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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81938	Geographia universalis: the present state of the whole world giving an account of the several religions, customs, and riches of each people; the strength and government of each polity and state; the curious and most remarkable things in every region; with other particulars necessary to the understanding history and the interests of princes. Written originally by the Sieur Duval, Geographer in Ordinary to the French King; and made English, and enlarged by Ferrand Spence.	Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619-1682.; Spence, Ferrand.	1685 (1685)	Wing D2919A; ESTC R229216	199,644	399

of raising Forces by Sea and Land of making Peace or War with the command of the Castles of the Cittadels and Garrisons of the Kingdom The richness of the Countrey consists in Wool in Cattle and Salt-Fish It s Land has several Mines of Lead Iron Sulphur Azure and Coal It s principal Rivers have a prodigious Quantity of Salmon All Scotland is divided into two great parts by the River of Tay the one Northern the other Southern Northern Scotland contained under the name of High-lands is that where the Romans could not carry their Armies and where in our times the English Parliamentaries had not all the Success they had promised to themselves It was the abode of the ancient Scots whose Kings had their residence at Dunstafag The Robberies of the Inhabitants have been there formerly so frequent principally in the Province of Albania that if by the Law any one of the Province had committed a Robbery he amongst them whom a man could seize of was obliged to repair the loss or to lose his Life Aberdeen is the most considerable City of this Country by reason of its University and of its Pearls which are found in its little River and of the Salmons that are taken in its Neighbourhood where three hundred are said to be sometimes taken at one Cast of the Net The Southern part of Scotland which is called Lower is a better Country than the upper There is to be seen Edenborough the Capital of the Kingdom the abode of the late Kings St. Andrew and Glascow have the Title of Archbishopricks St. Andrew has also a famous University I say famous for such a Kingdom as that of Scotland where Glascow passes for a Paradise Abernethi was the abode of the King of the Picts Duns upon the Marches of England is the place of Birth of the subtil Doctor Scotus Leith the Sea-port of Edinborough St. Johns Town a new City near the ruins of the ancient Perth which the Sea has ruined It is defended with good Walls whereas most of the other Cities of the Kingdom have none at all The Coronation of the Kings of Scotland is performed at Scone near St. Johns-Town There was in this Abby a Marble Chair from which the Royalty of Scotland was esteemed inseparable but the King of England Edward the 4th having transferred it to London it looks as if King James the 6th was as it were forced to go thither That Chair had been before in the Country of Argyle Dunbar is an old Castle the Fortifications whereof have been destroyed The English Parliamentaries won a Battail there in the year 1650. Dunbarton is a Fortress upon a Rock near a Lake where the Fish are said to have no bones The Isles of May and Bass have Castles situated upon inaccessible Rocks The Garrison of that of Bass receives great conveniencyes from the Geese Sea Coots or Moor-hens which go there to make their Nests these Fowls furnish abundance of Wood for Fewel Among the Islands which depend on Scotland The Hebrides are on the West the Orcades on the North of that Kingdom The Inhabitants of the Orcades keep carefully the Cup of St. Magnus whom they name their Apostle With this Cup they try their Bishops and hope for abundance of good from 'em when those Prelates empty it quite They are of so good a complexion that they never take Physick Towards the North of the Orcades there be the Isles of Scetland which we have said to depend on the Crown of Denmark The Insularies there are so healthful and so vigorous that they make no scruple of marrying when they are a hundred years old Nay they go a fishing at the age of a hundred and thirty and a hundred and forty Zeal one of these Islands suffers no Forreign Animals they dye as soon as they come there Ireland IReland formerly called Ivernia and Hibernia is on the West of Great Brittain from which it is separated by a Sea full of Shelves and Rocks where there is a concourse of several Rivers which fall in there with great Rapidity There is little sayling there but with Ships of a middle Bulk yet Ireland has the finest Harbours and the greatest number in the World The Irish are tall and well proportioned love Repose and Liberty most of them are Catholicks During the usurpation of the Royal Authority in England by the two Houses and by Cromwel most of the Papists were brought to condign Punishment for their execrable Massacres and Bloudshed and the Irish Nobility pen'd up in a corner of the Kingdom between the River of Shennon and the Sea The Physitians there are received by Succession The Riches of this Realm consists in Butter Suet Wool Hides Frizes Coverlets Cheeses and Salmon The English who reside there drive almost all the Trade Though this Island be full of Lakes Ponds Marshes Mountains it is nevertheless very healthful and is said neither to produce or suffer any thing that 's venemous The Wood or Timber that 's cut there engenders neither Worms nor Spiders Of this Nature is the Timber Work of the Pallace of Westminster and that of the Town-House of the Hague in Holland Of late time several of its Marshes have been drained and dryed up and the Countrey which was formerly only Forrests is at present so disgarnished of Woods that they are constrained to make use of Turfe instead of it for Firing All along the Coast is great plenty of those Fowl we call Soland-Geese they are produced of the Wood of the Ships which rot in the Sea There be also Pearls which float in company as Bees follow their King but are not of a fine Water Ireland is divided according to the Dispositions of the Regions of the World into four parts Leinster Ulster Cannaught and Munster formerly Meeth was reckoned for a fifth but is now accounted a Member of Leinster There is still another Division which divides all Ireland into two parts whereof the one is the Province of the English the other the Country of the true Irish though the whole Country has been subdued and there is almost every where English and Scotch Collonies The Province of the English has in like manner four Countreys Lease Meth Dublin Kildare-Monmouth is the best Country with the finest Havens of the Kingdom Leinster drives the greatest Trade the two other Ports are not so considerable Mead passes for the Granary of Ireland by reason of its Corn. There be few good Towns Armagh in Ulster which was formerly the principal in all the Island has now nothing more than the Ruines with the Title of the Primary and the Archbishops See London-Derry is much more considerable Drogday is strong and trading a Proverb runs that Wexford was in vogue that Dublin is so and that Drogdah shall be The Hole of St. Patrick has Circumstances which have furnished matter to the making of Books Amongst other Fables which be told thereof is the descent of Souls into Purgatory and into Hell through

the Gulph of Venice It pays eighteen thousand Sequins of annual Tribute to the Grand Seignior for liberty of Commerce in the Levant The City which seems to have succeeded to the ancient Epidaure is pretty well fortify'd and very populous It has the Title of an Archbishoprick its Inhabitants who addict themselves for the most part to trade are Roman Catholicks In the year 1667. it received a great loss by an Earthquake It s Principal Harbour is that of St. Croix which is three Leagues distant from it Its Ships are pretty numerous well known in the Seas of the Levant as its Caravans be in the Dominions of the Turks in Europe He who commands the Republick of Ragusa is called Doge or Rectour he is assisted with the Councel of a hundred Senators his Government lasts only a Month. The Governour of the Castle is changed every day wherein one of the Nobles enters to command in his turn Their Gentlemen must marry Gentlewomen if they mean their Children should be acknowledged to be of the Ragusian Nobility The Revenue of the Republick is five and twenty thousand Crowns The Country above the Town is not over fertile full of Rocks and Stones if it bring forth any thing it is by the means of the Forreign Earth which they cause to be brought thither which is done with such care and such success that the Coast makes a Beautiful Prospect of Vineyards Orange Trees Lemon Trees and Pomegranates The Neighbouring Islands which are of the dependance of Ragusa are also very pleasant The Turks have some sort of inclination for the Ragusians by reason they pay punctually their Tribute and that by their means they are provided with all the Commodities of Europe which they stand in need of They give them Priveledges which they seldom grant to other Christians Of the Brittish Islands THese Islands consist in two great and several small ones Great Brittain and Ireland are the two great the small are all in the Neighbourhood of Great Brittain the Hebrides Orcades Shetland which depends on the Crown of Denmark in the sea of Scotland Man Anglesey the Sorlingues in the Irish Sea Wight Guernsey Jersey in the Channel Formerly Great Brittain went under the Name of Albion by reason of its Rocks all along the Sea which seem white It now comprehends two Kingdoms that of England and that of Scotland the union whereof gave occasion to King James to stile himself King of Great Brittain and at the same time the design of stifling the partialities which were between the two Nations The English were not very well satisfyed with this change since thereby their Name became the less famous The Brittish Islands had to the number of Nineteen Kingdoms England had seven of them Wales three Scotland two Ireland five the Isle of Man made one the Isles near Scotland another All this now is under the Crown of England Several places and Islands in the East and West Indies are also subject to it whereof we have made mention in the Article of Europe Of England ENgland was so called by the English an ancient People who dwelt on the confines of Germany and of Denmark the Name of Saxony Trans-marine was given it by the Saxons Before it was called Lhoegria and then Scotland went under the Name of Albania and Wales that of Cambria During the decay of the Roman Empire the Saxons and English invaded Great Brittain with main force and near Bedford gained a signal Victory over the Insularies who were constrained to abandon their Countrey Several Brittons retired into Wales others passed into Brittany in France where they setled the British Tongues by the help of their Country Men whom the Romans had already lead thither to support their pretensions to the Empire King Arthur one of the last Brittish Kings who dyed in the year 542. is the same whom so many Fables be told of and to whom is attributed the institution of the Knights of the round Table The Victors that is to say the Saxons and the English raised a Wall towards the West of England to mark the Bounds of their Conquests and at the same time made a Law by which all the Brittons should have a hand cut off who were found with a Sword on this side the Wall In the year 450. and the following there were formed seven Kingdoms Kent Sussex Essex West-Sex East-Anglia Mercia North-Humbria A little after that Charlemagne was acknowledged Emperour of the West all these Monarchies were reduced into one by King Egbert who dyed in the year 837. The Successours of this Egbert having been troubled by the Danes the last of them declared his Heir William Duke of Normandy to whom the Conquest of England brought the Name of Conquerour Thus England has had Soveraigns of six several Nations of the Brittons Romans Saxons English Danes and Normans These last have established there the Principal Laws the King who now reigns is James the 2. England is a greater Kingdom more fertile and populous than is either Scotland or Ireland It is the most considerable of any State in the Ocean It produces Corn and Fruits in abundance the best Tin in the World is transported thence Wool Cloaths Hides and other Commodities both excellent and in great plenty neither is it wanting in excellent Liquors The English Horses Dogs and Cocks are in high esteem all over the World No Wolves have been seen there since the general hunting which destroyed them almost all by the means of permission Criminals had of redeeming their Lives with the Heads of those Animals Gunners and Dogs were for sometime kept upon Frontiers of Scotland to hinder the Wolves ' which were hunted out from returning into England The great respect that is paid to Ladys in this Realm has given occasion to the saying that England is the Paradise of Women the Purgatory of Servants and the Hell of Horses The English for the most part are well proportioned and of a generous Nature They have had so great an Antipathy to the Scots that Edward the 1. the same who was preferred before his Eldest Brother by reason of the Beauty of his Body recommended that after his Death they should boyl him until they parted his Flesh and his Bones that they should bury his Flesh and carry his Bones along to the War against the Scots The English are owned Soveraigns of the Ocean and have made those States and Potentates to repent who have dared to dispute their Right to that Title Their Countrey is compared to the Tortoise in the shell who has all his Defences collected The acquisition of some Places by the allyance with Portugal has obliged them to extraordinary expences The Spaniards have a Proverb with all War and Peace with England The general Religion of the English is the reformed the King of England is the Head of the Anglican Church where of the Principal Members are the Bishops who compose the House of Lords with the other Peers This

Parliament is very different from those of France besides the House of Lords there is that of the Commons called the Lower House The principal Rivers of England are the Thames Severn and Humber which do not encrease by the Rains the neighbouring Lands being sandy There be reckoned one and fifty Counties called Shires each of those Counties is distributed into hundreds into Tithings or Tenths They may be considered according to the four Regions of the World and this division is much the same with that the Romans made when they were Masters of the Country The Southern part of England is along the Channel where be the best Harbours of the Kingdom Canterbury and Bristow be there considerable the first upon the account of its Archbishopwrick and of its Primacy the second for its Commerce Ships arriving there at full Sail. Rochester is the usual Station of the Kings Ships which are called men of War Frigats Yachts Salisbury has a Metropolitan Church wherein are reckoned as many Doors as there be Months and as many Windows as there be days in the year Windsor is a Royal Castle near the Thames where the Ceremonies of the order of the Garter are generally performed Dover is known for its strong Castle for Peoples embarking there for Calice Dunkirk and Ostend for the Neighbourhood of the Downs under whose shelter the Ships that are bound towards the East and towards the South may wait safely for Winds fair for their Voyage Hastings is a place where in the year 1066. William the Conquerour gained a full Victory over Herald the 2d the last Danish King who was killed upon the spot with above sixty thousand of his Men. Portsmouth Southampton Plimouth have very good Ports The Eastern part has this advantage of having London the Capital of all the Realm one of the Greatest Richest and most Populous Cityes in the World by the means of its greatest traffick It s Scituation is upon the River of Thames where it receives the noblest Ships of the Universe its Bridge is three hundred and thirty Paces in length The Pastures and Meads round about would make a most pleasant Prospect and Landskip if the Smoak of Coals which is commonly burnt there did not raise a continual Cloud Norwich is one of the best Cities and most populous of all the Kingdom Yarmouth sees the fishing of Herrings performed in its Neighbourhood where at Michaelmas is held a fair for that purpose Cambridge one of the most famous Universities in the World Harwich a famous Port. The Countrey round about was the abode of the Icenians whose Queen Bodicea put to Death a great number of Romans in the time of Nero and preferred a glorious Death before an Ignominious Slavery Towards the midst of the Realm is Oxford with one of the four most famous Universities of Europe wherein there is thirty three Colledges that of the University has a Library full of very curious Manuscripts unless it be that of the Vatican there be few in the World that have any so fine Gloucester is commonly the appanage of the third Son of the King of Great Brittain It is near the Severn near the Isle of Aldney where was formerly fought a singular Combat between Edmond Ironside King of the English Saxons and Canute the Dane who at length divided the Kingdom between them after having fought a long while without being able to have any advantage over one another Chester is accompanyed with a Sea-Port where People embark for Ireland At Worcester was the Defeat of the Kings Army in the year 1651. by the Rebels York in the Northern part is the second City of the Kingdom and the Title of the Kings second Son Lancaster is a County Palatin famous for its ancient Family The two Houses of York and Lancaster gave a great deal of trouble to England during above a hundred years by the fatal Faction of the White and Red Rose New-Castle and Hull have the conveniency of the Sea The Country about New-Castle is full of Mines which afford Coals so necessary to the Inhabitants of the City of London and the best Crayons of Europe The refusal that was made at Hull of receiving King Charles the 1. was one of the Principal Motives of the War between his Majesty and the Parliamentaryes Barwick and Carlisle have some Fortifications Penrith keeps the round Terrass which is said to have been King Arthurs Table Between Hull and Newcastle there be the Ports of Brilington and Scarborough The Principality of Wales is the Title of the Kings Eldest Son it has few good Cities Bangor was there formerly a famous Abby where above twelve hundred Monks lived on what they earn'd by working Milford is reckoned one of the finest Havens of Europe by reason of its Sinuosities which form as many good Ports The Isle of Anglesey which is near it was the abode of some Druids and the retreat of those who in Great Brittain would not submit to the Romans It is called the Nursing Mother of Wales by reason of its fertility It s City of Aberfrau served formerly for abode to the Kings of North-Wales Of Scotland THis Kingdom is the ancient Caledonia which was called Scotland from the Scots a People who made a sharp War upon the Romans and obliged them to make entrenchments against their Incursions principally under Adrian and under Severus The Name of Albany has been sometimes given to all this Kingdom whereas it is now peculiar to one of its Countys which the Inhabitants call Broad Albiny Some Scotch Authors make the Name of Scotch come from the ancient Scythians for the showing their Predecessours in the Higher Antiquity Scotland is of a cold Temperature its Gulphs Lakes and Mountains hinder its Provinces from being over Fertile The Inhabitants are of the reformed Religion Popery having been there abolish'd under King James the 6th But the many Scots which Sprung up with the Reformation produced there many Troubles and occasioned most of the disorders which in our time we have seen in the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland There be still at this day Phanaticks who call themselves the Sweet Singers of Israel and are retire into the Mountains and into the Woods though they be hardly able to subsist there The Southern Scots live much after the same way as the English the Northern are wedded to the ancient Customs and not over careful of neatness in their Repasts The Scotch Nation has for a long while been in esteem for Valour and Fidelity the most Christiam King St. Lewis and his Successours the French Kings have trusted them with the Guard of their Royal Persons and made allyance with Scotland This Kingdom is now the most ancient in the World it is said to have been above two thousand years hereditary with a Succession of about a hundred and ten Kings The Power and Revenues of the King of Scotland are rendred much more considerabbe since his Majesties Restauration and his re-stablishment in the Power