Bourbon the King of Navarre being slain before it It fell after this into the Hands of the Leaguers Henry IV. besieged it in 1593. but was prevented from taking it by the Prince of Parma though in the year following it willingly submitted to him after he had imbraced the Roman Catholick Religion The Parliament in this City was instituted by Philip the Fair in 1286. Established by Lewis XII in 1499. and re-established by Francis I. in 1515. Pope Clement VI. was sometime Archbishop of the See Pope Martin IV. and Gregory XI Archdeacons There have been divers provincial Councils here assembled Particularly in 1074. one against the Concubinage of the Clergy Roane or Rovane Rhodumna an ancient Town in France in the Dukedom of Bourbonne and the County of Foretz upon the River Loyre where it becomes first capable to bear a Boat Very great and populous tho not walled It stands twelve Leagues from Lyons to the South-West and eighteen from Moulins The Territory belonging to it is called le Roanez or Roannois and has the Honor of being a Dukedom by the Creation of King Charles IX Rober Erubris a River in Lorain which falls by Trier into the Moselle Robil Robel Rebellio a City or Town in the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh in the Lower Saxony by the Lake of Muritz in the Borders of Brandenburgh two German Miles from Var and seven from Gustro Robogh a Village in the County of Tyron upon the Sea Shoar against Scotland in the Province of Vlster which has preserved the memory of the Rhobogdii an old Irish Clan that possessed the Counties of Antrim Colran and Tyrone in this Province from whom that Cape now called the Fair Foreland by the English was then called Rhobodium being in the County of Antrim scarce fifteen Miles South of the nearest Shoar of Scotland Rocca Nova a Town in the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples honoured with the Title of a Dukedom Rocca Romana a Town in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples near Alifa honored with the Title of a Principality Rochdale a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Salford upon the River Roche in a Dale or Vale which together compound its name La Roche Rupes a Town in the Territory of Genevois in Savoy five or six Leagues from Geneva little less from Anneci and one from the River Arve at the foot of the Mountains It hath a Collegiate Church and two Religious Houses Roche-chouart a Seigniory in the Province of Poictou towards the Borders of Angoumois giving name to a Family of Honour La Roche-En-Ardenne a fortified Town in the Dukedom of Luxemburgh in the Low Countries upon the River Vrt twelve Leagues from Luxemburgh and nine from Liege Honour'd with the Title of an Earldom Rochefort a Town and Port at the Mouth of the Charante in the Pais d'Aunis in France Heretofore no more than a Village but now become a Magazine enlarged with divers Buildings and more daily La Roche-sur-Yon Rupes ad Yonem a Town in the Lower Poictou in France towards Lusson upon the River Yon which after joyns with the Lay. Honoured some Ages since with the Title of a Principality which is enjoyed by the House of Bourbon Rochelle Portus Santonum Rupella Rupella Santonum Rupella a City and famous Port of France upon the Bay of Aquitain the Capital of le Pais d'Aunis and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux Seven Leagues from Brouges to the North two from the Isle of Re and thirty from the Mouth of the Loyre to the South-East It takes its name from the Rock on which it stands supposed to be built about the Sixth Century because not mentioned before against the Incursions of the Normans At first it had Princes of its own After this it was under the English from the times of Henry II. who possessed it as Duke of Anjou And that Prince granted this City its first Charter and Privileges which were confirmed by Richard and John his Sons King John Landed here in 1206. when he went to the Siege of Mountauban and after in 1213. In 1224. it was taken from the English by Lewis VIII King of France but recovered the next year and continued under the English till 1453. And then finally taken by Charles VII In the beginning of the Civil Wars of France this Town fell under the power of the Hugonots who very much improved its Fortifications It was their principal place of refuge under Charles IX After the Massacre of Paris it was besieged by all the Forces of France defended it self to a wonder and at last forced that Prince to a Peace in 1573. It continued after this in their hands till 1628. and then was taken by Hunger in order to which the Ocean was bridled with a prodigious Bank begun in 1627. and carried the length of 747. toises the English having twice unsuccessfully attempted to relieve it After the taking of it Lewis XIII King of France visited it in person re-established the Roman Catholick Religion destroy'd its Fortifications saving two Towers built heretofore by Charles the Fifth for the Defence of the Port and took away its former Privileges In 1649. it first became a Bishoprick the Chair being removed hither from Mallezais a small Place in Poictou by Pope Innocent X. at the request of Lewis XIV Long. 19. 25. Lat. 45. 56. Rochester Rossa Durobius Dorobrevis Rutupiae a City in the County of Kent and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the Medway over which it has a stately Stone Bridge one of the fairest in England five Miles from the Thames twenty five from Canterbury to the East and London to the West This was a Roman Town or rather Castle as William of Malmsbury stiles it much enlarged to the East West and South In 676. it was ruined by Aetheldred King of the Mercians and after this several times by the Danes Aethelbert King of Kent erected here a sumptuous Church and caused one Justus to be made the first Bishop of it in 604. Gundulphus the Norman about 1080. rebuilt this Church and brought in Monks which are since changed into a Dean and six Prebendaries It has a Castle built by William the Conqueror which in the Reign of William Rufus and twice after in the Barons Wars has been besieged Dr. Sprat the present Bishop is the eighty third of this Diocese Charles II. added an Honor to this Place when he created Henry Viscount Wilmot of Athlone in Ireland Baron of Alderbury in the County of Oxon and Earl of Rochester December 13. 1652. Whose Son John Wilmot succeeded him in 1659. Which Family failing Laurence Hide second Son to Sir Edward Hide Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor of England was by the same Prince created Earl of Rochester November 29. 1682. But before these it gave the Title of Viscount to Sir Robert Carr created Anno 1611. by K. James I. Viscount Rochester and afterwards Earl
of the Eastern part or Shoar of Kent upon high Cliffs twelve Miles from Canterbury to the South-East and fifty five from London and seven Leagues distant by Sea from Calais in France That part of the Town next the Sea had anciently a Wall some of which is still standing On the top of a rugged high Cliff or Rock is a stately and very strong Castle which may be supposed to have been built by the Romans however this place was certainly a Station of theirs and has ever since been reputed one of the Keys of England at all times carefully guarded besides it is one of the Cinque-Ports and in times past was to set out to the Wars one and twenty Ships Therefore Philip King of France said that Lewis his Son when called in hither against King John by the Barons had not one foot of Land in England if he were not Master of Dover-Castle It had formerly seven Parish Churches now two and it is now as heretofore most frequented upon the account of its being the shortest passage into France The Honorable Henry Lord Jarmin was created Baron of Dover in the first year of King James II. But before in Anno 1627. Henry Carey Viscount Rochford and Baron Hunsden enjoyed the Title from King Charles I. of Earl of Dover Dour or Adour Aturus a River of Aquitaine the Southern part of France or rather three Rivers called by the same Name the principal of these riseth in Bigorre out of the Pyrenean Hills near Baretge and running North watereth Tarbe then turning Westward it passeth on the North of Aire St. Sever and Dax or Acqs so falleth into the Bay of Biscay at Bayonne having entertained Gaue de Oleron Gaue de Pau and several other Rivers The Outlet was anciently at le Bocau six Leagues beneath Bayonne but by the Industry of Lewis de Foix an excellent Ingineer and Architect of France in 1579. its course was altered as Thuanus saith The same Gentleman was the Contriver of the Palace in Spain and the Light-House at the Mouth of the Garronne called Tour de Cordovan Dourdan a small Town in the District of Hurepois in the Isle of France upon the River Orge towards the Frontiers of la Beauce thirteen Leagues from Paris and two or three from Estampes The Huguenots took and almost ruined it in the years 1562 1567. It had been often mortgaged sold and remitted from one to another before Lewis XIII redeemed and reunited it to the Crown in 1610. Dourlens Doulendium a Town in Picardy in France very strongly fortified on the Borders of Artois upon the River Asselane which falls into the British Sea between Crotoy and Estaple six Leagues from Amiens to the North and seven from Arras to the South This Town did heretofore belong to the Earls of Pontieu and became united to the Crown of France in 1559. Doustre Dostra a River of France in the Vicomte de Turene in Limosin Le Doux See Dou. Douzi Duziacum Duodeciacum a Castle in the Diocese of Rheims in France upon the River Cher betwixt Ivoy and Sedan Remarkable for two Councils celebrated at it in the years 871. 874. The first of which deposed and imprisoned Hinâ—mar Bishop of Laon for adhering to the Papal Interest contrary to the Usage and Liberties of the Gallican Church who some time after had his Eys put out Dowglass a Castle in Cuysdale in the middle of the Southern part of Scotland which takes its Name from the River Dowglass as doth also the Dale or Valley in which it stands This Castle is seated about six Scotch Miles West of Lanrick where Dowglass River unites with the Cluyd fifteen from Glasguo to the South and thirty five from Edinburgh to the South-West It is only memorable for its Earls sometimes so very powerful they were a terror to the Kings of Scotland themselves there being at one time six Earls of this Family that is Dowglas Angus Ormond Wigton Murray and Morton as Mr. Cambden reckons them § There is a Castle of this Name in the Isle of Man Down Dunum a City and Bishoprick in the Province of Vlster in Ireland the Bishop of which is under the Archbishop of Armagh The Bishoprick of Connor has been united to it ever since 1442. The City stands upon the Irish Sea upon a Peninsula made by the Sea and the Lake of Cone which affords it an excellent Haven twenty Miles from Dormore to the East thirty two from Carrick fergus to the South The County of Down is bounded on the East by the Irish Sea on the North by the County of Antrim and the Lake of Neaugh on the West by Armagh and on the South by the County of Louth from which it is severed by the River Newry This County saith Mr. Cambden is generally very fruitful where it is not overspread with Woods and has several safe Harbors upon the Seas Down is one of the most ancient Towns in Ireland made more famous by keeping the Bones of S. Patrick S. Bridget and S. Columbus than by the mention which Ptolomy has made of it by the Name of Dunum though not in its right place Downham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Clackcloss upon the River Ouse over which it hath a Bridge Downton or Duncton a Market Town in Wiltshire the Capital of its Hundred situated upon the Salisbury Avon It returns two Burgesses to the Parliament Drac Dracus a River in the Dauphinate in France which riseth about four Leagues North of Embrun and running Northward falls into the Isere at Grenoble bringing with it another small River which comes from La Grace and falls into the Drac at Viville four Miles South of Grenoble Draco or Drago Acragas or Agragas a River of Sicily called Biagio di Gergenti di Naro also and falls into the African Sea three Miles beneath Gergentum to the East thirty five West of Terra Nova Dragone Draco a small River in Campagnia in Italy which riseth in Mount Vesuvius and washing the City of Nocera falleth into Sarno a River which divideth the Principatus Citerior from the Terra di Lavoro and endeth in the Bay of Naples eleven Miles South of Naples Dragonara once a Bishops See now a small Village 7 Miles from S. Severina in Naples to the West Dracone See Orontes Dragonera Colubraria or Moncolibre a small desert Rock or Island between Majorca and Valentia which has its Names from the Snakes and Serpents that only inhabit it Draguignan Draguinianum Dracenae one of the best situated Towns in Provence in France in the Diocese of Frejus adorned with a Collegiate Church and divers Religious Houses Its Arms are observable being a Dragon with this Motto Alios nutrio meos devoro Drangiana regio an ancient Province of the Kingdom of Persia in the most Eastern part thereof now called Sigistan or Sitsistan It s principal Cities were Ariaspe and Propthasia Dravaniza See the Vistula The Drave or Dravus called
it belonging to the Hollanders upon the Coast of Nigritia This Fort was built by the Portugals in 1455. Taken from them by the Hollanders in 1633. Taken from the Hollanders by the English of late Years and it was again taken and ruin'd by the French in 1678 and is now again under the Hollander It lies in the Atlantick Ocean upon the Coast of the Kingdom of Gualata about or in 20 d. of Northern Lat. Arhon Asopus a River of the Morea falling into the Gulph of Corinth Arhusen Arhusia a City of Denmark in the Dukedom of Jutland upon the Baltick Sea it is a Bishops See under the Archbisâ—op of Lunden seated upon the River Gude 10 Miles South of Alburg 2 West from the Island of Fuinen and about 26 North of Lubeck This City was taken and severely treated by the Swedes in 1644. but is since that in the Posâ—ession of the Danes again Aria an antient Province and City of Persia The one is now call'd Chorasan the other Herat or Serat Ariano Arianum a City in the further Principate in the Kingdom of Naples and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento giving the Title of a Duke Ariano upon the Po is a small City in the Ferrarez in Italy and Capital of a Territory call'd Polesinâ— di Ariano upon the Borders of the States of Venice Arica a Port in the Kingdom of Peril in the Province de los Charcas where they ship the Silver brought from Potosi It is a small Town but has a capacious Haven and a strong Castle distant from La Plata to the South-East and from Cusco to the South 80 Leagues Ariccia or la Riccia was heretofore a considerable Town in the Campagna di Roma in Italy upon a Lake of the name now called lago di Nemi It has since become a small Village yet gives the Title of a Duke Ariel a River of the Precopensian Tartars which falls into the Nieper Borysthenes below Terki Arieni an antient People of Germany Another in Asia whom the Gauls reduced Arima a Town and Port of Japan in the Kingdom of Ximo or Saâ—cok The Infidels have extirpated the Christians thence Arimaspi an antient People of Sarmatia Europaea Ariminum See Rimini Arimoa an Island discovered by the Hollanders in 1618. near New Guiney betwixt Moa and Schouten Arles Arelas a City and Archbishoprick in Provence of France upon the Rhone In this place there was celebrated a great Council of the Western and African Bishops by the Order of Constantine the Great in the Year 312 or as Cabasutius saith in 314. that is about 16 years before the General Council of Nice and there has been several others held in aftertimes in the same Place This City was once made the Head of a Kingdom which had Kings of its own from the Year 879. to 1032. sometimes call'd the Kingdom of Arles and sometimes of Burgundy beyond the Jâ—ur Jurana It is seated on the left side the River Rhone over which there is a Timber Bridge 12 Leagues from Marseilles to the West The Academy established here in 1669 and the grand Obelisk of Roman work erected in 1677 ought not to be forgotten Arlington a little Village in Middlesex between Harlington and Shepeston which being the Birth-place of the Right Honorable Henry Bennet he was by Charles II. created Baron of Arlington the 14th of March 1664 and Earl of the same the 22d of April 1672. sworn Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold to King Charles II. Sept. 11. 1674. and died in the first Year of the Reign of King James II. in great Honor and Esteem Arlon Arlun Arlunum Orolunum a Town in the Dutchy of Luxembourg in the Low Countries which has given the Title of a Marquess from the Year 1103. It stands 4 Leagues from Luxembourg 6 from Montmidi Arma a Province and City in the Kingdom of Popayan in America 25 Leagues from St. Troy Armadabat See Amadabat Armagh Armacha a County of Vlster in Ireland incompassed with the River Neury on the East with the Country of Louth on the South and with the Blackwater North. This is one of the most fruitful Counties in all Ireland Upon the River Kalin which falleth into the Blackwater a River so called stands Armagh a poor decayed City tho an Archiepiscopal See and the Primate of the whole Kingdom This Primate was subject to the Archbishop of Canterbury till 1142. when it was exempted by one John Papyrio a Papal Legate as Camden faith The City was taken by Cromwel in 1650. Armanac Arminiacensis Comitatus a County of Aquitain or the upper Gascony in France bounded on the North by the Counties of Agenois and Condome on the East by Languedoc on the West by Gascony properly so called Bearn and Bigorro and on the South by the County de Cominge The Earle of this County are much celebrated in the antient French History Armanâ—th See Ardmonack Armanson Armentio a River of France in Burgundy It rises by semur receives the Brenne passes by Tonnere and falls into the Lionne nigh Auxerre Armenia major called by the Inhabitants Curdistan by the Georgians Armenioba a very large and well known Country of Asia being divided from the Georgians Mengrelians and Muscovites by the Mountains on the South by Mount Taurus from Mesopotamia and by Mount Niphate from Assyria on the West it has the Euphrates by which it is divided from Cappadocia and Armenia the Less The greatest part of it is under the Turks but a small part towards the East is under the Pâ—rsiâ—n In this Country both Euphrates and Tigris have their Fountains Armenia minor called now by some Aladuli by others Ac-coionlu is a part of Asia the Less and was heretofore a part of Capadocia bounded on the North by the Mengrelians and the Pontus or Euxine Sea on the South by Cilicia and Syria on the East by Armenia major and on the West by Cappadooia This whole Country is now under the Dominion of the Turks Armentiers Armentariae a Town of Planders upon the River Ley Legia which falls into the Schelde at Ghant This Town was the Theatre of great Actions during the former Wars and was left to the French by the Treaty of Aquisgrane who have had it ever since the Year 1668. It is a fair Town distant from Ghant 10 Miles and something less from Cambray Armes a Seigniory in the Province of Nivernois in France giving its name to a Noble Family there Armorica See Bretagne Armoy or Earmoy a Barony in the County of Cork and Province of Munster in Ireland â—nautes an errant vagabond People of Albania Arnay le Due Arnaeum Ducium a small Town in Burgundy in France 5 Leagues from Autun very agreeable Arnebourg a Town in the antient Marquisate of Brandenbourg upon the Elb ruined in the German Wars Arneda a City and Port upon the Pacifick Ocean in Peru in America The Land of Arnheim is a part of the Terra Australis discovered by the Hollanders to
Zaara in Africa betwixt the Kingdom of Gaoga and the Country of Lempta There is a Town in it of the same name Sands Scorpions and Monsters are almost the only things to be seen here Bere Regis a Market-Town in Dorsetshire The chief of its Hundred Bereberes an antient People of Barbary in Africa divided into 5 Tribes called the Mazamudins Zenetes Haoares Zinhagiens and Gomeres from which the Grandees of Africk derive their Original They came hither out of Arabia Foelix under Melech-Ifiriqui King of the said Arabia and in time made themselves Masters of a great part of Africk often Usurping upon each other for the Government till they were all Conquered by the Turks Berecynthus a Mountain of Phrygia in Asia Minor famous heretofore for the Worship of the Goddess Cybele who thence is styled Berecynthia Berenice See Bernish Berg or Berghen the Dutch and German names for Mons a City of Hainault § Also a Province of Westphalia in Germany lying along the Rhine betwixt the County of Mark and the Bishoprick of Cologne called the Dutchy of Berg and in Latin Bergensis Regio Dusseldorp is its Capital Town Bergamo Bergomum a City of Italy belonging to the Venetians which was once a part of the Dukedom of Milan a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Milan built with others by the Orobii call'd by Paulus Diaconus Pergamum and by the Writers of the middle Ages Bergamum This City is placed on the side of a Mountain the Foot of which is covered by large Suburbs it is great and Populous and lies between the River Brembo which 8 Miles further falls into the Adda and the Serio which falls also in the Adda It has a Castle called Capella and it lies 30 Miles from Brixia towards Milan to the West and the same distance from Como to the East from hence the Family of the Bergoma's take their name The same is the Capital of the Country adjacent called Bergamasco Bergen Bergos or Berga a City of Norway on the Northern Ocean call'd by the Natives Baern by the Germans Berghen It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Drontheim a celebrated Mart has a large and safe Harbour surrounded almost on all sides with high Mountains and lies in a winding Bay call'd Jelta fiored 12 Miles from the Ocean it has a strong Castle call'd Bergen-Hus and lies in the small Territory of Nord Horland which is Subject to the King of Denmark as King of Norway 23 from Linde Noes or the most Southern Point of Norway and 80 from the nearest Coast of Scotland at this day without dispute the best and richest City of all Norway But made more famous by the Valour of the English who in 1665. entred this Port and fell upon the Dutch East-India Fleet to their great damage and had certainly destroyed them all if contrary Winds had not given them time to draw their Canon ashoar to their defence Bergen op Zoom call'd by the French Bergue sur le Zoom is a small but strong City in the Dukedom of Brabant upon the River Schelde Erected into a Dukedom in 1533. and revolting with the Vnited Provinces was attempted without success by the Marques◠Spinola in 1622. So that it still belongs to the Hollanders It stands 7 Leagues from Antwerp towards the North and 5 from Breda to the South-West Bergen the chief Town of the Island of Rugen on the Coast of Pomerania in the Baltick Sea which has belonged to the Swedes every since 1630. Bergerac a City of Perigord upon the River Dordogne 5 Miles from Pergueux to the South and about 9 from Sarlat a rich and fine City The English had it heretofore in their possession They Fortified it and afterwards lost it about the Year 1371. It revoked upon the score of Religion in 1562. and was often taken and retaken In 1621. it submitted itself to Lewis XIII Bergue S. Uinoth a small City in Flanders taken by the French in the year 1658. and yielded to them by the Pyrenaean Treaty in 1659. Dignified with the Title of a Viscounty as likewise of a Chatelany with divers Villages under its Jurisdiction It has various Names and is sometimes call'd Groenemberg or Green-wich it lies 12 German miles East of Gravelinge and about one League and a half from Dunkirk Al. VVinocksberg Berkeley a Market-Town in Gloucestershire The chief of its Hundred upon the Banks of the Severn where stands the Seat of the noble and antient Family of the Earls of Berkeley Berkhamsted a Market-Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Dacor S. Brithwald Archbishop of Canterbury held a Council here in 698. In Latin Bergamstedum Beikshire Bercheria is separated on the North by the River Isis from Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire on the South by the River Kenet from Hantshire on the West it Bordereth upon Wiltshire and on the East upon Surry generally fertil and rich but especially the Vale of VVhite Horse The Right Honorable Thomas Howard was created the first Earl of Berkshire by Charles I. in 1625. He was second Coronation Earl as well as second Son to Thomas Earl of Suffolk in which Family it still is the present Earl being the fourth in the Succession Berlin Berolinum or Berlinum is one of the Noblest Cities in Germany It belongs to the Upper Saxony and stands in the middle Marquisate of Brandenburgh upon the River Sprew which a little further to the North falls into the Hamel This City stands in a Marsh very strongly Fortified being the capital of that Marquisate and the Residence of the Marquisses of Brandenburgh divided by the River Sprew into two parts that on the East side is call'd Berlin that on the West Coln or the Colony 17 German Miles from Magdeburg to the South East and 11 from Frankfort Built by Albertus Vnsus Prince of Anhalt In 1142. Bermudas or the Summer Islands are a knot of Islands on the Coast of Florida supposed to be 400 in number 1600 Leagues from England 1000 from Madera 400 from Hispaniola and 300 from Carolina which is the nearest Continent Accidentally discovered by John Bermudaz a Spaniard about 1522. Sir George Summers an English Man being in 1609. sent by the Lord de la Ware to Virginia stumbled again upon them and suffered Shipwrack here who was so taken with their verdure plenty and delightfulness that he neglected his return for England and with the Assistance of Sir Thomas Gates setled a a Plantation here in 1612. and in 1616. Capt. Tucker was sent after the first Adventurers with 500 Men who established themselves so well and fortified the Accesses so that it is now thought impregnable It is one of the most healthful places in the World none dying here of almost any other Distemper but old Age fruitful to a wonder abounding in all things needful for the Life of Man but fresh Water which is gotten with some difficulty from their Wells and Cisterns for they have neither Springs nor Rivers This Colony filled so fast
Wall and has a spacious Castle on the other side of the River supposed to have risen first out of the Ruines of Venta Silurum the Capital City of the ancient Silures four Miles distant from it Cher Caris a River which riseth in Auvergne near Clermont and running North-West through Berry and on the South side of Tours a little below this last it falls into the Loyre Cherazoul a Town in the Province of Curdistan in Asia in the Road from Ninive to Hispahan of very difficult access from the manner of its construction within a steep and cleted Rock Cherbourg Caroburgus a Sea-Port in Normandy in France which has a tolerable good Harbor ten Leagues West of Constance This Town was lost by the English in 1453. Honfleur and Beaumont stand near it Chersonesus Aurea See Malaca Some believe this to be the Land of Ophir of King Solomon's time Cherry-Issand an Island on the Coast of Greenland in the most Northern part of the World discovered to us and denominated accordingly by Sir Francis Cherry There are many Mines of Lead growing in it Chertsey A Market Town in Surrey the Capital of its Hundred not far from the River Thames over which it enjoys a Bridge The unfortunate King Henry VI. was first interred without Pomp here and afterwards removed to Windsor Cherusci an Antient and Valiant People of Germany that dwelled between the Elbe and the Weser having the Catti and the Hermonduri their Neighbours to the South East and West Their General Arminius is often mention'd with honour by Tacitus Cherwell a River in Oxfordshire at the confluence of which with the Isis stands the most famous University of Oxford Chesee Povillux a Town in Champagne the Inhabitants whereof claim the privilege to assist at the Coronation of the Kings of France and to convey the Holy Ampoulle or Oil pretended to be brought by an Angel at the Consecration of the first Christian King of that Kingdom from St. Rheimes to our Ladies Church in Rheimes Chesham a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Burnham Chester Civitas Legionum Cestria is a City and Bishoprick on the River Dee in the Westernpart of Cheshire whence often call'd West-Chester with a fair Stone Bridge over that River In this City it was that 7 Kings of the Scots and Brittains by way of Homage rowed King Edgar in his Barge from S. John's Church to his Palace himself as Sovereign holding the Helm The East-gate is accounted one of the stateliest in England and the Rows or Galleries made along the chief Streets for preservation against the Rain are very particular It was an ancient Roman Town call'd by Ptolemy Devana made a Bishops See by Henry VIII who put it under the Archbishop of York The ancient Earls of Chester fortified it both with Walls and a Castle It is now at this day a fine Place with 10 Parishes in it a County Palatine and the usual passage from England to Ireland It s Long. 20. 23. Lat. 53. 11. Cheshire Cestria hath on the South Shropshire on the East Stafford and Darby on the North Lancashire and on the West Denbigh and Flintshire towards the North-West it has a Promontory that runs a great way into the Sea It abounds more in good Pasturage than Corn well stored with Parks and watered by the Rivers Dee Weever and Mersey and the Cheese of this County is thought the best of England The Earldom of it belongs to the Prince of Wales Chesterfield a Market Town in Derbyshire in the Hundred of Scarsdale pleasantly seated between two small Rivers in a very good Soil King John made it a free Borough King Henry III. and his Barons fought that Battel hard by it in which Robert de Ferrers Earl of Derby was taken Prisoner and lost his Estate and Dignity King Charles I. advanced it to the Style and Title of an Earldom in the Person of Philip Lord Stanhop Anno 1628. whose Grandson at present possesses that Dignity Cheuxan an Island upon the Coast of the Province of Chekiang in China planted by above 70 small Towns and Villages of the Chinese Chewton a Market Town in Somersetshire the Capital of its Hundred also written Chewton-Mendip Chiampana Ciampa a Kingdom of the further East-Indies between Couchin-China Cambaja and the Mare Sinicum Pulocacien is the principal City of it Chiamsi a Province towards the South of China Chiangare See Galatia a Province of the Lesser Asia Chiapa a Province of New Spain in America watered by the Rivers Gryalva and rio blanco and for many Ages past inhabited by 4 different Nations of Indians It s Capital City is Civdad Real Chiarenza a Town in the Morea fifty five English Miles from Patras to the South It is a Sea-Port-Town Chiaromonti Claromons a considerable Town in the South-East part of Sicily in the Valley of Netina amongst the Mountains about forty Miles from Pachino to the West Chiavari Clavarum Claverinum a small but well inhabited Town upon the Coast of Genoua near Rapello in Italy towards the fall of the River Layagna The Genouese are said to build it in 1167. and after it had been ruined to rebuild it Chiavenne vide Claven Chichester Cicestria a City and Bishoprick in Sussex founded by Cissa II. King of the South Saxons After the Conquest it became a Bishops See the Chair being removed from Selsey a small Village not much above sive Miles to the Southward This City is seated on a River call'd the Lavant which encompasseth it on the West and South about six Miles from the Sea and almost in the Western Border of that County The Honorable Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton was created Earl of Chichester September 10. 1675 by Charles II. his Father It is a fair City with five or six Parish Churches and a Cathedral first erected by Radulph the third Bishop afterwards rebuilt and beautified by Bishop Seffrid the second of the Name when it had been almost consumed twice by Fire The Corporation elects two Burgesses for Parliament and would enjoy a better Trade were not the Haven choaked up that is next adjoining to â—it Chidley a Market Town in Devonshire on the River Tinge Chiemzee or Chiempsee Chiemium a City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Saltzburgh in the Dukedom of Bavaria about ten Leagues from Munich and Saltzburgh each It is no very considerable place An Archdeacon of Saltzburgh founded the Bishoprick in the year 1214. Chieri a Town in Piedmont where the French obtained a signal Victory against the Spaniards in 1639. It lies three Miles to the Eastward of Turino and was heretofore a Potent City and a Common-wealth but is now in Subjection to the Duke of Savoy Chifale an Island in the Gulph of Arabia Chilafa or Chielefa is a Fortress on the South of the Morea thirty eight English Miles North-West of Cape Matapan a Place of great Importance both as to its natural and artificial Fortifications and surrendred to the Venetians in 1686.
the Mortality which in many Circumstances appeared so strange as not to find in History its parallel since an Angel destroyed so many thousand in the Camp of Sennacherib Dundee or Dundy Alectum Deidonium Allectum a City in the North of Scotland in the County of Angus upon the North side of the Fyrth of Tay which is a frequented Harbour and of great safety ten Miles North of S. Andrews This is a very strong Town and in 1651. when almost all Scotland had yielded after the defeat of Dunbar presumed still to hold out General Monk afterwards Duke of Albemarle coming up and summoning it upon their refusal to yield took it by Storm September 1. of that year though there were in it eight hundred Soldiers besides Inhabitants He put all in Arms to the Sword and Plundred the Town of its Wealth which amounted in Silver Gold and rich Goods to a vast summ of mony being then the richest Town in Scotland and made yet richer by the Neighbourhood who sent what ever they had that was valuable thither as to a place of security Sixty Sail of Ships which lay then in the Harbour yielded too after which Aberdeen and S. Andrews which only remained to the Covenanters yielded upon the first Summons Dunfermeling Dunfirmeling is a Town on the North Shoar of the Fyrth of Edinbâ—row seventeen Miles from it to the North-West Once a famous Monastery the building and the burial place of Malcolm King of the Scots afterwards advanced to an Earldom in the behalf of Sir Alexander Seton who being a wise and a great Statesman was raised by K. James I. from Baron of Tivâ— to be Earl of Dunfermeling and Lord Chancellor of Scotland But much more famous for the birth of Charles I. the blessed Martyr for the English Church and Nation who was born here November 19. 1600. Dunfreis Dunfreia a Town in the County of Nithesdale in the South of Scotland upon the River Nith or Nid near Solway Fyrth Dungall dungalia a Sea-Port-Town and Castle and a County in the North-West part of Ireland in the Province of Vlster on the South side of the River Esk. The County of Dungall has the Ocean on the West Lagh Gormely on the South and Tome Lagh on the North a Barbarous and Wild place as Mr. Cambden describes it See Tirconnel Dungannon Dunganum the chief Town of the Vpper Tyrone in the Province of Vlster in Ireland near Armagh Dungarvan a strong well fortified Town with a Castle and Haven situate on the Southern Shoar of Ireland in the County of Waterford in the Province of Mounster thirteen Miles from Waterford to the West First granted by Henry VI. to Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury and afterwards for convenience annexed to the Crown of England by Act of Parliament Dungesby Head Veruvium Promontorium the most Northern Cape of all Scotland which lies in 59. deg of Latitude whereas Novantum the Mule of Galloway the most Southern lies in 55. 10. Dunkeld or Dunkelden Castrum Caledonium Dulcheldinum a City on the Tau in the County of Perth ten Miles North of Perth which was adorned by King David of Scotland with a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Andrews supposed to have been the City of the ancient Caledonians Dunkeran Donequine or Doneyne Juernis a small Town and Port upon the Gulph of the River Maine in the County of Desmond in Mounster in Ireland Dunkirk Dunquerque Dunquerca called by the Flemmings Duynskerke and by the Italians and Spaniards Doncherca is a large strong well fortified Town and Sea-Port in Flanders which has a very noble and strong Castle lately built 3 Leagues from Graveline 5 from Newport and 6 from Calais This Town was first fortified by Charles V. It stands on the River Colme upon the Shoars of the German Ocean Taken by the French in 1646. but during their Civil Wars the Spaniards recovered it again In 1658. it was retaken by the English and French united chiefly by the valor of the English Don John of Austria and all the Spanish Forces who came to relieve it being totally routed and defeated the Town was surrendred to the French but by them according to Articles put into the Hands of the English and so it continued till 1662. when it was sold to the French The present King of France Lewis XIV has bestowed incredible cost in fortifying it in inlarging and securing the Haven by Mounds and Forts Dun-le-Roy Regiodunum a Town in Berry in France upon the River Auronne five Miles from Bourges to the South and nine from la Charite to the South-West § Another in the Dukedom of Burgundy near Beaujolois Dunmour or Dunmore a Market Town in the County of Essex The Capital of its Hundred Dunois a Territory within the Province of Beauce in France the Capital whereof is Chateau Dun. It was advanced to the dignity of a Peerdom and Dukedom in 1525. Dunnington a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Kirton and the Division of Holland situated in a waterish Flat Dunnington-Castle a Market Town in Leicestershire in the Hundred of Goscote honoured with a noble Seat belonging to the Earl of Huntingdon Dunstable a Market Town in Bedfordshire in the Hundred of Manshead upon a Chalky dry Hill Built by K. Henry I. out of the ruins of the ancient Magsovinium K. Edward I. caused a noble Column or Cross to be here erected in memory of Eleanor his Queen whose Corps rested in this place in their journey from Lincolnshire to Westminster Abbey Dunstaburge Bebba a Castle in Northumberland on the Sea Shoar eighteen Miles South of Berwick and twenty five North of Newcastle which belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster Bede reports that this Castle was taken and burnt by Penda King of the Mercians Roger Hoveden thus describes it Bebba is a strong City not very great but containing two or three fields having one hollow entrance into it and that raised on high by Stairs after a wonderful manner on the pitch of an Hill is a very fair Church and Westward on the top a pleasant clear Fountain adorned with excellent Workmanship In our times saith Mr. Cambden it is rather a Castle than a Town yet so big as that it might contain a small City nor was it esteemed otherwise when King William Rufus besieged the Rebellious Moubray who lurked in it In the Wars between the House of Lancaster and York it was ruined again And last of all the Winds and Seas have exercised their rage upon it endeavouring to level it by driving up the Sea Sand into the hollow parts and fetching down its once haughty Battlements Dunstafag Evonium a small ruined City in the West of Scotland in the County of Lorne which has an Haven over against the Island of Maly fifty five Miles from Dunblane to the West This was the Seat of the ancient Kings of the Picts but now a Village and yet perhaps in a better state than when it was a Royal City Dunster a
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
Ouse in a fair Champaigne Country Deserving to be particularly taken notice of for the beautiful Euston-Hall of the building of the late Earl of Arlington and the Curiosities that are to be seen about it In 1672. King Charles II. advanced this place to the Dignity of an Earldom in the Person of the late Duke of Grafton upon his Marriage with the only Daughter of the said Earl of Arlington The Euxine Sea Pontus Euxinus Axenos now by the Turks called Cara Denguis i. e. the Furious Sea and by others the Black Sea is encompassed round by Anatolia Mingrelia Circassia the Crim Tartary and Podolia with no other out-let than the Bosphorus Thracius accounting the Palus Moeotis as a Bay or branch of it so that it seems more properly a Lake Yet these great Rivers the Danube Nieper Niester Phasis Corax Sangarius and many others discharge their floods into it It is in length from East to West about one hundred eighty eight Leagues In breadth at the Western End from the Bosphorus Thracius to the Nieper three Degrees at the Eastern the half thereof And is dangerous to navigate Not so green nor clear nor brackish as the Ocean by reason of the Influx of those Rivers And now wholly under the Dominion of the Grand Seignior without whose leave no Vessel passes upon it Ewel a Market Town in the County of Surrey in the Hundred of Copthorn Ex Isca is a River of England it ariseth in Somersetshire and passing by Winesford it takes in Dunsbrook River or Creden from Dulverton on the West then entering Devonshire it runs directly South to Tiverton where it takes in Loman River from the East at Stâ—cke it takes in Columb on the same side and a little lower Credy from the West then incompassing a great part of the North West and South of Exeter a little lower it admits Clyst on the East and Ken on the West and so entereth the British Sea by a large Mouth Exeter Isca Isca Dunmoniorum Exonia is the principal City of Devonshire called by the Welsh Caerisk Caerrudh and Pencaer that is the Principal City Seated on the Eastern Bank of the River Ex in a barren Soil upon the Advantage of a small Hill declining East and West having a Dike and a strong Wall for its Safety in Compass about a Mile and a half with extended Suburbs There are in it fifteen Churches and in the highest Part of the City near the East Gate a Castle which of old was the Seat of the West Saxon Kings and afterwards of the Earls of Cornwal and near this the Cathedral built by King Athelstan in Honour of S. Peter Edward the Confessor settled the Bishop's See here which he removed from Kirton It fell not into the Hands of the Saxons till four hundred sixty five years after their first coming over viz. Anno Christi 914. when Athelstan banished the Britains and fortified the City and built the Cathedral This City joining with the Rebels in 1640. was taken for the King by Prince Maurice September 4. 1643. And being Garrisoned for the King was again surrendred to the Parliament upon Terms April 13. 1646. The Honourable John Cecil is Earl of Exeter and the fifth of his Family he succeded John Cecil his Father in 1667. The Title of Marquess of Exeter was heretofore conferred by King Henry VIII upon Henry Courtney Earl of Devonshire And likewise of Duke by Henry V. upon Thomas Beaufort Earl of Dorset and by Richard II. upon John Holland Earl of Huntington The present Bishop of this Diocese is the forty sixth since the Removal of this See from Kirton about 1149. The sixty seventh from Aedulphus who about 905. was made the first at least Saxon Bishop of Devonshire Extremadura See Estremadura § A Province of the Kingdom of Susa in Africa near the Atlantick Ocean and the Mountains of Atlas in the Southern Borders of Morocco Extremos a small Town upon the River Tera which comes to fall into the Tajo near Evora and Elvas in the Province of Alentejo in the Kingdom of Portugal Extuca a Province in the Kingdom of Morocco in Barbary extended along the Sea Coast towards the Mountain Atlas and the Frontiers of Biledulgeridia Eychstat See Aichstadt Eyder Eidera Egidora a River of Denmark which ariseth above Rendsburgh and dividing Holstein and Dithmarsh from the Dukedom of Sleswick falls into the German Ocean at Tonning This River denominates the Territory of Eyderstede in the said Dutchy Eye or Eaye Insula a small Corporation in the County of Suffolk near the Borders of Norfolk so called saith Mr Camden because it is an Island where are to be seen the Ruins of an old Castle which belonged to Robert Mallet a Norman Baron and of an ancient Benedictine Abbey called S. Peter's This Town has been given in Jointure with the Queens of England After many other Changes in this Honour Sir Frederick Cornwallis descended lineally from Sir John Cornwallis Steward of the Houshold to Edward VI. and Sir Thomas Cornwallis one of the Privy-Counsellors to Queen Mary and Comptroller of her House was April 20. 1661. made Baron Cornwallis of Eye by Charles II. to whose Interest and Service being ever entirely addicted in the worst of Times he had the Honour to be the second Coronation Baron to whom succeeded Charles Lord Cornwallis his Son who dying in 1673. Charles the second of this Family his Son succeeded and is now living By the Favour of this Family as I have heard this small Corporation obtained its Charter and the Honour of sending two Burgesses to the House of Commons Otherwise the Place is very small and inconsiderable It stands twelve Miles from Ipswich to the North and seventeen from Norwich to the South and in the Road between those two Places Eyerlandt See Aland Eyndhoven Endova is a fine Town in the Territory of Kempen upon the River Bommele four Leagues from Boisleduc to the South and almost the same from Helmont to the West It had a College of Canons and belonged to the Count de Buren This is the Capital of that part of Kempen which lies in Brabant and fell into the Hands of the Hollanders in 1629. after they had taken Boisleduc by a Siege of four Months Continuance and they are still in Possession of it Eysenack Isenachum a small City in Thuringia upon the River Nesa eight Miles from Erford to the West The River Nesa a little below it is taken into the VVerra The Name of this City is written sometimes nearer the Latin Isenach It is under the Dominion of a Prince of the House of Saxony the Duke of Weimar with a small Territory belonging thereto And has the Honour to be both a Dukedom and an University which last was founded in the Year 1555. F A FAenza Faventia a small City of Romandiola in Italy upon the River Lamone Anemo which falls into the Adriatick Sea three Miles South of the Mouth of the Po between Imola to the North
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
these Barbarians slew the Bishop of London for not paying them their Tribute the Year after Sweno King of the Danes took the City and expelled King Ethelred out of England but this lasted not long In the Year 1016 Canutus the Dane took London and in 1018 was there Crowned King of England In 1042 there was an end put to this Danish Race and Edward the Confessor was Crowned King of England In 1064 this Prince died and Herald usurping upon Edward Atheling the Right Heir William Duke of Normandy entred England slew him and in 1066 was Crowned in London The Fate of London has been much the same with that of England ever since for this Prince in 1078 having built the Tower of London it became the setled Residence of our Kings from that day forward William II. in 1099 Walled the Tower King John in 1210 Granted this City its first Charter and Instituted its Major and Government In 1211 He built London Bridge In 1217 Lewis of France was besieged in London by Henry III. and forced to leave the Land In 1378 John Philpot a Londoner at his own Cost and upon his own Authority put out a Fleet and cleared the Seas of Pyrats In 1381 the Country Clowns rising against the Nobility and one Jack Straw behaving himself insolently towards the King in Smithfield Sir William Wallworth the Lord Major stabbed him and put an end to that Rebellion for which Service the Red Dagger was added as is said to the Arms of London In 1392 that Prince seized their Liberties for resusing to lend him Money In 1567 the Royal Exchange was built by Sir Thomas Gresham In succeeding times it throve to that degree as to have one hundred and thirty three Parishes accounted within its Walls and Suburbs In 1665 a Plague swept away one hundred thousand of her Inhabitants In 1666 a devouring Fire Levelled thirteen thousand of her Houses The Footsteps of which dismal Calamity by the Industry of the Citizens encouraged by their Gracious King Charles II. are not otherwise to be seen but in a more glorious Restauration A great multitude of Provincial and National Councils have been celebrated at London in all times Long. 23. 25. Lat. 51. 34. § Boston in New England is sometimes also called New London London-Derry is a Colony of the English Planted in the County of Colâ—ain in the North of the Province of Vlster in a fruitful Soil and upon Waters that afford it great plenty of Fish of all sorts This in 1612 was made a London Colony some of the Companies in London bearing the Charge of it and one Colonel Dockwray an old experienced Commander of the English being sent with them to command govern and take care of them Being thus happily begun and a great number following the first in a short time it became the most considerable City in Vlster And being as well carefully Fortified and Garrisoned as Peopled in the time of the Irish Massacre it stood so firm for the English that no Force or Fraud of the Irish could expel them The Irish had reduced them to great extremity in 1649 but one Owen Row Oneale in time frustrated their Attempts and relieved the Town when it was just upon the point of being starved into a Complyance See Derry Longford a Town and County in Ireland in the Province of Leinster The County has Connaught on the West Vlster on the North Letrim and Roscomen on the West and Mayo on the South The Town is small and stands upon the North Side of the River Long where it falls into the Lake of Eske Longland an Island in the Baltick taken from the Danes by the Swedes in 1657. Long Meg and her Daughters a Trophy in the County of Cumberland erected at Salkeld on the River Eden It consists of seventy seven Stones each ten foot above ground but the highest is fifteen foot and this by the Inhabitants has the Name given it of Long Meg. Longouy or Longwy a Town in the Duchy of Lorain in the Dukedom of Bar in the Confines of Luxemburg five Leagues from Montmidy to the East and the same distance from Luxemburg to the South lately fortified by the French Longtown a Market Town in the County of Cumberland in Eskdale Ward Longueil a Town in Normandy near Dieppe giving its name to an honorable Family Longueville a Town in the Paix de Cauxe in Normandy which had the honour to be erected from the Title of an Earldom into a Dukedom in 1505. by Lewis XII K. of France Loon Loen Lon Los a River in the Bishoprick of Liege in the Earldom of Loots called by these various Names by the Germans Dutch and French Lopski Lopia a part of Tartary on the East of Moscovy beyond the River Ob which is subject to the Russ but lies in Asia between Siberia and Baida two other Provinces of that vast Empire Loquabre or Lockabre a County in Scotland called by Latin Writers Abria and Loquabria it lies on the West of Scotland towards the Hebrides written by the Scots Loch Quaber and bounded on the North with the Ocean and the County of Ross on the East with Murray and Athole on the South with Perth Menteith and Loune cut off from it by the broad Tay and on the West with the Ocean There are some Castles but never a Town or City of any Note in it Lorain Lotharingia Austrasia is a Dukedom belonging to Germany of late seized by the French King and therefore by Baudrand made a part of France Bounded on the East with Alsatia cut off by the Mountain Vauge Vogesus and the Dukedom of Bipont or Westreich as the Germans call it on the South with the County of Burgundy or the Franche Compté on the West with the River Maes which parts it from Champagne and on the North with Luxemburg Metz Verdun and the Land of Triers This Country is in length about four days Journey in breadth three much overgrown with Woods very Hilly and Mountainous being a part of the once vast Forest of Ardenne It was given by Lotharius the Emperor to his second Son Lotharius and from him took the Name of Lorain or as others write it Lorraigne This happened about the Year 851. Others say it took this Name from the Father and not from the Son about the Year 843 but all agree that from Lotharius this County was called by the Germans Lotreich by the Dutch Lot-reigne i. e. the Kingdom of Lot and from hence of later times by the Germans Lotthiringen by the Inhabitants Lorrain by the French Lorain The first of these Dukes of Lorain was Charles right Heir of the Caroline Line of France but excluded defeated and taken Prisoner by Hugh Capet His Advancement was from Otho II. Emperor of Germany about the Year 981 being the Son of Lewis IV. of France and of Gerbage an Aunt of the said Otho From this Charles the present young Duke of Lorain is Lineally Descended being the thirty fourth
Over the Trent and the Line it has two Bridges besides two others over two Ponds called the Cheney Bridges It has three Churches and a strong and goodly Castle built on a steep Rock on the West side of the Town In the Reign of Burthred King of the Mercians and Aethelred King of the VVest-Saxons the Danes having got the Possession of this Castle kept it against three Kings united against them and forced them to a Peace After this Edward the Elder walled the Town the South part of which was standing in Mr. Cambden's time The Castle which is now standing was rebuilt by VVilliam the Conqueror to curb the English Edward IV. repaired it In 1â—75 it was besieged by Henry II. but could not be taken In the Barons Wars it was surprised by Robert de Ferrariis an Earl otherwise it was never taken by force as the same Author observes Long. 22. 14. Lat. 53. 00. Charles Lord Howard descended from the House of Norfolk by the Mowbrays Earls of this County from 1377. to 1475. was in 1597. created Earl of Nottingham This Family ending in Charles Lord Howard the third in that Line the Honor was conferred May 12. 1681. upon Heneage Lord Finch Baron of Daventry then Lord Chancellor of England and it is now enjoyed by Daniel Son of the said Heneage Nova Antequera a City of New Spain in America in the Province of Oaxaca eighty Spanish Leagues from Mexico to the East seventeen from the North Sea to the South and seventeen from Vera Cruz. It is little and not much inhabited though a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico ever since 1535. Nova Guinea a large Country in the Western part of the Pacifick Ocean which is a part of the Terra Australis on the East of the Molucco Islands First discovered by Andrew Ardaneta a Spaniard in 1528. and then thought to be an Island but since to be a part of the South Continent Novara Novaria a City of Italy which in Pliny's time was the Capital of Insubria It is now a part of the Duchy of Milan and a Bishop's See under that Archbishop the Head of a small Territory called by its name Very strong and can shew many ancient Roman Inscriptions as Testimonies of its Antiquity It stands twenty five Miles from Milan to the West and ten from Turin in a well-watered and fruitful Soil and upon an Eminence well fortified Near this Lewis Sforza Duke of Milan was taken by the French in 1500. But twelve years after the Swiss gave the French a great Overthrow in this Place to abate their joy for their former Success Peter Lombard the Master of the Sentences and sometime Bishop of Paris was a Native of this City and Pope Innocent XI Bishop of it when he was chosen Novellara a fine Town in the Lower Lombardy between the Territories of the Dukes of Mantoua and Modena subject to a Count of its own who is of the Family of Gonzaga ten Miles from Regio towards the North. It has a Castle called Bagnuollo Novibazar Novus Mercatus one of the principal Cities of Servia upon the River Orasâ—a fifty Miles from Nissa to the West Novigrad Novigradum Argyrutum a Town in Dalmatia which has a Castle seated upon a Bay of the same name twenty Miles from Zara to the East and twenty five from Sebenico to the North. It belonged to the Venetians but was taken by the Turks in 1646. Novigrad a small City in the Vpper Hungary which gives name to a County one German Mile from the Danube five from Gran to the North-East and four from Vaccia It has a Castle which is seated on a Rock and a Dike thirty four foot deep cut in the same Rock which makes it almost inaccessible yet the Turks took this strong Place in 1663. Novogorod Velki Novogardia Magna a City of Moscovy called by the Germans Neugarten which is very great and an Archbishops See the Capital of a Principality of the same name seated in a spacious Plain upon the River Wolkow where it issueth from the Lake of Ilmen an hundred and five German Miles from Mosco to the North-West forty six from Pleskow to the East and forty from Narva to the South East Long. 50. 00. Lat. 58. 23. The River Wolchou or Woldga saith Olearius falls by Notteburgh and the Gulph of Finland into the Baltick Sea this River is the chief cause of the Wealth and Greatness of the City being Navigable from its Fountains almost to the Baltick which has made this City the chief for Trade in all the North. Vithold Great Duke of Lithuania was the first who in 1427. obliged this City to pay a vast Tribute John Basilowitz Grotsden Duke of Muscovy overthrew an Army raised by this City in 1477. Thereupon he made himself Master of it and carried thence to Mosco three hundred Wagons loaden with Gold Silver and rich Goods John Basilowitz another of their Princes in 1569. slew two thousand seven hundred and seventy of its Inhabitants and cast them into the River upon a bare groundless suspicion besides a vast number trodden to death by a Party of Horse This City was taken by the Swedes in 1611. and restored to the Russ in 1634. It hath formerly been so puissant that it passed for a common Proverb Who is there that can oppose himself to God and the great City of Novogrod They reckon about seventy Monasteries in it It s largeness has been set in the parallel with that of Rome but its Walls are of Wood and the Buildings mean Novogorod Nisi that is the Lower is a vast City of Moscovy seated upon the Wolga where it takes in the Occa an hundred German Miles from Mosco to the North-East and forty from Wologda to the South-East Novogrod Novogroda sirnamed Litawiski is a City of Lithuania under the Crown of Poland the Capital of a Palatinate of the same name in which the Diet of Lithuania ought by turns with Minsko to be holden It stands scarce four Polish Miles from the River Niemen or Memel and twenty from Vilna to the South Novogrodeck Seviersky a strong City of Russia which has been attributed to Lithuania when under the Poles but now it is under the Russ again It stands upon the River Dezna seventeen Polish Miles from Czernichou to the North-East forty six from Kiovia to the same and the same distance from Smolensko to the South This is also the Capital of a Palatinate Noyon Novomagâ—s Noviodunum a City in the Isle of France near the Borders of Picardy of which it was a part upon the River Vorse which two Miles lower falls into the Oise eight Leagues from Soisons to the South-West fifteen from Amiens six from Reims to the West and twenty two from Paris to the North. It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Reims the Bishop of it is one of the three Earls and a Peer of France the Diocese which belongs to it is called Le Noyonois â—â—bia a
of Somerset Rochford a Market Town in the County of Essex The Capital of its Hundred Rochitzerbergh Claudius a Mountain in Stiria called by various names Rockingham a Market Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Corby upon the River Weland giving the Title of Baron to the Right Honorable Edward Watson Lord Rockingham to whom belongs the Castle here which hath lost its strength long since Rocroy Rupes Regia a strong Town in Champagne in Retelois in the Borders of Hainault twelve Leagues from Retel to the North four from Mariebourgh to the South Near this Place the Spaniards received a great Defeat from the French under the Duke D'Anguien May 19. 1643. six days after the death of Lewis XIII King of France But afterward the Spaniards took this Town under the Prince of Conde's Conduct in 1653. It is since returned under the Crown of France Rodaun Erodanus a River in Prussia in Poland which riseth out of a Lake twenty five Miles above Dantzick and falling into the Vistula not much above this City a little beneath it enters the Baltick Sea Roden a small River in Shropshire Rodez or Rhodes Segodunum Rhuteni Rutenae Segodunum Retunorum a City of Aquitain the Capital of the County of Rovergne and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourges The Bishop takes the Title of an Earl a great and beautiful City seated upon the River Veronium fifteen Leagues from Mende to the West thirty two from Narbone to the North and twenty two from Cahors to the East A very ancient City and mentioned by Julius Caesar The Goths Saracens and Franks successively ruined it in their times It served heretofore under its own Counts till it became united with the Crown of France in the Person of Henry IV. Roding a Stream in the County of Essex Rodosto Redcestum a City of Thrace which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Heraclea it stands upon the Propontis twenty Miles from Heraclea to the South at the foot of an Hill by a Bay of the same name which affords it a convenient and very large Haven so that it is now a Place of considerable Trade and reasonably populous Pliny calls this City Resiston It is beautified with many great Mosques some Grecian Churches and two Synagogues and much frequented by the Merchants of Romania the Sea of Marmora and the Black Sea Roer Rura in Trithemius Rera Adrana a River of Germany called by the French Roure It ariseth in Eifel in the Dukedom of Juliers and watering Juliers and Linnich at Roermonde it falls into the Maes Roermonde Ruremunda a City of the Low Countries in the Province of Guelderland called by the French Ruremonde It stands upon a River of the same name and the Maes having the first to the South of it the second to the West three Leagues from Venlo to the South twelve from Liege to the North Cologne to the West and Wesel to the East Made a Bishops See by Pope Paul IV. under the Archbishop of Mechlin in 1559 he changing its Collegiate Church into a Cathedral and was an Hanse Town till 1635 when it fell into the Hands of the Hollanders from whom it is since recovered by the Spaniards In 1665. it suffered much by a Fire Rohaczow Rohaczovia a considerable Town the Capital of a Territory of the same name in Lithuania upon the Nieper where it takes in the Odrucz twenty Polish Miles from Mohilow to the South and forty from Kiovia to the North. Roham-Thaura Antitaurus a Mountain in the Lesser Armenia which lies to the North of the Great Taurus between the Euphrates and the Arsanius separated from the said great Mountain and therefore by the Ancients called Antitaurus In the Valleys beneath it stands the City of Comdna now called Tabachasa Roia Rodium a City of France in the Province of Picardy upon the River Auvergne in the Territory of Santerre four Leagues from Noyon to the West nine from Amiens and seven from Compeigne to the North. A small City but populous Roll-rich-stones a Monument of vast unwrought Stones circularly set near Ensham in Oxfordshire supposed to have been erected in Commemoration of some great Victory in ancient Times Rom one of the Names of the Lesser Asia Rom Roma a small Island in the Baltick Sea upon the Coast of the Dukedom of Sleswick about two English Miles from the Shoar under the King of Denmark Romagna Romandiola a great Province in Italy in the States of the Church of old called Aemilia Regio Bounded on the West by Bononia on the North by the Dukedom of Ferrara on the South by the Dukedom of Vrbino and on the East by the Adriatick Sea a small part of it towards the Appennine is subject to the Duke of Florence and therefore called Romandiola Florentina The rest which is the far greatest part is under the Pope as a Temporal Prince The principal Places in it are Ravenna the Capital Faenza Imola Forli Bertinoro Rimini Cervia Cesena Sarsina and some others Romania the same with Thrace Romania Argia the Eastern Province of the Morea the Capital of which is Napoli di Romania The other Places are of small importance Romans Romantium Romanis a spruce fine City in Dauphine in France seated in a pleasant Plain upon the River Iseure over which it has a Bridge four Leagues from Valence to the South-East toward Grenoble ten Miles and the same distance from Vienne to the South It is thought to represent Jerusalem in its Situation and Figure insomuch that in 1520. there was a Building added to it made in the fashion of the Holy Sepulchre that stands upon Mount Calvary Francis I. King of France himself laying the first Stone And also a Convent founded under the Name of the House of Mount Calvary now in the possession of the Recollects but first given to the Religious of the Order of S. Francis The Huguenots sacked and ruined this City in 1562. It has been often taken and retaken in the Civil Wars Rome Roma the Capital City of Italy once the Sovereign and Mistriss of the whole World the more immediate Capital now of Campagna di Roma The Emperour Commodus desired to fasten his own Name upon it by calling it Commodiana as a Gothish King called it Gothia and other Princes the like But the Name of Rome still has been always preserved by it This City is seated upon the Tyber twelve Miles above its fall into the Tyrrhenian Sea to the North-East one hundred and twenty from Naples to the North three hundred from Genoua to South one hundred thirty five from Ancona and one hundred and forty from Florence Long. 36. 30. Lat. 40. 40. Though there are great Controversies concerning the Time and the Founder of it yet the most received opinion is that it was built by Romulus and Remus in the first year of the seventh Olympiad Anno Mundi 3198. seven hundred and fifty years before the Birth of our Saviour Its Foundations were small and
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
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