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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30463	Some letters, containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, &c. in the years 1685 and 1686 written by G. Burnet, D.D. to the Hoble. R.B. ; to which is added, An appendix, containing some remarks on Switzerland and Italy, writ by a person of quality, and communicated to the author ; together with a table of the contents of each letter.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5920; ESTC R21514	187,788	260

do not aspire The Government is almost the same as at Bern and the Magistrate that is called the Advoyer at Bern is here called the Bourgomaster The revenue of the State is here justly accounted for so that the publick Purse is much richer than at Bern the Arsenal is much better furnished and the Fortifications are more regular There is a great trade stirring here and as their Lake that is 24. miles long and about two or three Broad supplies them well with provisions so their River carries their Manufacture to the Rhine from whence it is conveyed as they please One of their Chief Manufacturies is Crape which is in all respects the best I ever saw I will not describe the situation of the Town but shall content my self to tell you that it is extream pleasant the Countrey about it is Moun●anous and the Winters are hard for the L●ke freezes quite over only in some places the Ice never lies which is believed a mark that some Spr●ngs rise there which cause that heat so also in the Lake of Geneva tho it is never quite frozen yet great flakes of Ice lie in several parts but these are never seen in some parts of the Lake which is supposed to flow from the same cause But to return to Zurich one sees here the true ancient Simplicity of the Switzers not corrupted which Luxury or Vanity their Women not only do not converse familiarly with men except those of their near kindred b●t even on the Streets do not make any returns to the Civility of Strangers for it is only Strangers that put off their Hats to Women but they make no Courtisies and here as in all Switzerland Women are not saluted but the civility is expressed by taking them by the Hand There is one thing singular in the constitu●ion of Zurich that is their little Council consists of 50 persons but there sit in it only 25. at a time and so the two halves of this Council as each of them has his proper Bourgomaster have also the Government in their Hands by turns and they shift every six months at Mid-summer and at Christ-Mass The whole Canton is divided into nine great Bailiages and 21 Castellaneries in the former the Bailif resides Constantly but the Castellan who is also one of the gr●at Council has so little to do that he lives at Zurich and goes only at some set times of the year to do justice The vertue of this Canton has appeared signally in their adhering firmly to the antient Capitulations with the Fren●h and not slackening in any Article which has been done by all the other Cantons where mony has a Soveraign influence but here it has never prevailed They have converted ●he ancient Revenues of the Church more generally to pious Uses than has been done any where else that I know of They have many Hospitals well entertained in one as I was told there was 650 poor kept but as they support the real Charities which belong to such endowments so they despise that vain Magnificence of Buildings which is too generally affected elsewhere for theirs are very plain and one of the Government there said to me very sensibly That they th●ught it enough to maintain their Poor as Poor and did not judge it proper to lodge them as Prin●es The Dean and Chapter are likewise still continued as a corporation and enjoy the revenues which they had before the Reformation but if they subsist plentifully they labour hard for they have generally two or three Sermons a day and at least one the first begins at five a clock in the morning At Geneva and all Switserland over there are daily Sermons which were substituted upon the Reformation from the Mass. But the Sermons are generally too long and the Preachers have departed from the first design of these Sermons which were intended to be an explication of a whole Chapter and an exhortation upon it and if this were so contrived that it were in all not above a quarter of an hour long as it would be heard by the People with less Weariness and more profit so it would be a vast Advantage to the Preachers For as it would oblige them to study the Scriptures much so having once made themselves Masters of the practical parts of the Scripture such short and simple Discourses would cost them less pains than those more laboured Sermons do which consume the greatest part of their time and too often to very little purpose Among the Archives of the Dean and Chapter there is a vast Collection of Letters written either to Bullinger or by him they are bound up and make a great many V●lums in Folio and out of these no doubt but one might discover a great many particulars relating to the History of the R●formati●m For as Bullinger lived long so he was much esteemed He procured a very kind reception to be given to some of our English Exiles in Queen Maries Reign in particular to Sands afterwards Ar●h-Bishop of York to Horn afterwards Bishops of Win●hester and to Iewel Bishop of Salisbury He gave them lodgings in the Close and used them with all possible kindness and as they presented some Silver-Cups to the Colledge with ●n Inscription acknowledging the kind Reception they had ●ound there which I saw so they continued to keep a constant Correspondence with Bullinger after the happy re-establishment of the Reformation under Queen Elisabeth Of which I read almost a whole Volum while I was there Most of them contain only the general news but some were more important and relate to the Disputes then on foot concerning the Habits of the Clergy which gave the first beginnings to our unhappy Divisions and by the Letters of which I read the Originals it appears that the Bishops preserved the ancient Habits rather in compliance with the Queens inclinations than out of any liking they had to them so far they were from liking them that they plainly exprest their dislike of them Iewel in a Letter bearing date the 8. of February 1566. wishes that the Vestments together with all the other Remnants of Popery might be thrown both out of their Churches and out of the minds of the People and laments the Queens fixedness to them so that she would suffer no change to be made And in Ianuary of the same year Sands writes to the same purpose Contenditur de vestibus Papisti●is utendis vel non utendis dabit Deus his quoque finem Di●putes are now on foot concerning the Popish Vestments whether they should be used or not but God will put an end to those things Horn Bishop of Win●hester went further For in a Letter dated the 16th of Iuly 1565. He writes of the Act concerning the Habits with great regret and expresses some hopes that it might be repealed next Session of Parliament if the Popish Party did not hinder it and he seems to stand in doubt whether he should conform himself to it or not upon