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A27210	The present state of the universe, or, An account of I. The rise, births, names, matches, children, and near allies of all the present chief princes of the world, II. Their coats of arms, motto's, devises, liveries, religions, and languages, III. The names of their chief towns, with some computation of the houses and inhabitants ... IV. Their revenues to which are added some other curious remarks, as also an account of common-wealths, relating to the foregoing heads.	Beaumont, John, d. 1731.	1694 (1694)	Wing B1623; ESTC R13456	71,782	106

usurping King there after King Edwards death was by the unanimous consent of the Peerage of England Crowned King Now when King William the Conqueror's youngest Son Henry upon the death of his elder Brother William the Second who had succeeded his Father in the Kingdom came to the Crown which was An 1087. He married Matilda or Maud Daughter of Malcolm the Third King of Scotland by Margaret the Sister of Edgar Atheling right Heir of Edward the Confessor as being descended from King Edmund Ironside half Brother to King Edward the Confessor by their common Father King Ethelred and Grandfather to the abovenamed Edgar Atheling and Margaret And the said King Henry the First had by his Wife Matilda or Maud a Son who was cast away at Sea and a Daughter named Maud also the only Legitimate Issue that survived him born An. 1104. She was married first to the Emperour Henry the Fourth who had no Issue by her and after his death to Geoffry Plantagenet Earl of Anjou by whom she had a Son nam'd Henry the Second Now King Henry the First his Son being dead seeing this Daughter his only Legitimate Issue call'd a Parliament An. 1133. in which all the Lords of the Land took an Oath to be true to his Daughter Maud the Empress and her Heirs and acknowledge them as right Inheritors of the Crown And tho Stephen Earl of Bologne and Montagne Son of Stephen Earl of Blois by Adela third Daughter of the Conquerour was set up to the Crown by the working of Henry his Brother Bishop of Winchester after the death of King Henry the First against the undoubted right of the said Empress yet at length seeing his Children dead before him he secur'd the Succession to her Son Henry the Second who was Crown'd An. 1155. And from this Henry the Second in whom the Saxon Line was restored is Descended James the Second of the Royal House of the Stuarts late King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. who was born Oct. 14. 1633. His Majesty Espoused for his first Wife the Lady Ann Daughter to the late Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England c. She died before he came to the Crown and brought him Issue four Sons and four Daughters but all dying young except two surviving Daughters The eldest is the Lady Mary born Apr. 30. 1662. and was married to William Henry Prince of Orange in London at S. James's Nov. 14. 1677. The said Prince being born on the 14. of the same month New Stile 1650 and restor'd to his Hereditary Dignity in the United Provinces An. 1672. concerning whom I shall say more beneath The second is the Lady Ann born Feb. 6 1664. And July 28. 1683. was Espoused to George Prince of Denmark only Brother to the present King of that Kingdom he was born An. 1653. or 1. he has had Issue by his Princess 1. William Duke of Gloucester born in July 1689. and three Children more viz. the Lady Mary the Lady Ann and another Princess who died in their Infancy His Majesty Nov. 21. 1673. took for his second Wife the Lady Mary-Eleanor-Beatrix D'Este late Queen of England still living who was born Sept. 25. 1658. being youngest Sister to Francisco D'Este the present Duke of Modena and Regio c. She was Crowned with his Majesty April 23. 1685. And his Majesty has had by her two Daughters and a Son who all died young before the year 1688. And as some say he has had a Son and a Daughter by her since still living Their Majesties reside at present at S. Germains in France and profess the Roman Religion His Majesty has Natural Issue by Madam Churchil two Sons and two Daughters all living in France The Sons go by the name of Fitz-James The eldest is Duke of Berwick the youngest is stiled Grand Prior of Ireland The eldest Daughter was married to the late Lord Waldegrave by whom he has Issue two Sons The other Daughter is unmarried Now as for William Henry of Nassaw Prince of Orange and now stiled William the Third King of Great Britain c. who married the Lady Mary eldest Daughter to King James as above They were Proclaim'd King and Queen of England France and Ireland the Executive Power in him Feb. 14. 1689. Proclaim'd King and Queen of Scotland April 11. of the same year His Majesty has as yet no Issue by his Queen Now as to the Rise of the House of Nassaw and Orange as it concerns King William I shall not seek to retrieve its Original but its certain it flourisht in the ninth Century and I shall only take notice that from Walram and Otto Sons of Henry surnam'd the Rich Earl of Nassau sprang two Capital Lines viz. that of Idstein afterwards call'd Sarepont from Walram and that of Dillenburg which now enjoys the Principality from Otto and therefore we shall confine ourselves singly to this Now John the Third who was the eighth of his Family Lineally descended from the said Otto inclusively had two Sons viz. Henry and William the Elder Henry was born An. 148● and from him the Principality of Orange Descended to King William As for William the Elder Brother to Henry he had a Son call'd John who dwelt in the Castle of Dillenburg and had twenty five Children of whom I shall note only four viz. John George Ernestus-Casimire and John-Lewis for from them sprang the several Lines of Siegen Dillenburg Diezen and Hademar on each of which the Emperour Ferdinand the Third in the Diet of Ratisbone March 3. 1654. conferr'd the honour of having a Voice and Seat among the Princes of the Empire As for a farther Genealogical account of these Families it may be had elsewhere To the Royal Family of England I must add Donna Catharina Infanta of Portugal Queen Dowager of England born at Villa Vicosa in Portugal Nov. 14. Old Stile An. 1638. and Espoused at Portsmouth by his late Majesty King Charles the Second in the month of May An. 1662. She being only Sister to Don Pedro of the House of Braganza the present King of that Kingdom She resides at present at Lisbon in Portugal Her original Jointure some settled by King Charles was 40000 l. per annum to which considerable additions have been since made Their Majesties have two Uncles living in England viz. the Earls of Clarendon and Rochester The Princes and Princesses of the Blood Royal of England that are not excluded from the Succession of the Crown by the late Act of Parliament I. PRincess Ann of Denmark afore mention'd II. The Duke of Glocester of whom also see before III. Sophia Duchess of Hanover Daughter to Frederick the Fifth Elector and King of Bohemia Married to the Duke An. 1658. Her Children 1. George-Lewis born May 28. 1660. Who Nov. 1. 1682. Married Sophia-Dorothea only Daughter to the Duke of Zel by whom he has 1. George-Augustus born Oct. 30. 1683. 2. William-Ernestus born An. 1685. 2. Christian born Sept.

them have a thousand or eight hundred Families the People being dispersed in Forests and other places where they have store of Timber to build them Houses and store of Pasturage for their Cattle which is the reason they have not so many great Towns nor so well inhabited as usual in far lesser Countries IV. The Revenues are very great they arising first from Church Lands taken to the Crown Secondly from Mines Thirdly from the Tenths of all Increase as Wheat Rye Barley Fish Oxen and the like Commodities Fourthly from Customs imposed on Merchandises paid in all Haven-Towns for all Commodities imported and exported He has also Contributions and Power of imposing Tax in time of War as occasion may require The House of Portugal I. TOward the latter end of the eleventh Century Alphonso the Sixth King of Castile had very frequent and bloody Wars with the Moors in which a certain Prince named Henry descended as some say from the House of Burgundy as others from that of Lorain was chiefly signalized for his Valour and good Services to the Crown King Alphonso in reward of this Merit gave him Portugal then lately recovered from the Moors under the Title of an Earldom together with his Daughter Teresa to Wife yet with this condition that he should continue a Vassal to Castile This Prince's Son was Alphonso the First who throwing off the Spanish Yoke and having subdued several petty Kings of the Moors caused himself to be proclaimed King of Portugal in the year 1139. His great Grandson Alphonso the Third King of Portugal had Algarve given him in Dowry with his Queen the Princess Beatrix Daughter of Alphonso the Tenth King of Castile whence the eldest Son of Portugal is always called Prince of Algarve Of this Family the present King of Portugal is descended Indeed Philip the Second King of Spain on some pretences made himself Master of the Kingdom of Portugal by Force of Arms ann 1580 but 't was again lost by his Grandson ann 1640 for the Portuguese actually rejecting the Spanish Yoke elected John Duke of Braganza descended as above to be their King in whose Line the Kingdom continues What particularly contributed to the Renunciation the Portuguese made to the King of Spain ann 1640 was the permission that King gave to others beside themselves to trade to the East Indies and the Tax he imposed of the fifth peny on all their Merchandizes and other Revenues It s remarkable that the Deliberation of shaking off the Spanish Yoak was kept private above a year betwixt two hundred persons Don Pedro of the House of Braganza King of Portugal and Algarve was born 1648. His elder Brother Don Alphonso the Sixth King of Portugal c. ann 1667 married the Lady Mary-Frances Elizabeth or Isabella Daughter to Charles Amadeus of Savoy Duke of Nemours She was born June the Twenty first 1648. and after sixteen months living with Don Alphonso she obtained a Declaration of Nullity of her Marriage with him retired to a Cloister And ann 1669 Don Alphonso was deposed as judged incapable either of a second Marriage or of the Government and sent the year following to the Tercera Island where he died in the year 1683. Now the present King upon his Brother Alphonso's being deposed was presently declared Prince Regent and after his death King of Portugal and by a Dipensation from the Pope married his Sister-in-Law abovementioned The Cardinal Deacon Louis de Vendôme in quality of universal Legat à Latere gave them the Dispensation under Pope Clement the Ninth Abbot Bon-Filz the Secretary to the Legation has set forth the particulars and the Conferences he had with his Holiness at the end of the Transaction The King had by this Queen a Daughter named Mary Elizabeth who was born ann 1669 and died ann 1690. And the Queen her self dying Dec. 27. 1683. the King ann 1687 took to Wife the Lady Mary-Sophia-Elizabeth Daughter of Philip-William Elector Palatine who was born Aug. 6. 1666 and Aug. 30. 1688 was brought to Bed of a young Prince who died Sept. 3. in the same year And in Octob. 1689 she was brought to Bed of another Prince named John Prince of Bresil The King of Portugal has but one Sister living viz. Donna-Catharina the Queen Dowager of England concerning whom see in the Head of England II. He bears Argent five Escutcheons Azure placed Cross-wise each charged with as many Besants of the first placed in Saltier and pointed Sable for Portugal The Shield bordered Gules charged with seven Towers Or three in Chief and two in each Flanch The Crest is a Crown Or which is the Crest of Portugal Under the two Flanches and the Base of the Shield appear the Ends of two Crosses the first Flower de luc'd Verte which is for the Order of Avis The second Pattee Gules which is for the Order of Christ The five Escutcheons were born in memory of five Kings whom Alphonso the first King slew at the Battel of Obrique ann 1139. The Border with the Towers or Castles were added by Alphonso the Third on his Investiture into the Kingdom of Algarve by Alphonso the Tenth of Castile ann 1257 whose Daughter Beatrix he then married and so conceived himself to have some Relation to the Arms of that Kingdom This King's Livery is of a Green Colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the Portuguese Language which is a Dialect of the Spanish III. Lisbon seated on the River Tagus is the Capital City of the Kingdom and the place where his Majesty keeps his Court. It s seven miles in compass and contains above thirty Parishes and above thirty thousand Houses The Portuguese have this Proverb He that has not seen Lisbon has not seen a fine thing The Buildings are neat and elegant and there are seventy six Turrets or Towers on the City Wall and twenty two Gates towards the Sea shore c. It s the Staple for the Commodities for all the Kingdom and thought to be worth more than the whole Realm besides and doubtless the Revenues which accrue to the King from hence and from his Foreign Plantations are very considerable ITALY The Papacy I. INnocent the Twelfth the present Pope was born at Naples in March ann 1615 elected Pope July 12. ann 1671 he is Son to Prince Minerbino of the Family of Pignato the chief whereof is the Duke of Terra Nova a Grandee of Spain II. Having not the particular Arms of the present Popes Family by me I can here only say that the Popes for a Crest to their Gentilitial Arms are wont to put the Arms of the Popedom which are as follow The Papal Escutcheon is Gules and consists of a long Cap or Head-piece Or surmounted with a Cross pearled and garnished with three Royal Crowns with the two Keys of S. Peter placed in Saltier Boniface the Eighth was the first that wore the Tiara with a double Crown and Urban the Fifth made it in the Form of a Cap adorned with

de Blois born An. 1681. These six were born him by Frances Athanasia de Roche Chovart Gabriel Prince de Mortemars Daughter and Wife to Henry-Lewis Paidallan Marquess of Montespan The French King has only one Brother viz. Philip Duke of Orleans born Sept. 1. An. 1640. He espoused for his first Wife the Princess Henrietta-Maria youngest Daughter to our late King Charles the First She was born at Exeter Jun. 16. 1644 and died An. 1670. He had by her four Children viz. 1. Maria-Aloisia born March 27. 1662. and married Nov. 17. 1679. to Charles the Second King of Spain She died without Issue by him An. 1689. 2. Philip who died an Infant 3. Another Daughter not named 4. Anna-Maria born Aug. 27. 1669. and Apr. 9. 1684. married to Victor Amadeus the Second the present Duke of Savoy The next year after the forementioned Duchess of Orleans died An. 1671. The Duke married Elizabeth Charlotta Daughter to Charles-Lewis Elector Palatine who was born in May 1652. The Espousals were celebrated at Metz Nov. 26. of the said year he has Issue by her 1. Philip Duke of Chartres born Aug. 2. 1671. 2. Elizabetha-Charlotta Mademoiselle de Chartres born Sept. 13. 1676. The Princes of the Blood BEing to name the Princes of the Blood I shall shew withal how they are descended and allied to the King of France Robert the Fifth Count of Clermont and Lord of Bourbon youngest Son to King Lewis the Ninth as mentioned before was the person in whom the Line of Hugh Capet is continued in the Crown of France Charles Duke of Vendôme lineally descended from him was born An. 1489. And left among other Children two Sons viz. Anthony the eldest who was Duke of Vendôme and King of Navarr Great Grandfather to the present King of France 2. Lewis Prince of Conde Great Grandfather to the present Prince of Conde Henry-Julius de Bourbon born Jul. 29. 1643. formerly stiled Duke D'Enghien and now since his Fathers death Prince of Conde He was married Dec. 11. 1667. to the Princess Anne Daughter to Edward Prince Palatine of the Rhine who was born July 23. 1647. and is since deceased but he has by her the following Issue 1. Maria-Teresa Mademoiselle de Bourbon born 1666. 2. Lewis de Bourbon Duke D'Enghien born 1668. and married 1685. to Aloisia-Frances Natural Daughter to the King of France by Madam de Montespan who was born 1673. 3. Maria-Anna Mademoiselle de Monmorency born 1675. 4. Anna-Maria Victoria Mademoiselle D'Enghien born 1676. 5. Aloisia-Benedicta Mademoiselle de Conde born 1678. The Prince of Conde had also a Brother viz. Armand Prince de Conti born 1629. married to Anna-Maria de Monmorency Cardinal Mazarines Neice by the Sister 1659. Deceased 1666 leaving behind him two Sons viz. 1. Lewis de Bourbon Prince of Conti born 1661. and in 1680 he married Anna-Maria de Bourbon the Kings Natural Daughter by Madam de la Valiere who was made Legitimate He died without Issue An. 1685. 2. Francis-Lewis de Bourbon the now Prince of Conti born 1664 or 8. Besides these Princes of the Blood the King has also three Cousin Germans living Daughters to his Uncle Gaston-John-Baptist late Duke of Orleans 1. Anna-Maria Duchess of Montpensier born An. 1627. unmarried 2. Margarita-Aloisia born An. 1645. and married An. 1661. to Cosmus the Third Great Duke of Tuscany 3. Isabella born An. 1649 and married An. 1667. to Joseph-Lewis Duke of Guise She is now a Widow Note That tho this King of France be but the twenty sixth King inclusively of the Line of Hugh Capet yet he is the sixty first King of France for there preeceded twenty one Kings of the Race of Merovius and thirteen Kings of the Race of Charlemagne before the Line of Hugh Capet came in II. For Arms he bears Azure three Flower de Luces Or two in Chief and one in Base the Escutcheon is environed with the Collars of the Orders of S. Michael and the Holy Ghost It has for Crest an Helmet Or entirely open thereon a Crown Clos'd after the manner of an Imperial Crown with eight Inarched Rayes topt with a double Flower de Luce. The Supporters are two Angels habited as Levites the whole under a Pavilion Royal semè of France lin'd Ermines with these words Ex omnibus floribus elegi mihi Lilium Lilia neque laborant neque nent These words The Lilies do not Spin as a late French Writer tells us import that the Flower de Luces which represent the Crown of France never fall to the Distaff and that the Female Sex cannot inherit according to the Salique Law The same Custom having prevailed among the Chaldeans Egyptians Persians Chineses Turks Tartars and Parthians tho the Daughters have sometimes succeeded in England Spain Sicily Sueden c. The King of France pretending likewise a right to Navarre bears also for that Kingdom Gules a Carbuncle noued Or which having a resemblance to Chains of Gold is Blazon'd by some Chains of Gold Interlac'd parted into Orbes Pales Fesses Counterbands or Saltiers The King of France's Device is Consiliis Armisque Potens or also this Nec pluribus Impar Note That the Arms of France in the days of Pharamond and his three Successors were Gules three Crowns Or. Clovis the Great altered them to Azure semè of Flower de Luces Or and Charles the Sixth who came to the Crown An. 1380 reduc'd the Lilies in his Coat of Arms to three The Kings Livery is of a blew colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the French Language III. Paris is the Capital City of France which has the pleasant River Seine running thro the midst of it I shall speak concerning the extent and number of the Houses and Inhabitants of this and other Cities when I come to speak of London wherefore I shall pass by these things at present As for his chief Seats of pleasure the chief is that noble Seat at Versailles four Leagues South of Paris of which there being a full and clear description extant in English as also of the Seat of Monsieur at S. Clou and of the Treasury of S. Denis I shall say nothing here of them He has also the noble Seats of Fontainbleau and S. Germains beside the Louvre at Paris celebrated by that famous Distich Non Orbis Gentem non Urbem Gens habet ullam Urbsve domum Dominum nec habet ulla parem 4. The Revenues of the King of France are said to amount to eleven millions of Pounds Sterling being above the fifth part of the Revenues of that Kingdom and the French averr France to contain fifty thousand Parishes The House of England I. WIlliam Duke of Normandy surnamed the Conqueror under the pretence that King Edward the Confessor his Cousin who died without Issue An. 1065. Son of King Ethelred by his Queen Emma had by his last Will and Testament transferred the Kingdom to him made a Descent into England An. 1067. and having slain King Harold in Battle the then

1615 and settled this vast Empire and manag'd it in a more constant way of Peace with the Turk Tartar Polonian and Swethlander than any of his Predecessors had done before him At present there are two Brothers that Reign jointly as Czars Great Dukes or Emperours of Moscovy The eldest is nam'd Iwan-Alexeewich born about the year 1667. and has married the Daughter of one Soltikows a Polander The other is nam'd Peter Alexeewich born about the year 1670. Upon the death of the late Czar the elder of these came to the Crown but by reason of his Natural Defects being judg'd by a great party of the Empire unfit to Govern they would have Depos'd him and set up the younger Brother but the former being upheld by a good Interest after much stir they came to this accommodation that they should Reign joyntly II. The Great Seal of Moscovy is an Eagle displaied Sable in a Field Or bearing on its Brest a Shield the Field being Gules charg'd with a S. George Argent holding a Launce with which he kills a Dragon Betwixt the Heads of the Eagle are three Crowns plac'd one over the other which are said to signifie Moscovy and the two Kingdoms of Cassan and Astracan They say it was the Tyrant Iwann Basileewich who first made use of these Arms to raise a belief that he was descended from the Ancient Roman Emperours the word Czar signifying Caesar Heylin makes the Arms of Moscovy Sable a Portal Open of two Leaves and as many degrees Or. His Livery is of a Yellow Colour He is of the Greek Church and the Moscovites have a Bible translated from the Greek and printed in their own Tongue which is the Sclavonian in the Moscovite Characters III. Moscow seated on the River of the same name is the Capital City and Imperial Seat Few Cities in the World have suffer'd so much by Fire An. 1571. the Tartars burnt it and in it 80000 persons it being then 12 Miles in Compass and containing 41500 Families and Houses and above 1500 Convents Churches and Chapels It keeps its Compass still but the number of Houses is not restor'd they not extending above five Miles An. 1611. the Polanders burnt it and An. 1676. the Fire hapning by accident held on for three weeks and burnt as it s said 5000 Houses This Town is apt to Fires because the Houses of the Common People are generally built of Wood with Mortar mixt with Straw and done over with Lime brought from Smolensko and are cover'd with Boards and Barks of Trees having sometimes Turffs laid on them and Fires would happen oftner there but that Soldiers and Guards are appointed to take care of it The Churches and Houses of the Persons of Quality are built with Stone or Brick and some of the chief Churches are cover'd with gilt Copper or Tin and have many Globes of the same Metal on them so that the Prospect of Moscow is very beautiful There is a Bell rais'd on a Tower of Moscow which weighs above one hundred seventy six Tuns Two hundred Tuns of Metal were allow'd for making it It s twenty four Foot in hight the Clapper is twenty one Foot in length and weighs above seven Tuns IV. It s said that this Duke has more Lands than all the Dukes of Europe beside and his Government being Tyrannical so that he has the free and absolute disposal of his Subjects Lives and Fortunes he makes his Revenues what he pleases But beside the extraordinary ways of oppressing his Subjects which he often makes use of he has many ordinary ways for amassing Treasures viz. By Forestalling Homebred Commodities and Engrossing the Foreign selling them at what price he lists and hindring others from Trade till all his are sold By provision of Rent Corn and Victuals rais'd in some years to 20000 Marks Sterling Customs on Merchandize to 800000. Poll-mony to 400000. Rent Wood and Hey to 30000 c. Tartaria Precopensis or the Lesser Tartary I. IT S probable that upon the breaking of the great Empire of the Tartars into pieces upon the death of Tamerlane which hapned An. 1402. The Precopenses or European Tartars submitted to a Prince of their own Nation under the Power and Government of whose Successors they still continue The name of the present Cham of the Lesser Tartary or of the Crim Tartar is Nuradin Kiery He has a Wife call'd the Chamine and four Children to all whom the Emperour of Germany sent Presents some years since He is call'd the Crim Tartar from the Town of Crim the Ancient Seat of the Chams and at that time the fairest and greatest of the Country situate in the midst thereof and fortified with a strong Castle and for the hight of the Walls and depth of the Ditch esteem'd Impregnable The Country is also call'd Tartaria Precopensis from Precopia a chief Town thereof II. He bears Or three Grissins Sable arm'd Gules His Livery is of a _____ colour The Religion there most Embrac'd and Countenanc'd is that of Mahomet mingled with some few of their old Principles of Christianity for they confess that Christ shall be Judge both of the Quick and Dead in the day of Judgment and punish ●●ose that speak irreverently of him which makes great store of Grecian and Armenian Christians dwell among them The Language which they speak is their own Tartarian but intermixt with much of the Arabick and Turkish Tongues and when they write they use either Chaldean or Arabick Characters III. A late French Writer tells us he resides at Baccasarium which stands in the midst of his Countries perhaps the same with Crim before mention'd But the Court of the Great Cham in the Summer time makes a moveable City built upon Wheel-Houses and Transported from one place to another as occasion serves which Houses at every station are orderly dispos'd of into Streets and Lanes and by the Tartars are called Agara or a Town of Carts They remove also their droves of Cattle up and down with them Within these Territories there is a Town call'd Capha but it belongs wholly to the Turk he keeping there a Governour It was taken from the Genoeses An. 1475. It s six or seven Miles about being in a manner wholly inhabited by Christians The Greeks have twelve Churches there The Armenians thirty two and the Romanists one Dedicated to S. Peter The Town is of great Trade IV. The Revenues of this Prince are uncertain his Subjects having but little mony and living most upon Bartering of their Cattle beside what he has in Lands and Customs and five thousand five hundred Ducats yearly which he receives from the Great Turk he has the tenth of all Spoils which are gotten in the Wars The Male-Line of the Ottoman House failing these Chams are to succeed upon an Agreement made betwixt the two Emperours TURKY I. THE Turks who anciently inhabited about the Fens of Maeotis liv'd a poor and contemptible Nation till Mahomet the Sultan of Persian Rebelling against his

the Emperor should have what he pleased so he might have freedom to see the sight and parted with his House accordingly The Palace of the Seraglio contains three Courts one within another the Buildings yielding unto those of France and Italy for the neat contrivances but far surpassing them for cost and curiousness The Grand Seignior has many other considerable Cities the chief is Grand Cairo in Egypt which is eight miles in compass and being viewed from a high place it presents a most delightful prospect the Mosques being built of various Colours and very beautious and the other Houses tho but two stories high having generally their Roofs raised with Turrets for Coverings and being all surrounded with Palm Trees and Gardens Alexandria also in Egypt has been a considerable Town belonging to the Grand Seignior it s at present full of Ruins and but poorly inhabited the cause is imputed to the illness of the Air during the Months of July August September and October which is thought to proceed from this that the greatest part of the Houses are built on solid Vaults which serve as Cisterns to keep the Waters of Nilus whence the Air becomes corrupted and inclines to Diseases He has also the City of Babylon in Chaldea not the ancient Babylon but another City going by that name situate forty miles more North maintained chiefly at present by the Trade of Aleppo and being seven miles in compass IV. The Turkish Empire being of so vast an extent in three parts of the World viz. Africa Asia and the better part of Europe must of necessity yield an immense Treasure a certain Author says he has under him seventy Kingdoms and three Empires The Revenues consist chiefly in Tributes raised on the People and in Customs and these are paid for the most part in Silver As for the Gold which is raised it proceeds from four Sources whereof two are foreign and two of the Country One of the first is the Trade of the English French Dutch Italians Moscovites and Polanders who bring Ducats from their Countries The other is their annual Tribute of the Cham of the Lesser Tartary the Princes of Transylvania Moldavia Valachia the Republick of Ragusa and a part of Mingrelia and of Russia ought to pay the Grand Seignior in Gold which amounts to considerable Sums One of the two Sources of the Country is the Spoils of the Bacha's all their Monies which for the most part is Gold coming to the Grand Seignior at their Deaths the other the Revenue of Egypt which amounts yearly to twelve millions of Livres Beside this yearly Income the Turk has a secret Treasure consisting of such stores of Gold as have been laid up by the Ottoman Princes and in this private Treasury when Ibrahim this Emperor's _____ came to the Crown there were four thousand Bags of Gold each containing 15000 Ducats of Gold or thirty thousand Crowns which Summ makes three hundred and sixty millions of Livres Some have affirm'd the Grand Seignior to be Proprietor of all the Lands under his Dominions and that Fathers do not leave the Succession to their Children which is a great mistake for the right of inheriting according to the degrees of Blood is not only granted the Turks but likewise to the Greeks they paying the Grand Seignior only about three per Cent. at each change of Heir PERSIA I. HIstorians make eight Dynastyes of Persian Kings The fifth of these Dynastyes was begun in the person of Tangrolipix the first Persian King of the Turkish Race ann 1020 who is mentioned by me in my foregoing Account of Turky This Race failing the sixth Dynasty began in Haalon made King of Persia by Occata the Great Cham of Tartary ann 1260. This Tartarian Dynasty ended also in Persia with the Race of Tamerlane and the seventh Dynasty of the Turcoman or Armenian Race began in Ussan Cassanes ann 1472 he being the Son of one of those poor Armenian Princes dispossessed by Bajazet the First Emperor of the Turks and restored by Tamerlane who grew at length to that power that he overthrew in a pitched Field Zeuzes the last of the Tartarian Race and slew him This Dynasty of the Turcoman or Armenian Race continued till 1496 that Alanat the last King of it was overthrown and slain by Hysmael one of the Sophian Race and Faction The Quarrel and Occasion was thus Mahomet the Impostor and first Emperor of the Saracens by his last Will and Testament bequeathed the Succession of that Estate to Haly his near Kinsman and Husband to Fatima his eldest Daughter but Abudezar Haumar and Osman three powerful Men and the chief Commanders of the Army in the time of Mahomet successively followed one another in the supreme Dignity After their Death 's Hali enjoyed that Honor for a little while supplanted first and afterwards vanquished by Muhavias a great Man of War who succeeded in it and to secure himself slew Hasen or Ossan the Son of Hali and eleven of his Sons a twelfth escaping called Musa Ceredine from whom Hysmael Sophi abovementioned was lineally descended who after his Victory and being crowned King or Shaw of Persia altered the Form of Religion making Hali and himself the sole Successors of Mahomet and condemning Abudezar Haumar and Osman with the Turks as Rebels and Schismaticks Hence proceeded the Bloody Wars betwixt them and the Turks the Persians burning whatsoever Book they found concerning those three and the Turks holding it more meritorious to kill one Persian than seventy Christians This Hysmael Sophi was the Founder of this eighth Dynasty of the Persian Kings ann 1505 from whom is descended Cha Soliman the present King of Persia at his coming to the Crown called Cha Sophi he came to be King ann 1665 his Father great Cha Abas then dying himself at that time being thirty five years of Age. It s a remarkable Passage concerning the change of this King's Name and his being twice crown'd which was on this occasion It happened some time after his being crowned that he grew indisposed in his Health and his Physician had tried several methods on him without success whereupon the King's Mother growing impatient fell severely on the Physician and charged him for being either Fool or Traitor that he did not cure the King The Doctor finding himself so hardly put to it had no way to shift himself but by charging the Fault on the Stars and the Astrologers and told her if the King languished and could not recover a perfect health it proceeded not from any Failure in him or his Medicines but for that the Astrologers had not taken the Aspect of a fortunate Constellation at the time of his Coronation The Physician was back'd by all his Friends at Court and particularly by one of the King's Astrologers who had a secret hatred against the Prince of the Astrologers who had been appointed to observe the favourable hour for the King's Coronation and the former made out the mistake astrologically