Founder of the University of Paris borrowed those Lights which have since glittered there About 867 the Danes had so weakened this City the second time that Osbright and Ella Kings of Northumberland brake easily through its VValls and fought the Danes in the City where both these valiant Princes were slain and the Danes remained Masters of it It was recovered again out of the Hands of the Danes by King Athelstane in 928 and was a City of sixteen hundred and twenty eight Mansions in the Reigns of Edward the the Confessor and William the Conqueror In 1069 the fourth year of the Conqueror's Reign Sweno the Dane and Edgar Atheling the lawful Prince of England with the Scots attacking this place the Normans siring the Suburbs the City took fire too and the Enemy entring at the same time Fire and Sword almost destroyed it Those few Citizens which escaped were made a Sacrifice to the Jealousie of William the Conqueror In the Reign of King Stephen Egberts Library the Cathedral and a great part of the City was burnt by a casual Fire Nor was the Cathedral rebuilt before the Reign of Edward I. At which time the Citizens also rebuilt the Walls of the City Richard II. made it a County incorporate by it self Annexing a small Territory to it on the West side in which the Archbishops of York enjoy the Rights of Palatines Richard III. began the Repair of the Castle which ended with his short Reign Henry VIII erected here a Court of Chancery for the North not much unlike the Parliaments of France which lasted till the War in 1640 put a period to it Charles I. retired hither in 1641 when the Tumults of London forced him from thence This City stood firmly to him and had certainly restored him to his rightful Dominion and Authority had not the Scots broke their Faith and entred England the second time in 1644 who joyning with Manchester and Fairfax besieged this City with three Armies Prince Rupert came up and relieved it July 31. But the Kings Forces being defeated at Marstonmoor soon after July 16. this Loyal City was delivered up to the Parliament upon Honorable Terms and ill kept by the prosperous Rebels Long. 22 25. Lat. 54. 10. Cambden Yorkshire Eboracensis Comitatus the far greatest County of England Divided for Civil Affairs into three Ridings or smaller Counties Bounded on the North by the Bishoprick of Durham cut off by the River Tees on the West by Lancashire and Westmoreland on the South by Cheshire Darbyshire Nottingham and Lincolnshire cut off by the Humber On the whole Eastern side it is beaten by the German Sea In length from North to South near seventy Miles in breadth eighty in compass three hundred and eight inclosing five hundred and sixty three Parishes and forty nine Market Towns with many Chappels of Ease as large and populous as Parishes The East-riding is comprehended betwixt the River Derwent and the Sea being the least The North-riding extends as far as Westmorland and the West-riding which is the largest is bounded by the two other Ridings to the North the Counties of Derby and Nottingham with Cheshire to the South Lincolnshire to the East and Lancashire to the West The Air is generally temperate the Earth fruitful Affords besides Corn and Grass excellent Mines of Coal and Lead and Quarries of Stone Beside the Tees and Humber its mentioned boundaries and the Dun which separates a part of it from Lincolnshire Herâ— is the Swale You re Nyd Warfe Are Calder Derwent all falling into the Ouse at or below York and the Hull falling into the Humber at Hull The ancient Inhabitants of it were the Brigantes who were conquered by the Romans with great difficulty about the year 57. in the Reign of Nero. About the year 547. Ina Conquered this County and began the Kingdom of Northumberland of which this was a part After the Conquest the first and only Earl of York which we find upon Record is Otho of Bavaria in 1190. In 1385. Edmund of Langley fifth Son of Edward III. Earl of Cambridge was Created Duke of York In 1401. Edward his Son In 1415. Richard his Grandchild succeeded in this Duchy In 1474. Richard of Shrewsbury second Son of Edward IV. had this Title In 1495. Henry second Son of Henry VII who was after King of England had it In 1604. Charles second Son of King James I. In 1643. James second Son of Charles I. was Created Duke of York So that the three last Dukes of York have been afterwards Kings of England Youre a River in Yorkshire falling into the Ouse at York Rippon and Boroughbridge stand upon it Yperen or Ypres Hyprae a City in the Earldom of Flanders which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mechlin by the Institution of P. Paul IV. It is very strong and has a new Cittadel Taken by the French March 26. in 1678 and still in their Hands This City stands in a fruitful Plain upon a River of the same Name six Leagues from Newport to the South five from Courtray towards Calais and thirteen from Gand or Gaunt Yssel Isala Aliso Isla Fossa Drusiana a River in the Low Countries believed to be a Branch of the Rhine but indeed a Cut made by Drusius a Roman Prince and General under Augustus the Emperor It parts from the North Branch of the Rhine above Arnham and bearing North watereth Doesburg Zutphen Deventer Zwol Campen and parting the Velewe from Over-Yssel falls into the Zuyder Zee It took this Name from a smaller River called Alt-Yssel the Old Yssel which arising near Heyden in Cleve watereth Schermbeeck Ringeberg Weert Ysselburg Aenholt taking in the Aa Burg Dotekom and at Doesburg falls into this Cut or Branch of the Rhine Yvica See Ivica Yvoix a small but strong Town in the Dukedom of Luxemburgh upon the River Chiers four Leagues from Montmedi to the West twelve from Luxemburgh and two from Sedan to the East Taken and dismantled by the French in 1552. Refortified by the Spaniards and retaken by the French recovered by the Spaniards in 1637. And I believe returned under the French again Yupi a Kingdom in the Asiatick Tartary East of the Kingdom of Niuche Z A. ZAara or Saara a vast Desert in Africa extending from East to West between Biledulgerida to the North Nigritia to the South Nubia to the East and the Atlantick Ocean to the West The Seat of the ancient Getuli and Garamantes Modern Geographers have discovered some Towns Lakes and Riverâ— there which give names to the respective desarts about them Berdoa and Zuenziga are of this number But generally Sands Scorpions and Monsters Lions Tigers and Ostriches take up the Habitations of these Desarts Mar de Zabacche the same with Limen or the Palus Moeotis Zaberen Elsas Zabera Tabernae a City of the Lower Alsatia upon the River Sorr four German Miles from Strasburg to the West Called by the French Saverne The usual Residence of the Bishop of
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
Disorder He reserved also the greater Causes to the Determination of the Diet of Poland contrary to the Privilege granted by Casimirus his Predecessor In 1569. Stephanus King of Poland proscrib'd them for taking part with the House of Austria against him which Quarrel was ended by the Mediation of the Neighbouring Princes In 1597. Vladislaus IV. had also some Controversies with this City about their Imposts The Protestant Religion is imbraced here the Roman Catholick tolerated No Man is admitted into the Senate except he be a Luthoran In 1596. the Senate granted the Jesuits the Monastery of S. Bridget and S. Maries Church but the City opposed it so vigorously that three Days after they were forced to recall their Edict In 1657. this City was forced to burn her own Suburbs to prevent their being taken by the Swedes It lies in Long 41. 30. Lat. 54. 20. Danube Danubius Ister is one of the greatest Rivers in Europe and no less celebrated both in Ancient and Modern Story Called Danubius and Ister whence Ovid. lib. 1. de Pont. Stat vetus Vrbs ripae vicina Binominis Istri The upper part next the Fountains was for the most part called the Danube and the lower from Illyricus or Sclavonia the Ister as Pliny saith by the Germans Donaw by the French Danube by the Italians Danubio by the Poles Dunay by the Turks Tunay It ariseth in the County of Bar in Suabia sour German Miles from Freiburgh to the East and nine from Basil to the North-East running North-East it passes by Vlm having received a great many smaller Rivers on both Sides which for Brevity I must omit At Leucy it entereth Bavaria and a little further from the South receiveth the Leck which passeth by Ausprugh and still continuing its Course as far as Regensburgh it then turns and runs more Easterly to the Confines of Austria where at Passaw it entertains the vast River Inn which comes from Inspruck and brings many other with it from hence it goeth to Vienna where it makes an Island then washeth the Walls of Presburgh the Capital of the Vpper Hungary where it divides and makes the Island of Schut at Comora it unites again and goes on to Gran bending its Course more Southerly from whence it passeth to Buda the Capital of all Hungary where it makes two other Islands one above Buda and another a little below Colocza The Sarawitz which comes from Alba-Regalis falls into it from the West then the Drave at Esseck then the Tibiscus a vast River of Vpper Hungary from the East and the Save again on the West by Belgrade which is the first Town of Servia from hence its Course is more East having Moldavia VValachia and Bialogrod on the North Servia and Bulgaria on the South where it makes many Isles and then entereth the Euxine or Black Sea by three great Outlets the two more Northerly being as it were reunited in the very Entry of them into the Sea Dr. Edward Browne in his Travels saith That at Crainburgh not far distant from the Head it appeared a considerable Stream a little after from the City Vlm in Suevia where it beginneth to be Navigable it continues a long Course passing by Ingolstad Ratisbone Straubing Passaw Lintz and Vienna unto Presburgh from whence through Hungary it makes a Course of above three hundred Miles before it passes by Belgrade It drinks in above sixty considerable Rivers and in a sober Account performs a Course of above 1500 Miles from its Rise to its Fall This River has had many Naval Fights upon it between the Turks and Christians At one time there were twenty Galliots eighty small Pinnaces and little less than a hundred Ships of Burthen employed upon it in a Siege of Buda At the Siege of Belgrade Mahomet the Great brought two hundred Ships and Galleys up the Stream the Hungarians sent so many from Buda down the Stream that after a sharp Encounter the Hungarians took twenty and forced the rest on shoar near the Camp so that Mahomet was forced to burn them to prevent their being taken by the Christians This perhaps is more than can be said of any other River in the World It abounds in good Fish as Trouts Perches large and delicious Carps exceeding saith Dr. Browne any I have seen c. some of which is every Year salted and sent into other Parts This River to conclude was for many Ages the Boundary on this Side of the Roman Empire and against the barbarous Nations accordingly the Roman Legions had their Stations upon its Banks they were the Founders of many of the Cities and many memorable Actions in those early Days happened near it sometimes between the Romans themselves and sometimes between them and the Barbarians Danvilliers See Damvilliers Daphne a delightful Village of old in Syria upon the Banks of the River Orontes five Miles from Antioch the Great Where was a large famous Cypress Wood consecrated to Apollo with a Temple to his Honour also and another to Diana and a Spring called the Fountain of Daphne The Romans for some time kept a Legion here till they found their Men effeminated by the Pleasures of the Place Pompey the Great charmed with its Beauty became a Benefactor to it Constantine M. built a House of Pleasure in it in the Year 326. Gallus caused the Body of the Martyr Babylas the Patriarch of Antioch to be transported hither whereupon it is said Apollo surceased his Oracle Julian the Apostate commanded the said Body to be removed in 362. After which the Temple of Apollo was so consumed in a Storm of Thunder and Lightning that in S. Chrysostom's time only one Pillar now nothing is remaining thereof And the Christian Emperors succeeding Julian erected Churches in its Room Darbon Alpheus a River in the middle of the Morea which falls into the Ladon which falls into the Orfea and divides at Pilus one Branch called Illiaco runs West and entereth the Ocean over against Zant the other Alpheo runs South and entereth the Gulph of Arcadia over against the Town of Stroffhad 20 Miles North-West of Arcadia Darby Derby Derbia is both a City and a County in England The County has Nottinghamshire on the East Leicestershire on the South Staffordshire on the West and Yorkshire on the North. The River Derwent divides it into two Parts running North and South and at last falls into Trent which is its Southern Boundary That Part which lies East of Derwent is plain and fruitful the Western Parts are more mountainous and barren but abound in Mines of Lead Iron Coals and afford good Pasture for Sheep In the South-East Part of this County upon the River Derwent lieth the City of Derby which first takes its Name from the River and then lends it to the County A fine rich well-traded City On the East Side it has Derwent covered by a Stone-Bridge on the South it hath a clear Rivolet called Mertenbrook and within it five Parish-Churches Thomas Lord
another River Iberus which is apprehended to be the same with that the Moderns call Rio Tinto Ebudae Hebudes Hebrides Aebudae five small Islands to the West of the Kingdom of Scotland now more commonly thence called the VVestern Isles They have the honour to constitute a Bishoprick under the Archbishoprick of Glascow Eburones Eburonices Aulerici Eburiaci and Eburovices an ancient People of Gallia Celtica dwelling at and about the modern Eureux in Normandy and the Diocese of Liege taken in its former Latitude Ebusus See Ivica Ecbatana the Capital City of the Kingdom of the ancient Medes apprehended to be the same with the Modern Casbin or else Tauris of Persia See Casbin Hani and Tauris King Cambyses died here in the year of the World 3532. Parmenion by the order of Alexander Magnus was killed in 3725. and the alter Alexander Hephaestion buried here in 3728. with so much Funeral Pomp as amounted to twelve thousand Talents § There was another ancient Ecbatana in Phoenicia towards Mount Carmel Eccleshal a Market-Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Pirehill Ecija Astigi Astygi a City of the Kingdom of Andalusia in Spain called by Pliny Augusta Firma upon the River Xenil over which it hath a Bridge eight Miles from Cordova to the South and fourteen from Sevil to the North. This was anciently a Bishops See but now a part of the Diocese of Sevil and at this time one of the best Cities in Andaluzia recovered from the Moors in 1239. L'Ecluse See Sluys Eda Baetius a River in Arabia Foelix which springing out of the Mountains of Ghazuan Bengebres watereth Harsan and a little below Tajef takes in the River Chaibar then by passing by Badid Almortasse Baisat and Mecca it falls into the Red Sea at Ziden or Giodda over against Suaquem in Africa Edel Rha. See Wolgha Eden the Garden of Paradise described Gen. 2. 3. to be planted by the Divine hand at the head of a River which afterwards breaking into four Currents produces the Rivers Pison Geichon Hiddekel and Euphrates from whence they conjecture this Garden to have had its place in the Country about Mesopotamia in Asia Not but that the circumstances of the Guardian Cherubims and a Flaming Sword invisible the Fruit-Trees of Life and Knowledge the Serpents talking with Humane Voice and by an easie fallacy trepanning of his Lord into a condition of entailing Curses upon posterity unborn c. have administred apprehensions to the Curious of this History's being either an Hypothesis of the Writer or an Allegory § Eden Ituna a River of England which ariseth from Huseat Movel-Hill in Yorkshire It passeth Pendragon Castle Kirby Steven Appleby and at Hornbey takes in the River Eimot and entereth Cumberland out of VVestmâ—rland running Northward it passeth Corby Castle and VVarwick then turning West it watereth Carlisse taking in Petterel and Canda one above the other beneath that City also the Irthing which falleth by Brampton and Kirksop the Boundary of England and Scotland so falleth by the Bay of Itune or Eden into the Irish Sea between Anand Castle in Scotland and Boulnesse in England Eder Adrana Aeder a River of Germany which ariseth in the Vpper Hassia and flowing through the Earldom of VValdeck watereth Franekenberg VValdeck and two Miles above Cassel to the North falls into the River Fuld Edernay Hadrianopolis See Adrianople Edessa See Rhoa Edgware a small Market Town in the County of Middlesex in the Hundred of Gore Edinburgh Agneda Edenburgum is the Capital City of the Kingdom of Scotland and Seat of the Kings of that Nation It stands in the South part of Scotland in the County of Lothaine anciently called CASTRVM ALATVM and Edenburroth signifies the same thing for Aidan in the Welsh is Wing it stands on a high Ground in an healthful Air a fruitful Soil watered by many excellent Springs in length from East to West a Mile the breadth something less the Walls strong the publick and private Buildings Magnificent full of People and has a competent Trade by the advantage of the Port of Leith not far from it At the East end is the Royal Palace by it a fine Park and not far off a strong Castle upon a Rock As the variety of the Fortune of War changed this City fell sometimes into the hands of the English and at others of the Scots till 960. when the last prevailed by the means of the Danish Irruptions September 14. 1650. after the Battel of Dunbar the Castle was delivered into hands of the English who kept it till the Restitution of Charles II. And June 13. 1689. the Duke of Gourdon surrendred the same to K. William's Forces under Sir John Lanier upon Conditions for the Garrison only For as to his own Interest he submitted himself to K. William's discretion It lies in Long. 16. 00. Lat. 56. 15. § The Fyrth of Edinburgh is one of the greatest Bays in Scotland on the North it has Fife on the South Sterling and Lothaine and several of the principal Cities of this Kingdom stand about it or near to it Edge-Hill a place in VVarwickshire near Kyneneton seven Miles South of VVarwick where on Sunday October 23. 1642. was fought the first Battel between Charles I. and the Parliamentarians under the Earl of Essex The Earl of Lindsey Commander of the King's Battalia and General of the Field was slain and the Standard taken but retaken by Sir John Smyth who after the Fight was made a Knight Banneret The King had in this first Battel clearly the advantage and opened his way to Oxford and London and the next day took Banbury whereas Essex retreated first to VVarwick then to Coventry and left both the Field and the Passes Edom. See Idumaea Efeso See Ephesus Ega a River in Spain it ariseth in Aalva in Biscay and flowing through the Kingdom of Navarr watereth Stella and Villa Tuercta and between Calahorra and Villafranca falls on the North into the Ebro Egates or Aegates a knot of Islands in the Sicilian Sea over against the Promontory of Drepanum in Sicily to the West They are memorable for the Naval Victory obtained here by C. Lutatius Catulus the Roman Consul over the Carthaginians wherein seventy of their Vessels being taken and fifty sunk a Peace by them desired was concluded upon condition they should quit all their pretensions to the Islands betwixt Italy and Africa with which the first Punick War ended in the year of Rome 513. i. e. 241. before Christ See Gotham Egaean Sea See Archipelago Eger and Etlaw See Agria Eger Egra and Oegra a strong Town in the Kingdom of Bohemia upon a River of its own Name towards the Frontiers of Franconia in Germany It was the Seat of the ancient Narisci according to Thuanus and became first a dependent of the Crown of Bohemia by Mortgage in 1315. In the German Wars often besieged Those of the Country call it Heb or Cheb Egers Aegiricius Egericius commonly called Gers a River of France in the
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
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
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
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
Tract of Sobarbe which has sometime born the Title of a Kingdom Ainzia a Tract in the County of Buchan in Scotland Aire Aturum the chief Town of Gascoine and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Aux it stands upon the River Adour in the Borders of the County of Armagnac four Aquitane Leagues above S. Sever and sixteen from Bajonne Aire Aria called by the Flandrians Arien by the Spaniards Ere it is a strong City in Artois seated in a Marsh upon the River Leye which falls into the Scheld at Gaunt taken by the French in 1641. and presently recovered by the Spaniards but it was retaken â— the French in 1676. and is now in their possession by the Treaty of Nimeguen It is 12 Leagues from Bologn to the East Aire Aeria by the Scotch Ayr is a small City and Sheriffdom in Scotland upon Dunbritain-Frith on the West of that Kingdom it stands 22 Scotch Miles from Donbritoun South-West Airu a River of Scotland which springs from the Mountains of Mar and unites with the Spei in Buchan The City Aire stands upon it Airy Airiacum a Village in Burgundy in Auxerrois near Clamecy Here was a National Council held in 1020. under Pope Benedict VIII Aisaâ—ce a small River in Normandy which joyns the Colsnon below d'Autrain Aisne Axona a River of France riseth in the Dukedom of Barois and flowing through the Provinces of Champagne and the Territory of Argonne and that of Soissons cuts the City of Soissons in two parts and at last ends in the River Oise a little East of Compeigne in the Isle of France Aix Aquae Sextiae a City of Provence in France It was a Roman Colony and is now an Archbishops See and the Seat of the Parliament of that Province a fair growing Town seated in a large Plain upon a small Rivolet about 15 Leagues from Arles and 13 from Avignon to the East Aix in Savoy an antient City at the foot of the Mountains between Chambery Annecy and Rumilly giving the Title of a Marquess It is famous for Mineral Waters Aix la Chapelle Aquisgranum called by the Germans Aaâ—b by the Dutch Aken by the French Aix by the Italians Aquisgrana it is an Imperial free City of Germany in the Circle of Westphalia within the Borders of the Dukedom of Juliers under which Prince it now is Charles the Great of France died here Jan. 24. 814. and here he was buried having been the Restorer of this City after Attila the King of the Huns had ruin'd it It was almost intirely ruin'd by Fire again in 1656. but is now rebuilding In 1658. there was a famous Peace made here between the present Kings of France and Spain Divers Councils have been held here This City stands 8 German Miles from Cologn 7 from Liege in a low place almost incircled with Hills Aizu a Province of Japan with a Town of the same Name which is one of the best in the Country Akerhuys a Sea-port Town in the County of Aggerhuys not above 15 Miles from Christianstadt in Norway Akerman Alba a City of Moldavia Akersondt an Island belonging to Norway in the German Ocean over against the Cape of Shagen Akertewe a City in the Isle of Maragnan on the Coast of Brasil Akill Achill Achillia a small Island on the Coast of Connaught in Ireland over against the County of Mayo Akroczim a City in the Palatinate of Mazovia in Poland fortifyed with a Castle Aksteede Acsteda a small City upon the River Lun in the Dutchy of Bremen in Saxony under the Swedes Akza a River of Georgia in Asia Al a River of Prussia believed by some to be the Guttalus of Pliny Alahanda See Eblaba Alacranes Islands infested with Scorpions in the New America 20 Leagues from Jucutan Aladuli the Turkish Name of Armenia major Alagon a River of Spain in the Province of Estremadura and Kingdom of Leon it falls into the Taio a little above Alcantara as Rodericus Sylva saith Alaine a small River in the Province of Nivernois in France Alais Alesia a City of Languedoc upon the River Guerdon at the foot of the Mountain Cevennes 10 Leagues from S. Esprit to the East Alalcomene Alalcomenium an antient City of Boeotia famous for a Statue of Minerva and the Tomb of Tiresias Afterwards call'd Ithaca says Plutarch and the Birth-place of Vlysses Alan a small River in Cornwal in England it falls into the Irish Sea at Padstow at the Head of it is a small Village called Camelford where King Arthur is reported to have been slain in Battel Padstow lies about 17 Miles West from Launceston Aland an Island of the Baltick Sea at the entrance of the Botner Sea under the Dominion of the King of Sweden Alar a River of Persia in Hyrcania falling into the Caspian Sea Alarcan Illarco a Town in New Castile in Spain Alares an antient People of Pannonia Tacit. Alaschâ—hir Hipsius Vpsu an antient City of Phrygia and sometime the See of a Suffragan Bishop Alatri Alatrium Alatrinum a City of Campania in Italy and a Bishops See dependent immediately on the Pope Mentioned by the Antients Alava a small Territory in Biscay in Spain Alba or Albe Alba Pompeia a City of Monferrat upon the River Tangro it is an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Millan heretofore subject to the Duke of Mantua but taken from him in 1631. by a Treaty of Peace and ever since under the Duke of Savoy This City of latter times having suffered great changes is reduced into a consumptive State for want of Inhabitants It is distant from Aste 12 Miles to the South Albana a City of Albania in Asia with a Port to the Caspian Sea Albania an antient Province upon the Caspian Sea in Asia Westward now call'd Zuirie under the Turks § Also a Province of Turkey in Europe which was antiently the Western part of Macedonia and part of Illyrium upon the Adriatique Ocean reduced under the Dominion of the Turks by Mahomet 2. It s chief Cities are Croia Durazzo c. The Inhabitants for the most part are Christians of the Greek Church Albany Albania call'd in Scotland Braid-Albin is a Dukedom in the highest part of Scotland as the Name imports the Seat of the Old Scots upon the declining Western part of Mount Grampus next Lorn and Argile Charles I. in his Infancy at two years of age was created Duke of Albany This Title was also conferred on the Lord Darnly his Grandfather and given by Charles I. to his Second Son afterwards James II. Albano Alba Longa the Mother of Rome from which it lies about 12 Miles It has been ruin'd many Ages It stood betwixt a Lake and a Mountain of the same Name There has been another Albano built near its Ruines which is a Bishops See a Principality and the Title of a Cardinal § Also a City with the Title of a Principality in the Kingdom of Naples Albanopolis an antient City of Macedonia in Greece Alba Julia. See Weissenburg
this County Angola a Kingdom in Africa upon the South of the Kingdom of Congo Angote a City and Kingdom in the Upper Aethiopia Angoulesme Engolisma is an Episcopal City in Aquitaine in France under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux it stands upon the River Charme which falls into the Ocean right over against the Island of Orleron There is belonging to it also a Dukedom which is bounded upon the North with Poictou upon the East with Limosin upon the South with Pericort and upon the West with Xantogn This Dukedom is call'd by the name of Angoumois Angra the chief City of the Island of Tercera and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lisbon Anguien Enguien Angia a small City in Hainault between Mons and Brussels It has the Honor to give the Title of a Baron to the Princes of the House of Bourbon Anguilla is one of the Caribby Islands planted by the English it lies in 18 deg 21 min. Nor. Lat. and 330 of Longit. in length about 10 Leagues in breadth 3. formerly call'd Snake Island from its shape The Tobacco of this Island is well esteemed Anguillara a Town and Lake in the Padouan in the States of Venice § Also a Town in the States of the Church upon the Lake of Bracciano Anhalt a City almost ruin'd and a Principality but little considerable in the Upper Saxony in Germany watered by the River Sala The House of Anhalt has possessed the Electorates of Brandenburgh and Saxony for several Ages Anian a Streight supposed to be between Asia and America but could never yet be discovered where or whether there be any such Passage or no It is thought to lie North of China and Japan and to disjoyn the Eastern part of Asia from the Western part of America Anianâ—u a City in the Province of Chuqnami in China Aniava Aniwa a Promontory discovered by the Hollanders in the Terra de Jesso to the North of Japan Anigre Anigrus a River of the Morea Animacha a River arising in the Kingdom of Callecutt in the East-Indies which falls into the Ocean six Leagues off Cranagor giving its Name to a Town in its way Anjou Andegavia is one of the noblest Dukedoms of France bounded on the East with La Beausse on the West with Britain and part of Poictou on the South in part by Berry and in part by Poictou in which Circumference are included Anjou Tourein and Maine This Country is for the most part very fruitful and pleasant especially in Tourein and along the Loire Anjou properly so call'd is seated between Tourein and Maine and was so call'd from the Andegavi the old Inhabitants of it Henry II. King of England was Earl of Anjou by Inheritance from his Father as he was K. of England by Maud his Mother Daughter to Henry I. King John his Son lost it and ever since it has been annexed to the Crown of France or given to the younger Sons of that Royal Family Anna. See Ana. The Name also of a Town upon the River Astan in Arabia deserta Annaberg a City of Misnia in Germany upon the River Schop near Marienberg Annacious Annacieugi a People of Brasil in America towards Porto Seguro Annagh a Town in the County of Cavan in Vlster in Ireland § Another in the County of Down Anneci Annecium a neat City in Savoy with a Castle It is the Capital of the Dukedom of Geneva seated upon a Lake of the same name where the River Tioud issueth out of the Lake at the foot of the Mountain Saymenoz heretofore greater but now it is little and not well inhabited tho the See of the Bishops of Geneva has been translated thither above 100 years In this place resteth the Body of S. Francis de Sales who was Bishop and Prince of Geneva near the time of the Reformation of Calvâ—â— This City is 6 Leagues from Geneva South Annibi a Lake of North Tartary in Asia where there are Mountains of the same name Annobon an Island upon the Coast of Guiney 10 Leagues in circuit towards the Isle of S. Thomas The Portuguese gave it that name because they discovered it upon a New-Years Day Annonay Annonaeum Annoniacum a City with the Title of a Marquisate in the Province of Vivarets in France upon the River Deume Anone Anonium or Roque de Non a Town in the Milanese in Italy upon the River Tanaâ—â— almost ruin'd Anossi Carcanossi Androbeizaba a Province of the Isle of Madagascar There are some Colonies of French in it Anot a small City of Provence in France Anoth one of the Scilly Islands Anpadore Cataractus a River of Candia Ansa a River in the Province of Friuli in Italy It passes by Aqueleia to the Adriatique Ocean Anse a small City in the Province of Lyennois in France 4 Leagues from Lyons Made a Roman Garrison in the time of Augustus who gave it the name of Antium Ansene Angria a small City in Aegypt 20 Leagues from Cairo near the Nile Ansianactes a People of the Western part of the Isle of Madagascar Ansiquains Ansicani a People of Abyssinia commended for their Fidelity and Honesty Anslo or Opslo Anslooa a City of the Province of Aggerhuys in Norway with a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Drontheim seated upon a Bay of the same name 35 Miles from the Baltick Sea Northward it has a Castle near it call'd Aggerhuslo This City was miserably ruin'd by Fire in the Reign of Christian IV. who rebuilt it in Anno 1614. and call'd it Christianstad from his own Name In this City were celebrated the Nuptials of James I. King of England with the Lady Ann Daughter of Frederick II. King of Denmark Novemb 23. 1589. It stands 56 German Miles from Stockholme Weâ—t Anspach See Onspach Antavares a People on the South part of the Isle of Madagascar The French had settled themselves amongst them and were afterwards Massacred by them Ante Anta a River in Normandy which washeth the Town of Failaise and 3 Leagues lower falls into the Dive which last falls into the British Sea 4 Leagues East of Caen. Ante Anta a small Town and Port in Guiny in Africa 3 Leagues from the Cape of Three Heads East Antego one of the Caribby Islands plac'd in 16 d. 11. â— of Northern Lat. and 339 of Long. inhabited by the English for some years and is about 6 or 7 Leagues in length and breadth difficult of Access and not much stor'd with Springs which the Inhabitants supply by Ponds and Cisterns Antequera a small ill built City of New Spain in America 80 Leagues from Mexico which in 1535. was made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico by Pope Paul III. § Also a small Town in the Kingdom of Granada in Old Spain Antessa Antissa an antient City in the Island of Lesbos which was heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mitylene Ovid speaks of it as also the antient Geographers under the notion of its being it self an Island in
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
into all parts of America and most other parts of the World tho no where nam'd before the Year 1063. Robert Bishop of Constance a Seditious Man first Wall'd it in the Reign of William Rufus against that King It has a Stone Bridge with Houses built on both sides of it over the River And also a Castle in which King Stephen was kept a Prisoner some time after he had in vain besieg'd it The Bishops See was Founded by Henry VIII and made Suffragan to the Archbishop of Canterbury In the beginning of the Rebellions against Charles I. it sided with the Parliament and was on that account besieg'd by Prince Rupert July 24. 1643. who took it in two days under whom it continued till September 10. 1645. when it was surrendred to Fairfax the Parliaments General It was preserved from falling into the hands of the late Duke of Monmouth by the Vigilance of the Duke of Beaufort who was Lord Lieutenant of this City and its County Britain See England New Britain a Country in the Northern America between Hudson's Bay and New France discover'd nam'd and possess'd by the English Formerly call'd Estoiteland See Estoiteland British Sea Mare Britannicum by the French call'd la Manche is the known Sea betwixt England and France Extending according to Pomponius Mela to the Islands of Sain and Osismiens that is to the Diocese of Treguier in Bretagne Brive-la-Gaillarde Briva Curretia a Town in the Province of Limosin in France upon the River Coureze 2 or 3 Leagues from Tulles Gombaud Ballomer natural Son to Clotaire I. King of France was here Crown'd after the death of Chilperick I. Not a large Place but situated to its commendation Brixen Brixinio an Episcopal City in the County of Tirol in Germany under the Archbishop of Saltzburg Heretofore a Free Imperial City but now exempted It lies at the Foot of the Mountain Bruneck upon the River Eysach where it receives another River call'd the Riencz not far from Siben a ruin'd City out of which it sprang It lies not above 2 Miles from the Confines of the Dominions of the State of Venice and 13 from Trent In the year 1080. the Emperour Henry IV. presided over a Council here of 30 Bishops of his Party who all subscribing to his resentments of the Excommunication and Degradation pronounced against him by Pope Gregory VII deposed the said Pope elected Guibert Archbishop of Ravenna who took the Name of Clement III. to succeed him in the Chair of Rome and Voted that the Emperour should carry his Arms into Italy to put their Decrees in execution Brocalo a Kingdom of Nigritia in Africa Brockersberg a Mountain between Thuringen and Franconia Brockmerlandt a Territory in Friseland Brod a small Town in Bosnia upon the Save famous for the Victory which Prince Louis of Baden obtain'd near it over the Bassa of Bosnia Sept. 5. 1688. whereby the Turks pro illa vice lost that whole Country Broitzchia a Town in the Kingdom of Guzurate in the hither East-Indies 12 Leagues from Surate under the great Mogul Bromley a Market-Town in Kent in Sutton Lath upon the River Ravensburn Here there is a College for 20 Clergymen's poor Widows founded by Dr. Warner The Seat of the Bishop of Rochester stands by it Bromley Abbots a Market-Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Pirehill Bromes-Grove a Market-Town in Worcestershire in the Hundred of Halfshire upon the Banks of the River Salwarp Bromyard a Market-Town in Herefordshire in the Hundred of Brocash Bronchorst a Town in the Province of Guelderland upon the Issel very near Zutphen It gives the Title of an Earl Bronsbroo Bronsbroa a Town of the Kingdom of Sweden in the Province of Ostrogothia where the Crowns of Sweden and Denmark held a Treaty of Peace in the Year 1645. Brough a Market-Town in VVestmorland in East Ward Broughton a Market-Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Loynsdale Brouage one of the fairest and strongest Forts in all France in Xaintonge not far from Burdeaux Brower a Name given by Brower a Dutchman to the Streights discovered by him in 1643. towards the Island of Statenland in the Sea of Magellan in America Browershaven a Town and Port in the Island of Schowen in Zeland â— Leagues from Ziriczee Rich and Populous Bruca Pantagia a River of Sicily Brucomat Brucomagus a Town in Alsatia Bruges Bruga a City in Flanders call'd by the Dutch Brugg which was made a Bishops See by Paul IV. under the Archbishop of Mechlin a large beautiful well traded Town and has its name from the multitude of Bridges in it being seated on a knot of Dikes 8 Miles from Gant to the West and 3 from Ostend to the East This is under the Spaniards and is one of the best they have left being 4 Miles in Circuit wonderfully well Peopled and once exceeding rich They reckon 60 handsom Churches in it Brugneto Brunetum a City in the State of Genoua which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Genoua at the Foot of the Apennine 50 Miles from Genoua to the East of little compass thinly inhabited and ill built Bruno Prilis a Lake and small River in the Territories belonging to Siena once a Commonwealth in Italy now a part of the Dukedom of Florence 8 Miles from the City of Grosseto to the South-West Brunsberg Brunsberga is a Royal City belonging to the Kingdom of Poland in Prusia but some years since mortgag'd to the Duke of Brandenburg seated upon the great Bay call'd Frish Haff on the West side of the River Passerg 8 Miles from Margenberg to the East and the same distance from Koningsperg to the West Brunsbuttel a small Town in the Dukedom of Holstein in Germany towards the Mouth of the Elb under the King of Denmark 2 or 3 Leagues from Glukstat Brunswick Brunopolis Brunonis Vicus is a City and Dukedom in Germany the Dukedom is a part of the Dukedom of Saxony bounded on the East with the Earldom of Mansfield on the West with Westphalia on the North with Lunenburgh and on the South with Hassia This Dukedom takes its name from Brunswick the principal City in it which lies upon the River Onacra and was a Free Imperial City or Hanse Town the Metropolis of the antient Saxony a rich strong populous City or rather five Cities under one Law and within one Wall which is 8 English Miles in compass built by Bruno Duke of Saxony in 861. and from him it had its name It fell into the hands of the Duke in 1671. and is now under their Dominion it has a Castle lately built and well fortified since which time it is much decay'd This City embrac'd the Reformation in 1522. and Professeth the Augustan Confession as all the rest of that Dukedom doth It lies 20 Miles from Hamburg to the North upon the River Oker Brussel Bruxella the chief City and Seat of the antient Dukes of Brabant and after that of the Dukes of Burgundy as it is at this day the
on the East by Glamorganshire and Brecknock on the West by Pembroke on the North by Cardigan from which it is separated by the River Tivy and on the South by the Irish Sea This County is said by Mr. Camden to be very fruitful and in some places to have plenty of Coal Mines and to abound in Cattle It takes its Name from the principal City which stands upon the River Tiny about 5 Miles from the Sea called by Ptolomy Maridunum by Antonius Muridunum It was Walled with Brick in the times of Giraldus Cambrensis but was then decaying Pleasantly seated between Woods and Meadows and very venerable for its great Antiquity taken from the VVelch in the Reign of VVilliam the Conqueror after this by them retaken and burnt twice till being first strengthened with a Castle by Henry Turbervil an English Man and after that walled about by Gilbert de Clare it recovered something of its former Glory The Princes of VVales settling here the Chancery and Exchequer for South VVales Caernarvanshire has on the North and West the Irish Sea on the South Merioneth and on the East Denbighshire parted from the Isle of Anglesey by the River Menay All the middle parts of it are covered and filled with Mountains so that Mr. Camden calls these Hills Alpes Britannicas the British Alpes and saith they afforded the greatest Security to the Welsh in times of VVar and so abounded with Grass that they seemed sufficient alone to have fed all the Cattle of VVales The Western parts are more level and yield plenty of Barley The chief Town or City is seated in this part of the County upon the River Menay and was built by Edward I. King of England about 1283. Small and almost round but strong and defended by a beautiful Castle Edward II. was born here and Surnamed from this Town who was the first of the English Princes that bore the Title of Prince of VVales In after times these Princes setled here the Chancery for North-VVales Robert Dormer Baron of VVing was created Viscount and Earl of Carnarvan in the sourth Year of the Reign of King Charles I. who afterwards lost his Life valiantly for that Prince at Newberry in 1643. to whom succeeded Charles his Son Caerphilly a Market-Town in the County of Glamorgan in VVales where the Earl of Pembroke has a Noble Castle It is the Capital of its Hundred Caerwis a Market-Town in Flintshire in the Hundred of Coleshill Caeron a Country in Assyria where Josephus says the Relicks of Noah's Ark were to be seen in his time It produces your odoriferous Wood. Caesarea Palestina was anciently call'd the Tower of Straton But Herod the Great rebuilding it called it Caesarea in honor of Augustus It is now call'd Caisar It lies on the shoars of the Mediterranean Sea in the Holy Land 30 Miles to the South from Ptolemais and 45 from Jerusalem After the Ruin of Jerusalem it became the Metropolis of Palestine and the Seat of the Prefect or Governor the Bishop of Caesarea gained thereby the Authority of a Primate over the Bishop of Jerusalem and for some Ages maintained it but in after Councils the Bishop of Jerusalem was exempted and made a Patriarch several great Councils have been held here Eusebius Pamphilus the Church Historian was in his time Bishop of it Cornelius the first converted Gentile was baptized here by S. Peter S. Paul was a Prisoner here And Origen taught here But in 653. after a Siege of 7 years Muhavia a Saracen took it from the Christians In the Holy War it was several times taken and retaken till at last intirely ruined by Barsus a Saracen Long 66. 15. Lat. 32. 20. § Caesarea Magna in Cappadocia the Episcopal Seat heretofore of S. Basil See Caisar § Caesarea Philippi See Balbec § Caesarea in Africa an antient City mention'd with Honor in the Roman History upon the Coast of the Mediterranean believed to be the same with the Iol of Ptolemy Pliny and Mela. It became a Bishop's See since Christianity and likewise an University that produced divers Poets and Philosophers of Note in the time that the Arabians were Victorious in Africa In the Year 959. the Caliphs ruined it The Remains of its Walls make it appear to have been above 3 Leagues in Circuit call'd by the Africans Tiguident Caffa a considerable City and Sea-Port in Crim Tartary upon the Eastern side of the Peninsula East of the City of Crim supposed to be the Cavum of the Antients It is a flourishing Mart and furnished with a large and capacious Haven Heretofore possessed by the Genoese who saith Dr. Heylin by the Help of this Port and the Plantation they had in Pera on the North Side of Constantinople engrossed all the Trade of the Euxine Sea into their own hands In 1475. it was taken by Mahomet the Great ever since it has been in the hands of the Turks and though by them much ruin'd is still the principal Place in that Demy-Island The Turks govern it by a Bashaw they send thither and although the Tartars can possess themselves of it when they please yet they chuse rather to leave it in his hands than to take it into their own The Venetians have often sollicited a free Commerce with it for the Benefit of its Commodities but the Port has constantly refused to suffer their Vessels to pass into the Black Sea for Reasons of State They reckon about 4000 Houses of Mahometans Tartars and Christians whereof some Latins Greeks and some Armenians to the Number of about 800 who are obliged to wear a Distinction from the rest in their Bonnets Caffreria a Country of Africa of large extent It lies from the Kingdom of Angola on the North to the Cape of Good Hope and is bounded East West and South with the Ocean the South-Eastern part is very fruitful and well peopled the rest barren Mountainous and little peopled The Inhabitants are so barbarous that they are called by this Name from their rude way of living which signifies the Lawless People they were all heretofore Man-eaters and many of them continue such to this day They call themselves Hottentots Mr. Herbert an English Man who was in these Parts will scarce allow them to be perfect Men and saith they sell Man's Flesh in the Shambles They acknowledg a Soveraign Being under the Name of Humma which they adore when he sends good Weather But in cold and rainy or very hot Seasons they change their Praises of him into Complaints against him Cagliari Caralis Calaris a City of Sardinia an Island in the Mediterranean Sea which is the Capital and the Seat of the Governor on the South side of the Island upon an Hill Also an Archbishop's See and an University When the Moors were Masters of this Island they ruined this City but James II. King of Aragon recovering it Anno Christi 1330. the Pisans rebuilt the Town which is now become great and rich under the Spaniards It has three
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.
English Miles from Thessalonica to the North-West upon the Borders of Macedonia and Albania See Dr. Brown's Travels Cossir See Cosir Costagnazo Haemus a Mountain in Thrace Coustantz See Constance Costa-Ricca A Province of New Spain in the South America lying betwixt the two Seas and Westward of Veragua The Capital whereof is the City Carthage There are some Gold and Silver Mines in it and a Soil which makes it worthy of its Name Coste des dents or Coste de l' Ivoire the Ivory Coast is a part of the Coast of Guiny in Africa betwixt the Cape of Palmes and the Cape of three Points whither the English French Hollanders c. traffick for Elephants Teeth It is said to be well inhabited and to lye very conveniently Coste d'Or or the Golden Coast another part of the Coast of the same Country so call'd from the quantity of Gold that they find upon it It is about one hundred and thirty Leagues long reaching from the Cape of three Points where the former ends as far as to the River Volta and the Kingdom of Benin The English Danes and Dutch have divers Settlements upon it The latter having dispossessed all the Portugueze Cothon the ancient Name of the Port of Carthage in Africa Cotatis the principal City of Imiretta a Kingdom or Province of Georgia built at the Foot of an Hill by the River Phasiâ— consisting of about two hundred Houses those of the Grandees and the Kings Palace stand at a distance The Town has neither Fortifications nor Walls nor any Defence except where it is enclosed by the River and the Mountains On the other side of the River upon the top of an Hill higher than that under which the City is built stands the Fortress of Cotatis which appears very strong As Sir John Chardin describes this City in his Travels Cotbus Cotbutium a Town in Lusatia in Germany upon the River Havel which also passeth by Berlin from which it lies thirteen Miles to the South and ten from Franckford to the South-West This Town came into the Hands of the Duke of Brandenburgh in 1645. and is sometimes called Cotwitz Cotrone Croton a City of the further Calabriâ— in the Kingdom of Naples which of old was twelve Miles in Compass as Livy saith and built eighty years after Rome but now very small and thinly inhabited yet it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio and has a Castle built by Charles V. It stands on the South-East side of Italy fifteen Miles South-East of Severina The Cottian-Alpes Alpes Cottiae a part of the Alpes heretofore under the Dominion of King Cottius mention'd in Suetonius as an Ally with the People of Rome in the Reign of Augustus and therefore by the Ancients called Cottiae from him They begin at the Fountains of the River Var and reach to Susa that is from Mount Viso to Mount Cenis dividing the Dauphinate from Piedmont Cotzchin or Chotozin or Kotym a Castle in Moldavia upon the Niester four Polish or twenty English Miles from Caminieck to the South-West where in 1673. an Army of the Turks consisting of two and thirty thousand Men under the Command of Solyman Aga designed for the ruine of Lemburgh were encamped having the Neister behind them a Range of Rocks and Precipices on one side the Castle of Cotzchin on the other a Trench before them defended by Half-Moons a Bridge over the Nieper and another over the Castle yet Zobietsky then Marshal but now King of Poland with much lesser Forces coming up October 9. battered down their Brest-Work with his Cannon and the next day dismounting his Cavalry to second the Lithuanian Foot which had been beaten off in Person at the head of his Men stormed their Camp took it slew or took Prisoners thirty one thousand five hundred Turks and the rest hardly escaped Solyman their General being slain In 1621. Vladislaus Prince of Poland Son of Sigismund King of Poland in the same Field defeated the Forces of Osman I. and slew the greatest part of them amongst the rest Vssain le Borgne who was esteemed the best Commander the Turks had in those times Couco Coucum a Kingdom in Barbary in Africa with a City of the same Name sixty Miles from the Shoars of the African Sea between the Kingdoms of Algiers and Bugia Coucy a Seigniory in Picardy giving Name to a Family of Honour Coventry Conventria a City in the County of Warwick upon the West Side of the River Sherborne which is of no very great Antiquity but neat strong rich and populous by reason of the Cloathing Trade Also a Bishop's See in Conjunction with Litchfield under the Archbishop of Canterbury It has three Churches the Priory or Convent whence the Name Coventry was the most ancient Foundation of the City being built by Canutus the Dane And the Cross may be reckoned amongst the finest in England The Noble George Villiers late Duke of Buckingham was created Earl of Coventry in the twenty first of James I. A Title that had lain buried ever since the Death of Edwin a Saxon whom William the Conqueror created Earl of Coventry in the first Year of his Reign Henry VI annexing the adjacent Towns and Villages to this City made it with them a County Corporate distinct from that of Warwickshire Coulan a City and small Kingdom in the East-Indies in the great Promontory of Malabar on the Western Shoar thirty five Leagues North of the Cape of Comâ—ry and about seventeen South of Cochin The Country is well watered and fruitful not above twenty Leagues long from North to South and eight or ten broad from East to West Bounded by the Kingdoms of Cochin and Travancor There are many Christians in it by the means of the Portuguese The City has a Castle and a safe Haven with the Character of a rich and flourishing Place The Portuguese were driven out of it by the Hollanders in 1663. Coulour a Town of the Hither East-Indies in the Kingdom of Golconde in Malabar seven days Journey from the City of Golconde There is a Mine or Quarry of Diamonds very near it Courreze Curretia a River in Limosin in France which riseth two Miles above Tulle and having watered both it and Brive falls into the Vesere two Miles above Condat Courtenay Cortenaeum Corteniacum Curtiniacum a small Town in the Isle of France six Miles distance from Sens West The Princes who have born the Title of this small Place are frequently mentioned by the French Historians and some of the Emperors of Greece are deriv'd from their Family Courtray Corteriacum by the Natives called Cortrick a Town in Flanders upon the River Lys five Leagues from Tournay to the North and four from Lille to the West Made famous by the Defeat of the French in 1302. This Town was taken by the French in 1646. and fortified and again in 1667 But in the Treaty of 1679. it returned under the Obedience of the King of Spain who is still possessed
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
a Castle taken by the Swedes and granted them by a Treaty in 1658. but in 1660. the Danes again recovered it The Country about is called the Government or Prefecture of Drontheim granted to the Swedes with the City but since recovered with it too This is the largest Prefecture in Norway reaching from North to South five hundred Miles and from West to East one hundred Droses Jernus a River of Conaught in the County of Clare which falls into the Bay of Shannon at Dinghanbeg Dinga East of Clare two Miles Le Drot Drotius a River in Aquitaine in France which ariseth at Montpasier ten Miles North-West of Cahors and running West falls into the Garrone over against Bazas nine Miles East of Bourdeaux Druidae Druides the Priests of the antient Gauls compared by Laertius with the Magi Gymnosophistae and Philosophers of Persia India and Greece for their pretensions to Learning and Piety and Authority over the people of whose Superstitions they were the Authors as of their affairs publick or private the Arbitrators The Eugabes of Ammianus Marcellinus the Saronides of Diâ—d Siculus and the Semnotheoi of others were several Orders of these Priests according as they applyed themselves either to the services of the Altar or to the Contemplation of the Works of Nature In the former they made Sacrifices of Men till the Emperors Angustus Tiberius and Claudius by repeated Interdicts at last broke them of that barbarity Their other they delivered to the publick in thousands of Verses unwritten only committed to Memory and passing the course of Ages by Tradition Their name of Druides some derive from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of a particular esteem they had for an Oak Some from Deru in the Celtick Language of the same signification They had a Chief Priest over them in the nature of a Soveraign Pontiff And we read the Gauls were so possessed by them with the belief of the immortality of the soul that they would lend mony in this world upon condition to be paid in the next Valer. Max. The Town Dreux in Normandy is supposed to be so called from these Druides Drummore Drummoria a City in the County of Lowth in the Province of Vlster in Ireland upon the River Lagang with a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Armagh Druses Druzes Drusi a people living in Grots and Caverns about the Mountain Libanus in Asia and onwards as far as to the Dead Sea following in Religion the Institutions of one Isman or Ismael a Prophet pretended which allow them to marry with their own Children or Sisters or Brothers and to live in perfect liberty from all such like precepts and ties as are in use amongst the Jews Christians and Mahometans They Traffick with the French Merchants for Silks and say they are descended from the French that went to the Conquest of the Holy Land with Godfrey of Bouillon being after the loss of Jerusalem in 1187. forced for safety to retire hither under the command of one of the House of Dreux Drut Dara a River of Carmania in Persia It falls into the Persian Gulph over against the City of Ormus having passed between Fafa and Chabon Duare a strong Fortress of Dalmatia upon a Hill not far from Almissa Taken from the Turks by the Venetians in 1646. and soon after lost again In 1652. retaken and demolished Whereupon the Turks to hinder the Incursions of the Morlaques out of Croatia rebuilt it yet in 1684. the Morlaques forced it and there is now a Venetian Garrison in it Dublin Dublinum in Irish Balacleigh the Capital City of the Kingdom of Ireland in the Province of Leinster in a County of the same Name upon the River Leffy which is the noblest River in all this Kingdom and maketh a Capacious Haven here at about twenty Leagues distance from Holyhead in Wales This City is called EBLANA by Ptolemy When or by whom it was first built is not known but old it must needs be by its being mentioned by him Saxo Grammaticus acquaints us how much it suffered by the Danes it was afterwards under Edgar King of England and Harald Harfager King of Norway In the year 1151. P. Eugenius III. made it an Archbishops See with the Title and Jurisdiction of a Primacy Henry II. having Conquered Ireland sent hither from Bristol a Colony whereby it began to Flourish more and more and became the Capital of the Kingdom the Seat of the Lieutenant the Courts of Justice and their Parliaments strengthened with a Castle on the East side built by Henry Loundres a Bishop in 1220. and near it there was a Royal Palace built by Henry II. King of England It has a College for Students which is an University of it self founded by Q. Elizabeth in in 1591. This was attempted before by Alexander Bicknor Archbishop of Dublin who in 1320. obtained from the Pope a Bull for it but the troublesome times that followed defeated that good design then at the North Gate is a Bridge of hewen Stone built by King John It has a Cathedral of great antiquity Dedicated to S. Patrick the Apostle of the Irish Nation and built at several times in which are a Dean two Archdeacons and twenty two Prebendaries there is another fair Collegiate Church in the City called Christs Church built in 1012. and about thirteen Parochial ones In more ancient times this City was Governed by a Provost but in 1409. Henry IV. granted them License to choose every year a Mayor and two Bailiffs changed into Sheriffs by Edward IV. thus far Cambden King Charles II. honored them with a Lord Mayor This City escaping the fury of the Massacre was besieged by the Parliament Forces and by the Duke of Ormond by the Kings Order delivered to the English rather than the Irish Rebels for they were now united against their King and when afterwards June 21. 1649. he indeavoured to recover it his Army was broken by a Sally and totally defeated and this City continued in their Hands till 1660. It has been extraordinarily enlarged in its Buildings in the twenty years last past The County of Dublin is bounded on the East by the Irish Sea on the West with the County of Kildare on the South by the little Territories of O Tooles and O. Brians on the North by the County of Meath and a small River called Nanny The Soil is fruitful as to every thing but Wood so that they use Sea-Coal and Turf for their Fewel It is well Inhabited Rich full of excellent Sea-Port Towns Ducey a Town of Normandy upon the River Ardee in the Diocese of Auranches Ducy a Town of Normandy betwixt Caen and S. Lo in the Diocese of Bayeux Duderstad Duderstadium a Town in the Dukedom of Brunswick upon the River Wipper eight Miles from Cassel to the North-East This Town though in the Duchy of Thuringia has belonged to the Elector of Mentz ever since 1365 and is the Capital of the Territory of Eichfeld Dudley a Market Town in
Market Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Scarhampton by the Sea side Dunwich an ancient Corporation once a potent City on the Coast of Suffolk Foelix the Burgundian who established the East Angles then wavering in the Christian Faith in 630. placed here a Bishops See which continued till Bisus the fourth Bishop after him removed to North Elmham leaving a suffragan Bishop only at Dunwich in which times it was very populous and so strong that it curbed Robert Earl of Leicester in his Rebellion against his Prince In the Reign of Henry II. it had a Mint William of Newbery calls it Vicus insignis variis opibus refertus a Town of good note well stored with all sorts of Riches But it is now a poor small Corporation which bating the honor of sending two Burgesses to the Parliament has nothing to Consolate it self withal Time the Sea and Men as bad as either have by degrees ruined not only the Town but the greatest part of the ground it stood upon and instead of its ancient variety of Riches there is now an uniform Poverty and desolation Durance Druentius Durantius a very rapid River in Provence in France which infesteth the Country with frequent Inundations It ariseth from Mount Genebra one of the Cottian Alpes not far from Pignerol in Piedmont or as others in the Dauphinate near Brianzon and passing on watereth Embrun and Gap and entring Provence takes in the Hubaye the Buech the Suse then passing Sisteron and Manosque it entertains the Verdon and a little beneath Cavaillon and Avignon unites with the Rhosne It will neither indure Boats nor Bridges by reason of its great rapidity and swiftness especially beneath Sisteron Durango Durangum a City of North America in the Province of New Biscay but near the Confines of New Spain towards the Zacatecas built at the foot of an Hill which was made a Bishoprick by the Archbishop of Mexico in 1620. § There is a small Town of this name also in the Principality of Biscay in the Kingdom of Old Spain Durazzo Durracium Dyrrachium Epidamnus called by the Turks Drazzi by the French Duras is a very ancient and much celebrated City of Macedonia in the Kingdom of Albania It has now a strong Castle and a large Haven seated on the Eastern Shoar of the Adriatick Sea upon the River Argentaro or Arzento North-East of Brindisi or Brundusium in the Kingdom of Naples from which it is distant one hundred and twenty Miles Built by the Corcyreans now called Corfu in the Year of the World 3327. One hundred and thirty years after Rome and six hundred twenty one before the Birth of our Saviour In the Year of the World 3512. being much streightned by its Fugitives it had recourse to the Assistance of the Corinthians but the Corcyreans taking part with those Exiles the Corinthians were beaten which drew on an Athenian War and that the Peloponnesian This City fell first with the rest of Greece under the Power of the Kings of Macedonia and together with Macedonia was subject to the Romans who made it a Roman Colony In the times of the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey it was the Seat of great Actions for Pompey chose it and it was the only prosperous Scene of that Party and had proved the ruin of Caesar if Pompey had pursued his first successes with vigor Not long before it had given entertainment to Cicero in his Exile and appears every where favourable to the Republicans It was also a Roman Colony but when setled I cannot now find In the times of Christianity it became an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Constantinople as it is still in the later times of the Greek Empire it had Princes of the Caroline Line of France from whom it passed to the Venetians and from them it was taken by Mahomet III. But the Venetians Sacked it in 1554. by their Fleet. Long. 44. 20. Lat. 41. 42. Duren Dura Duria Marcodurum a City in the Dukedom of Juliers in Germany upon the River Roer not two Miles from Gulick to the South and five from Cologne to the West This was the ancient Marcodurum in the opinion of Cluverius and all the other Geographers made a Free Imperial City by Charles IV. Emperor of Germany Charles V. being incensed against John Duke of Cleves who had married Mary the Daughter of William the last Duke of Juliers and Leagued with the French King Francis I. against him in 1545. entred the Dukedom of Juliers and after a sharp Siege took this City and burnt it it has been reduced into subjection again and is now under the Duke of Newbourg by the Treaty of Faisans in 1659. Three Councils were Celebrated here in the years 761. 775. 779. Durgat Phrygia a part of Anatolia or Asia the Less Durham Dunehelmum a City and County Palatine in the North of England The City is seated upon the River Ware in a Peninsula made by this River which washeth three sides of it and gives passage into it by three Bridges The ground of it is a natural Hill which contributes no less than the River to the strength and pleasantness of its situation also secured by a Wall and a Castle in the midst of it the Cathedral being a Bishops See under the Archbishop of York is towards the South side of the City and of great beauty This City is yet of no great Antiquity being built or rather begun by the Monks of Dindisfarn in 995. before which it was a Wood and then not cleared without difficulty In the times of William the Conqueror it was imployed by the Saxons as a place of Refuge against him but they were soon forced to betake themselves to Scotland for their greater security VVilliam the Conqueror being possessed of it built the Castle for a Curb to these Northern parts and a security against the Scots The present Cathedral was began about the same time by VVilliam de Careleph then Bishop of Durham and finished by his Successor This City gave great Protection to the English in 1346 when David Bruce King of Scotland harrassed the Nothern parts whilst Edward III. besieged Calais but the said Bruce was soon after overthrown in Battel and taken Prisoner at Nevills Cross In the times of Edward VI. the Bishoprick was dissolved by Act of Parliament and given to that Prince but Q. Mary dissolved that Statute and restored the Bishoprick with all its Franchises In 1640. in the beginning of the Rebellion it fell after Newbury Fight into the hands of the Scots and being left by them the year following it followed the fate of the War as the Parties prevailed upon each other Long. 22. 00. Lat. 54. 57. The County or Bishoprick of Durham is bounded on the North and West by the River Derwent which separates it from Northumberland on the South by the River Tees which parts it from Westmorland West and York to the South and on the East it has the Sea The West
Sarepta and three from Tyre The modern Name of this is Valonia Eleutheropolis an ancient City of the Tribe of Juda in Palestine eight Miles from Hebron to the West and twenty from Jerusalem by the Way of Gaza S. Jerom takes the Distances of divers Places from this as from one of particular Note Elgin a small City in the County of Murray in Scotland upon the River Lossie three Miles from the Coasts of the German Ocean It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Andrews Elham or Eltham a Market-Town in Kent in Shepway Lath Honoured heretofore with a Palace Royal now well inhabited being pleasantly seated amongst Woods on the Side of a Hill Elis A Country of the ancient Peloponnesus betwixt Achaia Messene and Arcadia so particularly consecrated in those times to Jupiter whose Temple and Statue here were numbered amongst the Wonders of the World that it was looked upon as Sacrilege to attack it Only the Lacedemonians Arcadians and Romans were not so scrupulous to observe the Conceit Before this Country submitted to the Romans or was governed by a Magistracy of its own it had the Honour to be a Kingdom The Rivers Alpheus and Acheron the Mountain Peneus the Olympick Games in Honour of Jupiter and Juno the Cities Elis Pisa or Olympia Cyllene c. contributed to spread its Fame in ancient History It s modern Name is Belvedore See Belvedore Ell or Elle Elcebus a Town of Germany in the lower Alsatia upon the River Ill three Leagues from Schlestad and something more than one from Strasbourgh Ellesmere a Market-Town in the County of Salop in the Hundred of Pimhill near the Borders of VVales The Earl of Bridgwater is Baron of this Place Elna Helena a small City in Catalonia in the County of Roussillon heretofore a Bishop's See upon a small River two Miles South of Perpignan and the same from the Mediterranean The Bishoprick was removed to Perpignan in 1604. by Clement VIII The Town was taken by the French from the Spaniard in 1640. Very small called anciently Illiberis in which was Hellen Castle where those of Magnentius his Party slew Constans the Eldest Son of Constantine The River that falls by it is Tech. Elsass See Alsatia Elsenore Elsenora by the Danes Helsignor is a Town in the Island of Zeeland five German Miles from Copenhagen to the West It has a large and a safe Haven near the Mouth of the Sound and a Castle to command the Streights of the Sound Elsingbourgh Elsingborch a Town on the opposite Shoar over against Cronenburgh in Scania which heretofore was under the Crown of Denmark but by the Treaty of Roschild in 1658. resigned to the King of Sweden It stands three German Miles from Landskroon to the West Christopher of Bavaria King of Denmark died here in 1448. The Danes took it in 1676. but they return'd it to the Swedes again the year after Eltor Eilan or Heilan Aelana Aila Sur Taurus a City of Arabia Petraea upon the Red-Sea North of Madian and over against Dacata in Aegypt It has a Castle on a Rock by it which always keeps a Turkish Garrison against the Arabians Elvas Helva a City of Portugal in the Province of Alentejo called Yelves by them of Castile it stands upon the River Guadiana fourteen Miles from Merida to the West and twenty nine from Sevil to the North. This is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Evora well fortified and has belonging to it a strong Castle The Spaniards in 1659. besieged it to their great loss being here routed by the Portuguese Paul IV. in 1555. raised it to the Honor of a Bishoprick The Cathedral Church was built by the Moors for a Mosque Elvino a Fountain near Aquino a City of the Terra di Lavoro in the Kindom of Naples Elvira Eliberis an ancient City of the Kingdom of Granada in Spain ruined and its Episcopal See transferred to Granada the Nova Illiberis which has risen by its fall This City is famous in Ecclesiastical History for a Council assembled at it about the year 305. Two of the Canons thereof being much insisted on in Disputes the one forbidding Images the other the Marriage of the Clergy Elwang Elwanga Elephaniacum a small City in the Circle of Schwaben in Germany upon the River Jagst in the Confines of Franconia near the Territory of Onold five German Miles from Rotenburgh upon the Tubar to the South and nine from Vlm to to the North. The Capital of a Noble Government the Governor being one of the Princes of the Empire and it has a Castle near the City in which he resides This Territory is called by the Germans Stife Elwang Elway a small River which riseth in Denbighshire in VVales and falleth into the Cluyd a little beneath S. Asaph Ely Helia a City and Bishoprck in Cambridgeshire in an Island of the Name surrounded on all sides by Fens and Marshes yet here was anciently one of the richest Monasteries of England The See was taken out of that of Lincoln and constituted by Henry I. in 1109. Hervey Bishop of Bangor being the first Bishop of it The Monastery out of which the Bishoprick sprung was Founded by Etheldreda Wife to Egfred King of Northumberland and was at first a Nunnery The Danes having ruined this Foundation Ethelwold Bishop of VVinchester refounded it and stock'd it with Monks The Cathedral was a Work of Time built by Parts great and beautiful though the Town of Ely is not great nor the Air healthful The Bishop of this See had heretofore Palatine Rights which were taken off by 27. H. 8. c. 25. But yet the Revenue is great and the Bishops of it have been in great Esteem and much employed The present is the forty third Bishop of this Diocese Elymi an ancient People that dwelt about the Mountains and high Grounds of the Island of Sicily remembred in History upon the Account of their being the Allies of the Carthaginians Elysii Campi Elysium the Poets Paradise a large and delicious Plain of Baeotia in Greece covered with Flowers and every way agreeable to the Pleasures of the Senses Elysii Helisii Lysii the ancient People of the Province of Silesia in Bohemia mentioned by Tacitus Embden Amasia Emda a German City in the Circle of VVestphalia anciently called Amasia or Amisia as Cluverius saith from the River Ems Amasius upon which it standeth with a large deep Port defended by a Castle It is the Capital of East-Friesland which is from this City often called the Principality of Embden not great but strong and well fortified The Trade or People here are neither of them considerable the Hollanders having sometime since possessed themselves of it It stands fifteen Miles from Bremen to the South-West and seven from Groningen to the North. Emboli Empoli Amphipolis Christopolis an Archiepiscopal City in Macedonia under the Patriarch of Constantinople upon the Confines of Macedonia and Thrace Seated upon the Bay and River of Strimon which did almost surround
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
Cluyd Glastenbury Glasconia Avalonia a very ancient and famous Abbey in the Isle of Avalon in Sommersetshire upon the River Parret which is said to have been built or begun by Joseph of Arimathea the Apostle of the Britains under the Reign of Nero the Emperour and Arviragus King of the Brittains according to Gildas and therefore honoured above all other places in this Nation The first small Cell failing Devi Bishop of S. David's erected a new one in the same place But Ina King of the West Saxons who began his Reign in 689. and reigned thirty eight years was its lasting and most beautiful Founder who about 7 8. erected here a very fair and stately Church in which time it was a kind of School or Seminary but managed by Secular Priests Dunstan brought in the Benedictine Monks about 970. under these the place thrived wonderfully and became a small City incompassed with a strong Wall of a Mile about and replenished with stately buildings they had a Revenue of 3508 l. per annum when Henry VIII put an end to all their Greatness In this place in the Reign of Henry II. between two Pyramids was found the Tomb of King Arthur the famous Prince of the Britains which is a very great Indication of the Antiquity of this Place if there were no other The Body lay very deep in the Earth with an Inscription in Latin upon a Leaden Cross expressing it was King Arthur who was there buried in the Island of Avalon It is certain the Brittains made this place sometime their Retreat from the harrassment of the Pagan conquering Saxons Glatz or Gladscow Clacium Glotium Glatium a a City of Bohemia and the Capital of a County of the same Name seated upon the River Neis which runs through Silesia and beneath Guben falls into the Oder near the Mountains of Fictelberg twenty one German Miles from Prague to the East and fifteen from Olmutz to the North it is a small City built at the foot of an Hill and has a strong Castle in it Dubravius saith it belonged heretofore to Silesia The chief Town in it is Haberswerd Glencarn Carbantorigum an Earldom in Nidisdale in Scotland belonging for a long time to the Cuninghams a great Family in that Nation Glendelagh Glendelachum once a City now a Village in the County of Dublin also once a Bishops See but now united to the Bishoprick of Dublin This Name is written Glandeloure and Glandilaâ—ge Glenluz Bay Clenâ—ucensis Sinus the Bay or Arm of the Sea which divides Ireland from Galloway in Scotland Glinbotin Planina Scardus a Mountain in the Eastern Confines of Macedonia towards Albania out of which springs the River Drin Globiokeu a Town in Lithuania made famous by a great Defeat of the Moscovites by the Poles in 1661. in which the former lost twelve thousand Men and all their Cannon and Carriages Gloneck a River of Bavaria near Tyrol Gloucester Claudia Claudia Castra Clevum Glovernum a very ancient City in a County of the same Name in the West of England called Glevum by Antoninus being a Roman Colony designed for the curbing the Silures a Warlike British Clan It lies on the East side of the Severn and where it is not secured by that River has in some places a very strong Wall and is a neat and populous City with twelve Parish Churches standing in it besides the Cathedral on the South side it had a fine Castle built of square Stone which is now ruined Ceaulin King of the West Saxons about 570. was the first that conquered it from the Britans About 878. it fell into the hands of the Danes who miserably defaced it Soon after this Aldred Archbishop of York built the Cathedral to which belongs now a Dean and six Prebends In this Church Edward II. was buried and not far from him Robert the eldest Son of William the Conquerour two unfortunate Princes In the Barons Wars under Edward I. and Henry III. it suffered very much Richard III. sometime Duke of Gloucester made this City a County Corporate Henry VIII settled here a Bishops See in 1540. the first Bishop of which was Dr. John Chambers from whom the present Bishop is the fourteenth in number Geofry of Monmouth had been Bishop of the See before but it was suppressed in after times and now again revived This City falling at first into the hands of the Rebels in our former Troubles was besieged Aug. 10. 1643. by the Kings Forces the eighteenth the King came in Person to the Leaguer but Essex coming up Sept. 10. the Seige was raised and for ought I can find it continued in their hands till the Restitution of Charles II. § Gloucestershire was the chief Seat of the Dobuni on the West it butteth upon Monmonmouthshire and Herefordshire on the North upon Worcestershire on the East upon Warwickshire and on the South upon Wiltshire and Somersetshire from which last it is parted by the River Avon a pleasant and fruitful Country stretching in length from North-East to South-West the Eastern part swells up into Hills called Cotteswold the middle part sinks into a fertile Plain watered by the Severn the Western side is much covered with Woods In the times of William of Malmsbury the Vales in this County were filled with Vineyards which are now turned into Orchards and implyed in Cyder the true and natural English Wine The Honour or Dukedom which belongs to this County is annexed to the Royal Family Henry the Third Son to Charles the Martyr was intituled Duke of Gloucester in 1641. Created so May 13. 1659. and died September 13. 1660. a Prince of great Hope and Constancy Glogaw the Greater Glogavia Glosgavia a City of Silesia in Bohemia upon the River Oder which is very well fortified and has a strong Castle the Capital of the Dukedom of Glogaw about two German Miles from the Borders of Poland and fifteen from Breslaw to the North and from Sagan to the East seven This City was taken by the Swedes in 1647. Maly or Klein Glogaw the Lesser Glogaw stands upon the same River in the Dukedom of Oppelen four Miles from Oppelen East ten from Glatz East and thirty from the Great Glogaw South Gluckstad Gluâ—stadium Fanum Fortunae as the Name imports a Town in Germany in the Dukedom of Holstein upon the Elbe in Stormaria placed at the confluence of the Elbe and the Stoer It was raised and fortified by Christian IV. King of Denmark in 1620. and belongs now to that Crown It stands six Miles beneath Hamburgh to the West Gluchsbourg Glucsburgum a small Town in Denmark from which the Dukes of Holstein have their Title of Glucksbourg or Luxbourg It stands in the East part of the Dukedom of Sleswick near Flentsburgh from which it lies but one German Mile to the East upon a Bay of the Baltick Sea towards the Isle of Alsen Glycynero Athyras L'Acqua Dolce a River of Thrace which ariseth near Byzia Bilzier or Visa a City of Thrace
the French in 1673. but now return'd under its former Master Ham a City in Picardy in France in Vermandois upon the River Some four Leagues from S. Quintin to the South-West and sixteen from Amiens to the East Haman Hama Emisa Apamea a City of Syria called vulgarly Hems. It is an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch upon the River Orontes now called Farfar between Arethusa to the North and Laodicea to the South about forty three Miles from Damascus to the North eighty from Antioch and thirty from Aleppo Our later Maps make Haman and Hemz two several places Apamea and Emisa are by Baudrand made several Cities Vid. Hemz Hamay or Haimage a Town and Monastery in Flanders Hamburgh Gambrivii Hamburgum Treva is one of the most celebrated Cities and Sea-Ports of Germany seated in the Lower Saxony in the Dukedom of Holstein upon the River Elbe yet an Imperial Free City not subject to any Prince and one of the Principal Hanse-Towns in Germany Heretofore it was dignified with an Archbishops See but the Chair was removed to Bremen in 830. by Ansgarius the Bishop with the Consent of Lewis the Emperour This City is placed in the Territory of Stormaren eighteen German Miles from the German Ocean which yet Tides up to it fifteen from Bremen to the North ten from Lubeck to the South and seven from Stade to the East Very strongly fortified rich populous and in a growing condition It has its Name from one Hâ—mmion a great Man its Benefactor Charles the Great erected it against the Danes in 809 Heridagus was the first Ansgarius the second and last Archbishop of it Subject to Albion Prince of the North Elbingers in the beginning afterwards to Herman Billengen Son of Otto the First Duke of the Lower Saxony and to his Son Bennâ—s after him in whom this Line ended Adolphus Count of Schawenburg in 1137. governed this City and Holstein for Lotharius Duke of Saxony Adolphus III. granted it many and great Privileges for Money â—â— which were confirmed by Frederick Barbarossa the Emperour In his absence in the East Henry the Lion ruin'd it but Adolphus upon his return recovered and rebuilt it he did not long survive being slain in Battel in 1203. by Waldemarus Duke of Sleswick Brother of Canutus King of Denmark Canutus gave this City to Albertus Duke of Orlamand who sold his Right which Sale was confirmed by Adolphus the third Duke of Holstein and ever since the City has been a Free State though the Dukes of Holstein still pretend a Right and Title to it Frederick II. in 1579. had a Controversie with it which was ended by the payment of Money It embraced the Lutheran Confession at the first Publication of it yet it tolerates the Caâ—oinists and gave shelter to the English in the Reign of Queen Mary who in 1554. fled hither In 1686. the present King of Denmark suddenly sat down before it with an Army of thirty thousand Men but the Winter coming on and the Neighbour Princes espousing their Cause and sending them Forces into the City he was forced to retire those within on whom he relied being discovered and afterwards Tryed and Executed They think themselves obliged hereby to be very jealous of all the motions of that King to whom they declare their firm Resolutions to maintain to the uttermost all their Privileges and Immunities whatsoever There is hardly in the World a finer City nor a larger and safer Port than this it is said to have done Homage to Christian III. as Duke of Holstein in 1604. Hamel a Town near Corbie upon a River that falls into the Some in Picardy Hamelen Hamala Hamelia a City of Germany in the Lower Saxony in the Dukedom of Brunswick between Hildesheim to the East and Paderborne to the West upon the Visurgis Weser which parts this Dukedom from Westphalia and beneath Bremen falls into the German Ocean It stands twenty Miles from Bremen to the South-East fourteen from Brunswick to the South-West twenty six from Hamburgh to the South and twenty three from Fuld to the North. This City belongs to the Bishop of Hildesheim and the Earl of Lippe was heretofore under the Abbot of Fuld before Albert Duke of Brunswick received it into his Protection which in time turned from a Protectory to a Sovereign Jurisdiction as is usual It is now under the Duke of Brunswick Hannouer Near this Place the Austrians received a fatal Overthrow from the Suedes and Lunenburgers at the Castle of Ottendorp in 1633. Hamiltown a Castle in the County of Cluydsdale in Scotland upon the Cluyd or Glotta above Bothwel ten English Miles from Glascow to the South and thirty five from Edenburgh to the West which gives the Title of a Duke to one of the best Families in Scotland in whose Possession it is Hammeren Hammaria a City of Norway which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Drontheim in the Province of Aggerhuis in the Confines of Dalecarlia a Province of Sweden very small It stands thirty Swedish Miles from Bergen to the East and twenty from Anslo Ansloga to the North. This Bishoprick is united to that of Anslo Hampton-Court a Noble Country House belonging to the King of England in Middlesex ten Miles from London on the Thames built by Cardinal Woolsey in the Reign of Henry VIII who also built White-Hall the common Residence of our Kings ever since Hamsa See Haman Hanaw Hanovia a strong Town in Franconia in Germany upon the River Kinâ—z which a little lower falls into the Mayne between Franckfort to the West and Aschaffenburg to the East three Miles from either and ten from Marpurg to the South This City has suffered very much in the late Swedish and German Wars Hani Ecbatana a great City in the Kingdom of Persia the Capital of the Medes and a Regal City mentioned by Pliny Strabo and Ptolemy Said to be built by Arphaxad now supposed to be Tauris See Tauris Hannonia See Hainault Hannover Hannower Hannovera Hanouer a German City in the Dukedom of Brunswick in the Territory of Calemberg upon the River Leina Leine which falls into the Weser beneath Ferden four Miles above Bremen from which last Hannover stands sixteen Miles to the South-West five from Hildesheim to the North-West and six from Brunswick to the West Once an Imperial and Free City but afterwards exempted It s Prince who is of the House of Brunswick possesseth one half of the Dukedom of Brunswick with the Territory of Calemberg and Grubenhagen and has under him Hannover Hamelen Gottingen Newstad and Limbeck This City is very well fortified The present Duke John Frederick is a Roman Catholick younger Brother to the Duke of Zell But the City of Hannover was one of those which entered the Smalcaldick League as appeareth in Sleidan And therefore I suppose the People are generally of the Reformed Religion Hantshire Hantonia a County in the West of England bounded on the South by the British Sea and the Isle
Centre of the County to which it gives name large well built and populous extending from the top of a high Hill where Lindum the old Roman Town stood its Ditches and Rampier being still visible a great way downwards unto the River In this Town the Valiant Britain Vortimer died in 456 being Poysoned by Rowena the Daughter of Hengist and Wife of Vortiger The Saxons after this ruined Lindum and built Lincoln nearer the River about the times when Paulinus first Preached the Christian Faith to them The Danes destroyed it twice In the time of Edward the Confessor here was one thousand and seventy Mansions In the Norman times no City in England was more Rich or Populous as Will. of Malmsbury acquaints us Will. the Conqueror thought fit to build here a very strong Castle upon the top of the Hill aforesaid to awe the Inhabitants Remigius Bishop of Dorchester near Oxon at the same time removed the Sea hither and built the Cathedral above the same Hill In the Reign of Edward III. it was made a Mart or Staple King Stephen was overcome and taken Prisoner near this City in 1140. Sept. 5. in a great Battel with Maud the Empress and afterwards at Bristol laid in Irons Henry III. had better success here when it being defended by the Barons against him under Prince Lewis in 1217. May 19. he took it forced Lewis to Flee to London and soon after into France Mr. Cambden observes that of fifty Churches standing within an hundred Years of his time there were only eighteen left It hath by times gone through all the calamities of Fire Sword and Earthquake Yet a large populous and well frequented place still and enjoying the greatest Diocese of any in the Kingdom as the Cathedral there called commonly the Minster is one of the stateliest Piles perhaps in Christendom It hath the privilege also of being a County Corporate whose Liberties extend about twenty Miles in compass with the title of the County of the City of Lincoln It s Long. 22. 52. Lat. 53. 12. Lincolnshire is bounded on the North by the Humber and the British Sea on the East by the same Sea and part of Norfolk on the South by Cambridge Northampton and Rutlandshire on the West by Leicester Nottingham and Yorkshire It is a very large County extending in length from North to South almost sixty Miles and carrying in some places thirty in breadth fruitful in Corn and Grass thick set with Towns and well watered with Rivers As the Humber the Trent which severs part of it from Nottinghamshire the Witham running a cross it the Woland and the Nen. The whole is divided into Lindsey to the Northward which takes up about one half Holland towards the Sea Southward and Kesteven West from thence which three divisions contain six hundred and thirty Parishes and thirty five Market Towns Here is plenty of Fowl and Fish The old Inhabitans were the Coritani The present Earl of this County is Edward Lord Clinton who succeeded in 1667 being the fifth of his Family that has born this Title and the sixteenth Earl Edward Fines Lord Clinton Lord Admiral having obtained this Honor from Qu. Elizabeth in 1565 before whose time the same title had passed through several Families by frequent interruptions Lincopen Lincopia Lingacopia a City of Sweden which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vpsal in Ostro-Gothia between Soderkoping to the East and Wadtena to the West twenty eight German Miles from Stockholm to the South-West and almost eight East from the Lake of Veter Long. 32. 48. Lat. 58. 3. The City is very small and inconsiderable We read of a Synod celebrated at it in 1148. under P. Eugenius III. It is also written Lindkeeping Lindaw Lindavia Lindavilum Philyra a City of Germany in the Circle of Schwaben in an Island in the Lake of Constance joined to the Continent by a Bridge two hundred and ninety Paces long It is an Imperial and Free City situate in the borders of Switzerland eight Miles from Constance to the North-East and grew up out of the ruins of Aeschach a place near to it Very strong both by its Site and by Art and therefore it the more easily repelled the Forces of Count Wrangel the Swedish General who in 1647. besieged it The beginning of this City was a Monastery built here by Adelbert Rorbuck a Kinsman of Charles the Great in 810. This occasioned the building of a Village and the Site being pleasant fruitful and convenient it grew up by degrees to a City at first subject to the Abbess after that to the Dukes of Schwaben obtaining its Privileges since from Rudolphus I. Frederick III. and Sigismond Lindo Lindus a Sea-Port Town in the Isle of Rhodes the Christian Inhabitants of which can bring about twenty good and large Ships into the Grand Seignior's Service Line a rivulet in Staffordshire upon which Newcastle stands thence commonly called Newcastle upon Line to distinguish it from Newcastle upon Tine Lindsey one of the three parts of the County of Lincoln containing all the Northern parts from the River Witham to the Humber and from the Ocean to Trent This was in 1626. by Charles I. made an Earldom and granted to Robert Bartie Lord Willoughby of Eresby Lord Great Chamberlain of England who died in the Bed of Honour at Edge-Hill October 23. 1642. being the King's General in that Battel The present Earl Robert Bartie the third of this Family succeeded in 1666. Lingen Lingo a strong Town in Westphalia which is the Capital of a County of the same Name under the Prince of Orange upon the River Ems forty five Miles from Munster to the North and fifty five from Emden to the South The County that belongs to it lies in the Bishoprick of Munster and is very small It belonged to the Spaniards in the time of Charles V. but is now in the hands of the Prince of Orange Linlithgo Linlithquo Lithquo Lindum a Town and a County in the South of Scotland The Town standeth on the South side of the Fyrth of Edenburgh twenty two Miles from that City to the West This Place as Mr. Cambden saith is called Lindum by Ptolemy and it takes its Name from a great Lake in this small County from which ancient the present Name is derived Linosa an Island of the Mediterranean Sea upon the Coast of Africa near Maltha It depends upon the Island of Maltha Linton a Market Town in Cambridgeshire in the Hundred of Chilford Lintz Aurelianum Lentia called by Aurelian Lyncia Lyncium and by some understood to be the Aredate of Ptolemy is the Capital City of the Vpper Austria small but populous seated upon the Danube over which it has a Bridge and in it a magnificent Castle whither the Emperors of the House of Austria have frequently retired for their Pleasure and Divertisement It stands six German Miles from Passaw to the East and twenty four from Vienna to the West Dr. Brown gives this account of
is very strongly fortified and has a Castle on a Hill upon the River Eger in the Confines of Misnia four Miles from Eger or Heb another City of Bohemia to the East eighteen from Prague and as many from Dresden Lomaigne Leomania a Tract or Country in Aquitain or Gascony the principal Town of which is Vi◠de Lomaigne it lies between the County of Armagnac Verdun and the Garonne by which it is parted from the County of Agenois Loman a River in Devonshire which falls into the Ex by Tiverton in that County Lombardy Lombardia Longobardia is a considerable Country in the North of Italy under which is contained the greatest part of Gallia Cisalpina It is divided into two the Higher and the Lower Lombardy In the Higher are Piedmont with what is annexed to it the Dukedoms of Milan and Montisferat in the Lower are the Dukedoms of Mantua Modena and Parma with the Western parts of the State of Venice viz. The Territories of Bergamo Brescia Cremona Verona and Vicenza also the Dukedoms of Ferrara with the Territory of Bononia or Bologna which are in the States of the Church and now under the Pope The Italians also divide it into Lombardia di qua dal Po and Lombardia di la dal Po i. e. Lombardy on each side the Po. This was that Kingdom of the Lombards Langobardi or Longobardi in Italy which Charles the Great ruined after he had at Pavie taken Desiderius their last King Prisoner The principal City of this Kingdom was Milan This Kingdom was erected in 578. Isaacson placeth its beginning in 393. with whom Helvicus agrees Agelmond being their first King before whom they had Dukes it continued so under eleven Princes that is in Pannonia or Hungary not in Italy They came into Italy in 568. And their Kingdom continued there under twenty one Princes till 774 when Carlous Magnus Dethroned as was said In all two hundred and six Years Lombez Lombaria or Lumbaria a small City in Aquitain in France in the County of Cominges upon the River Sava which falls into the Garonne four Miles beneath Tolose Lombes stands five Leagues from the Garonne to the North eight from Aux to the South-East and ten from Tolose to the South-West Made a Bishops See by Pope John XXII who at the same time erected its ancient Abbey into a Cathedral under the Archbishop of Tolose in 1317. But little and not well inhabited The Albigenses were excommunicated in a Council here Lombura the Indus Lomond and Lough Lomond Lomandus is a great Lake in the South of Scotland in the County of Lenox between Menteith to the East and Argile to the West In length from North to South twenty Miles ten in breadth from East to West in some places in others three and four It is only four Miles from Dunbritown to the North and a little more from its Fyrth the River Levin empties it into the Fyrth There is in it sixteen small Islands Lon Lone or Lunne a River of Lancashire upon which Lancaster and Hornby are situated and Kirkby Lonsdale in the County of Westmorland It ends in the Irish Sea London Londinum Augusta Trinobantum the Capital City of the Kingdom of England or rather three Cities united into one Its length from East to West from Lime-house to the further end of Mill-bank in Westminster coming to 7500 Geometrical paces i. e. seven measured Miles and an half at a thousand paces a Mile Its breadth from the further end of Whitechappel-street to St. George's Fields in Southwark near three Miles It is first mentioned by Tacitus afterwards by Ammianus Marcellinus who calls it Augusta Stephanus de Vrbibus Lindonium Bede and Sigebert call it Lindona the English London the Saxons Lundain the French Londres the Germans Londen and the Italians Londra It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury seated in the County of Middlesex upon the Thames a noble navigable River over which it has a Bridge of nineteen Arches built with Houses on both sides and of late enlarged as to the Passage This is also the Royal City the Seat of the Kings of England and has been so for many years Therefore called the King of Englands Chamber It is situate in a rich and plentiful Soil abounding with plenty of all things and on the gentle ascent of an Hill on the North Side of the Thames By whom or when it was first built is now unknown Tacitus saith that in Nero's time about the Year of Christ 66 it was Copia Negotiatorum Commeatu maximè celebre A place of great resort for Commerce and famous for plenty of provisions But London was then near a great Calamity for Boadicia Queen of the Iceni being provoked by the Injuries of the Romans to assemble the Britains fell first upon Camalodunum now Maldon in Essex and taking it by surprize that year put all the Romans to the Sword Petilius Cerealis coming up with the ninth Legion was defeated and all his Foot put to the Sword too the Horse hardly escaping In the Interim Suetonius the Roman Propraetor or Governor who was then conquering the Isle of Anglesey comes up to London and was at first almost resolved to make it the Seat of War but finding reasons to alter this Resolve he marched away to S. Albans so Boadicia who was not far off came up and put all She found in the Town to the Sword and soon after treats S. Albans in the same manner in which three places She destroyed seventy thousand Romans and their Allies This City soon recovered this Blow and was afterward as famous as ever In the Year of Christ 292 it was in danger of being Sack'd by the Franks if an unexpected Arrival of some Roman Forces had not accidentally preserved it even when the Franks were actually in Possession of it Soon after this Constantine the Great is said to have Walled it In 313 we find Restitutus Bishop of London at the Council of Arles in France subscribing after Eborius Bishop of York Bede is very positive that it was then an Archbishops See Mr. Cambden is of opinion it was delivered up to the Saxons under Hengist their first King by Vortigern about the Year of Christ 463. Tho this changed the state of things and ruined Christianity yet London continued in all this Storm a considerable Mart or Sea-Port in 610. S. Paul's Church was built or rather rebuilt and assigned to the Uses of Christianity by Athelbert King of Kent Miletus was made the first Bishop of London after the Conversion of the Saxons in 604 the Metropolitick See being removed by Augustin the Monk then from London to Canterbury About the Year 701 Offa King of the East-Angles enlarged and endowed the Church of Westminster which is since become another City joined to London In the Year 854 this City fell into the Hands of the Danes who Sacked it and Canterbury coming then with a Fleet of two hundred and fifty Ships In 1012
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
the Palatinate of Landomir Long. 45.00 Lat. 51.00 Lublaw Lubloa called by the Poles Luboulia i◠a Castle belonging to the Vpper Hungary but mortgaged to the Crown of Poland in 1412 which has been ever since in their Hands and being cut off from the County of Cepasz it is annexed to the Palatinate of Cracow Lucania an ancient Province of Italy now thrown into the Basilicata in part and part into Calabria but before a Member of Magna Graecia Its Inhabitants made frequent Wars with the Romans and in the year of Rome 428. killed Alexander King of the Epirots near the River Acheron The Luccaye Islands near the Continent of America in the North Sea lie betwixt 294. and 304. Deg. of Long. and 21. and 28. of Lat. making a part of the Antilles The chiefest of them are Lucaioneque Amana Abacoa Bimini Guanahani Majaguana Juma c. enjoying a temperate Air and a fruitful Soil Lucca Luca Luceria a City and Republick of Italy ascribed by Pliny and Strabo to Hetruria but now in the Dukedom of Florence and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Pisa tho not subject to his Jurisdiction It is very strongly fortified with eleven Bastions and very populous Built by the Thusci in the Year of the World 3236. thirty nine years after Rome in the times of Senacherib and of Ezekiah King of Judah Narsetes the General of the Emperor Justinian besieged it in the Sixth Century Charles V. left this City under the Government of a French Cardinal who set them at liberty One of their own Paulus Giunisius Ravished this from them they soon recovered it again In the year 1390. the City was taken by Galatius Duke of Milan but in 1430. they again recovered their Liberty which they have ever since carefully preserved and to that purpose in 1626. made the present Fortifications The Dominions belonging to this State by the Italians called Il Luchese are small not above thirty Miles long and twenty five broad lying between the Appennine to the North the Mediterranean Sea to the West the States of Genoua to the North and Pisa to the South its greatest length is from North to South The Earth brings forth here Wine Oil and Chesnuts in abundance not so productive of Corn. The Inhabitants have improved every Inch of it to the utmost by which they have made it very pleasant The Bishop is immediately subject to the Pope This City stands ten Miles from Pisa to the North thirteen from the Sea to the East and forty five from Florence to the West Commonly Epitheted Lucca l'industriosa The Tomb of Richard King of England who died here in a journey to Rome is to be seen in the Church of S. Fridainus Long. 33. 16. Lat. 42. 50. Luceria See Nocera Lucerne Lucerna a City and Canton in Switzerland The City stands in Argow upon the Lake of Lucerne where the River Russ flows out of it through this place and is covered by three Bridges nine German Miles from Bearn to the East and six from Altorf to the South-West An Imperial Free City till the year 1332 when it was exempted The Marquess de la Parelle Lieutenant-General of the Duke of Savoy's Army recovered it out of the Hands of the French in Aug. 1690. The Lake of Lucerne called by the Germans Lucernerzee is extended twenty four Miles from East to West and is often called the Waldtstatteuzee from the four Cities which encompass it viz. Altorf Swiss Stantz and Lucerne The Canton of Lucerne the third of the twelve Swiss Cantons is Roman Catholick united to the rest in 1332. and bounded North West South and East by the Cantons of Zurich Swiss and Stantz Lucomerie Lucomorie a Province belonging to the Russ beyond the River Ob in Asia towards the North Ocean in which there are no Cities the People living in Woods Caves and desart places Towards the South of this Province there are Mountains called by the same Name Lurko See Lusuc Luconia See Lusson Ludlow a large populous well built Market and Borough Town in Shropshire in the Hundred of Overs upon the Banks of the Teme walled and defended by a Castle built by Roger Earl of Montgomery It elects two Parliament-Men and the Court for the Marshes of Wales first ordained by King Henry VIII used to be kept here Lug Logus a small River which ariseth in Radnorshire and flowing through the County of Hereford a little beneath the principal City falls into the Wye at Mordeford bringing with it the Arrom the Wadels the Oney the Loden and the Frome Lugnitz Vallis Leguntia a Canton belonging to the Grisons Lugo Lucus Augusti Turris Augusti Arae Sextianae a City and Bishops See in Gallicia in Spain under the Archbishop of Compostella upon the River Minho eighteen Leagues from Compostella to the East ten from the Shoar of the Ocean South and thirty from Leon to the West An ancient Roman City mentioned by Pliny and Antoninus This City falling into the Hands of the Moors was recovered by Alphonsus King of Leon who died in 756. That which has most contributed to its preservation is its Hot Baths Long. 12. 00. Lat. 43. 00. Several small Synods have been anciently assembled at it § There is another Town called Lugo about fifteen Miles from Ferrara in Italy which was almost quite destroyed by the overflowing of the Po in May 1688. Luki Lodusia a City and Port in Gothland in Sweden Lulworth Castle a delightful and noted Castle in Dorsetshire in the Hundred of Winfrith with a large Park about it and enjoying a Prospect into the British Sea The Kings of England in their Western Progress have often honoured it with their presence Lumasia the same with Bulgaria Lumellina a Territory of Lumello a Town in Lombardy in Italy in the Dukedom of Milan in the Territory of Pavia twenty Miles from that City to the West towards Casale Luna an ancient Roman City in Italy out of whose Ruins is sprung the present Sarzana See Sarzana Lunden Lundis Londinum Scanorum a City of the Kingdom of Sweden which was the Capital of the Province of Scania and an Archbishops See with six Suffragan Bishops under it These are all in the Kingdom of Denmark to which this City belonged till 1658 when it fell into the Hands of the Swedes who in 1668 opened here an University It was once much Celebrated but now in a declining Condition eight German Miles from Copenhagen to the East and six from Landscroon to the South-West commonly called Lund by the Inhabitants Made a Bishops See in 1065 an Archbishops in 1103 Ill treated by the Swedes in the latter Wars the Danes receiving a considerable Overthrow near it December 14. 1676. It is now only a Bishops See the Archbishop being in 1660 Translated to Copenhagen Long. 41. 00. Lat. 57. 23. Lunenburgh Luneburgh Lunaeburgum Selenoburgum a City of the Lower Saxony in Germany formerly one of the principal Hanse Towns in the Empire and the Capital of the
against which the Turks spent twenty thousand Cannon Shot and at last took it to their no great advantage In the middle of the Eastern Haven stands the Castle of S. Angelo upon a Rock this and Burgo quelled the fury of the Turks and prevented their Triumph over Malta Though the Inhabitants exceed not twenty thousand yet it is not able to supply them with Necessaries but that the fertil Sicily is so near from which they have much of their Provisions They have some fresh-water Fountains the Rain that falls they reserve in Cisterns and have always three years Provisions beforehand kept under ground The Great Master of the Order of the Knights of Malta at present is Alarame de Vignecourt chosen in Aug. 1690. The City Malta is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Palermo in Sicily and the Residence of the Grand Prior of the Church also now the Capital of the Island which last honour formerly was enjoy'd by Citta Vecchia another Episcopal City in the middle of Malta Several small Islands adjacent the Principal are Gozo Comini and Farfara depend upon the Grand Master as their Soveraign The illustrious Order of the Knights of this place is composed of eight Nations amongst which England was the sixth in rank before the Reformation To each Nation there belongs a Grand Prior The Persons incorporated are divided into three Estates of Knights Ecclesiasticks and Servans des Armes or Esquires all vowing celibacy Some out of both the two first have been known advanced to the Dignity of Cardinals and the Sons of Kings and Princes have adorned the rank of the Knights This Island produces no Wine nor Corn but Cotton Oates and delicious Fruits in Plenty § There is another Island Malta in the Adriatick belonging to Dalmatia and called by the Sclavonians Milet by others Meleda The Miletaeus Catellus a Proverb for a Lap-dog is derived from the little Dogs of this latter place according to Athenaeus Long. 39. 25. Lat. 34. 40. Malvasia Epidaurus an Archiepiscopal City of the Morea on the Eastern Shoar in the Province of Tzaconia near the most South-Eastern Cape called Cape Maleo built upon a Rock which advanced position gives it an agreeable Prospect both by Sea and Land This Rock is surrounded by the Sea on all sides being only joined to the Continent by a Timber Bridge yet has Nature provided it a fresh and clear Fountain of good Water sufficient to serve the City and their Gardens it is approachable only on one side that is on the South which is secured by a triple Wall of great strength In the times of the Greek Idolatry it was famous for a Temple of Esculapius much frequented It was ravished from the Greek Emperors by the Venetians and French about the year 1204. The Emperors recovered it again from William a French Baron to whom it was given by the Latins but he returning to Venice freely resigned his Right to that State whereupon the Venetians sent a powerful Fleet and regained the Possession of it which they kept till the year 1537. when they were forced to surrender it to the Turks to purchase a Peace In the times of the late Wars in Candy the Venetians took this Town by Storm plundered burnt and then left it after they had put most of the Inhabitants to the Sword and carried away the Cannon The Turks rebuilt it General Morosini bombarded it in his way to Athens Sept. 1687. Afterwards it was blockaded then besieged At last it surrendered to General Cornaro Sept. 12. 1690. whereby the whole Morea stands now reduced under the Dominion of the States of Venice They found in it seventy three Pieces of Cannon and above one hundred and thirty Christian Slaves recovered their Liberty Long. 50. 00. Lat. 38. 30. Mamertini an ancient People of the Island Samos in the Icarian Sea said afterwards to establish themselves at Messina in Sicily Whence the Messenii have the Name also of Mamertini and the Sea adjacent of Fretum Mamertinum Mamotta Arabia Foelix Man Eubonia Monaaeda Monapia Monavia Mona an Island in the Irish Sea between Lancashire to the East and Vlster to the West The Welsh call this small place Menow the Inhabitants Maing the English Man It lies in length from North to South thirty Italian Miles its greatest breadth is fifteen It has seventeen Parish Churches brings forth Flax Hemp and Corn in plenty affords more Cattle than they need especially Sheep they have no Fewel but Turff In the middle it swelleth into Hills from the highest of which Sceafull by Name in a clear day may be seen England Scotland and Ireland The chief Town is Russin seated at the South End of the Island which has a Garrisoned Castle it has also a Bishop who is stiled Sodorensis and is now under the Archbishop of York This Island was first possessed by the Britains after them succeeded the Scots about the times of Honorius and Arcadius these were driven out by Cuneda Grandfather of Maglocunus stiled by Gildas the Dragon of the Islands Edwin King of Northumberland Conquered it next for the Saxons about 618. The Danes being driven out of England by Harold they were invited Hither by one Godred Corvan who had been entertained in his flight in the Isle of Man This Dane brought over his Country Men three times successively invaded it before he could master the Inhabitants but then prevailing he became King of Man soon after the time William of Normandy conquered England This Race of Kings continued to 1270. about two hundred years about which time Robert the King of the Scots having succeeded Alexander who had purchased the Hebrides of the King of Denmark made another Conquest of the Isle of Man which was one of the last they gained the Possession of After this sometimes the Scots sometimes the English were Masters of it till in 1340. William Montacute Earl of Salisbury descended from Mary the Daughter of Reginald the last King of Man finally drove out the Scots and in 1393. sold it to William Scrope who being beheaded for Treason Henry IV. granted it to Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland about 1400. He likewise forseiting it this Prince granted it to Sir John Stanley whose Successor in 1486. was by Henry VII created Earl of Darby And in this Family it still is wiâ—h the Title of Lord of Man being possessed by William Earl of Darby the Grandchild of James who in 1651. was beheaded for his Loyalty to Charles II. After which the Rebels by force reduced the Island under them it was restored to this Family in 1660. by Charles II. The Language here spoken is different from that of all His Majesties other Dominions being a mixture of Scotch Irish Danish and English but the Southern part nearer to the Scotch and the Northern to the Irish The first Bishop of Man is said to have been Amphibalus in 360. There are great Chasms in the Succession till 1203. and again from 1396. In 1505. Huamus
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
one Channel near the City Teneriffa in the Province of S. Martha falling afterwards into the North Sea § Also a Government in Brasil Rioga Rivogia a Province in Spain which was a part of Navarre but now annexed to Old Castile it is divided from Alava by the Douro and lies between Old Castile and Navarre The principal Towns of which are Calzada Legrono Najara and Belorado Riom Riomum Ricomagum a City in the Lower Auvergne in France two Leagues from Clermont to the North in a flourishing State The Capital of Auvergne adorned with a College of Oratorians of the Foundation of Lewis XIV an antient Abbey built in the beginning of the seventh Century two Hospitals and divers Churches and religious Communities Genebrard and Sirmondus the learned Jesuit were produced by this Place Ripa de Transona a small but elegant City in the Marquisate of Ancona under the Pope and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Fermo It stands five Miles from the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea the same from the Borders of the Kingdom of Naples and ten from Fermo Pope Pius V. made it a Bishops See in 1571. Ripaille a Town in Savoy upon the Lake of Geneva Ripen Ripa a City in the Kingdom of Denmark in South Jutland which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lunden and has a convenient Harbor upon the German Ocean at the Mouth of the River Nipsick and a Fortress five Miles from Hadersleben to the West and eight from Flensburgh to the South-West This Bishoprick was founded by Balatand King of Denmark in 950. Christopher I. King of Denmark died here in 1259. The City was taken by the Swedes in 1645 but since recovered by the Danes Ripley a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Claro upon the River Nyd Rippon Rhidogunum a Town in Yorkshire in the West Riding in the Hundred of Claro of good Antiquity near the Youre over which it has a Bridge Adorned with a Collegiate Church with three lofty Spires and antiently with a stately Monastery built by Wilfride Archbishop of York till the Danes destroy'd it with the Town Yet Odo Archbishop of Canterbury repaired it again and translated the Reliques of the holy Founder to Canterbury There is a narrow hole in a Vault under ground in the Church called S. Wilfride's Needle It is one of the best Towns in the County well inhabited and of note particularly for making good Spurs Having the Privilege to be a Corporation also represented by two Members in the House of Commons Risano Formio a River of Carniola the upper part of which is called by the Germans Alben the lower by the Italians Risano It springeth out of the Alpes from Mount Ocra in Carniola towards the Lake of Lugea or Czirknitzerzee and flowing Westward through Istria falls by the Bay of Trieste into the Adriatick Sea six Miles from Trieste and two North of Capo di Istria Risano Rhizana a City of Dalmatia mentioned by Ptolemy Pliny and Polybius which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Raguza under the Dominion of the Turks and accordingly much depopulated and ruined It stands forty Miles from Raguza towards Scodra from which thirty Long. 45. 15. Lat. 42. 00. Risborough a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Aylesbury Risenbergh a Mountain in the Eastern parts of Bohemia out of which the Elbe springeth Rivadava or Rivadeo a City of Gallicia in Spain called by the French Rivedieu it stands upon the Bay of Biscay in the Borders of Asturia at the bottom of an Hill and the Mouth of the River Navius which affords it the convenience of a Port fourteen Spanish Leagues from Oviedo to the West and four from Mondonedo Rivera di Genoua Liguria Littorea is a Country in Italy bounded on the West by the Maritime Alpes by which it is divided from France on the East by the River Magra by which it is divided from Hetruria or Tuscany on the North by the Apennine and on the South by the Mediterranean Sea here called the Ligurian Sea In the middle of it stands the City of Genoua which divides it into the Eastern and Western This is now under the States of Genoua by whom a great part of the Western Division is destinated more to pleasure than profit the rich Genoueses having filled it with Country-Houses where they spend the pleasant time of the Summer and Autumn in noble Palaces and delightful Gardens The Eastern Division supplies them with as much Wine as they need and an extraordinary plenty of good Oil. The principal Place in the Western is Aranza once an inconsiderable Village lately a Place of great Trade and Wealth having sixty Sail of Ships trading into all parts of the World but their Shipping is now declining The principal Place in the Eastern is Sarazana a Town of great strength Rivoli Rivolium a small Town in Piedmont called by the French Rivoles It stands upon the River Doria eight Miles from Turin to the West and has one of the most sumptuous Castles in Piedmont Roan Rotomagus the Capital City of Normandy called by the French Rouen by Caesar and the other ancient Historians Vrbs Velocassium It is an Archbishops See and the Seat of the Parliament of Normandy Great rich populous well built in all respects one of the best Cities in France and thought by some to be the greatest next to Paris It stands upon the Seyne which affords it a noble Harbor and a great Trade at the foot of an Hill twelve Miles above Dieppe and twenty eight beneath Paris with a Bridge upon the Seyne for the convenience of a Land Trade It has an old Castle called the Palace in which the Dukes of Normandy kept their Court and is about seven Miles in compass having besides what lies within the Walls six very great Suburbs and containing in the whole thirty five Parishes with thirty four Monasteries for Men and Women The Castle on S. Catharines Hill is now intirely ruined This City is said by Vitalis lib. 5. to be built by Julius Caesar Valesius proves it one of the most ancient Cities of France and that in the times of Theodosius the Great it was esteemed as a City of the highest rank Taken by the Normans in 889 and assigned to Rollo first Duke of Normandy in 912 when Rollo became a Christian It continued under his Posterity fourteen Descents In 1019. it suffered very much by fire Taken from John King of England by Philip the August King of France in 1204 after it had been in the Hands of the Normans three hundred and sixteen years This City continued under the French till 1418 When the English under Henry V. retook it after a bloody Siege Charles VII of France recovered it to that Crown in 1449. In the times of the late Civil Wars of France it was taken and sacked by the Hugonots in 1562 but recovered after the Battel of Dreux and plundered by the Royal Party Anthony of
Bourbon the King of Navarre being slain before it It fell after this into the Hands of the Leaguers Henry IV. besieged it in 1593. but was prevented from taking it by the Prince of Parma though in the year following it willingly submitted to him after he had imbraced the Roman Catholick Religion The Parliament in this City was instituted by Philip the Fair in 1286. Established by Lewis XII in 1499. and re-established by Francis I. in 1515. Pope Clement VI. was sometime Archbishop of the See Pope Martin IV. and Gregory XI Archdeacons There have been divers provincial Councils here assembled Particularly in 1074. one against the Concubinage of the Clergy Roane or Rovane Rhodumna an ancient Town in France in the Dukedom of Bourbonne and the County of Foretz upon the River Loyre where it becomes first capable to bear a Boat Very great and populous tho not walled It stands twelve Leagues from Lyons to the South-West and eighteen from Moulins The Territory belonging to it is called le Roanez or Roannois and has the Honor of being a Dukedom by the Creation of King Charles IX Rober Erubris a River in Lorain which falls by Trier into the Moselle Robil Robel Rebellio a City or Town in the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh in the Lower Saxony by the Lake of Muritz in the Borders of Brandenburgh two German Miles from Var and seven from Gustro Robogh a Village in the County of Tyron upon the Sea Shoar against Scotland in the Province of Vlster which has preserved the memory of the Rhobogdii an old Irish Clan that possessed the Counties of Antrim Colran and Tyrone in this Province from whom that Cape now called the Fair Foreland by the English was then called Rhobodium being in the County of Antrim scarce fifteen Miles South of the nearest Shoar of Scotland Rocca Nova a Town in the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples honoured with the Title of a Dukedom Rocca Romana a Town in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples near Alifa honored with the Title of a Principality Rochdale a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Salford upon the River Roche in a Dale or Vale which together compound its name La Roche Rupes a Town in the Territory of Genevois in Savoy five or six Leagues from Geneva little less from Anneci and one from the River Arve at the foot of the Mountains It hath a Collegiate Church and two Religious Houses Roche-chouart a Seigniory in the Province of Poictou towards the Borders of Angoumois giving name to a Family of Honour La Roche-En-Ardenne a fortified Town in the Dukedom of Luxemburgh in the Low Countries upon the River Vrt twelve Leagues from Luxemburgh and nine from Liege Honour'd with the Title of an Earldom Rochefort a Town and Port at the Mouth of the Charante in the Pais d'Aunis in France Heretofore no more than a Village but now become a Magazine enlarged with divers Buildings and more daily La Roche-sur-Yon Rupes ad Yonem a Town in the Lower Poictou in France towards Lusson upon the River Yon which after joyns with the Lay. Honoured some Ages since with the Title of a Principality which is enjoyed by the House of Bourbon Rochelle Portus Santonum Rupella Rupella Santonum Rupella a City and famous Port of France upon the Bay of Aquitain the Capital of le Pais d'Aunis and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux Seven Leagues from Brouges to the North two from the Isle of Re and thirty from the Mouth of the Loyre to the South-East It takes its name from the Rock on which it stands supposed to be built about the Sixth Century because not mentioned before against the Incursions of the Normans At first it had Princes of its own After this it was under the English from the times of Henry II. who possessed it as Duke of Anjou And that Prince granted this City its first Charter and Privileges which were confirmed by Richard and John his Sons King John Landed here in 1206. when he went to the Siege of Mountauban and after in 1213. In 1224. it was taken from the English by Lewis VIII King of France but recovered the next year and continued under the English till 1453. And then finally taken by Charles VII In the beginning of the Civil Wars of France this Town fell under the power of the Hugonots who very much improved its Fortifications It was their principal place of refuge under Charles IX After the Massacre of Paris it was besieged by all the Forces of France defended it self to a wonder and at last forced that Prince to a Peace in 1573. It continued after this in their hands till 1628. and then was taken by Hunger in order to which the Ocean was bridled with a prodigious Bank begun in 1627. and carried the length of 747. toises the English having twice unsuccessfully attempted to relieve it After the taking of it Lewis XIII King of France visited it in person re-established the Roman Catholick Religion destroy'd its Fortifications saving two Towers built heretofore by Charles the Fifth for the Defence of the Port and took away its former Privileges In 1649. it first became a Bishoprick the Chair being removed hither from Mallezais a small Place in Poictou by Pope Innocent X. at the request of Lewis XIV Long. 19. 25. Lat. 45. 56. Rochester Rossa Durobius Dorobrevis Rutupiae a City in the County of Kent and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the Medway over which it has a stately Stone Bridge one of the fairest in England five Miles from the Thames twenty five from Canterbury to the East and London to the West This was a Roman Town or rather Castle as William of Malmsbury stiles it much enlarged to the East West and South In 676. it was ruined by Aetheldred King of the Mercians and after this several times by the Danes Aethelbert King of Kent erected here a sumptuous Church and caused one Justus to be made the first Bishop of it in 604. Gundulphus the Norman about 1080. rebuilt this Church and brought in Monks which are since changed into a Dean and six Prebendaries It has a Castle built by William the Conqueror which in the Reign of William Rufus and twice after in the Barons Wars has been besieged Dr. Sprat the present Bishop is the eighty third of this Diocese Charles II. added an Honor to this Place when he created Henry Viscount Wilmot of Athlone in Ireland Baron of Alderbury in the County of Oxon and Earl of Rochester December 13. 1652. Whose Son John Wilmot succeeded him in 1659. Which Family failing Laurence Hide second Son to Sir Edward Hide Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor of England was by the same Prince created Earl of Rochester November 29. 1682. But before these it gave the Title of Viscount to Sir Robert Carr created Anno 1611. by K. James I. Viscount Rochester and afterwards Earl
covered with glazed Slate The Soil is light and sandy apt to produce all sorts of Fruits as Sugar Tabacco Cotton Ginger Indico and the like it wants not Springs and some hot Waters sit for natural Baths This Island was discovered by Christopher Columbus the finder out of the New World and either called by this Name to preserve the Memory of his own or because the Island at a distance seems to represent the usual Picture of S. Christopher upon a Giants Shoulders The English have so increased that they have sent Colonies from thence to Barbuda Monserrat Antego and Barbadoes The French have built a Town of good bigness called le Basse-Terre by the English Back-starr and a College of Jesuits The Houses of Back starr are of Brick Free-Stone and Timber well inhabited by Tradesmen and Merchants But in a great measure destroyed by an Earthquake April 1690. the Earth opening in many places nine foot The English have taken all this Island to themselves in this War June and July 1690 under the Command of Capt. Codrington Capt. Wright and Sir Tim. Thornhill S. Claude Fanum Sti. Claudii a Town in the Franche Cempte in Burgundy fortified in the Borders of la Bresse formerly called S. Oyen de Joux it has a very celebrated Monastery five Leagues from Geneva to the West three from the Rhosne from this Town the Mountain de Joux is sometime called S. Claude S. Clou Fanum Sancti Clodoaldi a remarkable Town in the Isle of France on the Seyne over which it has a Stone Bridge and a magnificent Palace belonging to the Dukes of Orleans It stands upon an Hill two Leagues below Paris to the West Hen. III. King of France died in this Town in 1589. of the Wounds he received from a Fryar It has lately been honored with the Title of a Dukedom which is annexed to the Bishoprick of Paris S. Croce Stauropolis an Inland City of Caria in the Lesser Asia which is an Archbishops See who has a very large Jurisdiction there being under him twenty seven Suffragan Bishops Sancta Crux a Town upon the North Coast of the Island of Cuba in America Sancta Cruz a small but strong City in the Kingdom of Susa upon the Atlantick Ocean built by the Portuguese in 1536. but since taken by the King of Susa under whom it is It is also called Cap d' Aguer Sancta Cruz de la Sierra a small City in the Kingdom of Peru a Bishops See under the Archbishop of la Plata from which it stands one hundred Spanish Leagues to the East S. Davids Menevia a City and Bishoprick in the extreme corner of Pembrokeshire in Wales upon the Irish Sea and the Promontorium Octapitarum of the ancients the same that is now called S. Davids Head Often heretofore spoiled and ruined by the Danes Norwegians and other Pyrates The Cathedral now standing was the work of Peter the 49th Bishop of S. Davids in 1176. who dedicated it by the joynt names of S. Andrew and S. David this latter person being the Founder of the See For he in the time of the Saxons fury under King Arthur being Archbishop of Caerleon upon Vsk translated the Archiepiscopal See of Caerleon to Menew the ancient name of this City whence the Bishops style themselves Episcopi Menevenses so that Menew became an Archbishoprick and had seven Suffragans under it at S. Augustines coming into England it afterward continued so for twenty six Successions till Sampson an Archbishop of it in the time of a plague transferred the Pall and Dignity to Dole in Brittany Whereby his Successors at S. Davids lost their Name of Archbishops Yet Bernard B. of S. Davids in 1115. was the first that submitted himself to the See of Canterbury This Diocese contains the whole Counties of Pembroke Cardigan Caermarthen Radnor Brecknock with some small parts of Monmouth Hereford Montgomery and Glamorganshires S. Dizier a strong Town in Champagne in France upon the River Marne in the Borders of the Dukedom de la Barr six Leagues from Bar le Duc to the North-East and forty two from Paris to the East The Capital of the Territory of Valage betwixt Joinville and Chalon Besieged and taken by Charles V. in 1544 and after restored to France by the Peace of Crespy S. Domingo de la Calcada a small Town in Old Castile in Spain near Najara S. Donato Forum Appium a Town in the Campagnia di Roma in Italy S. Eustacia one of the Leeward Islands in the West-Indies otherwise called the Carribys It was planted by the French but taken from them by the English under Sir Tim. Thornhill and Capt. Wright July 1690. A very small Island with one only Fort is capable of about eighty Men. Near to S. Christophers S. Fe Fanum Sanctae Fidei a Town in Granada upon the River Xenil built by K. Ferdinando in 1491. in a Plain two Leagues from Granada to the West S. Fé a City i◠South America in Paragua in the Province of la Plata two hundred and forty Miles from the City de Buenos Ayres to the North. S. Fe de Bogota a City of South America in the Kingdom of New Granada the Capital of which it is and an Archbishops See It stands upon the River Pati by the Lake Guaravita at the foot of a Mountain called Bogota from which it has its Name a vast distance from the Sea every way S. Fiorenza Fanum Sancti Florentii a Town on the North Coast of the Island of Corsica under the Genouese with a Port and considerable Fortifications Understood by some to be the Canelata of Ptolemy S. Flour Floriopolis Fanum Sancti Flori a City in the Vpper Auvergne built on an high Hill commonly called la Planese and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourges ever since 1317. being then Founded by P. John XXII upon the River Ladir Twenty Leagues from Clermont to the South and eight from le Puy to the West Some take it to be the Indiacum of the ancients S. For a Town in Aquitain upon the River Dordogne in the Province of Agenois in the Borders of Perigort four Leagues from Bergerac to the West S. Foy a Town in the Province of Guyenne in France upon the Dordogne betwixt Bergerao and Libourne Taken by the Protestants in 1563. S. Gall Fanum Sancti Galli a Town in Switzerland which has a famous and rich Benedictine Abbey of greater Antiquity and much greater extent and jurisdiction than the Town being able to levy above six thousand Men of its own Subjects The Abbot is a Prince of the Empire since the year 1226. It stands in the Territory of Torgow betwixt the Cantons of Zurich and Appenzel and the Diocese of Constance and is one of the principal Cantons one Mile from the Lake of Constance and four from Lindaw to the West Heretofore an Imperial and Free City but now exempt The Abbey owes its Beginning either to an Irish or Scotch Devote of the name who preach'd
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
Country is very fruitful and rich has Mines of Gold and Silver especially about Zerbenick Herzegovina and Rascia are the two principal Parts of it Sessanne Sesanna a small City in La Brie a Province of France in the Borders of Champagne 13 Leagues from Troyes to the North and 24 from Paris to the East of late years it suffered much by fire but now rebuilding Some have written it Sezania Sesans or Sezans Cincomagus an ancient Roman Town in Dauphine two Leagues from Brianzon to the East at the foot of the Cottian Alpes La Sesia Sesites a River of Lombardy which springeth out of the Pennine Alpes and flowing between the Dukedom of Milan and the Principality of Piedmont watereth Varallo Romagnano and Vercelli then falls into the Po six Miles below Casale Sessa Suessa Aurunca an ancient City in Italy in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capua from which it stands sixteen Miles to the West and twenty from Gaeta to the East in a very fruitful soil for Wine and Corn. Honored with the Title of a Dukedom Sesto Sestos Sestus a Town and Fortress upon the Coast of Romania in Europe on this side the Hellespont opposite to Abydos in Asia on the other These two Fortresses guard the Passage of the Archipelago into the Sea of Marmora See Abydos Sestula the chief Town of the Territory of Frignana in the Dukedom of Modena in Italy towards the Borders of the Bolognese Sestri the name of two Towns in the States of Genoua in Italy to the East and West of the City Genoua Setia a City in the Isle of Candy called by the Greeks Sitia which though very small is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Candy It stands on a Peninsula on the East side of the Island under the Turks Sethie Dicte an Island on the East of Candy thought by the Pagans to have been the place where Jove was Nursed Now also called Lassiti and il Monte di Setia Setines the vulgar Name of Athens by a Corruption of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See Athens Settalia Pamphylia a Province in the Lesser Asia upon the Mediterranean Sea between Cilicia to the East and Lycia to the West Settle a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Staincliff upon the River Rible Sevenoke a Market Town in the County of Kent in Sutton Lath which hath a Hospital and a Free-School founded in 1418. by William Sevenoke a Lord Mayor of London Les Sevennes Cemmenus Gebenna a Mountain in France which runs a Course of thirty Leagues between Rovergne and Givaudan two Provinces of France to the West the Switzers and le Velay to to the East These Mountains begin near the Fountains of the Loyre in the Province of Vivarais and are extended as far as Rovergue and the Borders of the Lower Languedoc Towards Paris they are very fruitful and well inhabited The rest is more barren and besides the Rivers which spring from it and its being a Boundary of no great advantage Seven-waldt Seven-walden Baduhennae Lucus a Forest in Friseland Severino Acmonia a City built by Severus the Roman Emperor upon the Danube near Trajanus his Bridge twelve German Miles from Temeswaer to the North-East Severne Sabrina one of the noblest Rivers of England which ariseth in the County of Montgomery in Wales near Plynllimon Hill and flows at first East as far as Llandois then turning North-East it watereth New-town and leaving Montgomery to the East passeth by Welsh-Pool to the borders of Shropshire taking in the Tanot before it entereth that County So passeth South-West to Shrewsbury and Worcester beneath which the Temde and at Tewkesbury the Avon come in passing to Glocester it becomes by that time very great and beneath that City it has never a Bridge over it So parting Monmouthshire to to the North from Gloucestershire to the South it entereth the Irish Sea by a vast and stately Mouth liker an Arm of the Sea than a part of a River fifteen English Miles broad between Nash-point in Glamorganshire and Lintow in Devonshire Sevilla de Oro a deserted Town in the North part of the Island of Jamaica which has a good Harbor upon the Gulph of Mexico but little frequented by the English The Spaniards were the Founders of it Seville Hispalis Ispalis and Hispalis ad Baetim a City of Spain called by the Spaniards Sevilla great rich and populous the Capital of the Lower Andalusia and an Archbishop's See seated upon the River Guadalquivir upon which it has a frequented Harbor There belongs also to it an University a Court of Inquisition an old Castle called Alcaser and a large Suburb called Triana It is one of the ancientest Cities in Spain ascribed to Hercules as its Founder which shews it to be a Phoenician City The Moors conquered it in the year of Christ 713 and held it five hundred thirty four years In 1248 it was recovered by Ferdinando out of the hands of the Moors after a siege of sixteen Months since that time two of the Kings of Castile were born here viz. Ferdinand IV. and Henry II. Ferdinand III. died here in 1252 Alphonsus X. in 1284. When the Spaniards took it from the Moors there belonged to it a very populous Territory being seated in a very fruitful Plain but by the Banishment of the Moors it is become almost desolate Long. 14. 30. Lat. 37. 25. The West-Indian Fleets for the most part land their Merchandise at this City the Form of whose situation is almost round The Metropolitan Church passes for the largest in all Spain You see a great number of Colleges Chappels and Religious Houses besides with Palaces Grand Places and Fountains adorning them whose Streams by an Aquaduct are fetched the space of five or six Leagues from the City In the years 590 and 619 two noted Councils were celebrated here Isidore Bishop of Sevil rendered both the See and the City famous in his time The Spaniards proverbially say Qui no ha visto Sevilla no ha visto Maravilla He that hath not seen Sevill hath not seen a Wonder § Near this Sevill in the same Andalusia stood the ancient City of Italica whence the Poet Silius its Native as many write was denominated Italicus and which had the honour of giving Birth to three Roman Emperors Trajan Adrian and Theodosius senior The place of its ruines now is known by the Name of Sevilla la Vieja or Old Sevill La Seure Separa a double River in Poictou in France 1. La Seure Nantois watereth Mortagne in Poictou and Nantes in Bretagne then falls into the Loyre 2. La Seure Niortois ariseth above S. Maixant and watering Niort Mallezais and Marans falls into the Bay of Aquitain Sewer Surius Suirius a River which ariseth in the County of Tipperary in the Borders of Leinster in Ireland and watering Casshel Caryck and Waterford falls into the Boyne on the South of Ireland
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
Sancha of Castile Wise to Alphonsus II. King of Arragon sirnamed the Chaste who after the Death of her Husband took the Habit her self in this House and divers Princesses with her She endowed it with large Revenues and a very considerable Jurisdiction to the Benefices and Cures whereof the Prioress at this day nominates and hath a Voice and Seat in the Provincial Chapter of Arragon The House is walled like a Fortress with a Noble Palace in it for the Residence of the Prioress who attains to her Dignity by the Election of the Religious They bear the name also of the Ladies of Malta as owing Fidelity and Obedience by Oath to the Great Master of the Knights of Malta from which though they substracted about the year 1470. to put themselves immediately under the Pope Yet in 1569. they returned again to it fearing otherwise to fall under the Spiritual Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Lerida The persons admitted must make proof of their quality as Ladies They wear a large Cross in white Silk upon their Breasts and in time of Office bear in their hands a Silver Scepter as the Badges of their Order Skeningrave a small Sea-Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire West from Mulgrave Castle The Seal-Fish appear in great Shoals about the Rocks here Skipton a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Staincliff and the Tract of Craven upon a Stream falling into the River Are. Skofde Skofda a small City in Westrogothia in Sweden Skye Skia an Island on the West of Scotland fifty Miles in length from East to West It lies about three Miles from the Shoars of Rosse to the West and has never a Town or City of Note Sladitza Osmus a River of Bulgaria The Sleeve the Sea between France and England or the Streights of Calais Slawkow Slaukovia a City in Bohemia in Moravia called by the Germans Austerlitz it stands five Miles from Olmitz to the South Sleaford a large well inhabited Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Flaxwell near the Head of a Stream of its own name falling into the Witham It shews the ruined Walls of a Castle which it had in former times Slego Slegum a Town and County in Conaught in Ireland on the Western Shoar Sleswick Slesvicum a City of Denmark heretofore called Hedeba and Slietory It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lunden and the Capital of a Dutchy of the same Name seated upon the River Sleie which falls into the Baltick Sea four German Miles from the Mouth of that River to the West between Flensburg to the North and Rensburg to the South sixteen Miles from Lubeck and Hamburg to the North. Its Bishoprick was instituted in 948. by Harald Blaâ—tland and extinguished in 1556. by Frederick II. King of Denmark Once an Imperial and Free City but now exempt and under the Duke of Holstein Gotthorp Long. 32. 45. Lat. 54. 55. The Dukedom of Sleswick Slesvicensis Ducatus is a part of the Cimbrica Chersonesus sometimes called South Jutland On the East it is bounded by the Baltick Sea on the South by Holstein on the West by the German Ocean and on the North by Jutland John Buno denies it to be any part of Holstein or Germany but saith it is a Fife of the Crown of Denmark Lotharius the Emperor created Canutus Duke of S' eswick King of the Vandals in 1130. Christian Son of Theodorick Oldemburg King of Denmark united this and Holstein to the Crown of Denmark in 1566. Christian IV. granted it to the Duke of Holstein in 1589. but as a Feudatary and Subject of the Crown of Denmark By the Treaty of Roschild in 1658. this Dukedom was declared a Sovereign State by the Procurement of the Swedes the Affairs of Denmark requiring then a Compliance with the Demands of that Victorious Nation But the Crown of Denmark taking the advantage of better times forced this Duke to become a Subject of Denmark again by a Treaty made at Flensburg in 1675. which last Treaty has been endeavoured to be rescinded and that of Roschild confirmed by the Swedes and other of the Northern Princes Slonim Slonima a small City in Lithuania in the Palatinate of Novogrod eight Polish Miles from that City to the South upon the River Sezura Sluczk Slucum a Town in Lithuania honoured with the Title of a Dukedom great and populous but for the most part built only of Timber upon a River of its own name It stands in the Palatinate of Novogrod fifteen Polish Miles North from the Borders of Polesia Constantine Duke of Ostrog in the Reign of Sigismund I King of Poland defeated three great Armies of the Tartars in a Fight of three days continuance near this place Sluys Slusa Clausulae a small but very strong Town in Elanders about one League from the Ocean four from Midleburg to the South-East and three from Bruges Taken by the Dutch in 1604. from the Spaniards and ever since in their hands Smaland Smalandia a County of Gothland under the Swedes between Westrogothia to the West Bleking to the South the Baltick Sea to the East and Ostrogothia to the North. The principal Places in it are Calmar Jonckoping and Wexsio Smalkalde Smalcalda a City in Franconia in Germany in the County of Henneneberg under the Duke of Hess-Cassel not above one German Mile from the River Werra four from Isenach and six from Erford to the North-West Particularly regardable on the account of a League made and confirmed here by the Protestant Princes in the years successively 1530. 1531. 1535. and 1537. against Charles V. Wherein besides thirty Lutheran Cities which had embraced the Confession of Ausbourgh the Kings of Sweden and Denmark the Dukes of Brunswick Pomerania and Wirtembourgh the young Marquess of Brandenbourgh the Elector of Saxony Landtgrave of Hesse and other Princes by times engaged and whereas the Pope had convocated what they desired a free Council at Mantoua these in their Assembly in 1537. whereat Luther and Melancthon assisted answered They would never consent to a Council out of Germany In 1547. Charles V. dissipated all the Forces of this League in one Campaign taking the Elector of Saxony and the Landtgrave of Hesse Prisoners But in 1552. having recruited themselves again they obliged Charles V. to conclude the Peace of Passaw whereby Lütheranism was authoritatively established in Germany Smolensko Smolentum one of the principal Cities of Poland and the Capital of a Palatinate It stands upon the Borysthenes in White Russia in Lithuania near the Borders of Muscovy Great and very strong surrounded by a Wall eight Cubits broad at the top strengthened by fifty two great Towers and a very strong Castle It contains about eight thousand Houses and was once much greater subject at first to a Russian Duke who was the Sovereign of it but conquered by Vitondus Duke of Lithuania in 1403. Casimirus II. King of Poland subjected it to that Crown in 1452. The Russ took it in 1514.
Course piece of Cloth with a fine List Besides the Thames here is the VVay the Mole and the Wandle whose head springs from Croydon all emptying themselves in the Thames It has many Noble and Princely Houses but few Towns or Places of any considerable greatness the Principal Town in it being Kingston upon Thames The Regni an old British Tribe were the first Inhabitants of this County In the times of the Saxon Heptarchy it was a part of the Kingdom of the South Saxons The first Earl of it was VVill. de VVarren Created by VVilliam the Conqueror in 1067. VVilliam the third of this Line succeeded in 1135. who was followed by VVilliam de Blois Son of King Stephen first Husband of Isabel de VVarren in 1148. and by Hameline Plantagenet base Son of George Earl of Anjou half Brother to Edward III. second Husband of the said Isabel in 1163. His Posterity enjoyed it in four descents till 1347 when the Male Line failing Richard Fitz Alan Lord Treasurer was Earl of Surrey In 1398. Thomas Holland was Earl of Kent and Duke of Surrey afterwards Beheaded Thomas Fitz Alan Son of the former Richard died Earl of Surrey in 1414. In 1451 John Lord Mowbray was Created Earl of VVarren and Surrey and after Duke of Norfolk In 1475. Richard a second Son of Edward IV. was the thirteenth Earl of Surrey In 1483. Thomas L. Howard L. Treasurer after Duke of Norfolk was Created Earl of Surrey in which Family it is at this day Surunga a City and Kingdom in Japan in the Island of Niphon Sus Susa or Susum a Kingdom in Biledulgerida in Africa so called from a River of the same Name It is bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Morocco on the East by Darha on the South by Tesseta and on the West by the Atlantick Ocean Divided into seven Provinces the principal Cities in it are Tarudant the Regal City Teseut and Sancta Cruz. This is a pleasant rich fruitful Kingdom yields Wine Grain Fruits Pasturage Indico Alum c. has a great Quantity of Gold which is a perpetual cause of War amongst them and many Castles and Villages well fortified by the Natives since the Portuguese abandoned this Country in the last Century Now subject to the Kingdom of Fez tho it has been a distinct Kingdom and the Inhabitants are for the most part Mahometans and some of the best Soldiers in Africa Susa one of the principal Cities in the Principality of Piedmont upon the Doria at the foot of the Cottian Alps which separate Piedmons from Dauphine and the Capital of a Marquisaâ—e of its own Name belonging to the Duke of Savoy but taken by the French Forces under Monsieur Cattinat November 1690. Nineteen Miles from Pignerol The French call it Suse This City shews an Inscription upon a Triumphal Arch from which Learned Men conclude that the Emperor Augustus erected his Trophy hereabouts for the Conquest of the Alpine Nations in the year of Rome 740 fourteen Years before our Saviour For tho others place that Trophy about the Foot of le Col de Tende or the Maritime Alpes near Nice and Monaco from a part of the words Gentes Alpinae Devictae seen there upon a Fragment of a stone yet these two Opinions are reconcilable by supposing that Augustus set up this Trophy at the foot of both the Maritime and Cottian Alpes for the greater glory § Susa was also the Capital of the ancient Country Susiana in Asia at the entrance of a spacious Plain which the River Choaspes watered The Kings of Persia used to pass the Spring at it Darius repaired it says Pliny Alexander the Great took it It is now in a flourishing state if the same Souster See Souster Susdal Susdalia a City of Muscovy the Capital of a Province of the same Name and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Rostow It stands eighty Miles from Moscow to the South-East and one hundred and thirty from Novogorod Nisi to the North-West Susiana an ancient Country of Asia betwixt Syria Persia and Chaldaea whereof Susa was the Capital City and Melitene one considerable Province It had the honour to be a Kingdom which after the death of Abradatus King of Susiana submitted to the power of Cyrus Sussex Sussexia one of the Southern Counties of England Bounded on the North by Surrey and Kent on the East by Kent on the South by the British Sea and on the West by Hampshire It s Length from East to West is sixty Miles the broadest part from North to South not above twenty and its Circumference about one hundred and fifty wherein are contained one hundred and twelve Parishes with eighteen Market Towns The Air is good but subject to great Fogs and Mists out of the neighbour Sea which recompenceth this Inconvenience with plenty of Fish and Fowl There are few Harbors upon this Coast the Soil is rich and fruitful but the Roads miry and unpleasant the Middle of the Country has excellent Meadows the Sea-coasts are Hilly but afford plenty of Corn and Grass the North-side full of Woods and Groves The principal River is Arun. The chief City in it is Chichester which is a Bishop's See the next to it Lewes The Regni were the ancient Inhabitants of this County who were subdued by Aulus Plautius in the reign of Claudius the Roman Emperor In 478 Ella erected here the Kingdom of the South-Saxons from whence this County has its Name The first Earl of it was William de Albeney Earl of Arundel who married Adelizia the Relict of Henry I in 1178. He was succeeded by VVilliam his Son it continued in this Family for five Descents In 1243 John Plantagenet Earl of Surrey succeeded In 1305 John a Son of the former followed In 1529 Robert Ratcliffe was Created by Henry VIII Earl of Sussex whose Posterity enjoyed this Honor six Descents In 1644 Thomas Lord Savil was Created the fourteenth Earl of Sussex whose Son succeeded and in him that Family ended This Honor in 1674 was conferred upon Thomas Leonard Lord Dacres who married Anne Fitz-Roy eldest Daughter to the Duchess of Cleavland by Charles II. Sutherland Sutherlandia a County in the North of Scotland Bounded on the North by Caithness and Strathnavern on the West by Assint on the South by Rosâ— and on the East by the German Ocean The principal Town in it is Dornock Sutri Sutrium Colonia Julia Sutrina a City in the States of the Church in S. Peters Patrimony upon the River Pozzolo which is a Bishops See but for ever united to the See of Nepi from whence it stands four Miles to the West and twenty four from Rome to the South-West It is little and incompassed with Rocks on all sides Livy says of it that Camillus when it had revolted against the Romans went with an Army to reduce it In the year of Christ 1046. the Emperor Henry III. assembled a Council here which deposed Pope Gregory VI. who had intruded into the Roman
a vast Arm of the Sea falls into the German Sea almost twenty English Miles North of St. Andrews Taygetus a Mountain of the Province of Laconia in the Peloponnesus consecrated in Pagan times to Castor and Pollux Standing in the neighbourhood of Sparta now Misitra and being broken once by an Earthquake it did much mischief to that City Tearus a River of Thrace salling into the Hebrus so admired by Darius the Son of Hystaspes for its Water according to Herodotus that he erected a Colom in its honor Teane a River in Staffordshire upon which Checkley is situated Tebesca an ancient City in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Carthage Tech Ter Illybiris Thicis Tichis a small River in the County of Roussillon which springeth out of the Pyrenean Hills in the Borders of Cerdanna watereth Arles and Cerdanna then falls into the Mediterranean Sea twelve Miles from the Mouth of the Egli to the South Tectosagae an ancient People of Gallia Narbonensis whose Capital City was the modern Tolose They made an incursion into Germany and there established themselves near the Hyrcinian Forest Tedles Tedlesia a Province in the Kingdom of Morocco It s chief City is Tofza Tees Athesis Tuasis a River which parts England from Scotland It ariseth in Twedale therefore called the Tweed no less frequently and running Eastward and being augmented by the Cale at Rydam it becomes a boundary at Tiltmouth takes in the Bromyshe out of Northumberland and on the South side of Barwick entereth the German Ocean Teflis Artaxata Arxata Tephlis Zogocara the Capital City of Georgia in the Province of Carduel upon the River Khur or Cyrus Anciently one of the greatest Cities of the East but being taken and ill handled by the Turks it consists of very few Inhabitants under the King of Persia Baudrand Sir John Chardin who saw it some few years since contrariwise assures us it is one of the fairest though not the biggest Cities in Persia at the bottom of a Mountain upon the River Cur incompassed on all sides but the South where the River secureth it with a strong and beautiful Wall and has about fourteen Christian Churches served by Armenians and Georgians together with a large Castle guarded by Natural Persians only The Bishops See or Palace is near the Cathedral Church It has in the mean time not one Mosque except a small one lately built in the Castle because the Christians will not endure it and the Persians are too wise to exasperate their Frontier People who can with ease call in the Turks to revenge the Injuries of their Religion It is well Peopled full of Strangers who resort thither on the account of Trade Twice in the hands of the Turks in the Reigns of Ishmael II and Solyman his Son The latter took this and Tauris about 1548. The Persian Tables place it Long. 83. 00. Lat. 43. 05. The Congregation at Rome de propaganda fide keeping a Mission of Capuchins in Georgia who understand Physick and by that means render themselves very acceptable to the Country their Praefect resides here It is the Seat of the Viceroy of Georgia Tefza a City in the Province of Tedles in the Kingdom of Morocco built on an high Hill by the River Derna Tegan Teganum a City in the Province of Huquam in China The Capital over five Cities Tegaza a Desart in Nigritia in Africa Tegaea an antient City of Arcadia in the Peloponnesus which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Corinth Tegeste a Peninsula in Florida in North America Tegorarin a City and Territory in Biledulgerid in Africa Teissa or Tiissa Tibiscus the Theysse a River of the Vpper Hungary which ariseth in the Carpathian Mountains and floweth through Transylvania hither to pay its Tribute to the Danube Segedin stands upon it The Hungarians use to say It is two parts Water and the third Fish Tejum an ancient City of Paphlagonia in the Lesser Asia remarkable by being the Birth-place of Anacreon the Poet who died of a Grape-stone sticking in his Throat Telepte an Ancient City of the Province of Byzacena in the Kingdom of Tunis in Barbary It was a Bishops See particularly remarkable in the person of Donatus who in 418 celebrated a Council at it against the Pelagians Now in slavery to the Moors Telessia a City of the ancient Samnium in Italy now in the Province called Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples It became a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento and was adorned with the Title of a Dukedom But since 1612 the See has been transserred from hence Telgen Telga a City in Sudermannia in Sweden four Miles from Stockholm to the North-West Temesen Temesena a Province in the Kingdom of Fez. Temeswaer Temesuaria a Town in the Vpper Hungary which is the Capital of a County of the same Name A great and strong place seated upon the River Temes whence it has its Name five Leagues from Lippa towards the Borders of Transylvania and about ten from Belgrade The Turks twice attempted it before they took it in 1552 from the Transylvanians upon which they bestowed great costs in the fortifying of it and esteem it invincible as indeed it is the strongest Place they have left them The County of Temeswaer is bounded on the North by Chaunad and Transylvania on the West by the Tibiscus on the South by the Danube and on the East by Moldavia Temiam Temiamum a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Gangara on the West by that of Bito on the South by the River Niger and on the East by the Desart of Sert or Seu. The principal City of which is Temican Tempe a sweet Valley in the Province of Thessalia in Macedonia watered by the River Peneo The Poets have rendered it famous to all Ages It lies betwixt the Mountains Olympus and Ossa And some place the ancient City Lycosthome in it which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Larissa Temruck or Tomaruchi Tyrambe Tyrambis a City of Crim Tartary in Asia sixteen Miles from the Cimmerian Bosphorus to the East and ten from the Lake of Corocondam to the North. Tenbury a Market Town in Worcestershire upon the Edge of Shropshire and the Banks of the River Tent in the hundred of Doddington Tende Tenda a Town in the County of Nizza in the Appenine near the Borders of the States of Genoua eighteen Miles from Alba to the North and twenty five from Fossano South which has a Mountain near it called Le col de Tende and a very strong Castle This was a Sovereign State under Counts of its own but now subject to the Duke of Savoy Tenduc Tenducum a City and Kingdom of the Asian Tartary Bounded on the North by the Great Tartary on the East by Jupia on the West by the Kingdom of Tangut and on the South by China This Prince has within a little more than forty
the Cape di Coco or the most Western Point to the North-East and fifty five from Palermo to the South-West The Rock or petty Island of Colombara stands very near it to the South fortified with a strong Cittadel This City is built at the foot of the Mountain Eryx now Trapano near the Ruines of the antient City Eryx which yet appear and are called Trapano Vecchio the old Trapano in the figure of a Sickle according to the signification of its name in Greek and that of Ovid Quique locus curvae nomina falcis habet The Coral fished up here is good Trau Tragurium a small City and Port in Dalmatia called by the Sclaves Troghir Strong and well peopled and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Spalato It stands in a small Island of the same Name but joined to the Continent by a Bridge seventy Miles from Zara and twelve from Salona Subject to the Venetians ever since 1420. Travanor Travancorum a City and Kingdom in the Province of Mallabar in the East-Indies sixty Miles from Comorin to the North and fifty from Coulan to the South subject to the King of Coulan Travaux Sinus Laborum a Bay upon the Coast of America Magellanica near Porto Desire the Spaniards call it Boia de los Marabaios others the White Bay and S. George's Bay Trave Treva a River of Holstein in the Province of Wagaren which watereth Ploen Segeberg Oldesloh Reinfelde Lubeck and Travemond and separating Holstein from Mecklenburg falls into the Baltick Sea between Tavemond and Dassow Trebia a River of Lombardy which ariseth in the States of Genoua fifteen Miles from that City and watering Bobio a City in the Dukedom of Milan a little above Piacenza falls into the Po. The Romans being overthrown by Hannibal upon the Banks of this River were most of them in their flight drowned in it Trebigna Tribulium a small but very ancient City of Dalmatia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ragusa from which it stands sixteen Miles to the East upon the River Trebinska subject to the Turks Trebula an antient City of the Terra Sabina in the States of the Church in Italy It has a Castle and a great repute for Cheese Some Inscriptions and the Ruins of a Theatre yet extant speak its Considerableness in former times Tregaron a Market Town in Caerdiganshire in the Hundred of Pennarth Tregoney a Corporation in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Powder represented in the Lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses Treguier Trecorium Trecora a City of Bretagne in France called by the Inhabitants Lantriguet It stands upon the North Shoar and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours Having an excellent Port nine Miles from S. Brien to the West and thirty from Reims The Bishop is also the Temporal Lord of it with the Title of a Count. It was often exposed to the spoils of the Saxons Danes and Normans Tremissen Tremesin Tremisa a Town and Kingdom in Mauritania Caesariensis in Barbary Tremita an Island upon the Coast of the Kingdom of Naples in the Gulph of Venice which communicates its name to some others about it called the Islands of Tremits It is one of the Diomedeae of the Antients and now adorned with a Monastery Tremituge Tremithus Tremethus a City of the Islands of Cyprus which was anciently a Bishops See Sporidion a famous Bishop of it assisting at the first Council of Nice It is now reduced to a poor Town Trent Trenta one of the principal Rivers in England It ariseth in the County of Stafford near Mowcop Hill towards Cheshire and flowing South receives the Saw from Stafford in the Borders of that County the Tame from the South and the Done from the North and entering Nottinghamshire salutes its Capital at a small distance after at Newark So dividing this Shire from Lincolnshire this and the River Dun form the Isle of Axholme and they being united both fall into the Humber at Ankeborough Trent Trento Tridentum a City in the Borders of the County of Tirol betwixt Italy and Germany call'd by the Germans Trient The Capital of a Territory called the Tridentine amongst the Alpes which thence are also called the Tridentine Alpes It is a small City and a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja well peopled seated in a fruitful Valley upon the River Adige in the midst of aspiring Mountains Once an Imperial and Free City now exempt and subject to its own Bishop as to its Revenue but as to the Sovereignty to the Emperor as Count of Tirol Eighteen Miles from Inspruck to the South and about eight from Verona It has divers Churches one College of Jesuites and a great number of religious and ecclesiastical Houses But most celebrated on the account of a Council begun here by Pope Paul III. December 15. 1445 who dying in 1549. it was continued under Julius III in 1551. He also dying in 1555. and a War broken out in Germany it was not resumed by Pius IV. till 1562 and by him ended Decemb. 4. 1563. Maurice Elector of Saxony with Albert Marquess of Brandenburgh and William Landtgrave of Hesse having suddenly taken Ausbourgh in 1552. and threatned Trent obliged Pope Julius III. to suspend the session of it for that time Trepassez Sinus Mortuorum a Bay in New-found Land in North America Trero Trerus a River of Campania di Roma which watereth Salvaterra and falls into the Garigliano beneath Ponte Corvo in the Borders of the Kingdom of Naples Some call it Omme Tresen Tresa a small City with an Haven upon the Baltick Sea in the Province of Sudermannia in Sweden seven Miles from Stockholm to the North-West Tresmes Trama a River and Monastery in Champagne in France in the Borders of La Brie three Leagues from Meaux to the North. Trevico Trivicus a City in the further Principate in the Kingdom of Naples A Bishops See under the Arch-Bishop of Benevento Horace mentions it It is likewise called Vico della Baronia Trevigiana See Marchia Trevisana Treviso or Trevigi Tarvisium Taurisium a City in the Marquisate of Trevigiana or Trevisana to which it gives its name in the States of Venice upon the River Sile which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja A great and strong City surrounded on all sides by Water and thereby of the more difficult access Brought under the States of Venice in 1336. In 1509 taken by Maximilian the Emperour and shortly after restored to them It stands eighteen Miles from Venice to the South-West Trevoux Trevoltium the Capital Town of the Principality of Dombes in France adorned with a Collegiate Church Triadzzia Sardica an ancient City of Thrace Triballi an ancient People of Moesia Inferior now Bulgaria Tribur an ancient Royal Palace betwixt Mayence and Oppenheim beyond the Rhine in Germany where divers Councils have been celebrated Tricaraco Tricarium a City in the Basilicate in the Kingdom of Naples Tricastin a Territory in Dauphine in France the
govern by the Sword Turquestan Some make this and the Kingdom of Thibet in the Asiatick Tartary to be the same Country Others describe it as a Province betwixt the Great Tartary and the Empire of the Mogul Tuver Tavera a City of Moscovy Tuxford a Market Town in Nottinghamshire in the Hundred of Southclay called commonly Tuxford upon Clay from the quality of the Soil it stands in Tuy Tude Tyde a City of Gallicia in Spain upon the River Minho six Leagues from its Mouth to the East twelve from Compostella and seventeen Bracara It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Compostella but a small City Tweede Tuaesis Vedra Tueda a River which divides Scotland from England and falls into the German Ocean at Barwick Giving name to Tweedale a County in Scotland Tyana an ancient City of Cappadocia in the Lesser Asia at the foot of the Mountain Taurus famous for being the Birth-place of the Philosopher Apollonius called Tyanaeus from it It became in the Christian times an Archbishops See and in 365. a Council of the Oriental Bishops was celebrated at it Tyndaro Tyndarus a Town in the Island of Sicily in the Valley of Demone towards Petti which was formerly a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Syracusa But as Syracusa has been since reduced to a Bishoprick so has Tyndaro from a City become a Town Tyrconel See Tirconel Tyre Tyrus one of the most ancient and celebrated Cities of Palestine supposed to be older than the coming of the Children of Israel out of Egypt but certainly at the latest built in the year of the World 2693. two hundred and forty years before Solomon's Temple which is the account of Josephus It flourished and had the Trade of the whole Mediterranean Sea sent and settled its Colonies on all its Coasts as far as the Western Ocean yea as Britain and amongst the rest founded Carthage But when Jerusalem fell Tyre kept her company For Nebuchadnezzar took and burnt this City in the eighteenth year of his Reign Anno Mundi 3371. the year before he took Jerusalem Alexander the Great took and ruined it the second time after a Siege of seven Months in the year of the World 3618. Yet it recovered again and was in great repute during the Roman Empire and was an Archbishops See in the times of Christianity under the Patriarch of Antioch and afterwards of Jerusalem Adrian the Emperour having made it the Metropolis of Phoenicia About the year of Christ 641. after the Saracens had by a Siege of three years forced Caesarea to submit to them they became Masters of this City without resistance Damascus Antioch and Jerusalem being taken before Together with Jerusalem it returned under Christian Princes again about the year 1099. In 1111. the the Saracens in vain attempted the Recovery of it but in 1123. it was taken by them The Christians regained it and kept it till the year 1259. when the Tartars took it In 1263. the Venetians retook it In 1292. the Saracens finally prevailed and drove the Western Christians out of Syria This is now called Sour by the Turks and has some lovely Antiquities as Thevenot saith but no Inhabitants Long. 67. Lat. 33. 20. In the year 335. a Council here assembled by the order of Constantine the Great condemned Athanasius deprived him of his Bishoprick of Alexandria and banished him from that City In 448. Ibas Bishop of Edessa accused of Nestorianism was acquitted by a Council at Tyre and in 518. there was a third celebrated here Tyrnaw Tirnavia a small City in the Vpper Hungary in the County of Transchin upon a River of its own name called by the Germans Durn or Dyrne which has always been under the Emperour and is the common Residence of the Bishop of Gran being seated in his Diocese nine Miles from Comora to the North eight from Presburgh to the East and sixteen from Vienna Tyrone Tyronensis Comitatus the County of Tir-Oen or as the Irish call it of Thioroghain is in the Province of Vlster in the Kingdom of Ireland between the County of Antrim to the East London-Derry to the North and West and Fermanach and Armagh to the South There is no Town or City of any Note in this County which heretofore extended further to the West than now it doth a part of it being taken into the County of London-Derry Tzaconia the same with Laconia a Province of the Morea Tzebona a strong Town in Bohemia Tzorlich or Tzurulium or Ciarlo a City of Thrace which is a Bishops See almost in the middle between Constantinople and Adrianople Tzuconi a Kingdom of Japan V A. VAbres Vabrae Vabra Vabrincum Castrum Vabrense Vabrium a small City in Rovergue in France upon the River Dourdan at the foot of an Hill three Leagues from Rhodez to the South and four from the Borders of Languedoc Made a Bishops See in 1317. under the Archbishop of Bourges by Pope John XXII who converted its Benedictine Abbey into a Cathedral The Bishops enjoy the Title of Earls of Vabres Long. 23. 40. Lat. 33. 00. Vaferine or Vanferine a River of France which ariseth from the Valley of Chesieri in Bugey and separates the Territory of Michaille in that Province from Savoy then passeth by Bellegarde into the Rhone Vag Vagus a River of the Vpper Hungary which ariseth from the Carpathian Hills in the Borders of Poland and running North-West watereth Trenschin Freistadel Leopolstadt Schinta and Scheliz Between Comora and Presburgh falls from the North into the Danube Whilst Newheusel was in the hands of the Turks this was the Boundary on that side between the two Empires Vai Sabatium Vadum Vada Sabatia a Sea-Port on the Coast of Genoua five Miles from Savona to the North-West Vaison Vasio Forum Vocontiorum a City in Provence in the County of Venaissin upon the River Louveze and the ascent of a Hill four French Leagues from Orange to the North-East and ten from Avignon to the same It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Avignon In 337. a Council here assembled in the Reign of the Emperor Constantius received and added to the Gloria Petri the Verse following Sicut erat in principio c. In 442. and 529. we read of other Councils here Val des Choux a Priory in the Dukedom of Burgundy and the Diocese of Langres near Chastillon founded in 1197. It belongs to the Benedictines Val des Ecoliers an Abbey in the Diocese of Langres in France founded in 1212. by some Parisian Doctors for their retirement whose example drew the Scholars of the Vniversity of Paris in such numbers to the same life that their House was called the Scholars Valley and became the Head of a New Order Valckembourg a Town in the Dutchy of Limburgh in the Low-Countries two Leagues from Maestricht Taken by the French in 1676. and restored to the Spaniards in 1679. by the Treaty of Nimeguen The French call it Fanquemont § Also a small Town in the State
the Hundred of Blithing near Southwould-bay adorned with a remarkable high and fair Church Waldhust Valdhusta a small City in the Province of Schwaben in Germany upon the Rhine in the Territory of Kâ—egow 7 German Miles from Basil to the East 5 from Schafhouse and 2 from Laâ—fenburgh Under the Emperor Wales Vallia is a Principality on the West of England Bounded on the West and North by the Irish Sea on the East by Cheshire Shrapshire Herefordshire and Monmouthshire this latter being a long time a part of it and on the South by the Severn Sea It contains twelve Shires Pembroke Caermarden Glamorgan Brecknock Radnor Cardigan Mountgomery Merioneth Denbigh Flint Caernarvon and Anglesey After many and those most bloody Wars this Principality was finally united for ever to the Crown of England by Edward I. in 1284. Prince Edward his eldest Son made Prince of Wales which Title to the Heir apparent of England still belongs The rest of its description is given in the proper places Wallingford a Market Town and Corporation in Berkshire in the Hundred of Moreton upon the River Thames here covered with a Bridge a famous place both in the Roman and Saxon times It is the antient Guallena the Seat of the Attrebatii a British Tribe and under the West-Saxons was the Capital Town of these parts being adorned with 12 Parish Churches a Castle of great strength and Walls which were a Mile in circuit The Tracts and Ruines of those Walls yet appear and part of the Castle together with one Church which declension from its pristine State was occasioned by a Plague in 1348. It retains the Honor of the Election of two Members to represent it in the lower House of Parliament Wallisserlandt Valinsa Vallesia a great Canton in Switzerland called by the French Vallais or Vallays by the Germans Wallisserlandt by the Italians Vallesia It extends from East to West between the Canton of Schwitz to the North and East the Dukedom of Milan and Aouste to the South and Savoy to the West The Capital of it is Sytten or Syon and the other principal Cities are Martigny and S. Maurice This Canton was united for ever to the rest in the general League in 1533. It s extent from East to West is almost 100 Miles its breadth between 15 and 30. The Religion here professed is the Roman Catholick for the maintenance of which the Bishop who is their Prince combined with the 7 Popish Cantons in 1572. It is a pleasant fruitful Valley abounding with Saffron Corn Wine and delicate Fruits enriched with Meadows and excellent Pastures surrounded every way with craggy and unpassable Rocks and Mountains which afford but one entrance into it and that defended by two Gates and a Castle These Mountains are at all times covered with Ice and Snow not to be passed by an Army nor easily by a single Person The Walloons the People of the Earldomes of Flanders and Artois in the Low Countries are commonly called by this Name Walsall a Market Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Oâ—â—ow upon the top of a high Hill Walsham North a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Blowfield Walsingham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of N. Grenehoe Noted formerly for the Concourse of Pilgrims to two Wells called to this day the Virgin Mary's Wells and to the Chappel near them There was also formerly a College of Canons at this Town And the good Saffron it used to yield was no small addition to its Name Waltham-Abbey a Market Town in the County of Essex of great fame formerly for the Abbey it carries in its Name The Capital of its Hundred § Another in the County of Southampton for distinction called Waltham Bishops The Capital of its Hundred also Wana Vana a River of Croatia which watereth Vihitz and then falls into the Save above Gradiska in the Borders of Friuli Wandesworth a Town in the County of Surrey in the Hundred of Brixton upon the River Wandle Some numbers of French Protestants have setled here Wandesdike a large Trench or Dyke in Wiltshire Supposed by Mr. Cambden to be made by the West-Saxons for a Boundary to their Kingdom against the Mercians It lies in the midst of the County extended many Miles from East to West and saw many Battles fought betwixt those two Kingdoms Wang a small River in the County of Suffolk which riâ—eth in Westhall and running East watereth the Town of Wangford then falls into the Blithe a little above Southwould Wantage a Market and Thorough-fare Town in Berkshire in the Hundred of Wanting Waradin Varadinum a great strong City of the Upper Hungary called by its Inhabitants Warad by the Germans Gross-Wardein to distinguish it from Petro Waradin in Sclavonia It stands upon the River Kerez in the Borders of Transylvania to which Principality of latter times it belonged and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Colocza defended by a strong Castle In 1660. it was taken by the Turks before which the Crim Tartars took it in 1242. In 1290. Ladislans K. of Hungary built the Cathedral Church It was besieged by a puissant Army of the Turks in 1598. which miscarried But in 1660. they took it by surprise in a time of Peace On the East the Castle stands on the North the River runs it has a Wall with Ramparts after the modern way flanked with 5 Royal Bastions and a good regular Dike which may be filled upon occasion by the River Water within there is another inclosure of 5 Bastions and a high Wall which may serve instead of a Cittadel This City stands 22 Miles from Giula to the North 80 from Weissemburg to the West and 100 from Buda to the East Lately recovered by the Imperialists from the Turks after a long Blockade and Siege The Capital of a County of its own name Longit. 44. 56. Latit 47. 08. Warasdin Variana Varsdinum a City of Stiria Warburgh an Imperial and Hanseatique City in the Circle of Westphalia in Germany Warczkovie more the Russian Name of the Baltick Sea Wardhus Vardhusia the North part of the Kingdom of Norway Bounded on the North by the frozen Sea on the East by the Russ Lapland on the West by Drontheim and on the South by the Swedish Lapland It has only one Town of its own Name and a few Villages of no value Under the King of Denmark Ware a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Branghing upon the River Lea from whence a Channel of the New River Water is cut for serving of London Warfe a River in Yorkshire falling into the Are below Pontefract and into the Ouse below York Otley Wetherby and Tadcaster stand upon it Warham a Market Town and Corporation in Dorsetshire in the Hundred of Winfrith situated at the fall of the Rivers Frome and Biddle into Luckford Lake to which it hath a Harbour defended formerly by a strong Wall and a Castle But as the two latter
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
demolished by the English It has a Collegiate Church § There is another Meun in the same Province upon the River Inde betwixt Chateau-roux and Bruzancais § And a Third in the Province of Orleanois under the right side of the Loyre betwixt the City Orleans and Baugency Adorned with a Collegiate Church and taken heretofore by the Victorious English under the Earl of Salisbury In Latin Magdunum Meurs Meursia a small City of the Dukedom of Cleves though seated in the Bishoprick of Cologn which is an Earldom and belongs together with its Territory to the Prince of Orange by the gift of the last Countess in 1600. Yet the Duke of Brandenburgh lays claim to it as Duke of Cleves It lies two Miles from Rhineburgh to the South one from the Rhine to the West about ten from Cologn to the North-West and seven from Cleves to the South-West Meurtre Mourtre Murta Morta a River of Lorrain it ariseth from Mount Vauge and watering Nancy falls into the Moselle three Leagues above Pont Mouson Meuse Mosa the same with the Maes Mexico Mexicum a vast City in the North America the Capital of New Spain and of a Province of the same name in that Kingdom the Seat of the Spanish Viceroy of the West-â—naâ—es and an Archbishop's See This City stands upon the North side of a Lake of the same name in a most pleasant fruitful and large Plain and in great part surrounded with the Lake The Inhabitants pretend it was built in 1322. The Spaniards by the current and thread of their Story say it was built in 902. It was many Ages since the Royal Seat of the Kings of Mexico had then a great and splendid Palace called in their Tongue the Tepac but burnt together with the City when it was taken by the Spaniards in 1521. by Francis Cortez who rebuilt the City and made it the Capital of his Conquests Its Streets are great streight and beautiful its Churches magnificent its publick Buildings noble It has an Aquaduct three Miles long and many Monasteries John de Turre Cremata our Countryman Mr. Gage and some others have given large accounts of this noble City which is the greatest in America It has no Walls Forts Bastions nor any Cannon or Defence whatsoever beside what the number of its Inhabitants afford which is a part of the Spanish Jealousie for fear a Viceroy should set up for himself In 1527. Pope Clement VII made it a Bishop's See In 1547. Paul III. made it an Archbishop's See in which Year Cortez the Conqueror died It was made an University in 1551. by Charles V. As it is seated in a very low ground so it has often suffered very much by Inundations of the Lake particularly Septemb. 21. 1629. forty thousand of its Inhabitants were drowned to prevent this for the future they have with great Charges found out a means to drive part of these Waters other ways There is no way to the City but over three Causways on the North West and South sides the latter of which is the longest Long. 269. 00. Lat. 28. 30. eighty Spanish Leagues from the South Sea and the same distance from the Shores of the Bay of Mexico See Golfo di Mexico There are also two Lakes of Water called by the name of this City one of which is fresh Water seven Leagues long six broad the other is salt Water forty Leagues in compass Meydenburg See Magdeburg Meylandt the German Name for Milan Meyne See Mayn § Also a Mineral Spring much resorted to of late near the City Arles in Provence Mezaal a pretended Island in Aethiopia See Meroë Mezieres Maderiacum Meceria a City of France in Champagne in the Territory of Retelois built upon and almost encompassed with the Maes and very well fortified besides It stands not above half a League from Charleville four beneath Sedan to the West three from the Confines of Luxemburgh and sixteen from Reims to the North-East and hath a Collegiate Church Mezo Amyzon a City of Caria in the Lesser Asia still extant and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Sancta Croce being seated between Magnesia and Alabanda thirty Miles from Miletus now Melasso and the same distance from the Shoares of the Archipelago to the East Mezuma oppidum novum a City in the Kingdom of Algïer in Africa in the Province of Tenez between Algier and Tremesin Mezzaba a Province in Biledulgerida in Africa with a City of the same name by the great River between Zeb and Tegorarina to the West Mezzovo Pindus Miana Apamia or Apamea a City of Media Long. 79. 50. Lat. 34. 20. Miary a River in Brasil which receives the Ovaro Covo and divers other Rivers then falls into the Ocean near the Island of Maragnan upon the Coast of Brasil Micoli an Island of the Aegean Sea betwixt Nicaria to the East and the Islands Tenon and Andron to the North. One of the Cyclades called by the Antients Mycone and Myconos It produces Wine Cotton Barley and abundance of Game planted with one only Village which pays a yearly Tribute to the Turks Middleburgh Metelli Castrum Middleburgum Metelloburgum a Town in Zealand the Capital of the Isle of Walcheren made a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Vtretcht in 1559. by Pope Paul IV the Collegiate Church in 1561 being converted into a Cathedral and the Revenues of a famous Abbey that was here applied to serve for the use of the Bishoprick It is great rich populous extremely well fortified and has been under the Vnited Provinces ever since 1574 in which it was taken by their Forces from the Spaniards The Abbey is now the Town-house § There is a Town in Flanders under the Vnited Provinces two German Miles from Bruges to the North and an Island in the East-Indies both called by the same name Middlefart a Town in the Island of Fuynen in the Baltick Sea giving name to the Channel Middelfart or Middle-Passage betwixt this Island and Jutland Middlesex Middlesexia Trinobantes is bounded on the North by Hartfordshire on the West by Buckingham separated by the River Colne on the South by Surrey cut off by the Thames and on the East by Essex divided from it by the Lea. It is nineteen English Miles in length and sixteen in breadth one of the least Counties in England but its Fertility and nearness to London abundantly recompenseth this want of Extent The ancient British Inhabitants were the Trinobantes afterwards it was a part of the Kingdom of the East-Saxons White-hall and S. James the Royal Mansions of the Kings of England are both in this County to which may be added Hampton Court their Country House of Pleasure and LONDON the Capital of England is its Head The Honorable Charles Sackville Earl of Dorset is also Earl of Middlesex by a Creation of Feb. 4. 1674. Which Title was first bestowed by K. James I. in 1622. on Lionel Lord Cranfield Lord Treasurer of England whose Son James enjoyed the same and after
him Lionel Brother of James in whom it died Middleham a Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Hangwest upon the River Youre Midhurst a Corporation in the County of Suffolk in Chichester Rape which returns two Members of Parliament Midlewich a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Northwich upon the River Croke near its fall into the Dane Midour Midorius a River in Gascogne in France which ariseth in the County of Armagnac and floweth Westward through Marsan the Capital of which it washeth then takes in the Douse and beneath Tartas sixteen Miles from Bourdeaux to the South falls into the Adour Mignone Minio Magnone a River of Italy which ariseth in Sabatina and flowing through S. Peter's Patrimony falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea between Civita Vecchia and Cornetto Milan Milano Mediolanum by the Germans called Meilandt one of the greatest and most noble Cities in Italy built by the Galls in the year of Rome 345. three hundred and fifty seven years before the Birth of our Saviour others say it was built Anno Mundi 2488. which is above one thousand years sooner The Romans first took it in the year of Rome 531. Marcellus their General Triumphing for the Slaughter of Viridomare the Prince of it and the taking this City This City however joined with the Carthaginians in the Second Punick War and was not reduced without the loss of six thousand of her Inhabitants In the times of Christianity being converted by S. Barnabas it became an Archbishop's See and suffered very much from the Arrian Princes though in the end it preserved the Catholick Faith Attila King of the Huns took and spoiled this and several Neighbouring Cities particularly Florence and Verona in the year of Christ 452. The next that became Masters of it were the Lombards who possess'd themselves of it about 570. It continued under this Nation till 774. under a Succession of twenty three Princes Only it is said Aribert the seventeenth King gave the Duchy of Milan to the Church of Rome But the Successors of this Prince not agreeing with the Popes Adrian I. procured Charles the Great to destroy this Kingdom who took Desiderius carried him Prisoner into France and put an end to the Kingdom of the Lombards in the year of Christ 774. It continued under this Family and the Emperors of Germany till 1161 when it took part with Pope Alexander III. against Frederick Barbarossa and was for it rased to the ground but it recovered and outing the Emperors about 1221. became a Republick and continued so till 1277. when it fell under Otho by the Title of Visconti but as subject to the Emperors of Germany John Galeazo the eighth of these was made a Duke by Wenceslaus I. Emperor in 1395. It continued under Dukes till Lewis XII in 1501. by the Conquest of Lewis an usurping Duke got it Maximilian got it from the French in 1513. Francis a Brother of this Maximilian the seventeenth Duke succeeded him in 1529. Francis I. King of France won and lost it again in 1521. And being taken Prisoner by the Forces of Charles V. in the Battel of Pavia in 1525 he was forced for his Liberty to renounce all his Pretences to this Duchy upon the death of Francis Sforze in 1535. it was by Charles V. united for ever to the Crown of Spain under which it still is At this day after all these Sufferings it is the greatest and most beautiful City in Lombardy the most populous too its Inhabitants being thought to be two hundred thousand Souls It s Trade is equal to its Greatness and the Inhabitants very rich It is seven Miles in compass has one of the strongest Cittadels in the World with an University It stands upon the River Olona three hundred and twenty five Miles from Rome one hundred and sixty five from Venice and two hundred and thirty from Lyons Long. 31. 30. Lat. 44. 40. In the years 344. and 350 two Councils were here Congregated against the Arrians In 355. the Arrians carried it against the adverse Party and sent a great number thereof into Banishment In 390. there was another celebrated against Jovinian In 451. the Doctrine of the Incarnation of the Word as expressed in the Epistle of Pope Leo to Flavianus Bishop of Constantinople received the approbation of a Council at this place In 679. they held another against the Menethelites And divers since of inferior note § The Dukedom of Milan is a part of Lombardy bounded on the North by Switzerland and the Grisons on the East by the Republick of Venice and the Dukedom of Placentia on the South by the States of Genoua and on the West by Montisferat and Piedmont The Soil is extreamly fruitful plain well watered very full of People and consequently well improved It especially abounds with Vines and Barley Heretofore much greater than now It contained twenty nine Cities which are now reduced to ten Alessandria Bobbio Como Cremona Lodi Milan Novara Pavia Tortona and Vigevan Of the Fate and History of this Dukedom I have spoken in the Description of the City and I need add nothing here but that it is accounted the richest and noblest Dukedom in Christendom as Flanders is the noblest Earldom Milel Lethon a River in Africa in Cyrene Mileto Melita See Melito Miletus one of the most considerable antient Cities of Ionia in the Lesser Asia with a Port to the Aegean Sea upon the Frontiers of Caria and near the River Meander Founded in the year of the World according to Eusebius 2779 and in the beginning famous above the rest of Greece for Naval Forces They built the Town Naucratis in Egypt and made War with Sadyatus King of Lydia Alexander M overcame them next the Romans Thales the eldest Philosopher Anaximander and Anximenes were Natives of this City Milebum Milevis or Mela an ancient City in the division of Numidia in Africa Aurelius Archbishop of Carthage assembled a Council here in 402. There was another in 416. at which S. Augustine assisted The latter condemned the Principles of Pelagius and Caelestius touching Grace and Infant-Baptism Milford Haven a Celebrated Sea-Port in the County of Pembroke in South Wales upon the Irish Sea Milau a Territory in Rovergue in France Ager Aemilianus Milaud Milhaud Millialdum Amilhanum a City of France in the Province of Rovergue in the Borders of Languedoc upon the River Tarn which watering Alby falls into the Garonne Its Fortifications were razed in 1629. This City is seated in Givaudan seven Leagues from Lodeve to the North and eight from Rhodez to the North East heretofore very strong Mildenhall a large and populous Market Town in the County of Suffolk and the Hundred of Lackford upon the Banks of a River running into the Ouse adorn'd with a fair Church Milli Milliacum commonly called Milli en Gatinois is a Town in the Territory of Gastinois in the Isle of France upon the Rivulet of Escolle five Leagues from Melun and twelve