of it is to be seen the Bridge of Loyang over the River Loyang 360 Perches long about one and an half broad so curiously contrived with great Pillars instead of Arches and so finely imbellished with Sculptures as no where to find a Parallel in the World Cividad del Roy Philippo a Colony of Spaniards planted in Magellanica at the Mouth of the Streights of Magellan but dissipated by Famine again it being far remote from their Countries and seldom visited Civita Nova a small Town in the Marcha Anconitana in Italy 5 or 6 Miles from Loretto and near the Adriatick upon a Hill dignified with the Title of a Dukedom Civita Busella Bucellum a Town in the hither Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples upon the River Sangro Civita Vecchia a famous Port in S. Peter's Patrimony in Italy believed by some to be the Centum Cellae of the Antients Civitella a Town in the farther Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples upon a Rock with the River Librata at the Foot of it Besieged by the French in 1557. under the Duke of Guise in vain Clagenfurt Clagenfurtum Claudia the Capital Town of the Dutchy of Carinthia in Germany â— Leagues from the River Drave and the same Distance from S. Veir There is a great Lake near it It is a fortified Town See Klagenfurt Clain Clanis Clitis a River of the Province of Poictou in France which having received the Vonne the ClouÌ„ere c. passes by Poictiers and loses its Name at length in the Vienne below Chasteleraud Clairvaux Clarevallum a famous Abbey of Champaigne upon the River Aube in the Diocese of Langres 5 or 6 Leagues from the said City Founded in the Year 1115. by the Great S. Bernard Himself being the first Abbot Who left above â—00 Religious in it at his Death Hence the Title of Abbas Clarevallensis given that very Divine Person Clare Clarence Clarentia a Country-Village in the County of Suffolk upon the River Stour which divideth Essex from Suffolk about 6 Miles West of Sudbury It had once a Castle but now ruined yet famous for the great Men who have born the Titles of Earls or Duke of it The last of which was George Duke of Clarence Brother to Edward IV. King of England who in 1421. was drowned in a Butt of Malmesey The second King at Arms retains the Surname of Clarencieux as appertaining formerly to the Dukes of Clarence At present the Title of Earl of Clare is in the Family of Hollis § There is also a Town and County in the Province of Connaught in Ireland of this Name the former standing near the Fall of the River Fergus into the Shannon Clarendon or Clarindon is a Noble Country House and Park belonging heretofore to the Kings of England about 2 Miles North of Salisbury in Wiltshire Famous of old for a Parliament here held in 1164. where were made the Constitutions of Clarindon Charles II. of blessed Memory added a new and lasting Honor to this Place when April 20. 1661. three Days before his Coronation he created the Loyal Edward Hide late Lord Chancellor Earl of Clarâ—ndon Viscount Cornbury c. who dying at Roüen in Normandy in 1674. was succeeded by Henry his eldest Son a Person of great Virtue and Goodness Clarentia or Clarenza a Country in the Morea described to contain the antient Achaia properly so called Sicyonia and Corinth Heretofore renowned under particular Dukes of its own The capital City bears the same Name of Clarenza Claros a mountainous Island of the Aegean Sea consecrated in antient times to Apollo Called at present Calamo § The Name of Claros is likewise born by a Town now unknown but mentioned we find amongst the Antients as belonging to the Colophonii in Ionia Apollo having had an Oracle in it and his Attribute thence deriv'd of Clarius Deus Claven Cleven Clavenna a small City in the Valtoline with an Earldom call'd by the Germans the Graffschaft von Cleven This City stands 5 Leagues from the Lake that bears its Name to the North upon the River Maiera called by the French Chiavenne Clausenbourg Claudipolis called by the Inhabitants Coloswar is the principal Town in Transylvania great populous and ennobled with an antient Castle All the Publick Affairs of that Principality are transacted and Justice administred here It stands upon the River Samosch nine German Miles from A'ba Jùlia North and fifteen from Waradin East The Duke of Lorrain put into it an Imperial Garrison Oct. 19. 1687. upon Articles agreed in a peaceable manner by the Magistrates and Governor for the late Prince Abafti Clay a Market-Town in the County of Norfolk and the Hundred of Holt. Clazomenae the Birth-place of the Philosopher Anaxagoras an antient City of Ionia in Asia Minor built in the Year of Rome 98. upon the Aegeun Sea betwixt Smyrna and Chio. Clebuâ—g Mortimer a Market-Town in Shropshire in the Hundred of Stottesden Clerac or Clairac a Town in the County of Agennois in Guyenne in France 4 Leagues from Agen and the same Distance from Nerac It stands upon the River Lot which a little below falls into the Garonne And has a famous Abbey in it Clermont en Argene a Town in the Dukedom of Bar upon the River Ayr four Leagues from Verdun West and seven from Barleduc North-East This belongeth to the Duke of Lorrain but in 1654. was taken from him and annexed to the Crown of France It is honoured with the Title of an Earldom Clermont en Auvergne Arvernae Claromons Claromontium the principal City of the Province of Auvergne and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourges It stands upon a declining ground in a Territory called Limaigne which is very fruitful upon the River Tiretaine twenty Leagues South of Moulins and twenty five East of Limoges Here was a General Council celebrated in 1095. under Pope Vrban II. in which the Croisade for the recovery of the Holy Land was concluded and Godfrey of Bouillon declared General of the same Also Philip I. King of France was excommunicated until his repentance for Adultery This is thought to have arisen out of the Ruines of Gergovia an old Roman Town It is honoured with the Title of an Earldom belonging to the Crown ever since the Union of Auvergne with the Crown Clermont on Beauvais a Town in the Isle of France five Leagues South of Beauvais in the North-East Border of that County The Earldom of this place is famous for giving a beginning to the Royal House of Bourbon in the Person of Robert of France Earl of Clormont en Beavais the Son of St. Lewis Clermont de Lodeve a Town in Languedoc upon the River Lorgue four and twenty Leagues from Avignon West So distinguished because standing in the Diocese of Lodeve It gives Name to an Honourable Family and is beautified with a Collegiate Church a Cattle and some Monasteries § There are other Clermonts in this Kingdom One in Danphine in the Territory of Viennois giving the Title of an Earldom
Ouse in a fair Champaigne Country Deserving to be particularly taken notice of for the beautiful Euston-Hall of the building of the late Earl of Arlington and the Curiosities that are to be seen about it In 1672. King Charles II. advanced this place to the Dignity of an Earldom in the Person of the late Duke of Grafton upon his Marriage with the only Daughter of the said Earl of Arlington The Euxine Sea Pontus Euxinus Axenos now by the Turks called Cara Denguis i. e. the Furious Sea and by others the Black Sea is encompassed round by Anatolia Mingrelia Circassia the Crim Tartary and Podolia with no other out-let than the Bosphorus Thracius accounting the Palus Moeotis as a Bay or branch of it so that it seems more properly a Lake Yet these great Rivers the Danube Nieper Niester Phasis Corax Sangarius and many others discharge their floods into it It is in length from East to West about one hundred eighty eight Leagues In breadth at the Western End from the Bosphorus Thracius to the Nieper three Degrees at the Eastern the half thereof And is dangerous to navigate Not so green nor clear nor brackish as the Ocean by reason of the Influx of those Rivers And now wholly under the Dominion of the Grand Seignior without whose leave no Vessel passes upon it Ewel a Market Town in the County of Surrey in the Hundred of Copthorn Ex Isca is a River of England it ariseth in Somersetshire and passing by Winesford it takes in Dunsbrook River or Creden from Dulverton on the West then entering Devonshire it runs directly South to Tiverton where it takes in Loman River from the East at Stâ—cke it takes in Columb on the same side and a little lower Credy from the West then incompassing a great part of the North West and South of Exeter a little lower it admits Clyst on the East and Ken on the West and so entereth the British Sea by a large Mouth Exeter Isca Isca Dunmoniorum Exonia is the principal City of Devonshire called by the Welsh Caerisk Caerrudh and Pencaer that is the Principal City Seated on the Eastern Bank of the River Ex in a barren Soil upon the Advantage of a small Hill declining East and West having a Dike and a strong Wall for its Safety in Compass about a Mile and a half with extended Suburbs There are in it fifteen Churches and in the highest Part of the City near the East Gate a Castle which of old was the Seat of the West Saxon Kings and afterwards of the Earls of Cornwal and near this the Cathedral built by King Athelstan in Honour of S. Peter Edward the Confessor settled the Bishop's See here which he removed from Kirton It fell not into the Hands of the Saxons till four hundred sixty five years after their first coming over viz. Anno Christi 914. when Athelstan banished the Britains and fortified the City and built the Cathedral This City joining with the Rebels in 1640. was taken for the King by Prince Maurice September 4. 1643. And being Garrisoned for the King was again surrendred to the Parliament upon Terms April 13. 1646. The Honourable John Cecil is Earl of Exeter and the fifth of his Family he succeded John Cecil his Father in 1667. The Title of Marquess of Exeter was heretofore conferred by King Henry VIII upon Henry Courtney Earl of Devonshire And likewise of Duke by Henry V. upon Thomas Beaufort Earl of Dorset and by Richard II. upon John Holland Earl of Huntington The present Bishop of this Diocese is the forty sixth since the Removal of this See from Kirton about 1149. The sixty seventh from Aedulphus who about 905. was made the first at least Saxon Bishop of Devonshire Extremadura See Estremadura § A Province of the Kingdom of Susa in Africa near the Atlantick Ocean and the Mountains of Atlas in the Southern Borders of Morocco Extremos a small Town upon the River Tera which comes to fall into the Tajo near Evora and Elvas in the Province of Alentejo in the Kingdom of Portugal Extuca a Province in the Kingdom of Morocco in Barbary extended along the Sea Coast towards the Mountain Atlas and the Frontiers of Biledulgeridia Eychstat See Aichstadt Eyder Eidera Egidora a River of Denmark which ariseth above Rendsburgh and dividing Holstein and Dithmarsh from the Dukedom of Sleswick falls into the German Ocean at Tonning This River denominates the Territory of Eyderstede in the said Dutchy Eye or Eaye Insula a small Corporation in the County of Suffolk near the Borders of Norfolk so called saith Mr Camden because it is an Island where are to be seen the Ruins of an old Castle which belonged to Robert Mallet a Norman Baron and of an ancient Benedictine Abbey called S. Peter's This Town has been given in Jointure with the Queens of England After many other Changes in this Honour Sir Frederick Cornwallis descended lineally from Sir John Cornwallis Steward of the Houshold to Edward VI. and Sir Thomas Cornwallis one of the Privy-Counsellors to Queen Mary and Comptroller of her House was April 20. 1661. made Baron Cornwallis of Eye by Charles II. to whose Interest and Service being ever entirely addicted in the worst of Times he had the Honour to be the second Coronation Baron to whom succeeded Charles Lord Cornwallis his Son who dying in 1673. Charles the second of this Family his Son succeeded and is now living By the Favour of this Family as I have heard this small Corporation obtained its Charter and the Honour of sending two Burgesses to the House of Commons Otherwise the Place is very small and inconsiderable It stands twelve Miles from Ipswich to the North and seventeen from Norwich to the South and in the Road between those two Places Eyerlandt See Aland Eyndhoven Endova is a fine Town in the Territory of Kempen upon the River Bommele four Leagues from Boisleduc to the South and almost the same from Helmont to the West It had a College of Canons and belonged to the Count de Buren This is the Capital of that part of Kempen which lies in Brabant and fell into the Hands of the Hollanders in 1629. after they had taken Boisleduc by a Siege of four Months Continuance and they are still in Possession of it Eysenack Isenachum a small City in Thuringia upon the River Nesa eight Miles from Erford to the West The River Nesa a little below it is taken into the VVerra The Name of this City is written sometimes nearer the Latin Isenach It is under the Dominion of a Prince of the House of Saxony the Duke of Weimar with a small Territory belonging thereto And has the Honour to be both a Dukedom and an University which last was founded in the Year 1555. F A FAenza Faventia a small City of Romandiola in Italy upon the River Lamone Anemo which falls into the Adriatick Sea three Miles South of the Mouth of the Po between Imola to the North
they oppressed this Nation for many Ages and so harrassed them that no account can be given of the times when the Reigns of their Princes began or ended John XI was the first who began to enfranchise these Countries from the Servitude of the Tartars which they had so long groaned under John Basilovitz the 4th of this Race who began his Reign very young in 1540. ended it by the Conquest of the Tartars and all the petty Princes which had till then reigned in several parts of this Empire This was the cruellest Tyrant that any Age has produced and died as wretchedly as he lived in 1584. Foedor Juanovits his Son succeeded him at the Age of twenty two years he was a perfect natural Fool. There was another Brother called Demetrius of nine years of Age which had more sense But Boris who managed all this under Foedor caused Demetrius to be Murthered In 1597. Foedor dying suddenly without Children Boris was Elected and soon after Deposed in favour of a Counterfeit Demetrius brought in by the Poles after which followed nothing but Calamities and Confusions till in 1615. or as others say in 1612 one Michael Fedrovizt Son of Foedor Nikitis a Kinsman far removed of John Basilovitz was chosen by the Body of this Nation Emperor of Muscovy This Prince settled this vast Empire governed it with more Justice Clemency Prudence and Piety than all his Predecessors had used and at last died in great Honor July 12. 1645. To him Succeeded Alexius his Son The two Princes which some few years since ascended the Throne together are of the same Race Red Russia is a Province under the Crown of Poland sometimes called the Proper Russia and Roxolania it lies extended towards the South between Poland properly so called and Muscovy This contains the Palatinates of Russia properly so called Podolia Volhinia Belza Braslaw Kiovia and the Territory of Chelm being that part of Russia which as I said before was Conquered by the Poles and by Casimir II. in 1342. united for ever to Poland White Russia is a very confiderable Province under the Crown of Poland and so called because it was of old a part of Muscovy or Russia it is divided into six Palatinates which are Novogrod Miscislaw Witebsko Minskie Polokie and Smolenskie This last Palatinate has been recovered in latter times by the Russ and is not now under the Poles Russia properly so called Russi Rutheni is a Province of Poland and a part of Red Russia which has Poland on the West Volhinia and Podolia on the East the Territories of Culm and Belsia on the North and the Carpathian Hills dividing it from Hungary and Transylvania to the South the Capital of it is Lemburgh Some give this Province the name of Black Russia Rustan Rustanus Ager a small Territory in the Province of Bigorre in Aquitain in France near the River Arroux and S. Severe Ruthen a Market Town in Denbyshire in Wales The Capital of its Hundred Rutlandshire Rutlandia is the least of all the Counties of England Bounded on the North by Lincolnshire on the East and South by Northamptonshire divided from it by the River Weland and on the West by Leicestershire its greatest length is from North to South not full twelve Miles from East to West hardly nine and its circumference about forty The Air is temperate serene and healthful the Soil rich and fruitful in Corn and Pasturage especially about the Vale of Catmoss Woods and pleasant Springs are plentiful enough of the latter the Weland and the Wash are the principal so that it wants nothing This County was a part of the Lands possessed by the Coritani before the Roman Conquest and was Conquered by P. Ostorius in the Reign of Claudian the Emperor Afterwards it made a part of the Kingdom of Mercia and now is in the Diocese of Peterborough There are but forty eight Parishes and two Market-Towns in it Okeham being the Shire Town and Vppingham the other In 1390. Edward Plantagenet eldest Son of Edmund Duke of York In 1326 Richard second Brother of the said Edward and in 1450. Edmund Plantagenet second Son of Richard Duke of York all of the Royal Family successively were Earls of this County But in 1525. Thomas Mannors Lord Roos of Hamlake Tresbut and Belvoir Descended by the Lady Ann his Mother from the said Richard Duke of York was Created Earl of Rutland by Henry VIII in 1325. whose Posterity enjoy this Honor to this day John the twelfth of this Family succeeding John his Father in the year 1679. Rutuli an ancient People of Latium in Italy Ardea was their Capital City Ruvo Rubi a City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari a small but spruce and populous City about seventeen Miles from Bari to the West Horace mentions it in his Satyrs Inde Rubos fessi pervenimus c. Rye a member of the Cinque Ports upon the edge of the County of Sussex towards Kent in Hastings Rape situated at the fall of the Rother into the Sea where it hath a convenient Haven especially for a ready passage to Diepe in Normandy It returns two Members to the Lower House of Parliament The Fishermen take excellent Herrings here S A. SAada a City in the Happy Arabia perhaps of old called Sabatha it stands in the inland parts of that Country three hundred Miles from Aden to the North. If it is Sabatha its Long. is 76. 00. Lat. 16. 56. Saal Sala a River in Germany called by the French Sale It ariseth in Franconia over against the Nab and the Mayn and flowing through Thuringia it watereth Saalfeld and Jena then entering Misnia and passing by Naumburgh Mersburgh and Hall and being in this passage swelled by many smaller Rivers it falls at last into the Elbe beneath Bernburgh in the Vpper Saxony four Miles from Magdeburgh to the South Saan Savaria a River of Stiria Saare See Sare Saba supposed to be the same with Meroe in Aethiopia § One of the Charibye Islands in America under the Hollanders and near S. Christophers is likewise called by this name Sabaro Sybaris a River in Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples others call it Cochile and say it falls into the Bay of Taranto near Morano Sabaria a Town of the ancient Pannonia in Hungary the native place of S. Martin of Tours It is not certainly known where it is some conjecturing it to be one place and some another Sabini an ancient People of Latium in Italy whose memory is still preserved in the name of a Province now in the States of the Church called Terra Sabina which contains a part of the Territory heretofore belonging to them the Capital whereof was Cures There is a Monastery in this Territory honoured with a Bishop's See under the Title of the Bishop of Sabina and in the years 1590. 1593. 1595. c. Synodal Constitutions were published by the then Bishops bearing the same
Empire it fell into the hands of the Saracens who in the seventh and eighth Century possessed most of the Islands in the Mediterranean Sea In 809. Pepin Father of Charles the Great recovered this Island out of their hands which after this was the subject of a long War between the States of Genoua and Pisa till at last Pope Boniface VIII granted it to James II. King of Arragon about 1296. who after many Wars obtained the quiet possession of it in 1326. or as Hoffman saith in 1409 Ever since it has been in that Family Frederick II. has also given it the Title of a Kingdom The Soil is very fruitful but the Air equally unhealthful or pestilential rather insomuch that the Common-wealth and the Emperours of the Romans banished such persons to this Island as they desired to have dead without Sword or Poyson The Rivers Cedro and Tirso divide it into two parts called the Cape de Lugodori and Cap de Cagliari for its sertility it was called the Nurse of Rome by Valerius Maximus yet those parts of the Island to the North and East are mountainous and barren The rest are Algher Castel Aragonese Bosa Ostagni Terra Nova Sacer and Iglesias A Vice-Roy for the King of Spain governs this Island Sardica See Sofia Sardis the ancient Metropolis of Lydia in the Lesser Asia Not to speak of its being the Capital of the Kingdom of the famous Gyges Cyrus we find took it in the fifty ninth Olympiad and with it submitted all Lydia to his Empire In the sixty ninth Olympiad about the year of Rome 250. Aristagoras with twenty Athenian Ships took and burnt it After this it was rebuilt and passed under the Empire of the Greeks In the year of Rome 540. Antiochus conquered it In S. John the Apostle's time it received Christianity but for its inconstancy therein became one of the Subjects of his Revelations and now utterly ruined It was a Bishops See Sarduni Planasia an Island on the Coast of Provence in the Mediterranean Sea Sare Sarvus a River of the Low-Countries called Sara by Venantius Fortunatus by the Germans die Saare by the French Sare it ariseth in Mount Vauge in the Borders of Lorain and Alsatia near the Town of Salme and running Northward it watereth Sareck Serwerdon S. Jean Sarsberg and a little above Trier from the South-East falls into the Moselle Sarepta an ancient City of Phoenicia in Syria which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tyre Now called Sarafends or Saphet The Prophet Elias miraculously augmented the Widows Oyl and raised her dead Son to life at this place according to the History of the Old Testament Sargasso or Mar do Sargasso is that part of the Ocean which lies betwixt the Islands of Cape Verde the Canaries and the Continent of Africa so called by the Portugueze Sargathia the Asiatick Tartary a vast Country in Asia Sarisbury or Salisbury or New Sarum Sarisberia Sorviodunum Sarviodunum Severia is the principal City of Wiltshire seated in the North-West part of that County near the Borders of Hampshire and Dorsetshire upon the Rivers of Willey and Alan united into one Stream and falling presently into the Avon in such sort as that most of the Streets of this City have a Stream commodiously running through the midst of them This was anciently a Roman Town by the name of Sorbiodunum seated on a high Hill and therefore destitute of Water Kinrick King of the West Saxons was the first of that Race who possessed it after a Defeat of the Britains in 553. Canutus the Dane much damaged it by Fire in 1003. In the Reign of William the Conquerour it recovered after Herman Bishop of Shirburn had removed the See hither whose next Successor Osman built the Cathedral William the Conquerour summoned hither all the States of England to take an Oath of Allegiance to him Since those times the City is removed Northward and come down into the Plains nearer the Avon Here there was a second Cathedral begun by Richard Poore Bishop of this See in 1218. Finished by Bridport the third Bishop from Poore in 1258. which is one of the greatest and most beautiful Churches in England Having twelve Gates fifty two Windows three hundred sixty five Pillars great and small answering to the Months Weeks and Days of the year The glory of this Diocese was the most Learned and Industrious Bishop John Jewel consecrated Jan. 21. 1559. died Sept. 23. 1571. In 1153. Patrick d'Eureux was created Earl of Salisbury and his Son William succeeded in that Honour In 1â—97 William Long-espee a Natural Son to Henry II. by the beautiful Râ—samond marrying Ella the Daughter of William d' Eureux had this Honour In 1333. William d' Montacute King of Man became the fifth Earl whose Male Line in four Descents enjoyed the Honour till the year 1428. when it passed to Richard Nevil who married Eleanor the Daughter of Thomas Montacute Lord Chancellour In 1472. George Duke of Clarence second Brother to Edward IV. had it in Marriage with Isabel Daughter of Richard Nevil the second Earl of that Line In 1477. Edward eldest Son of Richard III. married Ann the second Daughter of the said Richard and had this Honour In 1514. Margaret Daughter of George Duke of Clarence was by Henry VIII created Countess of Salisbury In 1605. Robert Lord Cecil was by James I. created Earl of Salisbury in which Line it still is Sarlat Sarlatum a City of Aquitain in France in the Province of Perigort which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux It stands upon a River of the same Name one League from the Dordonne betwixt the Dordogne and the Vezere as it were in an Island eight from Perigueux to the South-East and thirty from Bourdeaux to the North-East Made a Bishops See by Pope John XXII in 1317. by the change of its ancient Benedictine Abbey into a Cathedral having before been a part of the Diocese of Perigueux It is so strongly situated as to withstand two Sieges in the Civil Wars in 1652. Sarmatia and Sauromatia This vast Region in ancient Geography was divided into Sarmatia Asiatica Europaea and Germanica Sarmatia Asiatica lay properly towards the Borders of Europe and Asia with the Northern Ocean to the North the Pontus Euxinus to the South Scythia to the East and Sarmatia Europaea to the West now contained in the Northern Muscovia in the Provinces of Samoyeda Duina Permski Lucomeria c. Sarmatia Europea had for Bounds both the other Sarmatia's with the Euxine Sea making now Russia And Sarmatia Germanica took up the greatest part of the present Kingdom of Poland being divided from the European Sarmatia by the Nieper to the East from the Borders of Germany by the Vistula to the West from Dacia by the Neister and the Carpathian Mountains to the South with the Baltick Sea and the Gulph of Finland to the North. Sarnagans Sarnagan Sargans Serlandt a Town and County in Switzerland subject to the seven
and with it into the Ocean Seyde Sidon by the Germans called Said is a City of Phoenicia in Syria upon the Shores of the Mediterranean North of Tyre about a League distant from the remains of the ancient Sidon Sister to Tyre in the Scripture for its Sins and the Punishments of them A populous City full of Merchants and Artisans of all Nations driving a great Trade in Cotton and Silk The Franciscans Capuchins and Jesuits have each their Chappels the Turks seven or eight Mosques and the Jews one Synagogue here The Maronites of Mount Libanus and the Armenian Greeks enjoy the like Liberties Without the City appear many Gardens of Oranges Citrons Tamarines Palm-trees and the Fig-trees of Adam so called because bearing a Leaf of the length of six foot and the breadth of two Adam it is supposed covered his nakedness with them It hath two small Fortresses but so far ruined as to remain indefensible The Turks keep a a Sangiack here under the Bassaw of Damascus a Cady or Judge and an Aga of the Janizaries The French a Consul All which Officers are handsomely lodged the rest of the Houses are ill built The Harbor formerly was capable of receiving many and great Vessels but is now choaked with Sand to that degree as to admit only of Skiffs whilst Ships lye in the road behind the Rocks for Shelter In the Christian times it was a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Tyre The Eutychians held Council here of twenty four Bishops in 512 under the protection of the Emperour Anastasius In 1260 the Tartars became Masters of it from whom the Turks obtain'd it about one hundred and fifty years since There is now a Caemetery upon a part of the Mountain Antilibanus in the place where the Old Sidon stood for the use of the Christians of Seyde And the Maronites have a poor Chappel by it Seyne See Seine ◠Sezza Setia a City of Campagna di Roma in Italy of good Antiquity mentioned by Martial It is said to have sometime been a Bishop's See though not now Du Val places an Epispocal City of the same name in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples Sfacchia Leuci a Range of Mountains in the Territory of Cydonia on the West side of the Island of Candy which gave name to the Sfacciotes who signalized themselves by their valiant resistance against the Turks when they endeavoured the ravishing that Island from the Seigniory of Venice of late years Shaftsbury Septonia a Town upon the Stoure in the North-East Borders of Dorsetshire towards Wiltshire seated in the form of a Bow on an high Hill which affords it a serene Air and a large delightful Prospect but deprives it very much of Water In the times of the Norman Conquest it had one hundred and four Houses and after this ten Parish Churches now three with about 500 Houses built of the Freestone of its own Hill Some write King Canutus the Dane died here This Town was built by King Alfred in 880 as Mr. Cambden proves from an old Inscription mentioned in William of Malmesbury In 1672 Charles II. created Anthony Ashley Cooper then Lord Chancellor of England Earl of Shaftsbury who died in Holland and his Son succeeded him in this Honour Shannon Shennyn or Shennonon Senus Sinejus a River in Ireland which is one of the principal in that Kingdom It ariseth in the County of Roscomon in the Province of Connaught out of Mount Slewnern and flowing Southward through Letrim forms a vast Lake called Myne Eske and Ree towards the North end of which on the East side stands Letrim in the middle Longford towards the South Ardagh on the West side Elphem and Roscomon and at some distance from the Lake to the South Athlone Beneath which comes in from the West the Logh a vast River from three other Lakes more to the West called Garoch Mesks and Ben-Carble on the East it receives the Anney so passing by Bannogh and Clonfort to the Lake of Derg at Kiloe it leaves that Lake and passeth to Limerick where it turns full West and between Munster to the South and Connaught to the North enters the Vergivian Ocean by a Mouth five Miles wide between Cape Leane and Cape Sanan having in this Course separated Leinster and Munster from Connaught Shap a large Village in the County of Westmorland in Westward near the River Lowther in which in the Reign of Henry I Thomas Son of Jospatrick founded an Abbey and the same was the only Abbey in this County There is near this Town a noted Well which ebbs and flows often in a day and a perfect Bow of vast Stones some nine foot high and fourteen thick pitch'd at equal distances from each other for for the space of a Mile Sheale a Town in the Bishoprick of Durham in Chester-ward upon the Mouth of the River Tine The Newcastle Coal-Fleet takes its Cargo here Sheffield a large well-built Market-town in the West riding of Yorkshire in the hundred of Strafford upon the River Dun of particular note for Iron Wares even in Chaucer's time who describes a Person with a Sheffield VVhittle by his side It shews the ruines of one of the five Castles formerly seated upon the same River Dun in the compass of ten Miles Corn especially is much bought up here for the supply of some parts of Derby and Nottingham shires as well as Yorkshire Shefford a Market Town in Bedfordshire in the Hundred of Clifton situated between two Rivulets which below it join to fall in one Stream into the Avon Sheppey Shepey Toliapis an Island on the Eastern Coast of Kent at the Mouth of the Thames and Medway Separated by the River Medway from Kent and on all other sides surrounded with the Sea About eight Miles long and six broad Fruitful in Pasturage and well watered especially on the South by Rivers The Danes Earl Goodwin his Sons and their Adherents much harassed it in former times Queensborough is its chief Town it hath several other Towns besides and hath been honoured with the Title of an Earldom in the Lady Dacres Countess of Shepey Shepton-Mallet or Malley a large Market Town in Somersetshire in the hundred of VVhiston Shipton a Market Town in VVorcestershire in the hundred of Oswalderston upon the River Stower It stands in a slip of the County taken off from VVarwickshire Shirburne Clarus Fons a Town and Castle in the North-West of Dorsetshire on the Borders of Somersetshire upon a River of the same Name which afterwards falls into the Parret the Capital of its Hundred Built on the side of an Hill in a fruitful and pleasant Country and much increased in the number of its Inhabitants and its Wealth by the Cloathing Trade In 704. a Bishop's See was erected here translated afterwards to Sunning and thence to Salisbury The Family of the Digbys Earls of Bristol are Barons of Shirburne § Also a Market Town in the West riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of
Centre of the County to which it gives name large well built and populous extending from the top of a high Hill where Lindum the old Roman Town stood its Ditches and Rampier being still visible a great way downwards unto the River In this Town the Valiant Britain Vortimer died in 456 being Poysoned by Rowena the Daughter of Hengist and Wife of Vortiger The Saxons after this ruined Lindum and built Lincoln nearer the River about the times when Paulinus first Preached the Christian Faith to them The Danes destroyed it twice In the time of Edward the Confessor here was one thousand and seventy Mansions In the Norman times no City in England was more Rich or Populous as Will. of Malmsbury acquaints us Will. the Conqueror thought fit to build here a very strong Castle upon the top of the Hill aforesaid to awe the Inhabitants Remigius Bishop of Dorchester near Oxon at the same time removed the Sea hither and built the Cathedral above the same Hill In the Reign of Edward III. it was made a Mart or Staple King Stephen was overcome and taken Prisoner near this City in 1140. Sept. 5. in a great Battel with Maud the Empress and afterwards at Bristol laid in Irons Henry III. had better success here when it being defended by the Barons against him under Prince Lewis in 1217. May 19. he took it forced Lewis to Flee to London and soon after into France Mr. Cambden observes that of fifty Churches standing within an hundred Years of his time there were only eighteen left It hath by times gone through all the calamities of Fire Sword and Earthquake Yet a large populous and well frequented place still and enjoying the greatest Diocese of any in the Kingdom as the Cathedral there called commonly the Minster is one of the stateliest Piles perhaps in Christendom It hath the privilege also of being a County Corporate whose Liberties extend about twenty Miles in compass with the title of the County of the City of Lincoln It s Long. 22. 52. Lat. 53. 12. Lincolnshire is bounded on the North by the Humber and the British Sea on the East by the same Sea and part of Norfolk on the South by Cambridge Northampton and Rutlandshire on the West by Leicester Nottingham and Yorkshire It is a very large County extending in length from North to South almost sixty Miles and carrying in some places thirty in breadth fruitful in Corn and Grass thick set with Towns and well watered with Rivers As the Humber the Trent which severs part of it from Nottinghamshire the Witham running a cross it the Woland and the Nen. The whole is divided into Lindsey to the Northward which takes up about one half Holland towards the Sea Southward and Kesteven West from thence which three divisions contain six hundred and thirty Parishes and thirty five Market Towns Here is plenty of Fowl and Fish The old Inhabitans were the Coritani The present Earl of this County is Edward Lord Clinton who succeeded in 1667 being the fifth of his Family that has born this Title and the sixteenth Earl Edward Fines Lord Clinton Lord Admiral having obtained this Honor from Qu. Elizabeth in 1565 before whose time the same title had passed through several Families by frequent interruptions Lincopen Lincopia Lingacopia a City of Sweden which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vpsal in Ostro-Gothia between Soderkoping to the East and Wadtena to the West twenty eight German Miles from Stockholm to the South-West and almost eight East from the Lake of Veter Long. 32. 48. Lat. 58. 3. The City is very small and inconsiderable We read of a Synod celebrated at it in 1148. under P. Eugenius III. It is also written Lindkeeping Lindaw Lindavia Lindavilum Philyra a City of Germany in the Circle of Schwaben in an Island in the Lake of Constance joined to the Continent by a Bridge two hundred and ninety Paces long It is an Imperial and Free City situate in the borders of Switzerland eight Miles from Constance to the North-East and grew up out of the ruins of Aeschach a place near to it Very strong both by its Site and by Art and therefore it the more easily repelled the Forces of Count Wrangel the Swedish General who in 1647. besieged it The beginning of this City was a Monastery built here by Adelbert Rorbuck a Kinsman of Charles the Great in 810. This occasioned the building of a Village and the Site being pleasant fruitful and convenient it grew up by degrees to a City at first subject to the Abbess after that to the Dukes of Schwaben obtaining its Privileges since from Rudolphus I. Frederick III. and Sigismond Lindo Lindus a Sea-Port Town in the Isle of Rhodes the Christian Inhabitants of which can bring about twenty good and large Ships into the Grand Seignior's Service Line a rivulet in Staffordshire upon which Newcastle stands thence commonly called Newcastle upon Line to distinguish it from Newcastle upon Tine Lindsey one of the three parts of the County of Lincoln containing all the Northern parts from the River Witham to the Humber and from the Ocean to Trent This was in 1626. by Charles I. made an Earldom and granted to Robert Bartie Lord Willoughby of Eresby Lord Great Chamberlain of England who died in the Bed of Honour at Edge-Hill October 23. 1642. being the King's General in that Battel The present Earl Robert Bartie the third of this Family succeeded in 1666. Lingen Lingo a strong Town in Westphalia which is the Capital of a County of the same Name under the Prince of Orange upon the River Ems forty five Miles from Munster to the North and fifty five from Emden to the South The County that belongs to it lies in the Bishoprick of Munster and is very small It belonged to the Spaniards in the time of Charles V. but is now in the hands of the Prince of Orange Linlithgo Linlithquo Lithquo Lindum a Town and a County in the South of Scotland The Town standeth on the South side of the Fyrth of Edenburgh twenty two Miles from that City to the West This Place as Mr. Cambden saith is called Lindum by Ptolemy and it takes its Name from a great Lake in this small County from which ancient the present Name is derived Linosa an Island of the Mediterranean Sea upon the Coast of Africa near Maltha It depends upon the Island of Maltha Linton a Market Town in Cambridgeshire in the Hundred of Chilford Lintz Aurelianum Lentia called by Aurelian Lyncia Lyncium and by some understood to be the Aredate of Ptolemy is the Capital City of the Vpper Austria small but populous seated upon the Danube over which it has a Bridge and in it a magnificent Castle whither the Emperors of the House of Austria have frequently retired for their Pleasure and Divertisement It stands six German Miles from Passaw to the East and twenty four from Vienna to the West Dr. Brown gives this account of
subordination to it but now much diminished having been often ruinated by the Kings of Arracam Tungking and Siam Nevertheless a fertile Country much visited by the Merchants of Europe In the Year 1568. the King of Pegu knowing the King of Siam to have two white Elephants desired by his Embassadors to purchase one of them at any price required but was refused He therefore entereth in revenge into Siam with a powerful Army and takes the Capital City so that the King of Siam fearing to fall into the hands of his Enemy poysoned himself from which time the Kings of Siam have acknowledged the Soveraignty of the Kings of Pegu. This Kingdom belongs now to the King of Ava The frontiers both of Siam and it suffer the greatest misery by the continual Wars betwixt the two Crowns it lies between the Kingdom of Tungking to the East and that of Arracam to the West Pein Peina a Town in Lunenburg famous for a Fight between Albert Duke of Brandenburg and Mauricius Duke of Saxony July 9. 1553. Maurice got the Victory but died within two days of the Wounds he received Albert being driven out of Germany died in 1557. in France in the XXXV year of his Age having lived much longer than was consistent with his Inconstancy and Perfidy saith Brietius This Town is seated upon the Weser Peiseda reca Peisida a River in the Asian Tartary East of the River Ob whose Fountains are not known as arising in desolate and unfrequented Countries it falls into the Frozen Sea above Nova Zembla Peking Pechinum the principal Province in the Kingdom of China Bounded on the East by Leaotum and Xantum on the North by Tartary and the great Wall on the West by Xansi and on the South by Honan The principal City is Peking Pechinum A vast and populous City which in 1404. became the Royal City of China instead of Nanquin The Inhabitants are innumerable though it has been often taken and plundered in the late Tartarian War It is now recovering those losses and ruins under the King of Tartary who is become the Master of it The Province of Peking contains eight Capital Cities one hundred and thirty five lesser Cities four hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred eighty nine Families Petlecas Aliacmon Haliacmon a River in Macedonia which falls into the Bay of Thessalonica over against Thessalonia to the South-West thirty three English Miles Called Platamona Bistrisa and Aliagmo from Aliagmon the name it bears in Claudian Pelion See Petras Pella an ancient City of Palaestine in Asia sometime dignified with a Bishops See under the Patriarchs of Jerusalem who for many years kept their Residence here § A second in the Kingdom of Macedonia made famous by the Births of Philip King of Macedon and Alexander the Great his Son thence surnamed Pellaeus Some call it now Janizza others Zuchria It being hitherto extant and noted for excellent Works in Marble § The Ancients mention a third in Achaia Peloponnesus the ancient name of the Morea then divided into these eight parts Achaia properly so called Arcadia Argos Corinthus Elis Laconia Messene and Sicyonia See Morea The famous Peloponnesian War which lasted from the Year of Rome 323 in the 87th Olympiad to the taking of Athens in the Year 350 rather chose to be named from the People of this Country who maintain'd it against the Athenians than from the Athenians their Enemies Pelorus Pelorias or Pelorum the same with Capo di Faro Pelusium See Belvais Pelysz Pelysia a Town in the Lower Hungary which is the Capital of a County of the same Name It lies fifteen Miles from Vaccia to the South-West twenty six from Alba Regalis and twenty from Buda to the North-East Pembridge a Market Town in Herefordshire in the Hundred of Stretford upon the River Arrow Penbrokeshire Penbrochium one of the Shires in Wales Bounded on the North by Cardigan separated by the Rivers Tyuy and Keach on the East by Caermarthenshire on the South and West by the Irish Sea From North to South it is twenty six Miles from East to West twenty in Circuit ninety five This County affords Corn and Cattle in great plenty and has a mild and pleasant Air. Penbroke the Town which gives Name to this Shire is one direct Street upon a long narrow Point of a Rock in Milford Haven the Sea every Tide flowing up to the Town-Walls It has a Castle though now ruined and two Parish Churches within the Walls and is a Corporation represented in Parliament by one Burgess The first Earl of Pembroke was Gilbert de Clare Created in 1138. In 1201. it came into the Family of Martial by Marriage this Family enjoyed it six Descents and by Females it continued till the Year 1390. After which it became very unsteady till Edward VI. in 1551. Created William Herbert Lord Steward Earl of Pembroke whose Posterity still enjoy that Honour in the seventh Descent Pendennis a strong Castle in Cornwal Pene Suevus one of the Branches of the Oder in Pomerania Peneus a River in the Province of Thessalia in Macedonia which greatned with the Rivers Ion Pattisus and Apidanus passes betwixt the Mountains Ossa and Olympus to surrender it self into the Bay of Thessalonica having first watered the pleasant Fields of Tempe It is now called Salampria The Fiction of the Metamorphosis of Daphne into a Laurel in this River gives it a place in the Writings of the Poets Pengeab the same with Lahor a City in the East-Indies Pengick Penica a City in Misnia upon the River Muldaw between Altemburg to the West and Chemnitz to the East seven German Miles and the same distance from Leipsick to the South Peniel or Penuel an antient City of the Holy Land in the Tribe of Reuben beyond the Brook of Jabbov at the foot of Mount Libanus near Tripoli and upon the Frontiers of the Amorites So called from Jacob's Vision of an Angel wrestling with him according to his own Interpretation thereof that he had seen God face to face Gen. 32. 30. Gideon broke down the Tower and slew the Men of this City because they refused to give his Army Bread Judg. 8. 8. 17. But Jeroboam rebuilt it Penk a River in Staffordshire near to which stands Penkridge a Market Town in the Hundred of Cudleston of good Antiquity Penna or Civita di Penna Penna S. Joannis Pinna in Vestinis a City in Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples and a Bishop's See over which there is no Archbishop who has any Jurisdiction This is very frequent in Italy In 1585. a Synod was assembled here Penna-Fiel Penna fidelis a Town in Old Castile in Spain near the Duero six Leagues from Valadolid It had the honor to give the Title of Duke to Ferdinand the Just King of Arragon from the year 1395. to 1412 before his Ascension to the Crown which Title afterwards was enjoyed by his Son John who succeeding to the Crown also in 1458. changed this Dutchy into a
Bourbon the King of Navarre being slain before it It fell after this into the Hands of the Leaguers Henry IV. besieged it in 1593. but was prevented from taking it by the Prince of Parma though in the year following it willingly submitted to him after he had imbraced the Roman Catholick Religion The Parliament in this City was instituted by Philip the Fair in 1286. Established by Lewis XII in 1499. and re-established by Francis I. in 1515. Pope Clement VI. was sometime Archbishop of the See Pope Martin IV. and Gregory XI Archdeacons There have been divers provincial Councils here assembled Particularly in 1074. one against the Concubinage of the Clergy Roane or Rovane Rhodumna an ancient Town in France in the Dukedom of Bourbonne and the County of Foretz upon the River Loyre where it becomes first capable to bear a Boat Very great and populous tho not walled It stands twelve Leagues from Lyons to the South-West and eighteen from Moulins The Territory belonging to it is called le Roanez or Roannois and has the Honor of being a Dukedom by the Creation of King Charles IX Rober Erubris a River in Lorain which falls by Trier into the Moselle Robil Robel Rebellio a City or Town in the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh in the Lower Saxony by the Lake of Muritz in the Borders of Brandenburgh two German Miles from Var and seven from Gustro Robogh a Village in the County of Tyron upon the Sea Shoar against Scotland in the Province of Vlster which has preserved the memory of the Rhobogdii an old Irish Clan that possessed the Counties of Antrim Colran and Tyrone in this Province from whom that Cape now called the Fair Foreland by the English was then called Rhobodium being in the County of Antrim scarce fifteen Miles South of the nearest Shoar of Scotland Rocca Nova a Town in the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples honoured with the Title of a Dukedom Rocca Romana a Town in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples near Alifa honored with the Title of a Principality Rochdale a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Salford upon the River Roche in a Dale or Vale which together compound its name La Roche Rupes a Town in the Territory of Genevois in Savoy five or six Leagues from Geneva little less from Anneci and one from the River Arve at the foot of the Mountains It hath a Collegiate Church and two Religious Houses Roche-chouart a Seigniory in the Province of Poictou towards the Borders of Angoumois giving name to a Family of Honour La Roche-En-Ardenne a fortified Town in the Dukedom of Luxemburgh in the Low Countries upon the River Vrt twelve Leagues from Luxemburgh and nine from Liege Honour'd with the Title of an Earldom Rochefort a Town and Port at the Mouth of the Charante in the Pais d'Aunis in France Heretofore no more than a Village but now become a Magazine enlarged with divers Buildings and more daily La Roche-sur-Yon Rupes ad Yonem a Town in the Lower Poictou in France towards Lusson upon the River Yon which after joyns with the Lay. Honoured some Ages since with the Title of a Principality which is enjoyed by the House of Bourbon Rochelle Portus Santonum Rupella Rupella Santonum Rupella a City and famous Port of France upon the Bay of Aquitain the Capital of le Pais d'Aunis and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux Seven Leagues from Brouges to the North two from the Isle of Re and thirty from the Mouth of the Loyre to the South-East It takes its name from the Rock on which it stands supposed to be built about the Sixth Century because not mentioned before against the Incursions of the Normans At first it had Princes of its own After this it was under the English from the times of Henry II. who possessed it as Duke of Anjou And that Prince granted this City its first Charter and Privileges which were confirmed by Richard and John his Sons King John Landed here in 1206. when he went to the Siege of Mountauban and after in 1213. In 1224. it was taken from the English by Lewis VIII King of France but recovered the next year and continued under the English till 1453. And then finally taken by Charles VII In the beginning of the Civil Wars of France this Town fell under the power of the Hugonots who very much improved its Fortifications It was their principal place of refuge under Charles IX After the Massacre of Paris it was besieged by all the Forces of France defended it self to a wonder and at last forced that Prince to a Peace in 1573. It continued after this in their hands till 1628. and then was taken by Hunger in order to which the Ocean was bridled with a prodigious Bank begun in 1627. and carried the length of 747. toises the English having twice unsuccessfully attempted to relieve it After the taking of it Lewis XIII King of France visited it in person re-established the Roman Catholick Religion destroy'd its Fortifications saving two Towers built heretofore by Charles the Fifth for the Defence of the Port and took away its former Privileges In 1649. it first became a Bishoprick the Chair being removed hither from Mallezais a small Place in Poictou by Pope Innocent X. at the request of Lewis XIV Long. 19. 25. Lat. 45. 56. Rochester Rossa Durobius Dorobrevis Rutupiae a City in the County of Kent and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the Medway over which it has a stately Stone Bridge one of the fairest in England five Miles from the Thames twenty five from Canterbury to the East and London to the West This was a Roman Town or rather Castle as William of Malmsbury stiles it much enlarged to the East West and South In 676. it was ruined by Aetheldred King of the Mercians and after this several times by the Danes Aethelbert King of Kent erected here a sumptuous Church and caused one Justus to be made the first Bishop of it in 604. Gundulphus the Norman about 1080. rebuilt this Church and brought in Monks which are since changed into a Dean and six Prebendaries It has a Castle built by William the Conqueror which in the Reign of William Rufus and twice after in the Barons Wars has been besieged Dr. Sprat the present Bishop is the eighty third of this Diocese Charles II. added an Honor to this Place when he created Henry Viscount Wilmot of Athlone in Ireland Baron of Alderbury in the County of Oxon and Earl of Rochester December 13. 1652. Whose Son John Wilmot succeeded him in 1659. Which Family failing Laurence Hide second Son to Sir Edward Hide Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor of England was by the same Prince created Earl of Rochester November 29. 1682. But before these it gave the Title of Viscount to Sir Robert Carr created Anno 1611. by K. James I. Viscount Rochester and afterwards Earl
Course piece of Cloth with a fine List Besides the Thames here is the VVay the Mole and the Wandle whose head springs from Croydon all emptying themselves in the Thames It has many Noble and Princely Houses but few Towns or Places of any considerable greatness the Principal Town in it being Kingston upon Thames The Regni an old British Tribe were the first Inhabitants of this County In the times of the Saxon Heptarchy it was a part of the Kingdom of the South Saxons The first Earl of it was VVill. de VVarren Created by VVilliam the Conqueror in 1067. VVilliam the third of this Line succeeded in 1135. who was followed by VVilliam de Blois Son of King Stephen first Husband of Isabel de VVarren in 1148. and by Hameline Plantagenet base Son of George Earl of Anjou half Brother to Edward III. second Husband of the said Isabel in 1163. His Posterity enjoyed it in four descents till 1347 when the Male Line failing Richard Fitz Alan Lord Treasurer was Earl of Surrey In 1398. Thomas Holland was Earl of Kent and Duke of Surrey afterwards Beheaded Thomas Fitz Alan Son of the former Richard died Earl of Surrey in 1414. In 1451 John Lord Mowbray was Created Earl of VVarren and Surrey and after Duke of Norfolk In 1475. Richard a second Son of Edward IV. was the thirteenth Earl of Surrey In 1483. Thomas L. Howard L. Treasurer after Duke of Norfolk was Created Earl of Surrey in which Family it is at this day Surunga a City and Kingdom in Japan in the Island of Niphon Sus Susa or Susum a Kingdom in Biledulgerida in Africa so called from a River of the same Name It is bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Morocco on the East by Darha on the South by Tesseta and on the West by the Atlantick Ocean Divided into seven Provinces the principal Cities in it are Tarudant the Regal City Teseut and Sancta Cruz. This is a pleasant rich fruitful Kingdom yields Wine Grain Fruits Pasturage Indico Alum c. has a great Quantity of Gold which is a perpetual cause of War amongst them and many Castles and Villages well fortified by the Natives since the Portuguese abandoned this Country in the last Century Now subject to the Kingdom of Fez tho it has been a distinct Kingdom and the Inhabitants are for the most part Mahometans and some of the best Soldiers in Africa Susa one of the principal Cities in the Principality of Piedmont upon the Doria at the foot of the Cottian Alps which separate Piedmons from Dauphine and the Capital of a Marquisaâ—e of its own Name belonging to the Duke of Savoy but taken by the French Forces under Monsieur Cattinat November 1690. Nineteen Miles from Pignerol The French call it Suse This City shews an Inscription upon a Triumphal Arch from which Learned Men conclude that the Emperor Augustus erected his Trophy hereabouts for the Conquest of the Alpine Nations in the year of Rome 740 fourteen Years before our Saviour For tho others place that Trophy about the Foot of le Col de Tende or the Maritime Alpes near Nice and Monaco from a part of the words Gentes Alpinae Devictae seen there upon a Fragment of a stone yet these two Opinions are reconcilable by supposing that Augustus set up this Trophy at the foot of both the Maritime and Cottian Alpes for the greater glory § Susa was also the Capital of the ancient Country Susiana in Asia at the entrance of a spacious Plain which the River Choaspes watered The Kings of Persia used to pass the Spring at it Darius repaired it says Pliny Alexander the Great took it It is now in a flourishing state if the same Souster See Souster Susdal Susdalia a City of Muscovy the Capital of a Province of the same Name and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Rostow It stands eighty Miles from Moscow to the South-East and one hundred and thirty from Novogorod Nisi to the North-West Susiana an ancient Country of Asia betwixt Syria Persia and Chaldaea whereof Susa was the Capital City and Melitene one considerable Province It had the honour to be a Kingdom which after the death of Abradatus King of Susiana submitted to the power of Cyrus Sussex Sussexia one of the Southern Counties of England Bounded on the North by Surrey and Kent on the East by Kent on the South by the British Sea and on the West by Hampshire It s Length from East to West is sixty Miles the broadest part from North to South not above twenty and its Circumference about one hundred and fifty wherein are contained one hundred and twelve Parishes with eighteen Market Towns The Air is good but subject to great Fogs and Mists out of the neighbour Sea which recompenceth this Inconvenience with plenty of Fish and Fowl There are few Harbors upon this Coast the Soil is rich and fruitful but the Roads miry and unpleasant the Middle of the Country has excellent Meadows the Sea-coasts are Hilly but afford plenty of Corn and Grass the North-side full of Woods and Groves The principal River is Arun. The chief City in it is Chichester which is a Bishop's See the next to it Lewes The Regni were the ancient Inhabitants of this County who were subdued by Aulus Plautius in the reign of Claudius the Roman Emperor In 478 Ella erected here the Kingdom of the South-Saxons from whence this County has its Name The first Earl of it was William de Albeney Earl of Arundel who married Adelizia the Relict of Henry I in 1178. He was succeeded by VVilliam his Son it continued in this Family for five Descents In 1243 John Plantagenet Earl of Surrey succeeded In 1305 John a Son of the former followed In 1529 Robert Ratcliffe was Created by Henry VIII Earl of Sussex whose Posterity enjoyed this Honor six Descents In 1644 Thomas Lord Savil was Created the fourteenth Earl of Sussex whose Son succeeded and in him that Family ended This Honor in 1674 was conferred upon Thomas Leonard Lord Dacres who married Anne Fitz-Roy eldest Daughter to the Duchess of Cleavland by Charles II. Sutherland Sutherlandia a County in the North of Scotland Bounded on the North by Caithness and Strathnavern on the West by Assint on the South by Rosâ— and on the East by the German Ocean The principal Town in it is Dornock Sutri Sutrium Colonia Julia Sutrina a City in the States of the Church in S. Peters Patrimony upon the River Pozzolo which is a Bishops See but for ever united to the See of Nepi from whence it stands four Miles to the West and twenty four from Rome to the South-West It is little and incompassed with Rocks on all sides Livy says of it that Camillus when it had revolted against the Romans went with an Army to reduce it In the year of Christ 1046. the Emperor Henry III. assembled a Council here which deposed Pope Gregory VI. who had intruded into the Roman
North to South thirty nine Miles from East to West twenty nine in circumference one hundred thirty nine containing three hundred and four Parishes and twenty three Market Towns amongst which Wilton its ancient Capital gives Name to it The Air very sweet temperate healthful the Soil fertile The North parts swell into fruitful and pleasant Hills diversisied with pleasant Rivers and large Woods The South are more level and watered with the Wily Adder and Avon the Isis Kennet and Deveril The middle is commonly called Salisbury Plains by reason of its great evenness which feeds vast numbers of excellent Sheep This Country was the Seat of the Belgae They being reduced by Vespasian it became afterward a part of the Kingdom of the West Saxons The principal City is Salisbury William Lord Scrope Lord Treasurer was the first Earl of this County in the year 1397. James Butler Earl of Ormond another Lord Treasurer in 1448. John Stafford second Son of Humphrey Duke of Buckingham was the third Earl in 1469. who had two Successors of the same Name Thomas Bullen Father of the Lady Anne Bullen Mother of Queen Elizabeth the sixth Earl in 1529. In 1550. William Paulet afterwards Marquess of Winchester was created Earl of Wiltshire by King Edward VI. whose Posterity in the fifth Descent now enjoy this Honour Wilton a Market Town in Wiltshire to which it gives Name betwixt the Rivers Willy by the North and Adder or Nadder to the South It was anciently the Capital City of the County a Bishops See and the Residence of several Bishops before the Translation of the See to Salisbury The loss whereof was a great occasion of the decay of this place It only retains the honour of being by two Members represented in Parliament The Sheriffs keep their monthly Courts here and the Knights of the Shire are usually elected at it Wimpfen Wimpina Vimpina a City of Germany in the Circle of Schwaben upon the Necker where it receives the River Jaxt two German Miles from Hailbrune to the North and five from Heidelburg to the East This though small is an Imperial Free City Wincaunton a Market Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Norton Ferris upon the side of a Hill Winchcomb a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Kistgate Winchelsey a Sea-Port Town in the East part of Sussex where it adjoins to Kent in Hastings Rape upon an Inlet of the Sea in the neighbourhood of Rye A Member of the Cinque Ports once a strong and a beautiful Town walled having eighteen Parish Churches but by the recess of the Ocean now much decayed and the Haven choaked up In the year 1250. the greatest part of this Town was destroyed by the Sea It consists now but of one Parish In 1628. Charles I. created Elizabeth Finch Viscount Maidstone Countess of Winchelsey to which Honour Thomas her Son succeeded in 1633. and Henneage her Grandchild in 1639. Winchester Venta Belgarum Vintonia Wintonia a City of Hampshire which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the River Itching fifteen Miles from the British Sea to the North. It stands pleasantly in a Vale betwixt two Hills adorned with five Parish Churches a Noble Cathedral dedicated to the Trinity in which the Bones of divers of the Saxon Kings and Queens with two of the Danish Line of Kings and two of the Norman rest A fine Hall for the Assizes and Sessions where King Arthur's Round Table hangs as a Monument of Antiquity a College for the Education of Youth built and endowed by Will of Wickham the Founder of New College Oxon for a Seminary to the same College a Hospital an Episcopal Palace and a strong Castle upon a Hill The Welsh call this ancient City at this day Caer Cruent that is the White City because it stands upon a Chalk and the Latin Writers Wintonia In the Roman times it was one of the principal Cities of Britain In the Saxons days twice consumed and rebuilt being made the Seat of the West Saxon Kings which Family at last prevailed against all the rest The Bishops See was founded here in 660. by Kingil the first Christian King of the West Saxons It felt the fury of the Danes In the Norman times it kept up its Head but in the Reign of King Stephen it was sacked in the Wars betwixt the Empress Mand and him Edward III. to revive it made it the Mart for VVool and Cloth In our days saith Mr. Camden it is about a Mile and a half in compass reasonably well peopled The ancient Bishops of this See were reputed Earls of Southampton and pass by that Style in the New Statutes of the Garter made by King Henry VIII The present Bishop Dr. Mew is the seventy third Bishop The first Earl of Winchester was Saer de Quinsey in 1207. The second Roger de Quinsey in 1219. who died in 1264. The third Hugh de Spencer created in 1322. and beheaded in 1326. The fourth Lewis de Bruges in 1472. In 1551. VVilliam Pawlet Earl of VViltshire was created Marquess of VVinchester whose Posterity in the sixth Descent now enjoy it In the years 855. 975. 1021. 1070. 1076. 1129. 1142. English Councils were celebrated in this City The second under S. Dunstan The sixth in relation to King Stephen's Usurpation of the Lands of the Church Windaw Vinda Vindavia a City of Curland called by the Poles Kiess and by the Germans Windaw and Winda It has an Harbor at the Mouth of the River VVeta upon the Baltick Sea fifteen Polish Miles from Memel to the North and thirty from Riga to the West Winder or VVimander Meer a Lake dividing a part of Lancashire from the County of VVestmorland and extending about ten Miles in length and three or four in breadth full of Fish with a clear pebbly bottom Windham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Forehoe Windrush a River in Oxfordshire upon which VVitney stands and Burford near it Windsor Vindesorium a Castle upon the South side of the Thames in Berkshire upon an high Hill which rising by gentle degrees affords at the top a pleasant Prospect This Place was granted by Edward the Confessor to the Monks of Westminster and soon after by William the Conqueror recovered back to the Crown by an exchange for Wokendune and Ferings In this pleasant Place was Edw. III. born who afterward built that Noble Castle which has since been the delightful Retreat of the Kings of England from the Cares of Government and the Crowds of Men. In the same place that Victorious Prince instituted the most Noble Order of the GARTER The Ceremony whereof hath been usually since celebrated here upon S. George's Day Out of the Castle sprung the Town and that in Buckinghamshire not in Barkshire it being on the North side of the River and joined to the Castle by a Timber Bridge In the Church of this Castle lie buried two of our Kings of the most distant Fortunes
it belonging to the Hollanders upon the Coast of Nigritia This Fort was built by the Portugals in 1455. Taken from them by the Hollanders in 1633. Taken from the Hollanders by the English of late Years and it was again taken and ruin'd by the French in 1678 and is now again under the Hollander It lies in the Atlantick Ocean upon the Coast of the Kingdom of Gualata about or in 20 d. of Northern Lat. Arhon Asopus a River of the Morea falling into the Gulph of Corinth Arhusen Arhusia a City of Denmark in the Dukedom of Jutland upon the Baltick Sea it is a Bishops See under the Archbisâ—op of Lunden seated upon the River Gude 10 Miles South of Alburg 2 West from the Island of Fuinen and about 26 North of Lubeck This City was taken and severely treated by the Swedes in 1644. but is since that in the Posâ—ession of the Danes again Aria an antient Province and City of Persia The one is now call'd Chorasan the other Herat or Serat Ariano Arianum a City in the further Principate in the Kingdom of Naples and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento giving the Title of a Duke Ariano upon the Po is a small City in the Ferrarez in Italy and Capital of a Territory call'd Polesinâ— di Ariano upon the Borders of the States of Venice Arica a Port in the Kingdom of Peril in the Province de los Charcas where they ship the Silver brought from Potosi It is a small Town but has a capacious Haven and a strong Castle distant from La Plata to the South-East and from Cusco to the South 80 Leagues Ariccia or la Riccia was heretofore a considerable Town in the Campagna di Roma in Italy upon a Lake of the name now called lago di Nemi It has since become a small Village yet gives the Title of a Duke Ariel a River of the Precopensian Tartars which falls into the Nieper Borysthenes below Terki Arieni an antient People of Germany Another in Asia whom the Gauls reduced Arima a Town and Port of Japan in the Kingdom of Ximo or Saâ—cok The Infidels have extirpated the Christians thence Arimaspi an antient People of Sarmatia Europaea Ariminum See Rimini Arimoa an Island discovered by the Hollanders in 1618. near New Guiney betwixt Moa and Schouten Arles Arelas a City and Archbishoprick in Provence of France upon the Rhone In this place there was celebrated a great Council of the Western and African Bishops by the Order of Constantine the Great in the Year 312 or as Cabasutius saith in 314. that is about 16 years before the General Council of Nice and there has been several others held in aftertimes in the same Place This City was once made the Head of a Kingdom which had Kings of its own from the Year 879. to 1032. sometimes call'd the Kingdom of Arles and sometimes of Burgundy beyond the Jâ—ur Jurana It is seated on the left side the River Rhone over which there is a Timber Bridge 12 Leagues from Marseilles to the West The Academy established here in 1669 and the grand Obelisk of Roman work erected in 1677 ought not to be forgotten Arlington a little Village in Middlesex between Harlington and Shepeston which being the Birth-place of the Right Honorable Henry Bennet he was by Charles II. created Baron of Arlington the 14th of March 1664 and Earl of the same the 22d of April 1672. sworn Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold to King Charles II. Sept. 11. 1674. and died in the first Year of the Reign of King James II. in great Honor and Esteem Arlon Arlun Arlunum Orolunum a Town in the Dutchy of Luxembourg in the Low Countries which has given the Title of a Marquess from the Year 1103. It stands 4 Leagues from Luxembourg 6 from Montmidi Arma a Province and City in the Kingdom of Popayan in America 25 Leagues from St. Troy Armadabat See Amadabat Armagh Armacha a County of Vlster in Ireland incompassed with the River Neury on the East with the Country of Louth on the South and with the Blackwater North. This is one of the most fruitful Counties in all Ireland Upon the River Kalin which falleth into the Blackwater a River so called stands Armagh a poor decayed City tho an Archiepiscopal See and the Primate of the whole Kingdom This Primate was subject to the Archbishop of Canterbury till 1142. when it was exempted by one John Papyrio a Papal Legate as Camden faith The City was taken by Cromwel in 1650. Armanac Arminiacensis Comitatus a County of Aquitain or the upper Gascony in France bounded on the North by the Counties of Agenois and Condome on the East by Languedoc on the West by Gascony properly so called Bearn and Bigorro and on the South by the County de Cominge The Earle of this County are much celebrated in the antient French History Armanâ—th See Ardmonack Armanson Armentio a River of France in Burgundy It rises by semur receives the Brenne passes by Tonnere and falls into the Lionne nigh Auxerre Armenia major called by the Inhabitants Curdistan by the Georgians Armenioba a very large and well known Country of Asia being divided from the Georgians Mengrelians and Muscovites by the Mountains on the South by Mount Taurus from Mesopotamia and by Mount Niphate from Assyria on the West it has the Euphrates by which it is divided from Cappadocia and Armenia the Less The greatest part of it is under the Turks but a small part towards the East is under the Pâ—rsiâ—n In this Country both Euphrates and Tigris have their Fountains Armenia minor called now by some Aladuli by others Ac-coionlu is a part of Asia the Less and was heretofore a part of Capadocia bounded on the North by the Mengrelians and the Pontus or Euxine Sea on the South by Cilicia and Syria on the East by Armenia major and on the West by Cappadooia This whole Country is now under the Dominion of the Turks Armentiers Armentariae a Town of Planders upon the River Ley Legia which falls into the Schelde at Ghant This Town was the Theatre of great Actions during the former Wars and was left to the French by the Treaty of Aquisgrane who have had it ever since the Year 1668. It is a fair Town distant from Ghant 10 Miles and something less from Cambray Armes a Seigniory in the Province of Nivernois in France giving its name to a Noble Family there Armorica See Bretagne Armoy or Earmoy a Barony in the County of Cork and Province of Munster in Ireland â—nautes an errant vagabond People of Albania Arnay le Due Arnaeum Ducium a small Town in Burgundy in France 5 Leagues from Autun very agreeable Arnebourg a Town in the antient Marquisate of Brandenbourg upon the Elb ruined in the German Wars Arneda a City and Port upon the Pacifick Ocean in Peru in America The Land of Arnheim is a part of the Terra Australis discovered by the Hollanders to
them Ferdinando conquered the rest in 1483. and under Spain they are at this day They had this name given them from the great number of Hawks the first Adventurers found in them See Canary Isles Azotus an antient City of Palestine Taken heretofore by Joshua about the year of the World 2586. Then it became one of the five Governments of the Philistines who detain'd the Ark in it Since Christianity it was made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cesarea Baldwin I. took it from the Saracens in 1101. It had a Church built in it and an Episcopal House in the particular place they say where St. Philip left the Eunuch he baptized when he was rapt away by the Spirit Sometimes call'd Azotus Paralia to distinguish it from Azotus Ippini which was another Episcopal See heretofore in Palestine See Ashdod Azin-court or Agincourt a small Town in Artois in the Earldom of S. Paul from which it is distant somewhat above 3 Leagues to the West as it is also from Hesdin to the North. In 1415. Henry V. of England beat D'Aâ—bret Constable of France who came against him with a French Army consisting of 80000 Men near this small Town which has given it a name amongst the most considerable Places of the World See Trussel Life and Reign of Hen. V. Azuayes a poor People of Barbary and Numidia in Africa upon the Coasts and Mountains They wear a Cross engraven upon their face or hands to distinguish them from other Africans A Custom first introduced amongst them in token of their being Christians according to a Law made when the Gothish and Christian Princes reign'd in Barbary that whereas all such Infidels as would embrace the Gospel were excused Tribute therefore those who became Christians in reality should make themselves known to the publick Officers of the revenue by a Cross of that nature They persevered in their Conversions till the Caliphs came in And tho they wear the Cross still yet it serves them with other Figures more for a pretended Ornament than a token of Religion BAB BAalhasar mention'd 2 Sam. 13. 23. A place beside Ephraim in Judaea where Absalom commanded his Servants to kill Amnon for forcing his Sister Thamar Baar Vargiones a County in Schwaben in Germany near the Fountains of the Danube in the Possession of the Prince of Furstemberg Die Baar are also the Mountains of Schwaben call'd Abnobi by the Romans Baaz or the Isle de Baz is an Island on the Coast of Bretagne in France Babelmandel Diodori Insula is a small Island in the Red Sea belonging to Aethiopia mentioned by Pliny Ptolemy Arrian and others but the later Geographers are not agreed whether this be it or Primeira which lies near it It lies in the very entrance of the Red Sea or Arabick Gulph and gives name to that passage Babylon one of the most famous Cities of the antient World celebrated both in Sacred and Profane Story It is seated upon the Euphrates and was the Capital of Chaldea about 42 Miles from Bagdet to the South East in 79. d. of Long and 35 of Nor. Lat. Generally believed to have been built by Nimrod the Grand-child of Noah soon after the Deluge and to have been a continuation of Babel so called because the Lord did there confound the Language of all the Earth Gen. 11. 9. This City was antiently incompassed with Walls of Brick which made a Circuit of 385 Stadia's or 48 English Miles They were so broad at the top that two Chariots might meet and pass without any hindrance and they are said to be 100 Cubits high so that this was one of the seven Wonders that amazed the old World This City was the Capital of the Assyrian Empire and tho Nabonassar ruin'd that Empire yet he forsook it not but his Son Nebuchadnezzar very much increased and inlarged it as appears Dan. 4. 30. After this it was taken by Cyrus the Persian Anno Mund. 3516. before the Birth of our Saviour 537 years and tho it changed its Master yet it kept much of its antient Greatness under the Persian Empire Seleucus Nicanor one of the Successors of Alexander the Great who dyed here building Seleucia upon the Tigris at about 40 Miles distance from it as Strabo observes it became thereby deprived of its Wealth its Honour and Inhabitants whence Pausanias could say that it had nothing in his time but its Wall in the days of S. Jerom it was only a Park and in after-times it became an Habitation for Scorpions and Serpents so that no Man could safely pass through it See Bochart Geogr. Sacr. lib. 4. c. 15. It is very hard now to know assuredly so much as where it stood For tho Bachad or Bagdat is often call'd by the same name and divers have therefore been induced to accept it for the same place yet that this is a great mistake see Bachâ—â— Babylon in Aegypt stood over against Memphis near the Nile St. Peter wrote his First Epistle its thought from this Babylon because the other was deserted before as this since yet forming Cairo out of its ruines Babolitza Carethna or Vallis Cariniana a Town placed by Antiochus in the Lower Pannonia now part of the Lower Hungary Baboliza or Babolza a Town of the Lower Hungary call'd by Antoninus Mansuetinum it has now a Castle and lies about five Hungarian Miles West of Zigeth in our latter Maps it is call'd Babolcha Babuco Bauco Bovillae a Town of S. Peter's Patrimony near the Confines of Campania and the Kingdom of Naples Babul Pattala or Patala is one of the greatest Cities in the East-Indies seated in an Island of the River Indus under the Dominion of the Great Mogul Bacalal a Lake in the Northern America Bacar Ituraea Trachonitis a Region of Palestine often mentioned in the New Testament It lies beyond Jordan between Samaria and Arabia and belonged to the Tribes of God and Reuben The Inhabitants are famed in the Roman History for good Archers tho Cicero 2. Phil. calls them at the same time Omnium gentium maxime barbaros the most barbarous of all Nations They are mentioned also by Virgil Lucan and Vopiscus on the same account There is another Country in the East-Indies call'd by the same name Baccharuch or Bachruch a small Town in the Lower Palatinate upon the Rhine in the greatest esteem for Wine of all the places in Germany whence that Etymology of its name Bacchi ara descanted by H. Stephanus Bachad Seleucia a City of Mesopotamia upon the River Tigris in antient times called Coche and afterwards Alexandria from Alexandria the Great who rebuilt it after which being re-edified by Antiochus King of Syria who call'd it by his Father's name Seleucia and being again ruin'd it was rebuilt in 762. by Almanusor Abugiafar the 22d Calif first on the Western Shoar of Tigris and after on the Eastern in Chaldea in time it grew great rich and populous being the Seat of many of the Califs and was call'd
very Noble Palace of the Electors two large Wings of which and the Front with five Pavilions stand towards the River In the German Wars the Spaniards put a Garrison into this Town which was beaten out by the Sâ—edes and when the French had in later times wheedled the Elector out of his strong Castle the Emperour's Forces seized upon the Elector Philippus Christophâ—rus and carried him away to Vienna In â—60 â—â—nder Charles the Bald here was a Council or Diet held â— and in 922. another under Henry II. The Marquis de Bousâ—â—erâ— came before it in November 1688. with seven or eight thousand French but retired with the satisfaction only of having shot into it â—â— great â—â— any Bombs Coblentz a Village in Switzerland upon the Rhine where the Arola Aâ—r fallâ— into it in the Borders of Schuâ—â—â—â—n seven Miles from Basll to the West Cobourg Melocatus a small Town in Fraâ—coâ—â—a upon the River Itsch in the County of Henneberg and in the Borders of Thiâ—â—ingen under the Dukes of Saxony which has also a fine Castle It stands 8 Miles from Smaleald to the South-East and 5 from Bamberg to the North. Cocas Cochias Caucasus a Mountain in Asia Cocco Laus a River of Calabria Cochin Cochinum a City of the East-Indies near the Promontory of Malabar called by the Portuguese Cochim by the Italians Cochino the Capital of a Kingdom of that Name and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Goa It has a large Haven and Fort called S. James's Fort built by the Portuguese in 1503. The Country is very well watered and fruitful antiently called Colchi as some think but however the Portuguese were Masters of it ever since they built that Fort till 1663 when the Hollunders took it from them The Kings of this City have always born a great Kindness for the Portuguese And when at first the King of Calecut would have destroyed them he took part with them against him and protected them and when the Hollanders had beaten them out the present King refused to be Crowned in the usual Place till the Portuguese were restored to it This City stands 36 Leagues from Calecut to the South and is watered by a fine River The Country about it yields much Pepper Those they call the Christians of S. Thomas have the Liberty of their Religion here using an Office of the Chaldean Language Long. 105. 00. Lat. 10 00. There is another Town of the same Name in the Island of Lemnia but now ruin'd Cochin-China call'd by the Inhabitants Cachucyna and by the Portuguese Cauchin-China or Couchin-China is the most Easterly Kingdom in the East-Indies on the Continent bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Tungking on the West by a People called Kemis and its own Desarts on the South by Tsiompa or Ciampa and on the East it has a vast Bay of the Ocean call'd after its own Name the Gulph or Bay of Cochin-China opposite to the Isle of Hainan Alexander de Rhodes a French â—esuit has lately given a large Account of this Country which is subject to a King of its own and stands divided into siâ— Provinces each under a subordinate Governour Cockermouth a Market-Town in the County of Cumberland situated upon the River Cocker near its fall into the Derwent by which two Rivers it is almost surrounded About 8 Miles from the Sea with a Castle upon one of the Hills adjoining to it Cocytus the antient Name of two Rivers the one in the Kingdom of Epirus the other near the Lake of Averno in Italy The Poets call one of their four fictitious Rivers of Hell by this Name Coclosyria the Region betwixt the Mountains Libanus and Antilibanus in Asia in which the River Orontes springeth Coesfield a small but strong City of Westphalia upon the River Berkel about 5 German Miles from Munster to the North. The Bishop of Munster doth often relide in this Place Coetquen or Coesquen a Town and Castle in Brittany near Dinanâ— which gives name to a Family of Honor. Henry III. advanc'd it to the Dignity of a Marqinsate in 1575. Coeworden Coevorden Baduhennae Lucâ—s Covordia is a very strong and fortified Town in the Provâ—â—â—e of Overyssel in the Low-Countries the principal Town of Drenâ—e standing in the Marshes near the Borders of the Bishoprick of Munster who has formerly possessed it but it is now in the Hands of the Duâ—oh it lies about a Mile from the River Veâ—â—t Vidruâ— and two from Hardenberg to the South-East It was often taken and retaken in the Civil Wars of the Low-Countries Coggeshal a Market-Town in Essex in the Hundred of Lexden Cognac Conâ—cuin Campiniacâ—m a Town in the Dukedom of Angoumoâ—s in France upon the River Charaâ—te betwixt Jarnaâ— and Xâ—â—ntes It stands in a fine fruitful Soil for Wine especially Francis I. King of France being born here built it a Fortress In the Year 1238. there was a Council held at it In the Civil Wars of France it was taken and retaken Nevertheless accounted a place of Strength Cogni Iconium a City of Cappadocia in the Lesser Asia which is now great and well peopled the See of an Archbishop under the Patriarch of Constantinople the Capital of Carmania and the Seat of a Turkish Bassa Still made more famous in 1658. by a Victory obtain'd against a Bassa Rebel It lies over against the Western Cape of Cyprus about 30 German Miles from the shoars of the Mediterranean Sea In the Year 256. a famous Council of the Bishops of Cappadocia Galatia Cilicia and the neighbouring Provinces was held here declaring the Baptism of Hereticks null an Opinion which occasioned great and long Dissentions afterwards amongst Christians Cogoreto a small Town upon the Coast of Genoua where Christopher Columbo the Discoverer of the New World was born It lies 10 Miles East of Savona and is under the Republick of Genoua Cohan Albanus a River of Albania Coimbra Commbrica a City of Portugal mentioned by Antoninus but now destroy'd There is another call'd by that Name in the Province of Beira which sprung out of the Ruines of the former It is built upon a Rock and therefore sometimes called Aeminium upon the River Munda now Mendego 32 Leagues from Lisbon to the North and is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Braga In 1550. John III. King of Portugal removed hither the University which had been settled before at Lisbon Seven Kings of Portugal were born and three died here It has the Honor also to bear the Title of a Dukedom Coire Chur Choira the capital City of the Country of the Grisons upon the River Plessur a little below the Rhine between Chiavenne Glaris and Appenzel The Grisons ordinarily hold their Diets at it Though the inhabitants profess the Opinions of Zuinglius yet they allow a Toleration to a few Roman Catholicks under a Bishop residing at Marsoila but taking his Title from hence who is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Mentz and has the Honor to be a
Culemburgum a Town and Castle in Guelderland belonging to the United Provinces yet as to the Revenue possessed by its own Count it stands on the River Rhine above two German Miles from Vtrecht to the South-East and six from Nimeguen to the West Taken by the French in 1672. and dismantled in 1674. Culiacan a Province in New Spain in America within the Jurisdiction of the Governor of Guadalaxara between New Mexico to the North New Biscay to the East and the Purple Sea to the South and West It has a City of the same Name Cuma Cumae once a Colony and famous City of Italy in the Kingdom of Naples which in 1207. was utterly ruined by the Saracens The Ruines of it are yet visible upon an Hill on the Tyrrheman Sea twelve Miles from Naples to the North-West In the latter times of the Roman Empire this City was wonderfully fortified so that Narses the General of Justinian could not take it without a tedious Siege and at this day the Ruines of it are wonderful many Noble Antiquities are to be seen amongst them The Bishops See that was fixed here is united with that of Averâ—a Virgil speaks of an admirable Temple of Apollo and a Fortress that adorned this City in Ancient Times Neither must it be forgotten that the Sibylla Cumana her Grott being in the neighbourhood took her Title from hence whose Verses prophesied so favourably of our Saviour that Julian the Apostate thought fit to order them to be burnt § The Ancients mention other places of the same Name One upon the Gulph of Smyrna in Asia Minor now called Foya Nova betwixt Smyrna and Pergamus accommodated with a Port and Fortress Near to which the Venetian Fleet obtain'd a Victory over the Turks in the year 1650. Of the rest nothing said Cumberland is the most North-Western County of England on the North bounded by Scotland on the South and West it has the Irish Sea and on the East Lancaster Westmorland the Bishoprick of Durham and Northumberland It took its Name from the Inhabitants who being of the old British Race called themselves Kumbri or Kambri The Country though cold and uneven is yet not unpleasant to the Traveller And it affordeth great plenty of Corn Cattle Fish Fowl and Metals nor is it destitute of many Roman Antiquities the Reliques of the Roman Garrisons who lay here to defend Britain from the devouring Picts The principal City is Carlisle Prince Rupert whilst he lived was Duke of Cumberland by the Creation of King Charles I. his Uncle 1643. He dying without Issue November 30. 1682. that Honor is now in the Person of his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark It became a Dukedom from an Earldom For in the year 1525. H. VIII conferred the Title of Earl of Cumberland upon Henry Lord Clifford in whose Family it continued from thence to 1642. The Eden is the principal River of this County Cuneo Cuneus See Coni. Cuningham a County of Scotland on the Western Shoar over against the Isle of Arran on the West it has the Irish Sea on the North Dunbritoun Fyrth which parts it from Lentieth on the East Cluydsdale and on the South Kile The chief Town is Largis on the Irish Sea seventeen Scotch Miles from Glasco to the West Cunsar one of the Names of the Hyrcanian Sea Curacao or Curassaw one of the Islands known by the Name of Sottovento in the South America over against the Province of Venezuela betwixt Oraba and Bonnaire Taken from the Spaniards by the Dutch in 1632. Curdistan Chaldaea a vast Province in Asia under the Dominion of the Turks but upon the Borders of the Kingdom of Persia containing Chaldaea part of Assyria towards Media and a great part of Armenia Major The Western Bounds are closed by the River Euphrates and the Eastern by the Tigris having Tarcomania to the North and Alidulia to the South The Curdes a People partly Mahometans Heathens and Christians take their Name from and dwell in this Province The ancient Chaldaea was divided into two parts the one North of Mesopotamia in which Vr stood the Country of Abraham the other South of Babylon near Arabia Deserta a large Champion Country in which the Philosophers lived and flourished whose same became extended over all the East and whose enquiries gave the first birth to Astronomy Astrology Magick Philosophy and Theology Babylon was the Capital of the ancient Chaldaea La Cure Cora Chora a River of France arising in the Dukedom of Burgundy and flowing through Nivernois Vezelay or Verzelet and Clamessy at Vermenton just opposite to Crevant in the Dutchy of Burgoigne falls into the Sure Cures an ancient Town of the Sabines in Italy from whence the Name of Quirites became derived to the Romans and remarkable also for being the Birth-place of Numa Pompilius It is thought Vescovio was afterwards built upon the Ruines of this Town Curetes a Name of the ancient People of the Island of Crete Curiale Dianae Oraculum a small Town on the Coast of Arabia Foelix towards the Persian Gulph about twenty seven Miles to the North-West of Cape Raz the most Eastern Point of that Country and and eight from Mascate a City Curland Curlandia a Province of Livonia called by the Germans Kureland by the Dutch Coerlandt by the French Courlande is bounded on the East by Semigalen on the South by Samogithia and on the North and West by the Baltick Sea This Country belonged anciently to the Teutonick Order but Sigismund Augustus King of Poland in 1587. forced Gothardus Ketler Master of that Order to renounce their Right and hold it together with Semigalen as a Fee of the Crown of Poland So that ever since it has been separated from Livonia and annexed to that Crown and is still in the Possession of the Family of Ketlers as Dukes of Curland and Subjects to the Crown of Poland The Capital City of it is Goldingen Curresi Avens a River of Italy in the State of the Church in the Diocese of Sabina between Campania to the South and Vmbria to the North. It watereth S. Lorenzo and the Abby di Farfa and then falls into the Tyber fifteen Miles North of Rome Curta a Village of Hungary upon the Danube between Comora and Gran. It is a Roman Town ruined Curzola Corcyra Nigra an Island of the Adriatick Sea on the Coast of Dalmatia under the Dominion of the State of Venice which is twenty five Miles in length from North to South and five in breadth It has a small City or Town of the same Name which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Raguza and there are five other small Villages in it It lies only five Miles from Cape Cabiccello a Promontory of Dalmatia Le Curzolari Echinades Echinae five small Islands over against the Mouth of the Gulph of Lepanto Near to which the Christians gain'd that Signal Naval Victory over Selim II. his Fleet in 1571. in the Battel called the Battel of Lepanto Cusa an
Duke of his Family The French first Possessed themselves of this Dukedom under Lewis XIII in 1663 It was restored to this Family again by the Pyrenean Treaty in 1659. In the Year 1674 it was again reassumed by the French Charles Leopold the late Duke of famous memory being in the mean time employed by the Emperor as his General won more Honour than he could have done if he had succeeded his Uncle in his rightful Inheritance This great Prince died on the eighteenth of April 1690 suddenly in his forty eighth year at a Convent near Lintz in his Journey to Vienna his renowned Actions and high Merits making him extremely lamented He Married Elionora Maria of Austria Dowager of Michael King of Poland and Sister to the present Emperor by whom the Title to this Dukedom continues in the Family to his eldest Son Lorca Eliocrata Ilorcis a small but ancient City of the Kingdom of Murcia in Spain it was in the times of the Goths a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo But this See was since removed to Cartagena Nueva It stands upon the River Guadilentin in the Confines of the Kingdom of Granada ill peopled twelve Miles from Murcia in Long 19. 15. Lat. 38. 2. Lorne Lorna a County in the North of Scotland upon the Western Ocean bounded on the North by Loquabre on the East by Menteith on the South by Argyle and Cantyr and on the West by the Vergivian Ocean the old Inhabitants of this County were the Epidii as Cambden acquaints us Loretto or Lauretto Lauretum a small and a New City in the Marcha Anconitana in the Dominions of the Church made a Bishops See by Pope Sixtus V. in 1586. and in 1591. the Bishoprick of Recanati was for ever united to this new See It stands upon a long Hill three Miles from the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea fifteen from Ancona to the South very well fortified to preserve it from the Incursions of the Turks and has a Noble Palace But that which is its greatest yea it s only Glory is the Chappel of the Virgin Mary called La Santa Casa the Holy House Pilgrims out of all parts of Europe repairing hither to perform their Devotions to the Virgin This place was anciently a desolate Grove where in the Pagan Times some think there was a Temple of Juno Cuprana The Chappel that is so much esteemed is supposed to be the very Chamber in which the Queen of Heaven was her self Educated and received the Angel's Salutation They believe it was brought hither out of Palestine by Angels All this is proved by the Testimony of Grave Men and the Memorials of an innumerable number of Miracles which are believed to have been wrought here The Reader is not to suppose it was brought from Palestine hither at once no it was deposited after the taking of Ptolomais by the Saracens first in Dalmatia in the year 1291. Thence the Thieveries of that Nation occasioned her Remove three or four years after to a Wood in this Marquisate and from thence to a Hill and here two Brothers not agreeing She at last removed to Loretto Where saith Tursellinus She hath resolved to take up her fixed and as we hope if no grievous offence of the Inhabitants or Neighbours prevent it her eternal Rest her last Remove he assures us was in 1295. And if she has been able to digest all the Italian Sins for almost four hundred years we may well presume She will remove no more at least not in our Days Lorgues Lonas Leonas Leonicae a Town in Provence in the Diocese of Frejus two Leagues from Draguignan five from Frejus and fourteen from Aix situated in a fertile Soil and adorned with a Collegiate Church of the Foundation of Pope Martin V. in 1421. together with divers Religious Houses Lorris Lauriacum a Town in the Diocese of Anger 's and the Dukedom of Anjou in France remarked for a French Synod there assembled in 843. Losere a Mountain in Languedoc in which are the Fountains of the River Tarn that separates Aquitain from Languedoc This is a Branch of the Sevennes extended towards the Lower Languedoc six Leagues from Ghave or Javoux to the North-West and eight from Vzes to the South-East mentioned by Sidonius Apollinaris in his twenty fourth Verse Losse a River of Scotland in the County of Murray called by Ptolemy Loxa it watereth the North part of that County and falls into the German Ocean beneath Elgin the Capital of that County Lot Le Olda Loda a River in Aquitain in France which ariseth from the Sevennes a Mountain in Givaudan a County of Languedoc and flowing within one Mile of Mende a City in the County and soon after augmented by the Truer and some smaller Rivers and running Westward through Rovergne and Querey which latter it divides it at last watereth Agen Cassenneil and Clerac then falls into the Garonne near Aiguillon four Leagues beneath Agen. Whereas heretofore this River was passable by Boats only as far as Ville Neuve de Agen it is of late with vast Expence made Navigable as high as Chaors to the inestimable Benefit of this Province by the present King of France in 1677. Lothaine Laudonia a County in the South of Scotland bounded on the North by the Fyrth of Edinburgh on the East by the German Ocean on the South by Marches Twedal and Cluydesdale and on the West by the County of Sterling This County is thirty four Scotch Miles in length from East to West but not above ten broad for the most part It is the principal County in that Kingdom Edinburgh standing almost in the middle of it besides which it hath Lyth Dunbar and Dalkeith Lotophagi the ancient People of the Island now called L'isle des Gerbes upon the Coast of Africa under the Spaniards They are mentioned by divers of the Ancients with applause Lotreich or Lothar-reich Lorain Loudun Juliodunum a City of France in the County of Poictou six Leagues from Salmur to the South ten from Poictiers and eighteen from Amboise to the North-West from this City the circumjacent Country is called le Laudonnois which King Henry III. erected into a Dutchy and in the Writers of the middle Age this City is called also Lausdunum Lovenstein Lovenstenum a Castle or Triangular Fort in the County of Holland in the Island of Bommel at the union of the Vahal and the Maes over against Worcum four Miles from Vtrecht to the South and a little more from Dort to the East This Fort belongs to the States of Holland and lies in the Borders of Guelderland Lough the Irish word for a Lake Loughborough a handsom pleasant Market Town in Leicestershire in the Hundred of West Goscote upon the Banks of the River Stowre over which it has a Bridge and near the Forest of Charwood amongst fertile Meadows Lough Foyle Logia a River of Ireland in the Province of Vlster which by London-Derry falls into the Deucalidonian Ocean between the County of Derry and
took this City and was therefore called BRITANNICVS He made it a Roman Colony planting in it a Regiment of old Soldiers and ordered Money to be Coined with this Inscription COL CAMALODVN Cambden saith from this Money it is Collected this Expedition was in the twelfth Year of his Reign fifty two years after the Birth of Christ Certain it is this City soon felt the fury of the Britains under Boadicia Qu. of the Iceni who took and burnt it and put all the Romans to the Sword about the Year of Christ sixty three Yet the Romans rebuilt it as appears by Antoninus Edward the Son of Alfred a Saxon King finding it much ruined by the Danes repaired and fortified it with a Castle William the Conqueror had here one hundred and eighty Houses in the Tenure of the Burgesses and eighteen wasted In Mr. Cambden's time it was a well inhabited Town consisting of one Street of a Mile in length built on the ridge of an Hill and having a convenient Haven Now not only a Corporation which sends two Burgesses to Parliament but also made a Viscounty the thirteenth of Charles II. and given to the late Earl of Essex The Maleas are a People which live in the Mountains of Malabar towards the Confines of Coromandel near the Dominions of the King of Madura Amongst them there live many Christians of the old Conversion called the Christians of S. Thomas Maleg a River of the Vpper Aethiopia which ariseth in the Kingdom of Damut and receiving the River Anquet after a Course of eighty Leagues falls into the Nile in Nubia below the Province of Fasculon Malaguette Mallaguete or Managuete the Western part of Guiney in Africa called by the Dutch Tand-Cust by the French Cote des Graives about 60 Leagues long extending from the River Sanguin to the Cape of Palmes which Cape separates it from Guinea propria It hath the reputation of a considerable place for the Pepper trade First planted with some Colonies of French and afterwards by the Portuguese English and Dutch Malemba a Kingdom of Africa betwixt the Kingdom of Angola and the Lake of Zembre Malespine a Marquisate and Souereignty in Tuscany in Italy near the States of Genoua The same properly with the ancient principality or now Dukedom of Massa belonging formerly to the Family of the Malespini which since has been incorporated with the House of Cibo Malfi Amalphis or Amalphi a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Hither Principato honoured with an Archbishops See and a Dukedom but little and not well inhabited It lies on the North side of the Bay of Salerno eleven from Salerno to the West and twenty two from Naples to the South The Emperor Lotharius II. in the War he undertook in the behalf of Pope Innocent II. against Roger K. of Sicily and Anacletus an Antipope mastered and plundered this City They pretend that here are the Bones of St. Andrew the Apostle brought from Judea about the Year 1206 and that the Seaman's Compass was invented here by Flavio Gioïa an Italian in 1300. P. Nicholas II. celebrated a Council here in 1059. in which the Dukedoms of Puglia and Calabria were confirmed to Robert Guichard the Valiant Norman for his Services in the expulsion of the Saracens Long. 38. 35. Lat. 40. 52. Malines See Mechelen Maliapur Maliapura a City on the Coast of Coromandel commonly called St. Thomas as being the place of the Martyrdom of that Apostle and an Archiepiscopal City written also Meliapor it was taken by the French in 1671. and deserted two years after Long. 108. 50. Lat. 13. 12. Malling West a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath. Mallorca See Majorca Malmesbury Maldunense Caenobium a Town built on the Western Bank of the River Avon the Capital of its Hundred on the Confines of the County of Glocester in the County of Wiltshire which took its name and rise from Maidulph a Learned Irish Scot who being highly admired both for his Piety and Learning erected here a School and a Monastery which Adelme his Scholar much improved becoming after his death the Tutelar Saint of Athelstane King of England who died in 938. after he had much enriched this Monastery by his Princely Donations this Adelme was the first who taught the Saxons the Latin Poetry No less honor is due to this Place on the score of William of Malmesbury a Learned Historian for the Times in which he lived which was about 1143. The Monastery thrived so well that at the suppression of it by Henry VIII its Revenue was above eight hundred and three pounds the year Whether its late Philosopher Thomas Hobbs has added to the Honor of this Place by being born here is left to the Judgment of Posterity The Town is now a Corporation represented by its Burgesses in Parliament and in a tolerable Condition by reason of its Clothing Trade It has six Bridges over the River being almost encircled therewith A Synod was held at it in 705. or 707. Malmugon Malmoe Malmogia a City in Scania in the Kingdom of Sweden called by the Hollanders Elbogon because it represents the Bent of the Elbow of an Arm. It was built in 1319. and has a safe Harbor over against Coppenhagen on the Sound In 1434. here was a strong Castle built by Ericus King of Denmark the first Encourager of lasting Architecture in this Kingdom In 1658. it first came into the hands of the Swedes in 1676. the Danes endeavoured the recovery of it by a Siege but without success they did the like the year following with the like event It stands four Danish Miles from Coppenhagen to the East Malpas a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Broxton Malta Melita and Island belonging to Africa in the Mediterranean Sea by some taken for the Place where S. Paul suffered Shipwrack in the Year of Christ 58. It s length is twenty Miles breadth twelve circuit about sixty which is its distance too from Pachyno the most South-Eastern Cape of Sicily one hundred and ninety from the nearest Coast of Africa Taken from the Saracens by Roger the Norman Earl of Sicily in 1089. And was under the Kings of Sicily till Charles V. granted it to the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem now called Knights of Malta from it after they were beaten out of Rhodes in 1530 that he might the easier protect Sicily from the Incursions of the Moors In 1566 they began to build the Bourg or principal City after Solyman the Magnificent had in 1565. reduced the greatest part of the old Town into Dust by a Siege of five Months managed by Dragut his General with the loss of twenty four thousand Men spent to no purpose on this small Island There are sixty Villages in it and three Cities all seated at the East end within the distance of eight Miles which have two large Havens divided by a Rock on the Point stands the Castle of S. Hermes to defend the entrance
be the Bormanicum of Pliny Others the ancient Alaunicum or Machaovilla There are divers Religious Houses there Manresa Manrese Minorissa a small City in Catalonia in Spain upon the River Cardoner which a little lower falls into the Lobregat ten Leagues from Barcellona to the North. Once a Bishops See Man 's Vrbs Cenomanorum Cenomanum a great rich populous City in the Duchy of Maine in France of old called Vindinum seated upon the River Sartre where it takes in the Huisne ten Leagues from Alenson to the South sixteen from â—ours to the North and the same distance from Vendosine to the North-West It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours the Capital of Le Maine and heretofore one of the most flourishing Cities of Gallia Celtica Mansfeldt an Island in Hudson's Bay in the Terra Arctica of America discovered some time since by the English Mansfeld Mansfeldensis Comitatus is a County or Earldom in the Vpper Saxony in the Landtgravate of Thuring between the Principality of Anhalt to the North the Territory of Mersburgh in Misnia to the East and Thuring properly so called to the East and West It is now sequestred in the Hands of the Elector of Saxony but was before under a Count of its own whose Family being now divided into four Branches each of them has the Right of Living Hunting and Fishing in this County with that of Patronage and two thousand Florins yearly Income the Government is in the Hands of the Electors for their security and payments The chief Town is Mansfeld which stands nine Miles from Maegdeburgh to the South and Erfurd to the North and sixteen from Gottingen to the East Mansfield a good large well built and inhabited Market Town in the County of Nottingham in the Hundred of Broxtow It stands in the Forest of Sherwood Mantale an ancient Castle in the Territory of Vienne in Dauphine remarkable upon the account of a Council called Concilium Monotalense in 879. for the Election of Boson King of Provence Arles and Burgundy Mante Medunta commonly Epitheted la Jolie a City or great Town in the Isle of France which has a Stone-Bridge over the Seyne in the very Borders of le vexin twelve Leagues beneath Paris to the West and sixteen above Roan to the South-East Philip II. King of France died here in 1223. It heretofore enjoyed the Honour of the Title of an Earldom and had a Cittadel which was destroyed by Henry IV. In 1376. Charles V. King of France Founded a Monastery of the Celestines in it besides which it is adorned with a Collegiate Church Mantonea a City in the Morea in Arcadia famous for the Death of Epaminondas the celebrated Thebean General in the year of Rome 391. It lies at the Foot of the Mountain Parthenius twenty five Miles from Megalopolis to the North and seven from Misitra to the North-West Now called Mandi or Mundi Mantoua Mantua a very ancient City in Lombardy in Italy built three hundred years before Rome It is the Capital of a Dukedom and a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja but exempt from his Jurisdiction ever since 1453. A great and a magnificent City seated within the Bosom of a Lake of the same Name made by the River Menzo which contributes very much to its strength and security In 1629. it was taken by the German Imperial Forces and miserably impoverished but soon after restored to its Duke by the Interposition of the French Court It stands forty five Miles from Modena to the North twenty from Verona to the South and forty from Cremona to the East This was the Country of Virgil the great Latin Poet who Celebrates the Fertility of its Fields in his Georg. 2. And of Tasso the Italian In the year 1064. the Election of Pope Alexander II. to the See of Rome was confirmed in a Council here against Honorius II. an Antipope set up by the Emperor Henry IV. The Dukedom of Mantoua is bounded on the East by that of Ferrara on the North by the Territories of Verona and Brescia on the West by Cremona and the Dukedom of Milan on the South by the Dukedoms of Modena and Mirandola Said to be equal together with Montisferat which belongs to this Duke to the Dukedom of Florence in extent but not in Revenue yet it is fruitful and abounds in Cattle This Dukedom fell first into the Family of Gonzaga which now possesseth it in 1328. Lewis I. of this Line then slaying Passavino the last of the Bonocelsi's in the Market-Place and assuming the Government into his own Hands as Lord of Mantoua John Francisco the Fifth of the Line was made Marquess of Mantoua by Sigismond the Emperor in 1433. Frederick II. the ninth of them was Created Duke by Charles V. in 1530. Charles III. is the eighteenth of this House and succeeded his Father Charles II. This Dukedom is thirty five Miles from North to South and fifty from East to West Manata the same with la Mancha Mar a County in the North-East part of Scotland extending in length from East to West sixty Miles partly mountainous and barren partly fruitful on the North it has Murray and Buchan on the East the German Ocean on the South Mern and Angus and on the West Athole The River Dee enricheth the South and the Done the North side of this County yet is there in it no Town of great Note Maracaibo or Marecaye a City in the Province of Venezuela in Castile d' Or in the South America upon a vast Lake of the same Name well built rich populous well traded and enjoying the Benefit of an excellent Port wherein the Spaniards build their Ships Maragnan Marahim Maranania an Island on the Coast of Brasil at the Mouth of the River Mirary which gives Name to the next Province to it This was once planted with French but in 1641. taken by the Hollanders and since retaken by the Portuguese There is in it a Town called S. Lewis with a Castle and altho but a small Place yet it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Salvador Long. 332. 40. Southern Lat. 02. 10. § The River Xauxa in Peru is also called El Vio Maragnon See Xauxa Marans a Town upon the River Sicur Niortoise in the pais d' Aulnis in France two Leagues from the Sea and four from Rochelle It stands in a Marsh hath a Castle and been often taken in the Wars by the Roman Catholicks and Huguenots Marasso C. Delle Cacca Haermaeum the most Western Cape in the Island of Sardinia lying Long. 32. 10. Lat. 41. 15. Marata a small Kingdom in North America placed by Sanson near the New Kingdom of Mexico and the Vermiglian Ocean Marathon Marason Marathona an ancient City of Attica in Greece famous in History for the Defeat given by Miltiades with his Army of twelve thousand Athenians to five hundred thousand Persians in the year of Rome 264. and the third of the seventy second Olympiad Marca
through it but now it lies in Ruins therefore called Rovine di Mariana nothing being left but the Cathedral Church which has no Roof neither the Bishops See being removed to Bastia in 1575. Marib See Mecca Mariemberg Mariae-berga a Town of Germany in the Vpper Saxony in Misnia nine German Miles from Meissen the Capital of that Province to the South This is one of the Mine Towns seated in the Mountains near Annaberg in the Borders of Bohemia built by Henry Duke of Saxony in 1519. and still in the Hands of that Family Marienbourg a Town in Hainault in the Low Countries built by Mary of Austria Queen of Hungary and Governant of the Low Countries in 1542. and strongly fortified against the French who nevertheless gained the possession of it by the Pyrenean Treaty in 1660. and dismantled it This stands upon the River Aube eleven French Leagues from Mons to the East and four from Charlemont to the South-West Marienburgh Mariaeburgum called by the Poles bork by the Inhabitants Margenburgh is a strong City in Prussia Regalis whereof it is the Capital upon the River Nogat a Branch of the Vistula six German Miles from Dantzick to the North-East and four from Elbing to the South-West Heretofore the principal Seat of the Knights of Prussia who built it and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary the Castle in 1281 the Town in 1302. Casimirus King of Poland took this City in 1460. The Swedes in 1625. The Castle was burnt in 1644. and restored to the Poles in 1655. by Treaty Marienburgh or Marieburgh the same with Queen's Town in Ireland See Queen's County Mariendal the same with Mergentheim Mariestadt Mariaestadium a new City in Westrogothia in Sweden between the Lakes of Wener and Neter three German Miles from the former and six from the latter Long. 31. 19. Lat. 58. 27. Marigalante one of the Caribby Islands in South America under the French six Leagues from Guadeloupe and ten or twelve from Dominco Recommended for Fruitfulness Marignano Melignanum Meriganum a Town in the Duchy of Milan upon the River Lambro in the middle between Milan and Lodive ten Miles from either Near this the Swiss were beaten by Francis I. in 1515. Marinat Scardus a Mountain in Macedonia it parts Servia Albania and Macedonia and ends at the Euxine Sea near Saramontin the Borders of Romania Drino and many other Rivers spring from it In the Maps it is written Mazinai Marish Mariscus Marus a River of Transylvania it ariseth from the Carpathian Hills and passeth by Neumark Radnot Alba Julia or Weissenburg Branksa and Lippa to Segedin where it ends in the Tibiscus This is the principal River of Transylvania Mariza Hebrus a River of Thrace it ariseth out of Mount Hebrus which is a Branch of Mount Marinat in the Northern Confines of Macedonia Servia and Bulgaria where they all meet from two Fountains and running East it watereth Phileba or Philippopolis Adrianople and Ploutin where it receives Copriza and turning Southward falls into the Archipelago over against Lembro Mark See Marck Market-Iew a Market Town in the County of Cornwal and the Hundred of Penwith Marieborow or Marleburg Cunetio an ancient Roman Town seated upon the River Kenet in Wiltshire in the North-West Bounds towards Barkshire upon the ascent of an Hill In this there was a famous Parliament held for ending the Differences between the Barons and the King in the fifty second year of Henry III. A. C. 1267. where were made the Statutes called the Statutes of Marleburgh The Parliament assembled in a Castle which this place anciently had belonging unto John Sans terre as he was surnamed afterwards King of England It is still a Corporation which sends two Burgesses to the Parliament and hath withal the Convenience of Savernake Forest and Aldburn Chase in its Neighbourhood Charles I. at his Coronation added another Honour to this place by Creating James Lord Ley Lord Treasurer Earl of Marleborow February 5. 1625. which was afterwards possessed by William the fourth Earl of this Family Grandchild to the first Earl who succeeded Henry his Nephew slain in a Sea-Fight against the Dutch in 1665. The Lord Churchill enjoys this Title at present by the Creation of King William Marlow Magna a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Disborough probably so called for the Store of Marl or Chalk here dug up Marmara Strymon a River on the South of Macedonia towards the Borders of Thrace more usually called Stromona and also Radnitz and Iscar it falls in the Archipelago at Amphipoli Marmora Elaphonesus an Island in the Propontis on the Coast of Asia famous for Marble Quarries it is ten or twelve Leagues in circuit with a City the Capital of its own Name and divers Villages inhabited by the Religious Caloyers The adjacent Sea is called from hence the Sea of Marmora which discharges it self on one side into the Pontus Euxinus by the Bosphorus Thracius and on the other towards the South into the Aegean Sea by the Hellespont The ancient Poet Aristeas adorned this Island with his Nativity It communicates its Name to the three Neighbouring Islands Avezia Coutalli Gadaro called in general the Islands of Marmora They all stand in a good Climate abounding in Corn Wine Cattel Cotton and Fruit inhabited principally by the Religious Greeks and some Arabians Ptolemy mentions Marmora by the Name of Proconnesus Others call it Neuris Marmorica the present Kingdom of Barca in Africa it had heretofore for its Bounds Libya Propria to the East and Cyrenaica to the West Marne Matrona a great River in France which ariseth in Champaigne near Langres in a Village called Marmote in the Confines of the Franche Comte and running North-West watereth Langress Chaumont â—oynevil S. Dizier Chalons and Meaux then falls into the Seyne two Miles above Paris Maro A Valley Marquisate and Town upon the Confines of the States of Genoua belonging to the Duke of Savoy Marocco is both a City and a Kingdom in Africa in the West Part of Barbary the Kingdom of Marocco is a considerable part of Mauritania Tingitana extended on the Atlantick Ocean from the River Abene to that of Azamor on the East it has the River Malava which parts it from Tremesen on the West the Atlantick Ocean on the South Mount Atlas and on the North the Kingdom of Fez. The Country is said to be very fruitful and pleasant abounding in Cattle Fruits Corn Sugar Oil Hony and whatever is useful to the Life of Man Divided into seven Provinces which are Guzzula Sus Marocco Hea Hascora Daccala and Tedles The King takes the style of Emperour of Barbary and Marocco King of Fez Suz c. Hath a great number of Castles in this Kingdom yet there is one kept by the Portugueze two Leagues from Azamor Marocco Marochum Marochia Marochium the principal City which gives Name to the whole called by the Spaniards Maruccos by the Italians Marocho is supposed to have been the Bocanum
imagine that it was built upon the ruines of the ancient Vibo Valentia Montelimar Mons limarii a Town in Dauphine in France upon the River Rubion and about one League from the Rhosne It is a large handsome well peopled Town with divers religious Houses in it and a Cittadel Frequently taken and retaken in the Wars of Religion in the last Age but chiefly addicted to the Huguenot Party Monte Marano Mons Maranus a very small City in the Further Principate in the Kingdom of Naples which is yet a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento It stands ten Miles from Avellino to the East Monte Peloso Mons Pilosus Pelosius Pelusius c. a small but populous City in the Basilicate in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Acerenza tho exempt from his Jurisdiction This Bishoprick was instituted by Pope Sixtus IV. in 1643. It stands upon the Borders of the Dutchy of Bari betwixt Acerenza and Matera Montepulciano Mons Politianus a City in the Province of Toscana in Italy towards the States of the Church and the Lake of Chiano upon an Hill It hath the Title of an Episcopal See and may deserve a further Remark for being the Birth-place of the ingenious Angelus Politianus Monte S. Angelo a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples Montereau faut Yonne Mons Regalis Monasteriolum ad Icaunam a Town in Champagne where the Duke of Burgundy the sworn Enemy of the House of Orleans was basely murthered September 10. 1419. It stands seven Leagues from Melun towards Sens at the conjunction of the River Yonne with the Seine and had heretofore a Palace Royal to adorn it Montesia a Town in the Kingdom of Valentia which gave Name to an Order of Knights founded in 1317. after the abolishing of the Templars at this Town Monte-verde Mons Viridis a small City in the Further Principate in the Kingdom of Naples in the Confines of Terra di Bari which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Consa This See in 1531. was united with the titular Archbishoprick of Nazareth It stands upon the River Ofanto thirteen Miles from Consa to the East and twenty three from Acerenza Montferrat Montisferrat Monferrat Monferato Mons Ferratus a Province of Italy Honored with the Title of a Dukedom in 1570. It is bounded on the East with the Dukedom of Milan the States of Genoua on the North with the Territories of Vercelli Biella and Canavese on the West by Piedmont cut off from it by the Apennine and on the South the Dukedom of Milan So very fruitfull and well cultivated tho it be Hilly that it is thought to have its Name à Feracitate from its Fertility It has been ever since 1535 under the Duke of Mantoua to whom it came by the Marriage of Margaret Sister of Boniface the last Earl of this Country Heretofore the Territory of Canavese was a part of it which by the Treaty in 1631 was together with the rest of this Dukedom beyond the Po to the North granted to the Duke of Savoy The chief places under the Duke of Mantoua are Casale Arqui Nizza and Paglia Under the Duke of Savoy Turino Alba and Verua Valenza and Bassinia did together with Mondovi belong to it but now dismembred and annexed to the Dukedom of Milan Montgatz a Town in the Vpper Hungary in the County of Pereczas and an Episcopal See hereâ—ofore under the Greek Church so strongly fortified with Ditches and three Castles upon a Hill where nothing can command them that no Army without very great loss is able to approach it The Princess Ragotski a Roman Catholick Lady Wife to Count Teckely and Relict of the Prince Ragotski the last of that ancient and noble Family of Batori which hath furnished Kings to Poland and Princes to Transilvania held out this place in the behalf of her Husband against the Emperor in 1687 till after a Blockade of seven Months she was necessitated to surrender Jan. 25. 1688 upon these Conditions amongst others that she should deliver up all the Ensigns of Sovereignty in her custody wherewith Count Teckely had been invested by the Turk as Prince of Hungary and take the City of Vienna for her Prison not to remove thence without the Emperor's leave Montgomery Mons Gomerici a small Town in Lisieux in Normandy the Count of which unfortunately slew Henry II. King of France with a Launce in a Just in 1559 who afterwards joining with the Rebels against the Crown was beheaded more on the score of this old Misfortune than on the account of that Rebellion This Town stands two French Leagues and an half from Lisieux to the South and above three from Argentan to the North. Montgomeryshire Comitatus Montgomeriensis one of the Twelve Shires of Wales called by the Welsh Sire Trefaldwin Bounded upon the North with Denbigh on the East with Shropshire on the South with Radnor and Cardigan and on the West with Merionethshire Very Mountainous but being well watered with Rivers and Springs nevertheless very fruitful The ancient Inhabitants were called by the Romans Ordovices a valiant and warlike People hardly subdued in the Reign of Domitian Nor were they conquered by the English before the Reign of Edward I. This County takes its Name from a Town seated upon a high Hill in the Eastern Border towards Radnor between the Severn which riseth in this County and the Kemlet it has been walled on the North of it stands a fair Castle which saith Mr. Speed is now well repaired This Town was built by Roger de Montgomery a Norman Earl and from him had its Name Philip Herbert second Son of Henry Earl of Pembroke was by James I. in the year 1605 made Earl of Montgomery which Honor is now possessed by Philip III. who is the fourth Earl of this Family and succeeded William his half Brother in the Year 1674. It returns one member to the House of Commons Monthelon or Montolon a Town in the Dukedom of Burgundy near Autun which gives name to a family of honour Montignac Montiniacum a small Town in the Province of Perigord in Aquitain in France upon the River Vezereâ— here covered with a Bridge four or five Leagues from Sarlat and a little more from Perigeux The Castle of it used to be the Seat of the ancient Counts of Perigord for which reason they commonly surname it Montignac le Comté Montigni le Roy a Town in the County of Bassigni in Champaigne upon the Meuse which hath its source near it in Latin Montiniacum Regium Montilli or Monteil Some apprehend this place to be the same with Montelimar in Dauphine Some situate it in Languedoc and others upon the Rhosne And the reason there is this notice taken of it is a Council Assembled at it in 1208. against the Albigenses wherein it was resolved that Raymond VI. Earl of Tolouse the supporter of their cause should be cited to appear in Person at Valence
reduced to the quality of a Chorepiscopus In 1285. when Charles II. King of France was a Prisoner in the hands of the Arragonese another Council here assembled passed a Canon to command publick Prayers to be made for his Deliverance Rieti Reate a City in the Ecclesiastical State in Italy in the Province of Vmbria which is a Bishops See immediately under the Pope upon the River Velino in the Borders of the Kingdom of Naples between Aquila to the East and Narni West twenty eight Miles from each and forty from Rome to the South Tho this City stands in a bad and unhealthful Air yet it is populous in a thriving State and of great Antiquity being mentioned by Strabo Ptolemy and Pliny Rieux Ruesium Rivi a small City in the Upper Languedoc which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tolouse upon the Garonne where it takes in the Rize in the Borders of Gascony seven Leagues from Tolouse to the South eight from de Foix to the South-West and eight from Lyons to the South-East Made a Bishops See by Pope John XXII in 1318 having been heretofore inclosed in the Diocese of Tolouse § There is a Seigniory in Bretagne called also Rieux which gives name to a Family of Honor there Riga Rigen a City of Livonia called by the Inhabitants Riig one of the Hanse Towns great strong rich and populous being the Capital of Livonia and an Archbishops See It has a large and safe Haven at the Mouth of the River Duna where it enters the Baltick Sea seven German Miles from Mittaw to the North twenty nine from Revel to the South and forty eight from Vilna in the Borders of Curland Built by Albert the Third Bishop of Livonia in 1196 others say in the year 1186 by one Bertold an Abbot In the year 1215 it was made an Archbishops See by Pope Innocent III. and the Metropolitan of all Livonia Prussia and Curland A great while the Seat of the Masters of the Knights of the short Sword in Livonia and afterwards of the Grand Master of the Teutonick Order in Prussia who divided the Sovereignty and Administration of Justice with the Archbishop in this City till the Reformation which excluded both of them In the year 1561 it willingly submitted to the Crown of Poland In the year 1605. it was in vain besieged by Charles IX King of Sweden nor had he better success in the second Siege in 1609. Charles Gustavus Adolphus his Son in the year 1621 took it and ever since the Swedes have possessed it neither were the Moscovites sitting down before it some years ago able to take it It is seated in a spatious pleasant fruitful Valley a quarter of a League over fortified to Land with six Regular Bastions Counterscarps Palisadoes and Half-Moons by the Swedes in the year 1633. It s Traffick with the English Dutch Germans and Moscovites is so great that it has almost as many Ships as Houses and so abounding with Provisions that an Ox may be bought for three Crowns Their Religion is the strict Lutheran and no other allowed they speak both the Curland and Sclavonian Tongue tho they generally understand the High Dutch too their Publick Acts and Statutes being expedited in that letter Language Thus far Olearius Long. 47. 57. Lat. 57. 35. Rigi Volerius a River in the Island of Corsica Rignano Arinianum a Town belonging to the Falisci an ancient People of Hetruria which is now only a Castle in S. Peters Patrimony on an Hill one Mile from the Tiber and twenty one from Rome to the North. It is honored with the Title of a Dukedom tho there are but few Inhabitants in it Rille Risela a small River in Normandy which arising by Seez and flowing North watereth Aigle Rugles Lyre and at Beaumont le Roger takes in the Charante and separating Lisieux from the County of Roanois falls into the Seyne above Honfleur three Leagues to the East Rimini Ariminum a City in Romandiola which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ravenna It is a neat populous City in a fruitful Plain upon the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea at the Mouth of the River Mareochia Ariminus over which it has a Bridge built with great Art by Augustus Caesar but the Haven is almost choaked with Sand. This City stands between Bononia to the West and Ancona to the East twenty five Miles from Ravenna to the North-East and a little more from Vrbino to the North. The Via Flaminia made by the old Romans with so much Expence ended at the Bridge of this City and the Aemilian began here which went to Piacenza The Inhabitants were very faithful to the Romans under the Distresses brought upon them by the Victorious Arms of Hannibal in the second Punick War The taking it by Julius Caesar was the first Act of the Civil War between him and Pompey Being destroyed by the Dalmatians it was rebuilt by Dioclesian In the times of Justin it sustained a Siege from the Goths In the year 359 here was a famous Arrian Council of above four hundred Bishops held under Constantius the Emperor who found means to gain a general Subscription to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Arrian Opinions even from those who were not Arrians In after times it was subject to the Family of Malatesta who adorned it with noble and magnificent Palaces Before this it had been subject to the Lombards and Franks The first of the Malatesta's obtained it from Otho the Third in the year 1002. This Family is no more mentioned till the year 1348 which is on another occasion too The same continued till about the year 1522 when Pandulfus the last of this House being hardly laid at by Pope Alexander VI. sold it to the Venetians out of whose Hands Pope Julius II. recovered it the last mentioned year In the year 1527. it was again surprised by Pandulphus whilst Pope Clement was besieged by the Forces of Charles V. But this Possession was short and Pandulphus dying in great Poverty at Ferrara that noble Family which had produced so many learned Men and good Generals was extinct The Church has ever since enjoyed this City it has many remains of Roman Antiquity and amongst them a rare Triumphal Arch built in Honor of Augustus beside the Ruins of a sine Theatre Long. 35. 37. Lat. 43. 51. Ringwood a Market Town in Hampshire upon the River Avon The Capital of its Hundred Rio Grande a vast and rapid River in Castile d'Or in South America made by the Conjunction of Rio Cauca or Rio grande de Santa Martha which ariseth in the Province of Popayan in the Terra sirma with the Rio grande de la Madalena which springs out of the new Kingdom of Granada having this name given it by the Spaniards because they discovered the mouth of it upon S. Magdalen's Day as the other that of Santa Martha from its flowing along the Province of the same name These two Rivers unite in
Barkstow upon a small stream falling into the VVarfe and the Ouse at the place of their Conjunction This Town is noted for the Stone-quarries near it well inhabited and provided with a Free-School Shoreham a Market Town in the County of Sussex in Bramber Rape by the Sea side Shrewsbury Salopia the principal City in Shropshire is seated upon the Severne on the top of an Hill of Red Earth in the middle of that County The River runs almost round the Town and is covered by two lovely Bridges Roger of Montgomery in the Reign of VVilliam the Conqueror built on the North side of it a strong Castle which added much to its strength he founded a stately Abbey in it whose remains are extant still It was then a very considerable Place Nor is it after so many Ages sunk in its Wealth Riches or People but still a goodly City and the Centre of the Trade between VVales and England Near this City in 1463 was a sharp Battel fought between Henry IV. and Henry Percie Earl of Northumberland on the behalf of Edward Mortimer Earl of March as the right Heir of the Crown of England after Richard II. In 1067 Roger de Montgomery Earl of Arundel was by the Conqueror created Earl of Shrewsbury His Posterity enjoyed it till 1102 in three descents and then were divested of it In 1442 John Talbot Marshal of France a Person of great Worth and Conduct and the terror of France was by Henry VI made Earl of this City which Honour is enjoyed by his Posterity to this day Charles Talbot the twelfth of this Line succeding in 1667. Shrewsbury contains now five Parish Churches denominates a Lath is encompassed with a strong Wall with a Bulwark that ranges from the Castle to the Severn and is represented in the lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses First supposed to have taken its rise from the ruines of the ancient Vriconium which stood not far from it Shropshire Salopia is bounded on the North by the County Palatine of Chester on the East by Staffordshire on the South by Worcester Hereford and Radnorshires on the West by Montgomery and Denbigh It s length from North to South is thirty four its breadth from East to West twenty five and the circuit about one hundred thirty four English Miles wherein lye one hundred and seventy Parishes and fifteen Market Towns The Air of it is gentle and healthful the Soil rich and fruitful abounding in Wheat Barley Pit-Coals Iron and Wood. The Severne which is the second River of England divides this County almost in the middle receiving into it the Camlet the Morda the Mele the Roddon the Terne the VVorse and some others on the South it has the Temde which receives the Bradfield Onke Omey Quenny Stradbrook Corve Ledwich and Rea all which and some other Rivers water and enrich the South part of this County so that it may very well be one of the most fruitful and best peopled Counties in England The Principal City is Shrewsbury Siam a City and Kingdom beyond the Ganges in the Further East Indies The Kingdom is bounded on the North by the Kingdoms of Pegu and Ava on the East Cambaya Lao Jancoma and Tangu on the South the Bay of its own Name and on the West by the Bay of Bengale making by this form of its situation a Demicircle of about four hundred and fifty Leagues Some assign it a far greater extent and bound it by Pegu and Lao on the North the Chinian and Indian Oceans to the East and West with the Kingdom of Malaca to the South And this way it makes a great Peninsula It is certain the King of Siam keeps several other Kingdoms and Principalities tributary to him and his Country being blessed with a good Air a fertile Soil Mines of Lead Tin Silver and Gold tho of a base Alloy with store of Ivory and being visited continually by Vessels from Japan China Cochinchina Tonquin the Sound and the Philippine Islands from all parts of the Hither East Indies and from Arabia Persia and the Kingdoms of Europe it affords the enjoyment of every thing almost that is valuable Whilst the Sun is in the Northern Signs from March to September the Fields are generally overflown by the Rivers which much contributes to the fertility of them for the Ear of the Rice mounts above the height of the Waters The King of Siam was Master heretofore of Malaca see Malaca Of late himself became a Tributary to the King of Pegu see Pegu. But he is very absolute over and served with the profoundest Adoration by his own Subjects The English French and Dutch have each their Factories in this Kingdom The Portuguese and Armenians Moors and Chinese settle here in great Numbers being allowed dwellings in the City Siam by a Favour not made common to all Nations Siam the City stands in an Island that is formed by the River Menan surpassing in the richness of its Temples most of the proudest Cities in the Indies and its Palace Royal where the King resides built by the River side is of an extent sufficient to denominate a City of it self In 1634 the Dutch built themselves a House in Siam whichâ—is one of the best belonging to their Company in these Indies Siangyang Siangyanum a City in the Province of Huquam in the Kingdom of China The Capital over six other Cities Siara a small City in Brasil upon the North Sea which is the Capital of a Province has a large safe Haven and a Castle but not very populous Under the Portuguese 〈◊〉 a Kingdom under the Great Mogul in the East-Indies towards the Fountains of Ganges and Mount Caucasus betwixt Naugracut and Pitane Siben Sabiona now a Castle only but formerly a City in the County of Tirol and a Bishop's See It is seated upon the River Eysock ten Miles from Brixia whither the Brishoprick is removed to the South-West Siberia a Province of great extent under the Crown of Muscovy towards the river Obb in the Desart Tartary between the Provinces of Condora Legomoria and Permia Some few years since first discovered all covered with uninhabited Woods Marshes and desolate Countries having only a few Inhabitants which have a particular Language of their own and not the use of Bread The Moscovites have of late built the Cities Tobolsk upon the River Yâ—â—im and Siber on the Obb here and united both in one Archbishoprick At the former the Vice Duke under the Grand Duke of Moscovy resides he commands over both Siberia and Samoyeda They have also set up Churches in divers places for the Moscovian Christians Sicambri a People of the ancient Germany placed by most about the now Province of Guelderland in the Vnited Netherlands betwixt the Maes and the Rhine By others upon the banks of the Mayne Strabo calls them Sugambri Ptolemy Synganbri The Bructeri were a part of their Dependents Sichem an ancient City of the Territory of Samaria in Palestine in the