Andalusia Grenada Murcia Galicia Portugal Algarve the Asturies Biscay Navarre Catalonia is a County and not a Kingdom when the King of Spain makes his first Entrance into Barcelona which is the capital City he enters there in quality of Earl wherefore when he is before the Gate which he finds shut after having knockt they ask from within the Town the name of him that will enter his Catholick Majesty answers twice The King of Spain and they do not open the Gates to him till he says it 's the Earl of Barcelona King of Spain who will come in At these words the Gates are incontinently open'd and they give his Majesty a Reception becoming him Portugal and Algarve have their King. Biscay is a Lordship Navarre belongs to France a part of Biscay is possess'd by the French and the other by the Spaniards Spain may have two hundred and sixty French leagues in length and two hundred in breadth without comprizing what it has in Italy in Flanders and in America and along the coasts of Barbary on the Mediterranean Sea. The chief Towns are MAdrid Toledo Sevil Grenada Sarragossa Valencia Compostella Salamanca Barcelona Cadiz Madrid is increast since that the Kings of Spain have kept there their Court it has no Suburbs It has been said that this Town was wall'd round with Fire by reason of its ancient Walls built in many places with great Stones that strike fire It s Fountain is very famous after that of Palermo in Sicily and of Navona at Rome which are esteem'd the finest of Europe The Fountain Arethusa is celebrated in History it has been the ground of many Roman Fables Toledo is adorn'd with two fair Palaces with that which Charles the Fifth caus'd to be built there and with that of the Archbishop The Metropolitan Church has a Clock resembling that of Strasburg in Alsatia in its height and Architecture the Doors of this Church are of cast Copper the Streets of the Town are very narrow the Moors built the Walls Sevil is the Capital of Andalusia the Spaniards say thus Que no ha vista Sevilla no ha vista la Maravilla He that has not seen Sevil has not seen a Wonder The Duke of Medina Coeli has a fine Palace there It is held that this Town call'd Hispal or Hispalis gave the name of Spain to all the Kingdom Grenada is larger in compass than any Town of Spain the Moors built it The Streets are narrow and the Houses rang'd after such a manner that they resemble the kernel of a Pomegranat The Kingdom has a great number of Mountains Sarragossa is the Capital of the Kingdom of Arragon it has an Archbishoprick Parliament Inquisition and University Valencia call'd the Beautiful and the Great is the Capital of the Kingdom whose name it bears it is honoured with an Archbishoprick Parliament and University Compostella Capital of Galicia is famous for the Relicks of the Apostle St. James the Greater Brother of St. John the Evangelist The Spaniards call Compostella San Jago di Compostella Salamanca is recommendable for its largeness and University which is the most famous of all Spain It has a great House adorn'd with a Court where are the Schools and the Halls where the Acts are made and where Persons are admitted to Degrees Metaphysick is there in its Throne The Preachers there are very full of Gestures to express naturally their Thoughts and Motions they make use of all the parts of their Body of the Head Hands Feet and Eyes Though they said nothing a man might guess very near what they would say Francis Relux a Dominican Doctor of the Faculty of Divinity of Salamanca formerly Confessor of Charles the Second King of Spain and at present Bishop of Placenza has for Successor in his place of Confessor Father Bayono Professor of the University of Alcala Cordona capital City of the Dukedom whereof it bears the name has a Mountain of Salt. Barcelona call'd by the Spaniards Barcino is an important place the French possess'd it under the Reign of Loüis the Thirteenth The Palace of the Duke of Cardona there is August there are seen there some Figures of the Earls of Barcelona This Town which is at present double has a Bishop a Parliament an University Inquisition and a Port where many Ships have often been cast away in the Road. Cadiz is famous by reason of the advantageous scituation of its Port it 's there where the Gallies arrive that come from Peru laden with Gold and Silver This Town is very strong and well peopled in those late Wars its Bishop coming from Italy was stopt at Montpellier and sent afterward from Tholose into his Diocess in exchange for some Prisoner Rivers of ancient Spain TAgus the Ober the Guadian Guadalguivir the Douro and the Minhio the Guadalaiar the Seger the Liuga and others The Tagus famous for its Golden Sand passes at Toledo Villa Franchia and at Lisbon The Iber Iberus at Sarragossa and Tortoza this River gives the name of Iberia to all Spain The Latins call the Guadian Anas and the Guadalaiar Bertis the Douro Durius the Seger Sicoris The Spaniards boast of having a Bridge on which above ten thousand horn'd Beasts may feed together This proceeds from the River Anas which hiding it self for six leagues passes under a great Meadow-ground According to a Map made in Spain which the Sieurs Samsons Geographers in Ordinary to the King have shewn me and which they find good this River loses it self and rises again It is metaphorically call'd Anas because of its entrance and coming forth of the Earth as a Duck does in water Its waters supply Baiados and other places Some Rivers in France lose themselves in like manner and appear again as the River Sumene at the foot of the Sevenes the Rize near Masdazille in the Country of Foix the Vouzeille in Poictou four leagues from Poictiers on the West-side the Bandiat near Angouleme the Rile in Normandy near Beaumont le Roy the River Drome near Bayeux the Venelle which passes at Selongay in Burgundy seven or eight leagues from Dijon on the North-side The Guadalguivir waters Corduba and Sevil The Douro Valladolid and Zamora The Seger descends from the Pyrrheneans into Catalonia passes at Vrgel and Lerida Cesar and Lucan speak of the River Cinga which is by the Pyrrheneans and which has retain'd its name even to this day The Archbishopricks TOledo Sevil Sarragossa Burgos Grenada Valencia Compostella and Taragonia Cardinal Porto Carero is Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain He succeeds Dom Pascal Cardinal of Aragon Archbishop of Toledo who died at Madrid the 28th of September 1677. After having given all he had to the Poor he gave his Nephew onely a Picture of Devotion Cardinal de Porto Carero gave An. 1679. to Dom Francisco Canon of the Church of Toledo the Archdeaconship of Toledo which is worth forty thousand Duckets of Rent Toledo has eight Suffragans Sevil three Sarragossa six Burgos three Grenada two
A MODERN VIEW Of such PARTS of EUROPE That hath lately been and still are the places of great Transactions Viz. ITALY with all its Principalities FRANCE with all its Provinces and Bishopricks GERMANY with the Dukedome of Lorrain and all the Electorates and Lordships of the Empire SPAIN With all its Dominions c. Wherein is shewed the Present State of all those Countries with Curious Remarks of Antiquity Interwoven LONDON Printed and Sold by J. Bird at the Sun near the Kings-Bench in Westminster-Hall 1689. TO THE Candid Reader THis Treatise exposeth to your view the most eminent Things and Transactions of this World concerning Ecclesiastical States Monarchies Republicks the varieties of Sects and Religions the Origine of Arts and Sciences several unparallel'd Accidents variety of Recherches in Antiquity and Memoires containing the Combats Battels Sieges surprizal or taking of Towns and the most signaliz'd and memorable Actions that have happened in this Modern Age. If any curious Reader shall oppose the Digressions of this Tract I must desire him to consider that they are both useful and necessary and so far from exposing him to Fatigue and Trouble that they will prove a grand Satisfaction and Diversion I must confess I have in this Composition discovered several gross Errours in some Authors whom I have forborn to recite because I scorn to shame them but if any Criticks desire a more regugular Method than herein is chalked out which is a thing of more than ordinary difficulty in a Business of this nature and in so great variety of Matter I desire them to take into their consideration that this Natural way of Writing will be by all Persons of Ingenuity preferr'd before any Scholastick Dissertation or Disputation whatsoever I have no more to say but this You will herein find Variety the Comfort and Satisfaction of Mankind that Gravity which will please the Serious that Diversion which will gratifie the Curious that Variety which can displease none but such as are void and destitute both of Sense and Reason And therefore I shall detain you no longer from the perusal of this Treatise onely give me leave to acquaint you that there is herein contain'd nothing but what is grounded upon Truth and gathered from the most Authentick Writers and present State of this Modern Age. Yours Gidion Pontier A TABLE OF THE Contents of this Book Of ITALY THe Papacy pag. 1 The Etymology of the Name Cardinal his Institution and his Habits 10 The Continuation of the Actions of Pope Innocent the Eleventh 13 The Singularities and curious remarkable Actions of some Popes 15 Observations on the reducement of Jubiles under what Popes and in what times 22 The opening of the Jubile 25 The splendid Ceremonies and the Honour of Rome 29 St. Austin's three Desires ibid. The Dominion of the Pope 30 Places of Pleasure ibid. Ornaments of Rome 32 The chief Towns of Italy with their Epithets and Elogies 33 The chief Rivers of Italy 35 Popes by birth French-men and Passages of their Lives 36 The future Popes how conformable to the Prophecies 54 The chief Princes of Italy after the Popes are five First the Duke of Savoy 55 Secondly the Great Duke of Tuscany 62 Thirdly the Duke of Mantua 67 Fourthly the Duke of Modena 69 Fifthly the Bishop of Trent 71 The Figure of Italy and its length ibid. An Itinerary 72 Of FRANCE 75 THe Dolphin of France and his Marriage 79 The Duke of Orleans 81 The Prince of Condé and the Duke d'Enguien 83 Prince Henry de la Tour d'Auvergne Vicount de Turenne 84 The ancient Marshals of France living An. 1680. 86 The Ministers and Secretaries of State ibid. The Chancellor 87 M. de la Villiere 89 M. de Louvois 90 M. Colbert 91 M. Colbert Croissi 93 The Councils 94 France the Mountain of the Muses 97 King of France his places of Residence 98 The Louvre ibid. The Tuilleries 100 Fontainbleau ibid. Versailles 101 Paris 103 Colledge Mazarin its Institution Library and Academy 109 The House of President Perrot 112 Houses of Pleasure about Paris 116 Houses and Places of Devotion near Paris 118 The Treasury of St. Dennis 120 The Tombs of the Kings of France 124 Other famous places of Devotion and Pilgrimages greatly frequented in the Kingdom 125 The twelve ancient general Governments of the Provinces called together at Paris under Loüis the Thirteenth according to their rank and place in the States General 129 The Governours of the Provinces 130 Conquered Countries 133 The Fertility of France 134 The Channel of Languedoc 135 The chief Towns of France 138 The most considerable Maritime Towns ibid. The great Rivers 142 The Epithites of the great Rivers 144 The principal small Rivers 145 Pont du Gard 150 A Catalogue of the Archbish and Bishops of France containing the number and name of the first and last Bishop of each Diocess to An. 1680. 153 The Archbishoprick of Rheims ibid. The Archbishoprick of Narbonne 156 The Archbishoprick of Bourges 159 The Archbishoprick of Vienne 160 The Archbishoprick of Tolose 162 The Archbishoprick of Roüen 163 The Archbishoprick of Sens 164 The Bishops of Bethlem 165 The Archbishoprick of Lyons 167 The Archbishoprick of Bourdeaux 169 The Archbishoprick of Arles 170 The Archbishoprick of Ambrun 172 The Archbishoprick of Tours 174 The Archbishoprick of Aix 176 The Archbishoprick of Paris 177 The Archbishoprick of Albi 179 The Archbishoprick of Cambray 181 The Archbishoprick of Bezancon 183 The Rank and Seats of the Prelates 184 Agents General of the Clergie of France 185 The ordinary List of the Parliaments of France and the time of their erection 187 The Countries of State 193 Remarkable things of these times happening from the year 1672 to the beginning of 1680. 193 Of the Peace betwixt France Holland Spain the Emperour the Elector of Brandenburg and Denmark 203 The Marriage of the Princess Mary Loüise of Orleans with the King of Spain 205 A Continuation of Affairs to this time 206 Of LORAIN 208 THe chief Towns in Lorain 210 Those of the Dutchy of Bar ibid. Mausoleums of the Dukes of Lorain ibid. The Marriage of Prince Charles of Lorain 213 Of GERMANY 214 OF the City of Vienna 215 221 The chief Houses of Pleasure in the Country 215 The Coronation of the Emperour with the signification of the three Crowns 216 The Golden Bull 217 Prerogatives of the Emperour 219 Fourteen Emperours of the House of Austria ibid. The chief Towns of Germany 220 The Cities of Prague and Presburg 222 Of Aix-la-Chappelle and Ratisbonne 223 Of Erfort Munic and Strasburg 224 The Tower Clock Bridge and famous Trees of Strasburg 225 The Ceremonies of Electing the Bishop of Strasburg 226 The number and Residence of the Canons of Strasburg 227 The ancient Entrance of the Bishop of Strasburg and the number of Bishops it hath had 228 Of the Cities of Hamburg and Munster 229 The Cities of Magdeburg Nuremburg and Ausbourg 231 The Cities of Francsort Passau Visbourg Brunswick
Dame du Mount Carmel and of St. Lazarus of Hierusalem great Post-master and Superintendant of the Posts and Stages of France c. has given an infinite number of manifest proofs of his Consummated skill in Military Discipline It seems as though he had exercised himself in it all his life-time this shews that great men are capable of all things his name is known throughout the whole Earth the Hollanders Spaniards and others when the War was at the highest declared that he went like Lightning when the Service of his King and Country called upon him He possesses the eminent qualities of his Father the Chancellour of France Poitou la Marche Lionnois Dauphine Catalognia and Roussillon Pignerol Lorrain Alsatia the places Conquered and yeilded the Fortifications of these Generalities the War the Taxes raised for the support of the Souldiery and the Artillery are things belonging to his Charge M. Colbert MEssire John Baptist Colbert Chevalier Marquess of Seignelay Baron of Moneteau Beaumont Cheni Ormois Sceaux and other places Counsellor in ordinary to the King in his Councils and of the Royal Council General Controuler of the Kings Revenue Superintendant of the Navy Arts and Manufactures of France Minister and Secretary of State. He has acted vigorously for the subsistance of the Armies of the French Monarchy in finding means to raise such Moneys as were necessary which are the Nerves of War. He has the prudence of the Serpent as it is express'd in his Arms. Cardinal Mazarine considering his Desert before he died wisht the King to make use of him as his Minister for his fidelity and for his service His admirable Conduct daily manifests it self both in general and in particular even to the education of his Children and of his Illustrious Relations Messire Charles Edoüard Colbert Marquess of Seignelay is the eldest of the House he makes himself daily admir'd in the diversity of his Employs and Affairs wherewith he is taken up in his Majesties service he is Secretary of State Superintendant of the Maritine affairs both in the East and West I saw Anno 1677. Messire Julius Armandus Colbert Lord of Ormais at the age of fourteen years defend publick and general Theses of Philosophy in the University of Paris under the Presidency of his Brother the Abbot Messire Jacques Nicolas then Prior of Sorbonne to the admiration of all that there is of Great and Learned in the Kingdom I cannot hold from saying of this noble Defender in his Orient what was said of St. John Baptist at his birth Quis putas puer iste erit It 's a rare thing to see a Brother perform that Office under a Brother and with so wonderful a presence of understanding These are Prodigies and Marks of their great Genius It may well be said on this occasion Fortes creantur fortibus and with the Oracle Corona senum filii filiorum gloria filiorum patres eorum I shall not be more large lest I offend the modesty of the Father and of his Children I shall onely say that this wise Manager of the Kings Revenue has in his division Paris the Isle of France and the Country of Soissons as far as Noyon Orleanois Blezois the Kings House the Clergy what regards the Sea Trade and Manufactures As I write this Article the admirable and elegant Sermon which the Illustrious Abbot his Brother made one day on the Feast of St. John Baptist comes into my mind Paris rendered it self that day at Sceaux to hear it This Sermon was followed with many others in the Capital City of the Kingdom and always with excellent success This Abbot is Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbonne and Coadjutor to the Archbishop of Roüen since the second of Feb. 1680. M. Colbert Croissi MEssire Charles Colbert Chevalier Marquess of Croissi Minister and Secretary of State President of the Parliament of Paris formerly Master of Requests and Intendant of Justice has acquired the Political and Geographical knowledge of all the States of the World that of Ancient and Modern History and of all the Interests of the Princes and Potentates of Christendom in his Ordinary and Extraordinary Embassies at Rome in England Spain at Aix la Chappel and in quality of Embassadour and Plenipotentiary at Nimigen for the general Peace of Europe and at Bavaria for the Marriage of Monseigneur le Dauphin with the Electoral Princess and in other important Negotiations Holland shewed him the joy they received after the Peace concluded to see him in their Country and he manifested his by his profuse liberality of his Gold and Silver to the People in some Towns. This Minister having seen so many Countries and Nations and all Courts it may be said of him what Homer said of Vlysses in the beginning of his Odysses according to the translation from the Greek into Latine Multorum autem hominum vidit urbes mores novit Champagne and Brie Provence Britany Berry Limosin Angoumois Xaintonge Bearn Bigorre the three Bishopricks of Metz Toul and Verdun the Principality of Sedan and the Forreign Countries which are also in his division have all a veneration for his Conduct and Generosity He succeeded to Messire Simon Arnaud Chevalier Lord of Pomponne in his Charge of Secretary and Minister of State which he demised in the Month of December An. 1679. The Councels THe Councels are composed of the Chancellour Keeper of the Seals of France of the Marshal Duke de Villeroy Chief of the Royal Council for the Kings Revenue of Twelve ordinary Councellours of State Three Councellors of the Church and Three of the Sword Twelve attending every six Months The King regulating the Councel An. 1673. added the Controuler General of his Revenues and the two Intendants of them to have place in the Councels des Parties as they have in those of the Revenue The Councellours of State are chosen by his Majesty being such as have past the greatest part of all the Offices of the Robe having been Intendants of Justice or Ambassadors or first Presidents of the Parliaments these are at present the best and most sought-for Offices of the Kingdom and which come nearest the King who gives such persons daily the best employs and Commissions of greatest importance for the service of himself and the State. To these Councels the Masters of Request have access which are to the number of Eighty whereof Twenty serve each Quarter after having been honoured with many Commissions and Intendancies they are preferred by his Majesty to Employs of the highest nature where he designs them The two Intendants of the Revenue are Messire Vicount Hotman and Messire Nicholas des Marests Colbert The first has been Councellor in the grand Councel Master of Requests and Intendant of Justice in Guyen and in Tourain Proctor-General of the Chamber of Justice and afterwards honoured by the King with a place in his Councels and with the Commission of Intendant of the Kings Revenue and of Justice in the generality of Paris
Marks of its Devotion Nostre-Dame d Orient in the Diocess of Vabres These two places of Devotion are in Roüergne Nostre-Dame du Calvaire of Betharan in Bearn in the Diocess of Lascar Messire Pierre de Marca has said wonderful things of it in a Book entituled Traité des Merveilles Operées en la Chappelle Nostre-Dame du Calvaire en Betharan It was printed An. 1646. and An. 1648. the word Betharan signifies according to the Language of the Country a fine Branch and according to the Hebrew Tongue the House of the Soveraign and of the most High or the House of Greatness and Eminency In the Territory of the Tribe of Gad there was a Valley of this name which appears by the Book of Joshua The Mountain Betharan has the figure of that of the true Calvary of Jerusalem Many Miracles have been there wrought If Miracles were wrought in the Temples of the Protestants as in these holy places they would make them serve as Seals to their Doctrine and would make them sound forth with a high voice that the Saviour of the World gives the power to them as a most powerful and pressing means to cause the truth of their Faith to be embrac'd and because they have no Miracles they laugh at them To which I oppose that the Jews and Pagans rejected those of Jesus Christ and of the Apostles and with St. Austin that Miracles have been the motives of innumerable conversions to Christianity that Miracles are the Chains that hold us in the Catholick Church Our strayed Brethren chuse rather to suffer themselves to be bound by their own Imagination and by the consequences they draw from the Scripture according to their private spirits and without having either of our most dear Chains neither the antiquity nor the number nor the succession of Chairs nor the Miracles c. which have continued in the Roman Church from Age to Age since the time of the Apostles Let us return to our subject The Church of Nostre-Dame of Ardilliers which is one of the chief suburbs of the Town of Saumur is serv'd by the Oratorian Fathers Saint Maximin and Saint Baume by the Dominicans as also Nostre-Dame de Bonnes Nouvelles at Rennes Nostre-Dame de Rochefort by the Religious Benedictines Saint Reine by the Cordeliers Nostre-Dame d'Orient by the Capucins Nostre-Dame de Consolation de Bezieres by the Religious of St. Francis of Paul vulgarly called les Bons hommes The others by Canons and Secular Priests The twelve ancient General Governments of the Provinces were called together at Paris under Loüis the Thirteenth according to their rank and place in the States General 1614. THe Isle of France Burgundy Normandy Guienne Britany Champagne Languedoc Picardy Daulphine Provence Lyonnois and Orleanois Of these twelve great Governments many others are made Lyonnois comprehended formerly higher and lower Auvergne and also la Marche the higher and lower Bourbounois Beaujolois and the Country of Forrests Orleanois contain'd Poitou Aniou Touraine Loudunois the Town and Government of Rochelle Angoumois le Maine Berry Pais Chartrain le Perche Nivernois and Vandosmois Xaintonge was of the Government of Guienne The Governours of the Provinces An. 1679. are these THe Town Provostship and Vicounty of Paris has for Governour the Duke of Crequy Peer of France Commander of the Kings Orders and first Gentleman of the Chamber to his Majesty He was made choice of by the King to go to Bavaria to carry the Marriage-Presents to Madam the Dolphiness Anno 1680. The Duke d'Estrèes Peer of France is Governour of the Isle of France Soissonnois Laonnois Beauvoisis c. The Prince of Condé Lord Steward of the Kings Houshold has the government of Burgundy and of la Bresse the Duke d'Enguien has the survivourship of his Father The Duke de Montauzier Peer of France and Commander of the Kings Orders has Normandy he was Governour of Monseigneur the Dolphin The Duke de Roquelaure Guienne The Duke de Chaune Britany Marshal Duke de Vivonne of Montmart Champagne and Brie The Duke of Verneuil Languedoc he succeeds Arnand de Bourbon Prince of Conti whose Piety is crown'd in the Coelestial Court he died at Pezenas An. 1666. the 21 day of February and his body was carried into the house of the Carthusians of Villeneufe in Avignon This Prince compos'd two Books one is entituled Devoirs des Grands and the other Memoires du Prince de Conti the former contains very excellent Instructions The Duke d'Elbeuf is Governour of Picardy The Duke les Diguieres of Dauphiné The Duke de Vandôme of Provence Marshal de Grignan is sole Lieutenant-General of this Province he has also been Lieutenant-General of Languedoc The Duke de Villeroy Son of the Marshall of this name is Governour of Lyonnois Forests and Beaujolois The Marquess d' Alluye of Orleannois Blesois Dunois and the Country of Sologne Chartrain and Vandômois Auvergne has for Governour the Duke de Boüillon high Chamberlain Higher and lower la Marche the Marquess de S. Germain Beaupré Limosin the Count d' Auvergne Bourbonnois the Marquess de la Valiere Berry the Prince of Marsillac Francois de la Rochefoucaud Duke of Rocheguion Groom of the Stole and Chief Master of the Game of France Son of the Prince of Marsillac and Grand-child of the Duke of Rochefoucaut married An. 1679. in the Church of S. Roch of Paris Madeleine la Tellier Daughter of the Marquess de Lionnois Minister and Secretary of State and Grand-child of Messire Michel le Tellier Chancellour of France Anjou has for Governour Count d' Armagnac the Kings Master of the Horse Touraine the Marquess de Dangeau Le Maine Laval and le Perche the Marquess de Fervaques Poitou the upper and lower the Duke of Vieville Xaintonge and Angoumois the Duke de Crussol The Country of Aunis and Broüage the Duke de Navailles Nivernois the Duke of Nevers The Country of Foix the Marquess de Mirepoix Navarre and Bearn Duke Anthony-Charles de Grammont Soveraign of Bidache his Father Duke and Earl Marshal of France Knight of the Kings Orders died at Bayonne the 83 year of his age the 12th of July 1678. Conquer'd Countries THe upper and lower Alsatia have for Governours the Duke de Mazarin Duke of Mielleraye and Mayenne Peer of France and particular Governour of the Towns Citadels and Castles of Brisac la Fere Vitre Vincennes Port-Loüis and other places Lorrain the Marshal de Crequy The Town and Citadel of Metz and Vic the Marshal Duke de la Ferte-Seneterre Toul the Count de Pas de Feuquieres The Duke de Noailles Peer of France Captain of the first Company of the Life guard is Governour of Roussillon and Lieutenant-General in upper Auvergne The Duke and Marshal de Duras Knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost has the Government of Franche Comté Marshal d Humicres is Governour and Lieutenant-General of Flanders and particular Governour of Lille Count de Montbron Governour of Arras and Lieutenant-General in
the Marquess de los Balbazez and afterward the Affiances were made by Cardinal Boüillon great Almoner of France The Ceremony of the Marriage was perform'd in the Chappel of the House of Fontainebleau The 20th of September the Queen of Spain parted from Fontainebleau for Spain she went into a Coach with the King the Queen M. le Dauphin Monsieur and Madame they went together two leagues on the way and parted from each other after having bid an Adieu very tenderly Her Catholick Majesty accompanied with Monsieur and Madam went on her way the Marquess and Marchioness de los Balbazez went the Journey with her The 30th of December of the year before-mentioned 1679. was sign'd at Munic the Contract of Marriage of M. le Dauphin with the Electoral Princess of Bavaria Mary An-Christian Victoir A Continuation of Affairs of this time THe King re-establisht by an Edict of 1679. the study of the Civil Law which had not been taught since the Ordinance of Blois of the year 1579. Messieurs Boucherat and de Bezons Counsellors of State who were nominated Commissioners for determining the difficulties which might hinder the execution of the Edict were present at the Harang which the Sieur Deloy Professor made the 17th of December in the Schools of Law to thank his Majesty for the favour granted Some time after the King to render more flourishing the study of the Civil Law of Paris made a Society of twelve Doctors who took the Oath tendred them by the same two Counsellors of State nominated Commissaries for this effect the Sieurs Boccager and le Gendre are of the number of the associated Doctors for their particular merit His most Christian Majesty appointed 200000 Livres to be distributed in the Diocesses of Narbonne Beziers Agde and S. Pons by reason of the Damages that they had suffered by the drought of the same year An. 1680. on the 15th of January the Contract of Marriage of Loüis Armand de Bourbon Prince of Conti with Mademoiselle de Blois Ann Mary de Bourbon was sign'd in the Kings Chamber the next day after Cardinal Boüillon perform'd the Ceremony of Marriage in the Chappel of the House of S. Germain in Laye The King nominated Abbot Hervaux to the Office of Auditor of the Rota possess'd before by Messire Charles de Bourlemont LORAIN LOrain Lotharingia took its name from Lotharius Grandchild of the Emperour Charlemagne The Ducal and Soveraign House of Lorain contains many Escotcheons over all a Bend Gules charg'd with three Alerions Argent in memory of Godefroy de Bouillon who at one sole shoot of an Arrow broacht three little Birds on it Its Princes bear also in their Arms the Cross of Hierusalem by reason of their pretences to the two Sicilies whereof the Kings were also Kings of Hierusalem Lorain has for capital City Nancy two Duchies that of Lorain and that of Bar. They count there three Bailiwicks or Seats of Judicature to wit that of Nancy that of Germany Lorain and that of Vauge These Bailiwicks comprize a great many Lands and Lordships as the County of Vaudemont the Marquisat Nomeni the Marquisat Hatonchatel the Lordships of Epinal on the Moselle Marsal Blamont Salverdin Boulai c. Charles the Fourth Duke of Lorain Uncle of Charles the Fifth Son of Francis Count of Vaudemont was depriv'd of his Estates for some years and restor'd to them upon the general Peace by special Articles the 3d of March 1661. The King of France and the King of Spain have been Masters the one of the Estates of this Prince and the other of his Person Henry the Second King of France conquer'd Metz Toul and Verdun these three Towns were straitly united to the Crown of France by the Treaty of Munster and by that of the Pyreneans Loüis the Thirteenth conquer'd the Town Bar le Duc and all the Country of Barrois and also the strong places Moyenvic Stenai Dun Jametz and the County of Clermont which ought to continue incorporated to France according to the Treaty of Peace made in the Isle of Faisans 1659. Loüis the Fourteenth on consideration of this Peace restor'd Prince Charles to the possession of the Dutchy of Lorain after having caus'd his Fortifications of Nancy to be demolish'd on condition that the Duke should leave off all Leagues Intelligences Associations and Practices with any Prince whatsoever which having not perform'd his Majesty dispossess'd him Since this Treaty of Peace Duke Charles has yielded up to the most Christian King the Property and Soveraignty of his Duchy of Lorain and Bar. The most learned Genealogists draw the Origine of the House of Lorain from above 2000 years It descends from Echinoal Maire of the Palace under Clovis the Second King of France 648. It 's the same Family with that of Austria at present Its Princes repair not to the Diets of the Empire fearing lest they should not have that place allow'd them which they pretend to conformable to their Birth The Dutchy of Bar is a Fief holding of the Crown of France The chief Towns of Lorain are NAncy Mireout Luneville Spinal Remiremont Diuze Valdegrange Rosieres Neufchatel c. Those of the Dutchy of Bar BAr le Duc S. Mihiel Pont-Amousson Stenay Estein Vizelise Moyenvic Commerci Pont-Amousson has the title of University its principal Founder was Prince Charles the Third The Country Messin contains a great many Towns Burroughs Villages Hamlets Castles c. At Luneville near Rosieres there is a fair House of Pleasure belonging to the Dukes of Lorain Mausoleums of the Dukes of Lorain THeir Tombs are in divers Abbeys to wit in that of Clairlieu Clairfountain Beaupre and since these three hundred years at Nancy at S. Georges and at the Cordeliers There are in Lorain four famous Abbeys of Ladies Canonesses to wit of Remiremont Epinal Poussai and Boussiere these Ladies may marry themselves excepting the Abbesses and others of the chief they are of Noble extraction Lorain is very fertile both in Corn Wine and Pasturage it brings forth good Horses and divers Animals Venison is almost as common as Beef in a great many Butchers stalls Fish abound there by reason of the River Maes and other Rivers very full of them as the Moselle the Sare the Meurte and the Selle This issues from the Pond Indre of which the Carps alone bring its Master once in three years 16000 Livres of Rent as it has been attested to me by some of the chief Officers of the late Prince Charles the Fourth The other Ponds are considerable there are four or five of this greatness If Switzerland has great Lakes Lorain has Ponds very full of Fish A Lake is distinguisht from a Pond or Marsh that the first is a deep water and has Springs which never dry and a Pond is a gathering together of waters more subject to diminish Ponds are emptied but not Lakes This Country has Salt-works of a great revenue Rosieres Dieuze Marsal Moyenvic Salone and Chasteau are places of Salt-works and
Camps and Armies and Colonel-General of the French Cavalry is recommendable for his famous Exploits and for the important Victories that he has gained over the Enemies of the State and more in this happy day that renouncing the Errour in which he was born and in which he had lived he embraced with a sincere heart the Catholick Faith which leads to Eternal Salvation the Church Militant has not had less joy than the Triumphant Though Learning was familiar to this Prince and that he has been heard to say very convincing things for the proof and maintaining of Catholick Truths the Church is obliged to Cardinal de Boâ—illon his Nephew for having contributed to so illustrious a Conquest Italian Princes were heard to say to his Highness at his promotion to the Cardinalship La promotion di vestra Altezza al Cardinalato Colmo d'honore il Sacro Collegio I shall not omit that if the said Henry de la Tour left the Earth the Twenty first of July 1675. to rest from his labours being killed by a Cannon-shot near Satzbach as he went to take a view of a Post of the Imperial Army to the end to give it Battle after the loss of so great a Man the King to comfort himself made Nine Marshals of France the Count d'Estrade the Duke de Navailles the Count de Schomberg the Duke de Duras the Duke de Vivonne the Duke de la Feüillade the Duke de Luxembourg the Marquess de Rochefort and the Count de Lorge His Majesty honour'd them with the dignity of the Marshals staff the Thirtieth of July of the same year of Vicount Turenne's death The Ancientest Mâ—rshâ—ls of France living Anno 1680. are these THe Marshal Duke de Villeroy the Marshal Duke de la Ferte-Seneterre the Marshal de Crequi the Marshal de Bellefond and the Marshal d'Humieres these three last are of the penultimate Promotion The Marshal de Rochefort dyed An. 1676. he quitted the life Military for the glorious The Ministers and Secretaries of State. IF the King be the Soul of the Monarchy his Ministers are the Organs by which he works His Majesty has carried the glory of France to so high a point that it may hope all things and its Enemies fear all Its Ministers and Secretaries of State are indefatigable in their pretious vigilancy and in the cares they take for the rest of the Kingdom They have all signalized themselves their spirit is filled with lights so shining that there is no cloud that they do not pierce nor no Forreign or Domestick Factions which they do not dissipate and subvert their experience is universal A very famous Preacher who is an Archbishop Preaching in Sorbon on the day of St. Vrsula the Patroness Feast of that Colledge in the presence of Anne of Austriche Queen of France said that Cardinal Richlieu had the Spirit of the Prophet Elias and Cardinal Mazarine that of the Prophet Elizeas I believe that these have the Spirit of Elias and Elizeas Richlieu and Mazarine Nor is it to be wondred at all their lights being but necessary and favourable emanations of the great splendour of the Sun who animates and enlightens them The Chancellour MEssire Michael de Tellier Chevalier Chancellour and Keeper of the Seals of France Commander of the Kings Orders Lord of Chavilles Barbezieux and other places excels in Councel Understanding and Integrity he is consummated in the decision of affairs of greatest difficulty Italy has been the Theater of his great Actions as well as France For this reason Loüis the Thirteenth made him Secretary of State and Loüis the Fourteenth Created him Chancellour and Keeper of the Seals for the faithful and important Services that he has rendred his Majesty for above thirty six years in the functions of Minister and Secretary of State. He has the esteem of all great persons and the applause of the people his Memory will be preserved eternally in the Chronicles of France The Arms of his House are Three Lizards which are friendly to Man. That which renders particularly eminent the Office of Chancellour which this person possesses is that he is Chief Minister of the Kings Justice and of his Councel it is he who like another Legislatour Moses ascends into the Mountain he enters into the Cloud which environs the Throne of his Prince where the Rayes and Lightning of Royal Majesty display themselves and where he receives the Laws and Ordinances which he afterwards pronounces to all the people He never wears Mourning because in some sort he deposes his own person to represent for the future nought but Justice it being not decent for this vertue which is wholly Divine to shew a feeling of humane infirmities He has for exteriour mark of his high dignity on his Scutcheon a Cap of Honour of Cloth of Gold faced with Ermines topt with the figure of a Queen the Hieroglyphick of France with the Scepter in the right hand and the Seals of the Kingdom in the left behind the Scutcheon two great Maces of Silver gilt plac'd in Saltier with a Mantle like those of the Dukes and Peers of France adorned with rayes of Gold towards the top and lined with Ermins which encompass all the Scutcheon The door-keepers of the Chancery-Court carrying a Mace of Silver gilt on their Shoulders march before him and the other door-keepers in order In the Book entituled l'Estat de la France Printed An. 1678. pag. 199. I found these following Lords ranged in this following manner as I place them If I have not well followed the order there will be no contest betwixt them for precedency each of them knowing very well his right and duty they teaching them to others M. de la Vrilliere MEssire Loüis Phelipeaux Chevalier Lord of Vrilliere Marquess of Chasteaux-Neuf on Loire and of Tanlai Count de S. Florentin Baron de Hervi and the ancientest Secretary of State was Sworn to his Office An. 1629. He has a great zeal for the welfare of the Church the general affairs of the pretended Reformed Religion are committed to him and many others Languedoc the County of Foix Guienne Rovergne and Quercy Broüage and the Country of Aunis Touraine Anjou le Main and le Perche Normandy Burgundy and Brest and all that is under his charge gives testimony of his Vertue and Merit He has a Son who possesses the See of the Patriarchal Archiepiscopal and private Church of Bourges Messire Pierre Balthazar Phelipeaux de la Vrilliere Marquess of Chasteau-Neuf who has the Reversion of the place of Secretary of State and of the Kings Orders treads in the glorious footsteps of his Father the marks which he daily gives are proofs of what he will be hereafter M. de Louvois MEssire Francois Michel de Tellier Chevalier Marquess of Louvois and of Courtanvau Councellor in ordinary to the King in his Councels Chancellour of his Orders Minister and Secretary of State and of his Majesties commands Vicar-General of the Order of Nostre
Bertius this Speculum Salutis whereof each Page was made on a Frame or Table engrav'd or cut as it were and not with separated Characters composing apart the syllables words and lines The Parthians wrought their Letters on Linnen-cloath after the manner of Embrodery The Invention of Powder and Cannon is more ancient it was invented An. 1354. We shall speak of it elsewhere The Archbishop and Elector of Treves JOhn Hugo de Dorsbec Archbishop of Treves and Bishop of Spire Prince and Elector of the Empire Governour of Prumb and President of Weisembourg Catholick He stiles himself Grand Chancellor of the Gaules and of the Kingdom of Arles He resides at Wilich He succeeds Charles Gasper Van Derleyen Coblens and Hermenstein are very strong places by reason of their scituation on the joyning of the Rhine and the Moselle they belong to his Electroal Highness It is said that the Revenue of this Archbishoprick may go yearly at eleven or twelve hundred thousand Livres The Archbishoprick comprehends twenty four Bailiwicks The Chapter is compos'd of sixteen Capitulary Canons none but Gentlemen are receiv'd Princes and Earls are receiv'd with difficulty This Elector and that of Cologne take their Seats alternatively when the Emperour is not present this alternation is made from week to week successively The three Ecclesiastical Electors are no longer deem'd Chancellors onely titular to the Kingdoms of France Arles Austrasia and Italy The 30th of August 1670. Christopher de la Fosse a Fleming of the Town of Mons having stil'd the Elector of Treves amongst his Titles Archchancellor of France and the Kingdom of Arles in a Thesis which he was to defend at Paris for his Doctorship he was hindred from defending the said Thesis Another good Writer has observ'd that when this Elector is call'd Grand Chancellor of the Gauls this is understood of the Country which the Roman Emperours possessed within the bounds of the ancient Gaul on this side the Rhine which was call'd formerly the Kingdom of Arles Treves call'd in Latin Augusta Trevirorum was built as Aeneas Sylvius relates in the time of the Patriarck Abraham 2000 years before the Incarnation by Trebeta Son of Ninus King of the Assyrians who being driven from the Kingdom by his Step-mother Semiramis came and built this Town on the Moselle Alstedius says its founder was Trevir Son of Man King of Germany This place has been a Theatre of War having been taken and retaken in our time It has had 101 Bishops and Archbishops from S. Eucher to John Hugo de Dorsbec Popo was its first Archbishop The blessed Rhenanus assures us L. 3. de rebus Germanicis that the Church of Mayence and that of Cologne were formerly under that of Treves It s Vniversity is the most ancient of Germany The Archbishop and Elector of Cologne MAximilian Henry of Bavaria Archbishop of Cologne Bishop and Prince of Liege and Bishop also of Hildesheim Prince and Elector of the Empire Grand Chancellor of Italy and Legate ex officio of the Apostolick See has many other Titles Catholick His Arms are those of the House of Bavaria hereafter mention'd This Prince came into the World An. 1622. the 8th of October he succeeds his Uncle by the Father side Ferdinand of Bavaria of whom he was made Coadjutor An. 1643. and consecrated Archbishop by Fabius Chigi Nuncio to Pope Innocent the Tenth for the Peace of Munster who has since been Pope under the name of Alexander the Seventh The Archbishoprick has in its Arms a Cross Sable in a Field Argent Bona on the Rhine is the ordinary place of Residence of the Archbishop his Revenue from the Archbishoprick arises to six or seven hundred thousand Crowns The Chapter of the Cathedral Church is compos'd of twenty four Canons who are all Princes or at least Earls bare Gentlemen are not admitted there The day that the Archbishop takes possession of the Archbishoprick the Town though it be Imperial does him Homage in these terms We free Citizens of Cologne promise this day for this day and the days to come to N. our Archbishop of Cologne to be faithful and friendly to him as long as he shall preserve us according in our Rights Honour and ancient Priviledges we our Wives our Children and our Town of Cologne So help us God and his Saints The Archbishop obliges himself reciprocally in these terms We by the grace of God Archibishop of the holy Church of Cologne Elector and Archcancellor of the Empire in Italy to the end that there may be an amicable Consideration an entire Confidence and a sincere and inviolable Peace betwixt us and our dear Citizens and Town of Cologne do declare by these present Letters that we have promis'd and assur'd and do promise and assure in good Faith and without Fraud that we confirm all the Rights and Franchises written or not written old or new within and without the Town of Cologne which have been granted it by Popes Emperours Kings or the Archbishops of Cologne which we will never countervene In testimony of which we have set the Seal of our Arms to these Presents the c. The Archbishop was oblig'd to come every year to Cologne on Twelf-day and the Town gave him four hundred Florins of Gold with a hundred measures of Oats which he lost if he came not There has been a composition since for this Rent by a new agreement When he comes there he cannot stay there above three days together unless he has permission from the Burgomasters and the number of persons which he brings there with him is limited He keeps in the Town a Magistrate who judges criminal Processes assisted with two Sheriffs The People of the Country call this Town Collen The Empress Agrippina Julia Wife of the Emperour Claudius having been born there and peopled it with Romans gave it its name since that time it is call'd Colonia Agrippina Trajan was chosen Emperour there It is said amongst the Germans that he who has not seen Cologne has not seen Germany Qui non vidit Coloniam non vidit Germaniam This Proverb supposes it to be very famous Ammianus Marcellinus calls it Vrbem ampli nominis munitissimam amplam copiosam The Rhine gives it the figure of a Bow or of a Crescent because it bends it self there by reason of some Banks which are carefully kept The French took it under Childeric the First and it continued in their hands to the Emperour Otho the First who restor'd it again to the Empire amongst the Free and Hans-Towns It has for Devise Colonia sidelis Romanae Ecclesiae filia and for Arms three Crowns Or. It has a great number of Churches and other beautiful Edifices Good Walls and double Trenches environ it It s ordinary Guard is of three hundred Waloons or Germans In the Metropolitan Church which is consecrated under the name of S. Peter and the three Kings called vulgarly the Dome are shewn the three Heads or Sculls being very black of
the three Kings or Magi who adored the Son of God in the Manger and it is believ'd that they are there entire The Church of St. Vrsula is famous by reason of the eleven thousand Virgins cast by a Tempest on the coasts of Germany There are seen an infinite number of bones all round the walls of the Quire in high Cupboards and many Tombs in the body of the Church and on an Altar many heads of silver where is that of St. Vrsula The Colledge of Sorbonne a Member of the faculty of Divinity of Paris has for Patronesses this holy Daughter of a King and her Companions Cardinal Baronius says in his Annotations on the Roman Martyrologie that the true History of these Virgins is lost thence it comes that we find many uncertain things of it Mr. Joli Canon of the Church of Paris has said remarkable things of it in his Book entituled A Voyage made to Munster in Westphalia and many other neighbouring places An. 1646 and 1647. Printed by Francis Clauzier Father Boussingault in his Guide of the Low Countries p. 101. and 219. says that the Church St. Mary of the Capitol has two Bodies and two Quires in the one of which the Canons say their Office and in the other the Canonesses where the one being on one side and the others on the other they sing the Praises of God. There is a like thing practis'd at Nivelle in Brabant the Canons come on certain days of the year into the Church of the Canonesses to sing with them The Abbess as Lady spiritual and temporal of the Town of Nivelle it being of her Jurisdiction presides in the Chapter the Canons and Canonesses joyntly confer the Benefices which are vacant by the death or by the marryage of the Canonesses The Ladies wear in the Church a Rochet with a black Mantle over it which trains on the ground a starcht Linnen-cloath on their arm instead of the Aumusse or the furr'd Ornament worn by Canons and a Couvre-chef on their head St. Bruno Founder of the Charthusians was born at Cologne and Mary de Medicis dyed there the third of July 1643. In the same year dyed Loüis the Thirteenth and Cardinal Richelieu Cologne has had eighty Bishops and Archbishops from Matternus to Maximilian Henry of Bavaria seventeen Bishops preceded there the Metropolitans St. Agilulfe was its first Archbishop Pope Zachary declar'd this Church Metropolitan An. 744. The Suffragans are Munster Minden and Osnaburg An Observation on the three Ecclesiastical Electors YOu must observe that the three Ecclesiastical Electors have no Passive Voice in the Assemblies of Election that is to say they cannot nominate themselves Emperours they may nominate and give their Suffrages for others but not for themselves it having not been judg'd proper that one and the same head should wear the Miter and the Imperial Crown and one and the same hand carry the Cross and the Sword and to the end that since they cannot arrive at the Crown they may keep the other Electors within the bounds of their devoir Another Observation on the Lay Electors THe Secular Electors may nominate themselves Sigismond of Luxembourg King of Bohemia nominated himself after the death of Robert of Bavaria and the other Electors acknowledging his merit gave him unanimously their Voices and Suffrages The Ecclesiastical Electors are elected by their Chapters who may exercise the Archiepiscopal Functions during the vacancy of the See but not the Electoral The Electoral Habit. THe Electoral Habit comes near that of the Presidents of Soveraign Courts That of the Ecclesiastical Electors is of Scarlet Cloath and that of the Lay Electors is of Crimson Velvet They are all lin'd with Hermines as likewise their Cap. There are some of them to be seen drawn at large with their ceremonial Habits in one of the fairest and richest Galleries of Duke Mazarin formerly belonging to the Cardinal of this name The King of Bohemia instead of the Electoral Cap wears a Royal Crown on his head You must observe that An. 1673. the Town of Cologne was chosen to treat there of a Peace betwixt the Kings of France and of Great Britain and the Hollanders and the Assembly was held at the Convent of the Carmelites a place very convenient His most Christian Majesty sent thither for his Plenipotentiaries the Duke of Chaulne and the Sieurs Courtin and de Barillon who arriv'd there the first the King shewing that he would not retard the work of Peace where so many Princes concern'd themselves though loaded with Victories They were followed by three Embassadours of Sweden who had a deference of Honour from all the rest they being then in quality of Mediators Two Plenipotentiaries came afterward from England and they expected for third the Earl of Sunderland chief of the Embassie During his absence Sir Joseph Williamson perform'd for him Those of Holland came to the number of four and afterward the Plenipotentiaries of Spain who had no other quality but of Envoys The Elector of Cologne had one Embassadour Prince William of Fustemberg the Elector of Brandenburg sent thither the Baron of Zminzin who had a Colleague The Emperour deputed the Baron d'Isola and others and the Bishop of Munster sent two there He was one of the Parties concern'd This Illustrious Assembly had no success because the seizing and carrying away by force the person of Prince William of Furstemberg by the Imperialists though vested with the character of Plenipotentiary in a place which ought to be a Sanctuary oblig'd his most Christian Majesty considering the Laws of Nations violated to recal his Nimegen was since made choice on for renewing the Conferences of the general Peace The Duke de Vitry the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissi and the Sieur de Mesmes Count of Avaux were appointed Plenipotentiaries of France Anno 1675. Marshal d' Estrade succeeded the Duke de Vitry. The 11th of August 1677. the Bishop and Prince of Gurc chief of the Embassie of Germany for the Conferences of the Peace arrived at Nimegen accompanied with Count Kinski and with Sieur Straman his Colleagues who went before him All the other Plenipotentiaries repair'd thither The Estates of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries appointed for their Plenipotentiaries the Sieur Hieromy Beverning Lord of Teylingen Curator of the University of Leiden the Sieur William of Nassau Lord of Odik Cortegene c. and the Sieur William Haren Grietman du Bildt The Treaties of Peace and of Commerce Navigation and Maritime affairs betwixt France and the States General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries were concluded at Nimegen the 10th of August 1678. In the same year the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain was sign'd and the year following 1679. that of France and of the Emperour whereof we have spoken elsewhere The Elector and King of Bohemia THe King of Bohemia one of the seven Electors formerly the Emperours great Cup-bearer is at present the Emperour himself Cath. His Arms
Valencia three Compostella fifteen Taragon seven Toledo has two hundred thousand Piasters yearly Sevil eighty Sarragossa fifty thousand Burgos thirty thousand Grenada thirty thousand Valencia thirty thousand Compostella twenty four thousand Taragon sixteen thousand The Bishoprick of Ciguenca brings fifty thousand Piasters and Cadiz twelve thousand The Archbishopricks and Bishopricks have a great Revenue in Spain If the number of Archbishopricks be there small it is very great in the Estates of Naples which are possess'd by his Catholick Majesty it is true that these here are very much limited in the extent of Country and in their Rents as in the rest of Italy excepting the Archbishoprick of Milan Naples and Messina They count in the Kingdom of Naples twenty Archbishopricks and a hundred twenty seven Bishopricks Pope Adrian the Fourth granted to the Kings of Spain in the person of Charles the Fifth of whom he had been Tutor the Right of Nomination to Bishopricks and other Consistorial Benefices they have the Nomination but of some in the Kingdom of Naples The same Pope Adrian a Spaniard gave the Conquest of the New World to the Kings of Spain wherein other Nations do not agree Atabalipa one of the Kings of Peru call'd the Incas being told that this Pope had given the King of Spain his Country said with a laughter Who is that man who gives that which belongs to another This Incas being taken Prisoner by the Spaniards offered for his liberty a Chamber full of Gold and pretious Stones which could not save his life Before he died he appeal'd to the Justice of the God of Christians Protector of the afflicted and innocent Pizarre has been blam'd every where for having caus'd him to be strangled he fear'd that if he let him live he would be taken by force from him Philip the Second boasted that he comprehended the course of the Sun within his Dominions by reason of America because the Sun shines there always when it is set in Europe A Grandee of Spain having said on a day to this Prince that a year before the Emperour Charles the Fifth had left to him his Crowns he replied that it was a year since also that he repented of it The said Philip died of the Lowsie Disease after having lost the Kingdom of Tunis and Holland Pope Clement the Seventh ended his life also by the same Disease caus'd through a great corruption Philip the Fourth fell much from his vast Dominion by the loss of Portugal with all its dependancies in the East and West and after the seizure of Jamaica by the English Spain was extreamly dispeopled by the Expulsion of the Moors and Jews it was farther emptied to stock the Indies and these Dominions being disperst in many places cannot easily be reliev'd Its Mountains are barren and its Women not very fertile The Spaniards are grave in their walk and discourse This makes me think of a pleasant passage related by a modern Author he says that a Buffoon with his ridiculous Gestures and Expressions having on a day made the Queen laugh extreamly at Table it was said to her that a Queen of Spain ought to be serious This Princess who was in her Orient newly come from Germany answer'd that they should then take away that Fellow from before her eyes if they would not have her laugh The Spanish Nation has the repute of making Rodomontadoes the following is not mean made by an Officers a Prisoner of War in France Loüis the Thirteenth having askt him wherefore the King of Spain went not to the Wars as the Kings of France he answered with an Exclamation Ho it is not necessary if the King my Master went to the Army he would make the whole Earth to tremble The Spaniards are fit for holding a long Siege because being sober they endure hunger and thirst a long time They fear much the English wherefore they have said La Guerra con toto il Mundo y la pace con los Inglesos War against the whole World and Peace with the English because they are better Souldiers than them on the Sea. All men are not fit for the Sea. There grows not much Corn in Spain because the Lands are ill cultivated France and Sicily are its its Granaries and of the Low Countries Its Mines of Andalusia Estramadura Grenada Murcia and of some other places are very famous They embark at Malaga the Wine of Grenada which is brought to Paris at Alicant that of Murcia and at Cadiz that of Andalusia The white-Wine is there better than the Claret Arragon and Castille produce not much Wine that of Portugal is almost of a Crimson colour Their Oyls of Olives their Woolls their Silks their Horses and their Mines are very considerable The Castilian Language is the finest of all Spain Charles the Fifth said that if he were to speak to God he would speak in the Spanish Tongue by reason of its Gravity to Men in French to Ladies in Italian to Horses in the German Some Castilians have dar'd to say either through a gayness of Spirit or as a Rodomontado that God spake Castilian to Moyses on Mount Sinai They speak grossly in Galicia Agrippa describing the Humour of four chief Nations of Christendom says among other things that in their singing The Spaniards Groan The Italians Bleat The Germans howl The French Quaver The 27th of Decem. 1676. the King of Spain writ a Letter to Don Juan by which his Catholick Majesty signified to him that he judg'd it convenient to have him near him to assist him with his Counsel It is coucht in these terms according to an Extract taken from the London-Gazette of the fifth of Feb. 1677. The Copy of the Letter of the King of Spain writ to Don John of Austria DOn Juan of Austria my Brother of the Council of State Governour and Captain-General of the Spanish Low Countries and Commander General of all our Sea-Forces the Affairs of this Monarchy being at present in such a condition that I find my self oblig'd to seek all sorts of ways for setling them as they ought to be and having considered that you are therein so very much interessed and that I must impart to you the greatest part of my Resolutions I propos'd to my self to require you to repair hither without any delay to assist me in a juncture so important it 's what I promise my self from the zeal which I have always found in you for the good of the State. God keep you in his protection as I wish From Madrid the 24th of Decem. 1676. EGO REX By the Command of our Lord the King D. Hierom de Eguia The Copy of the Letter of the Queen-Mother to Don John. THe King my Son has resolv'd as you may understand by the Letter which he has written to you that you repair hither as soon as may be to assist him in the administration of the Affairs of the Monarchy and I may tell you that there is nothing which can please me more than to see you embrace the direction with all the diligence which the juncture of affairs requires In which I shall rely on your zeal and good intentions assuring you that for as much as shall be in my power I shall always use my endeavours for procuring you all satisfaction From Madrid the 27th of Decem. 1676. The Answer of Don Juan to the Queens Letter Not doubting but your Majesty sees the Answer which I have made to the Letter of the King my Brother whom God preserve it would be to no purpose for me to repeat it to you assuring your Majesty that you never may have had nor never will have any person who wishes and wishes again to your Majesty with a more sincere intention that which I take God to witness to be most beneficial and advantageous for the service of your Majesty At whose feet I cast my self praying God to maintain your Majesty a long uninterrupted course of years in Posterity From Sarragossa the first of Jan. 1671. In the same year the Marquess de Villa Seria lost the Kings Favour His Catholick Majesty arriv'd at Sarragossa accompanied with Prince Don Juan the Duke Medina Coeli Great Chamberlain the Constable of Castille Great Steward of the Kings Household the Count de Talaras the Duke de Montery and with Count d'Arcot The Queen was in her Government of Toledo Some time afterward the new Corrigidor of Madrid or the chief Governour of the Polity for remedying the inconveniencies which ordinarily happen in the night ordain'd the seventh of October conformably to what has been practis'd of late years at Paris and at Amsterdam for the publick good that for the future there should be expos'd throughout the whole Town of Madrid Lights in the Streets by the means of Lanterns and ordered that from five to five houses there should be a Light for which the five houses should contribute proportionally This Sentence has been put in execution At the beginning of the year 1678. the Council gave sentence in the case of Don Ferdinand of Valenzuela Marquess of Villa Seria who was condemn'd to a perpetual banishment and sent to the Philippine Islands Intelligence was given An. 1680. that the King of Spain call'd him back from banishment from the Islands where Don Juan had caus'd him to be banisht The 17th of September Don Juan of Austria natural Son of the late King Philip the Fourth died being fifty years of age His Body was carried to the Escurial This Prince died at the same hour the same day and the same month as the late King his Father 1666. He was a great Captain fearless in War a man of great Reservation a great Minister of State penetrating all things and neglecting nothing The Kings Marriage CHarles the Second King of Spain being given to understand that the King of France had granted him the Princess Mary Louise of Orleans for Spouse made extraordinary Rejoycings at Madrid all the Town appear'd in fire for many days the People cryed with a loud voice That France had always giv'n them good Queens At their Arrival the Patriarch of the Judges gave their Catholick Majesties the second Benediction The 13th of January 1680. the Queen of Spain made her publick and solemn Entrance at Madrid FINIS