corps were healed Mafalda was espoused to Henry the first King of Castile although allied to him in a forbidden degree wherefore this marriage was likewise declared void and she emulating her sister built a Monastery of the Cistercian Order and is reported likewise to have done many Miracles particularly in the year 1627. when her Tomb was opened Sancha the third daughter became a Nun of the Order of St. Francis who lived about this time Bianca and Beringella died young and were buried in Conimbria right against their fathers Tombe though some write otherwise After the death of the Queen Aldonsa which happened in the year 1138. King Sancho gave himself over to the love of diverse Ladies amongst whom he had many children who proved most of them his greatest vexation and disquiet for the pleasures of the senses do not terminate but in the sence of grief At last arrived at the age of 57. years in the 26. year of his reign oppressed in Conimbria by an incurable disease he took leave of this world He was buried in the Church of the Holy Cross on the left side of the Altar in the great Chappel where King Emanuel built him a Sepulchre like to that of his father he left infinite riches which by his Will he divided amongst all his children making no difference between the legitimate and the illegitimate he by his Will supplicated Pope Innocentius the fourth to be his Executor for which he left in Legacy a hundred weight of Gold a gift without doubt worth his pains King Sancho was for vertue and for goodness singular in his age a worthy son of so renowned a father he proved fortunate in the utmost events of War and then did his triumphs flow in upon him when he dispaired of Victory he left it yet in doubt whether he were more wise or more valiant he always snowed himself so great an enemy to sloth and idleness that to avoid it he would not disdain sometimes to throw down the Scepter and hold the plow Fortune who was his friend in War was his foe in Peace for then besides the vexation that he could not vex his enemies he was likewise enforced to bear the injuries of the Land Sea and Skies in sum he was a King worthy the greatest Incomiums if he had not too much drowned all his other vertues in illicite Loves ALFONSO the II. Third King of Portugal ALfonsâ— the second succeeded to Sancho the first he was born in Conimbria on St. Georges day anno 1185. At 27. years old he was Crowned King with the envy of his brothers who little younger then he could hardly confine themselves within the bounds of Allegiance and to their discontents did the Legacies left by Sancho give new motives for Alphonso either out of avaritious desire of riches or out of obstinacy detained from them a great part of what was left them by their father These sinister thoughts of the then Prince Alphonso were discerned by his father before his death which made him leave to the brothers beside some Cities and Castles five hundred thousand Crowns in gold But scarce was his father dead but he began to contend with his brothers and sisters about their inheritance and because his brothers were retired into Elginera and Alenquar Fortresses given them by their father he under pretence that they could not be allienated from the Crown gathered together an Army to possess himself of them which he easily performed his brothers wanting money to hire soldiers and so not being able to make the least resistance His brothers thus driven out of the kingdom fled to the Pope for redress then in great veneration because he then pursued no other interest but justice who commanded Alfonso to remit the difference to indifferent Judges who necessitated to obey chose rather to accommodate the business with indifferent Judges then to run the hazard of a sentence He employed himself afterwards by the advice of Matthew Bishop of Lisbone to fight against the Moors and though these came assisted with ninety five thousand men yet were they forced to yield the Victory to him with the loss of thirty thousand soldiers and four Kings who were slain in the battel Alfonso for some years prosecuted this War but in time he grew so extream fat that he was unable to perform not only those great exercises incumbent on a soldier but every simple motion of the body yet for all that he ceased not to apply himself with extream diligence to prosecute the greatest affairs of State and where he could not in person he present to send such commands as shewed him to be both of great experience and wisdom He married with Uracca daughter to Alfonso the eighth or as others say the ninth King of Castile and Leonora or Elinor daughter to Henry the second King of England by her he had divers children the first was Sancho who succeeded his father in the kingdom Alfonso the second son whom by right of his wife was chosen Duke of Bologna and afterwards came to be King of Portugal The third son was called Ferdinand who obtained the principality of Serpa and married Sancia Fernandez daughter of Ferdinand Count of Castile The fourth died a childe called Vincenzo The last was a daughter called Leonora and was married to the King of Dacia Alfonso arrived to the eight and fortieth year of his age and one and twentieth of his kingdom when in the year 1233. he was constrained to pay the last debt to nature He was buried in Alobaccia in a little Church built by himself more for devotion then magnificence But after many years the Abbot Giorgio di Melo causing that little Church to be demolished carried his bones to that of St. Vincenzo where they now repose in a most sumptuous sepulcher Under this King as many affirm lived for certain time St. Antonio Protector of the City of Padona a Saint held in great veneration among the Roman Catholiques he was a native of Lisbon not so much esteemed for the Nobility of his birth as for his holy life Alfonso taking away his extream fatness was a man of a very comely presence and of singular eloquence his nature did make him pleasant with all but onely those of his own blood which fault in him did much diminish his subjects love and that general respect was due to him though he was a man noted for covetousness yet he oftentimes gave great gifts to his friends and always consumed the greatest part of the revenue of the kingdom The Portugueses while his father was alive did extreamly desire him for their King but did not at all now lament his death either because new things always please the people or else because he after his fathers death shewed himself indifferent from himself or from what they thought him whereupon not being wholly like his Progenitors he renewed in his subjects their grief for their loss SANCHO the II. Fourth KING of PORTVGAL SAncho the second who
A COMPENDIOUS CHRONICLE OF THE KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL FROM Alfonso the first King to Alfonso the Sixth now reigning Together with A Cosmographical Description Of the Dominions of PORTVGAL By JOHN DAUNCEY LONDON Printed by Tho. Iohnson for Francis Kirkman Henry Brome and Henry Marsh and are to be sold at their Shops 1661. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Sr EDWARD HIDE Earl of Clarendon c. Lord High Chancellor of ENGLAND Right Honorable THe Glories of your Name make me ambitious to give you a testimony of my duty observance There be some whose vain-glory prompts them to think they by Dedications honor their Patrons but the whole world will judge me free from such vanity when they shall perceive I have made my addresses to a Person who besides his height of Nobility is arrived at such a sublimity of Worth Vertue and Learning that not onely the greatest Wits of the Age are bound to honor him but must confess they receive their splendor and lustre from him Yet thus my Lord I make my self guilty of an almost inexcusable presumption the wisest of men may as well present somewhat worthy a Deity as I any thing which may deserve your LORDSHIPS thoughts It is not fit a Pigmy should call down a IOVE to protect him but where there is so much worth there must needs be an insuperable goodness nor can he be justly blamed who onely aspires at the influence of a benevolent Star I want the confidence to beseech your Lordship to approve this VVork the honor will be sufficient if you accept it as a pledge of that observance which all men are bound to pay you I know your Lordship not only to be vers't in all History but to your glory be it spoken to have always studied the most worthy Authors And History is indeed a Treasure not onely enriching mens mindes with noble thoughts but enanimating them to great and Heroick Actions Your Lordships endeavors to make an Alliance between the two Renowned Crowns of England and Portugal may justly claim all that can be said of that Kingdom as a due Offering This though but a Breviate of the Story of it may perchance contain somewhat though not at all worthy your Lordship yet not wholly unworthy observation which I hope may perswade your Generosity and goodness to grantit protection England my Lord and every member of it are beholding to your Lordships great wisdom but should I undertake to praise all those noble Vertues for which you deserve their loves that Justice which ballances all your actions that Prudence which a whole Nation hath admired that Magnanimity which hath rendred you unalterable in all the frowns and smiles of Fortune that Liberality which hath made you King-like and that Temperance which shown in the height of Heavens and Heavens-Vice-gerents favours hath made you God-like I should be enforced to unite the largest Encomiums and lay them down as a due tribute at the feet of your thrice-renowned Fame But my Lord I dare onely reverence your Vertues they must rather be the subject of my admiration than description Let it suffice then that whilst all strive to offer up their labors to this Shrine it will be sufficient excuse of my ambition to present this Mite and amongst the numbers that thus sacrifice to your Worth to be thought worthy of that honorable Stile of being esteemed the meanest of Your Lordships most humble Servants JOHN DAUNCEY TO THE READER CUstom rather than my own Genius or Fancy inclines me to make this address Good things are but made worse by excuses bad things never a whit the better 't is base and dis-ingenious to court a Reader to a good opinion of ones Work and indeed a kinde of an endeavor to anticipate his judgement which to the wise proves a fruitless labor and to the fools was altogether needless I despair not but wise men may read this Book the truth is I desire all fools would let it alone if it be unworthy the subject 't is writ of the disgrace will be less to be censured by an understanding person and the faults I presume fewer for those of less judgement will be subject to attribute even the litteral errors of the ress to the Authors ignorance Though I dare say thus much in Vindication of this COMPENDIOUS CHRONICLE That it is extracted out of those Authors who have been â—udged by many to have writ best concerâ—ing the Kingdom of Portugal yet I will not presume to clear it of all errors Neâ—o nostrum non peccat homines sumus â—on Dei T is impossible to be mortal and not erre yet all lapses cannot be accounted faults Though I doubt not but to meet with those spirits which will make â—hem Crimes for such is the depravity of the present age that many men led on by atheistical Tenents and blinded with self-conceit dare adventure to censure even the Actions of the Deity But I shall run into that error I promised to eschew and though I beg not the Readers good opinion endeavor to restrain or affright his clearer judgement â—et every man say or think his pleasure of the Work for therefore was it made pubâ—ique and if it be my fortune to fall under any rigid censures where they are made with reason I shall entertain them with â—espect where without cause laugh at â—hem with scorn The present Affairs were sufficient motives for me to publish it both to clear the right King Iohn the fourth had to the Crown and Dominions of Portugal and justify that Title which some mens ignorance or self-will would make deficient terming a noble Redemption of a Nations Liberty black and ignominious Rebellion and methinks the joy at the Restoration of King â—ohn to the Crown of Portugal doth so aptly quadrate with our's aâ— the blessed return of our Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charls the Second that I think it not impertinent to conclude with a wish That as our joy then corresponded with theirs so all the Subjects of England would show the same examples of Loyalty to His Majesty which Ferdinando Paceica did even to the memory of his King and Master Sancho the Second J. D. The general Heads of the ensuing HISTORY I. HEnry Duke of Lorain Earl of Portugal page 3 II. Alfonso the First first King of Portugal ibid. III. Sancho the First second King of Portugal 10 IV. Alfonso the Second third King of Portugal 15 V. Sancho the Second fourth King of Portugal 19 VI. Alfonso the Third fifth King of Portugal and Algarve 25 VII Dionisio the sixth King of Portugal c. 29 VIII Alfonso the Fourth seventh King of Portugal 29 IX Pedro eighth King of Portugal 40 X. Ferdinand ninth King of Portugal 43 XI John the first tenth King of Portugal 45 XII Edward the eleventh King of Portugal 50 XIII Alfonso the Fifth twelfth King of Portugal 52 XIV John the Second thirteenth King of Portugal 54 XV. Emanuel the First fourteenth King of Porgal 56 XVI
and that as he had in a moment gained that kingdom so he should as soon loose it if he should but give them the least opportunity For that the people were highly discontented might easily appear by their attentive listning after old prophesies among which was one of an old Hermit who told Alphonso the first King of Portugal of the great victory that he should obtain over the five Kings of the Moors that he and his posterity should reign happily King of Portugal but that in the sixteenth generation his line should fail but that God at length should have mercy again upon them and restore them Others had respect to a Letter written by St. Bernard to the same King Alphonso the original of which is reported to have been given to the Portugal Embassadors by Lewis the Thirteenth King of France Anno 1641. the substance of which was to this effect That he rendred thanks to him for the Lands bestowed upon him that in recompence thereof God had declared unto him that there should not fail a Native of Portugal to sit upon that Throne unless for the greatness of their sins God would chastise them for a time but that this time of Chastisement should not last above sixty years Other Prophesies there were of this nature and to this effect which put the people in hopes of a Deliverance and many of them flattered themselves that Don Sebastian was yet alive and would come and deliver them nay so foolish were some of them that though they believed him slain at the battel of Alcazar in Barbary yet they thought he should live again and miraculously come to redeem them But that which most of all expressed the peoples Discontents was what was publickly spoken by the mouthes of their Orators the Priests in their Pulpits who would ordinarily in their Sermons utter speeches much in prejudice of the Spaniards Title and in favor of the Dutchess of Braganza nor were they sparing to do so in the presence of the King himself who would therefore often say That the Portuguez Clergy had made the sharpest war with him Father Lewis Alvarez a Jesuite preaching one day before the Vice-Roy took his Text Surge tolle Grabatum tuum ambula and turning himself to the Duke said Sir the meaning of that is Arise take up your pack and be gone home But above all this might the Discontents be perceived in the Noblemens Chappels especially in the Duke of Braganza's where they were wont to sing the Lamentations of Ieremy applying all the scorn and reproach of the Israelites to themselves as Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus because of the Excize put by the Spaniards upon Wine and other necessaries And that Servi Dominati sunt in nos and that Cecidit Corona Capitis nostri most commonly ending with this Invocation Recordare Domine Quid acciderit nobis Intuere respice opprobrium nostrum Haereditas nostra versa est ad alienos Yet did king Phillip bear all these Affronts with an incomparable patience dissembling with an admirable prudence his passion if he had any for these Discontents for he knew the onely way to win this Nation to an obedience and complyance must be lenity at first what ever he intended to practice afterwards and that he had by his exact keeping of his Word and Oath won much upon this people appears in that during his whole Reign and the Reign of his Successor Philip the Third who followed his fathers foot-steps though not with that craft and dissimulation they made no attempts nor were inclinable to a Revolt which the ensuing Story will evidence Don Antonio Prior of Crato the base born son of Lewis the Infante who had by the tumultuary Rabble on the Death of King Henry been elected King being expulsed Lisbon by the Forces of the Duke D' Alva fled from thence into France to the protection of that Queen who in regard that her Claim was exploded both by the Spaniard and the Portugal as an outworn Title and injurious to all the kings of Portugal ever since as unjust Possessors had long endeavored to excite Queen Elizabeth of England against the Spaniard and to forewarn her and other Princes to beware of his increasing power who now enriched with the addition of Portugal East-India and many Isles in the Atlantique sea might in time overshadow all his neighboring Princes and therefore advising that it behooved them to think of some way to curb his Ambition betimes and restrain his too far extending Power into some reasonable limits Which advice of hers Queen Elizabeth easily listned too being always providently careful of her own and her Subjects safety fore-seeing how dangerous the over-swelling Power of that Prince would be both to Her and her Dominions and therefore though she then entred not into a present War with him yet when Don Antonio came over to her with Recommendations from the French Queen she bountifully relieved him which she then thought she might do without offence considering that she acknowledged him her Kinsman descended of the Blood Royal of England and of the House of Lancaster nor was there ever any promise made in any League between the English and Spaniard that the Portugals should not be received into England Here then Don Antonio resided till the Wars breaking forth between Spain and England after the Spaniard had received that notable Overthrow of his Invincible Armado to whose power and puissance the whole World thought England would have been but a morsel Queen Elizabeth judging it more honorable to assail her Enemy then again to be assailed by him suffered a Fleet to be set forth against Spain which Sir Iohn Norris and Sir Francis Drake with some other private persons to their eternal honor rigged and set out at their own charge requiring nothing of the Queen but some few Ships of War and she granted to them that the Ships and spoils taken should be divided amongst them The Hollanders likewise to this Fleet joyned some Ships so that the number of the whole Fleet was about eleven thousand Soldiers and fifteen hundred Mariners With this Fleet Don Antonio with some few Portugals set Sayl out of England having before loaden the English with great promises of the recovery of this kingdom assuring them that the Portugueses would be ready upon his appearance to revolt from the Spainiard and that Muley Hamet King of Morocco would assist him with twenty thousand men The first place that the English Fleet put into was the Groyne in Gallicia the base town of which they easily took but attempting the higher town were twice repulsed and forced to raise their siege upon advice that the Condy di Andrada had gathered Forces at Burges Bridge and that the Condy di Altamira was coming with more purposing to besiege them in the base town and so cut off their way to their ships which Norris resolved to prevent and therefore with a sufficient force marched against them overthrew them and had
great importance and they endeavored to explain to his Eminence what was before his sentiment that it very much imported the two Crowns of France and Portugal to be united by an indissoluble League considering that it was the chief and principal end and aim of the House of Austria whose branches were spread over almost all Europe not onely to be the greatest but to be the sole and onely Monarch of Christendom That to effect those ambitious desires he had never made scruple to usurp and seize upon Kingdoms and States upon the least pretences imaginable as had appeared in the kingdoms of Naples Sicily Navarre the Dutchy of Millan and lately several States in Germany seizing upon the Valtoline whereby they had a passage open to lead an Army of Germans into Italy at pleasure That considering the vast power and interest that this Family had not onely in Europe but also in America it could not but be confessed that they had a large foundation of their imaginary universal Monarchy but that nothing gave them so great hopes as the possession of Portugal For by the addition of that Kingdom to the Crown of Castile they became absolute Masters not onely of all Spain but of all the East-Indies of all the Eastern Trade of Ethiopia Persia Arabia China Iapan and all that incredible wealth that was raised out of the Portugal Traffick whereby the Austrian Greatness if not their Monarchy was principally sustained that therefore it concerned all States whatsoever not onely to put a stop to the raving Tyranny of this devouring Monster but to suppress and lessen his Power by all means possible That to do this none was more concerned or more able than the Kingdom of France united with that of Portugal That this having bin called the Right Arm as Catalonia the Left of that great Austrian Colossus now both being separated from it and united to France will be able to do greater service against it than they were ever forced to do for it not onely by assaulting the Spaniard within his own doors but by intercepting the Plate-Fleet which in its return from the West-Indies it being necessarily forced to pass by the Tercera Islands must run in danger of the Portuguez Fleet or be forced to be at the charge of an extraordinary Convoy These were the sum of the Ambassadors discourses to the Cardinal In answer to which his Eminence made offer not onely of all the Assistance of the most Christian King his Master but that he would disburse himself for the service of the King of Portugal promising that he would presently send thither a Fleet of twenty Sayl with his Nephew Admiral and Ambassador Extraordinary This Treatment thus ended the Ambassadors took their leaves his Eminence waiting upon them as far as the Stairs which when they endeavored to hinder he replyed That the Ambassadors of the King of Portugal were to be treated with as much respect as those of the Emperor or Pope Few days after a Iuncto of the King of France his Council were appointed to treat with the Ambassadors in the House of the Lord High Chancellor of the kingdom where a Peace was fully concluded between the two Kingdoms of France and Portugal Other Ambassadors were about the same time that the afore-mentioned were sent into France dispatched into England for it very much concerned the Kingdom of Portugal to maintain a good Correspondence with the Crown of England both in regard of the Navigation and Commerce of both States and also the better to break that Amity and good Understanding which was now held between the Crown of Spain and that State Hither therefore were sent Don Antonio D' Almado and Don Francisco D' Averado Leilon both persons of exquisite parts who notwithstanding that the Dunkirkers chased them arrived safe in England And for all the sturdy endeavors of the Spanish Ambassadors they were received on shore with abundance of respect yet His Majesty of England would not give them Audience or accept of the Ambassage from the King of Portugal so tender was He of His Honor and Conscience till Don Antonio de Sosa their Secretary had drawn up a Paper to satisfie him of the Right and Title of the Duke of Braganza to the Crown of Portugal The sum of which was Vpon the Death of King Henry the Cardinal without Issue many pretended together with the Infanta Donna Catherina Dutchess of Braganza and Grandmother to this present King to the Crown of Portugal but all their pretences wanting foundation soon fell except that of Philip the second King of Spain who propt up his with force King Henry was Vncle equally near to both but with this difference Catherine was the Daughter of a Son named Edward and Philip was the son of a daughter named Isabella brother and sister to King Henry King Philip pleaded That he being in equal degree with Catherine was to be preferred for his Sex Catherine replyed That the constitution of that Kingdom allowing Females to succeed and withal the benefit of Representation in all Inheritances she representing Edward must exclude Philip by the very same right that her father if he were living would exclude Philips mother This Conclusion is infallible in Jure whereto Philip answered That successiou of Kingdoms descending Jure sanguinis there was allowed no Representation Catherine destroyed that foundation alledging That the Succession by the death of the last King was derived Jure haereditatis non sanguinis because the Succession of Kingdoms was to be regulated by that ancient way whereby all things descended by Inheritance the other way of Succession being not known until later Ages nor ever practised either in Spain or Portugal in such cases Briefly in behalf of Catherine it was urged which by the Castilians can never be denied or answered That she was no stranger but a Native of the Kingdom to whom alone according to the Laws of Lamego the Crown of Portugal can appertain The King having perused and deliberated upon this Paper gave immediately order they should be presently conducted to London which was done withal convenient Solemnity and they logded in a Palace ready prepared for them soon after with great ceremony they received audience of His Majesty in a fair and stately Hall prepared for that purpose where his Majesty sat upon a Throne raised two steps and at the entrance of the Ambassador pulled off his Hat nor would be covered till they were so too To the Propositions made in the speech of D. Antonia D' Almoda concerning a Peace between Portugal and England His Majesty replied That he should be very glad if an expedient might be found out to renew the antient Leagues of friendship between the two Crowns without the breaking with Spain Some few days after the Ambassadors were conducted to give a Visit to Mary Queen of England who sat in a Chair of Estate ready to entertain them when they came into the Presence She rose out of the Chair and
revolted from them to the King of Spain carrying along with him the papers of his Embassy for which according to his desert his Effigies was executed at Lisbon as a Traytors his Goods confiscated his house razed to the ground and his Children banished and degraded of nobility His brother Don Deigo de Sylâ—a who had served the King of Portugal in the quality of General at Sea was likewise upon this occasion commanded to retire to one of his houses and deprived of all publique employment After him was sent Don Henry de Susa Count of Miranda to negotiate an Accommodation with the Netherland States yet he prevailed little for the pertinacious Hollanders were still resolute in their unreasonable demands computing their losses in Brazile where they had no right to be to amount to no less then thirty millions The Spaniards in the mean time were forced to give the Portugals some respite in the summer 1659. but preparations were made to assault them with the whole power of that Monarchy in the Spring 1660. Don Iohn D' Austria being called out of Flanders to be Generalissimo of the Spanish Forces and having Orders given him in April 1660. to march directly to Merida on the Frontiers of Portugal though he went not that Summer But the Portugueses resolved not to be behind-hand with their Enemies and therefore made several in-roads into the Spanish Territories depopulating all before them which made the Spaniards to be revenged resolve to do the like to them Order was therefore given to fall into the Kingdom on all sides the Marquess of Viana Governor of Gallicia marching in that way with eight thousand Foot and eight hundred Horse and the Governor of Camara invading that part which was adjacent to his government In this condition was the Kingdom of Portugal when His Majesty Charles the Second King of England was restored to his Crowns and Kingdoms welcomed by his Subjects with all gratulatory and submissive Obedience the News of which was no sooner by advice from D. Francisco de Melo Ambassador for the King of Portugal in England conveyed to the ears of his Master but he caused all the Guns of the Town Castle and Ships in the Road to be fired and for three days and nights kept solemn and magnificent Rejoycings the Portuguese Nation as well as by this their joy at the Restoration of King Charles the Second as by their sorrow and general mourning at the Death of King Charles the â—irst expressing their great affection for the English Nation But because their joy should be somewhat for their own as well as our sakes there at the same time arrived News at Lisbon that Don Alfonso Turtudo General of the Horse on the Frontiers of Alentejo meeting with a Brigade of the Enemies Horse nigh to Badajox had fought and defeated them killed and took four hundred of them amongst whom were four Captains of Horse prisoners The Spaniards still continued their Leavies against Portugal being resolved to employ an Army of four thousand Horse and twelve thousand Foot constantly recruited about the Frontiers of Estramadura and another of three thousand Horse and ten thousand Foot about Gallicia and a third of twelve thousand men to serve as a Reserve to the two former In this manner were they resolved to assault them by Land while the Prince of Montesarchio with ten Men of VVar was appointed to coast up and down before their Ports and do them what mischief he could by Sea Thus have we deduced a Compendious Chronicle of the Kingdom of Portugal from its first original under Alfonso the First to the fourth year of the Reign of the present King Alfonso the Sixth Anno 1660. and are forced now to leave her strugling with Spain for her liberty which great Monarch by the prudent Management of Affairs by that Sage and Illustrious Queen Regent she hath hitherto been able to resist and will without doubt still be able to defend her self against him especially if the Match with England take effect as without doubt it will our Nation being like to prove a better Bulwark than the fickle French who were seldom or never constant to their Friends witness their deserting Queen Elizabeth when she waged VVar with the Spaniards as they did now the Portugals FINIS A BRIEF Cosmographical Description Of all the Dominions of PORTVGAL THat part of the Dominions of the King of Portugal which are upon the Continent of Europe contain first the kingdom of Portugal and secondly the kingdom of Algarve or Regnum Algarbiorum The kingdom of Portugal is bounded on the North with the Rivers Minio and Avia which part it from Gallicia on the South with the kingdom of Algarve on the VVest with the Atlantick Ocean and on the East with the two Castiles and Estramadura from which it is deduced by a Line drawn from Ribadonia standing on the Avia to Badayox on the Anas or Guadiana it extendeth on the Sea-coast from North to South four hundred miles the breadth of it in the broadest place is one hundred miles in the narrowest eighty the whole circumference is about eight hundred seventy nine miles in which compass it containeth fourteen hundred and sixty Parishes It was first called Lusitania from the Lusitans its chief Inhabitants and had the name of Portugal either from the Port of Cale now called Caia sometimes a rich Empory or Mart-town or more likely from the Haven of Porto a town standing on the mouth of the River Dueries where the Golls or French used to land their merchandize and so was called Portus Galliorum and by contraction Portugal This Town was given in Dower to Henry Duke of Lorain with Teresa base Daughter to Alphonso the sixth King of Castile with the Title of Earl of Portugal whose Successors coming to be Kings called all those Countries they gained from the Moors by the same name The Air of the Countrey is healthy the Countrey hilly and bare of Corn with which it is supplyed from France and other Northern parts yet that which they have is as good if not better than any Europe affords The soyl and people are in all parts not rich alike for where the soyl is richest the people are poorest not benefited by the Trade of the too-far distant Lisbon and where the soyl is poorest the people are richest helped by Traffick and Manufactures the chief of which are making Salt and Silk which they export in great abundance and where there 's want of Corn that defect is supplyed with abundance of Honey Wine Oyl Alume Fruits Fish Salt white Marble and some Mines of Silver c. The people are of a more plain simple behavior than the rest of Spain and if we may believe the Spanish Proverb neither numerous nor wise but they have found them both They have a kinde of natural Animosity if not Antipathy against the Castilians for depriving them of their native Government and Liberties although they have now recovered both They were
whereof live by selling Brazile wood 3. San Lorenzo a well frequented Village but as yet unwalled 4. Pomair upon a River so named 5. Antonio de Cabo near the Cape of St. Anthony both of good note for the great quantity of Sugars which are made in each 6. Garasu about 5 miles from Olinda inhabited for the most part by poor and mechanical people 8. Of Tamaraca â—o called from an Iâ—lâ—nd of that name distance about 5 miles from Olinda of no great note but for the Haven and an impregnable Castle on the top of the hill for defence thereof This is the least pâ—efecture in Brazile but with all the ancientest extendeth three leagues onely in length and but two in bredth 9. Of Paraiba so called from a River of that name on whose bancks stands Paraiba the chief Town inhabited by about 500. Portugals beside slaves and Negroes not walled but secured by a strong Castle on the promontory called Capo Delo which the Hollanders often in vain attempted 10. Of Riogrande so called likewise of a River but lately made a Prefecture to exclude first the French and after the Savages from possessing it it now enjoys an impregnable Castle 11. Of Siarra so called from the Haven of Siarra adjoining of no great note being also but lately made a Prefecture the Portugueses enjoying no more here but a Castle and about a dozen houses 12. Of Maragnon an Island lying in the mouth of the River so called a prefecture not yielding to any in Brazil if it were well manured the soâ—l being very fruitful and well inhabited both by Natives and Portugueses 13. Of Para the most Northern Prefecture of Brazile towards Guiana so called from the River of Para supposed a branch of the River of Amazons which runneth through it the River at the mouth of it two miles in bredth and in the middle of the channel fifteen fathoms deep on the banks thereof but on an higher ground then the rest the Portugals have built the Castle of Para in form Quadrangular and well walled except towards the River the Counâ—ry thereabouts inhabited by three hundred Porâ—ugueses besides the Garrison Thus much for the particular Governments of this Country for it self in general it has suffered the same fortune with Countries of more antient discovery viz. to have many Masters the Spanish Dutch and Portuguez all claiming right to it but the last however worried by the other two hath hitherto kept the surest foot in it and is still like to do so Thus much for a Cosmographical Description of the Portugal Dominions FINIS Books Printed and sold by H. Marsh at the Princes Arms in Chancery-lane neer Fleet street Folio THe Soveraign's Prerogative and the Subjects Priviledge comprized in several Speeches Cases and Arguments of Law discussed between the Kings most Sacred Majesty and the most eminent Persons of both Houses of Parliament Collected by T. Fuller B. D. Leonards Reports A Compleat History of the Wars of the Greeks written by the learning Polibius and Translated by Ed. Grimston Esq. Serjeant at Arms to his late Majesty The true Portraiture of Dona Catherina Sister to Alfonso present King of Portugal as it was presented to Don Francisco de Mello Ambassador of Portugal in London Poems of Mr. I. Crouch Gent. 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