eighteen Leagues from Panama to the North in the Province of Terra Firma This City was taken and plundered by the Buccaniers Port en Bessin Portus Bajocensis a Port in Normandy on the British Sea one League North of Bajeux Porto Betto Portus Gazaeorum Majuma See Gazara Porto Bon Achaeorum Portus Portus Bonus a Haven on the Euxine Sea at the Mouth of the Nieper Porto di Coruna Portus Brigantius a large Port in Gallicia in Spain ten Leagues from Compostella to the North. Porto desire a Port in Magellania between the River of Plate and the Terra de Fuogo in South America It is otherwise called Baya de los Trabaios The entrance into it is about half a League over where stand two small Islands It affords fresh Water Porto Ercole or Hercole Portus Herculis a Sea-Port in the States of Siena on the Tyrrhenian Sea five Miles from Orbitello to the South and twelve from Talamont to the same In the Hands of the Spaniards it has a Fort and a small Haven Porto di Gorio Carbonaria a Haven at the Mouth of the Po which takes its Latin Name from a black Tower It is the Southern Branch of the North Branch of that River in the Dukedom of Ferrara under the Dominion of the Pope within six Miles of the Borders of the States of Venice to the South And made by that Branch of the Po which is called Il Po di Ariano or the Right Hand Branch Porto di Gruaro Portus Romatinus a Town in Friuli upon the River Lemene Romatinum under the Venetians two Miles from Concordia a ruined City to the North. The Bishop of which resides in this Town forty Miles from Venice to the East and twenty five from Aquileja Porto di Lione Piraeus the Port of Athens in Achaia 5 Miles South of the City joined to it by a double Wall built by Themistocles in the year of Rome 276 which was ruined by the Victorious Lacedaemonians in the year of the World 3546 and of Rome 350 after the taking of Athens being rebuilt it was afterwards ruined by Sylla This Haven would then contain four hundred Ships and was both as to Peace and War one of the most frequented Ports in the World In after-times it took the Name of Port Lione from a huge Marble Statue of a Lion of admirable work placed at the bottom of the Bay in a sitting Posture but erect upon his fore Feet ten Foot in height This Harbor would not hold above thirty or forty of the Ships of our Times as Mr. Wheeler judged Nor is there any one House or Habitation in this Place except a Warehouse for the receiving of Merchandise The true Long. of it is 53. 00. Lat. 38. 05. as Mr. Vernon found it This Port and Athens it self submitted to the Venetian General Morosim Sept. 1687. Vid. Athens It is also called Porto di Setines Porto Famine See Civdad del Rè Philippe Porto Fino Portus Delphini a small Town and Port of Italy about twenty Miles from Genoua to the East towards the Gulph of Ripallo Porto Longone Portus Longus a large safe Haven in the Isle of Ilua or Elve under the Spaniards ever since 1577. Fortified by them in 1606. Taken by the French in 1646. Retaken by the Spaniards in 1650. It stands over against Piombine twelve Miles to the South fifty four from Ligorne thirty seven from the Isle of Corsica to the East Before under the Princes of Piombino Porto Lovis Lewis or Blavet Portus Ludovici Blabia a strong Town in Bretagne in France at the Mouth of the River Blave which has a large Haven Twelve Leagues from Vannes to the West and fifteen from Quimper to the East This Town sprung up out of the ruins of Blavet an old Town near it Port Lovis a new built Town in the Lower Languedoc on the Mediterranean Sea near Mount de Sete This Haven and Port was made by a vast Artificial Mount raised out of the Sea with a mighty expence It stands two Leagues from Frontignan to the South and five from Agde to the East Porto Moriso Portus Mauritius a pleasant Town in the State of Genoua upon the Mediterranean Sea well Peopled it stands near Onelia upon a Hill in the midst between Savona to the East and Nizza to the West thirty six Miles from either but it has now no Port as Baudrand assures us on his own knowledge Il Porto di Paula Portus Paulae a Sea-Port in the State of the Church in Campagna di Roma near Mount Circello into which the Lake of Sancta Maria vents it self Able to contain two thousand Ships it has every where the marks of a Roman Port but being neglected fills up with Sand. Porto de la Paz Portus Pacis a Port at the North end of the Island of Hispaniola where there is of late a French Colony settled Porto di Primaro a Town and Port in the Dutchy of Ferrara in Italy where a branch of the Po called Po di Primaro delivers it self into the Gulph of Venice It has a Tower for its defence Porto di san Pedro a Port in South America towards the Mouth of the Rio Grande and East of the River Plata upon the Sea of Paraguay Porto Ravaglioso Portus Orestis a Port in the Province of the further Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples upon the Tyrrhenian Sea at the Mouth of the River Marro near La Palma Thirty Miles from Regio to the North and twenty from Tropea to the South It is of great Antiquity but no great use Porto Ricco or S. Jean de Porto Ricco or Puerto Rico Portus Dives a City in South America seated at the North end of an Island of the same name in the North Sea which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of S. Dominico Taken and plundered by the English in 1595. and by the Hollanders in 1615. The Island lies eight Leagues from Hispaniola to the East at the entrance of the Gulph of Mexico about a hundred thirty six Leagues from the Continent of America to the South thirty or thirty five long from East to West and twenty in breadth First discovered by Chr. Columbus in 1493 who dedicated it to S. John Baptist and called this Place Porto Ricco because the greatest Galleons ride in its Port in Safety The Spaniards began to plant their Colonies here in 1510. They have secured this Port with two strong Castles beside two little Forts The whole Island enjoys a temperate Air a fruitful Soil for Sugar Ginger Cassia and Cattel but the antient Indian Natives have all been barbarously murdered by the Spaniards Porto Royal Portus Regius a Port of North America in the Province of Tabasca in the Confines of Yucoatan upon the Bay of Mexico called by the Spaniards El Puerto Real § There is another Porto of the same name in the Kingdom of Andalusia over against the Isle of Cadis which of old was called Portus Gaditanus Port Royal in New France in
North America in the Province of Acadia was taken by the English and restored to the French by the Treaty of Breda in 1667. It stands at the bottom of the Bay of France and has a safe and large Harbour Port Royal a Port in Florida near Virginia Port Royal a celebrated Nunnery near Cheureuse in France six Leagues from Paris Port Royal a Port on the South of Jamaica in the Hands of the English by whom the Town was built Which before the late dreadful Earthquake 1692 ruined the greatest part of it had in it above one thousand and five hundred Houses and extended twelve Miles in length extremely populous it being the Scale of Trade in that Island It is seated at the end of a long point of Land which makes the Harbor and runs into the Main about twelve Miles having the Sea on the South and the Harbor on the North. The Harbor is about three Leagues broad and in most places so deep that a Ship of one thousand Tun may lay her sides to the Shoar of the Point Lead and Unload at pleasure and it affords good Anchorage all over For the security of it there is built a very strong Castle always well Garrisoned with Soldiers and has sixty pieces of Cannon mounted Yet this Town stands upon a loose Sand which affords neither Grass Stone fresh Water Trees nor any other thing that could encourage the building of a Town besides the goodness and convenience of the Harbor Porto Sabione Edron a Port on the Gulph of Venice near Chiosa Fossa Clodia a City in that State twenty five Miles from Venice Porto di Salo Salorius a Port in Catalonia four Miles from Tarragona towards Barcinone Porto Santo Cerne one of the Azore Islands discovered by the Portuguese in 1428 and by them called Ilha de Puerto Santo Not far from the Madera about eight Leagues in Circuit Porto Seguro a City Port and Prefecture in Brasil in South America upon the Sea Coast under the Portuguese The Prefecture lyes betwixt that called los Isleos and the other of Spiritu Santo Port Uendres Portus Veneris a large Port in the County of Russilion upon the Mediterranean Sea in the Borders of Catalonia Seventeen Miles from Perpignan to the North-East It has this name from a Temple dedicated to Venus in the times of Paganism which stood near it Porto Uenere Portus Venerii Portus Veneris a Town in the States of Genoua which has a Haven and a Castle built by the Genouese in 1113 seated over against the Isle of Palmaria Sixty Miles from Genoua and three from the Gulph del Spezza to the East Porto Uiejo a Town and Port in Peru in South America upon the Pacifick Ocean in the Province and not far from the City Quito Porto Zora Pisidon a City of Africa Propria mentioned by Ptolemy now called Zora by the Europeans and Zuarat by the Moors It is a strong Place which has a large Harbor belonging to it in the Kingdom of Tunis one hundred and twenty Miles from Tripoli to the West taken and plundered by the Knights of Malta not long since Portsmouth Portus Magnus a Town in Hampshire in the Hundred of Ports down of great Antiquity called by Ptolemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Great Haven the Old Town then stood higher up The New Town is built upon an Island called Portsey which is about fourteen Miles in Circuit and at a full Tide floats in Salt Water by a Bridge on the North joined to the Continent The Town is fortified with a Timber Wall covered with Earth on the North-East near the Gate it has a Fort and two Block-Houses at the entry of the Haven built of hewen Stone by Edward IV. and Henry VII To which Qu. Elizabeth added other Works and a Garrison to watch and defend the Place The latter Princes have built Store-houses for all sorts of Naval Provisions and Docks for the building of Ships In Mr. Cambdens time it was more resorted to on the account of War than Commerce and had little other Trade than what arose from the boiling of Salt But since its Trade is much encreased It is grown populous a good Nursery for Sea-men and a Corporation represented by two Burgesses in the Lower House of Parliament Giving also the Title of Dutchess to the Lady Louisa de Querouaille Created by K. Charles II. 1673. Baroness of Petersfield Countess of Farnham and Dutchess of Portsmouth Portugal Lusitania Portugallia a Kingdom on the West of Spain bounded on the West by the Atlantick Ocean on the South by Algarve which is annexed to this Kingdom on the East by Andalusia Extremadura and Leon and on the North by Gallicia It lies on the Sea Coast from North to South four hundred Miles not above one hundred where broadest and eighty in the narrower places eight hundred and seventy nine in Compass Divided into five Provinces to wit Entre Douero è Minho Tra los Montes Beira Estremadura and Alentejo or Entre Tejo è Guadiana whereunto was added Algarve under Alphonsus III. with the Title of a Kingdom The principal Rivers are those four expressed in the Names of the Provinces Douero Minho Tajo and Guadiana which furnish the Kingdom with very convenient Ports It was anciently called Lusitania from the the Lusitani its first Inhabitants and took the present Name about the fifth Century from Poriocale a celebrated Mart. The Air is generally healthful the Earth Hilly and Barren especially as to Corn which is much of it imported from France But it yields Wine Fruits Fish Game Salt Horses and Mines And is so very populous about Spain especially towards the Sea that they reckon more than four hundred Cities or great privileged Towns three Archbishopricks ten Bishopricks and above four thousand Parishes This Kingdom is said to be founded by one Henry Earl of Lorain about 1099. For this Prince having shewn much Gallantry in the Wars against the Moors was by Alphonsus VI. King of Castile rewarded with the Marriage of Teresia a Natural Daughter of his and a part of this Kingdom with the Title of an Earl The Son of this Henry Alphonsus I. having in 1139. in the Battel of Obrique defeated five Moorish Kings assumed the Title of King This Prince assembled the Estates of his Kingdom at Lamego in the Province of Beira who there passed a Law called the Law or Statute of Lamego for the exclusion of Strangers from the Crown which remains in full force to this day His Posterity enjoyed this Kingdom and very much inlarged it by Victories against the Moors at home and by the Discovery of several unknown Countries abroad for seventeen Descents Amongst which John I. styled the Father of his Country succeeded in 1385. tho only the Natural Son of Peter I. the King save one immediately preceding his ascension But Sebastian a young Prince who succeeded King John III. in 1557. perishing in a Battel in Africa in 1580. and Henry dying soon after who was a
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
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
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
Abbat a Territory which lies between the Bishoprick of Leige and the Dukedom of Limburgh and Luxemburgh Stavern Stavera a small City of Friseland under the United Provinces in Westergow upon the Zuyder Zee four German Miles from Enchusen to the North and six from Vollenhove to the South-West It is a Sea-Port Town included in the Hanse League of old the Seat of the Kings of Friseland Steenberg Stenoberga a City in the Dukedom of Brabant under the Dutch and belonging particularly to the Prince of Orange Steenwick Stenovicum a Town in Over-Yssel in the Vnited Netherlands upon the River Aa in the Borders of West Friseland seventeen Miles from Zwol to the North and seven from the Zuyder Zee to the East Taken by Alexander Farnese Duke of Parma by Scalade and by the French in 1672 but deserted soon after Stegeborg Stegeburgum a small City in the Province of Ostrogothia with a Port or Harbour on the Baltick Sea under the King of Sweden sixteen Miles from Norcoping to the East Stella a Mountain in Galatia in the Lesser Asia near the City of Ancyra called by the Turks Almadag This is very remarkable for the Defeat of two great Princes in their times Mithridates who was here overthrown by Pompey the Great sixty three years before the Birth of our Saviour and Bajazet I. Emperor of the Turks here beaten and taken with his Son Musa by Tamerlane the Great in 1397. Which Victory if it had been followed by a vigorous Attack from all the Christian Princes united might by the Blessing of God have put an end to the Ottoman Family then Stenay Stenaeum Stenacum a strong City in the Dukedom of Lorain sometimes called Stathenay It lies in the Dukedom of Bar upon the Maes seven Leagues from Verdun to the North and six from Sedan to the South Taken by the French in 1654 and kept by them ever since now annexed to Champagne Sterling Sterling a Town and County in Scotland sometimes called Striveling on the North it has Mentith and Fife on the South the Cluyd on the East Lothian and on the West Lenox It takes its Name from Sterling a Town upon Dunbritoun Fryth This Town was so strong that the Victorious English durst not attempt it after their Victory at Dunbar But it was taken afterwards by General Monk in 1654. Stetin Stetinum the Capital City of the Dukedom of Pomerania in Germany called by the Germans Szcecin It stands upon the Oder over which it has a Bridge and is divided by it into two equal parts eight Miles from the Baltick Sea to the South four from the Confines of Brandenburgh and forty four from Dantzick to the South-West This City grew up after the Ruin of Vineta in the Isle of Vsedom ten Miles more to the North-West from a small Village to that greatness it now enjoys by becoming the Seat of the Dukes of Pomerania who lived here many Ages in a Castle of an elegant and noble Structure Otho the Father of Barnimius I. Founder of the Line of Stetin removed hither in 1345. This Family continued the Possession of it till 1630 when Gustavus Adolphus coming before it with an Army obtained an admission partly by force and partly by the terror of his Arms Bogislaus the last of that Line dying soon after The Right of the Succession undoubtedly belonged to the Duke of Brandenburgh but the Swedes being in Possession got their Right confirmed by the Treaty of Munster and kept this City till the year 1677. When the Duke of Brandenburgh coming before it with a powerful Army after a tedious Siege took it In 1679 by the Treaty of S. Germaine it was restored to the Swedes who are still in Possession of this very strong place See Pomerania It had been before attempted by the Imperial and Brandenburgh Forces united in 1659 and baffled the designs of those great Princes Olearius Long. 38. 45. Lat. 53. 27. Stevenedge a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Broadwater Steyning or Stening a Market Town and Borough in the County of Sussex in Bramber Rape Having the privilege of the Election of two Parliament Men. Steyr Asturis a City of Austria four Miles from Lintz to the South Stift Ditio a word in the German Tongue which signifies a Dominion Country or Territory and frequently joyned with the Names of places as Stift von Luick the Dominion of Liege Stiria a Province of Germany stiled by the Inhabitants die Steyer or Steyer-marck which was a part of the Old Noricum or Vpper Pannonia towards the Muer and the Drave It is bounded on the East by Hungary on the North by Austria on the West by the Diocese of Saltzburgh and Carinthia and on the South by Carniola The Capital of it is Gratz the other Cities Cilley Kermend Marcpurg Petaw Pruckam Muer and Rakelspurg Canisa belongs also to this Province and reckoned to the Lower Hungary The Quadi were the old Inhabitants of this Country who being driven out by the Romans the Country was called Valeria in Honor of a Daughter of Dioclesian so called It was at first a Marquisate and by Frederick Barbarossa the Emperor changed into a Dukedom In length one hundred and ten Miles in breadth sixty for the most part barren being covered with the Spurs and Branches of the Alpes and rich in nothing but Minerals Ottacar the last Duke of this Province sold it to Leopold the Fifth Archduke of Austria who bought it with a part of that vast Ransom he extorted from Richard I. King of England about the year 1193. Tho it has been since granted to some younger Brothers of that Family yet it is now returned to the Emperor and not likely to be any more dismembred from the rest of the Hereditary Countries As to the Fertility of it Hoffman differs from Dr. Heylin who saith in Iron Mines it excels all the European Countries and wants nothing that is useful it abounding with Wine Corn Cattle and Salt Stirone Sisterio a small River of Lombardy in the Dukedom of Parma which watering Burgo di S. Domino falls into the Taro four Miles above its fall into the Po. Stives Thebae a City once of great Renown but now a poor Village in Greece fifty Miles from Athens to the North Sophianus calls it Thiva The Turks abandoned it after the taking of Athens to collect their Strength into one Body at Negropont Whereupon General Morosini in 1687 possessed himself of it But finding it of little use to keep he razed the Fortifications which were in great part ruined before and abandoned it also See Thebae Stocksbridge a Market Town and Borough in the County of Southampton and the Hundred of Kingombom upon the River Test Represented by two Burgesses in the House of Commons Stockholm Holmia is a very great City and the Capital of the Kingdom of Sweden standing in the Province of Vpland in the Borders of Sudermania Heretofore a place of small consideration but having for the two last
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
Greece with a River of the same Name Aorna Aornus a City of Bactria and a very strong rocky Castle in the Indies both taken heretofore by Alexander the Great § Also a River of Arcadia and a certain contagious Lake of Epirus and a Lake in Italy mention'd by Virgil. Aouste Augusta praetoria a City and Dukedom of Piedinont It is an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Tarantaise and a part of the Dominions of the Duke of Savoy it stands in a mountainous but fruitful Soil at the foot of the Grecian Alpes upon the River Doria where it receives the River Bauteggio which do both fall into the Po. This City was a Roman Colony call'd by Pliny Italiae Limes the Frontier of Italy It is 50 Miles from Turin East S. Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury was born here Apalaches Apalachites Indians of Florida dwelling in several distinct Provinces near the Mountains of Apalaâ—ai Their capital City is Melitot in the Province of Bemarin Their King resides there who acts the Sovereign over all the Chiefs of the other Provinces Apaches a numerous People of New Mexico in America divided by the Spaniards into four sorts of Nations the Country is so vast where they live and Fortified with Castles upon the Mountains Apamea See Hamen Apamea Câ—lene a City and an Archbishops See in Phrygia of good Antiquity now little inhabited and almost ruin'd The Turks call it Miarlea § Also two other Cities in Mesopotamia one upon Tigris and one upon the Euphrates Apantum a Province of the Terra firma in America Apâ—râ—â— a Province of Peru in America near the River of Amazons Apennino Apenninus a known and very great Chain of Mountains which divide Italy into two parts it is 700 Miles long and begins at the Maritim Alpes and extends itself to the utmost bounds of Calabria where one Branch of them ends at Capo dell ' Arme 12 Miles East of Reggio and the other Branch at Capo di Santa Maria in Apulia at the Mouth of the Gulph of Venice In all this long Course there is only the River Offanto Aufidus that crosseth it near the City Conza It has divers names given it in several places Apenrade Apenrora a little City of South Jutland in the Dukedom of Sleswick near the Baltick Sea it belongs to that Duke with the adjacent Territory and is distant from Hader Sleven South 3 Danish Miles It has a large Haven secured from the South-East Wind by the Island of Alsen Apetous Apetubae a People of Brasil in America Aphace a place in Palestine Dedicated sometime to the Worship of Venus in all maner of Luxury Aphetâ—s an antient City of the Province of Magnesia in Thessaly upon the Gulph now called del Vallo Aphrodisium a Cape now call'd Cap de Creuz upon the Mediterranean near Rosas in Catalogna Aphytis an antient City of Thrace heretofore famous for a Temple of Apollo Apina an antient City of Puglia in Italy long since ruin'd Apiola an antient City of Italy Taken by Tarquin Apodisia Aphrodisias a City of Caria in Asia Minor heretofore a Bishops-Sée under the Archbishop of Stauropolis And the Birth-place of Alexander Aphrodisaeus now almost Ruin'd Appenzel Abbatiscella a very rich Burrough in Switzerland and the Head of the last of the Cantons it not joyning with them till 1513. It has its Name from this Town and was once a part of the Jurisdiction of the Abby of S. Gall. It is seated at the Rise of the River Sintra distant from Curia 12 French Leagues from Zurich 6 German Miles Eastward The Inhabitants of this Canton are mix'd of the Protestant and Romish Religion Appleby Aballaba the County Town of Westmorland almost incompassed with the River Eden an antient Roman Town and the Station of the Aurelian Moors It has a pleasant Situation being built upon the easie Ascent of a rising Hill with only one Street and that not mightily inhabited yet for the great Antiquity of it the Assizes and Sessions are kept here and it has the right of sending two Burgesses to the Parliament William King of Scotland surprized this Town but King John soon after recovered it again Appledore a Market-Town in Kent in the Hundred of Scray Lath upon the River Rother Apollonia Mygdonia See Serres Apollonia in Polinam See Pollina Apollonia Magna Anthium now call'd Sissopoli is a City in a small Island in the Euxine Sea near Thrace Heretofore a Colony of the Milesians and had a Temple to Apollo in it § The same Name was born by a City upon Mount Athos in Macedonia and now call'd Erissos by two others in the Island of Crete by four in Asia Minor by one in Palestine near Joppe one in Syria near Haman one in Caelesyria one in Egypt besides others of which we have nothing extant Aprio Apros Apri a City of Thrace and sometime an Archiepiscopal See under the Patriarch of Constantinople so beloved by the Emperour Theodosius that it was also call'd Theodosiopolis from him Apte Apta Julia a City and Bishoprick in Provence upon the River Calavone at the foot of the Mountains This Bishop is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Aix it is a small place distant from Avignon 9 Miles to the East Aptera Apteron Atteria a City in the Island of Crete Apuies Apui Indians of Brasil in America Apulia a Province of the Kingdom of Naples bounded with Abruzzo on the East with Terra di Otranto and the Adriatick Sea on the North and on the South with Calabria The Italians do call this commonly Puglia as the French call it Pouiâ—â—e Apulia Daunia is that part of Puglia which lieth next to Abruzzo from which it is parted by the River Fortore and so extendeth Eastward as far as the River Lofanto where it meets with Peucetia Apulia Peucetia extendeth from the Banks of Lofanto to the Land of Otranto East Apurima a River of Peru in America arising at the foot of the Andes from whence it passeth to Cusco and falls into the Xauxa after a course of 60 Leagues Apuroâ—aca Capera Vaca or Piragua a great River in Guiana in America Aqua Dolce Glecinero Athiras a River of Thrace falling into the Propontis by Selivrea Aquapendente See Acquapendente Aqua-sparta a small City in the Dukedom of Spoleto in Italy upon a Hill giving the Title of a Dutchy to a noble Family Aqua Uiva and Aqua Via a Town in the Province of Bars in the Kingdom of Naples giving its Name to an illustrions Family in that Kingdom Aqui and Aquita a City and Province in the Island of Niphonia belonging to Japan Aquigires Aquigirae Indians of Brasil in America towards the Praefecture of S. Esprit Aquila the chief City of Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples It is a Bishops See once under the Archbishop of Chieti but now exempted from his Jurisdiction seated on a Hill and has a strong Castle in it the River Pescara flows near it it is 60 Miles distant from Rome to 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
is also a Fort of this name built by the Hollanders on the Coast of Coromandel in the Kingdom of Narfinga on the Bay of Bengala in the East-Indies Geliboli See Gallipoli Geluchalat Mantiana a Lake in the greater Armenia Minadoio saith it is now called Astamar it receives eight great Rivers and sends none out of it and is eight days Journey in compass Long. 80. Lat. 40. Gelise Gelisa a River in Aquitain in France which washeth the City of Eusse and falls into the Losse which falls into the Garonne five Miles beneath Agen to the West Geloni an ancient People of Scythia Europaea Neighbours to the Agathyrsi described to fleay their Enemies and make themselves Cloths of their Skins Mel. Alex. ab Alex. Gemblours Gemblacum a Town in Brabant upon the River Orne in the Borders of Namur five Miles from Brussels to the South four from Charleroy to the East and five from Lovain This Town has a Monastery in it and saw a bloody Fight near it between the Dutch and Spaniards in 1578. Baudrand Gemen Arabia Foelix Gemona Glemona a small Town in Friuli under the State of Venice Gemunder a Lake in Austria Genamani an Island in the Red Sea on the Coast of Aethiopia called Gythites by the Ancients in Lat. 25. 20. Genep or Gennep Gennepium a fortified but small Town in the Dutchy of Cleves in Germany two or three Leagues from Cleves upon the River Niers which there falls into the Meuse It belongs to the Elector of Brandenbourg tho the Hollanders keep a Garrison in it too who retrieved it from the Spaniards in 1641. Geneva Civitas Genevensium Januba Genabum Jenoba is the most Eastern City belonging to the Allobroges or Savoyards which together with its Bridge over the Rhosne is mentioned by Julius Caesar in his Commentaries It is great populous well fortified and built with a good Cathedral and Arsenal the Capital of the Province of Genevois and seated at the West end of the Lake of Lemane on the South side of the Rhosne in that place where this River comes out of the Lake seventeen Miles from Lion to the East and twenty six from Basil to the South upon the borders of Switzerland heretofore a very famous Mart which is long since removed to Lion and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Vienna and an University founded by the Emperor Charles IV. in 1368. The French call this City Geneve the Germans Genff about nine hundred years since in an ignorant and an unlearned Age it was called Gebenna the Italians call it Geneura Mercator believes it built in the Year of the World 2994. in the times of Asa King of Judah by Leman the Father of the Germans there is no need of pretences which can never be proved Caesar's Testimony and the Roman Inscriptions that are found here are sufficient proofs of its Antiquity by the latter it appears this was a Roman Colony It was indeed the last Town Northward in the Provincia Romana according to the ancient Division of Gallia We should have had more Roman Antiquities than we have too if this City had not in the course of so many Ages suffered very much from Enemies and Fire In the Reign of Aurelius Antoninus it was almost all burnt which Prince contributed so much to the rebuilding and bestowed such Privileges on it that it was called Aurelia for some time from him but upon his death reassumed its ancient name In the irruption of the Barbarous Nations into the Roman Empire it suffered the same Calamities with other Cities something sooner as being nearer the Frontiers but then it met with an early Restorer in Genebald King of Burgundy About three hundred and fifty years since it was burnt twice in seven years It has had the Counts of Geneva and the Dukes of Savoy at all times the great Pretenders to the Sovereignty over it and has always defended its Privileges manfully against them In 1412. when Amadaeus Duke of Savoy endeavoured to obtain a Title to this City by an exchange Joannes à Petra Scissa then Bishop and the Inhabitants agreed that if any Person should consent to the Alienation of its Liberty he should be treated like a Traytor These and the like Traverses of their Neighbour Princes forced them in 1535. to enter into a League with the Canton of Bearn which was to last for ever the change of Religion having then heightned their Neighbours Rage against them In 1584. having suffered a very sharp Siege and a miserable Famine by the help of the Canton of Zurich they prevailed so far as to force the Duke of Savoy and their Bishop to renounce all their Pretences They reaped no less glory from their defeating the Nocturnal Scalado of Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy in 1602. This City rejected the Ch. of Rome in 1535. Whereupon they applied the Revenue of the Bishoprick with the Tithes of the Territory of Gex to the maintenance of their own Ministry of the Reformation There has been a Roman Catholick Titular Bishop of Geneva ever since continued who resides at Anneci and with other the Titular Beneficiaries within this District obtain'd a Decree from the Parliament of Dijon Anno 1687. to be restored to their ancient Possessions But without success as for any effect it had upon the Government here who though they enter into no Alliance during the present War with the Confederate Princes yet stand upon their Defence against France The Preaching of Calvin Beza and Farellus the retreat of some English Protestants hither during the Reign of Q. Mary and of others in divers times from several Countries have distinguished the zeal of this place for the Reformation The Province of Genevois which derives its name from it is bounded by the Provinces of Chablais and Fossigny to the East the Rhone to the West and in part also to the North and with Savoy properly so called to the South There is lately published an exact History of this City by M. Spon and therefore I need add no more § The Lake of Geneva See Lemane Genezareth Genesara a Lake in Palestine between the Tribes of Zabulon to the West and the half Tribe of Manasseh to the East also called the Sea of Tiberias and Galilee which Lake is entered by the River Jordan at Capernaum and left at Sythopolis it is eighteen Miles long and seven broad on the Western Shoar stand Capernaum Tiberias and Bethsaida on the Eastern Corasain and Gersa The many Miracles our Blessed Saviour wrought upon and about this Lake have made it famous to all Ages and Nations Gengen or Giengen Rhiusiavia a small City in Schwaben near the Danube others say it is Rosenfield in the Dukedom of Wirtenburgh to which this ancient name mentioned by Ptolomy belongs The City Gengen lies between Vlm and Norlingen five Miles from each the second not above four Miles from Tubingen to the South but Giengen is not the same Town with Giesâ—ingen but lies about four Miles
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
an half and from 37. deg and an half of Lat. to 46. and an half In every respect so delightful that divers Writers call it the Garden of Europe Watered by the Rivers Po Tanaro Garigliano Arno Reno Tiber Volturno c. Adorned with a great many magnificent handsome well built Cities divers Universities and more Bishopricks than any Country in the World besides Italica Heraclea a City of Asia Itching a River of Hantshire meeting with the River Test at their fall into the Sea near Southampton Winchester stands upon its Banks Ithaca an Island in the Ionian Sea near Cephalonica now called Isola del Compare and Val de Compare by the Turks Phiachi or Theachi And in Dionysius Africanus Nericia This was the Birth-place of Vlysses as Virgil hath it Sum patria ex Ithaca comes infoelicis Vlyssei Aen. 3. Iton Itona a small River of Normandy which washeth Eureux and then falls into the River Eure. Ituraea the ancient Roman Name of a Region in Palestine since called Bacar See Bacar In the time of our Saviour it was a Tetrarchate under the Government of Philip Herod's Brother The Inhabitants were a mixture of the Tribes of Gad and Reuben Itzeho Itzâ—hoa a small City in Holstein properly so called in the very Borders of Stomaria upon the River Stor two German Miles from the Eibe and Gluckstadt towards the South-East Iuanogrod a Castle in the County of Ingermanland near Narva from which it is parted only by the River Plausa Built and fortified by the Russ and conquered by the Swedes together with the Province in which it stands Iucatan or Yucatan a Peninsula in New Spain in North America within the Government of Mexico running into the North Sea betwixt the two Gulphs of Mexico and Honduras above two hundred and fifty Leagues in circuit Fertile especially in Cotton and planted with the Cities Merida Salamanca Valladolid c. It was first discovered by Francis Hernandez of Corduba and afterwards conquered by Francis Montege by a War of nine years in 1536. Iudea See Palestine Iudenburg a City of the Vpper Stiria upon the River Muer which falls into the Drave in the Borders of Hungary nine Miles above Gratz to the West and two from the Confines of Carinthia It is under the House of Austria and thought to be the ancient Sabatinca Norici Iudia Vdia Odiaa the Capital City of the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies where the King resides thirty Leagues from the Indian Ocean upon the River Menan In Long. 129. 00. Lat. 15. 00. And is a Place of great Trade Iudicello Amananus a River of Sicily which ariseth from Mount Aetna and passing through the City of Catania falls into the Ionian Sea after a Course of ten Miles Ivel a River of Bedfordshire falling into the Ouse upon which stand Biglesworth and Shefford Ivetot a Seigniory in the Paix de Caux in Normandy Said to have been erected into a Kingdom by King Clotaire I. in satisfaction for the Murder of Gautier Lord of Ivetot committed in the Church upon a Good Friday by King Clotaire's own hand Others write this is a Fable St. Ives a Borough and Market Town in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Penwith which returns two Burgesses to the House of Commons It has a Haven to the North or Irish Sea § A Market Town in Huntingtonshire in the Hundred of Hurstington upon the River Ouse over which it hath a fair Stone Bridge Said to be so called from S. Ivo a Bishop who about the year 600. preached Christianity throughout England and here died Ivette Iveta a small River of France which falls into the Orbe Iuhorsky or Juhora Jugra Juhra a Province in the North of Moscovy upon the White Sea It hath a City of the same Name Ivica Ebusus an Island on the East of Spain belonging to Majorca and seated between it and Spain only twenty Miles in compass with a secure Haven on its South side It affords great plenty of Salt and has no hurtful Creature in it The Bishop of Tarragona is the Proprietor of this Isle It is on all sides incompassed with Rocks or small Islands which make the approach to be very dangerous Iuine Junna a small River in Gastinois in France which arising near the Forest of Orleance and bending Northward takes in Estampes and some other small Rivers and falls into the Seyne at Corbie Some believe it to be the same with the River Yone and that it was called Estampes from the Town of that Name upon it Ivingo a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Colstow Iuliers Juliacum a City of Germany mentioned by Tacitus and Ammianus Marcellinus called by the Inhabitants Gulick See Gulick § Also the Name of a Dukedom in the Province of Westphalia between the Rhine to the East and the Maes to the West bounded on the North by Vpper Guelderland on the East by the Bishoprick of Cologne on the South by Eifall and the Bishoprick of Treves and on the West by the Dukedom of Limburg The River Roer divides it into two parts This from 700. was under Princes of its own to 1609. when upon the death of John William the last Duke there arose a contest between the Duke of Newburg and Brandenburg which in 1612. broke out into a War these two Dukes in the end dividing the Dukedom between them and entering a League for their mutual defence against who ever should annoy either of them in that which he possessed The Dukes of Saxony at the same time pretended a Right which though they never prosecuted yet they still reserve unto themselves Iuncto Tagrus a Mountain in the Kingdom of Portugal Iunnan Junnanum a great Province in the Kingdom of China in the South-West Borders towards the East-Indies on the North it is bounded by the Kingdom of Tibet and the Province of Suchem on the East it has Queycheu and Quamsi two other Provinces of China on the South the Kingdoms of Tunkim and Cochin-China and on the West the Kingdom of Pegu. The Southern parts of this Province have been conquered by the King of Tunkim and are in his hands It has its Name from Ynvam a vast City seated in Long. 131. 00. Lat. 25. 30. This Province contains two and twenty great Cities eighty four smaller and one hundred thirty two thousand nine hundred fifty eight Families Iunquera See Jonquera Iura a Mountain which divides France from Switzerland called by the Germans Iurten by the Swiss Leberberg and Leerberg It begins at the Rhine near Basil to the North extends to the Rhosne and the County of Beugey to the South having many different Names from the People by which it passeth That part which begins at the Rhosne four Miles from Geneva and lies between the County of Burgundy and Beugey is called le Credo afterwards it is called St. Claude about the rise of the River Doux it has the Name of Mont de Joux in the Borders of
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
called Gueguere but by the Inhabitants Neube Indeed Lobus a Portugal in his History of Aethiopia is of Opinion there is no such Island at all and saith the Nile makes never an Island in Aethiopia and the Ancients were much deceived in placing this pretended Island so far from the Red Sea therefore he is not pleased with their conceit who make the Kingom of Goyaume to be Mero◠and upon the whole he concludes the distance of the place and difficulty of access gave occasion to all those fictions of the Ancients concerning this Island which by them was placed in Lat. 16. 23. Mersburgh Martinopolis Mersoburgum a small City in Misnia in Germany which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Magdeburgh upon the River Saal three German Miles from Hall to the South and as many from Leipsick to the West The Bishop of this Diocese imbraced the Augustane Confession in 1565. In 1592. John George Bishop of it became Elector of Saxony his Successors have ever since been Administrators of this Bishoprick being chosen upon every vacancy by the Chapter and in this Right they are possessed of the City of Mersburgh which was once an Imperial Free Town but long since exempted § There is another Mersbourgh in Schwaben upon the Lake of Constance where the Bishop of Constance resides Mersey the Arm of the Sea into which the River Dee in Wales falls See Dee Merton-méer a great Lake in Lancashire Mesember Mesembria a City of Thrace ascribed by Ptolemy to Moesia Inferior and in our latter Maps placed in Bulgaria on the North side of the great Mountain Hermus upon the Shores of the Euxine Sea twenty seven German Miles from Adrianople to the North-East and thirty two from Constantinople to the North-West It is now an Archbishop's See and in the hands of the Turks Mesendin the Persian Gulph Mesmes a Castle and Seigniory in the Diocese of Bazas in the Lower Guienne in France which gives Name to an Honorable Family there Mesopotamia a large Country of Asia enclosed within the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates and heretofore making a considerable part of the Assyrian Empire It s principal Cities now are Caramit the Capital Merdin and Heren The Arabians call it Al-Gezira as the Hebrews did Aram Naharajim i. e. the Syria betwixt two Rivers in conformity to the Greek of Mesopotamia Vid. Diarbeck Mesrata the same with Cairoan Messapia a Province of the Antient Italy where now lies the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples It had a City of its own Name called afterwards Messana Apuliae and now Mesagna Virgil mentions the antient Inhabitants with the Character of Equum domitor Neptunia proles Messene See Moseniga Messin See Metz. Messina Messana an ancient and very celebrated City on the Northern Point of the Isle of Sicily ten Miles from Reggio in Italy sixty from Catania to the North and a hundred and fifty from Palermo to the North-East It is a great rich well traded City an Archbishop's See the Capital of the Province of Demona and the second City in the Island being five Miles in compass having an Harbour of great safety and wonderfully frequented by Merchants Nobly built has a Princely Palace a well furnished Magazine a noble Metropolitan Church and great plenty of Silk Weavers It is of a long figure with four great Suburbs The Philosopher Dicaearchus was a Native of this City Charles V. in 1535 spent very much in fortifying it and built four Castles to that purpose This City was recovered out of the Hands of the Saracens by Roger the Norman in 1060. The Spaniards provoked it so far that in 1674. it shook off their Yoke who were never able to reduce the place again under their Obedience till March 16. 1678. The Inhabitants pretend to have a Letter which was Written to them by the Virgin Mary and certainly they have great reason to value that singular favour Messo Bermius a Mountain lying between Macedonia Thessalia and Epirus called in the latter Maps Mezova It stretcheth from North-West to South-East and ends at the North Point of the Isle of Negropont and seems to be the same with Mount Pindus or a part at least of it Mesuna Medama a River of the further Calabria it falls into the Sea about four Miles South of Nicotera Mesapontum a Town of the ancient Lucania in Italy now called Torre di Mare Metelin Lesbos Mitylene an Island in the Archipelago on the Coast of the Lesser Asia six Miles from its Shoars to the South Now commonly called Mitelino from its principal City which is seated on the East side of the Island and an Archbishop's See It has two other Cities which are Bishopricks that is Gerema and Calono The Circuit of this Island is 140 Miles its length from North to South 40. It was under the Family of the Catelusii from 1355. to 1462 when it was taken from Dominico Catelusio the last Prince of this Race by Mahomet II. Emperor of the Turks This Family being of a Genouese Extraction the Island is generally said to have been so long under the States of Genoua Written also Mettelen It pays eighteen thousand Piastres Tribute to the Turks Metoro Metaurus a River in the Dukedom of Vrbino which ariseth in the Confines of Tuscany near Borgo S. Sepulchro and running East watereth saith Baudrand S. Angelo and Vrbino In the Maps it is placed more South and watereth Fossombrone Forum Sempronii and so falls into the Gulph of Venice between Fanno to the North and Sinigaglia to the South Metramo or Marro Metaurus a small River of Calabria the further which falls into the Sea eleven Miles South of Nicotera Metz Meta Metis Mediomatricum Divodurum Mediomatricorum a City and Bishop's See in the Dukedom of Lorrain under the Archbishop of Trier and the Capital of the Territory of Messin It stands upon the Moselle where it takes in the Seile Sala ten Leagues from Nancy to the North and Verdun to the East and sixteen from Trier to the South At first the Capital of the Kingdom of Metz after this an Imperial Free City and being exempted it fell in 1552. into the hands of the French Charles V. the same year with a powerful Army sat down before it and omitted nothing that Courage or Art could dictate to recover it but failing in the Attempt fell out with the World and soon after resigned all his Dominions to his Son in 1555 and went into a Monastery Some considerable Councils have been formerly assembled at this place Meulan Mulanum a Town and Fortress upon the Seine in the Government of the Isle of France which has a Stone Bridge over the River It stands nine Leagues above Paris to the West Henry IV. could not take the Fortress in 1589 tho he made himself Master of the Town Meun or Mehun a small Town in the Province of Berry in France upon the River Yeure betwixt Bourges and Vierzon shewing the Ruines of a Castle heretofore
him Lionel Brother of James in whom it died Middleham a Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Hangwest upon the River Youre Midhurst a Corporation in the County of Suffolk in Chichester Rape which returns two Members of Parliament Midlewich a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Northwich upon the River Croke near its fall into the Dane Midour Midorius a River in Gascogne in France which ariseth in the County of Armagnac and floweth Westward through Marsan the Capital of which it washeth then takes in the Douse and beneath Tartas sixteen Miles from Bourdeaux to the South falls into the Adour Mignone Minio Magnone a River of Italy which ariseth in Sabatina and flowing through S. Peter's Patrimony falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea between Civita Vecchia and Cornetto Milan Milano Mediolanum by the Germans called Meilandt one of the greatest and most noble Cities in Italy built by the Galls in the year of Rome 345. three hundred and fifty seven years before the Birth of our Saviour others say it was built Anno Mundi 2488. which is above one thousand years sooner The Romans first took it in the year of Rome 531. Marcellus their General Triumphing for the Slaughter of Viridomare the Prince of it and the taking this City This City however joined with the Carthaginians in the Second Punick War and was not reduced without the loss of six thousand of her Inhabitants In the times of Christianity being converted by S. Barnabas it became an Archbishop's See and suffered very much from the Arrian Princes though in the end it preserved the Catholick Faith Attila King of the Huns took and spoiled this and several Neighbouring Cities particularly Florence and Verona in the year of Christ 452. The next that became Masters of it were the Lombards who possess'd themselves of it about 570. It continued under this Nation till 774. under a Succession of twenty three Princes Only it is said Aribert the seventeenth King gave the Duchy of Milan to the Church of Rome But the Successors of this Prince not agreeing with the Popes Adrian I. procured Charles the Great to destroy this Kingdom who took Desiderius carried him Prisoner into France and put an end to the Kingdom of the Lombards in the year of Christ 774. It continued under this Family and the Emperors of Germany till 1161 when it took part with Pope Alexander III. against Frederick Barbarossa and was for it rased to the ground but it recovered and outing the Emperors about 1221. became a Republick and continued so till 1277. when it fell under Otho by the Title of Visconti but as subject to the Emperors of Germany John Galeazo the eighth of these was made a Duke by Wenceslaus I. Emperor in 1395. It continued under Dukes till Lewis XII in 1501. by the Conquest of Lewis an usurping Duke got it Maximilian got it from the French in 1513. Francis a Brother of this Maximilian the seventeenth Duke succeeded him in 1529. Francis I. King of France won and lost it again in 1521. And being taken Prisoner by the Forces of Charles V. in the Battel of Pavia in 1525 he was forced for his Liberty to renounce all his Pretences to this Duchy upon the death of Francis Sforze in 1535. it was by Charles V. united for ever to the Crown of Spain under which it still is At this day after all these Sufferings it is the greatest and most beautiful City in Lombardy the most populous too its Inhabitants being thought to be two hundred thousand Souls It s Trade is equal to its Greatness and the Inhabitants very rich It is seven Miles in compass has one of the strongest Cittadels in the World with an University It stands upon the River Olona three hundred and twenty five Miles from Rome one hundred and sixty five from Venice and two hundred and thirty from Lyons Long. 31. 30. Lat. 44. 40. In the years 344. and 350 two Councils were here Congregated against the Arrians In 355. the Arrians carried it against the adverse Party and sent a great number thereof into Banishment In 390. there was another celebrated against Jovinian In 451. the Doctrine of the Incarnation of the Word as expressed in the Epistle of Pope Leo to Flavianus Bishop of Constantinople received the approbation of a Council at this place In 679. they held another against the Menethelites And divers since of inferior note § The Dukedom of Milan is a part of Lombardy bounded on the North by Switzerland and the Grisons on the East by the Republick of Venice and the Dukedom of Placentia on the South by the States of Genoua and on the West by Montisferat and Piedmont The Soil is extreamly fruitful plain well watered very full of People and consequently well improved It especially abounds with Vines and Barley Heretofore much greater than now It contained twenty nine Cities which are now reduced to ten Alessandria Bobbio Como Cremona Lodi Milan Novara Pavia Tortona and Vigevan Of the Fate and History of this Dukedom I have spoken in the Description of the City and I need add nothing here but that it is accounted the richest and noblest Dukedom in Christendom as Flanders is the noblest Earldom Milel Lethon a River in Africa in Cyrene Mileto Melita See Melito Miletus one of the most considerable antient Cities of Ionia in the Lesser Asia with a Port to the Aegean Sea upon the Frontiers of Caria and near the River Meander Founded in the year of the World according to Eusebius 2779 and in the beginning famous above the rest of Greece for Naval Forces They built the Town Naucratis in Egypt and made War with Sadyatus King of Lydia Alexander M overcame them next the Romans Thales the eldest Philosopher Anaximander and Anximenes were Natives of this City Milebum Milevis or Mela an ancient City in the division of Numidia in Africa Aurelius Archbishop of Carthage assembled a Council here in 402. There was another in 416. at which S. Augustine assisted The latter condemned the Principles of Pelagius and Caelestius touching Grace and Infant-Baptism Milford Haven a Celebrated Sea-Port in the County of Pembroke in South Wales upon the Irish Sea Milau a Territory in Rovergue in France Ager Aemilianus Milaud Milhaud Millialdum Amilhanum a City of France in the Province of Rovergue in the Borders of Languedoc upon the River Tarn which watering Alby falls into the Garonne Its Fortifications were razed in 1629. This City is seated in Givaudan seven Leagues from Lodeve to the North and eight from Rhodez to the North East heretofore very strong Mildenhall a large and populous Market Town in the County of Suffolk and the Hundred of Lackford upon the Banks of a River running into the Ouse adorn'd with a fair Church Milli Milliacum commonly called Milli en Gatinois is a Town in the Territory of Gastinois in the Isle of France upon the Rivulet of Escolle five Leagues from Melun and twelve
it self the Publick Schools and Physick Garden are admired by all By the Charter of K. Edward III. the Mayor of the City stands bound to obey the Orders and live in Subjection to the Vicechancellour of the Vniversity which from the time of its Restauration under K. Alfred has been all along accounted one of the four principal Vniversities of Europe the three other being Paris Salamanca and Bologna Henry VIII added in the year 1541. the Honor of a Bishop's See Aubrey de Vere the present Earl of Oxford is the twentieth of his Family which has been honored with this Title ever since the year 1155 or as others say in 1137. It is certain he is the first Earl in England Long. 19. 20. Lat. 52. 01. This City having suffered very much with and for Charles the Martyr after a Siege from May 2. to June 24. 1646 was surrendred to the Parliamentarians Oxirynchus or Oxgrynchus an ancient Town in the Kingdom of Egypt mentioned by Evagrius He says the Inhabitants were almost all Monks or Nuns and that it had then twelve Churches besides the Monasteries Oyse Aesia a River of France which ariseth in Picardy and running Southward by Guise and la Fere takes in there the Serre then entering the Isle of France at Compeigne it takes in the Aysne and between Clermont and Senlis passeth to Pont-Oyse beneath which it falls into the Seyne eight Leagues below Paris Ozaca a great City of the Kingdom of Japan in the Island of Niphonia with a splendid Castle belonging to the King built some few years since The Island is in a very large Bay of the Province of Jetsesena The City stands in the middle of the Island fifty Leagues from Meaco to the North-East Ozsurgheti Ozurietum the Capital City of the Kingdom of Guriel in Georgia where the King of Guriel resides Ozwieczin Ozviecinum a Town in the Lesser Poland in the Palatinate of Cracovia upon the Vistula where it takes in the Sala scarce three Polish Miles from Silesia and about seven from Cracovia to the West It has a Timber Castle seated in a Morass Honored with the Title of a Dukedom In the year 1654 it returned to the Crown of Poland after it had for many years been annexed to Silesia This Town is called by the Germans Ausch-Wits P A. PAchacama a famous fertile and pleasant Valley in the Kingdom of Peru four Leagues from Lima where stood in the times of the Yncas or Indian Emperors of Peru a most magnificent Temple by them built to the honour of the Creator of the Vniverse says Garcillasus not of the Sun as others misrepresent their Devotion Its Ruines are yet apparent This Temple was immensely rich with the Treasures especially hidden in it when Pizarro became Master of the Country It is said himself drew thence above nine hundred thousand Duccates Pacamores a People of Peru near the Confluence of the Maranio and the River of Amazons Pacca the Moorish Name of Beja a City of Portugal Pactolus a River of the Lesser Asia which ariseth in Lydia from the Mountain Tmolus and passeth by the City Sardis into the Hermus now Sarabat whence it is also by the Moderns called by the same Name of Sarabat The antient Poets often quote its golden Sands Padeborn Paderborn Paderborna Padeburna a City of Westphalia which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Mentz by the Institution of Charles the Great who held a Diet or Parliament here in 777. In 799. Pope Leo III. took refuge in this City In 999. it happened to be burnt In 1002. the Empress Cunegonda was crowned at it Of old an Imperial and Free City but since exempt and in the Hands of its own Bishop ever since 1604. It is seated near the Rise of the River Lippe twelve Miles from Munster to the North-East and ten from Cassel to the South-West about two Miles from it lies the Castle of Newhaus built by Theodore Furstemberg Bishop of this Seâ— in the year 1590 for the Residence of the Bishop Long. 30. 30. Lat. 51. 45. § The Bishoprick of Paderborn is a Tract in the Circle of Westphalia bounded on the North by the County of Lippâ— on the East by Munster on the South by Hassia and on the West by the Dukedom of Westphalia It is from North to South forty Miles The principal Places in it are Paderborn Brackel and Warburgh Ferdinand Furstemberg Bishop of this Diocese has written a History of it Padoua Patavium a Ciâ—y of Italy in the States of Venice upon the Rivers Brenta and Bachiglione twenty four Miles from Venice to the West eighteen from Vicenza and forty eight from Ferrara to the North. All the ancient Writers agree this City was built by Antenor a Trojan particularly Virgil speaking of Antenor says Hic tamen ille urbem Patavi sedesque locavit soon after the Ruin of Troy They pretend to shew his Tomb here upon which there is an Inscription in Gothick Letters that cannot be equally old In this City was brought into the World Livy the great Roman Historian About the year of Christ 452 it was ruined by Attila King of the Huns rebuilt by the Inhabitants of Ravenna About an hundred years after the Lombards destroyed it and Charles the Great refounded it In 1140. it came into the Possession of the Carrarii In 1221 Frederick II. Emperor opened the University here In 1403. John Galeatius Duke of Milan put an end to this Family and three years after the Venetians took it from him In 1509 it was taken from them by Maximilian I. Emperor of Germany but being soon after recovered has ever since continued under that State It is great and strong but not very populous and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Aquileja Long. 33. 58. Lat. 44. 54. The Country it stands in is so fruitful as to give occasion to this Italian Proverb to prefer Padua before either Venice or Bologna Bologna la grassa Venetia la guasta ma Padoa la passa It is made a strong place by its Castles Towers Walls and Ditches The Palaces and publick Buildings are noble the Vniversity is particularly famous for the Faculty of Physick It is the Capital of the Territory called the Padouan which comprehends Este Arqua Poluerara Castelbaldo Montagnana Mirano c. There are two Academies of the Ingenious established in it under the Titles of gli Recoverati and gli inflammati It shews the ruines of a Roman Amphitheatre And in the year 1350. a Synod was assembled in this City Padstow a Market Town in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Pider with a Haven to the North Sea Pagâ—ts â—romley a Market Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Pirehill upon the River Blithe Paglion â—auâ—on a small River which washeth the City of Nice in Piedmouâ— then falls into the Mediterranean Sea alamos a Sea-Port Town in Catalonia The Palatinate of Bavaria See Bavaria The Palatinate of the Rhine Palatinatus Rheni Palatinatus Inferior
the Hands of the Venetians after the Battel of the Dardanells In the times of ancient Paganism this City was honored with the Oracles of Mercury and Vesta and with divers Teâ—ples dedicated to Minerva Cybele Atys Jupiter and Diana as appears by their â— Ruines The Apostle S. Andrew preached and suffered his Martyrdom here It s Cittadel stands upon a high Mount so strong that in 1450 it held out against Constantius Palaeologus the Western Emperor a year They compute about four or five thousand Inhabitants in this City Greeks Turks and Jews whereof as the first possess the Cathedral so the second before the late Conquest had six Mosques and the other four Synagogues Near a thousand Churches are said to be contained in the extent of the Archbishops Province And not only the Greeks of the Neighbouring Isles but the English and French are accustomed to traffick to this Port. S. Peters Patriomony Patrimonium Sancti Petri called by the Italians La Provincia del Patrimonio is a considerable part of the Ecclesiastical State in Italy under the Papacy which was a part of the Old Hetruria Bounded on the North by Ombria on the East by Sabina on the West by the State of Siena and on the South by the Tyrrhenian Sea The Capital of this Province is Viterbo and the other Cities are Aquapendente Civita Vecchia Civita Castellana Cornetto Toscanella and Orvieto Pattesi Patsi Timethus a River on the North Side of Sicily Patti Pactae Pacta a City on the North Shoar of Sicily at the Fall of the River Pattesi into the Tyrrhenian Sea forty eight Milesâ—rom Messina to the West eighty from Palermo to the North-East and fifty from Catania to the North. This City was built by Roger Earl of Sicily after the Expulsion of the Moors made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Messina by Pope Eugenius III. and now in a good Estate Pau Epaunum Palum the Capital of the Province of Bearn in Aquitain in France seated upon the River Gave thence called le Gave de Pau four Leagues from Oleron to the East nine from the Borders of Arragon to the North and eighteen from Dax to the South-East Henry IV. King of Navarr was born in the Castle belonging to this City December 13. 1557. A Castle of the Foundation of Henry d' Albert King of Navarre and Prince of Bearn who in 1519 established also a Parliament here which Lewis the Thirteenth King of France reestablished in 1621 together with the Roman Catholick Religion that had been thence expelled by the Huguenots in the Civil Wars Pavia Ticinum a City in the Dukedom of Milan in Italy of great Antiquity called in latter times Papia Papia Flavia and now Pavia It stands upon the River Tesino Tecinum twenty Leagues from Milan to the South fifty from Genoua and thirty four from Piacenza to the West Built by the Ligurians and thought more Ancient than Milan Attila ruined it and Odoacer besieged Orestes in it The Lombards took it not without great difficulty under Alboinus their first King in the Year 569. After this it became the Capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards and continued such till in the Year 773. Charles the Great took this City and Desiderius their last King therein Afterwards it became the Seat of the Kingdom of Italy to which Otto I put an end in the Year 951. by the Expulsion of Berengarius and his Son In 1004. it suffered very much by a fire About the Year 1059 it had a sharp War with the City of Milan In the Year 1361. here was an University opened by Charles IV. Emperor of Germany under Galeatius Duke of Milan under whom this City then was Francis I of France in 1525. attempting to take it was defeated by the Spaniards and himself taken Prisoner In 1527. it was taken by the French under Lautrech but soon after returned under the King of Spain as Duke of Milan and being again attempted by the French in 1655. they were the second time defeated by the Spaniards it continues under Spain to this day Next Milan the best City in that Dukedom a Principality and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Milan but exempt from the Jurisdiction of that Metropolitan It has one of the greatest and fairest Stone Bridges in Italy and many pieces of Antiquity the Castle amongst them which was the Royal Palace of the Kings of Lombardy The body of S. Austin is deposited in a Monastery of Religious here of the order of his name There have been several Ecclesiastical Councils assembled at this City Particularly that in 1076 held by the Partisans of the Emperor Henry IV. is remarkable for its condemning Pope Gregory VII who had excommunicated them before at a Council in Rome The Territory belonging to it is called the Pavese Pavosan Pavoasanum a City in the Island of S. Thomas Pautzkerwick the German name of the Bay of Dantzick La Paz Pax a City of Peru between the Mountains of Brasil to the East and the Lake Titiaca to the West which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima situate upon the River Cavane Pazzi Pachya a City of Thrace which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Heraclia The Peak in Derbyshire lyes in the North-west parts of the County amongst the Mountains And is a famous place as well for its Lead and Quarries as for the three Caves whose height length and depth with the just tides of water ebbing and flowing from them and the strange irregularities of the Rocks within appropriate to them the character of so many Wonders To which must be added Buxton Wells where out of the same Rock in the compass of eight or nine yards arise nine several medicinal Springs eight warm the ninth very cold which at the distance of three hundred foot receive another hot Spring from a Well near the Ebullition of another that is cold again Pedena Petina a small City in Histria in Italy which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja and the Head of a Territory of the same name under the Dominion of the Emperor Twenty two Miles from Pola to the North and sixty from Laubach to the South near the Head of the River Arsa which divides Italy from Illyricum Pedeo Pedaeus a River on the East of the Isle of Cyprus Pedir Pedira a City in the North of the Island of Sumatra which has a Haven under the King of Acem Peelandt a Tract in Brabam Pegian the Lesser Armenia Pegu Peguum one of the Principal Cities in the Further East-Indies called by the Inhabitants Bayon and by the Europeans Pegu. It has a Noble Palace belonging to the King of Pegu which is fortified in the manner of a Castle and stands upon a River of the same name which falls a little lower into the Bay of Bengala Long. 126. 05. Lat. 19. 55. The Kingdom of Pegu was once a most Potent Empire in the Further East-Indies containing twenty six Kingdoms in
obscure and not above two Miles in compass with four Gates inclosing only the Capitoline and Palatine Mountains It continued under seven Princes two hundred forty five years when Sextus the Son of Tarquinius ravishing Lucretia a Roman Lady it so incensed them that thereupon they not only dethroned Tarquinius but for many Ages they would not endure the Name much less the Authority of a King but lived under Temporary accountable Magistrates Consuls two together yearly elected with Praetors Tribunes Quaestors Censors Praefects and other Magistrates under them And when extream necessity required it they created a temporary Dictator with Supreme Authority over all At this time their Empire was not above fifteen Miles in length and this Change greatly hazarded the Ruin of the Insant City In the year of Rome 365. during the Consular Government it was taken by Brennus King or General of the Gaules and all but the Capitol burnt down to the ground yet it continued a Free State though sorely shaken by Hannibal about the year five hundred thirty seven and by their own Domestick Broils under Marius and Sylla between the years 665. and 672. But the fatal time being come Julius Caesar in the year of Rome 705. by the Battel of Pharsalia put an end to that Commonwealth forty six years before the Birth of our Saviour making himself to be declared Perpetual Dictator and Emperour and the Name of the Commonwealth of Rome to be changed into the Roman Empire And though the Civil Wars broke out again to the great hazard not only of their Empire but Being yet Augustus in the Battel of Actium put a happy Period to them in 721. and prepared the World to receive the Prince of Peace by an Universal Peace He was born under this Prince in the year of Rome 753. and of the World 3950. The times that followed were fatal to Rome which double dyed her Purple in the Blood of Holy Men who endeavoured to reduce her from the Vassalage of Doemons to the Knowledge and Service of the True God To these an end was put by Conslantine the Great by the Defeat of Maxentius under the Walls of Rome in the year of Christ 312. of Rome 1064. This great Prince laid soon after the foundation of the Ruin of Rome by removing the Seat of the Empire to Byzantium or Constantinople in the year of Christ 330. which afterwards brought on the Division of the Empire into the Eastern and Western Alaricus King of the Goths in 410. of Rome 1162. took and spoiled this City Gensericus the Vandal followed him and in 455. took it the second time Odoacer took it in 465. Ricimere in 472. Totila in 547. So that in the space of one hundred thirty seven years it was taken and spoiled by these Barbarous Nations four times In 580. it was besieged by the Lombards and preserved by the Emperours Forces which were sent to relieve it Leo IV. in 593. bestowed something in the repair of it Rome was now recovered by the Eastern Emperours Justinian by Narses his General in Italy having slain Totila in 553. and three years after by the taking of Capua having put an happy end to the Gothick War in Italy This City continued under those Princes till 726. when under Gregory II. Italy by the procurement of that Pope revolted because Leo the Emperour had by an Edict prohibited the Worship of Images The Lombards were very instrumental in this Change Neither could they and the Popes long agree but Aistulphus in 753. besieged Rome and Pope Stephen III. obtaining no relief from the Emperour against the Lombards sends for Pepin King of France who came and delivered him for that time Desiderius the next King of the Lombards got Rome by a Stratagem in 770. and using his Power tyrannically Charles the Great in 774. was called in who put an end to the Kingdom of the Lombards and made the Western Empire once more considerable The Lombards and these French Princes in order to oblige the Popes by the Ties of Gratitude to them had at several times bestowed several Territories upon the See of Rome Charles the Great reserved to himself and his Successors the Approbation of the future Popes which was confirmed by a Council held at Rome in 773. This in after-times embroiled the Popes and the Western Emperours as much as ever the Eastern and the Lombards were For Charles the Great being crowned at Rome in 800. his Posterity had frequent quarrels with the Popes the Clergy and City of Rome about the Elections of the Popes The first Invasion was made by Stephen VI. about 817. under Lewis the Gentle who is pretended to have granted away that Right of electing the Pope which had been acknowledged in Charles the Great In 819. Paschal I. a Roman was chosen Pope against the Will of this Prince But in 823. Lothaire coming to Rome to receive the Crown put this Pope to purge himself by Oath and slew many of the Nobility for setting him up against the Emperours Will for which that See bore him no kindness Gregory IV. in 833. finding Pepin his Son in rebellion against him and pretending to reconcile them when he came into Germany he took part with his Son against the Father and Pope-like threatned to excommunicate the Emperour if he did not resign the Empire to his Son which Treachery of his in 839 was severely revenged by Lothaire the Emperour by taking many Places from him in Italy In 839. the Saracens sorely distressed the Papacy which necessitated the Pope to have recourse to the Emperour for Protection and he had it In this Invasion the Saracens wasted the Suburbs of Rome as they did in 846. which occasioned the building of the Castle of S. Angelo by Pope Sergius II. The Empire being translated from the Franks to the Germans in the Person of Arnulph a Natural Son of Carloman against him Formosus crowns Guido a Rival in 891. And in 893. sendeth for Arnulph to come and free Rome from the oppressions of this Guido Arnulph comes into Italy and in 906. took Rome A Schism being about this time in the Church of Rome there was little done by the Popes till Berengarius growing Potent in Italy necessitated them to seek to Otho I. who being crowned at Rome in 962. a Council there held in 964. acknowledged the same Right in him that had been in Charles the Great Gregory VII on this account begins a quarrel with Henry IV. Emperour sets up Anti-Emperours and excommunicates the Emperour in 1076. whereupon that Prince thus provoked besieged Rome in 1081. took it in 1084. and burnt it and soon after this Turbulent Pope died in Banishment in great misery In 1242. Pope Gregory IX having excommunicated Frederick II. Emperour for refusing to give the See of Sardinia to Rome and proclaiming a Croysade against the Emperour that Prince defeated his Army and following his blow took Ravenna Siena and Faenza with divers of the Cardinals and
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-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