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A33302	A description of the seaventeen provinces commonly called the Low-Countries (the present stage of action) as also of the rivers, cities, commodities, strong towns, forts, and other things remarkable therein.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1672 (1672)	Wing C4507; ESTC R26605	35,794	144

number of Churches and beauty and riches of them in Monasteries and Convents this Town passeth all the Towns in Lower Germany yea of France also For there are in it eight Collegiate Churches with Canons who are very Rich especially the Canon of St. Lambert the Patron of the Town In this City of St. Lambert among divers old Rich Jewels and Reliques is a great Image of St. Georg on Horsback all of pure Gold which Charles Duke of Burgundy gave to make amends for his hard usage of this City when he took it by Storm There are also in it four Rich Abbeys having in each of them a goodly Library There are also three Nunneries and all the Four Orders of Friers some of which have two Convents There are also thirty two Parish Churches and so many other Churches Monasteries and Hospitals within and without the Town that the Churches are accounted in all above a Hundred This City is well replenished with People many of which live very idely their Language is French It s an Imperial City but they are only bound to furnish the Emperor with a few men in his Warre against the Turks Hubert Thomas writeth that at one time there were students in this City nine Kings Children twenty four Dukes Children twenty nine Earls Children besides a number of Barons and Gentlemens Children the greatest part of which were Canons of the Rich Colledge of St. Lambert aforementioned Buillon is a great Castle stanstanding very artificially upon the Point of a Hill with a great Bourg under it The Castle is larg and well Fortified and very strong both by Art and Nature It hath the Title of a Dutchy and hath under it a great Country and a large Jurisdiction Francimont was sometimes a Walled Town it s now but a Village yet hath it a strong Fort in it Neer to this place is a Village called Thou where are many good Lead Mines and Quarries of excellent black Marble Lootz or Borchloon is a Country with a large Territory and Jurisdiction under it It s a pretty little Town Brockworm stands upon the Jecker It s a pretty Town and well peopled Tongres stands also upon the Jecker which at Mastrick entreth into the Meuse Here is a marvelous way formerly all paved with goodly Stone raised up of wondrous heighth between two Walls which reached from Tongres to Paris which is above two hundred Italian Miles some parts whereof remain unto this Day Certainly it was an ancient Work of the Romans who usually imployed their Armies and Subjects in such stupendious works to keep them from idleness which is the Mother of Sedition and Civil-Warres Eight Leagues from Tongres and five from Lieg is the Village of Spa or Spaw within half a League whereof is the Fountain so famous for the virtue that it hath to cure the Tertian Ague the Dropsie the Stone the exulceration of the Lungs the Sciatique and all diseases of the Stomack and the Liver This Village of Spaw stands in a fair Wood which is part of the Forrest of Ardenne and the Fountain most commanded is called La Fountain de Savenier the water whereof tasteth of Iron there being many Iron Mines thereabout The Water is of most virtue in July when the Weather is hottest Hoey was sometimes a famous City bearing the Name of a furious River that here falls into the Meuse The Meuse runs through the midst of this Town over which is built a very stately Bridg. It s now a reasonable good Town with a strong Fortress in it The Country about it abounds with Iron Mines and Cattel Hasselt stands upon the River Demere It s an indifferent good Town and well Built Dinan stands upon the Meuse and is seated in a very good Country abounding with Black Marble with Mines of Iron and Quarries of other very good Stones to build with It hath a Castle in it Maiseeck is a reasonable good Town standing upon the Meuse Stockhem is a fine little Town standing also upon the Meuse Bilsen is but a little Town St. Truden or Centron is a fair Town and their Language is Flemish Tuin or Tovin stands in Haynault but is subject to the Bishop of Lieg It s an indifferent good Town The other Towns are Reasonanable good and of some account As for the Villages there is not much remarkable in them and therefore I pass them over An account of the great difference that is between the Country and People of Lieg and the Country and Citizens of Aix though they be but six Leagues asunder and both in the same Climate Lieg is in subjection Aix in liberty but both under the protection of the Empire At Lieg they speak French at Aix Dutch The Liegeoys are pleasant and sociable They of Aix unsociable and Melancholly Yea the very Air and Soyl retain the same difference For its Summer at Lieg when its Winter at Aix Yea oft its Snow and Ice at Aix when its warm at Liege The City of Aix or Aquisgrane described Aix is situated between the Dutchy of Brabant Limbourg Juliers and the Bishoprick of Liege Charle-Main was the Founder of this City who ordained it to be the chiefe City of the Empire and that the King of the Romans should receive the Iron Crown at Aix by the Arch-Bishop of Colen who is the Metropolitan thereof The Silver Crown at Millan and the Imperial Crown of Gold at Rome Here he dyed and was buried Anno Christi 813. Aix is a goodly City and the Country about it is very pleasant and fruitful but the Buildings of the Town do not answer the fame of the Place saving the hot Baths which are very fairly built and are very wholsome for many Diseases Aix is an Imperial City but payeth only a small Tribute to the Emperour otherwise it enjoyes freedome and hath the Duke of Cleves for Protector next Neighbour and perpetual Confederate FINIS

Convents and Monasteries The chief Towns are Arras St. Omers Betune Aire Bapaumes The lesser are Hedinsfort Renty St. Pol Perue Lillers La Bassee and Lens The City of Arras described Arras stands within a Bow shot of the Scarpe It s a very great Town but divided into two parts each part having a several Wall the one named the City and appertains to the Bishop the other The Town and belongs to the Prince The City is little but faire and very well Fortified In it is the sumptuous Church of the Virgin Mary in which is a rare Library The Town is very large and wonderful strong both by Nature and Art The Streets are fair and broad and the Market place scarcely to be matched In the Town are many Cellars and Vaults very artificially made and paved to withdraw their Families into in case of a Siege It hath a great Jurisdiction over many places about it and in it are made many excellent Serges St. Omer Described It hath its name of one St. Omer who first built a Church of that Name and stately Abbyes of great Revenues St. Omer is a Frontire Town against France and stands upon the River Aa It s a very strong Town and well peopled and hath a Country of very great importance under it and Jurisdiction over many Villages Neer unto it is a goodly Lake of fresh Water in which are many little Islands yet not so little but you may put a good number of Cattel to feed in many of them the which are moveable and may be drawn with a Cord fastened to the Rushes that grow in them which way you will and under them are multitudes of Fishes that defend themselves there from ●ll Weathers Betune described Betune is a good and a strong Town where is made great plenty of excellent good Cheese that is sold into divers Countries Aire described Aire stands upon the River Lis. It s a good and a strong Town with a Castle of great Antiquity The houses in this Town are very well and orderly built Bapaulm described Bapaulm is a little but a strong Town because it cannot be besieged for want of fresh Water which is not to be had within three Leagues thereof It hath also a very strong Castle and a large Country and a good Jurisdiction under it Renty is but a Castle with a good Village standing upon a little Brook yet it s a very strong place Hesdinfert is marvelously well seated upon the River Canch It s one of the most strong and defensible places in all the Low-Countries and hath many large Priviledges It 's a fair Town and well Peopled and is now called Hesdin St. Pol hath of a long time been honoured with the Title of an Earldom and hath a goodly Jurisdiction over a large Country and a great Revenue Perue is under the Jurisdiction of St. Pol and is a place of good importance Lilliers is a reasonable passable Town Lens is but a little Town yet hath a large Territory and Jurisdiction The Villages of Artoys that be of any importance having the Priviledges of Markets and Fairs are Avennes le Comte Aschicourt St Venaut Courriers Blangis Ligny and Pas. The City of Cambray described Cambray stands upon the Scheld which runs through the midst of it It s seated upon the edg of the Frontiers made by the two Provinces of Henault and Artoys on Flanders side towards France opposite to Piccardy It enjoyes a free Government under the Spiritual and Temporal Dominion of its Arch-Bishoprick It is endowed with very large Priviledges Full of Noble Churches whereof the Cathedral is such as hath not the like in any of the neighbouring Cities It s sufficiently provided also of other Edifices both for use and Ornament Yet the Inhabitants are not answerable in number to the Houses many of which being Ecclesiasticks Forraign Commerce and Merchandizing doth rather languish than flourish there Neither doth the Scheld yeild commodity for it For the River hath its Head but a little above the City and therefore is hardly Navigable hereabout The City of Cambray is about a League in Compass and is environed with an Ancient Wall flankt for the most part after the ancient Mode but with many Bulwarks also after the Modern Way of Fortification It hath a Ditch which is very broad and deep on one side whereinto for the most part the Scheld runs The rest by reason of its height is dry but so much the deeper On the East stands a Citadel with four Royal Bulworks having a great half-Moon between two of them which are next to the Fields and divers other defences for the Custody of the Ditch Here is made much sine Linnen called Cambrick Cambray hath under it a goodly Signiory and Jurisdiction called Cambresis in which are divers Villages and places of importance and among others the Castle of Cambresy six Leagues from the City in which the Peace between the chief Princes of Christendom was concluded Anno Christi 1559. The Province of Haynault Described Haynault is so named of the River Hayne which runs through it It s bordered North with Brabant and Flanders South with Champaign and Picardy East with the County of Namur and part of the County of Lieg West with the Scheld and part of Flanders Gallicane It s twenty Leagues long and sixteen Broad The Aire is wholsome and the Soyl excellent good by reason that the Country is watered with many Rivers namely the Scheld the Sambre the Tender and many other small Rivolets There are also in it many Lakes Marishes Ponds Pools Fountains goodly Woods and pleasant Forrests Haynault aboundeth with fragrant and fair Pastures and Meddows for all kinds of Cattel with good fruits and profitable Trees especially with great plenty of good Corn. In divers parts of it are Iron Mines Lead and quarries of Stone for all kinds of Building yea of the Touch-stone There is also great store of excellent white Lime and Sea-Cole In Haynault there are twenty four Walled towns namely Montz Valenciennes Bouchain Quesnoy Conat Lan dresy Anesnes Chimay Mariembourg Phillips Ville Beamount Mauberg Bovais Bins Reux Segny Brain le Comte Eughien Halle Lessme Cheure At h St Guisline and Leuze There are also in it nine hundred and fifty Villages with many Castles and Signiories Many of these Villages are great and fair and have Titles of Honour annexed unto them as Pequicourt Fontayn Laling Montigny Antonig Barlamon Barbanson Aimeries and many others The City of Montz described The City of Mons receives its Name from its situation which in their Language signifies a Mountain or Hill But the rise of the Earth there is so gentle as it cannot be said to be Mountainous It s a very Noble City as well for the concourse of People as for Commerce It hath many good Houses in it and there the King of Spains Counsel used to sit which administred justice to all the Country All which Prerogatives gave it the precedency over all other