which watereth the Walls of the City Nifibin and thence runs to the Bed of the Tigris Mycenae an ancient City of the Peloponnesus betwixt Argos and Corinth Otherwise called Agios Adrianos Mylaen Mylias a City of Pamphylia in the Lesser Asia now ruined Myra the ancient name of the City Strumita in Lycia See Strumita Myrbach a small Town in the Vpper Alsatia in Germany remarkable for a famous Abbey which before the possession of this Country by the French had the honour to be an Ecclesiastical Principality immediately dependent of the Emperour Myrlaea Apamia a City of Bythinia in the Lesser Asia upon the South Shoar of the Propontis which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cyzicum and still called by its ancient name Mysia a Country of Asia Minor according to the ancient Geography divided into the Greater and Lesser Mysia the former lay betwixt Phrygia Bythinia the Aegean Sea and Mysia the Less as this latter did betwixt Troas and the Hellespont Now wholly contained in Natolia and under the Turks It s principal ancient Cities were Pergamus Trajanopolis Adramyttios Cyzicus Lampsacus c. N O. NAB Nabus a River of Nortgow which ariseth out of the Mountains of Sultzberg near the Fountains of the Main and flowing Northward through Nortgow or the Vpper Palatinate is increased by several smaller Rivers at last ends in the Danube a little above Ratisbone Nabathaei an ancient people of the Stony Arabia descended in the judgment of Isidore from Nabath the Son of Ismael Their Country was bounded by Arabia Deserta on the East Palestine on the South and Arabia Foelix on the North. Their Capital City Petra Being the same people who as Josephus writes were defeated once in a great Fight by Paulus Gabinius sometime Governour of Syria Nadder a River of Wiltshire joining with the Willy at Wilton near Salisbury and there falling into the Avon Nadin a Fortress in the County of Zara in Dalmatta taken from the Venetians by Solyman II. but since retaken by them and kept Naerdem or Narden Nardenum a strong Town in Goeland whereof it is the Capital in Holland upon the Zuyder Sea almost four German Miles from Amsterdam to the East In 1572. suprised and much defaced by the Spaniards In 1672. it fell into the hands of the French but being recovered is now very strongly refortified Nagaia the Kingdom of Astracan in Tartaria Deserta in the Czar's Dominions Some describe it to be a Kingdom or a Hord of Tartars there distinct from Astracan Nagera Nagara a City in Old Castile in the Province of Rusconia by a River of the same name once a Bishops See now translated to Calzada yet honoured with the Title of a Dukedom This City lies thirty Spanish Leagues from Saragoza to the
fortified after the modern way and hath a Castle upon a Rock The Religion professed is the Augustane Confession The Government democratical in the likeness of the Customs of Lubeck Long. 48. 30. Lat. 50. 25. In others Lat. 60. 07. § Revel a Town in the Vpper Languedoc in France in the Diocese of Lavaur called anciently Bastida Vauri and Rebellus by K. Philip le Bel who caused it to be Walled Reutlingen Reutlinga a small City in the Province of Schwaben in Germany within the Borders of the Dukedom of Wirtemburgh made an Imperial Free Town in 1215 or as others say in 1240. It is of a square Form built in a Plain upon the River Echeâ—z which a League beneath it falls into the Necker at the Foot of Mount Alchameck one Mile from Stutgard ten from Vlm and five from Tubinghen Under the Protection of the Duke of Wirtemburgh Reux Rodium a Town in Hainault two Leagues from Monts to the East Reygate a large Market and Borough Town in the County of Surrey It stands in the Vale or Dale called Holmes Dale where Fullers Earth is digged up in abundance Showing the ruins of an ancient Castle and under ground a long Vault with a spacious room at the end of it said to be the secret Chamber in which the Barons met in Council in their War against K. John The Danes fought several unsuccessful Battels near this Town It is the Capital of its Hundred and a Corporation represented in the Lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses Reyme the present Name of Capernaum in Palestine Los Reyos See Lima. Rezan the Capital City of a Dukedom in Moscovy which was heretofore a Sovereign Principality of great extent It stands thirty six Miles from Mosco to the South-East and twelve from the Fountains of the Tanais arising within this Dukedom It is an Episcopal City The Province of Rezan lies between the Don and Occa having on the West Moscovy which is divided from it by the River Aka It is the most fruitful Province in this Kingdom besides the chief City which lies upon the Occa it has Corsira and Tulla upon a River of the same Name Olearius Rha. See Wolga Rhade Rhaeda an inland City of Arabia Foelix Long. 83. 20. Lat. 14. 15. Rhaiadergwy a Market Town in the County of Radnor in Wales The Capital of its Hundred Rhamnus an ancient Town of Attica in Greece Famous in its time for a Temple dedicated to the Goddess Nemesis and an admirable Statue therein of her made either by Phidias or Agoracritus a Scholar to Phidias She therefore gained the Title of Rhamnusâ—a Rheine Rhenus a vast River in Germany which is one of the greatest in Europe Called by the Germans das Rhyn by the French le Rheine by the Poles Rhen and by the Spaniard Rhin Next the Danube the greatest River in Germany It springeth out of the Alpes in the Western Borders of Switzerland and the Northern of the Grisons near the Fountains of the Rhosne the Aar and the Tesino from two Fountains the Northern of which is called Vorder Rhyn the Further Rheine the Southern Hinder Rhyn and lies more South These being united into one Stream near Chur it passeth into the Lake of Constance and separating Schwaben from Switzerland watereth Constance and Schafhausen then taking in the Aar it passeth to Basil and between Alsatia and Brisgow by a Northern Course it runs to Newburgh Brisach and Strasbourgh then taking in the Ill it watereth Stolhoffen Philipsburgh and Spire beneath which it admits the Necker at Manheim and so proceeds to Wormes and Oppenheim At Ments it is covered by a Bridge of Boats and beneath it takes the Mayne a great River so by Ingelheim hasteth to Trier beneath which the Lohn and the Moselle come in at Coblentz where there is another Bridge of Boats so dividing the Dukedom of Monts from the Bishoprick of Cologne it watereth Bonne Cologne and Duseldorp at Duisdrop in the Dukedom of Cleves the Roure at Wesel the Lippe comes in to augment his Stream soon after in Guelderland this Torrent grows too great for one Channel and divides into two Branches and forms the Island of Schenken The lest or Southern Branch is called the Wael which by Nimeguen and Bommel goes to Worcum above which the Maez out of Brabant comes in at Dort it divides again and forms the Isle of Yssel The Northern Branch goes by Arnhem Vtrecht and Newport to Roterdam and Vlaerding where it unites with the Southern Branch and both fall into the British Sea by the Briel Above Arnhem there is another Branch derived from the North Branch of the first Division which by Doesburg Zutphan Deventer Hatten and Campen falls into the Zuyder Sea this last Branch is called by the Dutch the Yssel There can be nothing greater said of this River than that it was for many Ages the Boundary of the Roman Empire Rheineberg or Rhimbâ—rg Rhenoberga a City in the Bishoprick of Cologne in the Borders of the Dukedom of Cleves upon the Rhine which is little but very strong Taken from the Spaniards by the Hollanders in 1633 and continued under them till 1672 when it was taken by the French and restored to the Elector of Cologne the proper Owner It stands two German Miles from Wesel to the South and three from Guelders to the East Rheinfelden or Rheinsfeld is a small but strong City of Germany in the Province of Schwaben which has a Bridge upon the Rheine under the House of Austria It lies about two Miles above Basil to the East Often taken in the Swedish War and suffered very much in 1678 by the French Once a Free Imperial City but in 1410. granted by Lewis of Bavaria to the Archduke of Austria Also the more famous for a Defeat of the Imperialists and the taking of John de Wert by the Duke Bernard Waymor in 1638. Rheinsfeld a strong Castle upon the Rheine above S. Gewer in the County of Caltimeliboch under the Landtgrave of Hesse Built by one Dieter a Count of this Country in 1245 between Coblentz to the North and Bingen to the South in the Borders of the Bishoprick of Trier Rhene Rhenia Rhenica Rhenis one of the Islands called plurally 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Greeks and by Mariners corruptly Sdille See Delos At a distance it seems to make one Island with Delos in the Aegean Sea amongst the Cyclades Retimo Rhetimo Rhitymna a City in the Isle of Candy or Creet mentioned by Ptolemy and called at this day by the Greeks Rytimni It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Candia has a large Harbor at the North end of the Island and now strongly fortified Taken from the Venetians by the Turks in 1646 under whom it is now also the Capital of a County of the same name in that Island Rhiphaei Montes the Mountains in the Province of Petzorcke in the North of Moscovy running towards Obdora and the River Oby upon the Borders
Bourbon the King of Navarre being slain before it It fell after this into the Hands of the Leaguers Henry IV. besieged it in 1593. but was prevented from taking it by the Prince of Parma though in the year following it willingly submitted to him after he had imbraced the Roman Catholick Religion The Parliament in this City was instituted by Philip the Fair in 1286. Established by Lewis XII in 1499. and re-established by Francis I. in 1515. Pope Clement VI. was sometime Archbishop of the See Pope Martin IV. and Gregory XI Archdeacons There have been divers provincial Councils here assembled Particularly in 1074. one against the Concubinage of the Clergy Roane or Rovane Rhodumna an ancient Town in France in the Dukedom of Bourbonne and the County of Foretz upon the River Loyre where it becomes first capable to bear a Boat Very great and populous tho not walled It stands twelve Leagues from Lyons to the South-West and eighteen from Moulins The Territory belonging to it is called le Roanez or Roannois and has the Honor of being a Dukedom by the Creation of King Charles IX Rober Erubris a River in Lorain which falls by Trier into the Moselle Robil Robel Rebellio a City or Town in the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh in the Lower Saxony by the Lake of Muritz in the Borders of Brandenburgh two German Miles from Var and seven from Gustro Robogh a Village in the County of Tyron upon the Sea Shoar against Scotland in the Province of Vlster which has preserved the memory of the Rhobogdii an old Irish Clan that possessed the Counties of Antrim Colran and Tyrone in this Province from whom that Cape now called the Fair Foreland by the English was then called Rhobodium being in the County of Antrim scarce fifteen Miles South of the nearest Shoar of Scotland Rocca Nova a Town in the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples honoured with the Title of a Dukedom Rocca Romana a Town in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples near Alifa honored with the Title of a Principality Rochdale a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Salford upon the River Roche in a Dale or Vale which together compound its name La Roche Rupes a Town in the Territory of Genevois in Savoy five or six Leagues from Geneva little less from Anneci and one from the River Arve at the foot of the Mountains It hath a Collegiate Church and two Religious Houses Roche-chouart a Seigniory in the Province of Poictou towards the Borders of Angoumois giving name to a Family of Honour La Roche-En-Ardenne a fortified Town in the Dukedom of Luxemburgh in the Low Countries upon the River Vrt twelve Leagues from Luxemburgh and nine from Liege Honour'd with the Title of an Earldom Rochefort a Town and Port at the Mouth of the Charante in the Pais d'Aunis in France Heretofore no more than a Village but now become a Magazine enlarged with divers Buildings and more daily La Roche-sur-Yon Rupes ad Yonem a Town in the Lower Poictou in France towards Lusson upon the River Yon which after joyns with the Lay. Honoured some Ages since with the Title of a Principality which is enjoyed by the House of Bourbon Rochelle Portus Santonum Rupella Rupella Santonum Rupella a City and famous Port of France upon the Bay of Aquitain the Capital of le Pais d'Aunis and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux Seven Leagues from Brouges to the North two from the Isle of Re and thirty from the Mouth of the Loyre to the South-East It takes its name from the Rock on which it stands supposed to be built about the Sixth Century because not mentioned before against the Incursions of the Normans At first it had Princes of its own After this it was under the English from the times of Henry II. who possessed it as Duke of Anjou And that Prince granted this City its first Charter and Privileges which were confirmed by Richard and John his Sons King John Landed here in 1206. when he went to the Siege of Mountauban and after in 1213. In 1224. it was taken from the English by Lewis VIII King of France but recovered the next year and continued under the English till 1453. And then finally taken by Charles VII In the beginning of the Civil Wars of France this Town fell under the power of the Hugonots who very much improved its Fortifications It was their principal place of refuge under Charles IX After the Massacre of Paris it was besieged by all the Forces of France defended it self to a wonder and at last forced that Prince to a Peace in 1573. It continued after this in their hands till 1628. and then was taken by Hunger in order to which the Ocean was bridled with a prodigious Bank begun in 1627. and carried the length of 747. toises the English having twice unsuccessfully attempted to relieve it After the taking of it Lewis XIII King of France visited it in person re-established the Roman Catholick Religion destroy'd its Fortifications saving two Towers built heretofore by Charles the Fifth for the Defence of the Port and took away its former Privileges In 1649. it first became a Bishoprick the Chair being removed hither from Mallezais a small Place in Poictou by Pope Innocent X. at the request of Lewis XIV Long. 19. 25. Lat. 45. 56. Rochester Rossa Durobius Dorobrevis Rutupiae a City in the County of Kent and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the Medway over which it has a stately Stone Bridge one of the fairest in England five Miles from the Thames twenty five from Canterbury to the East and London to the West This was a Roman Town or rather Castle as William of Malmsbury stiles it much enlarged to the East West and South In 676. it was ruined by Aetheldred King of the Mercians and after this several times by the Danes Aethelbert King of Kent erected here a sumptuous Church and caused one Justus to be made the first Bishop of it in 604. Gundulphus the Norman about 1080. rebuilt this Church and brought in Monks which are since changed into a Dean and six Prebendaries It has a Castle built by William the Conqueror which in the Reign of William Rufus and twice after in the Barons Wars has been besieged Dr. Sprat the present Bishop is the eighty third of this Diocese Charles II. added an Honor to this Place when he created Henry Viscount Wilmot of Athlone in Ireland Baron of Alderbury in the County of Oxon and Earl of Rochester December 13. 1652. Whose Son John Wilmot succeeded him in 1659. Which Family failing Laurence Hide second Son to Sir Edward Hide Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor of England was by the same Prince created Earl of Rochester November 29. 1682. But before these it gave the Title of Viscount to Sir Robert Carr created Anno 1611. by K. James I. Viscount Rochester and afterwards Earl
It stands â—orty Miles from S. Jago to the North-East by a small Lake S. Sebastian Fanum Sancti Sebasliani a City of great strength seated at the foot of an Hill on the Shoars of the Ocean at the Mouth of the River Orio in the Province of Guipuscâ—a in Spain not above three Leagues from the Borders of Gallicia to the West twelve from Bayonne to the West and the same distance from Pampelona to the North. S. Sehastian a City in Brasil in America which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Salvador and the Capital of a Province it has also a large Haven secured by two Forts in the Hands of the Portuguese S. Sever Severopolis a City of France which is the Capital of Gascoigne properly so called upon the River Adour six Miles beneath Aire to the West eight above Dax to the East and twenty three from Bourdeaux to the South San Severo a small City in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Manfredonia but exempt from his Jurisdiction It stands in the Capitanate in a Plain eleven Miles from the Adriatick Sea to the South and twenty four from Manfredonia to the West This Bishoprick was setled here by Pope Gregory XIII it being a flourishing populous City S. Severina Siberina a City in the further Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which is but small yet an Archbishops See It stands upon a steep Rock by the River Neeto ten Miles from the Ionian Sea twelve from Crotone and forty from Cosenza San Severino Septempeda a City in the Marquisate of Anconitana which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Fermo It is small tho of great Antiquity In 543. Septempeda the Roman Town was burnt by the Goths In 1498. there was a Castle built which in time and by degrees produced this City in 1598 first made a Bishops See by Pope Sixtus the Fifth It is built by the River Potenza six Leagues from Tolentino to the West and sixteen from Macerata to the South-West S. Simon a Town in the County of Vermandois in Picardy upon the River Somme betwixt S. Quentin and Ham Honoured with the Title of a Dukedom and giving name to an antient Family there S. Thierry an Abbey near Reims in the Province of Champaigne founded about the year 525 and after being ruined by the Saracens repair'd again in the ninth Century A Council was held at it in 953. S. Thomaso Melange a City of the hither East-Indies called by the Natives Maliapur It is a City of Coromandel on the Bay of Bengala two hundred Miles from the Island of Zeilan or Ceilan to the North. This Town which has been a long time in the Hands of the Portuguese had the Name of S. Thomas given it by them In 1671. the French took it but two Years after they were forced to leave it and the Portuguese recovered their Possession S. Thomas is an Island of a considerable bigness in the Atlantick Ocean said to be thirty Spanish Leagues in compass or one hundred and thirty English Miles round It was found by the Portuguese the twenty third of December being S. Thomas's day and therefore so called in 1405. When they thus found it it was one continued Forest never before inhabited by men The Portuguese have tamed those till then untouched Forests and since well peopled it The Negroes live longer and thrive better than their Masters some of which have died here at an hundred and ten years of Age. The Air is excessive hot so that no Wheat will come to any perfectior nor any Stone-Fruit Sugar Canes thrive excessively forty Ship Loads have been brought from thence in one Year In the midst there is a Mountain always shadowed with Clouds and covered with Trees which occasions those Dews which nourish the Sugar Canes in the hottest Seasons The principal City is called Pavoasan or S. Thomas built of Wood yet adorned with the Title of a Bishops See and a strong Cittadel and makes about seven hundred Portuguese Families This Island was taken by the Hollanders in 1599 and abandoned and again in 1641. But then the Portuguese having used all fair means to recover it the second time in vain they entered it with their Swords and by sorce of Arms recovered what was their just Right This Island lies exactly under the Line in Long. 27. one hundred and eighty Miles from the Coast of Africa in nigh a Circular Figure S. Trinidad de Buenos Ayres Fanum Sanctae Trinitatis a City of South America in the Province of Paragua and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of La Plata the Seat of the Courts of Justice of La Plata a celebrated Sea-Port and Emporium seated on the South side of the River of Plate where it enters the Ocean The Spaniards under whom it is have added Buenos Ayres Good Air to its Name to shew its greatest Excellence S. Tropez Fanum Sancti Torpetis a small but very strong City of Provence in France which has a Sea-Port or Haven upon the Mediterranean Sea five Leagues from Frejus or Fregiu to the South and twelve from Toulon to the East S. Truyen or S. Tron as the French call it Fanum Sancti Trudonis a Town in the Bishoprick of Leige in the Borders of Brabant the Capital of the County of Hasbain or Haspengow five German Miles from Maestricht to the West and from Liege to the East It was walled but dismantled in 1673. S. Venant Fanum Sancti Venantii a Town in Artois in the Low Countries seated upon the River Lise two Leagues from Arras formerly a Place of great strength but now neglected by the French who have possessed it ever since 1659. S. Veit Candocilla Fanum Sancti Viti a City of Carinthia at the Conjunction of the Wiltz and the Glac two German Miles from Glagenfurt toward Girkaw built in a very fruitful Valley S. Veit am-Flaum Fanum Sancti Viti Fâ—omoniensis a strong Town in Carniola which has a Castle and an Haven on the Gulph of Venice in the Borders of Croatia in subjection to the Emperor Saintes or Sainctes Mediolanum Santonum Santona Santones Vrbs Santonica a City in Aquitain the Capital of the Province of Saintonge and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux It stands upon the River Charente twenty Leagues from Bourdeaux to the North eleven from Rochelle to the South-East Great but not equally rich and populous This City was in the times of the Romans built upon an Hill where there appears the Ruins of a Roman Theatre and many other Antiquities this first Pile being ruined by the Goths Franks and other Barbarous Nations the present was built nearer the River and in a lower Ground In the times of the Civil Wars of France in the last Age this City had also a great share the Hugonots for a long time being Masters of it It hath now divers religious Houses In 563. a Council here deposed Emeritus Bishop of the Place for having
de Dier Santo Xanthus a City and River in Phrygia in the Lesser Asia it ariseth from Mount Ida and washing the famous City of Troy falls into the Archipelago Called also by the Europeans Il Scamandro as it was Scamander by the Ancients Sanctors the same with Santerre â—ahia de â—oâ—â—s los Santos Sinus omnium Sanctorum a Gulph in Brasil in South America which gives name to a Government or Province there called Capitania de la bahia de todos los Sants betwixt the Province of the Isles Capitania dos Ilheos and that of Seregippe del Roy. The Capital of All Saints is S. Salvador under the Portugueze Santuliet or Sanflit Sanflita a small but strong Town in Brabant upon the Schelde between Antwerp to the South and Bergen op Zoome to the North three Leagues Soane Savo a small River in Campania di Roma in Italy which flowing through the Terra di Lavoro a Province of the Kingdom of Naples falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea between Sinuessa a ruined City and Volturno Saosne or Saone Arar Savona Sangona a great River in France called by the Italians Sona it ariseth out of Mount Vauge in Lorain near Dornay about twelve Miles from the Fountains of the Moselle to the North-West or as Baudrand saith within five and running Southward through the upper part of Franché Comté it watereth Gray and beneath it takes in the Loughon a great River from the East So it passeth by Auxone to Verdun above which the Doule a great River comes in from the East So passing by Challon Tornus Mascon and Ville Franche it entreth and divideth the City of Lyons and soon after falls into the Rhosne which conveys it into the Mediterranean Sea Some derive its Latin Name Sangona from the Blood of the Christians colouring its Waters at Lyons in the Massacre that was committed upon them there in the Reign of Marcus Aurelius the Emperour Sapienza an Island over against the City Modon in the Morea which gives the name of the Sea of Sapienza to that part of the Mediterranean which watereth its Coasts It was anciently called Spagia or Sphragia The Corsaires of Barbary lye in Ambuscade behind this Island for Vessels that come from the Gulph of Venice or the Coast of Sicily Sara a City of Armenia Major and another of Illyricum remembred in the ancient Geographies Sarabat Hermus a River of the Lesser Asia which ariseth in the Greater Phrygia and receiving the Rivers anciently called Crya Hillus and Pactolus falls into the Bay of Smyrna The Saracens Some deriving the original of this people from Hagar and Ismael call them Hagarenes and Ismaelites Others make them to be descended from Cham and that they were the Inhabitants of the ancient Saraca in Arabia mentioned by Ptolemy and of the Country whereof that City was the Capital It is certain they were an Arabian people and withal that their Name in Arabick signifies Robbers according to the common practice of their lives which they first began to discover in the fifth Century Attaining in the course of time to such an universal puissance as to over-run Syria Persia Palestine Egypt part of Sicily Italy France and most of the Islands of the Mediterranean under Kings of their own and to withstand the united Forces of Christendom in the eleventh and twelfth Ages till the Turks the Caliphs of Egypt and the Sophyes of Persia breaking severally into their Estates the very name of Saracen became abolished only as it is sometimes now applied to Mahometans because the Saracens were Mahometans Saragora Cesar Augusta Vrbs Edetanorum Salduba the Capital City of the Kingdom of Aragon in Spain called by the Inhabitants Zaragosa by the Italians Saragoza It is an Archbishops See of the Creation of Pope John XXII the Seat of the Courts of Justice for that Kingdom of an Inquisition and an University It stands upon the River Ebro which is here covered with a Bridge a little above the Confluence of the Guerva and beneath that of the Xaleon Nonius might justly say of it If the fertility of the Soil the pleasantness of its Site the beauty and elegance of the Buildings of this City be duely considered there can nothing be desired towards the improvement of it which is wanting The Houses are for the most part of Brick the Streets large and open so that for use and beauty it is equal to the best City in Spain It has a strong Wall four Gates a great number of Towers one Cittadel seventeen great Churches fourteen Monasteries and about three Miles in Circuit the Air is very clear and healthful but inclining to too much heat It is a City of great Antiquity having been a Roman Colony and in those times one of the principal Cities in Spain In 381. there was a Council celebrated here in which Priscillianus was condemned who had a great number of followers in Spain There were also other Councils held here in 516. 592. and 691. Prudentius one of the ancientest Christian Latin Poets was a Native of this place who flourished in the fourth Century This City was recovered out of the hands of the Moors in 1118. The Archbishops See was renewed in 1318. It stands forty two Spanish Miles from Valencia to the North twenty six from Pampelune and thirty eight from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Long. 20. 10. Lat. 42. 30. Saragossa See Syracusa Sarbruck or Sarbrucken Sarrae Pons a Town of Germany upon the River Sar in the Borders of the Dukedom of Lorain over against S. Jean Three German Miles from Deux-Pontz and nine from Metz to the East Heretofore an Imperial and Free City of Germany but fell afterwards under the Duke of Lorain and now in the hands of the French although not great yet it is a fine Town of great antiquity being mentioned by Antoninus in his Itinerary Sarcelle Rusicibar an ancient Town of Mauritania Caesariensis mentioned by Ptolemy and Antoninus and now in the Kingdom of Argier in Barbary Twenty eight Miles from the Capital of that Kingdom to the West It is a considerable Town has a large Haven on the Mediterranean Sea and a Castle Sarch Assyria a Province of Asia under the Turks See Assyria Sardinia Sandalioris Ichnusa a great Island in the Mediterranean Sea called by the Inhabitants Sardenna by the Spaniards Sardegna and by other Nations Sardinia In length from North to South one hundred and seventy Miles in breadth from East to West ninety in circuit five hundred It has eleven Harbours ninety four Watch-Towers to preserve it from the Turkish Pirats and in the Roman times it had forty two Cities in the former Ages of Christianity eighteen Episcopal ones which are now reduced to eight The first Nation that became Masters of it were the Carthaginians from whom it was taken by the Romans in the first Punick War about the year of Rome 493. two hundred fifty seven years before the Birth of our Saviour In the Fall of the Roman
Territory of Padoua in Italy Sclavonia the Southern Province of the Lower Hungary called by the Italians Schiavonia by the Germans die Sclavinien by the Poles Slovienska Ziemia The middle Ages under this Name comprehended Illyricum Dalmatia Croatia Bosnia and this which is now called Sclavonia On the North it has the Drave a great River which parts it from the Lower Hungary on the East the Danube on the South the Save which divides it from Croatia Bosnia and Servia and on the West Carniola and Stiria The length of it from the Town of Kopranitz in the West to the fall of the Drave into the Danube in the East is fifty German Miles its breadth from the Drave to the Save twelve This Country was first possessed by the Pannonians after that by the Goths about 386 who were Conquered by the Sclaves about 550. About 1200. these People became Tributaries to the Kings of Hungary About 1544. this Country was first subdued by Solyman the Magnificent In 1687. after the Battel of Mohats the Turkish Army mutining against the Prime Vizier all this Country except Gradisca submitted to the Emperor the Turks deserting it without any blows The German̄s upon their return were very well pleased with the Fertility of it The Chief Towns in it are Gradisca Esseck and Possega which is the Capital City The Inhabitants are great lovers of War and pray for nothing more earnestly than that they may die with their Arms in their Hands Scodra a City of Illyricum attributed by Livy and Ptolemy to Dalmatia and in those times the Seat of the Kings of Illyricum Now the Capital City of Albania and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Antivari great and populous it stands upon the River Boiana Barbana twenty four Miles from the Adriatick Sea and eighty from Ragusa to the North East Twice besieged by the Turks under Mahomet II. without success and in 1478. resigned to them for a Peace by the Venetians The Inhabitants call it Scadar the Turks Iscodar and the Italians Scutari The Lake Labeatis out of which the Boiana Springs takes the name now of the Lake of Sclitari Long. 44. 20. Lat. 42. 24. Scone Scona a celebrated Abbey in the County of Perth upon the Tay three Miles from S. Johnston to the North West in which the Kings of Scotland for many Ages were Crowned Scopia Scapi a City of the Vpper Moesia and the Capital of Dardania in the Borders of Macedonia in the times of Ptolemy now called Scopia by the Italians and Vschub by the Turks It is a great populous City in Servia an Archbishop's See and the Seat of the Sangiack of Servia feated in a fruitful Plain upon the River Vardar over which it has a Stone Bridge of twelve Arches one hundred Miles from Thessalonica to the North-West ten from Sophia to the West and about the same distance from Giustandil to the South The River upon which it stands falls into the Bay of Thessalonica Scotland Scotia is the second Kingdom in Great Britain called by the French l' Escosse by the Italians Scotia by the Germans Schottlandt On the East it is bounded by the German Ocean on the North by the Deucalidonian Sea and the Isles of Orkney on the West by the Vergivian Ocean and the Irish Sea on the South by the River Tweed the Cheviot Hills and the adjacent Tract to Solway Sands whereby it is separated from England Solway Fyrth lies in deg 56. of Latitude and the most Northern point lies in 60 30. by which it should be three hundred and fifteen English Miles in length Polydore Virgil reckons four hundred and eighty its breadth is no where above sixty and its form Triangular with many great Inlets and Arms of the Ocean which indent both the Eastern and Western sides of it The Soil especially towards the North is generally barren affords little Timber and no Fruit Trees The Southern parts are more fruitful the Air in both sharp and cold It is divided into two parts the Southern and the Northern by Dunbritain and Edenburgh Fyrth The South part called the Low-Lands is fuller of Cities and great Towns the People are more rich and better civilized as not only Inhabiting a better Country but driving a Trade at Sea The Northern or High-Lands are more barren and poor the Inhabitants accordingly patient of want and hunger and very temperate in their Diet without which Virtues they could not subsist South Scotland is divided into twenty one North Scotland into thirteen Counties For the Ecclesiastical Government they have two Archbishops S. Andrews who has eight and Glascow who has three Suffragan Bishops under him In the times of the Romans this Country was called Caledonia and Albania the People Picts from their custom of Painting their Bodies The Romans never extended their Conquests beyond the South of Scotland because they thought the Northern and barrener parts not worth their pains The remaining Inhabitants after the withdrawing of the Roman Garrisons from the Northern parts of Britain became very troublesome to the Britains and forced them to call in the Saxons about 449 who Conquered the South parts of Scotland and possess it to this day The Scots or Irish about the same time entered the Western parts of Scotland and by degrees united first with the Picts or Highlanders by their assistance Conquered the Saxons and gained the Sovereignty of that whole Kingdom But there being no Letters here the Story of these times is very dark which has occasioned great Controversies concerning the time of the Scots coming out of Ireland About 839 the Picts were intirely subdued by Kenneth II. first sole King of all Scotland This Line continued under twenty three Princes to 1285. When Alexander III. dying without Issue there began a tedious and bloody contest about the Succession which was referred to Edward I. of England who adjudged the Crown to John Baliol an Englishman He Rebelling against his Benefactor was defeated by that Prince who following his blow made himself Master of Scotland and kept it to his death In 1307. Robert Bruce the other Competitor overthrew the English established himself King of Scotland and Reigned till 1332 when the Kingdom divided again between Edward Baltol and David Bruce which latter prevailed at first against his Competitor but fell under the power of the English where he was many years a Prisoner In 1371. Rob. II. Surnamed Steward descended from the eldest Daughter of David Bruce succeeded In 1602. James VI. the ninth in this Line succeeded after Queen Elizabeth to the Crown of England as Descended both by Father and Mother from Margaret the eldest Daughter of Henry VII King of England the whole Line of Henry VIII being extinguished The Christian Religion was Planted here by different Persons and at several times The Saxon Scots were Converted by Aidan the first Bishop of Lindisferne about 635. The South-Eastern by Nimas Bishop of Candida Casa or White Herne about 555. The Highlanders or
Barkstow upon a small stream falling into the VVarfe and the Ouse at the place of their Conjunction This Town is noted for the Stone-quarries near it well inhabited and provided with a Free-School Shoreham a Market Town in the County of Sussex in Bramber Rape by the Sea side Shrewsbury Salopia the principal City in Shropshire is seated upon the Severne on the top of an Hill of Red Earth in the middle of that County The River runs almost round the Town and is covered by two lovely Bridges Roger of Montgomery in the Reign of VVilliam the Conqueror built on the North side of it a strong Castle which added much to its strength he founded a stately Abbey in it whose remains are extant still It was then a very considerable Place Nor is it after so many Ages sunk in its Wealth Riches or People but still a goodly City and the Centre of the Trade between VVales and England Near this City in 1463 was a sharp Battel fought between Henry IV. and Henry Percie Earl of Northumberland on the behalf of Edward Mortimer Earl of March as the right Heir of the Crown of England after Richard II. In 1067 Roger de Montgomery Earl of Arundel was by the Conqueror created Earl of Shrewsbury His Posterity enjoyed it till 1102 in three descents and then were divested of it In 1442 John Talbot Marshal of France a Person of great Worth and Conduct and the terror of France was by Henry VI made Earl of this City which Honour is enjoyed by his Posterity to this day Charles Talbot the twelfth of this Line succeding in 1667. Shrewsbury contains now five Parish Churches denominates a Lath is encompassed with a strong Wall with a Bulwark that ranges from the Castle to the Severn and is represented in the lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses First supposed to have taken its rise from the ruines of the ancient Vriconium which stood not far from it Shropshire Salopia is bounded on the North by the County Palatine of Chester on the East by Staffordshire on the South by Worcester Hereford and Radnorshires on the West by Montgomery and Denbigh It s length from North to South is thirty four its breadth from East to West twenty five and the circuit about one hundred thirty four English Miles wherein lye one hundred and seventy Parishes and fifteen Market Towns The Air of it is gentle and healthful the Soil rich and fruitful abounding in Wheat Barley Pit-Coals Iron and Wood. The Severne which is the second River of England divides this County almost in the middle receiving into it the Camlet the Morda the Mele the Roddon the Terne the VVorse and some others on the South it has the Temde which receives the Bradfield Onke Omey Quenny Stradbrook Corve Ledwich and Rea all which and some other Rivers water and enrich the South part of this County so that it may very well be one of the most fruitful and best peopled Counties in England The Principal City is Shrewsbury Siam a City and Kingdom beyond the Ganges in the Further East Indies The Kingdom is bounded on the North by the Kingdoms of Pegu and Ava on the East Cambaya Lao Jancoma and Tangu on the South the Bay of its own Name and on the West by the Bay of Bengale making by this form of its situation a Demicircle of about four hundred and fifty Leagues Some assign it a far greater extent and bound it by Pegu and Lao on the North the Chinian and Indian Oceans to the East and West with the Kingdom of Malaca to the South And this way it makes a great Peninsula It is certain the King of Siam keeps several other Kingdoms and Principalities tributary to him and his Country being blessed with a good Air a fertile Soil Mines of Lead Tin Silver and Gold tho of a base Alloy with store of Ivory and being visited continually by Vessels from Japan China Cochinchina Tonquin the Sound and the Philippine Islands from all parts of the Hither East Indies and from Arabia Persia and the Kingdoms of Europe it affords the enjoyment of every thing almost that is valuable Whilst the Sun is in the Northern Signs from March to September the Fields are generally overflown by the Rivers which much contributes to the fertility of them for the Ear of the Rice mounts above the height of the Waters The King of Siam was Master heretofore of Malaca see Malaca Of late himself became a Tributary to the King of Pegu see Pegu. But he is very absolute over and served with the profoundest Adoration by his own Subjects The English French and Dutch have each their Factories in this Kingdom The Portuguese and Armenians Moors and Chinese settle here in great Numbers being allowed dwellings in the City Siam by a Favour not made common to all Nations Siam the City stands in an Island that is formed by the River Menan surpassing in the richness of its Temples most of the proudest Cities in the Indies and its Palace Royal where the King resides built by the River side is of an extent sufficient to denominate a City of it self In 1634 the Dutch built themselves a House in Siam whichâ—is one of the best belonging to their Company in these Indies Siangyang Siangyanum a City in the Province of Huquam in the Kingdom of China The Capital over six other Cities Siara a small City in Brasil upon the North Sea which is the Capital of a Province has a large safe Haven and a Castle but not very populous Under the Portuguese 〈◊〉 a Kingdom under the Great Mogul in the East-Indies towards the Fountains of Ganges and Mount Caucasus betwixt Naugracut and Pitane Siben Sabiona now a Castle only but formerly a City in the County of Tirol and a Bishop's See It is seated upon the River Eysock ten Miles from Brixia whither the Brishoprick is removed to the South-West Siberia a Province of great extent under the Crown of Muscovy towards the river Obb in the Desart Tartary between the Provinces of Condora Legomoria and Permia Some few years since first discovered all covered with uninhabited Woods Marshes and desolate Countries having only a few Inhabitants which have a particular Language of their own and not the use of Bread The Moscovites have of late built the Cities Tobolsk upon the River Yâ—â—im and Siber on the Obb here and united both in one Archbishoprick At the former the Vice Duke under the Grand Duke of Moscovy resides he commands over both Siberia and Samoyeda They have also set up Churches in divers places for the Moscovian Christians Sicambri a People of the ancient Germany placed by most about the now Province of Guelderland in the Vnited Netherlands betwixt the Maes and the Rhine By others upon the banks of the Mayne Strabo calls them Sugambri Ptolemy Synganbri The Bructeri were a part of their Dependents Sichem an ancient City of the Territory of Samaria in Palestine in the
Greek Christians who ever since the third Century have been planting their solitary Settlements here So that in the former Christian times this Mountain with Horeb had as many Chappels upon it as employed fourteen thousand Hermits to serve them but the Turks have reduced that number since The Israelites lay encamped a whole year about this Mountain Singara an ancient City in Mesopotamia near a Mountain of the same Name now said to be called Atalis It saw a severe Battel betwixt the Armies of the Emperour Constantius and Sapores II. King of Persia in 349. Singen two Villages upon Rocks almost inaccessible within a quarter of a Mile from one another in the Dukedom of Wirtemburgh in Schwaben in Germany near the Castle of Hoentwiel Sinopi Sinope a celebrated City of Paphlagonia in the Lesser Asia upon the Euxine Sea which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Amisum Seated upon a small River of the same Name having two Harbors Built by Macritius a Coan about the year of Rome 125 and fell not into the Romans hands till they had conquered Mithridates who had a Palace here After this it became a Colony In later times subject to its own Bishop from whom it was ravished by the Turks who call it Sinabe It has had yet the good fortune to preserve it self in a tolerable State under those devouring Enemies of Mankind Long. 64. 00. Lat. 45. 00. Valerius Flaccus intimates its ancient Splendor where he says Assyrios complexa sinus stat opima Sinope Diogenes the Cynick Philosopher was its Native Sinuessa an antient Roman Colony in the Campagna di Roma in Italy which Ptolemy calls Soessa and Livy Synope It became afterwards a Bishop's See but is now ruined and Rocca di Mondragone is built in the place of it Baronius refers the Council in 30â— that was held in the affair of P. Marcellinus to this City Sion Sèdunum a City ascribed by Pliny to Gallia Narbonensis now the Capital of Valais and called by the Germans Sitten It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Moutiers en Tarontaise in a pleasant Plain having only one Hill on the East side on which stand three Castles in one of them the Bishop resides There is a small River runs by it called Sitta which after falls into the Rhosne It stands fifteen Miles from Bearne to the South and fifty five from Geneva to the East The Bishop is the Sovereign of the City Earl of Valais and a Prince of the Empire who for his security is Leagued with the Seven Catholick Cantons of the Swiss the Pretensions of the Duke of Savoy to his Country having formerly occasioned long and bloody Wars The See did reside at Martigny in Chablais till the ruine of that Place and then it came to be translated hither Charles the Great about the year 802 bestowed these great Privileges upon this See Sion a Mountain and Cittadel in the ancient Jerusalem on which a part of that City was built The Knights of the Teutonick Order bore the name heretofore of the Order of our Lady of Mount Sion Sior Siorium a City in Asia the Capital of the Province of Semgad and Kingdom of Corea a Tributary Prince to the Kingdom of China It is seated sixty Leagues from the Southern Borders of that Kingdom upon a great River as Henry Hamel van Gorcum a Dutchman saith who lately published his Travels in this Kingdom This Kingdom lies to the North-East of China in a great Peninsula toward Japan and the Streights of Anian Sipbntum an old Roman Town in the Province called Capuanata in the Kingdom of Naples whose Ruines yet appear at the soot of Mount Gargano two Miles from Manfredonia It had the honour to be made an Archbishop's See but being by the Saracens in the eighth Century Earthquakes and other Misfortunes destroyed the See was removed to Manfredonia The Antients mention it under the several names of Sypus Sepius Sepus Sipontum and Sepuntum The Gulph upon the Adriatick Sea near to it took and retains its name Sirad Sirackz Siradia a City in the Greater Poland which is the Capital of a Palatinate of the same name It stands upon the River Warta six Miles from Vielun to the North twenty from Breslo to the East and forty five from Warsaw to the West Sirmish Sirmich or Zirmach Sirmis Sermium Sirmium a City of the Lower Pannonia in which Probus the Emperor was born Now called Szreim by the Natives and Sirmish by the Germans a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Colocza and the Capital of a County called by its Name in Sclavonia It lies between the Danube to the East the Save to the South Walcowar to the North and Possega to the South This City stands fourteen German Miles from Belgrade to the West about two from the Save to the North and from Esseck to the South at the soot of Mount Almus Now by the Turks reduced to a mere Village formerly famous for two Arian Councils held under Constantius the Emperor one in 351. the other in 357. Socrat. l. 2. c. 25. Long. 43. 05. Lat. 45. 24. Photinus was then Bishop of the Place whom they deposed for a Sabellian In one they omitted the Word Consubstantial in the other they forbad both the Word and the Thing Le Siron Sirio Serio a River of Aquitain in France Situs or Sidrocapsa a City of Macedonia famous for its Silver Mines and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Thessalonica from which it stands fifty five Miles to the East towards Mount Athos Called in the latter Maps Sidrocapse but by Leunclavius Sirus Sisseg Siscia an ancient City of Pannonia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Colocza Now a Village in Croatia with a Monastery seated upon the Save and the Colaps in the Borders of Sclavonia two Miles from Zagrab or Agram which has robbed it of the Bishops See Under the Emperor Sisteron Segâ—stero Segesteriorum Vrbs Sistarica an ancient City of Gallia Naâ—bonensis now a Bishops See in the Province of Provence in France great and populous built upon the River Durance where it receives the Buech in the Borders of Dauphiné twenty four Leagues from Orange to the East twenty six from Grenoble to the South and from Marseilles to the North-East Sittaw or Zitaw Setuja a City of Germany in Lusatia Sitten See Sion a City in Valais Sittia Cytaeum a City at the North-end of the Isle of Candy called Setia and Sitia which is a Bishops See small but very strong seated in a Peninsula and for the most part surrounded by the See it has a noble large safe Haven the Capital of a County and one of the four Cities of that Island but in Slavery under the Turks Siucheu a Territory in the Province of Nanquin in China Sixenne a Village upon the Borders of the Kingdom of Arragon in Spain famous for a Priory of the Order of S. John of Jerusalem sounded about the year 1188. by Queen
Region of the ancient Asia betwixt the Two Scythia's Margiana Bactriana and the Caspian Sea now answering to the Province of Mawralnaher or Maurenhaer in the Asiatick Tartary North-East of Persia Soisons Suessiones Suessia Civitas Augusta Suessionum an ancient Roman City in the Isle of France which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Reims and the Capital of a County called Le Soissonnois A great fine strong City seated upon the River Aisne which divides it five Leagues from the Confines of Picardy eleven from Reims to the West and twenty two from Paris Pepin was first proclaimed King of France in this City in 752. Soissonnois the District belonging to it was heretofore a part of Picardy it lies between Reims to the East Picardy to the North Valois to the West and Le Brie to the South It took this name from the Suessones an old Gallick Tribe which inhabited it before the Roman Conquest Honoured for many Ages with the Title of an Earldom The City hath six Abbeys in it besides Churches and divers Ecclesiastical and Religious Houses In 853. a Council was assembled at it in the presence of Charles the Bald King of France Solane Solana a small River in Aquitain in France which in the Province of Limosine falls into the Courezze by the City of Tulle Solao Salaca a Province of the Higher Aethiopia near the River Tacaz between the Kingdom of Bagamidra to the South and the Province of Arbagela to the North. Soldin the same with Seleusia Pieria a City of Syria Soleurre Salodurum Salodorum a City of Switzerland which is the Capital of a Canton called by its name The Natives call it Soleurre the Germans Solothurn the Italians Soloduro It stands upon the River Arola seven Miles from Basil to the South and from Friburg to the North and five from Berne to the same The Canton is the eleventh in the number small and Roman Catholick Solfarin a small Seigniory or Lordship in Mantoua Solms Solmia a County in Germany which has its Name from a ruined Town on the River Lohne It lies extended from North to South part in Westerwaldt and part in Weteraw between Hassia to the East and Treves to the West under its own Count whose Residence is in the Castle of Brunsfeld Soloe or Soli the Birth-place of the ancient Greek Poet Aratus This City is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Seleucia It stands in Cilicia in Asia Minor and took for some time the name of Pompeiopolis from its re-establishment by Pompey the Great Pliny mentions it upon the account of a Fountain it anciently had of an extraordinary quality Now called Palesoli Sologne Solonia Sicalonia a small Province under the Prefecture of Orleans by Latin Writers also called Secalonia Sigalonia Siligonta and Sabulonia being a Sandy Country particularly fruitful in Wheat and Rice It lies between the Provinces of Orleans Berry and Blaisois but its proper Limits are lost The principal Town in it is Romorentin eight Leagues from Bois South and fourteen from Bourges North. The Islands of Solomon a Mass of great Islands in the Pacifick Sea towards New Zelandt discovered by Alvarez Mendoza in 1567. but little frequented by the Europeans The names of some of them are S. George S. Mark S. Nicholas S. Anne S. Catherine the Three Maries S. James S. Christopher S. Jerome c. Solothurn See Soleure Solpe a City and Bishop's See in the Province called Capitanota in the Kingdom of Naples Solsona a City in Catalonia in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona made such in 1593. by Pope Clement VIII It stands upon the River Cordoner at the foot of the Mountains about three Leagues from Cardona to the North. A small ill peopled Place though it has been fortified by the French Soltwedel Heliopolis Solvedelia a City in the ancient Marquisate of Brandenburg upon the River Jetz eight German Miles from Vlcan to the East and ten from Havelburg The Inhabitants report it was built by Charles the Great after he had destroyed a Statue of the Sun which was worshipped in this Place Solwey Fryth Ituna an Arm of the Irish Sea which parts England from Scotland Somersetshire Belgae Durotriges Somersetia is a rich populous and fruitful County in the West of England Bounded on the North by the Severne Sea and Glocestershire cut off by the Severne on East by Wiltshire on the South by Dorsetshire and part of Devonshire on the West by Devonshire and the Irish Sea It contains in length from East to West fifty Miles in breadth forty in circuit two hundred and four wherein lie three hundred eighty five Parishes and thirty Market Towns The Air is mild and gentle in the Summer the Roads are extremely miry and deep in the Winter which is recompenced by the Fertility of the Soil yielding Corn and Grass in great plenty nor is it destitute of Mines of Lead Whence comes the usual Proverb here What is worse for the Rider is best for the Abider These Mines are found particularly in Mendip-Hills It has also a Rock called S. Vincent's Rock where are found great plenty of Diamonds equal to those of India in their Lustre but not in hardness It has three Noble Cities Bristol Bath and Wells all which are discoursed of in their proper places The Rivers Parret Tor Tone Frome and others water it besides the Severne's Mouth The first Earl of this County was William de Mohun created in 1138. The second Willam Long-Espee Base Son to Henry II. in 1197. The third Reginald de Mohun in 1296. The fourth John de Beauford in 1396. In which Family it continued till 1471. in six Descents The tenth was Edmond third Son of Henry VI. in 1496. The eleventh Henry Fitz Roy a Base Son of Henry VIII The twelfth Edward Seymor Lord Protector of Edward VI. created Duke in 1546. beheaded in 1552. The thirteenth was William Carre in 1614. The fourteenth William Seymor Marquess of Hartford restored to his Great-Grand father's Title of Duke of Somerset by Charles II. in 1660. since which time there have been five Descents in this Family Somerton a Market Town in Somersetshire The Capital of its Hundred of great consideration heretosore when it is said to have given Name to its County Somme or Some Phrudis Somona Samara a River in Picardy in France which ariseth in a place called Fon Somme in Vermandois two Leagues from S. Quintin to the West and running West watereth Han Peronne Corbie Amiens Abbeville and S. Valery where it falls into the British Sea twelve French Leagues South of Boulogne over against Rye in Sussex having divided Picardy into two parts Sommiers Sommeria a small City in the Lower Languedoc upon the River Vidole four Leagues from Mompellier to the South-East and the same distance from Nismes Once a fortified City Songo a City of the Kingdom of Madingua in the division of Nigritia in Africa Sonneburg one of the chief Towns in the Island
of Oesel in the Baltick Sea Sonnemberg a Town in the Marquisate of Brandenburgh in Germany near Poland to the East Sor or Soro a River in the Kingdom of Portugal which divides Alentejo from Extremadura and falls into the Taio at Salvaterra nine Miles above Lisbone Sora a City of Latium upon the River Garigliano now a Bishops See in the Kingdom of Naples in the Terra di Lavoro which is under no Archbishop It has a splendid Castle honoured with the Title of a Dukedom belonging to the Family di Boncompagno and slands fifty five Miles from Rome to the East and ten from the Lake di Celano Fucinus to the South § This is also the name of a City in the Island of Scelandt in the Baltick Sea belonging to Denmark which has an University in it founded by Frederick II. and re-established by Christian IV. Kings of Denmark Soracte a Mountain in the Dukedom of Tuscany in Italy consecrated to Apollo in the Heathen Ages there It is now called Monte di S. Silvestre Soratoff Soratovia a City in the Kingdom of Astracan upon the Wolga in the middle between Casan to the North and Astracan to the South Lat. 52. 12. in a great Plain The Inhabitants are all Muscovites See Olearius Pag. 162. Soraw Sorava a small City in Lusatia the Capital of the Lower part of that Province and under the Elector of Saxony It stands in the Borders of Silesia two German Miles from Sagan to the West and five from Crossen to the South often taken and retaken in the Swedish War Sorge Sorgue Orge Sorge Sulga Sulgas a River of Gallia Narbonensis which ariseth in the County of Vendosmois in Provence and falls into the Rhosne above Avignon but very near it at a Town called Pont-Sorge Soria Syria Soria Numantia Nova Soria a City of New Castile not above one League beneath the Ruins of the ancient and celebrated Numantia seated in the Mountains well peopled and having belonging to it a very large Jurisdiction It stands twelve Leagues from Baubula to the South-West and eight from Tarazona to the North-West Soritae an ancient people mentioned by Pliny as neighbouring upon India and living altogether upon Fish Sorlings See Silly-Islands Sorrento Sorriento Surrentum Surentum a City in the Kingdom of Naples which is an Achbishops See in the Terra di Lavoro on the Bay of the Hither Principato twenty four Miles from Naples to the South It is seated in a fruitful Plain and though very ancient being mentioned by Pliny and Livy yet in a good Estate Long. 38. 20. Lat. 40 33. Sosteropolis Soteropolis a ruined small City which stood near Nicomedia in Bithynia in Asia Minor where according to Zoneras died Constantine the Great of Poyson Soubiac or Sublac a small Town in Campagna di Roma in the Dominions of the Pope It stands upon the River Teverone and is noted for an Abbey of the Order of S. Benedict who did himself choose a Retreat here Souilly or Seulley a Town in the Dukedom de Bar in Lorain Soul Sous a Kingdom in the East part of Biledulgerid in Africa under the King of Marocco Soule a Territory in the Pais des Basques in France Honoured with the Title of a Viscounty The chief Town in it is Mauleon de Soule Soumel a Town in the Kingdom of Bengale in the Empire of the Great Mogul towards the Ganges The Sound See Sund. Sour See Tyre Soure Sura a River in the Dukedom of Luxemburg called by the Germans Saur by the French Soure It ariseth near Bastoigne eight Leagues from Luxemburg and being increased with some smaller Rivers watereth Dietkirch beneath which it receivs the Vr from Viande to the North then passeth to Echternach and Wasser-bilch where it falls into the Moselle two Leagues above Trier to the South Souri a Province of Turcomania in the Lesser Asia Sourie the same with Zurich Souriquois a Tribe of the unconquered Salvages of New France in North America Souristan the same with Syria Sousos a people of Nigritia in Africa Souster Susa the Capital of Chusistan in the Kingdom of Persia one hundred and eighty Miles from Bagdad to the East now in a flourishing State Southampton Clausentum Antonia Magnus Portus Trisantonum Portus a small City in the County of Hamshire seated on the West side of the River Anton or Hampton which comes from Winchester and here falls into the great Bay of South-hampton ten Miles from Winchester to the South This was a Roman Fort called Clausentum and ruined by the Danes in 980. Also plundered and burnt by the French under Edward III. and rebuilt in the Reign of Richard It is a strong rich populous well traded City fenced with a double Ditch strong Walls and many Turrets for the Defence of the Haven it has a strong Castle built by Richard II. The Haven is capable of Ships of good Burthen up to the Key and lies opposite to Jernsey Garnsey and Normandy There are now five Parish Churches in this City Henry VI. granted it a Mayor and made it a County in 1067. Beauvois of Southampton that celebrated Warriour was its first Secular Earl in 1538. The Bishops of Winchester being before reputed to be Earls of Southampton and so styled in the Statutes of the Garter made by Henry VIII Willam Fitz William Lord Admiral in 1547. Thomas Wriothsley Lord Chancellour was created the third Earl by Edward VI. to whom succeeded three of his Posterity The last died in 1667. In 1675. Charles II. created Charles Fits Roy eldest Son to the Duchess of Cleaveland Baron of Newbery Earl of Chicester and Duke of Southampton Southwark a large Borough in the County of Surrey and the Hundred of Brixton opposite to London on the other side of the Thames and under the Jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor of London yet enjoying several ancient Privileges peculiarly to it self and represented in the Lower House of Parliament by its own Burgesses In the number of Inhabitants and Buildings it exceeds most Cities notwithstanding its Losses by many great Fires S. Thomas's Hospital founded by the Citizens of London stands here Southwell a Market Town in Nottinghamshire in the Hundred of Thurgarton of good Antiquity upon a Rivulet falling not far off into the Tren◠Adorned with a Collegiate Church Southwould Sowold or Swold a small Corporation and Sea-Port Town in the County of Suffolk famous for the many Rendezvouzes of the English Fleets when ever we have had any Wars with the Hollanders especially for two great Naval Victories obtained against them in the Bay of this Town the first June 3 1663. the second May 28. 1672. Both under the Conduct of King James II. as Lord Admiral of England under his Brother Charles II. of Blessed and Pious Memory It is a strong and pleasant Town in the Hundred of Blithing upon a Cliff with the Sea to the East the River Blithe over which there is a Draw-Bridge to the West and a Bay of its own name to the
Ages enjoyed the Residence of the Kings of Sweden and they having also much enlarged that Kingdom by their Conquests in Poland Germany and Moscovy it is now become a celebrated Mart rich and populous It has a Royal Castle a large and safe Port upon the disembogure of the Lake Meler secured by Forts and from the weather so protected by Rocks that the greatest Vessels may ride in the midst of it without anchor or cable It has a convenient Situation but being placed amongst many Rocks just by it the prospect of it is not very taking upon six small Islands joyned by Bridges of Wood to each other the best Peopled is called Stockholm which denominates the City also two large Suburbs one on the North and the other on the South Tho it is a place of no strength yet Christian King of Denmark could not take it when he besieged it in 1518. It stands eight Swedish Leagues from Vpsal to the South five from the Baltick Sea to the West and eighty from Dantzick and Copenhagen Long. 43. 00. Lat. 60. 30. Gustavus Adolphus and Charles Gustavus surnamed Augustus Kings of Sweden lye interred in a Church of this City But the rest of the Kings lie at Vpsal and other places Stockport or Stopford a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Macclesfield upon the River Mersey Stockton a Market Town in the Bishoprick of Durham The Capital of a Ward Stoecades Ligustides the Islands Hyeres in the Mediterranean Sea upon the Coast of Provence in which the Knights of Malta after their loss of Rhodes entertained thoughts of settling by the permission of the King of France The Monks had got footing upon them in Cassian's time There was a Cistercian Monastery standing in the time of P. Innocent III. The Ancients mention the principal of them by the names of Hispa Prote Pomponiana Phenice Sturium c. which now are called Teste de Can Ribaudas Ribaudon Langoustier c. This last seem to express their other ancient Name of Ligustides See Hieres Stoel-Weissemburg See Alba Regalis Stokesley a Market Town in the North-Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Langbark well watered with fresh Streams Stolhoffen Stolhoffa a City or fortified Town in Schwaben in Germany upon the Rhine in the Marquisate of Baden two German Miles from Hagenow to the East and three from Strasburg South-East Stolpe Stolpa a Town seated upon a River of the same Name in the Further Pomerania three German Miles from Lawenburg in Pomerania to the West thirteen from Colberg to the East It has an ancient Castle subject to the Duke of Brandenburgh Stone a Market Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Pirehill upon the Trent Stonehenge Mons Ambrosii a very venerable and ancient Monument in Whiltshire six Miles from Salisbury consisting of three Crowns or Ranks of huge unwrought Stones one within another some of which are twenty eight Foot high and seven broad upon the tops there are others laid cross and framed into them Upon a large plain scarce affording any other Stones at all in the circumferences of some Miles Mr. Cambden supposes the Art of the Ancients in making Stone of Sand and unctuous Cement was employed in this Work Because these Stones seem too vast a load for Carriages Stormaren Stormaria a Province of Holstein bounded on the North by Holstein properly so called on the East by Waggaren and Lavemburg and on the West and South by Bremen and Lunenburg cut off by the Elbe Partly subject to the King of Denmark and partly to the Duke of Holstein Gotthorp The principal Places in it are Gluckstad Crempen and Pinnenberg which are under the King of Denmark Under the Duke are Elmeshorn Steinhorst Barmsted and Reinhorst Hamburg though subject to neither of these Princes is reckoned within the Bounds of this Province by John Bunon Stow on the Wold a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Slaughter § Another in the County of Suffolk the Capital of its Hundred upon the River Orwell large and beautifully built with a spacious lofty Church And driving a great Trade in Stuffs Straelsund Sundis a small but very strong City in the Hither Pomerania upon the Shoars of the Baltick Sea which has an Harbor over against the Isle of Rugen another towards Gripswald and Pomerania and a third looking toward Dumgarten and the Dukedom of Meckelburg being built in a Triangle It stands sive German Miles from Gripswald to the North ten from Anclam and about four from the Isle of Rugen secured by Marshes the Sea and three well fortified Banks Now one of the Hanse Towns but formerly a Free Imperial City and a frequented Mart. Built by the Danes in 1211 and being besieged by Count Wallestein for the Emperor who had subdued all the rest of Pomerania this small place in 1629 called Gustavus Adolphus into Germany who rescued it out of the Hands of the Imperialists and became the Master of it which was confirmed by the Peace of Munster In 1678 the Duke of Brandenburgh took and burnt this Town not leaving out of above two thousand Houses five hundred unruined by his Bombs and Fireworks He took it upon a Capitulation and the next year after by the Treaty at S. Germains it was resigned to the Swedes again Stramulipa Boeotia Attica a part of Greece the Capital of which is Thebes it lies over against the Isle of Negropont Strasburg Argentoratum the Capital City of Alsatia in Germany called by the Italians Argentina It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mentz And for many Ages a Free and Imperial City seated upon the River Ill where it falls into the Breuch one Mile from the Rhine over which it has a Timber-Bridge of vast length Eight German Miles from Brisach to the North twelve from Spire fourteen from Basil and twenty from Nancy and Metz. So very ancient that it is said to be built in the year of the World 1955 thirty three years before the Birth of Abraham which tho it may be true yet cannot be proved Tacitus and Caesar call it Tribocorum and Tribâ—cum Ptolemy Argentoratum other Latin Writers Argentina and Strasburgum It is mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus as a Place which the Slaughter of the Barbarians by Julian the Apostate had made famous The Victory here mentioned was in the year of Christ 357. In which Julian overthrew six Barbarous Kings of the Germans and took Chodonomar the chief of them Prisoner In the year 378 Gratianus the Emperor gave the Germans another great Overthrow near this City Attila King of the Hunns took and wasted this City about the year 451. Childerick King of the Franks possessed himself of it in the year 478. S. Amand became the first Bishop of this City in the year 643. Henry II. Emperor rebuilt this City in the year 1004. The Cathedral was built in the year 1207. In the year 1332 it suffered very much by intestine Divisions between the Nobility and Populacy In
Silks and Maroquines but the Country elsewhere is extreme Sandy hot and desert About 1660. the King of this place after many Victories conquered Morocco and Fez and kept them for some time This is supposed to have been a part of the ancient Numidia Tagaste is now a desolate Village in the Province of Constantine in the Kingdom of Algiers in Barbary which heretofore was a Bishops See and famous for giving Birth to S. Augustine Tagat a fruitful Mountain two Leagues from the City Fez to the East in the Kingdom of Fez in Barbary about two Leagues in length Covered with Pines on one side and affording Land for Tillage on the other Taicheu Taicheum a City in the Province of Chekiam in China It stands upon a Mountain and is the Capital over five other Cities Tajima a Town and Province in the North part of Niphon Taillebourg a Town in the Province of Xaintonge in France upon the River Charante at which S. Louis King of France in 1242. defeated the Malecontents of his Kingdom that were risen in Arms against him Tajo Tagus one of the most celebrated Rivers of Spain It ariseth from two Fountains in New Castile but in the Borders of Arragon at the foot of Mount Vallezillo And running North it takes in the Molina then turning South-West it passeth by Pastrana to Aronjues where it admits the Tajuna with a knot of other Rivers from Madrid and Henares turning more Westerly it salutes Toledo takes in beneath it the Gaudarrama and the Alberch visits Talavera and Puente de Archobisbo where it is covered by a Bridge beneath Almaraz it receives the Guadalupo So passing by Alcantara it entereth the Kingdom of Portugal at Perdigaon and receiving the Rio Monsul and a vast number of small Brooks in that Kingdom it forms the vast Haven of Lisbon and on the South side of that City passeth into the Atlantick Ocean having from its Fountains run one hundred and ten Spanish Leagues and being at its Mouth two Spanish Leagues broad There is no River in Spain more frequently mentioned than this especially on the account of its Golden Sand by the Poets Taiping a City of the Province of Nankim upon the River Kiang in China There is another of Quantum which is now under the King of Tumkim Taitung a strong City in the Province of Xamsi in China It is the third of Note there and drives a great Trade Tajuna Tagonius a River of New Castile which falls into the Tajo Taiyven the Capital City of the Province of Xansi in China near the River Truen Talabo or Talaro Pitanus a River in Corsica Talamone a Town and Port to the Tyrrehenian Sea in the Estate called Degli Presidii upon the Borders of the Dukedom of Tuscany in Italy Belonging to the Spaniards Talavera Ebara Libora a Town in New Castile upon the Tajo See Tajo Talâ—a a very fruitful Island in the Caspian Sea according to Pliny who calls it Tazata and other Ancients But we have no Modern Account of it Tamaga Tamaâ—a and Tambro a River of Spain which ariseth in Gallicia above Mone Roy and running South through the Province of Entre Douro è minbo falls into the Douro six Spanish Leagues above Porto to the East Tamar Tamaris a River in the East of Cornwal which divides that County from Devonshire It ariseth in Devonshire near the Irish Sea and running South watereth Bridgrule Telcoâ— Tamerten which has its name from this River Beyton Lawhitton Cal-Stock and having received amongst others the Foy at Plimouth it entereth the British Sea forming there a Noble and Capacious Haven See Cambden Tamaraca a City and Island upon the Coast of Brasil in South America under the Portuguese making one of the fourteen Governments or Provinces of Brasil Tamaro Thamarus a small River in the Principato in the Kingdom of Naples which rising from the Appennine a little above Benevento falls into the Calore Tamasso Tamassus a Town in the Island of Cyprus towards Famagosta Of great Repute for its Tin-Mines Taming Taminga a City in the Province of Pekim in China Tampan the Mouth of the Rhosne Tamul a petty Kingdom contained in Bisnagar in the Hither East-Indies Tamworth a Borough and Market Town in the Borders of Staffordshire and Warwickshire at the Confluence of the Tame and the Auker whereof one washeth that part of the Town which stands in Staffordshire and the other that in Warwickshire It hath a strong though small Castle for its defence is beautified with a large Church and in the Lower House of Parliament represented by two Burgesses Tanagra an ancient City of Boeotia now Stramulipa in Greece near the River Asopus Called Orops by Aristotle and Gephyra in Stephanus Athenaeus mentions Cetus Tanagranus as a Proverb for a vast Whale because one of a prodigious Magnitude was cast up here It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Athens the same with the Anatoria of some Moderns Tanais a River of Crim Tartary which divides Europe from Asia Called by the Neighbouring Nations Don by the Italians Tana It ariseth in the Province of Rezan in Moscovy eleven hundred Miles from Moscow from the Lake Iuvanouvo Lezicro which is five hundred Wrests broad and flowing with a very Oblique Course through the Countries possessed by the Precopensian or Crim Tartars not far from the Wolga falls into the Lake of Moeotis near a City called from it Tanais now ruined This City was once taken by the Russ but now in the hands of the Turks The River divides it into two parts and affords it the convenience of an Haven though now not much frequented Long. 60. 40. Lat. 48. 09. Tanaro Tanarus a Navigable River of Lombardy which ariseth in Piedmont in the Borders of the States of Genoua from the Apennine and running North-East watereth Mondovi Alba Asti and Alexandria in the Dukedom of Milan it falls into the Po at Bassignano between Casal to the North and Voghera to the South Tandaya one of the Philippine Islands Tandra an Island of the Euxine Sea at the Mouth of the Borysthenes Taneâ—axima a small Island belonging to Japan Tanes Tanitioum Ostium one of the Eastern Mouths of the Nile This gave name to Tunis now Tanes a desolate Village in Egypt at this time but formerly one of the greatest richest and strongest Cities of Egypt a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Damietta The Calyphs rebuilt it after it had been some Ages desolate but it soon returned to its former State Tangier Tingi Tingis one of the oldest Cities of Africa in the Province of Hasbat in the Kingdom of Fez. Built by Antaeus a Phoenician as the Learned Sir John Marsham proves from Procopius who mentions an ancient Pillar with this Inscription in the Phoenician Tongue We are fled from Joshua the Son of Nun a Robber whereupon he placeth the building of it in Joshua's time and saith it is undoubtedly a very ancient Phoenician Colony It stands at the Mouth of the Streights
a vast Arm of the Sea falls into the German Sea almost twenty English Miles North of St. Andrews Taygetus a Mountain of the Province of Laconia in the Peloponnesus consecrated in Pagan times to Castor and Pollux Standing in the neighbourhood of Sparta now Misitra and being broken once by an Earthquake it did much mischief to that City Tearus a River of Thrace salling into the Hebrus so admired by Darius the Son of Hystaspes for its Water according to Herodotus that he erected a Colom in its honor Teane a River in Staffordshire upon which Checkley is situated Tebesca an ancient City in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Carthage Tech Ter Illybiris Thicis Tichis a small River in the County of Roussillon which springeth out of the Pyrenean Hills in the Borders of Cerdanna watereth Arles and Cerdanna then falls into the Mediterranean Sea twelve Miles from the Mouth of the Egli to the South Tectosagae an ancient People of Gallia Narbonensis whose Capital City was the modern Tolose They made an incursion into Germany and there established themselves near the Hyrcinian Forest Tedles Tedlesia a Province in the Kingdom of Morocco It s chief City is Tofza Tees Athesis Tuasis a River which parts England from Scotland It ariseth in Twedale therefore called the Tweed no less frequently and running Eastward and being augmented by the Cale at Rydam it becomes a boundary at Tiltmouth takes in the Bromyshe out of Northumberland and on the South side of Barwick entereth the German Ocean Teflis Artaxata Arxata Tephlis Zogocara the Capital City of Georgia in the Province of Carduel upon the River Khur or Cyrus Anciently one of the greatest Cities of the East but being taken and ill handled by the Turks it consists of very few Inhabitants under the King of Persia Baudrand Sir John Chardin who saw it some few years since contrariwise assures us it is one of the fairest though not the biggest Cities in Persia at the bottom of a Mountain upon the River Cur incompassed on all sides but the South where the River secureth it with a strong and beautiful Wall and has about fourteen Christian Churches served by Armenians and Georgians together with a large Castle guarded by Natural Persians only The Bishops See or Palace is near the Cathedral Church It has in the mean time not one Mosque except a small one lately built in the Castle because the Christians will not endure it and the Persians are too wise to exasperate their Frontier People who can with ease call in the Turks to revenge the Injuries of their Religion It is well Peopled full of Strangers who resort thither on the account of Trade Twice in the hands of the Turks in the Reigns of Ishmael II and Solyman his Son The latter took this and Tauris about 1548. The Persian Tables place it Long. 83. 00. Lat. 43. 05. The Congregation at Rome de propaganda fide keeping a Mission of Capuchins in Georgia who understand Physick and by that means render themselves very acceptable to the Country their Praefect resides here It is the Seat of the Viceroy of Georgia Tefza a City in the Province of Tedles in the Kingdom of Morocco built on an high Hill by the River Derna Tegan Teganum a City in the Province of Huquam in China The Capital over five Cities Tegaza a Desart in Nigritia in Africa Tegaea an antient City of Arcadia in the Peloponnesus which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Corinth Tegeste a Peninsula in Florida in North America Tegorarin a City and Territory in Biledulgerid in Africa Teissa or Tiissa Tibiscus the Theysse a River of the Vpper Hungary which ariseth in the Carpathian Mountains and floweth through Transylvania hither to pay its Tribute to the Danube Segedin stands upon it The Hungarians use to say It is two parts Water and the third Fish Tejum an ancient City of Paphlagonia in the Lesser Asia remarkable by being the Birth-place of Anacreon the Poet who died of a Grape-stone sticking in his Throat Telepte an Ancient City of the Province of Byzacena in the Kingdom of Tunis in Barbary It was a Bishops See particularly remarkable in the person of Donatus who in 418 celebrated a Council at it against the Pelagians Now in slavery to the Moors Telessia a City of the ancient Samnium in Italy now in the Province called Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples It became a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento and was adorned with the Title of a Dukedom But since 1612 the See has been transserred from hence Telgen Telga a City in Sudermannia in Sweden four Miles from Stockholm to the North-West Temesen Temesena a Province in the Kingdom of Fez. Temeswaer Temesuaria a Town in the Vpper Hungary which is the Capital of a County of the same Name A great and strong place seated upon the River Temes whence it has its Name five Leagues from Lippa towards the Borders of Transylvania and about ten from Belgrade The Turks twice attempted it before they took it in 1552 from the Transylvanians upon which they bestowed great costs in the fortifying of it and esteem it invincible as indeed it is the strongest Place they have left them The County of Temeswaer is bounded on the North by Chaunad and Transylvania on the West by the Tibiscus on the South by the Danube and on the East by Moldavia Temiam Temiamum a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Gangara on the West by that of Bito on the South by the River Niger and on the East by the Desart of Sert or Seu. The principal City of which is Temican Tempe a sweet Valley in the Province of Thessalia in Macedonia watered by the River Peneo The Poets have rendered it famous to all Ages It lies betwixt the Mountains Olympus and Ossa And some place the ancient City Lycosthome in it which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Larissa Temruck or Tomaruchi Tyrambe Tyrambis a City of Crim Tartary in Asia sixteen Miles from the Cimmerian Bosphorus to the East and ten from the Lake of Corocondam to the North. Tenbury a Market Town in Worcestershire upon the Edge of Shropshire and the Banks of the River Tent in the hundred of Doddington Tende Tenda a Town in the County of Nizza in the Appenine near the Borders of the States of Genoua eighteen Miles from Alba to the North and twenty five from Fossano South which has a Mountain near it called Le col de Tende and a very strong Castle This was a Sovereign State under Counts of its own but now subject to the Duke of Savoy Tenduc Tenducum a City and Kingdom of the Asian Tartary Bounded on the North by the Great Tartary on the East by Jupia on the West by the Kingdom of Tangut and on the South by China This Prince has within a little more than forty
are violently cold It abounds with all things useful to the Life of Man except Wine and Oil. The chief Town where the Governour Resides is James Town and the whole is divided into nineteen Counties Uirton Virtonium a small City in the Dukedom of Luxemburgh in the Borders of Lorain five Leagues from Luxemburgh to the West and four from Arlon to the South under the Spaniards Uisapour or Visiapour Visapora the Capital City of the Kingdom of Decan in the Hither East Indies one hundred and seventy eight English Miles from Goa to the North-East and something more from Masulipatan to the North-West Taken by the Great Mogul in 1687. Decan is sometimes called the Kingdom of Visapour from this City Uisbui a Town in Gothland Uistre Vitreus a small River in the Territory of Nismes in Languedoc Uistula one of the greatest Rivers of Poland which in ancient times was the boundary between Germany and Sarmatia Called anciently by Pliny Vistullus Ptolemy Istula Pomponius Mela Visula Ammianus Marcellinus Bistula now by the Sclavonians Weissel and by the Poles Wissa It springeth out of the Carpathian Hills in the Vpper Silesia in the Borders of Hungary flowing E and being augmented with the Sala watereth Crakow then taking in the Dunâ—â—eck the Nida the Wislaca and turning North the Vieprez and the Pilecka and watering Cerâ—kâ— and Warsaw it admits the Bâ—g and Bsura above Plociko from the East Beneath it washeth Doberzin Thorn Culm Newenburgh At Marienwerder divides into two Branches The Eastern passeth by Margenburgh and Elbing into the Bay of Dantzick the Western subdivides into two other Branches The most Western of which goes by Dantzick into the same Bay and so into the Baltick Sea being at its full one of the noblest Streams in the World but so shallow that a great Ship cannot come up to the City Uitefleu Vitefleur Guitefledu Vitefloda a River near Calais in France Uiterbo Viterbium a City in S. Peter's Patrimony which is a Bishops See immediately under the Pope great and populous at the foot of an Hill 40 Miles from Rome to the North-West and from Civita Vecchia to the North. Platina saith it was of old called Vâ—â—ulonia Four Popes lye interred in the Cathedral In 1614. and 1624. the Bishop of it held 2 Synods here It is the Capital of the Province Uitre or Vitry le Francois Victoriacum Francicum a Town in Champagne in la Perche upon the Marne 7 Leagues from Chaalons towards Diziers King Francis I. built it and honoured it with his Name to distinguish it from Vitri le Brulè hard by which was heretofore a considerable Castle Uitstock a Town in Brandenbourgh where the Swedes and Saxons got a great Victory over the Imperialists in 1636. Uivaretz Vioariensis Tractus a Province in Languedoc called also Vivarais Bounded on the East by the Rhosne which parts it from the Dauphiné on the North by Forez and Velay on the West by Givaudan and on the South by the Lower Languedoc separated by the River Ardeche and Vsez The Capital City of it is Viviers the rest are Annonay Aubenas Privas and Tournon A part of it is mountainous and much exceeded in Fertility by the Plains that lye along the Rhosne About 22 Leagues long and 17 broad Divided into the Upper and Lower Vivaretz by the River Erieu Uiviers Vivario Vivarium Vivario Albiensium the Capital City of Vivaretz which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vienne and stands upon a steep Hill upon the Rhosne 4 Leagues from S. Esprit to the North and 5 from Valence to the South The Maps place it 12. It is risen out of the Ruines of Abs Alba Helviorum which being destroyed by the barbarous Nations in 430 its See was translated hither There are divers Churches adorning this City Uize Byzia an inland City of Thrace upon a River of the same name in the Borders of Bulgaria 50 Miles from Haraclea to the North. Now an Ar. Bishops See and the Seat of one of the Sangiacks of Romania Uizzegrad or Plindenbourgh Visegradia a small but strong City in Hungary upon a Hill near the Danube 3 Miles from Gran and 8 from Buda It was one of the Country Palaces of the Kings of Hungary and has a Castle which Matthias Corvinus K. of Hungary very much beautified Lewis K. of Hungary died here in 1382. The Germans call it Plindenburg Ukraine Vkrania Vcrania Okraina a Province of Red Russia in Poland so called because it is the Marches between Poland Moscovy and the lesser Tartary and no less frequently called the Palatinate of Kiovia It is divided into two parts by the Nieper The Cossacks inhabit this vast Country which are in part under the Poles in part under the Russ The Industry of the latter Kings has filled it with Villages Castles Towns and Forts at this day very much cultivated That part to the East of the Nieper is under the Russ For the Boundaries see Kiovia Ula Treâ—k Vln a Lake in Sweden in the Province of Bothnia Uladislaw Vladislavia a small City in the greater Poland the Capital of the Province of Cujavie and a Bishops See under the Ar. Bishop of Gnesira called by the Poles Wladissaw It stands upon the Vistula between Pâ—osko to the North-West and Thorn to the South-East 5 Polrsh Miles from either Made a Bishops See in 1173. Ulie Flevo Flevum an Island at the mouth of the Rhine in Holland 3 Leagues from the Shoars of Friseland where the Dutch Fleets use to rendezvous when they go upon any Expedition Ulles-Water a Lake upon the Borders of Cumberland and Westmorland which yields great plenty of Fish Ulm Vlma a City of Germany in the Circle of Schwaben whereof it is the Capital called by the French Oulme great strong rich and populous It stands upon the Danube and the Iler 12 German Miles from Tubingen and 24 from Strasbourgh 10 from Ausbourgh In the Titles of the middle Age it is called Hulma in the more ancient Alcimoenis Not walled before 1300. Charles the Great gave it to the Abbey of Richenow by Constance and being redeemed from this Servitude in 1346. Lewis of Bavaria made it a Free City It embraced the Reformation in 1529. In 1552. it suffered much from the Protestant Princes yet to this day it perseveres in the Augustane Confession Allowing to the Roman Catholicks 2 Churches but excluding them from their Secret Council Long. 32. 00. Lat. 48. 16. Ultzen a Town in the Dutchy of Lunenbourgh in the Lower Saxony upon the River Ilmenaw or Die Aw 5 German Miles from the City Lunenbourgh to the South and the same distance from Dannebergh to the West Ulstet Vltonia the most Northern of the four Provinces of the Kingdom of Ireland called by the Irish Cui Gully by the English Ulster by the Welsh Wltw bounded on the North by the Ocean on the West by Canought and the Ocean on the South by Leinster and on the East by the Irish Sea
River Helevacho in the Confines of the Kingdom of Guzarate but under the King of Decan between Daman to the North and Goa to the South in 20. deg of Lat. Dacia the ancient Appellation and Division of a large Country of Europe bounded on the North by the Carpathian Mountains and the River Preuth on the East and South by the same River together with the Danube and by the Theysse on the West It was divided into 1. Dacia Ripensis which contained a part of the present Hungary and Walachia 2. Dacia Alpestris answering to another part of Walachia and to Moldavia 3. Dacia Mediterranea or Gepida in which was comprehended the present Transylvania The Albocensii Sinsi Taurissi Piephigi Biepti c. were the then Inhabitants of this Country under the Government of Kings of their own till Trajan conquering Decebalus reduced them into a Roman Province in the year of Rome 98. and affixed the Name of Colonia Vlpia Trajana to their Capital City otherwise called Varhel or Zarmisogethusa The Greeks called this people Getae It was the Romans that derived the Title of Daci and Dacae upon them Dacia also in the Monastick Writers is put abusively for Dania Daci for Dani and Dacicum for Danicum In the University of Paris the Danish College is called Collegium Dacorum The Marish and the Olt were the principal Rivers of Dacia Dacha Paropanisus a Province in the Greater Asia Dada an ancient City of Pisidia in the Lesser Asia otherwise by Ptolomy and Strabo written Adata and Adadata Dadastana an ancient City of Bithynia in Asia the Less upon the Confines of Galatia remarkable for the death of the Emperor Jovian here Dadivan a delightful Plain four or five Leagues in Circuit in the Province of Farsistan in Persia between Schiras and Lar richly planted with Orange Lemon and Pomgranate Trees and traversed by a River that affords plenty of Fish The English and Dutch residing at Ormus are wont to pass the end of the Summer here for pleasure Dafar the Seat of the ancient Homeritae in Arabia Foelix upon the Arabian Sea Daghestan or Dachestan a Province between the Kingdom of Astracan to the North and the Province of Schirwan in Persia to the South Inhabited by Tartars under a Prince of their own in security against Invasions by the means of inaccessible Mountains The principal City here is Tarku Dagho Daghoa a small Island upon the Coast of Livonia to the North of the Island of Oesel in the Baltick Sea at the mouth of the Bay of Riga which has two Castles and is under the King of Sweden Dagno Thermidava a City of Dalmatia or Albania upon the River Drino Dai or Daae an ancient People of Scythia Asiatica upon the Caspian Sea adjoining to the Massagetae Dalanguer Imaus Dalecarle Dalecarlia or Dalarne a great Province in the Kingdom of Sweden towards the Mountains of Savona and Norway which bounds it on the West on the North it hath Helsinga Gestricia on the East and Vermelandia on the South a vast Country but it has never a City or good Town in it Taking this Name from the River Dalecarle which is one of the most considerable of all the Rivers of the Kingdom of Sweden It is a Mountainous Country Dalem Dalemum a small Town of the Dutchy of Limburg in the Low Countreys under the Hollanders It stands upon a Stream two Leagues from Liege and three from Aix la Chapelle fortified with a strong Castle and adorned with the Title of an Earldom and likewise enjoying a Jurisdiction over a Territory of many Villages beyond the Meuse Dalia a Province contained within Westrogothia in the Kingdom of Sweden between the Lake of of Vener and the Prefecture of Bahuys Dalebourg is the most considerable Town in it Dallendorf a Village and Castle in Eyfel in the Dutchy of Juliers which was the Seat of the ancient Taliates sometimes called Tallenford Dalmatia the Eastern part of the ancient Illyricum called by the Ancients Delmio or Dalmatia from a City of that Name its Capital The Inhabitants of which revolting with about twenty Towns from the Kingdom of Epirus called this small District by the Name of Dalmatia Afterwards it was conquered by the Romans and after this by the Sclavonians called by the Turks Bosnaeli by the Poles Slowienska by the Italians Schiavonia by the French Dalmatie That Country which now goes by the Name is but a small part of the ancient Dalmatia lying upon the Adriatick Sea and bounded on the North by Croatia and Bosnia on the East by Servia on the South by Albania and on the West by the Adriatick in which Bounds Morlachia is included In the year 1076. Pope Gregory VII in a Council held at Salona actually erected this Country into a Kingdom by the Investiture of Demetrius then Duke of Dalmatia with all the Ensigns of Royalty Now the greatest part is under the Turks but the Sea-Coasts and Islands are in the hands of the Venetians who have taken several Forts from the Turks in this present War The Common-wealth of Ragusa lies in Dalmatia also which is not subject either to the Turks or Venetians though it payeth a voluntary Tribute to the former but in 1686. they were very earnest with the Emperor of Germany by their Embassador to undertake their Protection against the Turks The Sclavonian Language is spoken by the Natives of Dalmatia Dalton a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Loynsdale seated in a Champaign Country not far from the Sea Dam a strong Town in Flanders built of late years to secure Bruges against the Hollanders from which it stands but one League towards the North. This is still in the hands of the Spaniard § Dam a strong Town in the Dukedom of Pomerania upon the River Oder right over against Stetin which is in the Possession of the King of Sweden § Dam a Town in Gronningen three Miles from the chief City of that Province to the East and one from Delfziil to the West seated upon Damsterdiep Damala Troezeu once a City now a small Town or Village on the Eastern Shoar of the Morea twenty seven Miles from Napoli to the North-East and fourteen from Corinth to the South-East Daman or Damaon a celebrated Port on the West of Malabar in the Kingdom of Guzurate upon the Coast of the Gulph of Cambaia twenty Leagues from Surate in 20. deg of Northern Latitude in the hands of the Portuguese who built it and have so strongly fortified it that the Great Mogul in vain of late besieged it with forty thousand men Damascus is the principal and the most ancient Town in Syria seated in a Plain upon the Chrysorrhoas or a River called the Golden Stream by the Ancients surrounded with Mountains one hundred and forty Miles from Jerusalem to the South and Antioch to the North. This City is so ancient that it is not known when or by whom it was built but it is mentioned by Abraham In the succeeding Ages