and its Name to an Honourable Family Another in the Province of Ansou from which there is also a House of Quality denominated Cleri Clariacum a small Town near Orleans upon the Borders of the Province of Sologne in France where Lewis XI lies interred in a Church dedicated to the Virgin of his own establishment pretending to Miracles Cleveland a Tract in the North Riding of Yorkshire of good extent taking its Name says Mr. Cambden from the Cliffs running along the side of it at whose feet the Country spreads it self into a fine fruitful Plain King Charles I. did this place the honour to make it give the Title of an Earl to Thomas Lord Weâ—â—â—â—orth who dying without issue King Charles II. created Barbara Villiers Daughter to the Lord Viscount Grandison who was slain in the Civil Wars and Wife to the present Earl of Castlemain Dutchess of Cleveland Cleves Clivia Castra Vlpia Calonis a City and Dukedom in Germany called by the Inhabitants Cleef by the French Cleves and seated upon a small River about three Miles from the Rhine Heretofore much greater as appeareth by the Ruines about it and thought to have been built by Caesar The last Duke dying in 1609. a War happened in which the Duke of Brandenburg seized one part of this Dukedom and the Duke of Newburgh another the Hollanders in the mean time by Mauritius their General in 1628. seized the City of Cleves But in 1672. the French having taken this and all the other Towns possessed by the Hollanders and in 1673. being no longer able to keep them he put them into the hands of the Duke of Brandenburgh The Dukedom of Cleves is bounded on the North and West with the Dukedom of Guelderland on the East by the Bishoprick of Munster and the Earldom of Marck on the South with the Dukedom of Berghe and the Bishoprick of Cologne The Rhine divides it into two equal parts Clichy Clipiacum a small Village near Paris which the former Kings of France delighted in as a place of Pleasure King John instituted the Order of the Knights of the Star in it Dagobert I. was here married to Commentrude or Gomatrude his first Wife from whom he was afterwards divorced because she proved barren A Synod was also held here in 659. Cliff Kings a Market Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Willibrook Climeno a Port in the Island of Sancta Maura on the Coast of Epirus thirty English Miles North of Samo Here the Venetian Fleet rendezvoused in the year 1687. See Mr. Wheeler pag. 36. Clin an important Fortress in Dalmatia not far from Scardona surrendred to the Venetian Forces commanded by General Cornaro Sep. 12. 1688. after a fortnights Siege whereupon 150 Christian Slaves received their Liberty Clissa a Fortress in Dalmatia taken by the Venetians in 1648. Clitheroe A Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Blackburn which returns two Members of Parliament Clitumno Clitumnus is a small River in the State of the Church in Italy it ariseth in a place called Le Vene from three Springs beneath the Village Campello two Miles from Trevi and running Westward watereth Fuligne then falls into the Topino which entereth the Tiber five Miles beneath Perugia Clogher Cloceria a small City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Armagh in the County of Tyrone in the Province of Vlster upon the River Black VVater fifteen Miles East of the Lake of Earne and twenty five West of Armagh Cloucy Clona an old ruined City in the County of Cork in the Province of Munster fifteen Miles from Lismore South and twenty five from Cork South-East Heretofore a Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Tâ—am but now a Village Clonefert Clonefertia a small ruined Irish City in the County of Gallway in the Province of Connaught upon the Shannon fifteen Miles from Gallway East and twelve from Athlone South This was a Bishoprick under the same Archbishop with the former Clonmel the Assize-Town for the County Palatine of Tipperary in the Province of Munster in Ireland upon the River Showre considerably strong handsome and rich Cluid or Clyd Glota Cluda is one of the principal Rivers in Scotland it riseth in Craufurdmuir not far from the head of Twede and running North-West by Lanrick passeth by Glasquo fifteen Miles beneath which it falls into Dunbrittainfyrth it gives Name to Cluisdale Cluesdalia Glottiana or the Valley of Cluid § Cluid a River in Denbighshire which passeth on the West of Ruthin and S. Asaph through the delightful fruitful and healthful Valley of Cluid to the Irish Sea which it entereth five Miles beneath S. Asaph carrying with it the Streams of ten other small Rivers Cluny Cluniacum a famous Abbey of the Benedictines in the Territory of Masconnois within the Dukedom of Burgundy founded in the year 910. It gives Name to a small Town upon the Grosne four Leagues from Mascon The Popes Gregory VII Vrban II. and Paschal II. with a great number of Cardinals and Bishops have been given to the Roman Church by this Abbey which is so very large a Foundation that we find it lodged at once S. Lewis King of France Baldwin Emperour of Constantinople Pope Innocent IV. the two Patriarchs of Antioch and Constantinople twelve Cardinals three Archbishops and abundance of Secular and Ecclesiastical Nobility of their Relations and Attendants without obliging the Religious to quit any of their ordinary Apartments in the year 1245 after the Celebration of the first General Council of Lyons Clusium or Chiusi a City in the Dukedom of Florence in Italy with a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Sienna upon the Borders of the Ecclesiastical States It stands in a Valley called Chiana near a Lake of the same Name and heretofore was the Capital of Hetruria under King Porsenna call'd likewise Camers says Livy This is a different place from Chiusi novo in the same Dukedom which stands towards the Sources of the Tiber. Cnidus see Gnido Coa Cuda a River of Portugal which riseth East of Guarda and falls into the Douro at Almendra a Village about ten Spanish Miles East of Lamego Coanza a River in the South part of the Kingdom of Congo in Africa springing from the Lake of Zaire and thence running to throw it self into the Aethiopick Ocean near the Isle of Loanda Coblentz Cobolentz Confluentes a strong and populous City seated where the Moselle and the Rhine meet twelve Miles North-East of Trier and ten from Cologne to the South Heretofore an Imperial Free Town but in 1312. by Henry VII exempt and now subject to the Elector of Triâ—râ— Aâ—â—uâ—phus one of these Electors in 1250. first walled it Gaspar à Petra another of later times much improved its Fortifications by drawing a Line from one River to the other with Fortifications after the most regular Modern way The situation hereof is very pleasant having a Stone Bridge over the Moselle and another of Boats over the Rhine and on the opposite Shoar of the Rhine a
have found their Ruins in the Wars of this Kingdom so the other is choaked up The Corporation retains the Honour of the Election of two Members to represent it in Parliament Warmerlandt Warmia a Province of Prussia called by the Inhabitants Ermelandt Bounded almost every way by the Ducal Prussia the Capital of it is Heilsbergh in which the Bishop of this Province resides which stands 8 German Miles from Regensperg to the South Warminster a Market Town in Wiltshire the Capital of its Hundred seated at the Spring of the River Willybourn or Willy and heretofore of very great note being the antient Verlucio Warrington Khigodunum a Town in Lancashire in the Borders of Cheshire upon the River Mersey over which it hath a fair stone Bridg leading into the last mentioned County in the Hundred of Darby Here the Scotch Army under Duke Hamilton was defeated by the Parliamentarians in the year 1648. Warsaw VVarsovia the Capital City of the Kingdom of Poland called by the Poles VVarswa by the Germans Warschaw by the French Varsovie It is the chief City of Mazovia upon the Vistula Twenty four Miles from Lenczycze or Lanschet thirty three from Gnesna and fifty from Lemburg Taken by the Swedes in the year 1665. after a great Victory the year following the Poles retook it and it is now under its own Prince A great and populous City being as it were near the Centre of that Kingdom has enjoyed the Residence of their Kings and the Courts of Justice ever since the Reign of Sigismond III. who built here a Royal Palace for his Successors There has also been added a great pile of Buildings now called the New City Long. 43. 20. Lat. 52. 25. Warte Varta a River of Poland which arising out of the Lesser Poland and entring the Greater washeth Siracks and Posnan and taking in the Obra the Notesik and the Prosna beneath Landsperg in the Marquisate of Brandenburg falls into the Oder near Custrin Warwick Varvicum Praesidium Verovicum the Shire-Town of the County of Warwick is seated on the West-side of the River Avon over which it has a Stone Bridge in the middle of the County Called by the Welsh Caer Guarvic and Caer Leon by the Romans Praesidium which signifies the same thing with the Brittish Name It stands upon a steep and craggy Rock mounted on high not easily approached hath two Parish Churches a handsom Market-House of Freestone an indowed Hospital the Assizes and Sessions for the County are kept at it and it was fortified with Walls and Ditches and towards the South-VVest it had a strong Castle Ethelsled a Mercian Queen rebuilt it in the year 911. In the year 1076 Henry de Newburg was created Earl of Warwick by William the Conqueror This Family lasted five Descents and in the year 1242 John Marshal was the seventh Earl in the Right of Margery Sister and Heir of Thomas the last Earl John de Placetis her second Husband was the eighth in 1243 William Maudit the ninth in 1263. William Beauchamp Son of Isabel Sister and Heir of William Maudit in 1268. This Family continued five Descents amongst which Henry Beauchamp the Favourite of King Henry VI who crowned him King of the Isle of VVight received this Place with the advanced Title of Duke which vanished after him And in the year 1449 Richard Nevil who married Anne Sister of Henry Beauchamp the former Earl and Duke of VVarwick succeeded in the Title of Earl In 1471 George Duke of Clarence Brother to Edward IV by the Marriage of Anne Daughter of Richard Nevil was the eighteenth succeeded by Edward Plantagenet his Son in 1471. In 1547 John Dudley and in 1562 Ambrose his Son descended from the Lady Margaret Daughter of Richard Beauchamp Earl of VVarwick In 1618 Robert Lord Rich of Leeze was created the twenty second Earl of VVarwick by James I. Charles great Grandson to Robert died without Issue whereupon Robert Rich Earl of Holland his Cousin Germain succeeded in the Earldom of VVarwick and left both the Titles of Warwick and Holland united to Edward the present Earl the twenty seventh and the sixth of this Family Warwick returns two Parliament Men and stands in the Hundred of Kington Warwickshire Varvicensis Comitatus is bounded on the North by Staffordshire on the East by Leicester and Northamptonshires on the South by Oxford and Gloucester and on the VVest by the County of Worcester In length from North to South thirty three Miles in breadth twenty five the whole Circumference one hundred and thirty five containing one hundred and fifty eight Parishes and fifteen Market Towns As it is seated well near in the heart of England so the Air and Soil are of the best the River Avon divides it in the middle VVhat lies South of that River is divided between fruitful Corn-Fields and lovely Meadows which from Edg-hill present the Viewer with a Plain equal to that of Jordan That which lies North is VVood Land The Cornavii were the old the Mercians the later Masters of this County There have been three great Battels sought in it One in the year 749 wherein Cuthred King of the West Saxons slew Ethelbald King of the Mercians at Seckington near Tamworth The second in the year 1468 at Edgcote in which the then Earl of Warwick defeated Edward IV and took him Prisoner The third in the year 1642 at Edg-hill in which Charles I overthrew the Parliament Forces under the Earl of Essex The Principal Town in this Shire is Coventry Wasgow Vasgovia Vogesus Tractus a Tract in Lorrain called by the French Le Pais de Vauge which takes its Name from a Mountain It lies between the Dukedoms of Lorain and Bipont and the Palatinate of the Rhine and it is a part of Germany Wash A Stream in the County of Rutland Wassi or Vassi Vasseum a Town in the Lower Champagne in France upon the Marn in the Diocess of Chalons well situated in a fruitful Soil A Rencounter betwixt the Duke of Guise and the Huguenots at this Town in the Reign of Charles IX gave an occasion to the ensuing Civil VVais of Religion in this Kingdom Watchet a Market Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Williton by the Sea-side Waterford Vaterfordia Mapiana a Town and County in the Province of Munster on the South of Ireland The Town is called by the Irish Phurtlairge The Capital of its County and next Dublin the greatest place in that Kingdom having a very large and safe Haven under the Protection of a strong Fort called Duncannon Fort and conveniently seated for a Trade with any part of the World Built by the Norwegians in a bad Air and a barren Soil at the Mouth of the River Shour Ever since it came into the hands of the English it has continued very loyal to this Crown and has on that score obtained many signal Privileges from it In the year 1649 they forced Oliver Cromwel to draw off when he was Master of
of the World it followed the Fate of Syria successively subject to all the four great Empires and famous under all But then the Conversion of S. Paul which happened in part near and in part within this City is one of the greatest things that has in the Course of so many Ages befallen it This was also one of the first great Cities the Saracens took from the Romans after a Siege of six Months in 636. by Omar the Successor of Abubecher In 813. it was made the Seat of one of their Califs Babylon being the second and Grand Cairo the third Conradus III. Emperor of Germany attempted in 1147. to reduce it without any good Success by reason of the Divisions amongst the Christians in the Holy Land In 1298. it was taken by Cassan the Turk and 30000 Saracens slain but the Saracens soon after recovered it About 1395. it became a Prey to that Flagellum Dei Tamerlane the great Scythian Conqueror After this it was subject to the Sultans of Aegypt till Selim I. about 1514. subjected it to the Ottoman Empire under which it still is This City is an Archbishop's See under the Patriarch of Antioch the Seat of one of the Turkish Visiers in a fruitful Valley so extreamly pleasant withal as amongst many Writers to gain the Title of the Paradise of the World Yet not mightily inhabited of later times being more visited by Pilgrims of the Turkish and Christian Religions than by Merchants The Current of the Trade running by Aleppo fifty Miles more North. It is now called by the Turks Scham Long. 69. 00. Lat. 33. 00. Dambea a City and Kingdom in Aethiopia in Africa near the Fountains of the Nile which has a Lake in it of the same Name twenty five French Leagues in Length and fifteen in Breadth incompassed on all sides by Mountains out of which arise a vast Number of Rivers to form this Lake called Bar-Dambea the Sea of Dambea in the Aethiopick Language And out of these Waters thus united the Nile springeth at some Distance from the Mounains See Nile There are twenty one Islands standing in this Lake the chiefest of which is Dek Damiata a City of Egypt upon one of the more Eastern Mouths of the Nile Anciently called Tamiatis or Damiata and now by the Arabians Damiat This City stands on the opposite Shoar to Pelusium and grew out of the Ruins of it Taken by the Christians in 1218. But in 1221. they were forced to restore it being involved in such Miseries by the Waters that were let loose upon them that they must otherwise have perished After this it was retaken by Lewis IX in 1249. who being afterwards taken Prisoner by the Sultan was forced to restore it as his Ransom after which the Saracens burnt it This is an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Alexandria and now a great well peopled City and one of the Keys of that Country Long. 63. 20. Lat. 31. 10. Dammartin or Dampmartin Domnum Martinum a Town in the Province of the Isle of France near Paris Adorned with a Collegiate Church and famous in French History for the Earls of the House that derive their Name from it Damor Leon a River in Phoenicia which ariseth from Mount Lebanon and falls into the Mediterranean Sea between Sydon and Bayrut Damut Damot or Damout a Kingdom of the higher Aethiopia heretofore under the Abissins but now torn from them by the Gala's It s Situation is towards the Lake of Zaire There are many Golden Mines in it and a City the Capital of the same Name Dampierre a Barony in the Territory of Aunis in France upon the River Boutonne or Voltunna Damvillers Damvillerum or Danvilliers Danvillerium a strong Town in Luxemburgh upon the River Maes seated upon a Hill five Leagues from Verdun to the North and about eight German Miles from Thionville to the West Taken by the French in 1637. and annexed to the Dutchy of Lorrain but in 1673. dismantled Danambre See the Nieper Danby an ancient Castle in the Tract of Cleveland in the North-Riding of Yorkshire seated near a large Park and Chase of the same Name First advanced to the Dignity of an Earldom by King Charles I. in the Person of Henry Danvers of the Line of the Lord Latimer to whom this Castle did anciently belong and afterwards upon the Default of Issue from the said Henry in the Person of Thomas Osborn created by King Charles II. Baron of Kineton and Viscount Latimer in 1673. and Earl of Danby the year after The now Marquess of Caermarthen from King William Dandalii an ancient People of Germany of great Power in the twelfth Century and so addicted to their Paganism that VValdemar King of Denmark with the Princes of Pomerania and Saxony were obliged to force them by Sea and Land to hear Christianity preached amongst them Dangala or Dancala a City of the Vpper Aethiopia upon the Nile in the Tract of Nubia whereof it is the Capital and in the Kingdom of Gorhani towards the North. Long. 52. Lat. 10. Danneberg or Daneberg a Town and County in the Dukedom of Lunenburgh upon the River Tetza four Miles from the Elb and seven from Lunenburgh to the South-East The Town has a Castle belonging to it The County belongs to the Duke of Zell and is extended from East to West upon the Elb between the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh to the North the Marquisate of Brandenburg to the South and East and the Dukedom of Lunenburgh to the West It had heretofore Earls of its own but Nicolas the last of them in 1303. sold it to Otto Duke of Brunswick Of latter Times it was under the Duke of VVolfembuttel and by him was granted in 1671. to the Duke of Zell Dantsick Dantzik Dantiscum Gedanum called by the Inhabitants and Poles Danske and Danzig by the Germans is a vast well fortified City of Poland the Capital of Prussia in the little Pomerania with a noble Haven and Castle upon the Vistula which a League below dischargeth it self into the Bay of Dantzick a Part of the Baltick Sea So watered by two other Rivers the Rodaun and the Motlau towards the South and West it has some Hills which in 1656. were first fortified against the Swedes This City is Imperial and Free belonging originally to the Empire Primislaus King of Poland in 1295. first walled it against the Knights of the Teutonick Order as Cromerus saith lib. 11. After this it was betrayed to the Marquess of Brandenburgh by one Peter Chancellor of Pomerania who being in wrath with Vladislaus Lochicus his Master King of Poland and the Castle thereupon surprised by the Teutonick Order who pretended to assist Vladislaus they demanded a vast Sum of Money which the Citizens refusing to pay they proceeded to take the City to plunder and slay great Numbers of the Inhabitants In 1310. Sigismundus Augustus took away half the Customs upon their Disrespect to his Ambassador who was sent to quiet them then in Tumult and
that Tract of Land that was possessed heretofore by the Jazyges Metanastae a Sarmatian People and part of Pannonia Superior and Inferior Wonderfully fruitful yielding Corn and Grass in abundance the latter exceeding when at its greatest length the height of a Man it abounds so in Cattle that it is thought alone to be able to serve all Europe with Flesh and they certainly send yearly into Germany eighty thousand Oxen. They have Deer Partridges and Pheasants in such abundance that any body that will may kill them They have Mines of Gold Silver Tin Lead Iron and Copper store of River or Fresh-water Fish and Wines equal in goodness to those of Candia The People are Hardy Covetous Warlike but Slothful and Lazy not much unlike the Irish Their best Scholar was St. Jerome Their best Soldiers Johannes Huniades and Matthias Corvinus The principal Rivers are the Danube which divides this Kingdom from end to end the Savus the Dravus and the Tibiscus they have one famous Lake called the Balaton which is forty Italian Miles in length The principal Cities are Buda or Offen Presburgh Alba-Regalis and Caschaw The Hungarians are a Tribe of the Scythians or Tartars which in the times of Arnulphus Emperour of Germany possessed themselves of Transylvania and the Vpper Hungary under Lewis IV. Successor to Arnulphus they passed the Danube wasted all Germany Italy Greece Sclavonia and Dacia till broken by the Forces of Germany and sweetned by the Christian Religion first taught them under King Stephen about 1016. by Albert Archbishop of Prague they became more quiet and better civilized This Stephen began his Reign in 1000. This Race of Kings continued to 1302. in twenty three Descents when Charles Martel Son of Charles King of Naples and Mary Daughter to Stephen IV. King of Hungary partly by Election partly by Inheritance and Conquest succeeded to this Crown to him succeeded Lewis his Nephew in 1343. Charles II. another of his Descendents in 1383. Sigismund Emperour King of Bohemia in the Right of Mary his Wife Eldest Daughter of Lewis in 1387. Albert of Austria in the Right of Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sigismond in 1438. Vladislaus Son of Albert and Elizabeth in 1444. Matthias Corvinus Son of Johannes Huniades by Election in 1458. Vladislaus II. Son of Cassimir IV. King of Poland and of Elizabeth Daughter of Albert in 1491. Lewis II. slain in the Battel of Mohatz succeeded in 1517. and was slain in 1527. John Sepusio Vaiwode of Transylvania chosen upon his Death succeeded that year but was outed by Ferdinand restored by Solyman the Turk and at last died in 1540. The Hungarians Crowned Stephen his Son an Infant in the Cradle but Solyman seized the best part of his Kingdom under pretence of defending it against Ferdinand of Austria and Ferdinand the rest so that ever since this wretched Kingdom has been a Stage of War between the Austrian and the Ottoman Families The former at this time having recovered from the latter all the Lower Hungary and all Tameswaer in the Vpper The Reader may be pleased to know that all that part of Hungary which lies on the West and North of the Danube is called the Lower Hungary what lies on the East and South the Vpper This Kingdom is divided into fifty five Counties three and twenty of which in the beginning of this last War were in the Hands of the Turks and the rest in the Emperor's It has also two Archbishops Sees Gran Strigonium and Colocza thirteen Bishopricks six under the first and seven under the latter Hungerford a Market Town in Berkshire in the hundred of Kentbury upon the River Kennet Hunni the ancient Inhabitants of the Marshes of the Maeotis who for the sake of a better Country to live in invaded Pannonia in great numbers and thence under Attila their King who stiled himself the Scourge of God marched victoriously into Germany Italy and France till Aetius General of the Romans and Meroveus King of France slew 200000 of them in one Battel in 450. Then they retired into Pannonia again and maintain'd themselves in divers Wars At length the Hungarians a Scythian race appeared about the end of the Reign of Charles the Gross and expelled them Huntingdonshire is bounded on the North by the River Avon or Afon which parts it from Lincolnshire on the West by Northamptonshire on the South by Bedfordshire and on the East by Cambridgeshire The North-East parts of it are Fenny but yield plenty of Grass for feeding of Cattle The rest is very pleasant fruitful of Corn rising into Hills and shady Groves The whole indeed was one Forest till Henry II. in the beginning of his Reign disforested it The Town of Huntingdon which gives Name to the County is seated upon the North side of the River Ouse somewhat high and stretcheth out it self in length to the Northward it has four Churches in it a fair Bridge of Stone over the River and near it is the Mount or Plot of an ancient Castle now ruined built by Edward the Elder in the Year 917. Which King David of Scotland who had this County with the Title of an Earl from King Stephen of England for an Augmentation of his Estate in the Year 1135. enlarged with new Buildings and Bulwarks but Henry II. finding great Inconveniences from it razed it to the Ground This was a very considerable Town in the times of Edward the Confessor and perhaps greater than now The first Earl of Huntingdon was Waltheof Created in 1068. two years after the Conquest he being beheaded Simon de Lyze who Married Maud the Daughter of Waltheof was made Earl in 1075. David Prince of Scotland her second Husband was the next Earl in 1108. It continued in this Family of Scotland till 1219. but it is now in the Family of the Hastings George Lord Hastings and Hungerford being by Henry VIII Created Earl of Huntingdon in the Year 1529. Theophilus Hastings the present Earl succeeded his Father in the Year 1655. and is the seventh Earl of this Noble Family Huquang a very large Province in the middle of the Kingdom of China counted the seventh in number but in extent one of the greatest its greatest length is from North to South being bounded on the North by Honan on the East by Nankim and Kiamsi on the South by Quamtum and on the West by Queycheu and Suchen It contains fifteen Cities an hundred and eighteen great Towns five hundred thirty one thousand six hundred eighty six Families The greatest City is Vuchang The great River of Kiam crosseth it and divides it and in the middle of this Province it receiveth two other great Rivers one from the North and the other from the South whose Names I cannot assign And these three Rivers form at their meeting a very considerable Lake between the Cities of Kincheu and Yocheu The Chinese call it also Jumichiti and the Granary of China for its abundance As to which they have a Proverb that the
against which the Turks spent twenty thousand Cannon Shot and at last took it to their no great advantage In the middle of the Eastern Haven stands the Castle of S. Angelo upon a Rock this and Burgo quelled the fury of the Turks and prevented their Triumph over Malta Though the Inhabitants exceed not twenty thousand yet it is not able to supply them with Necessaries but that the fertil Sicily is so near from which they have much of their Provisions They have some fresh-water Fountains the Rain that falls they reserve in Cisterns and have always three years Provisions beforehand kept under ground The Great Master of the Order of the Knights of Malta at present is Alarame de Vignecourt chosen in Aug. 1690. The City Malta is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Palermo in Sicily and the Residence of the Grand Prior of the Church also now the Capital of the Island which last honour formerly was enjoy'd by Citta Vecchia another Episcopal City in the middle of Malta Several small Islands adjacent the Principal are Gozo Comini and Farfara depend upon the Grand Master as their Soveraign The illustrious Order of the Knights of this place is composed of eight Nations amongst which England was the sixth in rank before the Reformation To each Nation there belongs a Grand Prior The Persons incorporated are divided into three Estates of Knights Ecclesiasticks and Servans des Armes or Esquires all vowing celibacy Some out of both the two first have been known advanced to the Dignity of Cardinals and the Sons of Kings and Princes have adorned the rank of the Knights This Island produces no Wine nor Corn but Cotton Oates and delicious Fruits in Plenty § There is another Island Malta in the Adriatick belonging to Dalmatia and called by the Sclavonians Milet by others Meleda The Miletaeus Catellus a Proverb for a Lap-dog is derived from the little Dogs of this latter place according to Athenaeus Long. 39. 25. Lat. 34. 40. Malvasia Epidaurus an Archiepiscopal City of the Morea on the Eastern Shoar in the Province of Tzaconia near the most South-Eastern Cape called Cape Maleo built upon a Rock which advanced position gives it an agreeable Prospect both by Sea and Land This Rock is surrounded by the Sea on all sides being only joined to the Continent by a Timber Bridge yet has Nature provided it a fresh and clear Fountain of good Water sufficient to serve the City and their Gardens it is approachable only on one side that is on the South which is secured by a triple Wall of great strength In the times of the Greek Idolatry it was famous for a Temple of Esculapius much frequented It was ravished from the Greek Emperors by the Venetians and French about the year 1204. The Emperors recovered it again from William a French Baron to whom it was given by the Latins but he returning to Venice freely resigned his Right to that State whereupon the Venetians sent a powerful Fleet and regained the Possession of it which they kept till the year 1537. when they were forced to surrender it to the Turks to purchase a Peace In the times of the late Wars in Candy the Venetians took this Town by Storm plundered burnt and then left it after they had put most of the Inhabitants to the Sword and carried away the Cannon The Turks rebuilt it General Morosini bombarded it in his way to Athens Sept. 1687. Afterwards it was blockaded then besieged At last it surrendered to General Cornaro Sept. 12. 1690. whereby the whole Morea stands now reduced under the Dominion of the States of Venice They found in it seventy three Pieces of Cannon and above one hundred and thirty Christian Slaves recovered their Liberty Long. 50. 00. Lat. 38. 30. Mamertini an ancient People of the Island Samos in the Icarian Sea said afterwards to establish themselves at Messina in Sicily Whence the Messenii have the Name also of Mamertini and the Sea adjacent of Fretum Mamertinum Mamotta Arabia Foelix Man Eubonia Monaaeda Monapia Monavia Mona an Island in the Irish Sea between Lancashire to the East and Vlster to the West The Welsh call this small place Menow the Inhabitants Maing the English Man It lies in length from North to South thirty Italian Miles its greatest breadth is fifteen It has seventeen Parish Churches brings forth Flax Hemp and Corn in plenty affords more Cattle than they need especially Sheep they have no Fewel but Turff In the middle it swelleth into Hills from the highest of which Sceafull by Name in a clear day may be seen England Scotland and Ireland The chief Town is Russin seated at the South End of the Island which has a Garrisoned Castle it has also a Bishop who is stiled Sodorensis and is now under the Archbishop of York This Island was first possessed by the Britains after them succeeded the Scots about the times of Honorius and Arcadius these were driven out by Cuneda Grandfather of Maglocunus stiled by Gildas the Dragon of the Islands Edwin King of Northumberland Conquered it next for the Saxons about 618. The Danes being driven out of England by Harold they were invited Hither by one Godred Corvan who had been entertained in his flight in the Isle of Man This Dane brought over his Country Men three times successively invaded it before he could master the Inhabitants but then prevailing he became King of Man soon after the time William of Normandy conquered England This Race of Kings continued to 1270. about two hundred years about which time Robert the King of the Scots having succeeded Alexander who had purchased the Hebrides of the King of Denmark made another Conquest of the Isle of Man which was one of the last they gained the Possession of After this sometimes the Scots sometimes the English were Masters of it till in 1340. William Montacute Earl of Salisbury descended from Mary the Daughter of Reginald the last King of Man finally drove out the Scots and in 1393. sold it to William Scrope who being beheaded for Treason Henry IV. granted it to Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland about 1400. He likewise forseiting it this Prince granted it to Sir John Stanley whose Successor in 1486. was by Henry VII created Earl of Darby And in this Family it still is wiâ—h the Title of Lord of Man being possessed by William Earl of Darby the Grandchild of James who in 1651. was beheaded for his Loyalty to Charles II. After which the Rebels by force reduced the Island under them it was restored to this Family in 1660. by Charles II. The Language here spoken is different from that of all His Majesties other Dominions being a mixture of Scotch Irish Danish and English but the Southern part nearer to the Scotch and the Northern to the Irish The first Bishop of Man is said to have been Amphibalus in 360. There are great Chasms in the Succession till 1203. and again from 1396. In 1505. Huamus
England Bounded on the North with the German Ocean on the East in part by the same Ocean in part by Suffolk on the South by the Rivers of VVaveney and the little Ouse which part it from Suffolk on the West with the great Ouse and towards Lincolnshire with that part of the Nene which passeth from VVisbich to the Washes It containeth in length from Yarmouth to VVisbich fifty Miles in breadth from Thetford to VVells thirty in circuit about two hundred and forty The Southern parts which are Wood Lands are fruitfull the Northern or Champain barren and dry In the whole are six hundred and sixty Parishes and thirty one Market Towns and besides the VVaveney and the Ouse watered by the Rivers Yare and Thryn It s Capital City Norwich The largest County next to Yorkshire in England and surpassing even Yorkshire in populousness In the time of the Heptarchy it was a part of the Kingdom of the East-Angles The first Earl of Norfolk was Ralph de VVaet Created in the Year 1075. After whom succeeded the Bigots from 1135 to 1270 in six Descents In 1313 Tho. de Brotherton a Son of Edward I. was made Earl of Norfolk Margaret his Daughter in 1398 was made Duchess whose Son Thomas Mowbray and his Descendents continued the Honor to the Year 1461. In 1475 Richard Duke of York was made Duke of Norfolk In 1483 John Lord Howard was vested with the same Honor in whose Family it now is Henry the present Duke of Norfolk being the ninth Duke of this Race Norimburgh See Nurenberg Norin a fort of Dalmatia betwixt the River Narenta and the branch thereof called Norin which returns into the bed of the Narenta again Under the Venetians Norkoping Norcopia a small City in Sweden between two Lakes five Miles from the Baltick Sea in the Province of Ostrogothia by the River Motala ten Miles from the Lake Veter East Normandy Neustria Normannia is a great and fruitful Province in France which has the Title of a Dukedom It has this name from the Normans who under Rollo their first Duke setled here in the time of Charles the Simple King of France Bounded on the North and West by the British Sea on the East by Picardy on the South by le Perche and le Maine It lies sixty six Leagues from East to West and from North to South about thirty the principal City in it is Roan or Roiien This Province is divided into twelve Counties but more usually into the Upper and Lower Normandy the former containing the Bailywicks of Roiien Eureux Caux and Gisors the other those of Alenzon Caen and Constantin It s principal Rivers are the Seine Eure Risle Dive Soule Ouve c. A cold Climate plentiful in Corn Cattel and Fruits but generally wanting Wine It yields some Mines of Iron and Brass together with Medicinal Waters Is better inhabited by Gentry than almost any other Province of France and reckons above a hundred Cities and a hundred and fifty great Towns standing in it Rollo the first Duke under whom the Normans besieged Paris three times obtained that Title in 912. from Charles the Simple who gave his Daughter in Marriage to him upon condition to hold Normandy in homage to the Crown William the base Son of Robert the sixth Duke Conquered England in 1066 by which means it was United to the Crown of England till 1202 when King John was outed of it Henry V. about 1420. reconquered this Duchy His Son lost it again about 1450. ever since which time it has been annexed to the Crown of France De Noort Caep Rubaea Rubeae Promontorium is the most Northern Point of Finmark and indeed of all Europe § There is a Cape of the same Name in Guiana in South America Nortgow Nortgovia a Province of Germany between Bohemia to the East the Danube to the East and South which parts it from Bavaria Schwaben and Franconia to the West and Voigtland to the North. The Capital of it is Norimburg This name in the German Tongue signifies the North Country It was the Seat of the antient People Nariscâ— North-Allerton A Market Town in the North-Riding of Yorkshire near the Stream Wisk which falls into the Swale The Capital of its Hundred Northamptonshire Northantonia is seated almost in the midst of England on the North it is parted from Lincolnshire by the River Weland on the East from Huntington by the Nene on the South it has Buckingham and Oxford and on the West Warwickshire separated by Watlingstreet a Roman way From North to South it is forty six Miles in length but not full twenty in breadth where broadest In the whole there are three hundred twenty six Parishes and thirteen Market Towns The Rivers Nen and VVeland have their rise in this County together with the Ouse The Air is temperate the Soil rich fruitful champain full of People The chief Town is Northampton pleasantly seated on the Bank of the River Nen where two Rivulets from the North and South fall into it which for its Circuit Beauty and Buildings may be compared with most of the Cities of England It was burnt by the Danes In the Wars in King John's time it suffered much from the Barons Near this City in 1460. Henry VI. was overthrown and first taken Prisoner by Edward IV. In 1261 the Students of Cambridge are said to have removed hither by the King's Warrant with Intentions to have setled the University here In the Reign of King Charles II. Sept. 1675. it was totally destroyed by Fire but by the favour of that gracious Prince and the chearful Contributions of good People soon rebuilt Long. 19. 40. Lat. 52. 36. To omit the more ancient Families VVilliam Lord Compton was created Earl of Northampton by King James I. in 1618. The present Earl George is the fourth of this Noble Family Northausen Northusia an Imperial Free City of Germany in Thuringia upon the River Zorge between Erford to the South and Halberstad to the North eight German Miles from either This City is under the Protection of the Elector of Saxony and said to have been built by Meroveus I. King of the Franks in the Year of Christ 447. The North Foreland Cantium a Cape of the Isle of Thaâ—â—â—â— in Kent famous for a Sea Fight between the English and the Dutch in 1666. When the brave Duke of Albemarle with only two Squadrons of the English Fleet maintained a Fight against the whole Dutch Fleet of an hundred Sail two days together Prince Rupert coming up in the Evening of the second day the English fell again the third on the Dutch Fleet and beat them home which all things considered was the most wonderful Naval Fight that ever was fought upon the Ocean Northumberland Northumbria is parted on the South by the Derwent and the Tyne from the Bishoprick of Durham on the East it has the German Ocean on the North Scotland on the West Scotland and Cumberland it has the form of a Triangle
Empire it fell into the hands of the Saracens who in the seventh and eighth Century possessed most of the Islands in the Mediterranean Sea In 809. Pepin Father of Charles the Great recovered this Island out of their hands which after this was the subject of a long War between the States of Genoua and Pisa till at last Pope Boniface VIII granted it to James II. King of Arragon about 1296. who after many Wars obtained the quiet possession of it in 1326. or as Hoffman saith in 1409 Ever since it has been in that Family Frederick II. has also given it the Title of a Kingdom The Soil is very fruitful but the Air equally unhealthful or pestilential rather insomuch that the Common-wealth and the Emperours of the Romans banished such persons to this Island as they desired to have dead without Sword or Poyson The Rivers Cedro and Tirso divide it into two parts called the Cape de Lugodori and Cap de Cagliari for its sertility it was called the Nurse of Rome by Valerius Maximus yet those parts of the Island to the North and East are mountainous and barren The rest are Algher Castel Aragonese Bosa Ostagni Terra Nova Sacer and Iglesias A Vice-Roy for the King of Spain governs this Island Sardica See Sofia Sardis the ancient Metropolis of Lydia in the Lesser Asia Not to speak of its being the Capital of the Kingdom of the famous Gyges Cyrus we find took it in the fifty ninth Olympiad and with it submitted all Lydia to his Empire In the sixty ninth Olympiad about the year of Rome 250. Aristagoras with twenty Athenian Ships took and burnt it After this it was rebuilt and passed under the Empire of the Greeks In the year of Rome 540. Antiochus conquered it In S. John the Apostle's time it received Christianity but for its inconstancy therein became one of the Subjects of his Revelations and now utterly ruined It was a Bishops See Sarduni Planasia an Island on the Coast of Provence in the Mediterranean Sea Sare Sarvus a River of the Low-Countries called Sara by Venantius Fortunatus by the Germans die Saare by the French Sare it ariseth in Mount Vauge in the Borders of Lorain and Alsatia near the Town of Salme and running Northward it watereth Sareck Serwerdon S. Jean Sarsberg and a little above Trier from the South-East falls into the Moselle Sarepta an ancient City of Phoenicia in Syria which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tyre Now called Sarafends or Saphet The Prophet Elias miraculously augmented the Widows Oyl and raised her dead Son to life at this place according to the History of the Old Testament Sargasso or Mar do Sargasso is that part of the Ocean which lies betwixt the Islands of Cape Verde the Canaries and the Continent of Africa so called by the Portugueze Sargathia the Asiatick Tartary a vast Country in Asia Sarisbury or Salisbury or New Sarum Sarisberia Sorviodunum Sarviodunum Severia is the principal City of Wiltshire seated in the North-West part of that County near the Borders of Hampshire and Dorsetshire upon the Rivers of Willey and Alan united into one Stream and falling presently into the Avon in such sort as that most of the Streets of this City have a Stream commodiously running through the midst of them This was anciently a Roman Town by the name of Sorbiodunum seated on a high Hill and therefore destitute of Water Kinrick King of the West Saxons was the first of that Race who possessed it after a Defeat of the Britains in 553. Canutus the Dane much damaged it by Fire in 1003. In the Reign of William the Conquerour it recovered after Herman Bishop of Shirburn had removed the See hither whose next Successor Osman built the Cathedral William the Conquerour summoned hither all the States of England to take an Oath of Allegiance to him Since those times the City is removed Northward and come down into the Plains nearer the Avon Here there was a second Cathedral begun by Richard Poore Bishop of this See in 1218. Finished by Bridport the third Bishop from Poore in 1258. which is one of the greatest and most beautiful Churches in England Having twelve Gates fifty two Windows three hundred sixty five Pillars great and small answering to the Months Weeks and Days of the year The glory of this Diocese was the most Learned and Industrious Bishop John Jewel consecrated Jan. 21. 1559. died Sept. 23. 1571. In 1153. Patrick d'Eureux was created Earl of Salisbury and his Son William succeeded in that Honour In 1â—97 William Long-espee a Natural Son to Henry II. by the beautiful Râ—samond marrying Ella the Daughter of William d' Eureux had this Honour In 1333. William d' Montacute King of Man became the fifth Earl whose Male Line in four Descents enjoyed the Honour till the year 1428. when it passed to Richard Nevil who married Eleanor the Daughter of Thomas Montacute Lord Chancellour In 1472. George Duke of Clarence second Brother to Edward IV. had it in Marriage with Isabel Daughter of Richard Nevil the second Earl of that Line In 1477. Edward eldest Son of Richard III. married Ann the second Daughter of the said Richard and had this Honour In 1514. Margaret Daughter of George Duke of Clarence was by Henry VIII created Countess of Salisbury In 1605. Robert Lord Cecil was by James I. created Earl of Salisbury in which Line it still is Sarlat Sarlatum a City of Aquitain in France in the Province of Perigort which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux It stands upon a River of the same Name one League from the Dordonne betwixt the Dordogne and the Vezere as it were in an Island eight from Perigueux to the South-East and thirty from Bourdeaux to the North-East Made a Bishops See by Pope John XXII in 1317. by the change of its ancient Benedictine Abbey into a Cathedral having before been a part of the Diocese of Perigueux It is so strongly situated as to withstand two Sieges in the Civil Wars in 1652. Sarmatia and Sauromatia This vast Region in ancient Geography was divided into Sarmatia Asiatica Europaea and Germanica Sarmatia Asiatica lay properly towards the Borders of Europe and Asia with the Northern Ocean to the North the Pontus Euxinus to the South Scythia to the East and Sarmatia Europaea to the West now contained in the Northern Muscovia in the Provinces of Samoyeda Duina Permski Lucomeria c. Sarmatia Europea had for Bounds both the other Sarmatia's with the Euxine Sea making now Russia And Sarmatia Germanica took up the greatest part of the present Kingdom of Poland being divided from the European Sarmatia by the Nieper to the East from the Borders of Germany by the Vistula to the West from Dacia by the Neister and the Carpathian Mountains to the South with the Baltick Sea and the Gulph of Finland to the North. Sarnagans Sarnagan Sargans Serlandt a Town and County in Switzerland subject to the seven
Sucheu Sucheum a City of China in the Province of Queycheu Sucheu a City of China in the Province of Nankim Suching a City of China in the Province of Quamsi now under the King of Tunkim Suchuen a large Province in the Kingdom of China lying towards the South-West Borders of that Kingdom upon India and the Kingdom of Thibet Bounded on the North by Xensi on the East by Huquam on the South by Queycheu and on the West by the Further East-Indies the principal City of it is Chingtu It contains eight great Cities one hundred twenty four small Cities and four hundred sixty four thousand one hundred twenty eight Families The River Kiang divides it in two It suffered very much in the last Wars with the Tartars Suchzow Suczova a City of Moldavia or as Baudrand saith in Walachia upon the River Stretch in the Borders of Transylvania fifty Miles from Jassy to the West Always kept by a strong Garrison of the Turks in whose Hands it has been for some Ages Suda Amphimalia a Sea-Port Town at the North End of the Isle of Candy which has a strong Castle and a good Harbor Sudbury Colonia That is The South Town supposed to have had this name in opposition to Norwich or the North Town and to have been in ancient time the Capital or County Town It is feated upon the River Stour in the Borders of Essex in the County of Suffolk with a fair Bridge over the Stour leading into Essex and three Parish Churches A Mayor Town rich and populous by reason of a considerable Clothing Trade here driven especially in Sayes about fifteen Miles from Ipswich to the West and forty from London to the North represented by two Burgesses in Parliament The Honourable Henry Fitz-Roy late Duke of Grafton was Baron of Sudbury Sudermanland Sudermannia a County in the Kingdom of Sweden called by the Natives Sodermanland Bounded on the North by Westmannia and Vpsall on the South by the Baltick Sea It has the Honor to be a Dukedom of great Esteem being born by the Royal Family of that Kingdom The principal Places in it are Nicoping Stregnes and Trosa Suelli Suellis a very small City in the Isle of Sardinia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cagliari from which it stands fifteen Miles reduced almost to a Village Sueonie Suevonia a considerable part of the Kingdom of Sweden between Lapland to the North the Baltick Sea and Bay of Botnen to the East Gothia to the South and Norway to the West It contains ten Counties The Capital of it is the Royal City of Stockholm Sues Suez Arsinoe Cleopatris Posidium is a City or Sea-Port Town of Egypt in the bottom of the Red Sea containing about two hundred Houses and has a pretty Harbour but so shallow that a Ship cannot enter it nor a Galley till half unloaded but the Road is safe It has a Baraque rail'd with Timber Palissadoes thirteen Culverins and as many Cannons for its security It has a Greek Church an old ruin'd Castle and some indifferent Houses When the Ships or Galleys come in it is pretty Populous at other times almost desolate Thevenot Part I. pag. 176. Long. 63. 20. Lat. 29. 10. The Aethiopian Merchants with Spices Pearl Amber Musk precious Stones and other rarities out of India rendesvouz here Whence they transport them upon Camels to Cairo and Alexandria and there sell them to the Venetians and other Christian Merchants The Country environing this City is a sandy Desart which forces the Inhabitants to seek their Provisions elsewhere and their water at two Leagues distance The Isthmus betwixt the Mediterranean and the Red Sea separating Egypt from Arabia receiveth the name of the Isthmus of Suez from this Port. Suevi the ancient Inhabitants of the present Circle of Schwaben in Germany who in conjunction with the Vandals and the Alani about the year 406 entred and pillaged divers Provinces of the Gauls thence in 409 passing into Spain settled into a Kingdom in Galicia and Portugal under Hermericus their first King who died about 440 and was succeeded by eight other Kings till about the year 585. Leuvigildus King of the VVisegoths conquered and united their Estates of the Suevi to his own Suffolk Suffolcia is bounded on the E. by the German Sea on the N. by the Waveney and the little Ouse which rise in the middle of its bounds the first running East and the second West divide it from Norfolk on the West by Cambridgeshire and on the South by Essex severed from it by the Stoure It lies in the form of a Crescent The length from East to West about forty five Miles the breadth thirty the whole circumference of it is about one hundred and forty containing five hundred and seventy five Parishes and thirty Market Towns the Air mild and healthful the Soil rich level and fruitful such as yields abundance of Corn of all sorts Pease Hemp Pasturage and Wood. The more inland part is commonly called High Suffolk or the VVoodlands This County reckons nigh fifty Parks in it The Orwell Ore Blithe Deben and Breton contribute their streams for the watering of it with the three former Rivers its Boundaries The ancient Iceni a British tribe and afterwards the East-Angles possessed it in the several times of the Romans and the Saxon Heptarchy The principal places in it are Ipswich Bury and Sudbury The Marquesses or Earls of this County were Robert de Vfford or Clifford in 1335. VVilliam his Son in 1369. Michael de la Pole Lord Chancellor Created Earl in 1379. VVilliam de la Pole the IV. in this Line was made Duke of Suffolk by Henry VI. Edmond the VIII in this Line was the last of that name Beheaded by Henry VIII about 1510. In 1513 Charles Brandon Viscount Lisle was Created Duke of Suffolk who by Mary second Sister of Henry VIII had Henry Brandon who died a Child In 1551 Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset having married Francis Daughter of Charles Brandon was made Duke of Suffolk he was Beheaded in the Reign of Queen Mary in 1553. This was the last Duke of Suffolk In 1603. King James I. Created Thomas Lord Howard of VValden Earl of Suffolk to whom James Lord Howard the III. of this Line succeeded in 1640. Sugen Sugenum a City formerly part of the Province of Quamsi and belonging to China now under the King of Tunkin who has fortified it very strongly Sulmona or Solmona Sulmo a City of great Antiquity in the Province of Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples upon the River Sangro Sarus Eight Miles from the Borders of Abruzzo to the East almost seventy from Naples to the North and near ninety from Rome to the East It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Theatino and a principality belonging to the House of Borghese The Birth-place of Ovid the Latin Poet who tells us its distance from Rome and praises it for its Streams in Sulmo mihi Patria est gelidis
celebrated here Tortosa Antaradus Orthosia Constantia a City of Phoenicia upon the Mediterranean Sea which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tyre between Balanca to the North thirty four Miles and Tripoli to the South twenty eight Now almost intirely deserted and ruined by the Turks Tosa Athiso a River of Milan which ariseth from S. Gothard's Mount and flowing South watereth Ocella and Vogogna then burieth it self in the Lake called il Lago Maggiore or Long-See Toscana Hetruria Thuscia Tuscia a very considerable Province of Italy containing the greatest part of the ancient Hetruria Bounded on the North by the Apennine on the West by the River Magra and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the South and East by the Tyber the Clain and the Marta It contains that space which made up the States of Florence Siena Pisa and Lucca but so that this last is still a Free State whereas the three former are subject to the Duke of Florence on which account this Country is frequently called the Dukedom of Florence The Capital of it is Florence For the History see Florence c. This Country was conquered by the Romans in the year of Rome 455. Toscanella Tuscia Tuscania Tyrrhenia Salumbrona an antient and considerable City heretofore in the Dukedom of its own name in Italy which was a Bishops See and gave all these Popes to the Church of Rome Eutichianus Paschal I. Leo I. John I. Lucius III. Leo VI. Boniface VI. and Paul III. It had been besieged sixteen times Now entirely ruined and its See united with Viterbo Totness a Corporation in Devonshire in the Hundred of Colridge upon the River Dart six Miles from the Fall thereof into the Ocean It had the honour to be an Earldom in the Person of George Lord Carew of Clopton Son of Dr. George Carew Dean of Windsor and Archdeacon of Totness created Earl of Totness by K. Charles I. in 1625 who dying without Issue K. Charles II. advanced this Place from an Earldom to a Viscounty in favour of his Son Charles Fitz-Charles Earl of Plymouth Toul Tullum a City of Lorain upon the Moselle five Leagues from Nancey to the West six from Bar le Duc and twelve from Mets to the South Made an Imperial and Free City by Henry I. But in 1652 fell into the Hands of the French It is also a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Trier Charles the Bald King of France celebrated a Council here in 859. In 1515. and 1615. other Synods were held at this City Toulon Tolonium Tolenium Taurentium Telo a City of Provence in France called by the Italians Tolone It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Arles well fortified populous inriched by a large and safe Harbour and a great naval Magazine being the station for the Mediterranean Fleets of France It stands ten Leagues from Marseilles to the East and in an improving condition Henry IV. King of France walled it and added two Moles to the Port. Toupinambous Tupinimbae Toropinambartii Indians of Brasil in South America Touque Tolca a River of Normandy which watereth Lisieux and Pont l' Evesque and then falls into the British Sea Touraine Turonia Turones a Province in France in the Generalité of Orleans which is divided by the Loyre and honored with the Title of a Dukedom Little about thirty Leagues long and broad but very fruitful and well watered with the Loyre Cher Indre Indrois Vienne c. therefore called the Garden of France On the North it is bounded by La Maine on the West by Anjou and Poictou on the South by the last and le Berry and on the East by Blaisois The principal Places are Tours Amboise Chinon and Loches Tournay Tornacum a City of Gallia Celtica now in Flanders and called by the Natives Dornick It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cambray ever since 1559 having before been under the Archbishop of Reims and in more antient times about 623. united with the See of Noyon which continued till the year 1147. or 48. when Pope Eugenius III. at the Prayer of S. Bernard made it a separate Bishoprick This City stands upon the Schelde nine Leagues from Cambray to the North and ten from Gant to the South in the middle between Donay and Oudenard also between Valencienne and Courtray in the Borders of Hainault It is a very strong Place and has a noble Castle said to have been anciently built by the English It belonged to the Crown of France till 1521 taken by Charles V. In 1667. it was retaken by the French and has been ever since in their Hands by the Peace at Aix la Chapelle Antoninus mentions it in his Itinerary It hath besides the Cathedral ten Parishes ten Abbeys and divers Religious Houses In 1520. and 1643. Synods were assembled here There is a Territory belonging to it called by its Name Tournon Turnonium Taurodunum a Town in the Province of Vivaretz in France upon the Rhone adorned with the Title of an Earldom a Collegiate Church a College of the Jesuits and some Religious Houses Tours Turonâ—m Caesarodumâ—n Turones Turonium a great City in France the Capital of Touraine and an Archbishops See It stands upon the River Loyre which is there covered by a very long beautiful Stone Bridge On the other side it is washed by the Cher toward the South So that it stands between the two Rivers almost twenty four Leagues from Orleans to the West eighteen from Poictiers to the North and from Mans to the South A Place of great Beauty Clotild King of France died here in 537. And Carloman in â—85 Near this Place Charles Martell overthrew an Army of four hundred thousand Sarazens three hundred seventy five thousand of which perished in that Battel in 726 the Germans and Lombards joyning with the Francks Pope Alexander III. with Lewis VII King of France called le Jenue seventeen Cardinals a hundred and twenty four Bishops and four hundred and fourteen Abbots celebrated a Council here in 1153. against the Emperor The Protestants of France were first called Hugonots in this City Touvre Tolvera a famous Fountain and River in France in the Dukedom of Angoumois which falls into the Charente near Angoulesine Towcester a Market Town in Northamptonshire The Capital of its Hundred in a Valley upon the Banks of a small River running into the Ouse Mr. Cambden understands it to be the antient Tripontium to which three Bridges over so many streams of this River cutting through the Roman Port-way which shews it self often betwixt this Place and Stony Stratford assigned that Name In the year 917. the Danes besieged this Town in vain It is adorned with a fair Church The Tower of Babel The Prospects to the North and South of the Ruines of this famous Fabrick taken upon the Place by Petro della Valle are engraved by Kircher to whom he presented them in his Book Turris Babel written purposely upon them They are believed to be the Ruins of Babel
Mount Hemus dividing Macedonia from Thrace Kassel See Cassel Katsbach Cattus a River in Silesia which washeth Lignitz Kaufbeurn Kaufbura a City in the Circle of Schwaben in Germany in the Territory of Algow upon the River Wertach between the Bishoprick of Ausburg to the East and the Territory of the Abbat of Kempten not above sixteen Miles from the Confines of Bavaria to the West eight from Ausburg to the South and five from Nimmeguen to the East This Town bought its Liberty of Conrade II. Emperour of Germany at the price of fifty thousand Crowns when it had been two hundred years in the Possession of the Barons Uon Hoff who coming out of France into the Service of Lotharius the Emperour built it in 1340. It embraced the Reformation in 1624. Kaunberg See Haynburgh Keci Daona the Capital City of the Kingdom of Tunking in the East-Indies Kederminster or Kidderminster a Market Town in Worcestershire in the Hundred of Halfshire upon the River Stower over which it has a Bridge well inhabited and traded for its Stuffs and beautified with a fair Church Keisers-Lautern Caesaropolis a City in the Palatinate of the Rhine upon the River Lauter near the Dukedom of Bipont six Leagues from Spire to the West a little less from Worms called by the French Caseloutre it has a Castle and a Territory or Jurisdiction belonging to it which surrendred to the Marquess de Boufflers the thirtieth of September 1688. Kelaggebar See Petra Keldan Chaldaea a Province of Asia in Assyria towards the Conjunction of the Euphrates and Tygris often called Babylonia from its Capital City This Province which lay all on the West of the Euphrates and Tygris by the taking of Bagdat fell under the Dominion of the Turks whereas before it was under the Persians The Principal Cities in it are Bagdat Cufa and Vaset It is now called Yerach Arabi and Kaldar Kelh or Kill Kylli Celbis a rapid River of Germany much celebrated for plenty of Fish and Corn Mills It washeth Gerhardstein Kilburgh and Erang then falls into the Maes beneath Treves almost over against the Mouth of the Roer or Rober. This River is called Rapidus Celbis in Ausonius Kellen Trdjana Colonia once a City now a Village in the Dukedom of Cleves Keller Ampt the Territory belonging to the City of Zell in the Bishoprick of Breme upon the River Aller See Zell Kelnsey Ocellum a Promontory in the South of the East Riding of Yorkshire commonly called Holderness upon the North side of the Humber over against Saltfleet in Lincolnshire See Holderness Kemach Camachus a City of Cilicia in the Lesser Asia in the Borders of the Lesser Armenia which was made a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Constantinople by Leo the Emperour Now a mean Village under the slavery of the Turks Baudrand writes it Chemach Kemois a People in Chochin-China Kempen or Kampen a Territory in Brabant which was of old the Seat of the Toxandri by the latter Latin Writers called Campinia It is called by the Flandrians Het Kempelandt The greatest part of it lies in the North of the Bishoprick of Liege towards the Maes and the District of Boisleduc and contains also the South part of the Counties of Lootz and Hoorn in which are the Towns of Masark Bering c. The lasser part of it lies in the Dukedom of Brabant in the Territory of Boisleduc between Peeland Osterwick and the Kempen in Liege The only Town of any Note in this part is Eyndhoven which is in the Hands of the Hollanders See Eyndhoven Kempten Drusomagus Campodunum Campidona a City of Schwaben in Germany in the Territory of Algow It is one of the most ancient Cities of Germany being mentioned by Ptolemy and had heretofore a Castle called the Burghald which is now pulled down and ruined This was the Seat of the old Dukes of Schwaben amongst which Hildebrand was of great fame whose Daughter Hildegard marrying to Charles the Great founded here a Monastery the Abbat of which as a Prince of the Empire was Lord of the City till the Inhabitants purchased their Liberty of one of them with a vast sum of Mony after which it was annexed to the Empire and in 1625. obtained a Charter from Frederick III. who gave them an Eagle for their Arms one half Gold with a Crown Maximilian I. and Charles V. both determined the Controversies between them and their Abbot It is now governed by a mixture of an Aristocracy and a Democracy and it embraced the Reformation in 1530. This City is seated upon the River Iler which falls into the Danube over against Vlm five German Miles from Memmingen to the South twelve from Constance to the East and twelve from Vlm to the South The Monastery founded by Hildegardis was of the Order of St. Benedict Ken or Kan a River of Westmorland on which Kendall stands having two Cataracts descending with a great noise near that place Kenchester Ariconium a desolate Roman Town in Herefordshire in the Hundred of Grimsworth Kendal a Town Earldom and Barony in Westmorland seated upon the West side of the River Ken or Kan in the South part of that County in a fruitful Valley The Town is not great but rich being a place of Trade and the Inhabitants very industrious in making Cloaths It has two fair Stone Bridges over the River and another of Wood. Also a large Church to which belong twelve Chappels of Ease and a Free-School endowed with Exhibitions for Scholars going thence to Queen's College in Oxon and seven Halls for so many respective Companies of Tradesmen John Duke of Bedford Regent of France and Brother to Henry V. was by him created Earl of Kendale John de Foix received the same Title from King Henry VI. Queen Catharine the sixth Wife to King Henry VIII was born in a Castle here whose ruins may yet be seen The Barony is in the Earl of Pembroke The Ward called Kendal Ward takes its Name from this place Kenelworth a large beautiful strong Castle in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Knightlow which in the Reign of Henry III. stood a Siege of six Months and being at last surrendred there was here a Proclamation issued out That all that had born Arms against the King should pay five years Rent of their Land which was called Dictum de Kenelworth In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth it was given to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester who spent very freely in the Repair of it so that it was then the second or third Castle of England Kenet a River in Wiltshire running Westward thence through Berkshire into the Thames at Reading where a fair Bridge covers it Newbury and Hungerford are both seated upon it Kenkis Anchialo Anohialus a City of Thrace which is an Archbishops See and has a Haven upon the Mouth of the River Eriginus upon the Euxine fifteen Miles from Mesember to the South-East It is under the Turks and not expressed in our latest Maps Kensington a Town in Middlesex in
or Wedge containing in length from North to South about forty Miles in breadth where it is the broadest thirty in the whole four hundred and sixty Parishes and only six Market Towns The Air is cold and sharp the Soil barren and rugged but much improved by the Industry of its Inhabitants and chiefly towards the Sea fertile The Bowels of the Earth are full of Coal Mines whence a great part of England â—s supplied with that Fewel The principal Places in â—â— are Newcastle and Berwick George Fitz-Roy a Natural Son of Charles II. was created Duke of Northumberland in 1674. Which Title had been once before enjoyed by John Dudley Earl of Warwick created Duke of Northumberland by K. Edward VI. in 1551. and beheaded by Q. Mary After the death of the said John the Title of Earl of Northumberland returned to the Percies in whose Family as it had heretofore belong'd to them from the Year 1337 when Henry Piercy Lord Constable possessed it under K. Richard II. and was succeeded in it by five of his Name and Family with little interruption so it continued till the Year 1670 when Joceline Piercy died at Turin without Issue Male. North-Curry a Market Town in Somersetshire upon the River Tone and the Capital of its Hundred Northwich a Market Town in Cheshire upon the River Dane which runs into the Weeve the Capital of its Hundred Its Salt-pits render it remarkable Norway Norvegia Nerigon Basilia is a Kingdom of great extent on the North-Western Shoar of Europe called by the Inhabitants Norricke and by Contraction Norke by the Germans Norwegen Heretofore esteemed the Western part of Scandinavia and called Nerigon as Cluverius saith it reaches from the Entrance of the Baltick Sea to almost the North Cape but not of equal breadth On the East a long Ridge of Mountains always covered with Snow called Sevones separate it from Sweden Barren and Rocky or overgrown with vast and unpassable Woods It s length is about one thousand and three hundred English Miles and two hundred and fifty its breadth Divided into five Provinces Aggerhus Bergensus Dronthemhus VVardhus and Bahus The Inhabitants traffick abroad with Dryed Fish Whales Grease and Timber Of the same Religion with the Danes and some of them enclined to Magick like the Laplanders The Glama is the only River in this Kingdom that is sufficient to carry Vessels of great burden In 1646. a discovery was made of a golden Mine near Opslow which was quickly exhausted Bahus was resigned to the King of Sweden in 1658. There depend upon this Kingdom several Islands as Iseland Groenland Spitzberg the Isles of Feroe and those of Orkney the latter whereof were resigned to James VI. of Scotland The principal Cities are Drontheim and Berghen This had Kings of its own from very ancient times but in 1326. it was first united to Denmark in the Person of Magnus III. In 1376. they became so united that they were never since separated Norwich Nordovicum Norvicum is a rich populous neat City in the middle of the County of Norfolk seated at the confluence of the Venster or Vensder and the Yare over which it hath several Bridges This City sprung up out of the Ruins of Venta Icenorum now called Caster in which not many years since was found a vast number of Roman Urns. When or by whom Norwich was built is not known it seems to be a Saxon City it was certainly the Seat of some of the Kings of the East-Angles In its Infancy Sueno a Dane burnt it in 1004. In the Reign of VVilliam the Conqueror it was besieged and taken by Famine Herbert Bishop of this Diocese contributed to its growth by removing the Bishops Chair from Thetford hither about 1096. In the seventeenth year of King Stephen's Reign it was refounded and made a Corporation The Castle is thought to have been built in the Reign of Henry II. Taken by the French in the Reign of King John In the Reign of Edward I. it was walled by the Citizens Henry IV. in 1403. granted them a Mayor Afterwards it began to decay till Queen Elizabeth sent the Dutch Stuff Weavers who sled over into England from the cruel Government of the Duke d'Alva hither whereupon it grew very populous and rich There was great need of this supply one Kett a Tanner of VVindham having almost ruined this City about 1548. in the Reign of Edward VI. The present Bishop of Norwich is the seventy first from Bedwinus of Elmham the seventy fifth from Foelix the first Bishop of the East-Angles who began the Bishoprick in 636. Long. 24. 55. Lat. 52. 40. This City being about a Mile and a half in length and half as much in breadth contains twenty Parishes well walled with several Turrets and twelve Gates for Entrance and so pleasantly intermixt with Houses and Trees that it looks like an Orchard and a City within each other It gives the Title of Earl to the Duke of Norfolk whose Palace with that of the Bishop the Cathedral the Hospital c. are the principal Ornaments of its Buildings Noto Netum Nea Nectum Neetum a City of Sicily of great Antiquity and at this time great well inhabited the Capital of the Province called by its name It is incompassed with high Rocks and sleep Valleys being seated on the South side of Iseland Eight Miles from the Sea fifteen from Pachy no to the South-West and twenty five from Syracuse to the South Il Val di Noto Netina Vallis the Province in which the last mentioned City stands is the second Province of Sicily and lies on the South side of the Island On the North it has Il Valle di Demona on the West il Val di Mazara and on the South the African Sea Notteberg Notteburgum a Town in Ingria in Sweden seated on an Island in the Lake Ladoga towards the Confines of Moscovy Called Oreska by the Russ A very strong Town by its Situation yet Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden took it from the Moscovites in 1614. It takes its name from Nutts Nottinghamshire Nottinghamia is bounded on the North and West by Yorkshire on the East by Lincolnshire divided from it by the Trent on the South by Leicestershire on the West by Darbyshire It is in length thirty eight English Miles from North to South in breadth from East to West not above nineteen and in Circuit about an hundred and ten containing 168 Parishes and nine Market Towns The Air is good and pleasing the Soil rich Sand and Clay so that for Corn or Grass it may compare with any County of England it abounds equally with Wood and Coals and is watered with the Rivers Trent and Iddle besides several small Streams This County takes its name from its principal Town Nottingham Rhage a delicate pleasant Town seated on a high Hill full of fine Streets and good Buildings upon the River Line towards the South Borders of this County and about a Mile from the Trent to the West
Champagne sixteen from Reims North and four from Marle South often mentioned on the account of a Peace here made between Henry IV. of France and Philip II. of Spain May 2. 1598. Uerâ—lam Verolamium an ancient Roman City and Colony mentioned by Tacitus and Ptolemy in Hartfondshire the Royal City of Cassibellanus a British Prince contemporary with Julius Caesar by whom this City was taken fifty two years before the Birth of our Saviour in his second Expedition into Britain In the year of Christ 66. it was taken and intirely ruined by Boadicia Queen of the Iceni and all the Romans put to the Sword yet it recovered again and flourished as long as the Romans continued in Britain and under Dioclesian had one famous Martyr called Albanus In 429 there was a British Synod held here by S. German Bishop of Auxerre in France against the Pelagians Soon after it fell into the Hands of the Saxons I suppose about 465. Retaken by Vthe Pendragon who began his Reign in 498. and Reigned eighteen years Again retaken by the Saxons and intirely ruined In 975. Offa King of the Mercians built on the other side the little River Ver which washed the Walls of it a goodly Monastery in Honour of S. Alban which after became a great Town K. James I. revived the Memory of this place when he made Sir Francis Bacon then Lord Chancellour of England Lord Verulam in 1620 who dying without Issue the Title failed but he yet honors the place by lying buried in a little Church near it Veruli or Veroli Verulum a City in Campania di Roma under the Dominion of the Pope which is a Bishops See and now in a tolerable condition upon the River Cosa forty eight Miles from Rome to the South and from Capua to the North sixty from Pescara West Vesere See Weser Vesle Vidula a River of Champagne which ariseth three Leagues from Chaalons to the East and watering Reims falls into the Aisne Vesoul Vesulum a small but neat City in the Franche Comté nine Leagues from Besanzon and thirteen from Beaucaire West Now in the Possession of the French Vesprin Vesprinum Vesprimium a City of the Lower Hungary called by the Inhabitants Vesprim by the Germans Weisbrun It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gran. The Capital of a County of the same name strong and populous and defended by a Castle Seated on the River Sarwize eleven German Miles from Gran South and five from Alba Regalis West This has been in the hands of the Emperour ever since 1565. Vesulus one of the Cottian Alpes betwixt Dauphine to the West and Piedmont to the East Now called Mont viso The River Po derives its head from it Vesuvius a Vulcanoe in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples eight Miles from the City Naples near the Castle of Somma from which last place the Italians give it the name of il Monte di Somma The particular times of its overflowing with stormes of fire are all recorded in History since our Saviour and the Reign of Augustus viz. in the years 81. 243. 421. 985. 973. 983. 1036. 1038. 1138. 1139. 1430. 1500. 1631 1660. 1682. Where the Intervals sometimes continue two or three hundred years at others not above one two and ten In its last rupture in 1682. Aug. 14. it covered the whole Dukedom of Massa adjacent with ashes of a nauseous odour and set on fire the wood of Otajano The twentieth it caused an Earthquake of three hours continuance which reached to Naples The twenty second it cast forth floods of smoak ashes coals attended with a roaring noise Flames Earthquake and Thunder the Flames ran from it unextinguished in the midst of vast storms of Rain filling Naples with Ashes And on the 24th it ended in a cloud of white ashes Before the Reign of Augustus we read of its ruptures five times The Elder Pliny was suffocated as he searched the causes thereof upon the place Veteravie See Weteraw Veuxin Vexin Velocasses a Territory in Normandy betwixt the Rivers Apte and Ardelle the Capital of which was Roan but now Gisors § There is another in the Isle of France of the same name between the Oyse and the Apte the Capital of which is Pontoise This for distinction is called Vexin Francois and the other Vexin Normand § There is a City of the same name in Gothland in the Kingdom of Sweden Vezelay Veseliacum Vizeliacum a City in the Dukedom of Burgundy in Auxerre upon the River Curez in the Borders of Nivernois ten Leagues from Auxerre to the South eighteen from Nevers to the South-East and five from Corbie in Picardy to which Province this City is now added P. Eugenius III. celebrated a Council here in 1145. for the recovery of the Holy Land Vgenti Vgento Vxentum a small City in the Province of Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples twenty Miles from Otranto to the North-West and eleven from Gallipoli to the East Long. 42. 28. Lat. 39. 56. Vgogh Vgoza a County in the Vpper Hungary towards the Tibiscus and the Borders of Transylvania The Capital of it is a Castle of the same name Two German Miles from Zatmar to the East and a little more from the Tibiscus W. Viana a City in Navarre upon the River Ebro thirteen Leagues from Pampelune and seven from Calahorra in Castile to the South-West Built by Sancius King of Navarre in 1219. In 1423. made a Principality by Charles III. and ever after given to the Prince of Navarre as his Title Viatka a City River and Province in Muscovy one hundred and twenty Miles from Cazan to the North. Viburg Viburgum a City in Sweden the Capital of Carelia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Riga one hundred and sixty Miles from Narva to the North upon the Bay of Finland on which it has a Haven and a strong Castle The Muscovites have several times in vain assaulted it Vicenza or Vincenza Vicentia Vicetia Vincentia a City in the States of Venice in Lombardy which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja a great strong City under the Republick of Venice upon the River Bachiglione Eighteen Miles from Padoua thirty from Verona East and from Feltria South Taken by Maximilian in 1509. Long. 33. 40. Lat. 44. 50. It was inhabited anciently by the Euganei The Gauls were Benefactors to it The Romans and the Lombards possessed it each in the times of their Power It fell to the Venetians not till after great revolutions and divers Wars The pleasantness of its situation gives it the Title of the Garden of Venice It is the Capital of the Territory of the Vincentine In 1583. and 1623. Synods were assembled here Vich Vicus Aquae Voconiae Ausa Nova Corbio a small City in Catalonia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona Seated upon the River Tera twelve Leagues from Barcellone to the North and nine from Girone to the West In 1627. a Synod was