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
of Somerset Rochford a Market Town in the County of Essex The Capital of its Hundred Rochitzerbergh Claudius a Mountain in Stiria called by various names Rockingham a Market Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Corby upon the River Weland giving the Title of Baron to the Right Honorable Edward Watson Lord Rockingham to whom belongs the Castle here which hath lost its strength long since Rocroy Rupes Regia a strong Town in Champagne in Retelois in the Borders of Hainault twelve Leagues from Retel to the North four from Mariebourgh to the South Near this Place the Spaniards received a great Defeat from the French under the Duke D'Anguien May 19. 1643. six days after the death of Lewis XIII King of France But afterward the Spaniards took this Town under the Prince of Conde's Conduct in 1653. It is since returned under the Crown of France Rodaun Erodanus a River in Prussia in Poland which riseth out of a Lake twenty five Miles above Dantzick and falling into the Vistula not much above this City a little beneath it enters the Baltick Sea Roden a small River in Shropshire Rodez or Rhodes Segodunum Rhuteni Rutenae Segodunum Retunorum a City of Aquitain the Capital of the County of Rovergne and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourges The Bishop takes the Title of an Earl a great and beautiful City seated upon the River Veronium fifteen Leagues from Mende to the West thirty two from Narbone to the North and twenty two from Cahors to the East A very ancient City and mentioned by Julius Caesar The Goths Saracens and Franks successively ruined it in their times It served heretofore under its own Counts till it became united with the Crown of France in the Person of Henry IV. Roding a Stream in the County of Essex Rodosto Redcestum a City of Thrace which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Heraclea it stands upon the Propontis twenty Miles from Heraclea to the South at the foot of an Hill by a Bay of the same name which affords it a convenient and very large Haven so that it is now a Place of considerable Trade and reasonably populous Pliny calls this City Resiston It is beautified with many great Mosques some Grecian Churches and two Synagogues and much frequented by the Merchants of Romania the Sea of Marmora and the Black Sea Roer Rura in Trithemius Rera Adrana a River of Germany called by the French Roure It ariseth in Eifel in the Dukedom of Juliers and watering Juliers and Linnich at Roermonde it falls into the Maes Roermonde Ruremunda a City of the Low Countries in the Province of Guelderland called by the French Ruremonde It stands upon a River of the same name and the Maes having the first to the South of it the second to the West three Leagues from Venlo to the South twelve from Liege to the North Cologne to the West and Wesel to the East Made a Bishops See by Pope Paul IV. under the Archbishop of Mechlin in 1559 he changing its Collegiate Church into a Cathedral and was an Hanse Town till 1635 when it fell into the Hands of the Hollanders from whom it is since recovered by the Spaniards In 1665. it suffered much by a Fire Rohaczow Rohaczovia a considerable Town the Capital of a Territory of the same name in Lithuania upon the Nieper where it takes in the Odrucz twenty Polish Miles from Mohilow to the South and forty from Kiovia to the North. Roham-Thaura Antitaurus a Mountain in the Lesser Armenia which lies to the North of the Great Taurus between the Euphrates and the Arsanius separated from the said great Mountain and therefore by the Ancients called Antitaurus In the Valleys beneath it stands the City of Comdna now called Tabachasa Roia Rodium a City of France in the Province of Picardy upon the River Auvergne in the Territory of Santerre four Leagues from Noyon to the West nine from Amiens and seven from Compeigne to the North. A small City but populous Roll-rich-stones a Monument of vast unwrought Stones circularly set near Ensham in Oxfordshire supposed to have been erected in Commemoration of some great Victory in ancient Times Rom one of the Names of the Lesser Asia Rom Roma a small Island in the Baltick Sea upon the Coast of the Dukedom of Sleswick about two English Miles from the Shoar under the King of Denmark Romagna Romandiola a great Province in Italy in the States of the Church of old called Aemilia Regio Bounded on the West by Bononia on the North by the Dukedom of Ferrara on the South by the Dukedom of Vrbino and on the East by the Adriatick Sea a small part of it towards the Appennine is subject to the Duke of Florence and therefore called Romandiola Florentina The rest which is the far greatest part is under the Pope as a Temporal Prince The principal Places in it are Ravenna the Capital Faenza Imola Forli Bertinoro Rimini Cervia Cesena Sarsina and some others Romania the same with Thrace Romania Argia the Eastern Province of the Morea the Capital of which is Napoli di Romania The other Places are of small importance Romans Romantium Romanis a spruce fine City in Dauphine in France seated in a pleasant Plain upon the River Iseure over which it has a Bridge four Leagues from Valence to the South-East toward Grenoble ten Miles and the same distance from Vienne to the South It is thought to represent Jerusalem in its Situation and Figure insomuch that in 1520. there was a Building added to it made in the fashion of the Holy Sepulchre that stands upon Mount Calvary Francis I. King of France himself laying the first Stone And also a Convent founded under the Name of the House of Mount Calvary now in the possession of the Recollects but first given to the Religious of the Order of S. Francis The Huguenots sacked and ruined this City in 1562. It has been often taken and retaken in the Civil Wars Rome Roma the Capital City of Italy once the Sovereign and Mistriss of the whole World the more immediate Capital now of Campagna di Roma The Emperour Commodus desired to fasten his own Name upon it by calling it Commodiana as a Gothish King called it Gothia and other Princes the like But the Name of Rome still has been always preserved by it This City is seated upon the Tyber twelve Miles above its fall into the Tyrrhenian Sea to the North-East one hundred and twenty from Naples to the North three hundred from Genoua to South one hundred thirty five from Ancona and one hundred and forty from Florence Long. 36. 30. Lat. 40. 40. Though there are great Controversies concerning the Time and the Founder of it yet the most received opinion is that it was built by Romulus and Remus in the first year of the seventh Olympiad Anno Mundi 3198. seven hundred and fifty years before the Birth of our Saviour Its Foundations were small and
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
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
of Poland called by the Natives Poconk or Pocouth It is a part of the Territory of Halitz between the River Tyra now the Neister and the Borders of Transylvania and Walachia the principal Town is Sniatim upon the Pruth the rest Colomey and Martinow Podgarim Babylonia a Province in Asia Podolia Bodeni Budini Patzinacae Populi a Province of the Kingdom of Poland comprehended under the Red Russia of which it is a part and subject to a Palatine of its own Bounded on the North by Volhinia on the East by the Palatinate of Braslaw on the South by Wallachia and on the West by Russia properly so called or the Black Russia This Country extends Eastward through vast uninhabited Countries as far as the Euxine Sea They divide it ordinarily into the Vpper Podolia to the West and the Lower to the East The people are Russians by their Original conquered by the Poles and in the year 1434. admitted to the same Privileges with the rest of Poland by Vladislaus then King of Poland It is fruitful to a wonder yet more accommodated to the life of Beasts than Men. Could it enjoy a steady Peace it should not need to envy the Fertility of Italy or any other Country but being a Frontier against the Turks and Tartars and always exposed to their devouring Incursions it is but meanly inhabited and not much improved In the year 1672. it was yielded to the Turks a part of it has been retrieved since The principal place is Caminieck in the Vpper Podolia the rest are Tzudnow Bratzlaw in the Lower and Orczakow which last is in the hands of the Tartars Poictiers Pictavium Augustoritum Pictava Pictavorum Vrbs a City which is the Capital of the Province of Poictou in France a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux and a celebrated University founded by Charles VII in 1431. It stands upon the River Clain at its Confluence with another small River which there makes a large Lake fourteen Leagues from the Loyre to the South thirty from Saintes to the North and thirty five from Bourges to the West Famous for many Battels sought near it especially that of the Black Prince in the year 1356. In which John King of France was taken Prisoner together with many Lords and two thousand Knights and Esquires Fifty two Lords one thousand seven hundred Knights and Gentlemen were slain of the French Three French Battalions the least of which exceeded the English were intirely routed and in great part destroyed In the Reign of Charles VII King of France whilest the Victorious English were Masters of the Capital of the Kingdom the Parliament of Paris for some years sat here The old Castle by the Gate of S. Lazare is thought to have been the Work of the Romans who built besides an Amphitheatre and other Edisices yet apparent in their remains This City contains twenty four Parishes five Abbeys and divers Monasteries The Episcopal See became famous in the Primitive Times by the Person of S. Hilary Divers Councils have been celebrated at it In one Anno 1075. Berengarius appeared whilst the Doctrine of the Presence in opposition to his was received recognized and established Another under Pope Paschal II. excommunicated Philip I. King of France The Roman Catholicks took Poictiers from the Huguenots and plundered it in 1562. In 1569. the Huguenots under Admiral Coligny besieged it but were forced to rise without success Poictou Pictaviensis Provincia is a large Province in France which was a part of Aquitain whilest under the Romans and called by the Italians Poitu It s greatest extent is from East to West being bounded on the East by Touraine and la Marche on the North by Anjou and Bretagne on the West by the Bay of Aquitain or the British Sea and on the South by Saintonge and Angoulesme This Province was pillaged in the fifth Century by the Vandals Huns and Germans The Romans in the Reign of the Emperour Honorius left it to the Wisigoths whom Clovis the Grand expelled about the year 510. Then from the time of Charlemaigne it was under Sovereign Counts of its own till 1271 when upon a failure of the Line it was united to the Crown of France These Counts had for about nineteen several Successions attained the Title of Dukes of Guyenne Not to omit the the Descent of the Provinces of Guyenne and Poictou upon the Crown of England in 1152. by Eleanour Wise to Henry II. Nor the attempt made in 1242. though without success by Richard Earl of Cornwall Brother to King John to reduce Poictou under the Obedience of England again after the French pretended K. John had forfeited his Rights by the Death of Arthur The principal Towns next Poictiers are Chastelleraud Thouars S. Maxient Fountenay Loudun Niort Parthenay and Richelieu Poissy Pisciacum a Town in the Isle of France which has a Stone Bridge over the Seine six Leagues above Paris to the East S. Lewis King of France was born here in 1215. The heart of King Philip le Bel was interred in a Church here of his own foundation It has divers Religious Houses And in the last Age was more especially famous upon the account of a Conference of Religion betwixt the Roman Catholicks and Huguenots from September 4. 1560. to November 25. held in the presence of Charles IX King of France and Catherine de Medicis the Queen Regent assisted with the Princes of the Blood a great number of Cardinals Bishops Counsellors and Grandees of the Kingdom and Learned Men of both Religions Beza as the Head of the Reformed chiefly managing and bending his utmost force against the Doctrine of the Presence Pola Polia Julia Pietas a City and Colony in Istria mentioned by Strabo and Pliny still called by the same Name being one of the strongest Cities in Istria and a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja Seated on a Hill near the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea upon which it has a large Haven twenty eight Miles from Parenzo to the South sixty from Trieste and an hundred from Ancona to the North. Said to have been built by the Colchi Now under the States of Venice but small and not much inhabited it having not above seven or eight hundred Inhabitants The Venetians send a Governour however to it who takes the Title of a Count. It has a small Cittadel In the time of the Roman Empire this City as a Free State dedicated a Statue to Severus the Emperour it has several other noble Remains which speak its Greatness and Antiquity as Mr. Wheeler acquaints us in his Travels pag. 5. Long. 37. 00. Lat. 45. 04. Polan Bollia a River of Stiria Polana Monalus a River in the North of Sicily written in Baudrand Polina Poland Polenia is one of the principal Kingdoms in Europe called by the Natives Poloska by the Germans die Polen by the French Pologne by the Spaniards and Italians Polonia by the English Poland A part of the old Salmatia Europaea and has its
County is bounded on the North by the Curlew Mountains dividing it from Slego on the East by the River Shannon dividing it from the Counties of Lotrim Longford West-Meath and Kings County on the South by Kings County and Galloway and on the West by the River Suck which parts it from Galloway and Mayo It is of a considerable length viz. sixty English Miles from North to South but not above nineteen where broadest the Soil is level and extremely fruitful so that it abounds with Grass and Corn produced by very little Husbandry Roscomen the principal Town which gives name to it stands upon the River Suck towards the Western Border but near the middle of the County twelve Miles from Athlone to the North-West and thirty three from Galway to the North-East Rosas Rhoda Rhode Rodopolis once a City now only a Castle and a small Town in the County of Roussillon in Catalonia in Spain which has a large Harbour on the Mediterranean Sea very strongly and well fortified taken by the French in 1645. but restored by the Pyrenean Treaty to Spain It stands ten Spanish Leagues from Perpignan to the South This place was first fortified by Charles V. before which it was only a Monastery though in the time of the Romans it had been one of the most considerable Cities in Spain supposed to have been built by the Rhodians before the Romans were Masters of this Kingdom and from them to have taken this name Rosetto Metelis a City of Egypt called by the Turks Raschit by the Italians Rosetto it stands with a Port upon the Mediterranean Sea upon the Mouth of that Branch of the Nile which was anciently called Canopicum now one of the principal Cities of that Kingdom Monsieur Thevenot who travelled from Alexandria hither tells us that it is sixty short Miles This City saith he was anciently called Canopus it lies five Miles up the River from the Sea and is next to Cairo one of the best Cities in Egypt and still encreasing being a place of great Traffick very pleasant surrounded by lovely Gardens and full of well-built tall Houses and in which there is great plenty of Victuals very cheap but in the Months of July and August they have none but Cistern-waters to drink Many pieces of ancient Money have been found in the Sand betwixt Alexandria and this City The Country about it yields Sugar-Canes in plenty Long. 60. 45. Lat. 31. 6. Roseveque a small Town in Flanders famous for a Battel which Charles V. won against the Rebellious Gante-men of whom were slain forty thousand and their General Philip d' Artevill taken and hanged Rosieme Rosima a City in Poland the Capital of Samogithia upon the River Dubissa twelve Polish Miles from Corona to the North thirty from Riga to the South and twenty seven from Vilna to the West this place is little and ill peopled Baudrand writes Rosienie Rosâ— Russia a County in the North of Scotland bounded on the North by Naverina and Sutherland on the South by Murray and Abria on the East by the German and on the West by the Irish Sea Charles I. was Earl of this County in the Life of his Father Rossano Roscianum Ruscianum a City in the Hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which is an Archbishops See and a Principality built upon a Rock incompassed on all sides by Rocks and seated scarce three Miles from the Shoars of the Bay of Taranto sixteen from Bisignano to the East thirty five from Cosenza to the South-East and twelve from Thurium to the South which last being an old City was formerly the Bishops See This Place is great well peopled and was the Birth-place of Pope John VII Rosse Rossa a Town anciently in the Province of Mounster in the County of Cork and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cashell it stands upon the British Channel at the Mouth of a small River called Fin thirty Miles from Cork to the South-West and twenty two from Kinsale to the West The Bishops See in 1618. was united to that of Cork the Town being reduced to a meer Village § There is a Market Town of this name in Herefordshire in the the Hundred of Greytree upon the River Wyc Rossetto See Rosetto Rossillon Ruscinonensis Comitatus a County of Catalonia called by the French Roussillon by the Spaniards Rossillon bounded on the East by the Mediterranean Sea on the North by Languedoc on the West by Ceretania and on the South by Catalonia The Capital of it is Perpignan There are besides in it Leucate Villa Franca Rodes Eâ—na and some other Places of note it extending from East to West eighteen Spanish Leagues This Country was anciently a part of Gallia Narbonensis annexed to Spain in the Times of the Goths had then Earls which were Sovereign Princes of it and on the Death of Gerard the last of them under Alphonsus II. added to Arragon By James I. annexed to the Kingdom of Majorca and recovered back again to that Crown by Pedro IV. By King John II. sold to Lewis XI of France in 1462. and by Charles VIII of France returned back freely to Ferdinando on condition he should not obstruct his Conquest of the Kingdom of Naples in 1493. It continued under that Crown till 1659. when Lewis XIII retook it by his Arms. and had the Possession confirmed by the Pyrenean Treaty There are three considerable Rivers watering it the Tet the Tech and the Egli Rostock Rostocium Rostochium Raciburgum Rhodopolis Rosarum or Rosarium Vrbs a City in the Lower Saxony upon the Baltick Sea in the Dukedom of Meckleburg in Germany which is a Free Imperial City and has an Harbour made by the River Warna on which it stands eight Miles from Wisemar to the East and eleven from Stralsundt to the West It is under the Protection of the Dukes of Meckleburg by whose Ancestors it was built about 329. and walled by another about 1160. It s Ancient Name was Rostzoch or Rotzoch which signifies a Miry Ground Ericus King of Denmark conquered this Territory about 1286. Christopher III. his Successor in 1322. restored it to the Duke of Meckleburg Waldemarus IV. granted this City and its Territory to Albert Duke of Meckleburg in 1360. Aâ—bert another Duke in 1416. founded an University here which was opened three years after It is about five Miles in compass and almost equal to Lubeck A Sedition arising in this City in 1573. against the Duke he entred it in Arms and treated the Senate with great severity In 1629. it was with the whole Dutchy of Mecklenburg taken by the Imperialists out of whose hands it was recovered by the Swedes Octob. 16. 1631. Long. 34. 20. Lat. 54 20. Rostow Rostovia a great City in Russia which is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name and an Archbishops See It stands upon the River Cotorea having a Fortress of Wood twenty six Miles from the Wolga to the South and thirty four from Mosco to the
born in this City It stands three Miles from Brisach to the West and two from Mulhuse to the North. Ruffec Rufeacum Roffiacum a small Town in the Diocese of Poictiers five or six Leagues from Angoulesme in France pleasantly situated and honor'd with the Title of a Marquisate Pope Clement V. before his elevation to the Pontificate presided at a Council here in 1304. There have been others celebrated at it in other times Rugby a Market Town in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Knightlow upon the River Avon Rugen Rugenlandt Rugia an Island in the Baltick Sea upon the Coast of Pomerania which has the Title of a Principality about seven German Miles square but the Sea breaks in and covers a considerable part of the middle of it from the West and almost divides it into several Islands This was caused by an Outragious Tempest in 1309. A part of this Island at the same time which lay to the South-East as far as the Isle of Ruden then conjoyned with this was torn away and sunk so deep into the bottom of the Sea that the greatest Ships may Sail over it what remains affords Corn and Cattle in great plenty serving as a granary to the parts adjacent The best Town in it is Bergen the others of note are Sogart Hick and Bingst This Island is able to Arm about seven thousand Men in case of necessity About 1066. it was subject to Buthen Son of Godescalck King of the Heruli Christopher II. King of Denmark in 1322. subjected it to that Crown VVratislaus IV. Duke of Pomcrania in 1325. becoming Heir of it by the death of VVizlaus the last Prince drove out the Danes and became Master of it after this the Danes regained the Possession of it Erick King of Denmark in 1438. resigned it the second time to the Duke of Pomerania and under them it was in 1630. when Gustavus Adolphus began the German War with the Conquest of this Island By the Treaty of Munster in 1648. it was confirmed to the Swedes In 1678 the Danes attempting to recover it out of the Hands of the Swedes received at first a great overthrow but in a second attempt in the same year prevailed and kept the Island till the Peace of S. Germane in 1679 by which it was restored to the Swedes who now have it The Christian Faith was first Preached in it by the Monks of Corby in Saxony in 875. They built a Chappel here for the Service of God which was after abused to the Pagan Idolatry till VVaidemarus a Dane about 1161 destroyed the Idol they Worshipped and thereupon they became generally Christians Rugoso the same with Rubicon See Pisatello Rulia Rhodope one of the greatest and best known Mountains in Thrace out of which the River Hebrus ariseth it stretcheth from West to East at this day little Inhabited the Turks call it Rulia that is the Queen of Mountains the Italians Argentario the Greeks Basilissa it divides Thrace and ends at the City of Apoâ—loma Rumelia See Greece Rumford a Market Town in the County of Essex in the Hundred of Havering Rumney a Market Town and Corporation in the County of Kent in Sheway Lath which returns two Members of Parliament § Also a River in Monmouthshire falling into the Severn Rumsey a Market Town in Hampshire in the Hundred of Kingsomborn upon the River Test Rupel Rupera Rupela a small River in the Dukedom of Brabant made by the Demera Dila Senna and Neth which falls into the Scheld at Rupelmonde Rupelmunda a Town and ancient Castle in Brabant which has its name from the last mentioned River between the Scheld and Rupel two Miles from Antwerp to the South Mercator the great Geographer was born in this Town in 1512. Ruremond See Roermond Russ Vrsa a River in Switzerland which ariseth from the Alpes and Mount S. Godard and running Northward by Altorff and the Lake of Lucern watereth the City of Lucern and being improved by some smaller Rivers finally buries it self in Aa Russe Rusna a River of the Ducal Prussia which has been call'd Chronus It ariseth in Lithuania where it is called Niemen and entertaining the Sezara and Vilia it watereth the Southern parts of Samogitia after which it takes the name of Russe and at last ends in the Bay of Memel by five Out-lets having watered Grodno and Kowna two considerable Cities of Poland in his Progress Russia a vast Country in the North-East part of Europe called by the Inhabitants Rusz by the Germans Russandt by the English Russia and Muscovy by the Poles Moskwa and Russenlandt by the Turks Russ to the Ancients known by no other name than that of Sarmatia Europaea It is bounded on the North by the frozen Ocean on the East it is separated from the Asiatick Tartars by the Rivers of Obb and Jaickz on the South it is divided from the Crim Tartars by the Tanais Minor or the Donetz as it is now called on the West the Nieper and Narva divide it from Poland It s length from North to South is three hundred and eighty German Miles its breadth from East to West three hundred of the same So that it is by far the greatest Kingdom in Christendom if it were equally Civiliz'd Fertil and Peopled as it is not For the dispatch of Business and the Management of Affairs it is divided into forty Provinces the names of which and of about thirty three Cities that are to be found in it would take more room than this small Work will allow This Nation in 861. made an Invasion into Greece and besieged Michael the Emperor in Constantinople but could not take it The Captives they carried home with them and made them partakers of a greater blessing by teaching them the Christian Religion which was after this in 866. promoted by Bâ—siâ—ius the Emperor In 944. they made a second attempt upon Constantinople which miscarried also In 980. Viodomir Duke of Russia Marrying Anna Daughter to Basilius Emperor of Greece embraced the Christian Religion and settled it intirely in this Country from whence it comes to pass that they embrace the Tenets Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church and have the utmost Aversion for the Latin Church and Service About 1058. Boleslaus King of Poland Conquered Russia which was reduced to obedience after a Revolt by another Boleslaus in 1123. In after-times they had frequent Wars with the Poles who prevailed so far as about 1342 they intirely Conquered the red Russia the Nobility of which in 1434 were received into the same state with the Nobility of Poland allowing them at the same time the Exercise of the Greek Religion which they from their first Conversion to this day follow They are as well by Interest as Conquest united to that Crown and never to be separated from it but by another Conquest About 1205. the black Russia now called Muscovy was Invaded by Batton Son of Ghangius King of the Tartars who lived to the North-East of this Country
Alba Regalis called by the Inhabitants Ekekes Fesarwar by the Germans Stoel-Weissemburg Is a City of the Lower Hungary once the Capital of that Kingdom famous for the Coronation and Burial of the Kings of Hungary It stands in a Marsh upon the River Sarwitz Taken by the Turks Anno 1543 retaken by the Christians in 1601. taken again by the Turks in 1602. surrendred again to the Imperialists upon Articles May 9. in the beginning of the Campagne of the Year 1688. The Imperialists found 84 Pieces of Cannon in it with almost an incredible quantity of Ammunition and small Arms. It is 45 Miles from Buda West and 60 from Comorra South Long. 41. 10. Lat. 47. 8. S. Albans Verulamium is the fairest and the best Town in the County of Hertford It arose out of the Ruins of Verulam a Town more strong and antient seated on the opposite side of the River Ver. This new Town took its Name from one Alban a Citizen of Verulam who in the Dioclesian Persecution suffered Death for the Christian Religion and is esteemed the first of the British Martyrs To whose memory the Britains built a fair Church which being ruin'd in the Wars between them and the Saxons Offa King of the Mercians built here a Monastery to his honor An. Chr. 795. the Abbot of which obtained from Pope Adrian the Precedency of all English Abbots to which an end was put Dec. 5 1539. by the surrender of the said Abby to Hen. VIII Near this place Richard Duke of York overthrew Henry VI. and took him Prisoner Anno Dom. 1455. who four Years after was restored to his liberty again by a Victory obtained here too This Town had the Honor of an Earldom bestowed upon it by Charles II. April 27. 1660. in the person of Henry Jermin then Baron of S. Edmondsbury in Suffolk Since raised to a Dukedom by the same King This Town lies upon the River Ver 10 Miles from Hertford to the South-West The Old Town I shall speak of in its proper place Albarazin Albarazinum a City and a Bishops See in Arragon in Spain under the Archbishop of Saragossa Albasequia a City of Sarmatia in Asia supposed to be the Ampsulis of Ptolomy Albegna Albania Almiana a River in Tuscany which falls into the Gulph of Telamont Albemarle called by the French Aumale is a Town in Normandy in France near the Head of the River Bâ—ssine in the Confines of Picardy It is memorable for giving the Title of an Earl to the Noble Family De fortibus And of Duke to Edward Earl of Rutland after Duke of York Given with the same Title to the Loyal Wise and Valiant George Monk by Charles II. July 7. 1660. who died Jan. 3. 1669. It stands 14 Leagues from Roven East Alben Albins a Mountain of Carniola remarkable for Mines of Quicksilver § Also a River Alpis in Corinthia which runs into the Save Albenga a City and Port in the Republick of Genoua antient large handsom but not very healthful In 1175. it was burnt by those of Pisa Pope Alexander 3. made it a Bishops See in 1179. Titus Alius Proculus the Emperor was a Native of it § Over against it stands an Islet of the same Name Alberg a City and Bishops See in Jutland It lies not far from the Baltick Sea in 58. deg of Lat. Alberton a Town and Port in Barbary Albigeois a small Territory in Languedoc in France with a City in it call'd Alby This Province is divided by the River Tarn and very much taken notice of in Church-History for those great Oppositions the Albigenses its Inhabitants made long since against the Church of Rome Albila Mercë an Island made by the Nile in Aethiopia before it enters Egypt Albion the antient Name of Great Brittain New Albion See New Albion Albon a Territory in the Province of Vienne in Dauphine giving the Title of a Count. Albona Albonea a River in the Dutchy of Milan in Italy which passes by the Province of Novara to the Po. Alboran or Albusama Erroris Insula a small Island with some Villages in it and a Castle upon the Coasts of the Kingdom of Fez. Alborg Aeâ—burgum a City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lunden in the Province of Jutland in Denmark upon the Bay of Limfort Alborno Alburnus a Mountain in the Kingdom of Naples mentioned by Virgil now call'd Monte di Postiglione and Montagna della Petina by the Italians Albret a City County and Dutchy in Gascony the Original of the late Royal Family of Navar. Albs the same with Savio a River of Italy Albufera Amaenum Stagnum a Lake in the Kingdom of Valencia in Spain Albula the antient Name of Tiber. Albuquerque a City and Dutchy in the Province of Estremadura in Portugal Alby Albia Albiga a City of Languedoc in France upon the River Tarn the Capital of Albigeois of great Antiquity Sometime an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Bourges but by P. Innocent Xâ— at the instance of the present French King Lewis XIâ— translated into an Archbishoprick The famous Albigenses took their Name from hence § Also a small City in the States of the Duke of Savoy betwixt Annecy and Aix upon the declension of a Mountain Alcairo Memphis a famous City of Egypt seated a little above the Delta where the Nile is first divided it is call'd in Scripture Noph and Migdol Now wholly desolate Alcala Complutum is a City of the Kingdom of Castile in Spain seated upon the River Henarez It was heretofore a Bishops See but belongs now to the Archbishops of Toledo One of which Franciscuâ— Ximenius Cisnâ—rus Archbishop of Toledo and a Cardinal in the year 1517. in the time of Alphonsus Sapiens opened here an University it is 6 Leagues from Madrid and â— from Toledo Long. 17. 30. Lat. 41. 00. Alcantara Norba Caesarea Pons Trajani Turobrica a City of the Kingdom of Leon upon the River Tajo It is a small City and of late years has been sortified to preserve it from the Incursions of the Portugueze being but 3 Leagues distant from the Borders of that Kingdom It is ennobled by a Bridge built over the River of 670 foot in length and 28 foot wide which is generally attributed to Trajan it stands upon 6 Pillars This City was taken from the Moors by Alphonsus VIII Anno 1013. Alcay a fertile Mountain well inhabited twelve Leagues from Fez. Alcazar-Quivir the capital City of the Province of Asgar upon the Coast of Barbary Built by Jacob Almansor King of Fez. Taken by Alphonsus V. K. of Portugal in 1448. Alcazer-Zeguer a Town in the Province of Habat in the Kingdom of Fez upon the Streights Built by Jacob Almansor K. of Fez. Taken by Alphonsus V. King of Portugal 1458. Abandoned by John III. K. of Portugal in 1540. yet now under the K. of Portugal Alcmaer a Town in the Northern parts of Holland besieged by the Spaniards in 1573. without success Alcozar d'Osal Salacia a small City
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
negligence of the Spaniards grew so strong and numerous that all their after Attempts signified nothing Their Sugars which at first were coarse and would quickly melt if not spent are now improved to a great Perfection This Island is not well Watered with Rivers or fresh Springs yet lying now they want not that Element being supplied by Pools Ponds and Cisterns It is very fruitful and enjoys a perpetual Summer Hot but cooled by the Briezes which rise with the Sun and blow fresher as the Sun gets higher The chief Town of this Island is S. Michaels situate at the bottom of Carlisle Bay in the Southern part of the Island where Ships have a very secure Harbor Barbara a small Village in the Island of Sicily but once a City of great Fame and much taken notice of by Greek and Latin Writers under the several names of Aegesta Egesta Acesta and Segesta c. It lies 22 Miles from the Promontory and City of Drepanum now called Trapano to the North-West and 40 from Palermo upon the Western Shoar of the Island near it runs a small River which now beareth the name of S. Bartholomew Barbary Barbaria a large Country in the Western part of Africa lying a considerable length from East to West but not of equal breadth it is bounded on the North by the Mediterranean Sea on the East by Egypt on the West by the Atlantick Ocean and on the South by the Atlantick Mountains which separate it from Biledulgeridia In the times of the Roman Empire this vast Tract of Land was divided into divers Provinces viz. Mauritania Tingitana Casariensis Sitifensis Numidia Africa propria Byzacena Tripolitana Marmorica and Cyreniaca it is now divided into the Kingdoms of Fez Morocco Algiers Constantine antiently Cirta Tunis and Tripoly with the Territory of Barcana This Country was in antient times subject to the Commonwealth of Carthage and the great Kings of Mauritania and Numidia after it fell into the Romans Possession I have shew'd how they divided it Here was a most flourishing Church till the 5 Century in the begining of which the Vandals then Arians entered it and brought in their Heresie with them but that which more effectually contributed to the ruin of Christianity here was the Conquest of it by the Moors in 647 when one Hucha a famous General whom Osmen the Third Caliph of the Saracens imployed to that purpose finally expell'd the Romans and ever since the Moors have possessed it who being the most enraged Enemies of Christianity that ever professed the Mahometan Law have so far extirpated Christianity that there is very few if any of the Inhabitants of this vast Tract of Land which profess it Barbela a River in the Kingdom of Congo in Africa which falls into the River Zaire which washeth the Walls of S. Saviour or Banza the Capital of this Kingdom Barbenzon Barbentio a Principality in Hainaut Barberino Barberinum a small Town in Tuscany in Italy from whence the Noble Family of the Barberines receive their name of which Family Pope Vrban VIII was who succeeded Gregory XV. and sate 21. Years viz. from 1623. to 1644. This small Town is built upon an Hill in the Road between Florence and Siena 16 Miles from the former toward the South Barbowyna Berbis a Village of the lower Hungary where the Ruins of an antient Roman Town are yet seen upon the Drave 3 German Miles from Quinque Ecclesiae towards the South Barbuda or Barbada one of the Caribby Islands in America under the English but of no very great Account It is in length 15 Miles Lat. North 17. d. â— Barca Marmorica a small Kingdom in Africa on the West of Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea under the Empire of the Turks But there is no Town of any note in it there is adjoining to it a Desart called by the same name Barceâ— Barcetum a Castle in the Dukedom of Parma between the Rivers of Parma and Taro and the Apennine 22 Miles from Parma toward the South and 16 from Pentremoli There was antiently a very famous Monastery built here by the Kings of the Lombards Barcelona Barcino a City of Catalonia in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona and an University it has an excellent Port upon the Mediterranean Sea well Traded and also a Castle This City is the Capital of that Province and esteemed one of the best Cities of Spain Built by Hamilcar a Carthaginian and called by his Punick Sirname of Barca In the Year of our Lord 805. it was recovered out of the hands of the Moors by S. Lewis King of France it is seated between the outlet of the River Badelona Baetulo which runs on the Eastern sides and that of Lobregat Rubicatus which at the distance of 2 Miles on the Eastern side falls into the Mediterranean Sea It stands 12 Leagues from Tarragona East and 16 from â—â—rona towards the South and 13 from Ossuna Taken by the French in 1640 but returned under the Spaniard in 1652 after a very sharp Siege This City was Honored with the Title of an Earldom by Lewis the Good after he had taken it from the Saracens Charles the Gross gave this Earldom to Godfrey d'Arria for his Service against the Normans and his Heirs after the Death of Raimond the last Earl it was united to the Kingdom of Arragon in 1162. There were 3 small Councils celebrated in this City one in 540. one in 603. and the last in 1064. James II. King of Arragon died here in 1327 Alfonsus IV. in 1336. and John II. in 1479. Barcelonette a Town and Valley in Provence heretofore now in the Dominions of the Duke of Savoy Built or rebuilt by Raimond V. Earl of Provence in 1231 who called it by this name in memory that his Ancestors came into Provence from Barcelona in Spain Barcelor a City of the East-Indies under the Dominion of the King of Bisnagar upon the Sea Shoar between Goa and Canora It lies in almost 15 d. of Northern Lat. and Long. 105. This City was some time under the Portuguese but is now recovered bythe King of Bisnagnar a potent Indian Prince It was also heretofore the Capital of a distinct Kingdom Barcelos Celiobriga a small Town in Portugal Honored with the Title of a Dukedom It lies in the County of Entre Douro é minho upon the River Cavado which not far from thence falls into the Atlantick Ocean 6 Leagues North of Porto and 4 West of Braga Barcena Coloe a Marsh in Aethiopia out of which ariseth the River of Astapus as Ptolomy saith Bardewic a most antient City in Saxony within a Mile of Lunenburg said to be built 990 Years before the coming of our Saviour Bardi a People amongst the antient Gauls in very great Esteem with them for Poetry and Musick supposed to dwell about Montbard or Mont-Barri in Latin Mons Bardorum a Mountain in the Territory of Auxois in Burgundy which still retains their Name Bardt a
English Miles from Thessalonica to the North-West upon the Borders of Macedonia and Albania See Dr. Brown's Travels Cossir See Cosir Costagnazo Haemus a Mountain in Thrace Coustantz See Constance Costa-Ricca A Province of New Spain in the South America lying betwixt the two Seas and Westward of Veragua The Capital whereof is the City Carthage There are some Gold and Silver Mines in it and a Soil which makes it worthy of its Name Coste des dents or Coste de l' Ivoire the Ivory Coast is a part of the Coast of Guiny in Africa betwixt the Cape of Palmes and the Cape of three Points whither the English French Hollanders c. traffick for Elephants Teeth It is said to be well inhabited and to lye very conveniently Coste d'Or or the Golden Coast another part of the Coast of the same Country so call'd from the quantity of Gold that they find upon it It is about one hundred and thirty Leagues long reaching from the Cape of three Points where the former ends as far as to the River Volta and the Kingdom of Benin The English Danes and Dutch have divers Settlements upon it The latter having dispossessed all the Portugueze Cothon the ancient Name of the Port of Carthage in Africa Cotatis the principal City of Imiretta a Kingdom or Province of Georgia built at the Foot of an Hill by the River Phasiâ— consisting of about two hundred Houses those of the Grandees and the Kings Palace stand at a distance The Town has neither Fortifications nor Walls nor any Defence except where it is enclosed by the River and the Mountains On the other side of the River upon the top of an Hill higher than that under which the City is built stands the Fortress of Cotatis which appears very strong As Sir John Chardin describes this City in his Travels Cotbus Cotbutium a Town in Lusatia in Germany upon the River Havel which also passeth by Berlin from which it lies thirteen Miles to the South and ten from Franckford to the South-West This Town came into the Hands of the Duke of Brandenburgh in 1645. and is sometimes called Cotwitz Cotrone Croton a City of the further Calabriâ— in the Kingdom of Naples which of old was twelve Miles in Compass as Livy saith and built eighty years after Rome but now very small and thinly inhabited yet it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio and has a Castle built by Charles V. It stands on the South-East side of Italy fifteen Miles South-East of Severina The Cottian-Alpes Alpes Cottiae a part of the Alpes heretofore under the Dominion of King Cottius mention'd in Suetonius as an Ally with the People of Rome in the Reign of Augustus and therefore by the Ancients called Cottiae from him They begin at the Fountains of the River Var and reach to Susa that is from Mount Viso to Mount Cenis dividing the Dauphinate from Piedmont Cotzchin or Chotozin or Kotym a Castle in Moldavia upon the Niester four Polish or twenty English Miles from Caminieck to the South-West where in 1673. an Army of the Turks consisting of two and thirty thousand Men under the Command of Solyman Aga designed for the ruine of Lemburgh were encamped having the Neister behind them a Range of Rocks and Precipices on one side the Castle of Cotzchin on the other a Trench before them defended by Half-Moons a Bridge over the Nieper and another over the Castle yet Zobietsky then Marshal but now King of Poland with much lesser Forces coming up October 9. battered down their Brest-Work with his Cannon and the next day dismounting his Cavalry to second the Lithuanian Foot which had been beaten off in Person at the head of his Men stormed their Camp took it slew or took Prisoners thirty one thousand five hundred Turks and the rest hardly escaped Solyman their General being slain In 1621. Vladislaus Prince of Poland Son of Sigismund King of Poland in the same Field defeated the Forces of Osman I. and slew the greatest part of them amongst the rest Vssain le Borgne who was esteemed the best Commander the Turks had in those times Couco Coucum a Kingdom in Barbary in Africa with a City of the same Name sixty Miles from the Shoars of the African Sea between the Kingdoms of Algiers and Bugia Coucy a Seigniory in Picardy giving Name to a Family of Honour Coventry Conventria a City in the County of Warwick upon the West Side of the River Sherborne which is of no very great Antiquity but neat strong rich and populous by reason of the Cloathing Trade Also a Bishop's See in Conjunction with Litchfield under the Archbishop of Canterbury It has three Churches the Priory or Convent whence the Name Coventry was the most ancient Foundation of the City being built by Canutus the Dane And the Cross may be reckoned amongst the finest in England The Noble George Villiers late Duke of Buckingham was created Earl of Coventry in the twenty first of James I. A Title that had lain buried ever since the Death of Edwin a Saxon whom William the Conqueror created Earl of Coventry in the first Year of his Reign Henry VI annexing the adjacent Towns and Villages to this City made it with them a County Corporate distinct from that of Warwickshire Coulan a City and small Kingdom in the East-Indies in the great Promontory of Malabar on the Western Shoar thirty five Leagues North of the Cape of Comâ—ry and about seventeen South of Cochin The Country is well watered and fruitful not above twenty Leagues long from North to South and eight or ten broad from East to West Bounded by the Kingdoms of Cochin and Travancor There are many Christians in it by the means of the Portuguese The City has a Castle and a safe Haven with the Character of a rich and flourishing Place The Portuguese were driven out of it by the Hollanders in 1663. Coulour a Town of the Hither East-Indies in the Kingdom of Golconde in Malabar seven days Journey from the City of Golconde There is a Mine or Quarry of Diamonds very near it Courreze Curretia a River in Limosin in France which riseth two Miles above Tulle and having watered both it and Brive falls into the Vesere two Miles above Condat Courtenay Cortenaeum Corteniacum Curtiniacum a small Town in the Isle of France six Miles distance from Sens West The Princes who have born the Title of this small Place are frequently mentioned by the French Historians and some of the Emperors of Greece are deriv'd from their Family Courtray Corteriacum by the Natives called Cortrick a Town in Flanders upon the River Lys five Leagues from Tournay to the North and four from Lille to the West Made famous by the Defeat of the French in 1302. This Town was taken by the French in 1646. and fortified and again in 1667 But in the Treaty of 1679. it returned under the Obedience of the King of Spain who is still possessed
the South thirty six from Lion to the North. It is a great and well built City and has an old Castle and a small Territory belonging to it Long. 26. 02. Lat. 46. 50. Aurelian the Emperor walled it The Children of Hugh Capet who made this the Capital of the Kingdom of Burgundy much enlarged and beautified it Under the Dukes of Burgundy it had Counts And Lewis XI who got the possession of it after the Death of the Duke of Burgundy by the means of the then Prince of Orange built the Castle to keep the Inhabitants in Subjection The Reformed Religion in 1562. beginning to spread here was extinguished by an Edict those that imbraced it being disarmed and some of them banished Near this City S. Bernard was born There was a French Council held here in 1075. And another in 1199. under Pope Innocent III. at the Instance of Canutus King of Denmark in the behalf of his Sister Isemburge Wife of Philip the August King of France who had divorced her and remarried Whereupon the whole Kingdom was interdicted by the Pope's Legate in this Council and continued so seven Months till King Philip vacated the said Divorce and received the Lady for his Wife again By a Stone with an old Roman Inscription here found it appears that this City was in those times called Dibione The Mayor of it is honoured with the Title of a Viscount Dilinghen Dilinga a City in the Circle of Schwaben in Germany upon the Danube in the Diocese of Auspurgh seven Miles East of Vlm and the same Distance North-West from Auspurgh An University here was founded by Cardinal Otto Trucio Bishop of Auspurgh under Pope Julius III. in 1549. This City and the County belonging to it were united for ever to the Bishoprick of Auspurg by Hermanus the last Count Bishop of this Diocese who died about the Year 1260. The Jesuits of Dilinghen gave great Provocations to the Swedish War in Germany by perswading Ferdinand II. that the Protestants of his times were not the same with those of 1530. tolerated by Charles V. and therefore the Emperor who was then victorious was not obliged to keep the Peace with them By which Insinuation in 1629. they put that Prince on those Actions which brought on a War that had like to have ended in the Ruin of the House of Austria the German Liberty the Empire and the Roman Catholick Religion there Dillemburgh a Town and County in the Circle of the Rhine in VVesterwalt The Town stands on the River Dilla five German Miles from Marpurgh to the West and eleven from Francfort upon a Hill and has a strong Castle in which the Counts reside The County is called by the Germans Das Graffschaft von Dillemburgh bounded on the East by Hassia on the North by Westphalia on the West by the Rhine and on the South by Solmis This is under the Dominion of its own Prince who is of the Family of Nassau There is in it besides Dillemburgh a Town called Herborn which is an University Dimel Dimola Dilla a River of Germany which divides Hassia from VVestphalia and falls into the Weser at Helmerstrusen seven Miles East of Paderborn Dimitrado See Demetriade Dimotuc Didymotyches a City of Thrace upon the River Hebrus which almost surrounds it about seven Miles from Adrianople to the South Formerly a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Adrianople but now an Archbishop's Bajazet one of the Turkish Emperors was born here who resign'd the Empire and retired hither again Dinant Dinantium a Town in the Bishoprick of Leige upon the River Maes over which it hath a Stone-Bridge that has been ruined often but now repaired ten German Miles from Brussels to the North-East Taken by the French in the Reign of Henry II. in 1554. and almost ruined and its Cittadel demolished But all very well rebuilt again and its Cittadel is now standing upon a steep Rock There is another Town of the same Name in the Dutchy of Britain in France upon the River Rance five Miles South of S. Malo which was heretofore a strong Place and gave the Title of Earl to the younger Sons of the Dukes of Brittany Dingle Dinglae a small Town and a convenient Port in the County of Kerry in the Province of Mounster in the South-West Part of Ireland which stands upon a large Bay of the same Name seventy English Miles West of Cork § There is a Marsh in the County of Suffolk of the same Name which signifies salt Water washes as Mr. Camden seems to intimate Dingolving or Dingelfing Dingolvinga a small Town in the Dukedom of Bavaria where there was a Council held in 772. Dinkesipiel Dinchespila a small Imperial City in the Borders of Franconia upon the River Warnaw twelve Miles from Vlm to the North-East and ten from Nuremberg to the South-West It belongs to the Circle of Schwaben and has been often taken by the Swedes and French in the Wars of Germany Dionysia a figurative Name of the Island Naxia in the Archipelago given it by the Ancients in Allusion to Dionysius or Bacchus upon the Account of its abounding with excellent Wines Dionysiopolis divers antient Cities occur under this Name One in Bulgaria see Varna One upon the River Indus in Asia in the Country where stood the Pillars called Dionysii Columnae This the Ancients report to have been built by Dionysius or Bacchus being the same with the Nagara Nysse or Nerus of the modern Geographers One in Phrygia mentioned by Pliny And another in Africa by Stephanus Dioscoros Dioscori or Dioscoride an Island of Magna Graecia in the Calabrian Ocean over against Capo delle Colonne at a few Leagues distance § Another of Africa See Zocotera Diospolis an ancient City in the Thebais in the Kingdom of Aegypt surnamed Hecatompylos from its having an hundred Gates or rather so many Princely Palaces in it when the Kings of Aegypt called Diospolites after its Name made this place their Residence and Capital of their Kingdom § Also an ancient City of the Holy Land which was made a Bishop's See under the Patriarch of Jerusalem Called otherwise Lydda Rama and S. George and remarked in Ecclesiastical History for a Council assembled at it in 415. against Pelagius wherein he was acquitted of the Accusations of his Adversaries Dirgh a Lake in the County of Dungal in the Province of Vlster in Ireland out of which the River Leffye springs In an Island thereof you see the Cave the People call S. Patrick's Purgatory near the Ruines of a Monastery that was dedicated to S. Patrick The Noise of some subterraneous Winds or Waters heard by the People hath occasioned this conceited Name amongst them Disne See Aisne Disse a Market-Town in the County of Norfolk upon the River Wavenay The Capital of its Hundred Ditmarsen See Dietmarsh Diu Diou or Dive a small Island with a Fort upon it in the Mouth of the River Indus belonging to the Portuguese It has also a small but very strong
from Roan two from Vernon and one from the River Seyne It stands upon a little Hill in so agreeable a Place that the former Kings of France as Francis I. and Charles IX have delighted to make some stay at it Gainsborongh a large well built Market-Town in Lincolnshire in the Division of Lindsey and Hundred of Gartree upon the River Trent It is memorable for the Death of King Swaine or Sweno the Dane here by an unknown Hand stabbed It drives a considerable Trade and gives the Title of Earl to the Family of the Noels Gaino Gongo Gannum a City of Thrace upon the Propontis three German Miles from Rudisto to the South and twelve from Gallipoli to the North about nineteen South from Constantinople by Sea Gaiola Euploea a small Island upon the Coast of Terra di Lavoro between Naples and Puteoli Gaivo Gagecome a River of Phrygia in the Lesser Asia There is also a Town of the same Name Galata Gallita Calathe Galata an Island upon the Coast of Numidia almost opposite to the Bay of the same Name It lies over against Sardinia West of Tunis East of Algier or Argiers West of Cape Negro and is about ten Miles in Circumference Galata or Galatta Chrysoceras Cornu Byzantii a noble Suburb on the North of Constantinople towards the Black Sea which is strongly fortified to the North. This was first if not built yet beautified by the Genouese Mr. Wheeler our Country-man thus describes it Galata is situate saith he upon the South side of a considerable steep Hill setting out into a Promontory on the North side of the Harbour and comprehending the Suburbs on the East West and North sides of it it may be counted a good large City and very populous yet the Circumference of the Wall takes up no great space of ground but the Houses are thick and the Streets narrow and the whole very populous On the top of the Hill is a round spired Tower covered with Lead and on the Walls are some Arms and modern Inscriptions which belonged to the Genoese who before the taking of Constantinople were Masters of this Place It is more inhabited by Christians and Jews than by Turks Here is the Scale of the Merchants who have a good Kan covered with Lead for the Sale of their Woollen Cloaths and other Merchandize There are five Religious Houses of the Latin Christians established in this Place Otherwise called Pera See Pera. Galati Galata once a City now a Village in Sicily in the Valley of Demona twenty Miles from Patti South-West thirty five from Catania North-West Galatia is a Province of the Lesser Asia called by the ancient Geographers Gallo-Graecia from the Galls which are stiled Galatae by the Grecians who after the burning of Rome and laying Italy desolate went thither and possessed it making a mixture with the Grecians and the South Part of it was nam'd Galatia Salutaris This Province is bounded on the North by Paphlagonia sometimes taken for a Part of it on the East by Cappadocia on the South by Pisidia and Liaconia on the West by Phrygia Magna Bithynia and Asia properly so taken The Turks call this Province now Chiangare under whom it is The principal Cities are Ancyra which is even now in a more flourishing State than any of the rest and Pessinus This Colony of the Galls is said to have settled here under Brennus A. M. 3671. They were subdued by the Romans under Cn. Manlius Vulso in the year of the World 3760. 187 years before the Birth of our Saviour but not made a Roman Province till the year 3925. 23 years before Christ They were converted to Christianity by S. Paul who honoured them with an Epistle They did not fall into the Hands of the Mahometans till 1524. when Solyman the Magnificent took Alsbeg Prince of the Mountains of Armenia by Treachery and possessed himself of Cappadocia Armenia and Galatia Galaure Galabar a small River in the Dauphinate which falls into the Rhosne at S. Valerie six Miles beneath Vienne to the South Galazo Galesus Eurotas is a River which ariseth from the Appennine in the Province of Hydruntum La Terra di Otranto near Oria and running West falls into the Bay of Taranto five Miles South of Taranto but not taken notice of in our later Maps Gale a strong Town and Port in the Island of Zeilan in the East-Indies which the Hollanders have ravished from the Portuguese in whosetime it was a flourishing Place frequented by abundance of Vessels from Japan China the Islands of the Sound Malaca Bengala and other Eastern Parts though the Rocks about the Port render it very dangerous to enter without Pilots The Portuguese before they quitted it and the Siege together destroyed most of the Principal Buildings which are yet unbuilt Galera Gallera Gallora a Village and a River near Rome La Galevisse Ager Valicassi a Region upon the Marne a River of France Galfanacar Gichehis a Town in Mauritania Galgala See Meroe § Also a Village in Palestine in the Tribe of Benjamin on this side the River Jordan three Leagues from Jericho Now inhabited by Arabians and call'd Galgal by them A Place heretofore sanctified by a Number of admirable Actions and defam'd again by as many Idolatries S. Jerom in Ose The Circumcision of all that had been born in the Wilderness Joshua ordered to be performed here Galibes a Nation of Indians in Guiana along the River Courbo towards the North Sea in America bounded by the Rivers Suriname and Marauvini to the West and the River and Island of Cayenne to the East Other Maps place them in New Andalusia to the North of the River Orenoque Galicia Gallaecia is a Province of Spain called by the Natives Galizia by the Portuguese Galiza by the French Galice and by the Italians Galicia of a large Extent about fifty Leagues long and forty broad and once a Kingdom but now a Part of the Kingdom of Leon Bounded on the North and West by the Atlantick Ocean on the South by Portugal but parted from it by the River Douero and on the East by Asturia and the Kingdom of Leon. Compostella is the Capital of this Province Orensi Auria Baiona Corufia Lugo Mondoefiedo and Tuy are the other Cities and principal Places The Groyne or Coronna is the most famous of its Ports besides which it has forty others This Province is Mountainous enclined to Barrenness destitute of Water but abounding with Mines of Silver Gold Iron and well stored with Wood and good Wines it hath also great plenty of Cattle Game and excellent Horses The Iron they dig out of these Mountains is thought the best in the World especially for Edge-Tools nor are their Seas less stored with Fish This Country was never Conquered by the Moors though they at times made some Progress into it and after in 985. they had repelled Almanassor with the Loss of 70000 of his Moors they were never in any danger of Conquest from that
on the top c. but none comely or convenient yet are there footsteps of a better condition divers simple Roofs being supported by goodly Pillars of Parian Marble some plain some curiously carved and others broken in pieces to serve for Thresholds c. of almost every beggarly Cottage He tells us also Baldwin III. King of Jerusalem having in 1145. expelled the Saracens he in 1148. built here a Castle That there lives here a Sangiack That the Port is decayed and unsafe and of no great benefit to the Inhabitants There is here one ancient Church frequented by the Coptic Christians whether it be great or small he saith nothing but very rich it plainly is not This City was taken from the Kings of Jerusalem by Salladine in 1171. This and all Palestine was recovered back to the Christians by Frederick Emperor of Germany in 1228. Retaken by the Turks in 1234. It stands about two Miles from the Sea and was anciently very Illustrious as appears by its Ruines and Marble Tombs of which there are many The Castle is near the Town and has four Towers at each corner one it is kept in good order and has but a small Circuit and two Iron Gates hard by it is the Seraglio for the Bassa's Wives and not far off are the Ruins of a Roman Castle The Town is very little but has a Besestein a Market-Place in good Order and a pretty large Greek Church Without the Town are several goodly Mosques faced with Marble which I believe saith Mr. Thevenot belonged to the Old City Long. 65. 26. Lat. 31. 45. Gazaria the Peninsula to the Crim Tartars Gebel Caph. See the Mountains of the Moon Gebel Tarif Calpe a Mountain in Andalusia at the entrance of the Streight of Gibraltar which the Ancients called one of Hercules's Pillars Gebel Tor Melani Mountains in Arabia Petraea supposed to be the Sinay and Horeb mentioned in the Books of Moses they are said to extend from Petra Aelana a City of Arabia to the Red Sea at the distance of an hundred and eighty Miles from Jerusalem to the South called by the Arabians now Gibel Mousa by the Europeans who see them when they Sail upon the Red Sea Sinay See Eltor a City from whence they have the name of Gebel Tor. Gebelel Hadich Herculis Promontorium Phocra a Mountain and Promontory in the Kingdom of Morocco now called Cape Cantin in Lat. 32. 15. Gedrosia See Formipt Geetruydenberg Gertrudenberga and S. Gertruchii Mons a City in Holland small but well fortified called by the Inhabitants Guytrenberg or Geetruydenberg it stands in South Holland two Leagues from Breda to the North and three from Dort to the South-East upon the River Dunge This City takes its name from St. Gertrude who was a Daughter of Pepin King of France and for her great Sanctity in much honor in these Countries It is saith Guicciardin a considerable Place seated on the South Bank of the Mereuwe at the equal distance of three Leagues from Dort Heusden and Breda the Possession of it is now in the Prince of Orange but the Brabantines and Hollanders do both equally pretend to the Right of it The Hollanders surprized it in 1573 and divers times since it has been taken and retaken Gehan-Abad or Jehan-Abad See Delly Geichon Oxus call'd by the Arabs Ghaion Gihon Tihun and now commonly Gieihun or Gieihoun is a River of Persia it ariseth from the Mountains of Badachzan and running Northward through the borders of Balch it watereth the Cities of Termid Zemum and Chovarzim Also sometimes called Balch thus Gollius describes in part the Course of this River Our later Maps make it to arise from the Mountains of Caibocoran in the Eastern borders of the Kingdom of Persia to water Candahar and Belgis on the Eastern Bank Meder Thalan and Badaschian on the Western at which last it takes in from the East the great River Oboengir which comes from Balch by Vervalin and Talecan then turning Westward it takes in a River from the South out of the Desarts of Bigul beneath which it watereth the City of Bigul and so passeth to Bichend above which it takes in a River from the East out of Zagathay and beneath it on the same side another from the Lake of Vsbeck which passeth by Bochara and another on the South side from Mareuwe and at Deristan a great River from the South called Margab beneath which it falls into the South-Eastern Angle of the Caspian Sea at Zahaspan by four Mouths saith Gollius but our Maps take notice of but one Geila 1 River of Transylvania called by Jornandes Gilfil Geivise Astacus a Maritim City of Bithynia in the Lesser Asia now ruined it lies fifteen German Miles South-West of Nicomedia on the Helespont Gelas. See Galatia Gelderland Sicambri Geldria one of the Seventeen Provinces in the Low-Countries which has the Title of a Dukedom the Seat as all agree of the Old Sicambri This Province has on the North Friesland and the Zuyder Sea on the East Cleves on the South the Dukedom of Juliers and on the West Brabant and Holland It is a flat level Country without any Mountains much beautified with Woods and Forests abounding with all things especially Corn and yet as good for Pasturage and Grazing so that they fetch lean Cattel from Denmark and fat them here Three great Rivers water it the Maes the Rhine and the Wael Nimeguen in the Territory of Betawe is the Capital of this Dukedom besides which it has twenty one walled Cities and Towns and three hundred Villages This Country was first granted by Henry III. Emperor of Germany to Otho of Nassaw with the Title of Earl in 1079. Rainold II. the ninth Earl was Created Duke by the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria in 1339. Arnold XV. in the Descent sold this Dukedom to Charles Duke of Burgundy being offended with his lewd Son Adolph Charles another Son of this Arnold left it at his death in 1538. to Charles V. as Heir of the House of Burgundy This Country in 1577. all but a very few Towns revolted from Spain and joined with the States of Holland from which time till this they have maintained their Liberty only they were over-run by the French in 1672. But the next year recovered themselves again The City Gueldres or Geldre which some will have to be originally derived from the Gelduba of Tacitus took its name from an ancient Castle seated upon the River Niers four Miles North of Venlo and six East of Nimeguen where the ancient Counts or Governors of this Province chose their Residence by which means it grew to a fine City and being in the hands of the Spaniards was by them so well fortified that an attempt made upon it by Henry Frederick Prince of Orange in 1139. miscarried The Castle is esteem'd almost impregnable In 1627. the Spaniards of Venloo and Ruremonde attempted to bring the Rhine into the Meuse at this City But their design did not take effect § There
is also a Fort of this name built by the Hollanders on the Coast of Coromandel in the Kingdom of Narfinga on the Bay of Bengala in the East-Indies Geliboli See Gallipoli Geluchalat Mantiana a Lake in the greater Armenia Minadoio saith it is now called Astamar it receives eight great Rivers and sends none out of it and is eight days Journey in compass Long. 80. Lat. 40. Gelise Gelisa a River in Aquitain in France which washeth the City of Eusse and falls into the Losse which falls into the Garonne five Miles beneath Agen to the West Geloni an ancient People of Scythia Europaea Neighbours to the Agathyrsi described to fleay their Enemies and make themselves Cloths of their Skins Mel. Alex. ab Alex. Gemblours Gemblacum a Town in Brabant upon the River Orne in the Borders of Namur five Miles from Brussels to the South four from Charleroy to the East and five from Lovain This Town has a Monastery in it and saw a bloody Fight near it between the Dutch and Spaniards in 1578. Baudrand Gemen Arabia Foelix Gemona Glemona a small Town in Friuli under the State of Venice Gemunder a Lake in Austria Genamani an Island in the Red Sea on the Coast of Aethiopia called Gythites by the Ancients in Lat. 25. 20. Genep or Gennep Gennepium a fortified but small Town in the Dutchy of Cleves in Germany two or three Leagues from Cleves upon the River Niers which there falls into the Meuse It belongs to the Elector of Brandenbourg tho the Hollanders keep a Garrison in it too who retrieved it from the Spaniards in 1641. Geneva Civitas Genevensium Januba Genabum Jenoba is the most Eastern City belonging to the Allobroges or Savoyards which together with its Bridge over the Rhosne is mentioned by Julius Caesar in his Commentaries It is great populous well fortified and built with a good Cathedral and Arsenal the Capital of the Province of Genevois and seated at the West end of the Lake of Lemane on the South side of the Rhosne in that place where this River comes out of the Lake seventeen Miles from Lion to the East and twenty six from Basil to the South upon the borders of Switzerland heretofore a very famous Mart which is long since removed to Lion and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Vienna and an University founded by the Emperor Charles IV. in 1368. The French call this City Geneve the Germans Genff about nine hundred years since in an ignorant and an unlearned Age it was called Gebenna the Italians call it Geneura Mercator believes it built in the Year of the World 2994. in the times of Asa King of Judah by Leman the Father of the Germans there is no need of pretences which can never be proved Caesar's Testimony and the Roman Inscriptions that are found here are sufficient proofs of its Antiquity by the latter it appears this was a Roman Colony It was indeed the last Town Northward in the Provincia Romana according to the ancient Division of Gallia We should have had more Roman Antiquities than we have too if this City had not in the course of so many Ages suffered very much from Enemies and Fire In the Reign of Aurelius Antoninus it was almost all burnt which Prince contributed so much to the rebuilding and bestowed such Privileges on it that it was called Aurelia for some time from him but upon his death reassumed its ancient name In the irruption of the Barbarous Nations into the Roman Empire it suffered the same Calamities with other Cities something sooner as being nearer the Frontiers but then it met with an early Restorer in Genebald King of Burgundy About three hundred and fifty years since it was burnt twice in seven years It has had the Counts of Geneva and the Dukes of Savoy at all times the great Pretenders to the Sovereignty over it and has always defended its Privileges manfully against them In 1412. when Amadaeus Duke of Savoy endeavoured to obtain a Title to this City by an exchange Joannes à Petra Scissa then Bishop and the Inhabitants agreed that if any Person should consent to the Alienation of its Liberty he should be treated like a Traytor These and the like Traverses of their Neighbour Princes forced them in 1535. to enter into a League with the Canton of Bearn which was to last for ever the change of Religion having then heightned their Neighbours Rage against them In 1584. having suffered a very sharp Siege and a miserable Famine by the help of the Canton of Zurich they prevailed so far as to force the Duke of Savoy and their Bishop to renounce all their Pretences They reaped no less glory from their defeating the Nocturnal Scalado of Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy in 1602. This City rejected the Ch. of Rome in 1535. Whereupon they applied the Revenue of the Bishoprick with the Tithes of the Territory of Gex to the maintenance of their own Ministry of the Reformation There has been a Roman Catholick Titular Bishop of Geneva ever since continued who resides at Anneci and with other the Titular Beneficiaries within this District obtain'd a Decree from the Parliament of Dijon Anno 1687. to be restored to their ancient Possessions But without success as for any effect it had upon the Government here who though they enter into no Alliance during the present War with the Confederate Princes yet stand upon their Defence against France The Preaching of Calvin Beza and Farellus the retreat of some English Protestants hither during the Reign of Q. Mary and of others in divers times from several Countries have distinguished the zeal of this place for the Reformation The Province of Genevois which derives its name from it is bounded by the Provinces of Chablais and Fossigny to the East the Rhone to the West and in part also to the North and with Savoy properly so called to the South There is lately published an exact History of this City by M. Spon and therefore I need add no more § The Lake of Geneva See Lemane Genezareth Genesara a Lake in Palestine between the Tribes of Zabulon to the West and the half Tribe of Manasseh to the East also called the Sea of Tiberias and Galilee which Lake is entered by the River Jordan at Capernaum and left at Sythopolis it is eighteen Miles long and seven broad on the Western Shoar stand Capernaum Tiberias and Bethsaida on the Eastern Corasain and Gersa The many Miracles our Blessed Saviour wrought upon and about this Lake have made it famous to all Ages and Nations Gengen or Giengen Rhiusiavia a small City in Schwaben near the Danube others say it is Rosenfield in the Dukedom of Wirtenburgh to which this ancient name mentioned by Ptolomy belongs The City Gengen lies between Vlm and Norlingen five Miles from each the second not above four Miles from Tubingen to the South but Giengen is not the same Town with Giesâ—ingen but lies about four Miles
which it sprung A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio from which it lies twenty seven Miles to the North-East Giera-petra Hiera-petra Hyerpytna a City of Candia or Creet which has a Castle and an Haven such as it is and heretofore a Bishops See it lies on the South side of the Island in the Territory of Sitia near Mount Malaura sixteen Miles from Setia to the West now under the Dominion of the Turks Giessen Giessa a small but very strong City in Hassia in Germany upon the River Lhone four Leagues from Marpurg to the South It was of late years made an University and is the strongest Town in this Province under the Landtgrave of Darmstadt in part and of Cassel in part Giffhorn a Town in the Dutchy of Lunenburg in the Lower Saxony upon the River Allere three or four Leagues from Brusnwick and a little more from Zell Gigel Gigeri Gigari Igiti a City of Africa heretofore a Bishops See but now a small Village in the Province of Bugia in the Kingdom of Algier twenty seven Miles from Algier to the East upon the Shoars of the Mediterranean Taken by the French in 1664. and afterwards deserted There was another City which Ptolemy calls Colops and placeth in the Province of Zeugitania which is now called Giger Giglio Igilium Iginium Egilium a small Mountainous Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea which has in it one Village and a Castle and belonged heretofore to the Republick of Sienna with which it came into the hands of the Duke of Tuscany It lies about a Mile from the nearest Coast of Italy between 34. and 35. deg of Long. in Lat. 41. 55. Gihon one of the four Rivers springing from the Paradise of Adam and Eve Gen. 2. 13. Josephus makes it the same with the Nile others with the Araxes See Nilus Gilan Gelae Gilania a Province of Persia upon the South side of the Caspian Sea which from it is often called the Sea of Gilan The chief City of this Province is Gilan and stands upon the River Abisirni twenty five German Miles from the Caspian Sea in Long. 90. 13. and Lat. 40. Gilboa a Chain of Mountains in the Holy Land extended the length of ten or twelve Leagues from the City Jezrael to Jordan along the Tribe of Issachar and the Vpper Galilee Famous in the Jewish History for the encampment defeat and death of King Saul and his three Sons here in a Battel with the Philistines and for David's cursing these Mountains with Barrenness for Jonathan's sake They are almost all covered with Stones Taking their Name some suppose from an ancient City Gilboa As at this time we are told of a considerable Town called Gilbus standing amongst them Gilead The Mount properly in the Region of Trachonitis in Palestine whereat Jacob and Laban passed a Covenant with each other Gen. 31. But afterwards extended to express the Cities and Country adjacent which were given by Moses to the Tribe of Gad Josh 13. 25. Gillesland a Tract in the North parts of the County of Cumberland from whence the Earl of Carlisle receives the title of Baron Dacre of Gillesland Gilolo an Island in the East Indian Ocean to the west of the Moluccaes and East of the Terra des Papaous in 165. deg of Long. It has four Points of Land shooting forth into the Sea as many different ways One about twenty another fifty Leagues Long. The Capital of it is called Gilolo also Gindes a River springing from the Martian Mountains of Armenia and ending in the Tigris In which course it retarding the passage of Cyrus's Army to the Siege of Babylon he broke it into three hundred and sixty Channels Gingi Gingis a great City in the Promontory of Malabar in the East-Indies which gives Name to a Province This City was heretofore under the King of Bisnagar but has now a Prince of its own it is very strong and has a Castle built upon a Rock The Province or Kingdom of Gingi has Bisnagar to the North the Gulph of Bengala on the East the Mountains of Malabar on the West and the Kingdom of Tanjaour to the South Gingiro a Kingdom in the Lower Aethiopia towards Melincle Zanguebar and the Eastern Ocean Ginopoli Gemanopolis Jonopolis a City of Paphligonia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gangra It lies upon the Black Sea ten German Miles West of Carambis the most Northern Cape of the Lesser Asia Giordano Jordan Giorgiana Georgia Giovenazzo Juvenacium a Maritim City of Apulia Pucetia now Terra di Lavoro upon the Gulph of Venice between Bari to the North and Trani to the South welve Miles from the first and a little morefrom the latter In Long. 40. 50. Lat. 41. 12. This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari It stands upon an Hill and is almost incompassed with the Sea Giovenco Juvencus Invectus a River of Italy in the Kingdom of Naples which falls into the Lake of Celano at the foot of the Appennine forty five Miles West of Rome in the Province of Abruzzo Heretofore it passed through the Lake without mixing with it but whether it passeth into any other River or is swallowed up by the subterraneous passages which carry away the waters of that Lake Leandro has not informed us Gir a River of Africa which rising in Biledulgerida not far from the Atlantick Ocean runs Eastward and passing under several Chains of Hills and Mountains at last falls into Nile above the Cataracts of Egypt It is a vast and wonderful River in all things and deserves a more particular description if the Counties through which it passes were so known to us as to enable us to give it Girgia See Hyrach Girigo Girgium a City of the Vpper Egypt near the Nile the Capital of a Province which takes its Name from this City betwixt Barbanda and the Sahid Otherwise written Girgilo Girmasti Caicus a River of the Lesser Asia which rising by a City of the same Name washeth Judai Pergama Caristo and Stinga then falls into the Archipelago over against the Isle of Metellino The City of Girmasti was of Old called Hierogerma and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cyzioeno called only Germa in the Councils being attributed by some to Mysia Minor by others to Phrygia Minor it lies between Balichstria to the East and Pergama to the West Giro or Palmacia Venaria a small Island on the Eastern Coasts of Genoua Girona Gerunda a City of Catalonia in Spain built by Gerion a celebrated Hero who is said to have lived Anno Mundi 2840. and to have been Contemporary with Hely the Judge of Israel It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona of a large extent seated partly upon the descent of a Hill partly upon a Plain ennobled with two Bridges one in the City over the River Oingar and the other without the City on the North side over the River Ter and besides is very well fortified and honoured with the
a Market Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of Risbridg not far from the head of the River Stower Havessen Cimmeriorum Populi a Province in Georgia upon the Caspian Sea as Ortelius conjectures from the Description of Haiton the Armenian But not being called by this Name by our later Travellers it can be no further described here Havre de Grace Portus Gratiae a strong Sea-Port Town in Normandy in France which has a well fortified Castle and an excellent Haven Seated at the Mouth of the Seyne in the Païs de Caux eighteen Leagues beneath Roan to the West fifteen from Caudebec and almost twenty from Dieppe to the South upon the Shoars of the British Seas over against Shorham in Sussex This Town was in 1563. put into the hands of Q. Elizabeth by the Protestants of France then ingaged in War against their King as a Cautionary Place a Peace was soon after concluded without any regard taken of that Princess or her Interest by those she succoured And not contented with this both Parties joyning against the English then commanded by the Earl of Warwick besieged the Town which being surrounded with Enemies without and wasted by the Plague within was forced in a short time to surrender to the French It is now one of the Keys of that Kingdom Haut-Combe a Village in the Principality of Savoy one League distant from Bellay where there is an Abbey of Cistercians and a remarkable Fountain which twice in an hour ebbs and flows Haut-Riue Alta-Ripa a Town in Languedoc upon the River Auriege Alburacis which ariseth in de Foix from the Pyrenean Hills and falls into the Guaronne four Miles from Tolouse to the South Haux Halla See Hall in Hainault Hawkeshead a Market Town in Lancashire and the Hundred of Loynsdale in a hilly and wooddy Country Hay a Market Town in the County of Brecknock in Wales in the Hundred of Talgarth La Haye Haga Com. See Hague Haye du Routol Haga Brotona a Village in the Forest of Routal in France La Haye en Touraine Haga Turonica a Town in Touraine upon the River Crausia Creuse ten Leagues from Tours to the South in the Confines of Poictou three Miles from Noyers to the East where the Creuse falls into the Vienne This Town gave Birth to des Cartes the famous modern Philosopher who died at Stockholm in Sweden in 1650. And it is besides remark'd with the Title of a Barony Hayâ—sham A Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Bulmer Haynan or Hainan an Island upon the Coast of the Province of Quangtung in China abounding with fine Woods Forests and Fruits and Mines of Gold and Silver It s capital City is Kiuncheu which with twelve other Cities lying upon the Sea Coast belongs to the Emperor of China whilst the inland parts remain under the possession of the Natives Upon the Northern Coast of this Island they find much Pearl Hayne See Haisne Haynburgh by corruption Hamburgh Comagenum a small Town in the Lower Austria on the Confines of Hungary upon the Danube six German Miles from Vienna to the East and three from Presburg West near which are the Mountains of Kâ—â—nberg called heretofore Comagenus Mons. This Town is remarkable for nothing but its Antiquity having been a Roman Town Hea a Province of the Kingdom of Morocco in Barbary bounded by the River Ecifelmeli to the East the Mountain Atlas to the South and the Ocean to the North and West Headon or Heydon an antient Borough Town in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Holderness upon a small River near its fall into the Humber and a few Miles East of Hull whose rise has occasioned the decay of this place It has the Election of two Parliament Men. Hebal or Ebal a Mountain of Palestine in the Tribe of Ephraim from whence Joshua pronounced a multitude of Curses upon the Violaters of the Jewish Law Some make it to be but a part of Mount Gerizim Hebrides the same with the Ebudae Hebron an antient and famous City of the Holy Land in the Tribe of Juda near to which the Patriarch Abraham did abide It was the Capital of the Country of the Philistines and afterwards taken by Joshua and given to Caleb his General David retiring to it after the death of Saul came to be elected King here and made it his residence seven years till the taking of Jerusalem It had the honour to be advanced to an Episcopal See when Christianity was re-established in Palestine but now almost ruined Hecatompylis a Name antiently given to the Cities Thebes Haspaam c. from their having 100 Gates Hecâ—a a burning Mountain in Island near the City Schalholt in the South part of the Isle The Natives call it one of the mouths of Hell It vomits Floods and Rivers of Fire like Aetna and Vesuvius notwithing its nearness to the Polar Circle Hegow Hegovia a small Territory in the Circle of Schwaben between the Lake of Zell or the Zeller Sea to the East and Schwartzwaldt or the Black Wood to the West not above six German Miles in length In part under the House of Austria and in part under the Duke of Brandenburgh Heidelburgh Edelberga Budoris Heidelberga The chief City of the Palatinate of the Rhine seated in a Plain at the foot of an Hill upon the River Necker which is covered here with a woodden Bridge This is a great well peopled place and the usual Residence of the Elector Palatine who has here a noble and magnificent Castle built upon an Hill It stands three Miles from Spires to the North-East ten from Franckfort upon the Main to the South and twenty from Vlm to the North-West Said to be a Fee of the Bishoprick of Worms and that it was granted to Lewis Count Palatine in 1225. by Henry Bishop of VVorms Robert Count Palatine afterwards Emperor in 1392. as Marquardus Freherus saith much enlarged it and joined the Village of Berghimb to it as a Suburb Rupertus Count Palatine in 1346. opened here an University and endowed it with great Privileges In 1622 this City was taken by the Spaniards and plundered and the Noble Library which the Princes Palatine had collected was sent to Rome In the long Swedish War it was taken and retaken several times till at last in 1649. by the Treaty of Munster it was restored to its former Master In 1688. October 25. both the City and Castle were surrendred to the French This City is supposed to be the Budoris of Ptolemy and was in ancient times the Seat of the Vangiones Heiden Heida a Town in Holstein Heidenheim Ara Flavia a Town in Schwaben Herâ—a Hela a Town in Prussia Polonica upon the Bay of Pautzkerwick almost encompassed by the Baltick Sea It stands four German Miles from Dantzick to the North burnt in 1572. by an accidental Fire but since rebulit Heilichlandt Actania Saxonum Insula a small Island belonging to the Duke of Holstein six Miles
Capital of that Kingdom to the North and Malaca to the South three hundred and eighty Miles from either it has a good Harbour Ligorne Livorno Ligurnus Liburnus portus Leghorn an ancient and celebrated Sea-Port mentioned by Polybius Antoninus and Cicero It is called by the Italians Livorno by the English Legorne by the French Ligourne seated in the Territory of Pisa on the West of Italy under the Dominion of the Duke of Florence in a Plain fifteen Miles from Pisa to the South ten from the Mouth of the Arno forty from Piombino to the North and sixty from Florence to the South-West There belongs to it a large and a safe Haven very much frequented by Merchants the Great Duke to secure the Wealth and Trade of it has built three strong Forts upon it This City belonged heretofore to the States of Genoua Cosmus de Medices Duke of Florence had it from them in exchange for Serezana being then a poor despicable Village not much inhabited by reason of the unhealthfulness oâ— the Air corrupted by the Marshes near it Francis and Ferdinando two of his Successors having improved its condition by making it a Free-Port at a time when the Genouse had excessively inhansed their Imposts upon the Merchants built the three Forts and walled the Town and built in it also a Noble Palace for the Governour and for the Reception of Foreign Ambassadors with a large Arsenal or Magazin It has two Havens the greater is extreamly large safe and convenient for Ships of any Burthen the lesser called Darsi is of some use for smaller Ships See Du Val Voyage d Ital. Liguria a part of the ancient Gallia Cisalpina in Italy now contained in the States of Genoua Liiflandt See Livonia Lilers Lilerium a Town in Artois upon the River Navez seven Leagues from Arras to the North. Lille L'Isle Insula Insulae a City in Flanders called by the Inhabitants Lyssel by the English Lisle by the Italians Lida is the Capital of Flandria Gallica a great strong populous place well Traded upon the River Deuller Lewis XIV the present King of France took this from the Spaniards in 1667. It lies five Leagues from Ypre to the South six from Doway four from the Borders of Artois and five from Tournay Built by Baldwin IV. Count of Flanders in 1007. Baldwin the Pious his Son being born here favoured it very much and on that account walled it in 1066. and built in it also a magnificent Church and a delicate Monastery There is saith L. Guicciardin a good Castle in it and the Ruins of an old one called Buck where the Governours for the ancient French Kings resided which were then instituted the Forestexs of Flanders This City was taken and burnt by Philip II. King of France about 1185. Being rebuilt it was again taken and harassed by Philip IV about 1304. Since then it is much increased saith the same Author by the Industry of the Inhabitants who imploy themselves moâ—â—ly in weaving Silks so that it is raised to be the third City in the Low-Countries after Antiverp and Amslerdam and frequently called in French La petit Paris for its Beauty The French had it confirmed to them in 1668. by the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle It is the Head of a large Chattellany containing divers Villages and strongly fortified § Also a pleasant Town in the County of Venaissin in Provence five or six Leagues from Avignon and about the same from Carpentras in a fruitful Country surrounded by the River Sorgue like an Island and thence called L'isle Lille Illa a River in Aquitain in France which ariseth in the Province of Limosin and flowing through Perigord watereth Perigeux Vesima the Capital of that County and Mucidan at Coutraz it entertains the Dormia from Aubeterre then a little beneath Lisbourne falls into the Dordonne seven Miles above its conjunction with the Garonne Lillebonne or Islebonne Islebonna Juliobona a Town in the Paix de Caux in Normandy in the Diocese of Rouen giving Name to a Branch of the House of Lorrain In the year 1080. the Bishops of Normandy were assembled in a Council here in the presence of William the Conquerour King of England at which the Archbishop of Rouen presided Lillo Lilloa a strong Fort built by the Hollanders upon the Schelde two Leagues beneath Antwerp to the North one above Santvliet or Sanflit to the South and four from Bergen op Zoom At this Fort all Ships that pass up the River to Antwerp are by the Treaty of Minister to stop Lima or Ciudad de Los Reyes Lima the Capital of the Kingdom of Peru a beautiful great well traded City and the See of an Archbishop Built in 1535. by Francis Pizarro a Spaniard in the Valley of Lima called by Natives Rimac The Viceroy of Peru resides here which with other Advantages hath made it very great rich populous and beautiful though it be all built with Timber and an open unwalled Town They compute about five thousand Spaniards and forty thousand Negroes in it a great number of Ecclesiastical Buildings as Churches Convents Colleges and Hospitals and a stately Palace Royal wherein the Vice-Roy keeps his Court. It stands upon a River of the same Name one Mile from the Pacifick Ocean two from its own Harbor called Callao de Lima one hundred and twenty from Cusco the old Metropolis of this Kingdom as Jo. Laei saith It is under the King of Spain and had an University opened in 1614. Long. 296.40 Lat. 23.30 A dreadful Earthquake Octob. 30. 1687. overthrew most of the Buildings both publick and private and buried above a thousand Inhabitants in the Ruins The Ecclesiasticks of Peru have celebrated two or three Councils here Lima Lamia a River in Portugal which washeth the Town of Viana de Foiz de Lima six Leagues from Braga to the West and then falls into the Ocean Limagne Limane Limania or Alimania a small Territory in Auvergne which for the greatest part is contained in that Province It is very well watered and wonderfully fruitful being a Plain upon the River Allier extending from North to South twelve Miles near and below Clermont Limat Limmat Limagus Lindemagus a River in Switzerland which ariseth in the County of Sargans or Sarganzerlandt and runneth North through the Lake of Riva and that of Zurich after which it watereth Zurich and Baden and a little lower falls into the Aar the chief River of Switzerland Limburg a Dutchy and Town in the Low-Countries The Dutchy though one of the Seventeen Provinces is not great It lies between the Duthcy of Juliers to the East and North and the Bishoprick of Liege to the West and South It had heretofore Dukes of its own but upon the Death of Walrame the Third by Dr. Heylin called Henry in 1285. Adolph the next Heir sold it to John Duke of Brabant who pretended at the same time a Right to it as descended from Margaret Daughter of Henry Duke of Limburgh in 1172 married
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
took this City and was therefore called BRITANNICVS He made it a Roman Colony planting in it a Regiment of old Soldiers and ordered Money to be Coined with this Inscription COL CAMALODVN Cambden saith from this Money it is Collected this Expedition was in the twelfth Year of his Reign fifty two years after the Birth of Christ Certain it is this City soon felt the fury of the Britains under Boadicia Qu. of the Iceni who took and burnt it and put all the Romans to the Sword about the Year of Christ sixty three Yet the Romans rebuilt it as appears by Antoninus Edward the Son of Alfred a Saxon King finding it much ruined by the Danes repaired and fortified it with a Castle William the Conqueror had here one hundred and eighty Houses in the Tenure of the Burgesses and eighteen wasted In Mr. Cambden's time it was a well inhabited Town consisting of one Street of a Mile in length built on the ridge of an Hill and having a convenient Haven Now not only a Corporation which sends two Burgesses to Parliament but also made a Viscounty the thirteenth of Charles II. and given to the late Earl of Essex The Maleas are a People which live in the Mountains of Malabar towards the Confines of Coromandel near the Dominions of the King of Madura Amongst them there live many Christians of the old Conversion called the Christians of S. Thomas Maleg a River of the Vpper Aethiopia which ariseth in the Kingdom of Damut and receiving the River Anquet after a Course of eighty Leagues falls into the Nile in Nubia below the Province of Fasculon Malaguette Mallaguete or Managuete the Western part of Guiney in Africa called by the Dutch Tand-Cust by the French Cote des Graives about 60 Leagues long extending from the River Sanguin to the Cape of Palmes which Cape separates it from Guinea propria It hath the reputation of a considerable place for the Pepper trade First planted with some Colonies of French and afterwards by the Portuguese English and Dutch Malemba a Kingdom of Africa betwixt the Kingdom of Angola and the Lake of Zembre Malespine a Marquisate and Souereignty in Tuscany in Italy near the States of Genoua The same properly with the ancient principality or now Dukedom of Massa belonging formerly to the Family of the Malespini which since has been incorporated with the House of Cibo Malfi Amalphis or Amalphi a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Hither Principato honoured with an Archbishops See and a Dukedom but little and not well inhabited It lies on the North side of the Bay of Salerno eleven from Salerno to the West and twenty two from Naples to the South The Emperor Lotharius II. in the War he undertook in the behalf of Pope Innocent II. against Roger K. of Sicily and Anacletus an Antipope mastered and plundered this City They pretend that here are the Bones of St. Andrew the Apostle brought from Judea about the Year 1206 and that the Seaman's Compass was invented here by Flavio Gioïa an Italian in 1300. P. Nicholas II. celebrated a Council here in 1059. in which the Dukedoms of Puglia and Calabria were confirmed to Robert Guichard the Valiant Norman for his Services in the expulsion of the Saracens Long. 38. 35. Lat. 40. 52. Malines See Mechelen Maliapur Maliapura a City on the Coast of Coromandel commonly called St. Thomas as being the place of the Martyrdom of that Apostle and an Archiepiscopal City written also Meliapor it was taken by the French in 1671. and deserted two years after Long. 108. 50. Lat. 13. 12. Malling West a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath. Mallorca See Majorca Malmesbury Maldunense Caenobium a Town built on the Western Bank of the River Avon the Capital of its Hundred on the Confines of the County of Glocester in the County of Wiltshire which took its name and rise from Maidulph a Learned Irish Scot who being highly admired both for his Piety and Learning erected here a School and a Monastery which Adelme his Scholar much improved becoming after his death the Tutelar Saint of Athelstane King of England who died in 938. after he had much enriched this Monastery by his Princely Donations this Adelme was the first who taught the Saxons the Latin Poetry No less honor is due to this Place on the score of William of Malmesbury a Learned Historian for the Times in which he lived which was about 1143. The Monastery thrived so well that at the suppression of it by Henry VIII its Revenue was above eight hundred and three pounds the year Whether its late Philosopher Thomas Hobbs has added to the Honor of this Place by being born here is left to the Judgment of Posterity The Town is now a Corporation represented by its Burgesses in Parliament and in a tolerable Condition by reason of its Clothing Trade It has six Bridges over the River being almost encircled therewith A Synod was held at it in 705. or 707. Malmugon Malmoe Malmogia a City in Scania in the Kingdom of Sweden called by the Hollanders Elbogon because it represents the Bent of the Elbow of an Arm. It was built in 1319. and has a safe Harbor over against Coppenhagen on the Sound In 1434. here was a strong Castle built by Ericus King of Denmark the first Encourager of lasting Architecture in this Kingdom In 1658. it first came into the hands of the Swedes in 1676. the Danes endeavoured the recovery of it by a Siege but without success they did the like the year following with the like event It stands four Danish Miles from Coppenhagen to the East Malpas a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Broxton Malta Melita and Island belonging to Africa in the Mediterranean Sea by some taken for the Place where S. Paul suffered Shipwrack in the Year of Christ 58. It s length is twenty Miles breadth twelve circuit about sixty which is its distance too from Pachyno the most South-Eastern Cape of Sicily one hundred and ninety from the nearest Coast of Africa Taken from the Saracens by Roger the Norman Earl of Sicily in 1089. And was under the Kings of Sicily till Charles V. granted it to the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem now called Knights of Malta from it after they were beaten out of Rhodes in 1530 that he might the easier protect Sicily from the Incursions of the Moors In 1566 they began to build the Bourg or principal City after Solyman the Magnificent had in 1565. reduced the greatest part of the old Town into Dust by a Siege of five Months managed by Dragut his General with the loss of twenty four thousand Men spent to no purpose on this small Island There are sixty Villages in it and three Cities all seated at the East end within the distance of eight Miles which have two large Havens divided by a Rock on the Point stands the Castle of S. Hermes to defend the entrance
Tongue signifies the Fishing-Place Meckleburg or Mekelbourg Meckelburgum Megalopolis a City of Germany in the Lower Saxony heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Breme and the Capital of the Dukedom of Meckelburg now ruined nothing remaining but a Castle near the Baltick Sea one Germany Mile from Wismar to the South and three from Swerin which is now the Bishops See to the North. This in the times of the Vandals and Heruli was the greatest City in Europe ruined by removing the Ducal Seat to Wismar because this Town was too big to be fortified as Crantius saith The Dukedom of Meckleburg is a Province of Germany in the Lower Saxony of considerable extent on the North bounded with the Baltick Sea on the East by Pomerania on the West by Holstein and Lawenburg and on the South by the Marquisate of Brandenburg It is now under two Princes of the same Family the Eastern under the Duke of Gustrow and the Western under the Duke of Swerin The Vandals Heruli and Burgundians were the ancient Inhabitants of this Country The Dukes are descended from Peribislaus the last King of the Heruli who being conquered by Henry the Lyon was forced about 1158. to take the Title of Duke instead of King as an Homager to the House of Saxony This Division was made about 1592 upon the Death of John the last single Duke of this intire Dukedom The Reformation was embraced betimes in this Country Medelpad Medelpadia a Province of Sweden which is a part of Angerman between Helsinga to the South Angerman properly so called Jemptland to the North the Baltick Sea to the East and Dale-Carle to the West Medemblick a Town in West Friesland one of the Vnited Provinces of the Low-Countries seated upon the Zuyder Sea upon which it has a large and secure Haven two Miles and an half from Hoorn and above eight from Amsterdam to the North. It is in the Maps Medenblick Media an ancient and celebrated Kingdom of Asia betwixt Armenia Major Hyrcania the Caspian Sea Assyria Susiana c. Where are now the Provinces of Schirvan Gilan Hyerach Agemy and Dilemon in Persia It was in the beginning subject to the Assyrians till Arbaces Governour of Media under Sardanapalus King of Assyria taking advantage of the loosness of that Prince to cast off the yoak of the Assyrian Empire established a Second in Media in his own person Anno Mundi 3178. according to the common Computation one hundred years before the first Olympiad and eight hundred seventy six before the Coming of Christ This Monarchy of the Medes continued under nine Kings from Arbaces to Astyages three hundred and seventeen years and then Astyages lost his Crown and Throne to Cyrus Anno Mundi 3495. Anno Romae 195. in the beginning of the fifth Olympiad The Capital City of the Medes was Ecbatana The others Arsacia now Casbin Cyropolis c. As for the name of Media most agree to derive it from Madai one of the Sons of Japhet Medina del Campo Methymna Campestris a Town in Old Castile in Spain Medina Caeli Ecelesta Augustobriga Mediolum Secontia Vetus Methymna Celia a small Roman City in Old Castile in Spain built upon an Hill near the River Xalon Salo and gives the Title of a Duke to the Family de Corda one of the Noblest Families in Spain which pretends a Right to the Crown of that Kingdom This City stands two Leagues from the Fountains of the River Xalon to the East thirty one from Madrid to the North-East and thirty four from Saragoza to the South-West Medina del rio Seco Forum Egurrorum Methymna Sicca a Town in the Kingdom of Spain Medina Sidonia Asindum Assidonia a Town in Andaluzia mentioned by Ptolemy now made famous by giving the Title of a Duke to the Family of Gusman in Spain it stands upon a Hill nine Miles from Cadiz to the East twenty five from Malaga to the West and was once a Bishops See as Haubertus avers Medina Talnabi that is the City of the Prophet a City in Arabia upon the River Laakic thirty Miles from the Red Sea to the East two hundred from Mecca to the North having a Port upon the Red Sea called Jambi at the Mouth of the River Long. 70. 10. Lat. 26. 00. according to our last Maps This City was of old called Jatrib by Stephanus Jatrippa by Ptolemy Latrippa at present Metina Medina It is seated in a Plain between Mount Ohod to the North and Mount Air to the South Mahomet the Grand Impostor who was born here in 560. finding his Country-men not overmuch inclined to imbrace his new Doctrines fled from hence to Mecca in 617. Having there by his Impostures gathered a great Rabble and pretending a quarrel against the Jews who had a Synagogue in this City he attempted to reduce it by force of Arms unprosperously at first but with better success the second time thereupon he turned the Jewish Synagogue into the first Mosque for the Exercise of his new Religion They of Mecca being alarmed with this Conqueâ—t in the next place took up Arms against him and prevailed but in the second Battel were defeated and subdued Therefore he fixed his chief Seat at Mecca where or here as others say he died in 631. at sixty three years of Age according to some at seventy twenty three of which he spent in propagating his abominable Doctrines thirteen at Medina and ten at Mecca five of which ten followed his Conquering Mecca The Mosque is extremely rich and magnificent sustained by four hundred Pillars which are charged with above three thousand Lamps of Silver and Here there is seen the Tomb of Mahomet which is a Coffin elevated upon Pillars of Black Marble under a Canopy of Cloath of Silver and Gold which the Bassa of Egypt by the Grand Seignior's Order renews every year surrounded with Ballisters and abundance of Lamps of Silver The Mediterranean Sea called by the Romans Mare Internum by the French Italians and Spaniards with little difference il Mare Mediterraneo by the Germans die Mittellendish Meer by the Dutch het Meidâ—anichezee by the Poles Morze Modkeâ—emie idoce by the Turks Ac Denghiz This is the most celebrated Sea in the whole World first discovered and most used by mankind It breaks in from the Atlantick Ocean between Spain and Africa by a Streight of seven Miles broad as the Ancients report it on the North it has Europe on the East Asia and on the South Africa Called by various names as to its parts that Branch of it between Spain France and Italy is called the Tyrrhenian Sea that between Italy to the West Greece and Dalmatia to the East the Adriatick now the Gulph of Venice and the Ionian Sea that which parts Greece from Asia to the Dardanells formerly called the Aegean Sea is now called the Archipelago that which expands it self between Greece and Asia as far as Constantinople is called the Propontis or Sea of Constantinople and that much
the East three from Ingolstad and the same distance from Aichstadt to the South The Duke of Newburg is lately become Elector Palatine by the Death of Charles the last Elector without Issue Newenburg Newburg Neopyrgum a small City in Schwaben in the Dukedom of Wurtsburg upon the River Entz in the Borders of the Marquisate of Baden six German Miles from Stugart to the West and as much from Spire to the South Newenburg Newbourg Neoburgum a Town in Brisgow upon the Rhine between Brisach to the North and Basil to the South heretofore a Free Imperial City but in 1410. exempted and granted to the House of Austria Since that in 1675. it was much damnified and in part destroyed Newenstad Neustad Neostadium a City in Austria which is one of the principal Cities in that Dukedom built in a Marshy low Ground upon a small River six German Miles from Vienna to the North. The Town is of a square Form with a Piazza in the middle incompassed with two Walls and a Ditch The outward Wall is not high the inward is of no great strength yet has defeated two Attempts of the Turks against it in the latter of which Solyman the Magnificent in 1529. Stormed this Town seven times in one day and was every time repulsed In this City the Emperor has a Palace of a square building with four Towers which may be seen a great way off There is another City of the same name in Bohemia in the Dukedom of Oppelen near the Borders of the Dukedom of Grotkaw five Miles from Oppelen There is a third in the Palatinate of the Rhine four German Miles from Spire to the West and two from Landaw to the North once an Imperial City but now exempt A fourth in the Dukedom of Wurtsburg two Miles from Wimpfen to the East and a little more from Hailbrun A fifth in the Dukedom of Brunswick upon the River Leyne six Miles from Zell to the West which is under the Duke of Hannover Newent a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Botlow The New Forest a Forest in Hampshire in compass about thirty Miles in which Richard the second Son of William the Conqueror was killed by a Deer William his third Son was accidentally slain by Sr. Walter Tyrrel and Robert Curtoyse his Grandson was struck into the jaws by the bough of a Tree and dyed Which fatalities have been the more remarked because to make this Forest compleat for game William the Conqueror caused no less than thirty Parish Churches with many Towns and Villages to be levelled to the ground Newhausel Neoselium a strong but small Town in the Vpper Hungary called by the Hungarians Owar it stands upon the River Nitria two German Miles from the Danube to the North and eleven from Presburg to the East It is sented in a Marsh which is its greatest strength It has six Bastions made in the form of a Star and walled up Breast height above the Level within the Dike not broad or deep The Grand Vister sat down before this Town August 14. 1663. and took it the 27. with the loss of fifteen thousand Men. He immediately endeavoured to strengthen it by bringing the River to run round but however July 7. 1685. the Duke of Lorrain sat down before it and took it by Storm August 19. following putting all the Garrison to the Sword Newmarckt Novomarchia a City of Transylvania called by the Hungarians Masserhely It stands upon the River Merisch at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains thirty five Miles from Clausenburgh to the South-East In this City the Assemblies of the States of Transylvania are most usually held New-Market a Town in the Borders of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire in a plain yielding a large prospect ten Miles from Cambridge to the East It consists of two Parishes the one in Suffolk the other in Cambridgeshire Famous for Horse Races and a House belonging to the Kings of England A Fire in this Town saved the Life of Charles II. by necessitating his return before the time appointed which prevented the designs of the Rie-House Conspirators Newnham a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Fauseley Newport Medena Novus Portus a Town in the Isle of Wight which is the Capital of the Island Well seated much frequented and very populous It has a small Haven and is a Corporation which sends two Burgesses to Parliament by the Grant of James I. Charles I. honoured it also by Creating Mountjoy Blount Earl of Newport in 1628. This Honour is now enjoyed by Henry his Son who is the third Earl of this Family Long. 19. 14. Lat. 50. 40. Newport upon the Usk a considerable Sea-Port Town in the County of Monmouth seated between the Ebwith and the Vsk with a fair Bridge over the latter two Miles from the Severn to the North. As the Vske discharges it self into the Severn it makes a good haven which bears the name of this Town Newport Pagnel a Market Town in Buckinghamshire upon the Ouse over which it hath two Bridges The Capital of its Hundred Newport in Pembrokeshire is a considerable Town in the North-West part of that County upon the Irish Sea built at the foot of an high Mountain by the side of the River Neverns By Martin of Tours and the procurement of his Posterity made a Corporation also returning one member to the English Parliament in which afterwards they built a Castle for their Habitation Newport in Shropshire a handsome Market Town in the Hundred of S. Bradford South of Drayton and upon a long plain adjoyning to Staffordshire Newport Novus Portus a strong Sea-Port Town in Flanders of old called Santhoft that is the Sandy Head It has a competent Haven upon the German Ocean at the Mouth of the River Yperle five Leagues from Dunkirk to the East and three from Ostend to the West Still in the Hānds of the Spaniards Near this place Prince Maurice of Nassaw gave the Spaniards a great overthrow Feb. 25. 1600. Newton a Market and Borough-town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Salford privileged with the Election of two Parliament-men Newton-Abbot or Newton-Bishops a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Heyter Newtown a Market Town in the County of Montgomery in Wales in the Hundred of Kidriorn Neyland a considerable Market Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of Babergh upon the River Stower It stands in a rich bottom and drives the cloathing Trade Neytracht See Nitracht Niancheu Niancheum a considerable City in the Province of Chekram in China Niaren More the Russian Name of the North Ocean or Frozen Sea called Mare Scythicum Nicaragua a Region in New Spain in North America of great extent between the North Sea to the East the South Sea to the West the Province of Hondura to the North and La Costa Rica to the South Also called New Leon from Leon de Nicaragua the principal City in it which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico
or Wedge containing in length from North to South about forty Miles in breadth where it is the broadest thirty in the whole four hundred and sixty Parishes and only six Market Towns The Air is cold and sharp the Soil barren and rugged but much improved by the Industry of its Inhabitants and chiefly towards the Sea fertile The Bowels of the Earth are full of Coal Mines whence a great part of England â—s supplied with that Fewel The principal Places in â—â— are Newcastle and Berwick George Fitz-Roy a Natural Son of Charles II. was created Duke of Northumberland in 1674. Which Title had been once before enjoyed by John Dudley Earl of Warwick created Duke of Northumberland by K. Edward VI. in 1551. and beheaded by Q. Mary After the death of the said John the Title of Earl of Northumberland returned to the Percies in whose Family as it had heretofore belong'd to them from the Year 1337 when Henry Piercy Lord Constable possessed it under K. Richard II. and was succeeded in it by five of his Name and Family with little interruption so it continued till the Year 1670 when Joceline Piercy died at Turin without Issue Male. North-Curry a Market Town in Somersetshire upon the River Tone and the Capital of its Hundred Northwich a Market Town in Cheshire upon the River Dane which runs into the Weeve the Capital of its Hundred Its Salt-pits render it remarkable Norway Norvegia Nerigon Basilia is a Kingdom of great extent on the North-Western Shoar of Europe called by the Inhabitants Norricke and by Contraction Norke by the Germans Norwegen Heretofore esteemed the Western part of Scandinavia and called Nerigon as Cluverius saith it reaches from the Entrance of the Baltick Sea to almost the North Cape but not of equal breadth On the East a long Ridge of Mountains always covered with Snow called Sevones separate it from Sweden Barren and Rocky or overgrown with vast and unpassable Woods It s length is about one thousand and three hundred English Miles and two hundred and fifty its breadth Divided into five Provinces Aggerhus Bergensus Dronthemhus VVardhus and Bahus The Inhabitants traffick abroad with Dryed Fish Whales Grease and Timber Of the same Religion with the Danes and some of them enclined to Magick like the Laplanders The Glama is the only River in this Kingdom that is sufficient to carry Vessels of great burden In 1646. a discovery was made of a golden Mine near Opslow which was quickly exhausted Bahus was resigned to the King of Sweden in 1658. There depend upon this Kingdom several Islands as Iseland Groenland Spitzberg the Isles of Feroe and those of Orkney the latter whereof were resigned to James VI. of Scotland The principal Cities are Drontheim and Berghen This had Kings of its own from very ancient times but in 1326. it was first united to Denmark in the Person of Magnus III. In 1376. they became so united that they were never since separated Norwich Nordovicum Norvicum is a rich populous neat City in the middle of the County of Norfolk seated at the confluence of the Venster or Vensder and the Yare over which it hath several Bridges This City sprung up out of the Ruins of Venta Icenorum now called Caster in which not many years since was found a vast number of Roman Urns. When or by whom Norwich was built is not known it seems to be a Saxon City it was certainly the Seat of some of the Kings of the East-Angles In its Infancy Sueno a Dane burnt it in 1004. In the Reign of VVilliam the Conqueror it was besieged and taken by Famine Herbert Bishop of this Diocese contributed to its growth by removing the Bishops Chair from Thetford hither about 1096. In the seventeenth year of King Stephen's Reign it was refounded and made a Corporation The Castle is thought to have been built in the Reign of Henry II. Taken by the French in the Reign of King John In the Reign of Edward I. it was walled by the Citizens Henry IV. in 1403. granted them a Mayor Afterwards it began to decay till Queen Elizabeth sent the Dutch Stuff Weavers who sled over into England from the cruel Government of the Duke d'Alva hither whereupon it grew very populous and rich There was great need of this supply one Kett a Tanner of VVindham having almost ruined this City about 1548. in the Reign of Edward VI. The present Bishop of Norwich is the seventy first from Bedwinus of Elmham the seventy fifth from Foelix the first Bishop of the East-Angles who began the Bishoprick in 636. Long. 24. 55. Lat. 52. 40. This City being about a Mile and a half in length and half as much in breadth contains twenty Parishes well walled with several Turrets and twelve Gates for Entrance and so pleasantly intermixt with Houses and Trees that it looks like an Orchard and a City within each other It gives the Title of Earl to the Duke of Norfolk whose Palace with that of the Bishop the Cathedral the Hospital c. are the principal Ornaments of its Buildings Noto Netum Nea Nectum Neetum a City of Sicily of great Antiquity and at this time great well inhabited the Capital of the Province called by its name It is incompassed with high Rocks and sleep Valleys being seated on the South side of Iseland Eight Miles from the Sea fifteen from Pachy no to the South-West and twenty five from Syracuse to the South Il Val di Noto Netina Vallis the Province in which the last mentioned City stands is the second Province of Sicily and lies on the South side of the Island On the North it has Il Valle di Demona on the West il Val di Mazara and on the South the African Sea Notteberg Notteburgum a Town in Ingria in Sweden seated on an Island in the Lake Ladoga towards the Confines of Moscovy Called Oreska by the Russ A very strong Town by its Situation yet Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden took it from the Moscovites in 1614. It takes its name from Nutts Nottinghamshire Nottinghamia is bounded on the North and West by Yorkshire on the East by Lincolnshire divided from it by the Trent on the South by Leicestershire on the West by Darbyshire It is in length thirty eight English Miles from North to South in breadth from East to West not above nineteen and in Circuit about an hundred and ten containing 168 Parishes and nine Market Towns The Air is good and pleasing the Soil rich Sand and Clay so that for Corn or Grass it may compare with any County of England it abounds equally with Wood and Coals and is watered with the Rivers Trent and Iddle besides several small Streams This County takes its name from its principal Town Nottingham Rhage a delicate pleasant Town seated on a high Hill full of fine Streets and good Buildings upon the River Line towards the South Borders of this County and about a Mile from the Trent to the West
middle between Tours to the North and S. Maxence to the South six Leagues from each Parthen Alisus a City of Pomerania towards the Shoars of the Baltick Sea under the Dominion of the Swedes near the River Bart two German Miles from the Borders of the Dukedom of Magdeburg to the East and four from Gripswald Partherberg the German Name of the Apennine Hills in Italy Parthia a Kingdom of the Ancient Persia established about the year of Rome 508 of the World 3808 two hundred and fifty years before Christ in the person of Arsaces from whom all the succeding Kings were called Arsacides and ended with the Death of Artabanus King of Parthia slain by Artaxerxes King of Persia about two hundred twenty seven years after Christ when it had enjoyed a Duration of above four hundred years It rendered it self sometime so puissant as to dispute the Empire of the East with the Romans Situated betwixt Hircania Media Aria Carmania and the Modern Province of Fars i. e. Persia properly so called A Country not at all fruitful yet nevertheless then inhabited by a fierce warlike indefatigable People particularly famous for a Dexterity in shooting one way behind them as they fled another Ptolemy reckons in his time in this Kingdom twenty five Cities whereof the Capital was Hecatompolis which is understood to be the Modern Haspaam in the Province of Hierach Arach or Erak-Atzem in Persia as that Province together with Khoemus and a part of Corasan are understood to comprehend now the ancient Parthia Le Partois Pagus Pertensis a Tract in the Province of Champagne in France between Champagne to the West and the Dukedom de Bar to the East towards the River Marne The principal Town of which is Vitri le Francois Pas a Town and Bailywick in the Earldom of Artois upon the River Authie which gives Name to one of the ancientest and best Families there It had heretofore a Castle and a Collegiate Church The Bailywick is of a considerable Extent adorned with the Title of a Barony and united to the Crown of France by the Treaty of the Pirenees Pas de Calais Fretum Britannicum the Streight between Calais and Dover Passage a Port Town in Biscay Passarvan a City and Port on the East of the Island of Java in the East-Indies betwixt the Cities Panarucan and Jortan towards the Cape of Balambuam Heretofore the Capital of a Kingdom of its Name there Passaw Patavia a City of the Lower Bavaria in Germany which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Saltsburg of old called Batava Castra It stands at the Confluence of the Inn and the Danube by which it is divided into three paâ—ts called Paslaw Ilnstat and Innstat An Imperial and Free City but under the Protection of its own Bishop whose Revenue is about forty thousand Crowns with the Territory about it which lies between the Dukedom of Bavaria to the West and the Vpper Austria to the East having the strong Castles of Obernberg and Ebersberg standing in it This City suffered very much by a Fire of late in 1661 being mostly built of Wood Over against it lies Oberhuis the Residence of the Bishop That which makes this City most regardable is the Peace of Religion here Established by Ferdinand I. Emperor of Germany in 1552 whereby the free Profession of Lutherainsm in Germany upon equal Terms with the Roman Catholick Religion was declared and confirmed Passava a Fort in the Province of Laconia in the Morea upon the Cape Matapan near the Banks of the Bay of Colochina taken and demolished by General Morosini in 1685 because of a narrow Passage hard by where a handful of Men might make head against an Army Passo di Cane Climax a Mountain of Phoenicia twenty Miles from Tripoli to the South Pastrana a Town in Old Castile upon the River Taio thirteen Miles from Madrid to the East and eighteen from Toledo Honored with the Title of a Dukedom Pata a City and Kingdom upon the Borders of Zanguebar in Africa Les Patagons Patagones a People of Magellanica near the Shoars of the North Sea towards Brasil This County was first discovered by F. Magellane and yet not much known Patane Patana a City and Kingdom in the Further Indies under the King of Siam and near the Kingdom of Malaca in a healthful and fruitful Clime The City stands upon the Bay of Siam Les Patans a Mahometan People possessing the Mountains about the River Ganges in the Empire of the Great Mogul They heretofore dwelt toward the Kingdom of Bengale whence making a Transplantation of themselves into Delly they became so puissant there as to render many Princes and Places tributary to them But when the Tartars conquered India about the year 1401 being no longer able to maintain their Power or Residence in the open Country they took Refuge in the Mountains fortifying and abiding in them ever since Patay en Beausse Patavium a Town in Beausse in France seated five Leagues from Orleans to the North towards Chartres nine to the South Near this Place the French under the Command of John Duke of Alanzon got a great Victory over the English under Talbot the Terror of the French Nation Patera Patara or Paterea a City of Lycia in the Lesser Asia once called Arsinoe as Strabo saith it stands upon a Hill at the Mouth of the River Xanthus now called Il Scamandro eighty Miles from Rhodes to the East a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Myra Famous in the person of S. Nicholas who was both a Bishop and a Native here Apollo had an Oracle in this City in the Times preceding Christianity which observed to make its Responses the space of six Months in the year Pathmos or Patmos an Island in the Aegean Sea of signal Fame for the Banishment of S. John the Evangelist and his Writing the Book of the Apocalypse there Now called variously by Writers Palmosa and Petina Patras Patrae a City of the Morea in the Duchy of Clarentia of great Antiquity called by the Turks Badra and Balisbadra that is the Old Patrae as Leunclavius expounds their Name The Italians used to call it Neopatria It is an Archbishops See and now in a flourishing Condition Seated at the Entrance of the Gulph of Lepanto about seven hundred Paces from the Shoars of the Gulph of Patras to the East and ninety from Corinth to the West Chosen by Augustus for a Station for his Fleets and on that account much honored by him Under the latter Greek Emperors it had Dukes of its own till the year 1408 when the last of them resigned it to the Venetians not being able to defend it against the Turks When it came first into the Hands of the Turks I do not find but Mahomet III. received a great Defeat near this Place in the year 1602. Doria the Christian Admiral took it from the Turks in 1533. They then soon after recovered it but in the year 1687 it sell again into
entered upon the See by the Regal Authority against the Consent of the Metropolitan and the Bishops of the Province which Decree drew upon the Authors of it a fevere Prâ—secution from the Crown Saintonge or Xaintonge Santonia a great and fruitful Province of France bounded on the North by Poictou on the East by Angoumois on the South by the Garonne which separates it from Guienne and on the West by the Bay of Aquitain This was the Seat of the Santones an ancient Nation of the Galls its Capital is Saintes the other Cities of Note are Brouges S. Jean de Angely and Taillebourg The Rivers Garonne Charante Seudre c. water it They make great quantities of Salt in this Province The Romans had their Colonies in it who often deride the short Cloaks or Gowns worn by the ancient Gauls here as Martial Gallia Santonico vestit te Bardocucullo Cercopithecorum penula nuper erat The same habit towards the Sea Coasts is in use with the common People to this day This Province fell to the Crown of England together with Gascoigne Guienne c. by the Marriage of Eleanor of Guienne with K. Henry II. of England Sala the same with Saal Salado Salsum a River of Spain in Anddlusia called Guadajox which between Sivil and Corduba falls into the Guadalquivir Salamanca Salmantica a City in Spain called Vrbs Vettonum by Ptolemy and perhaps the same with Polybius his Elmantica it stands in the Kingdom of Leon upon the River Tormes a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Compostella and an University founded by Alfonsus IX King of Leon in the year 1200 which is one of the most considerable in that Kingdom adorned with noble Schools and a large Library About ten Leagues from Zamora to the South fourteen from the Borders of Portugal to the East and two and twenty from Valladolid to the South-West upon several Hills in a very unequal Situation of a small circuit ill built worse repaired most of the Houses being falling down and besides its Churches Monasteries and Colleges has nothing that deserves Regard Long. 14. 45. Lat. 41. 15. Salamis Salamine an ancient Archiepiscopal City in the Island of Cyprus which boasted of the honour of having its Church founded by the Apostle S. Barnabas whose Body was discovered to lye here in 485. It afterwards took the name of il Porto Costanzo or Constantia The Philosopher Anaxarchus suffered in this City the pounding to death in a mortar by the order of Nicocreon King of Cyprus with a singular constancy It is now utterly ruined Salamis an Island See Coluri Saâ—andra Salandrilla or Aâ—alandra a River in the Basilicate in the Kingdom of Naples passing by Risetto and thence called also Piume di Rosetto to the gulph of Taranto Salawar Zalawar or Zalad a County in the Lower Hungary upon the Borders of Stiria with the Drave to the South and the County of Vesprin to the North. Kanisa stands in this County upon the River Sala But the Capital Town of it bears the same name of Salawar Sale Sala a City ascribed in ancient time by Ptolemy to Mauritania Tingitana seated at the Mouth of a River of the same Name on the Shoars of the Kingdom of Fez on the Atlantick Ocean A place of great Trade and has a noble Habor but it is an infamous Nest of Piratâ— It was heretofore a Common-Wealth now under the King of Fez who is Master of the Castle It stands one hundred Miles from Fez to the West and Tangier to the South Almanesor one of the Moorish Kings much beautified it and was after buried in it The Spaniards took it in 1287 who lost it in ten days again in 1632. King Charles I. sent a Fleet against this City which blocked it up by Sea whilst the King of Morocco besieged it by Land and by this means brought it under the Works being levelled and those Rogues Executed for which King Charles had three hundred Christian Captives sent him as a Recompence a Reward worthy of that Holy King Long. 6. 40. Lat. 33. 50. Sale the same with Saal Sale Sala a River in Quercy a Province of France Sale Sala a Province of the Kingdom of Bosnia Salefica Saleucia a City in Cilicia in the Lesser Asia which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch It stands seventy Miles from Tarsus to the West and twelve from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea to the North called by Niger Seleschia Long. 64. Lat. 38. 40. Salentini the ancient Inhabitants of Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples in the Roman times Salerno Salernum Salerna a City in the Kingdom of Naples which was a Roman City and Colony called by Strabo and Livy Vrbs Picentinorum Now an Archbishops See a Principality and the Capital of the Hither Principato It stands upon the River Busanola upon the Shoars of the Tyrrhenian Sea upon which it has a Bay called by its own Name and a safe and large Haven twenty four Miles from Naples to the South-East and thirty from Benevento to the South Long. 38. 44. Lat. 40. 33. This Archbishoprick was founded by Pope Boniface VII in 974. The Body of S. Matthew the Apostle is said to be in this Place Pope Gregory VII died here in 1085. It has a Castle and many Antiquities which are the Remainders of the Roman Works When Naples had distinct Kings the Title of this place belonged to the eldest Son of that Kingdom In the years 1615. and 1579. there were two small Councils held at it Salettes a Carthusian Nunnery of great note and quality upon the frontiers of Dauphine in France toward la Bresse Salfeâ—â—d an Abbey in Thuringia in Germany Salii an ancient People of Provence in France who as we find in Strabo Mela c. extended themselves from about Aix as far as to Nice § There was another Nation of the Salii in the Tract now called Sallant from them in Overyssel in the Low Countries Saline Didyme one of the Liparee Islands belonging to Sicily twelve Miles in circuit and fruitful in Allum Near this place the Dutch received a great Defeat from the French at Sea in 1676. Baudrand The Italians call it Didimo Salino Suinus a River in the Kingdom of Naples which springeth out of the Apâ—â—hine and â—inning through the Further Abruzzo watering Pennâ— a City of that Province and Pescara falls into the Gulph of Venice Salingstede Salinâ—stadium a Town in Franconia upon the Maine four Miles above Franck fort to the East By Charles the Great made a Bishap's See but in 780 this Chair was removed to Hailbâ—une It was then a very great City since become subject to the Bishop of Mentz Salins Salinae a strong City in the Franche Comté upon the River Forica eight Loagues from Dole to the East and fifty eight from Geneva to the North. It is seated in a fruitful Valley betwixt two Mountains called Scoding which has been the reason why this City in the Latin
Territory of Padoua in Italy Sclavonia the Southern Province of the Lower Hungary called by the Italians Schiavonia by the Germans die Sclavinien by the Poles Slovienska Ziemia The middle Ages under this Name comprehended Illyricum Dalmatia Croatia Bosnia and this which is now called Sclavonia On the North it has the Drave a great River which parts it from the Lower Hungary on the East the Danube on the South the Save which divides it from Croatia Bosnia and Servia and on the West Carniola and Stiria The length of it from the Town of Kopranitz in the West to the fall of the Drave into the Danube in the East is fifty German Miles its breadth from the Drave to the Save twelve This Country was first possessed by the Pannonians after that by the Goths about 386 who were Conquered by the Sclaves about 550. About 1200. these People became Tributaries to the Kings of Hungary About 1544. this Country was first subdued by Solyman the Magnificent In 1687. after the Battel of Mohats the Turkish Army mutining against the Prime Vizier all this Country except Gradisca submitted to the Emperor the Turks deserting it without any blows The German̄s upon their return were very well pleased with the Fertility of it The Chief Towns in it are Gradisca Esseck and Possega which is the Capital City The Inhabitants are great lovers of War and pray for nothing more earnestly than that they may die with their Arms in their Hands Scodra a City of Illyricum attributed by Livy and Ptolemy to Dalmatia and in those times the Seat of the Kings of Illyricum Now the Capital City of Albania and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Antivari great and populous it stands upon the River Boiana Barbana twenty four Miles from the Adriatick Sea and eighty from Ragusa to the North East Twice besieged by the Turks under Mahomet II. without success and in 1478. resigned to them for a Peace by the Venetians The Inhabitants call it Scadar the Turks Iscodar and the Italians Scutari The Lake Labeatis out of which the Boiana Springs takes the name now of the Lake of Sclitari Long. 44. 20. Lat. 42. 24. Scone Scona a celebrated Abbey in the County of Perth upon the Tay three Miles from S. Johnston to the North West in which the Kings of Scotland for many Ages were Crowned Scopia Scapi a City of the Vpper Moesia and the Capital of Dardania in the Borders of Macedonia in the times of Ptolemy now called Scopia by the Italians and Vschub by the Turks It is a great populous City in Servia an Archbishop's See and the Seat of the Sangiack of Servia feated in a fruitful Plain upon the River Vardar over which it has a Stone Bridge of twelve Arches one hundred Miles from Thessalonica to the North-West ten from Sophia to the West and about the same distance from Giustandil to the South The River upon which it stands falls into the Bay of Thessalonica Scotland Scotia is the second Kingdom in Great Britain called by the French l' Escosse by the Italians Scotia by the Germans Schottlandt On the East it is bounded by the German Ocean on the North by the Deucalidonian Sea and the Isles of Orkney on the West by the Vergivian Ocean and the Irish Sea on the South by the River Tweed the Cheviot Hills and the adjacent Tract to Solway Sands whereby it is separated from England Solway Fyrth lies in deg 56. of Latitude and the most Northern point lies in 60 30. by which it should be three hundred and fifteen English Miles in length Polydore Virgil reckons four hundred and eighty its breadth is no where above sixty and its form Triangular with many great Inlets and Arms of the Ocean which indent both the Eastern and Western sides of it The Soil especially towards the North is generally barren affords little Timber and no Fruit Trees The Southern parts are more fruitful the Air in both sharp and cold It is divided into two parts the Southern and the Northern by Dunbritain and Edenburgh Fyrth The South part called the Low-Lands is fuller of Cities and great Towns the People are more rich and better civilized as not only Inhabiting a better Country but driving a Trade at Sea The Northern or High-Lands are more barren and poor the Inhabitants accordingly patient of want and hunger and very temperate in their Diet without which Virtues they could not subsist South Scotland is divided into twenty one North Scotland into thirteen Counties For the Ecclesiastical Government they have two Archbishops S. Andrews who has eight and Glascow who has three Suffragan Bishops under him In the times of the Romans this Country was called Caledonia and Albania the People Picts from their custom of Painting their Bodies The Romans never extended their Conquests beyond the South of Scotland because they thought the Northern and barrener parts not worth their pains The remaining Inhabitants after the withdrawing of the Roman Garrisons from the Northern parts of Britain became very troublesome to the Britains and forced them to call in the Saxons about 449 who Conquered the South parts of Scotland and possess it to this day The Scots or Irish about the same time entered the Western parts of Scotland and by degrees united first with the Picts or Highlanders by their assistance Conquered the Saxons and gained the Sovereignty of that whole Kingdom But there being no Letters here the Story of these times is very dark which has occasioned great Controversies concerning the time of the Scots coming out of Ireland About 839 the Picts were intirely subdued by Kenneth II. first sole King of all Scotland This Line continued under twenty three Princes to 1285. When Alexander III. dying without Issue there began a tedious and bloody contest about the Succession which was referred to Edward I. of England who adjudged the Crown to John Baliol an Englishman He Rebelling against his Benefactor was defeated by that Prince who following his blow made himself Master of Scotland and kept it to his death In 1307. Robert Bruce the other Competitor overthrew the English established himself King of Scotland and Reigned till 1332 when the Kingdom divided again between Edward Baltol and David Bruce which latter prevailed at first against his Competitor but fell under the power of the English where he was many years a Prisoner In 1371. Rob. II. Surnamed Steward descended from the eldest Daughter of David Bruce succeeded In 1602. James VI. the ninth in this Line succeeded after Queen Elizabeth to the Crown of England as Descended both by Father and Mother from Margaret the eldest Daughter of Henry VII King of England the whole Line of Henry VIII being extinguished The Christian Religion was Planted here by different Persons and at several times The Saxon Scots were Converted by Aidan the first Bishop of Lindisferne about 635. The South-Eastern by Nimas Bishop of Candida Casa or White Herne about 555. The Highlanders or
Course piece of Cloth with a fine List Besides the Thames here is the VVay the Mole and the Wandle whose head springs from Croydon all emptying themselves in the Thames It has many Noble and Princely Houses but few Towns or Places of any considerable greatness the Principal Town in it being Kingston upon Thames The Regni an old British Tribe were the first Inhabitants of this County In the times of the Saxon Heptarchy it was a part of the Kingdom of the South Saxons The first Earl of it was VVill. de VVarren Created by VVilliam the Conqueror in 1067. VVilliam the third of this Line succeeded in 1135. who was followed by VVilliam de Blois Son of King Stephen first Husband of Isabel de VVarren in 1148. and by Hameline Plantagenet base Son of George Earl of Anjou half Brother to Edward III. second Husband of the said Isabel in 1163. His Posterity enjoyed it in four descents till 1347 when the Male Line failing Richard Fitz Alan Lord Treasurer was Earl of Surrey In 1398. Thomas Holland was Earl of Kent and Duke of Surrey afterwards Beheaded Thomas Fitz Alan Son of the former Richard died Earl of Surrey in 1414. In 1451 John Lord Mowbray was Created Earl of VVarren and Surrey and after Duke of Norfolk In 1475. Richard a second Son of Edward IV. was the thirteenth Earl of Surrey In 1483. Thomas L. Howard L. Treasurer after Duke of Norfolk was Created Earl of Surrey in which Family it is at this day Surunga a City and Kingdom in Japan in the Island of Niphon Sus Susa or Susum a Kingdom in Biledulgerida in Africa so called from a River of the same Name It is bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Morocco on the East by Darha on the South by Tesseta and on the West by the Atlantick Ocean Divided into seven Provinces the principal Cities in it are Tarudant the Regal City Teseut and Sancta Cruz. This is a pleasant rich fruitful Kingdom yields Wine Grain Fruits Pasturage Indico Alum c. has a great Quantity of Gold which is a perpetual cause of War amongst them and many Castles and Villages well fortified by the Natives since the Portuguese abandoned this Country in the last Century Now subject to the Kingdom of Fez tho it has been a distinct Kingdom and the Inhabitants are for the most part Mahometans and some of the best Soldiers in Africa Susa one of the principal Cities in the Principality of Piedmont upon the Doria at the foot of the Cottian Alps which separate Piedmons from Dauphine and the Capital of a Marquisaâ—e of its own Name belonging to the Duke of Savoy but taken by the French Forces under Monsieur Cattinat November 1690. Nineteen Miles from Pignerol The French call it Suse This City shews an Inscription upon a Triumphal Arch from which Learned Men conclude that the Emperor Augustus erected his Trophy hereabouts for the Conquest of the Alpine Nations in the year of Rome 740 fourteen Years before our Saviour For tho others place that Trophy about the Foot of le Col de Tende or the Maritime Alpes near Nice and Monaco from a part of the words Gentes Alpinae Devictae seen there upon a Fragment of a stone yet these two Opinions are reconcilable by supposing that Augustus set up this Trophy at the foot of both the Maritime and Cottian Alpes for the greater glory § Susa was also the Capital of the ancient Country Susiana in Asia at the entrance of a spacious Plain which the River Choaspes watered The Kings of Persia used to pass the Spring at it Darius repaired it says Pliny Alexander the Great took it It is now in a flourishing state if the same Souster See Souster Susdal Susdalia a City of Muscovy the Capital of a Province of the same Name and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Rostow It stands eighty Miles from Moscow to the South-East and one hundred and thirty from Novogorod Nisi to the North-West Susiana an ancient Country of Asia betwixt Syria Persia and Chaldaea whereof Susa was the Capital City and Melitene one considerable Province It had the honour to be a Kingdom which after the death of Abradatus King of Susiana submitted to the power of Cyrus Sussex Sussexia one of the Southern Counties of England Bounded on the North by Surrey and Kent on the East by Kent on the South by the British Sea and on the West by Hampshire It s Length from East to West is sixty Miles the broadest part from North to South not above twenty and its Circumference about one hundred and fifty wherein are contained one hundred and twelve Parishes with eighteen Market Towns The Air is good but subject to great Fogs and Mists out of the neighbour Sea which recompenceth this Inconvenience with plenty of Fish and Fowl There are few Harbors upon this Coast the Soil is rich and fruitful but the Roads miry and unpleasant the Middle of the Country has excellent Meadows the Sea-coasts are Hilly but afford plenty of Corn and Grass the North-side full of Woods and Groves The principal River is Arun. The chief City in it is Chichester which is a Bishop's See the next to it Lewes The Regni were the ancient Inhabitants of this County who were subdued by Aulus Plautius in the reign of Claudius the Roman Emperor In 478 Ella erected here the Kingdom of the South-Saxons from whence this County has its Name The first Earl of it was William de Albeney Earl of Arundel who married Adelizia the Relict of Henry I in 1178. He was succeeded by VVilliam his Son it continued in this Family for five Descents In 1243 John Plantagenet Earl of Surrey succeeded In 1305 John a Son of the former followed In 1529 Robert Ratcliffe was Created by Henry VIII Earl of Sussex whose Posterity enjoyed this Honor six Descents In 1644 Thomas Lord Savil was Created the fourteenth Earl of Sussex whose Son succeeded and in him that Family ended This Honor in 1674 was conferred upon Thomas Leonard Lord Dacres who married Anne Fitz-Roy eldest Daughter to the Duchess of Cleavland by Charles II. Sutherland Sutherlandia a County in the North of Scotland Bounded on the North by Caithness and Strathnavern on the West by Assint on the South by Rosâ— and on the East by the German Ocean The principal Town in it is Dornock Sutri Sutrium Colonia Julia Sutrina a City in the States of the Church in S. Peters Patrimony upon the River Pozzolo which is a Bishops See but for ever united to the See of Nepi from whence it stands four Miles to the West and twenty four from Rome to the South-West It is little and incompassed with Rocks on all sides Livy says of it that Camillus when it had revolted against the Romans went with an Army to reduce it In the year of Christ 1046. the Emperor Henry III. assembled a Council here which deposed Pope Gregory VI. who had intruded into the Roman
good Harbor on its South side The usual place where the Dutch Fleet rendezvouz in times of War Near it the Illustrious General Monk afterwards Duke of Albemarle beat the Dutch Fleet July 31. 1653 slew their famous Admiral Van Trump burnt and sunk twenty six of their Men of War with the loss of only two small English Ships and drove the rest into the Texel Which being seen by the People from the Shore prevented the usual Ceremony of a Thanksgiving for being beaten Teyder-Aa Teydera a River of Livonia in Litland which watereth Adzal and Wolmer then falls into the Bay of Livonia Teysterbandt Testerbantum a small County in the Dukedom of Cleves towards the Maes the Wael and the Rhine in the North of Cleves and on the Southern Border of Guelderland which has been united to Cleves seven hundred years Thabor a celebrated Mountain in Galilee in Palestine six Miles from Nazareth to the East near the Plain of Esdrelon and the Valley of Iesreel having the Brook of Endor springing from its foot Josephus gives it the Height of thirty Greek Stadia and the Plain upon the top of it the compass of two thousand five hundred Paces where the Wind blows very to hard and cold in the hottest Seasons Here our Saviour honoured S. Peter James and John with the View of his glorious Transfiguration in memory whereof Helena the Mother of Constantine the Great built upon the place a stately Church with three small Chapppels representing the three Tabernacles in S. Peter's Wish which Chappels now are almost buried under the Ruines of the Church saving one Altar used sometimes for Mass by the Religious of Nazareth Alexander Jannaeus King of Judah who began his Reign one hundred and three years before Christ built a Fortress upon this Mountain which probably continued till the time of our Saviour and was the same with that taken by Composition in the year after Christ 82 by Vespasian when the Church and Chappels were demolished These latter were re-established in 1099 by Godfrey of Bouillon and divided betwixt the Greek Calcyers and the Benedictine Monks under a Bishop a Suffragan to the Patriarch of Jerusalem In 1187 Saladine took the Mountain and ruined its Works In 1253 the Christians retook it and Pope Alexander gave it to the Templars But in 1290 it was finally lost from the Christians to the Sultan of Egypt It stands in a round conical figure with its sides to the West and South full of Shrubs and Greens Thamar Rha the same with Wolgha Thame a Market Town in Oxfordshire upon the Borders of Buckinghamshire which takes its Name from the River Thame one of the Fountains of the Thames joining with the Isis at Dorchester whose Branches almost encompass it and are here covered with a Bridge leading into Buckinghamshire It is the Capital of its hundred and enjoys the Benefit of a Free-School and a Hospital founded by the Lord Williams of Thame Thames Thamesis Tamesis Jamissa the principal River of England Which has this Name from the Thame and Isis two smaller Rivers its Fountains The first of these arises in Buckinghamshire the second in VViltshire The second is far the greater receives the VVindrush and the Evenclods before it arrives at Oxford beneath that City the Charwell a noble Flood and at Dorchester it takes the Thame Then sporting it self with vast turns it watereth VVallingford Reading and Henly dividing Buckinghamshire from Surrey it watereth VVindsor so passeth to Stanes in Middlesex above which it takes in the Colne and watering Hampton-Court Kingston Brentford and Chelsey it gently glides between Westminster and London on the North and Southwark on the South where it is covered by one of the noblest Bridges in the World More to the East it receives the Lea out of Essex being now able to bear vast Ships it hasteth by Graves End into the German Ocean between Essex to the North and Kent to the South Thanet Tanâ—tos Thanatos Athanatos in Solinus a small Island on the Eastern Coast of Kent surrounded on the South by the Sea and on the West by the River Stoure here called the Yenlade about eight Miles long and four broad In this Island the Saxons first landed and also S. Augustine the Monk In 1628 Nicolas Lord Tufton was created Earl of Thanet by Charles I. Richard the fifth of this Family succeeded in 1680. Thaurn Taurus Thaxted a Market Town in the County of Essex in the hundred of Dunmow Theaco Ithaca an Island in the Ionian Sea betwixt Cephalonia Sancta Maura and the Curzolari under the Venetians The Italians call it Val di Compare It reckons about fifteen thousand Inhabitants a great part banished persons from Zante Cephalonia and Corfu It hath a spacious and safe Haven but no City or good Town only some Villages and it pretends to shew the ruins of Penelope's House supposing Vlysses to have been a Native of this Ithaca Thebe Thebae two celebrated Cities in Antiquity in Egypt and Greece That in Egypt received its ruin from Cornelius Gallus Governour of Egypt But the marks of its former Opulence the number of its Inhabitants its Conquests the tribute and imposts it paid to the King and to the Temples remained engraved in Egyptian Characters upon Obelisks in Germanicus's time who visited as Tacitus says the ruins of this City in his Travels It contained one hundred and forty Stadia in Circuit one hundred Gates and according to those Obelisks seven hundred thousand fighting Men. See Diospolis § The other in Bâ—eotia in Greece hath ever pretended to challenge the ancient Cadmus for its Founder about the year of the World 2620 nigh one thousand four hundred years before the coming of Christ During which Interval it was first adorned with the Title of a Kingdom Next changed into a Republick of great Puissance which maintained War against both the Athenians and Lacedaemonians and over the latter gained a signal Victory by the conduct of their General Epaminâ—ndâ—s at the Battel of Leuctra when both hâ— and Cleombrotus General of the Lacedaemonians were slain Philip K. of Macedon Conquered this City and Garrisoned it with Macedoâ—ians whose yoak they regretted till they revol ed upon the death of that King And refusing to submit to his Son Alexander He by â—orce reconquering them entirely â—uined this City saving the single House of the Poet Pindar and divided the Lands amongst his Soldiers â—bout the year of Rome 419. and the CXI Olympaid Cassander the Son of Antipater King of Macedonia twenty years after rebuilt it and his work is parâ—ly standing at this day in the quality of a Village under the Turks but before those desâ—royers of Mankind possess'd it it was the See of an Archbishop See Stives Thebes See Stives Theobalds a Palace Royal of the Kings of England in Hâ—â—fordshire in the Hundred of Hartford not â—ar â—rom Hodsdon on the Lea and less from Waltham Abbey in Essex It is delightfully situated amongst Groves and Springs
near it on a Rock In the Cathedral you see the Tombs of many of the Kings of Sweden who bore the Style of Kings of Vpsal in former times And here in 1654. the famous Christiana Queen of Sweden resigned her Royal Diadem See Sweden Upsu See Alaschehir Upton a Market Town in Worcestershire The Capital of its Hundred upon the Severn in the South of the County It is well built and an antient Roman Town Ur an antient City of Chaldaea The place of the Birth and Death of Haran Abraham's Brother Gen. xi 28. Uraha a Gulph upon the Coast of the Terra firma in South America together with a Province of the same Name Uraniburg or Vranisbourgh Vraniburgum a splendid Castle and Observatory in the Island of Huen near Coppenhagen in the Sound betwixt Seeland and the Province of Schonen built by Tycho Brahe a Danish Baron the celebrated Astronomer in 1575. But since having been neglected is ruined Urba the same with Orba Urbanea Vrbinia a small new City in the Dukedom of Vrbino under the Pope made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vrbino by Pope Vrban VIII in 1635. who from an ordinary Village adorned it to this Dignity enlarged its Buildings and left it his Name It stands 7 Miles from Vrbino to the North-West Urbinio Vrbinium is a City of Vmbria in the States of the Church which is an Archbishops See and the Capital of the Dukedom of that Name A great and flourishing City seated near the Fountains of the River La Foglia 20 Miles from the Adriatick Sea to the North-West 7 from the Vrbanea and 25 from Rimini Made an Archbishops See in 1563. Il ducato di Urbino is that part of Vmbria which lies beyond the Apennine Bounded on the North by the Adriatick Sea and Romandiola on the East by the Marchia Anconitana on the South by Ombria and on the West by the Dukedom of Florence This Country was under Sovereign Dukes first of the Family of Feltria and after of Roborea the last of which having no Male Issue in 1631. resigned his Dominions in his life time to Pope Vrban VIII to prevent any Quarrels about it after his Death and ever since it has been united to the Papacy Reckoned to contain 3 Ports 7 or 8 Castles and nigh 350 Towns beside the Cities The Cities of it are Cagli Gubio Fossombrone Pesaro Senigaglia Vrbanea and Vrbino which last is the Capital City Urgel Orgelium Vrgella Vrgela Orgia a City of Catalonia in the County of Ceretania at the foot of the Pyrenean Hills A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona upon the River Segre 5 Leagues from the Borders of France to the South 28 from Barcinone and 9 from Perpignan It had Counts of great Power under the second Line of the Kings of Arragon In 1580. and 1633. we find Synods assembled here The Tract in which it stands is from it called the Plain of Vrgel Uri Vriensis Pagus one of the Senior Cantons of Suitzerland at the foot of the Mountains extended along the Banks of the River Russ And one of the first that leagued against Albert Duke of Austria in 1308. It 's altogether Roman Catholick and Alforf the Capital City Urla Clazomenae a City of the lesser Asia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Smyrna It stands upon the Archipelago between Smyrna to the East and Chio to the West Long. 55. 15. Lat. 39. 30. The Seamen call it Uourla Usbeck the same with Zagathay in Tartary Uscopia a great and heretofore very populous City situated about 30 German Miles from Nissa and at the like distance from Thessalonique the Capital of Macedonia The Imperialists burnt it in 1689. It was secured only with an old Wall Userch a Town in Limosin in France Usiza or Vsciza an open rich and populous City about 20 Leagues from Belgrade upon the Frontiers of Bosnia having a strong Castle Taken and plundered by a Party of Rascians in 1688. In the Emperor's hands Usk a Market Town in Monmouthshire The Capital of its Hundred Upon a River of its own Name over which it hath a Bridge Well built large and fortified formerly with a Castle now in Ruines The antient Burrium of Antoninus is suppos'd to have stood here In the Vicinage of it the Duke of Beaufort possesses a noble Seat called Ragland Castle The River Vske discharges it self into the Severn near Newport in this County Albeargavenny is situated upon upon this River at the influx of the Kaveny into it Utica See Biserta its modern Name Utoxeter a Market Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Totmonslow upon the River Dove Utrecht Antonia Trajectum Inferius Vtricesium Vltrajectum Antonina Civitas Civitas Vtricensium a great strong populous City in the Vnited Netherlands the Capital of one of their seven States It stands upon the North Branch of the Rhine at the distance of about 5 English Miles to the North but united to it by a Navigable Channel Twenty three Leagues from Cologne 5 German Miles from Amsterdam to the South and 6 from Roterdam to the East The Original of it is unknown but it is supposed to be a Roman Work and built in or before the times of Nero about 186. Being ruined by the Barbarous Nations Dagobert King of France rebuilt and refortified it about 642. So that the second Pile became much more famous than the former Willibrodus the Apostle of the Frisons being sent by Pope Sergius in 696. with the Title of an Archbishop and Pepin King of France having in 692 taken Vtrecht from Radbold the Pagan Duke of Frizeland he assigned this City to Willibrode and gave him the Territories thus reckoned up by Antonius Mattheus in his Books de Nobi itate The Lekk the Uechten all the Lands which lay upon their Banks and the Territory of Teistervant which included a great part of Guelders Bommel Tiel the Betouw Culemborch Viane Asperen Bure Heusden Neuctom the Veluwe and Ysestein In 700. Radbold attempting in vain the recovering this City submitted So Willibrode and Boniface his Successor peaceably enjoyed this vast Diocese which was confirmed to them and their Privileges enlarged by Charles the Great In after times it became a Free Imperial City of Germany Several of the Emperors resided and some died here amongst whom are reckoned Conrad II. in 1039. and Henricus V. in 1122. So jealous they were of their Privileges that they would not suffer any of their Bishops Officers to have any share in the Government of the City nor would they suffer the Bishop to enter the Town with more Men than they allowed him or to stay in it above five or eight days They maintained this Liberty though it was sorely envied and laid at by John Count of Holland in 1297. and by William Count of Holland in 1324. till in 1527. the Bishop of Vtrecht passed over his Right to Charles V. who being a Potent Prince easily reduc'd this City under his Obedience built it a Castle
and in 1546. kept in it a Chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece It had then 4 Collegiate Churches divers Abbeys and Ecclesiastical Houses But in 1577. they with the rest of Holland revolted from the Spaniards In 1559. it had been advanced to an Archbishoprick by Pope Paul IV. and nine Suffragan Bishops assigned to this See which was one of the occasions of the Revolt In 1636. it was made an University and in 1672. it fell for a short time into the hands of the French but is since returned to its former liberty the Learned Dr. Brown has given a short account of the present State of this City in his Travels Pag. 101. Long. 26. 26. Lat. 52. 10. The State of Vtretcht Sticht van Utretcht is the fifth of the Vnited Provinces Bounded South West and North with Holland and on the East by Guelderland Besides its Capital it has Wick the Seat of the Bishops Duerstede Rhenen Amersford and Monfort which are fortified strong places and about sixty great Villages Uulxin the same with Veuxin Uxbridge a large Market Town in the Coun. of Middlesex in the Hundr of Elt horn upon the River Coln Uzerche Vsarcha Vsarchia a Town in the Lower Limosin in Aquitain in France upon the River Vezere adorned with an Abbey and a Castle The Abbot is Lord of the Town Uzes Vcetia Vtica Vzetia Castrum Vseticense a City of the Lower Languedoc in France upon the River Eisent which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Narbonne and honored with the Title of a Dukedom by King Charles VI. after it had born the Titles first of both a Barony and a Viscounty The Bishop enjoys the Honor to be a Count and joynt Lord of the place with the King Therefore it hath three Castles for the King the Duke and the Bishop A rich populous and well traded City John de S. Gelais its Bishop in the last Age embraced the Reformed Religion and married an Abbess 't is said he abjured it again before his death and was buried in the Abbey of S. Maixant In 1635. there was a Synod held here It stands 3 Leagues from Nismes to the North and 6 from Avignon to the West Long. 25. 10. Lat. 43. 36. Vzeste a Castle in the Territory of Bazadois in Guyenne in France betwixt Bourdeaux and Bazas Remarkable for the Tomb of Pope Clement V. sometime Archbishop of Bourdeaux who was born at Villandrand a Village one League from this Castle died at the Castle of Roque-Maure two Leagues from Avignon in 1314 and was interred here in 1316. WA WAad Vaudum a Territory in Switzerland called by the French Le Pais de Vaud which was a part of the Dutchy of Savoy till 1536. and now subject to the Canton of Berne It is bounded on the South by the Lake of Lemane on the West by Gex and the Franche Comte on the East by Berne on the North in part by Berne and in part by Friburgh The Capital of it is Lausanne The other good Towns are Avenches or W 〈…〉 purg Yverdon Mouldon and Nyon It is sometimes written Vault Wadstein a Town in the Province of Ostrogothia in Sweden Die Wael Helium Vahalis Vacalos the middle Branch of the Rhine which divides from it at Schencken a Fort beneath Emmeren and watering Nimmeguen Tiel and Bommel falls into the Maes above Gorcum a City of Holland Waga Vagus a River in Scandia Wageren Wagria or Wagerlandt a small Territory in Holland towards the Baltick Sea between Lubeck to the South and Kâ—el to the North. The Cities of it are Lubeck Oldesto Pâ—oen Segeberg and Oldenburg which are divided between the King of Denmark the Dukes of Holstein and the Bishop of Lubeck Wainfleet or Waynfleet a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the division of Lindsey and the Hundred of Chandleshow upon a Wash in a fenny gound which empties it self into the Sea not far from hence Made famous by giving Name and Birth to William of Waynfleet Bishop of Winchester the Founder of Magdalen College in Oxon and of a Free-School in this Town Wakefield a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Agbridge upon the River Calder here covered with a fair Stone Bridge which King Edward IV. adorned with a â—â—â—ely Chappel It is a large Town well built of Stone of good Antiquity and drives the Cloathing Trade Walachia Valachia a considerable Province of the Kingdom of Hungary called by the Germans Walachey by the Turks Iâ—â—akia and by the Poles Wolochy It is a part of the antient Dacia and stands now divided into the Provinces of Walachia and Moldavia of the latter I have spoken in its proper place The former is bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Poland and Red-Russia on the East by Bessarabia on the South by Bulgaria separated from it by the Danube and by Moldavia which last also bounds it to the West It is much less than the Maps commonly make it also commonly misplaced and set where Moldavia should stand The History of it is delivered in Moldavia To which I shall only add here that after Mahomet IV. Emperor of the Turks was deposed and Solyman his Brother set up in his stead and that the Duke of Lorain had seized Transylvania the Prince and States of Walachia in 1687. and 88. rendered themselves under the Emperor's Protection upon condition That the Succession in the Government of that Principality shall be continued to the Heirs Male of the present Prince and the States be preserved in the Possession of their just Rights and Privileges paying to the Emperor the Annual Tribute of 50000 Crowns This Country extends from East to West 90 French Leagues from North to South 50 in form Triangular The Plains would be very fruitful if they were well cultivated but being little peopled much ravaged by the Turks and Tartars and lying in common they are over-run with Weeds for here is little or no Wood. The Mountains have rich Mines but they are as much neglected their Religion is that of the Greek Church The present Valvode is Matthis George Gista set up in 1658. by the late Sultan of the Turks Walcheten Valacria one of the Islands at the Mouth of the Schelde which compose the Province of Zeland in the Vnited Netherlands It s Capital City is Middleburgh New Walcheren the same with Tabago Waldeck Valdecum a County in Hassia between Westphalia to the West Hassia to the East and South and Paderborne to the North under a Count of its own yielding Wine Corn and several sorts of Mines The principal places in it are Curback and Waldeck which last stands upon the Eder 5 German Miles from Cassel to the West and 7 from Marpurg to the North. Walden a Market Town in the County of Essex in the Hundred of Vttlesford upon an Eminence likewise called Saffron-Walden from its situation amongst pleasant and profitable Fields of Saffron Walderswick a Sea Town in the County of Saffolk and