of it is to be seen the Bridge of Loyang over the River Loyang 360 Perches long about one and an half broad so curiously contrived with great Pillars instead of Arches and so finely imbellished with Sculptures as no where to find a Parallel in the World Cividad del Roy Philippo a Colony of Spaniards planted in Magellanica at the Mouth of the Streights of Magellan but dissipated by Famine again it being far remote from their Countries and seldom visited Civita Nova a small Town in the Marcha Anconitana in Italy 5 or 6 Miles from Loretto and near the Adriatick upon a Hill dignified with the Title of a Dukedom Civita Busella Bucellum a Town in the hither Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples upon the River Sangro Civita Vecchia a famous Port in S. Peter's Patrimony in Italy believed by some to be the Centum Cellae of the Antients Civitella a Town in the farther Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples upon a Rock with the River Librata at the Foot of it Besieged by the French in 1557. under the Duke of Guise in vain Clagenfurt Clagenfurtum Claudia the Capital Town of the Dutchy of Carinthia in Germany â— Leagues from the River Drave and the same Distance from S. Veir There is a great Lake near it It is a fortified Town See Klagenfurt Clain Clanis Clitis a River of the Province of Poictou in France which having received the Vonne the ClouÌ„ere c. passes by Poictiers and loses its Name at length in the Vienne below Chasteleraud Clairvaux Clarevallum a famous Abbey of Champaigne upon the River Aube in the Diocese of Langres 5 or 6 Leagues from the said City Founded in the Year 1115. by the Great S. Bernard Himself being the first Abbot Who left above â—00 Religious in it at his Death Hence the Title of Abbas Clarevallensis given that very Divine Person Clare Clarence Clarentia a Country-Village in the County of Suffolk upon the River Stour which divideth Essex from Suffolk about 6 Miles West of Sudbury It had once a Castle but now ruined yet famous for the great Men who have born the Titles of Earls or Duke of it The last of which was George Duke of Clarence Brother to Edward IV. King of England who in 1421. was drowned in a Butt of Malmesey The second King at Arms retains the Surname of Clarencieux as appertaining formerly to the Dukes of Clarence At present the Title of Earl of Clare is in the Family of Hollis § There is also a Town and County in the Province of Connaught in Ireland of this Name the former standing near the Fall of the River Fergus into the Shannon Clarendon or Clarindon is a Noble Country House and Park belonging heretofore to the Kings of England about 2 Miles North of Salisbury in Wiltshire Famous of old for a Parliament here held in 1164. where were made the Constitutions of Clarindon Charles II. of blessed Memory added a new and lasting Honor to this Place when April 20. 1661. three Days before his Coronation he created the Loyal Edward Hide late Lord Chancellor Earl of Clarâ—ndon Viscount Cornbury c. who dying at Roüen in Normandy in 1674. was succeeded by Henry his eldest Son a Person of great Virtue and Goodness Clarentia or Clarenza a Country in the Morea described to contain the antient Achaia properly so called Sicyonia and Corinth Heretofore renowned under particular Dukes of its own The capital City bears the same Name of Clarenza Claros a mountainous Island of the Aegean Sea consecrated in antient times to Apollo Called at present Calamo § The Name of Claros is likewise born by a Town now unknown but mentioned we find amongst the Antients as belonging to the Colophonii in Ionia Apollo having had an Oracle in it and his Attribute thence deriv'd of Clarius Deus Claven Cleven Clavenna a small City in the Valtoline with an Earldom call'd by the Germans the Graffschaft von Cleven This City stands 5 Leagues from the Lake that bears its Name to the North upon the River Maiera called by the French Chiavenne Clausenbourg Claudipolis called by the Inhabitants Coloswar is the principal Town in Transylvania great populous and ennobled with an antient Castle All the Publick Affairs of that Principality are transacted and Justice administred here It stands upon the River Samosch nine German Miles from A'ba Jùlia North and fifteen from Waradin East The Duke of Lorrain put into it an Imperial Garrison Oct. 19. 1687. upon Articles agreed in a peaceable manner by the Magistrates and Governor for the late Prince Abafti Clay a Market-Town in the County of Norfolk and the Hundred of Holt. Clazomenae the Birth-place of the Philosopher Anaxagoras an antient City of Ionia in Asia Minor built in the Year of Rome 98. upon the Aegeun Sea betwixt Smyrna and Chio. Clebuâ—g Mortimer a Market-Town in Shropshire in the Hundred of Stottesden Clerac or Clairac a Town in the County of Agennois in Guyenne in France 4 Leagues from Agen and the same Distance from Nerac It stands upon the River Lot which a little below falls into the Garonne And has a famous Abbey in it Clermont en Argene a Town in the Dukedom of Bar upon the River Ayr four Leagues from Verdun West and seven from Barleduc North-East This belongeth to the Duke of Lorrain but in 1654. was taken from him and annexed to the Crown of France It is honoured with the Title of an Earldom Clermont en Auvergne Arvernae Claromons Claromontium the principal City of the Province of Auvergne and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourges It stands upon a declining ground in a Territory called Limaigne which is very fruitful upon the River Tiretaine twenty Leagues South of Moulins and twenty five East of Limoges Here was a General Council celebrated in 1095. under Pope Vrban II. in which the Croisade for the recovery of the Holy Land was concluded and Godfrey of Bouillon declared General of the same Also Philip I. King of France was excommunicated until his repentance for Adultery This is thought to have arisen out of the Ruines of Gergovia an old Roman Town It is honoured with the Title of an Earldom belonging to the Crown ever since the Union of Auvergne with the Crown Clermont on Beauvais a Town in the Isle of France five Leagues South of Beauvais in the North-East Border of that County The Earldom of this place is famous for giving a beginning to the Royal House of Bourbon in the Person of Robert of France Earl of Clormont en Beavais the Son of St. Lewis Clermont de Lodeve a Town in Languedoc upon the River Lorgue four and twenty Leagues from Avignon West So distinguished because standing in the Diocese of Lodeve It gives Name to an Honourable Family and is beautified with a Collegiate Church a Cattle and some Monasteries § There are other Clermonts in this Kingdom One in Danphine in the Territory of Viennois giving the Title of an Earldom
the name of Baden The Original of the Noble Family now possessed of this Honor was from the Duke of Zering for Bertholdus I. was the Father of Hermanaus the first Founder of this Family which is now divided into two Branches the one professing the Protestant and the other the Roman Catholick Religion of the later Branch comes the present Prince Lewis who since the Death of the Duke of Lorrain has been honored by the Emperor with the general Command of all his Forces in Hungary and obtained great Victories Baden Aquae Pannoniae a Town in Austria 3 Leagues from Vienna to the South seated at the foot of the Mountains Badenoch in Latin Badenochia is a County in the North of Scotland of a barren Soil full of Mountains divided in two by a great Lake and bounded by the Counties of Murray Ross and Athol Badenweiler a City in the Province of Brisgow in Germany between Friburg and Basil yet a part of the Marquisate of Baden and famous for Hot Baths Baeotia See Boeotia Baern See Berghen Baetica one of the 3 antient parts of Spain taking its name from the River Baetis which we now call Guadalquivir See Spain It s principal Cities were Sevil and Corduba From the time that Alphonsus King of Castile was defeated here by Aben Joseph K. of Morocco in the Year 1195. the Saracens possessed it unto the Reign of Ferdinand V. Baeza Biatia a City of Andalusia It was heretofore an Episcopal City under the Archbishop of Toledo but in 1249. its Bishoprick was united by Pope Innocent IV. to that of Jaen or Gaën Glenna This City was recovered from the Moors by Ferdinand King of Castile in 1227. It was a Roman Colony then called Vrbs Baetica Here is an University erected in 1538. and the Town is large and stands upon a Hill one League from the River Guadalquivir Baffin's Bay a Gulph extended from the 70th to the 80th deg of North Lat. in the Terra Australis of America discovered by an Englishman who gives his Name to it Baffo Paphos a City in the Island of Cyprus once famous now ruin'd Bagaloag a Town upon the Frontier of Bosnia in Dalmatia under the Turks Bagamidri a Kingdom in the upper Aethiopia lying along the Nile to the West It is ordinarily divided into 17 Provinces whereof some are large enough to be Kingdoms Bagaudes a People amongst the antient Gauls They revolted twice from the Romans at the end of the third and in the Fifth Century and were each time defeated Bagaya Bagy Vaga a City of Numidia in Africa The Emperor Justinian Wall'd it and new-nam'd it Theodora from his Empress In 394. the Donatist Bishops celebrated a Council here concerning the Cause of Primianus Bishop of Carthage Bagdat or Bagdet See Bachad Bagdasan Bactra a small City at the foot of Mount Caucasus seated in a fruitful Soil much celebrated in antient times now of no Note Bagnabar See Golconde Bagnarea Balneum regis Balneo regium Novem populi so called by the order of Desiderius King of the Lombards as Paulus Diaconus saith It is an Episcopal City in S. Peters Patrimony built upon a Hill near the Lake Bolsena it stands almost in the middle between Mount Fiascone and Orvieto from which last it is not above 6 Miles distant to the South In this Place S. Bonaventure who flourished in the twelfth Century with the Title of the Seraphical Doctor was born Bagneres a Town in the County of Bigorre in Gascony in France famous for its hot Baths till 1660. when that natural Fire which heated them was extinguished by an Earthquake as Brietius saith Bagni d'Abano Fontes Aponi Aquae Petavinae a place that has Baths in the Territory of Padoua in Italy Bagni di Salviati a place not far from Cuma where Cesar the Dictator had a Country House Bagni di Tritolino a place in Campania where Cicero had a Country House not far from Puteolum To these and divers other places in Italy they gave the Pre-names of Bagni from their Baths wherein the antient Romans delighted so that P. Victor reckons 800 of them in Rome only Bagrava Galesus a small River that springs from the Apennine Hills near the City Oria in the County of Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples and running Westward falls into the Bay of Taranto not far from that City which gives its Name This River is now commonly called Galeso Bahama an Island and the most rapid Channel in all America Eastward from Florida through which the Spanish Fleets pass to the Havana Baharen Ichara Tylus an Island in the Persian Gulph Others say it is Carge another Island in the same Gulph over against the mouth of the River Euphrates that the Ancients meant by these Names It is called by others Elchadr Bahar-Eunil one of the Branches of the Nile in Aethiopia Bahar-Zocoroph the Persian Gulph Bahar-Rumi the Mediterranean Sea Bahia de todos los Santos the same with S. Salvador in Brasil Bahuys Bahusium a strong Castle situated in a small Island made by the River Trolhetta which falls a little lower into the Baltick Sea It heretofore belonged to the Kingdom of Denmark but in 1658. was taken by the King of Sweden together with the County of the same Name It stands two Danish Miles from Gottenburg towards the North. This Castle was built by Hakin IV. King of Norway in 1309. surrendred by Treaty to the Swedes in 1660 who before were in Possession of it attempted by the Danes in 1678. but without any good Success The Province in which it lies is bounded on the East with West Gotlandt on the West by the Baltick Sea and by the County of Aggerhuis towards the North. It lies 100 Miles in length from the North to the South but it is not above 30 Miles broad and in many places but 15. It has besides the Castle I mentioned a Town called Malstrano This Territory was yielded to the Swedes by the Treaty of Roschild in 1658. Baja Baiae a City of Campania in Italy now ruined It was the delight of the antient Romans Separated from Pozzuoli by an Arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea about 2 Leagues over which the Emperor Caligula cover'd with a famous Bridge passing and repassing the same in Triumph The noble Rests yet extant discover that it has been a very magnificent Place Since the times of Christianity an Episcopal Chair was placed and settled in it till its ruine was effected by Earthquakes Bajaria Eleutherus a River of Sicily It falls into the Mediterranean Sea 8 Miles East of Palermo and the River Oreto on the Western side of the Island Baicadul Batancaesarea a City of the East-Indies within Ganges Baida a Region of Tartary the Desart See Badai Baieux a City and Bishops See under the Archbishop of Roan in Normandy in France upon the River Aure which a little lower buries itself under ground It stands not above 2 Miles from the Brittish Sea towards the South The College of Bajeux at
death for presuming to look into it according to the common Translations whereas Josephus S. Jerom Isidore Lyra Tostatus and Bochartus maintain the number of the slain was no more than 70. § There was another Bethlehem in the Tribe of Naphthali remark'd because the old Inhabitants the Canaanites were not driven thence as God had commanded Jud. 1. 33. And a third in the Tribe of Issachar at the foot of Mountain Carmel Bethulia an antient strong and great City in the Tribe of Zabulon in Galilee famous for the Siege laid to it by Holofernes and the Victory of Judith over his Army and him at one fatal blow Together with a Fortress formerly built by the Christians near Bethlehem Bethune a strong well built Town in Artois upon the River Biette 8 Leagues from Arras Atrebatum toward the North and 5 from Aire It has been under the French ever since 1645. when it was taken by them being ceded to them by the Pyrenean Treaty in 1659. This Town is raised to the Honor of a Marquisate Betley a Market-Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Pirehill Betlis a City of Armenia 10 days Journey from Diarbeker belonging to a Sovereign Bey or Prince who neither acknowledges the Grand Seignior nor the King of Persia but courted by both as being Master of a Country so situated betwixt Mountains and Rivers that he is able with 10 Men to defend the Passes against 1000 and intercept the Correspondence of Aleppo and Tunis at pleasure he can send into the Field above 20000 Horse and very good Infantry Bethsaida an antient Town of Palestine in Galilee in the Tribe of Zabulon near the the Lake of Genezareth S. Andrew and S. Philip the Apostles were born here Beveland an Island of Zeland in the United Netherlands rent asunder by a Tempest in 1532. from East to West and since divided into North and South Beveland Goes stands in this Island Beverly a Town in the East Riding of Yorkshire seated upon the West side of the River Hull about a Mile from it about 5 Miles North of Hull Camden supposeth it to be the old Petvaria Parisiorum though there be no signs of a great Antiquity now to be found One John Sirnamed de Beverly Archbishop of York a Pious and Learned Man in the esteem of Bede in his old Age resigned his Bishoprick and retired hither and in holy Meditations here died in 721. For the sake of this Holy Person the Saxon Kings gave great Privileges to this place particularly Athelstan by a Grant in these Words A is Free make I thee as Heart may think or Eye may see They had also a Sanctuary endowed with the largest Priviledges so that the Town grew great rich and populous governed at first by Wardens but Queen Elizabeth made it a Major Town It sends 2 Burgesses to the Parliament Beuray or Beureet a Town in the Territory of Autun in Burgundy in France supposed to be the Bibracte of Cesar where he once assembled the Deputies of all Gallia under him and oftentimes Wintered his Troops imparting his own name Julia to it Bewdley a Market-Town in Worcestershire in the Hundred of Doddington which sends one Burgess to the Parliament It stands upon the Severn near the Forest of Wire of particular Esteem in the Reign of Henry VII he building a House here for Prince Arthur called Ticken Hall Beux a Village near to Seignelay in the Province of Burgundy in France made lately remarkable by one Couallier surnamed the Phisician of Beux a Man born and educated amongst the meanest Employs of the Country yet he attained to so singular a Knowledge of all the Species of Diseases and Remedies without studying the Faculty in Books or Schools that not only Monsieur Colbert laid his obligations upon him to recide at Seignelay but from all parts they came to consult him so that he left to his Son at his Death an Estate of above 100000 Crowns Beziers Biterra Beterensis Civitas a great and antient City in the Province of Languedoc in France with the Dignity of a Viscounty and of an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Narbonne It was a Roman Colony in the times of Julius Cesar and Tiberius having afterwards 2 Temples built in it to the Honor of Julius and Augustus In the year 356. the Arians held a Council here against S. Hilary which occasioned his Banishment by the Emperor Constantius The Goths and Saracens successively ruined it In 1209. the Croisade cut off 10000 of its Inhabitants In 1233. a Council was assembled against the Albigenses at this place About the year 1247. it became united to the Crown of France whereas before it had been governed by its own Viscounts It stands upon the River Orb 2 Leagues from the Sea and 3 from Agde and had a Cittadel which was demolished in 1633. Biafara a Town and Kingdom in Guiney in Africa the former stands upon the River dos Camaornes the other that receives its name from it extends itself betwixt the Kingdom of Benni the Niger and the States of Congo Bialacerkiow Bialaceria a Town in the Palatinate of Kiovia in the Kingdom of Poland upon the River Ros ill built Bialogrod Arvis Hermonassa the principal Town of Bessarabia seated upon the Shoars of the Euxine or Black Sea 30 Miles from the North out-let of the River Danube called Moncastrum by the later Latin Writers Bialogrod by the Moldavians and Beligrad by the Turks under whom it is being taken by Bajazet II. in 1485. It lies 60 German Miles from Arhianople and 63 from Constantinople to the North. Biaur Biaurus a River in Rovergne in France Bibiena a Town in the Principality of Piedmont in Italy by some Authors esteemed to the be Forum Vibii of the Antients Bibrach Bibacum Bibracum a City in Schwaben in Germany seated upon a small River which a very little farther falls into the Riss which last falls into the Danube 2 German Miles above Vlm this City stands about 5 German Miles from Vlm to the North-West This is an Imperial City and takes its name from a Castor or Beaver Under Pepin King of France about 751. it was a Village but Frederick II. walled it For some signal Services performed under Maximilian I. the publick Arms of it were changed from a Crowned Castor or Beaver to a Crowned Lyon it obtained also from Maximilian II. the right of Sealing with Red Wax Long. 31. 51. Lat. 48. 00. Written sometimes Biberach and famous for the Mineral Waters they call the Waters of Jordan within its Territory Bicaner a Town in the County of Bacar in the East-Indies in the States of the Great Mogul understood by some to be the Bardeatis of the Antients Bicestre an antient Castle below the Village of Gentilly near Paris The name Bicestre is confessed to be but a Corruption of Winchester for from the time that John Bishop of Winchester made it his residence when the English had Conquered France it took the name of
Residence of the Spanish Governour of Flanders seated upon the Sinne and other Springs and Rivers which make it one of the sweetest Situations in Europe 8 Leagues from Antwerp to the South and 4 from Lovaine being partly in a Plain and partly on a Hill In the Cathedral Church of S. Gedulle they pretend to have an Host stabb'd sometime by a Jew in indignation at the supposed presence of the Body of Christ which shed Blood out of the Wound and the Jew they say immediately was struck with death Whereas the Life and Conversion of the Man had been a greater Proof of the miracle In Long. 25. 6. and Lat. 50. 50. § There is another small City of the same name in Germany in the Bishoprick of Spire Brutij an antient People of Italy descended originally from the Lacedaemonians They were distinguish'd into Cismontani and Tramontani possessing that part of Italy which we now call the further Calabria In the second Punick War they ran over to Hannibal whereby they lost their Reputation to that degree amongst the Romans that they could never afterwards get to be employ'd but in servilities and even their name became a Proverb for a despicable Generation of People living continually in meanness and shame Bruton a Market Town in Somersetshire the capital of its Hundred upon the River Brue The Lord Fitzharding has a noble Seat here Bua otherwise call'd Chiovo is an Island of Dalmatia near Spalatro under the Venetians It is very near to the Island of Troghir Bucephala Alexandria Bucephalos a Town in the Indies built by Alexander M. in honor of his Horse It is mentioned by Q. Curtius The Moderns suppose that it is the same with Lahor now See Lahor Buchs a small Principality within the Territory of Burgundy in France near Medoc belonging to the House of Foix and Candale Buckenham the New a Market-Town in Norfolk in the Hundred of Shropham Buckenburgh a small Town in Westphalia in Germany where the Counts of Lippe-Buckenburgh taking their Style from hence have a Palace Buckinghamshire Buckinghamia is divided on the South from Berkshire by the Thames on the North it hath Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire on the West Oxfordshire and on the East Hertfordshire and Middlesex a County very Fruitful and chiefly employed in Grazing The first Earl of this County was Walter Giffard a great Man amongst the Normans whose Son Walter died in 1164. In 1377. Richard II. conferred this Title upon his Uncle Thomas of Woodstock Humfry Earl of Stafford was the first created Duke of Buckingham in 1444. Edward the last of this Race was Beheaded in the Reign of Henry VIII in 1521. After which this Title lay vacant till 1623. when James I. created George Viscount Villiers Duke of Buckingham his Son George succeeded him who died April 16. 1687. without Issue and left the Title vacant On the North of the River Ouse in the North-west part of the County stands the Town of Buckingham which gives Name to the whole County It was Wall'd before the Conquest in 915. by Edward the Elder to secure it against the Danes in after times there was a Castle built here which is now intirely ruin'd the Town stands upon a low ground very commodious for Mills and incircled by the River on all sides but the North. And it is a Corporation and sends Two Burgesses to the Parliament Bnckor a Town and Kingdom in the States of the Great Mogul in the East-Indies The former stands upon the River Indus the other is bounded by the Kingdoms of Tattan to the South Multan to the North Hajacen and Persia to the West and Jesselmere to the East Buda Buda Heraclia Aquinum is the Capital of the Kingdom of Hungary call'd by the Turks Budun by the Germans Offen by the French Bude and by the Italians Buda Heretofore a very great and rich City till it fell into the hands of the Turks who ruin'd most of its stately Houses and Palaces it lies on the West side of the Danube over against Pest which is joyn'd to it by a Bridge of Boats and is divided into two parts the Upper and Lower between which there is the distance of a Mile the Lower Town is weak but the upper Town is by Nature one of the strongest Forts in the World and has a very strong Castle on the West side said to be built by one Buda the Brother of Attila King of the Huns and from him to have its Name In 1279. there was a Council held here under Pope Nicolas III. and Ladislaus III. King of Hungary It was much improved by Sigismund King of Hungary about the Year 1387. and adorned with many stately Buildings amongst the rest with a Castle where at first the Kings and afterwards the Turkish Visiers resided which was so strong that it was thought Impregnable The Successors of this Prince augmented this City and strengthened it with new Fortisications Solyman II. Emperor of the Turks took it first in 1526. Ferdinand the Arch-Duke of Austria retook it the next Year after In 1529 Solyman retook it again after the Garrison had stood eleven Aslaults and restored it to the Weywood of Transilvania who had lost it before Ferdinando in 1540. or 1541. attacked it again when Solyman coming the third time to relieve it raised the Siege and made himself Master of the place by a Stratagem and Surprise In 1598. Matthias the Arch-Duke again besieged it and after in 1601. again but with no Success In 1684. the Duke of Lorrain sat before it from July 14. to November 1. but was forced to rise and leave it this brave General in 1686. reinvested it June 15. and after a bloody defence made by the Governor took it by storm September 2. following though the Grand Visier stood and looked on with an Army of 50000 Men and was no way able to help him In the lower Town there is a Hot and a Cold Bath both adorned very much by the Turks who are great lovers of Baths it lies 49 German Miles from Belgrade to the North 54 from Vienna to the South Long. 42. 15. Lat. 47. 7. The Imperialists found in it 400 Peices of Artillery a Treasure of above 300000 Ducats and the antient Library of the Kings of Hungary augmented by Matthias Corvinus entire which last was ordered to be transported to Vienna Buddesdalc a Market-Town in Suffolk in the Hundred of Hartesmere Here there is a Grammar School endowed with certain Scholarships assigned to Cambridge Budoa Butua a City of Dalmatia upon the shoars of the Adriatick Sea which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Antivari well Fortified under the Dominion of the Venetians but it is small and has been severely handled by the Turks who took it in 1571. and were obliged soon after to return it to the Venetians again In 1667. it was almost ruined by an Earthquake This City lies ten Miles from Antivary to the West between the Gulph of Cattaro and that of Lodrin
that Agesilaus the Athenian General defeated the Boeotians in the year of Rome 359. In the third Century it became a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Athens Now a Miserable Village inhabited by none but Turks Coropa a Province in Guiana in South America between the River of Amazons and the Lake of Parymaea near the River of Coropatuba but not inhabited by any of our European Colonies Coronna Varonnum Adrobicum and vulgarly the Groyne a famous Sea-Port-Town on the North-West Shoar of Spain in Gallicia strong rich and full of people ten Miles from Compostella to the North and six from the Isle of Sisarga in Long. 8. 40. Lat. 44. 20. The Town stands upon a Peninsula and is almost surrounded by the Sea The Country affords excellent Iron Steel and several other Metals which cause the Port to be the more frequented Corozaim or Chorazim mention'd Matth. 11. 21. an ancient Town of Galilee in Palestine which was one of the ten that composed the Country of Decapolis It stood over against Capernaum upon the Banks of the River Jordan and near the Sea of Tiberias Corregio Corregium a great and populous Town in the Dukedom of Modena which had heretofore Princes of its own but in 1635. it came into the hands of the Duke of Modena it stands thirteen Miles from Regio to the North-East and twelve from Modena to the North between the Rivers of Navila West and Fossa Rossa East and has the honour of a good Castle Corsica called la Crose by the French and Corsega by the Spaniards is a considerable Island in the Mediterranean Sea in length from North to South 110 Miles in breadth 50 and its Circuit 280 100 Miles South from Genoua and 8 from Sardinia This Island has ever been ill inhabited by reason of the Asperity of a great part of it and the great difficulty of approaching it The Tusci or old Italians were the first Inhabiters of this Island who were conquered by the Carthaginians the Carthaginians yielded to the Tomans the Saracens followed these who finally in 1144. were subdued by the Genouese The Pisans and the Kings of Arragon have since contested with the Genouese but however that Republick has desended the place against all pretenders to this day There are five Episcopal Sees in it to wit Ajazzo Aleria Sagona Mariana and Nebio the three first under the Archbishop of Pisa the other of Genoua It is watered by the Rivers Liamon and Tavignan which both spring out of the Lake of Crena Bonifacio is its best Port and Basta the Capital Town There is a Cape call'd Corso which is the same with the Sacrum Promontorium of the Ancients Corschi the Name of a Numerous people in Persia living in Tents and descended from the Turks out of which the Sophy always composes his first Troops Corthestan Taurus Cortona Cortonium Corto a small but very ancient City in the Dukedom of Florence in Italy it lies on the Borders of the Estate of the Church and is a Bishops See made by Pope John XXII under the Archbishop of Florence four Miles from the Lake di Perugia to the North and fourteen from Arezzo to the South Corwey Corbeja Saxonica or Nova called by the French Corbie is a small City in West phalia which has an Abbey founded by S. Lewis King of France in 815. It lies upon the Weser nine Miles from Paderborne to the West Cosa Cosas a small River in the State of the Church which falleth into Garigliano Liris by Feretino and Veroli Cosano Cossano Cosa Cosanum a City of Calalabria in the Kingdom of Naples six Miles from the Gulph of Taranto and one and twenty from Rosano to the North. It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cosenza Cosenza Consentia the principal City of Calabria and one of the greatest in the Kingdom of Naples an Archbishops See seated in a fruitful Plain upon the River Crate which has belonging to it a strong Castle upon a Hill Alaricus XII King of the Goths died in this City In 1638. it suffered much by an Earthquake fourteen Miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea and thirty from Rossano to the West in Long. 40. 20. Lat. 39. 11. Cosir a City of Egypt upon the Red Sea written also Cossir Coslin Coslinum a Town in the Dukedom of Pomerania under the Dominion of the Duke of Brandenburgh upon a small River three German Miles from the Baltick Sea and six from Treptow to the East Heretofore the Seat of the Archbishop of Casmires but given from him by the Treaty of Westphalia to the present Possessor Cosmopolis a Town in the Isle of Elbe in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to the Duke of Florence which has a convenient and safe Port it lies over against Piombino twenty five Miles to the West Cosne Conoda Conium a small Town some place it in the Province of Beausse some in Nivernois upon the Loyre in France betwixt Nevers and Orleans often taken and retaken in the Civil Wars of the last Age there Cossa a ruined City on the Coast of the Tyrrbenian Sea six Miles from Orbitello to the East and seventy from Rome to the North destroyed by Charles the Great Ansidonia sprung out of its ruines which last is now in the Possession of the Duke of Florence Cossaques a Martial People inhabitants of the Province of Vkraine in Red Russia renowned for their great services done as well to Christendom in general as to the Crown of Poland in guarding the Frontiers of that Kingdom against the Tartars Nevertheless in some times guilty of great Revolts too which have occasion'd divers Treaties of Peace betwixt them and Poland They speak a Dialect of the Polonian Language and for Religion are a mixture of the Greek the Roman and the Protestant Churches Cosse a Seigniory in the Province of Maine in France near St. Susanne giving Name to a Family of Quality Cossaei an ancient People dwelling about a Mountain of Media whom Alexander the Great sacrificed to the Manes of his dear Ephaestion in a transport of Grief for his Death say Polybins and Diodorus Cossovia Campus Merulâ—â— a Plain in Bulgaria not very much exceeding Lincoln-Heath yet the Stage of great Actions Here the greatest Christian Army that was ever brought into the Field in Europe consisting of 500000 Men under Lazarus Despot of Servia fought with the Forces of Amurath I. and lost the day in which Battel Lazarus was slain and Amurath viewing the dead bodies was stabbed by Michael Cobloivitz a Christian Souldier left for dead in the field Amurath hath here a Funeral Monument to this day This happened in 1390. In the same Field was also fought that remarkable Battel between Huniades and Mahomet for three days together in which Huniades his Forces were beaten being very unequal in number This Plain is bounded by the Mountains of Negri to the South by the River Nesaus to the East by Nissa to the North and by Ibar to the West one hundred and thirty
and the Saal It divides into divers Portions some reaching Eastward towards Bohemia some towards Franconia to the West the Palatinate and Bavaria to the South and the Provinces of Thuringen and Voigtlandt to the North. It abounds particularly with Pine-Trees as its Name signifies in the High-German Language Eie Eifel a small Territory or District in the Dukedom of Juliers Eigues or Aigues Icarus Aigarus Eigarus a River arising amongst the Mountains of the Dauphinate in France towards the Territory of Gapansois thence passing by Nions and S. Tronquet discharging it self into the Rhone about the Borders of the Principality of Orange Eisleben Eislebia a small City in the Upper Saxony in the County of Mansfield upon a small River which falls into the Lake of Susse See one Mile East of Mansfield twenty two North-West of Dresden Luther was born here in 1483. and here died in 1546. Ekelenford Ekelenfordia a Town belonging to Denmark in the Dukedom of Sleswick It stands five Danish Miles from Flensborg to the South-East upon a Bay of the Baltick Sea called Ekrenforder hafen This Town took its Name from an old ruined Castle near it and is under the Duke of Holstein Gottorp Ekesio Ekesium a Town in the County of Smaland in Sweden four or five Leagues from the Lake Weler towards Ostrogothland Eladasagni Elbassan Dassar Daulia a City in the West of Macedonia on the Borders of Albania upon the River Spirnasse South of Scampi which River falls into the Ioman Sea between Durazzo to the North and Purgo to the South Elbassan stands sixty English Miles from Durazzo Elandia Lampia a small River in the Morea not taken notice of in the ancient or later Maps but it ariseth from a Mountain of the same Name in Arcadia Elba Aethalia Ilva the Isle of Elbe an Island in the Mediterranean Sea between Piombino in the Dukedom of Florence and the Isle of Corsica belonging to the Prince of Piombino but under the Protection of a Spanish Garrison at Porto Longone besides which the Grand Duke is possessed of a strong Town in it called Porto Ferrajo the Argoiis Portus of the Ancients but in the Maps Cosmopolis whereas indeed saith Baudrand there is no such Place as Cosmopolis in that Island It is forty Miles in Circuit inhabited by five or six Parishes and by Virgil applauded for Mines of Steel Elbe Albis is one of the greatest Rivers of Germany called by the Bohemians Labe by the Italians Albi. It ariseth in Bohemia out of the Mountain Das Risenbirge that is the Mount of Giants in the Borders of Silesia in the North-East part of that Kingdom and runs South First taking in Vpawa and Metueze above and Olitz at Conig then turning Westward from the North it takes in Czidlina a little further Gizera at Melnick Multaw which watereth Prague the Capital of Bohemia and Egers above Letomeritz where it runs Northwards into Misnia and passeth by Dresden and Meissen then entering Saxony a little above VVittenberg it entertains the Elster from the North and at Dessaw the Muldau a little further the Sala a great River from the South then it watereth Magdeburgh Borgh and Sandow and at Werben in the Dukedom of Brandenburgh takes in the Havel a great River which watereth Berlin and Brandenburgh the principal Cities of that Dukedom At Domitz it has another vast Supply out of Mecklenburgh so leaving Danneberg on the South and Thomdam on the North it entereth Holstein at Ludesborgh and runs on the South of Hamburgh to Gluckstad about twelve German Miles beneath which it falls into the German Ocean This was the fatal Boundary of the Roman Empire to which they seldom came and beyond which they could never fix Elber Libya Deserta a Part of Africa Elbeuf Elbovium Elbodum a Town in Normandy upon the Seine three or four Leagues below Rouen adorned with the Title of a Dutchy in 1581. Elbing Elbinga Aelveopolis a City of Prussia upon the Eastern Mouth of the Vistula over against Dantsick near the Lake of Drawsen ten Polish Miles from Dantsick to the East This is a very strong beautiful rich City divided into two Parts the Old and the New First built in 1239. by the Knights of the Teutonick Order In 1454. it withdrew from their Subjection and put it self under the Protection of the King of Poland In 1492. there was an University opened here by Albertus Duke of Brandenburgh the first of that House that was Duke of Prussia In 1629. it was taken by the Swedes and again in 1655. but since recovered to the Crown of Poland The first Occasion of its Trade and Wealth was the Besieging the Town of Dantsick by Stephen King of Poland which necessitated the Merchants to remove the Trade to Elbing Gustavus Adolphus designed to improve it by the same Method but the best Trade they have at present is on the Account of its being the Staple for the English Cloth This City is the Capital of the Territory of Hockerland and divers English Families have settled themselves at it Elbogen See Malmugen Elcatif Leanita a City and Province in Arabia Foelix upon the Gulph of Persia over against the Island of Babarim from which the Gulph of Persia is by the Arabians called the Sea of Elcatife Elcur Cyrrus Cyrus a River of Albania in Asia which ariseth in the Confines of Armenia Major from the Mountains of Mosch and flowing through Iberia takes in the River Iber then buries it self in the Caspian Sea Elephantina Elephantis a pleasant Island of the River Nile in Aegypt below the last of its Catarracts not very far from Aethiopia the Aegyptians and Aethiopians trading with each other here It enjoys a perpetual Spring and according to Tacitus is observable for being the utmost Boundary on that Side of the Roman Empire Elesa Elusa an Island upon the Coast of Cilicia Eleusis an ancient City of Attica betwixt Megara and the Portus Pyraeus One of the most celebrated in all Greece for the Temple and the Mysteries of the Goddess Ceres performed here together with other particular Mysteries in Honour of Proserpine and Hercules some of which it was Death to discover some they exposed yet at several times and by Parts Whence Seneca's Proverb Eleusina servat quod ostendat Admittingno Persons to the Exercise of the greater ones under a Noviciatship of five years with the Title of Mystae and then advancing them to the Degree of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a Ceremony of Consecration The Grand Secret of these Mysteries is thus discovered by Tertullian Tota in Aditis divinitas c. Simulachrum membri virilis revelatur Thus by Theodoret Naturae muliebris imago Eleutherns the River now called Bajaria or Habes according to Cluverius Others apply it to the Admirati of the Island of Sicily See those modern Names § Also a River of Phoenicia in Syria arising from the Mountain Libanus thence passing by Ituraea and Galilaea to fall into the Tyrian Sea two Miles from
Mile beneath which it falls into the Danube Near the City there is a Bridge over the Danube on the North-West Side Ensisheim Ensihemium a small City in Alsatia upon the River Ill two Miles West of Newenburgh five Miles North-West from Basil Once the Capital of the Higher Alsatia and the Seat of the Parliament or Chamber of that Province but now in the hands of the French Entre-Douro-e-Minho a Province the best peopled and the most delightful of all the Kingdom of Spain containing in the space of eighteen Leagues in length and twelve in breadth six good Port-Towns above one hundred and thirty Monasteries and fourteen hundred Parishes It hath this Appellation given it from its Situation betwixt the Rivers Douero to the South and Minho to the North the Western Ocean binding it to the West and the Province of Tras-los-Monies to the East It s Capital is the City Braga Entrevaux Intervallium a Town in Provence upon the River Var and the Frontiers of the County of Nice about the Mountains which the Bishop of Glâ—ndevâ—s makes the Seat of his Residence Epaune or Epone Epaunense Ponense Eponense a Town or Parish in the old Kingdom of Burgandy in France where there was a Council held in 51â— under the Reign of Sigismund King of Burgundy after his abjuration of Arrianism The French Writers cannot agree where to place it more particularly Ephesus Eâ—â—so one of the most ancient and noble Cities of the Lesser Asia seated upon the River Causter Caâ—strus in the Province of Ionia on the Shoars of the Archipelago North of the Isle of Samos one of the greatest and most celebrated Cities of Asia before it fell into the hands of the depopulating Sarâ—oâ—ns and Turâ—â— who seem to have been designed by Heaven for the Scourges and Destroyers of ancient Cities or rather of Mankind there is so much Desolation where ever they have long ruled This City is so ancient that it is generally believed to have been built by the Amazons It stood at first on too low a Ground and therefore suffering much by Inundations Lysimachus one of the Successors of Alexander the Great removed it into that place where it now is and called it Arsinoe by the Name of his Wife but after his Death it reassumed its ancient Name Pliny calls the Temple of Diana here built Admirationem Graecae Magnificentiae The Wonder of the Grecian Magnificence and reckons it amongst the Wonders of the World this was burnt by Erostratus to perpetuate the Memory of his Name that night Alexander the Great was born in the one hundred and sixth Olympiad and the three hundred ninety eighth year of Rome i. e. three hundred fifty six years before Christ Two hundred and twenty years more afterwards were spent in rebuilding it with the utmost Magnificence at the charges of all the Provinces of Asia Minor Xerxes though he ruined many of the Asiatick Temples spared this The Romans conquered this City under Antiochus King of Syria an hundred and eighty years before the Birth of our Saviour and in their first Asiatick War Nero plundered it the Goths under Galienus destroyed it S. Paul first planted the Christian Faith residing in person three years here and wrote one of his Epistles to this Church afterwards whilst he was at Rome S. John the beloved Apostle lived and wrote and in probability died here to him the great Church was dedicated that is now a Turkish Mosque S. Timothy was its first Bishop after S. Paul The third General Council consisting of two hundred Prelates was held here in the year 431. under Theodosius junior against Nestorius and Pelagius There was a smaller Council here in 198 concerning the Celebration of Easter in which the Bishops resolving to adhere to the Asiatick Custom Pope Victor declared to break his Communion with them Another in 400. held by S. Chrysostom for the quieting the Disturbances of Asia Another in 449 by Dioscorus Patriarch of Alexandria for the confirming the Opinions of Euryches in which Popâ— Leo's Legats were rejected and some others When this City came first into the hands of the Turks I cannot assign but it is certain they call it Aâ—â—salouc and that it is a poor desolate Village though with a fine Haven and an old ruined Castle This City lies forty Miles from Smyrna to the South full of the deplorable Ruines of its pristine Glory Long. 55. 45. Lâ—at 39. 00. All the Inhabitants of this City now are about forty or fifty Families of Turks without one Christian amongst them living in a knot at the South Side of the Castle called Asia Sabuck The Grott of the seven famous Sleepers is shewn in this City Epidamnus See Duraâ—â—o Epiâ—aâ—rus See Malvasia and Ragusa § An ancient City besides of Argia in the Peloponnesus where there was a Temple dedicated to Aesculapius Epideno Apidanus a River of Thessalia called sometimes Epedonia it ariseth from Mount Bormio and washing Pharsalia famous for the overthrow of Pompey the Great by Caesar falls into the River Onocoro Peneus above Larissa with a very swift Current Epirus a Kingdom in Greece which was anciently much celebrated and had first Kings of its own till the Macedonians subjected it it is bounded on the North by Macedonia now Albania on the East by Thessalia on the South by Achaia now Livadia and on the West by the Ionian Sea or Gulph of Venice This Province is now sometimes called the Lower Albany It is most famous for its ancient King Pyrrhus who invaded Italy and beat the Romans in the year of the World 3669. two hundred seventy nine years before the Birth of our Saviour See Florus lib. 1. cap. 18. This Kingdom was reduced to the Macedonian Subjection by Philip and Alexander the Great but Pyrrhus not only recovered it but conquered and for some time kept Macedonia The Romans subdued it next and Paulus Aemilius laid it desolate sacking in one day seventy Cities and captivating an hundred and fifty thousand Epirots without any Provocation In the Division of the Empire this Country fell to the Eastern and continued so till the taking of Constantinople after which it had Princes of its own again till the year 1466. when by the death of George Castriot commonly called Scanderberg it was reduced under the Dominion of the Turks under whom it still is excepting Corfu and some other small Islands which are under the Venetians Episcopia Curium once a City of the Isle of Cyprus now a great Village which is yet a Bishops See amongst the Greeks it lies on the South Side of the Island East of Paphos and not far from the South-West Cape in a Bay called heretofore Curia Epomeus or Epopeus a Vulcanoe-Mountain in the midst of the Island of Ischia in the Thuscan Ocean so terrible in its Eruptions accompanied with Inundations and Earthquakes that we find the Inhabitants have divers times abandoned the Island for safety It is recorded particularly to have raged under the Consulship of
or rather the most Northern Branch of the River Niger which falls into the Atlantick Ocean on the North of Cape Verde and in its passage gives name to the Kingdom of Gambay on its Southern Bank not far from its first Division from the River Niger to the East of the Kingdom of Jalost Gamelara Aethusa an Island of Africa Gammacorura a flaming Mountain in the Island of Ternate amongst the Moluccaes In the year 1673. it suffered a violent Rupture out of which it vomited vast quantities of Smoak and Ashes Ganabara Januarius a vast River in Brasil so called by the Natives it falls into the Atlantick Ocean near St. Sebastian where it makes a good Harbor Gand or Gant Gandavum Clarinea called by the Inhabitants Ghent by the French Gand by the Germans Gent by the Spaniards Gante is the Capital of the Earldom of Flanders upon the River Schelde which there takes in the Lyse and Lieue made a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Mechlin by Pope Paul IV. in 1559. in the Reign of Philip 2. King of Spain This is a vast strong City and was once as rich and populous as unquiet and seditious as any in the Low Countries Erasmus saith of it in his time that he did not think there was any one City in Christendom that could be compared to this for Greatness Power Government and the ingenuity of the Inhabitants But the Wars and other Calamities which have ever since lain heavy upon this Country have exhausted both its Wealth and Inhabitants and brought this City particularly into a very languishing condition The Strength and Situation of it have hitherto supported it It has a Castle built by Charles V. in 1539 who was born here in 1500 and converted an old Abbey which it had into a Cathedral Church And when he built the said Castle spared not to put to death about thirty of the principal Burghers proscribe others confiscate all the publick Buildings take away their Artillery Arms and Privileges and condemn them in a Fine of twelve hundred thousand Crowns for offering to put themselves under the Protection of Francis I. King of France by a Revolt that year of which Francis generously rejecting their Plot had as generously advertised him In the Reign of Philip II. being injuriously treated by the Spaniards this City was one of the first that expelled the Roman Rites in 1578 and admitted the Prince of Orange in 1579. and having cast out the Garrison of Spanish Soldiers levelled the Citadel and fortified the City though then three German Miles in compass It maintained its Liberty till in 1585. seeing the Prince of Orange murthered and no hopes of succor from the Dutch it submitted to the Prince of Parma who rebuilt the Citadel but the Inhabitants being wasted the French took it in 1678 in six days and after restored it to the Spaniards who are now in possession of it This City stands at the equal distance of four Leagues from Antiverp Brussels and Mechlin The learned Hostius Sanderus and Jodocus Badius were Natives of it It s ancient Inhabitants are mentioned by Caesar under the name of Gorduni There are a great many Religious Houses adorning it and seven Parishes besides the Cathedral There is also a strong Castle called the Sas van Ghent or Castle of Gant four Miles from hence to the North built by the Spaniards and taken by the Hollanders in 1644. is still in their Possession Gandia a small Town in the Kingdom of Valentia upon the Coast of the Mediterranean Sea upon the Bay of Valentia eight Leagues from Xativa Setabis to the East It is honoured with the Title of a Dukedom which belongs to the ancient Family of Borgia and has also a College which bears the name of an University of the Foundation of Francis Borgia a General of the Jesuits who was lately Canonized and born here and was Duke of it Gangara A Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa situated between the Lake and Kingdom of Borno the Kingdom of Cassena and the River Niger Rich in Gold and commanded by a King who is absolute The Capital City bears its own name Gangarides an ancient People whose Name Curtius mentions towards the Mouth of the Ganges It is conjectured they might have their Dwelling in the Country we now call the Kingdom of Bengale Ganges the greatest River in the East-India which divides that Continent into two parts called Ganga by the Inhabitants and the Gange by the Europeans it ariseth from Mount Imaus Dalanguer in the Confines of the Great Tartary in the Province of Kakeres and running Southward through the Empire of the Great Mogul it watereth Sirinar Holobassa and Gouro and is augmented by the Streams of Perselus Sersily and Tziotza and many other Rivers in the Mogui's Kingdom In the Kingdom of Bengala it is divided into many Branches and dischargeth it self by five Outlets into the Bay of Bengala giving its name to a Kingdom in its Passage It is full of Islands covered with lovely Indian Trees which afford Travellers great delight The Water is esteemed Sacred by the Inhabitants the Great Mogul will drink no other because it is lighter than that of any other River the Europeans boil it before they drink it to avoid those Fluxes which otherwise it enclines them to This River receiveth from the North-East and West an innumerable number of Brooks and dischargeth it self into the Gulph of Bengala at the height of 23 deg or thereabouts Said by Pliny to be two Miles where it is narrowest and five where it is broadest having Spangles of Gold and precious Stones mixed with its Sands yet not therefore the Phison of Genesis as some mistake because it springs at the distance of twelve hundred Leagues from the Euphrates Gangra an Archiepiscopal City in Paphlagonia in the Lesser Asia in the inland Parts now called Cangria Castomoni and by the Turks Kiengara In this City was a famous Synod of sixteen Bishops celebrated in 324 against Eustathius the Monk for his condemning the Marriage-State Dioscorus the Eutychian was banished to this City by Martian the Emperor in 451. after he had been condemned by the Council of Chalcedon and likewise Timotheus Aelurus a Monk of that Faction in 457. by the Emperor Leo this Monk having been chosen Patriarch of Alexandria Stephanus saith there is another City of the same name in Arabia Foelix Ganhay a Town of War by the Chinese therefore called a Fort in the Province of Fochien in China to the South-East It is magnificently built a Town of great Trade full of People and particularly remarked for a stately Stone Bridge 250 paces long Gani the Mine or Quarry of Diamonds near Coulour in Malabar See Coulour Ganking a great and populous City in the Province of Nanking in China with a Territory belonging to and denominated from it having Jurisdiction over five other old Cities It is the Seat and Government of a Viceroy distinct from the Viceroy of the Province being the more
falls into the River Oakre Obater Gostynin Gostinia a small Town and a Castellany thereto belonging in the Palatinate of Rava in the Great Poland two Miles from the Vistula and Ploczko to the South which has a Castle tolerably strong This small Place was made famous by the Imprisonment and Death of Susicius Great Duke of Muscovy Gotham Egates Aegates a knot of small Islands in the Mediterranean Sea over against the Western Point of Sicily upon the Coast of Africa Gothardsberg or S. Gothard Adula Summae Alpes a considerable Branch of the Swiss Alpes between the Dutchy of Milan and Switzers where the Pennine Alpes begin it lies in part in the Canton of Vri and in part in the Upper League of the Grisons between Altorff to the North and the Town of Belinzona once a Town of the Dutchy of Milan now belonging to the Swiss upon the River Tesino to the South the parts of this Mountain are Grispaltsberg from whence springeth the first Branch of the Rhine Vogselberg called by the Italians il monte Vccello from whence comes the second Branch of the Rhine Mont Furk from whence the Rhosne and the Tesino Mont Grimsel the Mother of the Aar and Russ which do both afterwards fall into the Rhine It is dangerous to pass this Branch of the Alpes without Guides being ordinarily covered with Snow Gothen Gotha a small City in Thuringia in Germany built by the Goths which is now under the Duke of Gotha a Branch of the House of Saxony whose Castle is Grimmestein This place was heretofore very strong but in the time of Ferdinand I. it was destroyed and in later times rebuilt and called Freidenstein It stands three German Miles from Erford to the West and four from Eysenach § The Dukedom of Gotha is a part of the Vpper Saxony under the Dominion of its own Duke who is a Branch of the Line of Weymar and besides this possessed of Altenburg in Misnia Coburg a part of Hennenberg in Franconia and Osterland in the Vpper Saxony Gothebourg or Gotembourg a very strong City with an Harbour belonging to it in the Province of Westrogothia at the entrance of the Baltick Sea three German Miles from Bahuys to the South sixty six from Stockholm to the South-West and seventeen from Skagen the most Northern Point of Jutland to the North-West In this City Charles IX King of Sweden died in 1660. § There is another Town of the same Name in New York formerly called New Sweden in America built by the Swedes but taken from them by the Hollanders and taken again from the Hollanders by the English Gotland Gothia the South part of the Kingdom of Sweden called by the Inhabitants Gutlandt by the Swedes Gota by the Germans Gotlandt It lies between Sweden properly so called Norway to the North and the Baltick Sea from Norway it is again divided by the vast Lake Wener and the River that issueth out of it This great space of Land is divided into three parts or Provinces West Gota Ost Gota and Sod Gota each of which is again subdivided into lesser Provinces In Ostrogothia is Ost Gota Smaland Oeland and an Island in the Baltiek Sea called Gotland In Sod or South Gota which lies next Denmark being separated from it only by the Sound are Skone Haland and Bleking which three belonged heretofore to the Danes but in 1658. by the Treaty of Roschild were yielded to the Swedes In Westrogothia are Daal and Wermeland the principal Cities in these Provinces are Calmar Gottenbourg Bahuys and Landskroon This was the Country of that Nation of the Goths which contributed so very much to the ruin of the Western Roman Empire being associated in their Conquests by the Rugii the Carini the Sidrones the Vandali and others They began to be taken notice of under Decius the Emperour in the year of Christ 251. Theodosius conquered them after this when they had but a little before ruined Valens his Predecessor Alaricus took Rome and laid all Italy desolate in the Reign of Honorius A. D. 409. after whom Atulphus set up the Kingdom of Wisigoths or Western Goths in Aquitania and Narbon in France which was conquered in 506. or rather removed into Spain where it continued three hundred years till Rodericus the last King of this Race was overthrown and slain by the Moors and Saracens of Africa Of all which I shall speak more largely in the proper places This people had a Bishop named Theophilus assisting at the General Council of Nice under Constantine the Great and another Vlphilas who was a famous Arrian § The Island of Gotland aforementioned in the Baltick Sea is about twelve Leagues long from North to South and five broad from East to West and nine Swedish Miles from the Isle of Oeland to the East with the City Wisburg for its Capital Gottingen Dulgibiorum Dulgumniorum Munitium Juliphurdum Gottinga Gottengen a City of the Lower Saxony in the Dukedom of Brunswick upon the River Leyne five German Miles from Limbecke on the same River to the South twelve from Paterborne to the East and sixteen from Mansfelt to the West the River upon which it stands a little beneath Ferden falls into the Weser above Bremen to the East six Miles Gottorp a Castle near Sleswick in the Province of Jutland in Denmark which is the ordinary residence of the Dukes of Holstein entituled Gottorp from hence in distinction from the Dukes of Holstein Regalis Two Branches of the same Family from Christian III. King of Denmark See Holstein Gotz See Emmaus Goualiar or Govaleor a City and Province of the same Name of the Empire of the Great Mogul in India on this side the Ganges to the East of Agra The former is esteemed one of the most considerable places in the Indies where the Emperour keeps his Treasure and confines the Prisoners of State Goude Gauda a Town and Port of Holland upon the Issel which there receives the River Gou which last gives Name to this place in an advantageous situation upon the account of the Sluces five Leagues from Leyden It is said to have been built in the year 1272. and afterwards in 1420. to have been quite destroyed by fire The Town-house is remarked for a good Building Gouel a River of the Kingdom of Bengale in the East-Indies where Diamonds are found Governo Acroventum a Town in the Dutchy of Milan but under the Dominion of the Republick of Venice upon the Po where the River Menzo comes to join it between Mantoua and Concordia Memorable for the Enterview at it of Pope Leo and Attila King of the Hunns Gournay Gornacum a Town in the Territory of Bray in Normandy upon the River Epte five Leagues from Gisors § There is another of the same Name in the Isle of France upon the Frontiers of Picardy and the River Aronde betwixt Compiegne Noyen and Clermont en Beauvais Gozi Thera and Island near Candia Gozo Gaulos and by the Inhabitants called Gaudisch is a
Nations as Pliny saith was by Philip and Alexander his Son reduced first into one great and formidable body which spread its Conquests not only over all the rest of Greece but passing the Hellespont Alexander the Great overthrew the Persian Empire and became Lord of all those Countries between the Caspian and Euxine Seas to the North Mount Imaus to the East the Persian Sea Red Sea the Cataracts of Nile to the South the Desarts of Lybia and the Adriatick Sea to the West which Empire at his death became divided into four great Kingdoms whereof Macedonia was the least Philip of Macedon the two and twentieth King of the first Race began in the year of the World 3155. which ended in Alexander the Great in 3642. or thereabouts Cassander extirpated the first Family and began a second in 3648. which ended in Perseus XI in that Succession subdued by the Romans in 3789. But it became not intirely subject till the Turks first entered this Province under Bajazet their fourth King who took Nicopolis a Town upon the Bay of Thessalonica in 1392. The Conquest thereof was finished by Amurath II. their sixth King in 1429. by the Conquest of Thessalonica and all the other places in this Kingdom considered without Albania Now governed by a Turkish Sangiack under the Beglerbeg of Greece who has 8000. Crowns the year Revenue and finds in Peace only one hundred Horse for the defence of the Country in times of War four hundred All the ancient Cities are ruined except Thessalonica and Larissa Macerata a City in the Dominions of the Pope in the Marcha Anconitana which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Fermo it stands upon a Hill near the River Chiento and is thought one of the best places in this Marquisate being therefore chosen for the Residence of the Governour Built about 410. as Blondus avers The University was opened here by Pope Nicolas IV. in 1290. restored by Pope Paul III. in 1322. united to this See for ever in 1586. It lies fifteen Miles from Loretto and the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea to the West There was a Synod here assembled in 1615. Machere Machera or Macheronta a Castle upon the River Jordain and the Banks of the Dead Sea in Palestine five or six Leagues from Jerusalem where according to Josephus S. John Baptist was beheaded by the order of Herod Machian one of the Molucco Isles Machynleth a Market Town in the County of Montgomery in Wales and the Hundred of Kyfilog Machlyes an ancient People that dwelt near the Magna Syrtes of Africa mentioned by Aristotle Maclena Cydarus a small River of Thrace which falls into the Black Sea a little above Constantinople Macoco a vast Kingdom in the middle of Africa towards the Vpper Aethiopia and the River Zaire the Prince of which has ten Kingdoms under him on the North he has the Kingdom of Muaco which is ever in War with him to the South-East that of Giringbomb This Kingdom lies two hundred and seventy Spanish Miles from the Kingdom of Congon to the South Jerome Lobus mentions it in his History of Ethiopia Mensol is the Capital City of it Macran or Makeran Caramania a Province of Persia towards the Indian Ocean and the Confines of Indostan which is a part of the ancient Caramania It has on the North Sigestan on the South the Indian Ocean on the West Caramania properly so called and on the East Sinda It is under a Prince of its own who is a Tributary to the King of Persia It s principal City is Macran and its best Port is called Guadel Macre a Gulph of the Mediterranean Sea betwixt Lycia in Asia Minor and the Island Rhodes said by some to be the Glaucus Sinus of Caria Macrobii the ancient people of the Island of Meroe in Aethiopia so called from an observation of their living to a great age Not but that this Name in the Writings of the old Geographers and Historians is communicated to the Hyperborei Macedonii and others where the same Longaevity occurred Macrocephali an ancient people towards the Bosphorus Thracius in the account of P. Mela so named from an observation that they had extraordinary long heads But Stephanus places them near Colchis in the Lesser Asia and Pliny in the neighbourhood of the City Cherasonda in Cappadocia Macuf Mosceus a River of Persia which falls into the Bay of Persia Macyn India Vlterior one of the Provinces of Asia called the further Indies or India beyond Ganges Maczua Orine an Island in the Gulph of Arabia near Africa over against the City of Mazzuan in 17 deg Lat. In the Maps called Mazuan and sometimes Macaria under the Turks since 1557. Madagascar Cerne Menuthias Madagascaria Delphina a vast Island on the Eastern Coast of Africa called by the Inhabitants Madecase by the French l' Isle de Dauphiné by the Portuguese S. Lorenzo by the English Madagascar and S. Laurence by the Arabians Sarandib Ptolemy calls it Menuthias Pliny Cerne Aethiopica It is near one hundred Miles from the Coast of Africa to the East and one of the greatest Islands in the World extentending from 1 to 25 deg of Southern Latitude but its breadth much less as not exceeding one hundred and thirty English Miles Discovered by the Portuguese in 1506. on S. Laurence's day There was no Cities in it the French have of late settled some Colonies on the Southern Shoars Stephen Flacourt a Frenchman has given a large account of this Island The Inhabitants are large of Stature exceeding black Warlike much addicted to Fishing great Eaters Nature has accordingly provided them with plenty of Cattle Fish Fowl Fruits and what ever is necessary for the life of Man which they use without Labour or Care regarding neither Silver nor Gold nor any thing but Beads and Bracelets for Ornament Musick and Dancing for their Recreation And the utmost Number they can tell is Ten. Herbert 'T is also related there is a mixture of Whites amongst them who being circumcised and using the Names of Moses Aaron Esther and the like may be thought to descend from the transmigrations of some of the ten lost Tribes of the Jews About two hundred years ago the Caliph of Meccha dispatched a Mission of Arabians hither to teach Arabick and the Alcaron which altogether missed not of its effect The Northern Provinces are yet unknown to the Europeans As for Capes Ports and Roads Rivers and fruitful Mountains Mines of Iron and Steel Precious Stones and Woods Madagascar hath them But no Mines of Brass Tin Lead Silver or Gold And the Natives are divided into divers Herds and Tribes under a Chief like the Tartars Madaura an ancient City betwixt Lambesa and Hippo in Barbary remarkable for being the Birth-place of Apuleius thence intiuled Madaurensis It had the honour heretofore of a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Carthage and likewise of an Academy of note at which S. Austin studied Maday See Media Madera an Island on the Western
in the Province of Languedoo in the Territory of Givaudan upon the River Colange towards the Borders of Rouergne seven Leagues from S. Flour in Auvergne to the South and almost four from Mende the Capital of Givandan to the West some write it Marologium Maryland a considerable Country and Colony of the English in the North America in forty deg of Latitude Bounded with Pensylvania New-England and New York to the North with the Atlantick and De la Ware Bay to the East the River Potomeck which divides it from Virginia to the South and the Indian Territories to the West It contains ten Counties The Capital Town of all is S. Maries which is well built and provided with a convenient Harbour for Shipping Masandran Hyrcania a Province of the Kingdom of Persia upon the Caspian Sea which is called the Masandran Sea also from this Province as it was before the Hyrcanian Sea There is a City in this Province of the same Name Masano Massalia a River in the Isle of Candy or Crete Masay Misauci Pagus Mosanus a Canton amongst the Grisons called by the Inhabitants Maeslandt Masbate one of the Philippine Islands which is under the Spaniards Mascalate a City in Arabia Foelix about sixty Miles from the Shoars of the Persian Gulph which is the Capital of a Kingdom of the same Name Long. 85. 10. Lat. 24. 10. Mascate a City together with a Sovereign Principality on the South-Eastern Shoar of Arabia Foelix upon the Gulph of Ormus which has a convenient Haven and a strong Castle built by the Portuguese who for a long time were Masters of it but some few years since were beaten out by the King of Mascate Long. 94. 00. Lat. 24. 27. Mascon Matiscona Matisco a City of France in the Dukedom of Burgundy which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lyon and has a Territory belonging to it of the same Name It stands upon a rising ground upon the River Saone in the Borders of the Province of Bresse and it has a Stone Bridge over the Saone Eleven Miles saith Baudrand from Lyon to the North and Challon to the South Long. 26. 07. Lat. 46. 00. according to the newest Maps Le Masconois is a small Territory in the South part of the Dukedom of Burgundy to which it is annexed for ever whereas heretofore it had Counts of its own it lies between the Territory of Challon to the North Beaujolois to the South La Bresse to the East and Foretz to the West Maseyck See Maeseyck Masfa a City in Arabia Foelix in the inland parts three hundred Miles from Ormus and two hundred from Mascate to the West The same with that which was called of old Maspha as some think and now the Capital of a Kingdom of the same Name Long. 90. 00. Lat. 23. 00. Masham a Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Hangeast upon the River Youre Masiers Maderiacum a strong City in the Province of Champaign seated upon the East Side of the Maes which almost surrounds it about half a League from Charleville to the South-East four from Sedan to the West six from Bouillon to the North and fifteen from Namur to the South It is now in a thriving state Masotto the same with Masano a River in Candy Masovie Mazovia a Province in the Kingdom of Poland the Capital of which is Warsaw called by the Poles Mazowskie by the Germans Masaw and by the French Masovie On the East it has Lithuania on the North Prussia on the West the Greater Poland and on the South the Lesser Poland It is divided into four Palatinates which have their Names from the Cities of Mazow Ploczko Dobrin and Podlach This was once a separate and independent Dukedom which submitted to the Crown of Poland under Casimir the Great but continued under its own Duke till the year 1526. when upon the Death of John and Stanislaus the two last Dukes it was united under Sigismond I. King of Poland to that Kingdom Massa or Massa di Carrara Massa Carraiae a Town in Italy between the Dukedom of Florence and the State of Genoua great and well peopled lately adorned with the Title of a Dukedom it being also a small Sovereignty twelve Miles from Sarasana to the South-East twenty five from Lucca to North-West and three from the Shoars of the Tyrrhenian Sea Most famous for its excellent Quarries of Marble Massa di Sorriento Massa Lubrensis a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Terra di Lavoro which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Sorriento small and not much inhabited It stands twenty Miles from Naples to the South on the opposite Shoar of the Bay of Naples and about nine from the Town of Capri to the North-East Built in 1465. in a place of great height and natural Strength Massa Massa Veternensis a small City in the Territory of Siena in Italy within five Miles of the Tyrrhenian Sea thirty five from Siena to the South-West and twenty from Piombino to the North-East made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Siena in the stead of Populonium a ruined City on this Shoar called Porto Barbato yet it is very small Built upon a Hill under the Dominion of the Duke of Florence The Dukedom of Massa is a small Territory between the States of Genoua to the West the Dukedom of Florence to the North the States of Lucca to the East and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the South under its own Duke who is of the House of Cibo whereas before it was but a Principality The principal places are Massa and Cararia which last though very small is a Marquisate and lies five Miles from Sarasana to the South thirty from Pisa to the North. Massagetae an ancient Scythian people Some place them about the Palus Moeotis and the Euxine Sea Others towards the Mountain Imaus and the Country now called Zagathai in Tartary They dwelt in Tents and sacrificed to the Sun Masserano Massoranum a small Town in Piedmont upon a Hill sixteen Miles from Iurea to the East and eight from Vercelli to the North. This is the Capital of a Principality under its own Prince who is under the Protection of the Pope He has Crevacore and some other places of small importance Masulepatan Musulepatanum a City and Sea-Port in the Hither East-Indies on the Shoars of the Bay of Bengala in the Kingdom of Golconda which has a convenient Harbour and a Castle heretofore in the hands of the Portuguese Mataca a Bay on the North side of the Island of Cuba in America where all the Spanish Galeons in their return to Spain touch for Water and where the Dutch defeated a Fleet of those Galeons richly laden in 1627. Mataman a Kingdom of Africa to the West of the Aethiopick Ocean betwixt Caffreria and the Kingdom of Angola and towards the River Verte Matan one of the Philippine Islands in the East-Indian Ocean where the famous Magellan some say died It
him Lionel Brother of James in whom it died Middleham a Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Hangwest upon the River Youre Midhurst a Corporation in the County of Suffolk in Chichester Rape which returns two Members of Parliament Midlewich a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Northwich upon the River Croke near its fall into the Dane Midour Midorius a River in Gascogne in France which ariseth in the County of Armagnac and floweth Westward through Marsan the Capital of which it washeth then takes in the Douse and beneath Tartas sixteen Miles from Bourdeaux to the South falls into the Adour Mignone Minio Magnone a River of Italy which ariseth in Sabatina and flowing through S. Peter's Patrimony falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea between Civita Vecchia and Cornetto Milan Milano Mediolanum by the Germans called Meilandt one of the greatest and most noble Cities in Italy built by the Galls in the year of Rome 345. three hundred and fifty seven years before the Birth of our Saviour others say it was built Anno Mundi 2488. which is above one thousand years sooner The Romans first took it in the year of Rome 531. Marcellus their General Triumphing for the Slaughter of Viridomare the Prince of it and the taking this City This City however joined with the Carthaginians in the Second Punick War and was not reduced without the loss of six thousand of her Inhabitants In the times of Christianity being converted by S. Barnabas it became an Archbishop's See and suffered very much from the Arrian Princes though in the end it preserved the Catholick Faith Attila King of the Huns took and spoiled this and several Neighbouring Cities particularly Florence and Verona in the year of Christ 452. The next that became Masters of it were the Lombards who possess'd themselves of it about 570. It continued under this Nation till 774. under a Succession of twenty three Princes Only it is said Aribert the seventeenth King gave the Duchy of Milan to the Church of Rome But the Successors of this Prince not agreeing with the Popes Adrian I. procured Charles the Great to destroy this Kingdom who took Desiderius carried him Prisoner into France and put an end to the Kingdom of the Lombards in the year of Christ 774. It continued under this Family and the Emperors of Germany till 1161 when it took part with Pope Alexander III. against Frederick Barbarossa and was for it rased to the ground but it recovered and outing the Emperors about 1221. became a Republick and continued so till 1277. when it fell under Otho by the Title of Visconti but as subject to the Emperors of Germany John Galeazo the eighth of these was made a Duke by Wenceslaus I. Emperor in 1395. It continued under Dukes till Lewis XII in 1501. by the Conquest of Lewis an usurping Duke got it Maximilian got it from the French in 1513. Francis a Brother of this Maximilian the seventeenth Duke succeeded him in 1529. Francis I. King of France won and lost it again in 1521. And being taken Prisoner by the Forces of Charles V. in the Battel of Pavia in 1525 he was forced for his Liberty to renounce all his Pretences to this Duchy upon the death of Francis Sforze in 1535. it was by Charles V. united for ever to the Crown of Spain under which it still is At this day after all these Sufferings it is the greatest and most beautiful City in Lombardy the most populous too its Inhabitants being thought to be two hundred thousand Souls It s Trade is equal to its Greatness and the Inhabitants very rich It is seven Miles in compass has one of the strongest Cittadels in the World with an University It stands upon the River Olona three hundred and twenty five Miles from Rome one hundred and sixty five from Venice and two hundred and thirty from Lyons Long. 31. 30. Lat. 44. 40. In the years 344. and 350 two Councils were here Congregated against the Arrians In 355. the Arrians carried it against the adverse Party and sent a great number thereof into Banishment In 390. there was another celebrated against Jovinian In 451. the Doctrine of the Incarnation of the Word as expressed in the Epistle of Pope Leo to Flavianus Bishop of Constantinople received the approbation of a Council at this place In 679. they held another against the Menethelites And divers since of inferior note § The Dukedom of Milan is a part of Lombardy bounded on the North by Switzerland and the Grisons on the East by the Republick of Venice and the Dukedom of Placentia on the South by the States of Genoua and on the West by Montisferat and Piedmont The Soil is extreamly fruitful plain well watered very full of People and consequently well improved It especially abounds with Vines and Barley Heretofore much greater than now It contained twenty nine Cities which are now reduced to ten Alessandria Bobbio Como Cremona Lodi Milan Novara Pavia Tortona and Vigevan Of the Fate and History of this Dukedom I have spoken in the Description of the City and I need add nothing here but that it is accounted the richest and noblest Dukedom in Christendom as Flanders is the noblest Earldom Milel Lethon a River in Africa in Cyrene Mileto Melita See Melito Miletus one of the most considerable antient Cities of Ionia in the Lesser Asia with a Port to the Aegean Sea upon the Frontiers of Caria and near the River Meander Founded in the year of the World according to Eusebius 2779 and in the beginning famous above the rest of Greece for Naval Forces They built the Town Naucratis in Egypt and made War with Sadyatus King of Lydia Alexander M overcame them next the Romans Thales the eldest Philosopher Anaximander and Anximenes were Natives of this City Milebum Milevis or Mela an ancient City in the division of Numidia in Africa Aurelius Archbishop of Carthage assembled a Council here in 402. There was another in 416. at which S. Augustine assisted The latter condemned the Principles of Pelagius and Caelestius touching Grace and Infant-Baptism Milford Haven a Celebrated Sea-Port in the County of Pembroke in South Wales upon the Irish Sea Milau a Territory in Rovergue in France Ager Aemilianus Milaud Milhaud Millialdum Amilhanum a City of France in the Province of Rovergue in the Borders of Languedoc upon the River Tarn which watering Alby falls into the Garonne Its Fortifications were razed in 1629. This City is seated in Givaudan seven Leagues from Lodeve to the North and eight from Rhodez to the North East heretofore very strong Mildenhall a large and populous Market Town in the County of Suffolk and the Hundred of Lackford upon the Banks of a River running into the Ouse adorn'd with a fair Church Milli Milliacum commonly called Milli en Gatinois is a Town in the Territory of Gastinois in the Isle of France upon the Rivulet of Escolle five Leagues from Melun and twelve
then a Marquisate It now makes a part of the Kingdom of Bohemia and is supposed to take its name from the River Morawi Morave or die Mahr Morus or Marus arising near to Altstadt in Bohemia and joyning with the Danube at Haynbourg in Austria being the same River with the precedent Morava The Capital of it is Olmutz and the other principal Towns are Brin Iglaw and Znaim It is a fruitful and pleasant Country extremely well improved Morbiban Morbibanum a large Haven on the North side of the Lesser Bretagne in France seven Leagues from Port Lovis to the East and near Vannes Above thirty small Islands lye in the Gulph of this harbour The Morduates a Province in the North-Eastern Parts of the Empire of Russia towards the River Rha between the Czeremisses to the East and Wolodimera to the West It is a Country of great Extent and made terrible by its vast unpassable Woods and Forests More or Moore an Episcopal City in the County of Mayo in Connaught in Ireland Morea Peloponnesus a celebrated great and fruitful Peninsula of Greece of about five hundred and fifty Miles in circuit It s extent from Corinth in the North-East to Cape Sapienza in the South is one hundred and fifty Miles its breadth from Cape di Schilli to Cape Tornese on the West one hundred and seventy five Containing the Provinces of Romania Sacania Belvedore and Clarentia and the famous Cities of Corinth Coron Clarenza Patras Misitra Nauplia c. It s principal Rivers are the Orfea and the Iris or Basilipotamo Its Mountains Mynthe Stymphalis Pholoe Lyceus c. are mentioned in the Writings of the Ancients This Country was first intirely conquered by the Macedonians after the Death of Alexander the Great then by the Romans under L. Mummius about one hundred and forty six years before the Birth of our Saviour when Corinth the then Capital of this Province was intirely ruined In the later times of the Greek Empire it had Despotes or Princes of its own who were subject to the Emperors of Constantinople the last of which Thomas Palaeologus was driven out of his Dominions by Mahomet II. in 1543. Ever since it has been in the Hands of those Destroyers of Mankind But in 1685 the Venetians began the Reconquest and in 1687 were intirely possessed of it excepting only Malvasia by a wonderful Revolution And in September 1690. they recovered Malvasia also Moret Murittum a Town in the Territory of Gastinois in the Isle of France upon the River Loing adorned with the title of an Earldom A Synod was held there in 850. Morgaâ— Margus a River of Bactria a Province of Persia which springing from the Mountains of Chorazan and flowing through the Country called by their Name falls into the River Obengir which ends in the Caspian Sea Morin Muera a River of France in the Province of Le Brie which watereth Colomiers Coâ—lumbaria and Cressy then falls into the Marne beneath Meaux this is called the Great Morin to distinguish it from another which falls into the Marne in the same Province beneath La Ferte sous Jovare to the West of Meaux Morini a People of Gallia Antiqua mentioned by Pliny and Virgil. The latter styles them Extremique hominum Morini c. It is supposed with greatest probability that they dwelt in the now Dioceses of S. Omer Boulogne and Ypres Morlaix Morlaeum Mons relaxus a City in the Province of Bretagne upon a River of the same Name which has a Harbor on the North Shore of that Province It stands about two Leagues from the British Sea and forty from Rennes to the West over against Plymouth There is â— Fort built to secure the Passage of the River in an Island of the River The Town stands upon an Hill betwixt two Plains and shows the Ruines of an old Cittadel Mormandes Milmandra a River of France in Le Berry Morpeth a considerable Market and Borough Town in the County of Northumberland upon the River Wensbeck The Capital of its Ward fortified with a Castle returning two Members of Parliament and giving the Title of Viscount to the Earl of Carlisle Mortagne Moritania a small Town in the Territory of Tournaysis in Flanders at the Confluence of the Rivers Escaut and Scarpe towards Valenciennes two or three Leagues from Tournay It has formerly been fortified § Also a large handsome and populous Town in the Vpper Perche in France towards the borders of Normandy upon a Stream which there begins to form the River Huisne This Mortagne is now adorned with a Castle § There is a third of the Name in the Province of Poictou towards the Confines of Bretagne at the reception of the Loing by the River Seâ—â—re Nantoise Mortain Moritonium Moritolium a small Town in Normandy near the River Ardee towards the Confines of La Mayne betwixt Auranches and Domfront which by Henry I. King of England and Duke of Normandy was given with the Title of an Earldom to his Nephew Stephen Blois afterwards in 1135. King of England whose second Son william enjoy'd the same Title in the next Succession But William died without Issue This Town by ancient Custom in publick Processions carries a naked Sword in the place of a Standard Mortanâ— Mortana a River in Lorain Mortara or Mortare Mortaria Pulchra Sylva a strong great populous Town in the Dukedom of Milan upon the River Gogna four Miles from Vigevano to the North-West ten from Novara to the South-East and twenty four from Pavia to the West Anciently called Bella or Pulchra Sylva the Beautiful Wood but upon the great Slaughter of the Lombards by the Forces of Charles the Great when he took Desiderius their King Prisoner in 774 it took the Name of Mortara which signifies Slaughter or Death This Town was taken by the French in 1658. and put under the Duke of Modena In 1660. it was upon a Peace restored back to the Spaniards It is the Capital of the Territory of Lumellina Le Moruan Morundia Morvinus tractus a mountainous Tract or Territory in the Dukedom of Burgundy of small extent and its Limits not well known Mor Verridh the Welsh name of the Irish Sea Mosa the Meuse See Maes Mosambich Mosambica a City of Zanguebar on the Eastern Coast of Africa in an Island near the Continent at the Mouth of a River of the same name which there falls into the Aethiopick Ocean To this City belongs a strong Castle and a safe Harbour all in the Possession of the Portuguese Long. 63. 40. South Lat. 14. â—â— Moscow Moscoua Moschia the Capital of the Empire of Moscovy or Russia called by she Inhabitants Mosqua by the European Strangers Moscow by the Poles Moscouf by the Germans Moscaw One of the greatest Cities in Europe extremely frequented on the score of Trade and the common Residence of the Great Duke or Czar of Moscovy It stands upon a River of the same name which a little more to the East falls into the Occa or
Over the Trent and the Line it has two Bridges besides two others over two Ponds called the Cheney Bridges It has three Churches and a strong and goodly Castle built on a steep Rock on the West side of the Town In the Reign of Burthred King of the Mercians and Aethelred King of the VVest-Saxons the Danes having got the Possession of this Castle kept it against three Kings united against them and forced them to a Peace After this Edward the Elder walled the Town the South part of which was standing in Mr. Cambden's time The Castle which is now standing was rebuilt by VVilliam the Conqueror to curb the English Edward IV. repaired it In 1â—75 it was besieged by Henry II. but could not be taken In the Barons Wars it was surprised by Robert de Ferrariis an Earl otherwise it was never taken by force as the same Author observes Long. 22. 14. Lat. 53. 00. Charles Lord Howard descended from the House of Norfolk by the Mowbrays Earls of this County from 1377. to 1475. was in 1597. created Earl of Nottingham This Family ending in Charles Lord Howard the third in that Line the Honor was conferred May 12. 1681. upon Heneage Lord Finch Baron of Daventry then Lord Chancellor of England and it is now enjoyed by Daniel Son of the said Heneage Nova Antequera a City of New Spain in America in the Province of Oaxaca eighty Spanish Leagues from Mexico to the East seventeen from the North Sea to the South and seventeen from Vera Cruz. It is little and not much inhabited though a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico ever since 1535. Nova Guinea a large Country in the Western part of the Pacifick Ocean which is a part of the Terra Australis on the East of the Molucco Islands First discovered by Andrew Ardaneta a Spaniard in 1528. and then thought to be an Island but since to be a part of the South Continent Novara Novaria a City of Italy which in Pliny's time was the Capital of Insubria It is now a part of the Duchy of Milan and a Bishop's See under that Archbishop the Head of a small Territory called by its name Very strong and can shew many ancient Roman Inscriptions as Testimonies of its Antiquity It stands twenty five Miles from Milan to the West and ten from Turin in a well-watered and fruitful Soil and upon an Eminence well fortified Near this Lewis Sforza Duke of Milan was taken by the French in 1500. But twelve years after the Swiss gave the French a great Overthrow in this Place to abate their joy for their former Success Peter Lombard the Master of the Sentences and sometime Bishop of Paris was a Native of this City and Pope Innocent XI Bishop of it when he was chosen Novellara a fine Town in the Lower Lombardy between the Territories of the Dukes of Mantoua and Modena subject to a Count of its own who is of the Family of Gonzaga ten Miles from Regio towards the North. It has a Castle called Bagnuollo Novibazar Novus Mercatus one of the principal Cities of Servia upon the River Orasâ—a fifty Miles from Nissa to the West Novigrad Novigradum Argyrutum a Town in Dalmatia which has a Castle seated upon a Bay of the same name twenty Miles from Zara to the East and twenty five from Sebenico to the North. It belonged to the Venetians but was taken by the Turks in 1646. Novigrad a small City in the Vpper Hungary which gives name to a County one German Mile from the Danube five from Gran to the North-East and four from Vaccia It has a Castle which is seated on a Rock and a Dike thirty four foot deep cut in the same Rock which makes it almost inaccessible yet the Turks took this strong Place in 1663. Novogorod Velki Novogardia Magna a City of Moscovy called by the Germans Neugarten which is very great and an Archbishops See the Capital of a Principality of the same name seated in a spacious Plain upon the River Wolkow where it issueth from the Lake of Ilmen an hundred and five German Miles from Mosco to the North-West forty six from Pleskow to the East and forty from Narva to the South East Long. 50. 00. Lat. 58. 23. The River Wolchou or Woldga saith Olearius falls by Notteburgh and the Gulph of Finland into the Baltick Sea this River is the chief cause of the Wealth and Greatness of the City being Navigable from its Fountains almost to the Baltick which has made this City the chief for Trade in all the North. Vithold Great Duke of Lithuania was the first who in 1427. obliged this City to pay a vast Tribute John Basilowitz Grotsden Duke of Muscovy overthrew an Army raised by this City in 1477. Thereupon he made himself Master of it and carried thence to Mosco three hundred Wagons loaden with Gold Silver and rich Goods John Basilowitz another of their Princes in 1569. slew two thousand seven hundred and seventy of its Inhabitants and cast them into the River upon a bare groundless suspicion besides a vast number trodden to death by a Party of Horse This City was taken by the Swedes in 1611. and restored to the Russ in 1634. It hath formerly been so puissant that it passed for a common Proverb Who is there that can oppose himself to God and the great City of Novogrod They reckon about seventy Monasteries in it It s largeness has been set in the parallel with that of Rome but its Walls are of Wood and the Buildings mean Novogorod Nisi that is the Lower is a vast City of Moscovy seated upon the Wolga where it takes in the Occa an hundred German Miles from Mosco to the North-East and forty from Wologda to the South-East Novogrod Novogroda sirnamed Litawiski is a City of Lithuania under the Crown of Poland the Capital of a Palatinate of the same name in which the Diet of Lithuania ought by turns with Minsko to be holden It stands scarce four Polish Miles from the River Niemen or Memel and twenty from Vilna to the South Novogrodeck Seviersky a strong City of Russia which has been attributed to Lithuania when under the Poles but now it is under the Russ again It stands upon the River Dezna seventeen Polish Miles from Czernichou to the North-East forty six from Kiovia to the same and the same distance from Smolensko to the South This is also the Capital of a Palatinate Noyon Novomagâ—s Noviodunum a City in the Isle of France near the Borders of Picardy of which it was a part upon the River Vorse which two Miles lower falls into the Oise eight Leagues from Soisons to the South-West fifteen from Amiens six from Reims to the West and twenty two from Paris to the North. It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Reims the Bishop of it is one of the three Earls and a Peer of France the Diocese which belongs to it is called Le Noyonois â—â—bia a
men The Buildings are ancient the Inhabitants grave It stands in a Marsh which makes it less healthful though it affords the City a great plenty of all things The Cathedral Church of S. Luke that is there now was heretofore the Temple of Diana Long. 39. 24. Lat. 36. 24. Syria a vast Country in the Greater Asia called by the Jews Aram or Charam When it is largely taken it contains Phoenicia Palestine or the Holy Land and Syria properly so called In the latter Acceptation it is bounded to the North by Cilicia and the lesser Armenia on the East by Mesopotamia divided from it by the Euphrates and Arabia Deserta on the South it has Palestine and Phoenicia and on the West the Mediterranean Sea Now called by the Inhabitants Souristan by the French Sourie by the Italians Soria It s length from North to South four hundred from East to West it is in breadth two hundred Italian Miles In very ancient Times Damascus was the capital City in the middle times Antioch now Aleppo This Country is by Nature extremely Fruitful and once as Populous but now almost desolate As to the Story of it N. Damascenus mentions one Adadus slain by David King of Israel after whom there followed a Succession of Kings thirteen in number the last of which Rezin was conquered by Tiglath Phileser King of Assyria and beheaded in Damascus about the year of the World 3213. After this they were subject to the Kings of Assyria Media and Persia till after the Death of Alexander the Great Seleucus Nicanor began another Kingdom here about the year of the World 3644 whose Posterity and Successors to the number of twenty one or twenty five of which Antiochus XII was the last Reigned till Pompey the Great made a perfect Conquest of all Syrià for the Romans in the year of the World 4650 sixty two years before the Birth of our Saviour It continued under the Romans till the year of Christ 636. or as others 34. when it was conquered by Haumer the third Calyph of the Saracens About the year of Christ 1075. Melech and Ducat began a Turkish Kingdom which in the year 1262 after a Descent of nine Kings was destroyed by Haalon the Tartar Next it fell into the Hands of the Mamalucks of Egypt under whom it continued till the year 1515 and then was conquered by Selim Emperor of the Turks under whom it is at this day most wretchedly harassed and desolated Syrtes two dangerous sandy Gulphs in the Mediterranean Sea upon the Coast of Barbary in Africa called antiently Syrtes magna parva now the Gulph de Sidra and de Capes In one name the Shoals of Barbary The first lies betwixt the Kingdoms of Tripoli and Barca the other betwixt Tripoli and Tunis TA. TA a River on the South of China in the Provinces of Quansey and Quantam Tabago the Tobacco Island in the West-Indies in the North Sea Possessed by the Dutch commonly also called Niew Walcheren It lies eight Miles from la Trinidad to the North-East and ninety South of Barbadoes having eighteen small Rivers and many sase Harbours about nine Dutch Miles long and three broad very fruitful and full of all Necessaries About forty years since the Dutch began to plant it In 1673. the English under Sir Tobias Bridges took and plundered it carried away four hundred Prisoners and as many Negroes In 1677. the French being desirous to drive the Dutch out of it sent the Comte d' Estrée with ten Ships which entered Klips Bay and for several days ingaged a Fleet of eight Dutch Ships there lying under the Command of James Binckes a Dutchman who so well defended the Island that though the French pretended they destroyed the Fort the Dutch had built yet they were forced to draw off and leave the Dutch Masters of the Place Long. 316. Lat. 10. 30. The whole Plantation of this Island is Tobacco after its name Tabarestan Tabarestania a Province of Persia toward the Caspian Sea containing a great part of the ancient Hyrcania The Caspian Sea is sometimes from this Province called the Sea of Tabarestan Asterabath its Capital City Tabarque Tabraca an ancient City in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa upon the Mediterranean Sea betwixt Hippo and Vtica It hath had the honour in the times of Christianity there to be a Bishops See but now only considerable for its Port. Pliny Claudian and Stephanus mention it Tabasco Tabasca a Town and Province in New Spain in North America The Province lies between the Bay of Mexico to the North and the Province of Chiapa to the South extended from East to West forty six Spanish Leagues The principal City in it was by the Indians called Tabasco but the Spaniards call it Nuestra Sennora de la Viâ—toria our Lady of Victory because Cortez the Spanish General gave the Mexicans an irrecoverable Defeat near this Place Tabenna an Island of the Thebais in the Kingdom of Egypt near the City Syene Inhabited formerly by the Monks entituled Tabenniosiâ—ae from it in whose times Tabennis was a small Town standing here Tabor Taborium a Town in Bohemia upon the River Lauznicz twenty Miles from Budwess and forty five from Prague The Hussites made this Place the Seat of their War and fortified it and from thence for twenty years ruined the Imperial and Hereditary Countries called thereupon Taborites Tacara a small Kingdom on the Coast of Guinea in Africa Tacaze Tacasus Astaboras a vast River in the Higher Aethiopia which ariseth in the Kingdom of Angote chiefly from three Fountains and runs West sometime between Dagana and Hoga Then bending North through the Kingdom of Tigre it watereth the Desart of Oldeba and joyns the River Mareb or Marebo Being much improved it passeth through the Kingdom of Dengin and at Jalack falls into the Nile in the Kingdom of Nubia from the East Tachiali Antiochia Maeandri a City of Caria in the Lesser Asia which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ephesus from which it stands seventy Miles to the East upon the Meander and thirty seven from Bursia to the South Latitus Bishop of this See subscribed to the Council of Chalcedon Long. 58.00 Lat. 39. 30. Tadcaster a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire which hath a large Stone Bridge over the River Warfe and Lime-Stone digged up in its Neighbourhood in Plenty Tadouslack Tadussacum a Town in New France upon the Bay of S. Laurence where it receives the River Saguen a hundred Miles from Quebec to the South-East Taenarus See Matapan Taff Rhatostathybius a small River in Glamorganshire in Wales which watering and giving name to Landaff falls into the Irish Sea near the Borders of Monmouthshire Taflete Tafleta a Kingdom in Biledulgerida in Africa between Segellomessa to the East and Darba to the West bounded with the Kingdom of Morocco to the North. The Capital City is of the same name A populous and plentiful City fortified with a Castle of great Trade for Indico
same with Furnes Wernow Chalusus a City of Germany near Rostock Wersaw See Warsaw Wert the same with Donawert Werthaim a County in Franconia in Germany Wesel Aliso Vesalia a strong City in the Dukedom of Cleve and an Hanse Town which has a Castle belonging to it It stands upon the Rhine at the confluence of the Lippe twelve German Miles from Cologne North and five from Dorsten to the VVest Taken by the Hollanders from the Spaniards in 1629. From them by the French in 1672 and in the year 1674 it was left to the Duke of Brandenburg after it had been dismantled by the French Rudolphus I Emperor of Germany granted this City to Theodorick VIII Earl of Cleve Weser or the Little Weser Visurgis a small River which ariseth in the Dukedom of Limburgh in the Borders of Juliers and watering Limburgh falls into the Maes above Liege Weser Visurgis a great River of Germany which ariseth in Franconia in the Territory of Coburg near Eisfeldt and flowing through Thuringe near Smalcald receives the Ness below Eysenack and in Hess the Fuld Turning to the North between Brunswick and Westphalia it takes in the Dymel and waters Corby Hammel Minden Cities of Westphalia beneath Ferden admits the Alder and salutes Breme takes in the Wemma and the Honte and beneath Carlestadt â—â—lls into the German Ocean Wesho Vexio a City of Sweden in the Province of Smalland which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vpsal called also Vexsioe and Vexsieu Thirty five Miles from the Lake of Weter South and from the Baltick Sea West Westbury a Market Town and Corporation in Wiltshire upon the River Broke falling into the Avon the Capital of its Hundred and honoured with the Election of two Parliament Men. Westerwaldt Bacenis Buronia a part of the Hercynian Forest called also Hartzwaldt It makes the South parts of the Dukedoms of Brunswick and Thuringe in the Lower Saxony others say it lies by Schelde near Cologne Westerwick Vestrovicum a Sea-Port City in the Province of Smalland on the Baltick Sea in Sweden fifty five Miles from Calmar to the North. West Froson See Friseland Westmannia Vestmania or Westmanland a Province of Sweden between Vpland to the East Gestricia to the North Sudermannia to the South and Nericia to the West The Cities of it are Arosen and Arbosen Westminster Westmonasterium once a Suburb seated a Mile from the City of London and called Thorney now a great and populous City by its Buildings conjoined to London so that it seems to be a part of it but is indeed a distinct City having its peculiar and proper Magistrates and Privileges In the times of the Romans there stood here a Temple of Apollo which in the Reign of Antoninus Pius was subverted by an Earthquake Out of the Ruins of it Segebert King of Kent built a Church in honour of S. Peter about the year 655. About the year 701. Offa King of the East Angles inlarged this old Church which being destroyed by the Danes about the year 854 S. Dunstane Archbishop of Canterbury re-edified it about 970. Edward the Confessor in the year 1061. made great additions to this Fabrick In the year 1221. Henry III. pulled down this Saxon Building and in the same place erected that great and noble Pile now standing and put it into the hands of the Monks to which Henry VII added the Chappel called by his Name In the years 1066 and 1226. Councils were celebrated here At the Reformation instead of the Monks was placed here a Dean twelve Prebends and a Bishop which last is since suppressed In this Church is usually performed the Coronation it likewise contains the Bones of a vast number of the Kings of England and was the Mother of Westminster which from it as from a Centre has spread it self every way Especially after Westminster-Hall became the fixed place for the Courts of Justice built by William Rufus in the year 1099. Rebuilt by Richard II. as Mr. Camden observes and Whitehall the Royal Palace of our Kings about the year 1512. Westmorland Damnii Vestmaria Westmorlandia one of the Northern Counties of England took this Name from its situation and the great number of Moors in it On the North and West it is bounded by Cumberland on the South by Lancashire and on the East by Yorkshire From North to South it is thirty Miles from East to West twenty four in circumference one hundred and twelve Containing twenty six Parishes and eight Market Towns The Air is sharp and piercing healthful the Soil barren and not easily improved two ridges of high Hills crossing it as far as Cumberland Yet the Southern parts contain many fruitful Valleys Meadows Arable and Pasture Grounds The Rivers Eden Ken Lon and Eamon watering them besides two noted Lakes the Vlleswater and Windermeer the last bordering upon Cheshire the other upon Cumberland and Westmorland The ancient Inhabitants were the Brigantes who in the Saxon Heptarchy constituted a part of the great Kingdom of Northumberland The first Earl of this County was Ralph Nevil Lord of Raby E. Marshall in 1398 created Earl of Westmorland by King Richard II. This Family in six Descents continued till the year 1584. it failed in the death of Charles Nevil In 1624. this Honour was revived in Francis Fane created Earl of Westmorland and Baron of Burghersh by James I. as a descendent from the Nevils whose Posterity still enjoy it Westphalia a great Circle or Province in Germany called by the Germans die Wephalen It lies between the Lower Saxony to the East and the Low-Countries to the West bounded on the North by the German Sea on the East by the Dukedom of Breme Ferden Lunenburg and Brunswick on the West by the Vnited Netherlands on the South by the Dukedom of Guelderland the Bishoprick of Cologne VVesterwaldt and Hassia It contains the Bishopricks of Munster Paderborne and Osnaburg the Dukedoms of Cleve and Berg the Principality of Minden the Counties of Oldenburg Mark Hoye Diepholt Ravensberg Lingen Lippe Benthem and Scaumburg East Friseland and the Dukedom of Westphalia The capital City of this Circle is Munster The Dukedom of Westphalia is bounded on the North by the Bishopricks of Munster and Paderborne on the West by the County of Mark on the South by Wester-waldt and Hassia on the East by the County of Waldeck The principal places in it are Arensberg Cleve Dussel-dorp Embden Emerick Ham Lipstad Minden Munster Oldenburg Osnabruck Paderborne Soest Dortmund and Wesel Besides what is above expressed this Circle includes the Dukedoms of Juliers and Guelderland the Bishoprick of Leige and the States of Vtrecht but this last has been separated from it ever since 1548. Westram a Market Town in the County of Kent in Sutton Lath upon the River Darent Westrick Westrych Westryck Austrasia Lotharingia taken in its largest extent contained Brabant Hainault Liege Namur Luxemburg Juliers Epfall Wasgow Imperial Flanders and Lorain And under the first Race of the Kings of France