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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55354	A new survey of the present state of Europe containing remarks upon several soveraign and republican states : with memoires historical, chronological, topographical, hydrographical, political, &c / by Gidion Pontier, &c. ; done into English by J.B. Doctor of Physick.	Pontier, Gédéon, d. 1709.; J. B., Doctor of Physick.	1684 (1684)	Wing P2806; ESTC R40076	132,675	320

Piemont Milain Genoa and Montferrat are in Vpper Lombardy The States of Venice Mantua Parma Modena Trent c. are of Lower Lombardy Before we proceed farther I have thought it proper to give here the following little Itinerary for distinguishing the different Leagues of divers States as serving for Topical History An Itinerary THe Italians make their leagues of 1000 paces they count by the mile The common league of France is of 3000 paces and in places about Paris of 1500. In Gascoigne they equal those of Germany those of Limosin and Berne exceed them The ordinary leagues of Germany and Poland are of 4000 paces and in Hungary of 6000 and in Switzerland of 5000. In Spain and in Portugal they contain 3000 paces and are of a different length as in France In England they comprize 1250. In Sweden and in Norway 8000. These are the longest of all in some places they are of 6000 paces In Muscovy they include 800 Geometrical paces two ordinary paces make the Geometrical The Russians and Muscovites call leagues Verstes The Jews count by furlongs their league is composed of 15 furlongs each furlong contains 125 paces whereof each is five foot Stadium according to its Etymology signifies station or rest The Greek furlong is likewise of 25 Geometrical paces The Egyptians measure their leagues by Schoenes or furlongs The Moguls by Cosses which are of 1500 paces The Persians by Parasanga's which are 30 furlongs Authors differ about the measure of Parasanga's The Chinese league is of 2500 paces Antonius Andrew Resendius Gretserus Merula Rabbi Benjamin Count de Brinne Peter de la Vallée a Roman Gentleman John Baptista de Rocole and others have made Itineraries Some Astrologers speaking of Leagues have taken occasion to say that the Sun goes in an hour 290921 leagues of the greatest of France According to this computation he must go as quick or swifter than an Arrow out of a Bow or as a Bullet shot out of a Musket by reason of the greatness of the way he passes day and night On this ground it has been asserted that in case a Carrier could go post from the Earth to Heaven he would not reach to the Starry Heaven in 1300 years if he went not more than 16 or 17 German leagues each day Hesiod says in his Theogonia that it would require nine days and nine nights for an Anvil of Iron to fall from the Heaven of the Moon to the Earth and that it would arrive on it the tenth Let us leave the consideration of these matters to Astrologers FRANCE LOVIS the Fourteenth King of France and Navarre surnamed the Great came into the World the Fifth of September An. 1638. was declared of Age the Seventh of September 1651. Crowned at Rheims the Seventh of June 1654. was Married at St. Johns de Luz An. 1660. the Ninth of June to Mary Theresa of Austrich Infanta of Spain Daughter of Philip the Fourth and of Elizabeth of France This great Princess is a Mirrour of Piety and the Mother of the People Those that have the honour to behold her Countenance have the happiness to find there all the Graces which have taken pleasure to seat themselves in it The Twenty fourth of August of the same year their Majesties made their Royal Entry into Paris accompanyed with Princes Ambassadors and Forreign Ministers with all the Pomp and Magnificence imaginable Heaven has blest this Marriage by the Birth of Monseigneur le Dauphin Loüis is the Most Christian King and the Eldest Son of the Church He has for Motto Consiliis armisque potens And also this Nec pluribus Impar He bears Azure Three Flower-de-luces Or which formerly were Semè or without number and reduced to Three by Charles the Sixth The Scutcheon is Environed with the Collars of The Orders of S. Michael and of the Holy Ghost Ensigned with a Helmet Or entirely open thereon a Crown closed after the manner of an Imperial Crown with eight in arched Rayes topt with a double Flower-de-luce and this is the Crest for Supporters two Angels habited as Levites the whole under a Pavilion Royal Semè of France Lined Ermines with these words Ex omnibus sloribus elegi mihi Lilium Lilia non laborant neque nent These terms The Lillies do not spin import That the Flower-de-luces which represent the Crown of France never fall to the Distaff that the Female Sex cannot inherit according to the Salick Law as it is amongst the Chaldeans Egyptians Persians Chineses Turks Tartars and Parthians Women have sometimes succeeded in Spain England Sicily and in Sweden but never in France The Arms of Navarre are Gules Chains of Gold interlaced parted into Orles Pales Fesses Counterbands or Saltiers The Livery of the most Christian King is of a Blew colour This Monarch has a Physiognomy more Divine than Humane which moves a most profound respect and we perceive in his Countenance a sweetness which tempers his Majesty he is gifted with the Sublime Science of Governing he is another Solomon in rendring the Oracles of his Judgments Mounting on Horseback he puts himself in the head of his Armies which he conducts as another David or as another Alexander the Great whose presence imports more than Millions of Captains and an entire Army He takes whole Provinces in all seasons and in a day Four Towns together there is little difference with him betwixt the Design and the Execution what has he not done before these important places Lille Mastrich Valenciennes Cambray Gaunt Ipres and others for their reducement He has performed the Office of a General and of a Captain and has toyled as a simple Souldier He has been all at once King General of an Army Marshal of the Camp Sergeant of the Battel Captain Souldier Engineer and Cannoneer He holds all his Enemies play and the more he has the more he puts to the Rout. He has gotten so many Palms and Laurels that the fires of joy and publick rejoycings have shewn themselves throughout the whole Kingdom His Adventures are a Concatenation of Victories Triumphs and Prodigies He is worthy the Empire of the whole Earth the great Armies which he keeps on foot and his yearly Revenue above one hundred Millions render him formidable to the opposers of his glory We are sheltered under his Royal Mantle seme de lis which is so long and large that it is capable of giving shelter and security not only to his own State but also to Forreigners If the Kings of Spain glory in the Title of Catholick the Kings of France merited it before them Philip de Valois was honoured with it An. 1329. for having upheld the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Its Loüis the Great particularly who extends Christianity even into the new world by his care in maintaining Evangelical Labourers where they cry Vive le Roy de France We shall observe here that this custom of crying Vive le Roy comes from the Hebrews when Solomon was proclaimed King by the