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A28561	A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names of all the counties, provinces, remarkable cities, universities, 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 their present state : to which is added an index of the ancient and Latin names : very necesary for the right understanding of all modern histories, and especially the divers accounts of the present transactions of Europe / begun by Edmund Bohun ... ; continued, corrected, and enlarged with great additions throughout, and particularly with whatever in the geographical part of the voluminous, Morey and Le Clerks occurs observable, by Mr. Bernard ; together with all the market-towns, corporations, and rivers, in England, wanting in both the former editions.	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.; Barnard, John Augustine, b. 1660 or 61.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3454; ESTC R13938	1,110,589	500

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 1●97 William Long-espee a Natural Son to Henry II. by the beautiful R●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

others over which are reckoned in all twenty four Stone-bridges Here is plenty of Lime Marble Timber Stone for building and game with some Alabaster and Salt-springs The Air is good and very healthful cold especially towards the North in which part the Earth also is barren The middle is more level but full of Woods The South is fruitful producing Corn and Grass in abundance Coals and Mines of Iron And so great formerly was the number of Parks and Warrens in this County that most Gentlemens Seats were attended by both This County takes its name from Stafford the principal Town in it anciently called Betheny Built by Edward the Elder Incorporated by King John on the East and South walled Trenched by its own Barons the other two sides being secured by a Lake of Water the River Sowe runs on the East and West of the Town and is covered with a Bridge It hath two Parish Churches a Free-school and many good Buildings Edward VI. confirmed and enlarged their Charter It s Long is 18. 40. Lat. 53. 20. In the year 1357 one Ralph was created the first Earl of Stafford whose Posterity in twelve Descents enjoyed that Honor to the year 1639 when it was finally extinguished in the Person of Henry Stafford In 1640 Charles I. revived this Honour by conferring it upon Sir William Howard Knight of the Bath second Son of Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surrey who was then married to one of the Daughters of the last Earl of Stafford He was Beheaded Dec. 7. 1680. in the Reign of K. Charles II. But the Title revived under K. James II. in Henry his Son the present Earl of Stafford See the Natural History of this County written by Dr. Robert Plo●t with the same extraordinary Art and Elaborateness which is peculiar to him Stagira an ancient Town famous for being the Native place of the Philosopher Aristotle thence entituled Stagirita in the Kingdom of Macedonia called afterwards Liba Nova by some and yet said to be extant Stagno Stagnum a small City in Dalmatia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Raguza from which it stands thirty Miles to the North upon the Adriatick which affords it the Convenience of an Harbour This Town belongs to the Republick of Ragusa Stainmore-Hill an exceeding Stony Hill as the Northern use of the word Stain signifies in the County of Westmorland Remarkable for a Stone-Cross said anciently to have been erected for a Boundary betwixt the Kingdoms of England and Scotland upon a Peace concluded betwixt William the Conqueror and Malcholm King of Scotland The Arms of England were displayed upon the South-side of it and those of Scotland on the North. Stalemura Anemurium a City in Cilicia upon the Mediterranean Sea called by others Anem●ra a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Seleucia between Antioch to the West and Celendris now Palapoly to the East about forty four Miles from Cape Cormachiti in the North of the Isle of Cyprus to the North. Mela placeth it in the Borders of Pamphylia and Cilicia Long. 65. 10. Lat. 36. 50. Stalimene Lemnos a considerable Island in the Archipelago called by the Inhabitants Stilemnos It is one hundred and sixty Miles in compass At first under the Venetians but since conquered by Mahomet II. Fifty Miles from Agionoros or the Coast of Macedonia to the East It hath a considerable City of its own name produces good Wine and is well Cultivated Famous for a Red Earth called from it Terra Lemnia and Sigillata by which the Ottoman Port reaps a considerable revenue Stamboli the Turkish Name of Constantinople Stametz Stametia a small City in Gothland a Province of Sweden which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vpsal but now become a poor Village Stampalia a considerable Island in the Archipelago towards the Sea of Scarpanto called anciently Astypalaea and placed by Strabo in the number of the Sporades It hath a City of its own name now as before when a Temple of great fame throughout Greece adorned it which was consecrated to the honour of Apollo The principal Church is dedicated to S. George and served with the Greek rites under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Bishop of Siphanto who some part of the year resides at it To the City belongs a Castle for its security planted upon a Mountain upon the Frontispiece of which the Arms of Venice France and Thuscany appear displayed This City is the sole settlement in the Island being tho of a fruitful Soil much in want of fresh Water Stanes a large well inhabited and frequented Market Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Branghing with a Bridge over a River leading into Surrey Stanford Stamford Durobrivae a Town of Lincolnshire in Kesteven division of good Antiquity upon the River VVelland on the Borders of Northampton and Rutland with a part in each but the chiefest in Lincolnshire which is great and well peopled having about seven Parish Churches and several Bridges over the River being expanded on both its sides The Roman High Dike or Way leadeth to the North from this Town The Houses are built of Free-stone the Streets fair and large and begirt with a Wall It hath the honour to be a Corporation represented in the lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses And in its Neighbourhood stands a stately Seat and Park of the Earl of Exeter called Burleigh House In the Reign of Edward III. part of the Students of Oxford upon a quarrel between the Southern and Northern Men settled for some time in this Town who erected a College here its Ruins are yet remaining and would not return to Oxford till compelled by a Proclamation whence arose that Statute of the University enjoyning every one by Oath at the taking of Batchelors Degree not to profess Philosophy at Stamford In 1628 Henry Lord Grey of Grooby was created Earl of Stamford and succeeded by Thomas his Grandchild in 1673. Stanhope Stainthorp or Staindrop a Market Town in the Bishoprick of Durham in Darlington Wapentake upon a rivulet running into the Tees Market-Stanton a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Gartree Stargard Vrbs Vetus a City of Holstein Long. 33. 10. Lat. 55. 06. Stargart Stargardia a City of Germany in the Further Pomerania the Capital of which it is upon the River Ihna under the Elector of Brandenburgh five German Miles from Stetin to the East It is a Hanse Town but not well peopled Long. 37. 40. Lat. 53. 23. Staten-Eylandt a small Rocky Island discovered by the Dutch in 1594. to the East of Weigat's Streights near that Coast of Moscovy called by them New Holland Not above one League long and two in Circuit Some pieces of fine clear Chrystal were found about the Rocks The Dutch gave it this Name to signifie an Island of their States Stavelo Stable Stabulum a Monastery in the Diocese of Vtrecht between the Archbishoprick of Triers and the Low-Countries three German Miles from Limburgh to the South There belongs to the

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 Marquisa●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 Ros● 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

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 Narisc● 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 Tha●●●● 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

large Suburbs a Castle and a very capacious Haven The famous Lucifer was Archbishop of this See in the Reign of Constantine M. Pope Hillary was born here and Martin King of Sicily died here in 1409. Long. 32. 12. Lat. 37. 30. The Cape Cagliari derives its Name from hence Cagli or Caglio Callium Cale Calle a small City in the Dukedom of Vrbino which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Vrbino seated upon the River Metro at the foot of the Apennine 14 Leagues from Vrbino to the South-West and the same Distance from Eugubio to the North-East It was under the Dominion of the Pope in 1289. Caiors or Cahors Doveona Divona Cadurcum the principal City of Quercy in Guienne in France upon the River Loth over which it has three Bridges It is a large fine and strong City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Alby ever since 1678. before which time it was under the Archbishop of Berry ten Leagues from Alby to the North and 45 from Bourdeaux to the East Pope John XXII being born here founded an University in it in 1331. The Bishops take the Title of Earls of Cahors Henry IV. King of Navarre besieged it in 1580. and reduced it in three Days since which time its Castle and Fortifications have been demolished Cajania a Province of Sweden which is often also called East-Bothinia between the Botner Sea Lapland and Finland Cajan●burg the principal Town within the former Territory which gives Name to it it lies towards Lapland upon the Lake Vla with a Castle for its Defence and Honor. Cajazzo Calatia a City in the Province of Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples about 7 Miles East of Capua near the River Voltorno and a Bishop's See under the Arch-Bishop of Capoiia It was considerable in the times of the Caesars a Colony having been setled there by Julius Caesar as Apianus Alexandrinus saith which on that account joyn'd with Augustus But now very small and in a declining Condition Cajenne an Island to the South of the Mouth of the River Cajenne which gives Name to it in the Province of Guyana in America under the French 18 Leagues in Circuit The River Cajenne springs from the Mountains near the Lake of Parima and continues its Course about 100 Leagues through the Country of the Galibes before it falls into the Ocean with this Island in its Embraces The Hollanders settled themselves here in 1656. and again in 1676. but were both times expelled by the French who were the prior Occupants Caj●tta See Gajetta Caifum or Caifung one of the principal Cities in China seated on the South of the River Croceus in the Province of Honan in Long. 142. 35. It was heretofore the ordinary Residence of the Emperors of China till the Year 1642. that the Usurper Lyncungh besieged it To drown whose Army the People piercing the Banks of the River Croceus which lies higher than the Town brought the Water upon themselves more than on the Enemy with so great an Impetuosity that the Houses were all overturned three hundred thousand Inhabitants drown'd and the whole Town changed into a Lake from that Day Caiman a greater and Lesser Island North of Cuba in the Gulph of Mexico known by the Tortoise-Fishing-Trade there Caiphas a City of Phoenicia at the foot of Mount Carmel and heretofore an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Tyre Understood by some to be the Porphyrcum of Polybius and Stephanus The Lords hereof were of high renown in the time that the Christians were Masters of the Holy land Cairo Babylon Memphis Cairus the Capital of Egypt and indeed the greatest City in all Africa by the Arabians call'd Alchair seated on the East side of the River Nile about 1 Mile from it there is a Passage from the River into it which divides the Town in the middle This City sprang out of the ruins of Memphis and Babylon which stood not far from it on the Western Shoar of the Nile and was built by the Saracens or Moors after they became Masters of Egypt the Califfs of which Nation for a long time resided here as did afterwards the Sultans In 1517. it was Conquered by Selim the Turk and it has ever since been in their hands but is now sensibly declined from what it was The Patriarch of Alexandria resides here who has six antient Greek Churches in the place there are many more belonging to the Cophtites for whose Conviction in the business of Nestorianisme a Council was held here in 1582. by the order of Pope Gregory XIII but without effect tho the Patriarch of the Cophtites had been first gain'd over to the Perswasion of the Latens They have an Aqueduct of 350 Arches which brings the water from the River to the Town It s chiefest Manufacture is Tapestry Three Leagues lower the Nile is divided into two Branches which make the Delta It is 8 Miles in compass and has at the South end of it a stately Castle the Palace of the Mamaluck Sultans built upon a Mountain which overlooks the City and a great part of the Country When the Turks took it it was very strong but Selim ruin'd a great part of it and that which remains serves for the residence of the Turkish Bassa who hath the Government of this Kingdom About 10 Miles from this City stand those famous Pyramids which have in all Ages been so much admired and are certainly the most antient Buildings in the whole World and may in all probability not perish before the general Conflagration Long. 38. 48. Lat. 36 40. Cairoan Cyrene an antient and once very noble City in Africa mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles and now almost ruin'd and depopulated by the Turks in whose hands it is seated right over-against Matapan the most Southern Cape of the Morea an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Alexandria and once famous not only for its Antiquity being built in the year of the World 3560. 143 years after Rome but also for Learning it having produced many noble Greek Writers and particularly Aristippus the founder of the Sect of the Cyrenaick Philosophers with the ingenious Areta his Daughter who succeeded him in his School The Country antiently call'd Libya Cyrenaica comprehending the Five Cities of Berenice Teuchire Ptolomais Apollonia and Cyrene derived its name from hence It had sometime the honour to bear the Title of a Kingdom For in the Year of Rome 658. we read of a Ptolomy surnamed Apion King of Cyrene nominating the Romans to be his Heirs The Libya Cyrenaica was afterwards call'd Pentapolis from these its Cities and now Mestrata Long. 50. 00. Lat. 31. 20. § Also a Town upon the River Capullia in the Kingdom of Tunis about 14 Leagues from the Sea Built in 652. by the Caliphs of Syria and adorn'd with a sumptuous Mosque where you see the Sepulchres of the Kings of Tunis For want of Fountains in so dry and barren a Soil as this Town stands in they

on the top c. but none comely or convenient yet are there footsteps of a better condition divers simple Roofs being supported by goodly Pillars of Parian Marble some plain some curiously carved and others broken in pieces to serve for Thresholds c. of almost every beggarly Cottage He tells us also Baldwin III. King of Jerusalem having in 1145. expelled the Saracens he in 1148. built here a Castle That there lives here a Sangiack That the Port is decayed and unsafe and of no great benefit to the Inhabitants There is here one ancient Church frequented by the Coptic Christians whether it be great or small he saith nothing but very rich it plainly is not This City was taken from the Kings of Jerusalem by Salladine in 1171. This and all Palestine was recovered back to the Christians by Frederick Emperor of Germany in 1228. Retaken by the Turks in 1234. It stands about two Miles from the Sea and was anciently very Illustrious as appears by its Ruines and Marble Tombs of which there are many The Castle is near the Town and has four Towers at each corner one it is kept in good order and has but a small Circuit and two Iron Gates hard by it is the Seraglio for the Bassa's Wives and not far off are the Ruins of a Roman Castle The Town is very little but has a Besestein a Market-Place in good Order and a pretty large Greek Church Without the Town are several goodly Mosques faced with Marble which I believe saith Mr. Thevenot belonged to the Old City Long. 65. 26. Lat. 31. 45. Gazaria the Peninsula to the Crim Tartars Gebel Caph. See the Mountains of the Moon Gebel Tarif Calpe a Mountain in Andalusia at the entrance of the Streight of Gibraltar which the Ancients called one of Hercules's Pillars Gebel Tor Melani Mountains in Arabia Petraea supposed to be the Sinay and Horeb mentioned in the Books of Moses they are said to extend from Petra Aelana a City of Arabia to the Red Sea at the distance of an hundred and eighty Miles from Jerusalem to the South called by the Arabians now Gibel Mousa by the Europeans who see them when they Sail upon the Red Sea Sinay See Eltor a City from whence they have the name of Gebel Tor. Gebelel Hadich Herculis Promontorium Phocra a Mountain and Promontory in the Kingdom of Morocco now called Cape Cantin in Lat. 32. 15. Gedrosia See Formipt Geetruydenberg Gertrudenberga and S. Gertruchii Mons a City in Holland small but well fortified called by the Inhabitants Guytrenberg or Geetruydenberg it stands in South Holland two Leagues from Breda to the North and three from Dort to the South-East upon the River Dunge This City takes its name from St. Gertrude who was a Daughter of Pepin King of France and for her great Sanctity in much honor in these Countries It is saith Guicciardin a considerable Place seated on the South Bank of the Mereuwe at the equal distance of three Leagues from Dort Heusden and Breda the Possession of it is now in the Prince of Orange but the Brabantines and Hollanders do both equally pretend to the Right of it The Hollanders surprized it in 1573 and divers times since it has been taken and retaken Gehan-Abad or Jehan-Abad See Delly Geichon Oxus call'd by the Arabs Ghaion Gihon Tihun and now commonly Gieihun or Gieihoun is a River of Persia it ariseth from the Mountains of Badachzan and running Northward through the borders of Balch it watereth the Cities of Termid Zemum and Chovarzim Also sometimes called Balch thus Gollius describes in part the Course of this River Our later Maps make it to arise from the Mountains of Caibocoran in the Eastern borders of the Kingdom of Persia to water Candahar and Belgis on the Eastern Bank Meder Thalan and Badaschian on the Western at which last it takes in from the East the great River Oboengir which comes from Balch by Vervalin and Talecan then turning Westward it takes in a River from the South out of the Desarts of Bigul beneath which it watereth the City of Bigul and so passeth to Bichend above which it takes in a River from the East out of Zagathay and beneath it on the same side another from the Lake of Vsbeck which passeth by Bochara and another on the South side from Mareuwe and at Deristan a great River from the South called Margab beneath which it falls into the South-Eastern Angle of the Caspian Sea at Zahaspan by four Mouths saith Gollius but our Maps take notice of but one Geila 1 River of Transylvania called by Jornandes Gilfil Geivise Astacus a Maritim City of Bithynia in the Lesser Asia now ruined it lies fifteen German Miles South-West of Nicomedia on the Helespont Gelas. See Galatia Gelderland Sicambri Geldria one of the Seventeen Provinces in the Low-Countries which has the Title of a Dukedom the Seat as all agree of the Old Sicambri This Province has on the North Friesland and the Zuyder Sea on the East Cleves on the South the Dukedom of Juliers and on the West Brabant and Holland It is a flat level Country without any Mountains much beautified with Woods and Forests abounding with all things especially Corn and yet as good for Pasturage and Grazing so that they fetch lean Cattel from Denmark and fat them here Three great Rivers water it the Maes the Rhine and the Wael Nimeguen in the Territory of Betawe is the Capital of this Dukedom besides which it has twenty one walled Cities and Towns and three hundred Villages This Country was first granted by Henry III. Emperor of Germany to Otho of Nassaw with the Title of Earl in 1079. Rainold II. the ninth Earl was Created Duke by the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria in 1339. Arnold XV. in the Descent sold this Dukedom to Charles Duke of Burgundy being offended with his lewd Son Adolph Charles another Son of this Arnold left it at his death in 1538. to Charles V. as Heir of the House of Burgundy This Country in 1577. all but a very few Towns revolted from Spain and joined with the States of Holland from which time till this they have maintained their Liberty only they were over-run by the French in 1672. But the next year recovered themselves again The City Gueldres or Geldre which some will have to be originally derived from the Gelduba of Tacitus took its name from an ancient Castle seated upon the River Niers four Miles North of Venlo and six East of Nimeguen where the ancient Counts or Governors of this Province chose their Residence by which means it grew to a fine City and being in the hands of the Spaniards was by them so well fortified that an attempt made upon it by Henry Frederick Prince of Orange in 1139. miscarried The Castle is esteem'd almost impregnable In 1627. the Spaniards of Venloo and Ruremonde attempted to bring the Rhine into the Meuse at this City But their design did not take effect § There

one of the most considerable Counties in Germany which is bounded on the East and North by Thuringia on the West by Hassia and on the South by the Diocese of Wurtzburgh being in length from East to West almost two days Journey The Emperor Maximilian II. erected it into a Principality which Title in 1583. passed into the House of Saxony Hennebont Hannebon Hannebontum a ancient Town upon the River Blavet which falls into the Sea near Port Louis in the South of Bretagne in France four Leagues from the Shoars of the Sea and three from the said Port thirty two Miles from Rennes to the South-West and ten from Vennes to the North-West Heretofore very strongly fortified but now neglected It has a very fair Church Hensterberg Cetius a Mountain of Austria which begins in the Lower Austria at the Danube three Miles from Vienna to the West and running South through Stiria and Carinthia ends at the Drave being called in different Countries by various Names Heppen Apianum a Castle in the Bishoprick of Trent Herac Petra a City of Arabia Deserta called Rabath in the Scriptures It was in the latter times an Archbishop's See under the Patriarch of Jerusalem having before been under the Patriarch of Alexandria It stands in the Confines of Palestine upon the Brook Zareth Long. 66. 45. Lat. 30. 20. Heracaian the same with Kherman Herachia Heratia a small Island in the Archipelago East of Scinusa and not far from Heraclea in Thrace Heraclia Heraclea a City in Thrace called Vrbs Herculea in Claudian Perinthus by Ptolemy and before Mygdonia now frequently Araclea It is an Archbishop's See under the Patriarch of Constantinople at the first its Superior and the Metropolis of Thrace it self so that the Bishop of Byzantium was a Suffragan to the Bishop of Heraclea Severus the Emperor finding the City of Byzantium now Constantinople in the Hands of Pescennius Niger his Rival in 194. besieged it and having taken it after a Siege of three Years dismantled burnt and ruin'd it and gave all its Lands to the City of Heraclea which from thenceforth was advanced above Byzantium and continued so till Constantine built Constantinople in the beginning of the IV. Century The Bishop of Heraclea became by this means superior to the Bishop of Byzantium But Heraclea is now in a decaying Condition thus described by Mr. Wheeler This Town hath a good Harbour whose Mouth lieth East of it turning about so that it maketh a Peninsula The Town lieth in the Neck of this having the Sea on one side and the Port on the other which Port is five Miles in Circumference There appeared great plenty of Marble Antiquities broken and scattered about by the unregarding Turks Amongst the rest I found one Inscription dedicated to Severus their great Benefactor A poor Place it is but an Archbishops See for all that and the Cathedral one of the best now standing in Turky In it Sir Edward Guitts one of the Embassadors of England lies buried who died here before his Return upon whose Tomb is a Greek Inscription This City lies 52 Miles from Constantinople to the West and seventy from Gallipoli to the North-West Here●o●r● a great many Cities in Greece Asia Egypt and Italy have born the same Name of Heraclea but they are all ruined or changed into such distant Names as that this Place belongs no now to them Herbauges Herbadilia an old ruined City not far from Nantes in the Confines of Bretagne and Poictou mentioned in the Lives of the Saints Herberstein a Barony in the Province of Carinthia in Germany Herbipoli See Wurtaburg Herborne Herborna a small Town in Westerwalt in the County of Dillemburgh which is an University or rather has a College founded in it by John Count of Dillemburgh in 1585. It stands four German Miles from Marpurg to the West and three from Gissen or Giessen Herck Archa a Town or Castle in the Bishoprick of Leige in the Confines of Brabant in the middle between Maestricht to the East and Lovain to the West § There is also a River called the Herck which flowing by Tongren or Tongres and this Castle of Herck falls into the Demer Demera one Mile above Bardiest Herklens Herculis Castra a Town of Guelderland Hereford Herefordia Ariconium a City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the River Wye on the Borders of South Wales beyond the Severn which grew up out of the Ruins of Ariconium an old Roman Town not far from it Camden saith of old it was called Ferulega or the Forest S. Ethelbert King of the East-Angles was slain here by Offa King of the Mercians who invited him to his Court to Marry his Daughter and by the malicious Instigation of Quenred his Queen did this base Act about 749. After which the East-Angles continued under the Mercians seventy seven Years The Prince being esteemed a Martyr there was a Church built to his Honour and a Bishoprick established in it In 1055. it was burnt by the Welsh but soon after rebuilt and fortified Yet it was very small at the time of the Conquest not having above an hundred Men within and without The Normans built here a very strong Castle now ruined and walled the City Reinelm the Bishop built part of the Cathedral in the Reign of Henry I. whose Successors built the rest and the Close It s Long. is 20. 24. Lat. 52. 06. The first Bishop was Putta placed here in 680. Reinelm the XXX in Order succeeded in 1107. and sat eight Years In the year 673. Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury held a Council here There are six Gates for Entrance into it and fifteen Watch-Towers Herefordshire Silures by the Welsh called Erinuck is of an Oval Form Bounded on the East with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire on the South with Monmouthshire on the West with Radnorshire and Brecknock and on the North with Shropshire It is a pleasant fruitful County abounding with all things necessary for the Life of Man They have a Proverb that as to the three W's that is VVheat VVool and VVater it is equal to any County in England The VVye Lug and Munow after they have fertilized the various Parts of this County meet below Monmouth and pass in one Channel into the Severn near Chepstow William Fitz-Osborn was created Earl of Hereford by William the Conqueror in the first year of his Reign Anno Christi 1066. Henry de Bohun descended from the former Earls in 1199 his Posterity in seven Descents enjoyed it till 1371. Henry of Bullingbrook succeeded as Duke of Hereford in the Right of Mary his Wife Daughter of Humfrey de Bohun the last Earl of that Family in 1398. In 1547. Walter d' Eureux descended from the Bouchiers and Bohuns was created Viscount of this County Leicester d' Eureux the present Possessour is the eighth in this Line and a Minor Heren Carrhae a City in Mesopotamia called Heren or Harran by the Turks It was a Bishop's See under the Archbishop

and in 1546. kept in it a Chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece It had then 4 Collegiate Churches divers Abbeys and Ecclesiastical Houses But in 1577. they with the rest of Holland revolted from the Spaniards In 1559. it had been advanced to an Archbishoprick by Pope Paul IV. and nine Suffragan Bishops assigned to this See which was one of the occasions of the Revolt In 1636. it was made an University and in 1672. it fell for a short time into the hands of the French but is since returned to its former liberty the Learned Dr. Brown has given a short account of the present State of this City in his Travels Pag. 101. Long. 26. 26. Lat. 52. 10. The State of Vtretcht Sticht van Utretcht is the fifth of the Vnited Provinces Bounded South West and North with Holland and on the East by Guelderland Besides its Capital it has Wick the Seat of the Bishops Duerstede Rhenen Amersford and Monfort which are fortified strong places and about sixty great Villages Uulxin the same with Veuxin Uxbridge a large Market Town in the Coun. of Middlesex in the Hundr of Elt horn upon the River Coln Uzerche Vsarcha Vsarchia a Town in the Lower Limosin in Aquitain in France upon the River Vezere adorned with an Abbey and a Castle The Abbot is Lord of the Town Uzes Vcetia Vtica Vzetia Castrum Vseticense a City of the Lower Languedoc in France upon the River Eisent which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Narbonne and honored with the Title of a Dukedom by King Charles VI. after it had born the Titles first of both a Barony and a Viscounty The Bishop enjoys the Honor to be a Count and joynt Lord of the place with the King Therefore it hath three Castles for the King the Duke and the Bishop A rich populous and well traded City John de S. Gelais its Bishop in the last Age embraced the Reformed Religion and married an Abbess 't is said he abjured it again before his death and was buried in the Abbey of S. Maixant In 1635. there was a Synod held here It stands 3 Leagues from Nismes to the North and 6 from Avignon to the West Long. 25. 10. Lat. 43. 36. Vzeste a Castle in the Territory of Bazadois in Guyenne in France betwixt Bourdeaux and Bazas Remarkable for the Tomb of Pope Clement V. sometime Archbishop of Bourdeaux who was born at Villandrand a Village one League from this Castle died at the Castle of Roque-Maure two Leagues from Avignon in 1314 and was interred here in 1316. WA WAad Vaudum a Territory in Switzerland called by the French Le Pais de Vaud which was a part of the Dutchy of Savoy till 1536. and now subject to the Canton of Berne It is bounded on the South by the Lake of Lemane on the West by Gex and the Franche Comte on the East by Berne on the North in part by Berne and in part by Friburgh The Capital of it is Lausanne The other good Towns are Avenches or W 〈…〉 purg Yverdon Mouldon and Nyon It is sometimes written Vault Wadstein a Town in the Province of Ostrogothia in Sweden Die Wael Helium Vahalis Vacalos the middle Branch of the Rhine which divides from it at Schencken a Fort beneath Emmeren and watering Nimmeguen Tiel and Bommel falls into the Maes above Gorcum a City of Holland Waga Vagus a River in Scandia Wageren Wagria or Wagerlandt a small Territory in Holland towards the Baltick Sea between Lubeck to the South and K●el to the North. The Cities of it are Lubeck Oldesto P●oen Segeberg and Oldenburg which are divided between the King of Denmark the Dukes of Holstein and the Bishop of Lubeck Wainfleet or Waynfleet a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the division of Lindsey and the Hundred of Chandleshow upon a Wash in a fenny gound which empties it self into the Sea not far from hence Made famous by giving Name and Birth to William of Waynfleet Bishop of Winchester the Founder of Magdalen College in Oxon and of a Free-School in this Town Wakefield a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Agbridge upon the River Calder here covered with a fair Stone Bridge which King Edward IV. adorned with a ●●●ely Chappel It is a large Town well built of Stone of good Antiquity and drives the Cloathing Trade Walachia Valachia a considerable Province of the Kingdom of Hungary called by the Germans Walachey by the Turks I●●akia and by the Poles Wolochy It is a part of the antient Dacia and stands now divided into the Provinces of Walachia and Moldavia of the latter I have spoken in its proper place The former is bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Poland and Red-Russia on the East by Bessarabia on the South by Bulgaria separated from it by the Danube and by Moldavia which last also bounds it to the West It is much less than the Maps commonly make it also commonly misplaced and set where Moldavia should stand The History of it is delivered in Moldavia To which I shall only add here that after Mahomet IV. Emperor of the Turks was deposed and Solyman his Brother set up in his stead and that the Duke of Lorain had seized Transylvania the Prince and States of Walachia in 1687. and 88. rendered themselves under the Emperor's Protection upon condition That the Succession in the Government of that Principality shall be continued to the Heirs Male of the present Prince and the States be preserved in the Possession of their just Rights and Privileges paying to the Emperor the Annual Tribute of 50000 Crowns This Country extends from East to West 90 French Leagues from North to South 50 in form Triangular The Plains would be very fruitful if they were well cultivated but being little peopled much ravaged by the Turks and Tartars and lying in common they are over-run with Weeds for here is little or no Wood. The Mountains have rich Mines but they are as much neglected their Religion is that of the Greek Church The present Valvode is Matthis George Gista set up in 1658. by the late Sultan of the Turks Walcheten Valacria one of the Islands at the Mouth of the Schelde which compose the Province of Zeland in the Vnited Netherlands It s Capital City is Middleburgh New Walcheren the same with Tabago Waldeck Valdecum a County in Hassia between Westphalia to the West Hassia to the East and South and Paderborne to the North under a Count of its own yielding Wine Corn and several sorts of Mines The principal places in it are Curback and Waldeck which last stands upon the Eder 5 German Miles from Cassel to the West and 7 from Marpurg to the North. Walden a Market Town in the County of Essex in the Hundred of Vttlesford upon an Eminence likewise called Saffron-Walden from its situation amongst pleasant and profitable Fields of Saffron Walderswick a Sea Town in the County of Saffolk and