672. Wamba not Bamba as his name is placed in ordinary Registers managed the Government eight years 680. Erigius erroneously sometimes written Eringius continued placed on the Throne six years 687. Egica falsly styled Egipsa weilded the Scepter of the Goths 15 years 701. Witiza and not Vitiza as his Name is enrolled in some Chronicles reigned in a joint Combination of Government with his Father five years and five years he swayed the Scepter alone 711. Rudericus so his Name is inscribed on his Coins and not Rodericus as it is registred in the Spanish Annalls governed one year and then having by an injurious and violent Rape polluted and debauched the Honour of Cana Daughter to Count Julian an eminent Nobleman of Spain he to assoil his Name and Family from that Stain which this ignominious Affront had spread over it invited the Moors of Africk under the Conduct of Musa to expiate the former violence who indeed executed the Vengeance designed by him for Roderick so solemnly that in a signal Battell commenced at Xeres de la Frontera in Andalusia the Fortune of Spain was entomb'd in the Carnage of that Field and Roderick abandoned both Crown and Kingdome to the prevailing Sword of the Moors and Musa being supported and reinforced by new Supplies by frequent successes forced almost all Spain to bow to a universal Conquest whilst the scattered Reliques of the pale and amazed Goths immur'd themselves in the inaccessable Retreats of Asturia or Leon from whence Garcia Ximenes a Nobleman extracted from the Royal Gothish Blood about the year 713. or as others assert about the year 716. descended with 600 men and after divers successeful encounters with the Moors gave a Beginning to the little Kingdom of Suprarba locked up within the Pyrenean Hills which sometimes after dilated it self and spread into the Valleys which from hence assum'd the Name of Navarra or Navierras which in Spanish imports as much as plain grounds And of this Kingdome I shall now render an Account NAVARRE NAVARRE is circumscribed on the East with the principality of Berne in the Kingdome of France on the West with the River Ebrâ— or Iberus on the North with the Cantabrian Mountains and on the South with the River Aragon which seperates it from that Kingdome The ancient Inhabitants were the Vascones invested not only in the possession of this Track but of Biscay and Guipuscâ—a also It was ravished away from these by the Romans who were expulsed by the Goths and they again were disseised of the tenure of this Province by the invading Moors who finally were dislodged from their new Acquists by the Magnanimity of Garcia Ximenes above-mentioned whose Successor Ximenes Garcia dying without Issue after an Interregnum of four years Inigo Arista Son of Simon Earl of Bigorre was advanced by Election to the Royal Dignity of Navarre as the next Heir in the Collateral Line to Ximenes Garcia abovesaid and he was Ancestor to Sancho the fourth who in respect that he was possest by Descent of Navarre and Aragon of Castile in Right of his Wife Donna Nugna or Elvira Sister and Heir of Sancho the last Earl thereof and of Leon by Conquest incorporated into his stile the Title of Great and he upon his Decease bequeathed the Kingdom of Navarre to his eldest Son Garcia whose Son Sancho the fifth was unnaturally assassinated by his younger Brother Raymir after whose Tragical Exit and the brief interposition of this bloody Intruder who had bespattered the Throne of Navarre with such a purple Effusion this Diadem was pluck'd from his Temples by Sancho Ramires to invest his own after whom Pedro and Alfonso Kings of Aragon likewise did severally and Successively weild the Scepter and manage the Government of Navarre But this Alfonso dying without Issue and his Brother Raymir a Monk unclouding his Head of his Cowle to adorne it with the Crown of Aragon the Soveraignty of Navarre was vested in Garcia Raymir Grandchild of Garcia de Nagera and Son of Raymir the Usurper abovementioned so that the Right of this Descent so fortified his Title that he ascended the Throne of Navarre as the direct Heir of that Kingdome from whom the transmission of Descent transported it to his Grandchild Sancho the eighth in whom the Male Line of Garcia Ximines was wound up in a Conclusion for he going out without Issue Theobald Earl of Champaigne Son of Blanch his Sister and Heir was entitled in Right of this Descent to the Diadem of Navarre and from the Thread of Succession wafted this Dignity to his Grandchild Henry who determining in Joan his sole Daughter and Heir she by Matching with Philip the Fair King of France by this new Alliance inoculated the the Scepter of Navarre on that of France and in the Hands of his Posterity it flourished during the Government of Lewis Hutin Philip the Long and Charles the Fair Kings of France and of Navarre his Lineal Successors but Charles the last of these expiring without Issue Jane Daughter of Lewis Hutin as Heir General of this Charles was invested in the Possession of this Kingdome and in her Right Philip Earl of Eureux her Husband step'd into the Throne of Navarre and from these two did the Diadem of this Province devolve by Successive transmission to his Grandchild Charles the third King of Navarre in whom the Male Line determining the Distaff prevailed against the Spear for Blanch his Daughter annexed this Kingdome to the Patrimony of her Husband John King of Aragon who likewise found his Name wrap'd up as to this particular Match in two Daughters and Coheirs one of whom styled Leonora by espousing Gaston de Foix gave up the Roialty Possession and Crown of this Kingdome to empale the Brow of this Earl her Husband and from these two the Soveraignty was conducted down by successive Delegation to their Grandchild Francis Phoebus who deceasing without Issue the Crown and Dignity of Navarre came to embellish the Head of Catharine his Sister and Heir and she being espoused to John d'Albret of Gascony descended from Amani d'Albret which Amani in the Government of Charles the fifth King of France was wedded to Margaret of Bourbon Sister to Jane Queen of France and by that Alliance very much improved the splendor of his House linked the Kingdome of Navarre to his Patrimony and from these two descended Henry their Son and Heir who was King of Navarre and Match'd with Margaret Sister of Francis the first King of France by whom he had Issue Jane the sole Inheritrix of Navarre who by espousing Anthony of Bourbon entitled him to the Crown and Scepter of Navarre and she was Mother of Henry the fourth Grandmother of Lewis the thirteenth Great-grandmother of the instant Lewis the fourteenth successively Kings of France who by Authority of this Alliance have ever since inserted and interwoven the Title of King of Navarre amongst their Style and Inscriptions But alas this is only a barren naked and empty
fortifie her self agrinst the Designs of Pope Urban had adopted Lewis Duke of Anjou Brother to Châ—rles the fifth King of France for her Heir and he endevoured to vindicate and extort the Crown from Charles of Duras by Dint of Sword but the latter did so vigorously sustain all the Impressions of the House of Anjou that he not onely asserted and fixed the Right of the Crown to himself but likewise transmitted a peaceable Possession of it to his Successors which were first Ladislaus his Son and Heir who Deceased without Issue and Joan his onely Daughter and then Heir who upon the Death of Ladislaus ascended the Throne of Naples by the Name of Joan the second who for Disorders and irregular Excesses and holding a scandalous Familarity with one Caracciolo as likewise for her ill Administration of the publique Affairs was Degraded from the Regal Dignity by Pope Martin the fourth and Lewis of Anjou Grandchild to Lewis Duke of Anjou above mentioned named by him to wear the Diadem of Naples in her place but she disdaining to be thus devested to secure her self against the attempts and pretences of this Lewis Adopted Alfonsus King of Aragon and Sicily for her Heir but being a Woman of a volatile and inconstant Temper upon pretence of some ingrateful Affronts put upon her by Alfonsus abovesaid Cancelled her first Adoption and by a second Instrument declared Lewis the fourth Duke of Anjou Son to Lewis abovesaid for her Heir and this Lewis having wrung the Crown from the House of Aragon enjoyed it joyntly with this Queen Joan in a fixed serenity of Government for some years but dying without Issue before her she to preserve her self from the Eruptions of the Aragonian Faction Adopted Rene Duke of Anjou his Brother for her Heir and soon after she had declared and effected this she her self was disrob'd by Death of all Earthly Glory But this Rene being then Captive with the Duke of Burgundy was debarred from amassing those Forces together which might adjoust his Title to the Crown of Naples indeed his Dutchesse Elizabeth attempted to retrive it but being overlaid with the Faction and Force of Alfonsus She and the House of Anjou were utterly supplanted and Alfonsus upon a pretence extracted from the first Adoption of Joan which was supported by Conquest upon the Ruines of this Family step'd up to the Throne of Naples and he more to ennoble his Family by an Additional Augmentation of Revenue enstated this Kingdom on his Natural Son Ferdinand who being thus invested in it transmitted it to his Son Alfonsus the second and he had Issue Ferdinand the second who likewise wore the Diadem of Naples but a Tenure very volatile and unfixt attended the Soveraignty and made it rest but loosly on his Temples for Charles the eighth King of France Espousing the Title and Quarrel of the House of Anâ—ou so vigorously supported their Interest that he supplanted this Ferdinand and forced him to abandon the Neapolitan Scepter but the French upon the Departure of Charles the eighth managing both the Civil and Military Affairs of this Kingdome with much Impetuousnesse and Inadvertency excited the Neapolitans to resent their sway and Government with so much Regret and Passion that Frederick Brother of Alfonsus the second regained it with as much Facility as his Nephew Ferdinand had cheaply lost it But Lewis the twelfth Successor and Kinsman to Charles the eighth upon the Decease of this Charles who dyed suddenly at Amboise as he was preparing for a second Eruption upon Naples Collected a Powerful Army to vindicate his pretences and Title to that Kingdome so that Frederick finding himself too weak to sustain the weight of so mighty an Opposition threw himself into the Protection of Ferdinand King of Aragon and Castile who in stead of asserting his Interest against the Onsets of the French by an unworthy Compact with Lewis the twelfth disserted his Kinsman and had the Moiety of the Kingdome assigned him as the price of this Dereliction but not long after the French and Spaniard entering into Contention about the Bounds and Limits of the Lands divided their Animosities were improved to that heighth that they blazed out in the Flame of a publique War which was managed with that Vigor and Prudence by Gonsalvo the Spanish General that after many Encounters the French were wholly disseised and their Interest they had in this Kingdome extorted from them and though in Ages subsequent to this the French did not tamely abandon their pretended Concernment here but sought to retrive it by the Bloody Umpirage of the Sword yet were their Designs so ill managed and their Arms so unprosperous that their Disastrous successe did but more fasten the Crown and Scepter of Naples to that of Spain to whose Diadem the Interest and Title of this Kingdom hath remained ever since so firmely linked that it is still united to the Hereditary Patrimony of Philip the fourth now King of Spain Milan MILAN is shut in on the East with Mantua and Parma on the West with Piemont and Switzerland on the North with the Province called Marca Anconitana and on the South with that Chain of Hills which is styled the Appenine The Ancient Inhabitants were the Insubres the Bâ—ji the Cenomani and the Senones who were after diverse signal Contentions devested of their Possessions by the Romans and forced to surrender themselves as Tributary to their Dominion and Seignory and in that Demeasn which supported Rome as it was first the Head of a spreading Common-wealth and then secondly the Metrapolis of a spacious Empire did this Province lie folded up until the Government of this Province came to be Managed by Augustulus the last of the Western Emperours who being subdued and his Forces broken by Odoacer King of the Heruli and Thuringians this Province became the Guerdon of his Triumphs but the Possession being thus atchieved by an unjust Invasion was not long after extorted and ravished away from them by Theodorick K. of the Goâ—hs about the Year 495. but here the Title was as volatile and transient as formerly for Teyas his â—uccessor was about the Year 567. vanquished by the unâ—ted Forces of Alboinus King of the Avâ—res invited out of Hungary and Narses General for the Emperour Justinian in Itaâ—y the Goths being thus disieised this Province was consigned to Albâ—inus and his Troops by Narses Anno 568. as the price of his Successful Courage and meritorious Fidelity so visibly exhibited in the War commenced with the expulsed Goth and in himself and his Line did the Soveraignty of this Province by a Decursion and Series of Twenty three Kings remain uninterruptedly lodged until the Devolution of Descent brought the Scepter to be weilded by Desiderius who being about the Year 774. Discomfited by Charles the Great this Kingdome sunk in his Ruines and was afterwards incorporated as a Province into the spreading Demeasne of that Victorious Monarch After whose Raign this Province remained Imperial and
the year 1228. it was ravished away from this new Prince by Zaen a Prince of the Moors in Spain and the pretence upon which he established this Violence was that this dethroned Potentate had an Intention to revolt to Christianity but this Zaen had not been long seated in his new Conquests but he was supplanted and subdued by James King of Aragon about the year 1238. and this Province annexed as an Appendage to the Kingdome of Aragon to which it hath ever since been so constantly fastned that both its Title and Propriety is at this instant linked to the Scepter of Philip the fourth now King of Spain MAJORCA THe Kingdome of Majorca contained the Islands of Majorca Minorca Fbusa Frumentaria in the Levant and the Land of Roussillon which was added to Spain in the time of the Goths being accounted a Limb before of Gallia Narbonensis On the Decease of Gerrard the last Proprietary Earl it was added to the Crown of Aragon by Alfonso the second by James the first it was annexed to the Diadem of Majorca but being torn from that Scepter by Pedro the fourth it was once more linked to the Patrimony of that Crown After that it was transmitted as a pawn by John the second to Lewis the eleventh King of France to secure the reimbursement of 300000 Crowns lent in the year 1462. and freely surrendred to Ferdinand the second sirnamed the Catholique with a Release from all incumbrances by Charles the Eighth his Son in the year 1493. with this Provisoe annexed that he should not impede or intercept him in those Designs which had an Aspect on the Conquest of Naples from whom the continued Flux of Descent carried it down to Philip the fourth King of Spain in whose Patrimony it lay couched until the late Defection of Catalonia and then it was totally lopp'd off from the Interest of the Spaniard by the successeful Sword of the French and is by the conditions of the last Treaty of Peace to remain during the truce wrapp'd up in the Demeasnes of the Gallican Diadem Adjoyning to this Province as part of the Kingdomâ— of Majorca is that Countrey which by the Spaniard is styled Cerdagne and it is probable borrowed this Appellation now stiv'd into a lesser Volume from the Cerretani who were the ancient Inhabitants This Province lying in those Valleys which are linked to the Pyrenean Hills was judged meet to be annexed to the County of Roussillon for the farther improvement of that Province to whose paramount Fortune its appendant Fate hath been constantly ever since so subservient that when it and Roussillon was pawned to the French it was part of the Mortgage and was also wrapped up in the Restitution The Earldome of Montpellier was some hundreds of years since by Mary the only Daughter of William the last Earl thereof united to the Dominion and Patrimony of Peter the second King of Aragon and by her he had issue James King of Aragon and Majorca of that Name the Third who conveyed it by Sale to Philip of Valois King of France in the patrimony of whose Successors it hath ever since been resident Majorca with the circumambient Islands of Minorca Ebusa now called Yuica Frumentera styled by the Greeks Ophiusa and Colubraria by the Latins from the multitude of Serpents which anciently infested it Dragâ—nera Cabraria Vedra Coâ—â—rello Moncolibre Alfaques and Scombraria so called from a contemptible Fish named Scombrus attaqued in the time of the Romans in numerous Shoals on this Coast and thence transported to Rome though more anciently as divers eminent Records testifie it obtained the Denomination of the Island of Hercules These Islands were first planted by the Tyrians or Phaenicians to whose industrious care most of their Cities owed their first Institution and Erection there being one erected in the Island of Ebusa which to inforce a grateful acknowledge ment to posterity of their expence had the name Phaenissa anciently lodged upon it And from these Phaenicians the future Inhabitants derived the Art of Slinging which they improved to so great advantage and Dexterity that the Name of Baleares in subsequent Ages was imposed upon them which word some do assert was extracted from the Phaenician word Baal-Jarre which in the Punick Dialect imports as much as a Master in the Art of Slinging though others with more probability deduce it from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to cast forth or throw But to proceed These Islands first bowed to the yoke of the Carthaginians whose Affairs here were successefully managed by the prudent conduct of Hanno and Himilco Anno M. 5500. At what time the City of Rome lay gasping under the Tyranny of the Decemviri under the Dominion of that State they remained subject until the Conclusion of the second Punick War when the Carthaginians being no longer able to shelter them with their protection they abandoned them to themselves who immediately moulded themselves into the Constitution of a Commonwealth whose Contexture was quickly supplanted by Metellus Brother to him who subdued Crete and united it to the Roman Patrimony who from this submission of theirs to that Empire was recompensed with the glorious Trophies of a triumph Afterwards being incorporated into Spain and made a Limb of that great Body the same Fortune either prosperous or adverse which waited on that attended likewise on this In those Distractions which retailed out the Empire of the Moors in Spain to a various Ruine they were knit into an entire Kingdome under the notion of the Kingdom of Majorca from the Moors it was rent away by the Conduct and Prowesse of Raymond Earl of Barcelona assisted in that undertaking by the concurrent Supply of the Genoese about the year 1102 but I know not upon what grounds not long after the Genoese made a tame Surrender of it to the Moors again which was not long resident in their possession for James King of Aragon about the year 1228. wrung it from them by a second Conquest and he setled it on his second Son James and from him the Diadem devolved to his Son and Heir Sancho who dying without Issue James Son of Ferdinand Brother to James the first King of Majorca entred upon it by the Name of James the second on whose decease James the Third ascended the Throne who suddenly after was dislodged being subdued and slain in a disastrous Encounter by Pedro the fourth King of Aragon about the year 1348. After whose Tragedy this was annexed to Aragon and hath continued ever since so closely interwoven with the Interest of this Kingdome that it still obeys the Scepter of Philip the Fourth now King of Spain CATALONIA CATALONIA is shut in on the North with the County of Roussillon and the Pyrenian Mountains on the East with the Mediterranean on the South with Valentia on the North and North-West with Aragon The Name as some probable Conjectures seem to affirm is derived from the Castellani who in elder times were
their Descent and Claim from the Daughter and Heir of Lewis de Hutin K. of France before Philip de Valois which Lewis Matched with Margaret eldest Daughter to Robert the Third above mentioned and Mother to the Heir General But to proceed K. John being thus invested in the Possession setled it on his second Son Philip the Hardy from whom by the steps of some Descents it came down to Charles the Hardy who finding an untimely Sepulchre in the Feilds of Nancy left the Propriety of Burgundy to be enjoyed by Mary his sole Inheretrix upon the Decease of which Charles Lewis the Eleventh King of France seised upon the Dutchy of Burgundy as an Appendage to the Crown of France pretending it was by the Fundamental Customes of that Kingdome to return to that Scepter in case there were a defailance of Issue Male but the French County being an Imperial Isle was permitted to remain united to the Patrimony of his Daughter Mary abovesaid in whose Right Maximilian the Emperour her Husband was invested in the Fee and from him is the Seignory and Demeasne of this Province by the transmission of Successive Descent guided down to own the Scepter and Dominion of Philip the fourth the instant King of Spain Flanders and Artois THese two though since since separated were Originally knit together in the Interest of one Estate yet after the Interval of five or six Descents were again twisted together and remained thus incorporated ever since Flanders is bound in on the East with Haiâ—alt and Brabant on the West with the German Ocean on the North with the Seas of Zealand and a Branch of the Scheld and on the South with Picardy and Graveling interposing betwixt Callis and Graveling Antiquity hath extracted its Name from several Conjectures as first from Flando because it lyeth upon the winds others again assert that it was imposed upon it from Flandbert the Son of Blesinda Daughter of Clâ—dion the second King of France some fetch it from a Town of that Name situated in that part of the Country where now Ardenbourg stands so long since languished and shrunk into Ruin that the least Symptome or Representation being wanting to inform us that there was once such a place in being that we now with difficulty trace out its Rubbish amidst its Ruines therefore the Conjectures of more rational heads extract the Appellation from Flandrina the Wife of Lideric the second the first who managed the Government of these parts as Forrester It was in elder Times resolved into three Divisions that is Flandria Imperialis called so because it was long in its obedience subservient to the Emperours of Germany Flandria Gallica so styled from the French Dialect there spoken and Flandria Teutonica because within its precinct the Dutch Language was properly used Artois is limited on the East with Flanders Gallicant and the County of Cambray on the South and West it is bounded with Picardy on the North with Flanders Flammegant and the River of Lis. The Name is extracted from the Atrebates the old Inhabitants thereof the Air is temperate and the Soil so pregnant and â—ertile that it may very well have the Denomination of the Granary of Flanders and Brabant These Countries of Flanders and Artois were anciently if not a part yet much of the same Nature and Condition with the great Forrest of Ardenne nothing but the Solitudes of continual Woods and Deâ—arts making the Aspect of it rude and desolate The ancient Inhabitants of the first were the Nervii and Morini who were supplanted by the Romans and these again by the French who having established the great Earldome of Ardenne made these Provinces in part subject to the Dominion and power of its Governours whilest that Track of Earth which confined on the Sea was so exposed to Rapine Pyracies and Depredations of the Danes that it was neglected uncultivated and almost unpeopled the In-land Countries something contributing to the general Calamity by being meanly planted from a Deficiency of those Necessaries which should support the Life of Man But when Brunulph Earl of Ardenne was secured by Dagobert King of France this Wild and disordered Country extending as far as the River of Some and enwrapping besides Artois and Flanders a considerable part of Piâ—ardy about the Year 621. was given to Lideriâ— le Beuque with the Title of Forrester to be held under Homage to that Crown In whose Posterity this Title sojourned until the time of Baldwin the first the Son of Odoacer the seventh of the Forresters whose Names are Recorded in the Registers of Flanders there being a Gap or Parenthesis which ravels their Memories during the Ravage of the Danes and Normans This Baldwin having by a violent Onset ravished away and after Wedded Judith Sister to Charles the Bald King of France and Emperour was by him created Earl of Flanders about the Year 864. the Soveraignty reserved as before it was in whose Issue the Interest of these Provinces remained combined and entire until Philip the first surnamed of Elsas Son of Theodorick the first surnamed likewise of Elsas to which Theodorick the Seignory both of Flanders and Artois accrued as being Heir General of Heltrude Daughter and Heir General likewise of Robert the first Earl of Flanders and Artois after the Decease of her Brother Robert the second Charles Son of Canutus King of Denmark who had Matched with her Sister Adeliza and of William Grandchild of William the Bastard Duke of Normandy who had Espoused Mawde Daughter of Baldwin the Fifth Earl of Flanders and Artois gave unto Philip Augustus King of France the Province of Artois with the Earldome of Veramandois with Isabel his Neice Daughter of Baldwin the eighth Earl of Hainault which Baldwin had Wedded Margaret Daughter of Theodorick above-mentioned and Sister and Heir of this Philip. By Lewis the Eighth Son and Successor to this King Philip Artois was given as a Portion to swell the Patrimony of his youngest Son Robert who was adorned with the Title of Earl of Artois by King Lewis the Ninth Anno 1234. This Robert had Issue Robert the second in whom the Male Line failed so that Mawde his sole Daughter being Matched to Othelin Earl of Burgundy he in her right became Earl of Artois But in him the Title was as volatile and unfixed as in the former for he Deceased without Issue Male and so Joan his Daughter and Heir by Espousing Philip the Long King of France united this Earldome to his Scepter and the Estate to his Patrimony and gave it in Marriage with the County of Burgundy with Joan his Eldest Daughter to Eudes Duke of Burgundy and from him the right of Descent wafted it along to his Grandchild Philip the Third who expiring without Issue Margaret second Daughter of King Philip the Long above mentioned who was Matched to Lewis Earl of Flanders entered upon this Earldome as his Heir General and transmitted it and both the Burgundies to his Son Lewis de
the signal performances of Utilo gave him not only the Command of these Countries but the Propriety and possession of a considerable part of them likewise by the Title of Lord Marquiss of Antwerpe the fourth from whom called Araulph was the first Mayor of the Palace to the Kings of France made Hereditary to this Family and his â—uccessors By Dagobert the first â—ole King of the French that Branch of this Country which was 〈◊〉 â—ubjection to the Earls of Ardenne was by his Victorious Sword extorted from them and the whole Estate conâ—erred on Ansegisus Son of Arnulph with the Title of Duke of Brabant and from him did the Title and Estate descend to Charles Martell Base Son of his Son Pepin the first and this Charles had Issue Pepin the second surnamed the Short who having managed Successfully the Affairs of France at last Usurped that Diadem and solemnly receive the Crown at Soissons from the Hands of Boniface Arch-Bishop of Mentz in the year 751 The Dukedome of Brabant was by this means incorporated into the Revenue of the Crown of France where it 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ch â—â—ntâ— the partage of the French Empire amongst the â—ons and Kinsmâ—n of Lewis the Godly and 〈◊〉 â—t wâ—s link'd as an Appendage to the Kingdomâ— of Lorraine where it lay wrapped up until Lotharius the third King of France in whose share it was involved conferred it on Charles his younger Bâ—other with the Title of Duke of Brabant But this Donation little improved his Interest because the principal part of this and that Moiety of the Kingdome of Lorraine which obeyed the French was cut off by the Sucessful Sword of Otho the second Emperour of Germany and annexed to the Empire But this Otho considering that Charles above-said thus devested was his Cousin German as being Son to Lewis King of France surnamed the Transmarine who had Wedded Gerburg Sister to his Father Otho the first invested him in the great Dukedome of Lorraine which in spacious Latitude and extent of it circumscribed within its Precincts and perambulation Lorrain Gulick Brabant which had then the Denomination of Basse or Low Lorrain and the Lands of Luick But out of this spreading Patrimony thus enstated on Charles of France Otho the second above-mentioned reserved out of it for his Aunt Gerburg Mother of the said Charles the Towns and Territories of Lovain Bruxells Antwerpe and Nivelle as her Dower which with Reference to the Ancient Title he Honoured with the Dignity of Marquisate of the Holy Empire Annâ— 981. Gerburg the Sister and after the Death of Charles her Brother abovesaid without Issue succeeded in Lovain Antwerpe Bruxells and Nivelle by a Right transmitted to her from her Grandmother the first Gerburg aswell as from him though she had injuriously disseised of Lorrein and the Title to that large Demeasne by the Emperour Henry the second the Emperour which Territories of Lovain and the rest above-mentioned she conveyed in Marriage to Lambert one of the Sons of Reigner Earl of Hainault with the Title of Earl of Lovain Henry his Son reduced Antwerpe which it seems by an unjust Violence was detained from him and by this Atchievement obtained the whole Marquisate but still reserved the Title of Earl of Lovain Godfrey the sixth Earl having by several new Acquists much extended the Bounds and Marches of his Dominions was by the Emperour Henry the fifth to whom he was link'd in as near an Obligation of Affinity having Matched with his Sister as in Friendship in the Year 1108 Created the first Duke of Brabant and from him the Title flowed down with an undisturbed Channel to John the third of that Name Duke of Brabant by whose Daughter and Co-heir both the Title and Seignory was transported to Wenceslaus the first Duke of Luxenbourg by whom though she had no Issue yet on him and on his Posterity she enstated this Dutchy and Sigismund his second Son Duke of Luxenbourg setled it on Elizabeth his Neice Daughter to John Duke of Gorlitz in Lusatia and she by Matching with Anthony of Burgogne one of the younger Sons of Philip the Hardy annexed it to his Inheritance and being by this Alliance thus entitled to it it was transmitted to John the fourth Duke of Brabant who was eldest Son by his first Wife for this his second deceased without Issue Joan Daughter of Waleran Earl of S. Paul but he dying without Issue it devolved by Descent to his second Brother Philip who likewise expiring without Children Philip the Good Grandchild to Philip the Hardy Succeeded in this Dutchy as Heir to his two Kinsmen above mentioned and from him did the Clew of diverse Descents guide the Title down to Philip the second King of Spain and he lost a considerable proportion of it in the Fatal Defection of the Netherlands occasioned by the Bloody Impression made upon their Invaded and Injured Liberties by Ferdinand Duke of Alva though Bruxells Antwerpe Machlin and other Important peices do yet confesse the Scepter and Dominion of Philip the fourth now King of Spain The Seignory of Machlin consists onely of that City and some Eight or nine contiguous Villages The most eminent of the Villages is styled Liest or Hiest situated on the pleasant Knob of a swelling Hill the residue of the adjacent Villages confining on the foot thereof Both Town and Villages were formerly enwraped in the Patrimony of the powerful Family of the Bertholts which Name expiâ—ing in the person of Gualter de Bertholt slain in the Battel of Worancan by John Duke of Brabant one Moiety of it devolved to the Bishop of Leige who again conveyed it by Sale to John the second Duke of Brabant and the other proportion accrued to ...... Duke of Gueldres and he in the Year 1333. passed it away to Lewis de Malain Earl of Flanders but he conveyed nothing away but a naked Title which was before denuded of its Revenue by the Successful Hand of John the third Duke of Brabant who tore it away to augment his own Estate since which this Seignory of Machlin with all its Perquisites and Appendages hath so constantly attended the Fate of Brabant and Flanders that it at this instant confesses the Interest of the Spanish Scepter Limbourg hath on the East the Dukedome of Gulick on the West the Bishoprick of Leige on the North Brabant and on the South the Dukedome of Luxenbourg The ancient Inhabitants of this Track were the Eburones when it was first advanced to the Title of an Earldome the Light which should be Collected from Ancient Records is so dim and faint that it cannot conduct us to any clear and positive discovery onely it is probable that it was Originally a Limb of the great Earldome of Ardenne from which it was rent to institute and make up a Patrimonial Inheritance for some Cadet or younger Son as Namur and Luxenbourg were or snatched away by the Violent hand of some For aign pretender as Gulick was when Godfrey and Baldwin
instant confesses the Seignory and Title of the Descendants of Leopold Brother to Ferdinand the second Duke of Gratz and Emperour of Germany Bohemia BOHEMIA is encompassed on the East with Moravia on the West with the Upper Palatinate and Voitland on the North with Misnia Lusatia and some part of Silesia on the South with some parts of Bavaria and Austria The first Inhabitants were the Marcomanni and Quadi mingled with the Boiari Marsigni Burij and Gothini who upon the wane of that Power and Splendor which ennobled the Roman Empire were disseised of their ancient Patrimony in this Kingdome by the Sclavi a Nation Inhabiting the Banks of the River Ister a People very Obscure in their Original and in their Country until their Successes dispelled that Mist which hung about them and made them more conspicuous Under what Form of Government they modelled themselves after their Atchievement of this Kingdome is not obvious from any Ancient Record or if they did erect any Frame it was swept away by new Squadrons of Sclaves Croatians and other scattered Nations who under the Conduct of Zechius a Leader of great estimate like an Inundation broke in upon them which Zechius with his Brother Leches about the Year 640. were expulsed out of Croatia for some Offences of a dark Complexion there acted by them and being very acceptable to the Sclaves of Bohemia who viewed him as a Prince extracted out of the same Cradle and Seminary with themselves and one of the same Language concerned in the same Laws and conformable to the same Customes with their own they Adopted him into the Supreme Government of this Province But after his Decease the Estate crumbled into the Confusions of a disordered Anarchy until Crocus about the Year 670. recollected the broken pieces into shape and Order and from his Justice and Integrity in the Administration of the Publique Affairs acquired the Name of the Bohemian Law-giver after his Exit the Bohemians resigned themselves up to the Government of Libussa his youngest Daughter but her Hand being too narrow to graspe the Affairs of State her Subjects made choice of Primiâ—â—aus and by Matching of him to her devolved the Government on his shoulders and in his Posterity the Supreme Authority was resident who were adorned with no other Title but sometimes Governours and sometimes Dukes of Bohemia until the Rule of Ueratislaus Brother to Sbtignâ—us who about the Year 1086. was for his Worthy and generous Performances in several Undertakings by the Emperour Henry the fourth at Metz invested with the Title of King which Regal Dignity was to continue Elective either at the will and Arbitrament of the Emperour or at the Disposition of the Estates and People and this is evident from several Precedents this Uratislaus left three Sons who were devested of the Crown to give way to Conrade Brother to Uratislaus who by the suffrages of the People was Elected King and after his Decease Brecislaus Son to Uratislaus to the prejudice of hiâ— two Sons was advanced by Choice to the Bohemian Diadem and after his Exit Borivorius fourth Son to Brecislaus to the Disherison of his three elder Brothers was Elected to weild the Scepter and thus did the Crown continue in the persons of Sutopulcus Uladislaus the second Sobeslaus Brother to this Uladislaus Uladislaus the third Son to Uladislaus the second above mentioned who by the Peoples Election was advanced to the Diadem the Sons of Sobeslaus being excluded and all the Residue of their Successors until the Crown came to be placed on the Head of Ferdinand the first Emperour of Germany who notwithstanding his Latitude of Power acknowledged that the Bohemian Scepter devolved to him not by the Authority of any Intrinsique or Inherent Right or the Claim of Succession but only by the Election of the People and this his Confession was enrolled in the Records of the Kingdome and though it is certain that Maximilian his Son Rodolphus Matthias his two Grandchildren were Successively Kings after him yet not their Descent but the Peoples Election fortified their advancement to the Bohemian Diadem and though upon the Decease of Matthias Ferdinand surnamed of Gratz as Adopted Son to Matthias declar'd Successor to the Crown of Bohemia by his Testament intruded upon the Throne yet being not formally and legally Elected by the People he was by the Estates of the Kingdom rejected who fixed upon Frederick Elector Palatine of the Rhine as the object of their Choice but he being betrayed by his Confederates and over-laid with the united Armies of the Emperour Ferdinand and the Dukes of Saxony and Bavaria abandoned Bohemia which was re-possest by Ferdinand in whose Descendant Line it hath been since so permanent the Peoples Election having been by Menaces and Force extorted that it is now the Possession of his Grandchild Leopoldus Ignatius the instant Emperour of Germany Silesia SILESIA is bounded on the East with Poland on the West with Lusatia on the North with the Marck of Bradenburg on the South with Moravia The first Inhabitants hereof were the Marsigni Burij Gothini and some part of the Quadi In the great partage of the Eastern parts of Germany amongst the Sclaves who had supplanted the ancient Proprietaries it was incorporated with the Dukedome or Kingdom of Poland and remained annexed unto it until the Government of Uladislaus the second who being devested of his Crown and Scepter by the unnatural Combination of his Brethren was by the powerful Influence and Intercession of the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa Seated in this Country with this Restriction that it shoul be held in Homage to the Soveraignty of Poland After his Decease it became split into parcels and was distributed amongst his three Sons and again according to that ancient Custome of Germany called Land-Skiftan which with the Saxons was transplanted into England was subdivided into so many subordinate parts which were to support the Revenue and Livelyhood of their Posterity that it became resolved and broken into fourteen Dukedomes of all which onely Oswitz and Zator continue fastned to the Crown of Poland ten of the twelve remaining being by the Power and Prudence of Wenceslaus the second and John of Luxenbourg Son to the Emperour Henry the seventh both Kings of Bohemia knit to the Patrimony of that Diadem only Suâ—initz remained under the Regiment and Administration of its own Dukes until Bogâ—slaus the last Duke by Testamentary Donation passed away all his Interest in it to Charles the fourth Emperour and King of Bohemia also so that eleven of these petty Royalties by Conquest and voluntary Concession came to be linked to those Possessions which improved the Grandeur of the â—ohemian Scepter and have still so constantly waited on the Fate which hath attended the Diadem of that Kingdome that they are now subservient to the Interest and Dominion of the Austrian Family at this instant Seated in the Imperial Throne onely Lignitz the last in the Inventory of Fourteen Dukedomes
Hungars a People of Scithia wandering in Sarmatia Europaea and not tied or fixed to any certain abode to his support and Assistance and they so generously crushed the Attempts and repulsed the Assaults given to the Emperour and his Armies that to reward so signal and generous performances Arnulphus Invested them in the Possession of Pannonia and by a grateful elevation advanced Casala their Leader to the Title of Duke of this Province and he to perpetuate to Posterity the Memory of this Magnificent Donation discarded the Ancient Name of Pannonia and imposed that of Hungary an Appellation extracted from the People above mentioned upon it and from him it came down to his great Grandchild Stephen the fourth Duke of Hungary in whom that Title ceased and was improved to the more eminent Dignity of King which Office by the transmission of Descent passed along to his Successor Stephen the fourth of that Name King of Hungary and he determined in Mary his sole Heir who by Matching with Charles the I ame Son of Charles K. of Naples linked the Crown of Hungary to his Patrimony and in his Descendant Line it resided until the Scepter of this Kingdome came to be grasped by his Successor Ludovicus or Lewis who concluding in Daughters and Coheirs Mary the eldest being Wedded to Sigismund the Emperour brought this Crown about the Year 1387. to acknowledge his Scepter and Seignory and he left Issue Elizabeth Daughter to them two and she by Espousing Albert of Austria planted the Crown of Hungary on his Temples and from him it devolved to Elizabeth his Daughter by this Alliance who was Affianced to Ladislaus the second Son of Casimir the fourth King of Poland who in her Right was justly entitled to the Hungarian Diadem and left it to his Son Ladislaus or Lewis infortunately slain at the Battel of Mohats by the Turks about the Year 1526. upon whose Decease without Issue Ferdinand Brother to Charles the fifth in Right of Anne his Wife who was Sister and Heir to Lewis above-said was Invested with the Crown of Hungary and from him the Scepter of this Kingdom was transported by the Devolution of several Descents to Ferdinand the third Emperour of Germany who upon his late Decease hath left it to be weilded by his Son and Heir Leopoldus Ignatius who now is placed on the Hungarian Throne Croatia CROATIA is bounded on the East with Bosnia on the West with Carniola on the South with Contado di Zara anciently Named Liburnia on the North with Windischland The Reason why the Name was imposed is not obvious in Authours only it is generally asserted it was fixed on it by the Sclaves when they made their first Eruption on this Country when they disseised the Goths who supplanted the Romans who had before rooted out and dislodged by several multiplied Conquests the ancient Inhabitants call'd the Liburni and Illyrij mingled with some allay of the neighbouring Nations or rather Colonies of the Japodes the Scirtari the Mazai the Peruistae the Derrij Ceraunij Daursii Vardae Siculotae Sardiotae and others of more despicable Estimate But long the Sclaves had not setled in this Province but their Disorders unsetled them for by their Mutinies and Rebellions against their Governours which concluded still in their slaughter and Ruin they fill'd the State with Anarchie and Vicissitude and were never calm or fixed until the several Tribes to allay this Distemper had Princes who succeeded one another in a more Regular Method under the Title of Kings of Croatia and in this Capacity it remained until the Year 970. when having worried and harrassed their Neighbours by Pyracies and other acts of Devastation the Venetians inflamed by these Affronts to expiate their Depredations with a just Revenge in several Conflicts so embased and retrench'd their Power that Zelamirus the last King Deceasing without Issue bequeathed the Kingdome to his Wife and she by a willing Donation transferr'd her Interest to her Brother Ladislaus the Saint King of Hungary so that it hath had its Title ever since so involved and wound up in the Fate and Fortune of Hungary that by Ann the Sister and Heir of K. Lewis who perished in the Ruin of the Battel of Mohatz it accrued to Ferdinand the first Emperour of Germany and from him by the Traverses of several Descents did it passe along untill at last it is now come to confess the Soveraignty of Leopoldus Ignatius now Emperour of Germany VVindischland VVINDISCHLAND is chained in on the East with part of the lower Hungary on the West with Carniola or Karnt on the North with the River Dravus on the South with Croatia It was anciently esteemed a Limb of Pannonia Inferiour as in more modern Times a parcell of the Province of Savia The ancient Inhabitants were the Winithi or Vendi who being swallowed up in the frequent mixtures of their Confining Neighbours the Sclaves were esteemed a Branch of that Powerful and spreading Nation but still to preserve the Name of their first Original the Denomination of Windischland was imposed on this Province which since by the Sale and conveyance above mentioned made by Zelamirus to Uladislaus the Saint hath been so linked with Croatia that as it hath had still the same Successours so at this instant it owns no other Scepter but that of Leopoldus Ignatius now Emperour of Germany FINIS
concentered in her was now lodged on him which Bernard King Henry the second the more by some solemn Obligations to endear and fasten to himself adorned with the Title of Earl of Medinâ— Câ—li and his Son Gastoâ— the better to enforce and propagate the memory of the Noblenesse of his Antiquity and Extraction discarded the Name of Foix to embrace that of De la Cerda which hath ever since been transmitted with the Title bestowed on Lewis Grandchild to this Gaston and to his Posterity though there hath not wanted a successive regret and murmur in this Family to be thus excluded from the Spanish Diadem It is customary for this House at the Coronation of the Kings of Spain to put up a Petition to the Prince wherein they exhibit their Claim to the Spanish Scepter that at the least upon the Defailance of this Family now Reigning the stream of Soveraignty might flow back into this House to which demand the King subscribes this Answer Despois Nos Voâ— After Us You And sometimes No est lover There is no place for him Thus have I in a compendious Prospect represented the Fate which attended on the Stock and Lineage of Ferdinand de la Cerda I shall now trace out what Vicissitudes waited on Sancho the third from whom the Scepter of Castile and Leon by the unbroken Thread of Succession came to be swayed by the Hand of his Grandchild Pedro the Cruel who was expulsed out of the possession of his kingdoms by the procurement and influence of his natural Brother Henry Earl of Transtamare because of that havock and ravage his savage Executions had acted both on the Nobility and Populacy who after the discarding and Renunciation of him was by the Favour of the People advanced to the Crown of Castile and Leon but his Son John the first finding that his Title was established but upon a crazie Foundation unlesse there were some more powerful Buttresses to sustain more to fortifie his claim matcht his Son and Heir Prince Henry to Catharine Daughter to John of Gaunt by Constance one of the Daughters of Pedro the Cruel and so twisted the two differing Titles into one and from him did the Diadem devolve to his Great Grandchild Henry the fourth who going out without Issue Male Isabell his Sister and sole Inheritrix being Wedded to Ferdinand Son to John King of Aragon incorporated it with the Patrimony of his Crown and Scepter but both these Princes dying without Issue Male Joâ—n their onely surviving Princesse of Castile Leon Granadâ— c. and of Aragon Navarre Sicily Naples c. by espousing Phillip Arch-Duke of Austria and Lord of Belgium fastned these vast Territories into one Body the Ciment which knits them together hath been in subsequent Ages so closely united by the combination of many reciprocal Leagues and Marriages that they are still the Demeasne of the Austrian Family and particularly the Scepter of this Kingdome is lodg'd in the Hands of Phillip the fourth now Monarch of Spain PORTUGALL PORTUGALL is bounded on the North with the Rivers Minio and Avia which seperate it from Gallicia on the South with Algarue on the West with the Atlantick Ocean on the East with the two Castiles and Estremadura The ancient Inhabitants were the Lusitani and from them the Name of Lusitania was imposed upon it but though these were the principal yet the Celtici and Turditani who dwelt on the South-side of Tagus and the Gallaici Braccarii so styled from the Gallaici Lucenses who were Proprietaries of Gallicia and who inhabited on the North of Duero were entitled to a considerable part of the possession of it It was at first by the successful Sword of the Romans made Subject to their Empire but when their Power began to sink under the Impressions of those barbarous Nations who had so fatally assaulted them this was extorted from their Jurisdiction by the Alani but continued not long twisted into their Acquists for the Suevians breaking in upon them supplanted the Contexture of their newly obtained Conquests and forc'd them to dislodge and tamely to surrender their Interest here to them but a usurped Right can have no solid Foundation to establish itself upon for not long after these new Invaders were cast out from their new encroachments by the prosperous Attempts of the Goths but they again sunk in ths Ruins of Spain particular Lamentations are not distinguishable in universal Groans when the Moorish Invaders by a publique Conquest made the Liberty of Spain stoop to their Commands and Successe and after it had for some Ages groaned under those Fetters they imposed upon it it was rescued from its servitude by the noble Conduct of Henny of Lorrain to whom as a just Recompense of his Vertue and exemplary Services Alsonso the sixth King of Leon espoused his base Daughter Teresa and with her to improve her Fortune transmitted that part of Portugall which he and his Ancestors had by some auspicious Conquests rent from the Moors and and to make his Bounty more conspicuous he Invested him with the Title of Earl from whom it came by Descent to his Son Alfonso who by the Soveraigns of Leon was as Guerdon to poize both his Valour and his Virtue and that testimony of an excellent Courage he exhibited at the Battle of Obriquâ— Anno 1139. he Governed as Earl and King seventy two years and managed his Scepter with that Art and Prudence that at his Decease he made his Exit with the Fear and Reverence of his Enemies and the Adoration of his Friends And from him did the Diadem of this Kingdom descend to Alfonso the Wise who by a successful Conquest inlarged the Dominions of Portugall and wrung the Kingdome of Algarue from the Moors of Morocco who had before supplanted the Moors of Sevill and so broke the Power of Aben Mefad one of the most Puissant Princes of this Track that most of the Towns and petty Governours became by a subordinate Vassalage subject to the Scepter of Portugall and having thus entwined the Right of these two Provinces he transmitted them to his Grandchild Pedro who left Issue Ferdinand the first in whom the Male Line of Hen. of Lorrain determined so that the Right both of Portugall and Algarue was concentered in Beatrix his Daughter who was disseised of her Title to the Crown by her Uncle John Natural Son to Pedro above mentioned who having thus dislodged her from the Throne by ill Arts and dark Stratagems disdaining to be tir'd down by any bordering Title by an unlawfull Disherision diâ—carded and cast out the remaining Lawful Issue of his Father Pedro and having thus by these crooked Designs grasped the Scepter and empaâ—'d his Temples with the Diadem of Portugall and Algarue he to fortifie and support his unjust pretensions Match'd with Phillippa Daughter to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster with whom so many noble English Families enter'd Portugall that most of the Eminent Houses of this Nation spin out their
Extraction from them at this Day And this John the first had by this Alliance Alfonso the fifth and John the second successively Kings who both Deceasing without any Issue surviving Emanuel Son to Ferdinand Duke of Visâ—o third Brother to these two Monarchs ascended the Throne of Portugall and from him it descended to his Grandchild John the fourth who upon his Decease left it to be enjoyed by his Son and Heir Don Sebastian who being unhappily slain in the Fatal Battail of Alcasar which stained the Feilds of Africk wiâ—h so much Blood Henry third Brother to King John above mentioned and Unclâ— to this Sebastian put off his Cardinals Hat to adorne his Head with the Diadem of Portugall but he being Aged and Impotent his Hand was too weâ—k to Manage or sustain a Burden of that importance as the Royal Scepter long so that being assaulted with Cares and over-laid with Years after some short Time of his assuming the Crown shrunk into Ashes and paid that Debt we all owe upon his Decease several pretended a Title to this Diadem Lewis second Brother to King John above mentioned died without any Lawful Issue but left Antonio Christopher and others begot in unlawful imbraces Antonio fixt his Claim upon a pretended Act of Legitimation from the Estates of Portugall but there were Titles which appeared more specious and plausible which stav'd his off for Edward the fourth Brother to King John though he concluded without Issue Male yet he left two Daughters and Co-heirs Mary wedded to Alexander Duke of Parma and Catharine Matched to John Duke of Braganza and the two Aunts of the Deceased Sebastian namely Mary was espoused to Charles the fifth and Beatrix was married to Charles Duke of Savoy from both which Alliances there proceeded Issue so that now the Controversie was whether after the Decease of Cardinal Henry a Brothers Daughter or a Sisters Son had the more fixed and established Pretence to the Crown and Scepter of Portugall and when this Question was begun to be winnowed by the Civill Lawyers the Duke of Alva to endear himself to his Prince who was Phillip the second King of Spain and Son to Charles the fifth and Mary above mentioned and to assoile himself from that Stain his stupendous Massacres in the Netherlands had contracted perswaded his Master to cast his Claim upon no other Debate but the Umpirage of the Sword and this counsell had so great an Operation upon him that he employed this Duke and a puissant Army under his Conduct to assert his Title to the Diadem of Portugall the Effects of which Invasion were so visible that after some Trivial Opposition made by the Portuguees who were broken and split into Division and Faction the whole Kingdome stoop'd and resigned it self up with a Restriction to havs its original Franchises preserved and supported to the Dominion and Scepter of Phillip the Second and under the command of his Successors it continued untill the year 1640. and then by the Arts and dark Engines of Cardinal Richâ—lieu the Negligence and Supine inadvertency of Conde d'Olivarez and the ill managery of Affairs in Portugall it self by the King of Spain's Ministers that Kingdome was torn off by a total Defection from the Crown of Spain and the Scepter placed in the Hand of John Duke of Braganza who was with the publique Applause of the people acknowledged for King by the Name of John the Fifth and upon his late Decease this Kingdome is come to confesse Alfonso his Son just Heir to his Dominion and Scepter Leon and Oviedo THe Kingdome of Leon and Oviedo is bounded on the East with Biscay on the North with the Main Cantabrian Ocean on the South with Castile on the North with Galicia The ancient Inhabitants were the Astures from whence the name of Asturia was imposed upon it and were divided into the two general names of the Augustani and Transmoâ—tani in which the particular Tribes of the Pesici Gigari Zoelae and Lanciâ—â—sâ—s were involved and circumscribed It is divided into two parts Asturia de Oviedo confining on Galicia towards the West and Asturia Santillana approaching Biscay towards the East From which Divisions thus approportioned the eldest Son of the Monarch of Spain is styled Prince of the Asturias which Denomination some probably conjecture was derived from this Foundation that this Countrey was the first that like a Dam stopt the Current of the Moorish Fury which before like an impetuous Inundation carried down all before it though other Spanish Writers of Authentick credit refer the rise and original of this Appellation to that time which was cotemporary to the Match of Catharine Daughter to John of Gâ—â—nt and in Right of her Mother Constance the indisputable Heir of Castile unto Henry Son of John the first then planted in the possession of the Kingdome of Castile it being then assented to more to improve the Honour of this married pair that as the Heir apparent of England is styled the Prince of Wales so the eldest Son of Castile should be named Prince of the Asturias It was first conquered by the Romans and by Augustus Caesar made parcel of the Province Tarracoâ—ensis and part afterwards of the Province of Gallicia by the Emperor Constantine torn it was from the Roman dominion by the conquest of the Goths and from them again it was extorted by the invading Moors though they were not long after supplanted For as the Lust of Roderick excited the injured Count Julian to call in the Moors so the intempered and disordered Lust of Magnutza a Moorish Viceroy engaged him to ravish the Sister of Prince Pelagius whilest he had embarqu'd the said Prince in an Embassy to Musa the Moorish Generall who being a person of noble pretensions and daring Hopes at his return to expiate this Dishonour and Infamy with which his Family was bespattered to assoil this Stain he gave up the life of this Viceroy as an Oblation offered up to the Justice of his Sword and the Price of so great an Insolence and Lust Despairing of pardon for this Act he flew to defensive Arms as his noblest Sanctuary and fortified himself in the most inaccessable Retreats of this Country to which many of the old inhabitants resorted and having prospered under his Command elected him for King by the Name of King of the Asturias though after he had reduced the City of Leon he assumed the Title of King oâ— Leon and left it to his Son Fasila who dying without Issue it devolved to Alfonso for his piety sirnamed the Catholick who had wedded Ormisind his Sister and he had Issue Froilla the Repairer of Oviedo Aurâ—lius and Odesin matched to Sillo who after the Decease of the two others was King of Leon after whose Exit the Crown of Leon was unjustly usurped by Mauregate natural Son to Alfonso in which violent detention he was supported by Aderamen King of the Moors who was obliged to this supply by an infamous stipulation transacted and
King of Navarre who gave it to his Son Raymir begotten in unlawful Embraces to the prejudice of his Lawful Son Garcia who indeed justly merited this Disherision because he had by an unnatural Accusation endevoured to blast the Reputation of his Mother Queen Elvira Wife to his Father by besmearing her with the Calumnious Aspersion of Adultery from which black tincture she was assoil'd by the Noble and generous Assistance of Raymir above mentioned who offered to assert her Innocence by the solemn Decision of a mutual Combate with this Garcia which obliged his Father King Sancho to reflect with so benigne an eye on so great a Virtue that he thought the Earldome of Aragon a proportionate Guerdon to his Merit and Courage and translated the Coronet of this Province into a Diadem that the Reward designed him might swell into a more considerable Dimension and with more Lustre adorn his Temples and from this Raymir did there Issue out a Series of Kings that was never interrupted disturb'd or ravel'd in the Clew of Descent but in an even order went along untill the Line of Succession brought the Crown of Aragon to empale the Temples of Ferdinand sirnamed the Catholick who by Matching with Isabella the Heir of Castile linked and incorporated these two Kingdoms into one Body whose divided Interest being thus combined hath ever since continued fastned and tied up in so strict a Union that the Propriety of both these Kingdomes does now support and inforce the Grandeur of that Diadem which invests the Head of Philip the Fourth the instant Monarch of Spain SPAIN SPAIN in Times of an elder Complexion was the Stage where the Scene of much Contention and Bloudshed was established the Romans attempting with much eagernesse and Animosity to ravish away the Spanish Liberty and impose that yoke of Servitude on their Necks they had burdened and loaded the shoulders of other captived Nations with and the Spanish Inhabitants again endevouring with a generous vigour to assert their Native Franchises against their Eruptions and so to secure their Liberties that they might not be offered up an Oblation to the rapatious Tallons of the Roman Eagles but after many Conflicts commenced and the bloody Umpirage of several Battels the Spanish Body having exhaled its most active and vigorous Spirits at those breaches and wounds the successeful Swords of the Romans had torn and discompos'd the Bulk of their Empire withall fell a cheap Sacrifice to their Successe and Ambition and by a tame Submission put on those Fetters the Hands of these new Victors had designed to load them with and the Romans the better to manage and fortifie their new Acquists with a cautious improvement scattered several Colonies and Forts on those several Provinces which were circumscribed within the Continent of Spain a subsequent List of which I shall now represent to the Reader as likewise an exact Register of those Cities and Towns which in times of a more modern Inscription have like so many Phaenix's ascended into shape and order out of their antiquated Ruines A ALCE a City of the Celtiberians was raz'd by Gracchus Abdera now called Almeria and according to the Conjectures of some the place where now the City of Veraâ—s â—s situated Abula now denominated Avila Acci likely to be Guadix in Granada Agra it is under Controversie whether it were placed in Spain or in Africk Arcobrica now styled Calataiub or else separated by no great distance from it Assindon the place where now Medina Sidonia or Xeres in Andalusia is fixed Astapa a Colony of the Carthaginians was destroyed by Martius a Roman Commander under Scipio Astigia reputed to be Eccia in Andalusia Asturica or Astorga retains its primitive Appellation and continues a Bishoprick until this day Ategua how this City is denominated now is represented by Ferrarius who asserts that it is now called Tebalaveia or Teiveila in Granada Augusta a Name Common to many Towns in Spain yet when it is simply rehearsed or Registred without being yoked with any additional Denomination it is taken to signifie Bracar or Braga Auriensis or Aquae Calidae now taken for the Bishoprick of Orenza or Orense in Gallicia Auringa was an eminent City in Andalusia diâ—â—antled and overturn'd by Scipio Aâ—sâ—â—â—a or Auxima at this present styled Vic d'Ossone an obscure Towne circumscribed within Catalonia Auca an ancient City out of whose ruins Burgos is now started Axenium where that was situated or what City was extracted from its Ashes is uncertain B Barcina or Rubicata now call'd Barcelona the Capital City of Catalonia Bastitania now known by the Name of Baza in the Province of Murcia Bregetium in old Records denominated likewise Lucus Astuâ—um is now the City of Oviâ—do in Leon. Biaria now called Barra is in the Kingdome of Toledo Bigastrensis Civitas or Urbs Bistargensis was a Bishoprick situated in the Province of Carthagena Bigerra now styled Beijar is contiguous in its position to Valentia Britolensis Urbs was a Town near Tuy in Gallicia C Cauca was a City in the Territory of the Vacceni and scituated in Portugall ruined by Lucullus the Roman General Carmona was a Town near Cordova demolished by the Goths Cauria at this day denominated Coria and is placed near Merida Caesarea Augusta or Salduba now Sarragossa the Metrapolis of Arragon Calaguris now represented under the Name of Calahorra in Navarre Colimbrica or Conimbrica now Coimbra an eminent University in Portugall Carthago Nova or Carthagena which still retains its pristine Name and though now fallen under some Umbrage and obscurity was in elder Times one of the most eminent Cities of Spain Castulo at this day styled Castona and is scituated near Sevill Centobrica in Celtiberia was reduced to the Roman obedience by Metellus since crumbled into Rubbish Complutum out of wâ—ose Rubbish the noted and Illustrious Unive sity of Alcala de Henarez in Câ—stile is now risen forth Conistorgis was a Colony in Portugall long since mouldred into a neglected heap Colenda was a City of the Celtiberians Corduba gave Naâ—e to the whole Province wherein it was placed and preserves the ancient Appellation and continues a Bishoprick untill this day D Dertosa now called Tortosa and is scituated upon the River of Ebro which separates Catalonia and Valentia Diâ—niâ—m now styled Denia is placed in the Kingdome of Toledo E CIvitas Egarensis was the Residence of a People call'd Egurâ—â— out of whose Ashes sprang a town in Toledo styled Medina del Rio Secco Egedita now a little â—ourg in Portugall called Edania Egosa or Egiba is a Town which still continues its ancient Appellation and is situated near Girona in Catalonia Ebora now is known by the Name of Euora and is placed in Portugall and is at this instant ascended to that Eminence that it is become the Residence of the Kings of Portugal Elibâ—â—is was in Ages of an higher step a populous and spatious City though in Times of a lower Descent it shrunk into the narrow Bulk
Dukes of Lorrain the indisputable Heirs of the House of Ardenne were engaged to a necessary absence by the Holy War But when and by whom it was aâ—orned with the Title of an Earldome certain it is that of an Earldome it was erected to a Dukedome by the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa Anno 1172. Henry one of the Dukes hereof Matched his Daughter Margaret to Godfrey the third Duke of Brabant which suggested to his Successors some specious Colour to pretend unto it supported with a Title of more Authority which came in to reinforce the former on the Decease of another Henry the last Duke of Limbourg whose next Heir Adolph conveyed it to John Duke who fortified his Claim and Title to it by a colourable Pretence and Right derived from the former Match Anno 1293. But Reynald Earl of Guelders being blown up with an over-weening Conceit that his Title was established and erected on a better Foundation than that of Adolph in Right of Ermingrade his Wife Daughter to Herman a late Duke thereof cast in his Challenge to this Dukedome and attempted to evict the Title by the power of the Sword but this was ruinous and destructive to him for being subdued and made Captive by the said Duke John in the Battel of Worancan he was forced to redeem his Liberty by no lesse a price or Ransome than his total Release to all Title or Claim that he or his Successors might pretend to the Dukedome of Limbourg after which it was so folded up in the Interest of the Dukes of Brabant that it came over with it to the House of Burgundy and from that again to own ever since the Dominion of the Spanish Monarchy Guelders Zutphen and Groning GUELDERLAND is shut in on the East with Cleve and the Earldome of Zutphen on the West with Holland and Utrecht on the North with Over Issell and the Zuyder-Sea and on the South with Brabant and the Land of Gulick The ancient Inhabitants of Guelderland were the Menapii and Sicambri People very eminent in ancient Record for their Magnanimity and Courage In Ages of a more modern Inscription these Sicambri mingled with the French and under that Name and notion were entitled to the spreading Empire of the West In the partage thereof by the Posterity of Charles the Great this Province was knit to the Kingdome of Austrasia or East-France and afterwards being broken off was united to the German Empire At the beginning of its Government the Publique Astâ—iâ—s were swayed and weilded by some who enjoyed no other Title but Guardians and Protectors and were advanced to that Dignity by the People in the Raign of Charles the Bald the first who were embellished with this Title were Wickard and Leopold two Brethren who fixing their Chief Residence in the Castle of Guelders gave an occasion to future Ages to impose the Name of Gueldâ—rland on the whole Province but they and their Successors were supported by a Power of so narrow a circumscription that in effect their Office was but Provincial they themselves being accomptable to the Emperours how they managed the publique Concernments of this Province The first Prince who disengaged from the Shackles of these Restraints was Otho of Nassaw who Matched with Aleida Daughter to Wickard the last Guardian and was by the Emperour Henry the third made the first Earl of Guelderland and under this Style and Title his Successors continued until the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria improved this Dignity in the person of Reynold the second to the Degree of a Duke about the Year 1339. and from him did it descend to his Son Edward the Offspring of his second Wife Eleanor Daughter of Edward the third King of England and he deceasing without Issue Mary his Sister by Matching with Williamâ—arl â—arl of Gulick brought both the Patrimony and Ducal Crown of this Province to be possest bâ— him and his two Sons William and Reynold the fourth successively enjoyed it but they dying without Issue Arnold of Egmond Son of John Lord of Egmond and Mary his Wife Daughter of Joan the Sister of William and Raynold the two last Dukes as Heir General possest himself of Guelderland but in the declension of his Age being worried by his unnatural Son Adolph with War and Imprisonment he was in this agony supported by Charles the Warlike Duke of â—urguâ—dy who rescued him from his Son and released him â—rom his Fetters and he to Ballance â—o signal a favour conveyed his Interest in Guelderland and Zutphen to this Duke which Contract was after much Contest and Effusion of Blood ratified to Charles the fifth by his second Son Arnold and accordingly the Provinces of Guelderland and Zutphen were by a voluntary Resignation surrendred to Charles the fifth and from him the Title devolved to his Son Philâ—p the second King of Spain in whom it was lodged until the Barbarous Cruelty of the Duke of Alva engaged most of the Belgick Provinces to a Revolt or defection and the Prudential Conduct of Maurice Prince having much extended the Conquests of the Confederate States most of this Province was by his successful Atchievements annexed to their United Patrimony Zutphen ZUTPHEN was anciently an Earldom of it self without any Connexion or dependance on the Fortune or Seignory of Guelderland and remained in this Capacity until it devolved to be the Patrimony of Wickman the last Earl who determined in Sophia his sole Daughter and Heir who by Matching with Otho first Earl of Guelderland fastned it to that Province annd so it continued after this subservient to the Command of the Successive Earls and Dukes and when Arnold the last Duke of Guelderland conveyed all his Interest to Charles the fifth this was wrapped up in the Purchase and remained under the Dominion of the Scepter of Spain until the Defection of Holland and other Provinces from that Crown and then about the Year 1590. it was by Prince Maurice and the Army of the United States by Conquest torne from the Spanish Patrimony and hath ever since remained linked in Confederacy with those Combined Provinces Groining GROINING both City and Province did in elder Times confesse no other Seignory but of that of the Bishop of Utrecht but he either by want of Power of Inadvertency being remisse in Asserting their Liberties against Forraign Eruptions they submitted to the Protection of the Dukes of Guelderland But these Princes were disturbed in their new Acquists by the Dukes of Saxony who by a pretended Claim entitled themselves to the Propriety of it during which disorder and emotion it was surprized by Ezardus the Earl of East-Frizeland who about 1514. conveyed his Usurped Interest here to the Duke of Guelders the just Proprietary of it Afterwads they resigned themselves up with a Reservation of their ancient Liberties to Charles the fifth which being menâ—ced to be overwhelmed by the Fury of the Spâ—niard they Combined 1594. with Holland in â—â—ion and remain yet wrapped up in that Confederacy Holland Zealand and
Conquerour so disgusted his Allies and Relations that to decline the Tempest which menaced him he retired into this Kingdome for shelter and after many Conflicts commenced with the Sarazens by a Fortunate Managery of the Christian Quarrel he contracted their Power into narrower limits but being supplied with new Recruits the Sarazens not onely reinforced their Animosities but Hopes also until Tancred and his twelve Sons arriving out of Normandy with fresh Supplies after many signal encounters wholly supplanted the Interest that these Infidels had in Naples but though these Invaders were thus dissipated yet the Greeks remained dis-satisfied and gave new occasion of War and Trouble to these Norman Conquerours under the Command of Melorco Vicegerent of this Province under the Grecian Emperours but the Affairs of the Normans were so well swayed and ordered by the Care and Prudence of William Son to Tancred above mentioned that this new Emotion was extinguished by the Defeat of Melorco and the Troops marshall'd under his Conduct but this Discomfiture did not so totally dispel the Tempest but that there were new Clouds collected together to disorder and ecclipse the Glory of the Norman Conquests which in fine were so wholly dissipated by the active Courage of Robert Guiscard another of the Sons of Tancred that the Greeks being absolutely crush'd and subdu'd the Reliques of the Sarazens extirpated thrown out he justly merited in the Annals of succeeding Times the Title of the Conquerour of the Kingdome of Naples and he bequeathed this Province with all its Perquisits and Appendages to be enjoyed by his second Son Robert Guiscard Earl of Sicily who in the Year 1125. by the Favour and Influence of Anacletus then Pope had the Title of King of Naples conferred upon him and his Son William received the Crown with this Restriction that he should hold this Diadem as a Donative from the Pope and in Homage of the See of Rome and in the Hands of his Successors did the Neapolitan Scepter remain fixed until it came to be weilded by William the second who upon his Decease left Constance his Daughter his onely Lawful Issue and Tancred his Natural Son the Issue of unlawful Embraces and he by the concurrence and support of his Faction so managed his Designs that he invested his Head with the Crown of Naples to the prejudice and Disherision of Constance the Lawful Heir but disdaining to acknowledge the Pope for Soveraign of the Fee the Pope to retaliate this Affront Matches Constance to Henry the sixth Emperour of Germany and by opposing the Right of his Empresse to the distorted and Usurped Title of Tancred so crippled his Authority and Power that finally after many Contests and Bloody Decisions the Scepter of Naples came to be swayed by Henry the sixth abovesaid but his Successor Frederick the second embarquing in the former Contrast with the succeeding Popes in Relation to the Soveraignty of Naples disclaimed and renounced any Homage to the See of Rome which so inflamed that Bishop that he collected all supply that the Engins borrowed either from Strength or Art could contribute to vindicate his pretended Right to the Soveraignty of Naples yet was he thwarted in his endevours with such vigorous Opposition during the Government of Frederick the second abovesaid Conrade his Son Manfred his Natural Son and Conradine Grandchild to Frederick nothing was effected of Importance which might afford any support to the accomplishment of the Designs of the Popes for the time being so that Pope Innocent the fourth to Fortifie his Attempts with Forraign Succour presented the Kingdom to St. Lewis King of France for his Brother Charles Count of Anjou and Provence who had the Repute of an excellent Souldier and an experienced Commander and about the Year 1264. which was two years after Pope Urban the fourth invested him with it he to assert his Interest Commenced a War with Conradine King of Naples and having put his Title to the Umpirage of a Battel after a Bloody Debate took this Conradine Captive and made the forfeiture of his Head expiate its wearing that Diadem which the Popes Donation had before by a pretended Investiture entituled him to and having thus fixed the Scepter of Naples in his own Hand he left it to be swayed by his Son and Heir Charles the Lame who by Mary his Queen Inheritrix of Hungary had Issue Charles surnamed Martel who had his Mothers Kingdom assigned him for his Subsistence or Portion Lewis his second Son who assumed Holy Orders and Clowded all his earthly Glories in the Cowle of a Franeiscan Frier and afterwards was Bishop of Thoulouse Robert his third Son was by the Munificence of his Father entitled to the Inheritance of the Kingdome of Naples There were other Sons who had other Lands consigned them in Appennage for their future support and Alimony Robert abovesaid had Issue Charles who dying without Issue Male in his Fathers life time left onely a Daughter and Heir called Joane who after the Decease of her Grandfather Robert came to Manage the Neapolitan Scepter and this is that Joane so Famously Infamous in the Annals of Naples for the probable Assassination of her first Husband Andrew and other wilde Disorders which have cast so dark a Tincture upon her Fame that though some have endevoured to wrap up her Guilt in a modest Covering yet the Blacknesse of her Life is visible by an indelible stain through all those Veils the Industry of Flattery attempts to fold it up in But to proceed about the Expiration of the Raign of this Ioane which was about the Year 1378. the Church of Rome was Disordered by a remarkable Schisme for Urban the sixth being made Pope the Violence of a predominant Faction a considerable part of the Conclave of Cardinals Elected Robert Cardinal of Geneva by the Name of Clement the seventh Queen Joan being warped with Animosity against Urban who was born under her Dominion and Scepter made her self a Partisan in the Cause and Quarrel of his Adversary and Competitor Clement Her Crime contracted from the Slaughter of her Husband Andrew had been long entombed in a Pacification transacted in her Favour by Pope Clement the sixth with Lewis the Great King of Hungary Brother to Andrew abovesaid But Urban the sixth to recompense her for those Disservices with which she had disobliged him again raked into her Guilt and incensed Charles of Duras of the House of Hungary to expiate the former Murther by a just Revenge and this Prince inflamed by his Instigations came and Beseiged her in Castello del Ovo and having reduced her and that Fortresse to his Discretion strangled her in or near that place where she had acted her Barbarous Parricide on her first Husband Andrew Charles of Duras having thus destroyed this Infamous Princesse seised on the Neapolitan Diadem which did not sit so fast on his Temples but that it was shaken by a Concurrent Title for Joan not long before her Death to
of the House of Austria that by the steps of several Descents it came to acknowledge the Dominion of the Emperour Ferdinand the third not long since Deceased who to reimburse the French for those vast expences the German War had embarqued and engaged that Crown in by the Articles of the late Peace so solemnly transacted at Munster conveyed it by Grant to the Crown of France and remains so at this instant an Appendage to the Demeasn of that Diadem Sungow or the Earldom of Pfirt was Anciently clasped up within the Patrimony of the Princes of Schwaben upon the expiration of which Eminent House in the person of Conraradine about the Year 1268 the Patrimony of which supported the Lustre of that Family in his Extinction sunk into parcells some proportion of which erected this into a distinct Earldome And under this Notion it remained until Ulrick the last Earl going out in two Female Coheirs about the Year 1324. Ann the eldest Matched to Albert the Short Duke of Austria and Son to the Emperour Rodâ—lphus and Ursula the second by an equal Distribution shared his Inheritance and she fearing his Power for a Recompense of Eight Thousand Crowns conveyed her Moiety to this Albert whose Successors unlesse when it was pawned or engaged to Burgundy were entitled by an uninterrupted Right to the Propriety of it until the War Commenced not many years since between the two Emperours Ferdinand the second and Ferdinand the third and Lewis the thirteenth King of France made by that King in favour of the Swede who was in danger to be over-laid and dislodged from his new Acquists in the Empire by the thriving Caesarean Army after the Fatal Battel of Nortlingen the effects of which Quarrel were so destructive and ruinous to the last Emperour that to expedite an Accommodation with the Crown of France he gave up his Interest in this Province during the term of the Truce to be enjoyed by the French Brisgow in Schwaben BRISGOW was in Times of a very high Ascent the Patrimony of the Earls of Zeringen which was erected into an Earldome by Berthold the first Son of Gebizo and Grandchild of Guntran the second Earl of Hapspurg which Family finding its Tombe and fatal Extinction in the person of Berthold the fifth the seventh in succession who Deceased Anno 1218. the Right of Brisgow devolved to the Earls of Fribourg the Principal City of that Country Cuno the first who bare the Title of Earl of Fribourg being the eldest Son of Judith Sister and Heir of Berthold the last Earl of Zeringen Eggon is the last Recorded in the Register of those Earls of Fribourg who were invested with that Dignity and the Propriety of Brisgow who being over-born by the Eruptions of his Mutinous Subjects he sunk under the pressure and transmitted by Sale his entire Concernment in this Province upon the Receipt of Twelve thousand Ducats to Albert and Leopold Dukes of Austria Sons of Albert the Short in the Patrimony of whose Successors the Title of this Province hath ever since been so constantly folded up that it still confesses the Signory of the Austrian Family Hungary HUNGARY is shut in on the East with Transylvania and Walachia on the West with Stiria Austria and Moravia on the North with the Carpathian Hills on the on the South with Sclavonia and some part of Dacia The Ancient Inhabitants of Hungary on the North side Tisse were the Iazyges Metanastae on the East-side of Tibiscus the Daci were planted on the South-side of the Danau the Pannones resolved into the several Colonies of the Azuli Latovici Werciani Jassij and Oseriates as likewise the Ercuneales Breuci Aravisei and Scordisci Inhabited the first of which extended their Dwellings to the East as the last inlarged their Habitations to the West But all these above mentioned were either very much broken or else forced to surrender themselves to the Successful Sword of the Romans Anno post urbem Conditam 719. Lucius Cornificius and Sextus Pompeius being Consuls and after they had been planted in the Possession of this Province for some Centuries of years their Tenure and Title was disordered by the Invasions of the Chuni or Huns who under the Command of Balamir their General in several Encounters so disspirited the Power and bruised the Force of the Romans that they adandoned this Province to the Possession of these new Conquerours but the same Vicissitude which cast out the Romans roll'd in upon these Huns and crushed them with the Wheel of a Revolution ' like the former for the Winnithi or Longobards having both infested these Huns with many Inroads and afflicted them in many fortunate Encounters so wasted their Strength and impair'd their Armies that they gave up themselves and this Province as a Cheap Oblation to the Triumphs of these Victorious Longobards but these being called by Narses into Italy to reinforce his Armies who then were in Contest with the Goths for the Soveraignty of that Territory discarded the Cold and Barren Fields of Hungary to settle on the Warmer Champaign of Lombardy where under the Government and Scepter of Alboinus they erected their Longobardian Kingdome The Longobards having thus left the Stage the Avares or Avarini a People dropp'd out of the Bosome of Sarmatia about the Raign of Tiberius the second Emperour of Greece entered under the Conduct of Caganus or Chan an Heroick but Merciful Clemency and Magnanimity are twins Cheiftane who first dissipated the Forces employed to break him by Tiberius abovesaid and then after a Bloody Decision subdued Cometiolus Lieutenant to the Emperour Mauritius Successor to Tiberius and the Forces marshall'd under his Conduct which Emperour attempting to repair the Dishonour contracted by this Defeat had his Endevours frustrated by that execrable and perfidious Assassination which was acted on him by his Bloody Servant Phocas which Murther so unsetled and disordered all those hinges which sustained the Frame of the Grecian Empire that these Avares and their Commanders taking the Advantage of its intestine Distractions not only reduced Hungary to their subjection but likewise so extended their Conquests that in the Raign of Phocas abovesaid and the Emperour Heraclius they Forraged to the Gates of Constantinople and having thus broken the Power of the Greeks they next Assaulted the Gothâ— and Gepidae who yet possest some part of Hungary and after many Conflicts and Disputes with these tougher Nations about their Title they supplanted these also and asserted the entire Possession to themselves and here they setled in a quiet and undisturbed Residence until the Government of Charles the Great and then he having like a Whirle-wind cast out those Nations which opposed him shivered these into a wilde Dispersion and by his Victorious Arms dislodged them from the Possession of this Kingdome after their Exit this Province was subservient to the Commands of the German Emperours until Arnulphus being Assaulted by the fierce Impressions of Suantobogius King of Moravia called in the