Names of Nilus Alopecki a People of Attica near Athens amongst whom according to Diogenes Laertius Socrates had his Nativity Alost a Town in Flanders upon the River Dender This Town was taken by the French in 1667 but restored to the Spaniards again who now have it It lies in the middle between Brussels and Gaunt one mile from Dendermonde There was an Earldom belonging to this place which had Earls of its own till 1165. when it fell to Philip E. of Flanders by Inheritance and was by him united for ever to Flanders Alpes called by the Germans Alben is a long Ridg of Mountains which divide Italy from France and Germany It begins at Port Monaco a Town belonging to the States of Genoua upon the Mediterranean but in the Hands of the French ever since the Year 1641. And ends at the Gulph of Carnaro a part of the Adriatick Sea South of Istria a Province belonging to the Republick of Venice It is divided into divers parts and each of them has its proper Name besides the General From the Port of Monaco to the Fountains of the River Var they are called the Maritim Alpes From thence to Susa the Cottian Alpes from Susa to S. Bernard the less they are called the Greek Alpes from thence to S. Gothard the Pennine Alpes next to these follow the Grison Alpes to the Fountain of the River Piave that part of them which lie near the City of Trent are called by its Name Those that follow as far as Dolak are called the Norician Alpes from the Fountains of Tajamento to those of the Drave they are called the Carinthian Alpes the last are the Julian or Pannonian Alpes Yet some extend them as far as Dalmatia and others carry them to Thrace and the Euxine Sea but it is the most received opinion that they end at the Fountains of the River di Kulpe in Liburnia Thus far Cluvirius Alpheus See Orfea Alpon Vecchio Alpinus a River in the Territories of Verona which falls into the Adige a River which belongs to the States of Venice Alpuxaras Alpuxarae a considerable body of Mountains in the Kingdom of Granada in Spain they were once well peopled but are almost desolate now the Moors that inhabited them having been banished by Philip III. Alre Alera a River in Saxony in Germany See Allere Alrick or Elrick Alriens a River in Twedale in Scotland which falls into the Tweede Al 's or Alsits Alisuntia a River of the Dukedom of Luxemburg in the Low-Countries which washeth the Walls of the principal City and then with the Saar another River of the same Dukedom falls into the Moselle above Treves Alsatia called by the Germans Elsass by the French Alsace in a Province of Germany in the upper Circle of the Rhein lying between Schwaben on the East Lorain on the West the lower Palatinate the Territory of Spire the Dukedom of Bipont towards the North and upon the Switzors toward the South It is divided into three parts Alsatia properly so called and into the lower and upper Alsatia which two last parts with the Bishoprick of Basil Spire and Philipsburgh submitted to Lewis XIII in 1634. and were yielded to the French by the Peace of Munster in the Year 1648. The Territories of the Bishop and Chapter of Strasburg which lie on this side the Rhine belong to the lower Alsatia Alsen Alsa or Alsia is an Island of Denmark in the Baltick Sea on the Eastern-Shoar of the Dukedom of Sleswick from which it is parted by a small Channel At the South end of it stands a magnificent Castle called Suderburgh which belongs to a branch of the House of Holsatia with the Title of Duke and at the North end there is another Castle called Nordoburg possessed by another Ducal Family The whole Island is under the Dominion of the D. of Sunderburgh and is a part of the Dukedom of Sleswick Alsford a Market-Town in Hantshire Alster a River in the Dutchy of Holstein in Germany falling into the Elb above Hamburgh Alssfeldt one of the antientiest Towns in Hassia The Burgers of this Town were the first that embraced Luthers Reformation Alt Alta a small River in Lancashire falling into the Irish Sea at Ahnouth § Another in Transylvania See Olt. Altahein Alteimum an antient Town in the Country of the Grisons Altai a Mountain the same with Belgon Altaich the Upper and Lower is the Name of two famous Monastries on the Danow in the upper Palatinate They have their Names from Altaha Altachum or Altaichum two great old Oaks Altamura or Altavilla Altus Murus a Principality and City in the Province of Bari in Naples Altem-bourg vide Aldenburg Altembourg the Name also of a Town in Transylvania and of another in the Lower Hungary by the Hungarians call'd Owar ◠Of another in Bavaria upon the Danube as likewise of a Ruinated Castle of the Province of Argow in Switzerland giving the Title of a Count. Alten and Altenbotten a River and Branch of the Norwegian Ocean in the Province of Werdhuss Altino Altinum an antient City and Episcopal See within the States of Venice upon the River Sile betwixt Padoua and Concordia Ruined by Attila King of the Huns. The Bishoprick is Transfer'd to Torcello Alton a Market-Town in Hampshire Altorf Altorfium the Capital City of the Canton of Vri upon the River Russ in Switzerland at the Foot of the Alps. § Also a City and University in Franconia upon the River Schwartzac The University was Founded by the Magistrates of Nuremberg in 1579. and received its Privileges from the Emperour Rodolph II. in 1581. There is a Castle to it § A small but antient Town within 2 miles of Ravenspurg in the upper Schwaben in Germany the Guelpian Family were usually Buried here This Town belongs to the House of Austria and is the Residence of the high Commissioners of Suevia Altringham a Market-Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Buclow Alzira a rich and pleasant tho small City in the Kingdom of Valencia in Spain betwixt two Arms of the River Xucar over which it has two Bridges about 5 Leagues from Valencia Am a famous City in Armenia computed to have 100000 Houses and 1000 Churches Taken by the Tartars in 1219. Amachaches Amacari an American People in Brasil towards St. Sebastian Amacusa an Island and Province under Japan in the East-Indies having its Capital City of the same Name Amadabat or Armadabat a Populous City of great Trade in the Kingdom of Guzurate in the East Indies which finds out of its own Revenue for the Service of the Great Mogul 12000 Horse and 50 Elephants The Chan or Governour assumes the quality of a Prince It is 18 Leagues from Cambaya near the River Indus adorn'd with a Mosque of extraordinary magnificence where lie the Sepulchres of many of their antient Kings being heretofore and Idol Temple of the Heathens till the Turks got the Possession of it Amadan one of the finest and most considerable Cities in Persia
restore her Virginity § Also a City in Caelosyria in Asia which has sometime been a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bastro mentioned by Ptolomy Canavese a Country in the principality of Piedmont betwixt the City Juraea and the River Po yielded to the Duke of Savoy by the Treaty of Querasque in 1631. Canche Cantius Quentia a River of Picardy springing near Blavincour in Artois passing by Ligny sur Canche receiving the Ternois at Hesdin and falling into the Ocean at Montreuil and Estaples Cancheu a great City in the Province of Kiangsi in China with a Territory of the same Name that is honored with the Government of a Viceroy distinct from the Viceroy of Kiangsi who resides in this City and commands also some Towns in the Provinces adjacent of Fokien Quantung and Huquang It is a place of extraordinary Trade and concourse Candahar Candahara the Capital of the Province of that Name belonging to the Kingdom of Persia and one of the greatest inland Cities of Asia seated on the Eastern Shoar of the River Balcan which running Northward falls into the Oboengir which last by Oxus or Gehun is conveyed in the Caspian Sea On the East it is defended by a strong Wall on the West by an high Mountain in the middle of it is a Rock on which is built a Castle The Suburbs are greater than the City and much frequented by the Persian and Indian Merchants who pass to and fro through it It lies in Long. 110. Lat. 34. 40. This City has been often taken and retaken between the Mogul and the King of Persia till at lâ—st the latter possessed himself of it and still keeps it Cande or Candes Candensis Vicus a Town in the Province of Touraine in France upon the Loyre where S. Martin the Bishop so much extolled by Sulpitius Severus who writes his Life dyed Nov. 11. An. Dom. 400. § Likewise a River in Languedoc falling into the Aveirou Candea or Candi the most considerable Kingdom in the Island of Ceylan in the East-Indies and a great and populous City the capital thereof upon the River Trinquilemale Candei an antient People of the Gulph of Arabia call'd heretofore Ophiomages from their eating of Serpents Candelaro a River of the Kingdom of Naples springing out of the Apennine Mountains in the Capitanata and ending in the Adriatick near Manfredonia Candelona or Candelora a Town and principality in the Province of Caramania in the lesser Asia The Town stands upon the Bay of Laiazzo between the lesser Asia and Syria eight Miles from Antioch to the North and 5 from Scanderoon to the South Candia Creta Jovis Insula in Virgil being heretofore consecrated to him is one of the noblest Islands in the Mediterranean Sea lying opposite to the Mouth of the Archipelago In Length from East to West two hundred and fifty Miles in Breadth sixty in Circuit five hundred and forty Heretofore it was full of a hundred potent Cities and thence call'd Hecatompolis most of which are now ruined To omit the more antient Story of this Island it was granted by Baldwin Earl of Flanders to the Earl of Montisferat who in 1194. sold it to the Venetians Others say that when the Latins in 1204 took Constantinople this and the other Islands in the Aegean Sea fell to the Venetians for their share In 1645. the Turks invaded it and in 1669. by taking of Candia possess'd themselves of all but two or three Forts upon the Sea The inland Parts are very mountainous yet fruitful especially of Wines and other such Fruits but it wants Corn. Whilst it was under the Venetians it was so populous that they might raise in it 60000 Men. The Language there then used was the vulgar Greek and they were accordingly of the Greek Church though with a mixture of the Latin Service in some places Now divided into four Territories or jurisdictions call'd Candia Canea Rettina and Sittia from the four Principal Cities in it of those Names Long. 51. Lat. 34. § Candia the chief City of the Isle of Crete called by the Greeks Castro and Candax was an Archbishop's See great rich and populous as long as it continued in the Hands of the Venetians And stood the longest Siege against the Turks of any place in the World but was at last forced to submit September 27. 1669. upon Conditions very honourable after a Blockade of 22 Years from 1645. to 1667. and a Siege of two more from 1667. to 1669. In which space the Turks are thought to have lost about 600000 Men before it It lies on the Northern shoar of that Island something nearer to the Western End The Labyrinth of Minos in a Grott cut out of a Rock is yet to be seen here Canea an Episcopal City in the Island of Candia and the Capital of an adjacent Territory denominated from it Taken by the Turks Aug. 26. 1645. which loss was an Introduction to the long Blockade and Siege of Candia Canesham a Market-Town in Somersetshire seated at the fall of the River Chire into the Avon near Bristol Cangria See Gangra Canisa See Kanisa Cannares Savages of Peru in the Province of Quito Cannae Cannata desâ—rutta in Italian is a ruined small Town in the Province of Apulia in Italy where Hannibal engaging the Romans in a bloody Battle slew 40000 of them upon the Place in the Year of Rome 558. with Paulus Aemilius Consul and so many Gentlemen that he sent to Carthage three Bushels of Rings as a Token of his vast Victory Cannes a Town in Provence in France to the Sea over against the Lerin Islands misunderstood by Cluverius to be the Oxibius Portus of Strabo because it has no Port. Cannibals the Savages of the Caribby Islands notorious for eating their Enemies whether taken alive or slain in the Field Cano or Ghana a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa bounded by the River Niger to the South the Kingdom of Cassena to the East the Agades to the West and the Desart to the North. The Capital City bears the same Name with it and stands upon a Lake Canopus an antient City of Aegypt towards that Mouth of the Nile which is distinguished by the same Name It has been an Episcopal See formerly and in the opinion of some Authors the Country of the Poet Claudian The modern Bochira near Alexandria is supposed to be this antient Place under a new Name Canosa Canusium an antient City in the Terra di Bari in the Kingdom of Naples with an Episcopal See that is united to the Archbishoprick of Bari five Miles from the Ruines of Cannae upon the Ascent of a Hill with the River Ofanto at the Foot of it Horace gives the Character of Bilingues to its Inhabitants in the old Roman Times because the Language they spoke was an ill mixture of Latin and Greek It was a famous place for fine Russet colour'd Cloath whence the Word Canusinati in Martial for such as wore of it In this City the Emperor Henry IV.
ancient City of Nubia in Africa And a River of the same Name in the Kingdom of Morocco Cusco Cuscum a great City of Peru in the South America one hundred and twenty Miles East from Lima. It was the Royal City of the Kings of Peru adorned with a stately Temple dedicated to the Sun and divers noble Palaces and an admirable Fortress when the Spaniards conquered it but now dispeopled and ruined Yet it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima. Cussit a Province in Aethiopia Custrin Custrinum a City in the Marquisate of Brandenburg on the East side of the River Oder where it receives the Warta four Miles North from Franckfort a very strong Place Cuzagne a small Territory or District in Aquitaine in France Cuzt a large Province of the Kingdom of Fez in Africa lying eighty Leagues along the River Gureygure as far as to the River Esaha East of the Province of Temesen and containing all the courses of the Mountain Atlas betwixt those two Rivers Cyclades a Circle of little Islands in the Archipelago surrounding the Island of Delos call'd Paros Andros Zea Micoli Naxia Quiniminio c. Cyclopes the original Inhabitants of the Island of Sicily living about Mount Aetna whose extraordinary height mixt with fierceness occasioned many Fictions amongst the Poets Cydnus a River of Cilicia in Asia the Less passing by Cogni and Tharsus Alexander the Great took a desperate Sickness by bathing in it and some say the Emperor Frederick Barberaosse died of the coldness of its Water as he returned from the East in the year 1100. Cydonia the same with Canea in Candia Cylley Celia a City of Stiria in Germany upon the River Saana which a little lower falls into the Save it stands ten Miles from Lambach to the East and as many from Draburgh to the South-East The Capital of a County of the same Name and belongs to the Emperor of Germany there is in it two very strong Castles and many Roman Antiquities are thereabouts discovered Cynopolis an ancient City of the Kingdom of Egypt upon the Western part of the Nile remark'd heretofore for the Worship of the God called Anubis in it Cynthus a Mountain in the Island of Delos upon which the ancient Pagans built a celebrated Temple in the honour of Apollo who together with Diana was supposed to be born here of Lâ—tona Cyparissa an ancient Town of the Morea that did belong to the Government of Messene and imparted its Name to the Cape and Gulph adjacent Cyprus an Island of the Mediterranean Sea called by the Turks and Arabians Kubros about sixty Miles North from the Shoars of Syria and Anatolia and extended in length from East to West two hundred and twenty its Circuit about five hundred and fifty This Island is so very fruitful the Air so pleasant and the Hills abounding so with Metals that it was by all the Ancients call'd The Happy Island Ammianus Marcellinus saith it could build a Ship and fraight her out to Sea out of what grew here without the help of any other place The first Inhabitants were the Cilicians who yielded to the Phenicians as these did to the Greeks Ptolomy the last King of this Island knowing that Cato was sent against him by the Romans put an end to his own Life It continued in the hands of the Greek Emperors till 656. when it was conquered by the Saracens In 807. the Emperors recovered it but Richard I. King of England going to the Holy War in 1191. and being ill used by the Inhabitants made a Conquest of it for England and gave it to Guy de Lusignan whose Successors were dispossessed by the Templars in 1306. In 1472. the Venetians possessed themselves of it in 1560. Selim the Grand Seignor gained it from them whose Successor at this day enjoys it not without some Confusion and as occasion serves Insurrection of the Inhabitants against the Turks There are three considerable places in it Merovige at the West end Colosso on the South side and Famagusta on the same side more to the East and about eight hundred and fifty Villages Cypsella See Ipsala Cyr Ciropolis Cyrus the same with Carin Cyrene See Cairoan Cythera See Cerigo Cyziqua an ancient City of Asia built in the twenty fourth Olympiad upon the Propontis and honoured in the Primitive Ages of Christianity with a Metropolitan See under the Patriarch of Constantinople Over against the Ruines of it stands a little Island famous for the Marble that they call the Marble of Cyziqua Czaslaw Czaslavia a very small City in Bohemia upon the River Crudimka nine Miles from Prague to the East with a considerable Prefecture belonging to it John Zisca the famous Captain of the Hussites who so sharply revenged the deaths of John Hus and Jerome of Prague was here buried Czeben See Hermanstat Czenstokow or Czeschow Chestocovia a Town in Poland upon the River Warta twenty five Miles East of Breslaw ten North-West of Cracovia It is strong as well by Situation as its Fortifications Czeremissi a Province or rather a People of Moscovy reduced under the Empire of the Grand Duke in the year 1552. Lying on both sides of the River Wolga betwixt the Cities Novogorod-Nisi and Casan They are partly Mahometans and partly Pagans of the Race of the Tartars Czeremicz Sulonia a Town in Dalmatia Czernikow or Czernishaw Czernihovia a City and Dutchy in Poland upon the River Deszna which falls into the Nieper at Kiovia twenty eight Miles South-West of Szernikow or Czernihow This City is now in the hands of the Russ as also the Dukedom thereunto belonging called by the same name They belonged originally to the Russ and together with Novogrod were conquered by Vladislaus IV. King of Poland so that the Russ has only recovered what was his own Czernobel a Town in the Palatinate of Volhinia in Poland upon the River Vsz two or three Leagues from the Borysthenes of little consideration Czersk a Palatinate and Czesko a City upon the Vistula seven Polish Miles above Warzovia or Warshaw Czyrkassi Czyrcassia a strong Town in the Vkraine upon the Nieper twenty seven Polish Miles beneath Kiovia towards the Euxine Sea it has suffered great Extremities of late years from the Cossacks and Tartars being a Frontier to both those People Czyrknizerzee or Zirichnitz Lugeum a great Lake in the Province of Carniola in Germany extended the space of four Miles betwixt the Woods and Mountains towards Italy full of Fish ebbing and flowing extraordinarily and begetting a fruitful Soyl. D A DAbir or Debir an ancient City of the Anakims in Palestine near Hebron It had been formerly call'd Kirjah-Sepher i. e. the City of Learning as we read Judg. 1. 11. And was first taken by Joshua Josh 11. 21. afterwards by Othniel Judges 1. 13. with a reward of the General Caleb's Daughter given him to Wife for his Victory Dabul Dabulum Dunga a strong Maritime City with a large Port and a Castle at the Mouth of the
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
Pius II. It was a flourishing University in 1386. but when founded is not known to me Several Popes Alexander III. Pius II. Pius III. Alexander VII and great Men have been Natives of this place its greatest glory is S. Catherine of Siena a Dominican who persuaded Pope Gregory IX to leave Avignon She died in 1380. Canonized by Pope Pius II. in 1461. Sierra-Liona a chain of Mountains upon the Frontiers of Nigritia and Guinee in Africa therefore placed sometimes in the one and sometimes in the other by Writers It gives name to the River Sierra-Liona and to a large African Kingdom whither the English French Dutch and Porteguese traffick for Ivory Ambergrease Pepper Crystal Coral pieces of Gold c. The English for the security of their Commerce built themselves a Fort upon the River Sierra-Liona which in 1664 was lost to the Dutch In 1607 the King of this Country with his Family and others received Christian Baptism of Father Barreira a Portuguese Jesuit of the Mission The Portuguese called him Dom Philippe de Lion in allusion to the name of his Kingdom The present King is also a Christian tho the greatest part of the People Heathens His Kingdom extends from Cape Verga to Cape Tagrin and hath its name from the noise of the Sea against the Rocks and the thunder from the Mountains of it resembling the roaring of a Lion Sierras-Nevadas a Chain of Mountains in Castile d'Or in South America extended the space of forty Leagues and accounted two in height being tho near the Line in the hottest seasons always covered on the top with Snow as it is intimated in its Name Siga a City of Mauritania Caesariensis in Africa with a Port upon the Mediterranean in the Kingdom of Algiers It is an ancient City and in Christian times has been a Bishop's See Now called Humain A River of its own name Siga falls into the Mediterranean here Sigan a City of the Province of Xensi in China which is the Capital over thirty five other Cities Sige and Sigeium Promontorium an ancient Episcopal City of Troas in Asia minor ruined For the Promontory see Janizzari Sigeth Salinae Metuharis a strong Town the Head of a County of the same Name in the lower Hungary seated in a Marsh made by the River Alme two Hungarian Miles from the Drave seven from Alba Regalis to the South and five from Quinque Ecclesiae to the West It has a very strong Castle fortified with three Ditches and as many Walls which added to the situation of it make it very considerable Solyman the Magnificent ended his Life at Quinque Ecclesiae during the Siege of this place which was yielded to the Turks September 7. 1566 after a Defence that wanted nothing but Success to have rendered it the most celebrated that has happened Nicolas Esdrin Count of Serini Governour of it being slain in the last Sally which he made at the head of his remaining Forces It is now in the Emperor's hands by re-conquest surrendred January 15 1688. The Imperialists found therein eighty five pieces of Cannon § There is another Town of the same Name in the Vpper Hungary near the Fountains of the Tibiscus in the Principality of Transylvania Sign a Venetian Garrison in Dalmatia besieged by the Turks twenty four days in 1687 and relieved by the Forces of the Republick under General Cornaro Silaro Silarus a River in the Kingdom of Naples in former times the Boundary of Lucania and now often called il Selo and il Silaro It ariseth in the Hither Principate from the Apennine and falls into the Bay of Salerno eighteen Miles from that City to the East Il Sile Silis a River in the States of Venice which watereth the City of Treviso and then falls into the Adriatick Sea Silesia a great Province in the Kingdom of Bohemia called by the Inhabitants Slisko by the Poles Slusko by the Germans Schlesien Bounded on the East by Poland on the North by the Marquisate of Brandenburgh on the West with Lusatia and Bohemia properly so called on the South with Moravia and the Vpper Hungary It was for eight hundred and sixty years a part of Poland and revolted from that Crown under Vladislaus Loch King of Poland in 1327. In the fifteenth Century this Country generally imbraced the Doctrines of John Hus which were tolerated by Rhodolphus II. in 1609. It had at first several Princes of Royal and Sovereign Jurisdictions in their several Principalities which together with the Piastean Family ended in the Person of George William in 1675 whereupon that Country returned entirely to the Emperor as King of Bohemia having been above three hundred years ago united to the Kingdom of Bohemia The Principal Cities and Towns in this Province are Brieg Crossen Glogaw Grotkaw Jawer Lignitz Monsterberg Olss Troppaw Oppelen Ratibor Sagan Schweidnitz Volaw and Breslaw which is the Capital City of this Country It is divided into the Vpper and Lower Silesia The Isles of Silly Silurum Insulae Casiterides a knot of Islands in the Vergivian Ocean to the West of the Land's end of Cornwal an hundred and twenty Miles South of the Coast in Ireland sixty from the Land's end and an hundred and forty from Cape S. Mahe in Britagne The French call them the Sorlingues They are and ever have been under the Crown of England in all above an hundred and forty five all clad with Grass or green Moss The greatest of them is S. Mary which has a Town and Harbor of the same Name Where Queen Elizabeth in 1593 built a Castle to defend it from the Spaniards and fixed a Garrison in it King Athelstane was the first of the Saxon Kings that conquered them See Cambden Simmeren a Town and County in the Palatinate of the Rhine in Germany The Town hath a Castle belonging to it Simois a small River of Troas in Phrygia in the Lesser Asia It arileth out of Mount Ida and joining with the Scamander falls into the Archipelago together with it near Cape Janizari at the entrance into the Streights of Gallipoli Sin Sina a City in the Kingdom of China in the Province of Choquang seated at the foot of a Mountain § Also a Desart betwixt the Mountains Elim and Sinai in Arabia whither the Israelites in their March came the fifteenth day after their departure from Egypt and murmuring for hunger were relieved by an extraordinary Rain of Quails and Manna Exod. 16. 4. 13. Sinai a part of the Mountain Horeb upon the Coast of the Red Sea in the Stony Arabia separated by a large Valley from the Mountain of S. Catherine It hath at some distance from its foot a Spring of good Water and upon the top two Grotto's in Rocks at this day said to be the place where Moses received the Tables of the Law and where he passed his forty days fast It is now wholly covered with a Multitude of Chappels Convents Cells and Gardens possessed by some Latin amongst a crowd of
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
River Helevacho in the Confines of the Kingdom of Guzarate but under the King of Decan between Daman to the North and Goa to the South in 20. deg of Lat. Dacia the ancient Appellation and Division of a large Country of Europe bounded on the North by the Carpathian Mountains and the River Preuth on the East and South by the same River together with the Danube and by the Theysse on the West It was divided into 1. Dacia Ripensis which contained a part of the present Hungary and Walachia 2. Dacia Alpestris answering to another part of Walachia and to Moldavia 3. Dacia Mediterranea or Gepida in which was comprehended the present Transylvania The Albocensii Sinsi Taurissi Piephigi Biepti c. were the then Inhabitants of this Country under the Government of Kings of their own till Trajan conquering Decebalus reduced them into a Roman Province in the year of Rome 98. and affixed the Name of Colonia Vlpia Trajana to their Capital City otherwise called Varhel or Zarmisogethusa The Greeks called this people Getae It was the Romans that derived the Title of Daci and Dacae upon them Dacia also in the Monastick Writers is put abusively for Dania Daci for Dani and Dacicum for Danicum In the University of Paris the Danish College is called Collegium Dacorum The Marish and the Olt were the principal Rivers of Dacia Dacha Paropanisus a Province in the Greater Asia Dada an ancient City of Pisidia in the Lesser Asia otherwise by Ptolomy and Strabo written Adata and Adadata Dadastana an ancient City of Bithynia in Asia the Less upon the Confines of Galatia remarkable for the death of the Emperor Jovian here Dadivan a delightful Plain four or five Leagues in Circuit in the Province of Farsistan in Persia between Schiras and Lar richly planted with Orange Lemon and Pomgranate Trees and traversed by a River that affords plenty of Fish The English and Dutch residing at Ormus are wont to pass the end of the Summer here for pleasure Dafar the Seat of the ancient Homeritae in Arabia Foelix upon the Arabian Sea Daghestan or Dachestan a Province between the Kingdom of Astracan to the North and the Province of Schirwan in Persia to the South Inhabited by Tartars under a Prince of their own in security against Invasions by the means of inaccessible Mountains The principal City here is Tarku Dagho Daghoa a small Island upon the Coast of Livonia to the North of the Island of Oesel in the Baltick Sea at the mouth of the Bay of Riga which has two Castles and is under the King of Sweden Dagno Thermidava a City of Dalmatia or Albania upon the River Drino Dai or Daae an ancient People of Scythia Asiatica upon the Caspian Sea adjoining to the Massagetae Dalanguer Imaus Dalecarle Dalecarlia or Dalarne a great Province in the Kingdom of Sweden towards the Mountains of Savona and Norway which bounds it on the West on the North it hath Helsinga Gestricia on the East and Vermelandia on the South a vast Country but it has never a City or good Town in it Taking this Name from the River Dalecarle which is one of the most considerable of all the Rivers of the Kingdom of Sweden It is a Mountainous Country Dalem Dalemum a small Town of the Dutchy of Limburg in the Low Countreys under the Hollanders It stands upon a Stream two Leagues from Liege and three from Aix la Chapelle fortified with a strong Castle and adorned with the Title of an Earldom and likewise enjoying a Jurisdiction over a Territory of many Villages beyond the Meuse Dalia a Province contained within Westrogothia in the Kingdom of Sweden between the Lake of of Vener and the Prefecture of Bahuys Dalebourg is the most considerable Town in it Dallendorf a Village and Castle in Eyfel in the Dutchy of Juliers which was the Seat of the ancient Taliates sometimes called Tallenford Dalmatia the Eastern part of the ancient Illyricum called by the Ancients Delmio or Dalmatia from a City of that Name its Capital The Inhabitants of which revolting with about twenty Towns from the Kingdom of Epirus called this small District by the Name of Dalmatia Afterwards it was conquered by the Romans and after this by the Sclavonians called by the Turks Bosnaeli by the Poles Slowienska by the Italians Schiavonia by the French Dalmatie That Country which now goes by the Name is but a small part of the ancient Dalmatia lying upon the Adriatick Sea and bounded on the North by Croatia and Bosnia on the East by Servia on the South by Albania and on the West by the Adriatick in which Bounds Morlachia is included In the year 1076. Pope Gregory VII in a Council held at Salona actually erected this Country into a Kingdom by the Investiture of Demetrius then Duke of Dalmatia with all the Ensigns of Royalty Now the greatest part is under the Turks but the Sea-Coasts and Islands are in the hands of the Venetians who have taken several Forts from the Turks in this present War The Common-wealth of Ragusa lies in Dalmatia also which is not subject either to the Turks or Venetians though it payeth a voluntary Tribute to the former but in 1686. they were very earnest with the Emperor of Germany by their Embassador to undertake their Protection against the Turks The Sclavonian Language is spoken by the Natives of Dalmatia Dalton a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Loynsdale seated in a Champaign Country not far from the Sea Dam a strong Town in Flanders built of late years to secure Bruges against the Hollanders from which it stands but one League towards the North. This is still in the hands of the Spaniard § Dam a strong Town in the Dukedom of Pomerania upon the River Oder right over against Stetin which is in the Possession of the King of Sweden § Dam a Town in Gronningen three Miles from the chief City of that Province to the East and one from Delfziil to the West seated upon Damsterdiep Damala Troezeu once a City now a small Town or Village on the Eastern Shoar of the Morea twenty seven Miles from Napoli to the North-East and fourteen from Corinth to the South-East Daman or Damaon a celebrated Port on the West of Malabar in the Kingdom of Guzurate upon the Coast of the Gulph of Cambaia twenty Leagues from Surate in 20. deg of Northern Latitude in the hands of the Portuguese who built it and have so strongly fortified it that the Great Mogul in vain of late besieged it with forty thousand men Damascus is the principal and the most ancient Town in Syria seated in a Plain upon the Chrysorrhoas or a River called the Golden Stream by the Ancients surrounded with Mountains one hundred and forty Miles from Jerusalem to the South and Antioch to the North. This City is so ancient that it is not known when or by whom it was built but it is mentioned by Abraham In the succeeding Ages
the Archbishop of Seleucia now a poor Village Dominico one of the Caribby Islands in North America twenty Leagues in compass discovered by the Spaniards on a Sunday and thence so called Long. 322. 00. Lat. 14. 35. North-West of Barbadoes S. Domingo the principal City in the Island of Hispaniola built by Bartholomew Columbus in 1494. on the East Bank of the River Ozama and after in 1502. removed by Nicholas de Obando then Governor of the Island to the opposite Shoar It is situate in a pleasant Country amongst rich Pastures and has near it a safe and a large Haven enriched with the Residence of the Governour the Courts of Justice an Archbishops See many Religious Houses and an Hospital to which belongs a Revenue of twenty thousand Ducats by the year The Houses are neatly built most of Stone the Town is walled and has a Castle at the West-end of the Peer to defend the Haven It was much greater before Mexico was taken but has now not above six hundred Families of Spaniards the rest Negroes Sir Francis Drake in 1586. took it by force and kept it a Month burning a great part of the Houses and forcing the Spaniards to redeem the rest with mony Long. 305. 40. Lat. 14. 00. Domitz Domitium a strong Town not very large but well fortified in the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh on the North side of the Elbe where it receives the Elde in the Jurisdiction of the Duke of Swerine eight Miles above Lavenburgh to the West and ten from Lunenburgh to the East Dommele a River of Brabant which riseth near Peer and running North passeth by Eyndhoven or Eindoven then turning to the West it falls into the River Runne about half a Mile above Shertogenbosch through which they both pass into the Maes I find it by the Maps called De Dormale but corruptly as appeareth by L. Guicciardin and a Town a Mile above Eindoven on this River called Dommelen Domochi Domonichus a small Village in Thessalia once a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Larissa It lies South-West of Larissa and Volo and is mentioned in Mr. Morden's Map Don Tanais Donato Isaurus a River of Calabria Vlterior it falls by Cerenza and Neto into the Mediterranean Sea between Cotrone and Strongoli one Mile beneath S. Severina Donaw See Danube Donawert Donaverda Donavertia Vertia a City in Schwaben in Germany upon the Danube over which it has a Bridge it lies in the Confines of the Dukedoms of Newburgh and Bavaria seven German Miles from Auspurgh to the North and from Ingolstad to the West This City was in 1420. made a Free Imperial City by Sigismund the Emperour but in 1607. it lost this Privilege and is now subject to the Duke of Bavaria Doncaster or Dimcaster a Town in the West-Riding of Yorkshire on the River Done or Dune called by Antoninus DANVM in 759. burnt with Lightning but being by degrees rebuilt with a fair Church and Castle and becoming a Town of good Accommodations and Trade it has had the Honor of giving the Title of an Earl to James late Duke of Monmouth and some others The River Done riseth near Denbye and running South-East watereth Sheafield then turning North-East goeth by Rotheram where it takes in from the North another considerable River called as I suppose Dar or Dare then passing by Doncaster a little more East it takes in the River Went and soon after ends in the River Are at Tunbridge and both the Are and Done enter the Ouse about three Miles further thirteen Miles beneath York from which great City Doncaster stands two and twenty Miles to the South Doncheri a Town in the Territory of Retelois in Champagne towards the Frontiers of Luxembourg upon the Meuse betwixt Charleville and Sedan It is a fortified Town Done a River See Doncaster Donetz a vast River which riseth in Dikoia near Borissagorda and running Eastward turns and falls into the Tanais now called Donon Donitz too of which I shall give a further account in Tanais There is another River Donitz which riseth more East and falls into the Tanais more to the North at Gilocha Dongo a Town in Japan Donostein Menlascus a River of Guipiscoa in Spain commonly called Rio Orio Donoy Dinia See Digne Donussa Donysa a small Island in the Archipelago remarkable for nothing but the green Marble brought from thence Donzy a Town of the Duchy of Nevers in France upon a small River near the Cosne The Capital of the Territory of Donziois La Dorat oratorium a City of France in La-Marche fourteen Miles from Poictiers to the South-East and Limoges to the North upon the little River Seve Dorvie a River which falls into the Taen a River of Languedoc in France which last falls into the Garonne five Leagues above Agen. Dorchester Duronovaria a City of England in the County of Dorset upon the River Frome or Fraw about five Miles from the Sea and upon the Via Fossa a Causey of the Romans many Pieces of whose Coins have been found here It is the Capital of that Shire yet saith Mr. Camben neither great nor beautiful but certainly a Roman Town of great Antiquity which was ruined both by the Danes and Normans and once of a large compass as the Tract of the Walls and Trenches yet shew Fortified also in former times with a Castle which upon its decaying was converted into a Monastery and the Monastery afterwards demolished In the year 1645. King Charles I. created Henry Lord Pierrepont Marquiss of this Place At present it gives the Title of Countess to the Lady Catharine Sidley advanced to that Dignity by King James II. It still sends two Burgesses to Parliament and is adorned with three Parish Churches § There is another old Roman Town called Dorchester Dorcestria in Oxfordshire at the meeting of Thame and Isis nine Miles South of Oxford where the Bishoprick of Lincoln was at first settled for four hundred and sixty years before it was removed to Lincoln This last is called by Bede Civitas Dorcina by Leland Hydropolis i. e. as the word Dorchester it self also signifieth the Water-Town Dor in the Brittish Language being Water It was yielded to the Earl of Carnarvan Aug. 2. 1643. Dordogne Duranius Dordonia one of the principal Rivers of France It ariseth in the Province of Auvergne from two Fountains saith Baudrand one of which is called Dor the other Done running Westward between Limosin to the North and Auvergne to the South it takes in Chavanoy Rue Auze and Serre then entering Limosin Quercy and Perigort successively it meets Vezere and Cozere watereth Scarlat Limiel and Bergerac and so passeth to Libourne where it receiveth from the North the Lille which comes from Montignac and not far from Bourdeaux it unites with the Garronne and they send their united Streams to the Bay of Biscay or Sea of Gascogne called by the Romans Mare Aquitanicum at the Tour de Cordovan Dordrecht See Dort Dergwyn See Derwent Doria See Doira Doris
Vpper Gascony it ariseth in Armagnac and running Northward watereth Aux and Lectoure so falls into the Garonne over against Agen twenty five Miles above Bourdeaux Egesta or Aegesta and Segesta an ancient City of the Island of Sicily near the Promontory of Lilybaeum the inhabitants whereof are called Segestani in Pliny Eggiaford See Aland Eghmont a Town in the Northern parts of Holland which hath the honour of the Title of an Earldom two Leagues from Berverwick and within half a League of the same distance from Alâ—maer An Abbey of the Benedictines rendered it heretofore very considerable It gives Name to one of the principal Families in Holland Egli Thelis a River of Roussillon in Spain which riseth from the Pyrenean Hills and falls after a short Course into the Mediterranean Sea three French Miles North of Perpignan Egremont a Market Town in the County of Cumberland in the Hundred of Allerdale upon the Banks of a River not far from the Sea over which it hath two Bridges Cgrez Aegritia a River belonging to the Territory of the City of Basil called in the Maps Aegertz it ariseth from the Hills of Buchisgow and running North watereth Liechstall and falls into the Rhine three Miles above Basil many smaller Rivers fall into it before it reacheth Leichstall and one after but I cannot find their Names Egypt Aegyptus called by the Inhabitants Chibili by the Arabians Bardamasser by the Turks Misir which is very near the Hebrew Misraim by the Italians and Spaniards l' Egitto by the Germans Egypten Is the first the most fruitful most ancient most celebrated Kingdom of all Africa on the North it has the Mediterranean Sea on the East Arabia Deserta and the Red Sea on the South Aethiopia on the West Cyrene and the Deserts of Lybia The River Nile running the whole length of it and towards the Mediterranean Sea dividing it self into many Branches is the only cause of its Fertility by overflowing it every year in the Month of June It is saith Cluverius from the City of Pelusium to the Cataracts of the Nile one hundred and fifty Miles from the same place to Conza in the West it is one hundred Miles broad in some places towards the South as Mr. Sandys saith above Grand Cairo it is for a long Tract consined between barren Mountains in many scarce four in few above eight Miles broad But then he extends it from North to South five hundred and sixty Miles and in breadth one hundred and forty English Miles at the North end Long. from 60. d. to 67. South Lat. from 22. to 31. This Country was peopled by Misraim the Son of Chus the Grandchild of Noah by Ham and maintained its Liberty under Princes of its own till God gave them into the hands of Nebuchadonosor in the year of the World 3365. five years after the ruine of Jerusalem by the same Prince Yet that Empire lying far off and being much shaken by intestine Divisions they recovered their Liberty again Cambyses reduced them the second time in the year of the World 3425. Xerxes conquered them about the year 3473. And yet Artaxerxes Ochus was necessitated to reduce them again for they set up Princes of their own and beat his Generals so he went in Person and having driven their King into Aethiopia he levelled their strongest Fortifications and made them so weak and helpless that they have been in Servitude ever since This Prince began his Reign in 3587. Reigned twenty three years and conquered them in 3602. Alexander the Great became their Master next in 3620. to whom they most willingly submitted out of a detestation of the Persian Government Ptolomy the Son of Lagus began his Reign over them in 3626. and Cleopatra the last of his Posterity destroyed her self to avoid Captivity in the year of the World 3920. eighteen years before the Birth of our Saviour From thence forward they were under the Romans This wretched Nation called in at length Haymaria III. of the Saracen Califfs and by his help cast out the Greek Garrisons about 862. In 1163. another Race succeeded called the Turkish Kings or Califfs which ended in 1245. when the Mamalucks or Slaves of that Race deposed their Masters and erected an Elective Kingdom out of their own Body the Prince whereof was for many Ages chosen out of a number of Men who began in Slavery and whose Profession was War they were in some sort the Janizaries of that Age. Tonombeius II. the last of them in 1517. was forced to submit to the prevailing Valour and Fortune of Selymus one of the Ottoman Princes under whom that Nation still groans And now let any man compare the ancient and present Maps of Egypt and his Eyes will shew him in one minute the difference between the ancient and the later Government The fruitful and populous Land of Egypt styled by the Romans the Granary of their Empire that was of old overspred with Cities and Towns being now almost desolate and all its ancient Glory Magnificence Riches and People buried in Rubbish and Ruins Names of Places that have no Inhabitants or Pictures of Beasts and Antiquities is almost all that is to be found here Grandcairo Alexandria Rossetta and Damiata are the only considerable places left of three thousand Towns that Strabo says there were in his time and of the eighteen thousand that Antiquity beheld in the Ages before Christianity is almost totally extirpated here as it is in Barbary and whereas the ancient Egyptians acquired a mighty reputation over all the East by their good Literature which drew the Philosophers of Greece to travel to them and particularly Plato and Eudoxus to live amongst them thirteen years the Egyptians being the famed Inventors of most of the Sciences expressed after an admirable manner in Hieroglyphieks which with their Lunar years their Deities the long Dynasties of their Kings their Customs of Polygamy Government and Worship so charming to the Israelites have been the subjects of the Pens of the Learned in divers Ages Now an universal Ignorance and Barbarity possesses their Country But I must not be long in so short a Work Ehenheim Enheimium a small City in the Vpper Alsatia upon the River Ergel which falls by Strasburgh into the Rhine a little above three Dutch Miles from Strasburgh to the South-West The Name of the River in the Maps is Ergers and of the City Ober-Hehenheim This was once an Imperial Free City but now under the Dominion of the French who are repairing the Ruines they made in it in its Acquisition Eiala Helicon Eichfield or Eischfelt Eischfeldia a District in the Province of Thuringia in Germany to the South of the Dukedom of Brunsivick under the Jurisdiction of the Elector of Mentz The Capital of it is Duderstad Eichtelberg a Mountain in the Marquisate of Culemback in Franconia famous for giving Source to four Rivers in Germany comprehended by their initial Letters in the Word MENS that is the Mayn the Eger the Nab
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
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
that Tract of Land that was possessed heretofore by the Jazyges Metanastae a Sarmatian People and part of Pannonia Superior and Inferior Wonderfully fruitful yielding Corn and Grass in abundance the latter exceeding when at its greatest length the height of a Man it abounds so in Cattle that it is thought alone to be able to serve all Europe with Flesh and they certainly send yearly into Germany eighty thousand Oxen. They have Deer Partridges and Pheasants in such abundance that any body that will may kill them They have Mines of Gold Silver Tin Lead Iron and Copper store of River or Fresh-water Fish and Wines equal in goodness to those of Candia The People are Hardy Covetous Warlike but Slothful and Lazy not much unlike the Irish Their best Scholar was St. Jerome Their best Soldiers Johannes Huniades and Matthias Corvinus The principal Rivers are the Danube which divides this Kingdom from end to end the Savus the Dravus and the Tibiscus they have one famous Lake called the Balaton which is forty Italian Miles in length The principal Cities are Buda or Offen Presburgh Alba-Regalis and Caschaw The Hungarians are a Tribe of the Scythians or Tartars which in the times of Arnulphus Emperour of Germany possessed themselves of Transylvania and the Vpper Hungary under Lewis IV. Successor to Arnulphus they passed the Danube wasted all Germany Italy Greece Sclavonia and Dacia till broken by the Forces of Germany and sweetned by the Christian Religion first taught them under King Stephen about 1016. by Albert Archbishop of Prague they became more quiet and better civilized This Stephen began his Reign in 1000. This Race of Kings continued to 1302. in twenty three Descents when Charles Martel Son of Charles King of Naples and Mary Daughter to Stephen IV. King of Hungary partly by Election partly by Inheritance and Conquest succeeded to this Crown to him succeeded Lewis his Nephew in 1343. Charles II. another of his Descendents in 1383. Sigismund Emperour King of Bohemia in the Right of Mary his Wife Eldest Daughter of Lewis in 1387. Albert of Austria in the Right of Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sigismond in 1438. Vladislaus Son of Albert and Elizabeth in 1444. Matthias Corvinus Son of Johannes Huniades by Election in 1458. Vladislaus II. Son of Cassimir IV. King of Poland and of Elizabeth Daughter of Albert in 1491. Lewis II. slain in the Battel of Mohatz succeeded in 1517. and was slain in 1527. John Sepusio Vaiwode of Transylvania chosen upon his Death succeeded that year but was outed by Ferdinand restored by Solyman the Turk and at last died in 1540. The Hungarians Crowned Stephen his Son an Infant in the Cradle but Solyman seized the best part of his Kingdom under pretence of defending it against Ferdinand of Austria and Ferdinand the rest so that ever since this wretched Kingdom has been a Stage of War between the Austrian and the Ottoman Families The former at this time having recovered from the latter all the Lower Hungary and all Tameswaer in the Vpper The Reader may be pleased to know that all that part of Hungary which lies on the West and North of the Danube is called the Lower Hungary what lies on the East and South the Vpper This Kingdom is divided into fifty five Counties three and twenty of which in the beginning of this last War were in the Hands of the Turks and the rest in the Emperor's It has also two Archbishops Sees Gran Strigonium and Colocza thirteen Bishopricks six under the first and seven under the latter Hungerford a Market Town in Berkshire in the hundred of Kentbury upon the River Kennet Hunni the ancient Inhabitants of the Marshes of the Maeotis who for the sake of a better Country to live in invaded Pannonia in great numbers and thence under Attila their King who stiled himself the Scourge of God marched victoriously into Germany Italy and France till Aetius General of the Romans and Meroveus King of France slew 200000 of them in one Battel in 450. Then they retired into Pannonia again and maintain'd themselves in divers Wars At length the Hungarians a Scythian race appeared about the end of the Reign of Charles the Gross and expelled them Huntingdonshire is bounded on the North by the River Avon or Afon which parts it from Lincolnshire on the West by Northamptonshire on the South by Bedfordshire and on the East by Cambridgeshire The North-East parts of it are Fenny but yield plenty of Grass for feeding of Cattle The rest is very pleasant fruitful of Corn rising into Hills and shady Groves The whole indeed was one Forest till Henry II. in the beginning of his Reign disforested it The Town of Huntingdon which gives Name to the County is seated upon the North side of the River Ouse somewhat high and stretcheth out it self in length to the Northward it has four Churches in it a fair Bridge of Stone over the River and near it is the Mount or Plot of an ancient Castle now ruined built by Edward the Elder in the Year 917. Which King David of Scotland who had this County with the Title of an Earl from King Stephen of England for an Augmentation of his Estate in the Year 1135. enlarged with new Buildings and Bulwarks but Henry II. finding great Inconveniences from it razed it to the Ground This was a very considerable Town in the times of Edward the Confessor and perhaps greater than now The first Earl of Huntingdon was Waltheof Created in 1068. two years after the Conquest he being beheaded Simon de Lyze who Married Maud the Daughter of Waltheof was made Earl in 1075. David Prince of Scotland her second Husband was the next Earl in 1108. It continued in this Family of Scotland till 1219. but it is now in the Family of the Hastings George Lord Hastings and Hungerford being by Henry VIII Created Earl of Huntingdon in the Year 1529. Theophilus Hastings the present Earl succeeded his Father in the Year 1655. and is the seventh Earl of this Noble Family Huquang a very large Province in the middle of the Kingdom of China counted the seventh in number but in extent one of the greatest its greatest length is from North to South being bounded on the North by Honan on the East by Nankim and Kiamsi on the South by Quamtum and on the West by Queycheu and Suchen It contains fifteen Cities an hundred and eighteen great Towns five hundred thirty one thousand six hundred eighty six Families The greatest City is Vuchang The great River of Kiam crosseth it and divides it and in the middle of this Province it receiveth two other great Rivers one from the North and the other from the South whose Names I cannot assign And these three Rivers form at their meeting a very considerable Lake between the Cities of Kincheu and Yocheu The Chinese call it also Jumichiti and the Granary of China for its abundance As to which they have a Proverb that the
now in the Kingdom of Arragon supposed to be built by Pompey the Great but certainly called by this very Name by Ptolemy It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Saragoza and stands upon the River Aragona at the Foot of the Pyrenean Hills twenty one Baudrand saith sixteen Spanish Miles from Saragoza to the North eight from the Confines of France and eight from Huesca in Arragon to the North-West This City is the Capital of the County of Arragon The Jacobites Under this Name says P. Simon in general we may comprehend all the Monophysites of the East i. e. such as acknowledge one only Nature the Humane in Jesus Christ in which Latitude the Armenians Cophtites and Abyssines will be included But it more particularly denotes a separate Church of Christians in Syria and Mesopotamia consisting of about forty or forty five thousand Families under a Patriarch of their own who keeps his Residence at Caramit and assumes the title of the Patriarch of Antioch having divers Metropolitans under him Jacobus Zanzalus a Syrian of the sixth Century dressing up a particular Creed out of the opinions of Eutyches and Dioscorus was the Founder of this Church which therefore retains his Christian Name Amongst other customs and tenents they deny the Trinity they circumcise their Children first then baptize them upon their forehead with a hot Iron because of the words Matth. 3. 11. He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire And no endeavours of the Roman See whose Supremacy they disown have hitherto been sufficient to alter their Principles Jacamcury a City of the Hither East-Indies called of old Sosicurae as Castaldus conjectures Jacuby a River of Tartary which falls into the Caspian Sea on the Confines of Bochar Jada Lade an Island in the Archipelago Jader or Jada Jadica Guttalus a River of Germany more commonly called the Oder It falls in the Baltick Sea near Stetin having watered Silesia Marchia and Pomerania Hoffman placeth it in East Friseland Others in the County of Oldemburg in the Circle of Westphalia See Oder It gives Name to a Town at its fall Jadog a River in Africa called Rubricatus Armua and Ardalia of old Ladog and Guadilbarber as well as Jadog in later Writers It falls into the Mediterranean Sea through the Kingdom of Tunis Jaen Giennium Gienna Aurigi Iliturgis Aurinx Oringe Oningis is a City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo ever since 1249 having been three years before recovered by Ferdinando out of the Hands of the Moors It is a great and populous City in the Kingdom of Andalusia upon the River Guadalbollon where it receives that of Susanna twelve Miles from the Guadalquivir to the South towards the Borders of Granada and eighteen from Alcala to the South-East This City has been heretofore so considerable as to bear the title of a Kingdom Jafanapatan Jaffanapatan a City on the North of the Island of Ceylan in the East-Indies in the Hands of the Dutch who have built it a good Fortress and the Capital of a Kingdom of the same Name It lies in Long. 110. 00. Lat. 10. 07. Jaffo or Jaffa Joppe a Maritime City of Palestine in the Tribe of Dan upon the Mediterranean Sea twenty four Miles from Jerusalem thought to be one of the ancientest in the World as having been built and so named by Japhet the Son of Noah Famous in all ages for the convenience of its Port at which particularly Hiram King of Tyre his Fleet laden with Cedar and Marble for the building of K. Solomon's Temple discharg'd and Jonas the Prophet took Ship for Tharsis St. Peter also here raised Tabitha from the dead and saw the Vision of the Beasts This City was ruined by Judas Macchabeus and afterwards by the Emperor Titus Next the Arabians established themselves in it from whom the Christians under Godfrey of Bovillon recovered it rebuilt the Castle and made it a strong Garrison adorning it likewise with the title of an Earldom and an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Cesarea In the Year 1188. Saladine overcame and dismantled it But Richard I. King of England and S. Lewis King of France successively repair'd it again till it fell finally into the hands of the Saracens in 1252. Now it consists of some poor Houses with a small Fort garrisoned for the Bassa of Gaza nothing of its ancient Buildings appearing but in their ruins Jagerndorff Carnovia or Karnow a Town in Silâ—sia in Bohemia the Capital of a District of the same Name and heretofore under the Duke of Brandenburgh It stands upon the River Oppa which near Hilschin falls into the Oder four German Miles from Ratibor a City of Bohemia towards the West and about three from the Confines of Moravia there is in it a very splendid and magnificent Castle S. Jago-Cavallero a small Town in the Island of Hispaniola in America twenty Leagues from S. Domingo to the East near a Mountain from whence the rains bring down little pieces of Gold The Inhabitants trade to San Domingo in Hides and Tallow Jagos a vagabond Barbarian People of Africa abounding more especially in the Kingdom of Ansico in the Lower Aethiopia or according to others in Congo without a certain abode living by robbery and carnage Parents and Children 't is said have no horrour amongst them to eat the flesh of one another Jagel one of the Heads of Dwina See Dwina Jagntevo a City of Servia built on a Plain amongst the Hills not above half a Days Journey from Monte-Novo another City of the same Province It is pretty considerable and has some Christians residing in it though under the Dominion of the Turks Jaitza or Jaicz Jaitia Gaitia Jaycza a City of Bosnia towards the Confines of Croatia upon the River Plena defended by a strong Castle which is in the Hands of the Turks as Calchondylas saith The Kings or Despotes of Bosnia did heretofore reside here Jakotyn a small Town in the Vkrain in the Palatinate of Kiovia beyond the Nieper which has a strong Castle It stands upon the River Supoi eleven Miles from Kiovia to the East and about thirteen from the Nieper into which the Supoi falls six Miles above Czyrkassy This Town belongs to the Muscovites now Jala a Kingdom in the Eastern part of the Island of Ceylan in the East-Indies with a City of the same Name little inhabited by reason the Air is very contagious Jalea Elis a City in the Morea Jalina Acherusia a Lake in Epirus Jalines Macaria a Town in Cyprus towards its North End Ialofes the People of the Kingdom of Senega in Nigritia in Africa lying betwixt those two branches of the Niger the Rivers Senega and Gambay Their Emperour is called the Grand Jalof and takes the Style of the Soveraign of thirteen or fourteen Kingdoms The Capital where he keeps his Court is Tubacatum There are no Towns or Cities walled in all this Empire Tobacco Hides Ivory Gum-arabick Ambergrease Wax Dates and Maze
to the North. Iser Isara a River of Germany in the Dukedom of Bavaria It ariseth in the Borders of the County of Tyrol three Miles from Inspruck to the West and flowing to the North through Bavaria watereth Munick or Munichen the Capital of that Dutchy and Frisingen beneath which the Amber Ambra from the West falls into it at Landschut and at last it ends in the Danube over against Derkendorf six Miles West of Passaw and the same distance above Straubing to the East L'Isere Isara a River in France which is caled Isar by Ptolemy and Scoras by Polybius it ariseth in the Territory of Tarentaise near Moutiers in the Dukedom of Savoy which it watereth beneath which it takes in the Arche from the South then passeth by Montmelian to Grenoble over against which it admits the Drac from the South and above Valence falls into the Rhosne It is a rapid River § There is another of this Name in the Dukedom of Bavaria in Germany Isernia Aesernia a City in the Kingdom of Naples by some called Sernia It stands in the Province of Molise and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capua seated four Miles from the River Volturno to the East and the same from the Confines of the Terra di Lavoro at the foot of the Apennine thirty Miles from Capua to the North and almost twenty from Trivento to the South It is now in a tolerable good state and made more famous by the Birth of St. Peter Celestine a Pope Isin Istnisca a Village and a River in Bavaria six Miles from Munichen to the East Isis a River of Oxfordshire at the Confluence of which with the River Thame stands Dorchester in the same County Island Thule Islandia is a great Island in the Northern Ocean called by the Dutch Het Islandt by the Germans Ynslandt It lies between Norway to the East and Greenland to the West from East to West two hundred French Leagues and about half so broad Well peopled and fruitful towards the Sea-shoar but the middle is barren desolate and very Mountainous Nâ—ddock a Norwegian first discovered it in 860. and called it Sneeland that is the Land of Snow Flocko a Pyrate of Norway afterward gave it the Name of Isee-Land from the great quantity of Ice he found about it It began to be inhabited by the Norwegians under Ingulphus so soon as ever it was discovered that Nation being then dissatisfied with Horald their Prince It became subject to Norway in 1260. by doing Homage to that Crown and in the Right of that Kingdom it belongs to the King of Denmark who every year sends them a Governour who resides at the Castle of Bestede called otherwise Kronniges-Gard that is the Vice-Roys Residence They were converted to the Christian Faith by Adebert Bishop of Bremen Canutus King of the Vandals settled Bishops first amongst them in 1133. one at Hola another at Schalholt the two principal Cities and to each of them annexed a School They had at first neither Money nor Cities but lived in Caves in the sides of Mountains covered their Huts with Fishes Bones and eat dried Fish instead of Bread They speak the ancient Cimbrian Tongue In 1584 the Bible was Printed in their Language They have no Cattle but Horses and Cows nor any Trees but Box and Juniper The Country produceth so great a quantity of sweet Grass that their Cattle would burst 't is said if they did suffer them to eat it as they would On the East and West sides of the Isle there are burning Mountains The Inhabitants are strong and fierce It lies between eight and ten degrees of Long and in Lat. 67. one hundred and fifty German Miles from the Shoars of Norway to the West Their longest day in Summer is twenty four hours without night and their night in Winter when the Sun enters into Capricorn the same without day The Vulgar believe the Mountain Hecla to be the Prison of damned Souls Mines of Sulphur are found in it with which the Merchants drive a Traffick Isle de feu the Island of Fire one of the Islands of Cap. Verde upon the Coast of Africa so called from a burning Mountain therein It has a Port defended by a Fort on the North West The Ille of France Insula Franciae is a very great Province the most celebrated rich and populous of any in that Kingdom It is bounded on the North by Picardy on the East by Champagne on the West by Normandy and on the South by La Beausse it contains in it twelve Counties as le Parisis la Brie Francoise l' Hurepois le Gastinois le Mantoan le Vexin Francois le Beavoisis le Valois le Soissonois c. The principal City is Paris the Royal City of this Kingdom Islas de los Ladrones or Islas de las Velas by the French called Isles des Larrons a mass of little Islands in the Archipelago of St. Lazare betwixt the Oriental and the Pacifick Oceans extending from North to South at the extremity of our Hemisphere Eastward Discovered in 1520. by the famous Magellan Some inhabited by a salvage people whose addiction to Thievery occasioned this general ill name upon them all of the Islands of Thieves Yet the greatest part are barren They reckon fifteen principal ones The Air temperate but that the Hurricanes from time to time rage with violence These Salvages are excellent at making of Matts and they traffick to Tartary in Canoes Isle Maurice an Island in the Aethiopick Ocean to the East of Madagascar so named by the Hollanders in 1598. in honour of Maurice of Nassaw Prince of Orange But the Portugueze made the first discovery of it who called it Ilha do Cerno or Swan-Island the English also have given the Name of Warwick to its Haven In 1640. the Hollanders settled upon it and have built it a Fort. It yields Palm-trees Cocao Ebony plenty of Fish and Tortoises of a vast magnitude § There is another small Island of this Name near the Coast of Moscovia to the West of Weigats Streight discovered by the Hollanders in 1594. in their search for a North Passage to China Full of Lakes Ponds and Marishes Isles des Papas du Pape or des Princes called by the Turks Papas-Adasi by the Greeks Papadonisia or the Priests Island from their being inhabited by the Religious Caloyers of the Order of S. Basil lie within four Leagues of Constantinople betwixt the Sea of Marmora and the entrance into the Streights of Gallipoli The Europeans of Constantinople and Pera ordinarily divert themselves at them Isles des Perles the Islands of Pearl are a Shoal of Islands in the South Sea twelve Leagues from Panama in South America to which the abundance of Pearls heretofore fish'd out of the Sea adjacent occasioned the giving of this Name The two principal are Del Rio and Tararequi Maze and odoriferous Trees grow upon them The Spaniards here having made an end of all the Natives serve themselves
Tir-Oēn but being presently besieged by the Lord Montjoy Lieutenant of Ireland both by Sea and Land in December and Tir-Oën coming up to relieve the Spaniards with six thousand Foot and five hundred Horse amongst which were two thousand fresh Spaniards who had landed a little before at Berehaven Baltimore and Castle-haven being defeated December 24. by a Detachment drawn out of the English Camp D' Aquila thereupon January 2. following surrendered the Town to the English and was Transported with the Remainder of his Men by the English into Spain The Forces under the Earl of Marleborough possessed themselves of this Town Octob. 2. 1690 the next day they took the Old Fort by Storm the Governor for King James II. with several other Officers being slain upon the Ramparts On the seventeenth following the New Fort surrendered upon Articles and the Garrison of about 1200 Men marched out with their Arms and Baggage to be conducted to Limerick Kintzig Kintia a small River in Schwaben in Germany which ariseth in the Dukedom of Wirtemberg in the Black Forest and running South-West through the Territory of Ortnaw it watereth Wolsach Hussen and Offenburgh then falls into the Rhine at Strasburgh four Miles South-West of Baden Kiovia Kiow a City of Poland seated upon the Nieper in the Vkrayne which is the Capital of a County or Palatinate of the same Name and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Lemburgh having still a very strong Castle The Ruins of its Walls shew that it was once a great and a magnificent City containing eight miles in circuit which appears also from the Cathedral Church Towards the North it is yet full of People but what lies to the South and West has only a Timber Fence This City was built by Kio a Russian Prince in the Year 861. After this it was the Capital of Russia in which it stands which then had Princes of its own And at last it was taken by the Poles In 1615 it was taken and burnt by the Tartars and could never since recover that loss Within these thirty years last past it has suffered very much from the Cossacks and Moscovites In 1651 the Poles took it from the Cossacks but they having afterwards recovered it mortgaged it to the Moscovites who are in that Right still possessed of it It s Long. is 61. 20. Lat. 50. 51. This City is called by the Poles Kiouf or Kioff and lies forty Polish Miles from the Borders of Moscovy to the West seventy from Caminieck to the North-East and an hundred from Warsaw to the East § The Palatinate of Kiovia is called Volhinia Inferior and also the Vkrayne it is a part of Red Russia and lies on both sides of the River Nieper between Moscovy the Desarts of the Lesser Tartary Volhinia Superior the Palatinate of Barlaw and the Tartars of Orzakow In 1686 this was yielded to the Russ to engage them in an Alliance with the Poles against the Crim Tartars Kiri Drinus See Drino Kirkby or Kirby Lonsdale a Market Town in the County of Westmorland The Capital of its Ward upon the Banks of the River Lon in a rich and pleasant vale called Lonsdale large well built and populous having a fair Church and Stone-bridge over the said River The Name signifies the Church in the dale or Valley of Lon. § Kirkby Moreside a Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Ridal upon a small River which after some course falls with others into the Derwent § Kirkby Stephens a Market Town in the County of Westmorland in East Ward near the skirts of the Hills which sever Cumberland from Yorkshire It has a fair Church and the Lord Wharton a Seat near it called Wharton-Hall Kirkham a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Amounderness near the mouth of the River Rible Kirkton a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the division of Holland and the Hundred of Corringham adorned with a fair Church built Cathedral wise in the form of a Cross with a broad Steeple in the midst It stands upon a rising sandy ground Kirkwall Carcoviaca the principal Town in the Isles of Orkney which has a Castle and a large Haven It is seated upon the Island called Mainland on the North Side of the Island but towards the Eastern End and is in subjection to the King of Scotland the Seat of the Bishop of the Northern Isles Kisdarnoczi Claudius a Mountain between Stiria to the West and the Lower Hungary to the East which has various Names given by various Nations Klagenfurt or Clagenfurt Claudia Claudivium a City of Carinthia Dr. Brown in his Travels saith it is a fair four-square Town inclosed with a handsom Wall the Rampart is very broad at each Corner there is a Bastion and one in the middle of each Curtain the Streets straight and uniform as well as the Works There is a very fair Piazza or Square in the middle which was thus adorned by the Lutherans whilst they held this place who also erected the Noble Fountain in the Piazza the Figure of which is represented by this Author This is the Capital of Stiria at this day and lies upon a small River a Mile and half N. from the Drave thirty one from Vienna to the South-West and seventeen from Aquileja to the North East Kleckgow Eremus Helvetiorum a small Tract by the River Rhine between Scaphuis to the East and the Canton of Vnderwaldt to the West in Schwaben in Germany but on the very Borders of Switzerland Klein Glogaw Glogavia Minor See Glogaw Klogher an Episcopal City in the Province of Vlster in Ireland and the County of Monagham Knapdaile Knapdalia a County in the North of Scotland between Argile separated by an Arm of the Sea to the East the Isle of Jurai to the West Cantyr to the South Domin and Lorn to the North. Kilmore is the chief Town in it Knaresborough a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Claro which elects two Members of the House of Commons It a Castle upon a Rock and a Well says Mr. Speed which petrifies Wood. Knaringen Grinario a Roman Town in Schwaben in the Marquisate of Burgaw upon the River Carnlach a Mile from Burgaw to the West and four from Vlm to the same quarter Knighton a Market Town in the County of Radnor in Wales the Capital of its Hundred Knin Arduba a City of Dalmatia Knockfergus Carrickfergus Rupes Fergusii a City in the County of Antrym in the Province of Vlster on the British Sea over against the Isle of Man seated on the North Side of a fine Bay which affords it the Convenience of a large safe Haven This Bay is called by Ptolemy Vinderius at present the Bay of Fergus from a King of these parts who is said to have led the Scots out of Ireland into Scotland and afterwards to have been drowned here This City is more populous rich and frequented than any other in this part of
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
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
from Vratislaw to the South and the same distance from Oppeien to the West The Dukedom of Munsterberg lies in Bohemia in the Vpper Silesia now in the possession of the Emperour Bounded by the Dukedom of Grotkaw to the East that of Schweidnitz to the North and Bohemia to the West and South Munsterthal Vallis Monasterii a small Territory in the Canton of Gottespunt amongst the Grisons Munzarrum Taurus a Mountain in the Losser Armenia Muradal or El puerto de Muradal Saltus Castulonensis a passage over the Mountains of Morena leading to New Castile Andaluzia and the Borders of Portugal where Alphonsus King of Castile with the King of Navarre obtained so great a Victory over the Moors as to leave two hundred thousand of them dead upon the place There was heretofore nigh to it a Town called Castulo now a Village by the name of Caslona which gave it the Latin Name of Saltus Castulonensis Murat a small Town in the Province of Auvergne in France upon the River Alagnon at the foot of the Mountains three or four Leagues from S. Flour adorned with the Title of a Viscounty Murrana Crabra a River in Italy which ariseth in Campagnia di Roma and dividing into two Branches one falls into the Teverone two Miles above Rome the other runs through Rome into the Tiber. Murcia a City and a Kingdom in Spain The Kingdom is very small lies on the South of New Castile to which it is now united which bounds it on the North. The Kingdom of Valentia on the East the Kingdom of Granada on the West and the Mediterranean Sea on the South It is called a Kingdom because during its being under the Moors it had distinct Kings for many Ages The chief Cities in it are Carthagena and Murcia the Capital of this Kingdom It is seated on the River Segura in a pleasant Plain in the Confines of the Kingdom of Valentia three Leagues from Orihuela to the West six from Carthagena to the North-West eight from the Mediterranean Sea Retaken from the Moors in 1265. and being a considerable and pleasant place injoys the presence of the Bishop of Carthagena for the most part Muret Muretum a Town in the Province of Gascoigne in Aquitain in France upon the Garonne two Leagues from Tholouse near which Simon Earl of Monfort in 1213. obtained a great Victory over the Albigeois and Arragonois Peter the King of Arragon being there slain together with the Earl of Tholouse and above twenty thousand of their men § Also a small Town in the Province of Limosin in the same Kingdom Muro Muru a small City in the Basiilicate in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cosenza It is seated at the foot of the Appenine in the Confines of the Principate twelve Miles from Cosenza to the North-East and twenty from Acerenza to the West Murray Moravia one of the North-Eastern Shires of the Kingdom of Scotland of great extent from East to West on the North it has the German Ocean and Murray Fyrth on the East Buchan on the South Athole and Marr and on the West Loquaber It is in length ninety Scotch Miles and in its greatest breadth thirty The principal Town is Elgin which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Andrews but he is stiled Bishop of Murray not of Elgin Murray Fyrth Vara a great Arm of the German Ocean which pierceth the Eastern Shoar of Scotland On the North and West it has the County of Ross and on the South Murray and Buchan There is no Town of any consideration upon it except Chaurie Muscovy See Russia Mussidan a Town in the Province of Perigord in France upon the River Lille four or five Leagues from Perigeux famous in the Civil Wars of Religion in the last Age. Mut Vidua a River of Ireland Muya Mulcha the Niger a vast River in Africa Mycone See Micoli Mygdonia a Country of the ancient Macedonia betwixt the Rivers Strymon Stronona Axius Vardari and the Gulph of Aiomana Apollonia Antigonia Amphipalis c. were its principal Cities § The same name was anciently also given to a Country in Mesopotamia lying along the course of the River Mygdonius which watereth the Walls of the City Nifibin and thence runs to the Bed of the Tigris Mycenae an ancient City of the Peloponnesus betwixt Argos and Corinth Otherwise called Agios Adrianos Mylaen Mylias a City of Pamphylia in the Lesser Asia now ruined Myra the ancient name of the City Strumita in Lycia See Strumita Myrbach a small Town in the Vpper Alsatia in Germany remarkable for a famous Abbey which before the possession of this Country by the French had the honour to be an Ecclesiastical Principality immediately dependent of the Emperour Myrlaea Apamia a City of Bythinia in the Lesser Asia upon the South Shoar of the Propontis which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cyzicum and still called by its ancient name Mysia a Country of Asia Minor according to the ancient Geography divided into the Greater and Lesser Mysia the former lay betwixt Phrygia Bythinia the Aegean Sea and Mysia the Less as this latter did betwixt Troas and the Hellespont Now wholly contained in Natolia and under the Turks It s principal ancient Cities were Pergamus Trajanopolis Adramyttios Cyzicus Lampsacus c. N O. NAB Nabus a River of Nortgow which ariseth out of the Mountains of Sultzberg near the Fountains of the Main and flowing Northward through Nortgow or the Vpper Palatinate is increased by several smaller Rivers at last ends in the Danube a little above Ratisbone Nabathaei an ancient people of the Stony Arabia descended in the judgment of Isidore from Nabath the Son of Ismael Their Country was bounded by Arabia Deserta on the East Palestine on the South and Arabia Foelix on the North. Their Capital City Petra Being the same people who as Josephus writes were defeated once in a great Fight by Paulus Gabinius sometime Governour of Syria Nadder a River of Wiltshire joining with the Willy at Wilton near Salisbury and there falling into the Avon Nadin a Fortress in the County of Zara in Dalmatta taken from the Venetians by Solyman II. but since retaken by them and kept Naerdem or Narden Nardenum a strong Town in Goeland whereof it is the Capital in Holland upon the Zuyder Sea almost four German Miles from Amsterdam to the East In 1572. suprised and much defaced by the Spaniards In 1672. it fell into the hands of the French but being recovered is now very strongly refortified Nagaia the Kingdom of Astracan in Tartaria Deserta in the Czar's Dominions Some describe it to be a Kingdom or a Hord of Tartars there distinct from Astracan Nagera Nagara a City in Old Castile in the Province of Rusconia by a River of the same name once a Bishops See now translated to Calzada yet honoured with the Title of a Dukedom This City lies thirty Spanish Leagues from Saragoza to the
a Dukedom but now under the Turks The Maps call it Nixia The Ancients dedicated it to Bacchus for the excellency of its Wines to whom they built a Temple of Marble which also abounds in this Island upon a Rock very near the Shoar joyned by a Stone-Bridge to it the Foundations whereof and a Gate about thirty Foot high and fifteen broad remain to be seen to this day The Venetians enjoyed it from the year 1210. to 1516. when Selim I. made himself the Master of it It pays six thousand Piasters Tribute to the Turk There are divers Monasteries of the Greeks and Latins They find of your Emrods in this Island But there is no Port or Harbour in any part of its Coasts Naxio Acone a Port in Bithynia in the Lesser Asia upon the Euxine Sea which was the Port to Heraclea Pontica and stands upon a River called Acone of old Nazareth A City of Galilee in Judea in the Tribe of Zabulon thirty Leagues distant from Jerusalem to the South upon the ascent of a Mountain The same in which Joseph with the young Child and his Mother dwelt after their return from Egypt Matth. 2. 21 23. It is said the Virgin here in the House of Joachim and Anne her Parents conceived by the Operation of the Power of the Highest and that she her self also either was born or was conceived in the same place Helena the Mother of Constantine the Great built a stately Church in Nazareth in Commemoration of these Passages which the Christian Kings of Jerusalem after the Conquest in 1099. erected into an Archiepiscopal See and adorned with a Chapter of Canons But this Edifice was so defaced in 1291. by the Sultan of Egypt who retook the Holy Land and exterminated the Christians thence that now only some Ruins remain to be seen of it And for what became of the miraculous Chamber of the Virgin see Loretto At this time the Franciscans have a Monastery and a Church at Nazareth which Pilgrims visit you are shown the rests of the Synagogue in which our Saviour explicated the Passage of Isaiah concerning himself together with the place where Joseph kept his Shop to whom in the Chappel there is an Altar dedicated and another to Anne his Spouse But Nazareth is a poor Village There is a Titular Archbishop continued by the See of Rome at the City Barletta in Apulia Peucetia in Italy and the Title particularly was born by Pope Vrban VIII before his Elevation to the Pontificate The Turks call all Christians Nazarenes from this place as Christ himself Matth. 2. 23. was called Nazianze an ancient City of Cappadocia in the Lesser Asia and an Episcopal See heretofore under the Archbishop of Cesarea which had the Honour to be farther advanced to an Archiepiscopal one under the Patriarch of Antioch This was the Birth place of Gregorius Nazianzenus whose Father had been the Bishop here Neath a Market Town in Glamorganshire in â—ales the Capital of its Hundred Neaugh Neaugus a very great Lake in the Province of Vlster in Ireland Nebio Nebium Censunum a ruined Episcopal City in the Island of Corsica The See was a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Genoua It stood about the place where the Town Rosoli now is Nebrisso or Lebrixo a Town in the Kingdom of Andaluzia in Spain betwixt Sevill and the Mouth of the River Guadalquivir mentioned by Pliny and Ptolemy Necastro Neocastrum a small City in the Further Calabria almost ruined by an Earthquake in 1638. Necker or Neckar Nicer Neccarus Neccanus Nicerus a River of Schwaben in Germany which ariseth in Swartzwalt scarce seven Miles from the Fountains of the Danube and passing Rotweil it entereth the Dukedom of Wirtemberg watereth Elsing and Hailbrun and so passing by Heydelburgh in the Palatinate falls into the Rhine Necropolis an ancient City of the Kingdom of Egypt four Miles from Alexandria where Cleopatra poisoned her self with Asps Neda Nedina a River of Arcadia in the Morea Nedham Point a Fortess in the Barbadoes which sustained an Attack of four hours continuance made upon it by De Ruyter the Dutch Admiral sent with a Squadron of Ships to conquer this Island in 1665. but was repelled Needham a Market Town in the County of Suffolk and the Hundred of Bosmere which drives a Trade in Blew and Broad Cloaths for Russia Turkey and other Foreign Parts Neers Nabalia a River of Germany which aariseth in Juliers twelve Miles from Juliers and flowing through the Bishoprick of Cologne and Gelderland by the Castles of Gelders a little below Genep falls into the Maes three Leagues above Nimeguen to the South Negapatan a City of Coromandel in the Hither East Indies now under the Dutch formerly under the Portuguese Negombo a Town in the Island of Zeilan in the East-Indies in the Possession of the Hollanders Negrepelisse a small Town in the County of Quercy in Guienne in France upon the River Aveirou betwixt Bourniquet and Albias two or three Leagues from Montauban Lewis XIII sent a Garrison of four thousand Men hither in 1621. who were in one night massacred by the Inhabitants during the Civil Wars of Religion Therefore in 1622. the said King besieged it and taking it it was laid in Blood and Ashes by the Fire and Sword of the Conquerors Negro Tanager a River in the Kingdom of Naples it ariseth near a Lake of the same Name in the Borders of the Basilicate but in the hither Principate thirteen Miles from Policastro to the East at the Foot of the Apennine And flowing North watereth Atena and after it has buried it self for four Miles under ground comes up again then falls into the Bay of Amalfi near Cappachio twenty Miles from Salerno to the South Negropont Euboea an Island in the Archipelago of old called by the Poets Chalcis and Abantis now by the Turks Egriponte or Egribos and sometimes Euriponte because the Wonder of the fam'd Euripus by the natural situation of the Rocks the Promontories the Channel c. is made here It lies upon the North of Achaia or Livadia being separated from it by a narrow Channel one hundred and twenty Miles from East to West thirty broad three hundred in circuit joyned to the Continent by a Bridge of Stone built by the Venetians It is extraordinary fruitful but little inhabited The principal Town was called formerly Chalcis now Negropont and stands on the South Side of the Island at one end of the Bridge its Walls are two Miles in compass None but Jews and Turks are suffered to reside within those the Christians dwell altogether in the Suburbs the whole of which may be about five thousand exceeding far in number the other and amongst these the Jesuits have a College There are four Mosques in the Town of which the principal hath been a Cathedral Church dedicated to S. Mark and the Seat not only of a Bishop under the Archbishop of Athens but of an Archbishop The Town is separated from the Suburbs by a
a City placed by Pliny in Liburnia now in Croatia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Spalato It stands upon the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea at the bottom of a Mountain thirty five Miles from Nona to the South-West and fifty from the Borders of Italy to the East This City belongs to the Kingdom of Hungary and is under the Emperor it has an old Castle a very strong Fort built on a steep Hill and a Harbour upon the Gulph of Venice Segni Signia Vrbs Volscorum a City of great Antiquity in the States of the Church in Campagna di Roma under the Dominion of the Pope giving the Title of a Duke to the Family of Sfortia It stands on the top of a Mountain called by its own name La Montagna de Segni thirty two Miles from Rome to the East and twelve from Preneste to the South In this Place Organs were first invented and Pope Vitalianus was born The Popes Innocent III. Gregory IX and Alexander IV. were all of the House of the Counts of Segni For this Place was an Earldom before a Dukedom Segorve or Segorvia Segorbia Segobriga a City of the Kingdom of Valentia upon the River Morvedre which a little lower falls into the Mediterranean Sea it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Valentia small and not well Peopled Eight Miles from Valentia to the North-West and twelve from Tervel to the South-East Segovia Vrbs Arcevacorum in Pliny Segubia in Ptolemy Segobia in the Councils is a City in New Castile in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo A celebrated Place well Peopled and Rich by reason of a great Cloathing Trade driven in it And besides very large Suburbs it has a Castle called El Alcaser By the City on the North-side flows a small River called Eresma It stands at the foot of an Hill in a pleasant Plain has a noble Aquaduct supported by a hundred and seventy seven Arches in double Rows which reach from one Hill to another built by the Emperor Trajane This City is twenty Spanish Leagues from Toledo to the North. Long. 16. 30. Lat. 41. 15. Segovia La Nueva a City in the Island of Manilia one of the Philippines under the Spaniards on the East side of the Island and a Bishops See Segre Sicoris a River in Catalonia which ariseth in the County of Cerdagne at the foot of the Pyrenean Hills in the Borders of France and watering Livia Cerdagne and Vrgel receives the Noguera Pallaresa and the Noguera Rogercana the first at Camarasa the second above Lerida beneath it comes in the Cinca a great River above Mequinenca below which this River Segre unites with the Ebro nine Miles above Garcia to the West Segura Serabis Sorabis a River of Spain which ariseth in New Castile from a Mountain of the same name and flowing through the Kingdom of Murcia falls into the Bay of Alicant having watered Caravacca Murcia and Orihuela Sehusen Senohusium a City of Brandenburgh Seididag See Agion Oros. La Seille Sala Salia a River of Lorain which ariseth out of the Lake de Lindre and flowing North-West watereth Dieuze Nomeny and Going and at Metz falls into the Moselle La Seine Seyne Sequana one of the principal Rivers of France which ariseth in the Dukedom of Burgundy in a mountainous place near the Castle of Chanceaux two Leagues from a Town called Seine and six from Dijon to the North. Being augmented by some smaller Rivers it watereth Chastillion Bar sur Seine Troye Pont sur Seine above which the Aube comes in and beneath it the Yonne and the Loing so it hasteth by Melun to Corbeil The Marne comes in a little above Paris the Glory of this River and beneath that City above Poissy the Oise the Epte and in Normandy the Eure and the Andelle above Roan the Capital of Normandy At Caudebec in Normandy it forms a great Arm of the Sea which admits the Tides of the Ocean thirty Leagues into the Land gives passage to a Ship of great Burthen as high as Roan and smaller Ships as high as Paris Selby a large Market Town in the West-Riding of Yorkshire and the Hundred of Barkston upon the River Ouse Remarkable for being the Birth-place of K. Henry I. Selemne the name in Pausanias of a River of the Peloponnesus gliding by Patras in the Province of Clarentia Seleschia Seleucia a City of Cilicia which is an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch twelve Miles from the Mediterranean Sea to the North. Long. 64. 00. Lat. 38. 40. The Antients gave it the Titles of Seleucia Olbia Seleucia Hiriae and Seleucia Aspera which latter might be occasioned by the many Mountains in this Country Gregory Nazianzen calls it Seleucia S. Theclae because it was famous for the Sepulchre of that Martyr In the year 359. the Arrians assembled a Council of a hundred and sixty Bishops here to which S. Hilary Bishop of Poictiers came being at that time an Exile in Phrygia Seleucajelbor Seleucia Pieria a City of Syria built by Seleucus Son of Antiochus King of Syria near the Mouth of the River Orontes ten Miles from Antioch which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch Seleucia Aspera the same with Seleschia Seleucia ad Tigrim the same with Bachad Seleucia Pieria the same with Seleucajelbor Seleucia ad Belum the same with Divortigi Seleucia Pisidiae this is an antient City of Pisidia in the Lesser Asia upon the Confines of Pamphylia in which S. Paul established the Christian Faith A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Antioch Now under the Turks called Caragar Carasazar and by others Celestria Selivrea or Selibria Selymbria Selybria a City of Thrace upon the Propontis of great Antiquity being mentioned by Pliny and Ptolemy It was at first a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Heraclea but now the Metropolis it self Great and populous tho without Walls it has a good Harbour too This City stands twenty five Miles from Constantinople to the West also called Selombria Selo See Silaro Seilsey-Isle a Peninsula commonly so called near Chichester in the County of Sussex Assigned about the Year 711. by Edilwach King of the South Saxons to Wilfride Archb. of York for his Seat who being banished his Country by the King of Northumberland came thence to preach to the South Saxons Cedwal King of the West Saxons having Conquered the Kingdom of the South Saxons built a Monastery here and made it a Bishops See which continued in the same place above three hundred years with the Title of the Bishops of Selsey till Bishop Stigard in 1070 removed the See to Chichester It s chiefest Note now is that it yields plenty of excellent Lobsters and Cockles Semigallen Semigallia a Province of Livonia in the Kingdom of Poland which signifies in their Tongue The End of the Earth Bounded on the North by Livonia properly so called cut off by the Dwina on the South by Samogithia on the West by Curland and
and with it into the Ocean Seyde Sidon by the Germans called Said is a City of Phoenicia in Syria upon the Shores of the Mediterranean North of Tyre about a League distant from the remains of the ancient Sidon Sister to Tyre in the Scripture for its Sins and the Punishments of them A populous City full of Merchants and Artisans of all Nations driving a great Trade in Cotton and Silk The Franciscans Capuchins and Jesuits have each their Chappels the Turks seven or eight Mosques and the Jews one Synagogue here The Maronites of Mount Libanus and the Armenian Greeks enjoy the like Liberties Without the City appear many Gardens of Oranges Citrons Tamarines Palm-trees and the Fig-trees of Adam so called because bearing a Leaf of the length of six foot and the breadth of two Adam it is supposed covered his nakedness with them It hath two small Fortresses but so far ruined as to remain indefensible The Turks keep a a Sangiack here under the Bassaw of Damascus a Cady or Judge and an Aga of the Janizaries The French a Consul All which Officers are handsomely lodged the rest of the Houses are ill built The Harbor formerly was capable of receiving many and great Vessels but is now choaked with Sand to that degree as to admit only of Skiffs whilst Ships lye in the road behind the Rocks for Shelter In the Christian times it was a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Tyre The Eutychians held Council here of twenty four Bishops in 512 under the protection of the Emperour Anastasius In 1260 the Tartars became Masters of it from whom the Turks obtain'd it about one hundred and fifty years since There is now a Caemetery upon a part of the Mountain Antilibanus in the place where the Old Sidon stood for the use of the Christians of Seyde And the Maronites have a poor Chappel by it Seyne See Seine ◠Sezza Setia a City of Campagna di Roma in Italy of good Antiquity mentioned by Martial It is said to have sometime been a Bishop's See though not now Du Val places an Epispocal City of the same name in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples Sfacchia Leuci a Range of Mountains in the Territory of Cydonia on the West side of the Island of Candy which gave name to the Sfacciotes who signalized themselves by their valiant resistance against the Turks when they endeavoured the ravishing that Island from the Seigniory of Venice of late years Shaftsbury Septonia a Town upon the Stoure in the North-East Borders of Dorsetshire towards Wiltshire seated in the form of a Bow on an high Hill which affords it a serene Air and a large delightful Prospect but deprives it very much of Water In the times of the Norman Conquest it had one hundred and four Houses and after this ten Parish Churches now three with about 500 Houses built of the Freestone of its own Hill Some write King Canutus the Dane died here This Town was built by King Alfred in 880 as Mr. Cambden proves from an old Inscription mentioned in William of Malmesbury In 1672 Charles II. created Anthony Ashley Cooper then Lord Chancellor of England Earl of Shaftsbury who died in Holland and his Son succeeded him in this Honour Shannon Shennyn or Shennonon Senus Sinejus a River in Ireland which is one of the principal in that Kingdom It ariseth in the County of Roscomon in the Province of Connaught out of Mount Slewnern and flowing Southward through Letrim forms a vast Lake called Myne Eske and Ree towards the North end of which on the East side stands Letrim in the middle Longford towards the South Ardagh on the West side Elphem and Roscomon and at some distance from the Lake to the South Athlone Beneath which comes in from the West the Logh a vast River from three other Lakes more to the West called Garoch Mesks and Ben-Carble on the East it receives the Anney so passing by Bannogh and Clonfort to the Lake of Derg at Kiloe it leaves that Lake and passeth to Limerick where it turns full West and between Munster to the South and Connaught to the North enters the Vergivian Ocean by a Mouth five Miles wide between Cape Leane and Cape Sanan having in this Course separated Leinster and Munster from Connaught Shap a large Village in the County of Westmorland in Westward near the River Lowther in which in the Reign of Henry I Thomas Son of Jospatrick founded an Abbey and the same was the only Abbey in this County There is near this Town a noted Well which ebbs and flows often in a day and a perfect Bow of vast Stones some nine foot high and fourteen thick pitch'd at equal distances from each other for for the space of a Mile Sheale a Town in the Bishoprick of Durham in Chester-ward upon the Mouth of the River Tine The Newcastle Coal-Fleet takes its Cargo here Sheffield a large well-built Market-town in the West riding of Yorkshire in the hundred of Strafford upon the River Dun of particular note for Iron Wares even in Chaucer's time who describes a Person with a Sheffield VVhittle by his side It shews the ruines of one of the five Castles formerly seated upon the same River Dun in the compass of ten Miles Corn especially is much bought up here for the supply of some parts of Derby and Nottingham shires as well as Yorkshire Shefford a Market Town in Bedfordshire in the Hundred of Clifton situated between two Rivulets which below it join to fall in one Stream into the Avon Sheppey Shepey Toliapis an Island on the Eastern Coast of Kent at the Mouth of the Thames and Medway Separated by the River Medway from Kent and on all other sides surrounded with the Sea About eight Miles long and six broad Fruitful in Pasturage and well watered especially on the South by Rivers The Danes Earl Goodwin his Sons and their Adherents much harassed it in former times Queensborough is its chief Town it hath several other Towns besides and hath been honoured with the Title of an Earldom in the Lady Dacres Countess of Shepey Shepton-Mallet or Malley a large Market Town in Somersetshire in the hundred of VVhiston Shipton a Market Town in VVorcestershire in the hundred of Oswalderston upon the River Stower It stands in a slip of the County taken off from VVarwickshire Shirburne Clarus Fons a Town and Castle in the North-West of Dorsetshire on the Borders of Somersetshire upon a River of the same Name which afterwards falls into the Parret the Capital of its Hundred Built on the side of an Hill in a fruitful and pleasant Country and much increased in the number of its Inhabitants and its Wealth by the Cloathing Trade In 704. a Bishop's See was erected here translated afterwards to Sunning and thence to Salisbury The Family of the Digbys Earls of Bristol are Barons of Shirburne § Also a Market Town in the West riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of
defended by a strong Castle upon the River Gers six Miles from Aux ten from Tolouse to the South-West and three from Condom Ledbury or Lidbury a well built Market Town in Herefordshire in the Hundred of Radlow standing in a rich Clay Ground near the Malvern Hills and much inhabited by Clothiers Ledesina Bletisa a small Town in Leon in Spain upon the River Tormes six Leagues from Salamanca to the North-East Ledung Dur a small River of Ireland in the County of Kerry Leeberg or Leerberg See Jura Leeder one of the Islands on the West of Scotland Leeds a considerable Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Skirack upon the River Are well inhabited by Clothiers The Kings of Northumberland had anciently a Palace Royal here Leek a Market Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Totmonslow Leerpoole or Leverpoole a considerable Sea-Port Town upon the River Irwel in the South part of the County of Lancaster towards the Borders of Cheshire three Miles from the Irish Sea It is now one of the most thriving Ports and has a Trade equal to the best Town on the Western Shoar except Bristol it sends also two Burgesses to Parliament The Pool is commanded by a Castle built by King John on the South side and on the West upon the River stands a stately strong Tower The Mores of Banck Hall at their proper Charge and Industry have much improved and beautified this Town Leeuwarden Leovardia the Capital City of Friesland which was made a Bishops See by Pope Paul VI. It is great well built and strongly fortified almost two German Miles from the Sea to the South and seven from Groningen to the West Leffy Liffee Luffee the noblest River of Ireland upon which Dublin stands So far saith Mr. Cambden over-powered by the County of Dublin that though his Spring be but fifteen Miles from his Fall into the Sea yet to accomplish his Course he is forced to fetch a very great compass first running South through S. Patrick's Fields eight Miles then West five Miles then North by the County of Kildare ten Miles North-East five at last East by the Castle of Knock and the City of Dublin into the Irish Sea ten Miles This River was without doubt mentioned by Ptolemy but by the negligence of Transcribers omitted in its proper place and Libnius put into the same Latitude on the opposite side of Ireland where there could be no such River In 1687 towards the beginning of December there hapned such an Inundation of this River by Rains and Storm that not only Men Cattle and Goods in great quantities were carried away by its rapidity but the Bridges were broken down and Dublin so filled with water that Boats plyed in the Streets the like never known before either upon Record or in the memory of Man Legnano a strong Town in the Province of Veronois in Lombardy in Italy under the Venetians In Latin Liviacum Leicestershire Leicestria one of the inland Counties of England bounded on the North by Nottingham on the East by Lincoln and Rutland on the South by Northampton and on the West by Warwickshire and Darby It abounds in Corn Pease and Beans but wants Wood it has plenty of Coal and excellent Pasture The Air is soft and healthful It s shape is Circular being about 196 Miles in Circumference Containing twelve Market Towns and one hundred and ninety two Parishes in length from East to West about thirty Miles in breadth twenty five Watered by the Rivers Stower and Wreak together with many others of lesser Courses Leicester the principal Town of it which gives name to the whole lies in the middle of the County on the East side of the Stoure over which it hath two Bridges in Long. 19. 22. Lat. 53. 04. Etheldred the Mercian made it a Bishops See in 680. which continued not long In 914. Edelfled a Noble Saxon Lady rebuilt and strongly walled this Town At the time of the Conquest it was Great Rich and Populous beautified with a Collegiate Church an Abbey and a Castle which time has ruined In the Reign of Henry II. it was besieged taken and dismantled upon the Rebellion of Robert Crouch its Earl Richard III. was buried obscurely here and Cardinal Woolsey That great though not good Statesman Robert Dudley was by Queen Elizabeth Created Earl of Leicester in 1564. To him in 1618. succeeded by a new Creation Robert Sidney Descended from a Sister of his Philip the present Earl is the Grandchild of the last Robert and succeeded Robert his Father in 1677. It now contains three Parish Churches and several good Buildings with the honour of returning two Burgesses to the House of Commons Leighton Beaudesect a large Market Town in Bedfordshire in the Hundred of Manshead on the Borders of Buckinghamshire upon a River running Northward into the Ouse over which it has a Bridge Leine Linius Lina a River of the Dukedom of Saxony in Germany watering Gottingen Eâ—mbeck c. in the Dukedom of Brunswick and passing near Hanover and Newstadt to joyn the Aller See Leyne Leinster Lagenia one of the four Provinces of Ireland called by the Inhabitants Leighnigh by the Welsh Lein by the English Leinster and in old times Lagen on the East it has the Irish Sea on the West Connaught divided from it by the River Shannon to the North the Territory of Louth and to the South the Province of Munster the form of it is Triangular its Circumference being about two hundred and seventy Miles the Air is clear and gentle the Earth fruitful both as to Grass and Corn it affordeth plenty of Butter Cheese and Cattle and being well watered with Rivers as the Neure the Sewer the Barow c. wants neither Fish nor Fowl but it has not much Wood. Dublin is the Capital of this Province as well as of the Kingdom This Provine contains these Counties Kilkenny Caterlogh Queens-County Kings-County Kildare East-Meath West-Meath Wexford and Dublin to which Wicklow and Fernes in Mr. Speed's time were intended to be added Some believe this Province to have been the ancient Seat of the Caucenses Blanii Menapii and Brigantes mentioned by Ptolemy Leirge See Lergue Leiria or Leria an Episcopal City of the Province of Estremadura in the Kingdom of Portugal upon a small River one League from the Sea below Tomar The See is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Lisbon Leleges an ancient People of Caria in the Lesser Asia and others amongst the Locrenses in Achaia mentioned by Pliny Strabo and Virgil. Lem Lemuris a River of Italy in the States of Genoua which riseth out of the Apennine and watereth Gavi in the Borders of Montisferrat and Milan then falls into the River Bormia in the Dukedom of Milan which falls into the Tuanara and ends in the River Po at Basignana six Italian Miles East of Giaroli This River is also called Lim and il Lemo The Lake of Lemane Lemanus a considerable Lake made by the
River Rhosne between Switzerland to the North and Savoy to the South Called by those who live near it the Lake of Geneva by the Germans das Genfferzee by the Italians illago di Genevra extending from East to West about nine German Miles and about two over where it is broadest the Rhosne enters it at Noville and goes out at Geneva in the most Western end of it It is surrounded with good Towns the principal next Geneva is Lausanne on the North by the name of which this Lake is somtime called Lemburgh Luwow Leopolis a great and populous City of the Kingdom of Poland the Capital of Red Russia which was made an Archbishops See instead of Halitz or Haliotz in 1361. by Pope Vrban V. It stands amongst the Hills upon the River Peltew which with the Bug falls into the Vistula a little above Ploczko and is very strong being walled and fortified with two Castles one within the City the other without It was built by Leo Duke of Russia who flourished about 1280. In 1648 belleged by Chieilneck General of the Cossacks without any success In 1672. the Turks took it and soon lost it for in 1673. Michael King of Poland died in it This City stands fifteen Miles from Premislia to the East a little less from the Carpathian Hills to the North and about fifty from Warsaw to the South-East Lemgow Lemgovia a small City in the Circle of Westphalia in the County of Lippe which was once a Free Imperial City but now exempt and under the Count of Lippe It stands upon the River Begh five Miles from Minden to the North and Paderborne to the South and nine from Lippestad to the North-East Lemington a Market Town in the County of Southampton and the Hundred of Christ Church by the Seaside § There is another Lemington a Parish in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Knightlow remarkable for two Springs within few Foot of each other the one Fresh the other Salt yet at a great distance from the Ocean and of different Operations Lemnos an Island in the Archipelago See Staliment Lemâ—ta a Town and Desart in Libya now Zaara in Africa Lencicia or Lanscher Lancicia Lancicium a City of Poland the Capital of a Palatinate called by the Poles Lenczyc from this City which they call Lenczyckie It lies in the Greater Poland in a Marshy Ground upon the River Bsura not above ten Miles from the River Warte the same distance from Gnesna to the East and thirty from Warsaw to the West There belongs to it a Castle built on a Rock and in 1656. this City suffered much by Fire Divers Polish Councils have been Celebrated at it Lendrosia one of the Islands on the West of Scotland Lenham a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath at the Spring of the River Stewer Lenox Lenoxia Levinia a County in the North of Scotland through which the River and Lake of Lomond passeth on the East it hath the County of Menteith on the South Cunningham cut off by Dunbriton Fyrth on the West Argile and on the North Albania This County has the Honor of being a Dukedom which Title has been born by several of the Royal Line of Scotland The principal Town in it is Dunbritown Lens Lentium Lendum Lenense Castrum Nemetacum a small Town in Artois upon the River Souchets three Leagues from Arras to the North and four from Doway to the West The French besieged this small place in 1647. but by the loss of their General le Gasse slain by a shot whilst he was plucking at a Palisadoe they were forced to leave it near this place the French gave the Spaniards a great overthrow in 1648. and after possessed themselves of it to whom the Pyrenaean Treaty confirmed it in 1659. The Town has been fortified but was some years since slighted and dismantled Lentini Leontina a very ancient City in the Isle of Sicily in the Valley of Netina on the Eastern Shoar Heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Syracuse whilst Syracuse was the Metropolis of the Island under the Greek Emperors It is now pretty considerable and populous but very confusedly built A place of greater Antiquity than Syracuse and perhaps than any other City now in the Island It stands five Miles from the Sea to the West and ten from Catania to the South-West Lenza Nicia a River of Italy which springing from the Apennine runneth North and parteth the Dukedom of Parma from that of Modena then falls into the Po at Barsello eight Miles from Parma to the North. Leominster or Lemster a Market and Borough Town in Herefordshire in the Hundred of Wolphey upon the River Lug of chief Note for fine Wheat Flower and Wooll Leon Legio Germanica Sublanco a City of Spain in the Astures built in the Reign of Nerva the Emperor It is now called by the Inhabitants Leon or Leone a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Compostella so far exempted that he acknowledgeth no Metropolitan but the Pope and the Capital of the Kingdom of Leon ever since 658. It stands at the bottom of an Hill by the Fountains of the River Esla very great but not much peopled twelve Miles from the Ocean to the South and twenty one from Valedolid to the North-West It was Recovered from the Moors in 722. and is adorned with one of the most beautiful Cathedrals in Spain § There is another City in New Spain in America called Leon by the Spaniards and Nagarando by the Natives which being the Capital of Nicaragua the Province in which it stands is sometimes called Leon de Nicaragua This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico by a Lake of the same name about 12 Leagues from the Shoars of the Pacifick Ocean and 18 from New Granada to the East The Kingdom of Leon and Oviedo Legionense Regnum hath on the East the County of Biscay on the North the main Cantabrian Ocean on the South Castile and on the West Gallicia It has its name from Leon and Oviedo the two chief Cities in it This is the most ancient Kingdom in Spain and began about 717. being more anciently called Asturia from the Astures an old People who possessed it It is mountainous and full of Woods divided in two by the River Duero about fifty five Leagues long from North to South and forty broad Augustus Caesar was the first Roman that conquered it The Goths after five hundred years free possession of it outed the Romans and after four hundred more the Saracens did as much for the Goths but they the Saracens did not long enjoy it this being the first Kingdom the Christians recovered from them under the Command of Pelagius a young Prince of this Nation about 717. It continued a separate Kingdom under twenty nine Princes till in 1228. Ferdin III. annexed it to Castile he being married to Berenguela second Sister of Henry King of Castile tho in prejudice of Blanch the eldest Sister married to