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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08536	Theatrum orbis terrarum Abrahami OrtelI Antuerp. geographi regii. = The theatre of the vvhole world: set forth by that excellent geographer Abraham Ortelius; Theatrum orbis terrarum. English	Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598.; Bedwell, William, ca. 1561-1632, attributed name.; W. B.	1608 (1608)	STC 18855; ESTC S122301	546,874	619

with manuscript copies of sundrie writers and different argument in diuers languages to wit Historiographers Poets Mathematicians c. These also haue where they might possibly be gotten the liuely portraitures and counterfets of their authours set before them This Library was much augmented by the addition of the Library of Didacus Hurtadus Mendoza who hauing sometime beene Ambassadour for Charles the fifth Emperour of Rome vnto the Venetians receiued from the High country of Greece a ship full of manuscript Greeke copies so that excepting the Vaticane in Rome which is the Popes Library there is not as most men thinke a more stately and better furnished library then this in all Europe I come now to the VNIVERSITY and the KINGS PALLACE both which are vpon the North side In the VNIVERSITY there are three seuerall Schooles or Hals where the three most famous and worthy artes Diuinity Law and Physicke are read by their seuerall and proper Lecturers beside the other liberall Sciences which together with them are there taught and expounded vnto the yonger sort of students To this is adioined a Free Schoole for Grammar scholars with sundry other court yards and hals or dining roomes The PALACE is so situate that from thence you may easily goe vnto the Church the Colledge and monastery It were a long discourse particularly to describe the seuerall lodgings of the King the Ambassadours Comptroulers Chamberlaines Noblemens Pensioners Yeomen of the guard and other Officers belonging to the Court The Kings Gallery openeth toward the North side of the Church vpon whose wall is painted the battell at Higueruela in which King Iohn the Second ouercame the Moores of Granado Which picture doth so liuelily expresse the whole story and euery thing in it as it was done as it is wonderfull It sheweth in what order and how the maine battell was set where the Horsemen the Footmen the Pikemen the Targeters the Archers which then were in great request did stand and how and where they seuerally charged the enemy This piece of worke was made at the commandement of Philip the second king of Spaine by an old patterne drawen in a piece of linnen cloth of an hundred and thirtie foot long found in the old Towre of Segouia which was first drawen at that time that this battell was fought Moreouer vpon the East and South sides of this building there is a most goodly and pleasant Garden which is an hundred foot broad and is set out and beautified with diuerse knots rare hearbs floures and fountaines To this garden is adioined an Orchard planted and set with all maner of trees Within the precincts of this monastery there are more then forty fountaines Such is the wonderfull number of Keies and Lockes about this house which do amount vnto certaine thousands that there is a seueral and proper Officer for to looke to them onely called The master of the Keies The forme of the monastery is foure-square and euery side is two hundred and twenty foure pases long only that side except that is next to the Pallace which of purpose was made shorter then the other three that the compasse or externall forme of the Abbey might represent the fashion of the square of a gridiron for that S. Laurence to whom this house was dedicated was broiled to death vpon a gridiron The Monkes which are in number three hundred and as I haue shewed before of the order of S. Hierome do inhabite not past the third part of this whole building Their yearly reuenews do amount to 35000. Duckets The other part of the reuenewes they doe bestow vpon the king and his family That I may conclude it is furnished with so many Hals Parlours Chambers and other closets and roomes for necessary vses in an house that there is roome inough to entertaine and lodge fowre Kings and their Courts at once to that it may worthily challenge the first place amongst the greatest miracles of the whole world FINIS IRELAND GIraldus Cambrensis a good Writer that liued in the time of Henry the Second wrote aboue 400 yeeres since describeth IRELAND on this maner HIBERNIA saith he post Britanniam insularum maxima vnius contractioris diei nauigatione vltra Britannicas VVallias in occidentali Oceano sita est Intra tamen Vltoniam Scoticas Galwedias duplo ferè angustiore spacio mare coarctatur Vtraque verò vtriusque terrae promontoria hinc distinctius illinc ratione distantiae confusius satis apertè sereno tempore perspici possunt notari Insularum occidentalium haec vltima Hispaniam ab Austro trium dierum naturalium nauigatione collateralem habet Britanniam Maiorem ab Oriente Solum Oceanum ab Occidente Ab Aquilonari verò parte trium dierum velifico cursu borealium insularum maxima Islandia iacet That is IRELAND the greatest iland of the world but Britaine lieth in the maine sea distant Westward from Wales about a dayes saile but betweene Vlster and Gallaway a prouince of Scotland the Sea is not much more than halfe so farre ouer The promontories capes or forlands as you please to call them of both these countries may very easily in a bright sunne-shinie day from hence be seene and descried yet these more plainer those by reason they are farther off more obscurely Of all the ilands of Europe this lieth farthest into the West Vpon the South side it hath Spaine distant from it about three dayes and three nights saile Vpon the East lieth Great Britaine On the West side of it is nothing but the vast Ocean sea Vpon the North three daies iourney off lieth Island which of all the Northren iles is by farre the greatest Againe a little beneath he addeth Hibernia quantò à caetero communi Orbe terrarum semota quasi ALTER ORBIS esse dignoscitur tantò rebus quibusdam solito naturae cursu incognitis quasi peculiaris eiusdem NATVRAE THESAVRVS vbi insignia pretiosiora sui secreta reposuerit esse videtur Looke by how much Ireland is disioyned from the rest of the knowen world and in that respect is commonly holden to be as it were ANOTHER WORLD so for certeine things by the common course of Nature to others vnknowen it seemeth to be a speciall and peculiar Treasurie or STOREHOVSE OF NATVRE where it hath bestowed and layed vp her most excellent and rarest secrets Orosius and Isidore from him reporteth That Ireland is much lesse than England but by reason of the situation and temperature of the aire here it is generally more fertile than England Yea and reuerend Beda our country man he sayth That the aire in Ireland is more healthfull and cleare than it is in England Hiberniam tum aëris salubritate quàm serenitate multum Britanniae praestare Yet Giraldus denieth the latter For sayth he as France for thinnesse and clearnesse of the aire doth far excell England so England for the same doth as far excell Ireland For this is certaine the farther you