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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29826	A brief account of some travels in divers parts of Europe viz Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli : through a great part of Germany, and the Low-Countries : through Marca Trevisana, and Lombardy on both sides of the Po : with some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, and the baths and mineral waters in those parts : as also, the description of many antiquities, habits, fortifications and remarkable places / by Edward Brown.	Brown, Edward, 1644-1708.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5111; ESTC R7514	234,342	240

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 in 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 Watergate 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 Lovestein 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 by the Maes I left Proye on the left hand and Huesden on the right and the next day morning arrived at the Bosche Hertogen Bosche 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 enters 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 Vnited Provinces possess not any one more considerable and is a very good Frontier against all Enemies on this side It is encompassed on all sides with Fens and Marshy Grounds The Avenues to it are by narrow Causeys 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 Cittadel 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 in the year 1429 who then named four and twenty Knights besides the head of the Order to whom he gave a Chain of Gold and a Golden Fleece for which this Inscription was thought fit to be placed upon his Tomb Pour maintenir l'eglise Qui est de Dieu Maison I'ay mis sus le noble Ordre Qu'on nomme le Toison 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 Vtrecht 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 Out-works 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 Hay or Quickset-hedge almost quite round the Town besides Palisado's 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 hollowed away and filled with a thicket of Elms. The Half Moons are the like without the To wn and after all a brest-work between the Town and the Bastions and Cavaliers upon several places of the Rampart This Town belongs 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 Earl 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 surprized by the Dutch by a stratagem performed by eighty men hid in a Boat covered over with Turf and 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 aMbrosI spInoLae VIgILantIa breDa eXpVgnata As also this PhILIppVs hIspanIae reX gVbernante IsabeLLa CLarâ EVgenIa Infanta obsIDente spInoLa qVaternIs regIbVs frVstra ConIVrantIbVs breDa VICtor potItVr Afterwards it was besieged and taken by Frederick Hendrick Prince of Orange as an inscription at the West end of the Church sets it down Auxilio solius Dei Auspiciis confoederati Belgij Ferdinando Austriaco Hispaniae Infantae cum ingenti exercitu frustra succurrente à Iulij 23 obsessam ad 19 Augusti oppugnatam Fredericus Henricus Princeps araVsIVs breDaMeXpVgnat seX●a OCtobrIs The Church is fair and hath many good Monuments as Renesse's Tomb a Monument for Sir Thomas Alisbury set up by the Lord Chancellor Hide an old Tomb erected 1349. for John Lord of Lech and Breda the Tomb 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 Turf-Boat came

Names of the Professors the Learned Mr. Ray whom I had the honour to meet in divers places abroad having already caused to be printed the Series Lectionum of this and many other Universities in the Low-Countries Germany and Italy in his Observations Topographical Moral Physiological set forth 1673. The great Church hath a very high Tower or three Steeples one above another From the highest of which I had not only a good sight of the Town it self which lay under mine Eye like a Platform but of many others also Vtretcht being in a plain slat Country and so well seated and encompassed with so populous a Country that in a days Journey a man may go from hence to any one of fifty walled Towns and Cities The English Church here is an ancient Building the Pillar in the middle of it whose Foundation could not be laid but upon Bulls-hides is much taken notice of It was built 1099. and hath the Picture of a Bull upon it with this Inscription Accipe Posteritas quod per tua saecula narres Taurinis cutibus fundo solidata columna est There is an old Library belonging to this Church which contains divers old Books and Manuscripts A large Bille in six Volumes painted and gilded after a very ancient manner Two Idols taken in time of War long since in Germany and given to this place by the Emperor Henry the Fourth are worth the seeing not so much for their 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 Vnicorns 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-Vnicorn or the Horn or long wreathed Tooth of some Sea-Animal much like it taken in the Northern Sea 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 Thomas Brown had a very fair piece of one which was formerly among the Duke of Curland's Rarities but after that he was taken Prisoner by Douglas in the Wars between Sweden and Poland it came into the hands of my Unckle Colonel Hatcher of whom my Father had it he had also a piece of this sort of Vnicorns Horn burnt black out of the Emperor of Russia's Repositorie given him by Dr. Arthur Dee who was Son to Dr. John Dee and also Physician to the Emperor 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 I oisons contagious Diseases or any other evident effect of it although I have known it given several times and in great quantity Mr. Charlton hath a good Vnicorns Horn Sir Joseph Williamson gave one of them to the Royal Society The Duke of Florence hath a fair one The Duke of Saxony a strange one and besides many others I saw eight of them together upon one Table in the Emperors treasure and I have one at present that for the neat wreathing and Elegant shape gives place to none But of these Vnicorns 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 a great number of them to build a Magnificent Throne out of Vnicorns Horns I had the honour to see divers Persons of Note in this City as D. Cyprianus ab Oesterga 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 Cernitis hic picta nostros in Imagine vultus Si negat a●sformam 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 Land-skips by Soft-lever and good Drapery especially in some Turkish Habits by Vander 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. Katherine 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 Vnited Provinces especially of Holland and the adjoyning places He that hath observed the easie accomodation 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 fight 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 Vtrecht in two hours I came to Friswick and passed over the River Leck to Vianen 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 serves 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 fell to John Lord of Egmond and was afterwards sold to William the sixth Earl of Holland I arrived this night at Gorchom a Town well seated near three Rivers the