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A27210	The present state of the universe, or, An account of I. The rise, births, names, matches, children, and near allies of all the present chief princes of the world, II. Their coats of arms, motto's, devises, liveries, religions, and languages, III. The names of their chief towns, with some computation of the houses and inhabitants ... IV. Their revenues to which are added some other curious remarks, as also an account of common-wealths, relating to the foregoing heads.	Beaumont, John, d. 1731.	1694 (1694)	Wing B1623; ESTC R13456	71,782	106

usurping King there after King Edwards death was by the unanimous consent of the Peerage of England Crowned King Now when King William the Conqueror's youngest Son Henry upon the death of his elder Brother William the Second who had succeeded his Father in the Kingdom came to the Crown which was An 1087. He married Matilda or Maud Daughter of Malcolm the Third King of Scotland by Margaret the Sister of Edgar Atheling right Heir of Edward the Confessor as being descended from King Edmund Ironside half Brother to King Edward the Confessor by their common Father King Ethelred and Grandfather to the abovenamed Edgar Atheling and Margaret And the said King Henry the First had by his Wife Matilda or Maud a Son who was cast away at Sea and a Daughter named Maud also the only Legitimate Issue that survived him born An. 1104. She was married first to the Emperour Henry the Fourth who had no Issue by her and after his death to Geoffry Plantagenet Earl of Anjou by whom she had a Son nam'd Henry the Second Now King Henry the First his Son being dead seeing this Daughter his only Legitimate Issue call'd a Parliament An. 1133. in which all the Lords of the Land took an Oath to be true to his Daughter Maud the Empress and her Heirs and acknowledge them as right Inheritors of the Crown And tho Stephen Earl of Bologne and Montagne Son of Stephen Earl of Blois by Adela third Daughter of the Conquerour was set up to the Crown by the working of Henry his Brother Bishop of Winchester after the death of King Henry the First against the undoubted right of the said Empress yet at length seeing his Children dead before him he secur'd the Succession to her Son Henry the Second who was Crown'd An. 1155. And from this Henry the Second in whom the Saxon Line was restored is Descended James the Second of the Royal House of the Stuarts late King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. who was born Oct. 14. 1633. His Majesty Espoused for his first Wife the Lady Ann Daughter to the late Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England c. She died before he came to the Crown and brought him Issue four Sons and four Daughters but all dying young except two surviving Daughters The eldest is the Lady Mary born Apr. 30. 1662. and was married to William Henry Prince of Orange in London at S. James's Nov. 14. 1677. The said Prince being born on the 14. of the same month New Stile 1650 and restor'd to his Hereditary Dignity in the United Provinces An. 1672. concerning whom I shall say more beneath The second is the Lady Ann born Feb. 6 1664. And July 28. 1683. was Espoused to George Prince of Denmark only Brother to the present King of that Kingdom he was born An. 1653. or 1. he has had Issue by his Princess 1. William Duke of Gloucester born in July 1689. and three Children more viz. the Lady Mary the Lady Ann and another Princess who died in their Infancy His Majesty Nov. 21. 1673. took for his second Wife the Lady Mary-Eleanor-Beatrix D'Este late Queen of England still living who was born Sept. 25. 1658. being youngest Sister to Francisco D'Este the present Duke of Modena and Regio c. She was Crowned with his Majesty April 23. 1685. And his Majesty has had by her two Daughters and a Son who all died young before the year 1688. And as some say he has had a Son and a Daughter by her since still living Their Majesties reside at present at S. Germains in France and profess the Roman Religion His Majesty has Natural Issue by Madam Churchil two Sons and two Daughters all living in France The Sons go by the name of Fitz-James The eldest is Duke of Berwick the youngest is stiled Grand Prior of Ireland The eldest Daughter was married to the late Lord Waldegrave by whom he has Issue two Sons The other Daughter is unmarried Now as for William Henry of Nassaw Prince of Orange and now stiled William the Third King of Great Britain c. who married the Lady Mary eldest Daughter to King James as above They were Proclaim'd King and Queen of England France and Ireland the Executive Power in him Feb. 14. 1689. Proclaim'd King and Queen of Scotland April 11. of the same year His Majesty has as yet no Issue by his Queen Now as to the Rise of the House of Nassaw and Orange as it concerns King William I shall not seek to retrieve its Original but its certain it flourisht in the ninth Century and I shall only take notice that from Walram and Otto Sons of Henry surnam'd the Rich Earl of Nassau sprang two Capital Lines viz. that of Idstein afterwards call'd Sarepont from Walram and that of Dillenburg which now enjoys the Principality from Otto and therefore we shall confine ourselves singly to this Now John the Third who was the eighth of his Family Lineally descended from the said Otto inclusively had two Sons viz. Henry and William the Elder Henry was born An. 148● and from him the Principality of Orange Descended to King William As for William the Elder Brother to Henry he had a Son call'd John who dwelt in the Castle of Dillenburg and had twenty five Children of whom I shall note only four viz. John George Ernestus-Casimire and John-Lewis for from them sprang the several Lines of Siegen Dillenburg Diezen and Hademar on each of which the Emperour Ferdinand the Third in the Diet of Ratisbone March 3. 1654. conferr'd the honour of having a Voice and Seat among the Princes of the Empire As for a farther Genealogical account of these Families it may be had elsewhere To the Royal Family of England I must add Donna Catharina Infanta of Portugal Queen Dowager of England born at Villa Vicosa in Portugal Nov. 14. Old Stile An. 1638. and Espoused at Portsmouth by his late Majesty King Charles the Second in the month of May An. 1662. She being only Sister to Don Pedro of the House of Braganza the present King of that Kingdom She resides at present at Lisbon in Portugal Her original Jointure some settled by King Charles was 40000 l. per annum to which considerable additions have been since made Their Majesties have two Uncles living in England viz. the Earls of Clarendon and Rochester The Princes and Princesses of the Blood Royal of England that are not excluded from the Succession of the Crown by the late Act of Parliament I. PRincess Ann of Denmark afore mention'd II. The Duke of Glocester of whom also see before III. Sophia Duchess of Hanover Daughter to Frederick the Fifth Elector and King of Bohemia Married to the Duke An. 1658. Her Children 1. George-Lewis born May 28. 1660. Who Nov. 1. 1682. Married Sophia-Dorothea only Daughter to the Duke of Zel by whom he has 1. George-Augustus born Oct. 30. 1683. 2. William-Ernestus born An. 1685. 2. Christian born Sept.

THE Present STATE OF THE UNIVERSE Or an ACCOUNT of I. The Rise Births Names Matches Children and near Allies of all the present Chief Princes of the World II. Their Coats of Arms Motto's Devises Liveries Religions and Languages III. The Names of their Chief Towns with some Computation of the Houses and Inhabitants Their Chief Seats of Pleasure and other Remarkable things in their Dominions IV. Their Revenues To which Are added some other Curious Remarks as also an Account of Common-Wealths relating to the foregoing Heads Parvula sic totum pervisit pupula Mundum LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Randall Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1694. Presented to R. Hooke by his Worthy Friend the Author July 4. 1694. To the HONOURABLE CHARLES COTTINGTON Esquire SIR HIstory being much the Study of a Gentleman I have presum'd a Dedication of these few Praeludia relating to it to your self Not but your own Reading Conversation and Travels may have already furnished you with far more and more accurate Particulars in this kind than my poor Essays may afford but what I have written is chiefly intended for your hopeful Offspring to whom I conceived a brief Idea of the World in this kind relating to those chief Potentates under whose Dominion God at present has put it might be of use for initiating their Understandings till being come to more mature years their own Studies and Observations in Travels may inure them to well digested Thoughts concerning the various Governments of the World whereby they may be rendered serviceable to the Nation in which they live It 's well known how Eminent for Parts and Services to this Nation the late Lord Cottington your Uncle was whose Family a few years since being reduced in the Male-Line only to your self you see Providence by vouchsafing you three flourishing Branches of male-Male-Issue has given you good Hopes and a fair Prospect of a long Continuance of it And as the many Favours I have received from you have highly engaged me to wish Prosperity to it so whenever any thing shall be suggested to my Understanding whereby I may be a Mean to promote it it shall most readily be put in Execution by Sir Your most Obliged Kinsman and most Humble Servant John Beaumont Jun. THE Present STATE OF THE UNIVERSE c. The House of Austria THE Illustrious House of Austria having the largest extent of Dominions among the European Princes I have thought fit to begin with that This House owes its Original to the Earls of Habsburg whom a late Writer derives from the Counts of Mount Aventine of the ancient Perleonian Family which was formerly of the greatest Repute and Authority of any in Rome and had its seat on Mount Aventine Albertus Dives Anicius Perleonius a person Descended of the said Family was driven out of Rome An. 1144. by the Arnaldistick Hereticks together with his Brother Rudolph in defence of the Roman See Whereupon he travelled into Switzerland and there married the Daughter of Wernerus last Earl of Habsburg of the Anician Perleonian Race This Albertus Dives Anicius was Great Grandfather to Rudolph the fourth Earl of Habsburg the first German Emperour of the Anician Perleonian Family This Rudolph the first was the Common Father of the Austrian Family born May 1. 1218. He was elected Emperour An. 1273. by the unanimous consent of the Princes of the Empire and crowned the same year at Aix la Chapelle and at a Diet held at Ausburg An. 1282. he had Austria settled on his eldest Son Albert who was first Duke of Austria and Schwaben on Rudolph his youngest Son Philip the first descended from Albert was born An. 1478. and An. 1496. he married the Princess Johanna eldest Daughter and Heiress to his Catholick Majesty Ferdinand of Spain in whose right he immediately became possest of the Kingdoms of Castile and Arragon He had for his Sons Charles the fifth and Ferdinand the first betwixt which two Princes there was a division made of the Provinces when the House of Austria became likewise divided into the Spanish and German Lines The Spanish Line I. THE Author of the Spanish Line was Charles the fifth born at Ghent in Flanders An. 1500. At fourteen years of Age he had the Government of the Netherlands given him At sixteen he was Crowned King of Spain At nineteen elected Emperour and Crowned the year following at Aix la Chappelle He annexed the Duchy of Milain to his House for ever He concluded a Peace with the Protestants at Passaw An. 1552 and three years after he Abdicated his Government leaving the Empire to his Brother Ferdinand and the Kingdom of Spain with the Low Countries and its other dependencies to his Son Philip Great Grandfather to the present King of Spain Charles the Second who was born Nov. 6. 1661 and on the 21. of December following was Christened Carolus-Joachimus-Josephus-Antonius-Leonardus He succeeded in the Kingdom at the death of his Father Philip the Fourth who died Sept. 17. 1665. and in the year 1675 being entred on the fifteenth year of his Age he took on him the Government of his Estates whereas during his minority the supream Government was under the Regency of the Queen his Mother named Mary-Anne Daughter of the Emperour Ferdinand the Fourth and is now Dowager of Spain She was born Oct 12. 1631. and married to Philip the Fourth King of Spain Nov. 7. 1649. This King Aug. 31. An. 1679. espoused the Princess Mary-Louise of Orleans eldest Daughter to Philip Duke of Orleans by the Princess Henrietta-Maria youngest Daughter to our late King Charles the First The Prince of Conde espoused her in the Chappel of the House of Fontainebleau in the name of the King of Spain and the Marriage was Consummated Nov. 19. of the said year 1679 near Burgos in Old Castile She was born March 7. 1662. And this Queen dying without Issue An. 1689. he the same year married Maria-Anna Daughter of Philip-William Duke of Newburg and Elector Palatine the present Queen born Oct. 28. 1667. II. For Arms he bears Quarterly the first Quarter Counter-Quartered in the first and fourth Gules a Castle triple towered Or each with three Battlements bordered Azure Purfled Sable for Castile In the second and third Argent a Lion Gules Crowned Langued and armed Or for Leon. In the second great Quarter Or four great Pallets Gules for Aragon Party Or four Pallets also Gules betwixt two Flanches Argent charg'd with as many Eagles Sable membred becked and crowned Azure for Arragon and Sicily These two great Quarters grafted in Base Argent a Pomegranate Verte stalked and leav'd of the same open and seeded Gules for Granada On the whole Argent five Escutcheons Azure placed crosswise each charg'd with five Besants Argent placed in Saltier for Portugal The Shield bordered Gules with seven Towers Or three in Chief two in Fesse and two toward the Base for Algarve In the third great Quarter Gules a Fesse Argent for Austria Coupé and supported

they assemble separately the Catholicks take for the place of their Congress Lucern and the Protestants Arau on the River Aur. All the Cantons are as many Republicks which are Govern'd by their Burgomasters or Avoiers their Government being Democratical The Cantons which have no Towns call their Magistrates Landanes instead of Burgomasters The Switzers have several Towns and States confederate with them viz. The Abbot and Town of S. Gal. Four Bishops viz. of Sion Basil Constance and Croired The Towns of Neuchatel Valengen Nuenberg Biel Geneva Mulhausen in Alsatia Rotwel in Suabia beyond the Danube They have also many Prefectures that is such little Parcels and Additaments as have accrued to their State and are subject to their Authority either by Gift Purchase or Chance of War The Principal Prefecture is the Town of Baden taking its name from the Baths there and is the place of meeting for the Councel of State of all the Confederates The Grizons also are Confederate with the Switzers and of those there are three Divisions I. The Grey League so call'd because the Inhabitants wear a Grey Scarf 2. The League of the House of God so call'd because it was the proper Patrimony of the Bishop and Church of Chur. 3. The League of the Ten Commonalties All these Confederates are able on occasion readily to set forth an Army of sixty thousand Men. The Republick of Geneva I. THIS Republick professes Calvinism An. 1679. Mass was said in the City of Geneva with leave at the House of Sieur Chauvigny the French Kings Resident there which had not been done since the year 1535. That Calvinism was there Establisht by a Decree of the Senate II. Geneva gives for Arms Party Or and Gules the fi●st has a demy Eagle display'd Sable the second a Key Argent with this devise Post Tenebras Lux. The Romanists say the words are misplac'd and that it ought to be Post Lucem tenebra III. The City of Geneva is situate on the Lake Lemanus the River Rhone passing thro the lower part of it The buildings are fair and of Freestone the Compass of the whole City being about two Miles in which there are suppos'd to be about 16 or 17000 souls Munster calls it Mirae voluptatis Urbem It s allied with the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland and in two or three hours it advertises all the Canton of Bern to come to its succour with 50 or 60000 Men who may come on the Lake a day after the Signal which consists in lighted Torches set from Tower to Tower It s Govern'd by twenty five Senators who follow the written Law Beside this Councel of twenty five they have one of sixty and another of two hundred POLAND I. POland from the year 694 that Lochus of Croatia was the first Duke has been Govern'd by Dukes Palatines Kings and Dukes again till the year 1295 that Primislaus surnam'd Posthumus Duke of Posna again assum'd the name of King which continued ever since to his Successors of the same Family till the year 1574. Henry Duke of Anjou Son to Henry the Second King of France was chosen on the death of Sigismund-Augustus who was the first Stranger to the Blood John the Third of the Illustrious Family of Sobieski is the present King of Poland c. Elected King March 20. 1674. being before Senator Grand Marshal and Generalissimo of the Armies of the Crown he made his solemn entrance at Cracow Jan. 3. 1676. and was crown'd there on the second of February following by the Bishop of that place call'd Olzaski He married before his coming to the Crown a French Lady nam'd Maria Casimire de la Grange Daughter to Henry de la Grange Knight Marquess of Arquien Lord of Beaumont Master of the Camp of a Regiment of Cavalry and Captain Colonel of the hundred Switzers of the Guard of the late Monsieur Duke of Orleans This Princess was crown'd on the same day with her Husband and has brought him many Children 1. Prince James born An. _____ and An. 1691. he married Hedewig-Elizabetha-Amalia youngest Daughter save one to Philip-William Duke of Neuburg and Elector Palatine 2. Prince Alexander born about the year 70. 3. John born An. _____ 4. Casimire born An. _____ 5. Leopold born An. _____ 6. The Princess Louise Adelaia born Oct. 3. 1677. held at the Font of Baptism by the Palatine of Russia for his late Majesty Charles the Second King of Great Britain c. This Princess was Baptised with the Water of the River Jordan whereof the King her Father just before her birth had been presented with a Pot full as also with many other rarities from Asia II. As King of Poland he bears Quarterly In the First and Fourth Gules an Eagle Argent crown'd membred and becked Or for Poland In the Second and Third Gules a Cavalier arm'd Argent holding a Sword with the Right Hand of the same and a Shied Azure in the Left charg'd with a Cross Or with double Cross-Barrs his Horse barded Azure and nail'd Or for Lithuania On the whole Azure a Buckler Or for Sobieski For a Crest a Crown rais'd with eight small Flowers and clos'd with eight Semicircles terminating in a Mond Or which is the Crest of Poland The Shield environ'd with the Orders of France The general Motto of the Kings of Poland is Habent sua sydera Reges His Livery is of a Blew Colour He professes the Roman Religion but Greeks Protestants and other Sects are there tolerated He uses the Poland Longuage wich is a Dialect of the Sclavonian III. Warsaw seated on the River Vistula is most frequented best traded and the Capital City of the Kingdom honour'd for the most part with the Kings Court the holding of all Publick business of Peace and War Cracow seated on the same River is little inferiour to the former the Buildings here being fairer than elsewhere in Poland of Freestone and four Stories high but for the most part cover'd with Shingles or Tiles of Wood. IV. The Revenues of this King are computed to be 600000 Crowns per annum drawn chiefly out of Salt-works near Cracow and from Mines of Copper Lead Tin and Silver from the fishing Trade in Prussia and the Tribute of the Jews His Daughters are provided for at the Publick Charge and for the most part the expence of his Houshold defray'd In time of War he is inabled by the Diets to lay Impositions and Taxes on the people In Poland it s an affront to call a Man Cossack as in Italy Calabrian in Germany Switzer in Spain Galician in Sueden Finlander in France Norman in England Welchman c. Russia or Moscovy I. THE first Great Duke of Moscovy who shook off the Tartarian bondage was nam'd John who Reign'd about the year 1500. Since him the Government has gone partly by Election and partly by Succession The last Elected was Michael Fredrowitz Son of Theodore the Patriarch of Mosco and Grandfather to the present Czars He was Elected An.