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A61047	An epitome of Mr. John Speed's theatre of the empire of Great Britain And of his prospect of the most famous parts of the world. In this new edition are added, the despciptions of His Majesties dominions abroad, viz. New England, New York, 226 Carolina, Florida, 251 Virginia, Maryland, 212 Jamaica, 232 Barbados, 239 as also the empire of the great Mogol, with the rest of the East-Indies, 255 the empire of Russia, 266 with their respective descriptions.	Speed, John, 1552?-1629.	1676 (1676)	Wing S4879; ESTC R221688	361,302	665

Son of Syrric who raigned then in Man and honourably received him 2 The same year William the Bastard conquered England and Godred the Son of Syrric died his Son Fingal succeeding him 3 An. 1066. Godred Crovan assembled a great Fleet and came to Ma● and fought with the people of the Land but received the worst and was overcome The second time renewing his Forces and his Fleet he sailed into Man and joyned Battel with the Manksmen but was vanquished as before and driven out of the Field Howbeit what he could not at first bring to pass with power in those two several onsets he afterward effected by policy For the third time gathering a great multitude together he arrived by night in the haven called Ramsey and hid three hundred men in a Wood which stood upon the hanging hollow brow of an Hill called Sceafull The Sun being risen the Manksmen put their People in order of Battel and with a violent charge encountred with Godred The fight was hot for a time and stood in a doubtful suspence till those three hundred Men starting out of the Ambush behind their backs began to foil the Manksmen put them to the worst and forced them to flie Who seeing themselves thus discomfited and finding no place of refuge le●t them to escape with pitiful lamentation submitted themselves unto Godred and besought him not to put the Sword such poor remainder of them as was left alive Godred having compassion on their calamities for he had been pursed for a time and brought up among them sounded a Retreat and prohibited his Host any longer pursuit He being thus possessed of the Isle of Man died in the Island that is called Isle when he had raigned sixteen years he left behind him three sons Lagman Harald and Olave 4 Lagman the eldest taking upon him the Kingdom raigned seven year His brother Harald rebelled against him a great while but at length was taken Prisoner by Lagman who caused his members of generation to be cut off and his eyes to be put out of his head which curelty this Lagman afterwards repenting gave over the Kingdom of his own accord and wearing the Badge of the Lords Cross took a journey to Ierusalem in which he died 5 An. 1075. All the Lords and Nobles of the Islands hearing of the death of Lagman dispatched Ambassadors to Murccard O●brien King of Irela●d and requested that he would send some worthy and industrious man of the Blood-Royal to be their King till Olave the son of Godred came to full age The King yielding to their request sent one Dopnald the son of Tade and charged him to govern the Kingdom which by right belonged to another with lenity and gentleness But after he was come to the Crown forgetting or not weighing the charge that his Lord and Master had given him swayed his place with great Tyranny committing many outrages and cruelties and so raigned three years till all the Princes of the Islands agreeing together rose up against him and made him flie into Ireland 6 An. Dom. 1111. Olave the son of Godred Craven aforesaid began his Raign and raigned forty years a peaceable Prince He took to wife Affrica the daughter of Fergus of Galway of whom he begat Godred By his Concubines he had Raignald Lagman and Harald besides many daughters whereof one was married to Summerled Prince of Herergaidel who caused the ruine of the Kings of the Islands On her he begat four sons Dulgal Raignald Engus and Olave 7 An. Dom. 1144. Godred the son of Olave was created King of Man and raigned thirty years In the third year of his Raign the People of Dublin sent for him and made him their King Which Murecard King of Ireland maligning raised War and sent Osibeley his half brother by the Mothers side with 3000 Men at Arms to Dublin who by Godred and the Dublinians was slain and the rest all put to flight These Atchievements made Godred returned to Man and began to use Tyranny turning the Noblemen out of their Inheritances Whereupon one called Th●rsin Otters son being mightier than the rest came to Summerled and made Dulgal Summerleds son King of the Islands whereof Godred having intelligence prepared a Navy of 80 Ships to meet Summerled And in the year 1156 there was a Battle fought at Sea on Twelfth day at night and many slain on both sides But the next day they grew to a pacification and divided the Kingdom of the Islands among themselves This was the cause of the overthrow of the Kingdom of the Isles 8 An. 1158. Summerled came to Man with a Fleet of fifty three Sail put Godred to flight and wasted the Island Godred upon this crossed over to Norway for aid against Summerled But Summerled in the mean time arriving at Rhinfrin and having gathered together a Fleet of 160 Ships coveting to subdue all Scotland by the just Iudgment of God was vanquished by a few and both himself and his son slain with an infinite number of people 9 The fourth day after Raignald began to raign but Godred coming upon him out of Norway with a great number of Armed Men took his Brother Raignald and bereft him both of his Eyes and Genital Members On the fourth Ides of November An. Dom. 1187. Godred King of the Islands died and his body was translated to the Isle of Ely He left behind him three sons Raignald Olave and Tvar He ordained in his life time that Olave should succeed him because he only was born legitimate But the people of Man seeing him to be scarce ten years old sent for Raignald and made him their King This caused great division and many turbulent attempts between the two Brethren for the space of thirty eight years which had no end till at a place called Tingualla there was a Battel struck between them wherein Olave had the Victory and Raignald was slain The Monks of Russin translated his Body unto the Abbey of S. Mary de Fournes and there interred it in a place which himself had chosen for that purpose 10 An. 1230. Olave and Godred Don who was Raignalds son with the Norwegiaus came to Man and divided the Kingdom among themselves Olave held Man and Godred being gone unto the Islands was slain in the Isle Lodaus So Olave obtained the Kingdom of the Isles He died the twelfth Calends of Iune Anno 1237. in Saint Patricks-Islands and was buried in the Abbey of Russin 11 Harold his Son succeeded him being fourteen years of Age and raigned 12 years In the year 1239 he went unto the King of Norway who after two years confirmed unto him his Heirs and Successors under his Seal all the Islands which his Predecessors had possessed 12 An. 1242. Harald returned out of Norway and being by the Inhabitants honourably received had peace with the Kings of England and of Scotland The same year he was sent for by the King of Norway and married his Daughter In the year 1249 as he returned

of Britain the next and this of Ireland the third and for that cause doth Ptolomy call it the Little-Britain But howsoever Strabo hath extended the breadth as broad as the length and others have formed it in shape like an Egg yet later dimensions have found it far otherwise twice longer than broad and may be compared to the fore-leg of a Bear if the Si●ile breed no offence Whose East-side hath on it that tempes●uous Sea that cutteth her Channel betwixt England and this Ireland the West is washed with the Western-Ocean the North with the D●ucaledonian and the South with the Virginian-Sea 5 The Air of this Island is delectable and wholsom though neither so clear nor subtil as is ours of England which as Mela saith is nothing favourable for the ripening of Corn but so grateful to the ground that it causeth grass to grow abundantly not only fresh and long but withal very sweet for all Cattel and in Winter is more subject to Wind than Snow and that I may use the words of Giraldus It is of all Countri●s most temperate neither forcing the I●habitants to seek shade from the frying heat of Cancer nor the chilling cold of Capricorn to drive t●em to the fire but at all seasons most mild betwixt a sufferable cold and gentle warm heat 6 The Soil saith Cambrensis is uneven woody wild waterish and boggy so full of Loughs and Mears that great Ponds of Water are found upon the high Mountains These indeed make the places somewhat dangerous unto all new Commers by breeding of Rheums Dysenteries and Fluxes whose usual remedy is Vskebah a wholsome Aqua vitae that drieth more and enflameth less than many other hot Confections 7 The Commodities of this Kingdom chiefly consist in Cattel whose seed is so sweet and so rank that they will soon graze to a surfeit if they may be suffered to feed as they will Their Sheep are many but bear not the best Wooll which twice are shorn within one year Of these they make Mantles Caddowes and Coverlets vented from thence into forrain Countries Their Hobbies likewise are of great esteem and are answerable to the Ienners of Spain Bees are there in such abundance that honey is found in holes of Trees and in rests of the Rocks No annoyance of hurtful Snake or venomous Creatures and to speak all in a word nothing wanting for profit or pleasure for so much doth Giraldus affirm in saying that Nature had cast into this Western Kingdom of Zephyrus a m●re gracious eye ●han was ordinary 3 Touching the original peopling of this fair Island if we will believe their Records they make antiquity it self but young unto themselves affirming the Da●sel Caesarea and Ni●ce unto Noah to have found it out before the Flood and that three hundred years after when Iaphets posterity took into these Wests-parts of the World one Bartholarus of his Progeny a Scythian by birth encouraged by the late success of Nimrod who now had intruded upon the Monarchy of Syria wandred so far West that Fortune at last cast him and his people upon the coast of Ireland There he setled with his three sons Languinna Salanus and Ruthurgus who searching through every creek and corner of the Land left their own names by three notable places Languini Stragrus and Mount Salanga which the revolution of times hath since called by other names as S. Dominickhill Ruthurgi and Stagnum Under the government of these three sons and their off-spring this Land was kept about three hundred years at which time there arrived also in Ireland a Giant-like kind of People of Nimrods race who in bodily shape exceeded the proportion of usual men using their strengths to win soveraignties and to oppress with rapine and violence These growing to numbers accounted it necessary to prevent dominion lest the curse of slavery prophecied by Noah should light upon them to prevent the which they set up a King of their own then quarrels bred daily either parties purposing to hold their interest by their Swords against whom lastly a Battel was fought and an infinite company of Giants slain when also died most of those of the posterity of Iapheth leaving them of Cham Lords of the Island 9 Whereupon Nemethus a Scythian with his four Sons arrived in Ireland and by strong hand seated themselves among these Giants where for two hundred and sixty years they kept but then no longer able to hold out against them they left their ●tandings and departed the Land 10 Soon after the five Sons of Dela descended from the said Nemetheus came into these coasts and with manly prowess drove these miscreants out of Ireland whereby the Seed of Cham was utterly expelled and these of Iapheth divided the Land into five parts whereof they became themselves Kings but falling at variance gave advantage unto others among whom the BRITAINS set in a foot 11 But to make this Island more famous certain Historians have fetched their Kings from most uncertain Records as namely from Gaothel the Grecian and Scotia the daughter of King Pharaoh and nourisher of Moses his Wife who at that time when Israel were in Egypt with a Colony came into Spain and after into Ireland where he was made King and in honour of his Queen the Land named Scotia from whom also the Inhabitants took name his posterity increasing in the parts of Spain where first they had seated in process of time sought further adventures under the four Sons of Milesius King of Spain whose names were Hibernus Hermion Euer and Erimon 12 These by the direction sufferance and assistance of Gurguntius King of the Britains after that Ireland had been very much dispeopled by a contagious pestilence seated themselves and from the eldest Hibernus called the Island Hibernia as some are of opinion these divided the whole into five Provinces famously known by the names of Mounster Leinster Connaught Vlster and Meath in their midst and from these the present Irish repute themselves to come Yet surely as I make no question but that this Island became inhabited even of old time when mankind again over-spread the face of the earth so doubt I not but that our Britains passed thereinto themselves such infinite number of words in the Irish language yet in use such ancient names of Waters Isles Mountains and Places meerly British words yet remaining and the testimony of Tacitus who saith that their manners were fashioned to the Britains inforceth so much and Ptolomy before him calleth that Island by the name of Little-Britain all which shew a former interest for Ireland than that which by conquest under Henry the second was made 13 That it ever was subject to the Romans is doubtful though Agricola did wish it and Tacitus held most necessary yea and in the division of their Empire Ireland with Britain and Thule fell unto Constantine the Son of Constantine the Great yet their Manners unreclaimed and barbarism retained long after those days do witness no

in the East or North of the Land For besides that great and high Hill called Plinillimon a continual range of lesser doth shoot along yielding in their Vallies both goodly rich Pastures and very large Pools which being assisted with Springs from the Rocks do branch themselves as Veins in the Body and make fruitful their passages unto the Sea In Tyuy one of these as Giraldus hath written the Beaver hath been found a Creature living both by Land and Water whose Stones the Physicians hold in great price His fore●eet are like unto a Dog but the hinder whole skinned as is the Goose the Dog-like serve him on shore for to run and the Goose-like as Oars give him swift motion in swimming his Tail broad and gristly he useth as a Stern wherewith on the sudden he can divert his swi●t floating course But this creature in these parts a long time hath not been seen whose room we may well say the Salmon hath possessed who still coveting fresh-water-Rivers at their down-right falls useth this policy He bendeth himself backward and taketh his Tail in his Mouth and with all his strength unloosing his circle on the sudden as a Lath let go mounteth up before the fall of the Stream whereupon such water-falls are called the Salmons-leap and in these Rivers many such Salmons are caught 4 The Commodities of this Shire chiefly consist in Cattel Sea-Fowl and Fish Corn sufficient but of Woods some scarcity and at the Head of Istwyd are certain Veins of Lead a Merchandize of no mean regard or wealth 5 The ancient People that possessed this Province were the Dim●tae by Ptolomy branched thorow the Tract of Caermarden Pembroke and this Shire who in their struglings against the Romans did not a little rely upon Caractacus their most warlike King from whose name though unlikely some will have the Shire called Cardigan yet lastly felt the fortune of subjection with the rest when Iulius Frontinus warred with these Mountains Scarce had the Normans setled their Kingdom in Britain but that they a●●ailed this County as well to enjoy so fair a Possession as to secure those Seas from any Invasion against them so that Rufu● first wrested from the Welshmen the Maritime Coasts and Henry the first gave the whole County to Gilbert de Clare 6 This Gilbert fortified Cardig●n and Shire-Town with a Wall and strong Castle whose aged Lineaments do to this day shew the industry both of Nature and Art for the Town is seated upon a steep bank her South side guarded with the deep River Tyvy and passable no way but by a bridge under the Castle The Walls take the advantage of the rising Rocks and circulate the Town even round about The Castle is higher built upon a Rock both spacious and fair had not Storms impaired her beauty and time left her carkass a very Anatomy The Walls range as thou feest and are indifferent for repair having three ways for entrance and contain in compass six hundred and fourscore paces whose position for Latitude is in the degree 52 33 minutes from the North-pole and for Longitude from the first West point by M●rc●tor in the degree 15 and 10 minutes 7 This Shire as it is little in circuit so accordingly is besprinkled with Townships whereof four only have the Trade of Markets neither find I other remembrance of religious Foundations but at Cardigan Istradfleet and at Llan B●dern Vaur where sometimes was seated an Episcopal See which as Hoveden writeth was decayed many years since when the people had wickedly stain their Pastor And yet Llan-Devi-brevi built and so called in memory of the most famous David Bishop of Menevia was in great esteem where in a frequent Synod there holden he refuted the Pelagian-Heresie sprung up again in Britain both by the authority of holy Scriptures and also by miracle as is reported while the earth whereon he stood and preached rose up unto a certain height under his Feet 8 The Shires Division for businesses belonging either to the Crown or Common-wealth is into five Hundreds wherein are seated four Market-Towns and sixty four Parish-Churches for Gods Divine and daily Service CAERMARDEN-SHIRE CHAPTER VI. CAERMARDEN-SHIRE so called from the chief Town Caermarden lyeth bordered upon the South with Cardigan-shire upon her East by Brecknock and Glamorgan-shires upon the South with a Bay of the British-Seas and upon the West with Pembroke-shire 2 The form of this County is long and shooteth it self from the South-West into the North and by East betwixt whose further bounds are thirty five English miles and in her broadest part twenty miles the whole in circumference about one hundred and two miles 3 This Shire is not altogether so pestred with Hills as her bordering Neighbors are and those that she hath neither so high nor so thick and therefore is better for Corn and Pasturage yea and in Woods also so that for Victuals this County is very well stored which the Stomach doth as well digest the Air being wholsome temperate and pleasing 4 Anciently these parts were possessed by the Dimetree as Ptolomy Gildas and Ninius do name them though Pliny holds opinion that they were part of the Silures with whom no doubt they were subdued to the Romans yoke by Iulius Frontinus when he struggled with the Rocky Hills in those Southern parts And this County is accounted by Writers to be the very strength of South-Wales In the West thereof at Kilmanlloid as it should seem their Legions were kept where lately an earthen Pot hoarded with store of Roman-Coyns was by the Spade digged up being stamped upon imbased Silver from the time of Commodus unto the first Tribuneship of Gordian the third which fell in the year of Christ two hundred forty three and amongst these were the Coyns of Helvius Pertinax Marcus Opellius Antonius Diadumenianus Iulius Veru● Maximu● the Son of Maximus of Coelius Balbinus of Clodius Pupienus of Aquilla Severa the wife of Heliogabalus and of Soll. Barbia Orbiana● pieces rarely found 5 The Commodities of this Shire chiefly consist in Cattel Pit-coal Fowl and Sea-Fish whereof the Salmon is common among them and that of such greatness and plenty as no place is better furnished therewith than the Shire-Town Caermarden is 6 Which Town by Ptolomy is called Maridunum by Antonin● the Emperour Muridunum by the Britains Caerfridhin and by us Caermarden It is pleasantly seated upon the South-West side of the River Tovy that runneth through the midst of this Shire and falleth South from hence into the British Sea where before-times was a convenient Haven for Ships arrivage but now is sore pestred with Sands and Shelves notwithstanding some small Vessels ascend up the River even unto the Bridge of this Town which is fairly built of Free-stone And over the same upon a hanging Rock standeth a very large Castle from whose Stone-wall another intermingled with Brick rangeth about the Town being in circuit one thousand and four hundred paces The Inhabitants of this place do

them they suddenly perish Thus we see how God gives a property to each place that may make up her defects lest it should be left as well by beasts as men Their Land is full of sandy deserts w●ich ●e open to the winds and storms and ofttimes are thrown up into Billows like waves of the Sea and indeed are no less dangerous Straho writes that Cambyses his Army was thus hazarded in Ae●hiopia And Herodotus that the Psilli an ancient but foolish Nation it seem● in Africa as they marched toward the South to revenge themselves upon the winds for drying up their Rivers were over-whelmed with sand and so died in their graves Besides these annoyances it is so full of a venomous kind of Serpent that in some places they dare not dress their Land unless they first sence their legs with Boots against the sting Other wild creatures there are which range about and possess to themselves a great portion of this Country and make a Wilderness of Lions Leopards Elephants and in some places Crocodiles Hyenaes Basilisks and indeed Monsters without either number or name Afr●ca now every year produceth some strange creature before not heard of peradventure not extant For so Pl●ny thi●ks that for want of water creatures of all kinds at some times of the year gather to those few Rivers that are to quench their thirst And then the Males promiscuously enforcing the Females of every Species which comes next him produceth this variety of forms and would be a grace to Af●ica were it not so full of danger to the Inhabitants which as Salus●t reports die more by Beasts than by diseases And those Tracts about Barbary are every tenth year 15 or 25 visited with a great plague and continually infected with the French disease in such violence that few recover unless by change of Air into Numidia or the Land of Negro●s whose very temper is said to be a proper Antid●te against those diseases 8 But among all these inconveniences commodities are found of good worth and the very evils yield at last their benefit both to their own Country and other Parts of the world The Elephant a docible creature and exceeding useful for Battel The Camel which affords much riches to the Arabian The Bar●ary Horse which we our selves commend the Ram that besides his flesh gives twenty pound of wool from his very tail The Bull painful and able to do best service in their tillage And so most of their worst alive or dead yield us their medicinal parts which the World could not well want 9 In her division we will follow our later Masters in this Art whom time at least and experience if no other worth have made more authentick and those divide it into seven parts 1 Barbary or Mauritania 2 Numidia 3 Lybia or Africa p●opria 4 Nigritarum Terra 5 Aethiopia superior 6 Aethiopia inferior 7 Aegypt and to these we add the 8 Islands belonging to Africa 10 Barbary is the first The bounds of it are Northward the Mediterraneum Westward the Atlantick On the South the Mountain Atlas and on the East Aegypt It is estee●ed the most noble part of all Africa and hath its name from an Arabick word Barbara that signifies a kind of rude sound for such the Arabians took their language to be and thence the Grecians call them Barbarians that speak a ha●sher language than themselves Aft●r the Latines and now we esteem the people of our own Nation barbarous if they ever so little differ from the rudeness either of our Tongue or Mann●rs The Inhabitants are noted to be faithful in their course but yet crafty in promising and per forming too for they are covetous ambitious jealous of their Wives beyond measure Their Country yields Oranges Dates Olives ●igs and a certain kind of Goat whose hair makes a Stuff as fir● as S●●k It contains in it the Kingdoms of ●unnis Algeires ●esse and Morocho 1 Tunnis is famous for several places mentioned of old Here was Dona where Augustine was B●shop and Hippo his birth-place And Tunnis a City five miles in compass and old Carthage built by Virgils Dido Romes am●la for wealth valour and ambition of the universal Empire It was twenty two miles in c●rcuit And Vtica memorable for Cato's death 2 Algeires contains in it a strange harbour for the Turkish Pirats and is of note for the resistance it made Charls the Fifth who received before the chief Towns in this Region an innumerable loss of Ships Horses O●dnance and Men. 3 Eesse hath a City in it with seven hundred Churches and one of them a m●le and half in coni●ass Stafford And in this Country was our English Stukely slain 4 Morocho where the chief Town of the same name hath a Church larger than that of ●ess● and hath a Tower so high that you may discern from the top of the hills of Azasi at an hundred and thiry miles distance Here is likewise a Castle of great same for their Globes of pure gold that stand upon the top of it and weighing 130000 Barbary Duckets 11 Numidia was the second part in our division of Africa and hath on the West the Atlantick on the East Egypt on the North Atlas and the Deserts of Lybia on the South It is called likewise Regio Dactylifera from the abundance of Dates for they feed upon them only and people Idolaters Ideots Thieves Murderers except some few Arabians that are mingled among them of ingenious disposition and addicted much to Poetry They seldome stay longer in one place than the eating down of the grass and this wandering course makes but few Cities and those in some places three hundred miles distant 12 Lybia the third is limited on the East with Nilus Westward with the Atlantick on the No●th with Numidia and the South with Terra Nigritarum It was called Sarra as much as Desert For so it is and a dry one too such as can afford no water to a Traveller sometimes in seven days Iourney The Inhabitants are much like to the Numidians live without any Law almost of Nature Yet in this place were two of the Sibyls which prophesied of Christ and Arrius the Heretick About Lybia were the Garamantes and the Psilli mentioned before for their simple attempts against the South-wind 13 Terra Nigritarum the Land of Negroes is the fourth and hath on the West the Atlantick on the East Aethiopia superior on the North Lybia on the South Kingdom of Manilong● in the inferi●r Aethiopia It hath the Name either from the colour of the people which are black or from the River Niger famous as Nilus almost for her over-flowing insomuch that they pass at some times in Boats through the whole Country It is full of Gold and Silver and other Commodities but the Inhabitants most barbarous They draw their Original form Ch●s and have er●ertained all Religions that came in their way First their own then the Iews the Mahometans and some of them the Christian.

the top to the bottom of the Page and use all one Character through the whole Kingdom though several parts differ much in their language or at least in their idiomes Their special skill which we much admire but cannot imitate is in making the Purslain dishes white as very snow and transparent as glass formed up only of Cockles found in the Sea-shore mixt with Egg-shells but lie buried in the earth many years before they come to perfection and are seldome took up by the same artificer which kneads them but are left as a portion to some of his posterity 10 Their fashions in private Houses are not much unlike to those of Europe at board they sit in chairs and upon forms not loll on the floor as most of the Asiaticks do they touch not their meat with the Hand but use the Silver fork or else some stick of Ivory or Ebony not much unlike it they eat thrice in one day but sparingly enough when they travel over the plains they use a kind of Coach yet not drawn with Horses or other beast but driven by the wind under sayl as a Bark on the Sea which the people are as perfect to guide which way they please as the Mariner is to direct his course unto any coast whither he is bound as they sail upon Land as if it were Sea so they dwell as frequently upon the Sea as if it were land for they have an incredible number of ships and boats which are in many places ranked like streets upon the waters and filled with Inhabitants such as are here born live traffique marry and die Mr. Purchas reports that upon one River from Nanquin to Paquin they are thus ordered for 300 leagues No marvel then if their number exceed any part ●roportionably of the whole earth since their Land is not sufficient but is forced to borrow room out of the Sea for their Habitation yet are they all governed by one Monarch whom they call the Lo●d of the World son to the Sun For they are a proud Nation and admit not equal comparison with any other earthlings but cast it as a Proverb into their teeth that they have but one eye to see with in respect of the Chinoys who alone as themselves boast see with two the truth is in matters of State they are very politick in peace wary and in war valiant crafty and excellent Engineers 11 Their Laws are for the most part just and severely executed especially against idle droans which set not a hand to advance their State or maintain themselves They will not cherish the very blind by alms since without eyes a man may be fit for some corporal imployment but to the maimed and lame they deny not a charitable mainten●nce The son is bound to exercise his Parents occupation so that no pretence almost is left for wanderers and briefly as far as humane Laws can provide all other vain occasions for mis-expence of time are taken off for within the Cities no Stews are allowed or lewd persons to withdraw them adultery is punished with death but yet they have liberty to take many wives one they keep at home the rest are disposed of abroad where they best please Their Marriages they chiefly solemnize at the new Moon and for the most part in March which begins their year 12 For their Religion they are Gentiles but have a confused knowledge of God Heaven and the Creation which they ascribe to one Trine who first say they made Pauson and Pausona and their posterity continued for 90000 years but were then for their wickedness destroyed and a new race was created The first of their second was one Lutitzan who had two horns from the right come men as they fondly imagine and from the left women when they would descipher their great god they express him by the first letter of their Alphabet and in their devotions they worship him as their chief but not only preserver for they have their prayers to the Sun Moon Stars and to the Devil himself that he would not hurt them Their Priests are distinguisht into the black and white Friars as we call them for they much resemble Friars in their course of life some are clothed in white their heads shorn and their victuals in common others in black long hair and live apart neither are married but both take their liberty to live obscenely as the debauchedst swaggerers 13 The Empire is divided into 15 Provinces 1 Canton 2 Feguien 3 Olam 4 Sisnam 5 Tolench 6 Causaie 7 Minchien 8 Ochiam 9 Horan 10 Pagino 11 Zaiton 12 Quinchien 13 Cheguem 14 Susnam 15 Quinsay All of large extent and contain in them many Towns and Cities in number more in compass bigger and in wealth more eminent than the best of ours 14 1 In the Province of Canton are 190 Towns and 37 Cities 2 In Feguien 99 Towns and 33 Cities 3 In Olam 130 Towns and 90 Cities 4 In Sisnam 150 Towns and 44 Cities 5 In Tolench 235 Towns and 51 Cities and this is governed immediate by the Emperour himself without any substitute as all other Provinces have except Pagina 6 Causaie hath 122 Towns 24 Cities 7 Minchien 29 Towns 25 Cities 8 Ochiam 74 Towns 19 Cities 9 Honan 102 Towns and 20 Cities 10 Pagina 150 Towns and 47 Cities 13 The chief of this is Paquin where he hath his continual residence and scarce at any time leaves the City unless upon occasion of war for it is seated near to the Tartars who oft-times make assaults upon the Chinoyse and force the King to gather his strength into that quarter and he himself present to withstand their entry lest if they should once get footing into any part of his Countrey they might encroach farther and enable themselves by his spoils to follow their blow upon his other Provinces His Palace here is compassed with a triple wall carries the bulk and face of a fair Town for indeed his retinue are no fewer than might well people a large City among the rest he hath 16000 Eunuchs daily attending such as their own parents have emasculated in their infancy to make them capable of this Court preferment The seat Imperial was heretofore at Nanquim where still remains a golden testimony of her past glory It is a fair City thirty miles in compass seated nine leagues from the Sea upon a fair and navigable a River where there rides commonly at least 10000 of the Kings Ships besides Merchants It hath three brick walls the streets are six miles in length of a proportionable breadth and trimly paved 16 11 Zaiton hath 78 Towns and 27 Cities the chief Zaiton which hath a fair harbour and is seldome without 500 ships 12 Quinchien hath 113 Towns and 45 Cities 13 Chaguean 95 Towns and 39 Cities 14 Susnam 105 Towns and 41 Cities 15 And lastly Quinsey 114 Towns Cities 17 The Metropolis is Quinsay or Suntien the largest City of the world for it contains 100