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

most admired and rich Temple of Apollo Pythius and the Oracle which the Gauls under Brennus attempted in vain to spoil in Christian times became a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Athens but since it fell into the hands of the devouring Turks it is become a poor small Village twenty Miles West from Leucadia forty from Lepanto to the East and about seven saith Baudrand from the Bay of Corinth It is observed by Suidas Cedrenus Nicephorus and divers others that about the time of the Nativity of our Saviour this Pythian Oracle became dumb And Augustus being astonished at its silence received for answer Me Puer Hebraeus divos Deus ipse gubernans Cedere sede jubet tristemque redire sub orcum Aris ergo dehinc tacitis abscedito nostris Nero afterwards plundered it of five hundred Statues of Brass with all its Wealth broke down its Buildings and distributed the Lands belonging to it amongst his Souldiers Delta an Island made by the Nile in Egypt of the fashion of the Letter Δ in the Greek in the way as that River flows from Cairo Ptolomy mentions two a greater and a less of this sort The ancient City Busiris did stand in the midst of this Island Demer Tabuda a River in Brabant Demetriade Dimnitrado Demetrias an ancient City of Magnesia in the Province of Thessalia in Macedonia upon the Gulph dell ' Armiro or the Pelasgicus sinus of the Classicks It has been heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Larissa from which it stands twenty Miles to the East Denbigh Denbiga one of the twelve Shires in wales has the Irish Sea on the North Flintshire on the East Merinoth on the South and Caernarvan on the West The principal Rivers are Cluyd Elway and Conwey which last separates this Shire from Carnarvan The West part is barren the middle where the Cluyd runneth is plain and very fruitful the last part except what lies upon the D 〈…〉 is less fertil Denbigh the principal Town stands upon a declining Rock H. Lacy Earl of Lincoln obtaining a Grant of this Place from Edward I. walled it and set up a Castle on the South side but wanting Water and being of difficult Access the Inhabitants have by degrees removed their Dwellings nearer the River and in Mr. Cambden's time were building a second Church the former not being able to contain the Inhabitants This Town has the River Aled or Elwy on the West and the Cluyd on the East which meet beneath it to the North it has a Bridge over both of them the later Maps place the Elwy on the South of the Town It stands fifteen Miles from Chester to the West and four from S. Asaph to the South The Right Honorable William Fielding is Earl of Denbigh and the fourth Earl of his Family Dendermonde Teneramunda is a strong Town in Flanders upon the River Schelde where the Tenera from Alost falls into it lying in the middle between Gant and Antwerp about five Leagues from either Denmark Denemarck Dania Cimbrius Chersonesus called by the Italians and Spaniards Danimarca by the Poles Dunska Is one of the most ancient Kingdoms of Europe yet of no great Extent Part of a vast Peninsula called of old Cimbricus Chersonesus in middle time Jutland and some Islands in the Eastern and Baltick Sea make the body of this Kingdom except that the Kingdom of Norway together with Greenland Island and Feroe is now annexed to it It was once a part of the Kingdom of the Goths but now a separate Kingdom consisting of two parts Jutland and the Isles The North of Jutland only is under the King of Denmark viz. Nort Jutland and the Northern parts of Suder Jutland Of the Islands Zeeland Fuynen and Bornholm in the Baltick Sea and Island in the Virgivian Ocean are the chief Coppenhague in the Isle of Zeeland is the Capital of the whole There were also three Counties on the Norway side Blecklen Schania and Haland which belonged originally to Denmark but in 1645. by the Treaty of Brooms-Boa these and some other Islands were surrendered by Christian IV. to the Swedes for ever and again in 1658. and 1660. confirmed to the Swedes This Kingdom had heretofore the Isles of Shetland on the North of Scotland which were granted to James VI. as a part of his Queens Dowry The King of Denmark possesseth also in Germany 1. Half the Dukedom of Holsatia 2. The Counties of Oldenburgh and that of Delmenhorst which two fell to him by Inheritance from the last Count of Oldenburgh Till 1660 the Crown was Elective but then made Hereditary by Frederick III. The Danes have also enlarged their Princes Bounds by planting a New Denmark in the North of America This Kingdom once was one of the most Powerful in Europe as may be remembred more particularly to us by their Incursions into England Scotland and Ireland where they maintained War with our Ancestors above three hundred years together But by the Fate of Time War and other humane Calamities reduced to the state in which it now is The Danish Writers derive its Name and pretend to give a Catalogue of their Kings from Dan the Son of Jacob. It is a cold Climate but fruitful enough in Corn Cattle and Fish and the greatest Revenue of the Crown comes from the Toll that is payed for passing the Sound Denia a Sea-Port in the Kingdom of Valentia in Spain over against the Isle of Yvica on the Mediterranean Sea eleven Miles from Valentia to the South Denin a celebrated Nunnery in the Low Countreys upon the Road from Valenciennes to Doway where the Chapter is composed of 18 Chanonesses who are all Ladies of Quality taking the Title of Countesses of Ostrevan from their Founder S. Aldebert an Earl of Ostrevan who left both his Estate and Dignity to them They enter into no Vows Marry at their pleasure leaving only their thanks to the Chapter for the honour they have enjoyed by it St Dennis en Uaux ad Sanctum Dionysium in Vallibus a Town in the Dukedom of Orleans in France St. Dennis Carriere a Town and a famous Monastery in the Isle of France two Leagues from Paris to the South one of the richest Monasteries in that Kingdom upon the River Crou which a little lower falls into the Scin. The Abbey was founded in 636. by Dagobert King of France in honor of S. Dennis whose Bones sleep here But the Church was rebuilt since by Suggerus one of their Abbots in three Years and three Months ending in 1144. Here are the Tombs of the Kings of France Some of which have died here too St. Dennis a Town in Normandy in the Forest of Lyons on the Borders of Beauvois in which Henry I. King of England died Deptford a large Town in Kent in Sutton Lath situated at the fall of the River Ravensburn into the Thames amongst rich and low Meadows and provided with a Dock and Store-house for the Navy Royal. It is divided into the

it self the Publick Schools and Physick Garden are admired by all By the Charter of K. Edward III. the Mayor of the City stands bound to obey the Orders and live in Subjection to the Vicechancellour of the Vniversity which from the time of its Restauration under K. Alfred has been all along accounted one of the four principal Vniversities of Europe the three other being Paris Salamanca and Bologna Henry VIII added in the year 1541. the Honor of a Bishop's See Aubrey de Vere the present Earl of Oxford is the twentieth of his Family which has been honored with this Title ever since the year 1155 or as others say in 1137. It is certain he is the first Earl in England Long. 19. 20. Lat. 52. 01. This City having suffered very much with and for Charles the Martyr after a Siege from May 2. to June 24. 1646 was surrendred to the Parliamentarians Oxirynchus or Oxgrynchus an ancient Town in the Kingdom of Egypt mentioned by Evagrius He says the Inhabitants were almost all Monks or Nuns and that it had then twelve Churches besides the Monasteries Oyse Aesia a River of France which ariseth in Picardy and running Southward by Guise and la Fere takes in there the Serre then entering the Isle of France at Compeigne it takes in the Aysne and between Clermont and Senlis passeth to Pont-Oyse beneath which it falls into the Seyne eight Leagues below Paris Ozaca a great City of the Kingdom of Japan in the Island of Niphonia with a splendid Castle belonging to the King built some few years since The Island is in a very large Bay of the Province of Jetsesena The City stands in the middle of the Island fifty Leagues from Meaco to the North-East Ozsurgheti Ozurietum the Capital City of the Kingdom of Guriel in Georgia where the King of Guriel resides Ozwieczin Ozviecinum a Town in the Lesser Poland in the Palatinate of Cracovia upon the Vistula where it takes in the Sala scarce three Polish Miles from Silesia and about seven from Cracovia to the West It has a Timber Castle seated in a Morass Honored with the Title of a Dukedom In the year 1654 it returned to the Crown of Poland after it had for many years been annexed to Silesia This Town is called by the Germans Ausch-Wits P A. PAchacama a famous fertile and pleasant Valley in the Kingdom of Peru four Leagues from Lima where stood in the times of the Yncas or Indian Emperors of Peru a most magnificent Temple by them built to the honour of the Creator of the Vniverse says Garcillasus not of the Sun as others misrepresent their Devotion Its Ruines are yet apparent This Temple was immensely rich with the Treasures especially hidden in it when Pizarro became Master of the Country It is said himself drew thence above nine hundred thousand Duccates Pacamores a People of Peru near the Confluence of the Maranio and the River of Amazons Pacca the Moorish Name of Beja a City of Portugal Pactolus a River of the Lesser Asia which ariseth in Lydia from the Mountain Tmolus and passeth by the City Sardis into the Hermus now Sarabat whence it is also by the Moderns called by the same Name of Sarabat The antient Poets often quote its golden Sands Padeborn Paderborn Paderborna Padeburna a City of Westphalia which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Mentz by the Institution of Charles the Great who held a Diet or Parliament here in 777. In 799. Pope Leo III. took refuge in this City In 999. it happened to be burnt In 1002. the Empress Cunegonda was crowned at it Of old an Imperial and Free City but since exempt and in the Hands of its own Bishop ever since 1604. It is seated near the Rise of the River Lippe twelve Miles from Munster to the North-East and ten from Cassel to the South-West about two Miles from it lies the Castle of Newhaus built by Theodore Furstemberg Bishop of this Se● in the year 1590 for the Residence of the Bishop Long. 30. 30. Lat. 51. 45. § The Bishoprick of Paderborn is a Tract in the Circle of Westphalia bounded on the North by the County of Lipp● on the East by Munster on the South by Hassia and on the West by the Dukedom of Westphalia It is from North to South forty Miles The principal Places in it are Paderborn Brackel and Warburgh Ferdinand Furstemberg Bishop of this Diocese has written a History of it Padoua Patavium a Ci●y of Italy in the States of Venice upon the Rivers Brenta and Bachiglione twenty four Miles from Venice to the West eighteen from Vicenza and forty eight from Ferrara to the North. All the ancient Writers agree this City was built by Antenor a Trojan particularly Virgil speaking of Antenor says Hic tamen ille urbem Patavi sedesque locavit soon after the Ruin of Troy They pretend to shew his Tomb here upon which there is an Inscription in Gothick Letters that cannot be equally old In this City was brought into the World Livy the great Roman Historian About the year of Christ 452 it was ruined by Attila King of the Huns rebuilt by the Inhabitants of Ravenna About an hundred years after the Lombards destroyed it and Charles the Great refounded it In 1140. it came into the Possession of the Carrarii In 1221 Frederick II. Emperor opened the University here In 1403. John Galeatius Duke of Milan put an end to this Family and three years after the Venetians took it from him In 1509 it was taken from them by Maximilian I. Emperor of Germany but being soon after recovered has ever since continued under that State It is great and strong but not very populous and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Aquileja Long. 33. 58. Lat. 44. 54. The Country it stands in is so fruitful as to give occasion to this Italian Proverb to prefer Padua before either Venice or Bologna Bologna la grassa Venetia la guasta ma Padoa la passa It is made a strong place by its Castles Towers Walls and Ditches The Palaces and publick Buildings are noble the Vniversity is particularly famous for the Faculty of Physick It is the Capital of the Territory called the Padouan which comprehends Este Arqua Poluerara Castelbaldo Montagnana Mirano c. There are two Academies of the Ingenious established in it under the Titles of gli Recoverati and gli inflammati It shews the ruines of a Roman Amphitheatre And in the year 1350. a Synod was assembled in this City Padstow a Market Town in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Pider with a Haven to the North Sea Pag●ts ●romley a Market Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Pirehill upon the River Blithe Paglion ●au●on a small River which washeth the City of Nice in Piedmou● then falls into the Mediterranean Sea alamos a Sea-Port Town in Catalonia The Palatinate of Bavaria See Bavaria The Palatinate of the Rhine Palatinatus Rheni Palatinatus Inferior

Ages enjoyed the Residence of the Kings of Sweden and they having also much enlarged that Kingdom by their Conquests in Poland Germany and Moscovy it is now become a celebrated Mart rich and populous It has a Royal Castle a large and safe Port upon the disembogure of the Lake Meler secured by Forts and from the weather so protected by Rocks that the greatest Vessels may ride in the midst of it without anchor or cable It has a convenient Situation but being placed amongst many Rocks just by it the prospect of it is not very taking upon six small Islands joyned by Bridges of Wood to each other the best Peopled is called Stockholm which denominates the City also two large Suburbs one on the North and the other on the South Tho it is a place of no strength yet Christian King of Denmark could not take it when he besieged it in 1518. It stands eight Swedish Leagues from Vpsal to the South five from the Baltick Sea to the West and eighty from Dantzick and Copenhagen Long. 43. 00. Lat. 60. 30. Gustavus Adolphus and Charles Gustavus surnamed Augustus Kings of Sweden lye interred in a Church of this City But the rest of the Kings lie at Vpsal and other places Stockport or Stopford a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Macclesfield upon the River Mersey Stockton a Market Town in the Bishoprick of Durham The Capital of a Ward Stoecades Ligustides the Islands Hyeres in the Mediterranean Sea upon the Coast of Provence in which the Knights of Malta after their loss of Rhodes entertained thoughts of settling by the permission of the King of France The Monks had got footing upon them in Cassian's time There was a Cistercian Monastery standing in the time of P. Innocent III. The Ancients mention the principal of them by the names of Hispa Prote Pomponiana Phenice Sturium c. which now are called Teste de Can Ribaudas Ribaudon Langoustier c. This last seem to express their other ancient Name of Ligustides See Hieres Stoel-Weissemburg See Alba Regalis Stokesley a Market Town in the North-Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Langbark well watered with fresh Streams Stolhoffen Stolhoffa a City or fortified Town in Schwaben in Germany upon the Rhine in the Marquisate of Baden two German Miles from Hagenow to the East and three from Strasburg South-East Stolpe Stolpa a Town seated upon a River of the same Name in the Further Pomerania three German Miles from Lawenburg in Pomerania to the West thirteen from Colberg to the East It has an ancient Castle subject to the Duke of Brandenburgh Stone a Market Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Pirehill upon the Trent Stonehenge Mons Ambrosii a very venerable and ancient Monument in Whiltshire six Miles from Salisbury consisting of three Crowns or Ranks of huge unwrought Stones one within another some of which are twenty eight Foot high and seven broad upon the tops there are others laid cross and framed into them Upon a large plain scarce affording any other Stones at all in the circumferences of some Miles Mr. Cambden supposes the Art of the Ancients in making Stone of Sand and unctuous Cement was employed in this Work Because these Stones seem too vast a load for Carriages Stormaren Stormaria a Province of Holstein bounded on the North by Holstein properly so called on the East by Waggaren and Lavemburg and on the West and South by Bremen and Lunenburg cut off by the Elbe Partly subject to the King of Denmark and partly to the Duke of Holstein Gotthorp The principal Places in it are Gluckstad Crempen and Pinnenberg which are under the King of Denmark Under the Duke are Elmeshorn Steinhorst Barmsted and Reinhorst Hamburg though subject to neither of these Princes is reckoned within the Bounds of this Province by John Bunon Stow on the Wold a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Slaughter § Another in the County of Suffolk the Capital of its Hundred upon the River Orwell large and beautifully built with a spacious lofty Church And driving a great Trade in Stuffs Straelsund Sundis a small but very strong City in the Hither Pomerania upon the Shoars of the Baltick Sea which has an Harbor over against the Isle of Rugen another towards Gripswald and Pomerania and a third looking toward Dumgarten and the Dukedom of Meckelburg being built in a Triangle It stands sive German Miles from Gripswald to the North ten from Anclam and about four from the Isle of Rugen secured by Marshes the Sea and three well fortified Banks Now one of the Hanse Towns but formerly a Free Imperial City and a frequented Mart. Built by the Danes in 1211 and being besieged by Count Wallestein for the Emperor who had subdued all the rest of Pomerania this small place in 1629 called Gustavus Adolphus into Germany who rescued it out of the Hands of the Imperialists and became the Master of it which was confirmed by the Peace of Munster In 1678 the Duke of Brandenburgh took and burnt this Town not leaving out of above two thousand Houses five hundred unruined by his Bombs and Fireworks He took it upon a Capitulation and the next year after by the Treaty at S. Germains it was resigned to the Swedes again Stramulipa Boeotia Attica a part of Greece the Capital of which is Thebes it lies over against the Isle of Negropont Strasburg Argentoratum the Capital City of Alsatia in Germany called by the Italians Argentina It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mentz And for many Ages a Free and Imperial City seated upon the River Ill where it falls into the Breuch one Mile from the Rhine over which it has a Timber-Bridge of vast length Eight German Miles from Brisach to the North twelve from Spire fourteen from Basil and twenty from Nancy and Metz. So very ancient that it is said to be built in the year of the World 1955 thirty three years before the Birth of Abraham which tho it may be true yet cannot be proved Tacitus and Caesar call it Tribocorum and Trib●cum Ptolemy Argentoratum other Latin Writers Argentina and Strasburgum It is mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus as a Place which the Slaughter of the Barbarians by Julian the Apostate had made famous The Victory here mentioned was in the year of Christ 357. In which Julian overthrew six Barbarous Kings of the Germans and took Chodonomar the chief of them Prisoner In the year 378 Gratianus the Emperor gave the Germans another great Overthrow near this City Attila King of the Hunns took and wasted this City about the year 451. Childerick King of the Franks possessed himself of it in the year 478. S. Amand became the first Bishop of this City in the year 643. Henry II. Emperor rebuilt this City in the year 1004. The Cathedral was built in the year 1207. In the year 1332 it suffered very much by intestine Divisions between the Nobility and Populacy In

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

is full of Mines of Iron the Valleys are fruitful here also and on the Eastern side the Country is very fruitful of Grass Corn and Sea-Coal Though all the English Kings were liberal to this Church upon the account of S. Cuthbert yet Guthrun the Dane was the first that granted this Bishoprick o● County to the Church of Durham which was afterward confirmed by Canutus another Danish Prince and by William the Conqueror ever since which time it has been accounted a County Palatine Dr. Nathaniel Crew the present Bishop of this Diocese being the LXX in number from S. Aidanus was translated from Oxford hither in the year 1674. Duringen See Thuringia Durlach or Dourlach Durlachum Budoris a City in the Marquisate of Baden in Schwaben in Germany scarce two Miles from the Rhine to the East and four from Baden This is the Capital of the Marquisate of Durlach and the lower part of the Marquisate of Baden which bounds it on the South the Rhine lies on the West the Dukedom of Wirtemberg on the East and the Palatinate of the Rhine on the North. It is subject to its Marquess of the House of Baden who has some other Territories and Honors in these Parts Durseley a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Wotton Dusseldorp Dusseldorpium the chief Town of the Dutchy of Bergh upon the Rhine five Miles beneath Cologne This Town was fortified against the Duke of Brandenburg by the Duke of Newburg in 1613. who has since had his Residence here Duvelandt the same with Beveland Duysburg See Duisburg Dwina Duna Dzwina a vast River in Muscovy or Russia which riseth in the Province of Megrina from two several Heads that unite at VVologda one of the principal Cities of Russia and running North-East passeth by the Lake of Soeclina beneath which it receiveth from the East the River Juga and a little lower the River VVuyma then turning North-East it falls into the VVhite Sea by three Mouths upon the most Eastern of which stands Arch-Angel the only frequented Port of Russia The heads of this River were called before their union Jagel and Sachana and after it Dwina § There is another River of the same Name which riseth out of a Lake of the same Name ten Leagues from the Lake of Fronowo and the Sources of the Nieper and falls into the Baltick Sea below Riga saith Olearius I suppose this is it which the latter Maps call Duna This River riseth in a Province of Russia called Novogard near the Lake VVolga and the Fountains of the River of that Name and turning Westward being augmented by some smaller Rivers it entereth Lithuania at VVitepks then passing Poloczko Drima Duneberg Kakenheusen and separating Livonia from Semigallia it falls into the Gulph or Bay of Livonia a part of the Baltick Sea on the South of Riga by Dunemund a Castle seated on the Mouth of it The Muscovites call it Dzwina saith Baudrand § The Province of Dwina is the greatest and most Northern of all Russia heretofore subject to the Duke of Novogard one hundred Russian Miles in length It had formerly but one City called by the same Name which stands in the middle of it but since the Passage to Arch-Angel has been discovered it is become one of the most considerable Provinces in Russia Arch-Angel being seated in this Province and the greatest Trade driven on the Dwina Dyfy See Dee a River in VVales Dynas-Mouthwye a Market Town in the County of Merioneth in VVales The Capital of its Hundred Dyrne See Tyrnaw EA EAdmont or Eamont a River in the County of Westmorland which joins with the Lowther by Whinfeld Forrest Earne or Lough-Earne Erno Erdinus a Lake in Vlster which passing into the Lake of Devenish a little more West they both together fall into the Virgivian or Western Ocean by the Bay of Walley between Dungal to the North and Slego to the South Easingwold a Market Town in the North-Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Bulmer East-Born a Market Town in the County of Sussex in Bevensey Rape East-Breane Brenia a Tract in the County of Cavan in the Province of Vlster in Ireland near the Lough-Earne Easton-ness a Promontory on the Coast of Suffolk which makes the Northern Point of Southwold Bay the most Eastern Cape of the whole Kingdom of England Eaton Aetonia Etona a Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Stock upon the River Thames over against Windsor made famous by a College of the Foundation of King Henry VI. in which there is a Grammar-School of great esteem for the education of the English youth Eaune Heldona Elna a River of France commonly called Liane It ariseth in the Confines of Artois and running through the County of Bologne falls into the British Sea at Bologne Eause Elusa or Elusaberis a ruined City of France commonly called Euse and Eusan in a Territory of the same Name upon the River Gelize often mentioned by Sulpitius Severus Ammianus and Sidonius It was once an Archbishops See and the Metropolis of Novempopulonia but now an obscure Village in Armagnac in Gascogny five Miles from Condom West Civtat is built of late towards the Rumes of it The Archbishops See was translated to Aux hence Ebersdorp Eberstorfium a Town in the Lower Austria in Germany It stands upon the Danube two Miles below Vienna adorned with a Castle to which the Emperors delight to retire Eberstein a County the Circle of Schwaben in Germany taking its Name from the Castle Eberstein towards the Dukedom of Wirtemberg They both belong to the Marquess of Baden Eberwyck York Eblaba Alabanda an Inland City of Caria now Aidinelli in the Lesser Asia on the South of the River Madre Long. 52. 28. Lat. 38. 46. It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Staurople or Sancta Croce Ebro Iberus one of the greatest Rivers of Spain called by the FrenchEbre It ariseth from the Mountains of the Asturia's in old Castile near the Village and Castle of Mantillas from two Springs and watering the North part of Old Castile the Towns of Frias Miranda Logrono and Tudela where it takes in the River Arga from the South and from thence becomes capable to carry a Boat it soon after enters into and divides the Kingdom of Arragon then takes in Biel from the North and Xalon from the South a little below Alagon then saluting Saragoza it admits Rio de la Guerva from the South and Gallego from the North Aguas Marcia and Guadalupe come in from the South as it passes Burgo and Fuentes and at Mequinenca Segre of old Sicoris with a number of smaller Rivers in its retinue Algas on the South and a knot of small Rivolets on the North also come in to pay their Tributes so watering the Southern part of Catalonia a little beneath Tortosa he falls into the Mediterranean Sea between three small Islands made by his own Sands This River gave the Name anciently of Iberia to all Spain Festus Avienus mentions

thirty Miles from the Confines of the Kingdom of Poland to the South fifty from Soczow to the East and a hundred and twenty from Caminieck to the North-East It is not improbable this is the Augusta Dac●● but the later Geographers are very much mistaken in placing it in Moldavia when it belongs to Walachia The Vaivode or Prince of these Countries for the most part resides here having suffered much from the Cossacks of later times the Turks maintained a strong Garrison in it The present King of Poland in 1686. marching this way against the Turks and Tartars possessed himself of it leaving a Garrison but before his return there happened so great a Fire that when he came he was forced to withdraw his Forces and leave it to the Walachians to be repaired Jati Bathis a River on the West of Sicily which falls into the Bay or Gulph of Amar on the North side twenty five Miles South of Palermo Java a great Island in the East-Indian Sea two hundred Leagues in length and near fifty in breadth On the West it has Sumatra on the East some other small Isles on the South the vast Ocean plays full upon it and on the North it has the Island of Borneo at the distance of forty five German Miles It is divided into nine Kingdoms the greatest of which is the Kingdom of Bantam and next the Kingdom of Materan The whole Island produceth great quantities of Spice and is on that account much frequented by the English and Dutch The Dutch had heretofore the Fort or City of Batavia in this Island not contented with this about 1684. joining with a Son of the King of Bantam then in Rebellion against his Father upon pretence of assisting him they seized the City of Bantam took Possession of the English Factory and all the Goods belonging to the English and kept the old King a Prisoner in the Castle of Bantam But finding there were several Attempts to restore him to his former Possession in 1686. the young King by the Advice of the Dutch removed his Captive Father to Batavia See Batavia The principal Cities of this Island are Balambuan Bantam Batavia or Jacatra Japara Jortan Materan once the Capital of the whole Panarucan Passarvan Saraboy and Tuban The Southern parts were never yet much sought into and so not much known It lies between 130 and 140 Long and 5 and 10 of Southern Lat. § There is another Island near this called the Lesser Java Jaur Jauriu a small River in Languedoc which riseth near S. Ponthois and falls into the Orba near the Castle of Pujols Javarin Jaurinum See Gewer and Raab Jawer Jauria a City of Silesia in Bohemia small but indifferently populous and the Capital of a Dukedom and has also an ancient Castle it lies not two Miles from Lignitz to the South and about nine from Breslaw to the West The Dukedom of Jawer lies between Lusatia to the West Bohema properly so called to the South the Dukedom of Lignitz to the North and that of Swyednitz to the East Jayck Rhymnus a River of the Asian Tartary which falls into the Caspian Sea between the Rha and Jaxartes Olearius placeth it in the middle of the North end of that Sea Jaziges by Ovid styled Jaziges acres and by the Writers of the middle Ages Jaziges Metanastes were an antient People of Sarmatia Europaea who being almost entirely exterminated thence by Boleslaüs the Chast King of Poland and Lescus in the years 1264 and 1282. retired in great numbers into the Vpper Hungary Jazzo See Laiazzo Jberia an antient Name of the Kingdom of Spain in Pliny and Strabo taken from the River Iberus Ebro § Likewise of a part of Georgia in Asia now called Gagheti See Georgia Jcaria a Mountain of Attica in Greece in the antient Tribe of Aegeus Jda a Mountain of Troas in Asia Minor at the foot of which stood the famous City Troy Athenaeus says nine Rivers derived their Springs from it Therefore Horace stiles it Ida undosa And Diodorus makes it to be the highest in the Neighbourhood of the Hellespont Hence the Idaeus sinus took its Name which was otherwise called Andramyttenus sinus and now le Golfe Andramytti § A Mountain also of the Island of Candia environed with Forests and inhabited heretofore by the People Dactyli Idaei Jdanhas Igaeaita a ruined City in Portugal Jddle or Iddel a River in the County of Nottingham upon which Redford is situated emptying it self Northward into the River Dun. Idafa a Branch of Mount Imaus Jdria a Town in the County of Goritia incompassed with Hills on all sides and seated upon a River of the same name Remarkable for the Quick-Silver Mines in it See Dr. Brown's Travels p. 82 83. It stands ten Miles from Goritia to the North-West Jducal Atlas Major a vast Mountain on the South of Barbary in Africa Jdumaea Edom the Country of the Edomites mentioned frequently in Scripture was a Kingdom of the antient Canaan betwixt Judaea properly so called the Stony Arabia and the Mediterranean Sea It s principal Cities Dinhabah Avith Pai Rehoboth 1 Chron. 1. 43. c. where see the list of the Kings and Dukes of Edom before the time of the beginning of the Israelitish Monarchy David afterwards conquered and garrisoned it 2 Sam. 8. 14. But in the Reign of Jehoram King of Judah the Edomites revolted and made themselves a King 2 Chron. 21. 8. 10. and joyned with the Chaldaeans under Nebuchadonezar in the Siege of Jerusalem Hyrcanus in the Ages following made War against them so effectually that he caused them to turn Jews They were of the Descendants of Esau Jefferkin Capernaum a City in Palestine Jehan-Abad See Delly Jempterlandt Jemptia a Province in the Kingdom of Sweden which has Angerman to the East Middlepad to the South Helsing to the West and Norway to the North. It belonged to the King of Denmark till 1645 and then by the Treaty of Bromsbroo was resigned to the Swedes There are three Castles but never a City in it Jena a small City in Hassia in Germany upon the River Saal over which it has a Bridge under the Duke of Saxon Weimar two German Miles from Weimar to the East nine from Leipsick to the North-East and three from Naumburg to the South It has a small University opened here in 1555 by the Dukes of Saxony and a Monastery of the Dominicans founded in 1286. The Valley about it yields plenty of Wine Jende or Pajende Jendus a Lake in the Province of Tavasthia in Finland Jendo Jedo or Yendo the capital City of the Empire of Japan in the Island of Niphonia at which the Emperor since his leaving Meaco keeps his Court. A vast and magnificent City upon the Banks of the River Tonkaw or Toukon and near a great Gulph yielding variety of Fish The Palace Royal is a work of state the Temples and the Palaces of the Nobility attract the admiration of Strangers There is one Street

by the Sacred Writers It was seated upon a Mountain in the Tribe of Ephraim built by Omri King of Israel as is recorded 1 Kings 16. about the year of the World 3112 or as others 3●19 and becoming from thenceforward the Royal City of that Kingdom it became one of the greatest strongest and most populous as well as most beautiful Cities of the East Benhadad King of Syria besieg'd it first about 3146. with a vast Army and reduced it to great Extremities it was then delivered by a Miracle Salmanazar King of Assyria was the next that attempted it and took it after a Siege of three years in 3314. He carried the Israelites into Captivity and peopled it with a new Colony composed of divers Nations and Religions who were the implacable Enemies of the Jewish Nation especially after the building of a Temple in Samaria after the manner of that of Jerusalem about the times of Nehemiah by one of the Sons of Joida the High Priest who had married a Daughter of Sanballat the Horonite Governour of Samaria under Darius King of Persia for whom his Father-in-law built a Temple on Mount Gerizim Hyrcanius the High Priest of the Jews about the year of the World 3941. took and intirely ruined this City which lay desolate till Herod the Great rebuilt it about 4033. and called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Honour of Augustus The Temple of Samaria was standing in our Saviour's time as appears in S. John's Gospel after our Saviour's Passion this City received the Christian Faith by the Preaching of Philip the Evangelist about the year of Christ 35. Simon the Father of Heresie was one of these new Converts and the Founder of the Gnosticks About 42. Herod Agrippa obtained this City as an Addition to his Kingdom from Caligula In the first ruin of the Jewish Nation under Vespasian this Nation and City had no great share of the Calamity because I suppose they sided with the Romans in this first Revolution against the Jews But in the second under Adrian the Emperour they acted otherwise and about the year of Christ 135. were together with the Jews extirpated by the Arms of that Prince This City has ever since lain buried in its Ruins though there are some few remainders of the Samaritan Nation to this day in Palestine and Grand Cairo where they keep their Synagogues and their ancient Sacrifices Especially at Sichem now called Naplouse in Palestine the residence of their High Priest who pretends to be of the Race of Aaron But following Laws and Rites different from those of the Pentateuch they have nevertheless the esteem of Hereticks amongst the Jews The Samaritans of Mount Gerizim were mortal enemies to the ancient Christians there till the Emperour Justianian took and burnt their King Julian and curbed them from time to time by very severe Edicts See Gerizim It stood thirty five Miles from Jerusalem to the North. Long. 66. 40. Lat. 31. 30. or as Mr. Fuller saith Long. 69. 10. Lat. 32. 30. Sambales the little Islands near the Peninsula of Jucatan in New Spain in America where good Amber-Greese is fished up with great dexterity by the Indians Sambas Sambasum a City on the North side of the Island of Borneo in the East-Indies which has an Harbour upon the Ocean though it lies thirty Miles from the Shoar up into the Land Sambia a Province of Prussia called by the Poles Szamlandt one of those twelve Counties into which Prussia was divided by Venodotius one of its Princes in 733. § Also a Bishops See under the Archbishop of G●●sna whose Seat was at Coningsperg but now united with the Bishoprick of Ermeland or Warmerland It lies between the Bay of Curland to the North the River Pregel to the South and was a part of the Circle of Natingen now under the Duke of Brandenburg Sambre Sabis Saba a River of the Low-Countries which a●iseth in Picardy and soon after entring Hainault divides it watring Landrecy Berlamont and Maubeuge It passeth by Charleroy to Namur the Capital of the Province and there falls into the Maes Samnites an ancient and powerful people of Italy who inhabited the Countries now contained in the Terra di Lavoro the Capitanata the Abruzzo the Dukedom of Benevento c. and made War with the Romans a long time before they could be entirely reduced Samo Samos Parthenia Cyparissa an Island belonging to the Lesser Asia in the Ionian Sea near Ionia as being but five Miles from the nearest Shoar of Ephesus and sixty from Chius now Sio to the South It is about eighty in compass It has a City on the East side which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ephesus so poor that it will scarce find its Bishop Bread yet is this Island so fruitful that almost nothing can be planted which the Earth will not bring to maturity The Wines of it are exceeding pleasant but for want of a Trade and encouragement the Inhabitants plant little more than they use The Inhabitants were so powerful in ancient times that they managed a prosperous War against the Ephesians and afterwards against the Athenians and Milesians about the year of Rome 313. and the eighty fourth Olympiad till Pericles about the year of the World 3510. reduced them Upon his departure they reassumed their Liberty and forced him to besiege their City nine Months before he could take it to invent the Battering Ram and several other Engines for that purpose and even after this they sustained some other Wars Their greatest Glory was Pythagoras the Father of Philosophy Juno was their principal Patroness and Goddess in whose honour there was a famous Temple erected by them This Island once so powerful rich and populous is by the Turks who are Masters of it reduced to that mean and depopulated condition that a few Pyrates dare land and plunder it as they please So that ever since 1676. no Turk durst venture to live upon it lest he should be carried into Captivity by these Rovers as four of them were then by Monsieur Crevellier a famous Privateer Samogithia a Province of the Kingdom of Poland called by the Inhabitants Samodzka-Zembla by the Poles Samudska-Ziemia by the Germans Samaiten by the French Samogitie It is a very large Province bounded on the North by Curland on the East by Lithuania on the South by Prussia Ducalis and on the West by the Baltick Sea its length from East to West is thirty five German Miles but not of equal breadth The principal Towns in it are Midniky or Womie Kowno and Rossienie which last is the Capital of this Province It was anciently divided into twelve Counties now into three and overspread with dark thick Woods Yet it is a Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Gnesna the Bishop having his Residence at Womie and this Province is very often included in Lithuania largely taken the Fortunes of which it has always followed Samoiede or Samoyedes Samoieda a Province in the North-East of Muscovy upon

years last past Conquered the Kingdom of China and is one of the greatest Princes in the World His Dominions extending from Cochin China to the River Obb North-West and South-East There is lately published a short Account of these Tartars in two Letters written by a Chinian Jesuit who travelled with this King into Tartary Tenedos a small Island of sixteen Miles in Compass five from the Shores of Asia twenty five from the Island Metelino to the North in the Archipelago and eighteen from the Dardanels to the South called by the Turks Bosh Adasi the Barren Island yet it affords excellent Muscadine Wine Plenty of Game and is well situated to bridle the Streights of Gallipoli It has a City two Castles and an Harbor for small Vessels and being taken by the Venetians with whom the Genouese disputed the possession of it a long time was betrayed to the Turks by their Governor In the time of Troy which stood within two Leagues of it this Island was consecrated to Apollo and the Graecian Navy seigning a Despair to take that City retired hither to disguise their design It became since Christianity a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Mitelene The Promontorium Sigaeum or Cape Janizzari lies near it Teneriffa one of the Canary or Azores Islands in the Atlantick Ocean over against Mauritania in Barbary called by the Natives Theneriffe It is about forty eight Spanish Leagues in Circumference Fruitful populous rich and has been subject to the Spaniards ever since 1496. The Ancients called this Nivaria as is supposed because the top of its Point or Peak which is thought the highest in the World and very sharp is rarely without Snow This Peak is said to be fifteen Miles high and may be seen one hundred and twenty English Miles at Sea The principal Towns in it are Laguna and S. Croce To which belongs an excellent Haven Blake and English Admiral April 20 in 1657 notwithstanding a Castle seven Forts sixteen great Galeons all well man'd and provided with Cannon and Ammunition which threatned his inevitable Ruine entred this Harbor and in six hours time beat the Spaniards out of their Ships and Forts too He put the English in possession of the vast Treasure of a West India Fleet which they plundered and burnt all those Spanish Ships they found This Island is no less remarkable for having been made the first Meridian by many of the latter Geographers § The Spaniards have given the same Name to a Town in the Province called Terra firma in South America standing near the Confluence of the Rivers S. Magdalena and S. Martha Tenez a City and Kingdom towards the Coasts of the Mediterranean and West of the Kingdom of Algiers in Barbary Tengchieu a City in the Province of Xantum in China which stands upon the Chiman Ocean on the Bay of Nanquin and is very strongly fortified Long. 149. 00. Lat. 37. 00. Teno Tenos Tine an Island in the Archipelago under the Venetians who have been Masters of it above these three hundred years It is a Latin Bishops See and but few Greeks live here In Pagan times it was famous for a Temple consecrated to Neptune It produceth Wine Figs and Silk Hath a Fortress and a City of its own Name Teno but Hydrusia and Ophiusa were the first and ancientest Names of this Island Tenterden a Market Town in the County of Kent in Scray Lath. Tentyra an Island and City in the Nile in the Kingdom of Egypt mentioned by Juvenal Teos an Ancient City of Ionia in the Lesser Asia which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ephesus Ter. See Tech. Teramo Aprutium a City of the Further Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See Terassa the same with Tarsus Terbestan the Caspian See Tercera Tertiaria or Tertia the principal of the Azores Islands twenty five Miles from East to West but not of equal breadth about sixteen Leagues in circuit surrounded with Rocks which render it difficult of Access It lies forty Leagues from Teneriffe to the East The chief City of this and all the Azores is Angara which is a Bishops See and with Fort San Felippe under the Portuguese From this Island the Azores are sometimes called the Tercera Isles It is much subject to Farthquakes and has a Fountain particularly remarkable for a virtue to petrifie Wood. Tergowisch See Targovisto Terki Terchium the principal City of Circassia in Asia in a well watered Plain about one German Mile from the Caspian Sea to the West sixty from Astracan to the South and thirty six from Derbent to the North-West Long. 76. 30. Lat. 45. 05. This City being some years since put into the hands of the Duke of Moscovy has of late been carefully fortified as a Frontier against the Persians on that side Olearius assures us it stands in Lat. 43. 23 in a Plain which bounds the sight upon the River Temenski which issueth out of the Lake of Bustro and facilitates the Correspondence between the Town and the Caspian Sea The Town is fortified with Rampiers and Bastions of Earth and has a Garrison of two thousand Russ paid by the Great Duke Terlee a famous Abbey for Women of the Order of S. Bernard in the State of Holland founded by the ancient Earls of Holland a League and a half off Leyden but broken and ruined since the Reformation there Termini or Termuli Termulae Buca a City in the Capitanata in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento and stands upon the Adriatick Sea at the Mouth of the River Tiferno in the Borders of the Hither Abruzzo thirty Miles from Lanciano to the East § Also a Town in the Island of Sicily upon a River of its own Name risen out of the Ruines of the ancient City Himera and called in Latin Writers Terminus Himeriorum The River Termine bad the same ancient Name with the City Terna Torna a River which runs through Artois and falls into the Canche at Hesdin Ternate Ternata the chief of the sive Molucco Islands Now in the Hands of the Hollanders tho it has a King of its own who resides in the Town of Malay the Dutch have some Ports in this Island to secure its Possession There are two ports belonging to it The Island Tider lies within one League of it Terni Interamna an ancient Latin Colony and a City of Ombra in the States of the Church in Italy which is a Bishops See immediately under the Pope It stands in a Plain upon the River Nare twelve Miles from Spoleto to the South in the Road to Ancona and has many rare Antiquities to shew Ternois Ternensis Pagus a small Tract in Artois in the County of S. Paul which takes its Name from Terna Ternova Ternobum a City of Bulgaria mentioned by Gregoras and Calchondylas now the Residence of the Turkish Sangiack and anciently the Seat of the Despote It stands upon the River Jantra or Ischar near Mount