from the Shoars of Dithmarsh to the West Heretofore four German Miles in Compass but in 800. a great part of it perished by a Tempest and in 1300 another part of what was left before was swallowed up by the Ocean which in its Rage sometimes casts away Islands like common Vessels It consists now but of one single Parish Heilsberg a Town in the Regal Prussia upon the River Alle which has a Castle Seated in the Territory of Ermelandt or Warmerland The Bishop of which Province resides in it eight German Miles from Regensperg to the South Built in 1240. Heis Hericus Herue an Island on the Coast of Poictou near the Confines of Bretagne Heitersheim or Haitersheim a small Town in the Province of Brisgow in Germany in which the Grand Prior of the Order of Malta for Germany who is a Prince of the Empire ordinarily resides The Island of S. Helen is seated in the Atlantick Ocean in 16 deg of Southern Lat. Discover'd by Joannes de Nova a Portuguese in 1502. on S. Helen's Day It is thirteen Miles in Compass and lies at a vast distance from all other Lands between Africa to the East and Brasil to the West nearer the former It is mountainous but fruitful and abounds with what is useful for the Life of Man except Wheat It has four Valleys and as many Springs towards its North end For a long time it lay open to the Benefit of all Mankind but about twenty years since the English settled a Colony here which is become exceeding numerous Helicona Helicon a Mountain in Baeotia now called Stramulipa near Parnassus if not a Part of it Sacred to the Muses of old thence entituled Heliconides and much celebrated by the Greek and Latin Poets In it was the Sepulchre of Orpheus the Fountains of Hippocrene and Aganippe Near it were the Cities of Thespia Ascra and Nissa now Zagaya There was also a River in Sicily so called which is now the Olivero on the North side of that Island And another in Macedonia now the Faribo Heliopolis an ancient City of the Kingdom of Egypt near Cairo to the East It received this Name from a stately Temple there that was dedicated to the Sun The Arabians called it Ain Schemes i. e. the Eye of the Sun Now nothing but the Ruines is extant of it § There were two other Cities of the same Name in the days of Antiquity one in Phaenicia and one in Cilicia in the Lesser Asia both of them Episcopal Sees The first under the Patriarch of Constantinople the second Antioch § Also a City of the Vpper Saxony in the Marquisate of Brandenburg in Germany built by Charles M. and now called Sotwedel i. e. the Valley of the Sun There had been a Statue dedicated to the Sun and venerated here in the Pagan Times Hellespont the Famous Streights betwixt Europe and Asia now called the Streights of Gallipoli or the Dardanelles and the Arm of S. George It was here that Xerxes whipt the Sea and after his Loss of the Battle of Thermopylae escaped to Abydos out of a Storm in a Fishermans Skiff Helmechtmenich Gedrosia a Province of the Kingdom of Persia Helmesley a Market Town in the North-Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Ridal upon a small River which afterwards falls into the Derwent Helmont Helmontium a Town of Brabant which has a very ancient Castle and is the Capital of Kemperland under the Vnited Provinces It lies in the middle between Boisleduc to the West and Roermond to the East six Miles from the latter and six from Nimeguen to the South Helmstad Helmestadium Hemopolis a small and inconsiderable Town in Germany under the Duke of Brunswick Wolffenbuttel ever since 1490. having before that been subject to its Abbot It stands in the Confines of the Dukedom of Brunswick between Brunswick to the West and Magdeburg to the East upon the River Aller six German Miles from Wolffenbuttel to the East eleven from Hildesheime to the North-East and five from Halberstad to the North. Julius Duke of Brunswick opened here an University in 1576. which from him is called Academia Julia. Helmstad a strong Sea-Port Town in the Province of Hallandt on the Baltick Sea towards the Borders of Scannia which by a Treaty in 1645. was yielded to the Swedes Helsingford Helsingfordia a small City of Nyland a part of Finland upon the Shoars of the Bay of Finland where it receives the River Wanda over against Revel in Long. 43. 45 Lat. 60. 10. Helsinglandt Helsinga a Province of Sweden between Dalecarl to the West Jemplandt and Midlepad to the North and the Baltick Sea to the East the principal Town of which is Hadswickwalt Helson a Borough Town in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Kerryer which elects two Parliament Men. Hemia Amisus a City of Paphlagonia in the Lesser Asia called Amid and Hemid by the Turks and Simiso by the Greeks It is an Archbishop's See built on the Shoars of the Euxine an hundred Miles from Sinope to the East upon the Outlet of the River Casalmach which comes from Amasia twenty German Miles South of Hemid or Simiso as it is called in the Maps Hemid or Cara-Hemid Amida a City of Mesopotamia which now gives Name to that Country it being the Capital of it and is called Diarbeck from this City It is a great and populous City the Seat of a Turkish Governor and of a Christian Archbishop It stands from Arziri a City of the Lesser Armenia to the South-East an hundred and twenty Miles from Aleppo to the East sixty See Caraemit Long. 78. 15. Lat. 39. 30. Hempsted a Market-Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Dacor Hemz Emisa Emessa a City of Syria called Haman by the Turks Kemps by Postellus which is an Archbishop's See under the Patriarch of Antioch upon the River Orontes which passeth by Antioch forty three Miles from Damascus to the North eighty from Antioch to the East and about sixty from Palmyria to the West It is a pretty Town walled with black and white Stone half a Pike high it had formerly a Dike now filled with Rubbish It has twenty five Towers six Gates and five Churches The chief Church was built by S. Helen and was in the Hands of the Chistians till about 160 years agone On the South it has a Castle not taken from the Christians without much Bloodshed and therefore left to be ruined See M. Thevenot part 1. pag. 223. and Haman Henley a Market-Town in Oxfordshire in the Hundred of Binfield upon the River Thames over which it has a fair Bridge This Town drives a great Trade of Malt. § There is another Henly in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Barlickway upon the River Alne called Henley in Arden for Distinction from the Precedent Henneberg an ancient Castle in the Circle of Franconia in Germany seven Leagues from Schweinfurt and eight from Fuld upon a Rock at the Foot whereof passes the River Strew This Castle gives Name to
to the West and sixteen from Magdeburg to the South It has a Castle called Pleisenburg and an University opened here by Frederick Marquess of Misnia in 1409. Upon the Banishment of the followers of Jerome of Prague from that City four thousand Students retiring to this In 1520. Luther disputed here with Eckius against the Popes Supremacy soon after which they embraced the Reformation In 1547. this City which then belonged to Maurice Duke of Saxony was besieged by John the Elector of that House in the Month of January Maurice tho a Protestant having joined with the Emperour against the rest of the Augustane Princes who had taken Arms for the defence of their Religion and Liberty against Charles V. And although the City was not then taken yet it was much defaced by the Battery and its Suburbs burnt In 1630. Gustavus Adolphus gave the Forces of Ferdinand II. a great defeat near this place In 1642. the Swedes defeated the Forces of Ferdinand III. under the Arch-Duke Leopold and Piccolomineo and thereupon the City was forced to yield it self to the Victorious Swedes It is not great but rich by reason of its Mart twice every year and the great concourse of Students to this University Leyte Leyta Lutis a River of Austria which washing the Town Prurck adder Leyta in the Lower Austria at Altemburg falls into the Danube three Hungarian Miles from Presburg to the South and six from Javarin Lez Ledum Liria a River of Languedoc it ariseth three Miles above Montpellier and a little beneath falls by the Lake of Maguelone into the Mediterranean Sea See Les. Lhon See Lippe Lhundain the Welsh Name of London Lhydaw the Name of Bretagne a Province in France in some of the Writers of the middle Ages Liacura Parnassus a Mountain in Greece in Achaia Liamone Pitanus or Ticarius a River in the Isle of Corsica Liampo the most Easternly Cape of all the Continent of China in the East-Indies taking its Name from a Town so called in the Province of Chechiara Lianne Liana Elna a small River in Picardy in France which ariseth in the Confines of Artois and flowing through the County of Bologne by the Capital City of it falls into the British Sea Liasto Liguidon a Sea-Port on the East of Sardinia an Island in the Mediterranean Sea Libano Libanus the greatest and best known Mountain in Syria which alone produceth the Cedar Tree in that Country It beginneth between the Confines of Arabia and Damascus and ends at the Mediterranian Sea near Tripoli having run from East to West one hundred and twenty five Miles It is the oftenest mentioned of any Mountain in the Sacred Scriptures exceeding high and very far spread fruitful and pleasant and was the Northern Boundary of the Holy Land and Mother of the River Jordan Now inhabited by divers Towns and some Cities amongst which is the Seat of the Residence of the Patriarch of the Maronites The Rivers Rochan Nahar-Rossens and Nahar-Cardicha spring from it The Northern part is said to be continually covered with Snow It hath Palestine to the South Mesopotamia to the East and Armenia to the North with one foot in Phoenicia another in Syria and the Mediterranean to the West Opposite to it stands a Mountain called Antilibanus separated only by a Valley See Antilibanus Libaw Liba a Town in the Dukedom of Curland in the Kingdom of Poland which has an Haven on the Baltick Sea in the Confines of Samogitia eighteen German Miles from Memel in Prussia and twenty five from Mittaw the Capital of Semigallia to the West This Town was often taken and retaken in the late Wars between the Swedes and Poles at last by the Treaty of Olive-Kloster in 1660. it was restored to the Duke of Curland Liburnia a Branch of the ancient Illyricum now thrown partly into Croatia and partly into Dalmatia It s principal City was Scardona now Scardo in Dalmatia The Lopsi were some of its ancient people to whom is owing the invention of light Frigats thence called Naves Liburnicae Libya is so considerable a part of Africa in the old Geographies that the Greeks called all Africa Lybia It stood divided into the Exterior and Interior The former lay along the Mediterranean betwixt Egypt and Marmorica or from Egypt South according to others along the left Bank of the Nile as far as to Aethiopia in which space the Desart of Elfocat and the Kingdom and Desart of Gaoga now are contained The other ran from the Mountain Atlas to the River Niger containing the now vast Desart of Zaara And this latter is Libya properly so called Which together with Libya Marmorica now Barca and Libya Cyrenaica makes up a second division that we find in Writers of Libya Lichfield Lichfeldia a City which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury seated in the County of Stafford twenty four English Miles from Leicester to the West ten from Stafford to the North-East and sixteen from Coventry to the North-West It is a low seated beautiful and large City divided into two parts by a clear Brook which is crossed by Causeys with Sluces in them for the Passage of the Water That part which lies on the South Side of this Water is the greater by far and divided into several Streets and the North Part though less has the Cathedral Church the Close incompassed with a strong Wall in which are the Prebends Houses and the Bishops Palace This has been a Bishops See very long for in the year of our Lord 606. Oswius King of Northumberland having conquered the then Pagan Mercians instituted a Bishoprick and settled Dwina as Bishop here to instruct them in the Christian Faith his Successors were in such esteem with the following Kings of Mercia that they did not only obtain large Possessions for the maintaining the Dignity of this See but were also reputed the Primates of Mercia and Archbishops Ladulph one of them had a Pall sent him as such upon the Golden Solicitations of Offa King of the Mercians about 779. Which Dignity lasted not long for it died with this King and Archbishop Ladulph A Synod held in 1075. ordaining that the Bishops Sees for the future should be settled in the greatest Cities Peter Bishop of Lichfield removed this to Chester Robert Lindsey another of them removed it to Coventry Roger Clinton a third Bishop but the thirty seventh in Succession in 1148. began the beautiful Cathedral here which he dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and S. Chad and rebuilt the Castle which is now intirely ruined The Ciose in the old Rebellion was garrisoned for the King But the Lord Brook a zealous Parliamentarian coming before it March 2. 1642. though the General was slain and so paid dear for his Disloyalty yet the place was taken by that Party The twenty second of that Month the King's Forces returned and besieged it the second time and April 8. after a Defeat of three thousand that came to the Relief of
City belonging to it which the Turks in the Years 1538. and 1548. besieged in vain This Island is a part of the Kingdom of Guzarate and lies fifty Leagues from Surata to the West at the Entrance of the Bay of Cambaya It hath been in the Hands of the Portuguese ever since 1535. Divan Du Rou Insulae Divandurae a Knot of five or six small Islands in the Archipelago de Maldivas in the East-Indies under the King of Cananor About twenty seven Leagues distant from the Island of Malicut They are reputed extreamly healthful Dive in Latin Diva and Deva a River in Normandy which riseth near the Town of Dive and running North-West takes in the Ante at Morteaux the Leison and Vie at Hervetot the Mauch the Beverrone and some others and falls into the British Sea below Cabour five Miles and a half West of Honfleure § There is a River in the Province of Poictou of this Name which takes its Rise at the Town Grimaudiere receives the Gron at Moncontour and continuing its Course to Londun takes in the Matrevil and the Briaude till below S. Just it self is received by the Thouay which soon after falls into the Loyre Divertigi Selucia ad Belum a City of Asia which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Apamea lying in Syria thirty Miles from Antioch to the East It may be supposed to be now ruined being hardly to be found in the later Maps Divice a famous Fountain at Bourdeaux Diul Indus Dixmuyde or Dixmude Dixmuda a very strong Town in Flanders in the Possession of the Spaniards though it has been often taken by the French This Town stands upon the River Ipre three Miles from New-Port to the South and is now a Frontier Town against the French Doblin Dublinum a City in Curland upon the River Terwa in the Confines of Samogitia six German Miles from Mittaw to the West and fourteen from VVomic or Mednici to the East Under the Duke of Curland Dobroncha Epidaurus a Maritime City of Dalmatia Dobrzin Dobrinum Debricinium Dobriznum a Town in Poland which is the Capital of a Palatinate upon the Vistula between Ploczko to the South and Wladislaw to the North a few Leagues above Culm The Palatinate is usually taken for a part of that of Ploczko on which it borders to the North as it does on the Vistula to the West and Prussia to the North. Docastelli Lycastum a Town of Cappadocia in the Borders of Paphligonia upon the Shoars of the Euxine Sea near the Bay of Amisenum between Halis and Iris Irio distant from Amiso to the East thirty six Miles Docum Dockum or Dorkum Doccumum Docomium one of the principal Towns in West-Friesland four Leagues from Leeuwarden towards the North-West and five from Groningen upon a Canal near the Sea Dodbrook a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Colrudge Dodona an ancient City of the Kingdom of Epirus in Greece in the Country then called Molossia famous for the neighbouring Grove of Dodona in which Jupiter had his Temple and his Oracle with the Title of Dodonaeus thence It stood near a River of the same Name that joined it self with the Achelous Doesbourg or Doesborck Doesburgus Drusiburgus Arx Drusiana a strong rich and populous Town in the Province of Guelderland in the Low-Countreys upon the Issel at the Mouth of the old Canal of Drusus one German Mile from Zutphen Taken by the French in 1672. It is no very great Town Doffrini the Mountains of Scandinavia Doggers bank the Name of some Sands in the German Ocean Doira and Doria a double River of Piedmont The Greater which is called Doria Balta springeth from the Grecian Alpes in the Borders of Le Vallais and leaving Aosta Pont de S. Martino and Inurea to the East at the latter it divides sends one Branch to Vercelli called the Naulio then continuing its course it receiveth from the West the Cuisella and ends in the Po at Verolengo or S. Giovan thirty two Miles from Alexandria to the north-North-West The Lesser Doria riseth in the Cottian Alpes from the Mountains called the Genebre in the Dauphinate and running East it washeth Susa Bozolengo and Aviglana and falls into the Po not above half a Mile beneath Turino Dol Dolum Neodunum Tollium a City in the Lesser Britainy in France which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours called by the Ancients NEODVNVM stands in a Marshy Ground and of no great Circumference not above two Leagues from the British Sea and four from S. Maloe's with a Castle There was a Council here assembled by Pope Vrban II. in 1094. The Bishops of this See have formerly made strong Pretensions to the Metropolitanship of Bretagne Dolcigno See Dulcigno Dole Dola ad Dubim a City in the Dukedom of Burgundy strongly fortified being the Capital of that Dukedom the Seat of the Parliament and an University founded in the year 1426. by Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy It stands upon the River Dou Dubis nine Miles from Dyon to the East and from Verdun to the North. This Town was sack'd by Lewis XI in 1479. Fortified by the Emperor Charles V. in 1530. Besieged by the French without their taking of it in 1636. Taken by the French from the Spaniards in 1668. Retaken in 1674. and by the Treaty of Nimeguen annexed to the Crown of France for ever The Country about is called the Bailage de Dole which together with the Town was then resigned to the French King Dollert a vast Lake or Bay at the Mouth of the River Amasus between Groningen and Emden which in 1277. was made by an Inundation of the Sea in which thirty three Villages were swallowed up and irrecoverably lost It is otherwise called the Gulph of Emden The South part of Groningen suffered not much less by such another raging Overflow from Groningen diep in the year 1686. Dolomieu A Village in Dauphine betwixt Moresel and La Tour du Pin. Much spoken of in France in the year 1680. for a feigned Story of the killing of a Flying Dragon there and of a Carbuncle in his head of extraordinary value Dombes Tractus Dombensis a small Territory of France incompassed on all sides by le Bresse except on the West where it is bounded by the River Saone which parts it from Baujolois It lies between Mascon to the North and Lyon to the South and though small is yet very fruitful honoured with the Title of a Principality under its own Princes of the House of Bourbon The Capital of it is Trevoux four Miles above Lyon to the North. This Principality was given to Lewis II. Duke of Bourbon by Edward the last Duke of the Race de Baujolois in 1400. Domburg a Town of good Antiquity and pleasantly situated in the Isle of Walcheren in Zealand about two Dutch Miles from Middleburg in the same Island to the West Domezopoli Domitiopolis once a famous City of Isauria in the Lesser Asia and a Bishops See under
word Gulph is commonly added reserving the rest to their proper places di Balsora Sinus Persicus the Persian Gulph which divides Persia from Arabia di Lepanto Sinus Crissaeus sive Corinthiacus is a Bay or Branch of the Adriatick Sea which entereth on the West side of the Morea divides it from Livadia or Achaia a part of Greece and extends it self to the six Mile Isthmus which connexes the Morea to the rest of Greece This has been made exceeding famous by a great Naval Victory the Venetians obtained here against the Turks in 1571. in which the Maritim Forces of that Empire were so broken that it has not been able to recover the loss to his day In the year 1687. the Venetians again entered this Gulph and taking its Dardanels are become the intire Masters of it di Mexico a vast Bay which from the North Sea or Atlantick Ocean between Florida Cuba Hâ—â—paniola and the Caribbe Islands insinuates it self a 〈…〉 ms a kind of Semicircle of about twenty degrees from North to South and near fifty from East to West In this Bay Jamaica lies upon the North it has Florida upon the West New Spain on the East and upon the South New Granada The Continent of America is not here in the narrowest part above twenty German Miles and therefore all that lies South of this Streight is called South and the other North America di Taranto Sinus Tarentinus is all that great Bay at the South end of Italy which has Otranto on the East the Basuicate on the North Calabria on the West and the Island of Sardo almost in the middle of it di Venetia the Venetian Gulph or Adriatick Sea is a great Branch of the Mediterranean which divides Greece on the East from Italy on the West at the North end lies the City of Venice which commands this Sea and will suffer no other armed Ships upon it as much as in that State lies but Merchants and the Convoys of them Golle Galliola a River in Soissons in the Isle of France Gollen-berg Asciburgus a Mountain in Poland which is a Branch of the Sarmatian Mountains in the opinion of Ptolemy It begins at the Town of Twardozyn in the Confines of Hungary and running Northwards towards the River Swarta and the Marquisate of Brandenburg ends at the Baltick Sea This Mountain is called Gollenberg by the Inhabitants and Tartary by the Poles Golnow Golnovia a small City in Germany in the Dukedom of Pomerania upon the River Ihna which a little lower falls into the Oder five German Miles North-East of Stetin This City was built in 1188. And was heretofore a great and rich Place but of later times it has suffered much by Fire and Warâ— by the Peace of Westphalia it belonged to the King of Sweden but by the Treaty of S Germain in 1679. it was mortgaged to the Elector of Brandenburg by the Swedes for fifty thousand Crowns Golo Tuolo a River in the Isle of Corsica Gouiera one of the Canary Islands betwixt Tenerissa to the East and the Island of Iron to the West which is twenty two Leagues in Compass and has a Town of the same Name and a large Haven supposed to be that which the Ancients called Theode Gomeres a Tribe of the ancient Bereberes in Africa See Bereberes Gomorrha an unfortunate City of Judaea consumed together with four others by Fire from Heaven Gen. 19. and the Plains they stood in turned into a Dead Sea about the year of the World 2138. Gonfi Gomphi a Town of Thessalia in the Borders of Epirus towards the Springs of the River Penee thirty Miles East of Ragusa it is still called by the ancient Name but reduced to a Village Gonga Gannum Ganâ—s Gonni Gonos a Town in Thrace in the Province of Corp upon the Propontis It lies in the middle between Rodisto to the South and Constantinople to the North fifteen Miles from either It is mentioned in the Councils Gorch a Village of the Lower Hungary upon the River Zarwich between Alba-Regalis and Quinque Ecclesiae Gordium an ancient City of Phrygia in Asia Minor upon the River Sangarius where was that famous Gordian Knott which Alexander cut in two with his Sword when he could not otherwise untye it Goree Goeree and Goure an Island in the Atlantick Ocean upon the Coast of Nigritia in Africa three Leagues distant from Cape de Verde heretofore belonging as a dependent to the Kingdom of Ale in Barbary till taken by the Hollanders who built it a Fort called Nassaw and in 1677. from the Hollanders by the French Goritia Noreja Julium Carnicum Goritia is a small but very strong City in the Eastern Border of Friuli next Carniola upon the River Lisonzo or Isonzo Sontius three German Miles from Friuli East and seventeen from Venice This is the Capital of a small County of the same Name and is well feated over-looking a fair Plain to the South-West The Emperours Governour of the Country lives in the Castle who has a Guard allowed him The Germans call it Gortz This City and County fell to Frederick IV. by Inheritance from the last Earl of Gortz who died in 1473. and ever since it has been in the Possession of the House of Austria It has been esteemed a part of Carniola though it be in truth a part of Friuli Gorkum Gorichemum a City or great Town in South Holland upon the Maes where it receives the Ling one Mile more West than the Confluence of the Maes and Wael three Leagues from Dort to the East and four from Breda to the North built in the year 1230. by a Lord of the Territory of Arkel of which it is the Capital and very strongly fortified Gorlitz Gorlitium a City of the Vpper Lusatia in Germany which is the Capital of that Country It is very strong seated in a Marsh upon the River Nisse which falls into the Oder between Gossen and Franckfort twelve German Miles from Glogaw to the South-West the same from Dresden to the East and eighteen from Prague to the North. It was heretofore under the King of Bohemia but belongs now to the Elector of Saxony Goro Sagis a Haven at one of the Mouths or Out-lets of the Po. Gory a principal Town or small City in Gurgistan or Georgia in Asia upon the River Kur in a Plain betwixt two Mountains built by a General of the Persian Army about forty years ago and defended with a Fortress in which a hundred natural Persians keep Garrison It is already grown a rich and plentiful place Goslar Goslaria an Imperial and Free-City in the Lower Saxony in Germany within the Bounds of the Dukedom of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel in the Forest of Sellerwalt Built by Henry the Fowler and fortified in 1201. The Dukes of Brunswick are its Protectors it stands on the Confines of the Bishoprick of Hildisheim five Miles from that City to the South East and seven from Halberstad to the West upon the River Gosa Gostar which a little lower
City § The Bishoprick of Hildesheim makes a particular District of it self about ten or twelve Leagues long between the Dutchies of Brunswick and Lunenbourgh and the Principality of Halberstad In which extent there are divers Towns following the same Religion Himera an ancient City of the Island of Sicily so called from its situation at the Mouth of the River Himera or the modern fiume ai Termine Hannibal destroyed it about six hundred forty eight years before the coming of Christ two years after which the Carthaginians near its Ruins built another named Thermae Himerae or Thermae Himerenses from the Hot Baths that were in the place This is now called Termine The Poet Stesichorus was a Native of the ancient Himera Hinckley a Market Town in Leicestershire in the Hundred of Sparkingho Hindon a Corporation in VViltshire in the Hundred of Mere which elects two Members of the Lower House Hingham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Forehoe Hinghoa a great City of the Province of Fokien in China The Capital of a Territory of the same Name commanding one other old City and divers Towns and Villages It is beautified with Magnificent Buildings and many Triumphant Arches and Sepulchres Hippocrene a celebrated Fountain in Boeotia in Greece sacred to the Muses amongst the ancient Poets Hippone Hippo Regius See Bonne Hippopodes an ancient People mentioned by Mela that dwelt about the Scythian Sea and were fabulously reported to have Horses feet from nothing but their agility and swiftness in running Hirpini an ancient People of Italy amongst the Samnites so called from their Capital City Hirpinum which is now a Village says Leander by the Name of l' Arpaia The farther Principate in the Kingdom of Naples was the Seat and Country of this People Hirschfeld Herofelda a small Town in Hassia upon the River Fuld which had heretofore a celebrated Abbey and was an Imperial Free-Town under the Jurisdiction of its own Abbot together with the Territory in which it stands but is now under the Landâ—-Grave of Hessen-Cassel with the Title of a Principality by the Treaty of Munster It stands five German Miles from Fuld to the North and seven from Cassel to the South Hispahan See Haspaam Hispaniola San Domingo and S. Dominique a great Island belonging to the North America called by its Natives Ayti First discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The Spaniards afterwards gave it this Name though it is also commonly called La Saint Domingue from its principal Town It is seated in the Bay of Mexico with Cuba and Jamaica to the West Porto Rico and the Caribbe Isles to the East the Atlantick Ocean on the North and the Bay of Mexico on the South It extends from 299 to 307. deg of Long. being one hundred and forty Spanish Leagues from East to West sixty in breadth and four hundred in compass between eighteen and twenty degrees of Northern Latitude The Spaniards have some Colonies at the East end the French others at the north-North-West end towards Cuba The Air is extreme hot in the Morning but cooler in the Afternoon by reason of a constant Sea Brize which then riseth The Country is always green affords most excellent Pasture the Cattle grow wild for want of Owners they encrease so prodigiously Herbs and Carrots in sixteen days become fit to Eat It affords Ginger and Suger-Canes in vast abundance and Corn an hundred fold It has also Mines of Brass and Iron some say of Silver or Gold When first discovered extreamly populous but the Spaniards in a few years destroyed three Millions of Natives so that now there are very few left The prinpal Town is St. Domingo built by Bartholomew Columbus in 1494. and removed in 1502 to the opposite Shoar of the River Ozama Whilst the Natives were Masters of this Island it stood divided into divers petty Provinces each under the obedience of a distinct Cacique or Prince of their own The Spaniards have cast it into five Cantons viz. Bainora Cubaho Cajaba Cassimu and Guacayatima San Domingo stands in Cassimu In 1586. Sir Francis Drake made a Descent here took Domingo and kept it a Month till the Spaniards redeemed it with their money again Histria Hystereich Istria is a County in Italy which on the East West and South has the Adriatick Sea and on the North Friuli It is full of Woods and Quarries affords Venice under which it is Materials both for Ships and Houses but otherwise not comparable to the rest of Italy in point of Fertility the Air is besides sickly and unwholsom The compass of it is about two hundred Miles This Country was conquered by the Venetians first in 938. and finally subdued in 1190. ever since which they have been under this State though they have made several attempts to shake off their Yoak and regain their ancient Liberty Hitchin a Market Town in Hartfordshire The Capital of its Hundred Hoaiching one of the principal Cities in the Province of Honan in the Kingdom of China Hodu the Persian Gulph Hoddesdon a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Hartford upon the River Lea. Hoeicheu a City of the Province of Nanquin in the South part of it towards Chekiam which stands in a Mountainous Country and has five small Cities under it Hoencourt a Town in the Bishoprick of Cambray near which the French were defeated in 1642. It lies three German Miles from Cambray to the North-West and a little less from Arras to the South-West Hoentwiel a Fortress in Schwaben in Germany belonging to the Duke of Wirtembergh seated upon a Rock between the Rivers Schlichaim and Breym which both fall into the Necker one above the other beneath Rotweil This Castle is seated less than two German Miles from the Danube to the North and two Miles and an half from the Fountains of the Necker to the East It stood seven or eight Sieges against the Imperialists who in one of these viz. that in 1641. spent a whole Summer upon it and at last could not take it Hog-Magog-Hilis a ridge of Hills two Miles South-Eastward of Cambridge on the top whereof is seen a Rampier formerly so strengthened with three Ditches as to be esteemed almost impregnable The same was a Danish Station Hohenloe or Holach Holachius an Earldom in Franconia in the Borders of Schwaben by the River Cochar between the Marquisate of Anspach and the Dukedom of Wirtemberg under its own Count or Earl Holbech a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Ellow Holland one of the three parts in the division of the County of Lincoln which contains the Southern Towns from Lindsey towards the Sea Adorned with the Title of an Earldom since the year 1624. When King James I. created Henry Rich Earl of Holland whose Grandson Edward Rich is the present Earl of Warwick and Holland Holland Batavia Hollandia the principal Province of the Vnited Netherlands called by the Spaniards la Olandia and by all others Holland because
Basil Pierreport and Botzberg more South Schafmat and by the Swiss Leerberg Iurat a part of the Mountain Jura which lies between Burgundy and Switzerland also called Jurten Iurea Eporedia called Vrbs Salassiorum by Ptolemy and Eporaedio by Antoninus in his Itinerary at this day Jurea by the Inhabitants Jurée by the French is a City of Piedmont in Italy the Capital of the Territory of Canavese and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Turin seated upon the River Doria Duria which falls into the Po beneath Rivarotta between Chivas to the West and Casal to the East thirty Italian Miles from Turin to the North and twenty five from Aoust to the South-West This City has been under the Duke of Savoy ever since 1313. who has taken care to fortifie it very well it has also an ancient Castle and a Stone Bridge over the River Doria The French took it in 1554. during the Wars of Italy It has of ancient time given the Title of a Marquess Iuriogrod See Derpt Iustinopolis or Justiniana See Achrida Cabo di Istria and Giustandil Iutland Jutia Cimbrica Chersonesus is a very great Province of the Kingdom of Denmark extended in the form of a vast Peninsula from North to South and only joined to the Continent at the South end where Holstein a part of this Promontory joins it to Germany on the West it has the German Ocean on the North and East the Baltick Sea It is divided into the Northern and Southern Jutland The Northern Jutland is divided into four Dioceses viz. Rypen Arhusen Alborch and Wisborch this part is under the King of Denmark the Southern is divided into three viz. Sleswick Flensborg and Hadersleben this is under the Duke of Sleswick who is of the Blood Royal of Denmark Charles Gustavus King of Sweden took Jutland in his late Wars and thence passed over the Ice into the Neighbouring Islands It was the Country most suppose of the ancient Cimbri Ixar a small Town in the Kingdom of Arragon upon the River Martinium twelve Miles from Sarragoza to the South which gives the Title of a Duke Ixe a Kingdom on the South of Japan Iyo a Province in Japan in Xicoca towards the West of it and the Island Ximoam which has in it a Town of the same Name K A. KAchemire a Kingdom in the Estates of the Great Mogul along the Mountain Caucasus towards the Kingdom of Lahor and the Borders of Indostan with a City its Capital of the same name The City is all built of Wood unwalled traversed by a River over which it has two Bridges and near a great Lake four or five Leagues in circuit falling into the same The Country affords excellent Pasturage about thirty Leagues long and twelve broad Kaimachites a Province or Tribe amongst the Asian Tartars by the great River Ghamma between Mongal to the North and the Kingdoms of Thibet and Tangut These People give Name to that part of the Ocean which bordereth upon them Kalisch Calisia a City in the Kingdom of Poland built upon the River Prosna which a little lower falls into the Warta five German Miles from the Confines of Silesia and twelve from Breslaw to the North-East It is the Capital of a Palatinate in that Kingdom and suffered very much from the Swedes in the year 1657. Kalmar See Calmar Kalmintz Celemantia called by Ptolemy the Town of the Quades is now a Village in Austria not far from the Fountains of the River Teye in the Consines of Moravia thirty Miles saith Baudrand from Zuaian a Town of Moravia to the West Kalmouchs a People or Tribe of the Grand Tartary toward the Coast of the Caspian Sea Kam the ancient Name of Egypt Kamenieck Camienick Camenecia Clepidava Camenecum a strong City in the Vkraine in the Kingdom of Poland which is the Capital of Podolia The Poles call it Kaminieck Podelsski It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lemberg and stands upon a Mountain by the River Smotrzyck which a little lower falls into the Neister thirty Miles from Lemberg to the South-East eighty from Warsaw and one hundred and seventy from Constantinople towards the Frontiers of Moldavia The Turks very often attempted this Place without any success but having suffered much by Fire in 1669. and being thereupon in 1672. besieged by them it was taken the Poles being then engaged in a Civil War amongst themselves and the Town not in a condition to defend it self The Cossacks under the Command of the Sieur Mohila blocked it up in April 1687. The Polish Army offered to attack it about September following but upon the Approach of the Ottoman Forces they were both of them forced to retire the Polish Army kept it in a manner blocked up by their Encampment in September 1688. About a Month after they left the Tartars to put a Convoy of Provisions into the Place In 1689. August 20. the Forces as well of Lithuania as Poland under the Command of the great General of Poland setting down before it began a formal Attack till on the eighth of September following being crossed with ill success they raised the Siege Kaniow Kaniovia a strong Town in Poland upon the Nieper where the River Ross falls into it in the Palatinate of Kiovia It lies seven German Miles from Czyrcassis to the North West twenty seven from Kiovia to the South-East and upon the same side of the River This Town is one of the strong Places which belongs to the Cossacks Kanisa Canisia a Town of the Lower Hungary seated upon the River Sala in the County of Zalad between the Lake of Balaton and the Drave not above one Mile from the Confines of Stiria to the East This was taken by the Turks in 1600. though the Imperialists did all that was possible to prevent it the year following the Arch-Duke of Austria besieged it from the beginning of September to the end of October without any success In 1664. Count Serini besieged it and had infallibly carried it if he had been succoured in time In 1688. June 30. the Count de Budiani blockaded it with a Body of six thousand Hungarians and two thousand Heydukes which continued till April 13. 1690. when in pursuance of a Capitulation that the Emperour had ratified the Keys of the Gates hanging upon a Chain of Gold were delivered to the Count de Budiani by a Turk saying I herewith consign into your hands the strongest Fortress in the Ottoman Empire The Imperialists found in it great store of large Artillery taken heretofore from the Christians and some with old German Inscriptions Kargapol Cargapolia a City in Muscovy in the Western parts of that Kingdom near the Lake of Onega between the Confines of Sweden and the Dwina there is a Lake and a River of the same Name belonging to this City Karkessa a Town in Arabia Deserta Karn Taurn a Mountain in Carinthia Karnwaldt a Forest in Switzerland Karopnitze Orbelus a Mountain in Macedonia which is a Spur of
their times whence some believe that the Canal betwixt Lesbos and it has by degrees filled up and united with the Island of Lesbos Antibes a Town and Port in Provence in France which was heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ambrun but the See is since transferred to la Grace There is a Castle to it Anticyra an Island of Thessalia famous for its Hellebore Antifello Antiphellus an antient City of Lysia in Asia upon the Mediterranean and sometime the See of a Bishop Antigonia the capital City of the Province of Chaonia in Epirus Heretofore considerable § Another of Macedonia § Also an Island discovered by the Portuguese near the Island of S. Thomas Antilaban an inhabited Mountain in Syria over against Mount Libanus Antilles the same with the Caribby Islands Antinoe Antios Antinopolis a City of Aegypt 6 Leagues from the Nile and heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Thebes It had Twelve Religious Houses in it for Women in the time of Palladius Now utterly ruin'd Antioch Antiochia call'd by the Turks Antachia by the Arabians Anthakia It was built by Seleucus the Son of Antiochus King of Syria one of the Successors of Alexander the Great and call'd after his Fathers Name This City was during the times the Greeks and Romans were possessed of it the Capital of Syria or rather of the East here the Disciples and Followers of our Saviour Jesus Christ were first called Christians and accordingly the Bishop of this City was accounted the Third Patriarch of the World Rome being the First and Alexandria the Second others count it the Second Patriarchate As it had these great Honors so it was excellently built strongly fortified both by Art and Nature and very Populous till it fell into the hands of the Arabians Mamalucks and Turks who have made it desolate and suffer'd all its stately and most of its common Buildings to fall into decay June 3. 1098. it was recovered by the Christians but in 1188. it was again betrayed into the hands of the Mahometans who have been the Masters of it ever since it is incompassed with a double Wall one of Stone and the other of Brick with 460 Towers within the Walls the greatest part of these Walls remain with a most impregnable Castle at the East end of the City but almost all the Houses are falling down so that the Patriarch has remov'd his Dwelling to Damascus This City is built on both sides of the River Orontes over which there was a Bridge It stands about 12 Miles from the Mediterranean the River Pharpar passing on the South side of it This place is called in the Prophets Riâ—lah and was memorable in those times for the Tragedies of â—ecâ—nias and Zedechias Kings of Judah It stands about 20 Miles from Scanderone South and 22 from Aleppo in 68. d. 10. m. Long. and 36. 20. Lat. Antiochia Ciliciae was a City of Asia the Less in Cilicia a Bishops See seated upon the River Pyramus but what it is now is not known Antiochia Meandri See Tachiali Antiochia Comagenae was a City and a Bishops See at the foot of Mount Taurus in Syria between Anazarbe and Antioch upon the Euphrates Some say it still retains its name Antioch upon the Euphrates This City is mentioned by Pliny and upon the reverse of a Medal of the Emperor Severus Perhaps the same with that which the Syrians call Arados in Stephanus who recounts 10 others of this name of less importance the places of Situation are now unknown Antiochia in America a small City in the Kingdom of Popayan in the South America 15 Leagues from S. Foy Antiochia Pisidiae mention'd Acts 13. 14. was afterwards an Archbishops See but it is now a mean Village and called by the Turks Versacgeli or as others say Antachio it is distant from Iconium 60 Miles North-West from Ephesus 160 East Antipatride Antipatris a City of Palestine built by Herod the Great and so call'd in Honor of Antipater his Father Baldwin I. King of Jerusalem took it in 1101. and erected the Church into an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Caesarea in 1265. the Saracens took it again and have quite ruined it It stood 6 Leagues from Joppe Antiscoti or the Isle of Assumption an Isle in the Gulph of S. Lawrence in New France in America where the French have establish'd some Colonies Antium Antio Rovinato an ancient City of Italy the Capital of the Volsci Famous in the Roman times for a Temple consecrated to Fortune Sometime also a Bishops See but since ruined by the Saracens Antivari Antibarum a Metropolitan City of Dalmatia seated upon a Mount upon the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea under the Dominion of the Turks The Archbishop of this City had 9 suffragan Bishops under him it is distant from Budoa West and Dolcingo East 10. Miles from Scutari South 18 Miles Antongil a Bay and Country in the Northern part of the Isle of Madagascar Antrim the most Northern County in the Province of Vlster in Ireland divided into 9 Baronies which are bounded on the East by S. Georges Channel on the the West by the River Banne that parts it from London-Derry on the North the Deucalidonian Ocean on the South the County of Down The chief Town is Carrick-fergus Antron an antient Town of Thessalia The Asses of this Country were said to be prodigiously great whence the Proverb Asinus Antronius for a very ignorant Person Antros a small Island at the Mouth of the Garonne on the Coast of Guienne in France where stands the celebrated Tour de Cordovan to light the Vessels that go to Bordeaux Antwerp Anversa called by the French Anvers by the Germans Antorf is a City of the Low Countries in the Dukedom of Brabant upon the River Scheld It is a large and beautiful City and was about 100 years since the most populous and best traded City in all those Provinces and in 1559. was made a Bishops See by Paul IV. In 1569. the Duke de Alva built here a strong Castle In 1576. the Hollanders plundred it In 1585. the Duke of Parma reduc'd it under the Dominion of the Spaniard again in whose hands it now is but all these Mutations and the building of Forts upon the River by the Hollanders has reduced much of its antient Glory and it is now decaying Abraham Ortelius a learned Geographer who was born here has described this City at large as also Lewis Guicciardin in his Description of the Low Countries It stands 10 Miles from Ghant and as many from Brussels Anzerma or S. Anna d' Anzerma a small City in the Kingdom of Popayan in America Aoaxe a River of Abissinia in Africa it riseth in the Borders of the Provinces of Xao and Oggo and being augmented with the Streams of Machi it runs Eastward through the Kingdom of Adel the Capital of which Avea Guerela being watered by it it falls into the Gulph of Arabia Aonia a mountainous Country of Baeotia in
See Slawkow Austrasie Austracia which the Germans called the Westrich was a considerable part of France during the first Race of Kings and had the Title of a Kingdom which was afterwards called the Kingdom of Mets because that City was the Capital of it Under the second Race of Kings it was called the Kingdom of Lothaire The bounds of it were very various sometimes bigger and at others less Austria called by the Inhabitants Oesterreich by the French Autriche by the Turks Beetstan or Weetzstan by the Poles Rakusy is a Province of Germany bounded on the North by Bohemia and Moravia on the East with Hungary on the South with the Dukedom of Stiria and on the West with Bavaria and Salsburgh it is divided almost into two equal parts by the Danube This Province was first under Marquesses from 928. In 1156. they had the Title of Duke given them and Frederick who was after Elected Emperor had the Title of Arch-Duke conferred on him which is the only Title of Arch-Duke in the World From this Country it is that the House of Austria takes its Name of which Family the Emperors of Germany have been ever since 1438. and the Kings of Spain since 1515. It is a very fertile Country amply supplyed with Mines and Rivers Vienna the Capital The Archduke has a particular power of creating Counts and Barons over all the Empire by antient Concession with this privilege besides that he cannot be deprived of his Lands and Principalities by the Emperor himself Authie Attilia a River of Picardy in France It arises near a Castle of the same name in Artois glides by Dourlens and Auxi then falls into the Sea at a place call'd Pas d'Authie Autun Angustodunum Hedua is a very antient City in the Dukedom of Burgundy and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Lions seated upon the River Arroux Arotium which falls into the Loire 25 Miles West of Chalon and about the same distance South-West from Dijon Auva a City and Kingdom of Japan Auvagdonne or Achad Achadia a City in the County of Gallway in Connaught in Ireland which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Tuam Auvergne Alvernia is a large Province almost in the midst of France it has the Dukedom of Bourbonne on the North the Earldom of Forez on the East the Marche and Limosin on the West and on the South Rouergue The Southern part is mountainous the Northern is very well watered and fruitful The chief Town is Clermont It had Earls which govern'd it till 1024. when Philip the August put an end to this Earldom upon the Rebellion of Guido the last Earl and annexed it to the Crown of France In this Province there are thirteen Towns which send their Deputies to the Assembly of the States in France Aux Auscii an Archbishoprick and a City in the County of Armagnac in France This City stands upon the River Sers which runs not far before it falls into the Garonne It is distant from Tholouse almost 20 Miles to the North-West and the Archbishoprick is esteemed one of the richest in France Auxerre Antissiodorum is a City and an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Sens upon the River Yonne Icauna which falls into the Seyne Sequana This City is large and beautiful seated in a fruitful Plain about 12 Leagues from Sens. Auxerrois a small Territory in France adjacent to Auxerre Auxois Alexiensis tractus a Bailiwick in Burgundy in France Auxone Aussona a small but very strong City of the Dukedom of Burgundy upon the River Sone from whence it has its name It is five Leagues from Dijon East and four from Dole Auzone Auzonum a small City of Auvergne in France in a mountainous Country near the River Allier Elaver which falls into the Loire It has an old Castle and is distant from Clermont ten Leagues North. Axbridge a Market-Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Winterstoke upon the River Axe Axel Axella a small but strong Town in Flanders under the Dominion of the States of Holland whose Surprisal was the first exploit of Count Maurice of Nassau Captain General of the United Provinces after his entrance upon that Employment in 1587. It stands 4 Leagues from Gant and about 6 from Antwerp West Axholm an Island made by the Rivers Trent and Dun in Lincolnshire About 10 miles in breadth and 5 in length The middle part which is the more rising ground is very fruitful and particularly of Flax. Alabaster is found in it Axmister a Market Town in Devonshire upon the River Axe the Capital of its hundred Axum Auxuma a City and heretofore the Capital of the Kingdom of Tigre in the Province of Sire in Aethiopia Ayr a small Town upon Dunbritain Frith in the South part of Scotland with a River of the same name in the Territory of Kile in which Oliver Cromwel built a strong Citadel or Fort to keep the Scotch Nation in awe Ayr Arola a small River in France which riseth in the Dukedom of Barrois and running North watereth Clermont and Varenne and at last falls into the Aisne Aza a Town in Cappadocia upon the Borders of Armenia betwixt Trebizonde and Neo-Cesaraea Azack Tanais See Asoph Azamor a Town in the Province of Duguela in the Kingdom of Marocco at the mouth of the River Ommirabi The Portugueze took it in 1508 and in 1540 they abandoned it The Moors afterwards repeopled it but being all kill'd or taken in a night by a surprize of the Portugueze it has continued desart ever since Azaotan Azaot the vast Desarts of Libya in Africa Azeca an antient Town of the Amorites in Chanaan where God Almighty rain'd down Hailstones upon them from Heaven Josh 10. 11. Rehoboam repair'd it 2. Chron. 11. 9. It was afterwards ruined in the Wars by the King of Babylon Jerem. 34. 7. Azem a Kingdom in the Terra firma of the Indies beyond Ganges in one of the most plentiful Countries of all Asia for all things necessary to human life The Capital of it is Kemmerouf 21 days journey distant from the Town Azem The People live altogether at their ease They esteem the flesh of dogs particularly above other meats selling great quantities thereof in their Markets Azores commonly call'd by English-men the Canary Islands are 7 Islands in the Atlantick Ocean not unknown to the Antients and by Pliny Solinus and others mentioned under the name of the Fortunate Islands and tho they differ as to the number yet all agree Canaria was one of them but which is most wonderful the knowledge of them was perfectly lost till 1330. when a Ship being distressed by Weather discovered them and it is not agreed whether it was an English French or Dutch Ship In 1334. the Portuguese attempted to conquer these Islands and were beaten off In 1417. Henry King of Castile granted these Isles to one John Betancourt upon condition he should hold them under the Crown of Castile and he accordingly subdued four of
Paris was founded in 1308. by a Bishop of this place Bailleul Baliola See Belle. Baionne See Bayonne Bair Barus a River of the Low Countries Bais Bacium a Monastery in France which lies between Corbie and Amiens upon the Somme Sumina over against Peronne Baise Balisa a River in Poictou in France Bakewell a Market-Town in Derbyshire in the Hundred of High-Peak Bala a Market-Town in the County of Merioneth in Wales in the Hundred of Penllyn Balagata a Kingdom in the Peninsula of Malabar in the hither East-Indies extended among the Branches of the Mountains of Gare making a part of the great Kingdom of Decan It s chief City Doltabad is a place of great Trade Balaguer Ballegarium a City of Catalonia seated at the foot of a very steep Hill having a Stone Bridge over the River Segre it was made famous by being taken by the French in the Year 1645 after a Defeat of the Spanish Forces which should have covered it It lies 3 Leagues from Lerida Ilerda to the South East Balambuan a City in the Island of Java in the East-Indies with a Sea-Port towards the East This City gives its Name to a Bay of the Sea which lies near it Balassia Audus a River of Mauritania in Africa it falls into the African Sea between the Towns of Jatath and Igilgilim at the Promontory call'd Capo di Gibramel Balaton Volceae a very great Lake in the Western part of the lower Hungary lying about thirty Miles in length from the North-West to the South-East but its breadth is not above six Miles it has Vesprin on the South Canisa on the West and Alba Regalis on the East The Germans call it Platzee Balbastro Barbastrum a City of the Kingdom of Aragon in Spain upon the River Vero Verum where it falls into the Cinga about 8 Miles from Huâ—scar Osca to the West and Ilerda now Lerida to the North East It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Zaragoza from which distant 14 Miles This City was recovered from the Moors in the Year 1102. Call'd by some heretofore Bergidum and by others Belgida Balbec Heliopolis Caesarea Philippi A City antiently of Coelesyria at the foot of Mount Libanus which was at first a Bishops See made afterwards a Metropolitan under the Patriarch of Antioch It is incompassed with very high Hills on all sides and lies at the equal distance of about 32 Miles from Damascus Tripoli and Abyla Baldino Vfens a River of Italy arising in St. Peter's Patrimony at a place call'd Casenove 2 Miles from Setia and falls into the Mare di Toscana near Terradina a City of Campania It is now commonly call'd il portatore Baldoâ— a Market-Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Broadwater Baleares The Islands of Majorca and Minorca See Majorca It is remarkable that amongst the slain in the Noble Battel of Creci in 1344. the King of the Baleares was one Balestra Balista a Branch of the Apennine in the Road to Parma by the Valley of Tari between Liguria and Hetruria Baâ—â— The most Easterly Kingdom in the Grand Empire of Abyssinia in Africa Balkan a Mountain of Thrace call'd Haemus of old dividing Thrace from Bulgaria so very high that from the top of it the Euxine Sea may be seen It runs from the East to the West and ends at the City of Mesembiria out of it spring the Rivers Hebrus now Mariza which watereth Hadrianople and Strymon now Stromona The Sclavonians call it Cumoniza the Italians Costegnazzo or the Chain of the World and the Turks Balkan Ballingacarrigy a Caâ—â—le near Cavan in the County of Cavan in Ireland It had a Garison of about 200 Men in it when Colonel Wolseley with a Party of King William's Forces came to attack it And is naturally so strong that none as the Account says but Irish Men would have been beaten out of it without Canon After some Resistance which however cost Colonel Wolseley dearer than he expected they agreed to surrender it on terms May 13 1690. Baâ—â—aâ— or Balzaâ— a Territory in the Dukedom of Angoumois in France upon the River Charenâ—e giving its name to the Family of the Guëz which lately produced the most eloquent Man of France Monsieur Balsac a perpetual honour to his Country and particularly this place He died Feb. 28. 1654. § The like in the Province of Auvergne whence another antient Family receives their Title Balsara Balsera Teredon a City attributed by Ptolemy and Aeâ—ian to Babylon by others to Arabia It belongs now to Arabia Deserta and lies near the Confines of Arabia Foelix near the Borders of the Province of Hierach A great City and of good Trade and stands at the Conjunction of the Tigris and Euphrates where they fall into the Persian Gulph After the King of Persia had taken Ormus in the Year 1622 the English Dutch and Portuguese betook themselves to this Place and setled their Factories here In times past it was under the Kings of Persia afterwards taken by the Turks The Haven is safe and large and stands about 12 miles above the Persian Gulph on the Western shoar and in the neighboring Villages many Christians of the Sabborites or of St. John live Baltimore Bay a Bay and Haven in the Province of Mounster in the Kingdom of Ireland and in the Earldom of Desmond upon the Western Ocean The Baltick Sea Sinus Co danus may justly be call'd the Northern Mediterranean It has no Communication with the Ocean but by a narrow Streight call'd the Sound which parts Jutland from Gothland from the Cape of Schagen in Jutland it bends to the South-East as far as the Island of Zeland which restrains it to so narrow a breadth that the Castles of Elseneâ—r and Elsenborg command the Passage and enable the King of Denmark to enforce a Tribute from all Ships trading in or out of the Baltick Sea from thence it runs South and washeth the Dukedom of Mekelenburg and Pomerania as far as Dantzick from thence it turns North again and washeth Curland and Livonia as far as Nargen where it is divided into two other great Bays one of which is called the Bay of Finland and divides Finland from Livonia In this Bay lies Narva the Capital of Livonia heretofore the Store-house of the North a little more North it receives the River Severi into which run Ladoga and Onega two vast Lakes that part Megrina and Cornelia and run up almost as far as the White Sea with which they seem also to have some Communication by their Rivers from hence the Baltick runs to the North as far as Wybourgâ— where it turns again and runs South West as far as the Islands of Aland and here begins the 2d Branch of the Baltick call'd the Finnisch or Botâ—er Sea which runs North and South leaving on the East Finland and Boddia and on the West Sweden and Finmarck at the most Northern Point of it lies Tornia a Sea-Port Town The various Countries which do border upon this
first to appear to the Blessed Virgin after his Resurrection called the Chappel of the Apparition the Rock out of which his Sepulchre was hewn and the Tomb itself illuminated with 62 Lamps that burn continually Here are the Tombs of Godfrey of Bouillon the first King of Jerusalem and Baldwin I. his Brother who succeeded him in that Crown Calvi Cales a small City in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples 6 Miles North of Capoua which tho it has not much above 20 Houses is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capoua It withstood a Siege against the French and Turks in 1555. the Antients called it Cales § a Town in the Island of Corsica with a Port and a considerable Fortress to the Gulph of the same name under the Genouese Calydon an antient City of Aetolia in Greece sometime adorned with an Episcopal See and the Title of the Capital of the Country giving Name to a Forest therein § Also the antient Appellation of a part of Scotland towards the County of Perth in which Dunkeld stands see Dunkeld The same continuing to the Northern Sea to this Day Calydoni a little Castle in the Vicentine in Italy whence a Noble Family of Vicenza derives their Name Calzada Calciata a small City in old Castile in Spain once a Bishops See which is now removed to Calahorra from whence it lies 12 Spanish Leagues to the West It is sometimes called S. Domingo de la Calzada from the great Devotion of People to S. Dominick there Henry II. King of Castile dyed here in the year 1379. Calzan Calzun the Arabian Gulph Camala Emisa See Hama Camarina an antient Town of the Island of Sicily built in the year of Rome 150. according to Eusebius and long since ruined leaving only its name to a River in the same Island It s situation near the purulent Lake of Camerina obliging the Inhabitants to drain that Lake up whereby the Enemy obtained a Passage to take the Town occasioned the known Proverb Camarinam movere Camb or Kamp Cambus a River of the Upper Austria in Germany springing towards the Frontiers of Bohemia and ending in the Danube Cambaia the Capital of the Kingdom of Guzurat and a noble Port lying in a very great Bay of the same Name now subject to the great Mogul the City lies in Long 105. Lat. 22. 30. and is one of the greatest the richest the best traded Cities in the East-Indies seated in a fruitful Soil and full of People commonly called the Cairo of the Indies whence the Kingdom of Guzerate is often named the Kingdom of Cambaia It is walled with a fair Wall of Free-stone hath very large Houses straight and broad Streets greater than Surat being ten Leagues in compass and hath 3 Basars or Market places and 4 noble Tanks or Cisterns able to find the Inhabitants Water all the year tho there is 7 fathom Water in the Haven at high water yet at low water the Ships lie dry in the Sand and Mud which cover the bottom of it The Inhabitants are partly Heathens partly Mahometans And in 1638. the English had here a Factory as Mandelslo acquaints us from whom the latter part of this Description is taken Cambala a City in China See Peking some represent it to be 24 Italian Miles in compass Cambalu is the Mascovian and Saracen Name for it Peking the Indian Cambaya Camboya or Camboge a Kingdom in the East-Indies over against the Isle of Borneo bounded on the West with the Kingdom of Siam and on the East with that of Cochin It is Tributary to the King of Siam This Kingdom is almost equally divided by a vast River which in July and August overflows all the Country as the Nile doth Egypt The King of it is a great Friend to the Portuguese as he of Siam is to the Dutch Upon the most Eastern Branch for there are 3 of the River mentioned before stands Cambodia the principal City built upon a rising Ground to prevent the yearly Deluges This Kingdom is extream fruitful but not potent the King not being able to bring above 25 or 30000 Men into the Field first discoverd by Alphonso d'Albuquerque in 1511. as Mandelslo saith Cambodia lies in Long. 135. 00. Lat. 10 35. Cambray Cameracum called by the Flandrians Camerick a City of Hainault upon the Schold Guicciardin saith it is a great fair strong City and has a strong Castle built by Charles V. That it abounds in excellent publick Buildings especially the Cathedral is very great and beautiful that it is populous and rich and was a very antient Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Rhemes but in 1559. exempted by Pope Paul IV. and erected into an Archbishoprick The first place the French possessed themselves of after they came out of Germany in 1445. After this it became an Imperial City and continued so till Charles V. in 1543. built a Cittadel in it and annexed it to his own Dominions The French who all along pretended a Right to it at last in 1677. took it by force after a sharp defence The Archbishops are honored with the style of Dukes of Cambray Earls of Cambresis and Princes of the Empire Cambresis is a considerable Territory betwixt Picardy Flanders Artois and Hainault extreamly fruitful and adorned with a Castle of its own Name in which Henry II. of France and the King of Spain Celebrated that Treaty of Peace in 1559. which the French say was most disadvantageous to them It lies 4 Leagues from Doway South in Long. 26. 06. Lat. 49 45. Cambria the antient Name of the Principality of Wales more especially of the Western part thereof towards Ireland Cambridgeshire hath on the East Suffolk and Norfolk on the West Huntington and Bedford on the South Hartford and on the North Lincolnshire the River Ouse divides it almost in the midst Towards the South end of the County lies the Town which gives it its Name Mr. Camden saith it is called Camboritum being seated upon the East Bank of the River Cam which is here passed by a Bridge This is one of the antientest and noblest Universities in Christendom having 16 Colleges and Halls endowed or Nurseries in it of Piety and Learning the most antient of which is Peter House founded in 1257. by Hugh Balsham a Sub-Prior before which time there was only Hostels wherein the Scholars maintained themselves This place sends 4 Burgesses to the Parliament 2 for the Town and 2 for the University It has been dignified with the Title of an Earldom in several eminent Persons and lately of a Dukedom in 4 Sons of King James II. when Duke of York who all dyed very young Long. 21. 49. Lat. 52. 30. § The English have given the Name of Cambridge to a Town in New England also situated upon the River Merrimick and beautified with several fair Streets besides 2 Colleges in which they aim at the Figure of an University Camelford a Market-Town in the County of Cornwal in
the Archbishop of Seleucia now a poor Village Dominico one of the Caribby Islands in North America twenty Leagues in compass discovered by the Spaniards on a Sunday and thence so called Long. 322. 00. Lat. 14. 35. North-West of Barbadoes S. Domingo the principal City in the Island of Hispaniola built by Bartholomew Columbus in 1494. on the East Bank of the River Ozama and after in 1502. removed by Nicholas de Obando then Governor of the Island to the opposite Shoar It is situate in a pleasant Country amongst rich Pastures and has near it a safe and a large Haven enriched with the Residence of the Governour the Courts of Justice an Archbishops See many Religious Houses and an Hospital to which belongs a Revenue of twenty thousand Ducats by the year The Houses are neatly built most of Stone the Town is walled and has a Castle at the West-end of the Peer to defend the Haven It was much greater before Mexico was taken but has now not above six hundred Families of Spaniards the rest Negroes Sir Francis Drake in 1586. took it by force and kept it a Month burning a great part of the Houses and forcing the Spaniards to redeem the rest with mony Long. 305. 40. Lat. 14. 00. Domitz Domitium a strong Town not very large but well fortified in the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh on the North side of the Elbe where it receives the Elde in the Jurisdiction of the Duke of Swerine eight Miles above Lavenburgh to the West and ten from Lunenburgh to the East Dommele a River of Brabant which riseth near Peer and running North passeth by Eyndhoven or Eindoven then turning to the West it falls into the River Runne about half a Mile above Shertogenbosch through which they both pass into the Maes I find it by the Maps called De Dormale but corruptly as appeareth by L. Guicciardin and a Town a Mile above Eindoven on this River called Dommelen Domochi Domonichus a small Village in Thessalia once a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Larissa It lies South-West of Larissa and Volo and is mentioned in Mr. Morden's Map Don Tanais Donato Isaurus a River of Calabria Vlterior it falls by Cerenza and Neto into the Mediterranean Sea between Cotrone and Strongoli one Mile beneath S. Severina Donaw See Danube Donawert Donaverda Donavertia Vertia a City in Schwaben in Germany upon the Danube over which it has a Bridge it lies in the Confines of the Dukedoms of Newburgh and Bavaria seven German Miles from Auspurgh to the North and from Ingolstad to the West This City was in 1420. made a Free Imperial City by Sigismund the Emperour but in 1607. it lost this Privilege and is now subject to the Duke of Bavaria Doncaster or Dimcaster a Town in the West-Riding of Yorkshire on the River Done or Dune called by Antoninus DANVM in 759. burnt with Lightning but being by degrees rebuilt with a fair Church and Castle and becoming a Town of good Accommodations and Trade it has had the Honor of giving the Title of an Earl to James late Duke of Monmouth and some others The River Done riseth near Denbye and running South-East watereth Sheafield then turning north-North-East goeth by Rotheram where it takes in from the North another considerable River called as I suppose Dar or Dare then passing by Doncaster a little more East it takes in the River Went and soon after ends in the River Are at Tunbridge and both the Are and Done enter the Ouse about three Miles further thirteen Miles beneath York from which great City Doncaster stands two and twenty Miles to the South Doncheri a Town in the Territory of Retelois in Champagne towards the Frontiers of Luxembourg upon the Meuse betwixt Charleville and Sedan It is a fortified Town Done a River See Doncaster Donetz a vast River which riseth in Dikoia near Borissagorda and running Eastward turns and falls into the Tanais now called Donon Donitz too of which I shall give a further account in Tanais There is another River Donitz which riseth more East and falls into the Tanais more to the North at Gilocha Dongo a Town in Japan Donostein Menlascus a River of Guipiscoa in Spain commonly called Rio Orio Donoy Dinia See Digne Donussa Donysa a small Island in the Archipelago remarkable for nothing but the green Marble brought from thence Donzy a Town of the Duchy of Nevers in France upon a small River near the Cosne The Capital of the Territory of Donziois La Dorat oratorium a City of France in La-Marche fourteen Miles from Poictiers to the South-East and Limoges to the North upon the little River Seve Dorvie a River which falls into the Taen a River of Languedoc in France which last falls into the Garonne five Leagues above Agen. Dorchester Duronovaria a City of England in the County of Dorset upon the River Frome or Fraw about five Miles from the Sea and upon the Via Fossa a Causey of the Romans many Pieces of whose Coins have been found here It is the Capital of that Shire yet saith Mr. Camben neither great nor beautiful but certainly a Roman Town of great Antiquity which was ruined both by the Danes and Normans and once of a large compass as the Tract of the Walls and Trenches yet shew Fortified also in former times with a Castle which upon its decaying was converted into a Monastery and the Monastery afterwards demolished In the year 1645. King Charles I. created Henry Lord Pierrepont Marquiss of this Place At present it gives the Title of Countess to the Lady Catharine Sidley advanced to that Dignity by King James II. It still sends two Burgesses to Parliament and is adorned with three Parish Churches § There is another old Roman Town called Dorchester Dorcestria in Oxfordshire at the meeting of Thame and Isis nine Miles South of Oxford where the Bishoprick of Lincoln was at first settled for four hundred and sixty years before it was removed to Lincoln This last is called by Bede Civitas Dorcina by Leland Hydropolis i. e. as the word Dorchester it self also signifieth the Water-Town Dor in the Brittish Language being Water It was yielded to the Earl of Carnarvan Aug. 2. 1643. Dordogne Duranius Dordonia one of the principal Rivers of France It ariseth in the Province of Auvergne from two Fountains saith Baudrand one of which is called Dor the other Done running Westward between Limosin to the North and Auvergne to the South it takes in Chavanoy Rue Auze and Serre then entering Limosin Quercy and Perigort successively it meets Vezere and Cozere watereth Scarlat Limiel and Bergerac and so passeth to Libourne where it receiveth from the North the Lille which comes from Montignac and not far from Bourdeaux it unites with the Garronne and they send their united Streams to the Bay of Biscay or Sea of Gascogne called by the Romans Mare Aquitanicum at the Tour de Cordovan Dordrecht See Dort Dergwyn See Derwent Doria See Doira Doris
Worcestershire in the hundred of Halfshire Duero or Douro Durius Doria a River of Spain called Douro by the Portuguese one of the greatest Rivers in that Kingdom most frequently mentioned by ancient Greek and Latin Writers The Head of it is in Old Castile from Mount Idubeda about five Miles South of Tarragona running South it watereth Soria and Almasun there bending West it passeth by Osina Aranda de Duero and Rosa beneath which last it takes in Duratonio or Stranda de Duero and Piznerga from the North which with several others fall into the Duero two Miles beneath Valladolid then passing by Toro and Camora and taking in from the North Esla which brings the Orbego so to Miranda de Duero it entertains Tormes from Salamanca soon after which it entereth Portugal a little above Olivenca to the South and Eluas to the North where the Rivers that fall into it on both sides are so small and many that it is not worth the mentioning them turning Westward this great River passeth by Lemego on the South to Porta on the North where he pays his last Tribute to the Atlantick Ocean and after a Course of ninety Leagues from his rise as his last benefit he forms a large deep and safe Harbour at Porta Silius Italicus mentions it in the number of the Golden sanded Rivers Duerstede Batavodurum Durostadium a Town in Guelderland upon the Rhine commonly called VVyck three German Miles from Vtrecht to the South East It belongs now to the Province of Vtrecht and is a part of the Dominions of the United Provinces Duesme a Town in the Dukedom of Burgundy in France upon the River Seine It gives Name to the Territory of Duesmois lying towards the Source of the same River Duisbourgh Duisburgum Duysburgh is a small City in the Dukedom of Cleves upon the River Roer which a little lower falls into the Rhine eight Miles from Cologne North and three from VVesel South There was a Council held here in 927. Heretofore an Imperial Free City but now under the Dominion of the Elector of Brandenburgh who Octob. 14. 1655. opened here an University Gerardus Mercator the great Geographer of his time died here in 1594. Dulcigno Dolcigno Olchinum Olcinum Vlcinum a City of Albania which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Antivari with a safe Port on the Venetian Gulph between Budoa to the North and Lodrin to the South twenty four French Miles from Scutari to the West This City is under the Dominion of the Turks and reduced to a mean Condition Dulcinde a Part of Carmania Deserta upon the Entrance of the Persian Gulph one hundred twenty five German Miles South of Ormus There is a City River and Province of this Name Dulverton a Market-Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of VVilliton upon the River Ex. Dummer-Zee Dummeria a great Lake in Germany between Mounster to the West Osnaburgh to the South and Diepholt to the North. The River Hunt runs through it which falls into the VVesel a little below Bremen Dun or Done a River of Yorkshire See Doncaster § A Town also in the Dukedom of Barrois in Lorrain in France near the Meuse betwixt Stenay and Damvilliers § Another in the Province of la Marche Duna See Dwina Dunawert See Donawert Dunbar Dumbarum or the Castle of Bar is a Town in the County of Lothain in Scotland upon the Eastern Shoars twenty Scotch Miles North of Berwick and the same distance East of Edinburgh Heretofore it had a Castle on a Hill as it has still a Haven to the Sea But this Town is chiefly memorable for a Defeat given to the Covenanters of Scotland by Oliver Cromwel Septemb. 23. 1650. when an End was put to that Perjurious Rebellious Bloody Faction who here began the Payment of that Debt they owed to the Divine Justice for having sold the best and most Holy of all Princes Charles the Martyr to the English Rebels For from that Day Presbytery has been in Bondage and truckled under the Weight of that horrid Crime and may she never more lift up her Head to embroil Kingdoms and persecute the Church Dunblane Dumblanum a City of Scotland in the County of Menteith which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of S. Andrews It stands on the River Teith which a little beneath this and Sterling falls into the Fyrth of Edinburgh six Miles North of Sterling and thirty six West of Edinburgh Dunbritoun Britannodunum Castrum Britonum a Town in the County of Lenox in Scotland upon a Fyrth or Bay of the same Name with a strong Castle where the River Levin falls into the Fyrth eight Miles from Glasco to the North-West Also called Dunbarton because the Britans held it the longest of any Town in Scotland against the Picts and Scots The strongest of all the Castles in Scotland by Nature being built on a high craggy double-headed Rock both fortified and between these two it hath only one Passage on the North hardly passable without Labour and difficulty by a single Person on the West of it lies the Levin on the South the Cluyd on the East a boggy Marsh which at every Tide is covered with Water The Britans made this good against the Scots till in the Year 756. Eadbert King of Northumberland and Oeng King of the Picts forced it to surrender on a Composition But it was taken on easier Terms Jan. 5. 1651. by the English Rebels Sir Charles Erskin surrendering it to them Dunbritoun Fyrth a great Bay in the South-West part of Scotland upon the Irish Seas so called from this Castle it begins at Dunskay and on the South has Galloway Carrick Kile and Cunningham on the North Menteith Lenox Argile Kilmore and Cantry besides several smaller it has in it the Island of Arran many of the biggest Rivers of Scotland fall into it just against it to the West it has the North-East parts of Ireland at a small distance which are extream fruitful and peopled by Scots for the most part there are many safe Havens and populous Towns upon it and lastly it lies convenient for Trade with the Western Plantations and all the Southern World Dundalk Dunkeranum a small City in the Province of Vlster in Ireland which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Armagh twenty six Miles from Armagh to the East in the County of Louth and sixteen North from Drogheda surprised by the Rebels in 1641. Retaken the same year by Sir Henry Tichburn by Storm after their Forces had been beaten off from the Siege of Drogheda upon Sir Simon Harcourts arrival with supplies of Men and Mony but in 1649. they got it again The Duke of Schomberg continued with his Army here from Sept. 12. 1689 to Novemb. 8. that he retired into Winter Quarters There was a Battel in the mean time presented by King James II but that General thought not fit to accept it For he strengthned himself in his Trenches the more his Army was weakned by
another River Iberus which is apprehended to be the same with that the Moderns call Rio Tinto Ebudae Hebudes Hebrides Aebudae five small Islands to the West of the Kingdom of Scotland now more commonly thence called the VVestern Isles They have the honour to constitute a Bishoprick under the Archbishoprick of Glascow Eburones Eburonices Aulerici Eburiaci and Eburovices an ancient People of Gallia Celtica dwelling at and about the modern Eureux in Normandy and the Diocese of Liege taken in its former Latitude Ebusus See Ivica Ecbatana the Capital City of the Kingdom of the ancient Medes apprehended to be the same with the Modern Casbin or else Tauris of Persia See Casbin Hani and Tauris King Cambyses died here in the year of the World 3532. Parmenion by the order of Alexander Magnus was killed in 3725. and the alter Alexander Hephaestion buried here in 3728. with so much Funeral Pomp as amounted to twelve thousand Talents § There was another ancient Ecbatana in Phoenicia towards Mount Carmel Eccleshal a Market-Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Pirehill Ecija Astigi Astygi a City of the Kingdom of Andalusia in Spain called by Pliny Augusta Firma upon the River Xenil over which it hath a Bridge eight Miles from Cordova to the South and fourteen from Sevil to the North. This was anciently a Bishops See but now a part of the Diocese of Sevil and at this time one of the best Cities in Andaluzia recovered from the Moors in 1239. L'Ecluse See Sluys Eda Baetius a River in Arabia Foelix which springing out of the Mountains of Ghazuan Bengebres watereth Harsan and a little below Tajef takes in the River Chaibar then by passing by Badid Almortasse Baisat and Mecca it falls into the Red Sea at Ziden or Giodda over against Suaquem in Africa Edel Rha. See Wolgha Eden the Garden of Paradise described Gen. 2. 3. to be planted by the Divine hand at the head of a River which afterwards breaking into four Currents produces the Rivers Pison Geichon Hiddekel and Euphrates from whence they conjecture this Garden to have had its place in the Country about Mesopotamia in Asia Not but that the circumstances of the Guardian Cherubims and a Flaming Sword invisible the Fruit-Trees of Life and Knowledge the Serpents talking with Humane Voice and by an easie fallacy trepanning of his Lord into a condition of entailing Curses upon posterity unborn c. have administred apprehensions to the Curious of this History's being either an Hypothesis of the Writer or an Allegory § Eden Ituna a River of England which ariseth from Huseat Movel-Hill in Yorkshire It passeth Pendragon Castle Kirby Steven Appleby and at Hornbey takes in the River Eimot and entereth Cumberland out of VVestmâ—rland running Northward it passeth Corby Castle and VVarwick then turning West it watereth Carlisse taking in Petterel and Canda one above the other beneath that City also the Irthing which falleth by Brampton and Kirksop the Boundary of England and Scotland so falleth by the Bay of Itune or Eden into the Irish Sea between Anand Castle in Scotland and Boulnesse in England Eder Adrana Aeder a River of Germany which ariseth in the Vpper Hassia and flowing through the Earldom of VValdeck watereth Franekenberg VValdeck and two Miles above Cassel to the North falls into the River Fuld Edernay Hadrianopolis See Adrianople Edessa See Rhoa Edgware a small Market Town in the County of Middlesex in the Hundred of Gore Edinburgh Agneda Edenburgum is the Capital City of the Kingdom of Scotland and Seat of the Kings of that Nation It stands in the South part of Scotland in the County of Lothaine anciently called CASTRVM ALATVM and Edenburroth signifies the same thing for Aidan in the Welsh is Wing it stands on a high Ground in an healthful Air a fruitful Soil watered by many excellent Springs in length from East to West a Mile the breadth something less the Walls strong the publick and private Buildings Magnificent full of People and has a competent Trade by the advantage of the Port of Leith not far from it At the East end is the Royal Palace by it a fine Park and not far off a strong Castle upon a Rock As the variety of the Fortune of War changed this City fell sometimes into the hands of the English and at others of the Scots till 960. when the last prevailed by the means of the Danish Irruptions September 14. 1650. after the Battel of Dunbar the Castle was delivered into hands of the English who kept it till the Restitution of Charles II. And June 13. 1689. the Duke of Gourdon surrendred the same to K. William's Forces under Sir John Lanier upon Conditions for the Garrison only For as to his own Interest he submitted himself to K. William's discretion It lies in Long. 16. 00. Lat. 56. 15. § The Fyrth of Edinburgh is one of the greatest Bays in Scotland on the North it has Fife on the South Sterling and Lothaine and several of the principal Cities of this Kingdom stand about it or near to it Edge-Hill a place in VVarwickshire near Kyneneton seven Miles South of VVarwick where on Sunday October 23. 1642. was fought the first Battel between Charles I. and the Parliamentarians under the Earl of Essex The Earl of Lindsey Commander of the King's Battalia and General of the Field was slain and the Standard taken but retaken by Sir John Smyth who after the Fight was made a Knight Banneret The King had in this first Battel clearly the advantage and opened his way to Oxford and London and the next day took Banbury whereas Essex retreated first to VVarwick then to Coventry and left both the Field and the Passes Edom. See Idumaea Efeso See Ephesus Ega a River in Spain it ariseth in Aalva in Biscay and flowing through the Kingdom of Navarr watereth Stella and Villa Tuercta and between Calahorra and Villafranca falls on the North into the Ebro Egates or Aegates a knot of Islands in the Sicilian Sea over against the Promontory of Drepanum in Sicily to the West They are memorable for the Naval Victory obtained here by C. Lutatius Catulus the Roman Consul over the Carthaginians wherein seventy of their Vessels being taken and fifty sunk a Peace by them desired was concluded upon condition they should quit all their pretensions to the Islands betwixt Italy and Africa with which the first Punick War ended in the year of Rome 513. i. e. 241. before Christ See Gotham Egaean Sea See Archipelago Eger and Etlaw See Agria Eger Egra and Oegra a strong Town in the Kingdom of Bohemia upon a River of its own Name towards the Frontiers of Franconia in Germany It was the Seat of the ancient Narisci according to Thuanus and became first a dependent of the Crown of Bohemia by Mortgage in 1315. In the German Wars often besieged Those of the Country call it Heb or Cheb Egers Aegiricius Egericius commonly called Gers a River of France in the
Ouse in a fair Champaigne Country Deserving to be particularly taken notice of for the beautiful Euston-Hall of the building of the late Earl of Arlington and the Curiosities that are to be seen about it In 1672. King Charles II. advanced this place to the Dignity of an Earldom in the Person of the late Duke of Grafton upon his Marriage with the only Daughter of the said Earl of Arlington The Euxine Sea Pontus Euxinus Axenos now by the Turks called Cara Denguis i. e. the Furious Sea and by others the Black Sea is encompassed round by Anatolia Mingrelia Circassia the Crim Tartary and Podolia with no other out-let than the Bosphorus Thracius accounting the Palus Moeotis as a Bay or branch of it so that it seems more properly a Lake Yet these great Rivers the Danube Nieper Niester Phasis Corax Sangarius and many others discharge their floods into it It is in length from East to West about one hundred eighty eight Leagues In breadth at the Western End from the Bosphorus Thracius to the Nieper three Degrees at the Eastern the half thereof And is dangerous to navigate Not so green nor clear nor brackish as the Ocean by reason of the Influx of those Rivers And now wholly under the Dominion of the Grand Seignior without whose leave no Vessel passes upon it Ewel a Market Town in the County of Surrey in the Hundred of Copthorn Ex Isca is a River of England it ariseth in Somersetshire and passing by Winesford it takes in Dunsbrook River or Creden from Dulverton on the West then entering Devonshire it runs directly South to Tiverton where it takes in Loman River from the East at Stâ—cke it takes in Columb on the same side and a little lower Credy from the West then incompassing a great part of the North West and South of Exeter a little lower it admits Clyst on the East and Ken on the West and so entereth the British Sea by a large Mouth Exeter Isca Isca Dunmoniorum Exonia is the principal City of Devonshire called by the Welsh Caerisk Caerrudh and Pencaer that is the Principal City Seated on the Eastern Bank of the River Ex in a barren Soil upon the Advantage of a small Hill declining East and West having a Dike and a strong Wall for its Safety in Compass about a Mile and a half with extended Suburbs There are in it fifteen Churches and in the highest Part of the City near the East Gate a Castle which of old was the Seat of the West Saxon Kings and afterwards of the Earls of Cornwal and near this the Cathedral built by King Athelstan in Honour of S. Peter Edward the Confessor settled the Bishop's See here which he removed from Kirton It fell not into the Hands of the Saxons till four hundred sixty five years after their first coming over viz. Anno Christi 914. when Athelstan banished the Britains and fortified the City and built the Cathedral This City joining with the Rebels in 1640. was taken for the King by Prince Maurice September 4. 1643. And being Garrisoned for the King was again surrendred to the Parliament upon Terms April 13. 1646. The Honourable John Cecil is Earl of Exeter and the fifth of his Family he succeded John Cecil his Father in 1667. The Title of Marquess of Exeter was heretofore conferred by King Henry VIII upon Henry Courtney Earl of Devonshire And likewise of Duke by Henry V. upon Thomas Beaufort Earl of Dorset and by Richard II. upon John Holland Earl of Huntington The present Bishop of this Diocese is the forty sixth since the Removal of this See from Kirton about 1149. The sixty seventh from Aedulphus who about 905. was made the first at least Saxon Bishop of Devonshire Extremadura See Estremadura § A Province of the Kingdom of Susa in Africa near the Atlantick Ocean and the Mountains of Atlas in the Southern Borders of Morocco Extremos a small Town upon the River Tera which comes to fall into the Tajo near Evora and Elvas in the Province of Alentejo in the Kingdom of Portugal Extuca a Province in the Kingdom of Morocco in Barbary extended along the Sea Coast towards the Mountain Atlas and the Frontiers of Biledulgeridia Eychstat See Aichstadt Eyder Eidera Egidora a River of Denmark which ariseth above Rendsburgh and dividing Holstein and Dithmarsh from the Dukedom of Sleswick falls into the German Ocean at Tonning This River denominates the Territory of Eyderstede in the said Dutchy Eye or Eaye Insula a small Corporation in the County of Suffolk near the Borders of Norfolk so called saith Mr Camden because it is an Island where are to be seen the Ruins of an old Castle which belonged to Robert Mallet a Norman Baron and of an ancient Benedictine Abbey called S. Peter's This Town has been given in Jointure with the Queens of England After many other Changes in this Honour Sir Frederick Cornwallis descended lineally from Sir John Cornwallis Steward of the Houshold to Edward VI. and Sir Thomas Cornwallis one of the Privy-Counsellors to Queen Mary and Comptroller of her House was April 20. 1661. made Baron Cornwallis of Eye by Charles II. to whose Interest and Service being ever entirely addicted in the worst of Times he had the Honour to be the second Coronation Baron to whom succeeded Charles Lord Cornwallis his Son who dying in 1673. Charles the second of this Family his Son succeeded and is now living By the Favour of this Family as I have heard this small Corporation obtained its Charter and the Honour of sending two Burgesses to the House of Commons Otherwise the Place is very small and inconsiderable It stands twelve Miles from Ipswich to the North and seventeen from Norwich to the South and in the Road between those two Places Eyerlandt See Aland Eyndhoven Endova is a fine Town in the Territory of Kempen upon the River Bommele four Leagues from Boisleduc to the South and almost the same from Helmont to the West It had a College of Canons and belonged to the Count de Buren This is the Capital of that part of Kempen which lies in Brabant and fell into the Hands of the Hollanders in 1629. after they had taken Boisleduc by a Siege of four Months Continuance and they are still in Possession of it Eysenack Isenachum a small City in Thuringia upon the River Nesa eight Miles from Erford to the West The River Nesa a little below it is taken into the VVerra The Name of this City is written sometimes nearer the Latin Isenach It is under the Dominion of a Prince of the House of Saxony the Duke of Weimar with a small Territory belonging thereto And has the Honour to be both a Dukedom and an University which last was founded in the Year 1555. F A FAenza Faventia a small City of Romandiola in Italy upon the River Lamone Anemo which falls into the Adriatick Sea three Miles South of the Mouth of the Po between Imola to the North
that Tract of Land that was possessed heretofore by the Jazyges Metanastae a Sarmatian People and part of Pannonia Superior and Inferior Wonderfully fruitful yielding Corn and Grass in abundance the latter exceeding when at its greatest length the height of a Man it abounds so in Cattle that it is thought alone to be able to serve all Europe with Flesh and they certainly send yearly into Germany eighty thousand Oxen. They have Deer Partridges and Pheasants in such abundance that any body that will may kill them They have Mines of Gold Silver Tin Lead Iron and Copper store of River or Fresh-water Fish and Wines equal in goodness to those of Candia The People are Hardy Covetous Warlike but Slothful and Lazy not much unlike the Irish Their best Scholar was St. Jerome Their best Soldiers Johannes Huniades and Matthias Corvinus The principal Rivers are the Danube which divides this Kingdom from end to end the Savus the Dravus and the Tibiscus they have one famous Lake called the Balaton which is forty Italian Miles in length The principal Cities are Buda or Offen Presburgh Alba-Regalis and Caschaw The Hungarians are a Tribe of the Scythians or Tartars which in the times of Arnulphus Emperour of Germany possessed themselves of Transylvania and the Vpper Hungary under Lewis IV. Successor to Arnulphus they passed the Danube wasted all Germany Italy Greece Sclavonia and Dacia till broken by the Forces of Germany and sweetned by the Christian Religion first taught them under King Stephen about 1016. by Albert Archbishop of Prague they became more quiet and better civilized This Stephen began his Reign in 1000. This Race of Kings continued to 1302. in twenty three Descents when Charles Martel Son of Charles King of Naples and Mary Daughter to Stephen IV. King of Hungary partly by Election partly by Inheritance and Conquest succeeded to this Crown to him succeeded Lewis his Nephew in 1343. Charles II. another of his Descendents in 1383. Sigismund Emperour King of Bohemia in the Right of Mary his Wife Eldest Daughter of Lewis in 1387. Albert of Austria in the Right of Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sigismond in 1438. Vladislaus Son of Albert and Elizabeth in 1444. Matthias Corvinus Son of Johannes Huniades by Election in 1458. Vladislaus II. Son of Cassimir IV. King of Poland and of Elizabeth Daughter of Albert in 1491. Lewis II. slain in the Battel of Mohatz succeeded in 1517. and was slain in 1527. John Sepusio Vaiwode of Transylvania chosen upon his Death succeeded that year but was outed by Ferdinand restored by Solyman the Turk and at last died in 1540. The Hungarians Crowned Stephen his Son an Infant in the Cradle but Solyman seized the best part of his Kingdom under pretence of defending it against Ferdinand of Austria and Ferdinand the rest so that ever since this wretched Kingdom has been a Stage of War between the Austrian and the Ottoman Families The former at this time having recovered from the latter all the Lower Hungary and all Tameswaer in the Vpper The Reader may be pleased to know that all that part of Hungary which lies on the West and North of the Danube is called the Lower Hungary what lies on the East and South the Vpper This Kingdom is divided into fifty five Counties three and twenty of which in the beginning of this last War were in the Hands of the Turks and the rest in the Emperor's It has also two Archbishops Sees Gran Strigonium and Colocza thirteen Bishopricks six under the first and seven under the latter Hungerford a Market Town in Berkshire in the hundred of Kentbury upon the River Kennet Hunni the ancient Inhabitants of the Marshes of the Maeotis who for the sake of a better Country to live in invaded Pannonia in great numbers and thence under Attila their King who stiled himself the Scourge of God marched victoriously into Germany Italy and France till Aetius General of the Romans and Meroveus King of France slew 200000 of them in one Battel in 450. Then they retired into Pannonia again and maintain'd themselves in divers Wars At length the Hungarians a Scythian race appeared about the end of the Reign of Charles the Gross and expelled them Huntingdonshire is bounded on the North by the River Avon or Afon which parts it from Lincolnshire on the West by Northamptonshire on the South by Bedfordshire and on the East by Cambridgeshire The North-East parts of it are Fenny but yield plenty of Grass for feeding of Cattle The rest is very pleasant fruitful of Corn rising into Hills and shady Groves The whole indeed was one Forest till Henry II. in the beginning of his Reign disforested it The Town of Huntingdon which gives Name to the County is seated upon the North side of the River Ouse somewhat high and stretcheth out it self in length to the Northward it has four Churches in it a fair Bridge of Stone over the River and near it is the Mount or Plot of an ancient Castle now ruined built by Edward the Elder in the Year 917. Which King David of Scotland who had this County with the Title of an Earl from King Stephen of England for an Augmentation of his Estate in the Year 1135. enlarged with new Buildings and Bulwarks but Henry II. finding great Inconveniences from it razed it to the Ground This was a very considerable Town in the times of Edward the Confessor and perhaps greater than now The first Earl of Huntingdon was Waltheof Created in 1068. two years after the Conquest he being beheaded Simon de Lyze who Married Maud the Daughter of Waltheof was made Earl in 1075. David Prince of Scotland her second Husband was the next Earl in 1108. It continued in this Family of Scotland till 1219. but it is now in the Family of the Hastings George Lord Hastings and Hungerford being by Henry VIII Created Earl of Huntingdon in the Year 1529. Theophilus Hastings the present Earl succeeded his Father in the Year 1655. and is the seventh Earl of this Noble Family Huquang a very large Province in the middle of the Kingdom of China counted the seventh in number but in extent one of the greatest its greatest length is from North to South being bounded on the North by Honan on the East by Nankim and Kiamsi on the South by Quamtum and on the West by Queycheu and Suchen It contains fifteen Cities an hundred and eighteen great Towns five hundred thirty one thousand six hundred eighty six Families The greatest City is Vuchang The great River of Kiam crosseth it and divides it and in the middle of this Province it receiveth two other great Rivers one from the North and the other from the South whose Names I cannot assign And these three Rivers form at their meeting a very considerable Lake between the Cities of Kincheu and Yocheu The Chinese call it also Jumichiti and the Granary of China for its abundance As to which they have a Proverb that the
thirty Miles from the Confines of the Kingdom of Poland to the South fifty from Soczow to the East and a hundred and twenty from Caminieck to the North-East It is not improbable this is the Augusta Dacâ—â— but the later Geographers are very much mistaken in placing it in Moldavia when it belongs to Walachia The Vaivode or Prince of these Countries for the most part resides here having suffered much from the Cossacks of later times the Turks maintained a strong Garrison in it The present King of Poland in 1686. marching this way against the Turks and Tartars possessed himself of it leaving a Garrison but before his return there happened so great a Fire that when he came he was forced to withdraw his Forces and leave it to the Walachians to be repaired Jati Bathis a River on the West of Sicily which falls into the Bay or Gulph of Amar on the North side twenty five Miles South of Palermo Java a great Island in the East-Indian Sea two hundred Leagues in length and near fifty in breadth On the West it has Sumatra on the East some other small Isles on the South the vast Ocean plays full upon it and on the North it has the Island of Borneo at the distance of forty five German Miles It is divided into nine Kingdoms the greatest of which is the Kingdom of Bantam and next the Kingdom of Materan The whole Island produceth great quantities of Spice and is on that account much frequented by the English and Dutch The Dutch had heretofore the Fort or City of Batavia in this Island not contented with this about 1684. joining with a Son of the King of Bantam then in Rebellion against his Father upon pretence of assisting him they seized the City of Bantam took Possession of the English Factory and all the Goods belonging to the English and kept the old King a Prisoner in the Castle of Bantam But finding there were several Attempts to restore him to his former Possession in 1686. the young King by the Advice of the Dutch removed his Captive Father to Batavia See Batavia The principal Cities of this Island are Balambuan Bantam Batavia or Jacatra Japara Jortan Materan once the Capital of the whole Panarucan Passarvan Saraboy and Tuban The Southern parts were never yet much sought into and so not much known It lies between 130 and 140 Long and 5 and 10 of Southern Lat. § There is another Island near this called the Lesser Java Jaur Jauriu a small River in Languedoc which riseth near S. Ponthois and falls into the Orba near the Castle of Pujols Javarin Jaurinum See Gewer and Raab Jawer Jauria a City of Silesia in Bohemia small but indifferently populous and the Capital of a Dukedom and has also an ancient Castle it lies not two Miles from Lignitz to the South and about nine from Breslaw to the West The Dukedom of Jawer lies between Lusatia to the West Bohema properly so called to the South the Dukedom of Lignitz to the North and that of Swyednitz to the East Jayck Rhymnus a River of the Asian Tartary which falls into the Caspian Sea between the Rha and Jaxartes Olearius placeth it in the middle of the North end of that Sea Jaziges by Ovid styled Jaziges acres and by the Writers of the middle Ages Jaziges Metanastes were an antient People of Sarmatia Europaea who being almost entirely exterminated thence by Boleslaüs the Chast King of Poland and Lescus in the years 1264 and 1282. retired in great numbers into the Vpper Hungary Jazzo See Laiazzo Jberia an antient Name of the Kingdom of Spain in Pliny and Strabo taken from the River Iberus Ebro § Likewise of a part of Georgia in Asia now called Gagheti See Georgia Jcaria a Mountain of Attica in Greece in the antient Tribe of Aegeus Jda a Mountain of Troas in Asia Minor at the foot of which stood the famous City Troy Athenaeus says nine Rivers derived their Springs from it Therefore Horace stiles it Ida undosa And Diodorus makes it to be the highest in the Neighbourhood of the Hellespont Hence the Idaeus sinus took its Name which was otherwise called Andramyttenus sinus and now le Golfe Andramytti § A Mountain also of the Island of Candia environed with Forests and inhabited heretofore by the People Dactyli Idaei Jdanhas Igaeaita a ruined City in Portugal Jddle or Iddel a River in the County of Nottingham upon which Redford is situated emptying it self Northward into the River Dun. Idafa a Branch of Mount Imaus Jdria a Town in the County of Goritia incompassed with Hills on all sides and seated upon a River of the same name Remarkable for the Quick-Silver Mines in it See Dr. Brown's Travels p. 82 83. It stands ten Miles from Goritia to the North-West Jducal Atlas Major a vast Mountain on the South of Barbary in Africa Jdumaea Edom the Country of the Edomites mentioned frequently in Scripture was a Kingdom of the antient Canaan betwixt Judaea properly so called the Stony Arabia and the Mediterranean Sea It s principal Cities Dinhabah Avith Pai Rehoboth 1 Chron. 1. 43. c. where see the list of the Kings and Dukes of Edom before the time of the beginning of the Israelitish Monarchy David afterwards conquered and garrisoned it 2 Sam. 8. 14. But in the Reign of Jehoram King of Judah the Edomites revolted and made themselves a King 2 Chron. 21. 8. 10. and joyned with the Chaldaeans under Nebuchadonezar in the Siege of Jerusalem Hyrcanus in the Ages following made War against them so effectually that he caused them to turn Jews They were of the Descendants of Esau Jefferkin Capernaum a City in Palestine Jehan-Abad See Delly Jempterlandt Jemptia a Province in the Kingdom of Sweden which has Angerman to the East Middlepad to the South Helsing to the West and Norway to the North. It belonged to the King of Denmark till 1645 and then by the Treaty of Bromsbroo was resigned to the Swedes There are three Castles but never a City in it Jena a small City in Hassia in Germany upon the River Saal over which it has a Bridge under the Duke of Saxon Weimar two German Miles from Weimar to the East nine from Leipsick to the North-East and three from Naumburg to the South It has a small University opened here in 1555 by the Dukes of Saxony and a Monastery of the Dominicans founded in 1286. The Valley about it yields plenty of Wine Jende or Pajende Jendus a Lake in the Province of Tavasthia in Finland Jendo Jedo or Yendo the capital City of the Empire of Japan in the Island of Niphonia at which the Emperor since his leaving Meaco keeps his Court. A vast and magnificent City upon the Banks of the River Tonkaw or Toukon and near a great Gulph yielding variety of Fish The Palace Royal is a work of state the Temples and the Palaces of the Nobility attract the admiration of Strangers There is one Street
Isles of Scotland over against Cantyr in 56 deg of Lat. twenty four Miles long and sixteen broad plentiful in Wheat Cattle and Herds of Deer The principal Towns in it are Kilmany Dunweg and Crome besides which it hath divers Villages Ilchester a Market and Borough Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Tintinhull which returns two Burgesses to the House of Commons It stands upon the River Ill or Yeovel having heretofore sixteen Parish-Churches as a place of great Note Strength and Antiquity now reduced to two The County-Goal is kept here Iler Hilarus Ilarus a River of Schwaben in Germany which riseth in Tirol and running Northward watereth Kempten then falls into the Danube over against Vlm Ilerda Lerida Athanagia a fortified and strong City in Catalonia in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona seated upon the River Segre Sicoris three Leagues above its fall into the Ebro in the Confines of Arragon This City is mentioned in Livy as taken by Scipio and rendred famous for an Encounter near it between a General of Sertoris and Manilius Proconsul of Gallia where the latter was defeated with the loss of three Legions of Foot and 1500 Horse Ilion See Troja Ilfordcomb a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Branton Ill Ellus Hellus Hellelus a River of Germany which ariseth in Suntgow and passing through Alsatia watereth Mulhausen Ensisheim Colmar and Strasburg below which it falls into the Rhine Illyricum Illyris Illyria In the antient Geography of Europe this Country lay betwixt Pannonia to the North and the Adriatick Sea to the South divided into two parts Liburnia and Dalmatia whereof the first was subjected to the Romans a little before the second Punick War the other the Eastern part not till the Reign of Augustus It is now nigh wholly comprehended under Dalmatia and Sclavonia under the respective Dominion either of the Venetians or the Turks except the Republick of Ragusa and some Places more The Illyricus Sinus is now call'd the Bay of Drin and the Gulph of Venice Ilmen a considerable Lake in Russia towards Livonia on the South of the City Novogorod which disburthens it self into the Lake of Lagoda by a River which passeth on the East of that City called the Wolga Ilment Arabius one of the most considerable Rivers in the Kingdom of Persia it ariseth from the Mountains of Sibocoran in the Province of Sigistan and watering Mut Gilechi Racagi beneath Sistan it takes in the Sal beneath Sereng the Ghir beneath Chicheran the Ilmentel and beneath Pasir falls into the Arabick Ocean in Long. 106. 30. near Macran to the West Iltz or Izilz Ilza a small Town in the Palatinate of Sandomir in the Lesser Poland with a Castle which belongs to the Bishop of Cracow Ilmister a Market Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Abdick Imaus is one of the greatest Mountains in the Greater Asia it begins at Mount Taurus near the Caspian Sea and running Southward through the whole Continent of Asia it divides the Asian Tartary into two parts and ends at the rise of the River Ganges where it again spreads it self East and West and becomes a Northern Boundary to the Empire of the Great Mogul or Indostan having performed a Course of 450 German Miles and taking various names from the Nations it passeth as Althai Belgan Dalanguer c. Imiretta or Imaretza a Kingdom in Gurgistan in Asia stiled by the Turks Pacha Koutchouc or a Little Principality is inclosed betwixt the Mountain Caucasus Mengrelia the Black Sea Guriel and Georgia properly so called About 120 Miles in length in breadth 60. Wooddy and mountainous yet not without its agreeable Valleys and Plains Mines of Iron and the Necessaries of Life Under a Prince of its own to whom heretofore Mengrelia and Guriel after their shaking off of the Yoke of the Emperors of Constantinople and Trebizond own'd Subjection but now together with them tributary to the Turk who obliges the King of Imireta every year to send him eighty Children as a Tribute There are three Fortresses in this Kingdom Scander towards the South and Regia and Scorgia towards the North near the River Phasis besides scattered Villages It s most valuable Commodities are Wine and Swine which makes it difficult here to observe the Laws of Mahometanism The Kings pretend to be descended of the race of King David Imzagor Claudius a Mountain in Stiria Immirenieni an antient People towards the South of the Kingdom of Persia of which History relates that they embraced Christianity in the Reign of the Emperor Anastasius about the year 500 and at their request had a Bishop sent amongst them Imola Cornelia Forum Cornelii Imola a City in the Dominions of the Church in Romandiola upon the River Santerno This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ravenna of which Alexander VII was Bishop when in 1655 he was chosen Pope It is a fine and a populous City twenty Miles from Bononia to the East and twenty five from Ravenna Narses is said to have ruined and the Lombards to have repair'd it Caesar Borgia made himself Master of it in the Pontificate of Alexander the Sixth from which time it became subject to the Church Imperiati a small City in the Kingdom of Chili in America near a River of the same Name four Leagues from the South Sea said to be an Episcopal See under the Spaniards Inacho Apheas a small River of Epirus which watereth Larta on the South and falls into the Bay called the Gulph of Larta Index Vid. Indus India is taken for a considerable part of Asia commonly called the East-Indies to distinguish it from America which is called the West-Indies It is thought to be the Havilah in the Holy Scriptures by the Natives Indostan Bounded on the North with the Asiatick Tartary the Mountains of Imaus and Emodus on the East with the Kingdom of China on the South with the Indian Ocean and on the West with the Kingdom of Persia This Country consists partly in a vastly extended Continent partly in Islands some of which are very great That upon the Continent is divided into three Parts 1. The Empire of the Great Mogul or North India which is a part of India intra Gangem Indum and more peculiarly called Indosthan in this there are thirty five Kingdoms 2. The Peninsula of Malabar 3. The India extra Gangem In the India extra Gangem are four more considerable Kingdoms Pegu to the West Ava to the North Siam to the South and Cochinchina to the East each of which contains many particular or lesser Kingdoms in it The principal of the Islands are Borneo Ceylan Java Sumatra Celebes Mindano Luconia Hainan Pakan Gilolo the Moluccaes and Philippine Isles Many of these are so great as to be divided in many Kingdoms some of them have never been throughly discovered by the European Nations This Country extendeth in length from deg 106. to 159. of Long. and from deg 10. of
Tir-Oēn but being presently besieged by the Lord Montjoy Lieutenant of Ireland both by Sea and Land in December and Tir-Oën coming up to relieve the Spaniards with six thousand Foot and five hundred Horse amongst which were two thousand fresh Spaniards who had landed a little before at Berehaven Baltimore and Castle-haven being defeated December 24. by a Detachment drawn out of the English Camp D' Aquila thereupon January 2. following surrendered the Town to the English and was Transported with the Remainder of his Men by the English into Spain The Forces under the Earl of Marleborough possessed themselves of this Town Octob. 2. 1690 the next day they took the Old Fort by Storm the Governor for King James II. with several other Officers being slain upon the Ramparts On the seventeenth following the New Fort surrendered upon Articles and the Garrison of about 1200 Men marched out with their Arms and Baggage to be conducted to Limerick Kintzig Kintia a small River in Schwaben in Germany which ariseth in the Dukedom of Wirtemberg in the Black Forest and running South-West through the Territory of Ortnaw it watereth Wolsach Hussen and Offenburgh then falls into the Rhine at Strasburgh four Miles South-West of Baden Kiovia Kiow a City of Poland seated upon the Nieper in the Vkrayne which is the Capital of a County or Palatinate of the same Name and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Lemburgh having still a very strong Castle The Ruins of its Walls shew that it was once a great and a magnificent City containing eight miles in circuit which appears also from the Cathedral Church Towards the North it is yet full of People but what lies to the South and West has only a Timber Fence This City was built by Kio a Russian Prince in the Year 861. After this it was the Capital of Russia in which it stands which then had Princes of its own And at last it was taken by the Poles In 1615 it was taken and burnt by the Tartars and could never since recover that loss Within these thirty years last past it has suffered very much from the Cossacks and Moscovites In 1651 the Poles took it from the Cossacks but they having afterwards recovered it mortgaged it to the Moscovites who are in that Right still possessed of it It s Long. is 61. 20. Lat. 50. 51. This City is called by the Poles Kiouf or Kioff and lies forty Polish Miles from the Borders of Moscovy to the West seventy from Caminieck to the North-East and an hundred from Warsaw to the East § The Palatinate of Kiovia is called Volhinia Inferior and also the Vkrayne it is a part of Red Russia and lies on both sides of the River Nieper between Moscovy the Desarts of the Lesser Tartary Volhinia Superior the Palatinate of Barlaw and the Tartars of Orzakow In 1686 this was yielded to the Russ to engage them in an Alliance with the Poles against the Crim Tartars Kiri Drinus See Drino Kirkby or Kirby Lonsdale a Market Town in the County of Westmorland The Capital of its Ward upon the Banks of the River Lon in a rich and pleasant vale called Lonsdale large well built and populous having a fair Church and Stone-bridge over the said River The Name signifies the Church in the dale or Valley of Lon. § Kirkby Moreside a Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Ridal upon a small River which after some course falls with others into the Derwent § Kirkby Stephens a Market Town in the County of Westmorland in East Ward near the skirts of the Hills which sever Cumberland from Yorkshire It has a fair Church and the Lord Wharton a Seat near it called Wharton-Hall Kirkham a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Amounderness near the mouth of the River Rible Kirkton a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the division of Holland and the Hundred of Corringham adorned with a fair Church built Cathedral wise in the form of a Cross with a broad Steeple in the midst It stands upon a rising sandy ground Kirkwall Carcoviaca the principal Town in the Isles of Orkney which has a Castle and a large Haven It is seated upon the Island called Mainland on the North Side of the Island but towards the Eastern End and is in subjection to the King of Scotland the Seat of the Bishop of the Northern Isles Kisdarnoczi Claudius a Mountain between Stiria to the West and the Lower Hungary to the East which has various Names given by various Nations Klagenfurt or Clagenfurt Claudia Claudivium a City of Carinthia Dr. Brown in his Travels saith it is a fair four-square Town inclosed with a handsom Wall the Rampart is very broad at each Corner there is a Bastion and one in the middle of each Curtain the Streets straight and uniform as well as the Works There is a very fair Piazza or Square in the middle which was thus adorned by the Lutherans whilst they held this place who also erected the Noble Fountain in the Piazza the Figure of which is represented by this Author This is the Capital of Stiria at this day and lies upon a small River a Mile and half N. from the Drave thirty one from Vienna to the South-West and seventeen from Aquileja to the North East Kleckgow Eremus Helvetiorum a small Tract by the River Rhine between Scaphuis to the East and the Canton of Vnderwaldt to the West in Schwaben in Germany but on the very Borders of Switzerland Klein Glogaw Glogavia Minor See Glogaw Klogher an Episcopal City in the Province of Vlster in Ireland and the County of Monagham Knapdaile Knapdalia a County in the North of Scotland between Argile separated by an Arm of the Sea to the East the Isle of Jurai to the West Cantyr to the South Domin and Lorn to the North. Kilmore is the chief Town in it Knaresborough a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Claro which elects two Members of the House of Commons It a Castle upon a Rock and a Well says Mr. Speed which petrifies Wood. Knaringen Grinario a Roman Town in Schwaben in the Marquisate of Burgaw upon the River Carnlach a Mile from Burgaw to the West and four from Vlm to the same quarter Knighton a Market Town in the County of Radnor in Wales the Capital of its Hundred Knin Arduba a City of Dalmatia Knockfergus Carrickfergus Rupes Fergusii a City in the County of Antrym in the Province of Vlster on the British Sea over against the Isle of Man seated on the North Side of a fine Bay which affords it the Convenience of a large safe Haven This Bay is called by Ptolemy Vinderius at present the Bay of Fergus from a King of these parts who is said to have led the Scots out of Ireland into Scotland and afterwards to have been drowned here This City is more populous rich and frequented than any other in this part of
and Conflans upon it stands Luxevil which is about six Leagues from Langres to the East Lantriguet See Treguier Lanzano See Lanciano Lanzerote or Lanzarotta Pluitalia one of the Azores or Canary Islands which lies in Long. 4. Lat. 27. 40. The Kingdom of Lao or Laos in the East Indies is bounded by the Kingdoms of Tunquin to the East Cambaia to the South Siam and Pegu to the West and Ava to the North. Of great strength against Invasion from the Mountains surrounding it Fruitful temperate and very healthful under a King heretofore tributary to China but now absolute who receives the Tributes of divers petty Kings as their Soveraign It is divided into seven great Provinces governed by Viceroys and watered by the Mother of Rivers as they call it the River Lao which springing from about the high Mountains of the Province of Junnan upon the Frontiers of China divides into two great Rivers some Leagues from Lao whereof one passes West by Pegu to the Gulph of Bengale the other expands it self in divers Branches throughout all Lao cutting the same in two from North to South The Capital City is Langione in 18 deg of Lat. The King of Tonquin attempted not long ago to unite this Kingdom with his own but not with success It has been a Kingdom since the year 600 before which it was a sort of a Republick and before that a Member of the Kingdom of China Laodicea See Eskihisar Laudichia and Lyche Laon Laudunum Lugdunum Clavatum a City in Picardy in France which is commonly pronounced Lan. It is great and very well fortified and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Rheims Baudrand placeth it in the Isle of France on a high Hill but in the borders of Picardy of which he saith it was once a part ten Miles from Rheims to the North-West and twenty eight from Paris to the North-East The Bishop is always one of the twelve Peers of France and a Duke The Diocese belonging to this City is called Laonnois or Lannois It is bounded on the North with Tierache a part of Picardy on the East by Champagne and on the South and West with Soissonne it takes this name from the principal City Some French Synods have been assembled here Lapord Lapurd Labord more commonly called Bayonne See Bayonne Lapathios Lapithus a City at the North end of the Isle of Cyprus which is yet a Bishop's See and retains the Greek Rites It is very ancient and called Lapethos by Pliny and Lapatho by Strabo Lapithae an antient People of Thessalia dwelling in the Country about Larissa and the Mountain Olympus Ovid styles them Sylvestres Virgil ascribes to them the Invention of Bridles Lapland Lapponia Lappia called by the Inhabitants Lapmarck by the Swedes Sabmienladti by the Germans Laplandt by the Moscovites Loppi and by the French Laponie It is the most Northern part of Scandinavia first mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus about the year of Christ 1190. Bounded on the North with the Frozen Sea or the North Ocean on the West with the Kingdom of Norway on the South with Bothnia and Finia two Provinces of Sweden and on the East by the White Sea It was heretofore divided into three Kingdoms and is now at this day divided between three Princes the Emperor of Moscovy the King of Sweden and the King of Denmark of which the King of Sweden has the greatest share Johannes Schefferus lately put out a very exact Account of these Countries towards the North and East it is extreamly Mountainous and barren but the South is more level and well watered with Rivers and Lakes There have been not long since found in it Mines of Brass Iron Silver and Lead besides divers sorts of precious Stones As this is one of the Hyberborean People who are buried the greatest part of the year in Snow and Darkness so they are extreamly Rude Ignorant Poor and Barbarous so fearful that they will start and be in a fright at the noise of a Leaf infamous for Witchcraft and Conjurations yet Christians in Profession and so revengeful that they will throw themselves sometimes into a River to perish willingly with one they hate in their Arms if they can but so destroy him The more Northern are the most barbarous Lar Laria a great and magnificent City in that Province of the Kingdom of Persia which gives name to a Kingdom seated in the Confines of Caramania upon the River Tisindon a hundred and seventy Miles from Ormus to the North-East but in the later Maps it is placed only forty German Miles from Ormus and on the West side of the River Monsieur Thevenot gives a large Account of this Town in the second part of his Travels cap 4. to whom I refer the Reader It lies Long. 93. 40. Lat. 27. 40. Mr. Herbert saith it consisted of about two thousand Houses and had had five but lost three thousand in an Earthquake It is as he saith famous for nothing but its Castle built at the North-end on an aspiring Mountain and stored with the Cannon brought from Ormus § The Kingdom of Lar took its name from the last mentioned City lying near Ormus and the entrance of the Persian Gulph Schah Abbas King of Persia annexed this to the rest of his Dominions in the end of the last Century viz. in 1596. by a Conquest of the Guebres who were before Masters of it and were Governed by a Prince of their own stiled King of Lar the last of which was slain by the Persians with all his Progeny to secure this barren and poor Kingdom to the King of Persia The Water of this Kingdom is extream bad and unhealthful as both Herbert and Thevenot agree the Soil barren and sandy and they both say also that in this Kingdom there are a vast number of Jews But Mr. Herbert saith That there is neither River nor Rivolet near the City of Lar by a hundred Miles and Thevenot they had nothing but Cistern-Water to drink which was subject to Corruption which seems to confirm Mr. Herbert's Report See Herbert pag. 52. Thevenot Part. 2. pag. 131. § Ptolemy mentions an Arabian River Lar Now called Om. See Om. Larache L'Haris or Arays Lixa a Town in the Kingdom of Fez in Africa in the Province of Asgar at the mouth of a River of its own name call'd by Castaldus Lusso by the Italians Fieume di Larach in Silius Italicus Lixus towards the Atlantick Ocean between Cape Spartel and Mamera taken from the Spaniards by the Moors in November 1689. after a Siege of three months mutually asserted and resisted with extraordinary Bravery Larad or Lara a Town in Old Castile in Spain upon the River Arlanza at the foot of the Mountains remakable in the Spanish History for giving name to the Family de Lara which once had seven Sons all Knighted in a day Laranda a City of Cappadocia called by the same name it now has by Ptolemy and Strabo It is a Bishop's See under the
River Rhosne between Switzerland to the North and Savoy to the South Called by those who live near it the Lake of Geneva by the Germans das Genfferzee by the Italians illago di Genevra extending from East to West about nine German Miles and about two over where it is broadest the Rhosne enters it at Noville and goes out at Geneva in the most Western end of it It is surrounded with good Towns the principal next Geneva is Lausanne on the North by the name of which this Lake is somtime called Lemburgh Luwow Leopolis a great and populous City of the Kingdom of Poland the Capital of Red Russia which was made an Archbishops See instead of Halitz or Haliotz in 1361. by Pope Vrban V. It stands amongst the Hills upon the River Peltew which with the Bug falls into the Vistula a little above Ploczko and is very strong being walled and fortified with two Castles one within the City the other without It was built by Leo Duke of Russia who flourished about 1280. In 1648 belleged by Chieilneck General of the Cossacks without any success In 1672. the Turks took it and soon lost it for in 1673. Michael King of Poland died in it This City stands fifteen Miles from Premislia to the East a little less from the Carpathian Hills to the North and about fifty from Warsaw to the South-East Lemgow Lemgovia a small City in the Circle of Westphalia in the County of Lippe which was once a Free Imperial City but now exempt and under the Count of Lippe It stands upon the River Begh five Miles from Minden to the North and Paderborne to the South and nine from Lippestad to the North-East Lemington a Market Town in the County of Southampton and the Hundred of Christ Church by the Seaside § There is another Lemington a Parish in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Knightlow remarkable for two Springs within few Foot of each other the one Fresh the other Salt yet at a great distance from the Ocean and of different Operations Lemnos an Island in the Archipelago See Staliment Lemâ—ta a Town and Desart in Libya now Zaara in Africa Lencicia or Lanscher Lancicia Lancicium a City of Poland the Capital of a Palatinate called by the Poles Lenczyc from this City which they call Lenczyckie It lies in the Greater Poland in a Marshy Ground upon the River Bsura not above ten Miles from the River Warte the same distance from Gnesna to the East and thirty from Warsaw to the West There belongs to it a Castle built on a Rock and in 1656. this City suffered much by Fire Divers Polish Councils have been Celebrated at it Lendrosia one of the Islands on the West of Scotland Lenham a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath at the Spring of the River Stewer Lenox Lenoxia Levinia a County in the North of Scotland through which the River and Lake of Lomond passeth on the East it hath the County of Menteith on the South Cunningham cut off by Dunbriton Fyrth on the West Argile and on the North Albania This County has the Honor of being a Dukedom which Title has been born by several of the Royal Line of Scotland The principal Town in it is Dunbritown Lens Lentium Lendum Lenense Castrum Nemetacum a small Town in Artois upon the River Souchets three Leagues from Arras to the North and four from Doway to the West The French besieged this small place in 1647. but by the loss of their General le Gasse slain by a shot whilst he was plucking at a Palisadoe they were forced to leave it near this place the French gave the Spaniards a great overthrow in 1648. and after possessed themselves of it to whom the Pyrenaean Treaty confirmed it in 1659. The Town has been fortified but was some years since slighted and dismantled Lentini Leontina a very ancient City in the Isle of Sicily in the Valley of Netina on the Eastern Shoar Heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Syracuse whilst Syracuse was the Metropolis of the Island under the Greek Emperors It is now pretty considerable and populous but very confusedly built A place of greater Antiquity than Syracuse and perhaps than any other City now in the Island It stands five Miles from the Sea to the West and ten from Catania to the South-West Lenza Nicia a River of Italy which springing from the Apennine runneth North and parteth the Dukedom of Parma from that of Modena then falls into the Po at Barsello eight Miles from Parma to the North. Leominster or Lemster a Market and Borough Town in Herefordshire in the Hundred of Wolphey upon the River Lug of chief Note for fine Wheat Flower and Wooll Leon Legio Germanica Sublanco a City of Spain in the Astures built in the Reign of Nerva the Emperor It is now called by the Inhabitants Leon or Leone a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Compostella so far exempted that he acknowledgeth no Metropolitan but the Pope and the Capital of the Kingdom of Leon ever since 658. It stands at the bottom of an Hill by the Fountains of the River Esla very great but not much peopled twelve Miles from the Ocean to the South and twenty one from Valedolid to the North-West It was Recovered from the Moors in 722. and is adorned with one of the most beautiful Cathedrals in Spain § There is another City in New Spain in America called Leon by the Spaniards and Nagarando by the Natives which being the Capital of Nicaragua the Province in which it stands is sometimes called Leon de Nicaragua This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico by a Lake of the same name about 12 Leagues from the Shoars of the Pacifick Ocean and 18 from New Granada to the East The Kingdom of Leon and Oviedo Legionense Regnum hath on the East the County of Biscay on the North the main Cantabrian Ocean on the South Castile and on the West Gallicia It has its name from Leon and Oviedo the two chief Cities in it This is the most ancient Kingdom in Spain and began about 717. being more anciently called Asturia from the Astures an old People who possessed it It is mountainous and full of Woods divided in two by the River Duero about fifty five Leagues long from North to South and forty broad Augustus Caesar was the first Roman that conquered it The Goths after five hundred years free possession of it outed the Romans and after four hundred more the Saracens did as much for the Goths but they the Saracens did not long enjoy it this being the first Kingdom the Christians recovered from them under the Command of Pelagius a young Prince of this Nation about 717. It continued a separate Kingdom under twenty nine Princes till in 1228. Ferdin III. annexed it to Castile he being married to Berenguela second Sister of Henry King of Castile tho in prejudice of Blanch the eldest Sister married to
is very strongly fortified and has a Castle on a Hill upon the River Eger in the Confines of Misnia four Miles from Eger or Heb another City of Bohemia to the East eighteen from Prague and as many from Dresden Lomaigne Leomania a Tract or Country in Aquitain or Gascony the principal Town of which is Vi◠de Lomaigne it lies between the County of Armagnac Verdun and the Garonne by which it is parted from the County of Agenois Loman a River in Devonshire which falls into the Ex by Tiverton in that County Lombardy Lombardia Longobardia is a considerable Country in the North of Italy under which is contained the greatest part of Gallia Cisalpina It is divided into two the Higher and the Lower Lombardy In the Higher are Piedmont with what is annexed to it the Dukedoms of Milan and Montisferat in the Lower are the Dukedoms of Mantua Modena and Parma with the Western parts of the State of Venice viz. The Territories of Bergamo Brescia Cremona Verona and Vicenza also the Dukedoms of Ferrara with the Territory of Bononia or Bologna which are in the States of the Church and now under the Pope The Italians also divide it into Lombardia di qua dal Po and Lombardia di la dal Po i. e. Lombardy on each side the Po. This was that Kingdom of the Lombards Langobardi or Longobardi in Italy which Charles the Great ruined after he had at Pavie taken Desiderius their last King Prisoner The principal City of this Kingdom was Milan This Kingdom was erected in 578. Isaacson placeth its beginning in 393. with whom Helvicus agrees Agelmond being their first King before whom they had Dukes it continued so under eleven Princes that is in Pannonia or Hungary not in Italy They came into Italy in 568. And their Kingdom continued there under twenty one Princes till 774 when Carlous Magnus Dethroned as was said In all two hundred and six Years Lombez Lombaria or Lumbaria a small City in Aquitain in France in the County of Cominges upon the River Sava which falls into the Garonne four Miles beneath Tolose Lombes stands five Leagues from the Garonne to the North eight from Aux to the South-East and ten from Tolose to the South-West Made a Bishops See by Pope John XXII who at the same time erected its ancient Abbey into a Cathedral under the Archbishop of Tolose in 1317. But little and not well inhabited The Albigenses were excommunicated in a Council here Lombura the Indus Lomond and Lough Lomond Lomandus is a great Lake in the South of Scotland in the County of Lenox between Menteith to the East and Argile to the West In length from North to South twenty Miles ten in breadth from East to West in some places in others three and four It is only four Miles from Dunbritown to the North and a little more from its Fyrth the River Levin empties it into the Fyrth There is in it sixteen small Islands Lon Lone or Lunne a River of Lancashire upon which Lancaster and Hornby are situated and Kirkby Lonsdale in the County of Westmorland It ends in the Irish Sea London Londinum Augusta Trinobantum the Capital City of the Kingdom of England or rather three Cities united into one Its length from East to West from Lime-house to the further end of Mill-bank in Westminster coming to 7500 Geometrical paces i. e. seven measured Miles and an half at a thousand paces a Mile Its breadth from the further end of Whitechappel-street to St. George's Fields in Southwark near three Miles It is first mentioned by Tacitus afterwards by Ammianus Marcellinus who calls it Augusta Stephanus de Vrbibus Lindonium Bede and Sigebert call it Lindona the English London the Saxons Lundain the French Londres the Germans Londen and the Italians Londra It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury seated in the County of Middlesex upon the Thames a noble navigable River over which it has a Bridge of nineteen Arches built with Houses on both sides and of late enlarged as to the Passage This is also the Royal City the Seat of the Kings of England and has been so for many years Therefore called the King of Englands Chamber It is situate in a rich and plentiful Soil abounding with plenty of all things and on the gentle ascent of an Hill on the North Side of the Thames By whom or when it was first built is now unknown Tacitus saith that in Nero's time about the Year of Christ 66 it was Copia Negotiatorum Commeatu maximè celebre A place of great resort for Commerce and famous for plenty of provisions But London was then near a great Calamity for Boadicia Queen of the Iceni being provoked by the Injuries of the Romans to assemble the Britains fell first upon Camalodunum now Maldon in Essex and taking it by surprize that year put all the Romans to the Sword Petilius Cerealis coming up with the ninth Legion was defeated and all his Foot put to the Sword too the Horse hardly escaping In the Interim Suetonius the Roman Propraetor or Governor who was then conquering the Isle of Anglesey comes up to London and was at first almost resolved to make it the Seat of War but finding reasons to alter this Resolve he marched away to S. Albans so Boadicia who was not far off came up and put all She found in the Town to the Sword and soon after treats S. Albans in the same manner in which three places She destroyed seventy thousand Romans and their Allies This City soon recovered this Blow and was afterward as famous as ever In the Year of Christ 292 it was in danger of being Sack'd by the Franks if an unexpected Arrival of some Roman Forces had not accidentally preserved it even when the Franks were actually in Possession of it Soon after this Constantine the Great is said to have Walled it In 313 we find Restitutus Bishop of London at the Council of Arles in France subscribing after Eborius Bishop of York Bede is very positive that it was then an Archbishops See Mr. Cambden is of opinion it was delivered up to the Saxons under Hengist their first King by Vortigern about the Year of Christ 463. Tho this changed the state of things and ruined Christianity yet London continued in all this Storm a considerable Mart or Sea-Port in 610. S. Paul's Church was built or rather rebuilt and assigned to the Uses of Christianity by Athelbert King of Kent Miletus was made the first Bishop of London after the Conversion of the Saxons in 604 the Metropolitick See being removed by Augustin the Monk then from London to Canterbury About the Year 701 Offa King of the East-Angles enlarged and endowed the Church of Westminster which is since become another City joined to London In the Year 854 this City fell into the Hands of the Danes who Sacked it and Canterbury coming then with a Fleet of two hundred and fifty Ships In 1012
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
a Dukedom but now under the Turks The Maps call it Nixia The Ancients dedicated it to Bacchus for the excellency of its Wines to whom they built a Temple of Marble which also abounds in this Island upon a Rock very near the Shoar joyned by a Stone-Bridge to it the Foundations whereof and a Gate about thirty Foot high and fifteen broad remain to be seen to this day The Venetians enjoyed it from the year 1210. to 1516. when Selim I. made himself the Master of it It pays six thousand Piasters Tribute to the Turk There are divers Monasteries of the Greeks and Latins They find of your Emrods in this Island But there is no Port or Harbour in any part of its Coasts Naxio Acone a Port in Bithynia in the Lesser Asia upon the Euxine Sea which was the Port to Heraclea Pontica and stands upon a River called Acone of old Nazareth A City of Galilee in Judea in the Tribe of Zabulon thirty Leagues distant from Jerusalem to the South upon the ascent of a Mountain The same in which Joseph with the young Child and his Mother dwelt after their return from Egypt Matth. 2. 21 23. It is said the Virgin here in the House of Joachim and Anne her Parents conceived by the Operation of the Power of the Highest and that she her self also either was born or was conceived in the same place Helena the Mother of Constantine the Great built a stately Church in Nazareth in Commemoration of these Passages which the Christian Kings of Jerusalem after the Conquest in 1099. erected into an Archiepiscopal See and adorned with a Chapter of Canons But this Edifice was so defaced in 1291. by the Sultan of Egypt who retook the Holy Land and exterminated the Christians thence that now only some Ruins remain to be seen of it And for what became of the miraculous Chamber of the Virgin see Loretto At this time the Franciscans have a Monastery and a Church at Nazareth which Pilgrims visit you are shown the rests of the Synagogue in which our Saviour explicated the Passage of Isaiah concerning himself together with the place where Joseph kept his Shop to whom in the Chappel there is an Altar dedicated and another to Anne his Spouse But Nazareth is a poor Village There is a Titular Archbishop continued by the See of Rome at the City Barletta in Apulia Peucetia in Italy and the Title particularly was born by Pope Vrban VIII before his Elevation to the Pontificate The Turks call all Christians Nazarenes from this place as Christ himself Matth. 2. 23. was called Nazianze an ancient City of Cappadocia in the Lesser Asia and an Episcopal See heretofore under the Archbishop of Cesarea which had the Honour to be farther advanced to an Archiepiscopal one under the Patriarch of Antioch This was the Birth place of Gregorius Nazianzenus whose Father had been the Bishop here Neath a Market Town in Glamorganshire in â—ales the Capital of its Hundred Neaugh Neaugus a very great Lake in the Province of Vlster in Ireland Nebio Nebium Censunum a ruined Episcopal City in the Island of Corsica The See was a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Genoua It stood about the place where the Town Rosoli now is Nebrisso or Lebrixo a Town in the Kingdom of Andaluzia in Spain betwixt Sevill and the Mouth of the River Guadalquivir mentioned by Pliny and Ptolemy Necastro Neocastrum a small City in the Further Calabria almost ruined by an Earthquake in 1638. Necker or Neckar Nicer Neccarus Neccanus Nicerus a River of Schwaben in Germany which ariseth in Swartzwalt scarce seven Miles from the Fountains of the Danube and passing Rotweil it entereth the Dukedom of Wirtemberg watereth Elsing and Hailbrun and so passing by Heydelburgh in the Palatinate falls into the Rhine Necropolis an ancient City of the Kingdom of Egypt four Miles from Alexandria where Cleopatra poisoned her self with Asps Neda Nedina a River of Arcadia in the Morea Nedham Point a Fortess in the Barbadoes which sustained an Attack of four hours continuance made upon it by De Ruyter the Dutch Admiral sent with a Squadron of Ships to conquer this Island in 1665. but was repelled Needham a Market Town in the County of Suffolk and the Hundred of Bosmere which drives a Trade in Blew and Broad Cloaths for Russia Turkey and other Foreign Parts Neers Nabalia a River of Germany which aariseth in Juliers twelve Miles from Juliers and flowing through the Bishoprick of Cologne and Gelderland by the Castles of Gelders a little below Genep falls into the Maes three Leagues above Nimeguen to the South Negapatan a City of Coromandel in the Hither East Indies now under the Dutch formerly under the Portuguese Negombo a Town in the Island of Zeilan in the East-Indies in the Possession of the Hollanders Negrepelisse a small Town in the County of Quercy in Guienne in France upon the River Aveirou betwixt Bourniquet and Albias two or three Leagues from Montauban Lewis XIII sent a Garrison of four thousand Men hither in 1621. who were in one night massacred by the Inhabitants during the Civil Wars of Religion Therefore in 1622. the said King besieged it and taking it it was laid in Blood and Ashes by the Fire and Sword of the Conquerors Negro Tanager a River in the Kingdom of Naples it ariseth near a Lake of the same Name in the Borders of the Basilicate but in the hither Principate thirteen Miles from Policastro to the East at the Foot of the Apennine And flowing North watereth Atena and after it has buried it self for four Miles under ground comes up again then falls into the Bay of Amalfi near Cappachio twenty Miles from Salerno to the South Negropont Euboea an Island in the Archipelago of old called by the Poets Chalcis and Abantis now by the Turks Egriponte or Egribos and sometimes Euriponte because the Wonder of the fam'd Euripus by the natural situation of the Rocks the Promontories the Channel c. is made here It lies upon the North of Achaia or Livadia being separated from it by a narrow Channel one hundred and twenty Miles from East to West thirty broad three hundred in circuit joyned to the Continent by a Bridge of Stone built by the Venetians It is extraordinary fruitful but little inhabited The principal Town was called formerly Chalcis now Negropont and stands on the South Side of the Island at one end of the Bridge its Walls are two Miles in compass None but Jews and Turks are suffered to reside within those the Christians dwell altogether in the Suburbs the whole of which may be about five thousand exceeding far in number the other and amongst these the Jesuits have a College There are four Mosques in the Town of which the principal hath been a Cathedral Church dedicated to S. Mark and the Seat not only of a Bishop under the Archbishop of Athens but of an Archbishop The Town is separated from the Suburbs by a
fortified after the modern way and hath a Castle upon a Rock The Religion professed is the Augustane Confession The Government democratical in the likeness of the Customs of Lubeck Long. 48. 30. Lat. 50. 25. In others Lat. 60. 07. § Revel a Town in the Vpper Languedoc in France in the Diocese of Lavaur called anciently Bastida Vauri and Rebellus by K. Philip le Bel who caused it to be Walled Reutlingen Reutlinga a small City in the Province of Schwaben in Germany within the Borders of the Dukedom of Wirtemburgh made an Imperial Free Town in 1215 or as others say in 1240. It is of a square Form built in a Plain upon the River Echeâ—z which a League beneath it falls into the Necker at the Foot of Mount Alchameck one Mile from Stutgard ten from Vlm and five from Tubinghen Under the Protection of the Duke of Wirtemburgh Reux Rodium a Town in Hainault two Leagues from Monts to the East Reygate a large Market and Borough Town in the County of Surrey It stands in the Vale or Dale called Holmes Dale where Fullers Earth is digged up in abundance Showing the ruins of an ancient Castle and under ground a long Vault with a spacious room at the end of it said to be the secret Chamber in which the Barons met in Council in their War against K. John The Danes fought several unsuccessful Battels near this Town It is the Capital of its Hundred and a Corporation represented in the Lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses Reyme the present Name of Capernaum in Palestine Los Reyos See Lima. Rezan the Capital City of a Dukedom in Moscovy which was heretofore a Sovereign Principality of great extent It stands thirty six Miles from Mosco to the South-East and twelve from the Fountains of the Tanais arising within this Dukedom It is an Episcopal City The Province of Rezan lies between the Don and Occa having on the West Moscovy which is divided from it by the River Aka It is the most fruitful Province in this Kingdom besides the chief City which lies upon the Occa it has Corsira and Tulla upon a River of the same Name Olearius Rha. See Wolga Rhade Rhaeda an inland City of Arabia Foelix Long. 83. 20. Lat. 14. 15. Rhaiadergwy a Market Town in the County of Radnor in Wales The Capital of its Hundred Rhamnus an ancient Town of Attica in Greece Famous in its time for a Temple dedicated to the Goddess Nemesis and an admirable Statue therein of her made either by Phidias or Agoracritus a Scholar to Phidias She therefore gained the Title of Rhamnusâ—a Rheine Rhenus a vast River in Germany which is one of the greatest in Europe Called by the Germans das Rhyn by the French le Rheine by the Poles Rhen and by the Spaniard Rhin Next the Danube the greatest River in Germany It springeth out of the Alpes in the Western Borders of Switzerland and the Northern of the Grisons near the Fountains of the Rhosne the Aar and the Tesino from two Fountains the Northern of which is called Vorder Rhyn the Further Rheine the Southern Hinder Rhyn and lies more South These being united into one Stream near Chur it passeth into the Lake of Constance and separating Schwaben from Switzerland watereth Constance and Schafhausen then taking in the Aar it passeth to Basil and between Alsatia and Brisgow by a Northern Course it runs to Newburgh Brisach and Strasbourgh then taking in the Ill it watereth Stolhoffen Philipsburgh and Spire beneath which it admits the Necker at Manheim and so proceeds to Wormes and Oppenheim At Ments it is covered by a Bridge of Boats and beneath it takes the Mayne a great River so by Ingelheim hasteth to Trier beneath which the Lohn and the Moselle come in at Coblentz where there is another Bridge of Boats so dividing the Dukedom of Monts from the Bishoprick of Cologne it watereth Bonne Cologne and Duseldorp at Duisdrop in the Dukedom of Cleves the Roure at Wesel the Lippe comes in to augment his Stream soon after in Guelderland this Torrent grows too great for one Channel and divides into two Branches and forms the Island of Schenken The lest or Southern Branch is called the Wael which by Nimeguen and Bommel goes to Worcum above which the Maez out of Brabant comes in at Dort it divides again and forms the Isle of Yssel The Northern Branch goes by Arnhem Vtrecht and Newport to Roterdam and Vlaerding where it unites with the Southern Branch and both fall into the British Sea by the Briel Above Arnhem there is another Branch derived from the North Branch of the first Division which by Doesburg Zutphan Deventer Hatten and Campen falls into the Zuyder Sea this last Branch is called by the Dutch the Yssel There can be nothing greater said of this River than that it was for many Ages the Boundary of the Roman Empire Rheineberg or Rhimbâ—rg Rhenoberga a City in the Bishoprick of Cologne in the Borders of the Dukedom of Cleves upon the Rhine which is little but very strong Taken from the Spaniards by the Hollanders in 1633 and continued under them till 1672 when it was taken by the French and restored to the Elector of Cologne the proper Owner It stands two German Miles from Wesel to the South and three from Guelders to the East Rheinfelden or Rheinsfeld is a small but strong City of Germany in the Province of Schwaben which has a Bridge upon the Rheine under the House of Austria It lies about two Miles above Basil to the East Often taken in the Swedish War and suffered very much in 1678 by the French Once a Free Imperial City but in 1410. granted by Lewis of Bavaria to the Archduke of Austria Also the more famous for a Defeat of the Imperialists and the taking of John de Wert by the Duke Bernard Waymor in 1638. Rheinsfeld a strong Castle upon the Rheine above S. Gewer in the County of Caltimeliboch under the Landtgrave of Hesse Built by one Dieter a Count of this Country in 1245 between Coblentz to the North and Bingen to the South in the Borders of the Bishoprick of Trier Rhene Rhenia Rhenica Rhenis one of the Islands called plurally 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Greeks and by Mariners corruptly Sdille See Delos At a distance it seems to make one Island with Delos in the Aegean Sea amongst the Cyclades Retimo Rhetimo Rhitymna a City in the Isle of Candy or Creet mentioned by Ptolemy and called at this day by the Greeks Rytimni It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Candia has a large Harbor at the North end of the Island and now strongly fortified Taken from the Venetians by the Turks in 1646 under whom it is now also the Capital of a County of the same name in that Island Rhiphaei Montes the Mountains in the Province of Petzorcke in the North of Moscovy running towards Obdora and the River Oby upon the Borders
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
County of Vallesia S. Neots or S. Needs a Market Town in the County of Huntingd. in the Hundred of Toseland Deriving its Name from a learned Monk of Glastenbury called Neotus whose Body being translated hither from S. Neots or Neotstoke in Cornwall the Palace of Earl Elfride in this Town was in honour thereof converted into a Monastery S. Nicolas Fanum Sancti Nicolai a pleasant Town upon the Meurte in Lorain two Leagues above Nancy to the South much addicted to the Honour of S. Nicolas Bishop of Myra whose Reliques it reserves § There is another Town of the same Name in Flanders three Miles from Antwerp toward Gant from which it stands five Miles S. Nicolas a City of Moscovy upon the White Sea on the Western Shoar of the River Dwina over against Archangel from which it stands ten German Miles to the North-West A Place of so considerable a Trade that the White Sea is from it frequently called the Bay of S. Nicolas into which the Dwina falls S. Omers Audomarensis Vrbs a City in Artois heretofore called the Abbey of Sithieu upon the River Aa which beneath Gravelin falls into the British Sea eight Miles from Bologne to the East three from Arras to the North six from Dunkirk to the South-East and five from Gravelin to the East It has this Name from Audomarus a holy Bishop who died here in 695. Made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cambray in 1559. in the stead of Terouanne a ruined City which stands three Miles from it to the North. Fulco Abbot of S. Bartin began to wall it about the year 880. Baldwin II. Earl of Flanders perfected that Work in 902 There was a Council held here in 1099 under Robert Earl of Flanders and another in 1583. About 1595 Philip II. King of Spain sounded here a College for English Jesuits to which he gave a good Annuity That House has since purchased Watton Cloister a pleasant Place belonging before to the Benedictines two Leagues from S. Omers which is worth five hundred pounds a year In 1639 the French besieged this Place without any good success But in 1677 the Spanish Forces being much weakened after the Battel of Cassel they took it and by the Treaty of Nimeguen in 1678 it was yielded to them Long. 23. 22. Lat. 50. 47. It is a handsome large City strongly sortified near a great Lake with the River and a Marsh on one side of it and a Castle and Fosses on the other S. Palais Fanum S. Palatii the capital Town of the Lower Navarre under the French situated upon the River Bidoussâ— near Grammont S. Papoul Fanum Papuli a small City in Languedoc which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tolouse by the Institution of Pope John XXII who changed its antient Monastery that had been sounded about the end of the eighteenth Contury into a Cathedral in the year 1317. Five Leagues from Carcassone to the south-South-West and nine from Tolouse S. Paul de Leon. See Leon or Leondoul S. Paul de Trois Chasteaux Augusta Tricastinorum Sancti Pauli Tricastinorum Civitas an ancient City ascribed by Pliny to Gallia Narbonensis now in the Dauphine and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Arles but formerly of Vienne It is a flourishing Town built upon an advanced Cliff one Mile from the Rhosne four from Montelimart to the South and from Oranges to the North. The Huguenots had the possession of it near fifty years in the last Age till 1599. It is the Capital of the Territory called Tricastin which preserves the name of the antient People Tricastini mentioned by Ptolemy S. Pierre le Moutier Monasterium Sancti Petri a Town in the Province of Nivernois in which the Law-Courts of that Province are fixed It stands between Nevers to the North and Moulins to the South seven Leagues from either S. Pons de Tomiers Tomeria or Pontiopolis Sancti Pontii Tomeriarum Vrbs a City of Languedoc which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Narbonne from whence it stands eight Leagues to the North and a little more from Alby to the North-West It is a small City seated amongst the Mountains not much peopled and honored with this Bishops See by Pope John XXII in 1318 who at the same time changed its Benedictine Abbey that had been founded in the year 936. by Raymond sirnamed Pons Pontius Earl of Tolouse into a Cathedral The Bishop is Lord of the Place S. Quintin Augusta Nova Veromanduorum Quinctinopolis Samarobrina Quintini Fanum a City of Picardy upon the River Somme or rather between it and the Oyse which sprung out of a Roman Town called Augusta Nova c. two Miles from this Place It stands six Leagues from Peronne to the North-East and seven from Cambray to the South Taken by the Spaniards in 1557 after a great Defeat of the French Forces upon S. Quintin's day Aug. 10 and restored by the Treaty of Cambray in 1559. The French sometimes write it S. Quentin It is the Capital of the County of Vermandois in Picardy hath been honoured with the Sessions of French Synods in the yeares 1235. 1237. and 1271. and now contains divers Monasteries and Churches besides a Collegiate Church S. Semi a small Town in Provence four Leagues from Arles adorned with a Collegiate Church of the Foundation of Pope John XXII about the year 1330. It s antient Name was Glanum There are Urns Medals and Inscriptions frequently discovered here which prove its Antiquity And near it a triumphal Arch with a stately Mausoleum illustrated with Trophies is observed with admiration S. Semo Fanum S. Remuli or Remigii a Sea-Town upon the Coasts of Genoua in Italy in a fruitful Country for Oranges Citrons and Olives Santa Saba so called by the Italians or the Province of Arcegovina lies between Dalmatia Bossinia and the Quarter of Montenegro seventy Miles long thirty broad inhabited by about fifty thousand Families of which the Turks make not the tenth part Castlenovo stands in this Province The Inhabitants were very forward to put themselves under the Protection of the Venetians in 1688. S. Salvador Soteropolis the Capital City of the Kingdom of Congo in Africa seated one hundred and forty Miles to the East from the Ocean and sixty from the River Zaire to the South The Inhabitants call it Banza but the devout Portuguese gave it this Name S. Salvador Soteropolis a City in South America which is the Capital of Brasil an Archbishops See the Seat of the Vice-Roy and of the Courts of Justice for that Kingdom It stands on the Eastern Shoar of Brasil has a capacious Harbor on the Ocean strongly fortified and defended by three Forts yet the Hollanders took this City in 1624. The year following the Portuguese recovered it and are at this day in the Possession of it The Archbishops See was erected in 1676 by Pope Innocent XI San Salvaâ—oâ— a â—â—â—ll City in North America in the Province of Guaâ—iâ—â—ala called by the Natives Cuzcatlan
Miles in Circuit fruitful and populous forty from Negropont to the North and seventy from Macedonia to the East West of Scio. It has a small City called Skiro which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Athens and four other small Villages The City has a Port to the South-West in subjection to the Turks Called also San Georgio di Sciro Schonen Sconia Scania a Province of Sweden called by the Inhabitants Schaane by the Swedes Skone by the Germans Skonen It lies upon the Baltick Sea over against Zeeland from which it is divided by the Sownd it has the Sea on all sides but the North being almost an Island on the North it is bounded by Haland and Westrogothia and it is its self the principal part of South Gothland This County was sold to Magnus King of Sweden in 1330 by John Duke of Holstein for seventy thousand Marks of Silver Christopher II. King of Denmark having Mortgaged it before to these Dukes Waldemarus King of Denmark redeemed it from the Swedes in 1341 but in 1658. the Swedes recovered the Possession of it by the Treaty of Roschild This Country was Converted to the Christian Faith by Othingar a Bishop about 980. The principal places in it are Lunden Landskroon Matmuyen and Helsingborg Schoonehoven or Schonaw a Town in the South of Holland upon the River Leck with a capacious Port where they take amongst other Fish a great number of Salmons Agnian 2. Bishop of S. Asaph in Wales in 1268 a Dominican was a Native of this Town Schorndorff Schorndorfium a small City well fortified in the Dukedom of Wurtemberg in Germany upon the River Remms which gives name to the District in which this City stands four German Miles from Stutgard to the East and six from Hailbrune to the North-East It has a Castle and obtained its Charter from Frederick II. in 1230. In 1647. it was taken by the French but after restored to the Duke of Wurtemberg under whom it now is Schowen or Schouwen Scaldia an Island of Zeeland one of the Vnited Provinces near the East Mouth of the Schelde heretofore much greater than now There are three places of Note in it Ziriczee Brouwers and Bommene It is six French Leagues long from East to West and above two broad So near in former times to North Beveland another Island of Zeland that the Inhabitants of each could discourse from them with another But the passage has been mightily since inlarged by tempests Schut Cituorum Insula a great Island in the Lower Hungary made by the River Danube called by the Hungarians Chalokewz by the Germans Schut It extends from Presburgh to the North-West to Comora East nine German Miles about four broad and in circuit twenty four It has three hundred Villages its principal place is Comorza beneath which the Danube again unites in one Stream It is wonderfully fruitful well peopled and watered affording good Gardens Warrens and Pasturage and was the cause of the present War between the Emperour and the Turks The latter demanding it to be put into his Hands about 1682. or 1683. and the Emperour denying it as he could not part with it without exposing all his other Dominions to their Ravage Thereupon the Turks besieged Vienna This Island called the Great Schut has another very near it which is accounted a part of it by the name of Little Schut Schwaben Suevia a great Province or Circle in Germany called by the Germans die Schwaben by the French Souabe by the Italians Suevia by the Poles Szwabska Bounded by Bavaria on the East the Rhine dividing it from Alsatia on the West Switzerland to the South and Franconia to the North. It had heretofore Dukes of great Name and Power but now divided into several lesser Territories under several Princes the chief of which are the Dukedom of Wurtemburgh the Bishopricks of Ausburgh and Constance the Marquisates of Baden Schwartzwalt Burgow and Ortnaw the Principalities of Furstemberg and Zollern the Counties of Ettingen and Hohenburgh the Territories belonging to the Abbat of Kempten and Algow There are also in it many Imperial and Free Cities the Capital City of this Circle being Vlm The others are Augsburgh Kempen Constantz Hailbrun Hall en Souabe Lindaw Memningen Nordlingen Stugard Tubingen and Vberlingen Schwauberg the present name of the Norick-Alpes Schwartwatter See Vecht Schwartzwaldt Martina Sylva Bacenis the Black Wood or Forest a Province in the Circle of Schwaben in Germany towards Mount Abenow and the Fountains of the Danube and Necker between the Dukedom of Wurtemburgh to the East and Brisgow to the West it lies extended from North to South from the Marquisate of Baden to the Cities of Seckingen Rheinfelde and Ortnaw This Country is a part of the vast Hercynian Forest which in ancient times run through the whole Body of Germany and perhaps through Moscovy and ended at the Frozen Ocean or White Sea Schwartz-Zee the German name of the Euxine or Black Sea Schwartzembourg a County in the Province of Thuringia in Germany And a Town and Bailywick under the Cantons of Bearne and Fribourg in Switzerland Schweidnitz Suvidnia a City of Silesia upon the River Westritz thirty Miles from Wratislaw to the West twenty five from Lignitz to the South and twelve from the Borders of Bohemia It is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same name and a very strong place yet taken and retaken several times in the great Swedish War Near this City the Swedes defeated Albert Duke of Brandenburgh in the year 1642 by which Victory they made themselves Masters of the greatest part of Silesia Schweinfurt Schuinfurtum a City in Franconia in Germany upon the Mayn within the Dominions of the Bishop of Wurtzburgh almost seven German Miles from Bamberg to the West and five from Wurtzburgh to the South-East It belonged formerly to the Counts of Heneburgh till Henry II. Emperour dispossessed them and gave this City with the Title of Marquisate to one Otho which Family ending in 1112 the City returned to the Empire now an Imperial and Free City and a place of great strength yet taken by the Swedes in the German War Schwerin the chief Town in Mechlenburgh upon a Lake eighteen Miles from Hamburgh to the East and five from the Baltick Sea to the South The usual Residence of one of the Dukes of Mechlenburgh in the Lower Saxony Sciglio Scyllaeum a Town and Promontory on the Coast of Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples near Regge to the North. The famous Rock Scylla lies upon this Coast in the Streights of Messina Scillo or Scilla Scylla a famous Rock on the aforesaid Shoar nineteen Miles from Messina in Sicily the north-North-East upon the Channel which parts Sicily from Italy at the West end of it The Water within its Caverns makes a noise like the barking of Dogs whence probably came the ancient fiction of a Scylla becoming half a Rock and half a Dog Scio. See Chio. Sciocco Togisonus a small River in the
a City placed by Pliny in Liburnia now in Croatia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Spalato It stands upon the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea at the bottom of a Mountain thirty five Miles from Nona to the South-West and fifty from the Borders of Italy to the East This City belongs to the Kingdom of Hungary and is under the Emperor it has an old Castle a very strong Fort built on a steep Hill and a Harbour upon the Gulph of Venice Segni Signia Vrbs Volscorum a City of great Antiquity in the States of the Church in Campagna di Roma under the Dominion of the Pope giving the Title of a Duke to the Family of Sfortia It stands on the top of a Mountain called by its own name La Montagna de Segni thirty two Miles from Rome to the East and twelve from Preneste to the South In this Place Organs were first invented and Pope Vitalianus was born The Popes Innocent III. Gregory IX and Alexander IV. were all of the House of the Counts of Segni For this Place was an Earldom before a Dukedom Segorve or Segorvia Segorbia Segobriga a City of the Kingdom of Valentia upon the River Morvedre which a little lower falls into the Mediterranean Sea it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Valentia small and not well Peopled Eight Miles from Valentia to the North-West and twelve from Tervel to the South-East Segovia Vrbs Arcevacorum in Pliny Segubia in Ptolemy Segobia in the Councils is a City in New Castile in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo A celebrated Place well Peopled and Rich by reason of a great Cloathing Trade driven in it And besides very large Suburbs it has a Castle called El Alcaser By the City on the North-side flows a small River called Eresma It stands at the foot of an Hill in a pleasant Plain has a noble Aquaduct supported by a hundred and seventy seven Arches in double Rows which reach from one Hill to another built by the Emperor Trajane This City is twenty Spanish Leagues from Toledo to the North. Long. 16. 30. Lat. 41. 15. Segovia La Nueva a City in the Island of Manilia one of the Philippines under the Spaniards on the East side of the Island and a Bishops See Segre Sicoris a River in Catalonia which ariseth in the County of Cerdagne at the foot of the Pyrenean Hills in the Borders of France and watering Livia Cerdagne and Vrgel receives the Noguera Pallaresa and the Noguera Rogercana the first at Camarasa the second above Lerida beneath it comes in the Cinca a great River above Mequinenca below which this River Segre unites with the Ebro nine Miles above Garcia to the West Segura Serabis Sorabis a River of Spain which ariseth in New Castile from a Mountain of the same name and flowing through the Kingdom of Murcia falls into the Bay of Alicant having watered Caravacca Murcia and Orihuela Sehusen Senohusium a City of Brandenburgh Seididag See Agion Oros. La Seille Sala Salia a River of Lorain which ariseth out of the Lake de Lindre and flowing North-West watereth Dieuze Nomeny and Going and at Metz falls into the Moselle La Seine Seyne Sequana one of the principal Rivers of France which ariseth in the Dukedom of Burgundy in a mountainous place near the Castle of Chanceaux two Leagues from a Town called Seine and six from Dijon to the North. Being augmented by some smaller Rivers it watereth Chastillion Bar sur Seine Troye Pont sur Seine above which the Aube comes in and beneath it the Yonne and the Loing so it hasteth by Melun to Corbeil The Marne comes in a little above Paris the Glory of this River and beneath that City above Poissy the Oise the Epte and in Normandy the Eure and the Andelle above Roan the Capital of Normandy At Caudebec in Normandy it forms a great Arm of the Sea which admits the Tides of the Ocean thirty Leagues into the Land gives passage to a Ship of great Burthen as high as Roan and smaller Ships as high as Paris Selby a large Market Town in the West-Riding of Yorkshire and the Hundred of Barkston upon the River Ouse Remarkable for being the Birth-place of K. Henry I. Selemne the name in Pausanias of a River of the Peloponnesus gliding by Patras in the Province of Clarentia Seleschia Seleucia a City of Cilicia which is an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch twelve Miles from the Mediterranean Sea to the North. Long. 64. 00. Lat. 38. 40. The Antients gave it the Titles of Seleucia Olbia Seleucia Hiriae and Seleucia Aspera which latter might be occasioned by the many Mountains in this Country Gregory Nazianzen calls it Seleucia S. Theclae because it was famous for the Sepulchre of that Martyr In the year 359. the Arrians assembled a Council of a hundred and sixty Bishops here to which S. Hilary Bishop of Poictiers came being at that time an Exile in Phrygia Seleucajelbor Seleucia Pieria a City of Syria built by Seleucus Son of Antiochus King of Syria near the Mouth of the River Orontes ten Miles from Antioch which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch Seleucia Aspera the same with Seleschia Seleucia ad Tigrim the same with Bachad Seleucia Pieria the same with Seleucajelbor Seleucia ad Belum the same with Divortigi Seleucia Pisidiae this is an antient City of Pisidia in the Lesser Asia upon the Confines of Pamphylia in which S. Paul established the Christian Faith A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Antioch Now under the Turks called Caragar Carasazar and by others Celestria Selivrea or Selibria Selymbria Selybria a City of Thrace upon the Propontis of great Antiquity being mentioned by Pliny and Ptolemy It was at first a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Heraclea but now the Metropolis it self Great and populous tho without Walls it has a good Harbour too This City stands twenty five Miles from Constantinople to the West also called Selombria Selo See Silaro Seilsey-Isle a Peninsula commonly so called near Chichester in the County of Sussex Assigned about the Year 711. by Edilwach King of the South Saxons to Wilfride Archb. of York for his Seat who being banished his Country by the King of Northumberland came thence to preach to the South Saxons Cedwal King of the West Saxons having Conquered the Kingdom of the South Saxons built a Monastery here and made it a Bishops See which continued in the same place above three hundred years with the Title of the Bishops of Selsey till Bishop Stigard in 1070 removed the See to Chichester It s chiefest Note now is that it yields plenty of excellent Lobsters and Cockles Semigallen Semigallia a Province of Livonia in the Kingdom of Poland which signifies in their Tongue The End of the Earth Bounded on the North by Livonia properly so called cut off by the Dwina on the South by Samogithia on the West by Curland and
and with it into the Ocean Seyde Sidon by the Germans called Said is a City of Phoenicia in Syria upon the Shores of the Mediterranean North of Tyre about a League distant from the remains of the ancient Sidon Sister to Tyre in the Scripture for its Sins and the Punishments of them A populous City full of Merchants and Artisans of all Nations driving a great Trade in Cotton and Silk The Franciscans Capuchins and Jesuits have each their Chappels the Turks seven or eight Mosques and the Jews one Synagogue here The Maronites of Mount Libanus and the Armenian Greeks enjoy the like Liberties Without the City appear many Gardens of Oranges Citrons Tamarines Palm-trees and the Fig-trees of Adam so called because bearing a Leaf of the length of six foot and the breadth of two Adam it is supposed covered his nakedness with them It hath two small Fortresses but so far ruined as to remain indefensible The Turks keep a a Sangiack here under the Bassaw of Damascus a Cady or Judge and an Aga of the Janizaries The French a Consul All which Officers are handsomely lodged the rest of the Houses are ill built The Harbor formerly was capable of receiving many and great Vessels but is now choaked with Sand to that degree as to admit only of Skiffs whilst Ships lye in the road behind the Rocks for Shelter In the Christian times it was a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Tyre The Eutychians held Council here of twenty four Bishops in 512 under the protection of the Emperour Anastasius In 1260 the Tartars became Masters of it from whom the Turks obtain'd it about one hundred and fifty years since There is now a Caemetery upon a part of the Mountain Antilibanus in the place where the Old Sidon stood for the use of the Christians of Seyde And the Maronites have a poor Chappel by it Seyne See Seine ◠Sezza Setia a City of Campagna di Roma in Italy of good Antiquity mentioned by Martial It is said to have sometime been a Bishop's See though not now Du Val places an Epispocal City of the same name in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples Sfacchia Leuci a Range of Mountains in the Territory of Cydonia on the West side of the Island of Candy which gave name to the Sfacciotes who signalized themselves by their valiant resistance against the Turks when they endeavoured the ravishing that Island from the Seigniory of Venice of late years Shaftsbury Septonia a Town upon the Stoure in the North-East Borders of Dorsetshire towards Wiltshire seated in the form of a Bow on an high Hill which affords it a serene Air and a large delightful Prospect but deprives it very much of Water In the times of the Norman Conquest it had one hundred and four Houses and after this ten Parish Churches now three with about 500 Houses built of the Freestone of its own Hill Some write King Canutus the Dane died here This Town was built by King Alfred in 880 as Mr. Cambden proves from an old Inscription mentioned in William of Malmesbury In 1672 Charles II. created Anthony Ashley Cooper then Lord Chancellor of England Earl of Shaftsbury who died in Holland and his Son succeeded him in this Honour Shannon Shennyn or Shennonon Senus Sinejus a River in Ireland which is one of the principal in that Kingdom It ariseth in the County of Roscomon in the Province of Connaught out of Mount Slewnern and flowing Southward through Letrim forms a vast Lake called Myne Eske and Ree towards the North end of which on the East side stands Letrim in the middle Longford towards the South Ardagh on the West side Elphem and Roscomon and at some distance from the Lake to the South Athlone Beneath which comes in from the West the Logh a vast River from three other Lakes more to the West called Garoch Mesks and Ben-Carble on the East it receives the Anney so passing by Bannogh and Clonfort to the Lake of Derg at Kiloe it leaves that Lake and passeth to Limerick where it turns full West and between Munster to the South and Connaught to the North enters the Vergivian Ocean by a Mouth five Miles wide between Cape Leane and Cape Sanan having in this Course separated Leinster and Munster from Connaught Shap a large Village in the County of Westmorland in Westward near the River Lowther in which in the Reign of Henry I Thomas Son of Jospatrick founded an Abbey and the same was the only Abbey in this County There is near this Town a noted Well which ebbs and flows often in a day and a perfect Bow of vast Stones some nine foot high and fourteen thick pitch'd at equal distances from each other for for the space of a Mile Sheale a Town in the Bishoprick of Durham in Chester-ward upon the Mouth of the River Tine The Newcastle Coal-Fleet takes its Cargo here Sheffield a large well-built Market-town in the West riding of Yorkshire in the hundred of Strafford upon the River Dun of particular note for Iron Wares even in Chaucer's time who describes a Person with a Sheffield VVhittle by his side It shews the ruines of one of the five Castles formerly seated upon the same River Dun in the compass of ten Miles Corn especially is much bought up here for the supply of some parts of Derby and Nottingham shires as well as Yorkshire Shefford a Market Town in Bedfordshire in the Hundred of Clifton situated between two Rivulets which below it join to fall in one Stream into the Avon Sheppey Shepey Toliapis an Island on the Eastern Coast of Kent at the Mouth of the Thames and Medway Separated by the River Medway from Kent and on all other sides surrounded with the Sea About eight Miles long and six broad Fruitful in Pasturage and well watered especially on the South by Rivers The Danes Earl Goodwin his Sons and their Adherents much harassed it in former times Queensborough is its chief Town it hath several other Towns besides and hath been honoured with the Title of an Earldom in the Lady Dacres Countess of Shepey Shepton-Mallet or Malley a large Market Town in Somersetshire in the hundred of VVhiston Shipton a Market Town in VVorcestershire in the hundred of Oswalderston upon the River Stower It stands in a slip of the County taken off from VVarwickshire Shirburne Clarus Fons a Town and Castle in the North-West of Dorsetshire on the Borders of Somersetshire upon a River of the same Name which afterwards falls into the Parret the Capital of its Hundred Built on the side of an Hill in a fruitful and pleasant Country and much increased in the number of its Inhabitants and its Wealth by the Cloathing Trade In 704. a Bishop's See was erected here translated afterwards to Sunning and thence to Salisbury The Family of the Digbys Earls of Bristol are Barons of Shirburne § Also a Market Town in the West riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of
Greek Christians who ever since the third Century have been planting their solitary Settlements here So that in the former Christian times this Mountain with Horeb had as many Chappels upon it as employed fourteen thousand Hermits to serve them but the Turks have reduced that number since The Israelites lay encamped a whole year about this Mountain Singara an ancient City in Mesopotamia near a Mountain of the same Name now said to be called Atalis It saw a severe Battel betwixt the Armies of the Emperour Constantius and Sapores II. King of Persia in 349. Singen two Villages upon Rocks almost inaccessible within a quarter of a Mile from one another in the Dukedom of Wirtemburgh in Schwaben in Germany near the Castle of Hoentwiel Sinopi Sinope a celebrated City of Paphlagonia in the Lesser Asia upon the Euxine Sea which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Amisum Seated upon a small River of the same Name having two Harbors Built by Macritius a Coan about the year of Rome 125 and fell not into the Romans hands till they had conquered Mithridates who had a Palace here After this it became a Colony In later times subject to its own Bishop from whom it was ravished by the Turks who call it Sinabe It has had yet the good fortune to preserve it self in a tolerable State under those devouring Enemies of Mankind Long. 64. 00. Lat. 45. 00. Valerius Flaccus intimates its ancient Splendor where he says Assyrios complexa sinus stat opima Sinope Diogenes the Cynick Philosopher was its Native Sinuessa an antient Roman Colony in the Campagna di Roma in Italy which Ptolemy calls Soessa and Livy Synope It became afterwards a Bishop's See but is now ruined and Rocca di Mondragone is built in the place of it Baronius refers the Council in 30â— that was held in the affair of P. Marcellinus to this City Sion Sèdunum a City ascribed by Pliny to Gallia Narbonensis now the Capital of Valais and called by the Germans Sitten It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Moutiers en Tarontaise in a pleasant Plain having only one Hill on the East side on which stand three Castles in one of them the Bishop resides There is a small River runs by it called Sitta which after falls into the Rhosne It stands fifteen Miles from Bearne to the South and fifty five from Geneva to the East The Bishop is the Sovereign of the City Earl of Valais and a Prince of the Empire who for his security is Leagued with the Seven Catholick Cantons of the Swiss the Pretensions of the Duke of Savoy to his Country having formerly occasioned long and bloody Wars The See did reside at Martigny in Chablais till the ruine of that Place and then it came to be translated hither Charles the Great about the year 802 bestowed these great Privileges upon this See Sion a Mountain and Cittadel in the ancient Jerusalem on which a part of that City was built The Knights of the Teutonick Order bore the name heretofore of the Order of our Lady of Mount Sion Sior Siorium a City in Asia the Capital of the Province of Semgad and Kingdom of Corea a Tributary Prince to the Kingdom of China It is seated sixty Leagues from the Southern Borders of that Kingdom upon a great River as Henry Hamel van Gorcum a Dutchman saith who lately published his Travels in this Kingdom This Kingdom lies to the North-East of China in a great Peninsula toward Japan and the Streights of Anian Sipbntum an old Roman Town in the Province called Capuanata in the Kingdom of Naples whose Ruines yet appear at the soot of Mount Gargano two Miles from Manfredonia It had the honour to be made an Archbishop's See but being by the Saracens in the eighth Century Earthquakes and other Misfortunes destroyed the See was removed to Manfredonia The Antients mention it under the several names of Sypus Sepius Sepus Sipontum and Sepuntum The Gulph upon the Adriatick Sea near to it took and retains its name Sirad Sirackz Siradia a City in the Greater Poland which is the Capital of a Palatinate of the same name It stands upon the River Warta six Miles from Vielun to the North twenty from Breslo to the East and forty five from Warsaw to the West Sirmish Sirmich or Zirmach Sirmis Sermium Sirmium a City of the Lower Pannonia in which Probus the Emperor was born Now called Szreim by the Natives and Sirmish by the Germans a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Colocza and the Capital of a County called by its Name in Sclavonia It lies between the Danube to the East the Save to the South Walcowar to the North and Possega to the South This City stands fourteen German Miles from Belgrade to the West about two from the Save to the North and from Esseck to the South at the soot of Mount Almus Now by the Turks reduced to a mere Village formerly famous for two Arian Councils held under Constantius the Emperor one in 351. the other in 357. Socrat. l. 2. c. 25. Long. 43. 05. Lat. 45. 24. Photinus was then Bishop of the Place whom they deposed for a Sabellian In one they omitted the Word Consubstantial in the other they forbad both the Word and the Thing Le Siron Sirio Serio a River of Aquitain in France Situs or Sidrocapsa a City of Macedonia famous for its Silver Mines and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Thessalonica from which it stands fifty five Miles to the East towards Mount Athos Called in the latter Maps Sidrocapse but by Leunclavius Sirus Sisseg Siscia an ancient City of Pannonia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Colocza Now a Village in Croatia with a Monastery seated upon the Save and the Colaps in the Borders of Sclavonia two Miles from Zagrab or Agram which has robbed it of the Bishops See Under the Emperor Sisteron Segâ—stero Segesteriorum Vrbs Sistarica an ancient City of Gallia Naâ—bonensis now a Bishops See in the Province of Provence in France great and populous built upon the River Durance where it receives the Buech in the Borders of Dauphiné twenty four Leagues from Orange to the East twenty six from Grenoble to the South and from Marseilles to the north-North-East Sittaw or Zitaw Setuja a City of Germany in Lusatia Sitten See Sion a City in Valais Sittia Cytaeum a City at the north-North-end of the Isle of Candy called Setia and Sitia which is a Bishops See small but very strong seated in a Peninsula and for the most part surrounded by the See it has a noble large safe Haven the Capital of a County and one of the four Cities of that Island but in Slavery under the Turks Siucheu a Territory in the Province of Nanquin in China Sixenne a Village upon the Borders of the Kingdom of Arragon in Spain famous for a Priory of the Order of S. John of Jerusalem sounded about the year 1188. by Queen
Vberrimus undis Millia qui novies distat ab Vrbe decem Sultzbach Sultsbachium a small Town in Nortgow in the Vpper Palatinate of the Rhine one Mile distance from Amberg to the South-East which gives the Title of a Prince to some Branches of the Palatine Family Sumatra a vast Island in the East-Indies to the South-West of the Promontory of Malaccia from which it is separated only by a narrow streight as also by another from the Isle of Java to the South It extends from North-West to South-East one hundred and eighty five German Miles or nine hundred and ten English and is two hundred and ten broad in the middle There are several Kingdoms in this Island which ordinarily go to war with one another The principal of which are Achem Camper Jamby Menanchabo Pacem Palimban and Pedir The principal City in the whole Island and Kingdom is Achem towards the North the King whereof possesses one half of the Island The Coast upon the streights of the Sund is under the obedience of the King of Bantam Some parts are covered with Wood and Mountains amongst which latter one in the middle of the Island casts forth flames by intervals It is divided by the Equator into almost two equal parts the Air is very hot and unhealthful the Soil will produce little Grain but Rice and Millet It yieldeth Ginger Pepper Camphir Agarick and Cassia in great abundance Wax and Hony Silks and Cottons rich Mines of Tin Iron and Sulphur and such quantity of Gold that some conceive it to be Solomons Ophir and some the Taprobane of the ancients The Inhabitants are for the most part Pagans except the Sea Coast where Mahometanism has got some footing It has a vast number of Rivers and Marshes which with the Woods do much promote the unwholsomeness of the Air. The Hollanders enjoy four or five Fortresses in it and are become more powerful than some of the Kings The Portuguese traffick to it but it is when the others will permit them for they have no establishments here Sie Sund Sundae Fretum Sundicum fretum a streight between the Baltick Sea and the German Ocean call'd by the Dutch Ore Sunn by the English the Sound It stretcheth fifty Miles from North-West to South-East about fifteen at its greatest breadth but between Elsingburg and Cronenburg not above three over which necessitates all Ships that pass to and fro to pay a Toll to the King of Denmark he being able otherwise by the Cannon of his Castles to shut up the Passage § This name is attributed also to the Streights betwixt the Islands of Java and Sumatra in the East-Indies The Dutch call it Straet Van Sunda and Latin Writers Sundae fretum The Island of the Sund or Souud comprehend in the Portugueses's accounts who gave them this name all those Islands in the Indian Ocean which lye beyond the Promontory of Malaca some near some under the Equinoctial Commonly divided into the Islands of the Sund to the East and to the West Of the former Gilolo Banda Flores Macasar and the Moluccaes are the Principal Of the other Borneo Java and Sumatra Sundenberg or Sunderbourg a Town and Duchy in the Isle of Alsen near Iutland Sunderland Sunderlandia a small Island at the Mouth of the River VVere in the North-East part of the Bishoprick of Durham in Esington Ward once a part of the Continent but rent off by the violence of the Sea from whence it has the name of Sunderland A place of no great note only for its Sea-Coal Trade till it was made the Title of an Earldom by Charles I. who in 1627 Created Emanuel Lord Scrope of Bolton President of the North Earl of Sunderland He dying Childless Henry Lord Spenser of VVormleighton in 1643. was Created Earl of Sunderland and slain the eighth of June the same year in the first Battel of Newbery To whom sucâ—eeded Robert his Son sometime Principal Secretary of State and President of the Council to King James II. Sungkiang a trading and populous City in the Province of Nanking in China The Capital over two others Suntgaw or Sundgow Suntgovia a Province of Germany now under the King of France by the Peace of Munster Bounded on the North by Alsatia on the East by the Rhine and the Canton of Basil which last is sometimes included under this name on the South by the Dominions of the Bishop of Basil and on the West by the Franche Comté The Principal Places in it are Befo rt Mulhausen Ferrete whence it hath the name also of the County of Ferrete and Huningue The last has been lately fortified by the King of France Sura an ancient Episcopal City of Syria near the Euphrates The See is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Hierapolis § Plutarch remembers us of a Town of this name in Lycia in the Lesser Asia famed for Oracles in ancient times delivered there Betwixt Phellus and Strumita Surate Surata a very famous City of the Hither Indies in the Kingdom of Guzarat upon the Bay of Cambaya under the Dominion of the great Mogul which has a convenient Port or Haven much frequented by the European and Armenian Merchants for Diamonds Pearls Ambergrease Musk Civet Spices and Indian Stuffs procured from divers parts and here laid up in Mazagines It lies saith Monsieur Thevenot 21. deg and some minutes from the Line and was then designed to be Fortified with a Brick instead of its ancient Earthen Wall which had not been able to preserve it from the depredations of a Raja In the time of the Monson or Fair kept in the Spring Quarter it is exceeding full of People not meanly furnished at others nor are those Inhabitants less considerable on the account of their Wealth than Number The English and Dutch have their Factories here it is the Staple of the English Trade in the East-Indies It has a Castle at the South end of the Town upon the River which is square flank'd at each corner by a large Tower The Ditches on three sides are filled with Sea Water on the West the River runs and there are many Cannon mounted in it The Governor commands over all the adjacent Provinces and keeps the train and equipage of a Prince For the rest you may consult Thevenot Part III. pag. 15. Surina a Province of South America between the confluence of the River Cayana and that of the Amazons Surrey Suria is separated on the North from Buckingham and Middlesex by the great River Thames on the East it is bounded by Kent on the South by Sussex and Hampshire and on the West by Hampshire and Barkshire In length thirty four Miles in breadth about twenty two in circumference one hundred and twelve including one hundred and forty Parishes with eight Market Towns The Air is sweet and pleasant the Soil especially in the verges of the County fruitful the middle Parts being somewhat hard to cultivate Whence the People are used to say their County is like a