into the Mediterranean Sea in the Kingdom of Valentia over against Yvia a small Island Xuicheu a City in the Province of Quansi in China Xuncking a City in the Province of Suchuen in China Xunte or Xuntien Xunta a City in the Province of Pekim in China Y A YAcohdal a Royal House of Pleasure belonging to the Kings of Sweden one League and a half from Stockholm in the Province of Vpland Yamato a small Province in Japan Yamaxiro Yamaium a Kingdom in Japan towards the Bay of Noaco The Capital of which is Meaco a vast City Yancheu Yancheum a City in the Province of Nankim in China Yarmouth Gariannonum a great rich and a very populous Sea-Port Town in the County of Norfolk on the Borders of Suffolk at the Mouth of the River Yare from which it hath its Name This River riseth in Norfolk near Hingham and running East watereth Norwich a little above which it takes in the Cringle and at it the Winder becoming navigable by these accessions it hasteth by Bucknam-Ferry to Burg where it takes in the Waveny another navigable River from Beccles a little above Yarmouth the Thyrn all which Rivers form here a convenient Harbour on the German Ocean This was a Roman Town Cerdick the first King of the West Saxons landed first in this place about the year 507. And not fir ding it worth his while to settle went to Sea again and founded the VVest Saxon Kingdom Between this and the Conquerours times this Town was rebuilt by the Saxons In Edward the Confessor's times it had seventy Burgesses about 1340. the Inhabitants walled it Henry II. gave it the first Charter After this they had a VVar with the Town of Lowestoft between which two there was a quarrel which has lasted to our times In the year 1652. there being a VVar with the Hollanders and the Merchants of London oppressing them in the Herring Trade they began to send Ships to Legorne in Italy and by degrees inlarged their Trade to all parts so that it became one of the best traded Towns on the East of England and the Key of this Coast But the two following Dutch VVars fell heavy on them to their great loss In the year 1684. Charles II. made this a Mayor Town not long before his death It has but one Church though a very large one founded by Herbert the first Bishop of Norwich in the Reign of VVilliam Rufus Charles II. advanced the Honour of this place when in the year 1673. he created William Paston Viscount Yarmouth and in the year 1679. Earl of Yarmouth whose Son now enjoys that Title The Corporation returns two Parliament Men. § There is another Yarmouth upon the North VVest Coast of the Islè of VVight in the Hundred of VV. Medine well built with Free Stone fortified with a Castle and VVorks The second Town of Note next to Newport in that Island Yarum a Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Langbarg upon the River Tees here covered with a fair Stone Bridge Yaxley a Market Town in Huntingdonshire in the Hundred of Normancross Yencheu a City in the Province of Xanton in China Yenne Etanna a Town of France upon the Rosne Yeovil a Market Town in Semersetshire in the Hundred of Stone upon a River of its own name Yer or Jerre Edera a small River of France which falls into the Seyne in la Brie Five Miles above Paris to the East Yesd Yesda a great City in the Province of Airach in the Kingdom of Persia one hundred and thirty Miles from Hispahan to the East Yglesias See Villa de Chiesa Ygnos the same with Eno. Yla See Ila Yocheu a City in the Province of Huquam in China Yonne Icauna Jauna Junna a River of France which ariseth in the Dukedom of Burgundy near Autun from the Mountains de Morvant and passing by Clamecy in Nivernois receives the Cure So passeth to Auxerre where it is first Navigable Then admitting the Serine and the Armancione it falls below Sens into the Seyne Seventeen Leagues above Paris and seven above Melun to the East York Eboracum Eburacum Brigantium the Capital City of Yorkshire and an Archbishops See in the North Riding Called by the British Caer Effroc by Ninius Caer Ebrauc by the English York Seated upon the River Ver or Vre which is since by the Saxons called Ouse from Ouseburne a small River that falls into it It is in Honour Wealth and Greatness the second City of England and the far greatest not only in that Shire but in all the North. Having thirty Parish Churches besides the Cathedral and governed by a Lord Mayor like London A pleasant well built strong and beautiful City and the most ancient Archbishops See in this Island The Vre or Ouse having with a gentle stream entered it from the North-West divides it into two unequal parts united by a Stone-Bridge The West part tho much less peopled is incompassed with a sair Wall the other which is greater more populous and close built is fortified also with strong Walls with Turrets upon them and a muddy Dike Herein William the Conqueror built a strong Castle now ruined by time on the North-East side of this part stands the Cathedral Church dedicated to S. Peter which is a stately and a venerable Fabrick This City was built by the Romans about the times of Hadrian the Emperour and had the honour of a Roman Colony bestowed on it in the Reign of Severus who died in his Palace here in the year of Christ 210. In the year 306 Flavius Valerius Constantius Surnamed Clorus the Virtuous Father of Constantine the Great ended his life in this City Constantine his Son took upon him here the Government of his Fathers share of the Empire who became afterwards the first Christian Emperour the deliverer of the Church and the Establisher and Exalter of the Cross In the times that followed though she had the Honour to be an Archbishops See and Eborius Bishop of this City in the year 313. subscribed to the Council of Arles before Restitutus Bishop of London yet the Barbarous Nations in the next Century breaking in upon the Roman Empire this City suffered from the Picts and Saxons all the miseries of VVar. So that about the year 627. when Paulinus was to Baptize Edwin King of Northumberland they were forced to build a little Oratory of VVood for that purpose all the ancient Churches being entirely ruined Hereupon that Prince began the building of the present Cathedral which was finished by his Successor Oswald From this time forward this Church and City began to revive and flourish again The Archbishops had under them not only all the North of England but all the Kingdom of Scotland till 1471 or as others 74 In 740 Egbert Archbishop of York opened here a noble Library which a contemporary Historian calls the Cabinet of all liberal Arts from whence Alcuinus the Preceptor of Charles the Great and
Wall and has a spacious Castle on the other side of the River supposed to have risen first out of the Ruines of Venta Silurum the Capital City of the ancient Silures four Miles distant from it Cher Caris a River which riseth in Auvergne near Clermont and running North-West through Berry and on the South side of Tours a little below this last it falls into the Loyre Cherazoul a Town in the Province of Curdistan in Asia in the Road from Ninive to Hispahan of very difficult access from the manner of its construction within a steep and cleted Rock Cherbourg Caroburgus a Sea-Port in Normandy in France which has a tolerable good Harbor ten Leagues West of Constance This Town was lost by the English in 1453. Honfleur and Beaumont stand near it Chersonesus Aurea See Malaca Some believe this to be the Land of Ophir of King Solomon's time Cherry-Issand an Island on the Coast of Greenland in the most Northern part of the World discovered to us and denominated accordingly by Sir Francis Cherry There are many Mines of Lead growing in it Chertsey A Market Town in Surrey the Capital of its Hundred not far from the River Thames over which it enjoys a Bridge The unfortunate King Henry VI. was first interred without Pomp here and afterwards removed to Windsor Cherusci an Antient and Valiant People of Germany that dwelled between the Elbe and the Weser having the Catti and the Hermonduri their Neighbours to the South East and West Their General Arminius is often mention'd with honour by Tacitus Cherwell a River in Oxfordshire at the confluence of which with the Isis stands the most famous University of Oxford Chesee Povillux a Town in Champagne the Inhabitants whereof claim the privilege to assist at the Coronation of the Kings of France and to convey the Holy Ampoulle or Oil pretended to be brought by an Angel at the Consecration of the first Christian King of that Kingdom from St. Rheimes to our Ladies Church in Rheimes Chesham a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Burnham Chester Civitas Legionum Cestria is a City and Bishoprick on the River Dee in the Westernpart of Cheshire whence often call'd West-Chester with a fair Stone Bridge over that River In this City it was that 7 Kings of the Scots and Brittains by way of Homage rowed King Edgar in his Barge from S. John's Church to his Palace himself as Sovereign holding the Helm The East-gate is accounted one of the stateliest in England and the Rows or Galleries made along the chief Streets for preservation against the Rain are very particular It was an ancient Roman Town call'd by Ptolemy Devana made a Bishops See by Henry VIII who put it under the Archbishop of York The ancient Earls of Chester fortified it both with Walls and a Castle It is now at this day a fine Place with 10 Parishes in it a County Palatine and the usual passage from England to Ireland It s Long. 20. 23. Lat. 53. 11. Cheshire Cestria hath on the South Shropshire on the East Stafford and Darby on the North Lancashire and on the West Denbigh and Flintshire towards the North-West it has a Promontory that runs a great way into the Sea It abounds more in good Pasturage than Corn well stored with Parks and watered by the Rivers Dee Weever and Mersey and the Cheese of this County is thought the best of England The Earldom of it belongs to the Prince of Wales Chesterfield a Market Town in Derbyshire in the Hundred of Scarsdale pleasantly seated between two small Rivers in a very good Soil King John made it a free Borough King Henry III. and his Barons fought that Battel hard by it in which Robert de Ferrers Earl of Derby was taken Prisoner and lost his Estate and Dignity King Charles I. advanced it to the Style and Title of an Earldom in the Person of Philip Lord Stanhop Anno 1628. whose Grandson at present possesses that Dignity Cheuxan an Island upon the Coast of the Province of Chekiang in China planted by above 70 small Towns and Villages of the Chinese Chewton a Market Town in Somersetshire the Capital of its Hundred also written Chewton-Mendip Chiampana Ciampa a Kingdom of the further East-Indies between Couchin-China Cambaja and the Mare Sinicum Pulocacien is the principal City of it Chiamsi a Province towards the South of China Chiangare See Galatia a Province of the Lesser Asia Chiapa a Province of New Spain in America watered by the Rivers Gryalva and rio blanco and for many Ages past inhabited by 4 different Nations of Indians It s Capital City is Civdad Real Chiarenza a Town in the Morea fifty five English Miles from Patras to the South It is a Sea-Port-Town Chiaromonti Claromons a considerable Town in the South-East part of Sicily in the Valley of Netina amongst the Mountains about forty Miles from Pachino to the West Chiavari Clavarum Claverinum a small but well inhabited Town upon the Coast of Genoua near Rapello in Italy towards the fall of the River Layagna The Genouese are said to build it in 1167. and after it had been ruined to rebuild it Chiavenne vide Claven Chichester Cicestria a City and Bishoprick in Sussex founded by Cissa II. King of the South Saxons After the Conquest it became a Bishops See the Chair being removed from Selsey a small Village not much above sive Miles to the Southward This City is seated on a River call'd the Lavant which encompasseth it on the West and South about six Miles from the Sea and almost in the Western Border of that County The Honorable Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton was created Earl of Chichester September 10. 1675 by Charles II. his Father It is a fair City with five or six Parish Churches and a Cathedral first erected by Radulph the third Bishop afterwards rebuilt and beautified by Bishop Seffrid the second of the Name when it had been almost consumed twice by Fire The Corporation elects two Burgesses for Parliament and would enjoy a better Trade were not the Haven choaked up that is next adjoining to â—it Chidley a Market Town in Devonshire on the River Tinge Chiemzee or Chiempsee Chiemium a City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Saltzburgh in the Dukedom of Bavaria about ten Leagues from Munich and Saltzburgh each It is no very considerable place An Archdeacon of Saltzburgh founded the Bishoprick in the year 1214. Chieri a Town in Piedmont where the French obtained a signal Victory against the Spaniards in 1639. It lies three Miles to the Eastward of Turino and was heretofore a Potent City and a Common-wealth but is now in Subjection to the Duke of Savoy Chifale an Island in the Gulph of Arabia Chilafa or Chielefa is a Fortress on the South of the Morea thirty eight English Miles North-West of Cape Matapan a Place of great Importance both as to its natural and artificial Fortifications and surrendred to the Venetians in 1686.
Jupiter the other to Venus heretofore are yet visible upon it England Anglia called by the French Angleterre by the Italians Inghilterra by the Germans Engel-landt by the Spaniards Inglaterra is the greatest the most Southern and the best Part of the Island of Great Britain called heretofore Albion Britannica and Britannia Which noble Island is divided into three Parts England Wales and Scotland England has Scotland on the North the Irish Sea in part and Wales in part and then the Irish Sea again on the West the British Sea on the South and the German Sea on the East Between 17. and 22. Deg. of Long. between 50. and 57. of N. Lat. It lies together with Wales in the Form of a great Triangle whereof the Southern Shoar is the Base and Berwick the opposite Angle from whence to the Lands End it is accounted three hundred eighty six Miles Long and two hundred seventy nine Broad containing in that Compass about thirty Millions of Acres of Land It was divided by the Romans into five Parts by the Saxons into seven Kingdoms and now into forty one Shires or Counties In which the Parishes amount to about ten thousand The Air is very Temperate both in Winter and Summer being warmed in the one and cooled in the other by the Sea-Vapors the Soil for the most part very fruitful watered with three hundred twenty five Rivers The Inhabitants Valiant and Industrious And as Nature has given it whatever is absolutely necessary to the Life of Man so the Natives by their Trade and Commerce bring in from abroad what may be had throughout the World for Convenience Delight Magnificence and Ornament It has also the best Government and the best constituted Religion of any Nation in the World and as much Learning Civility Arts and Trade as any other Our Fleets excel at Sea our Foot at Land those of all other Nations In short we want nothing to make us happy but Gratitude to God and Union amongst our selves This Island became first known to the Romans about fifty years before the Birth of Christ Julius Caesar entered it with a Fleet in the Year of the World 3895. and renewed his Attempt the year following but the Civil Wars breaking out between him and Pomper the Romans made little Progress here though they kept their Ground till the Reign of Claudius who entered Britain in Person and staying not long his General Aulus Plautius carried on the War so that he took in the greatest part of this Island now called England and under him Vespasian learned the Art of War Didius Avitus succeeded as General and Nero as Emperor under whom the Romans were in great Danger of an utter Extirpation from the Britains But this Storm blowing over they conquered all they cared for as far the Fyrths of Galloway and Edinburgh in Scotland only their ordinary and standing Bounds were between Newcastle and Carlisle They continued their Possession till the year of Christ 433. and then withdrew to desend their nearer Dominions on the Continent against the prevailing barbarous Northern Nations In 449. the Saxons were called in to help the Britains against the Picts those Nations that had never been subject to the Romans in the North of Britain In 455. Hengist their General set up the Kingdom of Kent and began the Conquest of the British By the year 819. the Heptarchy or seven Kingdoms of the Saxons united in one under Egbert King of the West-Saxons which Union received its utmost Perfection under Alfrid about 873. The Danes who had given Occasion to this Union pursuing their Depredations at last conquered the Saxons in 1018. and set up Sweno a Prince of their own In 1042. Edward the Confessor restored the Saxon Line which was broken by William the Conqueror in 1066. But the Blood was again restored by Henry II. in 1155. Edward I. united Wales in 1246. K. Henry II. began and K. John finished the Conquest of Ireland about the Year 1184. in the Reign of Richard I. his Brother In the year 1602. James I. K. of Scotland succeeding Qu Elizabeth of Blessed Memory united Scotland to England And the great Rebellion in 1640. ended in 1660. by the Restitution of Charles the Merciful and Just Yet the Miseries that brought it in the Calamities that attended it and the Judgments that have followed it may be eternal Monitors to English Men to be Loyal to the King and stedfast to the Church Engur Astelfus a River of Asia which springeth from Mount Caucasus and watering Mengrelia falls into the Euxine or Black Sea between Charus and Hippus Twenty Miles North of Chobus another River of the same Country Engury Ancyra a City of Galatia in the Lesser Asia upon the River Parthenius now Sangari which falls into the Black Sea at Cangary This was the Metropolis of Galatia yet seated in the Confines of Paphlagonia on an advanced Ground And made Famous by a Council here held in 314. and another in 357. Called by the Turks Enguri Engouri Angouri or Anguri fifty Miles to the East from Scutari and sixty from Smyrna to the N. East It is now considerable and the Capital of one of the Turkish Provinces in Asia Mithridates the Famous King of Pontus was overthrown by Pompey near this City-Bajazet the Turk in the year 1403. was in the same Place taken Prisoner by Tamerlane the Scythian Conqueror Long. 62. 10. Lat. 42. 30. Enham Aenhamum a Town in the County of Southampton in the Hundred of Andover Of Note for a Council here congregated of the Bishops of both the Provinces in the Year 1009. under the Reign of King Ethelred Enkoping Enecopia a Town in the Province of Vplandia in the Kingdom of Sweden near the Lake Meler five or six Leagues from Vpsal Enna an ancient City standing heretofore in the Center of the Island of Sicily and Famous both for a Temple dedicated to the Goddess Ceres Ennea and for the excellentest Springs in all the Island which are applauded by Cicero and Diodorus The Bellum Servile of Sicily was raised by Syrus Ennus of this Place and ended with the Reduction of this Place also under the Conduct of Pimperna Eno Aenos a City of Thrace called by the Turks Ygnos by the Greeks Eno. It stands on the Archipelago at the Mouth of the River Hebrus now Mariza which runs a little South of Adrianople and here falls into the Sea over against the Isle of Samandrachi forty Miles from the new Dardanels to the North and sixty five English Miles from Adrianople South Is now a Bishop's See under the Patriarch of Constantinople Enrichemont See Boisbelle Ens Claudivium Claudionum Anisus is both a River and a City of Austria the River riseth in the Bishoprick of Saluburgh near Rachstad and running North-East as far as Newmarckt it takes in that of Celstal North-West it meets the Steyr at Steyr Castle and there it turns to the North and washeth the East Side of the City of Ens half a German
one of the most considerable Counties in Germany which is bounded on the East and North by Thuringia on the West by Hassia and on the South by the Diocese of Wurtzburgh being in length from East to West almost two days Journey The Emperor Maximilian II. erected it into a Principality which Title in 1583. passed into the House of Saxony Hennebont Hannebon Hannebontum a ancient Town upon the River Blavet which falls into the Sea near Port Louis in the South of Bretagne in France four Leagues from the Shoars of the Sea and three from the said Port thirty two Miles from Rennes to the South-West and ten from Vennes to the North-West Heretofore very strongly fortified but now neglected It has a very fair Church Hensterberg Cetius a Mountain of Austria which begins in the Lower Austria at the Danube three Miles from Vienna to the West and running South through Stiria and Carinthia ends at the Drave being called in different Countries by various Names Heppen Apianum a Castle in the Bishoprick of Trent Herac Petra a City of Arabia Deserta called Rabath in the Scriptures It was in the latter times an Archbishop's See under the Patriarch of Jerusalem having before been under the Patriarch of Alexandria It stands in the Confines of Palestine upon the Brook Zareth Long. 66. 45. Lat. 30. 20. Heracaian the same with Kherman Herachia Heratia a small Island in the Archipelago East of Scinusa and not far from Heraclea in Thrace Heraclia Heraclea a City in Thrace called Vrbs Herculea in Claudian Perinthus by Ptolemy and before Mygdonia now frequently Araclea It is an Archbishop's See under the Patriarch of Constantinople at the first its Superior and the Metropolis of Thrace it self so that the Bishop of Byzantium was a Suffragan to the Bishop of Heraclea Severus the Emperor finding the City of Byzantium now Constantinople in the Hands of Pescennius Niger his Rival in 194. besieged it and having taken it after a Siege of three Years dismantled burnt and ruin'd it and gave all its Lands to the City of Heraclea which from thenceforth was advanced above Byzantium and continued so till Constantine built Constantinople in the beginning of the IV. Century The Bishop of Heraclea became by this means superior to the Bishop of Byzantium But Heraclea is now in a decaying Condition thus described by Mr. Wheeler This Town hath a good Harbour whose Mouth lieth East of it turning about so that it maketh a Peninsula The Town lieth in the Neck of this having the Sea on one side and the Port on the other which Port is five Miles in Circumference There appeared great plenty of Marble Antiquities broken and scattered about by the unregarding Turks Amongst the rest I found one Inscription dedicated to Severus their great Benefactor A poor Place it is but an Archbishops See for all that and the Cathedral one of the best now standing in Turky In it Sir Edward Guitts one of the Embassadors of England lies buried who died here before his Return upon whose Tomb is a Greek Inscription This City lies 52 Miles from Constantinople to the West and seventy from Gallipoli to the North-West Hereâ—oâ—râ— a great many Cities in Greece Asia Egypt and Italy have born the same Name of Heraclea but they are all ruined or changed into such distant Names as that this Place belongs no now to them Herbauges Herbadilia an old ruined City not far from Nantes in the Confines of Bretagne and Poictou mentioned in the Lives of the Saints Herberstein a Barony in the Province of Carinthia in Germany Herbipoli See Wurtaburg Herborne Herborna a small Town in Westerwalt in the County of Dillemburgh which is an University or rather has a College founded in it by John Count of Dillemburgh in 1585. It stands four German Miles from Marpurg to the West and three from Gissen or Giessen Herck Archa a Town or Castle in the Bishoprick of Leige in the Confines of Brabant in the middle between Maestricht to the East and Lovain to the West § There is also a River called the Herck which flowing by Tongren or Tongres and this Castle of Herck falls into the Demer Demera one Mile above Bardiest Herklens Herculis Castra a Town of Guelderland Hereford Herefordia Ariconium a City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the River Wye on the Borders of South Wales beyond the Severn which grew up out of the Ruins of Ariconium an old Roman Town not far from it Camden saith of old it was called Ferulega or the Forest S. Ethelbert King of the East-Angles was slain here by Offa King of the Mercians who invited him to his Court to Marry his Daughter and by the malicious Instigation of Quenred his Queen did this base Act about 749. After which the East-Angles continued under the Mercians seventy seven Years The Prince being esteemed a Martyr there was a Church built to his Honour and a Bishoprick established in it In 1055. it was burnt by the Welsh but soon after rebuilt and fortified Yet it was very small at the time of the Conquest not having above an hundred Men within and without The Normans built here a very strong Castle now ruined and walled the City Reinelm the Bishop built part of the Cathedral in the Reign of Henry I. whose Successors built the rest and the Close It s Long. is 20. 24. Lat. 52. 06. The first Bishop was Putta placed here in 680. Reinelm the XXX in Order succeeded in 1107. and sat eight Years In the year 673. Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury held a Council here There are six Gates for Entrance into it and fifteen Watch-Towers Herefordshire Silures by the Welsh called Erinuck is of an Oval Form Bounded on the East with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire on the South with Monmouthshire on the West with Radnorshire and Brecknock and on the North with Shropshire It is a pleasant fruitful County abounding with all things necessary for the Life of Man They have a Proverb that as to the three W's that is VVheat VVool and VVater it is equal to any County in England The VVye Lug and Munow after they have fertilized the various Parts of this County meet below Monmouth and pass in one Channel into the Severn near Chepstow William Fitz-Osborn was created Earl of Hereford by William the Conqueror in the first year of his Reign Anno Christi 1066. Henry de Bohun descended from the former Earls in 1199 his Posterity in seven Descents enjoyed it till 1371. Henry of Bullingbrook succeeded as Duke of Hereford in the Right of Mary his Wife Daughter of Humfrey de Bohun the last Earl of that Family in 1398. In 1547. Walter d' Eureux descended from the Bouchiers and Bohuns was created Viscount of this County Leicester d' Eureux the present Possessour is the eighth in this Line and a Minor Heren Carrhae a City in Mesopotamia called Heren or Harran by the Turks It was a Bishop's See under the Archbishop
to the South Livonia to the West and Novogard to the East It is great populous and fruitful was a Sovereign Dukedom till John Basilovitz conquered it in 1509. The principal City is Pleskow Pleskovia which stands upon the River Veliki forty Miles from the Confines of Livonia to the East sixty from the Lake of Ilmen and forty from Riga to the North-East This City was betrayed into the Hands of the Russ by the Priests in 1509 upon a Religious Pretence who were severely punished for their Treason by that perfidious bloody cruel Tyrant In 158◠it was besieged and taken by Stephen King of Poland Again in 1615 by Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden out of whose Hands the Russ were forced to redeem it by the Payment of a vast Sum of Money The Russ call it Pskouwa Plessis a Seigniory in the Province of Poictou in France giving Name and Origine to an Honourable Family which produced the late famous Minister of State in that Kingdom the Cardinal of Richlieu Plymouth Plymuthum a Noble Sea-Port Town in the most Western part of Devonshire on the South of England It takes its Name from the River Plyme between which and the Tainer a much greater River and the Western Boundary of Devonshire this Town is seated and has one of the largest safest and most convenient Havens in the World It was anciently called Sutton and saith Mr. Cambden of late times was a poor Fishermens Town but within the compass of a few years become equal to some of the best Cities in England Fortified both to the Seaward by a Fort built on St. Nicolas Isle and to Landward by two Forts upon the Haven and a Castle on a Hill besides which it has a Chain for the Security of the Haven in time of War Henry IV. granted it a Mayor From this Town Sir Francis Drake set Sail in 1577 when he went that Voyage in which he sailed round the Terrestrial Globe Out of this Haven the English Fleet was Towed by Ropes the Winds being contrary when in 1588 Charles Lord Howard Admiral of England went to fight the Spanish invincible Armado as they unwisely called it Charles II. added to the Strength of this Place by building a stately Cittadel on a Hill near it and to its Honour by creating Charles Fitz-Charles one of his Natural Sons Baron of Dartmouth Viscount Totnes and Earl of Plymouth July 9. 1675 who afterward died at Tangier Ploen Plona a small City in the Dukedom of Holstein in the Province of Wagaren between a double Lake of the same Name six German Miles from Lubeck to the North. It has a splendid and noble Castle which together with the City is under the Dominion of a Prince of the Family of Holstein Plotzko Ploczko or Plosco Plocum Ploscum a small City in the Greater Poland which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gnesna the Capital of a Palatinate of the same Name in the Dukedom of Mazomiekie or Masovia to which there belongs a Castle It is seated upon the Vistula fourteen Polish Miles from Warsaw to the West Pludents a small Seigniory in Tyrol belonging to the King of Spain Plusa Aprusa a small River in Romandiola which springeth out of Mount Titam and running Southward falls into the Adriatick Sea near Rimin◠Also called L' Avesa Pluviers Aviarium a City in the Province of La Beause upon the River l' Oeuf ten Leagues from Orleans to the North and as many from Montargis to the East it is a spruce City and by the Writers of the middle Times called Pithuria Plurs or Pleure Plura an Italian Prefecture belonging to the Grisons by the Gift of Maximilian Sforza Duke of Milan in 1513. It takes its Name from the chief Town of the same Name once seated at the Foot of the Alpes near Chiavenne upon the River Maira the chief of sundry Villages lying in the same bottom now nothing but a deep and bottomless Gulph For on April 26. 1617. a huge Rock falling from the top of the Mountains overwhelmed it and killed in the twinkling of an Eye fifteen hundred people left no sign or ruin of a Town there standing but in the place thereof a great Lake of about two Miles in length Heylyn There were eight Religious Houses in it yet scarce one person of all the Town escaped alive The day before this a roaring noise was heard from the Mountain Po Padus Eridanus the greatest River in Italy which ariseth in Piedmont and dividing Lombardy into two parts falls into the Adriatick Sea by many Mouths Called by the Italians French and English Po by the Germans Paw It s Head is in Mount Viso Vesulus one of the Cottian Alpes in the Borders of Dauphiné in the Marquisate of Saluzzo from a Spring called Visenda in the midst of a Meadow and running East by the Castle of Paisand it hides it self in the Earth again So dividing Piedmont at Villa Franca it takes in the Chisone and at Pancalieri the Veraita and Macra by the addition of which it becomes capable of bearing a Boat Then it waters Turin the Capital of Savoy where it takes in the Doria so continuing his Course to the East by Chivas and Casal he takes his leave of the Duke of Savoy's Dominions and entereth Milan leaving Pavia five and Milan twenty Miles to the North it passeth on the South of Piacenza and the North of Cremona leaving Parma four Miles to the South and Mantoua six to the North he passeth to Fichervolo where he divides his vastly improved Streams into two great Branches The Northern watereth the State of Venice and by five Mouths entereth the Gulph of Venice the Southern passeth to Ferrara and is there subdivided into three other Branches the most Southern of which runs within four Miles of Ravenna This River receives about thirty Rivers in all from the Alpes and the Apennine and being by far the greatest River in Italy is mightily magnified by the Latin Poets who would have it no less than the Nile and the Danube call it the King of Rivers and the greatest in the World It must be confessed that it is a noble Flood and the only one which has sound a place in Heaven too or hath the Glory to be made a Constellation But saith the Learned Dr. Brown who saw it there are many Rivers that exceed it in Greatness The Names of the most considerable of its Branches are il Po grando il Po di Ariano il Po di Volana and il Po di Argenta Poblet a Monastery in Catalonia where the Kings of Arragon were anciently buried Pocevera Porcifera a River in the States of Genoua which takes its rise from the Appennine and by a Valley ten Miles long makes it passage by Genoua into the Ligustick Sea Pocklington a Market Town in the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Hundred of Harthill upon a small River falling into the Derwent Pocutie Pocutia a small Tract in the South part of the Kingdom
the Frozen Sea lying on both sides of the River Obb which is subject to the Czars but in such manner that the People are almost free This is a part of the Ancient Scythia or Sarmatia and had this Name given them by the Russ which signifies Self-Eaters it being their Custom to eat Mans Flesh even that of their nearest Relations mixed with Venison to this day They have no Cities yet they are no wandring Nation their Cabbins or Huts are built one half above and the other beneath the Earth with an hole at the top which serves both for a Door and a Chimney the Snow rising sometimes the depth of a Pike above the Earth they have also Passages under the ground to go from Caban to Caban at such times for six Months of the year they have a perpetual Night and the rest perpetual Day They have neither Wooll nor Corn their Food is Fish dried in the Wind and Sun Honey and Venison their Cloaths are the Skins of Beasts dressed with the Plair on and sewed with the Nerves of Beasts instead of Thread which by mixing various Colours they will so diversifie as to represent Forest Works and Flowers as they please They are low oâ— Stature have large flat Faces small Eys short Legs and wear their Hair very long Till of late they were Pagan Idolaters When the Dutch in 1595. discovered these Coasts there were great numbers of Idols upon the Shoar of which they would not suffer the Hollanders to carry any one away they have been since converted to Christianity and baptized by one Uâ—adimer a Bishop who was sent to them by the Russ Olâ—arius Samosata the Capital City of the ancient Comagena in Syria which since the times of Christianity hath been a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Edessa A noted place for giving Birth to Lucian and Paulus Samosatâ—nus the condemned Patriarch of Antioch Now called Schemsâ—â— San Sanus a River of Poland which arising from the Carpathian Mountains in the Borders of Hungary and running through Red Russia by Przemislaw and Jaroslaw two Cities of that Province and being by this time augmented by some other Rivers entreth the Lesser Poland and at Sendomir falls into the Vistula Sana Sanaa the Capital City of the Happy Arabia equal to Damascus and being seated upon a Mountain said to enjoy a very temperate Air. It stands fifty Miles from the Red Sea Hoffman supposeth it to be the same with Pliny's Saphar Sanbich or Sanabach a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Northwich upon the River Welock Sancerre Sacrum Cereris Sacro-Caesarinum a Town in the Dukedom of Berry in France upon the Loyre It stands on an advanced ground fortified heretofore with a Castle and other Works till it was taken from the Huguenots in 1573. by Famine and demolished Sandeez Sandecium a City of the Lesser Poland in the Palatinate of Cracovia upon the River Dunaick towards the Mountains ten Polish Miles from Cracow to the South It stands at the foot of the Carpathian Hills well fortified and the Capital of the Territory in which it stands Sandham a Town in the South-East parts of the Isle of Wight upon a Bay of its own name fortified with a Castle Sando Sandum a City in Japan on the North side of the Island of Niphonia Sandwich Rutupiae is now a small Corporation on the Eastern Coast of Kent above eight Miles from Dover to the North and the same distance from Canterbury to the East This Town sprung up out of the Ruâ—s of Rutupiae an old Roman City which falling into decay under the Saxons was intirely ruined by the Danes Sandwich the Daughter also felt the fury of the Danes but she got up again and in the Norman tâ—â—es was one of the Cinque Ports Lewis Dauphine of France burnt it in 1217. Edward III. recovered it from Christ-Church in Canterbury to which it had been given by Canutus the Dane when he was crowned King of England by exchange and reunited it to the Crown of England In the Reign of Henry VI. it was burnt by the French But its greatest Calamity was the sinking of a great Ship belonging to Pope Paul IV. in the very entry of the Haven which proved an incurable Mischief The Dutch in some degree contributed to the Consolation of these Misfortunes by settling a Trade of Bay-making in it Charles II. honoured it by creating Edward Baron Montague of S. Neots Viscount Hinchinbrook and Earl of Sandwich July 12. 1660. who was slain in a Sea-Fight May 28. 1672. and succeeded by Edward his eldest Son Sangari Sangarius Angarius a River of the Lesser Asia which arising out of the Mountain Dindymus and flowing through the Greater Phrygia falls into the Euxine Sea in Bithynia Now called also Zagari Sacari and Acada its out-let is thirty seven Italian Miles West of Nicomedia and sixty two East of Heraclea as Strabo saith Sanglayes the Chinese of the Philippine Islands Sangro Sarus Sagrus a River and a Castle in Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples Sanguesa Oppidum Suessitanorum Sangossa a small City in the Kingdom of Navarr upon the River Aragon thirteen Spanish Leagues from Calahorra a City of Old Castile to the East and eight from Pampelune to the North-East It was a Roman Town Sanguinara Alesus a small River in S. Peter's Patrimony in the States of the Church in Italy which arising near the Lake di Bracciano and running South falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea twenty Miles from Rome toward Civita Vecchia Santen Santae Castra Vetera Trajana Colonia Xanthus Santena a small Town of great Antiquity in the Dukedom of Cleve not far from the Rhine two German Miles from the Wesel to the West Nimeguen to the East and Gelders to the North. This was the Birth-place of S. Norbert the Founder of the Order of the Praemonstratenslan Monks Santerini an Island of the Archipelago towards Europe sixty Miles from Candia and about thirty in Circumference Called by the Ancients Thera Philatera and Calistus By Italians Santa Irene whence come Sainterini and Santerini It hath the name besides of Gozi Inhabited by Latin and Greek Christians each under their respective Bishop but the former are far the most numerous It affords no Springs nor Rivers nor Corn and not much Wine being a dry parched Soil troubled with Subterraneous Mines of Sulphur which sometimes break out into Flames and cast up Stones into the Air with wonderful violence Barley Hirse Melons and Cucumbers are its ordinary product and Linnen its Manufacture for Water it depends upon the Rain The principal Castles in it are S. Nicholas Scaro Pirgo and Crotiri Santerno Vatrenus a River in Tuscany in Italy which springing out of the Apennine and flowing Northwards by Imola falls into the Po beneath Argenta twenty Miles above Ravenna to the West Santerre Sanguitersa a Tract in Picardy in France between Vermandois to the East and Amiens to the West in which are the Towns of Peronne Roye Neste and Mont
Barkstow upon a small stream falling into the VVarfe and the Ouse at the place of their Conjunction This Town is noted for the Stone-quarries near it well inhabited and provided with a Free-School Shoreham a Market Town in the County of Sussex in Bramber Rape by the Sea side Shrewsbury Salopia the principal City in Shropshire is seated upon the Severne on the top of an Hill of Red Earth in the middle of that County The River runs almost round the Town and is covered by two lovely Bridges Roger of Montgomery in the Reign of VVilliam the Conqueror built on the North side of it a strong Castle which added much to its strength he founded a stately Abbey in it whose remains are extant still It was then a very considerable Place Nor is it after so many Ages sunk in its Wealth Riches or People but still a goodly City and the Centre of the Trade between VVales and England Near this City in 1463 was a sharp Battel fought between Henry IV. and Henry Percie Earl of Northumberland on the behalf of Edward Mortimer Earl of March as the right Heir of the Crown of England after Richard II. In 1067 Roger de Montgomery Earl of Arundel was by the Conqueror created Earl of Shrewsbury His Posterity enjoyed it till 1102 in three descents and then were divested of it In 1442 John Talbot Marshal of France a Person of great Worth and Conduct and the terror of France was by Henry VI made Earl of this City which Honour is enjoyed by his Posterity to this day Charles Talbot the twelfth of this Line succeding in 1667. Shrewsbury contains now five Parish Churches denominates a Lath is encompassed with a strong Wall with a Bulwark that ranges from the Castle to the Severn and is represented in the lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses First supposed to have taken its rise from the ruines of the ancient Vriconium which stood not far from it Shropshire Salopia is bounded on the North by the County Palatine of Chester on the East by Staffordshire on the South by Worcester Hereford and Radnorshires on the West by Montgomery and Denbigh It s length from North to South is thirty four its breadth from East to West twenty five and the circuit about one hundred thirty four English Miles wherein lye one hundred and seventy Parishes and fifteen Market Towns The Air of it is gentle and healthful the Soil rich and fruitful abounding in Wheat Barley Pit-Coals Iron and Wood. The Severne which is the second River of England divides this County almost in the middle receiving into it the Camlet the Morda the Mele the Roddon the Terne the VVorse and some others on the South it has the Temde which receives the Bradfield Onke Omey Quenny Stradbrook Corve Ledwich and Rea all which and some other Rivers water and enrich the South part of this County so that it may very well be one of the most fruitful and best peopled Counties in England The Principal City is Shrewsbury Siam a City and Kingdom beyond the Ganges in the Further East Indies The Kingdom is bounded on the North by the Kingdoms of Pegu and Ava on the East Cambaya Lao Jancoma and Tangu on the South the Bay of its own Name and on the West by the Bay of Bengale making by this form of its situation a Demicircle of about four hundred and fifty Leagues Some assign it a far greater extent and bound it by Pegu and Lao on the North the Chinian and Indian Oceans to the East and West with the Kingdom of Malaca to the South And this way it makes a great Peninsula It is certain the King of Siam keeps several other Kingdoms and Principalities tributary to him and his Country being blessed with a good Air a fertile Soil Mines of Lead Tin Silver and Gold tho of a base Alloy with store of Ivory and being visited continually by Vessels from Japan China Cochinchina Tonquin the Sound and the Philippine Islands from all parts of the Hither East Indies and from Arabia Persia and the Kingdoms of Europe it affords the enjoyment of every thing almost that is valuable Whilst the Sun is in the Northern Signs from March to September the Fields are generally overflown by the Rivers which much contributes to the fertility of them for the Ear of the Rice mounts above the height of the Waters The King of Siam was Master heretofore of Malaca see Malaca Of late himself became a Tributary to the King of Pegu see Pegu. But he is very absolute over and served with the profoundest Adoration by his own Subjects The English French and Dutch have each their Factories in this Kingdom The Portuguese and Armenians Moors and Chinese settle here in great Numbers being allowed dwellings in the City Siam by a Favour not made common to all Nations Siam the City stands in an Island that is formed by the River Menan surpassing in the richness of its Temples most of the proudest Cities in the Indies and its Palace Royal where the King resides built by the River side is of an extent sufficient to denominate a City of it self In 1634 the Dutch built themselves a House in Siam whichâ—is one of the best belonging to their Company in these Indies Siangyang Siangyanum a City in the Province of Huquam in the Kingdom of China The Capital over six other Cities Siara a small City in Brasil upon the North Sea which is the Capital of a Province has a large safe Haven and a Castle but not very populous Under the Portuguese 〈◊〉 a Kingdom under the Great Mogul in the East-Indies towards the Fountains of Ganges and Mount Caucasus betwixt Naugracut and Pitane Siben Sabiona now a Castle only but formerly a City in the County of Tirol and a Bishop's See It is seated upon the River Eysock ten Miles from Brixia whither the Brishoprick is removed to the South-West Siberia a Province of great extent under the Crown of Muscovy towards the river Obb in the Desart Tartary between the Provinces of Condora Legomoria and Permia Some few years since first discovered all covered with uninhabited Woods Marshes and desolate Countries having only a few Inhabitants which have a particular Language of their own and not the use of Bread The Moscovites have of late built the Cities Tobolsk upon the River Yâ—â—im and Siber on the Obb here and united both in one Archbishoprick At the former the Vice Duke under the Grand Duke of Moscovy resides he commands over both Siberia and Samoyeda They have also set up Churches in divers places for the Moscovian Christians Sicambri a People of the ancient Germany placed by most about the now Province of Guelderland in the Vnited Netherlands betwixt the Maes and the Rhine By others upon the banks of the Mayne Strabo calls them Sugambri Ptolemy Synganbri The Bructeri were a part of their Dependents Sichem an ancient City of the Territory of Samaria in Palestine in the
A GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY Representing the Present and Antient NAMES and STATES OF ALL THE Countries Kingdoms Provinces Remarkable Cities Vniversities Ports Towns Mountains Seas Streights Fountains and Rivers of the whole WORLD THEIR Distances Longitudes and Latitudes WITH A short HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the same and a general INDEX of the Antient and Latin Names Very necessary for the right understanding of all Antient and Modern Histories and especially of the divers Accounts of the present Transactions of EUROPE Begun by EDMUND BOHUN Esquire Continued Corrected and Enlarged with great Additions throughout and particularly with whatever in the Geographical Part of the Voluminous Morery and Le Clerk occurs observable By Mr. BERNARD Together with all the Market-Towns Corporations and Rivers in England wanting in both the former Editions LONDON Printed for Charles Brome at the Gun at the West End of S. Pauls MDCXCIII A REFLECTION upon Le Grand Dictionaire Historique c. OR THE Great Historical Dictionary OF LEWIS MORERY D. D. Printed at UTRECHT 1692. with the Supplement of J. Le Clerc D. D. in Four TOMES in Folio French AND An Account of this Edition of the following BOOK THE Great Historical Dictionary of Monsievr Morery was an unexpected Work to come from a Person who understood not any Greek or Hebrew and had but an indifferent knowledge of Latin For it will be allowed amidst such a multiplicity of Subjects to contain many very ingenious things Yet I desire not to commend him for the Invention he ascribes to the Chinese of the Province of Xamsi who boyl their Victuals he says over Pits of Subterraneous Fires proceeding from the Bowels of the Earth Which to make the Fire burn the quicker and stronger they contract at the Mouths in such a manner as only to leave room for the Caldron to stand For though the Chinese are famous over the World for their Inventions yet the Wit of this hath so little in it of the Wisdom of their Other or Common Sense that it supersedes the Civility of the least pretence to approve of it Neither yet is it possible for me to be reconciled to his Account of a Tribe of the Troglaedytes dwelling continually in the Caverns of a Mountain in the Island of Malta near to a House of Pleasure belonging to the Great Master of the Order of the Knights there A tall robust long-liv'd inhospitable people as he describes them Who speak altogether the pure Arabick Language in which they are instructed as to matters of Religion by the Maronites that come to Malta For there appears no more Probability of an Arabian Race of Christian Troglaedytes at Malta than of a Nation of Pygmies in the Neighbourhood of the Nile Therefore in a word Monsieur Morery as he hath his Excellencies so he hath his great Faults too And it seems to be none of the least remarkable of the Latter That let a thing be never so Fabulous in Pliny and Herodotus or the Histories of the old Greeks never so extravagantly reported by the Modern Books of Voyages and Discoveries or the Common Memoires of the Times yet he mixes it with his purer Geography Which hath given me continual reason to admire the Patience and Labour of his Pen but I disagree with his Fancy if he thought such Collections pleasing to Men of Sense and with his Judgment if he thought them true In his Geography of the Kingdom and Counties of England there is no body but must be offended with him upon other Accounts The principal of our Rivers next the Thames the Severn the Trent the Humber the Medway the Derwent c. None of them have their Names with Descriptions in his Work Peterborough Wells Cambridge Shrewsbury Richmond and Rippon are wholly omitted out of our Chief Towns and Cities Cambridgeshire Hertfordshire Cheshire Shropshire and Wiltshire out of our Counties And all the Description that he gives to Eleven of our Counties more with the Capital Towns thereunto belonging will be justly rehearsed in about Eleven Lines To South-hampton he says a Town and County in the South of England with a Port to the Sea To Stafford a Town and County of England towards the middle of the Kingdom To Surrey a County in the South part of England To Sussex a County in the South of England whereof Chichester is the Capital To Warwick a Town and County of England To Westmorland a County in the North of England which was a part of the Country of the ancient Brigantes To Huntingdon and Leicestershires he adds the Names of the Rivers Ouse and Stower with two or three Towns To Middlesex a small County in the East of England included in the ancient Kingdom of the East Saxons and only considerable for London its Capital To Rutland a County in the middle of England but little considerable having no more than one Town called Oakcham in it To Suffolk a Town and County in the East of England This is Monsieur Morery's way of describing a next Neighbor Kingdom and one of the most Powerful in the World Which is the least that a Geographer says of the most distant and obscure Provinces of China and Japan or the unknown Regions of the Asiatick Tartary And though he may be something larger upon London Rochester Bristol and now and then a County yet he does it with so little Care and Art so ungeographically in comparison to his Illustration of other Countries that take his Accounts of England all together with which those of Scotland Ireland and Wales are done after the like manner and they will be found the crudest and meanest and the most Contemptible part of his Volumes I need take no Notice of his Mistakes about Rutland and Suffolk which occur even in those diminitive Sketches that he gives them and are already sensible to every running Eye He is no less mistaken about the Bishoprick of Coventry and Lichfield A Bishoprick says he about the year 656. was established at Lichfield And there being another Bishoprick afterwards establish'd at Coventry these two Bishopricks in time became united in one Whereas it never from the beginning was otherwise than one and the same Bishoprick primarily established at Lichfield in 656 Next removed to Chester in 1067 or as others in 1075. From Chester removed to Coventry in 1088 and from Coventry returned to Lichfield again in 1186. Whereupon followed an Agreement under Bishop Alexander de Savensby who succeeded to the See in 1220 that the Episcopal Style should be derived from both Coventry and Lichfield yet with the Precedence to Coventry Mons Morery is no less mistaken in the ancient Seat of the Bishops of Lincoln which was Dorchester in Oxfordshire situated at the Confluence of the Thame and the Isis For he hath the fortune not only to attribute it to Dorchester in Dorsetshire upon the River Frome but to quote William of Malmsbury for the same to aggravate the matter in mistaking both his Author and the place together It is
Also a Mountain in the Confines of the Greater Armenia at the foot whereof arises the River Euphrates § A Town in Phocis in Greece which gave the Surname Abaeus to Apollo who had a Temple there Being burnt by Xerxes the Inhabitants retired into the Isle of Negropont formerly Euboea from them at that time called Abantis Abacares a People in the South of America upon the River Madera Abahius Abahuis and Abanhi different Names of the River Nile Abaimbe Abaibe Abibe Abaibae a Ridge of Mountains in Peru in the Province of Carthagene near the Gulf of Vraba Abanbo a River of Ethiopia it falls into the Nile a little above Meroë it is supposed to be Ptolomy's Astapus Abancay a River rising in the Mountains of Andes in Peru and after having washed a Town of the same Name with it self falling into the River Maragnon in the Province of Lima. Abano in Latin Aponus a Village in the Territories of Padua supposed by some to be the Birth-Place of Titus Livius antiently famous for its Baths Abantes the Inhabitants of Aba See Aba Abanwiwar a County of the Upper Hungary upon the Tibiscus the Capital of which is Caschaw it is called by the Germans Abaviwar Abara or Abaraner a City upon the River Alingeac in Armenia Major The Arch-Bishop of Nassivan frequently makes it his place of Residence Abaraus and Aboraas a Town in Guinea upon the River Volta about twenty five Leagues from the Sea Abarim a Ridge of Mountains in the Rocky Arabia of which Mount Nebo and Mount Pisgah mention'd in Scripture are parts Abarimon a Country in Scythia at the foot of the Mountain Imaus Abasses or Abcasses a People of Mount Caucasus bordering on Mengrelia well-shap'd and vigorous They cherish Customs much differing from the People of other Countries Abbefort a Town in Norwey with a good Port in the Government of Aggerhuys about 20 Leagues from Anslo and 25 or 30 from Stafanger Abbeville a City of the County of Ponthieu in Picardy upon the River Somme it is well fortified large and beautiful and lies 34 Leagues from Paris to the North. It belonged heretofore to the Abby of S. Riquer and from thence had its Name Abdera an antient City of Thrace famous among other things for the Madness of the Inhabitants Of latter days it was call'd Clazomenae then Polystile or Astrizze and at this time Asperosa Abensperg a little Town of Bavaria three German Miles from Ratisbon and one from the Danube It gave Birth and Surname to Joannes Aventinus a Learned Historian who wrote Annals of his Country from the Flood to 1460. in Ten Books Aberconwey in Latin Conovium a Town in the County of Carnarvon in Wales seated on the River Conwey and the Irish Sea Aberdeen in Latin Aberdenia and Devana a City of Scotland built upon the River Don fifty Miles distant from S. Andrews to the North-East Here is an Episcopal Chair brought thither in 1100. and an University founded in 1480. The Site thereof is of late times removed nearer the River Dee It was yielded to the English without constraint in 1651. Long. 18. 12. Lat. 57. 15. Aberfraw Gadiva a Town in the Isle of Anglesey the Royal Seat of eleven Kings of North-Wales whereof Amarawd the first began his Reign there A. C. 877. and Llewellin the last of all the Brittish Kings was slain in Battel Ann. Chr. 1282. Long. 15. 20. Lat. 53. 10. Abergavenny in Latin Gobannium a Town in the County of Monmouth in Wales It belonged to the Silures when the Romans conquered them it is fortified with a Wall and Castle and seated where the Vske and Gevenny meet It was erected into a Barony which in 1685. was possessed by George Nevil Lord Abergavenny first Baron of England Abernethy a Town on the River Tay in Strathern in Scotland anciently the Seat of the Kings of the Picts and since a Bishops Sea is now removed to S. Andrews where we shall speak further of it Abia and Abiamu a great River in Zagathay coming into the Caspian-Sea on the East side the Oxus of the Antients The former Name denoting the upper part and the latter the lower part thereof Abilene a Territory of Judaea so named from Abila the chief Town thereof the Tetrarchate of Lysanias mentioned Luke iii. 1. Abington a Corporation in Barkshire on the Thames between Oxford and Wallingford garison'd for the Parliament against Charles the First in 1644. which proved a great Inconvenience to that Prince It stands about 5 Miles South of Oxford The Right Honorable James Bertie was created Earl of this place November 30. 1682. by Charles II. Abissinia see Aethiopia Abiz Jatrus Ischar a small River of Bulgaria which falls into the Danube a little below Nicopolis Ablon a little Town with a Castle about 3 Leagues from Paris where the Protestants were for some time allow'd the Exercise of their Religion till they had a Church at Charenton Abo the Capital City of Finland under the Arch-Bishop of Vpsal upon the River Aviaroki in South Finland near the Shoars of the Baltick Sea 25 German Miles from Revel to the North-West and 31 from Stockholme to the North-East Longit. 45. Latit 63. This City was well nigh burnt to the ground in 1678. Abocharana a Town in Arabia the Happy situate on a high Mountain the Passage to which is for seven Miles so strait that not above two Men can go abrest Here the Grand Seignior keeps his Treasure Aboras or Chaborras a River in Mesopotamia sometimes call'd Giulap Aborigines were the most antient People of Latium the Seat of the first Original Romans they are mentioned by Tacitus Annal. 11. as one of the first Nations in Italy which received Letters from Evander the Arcadian They are supposed to have been the first People which entred Italy after the Flood The Word is generally used to signifie the first Inhabitants of any Country of whose Original no account can be given Aboy a Market Town in East Meath in the Kingdom of Ireland Abrener a City of Armenia the Greater See Abara Abreoios otherwise Baxos de Babueca certain Rocks near the Island of Hispaniola so called by the Spaniards because of the great danger of them their Name signifying Open your Eyes Abrolhos a litte Isle with a Ridge of Rocks near the Shore of Brasil for the same reason thus call'd by the Portuguese as those aforenam'd by the Spaniards Abruckbanya Aurariarum a Town in Transylvania Abruzzo called by the Romans Aprutium is a Province of the Kingdom of Naples it is bounded on the East with Apulia now Puglia on the West with Marca Anconitana on the North with the Adriatick Sea and on the South with the Apennine it was anciently the Seat of the Piceni and the Samnites which latter People by their Valor put the conquering Romans to the last refuge of chusing a Dictator four times and afforded them the Honor of XXX Triumphs Their last was in 481. year of Rome 270 years before our
of Sevil Hispalis which were both re-conquered and added to Castile by Ferdinand II. in 1248. It is divided into two parts by the River Guadalquivir Betis and the chief City is Sevil. New Andalusia a Province of the Terra-firmâ— in America between Venezuela and Guiana The chief City of it is new Corduba They used to fish for Pearl upon those Coasts Anoanagar a City in the Kingdom of Decan in the East-Indies almost ruin'd Andance Andancia a small Town in Vivarets in Languedoc in France where the River Dome falls into the Rhosne Andarge a River arising in the Valleys of Vnsâ—an in France which falls into the Arron near Verneuill Andaye a Town in France upon the frontiers of Spain two Leagues from S. Jean de Luz Andeli Andelium Andeliacum a Town in Normandy upon the Seine Anthony of Bourbon King of Navarre and Father to Henry IV. dyed here of the Wounds he received at the Siege of Rouen Anâ—eâ—â—e a River of France arising hard by la Ferte which falls into the Seine at l'Arche Andelot a Town in Champagne in France upon the River Rougnâ—n of extraordinary Privileges Andemaâ—n the name of halt a dozen Islands in the Gulph of Ganges near the Kingdom of Pegu in the East-Indies Andera a City of Phrygia in Asia Minor Andernaâ— Antenacum a Town upon the Rhine in the Archbishoprick of Cologne Anderskaw or Andershouw a great Monastery heretofore now a strong Castle in the Island of Seeland in Denmark delicately built Here Frederick II. dyed in 1548. Andes called by some the Cordillera's is one of the vastest and highest Ridges of Mountains in the World they begin in the North part of the Kingdom of Peru and are continued from thence without any Interruption to the Streights of Magellan by the space of 1000 Spanish Leagues much of the same height and seldom above 20 30 or 40 Leagues from the Pacifick Ocean many of them burn perpetually towards Chili Andiatoroque a Lake of New France in America Andore a fruitful Valley of the Pyranees in Catalognia Andover is a Corporation in the North-west part of the County of Hampshire which sends Burgesses to Parliament and gives the Title of a Viscount to the Honorable Earls of Berkshire now in the Possession of Tho. Howard it is seated about 18 Miles from Southampton to the North-west Andra or Aâ—dra a River upon the Coast of Guinea in Africa Andragiri or Gudaviri a City and Kingdom in the Island of Sumatra in Asia almost under the Equinoctial Andres Androsia a City of Galatia near Engury mention'd by Ptolomy S. Andrews Andreapolis a City of Fife in the South of Scotland North of the Frith of Edenburgh upon the German Ocean into which it hath a fair Prospect and upon which it hath a large Haven The ancient name of this place was Regimund it hath an University erected by James I. An. Dom. 1426. It is also an Archbishops See erected by Pope Sixtus IV. An. 1471. instead of Aberneath The Archbishops of all Scotland were heretofore under the Archbishop of York till James III. of Scotland representing to the Pope that there were frequent Wars between England and Scotland obtain'd from the said Pope That the Archbishop of S. Andrew should be independent Primate of Scotland in the twelâ—th year of his Reign yet Innocentius VIII who immediatly succeeded him obliged this Primate and his Successors to observe the laudable Customs of the famous Metropolitan Church of Canterbury This City in 1651. not surrendring upon the first Summons to our English victorious Rebels was sin'd Five hundred Pounds but had it remitted upon shewing they were poor Scholars It is 38 Miles from Edenburgh to the North-east and 23 from Aberneath to the East it lies in Lon. 17. 28. Lat. 57. 46. Andro Andros Andria an Island in the Archipelago with a City of the same name which is an Episcopal See under Athens inhabited by Greeks Latins and Turks The Antients call this Island Cauros Lysia Nonagria and by several other names Androgynes an antient People of Africa composed they say of both Sexes their right Breast a Mans the left a Womans Pliny and Aristotle Androsen or Androsen Androsa a small Town in the County of Cunningham in Scotland upon the Western Shoar Anduze Andusa ad Gardonem a Town in Languedoc in France upon the River Gardon heretofore fortified demolished by Lewis XIII Anenas or Andenas an Island upon the Coast of Norway Southward Anet a Town in the Isle of France upon the River Eure adorn'd with a Castle of extraordinary Magnificence which was built in the Reign of Henry II. It gives the Title of a Principality to the Duke of Vendosme Angamala a City in the Promontory of Malabar in the East-Indies upon the River Aicot as likewise a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Goa till Pope Paul V. in 1609. changed it into the Archiepiscopal See of Cranganor and constituted that as Metrapolitan of the Christians of S. Thomas Angediva a small Island under the Portuguese in the Kingdom of Decan in the East-Indies Angeles Angelepolis or Puebla de los Angeles a City in a Province of the same name otherwise called Tlascala by the Indians in New Spain in America built in 1531. by the Spaniards who have established an Episcopal See in it under the Archbishop of Mexico Angermund vid. Tangermund Anger 's Juliomagus in Caesar Andes is the Head of the Dukedom of Anjou a large well built City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours It is Seated on the River Sarâ—re in a very good Air and is also an University founded by Lewis II. Duke of Anjou the Son of King John of France Anno 1388. This City is 26 Leagues from Tours towards the West and within 1 League of the Loire In 1685. Lewis XIV established by his Letters Patents an Academy here of Thirty ingenious Persons who are all to be born in the Province of Anjou under the Title of the Royal Academy of Anger 's The famous Berengarius was Arch-deacon here Angitia the antient name of Selva d'Albi a Forest between the City of Albi in Languedoc and the Lake Fucinus Anglesey Mona called by the Welch Mon or Tir-mon and Anglesey from the English after they conquered it it is compassed on all sides with the Irish Sea which separates it from the County of Carnarvan in Wales by so narrow a Channel that in some places it may be forded at low Water it is in compass sixty Miles making one of the Counties of Wales and the most fruitful This Island was the Seat of the Brittish Druides subdued for the Romans by Suetonius Paulinus in the Reign of Nero but he not being able to perfect the Conquest Julius Agricola his Successor did it effectually Edward I. brought it in Subjection to the Crown of England in 1282 till which time it was under the Kings of North-Wales The Right Honorable Arthur Annesly a great lover of Learning and Books was lately Earl of
from Paris to the South near the River Allier This City was erected from a Barony into a Dukedom by Charles le bel in 1327. And its Castle is reputed a place of great Strength § The Island of Bourbon otherwise call'd Mascarenhi is an Island under the French ever since the Portugueze lost it to them in the Aethiopick Ocean to the East of Madagascar about 25 Leagues in Length and 14 in Breadth They say there is a Volcano in some part of it the rest is very fruitful Bourbon l' Ancy a Town and Castle in the Province of Burgogne in France 7 Leagues from Moulins and one quarter of a League from the Loyre It is much in Esteem for Mineral Waters which are here covered with a Noble Structure of the Ancient Roman Work This Town was never taken in the Civil Wars It gives Name to a Territory in the Diocese of Autun that is parted from the Province of Bourbonnois by the River Loyre Boyne Bouinda a River in the Province of Leinster in Ireland which runs hard by Drogheda where K. James II. and his Army being about 25000 men encamped on the South side of this River received the Defeat of Jul. 1. 1690. by K. William in Person The Duke of Schomberg was killed in the Action Burbourg Burburgus a Town in the East of Flanders not above one Mile from Graveling which was taken by the French in 1657. and has remained ever since in their Hands Bourdeaux Burdegala the Capital of the Province of Guienne and an Archbishops See the Seat of one of the Parliaments of France rich well built and populous It has a noble Haven at the Mouth of the River Garonne much frequented by the Dutch and English and all other Northern Nations for Wine Salt c. So that this City is deservedly accounted one of the best in France It is also built in a very fruitful Soil and rarely improved by Art and Industry It gave Birth to Ausonius the Poet and to Richard II. King of England It has also a very strong Castle call'd le Chateau Trompette And was an University in the times of the Romans which Honor has been reconferred upon it by Charles VII Eugenius IV. and Lewis XI since which times it has produced many very learned Men First built by the Galls improved by the Romans made the Capital of a Kingdom by the Goths It fell into the hands of lesser Lords with the Title of Counts or Earls after the times of Charles the Great United with the Dukedom of Guienne in the times of Charles the Bald. Alenora the Daughter and Heir of Lewis VII of that House being married first to the King of France and after to Henry I. of England this Dukedom was annexed to the Crown of England and continued so till wrested from them by Charles VII of France in the Reign of Henry VI. The French had indeed usurped it before upon King John but the English were not without hope of recovering it till this last mentioned time It has given some disturbances to the Reigns of Lewis IX and XIV but is now finally brought under having in 1650. been reduced by force of Arms and a Siege There has been many National Councils held here and some Provincial Synods it stands about 12 Leagues from the shoars of the Ocean upon the South side of the Garonne in the most Southern Part of France in Long 20. 10. and Lat. 44. 50. The antient Inhabitants by Pliny and Strabo have the Title given them of Bituriges Vivisci to distinguish them from those of Bourges called Bituriges Cubi Borganeuf a Town in the Province of la Marche in France upon the little River Taurion three Leagues from S. Leonard and 5 from Limoges Some are pleased to include it in Poictou Bourgen Bresse Forum Sebusianorum Tamnum Burgus a City in the County of Bresse in France upon the River Resousse 5 Leagues distant from Mascon to the East and 9 from Lyons to the North It has been under the Crown of France ever since 1601 when this whole County which before pertained to the Dukedom of Snvoy was taken in It had a strong Citadel erected in 1569 which was demolished in 1611. The City is seated in Marshes and called by some by mistake Tanus adorned with a Bishops See by Pope Leo X in 1521. but this See was suppressed again by Pope Paul III. Bourg sur Mer a Town in Guienne built upon the mouth of the Dordogne Duranium where it unites with the Garone which heretofore was well fortified it stands 5 Leagues from Bourdeaux to the North. Le Bourg de Viviers or the Bourg de S. Andeol Burgus S. Andeoli is the most populous Town in the County of Viviers seated in a Plain upon the River Rhosne 25 Leagues lower than Lions antiently called de Gentibus Here S. Andeolus a Sub-deacon suffered Martyrdom under Severus the Emperor and from him the Town has its name as appears by the Registers of this Church Bourges Bituricae Biturix Biturgium Avaricum is a very great City and an Archbishops See the Head of the Dukedom of Berry seated as it were in the centre of France upon the River Eure which falls into the Seine above Roan and naturally a strong Place It has a noble Cathedral and an University famous for the Canon and Civil Laws The Archbishops enjoyed the Title of Primates of Aquitain from the IX Century to the time of Pope Clement V. who having been Archbishop of Bourdeaux transferred the Primacy from Bourges thither Several Councils and Synods have been held here particularly in 1438. one under Charles VII recognized the famous Council of Basil and the Pragmatique Sanction which continued thence in force till suppressed by the Concordate betwixt Pope Leo X. and Francis I. in the year 1516. It is 7 Leagues from la Charite to the West 22 from Orleans to the North. Lewis XI King of France was born here Bourgogne or Burgundy Burgundia a very large Province in France divided into 2 parts the one of which is called the Dukedom and the other the County of Burgundy The Dukedom of Burgundy hath on the East the Franche County and Savoy on the West Bourbonnois on the North Champagne and on the South la Bresse Lionois and some part of Baujolois A Country not fruitful in any thing but Wines and fine Rivers This Dukedom was seized by Lewis II. upon pretence of want of Heirs Males upon the Slaughter of Charles the Hardy by the Switzers in 1467 and ever since it has been in the possession of the Crown of France The County of Burgundy hath on the East the Mountain Jour which parts it from Switzerland on the West the Dutch of Burgundy from which it is divided by the Sâ—aâ—ne on the North and a Branch of the Mountain Vauge which divideth it from la Bresse it is reckoned to be 90 Miles in length and about 60 in breadth for the most part Mountainous but fruitful of
Brentesia a River in the Dominion of the States of Venice in Italy Brent a Market-Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Stanborough Brentford the New a Market-Town in Middle-sex in the Hundred of Elthorn so called from the River Brent which falls into the Thames betwixt Henden and Hampsted Hills King Edgar assembled a Council here in 960. In 1016. King Edmund Ironfide obtained a Victory over the Danes at this Place which obliged them to raise the Siege of London And 1644. It was advanc'd to the Honour of an Earldom in the Person of Patrick Ruthen Earl of Forth in Scotland by King Charles I. Brescia Brixia call'd by the French Bresse by the Spaniards Brexa is a City in the Venetian Territories in Italy which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Milan aggrandized with the Title of a Duke Marquess and Earl The Capital of the County of Bresciano a large well fortified Place and has a very strong Castle upon a near Hill It lies between the Rivers of Gorza and Mela in a Plain 15 Miles from the Lake of Benaco to the West and 50 from Milan to the South-East built by the Senones and was once under the Dukes of Milan before it sell into the hands of the Venetians The County of Brescio has Verona to the East Bergamo to the West Cremona to the South and the Valtoline and the County of Tirol to the North. It is a great and fruitful Country Breslaw Budorgis Vratislavia Budorigum call'd by the Poles wroclaw is the Capital City of Silesia and of the Dukedom of Breslaw A Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Gnisen in Poland great and well built and once a Free and Imperial City but it was afterwards exempted from the Empire and is now a kind of Free-State It stands on the River Oder towards the Confines of Poland Made a Bishop's See in 1033. About the Year 1000. it was built by Miceslaus Duke of Poland the Cathedral Church was built by Casimirus King of Poland in 1041. Near this place Boleslaus King of Poland was overthrown by Henry V. and forc'd to take an Oath of Allegiance This City lies 35 Miles from Cracow and 40 from Berlin Bresle a small River near Calais in France Bresne a small River near Tours in France Bresse Bressia Sebusiani Populi is a Province of France bounded on the East by Savoy on the West with Lionois on the North with Charolois in the Dutchy of Burgundy and some part of the Franche County and on the South with Dauphine It is a pleasant and fruitful Country and lies between the Soasne and the Rhone Bèllay and Bourg are its chief Towns It belong'd from the Year 1285. to the Dukes of Savoy till 1600. when it was surrendred to Henry IV. of France in lieu of Saluzzes a Marquisate in Italy Brest Brivates a very good Sea-Port in the Dukedom of Bretagne in France which as Scaliger saith was call'd Gesocribate by Ptolomy It lies on the most Western Coast of Bretagne about 50 Leagues from Nantes to the North-West This is the Magazine of the Admiralty of France situated upon the Ascent of a Hill and secured with New and Noble Fortifications both to the Sea and Land The Sea enters into the Gulph of Brest by 4 Ways and the Vessels there are always afloat § Also a Town in the Province of Cujavia in the Kingdom of Poland with a Castle well built in a Marshy Place near Vlaldislaw and the Vistula Here in the Years 1595. and 1620. two Councils were assembled for the Union of the Greek Church of Lithuania with the Latin § The same Name is given to a French Colony in New-France in America Brescici Bressicia call'd by the French Briescio is a small City in Lithuania the Capital of a Palatinate of the same Name It lies between Lithuania Russia and Polachia upon the Bug and has a tolerable good Castle Bresuire a small City in France in Poictou 3 Leagues from Parthenay and as many from Thuray Bretagne Armorica Britannia Minor is a Province of France 70 Leagues long and betwixt 35 and 40 broad containing 9 Bishopricks who are all Suffragans to the Archbishop of Tours In three of these that is Cornouaille S. Paul de Leon and Figuier the Inhabitants entirely speak Briton a Language the same in abundance of words with the Welsh in the other three to wit Nantes Vennes and S. Brieux they speak Briton and French mix'd yet the most ordinary Sort only Briton in the rest they speak all French It is bounded on the East with Normandy and the County of Maine on all other sides with the English Seas upon the South side it has the Loire which divides it from Anjou but yet the County of Raiz which belongs to Bretagne lies on the South side of that River between it and Poictou The Britains were first brought hither from England by Maximus in 389. To which a great Accession was made by the driving out the Britains by the Saxons They erected a Kingdom here in 485. I suppose after the coming of the second Saxon Colonies which lasted till 874. when a lesser Title was taken up with the same Power which continued till 1498. under 28 Dukes when Lewis XII married Anne the Daughter of Francis II. the last Duke of Bretagne who in 1484. had been married to Charles VIII K. of France before Francis I. of France succeeded in the Right of Claude his Wife whose Issue failing the Right fell to the Duke of Savoy but the French kept the Possession § New Bretagne a Province of New-France in America upon the Gulph of S. Lawrence Its Settlements are call'd Brest Belle Isle c. Brewood a Market-Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Cudleston The Bishops of this Diocese had their Palace here before the Conquest Bretevil a Town in High Normandy in France upon the River Iton Brianzon a City in the Dalphinate supposed to be one of the highest in the World It is the Capital of the Bailywick of Brainzonnois in Ptolomy call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Antoninus Brigantium in Am. Marcellinus Virgantia The Dure and the Ance the two Sources of the Durance unite below it The Castle stands upon the top of a Rock and is very strong Yet taken from the Leaguers by the Duke de Lesdiguieres in 1590. § Likewise a Village in Provence in the Diocese of Glandeves where they find Numbers of Medals with Inscriptions § And a Castle in the Territory of Tarantaise in Savoy upon the River Isere about 1 League below Moutiers with a Village of the same Name These two last mentioned Brianzon's are also call'd in Diminution Brianzonnet Briare a Town in the Dutchy of Orleans upon the River Loire where the Channel is cut for the Communication of the Loire and the River Seine In 1652. a Battle was fought here betwixt the Army of the King of France and that of the Princes The New Channel takes the same Name in Latin
Brivodurum and Breviodurus Bricquia a Province in the lesser Asia formerly called Licia Bridgend a Market-Town in Glamorganshire in Wales in the Hundred of New-Castle Bridge-North a Market-Town in Shropshire in the Hundred of Stottesdon upon the Severn Heretofore fortified since demolished Bridlingtou or Burlington a small Town in the County of York where Mary Queen of England Landing from Holland February 22. 1642. was most barbarously treated by 4 Parliament Ships which a great while plaid with their Cannon on the Town and especially on that House in which the Queen was entertained Bridge-Water a Corporation in Somersetshire upon the South side of the River Parret which about five Miles further falls into the Irish Sea 13 Miles from Wells to the West and 23 from Bristol to the South-West It was a great and a populous Town as Mr. Camden saith but suffered very much in the old Rebellion by the Scots July 23. 1645. And on Sunday July 5. 1685. the late Duke of Monmouth Natural Son to Charles II. of ever blessed Memory was entirely defeated being then in Rebellion against K. James II. upon a Moor near this place by the Providence of God and the Courage of the Earl of Feversham who the same day marched to Bridge-Water the Rebels having before his coming deserted it and dispers'd themselves The greatest Honor this Town has is to give the Title of an Earl to the Right Honourable John Egerton whose Father was created Earl of Bridge-VVater May 17. 1617. in the 5th Year of James I. being the Son and Heir of Thomas Egerton Lord Chancellor of England who was created Baron of Ellesmere in 1603 and Viscount Brackley in 1616. Bridport a Market-Town in Dorsetshire The Capital of its Hundred 2 Miles from the Sea to which it had formerly a very good Haven This Town was famous in the time of K. Edward the Confessour It sends 2 Burgesses to the Parliament Brie a Country part within the Government of the Isle of France and part in the Province of Champagne betwixt the Rivers Seine and Marne Meaux sur Marne is the Capital Town of it It is very fruitful In Latin call'd Bria Brigeium and Brigiensis saltus Brie-Compte-Robert a Town in the Country precedent upon the River Iere four or five Leagues from Paris Brieg Brega a Town upon the Oder in Silesia in Germany betwixt Oppelen and Breslaw The same is the Capital of the Dutchy of Brieg Brienne a small Town in Champagne in France upon the River Aube with the Title of an Earldom near Troyes between Bar-sur-Aube and Planci This Place gives Name to the antient House of Brienne Brighthelmston a Market-Town in Sussex in Lewis-Rape by the Sea Side Brignoville Brinnonia Brinnola a Town and Bailywick in Provence in France near the River Caramie Understood by some to be the Forum Veconii by others the Matavonium of the Antients Charles V. the Emperor took it in 1536. The Leaguers surprized it in 1589. Brille or Briel a Town and Port of Holland in a good Soil but a gross Air at the Confluence of the Rhine and the Meuse in a small Island of this Name It was surprized by the Dutch in 1572. by the help of the Succors obtained from Queen Elizabeth And this Action was as the first Foundation of the Commonwealth of Holland Brin Eburum Arsicua Brinum Brina a City of Moravia seated upon the River Zwitta where it falls into that of Swarta 7 German Miles South of Olmitz This was the only place which in 1645. and 1646. held out for the Emperour against the Swedes in all Moravia when being besieg'd it broke the Swedish Army and forc'd them to rise call'd by some Bruna written Brenne also Brindisi Brundusium is an Archiepiscopal City in the Kingdom of Naples which has a strong Castle and a safe Harbour at the mouth of the Gulph of Venice 36 Miles from Tarento to the East Pompey retired hither after his overthrow in the Year of Rome 705. and was obliged to leave the place again because Caesar pursued him In the Year 735. the incomparable Virgil died here that is about 19 years before the coming of our Saviour It has been several times ruin'd and repair'd Brioude Brivas Vicus Briatensis a great and antient Town in the Province of Auvergne in France upon the Allier The Emperour Avitus was buried in the Church of S. Julianus here The Chapter takes the Title of Earls of Brioude being in the first institution Knights Confederated to make War against the Normans in the Year 898. § 2 Leagues from this place stands Brioude la Vieille upon the same River where there is a Bridge to cover it compos'd of one Arch so extraordinary long and high as scarce to have its parallel in Europe Briqueras or Briquerasco Briquerascum a considerable Town in the Principality of Piedmont 4 or 5 Leagues from Pignerol with a Castle Taken by the Sieur de Lesdiguieres in 1592. and retaken by Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy in 1594. Also famous in the Wars of Piedmont in the years 1629. 30. and 31. Brisach Brisacus Mons a City with a very strong Castle in the Territory of Brisgow in Alsatia with a Stone Bridge upon the Rhine 6 German Miles from Basil to the North and 7 from Strasburg and a from Colmar It was a Free Imperial City till 1330. when it was exempted and given to the House of Austria call'd therefore the Key of Germany the Cittadel of Alsatia and the Pillow on which the House of Austria slept with security In 1633. Gustavus Horne a Swede besieg'd it vain but in 1638. it was taken by the French under the command of the Duke of Weimar who are still in Possession of it their Title being confirm'd by the Treaty of Westphalia or Munster in 1648. and afterwards by the Treaty of the Pirenees in 1659. Brisag or Brisiaco a Town under the Grisons upon the Lake Majour in Italy between Locarna Canobia and Domo Brisgow Brisgovia is a Province of Germany lying on the East of the Rhine and the West of Wirtenburg and on the South clos'd with the Canton of Basil The principal place is Friburg This Province is in part under the House of Austria and in part under the French Brisach which was once its Capital being under the latter but the greatest part under the former The Prince of Conde obtain'd a Victory here in 1644. when General Merci was kill'd Brissach a Town in the Province of Anjou in France upon the River Aubance below Saumur It gives the Title of a Duke Bristoll Bristolium Venta Belgarum Venta Silurum is a noble City in the County of Somerset upon the River Avon which runs through the midst of it and so part of it stands in Glocestershire but then it is a County of itself and belongs to neither of them It is a neat strong clean populous rich well traded City and after London and York the Third principal Place of England the Inhabitants of this City Trading
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
is full of Mines of Iron the Valleys are fruitful here also and on the Eastern side the Country is very fruitful of Grass Corn and Sea-Coal Though all the English Kings were liberal to this Church upon the account of S. Cuthbert yet Guthrun the Dane was the first that granted this Bishoprick o◠County to the Church of Durham which was afterward confirmed by Canutus another Danish Prince and by William the Conqueror ever since which time it has been accounted a County Palatine Dr. Nathaniel Crew the present Bishop of this Diocese being the LXX in number from S. Aidanus was translated from Oxford hither in the year 1674. Duringen See Thuringia Durlach or Dourlach Durlachum Budoris a City in the Marquisate of Baden in Schwaben in Germany scarce two Miles from the Rhine to the East and four from Baden This is the Capital of the Marquisate of Durlach and the lower part of the Marquisate of Baden which bounds it on the South the Rhine lies on the West the Dukedom of Wirtemberg on the East and the Palatinate of the Rhine on the North. It is subject to its Marquess of the House of Baden who has some other Territories and Honors in these Parts Durseley a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Wotton Dusseldorp Dusseldorpium the chief Town of the Dutchy of Bergh upon the Rhine five Miles beneath Cologne This Town was fortified against the Duke of Brandenburg by the Duke of Newburg in 1613. who has since had his Residence here Duvelandt the same with Beveland Duysburg See Duisburg Dwina Duna Dzwina a vast River in Muscovy or Russia which riseth in the Province of Megrina from two several Heads that unite at VVologda one of the principal Cities of Russia and running North-East passeth by the Lake of Soeclina beneath which it receiveth from the East the River Juga and a little lower the River VVuyma then turning North-East it falls into the VVhite Sea by three Mouths upon the most Eastern of which stands Arch-Angel the only frequented Port of Russia The heads of this River were called before their union Jagel and Sachana and after it Dwina § There is another River of the same Name which riseth out of a Lake of the same Name ten Leagues from the Lake of Fronowo and the Sources of the Nieper and falls into the Baltick Sea below Riga saith Olearius I suppose this is it which the latter Maps call Duna This River riseth in a Province of Russia called Novogard near the Lake VVolga and the Fountains of the River of that Name and turning Westward being augmented by some smaller Rivers it entereth Lithuania at VVitepks then passing Poloczko Drima Duneberg Kakenheusen and separating Livonia from Semigallia it falls into the Gulph or Bay of Livonia a part of the Baltick Sea on the South of Riga by Dunemund a Castle seated on the Mouth of it The Muscovites call it Dzwina saith Baudrand § The Province of Dwina is the greatest and most Northern of all Russia heretofore subject to the Duke of Novogard one hundred Russian Miles in length It had formerly but one City called by the same Name which stands in the middle of it but since the Passage to Arch-Angel has been discovered it is become one of the most considerable Provinces in Russia Arch-Angel being seated in this Province and the greatest Trade driven on the Dwina Dyfy See Dee a River in VVales Dynas-Mouthwye a Market Town in the County of Merioneth in VVales The Capital of its Hundred Dyrne See Tyrnaw EA EAdmont or Eamont a River in the County of Westmorland which joins with the Lowther by Whinfeld Forrest Earne or Lough-Earne Erno Erdinus a Lake in Vlster which passing into the Lake of Devenish a little more West they both together fall into the Virgivian or Western Ocean by the Bay of Walley between Dungal to the North and Slego to the South Easingwold a Market Town in the North-Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Bulmer East-Born a Market Town in the County of Sussex in Bevensey Rape East-Breane Brenia a Tract in the County of Cavan in the Province of Vlster in Ireland near the Lough-Earne Easton-ness a Promontory on the Coast of Suffolk which makes the Northern Point of Southwold Bay the most Eastern Cape of the whole Kingdom of England Eaton Aetonia Etona a Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Stock upon the River Thames over against Windsor made famous by a College of the Foundation of King Henry VI. in which there is a Grammar-School of great esteem for the education of the English youth Eaune Heldona Elna a River of France commonly called Liane It ariseth in the Confines of Artois and running through the County of Bologne falls into the British Sea at Bologne Eause Elusa or Elusaberis a ruined City of France commonly called Euse and Eusan in a Territory of the same Name upon the River Gelize often mentioned by Sulpitius Severus Ammianus and Sidonius It was once an Archbishops See and the Metropolis of Novempopulonia but now an obscure Village in Armagnac in Gascogny five Miles from Condom West Civtat is built of late towards the Rumes of it The Archbishops See was translated to Aux hence Ebersdorp Eberstorfium a Town in the Lower Austria in Germany It stands upon the Danube two Miles below Vienna adorned with a Castle to which the Emperors delight to retire Eberstein a County the Circle of Schwaben in Germany taking its Name from the Castle Eberstein towards the Dukedom of Wirtemberg They both belong to the Marquess of Baden Eberwyck York Eblaba Alabanda an Inland City of Caria now Aidinelli in the Lesser Asia on the South of the River Madre Long. 52. 28. Lat. 38. 46. It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Staurople or Sancta Croce Ebro Iberus one of the greatest Rivers of Spain called by the FrenchEbre It ariseth from the Mountains of the Asturia's in old Castile near the Village and Castle of Mantillas from two Springs and watering the North part of Old Castile the Towns of Frias Miranda Logrono and Tudela where it takes in the River Arga from the South and from thence becomes capable to carry a Boat it soon after enters into and divides the Kingdom of Arragon then takes in Biel from the North and Xalon from the South a little below Alagon then saluting Saragoza it admits Rio de la Guerva from the South and Gallego from the North Aguas Marcia and Guadalupe come in from the South as it passes Burgo and Fuentes and at Mequinenca Segre of old Sicoris with a number of smaller Rivers in its retinue Algas on the South and a knot of small Rivolets on the North also come in to pay their Tributes so watering the Southern part of Catalonia a little beneath Tortosa he falls into the Mediterranean Sea between three small Islands made by his own Sands This River gave the Name anciently of Iberia to all Spain Festus Avienus mentions
Proprietors thereof to be put to death Finichia one of the present Names of Cilicia a Province of the Lesser Asia next Syria Finkeley a Village in the Bishoprick of Durham in Chester Ward mentioned in the Councils by the name of Finchala and Fincenhala there having been a Council held at it in the year 798. by Eanbald Archbishop of York Finland Finlandia Fenni Finnia Fionnonia is a very spatious Country heretofore a distinct Kingdom but now subject to the Crown of Sweden and distinguished with the Title of a Dukedom belonging to the King of Sweden's sons Bounded on the North by Desarts or unknown Countries from which it is separated by the Lake and River Vla Tresk on the West it has the Botner Sea a Branch of the Baltick on the South the Bay of Finland another Branch of it and on the East the Dominions of the Great Duke of Muscovy It contains several very great Provinces as Ciania Tavasthia Nylandia Carelia Savolaxia and Finland properly so called which is the most Southern and most noble Aboa a Town upon the River Aurojoki over against the Isle of Aland is the Capital of this Kingdom and the Seat of the Swedish Viceroy This Kingdom was first conquered to the Crown of Sweden in 1384 by Erick one of their Kings In 1571 the Muscovites intending a Conquest fell into it with a Savageness and Cruelty hard to be expressed or believed but were recalled by an Irruption of the Tartars upon their own Countries It is called by the Inhabitants and Swedes Finner by the Danes Finder by the Germans Fennen by the Dutch Finlander Cluverius saith it is a considerable part of the Kingdom of Sweden and that it is fruitful and affords excellent Pasturage Finmark Finmarchia called by the Inhabitants Taakemarch and Finmark is a Province of the Kingdom of Norway on the Western Ocean The Southern part of it is subject to the Danes the Northern to the Swedes This Country is barren rocky covered with dreadful Woods full of Bears and Wolves and other ravenous Beasts the Inhabitants till of late lived in Summer like the Nomades wandring from place to place as the convenience of Water and Pasture invited them The Princes under whom they now are to reduce them from this vagrant way of living granted the Lands to the first Occupant by which means some parts are improved but the more barren can be used no other way and therefore are left still in common The Inhabitants are a mongrel sort of Christians extreamly ignorant and barbarous infamous for Witchcraft revengeful beyond belief and as rugged as the Country they inhabit Fionda a small Village on the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea in the Lesser Asia in the Confines of Lycia and Pamphylia which in the Roman times was called Phaselis and before Pityussa it lies East of the Chelidonian Rocks and West of Mount Masicytus two hundred and twenty English Miles from the most Western Cape of Cyprus A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Myra now Stramita but so very small that little notice is taken of it in the â—â—ter Maps Fionia See Fuynen Fionissi Lyssus a Town in Creet Candia on the Western Shoar near the most Southern Cape of that Island Fiore Ossa a River of Italy in the Dominions of the Great Duke of Florence which falls into the Mediterranean Sea at Telemont a small Sea-Port belonging to Sienna Fiorenza See Florence Firando a City and Kingdom of Japan in that part which is called Ximo to which there belongs an Island of the same Name on the Western Shoar also Firi Maxera Mazeras a River of Hyrcania which falls into the Hyrcanian Sea Firmiana Firmanorum Castrum a small Castle on the Adriatick Sea in the Marca Anconitana near the Mouth of the River Tinna now commonly called Fermo thirty Italian Miles from Ancona to the South and an Archbishops See Fischio Phusca a Maritim City of Caria in the Lesâ—er Asia over against the Isle of Rhodes about eighty four English Miles from Ephesus to the South In the later Maps it is placed much more to the East than the Isle of Rhodes Fishgard a Market Town in Pembrokeshire in the Principality of Wales and the Hundred of Kemeys Fismes Fimae ad fines a Town in the Province of Champaigne in France upon the River Vesle Two Councils have been assembled at it in the years 881 and 935 which write it Finibus apud Sanctam Macram from a Stone 't is supposed that serves as a Boundary hard by to the Bishopricks of Rheims Laon and Soissons Flagania See Paphlagonia Flaiz Flaicus an Isle of France belonging to Santoigne Flamborough-head a noted Promontory in the East Riding of Yorkshire two Miles from Burlington Bay so called from the small Town Flamborough standing in it Flanders Flandria by the Natives call'd Vlaenderen is the greatest and noblest of those Seventeen Provinces called the Low Countries Bounded on the East with Hainault and Brabant on the West with the British Ocean on the North with the Seas of Zealand and on the South in part by Artois and in part by Hainault and Picardy of which Artois was at first a part and after five or six descents reunited again to it This Province saith Ortelius is most excellent Pasture especially towards the West It affords excellent Kine and warlike Horses and abounds in Butter Cheese and excellent Wheat The People are much given to Merchandize and Cloathing their Linnen having plenty of Flax and Hemp exceeds all other Countries and as to Woollen they having the Wooll from Spain and England improve it by their industry to a wonder and then supply all the World with the Product But in this the zeal of Philip II. King of Spain has altered the state of things in a great degree This Province has twenty eight walled Towns or Cities a thousand one hundred and fifty Villages besides Forts Castles and Noble Mens Houses and a great number of Abbeys Priories Colleges and Monasteries It has five Viscounties three Principalities four Ports and thirty one Chatellanies The principal of which in Ortelius his time was Gaunt This great Province was divided into three Parts 1. Flanders Flammengant bounded on the East by the Imperial Flanders and the Scheld on the West by the British Seas on the North by the Seas of Zealand and on the South with Artois and Flanders Gallicant the principal City of which was Gaunt 2. Imperial Flanders so called because it was a Fee of the Empire divided from Brabant on the East by the River Dender and from the Gallick Flanders on the West by the Scheld on the North it has the River Dender and on the South Hainault the principal Town of this is Alost whence it is now commonly called the County of Alost 3. Flanders Gallicant so called because the French Tongue was heretofore most spoken in it This has Hainault on the East Artois on the South the British Sea on the West and Flanders Flammigant on the North
and possessed themselves of Bavaria Upon which the Insubres and Cenomani yielded in 431. and became subject to the Romans The Provincia Romana was conquered in part by Fulvius Flaccus in 627. The Remainder in 631. by Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus and the three other Provinces by Julius Caesar between 694. and 697. fifty three years before the Birth of our Saviour A part of these Galls under Brennus about 474. made their way through Greece and settled in Gallo-Graecia or Galacia in the Lesser Asia though it is much more probable this Expedition was immediately after the taking of Rome But now to give an exact Account of all the several People contained under this Name their Laws Rites Customs Governments and Bounds would too much exceed the Limits set me in this Work Gallipoli Callipolis a City of Thrace upon the Bosphorus called by the Turks Geliboli which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Heraclea and the Seat of the Turkish Admiral or Captain Bassa of his Gallies It is great populous well traded and has an Haven a Castle and a good Magazine well furnished This Town stands on the West side of the Hellespont not over against Lampasco but a little more North neither walled nor well built within the Houses being all of Earth and Timber and low the Streets narrow sometimes covered with Boards to keep off the Heat of the Sun yet said to be six Miles in Compass and to have four or five thousand Christian Inhabitants amongst others There is little to be seen in it of its ancient Splendor and Elegance It stands upon a Peninsula having upon the North and South two Bays for Gallies and Boats of which the Southern seems best for Ships This City is one hundred and ten Miles South of Constantinople and five from the Shoars of Asia Long. 54. 30. Lat. 42. 16. § Gallipoli Gallipolis Anxa a City of the Kingdom of Naples in the Terra di Otranto built on a Rock upon the Western Shoar in the Bay of Taranto thirty six Miles from that City and in an Island which is only joined to the Continent by a Bridge supported by huge massy Stones Small but well fortified and populous with a good Haven a strong Castle and good Walls it is a Bishops See but his Diocese is bounded by the Walls of the City and he is under the Archbishop of Taranto Long. 42. 12. Lat. 39. 58. Galloway Novantae Gallovidia Galdia is a large County in the South of Scotland over against Munster in Ireland from which it is separated by a Channel of only fifteen Scotch Miles in breadth Bounded on the West with the Sea on the South with Solway Fyrth which separates it from Cumberland on the East with Nithesdale and on the North with Carrick and Kile it takes its name from the Welsh who for a long time maintained this County against the Scots and Picts calling themselves Gaels and in the Writers of the middle Ages it is accordingly called Gael-Wallia the Country is every where swelled into Hills better for Pasture than Corn but well supplied with Fish both from the Sea and Fresh-water-Lakes of which there are many at the foot of the Hills The principal River is the Dee called Dea by Ptolomy The principal Town is Withern Candida Casa which is a Bishops See and one of the first erected in this Kingdom by Nina a Britain the Apostle of the Nation of the Picts Upon the Coast of this County there is a narrow Isthmus call'd the Mule of Galloway it is the same with the Novantum Chersonesus of the Antients and lies in 55 d. 10 m. of North Lat. The most Southern point of all Scotland The Galloper Sand is a Shallow ten Leagues from the Mouth of the Thames to the East upon which the brave Ship the Prince was unfortunately run a-ground and lost June 4. 1666. Sir George Ayscue the Commander being taken by the Dutch who were then engaged with the English Fleet and carried Prisoner into Holland Gallway Duaca Gallica is a County in the West of Ireland in the Province of Conaught bounded on the North by the County of Mayo on the East by the River Shannon which parts it from Roscommon and Kings County on the South with Clare and on the West with the Ocean a Country fruitful both as to Corn and Pasture Here is the Lake of Corbes twenty Miles long and three or four broad § The principal City is Gallway Galliva called by the Irish Gallive the Capital City of the County of Gallway and the third in the whole Kingdom of Ireland situate near the fall of the Lake of Corbes a neat strong Place built almost round and walled with Stones it has a Bishop's See and a delicate and safe Harbor called the Bay of Gallway capable of a vast Fleet and secured on the West by five Islands The fertility of the County in which it stands affording plenty of Goods for Exportation the Inhabitants of this City in Mr. Cambden's time had made great Improvements by their Navigation and much enriched themselves This City being so remote from England and very strong at first in the Rebellion against King Charles I. stood a kind of Neuter and would neither admit the Irish nor the English but when they saw the Irish were Masters of the greatest part of the Kingdom it joined with them in their Rebellion The Pope's Legate made this a kind of Seat of his Government till about the year 48. he was besieged here by the Irish who began then to favour the Royal Interest which he opposed to the utmost and at last despairing of all Relief he submitted and left the Island Not long after this was one of the first Places that paid its Obedience and Respect to the Earl of Ormond the King's Deputy But it was too late for in 1651. Ireton having taken Limerick after a long Siege this Town being immediately attacked by those victorious Forces under the Command of Sir Charles Coot an Oliverian Captain and their Harbour filled with Parliament Ships of War and no hopes of Relief they yielded themselves to the mercy of the Rebels who revenged the Injuries of a Prince which they themselves had murdered upon this wealthy but then wretched City Thus saith my Author Dr. Bates Gallway the greatest place of Trade in all Ireland the best fortified abounding in noble Buildings Riches and plenty of Inhabitants which had had such benefit by their Maritim Commerce was forced to submit to the Yoke of an Enemy after she had refused her Assistance to her Lawful Prince in denying a Supply to the Lieutenant And as if War alone had not been a sufficient Chastisement the Plague followed the Sword and cut off in the space of eighteen Months twelve thousand of the Inhabitants The Irish had the Possession of this Place and held it out for King James II. till the last Summer 1691. Galofaro the same with Charibdis Gambay Gambia a vast River of Africa in Nigritia
frequented by reason the three Provinces of Nanking Huquang and Kiangsi abutt upon it A strong Garrison is kept in its Fort Haymuen commanding the Lake of Poyang and the River Kiang Ganna the Caspian Sea Gannat Gannatum Gannapum a Town in the Dukedom of Bourbon in France towards the borders of Auvergne upon a small River falling soon after into the Allier Gaoga Kauga or Guoga a City and Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa between the Tract of Nubia and the Kingdom of Borno This Kingdom about two hundred years ago was erected by the prosperous Villany of a Negroe Slave before which it was little better than a Desart Now inhabited by Christians Mahometans and Pagans Betwixt 40 and 50 deg of Long. Lat. 20. 12. Gaoxa an Island upon the Coast of the Province of Quantung in China Gap Vapingum Appencensium or Vapincensium Vrbs a City of the Dauphinate in France which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Aix it stands in the Confines of this Principality towards Savoy two Miles from the Isere twenty two from Aix and six from Embrun to the West It is reasonably great and defended by a Castle yet often taken and retaken by the Rom. Catholicks and the Huguenotts in the Wars of the last Century Farellus sowed his Opinions here The Bishops enjoy the Title of Earls It is the Capital of the Territory of Gapensois and did heretofore belong to the Counts of Forcalquier Garamal Garamantes a People of Libya Interior or Gaetulia in Africa about the Eastern part of the Desart of Zaara and the Western of Nubia of the Generation of the antient Garamantes who dwelt in the same place Their chief Settlement is called after themselves Garama Garanne Varenna an Island in the Bay of Aquitaine Garbe Isburus a small River on the South of Sicily Gard. See Pont du Gard. Garda See Gardsee Garde a City of Greenland deserted and ruined two hundred years ago It had been a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Drontheim in Norway and stood to the Ocean Gardeleben a small Town in the old Marquisate of Brandenburg upon the River Meld seven Miles from Magdeburg to the North. Gardicht a Town in the Morea towards the Gulph of Lepanto supposed to be the antient Cliter Gardon Nardo Vardo a River of Languedoc springing from the Mountains of Sevennes and dividing into two Streams The one passing by Alets with the name for distinction of the Gardon d' Alets joyns the other call'd the Gardon d' Anduze at Anduze and afterwards augmented with the Tributes of some small Rivulets they both fall into the Rhine towards Beaucaire Gardsee Benacus a Lake in Lombardy called by the Inhabitants Il Lago di Garda by the Germans Gradzee by the French Grade It lies in the State of Venice between the Territory of Verona to the East and Brixia to the West watering on the North the Earldom of Tirol and from thence is extended to the Castle of Pescara on the South the length of thirty Miles its greatest breadth is ten Miles as I have often seen saith Baudrand though Strabo seems to think otherwise It takes its name from Garda in the Territory of Verona out of it flows the River Menzo Mincius which by Mantoua falls into the Po. And it abounds with Eels and Carps See Benacus Gareligare See Tripoli Garet Gareta a Province in the Kingdom of Fez on the Mediterranean Sea in the Confines of the Kingdom of Argier from which it is separated by the River Mulvia as from the Province of Errif by the River Nocor The Mediterranean bounds it to the North and the Mountains of the Desarts to the South The African Writers have divided it into three parts The first containing the Towns Cities and Territories the second the habitable Mountains the third the Desarts Mellila under the Spaniards Jaffarina Tezota c. are the most considerable places in it Gargan a Mountain in the Province of Apulia in the Kingdom of Naples nigh to Monte-di-san-Angelo mentioned by Pliny Strabo c. and the Roman Martyrology upon May 8. Garigliano Liris a River of Italy which heretofore divided Latium from Campania It ariseth in the further Abruzzo by the Lake of Celano Fucinus above Antina and passing Southward watereth Sora Aquino and Sessa then falls into the Tyrrenian Sea at Trajeto eleven Miles South of Gaieta The Banks of this River were often covered with the French and Spanish Forces in the Wars of the Kingdom of Naples in 1503. Garippo Gallus a River of Asia the Less which springeth from the Coelenian Hills in Phrygia Magna and washing Pessinunta falls into Sangiarus now Sacario and Acada which falls into the Black or Euxine Sea at Cagari Garnesey Garnia Sarnia an Island belonging to the Crown of England on the Coast of Normandy This and Jersey is all that is left us now of the Dukedom of Normandy it is about thirteen Miles long and near as broad where greatest Garonne Garumna called Garona by the Spaniards and Garonna by the Italians is one of the great Rivers of France mentioned by Julius Caesar Also one of the greatest Rivers which springeth from the Pyrenean Hills it ariseth in Arena a Spanish Village in the Borders of the Kingdom of Arragon not far from Salardun and running Westward by Bertrant it turns there North-East by Rieux to Tolouse above which besides Touche from the West and several others it takes in the Ariege from Foix and Pamier on the East then running North at Moissac it is improved with a number of Riverâ— brought in from the East by the Tara here again turning West it passeth by Agen over against which it receives the Giers on the South from Aux and a little further on the same side Biese from Condom and on the North Toninus Treuyre from Cahors and a little further the Drot so leaving Bourdeaux on the South and taking along the Dordonne from the North it makes the vast Bay of Garronne and by the Tower De Cordovan on a small Island passeth with two mouths into the British Seas This River was heretofore the boundary of Aquitaine but now it divides it into two parts Garro Gaurus a Mountain near Naples Garstang A Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Amounderness near the River Wire Gurtempe Vartimpa a small River of France Gartz A Town in the Dukedom of Pomerania in Germany upon the Oder three Leagues from Stetin Formerly well fortified but in 1638 after its being often taken and retaken in the German Wars totally demolished Garza Mela a River in the Territory of Brescia in the Dominion of the States of Venice in Italy which washeth the Walls of Brescia on the West and then falls into the Oglio at Vstiano which conveys it to the Po at Borgo forte not much above Mantoua Gascoigne Vasconia Novempopulonia a Province in Aquitaine in France The Inhabitants write Guascoigne the Italians Gascogna the Spanish Gascona the English Gascony It lies extended
Ravensberg once an Imperial and Free City governed by its own Magistrates but in 1647. taken by the Duke of Brandenburg as Count of Ravensberg of which this was pretended to be a Member In 1673. it was retaken by the French and soon after deserted and restored to that Duke It stands ten German Miles from Munster to the East five from Minden There is in it a Nunnery the Abbess of which is a Princess of the Empire Herzegovina Arcegovina Chulmia Zachulmia Ducatus S. Sabae a Province in Servia called by the Turks Caratze-dag-ili that is the Black VVood by the Inhabitants Herzegovina by the French Le Duché de Saint Saba It is the upper part of the Kingdom of Bosnia lying upon Dalmatia towards the West and South the principal Town in it is S. Saba This was heretofore under Dukes of its own of the Family of Cossa in Venice Hesdin or Hesdin-Fert Hesdinum Hedena a fortified Town in the Borders of Artois upon the River Chanche Quantia which falls into the British Sea below Staple to the North. Built by the Spaniards in 1554. in the place where the Village of Mesnil formerly stood as a Fort against the French who have several times since taken it till in 1659. by the Pyrenean Treaty it was yielded to them It is seated in a Morass eight Miles from Abbevill to the North. Heserwaldt a Forest in the Dukedom of Cleves Hesperia the Name of Spain and Italy amongst some ancient Geographers Hessen See Hassia Hessi the People of Hessen or Hassia which drove out the Chatti and possessed their Land Heszgang the Cataracts of the Danube in Austria beneath Lentz Hethy Ocetis one of the Isles of Orkney called also Hoy. Hetland the same with Shetland another of those Isles Hetruria a large Country in the ancient division of Italy lying betwixt the Tyber the Apennine Mountains the Tyrrhenian Sea and separated from Liguria by the River Macra now Magra It was likewise called Thuscia The present Toscana or Province of Tuscany containing the greatest part of it Heu Itis the same with Assin a small River in Ross in the North-West part of Scotland Hexamili Isthmus Corinthiacus that Neck of Land which joins the Morea to the rest of Greece called thus because it is six Miles over This Passage has been attempted to be cut through to make the Morea an Island by Demetrius Julius Caesar Caligula Nero and after by Herodes Atticus a private Person These all failing it was walled against the Turks by a Grecian Emperour in 1413. By the Venetians in 1224. Amurath II. threw down this Wall in 1463. Mahomet II. in 1465. intirely ruined it though the Venetians had spared neither labour nor charge to fortifie and strengthen it making to the Wall one hundred and thirty six Towers and three Castles In 1687. the Venetians cast out the Turks again and are possessed of it See Morea Herham a Market Town in the County of Northumberland in Tindale Ward upon the River Tyne and the South side of the River Trent This has been anciently a place of great account For in the Infancy of the Saxon Church we read in Bede it was an Episcopal See with the Title of Episcopus Hagulstadiensis in the Person of S. Eata the fifth Bishop of Landisfarne and the first of Hexham to whom afterwards succeeded nine others till the fury of the Danes discontinued it and the Jurisdiction was annexed to the See of York King Henry VIII removed it from that See to the County of Northumberland whereby it became annexed to the Bishoprick of Durham The Church here was scarce inferiour to any in England before the Scots pulled a great part of it down It is fourteen Miles from Newcastle to the East and hath claimed the privilege of being a County Palatine Heydon See Headen Heyssant an Island upon the Coast of Bretagne in France Hiamuen a strong Town in the Province of Fokien in China in a near adjacent Island to the South of Ganhay from whence the Merchandises of China are transported into the Indies and the Philippine Islands It is a considerable Place as well for its Buildings as its Commerce yet the Chinese give it but the Name of a Fort because it is a Garrison Hichan the same with Chios an Island in the Mediterranean Hickling a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Happing Hidro a Mountain in Otranto in Italy Hielmeer a Lake in Sweden between the Provinces of Suderman and Neritia Hierapolis an ancient Archiepiscopal City of Syria The See was subject to the Patriarch of Antioch Also called Bambyca § There was a second in the Province now called Germian or Phrygia Major in the Lesser Asia which was likewise an Archiepiscopal See under the same Patriarch The Turks call the Ruins of this latter yet extant Bamboukale Hieres Olbia Area a small Town upon the Coast of Provence in France two Leagues from Thoulon which communicates its Name to those Islands in the Mediterranean over against it called the Hieres This was an ancient Colony of the People of Marseilles who then gave it the Name of Olbia from the Happiness of the Soil it stands in and being afterwards changed to Area it thence came to be called Hieres Charles I. King of Jerusalem and Earl of Provence purchased it of the Viscounts of Marseilles being heretofore one of the strongest Garrisons on the Coast of Provence and the ordinary place of embarquation for the Pilgrims to the Holy Land It has been adorned with a Collegiate Church ever since 1572. Hiero-Caesarea an ancient City of Doris in the Lesser Asia so called in honour of Caesar before Hierapolis Tacitus reckons it amongst the twelve Towns to which being in a great part all ruined by an Earthquake in one night Caesar remitted their Tribute for five years to recompence their loss There stood a celebrated Temple here dedicated by Cyrus to Diana L'Hiesmois Oximensis Pagus a Territory in Normandy which takes its Name from Hiesmes a Town in Normandy sixteen Miles from Caen to the South-East and eighteen from Mans to the North. Higham-Ferris a Corporation in the County of Northampton which has the Election of two Parliament-men The Capital of its Hundred It stands upon the Eastern banks of the River Nen with a Bridge over the same a Free-School an Alms-house and anciently a Castle whose Ruins yet are visible Highworth a Market Town in Wiltshire The Capital of its Hundred Hiind Indus the great River in the East-Indies Hildesheim Ascalingium Hildesia Hildesheimum Brennopolis a City in the Lower Saxony which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mentz erected by S. Lewis the Emperour it is seated upon the River Innerste not above two Miles from the Borders of the Dukedom of Brunswick seven from Zell to the South and six from Hamelen to the East The Bishop being the only Roman Catholick Bishop in all Saxony is the Protector of it which is otherwise a Free Imperial
The Capital of its hundred upon the River Bane and in the division of Lindsey Horndiep Arnapa a small River of Holland which ariseth in Drent a Territory of Over Yssel and flowing through Groningen a little beneath Hunsen falls into the River Reit Diep after it has watered the City of Groningen Horndon on the Hill a Market Town in the County of Essex in the hundred of Barstable Horomelt one of the Names of Greece Horsham a Market Town in the County of Sussex in Bramber Rape It is a large Borough Town having the Election of 2 Parliament-men situated near S. Leonards Forest Horti Hortanum See Orta Houdain Hodanum a small French City in la Beausse or in the Government of the Isle of France according to others near Chartres two Leagues from Dreux to the North-East and eight from Paris to the West upon the River Vegre La Houlme Holmesia a small District in Normandy between the River Orne Olina and the Territory of le Mans in which there is no Town of note Howden a Market Town in the E. riding of Yorkshire giving Name to a small Territory call'd Howdenshire near the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Derwent Hoy Dumma an Island of Scotland which is one of the Orcades three Miles from the Island of Mainland call'd also Hethy Hoye Hoya a small Town in Westphalia upon the River Weser two German Miles from Ferden to the South and from Newburg to the North the Capital of the Earldom von Hoye in Westphalia which was under Earls of its own till 1582. when upon the Death of Otto the last of them it fell to the Duke of Brunswick Zell Hudsons Bay an Arm of the Sea North of Estoiteland in the North America discovered by one Hudson an Englishman in 1612. Hudwicswaldt a City or Town in the Province of Helsing in the Kingdom of Sweden on the Baltick Sea towards the Province of Middlepad Huccar Vero a River of Spain Hued or Hued-il-Barbar Icer Serbes a River in the Kingdom of Algiers in Africa which derives its head from the Atlas and takes so many turnings and returnings amongst the Mountains that betwixt Bonne and Tunis it comes to be passed twenty five times At length falls into the Mediterranean Sea They Fish for Coral upon its Banks Hued Nijar Niger a River of Africa in Aethiopia Hued el Quiber Nasabath a River in the Kingdom of Algier Huesca Faventia Calicula Vesci Osca Escua a City in the Kingdom of Granada See Horiguela which is the same City § There is another Town of the same Name in the Kingdom of Arragon upon the River Ysuela fourteen Miles from Saragosa to the North-East and twenty from Lerida to the North-West This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of aragossa and call'd by the ancients Osca Illergetum A Council was celebrated at it in 598. Huetca a Dutchy in New Castile upon the Confines of the Kingdoms of Granada and Murcia Hull Petuaria Hullum a Town and River in the East Riding of Yorkshire The Town is seated upon the West Bank of the River where it entereth the Humber twenty six Miles from York to the South-East and eleven from the Spurn Head or British Sea to the North-West Of no great Antiquity Edward I. purchasing the Ground of the Abbat of Meaux and built the Town which thereupon was called Kings-Town He made the Haven also granted the Town a Charter and divers Liberties by which means it grew to that it now is being for stately Houses strong Forts well furnished Ships Merchandize and plenty of all things the best in this part of England The Inhabitants ascribe much also to Michael de la Poole Duke of Suffolke who procured them many Privileges after he was by Richard II. made Duke of Suffolk Their gainful Fisheries on the Coast of Iseland had its share in this growth Being grown Rich they Walled the Town Paved their Streets raised their chief Magistrates from a Warden to Bailiffs at last in the Reign of Henry VI. got the Honor of a Mayor and that the Town should be a County Charles the Martyr Treasured up here a goodly Magazine for the benefit of his Subjects but when he came to use it April 23. 1642 he was most unworthily and undutifully excluded by Sir John Hotham which on the twenty fifth of the same Month was by the Parliament justified being upon the matter the first act of Hostility against that Holy Prince Hotham the Son was routed April 11. 1643. at Ancaster by Colonel Cavendish And both Father and Son came to be Beheaded by their Fellows Rebels the first in 1644. and the other in 1645. for intending to return to their Allegiance The River of Hull riseth by Kilham in the same County and passing on the East of Beverley at the distance of a Mile falls into the Humber between Hull and Dripole being Navigable up to Beverley and perhaps higher Hulst Hulstum a City in the Low-Countries in Flanders near Gaunt small but very well fortified the Capital of the Territory of Waes taken by the Dutch in 1645. and kept by them ever since It stands five Leagues from Antwerp to the West and seven from Gaunt to the North-West Humago Cissa an Island near Histria Humain Siga a City of Mauritania in Africa Humana a ruined City in the Marca Anconitana Humber Abus one of the principal Rivers of England or rather an Arm of the Sea into which many of the Rivers of this part of England empty themselves on the North it hath Yorkshire on the South Lincolnshire out of the first of these it receives the River of Hull then the Ouse which bringeth with it Derwent the Swale the Your the Wharf the Are Calder and the Dun then the Trent which divides Nottingham from Lincolnshire and brings many other with it as the Darwen the Manifold the Stoure and many others above Barton it receives the Ankam out of Lincolnshire the Mouth by which these Streams enter the German Ocean being almost seven Miles wide Humble Homelia a small River of Hantshire which rising by Bushwaltham and watering Boteley forms an Haven called Humble Haven on the East of St. Andrew's Castle over against the Isle of Wight where it entereth the British Sea Hungaria Pannonia inferior is one of the Noblest but most unfortunate Kingdoms next to Greece in Europe The Natives call it Magiar the Poles Wegierska the Germans Vngarn and the French Hungary On the North it is bounded with the Vpper Poland and Red Russia the Carpathian Mountains interposing between it and them on the East with Transylvania and Moldavia on the West with Stiria Austria and Moravia and on the South with Sclavonia and Servia Baudrand including Sclavonia bounds it on the South with Croatia Bosnia and Servia It extends in length from Presburgh along the Danube to the Borders of Transylvania the space of three hundred English Miles and one hundred and ninety of the same in breadth it takes in all
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
mostly discovered from this Cape and the Island of Tenedos in the Aegoan Sea stands at the distance of a League from it Ianowitz a small Town in Bohemia where the Swedes in 1645 gained a great Victory over the Imperialists six German Miles from Prague to the North-West towards the Confines of Moravia Iaocheu a great City in the Province of Kiangsi in China with a Territory of the same Name whereof it is the Capital extending its jurisdiction over six other great Towns and particularly remark'd for good Porcelain Ware Iantra See Ischar Iapan Japonia a vast Country in the Eastern Ocean called by the Inhabitants Niphon by the Chinians Gepuen that is the East and from thence by the Europeans Japan On the West it is bounded by the Sea of China which divides it from China and the Island or Promontory of Corea It is supposed to be an Island one hundred and fifty German Miles in length seventy in breadth The Inhabitants are all under one Prince Heathens and sworn Enemies of Christianity which begun to take rooting amongst them by the Preaching of the Portuguese but was extirpated by Fire Sword and the bloodiest Persecution that ever was practised amongst Men. The Dutch who Trade here are secured with the utmost Caution that they may not surprize any part of the Shoar or build any Fort or do any other Act whereby they may settle themselves nor will they permit them to see more of the Country than one small Peninsula or of the Inhabitants than those they Trade with and for a long time they would not permit them to Land Buy or Sell till they had renounced their Christianity This Island lies sixty Leagues from Cantan a Province of China to the East and about three hundred from New Spain in America mountainous and generally barren but it maintains a vast number of Cattle yet the Inhabitants do not know how to make either Butter or Cheese This Island totally unknown to the Ancients was first discovered by Antonio Mota a Portuguese in 1542. The Jesuits in 1556 sent S. Francis Xavier to Preach here who is called therefore the Apostle of Japan at first they had great success insomuch that in the Year 1587 they pretended to have gained two hundred thousand Converts But this lasted not long for about the Year 1622 there began so dreadful a Persecution as is no where to be met with and these new Converts having never been well grounded in their new Religion Apostatized so fast that in seven years there were very few Christians to be found and perhaps at this time none This Country lies in 35 degrees of Lat. In Long. betwixt 171. and 188. The air very healthful and generally cold The Earth affords Gold Silver and Pearl watered by divers Rivers and Lakes with good Ports Some describe it to be a Mass of many Islands going altogether under the Name of Japan and that the three most considerable are Niphonia Ximo and Nicoco The Japonese are jealous fierce pompous in their habits and language sincere in Commerce and ingenious imitators of the Characters and Hyeroglyphicks of the Chinese from whom they descend The principal City is Meaco tho the Emperor of late has resided at Jendo Iapara a Kingdom in the North of the Island of Java in the East-Indies with a City of the same Name which has a good Port. Iappenaw Japodes a small District in Carniola under the Emperor Iaracazes Canea two Rocks at the entrance of the Euxme Sea in the Propontis Iaretta Terias Simethus the greatest River in the Island of Sicily it falls into the Sea three Miles from Catania to the South West Iarnac Jarnacum a small Town in Angoulmois upon the River Charente dignified with the Title of an Earldom between Angoulesme to the East and Saintes to the West eight Miles from either memorable for a Battel here fought in the Year 1569 betwixt the Roman Catholicks and Huguenots in which the old Prince of Condy who commanded the latter was slain by one Montesque a Captain under the Duke of Anjou afterwards K Henry III. the head of the Catholicks tho he offered one hundred thousand Crowns for his Ransom and the Hugenots defeated after a bloody Fight of ten hours continuance Iaromitz a small Town in Bohemia upon the Elbe twelve Miles from Prague to the East Iaroslaw a pleasant Town in Red Russia belonging to the Poles upon the River Sane with a Castle forty five Polish Miles from Warsaw to the South thirty five from Cassovia to the North-East and twenty from Lemburg to the North-West near this place the Swedes gave the Poles a fatal overthrow in 1656. In 1625. it suffered much by Fire Iaroslaw a great City in Muscovy which is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name and has in it a Timber Castle it is seated upon the Wolga thirty German Miles South of Wolgda thirty seven North of Moscho The Dukedom of Jaroslaw is very great and lies between that of Wologda to the North Rostow to the South and the River Wolga to the East Governed by a Prince of its own till John Basilovits Duke of Russia Conquered it and annexed it to his own Dominions Since that it has been given to the eldest Son of the Duke of Muscovy as his Title and Residence Iarrow a Town in the Bishoprick of Durham in Chester Ward deserving a remark for being the Birth place of the Venerable Bede Iarsey Caesarea an Island on the Coast of Normandy and part of the Dukedom of Normandy but now annexed to the County of Southampton This and Guernsey being all that is left to the Kings of England of their great Dominions in France from the Shoars of which it lies about five Miles to the West and thirty from those of England to the South The Inhabitants speak a Norman kind of French There are in it twelve Parishes and two Gastles Montorgueil and Elizabeth This Island was one of the last that yielded to the prevailing Rebels not without force in October 1651. after the Kings return to France from the Battel of Worcester The same Prince in 1663. sent them a Silver Mace to be born before their Chief Magistrate as a remembrance of this their fidelity to him in his greatest distress Iasque a Principality of the Kingdom of Persia upon the Borders of the Province of Kherman extended along the Sea Coast from thence betwixt the Cape Jasque and Cape Guadel which two are the most Southern points of Persia and possessed by three petty Princes of whom the chief takes the Style of the Prince of Jasque This Prince after the Conquest of Ormus by Cha-Abas I. K. of Persia paid a yearly tribute to that Crown which being remitted in the Reign of Cha-Sephi his Successor Cha-Abas II. endeavoured by War to compel the Prince of Jasque again to pay the same but in his attempts was beaten Jassy or Yassi Jassium a City of Walachia called by the French Jas upon the River Pruth
given of it by Monsieur Thevenot who saw it himself Famous moreover to all posterity for the Children of Israel's passing it on dry ground at their entrance into Canaan and the Prophet Elijah's doing the same in company with Elisha Our Saviour received Baptism here from the hands of S. John near to which particular place the Christians built a Monastery that is now in ruins The Pilgrims delight to bathe in this River fancying the Water sanative from the virtue of that Sacred Contact It overflows in Summer with the melted Snow from Mount Libanus But in the Winter runs a low Water and after its Current into the Dead Sea it is clear without mixture for above a League together issuing thence by a subterraneous Channel into the Mediterranean Ioyeuse Gaudiosa a Town in France in the Province of Vivarais towards the Borders of Languedoc honoured by being first a Viscounty next a Dutchy and giving Name to a Noble Family Ipepa Hypaepa a City of Lydia in the Lesser Asia between Mount Tmolus and the River Caystro not far from Thyatira It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ephesâ—s Ipre See Yperen Iprichia the same with Africa Ips Ipsium and Ibissa a Town in Austria Ipsala Cypsella a City in Thrace by the River Mela at first a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Trajanopoli or Zernis afterwards it became the Metropolis It lies between this City to the West twenty nine Miles and Drusilaba to the North-East twenty six Miles the River in our latter Maps is called Larissa and falls into the Archipelago over against the Isle of Lembro just behind that Peninsula which makes the Dardanels straight Ipswich Gippo-vicus the County Town of Suffolk heretofore called Gippwich seated on the North side of the River Stour upon the foot of a steep Hill in somewhat a low Ground it has a commodious Haven and was heretofore a place of great Trade with many wealthy Merchants in it and a vast number of other people but now decayed as to both It was also formerly fortified with Trenches and Rampires the loss of which is not to be lamented the Town being so seated that it can never be made a place of Defence the Hills on all sides but the South and South-East commanding it It has fourteen Parish Churches and a great many goodly Houses the tokens of its former Wealth In 991. the Danes sacked it and nine years after repeated their Cruelty upon it In the Reign of S. Edward it had eight hundred Burgesses who paid Custom to the King There was also a Castle built here by the Normans which Hugh Bigod Earl of Norfolk defended against the Usurper King Stephen but was forced to surrender at last the ruins are now lost Mr. Cambden supposeth it to have been demolished by Henry II. when he did the same by Waleton Castle not far off Here landed the three thousand Flemings which the Nobility called in against Henry II. when his Son rebelled against him In the late Rebellion this Town stood clear of all those Calamities which involved the rest of the Nation The Bishop of Norwich hath a House here and the Viscount of Hereford another befitting his degree and quality The Honourable Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Grafton was created Viscount Ipswich Aug. 16. 1672. who died of the Wounds that he received in the Service of King William before Cork Octob. 9. 1690. This Town is also a Corporation and sends two Burgesses to the Parliament It has a Free-School with the convenience of a good Library and a Hospital Cardinal Wolsey was born here and began the building of a stately College which bears his Name to this day Ireland Hibernia Ivernia is a great fruitful and noble Island on the West of Great Britain accounted in ancient time for greatness and glory the third Island of the World and called then the Lesser Britain Orpheus Aristotle and Claudian call it Ierna Juvenal Mela Juverna Diodorus Siculus Iris. Others Jovernia Overnia and Burnia The Natives Erin The Welsh Yuerdon The English Ireland It is three hundred Miles long and two hundred broad on the East it has the tempestuous Irish Sea between it and Great Britain on the West the Vergivian Ocean on the North the Deucalidonian Sea and on the South the British Ocean Divided into four Provinces Leinster Mounster Vlster and Connaught which heretofore sustained the Title of as many Kingdoms comprehending in all thirty Counties four Archbishopricks and twelve Bishopricks The Country is full of Woods Hills and Bogs The Soil rich and fruitful especially as to Grass Pomponius Mela in the times of the Emperour Claudius gives the very same character of it and therefore it has ever abounded in Cattle which is its most Staple Commodity The principal Rivers are the Shannon the Sewer the Barow the Black-Water the Shour the Neure the Boyne the Leffy c. The Capital City heretofore Armagh now Dublin The Air is at all times temperate but too moist to be at all times pleasant or wholsome The Romans in all probability never had any footing in this Island This Nation was converted to Christianity in the fifth Century by Palladius and S. Patrick especially the latter who planted not only Religion but so much Learning too amongst them that in the next Age the Monks of Ireland were eminent for Holiness and Learning and Ireland thence called Insula Sanctorum an Island of Saints In 694. Egfrid King of Northumberland first entered and destroyed this Nation with Fire and Sword after this the Danes for thirty years together wasted and destroyed them After these the Germans After them Edgar the most powerful King of England conquered a great part of Ireland And when by Massacres and other Accidents the Irish were freed from all these Calamities there ensued Domestick Broils among themselves In 1155. Henry II. being called in by the Natives resolved on the Conquest of them whereupon Richard Strongbow Earl of Pembroke began it in 1172. Henry II. in Person entered Ireland and taking upon him the Stile of Sovereign Lord of Ireland the States and all the petty Kings submitted to him and passed over all their Rule and Power which was confirmed by Pope Hadrian The Kings of England continued the Title of Lords of Ireland till the Reign of Henry VIII who took first upon him the Stile and Title of King of Ireland in 1541. which was confirmed to Mary his Daughter by Pope Paul IV. in 1555. The Irish have ever looked upon this Conquest as a Wrong and an Usurpation which no Act of theirs nor Time it self could make valid Hence when ever England has been imbroiled they have taken the opportunity of Revolting In the Reign of Edward I. when that Prince was engaged against the Scots one Donald O-Neal stiled himself King of Ulster and in Right of Inheritance the undoubted Heir of all Ireland But when in the Reign of Henry VIII the pretence of Religion was added first the Earl of Kildare rebelled
in 1537. and was presently suppressed taken and beheaded with his five Uncles In 1539. O-Neal began another Rebellion but so soon as Thomas Earl of Sussex Lord Lieutenant came against him with an Army the Gentleman grew humble submitted and was pardoned He flew out again in 1563. burnt the Cathedral of Armagh and besieged Dundalk but with no success In 1565. Sir Henry Sidney Lord Lieutenant went against him and in a Fight broke his Forces so that flying to the Scots whom he had likewise injured in 1567. he was assassinated in cold blood and presently after attained in Parliament and the Title of O-Neal abolished The Earl of Desmond was the next who in 1579. calling in the Spaniards began another Rebellion which ended ill for him the Spaniards being driven out the year after and this Earl taken and slain in 1583. In 1595. Tir-Oen who had done great Service against the Earl of Desmond and was highly favoured by Queen Elizabeth most ungratefully began a Rebellion the most dangerous of all the other this Earl having been bred in the Queens Service and learned Military Diâ—cipline from the English which he now made use of against them In 1598. he defeated the English at Blackwater In 1599. brought the Earl of Essex to condescend to a Treaty with him In 1601. he brought the Spaniards over to his Assistance who took and garrisoned Kinsale which was retaken by Sir Charles Blunt afterwards Lord Montjoy and the Spaniards totally driven out whereupon Tir-Oen submitted and was brought over by the Lord Lieutenant to King James I. in 1603. This War lasted eight years and might have proved fatal to the English if God had not prevented it After this I find no general Insurrection of the Irish till 1641. when seeing Charles I. engaged in War with the Scots at home they on a sudden rose up and assassinated two hundred thousand English in a few days when no body suspected any such thing This Insurrection began September 3. The Troubles of England gave them some respit but in 1649. and fifty Oliver Cromwell began their Chastisement so effectually that Ireton and those he left to carry it on erected mournful Trophies of the Divine Vengeance against them with no great expence of Time Blood or Treasure it missed but a little that the Irish Name and Nation had been totally extirpated Charles II. upon his Restitution in 1660. shewed them more Mercy restored such as had any pretences of Loyalty to plead for their Estates and governed them all his time with so much Clemency that this Nation never was in a better State since they fell under the English than at the time of the Death of that Good Prince Irenopolis an ancient City of Cilicia in Asia Minor Afterwards called Neronias and made an Episcopal See some write under the Archbishop first of Selencia then of Anazarbus Others place an Episcopal City of this Name near Babylon under the Patriarch of Antioch Iris Eurotas a River in the Morea which washeth Misitra and falls into the Gulph di Colochina on the South side of the Morea It is now called Vasilipotamo or Basilipotamo that is the Kings River § Another in Cappadocia understood by Valerius Flaccus where he says longisque sluens amfractibus Iris now called Casalmach See Casalmach Irneo Vindius Hirmius a Ledge of Mountains in Spain commonly called El monte de las Asturas the Mountain of the Asturas which is a Branch of the Pyrenean Hills running out to the West between the Asturas to the North and the Kingdom of Leon to the South the greatest is called Irneo or Erneo and also Cueto de Hano or Ori. Iroquois a valiant Nation of Indians in New France in the North America They have maintained divers bloody Wars with the French there and are the particular Enemies of the Hurons another salvage people of the same Country Irus a Mountain mentioned by Arrian upon the Shoars of the River Indus towards Gedrosia Is an ancient Town of Susiana in Asia eight days journey from Babylon upon a River of the same Name which discharges its Streams into the Euphrates Both remembred by Herodotus and Stephanus Isauria a Province according to the ancient division of Asia Minor now thrown into a part of Caramania and subject to the Turks It s Capital City was Isauropolis or Isauria by Ammianus Marcellinus called Claudiopolis now Saura Publius Servilius first reduced this Province under the Dominion of the Romans whence he attained the Title of Isauricus Claudian thus mentions them and him Indomites curru Servilius egit Isauros Historians write of their Incursions into the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth Centuries Iscariot a Village of the Tribe of Ephraim or as others say Dan in Palestine not far from Samaria to the East The Birth-place of the traiterous Judas Ischar Jatrus a River of Bulgaria which riseth out of Mount Hemus and watering Ternova a City of that Province falls into the Danube at Suistefo It is the third River from the Western Border and now more usually called Iantra Ischeboli or Ischepoli Scopelus an Inland City of Thrace made a Bishops See by Leo the Emperour under the Archbishop of Adrianople I suppose it is the same with that which is now called Ipsola Ischia Aenaria Inarime Pithecusa an Island on the Coast of the Kingdom of Naples near the Bay of Puteolum not above three Miles from the Shoar to the West It s Circuit is of twenty Miles of old called Inarime and by the Greeks Pithecusa It has a City of the same Name well fortified with a Castle built on a Rock in which Ferdinando King of Naples found shelter during the storm brought upon him by Charles VIII of France who in 1495. conquered this whole Kingdom in a few days This City is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Naples eighteen Miles from Naples to the West Claudius Nepos a Frenchman in 1586. published an exact Map and Description of this Island which is inserted into the Description of Italy published by Antonius Maginus Iscodar the Turkish Name of Scutari or Scodra Idenstein a County in Weteraw a Territory in the Upper Circle of the Rhine between Hassia to the East and the Rhine to the West by some Isembourg Isakal Lein Alschemes Busiris Ramesses a ruined old City in Egypt within the Delta the ruins of which are so called Isenberg Isidis Mons a Mountain in Schwaben near Ausburgh Isendyck Isendium a small but strong Town upon the Sea Coast in Flanders over against Biervliet a Town belonging to the Hollanders This Town stands upon the Scheld three French Leagues from Sluys to the East and something above four from Middleburgh to the South and was fortified by the Spaniards against the Dutch Isenach See Eysenach Isenghien Isegemium a Castle in Flanders in the Territory of Courtray which gives the Title of an Earl or Count to the Family of Vilnia It is now under the French two Leagues from Courtray towards Bruges
the Hundred of Finsbury of which the Earl of Warwick bears the Title of Baron Kent Cantium is the most South-Eastern County of England on the North it is bounded by the Thames which parts it from Essex on the East and South it has the British Sea in part on the North and on the West it has Sussex and Surrey It is in length from East to West fifty Miles and from South to North twenty six Divided into five Lathes Sutton Aylesford Soray St. Augustine and Shepway wherein are four hundred and eight Parishes and thirty Market Towns That part which lieth towards the Thames is healthful but not fruitful the middle parts are both the Southern are very fruitful but not healthful The Thames the Medway the Stower the Tun and the Rother besides lesser Streams water it Some give this Character of it The Weald for Wood East Kent for Corn Rumney for Meadow Tenham for an Orchard Shepey and Reculver for Wheat Thanet for Barley and Hedcorn for Capons This Country was first conquered by Julius Caesar though not without Resistance in the years of Rome 696. and 698. fifty three years before the Birth of our Saviour being forced to a double Expedition against almost this single County As he began the Conquest of Britain here so did the Saxons Hengist erecting the Kingdom of Kent in the year of Christ 456. seven years after the first arrival of the Saxons Against the Danes the Kentish men did also great things and with much Courage and Patience repelled those Barbarous People When William the Conquerour had subdued all the rest of the Nation he was glad to come to a Composition with the Inhabitants of this County and to grant them their ancient Liberties and Customs Whence the Laws of Gavelkind obtain here to this day This County was also the first that imbraced the Christian Religion from Augustine the Monk in the year 568. Accordingly Canterbury is justly the Metropolis of the whole Kingdom of England as having been the first Fountain from whence the Christian Religion spread it self amongst the Saxons for as for the British or Welsh they had imbraced Christianity long before VVilliam the Conquerour in 1067. created Odo Bishop of Bajeux his half Brother Lord Chief Justice and Lord Treasurer of England Earl of Kent In 1465. Edward IV. created Edmund Grey Lord Ruthyn Lord Treasurer of England which Family still injoys this Honour Anthony II. the present Earl of Kent being the eleventh in this Succession Besides the Sea of Canterbury this County injoys a second Bishoprick which is Rochester and a great many populous rich Towns fafe Roads large and secure Harbours for Ships and whatever else is desirable in Human Life except a more serene Air. Kerci or Chierche Cercum a small Town at the Mouth of the Streights of Caffa upon the Euxine Sea belonging to the Precopensian Tartars Kerez See Keureuz Keriog a River in Shropshire which falls into the Dee above Bangor Kerka or Karka Titius a River of Dalmatia which washeth Sardona and Sebenico then falls into the Adriatick Sea eight German Miles North of Spalatro Kermen Germia a considerable City at this day in Thrace seated not far from Adrianople the Turks have here a Sangiack Kerry a County in the Province of Munster on the Vergivian or Western Ocean between the County of Clare to the North and the County of Cork to the South and East the Capital of which is Ardart Keschidag Olympius a Mountain of Misia in the Lesser Asia Kesmarckt or Keysermarkt Caesaropolis a Town of the Vpper Hungary at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains towards the Frontiers of the Kingdom of Poland Keswick a Market Town in the County of Cumberland in the Hundred of Allerdale near to which Black Lead is digged up in plenty It standeth in a Valley environed with Hills and has been formerly a famous Town for Copper Mines Kesâ—el or Cassel Castellum Menapiorum a Town in Brabant two Leagues beneath Roermond to the North between the Maes to the East and the Peel to the West seated upon the River Neerse which a little lower falls into the Maes Kettering a Market Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Huxton upon a Rivulet which falls into the Nen delightfully seated on an Ascent It has a Sessions-House for the Justices of Peace of the County Keureuz Keres Krais Chrysius Cusus a River of Transylvania and the Vpper Hungary which ariseth in the Western Borders of Transylvania near Feltat and watering Giula a little above receiveth another Branch called by the same Name which passeth by Great Waradin both which Rivers being united fall into the Tibiscus or Tyesse at Czongrodt above Segedin One of these is called by the Germans Fekykeres which goes to Giula the other Sebeskeres Feky signifying White and Sebes Black Kexholm Kexholmia a Province of the Kingdom of Sweden in Finland which was heretofore under the Russ but conquered by the Swedes in 1617. It is the most South-Eastern part of Finland The Capital of this Province is Kexholm seated upon the Banks of the River Voxen near to the Western Shoar of the Lake of Ladoga which together with the Castle which is very strong was taken by Monsieur Pont de la Gardie a French Gentleman from the Russ in 1580. The year following this Gentleman took Narva and several other strong places for the Swedes from the Moscovites and was at last drowned in the River of Narva Keyserstul Forum Tiberii a small Town in Switzerland upon the Rhine over which it has a Bridge It lies in the County of Baden nine German Miles from Basil to the West and Constance to the East and belongs to the Bishop of Constance but is subject to the Canton of Zurick Kidwelly a Market Town in Caermarthenshire in VVales The Capital of its Hundred Khoemus Margiana a Province of the Kingdom of Persia See Margiana Kherman Kermoen Kermon or Kirman Carmania or Caramania a Province of the Kingdom of Persia with a City of the same Name Kiburgh a Castle in the Canton of Zurich upon the River Toss two Miles from Zurich to the East the Earls of which were heretofore of great Name This Castle was purchased by them of Zurich in 1452. Kiel or Kil Chilonium a City in the Dukedom of Holstein under the Duke of Holstein upon the Mouth of the River Swentin having a convenient Port upon the Baltick Sea much frequented by Merchants Ships there belongs to it a Castle seated on a Hill and an University opened here in 1665. The Convention of the States of Holstein are usually held here This City stands nine German Miles from Lubeck to the North ten from Flensborg to the South and tho very well fortified has of late suffered very much from the Swedes Kiengara See Gangra Kienning a great City of the Province of Fokien in China and the Capital of a Territory of its own Name commanding six other Cities It is adorned with a magnificent Pagod or
these Barbarians slew the Bishop of London for not paying them their Tribute the Year after Sweno King of the Danes took the City and expelled King Ethelred out of England but this lasted not long In the Year 1016 Canutus the Dane took London and in 1018 was there Crowned King of England In 1042 there was an end put to this Danish Race and Edward the Confessor was Crowned King of England In 1064 this Prince died and Herald usurping upon Edward Atheling the Right Heir William Duke of Normandy entred England slew him and in 1066 was Crowned in London The Fate of London has been much the same with that of England ever since for this Prince in 1078 having built the Tower of London it became the setled Residence of our Kings from that day forward William II. in 1099 Walled the Tower King John in 1210 Granted this City its first Charter and Instituted its Major and Government In 1211 He built London Bridge In 1217 Lewis of France was besieged in London by Henry III. and forced to leave the Land In 1378 John Philpot a Londoner at his own Cost and upon his own Authority put out a Fleet and cleared the Seas of Pyrats In 1381 the Country Clowns rising against the Nobility and one Jack Straw behaving himself insolently towards the King in Smithfield Sir William Wallworth the Lord Major stabbed him and put an end to that Rebellion for which Service the Red Dagger was added as is said to the Arms of London In 1392 that Prince seized their Liberties for resusing to lend him Money In 1567 the Royal Exchange was built by Sir Thomas Gresham In succeeding times it throve to that degree as to have one hundred and thirty three Parishes accounted within its Walls and Suburbs In 1665 a Plague swept away one hundred thousand of her Inhabitants In 1666 a devouring Fire Levelled thirteen thousand of her Houses The Footsteps of which dismal Calamity by the Industry of the Citizens encouraged by their Gracious King Charles II. are not otherwise to be seen but in a more glorious Restauration A great multitude of Provincial and National Councils have been celebrated at London in all times Long. 23. 25. Lat. 51. 34. § Boston in New England is sometimes also called New London London-Derry is a Colony of the English Planted in the County of Colâ—ain in the North of the Province of Vlster in a fruitful Soil and upon Waters that afford it great plenty of Fish of all sorts This in 1612 was made a London Colony some of the Companies in London bearing the Charge of it and one Colonel Dockwray an old experienced Commander of the English being sent with them to command govern and take care of them Being thus happily begun and a great number following the first in a short time it became the most considerable City in Vlster And being as well carefully Fortified and Garrisoned as Peopled in the time of the Irish Massacre it stood so firm for the English that no Force or Fraud of the Irish could expel them The Irish had reduced them to great extremity in 1649 but one Owen Row Oneale in time frustrated their Attempts and relieved the Town when it was just upon the point of being starved into a Complyance See Derry Longford a Town and County in Ireland in the Province of Leinster The County has Connaught on the West Vlster on the North Letrim and Roscomen on the West and Mayo on the South The Town is small and stands upon the North Side of the River Long where it falls into the Lake of Eske Longland an Island in the Baltick taken from the Danes by the Swedes in 1657. Long Meg and her Daughters a Trophy in the County of Cumberland erected at Salkeld on the River Eden It consists of seventy seven Stones each ten foot above ground but the highest is fifteen foot and this by the Inhabitants has the Name given it of Long Meg. Longouy or Longwy a Town in the Duchy of Lorain in the Dukedom of Bar in the Confines of Luxemburg five Leagues from Montmidy to the East and the same distance from Luxemburg to the South lately fortified by the French Longtown a Market Town in the County of Cumberland in Eskdale Ward Longueil a Town in Normandy near Dieppe giving its name to an honorable Family Longueville a Town in the Paix de Cauxe in Normandy which had the honour to be erected from the Title of an Earldom into a Dukedom in 1505. by Lewis XII K. of France Loon Loen Lon Los a River in the Bishoprick of Liege in the Earldom of Loots called by these various Names by the Germans Dutch and French Lopski Lopia a part of Tartary on the East of Moscovy beyond the River Ob which is subject to the Russ but lies in Asia between Siberia and Baida two other Provinces of that vast Empire Loquabre or Lockabre a County in Scotland called by Latin Writers Abria and Loquabria it lies on the West of Scotland towards the Hebrides written by the Scots Loch Quaber and bounded on the North with the Ocean and the County of Ross on the East with Murray and Athole on the South with Perth Menteith and Loune cut off from it by the broad Tay and on the West with the Ocean There are some Castles but never a Town or City of any Note in it Lorain Lotharingia Austrasia is a Dukedom belonging to Germany of late seized by the French King and therefore by Baudrand made a part of France Bounded on the East with Alsatia cut off by the Mountain Vauge Vogesus and the Dukedom of Bipont or Westreich as the Germans call it on the South with the County of Burgundy or the Franche Compté on the West with the River Maes which parts it from Champagne and on the North with Luxemburg Metz Verdun and the Land of Triers This Country is in length about four days Journey in breadth three much overgrown with Woods very Hilly and Mountainous being a part of the once vast Forest of Ardenne It was given by Lotharius the Emperor to his second Son Lotharius and from him took the Name of Lorain or as others write it Lorraigne This happened about the Year 851. Others say it took this Name from the Father and not from the Son about the Year 843 but all agree that from Lotharius this County was called by the Germans Lotreich by the Dutch Lot-reigne i. e. the Kingdom of Lot and from hence of later times by the Germans Lotthiringen by the Inhabitants Lorrain by the French Lorain The first of these Dukes of Lorain was Charles right Heir of the Caroline Line of France but excluded defeated and taken Prisoner by Hugh Capet His Advancement was from Otho II. Emperor of Germany about the Year 981 being the Son of Lewis IV. of France and of Gerbage an Aunt of the said Otho From this Charles the present young Duke of Lorain is Lineally Descended being the thirty fourth
then a Marquisate It now makes a part of the Kingdom of Bohemia and is supposed to take its name from the River Morawi Morave or die Mahr Morus or Marus arising near to Altstadt in Bohemia and joyning with the Danube at Haynbourg in Austria being the same River with the precedent Morava The Capital of it is Olmutz and the other principal Towns are Brin Iglaw and Znaim It is a fruitful and pleasant Country extremely well improved Morbiban Morbibanum a large Haven on the North side of the Lesser Bretagne in France seven Leagues from Port Lovis to the East and near Vannes Above thirty small Islands lye in the Gulph of this harbour The Morduates a Province in the North-Eastern Parts of the Empire of Russia towards the River Rha between the Czeremisses to the East and Wolodimera to the West It is a Country of great Extent and made terrible by its vast unpassable Woods and Forests More or Moore an Episcopal City in the County of Mayo in Connaught in Ireland Morea Peloponnesus a celebrated great and fruitful Peninsula of Greece of about five hundred and fifty Miles in circuit It s extent from Corinth in the North-East to Cape Sapienza in the South is one hundred and fifty Miles its breadth from Cape di Schilli to Cape Tornese on the West one hundred and seventy five Containing the Provinces of Romania Sacania Belvedore and Clarentia and the famous Cities of Corinth Coron Clarenza Patras Misitra Nauplia c. It s principal Rivers are the Orfea and the Iris or Basilipotamo Its Mountains Mynthe Stymphalis Pholoe Lyceus c. are mentioned in the Writings of the Ancients This Country was first intirely conquered by the Macedonians after the Death of Alexander the Great then by the Romans under L. Mummius about one hundred and forty six years before the Birth of our Saviour when Corinth the then Capital of this Province was intirely ruined In the later times of the Greek Empire it had Despotes or Princes of its own who were subject to the Emperors of Constantinople the last of which Thomas Palaeologus was driven out of his Dominions by Mahomet II. in 1543. Ever since it has been in the Hands of those Destroyers of Mankind But in 1685 the Venetians began the Reconquest and in 1687 were intirely possessed of it excepting only Malvasia by a wonderful Revolution And in September 1690. they recovered Malvasia also Moret Murittum a Town in the Territory of Gastinois in the Isle of France upon the River Loing adorned with the title of an Earldom A Synod was held there in 850. Morgaâ— Margus a River of Bactria a Province of Persia which springing from the Mountains of Chorazan and flowing through the Country called by their Name falls into the River Obengir which ends in the Caspian Sea Morin Muera a River of France in the Province of Le Brie which watereth Colomiers Coâ—lumbaria and Cressy then falls into the Marne beneath Meaux this is called the Great Morin to distinguish it from another which falls into the Marne in the same Province beneath La Ferte sous Jovare to the West of Meaux Morini a People of Gallia Antiqua mentioned by Pliny and Virgil. The latter styles them Extremique hominum Morini c. It is supposed with greatest probability that they dwelt in the now Dioceses of S. Omer Boulogne and Ypres Morlaix Morlaeum Mons relaxus a City in the Province of Bretagne upon a River of the same Name which has a Harbor on the North Shore of that Province It stands about two Leagues from the British Sea and forty from Rennes to the West over against Plymouth There is â— Fort built to secure the Passage of the River in an Island of the River The Town stands upon an Hill betwixt two Plains and shows the Ruines of an old Cittadel Mormandes Milmandra a River of France in Le Berry Morpeth a considerable Market and Borough Town in the County of Northumberland upon the River Wensbeck The Capital of its Ward fortified with a Castle returning two Members of Parliament and giving the Title of Viscount to the Earl of Carlisle Mortagne Moritania a small Town in the Territory of Tournaysis in Flanders at the Confluence of the Rivers Escaut and Scarpe towards Valenciennes two or three Leagues from Tournay It has formerly been fortified § Also a large handsome and populous Town in the Vpper Perche in France towards the borders of Normandy upon a Stream which there begins to form the River Huisne This Mortagne is now adorned with a Castle § There is a third of the Name in the Province of Poictou towards the Confines of Bretagne at the reception of the Loing by the River Seâ—â—re Nantoise Mortain Moritonium Moritolium a small Town in Normandy near the River Ardee towards the Confines of La Mayne betwixt Auranches and Domfront which by Henry I. King of England and Duke of Normandy was given with the Title of an Earldom to his Nephew Stephen Blois afterwards in 1135. King of England whose second Son william enjoy'd the same Title in the next Succession But William died without Issue This Town by ancient Custom in publick Processions carries a naked Sword in the place of a Standard Mortanâ— Mortana a River in Lorain Mortara or Mortare Mortaria Pulchra Sylva a strong great populous Town in the Dukedom of Milan upon the River Gogna four Miles from Vigevano to the North-West ten from Novara to the South-East and twenty four from Pavia to the West Anciently called Bella or Pulchra Sylva the Beautiful Wood but upon the great Slaughter of the Lombards by the Forces of Charles the Great when he took Desiderius their King Prisoner in 774 it took the Name of Mortara which signifies Slaughter or Death This Town was taken by the French in 1658. and put under the Duke of Modena In 1660. it was upon a Peace restored back to the Spaniards It is the Capital of the Territory of Lumellina Le Moruan Morundia Morvinus tractus a mountainous Tract or Territory in the Dukedom of Burgundy of small extent and its Limits not well known Mor Verridh the Welsh name of the Irish Sea Mosa the Meuse See Maes Mosambich Mosambica a City of Zanguebar on the Eastern Coast of Africa in an Island near the Continent at the Mouth of a River of the same name which there falls into the Aethiopick Ocean To this City belongs a strong Castle and a safe Harbour all in the Possession of the Portuguese Long. 63. 40. South Lat. 14. â—â— Moscow Moscoua Moschia the Capital of the Empire of Moscovy or Russia called by she Inhabitants Mosqua by the European Strangers Moscow by the Poles Moscouf by the Germans Moscaw One of the greatest Cities in Europe extremely frequented on the score of Trade and the common Residence of the Great Duke or Czar of Moscovy It stands upon a River of the same name which a little more to the East falls into the Occa or
England Bounded on the North with the German Ocean on the East in part by the same Ocean in part by Suffolk on the South by the Rivers of VVaveney and the little Ouse which part it from Suffolk on the West with the great Ouse and towards Lincolnshire with that part of the Nene which passeth from VVisbich to the Washes It containeth in length from Yarmouth to VVisbich fifty Miles in breadth from Thetford to VVells thirty in circuit about two hundred and forty The Southern parts which are Wood Lands are fruitfull the Northern or Champain barren and dry In the whole are six hundred and sixty Parishes and thirty one Market Towns and besides the VVaveney and the Ouse watered by the Rivers Yare and Thryn It s Capital City Norwich The largest County next to Yorkshire in England and surpassing even Yorkshire in populousness In the time of the Heptarchy it was a part of the Kingdom of the East-Angles The first Earl of Norfolk was Ralph de VVaet Created in the Year 1075. After whom succeeded the Bigots from 1135 to 1270 in six Descents In 1313 Tho. de Brotherton a Son of Edward I. was made Earl of Norfolk Margaret his Daughter in 1398 was made Duchess whose Son Thomas Mowbray and his Descendents continued the Honor to the Year 1461. In 1475 Richard Duke of York was made Duke of Norfolk In 1483 John Lord Howard was vested with the same Honor in whose Family it now is Henry the present Duke of Norfolk being the ninth Duke of this Race Norimburgh See Nurenberg Norin a fort of Dalmatia betwixt the River Narenta and the branch thereof called Norin which returns into the bed of the Narenta again Under the Venetians Norkoping Norcopia a small City in Sweden between two Lakes five Miles from the Baltick Sea in the Province of Ostrogothia by the River Motala ten Miles from the Lake Veter East Normandy Neustria Normannia is a great and fruitful Province in France which has the Title of a Dukedom It has this name from the Normans who under Rollo their first Duke setled here in the time of Charles the Simple King of France Bounded on the North and West by the British Sea on the East by Picardy on the South by le Perche and le Maine It lies sixty six Leagues from East to West and from North to South about thirty the principal City in it is Roan or Roiien This Province is divided into twelve Counties but more usually into the Upper and Lower Normandy the former containing the Bailywicks of Roiien Eureux Caux and Gisors the other those of Alenzon Caen and Constantin It s principal Rivers are the Seine Eure Risle Dive Soule Ouve c. A cold Climate plentiful in Corn Cattel and Fruits but generally wanting Wine It yields some Mines of Iron and Brass together with Medicinal Waters Is better inhabited by Gentry than almost any other Province of France and reckons above a hundred Cities and a hundred and fifty great Towns standing in it Rollo the first Duke under whom the Normans besieged Paris three times obtained that Title in 912. from Charles the Simple who gave his Daughter in Marriage to him upon condition to hold Normandy in homage to the Crown William the base Son of Robert the sixth Duke Conquered England in 1066 by which means it was United to the Crown of England till 1202 when King John was outed of it Henry V. about 1420. reconquered this Duchy His Son lost it again about 1450. ever since which time it has been annexed to the Crown of France De Noort Caep Rubaea Rubeae Promontorium is the most Northern Point of Finmark and indeed of all Europe § There is a Cape of the same Name in Guiana in South America Nortgow Nortgovia a Province of Germany between Bohemia to the East the Danube to the East and South which parts it from Bavaria Schwaben and Franconia to the West and Voigtland to the North. The Capital of it is Norimburg This name in the German Tongue signifies the North Country It was the Seat of the antient People Nariscâ— North-Allerton A Market Town in the North-Riding of Yorkshire near the Stream Wisk which falls into the Swale The Capital of its Hundred Northamptonshire Northantonia is seated almost in the midst of England on the North it is parted from Lincolnshire by the River Weland on the East from Huntington by the Nene on the South it has Buckingham and Oxford and on the West Warwickshire separated by Watlingstreet a Roman way From North to South it is forty six Miles in length but not full twenty in breadth where broadest In the whole there are three hundred twenty six Parishes and thirteen Market Towns The Rivers Nen and VVeland have their rise in this County together with the Ouse The Air is temperate the Soil rich fruitful champain full of People The chief Town is Northampton pleasantly seated on the Bank of the River Nen where two Rivulets from the North and South fall into it which for its Circuit Beauty and Buildings may be compared with most of the Cities of England It was burnt by the Danes In the Wars in King John's time it suffered much from the Barons Near this City in 1460. Henry VI. was overthrown and first taken Prisoner by Edward IV. In 1261 the Students of Cambridge are said to have removed hither by the King's Warrant with Intentions to have setled the University here In the Reign of King Charles II. Sept. 1675. it was totally destroyed by Fire but by the favour of that gracious Prince and the chearful Contributions of good People soon rebuilt Long. 19. 40. Lat. 52. 36. To omit the more ancient Families VVilliam Lord Compton was created Earl of Northampton by King James I. in 1618. The present Earl George is the fourth of this Noble Family Northausen Northusia an Imperial Free City of Germany in Thuringia upon the River Zorge between Erford to the South and Halberstad to the North eight German Miles from either This City is under the Protection of the Elector of Saxony and said to have been built by Meroveus I. King of the Franks in the Year of Christ 447. The North Foreland Cantium a Cape of the Isle of Thaâ—â—â—â— in Kent famous for a Sea Fight between the English and the Dutch in 1666. When the brave Duke of Albemarle with only two Squadrons of the English Fleet maintained a Fight against the whole Dutch Fleet of an hundred Sail two days together Prince Rupert coming up in the Evening of the second day the English fell again the third on the Dutch Fleet and beat them home which all things considered was the most wonderful Naval Fight that ever was fought upon the Ocean Northumberland Northumbria is parted on the South by the Derwent and the Tyne from the Bishoprick of Durham on the East it has the German Ocean on the North Scotland on the West Scotland and Cumberland it has the form of a Triangle
or Wedge containing in length from North to South about forty Miles in breadth where it is the broadest thirty in the whole four hundred and sixty Parishes and only six Market Towns The Air is cold and sharp the Soil barren and rugged but much improved by the Industry of its Inhabitants and chiefly towards the Sea fertile The Bowels of the Earth are full of Coal Mines whence a great part of England â—s supplied with that Fewel The principal Places in â—â— are Newcastle and Berwick George Fitz-Roy a Natural Son of Charles II. was created Duke of Northumberland in 1674. Which Title had been once before enjoyed by John Dudley Earl of Warwick created Duke of Northumberland by K. Edward VI. in 1551. and beheaded by Q. Mary After the death of the said John the Title of Earl of Northumberland returned to the Percies in whose Family as it had heretofore belong'd to them from the Year 1337 when Henry Piercy Lord Constable possessed it under K. Richard II. and was succeeded in it by five of his Name and Family with little interruption so it continued till the Year 1670 when Joceline Piercy died at Turin without Issue Male. North-Curry a Market Town in Somersetshire upon the River Tone and the Capital of its Hundred Northwich a Market Town in Cheshire upon the River Dane which runs into the Weeve the Capital of its Hundred Its Salt-pits render it remarkable Norway Norvegia Nerigon Basilia is a Kingdom of great extent on the North-Western Shoar of Europe called by the Inhabitants Norricke and by Contraction Norke by the Germans Norwegen Heretofore esteemed the Western part of Scandinavia and called Nerigon as Cluverius saith it reaches from the Entrance of the Baltick Sea to almost the North Cape but not of equal breadth On the East a long Ridge of Mountains always covered with Snow called Sevones separate it from Sweden Barren and Rocky or overgrown with vast and unpassable Woods It s length is about one thousand and three hundred English Miles and two hundred and fifty its breadth Divided into five Provinces Aggerhus Bergensus Dronthemhus VVardhus and Bahus The Inhabitants traffick abroad with Dryed Fish Whales Grease and Timber Of the same Religion with the Danes and some of them enclined to Magick like the Laplanders The Glama is the only River in this Kingdom that is sufficient to carry Vessels of great burden In 1646. a discovery was made of a golden Mine near Opslow which was quickly exhausted Bahus was resigned to the King of Sweden in 1658. There depend upon this Kingdom several Islands as Iseland Groenland Spitzberg the Isles of Feroe and those of Orkney the latter whereof were resigned to James VI. of Scotland The principal Cities are Drontheim and Berghen This had Kings of its own from very ancient times but in 1326. it was first united to Denmark in the Person of Magnus III. In 1376. they became so united that they were never since separated Norwich Nordovicum Norvicum is a rich populous neat City in the middle of the County of Norfolk seated at the confluence of the Venster or Vensder and the Yare over which it hath several Bridges This City sprung up out of the Ruins of Venta Icenorum now called Caster in which not many years since was found a vast number of Roman Urns. When or by whom Norwich was built is not known it seems to be a Saxon City it was certainly the Seat of some of the Kings of the East-Angles In its Infancy Sueno a Dane burnt it in 1004. In the Reign of VVilliam the Conqueror it was besieged and taken by Famine Herbert Bishop of this Diocese contributed to its growth by removing the Bishops Chair from Thetford hither about 1096. In the seventeenth year of King Stephen's Reign it was refounded and made a Corporation The Castle is thought to have been built in the Reign of Henry II. Taken by the French in the Reign of King John In the Reign of Edward I. it was walled by the Citizens Henry IV. in 1403. granted them a Mayor Afterwards it began to decay till Queen Elizabeth sent the Dutch Stuff Weavers who sled over into England from the cruel Government of the Duke d'Alva hither whereupon it grew very populous and rich There was great need of this supply one Kett a Tanner of VVindham having almost ruined this City about 1548. in the Reign of Edward VI. The present Bishop of Norwich is the seventy first from Bedwinus of Elmham the seventy fifth from Foelix the first Bishop of the East-Angles who began the Bishoprick in 636. Long. 24. 55. Lat. 52. 40. This City being about a Mile and a half in length and half as much in breadth contains twenty Parishes well walled with several Turrets and twelve Gates for Entrance and so pleasantly intermixt with Houses and Trees that it looks like an Orchard and a City within each other It gives the Title of Earl to the Duke of Norfolk whose Palace with that of the Bishop the Cathedral the Hospital c. are the principal Ornaments of its Buildings Noto Netum Nea Nectum Neetum a City of Sicily of great Antiquity and at this time great well inhabited the Capital of the Province called by its name It is incompassed with high Rocks and sleep Valleys being seated on the South side of Iseland Eight Miles from the Sea fifteen from Pachy no to the South-West and twenty five from Syracuse to the South Il Val di Noto Netina Vallis the Province in which the last mentioned City stands is the second Province of Sicily and lies on the South side of the Island On the North it has Il Valle di Demona on the West il Val di Mazara and on the South the African Sea Notteberg Notteburgum a Town in Ingria in Sweden seated on an Island in the Lake Ladoga towards the Confines of Moscovy Called Oreska by the Russ A very strong Town by its Situation yet Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden took it from the Moscovites in 1614. It takes its name from Nutts Nottinghamshire Nottinghamia is bounded on the North and West by Yorkshire on the East by Lincolnshire divided from it by the Trent on the South by Leicestershire on the West by Darbyshire It is in length thirty eight English Miles from North to South in breadth from East to West not above nineteen and in Circuit about an hundred and ten containing 168 Parishes and nine Market Towns The Air is good and pleasing the Soil rich Sand and Clay so that for Corn or Grass it may compare with any County of England it abounds equally with Wood and Coals and is watered with the Rivers Trent and Iddle besides several small Streams This County takes its name from its principal Town Nottingham Rhage a delicate pleasant Town seated on a high Hill full of fine Streets and good Buildings upon the River Line towards the South Borders of this County and about a Mile from the Trent to the West
in 1674 but by the Treaty of Nimeguen restored to them in 1679. Some derive its beginning from a Fortress built by the Hunns upon the Schelde in 411. Oudon Olda a River in France in the Province of Anjou Another in Aquitain called le Lot more commonly and a third in Beaujolois Over-Yssel Over-Issel Trans-Issalana a Province of great extent in the United Netherlands towards Germany which was a part of the Bishoprick of Vtrecht from the year 1046 and called so because it lay beyond the Issel It is divided into three parts the Drente the Sallant and the Twente Bounded on the East by the Bishoprick of Munster on the North by Friesland and Groningen on the West and South by the Zuyder Sea and Guelderland It was granted from the Bishoprick to Charles V. in 1527. In 1582. it revolted from Spain and united with the Hollanders In 1672. it was over-run by the French who were forced two years after to draw off so it returned to its former liberty The principal Places are Deventer Campen Zwol and Coevorden Ovessant Vxantis Insula an Island on the West of Britany in France Oviedo Ovedum Ovetum a City in the Kingdom of Leon in Spain the Capital of a Territory called les Asturies d'Oviedo and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Compostella between the Nora and the Nalona Once the Capital of a Kingdom begun in the Person of Pelagius in 717. and continued in his Successors till the year 913 when Ordenno II. took the style of King of Leon. This City stands five Spanish Leagues from the Shoars of the Ocean to the South eighteen from Asturia and sixteen from Leon betwixt the Mountains There was a small University opened here in 1580 which never much improved In 901. a Council was assembled at this City under Pope John VIII which advanced the See to the Dignity of an Archbishoprick But it has lost again that Dignity since Oulney a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Newport upon the River Ouse Oundle a Market Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Polbrooke pleasantly seated on the Banks of the Nen over which it has two Bridges It is beautified with a fair Church a Free-School and an Almshouse L'Ourt or Ourte Vrta a River of the Low Countries springing near the Frontiers of the Dukedom of Luxembourg and passing by Offalize Rochefort Durbui it receives the Albe with the change of its name into Vrt Ourt and falls into the Maese at Liege Ourtes or Orthez Ortesium a Town in the Canton of Bearn in Switzerland upon the Gave de Pau betwixt Pau and Bayonne Remarkable for an antient Castle and a Protestant School Ousche or L'Ouche Oscaris a River of the Dukedom of Bourgogne in France passing by Fleuri and Dijon and after the Reception of some Rivulets joyning with the Saosne near S. Jean de Lone Ouse Isis a River in Glocestersh which ariseth in the South Border of that Shire near Toorleton at Crekelade it takes in the Churne at Lechlade the Colne and beneath it the Leche This is properly the Head of the Thames tho it has not that Name till its conjunction with the Thame in Oxfordshire Ouse Garryenus a River called Vre and Youre which parteth the West from the North-Riding of Yorkshire watereth the City of York and then falls into the Wherfe at Cawood Castle Ouse the Great ariseth in the County of Hertford in a place called Dane End above Lutton and running North-West entereth Bedfordshire and watereth the principal Town of it from thence it passeth to Huntington by Ely above which joyning with the River Granta from Cambridge and beneath Little Port taking in the Little Ouse which ariseth at Loppham Ford in the County of Suffolk and dividing Suffolk from Norfolk passeth by Thetford into the Great Ouse by Downham and Kings Linn falls into the German Ocean This is one of the greatest Rivers of England Ourque a Town in Portugal made famous by a Victory obtained by Alfonso against five Kings of the Moors in 1256. Ouste or L'Aust Ousta Austa a River in Bretagne It takes its source in the Forest of Laudeac near Avangour then passing by Rohan Jocelin Malestroit Pont-Corbin augmented with the Ars and the Claye it unites with the Vilaine near Redon Owar Ovaria a Town in the Vpper Hungary upon the River Vag at the foot of the Mountains which part that Country from Poland It stands below Transchin Oxfordshire Oxoniensis Comitatus is bounded on the North by Warwick and Northampton on the East by Buckingham on the South by Barkshire and on the West by Gloucestershire The Air of it is mild sweet and pleasant the Earth fruitful both in Corn and Grass by reason of the great abundance of Rivers and fresh Springs It is of a triangular Form forty Miles from North-West to South-East in length scarce twenty in breadth and in circumference an hundred and thirty containing two hundred and eighty Parishes and fifteen Market Towns Watered by the Thame and Isis the Cherwell the Windrush and the Evenlode The Dobani were the old Inhabitants of it during the times of the Romans It takes its Name from the principal City See the Natural History of this County fully and curiously written by the Learned Doctor Robert Plott Oxford Oxonium Oxfordia Calleva Rhydicina from the Welsh name Rhidychen is seated in the Southern Border of the County of Oxford towards Berkshire having the Cherwel on the East and the Isis or Ouse on the South It is a very fair and substantial City seated in an excellent Air and enjoying so delightful a Prospect that the Country adjacent has thence long ago contracted the Title of Bellositum amongst the Ingenious One of the noblest and ancientest Universities also in the World Begun or rather after the Desolations it had suffered in common with the rest of England under the Saxons and Danes restored by King Alfred a Saxon anno Christi 806 the great Civilizer of the English Nation who sending his Son Ethelward hither encouraged the Young Nobles to come to it from all Parts In the time of William the Conqueror it was a considerable City having then seven hundred seventy and four Houses five hundred of which paid yearly Customs to the King In this Prince's time Robert d' Oily a Norman built the Castle on the West side of the Town In 1074 King Stephen closely besieged Maude the Empress Daughter of Henry I. and Mother of Henry II. in this Castle Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury celebrated a Council here in 1222. There have in process of time by several Princes and Noble Benefactors been founded and liberally endowed here eighteen Colleges and seven Halls of which Vniversity Baliol and Merton Colleges were the first endowed in all Europe of latter times by Sheldon Archbishop of Canterbury a noble Theatre and at the Charge of the University a stately Musaeum was finished in the year 1683. Then the Bodlean Library contending with the Vatican
It became a Bishops See in Christian times but now ruined under the Tarks and called Bassa Papous or la Tierra dos Papoas as the Portugueze call it and Terre des Papous as the French is a Country in the Terra Australis to the East of the Islands Ceram and Gilola in the East-Indies near the Equinoctial Line by some made to be a part of New Guinee by others separated from it by a small Streight The Princes of the neighbouring Islands have the Natives in Esteem for Courage and Fidelity Pappenheim a Town in the Circle of Schwaben in Germany upon the River Altmul adorned with the Title of a Barony formerly now an Earldom It gave its Name and Title to the famous General Pappenheim in the late German Wars Para a City in the North part of Brasil upon the River of Amazons under the Dominion of the Portuguese forty Miles above the fall of that River Long. 328. Lat. 01. 30. There belongs to this City a Province of the same Name called Capitania de Para. Paragoja an Island of the East-Indies called likewise Puloan and Calamianes between Borneo to the South-West and Manilla to the North East an hundred Miles in length twenty in breadth and two hundred in circuit It is one of the Philippine Islands which was never conquered by the Europeans Not very fertile or well peopled Paraguay Paraguaia a vast Country in the South America the greatest part of which is subject to the Spaniards Bounded on the East by Brasil on the South by Magellanica on the West by Peru and the Kingdom of Chili It is divided into seven Counties which are sruitful in all things with Mines and Sugars Not many Spanish Colonies are settled in it yet it has one Bishop at l' Assumption and another at Buenos Ayres This Province takes its Name from the River Paraguay which signifies the River of Feathers It ariseth from the Lake of Xaraies and going South receives the River of Plata and many others and at last by a vast Mouth falls into the Sea of Magellan This is one of the greatest Rivers of America Paraiba a strong City in Brasil which has a large Haven and gives name to a Province called the Government or Capitania de Paraiba Not above eight Miles from the North Sea upon a River of the same name It was long since inhabited by five hundred Portuguese besides Slaves and Negroes and being unwalled its best security was the Fort of S. Francis built by the French and taken by the Portuguese in 1585. In 1634. both the City and Fort were forced to submit to the Dutch Valour who new named them Frederickstadt But the Portuguese have at last recovered the Possession of it These latter have sometimes called the City Nostra Sennora das Nieves Parana a River and Province of Paraguay The Spaniards have about four Colonies in this Province Paranaiba Paranayba a River and a Province on the Consines of Brasil The River falls in that of the Amazons on the South Side of which the Province lies Paray-le-Moineau Pareium Moniacum a Town in the Dukedom of Burgogne in France in the Territory of Charolois upon the River Brebinche two Leagues from the Loyre Pardiac Pardiniacum a County in Aquitain in France Parenzo Parentum Parentium a small City in Histria under the Venetians which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja It stands seven Miles from Citta Nuoua to the South twenty eight from Gapo di Istria and eighty from Venice to the East upon a Peninsula well sortified having a convenient Haven But not much inhabited by reason of the unhealthfulness of the Air. Paria a Province in the Terra Firma in South America near the Shoars of the North Sea and under the Dominion of the Spaniards between the River Orinoque to the East and the Venetola to the West This is a principal Member of New Andalusia from hence often called Paria There are some few Colonies of Spaniards in it and a Gulph of its Name Parimao a Lake in South America which which bounds the Country of Guiana on the South under the Line Some call it Roponouvini It has not hitherto been fully discovered by the Europeans Parinacocha a Province of Peru towards the Andes under the Spaniards Pario Parium a City of the Lesser Asia upon the Propontis twenty Miles from Lampsaco to the East and thirty from Cyzicus now Spinga It has a large Haven and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Spinga Paris Leutetia Luotetia Lucetia Leucotetia Parisii and Lutetia Parisiorum the Capital City of the Kingdom of France boasted by Baudrand to be the greatest City of Europe with a Nemine reclamante no body denying it to be so This was a celebrated City in the Times of the Roman Empire Julian the Apostate whilst he was Caesar only resided here in the Reign of Constantius and adorned it with Baths and a Palace But its greatest Rise was from the Franks Clodoveus settling the Royal Throne in this City about the year 458. Julius Caesar is the first that mentions it it was then very small being wholly contained in an Island in the Seyne not exceeding forty Acres which had then a Wooden Bridge over the River In this Isle the Cathedral Church now is and the Palace of the first French Kings From the times of Clodoveus the first Christian King as long as that Race lasted it grew mightily and became very considerable But under the Caroline Line it was very little improved those Princes not fixing here or in any other place In the year 585 it happened to be almost all burnt In 845 856 886 and 890 the Normans by Sieges and Incursions did extremely endamage it In 896 it was very hardly preserved out of the Hands of the Normans as to the Island what stood out of the Island was redeemed from Ruin by Money The Posterity of Hugh Capet on the other side fixed here and bestowed great Sums of Money in enlarging and adorning this City Charles the Great about the year 796 at the Request of Alcuinus a Saxon opened an University here to whose further Grandeur King Lewis the Seventh and Philip the August contributed very much The College of Sorbonne holds the first place therein In the year 1034 it suffered another Fire and in 1206 a terrible Inundation of the River Seine In 1420 Henry V. of England possessed himself of this City by marrying Catharine the Daughter of Charles VI. of France In the year 1422 Henry VI. Son of this Victorious but short lived Prince was crowned King of France in Paris And again in 1431. After this it remained in the Hands of the English till the year 1435. The Divisions of England under Henry VI. made way for the lâ—ss of France The year 1572 brought great and unparallel'd Infamy and Calamity upon this potent City 10000 Gentlemen being assassinated within her Walls who came thither upon the Publick Faith to the Celebration of a Marriage
they oppressed this Nation for many Ages and so harrassed them that no account can be given of the times when the Reigns of their Princes began or ended John XI was the first who began to enfranchise these Countries from the Servitude of the Tartars which they had so long groaned under John Basilovitz the 4th of this Race who began his Reign very young in 1540. ended it by the Conquest of the Tartars and all the petty Princes which had till then reigned in several parts of this Empire This was the cruellest Tyrant that any Age has produced and died as wretchedly as he lived in 1584. Foedor Juanovits his Son succeeded him at the Age of twenty two years he was a perfect natural Fool. There was another Brother called Demetrius of nine years of Age which had more sense But Boris who managed all this under Foedor caused Demetrius to be Murthered In 1597. Foedor dying suddenly without Children Boris was Elected and soon after Deposed in favour of a Counterfeit Demetrius brought in by the Poles after which followed nothing but Calamities and Confusions till in 1615. or as others say in 1612 one Michael Fedrovizt Son of Foedor Nikitis a Kinsman far removed of John Basilovitz was chosen by the Body of this Nation Emperor of Muscovy This Prince settled this vast Empire governed it with more Justice Clemency Prudence and Piety than all his Predecessors had used and at last died in great Honor July 12. 1645. To him Succeeded Alexius his Son The two Princes which some few years since ascended the Throne together are of the same Race Red Russia is a Province under the Crown of Poland sometimes called the Proper Russia and Roxolania it lies extended towards the South between Poland properly so called and Muscovy This contains the Palatinates of Russia properly so called Podolia Volhinia Belza Braslaw Kiovia and the Territory of Chelm being that part of Russia which as I said before was Conquered by the Poles and by Casimir II. in 1342. united for ever to Poland White Russia is a very confiderable Province under the Crown of Poland and so called because it was of old a part of Muscovy or Russia it is divided into six Palatinates which are Novogrod Miscislaw Witebsko Minskie Polokie and Smolenskie This last Palatinate has been recovered in latter times by the Russ and is not now under the Poles Russia properly so called Russi Rutheni is a Province of Poland and a part of Red Russia which has Poland on the West Volhinia and Podolia on the East the Territories of Culm and Belsia on the North and the Carpathian Hills dividing it from Hungary and Transylvania to the South the Capital of it is Lemburgh Some give this Province the name of Black Russia Rustan Rustanus Ager a small Territory in the Province of Bigorre in Aquitain in France near the River Arroux and S. Severe Ruthen a Market Town in Denbyshire in Wales The Capital of its Hundred Rutlandshire Rutlandia is the least of all the Counties of England Bounded on the North by Lincolnshire on the East and South by Northamptonshire divided from it by the River Weland and on the West by Leicestershire its greatest length is from North to South not full twelve Miles from East to West hardly nine and its circumference about forty The Air is temperate serene and healthful the Soil rich and fruitful in Corn and Pasturage especially about the Vale of Catmoss Woods and pleasant Springs are plentiful enough of the latter the Weland and the Wash are the principal so that it wants nothing This County was a part of the Lands possessed by the Coritani before the Roman Conquest and was Conquered by P. Ostorius in the Reign of Claudian the Emperor Afterwards it made a part of the Kingdom of Mercia and now is in the Diocese of Peterborough There are but forty eight Parishes and two Market-Towns in it Okeham being the Shire Town and Vppingham the other In 1390. Edward Plantagenet eldest Son of Edmund Duke of York In 1326 Richard second Brother of the said Edward and in 1450. Edmund Plantagenet second Son of Richard Duke of York all of the Royal Family successively were Earls of this County But in 1525. Thomas Mannors Lord Roos of Hamlake Tresbut and Belvoir Descended by the Lady Ann his Mother from the said Richard Duke of York was Created Earl of Rutland by Henry VIII in 1325. whose Posterity enjoy this Honor to this day John the twelfth of this Family succeeding John his Father in the year 1679. Rutuli an ancient People of Latium in Italy Ardea was their Capital City Ruvo Rubi a City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari a small but spruce and populous City about seventeen Miles from Bari to the West Horace mentions it in his Satyrs Inde Rubos fessi pervenimus c. Rye a member of the Cinque Ports upon the edge of the County of Sussex towards Kent in Hastings Rape situated at the fall of the Rother into the Sea where it hath a convenient Haven especially for a ready passage to Diepe in Normandy It returns two Members to the Lower House of Parliament The Fishermen take excellent Herrings here S A. SAada a City in the Happy Arabia perhaps of old called Sabatha it stands in the inland parts of that Country three hundred Miles from Aden to the North. If it is Sabatha its Long. is 76. 00. Lat. 16. 56. Saal Sala a River in Germany called by the French Sale It ariseth in Franconia over against the Nab and the Mayn and flowing through Thuringia it watereth Saalfeld and Jena then entering Misnia and passing by Naumburgh Mersburgh and Hall and being in this passage swelled by many smaller Rivers it falls at last into the Elbe beneath Bernburgh in the Vpper Saxony four Miles from Magdeburgh to the South Saan Savaria a River of Stiria Saare See Sare Saba supposed to be the same with Meroe in Aethiopia § One of the Charibye Islands in America under the Hollanders and near S. Christophers is likewise called by this name Sabaro Sybaris a River in Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples others call it Cochile and say it falls into the Bay of Taranto near Morano Sabaria a Town of the ancient Pannonia in Hungary the native place of S. Martin of Tours It is not certainly known where it is some conjecturing it to be one place and some another Sabini an ancient People of Latium in Italy whose memory is still preserved in the name of a Province now in the States of the Church called Terra Sabina which contains a part of the Territory heretofore belonging to them the Capital whereof was Cures There is a Monastery in this Territory honoured with a Bishop's See under the Title of the Bishop of Sabina and in the years 1590. 1593. 1595. c. Synodal Constitutions were published by the then Bishops bearing the same
in the 7th Century the Gospel in divers Places in Switzerland especially in the Territory of Torgaw where having refused an Offer of the Bishoprick of Constance made to him he retired at length to his Solitudes in this place which became the Seat of an Abbey from him enriched since vastly by the Donations of the Kings of France and the Emperors The City stands upon an Eminence not great but well built and much traded for its fine Linnen Works called Galles or Gawse from it Betwixt the Abbey and the City there is a common Gate fastned by the Burgesses on the one side and the Abbot on the other The City antiently did depend in many things upon the Abbey as having received its total rise from it but at present they each enjoy their separate Sovereignties S. Galmier a small Town in the County of Foretz in the Government of Lionnois remarked for a Fountain of Allum-Water there S. Georgio de Mina Arx Sancti Georgii a Castle upon the Coste d'Or in Guinee in Africa betwixt the Cape of three Points and Cape Corso which has a Town built by the Portuguese in 1481 and a large and safe Port or Haven within a few years past taken by the Dutch S. Germain on Laye Fanum Sancti Germani in Laya a Town and Royal Castle in the Isle of France seated upon an high Hill by the Seine having two magnificent Palaces one new of the foundation of Henry le Grand the other ancient built by Charles V continued under the English in the time of their French Conquests and repaired by Francis I. King of France whither the Kings of France frequently retire The Court of K. James II. of England and Qu. Mary his Consort is kept here It is four Leagues from Paris to the West Henry II. King of France was born here in 1518. Charles IX in 1550. Lewis XIV now King of France in 1638 who has added divers great Ornaments to i◠And it is no less famous for a Peaco made here in 1679 between the Kings of France and Sweden and the Elector of Brandenburgh S. Germain Lembrum a small City in Auvergne near the River Allier in the Tract de Lembrun two Leagues from Issoire eight from Clermont to the South and the same from S. Flour to the North-East S. Germains a Corporation in the County of Cornwal in East Hundred represented by two Burgesses in the House of Commons S. Gewer S. Gower Fanum Sancti Goari a Town upon the Rhine in the County of Catzenellobogen in the Borders of the Bishoprick of Trier four Miles above Coblentz to the South which belongs to the Landgrave of Hassia Rhinefeld S. Gilles a Town in the Lower Languedoc in France one League from the Rhosne betwixt Beaucaire and Arles upon a Rivulet In Latin Fanum Sancti Aegidii and Palatium Gothorum in some Authors It has been taken for the Anatolia of Pliny and likewise for the Heraclea of the same Pliny and Antoninus The Huguenots gave the Roman Catholicks a Defeat near it in 1562. S. Gothard Adula the highest part of the Alpes between the Switzers and the Dukedom of Milan The French call it S. Godard § Also an Abbey of the Lower Hungary upon the River Raab and the Frontiers of Stiria two Miles from Kerment betwixt which and Kerment the Turks receiv'd a bloody Defeat in 1664. S. Hubert a City and Bishoprick in the Dukedom of Luxembourgh S. Jago a City of Africa in an Island of the same Name well fortified and made a Bishops See by the Portuguese under whom it is taken and plundered by Sir Francis Drake in 1585. This is one of the Islands of Cape Verde About forty five Leagues long ten broad and ninety five or a hundred in Circumference It produces great quantities of Salt S. Jago a City on the South Shoar of the Isle of Cuba which has a safe Port and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Domingo S. Jago de Compostella See Compostella S. Jago de Chili Fanum Sancti Jacobi a City in South America at the foot of the Mountain Andes built by the Spaniards by the River Maipus fifteen Leagues from the South Sea Made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of la Plata It is the Capital of the Kingdom of Chili S. Jago del Estero the capital City of Tucumania a Country in South America seated upon the River Estero a hundred and seventy Leagues from Potosi which is a Bishop's See under the Dominion of the Spaniards S. Jago de Guatimala a City of New Spain in North America which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico S. Jean de Angely or D'Angery Angeracum Ageriacum Engeriacum fanum S. Johannis Angeriaci a celebrated Town in Saintonge in France upon the River Boutonne two Leagues from the Borders of Poictou and seven from Saintes to the North. Heretofore very strongly fortified and in 1562. desended against the Huguenots who taking it in a second Attempt encreased its strength by adding more regular Fortifications to it In 156◠it surrendred to Charles IX by a Siege of two Months with his loss of ten thousand Men before it but falling into the hands of the Huguenots again in 1620. Lewis XIII dismantled it in 1621 after he had by sorce of Arms and a Siege taken it from them S. Jean de l'Aune or Losne Fanum S. Johannis Laudonensis Laudona a Town in Burgundy in France upon the Saosne betwixt Auxone and Bellegarde Famous for repulsing an Army of the Imperialists in 1636. S. Jean de Leon a Town in Burgundy upon the Soane S. Jean de Luz Fanum Sancti Johannis Luisii or Luisium a Town of Aquitain in France in the Pais des Basques and the Territory of Labour with a Port upon the Ocean at the Fall of the River Vrdacuri into it two Miles from the Borders of Spain Lewis XIV now King of France was Married in this Town in 1660. S. Jean de Maurienne Fanum Sancti Johannis Mauriensis a very considerable but unwalled open City in Savoy upon the River Arco in the Valley de Maurienne which is a County three Leagues from the Borders of the Dauphiné to the South and ten from Grenoble to the East This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vienne And the Cathedral shews the Tombs of divers of the Dukes of Savoy S. Jean Pie de Port Fanum S Johannis Pede-Portuensis a very strong Town in the Lower Navarr in the Mountains upon the River Nive which falls into the Adoure eight Leagues from Baionne to the South This Town is yet in the Hands of the K. of France as King of Navarr S. Johns Point Isamnium one of the most Eastern Points of Ireland in the Province of Vlster in the County of Downe S. Johnston Fanum Sancti Johannis ad Tavum the same with Perth S. Juan de Puerto Rico Fanum Sancti Johannis de Portu divite a City of North America in an Island of the same Name in the North
Empire it fell into the hands of the Saracens who in the seventh and eighth Century possessed most of the Islands in the Mediterranean Sea In 809. Pepin Father of Charles the Great recovered this Island out of their hands which after this was the subject of a long War between the States of Genoua and Pisa till at last Pope Boniface VIII granted it to James II. King of Arragon about 1296. who after many Wars obtained the quiet possession of it in 1326. or as Hoffman saith in 1409 Ever since it has been in that Family Frederick II. has also given it the Title of a Kingdom The Soil is very fruitful but the Air equally unhealthful or pestilential rather insomuch that the Common-wealth and the Emperours of the Romans banished such persons to this Island as they desired to have dead without Sword or Poyson The Rivers Cedro and Tirso divide it into two parts called the Cape de Lugodori and Cap de Cagliari for its sertility it was called the Nurse of Rome by Valerius Maximus yet those parts of the Island to the North and East are mountainous and barren The rest are Algher Castel Aragonese Bosa Ostagni Terra Nova Sacer and Iglesias A Vice-Roy for the King of Spain governs this Island Sardica See Sofia Sardis the ancient Metropolis of Lydia in the Lesser Asia Not to speak of its being the Capital of the Kingdom of the famous Gyges Cyrus we find took it in the fifty ninth Olympiad and with it submitted all Lydia to his Empire In the sixty ninth Olympiad about the year of Rome 250. Aristagoras with twenty Athenian Ships took and burnt it After this it was rebuilt and passed under the Empire of the Greeks In the year of Rome 540. Antiochus conquered it In S. John the Apostle's time it received Christianity but for its inconstancy therein became one of the Subjects of his Revelations and now utterly ruined It was a Bishops See Sarduni Planasia an Island on the Coast of Provence in the Mediterranean Sea Sare Sarvus a River of the Low-Countries called Sara by Venantius Fortunatus by the Germans die Saare by the French Sare it ariseth in Mount Vauge in the Borders of Lorain and Alsatia near the Town of Salme and running Northward it watereth Sareck Serwerdon S. Jean Sarsberg and a little above Trier from the South-East falls into the Moselle Sarepta an ancient City of Phoenicia in Syria which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tyre Now called Sarafends or Saphet The Prophet Elias miraculously augmented the Widows Oyl and raised her dead Son to life at this place according to the History of the Old Testament Sargasso or Mar do Sargasso is that part of the Ocean which lies betwixt the Islands of Cape Verde the Canaries and the Continent of Africa so called by the Portugueze Sargathia the Asiatick Tartary a vast Country in Asia Sarisbury or Salisbury or New Sarum Sarisberia Sorviodunum Sarviodunum Severia is the principal City of Wiltshire seated in the North-West part of that County near the Borders of Hampshire and Dorsetshire upon the Rivers of Willey and Alan united into one Stream and falling presently into the Avon in such sort as that most of the Streets of this City have a Stream commodiously running through the midst of them This was anciently a Roman Town by the name of Sorbiodunum seated on a high Hill and therefore destitute of Water Kinrick King of the West Saxons was the first of that Race who possessed it after a Defeat of the Britains in 553. Canutus the Dane much damaged it by Fire in 1003. In the Reign of William the Conquerour it recovered after Herman Bishop of Shirburn had removed the See hither whose next Successor Osman built the Cathedral William the Conquerour summoned hither all the States of England to take an Oath of Allegiance to him Since those times the City is removed Northward and come down into the Plains nearer the Avon Here there was a second Cathedral begun by Richard Poore Bishop of this See in 1218. Finished by Bridport the third Bishop from Poore in 1258. which is one of the greatest and most beautiful Churches in England Having twelve Gates fifty two Windows three hundred sixty five Pillars great and small answering to the Months Weeks and Days of the year The glory of this Diocese was the most Learned and Industrious Bishop John Jewel consecrated Jan. 21. 1559. died Sept. 23. 1571. In 1153. Patrick d'Eureux was created Earl of Salisbury and his Son William succeeded in that Honour In 1â—97 William Long-espee a Natural Son to Henry II. by the beautiful Râ—samond marrying Ella the Daughter of William d' Eureux had this Honour In 1333. William d' Montacute King of Man became the fifth Earl whose Male Line in four Descents enjoyed the Honour till the year 1428. when it passed to Richard Nevil who married Eleanor the Daughter of Thomas Montacute Lord Chancellour In 1472. George Duke of Clarence second Brother to Edward IV. had it in Marriage with Isabel Daughter of Richard Nevil the second Earl of that Line In 1477. Edward eldest Son of Richard III. married Ann the second Daughter of the said Richard and had this Honour In 1514. Margaret Daughter of George Duke of Clarence was by Henry VIII created Countess of Salisbury In 1605. Robert Lord Cecil was by James I. created Earl of Salisbury in which Line it still is Sarlat Sarlatum a City of Aquitain in France in the Province of Perigort which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux It stands upon a River of the same Name one League from the Dordonne betwixt the Dordogne and the Vezere as it were in an Island eight from Perigueux to the South-East and thirty from Bourdeaux to the North-East Made a Bishops See by Pope John XXII in 1317. by the change of its ancient Benedictine Abbey into a Cathedral having before been a part of the Diocese of Perigueux It is so strongly situated as to withstand two Sieges in the Civil Wars in 1652. Sarmatia and Sauromatia This vast Region in ancient Geography was divided into Sarmatia Asiatica Europaea and Germanica Sarmatia Asiatica lay properly towards the Borders of Europe and Asia with the Northern Ocean to the North the Pontus Euxinus to the South Scythia to the East and Sarmatia Europaea to the West now contained in the Northern Muscovia in the Provinces of Samoyeda Duina Permski Lucomeria c. Sarmatia Europea had for Bounds both the other Sarmatia's with the Euxine Sea making now Russia And Sarmatia Germanica took up the greatest part of the present Kingdom of Poland being divided from the European Sarmatia by the Nieper to the East from the Borders of Germany by the Vistula to the West from Dacia by the Neister and the Carpathian Mountains to the South with the Baltick Sea and the Gulph of Finland to the North. Sarnagans Sarnagan Sargans Serlandt a Town and County in Switzerland subject to the seven
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
good Harbor on its South side The usual place where the Dutch Fleet rendezvouz in times of War Near it the Illustrious General Monk afterwards Duke of Albemarle beat the Dutch Fleet July 31. 1653 slew their famous Admiral Van Trump burnt and sunk twenty six of their Men of War with the loss of only two small English Ships and drove the rest into the Texel Which being seen by the People from the Shore prevented the usual Ceremony of a Thanksgiving for being beaten Teyder-Aa Teydera a River of Livonia in Litland which watereth Adzal and Wolmer then falls into the Bay of Livonia Teysterbandt Testerbantum a small County in the Dukedom of Cleves towards the Maes the Wael and the Rhine in the North of Cleves and on the Southern Border of Guelderland which has been united to Cleves seven hundred years Thabor a celebrated Mountain in Galilee in Palestine six Miles from Nazareth to the East near the Plain of Esdrelon and the Valley of Iesreel having the Brook of Endor springing from its foot Josephus gives it the Height of thirty Greek Stadia and the Plain upon the top of it the compass of two thousand five hundred Paces where the Wind blows very to hard and cold in the hottest Seasons Here our Saviour honoured S. Peter James and John with the View of his glorious Transfiguration in memory whereof Helena the Mother of Constantine the Great built upon the place a stately Church with three small Chapppels representing the three Tabernacles in S. Peter's Wish which Chappels now are almost buried under the Ruines of the Church saving one Altar used sometimes for Mass by the Religious of Nazareth Alexander Jannaeus King of Judah who began his Reign one hundred and three years before Christ built a Fortress upon this Mountain which probably continued till the time of our Saviour and was the same with that taken by Composition in the year after Christ 82 by Vespasian when the Church and Chappels were demolished These latter were re-established in 1099 by Godfrey of Bouillon and divided betwixt the Greek Calcyers and the Benedictine Monks under a Bishop a Suffragan to the Patriarch of Jerusalem In 1187 Saladine took the Mountain and ruined its Works In 1253 the Christians retook it and Pope Alexander gave it to the Templars But in 1290 it was finally lost from the Christians to the Sultan of Egypt It stands in a round conical figure with its sides to the West and South full of Shrubs and Greens Thamar Rha the same with Wolgha Thame a Market Town in Oxfordshire upon the Borders of Buckinghamshire which takes its Name from the River Thame one of the Fountains of the Thames joining with the Isis at Dorchester whose Branches almost encompass it and are here covered with a Bridge leading into Buckinghamshire It is the Capital of its hundred and enjoys the Benefit of a Free-School and a Hospital founded by the Lord Williams of Thame Thames Thamesis Tamesis Jamissa the principal River of England Which has this Name from the Thame and Isis two smaller Rivers its Fountains The first of these arises in Buckinghamshire the second in VViltshire The second is far the greater receives the VVindrush and the Evenclods before it arrives at Oxford beneath that City the Charwell a noble Flood and at Dorchester it takes the Thame Then sporting it self with vast turns it watereth VVallingford Reading and Henly dividing Buckinghamshire from Surrey it watereth VVindsor so passeth to Stanes in Middlesex above which it takes in the Colne and watering Hampton-Court Kingston Brentford and Chelsey it gently glides between Westminster and London on the North and Southwark on the South where it is covered by one of the noblest Bridges in the World More to the East it receives the Lea out of Essex being now able to bear vast Ships it hasteth by Graves End into the German Ocean between Essex to the North and Kent to the South Thanet Tanâ—tos Thanatos Athanatos in Solinus a small Island on the Eastern Coast of Kent surrounded on the South by the Sea and on the West by the River Stoure here called the Yenlade about eight Miles long and four broad In this Island the Saxons first landed and also S. Augustine the Monk In 1628 Nicolas Lord Tufton was created Earl of Thanet by Charles I. Richard the fifth of this Family succeeded in 1680. Thaurn Taurus Thaxted a Market Town in the County of Essex in the hundred of Dunmow Theaco Ithaca an Island in the Ionian Sea betwixt Cephalonia Sancta Maura and the Curzolari under the Venetians The Italians call it Val di Compare It reckons about fifteen thousand Inhabitants a great part banished persons from Zante Cephalonia and Corfu It hath a spacious and safe Haven but no City or good Town only some Villages and it pretends to shew the ruins of Penelope's House supposing Vlysses to have been a Native of this Ithaca Thebe Thebae two celebrated Cities in Antiquity in Egypt and Greece That in Egypt received its ruin from Cornelius Gallus Governour of Egypt But the marks of its former Opulence the number of its Inhabitants its Conquests the tribute and imposts it paid to the King and to the Temples remained engraved in Egyptian Characters upon Obelisks in Germanicus's time who visited as Tacitus says the ruins of this City in his Travels It contained one hundred and forty Stadia in Circuit one hundred Gates and according to those Obelisks seven hundred thousand fighting Men. See Diospolis § The other in Bâ—eotia in Greece hath ever pretended to challenge the ancient Cadmus for its Founder about the year of the World 2620 nigh one thousand four hundred years before the coming of Christ During which Interval it was first adorned with the Title of a Kingdom Next changed into a Republick of great Puissance which maintained War against both the Athenians and Lacedaemonians and over the latter gained a signal Victory by the conduct of their General Epaminâ—ndâ—s at the Battel of Leuctra when both hâ— and Cleombrotus General of the Lacedaemonians were slain Philip K. of Macedon Conquered this City and Garrisoned it with Macedoâ—ians whose yoak they regretted till they revol ed upon the death of that King And refusing to submit to his Son Alexander He by â—orce reconquering them entirely â—uined this City saving the single House of the Poet Pindar and divided the Lands amongst his Soldiers â—bout the year of Rome 419. and the CXI Olympaid Cassander the Son of Antipater King of Macedonia twenty years after rebuilt it and his work is parâ—ly standing at this day in the quality of a Village under the Turks but before those desâ—royers of Mankind possess'd it it was the See of an Archbishop See Stives Thebes See Stives Theobalds a Palace Royal of the Kings of England in Hâ—â—fordshire in the Hundred of Hartford not â—ar â—rom Hodsdon on the Lea and less from Waltham Abbey in Essex It is delightfully situated amongst Groves and Springs
of Holland one League from Leyden which has been adorned with the Title of an Earldom Valdiva a small City in the Kingdom of Chili in South America which has a large and safe Haven on the Pacifick Ocean under the Dominion of the Spaniards though it has been often ruined by the Indians It stands seventy five Leagues from Imperiali to the South written sometimes Baldiva Valence Valentia Julia Valentia Segalaunorum Vrbs a City of Gallia Narbonensis in Ptolemy now called Valenza by the Italians It is a neat populous great City in the Dauphiné and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vienne upon the River Rhosne eleven Leagues from its Metropolis to the South This Bishoprick was for ever united to that of Dye in 1275. The Bishops take the Title of Earls of Valence In 1452. there was an University opened here The River Isere closeth it on the North and the Rhosne on the West It is the Capital of the Dukedom of Valentinois hath a Cittadel an Abbey and a Collegiate Church besides the Cathedral with a great number of Religious Houses And anciently was a Roman Colony In 374. 584. and 855. Councils were assembled at this City In 890. Lewis Son of Bozon was confirmed King of Arles by the Bishops here met for the purpose There have been more Councils in after times held in the same place § Also a Town in the Province of Guyenne near the Garonne Valenchiennes Valenciennes Vallencenae Valentianae Valentinianae a City of Hainault upon the Schelde where it receives the Ronel which divides it A great strong spruce place two Leagues from Quesnoy to the North five from Tournay to the South and from Cambray to the West Henry VII Emperour of Germany was a Native of it and Baldwin and Henry Emperors of Constantinople In 1656. the French besieged it under the Mareschals Turenne and la Ferte But Don John of Austria assisted with the Prince of Conde raised the Siege and took the latter Prisoner In 1667. it was taken by the French under whom it now is They have since added to its Fortifications It was made an University in 1475. Valencia Valentia Valentia Constetinorum a City and Kingdom in Spain The City is called by the Italians Valenza and stands about a Mile from the Mediterranean Sea forty nine Leagues from Barcinone to the North-West from Toledo to the East and Saragoza to the South Built by Junius Brutus a Roman in the year of Rome 616. Rescued out of the hands of the Moors by Roderic Bivar el Cid in the year 1025. Taken by them again and recovered the second time by James I. King of Arragon in 1236. Made a Bishops See in 1492. by Pope Alexander VI. In Pliny's time it was a great noble elegant City walled with five Bridges over the River Guadalaviar and now the best peopled in all Spain except Lishon and Madrid An University the Capital of a Kingdom and the Seat of its Courts of Justice and a Vice-Roy It has given to the See of Rome two Popes Calistus II. and Alexander VI. The Spaniards proverbially call it Valencia la Hermosa the Beautiful Long. 25. 15. Lat. 39. 55. The Kingdom of Valencia lies upon the Mediteranean Sea Bounded on the East by Catalonia and that Sea on the West by New Castile and by the Kingdom of Murcia to the South The chief Cities in it are Valencia Segorve Orighuella Xativa Elche and Alicante Watered by the Ebro the Mervedre the Guadalquivir and the Xucar so that it enjoys at once the most fruitful Soil and the most pleasant and temperate Air of all Spain much like that of Naples Their Silk and Wooll are the best in the World Their Sheep were first brought thither from Cotswald in England in 1465. by the imprudent Courtesie of Edward IV. In short the Plenty Delicacies and Pleasantness of this Kingdom has esseminated its Inhabitants and made them less able to defend it The ancient Edetani and Contestani dwelt here It became a distinct Moorish Kingdom in 1214. Submitted to Arragon in 1228. Finally conquered by them in 1238. Philip II. banished out of it twenty two thousand Families of the Moors Valeneia d' Alcantara a strong Town in the Province of Extremadura in Spain but in the Borders of Portugal upon the River Savar eight Leagues from Alcantara to the West Taken by the Portuguese and restored to the Spaniard by the Treaty of Peace in 1668. Valencia di Minho a strong Town upon the River Minho in the Kingdom of Portugal which has resisted the repeated Attacks of the Spaniards Valenza Valentia Forum Fulvii or Valentinum a strong Town in the Dukedom of Milan but in the Borders of Montferrat Built upon an Hill by the Po ten Miles from Casal to the East and seven from Alessandria to the North. It was attempted by the French in 1635. and in 1656. with great loss they took it in 1657. The Spaniards were defeated in 1658. in their design of recovering it but gained it by the Treaty of Peace the next year at the Pyrenees and are still in possession of it Valentinois a Territory in Dauphine of which Valence is the Capital It is divided into the Vpper and Lower Valentinois The Upper extends from the River Isere to the Droume the other from the Droume to the County of Venaissin Formerly under its own Counts It became united with Dauphine and the Crown of France in the time of Tewis XI King of France Lewis XII advanced it to the quality of a Dukedom Valette Valetta a new very strong fine populous City in the Isle of Malta Built by Jean de Valette a French Man Master of the Knights of Malta in the year 1566. after the Turkish Siege on the North side of the Island upon a Mountain called Sceb Erras having an excellent Port. The Master of that Order has resided in that City ever since the year 1571. The Castle belonging to it is called S. Elmo La Valette or Villebois a Town in the Dukedom of Angousmois in France Valiza Rhodope a Mountain in Thrace called by the Inhabitants Rulla It divides Thrace into two parts extending from East to West and gives Birth to the River Hebrus and some others Valladolid Pintia Vallisolitum Vallisoletum a City of Old Castile in Spain great elegant and populous upon the River Piznerga a little above its fall into the Douro in the Borders of the Kingdom of Leon of which it was a part Sixteen Spanish Leagues from Burgos to the South-West and twenty from Salamanca to the North-East This City was built by the Goths in the year of Christ 625. Made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo in the year 159◠Christopher Columbus the first Discoverer of America died here in the year 1506. It was for some time the Seat of the Kings of Castile and now an University of great esteem In this place Philip II. King of Spain by the perswasion of Mr. Parsons a known English Jesuit erected
same with Furnes Wernow Chalusus a City of Germany near Rostock Wersaw See Warsaw Wert the same with Donawert Werthaim a County in Franconia in Germany Wesel Aliso Vesalia a strong City in the Dukedom of Cleve and an Hanse Town which has a Castle belonging to it It stands upon the Rhine at the confluence of the Lippe twelve German Miles from Cologne North and five from Dorsten to the VVest Taken by the Hollanders from the Spaniards in 1629. From them by the French in 1672 and in the year 1674 it was left to the Duke of Brandenburg after it had been dismantled by the French Rudolphus I Emperor of Germany granted this City to Theodorick VIII Earl of Cleve Weser or the Little Weser Visurgis a small River which ariseth in the Dukedom of Limburgh in the Borders of Juliers and watering Limburgh falls into the Maes above Liege Weser Visurgis a great River of Germany which ariseth in Franconia in the Territory of Coburg near Eisfeldt and flowing through Thuringe near Smalcald receives the Ness below Eysenack and in Hess the Fuld Turning to the North between Brunswick and Westphalia it takes in the Dymel and waters Corby Hammel Minden Cities of Westphalia beneath Ferden admits the Alder and salutes Breme takes in the Wemma and the Honte and beneath Carlestadt â—â—lls into the German Ocean Wesho Vexio a City of Sweden in the Province of Smalland which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vpsal called also Vexsioe and Vexsieu Thirty five Miles from the Lake of Weter South and from the Baltick Sea West Westbury a Market Town and Corporation in Wiltshire upon the River Broke falling into the Avon the Capital of its Hundred and honoured with the Election of two Parliament Men. Westerwaldt Bacenis Buronia a part of the Hercynian Forest called also Hartzwaldt It makes the South parts of the Dukedoms of Brunswick and Thuringe in the Lower Saxony others say it lies by Schelde near Cologne Westerwick Vestrovicum a Sea-Port City in the Province of Smalland on the Baltick Sea in Sweden fifty five Miles from Calmar to the North. West Froson See Friseland Westmannia Vestmania or Westmanland a Province of Sweden between Vpland to the East Gestricia to the North Sudermannia to the South and Nericia to the West The Cities of it are Arosen and Arbosen Westminster Westmonasterium once a Suburb seated a Mile from the City of London and called Thorney now a great and populous City by its Buildings conjoined to London so that it seems to be a part of it but is indeed a distinct City having its peculiar and proper Magistrates and Privileges In the times of the Romans there stood here a Temple of Apollo which in the Reign of Antoninus Pius was subverted by an Earthquake Out of the Ruins of it Segebert King of Kent built a Church in honour of S. Peter about the year 655. About the year 701. Offa King of the East Angles inlarged this old Church which being destroyed by the Danes about the year 854 S. Dunstane Archbishop of Canterbury re-edified it about 970. Edward the Confessor in the year 1061. made great additions to this Fabrick In the year 1221. Henry III. pulled down this Saxon Building and in the same place erected that great and noble Pile now standing and put it into the hands of the Monks to which Henry VII added the Chappel called by his Name In the years 1066 and 1226. Councils were celebrated here At the Reformation instead of the Monks was placed here a Dean twelve Prebends and a Bishop which last is since suppressed In this Church is usually performed the Coronation it likewise contains the Bones of a vast number of the Kings of England and was the Mother of Westminster which from it as from a Centre has spread it self every way Especially after Westminster-Hall became the fixed place for the Courts of Justice built by William Rufus in the year 1099. Rebuilt by Richard II. as Mr. Camden observes and Whitehall the Royal Palace of our Kings about the year 1512. Westmorland Damnii Vestmaria Westmorlandia one of the Northern Counties of England took this Name from its situation and the great number of Moors in it On the North and West it is bounded by Cumberland on the South by Lancashire and on the East by Yorkshire From North to South it is thirty Miles from East to West twenty four in circumference one hundred and twelve Containing twenty six Parishes and eight Market Towns The Air is sharp and piercing healthful the Soil barren and not easily improved two ridges of high Hills crossing it as far as Cumberland Yet the Southern parts contain many fruitful Valleys Meadows Arable and Pasture Grounds The Rivers Eden Ken Lon and Eamon watering them besides two noted Lakes the Vlleswater and Windermeer the last bordering upon Cheshire the other upon Cumberland and Westmorland The ancient Inhabitants were the Brigantes who in the Saxon Heptarchy constituted a part of the great Kingdom of Northumberland The first Earl of this County was Ralph Nevil Lord of Raby E. Marshall in 1398 created Earl of Westmorland by King Richard II. This Family in six Descents continued till the year 1584. it failed in the death of Charles Nevil In 1624. this Honour was revived in Francis Fane created Earl of Westmorland and Baron of Burghersh by James I. as a descendent from the Nevils whose Posterity still enjoy it Westphalia a great Circle or Province in Germany called by the Germans die Wephalen It lies between the Lower Saxony to the East and the Low-Countries to the West bounded on the North by the German Sea on the East by the Dukedom of Breme Ferden Lunenburg and Brunswick on the West by the Vnited Netherlands on the South by the Dukedom of Guelderland the Bishoprick of Cologne VVesterwaldt and Hassia It contains the Bishopricks of Munster Paderborne and Osnaburg the Dukedoms of Cleve and Berg the Principality of Minden the Counties of Oldenburg Mark Hoye Diepholt Ravensberg Lingen Lippe Benthem and Scaumburg East Friseland and the Dukedom of Westphalia The capital City of this Circle is Munster The Dukedom of Westphalia is bounded on the North by the Bishopricks of Munster and Paderborne on the West by the County of Mark on the South by Wester-waldt and Hassia on the East by the County of Waldeck The principal places in it are Arensberg Cleve Dussel-dorp Embden Emerick Ham Lipstad Minden Munster Oldenburg Osnabruck Paderborne Soest Dortmund and Wesel Besides what is above expressed this Circle includes the Dukedoms of Juliers and Guelderland the Bishoprick of Leige and the States of Vtrecht but this last has been separated from it ever since 1548. Westram a Market Town in the County of Kent in Sutton Lath upon the River Darent Westrick Westrych Westryck Austrasia Lotharingia taken in its largest extent contained Brabant Hainault Liege Namur Luxemburg Juliers Epfall Wasgow Imperial Flanders and Lorain And under the first Race of the Kings of France
Dukedom of the same Name upon the River Clesma between Moscow to the South-West and Novogrod Nisi to the North-East forty five German Miles from either Anciently the Capital of Black Russia and the Seat of the Dukes of Russia Wologda a great strong City which is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name upon the River Dwina ninety Miles from Jerislow to the North and fifty from Novogrod Nisi to the North West Wolverhampton a Market Town â—in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Seisdon upon a Hill enriched formerly with an Abbey It s Gollegiate Church is annexed to the Deanry of VVindsor Wolwich or Woolwich a Market Town in the County of Kent in Sutton Lath upon the Thames where it hath a Dock for the Royal Navy of England Womie See Medniky Woodbridge a Market Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of Looes upon the River Deben and the side of a Sandy Hill Provided with four or five Docks for building of Ships It is a large and well frequented Town hath a fair Church with Monuments in it and many Ships of Burthen belonging to its Inhabitants The Deben twelve Miles below it falls into the Sea Woodstock a Market Town and Corporation in Oxfordshire in the Hundred of Wotton represented in Parliament by two Burgesses It stands pleasantly upon an Ascent near a small River and a large Park enclosed with a VVall. The ancient Royal House called VVoodstock Bower built by King Henry I. Enlarged by Henry II. Honoured with the Birth of Edward the Black Prince and famous for the Death of the fair Rosamond admired by Henry II. in the Labyrinth adjoining stood in this Park till its destruction in the long Civil Wars Worcestershire Vigornia is bounded on the North by Staffordshire on the East by Warwickshire and Oxfordshire on the South by Gloucestershire and on the West by Herefordshire and Shropshire A rich and populous County in the form of a Triangle extending from North to South 32 Miles from North to West 28 in Circumference 220 inclosing 152 Parishes and 11 Market Towns The Air is very gentle and temperate the Soil fruitful and equal in goodness to the best in England Watered by the Severne Stoure Salwarpe Arrow Feck and Avon which all meet in one noble Southern Point of this County at Tewksbury Here are many excellent Salt-Pits in this County The most antient Inhabitants were the Cornavii subdued by the Romans in the Reign of Claudius Cesar After it became a part of the Mercian Kingdom Worcester Branonium Vigornia Brannogenium Brangoniae the Capital City of this County called by the Welsh Caer Vrangon by Ninius Caer Guorcon It is seated on the Eastern Bank of the Severn over which it hath a fair Stone Bridge with a Tower and from it was walled in the form of a Triangle and thought to have been built by the Romans against the Silures In 1041. it was burnt down by Hardy Canute King of Denmark In 1113. burnt the second time by accident The Cathedral Church was begun by Sexwolfe in 680. In which Prince Arthur the eldest Son of Henry VII lies buried in a plain black jet Tomb and King John in a white one This Town suffered much for its Loyalty to Charles I. and Charles II. Especially in 1651 when after the fatal Battel under her Wallâ— Sept. 3. she fell into the Hands of the enraged Tyrant Oliver Cromwell Long. 18. 10. Lat. 52. 32. Boselius was setled as a Bishop here by Etheldred King of the Mercians in 679. The first Earl of Worcester was Vrsus de Abot Created by William the Conqueror in 1087. The second VValeran de Beaumont in 1144. The third Thomas Percy Lord Admiral in 1397. The fourth Richard Beauchamp in 1420. The fifth John Tiptoft Lord Treasurer and Lord Constable in 1449. Succeeded by Edward his Son in 1477. who died in 1485. The seventh Charles Somerset Lord Herbert Natural Son of Henry Beaufort the eighth Duke of Somerset who was beheaded under King Edward IV. Created Earl by Henry VII in 1414. in which Family it now is Henry the 7th in this Line for his great Virtue and Loyalty by Charles II. was created Duke of Beaufort in 1682. Augustine the Monk celebrated a Council in this City as we learn from Bede Worksop a Market Town in Nottinghamshire in the Hundred of Bassetlaw and the Forest of Sherwood Noted for excellent Liquorish Worm Warmus a River in the Dukedom of Limburg Worms Worbacia Borbetomagus Borbitomagus Vangionum a City in Germany within the Bounds of the Lower Palatinate which is a Free and Imperial City but not populous It stands upon the VVestern Bank of the Rhine seven German Miles above Mentz and six beneath Spiers An ancient Roman City called Bormetomagus Vangionum It is supposed to have been a Colony of Ments after it became subject to the Romans ruined by Attila King of the Huns and rebuilt by Clovis King of France It was in the beginning of Christianity an Archbishops See but in 729. Pepin King of France took away its Metropolitan and made it only a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ments Henry II Emperour of Germany forced Otho Son of Conrad the Duke of this Country to retire to Brussels so it became a Free City Frederick II. Charles IV. Maximilian I. and Ferdinand I. in their times added to its Privileges There was a Council held here in 1078. in which Gregory VII Pope was deposed for Adultery and Necromancy by the Partizans his Enemies of the Emperour Henry IV. A Famous Diet also in 1521. in which Luther defended his Doctrine before the States of the Empire Long. 30. 03. Lat. 49. 33. This City is still by the Italians called Bormio The French demolished it in 1689. Worotin Vorotinum a City of Moscovy the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name It stands upon the Occa in the Borders of Lithuania sixty six Miles from Moscou to the South Wotton-Basset a Market Town in Wiltshire in the Hundred of Kingsbridge so called for distinction from Wotton-Vnder-Edge in Gloucester-shire The Capital of its Hundred Wreak a River in Leicestershire Melton-Mowbray stands upon it Wrexham a Market Town in Denbighshire in the Hundred of Bromfield Wrotham a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath. Wucziden Viminiacium Viminacium a Town in the Province of Servia upon the Danube fifteen Miles from Belgrade to the East Wutingen a Town in the Lower Circle of the Rhine in Germany under the Elector of Cologne At which the Duke of Brabant and the People of Cologne formerly fought a famous Battel Wurtzburgh Herbipolis the Capital City of Franconia in Germany and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ments since the year 791 when Bonifacius Archbishop of Ments advanced it to that Dignity It stands upon the Mayne on the North Bank and has a strong Castle on the other side of the River called Marienburgh Also a small University founded together with a large Hospital by one