a Castle taken by the Swedes and granted them by a Treaty in 1658. but in 1660. the Danes again recovered it The Country about is called the Government or Prefecture of Drontheim granted to the Swedes with the City but since recovered with it too This is the largest Prefecture in Norway reaching from North to South five hundred Miles and from West to East one hundred Droses Jernus a River of Conaught in the County of Clare which falls into the Bay of Shannon at Dinghanbeg Dinga East of Clare two Miles Le Drot Drotius a River in Aquitaine in France which ariseth at Montpasier ten Miles North-West of Cahors and running West falls into the Garrone over against Bazas nine Miles East of Bourdeaux Druidae Druides the Priests of the antient Gauls compared by Laertius with the Magi Gymnosophistae and Philosophers of Persia India and Greece for their pretensions to Learning and Piety and Authority over the people of whose Superstitions they were the Authors as of their affairs publick or private the Arbitrators The Eugabes of Ammianus Marcellinus the Saronides of Diâ—d Siculus and the Semnotheoi of others were several Orders of these Priests according as they applyed themselves either to the services of the Altar or to the Contemplation of the Works of Nature In the former they made Sacrifices of Men till the Emperors Angustus Tiberius and Claudius by repeated Interdicts at last broke them of that barbarity Their other they delivered to the publick in thousands of Verses unwritten only committed to Memory and passing the course of Ages by Tradition Their name of Druides some derive from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of a particular esteem they had for an Oak Some from Deru in the Celtick Language of the same signification They had a Chief Priest over them in the nature of a Soveraign Pontiff And we read the Gauls were so possessed by them with the belief of the immortality of the soul that they would lend mony in this world upon condition to be paid in the next Valer. Max. The Town Dreux in Normandy is supposed to be so called from these Druides Drummore Drummoria a City in the County of Lowth in the Province of Vlster in Ireland upon the River Lagang with a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Armagh Druses Druzes Drusi a people living in Grots and Caverns about the Mountain Libanus in Asia and onwards as far as to the Dead Sea following in Religion the Institutions of one Isman or Ismael a Prophet pretended which allow them to marry with their own Children or Sisters or Brothers and to live in perfect liberty from all such like precepts and ties as are in use amongst the Jews Christians and Mahometans They Traffick with the French Merchants for Silks and say they are descended from the French that went to the Conquest of the Holy Land with Godfrey of Bouillon being after the loss of Jerusalem in 1187. forced for safety to retire hither under the command of one of the House of Dreux Drut Dara a River of Carmania in Persia It falls into the Persian Gulph over against the City of Ormus having passed between Fafa and Chabon Duare a strong Fortress of Dalmatia upon a Hill not far from Almissa Taken from the Turks by the Venetians in 1646. and soon after lost again In 1652. retaken and demolished Whereupon the Turks to hinder the Incursions of the Morlaques out of Croatia rebuilt it yet in 1684. the Morlaques forced it and there is now a Venetian Garrison in it Dublin Dublinum in Irish Balacleigh the Capital City of the Kingdom of Ireland in the Province of Leinster in a County of the same Name upon the River Leffy which is the noblest River in all this Kingdom and maketh a Capacious Haven here at about twenty Leagues distance from Holyhead in Wales This City is called EBLANA by Ptolemy When or by whom it was first built is not known but old it must needs be by its being mentioned by him Saxo Grammaticus acquaints us how much it suffered by the Danes it was afterwards under Edgar King of England and Harald Harfager King of Norway In the year 1151. P. Eugenius III. made it an Archbishops See with the Title and Jurisdiction of a Primacy Henry II. having Conquered Ireland sent hither from Bristol a Colony whereby it began to Flourish more and more and became the Capital of the Kingdom the Seat of the Lieutenant the Courts of Justice and their Parliaments strengthened with a Castle on the East side built by Henry Loundres a Bishop in 1220. and near it there was a Royal Palace built by Henry II. King of England It has a College for Students which is an University of it self founded by Q. Elizabeth in in 1591. This was attempted before by Alexander Bicknor Archbishop of Dublin who in 1320. obtained from the Pope a Bull for it but the troublesome times that followed defeated that good design then at the North Gate is a Bridge of hewen Stone built by King John It has a Cathedral of great antiquity Dedicated to S. Patrick the Apostle of the Irish Nation and built at several times in which are a Dean two Archdeacons and twenty two Prebendaries there is another fair Collegiate Church in the City called Christs Church built in 1012. and about thirteen Parochial ones In more ancient times this City was Governed by a Provost but in 1409. Henry IV. granted them License to choose every year a Mayor and two Bailiffs changed into Sheriffs by Edward IV. thus far Cambden King Charles II. honored them with a Lord Mayor This City escaping the fury of the Massacre was besieged by the Parliament Forces and by the Duke of Ormond by the Kings Order delivered to the English rather than the Irish Rebels for they were now united against their King and when afterwards June 21. 1649. he indeavoured to recover it his Army was broken by a Sally and totally defeated and this City continued in their Hands till 1660. It has been extraordinarily enlarged in its Buildings in the twenty years last past The County of Dublin is bounded on the East by the Irish Sea on the West with the County of Kildare on the South by the little Territories of O Tooles and O. Brians on the North by the County of Meath and a small River called Nanny The Soil is fruitful as to every thing but Wood so that they use Sea-Coal and Turf for their Fewel It is well Inhabited Rich full of excellent Sea-Port Towns Ducey a Town of Normandy upon the River Ardee in the Diocese of Auranches Ducy a Town of Normandy betwixt Caen and S. Lo in the Diocese of Bayeux Duderstad Duderstadium a Town in the Dukedom of Brunswick upon the River Wipper eight Miles from Cassel to the North-East This Town though in the Duchy of Thuringia has belonged to the Elector of Mentz ever since 1365 and is the Capital of the Territory of Eichfeld Dudley a Market Town in
and running Southward falls into the Propontis South of Seliurea ten German Miles South of Constantinople and six North of Perintho Gnesna Limiosaleum Gnesna a City in the Kingdom of Poland by the Germans called Gnisen it is an Archbishops See in the Palatinate of Kalish towards the Confines of Germany and was anciently called Limiosaleum This was the Royal City of Poland and is now the Seat of the Primate of that Nation and Capital of Polonia Major but daily decaying having suffered much by Fire in 1613. It lies three Polish Miles North from the River Warta seven from Kalish thirty five from Warsaw to the North-West and thirty from Dantzick to the South-West Built by Lechus I. King of Poland in a Marshy Ground The Bishoprick was founded by Mieczilaws Duke of Poland in 966. The Bishop of this See executes the Regal Office in the Interregnum of that Kingdom and summoneth the Diet for the Election of a new King He has the privilege from the Roman See to be a Legatus Natus and takes upon him to refuse to give precedence to Cardinals Gnido Cnidus Gnidus a ruined old City of Caria in the Lesser Asia seventy Miles from Halicarnassus to the East between Rhodes and Cyprus upon the Mediterranean Sea There are here many ruins of ancient Structures as a Theatre a Temple and the like which shew the Antiquity of it though now desolate and its two Havens which made it once so famous totally decayed Goa Barygasa Goa a City of the Hither East-Indies called thus by the Portuguese but Goemoat by the Natives that is the Fruitful well watered Land It lies in a small Island towards the Mouth of the River Mandova on the Shoars of the Province of Cuncan in Long. 104. 15. Lat. 15. 40. on the Western Shoar of the Cape of Malabar This Island belonged anciently to the King of Decam but in 1510. was conquered by Alfonsus Albuquerque a Portuguese Pope Paul I made it an Archbishops See and it was for a long time after the most celebrated Mart and Haven in the East-Indies great populous rich and strong though neither walled nor fortified only as it had six Forts in the Suburbs The Portuguese erected here an University made it the Seat of the Vice-Roy of the Indies and improved it as much as was possible Thus Baudrand Thevenot assures us that it has good Walls with Towers and of Cannon plenty The Island produceth Corn Cattle Fruit in abundance and wants not good Water It is still the Capital of the Portuguese Acquisitions in this remote part of the World full of Religious Houses and Churches Monks and Friers but much lessened as to its Trade by the growth of the Dutch East-India Company The Jesuits have five Houses belonging to their Order and it is pretended that the Body of S. Thomas the Apostle is preserved in this City Godalming A Market Town in the County of Surrey The Capital of its Hundred Goes Goae Tergoes a considerable Town in Zealand seated on that Branch of the Scheld which is called the Schenk a great rich and populous Town on the North Shoar of the Isle of Beuelandt four Miles East of Middleburgh and almost five from Vlilissingen to the North-East Guicciardin Goga Dunga a small City in India Propria under the Mogul in the Kingdom of Guzarat towards the North Shoar of the Bay of Barigazen sixty Spanish Leagues from Dabul to the North. Gogna Agonia a small River in the Dukedom of Milan which ariseth near the Lake called il Magiore in the County of Novarese and running Southward by Novara Mortara a little above Dorno takes in from the East the Ditombio then falls into the P◠eight Miles West of Pavia Gojame Gojamum a Kingdom in Africa in the Higher Aethiopia near the Sources of the Nile where it breaks out of the Lake Zembre or Zaire and lies on the South of the said Lake between it and the Mountains the Capital of it being Zembre a City which gives Name to the Lake between Long. 40. and 50. and South Lat. 10. and 20. Golconde Golconda a Kingdom in the Hither East-Indies near the Bay of Bengala on the North it has the Empire of the Mogul on the West the Kingdom of Decam on the South the Kingdom of Bisnagar and on the East the Bay of Bengala This is more frequently called Orixia It is a great Kingdom extended by the space of two hundred and sixty French Leagues upon the South Bay and takes the Name of Golconda from the Capital City which lies between the River Guenga and the Mountains of Balagua a great and noble City adorned with such a stately Pagod or Temple for the Indian Worship as gains the preserence with some Travellers before the most admired Ediflces in all Asia sixty Leagues from the Port of Masilupatam to the North and fifty from the nearest Coast of the Ocean to the West The other Cities are Conteripatam Caregare Orixa Masilupatam Narfingapatam and Maliapaura or S. Thomas This Prince is one of the most powerful in the Indies It is a pleasant Country to travel in by reason of the Rice and Corn and the many lovely Keservatories The Earth also is rich in Mines of Diamonds Monsieur Thevenot in his Travels assures us that Golconda is only a Castle where the King of Orixa resides and that the City is called Bagnagar a great populous rich well Traded City in Southern Lat. 17. 10. adorned with many noble Structures and fine Gardens though the common People live in low thatched ill contrived Hutts The Castle of Golconda stands two Miles West of Bagnagar upon a Hill rising like a Sugar-Loa◠secured by a Dike which is very deep and a Wall of Stones three Foot in length and breadth the Ditches are filled with fair and good Water besides this Wall it has five round Towers with a great many Cannon mounted both on the Wall and Towers for the defence of the Place The Prince of this Country is a Mahometan Tributary to the Great Mogul he has vast Revenues being the Proprietor of all the Lands in his Kingdom and his Tolls yield him a great Sum of Money Goldhurst or Goudhurst à Market Town in the County of Kent in Scray Lath. Goletta or Goulette Calache a Fort in the Kingdom of Tunis built by Charles V. in 1535. at the entrance of the Bay of Tunis which was taken by the Turks in 1574. and since enlarged by them with a capacious Port a Custom-house two Mosques and a Prison for Christian Slaves Golfo di Arabia Sinus Arabicus See the Red Sea famous for the passage of the Children of Israel That which we call a Bay or Arm of the Sea or a Sea restrained within narrower Bounds as opposed to the word Ocean is by the Italians Spanish and Portuguese called Golfo so that in their account there is a vast number of Golfoes or Gulphs But I will only take notice here of the more remarkable and to which the
entered upon the See by the Regal Authority against the Consent of the Metropolitan and the Bishops of the Province which Decree drew upon the Authors of it a fevere Prâ—secution from the Crown Saintonge or Xaintonge Santonia a great and fruitful Province of France bounded on the North by Poictou on the East by Angoumois on the South by the Garonne which separates it from Guienne and on the West by the Bay of Aquitain This was the Seat of the Santones an ancient Nation of the Galls its Capital is Saintes the other Cities of Note are Brouges S. Jean de Angely and Taillebourg The Rivers Garonne Charante Seudre c. water it They make great quantities of Salt in this Province The Romans had their Colonies in it who often deride the short Cloaks or Gowns worn by the ancient Gauls here as Martial Gallia Santonico vestit te Bardocucullo Cercopithecorum penula nuper erat The same habit towards the Sea Coasts is in use with the common People to this day This Province fell to the Crown of England together with Gascoigne Guienne c. by the Marriage of Eleanor of Guienne with K. Henry II. of England Sala the same with Saal Salado Salsum a River of Spain in Anddlusia called Guadajox which between Sivil and Corduba falls into the Guadalquivir Salamanca Salmantica a City in Spain called Vrbs Vettonum by Ptolemy and perhaps the same with Polybius his Elmantica it stands in the Kingdom of Leon upon the River Tormes a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Compostella and an University founded by Alfonsus IX King of Leon in the year 1200 which is one of the most considerable in that Kingdom adorned with noble Schools and a large Library About ten Leagues from Zamora to the South fourteen from the Borders of Portugal to the East and two and twenty from Valladolid to the South-West upon several Hills in a very unequal Situation of a small circuit ill built worse repaired most of the Houses being falling down and besides its Churches Monasteries and Colleges has nothing that deserves Regard Long. 14. 45. Lat. 41. 15. Salamis Salamine an ancient Archiepiscopal City in the Island of Cyprus which boasted of the honour of having its Church founded by the Apostle S. Barnabas whose Body was discovered to lye here in 485. It afterwards took the name of il Porto Costanzo or Constantia The Philosopher Anaxarchus suffered in this City the pounding to death in a mortar by the order of Nicocreon King of Cyprus with a singular constancy It is now utterly ruined Salamis an Island See Coluri Saâ—andra Salandrilla or Aâ—alandra a River in the Basilicate in the Kingdom of Naples passing by Risetto and thence called also Piume di Rosetto to the gulph of Taranto Salawar Zalawar or Zalad a County in the Lower Hungary upon the Borders of Stiria with the Drave to the South and the County of Vesprin to the North. Kanisa stands in this County upon the River Sala But the Capital Town of it bears the same name of Salawar Sale Sala a City ascribed in ancient time by Ptolemy to Mauritania Tingitana seated at the Mouth of a River of the same Name on the Shoars of the Kingdom of Fez on the Atlantick Ocean A place of great Trade and has a noble Habor but it is an infamous Nest of Piratâ— It was heretofore a Common-Wealth now under the King of Fez who is Master of the Castle It stands one hundred Miles from Fez to the West and Tangier to the South Almanesor one of the Moorish Kings much beautified it and was after buried in it The Spaniards took it in 1287 who lost it in ten days again in 1632. King Charles I. sent a Fleet against this City which blocked it up by Sea whilst the King of Morocco besieged it by Land and by this means brought it under the Works being levelled and those Rogues Executed for which King Charles had three hundred Christian Captives sent him as a Recompence a Reward worthy of that Holy King Long. 6. 40. Lat. 33. 50. Sale the same with Saal Sale Sala a River in Quercy a Province of France Sale Sala a Province of the Kingdom of Bosnia Salefica Saleucia a City in Cilicia in the Lesser Asia which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch It stands seventy Miles from Tarsus to the West and twelve from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea to the North called by Niger Seleschia Long. 64. Lat. 38. 40. Salentini the ancient Inhabitants of Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples in the Roman times Salerno Salernum Salerna a City in the Kingdom of Naples which was a Roman City and Colony called by Strabo and Livy Vrbs Picentinorum Now an Archbishops See a Principality and the Capital of the Hither Principato It stands upon the River Busanola upon the Shoars of the Tyrrhenian Sea upon which it has a Bay called by its own Name and a safe and large Haven twenty four Miles from Naples to the South-East and thirty from Benevento to the South Long. 38. 44. Lat. 40. 33. This Archbishoprick was founded by Pope Boniface VII in 974. The Body of S. Matthew the Apostle is said to be in this Place Pope Gregory VII died here in 1085. It has a Castle and many Antiquities which are the Remainders of the Roman Works When Naples had distinct Kings the Title of this place belonged to the eldest Son of that Kingdom In the years 1615. and 1579. there were two small Councils held at it Salettes a Carthusian Nunnery of great note and quality upon the frontiers of Dauphine in France toward la Bresse Salfeâ—â—d an Abbey in Thuringia in Germany Salii an ancient People of Provence in France who as we find in Strabo Mela c. extended themselves from about Aix as far as to Nice § There was another Nation of the Salii in the Tract now called Sallant from them in Overyssel in the Low Countries Saline Didyme one of the Liparee Islands belonging to Sicily twelve Miles in circuit and fruitful in Allum Near this place the Dutch received a great Defeat from the French at Sea in 1676. Baudrand The Italians call it Didimo Salino Suinus a River in the Kingdom of Naples which springeth out of the Apâ—â—hine and â—inning through the Further Abruzzo watering Pennâ— a City of that Province and Pescara falls into the Gulph of Venice Salingstede Salinâ—stadium a Town in Franconia upon the Maine four Miles above Franck fort to the East By Charles the Great made a Bishap's See but in 780 this Chair was removed to Hailbâ—une It was then a very great City since become subject to the Bishop of Mentz Salins Salinae a strong City in the Franche Comté upon the River Forica eight Loagues from Dole to the East and fifty eight from Geneva to the North. It is seated in a fruitful Valley betwixt two Mountains called Scoding which has been the reason why this City in the Latin
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
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
honour in former times to be first an Episcopal See under Rhodes and afterwards an Archiepiscopal one Now inhabited by Turks Jews Latin and Greek Christians with the free exercise of their respective Religions It enjoys the advantage of a good Port and Castle to enrich and desend it and they reckon about fifteen Villages in the Island besides Chioza Clodia Fossa Chioggia a small City which is a Bishops See in a small Island of the Adriatick about fifteen Miles from Venice South made famous by the Valour of the Genoese who in 1380. took it but it returned under the Dominion of the Venetians again The Bishop is a Suffragan to the Patriarch of Venice Chiorlick a Town in Romandiola near to which Bajazet defeated his Son Selim who was then in Rebellion against him Chippenham a Market Town in Wiltshire The Capital of the Hundred upon the River Avon It returns two Burgesses to the Parliament Chipping-Norton a Market Town in Oxfordshire in the Hundred of Chadlington Chipping-Ongar a Market Town in the County of Essex in the Hundred of Ongar Chisary the only Town of Turcomania the ancient Seat of the Turks in Asia seated upon the River Euphrates near its Head or Spring forty five German Miles West of Testis Chiton a Province of the Empire of the Great Mogul in the Terra firma of the Indies betwixt the Provinces of Malva and Guzurate having a City of its own Name for the Capital in which you see the Remains of divers Magnificent Pagods or Pagan Temples together with a Castle which serves for a Prison of State Chnin or Knin The same with Clin. Chobar see Chaibar Chocolococa or Castro Virreyna as the Spaniards call it a Town in the Kingdom of Peru sixty Leagues from Lima to the South and two from the Silver Mines of a Mountain that is perpetually covered with Snow The Silver is fine but the Veins not being very full of it they pay no more than the Tenths to the King of Spain Chogaco a Castle in the Lower Hungary surrendred to the Imperialists Octob. 18. 1687. Chogan a Town in the Province of Xansi in China near the River Fy remarkable for a Flying Bridge as the Chinese call it because it is elevated fifty Perches high in the Air which communicates a passage betwixt two Mountains on each side the River at the distance of forty Perches from one another yet consists but of a single Arch. Cholm-Kill Insula Sancti Columbani Rana an Island in the West of Scotland famous for a Monastery there built by Columbanus the Apostle of the Scotch Nation it lies opposite to Knapdale thirteen Miles North of Yea and about fifty from New-Castle in Ireland This is one of the five Islands called Hebudes or Hebrides The ancient City Sodore stands in it Chonad Canadum Genadum a City in the Vpper Hungary upon the River Merish which falls into the Tibiscus at Segedin about three German Miles East of Segedin This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Colocza and the Capital of the County of Chonad which lies between the Rivers of Merish and Temez Chorasan See Corasan Chotezim Chotimia See Cotzchin Christ-Church A Market Town in Hampshire situated betwixt the Rivers Avon and Stower at their fall into the Sea It is the Capital of its Hundred and has the Privilege of Electing two Burgesses for the Parliament Christianstad Christianopolis a Town of Denmark in the Confines of Sweden adorned by Christian IV. King of Denmark It lies in the County of Bleckling taken by the Swedes and burnt in 1611. which was the occasion of rebuilding it There is a good Port to the Baltick Sea there Christina a Town in New Sweden in the Northern America built by the Swedes in the year 1640. and so called from Christina their Queen of famous Memory The Dutch and English have since taken it from the Swedes and the latter again from former Chthonia a very ancient Name of the Island of Crete Chucheu a great City and Territory extending its Jurisdiction over nine other Cities in the Province of Chekiang in China set about with Mountains but the Valleys thereof are fruitful enough Chunking the Capital City of the Territory of this Name in the Province of Suchuen in China having nineteen old Cities under its Command It is one of the most Magnificent Places in China Chudleigh a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Exmister The Lord Clifford has a Noble Seat here to whom it gives the Title of a Baron Chulmleigh a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Witheridge Church-Stretton a Market Town in the County of Salop in the Hundred of Munslow Churnet a River of Staffordshire Chusistan Susiana a Province of the Kingdom of Persia bounded by the Gulph of Balsera to the South the Provinces of Eatz to the East and Hyrach West The Capital City Sauster whence some of the Moderns call the Province Schouster Chuâ—ei a People of the ancient Province called Chuta in Persia who being transplanted to Samaria whence afterwards called Samaritans and there adoring the Idols that they brought with them of the Gentile invention were infested with Lions out of the Desart till they gat a Jewish Priest to instruct them in the manner of the God of the Land And then they served their Idols and the God of Israel together This transplantation happened upon the carrying away of the Jews Captives to Assyria 2 Kings 17. The men of Cuth v. 30. meaning these Chutes Cibola or Civola a Province of the Southern America the same with what the Spaniards call New Granada from a City of that Name of their building Cicones an ancient People of Thrace near the River Hebrus Ovid mentions them upon the occasion of a River in their Country that would petrisie the Bowels of such as drunk of it Flumen habent Cicones quod potum Saxea reddit Viscera quod tactis inducit marmora rebus Cicules or Zeckels a People in the North of Transylvania towards the Confines of Poland thought to be a remainder of the Huns under another Name or else derived from Tartary In Religion they are generally Calvinists or Socinians They possess seven several quarters thereabouts whereof the Capital Town is Neumark Cilicia a Province of Asia the Less lying along the Coast of the Mediterranean with Cappadocia and a part of Armenia to the North. Now contained in the Province of Caraman and sometimes called Finichia Tharsus Pompeiopolis Lajazzo are the principal Cities of it Cillei Cilleja Celia a Town in Stiria upon the River Saana which soon after falls into the Drave The Capital of a County of the same Name about five Miles from the Borders of Carniola Northward Cimbri the Origine of this ancient People lies under dispute as whether descended from the Scythians or the Saxons or the Danes or whether the same with the Cimmerii Cluverius supposes that they did anciently possess the Cimbrica Chersonesus It is certain that about the year of
small Island near Malta to the West at the distance of four Miles only mentioned by Strabo and Pliny Now belonging to the Knights of Maltha who have fortified it with a Castle § Also an Island in the Sea of Crete near Cape Crio called Claudia in the Acts of the Apostles C. 27. 16. and otherwise by the Ancients Claudus and Claudos La Grace or La Grasse a City of Provence in France which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Embrun in the stead of Antipolis now Antibe it is seated upon an Hill and is a fine well built City with divers Churches and Religious Houses in it three Leagues from Antibe to the West seven from Nice to the same quarter about twenty four from Embrun to the South and the same from Sisteron to the South West Hadr. Vales in his Notitia Galliae saith this City in 1285 belonged to the Bishoprick of Arles and Antibe was then the Bishops See but in 1322. this is named as a Suffragan Bishops See under the Archbishop of Embrun in the Itinerary of Gregory XI And that the See was removed hither upon the account of the daily Incursions of Pyrats and Robbers and upon the slaughter of one of the Bishops of Antibe For saith he Antibe is a Sea-Port but La Grace is a strong Castle and more remote from the Sea Which reason sheweth the weakness of the French Nation at Sea in those times Gracias a Dios a Town and Cape of the Province of Honduras in New Spain in the Northern America possessed by the Salvages with the whole Country thereabouts to the extent of fifty Leagues living in a Republican way without any Soveraign King or Prince over them and when they go to War making choice of one out of themselves to command for that present Juncture The Spaniards honour them with the Title of los Indios Bravos for their Gallantry having been never conquered yet Gradiska Gradiscia a principal Town of the Province of Sclavonia in the Lower Hungary upon the Save betwixt Possega and Zagrabia towards the Borders of Croatia See Sclavonia Some will have it to be the true Servitium of the Ancients § A Fortress likewise in Friuli in the County of Goritia upon the River Sisonzo which belongs to the House of Austria Grado Gradus a City and Island belonging to Friuli on the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea or Gulph of Venice built by the Inhabitants of Aquileja eight Miles from Venice to the East and twelve from Aquileja to the South under the Venetians The Patriarchs of Aquileja long since removed from thence and settled here as they went afterwards from hence to Venice about two hundred years since Elias one of these Patriarchs in 602. celebrated a Council in this place Grafignana Caferoniana a County within the Apennine the greatest part of which is under the Duke of Modena the rest belongs to the Republick of Lucca Graftschaft Mansfeld Mansfeldiensis Comitatus the County of Mansfield The word Graftschaft in the German Town signifying a County Grafton a Road-Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Cleley adorned with a Park and an ancient Seat of the Family de Wideville Earls of Rivers The Marriage of King Edward IV. with the Lady Grey which was the first Marriage of any King of England with a Subject from the Conquest received its consummation here From the year 1490. to Henry VIII this Seat bequeathed by Richard the last of the Male Line of the Rivers to Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset continued in the Name of the Greys and then in an exchange for Lands in Leicestershire became united to the Crown It is well known for giving the Title of Duke to the late Henry Fitz Roy created by King Charles II. his Father Baron of Sudbury Viscount Ipswich and Earl of Euston in 1672. and Duke of Grafton five years after who dyed of the Wounds he received at the Siege of Cork Grambusia Crambusia a small Island on the Coast of Cilicia Grampond a Market and Borough-Town in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Powder which returns two Members of Parliament Gran Strigonium a City of the Lower Hungary seated on the South-West side of the River Danube where the River Gran falls into the Danube It s Castle is a very fine Pile built upon the Banks of the Danube upon a Rock which is very steep The City is of a Triangular form It has two great Towers one toward Thomasberg and the other towards the Danube over against Barkan between these Towers there is a Wall which has small Flanks and Redoubts and a Dike flanked with hewen Stone at the foot of the Dike there runs a Terrasse which has strong Pallisadoes and four great Points instead of Ravelins the other side towards the Danube has nothing but Walls and Pallisadoes it is very steep on that side and secured by the River The Castle stands very high but there are two Mountains from which it may be battered This City is divided into two parts the High and the Low Town the last commanding the Danube they are both very strong and have good Walls S. Thomas's Hill is also well fortified because being very near the Town it would otherwise have commanded it There are in it excellent temperate Baths This City was heretofore the Capital of Hungary and has many magnificent Buildings in it as S. Stephens Church the Archbishops Palace c. The Country about it affords excellent Wines there is plenty of hot Springs so that the pleasantness of its situation and the fertility of the Soil easily induced the ancient Kings of Hungary to settle here The importance of this Place has brought upon it many bloody Sieges John King of Hungary besieged it without any success about 1529. Solyman the Magnificent took it in 1544. The Count of Mansfield retook it for the Arch-Duke Matthias in 1595. It was lost again by the Cowardize of the Garrison in 1605. the Governour being accidentally killed Just over against it stands Barkan to which there is a Bridge of Boats over the Danube which together with Barkan was burnt by the Christians in 1664. In 1683. there was under the Walls of this City a sharp Engagement between the Turks and Germans the latter prevailing and taking the City of Gran also October 23 after they had beat the Turks from Vienna July 30. 1685. the Turks again besieged this City but were forced to retire Aug. 16. with the loss of all their Cannon and Baggage It stands six German Miles from Alba Regalis to the East the same from Buda to the North and Comora to the South in a most fruitful and pleasant Plain Called by the Inhabitants Stegran by the Germans Gran by the Italians Strigonia S. Stephen King of Hungary was born here This City is also an Archbishops See the Archbishop is perpetual Chancellor of the Kingdom of Hungary and ought by his place to have the Honour of Crowning the King after he is
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
inhabited by any but the Wild Arabs though prodigiously fruitful and that he frequently met the ruins of great Cities buried in their own Rubbish whose Memorial was perished with them Lisonzo See Isonzo Lissa an Island belonging to Dalmatia thirty Miles South of Lesina Lissus a River of Thrace said by Herodotus to be drunk dry by Xerxes's Army § This is likewise the ancient Name of the Town Fionissi in Canadia which Strabo calls Lictus See Fionissi And of another in Albania near the Bay of Drin now called Alessio Listra Lystra a City of Lycaonia in the Lesser Asia mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles It lies forty Miles from Cogni Iconium to the West and was once a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Iconium but is now totally ruined and desolate Lita Lete a City of Macedonia upon the Gulph of Thessalonica which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Thessalonica two Miles from it to the South Lithquo See Linlithgo Lithuania a Province and Grand Dukedom belonging to the Kingdom of Poland called by the Inhabitants Litwa by the Germans Littawen by the Poles Litewsky which was heretofore a part of Sarmatia Europaea This Country imbraced the Christian Faith in 1386. Jagellon Grand Duke of Lithuania being made King of Poland and in 1569. this Dukedom was for ever united to the Kingdom of Poland It is bounded on the East by Moscovy or great Russia on the North by the same in part and by Livonia and Samogitia on the West by Poland properly so called and Mozâ—via on the South by Red Russia The Dukedom of Czernichow did heretofore belong to this Province which is now under the Russ The principal Cities are Breslaw Brest Grodno Minsko Mohilow Noovogrodook Poloczk Troki Wilne or Vilna the Capital and Witebsk This is the greatest Province belonging to that Kingdom being in length from the River of Polet to Dassow two hundred and sixty German Miles and in breadth between the Niemen or Memel and the Nieper eighty It is all overspread with Woods Forests and Marshes which since the times of Sigismond I. have yet been very much improved The Air is exceeding cold and the Inhabitants as barbarous Their language is a dialect of the Sclavonick and their Frontiers have been often desolated by the incursions of the Tartars and Moscovites Livadia Lebadia Creusa a City of Boeotia which from this City is now called Livadia It is seated upon a River which falls into a Lake of the same name but was anciently called Cephissus Mr. Wheeler who had seen this Place saith It is an ancient City and still called by its ancient name the Greeks pronouncing B as we do the V Consonant The ancient buildings are yet remaining we found saith he several Inscriptions to the same purpose it is situate about a pointed Hill on the top of which is an old Castle on the N. side of the high Cliffs of a Mountain of a moderate height which I took to be part of the Helicon till I found it afterwards parted from it by a Valley therefore I now take it to be Mount Tilphusium This City stands fifteen Leagues from Delphis now Salona to the East From this City all that part of Greece which was anciently called Achaia is now called Livadia lying from Negropont in the East to the Ionian Sea West having Thessalia on the North the Gulph of Lepanto the Hexamilia and the Bay of Corinth on the South in which stand Lepanto Salona Livadia and Athens Livenza Liquentia a River in the State of Venice which ariseth in the borders of Bellunese and flowing South separates the Marquisate of Treviso from Friuli then falls into the Venetian Gulph twenty Miles from Venice to the South East Livonia called by the Inhabitants Lieâ—land by the Poles Inflanty by the French Livonie is a great and cultivated Province of the Kingdom of Poland ever since it was taken from the Knights of the Teutonick Order but the greatest part of it has since been taken from them by the Swedes It is bounded on the North by the Bay of Finland on the West with the Bay of Riga both parts of the Baltick Sea on the South with Samogithia and Lituania and on the East with Ingria and Pleskow two Provinces belonging to the Russ It is divided into four Counties Esten Esthonia Curland Semigallen and Letten Esten is under the Swede and also Letten except a little part towards the East which the Russ have Curland and Semigallen are subject to a Duke who is a Feudatary of the Crown of Poland there belong to it also Oesel and Dagho two Islands in the Baltick Sea which were possessed by the Dane till in 1645. by a Treaty at Bromsbro they were yielded to the Swede The chief Towns in it are Narva Parnaw Revel Riga the Capital Derpt and Wolmer It s length from Narva to Memmel is ninety German Miles its breadth from the Sea to Dodina sixty It produceth Wheat in abundance which the Dwina and Narva bring down to Riga and Narva for Exportation Its Forests abound with wild Boars Bears c. which come over the Narva out of Russia This People being then Barbarous began to imbrace the Christian Faith about 1161. Meinradus became their first Bishop in 1190. The way of Instruction being thought too slow by his Successors Albertus one of them instituted an Order of Knights to Bang them into Christianity which were called the Livonian Order but in time united with the Teutonick in 1237. About 1525. these two Orders were again parted by Albert Duke of Brandenburgh and Sigismond King of Poland put an end to them in 1587. In 1617. the Swedes became Masters of this Country In 1634. the Muscovites ceded all their right to it to Ladislaus K. of Poland who by the treaty of Stumsdorf confirmed the Swedes in the possession of as much as they held on the North of the Dwina for twenty six years All which was entirely yielded to them in 1660. by the peace of Oliva Livorno See Ligorne Lizaine Liricinus a River in Normandy The Lizard Point the furthest South-West Point or Cape of the Goon-hilly Downes in Cornwal which is a tract pretty large shooting forth from the main Land into the South Sea In Latin called Danmoniorum Promontorium Lizza Laodicea Llanbeder a Market Town in Cardiganshire in Wales in the Hundred of Moythen Llandaff Landava a small City and a Bishops See in the County of Clamorgan in South Wales seated upon the West side of the River Taff three Miles to the North from the Sea This Bishoprick was Founded by Germanus and Lupus two Holy French Bishops about 522. And Dubricius a Holy Man was made the first Bishop to whom Meuricke a British Lord freely gave all the Land that lieth between the Taff and the Elei But one Kitchin a Bishop about the time of the Reformation so wasted the Revenue that it will scarce maintain its Bishop Dr. William Beaw the seventy sixth Bishop is the present
took this City and was therefore called BRITANNICVS He made it a Roman Colony planting in it a Regiment of old Soldiers and ordered Money to be Coined with this Inscription COL CAMALODVN Cambden saith from this Money it is Collected this Expedition was in the twelfth Year of his Reign fifty two years after the Birth of Christ Certain it is this City soon felt the fury of the Britains under Boadicia Qu. of the Iceni who took and burnt it and put all the Romans to the Sword about the Year of Christ sixty three Yet the Romans rebuilt it as appears by Antoninus Edward the Son of Alfred a Saxon King finding it much ruined by the Danes repaired and fortified it with a Castle William the Conqueror had here one hundred and eighty Houses in the Tenure of the Burgesses and eighteen wasted In Mr. Cambden's time it was a well inhabited Town consisting of one Street of a Mile in length built on the ridge of an Hill and having a convenient Haven Now not only a Corporation which sends two Burgesses to Parliament but also made a Viscounty the thirteenth of Charles II. and given to the late Earl of Essex The Maleas are a People which live in the Mountains of Malabar towards the Confines of Coromandel near the Dominions of the King of Madura Amongst them there live many Christians of the old Conversion called the Christians of S. Thomas Maleg a River of the Vpper Aethiopia which ariseth in the Kingdom of Damut and receiving the River Anquet after a Course of eighty Leagues falls into the Nile in Nubia below the Province of Fasculon Malaguette Mallaguete or Managuete the Western part of Guiney in Africa called by the Dutch Tand-Cust by the French Cote des Graives about 60 Leagues long extending from the River Sanguin to the Cape of Palmes which Cape separates it from Guinea propria It hath the reputation of a considerable place for the Pepper trade First planted with some Colonies of French and afterwards by the Portuguese English and Dutch Malemba a Kingdom of Africa betwixt the Kingdom of Angola and the Lake of Zembre Malespine a Marquisate and Souereignty in Tuscany in Italy near the States of Genoua The same properly with the ancient principality or now Dukedom of Massa belonging formerly to the Family of the Malespini which since has been incorporated with the House of Cibo Malfi Amalphis or Amalphi a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Hither Principato honoured with an Archbishops See and a Dukedom but little and not well inhabited It lies on the North side of the Bay of Salerno eleven from Salerno to the West and twenty two from Naples to the South The Emperor Lotharius II. in the War he undertook in the behalf of Pope Innocent II. against Roger K. of Sicily and Anacletus an Antipope mastered and plundered this City They pretend that here are the Bones of St. Andrew the Apostle brought from Judea about the Year 1206 and that the Seaman's Compass was invented here by Flavio Gioïa an Italian in 1300. P. Nicholas II. celebrated a Council here in 1059. in which the Dukedoms of Puglia and Calabria were confirmed to Robert Guichard the Valiant Norman for his Services in the expulsion of the Saracens Long. 38. 35. Lat. 40. 52. Malines See Mechelen Maliapur Maliapura a City on the Coast of Coromandel commonly called St. Thomas as being the place of the Martyrdom of that Apostle and an Archiepiscopal City written also Meliapor it was taken by the French in 1671. and deserted two years after Long. 108. 50. Lat. 13. 12. Malling West a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath. Mallorca See Majorca Malmesbury Maldunense Caenobium a Town built on the Western Bank of the River Avon the Capital of its Hundred on the Confines of the County of Glocester in the County of Wiltshire which took its name and rise from Maidulph a Learned Irish Scot who being highly admired both for his Piety and Learning erected here a School and a Monastery which Adelme his Scholar much improved becoming after his death the Tutelar Saint of Athelstane King of England who died in 938. after he had much enriched this Monastery by his Princely Donations this Adelme was the first who taught the Saxons the Latin Poetry No less honor is due to this Place on the score of William of Malmesbury a Learned Historian for the Times in which he lived which was about 1143. The Monastery thrived so well that at the suppression of it by Henry VIII its Revenue was above eight hundred and three pounds the year Whether its late Philosopher Thomas Hobbs has added to the Honor of this Place by being born here is left to the Judgment of Posterity The Town is now a Corporation represented by its Burgesses in Parliament and in a tolerable Condition by reason of its Clothing Trade It has six Bridges over the River being almost encircled therewith A Synod was held at it in 705. or 707. Malmugon Malmoe Malmogia a City in Scania in the Kingdom of Sweden called by the Hollanders Elbogon because it represents the Bent of the Elbow of an Arm. It was built in 1319. and has a safe Harbor over against Coppenhagen on the Sound In 1434. here was a strong Castle built by Ericus King of Denmark the first Encourager of lasting Architecture in this Kingdom In 1658. it first came into the hands of the Swedes in 1676. the Danes endeavoured the recovery of it by a Siege but without success they did the like the year following with the like event It stands four Danish Miles from Coppenhagen to the East Malpas a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Broxton Malta Melita and Island belonging to Africa in the Mediterranean Sea by some taken for the Place where S. Paul suffered Shipwrack in the Year of Christ 58. It s length is twenty Miles breadth twelve circuit about sixty which is its distance too from Pachyno the most South-Eastern Cape of Sicily one hundred and ninety from the nearest Coast of Africa Taken from the Saracens by Roger the Norman Earl of Sicily in 1089. And was under the Kings of Sicily till Charles V. granted it to the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem now called Knights of Malta from it after they were beaten out of Rhodes in 1530 that he might the easier protect Sicily from the Incursions of the Moors In 1566 they began to build the Bourg or principal City after Solyman the Magnificent had in 1565. reduced the greatest part of the old Town into Dust by a Siege of five Months managed by Dragut his General with the loss of twenty four thousand Men spent to no purpose on this small Island There are sixty Villages in it and three Cities all seated at the East end within the distance of eight Miles which have two large Havens divided by a Rock on the Point stands the Castle of S. Hermes to defend the entrance
the Hands of the Venetians after the Battel of the Dardanells In the times of ancient Paganism this City was honored with the Oracles of Mercury and Vesta and with divers Teâ—ples dedicated to Minerva Cybele Atys Jupiter and Diana as appears by their â— Ruines The Apostle S. Andrew preached and suffered his Martyrdom here It s Cittadel stands upon a high Mount so strong that in 1450 it held out against Constantius Palaeologus the Western Emperor a year They compute about four or five thousand Inhabitants in this City Greeks Turks and Jews whereof as the first possess the Cathedral so the second before the late Conquest had six Mosques and the other four Synagogues Near a thousand Churches are said to be contained in the extent of the Archbishops Province And not only the Greeks of the Neighbouring Isles but the English and French are accustomed to traffick to this Port. S. Peters Patriomony Patrimonium Sancti Petri called by the Italians La Provincia del Patrimonio is a considerable part of the Ecclesiastical State in Italy under the Papacy which was a part of the Old Hetruria Bounded on the North by Ombria on the East by Sabina on the West by the State of Siena and on the South by the Tyrrhenian Sea The Capital of this Province is Viterbo and the other Cities are Aquapendente Civita Vecchia Civita Castellana Cornetto Toscanella and Orvieto Pattesi Patsi Timethus a River on the North Side of Sicily Patti Pactae Pacta a City on the North Shoar of Sicily at the Fall of the River Pattesi into the Tyrrhenian Sea forty eight Milesâ—rom Messina to the West eighty from Palermo to the North-East and fifty from Catania to the North. This City was built by Roger Earl of Sicily after the Expulsion of the Moors made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Messina by Pope Eugenius III. and now in a good Estate Pau Epaunum Palum the Capital of the Province of Bearn in Aquitain in France seated upon the River Gave thence called le Gave de Pau four Leagues from Oleron to the East nine from the Borders of Arragon to the North and eighteen from Dax to the South-East Henry IV. King of Navarr was born in the Castle belonging to this City December 13. 1557. A Castle of the Foundation of Henry d' Albert King of Navarre and Prince of Bearn who in 1519 established also a Parliament here which Lewis the Thirteenth King of France reestablished in 1621 together with the Roman Catholick Religion that had been thence expelled by the Huguenots in the Civil Wars Pavia Ticinum a City in the Dukedom of Milan in Italy of great Antiquity called in latter times Papia Papia Flavia and now Pavia It stands upon the River Tesino Tecinum twenty Leagues from Milan to the South fifty from Genoua and thirty four from Piacenza to the West Built by the Ligurians and thought more Ancient than Milan Attila ruined it and Odoacer besieged Orestes in it The Lombards took it not without great difficulty under Alboinus their first King in the Year 569. After this it became the Capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards and continued such till in the Year 773. Charles the Great took this City and Desiderius their last King therein Afterwards it became the Seat of the Kingdom of Italy to which Otto I put an end in the Year 951. by the Expulsion of Berengarius and his Son In 1004. it suffered very much by a fire About the Year 1059 it had a sharp War with the City of Milan In the Year 1361. here was an University opened by Charles IV. Emperor of Germany under Galeatius Duke of Milan under whom this City then was Francis I of France in 1525. attempting to take it was defeated by the Spaniards and himself taken Prisoner In 1527. it was taken by the French under Lautrech but soon after returned under the King of Spain as Duke of Milan and being again attempted by the French in 1655. they were the second time defeated by the Spaniards it continues under Spain to this day Next Milan the best City in that Dukedom a Principality and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Milan but exempt from the Jurisdiction of that Metropolitan It has one of the greatest and fairest Stone Bridges in Italy and many pieces of Antiquity the Castle amongst them which was the Royal Palace of the Kings of Lombardy The body of S. Austin is deposited in a Monastery of Religious here of the order of his name There have been several Ecclesiastical Councils assembled at this City Particularly that in 1076 held by the Partisans of the Emperor Henry IV. is remarkable for its condemning Pope Gregory VII who had excommunicated them before at a Council in Rome The Territory belonging to it is called the Pavese Pavosan Pavoasanum a City in the Island of S. Thomas Pautzkerwick the German name of the Bay of Dantzick La Paz Pax a City of Peru between the Mountains of Brasil to the East and the Lake Titiaca to the West which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima situate upon the River Cavane Pazzi Pachya a City of Thrace which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Heraclia The Peak in Derbyshire lyes in the North-west parts of the County amongst the Mountains And is a famous place as well for its Lead and Quarries as for the three Caves whose height length and depth with the just tides of water ebbing and flowing from them and the strange irregularities of the Rocks within appropriate to them the character of so many Wonders To which must be added Buxton Wells where out of the same Rock in the compass of eight or nine yards arise nine several medicinal Springs eight warm the ninth very cold which at the distance of three hundred foot receive another hot Spring from a Well near the Ebullition of another that is cold again Pedena Petina a small City in Histria in Italy which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja and the Head of a Territory of the same name under the Dominion of the Emperor Twenty two Miles from Pola to the North and sixty from Laubach to the South near the Head of the River Arsa which divides Italy from Illyricum Pedeo Pedaeus a River on the East of the Isle of Cyprus Pedir Pedira a City in the North of the Island of Sumatra which has a Haven under the King of Acem Peelandt a Tract in Brabam Pegian the Lesser Armenia Pegu Peguum one of the Principal Cities in the Further East-Indies called by the Inhabitants Bayon and by the Europeans Pegu. It has a Noble Palace belonging to the King of Pegu which is fortified in the manner of a Castle and stands upon a River of the same name which falls a little lower into the Bay of Bengala Long. 126. 05. Lat. 19. 55. The Kingdom of Pegu was once a most Potent Empire in the Further East-Indies containing twenty six Kingdoms in
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
The Poles after many other fruitless attempts recovered it again under Sigismund III. in 1611. after a Siege of two years The Russ besieged it in 1616. and in 1633. to their great loss Being the last time after a years besieging of it defeated by Vladislaus IV. King of Poland who obtained from the Pope the settlement of a Bishops See in it In 1654. it was taken by them October 13. under whom it now is and by a Treaty in 1656. yielded to the Russ It lies one hundred and fifty Polish Miles from Vilna to the East and the same distance from Kiovia to the North. Smyrna a City of Ionia in the Lesser Asia of great Antiquity as laying claim to the Birth of Homer The Turks call it Ismyrna It is an Archbishops See great rich and populous the Seat of a Turkish Sangiack built partly on an Hill partly in a Plain in the form of an Amphiatheâ—re upon the River Mele having a large and secure Haven upon a Gulph of the Archipelago to which it gives name very much frequented by the English and Dutch Merchants to whom alone the present Greatness and Wealth of it is owing The ancient Greeks and Persians went often to War about it Taken by the Venetians in 1344. from the Turks and not retaken till 1428. This was one of the Seven Churches mentioned in the Revelations and almost the only one that is in a tolerable condition See Mr. Wheeler's Travels pag. 240. Long. 55. 30. Lat. 39. 28. An Earthquake and a Fire conspired the same day to do mischief to this City June 13. 1688. They reckon in it besides the Northern Merchants about sixteen thousand Turks fifteen thousand Greeks eight thousand Armenians six or seven thousand Jews The Turks have fifteen Mosques for their Religion the Jews seven Synagogues the Latin Christians three Churches the Greeks two and the Armenians one There is a Convent of French Capuchines with some French Jesuits and Italian Cordelieres Each foreign Nation keeps a Consul here for Commerce which consists in Persian Silks Turkey Leather Camelets Tapistry c. Some curious Ruins of its ancient Magnificent Buildings are yet extant of which and of its Noble Statues many have been thence transported by the English It was heretofore much greater than now The Summer Season would be insupportably hot but for a refreshing Air from the Sea which rises ordinarily about ten in the Morning and blows till Night Provisions are cheap in it The Turks govern it not by a Bassa but a Cady a Civil Officer who uses the Christians obligir gly Snath a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Osgodcross adjoined by the Tract of Marshland Snetham or Snetsham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk and the Hundred of Smethden seated upon a Rivulet not far from the Sea Soana Suana a small City in the Territory of Siena which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Siena It stands upon a very high Hill near the River La Flore in the Borders of the States of the Chürch forty eight Miles from Siena to the North-East In a declining State and wasted almost to a Village Long. 34. 46. Lat. 42. 11. Pope Gregory VII was born here In 1626. a Synod was held here also Sobrarbe a Tract in Arragon towards the Pyrenean Hills and Catalonia Honoured formerly with the Title of a Kingdom Soconusco a Province in New Spain in South America lying along the Pacifick Ocean Soczow See Suchzow Sodom the Capital of the five miserable Cities of the Plain in Palestine called in one name Pentapolis whose destruction by Fire from Heaven according to the History of the Old Testament Gen. 19 or by an Earthquake vomiting forth a Lake of Subterraneous Sulphur and Brimstone according to Strabo who advances the number of these Cities to thirteen became a Proverb to the World Sodore Sodera an ancient decayed City in the Island of Cholmkill on the West of Scotland and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Glasco in which place there are interred forty eight Kings of Scotland four Kings of Ireland and eight Kings of Norway The Abbey here was built by S. Columbus the Great Apostle of the Northern Nations and from this place the Bishop of the Isle of Man is stiled Sodorensis in Latin Soest Susatum a City in the Circle of Westphalia in Germany in the County of Mark called by the French Soust Once an Imperial Free City but now subject to the Elector of Brandenburg as Earl of Mark Taken by the French in 1673. and afterwards deserted This City in more ancient times was granted by Frederick I. to the Archbishop of Cologne but being too much oppressed by them it put it self under the Protection of the Counts of Mark and this in time turned to a Sovereignty but it has some remains of its ancient Liberty It stands seven German Miles from Paderborne West and Munster South and four from Ham to the East Sofala Zofala a Kingdom in the Lower Aethiopia in Africa in the Country of Cafraria towards the Ethiopick Ocean in an Island in the Mouth of the River Zambez in the Borders of Zanguebaria which takes its name from Sofala a strong City under the Portuguese one hundred and fifty Miles from Zanguebar and three hundred and forty from Mosambique Fifty Miles West of this City there are rich Mines of Gold called the Mines of Manica from which the Portuguese raise a vast Revenue Some have therefore believed Sophala to be the Ophir of King Solomon confirming their conjecture by the Septuagint's Translation of Ophir into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which by an ordinary change of r into l makes Zopheila or Sofala together with this that the people of Sofala pretend to prove from their own Books that the Jews in Solomon's time voyaged to those Coasts from three year to three year to buy Gold and the Country shews several Buildings and ancient Inscriptions in unknown Characters which must be understood to be the Works of Strangers See Ophir The Portuguese call the King of Monomotapa the Emperour of Gold from these and other Mines in his Dominions For Sofala is contained in Monomotapa Sofia Sophia the Capital City of Bulgaria called by the Turks Triadizza which is an Archbishops See anciently called Sardica seated upon the River Boiana at an equal distance from the Borders of Thrace East Servia West and Macedonia South being now a great populous City and the Seat of the Turkish Governour but it has no Walls nor other Fortifications Hoffman calls the River Ciabrum In this place was the greatest General Council of the Ancients held that ever met in 347. In which the Nicene Council by the Arts of Constantius was condemned It stands three hundred Miles from Constantinople to the West one hundred from Thessalonica to the North and two hundred and fifty from Belgrade to the South in the Road to Constantinople Long. 51. 00. Lat. 42. 43. Sogdiana a large
near it on a Rock In the Cathedral you see the Tombs of many of the Kings of Sweden who bore the Style of Kings of Vpsal in former times And here in 1654. the famous Christiana Queen of Sweden resigned her Royal Diadem See Sweden Upsu See Alaschehir Upton a Market Town in Worcestershire The Capital of its Hundred upon the Severn in the South of the County It is well built and an antient Roman Town Ur an antient City of Chaldaea The place of the Birth and Death of Haran Abraham's Brother Gen. xi 28. Uraha a Gulph upon the Coast of the Terra firma in South America together with a Province of the same Name Uraniburg or Vranisbourgh Vraniburgum a splendid Castle and Observatory in the Island of Huen near Coppenhagen in the Sound betwixt Seeland and the Province of Schonen built by Tycho Brahe a Danish Baron the celebrated Astronomer in 1575. But since having been neglected is ruined Urba the same with Orba Urbanea Vrbinia a small new City in the Dukedom of Vrbino under the Pope made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vrbino by Pope Vrban VIII in 1635. who from an ordinary Village adorned it to this Dignity enlarged its Buildings and left it his Name It stands 7 Miles from Vrbino to the North-West Urbinio Vrbinium is a City of Vmbria in the States of the Church which is an Archbishops See and the Capital of the Dukedom of that Name A great and flourishing City seated near the Fountains of the River La Foglia 20 Miles from the Adriatick Sea to the North-West 7 from the Vrbanea and 25 from Rimini Made an Archbishops See in 1563. Il ducato di Urbino is that part of Vmbria which lies beyond the Apennine Bounded on the North by the Adriatick Sea and Romandiola on the East by the Marchia Anconitana on the South by Ombria and on the West by the Dukedom of Florence This Country was under Sovereign Dukes first of the Family of Feltria and after of Roborea the last of which having no Male Issue in 1631. resigned his Dominions in his life time to Pope Vrban VIII to prevent any Quarrels about it after his Death and ever since it has been united to the Papacy Reckoned to contain 3 Ports 7 or 8 Castles and nigh 350 Towns beside the Cities The Cities of it are Cagli Gubio Fossombrone Pesaro Senigaglia Vrbanea and Vrbino which last is the Capital City Urgel Orgelium Vrgella Vrgela Orgia a City of Catalonia in the County of Ceretania at the foot of the Pyrenean Hills A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona upon the River Segre 5 Leagues from the Borders of France to the South 28 from Barcinone and 9 from Perpignan It had Counts of great Power under the second Line of the Kings of Arragon In 1580. and 1633. we find Synods assembled here The Tract in which it stands is from it called the Plain of Vrgel Uri Vriensis Pagus one of the Senior Cantons of Suitzerland at the foot of the Mountains extended along the Banks of the River Russ And one of the first that leagued against Albert Duke of Austria in 1308. It 's altogether Roman Catholick and Alforf the Capital City Urla Clazomenae a City of the lesser Asia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Smyrna It stands upon the Archipelago between Smyrna to the East and Chio to the West Long. 55. 15. Lat. 39. 30. The Seamen call it Uourla Usbeck the same with Zagathay in Tartary Uscopia a great and heretofore very populous City situated about 30 German Miles from Nissa and at the like distance from Thessalonique the Capital of Macedonia The Imperialists burnt it in 1689. It was secured only with an old Wall Userch a Town in Limosin in France Usiza or Vsciza an open rich and populous City about 20 Leagues from Belgrade upon the Frontiers of Bosnia having a strong Castle Taken and plundered by a Party of Rascians in 1688. In the Emperor's hands Usk a Market Town in Monmouthshire The Capital of its Hundred Upon a River of its own Name over which it hath a Bridge Well built large and fortified formerly with a Castle now in Ruines The antient Burrium of Antoninus is suppos'd to have stood here In the Vicinage of it the Duke of Beaufort possesses a noble Seat called Ragland Castle The River Vske discharges it self into the Severn near Newport in this County Albeargavenny is situated upon upon this River at the influx of the Kaveny into it Utica See Biserta its modern Name Utoxeter a Market Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Totmonslow upon the River Dove Utrecht Antonia Trajectum Inferius Vtricesium Vltrajectum Antonina Civitas Civitas Vtricensium a great strong populous City in the Vnited Netherlands the Capital of one of their seven States It stands upon the North Branch of the Rhine at the distance of about 5 English Miles to the North but united to it by a Navigable Channel Twenty three Leagues from Cologne 5 German Miles from Amsterdam to the South and 6 from Roterdam to the East The Original of it is unknown but it is supposed to be a Roman Work and built in or before the times of Nero about 186. Being ruined by the Barbarous Nations Dagobert King of France rebuilt and refortified it about 642. So that the second Pile became much more famous than the former Willibrodus the Apostle of the Frisons being sent by Pope Sergius in 696. with the Title of an Archbishop and Pepin King of France having in 692 taken Vtrecht from Radbold the Pagan Duke of Frizeland he assigned this City to Willibrode and gave him the Territories thus reckoned up by Antonius Mattheus in his Books de Nobi itate The Lekk the Uechten all the Lands which lay upon their Banks and the Territory of Teistervant which included a great part of Guelders Bommel Tiel the Betouw Culemborch Viane Asperen Bure Heusden Neuctom the Veluwe and Ysestein In 700. Radbold attempting in vain the recovering this City submitted So Willibrode and Boniface his Successor peaceably enjoyed this vast Diocese which was confirmed to them and their Privileges enlarged by Charles the Great In after times it became a Free Imperial City of Germany Several of the Emperors resided and some died here amongst whom are reckoned Conrad II. in 1039. and Henricus V. in 1122. So jealous they were of their Privileges that they would not suffer any of their Bishops Officers to have any share in the Government of the City nor would they suffer the Bishop to enter the Town with more Men than they allowed him or to stay in it above five or eight days They maintained this Liberty though it was sorely envied and laid at by John Count of Holland in 1297. and by William Count of Holland in 1324. till in 1527. the Bishop of Vtrecht passed over his Right to Charles V. who being a Potent Prince easily reduc'd this City under his Obedience built it a Castle