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A34614	Remarks of the government of severall parts of Germanie, Denmark, Sweedland, Hamburg, Lubeck, and Hansiactique townes, but more particularly of the United Provinces with some few directions how to travell in the States dominions : together with a list of the most considerable cittyes in Europe, with the number of houses in each citty / written by Will. Carr ...	Carr, William, 17th cent.	1688 (1688)	Wing C636; ESTC R5052	66,960	226

live me viz that if ever this great Prince come to be King of England he will alter all the Measures of Europe and possible become the Arbiter thereof After which discourse the Burgemaster said let me now present you mijn Heer Consul with a Glasse of Rhenith wyne to his Highnes health and pray when you have an Opportunitie to speake with his Highnes assure him that he 〈◊〉 in Amsterdam a true and faithfull freind and moreover he said when I speake next with our Statholder the Prince of Orange and our Pensionarie Fagel I will doe his Highnes Justice and thus wee parted but the civil deportment of this Burgamaster was not all for other great ones of the Citty did their part also as Vice-Admiral de Ruiter with at least 30 Captains of the Admiralty Chamber of Amsterdam attended his Highnes to shew him the Men of warr and Magazins of the Admiralty likewise Sir Dirick Tulp and the Heer Peter van Dan● and others the Bewinthebbers of the East-India Company attended his Highnes to the East-Indie House where was spread a Banquet of Sweetmeats and rich Wines and they offered his Highnes a present but his highnes would not accept of any only two large Bookes in which were Painted all the Beasts Fishes and Foules and likewise all the Plants Flowers and Fruites of the East-Indies and because his Highnes had tasted the Mum in the East-Indie Magazine and liked it the Company caused twelve Caskes to be neatly hoopt and gave me them to be sent after his Highnes to Brussels And I know it was the resolution of the Bewinthebbers to have spared no cost if his Highnes would have accepted of a Treat in their house by all which you see that the Magistrates and chiefe men in Amsterdam were not guilty of Rudenes to his Highnes but it was the Canalie And now haveing said so much good of the States Government and of Amsterdam in particular it will not be amisse to take notice of some Bad customes and practises now in vogue in Holland and leave it to the reader to Judge what they may portend There are tollerated in the Citty of Amsterdam amongst other abuses at least 50 Musick houses where lewd Persons of both sexs meet and practise their villanies There is also a place called the Longseller a Tollerated Exchange or publick meeting house for whores and Rogues to Rendevous in and make their filthy Bargains This Exchange is open from six a clock afterdinner untill nine at night Every whore must pay three stivers at the dore for her entrance or admission I confess the Ministers preach and exclaim from the pulpit against this horrible abuse but who they be that Protect them I know not yet I have heard some plead for the tolleration of these wicked meetings upon pretext that when the East-India fleets come home the Seamen are so mad for women that if they had not such houses to bait in they would force the verie Cittyzens wives and Daughters but it is well known that as money does countenance so Discipline might suppress that abuse The ould severe and frugall way of Liveing is now allmost quite out of Date in Holland there is very littell to be seene of that sober modestie in Apparell Diet and habitations as formerly In stead of Convenient Dwellings the Hollandtrs now build Stately palaces have their delightfull Gardens and houses of pleasure keep Coaches waggons and sleas have very rich furniture for their horses with Trappings-adorned with silver Bells I have seen the Vanitie of a Vintners sonne who had the bosses of the bit and Trapping of his horse of pure silver his footman and Coachman having silver fringd Gloves yea so much is the humour of the women altered and of their Children also that no Apparel can now serve them but the best and richest that France and other Countryes affoards and their sonns are so much adicted to play that many families in Amsterdam are ruined by it not that England is lesse Extravagant then the Duch who as I said before got such great Estates by their frugalitie whilest they were not addicted to such prodigalitie and wantonesse as the English are whose excesse I can not excuse neverthelesse the grave and sober people of Holland are very sensible of the great alteration that now is in their Country and as they say Paracelsus used to cure his patients of their disease with a full belly so a good Burgemaster desirous to convince his Amsterdammers of their dissolute kind of lif● invited the Thirty six Magistrates and their wives to a feast who being come and the Ladyes big with Expectation of some rare and Extraordinary Entertainment sat down at table where the first course was Buttermilk boild with Appells Stockfish Buttered Turnips and Carrots lettice Salade and red Herrings only smale beare without any Wyne At this the Ladies startled and began to whisper to their husbands that they Expected no such Entertainement but upon removing of the Dishes and plates they found underneath printed verses Importing that after that manner of liveing they began to thrive had inlarged their Citty The second course consisted of Bocke de kooks quarters of Lamb rosted Rabits and a sort of pudding they cal a Brother here they had Dorts and English beare with French wyne yet all this did not please the dainty Dames but upon removing away the plates another Dish of poetrie appeared which acquainted them that after that modest and sober way of Liveing they might keep what they had gott and lay up some thing for their Children Then comes in the third course made up of all the rarities of the season as Patridges Pheseants and all sorts of foule and English pasties with plenty of Rinish and other sorts of wyne to moisten them this put the ladyes in a frolick and Jolly humour but under their plates was found the use and Application in verses telling them that to feed after that manner was Voluptuous and Luxurious and would Impaire their health and wast their Estates make them neglect their Trade and so in Tyme reduce their Stately and new built flourishing Citty to their ould fishing towne againe After this was brought in a Banquet of all sorts of sweet meats piled up in piramides and delicate fruite with plenty of delitious wynes and to conclude all a set of Musick and maskers who danced with the young Ladyes but at parting like the hand writing to Belteshazzar upon the wall every one had a printed paper of moralities put into their hand shewing them the causes of the ruine of the Roman Commonwealth according to that of the Poët Nullum crimen abest facinusque libidinis ex quo Paupertas Roman a perit with an Excellent aduice to them that if they did not quit the Buffoneries and apish modes of the French and returne to the Simplicitie plaineness and modestie of their Ancestors and founders their Common-wealth could not long last but all the thanks the good

of the 17 Provinces And although as I have alreadie said Amsterdam may Justly be taken for the second or third citie after London and Paris yet it hath neither Courtnor Vniversitie as they have And now in treating of all the excellencies and virtues of Amsterdam I shal not hyperbolise or flatter for before I have don you shal see I shal also faithfully declaime against the evils mistakes and vices in it Amsterdam stands upon a thousand Morgans of Land encompassed with a verie strong wal and Bastions most pleasant to behold with a verie large Burgaval or Gracht as they cal it for the defence of three parts of the citie the fourth being secured by the sea or Ty. There are 13 Churches in this citie for those of the reformed religion called dutch Presbiterians to meet and worship in with two Frencb one Highdutch and one English all Presbiterian Churches who onely are alowed Bels and whose Ministers are maintayned by the Magistrate All these Churches or congregations make up onely a third part of the Inhabitants of the citie The Papists who have eightie five howses or Chappels to meet in for their worship make another third part and have a long square of howses for their Nuns to live in who are not shut up in Cloysters as in Papists countries they are wont to doe but may goe in and out at their pleasure yea and marrie also if they grow wearie of a Nunnish life These Churches of the Papists have no bels allowed them beeing lookt upon as conventicles and are many times shut up and again opened at the Scouts pleasure The other third part of the citie is made up by Jewes Lutherans Arminians Brownists or English Independents Anabaptists and the Quakers None of which as was also said of the Papists have bels allowed them but are accounted Conventicles and all that marie amongst them must first be maried by the Magistrate and then if they pease among themselves in their own assemblies neyther are any of them admitted unto any Office in the Government but onely such as are of the reformed or Presbiterian profession The Jewes who are verie considerable in the trade of this citie have two Synagogues one whereof is the Largest in Christendom and as some say in the world sure I am it far exceeds those in Rome venice and all other places where I have bin Within the Court yard where their Synagogue stands they have severa● Roomes or schooles where their children are taught Hebrew and verie carefully to the shame of Christians negligence brought up and instruckted in the Jewish principles Amsterdam for the wise Statesmen it hath produced is said to be a second Athens others make it the Storehowse or Magasin of Europe for that it hath such great store of Corne wherewith it furnishes many other nations And secondly for the exceeding great Magasin of Spices which in antient times the Venetians brought by land furnishing all parts of Europe but now is don by the East-Indie Companie which not onely supplyes Europe therewith but many places in the Indies also Thirdly it hath inconceivable store of al manner of provisions for war In so much that England and divers other nations send to Amsterdam to buy Arms Bufcoats Belts Match c yea here are several Shopkeepers who can deliver Armes for 4000 or 5000 men and at a cheaper rate then can be got any where else and this they can doe by reason of their great Industry in the Ingrossing most of the Iron workes on the Rhine and other Rivers which run into Holland Forthly Amsterdam hath more store of sawed and prepared Tymber for shipping then can be found in any one Nation in the world and this is the reason why her Neighbour town Sardam is made capable of Building ships 20 per cent cheaper then they can doe in England or France So that both France and Spaine do many times buy them in Holland as lately the King of Spaine bought 10 Capital Ships of the two Brothers the Melts Merchants in this citie Fifthly Amsterdam is the staple where the Emperor sels his Quicksilver not only to the Spaniard to use in his mines in the Indies but for the making of Cinoprium or Vermillion with which Amstrerdam furnisheth not only Europe but many places in the Indies Sixtly Amsterdam is the Market where the French King bought his Marble for Versellis Louvre and other of his Palaces in France There are such Vast Magasins in Amsterdam that a man would think that sees them there were Quaries of Marble neare the City Gates Seaventhly Amsterdam hath the most considerable Bank that now is in the whole World I have compared the Bank of Venice with that of Genua and both their Banks write not of so much money in two dayes as Amsterdam doth in one further I have compared the Bank of Venice with Hamburg and find both those Banks fall very much short with the bank of Amsterdam There are many other particulars I could name as Arguments to prove the great Riches Trade of Amsterdam as those vast Quantities of Wynes Brandewynes they sell in the North Eastseas those vast Countryes adjoyning thereunto from whence they bring Hemp Pitch Tar furnish France Italy Spain with the same they likewise have much Ingrossed the Copper Iron of Sweedland I will say no more of her stores Magazins but shall in the next place say some thing of her Churches Charitie to the Poore I will not speake much of her Churches but only that they are in General large and well built In one of them the States have Spared no cost to exceed the whole world in 3 things Viz an Organ with sets of Pipes that counterfit a Corus of Voyces it hath 52 whole stops besides halfe stops hath 2 rowes of Keyes for the feet and three rowes of Keyes for the Hands I have had people of Quality to heare it play who could not believe but that there were men or Women above singing in the Organ untill they were convinced by goeing up into the Organ Roome The second is such a large Carved Pulpet Canapie as cannot be found elsewhere in the world The third is a Screene of brasse The Stathouse in this Citty is a wonderfull superb Building on the uppermost part of which is a large Magazin of Armes The Copper Statues that stand on top of the Stathouse are very large peeces Exellently cast Especially that called Atlas who hath a Globe of the world on his back that will hold 30 Barels of water for me to speake of the several rarityes of Pictures Carved works marble in this Stathouse of the Globes Celestiall Terrestriall that are on the floor of the great Hall would make Booke of it selfe I therefore will speake of their Almeshouses of the Government of the poore of their Prisons houses of Correction This Citty is said to have 20000 poore Every day at Bed