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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

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.

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.

other Five hundred thousand from the Coronet Lands The Imperial or Hans Towns I. THE Free or Hans Towns are to the number of about sixty They are called Imperial because they owe homage to the Emperour They are called Hans Towns haply because the Assembly which is held among them for deliberating together in the old German Language is called Hansa Their Body has two Voices at the Diets II. They have for Arms an Eagle III. The Capital Hans Towns are Lubec Collein Brunswick and Dantzick The Archives of all the Confederate Towns are at Lubec which is the Capital of all the Hans League and has the right of assembling all the others with the advice of the five next neighbouring Towns of the Association There is not a City in the northern parts of Germany which can equalise this for the beauty and uniformity of the Houses which are all built of Brick the pleasant Gardens fair Streets delightful Walks without the Walls c. The whole is in Compass about six Miles The Empire contains above Three hundred Principalities and Lordships It s divided into Ten Circles Austria Bavaria Suabia Alsatia or the Upper Rhine the Electorate or the Lower Rhine Westphalia Upper Saxony Lower Saxony Franconia and Burgundy Alsatia and Burgundy are now in the French Possession These Circles Compose the General Diets of the Empire where all affairs are determined The first body is that of the Electors The second is that of the other Princes be they Seculars or Ecclesiastical The third is that of the Free Franc or Imperial Towns Among the many Sovereign Princes of Germany who are Feudatory to the Empire the principal are the eight Electors who have power to choose by their Suffrages the Emperours of Germany and their younger Sons take place in Germany of the other Princes Three of these Electors are Church-men viz. The Arch-Bishops of Mentz Triers and Collin Five are Layicks viz. The King of Bohemia the Duke of Bavaria the Duke of Saxony the Marquess of Brandenburg the Count Palatine of the Rhine The Elector of Mentz I. ANselmus-Franciscus-Fredericus of Ingelheim Arch-Bishop of Mentz Prince and Elector of the Empire great Chancellour of Germany and Legate of course to the See of Rome was elected Nov. 17. 1679. being then forty five years of Age. Before his Election he was Arch-Priest of Mentz and Governour of Erfort He is the seventy first Arch-Bishop of Mentz forty Bishops having preceded them II. The Arms of his Electorship are a Wheel Or in a Field Gules and over it an Electoral Cap. The Wheel is born in Remembrance of the first Elector of this Church who being the Son of a Car-man kept always through humility a Wheel in his Chamber to mind him of his Extraction His Livery is of a _____ colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the High Dutch Language III. Mentz seated on the River Maenus or the Maine and Aschaffenburg are the ordinary places of his Residence and he has thirteen Suffragans Gustavus Adolphus after he took Mentz had there with him at one time six chief Princes of the Empire twelve Ambassadors of Kings States Electors and Princes besides Dukes and Lords and the Martial men of his own Army In this City Maud Daughter of our King Henry the First was married to the Emperour Henry the Fourth and Crowned Empress Here also the Art of Printing was invented or perfected at least and made fit for use An. 745. Boniface an Arch Bishop of Mentz believing that there were no Antipodes accus'd of Heresie before Pope Zacchary whose Legate he was Vigilius Bishop of Saltsburgh because he had publickly taught and writ the contrary and he caus'd Vigilius to be condemned alledging that S. Austin S. John Chrysostom and others of the Fathers of the Church never believed it Zacchary writ on this occasion two Letters to Boniface which are inserted in the General sum of the Councels IV. This Arch-Bishoprick brings ordinarily to its Arch-Bishop 6 or 700000 Crowns of annual Rent Treves or Triers I. John-Hugo de Dorsbec Arch-Bishop of Treves and Bishop of Spire Prince and Elector of the Empire Governour of Prumb and Provost of Weifenberg was chosen Arch-Bishop and Elector An. _____ he Stiles himself Great Chancellour of the Gaules and of the Kingdom of Arles belonging to the Empire and is the 101 Prelate of Treves II. He bears for Arms His Livery is of a _____ colour he professes the Roman Religion and uses the High Dutch Language III. He resides at Wilich tho Treves be his principal City and is seated in an Air so cloudy and subject to Rains that it s called Cloaca Planetarum This City is said to be the most ancient of Europe and built one hundred and fifty years before Rome IV. It s said that the Revenue of this Arch-Bishoprick may amount yearly to 11 or 1200000 Livres Cologne I. PRince Clement of Bavaria Arch Bishop and Elector of Cologne Bishop of Ratisbone and Freising Prince and Elector of the Empire Great Chancellour for the Empire throughout Italy and Legate by his place to the See of Rome was born Dec. 5. An. 1671. and Elected Arch-Bishop and Elector July 14. 1688 being the 81. Prelate of this See II. His Arms are those of the House of Bavaria which I shall set down beneath The Arms of the Archbishoprick are a Cross Sable in a Field Argent His Livery is of a _____ colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the High Dutch Language III. Bona on the Rhine is the ordinary place of his Residence Cologne being about five Miles in Compass is a considerable Town and the Germans say Qui non vidit Coloniam non vidit Germaniam Its Arms are three Crowns Or with this Motto Colonia fidelis Romanae Ecclesiae filia When the Arch-Bishop comes there he cannot stay above three days together without leave of the Burgomasters this being a Confederate Town and the number of the persons which he brings with him is limited This Town is one of the largest in Germany and the whole Town is so full of Convents Churches Churchmen and Reliques that it s not undeservedly stiled the Rome of Germany The Arch-Bishops Palace at Bona is said to be one of the fairest in all Germany IV. The Revenues of this Arch-Bishoprick are about 6 or 700000 Crowns per annum Bavaria HEnricus Leo Duke of Bavaria and Saxony being proscribed and outed of his Territories by the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa Otho Earl of Wittelsbach and Schyre was created Duke of Bavaria by the said Emperour An. 1180. and had both the Bavarias as well Upper as Lower granted him for ever Otho the Second Grand-Son to the former married Agnes sole Daughter and Heiress to Henry the Younger Prince Palatine of the Rhine and by reason thereof obtained of the Emperour Frederick the Second the Investiture of that Palatinate together with the Electoral Dignity An. 1227. I. From him is Descended Maximilianus-Maria-Emanuel-Cajetanus-Ludovicus-Franciscus-Ignatius-Antonina-Faelix-Nicolaus-Pius the