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A28561	A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names of all the counties, provinces, remarkable cities, universities, ports, towns, mountains, seas, streights, fountains, and rivers of the whole world : their distances, longitudes, and latitudes : with a short historical account of the same, and their present state : to which is added an index of the ancient and Latin names : very necesary for the right understanding of all modern histories, and especially the divers accounts of the present transactions of Europe / begun by Edmund Bohun ... ; continued, corrected, and enlarged with great additions throughout, and particularly with whatever in the geographical part of the voluminous, Morey and Le Clerks occurs observable, by Mr. Bernard ; together with all the market-towns, corporations, and rivers, in England, wanting in both the former editions.	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.; Barnard, John Augustine, b. 1660 or 61.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3454; ESTC R13938	1,110,589	500

be the Bormanicum of Pliny Others the ancient Alaunicum or Machaovilla There are divers Religious Houses there Manresa Manrese Minorissa a small City in Catalonia in Spain upon the River Cardoner which a little lower falls into the Lobregat ten Leagues from Barcellona to the North. Once a Bishops See Man 's Vrbs Cenomanorum Cenomanum a great rich populous City in the Duchy of Maine in France of old called Vindinum seated upon the River Sartre where it takes in the Huisne ten Leagues from Alenson to the South sixteen from ●ours to the North and the same distance from Vendosine to the North-West It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours the Capital of Le Maine and heretofore one of the most flourishing Cities of Gallia Celtica Mansfeldt an Island in Hudson's Bay in the Terra Arctica of America discovered some time since by the English Mansfeld Mansfeldensis Comitatus is a County or Earldom in the Vpper Saxony in the Landtgravate of Thuring between the Principality of Anhalt to the North the Territory of Mersburgh in Misnia to the East and Thuring properly so called to the East and West It is now sequestred in the Hands of the Elector of Saxony but was before under a Count of its own whose Family being now divided into four Branches each of them has the Right of Living Hunting and Fishing in this County with that of Patronage and two thousand Florins yearly Income the Government is in the Hands of the Electors for their security and payments The chief Town is Mansfeld which stands nine Miles from Maegdeburgh to the South and Erfurd to the North and sixteen from Gottingen to the East Mansfield a good large well built and inhabited Market Town in the County of Nottingham in the Hundred of Broxtow It stands in the Forest of Sherwood Mantale an ancient Castle in the Territory of Vienne in Dauphine remarkable upon the account of a Council called Concilium Monotalense in 879. for the Election of Boson King of Provence Arles and Burgundy Mante Medunta commonly Epitheted la Jolie a City or great Town in the Isle of France which has a Stone-Bridge over the Seyne in the very Borders of le vexin twelve Leagues beneath Paris to the West and sixteen above Roan to the South-East Philip II. King of France died here in 1223. It heretofore enjoyed the Honour of the Title of an Earldom and had a Cittadel which was destroyed by Henry IV. In 1376. Charles V. King of France Founded a Monastery of the Celestines in it besides which it is adorned with a Collegiate Church Mantonea a City in the Morea in Arcadia famous for the Death of Epaminondas the celebrated Thebean General in the year of Rome 391. It lies at the Foot of the Mountain Parthenius twenty five Miles from Megalopolis to the North and seven from Misitra to the North-West Now called Mandi or Mundi Mantoua Mantua a very ancient City in Lombardy in Italy built three hundred years before Rome It is the Capital of a Dukedom and a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja but exempt from his Jurisdiction ever since 1453. A great and a magnificent City seated within the Bosom of a Lake of the same Name made by the River Menzo which contributes very much to its strength and security In 1629. it was taken by the German Imperial Forces and miserably impoverished but soon after restored to its Duke by the Interposition of the French Court It stands forty five Miles from Modena to the North twenty from Verona to the South and forty from Cremona to the East This was the Country of Virgil the great Latin Poet who Celebrates the Fertility of its Fields in his Georg. 2. And of Tasso the Italian In the year 1064. the Election of Pope Alexander II. to the See of Rome was confirmed in a Council here against Honorius II. an Antipope set up by the Emperor Henry IV. The Dukedom of Mantoua is bounded on the East by that of Ferrara on the North by the Territories of Verona and Brescia on the West by Cremona and the Dukedom of Milan on the South by the Dukedoms of Modena and Mirandola Said to be equal together with Montisferat which belongs to this Duke to the Dukedom of Florence in extent but not in Revenue yet it is fruitful and abounds in Cattle This Dukedom fell first into the Family of Gonzaga which now possesseth it in 1328. Lewis I. of this Line then slaying Passavino the last of the Bonocelsi's in the Market-Place and assuming the Government into his own Hands as Lord of Mantoua John Francisco the Fifth of the Line was made Marquess of Mantoua by Sigismond the Emperor in 1433. Frederick II. the ninth of them was Created Duke by Charles V. in 1530. Charles III. is the eighteenth of this House and succeeded his Father Charles II. This Dukedom is thirty five Miles from North to South and fifty from East to West Manata the same with la Mancha Mar a County in the North-East part of Scotland extending in length from East to West sixty Miles partly mountainous and barren partly fruitful on the North it has Murray and Buchan on the East the German Ocean on the South Mern and Angus and on the West Athole The River Dee enricheth the South and the Done the North side of this County yet is there in it no Town of great Note Maracaibo or Marecaye a City in the Province of Venezuela in Castile d' Or in the South America upon a vast Lake of the same Name well built rich populous well traded and enjoying the Benefit of an excellent Port wherein the Spaniards build their Ships Maragnan Marahim Maranania an Island on the Coast of Brasil at the Mouth of the River Mirary which gives Name to the next Province to it This was once planted with French but in 1641. taken by the Hollanders and since retaken by the Portuguese There is in it a Town called S. Lewis with a Castle and altho but a small Place yet it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Salvador Long. 332. 40. Southern Lat. 02. 10. § The River Xauxa in Peru is also called El Vio Maragnon See Xauxa Marans a Town upon the River Sicur Niortoise in the pais d' Aulnis in France two Leagues from the Sea and four from Rochelle It stands in a Marsh hath a Castle and been often taken in the Wars by the Roman Catholicks and Huguenots Marasso C. Delle Cacca Haermaeum the most Western Cape in the Island of Sardinia lying Long. 32. 10. Lat. 41. 15. Marata a small Kingdom in North America placed by Sanson near the New Kingdom of Mexico and the Vermiglian Ocean Marathon Marason Marathona an ancient City of Attica in Greece famous in History for the Defeat given by Miltiades with his Army of twelve thousand Athenians to five hundred thousand Persians in the year of Rome 264. and the third of the seventy second Olympiad Marca

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 Conque●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 Meid●anichezee by the Poles Morze Modke●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

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

Dukedom of the same Name upon the River Clesma between Moscow to the South-West and Novogrod Nisi to the North-East forty five German Miles from either Anciently the Capital of Black Russia and the Seat of the Dukes of Russia Wologda a great strong City which is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name upon the River Dwina ninety Miles from Jerislow to the North and fifty from Novogrod Nisi to the North West Wolverhampton a Market Town ●in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Seisdon upon a Hill enriched formerly with an Abbey It s Gollegiate Church is annexed to the Deanry of VVindsor Wolwich or Woolwich a Market Town in the County of Kent in Sutton Lath upon the Thames where it hath a Dock for the Royal Navy of England Womie See Medniky Woodbridge a Market Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of Looes upon the River Deben and the side of a Sandy Hill Provided with four or five Docks for building of Ships It is a large and well frequented Town hath a fair Church with Monuments in it and many Ships of Burthen belonging to its Inhabitants The Deben twelve Miles below it falls into the Sea Woodstock a Market Town and Corporation in Oxfordshire in the Hundred of Wotton represented in Parliament by two Burgesses It stands pleasantly upon an Ascent near a small River and a large Park enclosed with a VVall. The ancient Royal House called VVoodstock Bower built by King Henry I. Enlarged by Henry II. Honoured with the Birth of Edward the Black Prince and famous for the Death of the fair Rosamond admired by Henry II. in the Labyrinth adjoining stood in this Park till its destruction in the long Civil Wars Worcestershire Vigornia is bounded on the North by Staffordshire on the East by Warwickshire and Oxfordshire on the South by Gloucestershire and on the West by Herefordshire and Shropshire A rich and populous County in the form of a Triangle extending from North to South 32 Miles from North to West 28 in Circumference 220 inclosing 152 Parishes and 11 Market Towns The Air is very gentle and temperate the Soil fruitful and equal in goodness to the best in England Watered by the Severne Stoure Salwarpe Arrow Feck and Avon which all meet in one noble Southern Point of this County at Tewksbury Here are many excellent Salt-Pits in this County The most antient Inhabitants were the Cornavii subdued by the Romans in the Reign of Claudius Cesar After it became a part of the Mercian Kingdom Worcester Branonium Vigornia Brannogenium Brangoniae the Capital City of this County called by the Welsh Caer Vrangon by Ninius Caer Guorcon It is seated on the Eastern Bank of the Severn over which it hath a fair Stone Bridge with a Tower and from it was walled in the form of a Triangle and thought to have been built by the Romans against the Silures In 1041. it was burnt down by Hardy Canute King of Denmark In 1113. burnt the second time by accident The Cathedral Church was begun by Sexwolfe in 680. In which Prince Arthur the eldest Son of Henry VII lies buried in a plain black jet Tomb and King John in a white one This Town suffered much for its Loyalty to Charles I. and Charles II. Especially in 1651 when after the fatal Battel under her Wall● Sept. 3. she fell into the Hands of the enraged Tyrant Oliver Cromwell Long. 18. 10. Lat. 52. 32. Boselius was setled as a Bishop here by Etheldred King of the Mercians in 679. The first Earl of Worcester was Vrsus de Abot Created by William the Conqueror in 1087. The second VValeran de Beaumont in 1144. The third Thomas Percy Lord Admiral in 1397. The fourth Richard Beauchamp in 1420. The fifth John Tiptoft Lord Treasurer and Lord Constable in 1449. Succeeded by Edward his Son in 1477. who died in 1485. The seventh Charles Somerset Lord Herbert Natural Son of Henry Beaufort the eighth Duke of Somerset who was beheaded under King Edward IV. Created Earl by Henry VII in 1414. in which Family it now is Henry the 7th in this Line for his great Virtue and Loyalty by Charles II. was created Duke of Beaufort in 1682. Augustine the Monk celebrated a Council in this City as we learn from Bede Worksop a Market Town in Nottinghamshire in the Hundred of Bassetlaw and the Forest of Sherwood Noted for excellent Liquorish Worm Warmus a River in the Dukedom of Limburg Worms Worbacia Borbetomagus Borbitomagus Vangionum a City in Germany within the Bounds of the Lower Palatinate which is a Free and Imperial City but not populous It stands upon the VVestern Bank of the Rhine seven German Miles above Mentz and six beneath Spiers An ancient Roman City called Bormetomagus Vangionum It is supposed to have been a Colony of Ments after it became subject to the Romans ruined by Attila King of the Huns and rebuilt by Clovis King of France It was in the beginning of Christianity an Archbishops See but in 729. Pepin King of France took away its Metropolitan and made it only a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ments Henry II Emperour of Germany forced Otho Son of Conrad the Duke of this Country to retire to Brussels so it became a Free City Frederick II. Charles IV. Maximilian I. and Ferdinand I. in their times added to its Privileges There was a Council held here in 1078. in which Gregory VII Pope was deposed for Adultery and Necromancy by the Partizans his Enemies of the Emperour Henry IV. A Famous Diet also in 1521. in which Luther defended his Doctrine before the States of the Empire Long. 30. 03. Lat. 49. 33. This City is still by the Italians called Bormio The French demolished it in 1689. Worotin Vorotinum a City of Moscovy the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name It stands upon the Occa in the Borders of Lithuania sixty six Miles from Moscou to the South Wotton-Basset a Market Town in Wiltshire in the Hundred of Kingsbridge so called for distinction from Wotton-Vnder-Edge in Gloucester-shire The Capital of its Hundred Wreak a River in Leicestershire Melton-Mowbray stands upon it Wrexham a Market Town in Denbighshire in the Hundred of Bromfield Wrotham a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath. Wucziden Viminiacium Viminacium a Town in the Province of Servia upon the Danube fifteen Miles from Belgrade to the East Wutingen a Town in the Lower Circle of the Rhine in Germany under the Elector of Cologne At which the Duke of Brabant and the People of Cologne formerly fought a famous Battel Wurtzburgh Herbipolis the Capital City of Franconia in Germany and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ments since the year 791 when Bonifacius Archbishop of Ments advanced it to that Dignity It stands upon the Mayne on the North Bank and has a strong Castle on the other side of the River called Marienburgh Also a small University founded together with a large Hospital by one

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

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 o● 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 mo●●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

the Branches of the N●le forty Miles from Grand-Cairo to the South-East towards Alexandria Furnes or Wuerne Furnae a City of Flanders Gallicant not great but well built and about a Mile from the Shoars of the Ocean it has belonging to it a large Jurisdiction with the Title of a ●iscounty a Collegiate Church and an Abbey It was three times taken by the French and at last by the Treaty of Aquisgrane given up to them two Miles from Newport and three from Dunkirk between which last and this place the Spaniards were defeated by the English and French in 1658. Furstemberg a Town and Principality in the Circle of Schwaben in Germany giving Name to an Illustrious House of which the Cardinal of Furstemberg mention'd under the Word Bonne is a Member Fuynen Hemod ●n one of the Orcades Fuynen Fionia an Island belonging to Denmark in the Baltick Sea between Jutland to the West and Zeeland to the East from both which it is separated only by two narrow Channels the first called Middlefart or Middle Passage the second Die Belt Ottonia Odensee is the Capital of this Island Newburgh or Nuborg on the East is well fortified and has a good Haven This Island is ten German Miles in Length from West to East and eight from North to South in breadth Now under the King of Denmark but it suffered very much of late years from the Swedes who in 1658. took and plundered it In 1659. the Danes recovered the possession of it though at the same time they lost much Cannon and Shipping which they could never retake and the Inhabitants were as much improverished by this Accident It is a fruitful pleasant well seated Island for the Climate it is in Fynland See Finland G A. GAbaca Thospites a vast Lake in Armenia in the Consines of Mesopotamia made by the River Tigris Le Gabardan See Le Gave Gabii a People of the Antient Latium near Neighbours to the Romans in a Town of their own Name They became first subjected under the Dominion of Rome in the Reign of Tarquinius Priscus by a Stratagem of a Son of his pretending Flight hither from the ill Usages of his Father and then cutting off the Principal Men amongst them and betraying the rest to the Romans Gabin Gabinium a Town of Poland between VValdislaw to the North and VVarshaw to the South three Polish Miles from Ploczko to the West in the Palatinate of Rava upon the River Bzura Gad one of the Tribes of Israel which had their Portion assigned them by Moses beyond Jordan whose Borders to the North were the half Tribe of Manasseh to the East Arabia to the South the Tribe of Reuben and to the West the River Jordan by which they were separated from the rest of the Tribe of Manasseh and Ephraim This Country was in the Roman times called Ituraea and now by the Turks Beuikemane It is almost equally divided by the River Scheriat Mandour as it is now called as Michael Nau a Jesuit writes who surveyed very exactly these Parts This Country is now under the Turks Gadara Gadaris a Town belonging to the half Tribe of Manasseh beyond Jordan afterwards to the Region of Trachonitis seated upon a Hill by the River Gadara which falls into the Lake of Genesareth sometimes called the Lake of Gadara too as Strabo saith It is six Miles from Sychopolis to the East and the same from Tiberias and is frequently mentioned in the New Testament Heretofore thought to be invincible It is certain Alexander Janaeus King of the Jews did not take it under a Siege of ten Months and then more by Famine than Force and in Revenge ruined it but it recovered again Pompey the Great in Favour to Demetrius one of his Freemen who was a Native of this City bestowed great Privileges upon it Philodemus the Epicurean Meleager and Menippus that pleasant Philosopher also Theodorus the Orator were all of them Natives of this Country In the Revolt of the Jews under Nero this City h●● its Share and was taken by Vespasian in the year of Christ 66. upon which the Gadarens submitted the year following S. Jerom says the Baths of Gadara were in great Esteem in his Time Gademes Gademessa a Territory in Africa in Biledulgeridia between the Desarts of Fez to the East and Gurgala to the West which has a City or great Town of the same Name near the Head of the River Caspi Capes And also a Desart Gadura Psycus a River of Rhodes Gaetulia a large Region of Africa according to the ancient Divisions thereof now thrown into a part of Bileduigerid and a part of Zaara See Gesula The Roman Arms reached as far in Africa as to this distant Province Gago Gagum a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa which has a City of the same Name upon a River falling into the Niger below Tocrut Great but thinly inhabited This Kingdom lies between the Niger to the North and Guinea to the South rich in Mines of Gold according to some Relations possessed also by a Prince who is Sovereign of the Kingdom of Tombuti Gajazzo Calathia Galathia a City of Compania in Italy mentioned by Cicero as a Colony it belongs now to the Kingdom of Naples and is in the Terra di Lavoro seated on an Hill near the River Volturno Vulturnus almost over against Caserta at the Distance of four Miles to the North and eight from Capua to the East And although a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capua yet it is in a declining Condition and very mean Gajetta Gaeta Cajeta a City in the Terra di Lavoro a Province of the Kingdom of Naples which is well fortified seated at the Foot of an Hill in a Peninsula made by the Sea It has two Castles a large Haven and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Capua but now exempted Baronius tells us the Bishopricks of Mola and Mintorni are united with this See The City of Formium lies not far from it buried now in Ruines by the Saracens to which the City of Gajetta succeeded in the Bishoprick It lies upon the Tyrrhenian Sea four Miles from Naples fifty five from Rome and fourteen from the Pope's Dominions It has heretofore been subject to great Variety of Fortunes but has now a strong Spanish Garrison to secure it This was the Birth Place of Pope Gelasius II. who was therefore called Cajetanus It is mention'd by Virgil Aen. 7. The Haven was repaired by Antoninus Pius Spart Ferdinando King of Arragon fortified the Castle Before this it was Sacked by the French in 1494. who put most of the Inhabitants to the Sword and returned it the year after Charles of Bourbon Constable of France kill'd at the Siege of Rome in 1527. lies buried in the Cathedral But it is most famous for its learned Cardinal Thomas de Via Cajetanus who died in 1534. and is frequently mentioned in the Story of Henry VIII Gaillon a Castle belonging to the Archbishops of Roan in Normandy seven Leagues