formerly the Seat of the Duke This Town is known throughout the Earth for having first followed the Heresiarch Luther Native of Islebe in the County of Mansfel who having liv'd some time in the Order of the Fryers Hermites of S. Austin left them An. 1517. The publication of a Plenary Indulgence throughout all Christendom in favour of a Croisade against the Turks serv'd him as a Stumbling-block because Cardinal Albert of Brandenbourg Archbishop of Mayence and Commissary of the holy See permitted Father John Tetzellius a Dominican to publish this great Indulgence Martin Luther who at that time was a Religious man and Professor in Divinity took so great a pique at it through a motive of Jealousie and fell into such a fury being assisted by John Stuaupire Vicar-general of his Order that he began to preach against the Pope and against his Indulgences maintaining that they were diabolical Inventions that the Roman Church must be left and a Sect made apart that there needs no Fasting that Ecclesiasticks Religious men and women ought to marry and an infinite store of the like Errours The sensuality of his Doctrine joyn'd with the Revenues of the Church being employ'd in Pomps in Vanities other worse things drew to him a great many Followers and even persons of power John Frederick Elector of Saxony and Sichingi a great German Captain upheld Luther He chang'd the name of Ludder which signifies a Mocker and Thief into that of Luther which signifies Pure and dyed An. 1646. sixty three years and some months old He made his own Epitaph in these words Pestis eram vivus moriens ero mors tua Papa This Butterflye threaten'd an Elephant the Plague is ceast and the Popes live without interruption in glory Melancthon speaks of this Epitaph in his Funeral-Oration Vpper Saxony belongs to the Elector the lower to the House of Brunswick for the greatest part of it and to that of Saxony Lavenburg on the Elbe which is the Head of the Illustrious House of Anhalt comprizing the Towns of Hambourg Breme and the County of Oldenburg The Town of Brunswick in the middle of Saxony is very much enlarg'd it is at present under the government of the Duke of Wolfembuttel Head of his Family These three Brothers the Duke of Zell of Hanover and the Bishop of Osnaburg are of the same House The Elector of Brandenburg FRederick William Marquess of Brandenburg Great Chamberlain of the Empire and Elector Duke of Prussia Magdeburg Juliers Cleves Monts Stetin Pomerania Cassubia Windalia or Wenden of Crossen and of Jagendorff Bourgrave of Nuremberg Prince of Alberstad and of Minde Earl of la Mark and Ravenspurg Lord of Ruvestein and other places These are the Titles which I saw in a Brief which his Electoral Highness gave to a person of my acquaintance This Prince was born the sixth of Feb. 1620. he does not enjoy Crossen and Jagendorff but the Emperour This Elector Frederick William married in his first marriage Loüise Henrietta Princess of Orange An. 1646. who dyed the eighth of June 1667. and in his second marriage Dorothy Daughter of Philip of Holstein Gluxbourg Dowager of Christian Loüis Duke of Brunswick the 14th of June 1668. He has many Children by both He is a Calvinist He bears divers Quarterings containing several Alliances and Principalities over all Azure a Scepter in pale Or which belongs to the Electorate a triple Helm and triple Crest The Livery of this Elector is of a blue colour Brandenburg is the capital City of the Marquisate to which it gives the name it is seated on the River Havel It is seen at a great distance by reason of its two great Towers This Town has the title of Bishoprick Luther receiv'd there the Order of Priesthood Berlin Spandau and Posdam are the ordinary places of Residence of his Electoral Highness Berlin is the greatest Town of the Marquisate here nam'd the River Suevus waters it It s Soil is the most fertile and pleasant of the Marcha of Brandenburg Berlin is as big as Montpellier or Beziers They count there three Towns to wit Coln otherwise Cologne on Suevus where is the Palace of the Elector the ancient Town of Berlin and the new which is call'd Fridericverde This Elector next the Emperour has more Land and Souldiery than any of the other Princes of Germany He has ordinarily twenty five or thirty thousand men on foot and good Souldiers His Revenue ordinary and extraordinary is eleven or twelve Millions some say fourteen His Court is Royal and is the best of the Empire next that of his Imperial Majesty He has three Provinces which go by the name of la Marcha to wit the Old the New and the Mean. Three Bishopricks Brandenburg le Buz and Havelsberg Frederick Burgrave of Nuremburg bought An. 1417. the March of Brandenburg of the Emperour Sigismond for four hundred thousand Florins after having first sold his Burgraviate for two hundred and forty thousand Florins The Estates of this Elector contain in length above two hundred German leagues from Hussen near Arnhen to Memel in Prussia they are not large This Prince goes on his Lands from the Low Countries as far as Poland and Curland The Oder the Elbe and the Havel water these Estates This Prince is descended from the House of the Earls of Zolleren in Suabia in the Diocess of Constance whereof the Head of the Family is Catholick This Elector has done memorable things of late years amongst others he has settled in his House the Ducal Soveraignty of Prussia Moreover he has made a Communication of the Baltick Sea with the Ocean through the ministry of a French-man of Provence called Pierre des Chaises who undertook it and brought it to effect by the means of Channels and Rivers He fortified Berlin when it was believ'd to be lost This Prince came with his Forces before Ferbellin in the month of July of the year 1675. where he defeated the Swedes commanded by General Wrangel and notwithstanding the bloudy Fight on both sides his Electoral Highness cut in pieces about three thousand Swedes took a great number of Prisoners and took from the Swedish Army twenty two Standards and Ensigns eight pieces of Canon and the Baggage This Elector has got by conquest since of the King of Sweden Wolgast Wollin and Demmin The 29th of August An. 1679. he took from his Majesty of Sweden Anclan and the 30th he made there his Entrance with Madam the Electoress and the Electoral Prince His Highness passing in the Town alighted before the great Church where he heard the Sermon and assisted at the Te Deum which was there sung Thence his Highness went to the Guild-hall where he receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity from the Mayor in the Council-chamber and afterward of all the Burgesses before the Guild hall and assur'd them that he would maintain them in all the Ecclesiastical and Politick Rights and Priviledges which they had enjoy'd under the Reigns of his Predecessors the
all these great Employs are marks of his singular Merit which he has signalized in all occurrences Messire Nicolas des Marests has been Counsellour to the Parliament of Paris and is at present Master of Requests and Intendant of the Kings Revenues There is no man but knows that he has always done things with skill and integrity his Ability his Candour and the care that he takes appear in his Conduct as three great lights which make him known to those that will be enlightned When the waves are troubled the Vessel has most need of skilful Pilots the perfect knowledge that these two Intendants have of the Interests of the Provinces has served them as a Watch-tower to keep them from erring and the zeal they have for the advantage of his Majesties Revenue is another means for them to behave themselves well betwixt the Soveraign and his Subjects in a word to the end that the King may receive as much aid as his people comfort The Illustrious Controller General of the Kings Revenues of whom I have spoken before may rely on the fidelity of these two Intendants The Four Secretaries of the Kings Revenues are the Sieur Bechameil Berrier Ranchin and Coquille The Four Clerks of the Councel des Parties are the Sieurs Aguillaumie Pecot le Foüyn and Brunet The Keeper of the Royal Treasury in waiting enters into the Councel of the Kings Revenues and also the Treasurer of the casual Revenues in waiting when they are upon the Rolls of the casual Revenues this person stands behind the Chancellours Chair Besides the Councel of the Finances and the Councel des Parties the King has also a Councel of Dispatches a Councel of War and others according to different affairs the Councel of Dispatches is held in the Kings Chamber where attend the Duke of Orleans the Chancellour the Marshal de Villeroy the Four Secretaries of State and those that are received for that Office upon Survivorship His Majesty presides in the Councel of War the Princes the Marshals of France and other Lords skilful in the Military Art are ordinarily called to it France the Mountain of the Muses IF France be the field of Mars it is also the Mountain of the Muses and the refuge of Arts. Philosophy has left Egypt and Greece to make its residence in this Kingdom The Spaniards confess this truth by this Proverb used in the University of Salamanca Dat Lutetia Aristotelum Salamanca Deum It 's at Paris particularly where we find new Plato's and Aristotles in subtilty and solidness Consummated Divines Orators like Cicero and Quintilian Cujas's and Bartholus's for the Canon and Civil Laws second Galen's Hippocrates's and Esculapius's in Physick Astrology gives us in the House of the Observatory its Ptolomy's it s Alphonsus's and its Tico-Brahe's the Mathematicks Cluverius's Poesie it s Virgil's its Ovids its Martials and its Homers Painting its Apelles and Carvers its Phidias It 's in France where Forreigners come and suck the Ambrosia and drink large draughts of the Nectar of the Gods. The ordinary places of Residence of their most Christian Majesties PAris Saint Germains in Laye Versailles Vincennes Fontainbleau Chambort Blois Compeinne These dwelling-places are truly Royal the Louvre the Chasteau des Tuilleries that of Fontainbleau and Versailles are a Miracle of Nature and a Prodigy of Art in all things and in a word the Centre of the Rarities and beautiful things of the world The Louvre PHILLIP August ended the Building of the Louvre An. 1214. This Palace being the first of the Kingdom and as a Master-piece some Authors think that this Monarch called it le Louvre as though he would say l'Oeuvre the Work by Excellency others think it so called from a street called Lupura or Lupara in which it is thought to be built Loüis the Fourteenth putting the last hand to it has so enlarged it that it is capable of receiving three Kings A Learned and excellent Wit of our time has made this Inscription for the Louvre which comprehends and expresses the greatness of the Building the greatness of the person and of the Name of King Loüis le Grand and the explication of his Devise or Motto Nec pluribus Impar in these terms Haec licet ampla domus longè tamen amplior hospes Ludovico magno nec totus sufficit orbis Sufficeret solus multis nec pluribus Impar The same Inscription in English This House though great the Person whose Command It owns is greater much Loüis le Grand Does find the world too scant for he alone Would serve for many fit for more than One. It 's in the Louvre where Learning has been stript of the gross Bark of the School it 's there where the Muses are habited a-la-mode and where they are given the fine turn of Politeness by the means of the French Academy instituted by Cardinal Richlieu An. 1635. for the pureness and perfection of the French Tongue Of late some Towns of this Kingdom have erected Academies for this purpose as Arles Suissons and others We shall here observe that in France in the time of the said Cardinal the Gazette which according to the term de Gaza signifies a heap of divers things began An. 1631. and that the first Gazettier called Theophrast Renaudot Physician of the faculty of Montpellier dedicated it to Loüis the Thirteenth I saw it in the Library of Colledge Mazarin it succeeded the French Mercury its dates and Chronologies were in the Margin The Tuilleries THe Tuilleries are call'd by this name because in this place formerly there was a Tuillerie or place to make Tiles Queen Catherine de Medices caused this building to be began in the Month of May of the year 1564. Loüis the Fourteenth has compleated it and rendred it August this Prince has planted in the Garden Sycomers and Indian Maroniers and other beautiful Trees he has made Knots and Beds with all sorts of Flowers large Allies little Wildernesses great Cesterns with their Jet d'Eaux and Terrasses and has placed excellent Statues in it that of Time which devours its Children is very remarkable We see Diana of Ephesus in one of the four Chambers of the ancient Pieces of the Louvre Fontainbleau THe number of excellent Fountains and great streams of water have given to this place the name it bears The Inhabitants think that the name Fontainbleau comes from a Fountain of fair water that is to be seen there at this day In the Palace we find four of them and as many Gardens its Chambers are very rich and its Galeries very beautiful in one of them are represented in excellent Painting the Fights and Victories of some Kings of France We see in another the Antiquities the Garden-Knots the Grotto's the Water-falls the fine Walks the great Mail the Meadows and the Groves that render this place famous we see the Hermitage of St. Loüis on a little knap in the midst of the way of the Forest which is very large and very
Marks of its Devotion Nostre-Dame d Orient in the Diocess of Vabres These two places of Devotion are in Roüergne Nostre-Dame du Calvaire of Betharan in Bearn in the Diocess of Lascar Messire Pierre de Marca has said wonderful things of it in a Book entituled Traité des Merveilles Operées en la Chappelle Nostre-Dame du Calvaire en Betharan It was printed An. 1646. and An. 1648. the word Betharan signifies according to the Language of the Country a fine Branch and according to the Hebrew Tongue the House of the Soveraign and of the most High or the House of Greatness and Eminency In the Territory of the Tribe of Gad there was a Valley of this name which appears by the Book of Joshua The Mountain Betharan has the figure of that of the true Calvary of Jerusalem Many Miracles have been there wrought If Miracles were wrought in the Temples of the Protestants as in these holy places they would make them serve as Seals to their Doctrine and would make them sound forth with a high voice that the Saviour of the World gives the power to them as a most powerful and pressing means to cause the truth of their Faith to be embrac'd and because they have no Miracles they laugh at them To which I oppose that the Jews and Pagans rejected those of Jesus Christ and of the Apostles and with St. Austin that Miracles have been the motives of innumerable conversions to Christianity that Miracles are the Chains that hold us in the Catholick Church Our strayed Brethren chuse rather to suffer themselves to be bound by their own Imagination and by the consequences they draw from the Scripture according to their private spirits and without having either of our most dear Chains neither the antiquity nor the number nor the succession of Chairs nor the Miracles c. which have continued in the Roman Church from Age to Age since the time of the Apostles Let us return to our subject The Church of Nostre-Dame of Ardilliers which is one of the chief suburbs of the Town of Saumur is serv'd by the Oratorian Fathers Saint Maximin and Saint Baume by the Dominicans as also Nostre-Dame de Bonnes Nouvelles at Rennes Nostre-Dame de Rochefort by the Religious Benedictines Saint Reine by the Cordeliers Nostre-Dame d'Orient by the Capucins Nostre-Dame de Consolation de Bezieres by the Religious of St. Francis of Paul vulgarly called les Bons hommes The others by Canons and Secular Priests The twelve ancient General Governments of the Provinces were called together at Paris under Loüis the Thirteenth according to their rank and place in the States General 1614. THe Isle of France Burgundy Normandy Guienne Britany Champagne Languedoc Picardy Daulphine Provence Lyonnois and Orleanois Of these twelve great Governments many others are made Lyonnois comprehended formerly higher and lower Auvergne and also la Marche the higher and lower Bourbounois Beaujolois and the Country of Forrests Orleanois contain'd Poitou Aniou Touraine Loudunois the Town and Government of Rochelle Angoumois le Maine Berry Pais Chartrain le Perche Nivernois and Vandosmois Xaintonge was of the Government of Guienne The Governours of the Provinces An. 1679. are these THe Town Provostship and Vicounty of Paris has for Governour the Duke of Crequy Peer of France Commander of the Kings Orders and first Gentleman of the Chamber to his Majesty He was made choice of by the King to go to Bavaria to carry the Marriage-Presents to Madam the Dolphiness Anno 1680. The Duke d'Estrèes Peer of France is Governour of the Isle of France Soissonnois Laonnois Beauvoisis c. The Prince of Condé Lord Steward of the Kings Houshold has the government of Burgundy and of la Bresse the Duke d'Enguien has the survivourship of his Father The Duke de Montauzier Peer of France and Commander of the Kings Orders has Normandy he was Governour of Monseigneur the Dolphin The Duke de Roquelaure Guienne The Duke de Chaune Britany Marshal Duke de Vivonne of Montmart Champagne and Brie The Duke of Verneuil Languedoc he succeeds Arnand de Bourbon Prince of Conti whose Piety is crown'd in the Coelestial Court he died at Pezenas An. 1666. the 21 day of February and his body was carried into the house of the Carthusians of Villeneufe in Avignon This Prince compos'd two Books one is entituled Devoirs des Grands and the other Memoires du Prince de Conti the former contains very excellent Instructions The Duke d'Elbeuf is Governour of Picardy The Duke les Diguieres of Dauphiné The Duke de Vandôme of Provence Marshal de Grignan is sole Lieutenant-General of this Province he has also been Lieutenant-General of Languedoc The Duke de Villeroy Son of the Marshall of this name is Governour of Lyonnois Forests and Beaujolois The Marquess d' Alluye of Orleannois Blesois Dunois and the Country of Sologne Chartrain and Vandômois Auvergne has for Governour the Duke de Boüillon high Chamberlain Higher and lower la Marche the Marquess de S. Germain Beaupré Limosin the Count d' Auvergne Bourbonnois the Marquess de la Valiere Berry the Prince of Marsillac Francois de la Rochefoucaud Duke of Rocheguion Groom of the Stole and Chief Master of the Game of France Son of the Prince of Marsillac and Grand-child of the Duke of Rochefoucaut married An. 1679. in the Church of S. Roch of Paris Madeleine la Tellier Daughter of the Marquess de Lionnois Minister and Secretary of State and Grand-child of Messire Michel le Tellier Chancellour of France Anjou has for Governour Count d' Armagnac the Kings Master of the Horse Touraine the Marquess de Dangeau Le Maine Laval and le Perche the Marquess de Fervaques Poitou the upper and lower the Duke of Vieville Xaintonge and Angoumois the Duke de Crussol The Country of Aunis and Broüage the Duke de Navailles Nivernois the Duke of Nevers The Country of Foix the Marquess de Mirepoix Navarre and Bearn Duke Anthony-Charles de Grammont Soveraign of Bidache his Father Duke and Earl Marshal of France Knight of the Kings Orders died at Bayonne the 83 year of his age the 12th of July 1678. Conquer'd Countries THe upper and lower Alsatia have for Governours the Duke de Mazarin Duke of Mielleraye and Mayenne Peer of France and particular Governour of the Towns Citadels and Castles of Brisac la Fere Vitre Vincennes Port-Loüis and other places Lorrain the Marshal de Crequy The Town and Citadel of Metz and Vic the Marshal Duke de la Ferte-Seneterre Toul the Count de Pas de Feuquieres The Duke de Noailles Peer of France Captain of the first Company of the Life guard is Governour of Roussillon and Lieutenant-General in upper Auvergne The Duke and Marshal de Duras Knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost has the Government of Franche Comté Marshal d Humicres is Governour and Lieutenant-General of Flanders and particular Governour of Lille Count de Montbron Governour of Arras and Lieutenant-General in
and five from Apel who was nominated Successor of N. Marguerit This Diocess has been Suffragan sometimes of Tarragone sometimes of Narbonne Elne is three leagues from Perpignan The Archbishoprick of Lyons LYons a hundred twenty two Bishops or Archbishops from Potin to Messire Camille de Neufville de Villeroy Archbishop and Count of Lyons Primate of the Gauls and Commander of the Kings Orders and Lieutenant General for his Majesty of Lyonnois Forez and Beaujolois The Suffragans are Authun Chalons or Saone Langres and Mascon Authun a hundred eighty four from S. Amant to Messire Gabriel de Roquette Successor of Loüis d' Attichi He is President of course of the Estates of Burgundy Administrator Spiritual and Temporal of the Archbishoprick of Lyons during the vacancy of the See. Pope Innocent the Eleventh granted this Prelate the Pallium the third of October in the year 1678. Though the Church of Authun enjoy'd this priviledge from the Pontificate of St. Gregory the Great its Bishops have not been able to obtain it for many Ages whatever instances they have made Messire Gabriel de Roquette received it from the hands of the Archbishop of Lyons Messire Camille de Neufville of Villeroy with the ordinary Ceremonies in the Church of the Carmelites of the faux-bourg S. Jacques of Paris the 21 of May 1679. It is to be observ'd that it 's said to the Pope the day of the Ceremony of his Consecration when he puts on the Pallium Accipe Pallium sanctum plenitudinem Pontisicalis Officii Chalons seventy six from Donatien to Messire Henry-Felix de Tassis Dean of the holy Chappel of Vincennes Langres ninety three from Senator to Messire Loüis de Simianes de Gordes Duke and Peer of France Count of S. Jean de Lyon and first Almoner of the Queen The Bishop of Langres carries the Scepter at the Ceremony of the Consecration and Coronation of the King. The Duke of Burgundy bears the Crown and puts the Sword by the Kings side The Peers appear with a Circle of Gold on their heads in the form of a Crown There are Princes and Lords chosen to represent the Peers whose Peerages have been reunited to the Crown Mascon seventy seven from S. Placide to Messire Michel de Tilladet The Archbishoprick of Bourdeaux BOurdeaux seventy two Prelates from S. Gilbert to Messire Loüis de Bourlemont Auditor of the Rota The Suffragans are Agen Condom Angoulesme Lusson Rochelle Perigeux Poitiers Xaintes Sarlat Agen sixty one Bishops from S. Caprasi to Messire Jules Mascaron Preacher in Ordinary to the King. He was Bishop of Tulles The Pope propos'd him in his Consistory for the Church of Agen. Condom twenty three from Raymond Goulard to Messire Jacques de Mattignon who succeeds Messire Jacques Benigne Bousset Tutor to M. le Dauphin and at present first Almoner of Madam the Dauphiness and Author of a Book entituled The Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church on matters of Controversie Angoulesme sixty seven from S. Auson to Messire Francois de Pericard Lusson thirty from Pierre de la Voirie to Messire Henry de Barillion Rochelle joyn'd with Maillezais twenty four The Episcopal See was remov'd from Maillezais to Rochelle An. 1648 by a Bull of Pope Innocent the Tenth and with Letters Patents of Louis the Fourteenth The first Bishop of Maillezais was call'd Gaufrid Pauvrelle and the two first of Rochelle were Jacques Raoul and Messire Henry de la Valle de Boisdauphin de Sable Perigueux seventy from S. Fronto to Messire Claude le Boux Preacher in Ordinary to his Majesty Poitiers a hundred and five from Liberius to Messire Hardoüin Fortin de la Hoguette formerly Bishop of S. Brieux He was Agent-General of the Clergy of France Xaintes sixty six from S. Eutrope to Messire Guillaume de la Brunetiere du Plessis Geté formerly Archdeacon and Canon of the Church of Paris and grand Vicar of the two last Archbishops This Prelate at his coming to the Pontificate having found in the Field of his Church the Darnel whereof it is spoken in the Gospel that the man enemy had sown there during the darkness of the night tore it up without unrooting the good seed by his skill and dexterity Sarlat thirty one from Raymond de Roquecor to Messire Loüis de Salagnac The Archbishoprick of Arles ARles eighty seven Prelates from S. Trophime to Messire Francois-Adheimar de Monteil de Grignan Primate Prince of Salon and of Montdragon Commander of the Kings Orders Messire Jean Baptiste Adheimar de Monteil de Grignan was nominated his Coadjutor an 1666. and consecrated at Vzes an 1677. He preacht in Advents before their Majesties and has made fine Speeches to the King as deputed by the general Assemblies of the Clergy The first Archbishop of Arles was called S. Cezaire The Town glories in having given birth to eleven of its Bishops and Archbishops which are St. Honorat S. Aurelien Pierre Ainard Imbert de Guieres Michel de Morieres Hugues Bouardi Bertrand de S. Maleferrat Bertrand Almaric and Gaspart du Laurens I remit those who would have an ample relation on this subject to a Book newly compos'd by the Abbot de Port Native of Arles which contains excellent Remarks he has entitul'd it The Ecclesiastical and Secular History of Arles it 's the third Book wherewith he has gratified the Publick The first is a fine Book of Prayer the second a fine Rhetorick The Suffragans of Arles are Orange Marseilles Toulon and S. Paul Trois Chateaux Orange eighty eight Bishops from Constance to Messire Jean Jacques d'Obeille Marseille seventy one from S. Lazarus Brother of Mary Magdaleine and of Martha to Messire N. d'Estampes Toulon fifty from S. Honorat to Messire Vint-Mille du Luc before Bishop of Dignes S. Paul sixty eight from S. Sulpicius to Messire Loüis-Aube de la Roquemartine The Archbishoprick of Ambrun AMbrun seventy nine from S. Marcelin to Messire Brulart de Genlis The Suffragans are Digne Glandeve Grasse Nice Senez Vence Digne has had fifty two Bishops from S. Domninus to Messire Francois de Tellier who was nominated to this Bishoprick an 1677. He was before the Queens Almoner Curate and Archpriest of the Church of St. Severin of Paris Glandeve thirty one from Fraternus to Messire Leon Bacouë formerly Cordelier He succeeds Jean-Dominique Ithier Those are deceiv'd who have written that the See of Glandeve has been at Antibe they would say true if they said that the Episcopal See was transferred to Grasse because at Antibe they abus'd the Bishop of the place Grasse sixty three from Armenterius to Messire Loüis-Aube de la Roquemartine Dean of the Church of Arles Nice is in the nomination of Savoy Senez thirty three from Vrsus to Messire Loüis-Anne-Aubert de Villeserin Commander of the Kings Orders Some Authors have said falsely that Senez has been honour'd with a Council because having found cited in some Books Concilium Sinense they thought that it was a Council held
the Archbishoprick of Paris An. 1671. and created Duke and Peer of France An. 1674. It 's the first of this See who has born the Title of Duke and Peer which will pass from him to his Successors He was before Archbishop of Roüen and President in ordinary of the Assemblies of the Clergy of France He never permits any Priest to speak to him with his Hat off but himself is likewise uncover'd though he be a great Lord. The Suffragans of Paris are Chartres Orleans Meaux Chartres has had a hundred and five Bishops from S. Avent or Aventin some say Potentien to Messire Ferdinand de Neufville de Villeroy Counsellor of State in Ordinary formerly Bishop of S. Malo. He was born at Rome under the Embassie of his deceased Father who caus'd the Statua of Henry the Great to be erected there This great Prelate is descended from great Ministers who have been cherisht by our Kings and who have govern'd the State with so much wisdom and prudence He has always had near him persons of eminent Learning Orleans a hundred and seventeen from S. Altin to Messire Pierre Cambout de Coaslin the Kings first Almoner Meaux a hundred and four from S. Sanctin to Messire Dominique de Ligni Successor of his Uncle Dominique Seguier The Archbishoprick of Albi. ALbi has had sixty eight Bishops from St. Clair to Gaspard de Daillon du Lude This Bishoprick very famous for its Revenue was made an Archbishoprick under Pope Innocent the Eleventh at the request of Loüis the Fourteenth in favour of Messire Hyacynthe de Serroni some time Bishop of Orange and afterward Lord Bishop of Mande Count of Givodan and first Almoner of the late Queen-Mother Anne of Austria whose Funeral-Oration he made at Paris in the head of the Clergy of France and of all that is most Illustrious in the Kingdom with the applause and admiration of all his Auditors His rare Piety his profound Learning the long and important Services which he has rendred the Church and State have rais'd him to this high Dignity His devise is Sidus flos lapis There has been counted to the year 1680. sixty eight Bishops of Albi the Abbot de Cam who dayly penetrates Antiquity has discover'd eight or ten more by reading the Councels and the Register and Documents of the Metropolitan Church of Albi whereof he has compos'd the History His merit oblig'd the first Archbishop of this See a lover of Learning and learned Persons to make him his great Vicar and to send him on his behalf to assist in the Estates of Languedoc of the year 1680. The Suffragans of Albi are the nearest to it Vabres Rhodes Castres Cahors and Mande Vabres has had twenty two Bishops from Pierre d'Olargue to Messire Loüis de Barrada The two first Bishops of this Diocess were of the ancient House of Olargue Rhodes fifty three from St. Amant to Messire Gabriel de Voyer de Paulmi Castres twenty nine from Deodat to Messire Michel Tuboeuf Cahors sixty four from Genulphe to Messire N. le Jay Mande sixty two from S. Severian to Messire Francois Placide de Baudri de Piencour He confirms those that are in the good way and recalls those that are astray Five Bishops of this Diocess enlarge the Catalogue of Saints The Archbishoprick of Cambray CAmbray has had nine or ten Archbishops from Maximilian de Berghes to Messire Christophle de Brias he succeeds Gaspar Nemius Many Bishops preceded them for some time those of Cambray were Bishops of Arras they were afterward separated The Archbishop of Cambray stiles himself Archbishop and Duke of Cambray Count du Cambresis and Prince of the Empire This Archbishoprick before the Wars was worth a hundred thousand Livres of Rent The Archiepiscopal Church has a very fair Body adorn'd with a high Steeple some persons think that its Bell call'd Mary-Fontenoise resembles in greatness to George d' Amboise of Roüen or to Cardaillac of Tolose or to that of Mande when it was in being whereof the Clapper is yet to be seen Charies the Fifth caus'd the famous Citadel to be built which is very strong by Scituation and by Art though the King of France took it in a little time and receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity from the Archbishop An. 1677. The Governour of this place being askt at Brussels by the Duke de Villa-Hermosa why he had yielded it so soon answered him in these very terms The King of France was before it in person and I believe if he besieg'd Hell he would fetch all the Devils out in case Hell could be besieg'd and taken by Mortals The Suffragans of this Archbishoprick are Arras Tornai Saint Omer Arras has had fifty three Bishops from Lambert to Messire Guidon de Seve de Roche Chouard Tornai forty eight from S. Plato to Messire Philiberg de Choiseul du Plessis Pralin formerly Bishop of Comminges He preacht the Funeral Sermon on the late Prince of Conti. The Canons of his Cathedral-Church are cloath'd in violet The Town of Gand depended formerly for the spiritual on the Bishops of Tornay as we shall see elsewhere Saint Omer ten from Gerard de Hamericourt to Messire Annes Tristan de la Baume Suse His Majesty chose him for a Diocess and a People newly conquered by reason of his particular merit and of his extream sweetness accompani'd with a like Address for governing them He was created before Bishop of Tarbes He expected his Bulls for S. Omer An. 1679. A Historiographer of France says that he has been assur'd that the custom of defending Theses in Greek pass'd from S. Omer to Paris in a Book entituled Les Entretiens de Luxembourg p. 193. The Archbishoprick of Bezancon BEzancon ninety four Prelates and Archbishops from S. Lin to Messire Antoine de Gramont The Canons of his Cathedral bear in their Arms a Camail of Silk Azure doubled with Taffety Gules with a Crosier and a Mitre The Suffragans are Bellai Bâle Lausane These two last are in Switzerland Bellai has had eighty six Bishops from Audax to Messire Pierre du Laurens There was given to this Prelate for devise in a These dedicated to him Crescit suo sydere laurus by allusion to his Arms. Bâle sixty from Justinian to blessed Ramestein who died An. 1651. After that Bâle was entirely Protestant the Episcopal See was plac'd at Potentru Lauzane sixty three from S. Beat to Messire Jean de Vateville who died An. 1649. The See is at Fribourg in Brisgou Buntruc is the ordinary Seat of the Bishop Metz Toul and Verdun are Suffragans of Treves which has been taken and retaken Metz has had eighty nine Bishops from St. Clement to Messire George d' Aubusson de la Fueillade Commander of the Kings Orders Prince of the Empire formerly Archbishop of Ambrun and Embassadour at Venice Henry de Eourbon Duke of Verneüil Jule Mazarin and Prince Guillaume de Fustemberg though in the Catalogue of the Bishops of Metz not occupy the
King of France who had a Jesuit for his Confessor the other Kings Successors of this Prince make use of them since and the greatest part of other Monarchs and Potentates The 28th of April 1675. the Senators and Sheriffs of the famous Town of Messina specially impower'd in the name of all the Inhabitants took on their knees the Oath of Fidelity to the Invincible Loüis the Fourteenth King of France and of Navarre from the hands of Loüis Victor de Roche-Choüard Prince of Tonnai-Charente Duke of Vivone and Lieutenant-General for his Majesty in the Town here mentioned and in the other places of the Isle of Sicily since Mareschal of France At this Ceremony and other important actions assisted Francois-Auguste de Valavoir Marquess of Vaux Melchior de Thomai Lord of Chateauneuf and others The French soon got possession of lands by the taking of Scaleta Augusta Taormina Merilli and other places In the same year 1675. the 19th day of the month of July the Shrine of Saint Genevieve was carried processionally about the Town of Paris for fair weather which was obtain'd as soon as recourse was made to her Prayers before the obstinate Rains laid waste the Country and the Corn for above two months the hopes of the Labourer and Vineyard-keeper were fallen It was twenty three years that the Relicks of this Saint had not been carried An. 1676. the 22th of April happen'd the great Naval-fight in Sicily as far as Augusta and Messina betwixt the French Fleet and those of Holland and Spain The French gain'd a great Victory Michel-Adrien Ruiter was so dangerously wounded that he died some days after The Sieur du Quesne signaliz'd himself there and shew'd the braveness of the French who since some years are become firm Sea-men The King of France declar'd War against the King of Denmark the 28th of August of the same year because contrary to the Treaty of Peace at Copenhagen An. 1660. betwixt Sweden and Denmark for the performance of which his most Christian Majesty gave his Guarentie his Danish Majesty did not cease from making War on the King of Sweden who had not contraven'd to this Treaty of Peace An. 1677. on Ash-wednesday there was a defeat of a Squadron of fourteen Dutch Vessels in the Port of Tobago by the Comte d'Estrées Vice. Admiral of France This Island Tobago which is one of the Isles Antilles in America gave the name to Tobacco or has taken that This simple was formerly call'd the Herb Nicotian because the Physician Nicot brought it into Europe Some call it the Herb of the Queen for having been first presented to the Queen of Spain It is extreamly in use in moist Countries because it dries and sometimes too much After Meals Pipes and Tobacco are set upon the Table the men and women think they are not able to live without it because the Tobacco evacuates as they say the evil humours of the brain Joüin de Rochefort relates that in the Town of Worcester he was askt whether in France the Scholars when they go to School carry Tobacco as those of England He tell us that when the Children go to School they carry in their little Bag with their Food a Pipe fill'd with Tobacco and that at the hour of taking it every one lays down his Book to kindle his Pipe and that the Master takes with them and teaches them to hold their Pipe and to smoak All sorts of persons are seen to smoak in Flanders even to the religious men and women The Bull of Jubilé of the holy year which is celebrated from twenty five to twenty five years was publisht at Paris at the beginning of the month of March in the year 1677. At the same time also wâ—s publisht the Jubilé of the Exaltation of cuâ— holy Father Innocent the Eleventh The first Jubilé lasted two months the other a fortnight whereof we have spoken in the Tract of Italy At the beginning of April Cambray and St. Omer were reduc'd to the Obedience of his most Christian Majesty St. Omer the second Town of the County of Artois is seated on the River Aa The 11th of April Philip of France got the Battel of Cassel The 14th of July the King receiv'd a Courier from the Marshal de Navaille who commanded the Army in Catalonia bringing news of a great advantage gain'd by the Kings Army over the Spanish Troops commanded by Comte de Monteri Vice-Roy in Catalonia In the same year the Town of Arles which was once the Capital of the Kingdom of Arles and of Burgundy rais'd for the glory of the King in the middle of the Place a stately Obelisque which was found buried in the Gardens of Madam de l'Hote scituate in the Trenches of the Town The Sieur Roubin Member of the French Academy of this Town presented the Draught to his Majesty The Obelisque is fifty two foot high without comprizing the Pedestal which is seven foot diameter all of a piece The 25th of October of the same year 1677. Messire Etienne Daligre Chancellor and Keeper of the Seals of France died at Versailles in the house of Chancery aged eighty five years and a half The 27th the King created Chancellor and Keeper of the Seals of France Messire Michel le Tellier who took the Oath presented him by his Majesty the 29th following The indefatigable Marshal de Crequi who has gloried in exposing himself for a long time in the dangers of War whereof he carries many honourable marks on his body for the service of our Monarch has perform'd according to his wont Military actions worthy of his Courage and Valour and particularly in the Campagne of 1677. against the Imperialists The taking of the Town and Citadel of Fribourg in Brisgaw by this Marshal deserves to be particulariz'd This important place opens the Hereditary Countries takes from the Emperour a part of his Dominion Fribourg has belong'd to the Dukes of Zeüringuen and afterward to Comte Egon of Fustemberg for having married Agnes their Heiress his Descendants were Masters of it to the year 1386. The Inhabitants of the Town gave up themselves to the Duke of Austria Marshal Horn and the Duke of Weimar besieg'd and took this place three times for the Swedes An. 1632 1634 1638. Marshal d'Humieres reduc'd to the Kings Obedience the Town of Saint Guillain by his Valour and Forecast the tenth of December of the same year 1677. This place is about two leagues from Mons its Abbot is Lord Spiritual and Temporal and the Abbey is the chief of Hainalt The 12th the Count d'Estrées having taken the Forts which the Hollanders held in the Isle of Gorea at Cape-Vert made himself Master after a long Navigation of the Isle of Tobago and of many Duch Men of War. An. 1678. the first day of March the Town of Gand Capital of the Country of Flanders was invested by the Marshal d'Humieres and taken by his most Christian Majesty on composition the ninth of the same month and
the three Kings or Magi who adored the Son of God in the Manger and it is believ'd that they are there entire The Church of St. Vrsula is famous by reason of the eleven thousand Virgins cast by a Tempest on the coasts of Germany There are seen an infinite number of bones all round the walls of the Quire in high Cupboards and many Tombs in the body of the Church and on an Altar many heads of silver where is that of St. Vrsula The Colledge of Sorbonne a Member of the faculty of Divinity of Paris has for Patronesses this holy Daughter of a King and her Companions Cardinal Baronius says in his Annotations on the Roman Martyrologie that the true History of these Virgins is lost thence it comes that we find many uncertain things of it Mr. Joli Canon of the Church of Paris has said remarkable things of it in his Book entituled A Voyage made to Munster in Westphalia and many other neighbouring places An. 1646 and 1647. Printed by Francis Clauzier Father Boussingault in his Guide of the Low Countries p. 101. and 219. says that the Church St. Mary of the Capitol has two Bodies and two Quires in the one of which the Canons say their Office and in the other the Canonesses where the one being on one side and the others on the other they sing the Praises of God. There is a like thing practis'd at Nivelle in Brabant the Canons come on certain days of the year into the Church of the Canonesses to sing with them The Abbess as Lady spiritual and temporal of the Town of Nivelle it being of her Jurisdiction presides in the Chapter the Canons and Canonesses joyntly confer the Benefices which are vacant by the death or by the marryage of the Canonesses The Ladies wear in the Church a Rochet with a black Mantle over it which trains on the ground a starcht Linnen-cloath on their arm instead of the Aumusse or the furr'd Ornament worn by Canons and a Couvre-chef on their head St. Bruno Founder of the Charthusians was born at Cologne and Mary de Medicis dyed there the third of July 1643. In the same year dyed Loüis the Thirteenth and Cardinal Richelieu Cologne has had eighty Bishops and Archbishops from Matternus to Maximilian Henry of Bavaria seventeen Bishops preceded there the Metropolitans St. Agilulfe was its first Archbishop Pope Zachary declar'd this Church Metropolitan An. 744. The Suffragans are Munster Minden and Osnaburg An Observation on the three Ecclesiastical Electors YOu must observe that the three Ecclesiastical Electors have no Passive Voice in the Assemblies of Election that is to say they cannot nominate themselves Emperours they may nominate and give their Suffrages for others but not for themselves it having not been judg'd proper that one and the same head should wear the Miter and the Imperial Crown and one and the same hand carry the Cross and the Sword and to the end that since they cannot arrive at the Crown they may keep the other Electors within the bounds of their devoir Another Observation on the Lay Electors THe Secular Electors may nominate themselves Sigismond of Luxembourg King of Bohemia nominated himself after the death of Robert of Bavaria and the other Electors acknowledging his merit gave him unanimously their Voices and Suffrages The Ecclesiastical Electors are elected by their Chapters who may exercise the Archiepiscopal Functions during the vacancy of the See but not the Electoral The Electoral Habit. THe Electoral Habit comes near that of the Presidents of Soveraign Courts That of the Ecclesiastical Electors is of Scarlet Cloath and that of the Lay Electors is of Crimson Velvet They are all lin'd with Hermines as likewise their Cap. There are some of them to be seen drawn at large with their ceremonial Habits in one of the fairest and richest Galleries of Duke Mazarin formerly belonging to the Cardinal of this name The King of Bohemia instead of the Electoral Cap wears a Royal Crown on his head You must observe that An. 1673. the Town of Cologne was chosen to treat there of a Peace betwixt the Kings of France and of Great Britain and the Hollanders and the Assembly was held at the Convent of the Carmelites a place very convenient His most Christian Majesty sent thither for his Plenipotentiaries the Duke of Chaulne and the Sieurs Courtin and de Barillon who arriv'd there the first the King shewing that he would not retard the work of Peace where so many Princes concern'd themselves though loaded with Victories They were followed by three Embassadours of Sweden who had a deference of Honour from all the rest they being then in quality of Mediators Two Plenipotentiaries came afterward from England and they expected for third the Earl of Sunderland chief of the Embassie During his absence Sir Joseph Williamson perform'd for him Those of Holland came to the number of four and afterward the Plenipotentiaries of Spain who had no other quality but of Envoys The Elector of Cologne had one Embassadour Prince William of Fustemberg the Elector of Brandenburg sent thither the Baron of Zminzin who had a Colleague The Emperour deputed the Baron d'Isola and others and the Bishop of Munster sent two there He was one of the Parties concern'd This Illustrious Assembly had no success because the seizing and carrying away by force the person of Prince William of Furstemberg by the Imperialists though vested with the character of Plenipotentiary in a place which ought to be a Sanctuary oblig'd his most Christian Majesty considering the Laws of Nations violated to recal his Nimegen was since made choice on for renewing the Conferences of the general Peace The Duke de Vitry the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissi and the Sieur de Mesmes Count of Avaux were appointed Plenipotentiaries of France Anno 1675. Marshal d' Estrade succeeded the Duke de Vitry. The 11th of August 1677. the Bishop and Prince of Gurc chief of the Embassie of Germany for the Conferences of the Peace arrived at Nimegen accompanied with Count Kinski and with Sieur Straman his Colleagues who went before him All the other Plenipotentiaries repair'd thither The Estates of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries appointed for their Plenipotentiaries the Sieur Hieromy Beverning Lord of Teylingen Curator of the University of Leiden the Sieur William of Nassau Lord of Odik Cortegene c. and the Sieur William Haren Grietman du Bildt The Treaties of Peace and of Commerce Navigation and Maritime affairs betwixt France and the States General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries were concluded at Nimegen the 10th of August 1678. In the same year the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain was sign'd and the year following 1679. that of France and of the Emperour whereof we have spoken elsewhere The Elector and King of Bohemia THe King of Bohemia one of the seven Electors formerly the Emperours great Cup-bearer is at present the Emperour himself Cath. His Arms