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A38741	Europæ modernæ speculum, or, A view of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, seignieuries [sic], and common-wealths of Europe in their present state, their government, policy, different interest and mutual aspect one towards another, from the treaty at Munster, anno 1648, to this present year.		1666 (1666)	Wing E3417A; ESTC R30444	129,187	283

and the praeferring to Benefices The whole Revenues of the Clergy are valued at six Millions of Gold yearly Rent there being 34. Cathedral Churches all richly endowed some whereof having 50. some a 100. and some 200. Millions of yearly Revenue and in particular the Metropolitan Arch-Bishop of Toledo hath more than 300. Millions Neither do the Kings of Spain care to parcel these Churches to a greater number although over-grown with their plenty for then they should with more difficulty make use of the Revenues and Notes thereof when occasion required which is very often upon any disastrous Event As he likewise layes extraordinary Taxes upon the Laity in the like Occurrence for in the Kingdom of Castile alone Philip the 2d had nigh 8. Millions of Gold in one year reckonning hereto also the Profits which his Orders of Knighthood yield him viz. 200. Millions of Crowns so that here is Revenue more than enough were it not for the Canker of Interest at the Bank of Genoa nor are the Merchants of Antwerp without their share in the partition thereof and now the Amsterdammers also This Princes Coyn notwithstanding is the best in Europe since all their Neighbours make a gain of them as a Piece of Reals or 8. Six-Pences in our Money goeth in France for 4 s. 6 6. a Doublin in Gold that which is a Pistolet with them being 13. Shillings is in France and other Places 29. Reals which is 14 s. 6 d. of our Money Most of the Coyn that passeth for Wine Bread Fruit c. is of Brass which they call Quartas and Quartillas of their Maravedies 20. make three-pence but sometime the King enhanceth the Price of this Brass Money of a sudden and with a great deal of profit to himself brings a great loss upon Trade All their Meat Fruit and Bread are sold by the Pound and not except before an Officer which they call Alcalda so that no Stranger can be deceived in price or weight As to the Interest of these Princes it hath been evidently seen what it hath been but since the French mated them under Francis the First and held them to it till Lewis the 14th was too powerful for them since the Dutch baffled them and We triumphed over them they have been put to defend their own instead of over-running others Their Designes are now to secure their Estates and to draw from them that Revenue into their Coffers which was squandred away in the War without any account and yet to be as gentle a Soveraign as possible For all the late League the Spaniard nor French will ever joyn Interests or agree together more than they do in their Humours or Fashions In fine they really hate one another but more revengefully the Spaniard frets at the French as he that first put a stop to his Career of Ambition and therefore there 's nothing but Jealousie and Suspition between them however smoothed and oyled over with Court Artifices alike understood for such on both sides nor have their late frequent Consanguinities and Marriages any influences to draw them nearer to any amicable understanding With the Dutch he firmly keeps a good Correspondence as his very good Friends since Fate would needs have it so and useth them very respectfully as his good Neighbours and as security to his Estates in Flanders for the Dutch as was said do not love the Frenchmens vicinity For the King of England he cherisheth a more than usual respect testified by those publique Honours done his Ambassador Sr. Richard Fanshaw in that Kingdom and inviolably observeth the Peace betwixt us With the Duke of Savoy he is newly reconciled and certainly that Duke who hath the Citadel of Verceil restored him by this King by vertue of the late Treaty hath no great Antipathy against Him for he hath suffered twice more from the French than from the Spaniard who is as well able to Defend Him as he is conveniently scited to Offend him upon every displeasure The Duke of Parma is allyed to him and so sure to his Interest The Florentine is stiff but is aequal between the French and Him The Mantuan will be Neutral and the Pope his secret Friend The Prince of Modena will hardly engage any more against Him for in a manner he is the Umpire of all Quarrells between those Princes He is Patron also to the Common-Wealth of Luca. And for the States of Venice ever since the Dutchy of Millain came to the possession of this Crown they have set them down with great quietness rather looking to the strengthening of their own than attempting his and good reason too for our Ancestors have seen the Spanish favouring the Venetians when their Estate was dangerously hazarded by the Turk chearfully to have entred into the Actions of Cephalonia and Lepanto when nevertheless at the same instant they had at their own Doors Algier Tunis and other African Ports their dangerous Enemies The State of Genoa must favour the King of Spain and stand by him for he is their Protector and owes them vast summs which by any partiality of their side will be wholly lost With all the Catholique Princes of Germany he is in perfect Correspondence and how great a relation and necessity of mutual adhaerence there is between the Emperour and Him no man is ignorant confirmed now and more intimately contracted by the late Marriage of the Infanta With the King of Fez and Morocco his Catholique Majesty is in League but it is of no use or availment to him Of the Religion of Malta the King taketh a particular protection as that in like sort depends wholly upon his pleasure and doth readily execute his Royal Commandements serving him often in keeping the Coasts of Spain and the Kingdomes of Naples and Sicily from Incursions of Pyrates and that without one penny cost or charges to the King As to the Turk he maintains no intercourse nor useth any Trade with him and yet he hath neither Peace nor War with him Peace he pretends he ought not to have and the other he careth not for and the Turk is as unwilling to quarrel as he remembring what he suffered from him at Lepanto So that pivate Damages are privately made good and the Algier men do take upon themselves the Rupture if any louder Mischief happen of which the Spaniard will not complain It is thought that this King is Superiour to the Turk in Naval Furniture and Provision and the Courage and Ability of Seamen for his Biskayners and Catalonians are hardly to be paralleled for enduring of Winter weather and Tempests and the Turk is alwayes moared at home from October to March besides the convenience of his Coast for building of Ships and Gallies of which he hath a 100. in readiness and the Turk hath but two Places all along his African Coast viz. Algier and Tunis where he can build a Vessel Upon this account it was that Philip the 2d was advised to seize upon the Morea and

immediately squandered away by the succeeding Pope such is the successive variation of Humour and Temper of these Potentates that men imagine they do purposely run Counter to one anothers designs This considered the Papacy seems in this present condition to goe below it self the Pope one of the Prudentest that ever sate in the Chair all things composed Money enough but hinc illae Lachrymae No Friends or Backers The Church of Rome are very tenacious of their Forms and it s supposed they will be now held to one the untunable Recantation of their Injury to the French The Pomp and Triumph of the Legates Entry is intended to dazle the eyes of his good Catholiques and the Affair is excellently well cloathed but the World sees the nakedness of it and that the Church of Rome hath not this first time yielded to the will of her Sons like a kind and indulgent Mother when her Chastisements cannot reach them In the mean time her bosome hath been opened to her eldest Child the Emperour of Germany and she raised her Levies to his assistance to the same proportion as the forwardest and without question hath not been wanting either in her Advice or Purse THE Republique OF VENICE VENICE of whom it is written by a well known Author That were it within the reach of humane society to prescribe Rules for fixing a society and succession of People under the same species of Government as long as the World lasts that Republique were the fittest Pattern on Earth both for Direction and Imitation a Place of that strong constitution in point of Government that in spight of all the Powers of Europe and Asia of the Eastern and Western Empire bears up her Liberty and Authority for well nigh 1100. Years being still in case to make good Thuanus his Prophesie Venetiae non nisi cum rerum naturâ mundi machinâ periturae It is bounded Southward with Ferrara and the remainders of Romaniola Northward with a great part of the Alps Eastward with the Adriatique and the River Arsia on the Ceast of the Schavonian Province Liburnia Westward with Millain Containing these Estates and Places viz. 1. Histria a woody barren and sickly Peninsula in the Adriatique a Nest of Thieves formerly troublesome to Rome till Manlius Cl. Pulcher Sempronius and Augustus Caesar reduced it And as troublesome to the Venetians Duke Petro Candiano An. 938. and Duke Henry Dondolo An. 1190. made it tributary and serviceable for Timber Marble and a Passage to Hungary 2. Friuli a pleasant and fruitful Country 50. Miles square lying between the Marque of Treviso the German Alps and the Adriatique 3. The Marque of Treviso parted Southward by the Po and Athesis from Ferrara and the rest of Romania Westward by the Rivers Mineiris and Sarla from Millain Eastward adjoyning to Friuli and the Gulf of Venice And Northward divided by the Alps from Tirole in Germany A most temperate and fruitful Country 4. The Adriatique a Gulf extending 700. Miles in length and 140. in bredth under the command of Venice The Duke whereof marrieth every Ascension Day with a Ring thrown in very solemnly in token that it must be subject to them as the Wife is to the Husband As on every Epiphany Day it is Baptized by the Bishop of Zant in token that it shall continue Christs faithful Souldier and Servant against the Infidels for ever The Principal Islands whereof under their Jurisdiction on this side being 1. Mala mollo 2. Torcellan 3. Muriano 4. Chioggia 5. Bovegia 6. Judaeha and 7. a shot of 72. little Islets near the main Land of Friuli whereon stands Venice her self with 4000. Bridges and 10000. Boats to pass from one part of it to another 8. Milies in compass containing 1300000. Inhabitants built within the Adriatique in the midst of salt Lakes for 90. Miles round and deep Marshes for 5. Miles several Monasteries and Churches as Forts and Castles lying between it and the Ports of Italy not under its obedience whence its impregnable and not to be taken but by an Army that extends 150. Miles in compass On the other side the Adriatique she hath Briscia Bergamo Verona Crema and towards Dalmatia 1. Corfu within a Mile of Albania 120. Miles in compass a craggy and mountainous place whose Castles are the Keyes to the Adriatique Gulf. 2. Zant 60. Miles round where they have no use for Currants but to dye cloaths or fatten Hoggs with them 3. Candia that noble Isle in the Mediterranean 270. Miles in length and 50. in bredth so opportunely situated that Aristotle would say She was made to be Mistress of the Sea An 100. Miles distant from Syria and Aegypt and 300. from Caramania Cyprus and Albania Neither doth the situation of the Seignory more befriend it than the Nature of the Inhabitants both close and reserved the People being so much advantaged by a native gravity that in a Book called Le Treature Politique it s recommended for the great School of it to all publick Ministers Bodin himself saying thus of them Quae de consilii capiendi ratione diximus nusquam sanè meliùs quam Venetiis fieri consueverunt The great Maximes they proceed upon are these 1. To be Umpires and Spectators in the troubles of the World rather than Actors to embroyl all other States and say as their Motto Pax tibi Marte none being more reputed for their open Intercessions for Peace none more suspected for their clandestine Incitations to a War for as they stole at first so they must stand at last a Republique only because of the common troubles But being addicted to Peace Trafique Wealth and Repose the first and fundamental Maxim they propose to themselves is to maintain common freedom and live secure 2. To ballance the Powers of Europe keeping them all out of Italy In pursuit of which Principle many have been its Contests with the French and Spaniards being as famous for varying Counsell Alliancies Dependencies abroad as for keeping close to her Constitution and Government at home where the Rule is the Venetians deliberate long before they decree any thing but when it is once seriously decreed it is as irrevocable as the Laws of the Medes and Persians 3. To understand all the Intrigues of Europe whence it is that they observe this method in the Employment of their Ambassadors First They send a man to Switzerland thence they employ him in Holland from thence they transmit him to England and from England to France from France to Spain from Spain to Germany and from Germany to Constantinople and are said to expend 140000 l. per Annum in Intelligencies 4. To keep their People in a perfect state of Obedience alwayes ignorant how to dispute always knowing how to obey their Superiours Orders which they will endure no Jesuite or any other Ecclesiasticks to discourse or cavil at and therefore are out with the Court rather than Church of Rome most commonly because it propagates a Religion that is

of this Sea are now either possessed or awed by the Grand Sultan who is now at leisure to make himself absolute here the Venetians having dis-obliged most part of Christendom otherwise like to assist them upon this unexpected closure with the Emperour in Hungary being Master of Cyprus a famous Place extending from East to VVest 200. Miles and round 600. on the Syrian and Cilician Sea which openeth the way on both sides for the Conquest either of Asia or Europe Especially since 1. EPIRUS or ALBANIA Lying Eastward upon Etolia VVestward on the Adriatique Northward of Thessaly and Southward with the Ionian A large and utterly subdued Country that furnish so many Ships and Men. 2. ACHAIA or LIVODIA A goodly Region doing the like And 3. PELOPONNESUS or MOREA The Bulwark of Greece as it was antiently called and still so well peopled a Place of Greece as pours forth more Souldiers than the Venetians have power to look upon much less to Conquer This is the best Province of Turkey as maintaining a 1000. Horse besides the infinite number of Foot it sends abroad for the Mahumetan service with whom it offereth constantly 230000. Ducats The Turkish Garrisons are so thick in these Countries that there is no good to be done untill such time as a great Famine or Mortality render the People as desperate against their Infidel Masters as Necessity made them cruel to the People In the mean time the great sway the Turk carrieth in these Seas gives him opportunity more than enough to secure his Interest here but that he is so intent upon the Borders of Hungary which being strengthened and either a vigorous VVar or an honourable Peace had with the Venetians render his Inland Dominions cock-sure The Christians being never like to meet with that Opportunity they lost when Don John of Austria after the Battel of Lepanto instead of retiring might have entred the Archi-Pelagus and all Persons being amazed under the Consternation of that great and happy Event have taken the adjoyning Islands without resistance shaken the Ottoman Empire and planted the Crucifix where the Crescent is adored The Grand Seiguiour having lost his Sea Forces at Lepanto and his Land Souldiers at the furious Sieges of Nicosia and Pamagoust lying naked and open and his Empire remaining a great Body shrunk with weakness and wanting force to sustain its self and bear its proper weight fsils of necessity so soon as it is justled An Opportunity never to be regained now the Naval Force of Turkey is so Compleat consisting of three Fleets 1. The one parallel to our New-Castle Vessels sayling the Euxine and Mediterranean either towards the Muscovite Circasse or Cossack whence returning with Slaves Honey VVood and VVax it sayls to Alexandria to barter those Commodities for Flax Sugar Tapestry Sherbats made of several dry preserved Fruits as Apricocks Peaches Citrons Corn Rice and come back with Tribute guarded with a Fleet for fear of the Malta and Florentine Galleys that lye in wait for the Stragglers to Constantinople 2. The other is the Fleet of VVar built and equipped in the Streights 3. And the third the Barbary Men of VVar which exercise Pyracy over all Christendom and depend upon the Grand Seigniour All now taught by the Renegadoes a skill at Sea as considerable as that of the Europaeans ENGLAND NOW we have gone round the Circle we finish where we began in that fortunate Island if there be any in the VVorld If all men as I that travelled understood either their own or their Nations Happiness England in its Restauration a Miracle and in its Settlement a VVonder 1. At Peace with Spain 2. Allied to Portugal 3. Inward with Denmark 4. Courted by Sweden 5. Addressed unto by the Emperour 6. Caressed by the Princes 7. Despaired of by the Pope 8. Admired by the Turk 9. Applauded by the Muscovite 10. Feared by the Infidels 11. Suspected by the French 12. And Affronted only by the Dutch A People it hath set up when in their lowest Estate and pulled down when in their highest To whom it hath been the best Friend and the worst Enemy whose Sea maintains them whose Fish relieves them whose Commodities employ them and whose Trade hath hitherto upheld them England now as of old the Ballance of Europe giving Law with its Armes to Africa and its Princes opening the way by its Commerce to the Wines and Sugars of Spain to the Treasure of the Indies to the Manufactures of Turkey and China to the Cordage and Naval Materials of Muscovy Sweden and Denmark to the Delicacies of Italy to the Kersies of Flanders to the Wines of Burdeaux and whatever owneth the Name of Necessary or Convenient Improving its Native Commodities with the greatest Art at home and Exporting them with the highest Freedom abroad Its First Interest is Intelligence and Negotiation and the World understands how Active a Person it employes in Holland how Wise a Man it hath setled in France how Grave an Ambassadour it maintains in Spain and what Reserved Prudent and Noble Agents it hath dispatched to Denmark and Sweden not to mention the Honourable Person resident at the Grand Seigniour's Court. Its Second is Trade and the Dominion of the Sea and it 's not unknown what Expert Captains are trusted what Multitudes of Seamen are bred up what Provisions are made for Fishing what Laws are in force for the Vending of Fish what Correspondence is kept with the Northern Coasts for Cordage how many and strong Vessels are built what Stores and Magazines even beyond what ever was known are set up how blessed a Prince who makes it his business to understand and manage the Sea Affairs how Royal an Admiral the King 's only Brother what Noble Officers all the Nobility choosing rather a Ship at Sea than a Court by Land how willing the Kingdom is to float upon the Sea how watchful the Commissioners of the Navy are to guide it and how vigilant His Majesty and his Honourable Council is upon all what formidable Preparations what abundance of gallant Men what skillful Builders what expert Seamen what valiant Commanders and in a word what a brave Admiral whose conduct diligence and success is known to the World Its Third Interest is the Protestant Religion which it encourageth abroad and hath setled at home where the Laws against Recusants of both sides the Papists and the Separatist are very strict the Uniformity distinct from them both is very orderly Our Doctrine how confessedly Orthodox Our Devotion how avowedly wholesome Our Ceremonies how famously decent Our Discipline how admirably primitive and our Order how honourably antient Our People submitting humbly to their Guides they to their Overseers they to their Soveraign and all to the Word of God the confessed general Councils and the primitive practice Ministers are restored to their Right and Bishops to their Power Jurisdictions are established Courts are opened a Terrour hangs over evill doers and Encouragements are set before those that