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An account of several travels through a great part of Germany in four journeys ... : illustrated with sculptures / by Edward Brown ...
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Brown, Edward, 1644-1708.
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Wing B5109; ESTC R19778
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good Frontier against all Enemies on this side It is encompassed on all sides with Fenns and Marshy Grounds The Avenues to it are by narrow Causies made turning and winding to be commanded in all places by one or other of the six Sconces or Forts built at some distance without the Town for its greater Security Besides which the Hollanders having some reason to be jealous of the Inhabitants whose affections might incline them towards the neighbouring Princes of whose Religion most of them are they have built a Citadel within the Town a Briel or pair of Spectacles to look more accurately into their Affairs It is a handsom regular Fort of five Bastions each Curtain is 84 ordinary paces long the Faces of each Bastion 63 and the Flank or Neck 24. There is a handsome House of Stone for the Centry at the point of each Bastion and the middle of each Curtain every one of which cost Seven hundred Guldens Here is also a Field Canon of an extraordinary length said to be able to fling a Bullet almost as far as Bommel The Piazza in this Town is Triangular This City was made an Episcopal See 1559. The Cathedral is Dedicated to St. John In the Quire are painted the Arms of many of the Knights of the Golden Fleece And over the upper Stalls or Seats an Inscription in French which contains the History of the first Institution and Model of this Order by the most High and mighty Prince Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy Lorain and Brabant Besides divers Statua's and Pillars There are also several Monuments of the Bishops of Bosche and others This Town was taken from the King of Spain by the Forces of the Confederate Estates in the year 1628. after a long and chargeable Siege in which the little Sconce one of the Forts towards the South did excellent Service Divers of the Nuns were still alive in this Town but at Utretcht they were all dead From the Bosche we travelled through a plain Country somewhat Sandy to Breda upon the River Merck A place very considerable pleasantly seated and well-fortified It hath formerly had more Outworks than at present For they have taken away the Crown-works and left only the Half-moons and Horn-works and Conserves or Contregards about the Half-moons There is a large Ditch of Water round the Counterscarp and a small Ravelin between each Bastion joyned to the Rampart within side of the Ditch There is also a double Haye or Quickset-hedge almost quite round the Town besides Palisados The Parapet is very thick and strengthned with a row of Elms and seconded with another row at three or four yards distance round the Town the bodies of the Bastions are sunk down or hâ—llowed away and filled with a thicket of Elms. The Half Moons are the like without the Town and after all a brest-work between the Town and the Bastions and Cavaliers upon several places of the Rampart This Town belongeth unto the Prince of Orange unto whom it hath descended by the right of the house of Nassaw by the Marriage of Engelbert the seventh Earle of that house with Mary daughter and Heir of Philip the last Lord thereof about the year 1400. It was taken by the Spaniards in the beginning of the Low Country Wars and was afterwards Surprised by the Dutch by a stratagem performed by eighty men hid in a Boat covered over with Turf and so let into the Castle In the year 1625. the Spaniards took it again as by Inscriptions and Chronograms are to be seen in divers places as that over the door of the Church a MbrosI spIno Lae VIg ILantIa bre Da e XpUgnata As also this PhILIppUs hIspanlae reX gUbernante Isabe LLa CLarâ EUgenIa Infanta obsIDente spInoLa qUaternIs regIbus frUstra ConIUrantIbus breDa VIGtor potItur Afterwards it was besieged and taken by Frederick Hendrick Prince of Orange as an Inscription at the Westend of the Church sets it down Auxilio solius Dei Auspiciis confederati Belgij Ferdinando Austriaco Hispaniae Infanta cum ingenti exercitu frustra succurrente a Iulij 23 obsessamad 19 Augusti oppugnatam Fredericus Henricus Princeps araUsIUs bre DaMe eXpUgnat seXta OCtobris The Church is fair and hath many good Monuments as Renesse's Tombe a Monument for Sir Thomas Alesbury set up by the Lord Chancellor Hide an old Tombe erected 1349. for John Lord of Lech and Breda the Tombe of Grave Engleberg Van Nassaw and his family on the side of the Wall the Here Van Horne and his three Wives but the Principal Monument is that of Grave Hendrick Van Nassaw whose Armour is supported by four Warriers upon their Knees he built the Castle of Breda which is at present both strong and beautiful I observed the place where the Turfe-Boat came in and where the Prince came over into the Town The Gallery the Garden the Walks and Dials are worth the seeing the Town in handsomely built populous and generally hath a great Garrison in it Leaving Breda we soon came by Land to St. Gertruydenberg the last Town on the North of Brabant where it joyneth to the Province of Holland a small place but a good Town for fishing lying upon a Hill near the great broad Water called de Waert made by the falling of the Maes and many other Rivers into it This Town is fortified and Garrisoned The Church and Steeple have been Large and fair and the ruines of the latter are observable in regard that this Steeple was shot down by a Stratagem of the Prince of Orange while the Governour and chief of the Town were upon it to observe a false alarm in the Prince's Camp and so lost themselves and the Town We Passed from hence over a large Water which hath overflow'd a great part of the Country upon one side of it no less than seventy two Parishes being drowned at once the Village of Ramsdun onely escaping and so by an old Tower called the house of Murney to the Maiden Town of Dort or Dordrecht Dordracum so called by some from Duri or Dureti forum at present Dort being seated in the Waves of those great Lakes made by the Maes and Waal is not unaptly from its situation compared to a Swans nest it is reckoned the first and chief Town of South Holland in respect of its antiquity as having served to secure Odocer in his retreat almost eight hundred years since and also in respect of its Priviledges in having the Mint here and being the Staple for Rhenish wine and English Cloath In this Town are many fair houses and pleasant Gardens The great Church is large the Steeple 312 steps high the top thereof being made of four large Dyalls There is also an Exchange or Place for Merchants to meet The English have two Churches and the French one The Key or Head to the water side is handsome and the Country about very pleasant we saw the Chamber wherein the Synod of Dort was assembled 1611. a large fair
neatness as their Antiquity and odd shape As also a Horn made out of a Tooth said to be given at the same time There are also three Unicorns Horns little differing in length the longest being five foot and an half I drank out of one of them the end being tipp'd with Silver and made hollow to serve for a Cup. These were of the Sea-Unicorn or the Horn or long wreathed Tooth of some Sea-Animal much like it taken in the Northern Seas of which I have seen many both in Publick Repositories and in Private Hands Two such as these the one Ten foot long were presented not many years since to the King of Denmark being taken near to Nova Zembla and I have seen some full fifteen foot long some wreathed very thick some not so much and others almost plain Some largest and thickest at the End near the head others are largest at some distance from the Head Some very sharp at the end or point and others blunt My honoured Father Sir T. B. hath a very fair piece of one which was formerly among the Duke of Curlands Rarities but after that he was taken Prisoner by Douglas in the wars between Sweden and Poland it came into a Merchants hands of whom my Father had it he hath also a piece of this sort of Unicorns Horn burnt black out of the Emperour of Russia's Repositorie given him by Dr. Arthur Dee who was Son to Dr. John Dee and also Physician to the Emperour of Russia when his Chambers were burned in which he preserved his Curiosities I have seen a walking Staff a Scepter a Scabbard for a Sword Boxes and other Curiosities made out of this Horn but was never so fortunate as from experience to confirm its Medical Efficacy against Poysons contagious Diseases or any other evident effect of it although I have known it given several times and in great quantity But of these Unicorns Horns no man sure hath so great a Collection as the King of Denmark and his Father had so many that he was able to spare about an hundred of them to build a Magnificent Throne out of Unicorns Horns I had the honour to see divers Persons of Note in this City as D. Cyprianus ab Oostergo Dr. Regius Voetius the only Member then left alive of the Synod of Dort and others but missed the sight of the Learned Anna Maria Skurman who was then gone out of Town and was forced to content my self with beholding her Picture well drawn by her own hand with this Inscription of hers under it Ceruitis hic pict â nostros in Imagine vultus Si negat ars formam gratia vestra dabit The Painters Hall is considerable wherein are many good pieces to be seen of several Masters Amongst which there are good Heads by Van Colen and Tuart Landskips by Soft-lever and good Drapery especially in some Turkish Habits by Van der Mere. This Town is also beautified with a fair Piazza or Market-place divers long Streets and a Pall-mall with five rows of Trees on each side In the Church of St. Katherino is the Tomb of my Lord Gorge Though I had seen France and Italy and the Noble Cities thereof which are worthily admired by all yet I was much surprized upon the first sight of the United Provinces especially of Holland and the adjoyning places He that hath observed the easie accommodation for Travel therein both by Land and Water their excellent order and regular course in all things the number of Learned men the abundance of Varieties in all kinds the industry frugality and wealth of the people their numerous good Towns their extraordinary neatness in their Buildings and Houses their proper Laws and administration of Justice and their incredible Number of Shipping and Boats will think it an omission to rest in the sight of other Countries without a view of this A Country of little extent and soon travelled over but so replenished with People with good Cities fair Towns and Villages as not to be met with upon so little a compass of ground except perhaps in China From Utrecht in two hours I came to Friswick and passed over the River Leck to Viaenen where there is little remarkable besides the House and Gardens of Count Brederode one of the Ancient Nobility of Holland or according to common esteem of the most Noble Family of all the Family of the Egmonds being formerly esteemed the Richest the Wassenaer's the most ancient and the Brederodes the Noblest The Mount in this Garden serveth for the Rampart to the Town and on a round Bullwark are divers small brass Guns planted The Statua's of the twelve Caesars of Aristotle the Pyramids and Partitions with the Paintings upon the wall are the rest of its Ornaments From hence I passed still by Boat through the Land of Arkel some say derived from Hercules belonging formerly to the Lords of Gorchom and Arkeland till by Mary daughter to the last Lord of Arkeland it sell to John Lord of Egmond and afterwards was sold to William the sixth Earl of Holland I arrived this night at Gorchom a Town well seated near three Rivers the Ling the Wael and the Maes The Market-place is fair the Stadthuis is sunk somewhat on one side The Governour hath a good House and the Church a very high thick Steeple the Works are of Earth the Water-gate is handsome and over it in Great Letters is this Inscription Civitas in quâ maximè Cives legibus parent in pace beata bello invicta 1642. The more remarkable because it made good its Inscription in the year 1672. when Louis the Fourteenth King of France came down with so powerful an Army into the Low-Countries that in that Summers Expedition he took thirty walled Towns and Cities this Water-gate being the Limit to his Conquests this way beyond which his Forces were not able to attempt any thing Leaving Gorcum I passed by Worcum on the other side of the River and then by the Castle of Lovesteyn strongly seated and well fortified and therefore hath been often made use of to secure Persons of Note Sir George Ascue of late years suffered his Imprisonment herein and formerly Barnevelt upon which occasion this Castle hath been much spoken of and hath given the name to that whole party who sided with him well known at present by the name of the Lovestein Faction Passing on further up the Maes I left Proye on the left hand and Huesden on the right and the next day morning arrived at the Bosch Hertogen Bosch Sylva Ducis Boscum Ducis Boisleduc Bolduc takes its name from a Wood belonging to the Dukes of Brabant It is a strong pleasant City seated upon the River Disa or Deese which entreth the Maes about two Leagues below it one of the greatest Cities in Brabant and for its strength for which 't is beholden both to Nature and to Art the States of the United Provinces possess not any one more considerable and is a very