A GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY Representing the Present and Antient NAMES and STATES OF ALL THE Countries Kingdoms Provinces Remarkable Cities Vniversities Ports Towns Mountains Seas Streights Fountains and Rivers of the whole WORLD THEIR Distances Longitudes and Latitudes WITH A short HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the same and a general INDEX of the Antient and Latin Names Very necessary for the right understanding of all Antient and Modern Histories and especially of the divers Accounts of the present Transactions of EUROPE Begun by EDMUND BOHUN Esquire Continued Corrected and Enlarged with great Additions throughout and particularly with whatever in the Geographical Part of the Voluminous Morery and Le Clerk occurs observable By Mr. BERNARD Together with all the Market-Towns Corporations and Rivers in England wanting in both the former Editions LONDON Printed for Charles Brome at the Gun at the West End of S. Pauls MDCXCIII A REFLECTION upon Le Grand Dictionaire Historique c. OR THE Great Historical Dictionary OF LEWIS MORERY D. D. Printed at UTRECHT 1692. with the Supplement of J. Le Clerc D. D. in Four TOMES in Folio French AND An Account of this Edition of the following BOOK THE Great Historical Dictionary of Monsievr Morery was an unexpected Work to come from a Person who understood not any Greek or Hebrew and had but an indifferent knowledge of Latin For it will be allowed amidst such a multiplicity of Subjects to contain many very ingenious things Yet I desire not to commend him for the Invention he ascribes to the Chinese of the Province of Xamsi who boyl their Victuals he says over Pits of Subterraneous Fires proceeding from the Bowels of the Earth Which to make the Fire burn the quicker and stronger they contract at the Mouths in such a manner as only to leave room for the Caldron to stand For though the Chinese are famous over the World for their Inventions yet the Wit of this hath so little in it of the Wisdom of their Other or Common Sense that it supersedes the Civility of the least pretence to approve of it Neither yet is it possible for me to be reconciled to his Account of a Tribe of the Troglaedytes dwelling continually in the Caverns of a Mountain in the Island of Malta near to a House of Pleasure belonging to the Great Master of the Order of the Knights there A tall robust long-liv'd inhospitable people as he describes them Who speak altogether the pure Arabick Language in which they are instructed as to matters of Religion by the Maronites that come to Malta For there appears no more Probability of an Arabian Race of Christian Troglaedytes at Malta than of a Nation of Pygmies in the Neighbourhood of the Nile Therefore in a word Monsieur Morery as he hath his Excellencies so he hath his great Faults too And it seems to be none of the least remarkable of the Latter That let a thing be never so Fabulous in Pliny and Herodotus or the Histories of the old Greeks never so extravagantly reported by the Modern Books of Voyages and Discoveries or the Common Memoires of the Times yet he mixes it with his purer Geography Which hath given me continual reason to admire the Patience and Labour of his Pen but I disagree with his Fancy if he thought such Collections pleasing to Men of Sense and with his Judgment if he thought them true In his Geography of the Kingdom and Counties of England there is no body but must be offended with him upon other Accounts The principal of our Rivers next the Thames the Severn the Trent the Humber the Medway the Derwent c. None of them have their Names with Descriptions in his Work Peterborough Wells Cambridge Shrewsbury Richmond and Rippon are wholly omitted out of our Chief Towns and Cities Cambridgeshire Hertfordshire Cheshire Shropshire and Wiltshire out of our Counties And all the Description that he gives to Eleven of our Counties more with the Capital Towns thereunto belonging will be justly rehearsed in about Eleven Lines To South-hampton he says a Town and County in the South of England with a Port to the Sea To Stafford a Town and County of England towards the middle of the Kingdom To Surrey a County in the South part of England To Sussex a County in the South of England whereof Chichester is the Capital To Warwick a Town and County of England To Westmorland a County in the North of England which was a part of the Country of the ancient Brigantes To Huntingdon and Leicestershires he adds the Names of the Rivers Ouse and Stower with two or three Towns To Middlesex a small County in the East of England included in the ancient Kingdom of the East Saxons and only considerable for London its Capital To Rutland a County in the middle of England but little considerable having no more than one Town called Oakcham in it To Suffolk a Town and County in the East of England This is Monsieur Morery's way of describing a next Neighbor Kingdom and one of the most Powerful in the World Which is the least that a Geographer says of the most distant and obscure Provinces of China and Japan or the unknown Regions of the Asiatick Tartary And though he may be something larger upon London Rochester Bristol and now and then a County yet he does it with so little Care and Art so ungeographically in comparison to his Illustration of other Countries that take his Accounts of England all together with which those of Scotland Ireland and Wales are done after the like manner and they will be found the crudest and meanest and the most Contemptible part of his Volumes I need take no Notice of his Mistakes about Rutland and Suffolk which occur even in those diminitive Sketches that he gives them and are already sensible to every running Eye He is no less mistaken about the Bishoprick of Coventry and Lichfield A Bishoprick says he about the year 656. was established at Lichfield And there being another Bishoprick afterwards establish'd at Coventry these two Bishopricks in time became united in one Whereas it never from the beginning was otherwise than one and the same Bishoprick primarily established at Lichfield in 656 Next removed to Chester in 1067 or as others in 1075. From Chester removed to Coventry in 1088 and from Coventry returned to Lichfield again in 1186. Whereupon followed an Agreement under Bishop Alexander de Savensby who succeeded to the See in 1220 that the Episcopal Style should be derived from both Coventry and Lichfield yet with the Precedence to Coventry Mons Morery is no less mistaken in the ancient Seat of the Bishops of Lincoln which was Dorchester in Oxfordshire situated at the Confluence of the Thame and the Isis For he hath the fortune not only to attribute it to Dorchester in Dorsetshire upon the River Frome but to quote William of Malmsbury for the same to aggravate the matter in mistaking both his Author and the place together It is
Africa Adda Addua a River that parts the Dukedom of Milan from the State of Venice it ariseth in the Alpes and falls into the Po 6 Miles above Cremona towards Placentia also the name of a Country in the Milanese betwixt this River and Serio memorable for the Victory obtained by Lewis XII of France over the Venetians May. 14. 1509. Adea a Kingdom of Aethiopia in Africa extended upon the Eastern Ocean at the entrance of the Red Sea It was once under the Kings of Aethiopia but has now a King who doth not depend upon them Magadoxo the Capital of this Kingdom and a Sea-Port is become a separate Kingdom also it lies in three degrees of Northern Latitude Adegele Chrysorrhoas a River of Damascus in Scripture called Pharpar it flows through Damascus and its fields where it is lost and never reacheth the Sea its Fountains are in Libanus This is one of the Rivers mentioned by Naaman the Syrian 2 King 5. as better than all the Waters of Israel Adel a small Kingdom in Africa at the mouth of the Red Sea heretofore called Azania with a City and a River of the same name Adelsperg Postonia Pistonia a Town in Croatia Aden a very strong Town in Arabia Foelix at the Foot of the Mountains not far from the Mouth of the Red Sea It has a very large Sea-Port and is also the head of a Kingdom of the same name The Turks in 1538. took this Town and hang'd up their King but not long after the Inhabitants revolted and put themselves under the Protection of the King of Mocha and expelled the Turks again This Country was known to the Romans by the name of Adana who had here a great Trade § Also a Mountain in the Kingdom of Fez remarkable for Mines of Silver § There is a City of the same name in Cilicia which is an Archbishoprick under the Patriarch of Antioch upon the River Malmistra or Piramus and often mention'd by the antient Geographers Ader or Eder a Tower within a Mile of Bethlehem said to be built by the Patriarch Jacob and that here the Shepherds were advertised by Angels of the Birth of our Saviour Aderborn a small Town in Pomerania upon the Oder a little above Stetin belonging to the Swedes Aderburg a small Town in the Electorate of Brandenbourg upon the Oder Adiabene a Province of the antient Assyria which for some time was itself a Kingdom now called Bolan or according to others Mesere and Sarca It s two Rivers Adiabas and Diabas are mention'd by A. Marcellinus Admirati a River of Sicily Whether this or Bajaria be the Eleutherus of the Antients is a dispute amongst Geographers Adon a small River of Bretagne in France which falls into the Vilaine Adonis a River of Phaenicia in Syria arising near to Mount Libanus and dividing the Kingdom and Patriarchate of Jerusalem from Tripoli and the Patriarchate of Antioch falls into the Mediterranean near Gibel Adour a River of Aquitain vide Dour Adra a small Sea-Coast Town in the Kingdom of Granada in Spain with a Port and a strong Castle it stands upon the Mediterranean Sea 9 Leagues to the West of Almeria which has robb'd it of the Bishops Sea heretofore belonging to it Adran Adranon a Town in Sicily of old famous for an Idol Temple of the name Adraon Adraton a City and sometime a Bishops See in Arabia mention'd corruptly by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the 16th Session of the Council of Chalcedon Adraste a Territory and an ancient City in Mysia famous heretofore for a Temple dedicated to Nemesis Adria Atri Hadria a City and an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Ravenna in the Polesine in the States of Venice little inhabited Some believe the Adriatique Ocean which we now call the Gulph of Venice derived its Name from hence Adrianople Vscudama Oresta is a City in the midst of Thrace taken by Bajazet in 1362. after which it became the Seat of their Empire till the takeing of Constantinople An. 1403. This City was rebuilt by Hadrian the Roman Emperor from whom it has its Name but is now called by the Turks Endrem by the French Adrianople It is an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Constantinople and is distant from it 150 Miles West being seated upon the River Mariza Hebrus The late deposed Emperor of the Turks for the most part resided in it he hating Constantinople and loving Hunting Adrinza the present Name of Assyria once the Mistris of the World Adrobe a River of that part of the Asian Tartary which is subject to the Moscovites it falls into the Wolga beneath Cazan Adrumete the same with Mahometa Adula the Name of a part of the Alpes from S. Gothard Aduliten Adulis an antient City in Africa upon the red Sea now called Ercoco Adyrmachides an antient People of Libya towards Egypt Their Daughters newly married were presented to their King who had a right to use or refuse them Aethiopia is about one half of Africa it is divided into two parts the Upper and the Lower The Upper is bounded on the North by Egypt and Libya on the West by the Lower Aethiopia as also on the South on the East it is bounded by the Red Sea and the Arabian and Barbarian Bays it contains Nubia Abissinia the Kingdoms of Muaci Macoci and Zanguebar c. The Lower Aethiopia is bounded on the North by Libya on the East by the Upper Aethiopia on the West and South by the Aethiopian Ocean It contains the Kingdoms of Monomotapa and Monemugi the Western Aethiopians which are divided into the Kingdoms of Congi Loangi and Angola c. This more Southern Part of Africa which was little known to the Ancients was found out by the Portugals Aferat The present Name of Euphrates one of the most celebrated Rivers in the World called by the Arabians Frat it springeth from the Mountains of Armenia Major and running to the West receives the Harpage and Arsametes then it bends to the South and divides the greater Armenia from the lesser Then it washeth Mesopotamia on the West and South and divides it from Syria and Arabia Deserta and at Cresiphon it runs into the Tigris with which it falls into the Persian Gulph beneath Teredon and Balsera Afra a strong Castle upon the Frontiers of Zaara in Africa and stands divided into Egypt Barbary Biledulgerid or Numidia Zaara or Libya Nigritia and Aethiopia AFRICA one of the four principal Parts of the Earth so called by the Grecians because it seldom feels any Cold it is bounded on the North by the Mediterranean Sea on the West and South by the Ocean on the East by the Arabian Gulph and the Red Sea being only joyned to Asia by a Neck of Land It was anciently known no farther South than to the Mountains of the Moon till the Portugueses of late discovered the Southern Parts The inland parts of it are generally barren and
of Sevil Hispalis which were both re-conquered and added to Castile by Ferdinand II. in 1248. It is divided into two parts by the River Guadalquivir Betis and the chief City is Sevil. New Andalusia a Province of the Terra-firmâ— in America between Venezuela and Guiana The chief City of it is new Corduba They used to fish for Pearl upon those Coasts Anoanagar a City in the Kingdom of Decan in the East-Indies almost ruin'd Andance Andancia a small Town in Vivarets in Languedoc in France where the River Dome falls into the Rhosne Andarge a River arising in the Valleys of Vnsâ—an in France which falls into the Arron near Verneuill Andaye a Town in France upon the frontiers of Spain two Leagues from S. Jean de Luz Andeli Andelium Andeliacum a Town in Normandy upon the Seine Anthony of Bourbon King of Navarre and Father to Henry IV. dyed here of the Wounds he received at the Siege of Rouen Anâ—eâ—â—e a River of France arising hard by la Ferte which falls into the Seine at l'Arche Andelot a Town in Champagne in France upon the River Rougnâ—n of extraordinary Privileges Andemaâ—n the name of halt a dozen Islands in the Gulph of Ganges near the Kingdom of Pegu in the East-Indies Andera a City of Phrygia in Asia Minor Andernaâ— Antenacum a Town upon the Rhine in the Archbishoprick of Cologne Anderskaw or Andershouw a great Monastery heretofore now a strong Castle in the Island of Seeland in Denmark delicately built Here Frederick II. dyed in 1548. Andes called by some the Cordillera's is one of the vastest and highest Ridges of Mountains in the World they begin in the North part of the Kingdom of Peru and are continued from thence without any Interruption to the Streights of Magellan by the space of 1000 Spanish Leagues much of the same height and seldom above 20 30 or 40 Leagues from the Pacifick Ocean many of them burn perpetually towards Chili Andiatoroque a Lake of New France in America Andore a fruitful Valley of the Pyranees in Catalognia Andover is a Corporation in the North-west part of the County of Hampshire which sends Burgesses to Parliament and gives the Title of a Viscount to the Honorable Earls of Berkshire now in the Possession of Tho. Howard it is seated about 18 Miles from Southampton to the North-west Andra or Aâ—dra a River upon the Coast of Guinea in Africa Andragiri or Gudaviri a City and Kingdom in the Island of Sumatra in Asia almost under the Equinoctial Andres Androsia a City of Galatia near Engury mention'd by Ptolomy S. Andrews Andreapolis a City of Fife in the South of Scotland North of the Frith of Edenburgh upon the German Ocean into which it hath a fair Prospect and upon which it hath a large Haven The ancient name of this place was Regimund it hath an University erected by James I. An. Dom. 1426. It is also an Archbishops See erected by Pope Sixtus IV. An. 1471. instead of Aberneath The Archbishops of all Scotland were heretofore under the Archbishop of York till James III. of Scotland representing to the Pope that there were frequent Wars between England and Scotland obtain'd from the said Pope That the Archbishop of S. Andrew should be independent Primate of Scotland in the twelâ—th year of his Reign yet Innocentius VIII who immediatly succeeded him obliged this Primate and his Successors to observe the laudable Customs of the famous Metropolitan Church of Canterbury This City in 1651. not surrendring upon the first Summons to our English victorious Rebels was sin'd Five hundred Pounds but had it remitted upon shewing they were poor Scholars It is 38 Miles from Edenburgh to the North-east and 23 from Aberneath to the East it lies in Lon. 17. 28. Lat. 57. 46. Andro Andros Andria an Island in the Archipelago with a City of the same name which is an Episcopal See under Athens inhabited by Greeks Latins and Turks The Antients call this Island Cauros Lysia Nonagria and by several other names Androgynes an antient People of Africa composed they say of both Sexes their right Breast a Mans the left a Womans Pliny and Aristotle Androsen or Androsen Androsa a small Town in the County of Cunningham in Scotland upon the Western Shoar Anduze Andusa ad Gardonem a Town in Languedoc in France upon the River Gardon heretofore fortified demolished by Lewis XIII Anenas or Andenas an Island upon the Coast of Norway Southward Anet a Town in the Isle of France upon the River Eure adorn'd with a Castle of extraordinary Magnificence which was built in the Reign of Henry II. It gives the Title of a Principality to the Duke of Vendosme Angamala a City in the Promontory of Malabar in the East-Indies upon the River Aicot as likewise a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Goa till Pope Paul V. in 1609. changed it into the Archiepiscopal See of Cranganor and constituted that as Metrapolitan of the Christians of S. Thomas Angediva a small Island under the Portuguese in the Kingdom of Decan in the East-Indies Angeles Angelepolis or Puebla de los Angeles a City in a Province of the same name otherwise called Tlascala by the Indians in New Spain in America built in 1531. by the Spaniards who have established an Episcopal See in it under the Archbishop of Mexico Angermund vid. Tangermund Anger 's Juliomagus in Caesar Andes is the Head of the Dukedom of Anjou a large well built City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours It is Seated on the River Sarâ—re in a very good Air and is also an University founded by Lewis II. Duke of Anjou the Son of King John of France Anno 1388. This City is 26 Leagues from Tours towards the West and within 1 League of the Loire In 1685. Lewis XIV established by his Letters Patents an Academy here of Thirty ingenious Persons who are all to be born in the Province of Anjou under the Title of the Royal Academy of Anger 's The famous Berengarius was Arch-deacon here Angitia the antient name of Selva d'Albi a Forest between the City of Albi in Languedoc and the Lake Fucinus Anglesey Mona called by the Welch Mon or Tir-mon and Anglesey from the English after they conquered it it is compassed on all sides with the Irish Sea which separates it from the County of Carnarvan in Wales by so narrow a Channel that in some places it may be forded at low Water it is in compass sixty Miles making one of the Counties of Wales and the most fruitful This Island was the Seat of the Brittish Druides subdued for the Romans by Suetonius Paulinus in the Reign of Nero but he not being able to perfect the Conquest Julius Agricola his Successor did it effectually Edward I. brought it in Subjection to the Crown of England in 1282 till which time it was under the Kings of North-Wales The Right Honorable Arthur Annesly a great lover of Learning and Books was lately Earl of
this County Angola a Kingdom in Africa upon the South of the Kingdom of Congo Angote a City and Kingdom in the Upper Aethiopia Angoulesme Engolisma is an Episcopal City in Aquitaine in France under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux it stands upon the River Charme which falls into the Ocean right over against the Island of Orleron There is belonging to it also a Dukedom which is bounded upon the North with Poictou upon the East with Limosin upon the South with Pericort and upon the West with Xantogn This Dukedom is call'd by the name of Angoumois Angra the chief City of the Island of Tercera and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lisbon Anguien Enguien Angia a small City in Hainault between Mons and Brussels It has the Honor to give the Title of a Baron to the Princes of the House of Bourbon Anguilla is one of the Caribby Islands planted by the English it lies in 18 deg 21 min. Nor. Lat. and 330 of Longit. in length about 10 Leagues in breadth 3. formerly call'd Snake Island from its shape The Tobacco of this Island is well esteemed Anguillara a Town and Lake in the Padouan in the States of Venice § Also a Town in the States of the Church upon the Lake of Bracciano Anhalt a City almost ruin'd and a Principality but little considerable in the Upper Saxony in Germany watered by the River Sala The House of Anhalt has possessed the Electorates of Brandenburgh and Saxony for several Ages Anian a Streight supposed to be between Asia and America but could never yet be discovered where or whether there be any such Passage or no It is thought to lie North of China and Japan and to disjoyn the Eastern part of Asia from the Western part of America Anianâ—u a City in the Province of Chuqnami in China Aniava Aniwa a Promontory discovered by the Hollanders in the Terra de Jesso to the North of Japan Anigre Anigrus a River of the Morea Animacha a River arising in the Kingdom of Callecutt in the East-Indies which falls into the Ocean six Leagues off Cranagor giving its Name to a Town in its way Anjou Andegavia is one of the noblest Dukedoms of France bounded on the East with La Beausse on the West with Britain and part of Poictou on the South in part by Berry and in part by Poictou in which Circumference are included Anjou Tourein and Maine This Country is for the most part very fruitful and pleasant especially in Tourein and along the Loire Anjou properly so call'd is seated between Tourein and Maine and was so call'd from the Andegavi the old Inhabitants of it Henry II. King of England was Earl of Anjou by Inheritance from his Father as he was K. of England by Maud his Mother Daughter to Henry I. King John his Son lost it and ever since it has been annexed to the Crown of France or given to the younger Sons of that Royal Family Anna. See Ana. The Name also of a Town upon the River Astan in Arabia deserta Annaberg a City of Misnia in Germany upon the River Schop near Marienberg Annacious Annacieugi a People of Brasil in America towards Porto Seguro Annagh a Town in the County of Cavan in Vlster in Ireland § Another in the County of Down Anneci Annecium a neat City in Savoy with a Castle It is the Capital of the Dukedom of Geneva seated upon a Lake of the same name where the River Tioud issueth out of the Lake at the foot of the Mountain Saymenoz heretofore greater but now it is little and not well inhabited tho the See of the Bishops of Geneva has been translated thither above 100 years In this place resteth the Body of S. Francis de Sales who was Bishop and Prince of Geneva near the time of the Reformation of Calvâ—â— This City is 6 Leagues from Geneva South Annibi a Lake of North Tartary in Asia where there are Mountains of the same name Annobon an Island upon the Coast of Guiney 10 Leagues in circuit towards the Isle of S. Thomas The Portuguese gave it that name because they discovered it upon a New-Years Day Annonay Annonaeum Annoniacum a City with the Title of a Marquisate in the Province of Vivarets in France upon the River Deume Anone Anonium or Roque de Non a Town in the Milanese in Italy upon the River Tanaâ—â— almost ruin'd Anossi Carcanossi Androbeizaba a Province of the Isle of Madagascar There are some Colonies of French in it Anot a small City of Provence in France Anoth one of the Scilly Islands Anpadore Cataractus a River of Candia Ansa a River in the Province of Friuli in Italy It passes by Aqueleia to the Adriatique Ocean Anse a small City in the Province of Lyennois in France 4 Leagues from Lyons Made a Roman Garrison in the time of Augustus who gave it the name of Antium Ansene Angria a small City in Aegypt 20 Leagues from Cairo near the Nile Ansianactes a People of the Western part of the Isle of Madagascar Ansiquains Ansicani a People of Abyssinia commended for their Fidelity and Honesty Anslo or Opslo Anslooa a City of the Province of Aggerhuys in Norway with a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Drontheim seated upon a Bay of the same name 35 Miles from the Baltick Sea Northward it has a Castle near it call'd Aggerhuslo This City was miserably ruin'd by Fire in the Reign of Christian IV. who rebuilt it in Anno 1614. and call'd it Christianstad from his own Name In this City were celebrated the Nuptials of James I. King of England with the Lady Ann Daughter of Frederick II. King of Denmark Novemb 23. 1589. It stands 56 German Miles from Stockholme Weâ—t Anspach See Onspach Antavares a People on the South part of the Isle of Madagascar The French had settled themselves amongst them and were afterwards Massacred by them Ante Anta a River in Normandy which washeth the Town of Failaise and 3 Leagues lower falls into the Dive which last falls into the British Sea 4 Leagues East of Caen. Ante Anta a small Town and Port in Guiny in Africa 3 Leagues from the Cape of Three Heads East Antego one of the Caribby Islands plac'd in 16 d. 11. â— of Northern Lat. and 339 of Long. inhabited by the English for some years and is about 6 or 7 Leagues in length and breadth difficult of Access and not much stor'd with Springs which the Inhabitants supply by Ponds and Cisterns Antequera a small ill built City of New Spain in America 80 Leagues from Mexico which in 1535. was made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico by Pope Paul III. § Also a small Town in the Kingdom of Granada in Old Spain Antessa Antissa an antient City in the Island of Lesbos which was heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mitylene Ovid speaks of it as also the antient Geographers under the notion of its being it self an Island in
South-East Aquileja is call'd by the French Aquilee by the Germans Aglar and Aglareu a Patriarchal City of Italy in antient times very great and one of the principal Cities of Italy the Residence of some Emperours In 452. Attila King of the Huns took and destroyed it after a Siege of 3 Years after this being rebuilt by Narsetes it was again Burnt and Ruin'd by the Lombards in 590. and was after this rebuilt by Poponâ— Patriarch of it In antient times it was under the temporal Jurisdiction of these Patriarchs but being afterwards taken by the Dukes of Austria it remains to this day in their hands It is now almost desolate by reason of its bad Air troublesom Rubbish and Ruins and the Vicinity of Venice which draws all Trade from it This City lies between the River Isonzo to the East and Ansa to the West and is not above 9 Miles distant from the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea on the North. It lies in 36. 10. Long. and 45. 45. Lat. Aquino Aquinum a very antient City in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capona and heretofore a Roman Colony Almost Ruin'd and little consiberable now but for its being the Birth-place of S. Thomas Aquinas as formerly of the Poet Juvenal Aquisgrana Aquisgranum See Aix la Chapelle Aqutaine Aquatania a third Part of the antient Gaul supposed to be so call'd from the abundance of its Waters The Emperour Augustus divided it into Prima and Secunda including within both Bordeaux Agne Angoulesme Xaintes Poitiers Perigueux Bourges Clermont Rodes Albi Cahors Limoges Mende and Puy Whereunto the Emperour Adrian added a third Province by the Name of Novempopulonia See Gascoigne This Country continued in Obedience to the Roman Empire till Honorius about the Year 412. yielded part thereof to Athaulfe King of the Goths whose Successours took occasion thereupon to Usurp the whole About the Year 630. it came into the Possession of the Crown of France entirely The Gascoigners soon revoulted giving to Eudos their Leader the Title of Duke of Aquitain which brought on a War that was not ended till the powerful Reign of Charles the Great In 778. Charles the Great erected Aquitaine into a Kingdom in the Person of Lewis the Debonnaire his Son It continued a Kingdom about 100 Years and then broke into particular Fiefs and Hereditaments In 1152. it came to the Crown of England as Dukes of Aquitaine in the right of Eleanor Wife to Henry II. For its fortunes since see Gascoigne Arabia is a very large Country in Asia having on the North Syria and Diarbechia upon the East the Persian Gulph and the Streights of Basor by which it is separated from Persia on the South it has the Arabian Sea and on the West the Red Sea which cuts it off in great part from Africa The Southern and Eastern parts which are the greatest are well cultivated but the Northern is for the most part barren and sandy having but few Inhabitants or Cities by reason of the vast Desarts barren Mountains and want of Water It is all under Princes of its own except a small part of Arabia Petraea in which the Turks have some few Forts This vast Country is divided into three Parts viz. The Desart The Happy and The Stony Arabia Deserta the Desart is the least part of all the three and lies most North call'd by the Asiaticks Berii Arabistan bounded on the South by the Mountains of Arabia the Happy on the East by the Province of Iraca heretofore Chaldea upon the North by Diarvechia from which it is separated by the River Euphrates upon the West by Syria the Holy Land and Arabia the Stony Arabia Foelix the Happy is the greatest of all the three parts and lies extended to the South and East it is call'd by the Inhabitants Jemen and is encompass'd on all sides by the Sea except towards the North where it bounds upon the other two Arabia's There are in this part many Kingdoms and great Cities the Soil being fruitful and the Country not easie to be invaded by the neighbour Nations by reason of its Situation Arabia Petraea the Stony lies more West and is call'd by the Turks Dase-lik Arabistan or as others say Baraab Arabistan by the Natives it is bounded on the North by the Holy Land and part of Syria on the East by Arabia Deserta in part and by Arabia Foelix in part as also on the South and on the West it has the Red Sea and Egypt Two things have made these Countries known to all the World The wandering of the Children of Israel 40 Years in the first and the Birth of that great Deceiver Mahomet in the latter of these three Parts Aracuâ—es a People of Chili which are the most Warlike of all the Americans Arach Parthia a Province of the Kingdom of Persia Arach Petra the chief City of Arabia Petraea once the capital City of Moab and then call'd Rabath afterwards an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Jerusalem being taken from the Patriarch of Alexandria it was also once call'd Cyriacopolis and Mons Regalis by some now Krach it stands upon the Confines of Palestine near the Brook Zareth and lies in 66. 45. Long. and 30. 20. Lat. Arad Caucasus is a Mountain of Asia which the Fable of Prometheus has made very well known It is that part of Mount Taurus which lies betwixt the Euxine or Black Sea on the West and the Caspian Sea on the East including the Mengrelians Coraxicos Caitachians Heniochos and the Achaeans Achaeos It is continued also amongst the Asiatick Tartars as far as to the Cimmerian Bosphorus now commonly call'd Cocas This Mountain is very high and always covered with Snow It is call'd by Hayton the Armenian Cochias by others Albsor by Niger Adazer by Circassians Salatto and by the French le mont de Circassie Aradus an Island and City of Phaenicia in the Syrian Ocean over against Tortosa sometime the Seat of a Bishop till it fell under the Tyranny of the Turks Arafat a Mountain within a League or two of Mecca in Arabia On the top of it there is a Mosque whither the Mahometan Pilgrims repair tofinish their Devotions after their performance of the Ceremonies of Mecca It is the same they say that Abraham would have Sacrificed his Son Isaac upon in Commemoration whereof before they part they kill some Sheep in the Valley of Mina below and what they present not amongst their Friends they distribute to the Poor by the name of Corban that is their Oblation Aragon See Arragon Arais Araxes See Achlar Arakil-Uanc a Celebrated Village and Monastery at the foot of Ararat in Armenia in great esteem amongst the People there who believe it to be the place where Noah after the Deluge retired to offer his Sacrifices of Thanksgiving to God for his miraculous Preservation Aran Arania is a very fruitful Vale in Aquitain â—n France which lies between
Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Walshcroft Billom a Town in the Province of Auvergne in France 5 or 6 Leagues from Clermont It is a very trading Place in a fruitful Soil Bimini a small Island East of Florida in America It is one of the Luccaye's to the South of the Island of Bahama Binche Bink or Bins Binchium a Town in Hainault near the River Haisne 3 Leagues from Mons to the Eastward and 4 from Maubeuge to the North is now decaying it was taken by the French in 1667. and restored back to the Spaniards in 1678. by the Treaty of Nimeguen Mary Queen of Hungary Sister to the Emperor Charles V. built herself a Noble Palace here to enjoy the good Air of the Place which is still called Marimont Bingen a fine Town belonging to the Elector of Mayence upon the River Rhine where it entertains the River Nar which here is covered with a stone Bridge once a Free Imperial City but now exempted from the Empire The antient Geographers and Historians make mention of it It has a Castle seated on a Hill and stands 4 German Miles from Mayence towards the West and 2 from Greitznack to the North near it in an Island in the Rhine is a Castle called Mauszthurn wherein the Report goes that Hatto the second Archbishop of Mayence was eaten alive by Rats it is now almost wholly ruin'd Bingham a Market-Town in the County of Nottingham the Capital of its Hundred Bendimir Bagrada a River of Persia which riseth in the Desarts of Carmania about 20 German Miles South of Hispahan and watering the Province of Fars it washeth Astachar after which having received another small River from the West it falls into the Persian Gulph 25 German Miles West of Ormus Biolizero a Fortress built in a Lake where the Duke of Muscovy keeps his Treasures See Biela Osero Biorneburg a small City belonging to the Swedes in North Finland where the River Cumus Rautoâ— ' falls into the Bay of Botner in almost 62 deg of Lat. It is a poor place and consists of a few Houses Biobio a River of South America in the Kingdom of Chili which springeth from the Andes and running Westward falls into the Pacifick Ocean near S. Conception a City of Chili and the Island of Aviquirina Bi r Birtha a small but Antient City of Arabia Deserta upon the Euphrates 130 Miles East of Aleppo in the Consines of Mesopotamia 10 German Miles West of Vrpha The usual place of Embarking upon the Euphrates for Bagdet This City is under the Turks and formerly was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Edessa Some write it Biro Ptolemy mentions it Birka or Birkopin Birca the Capital Town of the Province of Ostregothia in Sweden heretofore considerable but almost ruined now Birkenfield a Town in the Palatinate of the Rhine in Germany Honoured with the Title of a Principality It stands near the River Nab 5 or 6 Leagues from Treves Birmingham a Market-Town in warwickshire in the Hundred of Hemlingford Biron a Town in the Province of Perigord in France and one of the most antient Baronies of the same Erected into a Dukedom by King Henry IV. It at present bears the Title of a Marquisate Birs and Biersick are 2 small Rivers in the Canton of Basil Bisaccia a small City in the Principate in the Kingdom of Naples near the Apennine 2 Leagues from Cedogna and 7 from Monte-Verde It consisteth of a very small number of Inhabitants yet a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Conza and illustrated with the Title of a Dukedom Bisagno See Besagno Biscay Cantabria called by the Spaniards Vizcaja by the French Biscay hath on the North-West the Cantabrian Ocean or the Bay of Biscay on the East the Kingdom of Navarre on the South the Kingdom of Castile and on the West Asturia It enjoys the Title of a Principality because heretosore it had Princes of its own of the Family de Haro the last of which dying in the Siege of Algezira this Principality fell to King John of Castile and from thenceforward became a part of that Kingdom It is about 26 Spanish Leagues from East to West but not so broad Bilbao is its principal City it is a fruitful and a populous Country and full of Sea Ports Reduced heretofore under the Roman Yoak with great difficulty § The same name is also given to a part of New Spain in America They call it New Biscay It is bounded on the North with the Kingdom of Mexico the Province of Panuco to the East Zacatecas to the South and Culiacan to the West there are 2 Mines of Silver in it § The French Biscay see Basques Bisegli Vigiliae a City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples with an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Trani upon the Adriatick Ocean between Trani Molfetta and Bari Biserta Vtica a City of Africa Immortally honored by giving a Sirmane to Cato Vticensis It stands in the Kingdom of Tunis upon the Mediterranean Sea between Carthage and Tabarqua and is now become a Retreat of â—yrates Bishops Castle a Market-Town in the County of Salop in the Hundred of Purslow not far from the River Chun It Elects 2 Members of Parliament Bisignano Besidia a little City in the hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Rossano but exempted from his Jurisdiction also honored with the Title of a Principality which belongeth to the Family of San Severini seated on a Hill and has a strong Castle upon the River Cotilum Cochilo which a little farther falls into the River Crate It is a fine City of about 2 Miles compass surrounded with high Hills called Vrbs Brutiorum by Livy Bisnagar the Kingdom that bears this Name is a considerable Country in the East-Indies bounded on the North with the Kingdoms of Decan and Cuncam on the East with the Gulph of Bengale on the West with the Indian Sea and on the South with the Kingdom of Malabar and Singa it is sometimes also call'd the Kingdom of Narsinga This Kingdom is subject to a Prince of its own but then it is also divided into several petty Kingdoms which have Princes that are Tributary Homagers to the King of Narsinga The City that gives Name to it lies almost exactly in 15 d. of Northern Lat. and 107 of Long. on the Eastern side of a long chain of Mountains that divide this vast Promontory from North to South It lies 45 Leagues West from the Shoars of the Bay of Bengale and 35 from Narsinga to the West Bisneghe Hesperium Cornu commonly call'd Capo-verde is a Promontory in Nigritia in Africa upon the Western Shoar in 14 deg of Northern Lat. Bisnow the Name of a Sect amongst the Banjans in the East-Indies In this different from the Sect of Zamarath That the Women live Widows after their Husbands death and do not burn themselves in the same funeral Pile with them Bitche a County in
by the French Bolduc and by the Flandrians S. Shertogenbosch a City in the Dukedom of Brabant which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mechlen seated upon the River Disa Dios which a little farther to the North falls into the Maze It is a large new City environed with Rivers and Marshes very well fortified and only one League from the Maze taken by the Dutch in 1629. who are still possessed of it Geofry Duke of Brabant made a Town of it out of a Wood in the year expressed in this Chronogram GodefrIdVs dVX e sILVa feCIt oppIdVM The See was founded by Pope Paul IV. in 1559. And the Country called the Mayorality of Bosleduc containing above 100 Villages has this City for its Capital Bosnia called by the French Bossen by the Germans Wossen is a Province of Europe bounded on the North by Sclavonia on the West by Croatia on the East by Servia and on the South by Dalmatia it takes its name from the River Bosna which riseth in Servia thence entering Bosnia waters Bosna-Sarai and falls into the Save It had Kings of its own from 1357. till 1465. having been before a part of the Kingdom of Hungary The Turks under Mahomet II. Conquered it in 1465. and are still possessed of a great part of it The same Mahomet caused Stephen the last King of Bosnia to be flea'd alive Bosphorus Cimmerius that famous Streight or passage at which the Euxine Sea communicates with the Paulus Maeotis or the Sea of Tana They now call it the Streights of Caffa and Kerci from two Towns in the Peninsula of Taurica Chersonesus which are situated upon the Banks of it Heretofore there was a Town called Bosphorus in those parts which gave Name both to the Streights and to the antient People the Bosphori mentioned by Pliny Strabo c. It afterwards changed its name to Panticapaeum which some believe to be the same with the modern Vospero a late Bishops See under the Patriarch of Constantinople § Bosphorus Thracius otherwise known by the Name of the Canal of the Black Sea and the Streights of Constantinople is so narrow a passage betwixt Thrace and Asia Minor that in some Streets at Constantinople they can hear the Cocks crowing upon the Shoars of Asia Upon this Bosphorus stands Gallipoli the Dardanells and the Seven Towers where Prisoners of State are secured It is now called Bogazin Bosra or Bostra See Bussereth § Strabo speaks of another Bosra in Phaenicia Bossu a Town in Hainault near Valencienne dignified with the Title of an Earldom Boston a Corporation in Lincolnshire seated on both sides of the River Witham which is covered by a Timber Bridge the Town stands within 3 Miles of the Sea and has a very convenient Haven which in Mr. Camden's time was well Traded it sends 2 Burgesses to the Parliament § Also a place in New-England of the same name well built and peopled It is indeed the Capital Town of that Plantation Bosworth an antient Market-Town in Leicestershire upon the River Sence which a little farther falls into the Anker at Atherston Near this place Henry Earl of Richmond Aug. 22. 1485. overthrew in Battle Richard III. and put an end to those long and bloody Wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York And March 12. 1686. King James II. did this Town the honor to constitute Mr. James Fitz-James his Natural Son amongst many other great Honors Baron of Bosworth Bothnia a Province of Sweden upon the Baltick Sea which gives Name to the Botner Sea or that Branch of the Baltick which lies most West between which and Lapland this Province lies Torn is its Capital City Bova a City in the further Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples with an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Reggio near the Ocean betwixt the Cape de Spartivento and Reggio Bouchain Bochonium Buceinium a small but strong Town well fortified in the Province of Hainault in the Low-Countries upon the River Escaut betwixt Valenciennes and Cambray It is the Capital of the County of Ostervand which formerly belong'd mmediately to the eldest Sons of the Earls of Hainault Taken by the French in 1676. and ever since by them retained Boufflers a Territory contained in the Diocese of Amiens in Picardy in France upon the River Authie Remarkable for giving Name to an Ancient and Eminent Family in that Province Bouhin an Island of France between the Coasts of the Provinces of Poictou and Bretaigne below the Mouth of the Loyre § Also a Town in the County of Foretz in the same Kingdom near the River Lignon which is one of the best Places in Foretz Bovines Boviniacum a small Town upon the River Maze in the County of Namur made famous by a bloody Battle given here by Philip the August King of France to Ferdinand Earl of Flanders who was here taken Prisoner in the Year 1214 Whereupon Philip founded the Abbey of our Lady de la Victoire near Senlis in Commemoration of his Victory This Town lies 4 Leagues from Namur to the South Bovino Bovinum is a small City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Capitanata which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento it stands at the foot of the Apennine near the River Cervaro six Leagues from Troja to the South and twelve from Ariano to the South-East Bouillon Bullonium a small Town and Castle in the Bishoprick of Liege four Leagues from Masiers to the North and ten from Namur The Capital of an ancient Dukedom which lies between the Dukedom of Luxemburg to the West and Champagne to the South This Dukedom was mortgaged to Otbâ—rt Bishop of Liege in 1096 by Godfery then Duke of it after the famous King of Jerusalem and ever since the Bishops of this Diocese have claim'd a Right to it But by the Treaty of Nimeguen in 1679 it was agreed that the Dukes of Bovillon who are in possession of it should peaceably enjoy the same all Differences being referred to honorary Arbitrators and that the Bishops should in the mean time use no Force against the said Dukes and so it remains to this day in their Possession Boulogne See Bologne Bolognese and Bononia Bourbone Borbonium a small City of France the Capital of the Dukedom of Bourbone bounded on the North with the Province of Niverne on the East by the Dukedom of Burgundy on the West with the Province of Berry and Marche and on the South with Auvergne The River Allier Ellaver cuts this Dukedom into two Parts and it lies in length from the North-East to the South-West twenty eight Leagues between the Rivers of Loire and Cher. Robert the fourth Son of Lewis the Ninth King of France had this Dutchy in Marriage with Agnes of Bourbone whose descendent after 300 years in the Person of Henry IV. came to the Crown of France in 1590 and his Grandchild Lewis XIV now enjoys that Throne The principal City call'd Bourbonne l' Archambault lies 4 Leagues from Moulins 56
drink altogether of the Water of the Cistern There has been formerly an University here frequented from all the parts of Africa It is the Thysdrus of the Antients The Arabians call it Cairavan And a chief Pontiff of the Mahometan Law resides in it Caisar Caesarea Magna a City of Cappadocia upon the River Haly which was made a Colony by Tibenius Claudius call'd before this Archelais 60 Miles from Iconium to the North. Till the time of Valens the Roman Emperour it was the Metropolis of Cappadocia The Great S. Basil was a Bishop here Long. 64. 40. Lat. 41. 40. Caket a Kingdom and City of Georgia in Asia towards the Mountain Caucasus Conquered by the King of Persia and Govern'd under him by a Viceroy The ruins that are to be seen in the City are suffient evidences of its former magnificence This Country is properly the antient Iberia Calabria Magna Graecia Brutii Populi This is the Name of an antient Province in the Kingdom of Naples in Italy but now applyed to another which is no part of that which had heretofore the name of Calabria The antient Calabria was bounded on the North and East by the Adriatick Sea on the South by the Salentins and on the West by Apulia Pucetia taking up that part of the Kingdom of Naples which makes now the North of the Province of Otranto The present Calabria is a very large and the most Southern Province of that Kingdom itself a Dukedom the Title of which was given to the Eldest Son of the King of Naples whilst it remained a separate Kingdom This is bounded on the North by the Basilicata on the East by the Ionian Sea on the West by the Tyrrhenian and on the South by the Sicilian Streights It s greatest length is from North to South and it is one of the four principal Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples Divided commonly into the Hither or Vpper which is the more Northern and the Further or Lower Calabria The Saracens became Masters of it about the year 827. and were expell'd in the 11th Century by the valour of the Celebrated Robert Guichard a Norman who from a Souldier of Fortune made himself Duke of Puglia and Calabria about the year 1059. being the head of a Line which soon after in the Person of Roger II. attained the Crowns of Naples and Sicily Calabria is very subject to Earthquakes There is an Historical relation of one particularly which continued more or less from 1638. to 1641. Calahorra Calaguris Clunia a City of the Old Castile in the Kingdom of Spain upon the River Ebro where it entertains the River Cidacos di Castella built upon an Hill in the limits of the Kingdom of Navarr and was first made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragon by Pope Alexander VI. in 1498. but afterwards Subjected to the Archbishop of Burgos The Bishoprick of Calzada was united to this See in 1236. It lies 23 Leagues from Bajona to the South in Long. 18. 50. Lat. 43. 26. Quintilian and Prudentius were both of this City The antient Inhabitants of it call'd Caliguritani sustain'd a Siege against Pompey with so much obstinacy as at last to kill their very Wifes and Children and salt them like Pork and Eat them for Provisions Pliny mentions two Towns of this Name Caligurris Nascica and Caligurris Fibularia the first was amongst the People of Husca the other in the Country of the Gascons as some interpret him Calais Caletum Portus Iccius a strong Town of Picardy in France at the entrance of the English Channel right over-against Dover Taken by Edward III. in 1347. after a siege of a 11 Months and lost again by Q. Mary in less than a Fortnight in 1557. till when for 210 years together we had the Keys of France at our Girdles and that Princess accordingly resented the loss dying soon after of Grief as it was thought for it saying not long before her death that if she were opened they should find Calais at her Heart Cardinal Albert took this Town from the French in 1596. but it was soon after by them recover'd according to the Peace of Vervin in 1598. The Country adjacent had heretofore the Name of Caletes The Long. is 23. 00. Lat. 51. 00. Calama Thyamus a River of Epirus it falls into the Ionian Sea over against the Island of Ericusa now Alicur between Corfu to the North and Cefalonia to the South Calama or Calamata an inland City of Africa between Hippo to the East and Cirta to the West Often mentioned in the Writings of S. Austin It was formerly an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Carthage Calamata Thuria a Fort and an unwalled but well Peopled Town on the South of the Morea in the Province of Belvedore opposite to Coron from whence it is distant 40 English Miles by Sea This Castle or Fort was taken by surprize in 1659. and deserted but retaken in 1685. and is now Garrisoned by the Venetians § Another in the Kingdom of Algiers in Africa near the River Major Calamianes an Island of the East-Indies which lies between Borneo and the Philippine Islands and is subject to a Prince of its own Calarauega or Calaroga a small Town in Old Castile in Spain where S. Dominique de Guzman the founder of the Order of the Preachers was born Calatagirone an inconsiderable small Town in the Island of Sicily amongst the Mountains built upon the ruins of the antient Calata some speak of another of this Name in the same Island Calataâ—ud a Town of Aragon in Spain Built as is supposed by an Arab who left his own Name to it In Latin called Bilbilis Nova from its situation near the ruins of the antient Bilbilis between Saragossa and Medina Caeli It stands in a Plain but at the foot of a high Mountain upon the River Zalon which there receives the River Baubula A large and handsom Town in a fruitful Country with a Castle to command and defend it Calatrava Oretum a City of New Castile in Spain upon the River Guadiana 15 Leagues South of Toledo Taken from the Moors by Sanctius III. in 1158. who granting it to the Templars they distrusting the strength of the place resigned it up again to him Whereupon two Cistercian Monks undertook to fortifie it as they did in a short time and upon a new Grant of it to their Order they Instituted the Order of the Knights of Calatrava for the defence of it which was confirm'd by Pope Alexander III. This Order of Knights was begun in 1185. under Alphonsus the Noble at first they had Masters of their Order but in 1489 that Dignity was annexed to the Crown Paul III. granted them leave to Marry once The Order hath 24 Mannors in Spain belonging to it Their Habit was at first the same with that of the Cistercians till Pope Benedict XIII dispensed with it Calavar a Village of the Province of Balagate which is the last Province and Town the Mogul has
of Highworth which returns two Burgesses to the Parliament Crema Crema Forum Diuguntorum a City in the State of Venice called by the French Creme which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Boâ—oma seated upon the River Serium Serio sixty Miles from Verona to the West and twenty from Milan to the East This City was once a part of the Dukedom of Milan and is very strongly fortified Made a Bishoprick in 1579. by Pope Gregory XIII being the Capital of the Territory adjacent called Cremasco Cremera a small River in the Dukedom of Thuscany in Italy falling into the Tiber five Miles below Rome The 300 Fabii were cut to pieces by an Ambuscade of the Enemy upon the Banks of it A Misfortune so lamented by the Romans that they cursed the very City-Gate by which they marched with the Title of Scelerata and placed the Day of their overthrow in the Catalogue of black and dismal Days Cremona Colonia Vrbs Crenomanorum a City of the Dukedom of Milan which is a Bishop's See under that Archbishop and stands upon the Po in the Borders of the Dukedom of Parma forty Miles from Mantua to the East and the same distance from Milan to the South-East This City was built 445 Years after Rome and made afterwards a Roman Colony it has been often ruined and rebuilt at present a strong great rich populous City and has a strong Castle to the East with an University granted by Sigismund the Emperor The Territory belonging to it is a fruitful delicious Plain having on the North and East the River Ollio on the South the Po where there are several Districts beyond that River belonging to it and on the West the River Abdua The French and Modenese besieged this City in 1648. but were not able to take it Crempen Crempa a small but fortified City in the Dukedom of Holsatia in the County of Stormaren upon the River of that Name not above one Mile from the River Elb to the North about ten Danish Miles from Lubec to the West and fifteen from Embden to the East This belongs to the King of Denmark Crequi a Seigniory in Artois upon the Confines of Picardy giving Name to an honourable Family which has been famous for divers illustrious Persons Cressy See Creci Crespi Crepiacum the chief Town of the Dukedom de Valois in the Isle of France built in a fine Plain seven Miles from Meaux to the North and three from la Ferte Francis I. and the Emperor Charles V. held a Treaty of Peace here in 1544. Crest Crestidium Crista Arnaldi a City in the Dauphinate in France upon a River of the same Name two Miles from the Some to the East and twenty two from Avignon to the North. Fortified with a Castle and a Tower Creta See Candia Crevant Crevantium a Town in Burgundy in France upon the North Side of the River Sure in the North-West Border of that Dutchy two Miles from Auxerre to the North and twenty three from Dijon to the North-West In 1423. there was a sharp Fight here between the English and the French with the Victory by Confession to the English There is a Stone-Bride over the Sure here Creuse Crosa a River in France which riseth in la Marche and running to the North West entereth Berry and passeth through the Town of Black in the Borders of Berry then entering Touraine it falls having in this Course received the Little Creuse and some other Rivers into the Loyre at â—â—ndes above Saumur Crewkern a Market Town in Somersetshire the Capital of its Hundred Seated on the Banks of the River Parret Written also Crokehorn Crickhowel a Market-Town in the County of Brecknock in Wales the Capital of its Hundred The Marquess of Worcester has a Castle here Crim Tartary or the Precopensian Tartars is a vast Tract of Land bounded on the North by Russia from which it is parted by the River Donetz in great part and also by Ockraina and Dikoia on the East by Pervolock on the South by the Kingdom of Astarcan the Petigori Cabardia the Palus Meotis and Euxine Sea and on the West by the Boristhenes which parts it from Wolynia Extended vastly from East to West but not so broad The chief Force of it lies in the Peninsula in the Black Sea These Tartars have been heretofore Christians but now Mahometans and the inseparable Allies of the Turks in hopes to succeed upon the failure of the Ottoman House otherwise they live under a Prince of their own See Krim Crincon Crientio a River of Artois near Arras Crinisus a River in the West of the Island of Sicily springing in the Valley of Mazara twenty five Miles from Palermo and afterwards falling into the Sea of Tunis Now called Il Belicidestro Crismato Phaenus a Mountain in Normandy Croatia Liburnia a Dukedom belonging to the Emperor of Germany call'd by the Germans Crabaten and is a part of the Kingdom of Hungary Bounded on the North by Sclavonia on the East by Bosnia on the South by Dalmatia and the Adriatick Sea and on the West by Carniola a Province of Germany The Turks were heretofore possessed of all the Southern Parts of it but the Emperor has lately recovered them The Inhabitants are excellent Horsemen and have of late done great Service against the Turks Crocodilon an ancient City in the Kingdom of Aegypt upon the Banks of the Nile in the Country called Thebais They adored the Crocodiles as Gods in the vulgar Opinion at this Place and therefore it came to take their Name Croia the principal City of Albania a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Durazzo Dyrrhachium upon the River Lisana within ten English Miles of the Adriatick thirty from Durazzo to the North about a hundred and ten South of Ragusa It was heretofore very strong George Castriot commonly called Scanderbeg often broke the Fury of the Ottoman Forces here but after his Death it fell into their Hands Cromer a Market-Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of North Erpingham lying to the Sea Croncarty a Sea-Port-Town in Ross in Scotland upon the Eastern Sea at the North Point of Murray Fyrth Cronenburg Coronaeburgum a strong Castle in Zealand belonging to the King of Denmark taken by the Swedes in 1658. but since restored again At this place which was built by Frederick II. King of Denmark for the purpose in 1577. all Ships are forced to pay their Toll which pass the Sound Cronstat Corona a City of Transylvania often called Brassovia by the Inhabitants Brassaw in the middle of the Eastern Borders of that Dutchy towards Walachia at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains upon the River Burzazgh It is a strong Place and has three great Suburbs inhabited by three several Nations forced to receive an Imperial Garrison in May 1688. General Heusler in a Fight near this place Aug. 21. 1690. suffered a great Defeat wherein himself was taken Prisoner by the Tartars who not knowing him sold him
observed The principal City is Grenoble Dax See Acqs. The Dead-Sea See Asphaltites Deal a Member of the Town and Port of Sandwich in Kent of Note for the Harbouring of Fleets from time to time here in Order to sail East or West Dean See the Forest of Dean Dean-Magna a Market-Town in Glocestershire in the Hundred of S. Briavells Deben a River in Suffolk upon which VVoodbridge and Debenham stand It discharges it self into the Sea twelve Miles below the latter Debenhan a Market-Town in Suffolk in the Hundred of Thedwastree upon the River Deben Debir See Dabir Decan or Decam is a very great Kingdom in the Promontory of Malabar in the East-Indies bounded on the West by the Indian or Arabian Ocean on the North by the Kingdom of Guzarat on the East by that of Golconda and on the South by the Kingdom of Bisnagar The Capital of it is Visapar and the greatest part has been subdued by the Moguls or divided into petty Kingdoms of which see Mr. Thevenot's Travels The Portuguese overcame Goa a Member of this Kindom in 1510. and have ever since retained it Decize Dececia a Town in the Province of Nivernois in France seven or eight Leagues from Nevers standing in an Islet of the Loyre where the River Airon beds with the Loyre It is a Pass of some Consequence belonging to the Dukes of Nevers who have a Castle here And the Roman Medals that have been found at it demonstrate the Antiquity of it Deddington a Market-Town in Oxfordshire in the Hundred of VVotton Dedham a Market-Town in Essex in the Hundred of Lexden d ee Deva a River called by the VVelsh Fridwy ariseth in Merionethshire from the Lake of Llyntegid and running North-West takes in the River of Alwen in the same County then passeth into Denbighshire and becomes a Boundary between that and Shropshire admitting another of its boundaries the River Keriog and passing by Bangor the famous old VVelsh Monastery it entereth Cheshire at Shocklidge At Alford it takes in another small River and in Flintshire the River Allen so having divided Cheshire from Flintshire at VVest-Chester it falls into the Irish Sea making a great Haven called by the VVelsh Eee Etu by the English Dee-Mouth § d ee Dea a River in Galloway in Scotland which riseth in the Borders of Coila and running South takes in many other small Rivers and at last buries it self in Solway Fyrth which parts Scotland from the North-West of England at Kirkubrig a famous Town of Galloway Deeping a Market-Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Nesse Deistan Oxus See Geichon Deizer Dordomana a City of Persia Delbrugk Delbrugia a small Town in the Circle of VVestphalia in Germany between the Rivers Ems and Lippe It s ancient Inhabitants were the Brucleri whom Germaâ—â—cus overthrew Dele or Dyle Dila a River rising near the Village Thile in Brabant in the Low-Countries running by Louvain and after the Reception of the Demer falling into the Scheld at Rupel-Monde Delft Delphi a City of the Province of Holland which gives name to a District one of the principal Cities of that State very populous and well built Here is the Monument of VVilliam of Nassaw the Founder of the Low-Country Liberty who was here assassinated by the Spaniards in 1584 And likewise another of Admiral Trump It is not above one League from the Hague three from Roterdam and as many from Leiden in a Plain In the year 1536. a Fire almost entirely destroyed it The Town Delfs-Haven within a quarter of a League of Rotterdam is under the Jurisdiction of this City Delli Crateres two little deep Lakes mention'd by the Ancients in the Island of Sicily near Catania They were consecrated by the Natives to the Dâ—i Palisci Delly or Delhi a great City and Kingdom under the Mogul in the East-Indies upon the River Gemna a hundred Miles from Agria to the N. towards Labor length of time had much wasted it whereupon Chah Jehan the Father of Auran Zeb Emperor of that Country in 1625. built up another vast one by it called Chah Jehan-Abad or shorter Jehan-Abad that it might be the Capital of his Empire since which it has flourished and encreased above any City in the Indies as Bernerius cited by Baubrand saith who had often seen it This City was the Seat of Porus the Indian King who made himself famous by his Wars with Alexander the Great Near it stands a Pyramid or Obelisk of Stone which by its unknown Characters seems to be of great Antiquity thought in the Indies to have been erected by Alexander the Great after the Defeat of Porus. The River Gemna on which this City stands runs East and falls into the Ganges The Fortress of it is half a League in compass with round Towers at the distance of every ten Battlements the Ditches are full of Water Wharfed with Stone and it has lovely Gardens round about it In this Citadel is the Royal Palace The Town has no Ditches but Walls filled up with Earth behind and Towers Delmenhorst Delmenhorstium a small Town in the Principality of Oldembourg in Germany upon the River Delmen which denominates it and soon after falls into the Weser It hath the honor of the Title of an Earldom three Leagues from Bremen and a little more from Oldembourg Under the King of Denmark ever since 1667. Delos Ortygia Lagia Asteria Midia Cynthon a famous Island of the Archipelago the chief of the Cyclades towards Europe called by the Modern Grecks plurally 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as comprehending the other Island Rhene or Rhenis with it because these two at a distance seem to make but one Island And by Mariners Sdille by a corruption of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apollo and Diana were supposed to be born here The former had here his Temple and his Oracle some Ruines whereof with others of a Theatre a School c. are yet visible at Sdilles that is the ancient City Delos called afterwards Athenae Adrianae which is little inhabited now In the middle of the Island stands the Mountain Cynthus which gave the Epithet of Cynthia to Diana not above one hundred and twenty five foot high and therefore short of shadowing the Island as it was represented to do in the ancient account It is a Rock of Marble The whole Island is covered with heaps of the same Besides which it yields Mastick and Hares in the like abundance as formerly when it received the Name of Lagia from them Called Delos says Aristotle because it shew'd it self of a sudden in a place where no Island was before which might be the reason of the Ancients sancying that it sometime floated Delphi Delphos a City of Phocis in Achaia at the foot of Mount Parnassus which in ancient times was very great though not walled otherwise than by the steep Rocks that encompassed it it had a Castle which stood on the top of a Rock now called La Castri This Place once so famous for the
is full of Mines of Iron the Valleys are fruitful here also and on the Eastern side the Country is very fruitful of Grass Corn and Sea-Coal Though all the English Kings were liberal to this Church upon the account of S. Cuthbert yet Guthrun the Dane was the first that granted this Bishoprick o◠County to the Church of Durham which was afterward confirmed by Canutus another Danish Prince and by William the Conqueror ever since which time it has been accounted a County Palatine Dr. Nathaniel Crew the present Bishop of this Diocese being the LXX in number from S. Aidanus was translated from Oxford hither in the year 1674. Duringen See Thuringia Durlach or Dourlach Durlachum Budoris a City in the Marquisate of Baden in Schwaben in Germany scarce two Miles from the Rhine to the East and four from Baden This is the Capital of the Marquisate of Durlach and the lower part of the Marquisate of Baden which bounds it on the South the Rhine lies on the West the Dukedom of Wirtemberg on the East and the Palatinate of the Rhine on the North. It is subject to its Marquess of the House of Baden who has some other Territories and Honors in these Parts Durseley a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Wotton Dusseldorp Dusseldorpium the chief Town of the Dutchy of Bergh upon the Rhine five Miles beneath Cologne This Town was fortified against the Duke of Brandenburg by the Duke of Newburg in 1613. who has since had his Residence here Duvelandt the same with Beveland Duysburg See Duisburg Dwina Duna Dzwina a vast River in Muscovy or Russia which riseth in the Province of Megrina from two several Heads that unite at VVologda one of the principal Cities of Russia and running North-East passeth by the Lake of Soeclina beneath which it receiveth from the East the River Juga and a little lower the River VVuyma then turning North-East it falls into the VVhite Sea by three Mouths upon the most Eastern of which stands Arch-Angel the only frequented Port of Russia The heads of this River were called before their union Jagel and Sachana and after it Dwina § There is another River of the same Name which riseth out of a Lake of the same Name ten Leagues from the Lake of Fronowo and the Sources of the Nieper and falls into the Baltick Sea below Riga saith Olearius I suppose this is it which the latter Maps call Duna This River riseth in a Province of Russia called Novogard near the Lake VVolga and the Fountains of the River of that Name and turning Westward being augmented by some smaller Rivers it entereth Lithuania at VVitepks then passing Poloczko Drima Duneberg Kakenheusen and separating Livonia from Semigallia it falls into the Gulph or Bay of Livonia a part of the Baltick Sea on the South of Riga by Dunemund a Castle seated on the Mouth of it The Muscovites call it Dzwina saith Baudrand § The Province of Dwina is the greatest and most Northern of all Russia heretofore subject to the Duke of Novogard one hundred Russian Miles in length It had formerly but one City called by the same Name which stands in the middle of it but since the Passage to Arch-Angel has been discovered it is become one of the most considerable Provinces in Russia Arch-Angel being seated in this Province and the greatest Trade driven on the Dwina Dyfy See Dee a River in VVales Dynas-Mouthwye a Market Town in the County of Merioneth in VVales The Capital of its Hundred Dyrne See Tyrnaw EA EAdmont or Eamont a River in the County of Westmorland which joins with the Lowther by Whinfeld Forrest Earne or Lough-Earne Erno Erdinus a Lake in Vlster which passing into the Lake of Devenish a little more West they both together fall into the Virgivian or Western Ocean by the Bay of Walley between Dungal to the North and Slego to the South Easingwold a Market Town in the North-Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Bulmer East-Born a Market Town in the County of Sussex in Bevensey Rape East-Breane Brenia a Tract in the County of Cavan in the Province of Vlster in Ireland near the Lough-Earne Easton-ness a Promontory on the Coast of Suffolk which makes the Northern Point of Southwold Bay the most Eastern Cape of the whole Kingdom of England Eaton Aetonia Etona a Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Stock upon the River Thames over against Windsor made famous by a College of the Foundation of King Henry VI. in which there is a Grammar-School of great esteem for the education of the English youth Eaune Heldona Elna a River of France commonly called Liane It ariseth in the Confines of Artois and running through the County of Bologne falls into the British Sea at Bologne Eause Elusa or Elusaberis a ruined City of France commonly called Euse and Eusan in a Territory of the same Name upon the River Gelize often mentioned by Sulpitius Severus Ammianus and Sidonius It was once an Archbishops See and the Metropolis of Novempopulonia but now an obscure Village in Armagnac in Gascogny five Miles from Condom West Civtat is built of late towards the Rumes of it The Archbishops See was translated to Aux hence Ebersdorp Eberstorfium a Town in the Lower Austria in Germany It stands upon the Danube two Miles below Vienna adorned with a Castle to which the Emperors delight to retire Eberstein a County the Circle of Schwaben in Germany taking its Name from the Castle Eberstein towards the Dukedom of Wirtemberg They both belong to the Marquess of Baden Eberwyck York Eblaba Alabanda an Inland City of Caria now Aidinelli in the Lesser Asia on the South of the River Madre Long. 52. 28. Lat. 38. 46. It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Staurople or Sancta Croce Ebro Iberus one of the greatest Rivers of Spain called by the FrenchEbre It ariseth from the Mountains of the Asturia's in old Castile near the Village and Castle of Mantillas from two Springs and watering the North part of Old Castile the Towns of Frias Miranda Logrono and Tudela where it takes in the River Arga from the South and from thence becomes capable to carry a Boat it soon after enters into and divides the Kingdom of Arragon then takes in Biel from the North and Xalon from the South a little below Alagon then saluting Saragoza it admits Rio de la Guerva from the South and Gallego from the North Aguas Marcia and Guadalupe come in from the South as it passes Burgo and Fuentes and at Mequinenca Segre of old Sicoris with a number of smaller Rivers in its retinue Algas on the South and a knot of small Rivolets on the North also come in to pay their Tributes so watering the Southern part of Catalonia a little beneath Tortosa he falls into the Mediterranean Sea between three small Islands made by his own Sands This River gave the Name anciently of Iberia to all Spain Festus Avienus mentions
or painted Brick that each House has a Tower for their divertisement The great Mosque called Carruen is half a Mile in compass with thirty one Gates of vast height And the Library is said to contain besides a great number of other books two thousand Volumes of Manuscripts in the Arabick Language The Territory belonging to it extends from the River Burgrage to the River Gnave and on the North from the River Suba to the foot of Mount Atlas South which is called the Province of Fez and by the Romans Volubilis This Kingdom of Fez was erected by Abdulack in 1212 and long since united to the Kingdom of Morocco This Kingdom was a part of Mauritania Tingitana and has for a Century of years and more suffered great and srequent Mutations and Insurrections They are the greatest Bigots of all that imbrace the Mahometan Faith and the most bitter and implacable enemies of the Christian Religion having totally extirpated it in those Regions where there were once many great and flourishing Churches The Kingdom of Fez is bounded on the North by the Streights of Gibra tar and the Mediterranean on the West by the Atlantick Ocean on the South by the Kingdom of Morocco from which it is divided by the River Azamor and on the East by the Kingdom of Algier now by reason of their great intestine Wars much depopulated and ruined Fezzen or Fessen a Province of Biledulgerida in Africa which is a Desart Fiano a Castle in St. Peter's Patrimony in Italy upon the Tibur 15 Miles North of Rome ennobled with the Title of a Dukedom Fianone Flanona Flavona a Town and Port of the Province of Histria in Italy upon the Adriatick belonging to the Republick of Venice It stands advanced upon a high hill Fidari Lycormas a River of Aetolia which washeth Calidon now Galata a Village on the Bay of Thessalonica on the Archipeiago Fidonisi Achillea an Island in the Euxine Sea and also a Peninsula called of old Dromos Achillis at the mouth of the Borysthenes on the Eastern side It seems to be the same with Zagori Fiechtelberg Suditi Hercinii Montes a Ridge of Mountains which incircle Bohemia and divide it from Franconia to the West whence spring these great Rivers 1. Moenus the Mayn which entereth the Rhine at Mentz 2. Sala the Saal which falls into the Elb at Bernberg 3. Egra the Eger which falls into the Elb at Deutmeritz in Bohemia 4. Nabus the Nab which falls into the Danube above Ratisbone See Eichtelberg Fiesco a City of Caria called anciently Phusca in the later Maps Fischio a little more north than the Isle of Rhodes and on the Mediterranean Sea Fife Fifa a County in Scotland between the Fyrth of Tay to the North that of Edinburg to the South the German Ocean to the East and Strathern and Menteith to the West It is one of the greatest in Scotland as being eighty four Scotch Miles in circuit also one of the most fruitful and best inhabited parts of that Kingdom full of considerable Towns and Places the principal of which is S. Andrews the Metropolitan See of that Kingdom Figalo Actium a most celebrated Promontory of Epirus See Actium Figeac Figeacum a small City of France in Quercy a Southern Province of that Kingdom upon the River Sele nine Leagues from Caors to the East twenty eight from Tholouse to the North-East Figenia Ephesus a City of Ionia Filadelphia Philadelphia a City of Lydia in the Lesâ—er Asia at the foot of Mount Tmoli upon the River Caystrus now Chiai thirty two German Miles East of Smyrna It is called by the Turks Allachars or Alla-Scheyr that is the City of God of old an Episcopal See under Sardus but now the Metropolis and in a tolerable Estate under the Turks being built amongst the Hills and Mountains it has in all times been much subject to the violence of Earthquakes This is one of the seven Churches of Asia mentioned in the Revelations Long. 57. 41. Lat. 40. 15. There is here now about two hundred Houses of Christians and four Churches It preserved it self against the Turks after all the rest of Asia was conquered under Orchanes and the two Morats till the time of Bajazet I. who began his Reign in 1387 reigned nine years and then was taken by Tamerlane And as they held out longer so they submitted on better terms God having preserved them as he promised he would even from the perfidy and rage of those destroyers See Revel 3. 8 10. Wheeler's Travels p. 265. Fillech Fillechum a City of the Upper Hungary five German Miles from Agria to the North and the same from Cassovia to the West It stands on the Road which leads from Presburg to the Cities in the Mountains upon the River Gayen which falls into the Danube over against Gran in the County of Zabel There was here a Castle and the Town being a Frontier was walled and very strong taken by the Turks in 1560 retaken by the Imperialists in 1593. Again taken by the Bassa of Great Waradin in 1682. And because he and the Tekelites could not agree about it he dismantled and deserted it Filippo Philippi a City of Macedonia on the Confines of Thrace seated on a steep Hill about five German Miles from the Archipelago to the West on the Golfo de Contessa either built or repaired by Philip King of Macedonia from whom it has its Name It was afterwards a Roman Colony and mentioned as such in the Acts of the Apostles S. Paul preached the Christian Faith here and wrote one of his Epistles to this Church also famous for a Battel fought near it between Pompey and Cesar and another between Augustus and Cassius In the Primitive times it was an Archbishops See but almost buried in its own Ruines now and desolate See Acts 16. 12. Filippopoli Philippopolis called by the Turks Filibe and Presrem is a City and an Archbishops See in Thrace upon the River Hebrus now Meriza an hundred Miles from Constantinople ninety from Philippi to the West Here was an Arrian Synod held in 349. And here Julian the Apostate was when he received the news of the Death of Constantius and thereupon discovered his concealed Apostacy Frederick Barbarossa I in 1189 took this and Adrianople from the Turks which was retaken from the Christians by Amurath in 1359. This City was built by Philip the Roman Emperor and is now in a flourishing condition the Seat and Residence of a Turkish Sangiack or Governor under the Pacha of Romania Final or Finale Finalium a strong Town well fortified with a Marquisate belonging to it upon the Coasts of the Sea of Genoua in Italy betwixt Savona and Albengua The Marquisate is not above six miles in length and is bounded at each end with the points of the Mountains They both belong to the King of Spain who surprized them in 1602 and caused the last person of the House of Carreto that for a long time before had been the
from Roan two from Vernon and one from the River Seyne It stands upon a little Hill in so agreeable a Place that the former Kings of France as Francis I. and Charles IX have delighted to make some stay at it Gainsborongh a large well built Market-Town in Lincolnshire in the Division of Lindsey and Hundred of Gartree upon the River Trent It is memorable for the Death of King Swaine or Sweno the Dane here by an unknown Hand stabbed It drives a considerable Trade and gives the Title of Earl to the Family of the Noels Gaino Gongo Gannum a City of Thrace upon the Propontis three German Miles from Rudisto to the South and twelve from Gallipoli to the North about nineteen South from Constantinople by Sea Gaiola Euploea a small Island upon the Coast of Terra di Lavoro between Naples and Puteoli Gaivo Gagecome a River of Phrygia in the Lesser Asia There is also a Town of the same Name Galata Gallita Calathe Galata an Island upon the Coast of Numidia almost opposite to the Bay of the same Name It lies over against Sardinia West of Tunis East of Algier or Argiers West of Cape Negro and is about ten Miles in Circumference Galata or Galatta Chrysoceras Cornu Byzantii a noble Suburb on the North of Constantinople towards the Black Sea which is strongly fortified to the North. This was first if not built yet beautified by the Genouese Mr. Wheeler our Country-man thus describes it Galata is situate saith he upon the South side of a considerable steep Hill setting out into a Promontory on the North side of the Harbour and comprehending the Suburbs on the East West and North sides of it it may be counted a good large City and very populous yet the Circumference of the Wall takes up no great space of ground but the Houses are thick and the Streets narrow and the whole very populous On the top of the Hill is a round spired Tower covered with Lead and on the Walls are some Arms and modern Inscriptions which belonged to the Genoese who before the taking of Constantinople were Masters of this Place It is more inhabited by Christians and Jews than by Turks Here is the Scale of the Merchants who have a good Kan covered with Lead for the Sale of their Woollen Cloaths and other Merchandize There are five Religious Houses of the Latin Christians established in this Place Otherwise called Pera See Pera. Galati Galata once a City now a Village in Sicily in the Valley of Demona twenty Miles from Patti South-West thirty five from Catania North-West Galatia is a Province of the Lesser Asia called by the ancient Geographers Gallo-Graecia from the Galls which are stiled Galatae by the Grecians who after the burning of Rome and laying Italy desolate went thither and possessed it making a mixture with the Grecians and the South Part of it was nam'd Galatia Salutaris This Province is bounded on the North by Paphlagonia sometimes taken for a Part of it on the East by Cappadocia on the South by Pisidia and Liaconia on the West by Phrygia Magna Bithynia and Asia properly so taken The Turks call this Province now Chiangare under whom it is The principal Cities are Ancyra which is even now in a more flourishing State than any of the rest and Pessinus This Colony of the Galls is said to have settled here under Brennus A. M. 3671. They were subdued by the Romans under Cn. Manlius Vulso in the year of the World 3760. 187 years before the Birth of our Saviour but not made a Roman Province till the year 3925. 23 years before Christ They were converted to Christianity by S. Paul who honoured them with an Epistle They did not fall into the Hands of the Mahometans till 1524. when Solyman the Magnificent took Alsbeg Prince of the Mountains of Armenia by Treachery and possessed himself of Cappadocia Armenia and Galatia Galaure Galabar a small River in the Dauphinate which falls into the Rhosne at S. Valerie six Miles beneath Vienne to the South Galazo Galesus Eurotas is a River which ariseth from the Appennine in the Province of Hydruntum La Terra di Otranto near Oria and running West falls into the Bay of Taranto five Miles South of Taranto but not taken notice of in our later Maps Gale a strong Town and Port in the Island of Zeilan in the East-Indies which the Hollanders have ravished from the Portuguese in whosetime it was a flourishing Place frequented by abundance of Vessels from Japan China the Islands of the Sound Malaca Bengala and other Eastern Parts though the Rocks about the Port render it very dangerous to enter without Pilots The Portuguese before they quitted it and the Siege together destroyed most of the Principal Buildings which are yet unbuilt Galera Gallera Gallora a Village and a River near Rome La Galevisse Ager Valicassi a Region upon the Marne a River of France Galfanacar Gichehis a Town in Mauritania Galgala See Meroe § Also a Village in Palestine in the Tribe of Benjamin on this side the River Jordan three Leagues from Jericho Now inhabited by Arabians and call'd Galgal by them A Place heretofore sanctified by a Number of admirable Actions and defam'd again by as many Idolatries S. Jerom in Ose The Circumcision of all that had been born in the Wilderness Joshua ordered to be performed here Galibes a Nation of Indians in Guiana along the River Courbo towards the North Sea in America bounded by the Rivers Suriname and Marauvini to the West and the River and Island of Cayenne to the East Other Maps place them in New Andalusia to the North of the River Orenoque Galicia Gallaecia is a Province of Spain called by the Natives Galizia by the Portuguese Galiza by the French Galice and by the Italians Galicia of a large Extent about fifty Leagues long and forty broad and once a Kingdom but now a Part of the Kingdom of Leon Bounded on the North and West by the Atlantick Ocean on the South by Portugal but parted from it by the River Douero and on the East by Asturia and the Kingdom of Leon. Compostella is the Capital of this Province Orensi Auria Baiona Corufia Lugo Mondoefiedo and Tuy are the other Cities and principal Places The Groyne or Coronna is the most famous of its Ports besides which it has forty others This Province is Mountainous enclined to Barrenness destitute of Water but abounding with Mines of Silver Gold Iron and well stored with Wood and good Wines it hath also great plenty of Cattle Game and excellent Horses The Iron they dig out of these Mountains is thought the best in the World especially for Edge-Tools nor are their Seas less stored with Fish This Country was never Conquered by the Moors though they at times made some Progress into it and after in 985. they had repelled Almanassor with the Loss of 70000 of his Moors they were never in any danger of Conquest from that
Paris upon the River Bievre mentioned in Ecclesiastical History for a large Council assembled at it in 767. in the Reign of King Pepin and in the Presence of the Embassadors of the Emperor Compronimus from the East touching the Procession of the Holy Spirit and the Vse of Images Genubath See Guinea Georgeto Morgontiacum a Town of the Further Calabria Georgia a great Country in Asia call'd by the Inhabitants Gurgistan between the Caspian Sea to the East and the Euxine to the West bounded on the North by Circassia Comania and the Dominions of the Duke of Muscovy and on the South by Schirvan a Province of the Kingdom of Persia Containing under this Name a Part of Armenia the Greater and Armenia the Lesser This Kingdom was heretofore much greater than now and had Monarchs for its Sovereigns whose Royal Seat was the City of Cotatis but lying between the Turks and the Persians two powerful Neighbours both of them have diminished the Extent of it Thus the Turks dispossess'd the Georgian Kings of Erzerum a City of Armenia the Persians of some others and besides the Kings of it having divided it into several small Principalities it is become much less able than otherwise it would have been to defend it self against those potent Princes that surround it The Eastern Parts of it are accordingly Tributary to the King of Persia the Northern to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the Western to the Turk The Parts of this Kingdom are Mengrelia Guriel and Imireta to the West where the ancient Colchis was To the North Abaca Carthuel now a Province of Persia and Gagheti Gaguesa to the East formerly called Iberia and Samsche Samesa to the South towards Armenia The principal Cities are Cotatis and Teflis The Georgians are Christians by Profession but by Practice the worst in the World especially the Princes and great Men who will sell their Subjects for Slaves to the Turks and Persians or exchange them for Merchandize Their Faith is very tolerable they are of the Greek Church and till of late never heard of the Church of Rome In 1624. Pope Vrban VIII sent a Mission of the Theatines thither Georgia more properly so called borders to the East upon Circassia and Muscovy to the West upon Armenia the Less to the South upon Armenia the Greater to the North upon the Euxine Sea and that Part of Colchis called Imireta which I believe saith Sir J. Chardin to be all that Country which the Ancients call Iberia It is a Country very full of Woods and very Mountainous which yet has in it a great Number of Pleasant Plains only the middle of Georgia is more even and level than the rest The River Kur Cyrus runs through the middle of it This Country is very fruitful in Corn Herbs and Fruits and produces a vast quantity of excellent Wines but their most Staple Commodity is Silk of which they have a great quantity but not half what is reported The Air is very dry cold in the Winter and hot in the Summer Gerania an ancient City of Maesia Superior now Bulgaria towards Thrace and the Mountain Haemus Gerawer Geravia a Territory in the Upper Circle of the Rhine towards the Confluence of the Mayne and Rhine between the County of Erpach on the East Mentz on the North and South the Palatinate of the Rhine on the West The principal Places are Geraw and Darmstad from which latter this is sometimes by Foreigners called the Landâ—graâ—iat de Darmstad The Town of Geraw which gives this Territory its other Name lies not above two German Miles from the Rhine and Oppenheim to the East upon the River Noir Gerberoy a Town in the Isle of France towards the Borders of Picardy in the Territory of Beauvoisis four or five Leagues from Beauvais at which the English and French fought a Battle in 1434. Gerbes See Zerbi Gergenti Agrigentum an ancient and once a most potent and magnificent City of Sicily mentioned in the Old Greek and Latin Historians very frequently Built by the Inhabitants of Gela six hundred years before the Birth of our Saviour as Thucydides affirms Lib. 6. and called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Latins Agragas and Acrogas as well as Agrigentum It became in time so great as to have ten Miles in Compass and to contain two hundred thousand Inhabitants and others say so many more as is incredible if not impossible See Laer. Lib. 8. When this City had not stood above forty years it fell into the Hands of Phalaris a Cretian in the 41. Olympiad about the year of Rome 183. who being banished his Country of a private Man became Lord of Sicily and one of the most noted of all the ancient Tyrants enjoying this Power sixteen Years in which time Perillus invented and first experimented the Brazen Bull. After this the Carthaginians became Masters of it and after them the Romans It was not less celebrated upon the Account of Empedocles the famous Pythagorean Philosopher who lived in the 44. Olympiad and was born here 160 years after the Foundation of this City Cicero speaks of a Temple and a Statue of Hercules that this City shew amongst the finest pieces of Antiquity The Horses bred here were of great repute in Greece much used in their Games on which occasion it is mentioned by Virgil Aen. 3. It is now called by the Inhabitants Gergenti by the Spaniards Girgenti and is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Palerno now formerly of Syracusa Seated between the Rivers of Arraga and Naro upon an Hill almost in the middle of the Southern Shoar of that Island in Long. 37. 38. Lat. 36. 10. The Saracens of Sicily were a Plague to it in their times Gerizim or Gerizzim a Mountain of Palestine near Samaria over against Mount Ebal on the other side Jordan from whence the Decalogue by Joshua's Order was promulgated and the Israelites blessed by Simeon Levi c. Deut. 27. 12. and 11. 29. 30. The Wells of Jacob at which our Saviour discoursed the Samaritan Woman sprang by its Foot This is the famous Mountain whereon Manasses expelled Jerusalem for marrying the Governour of Samaria's Daughter a Stranger built a Temple in Opposition to Solomon's which began the Schisin betwixt the Jews and the Samaritans Hyrcanus Nephew of Judas Maccabeus demolished it two hundred Years after yet the Samaritans nevertheless continued the Courses of their Prayers and Sacrifices here even to the Time of the Emperor Justinian Zeno the Emperor built upon this Mountain a Christian Church Justinian repaired the same and erected also a Fortress here to the Insolencies of the Samaritans of whom Vespasian killed in his time eleven thousand that had retired hither in the Wars of the Jews Germany Germania one of the greatest Countries in Europe and the Mother of those Nations which in the fall of the Roman Empire conquered all the rest At present bounded on the North by the Baltick Sea and Jutland on
chosen being the Primaâ—â— of that whole Kingdom § The River Gran riseth in the Carpathian Hills and passing by Liptsch Neâ—â—sol Konisperg and Soidigâ—n at Barkan over against Gran falls into the Danube Long. 41. 25. Lat. 47. 45. Grana a small River in Italy which falls into the Po against the Mouth of the Tanaro Granada Granata Granatum Illiberis and Regnum Oranatense a Kingdom and a City in Spain The Kingdom of Granada lies in the South of Spain upon the Mediterranean Sea being heretofore the Eastern part of Hispania Boetica Bounded on the East with the Kingdom of Murcia on the North and West with that of Andalusia and on the South with the Mediterranean It is full of Mountains the greatest of which is Apuâ—axara The Soil was once very fruitful but now desolate and consequently in many parts barren This Kingdom was one of the first the Moors possessed themselves of and of the last they lost the Spaniards not recovering it out of their Hands before 1492. Peter Son of Alphonsus King of Castile surprised one of their Kings and slew him in 1350. But Ferdinando in the first mentioned year was the Prince which God had appointed to put a final period to the Kingdom of the Moors in Spain by the expulsion of Mahomet Boabdelin the last King of Granada Son of Muley Assin As this raised Spain to that greatness our Fathers saw and feared so the expulsion of the Posterity of these Moors by Philip II. in 1571. occasioned by a Rebellion here and in Andalusia upon the score of the Inquisition began the ruin of Spain the loss of so vast a number of Subjects many of which though banished as Mahometans did profess Christianity in Africa amongst the Moors having rendered it together with the American Plantations weak and unable to defend it self or to maintain its very distant Dominions The principal Cities of this Kingdom are Granada Guadix Baza Ronda and Almeria This Kingdom is twenty five Miles in breadth twenty three in length and sixty in circumference § Granada Nova Illiberis the Capital City of the last mentioned Kingdom and from whence it had its Name is a great and most delightful City as any in Spain the Air healthful and it has plenty of excellent Springs so that the Moors were of opinion Paradise was at least in that part of the Heavens which influenced this Climate This City was built out of the Ruins of Illiberis an old Roman City in an extended form upon several Hills two of which are higher than any of the rest upon the River Del Oro Darrum the River Xenil Singilis flowing also not far from it on the South This City is divided into four parts the first is Granada in which is the Cathedral the second Alhambra beautified with the Palace of the Moorish Kings which is extreamly Magnificent and has a delightful Prospect the third Alvesia and the fourth Antiquerula which for the multitude of Inhabitants and beauty of the Buildings is not inferior to any of the other three the whole is twelve Miles in compass inhabited by many excellent Artificers especially Silk-Weavers It has also a Bishops See an University opened by Ferdinando and a Parliament or Chancellary This City was built by the Moors who were expelled out of it after they had possessed it 778 years in 1462. It has twelve Gates and a thousand and thirty Towers In it lie buried Ferdinando and Isabella Philip I. and Joanna his Queen On the East there is a Castle built on a Hill of hewen Stone This City stands thirty six Leagues from Sevil to the East nineteen from Cordova to the South-East and twelve from Jaâ—n to the South Long. 17. 10. Lat. 37. 30. New Granada by the Spaniards styled Nuevo Reyno de Granada a Kingdom in the South America in the large Country of Castile d' Or whereof it is sometime reckoned as a Province lying betwixt the Provinces of Popayan Paria and S. Martha a hundred and thirty Leagues in length in breadth where it is at the largest about thirty and where the least about twenty There are Mines of Gold and precious Stones to enrich it with large Forests and excellent Pasturage It lies so near the Equinoctial that the difference betwixt Winter and Summer the Day and Night is scarce observable Subject nevertheless to violent Hurricanes Thunders and Lightnings The principal Provinces of it are Bogota and Tunia The Capital City S. Fe de Bogota the other principal Cities and Places under the Spaniards Trinidad la Palma Pamplâ—na Merida Tunia Merequita Vittoria St. John de los Lanos c. It is watered by the great River de la Madalena and in divers parts inhabited by numbers of Salvages § There is a Town Granada in the Region of Nicaragua in the North America towards the Gulph of Nicaragua and the North Sea under the Government of Guadimala § And an Island amongst the Caribbes named so formerly by the Spaniards but now under the Dominion of the French Betwixt La Trinidad Tabago and Barbadoes Grandmont or Geerstberg Gâ—rardi Mons a small Town in the Earldom of Flanders upon a Hill with the River Dender running by its foot three Leagues from Oudenarde and five from Dendermonde Built about the year 1065. by Baldwin V. Earl of Flanders and often taken by the French Grane Grana an Island belonging to France in the Bay of Aquitaine Granea Echedorus a River of Macedonia which falls into the Gulph of Thessalonica said to have been drunk dry by the Army of Xerxes It is now called Calico by some by others Verataser and runneth near the City of Thessalonica Grange a Seigniory in the Province of Berry in France giving its name to an honorable Family Granico Granicus a River of the Lesser Asia placed by Strabo in the Lesser Mysia it springeth from Mount Ida and bending Northward falls into the Propontis between Cyzicum to the East and Lamposcus to the West its Fountains are twenty Stadias from the Springs of Scamander now Scamandro Also at this day called Granico by some and by others Lazzara Upon the Banks of it near Cyzicum was the first Battel between Alexander the Great and Darius King of the Persians Anno Romae 420. i. e. 334 years before our Saviour in which a hundred thousand Persians were slain See Plutarch and Justin Granson Gransonium a Village in Switzerland near the Lake of Newenbourg which has a small District belonging to it subject to the Cantons of Bearn and Friburg it lies at the equal distance of 3 Miles from Newenburg to the South and Friburg to the West Near this place the Army of Charles the Hardy Duke of Burgundy consisting of 50000 Men was defeated by 5000 Swiss in 1476. and his Camp taken with all his Baggage and Cannon This unfortunate Prince had but a little before taken this Town from the Swiss and coming too late to relieve it again the Swiss upon this defeat of his Army have ever since enjoyed
watering Baeza Lorca and Almacaren falls into the Mediterranean Sea seven Miles South of Carthagena in the Kingdom of Murcia Guadalete Lethes a River of Andalusia which watereth Zahara Villa Martin Bornbos Arcos and Xeres and ends in the Bay of Cadiz Guadaloupe or Guardeloupe Aqua Lupiae an Island in America which is one of the greatest of the Antilles and has been in the hands of the French ever since 1627. There are in it many Plantations or Colonies and Castles the Island being sixty Miles in compass very fruitful in Sugars and well watered and peopled It lies in Long. 315. North Lat. 19. 10. to the North-West of Barbadoes betwixt Dominico and Marigalante And is the third Island from the Northward of the Caribbes or Antilles Guadalquivir Baetis Tartessus one of the greatest Rivers in Spain called Baetis by Mela Tartessus by Strabo And now Guadalquivir by an Arabick Word which signifies the great River or Water It ariseth from Mount Carzorla in the Forest of Segura in New Castile in the Confines of Granada and Murcia six Leagues from Baeza to the North and being augmented with the River Borosa it runneth Westward through Andalusia and a little above Andujar takes in from the North Guadalimar and beneath it Frio from the South Guadiel and Herumblar from the North and passing Admuz with the addition of Arjona and Porcuna it entereth Cordova then taking in Cazer and some other small Rivers it passeth to Palma where it receives the Xenil Singylis and so hasteth to Sevil Hispalis beneath which it takes in the Guadimar and bending Southward entereth the Ocean five Leagues beneath Sevil. The Mouth of it is called la Maresma Heretofore it had another Mouth but that lying more Southward is long since stopped up Beneath Sevil it makes three or four small Islands not worth any further notice Guadalquivireio Saduca a River of Granada which falls into the Mediterranean Sea at Malaga Guadaxenil more commonly called Xenil See Guadalquivir and Xenil Guadel a Town and Port upon the Gulph of Ormus in the Province of Kherman in Persia Guadiana Anas a River in Spain which is one of the greatest its present Name is compounded of the Arabick Word Guadi which signifies a River and Anas its ancient Name It ariseth in New Castile out of the Fens or Marshes called Las Lagunas de Guadiana not above two Miles above the Town Villa Nueva de los Infantes being dismissed from these Marshes and improved by the Boydera it buries it self for a League under the Earth and near Villaharta breaks out again five Leagues beneath Calatrava declining Westward tho with great winding and taking in Bullaque Estena Guadaranque and out of Estremadura Guadalupo and Zuja it watereth Merida then Badajox or Badajos Pax Augusta where it entereth Portugal and declining to the South visits Olivenca and having parted Algarvia to the North from Andalusia on the South it entereth the Ocean at Ayamente seventeen Spanish Miles West of Guadalquivir This River is at present said not to bury it self in the Earth as is reported heretofore by all the Spaniards who have mentioned it Baudrand Guadiaro Chrysius Barbesola See Guadelentin Others say it is Guadalajora between Estropona to the North-East and Castel de la Lucena to the West just by the Eastern Mouth of the Streights of Gibraltar Guadilbarbar Rubricacus a River of the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa called Jadog or Ladog by others It falls into the Mediterranean Sea Guadix Guadicium Acci a City in the Kingdom of Granada which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Sevil. Seated at the Foot of a Mountain by the River Fardes or Guadalentia and the Fountains of Segura ten Leagues from Jaen to the South-East nine from Granada to the North-East and seventeen from Almeria to the North. This City was taken from the Moors in 1489 and is now in a declining State tho once a celebrated Roman Colony Guaira a Province of Paraguay in South America under the Spaniards between the South part of Brasil to the East Parana to the South and Paraguay Propria to the West the chief City had heretofore the same Name but is now ruined Gualata a Kingdom of Africa in Nigritia towards the Atlantick Ocean it has the Desarts of Zanhaga on the North on the East the Kingdom of Tombutum and on the South that of Genchoa The King of Tombut conquered this Country in 1526 and afterwards return'd it to its own Prince upon Conditions of his paying Tribute to Tombut It is but a barren place affording little Provision no Barley Rice or Hirse and plenty only of Dates The principal City is of the same name Whither the Barbary Merchants used formerly to traffick for Brass Silver and Gold but now the Commerce has passed thence to Gaoga and Tombut The other chief City in it is Hoden Gualentzamore the Caspian Sea Gualgas Ganges Gualida or Beni-Gualida a rich and fruitful Mountain in the Province of Errif in the Kingdom of Fez in Africa inhabited by sixty good Villages out of which they can draw six thousand effective men who with the great difficulty of the Avenues are a considerable defence against a Conquest They pay a small Tribute for the liberty of going to Fez but otherwise are exempted from Taxes and by a Privilege confirm'd to them by the Kings of Fez at every new Succession their Country is an inviolable Asylum for Criminals that retire to it Guamanga otherwise called S. Juan de la Vittoria a City in Peru which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima and the Capital of a Province in a good Air a fruitful Soil full of Mines of divers Metals the Seat of a Governour adorn'd with many Convents and Churches well built sixty Leagues from Lima. The Spaniards reckon about thirty thousand persons in the Province that pay Taxes Guanahani or St. Salvador an Island of North America one of the Lucayes between Florida and Hispaniola which has a safe and a large Haven and was the first spot of American Ground which Columbus discovered on Thursday October 11. 1492. By him called S. Salvador because his finding it that day saved his Life the Spaniards having otherwise resolved to have slain him In the midst of it there is a Lake five Leagues in circuit The Soil is good Pasturage and it was heretofore well peopled with the Natives before the Spaniards murdered a great part of them and carried away the rest to the Terra firma to work in the Mines of Gold Guancabelica otherwise known by the Name of El Assiento de Oropesa are the famous Quick-Silver Mines in Peru near the City Oropesa and nine or ten Leagues from S. Juan de la Vittoria Out of which they yearly extract about a Million of Pounds in weight of the Metal and the Sum of forty thousand Ducats thence accrues besides other Emoluments to the Treasures of the King of Spain The Spaniards first discovered them in 1566. Guanser Zalacus
of a different both Stature and Humour from the rest of France which is not much to be wondered at considering the English Nation for three hundred years together were possess'd of this Country See Gascoigne The principal Rivers of it are the Garonne and the Dordonne which meet at Retraicte and in one Channel fall into the Ocean The chief Cities are Bourdeaux Baionne and Dax or D'Acqs Guienne is thought to be but a Corruption of Aquitania which was the Roman Name for it then enlarged to a sar greater Extent Guilan or Guilao the Hyrcanian Sea Guilford the Capital Town of the County of Surrey in the Hundred of Woking which returns two Members to the House of Commons It is pleasantly situated upon the River Wey containing three Parishes well frequented accommodated and handsom The Saxon Kings had a Royal Mansion here in whose time it was a Place of greater Extent The Ruins of a large old Castle near the River remain yet to be seen In the year 1660. King Charles II created Elizabeth Viscountess of Kinelmalky in Ireland Countess of this Place for her Life In 1674. the Title of Earl of Guilford was granted by the same King to John Maitland the late Duke of Lautherdale in Scotland After whom the late Lord Francis North received the Title of Baron Guilford from the same King also S. Guillain Gislenopolis a Town in Hainault which has a Monastery belonging to it Taken by the French in 1654. and retaken by the Spaniards in 1656. Guimaranes Catraleucos Vimananum Egita Araduca once a City and frequently mentioned as such now a small Village in Entre Douero è Minho in Portugal three Leagues from Braga towards the East This was the Place where S. Damasus one of the ancient Popes was born Guinee Guinea a very great Country on the Western Shoars of Africa which by the Portuguese the first Discoverers of it is divided into two Parts the Upper and the Lower The Upper Guinee is bounded with Nigritia on the North the Atlantick Ocean on the South and has the Kingdom of Congo on the East and the Mountains of Leon on the West It is a very fruitful Country in Gold Ivory Sugar Cotton Rice c. of a great Extent from East to West and much frequented by the European Ships It is divided into three Parts Guinee properly so called which lies in the middle Malâ—gueta which lies to the West and the Kingdom of Beni which lies to the East § Guinee properly so called is a very large Country in Africa upon the Shoars of the Ocean between Malegueta to the West from which it is separated by the Cape of Palmes and the Kingdom of Beni to the East from which it is divided by the River de la Volta It is divided into la Coste d'or which lies East between the Rivers Asien and la Volta and la Coste des Dents which lies West between the Cape of Palmes and the River Asien by which it is parted from the former On the Coste d'or are many Castles belonging to the English Swedes Danes and Hollanders This Country was discovered in 1365. by the French as is pretended Baudrand But in the dismal Wars between the English and French under Charles VI and VII they were forc'd to omit the Prosecution of this Navigation Hofman It is much more probable and better attested that it was discovered in 1452 by Henry Duke of Visco Son of John I. King of Portugal But then the Spaniards in 1477. pursued this Discovery and till 1479 excluded the first Discoverers who regaining the Trade in the Island of S. George built he the strong Fort or Town of Mina in 1486. to secure their Trade there for the future and command all the rest of this Coast Which was the first Place built by the Europeans on this Coast New-Guinee this Country has not been hitherto so far discovered as that we know whether it be an Island or a Part of the Continent of the Terra Australis It is separated from Terra de Papaous which lies East of Ceram and Gilolo in the East-Indies in 51 deg of Southern Lat. by a narrow Straight of the Sea Guinegat a small Town in Artois made famous by a great Defeat of the French Forces by the Flandrians in 1479. by which Victory Maximilian the Emperor then married to Mary the Daughter of Charles the Hardy the last Duke of Burgundy recovered Tournay out of the Hands of the French and settled the Low-Countries in the House of Austria It lies three French Miles from S Omar to the South the same from Renty to the East and two from Ayre to the West Guines a fine Town two Miles East of Calais and the Capital of a County of the same Name having Boulonois on the South and East Terre d'Oye on the North and the German Sea or Streights of Calais on the East This County was of old a Part of Boulonois and the Town belonged then to Picardy King Edward III. of England possessed himself of both in 1351. to whom afterwards they were confirmed by a Treaty in 1360. And in the Reign of Charles VI. of France lost again to that Crown Guipuscoa Ipuscoa now a Province but once a Kingdom in Spain In the middle Times annexed to the Kingdom of Navar but now separated from it and united to Biscay By which it is bounded on the West on the South it has Aâ—ava on the North the Bay of Biscay and the Kingdom of Navar on the East The principal Cities in it are Tolosa which is the Capital S. Sebastian and Fontarabie It is about thirty six Miles in Compass anciently peopled by the Cantabri a hardy and a valiant People This Country was wrested from the Crown of Navar in 1079. by Alphonsus I King of Castile but it was restored again and continued under that Crown till 1200. when it revolted to Castile again and ever since it has been united to Biscay Guir Dirus a River of Mauritania Guise Guisa Guisia a Town in Picardy in France in the Territory of Tierache which has a Castle seated upon the River Oise in the Confines of Hainault nine Miles from Cambray to the South five from la Fere to the North-East and about seventeen from Amiens to the East This Town was besieged by the Spaniards without any Success in 1650. But that which made it most remarkable was the Dukes of Guise who in former times had a very great Hand in all the Affairs of France from the Reign of Francis I. to that of Henry IV. This Family was a Branch of the House of Lorrain advanced by Francis I. in 1528. from Counts or Earls of Guise which was their Inheritance to Dukes of the same Place The first thus raised was Claude the Son of Renate II. He had eight Sons of which were Francis Duke of Guise Claudius Duke of Aumale and Renatus Marquess of Ellebove Francis became very famous by his defence of Mets against Charles V.
that Tract of Land that was possessed heretofore by the Jazyges Metanastae a Sarmatian People and part of Pannonia Superior and Inferior Wonderfully fruitful yielding Corn and Grass in abundance the latter exceeding when at its greatest length the height of a Man it abounds so in Cattle that it is thought alone to be able to serve all Europe with Flesh and they certainly send yearly into Germany eighty thousand Oxen. They have Deer Partridges and Pheasants in such abundance that any body that will may kill them They have Mines of Gold Silver Tin Lead Iron and Copper store of River or Fresh-water Fish and Wines equal in goodness to those of Candia The People are Hardy Covetous Warlike but Slothful and Lazy not much unlike the Irish Their best Scholar was St. Jerome Their best Soldiers Johannes Huniades and Matthias Corvinus The principal Rivers are the Danube which divides this Kingdom from end to end the Savus the Dravus and the Tibiscus they have one famous Lake called the Balaton which is forty Italian Miles in length The principal Cities are Buda or Offen Presburgh Alba-Regalis and Caschaw The Hungarians are a Tribe of the Scythians or Tartars which in the times of Arnulphus Emperour of Germany possessed themselves of Transylvania and the Vpper Hungary under Lewis IV. Successor to Arnulphus they passed the Danube wasted all Germany Italy Greece Sclavonia and Dacia till broken by the Forces of Germany and sweetned by the Christian Religion first taught them under King Stephen about 1016. by Albert Archbishop of Prague they became more quiet and better civilized This Stephen began his Reign in 1000. This Race of Kings continued to 1302. in twenty three Descents when Charles Martel Son of Charles King of Naples and Mary Daughter to Stephen IV. King of Hungary partly by Election partly by Inheritance and Conquest succeeded to this Crown to him succeeded Lewis his Nephew in 1343. Charles II. another of his Descendents in 1383. Sigismund Emperour King of Bohemia in the Right of Mary his Wife Eldest Daughter of Lewis in 1387. Albert of Austria in the Right of Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sigismond in 1438. Vladislaus Son of Albert and Elizabeth in 1444. Matthias Corvinus Son of Johannes Huniades by Election in 1458. Vladislaus II. Son of Cassimir IV. King of Poland and of Elizabeth Daughter of Albert in 1491. Lewis II. slain in the Battel of Mohatz succeeded in 1517. and was slain in 1527. John Sepusio Vaiwode of Transylvania chosen upon his Death succeeded that year but was outed by Ferdinand restored by Solyman the Turk and at last died in 1540. The Hungarians Crowned Stephen his Son an Infant in the Cradle but Solyman seized the best part of his Kingdom under pretence of defending it against Ferdinand of Austria and Ferdinand the rest so that ever since this wretched Kingdom has been a Stage of War between the Austrian and the Ottoman Families The former at this time having recovered from the latter all the Lower Hungary and all Tameswaer in the Vpper The Reader may be pleased to know that all that part of Hungary which lies on the West and North of the Danube is called the Lower Hungary what lies on the East and South the Vpper This Kingdom is divided into fifty five Counties three and twenty of which in the beginning of this last War were in the Hands of the Turks and the rest in the Emperor's It has also two Archbishops Sees Gran Strigonium and Colocza thirteen Bishopricks six under the first and seven under the latter Hungerford a Market Town in Berkshire in the hundred of Kentbury upon the River Kennet Hunni the ancient Inhabitants of the Marshes of the Maeotis who for the sake of a better Country to live in invaded Pannonia in great numbers and thence under Attila their King who stiled himself the Scourge of God marched victoriously into Germany Italy and France till Aetius General of the Romans and Meroveus King of France slew 200000 of them in one Battel in 450. Then they retired into Pannonia again and maintain'd themselves in divers Wars At length the Hungarians a Scythian race appeared about the end of the Reign of Charles the Gross and expelled them Huntingdonshire is bounded on the North by the River Avon or Afon which parts it from Lincolnshire on the West by Northamptonshire on the South by Bedfordshire and on the East by Cambridgeshire The North-East parts of it are Fenny but yield plenty of Grass for feeding of Cattle The rest is very pleasant fruitful of Corn rising into Hills and shady Groves The whole indeed was one Forest till Henry II. in the beginning of his Reign disforested it The Town of Huntingdon which gives Name to the County is seated upon the North side of the River Ouse somewhat high and stretcheth out it self in length to the Northward it has four Churches in it a fair Bridge of Stone over the River and near it is the Mount or Plot of an ancient Castle now ruined built by Edward the Elder in the Year 917. Which King David of Scotland who had this County with the Title of an Earl from King Stephen of England for an Augmentation of his Estate in the Year 1135. enlarged with new Buildings and Bulwarks but Henry II. finding great Inconveniences from it razed it to the Ground This was a very considerable Town in the times of Edward the Confessor and perhaps greater than now The first Earl of Huntingdon was Waltheof Created in 1068. two years after the Conquest he being beheaded Simon de Lyze who Married Maud the Daughter of Waltheof was made Earl in 1075. David Prince of Scotland her second Husband was the next Earl in 1108. It continued in this Family of Scotland till 1219. but it is now in the Family of the Hastings George Lord Hastings and Hungerford being by Henry VIII Created Earl of Huntingdon in the Year 1529. Theophilus Hastings the present Earl succeeded his Father in the Year 1655. and is the seventh Earl of this Noble Family Huquang a very large Province in the middle of the Kingdom of China counted the seventh in number but in extent one of the greatest its greatest length is from North to South being bounded on the North by Honan on the East by Nankim and Kiamsi on the South by Quamtum and on the West by Queycheu and Suchen It contains fifteen Cities an hundred and eighteen great Towns five hundred thirty one thousand six hundred eighty six Families The greatest City is Vuchang The great River of Kiam crosseth it and divides it and in the middle of this Province it receiveth two other great Rivers one from the North and the other from the South whose Names I cannot assign And these three Rivers form at their meeting a very considerable Lake between the Cities of Kincheu and Yocheu The Chinese call it also Jumichiti and the Granary of China for its abundance As to which they have a Proverb that the
Isles of Scotland over against Cantyr in 56 deg of Lat. twenty four Miles long and sixteen broad plentiful in Wheat Cattle and Herds of Deer The principal Towns in it are Kilmany Dunweg and Crome besides which it hath divers Villages Ilchester a Market and Borough Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Tintinhull which returns two Burgesses to the House of Commons It stands upon the River Ill or Yeovel having heretofore sixteen Parish-Churches as a place of great Note Strength and Antiquity now reduced to two The County-Goal is kept here Iler Hilarus Ilarus a River of Schwaben in Germany which riseth in Tirol and running Northward watereth Kempten then falls into the Danube over against Vlm Ilerda Lerida Athanagia a fortified and strong City in Catalonia in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona seated upon the River Segre Sicoris three Leagues above its fall into the Ebro in the Confines of Arragon This City is mentioned in Livy as taken by Scipio and rendred famous for an Encounter near it between a General of Sertoris and Manilius Proconsul of Gallia where the latter was defeated with the loss of three Legions of Foot and 1500 Horse Ilion See Troja Ilfordcomb a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Branton Ill Ellus Hellus Hellelus a River of Germany which ariseth in Suntgow and passing through Alsatia watereth Mulhausen Ensisheim Colmar and Strasburg below which it falls into the Rhine Illyricum Illyris Illyria In the antient Geography of Europe this Country lay betwixt Pannonia to the North and the Adriatick Sea to the South divided into two parts Liburnia and Dalmatia whereof the first was subjected to the Romans a little before the second Punick War the other the Eastern part not till the Reign of Augustus It is now nigh wholly comprehended under Dalmatia and Sclavonia under the respective Dominion either of the Venetians or the Turks except the Republick of Ragusa and some Places more The Illyricus Sinus is now call'd the Bay of Drin and the Gulph of Venice Ilmen a considerable Lake in Russia towards Livonia on the South of the City Novogorod which disburthens it self into the Lake of Lagoda by a River which passeth on the East of that City called the Wolga Ilment Arabius one of the most considerable Rivers in the Kingdom of Persia it ariseth from the Mountains of Sibocoran in the Province of Sigistan and watering Mut Gilechi Racagi beneath Sistan it takes in the Sal beneath Sereng the Ghir beneath Chicheran the Ilmentel and beneath Pasir falls into the Arabick Ocean in Long. 106. 30. near Macran to the West Iltz or Izilz Ilza a small Town in the Palatinate of Sandomir in the Lesser Poland with a Castle which belongs to the Bishop of Cracow Ilmister a Market Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Abdick Imaus is one of the greatest Mountains in the Greater Asia it begins at Mount Taurus near the Caspian Sea and running Southward through the whole Continent of Asia it divides the Asian Tartary into two parts and ends at the rise of the River Ganges where it again spreads it self East and West and becomes a Northern Boundary to the Empire of the Great Mogul or Indostan having performed a Course of 450 German Miles and taking various names from the Nations it passeth as Althai Belgan Dalanguer c. Imiretta or Imaretza a Kingdom in Gurgistan in Asia stiled by the Turks Pacha Koutchouc or a Little Principality is inclosed betwixt the Mountain Caucasus Mengrelia the Black Sea Guriel and Georgia properly so called About 120 Miles in length in breadth 60. Wooddy and mountainous yet not without its agreeable Valleys and Plains Mines of Iron and the Necessaries of Life Under a Prince of its own to whom heretofore Mengrelia and Guriel after their shaking off of the Yoke of the Emperors of Constantinople and Trebizond own'd Subjection but now together with them tributary to the Turk who obliges the King of Imireta every year to send him eighty Children as a Tribute There are three Fortresses in this Kingdom Scander towards the South and Regia and Scorgia towards the North near the River Phasis besides scattered Villages It s most valuable Commodities are Wine and Swine which makes it difficult here to observe the Laws of Mahometanism The Kings pretend to be descended of the race of King David Imzagor Claudius a Mountain in Stiria Immirenieni an antient People towards the South of the Kingdom of Persia of which History relates that they embraced Christianity in the Reign of the Emperor Anastasius about the year 500 and at their request had a Bishop sent amongst them Imola Cornelia Forum Cornelii Imola a City in the Dominions of the Church in Romandiola upon the River Santerno This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ravenna of which Alexander VII was Bishop when in 1655 he was chosen Pope It is a fine and a populous City twenty Miles from Bononia to the East and twenty five from Ravenna Narses is said to have ruined and the Lombards to have repair'd it Caesar Borgia made himself Master of it in the Pontificate of Alexander the Sixth from which time it became subject to the Church Imperiati a small City in the Kingdom of Chili in America near a River of the same Name four Leagues from the South Sea said to be an Episcopal See under the Spaniards Inacho Apheas a small River of Epirus which watereth Larta on the South and falls into the Bay called the Gulph of Larta Index Vid. Indus India is taken for a considerable part of Asia commonly called the East-Indies to distinguish it from America which is called the West-Indies It is thought to be the Havilah in the Holy Scriptures by the Natives Indostan Bounded on the North with the Asiatick Tartary the Mountains of Imaus and Emodus on the East with the Kingdom of China on the South with the Indian Ocean and on the West with the Kingdom of Persia This Country consists partly in a vastly extended Continent partly in Islands some of which are very great That upon the Continent is divided into three Parts 1. The Empire of the Great Mogul or North India which is a part of India intra Gangem Indum and more peculiarly called Indosthan in this there are thirty five Kingdoms 2. The Peninsula of Malabar 3. The India extra Gangem In the India extra Gangem are four more considerable Kingdoms Pegu to the West Ava to the North Siam to the South and Cochinchina to the East each of which contains many particular or lesser Kingdoms in it The principal of the Islands are Borneo Ceylan Java Sumatra Celebes Mindano Luconia Hainan Pakan Gilolo the Moluccaes and Philippine Isles Many of these are so great as to be divided in many Kingdoms some of them have never been throughly discovered by the European Nations This Country extendeth in length from deg 106. to 159. of Long. and from deg 10. of
Basil Pierreport and Botzberg more South Schafmat and by the Swiss Leerberg Iurat a part of the Mountain Jura which lies between Burgundy and Switzerland also called Jurten Iurea Eporedia called Vrbs Salassiorum by Ptolemy and Eporaedio by Antoninus in his Itinerary at this day Jurea by the Inhabitants Jurée by the French is a City of Piedmont in Italy the Capital of the Territory of Canavese and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Turin seated upon the River Doria Duria which falls into the Po beneath Rivarotta between Chivas to the West and Casal to the East thirty Italian Miles from Turin to the North and twenty five from Aoust to the South-West This City has been under the Duke of Savoy ever since 1313. who has taken care to fortifie it very well it has also an ancient Castle and a Stone Bridge over the River Doria The French took it in 1554. during the Wars of Italy It has of ancient time given the Title of a Marquess Iuriogrod See Derpt Iustinopolis or Justiniana See Achrida Cabo di Istria and Giustandil Iutland Jutia Cimbrica Chersonesus is a very great Province of the Kingdom of Denmark extended in the form of a vast Peninsula from North to South and only joined to the Continent at the South end where Holstein a part of this Promontory joins it to Germany on the West it has the German Ocean on the North and East the Baltick Sea It is divided into the Northern and Southern Jutland The Northern Jutland is divided into four Dioceses viz. Rypen Arhusen Alborch and Wisborch this part is under the King of Denmark the Southern is divided into three viz. Sleswick Flensborg and Hadersleben this is under the Duke of Sleswick who is of the Blood Royal of Denmark Charles Gustavus King of Sweden took Jutland in his late Wars and thence passed over the Ice into the Neighbouring Islands It was the Country most suppose of the ancient Cimbri Ixar a small Town in the Kingdom of Arragon upon the River Martinium twelve Miles from Sarragoza to the South which gives the Title of a Duke Ixe a Kingdom on the South of Japan Iyo a Province in Japan in Xicoca towards the West of it and the Island Ximoam which has in it a Town of the same Name K A. KAchemire a Kingdom in the Estates of the Great Mogul along the Mountain Caucasus towards the Kingdom of Lahor and the Borders of Indostan with a City its Capital of the same name The City is all built of Wood unwalled traversed by a River over which it has two Bridges and near a great Lake four or five Leagues in circuit falling into the same The Country affords excellent Pasturage about thirty Leagues long and twelve broad Kaimachites a Province or Tribe amongst the Asian Tartars by the great River Ghamma between Mongal to the North and the Kingdoms of Thibet and Tangut These People give Name to that part of the Ocean which bordereth upon them Kalisch Calisia a City in the Kingdom of Poland built upon the River Prosna which a little lower falls into the Warta five German Miles from the Confines of Silesia and twelve from Breslaw to the North-East It is the Capital of a Palatinate in that Kingdom and suffered very much from the Swedes in the year 1657. Kalmar See Calmar Kalmintz Celemantia called by Ptolemy the Town of the Quades is now a Village in Austria not far from the Fountains of the River Teye in the Consines of Moravia thirty Miles saith Baudrand from Zuaian a Town of Moravia to the West Kalmouchs a People or Tribe of the Grand Tartary toward the Coast of the Caspian Sea Kam the ancient Name of Egypt Kamenieck Camienick Camenecia Clepidava Camenecum a strong City in the Vkraine in the Kingdom of Poland which is the Capital of Podolia The Poles call it Kaminieck Podelsski It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lemberg and stands upon a Mountain by the River Smotrzyck which a little lower falls into the Neister thirty Miles from Lemberg to the South-East eighty from Warsaw and one hundred and seventy from Constantinople towards the Frontiers of Moldavia The Turks very often attempted this Place without any success but having suffered much by Fire in 1669. and being thereupon in 1672. besieged by them it was taken the Poles being then engaged in a Civil War amongst themselves and the Town not in a condition to defend it self The Cossacks under the Command of the Sieur Mohila blocked it up in April 1687. The Polish Army offered to attack it about September following but upon the Approach of the Ottoman Forces they were both of them forced to retire the Polish Army kept it in a manner blocked up by their Encampment in September 1688. About a Month after they left the Tartars to put a Convoy of Provisions into the Place In 1689. August 20. the Forces as well of Lithuania as Poland under the Command of the great General of Poland setting down before it began a formal Attack till on the eighth of September following being crossed with ill success they raised the Siege Kaniow Kaniovia a strong Town in Poland upon the Nieper where the River Ross falls into it in the Palatinate of Kiovia It lies seven German Miles from Czyrcassis to the North West twenty seven from Kiovia to the South-East and upon the same side of the River This Town is one of the strong Places which belongs to the Cossacks Kanisa Canisia a Town of the Lower Hungary seated upon the River Sala in the County of Zalad between the Lake of Balaton and the Drave not above one Mile from the Confines of Stiria to the East This was taken by the Turks in 1600. though the Imperialists did all that was possible to prevent it the year following the Arch-Duke of Austria besieged it from the beginning of September to the end of October without any success In 1664. Count Serini besieged it and had infallibly carried it if he had been succoured in time In 1688. June 30. the Count de Budiani blockaded it with a Body of six thousand Hungarians and two thousand Heydukes which continued till April 13. 1690. when in pursuance of a Capitulation that the Emperour had ratified the Keys of the Gates hanging upon a Chain of Gold were delivered to the Count de Budiani by a Turk saying I herewith consign into your hands the strongest Fortress in the Ottoman Empire The Imperialists found in it great store of large Artillery taken heretofore from the Christians and some with old German Inscriptions Kargapol Cargapolia a City in Muscovy in the Western parts of that Kingdom near the Lake of Onega between the Confines of Sweden and the Dwina there is a Lake and a River of the same Name belonging to this City Karkessa a Town in Arabia Deserta Karn Taurn a Mountain in Carinthia Karnwaldt a Forest in Switzerland Karopnitze Orbelus a Mountain in Macedonia which is a Spur of
and Conflans upon it stands Luxevil which is about six Leagues from Langres to the East Lantriguet See Treguier Lanzano See Lanciano Lanzerote or Lanzarotta Pluitalia one of the Azores or Canary Islands which lies in Long. 4. Lat. 27. 40. The Kingdom of Lao or Laos in the East Indies is bounded by the Kingdoms of Tunquin to the East Cambaia to the South Siam and Pegu to the West and Ava to the North. Of great strength against Invasion from the Mountains surrounding it Fruitful temperate and very healthful under a King heretofore tributary to China but now absolute who receives the Tributes of divers petty Kings as their Soveraign It is divided into seven great Provinces governed by Viceroys and watered by the Mother of Rivers as they call it the River Lao which springing from about the high Mountains of the Province of Junnan upon the Frontiers of China divides into two great Rivers some Leagues from Lao whereof one passes West by Pegu to the Gulph of Bengale the other expands it self in divers Branches throughout all Lao cutting the same in two from North to South The Capital City is Langione in 18 deg of Lat. The King of Tonquin attempted not long ago to unite this Kingdom with his own but not with success It has been a Kingdom since the year 600 before which it was a sort of a Republick and before that a Member of the Kingdom of China Laodicea See Eskihisar Laudichia and Lyche Laon Laudunum Lugdunum Clavatum a City in Picardy in France which is commonly pronounced Lan. It is great and very well fortified and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Rheims Baudrand placeth it in the Isle of France on a high Hill but in the borders of Picardy of which he saith it was once a part ten Miles from Rheims to the North-West and twenty eight from Paris to the North-East The Bishop is always one of the twelve Peers of France and a Duke The Diocese belonging to this City is called Laonnois or Lannois It is bounded on the North with Tierache a part of Picardy on the East by Champagne and on the South and West with Soissonne it takes this name from the principal City Some French Synods have been assembled here Lapord Lapurd Labord more commonly called Bayonne See Bayonne Lapathios Lapithus a City at the North end of the Isle of Cyprus which is yet a Bishop's See and retains the Greek Rites It is very ancient and called Lapethos by Pliny and Lapatho by Strabo Lapithae an antient People of Thessalia dwelling in the Country about Larissa and the Mountain Olympus Ovid styles them Sylvestres Virgil ascribes to them the Invention of Bridles Lapland Lapponia Lappia called by the Inhabitants Lapmarck by the Swedes Sabmienladti by the Germans Laplandt by the Moscovites Loppi and by the French Laponie It is the most Northern part of Scandinavia first mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus about the year of Christ 1190. Bounded on the North with the Frozen Sea or the North Ocean on the West with the Kingdom of Norway on the South with Bothnia and Finia two Provinces of Sweden and on the East by the White Sea It was heretofore divided into three Kingdoms and is now at this day divided between three Princes the Emperor of Moscovy the King of Sweden and the King of Denmark of which the King of Sweden has the greatest share Johannes Schefferus lately put out a very exact Account of these Countries towards the North and East it is extreamly Mountainous and barren but the South is more level and well watered with Rivers and Lakes There have been not long since found in it Mines of Brass Iron Silver and Lead besides divers sorts of precious Stones As this is one of the Hyberborean People who are buried the greatest part of the year in Snow and Darkness so they are extreamly Rude Ignorant Poor and Barbarous so fearful that they will start and be in a fright at the noise of a Leaf infamous for Witchcraft and Conjurations yet Christians in Profession and so revengeful that they will throw themselves sometimes into a River to perish willingly with one they hate in their Arms if they can but so destroy him The more Northern are the most barbarous Lar Laria a great and magnificent City in that Province of the Kingdom of Persia which gives name to a Kingdom seated in the Confines of Caramania upon the River Tisindon a hundred and seventy Miles from Ormus to the North-East but in the later Maps it is placed only forty German Miles from Ormus and on the West side of the River Monsieur Thevenot gives a large Account of this Town in the second part of his Travels cap 4. to whom I refer the Reader It lies Long. 93. 40. Lat. 27. 40. Mr. Herbert saith it consisted of about two thousand Houses and had had five but lost three thousand in an Earthquake It is as he saith famous for nothing but its Castle built at the North-end on an aspiring Mountain and stored with the Cannon brought from Ormus § The Kingdom of Lar took its name from the last mentioned City lying near Ormus and the entrance of the Persian Gulph Schah Abbas King of Persia annexed this to the rest of his Dominions in the end of the last Century viz. in 1596. by a Conquest of the Guebres who were before Masters of it and were Governed by a Prince of their own stiled King of Lar the last of which was slain by the Persians with all his Progeny to secure this barren and poor Kingdom to the King of Persia The Water of this Kingdom is extream bad and unhealthful as both Herbert and Thevenot agree the Soil barren and sandy and they both say also that in this Kingdom there are a vast number of Jews But Mr. Herbert saith That there is neither River nor Rivolet near the City of Lar by a hundred Miles and Thevenot they had nothing but Cistern-Water to drink which was subject to Corruption which seems to confirm Mr. Herbert's Report See Herbert pag. 52. Thevenot Part. 2. pag. 131. § Ptolemy mentions an Arabian River Lar Now called Om. See Om. Larache L'Haris or Arays Lixa a Town in the Kingdom of Fez in Africa in the Province of Asgar at the mouth of a River of its own name call'd by Castaldus Lusso by the Italians Fieume di Larach in Silius Italicus Lixus towards the Atlantick Ocean between Cape Spartel and Mamera taken from the Spaniards by the Moors in November 1689. after a Siege of three months mutually asserted and resisted with extraordinary Bravery Larad or Lara a Town in Old Castile in Spain upon the River Arlanza at the foot of the Mountains remakable in the Spanish History for giving name to the Family de Lara which once had seven Sons all Knighted in a day Laranda a City of Cappadocia called by the same name it now has by Ptolemy and Strabo It is a Bishop's See under the
it It is not very great but as neat and handsom a City as most in Germany There is in it a very great Market-place with never a bad House in it the whole Town is built of a very white free Stone and the Castle upon the Hill is of a Modern building very large there is also a Bridge over the Danube The Imperial Forces Rendezvouzed here when Solyman came to Vienna in 1532. This was also besieged by the Peasants of Austria in the time of Ferdinand II. They having got a Body together of forty thousand Men and many pieces of Ordnance but were stoutly repulsed after many Assaults and at last overcome by Papenheim The late renowned Duke of Lorraine dyed at a Convent near this Lintz See Lorraine Lintz Lentium a small Town upon the Rhine in the Diocese of Cologn in Westerwaldt five Miles beneath Coblentz to the North six from Cologn in the borders of the Dukedom of Juliers Lintzgow Lentinensis Populus a part of the Dukedom of Bavaria Lipari Liparae a knot of small Islands being seven in number belonging to the Kingdom of Sicily they lie in the Tyrrhenian Sea about thirty Miles to the North-West of the Island and the same distance from Calabria to the West Though they belong to Sicily yet Charles V. for his convenience attributed them to the Kingdom of Naples but in 1609. they were restored to Sicily and at this day are holden by the King of Spain as a part of it The ancient Poets Epithet them Aeoliae and Vulcaniae from a fiction of their being the Country of the Gods of those names The principal is the Island called Lipari which has an Episcopal City to enable it under the Metropolitical jurisdiction of Messina in Sicily In 1544. Barberousse the Turkish Admiral ruined this City but it was rebuilt again and a considerable Fortress added to it Lippa a City of Transylvania seated upon the River Marosch which falls in the Tibiscus at Segedin It stands five Hungarian Miles from Temeswar to the North and thirteen from Alba Julia or Weissenburgh to the South-West This City was taken in 1595. from the Turks by the Emperor Retaken by Assault by General Caraffa with a Body of ten thousand Imperialists on Aug. 19. 1688. And the Castle into which the Garrison retreated to save themselves being about two thousand Soldiers was obliged to Surrender upon discretion two days after There were eighteen pieces of Cannon in it Lippe Lippia a City of Westphalia more commonly called Lipstat It stands upon the River Lippe three German Miles from Paderborn to the East in Marshes and a bad Air yet it is a Hanse Town very great and the Capital of a County of the same name It was once too a Free Imperial City in length of time it became exempt and fell under the Jurisdiction of the Counts of Lippe and by one of them was mortgaged to the Duke of Cleve for eight thousand Marks of Silver and never since redeemed but together with Cleve fell to the Duke of Brandenburgh Charlemaigne assembled the Bishops of Germany here in 780. The County of Lippe is a part of the Circle of Westphalia between the Bishoprick of Paderborn the Dukedom of Westphalia and the County or Earldom of Ravensberg It is under its own Count the principal Town excepted whose Residence is at Lemgow He has also a part of the Earldom of Schaumburgh not long since granted him by Maurice Landtgrave of Hassia The Lippe Lupias Luppia is a River of Germany mentioned by Strabo and Mela. It ariseth in a Village called Lippsprinck near Paderborn and running Westward watereth Lippe or Lipstad separating the Diocese of Munster from the County of Mark it passeth by Ham Dorsten and Wesel into the Rhine twelve Miles beneath Cologn to the North-West Lippio Hyppius a River of Bithynia which falls into the Euxine Sea near Heraclea Ponti Lipuda Aretas a River of Calabria which falleth by the City of Vmbriatico into the Ionian Sea Lire Lira See Liere above Only let me add the Elogy given it by L. Guicciardin Lira elegans amoenum Brabantiae oppidum adeo ut multorum hujus Tractus Nobilium in otio degentium à curis turba jucundissimus sit recessus Lire is so beautiful and pleasant a Town of Brabant that many of the Nobility thereof make it their beloved recess from Cares and Crouds of Men. Lirio Iris the same with Casalmach Lis Loegia The same with Leye Lisbon Olysippo Vlysippo the Spaniards call it Lisboa the Capital City of the Kingdom of Portugal the Royal Seat of their Kings and an Archbishops See made by P. Boniface IX It has a large safe convenient Harbor and a Castle built on a Hill by the Taso on the North side of which River the City stands two Leagues from the Ocean and six from Cabo di Rocca Sintra In Long. 11. 00. Lat. 38. 50. According to Dr. Heylyn in Long. 9. 10. Lat. 38. 30. This City was recovered from the Moors by Alphonsus King of Portugal in 1147. It is the greatest in all Spain and every day encreasing At a Town called Bethlem within half a League of it are to be seen the Tombs of the Kings of Portugal Of this City the Spaniards have a Proverb Qui no ha visto Lisboa no ha visto cosa boa He that has not seen Lisbonne has seen nothing that 's good Lisieux Lexobii Lexovium Neomagus a City in the Vpper Normandy upon the River Tucca or rather Lezon which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Roan a great and fine City seated in a fruitful Country five Leagues from the Shoars of the British Seas to the East eighteen from Roan to the West and ten from Caen to the East The Country about is from it called the Lieuvin Caesar in his Commentaries twice mentions the Forces of the ancient People thereof against the Romans In 1106. The Ecclesiastiques held a Council here in the presence of Henry I. King of England and since others Lismore Lismora a small City in the Province of Munster in the County of Waterford which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cashell but this Bishoprick has been united to that of Waterford since 1363. It stands upon the River More fifteen Miles from the Vergivian Ocean and twenty two from Cashell Lisnia a strong Fortress in Bosnia surprized by the Imperialists July 18. 1690. after having in the two precedent Years been thrice attack'd by them in vain Two hundred Christian Slaves were here free'd Lison Casius a Mountain of Syria mentioned by Pliny and Ptolemy lying between Cilicia and Phoenicia near Antioch and Laodicea There is another Mountain by it called the Anticasus and a Country between them called heretofore Casiolis in which are the Cities of Antiochia Seleucia Laodicea Epiphania Marathus Antaradus and some others most of which are by the Turks now Masters of this Country ruined A Gentleman who had Travelled over this Country informing me that it was little
for adhering to the Party of Albinus against him burning a great part of the City Gratianus the Emperor was perfidiously murthered in this City in 384. Majoranus General to Leo the Emperour at the request of Sidonius Apollinarus repaired and beautified this City very much about 460. But this was no long-lived splendor the Goths and Almains soon after prevailing against the Romans in France In the Reign of Clothaire King of France about 532. an end being put to the Kingdom of Burgundy erected here by the Goths this City fell into the Hands of the French In the Reign of Gunthram King of Metz between 565. and 596. this City was again burnt nor did it suffer less from the Moors about 730. who were called by the remainder of the Goths against the Franks About 955. it was given to Conrade I. King of Burgundy After this it was for some time subject to the Counts of the Forest till 1173. The See was founded by S. Potinus and Irenaeus the first of which suffered Martyrdom here about 177. Anno 1079. Pope Gregory VII is said to have made it an Archbishops See doubtless it was so long before Pope Clement V. was crowned here in the presence of Philip the Fair King of France Edward I. of England and James King of Arragon in 1305. There have been many Councils held here The most celebrated was that in 1245. under Innocent IV. against Frederick II. where that Prince was deposed as an Heretick for Intelligence with the Sultan and Familiarity with his Women which produced a destructive War in Germany and Italy There was another in 1274. under Pope Gregory X. against the Greek Church in which were five hundred Bishops sixty or seventy Archbishops and one thousand other Ecclesiasticks together with the Patriarchs of Antioch and Constantinople c. Long. 26. 00. Lat. 45. 15. Lyonnois Lugdunensis Provincia is a small Province in France having on the East la Bresse and the Dauphine on the South and West le Foretz and on the North le Beaujolois it has on the East the Rhosne and extends from it to the West about twelve Leagues in length about fifteen Lyons en Forest Leones a small Town in Normandy incompassed with Woods and Forests upon the River Orleau four Leagues from Roan to the East Lyon en Beausse a Village in that Province seven Leagues from Orleans to the North. Lyon sur Loyre a Village in Orleans in the Confines of Berry one League above Sully to the East Lysmore See Lismore M A. MAara Spelunca Sidoniorum a Grott or Cave in Palestine in the Territory of Great Zidon or the Land of the Sidonians mentioned Josh 13. 4. In the year 1161. the Christians secured themselves for sometime here against the Saracens Macandan a Promontory in Africa called by the Ancients Arsinarium now commonly Cape Verde Macao Amacao Amacum a City in China in the Province of Quantum upon the South part of that Kingdom in Long. 141. 30. Lat. 23. 00. Built upon a small Island with two Forts heretofore under the Portuguese during which times it was a celebrated Mart much frequented and very rich but being now in the hands of the Tartars who have conquered China it decays a pace and is much declined from what it was Macaria a Lake or Marsh near Marathon a Town in Attica in which a considerable part of the Forces of Xerxes King of Persia perished being beaten by the Grecians both by Sea and Land at the same time and in their flight forced into this unpassable place by the pursuers Whence the Proverb in Macariam abi for a Curse § This also was the ancient Name of a City in the Island of Cyprus now become a Village and called Jalines The whole Island of Cyprus had the Title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 given it by the Greeks from its fertility And the Island of Maczua in the Gulph of Arabia has been honoured with the same Macascar Macassar Macasaria a great Island in the Indian Sea sometimes called Celebes Extended from North to South two hundred French Leagues and one hundred broad there are in it six Kingdoms Macasar Cion Sanguin Cauripana Getigan and Supara the two principal Cities are Macasar and Bantachia The South parts are much frequented by the English and Dutch which latter of late in 1669. have severely treated the King of Macascar whose Dominions lie in the South of the Island and comprehend the far greatest part of it This Island lies between the Molucco's to the East and Borneo to the West and is sometimes ascribed to the former The Line cutteth the Northern part of it The Inhabitants heretofore went naked did eat Mans Flesh and had all the Criminals of the Molucco's sent over to them for that purpose but they are much civilized Two young Princes of this Country Brothers that were bred at Siam in the Mahometan Religion and sent to Paris by the King of Siam to be instructed in Christianity on October 17. 1687. received Christian Baptism at Paris It produces plenty Rice Fruit Cocao Cattle Fish besides Gold Ivory Cotton c. The City Macasar stands in the South part and enjoys the benefit of a good Port. Macclesfield or Maxfield a large fair Market Town in Cheshire upon the River Bollin The Capital of its Hundred Adorned with the Title of an Earldom in the Person of the Right Honourable Charles Gerard. Macchia a Dutchy in the Capitanata in the Kingdom of Naples Macedonia is a Kingdom of great antiquity and fame in Greece Anciently bounded by the Adriatick Sea to the West the Aegean Sea to the East now called the Archipelago the Vpper Moesia a part of Illyricum now called Servia cut off by Mount Sandus to the North and on the South it had Epirus Thessalia and Achaia It was then divided into four parts as Livy saith under which were twenty six Provinces and at this day though Albania which was of old a part of it is dismembred yet the remainder is divided into four parts by the Turks 1. Jamboli of old Macedonia prima and secunda which lies East between Thrace and the Bay of Thessalonica 2. Macedonia properly so called lies between Mount Karoponitze to the North Thessalia to the South and the Bay of Thessalonica to the East 3. Comenolitari the third part Macedonia tertia and part of Thessalia has Macedonia properly so called on the North Albania on the West Thessalia on the South and the same Bay on the East 4. Janna lies yet more South and is the remainder of that which was anciently called Thessalia on the North it has Commenolitari on the West Epirus on the South Livadia and on the East the Archipelago and Bay of Negropont The Reader may observe that Thessalia is now a part of Macedonia though anciently not and Albania which anciently was a part of it now is a separate Kingdom both are under the Turks This Country anciently divided into one hundred and fifty Tribes or
through it but now it lies in Ruins therefore called Rovine di Mariana nothing being left but the Cathedral Church which has no Roof neither the Bishops See being removed to Bastia in 1575. Marib See Mecca Mariemberg Mariae-berga a Town of Germany in the Vpper Saxony in Misnia nine German Miles from Meissen the Capital of that Province to the South This is one of the Mine Towns seated in the Mountains near Annaberg in the Borders of Bohemia built by Henry Duke of Saxony in 1519. and still in the Hands of that Family Marienbourg a Town in Hainault in the Low Countries built by Mary of Austria Queen of Hungary and Governant of the Low Countries in 1542. and strongly fortified against the French who nevertheless gained the possession of it by the Pyrenean Treaty in 1660. and dismantled it This stands upon the River Aube eleven French Leagues from Mons to the East and four from Charlemont to the South-West Marienburgh Mariaeburgum called by the Poles bork by the Inhabitants Margenburgh is a strong City in Prussia Regalis whereof it is the Capital upon the River Nogat a Branch of the Vistula six German Miles from Dantzick to the North-East and four from Elbing to the South-West Heretofore the principal Seat of the Knights of Prussia who built it and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary the Castle in 1281 the Town in 1302. Casimirus King of Poland took this City in 1460. The Swedes in 1625. The Castle was burnt in 1644. and restored to the Poles in 1655. by Treaty Marienburgh or Marieburgh the same with Queen's Town in Ireland See Queen's County Mariendal the same with Mergentheim Mariestadt Mariaestadium a new City in Westrogothia in Sweden between the Lakes of Wener and Neter three German Miles from the former and six from the latter Long. 31. 19. Lat. 58. 27. Marigalante one of the Caribby Islands in South America under the French six Leagues from Guadeloupe and ten or twelve from Dominco Recommended for Fruitfulness Marignano Melignanum Meriganum a Town in the Duchy of Milan upon the River Lambro in the middle between Milan and Lodive ten Miles from either Near this the Swiss were beaten by Francis I. in 1515. Marinat Scardus a Mountain in Macedonia it parts Servia Albania and Macedonia and ends at the Euxine Sea near Saramontin the Borders of Romania Drino and many other Rivers spring from it In the Maps it is written Mazinai Marish Mariscus Marus a River of Transylvania it ariseth from the Carpathian Hills and passeth by Neumark Radnot Alba Julia or Weissenburg Branksa and Lippa to Segedin where it ends in the Tibiscus This is the principal River of Transylvania Mariza Hebrus a River of Thrace it ariseth out of Mount Hebrus which is a Branch of Mount Marinat in the Northern Confines of Macedonia Servia and Bulgaria where they all meet from two Fountains and running East it watereth Phileba or Philippopolis Adrianople and Ploutin where it receives Copriza and turning Southward falls into the Archipelago over against Lembro Mark See Marck Market-Iew a Market Town in the County of Cornwal and the Hundred of Penwith Marieborow or Marleburg Cunetio an ancient Roman Town seated upon the River Kenet in Wiltshire in the North-West Bounds towards Barkshire upon the ascent of an Hill In this there was a famous Parliament held for ending the Differences between the Barons and the King in the fifty second year of Henry III. A. C. 1267. where were made the Statutes called the Statutes of Marleburgh The Parliament assembled in a Castle which this place anciently had belonging unto John Sans terre as he was surnamed afterwards King of England It is still a Corporation which sends two Burgesses to the Parliament and hath withal the Convenience of Savernake Forest and Aldburn Chase in its Neighbourhood Charles I. at his Coronation added another Honour to this place by Creating James Lord Ley Lord Treasurer Earl of Marleborow February 5. 1625. which was afterwards possessed by William the fourth Earl of this Family Grandchild to the first Earl who succeeded Henry his Nephew slain in a Sea-Fight against the Dutch in 1665. The Lord Churchill enjoys this Title at present by the Creation of King William Marlow Magna a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Disborough probably so called for the Store of Marl or Chalk here dug up Marmara Strymon a River on the South of Macedonia towards the Borders of Thrace more usually called Stromona and also Radnitz and Iscar it falls in the Archipelago at Amphipoli Marmora Elaphonesus an Island in the Propontis on the Coast of Asia famous for Marble Quarries it is ten or twelve Leagues in circuit with a City the Capital of its own Name and divers Villages inhabited by the Religious Caloyers The adjacent Sea is called from hence the Sea of Marmora which discharges it self on one side into the Pontus Euxinus by the Bosphorus Thracius and on the other towards the South into the Aegean Sea by the Hellespont The ancient Poet Aristeas adorned this Island with his Nativity It communicates its Name to the three Neighbouring Islands Avezia Coutalli Gadaro called in general the Islands of Marmora They all stand in a good Climate abounding in Corn Wine Cattel Cotton and Fruit inhabited principally by the Religious Greeks and some Arabians Ptolemy mentions Marmora by the Name of Proconnesus Others call it Neuris Marmorica the present Kingdom of Barca in Africa it had heretofore for its Bounds Libya Propria to the East and Cyrenaica to the West Marne Matrona a great River in France which ariseth in Champaigne near Langres in a Village called Marmote in the Confines of the Franche Comte and running North-West watereth Langress Chaumont â—oynevil S. Dizier Chalons and Meaux then falls into the Seyne two Miles above Paris Maro A Valley Marquisate and Town upon the Confines of the States of Genoua belonging to the Duke of Savoy Marocco is both a City and a Kingdom in Africa in the West Part of Barbary the Kingdom of Marocco is a considerable part of Mauritania Tingitana extended on the Atlantick Ocean from the River Abene to that of Azamor on the East it has the River Malava which parts it from Tremesen on the West the Atlantick Ocean on the South Mount Atlas and on the North the Kingdom of Fez. The Country is said to be very fruitful and pleasant abounding in Cattle Fruits Corn Sugar Oil Hony and whatever is useful to the Life of Man Divided into seven Provinces which are Guzzula Sus Marocco Hea Hascora Daccala and Tedles The King takes the style of Emperour of Barbary and Marocco King of Fez Suz c. Hath a great number of Castles in this Kingdom yet there is one kept by the Portugueze two Leagues from Azamor Marocco Marochum Marochia Marochium the principal City which gives Name to the whole called by the Spaniards Maruccos by the Italians Marocho is supposed to have been the Bocanum
had heretofore Kings of its own till the Portugueze expelled them But of late the Natives have expelled the Portugueze Matane a Country in Africa East of the Island of Madagascar where the French have some time since established Colonies Matapan Taenarus the most Southern Cape of all Europe in the Morea provided with two good Ports betwixt which the Turks in 1570. built a Fortress to bridle the Mainotes called Castro di Maini But the Venetians soon after destroyed it to favour the Mainotes with their Liberty again Mataya a Province towards the River of Amazons in South America betwixt the Mouth of the Rivers Madera and Tapaysa where they both fall into the River of Amazons Matayone a Dutchy in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples supposed to be the Magdalonum or the Meta Leonis of the Ancients Matera Mateola a City in the Province of Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples in the Borders of the Basilicate and of the Territory of Bari upon the River Canapro seated in a Valley surrounded on all sides with Mountains This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari and now in a very good state it stands thirty six Miles from Taranto to the North-West and twenty five from Bari to the South-West Long. 40. 45. Lat. 40. 42. Materan or Materaw Materanum a great City on the South Side of the Isle of Iava in the East-Indies one hundred Leagues from Bantam to the East The Capital of a Kingdom of the same Name of great extent from East to West And once the Capital City of the whole Island of Iava Long. 135. 40. Southern Lat. 8. 20. Matharee or Matheree a sweet and delicious Seat two Leagues from Cairo in Aegypt concerning which the Cophtite Christians entertain a Tradition that the Blessed Virgin with the young Child reposed for some time there in their flight from Herod into this Kingdom Matin Mathis a River of Macedonia which falls into the Gulph of Venice near Durazzo Matique Matica a Province in Florida towards the Apalatean Hills Matâ—agia Messene a very ancient but ruined City in the Morea on the Southern Shoar towards the West Matzuma a Country in the Land of Jesso lately discovered by the Hollanders between Japan and Tartary which has a City of the same name See Jesso Maudre Modre Maldra a small River in the Isle of France which ariseth near Montfort and falls into the Seyne at Mayenne Maulcon a Town in Biscay Mauleon de Soule Malleo Mauleosolium a Town in the Pais des Basques in France The Capital of the Viscounty of Soule Mauli a River in Sicily See il fiume di Ragusa Mauâ—ve See Mauve Mauren-Haer Sogdiana a Province on the North-East of Persia Mauriac Mauriacum a Mountain in Auvergne Maurice Mauritia a City in Brasil in Pernambuck built by John Maurice Prince of Nassaw in 1644. The Capital of the Dutch Plantations in those Countries afterwards taken by the Portuguese This City stands upon the River Biberibi a little above its Mouth two Spanish Leagues from Olinda to the South and has a safe Port near Reciff It was called by the Dutch Mauritzstadt Maurienne a Valley or Province of Savoy extended from the Alpes to the River Isere on the one side and from la Tarantaise to Dauphine on the other It s Capital City is S. Jean de Maurienne an Episcopal See upon the River Arche This Valley has been honoured with the Title of an Earldom above six Ages since and some are of opinion that it anciently was the Seat of the Brannovices mentioned by Caesar Mauritania an ancient large Region of Africa which now lies contained within the Western part of Barbary They divided it into Caesariensis Tingitana and Sitifensis Mauritania Caesariensis had Getulia to the South the Mediterranean Sea to the North Tingitana to the West and Sitifensis to the East and is now almost wholly included in the West of the Kingdom of Algiers Mauritania Tingitania was bounded on all sides by the Atlantick and Mediterranean Oceans together with Caesariensis and Getulia And in the time of the Emperour Constantine was called by the Spaniards Mauritania Transfretana The name of Tingitana came from the City Tingi now Tangier Mauritania Sitifensis had for its bounds Numidia to the East Caesariensis to the West the Mediterranean to the North and Gaetulia to the South And the Eastern part of the present Kingdom of Algiers stands in this Mauritania Mauritz-Mylandt Cygnea an Island in the Aethiopian Sea upon the Coast of Africa called Docerne by the Portuguese who first discovered it See Isle Maurice Long. 80. Lat 20. South Mauritzlandt a part of America Magellanica in the Land of Fire on the South of the Streights of Magellan most extended to the East of those Streights and first discovered by the Hollanders in 1616. It had this name from the Prince of Orange who occasioned the Discovery Maurothalassa the Euxine Sea Maurum Taurus a Mountain in Asia Mauve Malva a small River in the Dukedom of Orleance which falls into the Loyre at Mehun four Leagues beneath Orleans to the West Baudrand writes Mauâ—ve St Maws a Borough and Market Town in the County of Cornwal in the Hundred of Powder returning two Members to the House of Commons Maxi Loryma or Laryma a City of Caria in the Lesser Asia over against the Isle of Rhodes which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Rhodes from whence it stands twenty Miles to the North. Mayence See Mentz Mayenne Meduana a fine City in the Province of Maine upon the River Mayne six Leagues from the Borders of Normandy towards Anjou twenty Miles from Angiers to the North the same distance from Dol in Bretagne to the East and from Rennes to the North-East This City is honoured with the Title of a Dukedom Mayn Meyn Moenus a River of Germany which ariseth from a double Spring in Mount Fichtelburg called Meiss-Mayn White Mayne and Rot-Mayn Red Mayn which two uniting in one Stream at Culembach and flowing Westward near Bamberg it receives the Rednitz Wareres Swinefurt Wurtsburg and Vertheim then cutting Franconia into two parts it passeth by Asburg and Franckfort augmented with the Saal Tauber and some smaller Rivers into the Rhine near but above Mentz Gustavus Adolphus laid a Bridge of Boats over this River which has not been-since continued See Mentz La Mayne Mayenne or Majene Meduana a River of France which ariseth in the Territory of Seez in the Borders of Normandy and flowing South through Maine watereth the City of Mayenne La Val the Castle of Gontier where it entereth Anjou and a little above Angiers being augmented with the Sartre and the Loir it falls into the great Loire above Nants twelve Leagues to the East Mayo Maii Insula an Island on the Coast of Africa in the Atlantick Ocean one of those that belongs to Cape Verde and famous for its Salt Works It is under the Portuguese Long. 366. 4. Lat. 50. 00. North. Mayo
Sea and the Lake of Exsechia Lychnitis The Archbishop is ever since 1300. chosen out of the Dominicans and confirmed by the Pope This City is under the Persians but has been wretchedly harassed by the Turks who as they prevail over the Persians and the Persians over them lay each others Mosques in Ruins Here is a stately Tower said to be of the Building of Tamerlane The Armenians pretend that Noah after the Deluge dwelt and was buried in this City It stands about seven Leagues from the River Araxes Long. 81. 34. Lat. 38. 40. in a fertile Country The Capital of Armenia the Seat of a Persian Kan or Governour Sir John Chardin saith they have generally thrown off the Roman Rites and are returned to their ancient Religion tho the Pope by an Ambassador sent to Persia in 1664. obtained great Favours from that Court for his Followers by which they are rather damnified than benefited Naseby a memorable Town in the County of Northampton in the Hundred of Guilesborough not far from Rothwell near to which the Rivers Avon and Nen derive their Springs it standing upon a high Ground But more especially remarkable for the Battel here fought June 14. 1645. betwixt the King's and the Parliamentarian Forces The first commanded by Prince Rupert the other by their General Fairfax The King's Forces were totally routed Natarone Vulturnus See Voltorno Natissa or Natisone Natisa a small River in Friuli which arising above Aquileja and washing it beneath that City is divided into two Branches both fall into the Ionian Sea near Grado a City in that Province This River was once Navigable up to Aquileja and served that City as a Port but now not Natolia Asia Minor is the most Western Part of Asia of great extent in the Form of a Peninsula called by the Turks its Masters Nadulu and by the French Natolie It is bounded on the North by the Euxine or Black Sea on the West by the Propontis and Archipelago on the South with the Mediterranean Sea and on the East by Armenia The principal Cities at this day are Amasia Ancyra Cutaige Cogni Tocat Isnich Bursia Smyrna and Tarabosan or Trapezunt It reacheth from Long. 51. to 72. and from Lat. 36. to 45. from the Hellespont to the Euphrates supposed to be six hundred and thirty Miles long and its breadth two hundred and ten The Air is very healthful the Soil as fruitful before it fell into the Hands of the Turks it was very populous Rich Civil and Learned but now in a manner desolate lamenting the Ruins of four hundred Towns destroyed by Earthquakes and the Barbarous devouring Turks Navagret Paropamisus a part of Imaus a vast Mountain in Asia Navareins Navaresium a City in the Province of Bearn in France which has a strong Castle seated on the River Gave d' Oleron four Leagues below Oleron to the North and six from Pa◠to the West Navarino Abarinus Pylus Messeniaca a great populous City on the Western Shoar of the Morea in the Province of Belvedore called by the Turks Iavarin It stands ten Miles from Modon to the North and fifteen from Coron to the West This is one of the most ancient Towns in the Morea and yet in a flourishing Condition being seated in the most pleasant and fruitful part of the Morea and having the best and most convenient Port. Accordingly whilst it was in the Hands of the Venetians they built two Castles and a strong Wall to defend it In 1498. it sustained a surious Siege and repelled the Ottoman Forces with that Bravery that they were forced to retire About two years after it fell twice in a short time into the Hands of the Turks through the Consternation of its Inhabitants after the Turks had taken Mondon and in their possession it continued till 1686. when the Venetians retook it Navarre Navarra a Kingdom in the North of Spain bounded on the North by France and the Pyrenean Hills on the East and South by Arragon and on the West by old Castile yet was there a small part of this Kingdom which lay on the North Side of the Mountains on the side of France The Country the incompassed with vast barren Mountains is said to be very fruitful and tolerably level within The Kingdom one of the first that was set up against the Moors began in the person of Garzia Ximenes in 716. and continued under thirty seven successive Princes of its own till 1512. when John de Albert King of Navarre being excommunicated by Pope Julius II. Ferdinando King of Arragon taking the advantage of the little affection his Subjects bore to him seized this Kingdom and drove the miserable Prince over the Alpes into France Baudrand averrs that the Spaniards had no Authority from the Pope to usurp this Kingdom but owns they had a Bull to justifie the keeping of it which needs no great Debate Since that time the Vpper Navarre has been under the Crown of Spain the Lower which is the least in the person of Henry IV. was united to the Crown of France and by Lewis the Thirteenth in the year 1620. incorporated for ever into the said Crown Panipelune in the Vpper is the Capital of the Kingdom In the Lower the principal Town is S. Jean Pie de Port. Naucratis an ancient City of the Kingdom of Egypt It stood near the Mouth of the most Western Branch of the Nile in a Division of its own Name and was the Birth Place of Athenaeus the Deipnosphista who together with Herodotus relates divers Customs of its ancient Inhabitants Naugracut Naugracum a Territory under the Great Mogul in the North Part of Indostan towards Tartary which reacheth to Mount Caucasus It has also a City of the same Name upon the River Ravée which afterwards falls into the Lahor two hundred and twenty Miles from Lahor to the East Naumburgh Neoburgum a City of Misnia in the Vpper Saxony which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Magdeburgh and once an Imperial Free Town It stands upon the River Saal where it receives the River Vnstrut The Bishoprick was Translated to this place from Zeitz in 1028. This City was in latter times under its own Bishop now under the Administrator of the Bishoprick of Newburgh who is of the House of Saxony with a small District belonging to it being yielded to the House of Saxony by the Treaty of Passaw in 1552. It is seated in the Confines of Thuringia eight German Miles from Erford to the East and six from Leipsick to the West The Bishops have been of the Augustane Confession ever since 1564. This City was taken by the United Forces of France and Sweden in 1638. Naxia Naxus called Nascia also Naxos and Strongyle one of the Cyclades is an Island in the Archipelago great populous fruitful eighty four Miles in compass having a City of the same Name which has in it a Greek and a Latin Bishop and eighteen Villages It belonged to the Venetians and was
last it is divided by the Loyre though some attribute several Villages to it beyond that River The Cities of it are Orleans Baugency and Chartres Ormus Armuzia Ormuzium Organa a small Island on the Coast of Persia known to the Greeks and Romans with a City of the same name This Island is seated at the Mouth of the Persian Gulph upon the Province of Schiras over against the Mouth of the Drut nine Spanish Miles in compass and twelve from the nearest Shoars of Persia The City which was once so potent and rich fell into the Hands of the Portuguese in 1517 and was re-conquered by the Persians assisted by the English April 25. 1622. Whereupon this so famous Mart presently became desolate and forsaken so that there is now little of it left but the Castle that the Portuguese built which has deluded the Forces of the Turks and Arabians Out of the ruins of it is sprung up Gambron on the continent Long. 91. 20. Lat. 27. 30. This Island wants fresh water It hath formerly sustain'd the title of a Kingdom The Tartars call it Necrokin The Portuguese were thought to lose six or seven Millions at the retaking of it by the English and Persian Forces Ormond Ormondia The North part of the County of Tipperary in the Province of Munster called by the Irish Orwowon that is the front of Munster A lean Mountainous barren Country which gives the Title of a Duke to one of the best and most Loyal Families in that Kingdom the first of which was James Butler Created Earl of Ormond by Edward III. James the late Earl was for his signal services in the old Rebellion in Ireland in 1643 Created Marquess of Ormond In 1660. he was by Charles II. made Duke of Ormond in Ireland and in 1661. in England Ormokirk a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Darby not far from Merton Meer Ornano a Signory in the Isle of Corsica Orne Orna Olina a River in Normandy which watereth Argentan Caen and at Estreban falls into the British Sea Orne Odorna a River of Lorrain which falls into the Moselle between Mets and Thionville it has a Town of the same name upon it between the Moselle and the Maes but nearest to the last Hofman Orontes See Farfar § The same is also the name of a Mount near the City Tauris in Persia Oropus or Orope an antient City of Attica in Greece called now Zucamini and Suzamino Aulus Gellius speaks of it § There was a second in Macedonia the Birth-place of Seleucus Nicanor § A third in the Island Euboea in Aristotle's time who remembers it § And Stephanus places a fourth in Syria called also Telmissus Orsoi Orsoium Orsovium a small but strong and an important Town in the Dutchy of Cleves in Germany upon the Rhine Taken for the Hollanders by the Prince of Orange in 1634 and in 1672 by the Duke of Orleans for the French Orssa a strong Town in the Dukedom of Lithuania in Poland seated at the Confluence of the River Orsca with the Nieper eighteen Polish Leagues from Smolensko to the West and twelve from Mohilow to the North towards VVitepski It is defended by a good Cittadel Sigismond I. King of Poland defeated the Muscovites before it in 1514 taking Prisoners four thousand and leaving dead upon the Place forty thousand It hath heretofore been in the hands of the Muscovites Orta or Orti Hortanum a small City in the Ecclesiastical State upon the Tiber near its Confluence with the Nera and upon an Ascent It belonged formerly to the Dukedom of Toscana Pliny takes occasion to mention it It is an Episcopal City thirty four Miles from Rome to the North. Ortonbourg Ortemburgum a Town in the Province of Carinthia in Germany upon the Drave having the honour to give a Title of a Count of the Empire Orton a Market Town in the County of VVestmorland in East Ward amongst the Heaths much wanting Wood. Ortona a City of the Hither Abruzzo and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Trivento which has a safe Port on the Adriatick twelve Miles from Trivento North-East eight from Lanciano to the same and eleven from Pescara to the South-East It is now called Ortona à Mare to distinguish it from Ortona di Marsi in the same Province Made a Bishop's See by Pope Pius V. in 1570. The Revenue of this Town belongs to the Papacy Orvieto Oropitum Vrbiventum Herbanum a City of Italy of great antiquity called in several Ages by various names It was heretofore included in the Province of Toscana now in S. Peter's Patrimony the Capital of a Territory denominated from it and a Bishop's See seated upon the River Pelia which a little higher takes in the Chiana and three Miles lower falls into the Tiber twenty Miles from Viterbo to the North sixty from Rome and thirty from Perugia Very strong by its Situation being fenced on all sides by Rocks and steep Valleys or Precipices Orwell a River in the County of Suffolk upon whose Banks not only Ipswich but Stow Market and Needham are also situated Osaro See Serchio Osbor or Olbor Osborium The Geographers do not determine whereabouts in Germany it was that this Place stood But they omit not to mention it upon the account of a Council there assembled in the presence of the Emperor Henry IV. which condemn'd the Anti-Pope Honorius II. and confirm'd the Election of Pope Alexander II. Oseau Ossavus a small River in Bearn Osenburgh Osnaburgum Osnabrugum Osnabrucum a City of VVestphalia in Germany which is a Hanse Town and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Cologn instituted by Charles the Great in 776. It is seated upon the River Hasa eight German Miles from Munster to the South-East and fifteen from Oldenburgh to the South Famous for a Peace concluded here between the Emperor and the Crown of Sweden in 1648. This City is under the Dominion of its own Bishop who keeps his ordinary residence at Patersbourgh and called sometimes Osnabruck Not only the Parochial Churches are divided here amongst the Roman Catholicks and Lutherans but the Lutherans also have the Possession of three Prebends in the very Cathedral with a Voice Active in the Election of Dignitaries The Roman Catholick Prebendaries have Voices Active and Passive electing and to be elected § The Bishoprick of Osenburgh is a Tract of Germany under the Bishop of this Diocese by the Order of Charles the Great Bounded on the West and South with the Bishoprick of Munster on the East by the Principality of Minden and the County of Ravensperg from North to South forty Miles from East to West twenty five The Bishop of this Diocese is to be a Roman Catholick and a Lutheran by turns according to the Treaty made in this City in favour of the House of Brunswick Osero Absirtum Absortus Absorus Civitas Ausarensis an Island and City of its name upon the Coast of Dalmatia under the Venetians The City is a Bishop's
who perished in one of them The Air of them is very mild and temperate the Soil is very fruitful and produceth whatever is needful to the Life of Man The Names of the principal of them are Mindano Peragoja Calamianes Mindora Tandaja Cebu in which Magellanes was slain Pintados Parraja Masbat Sabunra Matan Luban Capul Abilyo Banton Bâ—hol la Verde dos Negous and San Juan Philippo See Filippopoli Philippstadt Philippopolis a City in Sweden in Vermelandia a County of Gothland built in the Fens Twenty five Miles from the Lake of Wener and the same distance from Carlstad to the South-East Philippopolis an ancient City of Phaenicia in Syria mentioned in the Ecclesiastical Histories of Socrates and Sozomen upon the occasion of a Statue erected there in the Primitive Times of our Saviour Jesus Christ together with the Statue of the Woman he cured of an inveterate Bloody Flux by the touch of his Garment placed at his Foot The same Historians relating that an Herb of an unknown Species of so soveraign a Vertue as to heal all sorts of Diseases sprung up close by them and when the Emperor Julian the Apostate in the year 362. commanded them to be broken down and a Statue of himself to be advanced in their rooms a Fire from Heaven destroyed Julian's Statue Philipsbourg Philippoburgum a strong Fort or Castle upon the Rhine which before was called Vdenheim First walled in 1343. by Gebhard Bishop of Spire And afterwards took its present name from Philip Christopher de Soeteren Bishop of Spire who in 1615. refortified it for the defence of that Bishoprick George Count Palatine of the Rhine a former Bishop of Spire had built in this place in 1513 a noble Castle or rather Palace which was much improved in 1570 by Marquardus ab Hatstein another Bishop Being thus improved and made very considerable it was reduced by the Swedes in 1634. by Hunger Surprized by the Spaniards by a Stratagem in 1635. Taken by force by the French in 1644. The French bestowed very much during the time they were possessed of it in adding to the Fortifications but in the year 1676. the Duke of Lorrain retook it though the French came up with a great Army to relieve it By the Treaty of Nimeguen in the year 1679 it was consigned to the Bishop of Spire The French began the present War with the Siege of it and obliged it to surrender November 1. 1688. This Town stands three German Miles from Heydelberg to the South one from Spire to the North and three from Durlach Philips-Norton a Market Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Wello near the River Froume The Philistines a part of the most antient Inhabitants of the Land of Canaan disposed along the Sea Coast towards the Borders of the Kingdom of Egypt whose frequent Wars with and Victories over the Israelites their taking and remitting of the Ark and all their valiant Actions at various times conquering and conquered with Sampson David Saul Ely c. are recorded in the History of the Old Testament Phocaea See Fogie Phocis an ancient City and Country of Greece betwixt Baeotia and Aetolia Honoured heretofore with the Cities Delphos Anticyra Cirrha the Mountain Parnassus and the River Helicon situated in this Country In the Year of Rome 399. and the hundred and sixth Olymp. the Phocenses pillaging the Temple of Apollo at Delphos and defeating the Locrenses their Neighbours in a Battel under Philomelus drew upon themselves the Vengeance of Greece to such a measure that a Holy War to punish their Sacrilege was presently commenced against them which tho the Athenians and Lacedaemonians became their Allies ended with the total rasure of the City Phocis in the Year of Rome 408. Olymp. 108. Phortskeim See Pfortsheim â—hrygia a Country of the Lesser Asia divided in ancient times into Phrygia Magna or Major and Phrygia Minor Phrygia Major lay betwixt Bithynia Galatia Pamphylia Lydia and Mysia It s principal Cities were Synnada and Hierapolis Sometime called Pacatiana Now as it is under the Turks Germian The other was famous for the Rivers Xanthus and Simois and the City Troy standing in it the ancient Troas being in this Phrygia contained by the general accounts This Phrygia had the name also of Hellespontiaca from its situation upon the Aegean Sea towards the Hellespont Piacenza Placentia a City of Lombardy of great Antiquity called by the French Plaisance It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bologna and the Capital of a Dukedom of the same name which ever since 1557. has been in the Hands of the Dukes of Parma It is a neat populous City said to have twenty five thousand Citizens within its Walls and to be five Miles in Circuit full of fine Buildings and blessed with an ingenuous Race of Men fit either for Arts or War One Mile from the Po forty from Milan to the East and thirty five from Parma to the North-East in a pleasant place surrounded with fruitful fields Meadows and Pastures having many Channels cut for the watering their Ground and the bringing in Merchandizes It has several Salt-Springs Mines of Iron plenty of Wine Oil Corn and Fruits of all sorts the best Cheese in the whole World is made here in great quantity Nor does it want Woods and Forests for Hunting so that all things considered it is one of the pleasantest situated Cities in the World and thought to have taken its name from thence It was one of the first Colonies the Romans setled in Gallia Cisalpina against the Gauls They fortified it so well that though the Insubres and Boii out of discontent Revolted and joined with Hannibal who made the Siege of this place one of his first Attempts yet he was not able to take it Nor had Asdrubal who followed him any better success so that Livy informs us this was one of the twelve Colonies which in the second Punick War saved Rome In the Year of Rome 553. Amilcar a third Punick General took this City with the help of the Gauls and in a great degree ruined it by Fire and Sword Caelius a Thuscan General not being able to defend it against the Siege of Cinna and Marius rather than he would be taken desired his friend Petronius to give him his sword in his heart who did so and afterwards executed the same to himself Spurina a Commander under Vitellius defended this City with great Gallantry against Cecina one of Otho's Generals who yet at last took and burnt it Anno Christi 69. In 269. M. Aurelianus received a great overthrow from the Marcomanni near it In 542. Totilas King of the Goths took it by a Siege which reduced them to the necessity of eating Mans Flesh About 1335. it fell first into the Hands of the Viscounts of Milan About 1447. they called in the Venetians and endeavoured to shake off the Dominion of the Milanese which had like to have ended in their Ruin the City being taken and sacked and a most cruel
there are many Hills and void spaces in it yet it is more populous than Florence and the Streets larger Dr. Brown in his Travels has given an exact account of it It seems to be a Place of great Antiquity and to be the Marobudum of Ptolemy John King of Bohemia took it from Henry Duke of Carinthia in 1311. The Inhabitants imprisoned Winceslaus their King in 1392. George Podiebrach the Revenger of the Perfidy of the Council of Constance took it in 1441. The University was opened here by Charles IV. Emperour of Germany in 1370. which has had above forty thousand Students at once in it especially in the time of John Hus about 1409. whose Doctrines were condemned in a Council assembled by the Archbishop of Prague here in 1405. according to the German Writers But it is most famous for the Defeat of the Protestant Forces near its Walls Novemb. 8. 1620. by Maximilian Duke of Bavaria which was after severely revenged in the Swedish Wars And in this City May 26. 1635. a Peace was made between the Emperour and his Protestant Subjects It lies fifteen German Miles from Budweiss to the North eighteen from Dresden and thirty eight from Vienna to the North-East A Fire endammaged it June 21. 1689. to the value as they computed it of two Millions Long. 36. 38. Lat. 50. 06. Pragoca Lithoproscopus a Mountain of Phoenicia between Tripoli and Botryn Prasobo Haemus a Mountain in Thrace Prato a small Town in the Province of Toscana in Italy upon the River Bisentio betwixt Florence and Pistoia Precop Pericop Procopias Procopiana Taurica Chersonesus Tartaria Precopensis Taphrae a City and strong Fort in the enterance of the Neck of Crim Tartary from whence that Peninsula is sometimes called Precopska and the Tartarian Inhabitants the Precopensian Tartars After the Muscovites obtained that great Victory over the Tartars in 1689. wherein they slew thirty thousand of them with one of the Han's Sons upon the place the Tartars retiring into the Crim abandoned Pericop to the Conquerours which is a most important Pass Premislaw Premislia a great and strong City in the Province of Russia properly so called in Poland which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lemburgh standing upon the River San towards the Borders of Hungary Presburg Posonium Pisonium Flexum the Capital City of that part of Hungary which remained to the Emperour before his late Conquests called by the Hungarians Poson by the Germans Presburg by the Poles Prespurg It is seated upon the Danube eight German Miles from Vienna to the East and as many from Newheusel and Comora to the North-West seventy from Raab The Capital of a County of the same name between Austria Moravia and the Danube It has a considerable Castle built of White Stone on the top of an Hill a stately and beautiful Pile to preserve it from the Inroads of the Turks After Gran fell into the Hands of the Turks the Archbishops See was removed hither the Assemblies of the States of Hungary have been of late ever held in this City After Newheusel in 1662. fell into the Hands of the Turks it was fortisied being then a Frontier Prince Joseph Archduke of Austria the present Emperour's eldest Son was crown'd King of Hungary here Decemb. 9. 1687. That Clause in the one and thirtieth Article of King Andrew's Decrees in 1222 consented to by Ferdinand I. which makes it lawful for the Subjects to rise up in Arms against their Prince in the case of his acting contrary to Law being particularly excluded out of the Coronation-Oath by the Consent of the States of that Kingdom And the Crown thence forward to descend by Inheritance A Council was celebrated here in 1309. which Pope Clement V. confirmed Prerustine a Valley in Piedmont famous for a defeat of the Savoyards in 1663. by the Protestants of that Valley in the defence of their Lives contrary to the Faith given assaulted by sixteen thousand Horse and Foot which they forced to a Retreat with the loss of one thousand of the Assailants Prescot a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Darby Presteign a Market Town in the County of Radnor in Wales in the Hundred of Radnor Prester Johns Kingdom the same with Abyssinia in the Vpper Aethiopia But the Origine of this appellation of it is not so easily determined As whether coming from one Johannes Presbyter a Nestorian who in 1145. usurped the Crown of Tartary and might leave his Successors his name Or from Pretiosus Johannes which is the Latin Interpretation of the Title Belul-Gian that the Abyssines give their King Or from Preste Cham in the Persian Language signifying a Christian Emperour c. For we find no agreement either in Travellers or the Learned Etymologists about it And some moreover attribute this Kingdom not to Aethiopia but Tartary Preston a handsome large and populous Borough in Lancashire in the Hundred of Amounderness represented in the Lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses and honoured with the Court of Chancery and the Offices of Justice for Lancaster as a County Palatine It is seated upon the River Rible having a fair Stone Bridge over the same Preveza Nicopolis a City of Epirus called by Ptolemy and others Cassiopesa It is seated at the Mouth of the Gulph of Larta or Prevesa near the Shoars of the Ionian Sea between the Islands of Corfu and Sancta Maura a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lepanto This City took the name of Nicopolis in the time of Augustus Caesar being built and so called by that Prince in memory of his Victory obtained at Actium near it over Antonius and Cleopatra in a Sea Fight In 1539. the Pope's and King of Spain's Galleys endeavoured to surprize it from the Turks but failed in the attempt In 1684. Morosini took it upon a surrender for the Venetians Long. 46. 20. Lat. 39. 25. Principato Citra Principatus Citerior the Hither Principate a Province in the Kingdom of Naples bounded on the North by the Further Principate and part of Terra di Lavoro on the West and South by the Tyrrhenian Sea and on the East by the Principate It is seventy Miles in length from the South-East to the North West The Capital of it is Salerno the other Cities are Amalfi Nocera Marsico Nuovo and Sarno A part of the Country of the ancient Picentini and Lucania lies contained in this Principate Principato Oltra Principatus Vlterior the Further Principate is a Province of the Kingdom of Naples Bounded on the East and North by the Capitinate the Terra di Lavoro to the West and the Hither Principate to the South Benevento is the Capital of it it has besides Conza Avellino Ariano and Cedogna in ancient times the greatest part of this Province belonged to the Church See Benevento Il principato di Val di Taro a Valley and small Province of Lombardy in Italy under the Duke of Parma through which the River of its own name
the loss of Calais the Garrison of which was drawn out by King Philip to manage this Siege two years after the French recovered S. Quintin by a Treaty and kept Calais too It stands upon the River Somme six Leagues from Perronne to the East and seven from Cambray to the South Quir a part of the unknown Terra Australis discovered by a Spaniard of the Name but uncultivated as yet by Europeans Quiscon or Quiscun Ionia a Province of the Lesser Asia Quiso Cissa a River of the Colchi which falls into the Euxine Sea seventy six Miles South of the Mouth of the Phasos now called il Fazo Quiess Quissus a River of Bohemia in the Lower Silesia which in the Borders of Lusatia falls into the Borber near Sagan seven German Miles from Glogaw to the West Quiteva or Quieteva a City and Kingdom in Africa on the South of Aethiopia heretofore a part of the Kingdom of Monotapia towards Zanguebar Quito a Province of Peru in South America in the North part of that Kingdom between the Province of Quixo to the East and the Pacifick Ocean to the West eighty Leagues long and thirty five broad It had at first Kings of its own but before the arrival of the Spaniards was Conquered by the King of Peru and together with it fell under the Dominion of Spain El Quito the Capital City of the Province called by its name a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima in a fruitful Valley at the foot of a Mountain called Volcano Pinta near Machangara and Machangavilla two Rivers almost under the Line It is likewise called S. Francisco del Quito Two hundred and fifty Spanish Leagues from Lima to the North and six from the Pacifick Ocean to the East In 1586. there was an University opened here The Government of Quito is a considerable part of South America and one of the three principal Provinces of the Kingdom of Peru on the North it is bounded with Popian on the East with the Rivers of Pulumaio and Amazons on the South with the rest of Peru and on the West with the Pacifick Ocean The Andes divide it into two parts besides Quito it contains Canela Quixos and the South and middle Popian with some other Territories of small Note This is a fruitful populous and well watered Province Quivira a Province in North America between New Mexico Mount Sual and Florida which was never Conquered by any of the European Nations nor indeed throughly Discovered It affords good pasturage along the Sea Coast Quixos or los Quixos Quixorum Provincia la Province in the North of Peru between Quito to the West and Canela to the East first Discovered in 1557. by the Spaniards who have only four Colonies in it R A. RAab Jaurinum See Gewer Raab or le Rab Arrabo a River of Hungary which ariseth in the Lower Stiria near Gratz and running Eastward through the Lower Hungary by the Counties of Salawar and Gewer it entertains the Lausnitz the Binca and the Guntz and watering S. Gothard and Kerment beneath Sarvar it divides into two Branches the right Hand Branch is called Rabnitz the other Rab these two make the Isle of Rab seven German Miles in length At Rab or Javarin they reunite into one Stream again and fall into the Danube This River is particularly memorable for a great Defeat of the Turkish Forces by the French and Germans in 1664. upon the Banks of it near Kerment See Ricaut's State of the Ottoman Empire pag. 207. Rabasteins Rapistanium a Town in the Vpper Languedoc in the Diocese of Alby in France upon the River Tarn whose Coat of Arms is three Turneps suitable to the Derivation of its Name from both the French and Latin Rave and Rapa a Turnep Rabath Oppidum Novum a City in the Kingdom of Fez sixty two Miles from Tangier and seventy four from Fez. Rabath See Petra Racanella Cylistarnus a River of the Hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which flowing by Cosano falls into the Bay of Taranto Rachelburgh See Ratzburgh Rackelspurg Polentium Raceburgum a City of Germany in the Lower Stiria upon the River Muer under the Emperor as Archduke of Austria four German Miles from the Borders of Hungary to the West and six from Gratz to the East This City is a Roman Town ascribed by Antoninus to the Vpper Pannonia Radicofani a Castle and Seigniory in Tuscany between Stena and Rome Radini the same with Strymon a River which parts Thrace and Macedonia Radnorshire Radnoria one of the twelve Shires in the Principality of Wales Bounded on the North by Monmouth on the East by Shropshire and Herefordshire on the South by Brecknock cut off by the Rivers of Clarwen and Wye the Western point falls upon Cardiganshire It s form is Triangular the sides almost equal the whole Circumference being about ninety Miles The Air is sharp the Soil barren The Silures were the ancient Inhabitants of this County The Town of Radnor which gives name to it was by the Romans called Magi or Magnos pleasantly seated under an Hill which bears upon his top a large and strong Castle from whose Bulwarks there is a Trench drawn along the West of the Town on which has stood a Stone Wall it is represented by one Burgess in the English Parliament It s Long. is 17. 00. Lat. 52. 45. John Roberts Lord Roberts of Truro was by Charles II. July 23. 1679. Created Viscount Bodmyn and Earl of Radnor the first Earl of this County This County proved fatal to Vortiger the last Monarch of the British Blood here slain by Lightning and to Llewellin the last Prince of the British Race in 1282 found hid in the vast Mountains of this County and slain by one Adam Francton his Head being Crowned with Ivy was set upon the Tower of London in whom the British Race of Princes ended Radom a Town in the Lesser Poland in the Palatinate of Sendomir which is the Capital of a District of the same name Twenty Polish Miles from Warsaw to the South and fifteen from Sendomir to the North. Raglins Ricina an Island on the North of Ireland on the Coast of the County of Antrim which has a Castle sometimes reckoned amongst the Hebrides though it lies but eight Miles from the Continent Ragusa Ragusium Epidaurus Rhanzium a City of Dalmatia which is an Archbishops See and a Free State called by the Sclavonians Dubrounich by the Italians Ragusi It stands in the Confines of Albania on the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea to which it has a Port at the foot of a Mountain called by the Greeks Lau upon a Rock in so disadvantageous a situation that the Turks by rouling down great Stones from the Mountain might have overwhelmed it and so have become absolute Masters of it if they had ever desired to be so This City is about a Mile in compass has large Suburbs beside populous rich well Traded and Fortified About a League from it lies the Harbour of Santa Cruz
Barkstow upon a small stream falling into the VVarfe and the Ouse at the place of their Conjunction This Town is noted for the Stone-quarries near it well inhabited and provided with a Free-School Shoreham a Market Town in the County of Sussex in Bramber Rape by the Sea side Shrewsbury Salopia the principal City in Shropshire is seated upon the Severne on the top of an Hill of Red Earth in the middle of that County The River runs almost round the Town and is covered by two lovely Bridges Roger of Montgomery in the Reign of VVilliam the Conqueror built on the North side of it a strong Castle which added much to its strength he founded a stately Abbey in it whose remains are extant still It was then a very considerable Place Nor is it after so many Ages sunk in its Wealth Riches or People but still a goodly City and the Centre of the Trade between VVales and England Near this City in 1463 was a sharp Battel fought between Henry IV. and Henry Percie Earl of Northumberland on the behalf of Edward Mortimer Earl of March as the right Heir of the Crown of England after Richard II. In 1067 Roger de Montgomery Earl of Arundel was by the Conqueror created Earl of Shrewsbury His Posterity enjoyed it till 1102 in three descents and then were divested of it In 1442 John Talbot Marshal of France a Person of great Worth and Conduct and the terror of France was by Henry VI made Earl of this City which Honour is enjoyed by his Posterity to this day Charles Talbot the twelfth of this Line succeding in 1667. Shrewsbury contains now five Parish Churches denominates a Lath is encompassed with a strong Wall with a Bulwark that ranges from the Castle to the Severn and is represented in the lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses First supposed to have taken its rise from the ruines of the ancient Vriconium which stood not far from it Shropshire Salopia is bounded on the North by the County Palatine of Chester on the East by Staffordshire on the South by Worcester Hereford and Radnorshires on the West by Montgomery and Denbigh It s length from North to South is thirty four its breadth from East to West twenty five and the circuit about one hundred thirty four English Miles wherein lye one hundred and seventy Parishes and fifteen Market Towns The Air of it is gentle and healthful the Soil rich and fruitful abounding in Wheat Barley Pit-Coals Iron and Wood. The Severne which is the second River of England divides this County almost in the middle receiving into it the Camlet the Morda the Mele the Roddon the Terne the VVorse and some others on the South it has the Temde which receives the Bradfield Onke Omey Quenny Stradbrook Corve Ledwich and Rea all which and some other Rivers water and enrich the South part of this County so that it may very well be one of the most fruitful and best peopled Counties in England The Principal City is Shrewsbury Siam a City and Kingdom beyond the Ganges in the Further East Indies The Kingdom is bounded on the North by the Kingdoms of Pegu and Ava on the East Cambaya Lao Jancoma and Tangu on the South the Bay of its own Name and on the West by the Bay of Bengale making by this form of its situation a Demicircle of about four hundred and fifty Leagues Some assign it a far greater extent and bound it by Pegu and Lao on the North the Chinian and Indian Oceans to the East and West with the Kingdom of Malaca to the South And this way it makes a great Peninsula It is certain the King of Siam keeps several other Kingdoms and Principalities tributary to him and his Country being blessed with a good Air a fertile Soil Mines of Lead Tin Silver and Gold tho of a base Alloy with store of Ivory and being visited continually by Vessels from Japan China Cochinchina Tonquin the Sound and the Philippine Islands from all parts of the Hither East Indies and from Arabia Persia and the Kingdoms of Europe it affords the enjoyment of every thing almost that is valuable Whilst the Sun is in the Northern Signs from March to September the Fields are generally overflown by the Rivers which much contributes to the fertility of them for the Ear of the Rice mounts above the height of the Waters The King of Siam was Master heretofore of Malaca see Malaca Of late himself became a Tributary to the King of Pegu see Pegu. But he is very absolute over and served with the profoundest Adoration by his own Subjects The English French and Dutch have each their Factories in this Kingdom The Portuguese and Armenians Moors and Chinese settle here in great Numbers being allowed dwellings in the City Siam by a Favour not made common to all Nations Siam the City stands in an Island that is formed by the River Menan surpassing in the richness of its Temples most of the proudest Cities in the Indies and its Palace Royal where the King resides built by the River side is of an extent sufficient to denominate a City of it self In 1634 the Dutch built themselves a House in Siam whichâ—is one of the best belonging to their Company in these Indies Siangyang Siangyanum a City in the Province of Huquam in the Kingdom of China The Capital over six other Cities Siara a small City in Brasil upon the North Sea which is the Capital of a Province has a large safe Haven and a Castle but not very populous Under the Portuguese 〈◊〉 a Kingdom under the Great Mogul in the East-Indies towards the Fountains of Ganges and Mount Caucasus betwixt Naugracut and Pitane Siben Sabiona now a Castle only but formerly a City in the County of Tirol and a Bishop's See It is seated upon the River Eysock ten Miles from Brixia whither the Brishoprick is removed to the South-West Siberia a Province of great extent under the Crown of Muscovy towards the river Obb in the Desart Tartary between the Provinces of Condora Legomoria and Permia Some few years since first discovered all covered with uninhabited Woods Marshes and desolate Countries having only a few Inhabitants which have a particular Language of their own and not the use of Bread The Moscovites have of late built the Cities Tobolsk upon the River Yâ—â—im and Siber on the Obb here and united both in one Archbishoprick At the former the Vice Duke under the Grand Duke of Moscovy resides he commands over both Siberia and Samoyeda They have also set up Churches in divers places for the Moscovian Christians Sicambri a People of the ancient Germany placed by most about the now Province of Guelderland in the Vnited Netherlands betwixt the Maes and the Rhine By others upon the banks of the Mayne Strabo calls them Sugambri Ptolemy Synganbri The Bructeri were a part of their Dependents Sichem an ancient City of the Territory of Samaria in Palestine in the
Silks and Maroquines but the Country elsewhere is extreme Sandy hot and desert About 1660. the King of this place after many Victories conquered Morocco and Fez and kept them for some time This is supposed to have been a part of the ancient Numidia Tagaste is now a desolate Village in the Province of Constantine in the Kingdom of Algiers in Barbary which heretofore was a Bishops See and famous for giving Birth to S. Augustine Tagat a fruitful Mountain two Leagues from the City Fez to the East in the Kingdom of Fez in Barbary about two Leagues in length Covered with Pines on one side and affording Land for Tillage on the other Taicheu Taicheum a City in the Province of Chekiam in China It stands upon a Mountain and is the Capital over five other Cities Tajima a Town and Province in the North part of Niphon Taillebourg a Town in the Province of Xaintonge in France upon the River Charante at which S. Louis King of France in 1242. defeated the Malecontents of his Kingdom that were risen in Arms against him Tajo Tagus one of the most celebrated Rivers of Spain It ariseth from two Fountains in New Castile but in the Borders of Arragon at the foot of Mount Vallezillo And running North it takes in the Molina then turning South-West it passeth by Pastrana to Aronjues where it admits the Tajuna with a knot of other Rivers from Madrid and Henares turning more Westerly it salutes Toledo takes in beneath it the Gaudarrama and the Alberch visits Talavera and Puente de Archobisbo where it is covered by a Bridge beneath Almaraz it receives the Guadalupo So passing by Alcantara it entereth the Kingdom of Portugal at Perdigaon and receiving the Rio Monsul and a vast number of small Brooks in that Kingdom it forms the vast Haven of Lisbon and on the South side of that City passeth into the Atlantick Ocean having from its Fountains run one hundred and ten Spanish Leagues and being at its Mouth two Spanish Leagues broad There is no River in Spain more frequently mentioned than this especially on the account of its Golden Sand by the Poets Taiping a City of the Province of Nankim upon the River Kiang in China There is another of Quantum which is now under the King of Tumkim Taitung a strong City in the Province of Xamsi in China It is the third of Note there and drives a great Trade Tajuna Tagonius a River of New Castile which falls into the Tajo Taiyven the Capital City of the Province of Xansi in China near the River Truen Talabo or Talaro Pitanus a River in Corsica Talamone a Town and Port to the Tyrrehenian Sea in the Estate called Degli Presidii upon the Borders of the Dukedom of Tuscany in Italy Belonging to the Spaniards Talavera Ebara Libora a Town in New Castile upon the Tajo See Tajo Talâ—a a very fruitful Island in the Caspian Sea according to Pliny who calls it Tazata and other Ancients But we have no Modern Account of it Tamaga Tamaâ—a and Tambro a River of Spain which ariseth in Gallicia above Mone Roy and running South through the Province of Entre Douro è minbo falls into the Douro six Spanish Leagues above Porto to the East Tamar Tamaris a River in the East of Cornwal which divides that County from Devonshire It ariseth in Devonshire near the Irish Sea and running South watereth Bridgrule Telcoâ— Tamerten which has its name from this River Beyton Lawhitton Cal-Stock and having received amongst others the Foy at Plimouth it entereth the British Sea forming there a Noble and Capacious Haven See Cambden Tamaraca a City and Island upon the Coast of Brasil in South America under the Portuguese making one of the fourteen Governments or Provinces of Brasil Tamaro Thamarus a small River in the Principato in the Kingdom of Naples which rising from the Appennine a little above Benevento falls into the Calore Tamasso Tamassus a Town in the Island of Cyprus towards Famagosta Of great Repute for its Tin-Mines Taming Taminga a City in the Province of Pekim in China Tampan the Mouth of the Rhosne Tamul a petty Kingdom contained in Bisnagar in the Hither East-Indies Tamworth a Borough and Market Town in the Borders of Staffordshire and Warwickshire at the Confluence of the Tame and the Auker whereof one washeth that part of the Town which stands in Staffordshire and the other that in Warwickshire It hath a strong though small Castle for its defence is beautified with a large Church and in the Lower House of Parliament represented by two Burgesses Tanagra an ancient City of Boeotia now Stramulipa in Greece near the River Asopus Called Orops by Aristotle and Gephyra in Stephanus Athenaeus mentions Cetus Tanagranus as a Proverb for a vast Whale because one of a prodigious Magnitude was cast up here It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Athens the same with the Anatoria of some Moderns Tanais a River of Crim Tartary which divides Europe from Asia Called by the Neighbouring Nations Don by the Italians Tana It ariseth in the Province of Rezan in Moscovy eleven hundred Miles from Moscow from the Lake Iuvanouvo Lezicro which is five hundred Wrests broad and flowing with a very Oblique Course through the Countries possessed by the Precopensian or Crim Tartars not far from the Wolga falls into the Lake of Moeotis near a City called from it Tanais now ruined This City was once taken by the Russ but now in the hands of the Turks The River divides it into two parts and affords it the convenience of an Haven though now not much frequented Long. 60. 40. Lat. 48. 09. Tanaro Tanarus a Navigable River of Lombardy which ariseth in Piedmont in the Borders of the States of Genoua from the Apennine and running North-East watereth Mondovi Alba Asti and Alexandria in the Dukedom of Milan it falls into the Po at Bassignano between Casal to the North and Voghera to the South Tandaya one of the Philippine Islands Tandra an Island of the Euxine Sea at the Mouth of the Borysthenes Taneâ—axima a small Island belonging to Japan Tanes Tanitioum Ostium one of the Eastern Mouths of the Nile This gave name to Tunis now Tanes a desolate Village in Egypt at this time but formerly one of the greatest richest and strongest Cities of Egypt a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Damietta The Calyphs rebuilt it after it had been some Ages desolate but it soon returned to its former State Tangier Tingi Tingis one of the oldest Cities of Africa in the Province of Hasbat in the Kingdom of Fez. Built by Antaeus a Phoenician as the Learned Sir John Marsham proves from Procopius who mentions an ancient Pillar with this Inscription in the Phoenician Tongue We are fled from Joshua the Son of Nun a Robber whereupon he placeth the building of it in Joshua's time and saith it is undoubtedly a very ancient Phoenician Colony It stands at the Mouth of the Streights
Hemus in the Borders of Thrace upon an Hill and was heretofore very strong but now neglected Thirty German Miles from Adrianople to the North-West and twenty five from Sophia to the North-East Terovanné Tarvanna Ternana Civitas Morinorum a City of Artois in the Low-Countries which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Reims upon the River Leye but being recovered out of the hands of the French by Charles V. in 1553. intirely ruined and never rebuilt The Morini were its ancient Inhabitants And we may observe the year of its destruction by Charles V is expressed in the Chronogram of these two Words DeLetI MorInI It stood six leagues from Bologne to the East and two from S. Omers to the South This Diocese was divided into three viz. into that of Bologne S. Omers and Ypres Terra Arctica or the Artick Continent comprehends New Denmark Estoiteland Hudsons-bay Greenland Spitzberg and the undiscovered Regions beyond or towards the Arctick Circle Australis a vast Country towards the Antarctick Circle discovered in 1503 by a Frenchman of Honsleur in Normandy who in a Voyage to the East-Indies was driven upon the Eastern Coasts of it and remaining for some time there sound it to be cantoned into a number of petty Kingdoms indifferently peopled yielding several sorts of Roots for Dying unknown in Europe with wild Beasts Fowl Fish c. He calls it in the declaration of his Voyage the South Indies In 1615 James le Maure a Native of Amsterdam made a Discovery of another part of it to the East of the Streights of his own Name which he called Statenlandt the same time that he discovered his own Streights and Mauritzlandt di Bari Apulia Peucetia Barensis Ager a Province of the Kingdom of Naples Bounded on the North and East by the Adriatick Sea on the West by Capitanata cut off by the River Ofanto on the South by the Basilicate and Otranto This is a considerable part of that which the Ancients call Apulia Peucetia The principal places in it are Andria Bari Bitonto Conversano Gravina Molfetta Ruvo Trani and Biseglia The French call it the Province de Bar. Firma a Province of New Spain in South America upon the Isthmus of Panama del Fuego an Island betwixt the Streights of Magellan and le Mair in the uttermost parts of South America di Lavoro Terra Laboris is a Province of the Kingdom of Naples upon the Tyrrhenian Sea Bounded on the North by Abruzzo on the East by the Hither Principato and on the West by the Sea It is extremely fruitful watered by the Garigliano and Volturno and has the Happiness of Naples for its Capital The other principal Places and Cities are Ischia Gaeta Caiazzo Capua Nola Pozzuolo Sora Sorrento and Venafro This Province contains a part of Campania Foelix and of the ancient Latium d' Otranto Japygia Jesso Messapia Calabria Hydruntina Santa Terra See Otranto c. Terracina Tarracina Anxur an ancient City in the States of the Church in Italy in the Province of Campania di Roma in the Borders of the Kingdom of Naples at the Mouth of the River called il Portatore Vfens upon the Tyrrhenian Sea It has a Castle but is a place of no Strength by reason of a Mountain which commands it It has a Harbor too but of little use the City being almost deserted by reason of the unhealthfulness of the Air. Sixty Miles from Rome to the West and Naples to the East A Bishops See immediately under the Pope Long. 32. 2. Lat. 41. 18. Terrain Terin Tara a small River in the Isle of France which watereth Beauvais then falls into the Oise a little above Creil in Beanvais Terring a Market Town in the County of Sussex in Bramber Rape not far from the Sea Terne a River in Shropshire upon which Drayton is situated It is a Boundary between that County and Staffordshire Terskoy Leporie Tersa Leporia the most Eastern part of Lapland under the Russ between the Frozen and the White Sea and that part of Lapland which is under the Swedes It is a desolate Country has neither Towns nor Villages though some Inhabitants Tervel Tiar Julia Turulium Turia Terulum a City of the Kingdom of Arragon upon the River Turia where it takes in the Alhambra twenty four Leagues from Tortosa and ten from Valencia It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragoza Teschin Teschena a small City in Silesia in Bohemia called by the Inhabitants Tessin by the Germans Teschin It is the Capital of a Dukedom upon the River Oelss upon the Confines of Moravia seven Miles from Ratibor to the South The Dukedom of Teschin lies at the head of the Vistula between the Lesser Poland to the East Hungary to the South Moravia to the West and the Dukedom of Ratibor to the North. Tesino Tuinus Ticinus a celebrated River in Lombardy which ariserh out of Mont de S. Godard one of the Alpes and flowing through the Lake called il Lago Maggiore Verbanus towards the South entereth the Dukedom of Milan washeth the Walls of Pavia then four Miles lower falls into the Po preserving the clearness and perspicuity of the Stream four Miles further in that thick and troubled River as Ferrarius faith Test a River in Hampshire which joins with the Itching at their common fall into the Ocean near Southampton Whitechurch Stocksbridge and Rumsey are all three situated upon it Tet the same with Egli Tetrapolis a Territory with four remarkable Cities in it in the ancient Syria viz. Antioch Seleucia Apamea and Laodicea therefore called Sisters to one another Tetuan Teteguina Tetuanum a strong City which is a petty Republick in the North part of the Kingdom of Fez twenty five Miles from the Mouth of the Streights of Gibraltar and forty from Fez to the North. Il Tevere See Tiber. Teverone Anio a River of Italy which ariseth in Campania di Roma three Miles above Trevi and dividing the Ancient Latium from Sabina falls into the Tiber three Miles North of Rome Teutones the Ancient Germans from whom Germany took the Name of Teutschlandt They sustained a long War with the Romans and remained in the end the Invincible Enemies of that Empire Lucan distinguisheth the Cantabri and them by their long and short Arms Cantaber exiguis aut longis Teutonus armis Teutschlandt Terra Teutonica one of the ancient Names of Germany Tewksbury a Market Town and Borrough in Worcestershire the Capital of its Hundred represented in the lower Hâ—use of Parliament by two Burgesses The North Avon falls into the Severne here It is watered with two Rivulets besides In the year 1471 at this place was fought a memorable Battel betwixt the Houses of Lancaster and York by King Henry VI and his successor Edward IV in which the former suffered an entire Defeat and Edward the young Prince only Son to King Henry VI. was slain Texel Texelia a small Island at the Mouth of the Zuyder Zee which has a strong Castle and a
two and twenty Miles from Clermont to the West and fourteen from Limoges to the South Long. 22. 59. Lat. 45. 20. The Bishops are Lords and Viscounts of the City Tulujas Tulugiae a Castle in the County of Rousillon in Catalonia one League from Perpignan at which in 1050. the Council called Concilium Tulugiense was celebrated Tun a River in the County of Kent falling into the Medway Tunbridge stands upon it Tunbridge a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath upon the River Tun. Much noted for its Mineral Wells Tunchang a City in the Province of Xanton in the Kingdom of China upon the River Inn in the Borders of Pechin Tunis Tunes Tunetum a City and Sea-Port on the Coast of Barbary upon the Mediterranean Sea now called by the Natives Tune by the Spaniards Tunez by the Italians Tunisi It is great strong and populous about five Miles in compass containing three hundred Mosques besides the grand one which is a Noble Structure twelve Christian Chappels eight Synagogues of the Jews twenty four Cells for Hermites one hundred and fifty Hott-Houses eighty six Schools nine Colleges maintained upon the Publick Expence sixty four Hospitals and about ten thousand Families The Venetians Genouese and others drive a great Trade with it It has two Walls a Palace Royal a Magazine of Merchandises a spacious Haven and Prisons for Christian Slaves too well known Seated in a Plain by the Lake Barbasueco nine Leagues from the Ruines of Carthage and from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea eighteen from Goletta at the bottom of a Bay to the West of the most Western Cape of Sicily Not far from this place Regulus the Roman Consul was defeated and taken by the Carthaginians In the Times of Christianity it was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Carthage In the year 1270 unsuccessfully besieged by Lewis IX King of France In the year 1535. taken by Charles V. In 1570. it returned under its former Kings who being since extinct it is governed like a Common-wealth under the Protection of the Turk but very infamous for Pyracies Long. 34. 53. Lat. 32. 10. The Country about it yields Olives Fruits Grain and Pasturage very well The Kingdom of Tunquin or Tonquin Tunchinum is bounded on the East and North by that of China on the South by Cochinchina and by the great Bay on the West by the Kingdom of Brama The Capital City of it is Kecio The King of this City is also Master of a part of the Province of Quansio He formerly paid Tribute to the Emperour of China Now Homage only by an Ambassadour by an Establishment in 1667. Of late years the Christian Religion has been preached with good success as is said by the Missionaries of the Church of Rome A Kingdom of great power and nigh as large as France situated in 20 deg of Lat. and 145. Long. Mostly under the Torrid Zone yet very fruitful and healthful and watered with above fifty Rivers Cochin China was formerly a Province of it now a Kingdom tributary to it It is said to contain about twenty thousand Towns and Cities The Sect of the Chinese Philosopher Confusius obtains much amongst the Tonquinese It became a separate Kingdom about seven hundred years ago Before which it depended as a Province upon the Empire of China Turcomania Armenia Major a vast Country in the Lesser Asia of old called Armenia It lies between Georgia to the North the rest of the Lesser Asia to the West Persia to the East and Diarbeck to the South This was the first Country the Turks possessed after they came out of Tartary being most probably descended from the Scythians that lay betwixt the Euxine and Caspian Seas under Tangrolipix about the year of Christ 1037. But the present Line was begun by Osman or Ottoman about the year 1290 who was a Husbandman or common Labourer and by his Valour raised this Family Bursa in Bithynia was the first Seat of their Empire afterwards Adrianople and then Constantinople Solyman the present Emperour of the Turks is the one and twentieth of this Line set up by the Army against Mahomet IV. his Brother out of a Discontent at his Misfortunes in the present War against the Christians November 9. 1687. Turenne Turena a Town in Limosin two Leagues from Courez and four from Tulles Turin Turino Augusta Taurinorum Tauriana Taurinum the Capital City of Piedmont in Lombardy called by the Italians Torino by the French Turin It is an Archbishops See and the Seat of the Duke of Savoy in a very fruitful and pleasant well watered Plain twenty Miles from the Alpes upon the River Po where it receives the Doria Adorned with a strong and beautiful Castle built by Emanuel Philbert Duke of Savoy in 1565. It has also an University opened here by Pope Benedict XIII in 1405. and the Courts of Justice for that Province are held in it The City is very strong and grows greater and more splendid yet in the year 1640. it was taken by the French Long. 29. 30. Lat. 43 50. The dispute betwixt the Bishops of Vienne and Arles for the Primacy was heard but not definitively decided by an ancient Council held here in 397. or 401. The Empire of the Turks containeth from East to West accounting from the Western Borders of the Kingdom of Algiers to the City Balsara upon the Persian Gulph the space of at least eight hundred Leagues From North to South that is from Caffa in the Taurica Chersonesus or rather from the City Tanais near the Lake of Moeotis to Aden on the Mouth of the Red Sea and the Streights of Babelmandel 7 hundred other Leagues which together make an Empire of the greatest Extent of any Seignior or Sovereign in these parts of the World and therefore the Emperor thereof bears the Title of the Grand Seignior He hath in Asia Natolia Syria Turcomannia Diarbech and the three Arabia's In Africa he hath the Kingdoms of Barca and Egypt and the States of Algiers Tunis and Tripoli are under his Protection In Europe his Dominion extends over Romelia Macedonia Albania Thrace most of the Islands of the Archipelago Sclavonia Servia Croatia Bulgaria and part of Hungary except what this present War hath dismembred from them when the Princes of Transylvania Moldavia and Walachia paid him also Tribute as the Republick of Ragusa also did and even the Crim Tartars recognize his Protection In the whole before the present War there were twenty five Governments in this Empire To wit Cairo in Egypt for Africa Aleppo Caramit Natolia Cogni Chars Damascus Van Mosul Suvas Bagdet Erzerum Trebizonde Tripoli c. in Asia In Europe Caffa Candia Cyprus Romelia Bosnia Temeswaer and Buda The beginning of this Empire was laid in the Greater Armenia about the year 1037. In 1290. the Ottoman Line took its rise See Turcomania whose Power over the Subject is come to be completely Absolute Arbitrary Despotical Tyrannical They pray by the Alcoran and
and in 1546. kept in it a Chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece It had then 4 Collegiate Churches divers Abbeys and Ecclesiastical Houses But in 1577. they with the rest of Holland revolted from the Spaniards In 1559. it had been advanced to an Archbishoprick by Pope Paul IV. and nine Suffragan Bishops assigned to this See which was one of the occasions of the Revolt In 1636. it was made an University and in 1672. it fell for a short time into the hands of the French but is since returned to its former liberty the Learned Dr. Brown has given a short account of the present State of this City in his Travels Pag. 101. Long. 26. 26. Lat. 52. 10. The State of Vtretcht Sticht van Utretcht is the fifth of the Vnited Provinces Bounded South West and North with Holland and on the East by Guelderland Besides its Capital it has Wick the Seat of the Bishops Duerstede Rhenen Amersford and Monfort which are fortified strong places and about sixty great Villages Uulxin the same with Veuxin Uxbridge a large Market Town in the Coun. of Middlesex in the Hundr of Elt horn upon the River Coln Uzerche Vsarcha Vsarchia a Town in the Lower Limosin in Aquitain in France upon the River Vezere adorned with an Abbey and a Castle The Abbot is Lord of the Town Uzes Vcetia Vtica Vzetia Castrum Vseticense a City of the Lower Languedoc in France upon the River Eisent which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Narbonne and honored with the Title of a Dukedom by King Charles VI. after it had born the Titles first of both a Barony and a Viscounty The Bishop enjoys the Honor to be a Count and joynt Lord of the place with the King Therefore it hath three Castles for the King the Duke and the Bishop A rich populous and well traded City John de S. Gelais its Bishop in the last Age embraced the Reformed Religion and married an Abbess 't is said he abjured it again before his death and was buried in the Abbey of S. Maixant In 1635. there was a Synod held here It stands 3 Leagues from Nismes to the North and 6 from Avignon to the West Long. 25. 10. Lat. 43. 36. Vzeste a Castle in the Territory of Bazadois in Guyenne in France betwixt Bourdeaux and Bazas Remarkable for the Tomb of Pope Clement V. sometime Archbishop of Bourdeaux who was born at Villandrand a Village one League from this Castle died at the Castle of Roque-Maure two Leagues from Avignon in 1314 and was interred here in 1316. WA WAad Vaudum a Territory in Switzerland called by the French Le Pais de Vaud which was a part of the Dutchy of Savoy till 1536. and now subject to the Canton of Berne It is bounded on the South by the Lake of Lemane on the West by Gex and the Franche Comte on the East by Berne on the North in part by Berne and in part by Friburgh The Capital of it is Lausanne The other good Towns are Avenches or W 〈…〉 purg Yverdon Mouldon and Nyon It is sometimes written Vault Wadstein a Town in the Province of Ostrogothia in Sweden Die Wael Helium Vahalis Vacalos the middle Branch of the Rhine which divides from it at Schencken a Fort beneath Emmeren and watering Nimmeguen Tiel and Bommel falls into the Maes above Gorcum a City of Holland Waga Vagus a River in Scandia Wageren Wagria or Wagerlandt a small Territory in Holland towards the Baltick Sea between Lubeck to the South and Kâ—el to the North. The Cities of it are Lubeck Oldesto Pâ—oen Segeberg and Oldenburg which are divided between the King of Denmark the Dukes of Holstein and the Bishop of Lubeck Wainfleet or Waynfleet a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the division of Lindsey and the Hundred of Chandleshow upon a Wash in a fenny gound which empties it self into the Sea not far from hence Made famous by giving Name and Birth to William of Waynfleet Bishop of Winchester the Founder of Magdalen College in Oxon and of a Free-School in this Town Wakefield a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Agbridge upon the River Calder here covered with a fair Stone Bridge which King Edward IV. adorned with a â—â—â—ely Chappel It is a large Town well built of Stone of good Antiquity and drives the Cloathing Trade Walachia Valachia a considerable Province of the Kingdom of Hungary called by the Germans Walachey by the Turks Iâ—â—akia and by the Poles Wolochy It is a part of the antient Dacia and stands now divided into the Provinces of Walachia and Moldavia of the latter I have spoken in its proper place The former is bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Poland and Red-Russia on the East by Bessarabia on the South by Bulgaria separated from it by the Danube and by Moldavia which last also bounds it to the West It is much less than the Maps commonly make it also commonly misplaced and set where Moldavia should stand The History of it is delivered in Moldavia To which I shall only add here that after Mahomet IV. Emperor of the Turks was deposed and Solyman his Brother set up in his stead and that the Duke of Lorain had seized Transylvania the Prince and States of Walachia in 1687. and 88. rendered themselves under the Emperor's Protection upon condition That the Succession in the Government of that Principality shall be continued to the Heirs Male of the present Prince and the States be preserved in the Possession of their just Rights and Privileges paying to the Emperor the Annual Tribute of 50000 Crowns This Country extends from East to West 90 French Leagues from North to South 50 in form Triangular The Plains would be very fruitful if they were well cultivated but being little peopled much ravaged by the Turks and Tartars and lying in common they are over-run with Weeds for here is little or no Wood. The Mountains have rich Mines but they are as much neglected their Religion is that of the Greek Church The present Valvode is Matthis George Gista set up in 1658. by the late Sultan of the Turks Walcheten Valacria one of the Islands at the Mouth of the Schelde which compose the Province of Zeland in the Vnited Netherlands It s Capital City is Middleburgh New Walcheren the same with Tabago Waldeck Valdecum a County in Hassia between Westphalia to the West Hassia to the East and South and Paderborne to the North under a Count of its own yielding Wine Corn and several sorts of Mines The principal places in it are Curback and Waldeck which last stands upon the Eder 5 German Miles from Cassel to the West and 7 from Marpurg to the North. Walden a Market Town in the County of Essex in the Hundred of Vttlesford upon an Eminence likewise called Saffron-Walden from its situation amongst pleasant and profitable Fields of Saffron Walderswick a Sea Town in the County of Saffolk and
the Hundred of Blithing near Southwould-bay adorned with a remarkable high and fair Church Waldhust Valdhusta a small City in the Province of Schwaben in Germany upon the Rhine in the Territory of Kâ—egow 7 German Miles from Basil to the East 5 from Schafhouse and 2 from Laâ—fenburgh Under the Emperor Wales Vallia is a Principality on the West of England Bounded on the West and North by the Irish Sea on the East by Cheshire Shrapshire Herefordshire and Monmouthshire this latter being a long time a part of it and on the South by the Severn Sea It contains twelve Shires Pembroke Caermarden Glamorgan Brecknock Radnor Cardigan Mountgomery Merioneth Denbigh Flint Caernarvon and Anglesey After many and those most bloody Wars this Principality was finally united for ever to the Crown of England by Edward I. in 1284. Prince Edward his eldest Son made Prince of Wales which Title to the Heir apparent of England still belongs The rest of its description is given in the proper places Wallingford a Market Town and Corporation in Berkshire in the Hundred of Moreton upon the River Thames here covered with a Bridge a famous place both in the Roman and Saxon times It is the antient Guallena the Seat of the Attrebatii a British Tribe and under the West-Saxons was the Capital Town of these parts being adorned with 12 Parish Churches a Castle of great strength and Walls which were a Mile in circuit The Tracts and Ruines of those Walls yet appear and part of the Castle together with one Church which declension from its pristine State was occasioned by a Plague in 1348. It retains the Honor of the Election of two Members to represent it in the lower House of Parliament Wallisserlandt Valinsa Vallesia a great Canton in Switzerland called by the French Vallais or Vallays by the Germans Wallisserlandt by the Italians Vallesia It extends from East to West between the Canton of Schwitz to the North and East the Dukedom of Milan and Aouste to the South and Savoy to the West The Capital of it is Sytten or Syon and the other principal Cities are Martigny and S. Maurice This Canton was united for ever to the rest in the general League in 1533. It s extent from East to West is almost 100 Miles its breadth between 15 and 30. The Religion here professed is the Roman Catholick for the maintenance of which the Bishop who is their Prince combined with the 7 Popish Cantons in 1572. It is a pleasant fruitful Valley abounding with Saffron Corn Wine and delicate Fruits enriched with Meadows and excellent Pastures surrounded every way with craggy and unpassable Rocks and Mountains which afford but one entrance into it and that defended by two Gates and a Castle These Mountains are at all times covered with Ice and Snow not to be passed by an Army nor easily by a single Person The Walloons the People of the Earldomes of Flanders and Artois in the Low Countries are commonly called by this Name Walsall a Market Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Oâ—â—ow upon the top of a high Hill Walsham North a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Blowfield Walsingham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of N. Grenehoe Noted formerly for the Concourse of Pilgrims to two Wells called to this day the Virgin Mary's Wells and to the Chappel near them There was also formerly a College of Canons at this Town And the good Saffron it used to yield was no small addition to its Name Waltham-Abbey a Market Town in the County of Essex of great fame formerly for the Abbey it carries in its Name The Capital of its Hundred § Another in the County of Southampton for distinction called Waltham Bishops The Capital of its Hundred also Wana Vana a River of Croatia which watereth Vihitz and then falls into the Save above Gradiska in the Borders of Friuli Wandesworth a Town in the County of Surrey in the Hundred of Brixton upon the River Wandle Some numbers of French Protestants have setled here Wandesdike a large Trench or Dyke in Wiltshire Supposed by Mr. Cambden to be made by the West-Saxons for a Boundary to their Kingdom against the Mercians It lies in the midst of the County extended many Miles from East to West and saw many Battles fought betwixt those two Kingdoms Wang a small River in the County of Suffolk which riâ—eth in Westhall and running East watereth the Town of Wangford then falls into the Blithe a little above Southwould Wantage a Market and Thorough-fare Town in Berkshire in the Hundred of Wanting Waradin Varadinum a great strong City of the Upper Hungary called by its Inhabitants Warad by the Germans Gross-Wardein to distinguish it from Petro Waradin in Sclavonia It stands upon the River Kerez in the Borders of Transylvania to which Principality of latter times it belonged and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Colocza defended by a strong Castle In 1660. it was taken by the Turks before which the Crim Tartars took it in 1242. In 1290. Ladislans K. of Hungary built the Cathedral Church It was besieged by a puissant Army of the Turks in 1598. which miscarried But in 1660. they took it by surprise in a time of Peace On the East the Castle stands on the North the River runs it has a Wall with Ramparts after the modern way flanked with 5 Royal Bastions and a good regular Dike which may be filled upon occasion by the River Water within there is another inclosure of 5 Bastions and a high Wall which may serve instead of a Cittadel This City stands 22 Miles from Giula to the North 80 from Weissemburg to the West and 100 from Buda to the East Lately recovered by the Imperialists from the Turks after a long Blockade and Siege The Capital of a County of its own name Longit. 44. 56. Latit 47. 08. Warasdin Variana Varsdinum a City of Stiria Warburgh an Imperial and Hanseatique City in the Circle of Westphalia in Germany Warczkovie more the Russian Name of the Baltick Sea Wardhus Vardhusia the North part of the Kingdom of Norway Bounded on the North by the frozen Sea on the East by the Russ Lapland on the West by Drontheim and on the South by the Swedish Lapland It has only one Town of its own Name and a few Villages of no value Under the King of Denmark Ware a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Branghing upon the River Lea from whence a Channel of the New River Water is cut for serving of London Warfe a River in Yorkshire falling into the Are below Pontefract and into the Ouse below York Otley Wetherby and Tadcaster stand upon it Warham a Market Town and Corporation in Dorsetshire in the Hundred of Winfrith situated at the fall of the Rivers Frome and Biddle into Luckford Lake to which it hath a Harbour defended formerly by a strong Wall and a Castle But as the two latter
Saviours Birth This is one of the greatest richest and best peopled parts of the Kingdom of Naples Absorus an Island and City on the Coast of Illyriam mentioned by Hyginus Abugana a Province in the Realm of Angota part of the Dominions of the Grand Negus Abuyo one of the Philippine Islands in the East-Indies between Luzonia and Mindanao in this and the rest the Spaniards have Forts and drive a great Trade with their American Territories Abutich heretofore Abydus a very eminent City of Egypt 22 Miles from Ptolemais to the North it stands upon the Nile Here was the Palace of Memnon and the Temple of Osiris so much celebrated in the ancient Poetry and Mythick History Long. 61. 20. Lat. 26. 50. Abydos a Fortress in Asia opposite to Sestos in Europe on the Hellespont both which are now called the Dardanelli made famous by the Love of Hero and Leander and by the vast Bridge here laid cross the Sea by Xerxes Abyla a Mountain in Afric answering to Calpe another Mountain in Spain on the European side of the Streight of Gibraltar they are usually call'd Hercules Pillars because they were the bounds of his Travels Westward This is now call'd by the Mariners Apes-Hill either corruptly from Abyla or as they say from the multitude of Apes there to be seen Abyso anciently Orinus is a River of Sicily which falls into the Sea between Syracusa and Pachynus or Cape Passaro the most Southern Promontory of that Island Aca Acre Acri or Acon a Sea-Port in Phenicia which was called by the Grecians and Romans Ptolemais the latter fixed here a Colony After the loss of Jerusalem in the times of the Holy War it was the Capital of that Kingdom for some time till being taken by the Moors it was intirely ruined it lies 24 Miles South of Tyrus Long. 66. 30. Lat. 33. 00. From this place the Knights of S. John of Jerusalem removed to Rhodes Acachuma the Achuma of Ptolomy a Town in Ethiopia which the Inhabitants take to have been the Residence of Maqueda Queen of Sheba Acada Sangarius a River of Bithynia Acadinus a Fountain in Sicily where they tried the verity of an Oath by writing it on a Board and throwing it into the Water where if it sunk it betoken'd it to be false Acafran otherwise Celef or Quinalaf a River of Mauritania now called Vetxilef Acamante or Acamas a Promontory on the West side of the Isle of Cyprus at this time known by the name of Crusocco or Capo di S. Epifanio Acanes two Cities of Guinea in Africa one called the Greater the other Acanes the Less Acanthus the antient Name of several Towns and Cities at this time unknown except one in Acarnania now call'd Erisso according to Sophian and another in Egypt now nam'd Bisalta Acapulco a City of New Spain in the Pacific Sea or Mar del Zur near 100 Leagues from Mexico where they usually imbark for Peru and the Philippine Islands Acarnania the antient Name of a Province of Epirus now by Niger said to be call'd Despotato parted from Aetolia by the River Achelous and Mount Pindus heretofore remarkable for the Luxury of its Inhabitants and the Excellency of the Horses there bred § A Town also there was of this Name in Sicily not far from Syracuse mention'd by Tully to have been famous for a Temple there dedicated to Jupiter which Temple was afterwards destroy'd by the Goths Acaxi a City of Japan 25 Leagues from Meaco the Capital City of that Kingdom Acaxulta a considerable Port in New Spain on the Shore of Mar del Zur about seven Leagues from S. Salvador between New Leon and S. Jago de Guatimala Accadia a Province on the North-East Coast of America part of Nova Francia seiz'd by the English and by them called Nova Scotia but return'd to the French upon the Treaty of Breda 1667. § Also a little City in the farther Principate of the Kingdom of Naples Accadie a Peninsula in New France Accara The Name of two Towns in Guinea the Greater and the Less between the River Volta and Fort S. George de Mina Accaraig or Accarig a Town in Peru near the River Parana called also the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Accaron Ekron heretofore a famous City of the Philistins now a poor Village and called by the same Name Accettura a little City in that part of Naples call'd the Basilicate Acci Guadix a City Bishoprick and Colony of Spain in the Kingdom of Granada nine Leagues from Granada East It lies at the Foot of the Mountains not far from the Head of the River Guadalentin it was taken from the Moors in 1489. The Bishop of it is under the Archbishop of Sevil. Accia a City and Bishoprick of the Island of Corsica now ruined and the Bishoprick united with that of Mariana Acdeniz the present Turkish name of the Egean Sea or Archipelago Aceldama a Field near the Valley of Tophet in Judaea to the South of Mount Sion and of the Valley of Jehoshaphat serving for a Burying-place for Strangers and Pilgrims that die at Jerusalem This Name signifying a Field of Blood was given it instead of that of The Potters Field because it was bought with the thirty Pieces of Silver which were the price of Judas his betraying our Saviour Acellaro by some call'd Abisso and Atellari the Elorus of the Antients a River in Sicily falling into the Sea near the Ruines of the old City Elorus Acerenza or Cirenza anciently known by the name of Acherontia a City of the Kingdom of Naples in the County called the Basilicate which is a part of Calabria this City lies upon the River Bradanum at the foot of the Apennine it was formerly an Archbishoprick but the City being in a declining state the See is united to that of Mateola Acerno or Acierno a little City in the Citerior Principality of the Realm of Naples 15 Miles from Salern to the East L'Acerra a City and Bishoprick of the Kingdom of Naples under the Archbishop of Naples and but 8 Miles distant from the Capital City it lies in Terra di Lavoro in the Road to Benevento Acesine a River in Sicily having its rise on the North of Mount Aetna said to be now called Cantara and Alcantara § Also the antient Name of a considerable River in Asia which falls into the Indus famous for the large Canes growing on its Banks § Another there is so nam'd in the Taurica Chersonesus or Przecop Acha Achza a River of Bavaria it flows through the Lake of Chiemeze and falls into the River Inns which last River falls into the Danube at Passaw Achacica Achachica Achiacica a Town of New Spain where there are several Mines of Silver it lies 18 Leagues North from S. Angelo Achaia is taken in a twofold signification either denoting the whole Country of Hellas or Greece still enjoying the same Appellation as well as that of Livadia by which Name also it is now call'd It contain'd the Provinces
antient Emporiae Ampurias upon the Mediterranean 6 Leagues from Girona sometime divided betwixt 3 Nations Spaniards Greeks and Romans Cato obtain'd a signal Victory over the Spaniards here in the year of Rome 558. It was afterwards the Seat of a Bishop but being ruin'd in the Wars with the Moors the See was translated to Girona Amrom or Amrod an Island towards the Dutchy of Sleswick in Denmark Amsterdam Amstelodamium is the chief Town of the Province of Holland seated upon the River Yam It is a new City first Fortisied in 1492. but within this last hundred Years it has received its greatest growth and is now one of the greatest Marts in Europe It takes its Name from the River Amstel which glides by it and has a large convenient and a well-traded-haven The Riches number of Ships and Merchants belonging to it are equal to those of most Cities in Christendom It was taken by the Hollanlers under Prince William of Nassau from the Spaniard in 1578. having been heretofore one of the Imperial Cities it stands about two Leagues from the Zuider Sea and four from Vtrecht § The Hollanders have given the Name of Amsterdam to an Island in the Frosen Sea toward Greenland To a Town and Port of theirs in their Colonies in the Northern America To an Island in the Indian Ocean betwixt Madagascar and new Holland And lastly to another Island by them discover'd towards Japan Amu or Amus a Lake in the Country of Vsbech in Tartary Amudez a Town in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa Amurgos or Murgos an Island in the Archipelago with a City that has sometime been the Seat of a Bishop Simonides the antient Poet was born here Amyclea an antient City in the Terra di Lavoro in Italy whose surprisal and destruction by the Enemy occasioned that known Proverb Amyclas perdidit silentium Amycles See Scala Marmorea § The Name also of an antient City in the Morea where Apollo had his Temple Amydon an antient City of Macedonia upon the River Axïus Amyrus a River of Thessalia Amyzon See Mezo Ana a Town of Arabia Deserta upon the River Euphrates Anabagatha a City and an Archiepiscopal See under the Patriarch of Antioch in Asia Anacandrians Indians in the Isle of Madagascar Anachimoussi other Indians in the same Anactoire an antient City of Epirus upon the Bay of Ambracia the Anactorium of the Antients And another in Ionia Anacuies Indians of Brasil Anaf or Anfa a Town sometime the Capital of the Province of Temesen in the Kingdom of Fez upon the Atlantick Ocean Burnt by Alphonsus King of Portugal in 1468. Anaghelome a small Town in the County of Down in ulster in Ireland upon the River Ban. Anagni or Agnani a City and Bishops See in the States of the Church in Italy Rich and powerful in the time of the old Romans now almost ruin'd and little inhabited Anagyrus a Tract in Achaia so call'd from the growth of Bean-Cod Trees there Anandale is a County in the West of Scotland upon the River Solway which parts Scotland from England It takes its Name from the River Anan as doth also the principal Town in it which saith Camden lost all the Glory and Beauty it had by the English War in the Reign of Edward VI. Anapanomene a Fountain of Epirus mention'd by Pliny Anaph an Island in the Archipelago now call'd Nanfio Anaplyste an antient Maritim Town in Greece near Athens Anapo Anapus a River of Sicily § Also another of Epirus Anapuia a Province of Venezuela in the South America Anaquito a Country in the Province of Quito in Peru where the two Parties of Almagra and Pizarro joynt-discovers of Peru engag'd each other in Battel in 1546. See Almagra Anatolia Asia Minor call'd by the Turks Natolie is a considerable part of Asia extending it self Westward to the Shoars of Greece It is bounded on the North with the Euxine or Black Sea on the East it is separated from Syria and Armenia Major by the Euphrates on the South it has the Mediterranean and on the North it is severed from Greece and Thrace by the Bosphorus and many other Seas It is all of it in miserable Slavery under the Turks who have strangly depopulated impoverish'd and ruin'd this once most rich and powerful Country Anatolico A Village of the Province of Despotato or the antient Aetolia in Greece built in a Marsh like Venice Anazarbe See Aczar Anazzo Gnazzi or Torre d'Anasso a City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples supposed to be the ruinated Egnatia whose Episcopal See is transferr'd to Monopoli Ancam Ancamia an Island on the Coast of China to the Province of Canton Ancamares or Anoamares Indians in the South America along the River Madera Ancaster the antient Crocolana or Crorolana a Town upon Lincoln Heath within 12 Miles of Lincoln Ancenis Ancenesium a City in Britany in France upon the Loyre The Castle that it had is ruin'd Anchiale the same with Kenkis § Also a City of Cilicia in Asia remarkable for the Tomb and Statue of the Effeminate Sardanapalus Anchisa a part of the Mountain Atlas Anchora Asine an antient small City in the Morea near Modon Anclam Anclamum a very strong Town in Pomerania under the Government of the King of Sweden upon the River Pene. It was taken from the Swedes by the Duke of Brandenburg in 1676. and restored to them in 1679. It lies 8 German Miles South-East from Stetin Ancona the principal City of Marca Anconitana which Territory takes its name from this City it stands upon the Adriatick Sea near the Promontory of S. Ciriaco Built by the Syracusans who fled hither to avoid the fury of their Tyrant The Haven was built by Trajan the Emperor and is one of the fairest in the World but not so safe as capacious In 1532. Pope Clement the VII built here a a very strong Castle upon pretence of securing the City against the Turks but in reality to bring it into a greater subjection to the Popedom in whose Dominions it is tho formerly a kind of a Republick it has a Bishop who is not under any Archbishop It is distant from Rome 110 Miles to the North-East and from Vrbino 53 Miles to the South-East Ancyra See Engury Anczakrich Anczacricus a River of Vkrane in Poland which falls into the Black Sea within one Polish Mile of Oczakow which is now in the Possession of the Turcks and stands near the Mouth of the Neister Borysthenes Andaguaslas Indians of Peru in America between the Rivers Abanca and Xauxa Andaluzia Vandalitia a Kingdom in the South of Spain bounded on the North with the Province of Estremadura and New Castile on the East with the Kingdom of Granada on the South with the Ocean and the Mediterranean and on the West with the Atlantick Ocean and Algarve in Portugal This is the most rich and fertile Country in all Spain The Moors erected in it two Kingdoms that of Corduba and that
the South of New Guiney Arnheim Arenacum one of the principal Cities of Guelderland and one of the States of Holland seated upon the Rhine which a little above it is divided into 2 Branches the Ysel to the East and the Rhine to the West it is a neat Town and has belonged to the United Provinces ever since the Year 1585. It lies 2 Leagues from Nimeghon the chief Town of Guelderland and 7 from Vtrecht Taken by the French in 1672. and deserted 2 years after the Fortifications of it being first demolished by them Arno Arnus a River of Tuscany in Italy which springeth from the Apponnine not far from the Head of Tiber and running West it obliquely passeth between Florence and Pisa From the Sea as far as Florence it is Navigable Arnon a River arising from the Mountains of Arabia which traverses all the Desart then falls into the Lake Asphaltites and divides the antient Seats of the Moabites from the Amorites God Almighty rendred the passage over it miraculously easie to the People of Israel Numb 21. 13 14. Arnsbourg the Capital City of the Island of Oesel in the Baltick Sea with a Castle under the Swedes Aroe Arren Aria an Island in the Baltick Sea under the King of Denmark dependent of the Dutchy of Sleswick Aromaia a Province of New Andaluzia in America near the mouth of the River Orenoque Arona a Town and Castle in the Milaneze in Italy upon a Lake belonging to the Family of the Borromeos The famous S. Charles Cardinal Borromeo Archbishop of Milan was born here Octob. 2. 1538. Arool a Town in Muscovy 40 Leagues from Moscow Arosen Arosia a City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vpsal in Sweden It is the Capital of the Province of Westimania with a Fortress upon the Lake Meler Here Gustavus I. deseated Christiern II. about the year 1521. And in 1540. the States here assembled declared the Crown of Sweden Hereditary Arow Aarow a frank Town in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland upon the River Aar from whence it takes its name The Protestant Cantons are used to hold their Dyets here Arpaia Caudium a City heretofore now a Village in the further Principate in the Kingdom of Naples Near to it there is a very narrow defile for two Persons to pass betwixt two Mountains called Stretto d'Arpaio and formerly Furcae Caudinae where the Samnites having obliged the Roman Army under T. Vetrurius and Sp. Posthumius Consuls to render themselves upon discretion put them to the disgrace of passing under a Traverse of Pikes with Hands tyed disarmed and bare headed Arpaion an antient Barony in the Province of Rovergue in France erected into a Dutchy in 1651. Arpentras A City heretofore upon the Lake Lemane in Switzerland now a Village they call Vidy built out of the Ruins thereof Great numbers of antient Medals are found here Arpino Arpinum a Town and Castle in the Terra di lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples Caius Marius Seven times Consul was born here Cicero is Sirnamed Arpinas from hence it being but 3 Miles from the place of his Nativity Arques a Town in the Dutchy of Bar in France near the Meuse supposed to be the Birth-place of Joane of Arc the Maid of Orleans famous in the Reign of Charles VII Arques Arca a Village in Normandy in the païs de Caux upon the River Arques 2 Miles South from Diepe This place was made illustrious by a great Victory Henry IV. obtain'd there in the Year 1589. Arra a Barony in the County of Tipperary in Mâ—nster in Ireland Arracan Arracaon Arrachamum a considerable Kingdom and a City upon the River Martaban beyond the Ganges in the East Indees Arragon Aragonia a very large and indeed one of the three principal Kingdoms in Spain bounded on the North by Navarre and France from which last it is divided by the Pyrenees on the East it hath Catalonia on the West New and Old Castile and on the South it hath the Kingdom of Valentia This Kingdom was united to Castile in the Year 1479. Arran a Barony made up of four Islands upon the Coast of the County of Dungal in the Province of Vlsier And made an Earldom in 1661. in favor of Richard the Second Son of James Duke of Ormond These Islands lie in the Western Ocean Arran Arania Glotta an Island on the West of Scotland in Dunbritain Frith near Argile which was anciently an Earldom Arras Atrebatum Nemetocerna called by the Dutch Atrecht a great Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Rheims the Head City of the Earldom of Artois and stands upon the River Scarpe which flows also by Douay It is considerably well sortified and has a strong Castle it came into the hands of the French in 1640 and when the Spaniards 1654 attempted by force to retake it their Army was defeated the 25th of August of that Year since which time the French have peaceably enjoyed it This was one of the greatest Actions of Cardinal Mazarine and won him much Honor in France It is 15 Leagues from Tournay and 5 from Doway Arren See Aroe Arroux Arosius a River of Burgundy in France it rises by Amay le Duc passes by Autun and joyns the Loyre by Bourbon-Lancy Arsa Arsia a River of Istria which divides Italy from Illyrium It falls into the Adriatique near Pola Arsinoe a City of Cilicia in Asia Minor betwixt Antioch and Seleucia Arsinoe in Aegypt See Suez Arsinoe between Berenice and Ptolemais in Africa is a City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cyrene some say now called Trochara The Artients give us three more of this name in the Island of Cyprus whereof we have no farther account Arta or Larta a City of Epirus in Greece upon the River Acheron 15 Miles from the Sea and a days Journey from Ambracia Adorned with a Metropolitan See and a noble Church Artois Artesia bounded on the North with the Country of Flanders on the West and South with Picardy and on the East in part by Flanders in part by Hanalt and Cambray It lies in length from North to South 26 Leagues It was once the East part of Flanders but became a separate Earldom in 1198. and continued so till 1382. when it returned to the Earls of Flanders but at the Pyrenaean Treaty in 1659. and that of Nimeguen in 1678. it was intirely yielded to the French This was the Country of the antient Atrebates The Capital City of it is Arras Aru a City and Kingdom in the Isle of Sumatra in the East-Indies § Also an Island of Asia between the Moluccaes and New Guiney Arva called by the Germans Orova a Town in the Upper Hungary near the Confines of Poland towards the Carpathian Mountains upon the River Vag Vagus six Miles from Bistricz North which Town gives Name to a County Arva a rapid River of Savoy It springs out of the high Mountains of Fossigni and passing by Bonne Ville falls into the Rhosne at the
See Slawkow Austrasie Austracia which the Germans called the Westrich was a considerable part of France during the first Race of Kings and had the Title of a Kingdom which was afterwards called the Kingdom of Mets because that City was the Capital of it Under the second Race of Kings it was called the Kingdom of Lothaire The bounds of it were very various sometimes bigger and at others less Austria called by the Inhabitants Oesterreich by the French Autriche by the Turks Beetstan or Weetzstan by the Poles Rakusy is a Province of Germany bounded on the North by Bohemia and Moravia on the East with Hungary on the South with the Dukedom of Stiria and on the West with Bavaria and Salsburgh it is divided almost into two equal parts by the Danube This Province was first under Marquesses from 928. In 1156. they had the Title of Duke given them and Frederick who was after Elected Emperor had the Title of Arch-Duke conferred on him which is the only Title of Arch-Duke in the World From this Country it is that the House of Austria takes its Name of which Family the Emperors of Germany have been ever since 1438. and the Kings of Spain since 1515. It is a very fertile Country amply supplyed with Mines and Rivers Vienna the Capital The Archduke has a particular power of creating Counts and Barons over all the Empire by antient Concession with this privilege besides that he cannot be deprived of his Lands and Principalities by the Emperor himself Authie Attilia a River of Picardy in France It arises near a Castle of the same name in Artois glides by Dourlens and Auxi then falls into the Sea at a place call'd Pas d'Authie Autun Angustodunum Hedua is a very antient City in the Dukedom of Burgundy and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Lions seated upon the River Arroux Arotium which falls into the Loire 25 Miles West of Chalon and about the same distance South-West from Dijon Auva a City and Kingdom of Japan Auvagdonne or Achad Achadia a City in the County of Gallway in Connaught in Ireland which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Tuam Auvergne Alvernia is a large Province almost in the midst of France it has the Dukedom of Bourbonne on the North the Earldom of Forez on the East the Marche and Limosin on the West and on the South Rouergue The Southern part is mountainous the Northern is very well watered and fruitful The chief Town is Clermont It had Earls which govern'd it till 1024. when Philip the August put an end to this Earldom upon the Rebellion of Guido the last Earl and annexed it to the Crown of France In this Province there are thirteen Towns which send their Deputies to the Assembly of the States in France Aux Auscii an Archbishoprick and a City in the County of Armagnac in France This City stands upon the River Sers which runs not far before it falls into the Garonne It is distant from Tholouse almost 20 Miles to the North-West and the Archbishoprick is esteemed one of the richest in France Auxerre Antissiodorum is a City and an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Sens upon the River Yonne Icauna which falls into the Seyne Sequana This City is large and beautiful seated in a fruitful Plain about 12 Leagues from Sens. Auxerrois a small Territory in France adjacent to Auxerre Auxois Alexiensis tractus a Bailiwick in Burgundy in France Auxone Aussona a small but very strong City of the Dukedom of Burgundy upon the River Sone from whence it has its name It is five Leagues from Dijon East and four from Dole Auzone Auzonum a small City of Auvergne in France in a mountainous Country near the River Allier Elaver which falls into the Loire It has an old Castle and is distant from Clermont ten Leagues North. Axbridge a Market-Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Winterstoke upon the River Axe Axel Axella a small but strong Town in Flanders under the Dominion of the States of Holland whose Surprisal was the first exploit of Count Maurice of Nassau Captain General of the United Provinces after his entrance upon that Employment in 1587. It stands 4 Leagues from Gant and about 6 from Antwerp West Axholm an Island made by the Rivers Trent and Dun in Lincolnshire About 10 miles in breadth and 5 in length The middle part which is the more rising ground is very fruitful and particularly of Flax. Alabaster is found in it Axmister a Market Town in Devonshire upon the River Axe the Capital of its hundred Axum Auxuma a City and heretofore the Capital of the Kingdom of Tigre in the Province of Sire in Aethiopia Ayr a small Town upon Dunbritain Frith in the South part of Scotland with a River of the same name in the Territory of Kile in which Oliver Cromwel built a strong Citadel or Fort to keep the Scotch Nation in awe Ayr Arola a small River in France which riseth in the Dukedom of Barrois and running North watereth Clermont and Varenne and at last falls into the Aisne Aza a Town in Cappadocia upon the Borders of Armenia betwixt Trebizonde and Neo-Cesaraea Azack Tanais See Asoph Azamor a Town in the Province of Duguela in the Kingdom of Marocco at the mouth of the River Ommirabi The Portugueze took it in 1508 and in 1540 they abandoned it The Moors afterwards repeopled it but being all kill'd or taken in a night by a surprize of the Portugueze it has continued desart ever since Azaotan Azaot the vast Desarts of Libya in Africa Azeca an antient Town of the Amorites in Chanaan where God Almighty rain'd down Hailstones upon them from Heaven Josh 10. 11. Rehoboam repair'd it 2. Chron. 11. 9. It was afterwards ruined in the Wars by the King of Babylon Jerem. 34. 7. Azem a Kingdom in the Terra firma of the Indies beyond Ganges in one of the most plentiful Countries of all Asia for all things necessary to human life The Capital of it is Kemmerouf 21 days journey distant from the Town Azem The People live altogether at their ease They esteem the flesh of dogs particularly above other meats selling great quantities thereof in their Markets Azores commonly call'd by English-men the Canary Islands are 7 Islands in the Atlantick Ocean not unknown to the Antients and by Pliny Solinus and others mentioned under the name of the Fortunate Islands and tho they differ as to the number yet all agree Canaria was one of them but which is most wonderful the knowledge of them was perfectly lost till 1330. when a Ship being distressed by Weather discovered them and it is not agreed whether it was an English French or Dutch Ship In 1334. the Portuguese attempted to conquer these Islands and were beaten off In 1417. Henry King of Castile granted these Isles to one John Betancourt upon condition he should hold them under the Crown of Castile and he accordingly subdued four of
the name of Baden The Original of the Noble Family now possessed of this Honor was from the Duke of Zering for Bertholdus I. was the Father of Hermanaus the first Founder of this Family which is now divided into two Branches the one professing the Protestant and the other the Roman Catholick Religion of the later Branch comes the present Prince Lewis who since the Death of the Duke of Lorrain has been honored by the Emperor with the general Command of all his Forces in Hungary and obtained great Victories Baden Aquae Pannoniae a Town in Austria 3 Leagues from Vienna to the South seated at the foot of the Mountains Badenoch in Latin Badenochia is a County in the North of Scotland of a barren Soil full of Mountains divided in two by a great Lake and bounded by the Counties of Murray Ross and Athol Badenweiler a City in the Province of Brisgow in Germany between Friburg and Basil yet a part of the Marquisate of Baden and famous for Hot Baths Baeotia See Boeotia Baern See Berghen Baetica one of the 3 antient parts of Spain taking its name from the River Baetis which we now call Guadalquivir See Spain It s principal Cities were Sevil and Corduba From the time that Alphonsus King of Castile was defeated here by Aben Joseph K. of Morocco in the Year 1195. the Saracens possessed it unto the Reign of Ferdinand V. Baeza Biatia a City of Andalusia It was heretofore an Episcopal City under the Archbishop of Toledo but in 1249. its Bishoprick was united by Pope Innocent IV. to that of Jaen or Gaën Glenna This City was recovered from the Moors by Ferdinand King of Castile in 1227. It was a Roman Colony then called Vrbs Baetica Here is an University erected in 1538. and the Town is large and stands upon a Hill one League from the River Guadalquivir Baffin's Bay a Gulph extended from the 70th to the 80th deg of North Lat. in the Terra Australis of America discovered by an Englishman who gives his Name to it Baffo Paphos a City in the Island of Cyprus once famous now ruin'd Bagaloag a Town upon the Frontier of Bosnia in Dalmatia under the Turks Bagamidri a Kingdom in the upper Aethiopia lying along the Nile to the West It is ordinarily divided into 17 Provinces whereof some are large enough to be Kingdoms Bagaudes a People amongst the antient Gauls They revolted twice from the Romans at the end of the third and in the Fifth Century and were each time defeated Bagaya Bagy Vaga a City of Numidia in Africa The Emperor Justinian Wall'd it and new-nam'd it Theodora from his Empress In 394. the Donatist Bishops celebrated a Council here concerning the Cause of Primianus Bishop of Carthage Bagdat or Bagdet See Bachad Bagdasan Bactra a small City at the foot of Mount Caucasus seated in a fruitful Soil much celebrated in antient times now of no Note Bagnabar See Golconde Bagnarea Balneum regis Balneo regium Novem populi so called by the order of Desiderius King of the Lombards as Paulus Diaconus saith It is an Episcopal City in S. Peters Patrimony built upon a Hill near the Lake Bolsena it stands almost in the middle between Mount Fiascone and Orvieto from which last it is not above 6 Miles distant to the South In this Place S. Bonaventure who flourished in the twelfth Century with the Title of the Seraphical Doctor was born Bagneres a Town in the County of Bigorre in Gascony in France famous for its hot Baths till 1660. when that natural Fire which heated them was extinguished by an Earthquake as Brietius saith Bagni d'Abano Fontes Aponi Aquae Petavinae a place that has Baths in the Territory of Padoua in Italy Bagni di Salviati a place not far from Cuma where Cesar the Dictator had a Country House Bagni di Tritolino a place in Campania where Cicero had a Country House not far from Puteolum To these and divers other places in Italy they gave the Pre-names of Bagni from their Baths wherein the antient Romans delighted so that P. Victor reckons 800 of them in Rome only Bagrava Galesus a small River that springs from the Apennine Hills near the City Oria in the County of Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples and running Westward falls into the Bay of Taranto not far from that City which gives its Name This River is now commonly called Galeso Bahama an Island and the most rapid Channel in all America Eastward from Florida through which the Spanish Fleets pass to the Havana Baharen Ichara Tylus an Island in the Persian Gulph Others say it is Carge another Island in the same Gulph over against the mouth of the River Euphrates that the Ancients meant by these Names It is called by others Elchadr Bahar-Eunil one of the Branches of the Nile in Aethiopia Bahar-Zocoroph the Persian Gulph Bahar-Rumi the Mediterranean Sea Bahia de todos los Santos the same with S. Salvador in Brasil Bahuys Bahusium a strong Castle situated in a small Island made by the River Trolhetta which falls a little lower into the Baltick Sea It heretofore belonged to the Kingdom of Denmark but in 1658. was taken by the King of Sweden together with the County of the same Name It stands two Danish Miles from Gottenburg towards the North. This Castle was built by Hakin IV. King of Norway in 1309. surrendred by Treaty to the Swedes in 1660 who before were in Possession of it attempted by the Danes in 1678. but without any good Success The Province in which it lies is bounded on the East with West Gotlandt on the West by the Baltick Sea and by the County of Aggerhuis towards the North. It lies 100 Miles in length from the North to the South but it is not above 30 Miles broad and in many places but 15. It has besides the Castle I mentioned a Town called Malstrano This Territory was yielded to the Swedes by the Treaty of Roschild in 1658. Baja Baiae a City of Campania in Italy now ruined It was the delight of the antient Romans Separated from Pozzuoli by an Arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea about 2 Leagues over which the Emperor Caligula cover'd with a famous Bridge passing and repassing the same in Triumph The noble Rests yet extant discover that it has been a very magnificent Place Since the times of Christianity an Episcopal Chair was placed and settled in it till its ruine was effected by Earthquakes Bajaria Eleutherus a River of Sicily It falls into the Mediterranean Sea 8 Miles East of Palermo and the River Oreto on the Western side of the Island Baicadul Batancaesarea a City of the East-Indies within Ganges Baida a Region of Tartary the Desart See Badai Baieux a City and Bishops See under the Archbishop of Roan in Normandy in France upon the River Aure which a little lower buries itself under ground It stands not above 2 Miles from the Brittish Sea towards the South The College of Bajeux at
Sea and have little or no Communication with the other Seas make it much frequented by Merchants of all Nations Baly an Island of the East-Indies East of Java about 12 Miles in compass very fruitful and well inhabited It is thought to be the lesser Java being separated from the greater only by a Bay Bamba a Province of the Kingdom of Congo in Africa with a Town of the same Name it lies between Loanda to the South and the River Zaire to the North on the Western Shoar of Africa beyond the Line There is a Province in the South America in the Kingdom of Papaian under the Spaniards and a Village in Castile in Spain both of the same Name Bamberg Gravionarium Bamberga a City of Germany in the Circle of Franconia upon the River Rednit which a little lower falls into the Mayn It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mayence for some time now immediatly dependent on the Pope This City was made a Bishoprick by Henry II. Emperor and had its Name from Baba a Daughter of Otho the Emperor and it signifieth in the German Tongue the Hill of Baba It is under the Civil Jurisdiction of its own Bishop and stands about six Miles from Wurtzburg to the North-East and Nurenburg to the North-West In this City died Henry II. in 1025. Conradus III. in 1152. Philip I. in 1208. It was antiently a free Imperial City but not now there belongs to it a small Territory or Diocese which lies along the Mayn and the Rednit extending in length from North to South 25 German Miles but much restrained as to its breadth by the Marquisate of Culembach on the East and the Bishoprick of Wâ—â—tsburg on the West besides these he has some few Towns in Carinthia which were subjected to the Emperor by a Treaty in the Year 1535. with Ferdinando I. Henry II. called St. Henry built here a very magnificent Church for the Remission of his Sins in the Year 1007 and subjugated this City with all its Dependencies to the Popes of Rome but it was after redeem'd by Henry V. who gave that See the City of Benevento in Italy in Exchange for it The antient City of Prague in Bohemia is a Fee belonging to this Bishoprick and the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburg hold other considerable Fees of it There is another small Town of this Name in the Kingdom of Bohemia Bamberg lies in 32. 49. Long. 49. 51. Lat. Bambycatii an antient People near the River Tigris in Asia said to bury their Gold Silver and all Mettal that can be coyn'd into Money in the desarts to prevent the growth thence issuing of vice and corruption amongst them Bampton a Market Town in Devonshire and another in Oxfordshire both Capitals of their Hundreds The latter is situated near the River Isis and affords a liberal Maintenance to 3 Vicars besides the Parson Banea a City and Island to the Eastern point of the great Island of Sumatra in the East-Indies separated from Sumatra by the Streights of Banca over against Palimban Bancok a regular and important Fortress in the Kingdom of Stam in the East-Indies Banda an Island in the Indian Ocean to the South of the Island of Seran 20 Leagues comprehending under the general name of Banda the 6 lesser Islands of Nera Gunapi Lantor Puloway Pulorin and Bassingen These being considered as parts of the Island of Banda They drive a very great Spice trade enjoy a perpetual Spring and it is ordinary with the Inhabitants to live to 120 years There is a good road to Banda with two Forts to defend it built by the Hollanders The Natives are Mahometans but believe the dead will never come to life again unless they living pray for them Bandbury or Banbury a Corporation in the Northern part of the County of Oxon upon the West side of the River Cherwel which here divides the County of Northampton from that of Oxon. Near this place Kimrick King of the West Saxons overthrew the Britains in a set Battel manfully fighting for their Lives and Fortunes and after this Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick in the same place overthrew Edward IV. and took him Prisoner and restored Henry VI. to the Crown In the late Rebellion this Place was taken and garrison'd for Charles I. in 164â— after Edgehill Fight in 1644 under the Command of Sir William Compton it endured a sharp Siege and several Storms till it was relieved by the Earl of Northampton after which it continued unattempted till the Year 1646 when it endured another sharp Siege for ten Weeks together under the same Governor who at last after the King had put himself into the hands of the Scots when it was not possible the Place could be relieved surrendered it upon honorable Terms to the Rebels the 11th of May. The Family of the Knollys have been Earls of this Place ever since the Year 1626. Bander-Abassi a City upon the Coast of the Province of Farsistan in Persia opposite to the Isle of Ormus Sirnamed Abassi from Cha-Abas King of Persia the first Founder of its Commerce which has rendred it the general place of resort for Vessels from the Indies as of an English and Dutch Factory being esteem'd the best Region of all the Persian Gulph Yet so intolerably hot in the Summer Months that the Air the Arabians say is poysonous and causes sudden suffocations It is fortified with two opposite Forts Bander-Congo A City of Persia two days sail from the precedent where both the Air and Water are commendable But the dangerousness of the passage from Ormus to it amidst a number of Islets deprives it of the benefit of Commerce Bando A City and Kingdom in the States of the great Mogul in the East-Indies betwixt the Kingdom of Delli and the Province of Agra Banghor Bangor Bonium or Bovium in the old British Language call'd Bamornabyrig an old Roman Town in Flintshire but belonging to Cheshire mentioned by Antoninus and much more famous after the Plantation of Christianity in Britain for a vast Monastery here consisting of about 2000 Monks qui omnes de labore manuum suarum vivere solebant says Bede who all wrought hard for their Livings 200 of these Edilfred a Pagan Saxon King of Northumberland slew because they implored Christ's Assistance in their Prayers for their Country-men against the Saxons When Augustin the Monk came to convert the Saxons here was a numerous Monastery but before the Norman Conquest it was intirely ruin'd as Camden acquaints us out of William of Malmsbury to which Augustin the Monk is said or suspected to have lent his helping hand Since that those very Ruines are by time defaced yet the Names of two of its Gates remain Port Hogan and Port Cleis which stand a Mile asunder between which are found very often pieces of the Roman Money This place stands upon the River Dee East of Wrexham § Bangor the Bishoprick is a different Place from the precedent and stands in the
County of Carnarvan in Wales upon the River Menay call'd by the Latin Authors Bangorium and Bangoria This Bishoprick is of so antient a foundation that we do not find its Original The Cathedral is dedicated by the name of S. Daniel who was Bishop here about the Year 516. From which time to the 11th Century that Hernaeus filled the See we have no Account of the succession In 1496. Henry Deane Bishop repair'd the Cathedral after it had been defaced by the Rebel Owen Glendower In 1541. Arthur Bulkeley Bishop reduced the Bishoprick to a low Condition by unworthy sales and alienations The Diocese contains the County of Carnarvan with parts of Denbigh Merioneth and Montgomery and the whole Isle of Anglesey Banjaluth Blandona a large and well fortified Town in Bosnia near the Mountains under the Dominion of the Turks upon the River Cetina Banjans a People universally scattered over the Provinces of the Indies but most numerous in the Kingdom of Guzurate and notorious for worshiping the Devil together with a God as the author of all the Evils of this Life under a frightful Figure represented to them to pacifie him and engage him in their Favor In some things they are Mahometan like in others divided amongst themselves into Sects greater or less almost innumerable according as they affect their particular Superstitions The Europeans use them for Managers and Interpreters in their Dealings with the Indians Banara a City of the East-Indies in the Kingdom of Bengala upon the River Ganges under the Dominion of the Great Mogul about 40 Miles from Gouro to the North and 100 from Halavassa towards the South Probably the same with Benares See Benares Banny or Ban Argita one of the largest Rivers of the Kingdom of Ireland It ariseth in the County of Downe in the Province of Vlster and having entertained some other Rivers it falls into the vast Lake of Neaugh afterwards dividing the County of Colrane on the West of it from that of Antrim on the East it falls into the Caledonian Ocean a little below Colrane Castle This River divides the Province of Vlster into two parts but Mr. Camden is rather of Opinion that the Latin Name belongs to the Swilly another great River in the same Province but a little more to the West than this Bantam a very great City and a famous Mart and Sea Port in the Island of Java in the East-Indies and the Capital of a Kingdom of the same Name This City is seated at the foot of an Hill 18 Leagues from the City of Batavia towards the West upon a narrow Passage call'd the Streights of Bantam right over against the Island of Sumatra It has a very good Harbor belonging to it called the Sound and was much frequented by the European Merchants especially the English and Dutch The Kingdom of Jacatra is subject to this Prince and he has often made War with the Dutch with reasonable good Success till about the Year 1684. A Son of the King of Bantam rebelling against his Father called the Dutch to his Assistance by which means the Dutch possessed themselves of Bantam seized the English Factory and their Effects and made themselves sole Masters of that Trade The Controversie between them and the English not being determined to this day The old King in the mean time was kept a Prisoner first at Bantam afterwards in the Castle of Batavia whither he was conducted in November 1687 with a formal Solemnity and there lodged with his Wife and some Slaves to attend him Bantry a Bay in the Province of Munster in Ireland where Admiral Herbert now Earl of Torrington engaged the French Fleet May 1 1689 upon their arrival with Succors for Ireland which however were landed the day after Banya Rivuli Puellarum a Town of Transylvania 6 Leagues from Bestercze to the West not far from the Confines of the Upper Hungary Banza See S. Salvador in Africa Bapalme Balma a strong Town in Artois seated upon a rising Ground in the Borders of Picardy This Town has been in the hands of the French ever since the Year 1641. It was yielded to them by the Pyrenaean Treaty in 1659. It stands at an equal distance from Peron a Town of Picardy towards the South and Arras towards the North. Bar a strong Town in Podolia having a Castle built upon an Hill and surrounded with Marshes which contribute very much to its defence It stands upon the River Kow 18 Polonian Miles from Caminieck to the East and as many from Barklow towards the West This Town is under the Turks Bar or Barrois a Dukedom of France betwixt Champagne and Loraine incorporated after divers Revolutions by the Concession of the Pyrenaean Treaty as the French interpret it in 1659 with the Crown of that Kingdom It s Capital City is Barle Duc. It lies on each side the Meuse which divided it heretofore into the Royal and Ducal Barrois both then belonging to the House of Loraine they doing Homage to the King of France for the same Bar sur Aube a fine Town in Champagne in France but ill pav'd it has its name from the River Albula Aube on which it stands upon the foot of an Hill in a very pleasant Country about 8 Leagues from Arâ—is towards the South and as many from Troys towards the South-West and 7 from Chastillon towards the North-East This place is in much esteem for the delicious Wine the Country yields Bar sur Seyne a small City in the Dukedom of Burgundy in the Confines of Champagne seated in a Mountainous Country about 5 Miles West of Bar sur Aube Bara a Town in the Province of Gorga in the Upper Aethiopia near the Lake of Zaflan Barampour a City of the East-Indies under the Dominion of the Mogul in the Kingdom of Candis It lies 100 Miles from Surat towards the East upon the River Tapi this Place is called by others Barampore and heretofore Baramatis as Herbert saith Baranateta the Name of a City and Kingdom in the Asian Tartary Barathrum a deep Pit in Attica in Greece contrived with Iron Spikes and Tenters for a place of Execution throwing the Malefactors Headlong into it in antient times Barbadoes one of the most considerable Plantations which the English have upon the Caribby Islands it lies in 13. d. 20. m. Northern Lat. and 321. of Long about 8 Leagues in length and 5 in breadth and inhabited by 50000. English besides Negros who are three times their number This Island was first discovered to the English by Sir William Curteen in the Reign of James I. but was then wholly desolate The English soon after Planted it and were driven at first to great Extremities because Ships came very rarely and slowly thither from England till having about the Year 1627. raised some Tobacco Indico Cotton-Wool and Fustick-Wood and after that falling into the Sugar Trade its Reputation and Wealth increased And this Colony which for a long time subsisted by the courtesie or
negligence of the Spaniards grew so strong and numerous that all their after Attempts signified nothing Their Sugars which at first were coarse and would quickly melt if not spent are now improved to a great Perfection This Island is not well Watered with Rivers or fresh Springs yet lying now they want not that Element being supplied by Pools Ponds and Cisterns It is very fruitful and enjoys a perpetual Summer Hot but cooled by the Briezes which rise with the Sun and blow fresher as the Sun gets higher The chief Town of this Island is S. Michaels situate at the bottom of Carlisle Bay in the Southern part of the Island where Ships have a very secure Harbor Barbara a small Village in the Island of Sicily but once a City of great Fame and much taken notice of by Greek and Latin Writers under the several names of Aegesta Egesta Acesta and Segesta c. It lies 22 Miles from the Promontory and City of Drepanum now called Trapano to the North-West and 40 from Palermo upon the Western Shoar of the Island near it runs a small River which now beareth the name of S. Bartholomew Barbary Barbaria a large Country in the Western part of Africa lying a considerable length from East to West but not of equal breadth it is bounded on the North by the Mediterranean Sea on the East by Egypt on the West by the Atlantick Ocean and on the South by the Atlantick Mountains which separate it from Biledulgeridia In the times of the Roman Empire this vast Tract of Land was divided into divers Provinces viz. Mauritania Tingitana Casariensis Sitifensis Numidia Africa propria Byzacena Tripolitana Marmorica and Cyreniaca it is now divided into the Kingdoms of Fez Morocco Algiers Constantine antiently Cirta Tunis and Tripoly with the Territory of Barcana This Country was in antient times subject to the Commonwealth of Carthage and the great Kings of Mauritania and Numidia after it fell into the Romans Possession I have shew'd how they divided it Here was a most flourishing Church till the 5 Century in the begining of which the Vandals then Arians entered it and brought in their Heresie with them but that which more effectually contributed to the ruin of Christianity here was the Conquest of it by the Moors in 647 when one Hucha a famous General whom Osmen the Third Caliph of the Saracens imployed to that purpose finally expell'd the Romans and ever since the Moors have possessed it who being the most enraged Enemies of Christianity that ever professed the Mahometan Law have so far extirpated Christianity that there is very few if any of the Inhabitants of this vast Tract of Land which profess it Barbela a River in the Kingdom of Congo in Africa which falls into the River Zaire which washeth the Walls of S. Saviour or Banza the Capital of this Kingdom Barbenzon Barbentio a Principality in Hainaut Barberino Barberinum a small Town in Tuscany in Italy from whence the Noble Family of the Barberines receive their name of which Family Pope Vrban VIII was who succeeded Gregory XV. and sate 21. Years viz. from 1623. to 1644. This small Town is built upon an Hill in the Road between Florence and Siena 16 Miles from the former toward the South Barbowyna Berbis a Village of the lower Hungary where the Ruins of an antient Roman Town are yet seen upon the Drave 3 German Miles from Quinque Ecclesiae towards the South Barbuda or Barbada one of the Caribby Islands in America under the English but of no very great Account It is in length 15 Miles Lat. North 17. d. â— Barca Marmorica a small Kingdom in Africa on the West of Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea under the Empire of the Turks But there is no Town of any note in it there is adjoining to it a Desart called by the same name Barceâ— Barcetum a Castle in the Dukedom of Parma between the Rivers of Parma and Taro and the Apennine 22 Miles from Parma toward the South and 16 from Pentremoli There was antiently a very famous Monastery built here by the Kings of the Lombards Barcelona Barcino a City of Catalonia in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona and an University it has an excellent Port upon the Mediterranean Sea well Traded and also a Castle This City is the Capital of that Province and esteemed one of the best Cities of Spain Built by Hamilcar a Carthaginian and called by his Punick Sirname of Barca In the Year of our Lord 805. it was recovered out of the hands of the Moors by S. Lewis King of France it is seated between the outlet of the River Badelona Baetulo which runs on the Eastern sides and that of Lobregat Rubicatus which at the distance of 2 Miles on the Eastern side falls into the Mediterranean Sea It stands 12 Leagues from Tarragona East and 16 from â—â—rona towards the South and 13 from Ossuna Taken by the French in 1640 but returned under the Spaniard in 1652 after a very sharp Siege This City was Honored with the Title of an Earldom by Lewis the Good after he had taken it from the Saracens Charles the Gross gave this Earldom to Godfrey d'Arria for his Service against the Normans and his Heirs after the Death of Raimond the last Earl it was united to the Kingdom of Arragon in 1162. There were 3 small Councils celebrated in this City one in 540. one in 603. and the last in 1064. James II. King of Arragon died here in 1327 Alfonsus IV. in 1336. and John II. in 1479. Barcelonette a Town and Valley in Provence heretofore now in the Dominions of the Duke of Savoy Built or rebuilt by Raimond V. Earl of Provence in 1231 who called it by this name in memory that his Ancestors came into Provence from Barcelona in Spain Barcelor a City of the East-Indies under the Dominion of the King of Bisnagar upon the Sea Shoar between Goa and Canora It lies in almost 15 d. of Northern Lat. and Long. 105. This City was some time under the Portuguese but is now recovered bythe King of Bisnagnar a potent Indian Prince It was also heretofore the Capital of a distinct Kingdom Barcelos Celiobriga a small Town in Portugal Honored with the Title of a Dukedom It lies in the County of Entre Douro é minho upon the River Cavado which not far from thence falls into the Atlantick Ocean 6 Leagues North of Porto and 4 West of Braga Barcena Coloe a Marsh in Aethiopia out of which ariseth the River of Astapus as Ptolomy saith Bardewic a most antient City in Saxony within a Mile of Lunenburg said to be built 990 Years before the coming of our Saviour Bardi a People amongst the antient Gauls in very great Esteem with them for Poetry and Musick supposed to dwell about Montbard or Mont-Barri in Latin Mons Bardorum a Mountain in the Territory of Auxois in Burgundy which still retains their Name Bardt a
small Town in Pomerania in Germany upon the Baltick Sea which has yet a large Haven and a very fine Castle and a Lordship belonging to it near the River Bart. This place was yielded to the Swedes by the Treaty of Munster in 1647. taken by the Elector of Brandenburgh but restored to them again in 1679. it lies 3 German Miles from the Borders of the Dukedom of Mecklebourg and at the same distance from Damgarden towards the North-East and about 8 from Berghen in the Isle of Rugia to the West Bareyt a well built Town very handsom in Franconia in Germany The ordinary Residence of the Marquess of Brandenburg who has a noble Castle here Bargemon Bargemonum a Town in Provence in France 5 Leagues from the Sea in the Diocese of Freius upon a fertile little Hill heretofore one of the Apannages belonging to the Cadets of the House of the Earls of Provence It is now observable for a miraculous Image of the B. Virgin whose History is written by Lewis Sylvacane Barwick See Berwick Bari Barium a City in the Kingdom of Naples in a Province of the same name called Terra di Bari which has been long Honored with the Title of a Dutchy it is an Archbishops See well fortified and has an indifferent good Haven upon the Adriatick about 20 Miles distant from Poliano to the South-East and Trani to the North-West It has its name as Festus writes from Bara a small Island near Brindisi Brundusium the Inhabitants thereof building this City The Body of S. Nicolas Bishop of Myra in Lycia one of the Fathers who opposed Arius in the first Council of Nice is preserved in this City P. Vrban II. celebrated a Council here in 1098. in which Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury disputed the cause of the procession of the Holy Ghost and of the Union of the Eastern Church with the Western against the Greeks The Terra di Bari is a part of the antient Apulia Peucetia upon the gulph of Venice betwixt the Basilicate and Terra di Otranto Barilliana an Island at the mouth of the Danube Barjols Barjolum a Town and Bailywick in Provence in France in a very fruitful soil adorn'd with a Collegiat Church since the Year 1060. During the Civil Wars of France the Protestants took it in 1562. Those of the League retook it in 1590. Barking a Market Town in the County of Essex in the hundred of Becontree Barkshire See Berkshire Barkway a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the hundred of Edwinstree Barle-Duc a neat and beautiful City the Capital of the Dukedom of Barrois built by Frederick I. Duke of Loraine in 951 upon the River Ornain about 15 Miles from Nancy to the West and thirteen from Chaalons heretofore under the Dukes of Loraine but now incorporated into the Province of Champagne in France Barletta Barolum or Barulum a City situate in or near the place of the old Canusium in Apulia Peucetia in Italy an Haven or Sea-Port reckoned for one of the four strong Holds of Italy in the middle Ages It lies upon the Adriatick Sea about 24 Miles West of Bari 4 South of the Outlets of the River of Ofanto A large and beautiful City and the Seat of the titular Archbishop of Nazareth Barlinguas Erythiae a knot of small Islands upon the Coast of Portugal call'd by various names They lie between the C. de Rocca to the South and the C. de Mondego to the North and not above 2 Leagues from the Shores of Estremadura Barmach an extraordinary high mountain in the Province of Schirvan in Persia The ruines of several Fortresses appear upon it supposed to have been built by Alexander M. and demolished by Tamerlane Barnagasso one of the Kingdoms of Aethiopia which pays yearly to the Turks 1000 Ounces of Gold It s Capital City is Barva Barnavelt's Island in the Magellanique Sea was discovered by the Hollanders in 1616. It stands near Terra del fuego and the Streights of le Maire Barnet a Town in Hartfordshire memorable for a bloody engagement here betwixt the Houses of Lancaster and York wherein the latter carried the Victory It affords medicinal Waters Barnesley a Market-Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the hundred of Staincross Barnstaple a Market Town in Devonshire in the hundred of Branton upon the River Taw over which it has a spacious Bridge It sends 2 Burgesses to the Parliament Baroche a Town in the Kingdom of Guzerate in the Empire of the Great Mogul The English enjoy a good settlement in it Barra a small Kingdom in Guinea in Africa the King of which was engaged by the Dutch in 1663. to fall upon the English Factory there There is also a Town in Palestine call'd by this name Barrant a Marquisate in the Province of Guienne in France § Also a Fort upon the Frontiers of Dauphine and Savoy one League from Montmelian Storm'd and taken by the Duk. de Lesdignieres in 1528. Barrois See Bar. Barrab Arabia Petraea Barow a River of the Province of Leinster in Ireland which ariseth in Queens County in the Mountains of Sliew Bloemy and running Southward washeth the Eastern Side of Caterlagh and Laighlin after which it receives from the West another great River call'd Neure which divides Kilkenny a little further to the South it entertains the Sewer which watereth the Walls of Waterford and being thus augmented it entereth the British Sea about 20 Miles West of Cape Carn the South-Eastern Point of Ireland Bart Alisus Bardum See Barde Bartas a small Territory in the Province of Armaynac in France near Aux William de Saluste the famous du Bartas a Huguenot born in Gascoigne in 1545. and Author of the Poem of the Worlds Creation received his title from hence Barton a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the hundred of Yarborough upon the River Humber over against Hull Barva a City of Abyssinia near the River Marabu The Capital of the Kingdom of Barnagasso Basil Basilea written in two of the Lives of Charles the Great Basla in after times Basula and Basala by Cluverius Artalbinum It was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Besanzon after the ruin of Augusta Rauracorum which happened about the Year 800. Now the Principal City of Switzerland It has its name from Basiliana the Mother of Julian the Apostate but Valesius thinks the name rather taken from the River on which it stands which he supposeth was then so call'd It has a pleasant Situation and is adorned with many magnificent Structures and Churches watered by many sweet Fountains blessed with an healthful Air a valiant People and plenty of all things Very antient as being said to be ruin'd by the Almains in the Year 260. and suffered much in after-times from the Huns. It was beloved by Henry I. and II. In the Year 1368. much enlarged by Frederick Blackenheim Bishop of Strasburg and Administrator of the Diocese of Basil who first obtain'd a Charter of Freedom for it in the Year 1392. it was
which is Munchen Monachium seated on the Isar The Family thereof gain'd the Upper Palatinate by the Peace of Munster He is of the Communion of the Church of Rome and the far greatest part of his Subjects by which and their new Grants and Dignities they are very firmly united to the House of Austria which the present Emperor has improved by Marrying his Daughter to the now Duke of Bavaria Baz Ocite a small Island on the West of Ireland over against the Earldom of Desmond in the Province of Munster North of the Bay of Dingle call'd by the Irish Blasquo Baza Basti a City of the Kingdom of Granada in Spain It was once a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Eluire at which time it was well Fortified but now it is little inhabited and every day decays it stands upon the Borders of the Kingdoms of New Castile and Murcia 6 Leagues from Guadix to the South-East 15 from Granato and Gaen or Jaen to the North-East and 16 from Almeria to the North it is built at the Foot of an Hill in a Valley call'd from it Hoya de Baya by an inconsiderable Brook Bazadois Vasata a small Territory in the Lower Guienne in France which has the River Garonne on the North and West Agenois on the East and Condomois on the South It has its name from Bazas the principal City of it and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ausch this City stands searce 3 Miles from the River Garonne towards the South 7 from Bourdeaux to the North-East 10 from Condomois and 17 from Ausch It is mentioned by the Antients under the name of Cossium Vasatum Civitas Vasatica and Vasatae Arehosae And likewise the People of the Territory of Bazadois by the name of Vasates who were the same perhaps with the Cocosates of Pliny and Cesar Bazaim Barace a vast Tract of Land but very barren which lies between Egypt and the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa the same which was called Marmarica as Bochart saith § Also a Town in the Kingdom of Guzurate in the hither East-Indies situated upon the Coast of the Gulph of Cambaia 26 Leagues from Daman to the South It has been in the hands of the Portuguese ever since the Year 1534. who have built a good Cittadel with several stately Churches in it and made it a fine Town therefore fuller of Gentry than Goa insomuch that Fidalgos de Bazaim a Gentleman of Bazaim is become a Proverb with the Portuguese Bazano a Mountain of Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples in the Territory of Aquila of which mention is made in the Life of S. Justin Bazas See Bazadois Bazois a District in France in the Dukedom of Nivernois Beaconsfield a Market-Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Burnham on a small Hill Beareford was a small Monastery built by the Danes in Greenland about 300 Years since but now a long time ago deserted and ruined Bearne a fruitful and well Watered Territory in the South of France advanced to the Honor of a Principality It lies at the foot of the Pyrenean Mountains which part it from the Kingdom of Aragon towards the South upon the East it has the County of Bigorre and Armagnac le Noir upon the North Gascogny and upon the West the Kingdom of Navarr This Country had heretofore Princes of its own one of which by a Marriage with Elenora Queen of Navarr united it to that Kingdom Henry IV. brought it to the Crown of France and by a Decree it was annexed for ever to that Kingdom in 1620. Beaucaire a small City in the Province of Languedoc in France upon the River Rhosne right over against Tarascon 4 Leagues from Avignon towards the South and 3 from Arles towards the North most remarkable for its Fairs It is called in Latin Belloquadra This Town was taken and retaken in the Civil Wars of France It had a Castle in it built upon a Rock to the River side which the last King commanded to be demolished Beauce or Beausse Belsia a Province of France that heretofore was of very large extent but is now much less and the Bounds not well known It lies between the Loyre on the South and the Seyn to the North the principal Towns in it are Chartres Chasteaudun Montoir Pluviers Estampes and Vendosme This Province lying so near to Paris a considerable part of it has been taken into the Isle of France The Soil is dry but very fruitful and abounding in all things especially Corn so that it is called totius Galliae Horreum the Store-house or Granary of all France Beauchamp a place near Calais in Picardy The Duke of Somerset is Baron of Beauchamp Beaufort a Castle in the Dukedom of Anjou in France which belonged heretofore to the House of Lancaster and was much beloved by John of Gaunt who caused all his Children that he had by Catharine Swinford to be called Beauforts who were afterwards Dukes of Somerset and Exeter and Earls of Dorset The most noble Henry Somerset late Marquess of Worcester being descended from the antient Dukes of Somerset was December 2. 1682. by Charles II. of most blessed Memory created Duke of Beaufort This Castle lies about 3 Leagues East of Angiers and 2 from the Loyre And is now possessed by the House of Beaumanoir-Lavardin with the inferiour Title of an Earl from the King of France § There is another Beaufort in Champagne this is a small Town but honored above the other with the Title of a Dutchy by Henry le Grand in the year 1597. which Title has been granted by Lewis XIII to the House of Vendosme Beaujalois a small Country contained in the Lyonnois a Province in France with the Title of a Barony It takes its name from the Town Beaujeu in Latin Bdujovium or Beltiecum upon the River Ardiere the same does the House of Beaujeu Beaumaris a Town in the Island of Anglesey with a Port to the River Menay It is called in Latin Bellomariscus and Elects one Burgess for the Parliament Beaumont in Argonne a Town in the little Country of Argonne near the Mense in France It suffered much in the Civil Wars of that Kingdom Beaumont sur Oyse a Town upon the Oyse at the foot of an Hill in the Isle of France about 8 Leagues from Paris towards the North. Beaumont le Roger a Town in the Dukedom of Normandy in France upon the River Rugle Four Leagues from Eureux towards the West and about 6 from Roan towards the South so called from Roger one of its Counts who built or at least enlarged it it having the Honor to give that Title § There is another Town called Beaumont also near the Sea Shoar in the District belonging to Coutance three Leagues West of Cherbourg Beaumont a Town of Hainaut in the Netherlands adorned with the Title of a Dukedom to which belongs a Castle it stands 7 Leagues from Mons to the South-East and 4 from Chimay to the North and about 2 from
that in 1623. there were said to be 3000 English Inhabitants called Bermudas from the Spanish and Summer Islands from the English Discoverer Bermet a City of the hither East-Indies supposed by Castaldus to be the Barbari of Arrian Bern Berna a great and well built City of Switzerland which has its name from a Bear and carries a Bear for its Arms. Built by Bertoldus Duke of Zeringhen in 1191. upon the River Aar which falls into the Rhine at Waldhust a Town of Schwaben and adorned with a Library and an Arsenat that deserve to be remembred It is the cheif City of the Canton of Bern which is one of the largest Cantons and was added to the rest in 1353. To look a little back into the antient History of this City it obtained the right of an Incorporated City from the Emperors Henry IV. and Philip II. Confirmed by Frederick II. it continued under the Empire till 1228. and then put themselves under the Protection of the Duke of Savoy In 1241. it had an unfortunate War with Gothofredus Duke of Habspurg whereupon in 1243. they made a League with Freiburg as also for ten Years with Wallisserlandt in 1251. In 1287. this City was besieged by Rodolphus of Habspurg They suffered much also from Albertus who had a set Battle with them near their Walls in 1291. wherein they lost many Men but had better Success against the Earl of Savoy the same year In 1346. they renewed their League with Freiburg after which followed the Perpetual League in 1353. whereby it obtained the second place amongst the Cantons In 1528. it imbraced the Reformation and thereupon passed a Law against mercenary Service in foreign Wars It stands about 13 Miles from Bazil to the South 4 from Freiburg to the North and about 20 from Geneva to the North-East This Canton is so well replenished with Gentry handsom Towns good Castles and Villages that you may compare it almost to one continued City and as for the Civil Government of it it is managed by two Councils of Senators under a Chief whom they call in French an Avoyer in German Schaltesch which last is an old Word in the Laws of the Lombards See Doctor Burnett's Letters Bernards Castle a Market-Town in Durham in Darlington Wapentake upon the River Tees which takes its name from a Family that first came into England with the Saxons Bernbourg a small City in Germany in the Upper Saxony in the Principality of Anhalt upon the River Saaldar Sala 4 German Miles from Magdebourg towards the South and as many from Dessaw to the West It is dignified with the Title of an Earldom and the Seat of a Castle Bernich Berenice a City of Africa upon the Mediterranean Sea mentioned by Ptolemy and Pliny but called Hesperia by Mela one of the 5 Cities in Pentapolis between the Promontory Boreum now il Capo di Teiones upon the greater Syrtis and the City of Arsinoe to the East It had its antient name from Berenice the Queen of Ptolemy the third King of Egypt as Solinus saith Bernstadt Bernardi Vrbs a Town in Silesia in the Dutchy of Olss in Germany upon the River Veid or Veida 3 or 4 Leagues from Breslaw Beroa Berrhaea believed to be the modern Aleppo was a famous City amongst the Antients reedified by Seleucus Nicanor and sometime an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch See Aleppo § Also an antient Town in Macedonia near the River Lydius Berry Bituricensis Provincia Bituriges a Dukedom in France bounded on the North by Sologne on the East by Nivernois and Bourbone on the West by Poictou and part of Tourein and on the South by Limosin The Principal City of this Province is Bourges divided into 2 parts by the River Chur a rich fruitful and populous Province The antient Inhabitants are famous in History for the 2 Colonies of Gauls they transmitted into Germany and Italy under the Command of Segovesus and Bellovesus both Nephews to Ambigatus King of Gallia Celtiqua in the time of Tarquinius V. King of Rome for from the Conquests by them made proceeds the Division of Gallia Transalpina and Cisalpina See Gallia Bersheba or Beerseba an antient City of Palestine by the way of Gaza to which Abraham and Abimelech gave this name because of the Covenant they there mutually ratified by Oath with each other Gen. 21. 31. It fell afterwards by Lot to the Tribe of Simeon Josh 19. 2. and committed Idolatry with the Apostate Tribes as we collect from Amos 5. 5. and S. Jerom. in loc Some take it to be the same now with Gibel Bertinoro Bretinorium Petra Honorii a City in the Province of Romagna in Italy with a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ravenna hither removed from Forlimpopoli It s Situation is upon a little Hill in the Borders of Tuscany near the River Renco S. Bertrand de Cominges Convenae seu Lugdunum Convenarum a City of France at the foot of the Pyrenean Mountains upon the River Garonne in the Earldom de Cominge which was destroyed by the Franks under King Guntchramnus in 584 but rebuilt by S. Bertrand in 1100. and from him in after times it had its present name It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Auch 25 Leagues from Thoulouse to the South and 55 from Bourdeaux to the South-West Berwald a Town beyond the River Oder in the New March in the Marquisate of Brandenburgh remarkable for the Treaty celebrated here in 1631. betwixt the Crowns of France and Sweden and the Princes of Germany Berwick Burcovicum Bervicium Teusis a Town in Northumberland situated upon the North side of the River Twede the most Northern Town in the Kingdom of England and saith Camden the strongest hold in all Britain It stands upon a Promontory so that it is almost totally incompass'd with the Sea and River Delivered up to Henry II. by William King of Scotland as a Pledge for his Ransom being then a Prisoner in England restor'd again by King John upon repayment of the Mony Edward I. in 1297. retook it After this it was won and lost divers times till in the Reign of Edward IV. Sir Thomas Stanley made a final reducement of it to the Crown of England The English Princes have fortified it but especially Queen Elizabeth who Walled it anew within the old Wall and added Out-works after the later Modes by which it was made incredibly strong Henry II. built the Castle and other of our Princes the outward Wall so that all its Works are owing to the English After a long Peace in 1639. this Town saw the English and Scotch Encamped under her Walls again in opposition till a Peace was concluded there Jane 17. However I find before the end of the War they were possessed of it and quitted it Feb. 17. 1646. March 12. 1686. King James II created Mr. James Fitz-James his Natural Son Duke of Berwick Ehis Town lies in Long. 21. d. 43. m. Lat. 55. 48. and sends 2 Burgesses to the
Winchester Castle from him and kept it through the whole course of its Fortunes Of late since its total Consumption and Ruin Lewis XIII built an Hospital in the place of it for maimed Soldiers Bicester a Market-Town in Oxfordshire in the Hundred of Ploughley Bicoqua a small Town in the Milanese in Italy 3 Miles from Milan The French were here defeated by the Swisse in 1522. Bidache a Town upon the River Bidouse in the Territory of Bearne in France 5 or 6 Leagues from Bayonne It sustains the Title of a Principality and has a Castle which Charles V. never could Conquer Bidassoa Bidasso and Vidasso a small River which riseth out of the Pyrenean Hills in the Confines of Navarr 7 Miles from S. Johns and presently crossing the Pyrenean Mountains it runs between the Territories of Labour in France and Guipuscoa in Spain and falls into the Cantabrian Ocean at Fontarabia where it divides France from Spain Famous for the Pyrenean Treaty here made in an Island of this River between the Kings of France and Spain Nov. 7. 1659. and also for an interview between those two Princes in 1660. in the same Island called the Island of Pheasants Bidlyn the present name of Indus one of the most famous Rivers of the East-Indies Bidumi Idumaea a part of Palestine Biela Bugella Gaumellum and Laumellum a Town in the District of Vercellois in Piedmont under the Duke of Savoy and the Capital of a small Territory called Le Biallese It is rich handsom and populous Francis II. Duke of Modena died here in 1658. Biela Osero that is in the Muscovian Language the White Lake is a Province of Muscovy which is honored with the Title of a Dukedom between the Province of Wologda to the East and North and that of Novigrod which is also a Dukedom to the South and West The chief City of it is Biela seated upon a River of the same name almost in the middle between Novigrod to the East and Wologda to the West and about 62 German Miles North-West of Moskow the Capital of this Kingdom written sometimes Bela. The Grand Duke of Muscovy shuts up a part of his Treasures in this City because its Situation in the midst of many Marshes renders it almost impregnable Bielba a City of Muscovy towards the Confines of Lithuania about 30 German Miles North of Smolasko and 59 North-West from Moscow there is a Province annexed to this City called Bielki This City is written Bielha and Bielska and the Province Bielski It is one of the Titles in the Stile of the Grand Duke of Muscovy Bielski See Bielba Bielsko Bielco a City in the Province of Smolaske in Poland between Grodno to the South and Bressici to the North. This place was by Treaty surrendred to the Muscovites in 1634. together with Smolensko Novograd and other strong places and the Territories belonging to them It stands upon the River Biala with a strong Fortress betwixt Brescici and Warsaw Bienne Bienna called by the Germans Biel is a small City in Switzerland seated upon a Lake of the same name between Neufchastel to the South and Solothurn or Soleurre to the East under the Bishop of Basil but from 1547. it has been in the League with the Cantons and so in a manner almost free It was once also an Imperial City though now no part of the Empire Bientina a Town in the Province of Tuscany in Italy under the Great Duke of Florence taking its name from the Lake di Bientina Biescid a part of the Carpathian Fountains Bietala or Biutala a strong Fortress upon the furthermost Borders of the Kingdom of Barantola in Tartary It is the ordinary place of Residence for the Grand Lama that is the High Priest of their Law Bievre a small River in the Isle of France which after a short course falls into the Seyne a little above Paris The Water of this River is accounted excellent for dying of Scarlet In the years 1526. and 1579. it overflowed up to the second Story of the Houses in the Suburbs of S. Marcell at Paris Bigenis Abacena Abacenum a Town in the Island of Sicily near Messina upon the River called Fieume di Castro Reale in the Valley of Demona Bigleswade a Market-Town in Bedfordshire The Capital of its Hundred pleasantly seated on the River Ivel Bigorre Bigerrones Bigerrensis Comitatus a Province or County of France so called from the principal Town in length 10 Leagues and in breadth 3 bounded on the west with Bearn on the East with Tholouse on the North with Armagnac and Estrac and on the South with the Pyrenean Hills This was once an Earldom of a larger extent as Peter de Marca saith in his History of Bern. Tarbes is its Capital City Biguba a Kingdom of Nigritia in Africa Bilbao the chief City of Biscay in Spain call'd by the Romans Flaviobriga seated upon the River Nervio 2 Leagues from the Cantabrian Ocean a large beautiful well traded City from S. Andreo 13 Miles to the North-East and 24 from Bayonne to the South Joannes Mariana is of opinion that Bilbao is of a later Origine and saith it was built by Didacus Lupus de Haro Lord of Biscay in 1298. which is true but then it stands in the same place the old Name of Flaviobriga was given it in Honor of Vespasian This City stands in a Plain in a wet Ground upon a small River and is incompassed with very high Hills Bilbilis the Birthplace of the Poet Martial was an antient City in Hispama Tarraconensis belonging to the Celtiberi upon the River Xalon famous for excellent Iron and Steel some believe the modern Calatayud others Xiloca to be the same with it § Bilbilis is also the antient name of a River in that Country said to have a particular Virtue for tempering of Iron and Steel they now call it Xiloca See Xiloca Biledulgerid a City and Province in Africa which lies a great length from East to West but is not of equal breadth It is bounded on the North by Barbary on the East by Egypt on the South by Zahara or the Desart and on the West by the Atlantick Ocean a vast but barren Country nor has it any Cities of great Note in it Tarudante and Caphesa are the most considerable This Province was a part of the Country of the antient Getuli about 980 Miles long from East to West and 220 broad The name signifies a Country fruitful of Dates Bilefeld a Hanse Town in the Province of Westphalia in Germany towards Munster with a good Castle Bildeston a Market-Town in Suffolk in the Hundred of Cosford Bille Billena a River of Germany It riseth in the Province of Wageren separates Holstein from the lower Circle of Saxony and falls into the Elb at Hamburgh Billericay a Market-Town in Essex in the Hundred of Barnstaple Billesdon a Market-Town in Leicestershire in the Hundred of Gartrey Billingham a Market-Town in Northumberland in Tindale Ward Binbroke a Market-Town in
Lorrain upon the Frontiers of Germany Bitetto a City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples with an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Bari It is but small and indifferently Peopled Betwixt Bari and Bitonto Bithynia a celebrated Province of Asia Minor where stood the famous Cities of Nice and Chalcedon Heraclea and Apamea c. Heretofore a Kingdom which ended in the Person of Nicomedes IV. when dying without Issue he nominated the Romans his Heirs in the Year 679. that is 75 years before the Birth of our Saviour It lies towards the Euxine Sea and the Archipelago And now call'd Chintale Bito one of the Kingdoms of Nigritia in Africa separated from the Kingdom of Benin by the Mountains with a capital City of the same name Bitonto Butuntum a City of the Territory di Bari in Apulia in Italy which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari 5 miles from the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea towards the South and 8 from Bari to the West it lies in a very fruitful Plain in pretty good esteem and indifferently well Peopled Also adorn'd with the Title of a Marquisate Bitsin Bitisinum a Town in Silesia where Sigismund King of Poland besieged and took Maximilian Arch-Duke of Austria his Competitor in the Kingdom of Poland Prisoner in the Year 1578. and after upon the Intercession of Rodolphus II. and his renouncing of his pretence to Poland released him Bivar a Town of Hungary upon the Save Bivoras Salsum a River of Andalusia Bizano a Kingdom of Ethiopia divided from the Kingdom of Gojame in the same Region by the River Nile Blackburn a Market-Town in Lancashire near the River Derwent the capital of its Hundred Black Sea See Euxine Sea Blandiac a Town in the Diocese of Vsez in the Province of Languedoc in France Blanford a Market-Town in Dorsetshire in the Hundred of Pimpern upon the River Stower Blankeberghe a Town and Port with a Castle in Flanders 2 Leagues from Bruges and thereabouts from Ostend Blanmont or Blamont Blamontium a Town in the Dukedom of Lorain upon the River Voiziere giving the Title of an Earl Formerly Fortifi'd At present in a low condition Blansac a Town in the Province of Angoumois in France upon the River Nai situated in a fruitful Soil betwixt Valette Bonteville and Angouleme Blavet a River of Bretagne in France giving Name to the Town Blavet see Porto Loüis and passing Pontivi and Hennebont falling into the Ocean at Porto Louis Blaye Blavium Blavutum a well fortified Town of great importance in the Province of Guyenne in France upon the River Gironde 6 Leagues from Bourdeaux The Gironde is a name they give the Garonne after its reception of the Dordogne Since the year 1475. by the order of Lewis XI the Foreign Vessels going up to Bourdeaux use to leave their Artillery here In the Civil Wars of France This Town was first taken by the Huguenots then by the Leaguers who held it out against a Siege in 1593. tho the Spanish Fleet coming to their assistance was defeated by the Marshal de Matignon Bleking a Province in Sweden yielded to them by the Danes in 1658. at the Treaty of Roskill It lies upon the Baltick Sea and was heretofore remark'd with the Title of a Dukedom Blemyes Blemiae an antient People of Aethiopia reduced under the Roman Empire in the time of the Emperour Marcian Fabulously reported to have their Eyes in their Breasts from nothing but an ill custom of holding down their Heads too low Blene a fruitful Country in the antient Kingdom of Pontus in Asia Minor watered by the River Amnias Mithridates King of Pontus defeated Nicomedes King of Bethynia here who thereupon retired into Italy Bletterans a Town in Franche Comtè upon the Borders of the Dutchy of Burgundy and the River Seile about 9 Leagues from Dole and Chalon Heretofore Fortifi'd now without Walls Bliburg or Blithborough a small Town in the County of Suffolk upon the South side of the River Blithe which a little farther falls into Southwold Bay In this Town Anna a Christian King of the East-Angles lies buried who was slain by Penda King of Mercia in a set Battle together with Ferminus his eldest Son in the year 654. Henry I. King of England founded afterwards a Priory of Black Canons But that being demolished the Town fell to ruin and is now a very small Place Blith a Market-Town in the County of Nottingham in the Hundred of Bassetlaw Blois Blesae a Town in France and Capital of a County call'd Le Blois it is well built and populous upon the Loire which is here passable by a Bridge of Stone it has also a Castle lately repair'd by Gaston Duke of Orleans The Kings of France have frequently retired hither to enjoy themselves by reason of the pleasantness of the situation of it and the Magnificence and Elegance of the Buildings Lewis XII was born here in the Year 1461. Ann his Queen died here in 1514. also Claude the Queen of Francis I. in 1524. and Catharine de Medices the Relict of Henry II. in 1589. Here was also that famous Assembly of the States of France in which by the order of Henry III. Henry Duke of Guise was Assassined together with the Cardinal his Brother which caused the Murdering of that Prince soon after by James Clement a Dominican Fryar in revenge of it This place lies between Tours and Orleans The County de le Blois is bounded on the East by the Dukedom of Orleans on the West by Tours on the South by Berry and on the North by Beausse Blonicz Blonicum a City or very great Town of the Kingdom of Poland in the Confines of the Province of Mazowski 7 Polish Miles from Warsaw towards the West built all of Timber Bobio Bobi Bobium a City in the Dutchy of Milan in Italy with an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Genoua It takes its situation upon the River Trabia and its Original from an Abby founded here in former times by S. Columbanus Bocchara a River of Bactria Bochir Canopus a City of Egypt upon the Western Branch of the Nile where Claudian the Poet was born 25 Miles East of Alexandria Bochar or Buchar Bochora and Buchara an antient and a stately City of Asia in the Province of Mawaralnahra call'd by the Romans Trans Oxiana Regio a days Journey beyond the River Oxus this City was the Birth-place of Avicenna the famous Arabian Physician and Philosopher who flourish'd in Spain in the X. Century He is said to have been the first that settled the true method of Physick by the many Books published by him he was born in 992. and died in 1050. Bodegrave a Town in Holland upon the Rhine 3 Leagues from Vtrecht Made remarkable by a Battle here fought betwixt the French and Dutch in the Year 1672. Bodmin Voliba or Voluba a Market-Town in Cornwal in the Hundred of Trigg which returns Two Burgesses to the Parliament It
is situated near the River Alan and was heretofore the Seat of a Bishop Bodrogh a City of the Upper Hungary on the River Danube which was heretofore the Capital of an Earldom This place lies 7 German Miles South of Segedin 16 East of Buda and about 4 Miles North of Esseck it is now in the hands of the Emperor by the Conquest of Buda and Segedin in 1686. Bodrog a River of the Upper Hungary which riseth in the Carpathian Hills and falls into the Tibiscus at Tokay Boeotja an antient Province of Greece now called Stramulipa Plutarch and Pausanias and Epaminondas were Natives thereof the famous Helicon and Aganippe stand in it the Rivers Asopus and Cephisus watered it and in all the former Wars of Greece this Province bore a considerable Share See Stramulipa Bogazin the Streight between Constantinople and Asia antiently called Bosphorus Thracicus Bogdiana the same with Moldavia Bohemia a great Kingdom in Germany belonging to the House of Austria which though it is almost encompassed by the German Territories yet is properly no part of Germany It has a distinct and different Language and been a separate Kingdom ever since the year 1086. Bounded on the North and West by the Dukedom of Saxony on the East by Hungary and on the South by Bavaria and Austria containing almost 40 Towns and Cities in it that they call Royal whereof Prague is the Capital This Kingdom maintained great Wars with the Caroline Race of Kings till about the year 894. Borzivoius Duke of Moravia becoming Prince also of Bohemia procured their imbracing the Christian Faith universally When in the year 1196. Petrus Capuanus one of the Cardinals of Rome would have brought in Celibacy amongst their Clergy he met with great opposition and ran the hazard of being slain by the Bohemian Priests They received the Waldenses who fled hither about the year 1230. John Hus's and Jerom of Prague about the year 1414. had great success in their Preaching and George Podiâ—bach King of Bohemia became his Convert In 1454. there was another Accession of the Waldenses insomuch that in 1467. there was 200 Churches of this Persuasion in Bohemia and Moravia In the year 1536 they imbraced Luther's Reformation 1564 they obtained from Maximilian that Liberty which Ferdinand I. had deny'd them which lasted but one Year In 1575. they obtained their Liberty again which was confirm'd in the Year 1611. by Rodolphus II. Matthias the next Emperor not maintaining these Grants they chose Frederick Elector Palatine King of Bohemia and Crown'd him at Prague in 1619. This caused a War with the House of Austria The Elector being ejected by force of Arms in the Year 1620 for 30 Years following Germany became an Acheldama a Field of Blood and the Reformation was ruined by an Edict made in 1630. And the House of Austria in Germany was in almost equal danger Albertus Duke of Austria obtained this Crown by Election in the Year 1437. And in the Year 1526 Ferdinand Arch-Duke of Austria was freely elected after the former Branch had been discontinu'd since which time there has been no Interruption but that unfortunate one made by Frederick Elector Palatine so that it is become by the Strength of the House of Austria and the Weakness of the Bohemians an Hereditary Kingdom to the House of Austria The King of Bohemia is the first secular Elector of the Emperor of Germany though it be no part of the Empire Boiana a River that divides Dalmatia from Macedonia this River is commonly call'ed il Drino and in its proper place I shall speak more of it Boiano a Colony and City of the Samnites in the County of Molise upon the River Biferno which falls into the Adriatick Sea It stands at the foot of the Apennine in the borders of Campania 18 Miles from Trivento towards the North and 22 from Capua towards the East and though it is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Benevento yet it is little and ill built and ill inhabited Boii an ancient People 1. of Gallia Celtiqua possessing the Provinces now called Auvergne and Bourbonnois in France 2. of Bavaria in Germany otherwise mentioned by the Names of Bojares and Bavari See Bavari 3 Of Gallia Cispadana in Italy where are now the Dutchies of Modena and Parma See Gallia Boisâ—clle or Enrichemont Boscabellum a Town in the Dukedom of Berry in France with a Castle and the Title of a Principality betwixt Bourges and Sancerre Bois-de-Trahison or Bois-de-Gamelon a Forrest upon the Banks of the Seine betwixt Paris and Pontoise in France One Gamelon in the time of Charles the Great using to ambuscade Men here has left his Name to the Place Boisy a Seigniory in the Country of Chablais in Savoy near the Lake of Geneva Bolena Bolina Bolaenae an ancient City of the Morea mention'd by Pausanias and Stephanus near to Patras and the River Glaueus and sometime an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Patras Bolene a Town in the County of Venaisin in Provence in France upon the Ascent of a little Hill with the River Letz gliding at its foot It shews the ruines of a Castle Boleslaw Boleslavia a small City in Bohemia upon the River Gizera which falls into the River Albus This City stands eight Miles from Prague towards the North-East There is another call'd Irung-Bunczel which stands within two Miles of Prague where the Gizera falls into Albus which last was built in 935. They are distinguished from each other by the Names of the Old and the Younger Boleslaw Bollerbrun a Lake near the Village of Altembeck in the Province of Westphalia in Germany having a remarkable strong Flux and Reflux daily Bolli Paphlagonia a Province of the â—esser Asia Bologna in Italy See Bononia Bologne à la mèr the Icius Portus of Cesar Gessoriacus Portus and Gessoriacum a City of Picardy a Province of France it is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Rhemes and stands upon the River Liana Lenart which there falling into the British Sea on the South of this City makes a convenient Hâ—ven This City is distant from Calis about seven Leagues to the South and five from Estaples to the North. It gives name to a small County which from it is called le Bonlenois The Town is divided into two parts the Upper and the Lower both which are well fortified This place seems to have been the usual place of passing into Britain during the Roman Empire and both Claudius and Caligula came to it on that account And Pliny saith it was the shortest and most convenient Passage It began to be called Bononia about the time of Constantine the Great who took it in his Passage to his Father then dying at York Henry the VII of England in 1487. reduc'd this City to a very low condition when he entred France for the Protection of the Dutchy of Britain but then Charles the VIII of France bought his Peace and preserv'd it His Son Henry the VIII took
Wines and intermixed with pleasant Valleys The principal City of it is Besanson The old Inhabitants were the Sequani a potent Nation In 1674 this County was taken from the Spaniards by the present King of France and by the Treaty of Nimeguen confirmed to him See Franche Comtè Bourgouin a small Town in the County of Viâ—nnois in the Province of Dauphine in France A dependent formerly of the Barony of Tour du Pin and famous for driving a Trade of Hemp. Bourn a Market-Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Aveland upon a Spring called Bâ—rnâ—â—â—head King Edmund was Crowned here It also shows the Ruins of a good Castle Bouro an Island of Asia by some placed among the Moluccaes in the Indian Ocean near the Islands of Cambello and Manipe under the King of Ternate Bouron Bistonia a Town in the Province of Romania in the Morea near the Archipelago with a Lake of the same Appellation on this side the Mountain Argentaro This place has sometime been the Seat of a Bishop and is often mentioned by our antient Historians Boutan a Kingdom in the Terra firma of the Indies or according to others in the Great Tartary towards the Empire of the Grand Mogul and believed to be the same with Barantola Boutonne Vâ—â—tonna a River in France arising in Poictou and flowing through Saintonge where it divides the Town of S. Jean d' Angelâ— it ends in the River Charente which conveys it into the Ocean 2 Leagues from Brouage to the North right over against the Island of Oleron Bowe a Market-Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of New Tauton Bozagar Exopolis a City of Tartary in Asia a little more East than the Outlets of the River Tanais Bozolo a Principality belonging to the Duke of Mantua with a small Town betwixt Mantua and Cremona Brabant Brabantia Ambavariti populi is one of the most considerable Provinces of the Spanish Netherlands bounded on the East with Luyekland or the Bishoprick of Liege on the West with the River Scheld and a part of Flanders on the North with the Maze which parts it from Holland and Guelderland and on the South with Hainault Namur and a part of Lâ—yckland This Country is generally fruitful and the Air good 22 German Miles long and 20 broad and in these narrow Limits it had 26 walled Towns and Cities Governed by Dukes of its own from the year 1004 till the year 1430 when it fell to Philip II. Duke of Burgundy by whose Grandchild Margaret married to Maximilian Emperor of Germany it fell to Charles V. King of Spain and in that House it remains to this day Bracciano Arcennum Bracennum Brygianum Sabata a City of Italy in the Dominions of the Church upon the Lake of Sabato honored with the Title of a Dukedom now in the possession of the antient Family of the Vrsini It is a small but fine City about 20 Miles from Rome to the West Brachmanes Bramins or Bramans a famous Sect of Philosophers amongst the Indians consulted by the greatest Wits of Greece its thought Pythagoras received his Doctrine of the Transmigration of Souls amongst them They professed the study of Nature and Astronomy and Morality and placed their Happiness in the Contempt of Wealth The Bramans who are the Priests of the modern Banjans inherit their Esteem with the People For they teach their Schools live austerely are considered as Oracles in the Affairs of Religion and as to the Pointof a Metampsyhosis they are equally Pythagoreans with their Ancestors Brackley a Market-Town in Nottinghamshire in the Hundred of Sutton which returns 2 Members to the Parliament It stands near the Spring of the River Ouse and formerly had a College which is since become a School Braclaw Braclavia a Town in the Province of Podolia in the Kingdom of Poland upon the River Bug and towards the Confines of Volhinia It is also written Bratzlaw Bradano Brada a River in the Basilicata in the Kingdom of Naples which ariseth from the Apennine and falls into the Gulph of Tarento eighteen Miles from Tarento to the West Bradfield Magna a Market-Town in Essex in the Hundred of Freshwell Bradford a Market-Town in Wiltshire The Capital of its Hundred upon the Avon Bradforth a Market-Town in the West-Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Morley near the fall of a small Stream into the Are. Brading a Market-Town in the Isle of Wight in the Hundred of E. Medine Bradninch a Market-Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Heyrudge Braga Augusta Bracarum Bracara Braecara a City and Archbishoprick of Portugal call'd Bragues by the French in the Province of Antredoureo Minho it stands upon the South Side of the River Morillo four Leagues from the Ocean eight Miles from Porto to the North and almost fifty from Lisbon to the same quarter The Archbishop of this City pretends no less than the Archbishop of Toledo to the Primacy of all Spain This was the Seat of the Kings of the Sueves for an hundred and seventy Years and is now of great Circumference but not equally populous Braganza Bragantia Caeliobrigia Tuntebriga a City in the Kingdom of Portugal which is honored with the Title of a Dukedom It lies in the Confines of the Kingdom of Leon and Portugal in the Province of Sera de Rebodaos 7 Miles from Miranda to the North and 25 from Braga to the East John Duke of Braganza sirnamed the Fortunate being descended from the Kings of Portugal in 1640 recovered that Kingdom out of the Hands of the Spaniards and his Son now enjoys it Braintry a Market-Town in Essex in the hundred of Hinckford Brampour a large Town in the Province of Candis in the Empire of the Grand Mogul and the second Government of Quality in that Empire Adorn'd with a magnificent Castle where the Governor of the Province resides It is a place also of extraordinary Trade Brampton a Market-Town in Cumberland in Eskdale Ward Brandenburg Brandeburgum Brennoburgum is a very ancient City in the Upper Saxony in Germany It stands in the middle March upon the North side of the River Havel which falls into the Albis This is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Meydburg the See was erected by Otho the Great Emperor of Germany in 946. The City embrac'd the Augustane Confession in 1563. It lies in Long. 35. 00. and Lat. 52. 39. The Marquisate of Brandenburg is bounded on the East by the Kingdom of Poland on the West with the Dukedom of Saxony on the North with Pomerania and part of Mecklenburg and on the South with Misnia Lusatia and Silesia In Length from East to West sixty German Miles and of a proportionable Breadth In it there are fifty five Cities and Wall'd Towns the chief of which are Brandenburg and Berlin But it is neither very populous nor very fruitful except in Corn. The Prince is a Calvinist and his Subjects Lutherans He is one of the Electors created in 1415. by Sigismund the Emperor § Brandenburg Brunsberg see
Residence of the Spanish Governour of Flanders seated upon the Sinne and other Springs and Rivers which make it one of the sweetest Situations in Europe 8 Leagues from Antwerp to the South and 4 from Lovaine being partly in a Plain and partly on a Hill In the Cathedral Church of S. Gedulle they pretend to have an Host stabb'd sometime by a Jew in indignation at the supposed presence of the Body of Christ which shed Blood out of the Wound and the Jew they say immediately was struck with death Whereas the Life and Conversion of the Man had been a greater Proof of the miracle In Long. 25. 6. and Lat. 50. 50. § There is another small City of the same name in Germany in the Bishoprick of Spire Brutij an antient People of Italy descended originally from the Lacedaemonians They were distinguish'd into Cismontani and Tramontani possessing that part of Italy which we now call the further Calabria In the second Punick War they ran over to Hannibal whereby they lost their Reputation to that degree amongst the Romans that they could never afterwards get to be employ'd but in servilities and even their name became a Proverb for a despicable Generation of People living continually in meanness and shame Bruton a Market Town in Somersetshire the capital of its Hundred upon the River Brue The Lord Fitzharding has a noble Seat here Bua otherwise call'd Chiovo is an Island of Dalmatia near Spalatro under the Venetians It is very near to the Island of Troghir Bucephala Alexandria Bucephalos a Town in the Indies built by Alexander M. in honor of his Horse It is mentioned by Q. Curtius The Moderns suppose that it is the same with Lahor now See Lahor Buchs a small Principality within the Territory of Burgundy in France near Medoc belonging to the House of Foix and Candale Buckenham the New a Market-Town in Norfolk in the Hundred of Shropham Buckenburgh a small Town in Westphalia in Germany where the Counts of Lippe-Buckenburgh taking their Style from hence have a Palace Buckinghamshire Buckinghamia is divided on the South from Berkshire by the Thames on the North it hath Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire on the West Oxfordshire and on the East Hertfordshire and Middlesex a County very Fruitful and chiefly employed in Grazing The first Earl of this County was Walter Giffard a great Man amongst the Normans whose Son Walter died in 1164. In 1377. Richard II. conferred this Title upon his Uncle Thomas of Woodstock Humfry Earl of Stafford was the first created Duke of Buckingham in 1444. Edward the last of this Race was Beheaded in the Reign of Henry VIII in 1521. After which this Title lay vacant till 1623. when James I. created George Viscount Villiers Duke of Buckingham his Son George succeeded him who died April 16. 1687. without Issue and left the Title vacant On the North of the River Ouse in the North-west part of the County stands the Town of Buckingham which gives Name to the whole County It was Wall'd before the Conquest in 915. by Edward the Elder to secure it against the Danes in after times there was a Castle built here which is now intirely ruin'd the Town stands upon a low ground very commodious for Mills and incircled by the River on all sides but the North. And it is a Corporation and sends Two Burgesses to the Parliament Bnckor a Town and Kingdom in the States of the Great Mogul in the East-Indies The former stands upon the River Indus the other is bounded by the Kingdoms of Tattan to the South Multan to the North Hajacen and Persia to the West and Jesselmere to the East Buda Buda Heraclia Aquinum is the Capital of the Kingdom of Hungary call'd by the Turks Budun by the Germans Offen by the French Bude and by the Italians Buda Heretofore a very great and rich City till it fell into the hands of the Turks who ruin'd most of its stately Houses and Palaces it lies on the West side of the Danube over against Pest which is joyn'd to it by a Bridge of Boats and is divided into two parts the Upper and Lower between which there is the distance of a Mile the Lower Town is weak but the upper Town is by Nature one of the strongest Forts in the World and has a very strong Castle on the West side said to be built by one Buda the Brother of Attila King of the Huns and from him to have its Name In 1279. there was a Council held here under Pope Nicolas III. and Ladislaus III. King of Hungary It was much improved by Sigismund King of Hungary about the Year 1387. and adorned with many stately Buildings amongst the rest with a Castle where at first the Kings and afterwards the Turkish Visiers resided which was so strong that it was thought Impregnable The Successors of this Prince augmented this City and strengthened it with new Fortisications Solyman II. Emperor of the Turks took it first in 1526. Ferdinand the Arch-Duke of Austria retook it the next Year after In 1529 Solyman retook it again after the Garrison had stood eleven Aslaults and restored it to the Weywood of Transilvania who had lost it before Ferdinando in 1540. or 1541. attacked it again when Solyman coming the third time to relieve it raised the Siege and made himself Master of the place by a Stratagem and Surprise In 1598. Matthias the Arch-Duke again besieged it and after in 1601. again but with no Success In 1684. the Duke of Lorrain sat before it from July 14. to November 1. but was forced to rise and leave it this brave General in 1686. reinvested it June 15. and after a bloody defence made by the Governor took it by storm September 2. following though the Grand Visier stood and looked on with an Army of 50000 Men and was no way able to help him In the lower Town there is a Hot and a Cold Bath both adorned very much by the Turks who are great lovers of Baths it lies 49 German Miles from Belgrade to the North 54 from Vienna to the South Long. 42. 15. Lat. 47. 7. The Imperialists found in it 400 Peices of Artillery a Treasure of above 300000 Ducats and the antient Library of the Kings of Hungary augmented by Matthias Corvinus entire which last was ordered to be transported to Vienna Buddesdalc a Market-Town in Suffolk in the Hundred of Hartesmere Here there is a Grammar School endowed with certain Scholarships assigned to Cambridge Budoa Butua a City of Dalmatia upon the shoars of the Adriatick Sea which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Antivari well Fortified under the Dominion of the Venetians but it is small and has been severely handled by the Turks who took it in 1571. and were obliged soon after to return it to the Venetians again In 1667. it was almost ruined by an Earthquake This City lies ten Miles from Antivary to the West between the Gulph of Cattaro and that of Lodrin
River Trent near its fall into the Humber § Another in Westmorland in Loynsdale Wapentake near the great Hill call'd Farleton-knot-hill § A Third in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Offlow upon the River Trent Bursa Prusa called by the Turks Bruss by the Italians Bursa and Bourse by the French Brusse is a City of the lesser Asia in the Province of Chintale antiently Bithynia built by Prusius King of Bithynia in the year of the World 3179. and gave Name to that Part of that Kingdom in which it stood Taken by Orchanes the Turk in 1325. after which it was the Seat of their Empire till they took Adrianople and removed it thither in 1402. In ancient time a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Nicomedia but afterwards it became a Metropolitan See of it self It is two Miles in length well built and peopled and one of the richest Cities in Asia and to this day ennobled with the Sepulture of the Princes of the Ottoman Race except the Emperors themselves 5 Miles from the Propontis 30 East from Constantinople In Long. 57. 30. Lat. 41. 49. Bury Saint Edmonds Villa Regia Villa Faustini is a delicate sweet Town in the County of Suffolk upon the River Lark as may seem by the Town of Larkford a little more North which falls into the great Ouse between Ely and Little-Port-Edmund surnamed Ironside one of the Saxon Kings founded here a Church in the beginning of Christianity and called it the Royal Town but after that Prince was brought hither from Hoxon in the same County it was called St. Edmonds Bury King Kanutus the Dane to expiate the sin of his Father Swaine or Sueno who murdered this Prince built here a new Church and an Abby and brought in the Black Friers about 1020. to whom he gave the Town of Bury and many noble Mannors thereabout so that at the suppression it was valued at 2336 l. the year a vast Revenue then They governed the Town by a Seneschal or Steward and when it was allowed to be a Corporation the Alderman was not permitted to exercise any Authority till he had taken his Oath of Obedience to the Abbot Afterwards Herveie the Sacrist compassed the Town with a Wall whereof there remain still some few Relicks and Abbot Newport Walled the Abby and the Pope granted it great Immunities Edward VI. founded here a Grammar School Charles I. of Pious memory Created Henry Jermin Baron of S. Edmonds Bury Sept. 8. 1643. The delightfulness of its Situation and the goodness of its Air have ever procured it the residence of a great many of the Gentry who living here inrich the Inhabitants and support the Town which would otherwise fall to decay Henry II. overthrew Robert Earl of Leicester and his Flemings taking the Earl and his Wife prisoners in a Battle not far from hence Busiris an antient City in Egypt in the middle of the Delta where was formerly a vast Temple consecrated to Isis whose Festivals they observed with the greatest Solemnity Bussereth Bostra a City of Arabia the Stony the Native place of Marcus Julius Philippus Emperour of the Romans and called from him Philippopolis It is an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Jerusalem being taken out of the Patriarchat of Antioch and lies sixty Miles East from the Sea of Tiberias in Long. 69. 45. Lat. 31. 30. Called in some Monies of the Emperor Severus and his Mother Mamaea Colonia Alexandrina now under the Turks Butera a Town in the Island of Sicily with the Title of a Principality in the Province call'd Valle di Noto about 4 Leagues from the Sea Butow a small Town in Pomerania upon the River Stolp towards the Frontiers of the Royal Prüssia Under the Duke of Brandenburg Butrino a place upon the Consines of Epirus belonging to the Venetians It was heretofore a considerable City and the Seat of a Bishop Call'd by the Antients Buthrotum The Turks ruin'd it about 120 years ago and the Venetians have not yet restored it to it 's pristine Dignity It stands over against the Island of Corfou upon a Gulph of its own Name being many times written Butrinto or Botrinto Button's Bay the same with Hudson's Bay in the North of America Butua a City of the Lower Aethiopia in Africa under the Empire of Monotopia the Head of a Kingdom of the same Name towards the River Zambre Buyil Mancy a River of Aethiopia Le Buys a small Town in the Province of Dauphine in France in the Country call'd the Baronies upon the River Oveze and the Borders of Provence Surpriz'd by the Huguenots in 1568. Buzanich Pausinus a River of Dalmatia Buzenzais a Town in the Dukedom of Berri in France upon the River Indre and the Borders of Touraine Bychow Bychovia a Town belonging to the Kingdom of Poland in Lithuania upon the Borysthenes between Mohilow and Rohuczo two Cities ill handled by the Moscovites some few Years since Byrsa the Name of an antient Cittadel at Carthage in Africa built by Queen Dido which had upon the top of it a Temple dedicated to Aesculapius In the Phaenician Language introduc'd by Dido into Africa it is written Botzra or Bosra signifying a Tower Whereof the Word Bursa with the Fable of the Hide thereon grounded was but a Grecian Corruption alluding to the little Morsels of Leather stamped for Money in antient times with which she purchas'd the Ground for the Building of this Castle and the City of Carthage Byzacena an antient City and Province of Africa within the Kingdom of Tunis The City has sometime been a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Carthage In the Year 646. a Council of 42 Prelates was assembled at it against the Monothelites besides others of less Note in 602. 541. and 522. CAB CAbe or Cheyles or Queiles Chalybs a River of Spain rising in the Kingdom of Aragon which waters Taracona and falls into the Ebro The Waters of this River have been ever famous for the tempering of Steel Cabeston a Town in the Province of Languedoc in France near Nismes Cabo d' Istria a City of Istria in Italy under the Dominion of the Venetians upon the Adriatick Gulph heretofore call'd Justinopolis from Justinian the Emperor who rebuilt it This is the Capital of Istria and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Aquileia It is a small Place in an Island three Bow shoots from the Continent to which there is a Passage by Bridges and in the midst of it is an antient Castle 30 Italian Miles from Aquileia to the South-East and 75 from Venice to the East Long. 36. 26. Lat. 45. 31. Cabrieres a Town in the County of Venaissin in Provence in France Cabul a Province or Kingdom in the East-Indies under the Great Mogul near the Fountains of the River Indus it has a City of the same Name standing upon a small River which falls into the Indus The whole Country is full of Mountains but very fruitful and reasonably well traded The Rivers Nilab and
the Hundred of Lesnewth Camerino Camerinum an Episcopal City in the Marca Anconitana in the Dominions of the Church Seated at the foot of the Apennine upon the River Chiento which entereth the Adriatick Sea 25 Miles South of Ancona This was a considerable place in the time of the antient Romans and has sometime since born the Title of a Dukedom Leander gives it a strong Situation and plenty of People which last is rarely found in these Italian inland Cities He says also there was another Town of this Name in Campagnia di Roma which they call now Camerota It lies 24 Miles East of Spoleto Long. 36. 43. Lat. 42. 47. Camin Caminum a small City in the further Pomerania which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gnisen whereas heretofore it belonged to Magdeburg It stands on the Eastern Shoar of the River Diwenow Odera over against the Island of Wolinsche not above a Mile from the Baltick Sea and about 7 from Stetin to the North. This belongs to the Duke of Brandenburgh by the Treaty of Westphalia and has imbraced the Augustan Confession Long. 39. 30. Lat. 54 12. Caminiec See Kaminieck Campagnano Campaniano Acheron a River of the Province of Calabria flowing from the Apennine and falling into the Tyrrhenian Sea about 8 Miles South of Amantea over against Stromboli a flaming Mountain in an Island of that Name Campagna a City of the Kingdom of Naples in the Principato which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Conza with the Title of a Marquisate It stands between the Rivers of Atro and Tuza 16 Miles from Salerno to the East and 11 from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea to the East also Campagnia di Roma a Province of Italy under the Dominion of the Pope on the West it has S. Peters Patrimony on the North Sabina on the South the Mediterranean Sea and on the East the Kingdom of Naples Rome itself stands in this Province and it contains the far greatest part of the antient Latium the inland parts are fruitful and populous those towards the Sea are little inhabited by reason of the unwholsomness of the Air tho otherwise the Country is plain and fruitful enough Campanir Astacapra a City of the hither East-Indies Campden a Market-Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Kistgate the Earl of Gainesborough Viscount Campden has a Seat here Campen Campania a Town in Stiria § There is another of the same Name in Over-Yssel in the Low Countries upon the Western Banks of the Yssel near the Zuider Zee 5 Miles from Daventer to the North-East It was heretofore an Imperial free City but long since exempted and under the States General In 1672. taken by the French and the year following deserted It is a great lovely and important place and was the Birthplace of Albertus Pighius a very learned Man Long. 27. 14. Lat. 52. 42. Campiano a small Town in the State of the Valley of Taro in Italy near the River Taro. It is an important Pass and therefore carefully fortified by the Duke of Parma Campeach a City belonging to the Spaniards in the West-Indies taken by Captain Mynnes an English Man in 1662 being deserted by the Inhabitants The English took here 50 peices of Canon 14 Ships and the Governor Prisoner Campus Piorum a celebrated place in the Island of Sicily near Catania so called from the 2 Brothers Amphinomus and Anapus that carried their Father and Mother upon their Shoulders hither out of the flames of Aetna Val. Max. Cana a Town in the Tribe of Zabulon in Galilee in the Holy Land heretofore famous for the first Miracle of our Saviours operation on Earth at the Marriage of Simon Zelotes according to Nâ—cephorus Calixtus or of S. John the Evangelist according to others Now a poor Village inhabited by none but Turks For the Church which Helena the Mother of Constantine built in the place of that House where our Saviour celebrated the Marriage has been long since converted into a Mosque Nathanael was an Inhabitant of this Town Canada New France a large Country in the North America discovered first by the French and by them inhabited It lies North of New-England Quebec is the chief Colony of it The Savages speak different Languages and here as in other parts of America they have a custom to eat their Enemies taken in War a fate that particularly befel John Verrazan a Florentine who first took possession of this Country in the name of Francis I. King of France in 1525. There is a very great River of the same Country already known to run 500 Leagues full of large Islands and about 30 Leagues broad at the mouth called Canada by the Natives by the French S. Lawrence from their entrance into it upon that day The Saguenay and the Three Rivers fall into its Channel from the North. Cananor a Kingdom in the Promontory of Malabar on this side the Ganges in the East-Indies abutting upon the River Gangerocora 25 Leagues in length along the Coast with a City of the same Name sometime since taken by the Hollanders The Islands of Divandurou and Malicut amongst the Maldives are subject to this King Canara a Kingdom on this side the Gulph of Bengala in the East-Indies in the Promontory of Malabar separated from the Kingdom of Malabar to the South by the River Gangerocora and from that of Cuncan to the North by the River Aliga It is Tributary to the Great Mogul by some called Tulamar and at perpetual Enmity with the Kingdom of Malabar Canary Isles Canariae are 7 Islands over against the Coast of Lybia Interior so called from Canaria the principal of the number in which the Spanish Governor resides being about 20 Leagues in circuit and ennobled with a large handsom populous City of the same Name which is an Episcopal See These were called by the Antients the Fortunate Islands in general but their particular Names are Canaria Teneriff the Isle of Palmes the Isle of Iron Fuerte-Ventura Gomera and Lancelote and because a great number of Dogs was found in them in antient times therefore says Pliny they had all the Name of the Canaries In one of these the first Meridian is usually fixed viz. Teneriff They are are much frequented for their excellent Wines and Merchandises by the English and other Nations After the knowledg of them had been lost for many Ages they were first discovered again in 1330. Vid. Azores About the year 1344. Lewis de la Cerda Grandson to Alphonsus X. King of Castile and Earl of Clermont undertaking the Conquest of them thereby to introduce the Christian Faith was Crowned King of the Canaries by Pope Clement VI. He in his design failing they were afterwards granted to John Betancourt according as it is already remarked under the Word Azores Canathus a Fountain in the Morea in the Province of Napoli di Romania celebrated by the antient Poets for a Fiction of Juno's washing herself every year therein to
not all inhabited Capoua Capua a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples in the Province Di Lavoro at the foot of Mount Tifata 16 Miles North of Naples and 12 from the Tyrrhenian Sea in Long. 38. 04. Lat. 41. 00. A City that was never fortunate and is now declining into ruins It was built by the Lombards upon the River Voltorno and advanced to a Bishoprick by P. John XIV in 968. Two Leagues from the Ruines of the famous antient Capoua that delicious City as they call'd it which compared itself with Rome and Carthage and so debauched the Army of Hannibal with its pleasures in one Winter that they quartered there after the Battle of Cannae that they were not capable of beating the Romans any more In 1118 Pope Gelasius II. held a Council here in which the Emperour Henry V. was Excommunicated together with Gregory VIII an Antipope Cappadocia a Province of Asia Minor bounded to the East by the Lesser Armenia to the South Cilicia to the West Pamphylia and Galatia and to the North by the Euxine Sea It has been twice a Kingdom The first time for 470 years successively till the Romans overcame and changed it into a Province The second from the 12th Century to the year 1461. by the Title of the Kingdom of Trebisonde from the City Trebisonda till Mahomet II. Emperour of the Turks took and carri'd the King prisoner into Greece It is now known by the name of Tocat See Tocat Capraia Capraria Aegilium is a small Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea on the Confines of the States of Genoua between the Coast of Italy to the East and the Island of Corsica to the West to which last it belongs and is therefore subject to the State of Genoua it is 18 Miles in compass and has a Castle for its security against Pyrats full of Mountains but yet not barren nor unpeopled and chiefly abounds in Goats from whence it hath its Name and excellent Wines 36 Miles South from the States of Genoua and 24 from Corsica There is another Island of the same Name in the Adriatick Sea upon the Coast of Apulia and La Palma one of the Canary Islands was antiently call'd Capraria Caprarola a stately and magnificent Palace in S. Peters Patrimony in Italy 25 miles from Rome near Viterbo belonging to the D. of Parma and built in the last Age by Cardinal Alexander Farnese It is particularly remark'd for a whispering Room in it where four Persons at several Corners shall understand the lowest whispers of one to another whilst those in the middle of the Room cannot here a word that is said It is one of the noblest structures in all Italy Capri Caprea an Island belonging to the Kingdom of Naples famous for the Secession of Tiberius Caesar who lived here in great privacy in the latter part of his Reign spending his time in Debauchery and Villany It lies in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the Mouth of the Bay of Naples about 3 miles from the Cape of Campanella and is about 12 in compass The chief Town of it is called by the same Name and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Amalfi seated at the South End of the Island The Bishops best revenue comes from Quails which twice in the year resort in vast numbers to this Island whence some have called him the Bishop of Quails This Island is much mentioned in the Writers of the Life of Tiberius and other Roman Historians Capsa an antient Town in Libya Interior defended by the Sands and Serpents of the Desarts that environ it on all sides better than any Walls and Ramparts could do say Salust and Florus Carabes Pelusium the most Eastern Mouth of the Nile Carabogaana one of the Names of Moldavia Caragoza Caesar Augusta See Saragoza Caraman Caramania a Province of the Lesser Asia extended from East to West upon the Mediterranean Sea opposite to the Isle of Cyprus this Country had heretofore Princes of its own but has now for many Ages been subject to the Turks it includes the antient Provinces of Cilicia Pamphylia and a part of Caria One of the potentest Viceroys or Beglerbegs of the Turkish Empire takes his Title from this Province tho his Jurisdiction is somewhat larger The principle Cities in it are Cogni Antiochia and Satulia There is another Caramania or Carnania a large Country in Persia bounded on the East with Gedrosia or Circan on the West with Farsi Sublestan to the North and the Gulph of Ormus with the Indian Ocean to the South Containing the Provinces of Guadel Dulcinda and Ormus It is now called Kherman after its capital City which stands upon the River Bessiry The Northern part is rather barren but the middle is blessed with fruitful Vales. Caramit Amida Ammaea the capital City of Mesopotamia which is an Archbishops See upon the River Tigris Heretofore called Constantia from Constantius the Emperour The Romans in this place received a great defeat by the Parthians Long. 75. 00. Lat. 39. 30. according to the latest Maps It is secured with good Walls and 360 Towers Caragues Salvages of Peru in the Province of Quito towards the Coasts of the South Sea Caratcholi or Karakioles a People about the Mountain Caucasus in Asia descended from the Hunns and speaking the Turkish Language Caravacca or Crux de Caravacca so called from a miraculous Crucifix there preserved which they pretend was brought from Heaven by an Angel is a Village amongst the Mountains in the Kingdom of Murcia in Spain near the River Segura upon the Borders of Old Castile Caravaggio a Town in the Dutchy of Milan in Italy upon the Borders of the Bergamasco Where Francis Sforza Duke of Milan gain'd a signal Victory over the Venetians in 1446. Carbury a Town and Barony in the County of Kildare in Ireland and another Town in the County of Cork Carcanossi a fruitful and well cultivated Country in the South of the Isle of Madagascar where the French have established some Colonies not long since Carcassonne Carcassum Volcarum Tectosagum a City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Narbonne upon the River Atax l' Aude a little above its confluence with the Fresquel Famous for Cloathing and other mechanick Trades It stands 5 Leagues South of Aleth having a Castle Long. 23. 05. Lat. 42. 40. The Diocese belonging to this City is called Le Comte de Carcassonne the Earldom of Carcassone The antient Earls whereof were great protectors and favourers of the Albigenses Whence One came to be Massacred in the Church at Besiers in 1167. and a Second had his Estate confiscated to the Earl of Monfert by a Decree of the Synod of Mountpellier in 1214. and afterwards of the grand Council of Lateran in 1215. Carcinatus or Carentus the Western Bay of the Euxine Sea which shuts the passage into the Crim Tartary in that Neck of Land which makes it a Peninsula and is defended by the Fort Pericop that gives name to the whole Nation
there Cardaillac a Town and very antient Barony in the County of Quercy in France near Figeac upon the Borders of Auvergne Adanced afterwards to the honour of a Marquisate Cardiff a fine Town in the County of Glamorgan in Wales upon the South Side of the River Taf 2 Miles from the Sea to which belongs a very commodious Haven This Town was fortified with a Wall and a Castle by one Fitz-Haimon a great Man in these parts Here Robert eldest Son to William the Conquerour died after a long Imprisonment It returns one Burgess to the Parliament The Earl of Pembrook has a Seat here Cardiganshire or Caerdiganshire is a County in Wales lying along the Coast of the Irish Sea and taking its Name from Cardigan the Capital of it which returns one Burgess to the English Parliament A Town pleasantly situated within 2 Miles of the River Tivy which divides the County from Caermarthenshire and Pembrokeshire on the South as the Rivers Torvi and Dovi divide it from Merionethshire and Brecknockshire to the East The Tivy is well stored with Salmon Cardona a Castle in Catalonia in Spain built upon a River called the Cardoner where there are several Mines of Salt and which gives the Title of a Duke to the Family de Folch It stands 3 Leagues from Solsona to the South Carelia or Karelen a Province of the Kingdom of Sweden in Finland extended upon the Gulph of Finland Heretofore in part under the Muscovites but now entirely under the Swedes Vibourg is the capital City of it Caremboule a Country on the South of the Island of Madagascar lying betwixt the Divisions of the Ampatres and the Mahafales It is very good Pasturage Carencia a Town of the antient Rugij upon the Coast of the Baltick Sea in Pomerania Heretofore notorious for Three Temples dedicated to Three of the most monstrous and horrible Idols that ever were invented amongst the Heathens Carentan a Town of Normandy upon a River of the same Name 3 Leagues from the British Sea and 4 from Constance to the North which has a very strong Castle It gives the Title of a Viscount And was both taken and retaken in the Civil Wars of that Kingdom Carfagniana Carferoniana Grafiniana a Valley in the States of the Duke of Florence in Italy amongst the Apennine Mountains betwixt the States of Lucca Regio and Modena Cargapol a City of Russia upon the River Onega or Poroga almost 200 Russian Miles from Archangel to the South-West This City gives name to a Province on the White Sea Caridia a small Town and Gulph in the Province of Romania in the Morea about 10 Leagues from Gallipoli upon the Archipelago Heretofore a more considerable place and known to the Antients under the Name Cardiopolis Caria See Aidinelli It may be remembred that a Council of 34 Bishops assembled in this Province in the year 366. rejected the Doctrine of the Consubstantiality of Christ with the Father to approve of the Confessions of Faith made at the Councils of Antioch and Seleucia § Also an antient City of the Morea whose Inhabitants uniting with the Persians in a War once against Greece rendred themselves so odious to their Country that their City was rased their Men put to the Sword and their Women treated with all manner of ignominy Cary Incarus a small Port in Provence in France 3 Miles from Marseille to the West famous for nothing but its Antiquity Cariati Cariatum a City of Calabria Citerior in the Kingdom of Naples upon the Gulph of Tarento which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Santa Saâ—erina from which it lies 20 Miles from the North in Long. 41. 36. Lat. 39. 30. It is small yet gives the Title of a Principality to the Family di Spinella Caribes or the Cariby Islands are a knot of small Islands whose numbers are not certainly known they lie extended like a Bow from the Coast of Paria in America to the Isle of Rico Porto Carignan a Principality and City in Piedmont situated upon the Po which is here covered with a good Bridge betwixt Turin and Carmagnole In a fruitful Soil and defended with a Castle Carin Cyrrhus a City of Syria which had its antient Name from Cyrus the Founder of it first a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Hierapolis afterwards a Metropolis under the Patriarch of Antioch seated upon the River Marsyas now Quars which falls into the Euphrates at Samosat 45 Miles from Zeugma to the North-East and as many from the Euphrates to the West and 25 from Aleppo to the North. Long. 70. 10. Lat. 36. 00. Carinola Calenum a small City in the Province di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capua but the City is almost desolate by reason of the unhealthfulness of its situation It stands at the foot of Mount Massico 4 Miles from the Shoars of the Tyrrheman Sea and 25 North of Naples giving the Title of an Earldom Carinthia called by the Germans Karnten a Province of Germany bounded on the East by Stiermark and the River Lavand on the West with Saltzburg and the River Saltzach on the North with Austria and on the South with Carniola and the River Dravus The antient Inhabitants of this Country were the first in Germany that embraced the Christian Religion It is subject to the Dukes of Austria and being seated in the Alpes is generally barren and mountainous It lies along the Dravus an 100 english Miles and is 47 in breadth Advanced to the honour of a Dutchy It s capital Town is Claghenfutt Carizath a Province of Asia called antiently Hyrcania Carlisse Carleolum a City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of York seated upon the Rivers Eden Poteril and Caud in the County of Cumberland besides which it is defended by a good strong Stone Wall and on the West side by a large Castle and on the East a Cittadel built by Henry VIII A considerable place in the times of the Romans William Rufus finding it ruined by the Danes rebuilt the Castle and placed a Colony here which in after times became one of the principal Bulwarks against the Scots June 28. 1645 it was yieided to the invading People by Sir Thomas Glemham upon honorrable Terms In 1648. retaken for the King by Sir Philip Musgrave who kept it not long the Rebels over-powering all Long. 21. 31. Lat. 54. 55. Henry I. made it an Episcopal See In the year 1661. King Charles II. dignified this City with the Title of an Earldom in the Person of Charles Howard whose Son Edward enjoys the same at this day It returns two Burgesses to the Parliament Carlingford a Sea-Port in the County of Louth in the Province of Vlster in Ireland about 30 English Miles East of Armagh and 5 North of Dundalk Carlsbourg Caroloburgum a small Town in the lower Circle of Saxony upon the Weser in the Dutchy of Bremen built by the Swedes who at the same time gave it
and the Muses Castanovitza a Castle on the River Vnna which divides Croatia from Bosnia surrendred to Prince Louis of Baden Aug. 14. 1688. Castel Aragonese a strong Town in the Isle of Sardignia Castel-Bolognese a Town in the Province of Romagna in Italy under the Pope betwixt Imola and Faiensa Castel-Durante a Town in the Dutchy of Vrbino in the States of the Church in Italy famous for curious Earthen-ware Castel-Gandolphe a Town in the Campagna di Roma in Italy 12 Miles from Rome where the Pope has a Mansion of pleasure A Lake of the same Name formerly call'd Albano stands on one side of it Castel-Geloux a Town and Bailywick in the Province of Guienne in France upon the River Avance Honoured with a Collegiate Church in which the Dukes of Albret lie interred Castel A Mare or Casell a Mere di stabia Stabiae a City in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples with an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Sorrento It has a commodious Port upon the Gulph of Naples The French took it in 1654. Castel A Mare della Brucca an antient City in the Hither Principate in the Kingdom of Naples betwixt St. Severino and the Gulph of Salerno It has been an Episcopal See but not now so considerable as formerly The Antients call it Helia Elea and Hielea Castel-Tornese a small Town built upon a high Ground in the Province of Belvedore in the Morea about 3 Miles from the Sea and not far from Cap Tornese After the taking of Patras and Lepanto this Town surrendred upon the first Summons to the Venetians in 1687. It had 29 Peices of Cannon in it and commands 200 Villages or Forts in the Country thereabouts Castel dell Volturno a City in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples lately made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capoua It stands to the Ocean and is believed to be the Relicks of the antient Volturnum Castellana or Civita Castellana a City of St. Peters Patrimony in Italy with a Bishops See consolidated to that of Otri immediately dependent of the Pope Castellane a Town and Barony in Provence upon the River Verdon amongst the Mountains Since the year 1260. the Inhabitants have rebuilt it nearer to the River because before it stood upon a Rock Castellanetta a City in the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples advanced to the Dignity of a Principality besides an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Taranto Situate upon the little River Talvo about 7 Miles from the Gulph of Taranto between the Cities Matera and Motula Castelnau a small Town in the Tract of Medoc in the Province of Guyenne in France upon a little River which falls into the Garonne over against Blaye § Castelnau de Bretenous a Town and Barony in the County of Quercy in France near the Dordogne § Castelnau de Cernes a Town near Podensac in Guyenne § Castelnau de Manes a Town near Bazas in the same § Castelnau de Montratier a Town in Quercy near Cahors upon a little River falling into the Tarn Castelnau Darry a Town in Languedoc near to which was deseated and taken the Duke of Montmorency in 1632. not long after beheaded at Tholouse It is the Capital of the County of Lauragais betwixt Tholouse and Carcassone In Latin Castellum Arianorum or Castellavium Auracium Castel-Sarazin a low but strong Town upon the Frontiers of Languedoc and Quercy in France a little below the Confluence of the Tarn and the Garonne Of great Fame in the Wars of Charles Martell with the Sarazens and thence comes its adjunct Name of Sarazin Castiglione a Town in the the Province of Carfagnana in Italy in the States of the Republick of Lucca § A second in the Hither Calabria dignified with a Principality § Castiglione Mantuano a Town in the Mantuan towards Verona § Castiglione delle Stivere the Principal Town of a little Territory upon the Frontiers of the Mantuan advanced to the Dignity of a Principality It is a strong place betwixt Mantoua and Brescia belonging to the Duke of Mantoua Castile Castella a Kingdom in Spain which when largely taken is the greatest of all the Kingdoms in that Country as containing under it the Kingdoms of Leon Gallicia Andalusia Navarre Murcia Biscay Granada and Extremadura It being the most prevailing Kingdom in that Continent to which the rest are united by Marriages or Conquests Yet was it at first but an Earldom belonging to the Kingdom of Leon and was made a Kingdom in 1016 under Ferdinando Bounded on the East with Navarre on the West with Portugal on the North with Biscay Guipiscoa and the Asturias and on the South with Andalusia Extremadura and Granada It is divided into the Old and the New Castile whereof the Old Castile lies more North the New more South arising out of the New Conquest of the Kingdom of Toledo and other Accessions gain'd from the Moors which is also more fruitful than the Old Castile Burgos is the Capital of the Old Madrid and Toledo the chief of the New Long. 12. Lat. 39. Castile D'Or or New Castile a large and fruitful Country in the Southern America containing the Noble Provinces of Panama Carthagena Vraba Venezuela Comana New Andaluzia and New Granada Bounded on the East with Guyana and the Caribes Country on the West with the Pacifick Ocean on the South Peru and the Kingdom of the Amazons and on the North with the Northern Ocean It was first discovered in Columbus's third Voyage to America by some of Castile who therefore call'd it Castile Nuevo and finding Mines of Gold in it particularly in the Province of Vraba they added the Name of Castile d'Or The great Rivers Orenoque and Darien water it besides others The Spaniards have not been able to reduce the Natives entirely to this Day Pearl also is found upon the Coasts Castillon a Town in Perigord in the South of France near the Dordogne where the English were defeated and their General slain in 1451. by which Victory Charles VII recovered the County of Guienne Castle-Carey a Market-Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Cattesash Castlenovo or Castel-Novo a Maritime Town in Albania upon the Gulph of Cattaro surrendred to the Venetians after a Months Siege October 1. 1687. in whose possession it had been reposed in antient times The Spaniards enjoy'd it in the Reign of Charles V. till it was taken from a Garrison of 4000 of them Anno 1539 by Barberoasse that great Admiral who from being a Pirate and the Son of a poor Renegade Greek of Lesbos became the most esteem'd Sea Commander that the Ottoman Empire ever employed The Turks having been Masters of this Place for 148 Years last past had long infested the Adriatick Sea with Piracies from it § There are divers Towns of small Note in Italy that carry this Name As Castelnovo Tortonese in the Milanese Castelnovo di Carfagnana under the Duke of Mantua c. Castle Rising a
Market-Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Frebridge which Elects two Burgesses for the Parliament The Haven here being many years since choak'd up with Sands has brought this Town into decay Caston a Market-Town in Norfolk in the Hundred of S. Erpingham Castor a Market-Town in the Division of Lindsey in Lincolnshire and in the Hundred of Bradley Castres or Chartreux Castrum Albiensium a City and a Bishop's See upon the North side of the River Gout in the County of Albigeois in Languedoc in France This Bishoprick was first instituted by P. John XXII in 1317. under the Archbishop of Berry but in 1678. it was put under the Archbishop of Alby from which place itstands 7 Leagues to the South and 10 from Tholouse to the East The Huguenots took and Pillaged it in 1567. It also honoured with the Title of an Earldom Castro a Dutchy and Town belonging to the House of Farneze the Dukes of Parma but likewise challenged by the Ecclesiastical State For in the Wars betwixt Edward Duke of Parma and Pope Vrban VIII this Town amongst others was seised for the Pope in consideration of the Arrears of a certain Rent reserved to the Apostolick Chamber from the Dutchy as held to be a Fief of the Church Innocent X. razed it entirely to the ground and in the place thereof erected a Pillar with this Inscription Here was Castro and annexed the Dutchy to his See But the said Annexation was conditionally revoked by the Treaty of Pisa in 1664. The admirable Palace of Caprarola stands in this Dutchy The Dutchy is bounded on the East by S. Peter's Patrimony the Siennese to the West the Mediterranean to the South and the Territory of Orvieto to the North. The City had the Honor to be a Bishop's See immediately under the Pope till the Year 1646 that Innocent X. transferr'd the See to Acqua pendente and quite destroy'd Castro as we said in revenge because the inhabitants happened to kill the Bishop that he sent thither to reside and govern It stood about 11 Miles from the Sea near Toscanella and Corneto environed with such Precipices as rendred the access to it very Difficult § A City in the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples being a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Otranto upon the Shoars of the Ionian Sea Ravaged by the Turks in 1537. who carried away a great Number of the Inhabitants into Slavery Some suppose it to be the Castrum Minervae of the Antients § There are others of inferiour Note One in the Hither Calabria near Cassano A second in the Province of Abruzzo call'd Castro Novo A third in the Campagnia di Roma A fourth in the Basilicate Another in the Island of Meleos c. Catadupi a People of Aethiopia about the Cataracts of the Nile deafned says Tully in Somnio Scip. by the Noise of them Catalognia a Province and Principality in Spain bounded on the West by the Kingdoms of Arragon and Valentia on the East and South by the Mediterranean Sea and on the North it has the Pyrenean Hills which separate it from France Heretofore it had Earls of its own who were under the Protection of the Crown of France but in 1137. it was annexed to the Kingdom of Arragon a mountainous but fertile Country and well watered with Rivers The Inhabitants are great Lovers of their Civil Liberties and being ill us'd by some Irish Soldiers which were quartered upon them in 1640. they revolted from Spain and call'd in the French but during the Civil Wars of France about 1652. they returned to their old Master the King of Spain again By the Treaty of Peace in 1659 the Pyrenees are made to divide the two Kingdoms of France and Spain Barcelona is the Capital City of this Country Catania one of the principal Cities of Sicily on the Eastern shoar of that Island about forty Miles North of Syracuse It has a Port made of late Years and is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Montreale On the South of it runs a small River called Judicello This City was built by the Chalcidian Greeks as Eusebius saith Charles V. wall'd and fortified it against the Turks and Moors by which Securities it grew Great and Rich but in 1669. it suffered very much by a dreadful Irruption of Mount Aetna which stands about 20 Miles North from it four Rivers with Fire or melted Rocks and Earth making their Way through the Territories of this City and bearing down all before them passed a Mile into the Sea before those Waters were able to conquer this outrageous Fire so that it was then thought the whole Island of Sicily would have perish'd Aetna is observ'd to overflow with Torrents of Fire every 15 Years K. Hiero died in this City The Remains of an Amphitheatre with divers Inscriptions and Marks of its Antiquity are yet to be seen Long. 39. 40. Lat. 37. 00. Our English Sandys saith That the Bay upon which it stands is but shallow and not capable of Ships The Country fruitful and the City being an Vniversity and not having much Trade is the more inhabited by Gentlemen Catanzaro Catacium a City in the further Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples with a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Regio 2 or 3 Miles from the Ocean between Squillaci and Nicastro Cataonia an antient City and Country in Asia Minor between Cilicia and Cappadocia in Strabo's time subject to the King of Cappadocia Bellona had a sumptuous Temple in her honour in this City to whose service above 6000 Men and Women were Consecrated under the direction of a Soveraign Priest who here resided Cateau or Catteau-Cambresis Castrum Cameracense a small Town in the district of Cambresis 5 Leagues from Cambray and 2 from Landreci The Treaty of Peace in 1559. by the French said to be so disadvantageous to them was celebrated here Ce Catelet a Town in Picardy upon the River Escaut and the Frontiers of Hainault and Cambresis Taken by the Spaniards in 1557. and once again in this Age but restored to the French by the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659. A considerably strong place Caterlagh Catherlogh Carlough Caterlogum a City in the Province of Leinster in Ireland on the West side of the River Barrow 30 Miles South-West of Dublin which Lionel Duke of Clarence began to Wall and Bellingham Lord Lieutenant of Ireland fortified with a Castle This is also the head of a County of the same Name Cathness Catnesia Cathanesia is the most Northern County in the Kingdom of Scotland on the North and East washed by the Caledonian Ocean on the West it hath the same Ocean and the County of Strathnavern in part and on the South it hath Sutherland Generally barren little inhabited yet it is a Bishoprick and an Earldom Catolica a Town in the Province of Romagna in Italy between Pesaro and Rimini so call'd in the third Century from the Catholicks of the Council of Rimini who
Chilca a fruitful Valley in the Kingdom of Peru ten Leagues from Lima and six from Pachacama The Salvages manure it with Sardines Chili one of the most Potent Kingdoms of the South America When the Spaniards entred the New World it was first discovered by them in 1535. It lies four hundred Leagues in length from North to South but its breadth is not great bounded on the North by Peru on the West by the Pacifick Ocean or the Mar del Zur on the South by Magellanica and on the East by the Andes A part of the Inhabitants of this Country retiring into these Andes have defended their Lives and Liberties against the Spaniards ever since and have sometimes given them great Overthrows S. Jago is the Capital City of it Many Mines of Gold and Quarries of Marble grow within its bowels Yet a very cold Country governed by a Vice-Roy in subordination to the Vice Roy of Peru. Chiloe or Chilue an Island and Town belonging to the Kingdom of Chili South of the extreme parts of that Country in the West-Indies giving Name to a neighbouring Gulph called the Archipelago of Chiloe because of the number of the Islands therein Chimarioti Ceraunii are a Ridge of very high Mountains in Albania or Epirus which run from the North-East to the South-West and lie not above fifty Miles North of Corfu See Ceraunii Chimay Chimacum a Town and Castle in Hainault in the Confines of Champagne upon the River Alby which falls into the Mase three German Miles from Mariebourg to the South-West This Town was made a Principality by the Emperor Maximilian I. in 1486. Chimera a City in the Confines of Macedonia between the Mountains of Chimarioti upon the shoars of the Gulph of Venice which has a strong Sea-Port It lies about 30 Miles North of Corfu upon a Rock which has Precipices on all Sides whither all the Country People retire when need requires by which they have preserved themselves from the Turks and will pay him no Tribute They are stout Men and good Soldiers but infamous for Theft and Robbery preying equally upon the Turks and Christians Yet they are Christians by Profession and subject to the Bishop of Janina in Thessaly Vide Wheeler's Travels § There is a flaming Mountain mention'd by Pliny Strabo Ovid c. in Lycia of this Name from whence the Poets and after those the Philosophers derive the Fiction of a Chimaera whereby they understand a meer Creature of the Imagination compos'd of such Contradictions and absurdities in Relation to one another as cannot possibly be any where united into a being only in Thought But what Occasion our Mountain gives for such a Whimsey the Mythologists are put to others to invent Chiâ—tu one of the Principal Cities in China the Capital of the Province of Suchyen on the Borders of West Tartary between the Mountains and the River Kiam in Long. 131. 40. Lat. 30. 40. Chin A famous Lake in the Province of Junnan in China occasion'd by the total swallowing up of a great City which formerly stood in the place by an Earthquake China is a vast Kingdom in the East of Asia bounded on the North by the Kingdoms of Tangut and Niathan or Cambalu from which it is separated in part by Mountains and in part by a Wall 500. Leagues long on the West it has India extra Gangem from which it is parted by the Lake of Cincujay and a long Ridge of Mountains on the South and East it is surrounded by the Chinese and Indian Ocean Since the year 1630. the Tartars have conquer'd this once most Potent Kingdom This is a vast populous civil fruitful Countrey and for Learning and Mechanick Arts to be preferred before all the Pagan People in the World They are very ingenious at Geometry Arithmetick Astronomy and Physick and since Confusius the Socrates of China brought that Faculty into repute with them in Moral Philosophy also Some maintain the Arts of Printing Gunnery and the Magnet were first invented here Their Language for the most part consists of Monosyllables written downwards in Characters expressing entire words and things like the Egyptian Hieroglyphicks without Letters the Rules by which they are understood may be seen in the China illustrata of Kircher Ptolomy calls this Kingdom Sinarum regio It is watered by the great Rivers Kiang and Hoan And stands divided into fifteen Provinces six under the Division of Catay and nine under the Division of Mangin which are incredibly populous and rich with Mines of Gold Silver and precious Stones In every great Town there is a College for to teach the Philosophy of Confusius And you have a perfect Catalogue of their Emperors from the year 2952. before Christ to the present Lord of the Vniverse and Son of Heaven as they call him Chinca a large and beautiful Valley in the Diocese of Lima in Peru discovered by Pizarro whose Government by Order from the King of Spain was limited by the River S. Jago to the North and this Valley to the South It yields plenty of Corn and Wine Chinkiang a well built and populous City of the Province of Nanking in China with a Territory of the same Name whereof it is the Capital having Jurisdiction over two other Cities The Physicians of this place have the reputation of the best of that Faculty in all China Chinon a Town upon the Vienne in Touraine in France above four Leagues from the fall of that River into the Loyre and ten from Tours to the South-West It was here that the famous Maid of Orleans first came and offered her service to Charles VII of France in 1429. And for the Situation of it it is thought to be of that importance as to deserve a Garrison in the Castle Chintin a City in the Province of Pekin in the North of China having a Command over one and thirty Cities Chintu a great City and Territory comprehending nine and twenty other Cities in the Province of Suchuen in China See Chimtu Chinyven a Town in the Province of Junnan in China situated in a Country that is rich in Silver Mines The Fort called Loko belongs to the Government of this Town § A second in the Province of Quiechen in the same Kingdom with a Territory called also Chinyven having Jurisdiction over five Cities Chio an Island of the Archipelago over against Smyrna not above twelve Leagues from the nearest Coast of Asia call'd by the Turks Sakisadasi that is the Isle of Mastick It belonged to the Family of the Justiniani of Genoua heretofore but in 1566. conquered by the Turks under whom it now is It is about eighty Miles in Circuit very fruitful and populous and inhabited for the most part by Christians who live here with greater liberty and kinder usage than in any other part of Turkey The Men are proud ignorant lazy and ugly but the Women are beautiful Thevenot In the Eastern part of the Isle stands the City Chio which has had the
Rome 639. these People marched with an Army of 300000. fighting Men besides Women and Children in search of a New Country to live in And being joined by the Teutones the Ambrones the Tigurii and others in the way they ravaged Germany Istria Sclavonia the Grisons Switzerland till met and overcome by Marius in a very bloody Battle in the Field called Campus Marii between Aix and S. Maximin near the little River Arc in Province Anno Romae 652. Cimmerii the ancient Name of a People in Italy that dwelt in subterraneous Caverns near the Lake Averno and of another towards the Euxine Sea from whom the Bosphorus Cimmerius derives its denomination Whether of these two occasioned the Proverb Cimmeriae Tenebrae from the darkness of their habitations the Learned make a difference not worth the determining Cinaloa a Province of New Mexico in the South America bounded by Guadalajara to the South and to the North by the Vermiglian Ocean Cinan a great City in China in the Province of Xantum in the North-East of that Kingdom in Long. 145. Lat. 36. It is adorned with divers stately Palaces and Pagods The Jesuits have also a Church here and nine and twenty other Cities lie under the Jurisdiction of this Cinca or Cinga a River of the Kingdom of Aragon in Spain springing from the Pyrenees below Bielsa afterwards joining the Segre about Fraga and ending with the Ebro Lucan styles it Cinga rapax Ciucheu see Quancheu Cingary a People of Africa Cingcheu a great City in the Province of Xantung in China with a Territory containing thirteen Cities more The Territory is full of Hills yet not defective in the Necessaries of Life Ciolfa or Zulpha a Town of Armenia upon the River Aras desolated by Scha-Abas King of Persia and all the Inhabitants carried away into Persia and setled in Gilan and Hispahan there for to promote the Trade of Silks Cioutat a fair Town and a secure Port in Provence in France betwixt Marseilles and Thoulon adorned with divers Churches and Religious Houses Particularly at a Monastery of the Services hard by it there is a remarkable Fountain ebbing and flowing with the Sea The Name is but a Corruption of Civitas Ciradio a River of Corsica Circassia is a vast space of ground extended from the Cimmerian Bosphorus and the Fens of Maeotis on the Eastern Shoars of the Euxine Sea for the space of five hundred Miles reaching two hundred towards the North. A Country fitly seated for Trade but possessed by most Barbarous Tartars who delight only in War and roving they pretend to something of Christianity having been converted in the eighth Century but then they never enter the Church till they are old serving the Devil in their Youth and God in their Age when they can neither Rob nor Murder any longer Olearius placeth them upon the Western Shoar of the Caspian Sea They are subject for the most part to the Grand Czar Cirencester Corinium Durocornovium Cornovium an old Roman City in Glocestershire upon the River Churne about twelve Miles South-East of Glocester Here the four Proconsular ways made by the Romans crossed each other and vast numbers of Roman Coins Inscriptions c. have been digged up But this City was so ruined by the Saxons and Danes that what is walled in is not a fourth part of it inhabited the rest being Fields and Orchards the Inhabitants subsist mostly by Clothing It was taken by Prince Rupert by Storm Feb. 2. 1643. Cirenza See Acerenza Cirrha an antient Town in Phocis upon the Gulph of Corinth near the City Delphes to which it serv'd as a Port giving the Name of Cirrhaeus Sinus to a Part of the same Gulph Cirte or Cirtha an antient City of Numidia in Africa called afterwards Constantine being the Capital of the Province of Constantine in the Kingdom of Algier In this City we read in Salust that Jugurtha kill'd Adherbal the Son of Micipsa King of Numidia It became an Episcopal See in the Primitive Ages of Christianity A Council was assembled at it in 303. by Secundus Primate of Numidia wherein almost all the Bishops of that Province were convicted of the Crime of Traditores that is delivering up their Bibles to the Infidels in Persecution A Second in 412. whereat S. Austin assisted Cithaeron a Mountain of Boeotia consecrated amongst the antient Poets to Bacchus Citta di Castello Tifernum Tiberinum a Town in the Dukedom de Vrbino in the Ecclesiastical State upon the River Tiber 10 Miles from S. Sepulcher It has a small Territory annexed to it called il Contado di Castello under the Popes Dominion of which this City is the Capital Citta di Chieti Teatea a City in the hither Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples near the River Pescara 7 or 8 Miles from the Adriatick Whence the Order of the Religious Theatines derives their Appellation one of their Founders having sometime been Bishop hereof Citta-Ducale or Reale a City in the further Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples being a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Chieti It stands upon the River Velino 15 Miles from Aquila within the States of the Church Citta Nova a City of Histria in Italy with a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Aquileia at the fall of the River Quieto into the Adriatick In a bad Air and consequently little inhabited Called Nova because built since and a little below the Ruines of the antient Aemonia Citta della Pieve Civitas Plebis a small Town in the Perugine in Italy belonging to the Ecclesiastical State Citta di Sole a well fortified Town in the Province of Romagna in Italy upon the little River Fagnone belonging to the Grand Duke of Tuscany Citta Vecchia Medina or Melita a City in the Island of Maltha with a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Palermo situated upon a Hill in the middle of the Island having formerly been the Capital thereof Cittadelli Cittadella the Capital Town with a Port and some Fortifications of the Island of Minorca Civdad Real a City in the Province of Chiapa thence commonly it self call'd Chiapa in the South America being a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Mexico whereof the famous Bartholomeo della Casa was Bishop in the last Age. § There is of this Name a Town in New Castile in Spain upon the River Guadiana between Calatroua and Almagra The same is a large Town in a fruitful Plain but not very well peopled Civdad Rodrigo a City of the Kingdom of Leon in Spain upon the River Agujar and the Frontiers of Portugal It is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Compostella Supposed to have been built by Ferdinand II. in the Year 1200. for a Rampart against the Portugueze Civencheu a great City in the Province of Fokien in China with a Territory of the same Name annexed to it commanding six old Cities This City is extraordinarily traded and in its Temples Palaces triumphant Arches and Houses appears an admirable and magnificent Place A little West
very Noble Palace of the Electors two large Wings of which and the Front with five Pavilions stand towards the River In the German Wars the Spaniards put a Garrison into this Town which was beaten out by the Sâ—edes and when the French had in later times wheedled the Elector out of his strong Castle the Emperour's Forces seized upon the Elector Philippus Christophâ—rus and carried him away to Vienna In â—60 â—â—nder Charles the Bald here was a Council or Diet held â— and in 922. another under Henry II. The Marquis de Bousâ—â—erâ— came before it in November 1688. with seven or eight thousand French but retired with the satisfaction only of having shot into it â—â— great â—â— any Bombs Coblentz a Village in Switzerland upon the Rhine where the Arola Aâ—r fallâ— into it in the Borders of Schuâ—â—â—â—n seven Miles from Basll to the West Cobourg Melocatus a small Town in Fraâ—coâ—â—a upon the River Itsch in the County of Henneberg and in the Borders of Thiâ—â—ingen under the Dukes of Saxony which has also a fine Castle It stands 8 Miles from Smaleald to the South-East and 5 from Bamberg to the North. Cocas Cochias Caucasus a Mountain in Asia Cocco Laus a River of Calabria Cochin Cochinum a City of the East-Indies near the Promontory of Malabar called by the Portuguese Cochim by the Italians Cochino the Capital of a Kingdom of that Name and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Goa It has a large Haven and Fort called S. James's Fort built by the Portuguese in 1503. The Country is very well watered and fruitful antiently called Colchi as some think but however the Portuguese were Masters of it ever since they built that Fort till 1663 when the Hollunders took it from them The Kings of this City have always born a great Kindness for the Portuguese And when at first the King of Calecut would have destroyed them he took part with them against him and protected them and when the Hollanders had beaten them out the present King refused to be Crowned in the usual Place till the Portuguese were restored to it This City stands 36 Leagues from Calecut to the South and is watered by a fine River The Country about it yields much Pepper Those they call the Christians of S. Thomas have the Liberty of their Religion here using an Office of the Chaldean Language Long. 105. 00. Lat. 10 00. There is another Town of the same Name in the Island of Lemnia but now ruin'd Cochin-China call'd by the Inhabitants Cachucyna and by the Portuguese Cauchin-China or Couchin-China is the most Easterly Kingdom in the East-Indies on the Continent bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Tungking on the West by a People called Kemis and its own Desarts on the South by Tsiompa or Ciampa and on the East it has a vast Bay of the Ocean call'd after its own Name the Gulph or Bay of Cochin-China opposite to the Isle of Hainan Alexander de Rhodes a French â—esuit has lately given a large Account of this Country which is subject to a King of its own and stands divided into siâ— Provinces each under a subordinate Governour Cockermouth a Market-Town in the County of Cumberland situated upon the River Cocker near its fall into the Derwent by which two Rivers it is almost surrounded About 8 Miles from the Sea with a Castle upon one of the Hills adjoining to it Cocytus the antient Name of two Rivers the one in the Kingdom of Epirus the other near the Lake of Averno in Italy The Poets call one of their four fictitious Rivers of Hell by this Name Coclosyria the Region betwixt the Mountains Libanus and Antilibanus in Asia in which the River Orontes springeth Coesfield a small but strong City of Westphalia upon the River Berkel about 5 German Miles from Munster to the North. The Bishop of Munster doth often relide in this Place Coetquen or Coesquen a Town and Castle in Brittany near Dinanâ— which gives name to a Family of Honor. Henry III. advanc'd it to the Dignity of a Marqinsate in 1575. Coeworden Coevorden Baduhennae Lucâ—s Covordia is a very strong and fortified Town in the Provâ—â—â—e of Overyssel in the Low-Countries the principal Town of Drenâ—e standing in the Marshes near the Borders of the Bishoprick of Munster who has formerly possessed it but it is now in the Hands of the Duâ—oh it lies about a Mile from the River Veâ—â—t Vidruâ— and two from Hardenberg to the South-East It was often taken and retaken in the Civil Wars of the Low-Countries Coggeshal a Market-Town in Essex in the Hundred of Lexden Cognac Conâ—cuin Campiniacâ—m a Town in the Dukedom of Angoumoâ—s in France upon the River Charaâ—te betwixt Jarnaâ— and Xâ—â—ntes It stands in a fine fruitful Soil for Wine especially Francis I. King of France being born here built it a Fortress In the Year 1238. there was a Council held at it In the Civil Wars of France it was taken and retaken Nevertheless accounted a place of Strength Cogni Iconium a City of Cappadocia in the Lesser Asia which is now great and well peopled the See of an Archbishop under the Patriarch of Constantinople the Capital of Carmania and the Seat of a Turkish Bassa Still made more famous in 1658. by a Victory obtain'd against a Bassa Rebel It lies over against the Western Cape of Cyprus about 30 German Miles from the shoars of the Mediterranean Sea In the Year 256. a famous Council of the Bishops of Cappadocia Galatia Cilicia and the neighbouring Provinces was held here declaring the Baptism of Hereticks null an Opinion which occasioned great and long Dissentions afterwards amongst Christians Cogoreto a small Town upon the Coast of Genoua where Christopher Columbo the Discoverer of the New World was born It lies 10 Miles East of Savona and is under the Republick of Genoua Cohan Albanus a River of Albania Coimbra Commbrica a City of Portugal mentioned by Antoninus but now destroy'd There is another call'd by that Name in the Province of Beira which sprung out of the Ruines of the former It is built upon a Rock and therefore sometimes called Aeminium upon the River Munda now Mendego 32 Leagues from Lisbon to the North and is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Braga In 1550. John III. King of Portugal removed hither the University which had been settled before at Lisbon Seven Kings of Portugal were born and three died here It has the Honor also to bear the Title of a Dukedom Coire Chur Choira the capital City of the Country of the Grisons upon the River Plessur a little below the Rhine between Chiavenne Glaris and Appenzel The Grisons ordinarily hold their Diets at it Though the inhabitants profess the Opinions of Zuinglius yet they allow a Toleration to a few Roman Catholicks under a Bishop residing at Marsoila but taking his Title from hence who is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Mentz and has the Honor to be a
upon the River Morine five or six Leagues from Meaâ—x Colophon an ancient City of Ionia in Asia the Less now called Altobosco and Belvedore which has sometime been a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Edessa It pretends with others to the Honour of giving Birth to Homer And in the Days of Antiquity was particularly renowned for excellent Cavalry Colossis or Colosse an antient City of Phrygia in Asia the Less upon the Confines of Caria and the River Licho Now called Chonos by the Greeks It has been an Episcopal and afterwards an Archiepiscopal See Made universally known by S. Paul's Epistle to the Primitive Christians that were here Coloswar See Clansenburgh Columb Magna a Market-Town in Cornwal in the Hundred of Pider Columbo a City in the Isle of Ceylan in the East-Indies built by the Portuguese on the West Side of that Island but taken from them some years since by the Hollanders Columpton a Market-Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Hayrudge Coluri an Island in the Gulph of Engia called formerly Salamine or Salamis which pretends to the Honour of being the Birth-place of Homer and is famous in ancient History for the Defeat of Xerxes's vast Fleet. Colzim a Mountain of the Desart of Gebel in the Kingdom of Egypt a days Journey from the Red Sea There is a Monastery of Religions standing upon it called S. Anthony's Com. See â—om Coma Como Comum and Novo Comum a City in the Duâ—ohy of Milan upon a Lake of the same Name a hundred Miles in Circuit in Latin called Larâ—â—s Lacus seventeen Miles North of Milan It is a rich large and handsom City and gave Birth to the ancient Poet Caecilâ—â—s mentioned in Caâ—ullus to the younger Pliny to the Historian Paulus Jovius and to the late Pope Innocent XI who was chosen Pope Sept. 21. 1676. and died Aug. 12. 1689. in his seventy eighth year Comachio Comacula a City of Romandiola a Province of Italy in the Dukedom of Ferâ—ard which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Ravenna and under the Dominion of the Pope It is little and not well inhabited by Reason of the badness of the Air being seated in a Marsh amidst the Lakes that are made by the Po three or four Miles from the Adriatick giving Name to the Valley of Comaâ—chio It lies twenty Miles from Ravenna to the North and forty from Bologna to the East and belongs to the See of Rome The Venetians in 932. almost ruined it Comagena the ancient Name of a Country in Syria which as we find in Josephus was a Kingdom in the Time of Marâ— Anthony who overcame he says Antiochus King of Comagena Afterwards made by the Romans a Province It s chief City being Samosata a place famous for giving Birth to Lucian and Paulus Samâ—saâ—eâ—â—â—â— the Patriarch of Anâ—ioch Comana an ancient City of the Kingdom of Pontus in Asia the Less upon the River Iris having been a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Neocaesarea And famous in the Times preceding Christianity for a Temple dedicated to Bellona § Another of Cappadocia upon the River Sarus with a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Melitene Comania a Country of Asia betwixt Georgia to the North and the Tannais to the South for the most part under the Turks and Moscovites It enjoys a fertile Soil but ill cultivated the People chusing rather to live by Robbery than their honest Industry Comb-Martin a Market-Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Branton Comenolitari Thessalia a part of Maoedonia Comine Cuminum a small Island in the Sicilian Sea belonging to the Order of the Knights of Malta who have built a Castle in it It lies betwixt Maltha and Gozo Cominges See S. Berâ—â— and de Cominges Commetcy Commeroium a small City in the Dukedom de Barrois in Champaigne six Leagues from Clermonâ— to the South It is seated on the West Side of the Moselle or Meuse Commâ—ites a Town and Castle in Flanders upon the River Lis near Messines giving Name to an Honourable Family Como See Coma. Compiegne Compendium a City in the Isle of France of good Esteem in the County of Senlis upon the River Oise which a little lower falls into the Aisne seventeen Leagues from Paris to the North and five from Soissons to the West In the year 833. King Lewis the Debonnaire by the Conspiracy of his three Sons and the Sentence of a Council of Bishops here was deposed Clotharius the â—â—â—st King of France and Lewis the Bald Emperor and King of France died both here the latter in 879. who built here also a Monastery and adorned the City with so many magificer Ediâ—â—ces that it was for some time called Carolopolis or Charles â—â—wn from him Complutum See Aleala The Biblia Complutensia have that Name after the old one of this Compostella Brigantium Janasum Compostella the Capital City of Galaecia in Spain upon the River Sar or Sardela which in 1124. was by Pope Calixtus II. made an Archbishops See instead of Merida then in the Hands of the Moors The Bones of S. James the Apostle are said to rest here in a celebrated Church thence called S. Jago di Compostella the Steeple of which was built by Lewis XI King of France in 1483. But Alphonsus the Chast King of Gallaecia had erected the Body long before upon an Hill in 835. out of the Ruins of Ira Flavia an old Roman Town There is a small Castle and an University here Alphonsus I. King of Castile was also here born it stands thirteen Leagues from Cape Finisterre the most Western Promontory of this part of Spain Long. â—1 00. Lat. 43. 00. by the Maps 8. 19. 43. 00. Compostella Nueba is a City of America in New-Spain in the Province of Xalisco not far from the South-Sea an hundred Miles from Guadalaxara to the West It was for some time a Bishops See but being in a bad Air and barren Soil the See was translated thence to Guadalaxara in 1570. They formerly call'd it Villa de Spiritu Santo Cona Conos see Colosse a City of Phrygia much celebrated of old now ruined by the Turks Conca Crustuminum a small River of Vmbria in Italy which riseth in the Dukedom of Vrbino from the Appenine near Leopoli and falls into the Venetian Gulph six Miles South-East of Rimino There was heretofore a City of the same Name now eaten up by the Sea Concarneau Concarneum a strong Town and Port in Britany in France four Leagues from Quimperley to the East saith Baudrand La Conception a small City in America in Paraguaia at the fall of the River Vrvaig into Rio de la Plata with another of the same Name in Chili which is the most considerable place there the ordinary Residence of the Governour of the Province walled and secured with a strong Cittadel upon the Pacifick Ocean over against the Island of S. Vincent § The Spaniards have given this Name to a Town by them built in the Province of Mechoacan in the
Kingdom of Mexico which secures the Road of Mechoacan to the Silver Mines of Zacateca besides to divers others in Califernia Hispaniola c. Conches a small Town in Normandy three or four Leagues from Eureux in a Territory called Ouche There is an Abbey standing in it Concorde a Country in the Terra Australis beyond the Indian Ocean call'd t'landt van Eendracht by the Hollanders who discovered it in 1618. as they were searching a passage to go to the Moluccae's luca's Concordia a ruined City of the Province of Friuli in Italy the Bishop whereof resides at Porto di Gruaro and is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Aquileia They write it became abandoned in Attila's time Condapoli a City in the Kingdom of Golconde in the Hither East-Indies with a strong Fort upon a Mountain betwixt the Cities Golconda and Candavera Conde Condate an ancient Roman Town in Hainault upon the River Haisne where it entreth the River Escault two German Miles North of Valenciennes This though a strong Town was taken by the French in 1655. and lost in 1656. But Lewis XIV retaking it in 1676. is still possessed of it The Title of it has been and is still born by many of the Princes of the Blood Royal of France there is a small Village of the Name also seated about a Mile West from this fortified Town Conde sur Nereau Condaeum ad Norallum a Town in the Territory of Veuxin in Normandy upon the River Nereau which soon after falls into the Orne betwixt Vire Falaise and Argentan Condom Condomum a small City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux It stands upon the small River Baise two Leagues from Nerac four from the Guaronne and six from Aux in the Province of Guyenne the Capital of the Territory of Condomois and first made a Bishops See by Pope John XXII in 1327. It was taken and much abused by the Huguenots in 1569. This is the Condomium Visconum of the Ancients The late Bishop of Condom now of Meaux has made this City as remarkable and as much spoken of by his Writings as the greatest Town in Europe Condore Condora a Province in Russia towards Tartaria deserta in the North-East part of that Kingdom bordering North upon the White Sea East upon Obdora and Sibiria South upon Permia and West upon the Province of Arch-Angel extreamly cold and but thinly inhabited without Town or City of Note in it The best and chiefest is call'd Wergaturia Condrieu Condriacum a pleasant Town at the foot of an Hill in Lionnois in France upon the Western Shoar of the Rhosne two Leagues from Vienne to the South and seven from Lion to the same Quarter famous for excellent Wines Baudrand observes that some write this Name Coindrieu though improperly Congleton a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Northwich upon the River Dane Conflent a part of the County of Rousillon near the Pyrenean Hills and Cretania the chief Town of which is Villa Franca Once a part of the Kingdom of Spain but now under the Crown of France Congedo Cogedus a River of the Kingdom of Arragon which falls into the Xalon near Baubula Congo Congum a Kingdom on the Western Shoar of Africa in the Lower Aethiopia which by the Portuguese is comprehended in the Lower Guinea and was once very great containing Congo Angola Metamba Cunda Lulla Anunda and the Kingdom of Loangh in trust which Countries are yet in some Maps ascribed to Congo though it is above one hundred and fifty years since they revolted from it Congo properly so called is a small but fruitful well cultivated spot of Ground on the West it has the Atlantick Ocean on the South the Kingdom of Angola and Bengala on the North the Kingdom of Loangh and on the East the Kingdoms of Cangela and Metamba watered with the Rivers Zaire Coanza and Lelunde The principal City is S. Salvador where the King resides He and the greatest part of his Subjects are Christians under one Bishop They have suffered very much from the Portuguese and by Wars as Bandrand acquaints us from Jacinthi à Vetralla a Capuchin who lived many years amongst them Coningsberg Regiâ—mons called by the Poles Krolowice is a great City the Capital of Prusia Ducalis and a Hanse Town at the Mouth of the River Pregel twenty Miles East of Elbing It has a Castle and a fine Haven and came into the hands of the Duke of Brandenburg in 1525. having before that time belonged to the Teutonick Order who built it in 1260. Here was also an University opened in 1544. by Albert Duke of Prusia Coni Cuneum a City in Piedmont called by the Inhabitants Cuno It is seated at the conjunction of the Rivers Stura and Grez thirty six Miles from the Port of Vintimilia upon the Mediterranean Sea Northward and the same distance from Turino to the South built in 1150 And in 1641. taken by the French under the Duke de Hartcourt But since in the Possession of the Duke of Savoy The French have besieged it in the present War under Monsieur Cattinat but were forced to rise again and leave it in the possession of its Duke Connaught Connacia is one of the four great Provinces of Ireland bounded on the North by Vlster on the East by Leinster on the South by Mounster and on the West by the great Western Ocean It contains seven Counties Slego Mayo Roscommon Letrim Longford Gallway and Clare or Tomound Ptolomy calls its ancient Inhabitants Gangani and Concani Strabo Coniaci and Conisci When the Parliamentarians had fully subdued the Irish about 1655. they took up a resolution to transport all the Heritors of the Romish Religion into this Province which is separated from the rest of Ireland by the River Shannon and the Mountain of Curlewe reserving to the English the Forts Cities and fortified Towns the Passes and the Sea Shoars for Garrisons to secure them from any further Attempts of that Nation a Design which had been proposed before by Spencer and thought easie but it proved otherwise Elench Motuum Part 2. Connor Coneria a small City in the Province of Vlster in the County of Down upon the Lake Cone toward the North-West Corner of the said Lake the Bishoprick is united to that of Down under the Archbishop of Armagh sometime ago possessed by the Eloquent Dr. Jeremiah Taylor who died Bishop of this Diocese Conquet Conquestus a fine Port in Britany in France fourteen Leagues South of Brest The Town though small is neat rich and well built taken by the English in 1416. Conserans Consorans a Territory in the Vpper Gascogny on the Borders of Languedoc which bounds it to the East as Cominges and de Foix doth to the West having Catalonia on the South which is divided from it by the Pyrenean Hills and on the North the Bishoprick of Pamiers It s greatest extent is from North to South along the River Salatum § Conserans or S. Lizier de
which about one hundred years since saith Mr. Wheeler was nothing but an old Castle and the present Suburbs of the Castati But now it is a good large City and an Archbishops See well fortified with Walls on the South and two Castles at the East and West Ends the side towards the Harbour is not so well fortified nor needs it This Town would be almost impregnable were it not for a Rock that stands towards the the West and commands the adjoining Fort with a great part of the Town Here resides the chief Govour of the Venetian Islands both in Civil and Military concerns The Inhabitants are of the Greek Church but much Latinized The Soil not so fruitful of Corn as to supply the Inhabitants but then it produceth Wine Oil and all sorts of good Fruit. In the year 1537. Solyman II. Emperour of the Turks sent his famous General Barberoasse with an Army of five and twenty thousand Men to make a Descent upon this Island as they accordingly did but were forced by the Venetians to an Inglorious Retreat thence again Cory one of the chief Towns in Georgia called Hermastis and Armactica by the Latins There is another of the same Name in Dalmatia mentioned by Pliny and Ptolomy under the Name of Corinium five or six Miles from Novigrod upon a Hill and a third in the Ecclesiastical State in Italy Coria Caurium Caurita a City upon the River Alagnon in Old Castile five or six Leagues from the Frontiers of Portugal The Bishop of it is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Compostella Corinth Corinthus Heliopolis a City of the Morea which is an Archbishoprick under the Patriarch of Constantinople built in the year of the World 3066. near the Isthmus between the Ionian and Aegaean Seas At first subject to Kings but growing powerful and rich by Commerce it became a Common-wealth It s situation affording it two Noble Havens to the East and West it was the first City of Greece that set out Trireines or great Gallies to Sea by which it became the richest and one of the most powerful Cities in all Greece it treated the Roman Embassadors with that Insolence that they decreed the total ruine of it which was effected by L. Mummius Achaius 146. years before the Birth of our Saviour Julius Caesar re-built it S. Paul converted it to Christianity and honoured it with two Epistles and Clemens Romanus with a third of the next immediate antiquity and value Thus it became the Metropolis of Achaia in after-times it had Despots or Princes of its own from whom it passed to the Venetians by their Grant But in 1458. Mahomet II. dispossed that Republick of this Noble City and they have since treated it with so much Tarkish cruelty that there are not many Houses in it inhabited by poor Men rather out of necessity than choice It is hoped the Venetians may give it another resurrection out of its desolation and ruines they having recovered it in Aug. 1687. without opposition They now call it vulgarly Corantho The old Acrocorinthus a strong Cittadel built upon the top of a very high Hill and the proud Curtezans here of higher prizes than for every one to give it is supposed severally or together occasioned the Proverb Non licet omnibus adire Corinthum Long. 49. 15. Lat. 38. 11. § Apollodorus writes of three Corinths more the first in Thessalia the second in Epirus the third in Elis. Corlin Corlinum a City in Pomerania subject the Duke of Brandenburg ever since 1648. upon the River Persant three German Miles from the Baltick Sea and five from Treptow to the East It has a Castle and was before subject to the Bishop of Camin Corneto Cornuetum a Bishops See in union with that of Monte Fiascone subject only to the Pope in the State of the Church upon the River Marta four Miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea and forty six from Rome to the West very little inhabited being unhealthfully seated Cornovaile or Cornoaille a Territory in Britany in France called Corisopitum by the Latin Writers the Capital of which is Quimper-Corantine Cornwall Cornubia Cornavii Damnonii is the most Western County of England It has Devonshire on the East from which the River Tamer parts it and on all the other sides is surrounded with the Sea For a long time the Store-house of Tin to the whole World till in 1240. there were other Mines of this found in Misnia and Bohemia by a Cornishman The Soil of this County is tolerably fruitful but Mountainous In some Rocks they find a sort of a Precious Stone call'd the Cornish Diamond shaped and polished by Nature and many times as big as a Walnut only not so hard as a Diamond of the right kind The Inhabitants are the Reliques of the old Britains and still retain their Language It was by Edward II. in 1336. made a Dukedom and given to his Son Edward and has ever since belonged to the Eldest Son of the King of England who is born Duke of Cornwall Coro a City of South America near the Sea in the Province of Venezuela under the Spaniards It is built after the manner of Venice upon a Lake amongst a number of little Islets Thence often it self call'd Venezuela or Little Venice Coromandel a Kingdom on the East side of the Promontory of Malabar in the East-Indies divided from the Malabars by the Mountains of Balagatta which run from North to South to the Cape of Comori it lies along the Eastern Shoar an hundred Leagues in length St. Thomas a Town in 32. deg of Latitude is in this Kingdom in which the Portuguese found Christians of the Greek Church when they came first hither who put the City into their Hands and they enjoy it still it hath many good Harbours much frequented by the Europeans especially in Winter The Natives are yet for the most part stupid Pagan Idolaters as Mr. Herbert saith and and of a Dusky Complexion This Country was divided amongst many Princes but at present is subject to one saith Mendelslo who resides some times at Bisnagar and some times at Narsinga Coron Corona a Maritime City in the Morea on the Southern Shoar opposite to the Coast of Barbary it is situate on the richest and most fruitful Province of this Country called Belvedora ten Miles by Land and twenty by Sea from Modon The Venetian's built here in 1463. a great Tower for a Magazine but they enjoyed it not long for Bajazet II. took it after a Siege in 1498. It was attempted in 1533. by the famous Johni Doria Admiral of Spain and taken but could not be long kept It was taken again by the Venetians after a sharp Siege in 1685. and may they long enjoy it It is a very strong City with a safe and large Haven and in former times was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Patras Coronea an ancient City of Boeotia in Greece near Leuctra to the East and the River Cephisus North. It was here
English Miles from Thessalonica to the North-West upon the Borders of Macedonia and Albania See Dr. Brown's Travels Cossir See Cosir Costagnazo Haemus a Mountain in Thrace Coustantz See Constance Costa-Ricca A Province of New Spain in the South America lying betwixt the two Seas and Westward of Veragua The Capital whereof is the City Carthage There are some Gold and Silver Mines in it and a Soil which makes it worthy of its Name Coste des dents or Coste de l' Ivoire the Ivory Coast is a part of the Coast of Guiny in Africa betwixt the Cape of Palmes and the Cape of three Points whither the English French Hollanders c. traffick for Elephants Teeth It is said to be well inhabited and to lye very conveniently Coste d'Or or the Golden Coast another part of the Coast of the same Country so call'd from the quantity of Gold that they find upon it It is about one hundred and thirty Leagues long reaching from the Cape of three Points where the former ends as far as to the River Volta and the Kingdom of Benin The English Danes and Dutch have divers Settlements upon it The latter having dispossessed all the Portugueze Cothon the ancient Name of the Port of Carthage in Africa Cotatis the principal City of Imiretta a Kingdom or Province of Georgia built at the Foot of an Hill by the River Phasiâ— consisting of about two hundred Houses those of the Grandees and the Kings Palace stand at a distance The Town has neither Fortifications nor Walls nor any Defence except where it is enclosed by the River and the Mountains On the other side of the River upon the top of an Hill higher than that under which the City is built stands the Fortress of Cotatis which appears very strong As Sir John Chardin describes this City in his Travels Cotbus Cotbutium a Town in Lusatia in Germany upon the River Havel which also passeth by Berlin from which it lies thirteen Miles to the South and ten from Franckford to the South-West This Town came into the Hands of the Duke of Brandenburgh in 1645. and is sometimes called Cotwitz Cotrone Croton a City of the further Calabriâ— in the Kingdom of Naples which of old was twelve Miles in Compass as Livy saith and built eighty years after Rome but now very small and thinly inhabited yet it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio and has a Castle built by Charles V. It stands on the South-East side of Italy fifteen Miles South-East of Severina The Cottian-Alpes Alpes Cottiae a part of the Alpes heretofore under the Dominion of King Cottius mention'd in Suetonius as an Ally with the People of Rome in the Reign of Augustus and therefore by the Ancients called Cottiae from him They begin at the Fountains of the River Var and reach to Susa that is from Mount Viso to Mount Cenis dividing the Dauphinate from Piedmont Cotzchin or Chotozin or Kotym a Castle in Moldavia upon the Niester four Polish or twenty English Miles from Caminieck to the South-West where in 1673. an Army of the Turks consisting of two and thirty thousand Men under the Command of Solyman Aga designed for the ruine of Lemburgh were encamped having the Neister behind them a Range of Rocks and Precipices on one side the Castle of Cotzchin on the other a Trench before them defended by Half-Moons a Bridge over the Nieper and another over the Castle yet Zobietsky then Marshal but now King of Poland with much lesser Forces coming up October 9. battered down their Brest-Work with his Cannon and the next day dismounting his Cavalry to second the Lithuanian Foot which had been beaten off in Person at the head of his Men stormed their Camp took it slew or took Prisoners thirty one thousand five hundred Turks and the rest hardly escaped Solyman their General being slain In 1621. Vladislaus Prince of Poland Son of Sigismund King of Poland in the same Field defeated the Forces of Osman I. and slew the greatest part of them amongst the rest Vssain le Borgne who was esteemed the best Commander the Turks had in those times Couco Coucum a Kingdom in Barbary in Africa with a City of the same Name sixty Miles from the Shoars of the African Sea between the Kingdoms of Algiers and Bugia Coucy a Seigniory in Picardy giving Name to a Family of Honour Coventry Conventria a City in the County of Warwick upon the West Side of the River Sherborne which is of no very great Antiquity but neat strong rich and populous by reason of the Cloathing Trade Also a Bishop's See in Conjunction with Litchfield under the Archbishop of Canterbury It has three Churches the Priory or Convent whence the Name Coventry was the most ancient Foundation of the City being built by Canutus the Dane And the Cross may be reckoned amongst the finest in England The Noble George Villiers late Duke of Buckingham was created Earl of Coventry in the twenty first of James I. A Title that had lain buried ever since the Death of Edwin a Saxon whom William the Conqueror created Earl of Coventry in the first Year of his Reign Henry VI annexing the adjacent Towns and Villages to this City made it with them a County Corporate distinct from that of Warwickshire Coulan a City and small Kingdom in the East-Indies in the great Promontory of Malabar on the Western Shoar thirty five Leagues North of the Cape of Comâ—ry and about seventeen South of Cochin The Country is well watered and fruitful not above twenty Leagues long from North to South and eight or ten broad from East to West Bounded by the Kingdoms of Cochin and Travancor There are many Christians in it by the means of the Portuguese The City has a Castle and a safe Haven with the Character of a rich and flourishing Place The Portuguese were driven out of it by the Hollanders in 1663. Coulour a Town of the Hither East-Indies in the Kingdom of Golconde in Malabar seven days Journey from the City of Golconde There is a Mine or Quarry of Diamonds very near it Courreze Curretia a River in Limosin in France which riseth two Miles above Tulle and having watered both it and Brive falls into the Vesere two Miles above Condat Courtenay Cortenaeum Corteniacum Curtiniacum a small Town in the Isle of France six Miles distance from Sens West The Princes who have born the Title of this small Place are frequently mentioned by the French Historians and some of the Emperors of Greece are deriv'd from their Family Courtray Corteriacum by the Natives called Cortrick a Town in Flanders upon the River Lys five Leagues from Tournay to the North and four from Lille to the West Made famous by the Defeat of the French in 1302. This Town was taken by the French in 1646. and fortified and again in 1667 But in the Treaty of 1679. it returned under the Obedience of the King of Spain who is still possessed
of it Câ—urzola an Island under the Venetians upon the Coast of Dalmatia full of Wood. There is besides five Villages in it a City of the same Name which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Ragusa The Houses built all generally of Marble Coutances Constantia Castra a City and Bishoprick in Normandy in France under the Archbishop of Rouen It stands upon the River Barde two Leagues from the British Sea five from Auranches to North and twelve from Caen to the West This City has a large County belonging to it called by the same Name le Coutantin which lies extended from North to South in the form of a Peninsula on the North and West it has the British Sea on the East the River Viere which parts it from Bessin and on the South le Auranchin divided from it by another small River The Isles of Jersey and Guernsey heretofore belonged to this County which being in the hands of the English are not now esteemed a part of it but annexed to England Coutras Curtracum a Town in Guienne in Perigord seated on the Confluence of Lille and Drâ—ma twelve Miles from Bourdeaux to the North-West Made famous by a Battel here sought in the Civil Wars of France in 1587. Couverden See Coeworden Cowbridge a Market Town in the County of Glamorgan in Wales The Capital of its Hundred Cowes a noted Harbour at the Entrance of the Creek that goes to Newport in the Isle of Wight fortified with a Castle Cracow Cracovia call'd by the Inhabitants Krakow by the Germans Craâ—aw by the Italians French and Spaniards Cracovia is the Capital of the Kingdom of Poland and stands on the River Weya Vistula about fifty Polish Miles from Presburg to the North-East 85 Miles from Dantzick South It is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Gnezna there belongs to it a strong Castle built upon a Rock with vast Suburbs and an University opened in 1401. by Vladislaus K. of Poland The Palatinate of Cracovia which belongs to this City and is one of the three which make up the lesser Poland has Silesia on the West Hungary on the South Sandomiria on the East and the Palatinate of Siradia on the North. This Bishoprick was founded by Mieczislao who received the Christian Faith in 965. The City was burnt by the Tartars in 1241. The Custody of it was after this committed to the Germans in 1428. A Disputation being had here with the Hussites in 1431. the King sent for some Preachers out of Bohemia who preached many Years in the Sclavonian Tongue Helvigis the Queen caused the Bible to be translated into the Polish Tongue and when the Pope in 1448. sent a Legate to this Nation the University shewed him no Respect but stuck to the Council of Basil In 1591. they burnt the Protestants Church there as they did in 1635 by the procurement of the Jesuits who the next year were banished for it out of that University This City was also taken by the Swedes in the Wars under Charles II. King of Sweden in 1655. It is stiled the Rome of Poland for its Excellency They tolerate the Jews wearing a distinctive Habit. There are betwixt fifty and sixty Churches in it Cragno See Carniola Crambourn a Market-Town in Dorseishire the Capital of its Hundred seated near the Spring of a River that runs into the Stower it is a Town of good Antiquity Cranbrook a Market-Town in Kent in Scray Lath seated at the Head of the River Medway Cranganoor Cranganora a Kingdom and a City in the Promontory of Malabar in the East-Indies The City lies upon the River Aicot two Leagues from the Ocean and seven from Cochin to the North being a Bishop's See whilst it was in the Hands of the Portuguese but in 1663. the Dutch took it from them and put it into the Hands of the King of Calecut together with the small Kingdom belonging to it Cranostaw Krasnostaw Cranostovia a small but well fortified Town in Black Russia in Poland upon the River Wieprez and a Lake made by the said River five Leagues from Chelm to the South-West and as many from Lublin to the South-East Now the usual Residence of the Bishop of Chelm Craon a small Town in the Province of Anjou in France upon the River Oudon towards the Frontiers of Maine in Brittany giving Name to an honourable Family Crapack the Carpathian Mountains which divide Hungary Moravia and Transilvania from Poland This ridge of Mountains called by the Antients Carpates and Mons Carpathus runs from East to West under various Names given by the Nations which border upon it Crapone a Canal in Provence made in the last Age by the ingenious Adam de Crapone from the River Durance to the Arles beginning at Roque a Village six Leagues below the Fall of the said River into the Rhine La Crau a large Heath of seven or eight Leagues length in Provence filled with a prodigious Quantity of Stones whereof divers of the Antients have conjectured but none give a satisfactory Cause Craven a Part of the West-Riding of Yorkshire hilly and rough in which Shipton stands It gives the Title of an Earl to the Right Honourable William Craven created by King Charles II. Anno 1664. Cray S. Maries a Market-Town in Kent in Sutton Lath. Creci Cressy Creciasensis Cressiacum a Town in Picardy upon the River Serre in the most Eastern Borders of that Province three Miles from la Ferre to the East and the same Distance from Guise to the South This small Place by the English Valor under Edward III. and his Son the Black Prince in 1346. August 26. received a Name that will last for ever Philip de Valois being here beaten in a set Battle in which the Kings of Bohemia and Majorca Charles Duke of Alensone Brother to the King of France the Duke of Lorraine Lewis Earl of Flanders and in all 11 Princes 80 Barons 1200 Knights and 30000 common Soldiers were slain and King Philip himself escaped with great Difficulty being scarcely admitted into one of his own Castles upon his Reply to the Question Who is here The Fortune of France § There is another Creci in Picardy upon the River Serre near Laon in the Tract of Tierache § And a third in the Province of Brie upon the River Morin two or three Leagues from Meaux within the Government of Champaigne Crediton a Market-Town in Devonshire upon the Rivers Credit and Forton The Capital of its Hundred and formerly a Bishop's See till King Edward the Confessor translated the same to Exon. It is adorned with a fair Church built Cathedral-wise well inhabited in a rich Soil and drives a good Trade of Serges Both the aforesaid Rivers fall into the Ex. Creil â—reolium a small City or great Town in the Isle of France upon the River Oesia Oise over which it has a Bridge between Clermont to the North three Miles and Senlis to the South two Crekelade a Market-Town in Wiltshire in the Hundred
to Count Teckeley who commanded the Action for seventy Rix Dollars Crosno Crosna a small City in the Black Russia in the Kingdom of Poland in the Palatinate of Primyslie near the Carpathian Hills and the Rivers Visloc and Jasiolde Crossen Crossa a City in the Province of Silesia and Kingdom of Bohemia upon the River Oder where it entertains the River Borber from the South about ten Miles above Franckfort This is the Capital of a small Dukedom which being many Ages ago mortgaged to the Duke of Brandenburg and not redeemed in due time has ever since been in his Possession Crotona an ancient City in the Further Calabria in Italy which is now a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio Milo and several other famous Athletae were Natives of this place in whose times it was no less than twelve Miles in circuit Croty a Sea-Port on the North side of the Somme in Picardy two French Miles from Asselane to the South and the same distance from Caen in Normandy to the North. Crouch one of the little Rivers of the County of Essex Crow or le Crou Crodoldus sometimes called Gonnesse is a River in the Isle of France which arising above a Village called Louvre five Miles East from St. Dennis falls into the Seine at S. Dennis Crowland a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Ellow upon the River Weeland in a very fenny low ground The best Streets of it are severed from each other not unlike Venice by interjacent Water-courses and the Causeys leading to it so narrow that no Carts can possibly pass which may justifie the Proverb saying All the Carts which come to Crowland are shod with Silver Croy a Village in Picardy two or three Leagues from Amiens giving its Name to a Family of Honor in the Low Countreys Croydon or Croyden Neomagus a Market Town in Surrey the Capital of its Hundred seated near the Spring head of the River Wandle nine Miles from London where the Archbishop of Canterbury has a Countrey House it has an Hospital for the Poor and a Free-School for Children founded by Archbishop Whitgift Crumaw or Crumeaw Crumaviae a Town in the Province of Moravia in Germany betwixt Brin and Znaim adorned with the Title of a Dukedom and a fine Castle Crussol a Seigniory in the Province of Vivaretz in France near the Rhosne giving its Name and the Title of Earl to an Honourable Family Cresiphon an ancient Town of the Kingdom of Assyria near the Tygris said to be built by the Parthians Cuama or Coama a River of the Kingdom of Sofala in Africa said to derive its Source from the Lake of Sachaf where it has the Name of Zamber towards the Mountains of the Moon the same Lake that the Moderns take to be the Head of the Nile Cuba an Island in the Bay of Mexico in America to the South of Florida which is one of the greatest that belongs to that part of the World It has on the East Hispaniola divided from it by a Bay of the breadth of fourteen Spanish Leagues on the West the firm Land of America on the South Jamaica at the distance of nineteen Leagues In length two hundred Spanish Leagues in breadth not above thirty five The greatest part of it is Mountainous but well watered Infinitely peopled when the Spaniards discovered it but they destroy'd all the Inhabitants and have not been able yet to people it themselves so that the greatest part is desolate This and Jamaica were the first Places of America which Columbus discovered in 1492. There are six Cities in this Island the principal of which is St. Jago on the South side and Havana a noble and well fortified Sea-Port on the North side under the Tropick of Cancer Cuckfield or Cuxfield a Market Town in Sussex in Lewis Rape Cuco a strong City by Situation upon a high Hill in the Kingdom of Algiers in Africa towards the River Major The Soil it stands in affords plenty of all things necessary for humane life Cucusa an ancient City of Armenia the Less upon the Frontiers of Cilioia and Cappadocia having formerly born the honour of an Episcopal See and the more remark'd in History for being the place whither S. John Chrysostom was banished by the order of the Empress Eudoxa Cuenca Concâ—a a City of New Castile in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo the Capital of La Sierra It stands in a Rocky and Mountainous Country upon the River Xucar twenty five Leagues East from Toledo and thirty four West from Valencia Built by the Goths out of the Ruines of a Roman City called Valeria not far distant The Moors became next Masters of it and kept it till 1177. when the Spaniards recovered it again Cueva a Town in the Kingdom of Castile in Spain giving its Name there to a Family of Honor. Cufa a City of Chaldaea or Yerach in Asia upon the West side of Euphrates sixty Miles South from Bagdet or Babylon on the Borders of Arabia Deserta and heretofore the Residence of the Califfs after that it was under the Persians and at present under the Turks being much declined from its ancient Splendor Wealth and Greatness Long. 79. 10. and Lat. 32. 00. forty five German Miles above Balsera North. Cuhiung a City and Territory of the Province of Junnan in China having Jurisdiction over six other old Cities and standing in a fruitful and pleasant Country that is provided with Mines of Silver and Precious Stones Cujavio Cujavia a Province of the Kingdom of Poland bounded on all sides by the greater Poland but the North where it has Prussia The chief Town is Brestia Brezestie ten Miles from Thorn to the South and thirty from Damzick Culhu Cullus a Town and Port upon the Mediterranean in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa where the River Collo or Culhu is discharged into the Sea betwixt Hipone and Bugia Culliton a Market Town in Devonshire the Capital of its Hundred Culm a City of Poland upon the Vistula in Prussia built upon a Hill This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gnesa though heretofore under the Archbishop of Riga built in 1223. by the Knights of the Teutonick Order but having suffered much in the Swedish Wars it is now almost desolate and the Bishop has removed his Palace to Colme three Miles more to the East Culm stands twenty Miles South of Dantzick and ten North from Waldislaw and is the Capital of a little Country adjacent called by the Inhabitants Colmischland Culembach Culembachium a small Town in Franconia upon the River Mayn near the Rise of it six Miles from Bamberg East and as many from Coberg South-East the Capital of a Marquisate belonging to the Duke of Brandenburg and part of the Burgravate of Noremburg between the Territory of Bamberg to the West Misnia to the North Bohemia and Bavaria to the East and Norimburg to the South belonging also to the Duke of Brandenburg Culembourg
Culemburgum a Town and Castle in Guelderland belonging to the United Provinces yet as to the Revenue possessed by its own Count it stands on the River Rhine above two German Miles from Vtrecht to the South-East and six from Nimeguen to the West Taken by the French in 1672. and dismantled in 1674. Culiacan a Province in New Spain in America within the Jurisdiction of the Governor of Guadalaxara between New Mexico to the North New Biscay to the East and the Purple Sea to the South and West It has a City of the same Name Cuma Cumae once a Colony and famous City of Italy in the Kingdom of Naples which in 1207. was utterly ruined by the Saracens The Ruines of it are yet visible upon an Hill on the Tyrrheman Sea twelve Miles from Naples to the North-West In the latter times of the Roman Empire this City was wonderfully fortified so that Narses the General of Justinian could not take it without a tedious Siege and at this day the Ruines of it are wonderful many Noble Antiquities are to be seen amongst them The Bishops See that was fixed here is united with that of Averâ—a Virgil speaks of an admirable Temple of Apollo and a Fortress that adorned this City in Ancient Times Neither must it be forgotten that the Sibylla Cumana her Grott being in the neighbourhood took her Title from hence whose Verses prophesied so favourably of our Saviour that Julian the Apostate thought fit to order them to be burnt § The Ancients mention other places of the same Name One upon the Gulph of Smyrna in Asia Minor now called Foya Nova betwixt Smyrna and Pergamus accommodated with a Port and Fortress Near to which the Venetian Fleet obtain'd a Victory over the Turks in the year 1650. Of the rest nothing said Cumberland is the most North-Western County of England on the North bounded by Scotland on the South and West it has the Irish Sea and on the East Lancaster Westmorland the Bishoprick of Durham and Northumberland It took its Name from the Inhabitants who being of the old British Race called themselves Kumbri or Kambri The Country though cold and uneven is yet not unpleasant to the Traveller And it affordeth great plenty of Corn Cattle Fish Fowl and Metals nor is it destitute of many Roman Antiquities the Reliques of the Roman Garrisons who lay here to defend Britain from the devouring Picts The principal City is Carlisle Prince Rupert whilst he lived was Duke of Cumberland by the Creation of King Charles I. his Uncle 1643. He dying without Issue November 30. 1682. that Honor is now in the Person of his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark It became a Dukedom from an Earldom For in the year 1525. H. VIII conferred the Title of Earl of Cumberland upon Henry Lord Clifford in whose Family it continued from thence to 1642. The Eden is the principal River of this County Cuneo Cuneus See Coni. Cuningham a County of Scotland on the Western Shoar over against the Isle of Arran on the West it has the Irish Sea on the North Dunbritoun Fyrth which parts it from Lentieth on the East Cluydsdale and on the South Kile The chief Town is Largis on the Irish Sea seventeen Scotch Miles from Glasco to the West Cunsar one of the Names of the Hyrcanian Sea Curacao or Curassaw one of the Islands known by the Name of Sottovento in the South America over against the Province of Venezuela betwixt Oraba and Bonnaire Taken from the Spaniards by the Dutch in 1632. Curdistan Chaldaea a vast Province in Asia under the Dominion of the Turks but upon the Borders of the Kingdom of Persia containing Chaldaea part of Assyria towards Media and a great part of Armenia Major The Western Bounds are closed by the River Euphrates and the Eastern by the Tigris having Tarcomania to the North and Alidulia to the South The Curdes a People partly Mahometans Heathens and Christians take their Name from and dwell in this Province The ancient Chaldaea was divided into two parts the one North of Mesopotamia in which Vr stood the Country of Abraham the other South of Babylon near Arabia Deserta a large Champion Country in which the Philosophers lived and flourished whose same became extended over all the East and whose enquiries gave the first birth to Astronomy Astrology Magick Philosophy and Theology Babylon was the Capital of the ancient Chaldaea La Cure Cora Chora a River of France arising in the Dukedom of Burgundy and flowing through Nivernois Vezelay or Verzelet and Clamessy at Vermenton just opposite to Crevant in the Dutchy of Burgoigne falls into the Sure Cures an ancient Town of the Sabines in Italy from whence the Name of Quirites became derived to the Romans and remarkable also for being the Birth-place of Numa Pompilius It is thought Vescovio was afterwards built upon the Ruines of this Town Curetes a Name of the ancient People of the Island of Crete Curiale Dianae Oraculum a small Town on the Coast of Arabia Foelix towards the Persian Gulph about twenty seven Miles to the North-West of Cape Raz the most Eastern Point of that Country and and eight from Mascate a City Curland Curlandia a Province of Livonia called by the Germans Kureland by the Dutch Coerlandt by the French Courlande is bounded on the East by Semigalen on the South by Samogithia and on the North and West by the Baltick Sea This Country belonged anciently to the Teutonick Order but Sigismund Augustus King of Poland in 1587. forced Gothardus Ketler Master of that Order to renounce their Right and hold it together with Semigalen as a Fee of the Crown of Poland So that ever since it has been separated from Livonia and annexed to that Crown and is still in the Possession of the Family of Ketlers as Dukes of Curland and Subjects to the Crown of Poland The Capital City of it is Goldingen Curresi Avens a River of Italy in the State of the Church in the Diocese of Sabina between Campania to the South and Vmbria to the North. It watereth S. Lorenzo and the Abby di Farfa and then falls into the Tyber fifteen Miles North of Rome Curta a Village of Hungary upon the Danube between Comora and Gran. It is a Roman Town ruined Curzola Corcyra Nigra an Island of the Adriatick Sea on the Coast of Dalmatia under the Dominion of the State of Venice which is twenty five Miles in length from North to South and five in breadth It has a small City or Town of the same Name which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Raguza and there are five other small Villages in it It lies only five Miles from Cape Cabiccello a Promontory of Dalmatia Le Curzolari Echinades Echinae five small Islands over against the Mouth of the Gulph of Lepanto Near to which the Christians gain'd that Signal Naval Victory over Selim II. his Fleet in 1571. in the Battel called the Battel of Lepanto Cusa an
ancient City of Nubia in Africa And a River of the same Name in the Kingdom of Morocco Cusco Cuscum a great City of Peru in the South America one hundred and twenty Miles East from Lima. It was the Royal City of the Kings of Peru adorned with a stately Temple dedicated to the Sun and divers noble Palaces and an admirable Fortress when the Spaniards conquered it but now dispeopled and ruined Yet it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima. Cussit a Province in Aethiopia Custrin Custrinum a City in the Marquisate of Brandenburg on the East side of the River Oder where it receives the Warta four Miles North from Franckfort a very strong Place Cuzagne a small Territory or District in Aquitaine in France Cuzt a large Province of the Kingdom of Fez in Africa lying eighty Leagues along the River Gureygure as far as to the River Esaha East of the Province of Temesen and containing all the courses of the Mountain Atlas betwixt those two Rivers Cyclades a Circle of little Islands in the Archipelago surrounding the Island of Delos call'd Paros Andros Zea Micoli Naxia Quiniminio c. Cyclopes the original Inhabitants of the Island of Sicily living about Mount Aetna whose extraordinary height mixt with fierceness occasioned many Fictions amongst the Poets Cydnus a River of Cilicia in Asia the Less passing by Cogni and Tharsus Alexander the Great took a desperate Sickness by bathing in it and some say the Emperor Frederick Barberaosse died of the coldness of its Water as he returned from the East in the year 1100. Cydonia the same with Canea in Candia Cylley Celia a City of Stiria in Germany upon the River Saana which a little lower falls into the Save it stands ten Miles from Lambach to the East and as many from Draburgh to the South-East The Capital of a County of the same Name and belongs to the Emperor of Germany there is in it two very strong Castles and many Roman Antiquities are thereabouts discovered Cynopolis an ancient City of the Kingdom of Egypt upon the Western part of the Nile remark'd heretofore for the Worship of the God called Anubis in it Cynthus a Mountain in the Island of Delos upon which the ancient Pagans built a celebrated Temple in the honour of Apollo who together with Diana was supposed to be born here of Lâ—tona Cyparissa an ancient Town of the Morea that did belong to the Government of Messene and imparted its Name to the Cape and Gulph adjacent Cyprus an Island of the Mediterranean Sea called by the Turks and Arabians Kubros about sixty Miles North from the Shoars of Syria and Anatolia and extended in length from East to West two hundred and twenty its Circuit about five hundred and fifty This Island is so very fruitful the Air so pleasant and the Hills abounding so with Metals that it was by all the Ancients call'd The Happy Island Ammianus Marcellinus saith it could build a Ship and fraight her out to Sea out of what grew here without the help of any other place The first Inhabitants were the Cilicians who yielded to the Phenicians as these did to the Greeks Ptolomy the last King of this Island knowing that Cato was sent against him by the Romans put an end to his own Life It continued in the hands of the Greek Emperors till 656. when it was conquered by the Saracens In 807. the Emperors recovered it but Richard I. King of England going to the Holy War in 1191. and being ill used by the Inhabitants made a Conquest of it for England and gave it to Guy de Lusignan whose Successors were dispossessed by the Templars in 1306. In 1472. the Venetians possessed themselves of it in 1560. Selim the Grand Seignor gained it from them whose Successor at this day enjoys it not without some Confusion and as occasion serves Insurrection of the Inhabitants against the Turks There are three considerable places in it Merovige at the West end Colosso on the South side and Famagusta on the same side more to the East and about eight hundred and fifty Villages Cypsella See Ipsala Cyr Ciropolis Cyrus the same with Carin Cyrene See Cairoan Cythera See Cerigo Cyziqua an ancient City of Asia built in the twenty fourth Olympiad upon the Propontis and honoured in the Primitive Ages of Christianity with a Metropolitan See under the Patriarch of Constantinople Over against the Ruines of it stands a little Island famous for the Marble that they call the Marble of Cyziqua Czaslaw Czaslavia a very small City in Bohemia upon the River Crudimka nine Miles from Prague to the East with a considerable Prefecture belonging to it John Zisca the famous Captain of the Hussites who so sharply revenged the deaths of John Hus and Jerome of Prague was here buried Czeben See Hermanstat Czenstokow or Czeschow Chestocovia a Town in Poland upon the River Warta twenty five Miles East of Breslaw ten North-West of Cracovia It is strong as well by Situation as its Fortifications Czeremissi a Province or rather a People of Moscovy reduced under the Empire of the Grand Duke in the year 1552. Lying on both sides of the River Wolga betwixt the Cities Novogorod-Nisi and Casan They are partly Mahometans and partly Pagans of the Race of the Tartars Czeremicz Sulonia a Town in Dalmatia Czernikow or Czernishaw Czernihovia a City and Dutchy in Poland upon the River Deszna which falls into the Nieper at Kiovia twenty eight Miles South-West of Szernikow or Czernihow This City is now in the hands of the Russ as also the Dukedom thereunto belonging called by the same name They belonged originally to the Russ and together with Novogrod were conquered by Vladislaus IV. King of Poland so that the Russ has only recovered what was his own Czernobel a Town in the Palatinate of Volhinia in Poland upon the River Vsz two or three Leagues from the Borysthenes of little consideration Czersk a Palatinate and Czesko a City upon the Vistula seven Polish Miles above Warzovia or Warshaw Czyrkassi Czyrcassia a strong Town in the Vkraine upon the Nieper twenty seven Polish Miles beneath Kiovia towards the Euxine Sea it has suffered great Extremities of late years from the Cossacks and Tartars being a Frontier to both those People Czyrknizerzee or Zirichnitz Lugeum a great Lake in the Province of Carniola in Germany extended the space of four Miles betwixt the Woods and Mountains towards Italy full of Fish ebbing and flowing extraordinarily and begetting a fruitful Soyl. D A DAbir or Debir an ancient City of the Anakims in Palestine near Hebron It had been formerly call'd Kirjah-Sepher i. e. the City of Learning as we read Judg. 1. 11. And was first taken by Joshua Josh 11. 21. afterwards by Othniel Judges 1. 13. with a reward of the General Caleb's Daughter given him to Wife for his Victory Dabul Dabulum Dunga a strong Maritime City with a large Port and a Castle at the Mouth of the
River Helevacho in the Confines of the Kingdom of Guzarate but under the King of Decan between Daman to the North and Goa to the South in 20. deg of Lat. Dacia the ancient Appellation and Division of a large Country of Europe bounded on the North by the Carpathian Mountains and the River Preuth on the East and South by the same River together with the Danube and by the Theysse on the West It was divided into 1. Dacia Ripensis which contained a part of the present Hungary and Walachia 2. Dacia Alpestris answering to another part of Walachia and to Moldavia 3. Dacia Mediterranea or Gepida in which was comprehended the present Transylvania The Albocensii Sinsi Taurissi Piephigi Biepti c. were the then Inhabitants of this Country under the Government of Kings of their own till Trajan conquering Decebalus reduced them into a Roman Province in the year of Rome 98. and affixed the Name of Colonia Vlpia Trajana to their Capital City otherwise called Varhel or Zarmisogethusa The Greeks called this people Getae It was the Romans that derived the Title of Daci and Dacae upon them Dacia also in the Monastick Writers is put abusively for Dania Daci for Dani and Dacicum for Danicum In the University of Paris the Danish College is called Collegium Dacorum The Marish and the Olt were the principal Rivers of Dacia Dacha Paropanisus a Province in the Greater Asia Dada an ancient City of Pisidia in the Lesser Asia otherwise by Ptolomy and Strabo written Adata and Adadata Dadastana an ancient City of Bithynia in Asia the Less upon the Confines of Galatia remarkable for the death of the Emperor Jovian here Dadivan a delightful Plain four or five Leagues in Circuit in the Province of Farsistan in Persia between Schiras and Lar richly planted with Orange Lemon and Pomgranate Trees and traversed by a River that affords plenty of Fish The English and Dutch residing at Ormus are wont to pass the end of the Summer here for pleasure Dafar the Seat of the ancient Homeritae in Arabia Foelix upon the Arabian Sea Daghestan or Dachestan a Province between the Kingdom of Astracan to the North and the Province of Schirwan in Persia to the South Inhabited by Tartars under a Prince of their own in security against Invasions by the means of inaccessible Mountains The principal City here is Tarku Dagho Daghoa a small Island upon the Coast of Livonia to the North of the Island of Oesel in the Baltick Sea at the mouth of the Bay of Riga which has two Castles and is under the King of Sweden Dagno Thermidava a City of Dalmatia or Albania upon the River Drino Dai or Daae an ancient People of Scythia Asiatica upon the Caspian Sea adjoining to the Massagetae Dalanguer Imaus Dalecarle Dalecarlia or Dalarne a great Province in the Kingdom of Sweden towards the Mountains of Savona and Norway which bounds it on the West on the North it hath Helsinga Gestricia on the East and Vermelandia on the South a vast Country but it has never a City or good Town in it Taking this Name from the River Dalecarle which is one of the most considerable of all the Rivers of the Kingdom of Sweden It is a Mountainous Country Dalem Dalemum a small Town of the Dutchy of Limburg in the Low Countreys under the Hollanders It stands upon a Stream two Leagues from Liege and three from Aix la Chapelle fortified with a strong Castle and adorned with the Title of an Earldom and likewise enjoying a Jurisdiction over a Territory of many Villages beyond the Meuse Dalia a Province contained within Westrogothia in the Kingdom of Sweden between the Lake of of Vener and the Prefecture of Bahuys Dalebourg is the most considerable Town in it Dallendorf a Village and Castle in Eyfel in the Dutchy of Juliers which was the Seat of the ancient Taliates sometimes called Tallenford Dalmatia the Eastern part of the ancient Illyricum called by the Ancients Delmio or Dalmatia from a City of that Name its Capital The Inhabitants of which revolting with about twenty Towns from the Kingdom of Epirus called this small District by the Name of Dalmatia Afterwards it was conquered by the Romans and after this by the Sclavonians called by the Turks Bosnaeli by the Poles Slowienska by the Italians Schiavonia by the French Dalmatie That Country which now goes by the Name is but a small part of the ancient Dalmatia lying upon the Adriatick Sea and bounded on the North by Croatia and Bosnia on the East by Servia on the South by Albania and on the West by the Adriatick in which Bounds Morlachia is included In the year 1076. Pope Gregory VII in a Council held at Salona actually erected this Country into a Kingdom by the Investiture of Demetrius then Duke of Dalmatia with all the Ensigns of Royalty Now the greatest part is under the Turks but the Sea-Coasts and Islands are in the hands of the Venetians who have taken several Forts from the Turks in this present War The Common-wealth of Ragusa lies in Dalmatia also which is not subject either to the Turks or Venetians though it payeth a voluntary Tribute to the former but in 1686. they were very earnest with the Emperor of Germany by their Embassador to undertake their Protection against the Turks The Sclavonian Language is spoken by the Natives of Dalmatia Dalton a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Loynsdale seated in a Champaign Country not far from the Sea Dam a strong Town in Flanders built of late years to secure Bruges against the Hollanders from which it stands but one League towards the North. This is still in the hands of the Spaniard § Dam a strong Town in the Dukedom of Pomerania upon the River Oder right over against Stetin which is in the Possession of the King of Sweden § Dam a Town in Gronningen three Miles from the chief City of that Province to the East and one from Delfziil to the West seated upon Damsterdiep Damala Troezeu once a City now a small Town or Village on the Eastern Shoar of the Morea twenty seven Miles from Napoli to the North-East and fourteen from Corinth to the South-East Daman or Damaon a celebrated Port on the West of Malabar in the Kingdom of Guzurate upon the Coast of the Gulph of Cambaia twenty Leagues from Surate in 20. deg of Northern Latitude in the hands of the Portuguese who built it and have so strongly fortified it that the Great Mogul in vain of late besieged it with forty thousand men Damascus is the principal and the most ancient Town in Syria seated in a Plain upon the Chrysorrhoas or a River called the Golden Stream by the Ancients surrounded with Mountains one hundred and forty Miles from Jerusalem to the South and Antioch to the North. This City is so ancient that it is not known when or by whom it was built but it is mentioned by Abraham In the succeeding Ages
most admired and rich Temple of Apollo Pythius and the Oracle which the Gauls under Brennus attempted in vain to spoil in Christian times became a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Athens but since it fell into the hands of the devouring Turks it is become a poor small Village twenty Miles West from Leucadia forty from Lepanto to the East and about seven saith Baudrand from the Bay of Corinth It is observed by Suidas Cedrenus Nicephorus and divers others that about the time of the Nativity of our Saviour this Pythian Oracle became dumb And Augustus being astonished at its silence received for answer Me Puer Hebraeus divos Deus ipse gubernans Cedere sede jubet tristemque redire sub orcum Aris ergo dehinc tacitis abscedito nostris Nero afterwards plundered it of five hundred Statues of Brass with all its Wealth broke down its Buildings and distributed the Lands belonging to it amongst his Souldiers Delta an Island made by the Nile in Egypt of the fashion of the Letter Δ in the Greek in the way as that River flows from Cairo Ptolomy mentions two a greater and a less of this sort The ancient City Busiris did stand in the midst of this Island Demer Tabuda a River in Brabant Demetriade Dimnitrado Demetrias an ancient City of Magnesia in the Province of Thessalia in Macedonia upon the Gulph dell ' Armiro or the Pelasgicus sinus of the Classicks It has been heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Larissa from which it stands twenty Miles to the East Denbigh Denbiga one of the twelve Shires in wales has the Irish Sea on the North Flintshire on the East Merinoth on the South and Caernarvan on the West The principal Rivers are Cluyd Elway and Conwey which last separates this Shire from Carnarvan The West part is barren the middle where the Cluyd runneth is plain and very fruitful the last part except what lies upon the D 〈…〉 is less fertil Denbigh the principal Town stands upon a declining Rock H. Lacy Earl of Lincoln obtaining a Grant of this Place from Edward I. walled it and set up a Castle on the South side but wanting Water and being of difficult Access the Inhabitants have by degrees removed their Dwellings nearer the River and in Mr. Cambden's time were building a second Church the former not being able to contain the Inhabitants This Town has the River Aled or Elwy on the West and the Cluyd on the East which meet beneath it to the North it has a Bridge over both of them the later Maps place the Elwy on the South of the Town It stands fifteen Miles from Chester to the West and four from S. Asaph to the South The Right Honorable William Fielding is Earl of Denbigh and the fourth Earl of his Family Dendermonde Teneramunda is a strong Town in Flanders upon the River Schelde where the Tenera from Alost falls into it lying in the middle between Gant and Antwerp about five Leagues from either Denmark Denemarck Dania Cimbrius Chersonesus called by the Italians and Spaniards Danimarca by the Poles Dunska Is one of the most ancient Kingdoms of Europe yet of no great Extent Part of a vast Peninsula called of old Cimbricus Chersonesus in middle time Jutland and some Islands in the Eastern and Baltick Sea make the body of this Kingdom except that the Kingdom of Norway together with Greenland Island and Feroe is now annexed to it It was once a part of the Kingdom of the Goths but now a separate Kingdom consisting of two parts Jutland and the Isles The North of Jutland only is under the King of Denmark viz. Nort Jutland and the Northern parts of Suder Jutland Of the Islands Zeeland Fuynen and Bornholm in the Baltick Sea and Island in the Virgivian Ocean are the chief Coppenhague in the Isle of Zeeland is the Capital of the whole There were also three Counties on the Norway side Blecklen Schania and Haland which belonged originally to Denmark but in 1645. by the Treaty of Brooms-Boa these and some other Islands were surrendered by Christian IV. to the Swedes for ever and again in 1658. and 1660. confirmed to the Swedes This Kingdom had heretofore the Isles of Shetland on the North of Scotland which were granted to James VI. as a part of his Queens Dowry The King of Denmark possesseth also in Germany 1. Half the Dukedom of Holsatia 2. The Counties of Oldenburgh and that of Delmenhorst which two fell to him by Inheritance from the last Count of Oldenburgh Till 1660 the Crown was Elective but then made Hereditary by Frederick III. The Danes have also enlarged their Princes Bounds by planting a New Denmark in the North of America This Kingdom once was one of the most Powerful in Europe as may be remembred more particularly to us by their Incursions into England Scotland and Ireland where they maintained War with our Ancestors above three hundred years together But by the Fate of Time War and other humane Calamities reduced to the state in which it now is The Danish Writers derive its Name and pretend to give a Catalogue of their Kings from Dan the Son of Jacob. It is a cold Climate but fruitful enough in Corn Cattle and Fish and the greatest Revenue of the Crown comes from the Toll that is payed for passing the Sound Denia a Sea-Port in the Kingdom of Valentia in Spain over against the Isle of Yvica on the Mediterranean Sea eleven Miles from Valentia to the South Denin a celebrated Nunnery in the Low Countreys upon the Road from Valenciennes to Doway where the Chapter is composed of 18 Chanonesses who are all Ladies of Quality taking the Title of Countesses of Ostrevan from their Founder S. Aldebert an Earl of Ostrevan who left both his Estate and Dignity to them They enter into no Vows Marry at their pleasure leaving only their thanks to the Chapter for the honour they have enjoyed by it St Dennis en Uaux ad Sanctum Dionysium in Vallibus a Town in the Dukedom of Orleans in France St. Dennis Carriere a Town and a famous Monastery in the Isle of France two Leagues from Paris to the South one of the richest Monasteries in that Kingdom upon the River Crou which a little lower falls into the Scin. The Abbey was founded in 636. by Dagobert King of France in honor of S. Dennis whose Bones sleep here But the Church was rebuilt since by Suggerus one of their Abbots in three Years and three Months ending in 1144. Here are the Tombs of the Kings of France Some of which have died here too St. Dennis a Town in Normandy in the Forest of Lyons on the Borders of Beauvois in which Henry I. King of England died Deptford a large Town in Kent in Sutton Lath situated at the fall of the River Ravensburn into the Thames amongst rich and low Meadows and provided with a Dock and Store-house for the Navy Royal. It is divided into the
another River Iberus which is apprehended to be the same with that the Moderns call Rio Tinto Ebudae Hebudes Hebrides Aebudae five small Islands to the West of the Kingdom of Scotland now more commonly thence called the VVestern Isles They have the honour to constitute a Bishoprick under the Archbishoprick of Glascow Eburones Eburonices Aulerici Eburiaci and Eburovices an ancient People of Gallia Celtica dwelling at and about the modern Eureux in Normandy and the Diocese of Liege taken in its former Latitude Ebusus See Ivica Ecbatana the Capital City of the Kingdom of the ancient Medes apprehended to be the same with the Modern Casbin or else Tauris of Persia See Casbin Hani and Tauris King Cambyses died here in the year of the World 3532. Parmenion by the order of Alexander Magnus was killed in 3725. and the alter Alexander Hephaestion buried here in 3728. with so much Funeral Pomp as amounted to twelve thousand Talents § There was another ancient Ecbatana in Phoenicia towards Mount Carmel Eccleshal a Market-Town in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Pirehill Ecija Astigi Astygi a City of the Kingdom of Andalusia in Spain called by Pliny Augusta Firma upon the River Xenil over which it hath a Bridge eight Miles from Cordova to the South and fourteen from Sevil to the North. This was anciently a Bishops See but now a part of the Diocese of Sevil and at this time one of the best Cities in Andaluzia recovered from the Moors in 1239. L'Ecluse See Sluys Eda Baetius a River in Arabia Foelix which springing out of the Mountains of Ghazuan Bengebres watereth Harsan and a little below Tajef takes in the River Chaibar then by passing by Badid Almortasse Baisat and Mecca it falls into the Red Sea at Ziden or Giodda over against Suaquem in Africa Edel Rha. See Wolgha Eden the Garden of Paradise described Gen. 2. 3. to be planted by the Divine hand at the head of a River which afterwards breaking into four Currents produces the Rivers Pison Geichon Hiddekel and Euphrates from whence they conjecture this Garden to have had its place in the Country about Mesopotamia in Asia Not but that the circumstances of the Guardian Cherubims and a Flaming Sword invisible the Fruit-Trees of Life and Knowledge the Serpents talking with Humane Voice and by an easie fallacy trepanning of his Lord into a condition of entailing Curses upon posterity unborn c. have administred apprehensions to the Curious of this History's being either an Hypothesis of the Writer or an Allegory § Eden Ituna a River of England which ariseth from Huseat Movel-Hill in Yorkshire It passeth Pendragon Castle Kirby Steven Appleby and at Hornbey takes in the River Eimot and entereth Cumberland out of VVestmâ—rland running Northward it passeth Corby Castle and VVarwick then turning West it watereth Carlisse taking in Petterel and Canda one above the other beneath that City also the Irthing which falleth by Brampton and Kirksop the Boundary of England and Scotland so falleth by the Bay of Itune or Eden into the Irish Sea between Anand Castle in Scotland and Boulnesse in England Eder Adrana Aeder a River of Germany which ariseth in the Vpper Hassia and flowing through the Earldom of VValdeck watereth Franekenberg VValdeck and two Miles above Cassel to the North falls into the River Fuld Edernay Hadrianopolis See Adrianople Edessa See Rhoa Edgware a small Market Town in the County of Middlesex in the Hundred of Gore Edinburgh Agneda Edenburgum is the Capital City of the Kingdom of Scotland and Seat of the Kings of that Nation It stands in the South part of Scotland in the County of Lothaine anciently called CASTRVM ALATVM and Edenburroth signifies the same thing for Aidan in the Welsh is Wing it stands on a high Ground in an healthful Air a fruitful Soil watered by many excellent Springs in length from East to West a Mile the breadth something less the Walls strong the publick and private Buildings Magnificent full of People and has a competent Trade by the advantage of the Port of Leith not far from it At the East end is the Royal Palace by it a fine Park and not far off a strong Castle upon a Rock As the variety of the Fortune of War changed this City fell sometimes into the hands of the English and at others of the Scots till 960. when the last prevailed by the means of the Danish Irruptions September 14. 1650. after the Battel of Dunbar the Castle was delivered into hands of the English who kept it till the Restitution of Charles II. And June 13. 1689. the Duke of Gourdon surrendred the same to K. William's Forces under Sir John Lanier upon Conditions for the Garrison only For as to his own Interest he submitted himself to K. William's discretion It lies in Long. 16. 00. Lat. 56. 15. § The Fyrth of Edinburgh is one of the greatest Bays in Scotland on the North it has Fife on the South Sterling and Lothaine and several of the principal Cities of this Kingdom stand about it or near to it Edge-Hill a place in VVarwickshire near Kyneneton seven Miles South of VVarwick where on Sunday October 23. 1642. was fought the first Battel between Charles I. and the Parliamentarians under the Earl of Essex The Earl of Lindsey Commander of the King's Battalia and General of the Field was slain and the Standard taken but retaken by Sir John Smyth who after the Fight was made a Knight Banneret The King had in this first Battel clearly the advantage and opened his way to Oxford and London and the next day took Banbury whereas Essex retreated first to VVarwick then to Coventry and left both the Field and the Passes Edom. See Idumaea Efeso See Ephesus Ega a River in Spain it ariseth in Aalva in Biscay and flowing through the Kingdom of Navarr watereth Stella and Villa Tuercta and between Calahorra and Villafranca falls on the North into the Ebro Egates or Aegates a knot of Islands in the Sicilian Sea over against the Promontory of Drepanum in Sicily to the West They are memorable for the Naval Victory obtained here by C. Lutatius Catulus the Roman Consul over the Carthaginians wherein seventy of their Vessels being taken and fifty sunk a Peace by them desired was concluded upon condition they should quit all their pretensions to the Islands betwixt Italy and Africa with which the first Punick War ended in the year of Rome 513. i. e. 241. before Christ See Gotham Egaean Sea See Archipelago Eger and Etlaw See Agria Eger Egra and Oegra a strong Town in the Kingdom of Bohemia upon a River of its own Name towards the Frontiers of Franconia in Germany It was the Seat of the ancient Narisci according to Thuanus and became first a dependent of the Crown of Bohemia by Mortgage in 1315. In the German Wars often besieged Those of the Country call it Heb or Cheb Egers Aegiricius Egericius commonly called Gers a River of France in the
Jupiter the other to Venus heretofore are yet visible upon it England Anglia called by the French Angleterre by the Italians Inghilterra by the Germans Engel-landt by the Spaniards Inglaterra is the greatest the most Southern and the best Part of the Island of Great Britain called heretofore Albion Britannica and Britannia Which noble Island is divided into three Parts England Wales and Scotland England has Scotland on the North the Irish Sea in part and Wales in part and then the Irish Sea again on the West the British Sea on the South and the German Sea on the East Between 17. and 22. Deg. of Long. between 50. and 57. of N. Lat. It lies together with Wales in the Form of a great Triangle whereof the Southern Shoar is the Base and Berwick the opposite Angle from whence to the Lands End it is accounted three hundred eighty six Miles Long and two hundred seventy nine Broad containing in that Compass about thirty Millions of Acres of Land It was divided by the Romans into five Parts by the Saxons into seven Kingdoms and now into forty one Shires or Counties In which the Parishes amount to about ten thousand The Air is very Temperate both in Winter and Summer being warmed in the one and cooled in the other by the Sea-Vapors the Soil for the most part very fruitful watered with three hundred twenty five Rivers The Inhabitants Valiant and Industrious And as Nature has given it whatever is absolutely necessary to the Life of Man so the Natives by their Trade and Commerce bring in from abroad what may be had throughout the World for Convenience Delight Magnificence and Ornament It has also the best Government and the best constituted Religion of any Nation in the World and as much Learning Civility Arts and Trade as any other Our Fleets excel at Sea our Foot at Land those of all other Nations In short we want nothing to make us happy but Gratitude to God and Union amongst our selves This Island became first known to the Romans about fifty years before the Birth of Christ Julius Caesar entered it with a Fleet in the Year of the World 3895. and renewed his Attempt the year following but the Civil Wars breaking out between him and Pomper the Romans made little Progress here though they kept their Ground till the Reign of Claudius who entered Britain in Person and staying not long his General Aulus Plautius carried on the War so that he took in the greatest part of this Island now called England and under him Vespasian learned the Art of War Didius Avitus succeeded as General and Nero as Emperor under whom the Romans were in great Danger of an utter Extirpation from the Britains But this Storm blowing over they conquered all they cared for as far the Fyrths of Galloway and Edinburgh in Scotland only their ordinary and standing Bounds were between Newcastle and Carlisle They continued their Possession till the year of Christ 433. and then withdrew to desend their nearer Dominions on the Continent against the prevailing barbarous Northern Nations In 449. the Saxons were called in to help the Britains against the Picts those Nations that had never been subject to the Romans in the North of Britain In 455. Hengist their General set up the Kingdom of Kent and began the Conquest of the British By the year 819. the Heptarchy or seven Kingdoms of the Saxons united in one under Egbert King of the West-Saxons which Union received its utmost Perfection under Alfrid about 873. The Danes who had given Occasion to this Union pursuing their Depredations at last conquered the Saxons in 1018. and set up Sweno a Prince of their own In 1042. Edward the Confessor restored the Saxon Line which was broken by William the Conqueror in 1066. But the Blood was again restored by Henry II. in 1155. Edward I. united Wales in 1246. K. Henry II. began and K. John finished the Conquest of Ireland about the Year 1184. in the Reign of Richard I. his Brother In the year 1602. James I. K. of Scotland succeeding Qu Elizabeth of Blessed Memory united Scotland to England And the great Rebellion in 1640. ended in 1660. by the Restitution of Charles the Merciful and Just Yet the Miseries that brought it in the Calamities that attended it and the Judgments that have followed it may be eternal Monitors to English Men to be Loyal to the King and stedfast to the Church Engur Astelfus a River of Asia which springeth from Mount Caucasus and watering Mengrelia falls into the Euxine or Black Sea between Charus and Hippus Twenty Miles North of Chobus another River of the same Country Engury Ancyra a City of Galatia in the Lesser Asia upon the River Parthenius now Sangari which falls into the Black Sea at Cangary This was the Metropolis of Galatia yet seated in the Confines of Paphlagonia on an advanced Ground And made Famous by a Council here held in 314. and another in 357. Called by the Turks Enguri Engouri Angouri or Anguri fifty Miles to the East from Scutari and sixty from Smyrna to the N. East It is now considerable and the Capital of one of the Turkish Provinces in Asia Mithridates the Famous King of Pontus was overthrown by Pompey near this City-Bajazet the Turk in the year 1403. was in the same Place taken Prisoner by Tamerlane the Scythian Conqueror Long. 62. 10. Lat. 42. 30. Enham Aenhamum a Town in the County of Southampton in the Hundred of Andover Of Note for a Council here congregated of the Bishops of both the Provinces in the Year 1009. under the Reign of King Ethelred Enkoping Enecopia a Town in the Province of Vplandia in the Kingdom of Sweden near the Lake Meler five or six Leagues from Vpsal Enna an ancient City standing heretofore in the Center of the Island of Sicily and Famous both for a Temple dedicated to the Goddess Ceres Ennea and for the excellentest Springs in all the Island which are applauded by Cicero and Diodorus The Bellum Servile of Sicily was raised by Syrus Ennus of this Place and ended with the Reduction of this Place also under the Conduct of Pimperna Eno Aenos a City of Thrace called by the Turks Ygnos by the Greeks Eno. It stands on the Archipelago at the Mouth of the River Hebrus now Mariza which runs a little South of Adrianople and here falls into the Sea over against the Isle of Samandrachi forty Miles from the new Dardanels to the North and sixty five English Miles from Adrianople South Is now a Bishop's See under the Patriarch of Constantinople Enrichemont See Boisbelle Ens Claudivium Claudionum Anisus is both a River and a City of Austria the River riseth in the Bishoprick of Saluburgh near Rachstad and running North-East as far as Newmarckt it takes in that of Celstal North-West it meets the Steyr at Steyr Castle and there it turns to the North and washeth the East Side of the City of Ens half a German
by Beira on the West and South it has the Ocean and on the East the rest of Portugal The principal City is Lisbon the Capital of the Kingdom and as for this Province it is divided into six Counties which they call Comarcaes § There was anciently another Province called La Estremadura de Castilla because it was Extrema Durii for on the North it was bounded by the Durius or Douero a great River of Spain on the West it was separated from the Kingdom of Leon by the Rivers Heban and Rigamon from thence it extended by the Rivers Guadarrama which washeth Madrid and Somosierra to the Fountains of the River Douero so that it was one hundred Spanish Leagues in compass and Segovia was the Capital of this Province but as Ximines saith after it was united to Castile it lost the Name which in after times was given to others Etsch Athesis a River of Italy called by the Italians Adige by the Germans Etch. It springeth out of Mount Brenna one of the highest of the Alpine Mountains in Tirol and passing through a Territory of Etschlender which takes its Name from it it leaves Meran and Bolsano considerable Towns on the East turning South it takes in the Rivers Eisock which falls by Brixen Neves and Lavisium then watereth the famous City of Trent beneath which it admits Perzene and so goes on to Verona which it divides in its passage and passing Legnano Rovigo and Anguilara it falls into the Adriatick Sea by Porto di Fossone in later Maps called Porto di l'Adige eighteen Miles South of Venice and three North of the Mouth of the Po. Etna Aetna a Mountain in the East of Sicily which perpetually belcheth out Fire and Smoak called by the Italians il Mongibello by the French Le Mont Gibel by the Arabians Gibel that is the Mountain It is the greatest as well as the most known Mountain in all Sicily in the Diocese of Catanea nine Miles high and fifty in compass and at the opening or Mouth of it at the top twenty four furlongs wide The South side is planted with Vines the North overgrown with Woods on the East from the Top of it to Catanea it is all cultivated and employed to one use or another At some times it rageth more than at others particularly in 1169. 1329. when it had not flamed of many years before 1408. 1444. 1447. 1536. 1554. 1566. 1579. At which last time it damaged Catanea and its Fields more than usual But the greatest Rage was in 1669 when it sent out four Rivers of melted Earth Stones and Rocks which from the top descended down its sides through the Fields into the Sea and there maintained their Torrent a Mile in the Waters before they were able to tame these raving and furious Sons of Vulcan Not only the City of Catanea apprehended a sudden and inevitable Ruine but Men thought the whole Island of Sicily would have been destroyed and that by degrees the Fire would have melted the whole Rock upon which the Island is founded however it destroyed fifteen Castles or great Houses and did an inestimable Mischief Yet the top of this Mountain is often covered with Snow and Ice and the two most contrary things in Nature seem here to unite of which Claudian Lib. I. de Rapt Proserp Sed quamvis nimio fervens exuberat aestu Scit nivibus servare fidem pariterque favillis Eu Augum Augae La Ville d'Eu a considerable Town on the Coast of Normandy upon the River Bresle near the Confines of Picardy six Miles North of Dieppe and about a League from the Sea Here of old were the Essui a People of Gaul It is honoured now with the Title of an Earldom and with an ancient Abbey and a College of the Jesuites Eubaea See Negropont Eucarpia an ancient Town of Phrygia in Asia Minor famed for Grapes in bigness exceeding those of Canaan Evenlode a small River of Oxfordshire Evershot a Market Town in Dorsetshire in â—â—l lerford Hundred Evesham or Evesholm a Market Town in Wercestershire in the Hundred of Bâ—akenhuâ—st with a Bridge over the Avon It is esteemed next to Worcester the best in the County contains two or three Parishes and drives a good Trade and has the honour of chusing two Burgesses for the Parliament Euganei an ancient People of the Alpes betwixt the Lake of Coma and the River Etsch whereof the Sarunetes were a branch and the most considerable dwelling about Chiavenne and the Valtolme Eugubio See Gubio Euphrates though I have discoursed shortly of this River already in the word Aferat yet because I then wanted some Books that were necessary to give a full account of it I will here enlarge upon what I there omitted The first City of Note it washeth is Baberd the second Ezrum so far as it runs West then it turns South and passeth by Arzingan and Maaraz where it takes in Cobaqueb and over against Vrpha it receives a River which comes from Aleppo so passing Bi r Rasseca Belis Chabuca as far as Alchabar it takes in from the East Soaid and a little lower at Waset and Olim falls into the Tigris thus our latest Maps describe the Course of this vast River The Learned Bochartus saith out of Pliny Lib. 5. Cap. 26. that eighty three Miles beneath Zeugma at Massicen the Euphrates is divided and on the left hand the East it goes into Mesopotamia by Selucia a little beneath which it entereth the Tigris Ptolomy Lib. 5. Cap. 18. agrees with Pliny in this then he mentions another Branch by the Name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Kings River or Cut which by the Arabians is called Amelic and by Ammianus Naar-Malcha which he interprets too the King's River Lib. 24. which Abidenus saith was digged by the Order of Nabuchodonozor Pliny tells us the reason of this Cut was to prevent the Drowning of Babylon in great Floods More to the South was a third Branch which went into the Tigris and Sur upon which the great Babylon stood by the confession of Ptolomy though in his Maps it is placed on the second There was a fourth Branch went to the West called Kulpa now Cufa about the Name of which they are not agreed but the use of it was to fill a vast Lake on the West of Babylon Now as to these Branches the Arabian Geographers agree in these Divisions as still extant And yet that Branch which went through Babylon Theodoret saith was very small and perhaps now intirely lost The first and second of the Eastern Branches are represented in our later Maps and the Western Branch at Cufa which appear all like Rivers running into the Euphrates when as indeed they are Branches going out of it The first is that which the Maps call Zab Major the second has no Name but it ought to pass streight to Bagdet and that which is now the main Stream seems to have forced its way in a new Channel after the other was lost and
of Thessalonica from the West thirteen German Miles from Thessalonica to the South Farima a City of Japan eighteen Spanish Leagues from Meaco to the West which is under the King of Japan now but had heretofore a Prince of its own Faringdon a Market-Town in Berkshire The Capital of its Hundred Farne an Island on the Coast of Northumberland in the German Ocean two Miles from Bamburg Castle where S. Cuthbert built him an Hermitage in which he took care to see nothing but Heaven as Bede saith Farneto a Castle in the Dukedom of Florence in Italy near Orvietto Whence the Family of the Farnese with a little Variation is believed to derive their Name Farnham a Market-Town in the County of Surrey The Capital of its Hundred Watered by the River Wey and graced with the Episcopal Seat of the Bishop's of VVinchester King Alfred made a great Slaughter of the Danes in a Victory over them here Faro Pharus a City of Spain in Algarva upon the Ocean between Cape S. Vincent to the West and the Mouth of the Guadiana to the East near the Cape of S. Mary seven Miles from Silves to the South-East Faro di Messina Fretum Mamertinum the Streight between Sicily and Italy Farsa Pharsalus a City of Thessalia where the fate of the Empire of the World was determined between Cesar and Pompey by Battel In some later Maps called Farsato Farsi Persia Farso a Town in Carmania over against the Eastern Cape of Cyprus 7 German Miles from the Mediterranean Sea in Asia the Less Fartach See Fertach Fasso Phasis a River in Mengrelia Fatigar a Kingdom in Africa which belonged formerly to the King of Ethiopia between the great Lake of Arpen to the East the Mountains of Felles to the North the Kingdom of Olabi to the West and that of Bara to the South between 60. and 70. and 10 North Latitude Favagnana Aegathos Aegusa Aethusa an Island on the West of Sicily near Cape Trepano under the King of Spain which has a Bay fit to receive the greatest Navies near to which Luctatius Catulus the Consul gave the Carthaginians their last blow at Sea Faudoas a Town and Castle in the Province of Gascoigne in France adorned with the Title of a Barony and giving its name to an honorable Family Fayal one of the Azores in the Atlantick Ocean under the Portuguese little but fruitful having a Town of the same name with others in it Feldkirck Feldkirkia a small but well peopled Town in the Province of Tirol in Germany upon the River Ill towards the Frontiers of Switzerland It is also written Widkirch and carries the honor to be an Earldom Felin or Welin Felinum a City of Livonia upon the River Felin in Esthonia 150 Miles North of Riga which has a strong Castle in it In this place William of Furstemburgh Master of the Teutonick Order was betrayed by his own Subjects to the King of Sweden in 1650. who has ever since possessed it Fella Carnicum Julium a Castle in Friuli but on the Confines of Carniola under the Venetians Felles a Ridge of Mountains in Africa extending from the North-East to the South-West on the North of Egypt See Fatigar Fello Phellos a City of Lycia East of the River Xanthus or Lycus and West of the Chelidonii Scopuli on the Shoars of Asia the Less Feltri Feltria a City in the Marchia Tarvisina under the Commonwealth of Venice upon the River Asona which soon after falls into the Piave forty two Italian Miles from Trent to the East This is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja and has been under the Venetians ever since 1404. Sometime written Feltre Femeren Femerae Fimeria a small Island in the Baltick Sea on the Shoars of Holstein and Wagria from which it is distant only four Miles made famous by a Naval Victory obtained by the Danes over the Swedes and Hollanders in 1645. Fenesia Psillis a River of Bithynia in the Lesser Asia Ferden Verda a City of the Lower Saxony called also Verden which is the Capital of a Duchy of the same name and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mentz by the institution of Charles the Great It stands upon the River Aller six Miles from Bremen to the East and twelve from Hamburgh to the South of old a Free Imperial City afterwards subject to its own Bishop but in the Treaty of Westphalia it was given to the Swedes who are still possessed of it the Bishop of this City imbraced the Augustane Confession in 1568. The Dukes of Lunenburgh seized it in 1676. but were forced to restore it in 1679. to the Swedes La Fere Fara a strong City upon the River Oyze in Picardy in the Tract of Tierache five Miles from S. Quintin to the South and 4 from Laon to the North it stands in a Morass and was retaken by Hen. IV. after the Spaniards had gained it from the French La Fere Champenoise a City of Champaigne in France between the Seyne to the South and the Marne to the North eight Miles from Chalons to the South § There is another called La Fere en Tardenois in this Province too in the middle between Melun to the West and Reimes to the East Ferentino or Fiorentino Ferentinum a City of Campagnia in Italy under the Pope which is a Bishops See under none but him It lies forty Italian Miles from Rome to the South and eight from the Confines of the Kingdom of Naples to the North a small place built on an Hill Ferento Ferentiae an antient City ruined of Hetruria in Italy near Viterbo and Montefiascone It had been an Episcopal See before those of Viterbo destroyed it upon an account of Heresie in 1074. Ferenzuola or Fierenzuola an Episcopal City in the Capitanata in the Kingdom of Naples Adorned with a famous Abbey and made remarkable in antient History by the Victory of Sylla over M. Carbo here in the year of Rome 672. Fermanagh Fermanagensis Comitatus a County of Vlster in Ireland in which lies Earne the greatest Lake in that Kingdom There is never a City or Town of note in this County and therefore it need be no further considered Fermo See Firmiana Fernes Fernae a City in the County of Wexford in Ireland with an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Cashel now but formerly of Dublin Feroe Islands See Foeroe Ferrandina a Town in the Kingdom of Naples in the Basilicate upon the River Basiento 18 Miles from the Sea to the West and 12 from Matera to the South-West built by Ferdinando Duke of Calabria Son of Alphonsus II. King of Naples and since honored with the Title of a Dukedom Ferrara Ferraria a City of Italy under the Dominion of the Pope and the Capital of the Dukedom of Ferrara which under the Family of Este was so improved and augmented that it became one of the best Cities of all Italy made a Bishops See by Pope Vitaliano 30 Miles from Bologna It was so small
in the time of Theodosius junior that it was called Ferrariola the little Ferrara It stands on the smallest branch of the Po Po Morto from which there is a cut of six Miles as far as Francolino Westward for promoting of Trade but since 1598 when it came into the Popes hands this City has been decaying which the Castle built by Clement VIII has not been able to prevent though that Pope placed there his Image with this inscription Ne recedente Pado Ferrariae Fortitudo recederet Martem Neptuno substituit that is Least the recess of the Po should weaken Ferrara he has brought Mars to supply the want of Neptune His Holiness was however mistaken as the event has shewn for Neptune and Mercury tending equally to the wealth and welfare of a City are much more auspicious Patrons than Mars There was a League made here against the Protestants in 1586. The Council of Florence was begun here in 1438 after a declaration of the dissolution of that of Basil made by P. Eugenius IV. John Paleologus VII Emperour of Constantinople with his Patriarch being personally present An University was settled by Frederick I. in aversion to Bononia about 1316. The Dukedom of Ferrara is a part of Romandiola bounded by the Peninsula of Rodighnia which formerly belonged to this Dukedom but was taken from it by the Venetians in 1500. on the West by the Dukedom of Mantona on the South by Romandiola properly so called and on the East by the Adriatick Sea It was under the Family de Este from 1336. to 1598. when upon the death of Alphonsus II. without Heirs Males it was seized by Pope Clement VIII as Lord of the Fee against the pretensions of that Branch de Este which are now Dukes of Mantoua a Dukedom then a dependent on this of Ferrara The Tract adjacent called Ferrarese assumes its name from it Ferreri or the Island of Iron is the most Western of all the Canary Islands and more particularly mentioned by Writers for a tree supplying the Inhabitants with water whereof there is none elsewhere in all the Island by a distillation from its branches Pet. Martyr le Blanc Thevet c. Ferrete See Pfirt Ferriers Ferraria a small Town in the Territory de Gastinois towards the Confines of Senois two Leagues from Montargis to the North and twenty three from Paris to the South which has a very famous Monastery in it Ferro Calycadnus a River in Cilicia Fertach Syagros Sapphar Fartachium a City and Kingdom on the South of Arabia Foelix which lies about eighty German Miles from Aden to the South in almost Long. 85. Lat. 15. 24. a hundred and thirty Miles from the entrance of the Red Sea to the South La Ferte-Aleps or Alais a Town in the Isle of France three Leagues from Estampes to the East and eight from Paris to the South As this word La Ferté signifies a Fort or place of Strength so it frequently occurreth in the Maps of France La Ferte sur Aube Firmitas ad Albulam a Town in Champagne four Miles from Bar to the South and twenty from Dijon to the North. La Ferte-Bernard Firmitas Bernardi a Town in the Province of Maine in France upon the River Huisne ten or twelve Leagues below Mans. It bears the Title of a Barony La Ferte-Gaucher a small Town in the Province of Brie in France betwixt Meaux Sezane and Provins La Ferte sur Grosne a Town in Burgundy two Leagues from Challon to the South La Ferte-sous-Iovare Firmitas Auculphi or Subter Jotrum a Town in la Brie Campanoise in France upon the River Marne betwixt Chateau-Thierry and Meaux The Huguenots took it in the Civil Wars of the last Age. La Ferte-Milon Firmitas Milonis a Town in the Government of the Isle of France upon the River Ourc or Oureque betwixt Meaux Soissons and Senlis in the Dutchy of Valois It is a good large Town and suffered very much in the last Age's Civil Wars Fervaques Aquae fervidae a small Town of Bathes of warm water in Lieuvin in Normandy two miles and an half from Lisieux to the South and three from Roan to the South-West it is a very small place Ferventia Fons Agri Carrinensis a Bath in Portugal in a Village called Cadima two Miles from the Ocean and the same distance from Coimbra to the West this Fountain is mentioned by Pliny Fescennia an antient Town of Hetruria in Italy the same with the Citta Castellana says Ortelius with Galeso says Cluverius of the Moderns Noted to a Proverb amongst the old Romans for a sort of jesting wanton Poetry Feschamp a Town in Normandy on the British Sea four Miles from Le Haure and the mouth of the Seyne to the North. Fessole or Fiezzole Fesulae an antient City in the Dukedom of Florence in Italy one of the twelve considerable Cities heretofore of Hetruria being the residence of the Thuscan Augurs and afterwards a Bishops See There is a Treatise written by Francis Diaceti sometimes Bishop here of the Saints of this City Fetu or Foetu a small Kingdom in Africa in Guiney with a City called also Foetu upon the Coast dell ' Or towards Cape Corso Feversham a Market Town in the County of Kent in Scray Lath with a good Port for small Vessels King Stephen with his Queen and Eustace his son were all buried here in an Abbey of that King's foundation The right Honorable Lewis de Duras enjoys the Title of Earl of this place Feurs Forum Segusianum a Town in the upper Foretz in Lionnois in France five Leagues from Lion to the West and six from Rohanne to the North upon the Loire Fez one of the greatest Cities in Africa but now declining It is the Capital of a Kingdom of the same name in the West of Barbary said to have been built by the Moors in 786. It is divided into three parts Beleida a part of Old Fez which contains four thousand Families Old Fez properly so called in which are eight hundred Families and New Fez which has about eight thousand Families Old Fez the most Western lies upon Hills and Valleys intermixed and has fifty Mosques very beautiful besides six hundred small ones The New Fez lies in a most pleasant Plain with a double Wall very high and strong and stands near the River Vnion above a Mile from Old Fez. The learned Ortelius tells us Fez in the Arabick Tongue signifies Gold that the City Fez is built in the middle of the Kingdom and the greatest part of it upon Mountains and Hills so that there is no Plain but in the middle that the River entereth into the City by two ways only and then diffuseth it self into innumerable Branches and Channels so that there is scarce a private House that has not a Branch of the River belonging to it and that the rest of the water passing through the Common Sewers do cleanse the City The greatest part of the Houses are built of Stone
the Branches of the Nâ—le forty Miles from Grand-Cairo to the South-East towards Alexandria Furnes or Wuerne Furnae a City of Flanders Gallicant not great but well built and about a Mile from the Shoars of the Ocean it has belonging to it a large Jurisdiction with the Title of a â—iscounty a Collegiate Church and an Abbey It was three times taken by the French and at last by the Treaty of Aquisgrane given up to them two Miles from Newport and three from Dunkirk between which last and this place the Spaniards were defeated by the English and French in 1658. Furstemberg a Town and Principality in the Circle of Schwaben in Germany giving Name to an Illustrious House of which the Cardinal of Furstemberg mention'd under the Word Bonne is a Member Fuynen Hemod â—n one of the Orcades Fuynen Fionia an Island belonging to Denmark in the Baltick Sea between Jutland to the West and Zeeland to the East from both which it is separated only by two narrow Channels the first called Middlefart or Middle Passage the second Die Belt Ottonia Odensee is the Capital of this Island Newburgh or Nuborg on the East is well fortified and has a good Haven This Island is ten German Miles in Length from West to East and eight from North to South in breadth Now under the King of Denmark but it suffered very much of late years from the Swedes who in 1658. took and plundered it In 1659. the Danes recovered the possession of it though at the same time they lost much Cannon and Shipping which they could never retake and the Inhabitants were as much improverished by this Accident It is a fruitful pleasant well seated Island for the Climate it is in Fynland See Finland G A. GAbaca Thospites a vast Lake in Armenia in the Consines of Mesopotamia made by the River Tigris Le Gabardan See Le Gave Gabii a People of the Antient Latium near Neighbours to the Romans in a Town of their own Name They became first subjected under the Dominion of Rome in the Reign of Tarquinius Priscus by a Stratagem of a Son of his pretending Flight hither from the ill Usages of his Father and then cutting off the Principal Men amongst them and betraying the rest to the Romans Gabin Gabinium a Town of Poland between VValdislaw to the North and VVarshaw to the South three Polish Miles from Ploczko to the West in the Palatinate of Rava upon the River Bzura Gad one of the Tribes of Israel which had their Portion assigned them by Moses beyond Jordan whose Borders to the North were the half Tribe of Manasseh to the East Arabia to the South the Tribe of Reuben and to the West the River Jordan by which they were separated from the rest of the Tribe of Manasseh and Ephraim This Country was in the Roman times called Ituraea and now by the Turks Beuikemane It is almost equally divided by the River Scheriat Mandour as it is now called as Michael Nau a Jesuit writes who surveyed very exactly these Parts This Country is now under the Turks Gadara Gadaris a Town belonging to the half Tribe of Manasseh beyond Jordan afterwards to the Region of Trachonitis seated upon a Hill by the River Gadara which falls into the Lake of Genesareth sometimes called the Lake of Gadara too as Strabo saith It is six Miles from Sychopolis to the East and the same from Tiberias and is frequently mentioned in the New Testament Heretofore thought to be invincible It is certain Alexander Janaeus King of the Jews did not take it under a Siege of ten Months and then more by Famine than Force and in Revenge ruined it but it recovered again Pompey the Great in Favour to Demetrius one of his Freemen who was a Native of this City bestowed great Privileges upon it Philodemus the Epicurean Meleager and Menippus that pleasant Philosopher also Theodorus the Orator were all of them Natives of this Country In the Revolt of the Jews under Nero this City hâ—â— its Share and was taken by Vespasian in the year of Christ 66. upon which the Gadarens submitted the year following S. Jerom says the Baths of Gadara were in great Esteem in his Time Gademes Gademessa a Territory in Africa in Biledulgeridia between the Desarts of Fez to the East and Gurgala to the West which has a City or great Town of the same Name near the Head of the River Caspi Capes And also a Desart Gadura Psycus a River of Rhodes Gaetulia a large Region of Africa according to the ancient Divisions thereof now thrown into a part of Bileduigerid and a part of Zaara See Gesula The Roman Arms reached as far in Africa as to this distant Province Gago Gagum a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa which has a City of the same Name upon a River falling into the Niger below Tocrut Great but thinly inhabited This Kingdom lies between the Niger to the North and Guinea to the South rich in Mines of Gold according to some Relations possessed also by a Prince who is Sovereign of the Kingdom of Tombuti Gajazzo Calathia Galathia a City of Compania in Italy mentioned by Cicero as a Colony it belongs now to the Kingdom of Naples and is in the Terra di Lavoro seated on an Hill near the River Volturno Vulturnus almost over against Caserta at the Distance of four Miles to the North and eight from Capua to the East And although a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capua yet it is in a declining Condition and very mean Gajetta Gaeta Cajeta a City in the Terra di Lavoro a Province of the Kingdom of Naples which is well fortified seated at the Foot of an Hill in a Peninsula made by the Sea It has two Castles a large Haven and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Capua but now exempted Baronius tells us the Bishopricks of Mola and Mintorni are united with this See The City of Formium lies not far from it buried now in Ruines by the Saracens to which the City of Gajetta succeeded in the Bishoprick It lies upon the Tyrrhenian Sea four Miles from Naples fifty five from Rome and fourteen from the Pope's Dominions It has heretofore been subject to great Variety of Fortunes but has now a strong Spanish Garrison to secure it This was the Birth Place of Pope Gelasius II. who was therefore called Cajetanus It is mention'd by Virgil Aen. 7. The Haven was repaired by Antoninus Pius Spart Ferdinando King of Arragon fortified the Castle Before this it was Sacked by the French in 1494. who put most of the Inhabitants to the Sword and returned it the year after Charles of Bourbon Constable of France kill'd at the Siege of Rome in 1527. lies buried in the Cathedral But it is most famous for its learned Cardinal Thomas de Via Cajetanus who died in 1534. and is frequently mentioned in the Story of Henry VIII Gaillon a Castle belonging to the Archbishops of Roan in Normandy seven Leagues
Nation The Gallaci or Gallaici of the Ancients under whom the Amphilochi of Justin the Celtici of Mela the Tamarices of Strabo the Lucentii and Lucentes of Pliny and Ptolemy have been interpreted to be comprehended dwelt here It became an Apannage with the Title of an Earldom to the younger Sons of the King of Leon and Castile after its Union with that Crown § New Galicia is a Part of New Spain in South America towards the South Sea called of old Xalisco and sometimes Guadalajara from its Capital City This is not much unlike that in Spain as to the Nature of the Soil The Inhabitants were Canibals exceeding wild and fierce when the Spaniards settled there and not easily reduced from eating Man's Flesh Galilaea a very celebrated Part of Asia on the North of Judaea at first the Inheritance of four of the Tribes of Israel Asser Naphtali Zabulon and Issachar the two first of which were intermixed with the Phoenicians and Syrians and being more Northern and nearer the Fountain of Jordan it was called Galilee of the Gentiles or the Upper Galilee and the other the Lower Galilee This Country was bounded on the North by Syria and Phoenicia from which two Nations it was divided by Mount Libanus on the East with the River Jordan on the South with Samaria cut off from it by Mount Carmel and on the West by the Mediterranean Sea The same was the Scene which our Blessed Saviour chose out of all the Earth to dignifie with his Presence in it he was conceived lived the greatest part of his time and wrought most of his Miracles It is now called Belad Elbescara that is the Western Country and is almost desolate under the Dominion of the Turks To omit so much of the Story of it as may be learned from the holy Scriptures this Country was first brought under the Roman Vassalage by Pompey the Great Anno Mundi 3887. sixty one Years before the Birth of Christ They were again conquered not without great Difficulty by Vespasian and Titus in the year of Christ 66. In all following Times it followed the Fate of the Holy Land or Palestine The Country is exceeding fruitful and in the ancient Times was extreamly populous full of great and noble Cities the principal of which were the Tower of Straton or Caesarea Caphernaum Tiberias Cana Nazareth The Inhabitants were Men of Courage neither fearing Death nor Poverty nor any thing but Slavery and of that they were infinitely impatient But Wars and the ill Government of the Mahometan Princes which have insulted over them ever since 637. have made it now desolate Gallas Gallanes or Giaques a people of the Kingdom of Monomotapa upon the Eastern Coasts of Africa towards the Indian Ocean who in 1537. broke into the Kingdom of Bali and gained some Conquests over the Abyssines in the Upper Aethiopia Ludolphus in his Aethiopick History describes them Their Country is bounded by the Nile to the West Abyssinia to the North and the Kingdom of Mono-Emugi to the East Gallia one of the greatest and best known Regions of Europe to the Ancients I have considered its present State under the Word France and here I am to say a little of its ancient Bounds and People before the Francks or French entered into it These Nations were at first called Celtae after that Galli and by the Grecians Galatae They possessed all that vast Tract of Land between Ancona in Italy and the Mouth of the Rhine from the Western Ocean of Aquitain to the Adriatick Which was divided into Gallia Transalpina and Gallia Cisalpina 1. Gallia Transalpina was divided by Julius Caesar who first conquered the greatest part of it into four Parts Provincia Romana Aquitania Celtae or Gallia properly so called and Belgium All which he saith had different Tongues Laws Manners and Governments 1. Provincia Romana was then bounded on the North with the Mountains of Gebenna and the River Rhodanus on the East with the Alpes on the South with the Mediterranean Sea and the Pyrenean Hills which divided it from Spain and on the West with the Garumna the Rhodanus cutting this Province almost in the middle after it turned to the South and ceased to be a Boundary This River is now called the Rhosne 2. Aquitania had on the North and East the Garumna now Garonne on the West the Ocean on the South Spain and the Pyrenean Hills and was the least of all the four Parts 3. Gallia Celtica was likewise the greatest bounded on the North with the River Sequana now Seyne Matrona now Marne and the Mountain Vogesus now Mont de Vauge which parted it from Gallia Belgica on the East it had also the Marne the Rhine and Alpes on the South Provincia Romana and Aquitania and on the West the British and Aquitain Ocean 4. Gallia Belgica which was the fourth Part on the North and East had the Rhine on the South Gallia Celtica and on the West the British Ocean from the Mouth of the Seyne to the South of the Rhine This vast Tract was divided into various Nations or Tribes which had sent their Colonies into the British Islands and peopled all these Tracts Yet such was the Increase or Restlessness of this People that at times they broke over all those Bounds which Nature had set about them and invaded the neighbour Nations Thus they conquer'd that part of Italy from them call'd Gallia Cisalpina being invited over the Alpes by the sweet Wines from thence about the times of Tarquinius Priscus in the year of Rome 162. 588 years before Christ Bellovesus Son of Ambigatus King of the Celtae being their Leader General or Prince Gallia Cisalpina was the Northern Part of Italy extending from Arsia now L'Arsa a River of Istria to the Alpes which bounded the Provincia Romana in the Gallia Transalpina and its borders on the North and West were the Alpes on the South the River Rubicon or as others say Aesis or as Pliny assures us Ancona and on the East they had the Adriatick Sea These People were divided into four Potent Nations viz. 1. The Insubres which dwelt from the Alpes to the River Arnus now Arno which passeth through Florence 2. The Cenomani which lay next the Insubres to the East and possessed the greatest part of Trevigiana 3. The Boii which took up the rest of Trevigiana and the Dukedom of Ferrara and so much of Romandiola as lies on the North-West side of the Rubicon 4. The Senones who passing the Rubicon inhabited all the rest of Romandiola and the Dukedom of Vrbino to Ancona according to Pliny Of all these Italian Galls the last were the most considerable These were the Men who under Brennus took and sacked the City of Rome in the year of Rome 364. But in the year 470. of Rome they were finally conquered and extirpated by the Romans The Boii were conquered by Flaminius about the year of Rome 529. and being impatient of Servitude passed over the Alpes into Germany
or rather the most Northern Branch of the River Niger which falls into the Atlantick Ocean on the North of Cape Verde and in its passage gives name to the Kingdom of Gambay on its Southern Bank not far from its first Division from the River Niger to the East of the Kingdom of Jalost Gamelara Aethusa an Island of Africa Gammacorura a flaming Mountain in the Island of Ternate amongst the Moluccaes In the year 1673. it suffered a violent Rupture out of which it vomited vast quantities of Smoak and Ashes Ganabara Januarius a vast River in Brasil so called by the Natives it falls into the Atlantick Ocean near St. Sebastian where it makes a good Harbor Gand or Gant Gandavum Clarinea called by the Inhabitants Ghent by the French Gand by the Germans Gent by the Spaniards Gante is the Capital of the Earldom of Flanders upon the River Schelde which there takes in the Lyse and Lieue made a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Mechlin by Pope Paul IV. in 1559. in the Reign of Philip 2. King of Spain This is a vast strong City and was once as rich and populous as unquiet and seditious as any in the Low Countries Erasmus saith of it in his time that he did not think there was any one City in Christendom that could be compared to this for Greatness Power Government and the ingenuity of the Inhabitants But the Wars and other Calamities which have ever since lain heavy upon this Country have exhausted both its Wealth and Inhabitants and brought this City particularly into a very languishing condition The Strength and Situation of it have hitherto supported it It has a Castle built by Charles V. in 1539 who was born here in 1500 and converted an old Abbey which it had into a Cathedral Church And when he built the said Castle spared not to put to death about thirty of the principal Burghers proscribe others confiscate all the publick Buildings take away their Artillery Arms and Privileges and condemn them in a Fine of twelve hundred thousand Crowns for offering to put themselves under the Protection of Francis I. King of France by a Revolt that year of which Francis generously rejecting their Plot had as generously advertised him In the Reign of Philip II. being injuriously treated by the Spaniards this City was one of the first that expelled the Roman Rites in 1578 and admitted the Prince of Orange in 1579. and having cast out the Garrison of Spanish Soldiers levelled the Citadel and fortified the City though then three German Miles in compass It maintained its Liberty till in 1585. seeing the Prince of Orange murthered and no hopes of succor from the Dutch it submitted to the Prince of Parma who rebuilt the Citadel but the Inhabitants being wasted the French took it in 1678 in six days and after restored it to the Spaniards who are now in possession of it This City stands at the equal distance of four Leagues from Antiverp Brussels and Mechlin The learned Hostius Sanderus and Jodocus Badius were Natives of it It s ancient Inhabitants are mentioned by Caesar under the name of Gorduni There are a great many Religious Houses adorning it and seven Parishes besides the Cathedral There is also a strong Castle called the Sas van Ghent or Castle of Gant four Miles from hence to the North built by the Spaniards and taken by the Hollanders in 1644. is still in their Possession Gandia a small Town in the Kingdom of Valentia upon the Coast of the Mediterranean Sea upon the Bay of Valentia eight Leagues from Xativa Setabis to the East It is honoured with the Title of a Dukedom which belongs to the ancient Family of Borgia and has also a College which bears the name of an University of the Foundation of Francis Borgia a General of the Jesuits who was lately Canonized and born here and was Duke of it Gangara A Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa situated between the Lake and Kingdom of Borno the Kingdom of Cassena and the River Niger Rich in Gold and commanded by a King who is absolute The Capital City bears its own name Gangarides an ancient People whose Name Curtius mentions towards the Mouth of the Ganges It is conjectured they might have their Dwelling in the Country we now call the Kingdom of Bengale Ganges the greatest River in the East-India which divides that Continent into two parts called Ganga by the Inhabitants and the Gange by the Europeans it ariseth from Mount Imaus Dalanguer in the Confines of the Great Tartary in the Province of Kakeres and running Southward through the Empire of the Great Mogul it watereth Sirinar Holobassa and Gouro and is augmented by the Streams of Perselus Sersily and Tziotza and many other Rivers in the Mogui's Kingdom In the Kingdom of Bengala it is divided into many Branches and dischargeth it self by five Outlets into the Bay of Bengala giving its name to a Kingdom in its Passage It is full of Islands covered with lovely Indian Trees which afford Travellers great delight The Water is esteemed Sacred by the Inhabitants the Great Mogul will drink no other because it is lighter than that of any other River the Europeans boil it before they drink it to avoid those Fluxes which otherwise it enclines them to This River receiveth from the North-East and West an innumerable number of Brooks and dischargeth it self into the Gulph of Bengala at the height of 23 deg or thereabouts Said by Pliny to be two Miles where it is narrowest and five where it is broadest having Spangles of Gold and precious Stones mixed with its Sands yet not therefore the Phison of Genesis as some mistake because it springs at the distance of twelve hundred Leagues from the Euphrates Gangra an Archiepiscopal City in Paphlagonia in the Lesser Asia in the inland Parts now called Cangria Castomoni and by the Turks Kiengara In this City was a famous Synod of sixteen Bishops celebrated in 324 against Eustathius the Monk for his condemning the Marriage-State Dioscorus the Eutychian was banished to this City by Martian the Emperor in 451. after he had been condemned by the Council of Chalcedon and likewise Timotheus Aelurus a Monk of that Faction in 457. by the Emperor Leo this Monk having been chosen Patriarch of Alexandria Stephanus saith there is another City of the same name in Arabia Foelix Ganhay a Town of War by the Chinese therefore called a Fort in the Province of Fochien in China to the South-East It is magnificently built a Town of great Trade full of People and particularly remarked for a stately Stone Bridge 250 paces long Gani the Mine or Quarry of Diamonds near Coulour in Malabar See Coulour Ganking a great and populous City in the Province of Nanking in China with a Territory belonging to and denominated from it having Jurisdiction over five other old Cities It is the Seat and Government of a Viceroy distinct from the Viceroy of the Province being the more
between the British Sea to the West the Garonne to the North and East and Spain to the South and was the ancient Aquitania and afterwards Novempopulonia that is the third part properly of the antient Aquitania in the division of the Emperour Augustus corrected by Adrian See Aquitaine It had this Name from the Gascoignes or Vascones a Spanish People which setled here and were Conquered by Theodebert and Theodorick Kings of France at last totally subdued by Dagobert another King of that Nation but ascribed by the Chronologers to Aribert a Contemporary King in 634. This Name is sometimes taken for all Gascony or the Generalité de Guienne or de Bourdeaux divided at present into eleven Parts Bourdelois Bazadois Condomois Armagnac Bearn Gascogne Basques Bigorre Comminges Baionne and Albret This Country for a long time belonged to the Crown of England as Dukes of Aquitaine It came in 1152. to Henry II. King of England in the Right of Eleanor his Wife Though King John was adjudged to have forfeited this and all his other Dominions in France by the pretended Murther of Arthur whereupon the French entered and in 1203. and 1204. Conquered Main Angiers and Normandy King John's Subjects not well agreeing with him yet in 1206. he made one Expedition to Rochel and took Mount Alban whereby he preserved Gascony And though his Son lost Rochel to the French in 1224. yet in 1225. by his Brother Richard Earl of Cornwal he reduced the Rebellious Gascoignes to Obedience and in 1242. attempted to recover Poictou but with no good success In 1259. for a Sum of Money given him by Lewis IX he resigned Normandy Main and Anjou reserving to himself Gascony Limosin and Aquitain in consideration whereof he was to have fifty thousands Crowns and from henceforward they were stiled Dukes of Guienne in the Possession of this the Kings of England continued till the twenty ninth Year of the Reign of Henry VI. which was the Year of our Lord 1452. when the Weakness of that Prince and the good Fortune of Charles VII deprived the English of all their Possessions in France ever since which time Gascony has been in the hands of the French It is observed as the French change the Letters V and W into G in the words Galles for Wales and Gascoigne for Vasconia so particularly the Gascoigners interchange the Letters V and B with one another in giving the same pronunciation to both Therefore says Joseph Scaliger of them Foelices populi quibus bibere est vivere Gastinois Vostinum a Territory in the Isle of France towards la Beauce between the Rivers of Estampes and Vernison to the West the River Yonne which separates it from Senonois on the East and the Territory of Puysaie and Auxerrois to the South The principal Town is Montargis thirteen Miles South of Paris Gath a City of Palestine upon the Frontiers of the Tribe of Juda towards the Syrian Sea seated on a hill It was one of the five Satrapies of the Philistines and the birth place of Goliah Gattinara a Town in the Principality of Piedmont advanced to the dignity of an Earldom by the Emperor Charles V. Gatton an ancient Borough Town in the County of Surrey and the Hundred of Reygate which elects two Members of Parliament Roman Coyns have been often digged up here Le Gave de Oleron Gabarus Oloronensis a River of Bearn which ariseth from the Pyrenean Hills from two Springs le Gave de Aspe to the West and le Gave de Osseau to the East which unite at the City of Oleron in Bearn and running Westward beneath Sauveterre it takes in from the South le Gave del Saison which comes from Mauleon beneath which it falls into le Gave de Pau a River of Aquitain which arising in Bigorre more East than the former but out of the Pyrenean Hills also at a Place called Bains de Bareâ—ge and running North-West by Pau in Bearn as far as Ourtes turns Westward and taking in Gave de Oleron falls into the Adour less than five Miles beneath Dax and four above Baionne to the East Gavot a small Territory in Vallais or Wallisserlandt one of the Suisse Cantons Comte de Gaure a County of France in Aquitaine in Armaignac between Lomagne Gimont and Condom the principal Town in it is Verdun four Miles from Tolouse to the North and about eight from Aux to the East Gaures Ghiaours or Ghiabers a numerous People dispersed about the Indies and the Kingdom of Persia in the Provinces particularly of Kherman where stands their principal Temple and Hyerach of a different Institution in Religion from all the World besides following the Scriptures of one Ebrahim zer Ateucht a Prophet pretended before the time of Alexander the Great and as tho they retained something of the old Religion of the Persians they have such a Veneration for Fire especially what the Priest consecrates that they take the most solemn Oaths before it The Persian Proverb upon these People it A Ghiaber may worship the Fire a hundred years yet if he falls into it but once it will certainly burn him Gazara Gaza a City of Palestine in Asia which belonged anciently to the Tribe of Judah as appears by the Sacred Scriptures it was the fifth Satrapy of the Philistines seated near the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea on the Confines of Idumaea towards Egypt Conquered by Judah Judg. 1. 18. but not long enjoyed Made famous by Samson Pharaoh King of Egypt gave it a second Name Gen. xlvii 1. Alexander the Great totally ruined it In the times of the Machabees a new Gaza arose which in those of Christianity was made a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Caesarea The Grecians finding Gaza signified a Treasury in the Persian Tongue thought the Persians under Cambyses had given it this name Alexander the son of Aristobulus took the New Gaza and demolished it but no Alexander could so ruine this City but it would recover again Augustus annexed this Gazara and Hippon to Syria and in the time of Constantine the Great it was called Constantia from a Sister of that Prince The Saracens possessed themselves of it in the year of our Lord 633. three years before they took Jerusalem by whom it is now called Gaza Gazara and Aza Here our Authors divide as to its present State Baudrand saith it is little yet divided into two parts the Upper and Lower and that it has a Prince of its own though he is subject to the Turks called the Emir or Pacha de Gaza who is Master of it and the Neighbouring Country but Jo. Bunon saith it is great and twice as big as Jerusalem This City had a Port called Majuma Our Sandys in his Travels lib. 3. p. 116. saith it is seated upon a Hill environed with Valleys and those again well nigh inclosed with Hills most of them planted with all sorts of delicate Fruits the Buildings mean both for Form and Matter the best of rough Stone arched within and flat
the East by Hungary Prussia Superior and Poland on the South by the Alpes which part it from Italy on the West by France the Netherlands the German Ocean and Switzerland West-Friseland Guelderland Over-Yssel and Groningen were heretofore parts of Germany which belong now to the Vnited Provinces On the other side Cleves Julters Liege the Bishopricks of Cologn Treves a great part of the Palatinate of the Rhine and Switzerland of old belonged to Gaul and now to France yet are now of right Parts of Germany The French have taken from it Alsatia Switzerland some Ages since is Cantoned into small Common Wealths which do not acknowledge the Emperor of Germany for their Sovereign As for Denmark Poland and Hungary they have their distinct Kings and are by no means Parts of Germany It is in length from the Borders of the Dukedom of Lorrain to those of Hungary an hundred and twenty German Miles in breadth from the Baltick Sea to the Alpes which inclose Friuli an hundred twenty six This vast Tract of Land is usually divided into ten Circles to wit Franconia Bavaria Austria Schwaben sometimes called Suabia the Upper and Lower Circle of the Rhine Westphalia the Upper and Lower Saxony and the Circle of Burgundy but this last has no Vote in the Diet nor contributes any thing to the Charges of the Empire The Emperor of Germany is not only the Head of Germany but the first Prince in Christendom in Rank and Order though not the most powerful This Country is called by the Inhabitants Teutschlandt or Teitschlandt by the French Allemagne by the Spaniards Alemasia by the Italians La Germania or l'Allemagnia by the Dutch Duystlandt by the Poles Nicmieczka by the Hungarians Nemes and by the Greeks Elmagi In ancient times it was extreamly over-grown with Woods and full of uncultivated Marshes There were then no Cities no Arts no Tillage The Inhabitants were much like the Northern Americans Immanes Animis atque Corporibus of great Growth as to their Bodies and very barbarous as to their Minds But great Warriers and the invincible Enemies of the Roman Empire which never could subdue them on the contrary they at last destroyed that vast Empire in the time appointed Julius Caesar was the first of all the Romans who building a Bridge over the Rhine entered this Country yet with no great Success Augustus and Tiberius conquered those Nations of Germany which lay between the Rhine and Italy but about the year of Christ 200. they too shook off the Roman Yoke the rest were always free from it The Rhine and the Danube were the standing Bounds of the Roman Empire beyond which it could rarely keep any thing long That which the Romans could never effect the Francks under Charles the Great brought to pass and subdued Germany This Prince about 801. was made Emperor of France and Germany It continued in his Posterity till 929. when Henry I. a Saxon was elected by the Germans his Family lasted till 1002. when it fell into the House of Bavaria in the Person of Henry II. In 1139. Conrade III. Duke of Schwaben Succeeded and all the Emperors following were of that Family till 1274. After which the Empire for some time had no Head but changed Families as others very frequently till Albert II. Duke of Austria in 1439. fixed it in the House of Austria And all the Emperors ever since have been of that Family Leopold the present being the eleventh from Albert II. which have successively swayed this Scepter This Prince succeeded Ferdinand III. in 1657. Under these Princes Germany is become one of the most Civilized Cultivated Learned Countries in the World full of noble and populous Cities and most flourishing Churches As no Country had suffer'd more than this in the Days of Ignorance so when Learning had once discussed those Mists in the beginning of the XV. Century this was one of the first that threw off the second Yoke and made way for other Nations to do the same Germersheim a small City in the lower Palatinate upon the Rhine in Germany heretofore Free and Imperial till by the Emperor Charles IV. given with all its Dependances to the Prince Elector Palatine The Emperor Rodolphus I. died here in 1290. It is endeavouring to repair the Sufferings which half ruined it of the last German Wars Germian Phrygia Major a Province of the Lesser Asia Also a Mountain there called by the same Name but of old Dindymus Germigny a Village in the Province of Brie in France upon the River Marne where the Bishops of Meaux have a House of Pleasure S. Lewis in 1253. and Philip le bell in 1319. published Ordinances from hence § A second in the Diocese of Orleans near Fleury upon the Loyre at which a French Synod was assembled in 843. Gerne Garryenus See Yare a River of England Geromlea Achelous a River of Epirus which ariseth from Mount Pindus and running Southward falls into the Ionian Sea now written Aspri in our later Maps Gers. See Egers Gertrudenberg See Geertruydenberg Geru Gerun Ogyris Armusia the same with Ormus or at least the Island in which Ormus stands See Ormus and Hoffman Gesara See Krim Tartary Geschisdag a River in Mysia in the Lesser Asia and also the present Turkish Name of Olympus or Maesius a Mountain in the same Province Gest Gedrosia a Province in the East of the Kingdom of Persia next the Moguls Empire By others called Circan Gestie a City in Parthia called in ancient times Suphtha Gestrick Gestricia a Province of the Kingdom of Sweden upon the Botner Sea to the West of which it lies bounded on the North by Singia on the West by Dalecarlia on the South by Vplandia and on the East by the Botner Sea and is only famous for its Mines of Iron Gevals and Copperberg are its most principal Places Gesula Gaetulia a Province of the Kingdom of Marocco in Barbary bounded by the Provinces of Darha to the East Marocco to the North the Kingdom of Sus with the Mountain Laalem to the West and Tesset to the South Without any City or walled Town in it But there are great Villages of 10000 Inhabitants who are thought to be the ancientest People of Africa and descended from the Gaetuli The Cheriffs of Fez and Marocco chuse their Gard du Corps out of them for the Estem they have of their Fidelity and Courage Getae an ancient People of Scythia betwixt Maesia and Dacia divided on each side the Danube In the year 505. they sell upon Macedonia and Thrace defeated the Forces that the Emperor Anastasius sent against them under Sabinianus Consul and took a Sum of Money to retire again Gevals Gevalia a Town in the Province of Gestrick in the Kingdom of Sweden at the Mouth of a River of the same Name about four Miles from the Confines of Vpland to the North twenty seven German Miles from Stockholm to the North. Gewer Javarinum called by the Inhabitants Raab by the Germans Javarin Giavarino is
which it sprung A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio from which it lies twenty seven Miles to the North-East Giera-petra Hiera-petra Hyerpytna a City of Candia or Creet which has a Castle and an Haven such as it is and heretofore a Bishops See it lies on the South side of the Island in the Territory of Sitia near Mount Malaura sixteen Miles from Setia to the West now under the Dominion of the Turks Giessen Giessa a small but very strong City in Hassia in Germany upon the River Lhone four Leagues from Marpurg to the South It was of late years made an University and is the strongest Town in this Province under the Landtgrave of Darmstadt in part and of Cassel in part Giffhorn a Town in the Dutchy of Lunenburg in the Lower Saxony upon the River Allere three or four Leagues from Brusnwick and a little more from Zell Gigel Gigeri Gigari Igiti a City of Africa heretofore a Bishops See but now a small Village in the Province of Bugia in the Kingdom of Algier twenty seven Miles from Algier to the East upon the Shoars of the Mediterranean Taken by the French in 1664. and afterwards deserted There was another City which Ptolemy calls Colops and placeth in the Province of Zeugitania which is now called Giger Giglio Igilium Iginium Egilium a small Mountainous Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea which has in it one Village and a Castle and belonged heretofore to the Republick of Sienna with which it came into the hands of the Duke of Tuscany It lies about a Mile from the nearest Coast of Italy between 34. and 35. deg of Long. in Lat. 41. 55. Gihon one of the four Rivers springing from the Paradise of Adam and Eve Gen. 2. 13. Josephus makes it the same with the Nile others with the Araxes See Nilus Gilan Gelae Gilania a Province of Persia upon the South side of the Caspian Sea which from it is often called the Sea of Gilan The chief City of this Province is Gilan and stands upon the River Abisirni twenty five German Miles from the Caspian Sea in Long. 90. 13. and Lat. 40. Gilboa a Chain of Mountains in the Holy Land extended the length of ten or twelve Leagues from the City Jezrael to Jordan along the Tribe of Issachar and the Vpper Galilee Famous in the Jewish History for the encampment defeat and death of King Saul and his three Sons here in a Battel with the Philistines and for David's cursing these Mountains with Barrenness for Jonathan's sake They are almost all covered with Stones Taking their Name some suppose from an ancient City Gilboa As at this time we are told of a considerable Town called Gilbus standing amongst them Gilead The Mount properly in the Region of Trachonitis in Palestine whereat Jacob and Laban passed a Covenant with each other Gen. 31. But afterwards extended to express the Cities and Country adjacent which were given by Moses to the Tribe of Gad Josh 13. 25. Gillesland a Tract in the North parts of the County of Cumberland from whence the Earl of Carlisle receives the title of Baron Dacre of Gillesland Gilolo an Island in the East Indian Ocean to the west of the Moluccaes and East of the Terra des Papaous in 165. deg of Long. It has four Points of Land shooting forth into the Sea as many different ways One about twenty another fifty Leagues Long. The Capital of it is called Gilolo also Gindes a River springing from the Martian Mountains of Armenia and ending in the Tigris In which course it retarding the passage of Cyrus's Army to the Siege of Babylon he broke it into three hundred and sixty Channels Gingi Gingis a great City in the Promontory of Malabar in the East-Indies which gives Name to a Province This City was heretofore under the King of Bisnagar but has now a Prince of its own it is very strong and has a Castle built upon a Rock The Province or Kingdom of Gingi has Bisnagar to the North the Gulph of Bengala on the East the Mountains of Malabar on the West and the Kingdom of Tanjaour to the South Gingiro a Kingdom in the Lower Aethiopia towards Melincle Zanguebar and the Eastern Ocean Ginopoli Gemanopolis Jonopolis a City of Paphligonia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gangra It lies upon the Black Sea ten German Miles West of Carambis the most Northern Cape of the Lesser Asia Giordano Jordan Giorgiana Georgia Giovenazzo Juvenacium a Maritim City of Apulia Pucetia now Terra di Lavoro upon the Gulph of Venice between Bari to the North and Trani to the South welve Miles from the first and a little morefrom the latter In Long. 40. 50. Lat. 41. 12. This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari It stands upon an Hill and is almost incompassed with the Sea Giovenco Juvencus Invectus a River of Italy in the Kingdom of Naples which falls into the Lake of Celano at the foot of the Appennine forty five Miles West of Rome in the Province of Abruzzo Heretofore it passed through the Lake without mixing with it but whether it passeth into any other River or is swallowed up by the subterraneous passages which carry away the waters of that Lake Leandro has not informed us Gir a River of Africa which rising in Biledulgerida not far from the Atlantick Ocean runs Eastward and passing under several Chains of Hills and Mountains at last falls into Nile above the Cataracts of Egypt It is a vast and wonderful River in all things and deserves a more particular description if the Counties through which it passes were so known to us as to enable us to give it Girgia See Hyrach Girigo Girgium a City of the Vpper Egypt near the Nile the Capital of a Province which takes its Name from this City betwixt Barbanda and the Sahid Otherwise written Girgilo Girmasti Caicus a River of the Lesser Asia which rising by a City of the same Name washeth Judai Pergama Caristo and Stinga then falls into the Archipelago over against the Isle of Metellino The City of Girmasti was of Old called Hierogerma and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cyzioeno called only Germa in the Councils being attributed by some to Mysia Minor by others to Phrygia Minor it lies between Balichstria to the East and Pergama to the West Giro or Palmacia Venaria a small Island on the Eastern Coasts of Genoua Girona Gerunda a City of Catalonia in Spain built by Gerion a celebrated Hero who is said to have lived Anno Mundi 2840. and to have been Contemporary with Hely the Judge of Israel It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona of a large extent seated partly upon the descent of a Hill partly upon a Plain ennobled with two Bridges one in the City over the River Oingar and the other without the City on the North side over the River Ter and besides is very well fortified and honoured with the
and running Southward falls into the Propontis South of Seliurea ten German Miles South of Constantinople and six North of Perintho Gnesna Limiosaleum Gnesna a City in the Kingdom of Poland by the Germans called Gnisen it is an Archbishops See in the Palatinate of Kalish towards the Confines of Germany and was anciently called Limiosaleum This was the Royal City of Poland and is now the Seat of the Primate of that Nation and Capital of Polonia Major but daily decaying having suffered much by Fire in 1613. It lies three Polish Miles North from the River Warta seven from Kalish thirty five from Warsaw to the North-West and thirty from Dantzick to the South-West Built by Lechus I. King of Poland in a Marshy Ground The Bishoprick was founded by Mieczilaws Duke of Poland in 966. The Bishop of this See executes the Regal Office in the Interregnum of that Kingdom and summoneth the Diet for the Election of a new King He has the privilege from the Roman See to be a Legatus Natus and takes upon him to refuse to give precedence to Cardinals Gnido Cnidus Gnidus a ruined old City of Caria in the Lesser Asia seventy Miles from Halicarnassus to the East between Rhodes and Cyprus upon the Mediterranean Sea There are here many ruins of ancient Structures as a Theatre a Temple and the like which shew the Antiquity of it though now desolate and its two Havens which made it once so famous totally decayed Goa Barygasa Goa a City of the Hither East-Indies called thus by the Portuguese but Goemoat by the Natives that is the Fruitful well watered Land It lies in a small Island towards the Mouth of the River Mandova on the Shoars of the Province of Cuncan in Long. 104. 15. Lat. 15. 40. on the Western Shoar of the Cape of Malabar This Island belonged anciently to the King of Decam but in 1510. was conquered by Alfonsus Albuquerque a Portuguese Pope Paul I made it an Archbishops See and it was for a long time after the most celebrated Mart and Haven in the East-Indies great populous rich and strong though neither walled nor fortified only as it had six Forts in the Suburbs The Portuguese erected here an University made it the Seat of the Vice-Roy of the Indies and improved it as much as was possible Thus Baudrand Thevenot assures us that it has good Walls with Towers and of Cannon plenty The Island produceth Corn Cattle Fruit in abundance and wants not good Water It is still the Capital of the Portuguese Acquisitions in this remote part of the World full of Religious Houses and Churches Monks and Friers but much lessened as to its Trade by the growth of the Dutch East-India Company The Jesuits have five Houses belonging to their Order and it is pretended that the Body of S. Thomas the Apostle is preserved in this City Godalming A Market Town in the County of Surrey The Capital of its Hundred Goes Goae Tergoes a considerable Town in Zealand seated on that Branch of the Scheld which is called the Schenk a great rich and populous Town on the North Shoar of the Isle of Beuelandt four Miles East of Middleburgh and almost five from Vlilissingen to the North-East Guicciardin Goga Dunga a small City in India Propria under the Mogul in the Kingdom of Guzarat towards the North Shoar of the Bay of Barigazen sixty Spanish Leagues from Dabul to the North. Gogna Agonia a small River in the Dukedom of Milan which ariseth near the Lake called il Magiore in the County of Novarese and running Southward by Novara Mortara a little above Dorno takes in from the East the Ditombio then falls into the P◠eight Miles West of Pavia Gojame Gojamum a Kingdom in Africa in the Higher Aethiopia near the Sources of the Nile where it breaks out of the Lake Zembre or Zaire and lies on the South of the said Lake between it and the Mountains the Capital of it being Zembre a City which gives Name to the Lake between Long. 40. and 50. and South Lat. 10. and 20. Golconde Golconda a Kingdom in the Hither East-Indies near the Bay of Bengala on the North it has the Empire of the Mogul on the West the Kingdom of Decam on the South the Kingdom of Bisnagar and on the East the Bay of Bengala This is more frequently called Orixia It is a great Kingdom extended by the space of two hundred and sixty French Leagues upon the South Bay and takes the Name of Golconda from the Capital City which lies between the River Guenga and the Mountains of Balagua a great and noble City adorned with such a stately Pagod or Temple for the Indian Worship as gains the preserence with some Travellers before the most admired Ediflces in all Asia sixty Leagues from the Port of Masilupatam to the North and fifty from the nearest Coast of the Ocean to the West The other Cities are Conteripatam Caregare Orixa Masilupatam Narfingapatam and Maliapaura or S. Thomas This Prince is one of the most powerful in the Indies It is a pleasant Country to travel in by reason of the Rice and Corn and the many lovely Keservatories The Earth also is rich in Mines of Diamonds Monsieur Thevenot in his Travels assures us that Golconda is only a Castle where the King of Orixa resides and that the City is called Bagnagar a great populous rich well Traded City in Southern Lat. 17. 10. adorned with many noble Structures and fine Gardens though the common People live in low thatched ill contrived Hutts The Castle of Golconda stands two Miles West of Bagnagar upon a Hill rising like a Sugar-Loa◠secured by a Dike which is very deep and a Wall of Stones three Foot in length and breadth the Ditches are filled with fair and good Water besides this Wall it has five round Towers with a great many Cannon mounted both on the Wall and Towers for the defence of the Place The Prince of this Country is a Mahometan Tributary to the Great Mogul he has vast Revenues being the Proprietor of all the Lands in his Kingdom and his Tolls yield him a great Sum of Money Goldhurst or Goudhurst à Market Town in the County of Kent in Scray Lath. Goletta or Goulette Calache a Fort in the Kingdom of Tunis built by Charles V. in 1535. at the entrance of the Bay of Tunis which was taken by the Turks in 1574. and since enlarged by them with a capacious Port a Custom-house two Mosques and a Prison for Christian Slaves Golfo di Arabia Sinus Arabicus See the Red Sea famous for the passage of the Children of Israel That which we call a Bay or Arm of the Sea or a Sea restrained within narrower Bounds as opposed to the word Ocean is by the Italians Spanish and Portuguese called Golfo so that in their account there is a vast number of Golfoes or Gulphs But I will only take notice here of the more remarkable and to which the
small Island near Malta to the West at the distance of four Miles only mentioned by Strabo and Pliny Now belonging to the Knights of Maltha who have fortified it with a Castle § Also an Island in the Sea of Crete near Cape Crio called Claudia in the Acts of the Apostles C. 27. 16. and otherwise by the Ancients Claudus and Claudos La Grace or La Grasse a City of Provence in France which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Embrun in the stead of Antipolis now Antibe it is seated upon an Hill and is a fine well built City with divers Churches and Religious Houses in it three Leagues from Antibe to the West seven from Nice to the same quarter about twenty four from Embrun to the South and the same from Sisteron to the South West Hadr. Vales in his Notitia Galliae saith this City in 1285 belonged to the Bishoprick of Arles and Antibe was then the Bishops See but in 1322. this is named as a Suffragan Bishops See under the Archbishop of Embrun in the Itinerary of Gregory XI And that the See was removed hither upon the account of the daily Incursions of Pyrats and Robbers and upon the slaughter of one of the Bishops of Antibe For saith he Antibe is a Sea-Port but La Grace is a strong Castle and more remote from the Sea Which reason sheweth the weakness of the French Nation at Sea in those times Gracias a Dios a Town and Cape of the Province of Honduras in New Spain in the Northern America possessed by the Salvages with the whole Country thereabouts to the extent of fifty Leagues living in a Republican way without any Soveraign King or Prince over them and when they go to War making choice of one out of themselves to command for that present Juncture The Spaniards honour them with the Title of los Indios Bravos for their Gallantry having been never conquered yet Gradiska Gradiscia a principal Town of the Province of Sclavonia in the Lower Hungary upon the Save betwixt Possega and Zagrabia towards the Borders of Croatia See Sclavonia Some will have it to be the true Servitium of the Ancients § A Fortress likewise in Friuli in the County of Goritia upon the River Sisonzo which belongs to the House of Austria Grado Gradus a City and Island belonging to Friuli on the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea or Gulph of Venice built by the Inhabitants of Aquileja eight Miles from Venice to the East and twelve from Aquileja to the South under the Venetians The Patriarchs of Aquileja long since removed from thence and settled here as they went afterwards from hence to Venice about two hundred years since Elias one of these Patriarchs in 602. celebrated a Council in this place Grafignana Caferoniana a County within the Apennine the greatest part of which is under the Duke of Modena the rest belongs to the Republick of Lucca Graftschaft Mansfeld Mansfeldiensis Comitatus the County of Mansfield The word Graftschaft in the German Town signifying a County Grafton a Road-Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Cleley adorned with a Park and an ancient Seat of the Family de Wideville Earls of Rivers The Marriage of King Edward IV. with the Lady Grey which was the first Marriage of any King of England with a Subject from the Conquest received its consummation here From the year 1490. to Henry VIII this Seat bequeathed by Richard the last of the Male Line of the Rivers to Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset continued in the Name of the Greys and then in an exchange for Lands in Leicestershire became united to the Crown It is well known for giving the Title of Duke to the late Henry Fitz Roy created by King Charles II. his Father Baron of Sudbury Viscount Ipswich and Earl of Euston in 1672. and Duke of Grafton five years after who dyed of the Wounds he received at the Siege of Cork Grambusia Crambusia a small Island on the Coast of Cilicia Grampond a Market and Borough-Town in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Powder which returns two Members of Parliament Gran Strigonium a City of the Lower Hungary seated on the South-West side of the River Danube where the River Gran falls into the Danube It s Castle is a very fine Pile built upon the Banks of the Danube upon a Rock which is very steep The City is of a Triangular form It has two great Towers one toward Thomasberg and the other towards the Danube over against Barkan between these Towers there is a Wall which has small Flanks and Redoubts and a Dike flanked with hewen Stone at the foot of the Dike there runs a Terrasse which has strong Pallisadoes and four great Points instead of Ravelins the other side towards the Danube has nothing but Walls and Pallisadoes it is very steep on that side and secured by the River The Castle stands very high but there are two Mountains from which it may be battered This City is divided into two parts the High and the Low Town the last commanding the Danube they are both very strong and have good Walls S. Thomas's Hill is also well fortified because being very near the Town it would otherwise have commanded it There are in it excellent temperate Baths This City was heretofore the Capital of Hungary and has many magnificent Buildings in it as S. Stephens Church the Archbishops Palace c. The Country about it affords excellent Wines there is plenty of hot Springs so that the pleasantness of its situation and the fertility of the Soil easily induced the ancient Kings of Hungary to settle here The importance of this Place has brought upon it many bloody Sieges John King of Hungary besieged it without any success about 1529. Solyman the Magnificent took it in 1544. The Count of Mansfield retook it for the Arch-Duke Matthias in 1595. It was lost again by the Cowardize of the Garrison in 1605. the Governour being accidentally killed Just over against it stands Barkan to which there is a Bridge of Boats over the Danube which together with Barkan was burnt by the Christians in 1664. In 1683. there was under the Walls of this City a sharp Engagement between the Turks and Germans the latter prevailing and taking the City of Gran also October 23 after they had beat the Turks from Vienna July 30. 1685. the Turks again besieged this City but were forced to retire Aug. 16. with the loss of all their Cannon and Baggage It stands six German Miles from Alba Regalis to the East the same from Buda to the North and Comora to the South in a most fruitful and pleasant Plain Called by the Inhabitants Stegran by the Germans Gran by the Italians Strigonia S. Stephen King of Hungary was born here This City is also an Archbishops See the Archbishop is perpetual Chancellor of the Kingdom of Hungary and ought by his place to have the Honour of Crowning the King after he is
a Mountain of Mauritania Caesarienfis now the Kingdom of Algier in Barbary Guarda Guardia a City of Portugal in the Province of Beira which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Lisbon between Cauria Coria and Limago fourteen Miles from either eleven from Viseu The See was translated hither from the Igadita of the Ancients which had been a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Braga Guardaâ—u and Guardafuni Aromata a City and Promontory in Aethopia at the Entrance of the Red-Sea where the most Eastern Part of the Kingdom of Adel now is over against Arabia Foelix and the Isle of Zocotora This is the most Eastern Cape of all the Continent of Africa Guardia Siga a Town in the Kingdom of Algier Guardia Sela a River on the West of the Morea now Sellei over against Zant. Guardia Alferes or Aifenes Guardia Alferia an Episcopal City in the County of Molise in the Kingdom of Naples The See is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Benevento Guardiano Lotoa Letoia an Island in the Ionian Sea on the South of Candia or Crete Guargala a Kingdom in Biledulgerida between Gademessa to the East and Tegortina to the West towards the Mountains of Zahara Guascogna See Gascoigne Guastalla Guardastallum Vastalla Guastalla a Town upon the Po in Lombardy in the States of the Duke of Mantoua at which Pope Paschal II. celebrated a Council in 1106. It has the Honor to give the Title of a Duke Guatimala a large Government and Province in New Spain The principal City of which being of the same Name S. Jago de Guatimala is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Mexico The feat of the Parliament and in 1628. by Philip IV. made an University This City was built in 1524. in a Valley near the River Matataia not far from a burning Mountain from whence there issued such a Deluge of Fire Water and Stones in 1541. as overturned a great part of the Houses in it thirteen Spanish Leagues from the South Sea three hundred from Mexico to the South-East The Government of Guatimala reaches from the Province of Chiapa as far as to the Streights of Panama including in that extent the Provinces of Vera-Paz Soconusco Guatimala properly so called of which S. Jago aforesaid is the Capital Honduras Nicaragua Costa ricca and Veragua In the Indian Language it is Quatuemallac There is plenty of Corn Cotton Maze and good Pastourage of Hills Forrests and Rivers but the Air not commended for Healthfulness and they make Salt with great Difficulty Guattaro Battarus a River in the Isle of Corsica Guaxaca a Province in New Spain in the North America the Capital whereof is Antequera It lies betwixt the two North and South Seas with the Provinces of Tlascala to the West and Chiapa to the East enjoying a healthy Climate and yielding plenty of Corn Maze Cacao Cochineal Silk Fruits with Mines of Gold c. There are about three hundred and fifty Borough Town and as many Villages an hundred and sixty Convents and divers Ecclesiastical Colleges established in it Ferdinand Cortez made the Conquest of it to whom the Valley of Guaxaca gave the Title of Marquiss del Valle. Guayaquil a Sea-Port Town in the North of Peru upon the Pacifick Ocean or South Sea which has a large Haven and lies over against the Isle of Puna the River that washeth it is called by the same Name Gubel-Haman a Sultany or petty Kingdom in Arabia Foelix towards the Arabian Sea near Fartach with a City of the same Name Guben a strong Town well fortified in the Lower Lusatia in Germany upon the River Neisse It is one of the principal Places in the Province of Lusatia Guber a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa between Guiana to the South the River Niger to the North and the Lake of Guardia to the East with a City its Capital of the same Name It is a well peopled Country and the Kings of it are absolute Gubio or Gubbio Eugubium a small City in the State of the Church in the Dukedom of Vrbino which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Vrbino but exempt from his Jurisdiction It stands at the Foot of the Apennine near the Fountains of the River Chiasâ—us in the Confines of the Marquisate of Anconitana twenty six Miles from Vrbino to the South and sixty from Ancona to the West called Eugubio in the later Maps Gucheu a great City and Territory in the Province of Quangsi in China extending their Jurisdiction over nine other Cities It is one of the Keys of the Province and being seated at the Confluence of divers Rivers with the Takiang has made it self a famous Place for Commerce Out of the Mountains in this Territory they draw Vermiglion Gueguere See Meroiâ— Gueiheoi one of the principal Cities of the Province of Honan in the North-East of the Kingdom of China Guelderland See Gelderlandt Guenga a River in India within Ganges which ariseth in the Kingdom of Decam towards Mount Gata and flowing through the Kingdom of Orixia disburthens it self into the Bay of Bengala It is called by the Portuguese Ganga Guerande a City of Brétagne in France in the County of Nantes towards the Shoars of the Bay of Aquitain between the Mouth of the Loyre and Vdaine where are great Works for the making Salt It stands fourteen Miles from Nantes to the West and was once called Aula Quiriaca Guerba a River of Spain Gueret Gueretum a City of France in la Marche the Vpper whereof it is the Capital upon the River Cruse twelve Leagues from Limoges to the East and twenty two from Bourbon to the West others write it Garactum Gueser Seleucia the same with Bagdat Guetaria Menosea a Town in Guipuscoa Gueta Opta a City in New Castile seated in a Plain twenty Miles from Toledo Guharan See Oran which is the same Guiana Guiania a large Country in South America sometimes written Guaiana it is bounded on the East and North by the Atlantick Ocean or the North Sea on the West by the Terra Firma on the South by Brasil and the Lake of Parimao This Country has for thirty Years last past been inhabited by the English Dutch and French The two Nations of the Indians called Caribes and Galibes besides others possess nevertheless the far greatest part of it who used to War formerly with Arms all made of Gold of which this Country afforded such abundance that the Spaniards at the first gave it the name of El Dorado Guie Guetta Gutta a River in Burgundy Guienne Aquitania in Pliny Aremorica a Province and Dukedom in France bounded on the North with Xaintoigne from which it is parted by the River Dordonne on the South with Gascoigne on the East with Perigort and on the West with the Aquitanick Ocean from the Pyrenean Hills to the River of Bourdeaux This Country is fruitful in Corn and Wine the first of which is usually transported into Spain and the latter into the Northern Countries The People are
of Wight on the West by Dorsetshire on the North by Berkshire and on the East by Surrey and Sussex It is a large and fruitful County the Capital of it is the City of Winchester besides which it has also Southampton Portsmouth and Rumsey very considerable Towns Haoaxe Haoaxus a River of Africa which springeth out of vast Mountains in the Abissine Empire in the Confines of the Provinces of Xaoa and Ogga being augmented with the Streams of Machi it entereth the Kingdom of Adel called by the Portuguese Zeila the Capital of which Avoa Gurelé stands upon this River it is said to be not much less than the Nile and after a course of six hundred Miles to discharge it self into the Red Sea having fertilized the Kingdom of Adel in the same manner as the other doth that of Egypt See Jerome Lobo a Portuguese who travelled this Country Hapsel Hapselia a small City in Livonia in the Province of Estonia and the Territory of Wick upon a small Bay of the same name which is part of the Baltick Sea Heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Riga two Swedish Miles from Leal to the North and eleven from Revel to the West It is under the King of Sweden Harberick Salamboria a Town in Mesopotamia Harborcagh a Market Town in Leicestershire in the Hundred of Gartrey Harburg Harburgum a strong but ill peopled Town in the Dukedom of Lunenburgh upon the Elbe two German Miles from Hamburgh to the South and six from Lunenburgh to the West It has a Castle Harcourt a small Town and Castle in Normandy in the Territory of Eureux scarce five Miles from thence to the West and two from Belmont to the North. Philip VI. in the year 1338 erected it into an Earldom which was bestowed upon the Princes of Lorain some of whose Family have of late times been famous Commanders in War Harda Artiscus a River of Thrace Harderwick Hardebones Harderwick a small City in Guelderland under the United Provinces in the County of Veleuve which is a Hanse Town and an University opened here in 1648. It stands upon the Shoar of the Zuider Sea from which it has received great damage but greater from the French who taking it in 1672 dismantled and left it in 1673. It lies seven Leagues from Vtrecht to the South East and six from Deventer to the West First walled with a Brick Wall in 1229. Hardts-Walt Hartzwald Melibocum a Mountain in Thuringia and a Wood or Forest called Sylva Herculis by Ptolemy Sylva Semana by Caesar Sylva Bacenis It lies in the South Part of the Dukedom of Brunswick in the Territory of Grubenhagen between Halberstad to the East and Gostar to the West the top of the Mountain is called by the Inhabitants Blokes-barch between Osterwick and Werningerod two Towns in these parts The Forest covering the Mountain above mentioned lies between the Elbe and Saal to the East and the Weser to the West Mercator by a mistake took it for a part of the Hercinian Forest and placed it between Thuringia and Bohemia Harfleur a Castle in the Païs de Caux in Normandy in France upon the North Side of the Out-let of the Seyne within one Mile of Havre de Grace and three of Honfleur to the North. Besieged in 1416 by the French defended by the English who frustrated their Designs and in a Sea Fight near this place defeated both the French and Genoese Fleets Soon after which followed the taking of Caen Falais Conquest and Roan it self by the Victorious English Harlegh a Market Town in the County of Merioneth in Wales in the Hundred of Ardydury Harleston a Market Town in the County of Norfolk and the Hundred of Earsham Harlingen Harlinga a City of the United Provinces in West-Friesland the next to Leuwarden in order and greatness strong and hard to be taken because the adjacent Country may be drowned It has a very large Haven on the Zuider Sea and stands in the Territory of Westergoe three Leagues from Leuwarden to the West Harlow a Market Town in the County of Essex The Capital of its Hundred Harrie or Harnland Harria a Province of Livonia upon the Bay of Finland in the Province of Esthon the Capital of which is Revel which with this Province is under the Crown of Sweden Harsan a Mountain in the Lower Hungary four German Miles from the Drave to the North and the same distance from Mohatz to the West near which the Dukes of Lorain and Bavaria defeated an Army of an hundred thousand Turks August 12 1687. See Mohatz Hartfordshire See Hertfordshire Hartland a Market Town in Devonshire The Capital of its Hundred Hartlandpoint Herculis Promontorium a famous Cape in the Western Part and Northern Shoar of the County of Devon near the Confines of Cornwal which shoots a great way into the Irish Sea and makes a safe Bay for the Riding of Ships Hartle Pool a Market Town in the Bishoprick of Durham in Stockton Ward upon a neck of Land that on all sides except Westward is surrounded by the Sea Hartzerode Hartzeroda a Castle in the Vpper Saxony in the Principality of Anhault upon the River Selka twelve Miles from Northausen to the South-East where was the Seat or Residence of one of the five Princes of Anhault Harwich Harvicum a Town in Essex at the Mouth of the Stour which has a Large Safe and Noble Sea-Port made famous of old by a Naval Victory here obtained against the Danes by the English in 888. This Town is not great saith Mr. Cambden but well peopled strong both by Art and Nature being almost surrounded by the Sea and much improved by the Care and Charges of Queen Elizabeth only it wants fresh Water It is also a Corporation and sends two Burgesses to the Parliament Hasbaigne Hasbainensis Pagus called by the Inhabitants Haspengow is a Territory in the Bishoprick of Leige extended between Brabant the Maeze and the City of Liege The Capital of which is S. Trevyen it reached of old as far as Louvaine or Loeven and is frequently mentioned in ancient History Hasbat Hasbata a Province of the Kingdom of Fez in Barbary bounded on the North by the Streights of Gibraltar on the West by the Atlantick Ocean by the Mediterranean Sea and the Province of Asgaria to the East the principal place of which was Tangier now ruined by the English See Tangier Hascora or Escura a Province of the Kingdom of Morocco having Duccala to the North Morocco to the South and Tedelsa to the East the principal Town of which is Elmadina Hasel or Val-Hasal a Valley and Bailiwick in the Canton of Bearne in Switzerland abutting Eastward upon the Canton of Vnderwaldt and stretching it self from about the Lake of Brientz as far as to the Source of the River Aar It yields good Pasturage and Iron-Mines The Inhabitants hereof about the year 1332. entered into a perpetual Alliance with those of Bearne and have since been subjected to them Hasenburgh Didatrium
a Town in the County of Burgundy Haslemere a Market Town in the County of Surrey and the Hundred of Godalming priviledged with the Election of two Parliament men Haslingden a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Blackburn Hassia Hessen called by the French Hesse is a Province of Germany honored with the Title of a Landtgrave or Marquisate which is a Provincial Earldom It lies in the Higher Circle of the Rhine between Westphalia to the North Westerwaldt and Weteraw to the West Franconia to the South Thuringe and the Dukedom of Brunswick to the East The chief Cities and Towns in it are Cassel Hirschfeldt Marpurgh Smalkalden and Ziegenheim Princes of its own have possessed it ever since 1263. It is fruitful in Corn Pasturage Woods Mines and Game This Country took its Name from the Hessi who Conquering the Chatti its old Inhabitants changed the old Name From East to West it extends it self thirty three German Miles in length from North to South twenty three Converted to the Christian Faith by Winifrid or Boniface an English Saxon about 730. Hasnon a Monastery in Artois Haspaam Haspahamum Aspahamum or Hispaham the Royal City of the Kingdom of Persia in the Province of Hierach where the Sophy or King of Persia resides Very great rich populous and daily growing greater The King has here a most magnificent Palace there belong to it three very large Suburbs Some think the ancient Name was Hecatompylon others Aspa The Kings of Persia have resided here near an hundred years and that is it that hath given it this great increase It stands upon the River Zenderoud or Zenderu which ariseth from the Mountain of Dimavend and divides this City into two parts and about five Miles beneath is swallowed up by the Sands It lies seventy German Miles from Casbin to the South eighty from Ormus to the North and a little more from Bagdat to the East Seated in a Plain surrounded on all sides at the distance of about three or four Leagues with an high Mountain like an Amphitheatre Long. 86. 40. Lat. 32. 26. The Province of Hierach in which it stands was the ancient Parthia This City with the Suburbs is about eight German Miles in compass and has twelve Gates whereof there are but nine constantly open it has about eighteen thousand Houses and five hundred thousand Inhabitants The Walls and Bastions are of Brick but ill built ill kept and out of repair so that they are of no use to secure the City Upon the River there is a lovely Stone Bridge This City was taken and destroyed twice by Tamerlane and about 1450 suffered much from one of its own Princes The Mosques the Bazar or Market Place the Baths great Mens Houses and Gardens are the great Ornaments of it Some of the great Houses with their Gardens take up twenty Acres of Ground these Gardens they adorn with Fountains Flowers fine Walks and delicate Rows of Trees both for Shades and Fruits So that the far greatest part of this vast City is taken up by Gardens and not peopled like ours I have taken this short Account out of Olearius who in 1637 was in this City and Thevenot who travelled this Kingdom since Hasbengow See Hasbaigne Hassio Porto Heraclea a Town in the Lesser Asia in Caria between Miletum and the Mouth of the Maeander now Madre thirty Miles from Ephesus to the South Hastings Othona the first of the Cinque Ports in the County of Sussex consisting of two Streets extended in length from North to South having in each of them a Parish Church seated between a high Clift to the Seaward and an Hill to the Land upon a small Brook on the South side of it five Miles West of Winchelsey and near the Eastern Borders of this County It hath had a great Castle upon the Hill which commanded it but this is now ruined and instead of it stands a Light-House to guide the Seamen This and the other Cinque Ports its Members was to send the King twenty one Ships each of which to have twenty one tall Men in it who were bound to appear upon forty days Summons and to serve fifteen days at their own Charge but if the King desired them longer he was to pay to the Master and Constable Six-pence the Day and to each Mariner three pence The Harbor here was made by a Pere of Timber which being destroyed by the raging Seas in 1578 Queen Elizabeth granted a Contribution for the Repairing of it but the Money was misimployed and the Work neglected so that the Trade and Fishery of this place is since that time much decayed The Honorable Theophilus Hastings Earl of Huntingdon is Baron of Hastings This Title being given to Sir William Hastings his Predecessor by Edward the Fourth in the second year of his Reign This Corporation Elects two Members of Parliament Hatfield Bishops a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Broadwater upon the River Lea. Adorn'd with a stately Palace call'd Hatfield House now in the Possession of the Earls of Salisbury but heretofore belonging to the King Hatfield Broadoke a Market Town in the County of Essex and the Hundred of Harlow upon the River Touridge Havage See Meroë La Havana or S. Christoval de la Havana a famous Sea-Port in the Isle of Cuba in the Bay of Mexico in the West-Indies very great and fortified to the utmost that Art and Expence can arise to seated at the North End of the Island over against the Cape of Florida being the Harbor to which all the Fleets from Spain direct their Course Here they unlade their European Merchandises here they take in the Plate and other Riches of the Spanish West-Indies in order to their Transportation into Europe so that it is one of the most frequented Ports in the West-Indies Whilst all this Wealth passeth and repasseth through it much of it must stick so that it is become very rich and populous The Spaniards have built a strong Castle and setled here a Governor and a good Garrison of Spaniards Yet notwithstanding all this Care and Charge the Buccaneers a few years since with a small number of Ships under Spanish Colours surprized and plundered this place and made the Inhabitants pay a vast Ransome to preserve it from being burnt It lies in Long. 292. 10. Lat. 20. 00. Havant a Market Town in the County of Southampton and the Hundred of Bosmere Havaspeude Dacia Alpestris Havelburgh Havelburgum Havelberga a small City in the Circle of the Lower Saxony which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Maegdeburgh it stands in Prignitz a Territory in the Marquisate of Brandenburgh upon the River Havel which one Mile lower falls into the Elbe ten Miles from Maegdeburgh to the North and twelve from Berlin to the West The Bishops of this Diocese have imbraced the Augustane Confession ever since 1556. Haverford West a Market Town and Corporation in Pembrokeshire in Wales which elects one Parliament man Haverill
from the Shoars of Dithmarsh to the West Heretofore four German Miles in Compass but in 800. a great part of it perished by a Tempest and in 1300 another part of what was left before was swallowed up by the Ocean which in its Rage sometimes casts away Islands like common Vessels It consists now but of one single Parish Heilsberg a Town in the Regal Prussia upon the River Alle which has a Castle Seated in the Territory of Ermelandt or Warmerland The Bishop of which Province resides in it eight German Miles from Regensperg to the South Built in 1240. Heis Hericus Herue an Island on the Coast of Poictou near the Confines of Bretagne Heitersheim or Haitersheim a small Town in the Province of Brisgow in Germany in which the Grand Prior of the Order of Malta for Germany who is a Prince of the Empire ordinarily resides The Island of S. Helen is seated in the Atlantick Ocean in 16 deg of Southern Lat. Discover'd by Joannes de Nova a Portuguese in 1502. on S. Helen's Day It is thirteen Miles in Compass and lies at a vast distance from all other Lands between Africa to the East and Brasil to the West nearer the former It is mountainous but fruitful and abounds with what is useful for the Life of Man except Wheat It has four Valleys and as many Springs towards its North end For a long time it lay open to the Benefit of all Mankind but about twenty years since the English settled a Colony here which is become exceeding numerous Helicona Helicon a Mountain in Baeotia now called Stramulipa near Parnassus if not a Part of it Sacred to the Muses of old thence entituled Heliconides and much celebrated by the Greek and Latin Poets In it was the Sepulchre of Orpheus the Fountains of Hippocrene and Aganippe Near it were the Cities of Thespia Ascra and Nissa now Zagaya There was also a River in Sicily so called which is now the Olivero on the North side of that Island And another in Macedonia now the Faribo Heliopolis an ancient City of the Kingdom of Egypt near Cairo to the East It received this Name from a stately Temple there that was dedicated to the Sun The Arabians called it Ain Schemes i. e. the Eye of the Sun Now nothing but the Ruines is extant of it § There were two other Cities of the same Name in the days of Antiquity one in Phaenicia and one in Cilicia in the Lesser Asia both of them Episcopal Sees The first under the Patriarch of Constantinople the second Antioch § Also a City of the Vpper Saxony in the Marquisate of Brandenburg in Germany built by Charles M. and now called Sotwedel i. e. the Valley of the Sun There had been a Statue dedicated to the Sun and venerated here in the Pagan Times Hellespont the Famous Streights betwixt Europe and Asia now called the Streights of Gallipoli or the Dardanelles and the Arm of S. George It was here that Xerxes whipt the Sea and after his Loss of the Battle of Thermopylae escaped to Abydos out of a Storm in a Fishermans Skiff Helmechtmenich Gedrosia a Province of the Kingdom of Persia Helmesley a Market Town in the North-Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Ridal upon a small River which afterwards falls into the Derwent Helmont Helmontium a Town of Brabant which has a very ancient Castle and is the Capital of Kemperland under the Vnited Provinces It lies in the middle between Boisleduc to the West and Roermond to the East six Miles from the latter and six from Nimeguen to the South Helmstad Helmestadium Hemopolis a small and inconsiderable Town in Germany under the Duke of Brunswick Wolffenbuttel ever since 1490. having before that been subject to its Abbot It stands in the Confines of the Dukedom of Brunswick between Brunswick to the West and Magdeburg to the East upon the River Aller six German Miles from Wolffenbuttel to the East eleven from Hildesheime to the North-East and five from Halberstad to the North. Julius Duke of Brunswick opened here an University in 1576. which from him is called Academia Julia. Helmstad a strong Sea-Port Town in the Province of Hallandt on the Baltick Sea towards the Borders of Scannia which by a Treaty in 1645. was yielded to the Swedes Helsingford Helsingfordia a small City of Nyland a part of Finland upon the Shoars of the Bay of Finland where it receives the River Wanda over against Revel in Long. 43. 45 Lat. 60. 10. Helsinglandt Helsinga a Province of Sweden between Dalecarl to the West Jemplandt and Midlepad to the North and the Baltick Sea to the East the principal Town of which is Hadswickwalt Helson a Borough Town in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Kerryer which elects two Parliament Men. Hemia Amisus a City of Paphlagonia in the Lesser Asia called Amid and Hemid by the Turks and Simiso by the Greeks It is an Archbishop's See built on the Shoars of the Euxine an hundred Miles from Sinope to the East upon the Outlet of the River Casalmach which comes from Amasia twenty German Miles South of Hemid or Simiso as it is called in the Maps Hemid or Cara-Hemid Amida a City of Mesopotamia which now gives Name to that Country it being the Capital of it and is called Diarbeck from this City It is a great and populous City the Seat of a Turkish Governor and of a Christian Archbishop It stands from Arziri a City of the Lesser Armenia to the South-East an hundred and twenty Miles from Aleppo to the East sixty See Caraemit Long. 78. 15. Lat. 39. 30. Hempsted a Market-Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Dacor Hemz Emisa Emessa a City of Syria called Haman by the Turks Kemps by Postellus which is an Archbishop's See under the Patriarch of Antioch upon the River Orontes which passeth by Antioch forty three Miles from Damascus to the North eighty from Antioch to the East and about sixty from Palmyria to the West It is a pretty Town walled with black and white Stone half a Pike high it had formerly a Dike now filled with Rubbish It has twenty five Towers six Gates and five Churches The chief Church was built by S. Helen and was in the Hands of the Chistians till about 160 years agone On the South it has a Castle not taken from the Christians without much Bloodshed and therefore left to be ruined See M. Thevenot part 1. pag. 223. and Haman Henley a Market-Town in Oxfordshire in the Hundred of Binfield upon the River Thames over which it has a fair Bridge This Town drives a great Trade of Malt. § There is another Henly in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Barlickway upon the River Alne called Henley in Arden for Distinction from the Precedent Henneberg an ancient Castle in the Circle of Franconia in Germany seven Leagues from Schweinfurt and eight from Fuld upon a Rock at the Foot whereof passes the River Strew This Castle gives Name to
The Capital of its hundred upon the River Bane and in the division of Lindsey Horndiep Arnapa a small River of Holland which ariseth in Drent a Territory of Over Yssel and flowing through Groningen a little beneath Hunsen falls into the River Reit Diep after it has watered the City of Groningen Horndon on the Hill a Market Town in the County of Essex in the hundred of Barstable Horomelt one of the Names of Greece Horsham a Market Town in the County of Sussex in Bramber Rape It is a large Borough Town having the Election of 2 Parliament-men situated near S. Leonards Forest Horti Hortanum See Orta Houdain Hodanum a small French City in la Beausse or in the Government of the Isle of France according to others near Chartres two Leagues from Dreux to the North-East and eight from Paris to the West upon the River Vegre La Houlme Holmesia a small District in Normandy between the River Orne Olina and the Territory of le Mans in which there is no Town of note Howden a Market Town in the E. riding of Yorkshire giving Name to a small Territory call'd Howdenshire near the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Derwent Hoy Dumma an Island of Scotland which is one of the Orcades three Miles from the Island of Mainland call'd also Hethy Hoye Hoya a small Town in Westphalia upon the River Weser two German Miles from Ferden to the South and from Newburg to the North the Capital of the Earldom von Hoye in Westphalia which was under Earls of its own till 1582. when upon the Death of Otto the last of them it fell to the Duke of Brunswick Zell Hudsons Bay an Arm of the Sea North of Estoiteland in the North America discovered by one Hudson an Englishman in 1612. Hudwicswaldt a City or Town in the Province of Helsing in the Kingdom of Sweden on the Baltick Sea towards the Province of Middlepad Huccar Vero a River of Spain Hued or Hued-il-Barbar Icer Serbes a River in the Kingdom of Algiers in Africa which derives its head from the Atlas and takes so many turnings and returnings amongst the Mountains that betwixt Bonne and Tunis it comes to be passed twenty five times At length falls into the Mediterranean Sea They Fish for Coral upon its Banks Hued Nijar Niger a River of Africa in Aethiopia Hued el Quiber Nasabath a River in the Kingdom of Algier Huesca Faventia Calicula Vesci Osca Escua a City in the Kingdom of Granada See Horiguela which is the same City § There is another Town of the same Name in the Kingdom of Arragon upon the River Ysuela fourteen Miles from Saragosa to the North-East and twenty from Lerida to the North-West This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of aragossa and call'd by the ancients Osca Illergetum A Council was celebrated at it in 598. Huetca a Dutchy in New Castile upon the Confines of the Kingdoms of Granada and Murcia Hull Petuaria Hullum a Town and River in the East Riding of Yorkshire The Town is seated upon the West Bank of the River where it entereth the Humber twenty six Miles from York to the South-East and eleven from the Spurn Head or British Sea to the North-West Of no great Antiquity Edward I. purchasing the Ground of the Abbat of Meaux and built the Town which thereupon was called Kings-Town He made the Haven also granted the Town a Charter and divers Liberties by which means it grew to that it now is being for stately Houses strong Forts well furnished Ships Merchandize and plenty of all things the best in this part of England The Inhabitants ascribe much also to Michael de la Poole Duke of Suffolke who procured them many Privileges after he was by Richard II. made Duke of Suffolk Their gainful Fisheries on the Coast of Iseland had its share in this growth Being grown Rich they Walled the Town Paved their Streets raised their chief Magistrates from a Warden to Bailiffs at last in the Reign of Henry VI. got the Honor of a Mayor and that the Town should be a County Charles the Martyr Treasured up here a goodly Magazine for the benefit of his Subjects but when he came to use it April 23. 1642 he was most unworthily and undutifully excluded by Sir John Hotham which on the twenty fifth of the same Month was by the Parliament justified being upon the matter the first act of Hostility against that Holy Prince Hotham the Son was routed April 11. 1643. at Ancaster by Colonel Cavendish And both Father and Son came to be Beheaded by their Fellows Rebels the first in 1644. and the other in 1645. for intending to return to their Allegiance The River of Hull riseth by Kilham in the same County and passing on the East of Beverley at the distance of a Mile falls into the Humber between Hull and Dripole being Navigable up to Beverley and perhaps higher Hulst Hulstum a City in the Low-Countries in Flanders near Gaunt small but very well fortified the Capital of the Territory of Waes taken by the Dutch in 1645. and kept by them ever since It stands five Leagues from Antwerp to the West and seven from Gaunt to the North-West Humago Cissa an Island near Histria Humain Siga a City of Mauritania in Africa Humana a ruined City in the Marca Anconitana Humber Abus one of the principal Rivers of England or rather an Arm of the Sea into which many of the Rivers of this part of England empty themselves on the North it hath Yorkshire on the South Lincolnshire out of the first of these it receives the River of Hull then the Ouse which bringeth with it Derwent the Swale the Your the Wharf the Are Calder and the Dun then the Trent which divides Nottingham from Lincolnshire and brings many other with it as the Darwen the Manifold the Stoure and many others above Barton it receives the Ankam out of Lincolnshire the Mouth by which these Streams enter the German Ocean being almost seven Miles wide Humble Homelia a small River of Hantshire which rising by Bushwaltham and watering Boteley forms an Haven called Humble Haven on the East of St. Andrew's Castle over against the Isle of Wight where it entereth the British Sea Hungaria Pannonia inferior is one of the Noblest but most unfortunate Kingdoms next to Greece in Europe The Natives call it Magiar the Poles Wegierska the Germans Vngarn and the French Hungary On the North it is bounded with the Vpper Poland and Red Russia the Carpathian Mountains interposing between it and them on the East with Transylvania and Moldavia on the West with Stiria Austria and Moravia and on the South with Sclavonia and Servia Baudrand including Sclavonia bounds it on the South with Croatia Bosnia and Servia It extends in length from Presburgh along the Danube to the Borders of Transylvania the space of three hundred English Miles and one hundred and ninety of the same in breadth it takes in all
Province of Kiangsi may furnish all China with a Breakfast but Huquang is able entirely to maintain it Hurepois Hurepoesium a District in the Isle of France between la Beause to the West la Brie to the East from which it is parted by the Seine and la Gastinois to the South This heretofore was a part of la Beause The Cities in it are Corbeil Castres and la Ferté Alais The Hurons are a People of North America in the Northern parts of New France towards a Lake of the same Name The River Des Hurons ariseth in the West of New France called also the River of the Otavacks a People bordering on the Hurons and runs a great way towards the North-East till at last it falls into the River of St. Laurence The Lake des Hurons is very great and in its extent resembles a Sea but the Waters are fresh it is seven hundred Leagues in Compass as the Inhabitants about it pretend the Lake of Illinia and the Upper Lake do both fall into it Huz the Country of Job between Syria and Arabia now Omps. Husum a City of Denmark in Jutland in the South part of the Dukedom of Sleswick near the Shoars of the German Ocean and Nort Strand an Island so called It has a most noble Castle built by the Duke of Holstein Gothorp in 1581. under whom it now is It stands a Gorman Mile and an half from Frederickstad to the North four from Sleswick to the West Some few years since it was fortified but the King of Denmark has slighted its Out-works Huy and Hu Huum Huyum Huyonum a Town of the Low-Countries in the Bishoprick of Liege in the Territory of Condrotz between Liege and Namur which has a Castle and a Stone Bridge over the Maez which here receives the River Huy which latter gives Name to it but ruined This place was taken by the French in 1675 and its Fortifications ruined It stands five French Leagues from Liege to the South-West and thirteen from Brussels to the North-East adorn'd with a Collegiate Church and divers others Hyesmes See Hiesmois Hyeres a Knot of small Islands on the Coast of Narbonne or Provence in the Mediterranean Sea See Hieres Hymburgh See Haynburgh Hymettus a Mountain of Achaia in Greece within a League of Athens and about seven or eight in circumference yielding plenty of odoriferous Herbs for the making of Honey which has been always in great esteem Some call it Monte-Matto by a corruption There are six Convents of Caloyers or Religious Greeks planted upon the sides of it The chief of which call'd by the Turks Cosbachi by the Greeks Cyriani since the Year 1455. when Mahomet II. took Athens and the Abbot of this House brought the Keys to him is exempt from all Taxes to the Port paying a sequine by way of homage Hythe one of the Cinqueport Towns in the County of Kent in Shepway Lath which Elects two Members of Parliament Hyrach Hyrcania a Province of the Kingdom of Persia heretofore bounded on the North by the Hyrcanian Sea on the East by Margiana on the West by Media and on the South by Parthia properly so called Now divided into two Provinces called Taberistan Mazenderan The. Hyreanian Sea Mare Hyrcanium takes this ancient well known Name from this Province but it is no less frequently called both in Ancient and Modern Geographers and Historians the Caspian Sea This Sea is called by various Names according to the Countries which do border upon it It was anciently called the Sea of Chosar from the eldest Son of Thâ—garma a Great Grand-child of Noah by Japhet Nubius in his Geography calls it the Sea of Tavisthan the Arabians Baharcorsum the Persians Kulsum as they do also the Persian Gulph The Greek and Latin Authors Mare Hyrcanium or Mare Caspium the Persians call it also the Sea of Baku the Muscovites Gualenskoi-More The Ancients generally thought it had a communication with the Indian Ocean which is not true for it has no communication with any other Sea in the World known and therefore may most properly be called the Mediterranean Sea this was known to Aristotle and Herodotus of old It s greatest extent is from North to South that is from Astrachan to Ferabath eight deg of the Equator or one hundred and twenty German Miles or four hundred and eighty English Miles its Breadth from the Province of Chuaresin to the Mountains of Circassia or Shirwan is six deg or ninety German Miles or three hundred and sixty English Miles The Waters are in the middle as salt as those of any other Sea whatsoever but it neither Ebbs nor Flows as all the rest do which have any Intercourse with the Ocean It hath in a manner never a safe Harbor upon it the best is Minkischlak or Manguslave on the side of the Grand Tartary The Water is of the same colour with that of other Seas it has but one Island in it and that lies towards Persia called Ensil which has never an House in it Thus far Olearius who Travelled over it in 1636. It is generally very shallow and flat therefore in Tempests dangerous to those that Sail upon it the Persians never trust to it and rarely go out of sight of the Shoar This Sea has on the North the Kingdom of Astrachan and Negaia on the East Chuaresm on the South the Kingdom of Persia and on the West Georgia it receives there above an hundred Rivers which fall into it many of which are very great as the Wolga the Araxis or Cyrus the Keisilosein the Bustrow the Aksay and the Koisu towards the North are the Rivers of Jaika and Jems towards the South and East the Nios Oxus and the Oxentes which Curtius calls Tanais Olearius assures us that in twenty days Travel between Roschot and Schamakap he crossed above fourscore Rivers great and small Hyth a Port in the County of Kent in Shepway Lath which has a Castle for its Defence upon the Streights of Calais between Dover to the North and Rie to the South two Miles from the first and five from the latter It elects two Members of Parliament J A. JAbesh-Gilead an antient Town of Judaea in the Territory of Gilead belonging to the Tribes of Israel All whose Inhabitants saving four hundred Young Virgins were by the Israelites put to the Sword for not assisting in the War against the Benjamites Judg. 21. 11. 12. In the Year of the World 2963. Nahash King of the Ammonites besieg'd it and refused to accept of its surrender otherwise than upon the condition of putting out the right eye of every one In the mean time Saul coming to their relief engaged Nahash defeated him and raised the Siege 1 Sam. 11. Jacatra a City and Kingdom in the Island of Jaâ—a in the East-Indies The latter is subject to the King of Bantam the other the same with Batavia the Hollanders under whom it is having so new-named it See Batavia Jacca an ancient City belonging to the Vascenes
now in the Kingdom of Arragon supposed to be built by Pompey the Great but certainly called by this very Name by Ptolemy It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Saragoza and stands upon the River Aragona at the Foot of the Pyrenean Hills twenty one Baudrand saith sixteen Spanish Miles from Saragoza to the North eight from the Confines of France and eight from Huesca in Arragon to the North-West This City is the Capital of the County of Arragon The Jacobites Under this Name says P. Simon in general we may comprehend all the Monophysites of the East i. e. such as acknowledge one only Nature the Humane in Jesus Christ in which Latitude the Armenians Cophtites and Abyssines will be included But it more particularly denotes a separate Church of Christians in Syria and Mesopotamia consisting of about forty or forty five thousand Families under a Patriarch of their own who keeps his Residence at Caramit and assumes the title of the Patriarch of Antioch having divers Metropolitans under him Jacobus Zanzalus a Syrian of the sixth Century dressing up a particular Creed out of the opinions of Eutyches and Dioscorus was the Founder of this Church which therefore retains his Christian Name Amongst other customs and tenents they deny the Trinity they circumcise their Children first then baptize them upon their forehead with a hot Iron because of the words Matth. 3. 11. He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire And no endeavours of the Roman See whose Supremacy they disown have hitherto been sufficient to alter their Principles Jacamcury a City of the Hither East-Indies called of old Sosicurae as Castaldus conjectures Jacuby a River of Tartary which falls into the Caspian Sea on the Confines of Bochar Jada Lade an Island in the Archipelago Jader or Jada Jadica Guttalus a River of Germany more commonly called the Oder It falls in the Baltick Sea near Stetin having watered Silesia Marchia and Pomerania Hoffman placeth it in East Friseland Others in the County of Oldemburg in the Circle of Westphalia See Oder It gives Name to a Town at its fall Jadog a River in Africa called Rubricatus Armua and Ardalia of old Ladog and Guadilbarber as well as Jadog in later Writers It falls into the Mediterranean Sea through the Kingdom of Tunis Jaen Giennium Gienna Aurigi Iliturgis Aurinx Oringe Oningis is a City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo ever since 1249 having been three years before recovered by Ferdinando out of the Hands of the Moors It is a great and populous City in the Kingdom of Andalusia upon the River Guadalbollon where it receives that of Susanna twelve Miles from the Guadalquivir to the South towards the Borders of Granada and eighteen from Alcala to the South-East This City has been heretofore so considerable as to bear the title of a Kingdom Jafanapatan Jaffanapatan a City on the North of the Island of Ceylan in the East-Indies in the Hands of the Dutch who have built it a good Fortress and the Capital of a Kingdom of the same Name It lies in Long. 110. 00. Lat. 10. 07. Jaffo or Jaffa Joppe a Maritime City of Palestine in the Tribe of Dan upon the Mediterranean Sea twenty four Miles from Jerusalem thought to be one of the ancientest in the World as having been built and so named by Japhet the Son of Noah Famous in all ages for the convenience of its Port at which particularly Hiram King of Tyre his Fleet laden with Cedar and Marble for the building of K. Solomon's Temple discharg'd and Jonas the Prophet took Ship for Tharsis St. Peter also here raised Tabitha from the dead and saw the Vision of the Beasts This City was ruined by Judas Macchabeus and afterwards by the Emperor Titus Next the Arabians established themselves in it from whom the Christians under Godfrey of Bovillon recovered it rebuilt the Castle and made it a strong Garrison adorning it likewise with the title of an Earldom and an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Cesarea In the Year 1188. Saladine overcame and dismantled it But Richard I. King of England and S. Lewis King of France successively repair'd it again till it fell finally into the hands of the Saracens in 1252. Now it consists of some poor Houses with a small Fort garrisoned for the Bassa of Gaza nothing of its ancient Buildings appearing but in their ruins Jagerndorff Carnovia or Karnow a Town in Silâ—sia in Bohemia the Capital of a District of the same Name and heretofore under the Duke of Brandenburgh It stands upon the River Oppa which near Hilschin falls into the Oder four German Miles from Ratibor a City of Bohemia towards the West and about three from the Confines of Moravia there is in it a very splendid and magnificent Castle S. Jago-Cavallero a small Town in the Island of Hispaniola in America twenty Leagues from S. Domingo to the East near a Mountain from whence the rains bring down little pieces of Gold The Inhabitants trade to San Domingo in Hides and Tallow Jagos a vagabond Barbarian People of Africa abounding more especially in the Kingdom of Ansico in the Lower Aethiopia or according to others in Congo without a certain abode living by robbery and carnage Parents and Children 't is said have no horrour amongst them to eat the flesh of one another Jagel one of the Heads of Dwina See Dwina Jagntevo a City of Servia built on a Plain amongst the Hills not above half a Days Journey from Monte-Novo another City of the same Province It is pretty considerable and has some Christians residing in it though under the Dominion of the Turks Jaitza or Jaicz Jaitia Gaitia Jaycza a City of Bosnia towards the Confines of Croatia upon the River Plena defended by a strong Castle which is in the Hands of the Turks as Calchondylas saith The Kings or Despotes of Bosnia did heretofore reside here Jakotyn a small Town in the Vkrain in the Palatinate of Kiovia beyond the Nieper which has a strong Castle It stands upon the River Supoi eleven Miles from Kiovia to the East and about thirteen from the Nieper into which the Supoi falls six Miles above Czyrkassy This Town belongs to the Muscovites now Jala a Kingdom in the Eastern part of the Island of Ceylan in the East-Indies with a City of the same Name little inhabited by reason the Air is very contagious Jalea Elis a City in the Morea Jalina Acherusia a Lake in Epirus Jalines Macaria a Town in Cyprus towards its North End Ialofes the People of the Kingdom of Senega in Nigritia in Africa lying betwixt those two branches of the Niger the Rivers Senega and Gambay Their Emperour is called the Grand Jalof and takes the Style of the Soveraign of thirteen or fourteen Kingdoms The Capital where he keeps his Court is Tubacatum There are no Towns or Cities walled in all this Empire Tobacco Hides Ivory Gum-arabick Ambergrease Wax Dates and Maze
are its principal Commodities See Senega La Ielle Gala a small River of France which falls into the Guaronne Iamagorod Jama a strong Castle anciently belonging to the Russ and accounted the Key of that Kingdom but in 1617 resigned to the Swedes It is seated on a River called Iamische Reck three German Miles from Narva in Livonia See Narva Iamaica a very great Island in North America first discovered by Columbus and called thus in Honor of S. James It was found out by him in his second Voyage to America whilst he sailed about Cuba In his third Voyage he suffered Shipwrack upon it and the Spaniards ungratefully designed to have suffered him to perish out of pure envy but he found the Natives more kind than they Whereupon he landed and fell to Plant it building the Town of Metilla which they deserted soon after and built Sevil ten Leagues more West In 1509 the Natives rebelled against Didacus the Son of Columbus but were subdued In 1590 the Spaniards built S. Jago and deserted Sevil. In 1638 one Jackson an English Man with a Fleet of English Privateers surprized and plundered S. Jago then left it to the Spaniards again The time being come when the Spaniards were to pay for their Ingratitude to Columbus and their Cruelty to the Natives some Millions of which they had barbarously murdered the English under Penn and Venables Landed here about twenty thousand strong being mostly necessitous Persons who had been undone by our then Tyrant and the Times May 3. 1655. The Spaniards unable to resist so great a force retired into the Woods and Fastnesses hoping to retrieve what they thus left by a Treaty but it proved otherwise For part of the English fell to Plant the rest to Privateer upon the Spaniards by which they got Wealth and the Fame of this so increased that many going over to them it became in a few years a very powerful Colony now able alone to manage a War against all the Forces the Spaniards have in the West-Indies This Island is situate between seventeen and eighteen degrees of North Lat. within the Tropicks in the Mare del Nort one hundred and forty Leagues North of the Main Continent of America fifteen South from Cuba twenty West from Hispaniola and one hundred and forty from Carthagena Nova It is of an Oval Form one hundred and seventy Miles long seventy in breadth and contains four or five Millions of Acres Nine hundred thousand of which were Planted in 1675. In the middle there is a lofty Chain of Mountains which run the whole length of the Isle from East to West from which spring plenty of pleasant and useful Rivers to the great refreshment and convenience of the Inhabitants It has a very rich fat Soil black and mixed with Clay except in the South-West Parts where it is generally a more loose Earth it every where answers the Planter's Care and Cost The Air is always serene and clear the Earth in her Summer Livery here being a perpetual Spring It has frequent Showers of Rain constant cooling Breezes of Wind from the East the Dews in the Night quicken the Growth of what is Planted so that it is the most delightful temperate healthful pleasant Island of all those in the West-Indies and will be extremely considerable when it comes to be thorowly Peopled The principal Towns in it are Port Royal built by the English S. Jago and Sevilla The Earl of Inchequin and the Duke of Albemarle two late Governours both of them here died Iamaistero or Jamaisoit a very large County in the West Part of the Island of Nivon or Niphonia belonging to Japan under which are ordinarily computed twelve Provinces or Kingdoms Iamama a City of Arabia Foelix upon the River Astan which falls into the Mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris about thirty German Miles South of Balsera Jamama stands towards the Borders of Arabia deserta two hundred and fifty Miles from the Persian Gulph to the West and seventy German Miles from Balsera to the South-West Long. 77. 30. Lat. 27. 00. Iamba a Province under the Great Mogul towards the River Ganges between Patna to the East Naugracut to the North Lahor to the West and Bakar to the South the City of Jamba from which it takes its Name stands eighty Miles from Ganges to the East towards Lahor Iamby or Jambis a Sea-Port Town and a Kingdom of no great extent in the Island of Sumatra towards the Eastern Part of it The Town stands towards Palimban within five or six Miles of the Sea driving a notable Commerce Iambol Joannipolis a City in Bulgaria Iamboli Chalcis Chalcidica Regio a Province in the North of Macedonia between Thessalonica the Arm of the Sea which runs up to it the Archipelago and Thrace The chief Towns of which are Thessalonica Amphipolis and Contessa Iames Bay a Bay in Virginia Iames Town Jacobipolis the principal City or Town in Virginia upon the River Pawhatan near its fall into the North Sea begun by the English about 1607 and honoured with this Name from King James I. § Another in the Country of Letrim in the Province of Connaught in Ireland so called from King James I. its Founder upon the Shannon well Walled but almost wholly ruined as to its Buildings in the Wars against King Charles the First and Second Iam-suqueam or Nanquin a River of China Iametz a strong place in Lorain yielded to the French King in 1632. It stands upon a little River in the Confines of the Province of Luxemburgh between Monmedy to the North and Damvillers to the South thirteen Miles from Metz to the West now dismantled Iancoma a Kingdom in the East-Indies beyond the Ganges under the King of Pegu it stands between the Rivers Mecon to the East and Menan to the West Ianeiro or Rio de Janaira a River the same with Ganabara in Brasil see Ganabara It gives its Name to a Province under the Portuguese in that Country whereof S. Sebastian is the Capital Ianiculus mons a Hill or Mountain beyond the Tiber in the vicinage of Rome yielding by its eminence an excellent prospect of that City and famous in History for the Sepulchre of King Numa Pompilius the encampment of Porsenna King of Etruria upon it whil'st he besieg'd Rome and for the Martyrdom of S. Peter Now call'd Montorio because its earth is of the colour of Gold Ianna a part of Greece some say Epirus others Thessalia Ianinnina Cassiope a City of Epirus Iannizari Promontorium Sigeium a Cape at the entrance of the Streights of Gallipoli or the Hellespont in Asia within half a League whereof the Rivers Scamander and Simois in an United Stream discharge themselves into the Ocean The Greeks wholly inhabit a plentiful Village upon it call'd by them Troyasis or Little Troy but by the Turks Giaour-kioy or the Village of Infidels this being the best Name the Turks give to Christian places where there are no Mosques The delightful Country of Troas is
thirty Miles from the Confines of the Kingdom of Poland to the South fifty from Soczow to the East and a hundred and twenty from Caminieck to the North-East It is not improbable this is the Augusta Dacâ—â— but the later Geographers are very much mistaken in placing it in Moldavia when it belongs to Walachia The Vaivode or Prince of these Countries for the most part resides here having suffered much from the Cossacks of later times the Turks maintained a strong Garrison in it The present King of Poland in 1686. marching this way against the Turks and Tartars possessed himself of it leaving a Garrison but before his return there happened so great a Fire that when he came he was forced to withdraw his Forces and leave it to the Walachians to be repaired Jati Bathis a River on the West of Sicily which falls into the Bay or Gulph of Amar on the North side twenty five Miles South of Palermo Java a great Island in the East-Indian Sea two hundred Leagues in length and near fifty in breadth On the West it has Sumatra on the East some other small Isles on the South the vast Ocean plays full upon it and on the North it has the Island of Borneo at the distance of forty five German Miles It is divided into nine Kingdoms the greatest of which is the Kingdom of Bantam and next the Kingdom of Materan The whole Island produceth great quantities of Spice and is on that account much frequented by the English and Dutch The Dutch had heretofore the Fort or City of Batavia in this Island not contented with this about 1684. joining with a Son of the King of Bantam then in Rebellion against his Father upon pretence of assisting him they seized the City of Bantam took Possession of the English Factory and all the Goods belonging to the English and kept the old King a Prisoner in the Castle of Bantam But finding there were several Attempts to restore him to his former Possession in 1686. the young King by the Advice of the Dutch removed his Captive Father to Batavia See Batavia The principal Cities of this Island are Balambuan Bantam Batavia or Jacatra Japara Jortan Materan once the Capital of the whole Panarucan Passarvan Saraboy and Tuban The Southern parts were never yet much sought into and so not much known It lies between 130 and 140 Long and 5 and 10 of Southern Lat. § There is another Island near this called the Lesser Java Jaur Jauriu a small River in Languedoc which riseth near S. Ponthois and falls into the Orba near the Castle of Pujols Javarin Jaurinum See Gewer and Raab Jawer Jauria a City of Silesia in Bohemia small but indifferently populous and the Capital of a Dukedom and has also an ancient Castle it lies not two Miles from Lignitz to the South and about nine from Breslaw to the West The Dukedom of Jawer lies between Lusatia to the West Bohema properly so called to the South the Dukedom of Lignitz to the North and that of Swyednitz to the East Jayck Rhymnus a River of the Asian Tartary which falls into the Caspian Sea between the Rha and Jaxartes Olearius placeth it in the middle of the North end of that Sea Jaziges by Ovid styled Jaziges acres and by the Writers of the middle Ages Jaziges Metanastes were an antient People of Sarmatia Europaea who being almost entirely exterminated thence by Boleslaüs the Chast King of Poland and Lescus in the years 1264 and 1282. retired in great numbers into the Vpper Hungary Jazzo See Laiazzo Jberia an antient Name of the Kingdom of Spain in Pliny and Strabo taken from the River Iberus Ebro § Likewise of a part of Georgia in Asia now called Gagheti See Georgia Jcaria a Mountain of Attica in Greece in the antient Tribe of Aegeus Jda a Mountain of Troas in Asia Minor at the foot of which stood the famous City Troy Athenaeus says nine Rivers derived their Springs from it Therefore Horace stiles it Ida undosa And Diodorus makes it to be the highest in the Neighbourhood of the Hellespont Hence the Idaeus sinus took its Name which was otherwise called Andramyttenus sinus and now le Golfe Andramytti § A Mountain also of the Island of Candia environed with Forests and inhabited heretofore by the People Dactyli Idaei Jdanhas Igaeaita a ruined City in Portugal Jddle or Iddel a River in the County of Nottingham upon which Redford is situated emptying it self Northward into the River Dun. Idafa a Branch of Mount Imaus Jdria a Town in the County of Goritia incompassed with Hills on all sides and seated upon a River of the same name Remarkable for the Quick-Silver Mines in it See Dr. Brown's Travels p. 82 83. It stands ten Miles from Goritia to the North-West Jducal Atlas Major a vast Mountain on the South of Barbary in Africa Jdumaea Edom the Country of the Edomites mentioned frequently in Scripture was a Kingdom of the antient Canaan betwixt Judaea properly so called the Stony Arabia and the Mediterranean Sea It s principal Cities Dinhabah Avith Pai Rehoboth 1 Chron. 1. 43. c. where see the list of the Kings and Dukes of Edom before the time of the beginning of the Israelitish Monarchy David afterwards conquered and garrisoned it 2 Sam. 8. 14. But in the Reign of Jehoram King of Judah the Edomites revolted and made themselves a King 2 Chron. 21. 8. 10. and joyned with the Chaldaeans under Nebuchadonezar in the Siege of Jerusalem Hyrcanus in the Ages following made War against them so effectually that he caused them to turn Jews They were of the Descendants of Esau Jefferkin Capernaum a City in Palestine Jehan-Abad See Delly Jempterlandt Jemptia a Province in the Kingdom of Sweden which has Angerman to the East Middlepad to the South Helsing to the West and Norway to the North. It belonged to the King of Denmark till 1645 and then by the Treaty of Bromsbroo was resigned to the Swedes There are three Castles but never a City in it Jena a small City in Hassia in Germany upon the River Saal over which it has a Bridge under the Duke of Saxon Weimar two German Miles from Weimar to the East nine from Leipsick to the North-East and three from Naumburg to the South It has a small University opened here in 1555 by the Dukes of Saxony and a Monastery of the Dominicans founded in 1286. The Valley about it yields plenty of Wine Jende or Pajende Jendus a Lake in the Province of Tavasthia in Finland Jendo Jedo or Yendo the capital City of the Empire of Japan in the Island of Niphonia at which the Emperor since his leaving Meaco keeps his Court. A vast and magnificent City upon the Banks of the River Tonkaw or Toukon and near a great Gulph yielding variety of Fish The Palace Royal is a work of state the Temples and the Palaces of the Nobility attract the admiration of Strangers There is one Street
the Sepulchre which till then had been reverenced by all Men but Jews Ever since this it has been in the Possession of the Mahometans as they at times prevailed one upon another It continued under the Sultans of Egypt till 1517 when Selim Emperor of the Turks took it from them and under this Family it is at this day called by the Turks Elkods that is the Holy City It is at this day the principal Place in Palestine seated saith Mr. Sandys on a rocky Mountain every way to be ascended except a little on the North with steep Descents and deep Valleys about it which do naturally fortifie it for the most part it is environed with other not far removed Mountains as if placed in the midst of an Amphitheatre On the East is Mount Olivet separated from the City by the Valley of Jehosaphat which also circleth a part of the North and affords a passage to the Brook of Kedron on the South is the Mountain of Scandal with the Valley of Gehinnon on the West formerly it was fenced with the Valley and Mountain of Gthon Mount Sion lay within the City which stood upon the South side of it on the East side of this Mountain stood the famous Temple and between the City and the Temple the King's Palace Mount Calvary which formerly lay without the City to the North-West is now well nigh the heart of it the visiting the Holy Sepulchre being the almost only reason why Jerusalem at this day has any being The Inhabitants of it are not many for the most part Monks and Religious Persons of all Nations miserably oppressed by the Turks who seek all opportunities to impoverish and injure them This City stands forty Miles from Joppe and the Mediterranean Sea a hundred and sixty from Damascus to the South three hundred from Grand Cairo to the North-East and four hundred from Alexandria commonly believed to have been built by Melchisedech and called Salem from him It had divers Names of old expressed in this Distich Solyma Lusa Bethel Hierosolyma Jebus Elia Vrbs sacra Jerusalem dicitur atque Salem For above eleven hundred years together this City was the Queen of the East None ever so sacred yet none ever hath suffered greater Profanations than it The Emperor Titus erected a Temple here to Jupiter Capitolinus and Adrian in derision both of Judaism and Christianity engraved a Swine upon the Gate of Bethlehem dedicated a Chappel to Venus upon Mount Calvary another to Jupiter in the place of our Saviour's Sepulchre and a third to Adonis in Bethlehem all which continued till the Reign of Constantine the Great See Bethlehem and Calvary The Church of Jerusalem is the Mother of Christendom sanctified by the Death of Christ the Descent of the Holy Spirit the Preachings of the Apostles a General Council of the Apostles in the year 49 or 50 and the Martyrdom of S. James its first Bishop The Council of Nice allowed this Church the style and dignity of a Patriarchate tho at the same time subjecting it in point of Jurisdiction to the Bishops of Caesarea But in 553. in the fifth General Council or the second of Constantinople that Subjection was reversed and not only the See of Caesarea but Scythopolis and Berytus were made subject to this Church After Christianity received its Restauration by the Arms of Godfrey of Bouillon Jerusalem bore the Title of a Kingdom which continued from the year 1099 to 1187. in the Persons of about eight Christian Kings from the said Godfrey with possession of the Lands and Rights of a Crown But Frederick II. and others after who enjoy'd the Title of Kings of Jerusalem possessed no Land in Palestine It lies in Long. 69. 30. Lat. 31. 20. according to Mr. Fuller Others say Long. 69. 00 Lat. 32. 44. Ieselbas Margiana a part of the Province of Chorasan in the Kingdom of Persia Iesi Aesium a City in the Marchia Anconitana in the Dominions of the Church which is a Bishops See immediately under the Pope it is but small and stands upon an Hill by the River Jesi six Miles from the Confines of the Dukedom of Vrbino twenty three from Ancona to the West Iesselmeer or Gislemere a City and Kingdom under the Great Mogul lying North of the Kingdom of Guzarat on this side the Ganges the City is great a hundred and twenty Miles from the River Indus to the East and the same from Guzarat to the North. The Kingdom lies amongst the Mountains Terra de Iesso or Yezo Essonis Terra a large Country towards China and Japan discovered by the Hollanders in 1643. It is joyned by some to the North parts of Japan by others separated from it by a Streight of fifteen Miles broad All agree it is of a great extent from East to West The chiefest City is Matzumay which is the Capital of a Province of the same name but no European having yet setled here it is very little known The later Voyagers have discovered a Streight betwixt Tartary and this Country which they call the Streights of Jesso Iesual another Kingdom belonging to the Great Mogul in the East-Indies betwixt the Kingdom of Patna with the River Ganges to the West and that of Vdessa with the Mountains to the East The chief City is Rajapour Iesupol a very strong Town and Castle in Podolia in Poland on the Confines of Pocuock upon the River Bistris Ieter Jatrus a River of Mysia in the Lesser Asia Ietsegen and Iesten or Jetsengo two considerable Territories or Provinces in Japan in the Island of Niphon subdivided into divers other Provinces Jetsegen has the Region of Quanto to the East and Jetson to the West The latter is bounded by Jamaisoit to the West Iex and Jexdi Hecatompylos a City of Persia If Hypaea one of the Hyeres Iglaw Iglova Iglavia Giblova a City of the Kingdom of Bohemia but in Moravia upon the River Iglaw on the Confines of Bohemia twenty four German Miles from Prague and ten from Lentz This City is reasonably well peopled Igliaco Peneius a River on the West of the Morea Ihor a City and Kingdom at the most Southern Point of the Promontory of Malacca in the East-Indies over against the Isle of Sumatra distant little more than one degree and a half from the Line in Long 129. 31. The King is a potent Prince in these parts The City Ihor is situated upon a River which falls into the Ocean near the Promontory of Sincapura where it has a good Port. Iksworth or Ickworth a Market Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of Thingo retaining in its Name says Mr. Cambden the memory of the antient Iceni who dwelt in a part of this County The remains of a Priory founded by Gilbert Blunt sometime Lord of the Town and of a Guildhall are yet extant A Pot of Roman Coyns bearing the Inscriptions of divers Roman Emperors was digged up here not many years since Ila Yla Epidia one of the Western
Southern Latitude to 44. of Northern It abounds with Gold and Silver Mines and all other sorts of Metals but Copper and Lead with all sorts of Cattel but Horses with all sorts of Corn but Wheat So that these and Wines are almost the only things they need from other Nations towards the Convenience or indeed Luxury of humane Life for this is the Store-house of Spice and Jewels to the whole World Alexander the Great was the first of the Grecians who Discovered and Conquered a part of this vast Region which soon after revolted from his Successors The Romans never went so far but were honoured with some Embassies from them when they had Potent Princes as Augustus Antoninus and Constantine After-times wrapped them up in the Clouds again There was a Trade driven by the way of the Red Sea between the Persian Turkish and Indian Merchants for Spice yet there was little known of of them till the Portuguese discovered the way by the Cape of Good Hope in 1499. and the first Voyages were made hither by them in 1500. and 1502. The principal Rivers are Indus and the Ganges Amongst the ancient Inhabitants the Brachmanes and Gymnosophistae for Philosophy the Gangarides for War were the most considerable Alexander the Great carried his Victorious Arms hither in the year of Rome 426. and 427. where he defeated Porus King of India And before him some write Semiramis There is a Tradition that St. Thomas preached Christianity here whence comes the Church of the Christians of St. Thomas and that his Body first found at Meliapour now lyes interred at Goa in a stately Church built for the purpose by the Order of Emanuel King of Portugal In the third Century the Philosopher Pantaenus was sent by Demetrius Bishop of Alexandria to preach to the Indians Aedesius and Frumentius in the Reign of Constantine the Great two Laicks travelling into India voluntarily did the same The latter of which was afterwards by Athanasius consecrated Bishop of India See Brachmanes Banjans Gymnosophistae and Benares India extra Gangem is bounded on the West by the furthest or most Eastern Branch of the River Ganges which is called Antiboli from its spring unto its fall into the Ocean on the North with unknown Countries on the East with the Kingdom of China and the Eastern Ocean and on the South with the same Ocean In this there are four great Kingdoms which do not depend on the Great Mogul See the general Division The West-Indies are all those Countries more commonly called America and the Indies only by reason of their Wealth and distance Indigetes Besides the deified Heroes of the Ancients understood by this Name they used it to denote the mixt people of Ampurdan in the Principality of Catalonia in Spain See Ampurdan Indostan or the Empire of the Great Mogul is bounded on the North by the Asian Tartary and the Kingdom of Thibet on the West by the Kingdom of Persia on the East by the River Cosmin or Cosmite by which it is divided from the rest of India on the South with the Bay of Bengala and the Promontory of Malabar There are besides what lies within these bounds some Kingdoms under this Prince beyond the Ganges towards China in all he has under him thirty five Kingdoms His Capital City is Agra He is of the Race of Tamerlain the Great Scythian Conquerour and has been possessed of this Country ever since the year 1473. It is abundantly rich in Gold Silver Precious Stones and Merchandizes The propriety of almost all the Lands belongs to the Great Mogul who besides is heir to the great Lords of his Court and all Officers within his pay Indre Ingeris Ander Andri a River of France which ariseth in the Province of Berry and watering la Chaster Château roux Loches and taking in the Cher falls with it into the Loyre eight Miles beneath Tours to the West This River in the Writers of the middle Age is called Anger Indus one of the greatest first and best known Rivers of the East-Indies called by the Natives Sinde It springeth out of the highest part of Imaus by some called Taurus in the Kingdom of Cassimer in the Empire of the Great Mogul towards the Confines of the Asian Tartary and turning Southward watering many Provinces or Kingdoms and taking in the Rivers of Behat Nilab Ravée Coule and many others it at last falls into the Arabian or Indian Ocean by four great Mouths in the Kingdom of Tatta between the Kingdoms of Guzarat and Persia The Name of that Mountain out of which it springeth is called Peropasin It receives between its Head and its Fall one and twenty Rivers It had of old seven Mouths three of which are now stopped Ingelheim Ingelenheinum Ingelhemium a small Town in the Lower Palatinate in Germany two German Miles from Mentz to the West Charles the Great was born in this place in 732. After this it was an Imperial and Free-City but exempted in 1402. by Lewis the Emperour and now under the Elector Palatine Near this place S. Lewis King of France died in 840. Called Nyder Ingelheim the Lower or Nether Ingelheim to distinguish it from another called Over or Vpper Ingelheim In the years 788 948. and 972. there were great Councils held here Ingermanlandt and Ingrie Ingria a Province of Sweden between Moscovy to the East Livonia to the West the Lake of Ladoga and the Bay of Finland betwixt which two last the River Nerva serves as a Canal Heretofore subject to the Russ who call it Isera before the Swedes took it from them by Conquest The chief Town is Notteburgh upon the Lake Ingoldstad Ingoldstadium Aureapolis a City of Germany in the Dukedom of Bavaria which has a Bridge over the Danube It was at first a Village but exalted to the dignity and magnitude of a City by Lewis of Bavaria Emperour of Germany In 1546. the Protestant Arms proved unsuccessful before it Gustavus Adolphus the Victorious King of Sweden was not able to take it when he attempted it in 1632. In 1410. here was an University opened which has obtained many Privileges and good Endowments from Lewis Duke of Bavaria and Pope Pius II. It is now under the Duke of Bavaria This City lies three Miles from Newburgh to the East and seven from Ratisbone to the West The houses are almost all of Wood. Inhambane a Kingdom in the Lower Aethiopia between Monomotapa to the North and Caferia to the South The chief place of which is Tonge Inhamior another small Kingdom in the Lower Aethiopia towards the River Cuama and the Confines of Monomotapa Inifa one of the Names of Mount Imaus Inneken Aguntum a Town in Carinthia Innerness a Town in Scotland Ins Inn Oenus Aenus a River in Germany which ariseth in Switzerland from Mount Moloia one of the Alpes from two Springs on the Borders of the Valtoline and flowing through the Earldom of Tyrol by Inspruck the Capital of it Hull Schwatz and Kufstain it
given of it by Monsieur Thevenot who saw it himself Famous moreover to all posterity for the Children of Israel's passing it on dry ground at their entrance into Canaan and the Prophet Elijah's doing the same in company with Elisha Our Saviour received Baptism here from the hands of S. John near to which particular place the Christians built a Monastery that is now in ruins The Pilgrims delight to bathe in this River fancying the Water sanative from the virtue of that Sacred Contact It overflows in Summer with the melted Snow from Mount Libanus But in the Winter runs a low Water and after its Current into the Dead Sea it is clear without mixture for above a League together issuing thence by a subterraneous Channel into the Mediterranean Ioyeuse Gaudiosa a Town in France in the Province of Vivarais towards the Borders of Languedoc honoured by being first a Viscounty next a Dutchy and giving Name to a Noble Family Ipepa Hypaepa a City of Lydia in the Lesser Asia between Mount Tmolus and the River Caystro not far from Thyatira It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ephesâ—s Ipre See Yperen Iprichia the same with Africa Ips Ipsium and Ibissa a Town in Austria Ipsala Cypsella a City in Thrace by the River Mela at first a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Trajanopoli or Zernis afterwards it became the Metropolis It lies between this City to the West twenty nine Miles and Drusilaba to the North-East twenty six Miles the River in our latter Maps is called Larissa and falls into the Archipelago over against the Isle of Lembro just behind that Peninsula which makes the Dardanels straight Ipswich Gippo-vicus the County Town of Suffolk heretofore called Gippwich seated on the North side of the River Stour upon the foot of a steep Hill in somewhat a low Ground it has a commodious Haven and was heretofore a place of great Trade with many wealthy Merchants in it and a vast number of other people but now decayed as to both It was also formerly fortified with Trenches and Rampires the loss of which is not to be lamented the Town being so seated that it can never be made a place of Defence the Hills on all sides but the South and South-East commanding it It has fourteen Parish Churches and a great many goodly Houses the tokens of its former Wealth In 991. the Danes sacked it and nine years after repeated their Cruelty upon it In the Reign of S. Edward it had eight hundred Burgesses who paid Custom to the King There was also a Castle built here by the Normans which Hugh Bigod Earl of Norfolk defended against the Usurper King Stephen but was forced to surrender at last the ruins are now lost Mr. Cambden supposeth it to have been demolished by Henry II. when he did the same by Waleton Castle not far off Here landed the three thousand Flemings which the Nobility called in against Henry II. when his Son rebelled against him In the late Rebellion this Town stood clear of all those Calamities which involved the rest of the Nation The Bishop of Norwich hath a House here and the Viscount of Hereford another befitting his degree and quality The Honourable Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Grafton was created Viscount Ipswich Aug. 16. 1672. who died of the Wounds that he received in the Service of King William before Cork Octob. 9. 1690. This Town is also a Corporation and sends two Burgesses to the Parliament It has a Free-School with the convenience of a good Library and a Hospital Cardinal Wolsey was born here and began the building of a stately College which bears his Name to this day Ireland Hibernia Ivernia is a great fruitful and noble Island on the West of Great Britain accounted in ancient time for greatness and glory the third Island of the World and called then the Lesser Britain Orpheus Aristotle and Claudian call it Ierna Juvenal Mela Juverna Diodorus Siculus Iris. Others Jovernia Overnia and Burnia The Natives Erin The Welsh Yuerdon The English Ireland It is three hundred Miles long and two hundred broad on the East it has the tempestuous Irish Sea between it and Great Britain on the West the Vergivian Ocean on the North the Deucalidonian Sea and on the South the British Ocean Divided into four Provinces Leinster Mounster Vlster and Connaught which heretofore sustained the Title of as many Kingdoms comprehending in all thirty Counties four Archbishopricks and twelve Bishopricks The Country is full of Woods Hills and Bogs The Soil rich and fruitful especially as to Grass Pomponius Mela in the times of the Emperour Claudius gives the very same character of it and therefore it has ever abounded in Cattle which is its most Staple Commodity The principal Rivers are the Shannon the Sewer the Barow the Black-Water the Shour the Neure the Boyne the Leffy c. The Capital City heretofore Armagh now Dublin The Air is at all times temperate but too moist to be at all times pleasant or wholsome The Romans in all probability never had any footing in this Island This Nation was converted to Christianity in the fifth Century by Palladius and S. Patrick especially the latter who planted not only Religion but so much Learning too amongst them that in the next Age the Monks of Ireland were eminent for Holiness and Learning and Ireland thence called Insula Sanctorum an Island of Saints In 694. Egfrid King of Northumberland first entered and destroyed this Nation with Fire and Sword after this the Danes for thirty years together wasted and destroyed them After these the Germans After them Edgar the most powerful King of England conquered a great part of Ireland And when by Massacres and other Accidents the Irish were freed from all these Calamities there ensued Domestick Broils among themselves In 1155. Henry II. being called in by the Natives resolved on the Conquest of them whereupon Richard Strongbow Earl of Pembroke began it in 1172. Henry II. in Person entered Ireland and taking upon him the Stile of Sovereign Lord of Ireland the States and all the petty Kings submitted to him and passed over all their Rule and Power which was confirmed by Pope Hadrian The Kings of England continued the Title of Lords of Ireland till the Reign of Henry VIII who took first upon him the Stile and Title of King of Ireland in 1541. which was confirmed to Mary his Daughter by Pope Paul IV. in 1555. The Irish have ever looked upon this Conquest as a Wrong and an Usurpation which no Act of theirs nor Time it self could make valid Hence when ever England has been imbroiled they have taken the opportunity of Revolting In the Reign of Edward I. when that Prince was engaged against the Scots one Donald O-Neal stiled himself King of Ulster and in Right of Inheritance the undoubted Heir of all Ireland But when in the Reign of Henry VIII the pretence of Religion was added first the Earl of Kildare rebelled
in 1537. and was presently suppressed taken and beheaded with his five Uncles In 1539. O-Neal began another Rebellion but so soon as Thomas Earl of Sussex Lord Lieutenant came against him with an Army the Gentleman grew humble submitted and was pardoned He flew out again in 1563. burnt the Cathedral of Armagh and besieged Dundalk but with no success In 1565. Sir Henry Sidney Lord Lieutenant went against him and in a Fight broke his Forces so that flying to the Scots whom he had likewise injured in 1567. he was assassinated in cold blood and presently after attained in Parliament and the Title of O-Neal abolished The Earl of Desmond was the next who in 1579. calling in the Spaniards began another Rebellion which ended ill for him the Spaniards being driven out the year after and this Earl taken and slain in 1583. In 1595. Tir-Oen who had done great Service against the Earl of Desmond and was highly favoured by Queen Elizabeth most ungratefully began a Rebellion the most dangerous of all the other this Earl having been bred in the Queens Service and learned Military Diâ—cipline from the English which he now made use of against them In 1598. he defeated the English at Blackwater In 1599. brought the Earl of Essex to condescend to a Treaty with him In 1601. he brought the Spaniards over to his Assistance who took and garrisoned Kinsale which was retaken by Sir Charles Blunt afterwards Lord Montjoy and the Spaniards totally driven out whereupon Tir-Oen submitted and was brought over by the Lord Lieutenant to King James I. in 1603. This War lasted eight years and might have proved fatal to the English if God had not prevented it After this I find no general Insurrection of the Irish till 1641. when seeing Charles I. engaged in War with the Scots at home they on a sudden rose up and assassinated two hundred thousand English in a few days when no body suspected any such thing This Insurrection began September 3. The Troubles of England gave them some respit but in 1649. and fifty Oliver Cromwell began their Chastisement so effectually that Ireton and those he left to carry it on erected mournful Trophies of the Divine Vengeance against them with no great expence of Time Blood or Treasure it missed but a little that the Irish Name and Nation had been totally extirpated Charles II. upon his Restitution in 1660. shewed them more Mercy restored such as had any pretences of Loyalty to plead for their Estates and governed them all his time with so much Clemency that this Nation never was in a better State since they fell under the English than at the time of the Death of that Good Prince Irenopolis an ancient City of Cilicia in Asia Minor Afterwards called Neronias and made an Episcopal See some write under the Archbishop first of Selencia then of Anazarbus Others place an Episcopal City of this Name near Babylon under the Patriarch of Antioch Iris Eurotas a River in the Morea which washeth Misitra and falls into the Gulph di Colochina on the South side of the Morea It is now called Vasilipotamo or Basilipotamo that is the Kings River § Another in Cappadocia understood by Valerius Flaccus where he says longisque sluens amfractibus Iris now called Casalmach See Casalmach Irneo Vindius Hirmius a Ledge of Mountains in Spain commonly called El monte de las Asturas the Mountain of the Asturas which is a Branch of the Pyrenean Hills running out to the West between the Asturas to the North and the Kingdom of Leon to the South the greatest is called Irneo or Erneo and also Cueto de Hano or Ori. Iroquois a valiant Nation of Indians in New France in the North America They have maintained divers bloody Wars with the French there and are the particular Enemies of the Hurons another salvage people of the same Country Irus a Mountain mentioned by Arrian upon the Shoars of the River Indus towards Gedrosia Is an ancient Town of Susiana in Asia eight days journey from Babylon upon a River of the same Name which discharges its Streams into the Euphrates Both remembred by Herodotus and Stephanus Isauria a Province according to the ancient division of Asia Minor now thrown into a part of Caramania and subject to the Turks It s Capital City was Isauropolis or Isauria by Ammianus Marcellinus called Claudiopolis now Saura Publius Servilius first reduced this Province under the Dominion of the Romans whence he attained the Title of Isauricus Claudian thus mentions them and him Indomites curru Servilius egit Isauros Historians write of their Incursions into the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth Centuries Iscariot a Village of the Tribe of Ephraim or as others say Dan in Palestine not far from Samaria to the East The Birth-place of the traiterous Judas Ischar Jatrus a River of Bulgaria which riseth out of Mount Hemus and watering Ternova a City of that Province falls into the Danube at Suistefo It is the third River from the Western Border and now more usually called Iantra Ischeboli or Ischepoli Scopelus an Inland City of Thrace made a Bishops See by Leo the Emperour under the Archbishop of Adrianople I suppose it is the same with that which is now called Ipsola Ischia Aenaria Inarime Pithecusa an Island on the Coast of the Kingdom of Naples near the Bay of Puteolum not above three Miles from the Shoar to the West It s Circuit is of twenty Miles of old called Inarime and by the Greeks Pithecusa It has a City of the same Name well fortified with a Castle built on a Rock in which Ferdinando King of Naples found shelter during the storm brought upon him by Charles VIII of France who in 1495. conquered this whole Kingdom in a few days This City is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Naples eighteen Miles from Naples to the West Claudius Nepos a Frenchman in 1586. published an exact Map and Description of this Island which is inserted into the Description of Italy published by Antonius Maginus Iscodar the Turkish Name of Scutari or Scodra Idenstein a County in Weteraw a Territory in the Upper Circle of the Rhine between Hassia to the East and the Rhine to the West by some Isembourg Isakal Lein Alschemes Busiris Ramesses a ruined old City in Egypt within the Delta the ruins of which are so called Isenberg Isidis Mons a Mountain in Schwaben near Ausburgh Isendyck Isendium a small but strong Town upon the Sea Coast in Flanders over against Biervliet a Town belonging to the Hollanders This Town stands upon the Scheld three French Leagues from Sluys to the East and something above four from Middleburgh to the South and was fortified by the Spaniards against the Dutch Isenach See Eysenach Isenghien Isegemium a Castle in Flanders in the Territory of Courtray which gives the Title of an Earl or Count to the Family of Vilnia It is now under the French two Leagues from Courtray towards Bruges
to the North. Iser Isara a River of Germany in the Dukedom of Bavaria It ariseth in the Borders of the County of Tyrol three Miles from Inspruck to the West and flowing to the North through Bavaria watereth Munick or Munichen the Capital of that Dutchy and Frisingen beneath which the Amber Ambra from the West falls into it at Landschut and at last it ends in the Danube over against Derkendorf six Miles West of Passaw and the same distance above Straubing to the East L'Isere Isara a River in France which is caled Isar by Ptolemy and Scoras by Polybius it ariseth in the Territory of Tarentaise near Moutiers in the Dukedom of Savoy which it watereth beneath which it takes in the Arche from the South then passeth by Montmelian to Grenoble over against which it admits the Drac from the South and above Valence falls into the Rhosne It is a rapid River § There is another of this Name in the Dukedom of Bavaria in Germany Isernia Aesernia a City in the Kingdom of Naples by some called Sernia It stands in the Province of Molise and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capua seated four Miles from the River Volturno to the East and the same from the Confines of the Terra di Lavoro at the foot of the Apennine thirty Miles from Capua to the North and almost twenty from Trivento to the South It is now in a tolerable good state and made more famous by the Birth of St. Peter Celestine a Pope Isin Istnisca a Village and a River in Bavaria six Miles from Munichen to the East Isis a River of Oxfordshire at the Confluence of which with the River Thame stands Dorchester in the same County Island Thule Islandia is a great Island in the Northern Ocean called by the Dutch Het Islandt by the Germans Ynslandt It lies between Norway to the East and Greenland to the West from East to West two hundred French Leagues and about half so broad Well peopled and fruitful towards the Sea-shoar but the middle is barren desolate and very Mountainous Nâ—ddock a Norwegian first discovered it in 860. and called it Sneeland that is the Land of Snow Flocko a Pyrate of Norway afterward gave it the Name of Isee-Land from the great quantity of Ice he found about it It began to be inhabited by the Norwegians under Ingulphus so soon as ever it was discovered that Nation being then dissatisfied with Horald their Prince It became subject to Norway in 1260. by doing Homage to that Crown and in the Right of that Kingdom it belongs to the King of Denmark who every year sends them a Governour who resides at the Castle of Bestede called otherwise Kronniges-Gard that is the Vice-Roys Residence They were converted to the Christian Faith by Adebert Bishop of Bremen Canutus King of the Vandals settled Bishops first amongst them in 1133. one at Hola another at Schalholt the two principal Cities and to each of them annexed a School They had at first neither Money nor Cities but lived in Caves in the sides of Mountains covered their Huts with Fishes Bones and eat dried Fish instead of Bread They speak the ancient Cimbrian Tongue In 1584 the Bible was Printed in their Language They have no Cattle but Horses and Cows nor any Trees but Box and Juniper The Country produceth so great a quantity of sweet Grass that their Cattle would burst 't is said if they did suffer them to eat it as they would On the East and West sides of the Isle there are burning Mountains The Inhabitants are strong and fierce It lies between eight and ten degrees of Long and in Lat. 67. one hundred and fifty German Miles from the Shoars of Norway to the West Their longest day in Summer is twenty four hours without night and their night in Winter when the Sun enters into Capricorn the same without day The Vulgar believe the Mountain Hecla to be the Prison of damned Souls Mines of Sulphur are found in it with which the Merchants drive a Traffick Isle de feu the Island of Fire one of the Islands of Cap. Verde upon the Coast of Africa so called from a burning Mountain therein It has a Port defended by a Fort on the North West The Ille of France Insula Franciae is a very great Province the most celebrated rich and populous of any in that Kingdom It is bounded on the North by Picardy on the East by Champagne on the West by Normandy and on the South by La Beausse it contains in it twelve Counties as le Parisis la Brie Francoise l' Hurepois le Gastinois le Mantoan le Vexin Francois le Beavoisis le Valois le Soissonois c. The principal City is Paris the Royal City of this Kingdom Islas de los Ladrones or Islas de las Velas by the French called Isles des Larrons a mass of little Islands in the Archipelago of St. Lazare betwixt the Oriental and the Pacifick Oceans extending from North to South at the extremity of our Hemisphere Eastward Discovered in 1520. by the famous Magellan Some inhabited by a salvage people whose addiction to Thievery occasioned this general ill name upon them all of the Islands of Thieves Yet the greatest part are barren They reckon fifteen principal ones The Air temperate but that the Hurricanes from time to time rage with violence These Salvages are excellent at making of Matts and they traffick to Tartary in Canoes Isle Maurice an Island in the Aethiopick Ocean to the East of Madagascar so named by the Hollanders in 1598. in honour of Maurice of Nassaw Prince of Orange But the Portugueze made the first discovery of it who called it Ilha do Cerno or Swan-Island the English also have given the Name of Warwick to its Haven In 1640. the Hollanders settled upon it and have built it a Fort. It yields Palm-trees Cocao Ebony plenty of Fish and Tortoises of a vast magnitude § There is another small Island of this Name near the Coast of Moscovia to the West of Weigats Streight discovered by the Hollanders in 1594. in their search for a North Passage to China Full of Lakes Ponds and Marishes Isles des Papas du Pape or des Princes called by the Turks Papas-Adasi by the Greeks Papadonisia or the Priests Island from their being inhabited by the Religious Caloyers of the Order of S. Basil lie within four Leagues of Constantinople betwixt the Sea of Marmora and the entrance into the Streights of Gallipoli The Europeans of Constantinople and Pera ordinarily divert themselves at them Isles des Perles the Islands of Pearl are a Shoal of Islands in the South Sea twelve Leagues from Panama in South America to which the abundance of Pearls heretofore fish'd out of the Sea adjacent occasioned the giving of this Name The two principal are Del Rio and Tararequi Maze and odoriferous Trees grow upon them The Spaniards here having made an end of all the Natives serve themselves
an half and from 37. deg and an half of Lat. to 46. and an half In every respect so delightful that divers Writers call it the Garden of Europe Watered by the Rivers Po Tanaro Garigliano Arno Reno Tiber Volturno c. Adorned with a great many magnificent handsome well built Cities divers Universities and more Bishopricks than any Country in the World besides Italica Heraclea a City of Asia Itching a River of Hantshire meeting with the River Test at their fall into the Sea near Southampton Winchester stands upon its Banks Ithaca an Island in the Ionian Sea near Cephalonica now called Isola del Compare and Val de Compare by the Turks Phiachi or Theachi And in Dionysius Africanus Nericia This was the Birth-place of Vlysses as Virgil hath it Sum patria ex Ithaca comes infoelicis Vlyssei Aen. 3. Iton Itona a small River of Normandy which washeth Eureux and then falls into the River Eure. Ituraea the ancient Roman Name of a Region in Palestine since called Bacar See Bacar In the time of our Saviour it was a Tetrarchate under the Government of Philip Herod's Brother The Inhabitants were a mixture of the Tribes of Gad and Reuben Itzeho Itzâ—hoa a small City in Holstein properly so called in the very Borders of Stomaria upon the River Stor two German Miles from the Eibe and Gluckstadt towards the South-East Iuanogrod a Castle in the County of Ingermanland near Narva from which it is parted only by the River Plausa Built and fortified by the Russ and conquered by the Swedes together with the Province in which it stands Iucatan or Yucatan a Peninsula in New Spain in North America within the Government of Mexico running into the North Sea betwixt the two Gulphs of Mexico and Honduras above two hundred and fifty Leagues in circuit Fertile especially in Cotton and planted with the Cities Merida Salamanca Valladolid c. It was first discovered by Francis Hernandez of Corduba and afterwards conquered by Francis Montege by a War of nine years in 1536. Iudea See Palestine Iudenburg a City of the Vpper Stiria upon the River Muer which falls into the Drave in the Borders of Hungary nine Miles above Gratz to the West and two from the Confines of Carinthia It is under the House of Austria and thought to be the ancient Sabatinca Norici Iudia Vdia Odiaa the Capital City of the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies where the King resides thirty Leagues from the Indian Ocean upon the River Menan In Long. 129. 00. Lat. 15. 00. And is a Place of great Trade Iudicello Amananus a River of Sicily which ariseth from Mount Aetna and passing through the City of Catania falls into the Ionian Sea after a Course of ten Miles Ivel a River of Bedfordshire falling into the Ouse upon which stand Biglesworth and Shefford Ivetot a Seigniory in the Paix de Caux in Normandy Said to have been erected into a Kingdom by King Clotaire I. in satisfaction for the Murder of Gautier Lord of Ivetot committed in the Church upon a Good Friday by King Clotaire's own hand Others write this is a Fable St. Ives a Borough and Market Town in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Penwith which returns two Burgesses to the House of Commons It has a Haven to the North or Irish Sea § A Market Town in Huntingtonshire in the Hundred of Hurstington upon the River Ouse over which it hath a fair Stone Bridge Said to be so called from S. Ivo a Bishop who about the year 600. preached Christianity throughout England and here died Ivette Iveta a small River of France which falls into the Orbe Iuhorsky or Juhora Jugra Juhra a Province in the North of Moscovy upon the White Sea It hath a City of the same Name Ivica Ebusus an Island on the East of Spain belonging to Majorca and seated between it and Spain only twenty Miles in compass with a secure Haven on its South side It affords great plenty of Salt and has no hurtful Creature in it The Bishop of Tarragona is the Proprietor of this Isle It is on all sides incompassed with Rocks or small Islands which make the approach to be very dangerous Iuine Junna a small River in Gastinois in France which arising near the Forest of Orleance and bending Northward takes in Estampes and some other small Rivers and falls into the Seyne at Corbie Some believe it to be the same with the River Yone and that it was called Estampes from the Town of that Name upon it Ivingo a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Colstow Iuliers Juliacum a City of Germany mentioned by Tacitus and Ammianus Marcellinus called by the Inhabitants Gulick See Gulick § Also the Name of a Dukedom in the Province of Westphalia between the Rhine to the East and the Maes to the West bounded on the North by Vpper Guelderland on the East by the Bishoprick of Cologne on the South by Eifall and the Bishoprick of Treves and on the West by the Dukedom of Limburg The River Roer divides it into two parts This from 700. was under Princes of its own to 1609. when upon the death of John William the last Duke there arose a contest between the Duke of Newburg and Brandenburg which in 1612. broke out into a War these two Dukes in the end dividing the Dukedom between them and entering a League for their mutual defence against who ever should annoy either of them in that which he possessed The Dukes of Saxony at the same time pretended a Right which though they never prosecuted yet they still reserve unto themselves Iuncto Tagrus a Mountain in the Kingdom of Portugal Iunnan Junnanum a great Province in the Kingdom of China in the South-West Borders towards the East-Indies on the North it is bounded by the Kingdom of Tibet and the Province of Suchem on the East it has Queycheu and Quamsi two other Provinces of China on the South the Kingdoms of Tunkim and Cochin-China and on the West the Kingdom of Pegu. The Southern parts of this Province have been conquered by the King of Tunkim and are in his hands It has its Name from Ynvam a vast City seated in Long. 131. 00. Lat. 25. 30. This Province contains two and twenty great Cities eighty four smaller and one hundred thirty two thousand nine hundred fifty eight Families Iunquera See Jonquera Iura a Mountain which divides France from Switzerland called by the Germans Iurten by the Swiss Leberberg and Leerberg It begins at the Rhine near Basil to the North extends to the Rhosne and the County of Beugey to the South having many different Names from the People by which it passeth That part which begins at the Rhosne four Miles from Geneva and lies between the County of Burgundy and Beugey is called le Credo afterwards it is called St. Claude about the rise of the River Doux it has the Name of Mont de Joux in the Borders of
the Hundred of Finsbury of which the Earl of Warwick bears the Title of Baron Kent Cantium is the most South-Eastern County of England on the North it is bounded by the Thames which parts it from Essex on the East and South it has the British Sea in part on the North and on the West it has Sussex and Surrey It is in length from East to West fifty Miles and from South to North twenty six Divided into five Lathes Sutton Aylesford Soray St. Augustine and Shepway wherein are four hundred and eight Parishes and thirty Market Towns That part which lieth towards the Thames is healthful but not fruitful the middle parts are both the Southern are very fruitful but not healthful The Thames the Medway the Stower the Tun and the Rother besides lesser Streams water it Some give this Character of it The Weald for Wood East Kent for Corn Rumney for Meadow Tenham for an Orchard Shepey and Reculver for Wheat Thanet for Barley and Hedcorn for Capons This Country was first conquered by Julius Caesar though not without Resistance in the years of Rome 696. and 698. fifty three years before the Birth of our Saviour being forced to a double Expedition against almost this single County As he began the Conquest of Britain here so did the Saxons Hengist erecting the Kingdom of Kent in the year of Christ 456. seven years after the first arrival of the Saxons Against the Danes the Kentish men did also great things and with much Courage and Patience repelled those Barbarous People When William the Conquerour had subdued all the rest of the Nation he was glad to come to a Composition with the Inhabitants of this County and to grant them their ancient Liberties and Customs Whence the Laws of Gavelkind obtain here to this day This County was also the first that imbraced the Christian Religion from Augustine the Monk in the year 568. Accordingly Canterbury is justly the Metropolis of the whole Kingdom of England as having been the first Fountain from whence the Christian Religion spread it self amongst the Saxons for as for the British or Welsh they had imbraced Christianity long before VVilliam the Conquerour in 1067. created Odo Bishop of Bajeux his half Brother Lord Chief Justice and Lord Treasurer of England Earl of Kent In 1465. Edward IV. created Edmund Grey Lord Ruthyn Lord Treasurer of England which Family still injoys this Honour Anthony II. the present Earl of Kent being the eleventh in this Succession Besides the Sea of Canterbury this County injoys a second Bishoprick which is Rochester and a great many populous rich Towns fafe Roads large and secure Harbours for Ships and whatever else is desirable in Human Life except a more serene Air. Kerci or Chierche Cercum a small Town at the Mouth of the Streights of Caffa upon the Euxine Sea belonging to the Precopensian Tartars Kerez See Keureuz Keriog a River in Shropshire which falls into the Dee above Bangor Kerka or Karka Titius a River of Dalmatia which washeth Sardona and Sebenico then falls into the Adriatick Sea eight German Miles North of Spalatro Kermen Germia a considerable City at this day in Thrace seated not far from Adrianople the Turks have here a Sangiack Kerry a County in the Province of Munster on the Vergivian or Western Ocean between the County of Clare to the North and the County of Cork to the South and East the Capital of which is Ardart Keschidag Olympius a Mountain of Misia in the Lesser Asia Kesmarckt or Keysermarkt Caesaropolis a Town of the Vpper Hungary at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains towards the Frontiers of the Kingdom of Poland Keswick a Market Town in the County of Cumberland in the Hundred of Allerdale near to which Black Lead is digged up in plenty It standeth in a Valley environed with Hills and has been formerly a famous Town for Copper Mines Kesâ—el or Cassel Castellum Menapiorum a Town in Brabant two Leagues beneath Roermond to the North between the Maes to the East and the Peel to the West seated upon the River Neerse which a little lower falls into the Maes Kettering a Market Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Huxton upon a Rivulet which falls into the Nen delightfully seated on an Ascent It has a Sessions-House for the Justices of Peace of the County Keureuz Keres Krais Chrysius Cusus a River of Transylvania and the Vpper Hungary which ariseth in the Western Borders of Transylvania near Feltat and watering Giula a little above receiveth another Branch called by the same Name which passeth by Great Waradin both which Rivers being united fall into the Tibiscus or Tyesse at Czongrodt above Segedin One of these is called by the Germans Fekykeres which goes to Giula the other Sebeskeres Feky signifying White and Sebes Black Kexholm Kexholmia a Province of the Kingdom of Sweden in Finland which was heretofore under the Russ but conquered by the Swedes in 1617. It is the most South-Eastern part of Finland The Capital of this Province is Kexholm seated upon the Banks of the River Voxen near to the Western Shoar of the Lake of Ladoga which together with the Castle which is very strong was taken by Monsieur Pont de la Gardie a French Gentleman from the Russ in 1580. The year following this Gentleman took Narva and several other strong places for the Swedes from the Moscovites and was at last drowned in the River of Narva Keyserstul Forum Tiberii a small Town in Switzerland upon the Rhine over which it has a Bridge It lies in the County of Baden nine German Miles from Basil to the West and Constance to the East and belongs to the Bishop of Constance but is subject to the Canton of Zurick Kidwelly a Market Town in Caermarthenshire in VVales The Capital of its Hundred Khoemus Margiana a Province of the Kingdom of Persia See Margiana Kherman Kermoen Kermon or Kirman Carmania or Caramania a Province of the Kingdom of Persia with a City of the same Name Kiburgh a Castle in the Canton of Zurich upon the River Toss two Miles from Zurich to the East the Earls of which were heretofore of great Name This Castle was purchased by them of Zurich in 1452. Kiel or Kil Chilonium a City in the Dukedom of Holstein under the Duke of Holstein upon the Mouth of the River Swentin having a convenient Port upon the Baltick Sea much frequented by Merchants Ships there belongs to it a Castle seated on a Hill and an University opened here in 1665. The Convention of the States of Holstein are usually held here This City stands nine German Miles from Lubeck to the North ten from Flensborg to the South and tho very well fortified has of late suffered very much from the Swedes Kiengara See Gangra Kienning a great City of the Province of Fokien in China and the Capital of a Territory of its own Name commanding six other Cities It is adorned with a magnificent Pagod or
Temple and stands upon the River Min over which it has a Bridge Kil Gelbis a River in the Bishoprick of Treves which falls into the Maes three Miles beneath Treves having watered Kilburgh and some other small Towns Its Rise is in the Dukedom of Limburgh Kildare Kaldaria Kildariensis Comitatus a County in the Province of Leinster in the Kingdom of Ireland which has the County of Dublin on the East the Kings County on the West the County of Meath to the North and that of Catherlach to the South The principal Town of it is Kildare This Town was taken by the Duke of Ormond in the Year 1649 from the Parliament Forces and retaken in a few Months after by Hewson The same has the honour to be an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Dublin Kile Covalia a County in the West of Scotland upon Dunbritaâ—n Fyrth over against the Isle of Arran Kilgarran a Market Town in Pembrockshire in VVales The Capital of its Hundred Kilham a Market Town in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Dickering on the Woulds yet a good soil for Corn. Kilia Collatia Insula Achillea a City of Mysia Kilkenny Kilkennia Oseria a City of Ireland in a County of the same Name in the Province of Leinster in the Confines of the Province of Munster the Seat of the Bishop of Ossory a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Dublin and the Capital of the County in which it stands It is a great and a strong City placed upon the Banks of the River Nure ten Miles from Cashel to the North East fifty five from Dublin to the South West and twenty eight from Waterford to the North. The most populous rich and well traded in-land Town in the whole Kingdom of Ireland it took its Name from one Canic who leading here a solitary life was in great esteem for Holiness amongst the Irish whence the place was called by them Cell-Canic quasi Cella Canici or Canicks Church This consists of two parts the Irish Town in which is Canic's Church the Cathedral and the English which was built since it is now the principal part the former only a Suburb to it It was walled by K. Talbot a Noble Man and the Castle built by the Butlers This City was the Fountain and Head of the late Irish Rebellion the very Centre from whence all the Lines of Treason against the King the Nation and the Religion of Ireland were drawn the Seat of their Council or Committee from whence the Conspirators sent out their Orders It was also one of the first in the Punishment for Cromwell having taken Drogheda marched to Kilkenny and besieged it and after a short but sharp Resistance took it upon Articles in eight days time in the month of June 1650. The Committee being fled before his coming to Athlone in Conaught whither their Calamities followed them After the Fight of the Boyne Kilkenny was readily submitted to the Duke of Ormond who has a Noble Seat in it and made the Head-Quarter for the Forces of K. William in this part of the Country § The County of Kilkenny is bounded on the West by the Province of Munster and County of Tipperary on the North by Queens Courty on the East by Catherlach cut off from it by the River Boyne and on the South by the County of Waterford The River Nuro divides it from North to South and afterwards falls into the River Boyne at Rosse The City of Kilkenny stands almost in the Centre of the County which the Learned Dr. Bates makes to consist of three parts whereas Mr. Cambden gives it only two Killair the same with Kildare Killian Celenius a River of Scotland Killaloo Killala a small City and Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tuam in the Province of Conaught in the County of Mayo twenty four Miles from Gallway to the North. Kilmalock Killocia a small City in the Province of Munster in the County of Limerick eighteen Miles from Limerick to the South This was taken by Hewson in 1650. And gives the title of a Baron Kilmar an Arm of the Sea in Munster which lies between Dingle and Bantry Kilmore Kilmora a small City in the Province of Vister in the County of Cavan which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Armagh by the appointment of Pope Nicholas V. in 1454. It stands upon Ninty in the Confines of Conaught and Leinster thirty two English Miles from Drogheda to the West and forty one from Armagh to the South-West The Irish call this City Chilmhor § Kilmore a small City in the County of Knapdaile upon the Bay of Fynn forty Miles from Dunbritain to the North-West Kimbolton a Market Town in Huntingdonshire in the Hundred of Leightenstone adorned with a Castle belonging to the Earl of Manchester to whom it gives the title of a Baron Kingchieu a City of China and a Province also See Queicheu Kings-County a County of Ireland in the Province of Leinster bounded on the West by Conaught and the County of Gallway on the North by Meath on the East by Kildare and on the South by Queens-County The principal Town in it is Kings-Town Regiopolis seated upon the River Esker which falls into the Boyne twenty Miles from Athlone to the East and forty from Dublin to the West Kingsbridge a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Stanborough Kingsbury Kingnesburia there are of this Name several small Towns or Villages in England Of which we take notice only upon the occasion of a Council held at a place so called in 851. under the reign of Bertulph King of the Mercians Kingsclere a Market Town in the County of Southampton The Capital of its Hundred Kingston a Market Town in Surrey the Capital of its Hundred upon the Thames over which it has a Bridge famous heretofore for the Coronation of the Saxon Kings from whom it received the Name of Kingstown but before called Moreford and also for a Castle belonging to the Clares Earls of Gloucester The County Assizes are held here In the Year 838. there was a Council assembled at it under the Reign of Egbert K. of the West-Saxons This Town is called for distinction Kingston upon Thames There being § Another Kingston in the East-Riding of Yorkshire at the fall of the Hull into the Humber called Kingston upon Hull built by K. Edward I. with a Harbour to it a Custom-house and Key two Parish-Churches together with Walls Ditches Forts Block-houses and Castles which render it capable of a strong defence The same has the honour and privilege to be both a Borough-Town and a County Corporate giving the title of Earl to the Right Hon. William Pierrepont See Hull Kinsale Kinsalia a Town and Port of the County of Cork in the Province of Munster on the River Ban near the Ocean fifteen Miles from Cork to the South This Town was seized by D' Aquila a Spaniard in 1601 with two thousand Soldiers in favor of that dangerous Rebel
now the Castle being very strong and part of the Royal Palace retain their former Beauty the rest of the noble Structures are much decayed some Streets of near a League in length are falling down and ruinous yet is this no old Town having been raised since the days of Humayon one of the Moguls who brought it to be a City of three Leagues in length in a short time Yet this Town is full of Mechanicks and all sorts of Manufactures made in these Countries § The Province of Lahor or Pengeab is bounded on the North by Cassimer on the East by the Kingdom of Negercoot on the South by Jenba or Genupara and on the West by Multan it is one of the largest and most plentiful Provinces in the Mogul's Empire by reason of the Rivers yields Rice Corn Fruits and reasonable good Wine in great abundance and the best Sugars in the Indies out of which ariseth to the Prince a Revenue of thirty seven Millions and upwards as the Indians reported to M. Thevenot Laiazzo Jazzo Issus a City in the most Eastern part of Cilicia in the Lesser Asia next Syria near which Darius the last of the Persian Monarchs was overthrown by Alexander the Great in the Year of Rome 421. as Quintus Curtius shews Ventidius Bassus a Roman General gained a Victory over the Parthians here in the Year of Rome 715. The Emperour Severus defeated his Competitor Pescennius Nger here Anno Chr. 194. and Bajazet II. Emperour of the Turks was defeated by the Sultan of Egypt in the same place in 1487. by which and other losses this Tyrant was forced to sue to the Sultan for Peace the next year It is now a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarsus and stands near Mount Amanus now called the Mountains of Scanderoon in the Province of Caramania under the Dominion of the Turks it has a convenient Harbor upon the Mediterranean Sea and is now in a tolerable good Condition Six German Miles from Antioch to the North and seventy from Cogni Iconium to the South-East Long. 69 45. Lat. 37. 00. The gulph of Lajazzo whereon this City stands receives its name from it Laimon Bosphorus Thracicus the narrow Streight or Sea between the Propontis and the Euxine Sea upon which the City of Constantinople stands Laino Laus a Town and River in the Hither Calabria upon the Tyrrhenian Sea It stands in the Confines of the Principatus seventy five Miles South of Salerno Laire Leria Sigmas a River of France in Gascogne which falls into the Ocean at La Buch eight Leagues from Bourdeaux to the West written Leyra also Lalandt Lalandia an Island belonging to Denmark in the Baltick Sea so called from its low situation It is eight German Miles long and five broad lying on the South of Zelandia and on the West of Falflria or Falster from which it is separated by a narrow Passage called Gulburg The chief Towns in it are Naxkow Saxkoping and Nysted the first fortified This Island was taken from the Danes by the Swedes in 1657. Lali Halys a River of Lydia in the Lesser Asia fatal to Croesus Lalisa Laodicea a City of Syria seated upon the Mediterranean between Antioch to the North and Tripoly to the South which has a large Haven and is an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch but falling into decay and ruin for want of Inhabitants The Inhabitants call it Lyche and the Arabs Ladikia Lamballe a Town in Bretague in France in the Territory of S. Brieux five Miles from S. Brieux to the East eight from Dinant to the West and four from the British Sea to the South Some have thought it to be the Capital of the Country of the ancient Ambiliates mentioned by Caesar It is a famous Town for making of Parchments Lambec a pleasant spruce Town in Provence in France near the River Durance four Leagues from Aix and nine from Avignon to the East Lambesa or Lambesca Lambaesa and Lampaesa ad fluvium Ampasgam a City of the Kingdom of Constance in Barbary near the Mountains of Calamati on the Confines of Biledulgerida twenty four Miles from Cirta to the South it was once a Bishops See About the Year 240 a Council of 90 Bishops was assembled here against Privatus the Bishop of this See upon an accusation of heresie and crimes Lambeth a well inhabited large Parish opposite to the City of Westminster on the other side of the Thames in the County of Surrey the Hundred of Brixton and the Suburbs of London Of Note for the Palace and Residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury Canutus the last King of the Danes dyed here And in the Year 1280. there was a Council assembled at this place under John Peacham Archbishop of Canterbury as also a second under Cardinal Thomas Bourchier Archbishop of the same See in 1486. Lamborne or Lainborne a Market Town in Berkshire The Capital of its Hundred Lambro Lambrus a River in the Dukedom of Milan which ariseth out of the Mountains near Como and the Lake of the same name and running South watereth Monza and Marignano then falls into the Po between Pavia and Placentia or Piacenza nine Miles above the latter to the West Lamego Laconimurgi Lamaca Lameca a City in Portugal in the Province of Beira near the River Duero and an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Braga Ptolemy mentions it by the Name of Lama It is likewise mentioned in the third Council of Carthage Lameto Lametus a River of Calabria Vlterior which rising from the Apennine falls into the Bay of S. Eufemia upon the Tyrrhenian Sea in the same Province This is the same with Amato Lamina Thessalia a Province of Greece Lamo Lamus a Kingdom in Africa which takes its Name from a City of Zanguebar in the Lower Aethiopia over against the Isle of Madagascar one degree from the Line to the South North of Melinde thirty three Leagues Baudrand placeth it North of Melinde and South of Quiloa but the Maps as I have set it Lamo Lamus an inland City of Cilicia in the Lesser Asia which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Sileusia near Tarso Lampedosa Lopadusa or Lampadousa in Ptolemy called Lipadusa is an Island in the Mediterranean Sea between the Kingdom of Tanu to the South on which it depends and the Island of Sicily to the North seventy Miles from the nearest Coast of Africa and one hundred from Malta it is fifteen Miles in compass but desolate there is in it a Chappel dedicated to the Virgin Mary much esteemed by Seamen near it the Fleet of Charles V. suffered Shipwrack in 1551. Lampsaco Lampsacus a City of the Lesser Asia in Mysia much celebrated in all the ancient Geographers being supposed to have taken its name from its Beauty or Splendor It stands at the entrance of the Propontis over against Gallipoli five German Miles from the New Dardanels to the North and a little more from Marmora an Island to the South The Turks call
River Rhosne between Switzerland to the North and Savoy to the South Called by those who live near it the Lake of Geneva by the Germans das Genfferzee by the Italians illago di Genevra extending from East to West about nine German Miles and about two over where it is broadest the Rhosne enters it at Noville and goes out at Geneva in the most Western end of it It is surrounded with good Towns the principal next Geneva is Lausanne on the North by the name of which this Lake is somtime called Lemburgh Luwow Leopolis a great and populous City of the Kingdom of Poland the Capital of Red Russia which was made an Archbishops See instead of Halitz or Haliotz in 1361. by Pope Vrban V. It stands amongst the Hills upon the River Peltew which with the Bug falls into the Vistula a little above Ploczko and is very strong being walled and fortified with two Castles one within the City the other without It was built by Leo Duke of Russia who flourished about 1280. In 1648 belleged by Chieilneck General of the Cossacks without any success In 1672. the Turks took it and soon lost it for in 1673. Michael King of Poland died in it This City stands fifteen Miles from Premislia to the East a little less from the Carpathian Hills to the North and about fifty from Warsaw to the South-East Lemgow Lemgovia a small City in the Circle of Westphalia in the County of Lippe which was once a Free Imperial City but now exempt and under the Count of Lippe It stands upon the River Begh five Miles from Minden to the North and Paderborne to the South and nine from Lippestad to the North-East Lemington a Market Town in the County of Southampton and the Hundred of Christ Church by the Seaside § There is another Lemington a Parish in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Knightlow remarkable for two Springs within few Foot of each other the one Fresh the other Salt yet at a great distance from the Ocean and of different Operations Lemnos an Island in the Archipelago See Staliment Lemâ—ta a Town and Desart in Libya now Zaara in Africa Lencicia or Lanscher Lancicia Lancicium a City of Poland the Capital of a Palatinate called by the Poles Lenczyc from this City which they call Lenczyckie It lies in the Greater Poland in a Marshy Ground upon the River Bsura not above ten Miles from the River Warte the same distance from Gnesna to the East and thirty from Warsaw to the West There belongs to it a Castle built on a Rock and in 1656. this City suffered much by Fire Divers Polish Councils have been Celebrated at it Lendrosia one of the Islands on the West of Scotland Lenham a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath at the Spring of the River Stewer Lenox Lenoxia Levinia a County in the North of Scotland through which the River and Lake of Lomond passeth on the East it hath the County of Menteith on the South Cunningham cut off by Dunbriton Fyrth on the West Argile and on the North Albania This County has the Honor of being a Dukedom which Title has been born by several of the Royal Line of Scotland The principal Town in it is Dunbritown Lens Lentium Lendum Lenense Castrum Nemetacum a small Town in Artois upon the River Souchets three Leagues from Arras to the North and four from Doway to the West The French besieged this small place in 1647. but by the loss of their General le Gasse slain by a shot whilst he was plucking at a Palisadoe they were forced to leave it near this place the French gave the Spaniards a great overthrow in 1648. and after possessed themselves of it to whom the Pyrenaean Treaty confirmed it in 1659. The Town has been fortified but was some years since slighted and dismantled Lentini Leontina a very ancient City in the Isle of Sicily in the Valley of Netina on the Eastern Shoar Heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Syracuse whilst Syracuse was the Metropolis of the Island under the Greek Emperors It is now pretty considerable and populous but very confusedly built A place of greater Antiquity than Syracuse and perhaps than any other City now in the Island It stands five Miles from the Sea to the West and ten from Catania to the South-West Lenza Nicia a River of Italy which springing from the Apennine runneth North and parteth the Dukedom of Parma from that of Modena then falls into the Po at Barsello eight Miles from Parma to the North. Leominster or Lemster a Market and Borough Town in Herefordshire in the Hundred of Wolphey upon the River Lug of chief Note for fine Wheat Flower and Wooll Leon Legio Germanica Sublanco a City of Spain in the Astures built in the Reign of Nerva the Emperor It is now called by the Inhabitants Leon or Leone a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Compostella so far exempted that he acknowledgeth no Metropolitan but the Pope and the Capital of the Kingdom of Leon ever since 658. It stands at the bottom of an Hill by the Fountains of the River Esla very great but not much peopled twelve Miles from the Ocean to the South and twenty one from Valedolid to the North-West It was Recovered from the Moors in 722. and is adorned with one of the most beautiful Cathedrals in Spain § There is another City in New Spain in America called Leon by the Spaniards and Nagarando by the Natives which being the Capital of Nicaragua the Province in which it stands is sometimes called Leon de Nicaragua This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico by a Lake of the same name about 12 Leagues from the Shoars of the Pacifick Ocean and 18 from New Granada to the East The Kingdom of Leon and Oviedo Legionense Regnum hath on the East the County of Biscay on the North the main Cantabrian Ocean on the South Castile and on the West Gallicia It has its name from Leon and Oviedo the two chief Cities in it This is the most ancient Kingdom in Spain and began about 717. being more anciently called Asturia from the Astures an old People who possessed it It is mountainous and full of Woods divided in two by the River Duero about fifty five Leagues long from North to South and forty broad Augustus Caesar was the first Roman that conquered it The Goths after five hundred years free possession of it outed the Romans and after four hundred more the Saracens did as much for the Goths but they the Saracens did not long enjoy it this being the first Kingdom the Christians recovered from them under the Command of Pelagius a young Prince of this Nation about 717. It continued a separate Kingdom under twenty nine Princes till in 1228. Ferdin III. annexed it to Castile he being married to Berenguela second Sister of Henry King of Castile tho in prejudice of Blanch the eldest Sister married to
Miles from Saragoza to the East seven from the Ebro North and twenty nine from Barcelona to the West Julius Caesar overcame Afranius and Petreius Pompey's Friends here In the year 514. under the Reign of Theodorick King of the Ostrogoths a Council was celebrated at the same place Long. 21. 31. Lat. 42. 20. Les Lerines two Islands of the Mediterranean Sea upon the Coast of Provence at a small distance from each other Now called severally S. Honore de Lerin and Margarita See those Words In Ptolemy and Strabo their Names are Planasia and Lero In Pliny and Antoninus Lero and Lerina Hither say Tacitus and Suetonius the Emperor Augustus banished Agrippa They are commended for Temperature and Fertility The Saracens of Fraxinetum in the seventh Century much infested them In 1635. the Spaniards surprized but were obliged to quit them the year after To which add that the Monastery of S. Honore founded in 375 by Honorius Archbishop of Arles has been reckoned to produce twelve Archbishops twelve Bishops ten Abbats four Monks all Confessors and one hundred and five Martyrs It belongs to the Order of S. Benedict Lerma a small Town in Old Castile upon the River Arlanzon six Leagues from Occa to the South and twelve from Pincia to the East which is born by the Title of a Dukedom by one of the greatest Families in Spain Some write it Larema Leros an Island in the Archipelago adorn'd with an Episcopal City of the same Name and driving a considerable Trade with Aloes Lers Lertius is the Name of two Rivers in Languedoc in France the great Lers riseth in the higher Languedoc and watereth Mirepoix then falls into the Ariege and with it soon after into the Garonne 2. The little Leers ariseth in the same Province and falls into the Garonne a little beneath Tolose Les or Lez Telis Ledus a River which ariseth in Languedoc three Leagues above Montpellier and a little beneath the Castle of Latte about four Miles from the Mediterranean Sea falls into the Fens of Magulone Lesdos See Metelin Lescar Lascura Beneharnum Benarnensium Vrbs Bearnensium Civitas Bernanus a City in the Principality of Bearn upon the River Le Gave de Pau one League from Pau to the East seventeen from Baionne and five from Olerone to the East It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Aux and was built in the year 1000. upon the Ruins of the City Bearn which was ruined by the Normans in 845. The Huguenots in 1569. much endamaged this City In the Cathedral the Kings of Navarre lie entombed but their Tombs also were defaced in the Civil Wars of France Lesche Laetia a small River in the Diocese of Liege which falls into the Maes a little above Dinant Lesina Pharia an Island on the Coast of Dalmatia under the Venetians thirteen German Miles long and almost three in breadth seated about four from Spalato to the South-West having a Town of the same Name in the North-East part of the Island which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Spalato The Sclavonians call this Isle Huar Mr. Wheeler in his Travels pag. 24. saith it is very high Rocky and Mountainous and by computation one hundred Miles in compass It has a good Haven at the South End the Town whereof is called by the Name of the Isle this represents a Theatre the Figure of which he gives us It appears very beautiful to those that enter the Port being built in several degrees one above another according to the rising of the ground having a Cittadel on the top of a steep Rock backed with exceeding high Mountains and lying open to the South but the Harbour is secured by the Rocks against it c. It is deep enough for Ships of any Rate and Bread and Wine are cheap Their chiefest Trade is the Fishing of Sardelli which are like Anchovies over against it lies Lissa a small Island Spalato saith he lies from this Town thirty Miles to the North and Lissa the same distance to the South § Also a City of the Capitinata in the Kingdom of Naples near a Lake of its own Name a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento Leskeard or Liskerd a Corporation in the County of Cornwall in the West Hundred which has the Election of two Burgesses for the House of Commons Lesnow Lesnovia a small Town in Wolhinia in Poland fifteen Miles South of Lucka or Luceoria where John Cassimir King of Poland in 1651. defeated the Cossacks and Tartars and slew twenty thousand of them Lessines or Lessen Lessina a small City in Hainault upon the River Dender Tenera in the Confines of Flanders five Leagues from Brussels to the West Lesteiocori Lechaeum the Haven of Corinth upon the Gulph of Lepanto Lestoft or Laystoff a Market Town in the County of Suffolk in he Hundred of Lothingland the most Northern Sea-Town of this County It drives a Trade of Fishing for Cod in the North Sea and upon its own Coasts for Herrings Lestwithiel or Listhiel a Market Town and Corporation in the County of Cornwal in the Hundred of Powder which has the Honour of electing two Burgesses for the Parliament Letchlade a Market Town in Glocestershire in the Hundred of Brittles-barrow Lethe and Lethes the ancient Name of the River Guadalete in Spain Of Fiume di Mangresia as the Italians call it in Lydia in the Lesser Asia Of two others in Macedonia and Candia And in the Fictions of the Poets Lethe makes one of the Rivers of Hell wherein the pleasures of the World are forgotten Letines Lestines or Liptines Liptinae sive Lestinae an ancient Palace Royal near Binche in Hainault in the Diocese of Cambray There was a Council assembled here in 743. in the Reign of Charlemaigne who had a part of the Church-Lands by a Sentence thereof granted to him to support his Wars Letrim a County of the Province of Conaught in Ireland between the County of Slego to the North Roscomon to the West Longford to the South and Cavan to the East It takes its Name from the Castle of Letrim on the West side of this County there is besides it no place of any Note This County is full of Hills which afford plenty of Grass and from thence abounds with Cattle above belief Lettaw the same with Garnsey Letten or Leitland Litlandia a considerable part of Livonia the Western part of which which is the greatest is under the King of Sweden and the Eastern under the Duke of Moscovy The principal City is Riga on the North it hast Easthonia on the West the Bay of Riga on the South Semigallia parted from it by the River Dwina and on the East the Dominions of the Duke of Moscovy Lettere Letteranum a small City which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Amalsi in the Kingdom of Naples seated in the Hither Principate upon a Hill about three Miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea and the same from the Confines of the Terra di
Lavori fifteen Miles South of Naples Leucate Leucata a small Town in Languedoc in the Confines of Roussillon seated upon a Lake of the same name it had heretofore a Castle built by Francis I. upon an inaccessable Rock very strong which is now destroyed near this place the Spaniards received a great overthrow by the French in 1637. Leuchtemberg Leuchtemberga a Castle in Nortgow in the Dukedom of Bavaria which is the Capital of a Langravate seated upon an Hill near the River and Town of Pfreimbt one German Mile from the River Nab. The Territory is but small that belongs to it yet was subject only to its own Landgrave till 1646. when the Males of that Family failing it fell to the Elector of Bavaria who still has it Leucosa Leucosia or Licosa a small Island in the Sea of Tuscany near a Cape of its own name called Capo della Licosa The Ancients have not omitted the mentioning of it Leuctra an ancient City of Boeotia in Greece supposed to be the present Maina by some Geographers famous in History for the Victory of Epaminondas over the Lacedaemonians in the one hundred and second Olympiad and the year of Rome 383. Cleombrotus the Lacedaemonian General was there slain Leudrac Vuldraca a small River of France in Autunois in the Dukedom of Burgundy Leverano a Principality in the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples near the City Lecca Leuvin a Lake and a Castle in the South part of Scotland in the County of Fife this Castle belonged to the Dowglasses Earls of Morton In it the famous Princess Mary Queen of Scots and Dowager of France was imprisoned by her own Subjects in 1567. There is also a River of the same name which falls into the Fyrth of Edenburgh by Wemmis Castle Leutkirchen or Leutkirch Ectodurus a small Imperial Free City in Schwaben in Germany upon the River Eschach which a little lower falls into the Iler which last falls into the Danube at Vlm three German Miles from Memmingen to the South ten from Vlm and six from the Lake of Constance to the East in the Territory of Algow Leutmeritz Litomerinm or Litomiersca a City of Bohemia called by the Inhabitants Litomiersk by the Germans Leutmeritz and Letomeritz It stands upon the Elbe eight Miles from Prague to the North and ten from Dresdin This was made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Prague by Pope Alexander VII in 1655. This City is the Capital of one of the Seventeen Praefectures of the Kingdom of Bohemia Leutomissel or Littomissel Litomascum an Episcopal City of the Kingdom of Bohemia in the Praefecture of Chrudim Leuwentz a Town in the Government of Newhausel but in the County of Gran in Hungary upon the River Gran six Miles from the City Gran to the North. General Souches put the Turks to a Rout here in 1664. Leweck Levecum the Capital of the Kingdom of Cambay in the East-Indies Lewes a Town in Sussex esteemed one of the biggest in that County In 1263. here was a bloody Battel near this place between Henry III. and the Barons in which the Barons prevailed at last against the King and forced him to a disadvantageous Peace This Town is in the South part of the County upon a River that hath no Name almost six Miles from the Sea-Shoar to the South twenty five from Winchelsey to the West containing six Parish Churches The Assizes are commonly kept here At the Rivers Mouth is New-Haven some years since made secure for the harbouring of Ships It returns two Members of Parliament and is the Capital of a Rape Lewemberg See Lawenburg and Lemburg Lewis Logus Haraia a great Island on the West of Scotland which extends almost from 58 to 59 deg of Lat. and lies sixty five English Miles directly West from Row-stoir Assyn the most Western Cape of Assinshire in Scotland This is the largest of all the Hebrides said to be sixty Miles in length and thirty broad The Inhabitants of this and all the other Western Isles do much resemble the Wild Irish being rude uncivilized and will hardly indure any Government or Law belonging heretofore to the Kingdom of Norway they were by Magnus King of that Country sold to Alexander III. King of Scotland and never thought worth the disciplining Lewroux Leroux Leprosium a small City in le Berry in France two Leagues from Bourges to the West Leybnitz Savaria Polybianum once a City of the Vpper Pannonia now a small Village of Stiria upon the River Sack which a little lower falls into Mure four German Miles from Gratz to the East Leyden Lugdunum Batavorum is a great City in the State of Holland mentioned by Ptolemy and Antoninus It is seated upon the old Stream of the Rhine and is the Capital of Rheinlandt near the Lake of Harlem three Leagues from Delft and seven from Amsterdam Dort and Vtretcht Perhaps the most populous and wealthy City in all Holland next Amsterdam In the Roman times the Praetor of the Empire for the Belgick Gaul resided here with one of the Legions It is situate in a plain and low Country and has many Channels of Water passing through it so that the City is divided into thirty one Islands joined by one hundred forty five Bridges each to other one hundred and four of which are built with Stone There lie about it most beautiful Meadows and Gardens and the Air is reputed the best of all Holland As this was one of the first Cities which revolted from the Spaniards in 1572. so it was one of the first also that felt their fury For they having besieged Harlem in 1573. without success in the year following sat down before Leyden and had reduced it to great extremity when the Prince of Orange letting loose upon them the Waters which the Dams restrained before by the same Stratagem brought relief to Leyden and ruin on the Spanish Army the year following February 8. 1575. He opened the University there to reward their Valor and recompence their losses to which there has been added an excellent Library a Physick Garden and a Hall adorned with many Rarities of Anatomy-Antoninus gives this City the Title of Caput Germanorum Leye Legia a River in the Low-Countries called by the French Lis. It ariseth in Artois by the Castle of Lisburg and watering Airen and S. Venaut enters Flanders at Stegers then passeth by Armentiers Menene and Cortryck to Gaunt where it falls into the Schelde Leyne Lynius Leinius a River in the Lower Saxony which ariseth in the Territory of Eisfeld or Eschfeld near Heiligenstad and flowing through the Dukedom of Brunswick by Gottingen Lymbeck and Alfeld at Saxstede it entertains the Inders and so by Hannover and Newstad falls into the Aler. This River in the old Maps is called Rhum Leypsick Lupfurdum Lipsia Lypsiae a City of Germany in Misnia in the Lower Saxony which has a celebrated Mart upon the River Pleiss under the Elector of Saxony twelve German Miles from Dresden
to the West and sixteen from Magdeburg to the South It has a Castle called Pleisenburg and an University opened here by Frederick Marquess of Misnia in 1409. Upon the Banishment of the followers of Jerome of Prague from that City four thousand Students retiring to this In 1520. Luther disputed here with Eckius against the Popes Supremacy soon after which they embraced the Reformation In 1547. this City which then belonged to Maurice Duke of Saxony was besieged by John the Elector of that House in the Month of January Maurice tho a Protestant having joined with the Emperour against the rest of the Augustane Princes who had taken Arms for the defence of their Religion and Liberty against Charles V. And although the City was not then taken yet it was much defaced by the Battery and its Suburbs burnt In 1630. Gustavus Adolphus gave the Forces of Ferdinand II. a great defeat near this place In 1642. the Swedes defeated the Forces of Ferdinand III. under the Arch-Duke Leopold and Piccolomineo and thereupon the City was forced to yield it self to the Victorious Swedes It is not great but rich by reason of its Mart twice every year and the great concourse of Students to this University Leyte Leyta Lutis a River of Austria which washing the Town Prurck adder Leyta in the Lower Austria at Altemburg falls into the Danube three Hungarian Miles from Presburg to the South and six from Javarin Lez Ledum Liria a River of Languedoc it ariseth three Miles above Montpellier and a little beneath falls by the Lake of Maguelone into the Mediterranean Sea See Les. Lhon See Lippe Lhundain the Welsh Name of London Lhydaw the Name of Bretagne a Province in France in some of the Writers of the middle Ages Liacura Parnassus a Mountain in Greece in Achaia Liamone Pitanus or Ticarius a River in the Isle of Corsica Liampo the most Easternly Cape of all the Continent of China in the East-Indies taking its Name from a Town so called in the Province of Chechiara Lianne Liana Elna a small River in Picardy in France which ariseth in the Confines of Artois and flowing through the County of Bologne by the Capital City of it falls into the British Sea Liasto Liguidon a Sea-Port on the East of Sardinia an Island in the Mediterranean Sea Libano Libanus the greatest and best known Mountain in Syria which alone produceth the Cedar Tree in that Country It beginneth between the Confines of Arabia and Damascus and ends at the Mediterranian Sea near Tripoli having run from East to West one hundred and twenty five Miles It is the oftenest mentioned of any Mountain in the Sacred Scriptures exceeding high and very far spread fruitful and pleasant and was the Northern Boundary of the Holy Land and Mother of the River Jordan Now inhabited by divers Towns and some Cities amongst which is the Seat of the Residence of the Patriarch of the Maronites The Rivers Rochan Nahar-Rossens and Nahar-Cardicha spring from it The Northern part is said to be continually covered with Snow It hath Palestine to the South Mesopotamia to the East and Armenia to the North with one foot in Phoenicia another in Syria and the Mediterranean to the West Opposite to it stands a Mountain called Antilibanus separated only by a Valley See Antilibanus Libaw Liba a Town in the Dukedom of Curland in the Kingdom of Poland which has an Haven on the Baltick Sea in the Confines of Samogitia eighteen German Miles from Memel in Prussia and twenty five from Mittaw the Capital of Semigallia to the West This Town was often taken and retaken in the late Wars between the Swedes and Poles at last by the Treaty of Olive-Kloster in 1660. it was restored to the Duke of Curland Liburnia a Branch of the ancient Illyricum now thrown partly into Croatia and partly into Dalmatia It s principal City was Scardona now Scardo in Dalmatia The Lopsi were some of its ancient people to whom is owing the invention of light Frigats thence called Naves Liburnicae Libya is so considerable a part of Africa in the old Geographies that the Greeks called all Africa Lybia It stood divided into the Exterior and Interior The former lay along the Mediterranean betwixt Egypt and Marmorica or from Egypt South according to others along the left Bank of the Nile as far as to Aethiopia in which space the Desart of Elfocat and the Kingdom and Desart of Gaoga now are contained The other ran from the Mountain Atlas to the River Niger containing the now vast Desart of Zaara And this latter is Libya properly so called Which together with Libya Marmorica now Barca and Libya Cyrenaica makes up a second division that we find in Writers of Libya Lichfield Lichfeldia a City which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury seated in the County of Stafford twenty four English Miles from Leicester to the West ten from Stafford to the North-East and sixteen from Coventry to the North-West It is a low seated beautiful and large City divided into two parts by a clear Brook which is crossed by Causeys with Sluces in them for the Passage of the Water That part which lies on the South Side of this Water is the greater by far and divided into several Streets and the North Part though less has the Cathedral Church the Close incompassed with a strong Wall in which are the Prebends Houses and the Bishops Palace This has been a Bishops See very long for in the year of our Lord 606. Oswius King of Northumberland having conquered the then Pagan Mercians instituted a Bishoprick and settled Dwina as Bishop here to instruct them in the Christian Faith his Successors were in such esteem with the following Kings of Mercia that they did not only obtain large Possessions for the maintaining the Dignity of this See but were also reputed the Primates of Mercia and Archbishops Ladulph one of them had a Pall sent him as such upon the Golden Solicitations of Offa King of the Mercians about 779. Which Dignity lasted not long for it died with this King and Archbishop Ladulph A Synod held in 1075. ordaining that the Bishops Sees for the future should be settled in the greatest Cities Peter Bishop of Lichfield removed this to Chester Robert Lindsey another of them removed it to Coventry Roger Clinton a third Bishop but the thirty seventh in Succession in 1148. began the beautiful Cathedral here which he dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and S. Chad and rebuilt the Castle which is now intirely ruined The Ciose in the old Rebellion was garrisoned for the King But the Lord Brook a zealous Parliamentarian coming before it March 2. 1642. though the General was slain and so paid dear for his Disloyalty yet the place was taken by that Party The twenty second of that Month the King's Forces returned and besieged it the second time and April 8. after a Defeat of three thousand that came to the Relief of
Capital of that Kingdom to the North and Malaca to the South three hundred and eighty Miles from either it has a good Harbour Ligorne Livorno Ligurnus Liburnus portus Leghorn an ancient and celebrated Sea-Port mentioned by Polybius Antoninus and Cicero It is called by the Italians Livorno by the English Legorne by the French Ligourne seated in the Territory of Pisa on the West of Italy under the Dominion of the Duke of Florence in a Plain fifteen Miles from Pisa to the South ten from the Mouth of the Arno forty from Piombino to the North and sixty from Florence to the South-West There belongs to it a large and a safe Haven very much frequented by Merchants the Great Duke to secure the Wealth and Trade of it has built three strong Forts upon it This City belonged heretofore to the States of Genoua Cosmus de Medices Duke of Florence had it from them in exchange for Serezana being then a poor despicable Village not much inhabited by reason of the unhealthfulness oâ— the Air corrupted by the Marshes near it Francis and Ferdinando two of his Successors having improved its condition by making it a Free-Port at a time when the Genouse had excessively inhansed their Imposts upon the Merchants built the three Forts and walled the Town and built in it also a Noble Palace for the Governour and for the Reception of Foreign Ambassadors with a large Arsenal or Magazin It has two Havens the greater is extreamly large safe and convenient for Ships of any Burthen the lesser called Darsi is of some use for smaller Ships See Du Val Voyage d Ital. Liguria a part of the ancient Gallia Cisalpina in Italy now contained in the States of Genoua Liiflandt See Livonia Lilers Lilerium a Town in Artois upon the River Navez seven Leagues from Arras to the North. Lille L'Isle Insula Insulae a City in Flanders called by the Inhabitants Lyssel by the English Lisle by the Italians Lida is the Capital of Flandria Gallica a great strong populous place well Traded upon the River Deuller Lewis XIV the present King of France took this from the Spaniards in 1667. It lies five Leagues from Ypre to the South six from Doway four from the Borders of Artois and five from Tournay Built by Baldwin IV. Count of Flanders in 1007. Baldwin the Pious his Son being born here favoured it very much and on that account walled it in 1066. and built in it also a magnificent Church and a delicate Monastery There is saith L. Guicciardin a good Castle in it and the Ruins of an old one called Buck where the Governours for the ancient French Kings resided which were then instituted the Forestexs of Flanders This City was taken and burnt by Philip II. King of France about 1185. Being rebuilt it was again taken and harassed by Philip IV about 1304. Since then it is much increased saith the same Author by the Industry of the Inhabitants who imploy themselves moâ—â—ly in weaving Silks so that it is raised to be the third City in the Low-Countries after Antiverp and Amslerdam and frequently called in French La petit Paris for its Beauty The French had it confirmed to them in 1668. by the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle It is the Head of a large Chattellany containing divers Villages and strongly fortified § Also a pleasant Town in the County of Venaissin in Provence five or six Leagues from Avignon and about the same from Carpentras in a fruitful Country surrounded by the River Sorgue like an Island and thence called L'isle Lille Illa a River in Aquitain in France which ariseth in the Province of Limosin and flowing through Perigord watereth Perigeux Vesima the Capital of that County and Mucidan at Coutraz it entertains the Dormia from Aubeterre then a little beneath Lisbourne falls into the Dordonne seven Miles above its conjunction with the Garonne Lillebonne or Islebonne Islebonna Juliobona a Town in the Paix de Caux in Normandy in the Diocese of Rouen giving Name to a Branch of the House of Lorrain In the year 1080. the Bishops of Normandy were assembled in a Council here in the presence of William the Conquerour King of England at which the Archbishop of Rouen presided Lillo Lilloa a strong Fort built by the Hollanders upon the Schelde two Leagues beneath Antwerp to the North one above Santvliet or Sanflit to the South and four from Bergen op Zoom At this Fort all Ships that pass up the River to Antwerp are by the Treaty of Minister to stop Lima or Ciudad de Los Reyes Lima the Capital of the Kingdom of Peru a beautiful great well traded City and the See of an Archbishop Built in 1535. by Francis Pizarro a Spaniard in the Valley of Lima called by Natives Rimac The Viceroy of Peru resides here which with other Advantages hath made it very great rich populous and beautiful though it be all built with Timber and an open unwalled Town They compute about five thousand Spaniards and forty thousand Negroes in it a great number of Ecclesiastical Buildings as Churches Convents Colleges and Hospitals and a stately Palace Royal wherein the Vice-Roy keeps his Court. It stands upon a River of the same Name one Mile from the Pacifick Ocean two from its own Harbor called Callao de Lima one hundred and twenty from Cusco the old Metropolis of this Kingdom as Jo. Laei saith It is under the King of Spain and had an University opened in 1614. Long. 296.40 Lat. 23.30 A dreadful Earthquake Octob. 30. 1687. overthrew most of the Buildings both publick and private and buried above a thousand Inhabitants in the Ruins The Ecclesiasticks of Peru have celebrated two or three Councils here Lima Lamia a River in Portugal which washeth the Town of Viana de Foiz de Lima six Leagues from Braga to the West and then falls into the Ocean Limagne Limane Limania or Alimania a small Territory in Auvergne which for the greatest part is contained in that Province It is very well watered and wonderfully fruitful being a Plain upon the River Allier extending from North to South twelve Miles near and below Clermont Limat Limmat Limagus Lindemagus a River in Switzerland which ariseth in the County of Sargans or Sarganzerlandt and runneth North through the Lake of Riva and that of Zurich after which it watereth Zurich and Baden and a little lower falls into the Aar the chief River of Switzerland Limburg a Dutchy and Town in the Low-Countries The Dutchy though one of the Seventeen Provinces is not great It lies between the Duthcy of Juliers to the East and North and the Bishoprick of Liege to the West and South It had heretofore Dukes of its own but upon the Death of Walrame the Third by Dr. Heylin called Henry in 1285. Adolph the next Heir sold it to John Duke of Brabant who pretended at the same time a Right to it as descended from Margaret Daughter of Henry Duke of Limburgh in 1172 married
Nations as Pliny saith was by Philip and Alexander his Son reduced first into one great and formidable body which spread its Conquests not only over all the rest of Greece but passing the Hellespont Alexander the Great overthrew the Persian Empire and became Lord of all those Countries between the Caspian and Euxine Seas to the North Mount Imaus to the East the Persian Sea Red Sea the Cataracts of Nile to the South the Desarts of Lybia and the Adriatick Sea to the West which Empire at his death became divided into four great Kingdoms whereof Macedonia was the least Philip of Macedon the two and twentieth King of the first Race began in the year of the World 3155. which ended in Alexander the Great in 3642. or thereabouts Cassander extirpated the first Family and began a second in 3648. which ended in Perseus XI in that Succession subdued by the Romans in 3789. But it became not intirely subject till the Turks first entered this Province under Bajazet their fourth King who took Nicopolis a Town upon the Bay of Thessalonica in 1392. The Conquest thereof was finished by Amurath II. their sixth King in 1429. by the Conquest of Thessalonica and all the other places in this Kingdom considered without Albania Now governed by a Turkish Sangiack under the Beglerbeg of Greece who has 8000. Crowns the year Revenue and finds in Peace only one hundred Horse for the defence of the Country in times of War four hundred All the ancient Cities are ruined except Thessalonica and Larissa Macerata a City in the Dominions of the Pope in the Marcha Anconitana which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Fermo it stands upon a Hill near the River Chiento and is thought one of the best places in this Marquisate being therefore chosen for the Residence of the Governour Built about 410. as Blondus avers The University was opened here by Pope Nicolas IV. in 1290. restored by Pope Paul III. in 1322. united to this See for ever in 1586. It lies fifteen Miles from Loretto and the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea to the West There was a Synod here assembled in 1615. Machere Machera or Macheronta a Castle upon the River Jordain and the Banks of the Dead Sea in Palestine five or six Leagues from Jerusalem where according to Josephus S. John Baptist was beheaded by the order of Herod Machian one of the Molucco Isles Machynleth a Market Town in the County of Montgomery in Wales and the Hundred of Kyfilog Machlyes an ancient People that dwelt near the Magna Syrtes of Africa mentioned by Aristotle Maclena Cydarus a small River of Thrace which falls into the Black Sea a little above Constantinople Macoco a vast Kingdom in the middle of Africa towards the Vpper Aethiopia and the River Zaire the Prince of which has ten Kingdoms under him on the North he has the Kingdom of Muaco which is ever in War with him to the South-East that of Giringbomb This Kingdom lies two hundred and seventy Spanish Miles from the Kingdom of Congon to the South Jerome Lobus mentions it in his History of Ethiopia Mensol is the Capital City of it Macran or Makeran Caramania a Province of Persia towards the Indian Ocean and the Confines of Indostan which is a part of the ancient Caramania It has on the North Sigestan on the South the Indian Ocean on the West Caramania properly so called and on the East Sinda It is under a Prince of its own who is a Tributary to the King of Persia It s principal City is Macran and its best Port is called Guadel Macre a Gulph of the Mediterranean Sea betwixt Lycia in Asia Minor and the Island Rhodes said by some to be the Glaucus Sinus of Caria Macrobii the ancient people of the Island of Meroe in Aethiopia so called from an observation of their living to a great age Not but that this Name in the Writings of the old Geographers and Historians is communicated to the Hyperborei Macedonii and others where the same Longaevity occurred Macrocephali an ancient people towards the Bosphorus Thracius in the account of P. Mela so named from an observation that they had extraordinary long heads But Stephanus places them near Colchis in the Lesser Asia and Pliny in the neighbourhood of the City Cherasonda in Cappadocia Macuf Mosceus a River of Persia which falls into the Bay of Persia Macyn India Vlterior one of the Provinces of Asia called the further Indies or India beyond Ganges Maczua Orine an Island in the Gulph of Arabia near Africa over against the City of Mazzuan in 17 deg Lat. In the Maps called Mazuan and sometimes Macaria under the Turks since 1557. Madagascar Cerne Menuthias Madagascaria Delphina a vast Island on the Eastern Coast of Africa called by the Inhabitants Madecase by the French l' Isle de Dauphiné by the Portuguese S. Lorenzo by the English Madagascar and S. Laurence by the Arabians Sarandib Ptolemy calls it Menuthias Pliny Cerne Aethiopica It is near one hundred Miles from the Coast of Africa to the East and one of the greatest Islands in the World extentending from 1 to 25 deg of Southern Latitude but its breadth much less as not exceeding one hundred and thirty English Miles Discovered by the Portuguese in 1506. on S. Laurence's day There was no Cities in it the French have of late settled some Colonies on the Southern Shoars Stephen Flacourt a Frenchman has given a large account of this Island The Inhabitants are large of Stature exceeding black Warlike much addicted to Fishing great Eaters Nature has accordingly provided them with plenty of Cattle Fish Fowl Fruits and what ever is necessary for the life of Man which they use without Labour or Care regarding neither Silver nor Gold nor any thing but Beads and Bracelets for Ornament Musick and Dancing for their Recreation And the utmost Number they can tell is Ten. Herbert 'T is also related there is a mixture of Whites amongst them who being circumcised and using the Names of Moses Aaron Esther and the like may be thought to descend from the transmigrations of some of the ten lost Tribes of the Jews About two hundred years ago the Caliph of Meccha dispatched a Mission of Arabians hither to teach Arabick and the Alcaron which altogether missed not of its effect The Northern Provinces are yet unknown to the Europeans As for Capes Ports and Roads Rivers and fruitful Mountains Mines of Iron and Steel Precious Stones and Woods Madagascar hath them But no Mines of Brass Tin Lead Silver or Gold And the Natives are divided into divers Herds and Tribes under a Chief like the Tartars Madaura an ancient City betwixt Lambesa and Hippo in Barbary remarkable for being the Birth-place of Apuleius thence intiuled Madaurensis It had the honour heretofore of a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Carthage and likewise of an Academy of note at which S. Austin studied Maday See Media Madera an Island on the Western
Shoar of Africa called Madeira by the Portuguese of old Atlantica Discovered by the Portuguese in 1419. and called by this Name from its plenty of Wood. Its length is twenty five Leagues its Circuit sixty The principal Town Funchal It lies in 32 deg Lat. and Long. 360. Prodigiously fruitful especially in Sugar Mather a Dying stuff and Wines the slipes whereof were brought from Candy The Birds at first suffered themselves to be taken up but have since learned to fear Mankind It has plenty of Water and all other things needful for the life of Man Though an Englishman is said to have landed here in 1344. yet the Portuguese were the first that peopled this Island and still possess it They found it as one great Wood and to clear it they put fire to it which raged so horribly at first that they were forced to go to Sea to avoid its fury The Ashes contributed exceedingly to the Fertility of it It is now returned to its natural strength sufficient to maintain a vast number of Inhabitants Funchal is an Archbishops See and the Residence of the Governour besides which they reckon thirty six Parishes Some call Madera from its Fertility and Beauty the Queen of Islands Madera a River in South America also called Cayane It ariseth in the Confines of Peru by the City Argentea and after a long Course falls into the River of Amazons in the Province of Cayane in Long. 312. Lat. 02. 12. Maderaspatan that is the Port of Madera is a City in the Kingdom of Narsinga on the Coast of Coromandel in the Bay of Bengala which has been some years in the hands of the Hollanders Mader See Maeander Madrid Madritum Mantua Carpetanorum Madridium in Carpetanis a great City in Spain the Royal Seat of the Kings of that Country It has a noble Palace and is every day increasing It stands upon the River Manzanares which falls into the Xaraina at S. Martin which falls into the Tajo Tagus above Toledo twelve Miles to the North of Toledo This City saith Baudrand has no Walls some that have lived there say it has a Mud one It stands in the Kingdom of New Castile upon the top of an Hill in a fruitful Country an healthful Air. The Royal Palace though not great is very beautiful magnificent The Kings of Spain have resided here but since the Reign of Philip II. before which time it was accounted only a Village In 1473. a Council was celebrated here to correct the Simony Debauchery and Ignorance of the Clergy of this Kingdom under Pope Paul II. Long. 17. 00. Lat. 40. 40. Madure a City in the East-Indies in the Promontory of Malabar great and populous Heretofore under the King of Bisnagar but now together with the Country in which it stands subject to a Prince of its own who is yet a kind of Subject to the King of Bisnagar It lies between Malabar to the West and the Gulph of Manar which parts Malabar from Ceylon to the East he is Sovereign of this Coast and draws a considerable Revenue from it Maeander a great River in the Lesser Asia in the Greater Phrygia Now commonly called Madre Mindre and Bojouc Mindre that is the Great Mindre in opposition to that at Ephesus which is called the Little Minder It springeth from a Fountain called by the ancient Greeks Alocrene and runs with so Oblique a Current as it often seems to be returning back again into it self making in its passage six hundred Turns though it is no very long Course it performs Hence one of the Ancients observes it was the only River in the World which returned almost back to its Fountain Many of the Poets alluded to it in their Poems Our Country-Man Mr. Wheeler who crossed it saith it was there sixteen Fathoms over they pretended it was as deep as broad the Current was exceeding swift he gives a Figure of it It falls into the Archipelago between Heraclea and Miletus on the South of Ephesus Maelstroom Vmbilicus maris a Gulph or Whirl. Pit on the Coast of Norway and Province of Scanea between the Isles of Luffoot and Weroe Many wonders are told of this place which in all probability are not true Maes Mosa a vast River in the Low-Countries called by the French la Meuse and by the Dutch die Maes it ariseth in the Mountains of Vauge Vogesus in Champagne in France ten Leagues from Chaumont en Bassigny to the East running North through Lorrain and the Dukedom of Bar it washeth S. Michael Verdun Sedain Charleville and Maiers then entering Namur it washeth Dinant and Namur at which it takes in from the West the Sambre turning East it entereth the Bishoprick of Liege and watereth Hoey and Liege where it takes in the Oure Vrta out of Luxemburgh on the East Maestricht and Maseyck so passing to Roermond and Venlo at Lettem in Guelderland he changeth his Course from North-East to North-West and at Cuyck turns directly West passing by Grave a Town of Brabant Ratenburgh and Heusden at Worckum he takes in the Vahal or Wael a Branch of the Rhine beneath the Island of Bommel made by these two Rivers so watering Gorcum Dort and the Briel he falls together with the Rhine into the German Ocean This is a noble stately Stream and has upon his Banks many great Cities and fine Towns Maeseyck Masacum is a City of the Lower Germany in the Bishoprick of Liege in the County of Losse in the Borders of the Vpper Guelderland five Leagues beneath Maestricht three above Roermond seven from Liege and is a considerable Place Maesland See Masay Maestricht Trajectum ad Mosam Trajectum superius is a City of Brabant upon the Western Bank of the Maes which is here covered with a beautiful Stone Bridge consisting of nine Arches from whence it has its name signifying the Passage over the Maes On the Eastern Bank lies the Wyck which is a Suburb to this City The Bishops of Liege and the Dukes of Brabant heretofore divided the Jurisdiction of this City between them but the City was in the hands of the latter and with that Dutchy passed to the House of Austria who injoyed it till 1632. when it was taken by the Hollander In 1673. it was taken after a sharp Siege by the French In 1676. the Hollander attempted the reduction of it without success in 1678. they recovered it by the Treaty of Nimeguen It is both walled and covered with considerable out-works after the new Mode towards the South-East lies a Hill that riseth gently and overlooks part of the Town under which is one of the noblest Quarries of Stone in the World to secure the Town from any disadvantage it might receive from this Hill the Bastion answering to it is built very high there is a Horn-work within Musket shot of it and the Wyck is rather stronger than the Town For the distances see Maeseyck The Bishops See was removed from hence to Liege by S Hubert in 713. Long 27.
by the Arabs Hamammetha In the Year 394. a Council was held here the Canons whereof are confused amongst the Body of the Canons of the African Church Long. 36. 40. Lat. 32. 40. Majaquana one of the Luccaye Islands belonging to North America between Hispaniola to the South and Samana to the North. Maida a Principality in the further Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples near Nicastro Maidenhead a Market Town in Berkshire in the Hundred of Bray Maidstone Madus Vagniacae is a fair sweet populous Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath upon the River Medway near its head from which it has this name There is a fair Stone Bridge built by the Archbishops of Canterbury over this River Edward VI. Incorporated this Town and granted it a Mayor which was taken from them in Queen Maries time for favouring Wyat's Rebellion in 1554. But Queen Elizabeth restored them to their former State In ancient times their chief Magistrate was called a Portgreve from Grave an old German word still used by the Germans in Markgrave Reingrave and Landtgrave Charles I. added another Honor to this Place when in 1628. he created Elizabeth Finch Grandmother to the late Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey late Lord Chancellor of England Viscountess of Maidstone and Countess of Winchelsey with an Entail upon her Heir Males which Honors are now possessed by Heneage Her Grandchild the Second of this Family Heneage late Earl of Nottingham and Lord Chancellor of England was another of Her Posterity This is the Town where the Assizes and Sessions are kept with which honour it has that of the Election of two Members of the House of Commons Maienne See Mayenne Majella Nicates a Mountain in Abruzzo a Province of the Kingdom of Naples near the River Pescara Aternus as Holstenius affirms Maillezais or Mallezais Malleaca Malleacum a small City in Poictou in France seated in a Morass made by the Rivers Seure Niortoise which falls into the Bay of Aquitain and the Hautize The ancient Earls of Poictou and Dukes of Guyenne chose it for their Residence and Founded in it an Abbey about the Year 1030. which by P. John XXII in 1317. was changed into a Bishops See but being little inhabited by reason of the badness of the Air the Bishoprick was suppressed in 1649. and the City of Rochell substituted in its place by Pope Innocent X. It stands nine Leagues from Rochell to the North-East and five from Niore to the South Long. 19. 36. Lat. 46. 21. according to the last Maps Mailly a Seigniory near Amiens in Picardy giving name to an honorable Family of that Province Maina or Maines or Braccio di Maina a City on the South of the Morea supposed to have been the ancient Leuctra or Tenarus in Laconia on the East side of the Gulph of Coron North of Cape Matapan the most South Cape of the Morea The Inhabitants are called the Mainotes and have in this present War contributed very much to the driving the Turks out of the Morea by serving in great numbers under the Venetians against them It is said it was a Common-wealth before but Coronelli in his late description of the Morea assures us it was a Fort built by the Turks upon the Ruins of Cersapolis to keep these Mainotes under who being impatient of the Turkish Slavery and extremely Warlike had betaken themselves to the Rocks and Forests and would pay no Tribute to the Turks thereupon the Turks began to build the Fort of Maina but Querini Captain of the Gulph for the Venetians in 1570. understanding their design Landed and by the help of the Mainotes took this Fort and ruined it entirely by which means the Mainotes were preserved and obliged to the Service of this State Main Amber a noted strong Rock nigh to Mounts Bay in the County of Cornwall mounted upon others of a lesser size with so equal a ponderation that it may be stirred 't is said yet not moved out of its place Maine le Maine Cenomanensis Provincia is a great and fruitful Province in France the old Inhabitants of which were the Cenomani Aulerci its greatest extent is from East to West on the North it is bounded by Normandy on the West by Bretagne This part is called the Lower Maine on the South by Anjou and on the East by Le Perche This the Vpper Maine and of the two the most fruitful and pleasant The Rivers Huisne Sarte and Mayenne water it The Principal City in it is Mans the next Mayenne Charles the second Son of Francis Duke of Guise being made Duke of Maine and after that General of the League against Henry III. and IV. of France made this Province frequently mentioned in the Histories of France of those times The Common Proverb of the People of this Province is Qu' un Manceau vaut un Norman demy One Man of Maine is worth one Norman and the half of another Main Land Pomona the Principal of the Isles of Orkney which is twenty two English Miles long and has a Town called Kirkwall on the Northern Shoar for its Capital its greatest extent is from East to West and its greatest breadth about ten Miles The Mainotes See Maina Maintez Meintez See Mentz Majorca or Mallorca Balearium insulae Palma Majorca an Island in the Mediterranean Sea on the Eastern Coast of Spain over against the Kingdom of Valencia at the distance of about sixty Miles between Minorca to the East and Yvica to the West which three Islands constituted the Kingdom of Majorca so called from this the greatest of them It s Circuit is near one hundred and ten Miles the Principal City is Mallorca Palma or Majorca which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona and a flourishing University in which Raymundus Lullius taught and his tenets are now ex instituto maintained It is great strong and has a Haven belonging to it on the Western shoar of the Island Long. 24. 40. Lat. 40. 00. The Maps place it in Lat. 38. 26. The Inhabitants of this Island were of old famous Archers from whence they were called Baleares at first they went naked being subdued by the Carthaginians Anno Mundi 3500. they became more civilized and served in the Carthaginian Wars against the Romans till together with Spain they fell under that Republick in the Year of Rome 630. 521 Years before the Birth of our Saviour The Moors were their next Masters who crossing out of Africa took Possession of them about the same time they Conquered Spain Raymund Earl of Barcelone by the assistance of the Genouese expelled the Moors in 1102 but the Genouese as if they had repented this good Deed restored them again In 1228. they were finally ex elled by James King of Arragon This Prince in 1230. made James his Son King of Majorca whose Posterity enjoyed this Kingdom till 1341. when James III. the fourth King of Majorca was slain in Battel by Pedro IV. King of Arragon and ever since
these Islands have been annexed to that Kingdom The Land on all sides towards the Sea is Mountainous and Barren inwards more Champain and Fruitful affording sufficient Oil Corn Wine and Fruits to maintain its Inhabitants who are estimated to be thirty thousand Maira Merula Macra a River in Piedmont which riseth out of the Alpes and flowing through the Marquisate of Saluzzo falls into the Po at Pancalieri a small City nine Miles above Turino to the South Malabar Malabaria Dachinabares a vast Peninsula or Promontory of the Hither East-Indies between the Arabick or Indian Sea to the West and the Gulph of Bengala or Ganges to the East Dr. Heylyn bounds it on the North with the River Gangeraco Baudrand with the Kingdom of Decam Buno bounde it to the North with the Cape of Darame ten Miles beneath Goa Cluverius reckons up these Kingdoms in it Calicut Coulete Cranganor Cochin Coulam and Travancor of which Calicut is the Supreme and therefore stiled Samory by them that is the Great Emperor and God on Earth For its extent Dr. Heylyn gives it three hundred English Miles to the Cape of Comori which he supposeth to be the Commaria Extrema of Ptolemy and its greatest breadth fifty Miles at the North. Baudrand makes its length one hundred French Leagues and its breadth ten or fifteen which is too little Cluverius makes it eighty German Miles long and forty five broad All agree that it is the most fruitful populous and temperate Region in the whole East-Indies The Inhabitants are very fierce savage and go naked except what Nature desires to have hidden They have a hatred of theft The Women take as many Husbands as they please contrarily to the custom of the Plurality of Wives amongst the Mahometans It is also one of the most ancient Kingdoms for many Ages subject to one Prince till about 900 Sarama Parymal being seduced by the Saracens left his Kingdom and went and died at Meccha and having no Children parcelled out his Kingdom amongst his most faithful Servants Cananor had a strong Castle in the hands of the Portuguese till 1663. when the Dutch expelled them the Hollanders are also possessed of Cochin and Coulam The rest is in the Possession of Indian Princes whose Dominions are very small Malaca Malacca Aurea Chersonesus a City and Kingdom in the Aurea Chersonesus or most Southern Promontory of the East-Indies between Sumatra and Borneo The City stands on the Western Shoar in Long. 127. 25. Lat. 03. 40. Subject to the King of Ihor till the Portuguese in 1511. took it under Alphonsus Albuquerque who made it an Episcopal City In 1606. the Dutch besieg'd it in vain but in 1640. the Dutch took it from them after a Siege of six Months It is a celebrated Mart has a large Haven a strong Castle and a River of the same name with the City lying a Mile from it to the South-East The Kingdom or Promontory of Malaca which takes its name from this City has the Kingdom of Siam to the North and on all other sides is surrounded by the Ocean it extends from one deg of Northern Lat. to Queda in six deg Dr. Heylyn gives it two hundred and seventy English Miles in length it is not of equal breadth and being extremely hot and parched by the Sun not very populous or fruitful but very rich by reason of the vast resort of all Nations for Trade This was a part of the Kingdom of Siam till 1258 when Parimisera and some other of the Javan Nobility being oppressed by their own King fled to Sangesinga Viceroy for the Siamite who receiving them kindly was by them perfidiously slain they erected in Sicapura this New Kingdom which being soon reduced again by the Siamite they built the Malaca and got the Trade too from the former The Moors joining with them they wholly revolted from Siam to whom they had submitted therefore that Prince in 1500. sent a Navy of two hundred Ships to reduce them and thirty thousand Men with four hundred Elephants to attack them by Land but Tempests and the disorders of his Soldiers made this Expedition miscarry And in 1511. they fell into the hands of the Portuguese Malaca Pangaeus a Mountain in Thrace near the City Philippi at the foot of which runs the River Nestus Malaga a City in the Kingdom of Granada in Spain seated in a Plain on the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea twenty seven Leagues from Sevil to the South-East the same from Cadiz to the East and twenty four from Granada to the South West It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Sevil heretosore now of Granada a famous Port much frequented on the account of its Wines and has the River of Guadalani on the West of it with two strong Castles and an excellent Magazine Taken from the Moors by Ferdinando and Isabella in 1487. after a very long Siege In 1661. an Inundation of the River swept away one thousand and sixty Houses drowned two thousand Men and made three thousand more unfit for Habitation It was built by the Phaenicians and is mentioned by Strabo and Pliny Long. 16. 02. Lat. 36. 30. According to the Maps Long. 12. 42. Lat. 36. 09. Malatiah Melitene an ancient City in the Confines of the Greater Armenia upon the Euphrates seventy Miles from Samosat to the North and one hundred and fifty from Caesarea to the North-East It is an Archbishops See Long. 71. 00. Lat. 40. 32. According to the Maps 39. 52. Les Maidives Maldivae called the Naldives by the Natives there is an incredible number of them extending in a kind of a streight Line from nine deg of Northern Lat. to two deg beyond the Line and stretching from North-West to South-East to the South-West of the Cape of Comori or Malabar They are very fruitful and populous under one King whose Residence is in Male or Maldiva Francis Pirard has written a particular Discourse of these Islands said to be some thousands in number and to extend three hundred Leagues in length partly inhabited partly not that where the King resides is not above five Miles in compass whose Revenue principally consists in the fifth part of all the fruits and in the Confiscation of Wrecks He assumes the style of Sultan King of thirteen Provinces and twelve thousand Islands Maidon Camalodunum Camulodunum a Town in Essex in the Hundred of Dengy upon the River Chelmer on the Sea-shoar on the South side of that Arm of the Sea called Idumanius and about seven Miles distant from the Sea between which and it lie two small Islands called Northey and Osey This was the Royal City of Cunobelinus a British Prince who lived in the times of Tiberius and Caligula to whom one of his Sons fled Aulus Plautius the Roman General here in the Reign of Claudius fought Caractacus another of his Sons and slew him in Battel Claudius coming over into Britain in Person in the Third Year of his Reign in the 43 Year of Christ
became Bishop of it from whom the present Bishop Dr. Levinz is the fourteenth and the twenty ninth of those whose Names are Recorded This Bishop is no Lord of the Parliament of England tho presented to the King for his Assent Royal and to the Archbishop of York for Consecration by reason he holds immediately not of the King but of the Lord of Man to whom under the Fief and Sovereignty of the King belongs the Right of Nomination Manar Manaria a small Island with a City on it which is in the Hands of the Hollanders it lies in the Streight between the Island of Ceylon and the Coast of Malabar in the East-Indies and gives Name to that Streight Long. 108. 30. Lat. 09. 33. Manceaux the People of Maine a Province in France La Mancha Lamitanus Ager a Province in the South of New Castile in Spain the Seat of the Oretani an ancient People of Spain mentioned by Strabo and Pliny It is divided into La Mancha d' Arragon and La Mancha Cieca La Manche Mare Britannicum the French Name of the British Sea lying between France and England Manchester Manduessedum a Town in the County of Warwick mentioned by Antoninus now a poor Village of about fourteen Houses one Mile from Atherstone to the South and eight from Covenventry to the North § Manchester Mancunium Manucium a very rich populous and beautiful Market-Town upon the East side of the River Spoden near the Borders of Cheshire at the South End of the County of Lancaster in the Hundred of Salford in which Thomas Lord de la Ware founded a a College This was an ancient Roman City and being ruined in the Saxon and Danish Wars was rebuilt by Edward the Elder about 920. The College has been since refounded and confirmed by Queen Elizabeth and is still in being There is also a Collegiate Church Charles I. added another Honour to this Place by creating Henry Montague Earl of Manchester in 1625. which Honour is now possessed by Edward Montague his Grand child the third Earl of this family Mandignan Hesperium Cornu Cape Verde the most Western Cape of Africa Mande Mimatium a City of Aquitain in Languedoc in France towards the Mountains of Sevennes and the Fountains of the River Lot Olda which is a Bishop See under the Archbishop of Alby called by some Latin Writers Anderitum and Gabalum the Capital of the Territory of Givaudan four Miles from Jaoux where are are the Ruins of that old City out of which this we are speaking of sprung being before only a Village at the Foot of this Mountain ten Leagues from S. Flour to the North East fourteen from from Rhodez to the East It stands in a mountainous but fruitful Soil and it is honoured with the Bones of S. Privatus a Martyr The Bishop enjoys divers great Privileges together with the Title of an Earl Mandinga a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa betwixt the River Niger to the North and the Kingdom of Malaguette to the South its Capital City bearing the same Name Mandou a City and Kingdom in the Empire of the Great Mogul in the East Indies Mandoua a River in the Kingdom of Decam which falls by the City of Goa into the Indian Ocean See Goa Mandrerey a River in the Island of Madegascar it springs in a Territory of its own Name and greatned with the Currents of divers other Rivers discharges it self into the Ocean at the North of the Island near the Province of Carcanossi Manfredonia Sepontum Novum Manfredonia a City in the Province called the Capitanato in the Kingdom of Naples which is an Archbishops See and has this Name from Manfredus King of Naples Son of Frederick II. Emperor of Germany who built it about the year 1256. Not above two Miles from hence at the Foot of Mount Gargano are shewn the Ruins of Sepontum an old ruined Roman Town the See of which was Translated to Manfredonia It has a large Haven a strong Castle seated twenty five Miles from Nocera to the East and twenty two from the Mouth of the River Ofanto Aufidus to the North. Taken once by the Turks in the year 1620. and miserably defaced spoiled and ruined since in some degree repaired but the memory of that Calamity has made it little poor and not much inhabited A Provincial Council was assembled at it in 1567. Long. 40. 10. Lat. 41. 40. Mangalor Mangalora a City of the Kingdom of Bisnagar upon the Western Shoar which has a Castle and an Harbour upon the Indian Sea in a Tract called Canara towards Malabar Heretofore under the Portuguese This may possibly be the same with that the Ancients called Mandagara Long. 105. 00. Lat. 12 30. Mangresia Magnesia the Capital City of Caria a Province in the Lesser Asia near the River Maeander whence it was called Magnesia ad Maeandrum to distinguish it from some other Cities of the same Name Before this it was called Thessaloce and Androlitia as Pliny saith It stands near Mount Thorax seventy Miles from Smyrna to the North-East and twenty six from Ephesus Themistocles the Athenian died here in Banishment and Antiochus King of Syria sixty three years before the Birth of our Savour Long. 57. 00. Lat. 39. 00. Manhate the same with New Amsterdam in North America in New-Holland Manheim Manbemium a Fortress in the Lower Palatinate where the Rhine and the Necker meet grown up to a City whereas before it was only a Village Frederick IV. Elector Palatine in 1606. fortified it In 1622. the Spaniards took and dismantled it Being restored by the Treaty of Munster to this House Charles Lewis the last Elector resortified it It stands three German Miles from Spire to the North and as much from Heydelburgh to the West It has a very strong Castle called Friderichsbourgh near it upon the Rhine lies another called Eichelsheim now ruined in which John XXIII Pope was kept two years a Prisoner after he was deposed by the Council of Constance The French possessed themselves both of the City and Fortress Nov. 13. 1688. S. Manehu See S. Meneboult ◠Manifold a River of Staffordshire Manille Manilla the same with Lusson Maningtree or Manytree a Market Town in the County of Essex in the Hundred of Tendring Manissa Magnesia a City of Lydia in the Lesser Asia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Smyrna twenty four Miles from Smyrna to the North West Now in a tolerable Condition under the Turks and the Capital of a Province Manoa el dorado a Town in South America in Guiana upon the Western Shoar of the Lake of Parime concerning which the Indians report great things but it was never yet seen by any European Manosque Manuesca a Town in Provence in France in the Diocese of Sisteron in a Plain one League from the River Durance belonging to the Order of the Knights of Malta by the Concession the ancient Counts of Forcalquier who had a Palace in it Some would have it to
be the Bormanicum of Pliny Others the ancient Alaunicum or Machaovilla There are divers Religious Houses there Manresa Manrese Minorissa a small City in Catalonia in Spain upon the River Cardoner which a little lower falls into the Lobregat ten Leagues from Barcellona to the North. Once a Bishops See Man 's Vrbs Cenomanorum Cenomanum a great rich populous City in the Duchy of Maine in France of old called Vindinum seated upon the River Sartre where it takes in the Huisne ten Leagues from Alenson to the South sixteen from â—ours to the North and the same distance from Vendosine to the North-West It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours the Capital of Le Maine and heretofore one of the most flourishing Cities of Gallia Celtica Mansfeldt an Island in Hudson's Bay in the Terra Arctica of America discovered some time since by the English Mansfeld Mansfeldensis Comitatus is a County or Earldom in the Vpper Saxony in the Landtgravate of Thuring between the Principality of Anhalt to the North the Territory of Mersburgh in Misnia to the East and Thuring properly so called to the East and West It is now sequestred in the Hands of the Elector of Saxony but was before under a Count of its own whose Family being now divided into four Branches each of them has the Right of Living Hunting and Fishing in this County with that of Patronage and two thousand Florins yearly Income the Government is in the Hands of the Electors for their security and payments The chief Town is Mansfeld which stands nine Miles from Maegdeburgh to the South and Erfurd to the North and sixteen from Gottingen to the East Mansfield a good large well built and inhabited Market Town in the County of Nottingham in the Hundred of Broxtow It stands in the Forest of Sherwood Mantale an ancient Castle in the Territory of Vienne in Dauphine remarkable upon the account of a Council called Concilium Monotalense in 879. for the Election of Boson King of Provence Arles and Burgundy Mante Medunta commonly Epitheted la Jolie a City or great Town in the Isle of France which has a Stone-Bridge over the Seyne in the very Borders of le vexin twelve Leagues beneath Paris to the West and sixteen above Roan to the South-East Philip II. King of France died here in 1223. It heretofore enjoyed the Honour of the Title of an Earldom and had a Cittadel which was destroyed by Henry IV. In 1376. Charles V. King of France Founded a Monastery of the Celestines in it besides which it is adorned with a Collegiate Church Mantonea a City in the Morea in Arcadia famous for the Death of Epaminondas the celebrated Thebean General in the year of Rome 391. It lies at the Foot of the Mountain Parthenius twenty five Miles from Megalopolis to the North and seven from Misitra to the North-West Now called Mandi or Mundi Mantoua Mantua a very ancient City in Lombardy in Italy built three hundred years before Rome It is the Capital of a Dukedom and a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja but exempt from his Jurisdiction ever since 1453. A great and a magnificent City seated within the Bosom of a Lake of the same Name made by the River Menzo which contributes very much to its strength and security In 1629. it was taken by the German Imperial Forces and miserably impoverished but soon after restored to its Duke by the Interposition of the French Court It stands forty five Miles from Modena to the North twenty from Verona to the South and forty from Cremona to the East This was the Country of Virgil the great Latin Poet who Celebrates the Fertility of its Fields in his Georg. 2. And of Tasso the Italian In the year 1064. the Election of Pope Alexander II. to the See of Rome was confirmed in a Council here against Honorius II. an Antipope set up by the Emperor Henry IV. The Dukedom of Mantoua is bounded on the East by that of Ferrara on the North by the Territories of Verona and Brescia on the West by Cremona and the Dukedom of Milan on the South by the Dukedoms of Modena and Mirandola Said to be equal together with Montisferat which belongs to this Duke to the Dukedom of Florence in extent but not in Revenue yet it is fruitful and abounds in Cattle This Dukedom fell first into the Family of Gonzaga which now possesseth it in 1328. Lewis I. of this Line then slaying Passavino the last of the Bonocelsi's in the Market-Place and assuming the Government into his own Hands as Lord of Mantoua John Francisco the Fifth of the Line was made Marquess of Mantoua by Sigismond the Emperor in 1433. Frederick II. the ninth of them was Created Duke by Charles V. in 1530. Charles III. is the eighteenth of this House and succeeded his Father Charles II. This Dukedom is thirty five Miles from North to South and fifty from East to West Manata the same with la Mancha Mar a County in the North-East part of Scotland extending in length from East to West sixty Miles partly mountainous and barren partly fruitful on the North it has Murray and Buchan on the East the German Ocean on the South Mern and Angus and on the West Athole The River Dee enricheth the South and the Done the North side of this County yet is there in it no Town of great Note Maracaibo or Marecaye a City in the Province of Venezuela in Castile d' Or in the South America upon a vast Lake of the same Name well built rich populous well traded and enjoying the Benefit of an excellent Port wherein the Spaniards build their Ships Maragnan Marahim Maranania an Island on the Coast of Brasil at the Mouth of the River Mirary which gives Name to the next Province to it This was once planted with French but in 1641. taken by the Hollanders and since retaken by the Portuguese There is in it a Town called S. Lewis with a Castle and altho but a small Place yet it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Salvador Long. 332. 40. Southern Lat. 02. 10. § The River Xauxa in Peru is also called El Vio Maragnon See Xauxa Marans a Town upon the River Sicur Niortoise in the pais d' Aulnis in France two Leagues from the Sea and four from Rochelle It stands in a Marsh hath a Castle and been often taken in the Wars by the Roman Catholicks and Huguenots Marasso C. Delle Cacca Haermaeum the most Western Cape in the Island of Sardinia lying Long. 32. 10. Lat. 41. 15. Marata a small Kingdom in North America placed by Sanson near the New Kingdom of Mexico and the Vermiglian Ocean Marathon Marason Marathona an ancient City of Attica in Greece famous in History for the Defeat given by Miltiades with his Army of twelve thousand Athenians to five hundred thousand Persians in the year of Rome 264. and the third of the seventy second Olympiad Marca
consequently fell a Victim to the Fortunes of Caesar whose Army left them nothing but their Liberty This Calamity befel them about forty two years before the Birth of our Saviour They recovered again as great an esteem as ever Tacitus informs us that in his time it was a place where the Grecian Affability and the Provincial Thrift were rarely mixed In the Fall of the Roman Empire this City became a prey to the Goths and Franks but in what Times I cannot assign In 1243. after the Goths were expelled it was put under Counts of its own and continued so till 1481 when it returned to the Crown of France during the time it was under these Counts about 1423. it was taken by Alphonsus King of Arragon In 1524. it withstood the furious Assaults of Charles Duke of Bourbone But the height of all its modern Glory was its sustaining the mighty Forces and great Valour of Charles V. in 1536. Since the settling Christianity here it has ever been a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vienne formerly now of Arles Its first Bishop being said to be S. Lazarus whom Christ raised from the dead That which has in all times continued to its continuance is its excellent safe large Harbour and the Fertility of the Soil it stands in being otherwise not the best seated for Traffick there being no Navigable River near it but the Rhosne which is at some distance Long. 26. 22. Lat. 42. 18. Marshfield a Market Town in in Glocestershire in the Hundred of Thornbury Marshland a Tract in the County of Norfolk nigh Lyn Regis on the other side of the River Ouse so called from its being a Marsh There are seated several Towns in it which in recompense for the want of fresh Water and their Liableness to the Inundations of the Sea enjoy a Soil exceeding fat and feeding abundance of Cattle § There is another such Tract in the West Riding of Yorkshire about fifteen Miles in circuit called also Ditch-Marsh and excellent for the same use Marsi an ancient People of Italy in the Province now called the Further Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples towards the Patrimony of S. Peter whose Name is still preserved in a Territory there called the Dutchy of Marsa The Marsick War in the year of Rome 663. and their killing of all the Romans in the City Asculum together with Q. Servilius Proconsul and Fronteius render this People memorable in History § Also a People of Germania Antiqua mentioned by Tacitus of whom Ortelius fancies there are some Footsteps remaining in the Village Detmarsen in the Province of Over-Yssel in the United Netherlands Marsico Marsicum a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Hither Principate called New Marsico to distinguish it from another Town of the same Name in that Province It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Salerno of little circuit but well peopled and built seated upon an Hill at the Foot of the Apennine near the Fountains of the River Agri which washeth Marsico Vecchio and then falls into the Bay of Taranto in the very Borders of the Basilicate six Miles from the last named Town to the West and fifty five from Salerno to the North. The old Marsico stands eighteen Miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea and sensibly decays being inhabited but by a few Marsley Hill a Hill in Herefordshire whereof Mr. Cambden and Mr. Speed relate a Story That on Saturday Feb. 7. 1571. about six a Clock in the Evening it moved with a roaring noise from the place where it stood and by seven the next Morning had gone about two hundred Foot continuing its Travel three days together That Kinnaston-Chappel hereupon fell down with some Trees Hedges and Coats for Sheep and some stood That two High-ways were turned about three hundred Foot from their former Paths the East Parts to the West and the West to the East Pasturage being left in the place of Tillage and Tillage of Pasturage Marta Martha a River ascribed by Antoninus to Hetruria now in the Dominions of the Church it ariseth out of the Lake di Bolsena Lacus Volsiniensis and running Southward by Tuscanella a small City in S. Peter's Patrimony the Walls of which it washeth it falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea beneath Cornetto another City of the same Province twenty two Miles from Viterbo to the South There is a Town of the same Name seated upon this River where it breaks out of the Lake twelve Miles from Viterbo Martaban Martabanum a City of the Further East-Indies on the Shoars of the Bay of Bengala which has a convenient Port under the King of Pegua tho it has had Kings of its own till of late it was conquered and very ill used The Kingdom belonging to it lies between that of Pegua to the North and Ligor a Promontory of the Kingdom of Siam to the South Martegues or Martigues Maritima Colonia a Sea-Port Town in Provence built in 1239. upon the Lake of Berry at the distance of one Mile from the Sea betwixt which and the Lake a Communication is made by Ditches so surrounding and dividing the Town as it were into three several small Towns called Fonquieres L'isle and Ferrieres which are passed from one to another upon Bridges that Martigues hath therefore the Name of the Venise of France Those Fosses are thought to be Works of the Romans Martigues also was of old a Viscounty and now a Principality enjoyed by the House of Vendosme Martel Martellum a small City in the Province of Quercy near the River Dordogne seated on a Hill in the Confines of Limosin six Leagues from Sarlat to the East and as many from Tulle to the South Martimos Marithae a Ridge of Mountains in the South of Arabia Foelix not far from the Shoar and the Fountains of the River Liris mentioned by Ptolemy S. Martin a great Village in the Isle of Rade in Soisonois in Reims S. Martin one of the Antille or Leeward Islands which was under the French S. Martin de Re a Fort in the Isle of Ré near which the English received a great Defeat from the French in 1627. Martinique Mâ—danina an Island in the West-Indies which is one of the Antilla's forty five Leagues in compass very fruitful and well peopled and well watered by Rivers It having been in the Hands of the French ever since 1635. The Dutch attempting it in 1674 were repulsed Long. 315. â—â— Lat. 12 10. Martiopoli See Marcianopoli Martpurg See Marpurg Martorano Martoranum a small City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Hither Calabria but in the Borders of the Further Calabria six Miles from the Shoars of the Tyrrhenian Sea and fourteen from Cosenza in a declining state and inhabited but by a few tho it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cosenza The River which runs by it is called il Savuto it is thought the old Name of this City was Mamertum Marubeni See Marogna Marueccos See Marocco Maruege Maruejols Marengium a small City
in the Province of Languedoo in the Territory of Givaudan upon the River Colange towards the Borders of Rouergne seven Leagues from S. Flour in Auvergne to the South and almost four from Mende the Capital of Givandan to the West some write it Marologium Maryland a considerable Country and Colony of the English in the North America in forty deg of Latitude Bounded with Pensylvania New-England and New York to the North with the Atlantick and De la Ware Bay to the East the River Potomeck which divides it from Virginia to the South and the Indian Territories to the West It contains ten Counties The Capital Town of all is S. Maries which is well built and provided with a convenient Harbour for Shipping Masandran Hyrcania a Province of the Kingdom of Persia upon the Caspian Sea which is called the Masandran Sea also from this Province as it was before the Hyrcanian Sea There is a City in this Province of the same Name Masano Massalia a River in the Isle of Candy or Crete Masay Misauci Pagus Mosanus a Canton amongst the Grisons called by the Inhabitants Maeslandt Masbate one of the Philippine Islands which is under the Spaniards Mascalate a City in Arabia Foelix about sixty Miles from the Shoars of the Persian Gulph which is the Capital of a Kingdom of the same Name Long. 85. 10. Lat. 24. 10. Mascate a City together with a Sovereign Principality on the South-Eastern Shoar of Arabia Foelix upon the Gulph of Ormus which has a convenient Haven and a strong Castle built by the Portuguese who for a long time were Masters of it but some few years since were beaten out by the King of Mascate Long. 94. 00. Lat. 24. 27. Mascon Matiscona Matisco a City of France in the Dukedom of Burgundy which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lyon and has a Territory belonging to it of the same Name It stands upon a rising ground upon the River Saone in the Borders of the Province of Bresse and it has a Stone Bridge over the Saone Eleven Miles saith Baudrand from Lyon to the North and Challon to the South Long. 26. 07. Lat. 46. 00. according to the newest Maps Le Masconois is a small Territory in the South part of the Dukedom of Burgundy to which it is annexed for ever whereas heretofore it had Counts of its own it lies between the Territory of Challon to the North Beaujolois to the South La Bresse to the East and Foretz to the West Maseyck See Maeseyck Masfa a City in Arabia Foelix in the inland parts three hundred Miles from Ormus and two hundred from Mascate to the West The same with that which was called of old Maspha as some think and now the Capital of a Kingdom of the same Name Long. 90. 00. Lat. 23. 00. Masham a Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Hangeast upon the River Youre Masiers Maderiacum a strong City in the Province of Champaign seated upon the East Side of the Maes which almost surrounds it about half a League from Charleville to the South-East four from Sedan to the West six from Bouillon to the North and fifteen from Namur to the South It is now in a thriving state Masotto the same with Masano a River in Candy Masovie Mazovia a Province in the Kingdom of Poland the Capital of which is Warsaw called by the Poles Mazowskie by the Germans Masaw and by the French Masovie On the East it has Lithuania on the North Prussia on the West the Greater Poland and on the South the Lesser Poland It is divided into four Palatinates which have their Names from the Cities of Mazow Ploczko Dobrin and Podlach This was once a separate and independent Dukedom which submitted to the Crown of Poland under Casimir the Great but continued under its own Duke till the year 1526. when upon the Death of John and Stanislaus the two last Dukes it was united under Sigismond I. King of Poland to that Kingdom Massa or Massa di Carrara Massa Carraiae a Town in Italy between the Dukedom of Florence and the State of Genoua great and well peopled lately adorned with the Title of a Dukedom it being also a small Sovereignty twelve Miles from Sarasana to the South-East twenty five from Lucca to North-West and three from the Shoars of the Tyrrhenian Sea Most famous for its excellent Quarries of Marble Massa di Sorriento Massa Lubrensis a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Terra di Lavoro which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Sorriento small and not much inhabited It stands twenty Miles from Naples to the South on the opposite Shoar of the Bay of Naples and about nine from the Town of Capri to the North-East Built in 1465. in a place of great height and natural Strength Massa Massa Veternensis a small City in the Territory of Siena in Italy within five Miles of the Tyrrhenian Sea thirty five from Siena to the South-West and twenty from Piombino to the North-East made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Siena in the stead of Populonium a ruined City on this Shoar called Porto Barbato yet it is very small Built upon a Hill under the Dominion of the Duke of Florence The Dukedom of Massa is a small Territory between the States of Genoua to the West the Dukedom of Florence to the North the States of Lucca to the East and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the South under its own Duke who is of the House of Cibo whereas before it was but a Principality The principal places are Massa and Cararia which last though very small is a Marquisate and lies five Miles from Sarasana to the South thirty from Pisa to the North. Massagetae an ancient Scythian people Some place them about the Palus Moeotis and the Euxine Sea Others towards the Mountain Imaus and the Country now called Zagathai in Tartary They dwelt in Tents and sacrificed to the Sun Masserano Massoranum a small Town in Piedmont upon a Hill sixteen Miles from Iurea to the East and eight from Vercelli to the North. This is the Capital of a Principality under its own Prince who is under the Protection of the Pope He has Crevacore and some other places of small importance Masulepatan Musulepatanum a City and Sea-Port in the Hither East-Indies on the Shoars of the Bay of Bengala in the Kingdom of Golconda which has a convenient Harbour and a Castle heretofore in the hands of the Portuguese Mataca a Bay on the North side of the Island of Cuba in America where all the Spanish Galeons in their return to Spain touch for Water and where the Dutch defeated a Fleet of those Galeons richly laden in 1627. Mataman a Kingdom of Africa to the West of the Aethiopick Ocean betwixt Caffreria and the Kingdom of Angola and towards the River Verte Matan one of the Philippine Islands in the East-Indian Ocean where the famous Magellan some say died It
Borders of the Capitanate towards the Mountains upon the River Melfi or Molpa four Miles from the River Ofanto sixty five from Naples to the East and almost forty from Manfredonia South Mellila Ryssadirum a Town in Barbary subject to the King of Spain It lies in the Kingdom of Fez in the Province of Garet or Jeyrat taken by Ferdinand King of Spain in 1496. who gave order for the fortifying it It is seated on the Mediterranean Sea in a fruitful Plain at the foot of a Mountain almost forty German Miles from the Mouth of the Streights of Gibraltar to the East over against Almeria in Granada Being besieged by the Moors Anno 1687. the Garrison slew five hundred of them in one Salley October 5. whereupon the next day they lest the Town and drew off Melinde Melinda a Town and Kingdom in Zanguebar in Africa The Town is a Sea-Port fortified with a Castle which the Portuguese have erected And the Sea adjacent some take to be the Asperum Mare of Ptolemy Melito or Meliton Miletus a small City in the Kingdom of Naples in the further Calabria which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio but exempt from his Jurisdiction Pope Gregory VII translated this See from Taurianum a ruined City in 1075. This City is called Melita by Cicero it stands between Cosenza to the North and Regio to the South forty Miles from either five from Nocera and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the East It has been in a decaying condition a long time especially since 1638. in which it suffered very much by an Earthquake Melli Mellum a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa in which the River Niger is first divided into several Branches Bounded on the East by the Kingdoms of Mandinga and Malegneta on the West by the Atlantick Ocean It has a great and populous City of the same name where the Court resides thirty days journey from Tombut And the Kingdom is tributary to that of Tombut since 1520. Melun Melodunum a City of France in the Province of Brie in the Borders of Gastinois in the Generalité of the Isle of France upon the Seyne which it covers with two Bridges four Leagues from Fountainbleau to the South-East ten from Paris to the South and three from Corbeil In this City died Robert King of France in 1030. and Philip I. in 1109. It hath a Castle many fine Churches gives the title of a Viscount and its name to an honourable family Memel or Memmel Memelium Memmelburgum Cleupeda a Town in the Kingdom of Poland in the Province of Samogitia seated upon the Banks of the Baltick Sea thirty Polish Miles from Koningsperg to the North thirty eight from Riga to the South-West Baudrand ascribes it to Russia Regalis and to the County of Sambienfi and saith it has a strong Castle a Lake and a safe Harbour This Town was taken by Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden in 1628. But restored to the Poles under whom it now is almost intirely ruined by Fire in 1678. now rebuilt Long. 50. 00. Lat. 56. Memel Chronus a River which ariseth in Lithuania about fifteen Polish Miles South of Minski called Niemen by the Poles It watereth Grodno and Kowna and entering Prussia Regia is called Russ and falling at last into the Lake of Memel by the Town of Memel entereth the Baltick Sea at Kowna This River takes in the Vill which watereth Vilna and is one of the most considerable Rivers in these parts Memmingen Drusomagus Memminga an Imperial Free City in Schwaben in Germany upon the River Iler seven German Miles from Vlm to the South and nine from Ausburg to the North-West Menan Menanius a vast River in the further East-Indies which ariseth out of the Lake of Chiammay and passing the Kingdoms of Pegua and Siam it watereth Odia or Siam the Capital of that Kingdom and Anio then by two great Mouths falls into the Bay of Siam in Long. 328. Menapii an ancient People of Gallia Belgica whose Capital Town was the Modern Kessel in the Dutchy of Brabant Menaw the Isle of Man Mende See Mande Mendlesham a Market Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of Hartesmere S. Menehoult Sancta Menehildis a strong Town in Champaign put into the Hands of the Spaniards by the Prince of Conde in 1652. and recovered to France in 1653. It is seated in the Territory of Argonne the Capital of which it is upon the River Aisne Axona nine Leagues from Verdun to the South and six from Bar le Duc to the North-West It has a Castle of great strength Baudrand writes this S. Menehould the Maps S. Manheu Mengrelia Colchis a Province in Asia in Georgia towards the North and the Euxine Sea which bounds it on the West Abascia separated from it by the River Coraz now called Colours lies on the North Guriel on the South cut off by the Phasis now Rione Imaretza and Susan on the East This Country is well watered fruitful under a Prince of its own descended of the Kings of Georgia It had a City called Sebastopolis which is now swallowed up by the Waters See Archangelus Lambertus and Sir John Chardin The first of which lived many years in this Country the latter has lately published an account of what he saw there For their Manners see Georgia The present Prince of Mengrelia is the eighth of this Family and Tributary to the Turks whose Tribute is sixty thousand Ells of Linnen Cloth made here and this is as much as he can well afford his Revenue not exceeding 20000 Crowns per ann much of which is raised from his Subjects sold for Slaves to the Turks to the number of seven or eight thousand in a year Which with their perpetual and fierce Wars has so depopulated this Country that the Prince is not able to bring above four thousand Horse and three thousand Foot into the Field and might easily be totally subdued by the Turks if it were thought worth the while or possible to keep a roving People who have neither Towns nor Cities in subjection when they are once Conquered Menteith Menthitia a County in the North of Scotland Bounded on the West by Lenox and the Lake Lomond on the North by Albain on the East by Stratherne and on the South by Sterling and Lenox The principal Town in it is Dunblain The Damnii inhabited in ancient times a part of this County in the Opinion of Mr. Cambden Mentz Meintz Moguntia Magontiacum a City of Germany of great Antiquity called by the Inhabitants Mayntz by the French Mayence by the Spaniards and Italians Magonza It stands in the Lower Circle of the Rhine upon the Rhine six German Miles from Franckfort on the Mayne to the West eighteen from Treves and fifteen from Spire to the North. Mentioned by Ptolemy and Tacitus It has its Name from the River Main or Moin which falls into the Rhine over against it The ancientest City in that part of Germany as having been certainly
called Gueguere but by the Inhabitants Neube Indeed Lobus a Portugal in his History of Aethiopia is of Opinion there is no such Island at all and saith the Nile makes never an Island in Aethiopia and the Ancients were much deceived in placing this pretended Island so far from the Red Sea therefore he is not pleased with their conceit who make the Kingom of Goyaume to be Mero◠and upon the whole he concludes the distance of the place and difficulty of access gave occasion to all those fictions of the Ancients concerning this Island which by them was placed in Lat. 16. 23. Mersburgh Martinopolis Mersoburgum a small City in Misnia in Germany which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Magdeburgh upon the River Saal three German Miles from Hall to the South and as many from Leipsick to the West The Bishop of this Diocese imbraced the Augustane Confession in 1565. In 1592. John George Bishop of it became Elector of Saxony his Successors have ever since been Administrators of this Bishoprick being chosen upon every vacancy by the Chapter and in this Right they are possessed of the City of Mersburgh which was once an Imperial Free Town but long since exempted § There is another Mersbourgh in Schwaben upon the Lake of Constance where the Bishop of Constance resides Mersey the Arm of the Sea into which the River Dee in Wales falls See Dee Merton-méer a great Lake in Lancashire Mesember Mesembria a City of Thrace ascribed by Ptolemy to Moesia Inferior and in our latter Maps placed in Bulgaria on the North side of the great Mountain Hermus upon the Shores of the Euxine Sea twenty seven German Miles from Adrianople to the North-East and thirty two from Constantinople to the North-West It is now an Archbishop's See and in the hands of the Turks Mesendin the Persian Gulph Mesmes a Castle and Seigniory in the Diocese of Bazas in the Lower Guienne in France which gives Name to an Honorable Family there Mesopotamia a large Country of Asia enclosed within the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates and heretofore making a considerable part of the Assyrian Empire It s principal Cities now are Caramit the Capital Merdin and Heren The Arabians call it Al-Gezira as the Hebrews did Aram Naharajim i. e. the Syria betwixt two Rivers in conformity to the Greek of Mesopotamia Vid. Diarbeck Mesrata the same with Cairoan Messapia a Province of the Antient Italy where now lies the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples It had a City of its own Name called afterwards Messana Apuliae and now Mesagna Virgil mentions the antient Inhabitants with the Character of Equum domitor Neptunia proles Messene See Moseniga Messin See Metz. Messina Messana an ancient and very celebrated City on the Northern Point of the Isle of Sicily ten Miles from Reggio in Italy sixty from Catania to the North and a hundred and fifty from Palermo to the North-East It is a great rich well traded City an Archbishop's See the Capital of the Province of Demona and the second City in the Island being five Miles in compass having an Harbour of great safety and wonderfully frequented by Merchants Nobly built has a Princely Palace a well furnished Magazine a noble Metropolitan Church and great plenty of Silk Weavers It is of a long figure with four great Suburbs The Philosopher Dicaearchus was a Native of this City Charles V. in 1535 spent very much in fortifying it and built four Castles to that purpose This City was recovered out of the Hands of the Saracens by Roger the Norman in 1060. The Spaniards provoked it so far that in 1674. it shook off their Yoke who were never able to reduce the place again under their Obedience till March 16. 1678. The Inhabitants pretend to have a Letter which was Written to them by the Virgin Mary and certainly they have great reason to value that singular favour Messo Bermius a Mountain lying between Macedonia Thessalia and Epirus called in the latter Maps Mezova It stretcheth from North-West to South-East and ends at the North Point of the Isle of Negropont and seems to be the same with Mount Pindus or a part at least of it Mesuna Medama a River of the further Calabria it falls into the Sea about four Miles South of Nicotera Mesapontum a Town of the ancient Lucania in Italy now called Torre di Mare Metelin Lesbos Mitylene an Island in the Archipelago on the Coast of the Lesser Asia six Miles from its Shoars to the South Now commonly called Mitelino from its principal City which is seated on the East side of the Island and an Archbishop's See It has two other Cities which are Bishopricks that is Gerema and Calono The Circuit of this Island is 140 Miles its length from North to South 40. It was under the Family of the Catelusii from 1355. to 1462 when it was taken from Dominico Catelusio the last Prince of this Race by Mahomet II. Emperor of the Turks This Family being of a Genouese Extraction the Island is generally said to have been so long under the States of Genoua Written also Mettelen It pays eighteen thousand Piastres Tribute to the Turks Metoro Metaurus a River in the Dukedom of Vrbino which ariseth in the Confines of Tuscany near Borgo S. Sepulchro and running East watereth saith Baudrand S. Angelo and Vrbino In the Maps it is placed more South and watereth Fossombrone Forum Sempronii and so falls into the Gulph of Venice between Fanno to the North and Sinigaglia to the South Metramo or Marro Metaurus a small River of Calabria the further which falls into the Sea eleven Miles South of Nicotera Metz Meta Metis Mediomatricum Divodurum Mediomatricorum a City and Bishop's See in the Dukedom of Lorrain under the Archbishop of Trier and the Capital of the Territory of Messin It stands upon the Moselle where it takes in the Seile Sala ten Leagues from Nancy to the North and Verdun to the East and sixteen from Trier to the South At first the Capital of the Kingdom of Metz after this an Imperial Free City and being exempted it fell in 1552. into the hands of the French Charles V. the same year with a powerful Army sat down before it and omitted nothing that Courage or Art could dictate to recover it but failing in the Attempt fell out with the World and soon after resigned all his Dominions to his Son in 1555 and went into a Monastery Some considerable Councils have been formerly assembled at this place Meulan Mulanum a Town and Fortress upon the Seine in the Government of the Isle of France which has a Stone Bridge over the River It stands nine Leagues above Paris to the West Henry IV. could not take the Fortress in 1589 tho he made himself Master of the Town Meun or Mehun a small Town in the Province of Berry in France upon the River Yeure betwixt Bourges and Vierzon shewing the Ruines of a Castle heretofore
demolished by the English It has a Collegiate Church § There is another Meun in the same Province upon the River Inde betwixt Chateau-roux and Bruzancais § And a Third in the Province of Orleanois under the right side of the Loyre betwixt the City Orleans and Baugency Adorned with a Collegiate Church and taken heretofore by the Victorious English under the Earl of Salisbury In Latin Magdunum Meurs Meursia a small City of the Dukedom of Cleves though seated in the Bishoprick of Cologn which is an Earldom and belongs together with its Territory to the Prince of Orange by the gift of the last Countess in 1600. Yet the Duke of Brandenburgh lays claim to it as Duke of Cleves It lies two Miles from Rhineburgh to the South one from the Rhine to the West about ten from Cologn to the North-West and seven from Cleves to the South-West Meurtre Mourtre Murta Morta a River of Lorrain it ariseth from Mount Vauge and watering Nancy falls into the Moselle three Leagues above Pont Mouson Meuse Mosa the same with the Maes Mexico Mexicum a vast City in the North America the Capital of New Spain and of a Province of the same name in that Kingdom the Seat of the Spanish Viceroy of the West-â—naâ—es and an Archbishop's See This City stands upon the North side of a Lake of the same name in a most pleasant fruitful and large Plain and in great part surrounded with the Lake The Inhabitants pretend it was built in 1322. The Spaniards by the current and thread of their Story say it was built in 902. It was many Ages since the Royal Seat of the Kings of Mexico had then a great and splendid Palace called in their Tongue the Tepac but burnt together with the City when it was taken by the Spaniards in 1521. by Francis Cortez who rebuilt the City and made it the Capital of his Conquests Its Streets are great streight and beautiful its Churches magnificent its publick Buildings noble It has an Aquaduct three Miles long and many Monasteries John de Turre Cremata our Countryman Mr. Gage and some others have given large accounts of this noble City which is the greatest in America It has no Walls Forts Bastions nor any Cannon or Defence whatsoever beside what the number of its Inhabitants afford which is a part of the Spanish Jealousie for fear a Viceroy should set up for himself In 1527. Pope Clement VII made it a Bishop's See In 1547. Paul III. made it an Archbishop's See in which Year Cortez the Conqueror died It was made an University in 1551. by Charles V. As it is seated in a very low ground so it has often suffered very much by Inundations of the Lake particularly Septemb. 21. 1629. forty thousand of its Inhabitants were drowned to prevent this for the future they have with great Charges found out a means to drive part of these Waters other ways There is no way to the City but over three Causways on the North West and South sides the latter of which is the longest Long. 269. 00. Lat. 28. 30. eighty Spanish Leagues from the South Sea and the same distance from the Shores of the Bay of Mexico See Golfo di Mexico There are also two Lakes of Water called by the name of this City one of which is fresh Water seven Leagues long six broad the other is salt Water forty Leagues in compass Meydenburg See Magdeburg Meylandt the German Name for Milan Meyne See Mayn § Also a Mineral Spring much resorted to of late near the City Arles in Provence Mezaal a pretended Island in Aethiopia See Meroë Mezieres Maderiacum Meceria a City of France in Champagne in the Territory of Retelois built upon and almost encompassed with the Maes and very well fortified besides It stands not above half a League from Charleville four beneath Sedan to the West three from the Confines of Luxemburgh and sixteen from Reims to the North-East and hath a Collegiate Church Mezo Amyzon a City of Caria in the Lesser Asia still extant and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Sancta Croce being seated between Magnesia and Alabanda thirty Miles from Miletus now Melasso and the same distance from the Shoares of the Archipelago to the East Mezuma oppidum novum a City in the Kingdom of Algïer in Africa in the Province of Tenez between Algier and Tremesin Mezzaba a Province in Biledulgerida in Africa with a City of the same name by the great River between Zeb and Tegorarina to the West Mezzovo Pindus Miana Apamia or Apamea a City of Media Long. 79. 50. Lat. 34. 20. Miary a River in Brasil which receives the Ovaro Covo and divers other Rivers then falls into the Ocean near the Island of Maragnan upon the Coast of Brasil Micoli an Island of the Aegean Sea betwixt Nicaria to the East and the Islands Tenon and Andron to the North. One of the Cyclades called by the Antients Mycone and Myconos It produces Wine Cotton Barley and abundance of Game planted with one only Village which pays a yearly Tribute to the Turks Middleburgh Metelli Castrum Middleburgum Metelloburgum a Town in Zealand the Capital of the Isle of Walcheren made a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Vtretcht in 1559. by Pope Paul IV the Collegiate Church in 1561 being converted into a Cathedral and the Revenues of a famous Abbey that was here applied to serve for the use of the Bishoprick It is great rich populous extremely well fortified and has been under the Vnited Provinces ever since 1574 in which it was taken by their Forces from the Spaniards The Abbey is now the Town-house § There is a Town in Flanders under the Vnited Provinces two German Miles from Bruges to the North and an Island in the East-Indies both called by the same name Middlefart a Town in the Island of Fuynen in the Baltick Sea giving name to the Channel Middelfart or Middle-Passage betwixt this Island and Jutland Middlesex Middlesexia Trinobantes is bounded on the North by Hartfordshire on the West by Buckingham separated by the River Colne on the South by Surrey cut off by the Thames and on the East by Essex divided from it by the Lea. It is nineteen English Miles in length and sixteen in breadth one of the least Counties in England but its Fertility and nearness to London abundantly recompenseth this want of Extent The ancient British Inhabitants were the Trinobantes afterwards it was a part of the Kingdom of the East-Saxons White-hall and S. James the Royal Mansions of the Kings of England are both in this County to which may be added Hampton Court their Country House of Pleasure and LONDON the Capital of England is its Head The Honorable Charles Sackville Earl of Dorset is also Earl of Middlesex by a Creation of Feb. 4. 1674. Which Title was first bestowed by K. James I. in 1622. on Lionel Lord Cranfield Lord Treasurer of England whose Son James enjoyed the same and after
from Paris Milo Melos an Island in the Aegean Sea or the Archipelago sixty Miles in compass very fruitful and well peopled having a City of the same name which has a large and a safe Haven defended by three Forts seated on the South side of the Island and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Rhodes It lies in the middle between Candy and Negropont First inhabited by the Phoenicians after by the Greeks who gave it this name from its abundance of Honey It was the Country of Diagoras the first Atheistical Philosopher It has plenty of delicate spotted Marble all kinds of Corn and Oil Pitch and Brimstone but it wants Wine Over against it lies a little Island called Anti-Milo Milopotomo Milopotamos a Castle and a City which has an Harbor on the North Shore of the Isle of Candy also a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Candia seated near the Mouth of the River Arcadius thirty Miles from Candia to the West This Town and Castle is now in the Hands of the Turks Milton a Market Town in the County of Kent in Scray Lath not far from the Isse of Shepey It was a Place of Account in the Reign of Edward the Confessor Mina or S. George de Mina a Castle in Guinee on the Coast de Or which is of great strength and has belonging to it a very large Harbor This Castle was first built by the French in 1383. They being forced to leave it the Portuguese in 1482. built another in the same place which continued in their Hands till 1637. when the Hollanders took it from them John II. King of Portugal gave it the name of S. George after his Conquest of it § There is also a River called Mina in the Kingdom of Algier Mindanao one of the greatest of the Philippine Islands and the most Southern heretofore under the Dominion of the Spaniards but now revolted from them it is in length from East to West four hundred Spanish Miles in Long. 150. Lat. between 5. and 10. The principal City lies on the South-West side of the Island and is of the same name Minden Minda a strong City in Westphalia in Germany which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Cologn Also an Imperial and Free City and a Hanse Town governed by its own Officers tho it is but small It stands nine German Miles from Osnabruck or Osenburgh to the East ten from Hanover and twelve from Ferden to the South upon the Weser Made a Bishop's See in 780. by Charles the Great and it embraced the Augustane Confession in 1582. There is a Principality belonging to it called Furstenthumb Minden Mindora one of the Philippine Islands about a hundred Leagues in Circuit with a City and Port of its own name separated from the Island of Lusson by the Streights of Mindora under the Spaniards It lies in 145 deg of Long. North-West of Mindanao South-West of Lucania and North-East of Paragoa Minehead a Corporation in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Carhampton by the Sea-side to which it has a Harbour electing two Parliament Men. Mingrela a great Town in the Province of Visapour in the Kingdom of Decan in the Hither East-Indies within half a League of the Sea much frequented by the Vessels from Japan Bengale Zeylan c. especially Dutch whose East-India Company keeps a Comptoir here Mingrellia See Mengrelia Minibar India a Province of Asia Minho or Minno Minius a River in Spain which ariseth in Galicia near the Village called Il Castro de Rey four Leagues from Mondofiedo and watering Lugo and Orense after it has divided Galicia into two parts it becomes a boundary between it and Portugal five Leagues beneath Tuy it passeth into the Atlantick Ocean between Bayone and Lima. Minorca an Island belonging to Spain in the Mediterranean Sea which belonged to the Kingdom of Majorca about fifty six Miles in compass and much of the same nature with Majorca the principal Towns are Citadella seated on the West side of the Island and Porto Mahon a delicate Haven Minori Minora a City in the Principato Citra in the Kingdom of Naples being a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Amalfi upon the Gulph of Salerno Minturnae a ruined City of the ancient Campania in Latium in Italy below the mouth of the River Liris showing nothing at this day but the marks of its pristine honour in the rests of Aquaducts and Amphitheatres It has been an Episcopal City Minucciano a small Town in the Territory of Carfagnano in Italy under the Republick of Lucca Mirali the same with Derbent Miranda de Douro a City of Portugal upon the North side of the River Douro twelve Leagues from Samora to the West and from Salamanca to the North West and six from Braganza to the South Built in 1312 by Dionysius King of Portugal and made a Bishops See under the Archibishop of Braganza by Pope Paul III. in 1555. Being a Frontier Town against the Kingdom of Leon in the Western Confines of which it stands it is very strongly fortified Miranda de Ebro a small City in Old Castile which has a Castle upon the Ebro in the Confines of Biscay and Castile seventeen Miles from Bilbao to the South thirteen from Burgos to the North-East and twelve from Logrono to the West Mirande a small Town in the County of Armagnac in France in the Territory of Astarac or Estrac whereof it is the Capital upon the River Baise four or five Leagues from Ausch and something more from Tarbes Mirandola Mirandula a small but very strong City in Italy which has a strong Castle under its own Duke who is a Sovereign Prince with a small Territory which belongs to it This City stands twenty two Miles from Modena to the North ten from the Po to the South and twenty seven from Mantoua to the South-East Lo Stato della Mirandola is a small Dukedom in the Lower Lombardy bounded on the North by the Dukedom of Mantoua on the South by that of Modena This Dukedom is a Fee of the Duchy of Parma and together with Concordia another small Territory makes the Patrimony of the Family of the Pici who obtained it from Matilda Countess of Parma in 1102. Ever since which time they have enjoyed it Mirebeau Mirabellum a small City in the Province of Poictou in France built upon an Hill five Leagues from Poictiers to the North. It is now in a declining Condition and its Castle demolished having much suffered in the late Civil Wars It is the Capital of the Territory of Mirebalais Mirecourt Mirecurtium a City of the Vpper Lorain towards Mount Vauge seven Leagues from Nancy to the South and from Toul to the same quarter thirty six from Dyon to the North-East six from the Confines of Champagne to the East It is the Capital of the Territory of Vauge standing upon the little River Maidon which falls into the Moselle at Chaligni Miremont a Town in the Province of Perigort in
the Possession of it There is a College of the Jesuits here Moienvic a small Town in the Dutchy of Lorain in France upon the River Leille betwixt Marsal and Vic. Taken by Lewis XIII and ceded by the Treaty of Munster to France in 1648. Its Fortifications are demolished Moissac a Town in the County of Quercy in Guienne in France upon the River Tarn which soon after falls into the Garonne This Town has been often taken and retaken by times by the Romans Goths the Kings of France Dukes of Aquitaine Earls of Tolouse and Montfort in the English Conquests and the French Civil Wars It now has a famous large Abbey of the Benedictines to whom belongs the Lordship of part of the Town and to the King the other Moldavia Pars Moesiae inferioris is a considerable Region in Europe which heretofore belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and more anciently was a part of Dacia Called by the Inhabitants Moldove Multaus or Multauska by the Poles and Moldau by the Germans Bounded on the North by Transylvania on the West by the Vpper Hangary on the South by the Danube which parts it from Servia and Bulgaria and on the E. Walachia The Capital of it is Buchorest The same Author tells us on the Authority of the Count de Morstein Lord Treasurer of Poland that it is of much greater extent than Walachia though otherwise represented in the Maps This Country takes its name from a River or Town in it and extends from East to West ninety French Leagues from North to South sâ—â—eâ—ty Very fruitful and has an excellent Air. The Inhabitants are Christianâ— of the Greek Church under the Patriarch of Constantinople After Bajazet II. had in 1485 Conquered Bessarabia the Moldavians set up a Prince of their own Nation who prevailed against the Tarturs Turks and Poles His Successors have not been equally Fortunate For after many bloody contests in 1620. the Turk got finally the Mastery of the Moldavians and disposed of this Principality to whom he pleased who paid yearly to the Port as a Tribute one hundred and eighty thousand Crowns besides Presents and other Exactions the Turks labouring to impoverish this People what they could to keep them the more under In 1686. the Poles over-ran all their Country and took their principal Cities They therefore since relinquished the Ottoman Interest and voluntarily put themselves under the Protection of the Emperor Anno 1688. Mole a River of the County of Surrey which runs through Darking and empties it self into the Thames near Hampton-Court Molfa Melphes a River of the hither Principate in the Kingdom of Naples which falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea twelve Miles from Policastro to the West It is written sometimes Molpa Molfctta Melfictum a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Province of Bari on the Ionian Sea between Bari to the South and Trani to the North which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari It is small but well Peopled and born by the Family of Spinula with the Title of a Principality Molina a Town in New Castile seated in a Plain between two Mountains four Leagues from the borders of Arragon which has under it a Jurisdiction of seventy five Villages called El Sennorio di Molina the Lordship of Molina which is thought so considerable that the King of Spain wears this Title Molingar Molingaria a small City in the County of East Meath in the Province of Leinster in Ireland which is the Capital of that County thirty Miles from Dublin to the West Upon a Lake Molise Molisinus Comitatus a County in the Kingdom of Naples between Abruzzo to the North the Capitanate to the East Terra di Lavoro to the West and the Principato to the South It takes its name from a Castle in it Molossi an ancient People of the Kingdom of Epirus in Greece Molsheim Molsemium a small City in the Lower Alsatia upon the River Breuch two German Miles from Strasburgh to the West in which the Chapter of Serasburgh settled after they were by the Reformation driven thence This City was severely treated in 1677 but is now rebuilding The Molucques Moluccae by the Spaniards called las Molucas are five small Islands towards the Western Shoar of the Isle of Gilolo in the East-Indies lying near the Line in Long. 150. deg called Ternata Tidor Machian Motir and Bachian The greatest of them is forty five Miles in Compass They lie extended from North to South on both sides the Line only regardable on the account of the vast quantities of Spice which are from hence sent over all the World About the Year of Christ 1013. the Chinian Empire being then in a flourishing State first became Masters of these Islands but not without Blood and Treasure About sixty years after they were expelled by the Inhabitants of Malucca after which succeeded the Persians mixed with Arabians and by the latter they were called the Molucca Isles The ancient Greeks and Romans knew nothing of them though they had Spices from them brought by the Indian and Arabian Merchants by the way of the Red Sea In latter times those were brought by Persia to the Caspian and Euxine Seas and thence dispersed over Christendom by the Genouese and Venetians After the Turks prevailed in Asia the Trade was turned by the way of Grand Cairo and Alexandria But after the Portuguese by many discoveries had opened their way to the East-Indies about 1512. they first arrived in these Islands and cut off all Trade between the Arabians and them by which the Sultan of Egypt lost eight hundred thousand Ducats a year The Spaniards came hither under Ferdinando Magalhaens about 1520 whereupon ensued a Contest between Charles V. and John III. King of Portugal concerning the Dominion of these Islands Charles resigned his Right to John for two hundred thousand Ducats About 1579. the English under Drake began to disturb the Portuguese here About 1599. the Hollanders began to send numerous and strong Fleets into these Seas by which and the great Wars and Changes which have since happened in Spain and Portuga ' they have intirely possessed themselves of these Islands The Earth is extremely dry and poâ—ey ke a Pumice-stone it drinks up not only the Rain as fast as it falls but all those Springs and Rivers too from the Hills before they can reach the Sea and in many places sends out fire and smoak The Plains are covered with Sand and Shells so that except Spice it scarce affords any thing useful to the Life of Man Mombaza or Monbaze Monbaza Monbaccia a Kingdom near the Equinoctial Line of Zanguebar in Africa betwixt the Kingdoms of Queilloa and Melinde of great extent the King who gives himself the title of the Emperor of the World is able to bring into the Field an Army of 80000 Men. The Capital City enjoys the same name and has a strong Castle built by the Portuguese and a fine Sea-Port or Haven It stands an hundred and
Mount Feretranus near the River Arimino in the Confines of Romandiola twenty Miles from Vrbino to the South-West and fifteen from Arimini to the South giving name to an honourable Italian Family This Chair was removed to Pinna a Town four Miles from it by Pope Pius V. in 1572. Monferrant Monferrandum a City in Auvergne in a very fruitful Soil from whence it has the name It stands upon an Hill about one Mile from Cleremont two Leagues from the River Allier and twenty five from Lion now in a flourishing state with divers Religious Houses in it The River Bedat glides by it § There is another Monferand in the Territory called le Pais entre les deux mers that is betwixt the confluence of the Garonne and the Dordogne This latter is the first Barony in Guienne Monferrat See Montferrat Monfâ—a an Island on the Eastern Coast of Africa over against against Quiloa In Long. 65. and deg 8. Southern Lat. Monfort l' Amauri Montfortium Amalrici Monfortium Almariae a small Town in the Territory of Montoran in the Government of the Isle of France betwixt Dampiere and Mante upon an Hill with a little River gliding at its foot about ten Leagues from Paris It carries the name of an honourable Family Mongaguabe a River in Brasil in the Prefecture of Paraiba Mongibello Mount Aetna and by allusion any burning Mountain in the Italian use of this Word Mongul a Province in the Asiatick Tartary Monlui a Mountain in Catalonia Monlusson Monlussonium a City of France in the Dukedom of Bourbon in the Confines of Berry upon the River Cher four Leagues from the Borders of Auvergne and thirteen from Moulins to the West It is ordinarily epitheted la fertile for its Vineyards and Pasturage Monnedy Mons medius Mons maledictus a small but very strong City in the Dukedom of Luxemburgh in the Low Countries upon the River Chier seven Leagues from Virdum to the North and about nine from Luxemburgh to the South-West It stands upon a Hill very well Fortified yet by the negligence of the Spaniards for want of Ammunition and sufficient Garrisons frequently taken by the French At last in 1657 being taken by then it was by the Pyrenean Treaty yielded to France Monmirail Monmiralium a Town in the Province of Brie in France upon an Hill where glides the River Morin falling afterwards into the Marne § Also one of the five ancient Baronies of Perche-Gouet Monmorency Monmoreniacum a Town in the Isle of France four Leagues from Paris to the South-West which gives the Title of a Duke to one of the best and most ancient Families of France From this Town the Valley in which it lies one of the most fruitful spots of Ground in the whole World is called the Valley of Montmorency Monmorillon a small Town in the Province of Poictou in France upon the River Gartampe here covered with a Bridge and the frontiers of la Maache Monmouthshire Monumethia hath on the North the County of Hereford on the East Glocester on the South the Severn and on the West Glamorgan and Brecknockshires It is twenty four English Miles from North to South and nineteen from East to West Full of Hills Valleys Woods and Springs every where fruitful abounding in Corn and Cattle and injoys a temperate healthful clear Air. The most ancient Inhabitants were the Silures Conquered by Julius Frontinus in the Reign of Vespasian after a War of about an hundred years continuance with great loss on the Roman Side nor was this County won with less difficulty by the English the Welsh being intirely possessed of it when the Normans conquered England yet being conquered before Wales it was united to the Crown of England in the Reign of Edward I. and accounted an English County tho lying on the North of the Severn Monmouth which gives Name to this County stands between the Wye and the Monow over both which Rivers it has a Bridge in the North-East Border of the County where Monmouth Hereford and Glocestershires meet as it were all in one Center Three parts of it are secured by these Rivers On the fourth it has a small Brook called Monnors which runs through the Town on the North-East Side where the Town is most accessible it has an ancient Castle once a place of great Strength and Beauty in which Henry V. King of England thence called Henry of Monmouth was born But now ruined and used as a Farm-House there are three of the Gates standing with a part of the ancient Wall it is still a Corporation governed by a Mayor This was also the Birth place of Geofry of Monmouth the Historian It now gives the Title of Earl to the R. H. Charles Mordant Created E. of Monmouth by K. W. As before of a Duke in the Person of James the late unfortunate Duke of Monmouth and it returns two Members to the House of Commons Long. 17. 36. Lat. 52. 08. Monnow a River of Monmouthshire between which and the River Wye stands the Town of Monmouth falling into the Severn Mono Emugi a Kingdom in Africa see Monemagi There are abundance of Elephants with Mines of Brass Silver and Gold found in this Kingdom A part of the Mountains of the Moon is enclosed therewith and the Subjects traffick more especially for Silk Cotton and Amber with the Kingdoms of Queilloa Melinde and Monbaze Betwixt the Estates of the Grand Negus and it lye some petty principalities which are ever in Vassalage to the strongest side Monomotapa a City and Kingdom in the Southern Aethiopia in Africa of great extent which contains in it twenty five other Kingdoms and reaches from North to South two hundred and fifty Spanish Leagues Cluverius stretches it from the Aethiopick Ocean to the Red-Sea Some speak particularly of an Amazonian Kingdom amongst the rest where the Women go to War and acquit themselves with admirable bravery The Portuguese call the King of Monomotapa the Emperor of Gold from the abundance of that mettal found in Mines and the Rivers of his Dominions Monomotapa the Principal City which gives Name to this vast and fruitful Empire lies in Long. 48. 00. Southern Lat. 24. 35. Upon the banks of the River Spiritu Santo very large and adorned with a most magnificent Palace Royal. Monopoli Monopolis a City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples which sprung out of the Ruins of Egnatia an ancient City not far off a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari but exempt from the Jurisdiction of its Metropolitan This City tho small is very splendidly and magnificently built twenty two Miles from Bari to the East and twenty five from Taranto to the North. Monosceli an ancient People of Aethiopia also called Sciopodes and mentioned by Pliny Monreale Montreali Mons Regalis a small City in the Island of Sicily which is yet an Archbishops See It stands upon a Hill about four Miles from Palermo to the South built by William II. King of Sicily By
Pope Lucius III. adorned with this Archiepiscopal Chair in the Year 1182 at the Request of that Prince who assigned this See a large Revenue and built a stately Palace for the Archbishops Mons Montes Montes Hannoniae the Capital City of the Province of Hainault in the Low Countries called by the Dutch Berghen by the Germans Berg by the French and English Mons Seated upon the River Troville which a little lower falls into the Haisne in the middle between Douay to the West and Namur to the East twelve Miles from either and ten from Brussels to the South-West It is very strongly seated because all the Country about it may be drowned and it is well walled has three deep Trenches about it a Castle in it The publick and private Buildings are very Magnificent many of them adorned with excellent Fountains The French besieged it with an Army of thirty thousand Men in 1678 under the Command of the Duke of Luxemburgh and so strongly retrenched their Army that they despised any Attempt that could be made upon their Camp yet the Prince of Orange coming up to the Relief of this City bravely and resolutely attacked them and by the Valour chiefly of ten thousand English led on by the brave Lord Ossory entered the French Camp with their Swords drawn at high Noon-day the French General very hardly escaping This rich strong populous City defended it self against the encroachment of the French and remained in the hands of the Spaniards till 1691. when the French besieg'd and took it The ancient Counts or Earls of Hainault used the title of Earls of Mons. There is a famous Abbey of Chanonesses in it permitted to marry Mons en Puelle a Village and Castle in the Chastellanie of L'isle in Flanders betwixt the Cities L'isle and Doway where Philip le Bel K. of France fought the Flemings Aug. 18. 1304. and killed of them 25000. Monserat or Montserrat Mons Serratus a Mountain in Catalonia in Spain upon the River Lobregat nine Miles from Barcelone to the South-West very high and steep in the middle of it is a Monastery famous for the Worship of an Image of the Virgin Mary which was found here in 880. Monsoreau a Town in Anjou in France Monstieres a City and an Archbishoprick in Tarantaise in Savoy Mont a Marquisate in the Ecclesiastick State subject to the Pope Montacute a sharp-pointed Hill in the South parts of Somersetshire which has the honour to give the title of a Viscount to the R. H. Francis Brown descended from Anthony Brown created Viscount Montacute in the Reign of Qu. Mary in 1554 which Anthony was descended from Tho. Montacute Earl of Salisbury created Lord Montacute and afterwards Marquess Montacute by K. Edw. IV. Montagnia a considerable City of Natolia upon the Coast of the Sea of Marmora and the Gulph called heretofore Cianus Sinus five Leagues from Bursa accounted to have five or six thousand Inhabitants of Turks Greeks and Jews and by the way of the Gulph entertaining a good Commerce with Constantinople Montaldo a small place in Piedmont subject to the Pope Mont-alcino or Monte Alcino Mons Alcinous and Mons Alcinus a small City in the Territory of Siena under the Great Duke of Tuscany built upon an Hill twenty one Miles from Siena to the South-West and fifty five from Piombino to the North-East A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Siena but exempt from his Jurisdiction Montalto Mons Altus a New City in the Marchia Anconitana in the States of the Church under the Dominion of the Pope upon the River Monocia twelve Miles from Fermo to the South-West and eight from Ascoli to the North A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ferme founded by Pope Sixtus Wwho was born here § There is another Montalto in the Hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which passes for the Vffuguim of Livy A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cozenza § Besides a small Town under the Pope in Italy upon the Confines of Piedmont and the Dukedom of Montferrat Montames Caliabrum once a City of Lusitania and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Merida now a considerable Town in the Province of Estremadura in Spain which has a Castle in the Possession of the Knights of Saint James six Leagues from Merida Montargis Montargium a pleasant City in le Gastinois a Province of France seated upon the River Loing which falls into the Seyne twenty five Leagues from Paris to the South and eighteen from Orleans to the East Being besieged by the English in 1418. it was burnt and rebuilt in the Year 1528. since which time it has been esteemed the Capital of le Gastinois Montauban Montalbanus Mons Aureolus Mons Albanus a City of France in the Province of Quercy in Aquitain in the Confines of Languedoc which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tolose founded by Pope John XXII in 1317. upon the River Tarn eight Leagues from Tolose to the North nine from Caors to the South and ten from Agen to the North-East This is a pleasant great rich populous City generally built with Brick and a very strong Place By the Edict of Nants made in 1599 by Henry IV. this was one of the places put into the Hands of the French Protestants for their Security They quietly enjoyed it till the Year 1621 when it was in vain attempted to take it from them by a potent Siege It had a Brick Bridge upon the River which being much damnified in this Siege was rebuilt in 1667 with a flanting Inscription in Latin Montbelliard See Monbeliar Montblanc Mons Albus a small Town in Catalonia Honored by being made the Title of a Dukedom it stands upon the River Francolinum five Leagues from Tarragona to the North. Montbrison See Monbrison Monte-Cassino See Cassin Monte-Corbino a City of the Kingdom of Naples in Italy of good antiquity It was heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento but in 1433 the See became united with that of Vulturara in the same Kingdom Monte-Falco a Town in the Province of Ombria in Italy near the City Spoleti Monte-Fiascone Mons Physcon a small City in S. Peter's Patrimony in Italy made a Bishops See by Pope Vrban V. It stands upon the Lake of Bolsena Volsinium between Viterbio to the East and Bolsena to the West eight Miles from either of them and twenty from Corneto to the North. with the Bishoprick of which this is united for ever The Wines of this place have ever been in great esteem Monte-Fiore a Town in the Marcha Anconitana in Italy Monte-Leone Mons Leo Hippo Vibo a City and Colony of the Brutii now in the Further Calabria which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cosenza but that Chari was removed to Melito by Pope Gregory VII This place is in a very good estate four Miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea twenty from the Ionian Sea and about thirty eight from Cosenza to the South See Melito Some
before the Popes Legate to answer to the disorders objected against him Mont le Herry a Town in the Isle of France upon a Hill with a Castle built in 1015 and a Chastellaine belonging thereunto together with the title of an Earldom near Paris by the banks of a little River falling soon after into the Orge In the Year 1465. Jul. 16. Lewis XI King of France and Charles Duke of Berry his Brother whom the Dukes of Bretagne and others of the Nobility had set up against King Lewis fought a very equal Battel here Mont de Marsan Mons Martiani the Capital Town of a Territory of the same name in the Province of Gascoigne in France upon the River Midon where it receives the Douse in an excellent soil for Corn. The Huguenots were Masters of this Town in 1569. before the Battel of Moncontour But the Roman Catholick Party forced it soon after See Marsan Mont Martre a Mount near Paris on the North side where there is a remarkable Abbey so called either from the adoration of Mars or Mercury in ancient times there as some or from the Martyrdom of S. Dennis and his Companions upon it as others say Montmelian a strong Castle in Savoy the only place the Duke had left him by the French in Savoy in the Year 1630. In vain attempted by the French in 1690 but taken the year after Montone Bedesis a River of Romandiola in Italy commonly called il Bedese or Ronco It springeth from the Apennine and running through the Dominions of the Church watereth Meldola and some other Castles then falls into the Gulph of Venice beneath Ravenna Montone Vitis a River in Italy which riseth out of the Apennine and watering Forli falls into the Gulph of Venice beneath Ravenna Upon the Banks of this River five Miles above Ravenna Lewis XII King of France slew eighteen thousand Spaniards in a set Battel in 1512. Montpellier See Mompellier Montpensier a small Town in the Lower Auvergne in France upon an Hill betwixt Aigueperce and Gannat adorned with the title of a Dukedom and Peerdom by K. Francis I. in 1538. It had formerly a Castle But this was destroyed in the Reign of Lewis XIII Lewis X. dyed here in 1226. Montreali See Monreale an Archbishops See in Sicily § Petra Deserti in Arabia has sometimes gone by this name and also a Town in Spain where Alphonsus VI. K. of Spain established the order of the Knights Templars Montrevil l' Argille Monasterium Argille a strong Town in Picardy in the County of Ponthieu seated upon an Hill two Leagues from Eastaple to the East upon the River Canche three from Hesdin to the West and the same distance from the British Sea It has a strong Castle belonging to it and two ancient Abbeys of the Order of S. Benedict for Men and Women Philip I. K. of France after his divorce from Queen Berthe his Wife banish'd her to this place where she dyed in the Year 1093. It is also called Montreuil sur le Mer to distinguish it from § Montreuil-Bellay a Town in the Province of Anâ—ou upon the frontiers of Poictou at the conjunction of the Touay and the Thon Montrose Mons Rosarum a small Town in the North of Scotland in the County of Angus twenty five English Miles from S. Andrews to the North-East upon the Mouth of a River which there falls into the German Ocean This place tho small deserves to be remembred on the account of James Graham Earl of it who did Wonders for Charles I. in the lowest of his Misfortunes and suffered Death for Charles II. with the same undaunted Bravery in 1650. Whose dispersed Limbs by the Order of that Prince were Collected May 11. 1661 and decently Buried in the Monument of his Ancestors and the Head of the Marquess of Argile his bitter Enemy set up in the same place where his had stood Mont-Saint-Marie Mons Sanctae Mariae a Territory in the Diocese of Soissons in France otherwise called Nostre Dame de Tartenois and mentioned by the French Geographers upon the account of two Synods there assembled in 97â— and 983. Montserrat a small Island in the North America in the Possession of the English so call'd by the Spaniards from the Mountain of that name near Barcelona in Spain it is about ten Miles long and nine broad in 17. Deg. Lat Monza a small Town in the Milaneze in Italy upon the River Lambro towards the Lake of Coma in a great Plain ten Miles from Milan The Emperors heretofore used to receive the Iron Crow here Mopsuestia an ancient City of Caramania in the Lesser Asia which has formerly born the honour of a Bishops See and likewise of an Archbishops under the Patriarch of Antioch Pliny Ptolemy and Strabo mention it A small Synod was assembled at it in 550. against Theodorus the Bishop of the place Now called Malmistra Morat Murat or Mourat Muratum Moratum a small Town in Switzerland in the Canton of Friburgh and the County of Romont two Leagues from Friburgh to the North and three from Bern to the West called by the Germans Murten it stands upon a Lake of the same Name In this place the Swiss first overthrew the Forces of Charles the Hardy Duke of Burgundy in 1476. then besieging it In memory whereof they in a Chappel upon the banks of the Lake advanced this Inscription Invictissimi atque fortissimi Caroli Ducis Burgundiae Exercitus Muratum obsidens contra Helvetios pugnans hiâ— sui Monumentum reliquit Anno 1476. Morato Tigris Morava Moravus Morus Marus a River in the Kingdom of Bohemia heretofore called Marus â—ow by the Inhabitants Morawa by the Germans Marh It ariseth in the Confines of Bohemia near Altstadt and bending Southward watereth and divideth the Province of Moravia which takes its Name from it and the City of Olmutz then in Austria falls into the Danube over against Haynburg five German Miles beneath Vienna towards Presburg Morave Moravus Margus Margis a River of Servia which ariseth in the Borders of Macedonia towards the Fountains of Orpheus and being augmented with many smaller Rivers falls into the Danube beneath Senderinum eighty Miles from Belgrade to the East There is another called by the same Name which falls into this beneath Nissa Which last is called Morava in Bulgaria to distinguish it from the former Moravia a well peopled Province in the Kingdom of Bohemia called by the Inhabitants Morawa Morawska Zemia by the Slavonians Mahren by the Germans Moravie by the French It lies between Silesia to the North and East Bohemia properly so called to the West Austria and Hungary to the South in the form of a triangle about forty five Leagues from East to West and thirty from North to South under the Emperor as King of Bohemia This was anciently the Seat of the Quadi a warlike People and the Marcomani It bore the honour for some time of the title of a Kingdom afterwards of a Dukedom and
then a Marquisate It now makes a part of the Kingdom of Bohemia and is supposed to take its name from the River Morawi Morave or die Mahr Morus or Marus arising near to Altstadt in Bohemia and joyning with the Danube at Haynbourg in Austria being the same River with the precedent Morava The Capital of it is Olmutz and the other principal Towns are Brin Iglaw and Znaim It is a fruitful and pleasant Country extremely well improved Morbiban Morbibanum a large Haven on the North side of the Lesser Bretagne in France seven Leagues from Port Lovis to the East and near Vannes Above thirty small Islands lye in the Gulph of this harbour The Morduates a Province in the North-Eastern Parts of the Empire of Russia towards the River Rha between the Czeremisses to the East and Wolodimera to the West It is a Country of great Extent and made terrible by its vast unpassable Woods and Forests More or Moore an Episcopal City in the County of Mayo in Connaught in Ireland Morea Peloponnesus a celebrated great and fruitful Peninsula of Greece of about five hundred and fifty Miles in circuit It s extent from Corinth in the North-East to Cape Sapienza in the South is one hundred and fifty Miles its breadth from Cape di Schilli to Cape Tornese on the West one hundred and seventy five Containing the Provinces of Romania Sacania Belvedore and Clarentia and the famous Cities of Corinth Coron Clarenza Patras Misitra Nauplia c. It s principal Rivers are the Orfea and the Iris or Basilipotamo Its Mountains Mynthe Stymphalis Pholoe Lyceus c. are mentioned in the Writings of the Ancients This Country was first intirely conquered by the Macedonians after the Death of Alexander the Great then by the Romans under L. Mummius about one hundred and forty six years before the Birth of our Saviour when Corinth the then Capital of this Province was intirely ruined In the later times of the Greek Empire it had Despotes or Princes of its own who were subject to the Emperors of Constantinople the last of which Thomas Palaeologus was driven out of his Dominions by Mahomet II. in 1543. Ever since it has been in the Hands of those Destroyers of Mankind But in 1685 the Venetians began the Reconquest and in 1687 were intirely possessed of it excepting only Malvasia by a wonderful Revolution And in September 1690. they recovered Malvasia also Moret Murittum a Town in the Territory of Gastinois in the Isle of France upon the River Loing adorned with the title of an Earldom A Synod was held there in 850. Morgaâ— Margus a River of Bactria a Province of Persia which springing from the Mountains of Chorazan and flowing through the Country called by their Name falls into the River Obengir which ends in the Caspian Sea Morin Muera a River of France in the Province of Le Brie which watereth Colomiers Coâ—lumbaria and Cressy then falls into the Marne beneath Meaux this is called the Great Morin to distinguish it from another which falls into the Marne in the same Province beneath La Ferte sous Jovare to the West of Meaux Morini a People of Gallia Antiqua mentioned by Pliny and Virgil. The latter styles them Extremique hominum Morini c. It is supposed with greatest probability that they dwelt in the now Dioceses of S. Omer Boulogne and Ypres Morlaix Morlaeum Mons relaxus a City in the Province of Bretagne upon a River of the same Name which has a Harbor on the North Shore of that Province It stands about two Leagues from the British Sea and forty from Rennes to the West over against Plymouth There is â— Fort built to secure the Passage of the River in an Island of the River The Town stands upon an Hill betwixt two Plains and shows the Ruines of an old Cittadel Mormandes Milmandra a River of France in Le Berry Morpeth a considerable Market and Borough Town in the County of Northumberland upon the River Wensbeck The Capital of its Ward fortified with a Castle returning two Members of Parliament and giving the Title of Viscount to the Earl of Carlisle Mortagne Moritania a small Town in the Territory of Tournaysis in Flanders at the Confluence of the Rivers Escaut and Scarpe towards Valenciennes two or three Leagues from Tournay It has formerly been fortified § Also a large handsome and populous Town in the Vpper Perche in France towards the borders of Normandy upon a Stream which there begins to form the River Huisne This Mortagne is now adorned with a Castle § There is a third of the Name in the Province of Poictou towards the Confines of Bretagne at the reception of the Loing by the River Seâ—â—re Nantoise Mortain Moritonium Moritolium a small Town in Normandy near the River Ardee towards the Confines of La Mayne betwixt Auranches and Domfront which by Henry I. King of England and Duke of Normandy was given with the Title of an Earldom to his Nephew Stephen Blois afterwards in 1135. King of England whose second Son william enjoy'd the same Title in the next Succession But William died without Issue This Town by ancient Custom in publick Processions carries a naked Sword in the place of a Standard Mortanâ— Mortana a River in Lorain Mortara or Mortare Mortaria Pulchra Sylva a strong great populous Town in the Dukedom of Milan upon the River Gogna four Miles from Vigevano to the North-West ten from Novara to the South-East and twenty four from Pavia to the West Anciently called Bella or Pulchra Sylva the Beautiful Wood but upon the great Slaughter of the Lombards by the Forces of Charles the Great when he took Desiderius their King Prisoner in 774 it took the Name of Mortara which signifies Slaughter or Death This Town was taken by the French in 1658. and put under the Duke of Modena In 1660. it was upon a Peace restored back to the Spaniards It is the Capital of the Territory of Lumellina Le Moruan Morundia Morvinus tractus a mountainous Tract or Territory in the Dukedom of Burgundy of small extent and its Limits not well known Mor Verridh the Welsh name of the Irish Sea Mosa the Meuse See Maes Mosambich Mosambica a City of Zanguebar on the Eastern Coast of Africa in an Island near the Continent at the Mouth of a River of the same name which there falls into the Aethiopick Ocean To this City belongs a strong Castle and a safe Harbour all in the Possession of the Portuguese Long. 63. 40. South Lat. 14. â—â— Moscow Moscoua Moschia the Capital of the Empire of Moscovy or Russia called by she Inhabitants Mosqua by the European Strangers Moscow by the Poles Moscouf by the Germans Moscaw One of the greatest Cities in Europe extremely frequented on the score of Trade and the common Residence of the Great Duke or Czar of Moscovy It stands upon a River of the same name which a little more to the East falls into the Occa or
ten thousand of them in 1663. Muers Murocincta a Town in the Lower Germany mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus now called Moers by the Germans and Muers by the French the Capital of an Earldom and a County of the same name between the Dukedom of Cleves and the Bishoprick of Cologn under the Dominion of the Prince of Orange It lies in the middle between the VVesel to the North and Neuss or Nuys to the South nine Miles from Cologn to the North. Muiaco Muiacum a Kingdom of great extent in the Higher Aethiopia Muiacheu a great City in the Province of Suchuen in China Mulbach Miliare a River of Transylvania Muldaw Mulda a River of Bohemia called by the Inhabitants Multava It ariseth in the Borders of Bavaria five German Miles from Passaw and flowing North watereth Budweiss a City of Bohemia then taking in the Sazawa and the Miza it passeth through Prague the Capital of that Kingdom and three Miles lower falls into the Elbe Mulgrave an ancient Castle in the North Riding of Yorkshire near the Sea and not far from Whitby first built by Peter de Mauley in the time of Rich. I. and continued in the line of its Founder for seven Generations Afterwards through other Families it came to the Sheffields Edmund Lord Sheffield of Butterwick Lord President of the North being created Earl of Mulgrave by K. Charles I. in 1625. whose Great Grandson by Edmund Earl of Mulgrave is the R. Hon. John Sheffield the present Earl of Mulgrave Mulhausen Mulnhausen Mulhusia a City of Germany in Thuringia at the foot of a Mountain upon the River Vnstrutt seven German Miles from Erford to the West and four from Eysenach to the North. It is a fine City under the Protection of the Elector of Saxony being otherwise Free and Imperial Mulhausen Arialbinum Atalbinum Mulhasia a City in the Upper Alsatia called by the French Milause seated upon the River Hellel Once an Imperial and Free City but in 1515. leagued with the Swiss and united to Suntgow It stands three Leagues from Ferrette to the North and Basil to the South-West but heretofore belonged to Alsatia Mulheim Limiris a Town in Saxony in Germany Mullon Nauilubio a River of the Asturia's in Spain which separates Galicia from the Asturia's and then falls into the Bay of Biscay Multan Multanum a City of the Hither East-Indies upon the River Indus in the middle between Lahor to the East and Candahar to the West under the Mogul Once great and well peopled but now declining yet it is the Capital of a Province of the same name Long. 104. 55. Lat. 31. 05. Multaw the same with Muldaw Mulvia a River of Africa which springeth from Mount Atlas and separates the Kingdom of Fez and Telesin then falls into the Mediterranean Sea Munch the Carpathian Mountains Munchen Monachum Monachium Campodunum the capital City of Bavaria in Germany called by the French Munich by the Italians Monaco and of old Isinisca It stands upon the River Isere here covered with a Bridge and has a magnificent Palace belonging to the Elector of Bavaria which in 1675. suffered something by Fire five German Miles from Frisingen to the South fifteen from Ratisbon towards Inspruch and eight from Ausburg to the East First walled by Otho Duke of Bavaria about the year 1156. Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden took it in 1632. and being advised to ruine the Ducal Palace said he should be sorry to deprive the World of so admirable a Piece Munda an ancient Town in the Kingdom of Granada in Spain which Mariana admits to be the same with the modern Ronda la Vieja It was at this Town that Julius Caesar put a period to the Civil Wars betwixt Pompey and him by a Victory obtained over the Sons of Pompey in the year of Rome 709. Munfia Apollinis Vrbs magna an ancient City in Egypt upon the West side of the Nile one hundred and sixty English Miles South of Grand Cairo now in a good condition Munghoa a City in the Province of Yunnan in China Munia Lycopolis a City on the Western Shoar of the Nile one hundred and five English Miles South of Grand Cairo now in a flourishing State Munick the same with Munchen The Muzamudims a Tribe of the ancient Bereberes in Africa See Bereberes Munster Mimingroda Monasterium a City of Westphalia in Germany called by the French Mounstre The Capital of Westphalia a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cologne founded by Charlemaigne and a great rich populous City It stands upon the River Aa seven German Miles from Osnaburg to the South twenty two from Bremen towards Cologne from which it stands eighteen and twelve from Paderborne to the West It has a strong Castle and was once an Imperial and Free City but since exempted Particularly remarkable for the great Calamities it sustained in 1533. when seised by the Anabaptists who set up here John of Leiden for their King perpetrating horrid Villanies under the pretence of Enthusiastick Zeal and could not be suppressed till this City had endured a years close Siege No less famous for a general Peace here treated in 1648. In 1661. it was taken by Bernard its Bishop a man wholly addicted to War and Bloodshed after a long Siege ever since it has been subject to the Bishops of this Diocese The Bishoprick of Munster called by the Germans das Bisthum buon Munster is a Province in the Circle of Westphalia in the German Empire which has its name from its Capital Bounded on the West with Overyssel on the North with the Earldoms Embden and Oldenburgh on the South with the Dukedom of Westphalia and the County of Marck on the East by the Bishoprick of Osnaburgh and the Counties of Diepholt and Ravensperg Almost an hundred Miles in length from North to South but not of equal breadth and divided into thirteen Bailiwicks The principal Cities are Munster Meppen Vecht and Varendorp It is extremely full of Woods and Marshes fitter for the production of Cattle than Habitation of Men. Munster Monasterium is a small City in the Valley of S. George in the Vpper Alsatia upon the River Fach at the foot of Mount Vauge five Leagues from Brisach to the West called im Gregorienthall to distinguish it from the other Cities of the same name It was an Imperial Free City but now exempted and subject to the Crown of France Munster Eyffel a Town in the Dukedom of Juliers upon the River Erst in the Territory of Eyffel in the Borders of the Bishoprick of Cologne six German Miles from that City to the South and seven from Aquisgran to the North-East under the Duke of Newburgh Munster Meinfeld a Town in the Bishoprick of Trier or Treves upon the Moselle three German Miles from Coblentz to the North-West under the Archbishop of Trier Munsterberg Munsterberga a City of Silesia heretofore subject to its own Duke with the Territory belonging to it This City stands upon the River Olaw seven German Miles
North-West and eighteen from Burgos to the North-East Near it was a Bloody Fight between Peter King of Portugal and Henry King of Castile in 1365. in which the latter prevailed and in memory of that Victory instituted the Knights of the Flower de Lys the French joining with Peter against Castile and being beaten in that Battel Nagibania a Town in Transylvania in which are Mines of Silver six Miles from Bistirz to the West in the Borders of the Vpper Hungary called by the Latin Writers Rivuli Puellarum Naha Nava a River of Germany Najac a small Town in the Province of Rovergue in France upon the River Aveirou betwixt Ville Franche and S. Antonin It is a famous place for Vicriol and in the Civil Wars of Religion it attained to a considerable name Najara one of the principal Towns in the Province of Rioga in Old Castile in Spain betwixt Logrono and Calahorra adorned with the Title of a Dukedom Naim a small City in Galilee in Palestine four Miles from Nazareth to the West and near Mount Tabor where our Saviour raised a person from the dead Now in the condition of a despicable Village with only some houses of Wild Arabs in it Namptwich a Market Town in Cheshire the second in beauty and largeness in that County and of particular note for the White Salt here made in great plenty It stands upon the Banks of the Weever and is the Capital of its Hundred Namur Namurcum Nemetocerna a great and strong City in the Low-Countries the Capital of one of the seventeen Provinces and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cambray by the Order of Pope Paul IV. This City stands betwixt two Hills on the West Shoar of the Maes where it receives the Sambre nine Leagues from Louvain to the South ten from Brussels to the East and seven from Philippeville to the North. Adorned with divers Churches Monasteries and handsom Buildings It has a strong Castle and was under the Spaniards till the beginning of the year 1692. that it was taken by the French The Earldom of Namur is a small Province included by the Bishoprick of Liege on the East and South by Hainault on the West and Brabant on the North. There are only three places of Note in it Namur Charlemont and Charleroy besides some good Abbeys and about one hundred and eighty Villages It is Mountainous and Barren but not unprofitable there being great plenty of Iron and Lead Mines and Quarries of Marble We read of its being an Earldom ever since the year 924. It is about twelve Leagues long and a little less broad Nancang or Nangan a City in the Province of Quansi in China almost ruined in the late Wars of the Tartars Nancy Nasium Nancaeum Nancium the Capital City of the Dukedom of Lorrain seated upon the River Meurte which falls into the Moselle five Leagues from Toul to the East fourteen from Bar le Duc to the same and ten from Metz to the South In 1476. Charles Duke of Burgundy was slain in Battel by Rene Duke of Lorrain near this City In 1587. it was first fortified In 1633. taken by Lewis XIII King of France In 1661. dismantled But in 1673. the French began to refortifie it and have since made it very strong Nancyam a City in the Province of Chiamsi in the Kingdom of China Nandor Alba Belgrade Nangazachi a City of Japan in the Island of Ximo and the Province of Figyn with a very convenient Port. Pope Sixtus V. advanced it to the Dignity of an Episcopal See under the Metropolitan of Goa But at present it abides without a Bishop Nanhiung a City of China in the Province of Quansi Nankanga a City of China in the Province of Quansi Nanni a City in the Province of Chiamsi in China at the Confluence of the Rivers Puon and Si towards the Borders of the Kingdom of Tunquin Nanning a City of China in the Province of Quansi Nanquin a great City in the Kingdom of China upon a Bay and in a Province of the same name once the Capital of this Kingdom and the Seat of the Court and now vastly great and populous But its Palace Royal was ruined by the Tartars One of the most celebrated Ports in the East The Province of Nanquin which was once the greatest in this Kingdom is bounded on the North by Xantum on the West by Honan and Huquam on the South by Chekiam and on the East by the Chinian Ocean It contains fourteen great and an hundred and ten small Cities one hundred ninety six thousand eight hundred and sixteen Families Being divided into fourteen Parts to each of which there belongs a great City Nansa Nesna a River in Biscay in Spain Nanterre Nemptodurum Nemetodurum a Town in the Isle of France near the River Seine betwixt Paris and S. Germain from the former distant two Leagues S. Genevieve the Patroness Saint of Paris was born at it In the year 591. a grand Assembly of the Prelates and Nobility of the Kingdom was held here about the baptizing of King Clothaire II. Nantes Corbilum Nannetes Nannetum Condovicum a City in the Vpper Bretagne in France which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours also an University and the Capital of the County of Nantes seated upon the Loire where it receives the Ardre at the soot of some Hills twelve Leagues from its Mouth to the East seventeen from Anger 's and twenty from Rennes to the South It has a strong Castle and a Bridge over the Loyre Some of the ancient Dukes of Bretagne lye entombed in the Cathedral There are many Churches and Religious Houses in it and one of the 4 Suburbs is walled round In the year 1342. the English besieged it without success But in 1355. they took it by surprize Henry IV. King of France passed the famous Edict in favour of the Huguenots called the Edict of Nantes here in 1598. Divers French Synods have by times been assembled here also The County of Nantes is divided by the Loir into two parts bounded on the East by Anjou on the South by Poictou and on the West and North by the British Sea This retains the name of its most ancient Inhabitants who were called Nannetes by the Romans Naples Neapolis by the Italians called Napoli by the Spaniards Napoles is an ancient great rich populous City the Capital of a Kingdom in Italy called by the Turks Anobolu It is seated in the Terra di Lavoro on the Tyrrhenian Sea one hundred twenty five Miles from Rome to the South-East in a fruitful pleasant Plain being very well watered and has a large safe Harbour much frequented by the Merchant Ship of all Nations The Viceroy of this Kingdom does always reside in this City and has a noble Palace which belonged to the Kings of Naples It is also a Bishops See instituted by Gregory I. adorned with an hundred and ten magnificent Churches and a vast number of publick and
private Buildings of great beauty and expence so that all considered it is one of the greatest richest and most populous Cities of Italy containing no less than seven Miles in compass and besides the Security the Sea gives it and the Neighbouring Mountains which serve instead of Ramparts it has four strong Castles or Citadels for its security which were built at several times by William III. a Norman Charles I. Brother to S. Lewis King of France Ferdinand King of Aragon and the Emperour Charles V. In the Metropolitan Church dedicated to S. Januarius they preserve the Blood of that Saint in a Glass congealed which they pretend melts and bubbles when the Head of the same Saint is brought near it And in the Church of the Dominicans they show the Crucifix which you are told spoke these words to S. Thomas Aquinas Benâ— de me scripsisti Thoma quamnam mercedem habebis whereunto he made answer Nullam domine praeter teipsum The Italians give Naples the name of la Gentile for its beauty and neatness it attracting all the Nobility of the Kingdom to it But their Proverb goes further Ma la gente cativa tuttavia un paradiso habitato da diavoli The people are bad it is altogether a Paradise inhabited by Devils This City is so very ancient it is reported to be built by Hercules about the year of the World 2725. in the times of Thola Judge of Israel The Chalcidians rebuilt or inlarged it and instead of Parthenope its old Name called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the New Town The Romans took it from the Samnites about the year of Rome 463. after three or four bloody Wars Being subjected to that State the Inhabitants of this City are much celebrated for their Fidelity to Rome and ever after the Battel of Cannae would not submit to Hannibal till he made use of force against them In the year of Rome 537. together with Rome and the rest of Italy in the fifth Century this City became a prey to the Goths and other Barbarous Nations amongst them to the Lombards from whom it passed to Charles the Great After this it fell under the Saracens In 1008. the Normans began under Tancred to enter upon this Stage whose Children drove out both the Greeks and Saracens and possessed this City and Kingdom under the Title of Earls of Calabria in 1216. there was an University opened here by Frederick II. Emperour of Germany The rest of its Fate depends on the Changes in the Kingdom except that prodigious Revolution in 1647. when one Masanello a poor Fisher Boy appearing against the Spaniards who had over-much oppressed this populous City by their Impositions raised such a storm against them as bid fair for the excluding them for ever out of that Kingdom In June 1688. Naples suffered extraordinarily by an Earthquake several days The Kingdom of Naples Nepolitanum Regnum has its name from its principal City but was at first called the Kingdom of Sicily as it is still in all the Publick Acts. It is bounded on the West with the Lands of the Church and on all other sides surrounded with the Mediterranean Sea Under the first Kings it was divided into four parts at present into twelve Provinces or Counties it has about thirty Cities great and small It s length from North to South ninety German Miles that is from the River of Tronto to the Cape of Spartivento and its breadth from Cape Massa not far from Naples to Cape Gargani or â—â—onte di S. Angelo on the Venetian Gulph thirty About the year of Christ 1000. this Kingdom was miserably harrased by the Saracens and Greeks then expelling the Children of Charles the Great The Normans drove out first the Saracens and then the Greeks In 1125. Pope Anacletus II. gave this Kingdom to Roger Earl of Sicily excluding the Children of William his Elder Brother In 1196 another Usurper dispossessed this Line and called in Henry VI. Emperour of Germany His Posterity injoyed it till 1261. when Charles Earl of Anjou entered and slew Manfred IV. the last of the German Line His Posterity injoyed it four Descents more when Charles IV. in the year 1371. entered and slew Joan Queen of Naples In the year 1434. Alphonso King of Arragon partly by Adoption and partly by Conquest got this Kingdom from another Joan the third of the Caroline Descent His Posterity injoyed it five Descents till Ferdinand III. King of Castile and Arragon dispossessed them in 1503. In this Family it is at this day Charles the present King of Spain being the sixth from Ferdinando Napo a River of the Kingdom of Peru in South America passing by Avila in the Province of Quiros to join it self with the River of Amazons Napoli di Barbaria a Town near Tripoli in Barbary called also Lebeda and Lepe Napoli di Nalvasia See Malvasia Napoli di Romania Nauplia Anaplia a City on the Eastern Shoar of the Morea in the Province of Romania anciently a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Corinth but that City being ruined it became an Archbishoprick it self This City stands upon the River Inachus sixty Miles from Misitra to the North-East fifty five from Athens to the North-West and thirty six from Corinth to the South Surrounded on all sides but the North with the Sea its Shoars are so very high and steep that an Enemy can neither land nor batter its Walls with their Cannon On the West it has a large and safe Haven secured by a Fort built upon a Rock in the midst of its Mouth and shut up on both sides by two Chains which from this Fort reach to the Town on the North side and to another Fort on the Continent to the South The Mountain of Palamede on the North commands the Town in all other points it is situated as well for Defence as Commerce equal to any place in Europe Said to have been built by Nauplius a Son of Hercules and to have been one of the most ancient Towns in the Morea It was first taken from the Greeks by the Venetians and French in 1205. But it did not long remain in their hands before it was retaker with the slaughter of all their Garrison and Governour In the thirteenth Century it fell into the hands of Mary d' Erigane Relict of Peter Son of Frederick Cornar Piscopia This Lady not being able to preserve it from the Turks resigned it to the Venetians in 1383. who fortified it the Turks however frequently attempted it Mahomet II. sent Machmut a Bassa with a potent Army to reduce it by force which design miscarried in 1460. After him Solyman the Magnificent in 1537. again besieged it and lost a great part of his Army to no purpose before it but about two years after upon a Treaty the Venetians surrendred it to purchase a Peace of him In 1686. the Venetians again came before it with a considerable Fleet and Army and having beaten the Serasquier of the Morea and
the Hands of the Emperour whilst Newhausel was under the Turks Nitria see Nitracht § Also a Mountain in Egypt which has been sanctified by the retreat of divers Anchorites Nirt the Residence of the Dukes of Curland Nivata a City and Province of Japan in the Island Niphon and the Region of Quanto Niuche Niucanum a Kingdom in the Asian Tartary the King of which has lately conquered China This is called by others Tenduc Nive Nivus a River of France in Aquitain called by the Inhabitants Errobi It ariseth in the Borders of the Kingdom of Navarr and watering the Town of S. Jean de Pied Port falls into the Adour through Bayonne Nivernois Ambarri Nevernensis Comitatus is a Province in France of great extent upon the Lorre It has the Dukedom of Burgundy on the East that of Bourbone on the South Berry on the West and Orleance on the North. The Vadicasses were the ancient Inhabitants of this Province Nevers is its Capital City the rest of any note are La Charite Cosne Clamecy Decize and Corbigny This Province hath the honour of the Title of a Dukedom Nizza della Paglia a Town in the Dukedom of Montferrat in Italy betwixt Ast and Aqui which hath partaked of the sufferings of the Civil Wars of its Country Nizza See Nice Noailies a Town in the Province of Limosin in Aquitain in France giving name to a Family of Honour Nocera Nuceria a City of S. Peter's Patrimony in Italy of great Antiquity which is a Bishops See immediately under the Pope seated at the Foot of the Apennine in the Borders of the Marchia Anccnitana at the Fountains of the River Topino sixteen Miles from Spoleto to the North and fifteen from Camerino to the West Some are of opinion that this is the same place with that which Livy calls Alphaterna Nocera a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the hither Principate which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Salerno and a Dukedom belonging to the Family of Barberino Called for distinction from the Precedent by those of the Country Nocera di Pagani because it hath been taken formerly by the Saracens The ancients in many places speak of it It stands eight Miles from Salerno to the South-West and twenty two from Naples to the South § There is a Town of this Name in Calabria eight Miles from Amantea to the South and three from the Tyrrhenian Sea Noere Notra a River of Angoumois in France Noesenstad Bistritia the same with Bestercze Nogar â—or Nogarol the Capital Town of the County of Armagnac in the Vpper Gascony in France upon the River Modou below Monlesun The Latin Writers call it Nogariolum and Nugariolum It has a Collegiate Church and in the Years 1290. 1303. 1316. there were Synods assembled here Nogent l'Artaud a Town in the Province of Champagne in France upon the Marne below Chastean Thierri Nogent le Retrou Nonigentum Rotrudum the fairest Village in France the Capital of the County of La Perche seated upon the River Huyna Fourteen Leagues from Chartres the Capital of La Beausse and honored with the Title of a Dukedom The English heretofore took it under the Earl of Salisbury Charles VII King of France retook it in 1449. The little River Ronne falls into the Huisne here Nogent le Roy a Town in la Beausse in France upon the Eure betwixt Dreux and Chartres Nogent sur seine a Town in Champaigne upon the River Seine which it covers with a Stone Bridge Nola a City and Colony in Campania Foelix now Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Naples in a tolerable State and shews many Footsteps of its great Antiquity Hannibal besieged it without any success in the Year of Rome 540. In or near this City Augustus the first Roman Emperor died Anno Christi 14. Not less famous for being the Birth-place of S. Paulinus who was afterwards Bishop of it It stands fourteen Miles from Naples towards the East near the River Agno Clanis Noli Naulum Naulium a small City in the States of Genoua which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Genoua It stands in a Plain on the Shoars of the Ligurian Sea but it has no Harbor as I have often seen saith Baudrand Once a Free State now subject to the State of Genoua from which City it stands thirty one Miles to the West betwixt Savonna and Albengua Nombre de Dios Nomen Dei Onomatheopolis a City of Terra firma a Province upon the Streights of Panama twenty five Leagues from Panama to the North which has a noble and safe Harbor to the North Sea Built by the Spaniards but since forsaken for its unwholsome air Nomentum or Nomentano the Capital Town of the ancient Nomentani in Latium frequently mentioned by the Classicks It hath sometime been a Bishops See but now is only a Village in the Duchy of Monte-Rotundo in the States of the Church Nomeny Nomenium a City or great Town in the Dukedom of Lorain in the Territory of Messin upon the River Seile Salia five Miles from Nancy to the South and seven from Marsal to the South-East Nona Aenona a City of Dalmatia mentioned by Ptolemy which is now a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Zara or Zadar well fortified ten Miles from Zara to the North. It is under the Venetians and hath a Port to the Adriatique The Sclavonians call it Nin. Some admit it to be the Aenona of the ancients Nonsuch a Palace Royal in the County of Surrey not far from Epsham delightfully situated and magnificently built by K. Henry VIII De Noordtshe Bee Mare Germanicum the German Ocean Norcia Nursia a small City in the Dominions of the Church placed by Livy Pliny and the rest of the Ancients in Vmbria It stands amongst the Hills near the Apennine by the River Fredda six Miles from the Marchia Anconitana to the South between Aquila to the East and Spoletto to the West thirteen from either This was the Country of S. Benedict the Father of the Western Monks as also of Sertorius the great Roman Commander slain in Spain It hath been an Episcopal See Norden Nordenum a City in Westphalia in East-Friesland upon the German Ocean to which it hath a considerable Port under the Prince of East-Friesland sixteen Miles from Embden to the North. Nordlingen Norlinga a City of Schwaben in the Year 1251 made a Free Imperial City it stands upon the River Eger four German Miles from Lawingen to the North ten from VVerden to the South-West and from Ingolstad to the West between the Territories of the Duke of Newburgh and the Count of Oetingen Famous by a Defeat of the Swedes in 1634 and a Victory of the Swedes and French in 1645 tho otherwise small and in a decaying condition This place is called by the French Norlingue and by the Germans also written Norlinghen Norfolk Norfolcia a County on the Eastern Coast of
Compass in those times which made Men scarce dare to lose the sight of Land Joktan of the Posterity of Shem had two Sons called Ophir and Havilah Gen. 10. 29. Havilah is the name also in Gen. 2. 11. of a Country where there is Gold the Bdellium and the Onyx Stone which being the same product with that of the Land of Ophir procured by David and Solomon may signifie the Lands of those two Brothers to compose but one and the same Country to wit Arabia variously called by each others name And Bochartus allows that the three thousand talents of the Gold of Ophir prepared by King David 1 Chron. 29. 4. were fetched from Arabia It is true Josephus says Solomons Fleet went to the Indies to a Land called the Land of Gold meaning the Chersonesus Aurea now Malaca and S. Jerom that Ophir of the poâ—terity of Shem gave his name not only to that Chersonesus but also to the Isles of Java and Sumatra and the Kingdoms of Siam Pegu and Bengala Whereby the three years time said to be spent in the Voyage may be the better accounted for But this is no place to controvert opinions Oppaw the same with Troppaw Oppenheim Oppenhemium a small German City in the Lower Palatinate of the Rhine heretofore an Imperial and Free City but granted to Rupert Prince Elector by Lewis the Emperor in 1402 with its Territory It stands upon a Hill three German Miles from Mentz to the South Rupertus King of the Romans died here in 1410. The French put a Garrison into it in 1688. and have demolished it since Oppido Oppidum a City of the Kingdom of Naples in the Further Calabria which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio seated at the foot of the Apennine at the Rise of the River Marro twelve Miles from the Tyrrheniam Sea thirty from Messina to the North-East and twenty from Mileto to the South Cluverius believes it is the old Mamertum Opus or Opuntum an ancient City of Boeotia in Greece near the Gulph of Negropont Ptolemy Strabo Ovid c. mention it Since the times of Christianity there has been an Episcopal See placed in it under the Archbishop of Athens Oran Icosium Oranum Orano a small City in Barbary called by the Moors Guharan which has a very strong Castle Seated upon the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea in the Kingdom of Algier Taken in 1509. by the Cardinal of Ximenes for the Spaniards in whose hands it still is In 1556. the Turks unprofitably besieg'd it The Spaniards in 1687. sent thither a greater Garrison than it formerly had A numerous Army of Moors encamped very near it for some months in 1688. and retired without any Action considerable It has a safe and large Haven seated over against Cartagena in Spain and attributed to the Diocese of Toledo there It has been heretofore called by the name of Quisa Orange Auranche Arausio Colonia Secundanorum Arausio Cavarum Arausica Civitas in Sidonius Apollinaris Arausionensis Vrbs a City of Provence in France which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Arles and an University tho of small extent seated near the River Ligne three Miles from the Rhosne and from S. Esprit to the South-East four from Avignon to the North and near ten from Montlimart to the South This City is the Capital of the Principality of Orange and saith Baudrand under the Prince of Orange but the Castle strongly built upon an Hill by Prince Maurice of Nassaw in 1622. which should have defended it was destroyed in 1660. There is in it the Ruins of a Roman Amphitheatre and of a triumphant Arch without the walls erected by Caius Marius and Luctatius Catulus after their Victory over the Cimbri and Teutones The Principality of Orange is a very small Territory not exceeding six French Leagues in Circuit surrounded by the County de Venascin on all sides and contains besides its Capital fifteen Villages It has belonged to the Illustrious House of Nassaw ever since 1559. The Right and Title of it belonging now to K. William the most Illustrious Prince of Orange It is of a fertile Soil for Wine Corn Saffron and Fruits The University of Orange was founded by Raymond V. of the House of Baux Prince of Orange in 1365. In 1562. and 1571. during the Civil Wars of Religion under the Reign of Charles IX K. of France this City addicted to the Protestant Interest severely suffered by Plunder and Fire and Sword In the Year 441. S. Hilarius Bishop of Arles presided at a Council here touching the regulation of Ecclesiastical Discipline In 529. Caesarius Bishop of the same See presided at another which determined the controversies about Predestination Grace and Free-will according to S. Austin's discourses having their Cannons afterwards approved by P. Boniface II. In 1228. there was a third celebrated against the Albigenses Orba or l' Orba and Vrba Vrbs a River of Liguria which rising from the Apennine and flowing towards the North through the Territory of Alessandria falls into the Bormia four Miles from Alessandria and Bormia falls into the Tenaro two Miles beneath the same City § There is a Town and Bayliwick in Switzerland under the Cantons of Bearn and Fribourg of this name in Latin Vrba Vrbigenus § Also a River of the Province of Languedoc in France arising from the Mountain les Sevennes near S. Pons de Tomieres and passing by Besiers into the Ocean below Serignan In Latin Orbis or Orobris The French write it l' Orbe Orbego Vrbicus a River of the Kingdom of Leon which ariseth from the Mountains of Asturia and flowing South takes in the River Asia near Astorga then falls into the Esla which by the City of Leon conveys it into the Douro between Miranda to the West and Samora to the East upon the Banks of Orbego Theodorick King of Spain obtained a signal Victory over the Suabians as Ado Viennensis relates Orbitelle a Town upon the Borders of Tuscany in Italy in the Territory call'd Stato delli Presidii by by the Inhabitants It is a strong Town under the Emperor Charles V. it resisted the Turks In 1646 the French Anciently the Sienese were Masters of it but now the Spaniards as of the whole Territory where it stands Orbo Hierus a River in Corsica The Orcades now commonly called the Isles of Orkney are a Knot of Islands about thirty in number lying at the North Point of the Kingdom of Scotland In Solinus his time not inhabited but overgrown with Wood and Weeds now inhabited have no Wood and bear no Corn but Oats and Barley The Romans are thought to have possessed them first in the days of Hadrian and to have lost them to the Saxons in the days of Honorius from those words of Claudian the Poet Maduerunt Saxone fuso Orcades From these they came into the hands of the Norwegians by the Grant of Donald ban one of the Kings of Scotland In 1266. they were re-conquered by Alexander
much taken notice of by his opposing the present King of France in the Business of the Regalia The Counts of Carcassone built it an Abbey in the eighth Century which in 1296. Pope Boniface erected into the aforesaid Bishoprick This See was at first a Suffragan to the Archiepiscopal Throne of Narbon till Pope John XXII made Tolouse an Archbishoprick and then it became subject to Tolouse Pope Benedict XII was a Bishop of Pamiers Pampelune or Pamplona Pampelona Pompelo Pompelon the Capital of the Kingdom of Navarr supposed to be built by Pompey the Great or rather perhaps rebuilt and from him called Pompejopolis It stands upon the River Arga called by the Natives in their proper Tongue Iruna that is the Good Town in a fruitful Valley surrounded on all sides with aspiring Hills and Mountains twenty French Leagues from Bayonne to the South and forty from Saragosa to the North. Taken by Charlemaigne in 778. in his Passage into Spain This was the Seat of the Kings of Navarr till in the year 1512 it fell into the Hands of the Spaniards Philip II. built a Cittadel in it to secure his Possession It is also a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Burgos since the time of Pope Gregory XIII having been heretofore under the Archbishop of Saragoza by the Institution of Pope John XXII Some private Synods have been held here Long. 19. 50. Lat. 43. 58. Pamphylia a Province of the ancient Asia Minor now included in Caraman and called Settalia It s principal Cities were heretoâ—ore Perga Aspendus and Attalia See Settalia Panama a City and Sea-Port in South America of great Fame and Resort in the Province called Terra Firma on the Shoars of the South Sea seated in an unhealthful Air. It was built by Petrus Ario in the year 1515. for the Reception of the Effects brought from Peru as Nombre de Dios was on the opposite side of the Isthmus for those brought from Spain Soon after honoured with the Birth of a modern Saint called Rose of Panama whose Sanctity was so conspicuous that the Gnats and Flies in her Cell observed and reverenced it as Father Oliva the late General of the Jesuits informs us in her Life But alas this Saint has not been able to protect the Town from another sort of Flies for January 25. 1671. it was taken and plundered by the French and in 1686. by Captain Lawrence a Buccaneer The City though small and built of Wood only is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima eighteen Leagues from the North-Sea Long. 294. 30. Lat. 8. 30. § The Isthmus or Streight of Panama is a Neck of Land eighteen Leagues over from East to West by which the Northern and Southern America are tacked together Panaro-Scultenna a River of Italy which arising from the Apennine in the Territory of Frignana in the Dukedom of Modena and being called at first Scultenna after it has taken in the Dardagna and some others takes the Name of Panaro and dividing Modena from Bononia twelve Miles above Ferrari falls into the Po. Panarucan a City in the Isle of Java in the East-Indies by the Streights of Balambuan thirty Miles from Passarvan to the East and forty five from Balambuan to the North on the East Side of the Island It is the Capital of a small Kingdom there Near it stands a Sulphureous Mountain which in 1586. destroyed above ten thousand persons in a Rupture that hapned to it Pancalieri Pancalerium a small City in Piedmont in Italy upon the Po nine Miles from Turin to the South Pandataria See Sancta Maria. Pandâ—sia an ancient City in the Country of the Brutii in the present Kingdom of Naples in Italy Taken by the Romans at the same time with Consentia Cosenza in Calabria according to Livy and more especially remarkable for the ruin of Alexander King of Epirus here into which he was deceived by an Oracle The Town Castel Franco is supposed to stand now near the remains of this City Paniza a River in Bulgaria which falls into the Euxine Sea four German Miles North of Mesember and about five from the Borders of Thrace In Latin Panyasus Pannonia a great Country in the ancient Division of Europe comprehended betwixt Illyricum the Danube and the Mountains Cethi It was disposed into two parts called Prima secunda Consularis or the Vpper and Lower Pannonia The prima Consularis or Vpper Pannonia lay Westward containing the modern Provinces of Stiria Carniola Carinthia Croatia VVindisch-Marck and the greatest part of Austria The other to the East where are now Bosnia Sclavonia and Hungary as much as is enclosed betwixt the Danube the Raab and the Drave There was also Pannonia Riparia and Valeria The first made a part of the present Sclavonia and Bosnia the second of Stiria This Country first beheld the Roman Arms under Julius Caesar After him Tiberius rendered it Tributary next the Goths Hunns and other Barbarians possessed themselvs of it It s most celebrated ancient Cities were Sigesta or Siscia now Sisseg Petavium Pettaw Nauportus Labach Vindobona Vienna Sirmium Sirmish Taurum VVeissenbourg c. It s ancient Inhabitants were a Nation of the Celtick Gaules Panormâ— Panormus a Sea-Port in Epirus Pantiro the same with Heraclia Panuco a City and Province of New Spain in America The Province lies upon the Gulph of Mexico towards New Biscay within the Prefecture of Mexico The City its Capital is otherwise called S. Estevan del puerto Paoking or Pooking a City in the Province of Huquam in the Kingdom of China at the foot of Mount Lungus Paola a Town in the Kingdom of Naples in the Hither Calabria where S. Francis de Paola the Founder of the Order of the Minimes was born Paoning Paoganum a great City in the Province of Suchem in the Kingdom of China upon the River Kialing Paoting Paotinga another great City in the Province of Suchem in the Kingdom of China upon the River Kialing Papa a small but very strong City of the Lower Hungury upon the River Marchaltz in the County of Vesprin in the middle between Javarin to the North and Vesprin to the South scarce three Hungarian Miles from the Turkish Conquests This Town in the year 1683. with Dotis Vesprim and â—â—ewentz yielded to Count Teckely But after the raising the Siege of Vienna they returned under the Obedience of the Emperour Papalopaâ— a River in New Spain in the Province of Guaxaca which is called also the River of Alvarad and is the biggest in that Province It ariseth from the Mountains of Zonoholiuchan and receiving Quiyoâ—epec Huitzilan Câ—inantha Quauhquet-Zpaltâ—pec 〈◊〉 and Teyâ—ciyucan falls into the North Sea Paphlagonia an ancient Country or Province of the Lesser Asia betwixt Galatia and the Euxine Sea extended along the Coast now called Flagania Bolli and Roni It s principal Cities in those days of Antiquity were Sinope and Theuthrania Paphos a celebrated ancient City in the Island of Cyprus where Venus had a Temple in her honour
middle between Tours to the North and S. Maxence to the South six Leagues from each Parthen Alisus a City of Pomerania towards the Shoars of the Baltick Sea under the Dominion of the Swedes near the River Bart two German Miles from the Borders of the Dukedom of Magdeburg to the East and four from Gripswald Partherberg the German Name of the Apennine Hills in Italy Parthia a Kingdom of the Ancient Persia established about the year of Rome 508 of the World 3808 two hundred and fifty years before Christ in the person of Arsaces from whom all the succeding Kings were called Arsacides and ended with the Death of Artabanus King of Parthia slain by Artaxerxes King of Persia about two hundred twenty seven years after Christ when it had enjoyed a Duration of above four hundred years It rendered it self sometime so puissant as to dispute the Empire of the East with the Romans Situated betwixt Hircania Media Aria Carmania and the Modern Province of Fars i. e. Persia properly so called A Country not at all fruitful yet nevertheless then inhabited by a fierce warlike indefatigable People particularly famous for a Dexterity in shooting one way behind them as they fled another Ptolemy reckons in his time in this Kingdom twenty five Cities whereof the Capital was Hecatompolis which is understood to be the Modern Haspaam in the Province of Hierach Arach or Erak-Atzem in Persia as that Province together with Khoemus and a part of Corasan are understood to comprehend now the ancient Parthia Le Partois Pagus Pertensis a Tract in the Province of Champagne in France between Champagne to the West and the Dukedom de Bar to the East towards the River Marne The principal Town of which is Vitri le Francois Pas a Town and Bailywick in the Earldom of Artois upon the River Authie which gives Name to one of the ancientest and best Families there It had heretofore a Castle and a Collegiate Church The Bailywick is of a considerable Extent adorned with the Title of a Barony and united to the Crown of France by the Treaty of the Pirenees Pas de Calais Fretum Britannicum the Streight between Calais and Dover Passage a Port Town in Biscay Passarvan a City and Port on the East of the Island of Java in the East-Indies betwixt the Cities Panarucan and Jortan towards the Cape of Balambuam Heretofore the Capital of a Kingdom of its Name there Passaw Patavia a City of the Lower Bavaria in Germany which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Saltsburg of old called Batava Castra It stands at the Confluence of the Inn and the Danube by which it is divided into three paâ—ts called Paslaw Ilnstat and Innstat An Imperial and Free City but under the Protection of its own Bishop whose Revenue is about forty thousand Crowns with the Territory about it which lies between the Dukedom of Bavaria to the West and the Vpper Austria to the East having the strong Castles of Obernberg and Ebersberg standing in it This City suffered very much by a Fire of late in 1661 being mostly built of Wood Over against it lies Oberhuis the Residence of the Bishop That which makes this City most regardable is the Peace of Religion here Established by Ferdinand I. Emperor of Germany in 1552 whereby the free Profession of Lutherainsm in Germany upon equal Terms with the Roman Catholick Religion was declared and confirmed Passava a Fort in the Province of Laconia in the Morea upon the Cape Matapan near the Banks of the Bay of Colochina taken and demolished by General Morosini in 1685 because of a narrow Passage hard by where a handful of Men might make head against an Army Passo di Cane Climax a Mountain of Phoenicia twenty Miles from Tripoli to the South Pastrana a Town in Old Castile upon the River Taio thirteen Miles from Madrid to the East and eighteen from Toledo Honored with the Title of a Dukedom Pata a City and Kingdom upon the Borders of Zanguebar in Africa Les Patagons Patagones a People of Magellanica near the Shoars of the North Sea towards Brasil This County was first discovered by F. Magellane and yet not much known Patane Patana a City and Kingdom in the Further Indies under the King of Siam and near the Kingdom of Malaca in a healthful and fruitful Clime The City stands upon the Bay of Siam Les Patans a Mahometan People possessing the Mountains about the River Ganges in the Empire of the Great Mogul They heretofore dwelt toward the Kingdom of Bengale whence making a Transplantation of themselves into Delly they became so puissant there as to render many Princes and Places tributary to them But when the Tartars conquered India about the year 1401 being no longer able to maintain their Power or Residence in the open Country they took Refuge in the Mountains fortifying and abiding in them ever since Patay en Beausse Patavium a Town in Beausse in France seated five Leagues from Orleans to the North towards Chartres nine to the South Near this Place the French under the Command of John Duke of Alanzon got a great Victory over the English under Talbot the Terror of the French Nation Patera Patara or Paterea a City of Lycia in the Lesser Asia once called Arsinoe as Strabo saith it stands upon a Hill at the Mouth of the River Xanthus now called Il Scamandro eighty Miles from Rhodes to the East a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Myra Famous in the person of S. Nicholas who was both a Bishop and a Native here Apollo had an Oracle in this City in the Times preceding Christianity which observed to make its Responses the space of six Months in the year Pathmos or Patmos an Island in the Aegean Sea of signal Fame for the Banishment of S. John the Evangelist and his Writing the Book of the Apocalypse there Now called variously by Writers Palmosa and Petina Patras Patrae a City of the Morea in the Duchy of Clarentia of great Antiquity called by the Turks Badra and Balisbadra that is the Old Patrae as Leunclavius expounds their Name The Italians used to call it Neopatria It is an Archbishops See and now in a flourishing Condition Seated at the Entrance of the Gulph of Lepanto about seven hundred Paces from the Shoars of the Gulph of Patras to the East and ninety from Corinth to the West Chosen by Augustus for a Station for his Fleets and on that account much honored by him Under the latter Greek Emperors it had Dukes of its own till the year 1408 when the last of them resigned it to the Venetians not being able to defend it against the Turks When it came first into the Hands of the Turks I do not find but Mahomet III. received a great Defeat near this Place in the year 1602. Doria the Christian Admiral took it from the Turks in 1533. They then soon after recovered it but in the year 1687 it sell again into
the Bishop of Elna settled his See here It stands not above three Miles from the Mediterranean Sea and ten from Narbon to the South Peter King of Arragon opened here an University The Antipope Peter de la Luna called Benedict XII celebrated a Council at this City in 1408. Persepolis a noble City of the antient Kingdom of Persia built upon the River Rhogomane as Ptolomy calls it in 91. deg of Long. or the Araxes as Strabo and Curtius It had been the Capital of the Kingdom adorned with a Palace of Cedar till taken by Alexander the Great and at the Perswasion of Thais the Alexandrian Courtesan burnt in the year of the World 3624. Persia Persis one of the most Ancient Great and Celebrated Kingdoms of Asia called by the Inhabitants Farsistan and otherwise the Empire of the Sophy At this day it is bounded on the North by the Caspian Sea and Mauralnahalria or Trans-Oxiana on the East by India Propria or the Empire of the Great Mogul on the South by the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulph on the West by Arabia Deserta the Turkish Empire and Georgia so that it extends from the River Indus in the East to the Tygris in the West that is from 82. degrees of Longitude to 120 which is thirty eight degrees and from 23 to 43 degrees of Latitude The Earth in so vast an extent being very different but the Air pure and healthful throughout This vast Kingdom is divided into these Provinces Fars or Persia properly so called Kirman Makeran Send Chustusan Sitsistan Sablistan Dilemon Khoemus Tabarestan Gordian Chorasan Erack-Atzem or Jerack Agemy Kylan or Gilan Candahar Schirvan and Aderbeitzan The Cities are Ardevil Caspin Cassian Com Erivan Herat Hispaham Lar Mexat Schiras Sitsistan Schamachie Sauster and Tauris It did anciently comprehend the Countries of Media Hyrcania Margiana Assyria in part Susiana Parthia Aria Paropanisus Chaldaea Caramania Drangiana Persia properly so called Arachosia and Gedrosia which were most of them powerful Kingdoms This People were at first subject to the Assyrians and Medes In the year of the World 3406. Cyrus vanquishing Astyages King of the Medes made Persia the Seat of the General Empire which continued in this Nation till it was transferred to the Grecians by Alexander the Great in the year 3635. In the year of the World 3718. Arsaces the Founder of the Parthian Family assumed the Royal Diadem which in time expelled the Greeks and obtained the Kingdom of Persia This Family continued four hundred and seventy years succeeded by Artaxerxes a Persian whose Line after twenty eight Descents ended in Hormisda vanquished by Haumar the Saracen in the year 634. It continued under the Saracen Caliphs till the year 1030. when Tangrolipix a Turk invaded this Kingdom This lasted but three Reigns Cassanes the last of them in 1202. being slain and Haalon made King of Persia by Occata the Great Cham of Tartary This Prince exterminated the whole Race of the Caliphs of Bagdat and his Posterity reigned till 1337. When it also fell under the Tartarian fury to which it owed its Rise In 1405. after almost an hundred years of Confusion Mirza Charock IV. Son of Tamerlane ascended the Throne of Persia whose Family lasted till the year 1472. Then Vsan Cassanes began another Line which ended in 1505. when Hysmael the Founder of the present Line of Persia began his Reign Solyman the present King of Persia is the Tenth of this Line and succeeded in 1666. The principal Commodity of this Country now is Silks whereof it is reported to produce yearly twenty thousand Bales at two hundred and sixteen pound weight a Bale Arabick is the Learned Language there as Persian which hath a great mixture of Arabick and the Turkish the Vulgar But the Persians though Mahometans differ as to Religion from the Turks so professedly in explaining the Alcoran and in their Saints and Ceremonies that each as they conquer destroy the very Churches of one another The Persian Sea or Gulph Persicus Sinus commonly called Mar de Elcatiff or de Bassora is a Branch of the Indian or Ethiopick Ocean beginning at Cape Raz the most Eastern Cape of Arabia in Long. 96. 45. and running into the Land to 81. having Persia to the North and East and Arabia and Persia to the South and West In the most North-West Point the Euphrates and Tigris fall into it with a vast Current It receives also the Rivers of Arabia and Persia which lie near it but they are not of any consideration being neither many nor great Some others have counted the beginning of this Gulph at the Isle of Ormus and the Streight of Bassora which will make it much shorter than the length I have given it Pertois Pertensis Ager a Tract in Champagne in France between Champagne properly so called to the West the Dukedom de Bar to the East and the River Marne Perthe Perthia a County in Scotland which has Angus to the North Stratherne to the West Fife to the South and the German Ocean to the East divided into two parts by the Fyrth of Tay. It is a small County and takes it name from Perth or S. John's-Town the Capital of it One of the principal Cities in the North of Scotland upon the Tay in which the Kings of Scotland have commonly been crowned It lies thirty Miles from Edinburg to the North and twelve from Dunkeld This Town was totally ruined by an Inundation in 1029. and rebuilt by William King of Scotland where it now stands Long. 16. 8. Lat. 58. 00. Peru Peruvia Perua a large Country in South America affording great plenty of Gold and Silver Mines and at the Discovery of the New World the most Potent Kingdom in South America It s length from North to South is six hundred Spanish Leagues its breadth in some places ninety in others less Bounded on the North by the Prefecture of Popian on the South by the Kingdom of Chili on the West by the Pacifick Ocean or South Sea and on the South it has undiscovered Countries It is at this day divided into three Provinces los Reyes Quito and los Characas or de la Plata The old Capital was Cusko the present is Lima. This Kingdom was discovered by the Spaniards in 1529. under Francis Pizarro a Spaniard Who finding two Brothers of the Royal Family Huascar and Atabalipa betwixt whom their Father had parted the Kingdom in disagreement made use of their divisions to both their ruins and taking Atabalipa the last King of Peru Prisoner who before had surprized his Brother defeated his Forces put to death all the Princes of the Royal Family and caused Huascar to be drowned in the River of Andamarca after he had extorted a vast Ransom in Wedges of Gold the perfidious base born Villain hanged him May 1533. contrary to his faith given What the Spaniards report of the Fertility Wealth and Government of this Kingdom is scarce credible yet all fell into the Power of
of Poland called by the Natives Poconk or Pocouth It is a part of the Territory of Halitz between the River Tyra now the Neister and the Borders of Transylvania and Walachia the principal Town is Sniatim upon the Pruth the rest Colomey and Martinow Podgarim Babylonia a Province in Asia Podolia Bodeni Budini Patzinacae Populi a Province of the Kingdom of Poland comprehended under the Red Russia of which it is a part and subject to a Palatine of its own Bounded on the North by Volhinia on the East by the Palatinate of Braslaw on the South by Wallachia and on the West by Russia properly so called or the Black Russia This Country extends Eastward through vast uninhabited Countries as far as the Euxine Sea They divide it ordinarily into the Vpper Podolia to the West and the Lower to the East The people are Russians by their Original conquered by the Poles and in the year 1434. admitted to the same Privileges with the rest of Poland by Vladislaus then King of Poland It is fruitful to a wonder yet more accommodated to the life of Beasts than Men. Could it enjoy a steady Peace it should not need to envy the Fertility of Italy or any other Country but being a Frontier against the Turks and Tartars and always exposed to their devouring Incursions it is but meanly inhabited and not much improved In the year 1672. it was yielded to the Turks a part of it has been retrieved since The principal place is Caminieck in the Vpper Podolia the rest are Tzudnow Bratzlaw in the Lower and Orczakow which last is in the hands of the Tartars Poictiers Pictavium Augustoritum Pictava Pictavorum Vrbs a City which is the Capital of the Province of Poictou in France a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux and a celebrated University founded by Charles VII in 1431. It stands upon the River Clain at its Confluence with another small River which there makes a large Lake fourteen Leagues from the Loyre to the South thirty from Saintes to the North and thirty five from Bourges to the West Famous for many Battels sought near it especially that of the Black Prince in the year 1356. In which John King of France was taken Prisoner together with many Lords and two thousand Knights and Esquires Fifty two Lords one thousand seven hundred Knights and Gentlemen were slain of the French Three French Battalions the least of which exceeded the English were intirely routed and in great part destroyed In the Reign of Charles VII King of France whilest the Victorious English were Masters of the Capital of the Kingdom the Parliament of Paris for some years sat here The old Castle by the Gate of S. Lazare is thought to have been the Work of the Romans who built besides an Amphitheatre and other Edisices yet apparent in their remains This City contains twenty four Parishes five Abbeys and divers Monasteries The Episcopal See became famous in the Primitive Times by the Person of S. Hilary Divers Councils have been celebrated at it In one Anno 1075. Berengarius appeared whilst the Doctrine of the Presence in opposition to his was received recognized and established Another under Pope Paschal II. excommunicated Philip I. King of France The Roman Catholicks took Poictiers from the Huguenots and plundered it in 1562. In 1569. the Huguenots under Admiral Coligny besieged it but were forced to rise without success Poictou Pictaviensis Provincia is a large Province in France which was a part of Aquitain whilest under the Romans and called by the Italians Poitu It s greatest extent is from East to West being bounded on the East by Touraine and la Marche on the North by Anjou and Bretagne on the West by the Bay of Aquitain or the British Sea and on the South by Saintonge and Angoulesme This Province was pillaged in the fifth Century by the Vandals Huns and Germans The Romans in the Reign of the Emperour Honorius left it to the Wisigoths whom Clovis the Grand expelled about the year 510. Then from the time of Charlemaigne it was under Sovereign Counts of its own till 1271 when upon a failure of the Line it was united to the Crown of France These Counts had for about nineteen several Successions attained the Title of Dukes of Guyenne Not to omit the the Descent of the Provinces of Guyenne and Poictou upon the Crown of England in 1152. by Eleanour Wise to Henry II. Nor the attempt made in 1242. though without success by Richard Earl of Cornwall Brother to King John to reduce Poictou under the Obedience of England again after the French pretended K. John had forfeited his Rights by the Death of Arthur The principal Towns next Poictiers are Chastelleraud Thouars S. Maxient Fountenay Loudun Niort Parthenay and Richelieu Poissy Pisciacum a Town in the Isle of France which has a Stone Bridge over the Seine six Leagues above Paris to the East S. Lewis King of France was born here in 1215. The heart of King Philip le Bel was interred in a Church here of his own foundation It has divers Religious Houses And in the last Age was more especially famous upon the account of a Conference of Religion betwixt the Roman Catholicks and Huguenots from September 4. 1560. to November 25. held in the presence of Charles IX King of France and Catherine de Medicis the Queen Regent assisted with the Princes of the Blood a great number of Cardinals Bishops Counsellors and Grandees of the Kingdom and Learned Men of both Religions Beza as the Head of the Reformed chiefly managing and bending his utmost force against the Doctrine of the Presence Pola Polia Julia Pietas a City and Colony in Istria mentioned by Strabo and Pliny still called by the same Name being one of the strongest Cities in Istria and a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja Seated on a Hill near the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea upon which it has a large Haven twenty eight Miles from Parenzo to the South sixty from Trieste and an hundred from Ancona to the North. Said to have been built by the Colchi Now under the States of Venice but small and not much inhabited it having not above seven or eight hundred Inhabitants The Venetians send a Governour however to it who takes the Title of a Count. It has a small Cittadel In the time of the Roman Empire this City as a Free State dedicated a Statue to Severus the Emperour it has several other noble Remains which speak its Greatness and Antiquity as Mr. Wheeler acquaints us in his Travels pag. 5. Long. 37. 00. Lat. 45. 04. Polan Bollia a River of Stiria Polana Monalus a River in the North of Sicily written in Baudrand Polina Poland Polenia is one of the principal Kingdoms in Europe called by the Natives Poloska by the Germans die Polen by the French Pologne by the Spaniards and Italians Polonia by the English Poland A part of the old Salmatia Europaea and has its
Name from Pole which signifies a Plain in the Sclavonian Tongue Bounded on the North by the Baltick Sea the Swedish Livonia and Russia by the last and the Desarts of Tartary on the East on the South by the Vpper Hungary Transylvania and Walachia on the West by Germany This Kingdom is of a round Figure two thousand six hundred Miles in compass The Earth plain but full of Woods which do in some degree rectifie the Coldness of the Air. They have no Wine as for Barley and Pulse they have more than they spend The People are Industrious and Learned good Souldiers proud and prodigal The Christian Faith was first settled in Poland under Miceslaus in the year 963. by one Meinardus The Reformation about 1535. crept into these Countries but never generally imbraced nor persecuted The Greek Church has some footing here too but the most general is the Roman Catholick This vast Kingdom is divided into thirty four Palatinates most of which I shall mention in their proper places The principal Cities are Belzko Braclaw Braslaw Briescie Kaliss Kaminiec Chelmo Krakow Elbing Dantzick Gnesna Kiow Lenzycze Lwow Lublin Lucko Malbork Mscislawau Minsko Novogrod Plocko Pozan Przemisl Konigsberg Sendomiers Siracz Thorn Trocko Warzawa commonly called Warsaw the Capital of Poland Wilna Witebsko and Wlodzimiers The first Duke of this Kingdom was Lechus who began his Reign in 694. His Posterity in eleven Descents continued till 800. when Priastus was the first elected Duke In the year 1000. Boleslaus Son of Mieceslaus received the Title of King from Otho III. Emperour of Germany The present King is the forty sixth Prince and the thirty second King of Poland who has had the Honour to be the Preserver of Christendom by the Relief of Vienna and many other brave Actions Though this Prince has the Name of a King and the first Dukes were in truth Kings without the Title yet at present he is nothing less being not allowed to make Peace or War to impose Taxes make Laws alienate any of his Demeans or in short to do any thing of Importance which concerns the Publick without the consent of the Diet. He does not only swear to do all this but allows their Disobedience in case he violates his Oath which makes the Subjects the Princes Judges and this Kingdom a meer Aristocracy or knot of petty Kingdoms under one Head Whence the Tartars and Muscovites have reaped great advantages and the King of Sweden once with forty thousand men reduced this Country to the last extremity which otherwise accounts two hundred thousand men a small Army to be sent into the Field by Poland Socinianism hath been a prevailing Sect here it oweth its denomination to the two Socinus's Laelius and Faustus Natives of this Kingdom who in the last Century amidst the distractions of people about Religion revived the ancient assertions of Arius Nestorius c. called Heresies under their own Names There is besides a general mixture of Roman and Greek Catholicks Jews Calvinists Lutherans Anabaptists c. Polaquie Polachia a small Province in the Kingdom of Poland between Mazovia to the West Lithuania and Polesia to the East The principal Town of which is Bielka Pole Pola a Province on the East of Moscovy towards the River Tanais between Mordua Rezania and the Kingdom of Astracan in which there is no City or Town of Note Polesie Polesia a Province of Poland in the great Dukedom of Lithuania extended from East to West between Red Russia Volhinia Mazovia and the Palatinate of Novogrod The principal Town is Brescie twenty five Miles from Lublin and thirty from Warsaw to the East This Province is extremely over-run by Woods and full of Bogs and Marshes Policastro Policastrum Polaeocastrum a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Hither Principate on the Shoars of the Tyrrhenian Sea fifty five Miles from Salerno to the North-East It is now almost desolate yet a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Salerno and gives Name to a Bay formerly called Sinus Laus Polignano Polinianum Pulinianum a small City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari Polina Aous one of the principal Rivers of Albania it ariseth ten Miles above Apollonia an ancient City now called Pollina and falls into the Adriatick Sea Others call it Piergo Near this River Philip King of Macedon received a great Overthrow from the Romans on which account it is mentioned by divers Historians Polizzi Politium a great Town in Sicily built upon an Hill six Miles from Nicosia and twenty from Palermo Pollina or Periergo Apollonia a City of Macedonia now in Albania upon the Adriatick Sea Heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Durazzo but now a Metropolitan See it self Seated thirty five Miles from Durazzo to the South and inhabited by a small number of Men under the Dominion of the Turks In this place Octavianus afterwards Augustus was at his Studies when Julius Caesar his Uncle was Murthered in the Senate Long. 45. 06. Lat. 40. 19. â—oloczko or Polloczki Poloczka Polocia Polotium a City of Lithuania in the Kingdom of Poland the Head of a Palatinate which was once a Dukedom It stands upon the Dwina where it receives the Polotta having upon each River a Castle seventy five Polish Miles above Riga to the South-East and fifty five from Vilna to the North-East Taken by the Russ in 1563 retaken by Stephen King of Poland in 1579. Of later times it changed its Master again but is now under the Poles Pologne See Poland Pomeiok an Indian Town and River in Virginia upon the North Sea Pomerania a Province of Germany called by the Inhabitants Pomeren by the Poles Pomerska It lies in the Upper Circle of Saxony bounded on the North by the Baltick Sea on the East by Prussia on the South by the Marquisate of Brandenburgh and on the West by the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh Extended upon the Baltick Sea from East to West two hundred English Miles A plain and fruitful Country yielding great plenty both of Corn and Grass Butter and Cheese c. full of People of a vigorous Constitution This Country in 1295 was given by Mestovius the last of its Princes to Primislaus King of Poland who enjoyed all the Eastern part as far as Prussia and the River Weyssel or Vistula The rest continued under Princes of its own till 1637 when Bugius the last of them dying without Heirs Males this great Country by the Treaty of Munster was divided between the Swedes and the Duke of Brandenburgh All that lay on the West of the Oder and the Dukedom of Stetin being left to the Swedes together with Rugen an Island in the Baltick Sea and Dam and Golnow two Towns beyond the Oder The further or more Eastern Pomerania and Prussia was granted to the Duke of Brandenburgh There is in this vast Country under the Swedes these Cities Anclam Gripswald Stetin Stralsund and Wolgast and under the
eighteen Leagues from Panama to the North in the Province of Terra Firma This City was taken and plundered by the Buccaniers Port en Bessin Portus Bajocensis a Port in Normandy on the British Sea one League North of Bajeux Porto Betto Portus Gazaeorum Majuma See Gazara Porto Bon Achaeorum Portus Portus Bonus a Haven on the Euxine Sea at the Mouth of the Nieper Porto di Coruna Portus Brigantius a large Port in Gallicia in Spain ten Leagues from Compostella to the North. Porto desire a Port in Magellania between the River of Plate and the Terra de Fuogo in South America It is otherwise called Baya de los Trabaios The entrance into it is about half a League over where stand two small Islands It affords fresh Water Porto Ercole or Hercole Portus Herculis a Sea-Port in the States of Siena on the Tyrrhenian Sea five Miles from Orbitello to the South and twelve from Talamont to the same In the Hands of the Spaniards it has a Fort and a small Haven Porto di Gorio Carbonaria a Haven at the Mouth of the Po which takes its Latin Name from a black Tower It is the Southern Branch of the North Branch of that River in the Dukedom of Ferrara under the Dominion of the Pope within six Miles of the Borders of the States of Venice to the South And made by that Branch of the Po which is called Il Po di Ariano or the Right Hand Branch Porto di Gruaro Portus Romatinus a Town in Friuli upon the River Lemene Romatinum under the Venetians two Miles from Concordia a ruined City to the North. The Bishop of which resides in this Town forty Miles from Venice to the East and twenty five from Aquileja Porto di Lione Piraeus the Port of Athens in Achaia 5 Miles South of the City joined to it by a double Wall built by Themistocles in the year of Rome 276 which was ruined by the Victorious Lacedaemonians in the year of the World 3546 and of Rome 350 after the taking of Athens being rebuilt it was afterwards ruined by Sylla This Haven would then contain four hundred Ships and was both as to Peace and War one of the most frequented Ports in the World In after-times it took the Name of Port Lione from a huge Marble Statue of a Lion of admirable work placed at the bottom of the Bay in a sitting Posture but erect upon his fore Feet ten Foot in height This Harbor would not hold above thirty or forty of the Ships of our Times as Mr. Wheeler judged Nor is there any one House or Habitation in this Place except a Warehouse for the receiving of Merchandise The true Long. of it is 53. 00. Lat. 38. 05. as Mr. Vernon found it This Port and Athens it self submitted to the Venetian General Morosim Sept. 1687. Vid. Athens It is also called Porto di Setines Porto Famine See Civdad del Rè Philippe Porto Fino Portus Delphini a small Town and Port of Italy about twenty Miles from Genoua to the East towards the Gulph of Ripallo Porto Longone Portus Longus a large safe Haven in the Isle of Ilua or Elve under the Spaniards ever since 1577. Fortified by them in 1606. Taken by the French in 1646. Retaken by the Spaniards in 1650. It stands over against Piombine twelve Miles to the South fifty four from Ligorne thirty seven from the Isle of Corsica to the East Before under the Princes of Piombino Porto Lovis Lewis or Blavet Portus Ludovici Blabia a strong Town in Bretagne in France at the Mouth of the River Blave which has a large Haven Twelve Leagues from Vannes to the West and fifteen from Quimper to the East This Town sprung up out of the ruins of Blavet an old Town near it Port Lovis a new built Town in the Lower Languedoc on the Mediterranean Sea near Mount de Sete This Haven and Port was made by a vast Artificial Mount raised out of the Sea with a mighty expence It stands two Leagues from Frontignan to the South and five from Agde to the East Porto Moriso Portus Mauritius a pleasant Town in the State of Genoua upon the Mediterranean Sea well Peopled it stands near Onelia upon a Hill in the midst between Savona to the East and Nizza to the West thirty six Miles from either but it has now no Port as Baudrand assures us on his own knowledge Il Porto di Paula Portus Paulae a Sea-Port in the State of the Church in Campagna di Roma near Mount Circello into which the Lake of Sancta Maria vents it self Able to contain two thousand Ships it has every where the marks of a Roman Port but being neglected fills up with Sand. Porto de la Paz Portus Pacis a Port at the North end of the Island of Hispaniola where there is of late a French Colony settled Porto di Primaro a Town and Port in the Dutchy of Ferrara in Italy where a branch of the Po called Po di Primaro delivers it self into the Gulph of Venice It has a Tower for its defence Porto di san Pedro a Port in South America towards the Mouth of the Rio Grande and East of the River Plata upon the Sea of Paraguay Porto Ravaglioso Portus Orestis a Port in the Province of the further Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples upon the Tyrrhenian Sea at the Mouth of the River Marro near La Palma Thirty Miles from Regio to the North and twenty from Tropea to the South It is of great Antiquity but no great use Porto Ricco or S. Jean de Porto Ricco or Puerto Rico Portus Dives a City in South America seated at the North end of an Island of the same name in the North Sea which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of S. Dominico Taken and plundered by the English in 1595. and by the Hollanders in 1615. The Island lies eight Leagues from Hispaniola to the East at the entrance of the Gulph of Mexico about a hundred thirty six Leagues from the Continent of America to the South thirty or thirty five long from East to West and twenty in breadth First discovered by Chr. Columbus in 1493 who dedicated it to S. John Baptist and called this Place Porto Ricco because the greatest Galleons ride in its Port in Safety The Spaniards began to plant their Colonies here in 1510. They have secured this Port with two strong Castles beside two little Forts The whole Island enjoys a temperate Air a fruitful Soil for Sugar Ginger Cassia and Cattel but the antient Indian Natives have all been barbarously murdered by the Spaniards Porto Royal Portus Regius a Port of North America in the Province of Tabasca in the Confines of Yucoatan upon the Bay of Mexico called by the Spaniards El Puerto Real § There is another Porto of the same name in the Kingdom of Andalusia over against the Isle of Cadis which of old was called Portus Gaditanus Port Royal in New France in
Church-man very old when he came to the Crown Philip II. King of Spain obtained this Kingdom by force and a pretended Title in 1584. After whom Philip III. and IV. successively enjoyed it But in 1640. John Duke of Braganza who had a better Title encouraged by the unsupportableness of the Spanish Government to the Portugueze by an universal Revolt of the people in all parts ejected the Spaniards and assumed the Kingdom succeeded in it by two of his Sons the youngest of which Peter is now King of Portugal and the second of his Name Porzevera a River of Italy which falls into the Sea by Genoua Posega or Possega the Capital City of Sclavonia upon the River Oriawa eight Miles from the Save to the North thirty from Gradisca to the East it consists of about ten thousand Houses They are mean and small after the manner of the Buildings in this Country It is seated in a very fruitful Earth which produceth Fruits of all sorts of a more than ordinary size and gives its name to a County lying betwixt the Save and the Drave This Town fell into the Hands of the Turks under Solyman the Magnificent about 1544. together with Walpo and Quinque Ecclesiae and continued so till 1687. when the Turkish Army after the Battel of Mohats revolting from and mutinying against the Prime Visier their General the Garrison which was laid in this City to defend it of a sudden no Enemy being near them deserted and carried many of the Inhabitants with them and slew others Whereupon General Dunewalt who had then crossed the Drave to besiege Zygeth returned and took Possession of it without force or any opposition and immediately took care to secure it by raising new Works and Forts Four hundred Villages depend upon this City Posnan Posnam or Posen Posnania a City in the Greater Poland the Capital of a Palatinate called by the same Name built upon the River Warta amongst the Hills seven Miles from Gnesna to the West twenty from Franck fort upon the Oder to the East and as many from Wratislaw to the North it is little yet a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gnesna and has an excellent and well built Castle The Palatinate of Poznanskie is bounded on the West by the Marquisate of Brandenburg on the North by the Further Pomerania on the East by the Palatinate of Kaliski on the South by Misnia Poson See Presburg Potenza Potentia a City of Italy ascribed by Ptolemy to Lucania now seated in the Basilicate in the Kingdom of Naples at the foot of the Apennine fifteen Miles from Acerenza to the North-West and eighteen from Venosa Venusia to the South This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Acerenza and now in a tolerable good condition Pothereus a River of the Island of Crete mentioned by ancient Writers as passing by the City Gortis or Gortyna there Potosi Potosium a great City in South America in the Kingdom of Peru on the South part of that Country in a Province called Los Charcas seated at the foot of a Mountain of the same Name and divided in two by a Rivulet from a Lake that stands about a quarter of a League off Eighteen Spanish Leagues from La Plata to the East eighty from the Pacifick Ocean to the East one hundred and sixty from Cusco to the South Mostly regarded on the account of rich Mines of Silver here discovered in 1544. by the Spaniards who built this City and call it an Imperial one which is since become one of the greatest richest and most populous Cities in America adorned with divers Magnificent Churches and Monasteries and inhabited by above twenty thousand people Spaniards Strangers Indians Moulates c. almost every one appearing in Gold and Silver Potton a Market Town in Bedfordshire in the Hundred of Bigleswade bordering upon Cambridgesh Pouges a Village in the Province of Nivernois in France betwixt Nevers and la Charitè much frequented upon the account of two Medicinal Springs at it which have long been in great esteem for the curing of the Dropsie Pouligny or Poligny Polichnium a Castle in the Franche Comté which was heretofore a place of great strength It stands seven Leagues from Dole to the South Poulton a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Amounderness upon the River Irwell Powhatan or James River the principal River in Virginia dividing that Country by the middle It denominates an Indian Kingdom there in which Captain Smith in his Voyages made large Discoveries The Capital Town of it was Pomeiok Powis or Powisland a Sovereign Principality in the former times in Wales whereof Mathraval in the County of Montgomery was the Capital Pozzuoli or Pozzuolo Puteoli Dicaearchia a City of Italy in the Province of Campania built by the Samians and called Flavia by Vespasian now in the Terra di Lavoro a Province of the Kingdom of Naples and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Naples It stands upon an Hill by the Shoars of the Tyrrhenian Sea upon which it has a large and safe Haven and a Bay of the same name eight Miles from Naples to the West There are within the bounds of this City thirty five natural Baths which have their different sorts of warm Water wonderously useful for the Cure of several Diseases This City was the place to which the Roman Emperours retreaed for the most part for their divertisement and pleasure at this day a great populous fine City in which the Spaniards have built a Cittadel There are very many Roman Antiquitios and natural Rarities in it not easily to be found elsewhere Some Remains particularly of Caligula's Bridge of three thousand nine hundred Paces over the Gulph reaching from Pozzuoli to Bajae which he proudly passed and repassed in triumph Mr. Sandys in his Travels has largely described others of these Prague by the Inhabitants called Prag Praga Casurgi◠Marobudum Bubiemum the Capital City of the Kingdom of Bohemia an Archbishopric kinstituted by Pope Clement VI. and the Royal City or rather three Cities within one Wall which together make it undoubtedly the greatest City in Germany It stands upon the River Muldau called by the Inhabitants Vetaue a large rapid River covered by a Stone Bridge of sixteen great Arches seventeen hundred foot long and thirty five broad This City is divided into three parts the Old the New and the Little City The Old lies on the East of the Muldau very populous full of Buildings and in this the University was founded by the Emperor Charles IV. about the year 1370. 2. The New is very large separated from the former by a large Ditch or Trench 3. The Klein Seitten or Lesser Prague for pleasantness beauty of Buildings and fair Palaces far exceeds the other two this lies on the West of the Muldau in this is the Royal Palace the Cathedral Church dedicated to S. Veit built by S. Wenceslaus Duke of Bohemia in 923. The Circuit of the City is very great
Ptolemais Ferarum See Suachen § The Ancients mention another Ptolemais in the Thebais in Egypt near the Nile Puerto See Porto Pugan Puganum a City in the Province of Queycheu in the Kingdom of China Puglia See Terra di Bari Apulia and Capitanata Pulhely a Market Town in Caernarvanshire in Wales in the Hundred of Gyslegion Le Puy Podium Anicium Avicium Vellavae Vellaunorum Vrbs a great and populous City in the County of Velay in Languedoc upon the River Loyr which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourges but exempt from his Jurisdiction and the Bishop is Earl of Velay It is the Capital of the County in which it stands adorned with many Parishes and Religious Houses twenty two Leagues from Lyon to the North-West twenty from Clermont to the North and eighteen from Vienne In 1130. the Bishops of Aquitain assembled in Council here condemned Anacletus an Anti-Pope in favour of the Election of Pope Innocent II. Puy-en Anjou Podium Andegavense a Town in Anjou in the Borders of Poictou three Leagues from Salmur to the South and eight from Poictiers to the North-East near the River Thoue Puy Lawrens Puteum Laurentii a small Town in Languedoc which has been dignified with the Title of a Dukedom two Leagues from Chartres to the West and three from Lavaur Puyg de Cerden Jugum Carretanorum a Town in Spain in the County of Cerdaigna upon the River Segre in the Pyrenean Hills in the Borders of France fourteen Leagues from Perpignan and six from Vrgel a City of Catalonia This Town is the Capital of the County in which it stands and was lately in the hands of the French but by the Treaty of Nimeguen restored to the Spaniards The French call it Puycerda Puzzuolo Puteoli See Pozzuoli Py a small River in the Bishoprick of Reims in France which falls into the Suippe and with it into the Aisne at Neufchastel Pylus The Ancients mention several Towns and Mountains of this Name The most eminent of them now extant is Navarino in the Morea See Navarino The Pyramides of Egypt These as it were â—â—ortal Buildings accounted amongst 7 the Wonder of the World stand the distance of about ten Mileâ—om Cairo in Egypt Pliny says three hundred seventy thousand men were employed upon the largest of them twenty years whose height amounted to five hundred and twenty foot the breadth six hundred eighty two square ascended being the only open one by two hundred and eighteen steps of about three foot deep Within Caverns for the reposal of dead Bodies a Hall a Chamber and an empty Tomb made of a single Stone of the likeness of Porphyry Without before it as before two others of the chiefest appear the Rests of certain square Edifices like Temples and hard by a vast Pile representing the Face and Breast of a Woman twenty six foot high which Pliny calls Sphynx because there was then a contrivance to utter Oracles from it The ancient Egyptians believed that Pharaoh and Amasis Kings of Egypt lay entombed in these Pyramides The Bases of them as far as to the sixteenth step upwards to the North by time have been covered with Sand. The Pyrenean Hills Mons Pyrenaeus one of the greatest Chains of Mountains in Europe called by the Spaniards les Montes Pyreneos by the French les Monts Pyrenées by the Italians li Monti Pirenei They lie between France to the North and Spain to the South extending from East to West eighty Spanish Leagues that is from Port Vendres in Rousillon on the Mediterranean Sea to S. Sebastian on the Bay of Biscay in various places called by different Names Pyraeus See Porto di Lione QA QUadalquivirio See Guadalquivirejo Quadi the old Inhabitants of Moravia and the North of Austria as far as the Danube who maintained a perpetual War with the Romans till the year of Christ 565 when they were conquered first by Lechus Duke of Poland In the time of the Emperour Valentiman they advanced as far as to Aquileja and though the Marcomanni dwelt in Moravia too yet the Quadi and them were two as distinct people as the present Moravians and the Trans-Danubian Austrians which latter possess the Seats of the Quadi Quancheu Quangcheu Quancheum the Capital City of the Province of Quamsi in the Kingdom of China sometime called Jangching and Quangtung and by Foreigners Canton It stands upon the River Ta which a little lower falls into the Ocean and affords it a large and safe Harbour defended by two Castles It is surrounded with Hills in Circuit four German Miles Besieged twelve Months by the Tartars and a last taken more by fraud than force to the great ruin of it and the slaughter of its Inhabitants in 1650. Long. 140. 30. Lat. 26. 25. according to the last and best Maps Quangan Quanganum a City in the Province of Yunnan in China in the hands of the King of Tunkim Quangping a City of the Province of Pekim in China Quangsi one of the principal Cities of the Province of Yunnan in China Quangte a City in the Province of Nanquin or Nankim Quamsi or Quansi Quansia a Province in the Kingdom of China bounded by Yunnan on the West Queycheu on the North Cochin China on the South Quantum on the East The Capital of it Queilin It contains eleven Cities ninety nine great Towns 186719 Families the last Province which the Tartars Conquered Quanto a Province in the Isle of Niphon in the Kingdom of Japan Quantum Quangtung a vast Province in China bounded on the North by Kiamsi and Huquam on the East by Fokien on the West by Quamsi and the Kingdom of Tumkim or Cochin China and on the South by the Ocean It contains ten Cities seventy three great Towns and 483360 Families One of the best watered and most fruitful Provinces in this Kingdom Quaquacust la coste des Dents a part of Guinea in Africa which extends eight Spanish Leagues in length from East to West See Guinee and Coste de dents Quarentan Vadicasses or Carentan a Sea-Port Town in Normandy seventeen Leagues from Caen to the West and eight from Coutances to the North-East Quars See Carin Quebec the Principal French City in New France in America taken from the Indians in the Conquest of this part of their Country by French Men and very strongly fortified Queda a City of the East-Indies upon the Promontory of Malacca over against Sumatra Long. 125. 31. Lat. 5. 50. It has an excellent Port and a very great Trade being much frequented by the European Merchants and the Capital of a Kingdom of the same name which was subject to the King of Siam but has now a Prince of its own Quedelinburgh a Town in the Vpper Saxony in Germany Once a Free Imperial Town but being afterwards exempted became together with its Territory subject to its own Abbess whose House here was of great fame It lies two German Miles from Halberstad to the South now with its Territory subject to the
Duke of Saxony In the year 1085. Hermannus elected King of the Romans by the Partisans of Pope Gregory VII to oppose the Emperor Henry IV. assembled a Council at this Town in which sentence of Anathema passed upon the Henrycianes called Heretiques and the Antipope Guibertus set up by the Emperor There was another in 1103. remarkable for its giving absolution to Henry Son of the Emperor Henry IV. for revolting against his Father tho others place this latter sometime to Northausen in Thuringia Quedenau a Village in the Dukedom of Prussia in Poland Of great note amongst the Sea-faring People for a Church there dedicated to S. James whither they repair to perform their Vows and Devotions Queens County a County in the Province of Leinster in Ireland called by the Irish Cunntae Loighsaigh Bounded by Kildare to the West Kilkenny to the South and Kings County to the East The chief Town of which is Queens Town sixteen Miles from Kildare to the West and twenty two from Kilkenny to the North Queicheu Queichea a Province on the South-West of China bounded on the North with Suchuen on the East with Huquam on the South with Quamsi and on the West with Yunnan This Province is extremely Mountainous It has eight Cities ten great Towns and forty five thousand three hundred and three Families The Capital City is Queiyan Queicheu a City in the Province of Suchuen in the Kingdom of China upon the River Kiang built in a very fruitful and well watered Plain This is the Capital of twelve Towns Queilin a City in the Province of Quamsi in China upon the River Quei Queilloa Quiloa Kiloa a Kingdom of Zanguebar in Africa between Mosambique and Melinde on the Eastern Shoar of Africa the King of which is a Tributary to the King of Portugal It has a City of the same name seated in an Island which is 1509. was taken by Francis Almaida the Portugal Vice-Roy of Africa Long. 63 25. South Lat. 9. 18. This Island called also Queilloa hath a strong Cittadel for its defence together with a famous Port and is honoured with the Residence of the King § Some place another an old City Queilloa upon another quarter of it Queite Queitum a City in the Province of Honan in China Queiyang a great City in the Province of Queicheu in China Quercy Cadurcensis Tractus is a County in Guienneâ— in Aquitain in France great populous and fruitful in Corn Wine Cattel c. Bâ—â—nded on the North by Limosin on the East by Auvergne and Rovergne on the South by Languedoc and on the West by Agenois and Perigort The Capital of it is Cahors the other Towns are Montauban Figeac Gordone and Martel This was the Country of the ancient Cadurci in Caesar who furnished the Gauls with twelve thousand Men in their League against the Romans It became united with the Crown of France in the Reign of Philip the Hardy Querimba an Island towards the North-East of Madagascar Quernfurt a small Town which is yet the Capital of an Earldom of the same name in the Vpper Saxony in the County of Mansfeld under the Duke of Saxony ever since 1635 but it belonged before to the Bishop of Magdeburg Quesnoy Quercetum a small but very strong Town in Hainault three Leagues from Landrecy to the North two from Valenciennes and five from Cambray In the Hands of the French ever since 1654. Queximi Aphana an Island in the Gulph of Persia by others called Quetumi Quiansy or Kiangsy Quiansia a Province in China towards the South of that Kingdom bounded on the East by Chekiam on the South by Quantum on the West by Huquam and on the North by Nankim The Capital of which is Nanchang It contains thirteen Cities sixty seven great Towns and one hundred thirty six thousand six hundred and twenty nine Families Quibriche the same with Bernich in Barbary Quieras a strong Town in Piedmont upon an Hill and the Banks of the River Tanaro where the famous Treaty betwixt France Spain the Empire Savoy and Modena was celebrated in 1631. Quimper Corisopitum a City in the Province of Britagne in the Territory of Cornvaile which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours upon the Oder Three Leagues from the Ocean to the North ten from Brest and forty from Rennes Called commonly also Quimper-Corantine from Corantinus the supposed Tutelar Saint of the Diocese to whom is Dedicated here the Cathedral Church Quimperlay a Town in Britagne upon the River Isotte two Leagues from the Sea and ten from Quimper to the East Quinborongh or Queenborough the chief Town of the Island of Shepey in Kent in Scray Lath which hath the honor to be represented by two Burgesses in the Lower House of Parliament and to be secured by a Castle Royal. Quinque Ecclesiae a City of the Lower Hungary called by the Inhabitants Otegiazae by the Germans Funfkircken by the Turks Petscheu by the French Cinq Eglises It stands in the County of Baran upon the River Keoriz not far from the Drave six German Miles from the Danube twenty three from Belgrade to the North-West fourteen from Alba Regalis twelve from Buda to the South It has this name from five noble Churches which were heretofore in this City Stephen King of Hungary established the Bishoprick here in 1009 under the Archbishop of Gran. Solyman the Magnificent took it with great difficulty in 1543 and died in it after whilst his Army lay before Sigeth in 1566. Count Serin II. burnt it and the Bridge of Esseck in 1664. Having been surprised and plundered by the Croatian Army in 1685. the year following after the taking of Buda it was surrendered without resistance to the Imperialists The Turkish Governor saying Now the old Hen was escaped out of their Hands the Chickens would follow her Long. 42. 08. Lat. 46. 09. Quinsay Kingsai Kingsa or Kangcheu and Quisay a vast City in the Province of Chequin which in 1300. was the Capital and Royal City of China the Residence of the Emperors said then to be ten Leagues in length five broad and thirty in Circuit containing about a Million of Families to have twelve hundred and sixty Stone Bridges a Lake in the midst of it about thirty Miles in circumference four hundred and seventy Gates with a Wall thirty Leagues in compass of that breadth at the top that twelve Horsemen might Ride a breast without any inconvenience upon it This City stands upon the River Cientang about sorty Leagues from the Eastern Ocean Some confound it with Peking The Cham of Tartary is said to keep a Garrison in it of thirty thousand Men. S. Quintin Quintinum a City in the Province of Picardy in France which is the Capital of Vermandois and sprung up out of the ruins of Augusta Veromanduorum a Roman Town Famous for a great defeat of the French Forces upon which it was yielded to the Earl of Pembroke who besieged it in 1557. But the getting of this Town was
County is bounded on the North by the Curlew Mountains dividing it from Slego on the East by the River Shannon dividing it from the Counties of Lotrim Longford West-Meath and Kings County on the South by Kings County and Galloway and on the West by the River Suck which parts it from Galloway and Mayo It is of a considerable length viz. sixty English Miles from North to South but not above nineteen where broadest the Soil is level and extremely fruitful so that it abounds with Grass and Corn produced by very little Husbandry Roscomen the principal Town which gives name to it stands upon the River Suck towards the Western Border but near the middle of the County twelve Miles from Athlone to the North-West and thirty three from Galway to the North-East Rosas Rhoda Rhode Rodopolis once a City now only a Castle and a small Town in the County of Roussillon in Catalonia in Spain which has a large Harbour on the Mediterranean Sea very strongly and well fortified taken by the French in 1645. but restored by the Pyrenean Treaty to Spain It stands ten Spanish Leagues from Perpignan to the South This place was first fortified by Charles V. before which it was only a Monastery though in the time of the Romans it had been one of the most considerable Cities in Spain supposed to have been built by the Rhodians before the Romans were Masters of this Kingdom and from them to have taken this name Rosetto Metelis a City of Egypt called by the Turks Raschit by the Italians Rosetto it stands with a Port upon the Mediterranean Sea upon the Mouth of that Branch of the Nile which was anciently called Canopicum now one of the principal Cities of that Kingdom Monsieur Thevenot who travelled from Alexandria hither tells us that it is sixty short Miles This City saith he was anciently called Canopus it lies five Miles up the River from the Sea and is next to Cairo one of the best Cities in Egypt and still encreasing being a place of great Traffick very pleasant surrounded by lovely Gardens and full of well-built tall Houses and in which there is great plenty of Victuals very cheap but in the Months of July and August they have none but Cistern-waters to drink Many pieces of ancient Money have been found in the Sand betwixt Alexandria and this City The Country about it yields Sugar-Canes in plenty Long. 60. 45. Lat. 31. 6. Roseveque a small Town in Flanders famous for a Battel which Charles V. won against the Rebellious Gante-men of whom were slain forty thousand and their General Philip d' Artevill taken and hanged Rosieme Rosima a City in Poland the Capital of Samogithia upon the River Dubissa twelve Polish Miles from Corona to the North thirty from Riga to the South and twenty seven from Vilna to the West this place is little and ill peopled Baudrand writes Rosienie Rosâ— Russia a County in the North of Scotland bounded on the North by Naverina and Sutherland on the South by Murray and Abria on the East by the German and on the West by the Irish Sea Charles I. was Earl of this County in the Life of his Father Rossano Roscianum Ruscianum a City in the Hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which is an Archbishops See and a Principality built upon a Rock incompassed on all sides by Rocks and seated scarce three Miles from the Shoars of the Bay of Taranto sixteen from Bisignano to the East thirty five from Cosenza to the South-East and twelve from Thurium to the South which last being an old City was formerly the Bishops See This Place is great well peopled and was the Birth-place of Pope John VII Rosse Rossa a Town anciently in the Province of Mounster in the County of Cork and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cashell it stands upon the British Channel at the Mouth of a small River called Fin thirty Miles from Cork to the South-West and twenty two from Kinsale to the West The Bishops See in 1618. was united to that of Cork the Town being reduced to a meer Village § There is a Market Town of this name in Herefordshire in the the Hundred of Greytree upon the River Wyc Rossetto See Rosetto Rossillon Ruscinonensis Comitatus a County of Catalonia called by the French Roussillon by the Spaniards Rossillon bounded on the East by the Mediterranean Sea on the North by Languedoc on the West by Ceretania and on the South by Catalonia The Capital of it is Perpignan There are besides in it Leucate Villa Franca Rodes Eâ—na and some other Places of note it extending from East to West eighteen Spanish Leagues This Country was anciently a part of Gallia Narbonensis annexed to Spain in the Times of the Goths had then Earls which were Sovereign Princes of it and on the Death of Gerard the last of them under Alphonsus II. added to Arragon By James I. annexed to the Kingdom of Majorca and recovered back again to that Crown by Pedro IV. By King John II. sold to Lewis XI of France in 1462. and by Charles VIII of France returned back freely to Ferdinando on condition he should not obstruct his Conquest of the Kingdom of Naples in 1493. It continued under that Crown till 1659. when Lewis XIII retook it by his Arms. and had the Possession confirmed by the Pyrenean Treaty There are three considerable Rivers watering it the Tet the Tech and the Egli Rostock Rostocium Rostochium Raciburgum Rhodopolis Rosarum or Rosarium Vrbs a City in the Lower Saxony upon the Baltick Sea in the Dukedom of Meckleburg in Germany which is a Free Imperial City and has an Harbour made by the River Warna on which it stands eight Miles from Wisemar to the East and eleven from Stralsundt to the West It is under the Protection of the Dukes of Meckleburg by whose Ancestors it was built about 329. and walled by another about 1160. It s Ancient Name was Rostzoch or Rotzoch which signifies a Miry Ground Ericus King of Denmark conquered this Territory about 1286. Christopher III. his Successor in 1322. restored it to the Duke of Meckleburg Waldemarus IV. granted this City and its Territory to Albert Duke of Meckleburg in 1360. Aâ—bert another Duke in 1416. founded an University here which was opened three years after It is about five Miles in compass and almost equal to Lubeck A Sedition arising in this City in 1573. against the Duke he entred it in Arms and treated the Senate with great severity In 1629. it was with the whole Dutchy of Mecklenburg taken by the Imperialists out of whose hands it was recovered by the Swedes Octob. 16. 1631. Long. 34. 20. Lat. 54 20. Rostow Rostovia a great City in Russia which is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name and an Archbishops See It stands upon the River Cotorea having a Fortress of Wood twenty six Miles from the Wolga to the South and thirty four from Mosco to the
born in this City It stands three Miles from Brisach to the West and two from Mulhuse to the North. Ruffec Rufeacum Roffiacum a small Town in the Diocese of Poictiers five or six Leagues from Angoulesme in France pleasantly situated and honor'd with the Title of a Marquisate Pope Clement V. before his elevation to the Pontificate presided at a Council here in 1304. There have been others celebrated at it in other times Rugby a Market Town in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Knightlow upon the River Avon Rugen Rugenlandt Rugia an Island in the Baltick Sea upon the Coast of Pomerania which has the Title of a Principality about seven German Miles square but the Sea breaks in and covers a considerable part of the middle of it from the West and almost divides it into several Islands This was caused by an Outragious Tempest in 1309. A part of this Island at the same time which lay to the South-East as far as the Isle of Ruden then conjoyned with this was torn away and sunk so deep into the bottom of the Sea that the greatest Ships may Sail over it what remains affords Corn and Cattle in great plenty serving as a granary to the parts adjacent The best Town in it is Bergen the others of note are Sogart Hick and Bingst This Island is able to Arm about seven thousand Men in case of necessity About 1066. it was subject to Buthen Son of Godescalck King of the Heruli Christopher II. King of Denmark in 1322. subjected it to that Crown VVratislaus IV. Duke of Pomcrania in 1325. becoming Heir of it by the death of VVizlaus the last Prince drove out the Danes and became Master of it after this the Danes regained the Possession of it Erick King of Denmark in 1438. resigned it the second time to the Duke of Pomerania and under them it was in 1630. when Gustavus Adolphus began the German War with the Conquest of this Island By the Treaty of Munster in 1648. it was confirmed to the Swedes In 1678 the Danes attempting to recover it out of the Hands of the Swedes received at first a great overthrow but in a second attempt in the same year prevailed and kept the Island till the Peace of S. Germane in 1679 by which it was restored to the Swedes who now have it The Christian Faith was first Preached in it by the Monks of Corby in Saxony in 875. They built a Chappel here for the Service of God which was after abused to the Pagan Idolatry till VVaidemarus a Dane about 1161 destroyed the Idol they Worshipped and thereupon they became generally Christians Rugoso the same with Rubicon See Pisatello Rulia Rhodope one of the greatest and best known Mountains in Thrace out of which the River Hebrus ariseth it stretcheth from West to East at this day little Inhabited the Turks call it Rulia that is the Queen of Mountains the Italians Argentario the Greeks Basilissa it divides Thrace and ends at the City of Apoâ—loma Rumelia See Greece Rumford a Market Town in the County of Essex in the Hundred of Havering Rumney a Market Town and Corporation in the County of Kent in Sheway Lath which returns two Members of Parliament § Also a River in Monmouthshire falling into the Severn Rumsey a Market Town in Hampshire in the Hundred of Kingsomborn upon the River Test Rupel Rupera Rupela a small River in the Dukedom of Brabant made by the Demera Dila Senna and Neth which falls into the Scheld at Rupelmonde Rupelmunda a Town and ancient Castle in Brabant which has its name from the last mentioned River between the Scheld and Rupel two Miles from Antwerp to the South Mercator the great Geographer was born in this Town in 1512. Ruremond See Roermond Russ Vrsa a River in Switzerland which ariseth from the Alpes and Mount S. Godard and running Northward by Altorff and the Lake of Lucern watereth the City of Lucern and being improved by some smaller Rivers finally buries it self in Aa Russe Rusna a River of the Ducal Prussia which has been call'd Chronus It ariseth in Lithuania where it is called Niemen and entertaining the Sezara and Vilia it watereth the Southern parts of Samogitia after which it takes the name of Russe and at last ends in the Bay of Memel by five Out-lets having watered Grodno and Kowna two considerable Cities of Poland in his Progress Russia a vast Country in the North-East part of Europe called by the Inhabitants Rusz by the Germans Russandt by the English Russia and Muscovy by the Poles Moskwa and Russenlandt by the Turks Russ to the Ancients known by no other name than that of Sarmatia Europaea It is bounded on the North by the frozen Ocean on the East it is separated from the Asiatick Tartars by the Rivers of Obb and Jaickz on the South it is divided from the Crim Tartars by the Tanais Minor or the Donetz as it is now called on the West the Nieper and Narva divide it from Poland It s length from North to South is three hundred and eighty German Miles its breadth from East to West three hundred of the same So that it is by far the greatest Kingdom in Christendom if it were equally Civiliz'd Fertil and Peopled as it is not For the dispatch of Business and the Management of Affairs it is divided into forty Provinces the names of which and of about thirty three Cities that are to be found in it would take more room than this small Work will allow This Nation in 861. made an Invasion into Greece and besieged Michael the Emperor in Constantinople but could not take it The Captives they carried home with them and made them partakers of a greater blessing by teaching them the Christian Religion which was after this in 866. promoted by Bâ—siâ—ius the Emperor In 944. they made a second attempt upon Constantinople which miscarried also In 980. Viodomir Duke of Russia Marrying Anna Daughter to Basilius Emperor of Greece embraced the Christian Religion and settled it intirely in this Country from whence it comes to pass that they embrace the Tenets Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church and have the utmost Aversion for the Latin Church and Service About 1058. Boleslaus King of Poland Conquered Russia which was reduced to obedience after a Revolt by another Boleslaus in 1123. In after-times they had frequent Wars with the Poles who prevailed so far as about 1342 they intirely Conquered the red Russia the Nobility of which in 1434 were received into the same state with the Nobility of Poland allowing them at the same time the Exercise of the Greek Religion which they from their first Conversion to this day follow They are as well by Interest as Conquest united to that Crown and never to be separated from it but by another Conquest About 1205. the black Russia now called Muscovy was Invaded by Batton Son of Ghangius King of the Tartars who lived to the North-East of this Country
It is sufficiently known how the first Romans under Romulus procured themselves Wives from this People their Neighbours Sabionetta Sabuloneta a strong Town in Lombardy which has a strong Castle Garrisoned by Spaniards It is the Capital of a Sovereign Dukedom belonging heretofore to the Caraffa's and now to the Gusman's a Spanish Family between the Dukedom of Mantoua to the East and the Territory of Cremena to the West twenty five Miles East of Cremona and fifteen North of Parma Sablé Sabolium a small City in the Province of Maine upon the River Sarte ten Leagues from Anger 's to the North and from Mans to the South Sablestan Sablistania an inland Province in the Kingdom of Persia towards the East in the Mountains between Chorazan to the North and Khermon or Caramania to the South The Cities of which are Zarans Bost and Nebesaet Sacae an ancient People of Scythia betwixt the Mountain Imaus and the Sarmatian Alani represented by Dionysius Africanus and others as a wild and cruel Nation Sacania Laconia the most Southern Province in the Morea containing that part which was anciently under the Lacedemonians and Argia The Capital of which is Misitra Sacay Sacaia a City in Japan Sacca Siacca Saxa Xacca a City on the South Shoar of Sicily in the Valley of Mazara called by the Ancients Thermae Selinuntiae It stands at the foot of a Mountain and has an Harbour twenty two Miles from Mazara to the East and forty from Gergenty Cluverius saith it has an ancient Castle which is now carefully upheld and repaired A Synod was held here in 1579. Sachsen See Saxony Sadodela Edus a River of Liguria in Italy now in the States of Genoua which falls into the Porcevera Saffay Savus a small River of Barbary which falls into the Mediterranean Sea in the Kingdom of Argier between Accharara and Metafus Sagabria See Zagabria Sagan Saganum a City in Silesia in the Kingdom of Bohemia the Capital of a Dukedom of the same name called by the Germans Zeigan It stands upon the Bober where it receives the Queiss seven German Miles from Glogaw to the West and six from Crossen to the North. Now in the Hands of the Emperor as King of Bohemia whose Predecessors in 1548. redeemed to out of the Hands of the Elector of Saxony to whom it was Mortgaged together with its Dukedom Sagone a ruined City in the Island of Corsica which is yet a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Pisa in Italy the Bishop keeping Residence at a neighbouring Town Sagriano Sagra a small River in the Farther Calabria Saguenay a River Town and Province in New France The River discharges it self into the Gulph of S. Lawrence Saguntum a noble and famous City of the ancient Spain whose memory is recorded with honour for their fidelity to their Allies the Romans when Hannibal desieg'd them nine months together in the year of Rome 535. Chusing rather than betray the one or fall into the Hands of the other in one vast fire made in the middle of the City to destroy themselves their Wives and Children with every thing that was dear and valuable to them Hannibal razed the place Which fact of his became the Subject of the second Punick War Flor. 2. 6. Sahid Delta an Island made by the divided Branches of the Nile and the Mediterranean Sea which is the best part of the Lower Egypt See Delta Saille or Haute-Saille Alta Sylva a Monastery of the Cistercian Order in the Pais de Vauge in the Dukedom of Lorain first established about the year 1140. in the midst of a great high Forest and therefore called Saille by a corruption of the word Silva Saint Santo Santa Sainct Is a VVord frequently put before the Names of Places since Christianity prevailed in the VVorld of which those that are omitted under their proper Names are as followeth S. Agatha di Gotti Agatha or Fanum Sanctae Agathae Agathopolis a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Further Principate which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento nine Miles from Telese to the South and fourteen from Capua and Benevento S. Aignan or Agnan a Town of the Dukedom of Berry in France which stands at the reception of the River Saudre by the Cher adorned with the Title of a Dukedom and Peerdom now of an Earldom before and so called in honour of a Bishop of Orleans of this name its tutelar whose reliques they preserve here It s more ancient name was Hagand S. Alyre a Town and Abbey in the Province of Auvergne in France near Clermont by which the River Tiretaine passes S. Amand Elno a Town in the Earldom of Flanders and Confines of Hainault in the Hands of the French and heretofore very strong but now dismantled It stands upon the River Scharpe which a little Lower falls into the Schelde four Leagues from Tournay to the South and three from Valenciennes The Lands lying between the Scharpe and the Schelde are from this place called the Isles de St. Amand but it s greatest glory is a celebrated Monastery Abbatia S. Amandi Elnonensis where the Saint of that name dyed This Town was taken by the French in 1667. The Forest beginning upon the Frontiers of Flanders and extending nigh to Valenciennes in Hainault hath the name also of the Forest of S. Amand. S. Amour a small Town in the County of Burgundy in France and the Diocese of Lyons Honored of late with a Collegiate Church S. Andero Andreapolis Antiqua Flavionavia a Town and Port in the Principality of Biscay in Spain lately advanced to the Dignity of a Bishop's See Some place it in the Asturias S. Andiol a Town in the Province of Vivaretz in France upon the Rhosne adorned with divers Ecclesiastical and Religious Houses and a College of the Barnabites It s ancient name in Latin was Gento Gentibo Gentibus This of S. Andiol and Fanum S. Andeoli descended upon it by the Martyrdom of S. Andeolus a Graecian Subdeacon here in the Reign of the Emperor Severus about the year 190 who with others had been sent to serve the Gauls by S. Polycarp from the East It hath the Latin name also of Vivariense Monasterium being under the Bishop of Viviers S. Andre or Fort de Saint Andre a strong Cittadel in the Dutchy of Guelderland in the Low Countries situated betwixt the Maze and the VVael about two Leagues from Bosteduc Built in 1599. by Andrew Cardinal of Austria and the year after taken by the Dutch who remain the Masters of it Only in 1672. the French gained it and soon after ruined and abandoned it § A Town near Buda in Hungary supposed by Bonfinius to be the Quarta decima legio Germanica of Ptolemy bears this name also Capo di S. Andrea a Promontory of the Island Cyprus the same which Pliny calls Dinaretum Capo S. Andrea a Promontory of the Peloponnesus in Achaia the same with the ancient Antirrhium of Ptolemy and Pliny S. Andres Lavantum
covered with glazed Slate The Soil is light and sandy apt to produce all sorts of Fruits as Sugar Tabacco Cotton Ginger Indico and the like it wants not Springs and some hot Waters sit for natural Baths This Island was discovered by Christopher Columbus the finder out of the New World and either called by this Name to preserve the Memory of his own or because the Island at a distance seems to represent the usual Picture of S. Christopher upon a Giants Shoulders The English have so increased that they have sent Colonies from thence to Barbuda Monserrat Antego and Barbadoes The French have built a Town of good bigness called le Basse-Terre by the English Back-starr and a College of Jesuits The Houses of Back starr are of Brick Free-Stone and Timber well inhabited by Tradesmen and Merchants But in a great measure destroyed by an Earthquake April 1690. the Earth opening in many places nine foot The English have taken all this Island to themselves in this War June and July 1690 under the Command of Capt. Codrington Capt. Wright and Sir Tim. Thornhill S. Claude Fanum Sti. Claudii a Town in the Franche Cempte in Burgundy fortified in the Borders of la Bresse formerly called S. Oyen de Joux it has a very celebrated Monastery five Leagues from Geneva to the West three from the Rhosne from this Town the Mountain de Joux is sometime called S. Claude S. Clou Fanum Sancti Clodoaldi a remarkable Town in the Isle of France on the Seyne over which it has a Stone Bridge and a magnificent Palace belonging to the Dukes of Orleans It stands upon an Hill two Leagues below Paris to the West Hen. III. King of France died in this Town in 1589. of the Wounds he received from a Fryar It has lately been honored with the Title of a Dukedom which is annexed to the Bishoprick of Paris S. Croce Stauropolis an Inland City of Caria in the Lesser Asia which is an Archbishops See who has a very large Jurisdiction there being under him twenty seven Suffragan Bishops Sancta Crux a Town upon the North Coast of the Island of Cuba in America Sancta Cruz a small but strong City in the Kingdom of Susa upon the Atlantick Ocean built by the Portuguese in 1536. but since taken by the King of Susa under whom it is It is also called Cap d' Aguer Sancta Cruz de la Sierra a small City in the Kingdom of Peru a Bishops See under the Archbishop of la Plata from which it stands one hundred Spanish Leagues to the East S. Davids Menevia a City and Bishoprick in the extreme corner of Pembrokeshire in Wales upon the Irish Sea and the Promontorium Octapitarum of the ancients the same that is now called S. Davids Head Often heretofore spoiled and ruined by the Danes Norwegians and other Pyrates The Cathedral now standing was the work of Peter the 49th Bishop of S. Davids in 1176. who dedicated it by the joynt names of S. Andrew and S. David this latter person being the Founder of the See For he in the time of the Saxons fury under King Arthur being Archbishop of Caerleon upon Vsk translated the Archiepiscopal See of Caerleon to Menew the ancient name of this City whence the Bishops style themselves Episcopi Menevenses so that Menew became an Archbishoprick and had seven Suffragans under it at S. Augustines coming into England it afterward continued so for twenty six Successions till Sampson an Archbishop of it in the time of a plague transferred the Pall and Dignity to Dole in Brittany Whereby his Successors at S. Davids lost their Name of Archbishops Yet Bernard B. of S. Davids in 1115. was the first that submitted himself to the See of Canterbury This Diocese contains the whole Counties of Pembroke Cardigan Caermarthen Radnor Brecknock with some small parts of Monmouth Hereford Montgomery and Glamorganshires S. Dizier a strong Town in Champagne in France upon the River Marne in the Borders of the Dukedom de la Barr six Leagues from Bar le Duc to the North-East and forty two from Paris to the East The Capital of the Territory of Valage betwixt Joinville and Chalon Besieged and taken by Charles V. in 1544 and after restored to France by the Peace of Crespy S. Domingo de la Calcada a small Town in Old Castile in Spain near Najara S. Donato Forum Appium a Town in the Campagnia di Roma in Italy S. Eustacia one of the Leeward Islands in the West-Indies otherwise called the Carribys It was planted by the French but taken from them by the English under Sir Tim. Thornhill and Capt. Wright July 1690. A very small Island with one only Fort is capable of about eighty Men. Near to S. Christophers S. Fe Fanum Sanctae Fidei a Town in Granada upon the River Xenil built by K. Ferdinando in 1491. in a Plain two Leagues from Granada to the West S. Fé a City i◠South America in Paragua in the Province of la Plata two hundred and forty Miles from the City de Buenos Ayres to the North. S. Fe de Bogota a City of South America in the Kingdom of New Granada the Capital of which it is and an Archbishops See It stands upon the River Pati by the Lake Guaravita at the foot of a Mountain called Bogota from which it has its Name a vast distance from the Sea every way S. Fiorenza Fanum Sancti Florentii a Town on the North Coast of the Island of Corsica under the Genouese with a Port and considerable Fortifications Understood by some to be the Canelata of Ptolemy S. Flour Floriopolis Fanum Sancti Flori a City in the Vpper Auvergne built on an high Hill commonly called la Planese and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourges ever since 1317. being then Founded by P. John XXII upon the River Ladir Twenty Leagues from Clermont to the South and eight from le Puy to the West Some take it to be the Indiacum of the ancients S. For a Town in Aquitain upon the River Dordogne in the Province of Agenois in the Borders of Perigort four Leagues from Bergerac to the West S. Foy a Town in the Province of Guyenne in France upon the Dordogne betwixt Bergerao and Libourne Taken by the Protestants in 1563. S. Gall Fanum Sancti Galli a Town in Switzerland which has a famous and rich Benedictine Abbey of greater Antiquity and much greater extent and jurisdiction than the Town being able to levy above six thousand Men of its own Subjects The Abbot is a Prince of the Empire since the year 1226. It stands in the Territory of Torgow betwixt the Cantons of Zurich and Appenzel and the Diocese of Constance and is one of the principal Cantons one Mile from the Lake of Constance and four from Lindaw to the West Heretofore an Imperial and Free City but now exempt The Abbey owes its Beginning either to an Irish or Scotch Devote of the name who preach'd
of Africa so called by the Portuguese an uninhabited Place almost wholly covered with Mountains Nor the Charriby Island in America which first the Spaniards possessed and was afterwards divided betwixt the French and Dutch Sancta Martha Fanum Sanctae Marthae a City in the Terra Firma a Province of South America on the Shoar of the North Sea which has an Haven and a Castle in the Hands of the Spaniards Also a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Fé de Bogota It has been taken and plundered both by the English and Hollanders and therefore not much peopled Yet it is the capital City of S. Martha a Province in Castile D'or in South America of the same name The Province abounds in Oranges Citrons Pomegranates Vines Maze Mines of Gold Pretious Stones c. Partly under the Spaniards and partly under a Race of unconquered Natives who with Kings of their own make vigorous opposition to the Spaniards It hath some Mountains in it covered with Snow though the Maritime Parts are hot The City stands with a large Port upon the North Sea honoured with the Residence of the Governour of the Province In 1595. Sir Francis Drake set fire to it In 1630. the General of the Dutch West India Company took it but the Spaniards ransomed it again The French have had their turns likewise of pillaging of this City § The Mountain Sierras Nevadas in Castile D'or passes also by this name Sancta Maura Leucadia Leucas Neritum an Island in the Ionian Sea on the Coast of Epirus to which it is joined by a Timber Bridge nine Miles from Cephalonia It has a City of the same Name very strong seated on the East side in the middle of the Channel where it is a League over This Town is a mere Nest of Pyrats which though they live in the Turkish Territories are yet by their own Masters persecuted for this infamous Trade the Bassa of the Morea making a Voyage thither to burn their Galliots as Mr. Wheeler acquaints us There belongs to it an Aquaduct which now serves instead of a Bridge to those that go on Foot to this Place It is not at the top above a Yard broad and about a Mile long and so very high that if two should meet upon it their Lives would be endangered there being no Stairs and scarce room to pass This City has about six thousand Inhabitants Greeks Christians and Turks It is also a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lepanto The Island was under the State of Venice till Mahomet II. took it from them In 1684. the Venetians under Morosini retook it It is fruit ul in Corn Oranges Limons and Almonds its Pasturage very good and though about forty Miles in compass yet has it not above thirty poor Villages inhabited by such as Till the Ground and Fish So that the Bishop has apparently a small Revenue S. Maximin a Town of Provence in the Diocese of Aix in which Charles II. King of France in the thirteenth Century founded a famous Monastery of the Dominicans It was also adorned with a College in 1476. The common Opinion as to its antient Name speaks it to be Villa Lata S. Menehould Fanum Sancti Menehildis a Town in Champagne in the Territory of Argonne the Capital of which it is upon the River Aisne nine Leagues from Chaalons to the East and the same distance from Virdun it has a strong Castle built on an Hill taken twice within the compass of a few years S. Michael the chief Town in Barbadoes at the bottom of Carlile Bay in the South part of the Island which has an Harbour able to secure five hundred Vessels at once This Town is long containing several Streets and beautified by many well-built Houses Also very populous being the Seat of the Governour or his Deputy and of the Courts of Justice for the whole Island the Scale of their Trade where most of the Merchants and Factors have their Houses and Store-Houses from whence the Inhabitants are supplied with the English Commodities by way of Exchange yet is the Town liable to be floated by the Spring Tides and by that means made unhealthful For its defence it has two strong Forts with a Platform in the middle which command the Road and are well stored with Cannon Mount S. Michel Mons Sancti Michaelis in periculo Maris a Town built with great art upon an inaccessible Rock in the Sea between Bretagne and Normandy whence came the first Institution of the Knights of the Order of S. Michel It belongs to Normandy and is seated at the Mouth of the River Lers at a low Water it may be approached by Land besides the Castle it has an Abbey and a Church built by Aubert Bishop of Auranches in 706 in the Reign of Childebert King of France The Rock had been chosen for a Retreat by Hermites in the times foregoing This Town stands four Leagues from Auranches to the West and the same distance from S. Malo to the East The Sand here is good for making of Salt § In Mounts Bay in the County of Cornwal there is of this name a Hill called S. Michael's Mount separated by a sandy Plain from the Main Land but at Ebb water accessible on foot This Mount riseth to a good heighth and bears an old Fort upon the top of it Ilha de S. Miguel one of the Tercera Islands in the Atlantick Ocean under the Portugueze betwixt Tercera to the North and S. Maria to the South The principal Settlements in it are S. Antonio Villa Franca and Punta del gada § The Venetians are Masters of an Island of the same name upon the Coast of Dalmatia near Zara in the Adriatick which they call Isold di san Michele others Vgliana § There is a third Isla de S. Miguel in the East Indian Ocean betwixt Calamianes or Paragoia to the North and Borneo to the South S. Miguel Fanum Sancti Michelis Michaelopolis a City of South America in the Kingdom of Peru and Presecture of Quitoa seated in the Valley of Piura twelve Miles from the South Sea The first Colony the Spaniards setled in this Province The Indians used to call it Chila There is a Town of the same Name in New Spain in the Province of Guatimala at the Mouth of the River Lempa sixty Miles from Guatimala to the East Another in New Granada A fourth called S. Miguel del Estero in Tucumania twenty eight Leagues from San Jago del Estero which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of la Plata S. Mihel a City in Lorain upon the Maes in the Dukedom of Bar between Toul to the South and Verdun to the North. S. Miniato al Tedesco Miniatum Teutonis a City of Hetruria in the Dukedom of Florence built upon an Hill by the River Arno between Florence to the East and Pisa to the West twenty Miles from either Heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Florence S. Morris a Town in the
entered upon the See by the Regal Authority against the Consent of the Metropolitan and the Bishops of the Province which Decree drew upon the Authors of it a fevere Prâ—secution from the Crown Saintonge or Xaintonge Santonia a great and fruitful Province of France bounded on the North by Poictou on the East by Angoumois on the South by the Garonne which separates it from Guienne and on the West by the Bay of Aquitain This was the Seat of the Santones an ancient Nation of the Galls its Capital is Saintes the other Cities of Note are Brouges S. Jean de Angely and Taillebourg The Rivers Garonne Charante Seudre c. water it They make great quantities of Salt in this Province The Romans had their Colonies in it who often deride the short Cloaks or Gowns worn by the ancient Gauls here as Martial Gallia Santonico vestit te Bardocucullo Cercopithecorum penula nuper erat The same habit towards the Sea Coasts is in use with the common People to this day This Province fell to the Crown of England together with Gascoigne Guienne c. by the Marriage of Eleanor of Guienne with K. Henry II. of England Sala the same with Saal Salado Salsum a River of Spain in Anddlusia called Guadajox which between Sivil and Corduba falls into the Guadalquivir Salamanca Salmantica a City in Spain called Vrbs Vettonum by Ptolemy and perhaps the same with Polybius his Elmantica it stands in the Kingdom of Leon upon the River Tormes a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Compostella and an University founded by Alfonsus IX King of Leon in the year 1200 which is one of the most considerable in that Kingdom adorned with noble Schools and a large Library About ten Leagues from Zamora to the South fourteen from the Borders of Portugal to the East and two and twenty from Valladolid to the South-West upon several Hills in a very unequal Situation of a small circuit ill built worse repaired most of the Houses being falling down and besides its Churches Monasteries and Colleges has nothing that deserves Regard Long. 14. 45. Lat. 41. 15. Salamis Salamine an ancient Archiepiscopal City in the Island of Cyprus which boasted of the honour of having its Church founded by the Apostle S. Barnabas whose Body was discovered to lye here in 485. It afterwards took the name of il Porto Costanzo or Constantia The Philosopher Anaxarchus suffered in this City the pounding to death in a mortar by the order of Nicocreon King of Cyprus with a singular constancy It is now utterly ruined Salamis an Island See Coluri Saâ—andra Salandrilla or Aâ—alandra a River in the Basilicate in the Kingdom of Naples passing by Risetto and thence called also Piume di Rosetto to the gulph of Taranto Salawar Zalawar or Zalad a County in the Lower Hungary upon the Borders of Stiria with the Drave to the South and the County of Vesprin to the North. Kanisa stands in this County upon the River Sala But the Capital Town of it bears the same name of Salawar Sale Sala a City ascribed in ancient time by Ptolemy to Mauritania Tingitana seated at the Mouth of a River of the same Name on the Shoars of the Kingdom of Fez on the Atlantick Ocean A place of great Trade and has a noble Habor but it is an infamous Nest of Piratâ— It was heretofore a Common-Wealth now under the King of Fez who is Master of the Castle It stands one hundred Miles from Fez to the West and Tangier to the South Almanesor one of the Moorish Kings much beautified it and was after buried in it The Spaniards took it in 1287 who lost it in ten days again in 1632. King Charles I. sent a Fleet against this City which blocked it up by Sea whilst the King of Morocco besieged it by Land and by this means brought it under the Works being levelled and those Rogues Executed for which King Charles had three hundred Christian Captives sent him as a Recompence a Reward worthy of that Holy King Long. 6. 40. Lat. 33. 50. Sale the same with Saal Sale Sala a River in Quercy a Province of France Sale Sala a Province of the Kingdom of Bosnia Salefica Saleucia a City in Cilicia in the Lesser Asia which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch It stands seventy Miles from Tarsus to the West and twelve from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea to the North called by Niger Seleschia Long. 64. Lat. 38. 40. Salentini the ancient Inhabitants of Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples in the Roman times Salerno Salernum Salerna a City in the Kingdom of Naples which was a Roman City and Colony called by Strabo and Livy Vrbs Picentinorum Now an Archbishops See a Principality and the Capital of the Hither Principato It stands upon the River Busanola upon the Shoars of the Tyrrhenian Sea upon which it has a Bay called by its own Name and a safe and large Haven twenty four Miles from Naples to the South-East and thirty from Benevento to the South Long. 38. 44. Lat. 40. 33. This Archbishoprick was founded by Pope Boniface VII in 974. The Body of S. Matthew the Apostle is said to be in this Place Pope Gregory VII died here in 1085. It has a Castle and many Antiquities which are the Remainders of the Roman Works When Naples had distinct Kings the Title of this place belonged to the eldest Son of that Kingdom In the years 1615. and 1579. there were two small Councils held at it Salettes a Carthusian Nunnery of great note and quality upon the frontiers of Dauphine in France toward la Bresse Salfeâ—â—d an Abbey in Thuringia in Germany Salii an ancient People of Provence in France who as we find in Strabo Mela c. extended themselves from about Aix as far as to Nice § There was another Nation of the Salii in the Tract now called Sallant from them in Overyssel in the Low Countries Saline Didyme one of the Liparee Islands belonging to Sicily twelve Miles in circuit and fruitful in Allum Near this place the Dutch received a great Defeat from the French at Sea in 1676. Baudrand The Italians call it Didimo Salino Suinus a River in the Kingdom of Naples which springeth out of the Apâ—â—hine and â—inning through the Further Abruzzo watering Pennâ— a City of that Province and Pescara falls into the Gulph of Venice Salingstede Salinâ—stadium a Town in Franconia upon the Maine four Miles above Franck fort to the East By Charles the Great made a Bishap's See but in 780 this Chair was removed to Hailbâ—une It was then a very great City since become subject to the Bishop of Mentz Salins Salinae a strong City in the Franche Comté upon the River Forica eight Loagues from Dole to the East and fifty eight from Geneva to the North. It is seated in a fruitful Valley betwixt two Mountains called Scoding which has been the reason why this City in the Latin
Writers of the middle Ages is called Scâ—dingum there belong to it two Castles and several Salt-Springs which are boiled up to an excellent white Salt This City was taken by the French in 1668 and again in 1674 ever since which last Date it has continued in their Hands by the peace of Nimeguen It hath four Parishes and divers religious Houses Sall Sala a Town in Westmannia in Sweden between Vpland and Nericia five Swedish Miles from Vpsal to the W. which has been much celebrated on the account of some silver Mines it had heretofore Sallant Sallandia that is the Land of the Salii a considerable part of the Province of Overyssel and one of the three parts of that Province towards the Yssel and Zuider Sea in which are the Towns of Deventer Zwol Campen and Steenwick Salisbury See Sarisbury Salme Salmona a small Town in Lorain the Capital of a Territory called the Principality of Salme which ever since 1460 has belonged to a Branch of the Family of the Rhine-graves It lies in the Borders of Alsatia within Mount Vauge twenty Miles from Nancy to the East Salnich Celidnus a River which in Pliny's time was the Southern Boundary of Macedonia it falls into the Adriatick Sea on the North side of the Crosfo della Valona in the Kingdom of Albania over against Ot ranto in Italy Salo. See Xalon Salon Salum a Town in Provence in France betwixt Aix and Arles which hath the honour of a Collegiate Church and divers religious Houses Being the more remarkable also for giving birth to the two famous Michael and Caesar Nostradamus's Salona a City of Dalmatia formerly a place of great Esteem and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Spalatro The Emperor Dioclesian retreated hither after his resignation of the Empire It espoused Caesar's interest in the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey and when besieg'd by Octavius it repulsed all his attempts with the greatest obstinacy and bravery That old City being ruined by the Sclavonians lies now in its Ruins near which the Venetians have built a Castle at the Mouth of a River both of the same Name five Miles from Spalatro to the North. This Castle is in the Hands of the Venetians Salonichi See Thessalonica Salses or Sausses Salsulae a strong Castle in the County of Rousillon built on an Hill by a Lake of the same Name in the Borders of Languedoc four Leagues from Perpignan to the North and two from the Mediterranean Sea West This Castle was built by the Spaniards against the Inroads of the Castle of Leucate but taken by the French in 1640 and confirm'd to them by the Treaty of the Pyrenees The derivation of its name is taken from the Salt-Springs near it Saltfleet a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Loutheaske upon the Sea much frequented in the Summer Season for its good Fish Salwarp a River in Worcestershire falling into the Severn Droitwich and Bromesgrove stand upon the Banks of it Saltzburg Juvavia Salisburgum Poedicum Hadriana a great City in the Circle of Bavaria in Germany which is an Archbishops See upon the River Saltzor and has a very strong Castle built on an advanced ground under the Dominion of its own Archbishop together with a very large Territory called the Bishoprick of Saltzburg This City stands nineteen Miles from Inspruck to the North-East seventeen from Munchen to the East and thirteen from Ilstadt to the South Historians do generally believe that it was at first the Capital of Noricum in which the ancient Geographers place it Made an Archbishops See in the year 798 in the times of Charles the Great having before been a Bishop's See in the fifth Century but the Goths sacking the City and destroying the Christians the succession to that See suffered an interruption nigh two Ages It was also for some time an Imperial and Free City but since exempted In 1195. the Emperour Henry VI. reduced it into ashes but being reedified it carries the name at present one of the best and strongest Cities in Germany Made lately an University too by an Archbishop of it under the Regency of the Benedictines and adorned with a new Cathedral in 1628 which passes for one of the most magnificent Piles in Christendom The Archbishoprick of Saltzburg Salisburgensis Ditio is a Province in the Circle of Bavaria in Germany between Carinthia and Stiria to the East the lower Bavaria and the Earldom of Tirol to the West Austria to the North and the Bishoprick of Brixen and Carinthia to the South The Bishoprick of Chiemzee is incorporated with this Archbishoprick The Archbishop besides is a Prince of the Empire and a Legatus Natus from the Roman See in Germany Saltzor Saltzach Juvavius a River of Germany which ariseth from Mount Taurus in the Earldom of Tirol and washing Saltzburg which has its Name from this River falls into the Inns between Oetingen and Branaw below Burehausen a Town of Bavaria Les Salvages two barren and desert Islands toward the Coast of Africa of the number of the Canaries only they swarm with Fowl Saluces Saluzzes or Saluzzo a Marquisate in Piedmont at the Foot of the Alpes heretofore a Fife of Dauphine and annexed to France but granted by Henry IV. to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy in exchange for la Bresse Beugey and some others on this side the Alpes about the year 1601. It is bounded by Piedmont on the North and East by the Dauphine on the West and by the County of Nizza on the South The River Po owes its head to Mount Viso in this Marquisate and the strong Fortress of Carmagnole is one of its dependencies It takes its Name from Saluzzo Salutiae the principal Town which ever since the year 1511 has been a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Turin It stands upon an Hill at the Foot of the Alpes about one Mile from the Po ten from Fossano to the West and twenty four from Turin to the South secured by a strong Castle and adorned with a most magnificent Cathedral This City was anciently called Augusta Vagiennorum Samachonitis or Semechonitis the Lake of Meroz made by the River Jordan in Palestine on the North of the Sea of Galilee About sixty Greek Stadia in length and thirty in breadth In the Winter swelled with the Snow from the Mountain Libanus Samandria See Spenderobi Samarchand Samarchanda Marchanda a vast City in the Asiatick Tartary one hundred Miles beyond the River Oxus the Capital of that Kingdom and the Royal City of that great Prince Tamberlaine who stiled himself Flagellum Dei the Scourge of God who about the year 1402 took Bajazet the Emperor of the Turks his Prisoner and died in the year 1406. This Prince bestowed his utmost care in adorning beautifying and enlarging this City built in it a very strong Castle and instituted an University But in what state it now is is not easily known Samaria a City of Palestine mentioned by Ptolemy and Strabo as well as
de Dier Santo Xanthus a City and River in Phrygia in the Lesser Asia it ariseth from Mount Ida and washing the famous City of Troy falls into the Archipelago Called also by the Europeans Il Scamandro as it was Scamander by the Ancients Sanctors the same with Santerre â—ahia de â—oâ—â—s los Santos Sinus omnium Sanctorum a Gulph in Brasil in South America which gives name to a Government or Province there called Capitania de la bahia de todos los Sants betwixt the Province of the Isles Capitania dos Ilheos and that of Seregippe del Roy. The Capital of All Saints is S. Salvador under the Portugueze Santuliet or Sanflit Sanflita a small but strong Town in Brabant upon the Schelde between Antwerp to the South and Bergen op Zoome to the North three Leagues Soane Savo a small River in Campania di Roma in Italy which flowing through the Terra di Lavoro a Province of the Kingdom of Naples falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea between Sinuessa a ruined City and Volturno Saosne or Saone Arar Savona Sangona a great River in France called by the Italians Sona it ariseth out of Mount Vauge in Lorain near Dornay about twelve Miles from the Fountains of the Moselle to the North-West or as Baudrand saith within five and running Southward through the upper part of Franché Comté it watereth Gray and beneath it takes in the Loughon a great River from the East So it passeth by Auxone to Verdun above which the Doule a great River comes in from the East So passing by Challon Tornus Mascon and Ville Franche it entreth and divideth the City of Lyons and soon after falls into the Rhosne which conveys it into the Mediterranean Sea Some derive its Latin Name Sangona from the Blood of the Christians colouring its Waters at Lyons in the Massacre that was committed upon them there in the Reign of Marcus Aurelius the Emperour Sapienza an Island over against the City Modon in the Morea which gives the name of the Sea of Sapienza to that part of the Mediterranean which watereth its Coasts It was anciently called Spagia or Sphragia The Corsaires of Barbary lye in Ambuscade behind this Island for Vessels that come from the Gulph of Venice or the Coast of Sicily Sara a City of Armenia Major and another of Illyricum remembred in the ancient Geographies Sarabat Hermus a River of the Lesser Asia which ariseth in the Greater Phrygia and receiving the Rivers anciently called Crya Hillus and Pactolus falls into the Bay of Smyrna The Saracens Some deriving the original of this people from Hagar and Ismael call them Hagarenes and Ismaelites Others make them to be descended from Cham and that they were the Inhabitants of the ancient Saraca in Arabia mentioned by Ptolemy and of the Country whereof that City was the Capital It is certain they were an Arabian people and withal that their Name in Arabick signifies Robbers according to the common practice of their lives which they first began to discover in the fifth Century Attaining in the course of time to such an universal puissance as to over-run Syria Persia Palestine Egypt part of Sicily Italy France and most of the Islands of the Mediterranean under Kings of their own and to withstand the united Forces of Christendom in the eleventh and twelfth Ages till the Turks the Caliphs of Egypt and the Sophyes of Persia breaking severally into their Estates the very name of Saracen became abolished only as it is sometimes now applied to Mahometans because the Saracens were Mahometans Saragora Cesar Augusta Vrbs Edetanorum Salduba the Capital City of the Kingdom of Aragon in Spain called by the Inhabitants Zaragosa by the Italians Saragoza It is an Archbishops See of the Creation of Pope John XXII the Seat of the Courts of Justice for that Kingdom of an Inquisition and an University It stands upon the River Ebro which is here covered with a Bridge a little above the Confluence of the Guerva and beneath that of the Xaleon Nonius might justly say of it If the fertility of the Soil the pleasantness of its Site the beauty and elegance of the Buildings of this City be duely considered there can nothing be desired towards the improvement of it which is wanting The Houses are for the most part of Brick the Streets large and open so that for use and beauty it is equal to the best City in Spain It has a strong Wall four Gates a great number of Towers one Cittadel seventeen great Churches fourteen Monasteries and about three Miles in Circuit the Air is very clear and healthful but inclining to too much heat It is a City of great Antiquity having been a Roman Colony and in those times one of the principal Cities in Spain In 381. there was a Council celebrated here in which Priscillianus was condemned who had a great number of followers in Spain There were also other Councils held here in 516. 592. and 691. Prudentius one of the ancientest Christian Latin Poets was a Native of this place who flourished in the fourth Century This City was recovered out of the hands of the Moors in 1118. The Archbishops See was renewed in 1318. It stands forty two Spanish Miles from Valencia to the North twenty six from Pampelune and thirty eight from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Long. 20. 10. Lat. 42. 30. Saragossa See Syracusa Sarbruck or Sarbrucken Sarrae Pons a Town of Germany upon the River Sar in the Borders of the Dukedom of Lorain over against S. Jean Three German Miles from Deux-Pontz and nine from Metz to the East Heretofore an Imperial and Free City of Germany but fell afterwards under the Duke of Lorain and now in the hands of the French although not great yet it is a fine Town of great antiquity being mentioned by Antoninus in his Itinerary Sarcelle Rusicibar an ancient Town of Mauritania Caesariensis mentioned by Ptolemy and Antoninus and now in the Kingdom of Argier in Barbary Twenty eight Miles from the Capital of that Kingdom to the West It is a considerable Town has a large Haven on the Mediterranean Sea and a Castle Sarch Assyria a Province of Asia under the Turks See Assyria Sardinia Sandalioris Ichnusa a great Island in the Mediterranean Sea called by the Inhabitants Sardenna by the Spaniards Sardegna and by other Nations Sardinia In length from North to South one hundred and seventy Miles in breadth from East to West ninety in circuit five hundred It has eleven Harbours ninety four Watch-Towers to preserve it from the Turkish Pirats and in the Roman times it had forty two Cities in the former Ages of Christianity eighteen Episcopal ones which are now reduced to eight The first Nation that became Masters of it were the Carthaginians from whom it was taken by the Romans in the first Punick War about the year of Rome 493. two hundred fifty seven years before the Birth of our Saviour In the Fall of the Roman
to the North now also sometimes called Lamia Scalambri or Scaramis Caucana a ruin'd City and Port on the South of Sicily near Cape Passaro the most Eastern Point Scalona Ascalon a City in the Holy Land on the Mediterranean Sea between Azotus to the North and Gaza to the South eighteen Miles It was one of the Regal Cities of the Philistines after this it was a Bishop's See under the Patriarch of Jerusalem now reduced to a poor Village and a few Cottages as Leunclavius saith and the See is united to that of Bethleem Scamandro Scamander a small River in Phrygia in the Lesser Asia mentioned by Homer It falls into the Archipelago near Cape Janisary at the very entrance of the Hellespont North of the New Dardanells The River ariseth out of Mount Ida and has but a short Course Scandalor Pamphylia a Province in the Lesser Asia Scanderone Alexandria a City of Syria call'd by the Italians Alexandretta heretofore a Bishop's See and a celebrated Sea-Port at the Mouth of the River Belum now Soldrat upon the Bay of Laiazzo Issicum fifty Miles from Aleppo to the West twenty five from the Consines of Cilicia to the East The beginning of it is owing to a Castle built by Alexander the Great for a retreat whilst he besieged Tyre at the distance of four or five Miles from Tyre upon the same Coast to the South A Castle which Alexander called by his own name but time and corruption first changed it to Scandalion and now to Scanderoon Pompey destroy'd it in his Conquest of Phoenicia And in 1116. Baldwin I. King of Jerusalem whilest be besieg'd Tyre as Alexander had done before rebuilt it from which time it became a strong place an honourable Government and a safe retreat to the Christians during their possessions in the Holy Land Now saith Baudrand there is scarce any mention of it remaining except a few Cottages for the use of the Merchants and a Stone-House for the Captain of the Janisaries who collects the Grand Seigniors Customs But I have been informed by some Masters of Ships that have been there that this Place of late years is much improved by the Trade the English and Dutch drive in it Long. 68. 00. Lat. 38. 10. Scandinavia a vast Peninsula in the North of Europe containing the Kingdoms of Sweden Norway and Lapland Scandia or South Gothland by some Geographers is represented as the Southern part of it and Lapland the most Northern Scania See Schonen Scarborough a strong Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire and the Hundred of Pickering not very large but well built and inhabited standing to the Sea with a convenient Port for Trade upon a craggy steep and almost inaccessible Rock which the Sea washes on all sides but the West where the passage is narrow yet hath a strong Wall to secure it This Rock upon the top of it presents us with a fair Plain of sixty Acres of ground a Castle Royal garrisoned and a Spring of fresh Water Formerly a high stately Tower stood upon it which served as a Landmark to Ships at Sea but this in the last Civil Wars was demolished Scarborough besides is made a noted place by its Spaw and the Herring Fishery upon its Coasts Between which and Whitby to the North lies the Bay of Robin Hood the famous Robber in the Reign of K. Rich. 1. It hath the honour to be a Corporation also represented by two Burgesses in the House of Commons Scardo Scardona a City ascribed by Ptolemy to Liburnia now in Dalmatia and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Spalato ever since 1120 called by the Sclavonians Scardin It is now but small lies upon the Adriatick Sea near the Lake of Prochlian at the Mouth of the River Titius and has a small Castle on an Hill in the Hands of the Turks This Place was taken by the Venetians and ruined in the year 1570. After this the Turks repossessed it and were re-expelled by the Venetians in 1647. In 1683. the Morlaques of Croatia drove the Turks away from it and garrisoned it Baudrand placeth it thirty five Miles from Zana to the East and nine from Sibenico to the North and saith the Venetians bought it of the Wayvode of Bosnia in the year 1411. for five thousand Duckats of Gold Scardonia an Island of Dalmatia mentioned in the Writings of the ancients but now unknown Scaren Scara a small City of Westrogethia a Province of Sweden which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vpsal and heretofore the Seat of the Kings of Gothland but now in a declining Condition it stands ten Miles from the Lake of Venner to the South and twenty from Falcop to the North. Scarlino Scapris vel Scabris a Town in Italy in the Territory of Siena and Principality of Piombino ten Miles from Massa to the South Before which was slain the famous Strozzi Prior of Capoua in the French Quarrel Scarpanto Carpathus an Island near Rhodes betwixt that and Candia in the Archipelago towards the Coast of the Lesser Asia belonging to the Turks It had heretofore four considerable Cities which are now reduced to one of the same name with it self but half ruined The former Knights of Rhodes or Malta as they are now called fortified it so as to reap great advantages by it both over the Sultans of Egypt and the Turks its situation rendring it considerable in relation to Egypt and Syria The present Inhabitants generally follow the Greek rites The Mountains have been thought to contain Mines of Gold and Silver but none have hitherto undertook to open them The Soil yields plenty of Wine and Fruits and here are delicate Patridges Scarpe Scarpa a River in Artoise it ariseth three Leagues above Arras and watering it and Douay and dividing Hainault from Flanders falls into the Schelde near Mortagne a great Town in Flanders six Leagues above Tournay to the South-West Scarsdale a Dale or Valley in Derbyshire encompassed with Rocks and Mountains according to the sense of the word Scaâ—re in the Saxon Language signifying a Craggy Rock It contains one of the parts into which the County is divided Chesterfield stands in it And K. Charles I. did it the honour to make an Earldom of it in the Person of Francis Leak Lord Deyncourt of Sutton created Earl of Scarsdale in 1645. which Title descended to his Son Nicholas and now is enjoyed by his Grandson the R. H. Robert Leake Scatono a small Town in the Province of Toscana in Italy near a Lake Noted upon the account of certain stones found thereabouts which do not Calcine by fire Scenitae see the Bedovins of Arabia Schaffhausen Probatopolis Scaphusia Schafusia a City of Switzerland called by the French Schafhouse the Capital of one of the Cantons It stands upon the Rhine four Miles beneath Constance to the West two beneath the Lake of Zell or das Zeller see as the Germans call it six from Basil and four from Zurich to the North. This is
River of Cilicia in the Lesser Asia which springeth out of Mount Taurus and falls into the Mediterranean Sea between the Cities of Anemora and Arsinoë Sentino Sentinus a small River in the Marchia Anconitana which running by Sentina once a considerable Town but now only a Castle in the Dukedom of Vrbino in a pleasant Valley fifteen Miles from Eugubio the Town being ruined by the Lombards falls into the Esino Sephoris an antient City of Palestine in Galilee four Miles from Nazareth towards Mount Carmel upon a little Hill in the midst of a Plain Herod made it the principal Place for Strength in all Galilee for the greater security of his Tetrarchy Joachim and Ann the Father and Mother of the B. Virgin were Natives and Inhabitants of it in the place of whose House a Christian Church in the Primitive Times was erected as appears by the remaining Ruines There is a very large Fountain near it called commonly by the same name of the Fountain of Sephoris by which the Christian Armies often assembled in the times of the Kings of Jerusalem From Sephoris some write that Joachim and Ann removed to Nazareth and thence to Jerusalem It has been since called Dio-Cesarea but now lies in Ruines Ser Cyrrhus a River of Albania a Province or Kingdom of Greece Seraio Seraium a City of Bosnia upon the River Migliazka in the Lower Bosnia It is great and strong the Capital of that Kingdom being some few Miles from the Borders of Servia and about thirty from the Save to the South and about hinety from Belgrade to the South-West Seram a River of Bugey in France in the Territory of Valromey passing under the Bridge of Soy into the Serâ—erin and thence near Rochefore into the Rhosne Serchio Aesaris Auser Sarculus a River of Italy which ariseth out of the Apennine in Tuscany in the Borders of the Dukedom of Modena and flowing through Carfagnana and the States of Luca not far from the Capital City of that State entertaineth the Osaro and entring the Dukedom of Florence falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea five Miles North of the Mouth of the River Arno. Sere Sara a River of France in Touraine Another in the Low Countries which falls into the Oyse Seregippe del Rey a City in Brasil in South America built on an Hill near the Mouth of the River Potigipeda on the Eastern Coast the Capital of a Province of the same name between Pernambuc to the North and the Province of All Saints to the South both City and Province being subject to the King of Portugal Sereth Tiarantus a River of Moldavia which falls into the Danube near Galacz or Axiopolis Serica a great Region of the ancient Asia betwixt China to the East and the Mountain Imaus to the West famous heretofore for Manufactures in Silk Its Cities were Issedon Serica Ottorocorra Piada c. The Inhabitants are known in Antiquity by the name of Seres This Country at present lies contained in the Kingdoms of Niuche Tangut c. in the Asiatick Tartary to which some add Cathay As some include it in the ancient Scythia Asiatica others make them separate The Occhardus now Tartar is a River of Serica Serio Serius a River in Lombardy in the States of Venice which springeth out of the Mountains in the Borders of the Grisons and flowing South by Bergamo and Crema falls into the Adda above Piciglione a great Town in the Dukedom of Milan five Miles from the Borders of the Dukedom of Parma Sermoneto Sulmo Sermineta a Town in Campagua di Roma in the States of the Church which gives the Title of a Duke to the Family of Cajetan It stands twenty eight Miles from Rome to the South and seventeen from Terracina to the North-East Serpa a Town in the Kingdom of Portugal towards the Borders of Andalusia near the River Guadiana upon an Eminence with a Castle for its security It hath an unfruitful Country about it Serphino or Serfinus Seriphus an Island in the Archipelago towards Europe full of Rocks about thirty Miles in Circuit betwixt the Islands of Fermema or Thermia and Sifano The Romans used to banish Criminals to it Serrano a small uninhabited Island in the North-Sea in America betwixt Jamaica and the Region of Nicaragua in New Spain to which the Misfortunes of a Spaniard called Serrano who was Shipwrack'd upon it in the time of Charles V and detained all alone some years there for want of a Vessel to take him up again have fastned his own name Serres or Seres Serrae a City of Macedonia mentioned in Niceta Cedrenus and the latter Greek Writers by Leunclavius now called Seres It is now a considerable and well peopled Place advanced to the Honour of an Archbishops See in the place of Amphipolis between which Thessalonica and Philippi it stands upon an Hill our latter Maps place it thirty four Miles from Amphipolis to the South-East sixty from Thessalonica to the North-East and thirty from Contessa to the North-West Servan or Schirwan Servania Atropatia a Province in the North West of the Kingdom of Persia towards the Borders of Georgia and the Turkish Empire the Northern Bounds of which are the Caspian Sea It has many great Cities and is one of the most Fruitful and Populous Provinces in that Kingdom though it has suffered much in latter times by the Depredations of the Turks The Cities of it are Tauris Schamachie Servan Ardebeil and Baâ—â— This Country makes a part of the ancient Media Servia a Province of the Turkish Empire called by them Zirfia It is of great extent Bounded on the West by Croatia or rather Bosnia and Dalmatia and in part by Sclavonia on the North by the Danube which separates it from the Vpper Hungary and Moldavia on the East by Bulgaria and on the South by Macedonia Albania and Dalmatia The chief Towns and Cities in it are Belgrade Prisren Novibazar Procupie Semander and Scopia which was anciently the Capital In the times of the Romans this was called Moesia Superior esteemed a part of Thrace and the most barbarous Nation the Romans had subdued which was done by Marcus Licinius Crassus in the times of Augustus Caesar In the fall of the Roman Empire the Servi a Branch of the Sclaves became Masters of this Country and gave it the name of Servia About 1000. it was conquered by the Emperors of Constantinople but suffered to continue under their own Princes as Homagers to the Empire Amurath I. was the first of the Ottoman Princes who invaded this Country He took Nissa about 1374. after which they maintained a Bloody War with some Intermissions till 1460 when they finally submitted to Mahomet the Great and ever after esteemed a Province of that Empire The Christian Faith was first setled here by Cyril and Methodius between 860. and 890. Methodius taking care to give them the Bible in the Sclavonian Tongue together with the Divine Offices which they hold in high esteem to this day The
of Oesel in the Baltick Sea Sonnemberg a Town in the Marquisate of Brandenburgh in Germany near Poland to the East Sor or Soro a River in the Kingdom of Portugal which divides Alentejo from Extremadura and falls into the Taio at Salvaterra nine Miles above Lisbone Sora a City of Latium upon the River Garigliano now a Bishops See in the Kingdom of Naples in the Terra di Lavoro which is under no Archbishop It has a splendid Castle honoured with the Title of a Dukedom belonging to the Family di Boncompagno and slands fifty five Miles from Rome to the East and ten from the Lake di Celano Fucinus to the South § This is also the name of a City in the Island of Scelandt in the Baltick Sea belonging to Denmark which has an University in it founded by Frederick II. and re-established by Christian IV. Kings of Denmark Soracte a Mountain in the Dukedom of Tuscany in Italy consecrated to Apollo in the Heathen Ages there It is now called Monte di S. Silvestre Soratoff Soratovia a City in the Kingdom of Astracan upon the Wolga in the middle between Casan to the North and Astracan to the South Lat. 52. 12. in a great Plain The Inhabitants are all Muscovites See Olearius Pag. 162. Soraw Sorava a small City in Lusatia the Capital of the Lower part of that Province and under the Elector of Saxony It stands in the Borders of Silesia two German Miles from Sagan to the West and five from Crossen to the South often taken and retaken in the Swedish War Sorge Sorgue Orge Sorge Sulga Sulgas a River of Gallia Narbonensis which ariseth in the County of Vendosmois in Provence and falls into the Rhosne above Avignon but very near it at a Town called Pont-Sorge Soria Syria Soria Numantia Nova Soria a City of New Castile not above one League beneath the Ruins of the ancient and celebrated Numantia seated in the Mountains well peopled and having belonging to it a very large Jurisdiction It stands twelve Leagues from Baubula to the South-West and eight from Tarazona to the North-West Soritae an ancient people mentioned by Pliny as neighbouring upon India and living altogether upon Fish Sorlings See Silly-Islands Sorrento Sorriento Surrentum Surentum a City in the Kingdom of Naples which is an Achbishops See in the Terra di Lavoro on the Bay of the Hither Principato twenty four Miles from Naples to the South It is seated in a fruitful Plain and though very ancient being mentioned by Pliny and Livy yet in a good Estate Long. 38. 20. Lat. 40 33. Sosteropolis Soteropolis a ruined small City which stood near Nicomedia in Bithynia in Asia Minor where according to Zoneras died Constantine the Great of Poyson Soubiac or Sublac a small Town in Campagna di Roma in the Dominions of the Pope It stands upon the River Teverone and is noted for an Abbey of the Order of S. Benedict who did himself choose a Retreat here Souilly or Seulley a Town in the Dukedom de Bar in Lorain Soul Sous a Kingdom in the East part of Biledulgerid in Africa under the King of Marocco Soule a Territory in the Pais des Basques in France Honoured with the Title of a Viscounty The chief Town in it is Mauleon de Soule Soumel a Town in the Kingdom of Bengale in the Empire of the Great Mogul towards the Ganges The Sound See Sund. Sour See Tyre Soure Sura a River in the Dukedom of Luxemburg called by the Germans Saur by the French Soure It ariseth near Bastoigne eight Leagues from Luxemburg and being increased with some smaller Rivers watereth Dietkirch beneath which it receivs the Vr from Viande to the North then passeth to Echternach and Wasser-bilch where it falls into the Moselle two Leagues above Trier to the South Souri a Province of Turcomania in the Lesser Asia Sourie the same with Zurich Souriquois a Tribe of the unconquered Salvages of New France in North America Souristan the same with Syria Sousos a people of Nigritia in Africa Souster Susa the Capital of Chusistan in the Kingdom of Persia one hundred and eighty Miles from Bagdad to the East now in a flourishing State Southampton Clausentum Antonia Magnus Portus Trisantonum Portus a small City in the County of Hamshire seated on the West side of the River Anton or Hampton which comes from Winchester and here falls into the great Bay of South-hampton ten Miles from Winchester to the South This was a Roman Fort called Clausentum and ruined by the Danes in 980. Also plundered and burnt by the French under Edward III. and rebuilt in the Reign of Richard It is a strong rich populous well traded City fenced with a double Ditch strong Walls and many Turrets for the Defence of the Haven it has a strong Castle built by Richard II. The Haven is capable of Ships of good Burthen up to the Key and lies opposite to Jernsey Garnsey and Normandy There are now five Parish Churches in this City Henry VI. granted it a Mayor and made it a County in 1067. Beauvois of Southampton that celebrated Warriour was its first Secular Earl in 1538. The Bishops of Winchester being before reputed to be Earls of Southampton and so styled in the Statutes of the Garter made by Henry VIII Willam Fitz William Lord Admiral in 1547. Thomas Wriothsley Lord Chancellour was created the third Earl by Edward VI. to whom succeeded three of his Posterity The last died in 1667. In 1675. Charles II. created Charles Fits Roy eldest Son to the Duchess of Cleaveland Baron of Newbery Earl of Chicester and Duke of Southampton Southwark a large Borough in the County of Surrey and the Hundred of Brixton opposite to London on the other side of the Thames and under the Jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor of London yet enjoying several ancient Privileges peculiarly to it self and represented in the Lower House of Parliament by its own Burgesses In the number of Inhabitants and Buildings it exceeds most Cities notwithstanding its Losses by many great Fires S. Thomas's Hospital founded by the Citizens of London stands here Southwell a Market Town in Nottinghamshire in the Hundred of Thurgarton of good Antiquity upon a Rivulet falling not far off into the Tren◠Adorned with a Collegiate Church Southwould Sowold or Swold a small Corporation and Sea-Port Town in the County of Suffolk famous for the many Rendezvouzes of the English Fleets when ever we have had any Wars with the Hollanders especially for two great Naval Victories obtained against them in the Bay of this Town the first June 3 1663. the second May 28. 1672. Both under the Conduct of King James II. as Lord Admiral of England under his Brother Charles II. of Blessed and Pious Memory It is a strong and pleasant Town in the Hundred of Blithing upon a Cliff with the Sea to the East the River Blithe over which there is a Draw-Bridge to the West and a Bay of its own name to the
the West which by the Indians was called Anahuac that is The Land by the Water It extends from fifteen deg of Latitude to twenty six exclusively in breadth six hundred Italian Miles in length twelve hundred The Air is very temperate tho situate wholly in the Torrid Zone by reason of the frequent Showers which fall in June July and August their hottest Months in the year and also by reason of the Sea Breezes It is abundantly inriched with inexhaustible Mines of Gold Silver Brass and Iron has great plenty of Coco-Nuts Cochineel Wheat Barley Oranges Limons Figs Cherries Apples and Pears Cattle and Fowl but it has few Grapes and no Wine Their Seed time is in April or May their Harvest in October in the Low Countries they sow in October and reap in May. This Kingdom had Kings of its own from 1332 to 1520 about two years before which Francis Cortez a Spaniard entered it with eleven Ships and five hundred and fifty Men by help of which he sacked the Town of Pontonchon defeated by his Cannon and Horse forty thousand naked Indians who came to revenge this Injury and in 1531 took the City of Mexico Aug. 13. and put an end to the Indian Empire The Provinces of this vast Kingdom are 1. Panuco 2. Mechuacan 3. Mexicana 4 Tlascala 5. Guaxaca And the 6. Jucatan Governed by a Viceroy under the King of Spain who from this Accession to his European Dominions uses the Royal Stile of Hispaniarum Rex Spalatro Salo Salona nova Spalatum Palatium Dioclesiani a City of Dalmatia called by the Italians Spalato by the Sclavonians Spla It is very strong rich and populous and an Archbishops See seated upon the Adriatick upon which it has a large and safe Haven thirty five Miles from Sebenico Long. 40. 54. Lat. 44. 00. This City grew up out of the Ruins of Salona which stood four Miles more to the North. And in 1420 destroyed an Army of the Turks which was sent against it The Learned Mr. Wheeler in his Travels pag. 15. has given a large account of the Site of this City and a little lower pag. 19. of the City of Salona the Mother of Spalato The Emperour Dioclesian was a Native of Salona who building himself a Palace in this place whence the name Spalatro might be occasioned by an easie corruption the other Salona grew by time neglected It is commanded by a Fortress upon an Hill without the Gate in which the Venetians keep the lesser Garrison because they make sure of the Fortress of Clissa by which the passage lies out of Turky to Spalatro The Walls of Dioclesian's Palace you have yet standing and the little Temple which he built in the middle of it has become the Cathedral Church It is situated in a fruitful Country Spalding a Market Town in the division of Holland in Lincolnshire and the Hundred of Ellow upon the Weland Well built and traded though not far from the Washes Spandow Spandava a City in the Marquisate of Brandenburgh upon the River Havel where it entertains the Sprehe two Miles beneath Berlin to the West and about six from Brandenburgh to the East well fortified yet taken by Gustavus Adolphus in 1631. Sparta See Misitra Spenderobi Spenderobis Spenderovia a City of Servia called by the Turks Semender by the Hungarians Sendrew or Zendrew and Zendrin by the Italians Sandria It is a Bishops See thought to be Ptolemy's Singidunum and stands about six German Miles from Belgrade to the East upon the Danube fourteen from Temesware to the South The Turkish Governour of Servia resides for the most part in this City Taken in this War by the Imperialists amidst their other Conquests in Hungary and retaken by the Turks by storm Sept. 1690. Spilâ—by a Market Town in Lincolnsh in the Hundred of Bulling brook Spinola a Seignory in the Neighbourhood of Montferrat the Milany and the States of Genoua in Italy Honoured with the Title of a Marquisate Spire Spira Nemetes Noviomagus Nemetus a City of Germany called by the Germans Speyr by the French Spire by the Italians Spira It is a Free and Imperial City in the Upper Circle of the Rhine in the Diocese of Spire but not subject to the Bishop This great rich populous City is Free but under the Protection of the Elector Palatine and the Bishop under the Archbishop of Mentz It stands in the middle between Strasburgh to the South and Mentz to the North fifty German Miles from either and fifteen from Heidelberg to the North-West The Imperial Chamber which was first instituted at Franckfort in 1495 by Maximilian I. In 1530 was by Charles V. removed to Spire and has been ever since in this City Of old called Nemetum and in 1082. being so far by its then Bishop enlarged as to inclose the Village of Spire neighbouring upon it took the Name of Spire The Cathedral was built in 1011 by Conrade the Emperour in which are the Tombs of eight of the German Emperours to wit Conrade II. who gave the Town of Brunchsol and all the Territory of Brutingow to this Bishoprick about the year 1030 Henry III. his Son who finished the Cathedral begun by his Father Henry IV. Henry V. Philip Rodolph I. Adolp of Nassaw and Albert I. The Emperours which granted Privileges to this City were Charles IV Rodolphus I. Albert Lewis Wenceslaus Frederick III. and Maximilian II. Near it Philip the Suabian beat Oâ—ho the Saxon in 1202. In a Diet here held in 1526 the Peace of Religion was first established which when it was endeavoured to be Repealed in a second Diet here held in 1529 several of the German Princes Protested against the Repeal and were thence called Protestants Jesses the first Bishop was present in the Council of Cologne in 346. This City was taken by Gustavus Adolphus who demolished all its Out-works because he was not willing to spare so many Men out of his Army as were necessary for a Garrison to it by which the Germans the more easily recovered it in 1635. It received a French Garrison in Sept. 1688 who have demolished it since The Imperial Chamber consists of fifteen Counsellors eight Roman Catholicks and seven Protestants two Presidents a Roman Catholick and a Protestant and the Bishop as the Principal Judge In 1675. the Elector of Treves succeeded to the Bishoprick Spiritu Sancto Spiritus Sanctus a small City which is the Capital of a Prefecture in Brasil under the Portuguese Sixty Spanish Leagues from the River Januario to the North and fifty from Porto Seguro to the South § There is a River in the Kingdom of Monomotapa in Africa which discharges itself into the Aethiopick Ocean at Cabo de S. Nicolo of this name called by the Portuguese Rio de lo Spiritu Santo Spirlinga a small Town in Sicily which was the only place in that Island innocent of that bloody and infamous Conspiracy called the Sicilian Vespers Spirnazza Panyasus a River of Macedonia which falls into the Adriatick Sea
Sucheu Sucheum a City of China in the Province of Queycheu Sucheu a City of China in the Province of Nankim Suching a City of China in the Province of Quamsi now under the King of Tunkim Suchuen a large Province in the Kingdom of China lying towards the South-West Borders of that Kingdom upon India and the Kingdom of Thibet Bounded on the North by Xensi on the East by Huquam on the South by Queycheu and on the West by the Further East-Indies the principal City of it is Chingtu It contains eight great Cities one hundred twenty four small Cities and four hundred sixty four thousand one hundred twenty eight Families The River Kiang divides it in two It suffered very much in the last Wars with the Tartars Suchzow Suczova a City of Moldavia or as Baudrand saith in Walachia upon the River Stretch in the Borders of Transylvania fifty Miles from Jassy to the West Always kept by a strong Garrison of the Turks in whose Hands it has been for some Ages Suda Amphimalia a Sea-Port Town at the North End of the Isle of Candy which has a strong Castle and a good Harbor Sudbury Colonia That is The South Town supposed to have had this name in opposition to Norwich or the North Town and to have been in ancient time the Capital or County Town It is feated upon the River Stour in the Borders of Essex in the County of Suffolk with a fair Bridge over the Stour leading into Essex and three Parish Churches A Mayor Town rich and populous by reason of a considerable Clothing Trade here driven especially in Sayes about fifteen Miles from Ipswich to the West and forty from London to the North represented by two Burgesses in Parliament The Honourable Henry Fitz-Roy late Duke of Grafton was Baron of Sudbury Sudermanland Sudermannia a County in the Kingdom of Sweden called by the Natives Sodermanland Bounded on the North by Westmannia and Vpsall on the South by the Baltick Sea It has the Honor to be a Dukedom of great Esteem being born by the Royal Family of that Kingdom The principal Places in it are Nicoping Stregnes and Trosa Suelli Suellis a very small City in the Isle of Sardinia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cagliari from which it stands fifteen Miles reduced almost to a Village Sueonie Suevonia a considerable part of the Kingdom of Sweden between Lapland to the North the Baltick Sea and Bay of Botnen to the East Gothia to the South and Norway to the West It contains ten Counties The Capital of it is the Royal City of Stockholm Sues Suez Arsinoe Cleopatris Posidium is a City or Sea-Port Town of Egypt in the bottom of the Red Sea containing about two hundred Houses and has a pretty Harbour but so shallow that a Ship cannot enter it nor a Galley till half unloaded but the Road is safe It has a Baraque rail'd with Timber Palissadoes thirteen Culverins and as many Cannons for its security It has a Greek Church an old ruin'd Castle and some indifferent Houses When the Ships or Galleys come in it is pretty Populous at other times almost desolate Thevenot Part I. pag. 176. Long. 63. 20. Lat. 29. 10. The Aethiopian Merchants with Spices Pearl Amber Musk precious Stones and other rarities out of India rendesvouz here Whence they transport them upon Camels to Cairo and Alexandria and there sell them to the Venetians and other Christian Merchants The Country environing this City is a sandy Desart which forces the Inhabitants to seek their Provisions elsewhere and their water at two Leagues distance The Isthmus betwixt the Mediterranean and the Red Sea separating Egypt from Arabia receiveth the name of the Isthmus of Suez from this Port. Suevi the ancient Inhabitants of the present Circle of Schwaben in Germany who in conjunction with the Vandals and the Alani about the year 406 entred and pillaged divers Provinces of the Gauls thence in 409 passing into Spain settled into a Kingdom in Galicia and Portugal under Hermericus their first King who died about 440 and was succeeded by eight other Kings till about the year 585. Leuvigildus King of the VVisegoths conquered and united their Estates of the Suevi to his own Suffolk Suffolcia is bounded on the E. by the German Sea on the N. by the Waveney and the little Ouse which rise in the middle of its bounds the first running East and the second West divide it from Norfolk on the West by Cambridgeshire and on the South by Essex severed from it by the Stoure It lies in the form of a Crescent The length from East to West about forty five Miles the breadth thirty the whole circumference of it is about one hundred and forty containing five hundred and seventy five Parishes and thirty Market Towns the Air mild and healthful the Soil rich level and fruitful such as yields abundance of Corn of all sorts Pease Hemp Pasturage and Wood. The more inland part is commonly called High Suffolk or the VVoodlands This County reckons nigh fifty Parks in it The Orwell Ore Blithe Deben and Breton contribute their streams for the watering of it with the three former Rivers its Boundaries The ancient Iceni a British tribe and afterwards the East-Angles possessed it in the several times of the Romans and the Saxon Heptarchy The principal places in it are Ipswich Bury and Sudbury The Marquesses or Earls of this County were Robert de Vfford or Clifford in 1335. VVilliam his Son in 1369. Michael de la Pole Lord Chancellor Created Earl in 1379. VVilliam de la Pole the IV. in this Line was made Duke of Suffolk by Henry VI. Edmond the VIII in this Line was the last of that name Beheaded by Henry VIII about 1510. In 1513 Charles Brandon Viscount Lisle was Created Duke of Suffolk who by Mary second Sister of Henry VIII had Henry Brandon who died a Child In 1551 Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset having married Francis Daughter of Charles Brandon was made Duke of Suffolk he was Beheaded in the Reign of Queen Mary in 1553. This was the last Duke of Suffolk In 1603. King James I. Created Thomas Lord Howard of VValden Earl of Suffolk to whom James Lord Howard the III. of this Line succeeded in 1640. Sugen Sugenum a City formerly part of the Province of Quamsi and belonging to China now under the King of Tunkin who has fortified it very strongly Sulmona or Solmona Sulmo a City of great Antiquity in the Province of Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples upon the River Sangro Sarus Eight Miles from the Borders of Abruzzo to the East almost seventy from Naples to the North and near ninety from Rome to the East It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Theatino and a principality belonging to the House of Borghese The Birth-place of Ovid the Latin Poet who tells us its distance from Rome and praises it for its Streams in Sulmo mihi Patria est gelidis
Course piece of Cloth with a fine List Besides the Thames here is the VVay the Mole and the Wandle whose head springs from Croydon all emptying themselves in the Thames It has many Noble and Princely Houses but few Towns or Places of any considerable greatness the Principal Town in it being Kingston upon Thames The Regni an old British Tribe were the first Inhabitants of this County In the times of the Saxon Heptarchy it was a part of the Kingdom of the South Saxons The first Earl of it was VVill. de VVarren Created by VVilliam the Conqueror in 1067. VVilliam the third of this Line succeeded in 1135. who was followed by VVilliam de Blois Son of King Stephen first Husband of Isabel de VVarren in 1148. and by Hameline Plantagenet base Son of George Earl of Anjou half Brother to Edward III. second Husband of the said Isabel in 1163. His Posterity enjoyed it in four descents till 1347 when the Male Line failing Richard Fitz Alan Lord Treasurer was Earl of Surrey In 1398. Thomas Holland was Earl of Kent and Duke of Surrey afterwards Beheaded Thomas Fitz Alan Son of the former Richard died Earl of Surrey in 1414. In 1451 John Lord Mowbray was Created Earl of VVarren and Surrey and after Duke of Norfolk In 1475. Richard a second Son of Edward IV. was the thirteenth Earl of Surrey In 1483. Thomas L. Howard L. Treasurer after Duke of Norfolk was Created Earl of Surrey in which Family it is at this day Surunga a City and Kingdom in Japan in the Island of Niphon Sus Susa or Susum a Kingdom in Biledulgerida in Africa so called from a River of the same Name It is bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Morocco on the East by Darha on the South by Tesseta and on the West by the Atlantick Ocean Divided into seven Provinces the principal Cities in it are Tarudant the Regal City Teseut and Sancta Cruz. This is a pleasant rich fruitful Kingdom yields Wine Grain Fruits Pasturage Indico Alum c. has a great Quantity of Gold which is a perpetual cause of War amongst them and many Castles and Villages well fortified by the Natives since the Portuguese abandoned this Country in the last Century Now subject to the Kingdom of Fez tho it has been a distinct Kingdom and the Inhabitants are for the most part Mahometans and some of the best Soldiers in Africa Susa one of the principal Cities in the Principality of Piedmont upon the Doria at the foot of the Cottian Alps which separate Piedmons from Dauphine and the Capital of a Marquisaâ—e of its own Name belonging to the Duke of Savoy but taken by the French Forces under Monsieur Cattinat November 1690. Nineteen Miles from Pignerol The French call it Suse This City shews an Inscription upon a Triumphal Arch from which Learned Men conclude that the Emperor Augustus erected his Trophy hereabouts for the Conquest of the Alpine Nations in the year of Rome 740 fourteen Years before our Saviour For tho others place that Trophy about the Foot of le Col de Tende or the Maritime Alpes near Nice and Monaco from a part of the words Gentes Alpinae Devictae seen there upon a Fragment of a stone yet these two Opinions are reconcilable by supposing that Augustus set up this Trophy at the foot of both the Maritime and Cottian Alpes for the greater glory § Susa was also the Capital of the ancient Country Susiana in Asia at the entrance of a spacious Plain which the River Choaspes watered The Kings of Persia used to pass the Spring at it Darius repaired it says Pliny Alexander the Great took it It is now in a flourishing state if the same Souster See Souster Susdal Susdalia a City of Muscovy the Capital of a Province of the same Name and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Rostow It stands eighty Miles from Moscow to the South-East and one hundred and thirty from Novogorod Nisi to the North-West Susiana an ancient Country of Asia betwixt Syria Persia and Chaldaea whereof Susa was the Capital City and Melitene one considerable Province It had the honour to be a Kingdom which after the death of Abradatus King of Susiana submitted to the power of Cyrus Sussex Sussexia one of the Southern Counties of England Bounded on the North by Surrey and Kent on the East by Kent on the South by the British Sea and on the West by Hampshire It s Length from East to West is sixty Miles the broadest part from North to South not above twenty and its Circumference about one hundred and fifty wherein are contained one hundred and twelve Parishes with eighteen Market Towns The Air is good but subject to great Fogs and Mists out of the neighbour Sea which recompenceth this Inconvenience with plenty of Fish and Fowl There are few Harbors upon this Coast the Soil is rich and fruitful but the Roads miry and unpleasant the Middle of the Country has excellent Meadows the Sea-coasts are Hilly but afford plenty of Corn and Grass the North-side full of Woods and Groves The principal River is Arun. The chief City in it is Chichester which is a Bishop's See the next to it Lewes The Regni were the ancient Inhabitants of this County who were subdued by Aulus Plautius in the reign of Claudius the Roman Emperor In 478 Ella erected here the Kingdom of the South-Saxons from whence this County has its Name The first Earl of it was William de Albeney Earl of Arundel who married Adelizia the Relict of Henry I in 1178. He was succeeded by VVilliam his Son it continued in this Family for five Descents In 1243 John Plantagenet Earl of Surrey succeeded In 1305 John a Son of the former followed In 1529 Robert Ratcliffe was Created by Henry VIII Earl of Sussex whose Posterity enjoyed this Honor six Descents In 1644 Thomas Lord Savil was Created the fourteenth Earl of Sussex whose Son succeeded and in him that Family ended This Honor in 1674 was conferred upon Thomas Leonard Lord Dacres who married Anne Fitz-Roy eldest Daughter to the Duchess of Cleavland by Charles II. Sutherland Sutherlandia a County in the North of Scotland Bounded on the North by Caithness and Strathnavern on the West by Assint on the South by Rosâ— and on the East by the German Ocean The principal Town in it is Dornock Sutri Sutrium Colonia Julia Sutrina a City in the States of the Church in S. Peters Patrimony upon the River Pozzolo which is a Bishops See but for ever united to the See of Nepi from whence it stands four Miles to the West and twenty four from Rome to the South-West It is little and incompassed with Rocks on all sides Livy says of it that Camillus when it had revolted against the Romans went with an Army to reduce it In the year of Christ 1046. the Emperor Henry III. assembled a Council here which deposed Pope Gregory VI. who had intruded into the Roman
See in 1044. and elected Constantine II. in his stead In 1059. another Council confirm'd Pope Nicholas II. his Election to the See and deposed the Antipope to him Benedict before Bishop of Veletri Sutton-Cofield a Market Town in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Hemlingford Suvas Sebastopolis a City of Cappadocia in Asia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Sebastia now a very considerable Place and the Seat of a Turkish Governor about fifty Miles from Amasia to the North-East Long. 67. 30. Lat. 42. 30. Swafham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of S. Greneho Swansey a Market Town in Glamorganshire in Wales the Capital of its Hundred Swarteness Iccium a Cape in Picardy so called by the Dutch four Leagues from Calais to the West and six from the Coast of Kent The English call it Blackness Swarte Sluys a small City in Over-Yssel one of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries Sweden Suecia one of the Northern Kingdoms of Europe called by the Inhabitants Swerie Swedenrick and Sweriesryke by the Germans Schweden by the French Suede by the Poles Szwecya and Szwedzka Ziemia by the Italians La Suetia by the Spaniards La Suecia It is a great and populous Kingdom contains the greatest part of that which was of old called Scandinavia for some time united to the Crown of Denmark and has been a separate and distinct Kingdom only since 1525. Bounded on the North by Lapland Norway and the Frozen Ocean on the East by Muscovy or great Russia on the South by the Baltick Sea and on the West by Denmark and Norway The principal Parts of it are first Gothia second Sweden properly so called third Norland fourth Finland fifth Ingria sixth Livonia all which are subdivided into thirty four Counties They are again subdivided into Haeradlis like our Hundreds It has seventeen Cities the Capital of all Stockholm The Air of this whole Kingdom is very cold clear or foggy as it lies nearer or remoter from the Seas Lakes and Marshes and for the most part more temperate and pure than that of Norway In length from Stockholm to the Borders of Lapland one thousand Italian Miles in breadth twenty days Journey on Horseback so that with all its Appendages it is thought nine hundred Miles greater than France and Italy put together It hath one Forest betwixt Jenkoping and Elsimbourg thirty Leagues long with plenty of Rivers Lakes Marshes Rocks and Mountains so that the soil is more fertile than that of any other of the Northern Kingdoms which enables them to transport great quantities of Malt and Barley Brass Lead Steel Copper Iron Hides of Goats Bucks Oxen rich Furrs Deals and Oaks for Buildings They have some Silver in their Mines in the Woods Tar and Honey and vast quantities of Sea and Fresh-water Fish The People are strong and healthful hospitable and civil live sometimes to a hundred and forty years of Age. So industrious that a Beggar is not to be seen amongst them Of latter times they have shewn the World they are good Soldiers and capable of Learning too This was the Country of the Goths who in the fourth Century pulled up the Roman Empire in the West and let in the other Barbarous Nations who still possess it This People were never subject to the Romans but have been under Kingly Government from the first Peopling of the Country We have a pretty certain Catalogue of these Kings from the times of Charles the Great to Magnus IV. King of Norway and Sweden amongst these Olaus II. first took the name of King of Sweden his Predecessors were called Kings of Vpsal after their capital City who in 1363. was succeeded by Albert Duke of Mecklenburg in prejudice of Haquin King of Denmark and Norway after whom succeeded Margaret the Semiramis of the North Queen of Denmark Sweden and Norway in 1387. She united all these Kingdoms into one by an Act of State In 1411. Erick IV. Duke of Pomeren succeeded as her Adopted Son in all these Kingdoms After this the Kingdom became Elective and Unsteady till in 1523. or 25 Gustavus Ericus was chosen King who expelled the Danes and put an end to that Union He died in 1560. In 1611. Gustavus Adolphus the Great attained the Succession in this Line who was killed in the Battel at Lutzen in Misnia in Germany in 1632. To him succeeded his Daughter the most famous and admired Christina who of her own voluntary motion and pleasure by declaration in form of Law with the consent of the States i. e. truly Abdicated the Crown to her Counsin Charles Gustavus in 1654. and lately died at Rome Charles the present King of Sweden is the ninth in this Line and succeeded Charles II. his Father in 1660. This People was converted to the Christian Faith by Ansgarus Bishop of Bremen about 816. Lotharius the Emperor procured the settlement of Bishops in these Northern Countries in 1133. They received the Reformation under Gustavus I. in 1525 and have ever since stuck to the Augustane Confession which they preserved in Germany too when it was about 1630. in great danger to have been over-powered by the Prosperity of the House of Austria They have also planted a New Sweden in New America not far from Virginia Swerin Suerinum a City of Germany which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Breme in the Lower Saxony Heretofore subject to its own Bishop and the Duke of Mecklenburgh but now intirely under that Duke by the Treaty of Munster It stands upon a Lake of the same name seven German Miles from Gustrow to the West and three from Wismar to the South This City received with its Bishop the Augustane Confession in 1530. In 1631. taken by Gustavus Adolphus and was under the Swedes till the Peace of Munster The Bishoprick was Founded by Frederick I. Emperor of Germany Swernicke a considerable City and Pass upon the River Trina near the Confines of Bosnia Taken by the Imperialists October 15. 1688. Swilly a Lake in the County of Derry in Ireland Swindon a Market Town in Wiltshire in the Hundred of Kinwarston Swine a River or Bay in Pomerania the same with the Oder the Germans write Schwine Switzerland Helvetia is a large Country in Europe which of ancient Times was esteemed a part of France or Gallia in the middle times of Germany and for three of the last Centuries has been a Free and Independent Country governed by its own Magistrates It is called by the Germans Schwitzerland by theÌ„ French Suisse by some of the Natives Eyatgnosts-Schafft that is the United Lands by the Italians l' Elvetia by the Spaniards Helveciae by the Poles Szwayâ—zarska On the North it is bounded by the Rhine which separates it from Germany on the East by the Lake di Idro or Brescia and the same River which divides it from Germany and the Grisons on the South by the Lake Lemane Walisserland and the Dukedom of Milan on the West by the Frenche
men The Buildings are ancient the Inhabitants grave It stands in a Marsh which makes it less healthful though it affords the City a great plenty of all things The Cathedral Church of S. Luke that is there now was heretofore the Temple of Diana Long. 39. 24. Lat. 36. 24. Syria a vast Country in the Greater Asia called by the Jews Aram or Charam When it is largely taken it contains Phoenicia Palestine or the Holy Land and Syria properly so called In the latter Acceptation it is bounded to the North by Cilicia and the lesser Armenia on the East by Mesopotamia divided from it by the Euphrates and Arabia Deserta on the South it has Palestine and Phoenicia and on the West the Mediterranean Sea Now called by the Inhabitants Souristan by the French Sourie by the Italians Soria It s length from North to South four hundred from East to West it is in breadth two hundred Italian Miles In very ancient Times Damascus was the capital City in the middle times Antioch now Aleppo This Country is by Nature extremely Fruitful and once as Populous but now almost desolate As to the Story of it N. Damascenus mentions one Adadus slain by David King of Israel after whom there followed a Succession of Kings thirteen in number the last of which Rezin was conquered by Tiglath Phileser King of Assyria and beheaded in Damascus about the year of the World 3213. After this they were subject to the Kings of Assyria Media and Persia till after the Death of Alexander the Great Seleucus Nicanor began another Kingdom here about the year of the World 3644 whose Posterity and Successors to the number of twenty one or twenty five of which Antiochus XII was the last Reigned till Pompey the Great made a perfect Conquest of all Syrià for the Romans in the year of the World 4650 sixty two years before the Birth of our Saviour It continued under the Romans till the year of Christ 636. or as others 34. when it was conquered by Haumer the third Calyph of the Saracens About the year of Christ 1075. Melech and Ducat began a Turkish Kingdom which in the year 1262 after a Descent of nine Kings was destroyed by Haalon the Tartar Next it fell into the Hands of the Mamalucks of Egypt under whom it continued till the year 1515 and then was conquered by Selim Emperor of the Turks under whom it is at this day most wretchedly harassed and desolated Syrtes two dangerous sandy Gulphs in the Mediterranean Sea upon the Coast of Barbary in Africa called antiently Syrtes magna parva now the Gulph de Sidra and de Capes In one name the Shoals of Barbary The first lies betwixt the Kingdoms of Tripoli and Barca the other betwixt Tripoli and Tunis TA. TA a River on the South of China in the Provinces of Quansey and Quantam Tabago the Tobacco Island in the West-Indies in the North Sea Possessed by the Dutch commonly also called Niew Walcheren It lies eight Miles from la Trinidad to the North-East and ninety South of Barbadoes having eighteen small Rivers and many sase Harbours about nine Dutch Miles long and three broad very fruitful and full of all Necessaries About forty years since the Dutch began to plant it In 1673. the English under Sir Tobias Bridges took and plundered it carried away four hundred Prisoners and as many Negroes In 1677. the French being desirous to drive the Dutch out of it sent the Comte d' Estrée with ten Ships which entered Klips Bay and for several days ingaged a Fleet of eight Dutch Ships there lying under the Command of James Binckes a Dutchman who so well defended the Island that though the French pretended they destroyed the Fort the Dutch had built yet they were forced to draw off and leave the Dutch Masters of the Place Long. 316. Lat. 10. 30. The whole Plantation of this Island is Tobacco after its name Tabarestan Tabarestania a Province of Persia toward the Caspian Sea containing a great part of the ancient Hyrcania The Caspian Sea is sometimes from this Province called the Sea of Tabarestan Asterabath its Capital City Tabarque Tabraca an ancient City in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa upon the Mediterranean Sea betwixt Hippo and Vtica It hath had the honour in the times of Christianity there to be a Bishops See but now only considerable for its Port. Pliny Claudian and Stephanus mention it Tabasco Tabasca a Town and Province in New Spain in North America The Province lies between the Bay of Mexico to the North and the Province of Chiapa to the South extended from East to West forty six Spanish Leagues The principal City in it was by the Indians called Tabasco but the Spaniards call it Nuestra Sennora de la Viâ—toria our Lady of Victory because Cortez the Spanish General gave the Mexicans an irrecoverable Defeat near this Place Tabenna an Island of the Thebais in the Kingdom of Egypt near the City Syene Inhabited formerly by the Monks entituled Tabenniosiâ—ae from it in whose times Tabennis was a small Town standing here Tabor Taborium a Town in Bohemia upon the River Lauznicz twenty Miles from Budwess and forty five from Prague The Hussites made this Place the Seat of their War and fortified it and from thence for twenty years ruined the Imperial and Hereditary Countries called thereupon Taborites Tacara a small Kingdom on the Coast of Guinea in Africa Tacaze Tacasus Astaboras a vast River in the Higher Aethiopia which ariseth in the Kingdom of Angote chiefly from three Fountains and runs West sometime between Dagana and Hoga Then bending North through the Kingdom of Tigre it watereth the Desart of Oldeba and joyns the River Mareb or Marebo Being much improved it passeth through the Kingdom of Dengin and at Jalack falls into the Nile in the Kingdom of Nubia from the East Tachiali Antiochia Maeandri a City of Caria in the Lesser Asia which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ephesus from which it stands seventy Miles to the East upon the Meander and thirty seven from Bursia to the South Latitus Bishop of this See subscribed to the Council of Chalcedon Long. 58.00 Lat. 39. 30. Tadcaster a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire which hath a large Stone Bridge over the River Warfe and Lime-Stone digged up in its Neighbourhood in Plenty Tadouslack Tadussacum a Town in New France upon the Bay of S. Laurence where it receives the River Saguen a hundred Miles from Quebec to the South-East Taenarus See Matapan Taff Rhatostathybius a small River in Glamorganshire in Wales which watering and giving name to Landaff falls into the Irish Sea near the Borders of Monmouthshire Taflete Tafleta a Kingdom in Biledulgerida in Africa between Segellomessa to the East and Darba to the West bounded with the Kingdom of Morocco to the North. The Capital City is of the same name A populous and plentiful City fortified with a Castle of great Trade for Indico
of Gibraltar towards the Atlantick Ocean and was anciently an Archbishops See and an University The Goths possessed it after the Romans and annexed it to the Government of Ceuta In 1471. Alphonsus King of Portugal made himself Master of it From which time it continued in the possession of that Crown till in 1662. it was put by the Portuguese into the hands of the English Charles II. having bestowed immense charges upon the Haven and Out-Works of it after it had prosperously repelled several Attacks of the Moors in 1663 1664. and in 1682 in 1683. by the Lord Dartmouâ—h that Prince ordered all the Forts and Works to be blown up the Mole to be slighted and withdrew the Garrison into England finding the benefit not equal to the charge of keeping it Long. 6. 30. Lat. 35. 56. Tangermund Tangermunda a Town in the Old Marquisate of Brandenburg upon the Elbe where it takes in the River Tanger seven German Miles from Magdeburgh to the North toward Havelburgh Heretofore a very strong and considerable place The Emperour Charles IV. kept his Court there but in the Swedish War it was often taken and suffered so very much that it is become very inconsiderable now Tangu Tangum a Kingdom in the Further East-Indies by the River Menan which has a City of the same name and was formerly subject to the King of Pegu. Tangut Tangutum a Kingdom in the Asian Tartary towards China and the East-Indies The Capital City of it is Tangu Tanjaor a City and Kingdom in Coromandel in the East-Indies formerly subject to the King of Bisnagar but has now a Prince of its own who is a Tributary to the former It lies sixty Miles from the Coast of Coromandel to the West Tanor a small Kingdom in the Hither East-Indies in the Promontory of Malabar which hath a City of the same name five Leagues from Calecut to the South The King resides at a Palace one League from the City and preservs a strict Alliance with the Portuguese Taormina a City of Sicily Tapaysa or Tapy a great River of South America which riseth in the Borders of Brasil and after having given name to a Province falls into the River of Amasons in Guiana Tapiaw a Town in the Ducal Prussia in the Kingdom of Poland Taprobane See Zeilan Tapsus an ancient City in the Province of Byzacena now in the Kingdom of Tunis in Barbary Caesar besieged it to oblige Scipio to a Battel and after his Defeat of Scipio it surrendred to the Conquerour Tapua guazu a Province of South America in Paragua near the Lake of Xaray in the Borders of Brasil Tapuâ—es a people of Brasil in the Prefecture of Santo Spirito Tara Taras a small River in the Province of Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples which arising from the Apennine near Massafra falls into the Gulph of Taranto by the City of Taranto which has its name from this River Taragale a City in the Region of Darha in Biledulgerid in Africa near the City of Darha fortified with a Castle and a considerable Garrison for the security of the Mint which the Emperour of Marocco keeps here The Jews have about four hundred Families in it The Country adjacent affords plenty of Corn Pasturage and Dates Taranto Tarentum Vrbs Salentinorum a City in the Province of Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples called at this day Tarente by the French Built by a Band of Lacedemonian Bastards and made the Capital of the ancient Magna Graecia who having no Inheritance at home were sent hither to seek their fortunes in the year of the World 3242. forty five years after the building of Rome It became a famous Common-Wealth It s ancient Inhabitants the Tarentini solicited Pyrrhus's Descent into Italy to make War with the Romans In the year of Rome 481. Milo a Citizen of it betrayed it to the Romans In the second Punick War it received Hannibal And in the year of Rome 545. was recovered out of his hands again by Quintus Fabius Maximus In 631. it was made a Roman Colony In 1194. Henry IV. gave it to VVilliam the Son of Tancred Prince of Taranto when he had caused him to be castrated to prevent any Posterity It is now an Archbishops See small but strong and well peopled has a Castle garrisoned with Spaniards The Haven was once very good but spoiled by great Stones sunk in the Mouth of it so that none but small Ships can enter it This City has also still the Honour of the Title of a Principality It stands upon a Peninsula on a Bay of its own Name at the Mouth of the River Tara Some derive the Name of the Tarantulae whose Venom is cured only by violent dancing from it In 1614. a Synod was held here by its Archbishop Long. 41. 30. Lat. 39. 58. Tarara Cemmenus a Mountain near Lyons in France more commonly called les Sevennes Tarascon Tarasco an ancient Roman Town in Provence in France upon the Rhosne four Leagues beneath Avignon to the South and three from Arles It is great and populous and has two strong Castles a Collegiate Church with divers Ecclesiastical and Religious Houses The Reliques of S. Martha are said to be preserved here Tarazona Turiaso an ancient Roman City in the Kingdom of Arragon in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Sarragosa upon the River Queois four Leagues from Tudela to the North-West and ten from Bilbao to the North. This City was recovered from the Moors by Alphonsus VIII in 1010. And is chiefly commended for the rare temper of its Steel Long. 19. 02. Lat. 42. 50. Tarbes Tarba Turba Castrum Bigorrae a City of Aquitam in the County of Bigorre whereof it is the Capital seated in a pleasant Plain upon the River Adour well peopled and has a Castle called Bigorre which gave name to this County It is also a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Aux from which this City stands nine Miles to the North-West and six from Pau to the East Tarczal Carpates the Carpathian Hills which divide Hungary and Transylvania from Poland Tardenois Tardanensis Comitatus a County in the Isle of France between the Marne to the South and the Vesle to the North its true Bounds are now lost Tardera Alba Tholobi a River in Catalonia which falls into the Mediterranean Sea at Blanes nine Miles from Barcinone to the North. Tarentaise Tarentesia a Tract or Valley in the Dukedom of Savoy between the Alpes and the Dukedom of Aouste to the East Hossano to the North Savoy properly so called to the West and the Valley di Moriana to the South This was the Seat of the ancient Centrones The principal place in it Montiers It is one of the three principal Provinces of the Dukedom of Savoy but very Mountainous and Barren Targa a Kingdom Desart City and Lake in Africa in Zaara between the Desart of Lempta to the East Zuenziga to the West Biledulgerida to the Noâ—â—h and Nigritia to the South
Targovisto Targovistum Targoviscum Tergovistus Tiriscum a great City which is the Capital of Moldavia and the Seat of their Princes The Natives call it Ternisch It stands in the Borders of Walachia up the River Jaloniza sixty Miles from Nigeboli to the North and a little more from Cronstad or Brassaw in Transylvania to the South in a Marsh Heretofore together with Moldavia under the King of Hungary And now returned under that Crown again See Moldavia Tariffa a City of Spain in Andalusia near the Streights of Gibraltar once a great and strong place but now almost ruined inhabited by a few though it has a Castle and an Haven It was recovered from the Moors in 1292. And Octob. 28. 1340. the Moors received a great Defeat near this place which stands four Leagues from Algezira to the West and six from the Coast of Barbary to the North. Tarne or le Tar Tarnis a River of Aquitain in France which springeth from Mount Losere in Givaudan and being improved by some lesser Streams watereth Millaud then entering Languedoc it visiteth Montauban where it is covered by a lovely Stone Bridge and a little beneath Moissac falls into the Garonne five Leagues above Agen. The present King of France has with great expence of late years made this River Navigable by Boats Taro or Tarro Tarus a River of Lombardy in Italy which ariseth from the Apennine in the Borders of the States of Genoua and running through a Valley of its own name and through the Dukedom of Parma falls thirteen Miles below Cremona into the Po. Upon the Banks of this River Charles VIII of France in 1495. defeated all the Forces of Italy assembled hither to stop him from going out of Italy Tarpeya a Lake in the Kingdom of Peru in South America near the City Potosi springing from a large Fountain in the middle of itself Tarragona Tarraco a City of Spain which in ancient time gave name to that part of Spain called Hispania Tarraconensis It was built by the Scipio's others say before the Roman Conquest Eratosthenes having mentioned it in the year of the World 2780. The Scipio's much enlarged it and therefore Pliny and Solinus make them the Founders Mela saith it was in his time the richest Maritim City on the Eastern Coast of Spain It was certainly a great Metropolis and had fourteen lesser Cities under it The Moors ruined the Roman City and rebuilt that which now stands walling it for the greater security It is now an Archbishops See and an University founded by Cardinal Gasparo de Cervantes Archbishop of this See in the Reign of Philip II. It stands at the Mouth of the River Tulcis now el Fracoli which affords it a small Haven on the Mediterranean Sea thirteen Spanish Leagues from Tortosa and fifteen from Barcelone In a decaying condition Long. 22. 53. Lat. 41. 58. In 1242. a Synod was held here to oppose the progress of the Doctrines of the Vaudois Tarsus Tarsos the Metropolitan City of Cilicia in the Lesser Asia upon the River Cydenum which divides it into two equal parts It took divers names from the Roman Emperours At this day it is called by the Inhabitants Terassa by the Turks Terfis by the Italians Tarso Now an Archbishops See six Miles from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Pope Clement IX bore the Title of this See before his Election to the Pontificate Long. 66. 14. Lat. 38. 56. This City deservs a particular veneration from all Christians because S. Paul the Great Apostle of the Gentiles was born in it and by that means pleaded its privilege to avoid some ill usages he had otherwise suffered This is also the Tarshish whither Jonas desired to pass when he took Ship at Joppe Joh. 1. 3. which the following part of his Story hath made so memorable Lyra and S. Anselme interpret the Tharsis of King Solomon whither his Fleet went to buy precious Merchandises for the Temple of this place also But others reject their opinion and we have no Concord amongst the Learned upon that question See Ophir Tartar Occhardus a River of Serica a part of the Asiatick Tartary from which that Nation took its name of Tartaria The Country is bounded on the West by Mount Imaus and on the East by China now thought to be called Suchur There is a City upon it of the same name Tartaro Tartarus Atrianus a River in the States of Venice which ariseth in the Territory of Verona and flowing East watereth Adria an ancient City then one part of it falls into that Branch of the Po called il Fuosa and the other into the River Adige Tartary Tartaria Scythae is divided commonly into the Great and Asiatick the Lesser and European Tartary For this latter see Krim Tartary Chersonesus Taurica and Precop The Asiatick Tartary is the far greatest Country in all Asia called by the Poles Tartarcka Bounded on the North by the Frozen Ocean on the East by the same Sea and China on the South by China India Persia and the Caspian Sea on the West by Russia The North Eastern Bounds upon Japan and China are utterly unknown It is not certain but that Asia and America may there meet or at most may be divided by a narrow Channel which could never yet be discovered This Country extends from the Mouth of the Nieper to the Cape of Tabin North-East one thousand German Miles and from the Mouth of the River Obb to the Wall of China South-East fifteen hundred of the same Miles perhaps it is much greater towards the North and East It is divided into Tartary properly so called Tartaria Deserta Zagathai Cathay and Turquestan these containing many Kingdoms some of which as to the names of them are as yet unknown to us The people are the most Barbarous of Mankind Bloody Fierce and Brutish The Country appears Barren Desolate Uncultivated without Cities settled Inhabitants Agriculture and fixed Limits The Princes are absolute Masters of their respective People which live in Hoards wandring with their Wives and Children in covered Waggons from place to place with their Cattle their only Wealth as necessity and the season of the year require This course of life has in a great degree fitted them for War Accordingly when ever they have broken in upon the Civilized World they have proved in every Age the Scourges of God In this last Age one of these Princes broke in upon China and in a few years conquered it Tarudante Tarodantum Torodantum the Capital City of Suz Heretofore subject to the King of Morocco but has now a Prince of its own It is great and populous about fifty Miles from the Atlantick Ocean and three hundred from Morocco to the South Tasso Thassos Thalassia Chryse an Island of the Archipelago one League distant from the Continent of Romania in the Morea and about seven or eight in Circumference divided betwixt Plains and Mountains which afford good Wine and Marble The Phoenicians anciently planted a Colony here
who built the City now standing which is in a tolerable condition but far different from its pristine Splendour Tatta a Kingdom in the East-Indies under the Great Mogul separated from Persia to the West by the River Indus and bounded to the North by Buckor to the East by the Kingdom of Jesselmeere and to the South by the Indian Sea The Capital City is of the same Name near the Indus Long. 102. Lat. 26. 45. Tattershal a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Gartree and the Division of Lindsey near the Influx of the River Bane into the Witham Tavasthus Tavastia a Town and County in the Kingdom of Sweden in Finmarck called also Tavastland Bounded on the East by Savolaxia on the South by Niland on the West by Finmarck properly so called and on the North by the Botner Sea Tavasthus the principal Town in it was called Gronenberg and stands in a Marsh well fortified against the Russ ninety Miles from Aboa to the East Birger Jarel built a Castle in 1250. to awe the Inhabitants Tauber Tuberius a River in Franconia which ariseth near Rotenburgh nine Miles from Norimburgh to the West and by Onspach Papenheim and Aichstat falls into the Danube below Ingolstad and above Regensperg Taverna Taberna Trischene a decayed City in the Further Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Rhegio but having lost that Dignity is now a member of the Diocese of Catanzaro Teubemberg a Town in Hungary at which Mahomet I. in 1400. beat the Hungarians Tavestock a Market Town and Borough in Devonshire upon the River Tave the Capital of its Hundred In the Lower House of Parliament represented by two Burgesses Tavira or Tavila a City of Algarve in Spain upon the Atlantick Ocean between the Mouth of the Guadiana to the East and Faro to the West five Leagues from either It is under the King of Portugal has a large Haven at the Mouth of the River Xilaon and a Castle for its security Taurica Chersonesus the Peninsula dividing Europe and Asia upon Il Mare Maggiore and the Sea of Zabache from East to West twenty four Miles long fifteen broad filled heretofore with Noble Greek Cities Upon the Eastern side of it stands Caffa which was the ancient Theodosia under the Turks In the entrance of the Neck of it Precop under the Tartars from whence the whole Peninsula is sometimes called Precopsca and the Inhabitants the Precopensian Tartars It makes the most Southern part of the Krim Tartary Tauris Ecbatana Tabresium Tauresium Tigranana a great City of the Kingdom of Persia called by the Inhabitants Tebris It stands in the Province of Aderbuitzan eleven hundred Miles from Constantinople to the East and twenty five German Miles from the Caspian Sea to the South Founded as the Persians all agree in the one hundred and sixty fifth year of the Hegyra in the year of Christ 786. In 849. it was ruined by an Earthquake In 1490. the Princes of the Race of Sheitb-Sephi removed to this City from Ardevil In 1514. Selim Emperour of the Turks took it upon Articles two years after the Kings of Persia removed to Casbin In the time of Solyman the Magnificent the City rebelled assassinated the Turkish Governour and Garrison which was severely revenged by Ibrahim General of that Prince in 1548. In the Reign of Amurath it rebelled again and was again taken and sacked by the Turks in 1585. In 1603. Abas King of Persia took it by Stratagem ever since which it has been under the Persians The Learned Minadoi in his History of the Turkish and Persian War pag. 311. thus describes it It is seated saith he on the North side of Mount Orontes having Persia to the East the Caspian Mountains to the West and the Caspian Sea to the North in a fruitful Plain in a cold snowy healthful Air abounding with all things needful for the Life of Man enriched by great Caravans of Merchants which pass to and fro through it so populous that it maintains two hundred thousand Inhabitants yet without any Walls or Bastions or the least defence against an Enemy The Houses are low and mean the Gardens Fountains Basars and Mosques Magnificent and Sumptuous Sir John Chardin who saw this City agrees with him and adds that a small River called Spingicha runs across through it and another called Agi on the North side Long. 88. 00. Lat. 41. 19. Sir John Chardin estimated the Inhabitants to be five hundred and fifty thousand so much has a long Peace improved it since Minadoi's time It extends its Commerce over Persia Turkey Tartary Moscovy and the Biack Sea consisting much in Cottons Silks Chagrines Brocades c. which fills it well with Strangers The Mosques are reckoned to two hundred and fifty whereof some have been Christian Churches The Capuchines had a convenient House built in this City in 1668. Without the City to the South appear the Ruins of the Palace of the ancient Kings of Persia and to the East the like of a Castle which was the Royal Seat of Chosroes The Geographers generally affirm Tauris stands in the place of the ancient Ecbatana It is governed by a Beglerbeg of great power and consideration in the Kingdom of Persia Taurn Alpes Noricae a branch of the Alpes in Carinthia Taurus the greatest Mountain in all Asia so called as Eustathius saith from its Magnitude It begins at the East or Chinian Ocean and traverseth the whole body of Asia as far as the Sea of Pamphylia in the Lesser Asia dividing Asia into the Northern and Southern and assuming various Names in different Places Yet the particular Name of Taurus belongs most properly to that Branch of this Mountain which divides Pamphylia and Cilicia from the Lesser Armenia Sir John Chardin who crossed that part of this Mountain called Caucasus saith that it is the highest Mountain and the most difficult to pass over that ever he beheld full of Rocks and dismal Precipices The top of it eight Leagues broad cover'd with Snow and not inhabited yet the sides are prodigious fruitful afford Honey Wheat Gums Wines and Fruits in vast quantities The Inhabitants are a good natur'd sort of Christians In Tartary this Mountain is called Imaus In this long course it separates many Potent Nations one from another Herbert our Country-man saith that it is fifty English Miles over and fifteen hundred long Taxiala a great City of India mentioned by Strabo and Philostratus as the Residence of the ancient King Phraortes But we have now no knowledge of it unless the same with Cambaia Taw a River in Devonshire upon which Barnstaple stands Tay Tavus is a great River in Scotland which arising from Mount Grampus and flowing East helps to divide that Kingdom into two parts the Northern and the Southern Its Fountains are in Albany It passeth through Athole and Perth watering Dunkeld and Aberneth and between Angus to the North and Fife to the South by
a vast Arm of the Sea falls into the German Sea almost twenty English Miles North of St. Andrews Taygetus a Mountain of the Province of Laconia in the Peloponnesus consecrated in Pagan times to Castor and Pollux Standing in the neighbourhood of Sparta now Misitra and being broken once by an Earthquake it did much mischief to that City Tearus a River of Thrace salling into the Hebrus so admired by Darius the Son of Hystaspes for its Water according to Herodotus that he erected a Colom in its honor Teane a River in Staffordshire upon which Checkley is situated Tebesca an ancient City in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Carthage Tech Ter Illybiris Thicis Tichis a small River in the County of Roussillon which springeth out of the Pyrenean Hills in the Borders of Cerdanna watereth Arles and Cerdanna then falls into the Mediterranean Sea twelve Miles from the Mouth of the Egli to the South Tectosagae an ancient People of Gallia Narbonensis whose Capital City was the modern Tolose They made an incursion into Germany and there established themselves near the Hyrcinian Forest Tedles Tedlesia a Province in the Kingdom of Morocco It s chief City is Tofza Tees Athesis Tuasis a River which parts England from Scotland It ariseth in Twedale therefore called the Tweed no less frequently and running Eastward and being augmented by the Cale at Rydam it becomes a boundary at Tiltmouth takes in the Bromyshe out of Northumberland and on the South side of Barwick entereth the German Ocean Teflis Artaxata Arxata Tephlis Zogocara the Capital City of Georgia in the Province of Carduel upon the River Khur or Cyrus Anciently one of the greatest Cities of the East but being taken and ill handled by the Turks it consists of very few Inhabitants under the King of Persia Baudrand Sir John Chardin who saw it some few years since contrariwise assures us it is one of the fairest though not the biggest Cities in Persia at the bottom of a Mountain upon the River Cur incompassed on all sides but the South where the River secureth it with a strong and beautiful Wall and has about fourteen Christian Churches served by Armenians and Georgians together with a large Castle guarded by Natural Persians only The Bishops See or Palace is near the Cathedral Church It has in the mean time not one Mosque except a small one lately built in the Castle because the Christians will not endure it and the Persians are too wise to exasperate their Frontier People who can with ease call in the Turks to revenge the Injuries of their Religion It is well Peopled full of Strangers who resort thither on the account of Trade Twice in the hands of the Turks in the Reigns of Ishmael II and Solyman his Son The latter took this and Tauris about 1548. The Persian Tables place it Long. 83. 00. Lat. 43. 05. The Congregation at Rome de propaganda fide keeping a Mission of Capuchins in Georgia who understand Physick and by that means render themselves very acceptable to the Country their Praefect resides here It is the Seat of the Viceroy of Georgia Tefza a City in the Province of Tedles in the Kingdom of Morocco built on an high Hill by the River Derna Tegan Teganum a City in the Province of Huquam in China The Capital over five Cities Tegaza a Desart in Nigritia in Africa Tegaea an antient City of Arcadia in the Peloponnesus which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Corinth Tegeste a Peninsula in Florida in North America Tegorarin a City and Territory in Biledulgerid in Africa Teissa or Tiissa Tibiscus the Theysse a River of the Vpper Hungary which ariseth in the Carpathian Mountains and floweth through Transylvania hither to pay its Tribute to the Danube Segedin stands upon it The Hungarians use to say It is two parts Water and the third Fish Tejum an ancient City of Paphlagonia in the Lesser Asia remarkable by being the Birth-place of Anacreon the Poet who died of a Grape-stone sticking in his Throat Telepte an Ancient City of the Province of Byzacena in the Kingdom of Tunis in Barbary It was a Bishops See particularly remarkable in the person of Donatus who in 418 celebrated a Council at it against the Pelagians Now in slavery to the Moors Telessia a City of the ancient Samnium in Italy now in the Province called Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples It became a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento and was adorned with the Title of a Dukedom But since 1612 the See has been transserred from hence Telgen Telga a City in Sudermannia in Sweden four Miles from Stockholm to the North-West Temesen Temesena a Province in the Kingdom of Fez. Temeswaer Temesuaria a Town in the Vpper Hungary which is the Capital of a County of the same Name A great and strong place seated upon the River Temes whence it has its Name five Leagues from Lippa towards the Borders of Transylvania and about ten from Belgrade The Turks twice attempted it before they took it in 1552 from the Transylvanians upon which they bestowed great costs in the fortifying of it and esteem it invincible as indeed it is the strongest Place they have left them The County of Temeswaer is bounded on the North by Chaunad and Transylvania on the West by the Tibiscus on the South by the Danube and on the East by Moldavia Temiam Temiamum a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Gangara on the West by that of Bito on the South by the River Niger and on the East by the Desart of Sert or Seu. The principal City of which is Temican Tempe a sweet Valley in the Province of Thessalia in Macedonia watered by the River Peneo The Poets have rendered it famous to all Ages It lies betwixt the Mountains Olympus and Ossa And some place the ancient City Lycosthome in it which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Larissa Temruck or Tomaruchi Tyrambe Tyrambis a City of Crim Tartary in Asia sixteen Miles from the Cimmerian Bosphorus to the East and ten from the Lake of Corocondam to the North. Tenbury a Market Town in Worcestershire upon the Edge of Shropshire and the Banks of the River Tent in the hundred of Doddington Tende Tenda a Town in the County of Nizza in the Appenine near the Borders of the States of Genoua eighteen Miles from Alba to the North and twenty five from Fossano South which has a Mountain near it called Le col de Tende and a very strong Castle This was a Sovereign State under Counts of its own but now subject to the Duke of Savoy Tenduc Tenducum a City and Kingdom of the Asian Tartary Bounded on the North by the Great Tartary on the East by Jupia on the West by the Kingdom of Tangut and on the South by China This Prince has within a little more than forty
Sir William Cecil Lord Treasurer of England built it and Robert Lord Cecil his Son of the same office to K. Jam I much beautified it Theoskeposti the Grotto in the Island of Patmos in the Archipelago wherein S. John is said to have written his Apocalypse Thermia Ferma and Ferminea as the Italians call it Polyaegas an Island in the Archipelago towards Europe which hath a considerable City of its own name and a Castle and a Spring of hot mineral Waters not far from the Sea from whence it took the name of Thermia Thermodon the same with Pormon § The Ancients frequently mention a River in Scythia Europaea in the Country of the Amazons of this name also Thermopylae a Streight or narrow passage at the great Mountain Oeta and the Gulph of Zyton in the extreme Borders of the Province of Thessalia in Macedonia leading into Phocis in Achaia Now called Bocca di Lupo or the Wolf's mouth Of great fame in Antiquity for being maintained by Leonidas General of the Lacedaemonians with three or four hundred Men against a vast Army of the Persians under Xerxes Thespia an ancient City of Boeotia in Greece near the Mountain Helicon It has been a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Athens But as it lies now under the Tyranny of the Turks a poor Village Thessalia a very considerable Province of Macedonia toward the South Bounded on the South by Achaia now Livadia on the West by Epirus on the North by Macedonia properly so called and by the Archipelago and the Bay of Thessalonica to the East The Capital City of which is Larissa now called Comenolitari by Castaldus and by Brietius Janna under the Turks It had in the beginning Kings of its own Next it became subject to the Macedonians and Romans It had Marquesses of its own in the latter part of the times of the Greek Emperors Bonifacius being made Marquess of Thessalia in 1210 whose Posterity possessed it till about 1380. When Amurath Conquered the greatest part of this Country and his Posterity still enjoy it It is incompassed by the Olympus Pindus Ossa and Oeta four great Mountains its Inhabitants were in the ancient Times so famous for their Chivalry that Philip of Macedon sought and obtained the Dominion of it chiefly on that account Very fruitful reasonably well Peopled and for the most part inhabited by Christians Thessalonica a great Maritim City of Macedonia the Metropolis of that ancient Kingdom called of old Thermae now Salonichi It has had the fortune to keep up something of its ancient Greatness and Wealth still an Archbishops See and a populous City defended by ancient Walls and a Castle and blessed with a large safe Haven The greatest part of its Inhabitants are Jews It stands at the foot of an Hill upon a small River at the bottom of a Bay called by its own name two hundred and twenty Miles from Durazzo to the East three hundred and fifty from Constantinople to the South-West and two hundred and thirty from Athens to the North. Long. 47. 50. Lat. 42. 10. S. Paul Converted it to the Christian Faith and wrote two Epistles to it about the year of Christ 52. Timothy was sent by S. Paul to instruct and confirm them in the same Faith In 390. Theodosius the Great slew seven thousand of its Inhabitants for a Tumult In 895. It was taken and sacked by the Saracens In 1423. it was sold to the Venetians In 1431. Amurath II. took it from them In the year 1688. the Venetians bombarded it till the Inhabitants submitted to the Contributions demanded of them Thetford Sitomagum Sciani a small but very ancient Roman Town in the County of Norfolk upon the little Ouse in the Borders of the County of Suffolk Twenty Miles from Norwich to the South-West seventeen from Ely to the East and eight from Bury to the North. This ancient Town was sacked by Sweno the Dane in 1004. and suffered more from them in 1010. About 1047. the Bishops See of the East-Angles was removed hither from Elmham Herebert the next Bishop removed in 1067. to Norwich The Conqueror in his Survey sound two hundred Houses soon after empty ever since it has been decaying yet it is a Corporation sends two Burgesses to Parliament and gave the Title of a Viscount to the Right Honourable Henry Bennet Earl of Arlington The Lent Assizes for the County are usually kept here Thiano a ruined City in the Province called Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples which had a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento Thibet Thibetum a Kingdom in the Asiatick Tartary between Tartary properly so called and the Desart Tartary to the North Indosthan to the South Tangut to the East and Mawaralnatharia to the West Of which there is little known but the Name Some make it the same with others a part of Turquestan Thienen Atheniensis Legio Tenae and Tillemontium is a Town of Brabant called by the French Tillemont upon the small Rivolet Geet which beneath Hallen falls into the Demere about six Leagues from Namur to the North and a little more from Brussels to the East Now a great Town and formerly of great Import and Trade as appears by this that her Walls have been thrice inlarged In the late Wars saith Guicciardin between the French Liegeois and Low Countries it has been much wasted and in part desolated though the Inhabitants enjoy great Privileges In 1578. this Place was ceded to Don John of Austria In 1635. taken by the French Thionville Divodurum Theodonis Villa a City in the Dukedom of Luxemburgh called by the Germans Diedenhoven It is a small but very strong Place and stands upon the Moselle four Leagues from Mets to the North nine from Trier to the South-West and about eleven from Montmedi to the East This Place was much beloved and frequented by Charles the Great as Eginhard saith He ordinarily assembled the Nobility and Clergy of his Estates here and particularly in 806 when he parted his Kingdom amongst his three Sons In 835. a Council at this City deposed the Archbishop of Rheims as Author of an attempt against the Person of Lewis the Debonaire K. of France whom the said Archbishop and his Adherents had deprived of Royal Dignity In 844. Charles the Bald assisted at another Council here In the latter Times it was often taken by the French who ever since 1644. have intirely possessed it the Peace of the Pyrenees confirming it to them Thorax a Mountain near the City Manissa in Lydia in the Lesser Asia The Christians of S. Thomas an ancient Church of the Eastern Christians about Goa Meliapour Cranganoor c. in the Hither East-Indies Which claiming its Establishment from the Apostle S. Thomas whose Body is pretended to be preserved at Goa keeps it self at an entire Independency from the Laws and Rites of both the Roman and Greek Churches whose several Founders it says were the Heads of the Churches of their own Foundations
Florence in the Borders of the Ecclesiastical State and of Romandiola twelve Miles from Sarsina to the South Running South it watereth Santo Sepulchro and beneath it takes in the Chersone then entering the States of the Church in Ombria it takes in the Nicone Carpina and Reggia and watering Perugia beneath it admits the Chiascio Nestore Paglia and Nera Passing into S. Peter's Patrimony it is augmented by the Treggia Aia Farfa and the Teverone then it passeth through Rome divides the Patrimony from Campania di Roma and at Ostia falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea one hundred Miles from its Fountains It had heretofore two Months The Southern is now stopped with the Porto or Haven which the Emperours made with vast expence The Northern Branch is not maintained without a considerable expence by the Pope at this day Tiberias an ancient City of Galilee in Palestine upon the Western Shoar of the Sea of its own name otherwise called the Lake of Genezareth Herod gave them both this name to flatter the Roman Emperour Tiberius Tickhall a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Strafford Ticou Ticum a City in the Island of Sumatra on the West side one hundred and eighty Miles from Malaca Long. 125. almost It has a large Haven subject to the King of Achem. Tideswal a Market Town in Derbyshire in the Hundred of High Peak Tidor one of the Molucco Islands Tienlique a small Kingdom included in Bisnagar in the East-Indies Tierache Teoracia Tirascia a Tract in Picardy in France between Hainault to the North Champagne to the East Vermandois to the West and Laonnois to the South The Chief Towns of which are la Fere Guise Marle and la Chapelle Tiferno Tifernus Phitâ—rnus a River in the Kingdom of Naples now called il Biferno also It ariseth in the County of Molise from the Apennine near Bojano and flowing Eastward watereth Guardia Alferes and at Termini a City in the Capitanato falls into the Adriatick Sea Tigre a Kingdom of Abyssinia in the Vpper Aethiopia of great extent It includes seventeen Provinces some with the Titles of Kingdoms Bannagasso lyes upon the North side of it next to Egypt Tigris a celebrated River in Asia now called by the Asiaticks Tigil One of the most rapid Rivers in the World from whence it has this Name It ariseth from the Gordian Mountains in the Greater Armenia above the Lake of Arethusa through which it flows towards the South separating Mesopotamia from Assyria In which passage it washeth Majafarequin Manuscute Merdin Mosul or Nineve and Bagdat Beneath which at Wasset it falls into the Euphrates having received some Branches of that River above Bagdat into its Sreams Monsieur Thevenot who sailed upon it observes that it is very crooked full of Islands and Banks of Stone The Emperour Trajan designed a Canal to joyn the Euphrates with it till he found the bed of the Euphrates much higher than that of the Tigris so that his Canal might render the Euphrates unnavigable This is the Hiddekel of Gen. 2. 14. Tiibury Tilaburgum a Town on the Thames in Essex famous for the Residence of S. Chad Bishop of the East-Angles when about 630. he Converted and Baptized that Nation Also for an Encampment here made by Qu. Elizabeths Order in 1588. when the Spanish Armado was expected Tilemont the same with Thienen Tileusont a Town in Brabant Pillaged by the French and Hollanders in 1635. Timavo Timavus a River of Friuli which arising from nine Fountains falls presently into the Adriatick Sea with a great Stream between Thieste to the East and the Mouth of Isonzo to the West after a Course of about three Miles Timerais Theodemerensis Ager a Tract in France which was a part of la Beausse and Chartres now taken into the Isle of France It lies between Normandy Chartres and la Perche but its Bounds are lost The Capital of it is Neufchastel Eighteen Leagues from Paris to the West and twenty from Orleans to the North. Tine Tinia a City of Bosnia by the Natives called Kerka upon a River of the last Name which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Spalato It is little and ill peopled being under the Turkish Slavery Twenty five Miles from Sebenico to the North and thirty five from Spalato Tine or Tyne the River See Tinmouth Tingmouth a very small naked and defenceless Town upon the British Sea Eastward of Torbay in Devonshire in the Hundred of Exmister burnt with some Vessels in the Port by a Detachment out of the French Fleet July 26. 1690 two days after the Anchorage of that Fleet in Torbay whither they came from the fight at Beachy July 22. and â—ailed away Aug. the 4th and 5th following being with their Gallies about one hundred and fifteen Sail. Tingoeses a Tribe or Hoard of Tartars towards the River Obb in the Asiatick Tartary subject to the Moscovites Tinmouth Tunnocellum Tinomuthum a considerable Sea-Port and Castle in the Borders of Northumberland and the Bishoprick of Durham upon the River Tyne which divides these two Counties and here falls into the German Sea having passed by Newcastle called from it New-Castle upon Tine In the Reign of William II. Robert Mowbray Earl of Northumberland trusting too much to the strength of this Castle was taken Prisoner by that Prince after a sharp Siege Tipasa an ancient City of Mauritania Caesariensis in Barbary which was a Bishops See made particularly famous in the year 484. when Cyrola a great Patriarch of the Arrians was its Bishop by Hunnericus King of the Vandals his cutting out the Tongues of all the Inhabitants that would not turn Arrians and the miracle thereupon said to ensue It is now but a Village near Algiers Called Saza Tipora a City and Kingdom in the Further East-Indies Bounded by Pegu and Arracan to the North and West Tipperary a County in the Province of Munster in Ireland called by the Irish Cuntae Thobruidearum by the English the County of Tipperary that is the Holy Cross Bounded on the East by Kilkenny on the West by Limerick on the South by Waterford and Cork and on the North by Gallway cut off from it by the Shannon The Principal Places in it are Cashel Caryck Clonmel Emeley and Castelan It is one of the Titles as a great part of it is the Possession of the Duke of Ormond Tirconnel or Tyrconnele Conalia a Castle and County in the Province of Vister in Ireland Bounded on the South West and North by the Vergivian Ocean and on the East by Tyrone and Colrane Also called the County of Dunghall The Country is Champain and full of Harbours It extends from North-East to South-West above eighty English Miles almost thirty five broad So that it seems to be one of the greatest Counties in Ireland But it has no considerable Place in it except Dunghall the River Dirgh and the Lake of Foyle separating it from the rest of Vlster Tiretaine a River
Men and Aetius the Victor This City and Province being recovered out of the Hands of the Moors by Charles Martel Charles the Great in 779. granted it to one Thursin with the Title of an Earl It continued under Earls for eighteen Descents who particularly were famous for assisting the Albigenses in their Wars till 1270. when it was reunited to the Crown of France The present King of France had taken up a design to make a Channel for Boats from this City to the Lake of Maguelone that so it might be a kind of Centre of Trade between the Mediterranean and the Ocean but with what success I know not In the year 1119. Pope Calixtus II. presided at a Council at this City Besides which it hath been honor'd with divers other Councils The Tectosagi were its ancient Inhabitants Tomalitze Tmolus a Mountain in Lidia in the Lesser Asia which yields Wine and Saffron The River Pactolus flows from it Tomar Nabantia Tacubis a Town in Portugal in the Province of Extremadura upon the River Nabaon two Leagues from the Tajo Tombut Tombutum a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa upon the River Snega between the Kingdom of Agad to the East Mandinga to the South Geneboa and Gualata to the West and the Desert of Zanhaga to the North. It takes its Name from a City so called which stands four hundred hundred French Leagues from Morocco to the South Tonderen Tundera a City in the Dukedom of Sleswick under the Duke of Holstein Gotthorp one German Mile from the German Ocean and four from Ripen to the South Tone a River in Somersetshire upon which Taunton Wellington Wivercomb and North Curry are all situated Tongres Tungri Aduatuca Tungrorum Aduaca Atuacutum a very great City in the Itinerary of Antoninus now a Town in the Bishoprick of Leige called by the Germans Tongren it stands upon the River lceker four Leagues from Liege and three from Maestricht Attila ruined it and the Normans after him It had anciently a Bishops See which was transferred to Maestricht and thence to Liege Tonningen Toninga a small City in the Dukedom of Sleswick upon the River Erder in the Borders of Ditmarsh Six Miles from Sleswick Under the Duke of Holstein Gotthorp Topazus an Island in the Red-Sea about forty Miles from the Continent where the Topaz or Chrysolite Stone is found in plenty It takes its name from its product Pliny mentions a Topaz of this place four Cubits long of which Ptolemy Philadelphus K. of Egypt made the Statue of his Queen Arsinoe Topino Tinia a River of Italy which ariseth near Nocera from the Apennine and flowing through Ombria watereth Fuligno taking in il Clinno then falls into the Chiascio and with it into the Tiber four Miles from Perugia Tor. See Eltor Tor a River in Somersetshire Glassenbury is situated upon it Toralea or Torre Turritana an old Roman Town in the Island of Sardinia which became the See of an Archbishop But it hath lost that Dignity since the year 1441. when Pope Eugenius IV. removed the See to Sessari twelve Miles from it to the North. Torcello Torcellum a City in the States of Venice which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Venice in an Island five Miles North of Venice and not much inhabited by reason of the badness of the Air. This See was brought hither from Altino in 635 which the Huns had ruined In 1582 and 1628. Synods were held here Torgaw Torgavia a City of Misnia in the Dukedom of Saxony upon the Elbe seven German Miles from Meissen to the North five from Witteberg and six from Leipsick Commended much for excellent Beer Tormes Tormis a River in the Kingdom of Leon in Spain arising in a Village called Tormellas near the Mountain del Varco de Avila and flowing North and North-West washeth Alva de Tormes Salamanca and Ledesma after a Course of twenty six Leagues and the Reception of fourteen small Rivers it falls into the Douro beneath Miranda de Douro Tornaw Torne Torna a County and City in the Vpper Hungary called by the Germans Dorn The City stands four Miles from Cassovia to the West Tornburg Torda a Town in the principality of Transylvania Le Tornaisis Tornacensis Ager a small Territory in the Earldom of Flanders between Hainault to the East and Lille to the West by the Schelde It is a part of the Gallick Flanders and has this Name from Tournay its principal City In the Hands of the French ever sinâ—e 1667. Torne Torna a City in Sweden in the Province of Bothinia at the bottom of the Botner Sea upon which it has a large and frequented Haven From its Site sometime called Torne Lapmark being near Lapland Tornus Tornu Tinurtium Trenorchium a Town in the Dukedom of Burgundy which has a celebrated Abbey Six Leagues from Mascon to the North and five from Challon to the South In 944. and 1109. Councils were held in this Abbey Toro Octodurum Taurum a City of Leon in Spain upon the Douro little and dayly decays being not walled nor much inhabited It stands between Zamora to the East and Valadolid to the West eight Spanish Leagues Near this Place the Spaniards overthrew the Portuguese in 1476. John II. King of Castile was born here in 1405. Torreglia a Sovereign Marquisate between the Dutchy of Milan and the States of Genoua Torrington a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Tremington upon the River Towridge Honor'd with the Title of an Earldom first in the Person of the late Duke of Albemarle Torsil Torsilia a small City in Sudermania in Sweden eleven Swedish Miles from Stockholm to the West Torso Thyrsus a River of Sardinia Torto Hiemera a River of Sicily Tortona Dertona Terdona Tertona Tordona a City of Lombardy in the Dukedom of Milan upon the River Scrivia A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Milan Frederick Aenobarbus Emperor of Germany sacked this Place which though rebuilt by the Milanese yet never recovered its ancient greatness In 1642. it was taken by the French recovered the next year by the Spaniard who in 1654. built a strong Castle in it for its defence It is the Capital of il Tortonese which lies between the Apennine and the Po Having Pavia on the East and the States of Genoua on the West and South from which the City of Tortona lies eight Miles to the North ten from Alessandria twenty five from Pavia and forty five from Placenza In 1595. a Synod was held here Tortosa Dertosa Dertusa Dertossa a City of Catalonia of great Antiquity a Principality and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona It stands upon the Ebro three Leagues from its Mouth fifteen from Tarragona to the South-West and from Ilerda to the South Small but Strong In 1649. it was taken by the French In 1652. returned under the Spaniards It has a strong Castle and a large Haven but not much frequented as appears by the decay of the Town In 1429 a Council was
the Cape di Coco or the most Western Point to the North-East and fifty five from Palermo to the South-West The Rock or petty Island of Colombara stands very near it to the South fortified with a strong Cittadel This City is built at the foot of the Mountain Eryx now Trapano near the Ruines of the antient City Eryx which yet appear and are called Trapano Vecchio the old Trapano in the figure of a Sickle according to the signification of its name in Greek and that of Ovid Quique locus curvae nomina falcis habet The Coral fished up here is good Trau Tragurium a small City and Port in Dalmatia called by the Sclaves Troghir Strong and well peopled and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Spalato It stands in a small Island of the same Name but joined to the Continent by a Bridge seventy Miles from Zara and twelve from Salona Subject to the Venetians ever since 1420. Travanor Travancorum a City and Kingdom in the Province of Mallabar in the East-Indies sixty Miles from Comorin to the North and fifty from Coulan to the South subject to the King of Coulan Travaux Sinus Laborum a Bay upon the Coast of America Magellanica near Porto Desire the Spaniards call it Boia de los Marabaios others the White Bay and S. George's Bay Trave Treva a River of Holstein in the Province of Wagaren which watereth Ploen Segeberg Oldesloh Reinfelde Lubeck and Travemond and separating Holstein from Mecklenburg falls into the Baltick Sea between Tavemond and Dassow Trebia a River of Lombardy which ariseth in the States of Genoua fifteen Miles from that City and watering Bobio a City in the Dukedom of Milan a little above Piacenza falls into the Po. The Romans being overthrown by Hannibal upon the Banks of this River were most of them in their flight drowned in it Trebigna Tribulium a small but very ancient City of Dalmatia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ragusa from which it stands sixteen Miles to the East upon the River Trebinska subject to the Turks Trebula an antient City of the Terra Sabina in the States of the Church in Italy It has a Castle and a great repute for Cheese Some Inscriptions and the Ruins of a Theatre yet extant speak its Considerableness in former times Tregaron a Market Town in Caerdiganshire in the Hundred of Pennarth Tregoney a Corporation in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Powder represented in the Lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses Treguier Trecorium Trecora a City of Bretagne in France called by the Inhabitants Lantriguet It stands upon the North Shoar and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours Having an excellent Port nine Miles from S. Brien to the West and thirty from Reims The Bishop is also the Temporal Lord of it with the Title of a Count. It was often exposed to the spoils of the Saxons Danes and Normans Tremissen Tremesin Tremisa a Town and Kingdom in Mauritania Caesariensis in Barbary Tremita an Island upon the Coast of the Kingdom of Naples in the Gulph of Venice which communicates its name to some others about it called the Islands of Tremits It is one of the Diomedeae of the Antients and now adorned with a Monastery Tremituge Tremithus Tremethus a City of the Islands of Cyprus which was anciently a Bishops See Sporidion a famous Bishop of it assisting at the first Council of Nice It is now reduced to a poor Town Trent Trenta one of the principal Rivers in England It ariseth in the County of Stafford near Mowcop Hill towards Cheshire and flowing South receives the Saw from Stafford in the Borders of that County the Tame from the South and the Done from the North and entering Nottinghamshire salutes its Capital at a small distance after at Newark So dividing this Shire from Lincolnshire this and the River Dun form the Isle of Axholme and they being united both fall into the Humber at Ankeborough Trent Trento Tridentum a City in the Borders of the County of Tirol betwixt Italy and Germany call'd by the Germans Trient The Capital of a Territory called the Tridentine amongst the Alpes which thence are also called the Tridentine Alpes It is a small City and a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja well peopled seated in a fruitful Valley upon the River Adige in the midst of aspiring Mountains Once an Imperial and Free City now exempt and subject to its own Bishop as to its Revenue but as to the Sovereignty to the Emperor as Count of Tirol Eighteen Miles from Inspruck to the South and about eight from Verona It has divers Churches one College of Jesuites and a great number of religious and ecclesiastical Houses But most celebrated on the account of a Council begun here by Pope Paul III. December 15. 1445 who dying in 1549. it was continued under Julius III in 1551. He also dying in 1555. and a War broken out in Germany it was not resumed by Pius IV. till 1562 and by him ended Decemb. 4. 1563. Maurice Elector of Saxony with Albert Marquess of Brandenburgh and William Landtgrave of Hesse having suddenly taken Ausbourgh in 1552. and threatned Trent obliged Pope Julius III. to suspend the session of it for that time Trepassez Sinus Mortuorum a Bay in New-found Land in North America Trero Trerus a River of Campania di Roma which watereth Salvaterra and falls into the Garigliano beneath Ponte Corvo in the Borders of the Kingdom of Naples Some call it Omme Tresen Tresa a small City with an Haven upon the Baltick Sea in the Province of Sudermannia in Sweden seven Miles from Stockholm to the North-West Tresmes Trama a River and Monastery in Champagne in France in the Borders of La Brie three Leagues from Meaux to the North. Trevico Trivicus a City in the further Principate in the Kingdom of Naples A Bishops See under the Arch-Bishop of Benevento Horace mentions it It is likewise called Vico della Baronia Trevigiana See Marchia Trevisana Treviso or Trevigi Tarvisium Taurisium a City in the Marquisate of Trevigiana or Trevisana to which it gives its name in the States of Venice upon the River Sile which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja A great and strong City surrounded on all sides by Water and thereby of the more difficult access Brought under the States of Venice in 1336. In 1509 taken by Maximilian the Emperour and shortly after restored to them It stands eighteen Miles from Venice to the South-West Trevoux Trevoltium the Capital Town of the Principality of Dombes in France adorned with a Collegiate Church Triadzzia Sardica an ancient City of Thrace Triballi an ancient People of Moesia Inferior now Bulgaria Tribur an ancient Royal Palace betwixt Mayence and Oppenheim beyond the Rhine in Germany where divers Councils have been celebrated Tricaraco Tricarium a City in the Basilicate in the Kingdom of Naples Tricastin a Territory in Dauphine in France the
Capital of it is S. Paul de trois Chasteaux Trier Treviri Augusta Trevirorum a City of Germany called by the French Treves by the Italians Treveri by the Germans Trier It is an Archbishops See whose Bishop is one of the eight Electors of the Empire and his Suffragans Metz Toul and Verdun three Subjects of the King of France A great and an ancient City seated upon the Moselle over which it has a Stone-Bridge thirteen Leagues from Metz to the South-East seventeen German Miles from Cologne to the South and from Mentz to the West Said to be built fourteen hundred and ninety six years before the Birth of Christ and so to be the most ancient City in Europe Made a Roman Colony in the times of Augustus and afterwards the richest and most famous City in Gallia Belgica the Metropolis of the Treviri About the times of Constantine it was for a long time the Seat of the Western Emperors resembling Rome in all its magnificent publick Buildings as much as was possible In the year of Christ 456 it was taken and ruined by the Huns and other barbarous Nations in their Passage into Italy But after this it recovered In the year 1472 there was an University opened here In the year 1568 it was taken by its Bishop and ceased to be a Free and Imperial City In the year 1632 it was put into the Hands of the French to preserve it from the Swedes as was pretended they kept it till the year 1645. In 1675 it was again recovered out of the Hands of the French who had seized upon it the second time not long before In 1688 the French put another Garrison into it Long. 28. 06. Lat. 49. 50. This City hath four Collegiate Churches five Parishes and two Abbeys The Tunique of our Saviour is pretended to be preserved here but they very rarely offer to expose it to view and never since 1648. after the Peace of Westphalia In 386. A Council was held here in the business of the Priscillianists by the order of Maximus In 1148. Pope Eugenius III. assisted in Person at another The Electorate of Trier is bounded on the North by Lifall the Bishoprick of Cologne and Westrowalt on the East by Weteraw on the South by Lorain and on the West by Luxemburgh it is of great extent from East to West but very narrow from North to South The principal Cities and Places in it are Trier Coblents Boppart Oberwesel and Hermanstein It is watered both by the Moselle and Rhine and affords all things needful for the Life of Man in great plenty The Inhabitants of this Diocese are called by the Germans Trierishe Trieste Tergeste Tergestum a City of Istria called by the Germans Triesten A small but a strong and populous Place and a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquilesa has a large but unsafe Harbour upon the Adriatick at the bottom of a Bay called Trieste too This City was taken from the Venetians in the year 1507 by the Emperor and has been ever since in his Possession It stands thirty Miles from Aquileja to the East and fifty from Pola to the North. Long. 36. 24. Lat. 45. 40. Il Trigno Trinius a River in the Kingdom of Naples which springeth out of the Apennine in the County of Molise and watering Trivento falls through the Hither Abruzzo into the Adriatick Sea near il Guasto sixteen Miles from Lanciano to the East Trin Trino Tridinum a Town in the Dukedom of Montferrat a small distance from the Po to the North seven Miles from Casal to the West and thirty four from Turin to the East which in 1630 was yielded by the Duke of Mantoua to the Duke of Savoy Tring a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Dacor La Trinidad Trinitatis Insula one of the Caribby Islands in America planted with Sugar Trinquimale a City in the Island of Ceylan Triodos or Throhodos a Mountain in the Island of Cyprus so called by the Greeks Tripoli di Soria Tripolis a City in Syria called by the Turks Tarabolos-scham In 1289 taken and intirely ruined by the Saracens and after rebuilt by the Franks in a fruitful Plain with a strong Castle seated upon a Rock This place is now in a good condition having about two thousand Houses and a very convenient Harbor on the Mediterranean Sea It stands twenty German Miles from Damascus to the North and a little more from Famagousta to the South In the time of the Holy War it had Counts of its own from 1109 to 1288. Now the Seat of a Turkish Sangiack Long. 63. 30. Lat. 34. 20. See Monsieur Thevenot's Travels Part I. p. 221. Tripoli Tripolis Neapolis Leptis or Tripoly of Barbary is a great City on the Mediterranean Sea in Barbary which is the Capital of a Kingdom of the same name has a large Port and a strong Castle but extremely infamous for its Piracies Heretofore a part of the Kingdom of Tunis In 1510 it was taken by the Spaniards eighteen years after it was granted to the Knights of Malta who in 1551 were expelled again by the Moors Since that it is governed like a Commonwealth Having a considerable Territory belonging to it betwixt Tunis and the Ocean but very few Towns Sanson supposes it to be the ancient Oea It lies over against the Isle of Malta Long. 42. 00. Lat. 41. 40. § There is another Tripoli in Barbary upon the Mediterranean with the Title of Tripoli Vecchio or the Old Tripoli which standing in an ill air has almost lost its Inhabitants § A third in the Lesser Asia upon the Euxine Sea Trivento Triventum Triventinum a small City of the Kingdom of Naples in the County of Molise upon the River Trigno which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento and stands in the Borders of Abruzzo upon the Adriatick Sea seventeen Miles from Boiano to the North. Troesen an ancient City of the Peloponnesus which preserved their Alliances with the Athenians with great Honor and since the times of Christianity became a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Corinth Gastaldus calls it now Pleda Troglodytae an obscure People of Aethiopia from whom the Sinus Troglodyticus there anciently received its denomination having the Caverns of its Rocks adjacent possessed by them Whence all subterraneous dwellers in Rocks Caves and Cabbins in India Africa c. were called Troglyditae Troia Ilium a City of Phrygia in the Lesser Asia upon the Coast of the Aegean Sea made famous by its Ruin and a ten years War about the year of the World 2870. in the Reign of its King Priamus It stood upon the River Xanthus near Mount Ida three Miles from the Archipelago thirty two German Miles from Smyrna to the North and from Constantinople to the South Said to have been built about the year of the World 2574. Whereby this City and Kingdom lasted not above two hundred and ninety six years Some Marble ruins of it are yet visible Mahomet IV. used
govern by the Sword Turquestan Some make this and the Kingdom of Thibet in the Asiatick Tartary to be the same Country Others describe it as a Province betwixt the Great Tartary and the Empire of the Mogul Tuver Tavera a City of Moscovy Tuxford a Market Town in Nottinghamshire in the Hundred of Southclay called commonly Tuxford upon Clay from the quality of the Soil it stands in Tuy Tude Tyde a City of Gallicia in Spain upon the River Minho six Leagues from its Mouth to the East twelve from Compostella and seventeen Bracara It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Compostella but a small City Tweede Tuaesis Vedra Tueda a River which divides Scotland from England and falls into the German Ocean at Barwick Giving name to Tweedale a County in Scotland Tyana an ancient City of Cappadocia in the Lesser Asia at the foot of the Mountain Taurus famous for being the Birth-place of the Philosopher Apollonius called Tyanaeus from it It became in the Christian times an Archbishops See and in 365. a Council of the Oriental Bishops was celebrated at it Tyndaro Tyndarus a Town in the Island of Sicily in the Valley of Demone towards Petti which was formerly a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Syracusa But as Syracusa has been since reduced to a Bishoprick so has Tyndaro from a City become a Town Tyrconel See Tirconel Tyre Tyrus one of the most ancient and celebrated Cities of Palestine supposed to be older than the coming of the Children of Israel out of Egypt but certainly at the latest built in the year of the World 2693. two hundred and forty years before Solomon's Temple which is the account of Josephus It flourished and had the Trade of the whole Mediterranean Sea sent and settled its Colonies on all its Coasts as far as the Western Ocean yea as Britain and amongst the rest founded Carthage But when Jerusalem fell Tyre kept her company For Nebuchadnezzar took and burnt this City in the eighteenth year of his Reign Anno Mundi 3371. the year before he took Jerusalem Alexander the Great took and ruined it the second time after a Siege of seven Months in the year of the World 3618. Yet it recovered again and was in great repute during the Roman Empire and was an Archbishops See in the times of Christianity under the Patriarch of Antioch and afterwards of Jerusalem Adrian the Emperour having made it the Metropolis of Phoenicia About the year of Christ 641. after the Saracens had by a Siege of three years forced Caesarea to submit to them they became Masters of this City without resistance Damascus Antioch and Jerusalem being taken before Together with Jerusalem it returned under Christian Princes again about the year 1099. In 1111. the the Saracens in vain attempted the Recovery of it but in 1123. it was taken by them The Christians regained it and kept it till the year 1259. when the Tartars took it In 1263. the Venetians retook it In 1292. the Saracens finally prevailed and drove the Western Christians out of Syria This is now called Sour by the Turks and has some lovely Antiquities as Thevenot saith but no Inhabitants Long. 67. Lat. 33. 20. In the year 335. a Council here assembled by the order of Constantine the Great condemned Athanasius deprived him of his Bishoprick of Alexandria and banished him from that City In 448. Ibas Bishop of Edessa accused of Nestorianism was acquitted by a Council at Tyre and in 518. there was a third celebrated here Tyrnaw Tirnavia a small City in the Vpper Hungary in the County of Transchin upon a River of its own name called by the Germans Durn or Dyrne which has always been under the Emperour and is the common Residence of the Bishop of Gran being seated in his Diocese nine Miles from Comora to the North eight from Presburgh to the East and sixteen from Vienna Tyrone Tyronensis Comitatus the County of Tir-Oen or as the Irish call it of Thioroghain is in the Province of Vlster in the Kingdom of Ireland between the County of Antrim to the East London-Derry to the North and West and Fermanach and Armagh to the South There is no Town or City of any Note in this County which heretofore extended further to the West than now it doth a part of it being taken into the County of London-Derry Tzaconia the same with Laconia a Province of the Morea Tzebona a strong Town in Bohemia Tzorlich or Tzurulium or Ciarlo a City of Thrace which is a Bishops See almost in the middle between Constantinople and Adrianople Tzuconi a Kingdom of Japan V A. VAbres Vabrae Vabra Vabrincum Castrum Vabrense Vabrium a small City in Rovergue in France upon the River Dourdan at the foot of an Hill three Leagues from Rhodez to the South and four from the Borders of Languedoc Made a Bishops See in 1317. under the Archbishop of Bourges by Pope John XXII who converted its Benedictine Abbey into a Cathedral The Bishops enjoy the Title of Earls of Vabres Long. 23. 40. Lat. 33. 00. Vaferine or Vanferine a River of France which ariseth from the Valley of Chesieri in Bugey and separates the Territory of Michaille in that Province from Savoy then passeth by Bellegarde into the Rhone Vag Vagus a River of the Vpper Hungary which ariseth from the Carpathian Hills in the Borders of Poland and running North-West watereth Trenschin Freistadel Leopolstadt Schinta and Scheliz Between Comora and Presburgh falls from the North into the Danube Whilst Newheusel was in the hands of the Turks this was the Boundary on that side between the two Empires Vai Sabatium Vadum Vada Sabatia a Sea-Port on the Coast of Genoua five Miles from Savona to the North-West Vaison Vasio Forum Vocontiorum a City in Provence in the County of Venaissin upon the River Louveze and the ascent of a Hill four French Leagues from Orange to the North-East and ten from Avignon to the same It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Avignon In 337. a Council here assembled in the Reign of the Emperor Constantius received and added to the Gloria Petri the Verse following Sicut erat in principio c. In 442. and 529. we read of other Councils here Val des Choux a Priory in the Dukedom of Burgundy and the Diocese of Langres near Chastillon founded in 1197. It belongs to the Benedictines Val des Ecoliers an Abbey in the Diocese of Langres in France founded in 1212. by some Parisian Doctors for their retirement whose example drew the Scholars of the Vniversity of Paris in such numbers to the same life that their House was called the Scholars Valley and became the Head of a New Order Valckembourg a Town in the Dutchy of Limburgh in the Low-Countries two Leagues from Maestricht Taken by the French in 1676. and restored to the Spaniards in 1679. by the Treaty of Nimeguen The French call it Fanquemont § Also a small Town in the State
at all valued human Blood But of all these places I have discoursed in the Accounts I have given of them She stands two hundred and sixty Miles from Rome to the North two hundred and eighty from Vienna South one hundred from Ravenna North fifteen from Milan East Upon Ascension-Day the Doge accompanied with the whole College and Ambassadours of Crown'd Heads performs a Ceremony yearly at Port Lido which is peculiarly remarkable in this City of marrying the Adriatick Sea which is done by throwing out of his Buccintoro a most rich and pompous Galley for the purpose wherein he rides in triumph a Gold Ring into the Sea with these words Desponsamus te Mare in signum veri perpetui dominii This Ceremony was first instituted by Pope Alexander III. towards the end of the twelfth Century as a solemn Declaration of the Sovereignty over the Adriatick which the Republick had acquired by their Arms. Zebastiano Zani was the Doge at that time To him Pope Alexander delivered a Ring saying Take this Ring and upon this day in every year to come give one to the Sea as to your lawful Spouse to the end that all posterity may know that the Sea by the right of Arms belongs to you The Venetians had done great Services to Pope Alexander against the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and particularly by their Victory at Sea over Otho Son to that Emperor which induced the Pope to create this Ceremony in their honour not pretending to grant from the Roman See what that See never had but declaring and recognizing solemnly an ancient right in the possession of this State Therefore when Pope Julius II. asked Donati the Venetian Ambassador in Raillery to show the Titles of this right it was thought ingeniously answered by him If your Holiness pleases to look out the original of Constantine's Donation to P. Sylvester you will find the grant of the Adriatick Sea to the Venetians Their Generals over the Gulph of whom they show in their Records an uninterrupted Succession from 1230 are the most ancient Marine Officers of the Republick But the precise time of their Creation first was lost amongst the Records in a fire that year A Venetian Historian calls this gulph Reipublicae domum the house in which the Republick was born It s mouth betwixt the Cape of Otranto and that of Eâ—questa near Vallona extends the space of fifty or fifty five Miles See Golfo di Venetia The particular part of it in which the City Venice stands was anciently called Gallicae Paludes Septem Maria Sâ—agna Hadriatica Now Lagune di Venetia See Lagune The Venetians date the beginning of their Republick not from the Election of the first Doge in 697. but to represent its Age greater from the day of the Proclamation of Rialto an Asylum in March 25 An Dom. 421 and they think it renders them more August to compute their beginning from the same Epocha as to the Month and Day with that of the Incarnation of Christ and according to some opinions the Creation of the World They have in their present Constitution a Grand Council of the Nobility a Senato a College of Twenty six who give Audience to Ambassadors and report their Demands to the Senate a Council of Ten and a Triumvirate monthly chosen by and out of the Ten of three Inquisitors of State whose Authority is so absolute as to extend to the taking away of the Life of the Doge no less than the meanest Artisan without acquainting the Senate provided they all three agree in the Sentence And no Ecclesiasticks tho Nobles are suffered admittance into the Councils or Offices of the State to prevent the Policies of the Church of Rome whose long interdict upon the Republick in the last age cannot be forgotten Long. 34. 30. Lat. 45. 00. The State of Uenice called by the Italians Lo Stato della Republica di Venetia or il Dominio Veneto is a considerable Territory in Italy Bounded to the North by the Valteline and the County of Tirol and Carinthia from all which it is separated by the Alpes on the West it has Milan on the South Mantoua and the States of the Church on the East the Adriatick Sea now commonly called the Gulph of Venice and Carniola Very fruitful and strangely full of People it extends from East to West two hundred and forty Miles from North to South one hundred Besides Venice it contains in Italy Belluno Bergamo Brescia Crema Felâ—re Friuli Capo d Istria Legnago Palma Pola Rovigo Serravalle Trevigi Verona Vicenza and Vdine And besides all these Territories in Italy this State possesseth a great part of Dalmatia Cefalonia Corfou Zant and many other Islands In 1687. and since with the three preceding years by her Victorious Arms and Gods blessing she has recovered from the Turks all the Morea and all Livadia or Aehaia Uenlo Venloa a very strong Hanse Town in the Vpper Guelderland not much Peopled Seated upon the Maes in the Borders of the Dukedom of Juliers under the Spaniards four Leagues from Roermond to the North and a little more from Guelders North-West Uennes the same with Vannos Uenosa Venusia Venusium a City of the Kingdom of Naples in the Basilicatâ— which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Acerenza seated in a fruitful Plain at the foot of the Apennine and honored of old with the Birth of Horace the Latin Poet at present with the Title of a Principality belonging to the Family di Ludovisia This City is placed between Naples to the West and Taranto to the East seventy five Miles from either and fifteen from Acerenza to the North. In 1589 and 1614. Synods were assembled here Long. 39. 51. Lat. 40. 57. Vera Cruz Vera Crux a City in New Spain in the Province of Tlascala upon the Bay of Mexico eighty Leagues from Mexico to the East and seventy from the South Sea A place of great Trade being the Port to Mexico but not walled nor seated in a healthful Air especially from about April to November because it rains almost continually all that time only it has for its defence a Castle built on a Rock and from November to April again the Wind and the Sun tempering each other without rain make the place pleasant Ueragua a Province of New Spain in South America included in the Government of Guatimala Uera Paz a Province in the Government of Guatimala in New Spain in South America upon the Borders of the Provinces of Guatimala properly so called and Honduras The Capital City bears the same name and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico This Province abounds with spacious Forests and Mountains which the Spaniards are dayly levelling to improve the Air and the Soil Upon the Eastern Coast of it lies the Golfo Dolce or sweet water-gulph by which Adventurers have sometime sought a passage to the Pacifick Sea in vain Uerberie Vermâ—ria a Royal House belonging to the Kings of France in the Dutchy
In length from North to South 100 Miles in breadth from East to West 130 in circumference 420. Tho it lies so far to the North yet it is not subject to any extremity of Weather the various Winds cooling it in Summer and frequent Rains mollifying the sharpness of the Air in Winter The Soil is fruitful in Corn and Grass affords great plenty of Timber and Fruit Trees It abounds with Lakes and Rivers which are well stored with Fish and Fowles and of sufficient depth for carrying Boats and Vessels It wants not excellent Harbours on the Sea and Ocean This Province contains these Counties Dunghall or Tyrconnel Upper Tyrone Nether Tyrone Fermanagh Cavan Monaghan Colrane or London-Derry Antrim Downe Armagh and Louth The Capital City is Armagh or Armath The rest are London-Derry Dunghall Downe and Knockfergus Ulverstoit a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Loynsdale upon a Stream falling into an Arm of the Sea near Leversand Umbriatico Vmbraticum Brustacia a City in the Hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Sancta Severina from which it stands 10 Miles to the North. Umbrone See Ombrone Umegiunaibe a City of the Province of Cuzt in the Kingd of Fez in Barbary betwixt the Rivers Esacha and Mulvia Underwaldt Sylvania Sylvaniensis and Vndervaldensis Pagus a Canton in Switzerland the Capital of which is Stantz On the North it is divided from Schwitz by the Lake of Lucerne on the East it has the Canton of Vri on the South that of Berne and and on the West Lucerne This is one of the lesser Cantons The Inhabitants profess the Roman Catholick Religion A Wood or Forrest called Kernwalt the Oak Forrest divides this Canton in the midst and from thence it has its Name This Canton began to free it self about 1260. First admitted into the general League in 1307 from thenceforward they have had the sixth place in the Roll or List of the Cantons Unghwar Vngaria a small City in the Upper Hungary which is the Capital of a County of the same name at the Foot of the Carpathian Hills This City stands upon the River Vngh in the Borders of Red Russia 6 Hungarian Miles from Cassovia to the East and from Zatmar to the North. Has been always in the Hands of the Christian Princes It joyned with Teckeley and was retaken by the Emperor in the year 1685 yet situated naturally strong Some Hungarian Historians derive the Name of their Country from this City or its River Unna an Hanse Town in the County of Mark in Westphalia in Germany which was a considerable City but now very small and subject to the Duke of Brandenburg Ten Miles from Dartmund to the East and from the Borders of Munster to the South Uoidanar Atrax one of the principal Cities of Thessaly upon the River Atrax 30 Miles from Larissa to the West Uoigtlandt Voigtlandia Voigtia a Province of Germany in the Upper Saxony and Misnia for the most part under the Elector of Saxony It lies between Bohemia to the East and Franconia to the West The principal Places in which are Swickaw Plauwen and Gratz Uolcano in the Italian and Spanish Tongues signifies a Burning Mountain Of which sort there are in several places of the World about twenty Uolfembuttel Wolfembutel a City of Germany in the Dukedom of Brunswisk Uolga See Wolga Uolhinia Superior a part of Red Russia called also the Palatinate of Luceoria Bounded with Russia properly so called to the West Podolia to the South the Palatinate of Brescia to the North and Kiovia to the East The Capital of it is Lusuck Uolhinia Inferior See the Palatinate of Kiovia Uolo a Town and Fortress upon the Gulph of its own Name and the Coast of the Province of Thessalia in Macedonia North of the Island of Negrepont It is the same place with the Pagasae of the Antients and the same Gulph with their Sinus Pagasicus The Turks made a Magazine of it both for Amunition and Provision It hath a sure and spacious Port. In the year 1655. Morosini resolving to seize the Turkish Magazine stormed the Town and Fortress till he made himself Master of both he put on board his Fleet twenty seven Canons and above four Millions of Pounds weight of Bisket Burnt the Magazine Houses and Mosques and levelled the Walls to the ground Uolcei an antient People of Latium in Italy who resisted the Roman Power very much to their own loss T. Sicinius Consul defeated them in the year of Rome 257. Q. Capitolinus beat them again in 316. A. Postloumius Tubertus Dictator triumphed over them in 325. And Camillus constrained them to submit in 365. Their Country now makes a part of Campagna di Roma Uolterra Volaterra Volaterrae one of the most antientest Cities in Italy in Hetruria in the Territory of Pisa upon a Mountain and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Florence from whence it stands 34 Miles to the South In 1578. and 1590. Synods were celebrated here The Soil about it yields abundance of Mineral Waters There are divers antient Statues yet remaining in this City Lon. 33. 40. Lat. 42. 46. Uoltorno Vulturnus a River in the Kingdom of Naples it springeth out of the Apennine in the Borders of the hither Abruzzo and flowing South through the Province di Lavoro near Venafro and Aliâ—i beneath Tolesi it receives the Sabato and watering Capua falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea 20 Miles North of Naples Uoltutiraria Vulturaria a small City in the Capitanata in the Kingdom of Naples a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento from which it stands 24 Miles to the North. Uoville a Town in Poictiers in France where Clovis King of France gained a great Victory over Alarick King of the Goths whom he slew with his own hands in the year of Christ 507. Uoutenai a place near Auxerre in Burgundy where Charles surnamed the Bald got a great Victory over Lothaire in the year of Christ 841. Uplandia a Province in the Kingdom of Sweden the Capital of it is Vpsal in which stands Stockholm the Royal City of that Kingdom Bounded on the North with Gestricia on the East by the Baltick Sea on the South by the Sudermannia and on the West by Westmannia Very fruitful and well cultivated Uppingham a well built neat Market Town in the County of Rutland and the Hundred of Martinsley situated upon an Hill and accommodated with a Free-School and an Hospital Upsal Vpsalia is the Capital City in the Kingdom of Sweden in the Province of Vpland in 1148. made an Archbishops See by Pope Eugenius III. It stands upon the River Sala which falls into the Lake of Ekolen seven Swedish Miles from Stockholm to the North. Long. 44. 15. Lat. 60. 05. It was for many Ages the Seat of the Kings of Gothland and to this day the Kings of Sweden are crown'd there in memory of its antient Glory It is also an University defended by a strong Castle built
it contained also Schwaben Bavaria Thuringia a great part of Saxony and some Provinces of France But the Name is only now applied to Lorain Weteraw Veteravia Vederovia a Province in the Vpper Circle of the Rhine between the Vpper Hassia to the East Westerwaldt to the North the Rhine to the West and Mentz to the South The principal Places in it are Dietz and Haâ—â—mar Wetherby a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hund of Claro upon the River Warfe Wetsch the same with Vienna Wexford a County in the South of the Kingdom of Ireland called by the Irish Loghagarm It is the South part of the Province of Lemster Bounded on the North by the County of Waterford cut off by the River Barrow It takes its Name from a great Sea-Port Town on the South side of the River Shemalyn not far from the South-Eastern Point of Ireland fifty two Miles South of Sweden and about twenty East of Waterford Weymouth a Market Town and Corporation in Dorsetshire in the Hundred of Vgscomb at the Fall of the River Wey into the Ocean joined to Melcomb Regis on the other side of the same River by a fair Timber Bridge since the Incorporation of both Towns by Act of Parliament in Queen Elizabeth's time into one Body Yet each is distinctly represented by its Burgesses in the House of Commons and Weymouth has the Honour to give the Title of a Viscount to the Right Honourable Thomas Thynne Weymar See Weimar Whitby a Market and Sea-Port Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire at the Fall of the River Esk into the Ocean It hath many Vessels belonging to it a Bridge over the River a Custom-House and heretofore an Abbey of great fame in the Person particularly of S. Hilda an ancient Abbess of it Whitchurch a Market Town in Shropshhire in the Hundred of N. Bradford towards Cheshire § Also a Corporation in Hantshire in the Hundred of Evinger upon the River Test having the Election of two Members of the House of Commons Whitehaven a Market Town in the County of Cumberland in the Division of Allerdale upon a Creek of the Sea which affords it a convenient and well frequented Harbour It stands at the North end of a Rock of hard White Stone and trades principally in Coals and Salt Whithern Candida Casa Lucopibia the White-House a Town or small City in Galloway in Scotland upon the Irish Sea over against the Isle of Man and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Glasco The place where Ninia or Ninian a holy Britan the Apostle of the South Picts in the Reign of Theodosius the younger built a Church which after the number of Christians were increased became a Bishops See It is one of the ancientest Towns being mentioned by Ptolemy as well as Bishopricks in Scotland Long. 16. 30. Lat. 56. 30. Wiburg Viburgium a City in the Province of North Jutland in the Kingdom of Denmark which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lunden It stands in the middle of that Promontory at an equal distance from the German and Baltick Seas eight German Miles from Alburg to the South This Bishops See was founded by Sweno King of Denmark in 1065. Long. 30. 58. Lat. 58. 08. There is a Town of the same Name in Livonia Wickham a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Burnham upon a Stream falling into the Thames in a low and fruitful Vale. It hath the honour to be a Corporation represented by two Burgesses in the Lower House of Parliament Written also Chipping-VViccomb The Assizes for the County are commonly kept here being a large fair Town § Also a Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of VVilford upon the Deben in which the Archdeacon of Suffolk keeps his Courts for the Eastern part of that County This Town has lost its Market to Woodbridge in its neighbourhood Wickware a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Grombaldash Widen Widin See Vidin Wieprz Aprus a River which falls into the Vistula in the Borders of Poland and Silesia Wigan a Market Town and Corporation in Lancashire in the Hundred of Darby upon the River Dowles of note for good Coal The Corporation elects two Parliament men Wiflisburg or Wiefelbourg Aventicum an ancient City of Switzerland The Capital of the Canton of Wiâ—â—ipurgergow once a great City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Besanzon but now only a Town in the Borders of the Canton of Friburg called by the French Avenches It stands upon the River Broye one German Mile from Friburg three from Berne and four from Lausanne to the North. This Bishoprick was removed to Lausanne in 1076. This Canton is a part of the Canton of Berne bounded on the East by the Aar and Argop on the South by the Alpes and the Lake of Lemane and on the West and North by Mount Jura or Jurten Wight Victus Vectis Vecta an Island on the South of England belonging to the County of South-hampton In length twenty Miles in breadth twelve in circumference sixty About three from Hurst Castle of an oval form ending with two Peninsula's to the East and West And by nature secured with Rocks especially Southward It contains thirty six Parishes and three Market Towns Its Air healthful and pleasant the Soil very fruitful affords a good quantity of Corn for Exportation and Cattle and Game in abundance its Meadows and Wooll are excellent In short it wants nothing needful to the Life of Man The principal place in it is Newport and Cowes for a Harbour Vespasian was the first that subjected this Island to the Romans under Claudius Caesar Cerdick King of the West Saxons became the next Master of it in 530. After him Wolfer King of the Mercians from whom it passed to Edelwalch King of the South Saxons by gift Coedwalla King of the West Saxons at last reconquered it Henry VI. crowned Henry de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick his Favourite King of Wight but this Title soon vanished with his Life two years after Richard Widevil Earl of Rivers his Successor had it from Edward IV. with the Title of Lord of Wight Sir Reginald Bray took it from Henry VII in Fee Farm at the Rent of three hundred Marks Wighton a Market Town in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Harthill Wilde the same with Vilne Wilia Vilia a River of Poland which arising in the Palatinate of Breslaw watereth Vilne and beneath Cown falls into the Chrone Wilkomirz Wilkmer Vilcomtria a Town in the Ducal Prussia upon the River Swet eight Polish Miles from Vilne and seven from Trock Willy or Willibourn a River in Wiltshire which joins with the Nadder at Wilton near Salisbury and afterwards falls into the Avon Werminster is situated at the Spring of it Wiltshire Wiltonia is bounded on the North by Gloucester on the East by Berksshire on the South by Dorset and Hampshire and upon the West by Somerset and Gloucester From
of its Bishops who died in 1617. The Capital of a great Territory and Diocese belonging to its Bishop who is a rich and potent Prelate and a Duke of Franconia since the times of Charles the Great in token whereof his Grand Mareschal always assists with a Sword of State at his Master's Mass His Diocese extending from North to South fifteen German Miles and besides this City containing Ochsenfurt Gemund and Koningshoven This City is fifteen Miles from Francfort and nineteen from Mentz to the East The Italians call it Herbipoli It is built in a fruitful Plain incompassed with Hills filled with Vineyards pleasant Gardens and flowry Meadows It has a Stone Bridge over the River The Territory was granted to this See by Charles the Great Long. 31. 50. Lat. 49. 44. Wurzen a Town in the Vpper Saxony in Germany in the Province of Misnia upon the River Muldaw two miles from Leipsick to the East Under the Bishop of Meissen but now in the hands of the Elector of Saxony as Administrator of that Bishoprick It belonged heretofore to the Counts of its own Name Wye Vaga a River in South Wales which falls into the Severn at Chepstow in Monmouthshire § Also a Market Town in the County of Kent in Scray Lath. X A. XA the same with Geichon Xacca See Sacca Xagua a Bay upon the Southern Coast of the Island of Cuba in America containing above six Leagues in Circuit with a small Island in the middle which affords excellent Water It is entered by a deep Canal which is made naturally safe by Rocks on each side about a Cannon shot in length and narrow The French call it le Grand Port as being one of the best and most commodious in America Xalisco Xalisca a Province of New Spain in America the same with that the Spaniards call New Galicia Xalon Salo a River of Spain which ariseth in old Castile and watering Medina celi entreth Arragon in which Kingdom it takes in the Maungles Xiloa Deca and Hyvela and watering Huerta Calataiud Riela and Placenza falls into the Ebro four Leagues above Sarragoza Xansi Xansia a Province in the North of China which is the second of that Kingdom Bounded on the North by that famous Wall which parts China from Tartary on the East by Pekim on the West by Xensi and on the South by Honan The Capital of it is Taiyven It contains five great Cities one hundred and ninety two small and five hundred eighty nine thousand six hundred fifty nine Families Xanthi an Ancient valiant People of Asia mentioned by Herodotus who being reduced to the last Extremity in a siege by Harpagus Cyrus's General fired their Cittadel with their Wives Servants Goods c. enclosed and exposed themselves to present Death rather than Captivity upon the Swords of the Enemy Xanto Xanthus the same with Scamandro Xantoigne See Saintonge Xantum Xantonia Xantung a Province on the North of China Bounded on the North and East by the Bay of Nanchim on the West by Pekim and on the South by Nankim the Capital of it is Cinan It contains six great ninety two small Cities seven hundred seventy thousand five hundred and fifty five Families and is one of the most fruitful Provinces in that vast Kingdom Xaocheu Xaocheum a City in the Province of Quantum in China Xaoching Xaochinga a City in the Province of Chekiam in China upon the River Chey Xaoun Xaoum a City in the Province of Fokien in China upon the River Zuyen The Capital over three other Cities Xativa Setebis Xativa a small City in the Kingdom of Valentia called by the French Chativa Seven Miles from Valentia to the South and two beyond the Xucar to the same Quarter Xauxa a vast River in Peru in America called also el Rio Maragnon it ariseth out of the Lake Chincacocha one hundred and twenty Miles from Lima to the North. And falls into the River of Amazons Xecien Xecienum a City in the Province of Queichieu in China Xeuil Singilis a River of Spain which ariseth in the Kingdom of Granada and watering Loxa entereth Andalusia falls into the Quadalquiver beneath Cordova eight Leagues to the West Xenfi Xensia a Province in the North of China Bounded on the North by Tartary the Chinian Wall and the River Croceus on the East by Xansi on the South by Suchen and on the West by the Kingdom of Thibet The Capital of it is Sigan It contains eight great and one hundred and seven small Cities nineteen Castles and three hundred thirty one thousand and fifty one Families Xeres de la Frontera Asta Regâ—â— Asiâ—a Ceâ—areana Xera a City in the Kingdom of Andâ—lâ—â—â—a in Spain of great Circuit planted in a fruitful Country yet not much peopled Near this City was the last Battel fought between Roderick the last Gothish King of Spain and the Moors November 11 in the year 71â— the loss of it put the Infidels in possession of Spain Which they kept till the year 1462 when they were finally subdued It stands upon a small River four Miles from the Quadalquir to the East something less from the Bay of Cadiz North and about seven from the City of Cadi Xeres de Guadiana a small City in the Kingdom of Andalusia upon the Guadiana seven Miles from its Mouth North. Xeres de Bedaiox or Los Cavalleros a small City in the Kingdom of Leon in Extremadura It lies seven Miles from Badajox to the South twelve from Marida to the South-West and twenty from Sevil to the North-VVest There is also a Town in New Spain of this Name Xerte Xerta a River in the Kingdom of Leon in the Province of Extremadura which watereth Placentia then falls into the River Alagon which falls into the Tajo above Alcantara This River is not expressed in the later Maps Xicli Motichanus a River of Sicily which falls into the Sea on the South side of that Island near a Town of that Name in Valle di Noto Xicoco an Island of Japan represented to contain four Kingdoms Xilaon a small River of Algarve in Spain which falls into the Atlantick Ocean at Tavira a City of that Province Xiloca Bilbilis a River of Spain in the Kingdom of Arragon which watereth Daroca and then falls into the Xalon against Calataiud Ximo one of the three principal Islands of Japan represented to contain nine Kingdoms Nangazachi Arima and Bungo are some of the considerable Cities in it Xincheu Xincheum a City of the Province of Huquam in the Kingdom of China Xiria Pholoe a Mountain of Arcadia in the Morea Xca or Xaoa a Kingdom in Aethiopia near the Fountains of the Nile towards Zanguebar part of which is under the Abissines and the rest ravished from them by the Gala's a barbarous Neighbour Nation Xucar Sucro a River of Spain which springs out of the same Mountain with the Tajo in the Borders of Arragon and running South watereth Cuenca Alarcon and receiving the Gabriel Algarra and Suls falls
into the Mediterranean Sea in the Kingdom of Valentia over against Yvia a small Island Xuicheu a City in the Province of Quansi in China Xuncking a City in the Province of Suchuen in China Xunte or Xuntien Xunta a City in the Province of Pekim in China Y A YAcohdal a Royal House of Pleasure belonging to the Kings of Sweden one League and a half from Stockholm in the Province of Vpland Yamato a small Province in Japan Yamaxiro Yamaium a Kingdom in Japan towards the Bay of Noaco The Capital of which is Meaco a vast City Yancheu Yancheum a City in the Province of Nankim in China Yarmouth Gariannonum a great rich and a very populous Sea-Port Town in the County of Norfolk on the Borders of Suffolk at the Mouth of the River Yare from which it hath its Name This River riseth in Norfolk near Hingham and running East watereth Norwich a little above which it takes in the Cringle and at it the Winder becoming navigable by these accessions it hasteth by Bucknam-Ferry to Burg where it takes in the Waveny another navigable River from Beccles a little above Yarmouth the Thyrn all which Rivers form here a convenient Harbour on the German Ocean This was a Roman Town Cerdick the first King of the West Saxons landed first in this place about the year 507. And not fir ding it worth his while to settle went to Sea again and founded the VVest Saxon Kingdom Between this and the Conquerours times this Town was rebuilt by the Saxons In Edward the Confessor's times it had seventy Burgesses about 1340. the Inhabitants walled it Henry II. gave it the first Charter After this they had a VVar with the Town of Lowestoft between which two there was a quarrel which has lasted to our times In the year 1652. there being a VVar with the Hollanders and the Merchants of London oppressing them in the Herring Trade they began to send Ships to Legorne in Italy and by degrees inlarged their Trade to all parts so that it became one of the best traded Towns on the East of England and the Key of this Coast But the two following Dutch VVars fell heavy on them to their great loss In the year 1684. Charles II. made this a Mayor Town not long before his death It has but one Church though a very large one founded by Herbert the first Bishop of Norwich in the Reign of VVilliam Rufus Charles II. advanced the Honour of this place when in the year 1673. he created William Paston Viscount Yarmouth and in the year 1679. Earl of Yarmouth whose Son now enjoys that Title The Corporation returns two Parliament Men. § There is another Yarmouth upon the North VVest Coast of the Islè of VVight in the Hundred of VV. Medine well built with Free Stone fortified with a Castle and VVorks The second Town of Note next to Newport in that Island Yarum a Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Langbarg upon the River Tees here covered with a fair Stone Bridge Yaxley a Market Town in Huntingdonshire in the Hundred of Normancross Yencheu a City in the Province of Xanton in China Yenne Etanna a Town of France upon the Rosne Yeovil a Market Town in Semersetshire in the Hundred of Stone upon a River of its own name Yer or Jerre Edera a small River of France which falls into the Seyne in la Brie Five Miles above Paris to the East Yesd Yesda a great City in the Province of Airach in the Kingdom of Persia one hundred and thirty Miles from Hispahan to the East Yglesias See Villa de Chiesa Ygnos the same with Eno. Yla See Ila Yocheu a City in the Province of Huquam in China Yonne Icauna Jauna Junna a River of France which ariseth in the Dukedom of Burgundy near Autun from the Mountains de Morvant and passing by Clamecy in Nivernois receives the Cure So passeth to Auxerre where it is first Navigable Then admitting the Serine and the Armancione it falls below Sens into the Seyne Seventeen Leagues above Paris and seven above Melun to the East York Eboracum Eburacum Brigantium the Capital City of Yorkshire and an Archbishops See in the North Riding Called by the British Caer Effroc by Ninius Caer Ebrauc by the English York Seated upon the River Ver or Vre which is since by the Saxons called Ouse from Ouseburne a small River that falls into it It is in Honour Wealth and Greatness the second City of England and the far greatest not only in that Shire but in all the North. Having thirty Parish Churches besides the Cathedral and governed by a Lord Mayor like London A pleasant well built strong and beautiful City and the most ancient Archbishops See in this Island The Vre or Ouse having with a gentle stream entered it from the North-West divides it into two unequal parts united by a Stone-Bridge The West part tho much less peopled is incompassed with a sair Wall the other which is greater more populous and close built is fortified also with strong Walls with Turrets upon them and a muddy Dike Herein William the Conqueror built a strong Castle now ruined by time on the North-East side of this part stands the Cathedral Church dedicated to S. Peter which is a stately and a venerable Fabrick This City was built by the Romans about the times of Hadrian the Emperour and had the honour of a Roman Colony bestowed on it in the Reign of Severus who died in his Palace here in the year of Christ 210. In the year 306 Flavius Valerius Constantius Surnamed Clorus the Virtuous Father of Constantine the Great ended his life in this City Constantine his Son took upon him here the Government of his Fathers share of the Empire who became afterwards the first Christian Emperour the deliverer of the Church and the Establisher and Exalter of the Cross In the times that followed though she had the Honour to be an Archbishops See and Eborius Bishop of this City in the year 313. subscribed to the Council of Arles before Restitutus Bishop of London yet the Barbarous Nations in the next Century breaking in upon the Roman Empire this City suffered from the Picts and Saxons all the miseries of VVar. So that about the year 627. when Paulinus was to Baptize Edwin King of Northumberland they were forced to build a little Oratory of VVood for that purpose all the ancient Churches being entirely ruined Hereupon that Prince began the building of the present Cathedral which was finished by his Successor Oswald From this time forward this Church and City began to revive and flourish again The Archbishops had under them not only all the North of England but all the Kingdom of Scotland till 1471 or as others 74 In 740 Egbert Archbishop of York opened here a noble Library which a contemporary Historian calls the Cabinet of all liberal Arts from whence Alcuinus the Preceptor of Charles the Great and
Strasburg whilst that City was in the Hands of the Protestants Zabes a City of Transylvania upon the River Merish six Miles from Weissemburg to the South and twenty nine from Hermstadt to the West Called by the Natives Zas Zebes also and by the Germans Millembach Some suppose it to be the Zeugma of the Ancients Zacatecas or los Zacatecas a Province in New Spain betwixt New Biscay and New Galicia in South America Zaconia Laconia a Province in the Morea Zacynthus See Zante Zadaon Calipus a considerable River in Portugal called also Zadan It ariseth in the Borders of Algarve and running North watereth Alvalada Garcia de Minjuno and Alcaser and at Setuval six Leagues South of the Tajo falls into the Atlantick Ocean Zaflan a Lake in the Vpper Aethiopia with a Town of the same name under the Abyssines formerly but ravished from them by the Galla's or Gala's a neighbour Nation Zagathai Zagataia a considerable Country between the Kingdoms of Thibet to the East Persia to the South and the Caspian Sea to the West in Tartary in Asia Called also Vsbech Zagaya one of the modern names of the Mountain Helicon Zagrabia Sisopa Zagabria Soroga Vicus Italicus A City in Sclavonia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Colocza and the Head of a County of its own Name A place of great strength and well peopled It is near the Borders of Croatia forty five Miles from Vihitz to the North fifteen from Gradisca to the West and eleven from Cilley to the South-East upon the North side of the Drave This City and County has ever been in the Hands of the Germans who call it Agram The Bishops of it have the care of all Sclavonia Zagrus the Mountain dividing the ancient Media from Assyria in Asia through which some pretend that Semiramis pierced a passage into Media which bore the name anciently of Zagripylae or the Streights of Zagrus and the Mountain itself of Semiramis Zaire Zairus a vast and a celebrated River of Africa in the Vpper Aethiopia which ariseth out of a great Lake of the same name and flowing Westward watereth the Kingdoms of Cosange Macoco Congo and in part that of Loangi At last falls into the Atlantick Ocean by a Mouth twenty eight Miles broad in five degrees of Southern Latitude This River is not navigable above eighty Miles upward from its Mouth by reason of its Cataracts It has been formerly thought that the Nile derives its source from the Lake Zaire But Thevenot and Jeremy Lobo a Portugueze who lived twelve years in this Country have undecelved us with their better accounts Zalderane a spacious Plain near the City Tauris in Persia towards the Borders of Armenia beyond the Euphrates made remarkable by the Battel fought upon it Aug. 26. 1514. betwixt Ismael K. of Persia and Selim. I. Emperor of the Turks Zama an ancient City of Africa which is the modern Zamora in the Kingdom of Algiers Called in an inscription yet extant in it Colonia Aelia Hadriana Augusta Zama Regia Hannibal received a great defeat from Scipio at this City Juba King of Mauritania chose it for the Capital of his Kingdom In the ancient Christian times here it had the honour of a Bishops See Pliny mentions an excellent Fountain near it of the same name Zambeze a great River of Aethiopia in Africa which springeth from a Lake of its own name but called also Sachat upon the Borders of the Empires of Monomotapa and Abyssinia And after the reception of many Rivers into its bed divides itself towards its Mouth into four great Branches inclosing divers large and fruitful Islands so falls into the Aethiopick Ocean upon the Consines of Sofala and Mosambick Some confound the Lake Zambeze with that of Zaire Zamora a City in the Kingdom of Leon upon the River Douro which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Compostella so made by P. Calixtus II. in the Reign of Alphonsus VI. in 1119. Nine Leagues from Miranda to the East and fourteen from Validolid to the West See also Zama Zamoski Zamoscium a City in Red Russia in the Kingdom of Poland upon a fine Plain near the River Weper Built by a Grand Chancellour of Poland of the name of Zamoski fourteen Polish Miles from Luxemburgh to the North. It is a place of great strength and baffled an Attempt of the Cossacks upon it in 1651. Zanaga See Senga Zancle an ancient City of the Island of Sicily whose destruction by Anaxilaus a King of the Rhegenses in Italy makes it mentioned in History and Antiquity Ovid expresses the whole Island by its name in saying Zancle quoque juncta fuisse Dicitur Italiae Some suppose Messina now stands in the place of it Zanfara a City and Kingdom of Nigritia in Africa Zanguebar Zanguebaria a great Region in the Lower Aethiopia in Africa It has this Name from the Arabians over against whose Country it lies signifying Negroes or Blacks upon the Aethiopian Ocean on the Eastern Shoar of Africa It extends from North to South from five degrees of Northern to eighteen degrees of Southern Latitude but of small breadth The Kingdoms of Mombaza Melinda Mosambick Lamo Queilloa and many others of less note are contained in it full of Forests and Marshes which create a pestilent Air and an unfruitful Soil Zanhaga a Region and Desert upon the Atlantick Ocean in Africa North of the Kingdom of Tombutum or Tombotu in Lybia under the Tropick of Cancer South of Marocco Zante Zacynthus a great Island in the Ionian Sea under the States of Venice Twenty four Miles long sixteen broad and sixty in circuit It lies twelve Miles from Cefalonia to the South and the same from the Morea to the West It contains forty eight Castles fifty Villages and one City of the same Name with the Island which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Corfu has an excellent Harbor on the East side defended by a strong Castle upon an high Hill and a Garrison of Roman Catholicks but the Inhabitants are for the most part of the Greek Church Mr. Wheeler saith it is not above thirty Miles in circuit but one of the most fruitful and pleasant places he ever saw Lat 36. 30. It produces Wine Corn and Oyl with great abundance Robert Guichard the Valiant Norman Duke of Puglia dyed here in his Voyage to the Holy Land The chief Commodity is the Curran-Trade which bears the Charge of the Venetian Fleet or Armada The City and indeed the whole Island is very populous subject to Earthquakes which forceth them to build low The Jews have three Synagogues the Dominicans and other Religious three Monasteries the Episcopal See of Cephalonia and Zante is the same the two Islands making but one Diocese the City Zante may contain twenty or twenty five thousand Inhabitants There is only one River in the Island whose Communication with the Sea makes it Salt and one plentiful spring of sweet water But the great number of its Jacynths
Also a Mountain in the Confines of the Greater Armenia at the foot whereof arises the River Euphrates § A Town in Phocis in Greece which gave the Surname Abaeus to Apollo who had a Temple there Being burnt by Xerxes the Inhabitants retired into the Isle of Negropont formerly Euboea from them at that time called Abantis Abacares a People in the South of America upon the River Madera Abahius Abahuis and Abanhi different Names of the River Nile Abaimbe Abaibe Abibe Abaibae a Ridge of Mountains in Peru in the Province of Carthagene near the Gulf of Vraba Abanbo a River of Ethiopia it falls into the Nile a little above Meroë it is supposed to be Ptolomy's Astapus Abancay a River rising in the Mountains of Andes in Peru and after having washed a Town of the same Name with it self falling into the River Maragnon in the Province of Lima. Abano in Latin Aponus a Village in the Territories of Padua supposed by some to be the Birth-Place of Titus Livius antiently famous for its Baths Abantes the Inhabitants of Aba See Aba Abanwiwar a County of the Upper Hungary upon the Tibiscus the Capital of which is Caschaw it is called by the Germans Abaviwar Abara or Abaraner a City upon the River Alingeac in Armenia Major The Arch-Bishop of Nassivan frequently makes it his place of Residence Abaraus and Aboraas a Town in Guinea upon the River Volta about twenty five Leagues from the Sea Abarim a Ridge of Mountains in the Rocky Arabia of which Mount Nebo and Mount Pisgah mention'd in Scripture are parts Abarimon a Country in Scythia at the foot of the Mountain Imaus Abasses or Abcasses a People of Mount Caucasus bordering on Mengrelia well-shap'd and vigorous They cherish Customs much differing from the People of other Countries Abbefort a Town in Norwey with a good Port in the Government of Aggerhuys about 20 Leagues from Anslo and 25 or 30 from Stafanger Abbeville a City of the County of Ponthieu in Picardy upon the River Somme it is well fortified large and beautiful and lies 34 Leagues from Paris to the North. It belonged heretofore to the Abby of S. Riquer and from thence had its Name Abdera an antient City of Thrace famous among other things for the Madness of the Inhabitants Of latter days it was call'd Clazomenae then Polystile or Astrizze and at this time Asperosa Abensperg a little Town of Bavaria three German Miles from Ratisbon and one from the Danube It gave Birth and Surname to Joannes Aventinus a Learned Historian who wrote Annals of his Country from the Flood to 1460. in Ten Books Aberconwey in Latin Conovium a Town in the County of Carnarvon in Wales seated on the River Conwey and the Irish Sea Aberdeen in Latin Aberdenia and Devana a City of Scotland built upon the River Don fifty Miles distant from S. Andrews to the North-East Here is an Episcopal Chair brought thither in 1100. and an University founded in 1480. The Site thereof is of late times removed nearer the River Dee It was yielded to the English without constraint in 1651. Long. 18. 12. Lat. 57. 15. Aberfraw Gadiva a Town in the Isle of Anglesey the Royal Seat of eleven Kings of North-Wales whereof Amarawd the first began his Reign there A. C. 877. and Llewellin the last of all the Brittish Kings was slain in Battel Ann. Chr. 1282. Long. 15. 20. Lat. 53. 10. Abergavenny in Latin Gobannium a Town in the County of Monmouth in Wales It belonged to the Silures when the Romans conquered them it is fortified with a Wall and Castle and seated where the Vske and Gevenny meet It was erected into a Barony which in 1685. was possessed by George Nevil Lord Abergavenny first Baron of England Abernethy a Town on the River Tay in Strathern in Scotland anciently the Seat of the Kings of the Picts and since a Bishops Sea is now removed to S. Andrews where we shall speak further of it Abia and Abiamu a great River in Zagathay coming into the Caspian-Sea on the East side the Oxus of the Antients The former Name denoting the upper part and the latter the lower part thereof Abilene a Territory of Judaea so named from Abila the chief Town thereof the Tetrarchate of Lysanias mentioned Luke iii. 1. Abington a Corporation in Barkshire on the Thames between Oxford and Wallingford garison'd for the Parliament against Charles the First in 1644. which proved a great Inconvenience to that Prince It stands about 5 Miles South of Oxford The Right Honorable James Bertie was created Earl of this place November 30. 1682. by Charles II. Abissinia see Aethiopia Abiz Jatrus Ischar a small River of Bulgaria which falls into the Danube a little below Nicopolis Ablon a little Town with a Castle about 3 Leagues from Paris where the Protestants were for some time allow'd the Exercise of their Religion till they had a Church at Charenton Abo the Capital City of Finland under the Arch-Bishop of Vpsal upon the River Aviaroki in South Finland near the Shoars of the Baltick Sea 25 German Miles from Revel to the North-West and 31 from Stockholme to the North-East Longit. 45. Latit 63. This City was well nigh burnt to the ground in 1678. Abocharana a Town in Arabia the Happy situate on a high Mountain the Passage to which is for seven Miles so strait that not above two Men can go abrest Here the Grand Seignior keeps his Treasure Aboras or Chaborras a River in Mesopotamia sometimes call'd Giulap Aborigines were the most antient People of Latium the Seat of the first Original Romans they are mentioned by Tacitus Annal. 11. as one of the first Nations in Italy which received Letters from Evander the Arcadian They are supposed to have been the first People which entred Italy after the Flood The Word is generally used to signifie the first Inhabitants of any Country of whose Original no account can be given Aboy a Market Town in East Meath in the Kingdom of Ireland Abrener a City of Armenia the Greater See Abara Abreoios otherwise Baxos de Babueca certain Rocks near the Island of Hispaniola so called by the Spaniards because of the great danger of them their Name signifying Open your Eyes Abrolhos a litte Isle with a Ridge of Rocks near the Shore of Brasil for the same reason thus call'd by the Portuguese as those aforenam'd by the Spaniards Abruckbanya Aurariarum a Town in Transylvania Abruzzo called by the Romans Aprutium is a Province of the Kingdom of Naples it is bounded on the East with Apulia now Puglia on the West with Marca Anconitana on the North with the Adriatick Sea and on the South with the Apennine it was anciently the Seat of the Piceni and the Samnites which latter People by their Valor put the conquering Romans to the last refuge of chusing a Dictator four times and afforded them the Honor of XXX Triumphs Their last was in 481. year of Rome 270 years before our
about 9 days Journey from Hispahan at the Foot of a Mountain Amager oâ— Amac Amagria a Fruitful Island in the Baltick Ocean over against Copenhagen under the Crown of Denmark Amaguana one of the Luccaye Islands in America near St. Domingo Amalfi Amalphis an Archiepiscopal City and Dukedom of the Kingdom of Naples but notwithstanding these great Honours it is little and ill built It stands upon the Bay of Salerno the West part of which is called La Costa d' Amalfi It is said the Body of S. Andrew is kept here And in this place Flavio Gioia found out the use of the Compass in the Year 1300. It is â—â— miles distant from Salerno and 24 from Naples to the North-East Amana another of the Luccaye Islands Amâ—nthea Amantia a City and Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio in Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples upon the Mediterranean There is a Castle to it which with the adjacent Country depends upon the Prince of Bisignano Amanus or Amana a Mountain mentioned Cantic 4. 8. dividing Cilicia from Syria Alexander III. overthrew Darius the first time at this passage into Syria called by the antients Amanicae Portae Aâ—apaiâ— a Province of new Andalusia in America near the River Orenoque Amara an high Mountain with a City of the same Name built upon it which gives Name to a Kingdom in the very midst of Aethiopia we are told the Children and Reltations of the Royal Family are here kept in Custody and that upon the death of their Prince they fetch another from hence But others pretend they are kept in Ovohni in the Province of Oinadag It lies under the Line in 65 degrees of Longitude Amarantes an antient People of Colchis in Asia Minor dwelling upon a Mountain of the same Name whence arises the River Phasis Amasia a City of Cappadocia in Asia the Less upon the River Casalmach Iris which falls into the Euxine Sea This City is called by the Turks Amnasan it was an Archbishoprick with four Suffragans The Turks have been possessed of it three Ages it is large the Capital of those Countries and the Seat of the Beglerbeg of Cappadocia now called by the Turks Tocat Strabo the antient Geographer who was born here gives a very particular Account of this place It now gives the Title of Archbishop to Signior D'Adda the late Nuncio in England from P. Innocent XI who promoted him to a Cardinalate amongst Ten others Feb. 13. 1689. It lies in Long. 65. 52. Latit 44. 25. Amath Epiphania a Town in Palestine Built by Amath the Son of Chanaan and mentioned by Josephus as extant in his time Pliny speaks of another in the East-Indies Amathonte Amathusa an antient City of Cyprus in which Venus had formerly a Temple Consecrated to her of great Fame Since a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Nocosia Amatique or S. Thomas a Town of North America in New-Spain in the Province de Honduras 18 Leagues distant from the North Sea which was Built Anno 1597. There is a River in the same Province called Amatituâ— Amato See Lameto Amaxie an antient City of Troas in Asia Minor where Apollo had a Temple in his Honour § Another of Cilicia given by Marc Anthony to Cleopatra Amaxobient an antient People of Sarmatia The River of Amazons is one of the biggest Rivers in the World it belongs to the South America and riseth near Quitum a City of Peru out of two Marshes which lie within two Leagues of each other at the foot of the Mountains of Cordillera then running to the East and being augmented by the Streams of Coca Napo and others it passeth the Provinces of Canela and Pacamor where it receives the River Xauxa or Maranio so passing many other Provinces after a Course of 1200 Leagues it falls into the North Ocean between Brasile and Guiana The mouth of it is very large and full of Islands it was first found in 1541. by Joannes Orellano a Spaniard and therefore some have called it the River of Orellan Peter Texeira a Spaniard has made a very exact Description of it having spent 10 Months in surveying it in 1639. Ambadar a Town upon the Nile in the Kingdom of Bagamedri in Abyssinia Amba-Geshen a Mountain almost impregnable in the Confines of Amhara prodigiously high in the form of a Castle built of Free-stone It is half a Portugal League broad at the top and at the bottom half a days Journey about Ambarri an antient People amongst the Gauls mentioned by Cesar Amber Ambrus a River of Bavaria in Germany It arises towards Tirol and falls into the Iser near Landshut Amberg a City of Germany in the Province of Northgow upon the River Wils it belongs now to the Duke of Bavaria but both it and the Country about it did belong to the Elector Palatine It is 7 German Miles from Ratisbone and 8 from Noremborg Ambiam a Kingdom of the Higher Ethiopia between the Kingdoms of Bagmid and Quara It takes its Name from the head City of it Ambiancativa a City and Kingdom of Ethiopia the Higher which has the Nile on the East and the Lake of Amasen on the West Ambibarri an antient People amongst the Gauls mentioned by Cesar and supposed to be those of the Diocese now of Avranches in Normandy Ambie or Hambie a Town in Normandy thought to retain its Name from the Ambibarri Amboina is an Island of the East-Indies the whole Circuit whereof is 16 Leagues but yet it is of great Consideration by reason of the plenty of Spice which it affords It was discovered by the Portuguese in 1515. In 1605. the Dutch drove out the Portugal Forces and possessed themselves of Amboina the principal Town by one Stephen van Hagan but that which makes this Island most infamous was the Cruelties of the Dutch executed upon the English in 1618. It lies not far from the Moluccoes and is reckon'd among the Selebes This Island lies West of Banda 24 Leagues and very near the Line Amboise Ambacia is a Town and Castle in Touraine in France near the Loir over which it has a Bridge The Kings of France have often retir'd hither for their Privacy and Pleasure Charles VIII was born here 1470. and died here April 7. 1498. But most memorable is this place for the Surprize intended against Francis II. by the Hugonots in 1560. which gave Birth to a lasting War in France This Town lies 6 Leagues from Tours and 10 from Blois Amboule a fruitful Valley in the Southern part of the Isle of Madagascar Ambracia a considerable Episcopal City of Epirus upon a Bay of the same Name in which the Battel of Actium was sought by the Fleets of Augustus and Mark Antony This was the Regal City of the famous Pyrrbus King of Epirus distant from Prevesa Nicopolis 25 Miles Ambres-bury Ambresburia a Town in Wileshire about 5 Miles West of Salisbury and 2 Miles North of Stone-â—enge seated upon the River Avon which takes its Name from Ambrosius
the first King of the Britains after the Romans forsook them who is here supposed to have been slain and buried Cambden Ambrisi Ambrisius a River in the remotest Aethiopia in the Kingdom of Congo it ariseth in the Mountains near the City of Tinda and falls into the Aethiopick Ocean between Lelunda and the Lose about 5 deg from the Line South Ambroise a small Town at the entrance into Piedmont upon the River Doria Near to it stands the celebrated Abby of L'Ecluse that they say was built by the hands of Angels belonging to the Benedictines and one of the four chief Houses in Europe of that Order Ambroni an antient People of Switzerlandâ— or according to some of Dauphiné in France on the side of Ambrune Marius gave them a bloody Overthrow near the little River Arc in Provence between Aix and S. Maximin in the year of Rome 652. The Marks of this Victory being yet extant upon the Rests of a Pyramid there Ambrune a City in the Dauphinate of France call'd in Latin Ebrodunum It is an Archbishops See small but strong seated upon the River Durance which falls into the Rhosne one League beneath Avignon it lies 23 Leagues North-East of Grenoble and 37 from Liâ—nt Amel a Kingdom of Africa upon the Atlantick Ocean between the Outlets of the River Niger and on the Western side of it Amelant an Island belonging to the Dutch in the German Ocean on the Shoars of Friseland Amelia a City of S. Peter's Patrimony in Italy said to be built 964 years before Perseus It is an independent Bishops See about 6 Miles from Narni The Ameria of the Antients and the birth-place of that Roscius whose Cause is defended by Cicero AMERICA the Fourth Part of the World and greater than the other Three Wholly unknown to us till 1499. when Christopher Columbo or Colono a Genouese first discovered it at the Charges of Ferdinando and Isabella King and Queen of Spain Americus Vespuccio a Florentine seven years after being sent by Emanuel King of Portugal went further and discovered the Continent and from him it has its Name but it is no less frequently call'd the West-Indies It lies in length from North to South under the shape of two vast Peninsula's knit together by the Streights of Panama where the Land is not above 17 Leagues from Sea to Sea On the Western side it has the Pacifick Ocean on the East the Atlantick on the South the Streights of Magellan or Le-Maire but as to the North the Bounds of it are not discoâ—ered by reason of the great Cold and nearness to the Northern Pole Great part of it is under the Spaniards viz. Peru New Spain Terra firma Paragua Chili and many of the Northern and Southern Islands yet divers of the Maritime parts are under the Portugals English French and Hollanders Particularly the English either by being first Occupants or else by Conquest have made themselves Masters of the large Northern Continents adjoining to Hudson's Bay New England Virginia Mary-Land Carolina and of many adjacent Islands and in the more Southern Parts they are possessed of the wealthy Islands of Jamaica Barbadoes Mevis c. Those Natives that live in these parts with the Europeans are much civilized but those that inhabit the Inland Countries retain their antient barbarous Customs This vast Continent is divided into the Southern and Northern Ameica by the Bay of Mexico and the Streights of Panama The Islands which lie about it in both the Oceans are too numerous to be here recounted Amersford a small Town in the State of Vtrecht in Holland upon the River Em under the Dominion of the United States tho once an Imperial City In 1624. it was taken by the Spaniards but soon after retaken by the Dutch and in 1672. it fell into the hands of the French who deserted it two years after It lies about 3 Leagues East of Vtrecht Amersham a Market-Town in Buckinghamshire See Agmundesham Amhara See Amara Amida See Caramit Amiens Samarobrina Samarobriga the chief City of Picardy and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Rheims it stands upon the River Somme mid-way in the Road between Calais and Paris about 25 French Miles from each It was a long time the Frontier Town of France surprized by the Spaniards in 1597. but soon after retaken by that Victorious Prince Henry IV. Built by Antonius Pius the Emperour and was call'd at first Samarobriga that is the Bridge upon Samara In the Cathedral Church of Nostre Dame they preserve the Head of S. John Baptist which they say was found by a Gentleman of Picardy at the taking of Constantinople in 1204. as a most extraordinary Relique There is an Historical Treatise of this Head written by the Sieur du Cange The Country l' Amiennois takes it Name from Amiens Amilo Amulus a River in Mauritania mention'd by Pliny Amiterno an antient City in the Province of Abruzzo in Italy and sometime an Episcopal See which has been translated to Aquila It was the Birth place of the Historian Salust The Ruins of a Theatre a Church and a great Tower are yet to be seen Amititan or Amuitan a Lake in New Spain in America Amixoeares an American People of Brasil Ammerze Ammer a great Lake or Marsh in Bavaria in Germany The Ammonites an antient People of Palestine descended from Ammon the Son of Lot in the History of the Old Testament famous for their Wars with Israel who gave them several great Defeats under Jephtha Saul Joab Joatham and Judas Macchabeus § Also another antient People of Libya in Africa who lived toward the Temple of Jupiter Ammon Amond Almon a River in the County of Lothain in Scotland It falls into Edenburg Fyrth Amone or Lamone a River arising at the foot of the Apennines in Italy and passing by Faenza to fall into the Po near Ravenna Amorbach Amorbachium a Town of Franconia in Germany upon the River Muldt under the Elector of Mentz Amorium an antient City of Phrygia in Asia Minor and sometime an Archiepiscopal See under the Patriarch of Constantinople Taken and burnt by the Saracens in 840. The Amorites an antient People of Palestine descended from Canaan who with their two Kings Sehon and Og were vanquish'd by the Israelites and their Country distributed amongst the Tribes of Ruben Gad and Manasseh Ampatres an Indian People in the Island of Madagascar Ampelusia Ampelos a Cape upon the Streights of Gibraltar in Mauritania Tingitana now call'd Cape Esparto § Also a Town and Cape in Macedonia call'd now Capo Canistro § And a Cape in Crete now call'd Capo Sagro Amphaxe a small Town upon the Gulph of Contessa in Macedonia It did antiently give Name to the Country Amphaxites Amphipolis See Emboli Amphryse a River in Thessalia § Another in Phrygia in Asia Minor and a Town in Phocis Ampthill a Market-Town in Bedfordshire The Earl of Alesbury has a noble Seat here Ampurdan a Country of Catalonia its capital City was the
composing in conjunction with Tangier a Bishoprick under the Arch-Bishop of Lisbonne Ceylan see Zeilan Chablais a small Province of Savoy North of the Lake of Geneva with the Province of Velay to the the East Fousigny to the South and Genevois to the West being part of the Country of the ancient Andates or Nandates and the Veragrii mention'd by Caesar The Romans call'd it Provincia Equestris and Caballica from their breeding up of Horses in it whence Chablais comes to be formed by a Corruption The famous St. Francis de Sales taking great pains to reduce the Calvinists here to their old Religion again carries therefore the Name of the Apostle of Chablais Chabli a Town in the Tract of Senonnois in France towards Auxerre and Tonnere made remarkable in 841. by a bloody Battle fought at Fontenay near it betwixt the Children of Lewis the Debonnaire Now for good Wine Chabria or Cilabro Chiabrius a River of Macedonia falling into the Thermaicus Sinus or the Gulph of Salonichi betwixt Cassandria and Salonichi Chaeronea is a City of Boeotia upon the River Cephissus on the Eastern side of Mount Helicon North-West of Athens memorable for the Ruine of the Grecian Liberty in the Defeat of the Athenian Forces by Philip of Macedonia A. M. 3612. and also for the Birth of Plutarch Now not inhabited but the Ruines are known by the former name Chagford a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Wonford Chagra a River between the South and North of America upon which the Merchandises bound for Panama and Peru do pass The Mouth of it on the North Sea being guarded by a Spanish Fort. It is thought a communication might easily be made between the two Seas by the means of this especially with other Rivers that fall into the Pacifick A Town of the same Name with it stands upon its Banks In 1670. the English Bucaniers went up it in their Canoes to plunder Panama Chaibar a River in Arabia which ariseth twenty five German Miles West of Jamama the Capital of Arabia and passing by Chaibar and Tajef falls into Eda According to some judgments this is the Chobar of the Prophet Ezekiel Chalcedon a City of the Lesser Asia in Bithynia which was a Bishop's See under the Patriarch of Constantinople and of great Antiquity much celebrated in ancient History but now reduced to the meanness of a poor Village call'd by the Turks Calcitinâ— it stands on the Mouth of the Propontis over against Constantinople Some believe that Scutaret is grown out of the Ruines of this City This City is particularly remarkable on the account of the fourth General Council here celebrated in 451. In which it had the honour to be advanced to the Title of a Metropolitan Church According to Strabo and Eusebius this City was built in the sixty ninth year of Rome that is 685. before Christ Longitude 56. 15. Lat. 43. 15. Chalcis the ancient Name of the Island and Town of Negropont § Also a Town in Aetolia in Greece with another in Syria occurring in the Writings of the Ancients but now unknown Chaldaea and Chaldei See Curdistan Chalons sur Marne Civitas Catalaunorum a City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Rheimes in the middle of Champagne upon the River Marne seven Miles from Rheimes to the South-East and twelve from Troyes to the North-West It is well fortified and built standing in a large Plain in which Attila lost 200000. men in a Battle with Aetius the General of the Romans Meroveus King of France and Theodorick in the year 451. The Bishops are Earls and Peers of France Chalons sur Sone Cabillonum Cabillo Aeduorum a City and Bishoprick upon the Sone in Burgundy in France 15 Leagues from Dijon to the South and the same distance from Thoulon to the West The Bishoprick is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Lyons There are numbers of Inscriptions Vessels Statues and the Reliques of ancient publick Buildings to be seen here In 1562. the Huguenots made themselves Masters of it It has been new fortified since gives the Title of an Earl and is the Capital of a little Territory called Chalonnois or la Bresse Chalonnois Chalus or Chaslus Castrum Lucis a Town in the Province of Limosin in France towards the Borders of Perigord betwixt S. Hirier and Limoges Richard I. King of England dyed of the Wound of an Arrow that he received at the Siege of the Castle of this place then belonging to Widomare Viscount of Limoges in 1199. The occasion of which Siege see in Daniel's Life of Richard I. Chamb Chambum a small Town and Territory in the Vpper Palatinate upon the River Regen seven Miles East of Regenspurgh something more than five Miles North of Straubing This Town with the Territory annexed makes an Earldom which belonged heretofore to the Count Palatine of the Rhine but by the Treaty of Westphalia was given to the Duke of Bavaria who to this day enjoys it Chambery Civaro Chamberiacum the Capital City of the Dukedom of Savoy and the Seat of the Parliament of that Dukedom It stands upon the River Laise in a Plain ten Miles from Grenoble to the North-East well built and beautified and defended with a good Castle Chambray see Cambray Chamen Vrbs Chamavorum a City of Westphalia Champagne Campagnia a great rich fruitful populous Province in France bounded by Lorain to the East the Low-Countries to the North Picardy la Brie and the Isle of France to the West and Burgundy to the South The Earl of this County being an Earl Palatine was always one of the twelve ancient Peers of France It is watered or bounded by six of the greater Rivers of France viz. the Seine the Aulde the Marne the Vere the Meuse and the Vannes The Principal Cities are Chaumont Rheimes c. Amongst which there are four Episcopal and two Archiepiscopal See Champ Arrein a small Town near Bourdeaux where Charles the Great defeated the Goths Chanad a City of Hungary See Gyngisch Changcheu two populous and Large Cities in China with Territories of the same name belonging to them having Jurisdiction the one in the Province of Fokien near the Sea oveâ— Nine the other in the Province of Nanking over Four Cities The first is watered by the River Chanâ—s the latter by the Kiang and adorned with divers triumphant Arches Changte two great Cities and Territories adjacent in China having under their Resort the one in the Province of Honan six the second in the Province of Huquang three Cities This last excels the fertility of the other Changâ—a a great City and Territory having Jurisdiction over ten Cities in the Province of Huquang in China watered with divers Rivers and Lakes The Mountain call'd Jumo yielding great quanties of Isinglass stands here Chanry or Chanonry a fine Town and Port on the Eastern Shoar of Scotland in the County of Ross on the North of Murray Fyrth Chantilly a beautiful and ancient Seat belonging to the Prince of Conde eight
Leagues from Paris two from Senlis and near a Forrest call'd Chantilly It is one of the most delightful Castles in the Kingdom of France Chaocheu A great City and Territory having Jurisdiction over nine Cities in the Province of Quangtung in China The City is adorn'd with two stately Temples a large Bridge over a Navigable River and is a very trading place Chaoking the Capital City of a Territory of the same Name in the Province of Quangtung in China having ten other Cities under its Jurisdiction It is the Seat of a Vice-Roy and full of Noble Buildings La Chapelle a Town in the Province of Limosin in France Chappel in the Frith a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of High Peak Los Chareâ—s sometimes also call'd la Plata from its Capital City is a Province of the Southern America towards the Pacifick Ocean below the Tropick to the South of Peru. Chard A Market Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Kingsbury Charente Carentelus Caranthenus a River of France which ariseth in Limosin and running Westward entereth the Province of Poictou from which it passeth to Angolesine and Sainctes and entereth the Aquitane Sea right over against the Isle of Oleron between the Garonne and the Loire Charenton Carentonium a Town in the Isle of France about two Miles from Paris to the East upon the River Marne where it enters the Seine This Place was allow'd for the Exercise of the Reformed Religion which together with its nearness to Paris made it very famous till the demolishing of that Religion there La Charite A large Town upon the Loire in the Province of Nivernois upon the ascent of a Hill betwixt Nevers and Cosne in France Often taken and retaken in the Civil Wars of that Kingdom Here the Loyre is covered with a good Bridge Charkliqueu A Town in Cappadocia in the Lesser Ajia two Leagues from Tocat standing in a fruitful Country for Wine There is the Rock not far from it which served in the Exile of S. Chrysostom for the place of his retreat much frequented by the devout Christians Charlemont Carolomontium a small but very strong Town in the most Southern Border of the County of Namur upon the River Mose about four Miles South of Dinant and nine from Namur It belonged formerly to the Bishoprick of Liege but was taken into this County and fortified by Charles V. in 1555. by the consent of that Bishop Charlemont an old Castle in the Province of Vlster in Ireland in the County of Armagh surrendred May 14. 1690. to the D. of Schomberg upon Articles for want of Provisions having defended it self for about six Months in the midst of all the Garrisons belonging to the said General to admiration Charleville Carolopolis a new and strong City in Champagne in France upon the Mose in the Territory de Retel between Mezieres and Rocrâ—y built by Charles Duke of Nevers and Mantoua in 1609. five Miles from Sedan For which reason it not only bears his Name but also is substituted in part under the Duke of Mantoua and part the King of France Charleroy a new built strong Town in Namur where the Village of Charnoy stood built by the Spaniards in 1666. and so called from the present King of Spain In 1667. it was taken by the French and in 1679. restored by the Treaty of Nimmeghen to the Spaniards It lies five Leagues from Mons to the East upon the River Sambre Charley a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Leyland Charles-Town the Principal Town in the Island of Barbadoes built by the English and so called from Charles II. of England of blessed Memory § A considerable Settlement in New-England has received the same Name from the same Excellent Prince it is adorned with a large well built Church and several fair Buildings Charlieu A Town in the County of Charolois in Burgundy which has risen from an Abby call'd Carilocus or Carus locus in the Diocese of Mascon A Council was here celebrated in 926. for the rebuilding of Churches and repairing of the Ruines of the Holy Places in Palestine Chars or Chirsi Chorsa a strong City of Armenia Major mentioned by Pliny as standing near the Fountains of Euphrates It is a Bishop's See and the Residence of the Turkish Bassa who keeps it with a strong Garrison against the Persians It is well fortified and has a fine Castle Charolles Carolia Quadrigellae one of the chief Towns in the County so called in Burgundy upon the River Reconse six Leagues from Cluny and the Loyre It is honoured with a Collegiate Church and some Religious Houses Charroux Karrofium an ancient Abby in the Province of Poictou not far from Berry Du Chesne a French Antiquary says it took this Name according to the vulgar opinion from Chair-rouge meaning the Prepuce of Jes Ch. that was cut from him at his Circumcision and was heretofore preserved as a Relick in this place Chartres Carnutum a City and Bishoprick of the County of Blois in France upon the River Eure eighteen Leagues from Paris to the South-West and sixteen from Orleans to the North. This Bishop was heretofore subject to the Archbishop of Sens but in 1621. was put under the Archbishop of Paris The City is the Capital of the County of Blois and more particularly of a little Territory call'd Chartrain from it self and has a noble Cathedral dedicated to the Virgin Mary whose Smock is kept here In 1528. it was advanced to the honour of a Dukedom Divers Synods of inferiour Note have been held here It is likewise of good Antiquity and one of the most agreeable Cities of France by the general contribution of all things for that purpose Charybdis the notorious Gulph upon the Coast of the Island of Sicily to the South opposite to Scylla a Rock upon the Coast of Italy to the North made equally known by the common Proverb Bochartus derives the Name from Char-Obdan in the Phoenician Language signifying the hole of destruction They now call it Capo di Faro Chaslus see Chalus Chasteau-Briant a small Town in Brittany nine or ten Leagues from Nantes towards the Confines of the Province of Anjou Some esteem it as the Country of the ancient Cadates in Caesar's Commentaries There is an old Castle standing in it Chasteau-Dun Castelodunum the Principal Town in Dunois in la Beausse in France upon the River Loâ—re nine Leagues from Blois to the North-West The Antients gave it the name of Vrbs clara And indeed we find in the fifth Century that it was a City with the Seat of a Bishop But being a dependant upon the Bishoprick of Chartres a Council soon after deprived it of this honour Chasteau-Gontier a Town upon the River Mayenne in the Province of Anjou in France and the Diocese of Anger 's Divers small Councils have been assembled at it Chasteau-Landon a small Town in the Territory of Gastinois in the Isle of France upon the River Loing between Nemours
Redoubts with sixty thousand men within it and one hundred Cannon whereupon the Duke retreated June 20. and repassed the Drave at Siclos See Mohatz After the unfortunate taking of Belgrade by the Turks October 1690. they set down immediately with an Army of fifteen thousand Men before this Place but retired without Success Essedones or Issedones an ancient People of Scythia whose Capital Town was Issedon now called Caracoran Herodotus says of them that they used to eat the dead bodies of their Parents reserving the head to be set in Gold and made the object of their annual Sacrifices Essekebe or Esquib Essequebia one of the principal Rivers of South America It ariseth in Guiana near to the Lake of Parime and running Eastward to improve its Streams by the addition of many smaller Rivers it falls into the North Sea near Meapuer In Long. 318. The Dutch who have many Plantations upon it call it by this name Essex Essexia is a County in the East of England inhabited heretofore in part by the Trinobantes bounded on the North by Suffolk and Cambridgeshire on the West by Hartford and Middlesex on the South by Kent and on the East by the German Sea The principal City in it is Colchester This Country is very fruitful full of Noblemen and Gentlemens Houses The principal Rivers which water it are the Stour that divideth it from Suffolk the Thames from Kent the Ley from Middlesex and the Little Stour from Hartfordshire which besides their fruitful Meadows and the convenience of Carriage afford it plenty of Fish besides these there is the Ill the Crouch the Chelme the Blackwater and the Colne which arise and fall within this Country and many of them are great Rivers There are many smaller ones whose Names cannot be taken in here This County gave the Title of Earl to the Families of the Mandeviles the Bohuns the Bourchiers Thomas Lord Cromwell William Lord Parre before it came to the D'Eureuxe's Robert d'Eurex Viscount Hereford General of the Parliaments Army against Charles I. dying Septem 13. 1646. and his Son Robert an Infant before the Restitution of Charles II. Arthur Capel Baron of Hadham was created Earl of Essex and Viscount Malden April 20. 1661. and made Lord Lieutenant in Ireland in 1672. He perished miserably in the Tower His Son then an Infant succeeded him in this Honor. Esslingen See Esling Essone Exona a small River and Village in the Isle of France The Town stands five Miles from Paris to the South-West and one from Corbeile to the West Estampes Stampae a Town and Dutchy in Beausse in France The Town stands upon a River of the same Name ten Leagues from Paris to the South and sixteen from Orleans to the North mentioned in Georgius Turonensis Aimonius and other French Historians It is placed on the Some at the Confluence of another small River which is sometimes called l'Yone and sometimes La riviere d'Estampes There is a Collegiate Church and divers Religious Houses standing in it but the Castle was ruined in 1652. This Town was created first an Earldom in 1327. by Charles IV. King of France Then a Dukedom in 1536. by King Francis I. And has been many times honoured not only with French Synods but with the Assemblies of the States The Huguenotts took it by Scalade in 1567. Estaples Stabulae Stapulae a Sea-Port-Town in the County of Boulogne in Picardy sixteen Miles North of Dieppe and ten from Calais South Este or Est Ateste a Town in the Dominion of the State of Venice mentioned by Pliny and Tacitus which was once a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileia It stands in the District of Padua upon the little Medoacus or the River Bachiglione which washing the Walls of Vicenza and Este falls into the Venetian Gulph twelve Miles from Padua to the South The Dukes of Modena in Italy of which Illustrious House Mary Consort to King James II. is take their Name from this Place who were before a great while Dukes of Ferrara Modena and Regio Now only of Modena See the History of the Family of Este written in Italian by Jean Baptistâ— Pigna and in English by Mr. Crawford Esteing an ancient Barony in the Province of Rouergne in France since advanced to an Earldom It gives Name to an Honourable Family that by the concession of Philip the August in the year 1214. as a reward for the noble actions of one of their Ancestors bears the same Coat of Arms with the Crown Estella or Stella a small City in the Kingdom of Navarr upon the River Ega where it receives the Vreder eight Miles from Pampelona to the South and the same from Calahorra to the North. Built in the year 1094. It is the Capital of the Territory called la Merindada de Estella Esten Esthonia a considerable Province in the North of Livonia heretofore under the Poles but now the Swedes It lies between the Sinus Finnicus a part of the Baltick Sea to the North Lettonia Liefland to the South the Bay of Riga to the West and Ingria a Province of Russia to the East the chief City in it is Revel the Capital of this Province which is sometimes called Eastland Estepa Astapa a City or great Town in Andalusia in Spain seated upon a Hill in the Confines of the Kingdom of Granada about twelve Miles from Malaga to the North and seventeen from Sevil to the South-East This sprung out of the ruines of Astapa an old Iberian City or Phoenician Colony which being besieged by Marcellus a Roman General the Inhabitants burnt themselves with their Wives and Children and all they had that they might not fall into the hands of the Romans as Livy saith Cstoiteland Estotilandia a great Tract of Land in the North of America towards the Actick Circle and Hudson's Bay having New France on the South and James's Bay to the West This is a part of Canada now commonly called New Britain and Terra Laboratoris The first of the American Shoars which was discovered being found by some Friesland Fishers that were driven hither by a Tempest almost two hundred years before Columbus In 1390. Nicolas and Antonius Zeni two Brothers that were Venetian Gentlemen at the Charges of Zichini King of Friesland took a view the second time of these Shoars John Skoluo a Polonian in 14â—6 about eighty six years after the first discovery sailing past Norway Greenland and Friesland and entering into the Streight beyond the Artick Circle arrived at this Country Which is Mountainous overgrown with Woods full of all manner of wild and savage Beasts and only known as to the Shoars but yet the Soil is fruitful Hofman Estouteville a Town in the Vpper Normandy in France advanced to the quality of a Dukedom by King Francis I. in 1538. There is a Noble Family deriving their Name from it Estremadura Extremadura is a Province of the Kingdom of Portugal at the Mouth of the Tagus upon the Western Ocean bounded on the North
Champagne sixteen from Reims North and four from Marle South often mentioned on the account of a Peace here made between Henry IV. of France and Philip II. of Spain May 2. 1598. Uerâ—lam Verolamium an ancient Roman City and Colony mentioned by Tacitus and Ptolemy in Hartfondshire the Royal City of Cassibellanus a British Prince contemporary with Julius Caesar by whom this City was taken fifty two years before the Birth of our Saviour in his second Expedition into Britain In the year of Christ 66. it was taken and intirely ruined by Boadicia Queen of the Iceni and all the Romans put to the Sword yet it recovered again and flourished as long as the Romans continued in Britain and under Dioclesian had one famous Martyr called Albanus In 429 there was a British Synod held here by S. German Bishop of Auxerre in France against the Pelagians Soon after it fell into the Hands of the Saxons I suppose about 465. Retaken by Vthe Pendragon who began his Reign in 498. and Reigned eighteen years Again retaken by the Saxons and intirely ruined In 975. Offa King of the Mercians built on the other side the little River Ver which washed the Walls of it a goodly Monastery in Honour of S. Alban which after became a great Town K. James I. revived the Memory of this place when he made Sir Francis Bacon then Lord Chancellour of England Lord Verulam in 1620 who dying without Issue the Title failed but he yet honors the place by lying buried in a little Church near it Veruli or Veroli Verulum a City in Campania di Roma under the Dominion of the Pope which is a Bishops See and now in a tolerable condition upon the River Cosa forty eight Miles from Rome to the South and from Capua to the North sixty from Pescara West Vesere See Weser Vesle Vidula a River of Champagne which ariseth three Leagues from Chaalons to the East and watering Reims falls into the Aisne Vesoul Vesulum a small but neat City in the Franche Comté nine Leagues from Besanzon and thirteen from Beaucaire West Now in the Possession of the French Vesprin Vesprinum Vesprimium a City of the Lower Hungary called by the Inhabitants Vesprim by the Germans Weisbrun It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gran. The Capital of a County of the same name strong and populous and defended by a Castle Seated on the River Sarwize eleven German Miles from Gran South and five from Alba Regalis West This has been in the hands of the Emperour ever since 1565. Vesulus one of the Cottian Alpes betwixt Dauphine to the West and Piedmont to the East Now called Mont viso The River Po derives its head from it Vesuvius a Vulcanoe in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples eight Miles from the City Naples near the Castle of Somma from which last place the Italians give it the name of il Monte di Somma The particular times of its overflowing with stormes of fire are all recorded in History since our Saviour and the Reign of Augustus viz. in the years 81. 243. 421. 985. 973. 983. 1036. 1038. 1138. 1139. 1430. 1500. 1631 1660. 1682. Where the Intervals sometimes continue two or three hundred years at others not above one two and ten In its last rupture in 1682. Aug. 14. it covered the whole Dukedom of Massa adjacent with ashes of a nauseous odour and set on fire the wood of Otajano The twentieth it caused an Earthquake of three hours continuance which reached to Naples The twenty second it cast forth floods of smoak ashes coals attended with a roaring noise Flames Earthquake and Thunder the Flames ran from it unextinguished in the midst of vast storms of Rain filling Naples with Ashes And on the 24th it ended in a cloud of white ashes Before the Reign of Augustus we read of its ruptures five times The Elder Pliny was suffocated as he searched the causes thereof upon the place Veteravie See Weteraw Veuxin Vexin Velocasses a Territory in Normandy betwixt the Rivers Apte and Ardelle the Capital of which was Roan but now Gisors § There is another in the Isle of France of the same name between the Oyse and the Apte the Capital of which is Pontoise This for distinction is called Vexin Francois and the other Vexin Normand § There is a City of the same name in Gothland in the Kingdom of Sweden Vezelay Veseliacum Vizeliacum a City in the Dukedom of Burgundy in Auxerre upon the River Curez in the Borders of Nivernois ten Leagues from Auxerre to the South eighteen from Nevers to the South-East and five from Corbie in Picardy to which Province this City is now added P. Eugenius III. celebrated a Council here in 1145. for the recovery of the Holy Land Vgenti Vgento Vxentum a small City in the Province of Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples twenty Miles from Otranto to the North-West and eleven from Gallipoli to the East Long. 42. 28. Lat. 39. 56. Vgogh Vgoza a County in the Vpper Hungary towards the Tibiscus and the Borders of Transylvania The Capital of it is a Castle of the same name Two German Miles from Zatmar to the East and a little more from the Tibiscus W. Viana a City in Navarre upon the River Ebro thirteen Leagues from Pampelune and seven from Calahorra in Castile to the South-West Built by Sancius King of Navarre in 1219. In 1423. made a Principality by Charles III. and ever after given to the Prince of Navarre as his Title Viatka a City River and Province in Muscovy one hundred and twenty Miles from Cazan to the North. Viburg Viburgum a City in Sweden the Capital of Carelia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Riga one hundred and sixty Miles from Narva to the North upon the Bay of Finland on which it has a Haven and a strong Castle The Muscovites have several times in vain assaulted it Vicenza or Vincenza Vicentia Vicetia Vincentia a City in the States of Venice in Lombardy which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja a great strong City under the Republick of Venice upon the River Bachiglione Eighteen Miles from Padoua thirty from Verona East and from Feltria South Taken by Maximilian in 1509. Long. 33. 40. Lat. 44. 50. It was inhabited anciently by the Euganei The Gauls were Benefactors to it The Romans and the Lombards possessed it each in the times of their Power It fell to the Venetians not till after great revolutions and divers Wars The pleasantness of its situation gives it the Title of the Garden of Venice It is the Capital of the Territory of the Vincentine In 1583. and 1623. Synods were assembled here Vich Vicus Aquae Voconiae Ausa Nova Corbio a small City in Catalonia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona Seated upon the River Tera twelve Leagues from Barcellone to the North and nine from Girone to the West In 1627. a Synod was
held at this City Vichy a Village in the Dukedom of Bourbonne in France of great fame for some Springs of Medicinal Mineral Waters Vico della Baronia Vicus a small City of the Kingdom of Naples in the Further Principato which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento it stands at the foot of the Apennine thirteen Miles from Conza to the North. Vico di Sorrento Vicus Aequensis a small City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Province di Lavoro which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Sorrento Built by Charles II. King of Naples in 1300. four Miles from Sorrento and eighteen from Naples to the South Victoria Victoria Vellica Vitoria a City in the Province of Alava in the Borders of Biscay Sixteen Leagues from Pampelon to the West twelve from Bilbao and twelve from Burgos to the South-East Built in 1180. and now in a thriving condition Vidin Widin Bydena Viminiacum a City of Servia which is an Archbishops See and the Seat of the Turkish Governour It stands upon the Danube where it receives the Lon 9 German Miles from the Borders of Thrace to the West and fifteen from Nissa to the North. Taken by the Imperialists after a defeat of 10000 Turks that were posted near it Octob. 1689. Retaken by the Turks in 4 days Sept. 1690. Vieliluki Vieliluchia Vielkolucha a strong City upon the River Lovat in the Dukedom of Râ—scow in the Borders of Lithuania in Moscovy 30 Polish Miles from Witepska to the North and 16 from the Lake of Illmen to the South Taken by Stephen King of Poland Decemb. 16. 1580. Vienna Vienna Ala Flaviana Juliòbona Vindobona the Capital City of Austria and Seat of the Emperors of Germany called by the Inhabitants Wien by the French Vienne by the Turks Beetz or Weetz by the Poles Wieden It is one of the greatest most populous strong and rich Cities in Germany seated on the South side of the Danube over which it has a Bridge where it receives a small River called the Wien from whence it has its present Name Also a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Saltzburg Made an Imperial City by Frederick II. in 1236 But this Privilege lasted only four Years Hofman saith it is the noblest City on the Danube both as to the Beauty Magnificence of its Buildings and the abundance of all things useful to the Life of Man Taken in 1485. by Matthius Corvinus King of Hungary Besieged by the Turks in 1529. September 15. under Solyman II. with an Army of 200000 Men but his Cannon being sunk or disordered by the Governour of Presbourgh in their way up the Danube after two general Assaülts in vain and the News of the March of the Emperor Charles V. to its relief he raised the Siege October 15. Again they besieged it in 1532. and 1543. And when in 1683 it was reduced in a fourth Siege to great Extremities it was relieved by John III. King of Poland September 10 the Anniversary whereof is religiously here observed after it had been violently battered from July 14. by an Army of 100000 Turks who lost all their Tents Baggage Cannon and Mortars to the number of 180 Pieces whereof some were marked with the Arms of the Emperors Ferdinand I. and Rodulph II. Victual and Ammunition the Standard of the Ottoman Empire engraved with these words There is no other God but one God and Mahomet is his Prophet their Reputation abroad and their Courage at home by this Defeat which has made them contemptible unfortunate and miserable ever since The Crescent and the Star the Ottoman Arms till this had continued engraved upon the highest tip of the Tower of S. Stephens Church from the year 1529 when the Citizens placed them there for an acknowledgment to Solyman II. who during his Siege totally exempted that Cathedral from Battery But no such regard to it having been observed by the Turks in the last Siege a Cross was immediately advanced in the place of the Crescent This City has been the Seat of the Emperors of Germany ever since 1438. Frederick II. founded an University in it in 1237. which Albert III. Archduke of Austria reestablished in 1365. In 1267. a Council was celebrated here The Scotch College was a principal and stately Building of this City before its destruction in the last Siege It is fortified with 12 Bastions The Learned Dr. Edward Brown in his Travels has excellently described the present State of it and to him I remit the Reader It stands 26 German Miles from Lintz to the East 6 from the Borders of Hungary 50 from Cracow 34 from Buda Long. 39. 10. Lat. 48. 22. Vienne Vienna a most antient City of Gallia Narbonensis in the Roman times the Metropolis of the Allobroges and then a great and Royal City Called by Pomponius Mela Vienna Allobrogum Now an Archbishops See seated in the Dauphine upon the Rhosne where it entertains the Gera over which it had a Bridge now half ruined at the foot of an Hill 13 Leagues from Grenoble to the West 5 from Lyons to the South and 11 from Valence Pope Calixtus II. was an Archbishop of this City It is the Capital of the Territory of Viennois which lying betwixt the Rhosne and Isere is called the Island of the Allobroges This City in the Roman Coins Inscriptions and Histories is called the Illustrious Adorned Strong Beautiful Fruitful Colony of Vienna Claudius the Emperor chose several of its Citizens into the Roman Senate Hither Pilate and Archelaus the Son of Herod the Great were banished Valentinian the Younger was here murdered by Arbogastes a traiterous Courtier in 392. In the fifth Century it became the Seat of the Kings of Burgundy that Kingdom beginning about 408. In 504. Gundabond one of these Kings took it by a Siege and slew Godigisilas his Brother who defended it against him In 532. there was an end put to this Kingdom by Clothaire King of France In 855. it became the Seat of a second French Burgundian Kingdom which ended in 1032. And this City passed to the Emperors of Germany In 1100. it was seized by one Guine by the Title of Earl or Dauphine of Vienne and continued in this Line till 1342 when it was again united to the Crown of France Also regardable on the account of a Council held here in 1311. by Pope Clement V. assisted with the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch and 300 Bishops in the presence of Philip le bel King of France This Council rendered the Feast of Corpus Christi before instituted by Pope Vrban IV. of universal observance In 1119. Pope Gelasius II. held also a Council here Another in 1112. excommunicated the Emperor Henry V. and declared the Treaty betwixt Pope Paschal II. and him touching Investitures null In 892. the Legate of Pope Formosus celebrated a Council in the same place where there have been divers others Long. 26. 00. Lat. 45. 28. Vienne Vigenna Vigenne a River of France which ariseth