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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49689	A late voyage to Holland, with brief relations of the transactions at the Hague, also remarks on the manners and customs, nature, and commical humours of the people; their religion, government, habitations, way of living, and manner of treating stangers, especially to the English. Written by an English gentleman, attending the court of the King of Great Britain.	English gentleman, attending the court of the King of Great Britain.	1691 (1691)	Wing L561A; ESTC R213947	17,332	41

came Incognito as well to avoid the disputes of Precedency as to confer more Familiarly together and without the Pesterment of Formalities The Elector of Brandenburgh who lay at Cleves for some time in expectation of the Kings coming no sooner heard of his Arrival by the Courriers that were forthwith dispatched to give him notice thereof but he hastened to the Hague where he Arriv'd in Cognito the 24th of January The Duke of Wirtenbergh Prince Regent during the Minority of the Heir and the Prince his Brother arrived the 29th and were admitted to the King a little time after The Count of Windisgrats from the Emperor Arrived February 4th and was immediately admitted to the King The Duke of Bavaria Arriv'd the 6th about ten of the Clock at Night and went to wait upon the King the next day about four a Clock in the Afternoon with whom he had a Conference of two hours long The Marquess of Castanaga Governour of the Spanish Netherlands arriv'd the next day with a jolly Train of which however but one part appear'd because the Princes were Incognito The Landgrave of Hesse Cassel arriv'd the 11th accompanied by the Count of Lippe the Baron of Gars and several other Lords The Prince of Commerci General of the Imperial Forces arriv'd the 15th The Duke and one Prince of Courland arrived the next day The King regalio'd the greatest part of these Princes and was also pleased to accept of Entertainments at some of their Houses It would be too long to make a Recital of all these Feasts I shall only therefore mention two to shew what are the principal Ceremonies observed upon such Occasions His Majesty gave an entertainment to the Elector of Brandenburgh the 3d. of February at his House in the Wood the King had an hours Conference with the Elector which being ended they entered into a spacious Dining Room where was a Table and Cloth lay'd with one only single Vermeil Furniture consisting of the Gold Plate fine Napkins Knife Fork and Spoon and an Elbow Chair where the King sat down After that a Chair was brought for the Elector with a white Sattin Cushion and a Vermeil Furniture laid him like the Kings Then the King Commanded Seats and Furnitures to be brought for all the rest of the Lords that were present who were placed in this Order The Elector on the Kings Right Hand next to whom sat the Duke of Ormond the Earl of Scarborough Monsieur Colbar and Monsieur Dankelman the Earl of Portland sat at the lower end of the Table just opposite to the King The Duke of Norfolk on the Kings Left Hand next to whom sat the Count of Denhoff and then the General Spaen closed that side of the Table next to the Earl of Portland The first Health was begun by the King who whisper'd it softly to the Elector and the Elector to the rest without Naming it after that the King began several other Healths which he carried to the Elector and the Elector to the rest without Naming The King and the Elector were served each of them by a Page all People being put out of the Room with Orders given to the Guards to let no Body enter The Drums beat and the Trumpets sounded when the King and the Elector drank but not for any of the rest The 5th of the same Month the King Dined with the Elector of Brandenburgh who went out into the very street to receive him and carried him into a spacious Dining Room where the Table was covered with Eleven Furnitures and in a short time after the meat was served up The King sat in an Elbow Chair on the Kings Right hand sat the Lord Chamberlain and then the Earl of Portland On the left hand of the Elector sate the Duke of Ormond and then the other Lords of the Court without any distinction of Precedence and Monsieur Colber performed the Office of Esq Carver the Kings Butler was also present to pour out the Wine The King was served by one of his Pages and two of his Gentlemen stood behind his Chair When the King returned the Elector accompanied him to the very Boot of his Coach All these Divertisements of Entertainment and pleasure were intermixed with serious Conferences his Majesty being unwilling to loose a moment of Consultation for the general good of the Confederate Affairs But all these Conferences are kept so secret that it is impossible to penetrate the knowledge of them nor shall we understand the Conclusions but by the Effects that will follow The King has sat in the Assembly of the States General in that of the States of Holland and in the Council of State to all which Bodies he expressed himself in most Affectionate Terms which makes it appear that his new Dignity has no way lessened the Love and Affection which he had for those Provinces On the 1st of March the Duke of Zell arrived at the Hague and the Duke of Wolfenbuttel his Brother the Tuesday following The Elector of Bavaria went the same day to Amsterdam On the 6th the King set out for Loo the Duke of Zell going in the Coach with him and the Elector of Bavaria follow'd the next day the day before the Elector of Brandenburgh and the Langrave of Hess● went strait home and the rest of the Princes parted with Mutual Satisfaction and my Noble Lord returning for England I Attended on him Sect. IV. Containing Particular Observations on the manners Nature and Humours of the Dutch Boars or Pesants the Nature of their Habitations and way of living THeir Soil where they Inhabit is all Fat though wanting the colour to shew it so for indeed it is the buttock of the World full of Veins and Blood but no bones in 't 't is a singular place to fat Monkeys in There are Spiders almost as big as small Shrimps their Gardens being moist abound with them and were they but venemous to gather herbs were to hazard Martyrdom You may travel among them though you have not a guide For you cannot baulk your Road without the hazard of drowning There is not there any use of an Harbinger Wheresoever Men go the way is made before them where if your Fore-man be sober you may ●ravel in safety otherwise you must have stronger Faith than Peter had else you sink immediately A starting horse endangers you to two Deaths at once breaking of your Neck and Drowning Some things the Bores do here that seem wonders 'T is ordinary to see them fish for Fire in Water which they catch in Nets and transport to Land in their Boots where they spraed it more smoothly than a Mercer doth his Velvet when he would hook in an Heir upon his coming to Age. Thus lying in a Field you would think you saw a Cantle of green Cheese spread over with black butter Their ordinary Pack-horses are all of Wood carying their Bridles in their tails and their Burdens in their Bellies When they travel they touch no ground and