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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	castille_n	king_n	portugal_n	2,670	5	10.5073	5	true

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

This place has been call'd since Compostella that is to say Campus stellae S. James the Lesser suffered also Martyrdom in Hierusalem whereof he was Bishop he was thrown headlong from the top of the Temple to the bottom and cudgell'd to death After S. James of Compostella Mount Sarra is another place of Piety and of Pilgrimage very much frequented It 's a Mountain in the middle of Catalonia on which there is an Abbey of the Order of S. Bennet and where thirteen Hermites have each their little Cell and little Garden The Angelical Chappel call'd otherwise our Lady of the Pillar is very famous at Saragossa Buterius says that S. James being in Prayer about this Town with his little Flock and being very uneasie that he could not convert in Spain above nine persons whereof there were eight Jews and one onely Spaniard the holy Virgin brought by Angels from Judaea into this Country appear'd to him near the River Eber on a Pillar of Marble some say of Jasper who comforting him foretold to him the Conversion of this People by the Ministry of his Disciples and that St. James rais'd her since this Chappel where this Pillar is seen and on it the Figure of the Virgin holding her Son in her arms This Church is esteem'd the most Ancient of Christendom amongst those that are dedicated to the holy Virgin The Division of the Spanish Monarchy ITs Kingdoms or to say better its Provinces were formerly to the number of fourteen by counting thus Castille Leon Arragon Catalonia Valencia Andalusia Grenada Murcia Galicia Portugal Algarve the Asturies Biscay Navarre Catalonia is a County and not a Kingdom when the King of Spain makes his first Entrance into Barcelona which is the capital City he enters there in quality of Earl wherefore when he is before the Gate which he finds shut after having knockt they ask from within the Town the name of him that will enter his Catholick Majesty answers twice The King of Spain and they do not open the Gates to him till he says it 's the Earl of Barcelona King of Spain who will come in At these words the Gates are incontinently open'd and they give his Majesty a Reception becoming him Portugal and Algarve have their King Biscay a Lordship Navarre belongs to France a part of Biscay is possess'd by the French and the other by the Spaniards Spain may have two hundred and sixty French leagues in length and two hundred in breadth without comprizing what it has in Italy in Flanders and in America and along the coasts of Barbary on the Mediterranean Sea The chief Towns are MAdrid Toledo Sevil Grenada Sarragossa Valencia Compostella Salamanca Barcelona Cadiz Madrid is increast since that the Kings of Spain have kept there their Court it has no Suburbs It has been said that this Town was wall'd round with Fire by reason of its ancient Walls built in many places with great Stones that strike fire It s Fountain is very famous after that of Palermo in Sicily and of Navona at Rome which are esteem'd the finest of Europe The Fountain Arethusa is celebrated in History it has been the ground of many Roman Fables Toledo is adorn'd with two fair Palaces with that which Charles the Fifth caus'd to be built there and with that of the Archbishop The Metropolitan Church has a Clock resembling that of Strasburg in Alsatia in its height and Architecture the Doors of this Church are of cast Copper the Streets of the Town are very narrow the Moors built the Walls Sevil is the Capital of Andalusia the Spaniards say thus Que no ha vista Sevilla no ha vista la Maravilla He that has not seen Sevil has not seen a Wonder The Duke of Medina Coeli has a fine Palace there It is held that this Town call'd Hispal or Hispalis gave the name of Spain to all the Kingdom Grenada is larger in compass than any Town of Spain the Moors built it The Streets are narrow and the Houses rang'd after such a manner that they resemble the kernel of a Pomegranat The Kingdom has a great number of Mountains Sarragossa is the Capital of the Kingdom of Arragon it has an Archbishoprick Parliament Inquisition and University Valencia call'd the Beautiful and the Great is the Capital of the Kingdom whose name it bears it is honoured with an Archbishoprick Parliament and University Compostella Capital of Galicia is famous for the Relicks of the Apostle St. James the Greater Brother of St. John the Evangelist The Spaniards call Compostella San Jago di Compostella Salamanca is recommendable for its largeness and University which is the most famous of all Spain It has a great House adorn'd with a Court where are the Schools and the Halls where the Acts are made and where Persons are admitted to Degrees Metaphysick is there in its Throne The Preachers there are very full of Gestures to express naturally their Thoughts and Motions they make use of all the parts of their Body of the Head Hands Feet and Eyes Though they said nothing a man might guess very near what they would say Francis Relux a Dominican Doctor of the Faculty of Divinity of Salamanca formerly Confessor of Charles the Second King of Spain and at present Bishop of Placenza has for Successor in his place of Confessor Father Bayono Professor of the University of Alcala Cordona capital City of the Dukedom whereof it bears the name has a Mountain of Salt Barcelona call'd by the Spaniards Barcino is an important place the French possess'd it under the Reign of LoÃ¼is the Thirteenth The Palace of the Duke of Cardona there is August there are seen there some Figures of the Earls of Barcelona This Town which is at present double has a Bishop a Parliament an University Inquisition and a Port where many Ships have often been cast away in the Road. Cadiz is famous by reason or the advantageous scituation of its Port it 's there where the Gallies arrive that come from Peru laden with Gold and Silver This Town is very strong and well peopled in those late Wars its Bishop coming from Italy was stopt at Montpellier and sent afterward from Thâ—lose into his Diocess in exchange for some Prisoner Rivers of ancient Spain TAgus the Ober the Guadian Guadalguivir the Douro and the Minhio the Guadalaiar the Seger the Liuga and others The Tagus famous for its Golden Sand passes at Toledo Villa Franchia and at Lisbon The Iber Iberus at Sarragossa and Tortoza this River gives the name of Iberia to all Spain The Latins call the Guadian Anas and the Guadalaiar Bertis the Douro Durius the Seger Sicoris The Spaniards boast of having a Bridge on which above ten thousand horn'd Beasts may feed together This proceeds from the River Anas which hiding it self for six leagues passes under a great Meadow-ground According to a Map made in Spain which the Sieurs Samsons Geographers in Ordinary to the King have shewn me and which they find

good this River loses it self and rises again It is metaphorically call'd Anas because of its entrance and coming forth of the Earth as a Duck does in water Its waters supply Bajados and other places Some Rivers in France lose themselves in like manner and appear again as the River Sumene at the foot of the Sevenes the Rize near Masdazille in the Country of Foix the Vouzeille in Poâ—ctou four leagues from Poictiers on the Wâ—â—-â—â—â— the Bandiat near Angouleme the Rile iâ— Normandy near Beaumont le Roy the River Drome ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ Bayeux the Venelle which passes at Selâ—ngay in Burgundy seven or eight leagues from Dijon on the North-side The Guadalguivir waters Corduba and Sevil The Douro Valladolid and Zamora The Seger descends from the Pyrrheneans into Catalonia passes at Vrgel and Lerida Cesar and Lucan speak of the River Cinga which is by the Pyrrheneans and which has retain'd its name even to this day The Archbishopricks TOledo Sevil Sarragossa Burgos Grenada Valencia Compostella and Taragonia Cardinal Porto Carero is Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain He succeeds Dom Pascal Cardinal of Aragon Archbishop of Toledo who died at Madrid the 28th of September 1677. After having given all he had to the Poor he gave his Nephew onely a Picture of Devotion Cardinal de Porto Carero gave An 1679. to Dom Francisco Canon of the Church of Toledo the Archdeaconship of Toledo which is worth forty thousand Duckets of Rent Toledo has eight Suffragans Sevil three Sarragossa six Burgos three Grenada two Valencia three Compostella fifteen Taragon seven Toledo has two hundred thousand Piasters yearly Sevil eighty Sarragossa fifty thousand Burgos thirty thousand Grenada thirty thousand Valencia thirty thousand Compostella twenty four thousand Taragon sixteen thousand The Bishoprick of Ciguenca brings fifty thousand Piasters and Cadiz twelve thousand The Archbishopricks and Bishopricks have a great Revenue in Spain If the number of Archbishopricks be there small it is very great in the Estates of Naples which are possess'd by his Catholick Majesty it is true that these here are very much limited in the extent of Country and in their Rents as in the rest of Italy exceâ—ting the Archbishoprick of Milan Naples and Messina They count in the Kingdom of Naples twenty Archbishopricks and a hundred twenty seven Bishopricks Pope Adrian the Fourth granted to the Kings of Spain in the person of Charles the Fifth of whom he had been Tutor the Right of Nomination to Bishopricks and other Consistorial Benefices they have the Nomination but of some in the Kingdom of Naples The same Pope Adrian a Spaniard gave the Conquest of the New World to the Kings of Spain wherein other Nations do not agree Atabalipa one of the Kings of Peru call'd the Incas being told that this Pope had given the King of Spain his Country said with a laughter Who is that man who gives that which belongs to another This Incas being taken Prisoner by the Spaniards offered for his liberty a Chamber full of Gold and pretious Stones which could not save his life Before he died he appeal'd to the Justice of the God of Christians Protector of the afflicted and innocent Pizarre has been blam'd every where for having caus'd him to be strangled he fear'd that if he let him live he would be taken by force from him Philip the Second boasted that he comprehended the course of the Sun within his Dominions by reason of America because the Sun shines there always when it is set in Europe A Grandee of Spain having said on a day to this Prince that a year before the Emperour Charles the Fifth had left to him his Crowns he replied that it was a year since also that he repented of it The said Philip died of the Lowsie Disease after having lost the Kingdom of Tunis and Holland Pope Clement the Seventh ended his life also by the same Disease caus'd through a great corruption Philip the Fourth fell much from his vast Dominion by the loss of Portugal with all its dependancies in the East and West and after the seizure of Jamaica by the English Spain was extreamly dispeopled by the Expulsion of the Moors and Jews it was farther emptied to stock the Indies and these Dominions being disperst in many places cannot easily be reliev'd Its Mountains are barren and its Women not very fertile The Spaniards are grave in their walk and discourse This makes me think of a pleasant passage related by a modern Author he says that a Buffoon with his ridiculous Gestures and Expressions having on a day made the Queen laugh extreamly at Table it was said to her that a Queen of Spain ought to be serious This Princess who was in her Orient newly come from Germany answer'd that they should then take away that Fellow from before her eyes if they would not have her laugh The Spanish Nation has the repute of making Rodomontadoes the following is not mean made by an Officer a Prisoner of War in France LoÃ¼is the Thirteenth having askt him wherefore the King of Spain went not to the Wars as the Kings of France he answered with an Exclamation Ho it is not necessary if the King my Master went to the Army he would make the whole Earth to tremble The Spaniards are fit for holding a long Siege because being sober they endure hunger and thirst a long time They fear much the English wherefore they have said La Guerra con toto il Mundo y la pace con las Inglesos War against the whole World and Peace with the English because they are better Souldiers than them on the Sea All men are not fit for the Sea There grows not much Corn in Spain because the Lands are ill cultivated France and Sicily are its its Granaries and of the Low Countries Its Mines of Andalusia Estramadura Grenada Murcia and of some other places are very famous They embark at Malaga the Wine of Grenada which is brought to Paris at Alicant that of Murcia and at Cadiz that of Andalusia The white-Wine is there better than the Claret Arragon and Castille produce not much Wine that of Portugal is almost of a Crimson colour Their Oyls of Olives their Woolls their Silks their Horses and their Mines are very considerable The Castilian Language is the finest of all Spain Charles the Fifth said that if he were to speak to God he would speak in the Spanish Tongue by reason of its Gravity to Men in French to Ladies in Italian to Horses in the German Some Castilians have dar'd to say either through a gaâ—â—â—â— of Spirit or as a Rodomontado that God spake Castilian to Moyses on Mount Sinai They speak grossly in Galicia Agrippa describing the Humour of four chief Nations of Christendom says among other things that in their singing The Spaniards Groan The Italians Bleat The Germans howl The French Quaver The 27th of Decem. 1676. the King of Spain writ a Letter to Don Juan by which his Catholick

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