Brivodurum and Breviodurus Bricquia a Province in the lesser Asia formerly called Licia Bridgend a Market-Town in Glamorganshire in Wales in the Hundred of New-Castle Bridge-North a Market-Town in Shropshire in the Hundred of Stottesdon upon the Severn Heretofore fortified since demolished Bridlingtou or Burlington a small Town in the County of York where Mary Queen of England Landing from Holland February 22. 1642. was most barbarously treated by 4 Parliament Ships which a great while plaid with their Cannon on the Town and especially on that House in which the Queen was entertained Bridge-Water a Corporation in Somersetshire upon the South side of the River Parret which about five Miles further falls into the Irish Sea 13 Miles from Wells to the West and 23 from Bristol to the South-West It was a great and a populous Town as Mr. Camden saith but suffered very much in the old Rebellion by the Scots July 23. 1645. And on Sunday July 5. 1685. the late Duke of Monmouth Natural Son to Charles II. of ever blessed Memory was entirely defeated being then in Rebellion against K. James II. upon a Moor near this place by the Providence of God and the Courage of the Earl of Feversham who the same day marched to Bridge-Water the Rebels having before his coming deserted it and dispers'd themselves The greatest Honor this Town has is to give the Title of an Earl to the Right Honourable John Egerton whose Father was created Earl of Bridge-VVater May 17. 1617. in the 5th Year of James I. being the Son and Heir of Thomas Egerton Lord Chancellor of England who was created Baron of Ellesmere in 1603 and Viscount Brackley in 1616. Bridport a Market-Town in Dorsetshire The Capital of its Hundred 2 Miles from the Sea to which it had formerly a very good Haven This Town was famous in the time of K. Edward the Confessour It sends 2 Burgesses to the Parliament Brie a Country part within the Government of the Isle of France and part in the Province of Champagne betwixt the Rivers Seine and Marne Meaux sur Marne is the Capital Town of it It is very fruitful In Latin call'd Bria Brigeium and Brigiensis saltus Brie-Compte-Robert a Town in the Country precedent upon the River Iere four or five Leagues from Paris Brieg Brega a Town upon the Oder in Silesia in Germany betwixt Oppelen and Breslaw The same is the Capital of the Dutchy of Brieg Brienne a small Town in Champagne in France upon the River Aube with the Title of an Earldom near Troyes between Bar-sur-Aube and Planci This Place gives Name to the antient House of Brienne Brighthelmston a Market-Town in Sussex in Lewis-Rape by the Sea Side Brignoville Brinnonia Brinnola a Town and Bailywick in Provence in France near the River Caramie Understood by some to be the Forum Veconii by others the Matavonium of the Antients Charles V. the Emperor took it in 1536. The Leaguers surprized it in 1589. Brille or Briel a Town and Port of Holland in a good Soil but a gross Air at the Confluence of the Rhine and the Meuse in a small Island of this Name It was surprized by the Dutch in 1572. by the help of the Succors obtained from Queen Elizabeth And this Action was as the first Foundation of the Commonwealth of Holland Brin Eburum Arsicua Brinum Brina a City of Moravia seated upon the River Zwitta where it falls into that of Swarta 7 German Miles South of Olmitz This was the only place which in 1645. and 1646. held out for the Emperour against the Swedes in all Moravia when being besieg'd it broke the Swedish Army and forc'd them to rise call'd by some Bruna written Brenne also Brindisi Brundusium is an Archiepiscopal City in the Kingdom of Naples which has a strong Castle and a safe Harbour at the mouth of the Gulph of Venice 36 Miles from Tarento to the East Pompey retired hither after his overthrow in the Year of Rome 705. and was obliged to leave the place again because Caesar pursued him In the Year 735. the incomparable Virgil died here that is about 19 years before the coming of our Saviour It has been several times ruin'd and repair'd Brioude Brivas Vicus Briatensis a great and antient Town in the Province of Auvergne in France upon the Allier The Emperour Avitus was buried in the Church of S. Julianus here The Chapter takes the Title of Earls of Brioude being in the first institution Knights Confederated to make War against the Normans in the Year 898. § 2 Leagues from this place stands Brioude la Vieille upon the same River where there is a Bridge to cover it compos'd of one Arch so extraordinary long and high as scarce to have its parallel in Europe Briqueras or Briquerasco Briquerascum a considerable Town in the Principality of Piedmont 4 or 5 Leagues from Pignerol with a Castle Taken by the Sieur de Lesdiguieres in 1592. and retaken by Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy in 1594. Also famous in the Wars of Piedmont in the years 1629. 30. and 31. Brisach Brisacus Mons a City with a very strong Castle in the Territory of Brisgow in Alsatia with a Stone Bridge upon the Rhine 6 German Miles from Basil to the North and 7 from Strasburg and a from Colmar It was a Free Imperial City till 1330. when it was exempted and given to the House of Austria call'd therefore the Key of Germany the Cittadel of Alsatia and the Pillow on which the House of Austria slept with security In 1633. Gustavus Horne a Swede besieg'd it vain but in 1638. it was taken by the French under the command of the Duke of Weimar who are still in Possession of it their Title being confirm'd by the Treaty of Westphalia or Munster in 1648. and afterwards by the Treaty of the Pirenees in 1659. Brisag or Brisiaco a Town under the Grisons upon the Lake Majour in Italy between Locarna Canobia and Domo Brisgow Brisgovia is a Province of Germany lying on the East of the Rhine and the West of Wirtenburg and on the South clos'd with the Canton of Basil The principal place is Friburg This Province is in part under the House of Austria and in part under the French Brisach which was once its Capital being under the latter but the greatest part under the former The Prince of Conde obtain'd a Victory here in 1644. when General Merci was kill'd Brissach a Town in the Province of Anjou in France upon the River Aubance below Saumur It gives the Title of a Duke Bristoll Bristolium Venta Belgarum Venta Silurum is a noble City in the County of Somerset upon the River Avon which runs through the midst of it and so part of it stands in Glocestershire but then it is a County of itself and belongs to neither of them It is a neat strong clean populous rich well traded City and after London and York the Third principal Place of England the Inhabitants of this City Trading
Bourbon the King of Navarre being slain before it It fell after this into the Hands of the Leaguers Henry IV. besieged it in 1593. but was prevented from taking it by the Prince of Parma though in the year following it willingly submitted to him after he had imbraced the Roman Catholick Religion The Parliament in this City was instituted by Philip the Fair in 1286. Established by Lewis XII in 1499. and re-established by Francis I. in 1515. Pope Clement VI. was sometime Archbishop of the See Pope Martin IV. and Gregory XI Archdeacons There have been divers provincial Councils here assembled Particularly in 1074. one against the Concubinage of the Clergy Roane or Rovane Rhodumna an ancient Town in France in the Dukedom of Bourbonne and the County of Foretz upon the River Loyre where it becomes first capable to bear a Boat Very great and populous tho not walled It stands twelve Leagues from Lyons to the South-West and eighteen from Moulins The Territory belonging to it is called le Roanez or Roannois and has the Honor of being a Dukedom by the Creation of King Charles IX Rober Erubris a River in Lorain which falls by Trier into the Moselle Robil Robel Rebellio a City or Town in the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh in the Lower Saxony by the Lake of Muritz in the Borders of Brandenburgh two German Miles from Var and seven from Gustro Robogh a Village in the County of Tyron upon the Sea Shoar against Scotland in the Province of Vlster which has preserved the memory of the Rhobogdii an old Irish Clan that possessed the Counties of Antrim Colran and Tyrone in this Province from whom that Cape now called the Fair Foreland by the English was then called Rhobodium being in the County of Antrim scarce fifteen Miles South of the nearest Shoar of Scotland Rocca Nova a Town in the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples honoured with the Title of a Dukedom Rocca Romana a Town in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples near Alifa honored with the Title of a Principality Rochdale a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Salford upon the River Roche in a Dale or Vale which together compound its name La Roche Rupes a Town in the Territory of Genevois in Savoy five or six Leagues from Geneva little less from Anneci and one from the River Arve at the foot of the Mountains It hath a Collegiate Church and two Religious Houses Roche-chouart a Seigniory in the Province of Poictou towards the Borders of Angoumois giving name to a Family of Honour La Roche-En-Ardenne a fortified Town in the Dukedom of Luxemburgh in the Low Countries upon the River Vrt twelve Leagues from Luxemburgh and nine from Liege Honour'd with the Title of an Earldom Rochefort a Town and Port at the Mouth of the Charante in the Pais d'Aunis in France Heretofore no more than a Village but now become a Magazine enlarged with divers Buildings and more daily La Roche-sur-Yon Rupes ad Yonem a Town in the Lower Poictou in France towards Lusson upon the River Yon which after joyns with the Lay. Honoured some Ages since with the Title of a Principality which is enjoyed by the House of Bourbon Rochelle Portus Santonum Rupella Rupella Santonum Rupella a City and famous Port of France upon the Bay of Aquitain the Capital of le Pais d'Aunis and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux Seven Leagues from Brouges to the North two from the Isle of Re and thirty from the Mouth of the Loyre to the South-East It takes its name from the Rock on which it stands supposed to be built about the Sixth Century because not mentioned before against the Incursions of the Normans At first it had Princes of its own After this it was under the English from the times of Henry II. who possessed it as Duke of Anjou And that Prince granted this City its first Charter and Privileges which were confirmed by Richard and John his Sons King John Landed here in 1206. when he went to the Siege of Mountauban and after in 1213. In 1224. it was taken from the English by Lewis VIII King of France but recovered the next year and continued under the English till 1453. And then finally taken by Charles VII In the beginning of the Civil Wars of France this Town fell under the power of the Hugonots who very much improved its Fortifications It was their principal place of refuge under Charles IX After the Massacre of Paris it was besieged by all the Forces of France defended it self to a wonder and at last forced that Prince to a Peace in 1573. It continued after this in their hands till 1628. and then was taken by Hunger in order to which the Ocean was bridled with a prodigious Bank begun in 1627. and carried the length of 747. toises the English having twice unsuccessfully attempted to relieve it After the taking of it Lewis XIII King of France visited it in person re-established the Roman Catholick Religion destroy'd its Fortifications saving two Towers built heretofore by Charles the Fifth for the Defence of the Port and took away its former Privileges In 1649. it first became a Bishoprick the Chair being removed hither from Mallezais a small Place in Poictou by Pope Innocent X. at the request of Lewis XIV Long. 19. 25. Lat. 45. 56. Rochester Rossa Durobius Dorobrevis Rutupiae a City in the County of Kent and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the Medway over which it has a stately Stone Bridge one of the fairest in England five Miles from the Thames twenty five from Canterbury to the East and London to the West This was a Roman Town or rather Castle as William of Malmsbury stiles it much enlarged to the East West and South In 676. it was ruined by Aetheldred King of the Mercians and after this several times by the Danes Aethelbert King of Kent erected here a sumptuous Church and caused one Justus to be made the first Bishop of it in 604. Gundulphus the Norman about 1080. rebuilt this Church and brought in Monks which are since changed into a Dean and six Prebendaries It has a Castle built by William the Conqueror which in the Reign of William Rufus and twice after in the Barons Wars has been besieged Dr. Sprat the present Bishop is the eighty third of this Diocese Charles II. added an Honor to this Place when he created Henry Viscount Wilmot of Athlone in Ireland Baron of Alderbury in the County of Oxon and Earl of Rochester December 13. 1652. Whose Son John Wilmot succeeded him in 1659. Which Family failing Laurence Hide second Son to Sir Edward Hide Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor of England was by the same Prince created Earl of Rochester November 29. 1682. But before these it gave the Title of Viscount to Sir Robert Carr created Anno 1611. by K. James I. Viscount Rochester and afterwards Earl
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
Redoubts with sixty thousand men within it and one hundred Cannon whereupon the Duke retreated June 20. and repassed the Drave at Siclos See Mohatz After the unfortunate taking of Belgrade by the Turks October 1690. they set down immediately with an Army of fifteen thousand Men before this Place but retired without Success Essedones or Issedones an ancient People of Scythia whose Capital Town was Issedon now called Caracoran Herodotus says of them that they used to eat the dead bodies of their Parents reserving the head to be set in Gold and made the object of their annual Sacrifices Essekebe or Esquib Essequebia one of the principal Rivers of South America It ariseth in Guiana near to the Lake of Parime and running Eastward to improve its Streams by the addition of many smaller Rivers it falls into the North Sea near Meapuer In Long. 318. The Dutch who have many Plantations upon it call it by this name Essex Essexia is a County in the East of England inhabited heretofore in part by the Trinobantes bounded on the North by Suffolk and Cambridgeshire on the West by Hartford and Middlesex on the South by Kent and on the East by the German Sea The principal City in it is Colchester This Country is very fruitful full of Noblemen and Gentlemens Houses The principal Rivers which water it are the Stour that divideth it from Suffolk the Thames from Kent the Ley from Middlesex and the Little Stour from Hartfordshire which besides their fruitful Meadows and the convenience of Carriage afford it plenty of Fish besides these there is the Ill the Crouch the Chelme the Blackwater and the Colne which arise and fall within this Country and many of them are great Rivers There are many smaller ones whose Names cannot be taken in here This County gave the Title of Earl to the Families of the Mandeviles the Bohuns the Bourchiers Thomas Lord Cromwell William Lord Parre before it came to the D'Eureuxe's Robert d'Eurex Viscount Hereford General of the Parliaments Army against Charles I. dying Septem 13. 1646. and his Son Robert an Infant before the Restitution of Charles II. Arthur Capel Baron of Hadham was created Earl of Essex and Viscount Malden April 20. 1661. and made Lord Lieutenant in Ireland in 1672. He perished miserably in the Tower His Son then an Infant succeeded him in this Honor. Esslingen See Esling Essone Exona a small River and Village in the Isle of France The Town stands five Miles from Paris to the South-West and one from Corbeile to the West Estampes Stampae a Town and Dutchy in Beausse in France The Town stands upon a River of the same Name ten Leagues from Paris to the South and sixteen from Orleans to the North mentioned in Georgius Turonensis Aimonius and other French Historians It is placed on the Some at the Confluence of another small River which is sometimes called l'Yone and sometimes La riviere d'Estampes There is a Collegiate Church and divers Religious Houses standing in it but the Castle was ruined in 1652. This Town was created first an Earldom in 1327. by Charles IV. King of France Then a Dukedom in 1536. by King Francis I. And has been many times honoured not only with French Synods but with the Assemblies of the States The Huguenotts took it by Scalade in 1567. Estaples Stabulae Stapulae a Sea-Port-Town in the County of Boulogne in Picardy sixteen Miles North of Dieppe and ten from Calais South Este or Est Ateste a Town in the Dominion of the State of Venice mentioned by Pliny and Tacitus which was once a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileia It stands in the District of Padua upon the little Medoacus or the River Bachiglione which washing the Walls of Vicenza and Este falls into the Venetian Gulph twelve Miles from Padua to the South The Dukes of Modena in Italy of which Illustrious House Mary Consort to King James II. is take their Name from this Place who were before a great while Dukes of Ferrara Modena and Regio Now only of Modena See the History of the Family of Este written in Italian by Jean Baptistâ— Pigna and in English by Mr. Crawford Esteing an ancient Barony in the Province of Rouergne in France since advanced to an Earldom It gives Name to an Honourable Family that by the concession of Philip the August in the year 1214. as a reward for the noble actions of one of their Ancestors bears the same Coat of Arms with the Crown Estella or Stella a small City in the Kingdom of Navarr upon the River Ega where it receives the Vreder eight Miles from Pampelona to the South and the same from Calahorra to the North. Built in the year 1094. It is the Capital of the Territory called la Merindada de Estella Esten Esthonia a considerable Province in the North of Livonia heretofore under the Poles but now the Swedes It lies between the Sinus Finnicus a part of the Baltick Sea to the North Lettonia Liefland to the South the Bay of Riga to the West and Ingria a Province of Russia to the East the chief City in it is Revel the Capital of this Province which is sometimes called Eastland Estepa Astapa a City or great Town in Andalusia in Spain seated upon a Hill in the Confines of the Kingdom of Granada about twelve Miles from Malaga to the North and seventeen from Sevil to the South-East This sprung out of the ruines of Astapa an old Iberian City or Phoenician Colony which being besieged by Marcellus a Roman General the Inhabitants burnt themselves with their Wives and Children and all they had that they might not fall into the hands of the Romans as Livy saith Cstoiteland Estotilandia a great Tract of Land in the North of America towards the Actick Circle and Hudson's Bay having New France on the South and James's Bay to the West This is a part of Canada now commonly called New Britain and Terra Laboratoris The first of the American Shoars which was discovered being found by some Friesland Fishers that were driven hither by a Tempest almost two hundred years before Columbus In 1390. Nicolas and Antonius Zeni two Brothers that were Venetian Gentlemen at the Charges of Zichini King of Friesland took a view the second time of these Shoars John Skoluo a Polonian in 14â—6 about eighty six years after the first discovery sailing past Norway Greenland and Friesland and entering into the Streight beyond the Artick Circle arrived at this Country Which is Mountainous overgrown with Woods full of all manner of wild and savage Beasts and only known as to the Shoars but yet the Soil is fruitful Hofman Estouteville a Town in the Vpper Normandy in France advanced to the quality of a Dukedom by King Francis I. in 1538. There is a Noble Family deriving their Name from it Estremadura Extremadura is a Province of the Kingdom of Portugal at the Mouth of the Tagus upon the Western Ocean bounded on the North
the Hundred of Finsbury of which the Earl of Warwick bears the Title of Baron Kent Cantium is the most South-Eastern County of England on the North it is bounded by the Thames which parts it from Essex on the East and South it has the British Sea in part on the North and on the West it has Sussex and Surrey It is in length from East to West fifty Miles and from South to North twenty six Divided into five Lathes Sutton Aylesford Soray St. Augustine and Shepway wherein are four hundred and eight Parishes and thirty Market Towns That part which lieth towards the Thames is healthful but not fruitful the middle parts are both the Southern are very fruitful but not healthful The Thames the Medway the Stower the Tun and the Rother besides lesser Streams water it Some give this Character of it The Weald for Wood East Kent for Corn Rumney for Meadow Tenham for an Orchard Shepey and Reculver for Wheat Thanet for Barley and Hedcorn for Capons This Country was first conquered by Julius Caesar though not without Resistance in the years of Rome 696. and 698. fifty three years before the Birth of our Saviour being forced to a double Expedition against almost this single County As he began the Conquest of Britain here so did the Saxons Hengist erecting the Kingdom of Kent in the year of Christ 456. seven years after the first arrival of the Saxons Against the Danes the Kentish men did also great things and with much Courage and Patience repelled those Barbarous People When William the Conquerour had subdued all the rest of the Nation he was glad to come to a Composition with the Inhabitants of this County and to grant them their ancient Liberties and Customs Whence the Laws of Gavelkind obtain here to this day This County was also the first that imbraced the Christian Religion from Augustine the Monk in the year 568. Accordingly Canterbury is justly the Metropolis of the whole Kingdom of England as having been the first Fountain from whence the Christian Religion spread it self amongst the Saxons for as for the British or Welsh they had imbraced Christianity long before VVilliam the Conquerour in 1067. created Odo Bishop of Bajeux his half Brother Lord Chief Justice and Lord Treasurer of England Earl of Kent In 1465. Edward IV. created Edmund Grey Lord Ruthyn Lord Treasurer of England which Family still injoys this Honour Anthony II. the present Earl of Kent being the eleventh in this Succession Besides the Sea of Canterbury this County injoys a second Bishoprick which is Rochester and a great many populous rich Towns fafe Roads large and secure Harbours for Ships and whatever else is desirable in Human Life except a more serene Air. Kerci or Chierche Cercum a small Town at the Mouth of the Streights of Caffa upon the Euxine Sea belonging to the Precopensian Tartars Kerez See Keureuz Keriog a River in Shropshire which falls into the Dee above Bangor Kerka or Karka Titius a River of Dalmatia which washeth Sardona and Sebenico then falls into the Adriatick Sea eight German Miles North of Spalatro Kermen Germia a considerable City at this day in Thrace seated not far from Adrianople the Turks have here a Sangiack Kerry a County in the Province of Munster on the Vergivian or Western Ocean between the County of Clare to the North and the County of Cork to the South and East the Capital of which is Ardart Keschidag Olympius a Mountain of Misia in the Lesser Asia Kesmarckt or Keysermarkt Caesaropolis a Town of the Vpper Hungary at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains towards the Frontiers of the Kingdom of Poland Keswick a Market Town in the County of Cumberland in the Hundred of Allerdale near to which Black Lead is digged up in plenty It standeth in a Valley environed with Hills and has been formerly a famous Town for Copper Mines Kesâ—el or Cassel Castellum Menapiorum a Town in Brabant two Leagues beneath Roermond to the North between the Maes to the East and the Peel to the West seated upon the River Neerse which a little lower falls into the Maes Kettering a Market Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Huxton upon a Rivulet which falls into the Nen delightfully seated on an Ascent It has a Sessions-House for the Justices of Peace of the County Keureuz Keres Krais Chrysius Cusus a River of Transylvania and the Vpper Hungary which ariseth in the Western Borders of Transylvania near Feltat and watering Giula a little above receiveth another Branch called by the same Name which passeth by Great Waradin both which Rivers being united fall into the Tibiscus or Tyesse at Czongrodt above Segedin One of these is called by the Germans Fekykeres which goes to Giula the other Sebeskeres Feky signifying White and Sebes Black Kexholm Kexholmia a Province of the Kingdom of Sweden in Finland which was heretofore under the Russ but conquered by the Swedes in 1617. It is the most South-Eastern part of Finland The Capital of this Province is Kexholm seated upon the Banks of the River Voxen near to the Western Shoar of the Lake of Ladoga which together with the Castle which is very strong was taken by Monsieur Pont de la Gardie a French Gentleman from the Russ in 1580. The year following this Gentleman took Narva and several other strong places for the Swedes from the Moscovites and was at last drowned in the River of Narva Keyserstul Forum Tiberii a small Town in Switzerland upon the Rhine over which it has a Bridge It lies in the County of Baden nine German Miles from Basil to the West and Constance to the East and belongs to the Bishop of Constance but is subject to the Canton of Zurick Kidwelly a Market Town in Caermarthenshire in VVales The Capital of its Hundred Khoemus Margiana a Province of the Kingdom of Persia See Margiana Kherman Kermoen Kermon or Kirman Carmania or Caramania a Province of the Kingdom of Persia with a City of the same Name Kiburgh a Castle in the Canton of Zurich upon the River Toss two Miles from Zurich to the East the Earls of which were heretofore of great Name This Castle was purchased by them of Zurich in 1452. Kiel or Kil Chilonium a City in the Dukedom of Holstein under the Duke of Holstein upon the Mouth of the River Swentin having a convenient Port upon the Baltick Sea much frequented by Merchants Ships there belongs to it a Castle seated on a Hill and an University opened here in 1665. The Convention of the States of Holstein are usually held here This City stands nine German Miles from Lubeck to the North ten from Flensborg to the South and tho very well fortified has of late suffered very much from the Swedes Kiengara See Gangra Kienning a great City of the Province of Fokien in China and the Capital of a Territory of its own Name commanding six other Cities It is adorned with a magnificent Pagod or
Centre of the County to which it gives name large well built and populous extending from the top of a high Hill where Lindum the old Roman Town stood its Ditches and Rampier being still visible a great way downwards unto the River In this Town the Valiant Britain Vortimer died in 456 being Poysoned by Rowena the Daughter of Hengist and Wife of Vortiger The Saxons after this ruined Lindum and built Lincoln nearer the River about the times when Paulinus first Preached the Christian Faith to them The Danes destroyed it twice In the time of Edward the Confessor here was one thousand and seventy Mansions In the Norman times no City in England was more Rich or Populous as Will. of Malmsbury acquaints us Will. the Conqueror thought fit to build here a very strong Castle upon the top of the Hill aforesaid to awe the Inhabitants Remigius Bishop of Dorchester near Oxon at the same time removed the Sea hither and built the Cathedral above the same Hill In the Reign of Edward III. it was made a Mart or Staple King Stephen was overcome and taken Prisoner near this City in 1140. Sept. 5. in a great Battel with Maud the Empress and afterwards at Bristol laid in Irons Henry III. had better success here when it being defended by the Barons against him under Prince Lewis in 1217. May 19. he took it forced Lewis to Flee to London and soon after into France Mr. Cambden observes that of fifty Churches standing within an hundred Years of his time there were only eighteen left It hath by times gone through all the calamities of Fire Sword and Earthquake Yet a large populous and well frequented place still and enjoying the greatest Diocese of any in the Kingdom as the Cathedral there called commonly the Minster is one of the stateliest Piles perhaps in Christendom It hath the privilege also of being a County Corporate whose Liberties extend about twenty Miles in compass with the title of the County of the City of Lincoln It s Long. 22. 52. Lat. 53. 12. Lincolnshire is bounded on the North by the Humber and the British Sea on the East by the same Sea and part of Norfolk on the South by Cambridge Northampton and Rutlandshire on the West by Leicester Nottingham and Yorkshire It is a very large County extending in length from North to South almost sixty Miles and carrying in some places thirty in breadth fruitful in Corn and Grass thick set with Towns and well watered with Rivers As the Humber the Trent which severs part of it from Nottinghamshire the Witham running a cross it the Woland and the Nen. The whole is divided into Lindsey to the Northward which takes up about one half Holland towards the Sea Southward and Kesteven West from thence which three divisions contain six hundred and thirty Parishes and thirty five Market Towns Here is plenty of Fowl and Fish The old Inhabitans were the Coritani The present Earl of this County is Edward Lord Clinton who succeeded in 1667 being the fifth of his Family that has born this Title and the sixteenth Earl Edward Fines Lord Clinton Lord Admiral having obtained this Honor from Qu. Elizabeth in 1565 before whose time the same title had passed through several Families by frequent interruptions Lincopen Lincopia Lingacopia a City of Sweden which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vpsal in Ostro-Gothia between Soderkoping to the East and Wadtena to the West twenty eight German Miles from Stockholm to the South-West and almost eight East from the Lake of Veter Long. 32. 48. Lat. 58. 3. The City is very small and inconsiderable We read of a Synod celebrated at it in 1148. under P. Eugenius III. It is also written Lindkeeping Lindaw Lindavia Lindavilum Philyra a City of Germany in the Circle of Schwaben in an Island in the Lake of Constance joined to the Continent by a Bridge two hundred and ninety Paces long It is an Imperial and Free City situate in the borders of Switzerland eight Miles from Constance to the North-East and grew up out of the ruins of Aeschach a place near to it Very strong both by its Site and by Art and therefore it the more easily repelled the Forces of Count Wrangel the Swedish General who in 1647. besieged it The beginning of this City was a Monastery built here by Adelbert Rorbuck a Kinsman of Charles the Great in 810. This occasioned the building of a Village and the Site being pleasant fruitful and convenient it grew up by degrees to a City at first subject to the Abbess after that to the Dukes of Schwaben obtaining its Privileges since from Rudolphus I. Frederick III. and Sigismond Lindo Lindus a Sea-Port Town in the Isle of Rhodes the Christian Inhabitants of which can bring about twenty good and large Ships into the Grand Seignior's Service Line a rivulet in Staffordshire upon which Newcastle stands thence commonly called Newcastle upon Line to distinguish it from Newcastle upon Tine Lindsey one of the three parts of the County of Lincoln containing all the Northern parts from the River Witham to the Humber and from the Ocean to Trent This was in 1626. by Charles I. made an Earldom and granted to Robert Bartie Lord Willoughby of Eresby Lord Great Chamberlain of England who died in the Bed of Honour at Edge-Hill October 23. 1642. being the King's General in that Battel The present Earl Robert Bartie the third of this Family succeeded in 1666. Lingen Lingo a strong Town in Westphalia which is the Capital of a County of the same Name under the Prince of Orange upon the River Ems forty five Miles from Munster to the North and fifty five from Emden to the South The County that belongs to it lies in the Bishoprick of Munster and is very small It belonged to the Spaniards in the time of Charles V. but is now in the hands of the Prince of Orange Linlithgo Linlithquo Lithquo Lindum a Town and a County in the South of Scotland The Town standeth on the South side of the Fyrth of Edenburgh twenty two Miles from that City to the West This Place as Mr. Cambden saith is called Lindum by Ptolemy and it takes its Name from a great Lake in this small County from which ancient the present Name is derived Linosa an Island of the Mediterranean Sea upon the Coast of Africa near Maltha It depends upon the Island of Maltha Linton a Market Town in Cambridgeshire in the Hundred of Chilford Lintz Aurelianum Lentia called by Aurelian Lyncia Lyncium and by some understood to be the Aredate of Ptolemy is the Capital City of the Vpper Austria small but populous seated upon the Danube over which it has a Bridge and in it a magnificent Castle whither the Emperors of the House of Austria have frequently retired for their Pleasure and Divertisement It stands six German Miles from Passaw to the East and twenty four from Vienna to the West Dr. Brown gives this account of
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
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
they oppressed this Nation for many Ages and so harrassed them that no account can be given of the times when the Reigns of their Princes began or ended John XI was the first who began to enfranchise these Countries from the Servitude of the Tartars which they had so long groaned under John Basilovitz the 4th of this Race who began his Reign very young in 1540. ended it by the Conquest of the Tartars and all the petty Princes which had till then reigned in several parts of this Empire This was the cruellest Tyrant that any Age has produced and died as wretchedly as he lived in 1584. Foedor Juanovits his Son succeeded him at the Age of twenty two years he was a perfect natural Fool. There was another Brother called Demetrius of nine years of Age which had more sense But Boris who managed all this under Foedor caused Demetrius to be Murthered In 1597. Foedor dying suddenly without Children Boris was Elected and soon after Deposed in favour of a Counterfeit Demetrius brought in by the Poles after which followed nothing but Calamities and Confusions till in 1615. or as others say in 1612 one Michael Fedrovizt Son of Foedor Nikitis a Kinsman far removed of John Basilovitz was chosen by the Body of this Nation Emperor of Muscovy This Prince settled this vast Empire governed it with more Justice Clemency Prudence and Piety than all his Predecessors had used and at last died in great Honor July 12. 1645. To him Succeeded Alexius his Son The two Princes which some few years since ascended the Throne together are of the same Race Red Russia is a Province under the Crown of Poland sometimes called the Proper Russia and Roxolania it lies extended towards the South between Poland properly so called and Muscovy This contains the Palatinates of Russia properly so called Podolia Volhinia Belza Braslaw Kiovia and the Territory of Chelm being that part of Russia which as I said before was Conquered by the Poles and by Casimir II. in 1342. united for ever to Poland White Russia is a very confiderable Province under the Crown of Poland and so called because it was of old a part of Muscovy or Russia it is divided into six Palatinates which are Novogrod Miscislaw Witebsko Minskie Polokie and Smolenskie This last Palatinate has been recovered in latter times by the Russ and is not now under the Poles Russia properly so called Russi Rutheni is a Province of Poland and a part of Red Russia which has Poland on the West Volhinia and Podolia on the East the Territories of Culm and Belsia on the North and the Carpathian Hills dividing it from Hungary and Transylvania to the South the Capital of it is Lemburgh Some give this Province the name of Black Russia Rustan Rustanus Ager a small Territory in the Province of Bigorre in Aquitain in France near the River Arroux and S. Severe Ruthen a Market Town in Denbyshire in Wales The Capital of its Hundred Rutlandshire Rutlandia is the least of all the Counties of England Bounded on the North by Lincolnshire on the East and South by Northamptonshire divided from it by the River Weland and on the West by Leicestershire its greatest length is from North to South not full twelve Miles from East to West hardly nine and its circumference about forty The Air is temperate serene and healthful the Soil rich and fruitful in Corn and Pasturage especially about the Vale of Catmoss Woods and pleasant Springs are plentiful enough of the latter the Weland and the Wash are the principal so that it wants nothing This County was a part of the Lands possessed by the Coritani before the Roman Conquest and was Conquered by P. Ostorius in the Reign of Claudian the Emperor Afterwards it made a part of the Kingdom of Mercia and now is in the Diocese of Peterborough There are but forty eight Parishes and two Market-Towns in it Okeham being the Shire Town and Vppingham the other In 1390. Edward Plantagenet eldest Son of Edmund Duke of York In 1326 Richard second Brother of the said Edward and in 1450. Edmund Plantagenet second Son of Richard Duke of York all of the Royal Family successively were Earls of this County But in 1525. Thomas Mannors Lord Roos of Hamlake Tresbut and Belvoir Descended by the Lady Ann his Mother from the said Richard Duke of York was Created Earl of Rutland by Henry VIII in 1325. whose Posterity enjoy this Honor to this day John the twelfth of this Family succeeding John his Father in the year 1679. Rutuli an ancient People of Latium in Italy Ardea was their Capital City Ruvo Rubi a City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari a small but spruce and populous City about seventeen Miles from Bari to the West Horace mentions it in his Satyrs Inde Rubos fessi pervenimus c. Rye a member of the Cinque Ports upon the edge of the County of Sussex towards Kent in Hastings Rape situated at the fall of the Rother into the Sea where it hath a convenient Haven especially for a ready passage to Diepe in Normandy It returns two Members to the Lower House of Parliament The Fishermen take excellent Herrings here S A. SAada a City in the Happy Arabia perhaps of old called Sabatha it stands in the inland parts of that Country three hundred Miles from Aden to the North. If it is Sabatha its Long. is 76. 00. Lat. 16. 56. Saal Sala a River in Germany called by the French Sale It ariseth in Franconia over against the Nab and the Mayn and flowing through Thuringia it watereth Saalfeld and Jena then entering Misnia and passing by Naumburgh Mersburgh and Hall and being in this passage swelled by many smaller Rivers it falls at last into the Elbe beneath Bernburgh in the Vpper Saxony four Miles from Magdeburgh to the South Saan Savaria a River of Stiria Saare See Sare Saba supposed to be the same with Meroe in Aethiopia § One of the Charibye Islands in America under the Hollanders and near S. Christophers is likewise called by this name Sabaro Sybaris a River in Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples others call it Cochile and say it falls into the Bay of Taranto near Morano Sabaria a Town of the ancient Pannonia in Hungary the native place of S. Martin of Tours It is not certainly known where it is some conjecturing it to be one place and some another Sabini an ancient People of Latium in Italy whose memory is still preserved in the name of a Province now in the States of the Church called Terra Sabina which contains a part of the Territory heretofore belonging to them the Capital whereof was Cures There is a Monastery in this Territory honoured with a Bishop's See under the Title of the Bishop of Sabina and in the years 1590. 1593. 1595. c. Synodal Constitutions were published by the then Bishops bearing the same
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
Region of the ancient Asia betwixt the Two Scythia's Margiana Bactriana and the Caspian Sea now answering to the Province of Mawralnaher or Maurenhaer in the Asiatick Tartary North-East of Persia Soisons Suessiones Suessia Civitas Augusta Suessionum an ancient Roman City in the Isle of France which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Reims and the Capital of a County called Le Soissonnois A great fine strong City seated upon the River Aisne which divides it five Leagues from the Confines of Picardy eleven from Reims to the West and twenty two from Paris Pepin was first proclaimed King of France in this City in 752. Soissonnois the District belonging to it was heretofore a part of Picardy it lies between Reims to the East Picardy to the North Valois to the West and Le Brie to the South It took this name from the Suessones an old Gallick Tribe which inhabited it before the Roman Conquest Honoured for many Ages with the Title of an Earldom The City hath six Abbeys in it besides Churches and divers Ecclesiastical and Religious Houses In 853. a Council was assembled at it in the presence of Charles the Bald King of France Solane Solana a small River in Aquitain in France which in the Province of Limosine falls into the Courezze by the City of Tulle Solao Salaca a Province of the Higher Aethiopia near the River Tacaz between the Kingdom of Bagamidra to the South and the Province of Arbagela to the North. Soldin the same with Seleusia Pieria a City of Syria Soleurre Salodurum Salodorum a City of Switzerland which is the Capital of a Canton called by its name The Natives call it Soleurre the Germans Solothurn the Italians Soloduro It stands upon the River Arola seven Miles from Basil to the South and from Friburg to the North and five from Berne to the same The Canton is the eleventh in the number small and Roman Catholick Solfarin a small Seigniory or Lordship in Mantoua Solms Solmia a County in Germany which has its Name from a ruined Town on the River Lohne It lies extended from North to South part in Westerwaldt and part in Weteraw between Hassia to the East and Treves to the West under its own Count whose Residence is in the Castle of Brunsfeld Soloe or Soli the Birth-place of the ancient Greek Poet Aratus This City is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Seleucia It stands in Cilicia in Asia Minor and took for some time the name of Pompeiopolis from its re-establishment by Pompey the Great Pliny mentions it upon the account of a Fountain it anciently had of an extraordinary quality Now called Palesoli Sologne Solonia Sicalonia a small Province under the Prefecture of Orleans by Latin Writers also called Secalonia Sigalonia Siligonta and Sabulonia being a Sandy Country particularly fruitful in Wheat and Rice It lies between the Provinces of Orleans Berry and Blaisois but its proper Limits are lost The principal Town in it is Romorentin eight Leagues from Bois South and fourteen from Bourges North. The Islands of Solomon a Mass of great Islands in the Pacifick Sea towards New Zelandt discovered by Alvarez Mendoza in 1567. but little frequented by the Europeans The names of some of them are S. George S. Mark S. Nicholas S. Anne S. Catherine the Three Maries S. James S. Christopher S. Jerome c. Solothurn See Soleure Solpe a City and Bishop's See in the Province called Capitanota in the Kingdom of Naples Solsona a City in Catalonia in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona made such in 1593. by Pope Clement VIII It stands upon the River Cordoner at the foot of the Mountains about three Leagues from Cardona to the North. A small ill peopled Place though it has been fortified by the French Soltwedel Heliopolis Solvedelia a City in the ancient Marquisate of Brandenburg upon the River Jetz eight German Miles from Vlcan to the East and ten from Havelburg The Inhabitants report it was built by Charles the Great after he had destroyed a Statue of the Sun which was worshipped in this Place Solwey Fryth Ituna an Arm of the Irish Sea which parts England from Scotland Somersetshire Belgae Durotriges Somersetia is a rich populous and fruitful County in the West of England Bounded on the North by the Severne Sea and Glocestershire cut off by the Severne on East by Wiltshire on the South by Dorsetshire and part of Devonshire on the West by Devonshire and the Irish Sea It contains in length from East to West fifty Miles in breadth forty in circuit two hundred and four wherein lie three hundred eighty five Parishes and thirty Market Towns The Air is mild and gentle in the Summer the Roads are extremely miry and deep in the Winter which is recompenced by the Fertility of the Soil yielding Corn and Grass in great plenty nor is it destitute of Mines of Lead Whence comes the usual Proverb here What is worse for the Rider is best for the Abider These Mines are found particularly in Mendip-Hills It has also a Rock called S. Vincent's Rock where are found great plenty of Diamonds equal to those of India in their Lustre but not in hardness It has three Noble Cities Bristol Bath and Wells all which are discoursed of in their proper places The Rivers Parret Tor Tone Frome and others water it besides the Severne's Mouth The first Earl of this County was William de Mohun created in 1138. The second Willam Long-Espee Base Son to Henry II. in 1197. The third Reginald de Mohun in 1296. The fourth John de Beauford in 1396. In which Family it continued till 1471. in six Descents The tenth was Edmond third Son of Henry VI. in 1496. The eleventh Henry Fitz Roy a Base Son of Henry VIII The twelfth Edward Seymor Lord Protector of Edward VI. created Duke in 1546. beheaded in 1552. The thirteenth was William Carre in 1614. The fourteenth William Seymor Marquess of Hartford restored to his Great-Grand father's Title of Duke of Somerset by Charles II. in 1660. since which time there have been five Descents in this Family Somerton a Market Town in Somersetshire The Capital of its Hundred of great consideration heretosore when it is said to have given Name to its County Somme or Some Phrudis Somona Samara a River in Picardy in France which ariseth in a place called Fon Somme in Vermandois two Leagues from S. Quintin to the West and running West watereth Han Peronne Corbie Amiens Abbeville and S. Valery where it falls into the British Sea twelve French Leagues South of Boulogne over against Rye in Sussex having divided Picardy into two parts Sommiers Sommeria a small City in the Lower Languedoc upon the River Vidole four Leagues from Mompellier to the South-East and the same distance from Nismes Once a fortified City Songo a City of the Kingdom of Madingua in the division of Nigritia in Africa Sonneburg one of the chief Towns in the Island
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
Course piece of Cloth with a fine List Besides the Thames here is the VVay the Mole and the Wandle whose head springs from Croydon all emptying themselves in the Thames It has many Noble and Princely Houses but few Towns or Places of any considerable greatness the Principal Town in it being Kingston upon Thames The Regni an old British Tribe were the first Inhabitants of this County In the times of the Saxon Heptarchy it was a part of the Kingdom of the South Saxons The first Earl of it was VVill. de VVarren Created by VVilliam the Conqueror in 1067. VVilliam the third of this Line succeeded in 1135. who was followed by VVilliam de Blois Son of King Stephen first Husband of Isabel de VVarren in 1148. and by Hameline Plantagenet base Son of George Earl of Anjou half Brother to Edward III. second Husband of the said Isabel in 1163. His Posterity enjoyed it in four descents till 1347 when the Male Line failing Richard Fitz Alan Lord Treasurer was Earl of Surrey In 1398. Thomas Holland was Earl of Kent and Duke of Surrey afterwards Beheaded Thomas Fitz Alan Son of the former Richard died Earl of Surrey in 1414. In 1451 John Lord Mowbray was Created Earl of VVarren and Surrey and after Duke of Norfolk In 1475. Richard a second Son of Edward IV. was the thirteenth Earl of Surrey In 1483. Thomas L. Howard L. Treasurer after Duke of Norfolk was Created Earl of Surrey in which Family it is at this day Surunga a City and Kingdom in Japan in the Island of Niphon Sus Susa or Susum a Kingdom in Biledulgerida in Africa so called from a River of the same Name It is bounded on the North by the Kingdom of Morocco on the East by Darha on the South by Tesseta and on the West by the Atlantick Ocean Divided into seven Provinces the principal Cities in it are Tarudant the Regal City Teseut and Sancta Cruz. This is a pleasant rich fruitful Kingdom yields Wine Grain Fruits Pasturage Indico Alum c. has a great Quantity of Gold which is a perpetual cause of War amongst them and many Castles and Villages well fortified by the Natives since the Portuguese abandoned this Country in the last Century Now subject to the Kingdom of Fez tho it has been a distinct Kingdom and the Inhabitants are for the most part Mahometans and some of the best Soldiers in Africa Susa one of the principal Cities in the Principality of Piedmont upon the Doria at the foot of the Cottian Alps which separate Piedmons from Dauphine and the Capital of a Marquisaâ—e of its own Name belonging to the Duke of Savoy but taken by the French Forces under Monsieur Cattinat November 1690. Nineteen Miles from Pignerol The French call it Suse This City shews an Inscription upon a Triumphal Arch from which Learned Men conclude that the Emperor Augustus erected his Trophy hereabouts for the Conquest of the Alpine Nations in the year of Rome 740 fourteen Years before our Saviour For tho others place that Trophy about the Foot of le Col de Tende or the Maritime Alpes near Nice and Monaco from a part of the words Gentes Alpinae Devictae seen there upon a Fragment of a stone yet these two Opinions are reconcilable by supposing that Augustus set up this Trophy at the foot of both the Maritime and Cottian Alpes for the greater glory § Susa was also the Capital of the ancient Country Susiana in Asia at the entrance of a spacious Plain which the River Choaspes watered The Kings of Persia used to pass the Spring at it Darius repaired it says Pliny Alexander the Great took it It is now in a flourishing state if the same Souster See Souster Susdal Susdalia a City of Muscovy the Capital of a Province of the same Name and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Rostow It stands eighty Miles from Moscow to the South-East and one hundred and thirty from Novogorod Nisi to the North-West Susiana an ancient Country of Asia betwixt Syria Persia and Chaldaea whereof Susa was the Capital City and Melitene one considerable Province It had the honour to be a Kingdom which after the death of Abradatus King of Susiana submitted to the power of Cyrus Sussex Sussexia one of the Southern Counties of England Bounded on the North by Surrey and Kent on the East by Kent on the South by the British Sea and on the West by Hampshire It s Length from East to West is sixty Miles the broadest part from North to South not above twenty and its Circumference about one hundred and fifty wherein are contained one hundred and twelve Parishes with eighteen Market Towns The Air is good but subject to great Fogs and Mists out of the neighbour Sea which recompenceth this Inconvenience with plenty of Fish and Fowl There are few Harbors upon this Coast the Soil is rich and fruitful but the Roads miry and unpleasant the Middle of the Country has excellent Meadows the Sea-coasts are Hilly but afford plenty of Corn and Grass the North-side full of Woods and Groves The principal River is Arun. The chief City in it is Chichester which is a Bishop's See the next to it Lewes The Regni were the ancient Inhabitants of this County who were subdued by Aulus Plautius in the reign of Claudius the Roman Emperor In 478 Ella erected here the Kingdom of the South-Saxons from whence this County has its Name The first Earl of it was William de Albeney Earl of Arundel who married Adelizia the Relict of Henry I in 1178. He was succeeded by VVilliam his Son it continued in this Family for five Descents In 1243 John Plantagenet Earl of Surrey succeeded In 1305 John a Son of the former followed In 1529 Robert Ratcliffe was Created by Henry VIII Earl of Sussex whose Posterity enjoyed this Honor six Descents In 1644 Thomas Lord Savil was Created the fourteenth Earl of Sussex whose Son succeeded and in him that Family ended This Honor in 1674 was conferred upon Thomas Leonard Lord Dacres who married Anne Fitz-Roy eldest Daughter to the Duchess of Cleavland by Charles II. Sutherland Sutherlandia a County in the North of Scotland Bounded on the North by Caithness and Strathnavern on the West by Assint on the South by Rosâ— and on the East by the German Ocean The principal Town in it is Dornock Sutri Sutrium Colonia Julia Sutrina a City in the States of the Church in S. Peters Patrimony upon the River Pozzolo which is a Bishops See but for ever united to the See of Nepi from whence it stands four Miles to the West and twenty four from Rome to the South-West It is little and incompassed with Rocks on all sides Livy says of it that Camillus when it had revolted against the Romans went with an Army to reduce it In the year of Christ 1046. the Emperor Henry III. assembled a Council here which deposed Pope Gregory VI. who had intruded into the Roman
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
it contained also Schwaben Bavaria Thuringia a great part of Saxony and some Provinces of France But the Name is only now applied to Lorain Weteraw Veteravia Vederovia a Province in the Vpper Circle of the Rhine between the Vpper Hassia to the East Westerwaldt to the North the Rhine to the West and Mentz to the South The principal Places in it are Dietz and Haâ—â—mar Wetherby a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hund of Claro upon the River Warfe Wetsch the same with Vienna Wexford a County in the South of the Kingdom of Ireland called by the Irish Loghagarm It is the South part of the Province of Lemster Bounded on the North by the County of Waterford cut off by the River Barrow It takes its Name from a great Sea-Port Town on the South side of the River Shemalyn not far from the South-Eastern Point of Ireland fifty two Miles South of Sweden and about twenty East of Waterford Weymouth a Market Town and Corporation in Dorsetshire in the Hundred of Vgscomb at the Fall of the River Wey into the Ocean joined to Melcomb Regis on the other side of the same River by a fair Timber Bridge since the Incorporation of both Towns by Act of Parliament in Queen Elizabeth's time into one Body Yet each is distinctly represented by its Burgesses in the House of Commons and Weymouth has the Honour to give the Title of a Viscount to the Right Honourable Thomas Thynne Weymar See Weimar Whitby a Market and Sea-Port Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire at the Fall of the River Esk into the Ocean It hath many Vessels belonging to it a Bridge over the River a Custom-House and heretofore an Abbey of great fame in the Person particularly of S. Hilda an ancient Abbess of it Whitchurch a Market Town in Shropshhire in the Hundred of N. Bradford towards Cheshire § Also a Corporation in Hantshire in the Hundred of Evinger upon the River Test having the Election of two Members of the House of Commons Whitehaven a Market Town in the County of Cumberland in the Division of Allerdale upon a Creek of the Sea which affords it a convenient and well frequented Harbour It stands at the North end of a Rock of hard White Stone and trades principally in Coals and Salt Whithern Candida Casa Lucopibia the White-House a Town or small City in Galloway in Scotland upon the Irish Sea over against the Isle of Man and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Glasco The place where Ninia or Ninian a holy Britan the Apostle of the South Picts in the Reign of Theodosius the younger built a Church which after the number of Christians were increased became a Bishops See It is one of the ancientest Towns being mentioned by Ptolemy as well as Bishopricks in Scotland Long. 16. 30. Lat. 56. 30. Wiburg Viburgium a City in the Province of North Jutland in the Kingdom of Denmark which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lunden It stands in the middle of that Promontory at an equal distance from the German and Baltick Seas eight German Miles from Alburg to the South This Bishops See was founded by Sweno King of Denmark in 1065. Long. 30. 58. Lat. 58. 08. There is a Town of the same Name in Livonia Wickham a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Burnham upon a Stream falling into the Thames in a low and fruitful Vale. It hath the honour to be a Corporation represented by two Burgesses in the Lower House of Parliament Written also Chipping-VViccomb The Assizes for the County are commonly kept here being a large fair Town § Also a Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of VVilford upon the Deben in which the Archdeacon of Suffolk keeps his Courts for the Eastern part of that County This Town has lost its Market to Woodbridge in its neighbourhood Wickware a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Grombaldash Widen Widin See Vidin Wieprz Aprus a River which falls into the Vistula in the Borders of Poland and Silesia Wigan a Market Town and Corporation in Lancashire in the Hundred of Darby upon the River Dowles of note for good Coal The Corporation elects two Parliament men Wiflisburg or Wiefelbourg Aventicum an ancient City of Switzerland The Capital of the Canton of Wiâ—â—ipurgergow once a great City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Besanzon but now only a Town in the Borders of the Canton of Friburg called by the French Avenches It stands upon the River Broye one German Mile from Friburg three from Berne and four from Lausanne to the North. This Bishoprick was removed to Lausanne in 1076. This Canton is a part of the Canton of Berne bounded on the East by the Aar and Argop on the South by the Alpes and the Lake of Lemane and on the West and North by Mount Jura or Jurten Wight Victus Vectis Vecta an Island on the South of England belonging to the County of South-hampton In length twenty Miles in breadth twelve in circumference sixty About three from Hurst Castle of an oval form ending with two Peninsula's to the East and West And by nature secured with Rocks especially Southward It contains thirty six Parishes and three Market Towns Its Air healthful and pleasant the Soil very fruitful affords a good quantity of Corn for Exportation and Cattle and Game in abundance its Meadows and Wooll are excellent In short it wants nothing needful to the Life of Man The principal place in it is Newport and Cowes for a Harbour Vespasian was the first that subjected this Island to the Romans under Claudius Caesar Cerdick King of the West Saxons became the next Master of it in 530. After him Wolfer King of the Mercians from whom it passed to Edelwalch King of the South Saxons by gift Coedwalla King of the West Saxons at last reconquered it Henry VI. crowned Henry de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick his Favourite King of Wight but this Title soon vanished with his Life two years after Richard Widevil Earl of Rivers his Successor had it from Edward IV. with the Title of Lord of Wight Sir Reginald Bray took it from Henry VII in Fee Farm at the Rent of three hundred Marks Wighton a Market Town in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Harthill Wilde the same with Vilne Wilia Vilia a River of Poland which arising in the Palatinate of Breslaw watereth Vilne and beneath Cown falls into the Chrone Wilkomirz Wilkmer Vilcomtria a Town in the Ducal Prussia upon the River Swet eight Polish Miles from Vilne and seven from Trock Willy or Willibourn a River in Wiltshire which joins with the Nadder at Wilton near Salisbury and afterwards falls into the Avon Werminster is situated at the Spring of it Wiltshire Wiltonia is bounded on the North by Gloucester on the East by Berksshire on the South by Dorset and Hampshire and upon the West by Somerset and Gloucester From
Dukedom of the same Name upon the River Clesma between Moscow to the South-West and Novogrod Nisi to the North-East forty five German Miles from either Anciently the Capital of Black Russia and the Seat of the Dukes of Russia Wologda a great strong City which is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name upon the River Dwina ninety Miles from Jerislow to the North and fifty from Novogrod Nisi to the North West Wolverhampton a Market Town â—in Staffordshire in the Hundred of Seisdon upon a Hill enriched formerly with an Abbey It s Gollegiate Church is annexed to the Deanry of VVindsor Wolwich or Woolwich a Market Town in the County of Kent in Sutton Lath upon the Thames where it hath a Dock for the Royal Navy of England Womie See Medniky Woodbridge a Market Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of Looes upon the River Deben and the side of a Sandy Hill Provided with four or five Docks for building of Ships It is a large and well frequented Town hath a fair Church with Monuments in it and many Ships of Burthen belonging to its Inhabitants The Deben twelve Miles below it falls into the Sea Woodstock a Market Town and Corporation in Oxfordshire in the Hundred of Wotton represented in Parliament by two Burgesses It stands pleasantly upon an Ascent near a small River and a large Park enclosed with a VVall. The ancient Royal House called VVoodstock Bower built by King Henry I. Enlarged by Henry II. Honoured with the Birth of Edward the Black Prince and famous for the Death of the fair Rosamond admired by Henry II. in the Labyrinth adjoining stood in this Park till its destruction in the long Civil Wars Worcestershire Vigornia is bounded on the North by Staffordshire on the East by Warwickshire and Oxfordshire on the South by Gloucestershire and on the West by Herefordshire and Shropshire A rich and populous County in the form of a Triangle extending from North to South 32 Miles from North to West 28 in Circumference 220 inclosing 152 Parishes and 11 Market Towns The Air is very gentle and temperate the Soil fruitful and equal in goodness to the best in England Watered by the Severne Stoure Salwarpe Arrow Feck and Avon which all meet in one noble Southern Point of this County at Tewksbury Here are many excellent Salt-Pits in this County The most antient Inhabitants were the Cornavii subdued by the Romans in the Reign of Claudius Cesar After it became a part of the Mercian Kingdom Worcester Branonium Vigornia Brannogenium Brangoniae the Capital City of this County called by the Welsh Caer Vrangon by Ninius Caer Guorcon It is seated on the Eastern Bank of the Severn over which it hath a fair Stone Bridge with a Tower and from it was walled in the form of a Triangle and thought to have been built by the Romans against the Silures In 1041. it was burnt down by Hardy Canute King of Denmark In 1113. burnt the second time by accident The Cathedral Church was begun by Sexwolfe in 680. In which Prince Arthur the eldest Son of Henry VII lies buried in a plain black jet Tomb and King John in a white one This Town suffered much for its Loyalty to Charles I. and Charles II. Especially in 1651 when after the fatal Battel under her Wallâ— Sept. 3. she fell into the Hands of the enraged Tyrant Oliver Cromwell Long. 18. 10. Lat. 52. 32. Boselius was setled as a Bishop here by Etheldred King of the Mercians in 679. The first Earl of Worcester was Vrsus de Abot Created by William the Conqueror in 1087. The second VValeran de Beaumont in 1144. The third Thomas Percy Lord Admiral in 1397. The fourth Richard Beauchamp in 1420. The fifth John Tiptoft Lord Treasurer and Lord Constable in 1449. Succeeded by Edward his Son in 1477. who died in 1485. The seventh Charles Somerset Lord Herbert Natural Son of Henry Beaufort the eighth Duke of Somerset who was beheaded under King Edward IV. Created Earl by Henry VII in 1414. in which Family it now is Henry the 7th in this Line for his great Virtue and Loyalty by Charles II. was created Duke of Beaufort in 1682. Augustine the Monk celebrated a Council in this City as we learn from Bede Worksop a Market Town in Nottinghamshire in the Hundred of Bassetlaw and the Forest of Sherwood Noted for excellent Liquorish Worm Warmus a River in the Dukedom of Limburg Worms Worbacia Borbetomagus Borbitomagus Vangionum a City in Germany within the Bounds of the Lower Palatinate which is a Free and Imperial City but not populous It stands upon the VVestern Bank of the Rhine seven German Miles above Mentz and six beneath Spiers An ancient Roman City called Bormetomagus Vangionum It is supposed to have been a Colony of Ments after it became subject to the Romans ruined by Attila King of the Huns and rebuilt by Clovis King of France It was in the beginning of Christianity an Archbishops See but in 729. Pepin King of France took away its Metropolitan and made it only a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ments Henry II Emperour of Germany forced Otho Son of Conrad the Duke of this Country to retire to Brussels so it became a Free City Frederick II. Charles IV. Maximilian I. and Ferdinand I. in their times added to its Privileges There was a Council held here in 1078. in which Gregory VII Pope was deposed for Adultery and Necromancy by the Partizans his Enemies of the Emperour Henry IV. A Famous Diet also in 1521. in which Luther defended his Doctrine before the States of the Empire Long. 30. 03. Lat. 49. 33. This City is still by the Italians called Bormio The French demolished it in 1689. Worotin Vorotinum a City of Moscovy the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name It stands upon the Occa in the Borders of Lithuania sixty six Miles from Moscou to the South Wotton-Basset a Market Town in Wiltshire in the Hundred of Kingsbridge so called for distinction from Wotton-Vnder-Edge in Gloucester-shire The Capital of its Hundred Wreak a River in Leicestershire Melton-Mowbray stands upon it Wrexham a Market Town in Denbighshire in the Hundred of Bromfield Wrotham a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath. Wucziden Viminiacium Viminacium a Town in the Province of Servia upon the Danube fifteen Miles from Belgrade to the East Wutingen a Town in the Lower Circle of the Rhine in Germany under the Elector of Cologne At which the Duke of Brabant and the People of Cologne formerly fought a famous Battel Wurtzburgh Herbipolis the Capital City of Franconia in Germany and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ments since the year 791 when Bonifacius Archbishop of Ments advanced it to that Dignity It stands upon the Mayne on the North Bank and has a strong Castle on the other side of the River called Marienburgh Also a small University founded together with a large Hospital by one
Brietius Ardee Ardea a River of Normandy which falls into the British Sea at Auranches near the Limits of the Dukedom of Britain Ardee or Atherdee a small Market-Town in the County of Louth in the Province of Vlster in Ireland King James II. lay encamped upon the Plains here with an Army of 20000 Men whilst the Duke of Schomberg and his Forces were so strongly entrench'd at Dundalk who not accepting of a Battle when it was presented by King James both the Armies retired soon after without fighting into their Winter Quarters November 1689. Ardembourg or Rodenbourg Ardenburgum a Town in Flanders Taken by the Hollanders in 1604. One League from Sluys Ardennes Ardenna Sylva call'd by the Germans Ardenner-waldt and Luitticher-waldt is the greatest Forest in all the Low-Countries it reacheth above 100 Miles in length as this day extending itself through the Dukedom of Luxemburgh the Bishoprich of Liege the South part of Henalt and to the Borders of Champaign it is taken notice of by Cesar and Tacitus Ardes a Tract in the County of Down in Vlster in Ireland upon the Lake of Coin in the form almost of a Peninsula Ardesche a River of the Province of Vivarets in France It passes by Aubenas to the Rhosne into which it discharges itself near S. Esprit and separates Languedoc from Vivarets Ardfeart a Town in the County of Kerry in the Province of Munster in Ireland Ardila a River of Spain whichriseth in Andaluzia and dischargeth itself into the Guadiana below the City of Olivenza in Portugal Ardmonack is a Territory in the County of Rosse in Scotland belonging to the Royal Family of Scotland Charles I. as second Son to King James I. had the Title of Baron of Armonack given him at two year of Age. Ardrach a Town in the County of Longford in the Province of Connaught in Ireland Ardres Ardra is a little but well fortified Town in the County of Guienne in Picardy in France it stands in the Marshes in the Borders of Artois three Leagues from Calis toward the South and a little more from Gravelin Francis I. and Henry VIII King of England had an enterview with each other near this Town in 1520. Both Courts appearing so magnificent that they call'd the place a Field of Cloth of Gold In 1596 Cardinal Albret took it for the Spaniards who did not keep it long § Also the Name of a Kingdom and City in Guiney in Africa Ardret Ardrathen or Ardrat Ardatum a City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Armagh in the County of Kerry in Ireland Are Arus a River of York-shire It arises upon the Borders of Lancashire and falls into the Ouse below York Arembourg Areburium a Town of the lower Germany lately adorn'd wiah the Title of a Principality it lies between Colen to the North and Treves to the South upon the River Aer 7 German Miles from Juliers to the South and 4 from the Rhine West Arequipa one of the most considerable Cities of Peru in America upon the River Chila 7 Leagues from the South Sea 70 from Cusco And a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima with a commodious Port. It is made rich by the Silver Mines of the Andes that are found within 14 Leagues of it In 1582. an Earthquake as the Country here is very subject to them almost shook it to peices In 1600 the Vulcano which stands by it broke out into terrible Flames They did use to bring the Treasure of Potosi hither but the difficulty of the Road has driven them to Arica Arestinga Liba an Island in the Indian Ocean towards the Provinces of Kherman and Dulcinca in Persia Arethusa a City of Syria which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Apamea § Another in Macedonia by some call'd Taino and Renina upon the Bay of Contessa § Also a Lake in Armenia Major near the source of the River Tigris Arezzo Aretium a City and a Bishops See immediately under the Pope in Tuscany in Italy Famous in the time of the old Romans Arg Argus a River of Swabia in Germany Passing by Wangen it afterwards falls into the Lake of Constance Argan a Town in New Castile in Spain A Council here held in 1473 enjoyns every Bishop to say Mass thrice and simple Priests four times at least a year and that none be preferred to Ecclesiastical Dignities who understand not Latin It seems the Learning and Devotion of that age went toutes par la main Argens Argenteus a River of Provence in France It arises from three several Sources then falls into the Ocean near Frejus Agentan Argentomum Argentomagum a City of Normandy in France upon the Vrne Argenten a Town in the Dukedom of Berry in France upon the Creuse Argentor a River in the Province of Angoumois in France falling into the Charente at Porsac Argentrevil Argentolium a small Town three Leagues from Paris There is a Priory in it dependent of the Abby of St. Denis Argile Argathelia a very large County in the Western parts of the Kingdom of Scotland upon the West of Dunbritaine Frith This was the first Country the Scots who came out of Ireland possess'd themselves of as is shewn by Camden out of Bede First also made a County or Earldom by James II. King of Scotland who invested Colin Lord Campbell with the Title of Earl of Argile in regard of his own and of the worth of his Family which is deriv'd from the antient Princes of this Country They have also saith Camden been made Lords of Lorn and for a good while General Justices of Scotland but the two last Earls were unfortunate Anginuses an Island of Greece where the Athenians under Conon obtained a great Victory over the Lacedemonians in the Year of Rome 347. Argipeeni an antient People of Sarmatia They never would go to War with their Neighbours Arglas is a small Town in the Province of Vlster in the County of Down in Ireland with a Haven belonging to it The Lord Cromwel of Oakham is Earl of this place Argonne a Territory part in Champagne and part upon the Borders of Loraine in France Beaumont and Clermont stand in it Argos the antient capital City of a Kingdom of the same name in the Morea now call'd the Province of Romania This Kingdom was Founded by Inachus contemporary with Moses or 346 years before him in Eusebius's Calculation It continued 546 Years then changed into a Republick which maintain'd several Wars with the Grecians The City has been first an Episcopal and next an Archiepiscopal See In 1383 the Venetians bought it In 1463 the Turks took it In 1686. General Morosini reduced it under the Venetians again Argos Amphilogium was a City of Epirus ruin'd long ago § There was another of the Name in Thessalia in Macedonia call'd now Armiro Argow one of the four parts of Switzerland taking its name from the River Arg upon the Borders of Constance Arguin Arguinum a small Island with a Fort upon
it belonging to the Hollanders upon the Coast of Nigritia This Fort was built by the Portugals in 1455. Taken from them by the Hollanders in 1633. Taken from the Hollanders by the English of late Years and it was again taken and ruin'd by the French in 1678 and is now again under the Hollander It lies in the Atlantick Ocean upon the Coast of the Kingdom of Gualata about or in 20 d. of Northern Lat. Arhon Asopus a River of the Morea falling into the Gulph of Corinth Arhusen Arhusia a City of Denmark in the Dukedom of Jutland upon the Baltick Sea it is a Bishops See under the Archbisâ—op of Lunden seated upon the River Gude 10 Miles South of Alburg 2 West from the Island of Fuinen and about 26 North of Lubeck This City was taken and severely treated by the Swedes in 1644. but is since that in the Posâ—ession of the Danes again Aria an antient Province and City of Persia The one is now call'd Chorasan the other Herat or Serat Ariano Arianum a City in the further Principate in the Kingdom of Naples and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento giving the Title of a Duke Ariano upon the Po is a small City in the Ferrarez in Italy and Capital of a Territory call'd Polesinâ— di Ariano upon the Borders of the States of Venice Arica a Port in the Kingdom of Peril in the Province de los Charcas where they ship the Silver brought from Potosi It is a small Town but has a capacious Haven and a strong Castle distant from La Plata to the South-East and from Cusco to the South 80 Leagues Ariccia or la Riccia was heretofore a considerable Town in the Campagna di Roma in Italy upon a Lake of the name now called lago di Nemi It has since become a small Village yet gives the Title of a Duke Ariel a River of the Precopensian Tartars which falls into the Nieper Borysthenes below Terki Arieni an antient People of Germany Another in Asia whom the Gauls reduced Arima a Town and Port of Japan in the Kingdom of Ximo or Saâ—cok The Infidels have extirpated the Christians thence Arimaspi an antient People of Sarmatia Europaea Ariminum See Rimini Arimoa an Island discovered by the Hollanders in 1618. near New Guiney betwixt Moa and Schouten Arles Arelas a City and Archbishoprick in Provence of France upon the Rhone In this place there was celebrated a great Council of the Western and African Bishops by the Order of Constantine the Great in the Year 312 or as Cabasutius saith in 314. that is about 16 years before the General Council of Nice and there has been several others held in aftertimes in the same Place This City was once made the Head of a Kingdom which had Kings of its own from the Year 879. to 1032. sometimes call'd the Kingdom of Arles and sometimes of Burgundy beyond the Jâ—ur Jurana It is seated on the left side the River Rhone over which there is a Timber Bridge 12 Leagues from Marseilles to the West The Academy established here in 1669 and the grand Obelisk of Roman work erected in 1677 ought not to be forgotten Arlington a little Village in Middlesex between Harlington and Shepeston which being the Birth-place of the Right Honorable Henry Bennet he was by Charles II. created Baron of Arlington the 14th of March 1664 and Earl of the same the 22d of April 1672. sworn Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold to King Charles II. Sept. 11. 1674. and died in the first Year of the Reign of King James II. in great Honor and Esteem Arlon Arlun Arlunum Orolunum a Town in the Dutchy of Luxembourg in the Low Countries which has given the Title of a Marquess from the Year 1103. It stands 4 Leagues from Luxembourg 6 from Montmidi Arma a Province and City in the Kingdom of Popayan in America 25 Leagues from St. Troy Armadabat See Amadabat Armagh Armacha a County of Vlster in Ireland incompassed with the River Neury on the East with the Country of Louth on the South and with the Blackwater North. This is one of the most fruitful Counties in all Ireland Upon the River Kalin which falleth into the Blackwater a River so called stands Armagh a poor decayed City tho an Archiepiscopal See and the Primate of the whole Kingdom This Primate was subject to the Archbishop of Canterbury till 1142. when it was exempted by one John Papyrio a Papal Legate as Camden faith The City was taken by Cromwel in 1650. Armanac Arminiacensis Comitatus a County of Aquitain or the upper Gascony in France bounded on the North by the Counties of Agenois and Condome on the East by Languedoc on the West by Gascony properly so called Bearn and Bigorro and on the South by the County de Cominge The Earle of this County are much celebrated in the antient French History Armanâ—th See Ardmonack Armanson Armentio a River of France in Burgundy It rises by semur receives the Brenne passes by Tonnere and falls into the Lionne nigh Auxerre Armenia major called by the Inhabitants Curdistan by the Georgians Armenioba a very large and well known Country of Asia being divided from the Georgians Mengrelians and Muscovites by the Mountains on the South by Mount Taurus from Mesopotamia and by Mount Niphate from Assyria on the West it has the Euphrates by which it is divided from Cappadocia and Armenia the Less The greatest part of it is under the Turks but a small part towards the East is under the Pâ—rsiâ—n In this Country both Euphrates and Tigris have their Fountains Armenia minor called now by some Aladuli by others Ac-coionlu is a part of Asia the Less and was heretofore a part of Capadocia bounded on the North by the Mengrelians and the Pontus or Euxine Sea on the South by Cilicia and Syria on the East by Armenia major and on the West by Cappadooia This whole Country is now under the Dominion of the Turks Armentiers Armentariae a Town of Planders upon the River Ley Legia which falls into the Schelde at Ghant This Town was the Theatre of great Actions during the former Wars and was left to the French by the Treaty of Aquisgrane who have had it ever since the Year 1668. It is a fair Town distant from Ghant 10 Miles and something less from Cambray Armes a Seigniory in the Province of Nivernois in France giving its name to a Noble Family there Armorica See Bretagne Armoy or Earmoy a Barony in the County of Cork and Province of Munster in Ireland â—nautes an errant vagabond People of Albania Arnay le Due Arnaeum Ducium a small Town in Burgundy in France 5 Leagues from Autun very agreeable Arnebourg a Town in the antient Marquisate of Brandenbourg upon the Elb ruined in the German Wars Arneda a City and Port upon the Pacifick Ocean in Peru in America The Land of Arnheim is a part of the Terra Australis discovered by the Hollanders to
Wall and has a spacious Castle on the other side of the River supposed to have risen first out of the Ruines of Venta Silurum the Capital City of the ancient Silures four Miles distant from it Cher Caris a River which riseth in Auvergne near Clermont and running North-West through Berry and on the South side of Tours a little below this last it falls into the Loyre Cherazoul a Town in the Province of Curdistan in Asia in the Road from Ninive to Hispahan of very difficult access from the manner of its construction within a steep and cleted Rock Cherbourg Caroburgus a Sea-Port in Normandy in France which has a tolerable good Harbor ten Leagues West of Constance This Town was lost by the English in 1453. Honfleur and Beaumont stand near it Chersonesus Aurea See Malaca Some believe this to be the Land of Ophir of King Solomon's time Cherry-Issand an Island on the Coast of Greenland in the most Northern part of the World discovered to us and denominated accordingly by Sir Francis Cherry There are many Mines of Lead growing in it Chertsey A Market Town in Surrey the Capital of its Hundred not far from the River Thames over which it enjoys a Bridge The unfortunate King Henry VI. was first interred without Pomp here and afterwards removed to Windsor Cherusci an Antient and Valiant People of Germany that dwelled between the Elbe and the Weser having the Catti and the Hermonduri their Neighbours to the South East and West Their General Arminius is often mention'd with honour by Tacitus Cherwell a River in Oxfordshire at the confluence of which with the Isis stands the most famous University of Oxford Chesee Povillux a Town in Champagne the Inhabitants whereof claim the privilege to assist at the Coronation of the Kings of France and to convey the Holy Ampoulle or Oil pretended to be brought by an Angel at the Consecration of the first Christian King of that Kingdom from St. Rheimes to our Ladies Church in Rheimes Chesham a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Burnham Chester Civitas Legionum Cestria is a City and Bishoprick on the River Dee in the Westernpart of Cheshire whence often call'd West-Chester with a fair Stone Bridge over that River In this City it was that 7 Kings of the Scots and Brittains by way of Homage rowed King Edgar in his Barge from S. John's Church to his Palace himself as Sovereign holding the Helm The East-gate is accounted one of the stateliest in England and the Rows or Galleries made along the chief Streets for preservation against the Rain are very particular It was an ancient Roman Town call'd by Ptolemy Devana made a Bishops See by Henry VIII who put it under the Archbishop of York The ancient Earls of Chester fortified it both with Walls and a Castle It is now at this day a fine Place with 10 Parishes in it a County Palatine and the usual passage from England to Ireland It s Long. 20. 23. Lat. 53. 11. Cheshire Cestria hath on the South Shropshire on the East Stafford and Darby on the North Lancashire and on the West Denbigh and Flintshire towards the North-West it has a Promontory that runs a great way into the Sea It abounds more in good Pasturage than Corn well stored with Parks and watered by the Rivers Dee Weever and Mersey and the Cheese of this County is thought the best of England The Earldom of it belongs to the Prince of Wales Chesterfield a Market Town in Derbyshire in the Hundred of Scarsdale pleasantly seated between two small Rivers in a very good Soil King John made it a free Borough King Henry III. and his Barons fought that Battel hard by it in which Robert de Ferrers Earl of Derby was taken Prisoner and lost his Estate and Dignity King Charles I. advanced it to the Style and Title of an Earldom in the Person of Philip Lord Stanhop Anno 1628. whose Grandson at present possesses that Dignity Cheuxan an Island upon the Coast of the Province of Chekiang in China planted by above 70 small Towns and Villages of the Chinese Chewton a Market Town in Somersetshire the Capital of its Hundred also written Chewton-Mendip Chiampana Ciampa a Kingdom of the further East-Indies between Couchin-China Cambaja and the Mare Sinicum Pulocacien is the principal City of it Chiamsi a Province towards the South of China Chiangare See Galatia a Province of the Lesser Asia Chiapa a Province of New Spain in America watered by the Rivers Gryalva and rio blanco and for many Ages past inhabited by 4 different Nations of Indians It s Capital City is Civdad Real Chiarenza a Town in the Morea fifty five English Miles from Patras to the South It is a Sea-Port-Town Chiaromonti Claromons a considerable Town in the South-East part of Sicily in the Valley of Netina amongst the Mountains about forty Miles from Pachino to the West Chiavari Clavarum Claverinum a small but well inhabited Town upon the Coast of Genoua near Rapello in Italy towards the fall of the River Layagna The Genouese are said to build it in 1167. and after it had been ruined to rebuild it Chiavenne vide Claven Chichester Cicestria a City and Bishoprick in Sussex founded by Cissa II. King of the South Saxons After the Conquest it became a Bishops See the Chair being removed from Selsey a small Village not much above sive Miles to the Southward This City is seated on a River call'd the Lavant which encompasseth it on the West and South about six Miles from the Sea and almost in the Western Border of that County The Honorable Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton was created Earl of Chichester September 10. 1675 by Charles II. his Father It is a fair City with five or six Parish Churches and a Cathedral first erected by Radulph the third Bishop afterwards rebuilt and beautified by Bishop Seffrid the second of the Name when it had been almost consumed twice by Fire The Corporation elects two Burgesses for Parliament and would enjoy a better Trade were not the Haven choaked up that is next adjoining to â—it Chidley a Market Town in Devonshire on the River Tinge Chiemzee or Chiempsee Chiemium a City and Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Saltzburgh in the Dukedom of Bavaria about ten Leagues from Munich and Saltzburgh each It is no very considerable place An Archdeacon of Saltzburgh founded the Bishoprick in the year 1214. Chieri a Town in Piedmont where the French obtained a signal Victory against the Spaniards in 1639. It lies three Miles to the Eastward of Turino and was heretofore a Potent City and a Common-wealth but is now in Subjection to the Duke of Savoy Chifale an Island in the Gulph of Arabia Chilafa or Chielefa is a Fortress on the South of the Morea thirty eight English Miles North-West of Cape Matapan a Place of great Importance both as to its natural and artificial Fortifications and surrendred to the Venetians in 1686.
of it is to be seen the Bridge of Loyang over the River Loyang 360 Perches long about one and an half broad so curiously contrived with great Pillars instead of Arches and so finely imbellished with Sculptures as no where to find a Parallel in the World Cividad del Roy Philippo a Colony of Spaniards planted in Magellanica at the Mouth of the Streights of Magellan but dissipated by Famine again it being far remote from their Countries and seldom visited Civita Nova a small Town in the Marcha Anconitana in Italy 5 or 6 Miles from Loretto and near the Adriatick upon a Hill dignified with the Title of a Dukedom Civita Busella Bucellum a Town in the hither Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples upon the River Sangro Civita Vecchia a famous Port in S. Peter's Patrimony in Italy believed by some to be the Centum Cellae of the Antients Civitella a Town in the farther Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples upon a Rock with the River Librata at the Foot of it Besieged by the French in 1557. under the Duke of Guise in vain Clagenfurt Clagenfurtum Claudia the Capital Town of the Dutchy of Carinthia in Germany â— Leagues from the River Drave and the same Distance from S. Veir There is a great Lake near it It is a fortified Town See Klagenfurt Clain Clanis Clitis a River of the Province of Poictou in France which having received the Vonne the ClouÌ„ere c. passes by Poictiers and loses its Name at length in the Vienne below Chasteleraud Clairvaux Clarevallum a famous Abbey of Champaigne upon the River Aube in the Diocese of Langres 5 or 6 Leagues from the said City Founded in the Year 1115. by the Great S. Bernard Himself being the first Abbot Who left above â—00 Religious in it at his Death Hence the Title of Abbas Clarevallensis given that very Divine Person Clare Clarence Clarentia a Country-Village in the County of Suffolk upon the River Stour which divideth Essex from Suffolk about 6 Miles West of Sudbury It had once a Castle but now ruined yet famous for the great Men who have born the Titles of Earls or Duke of it The last of which was George Duke of Clarence Brother to Edward IV. King of England who in 1421. was drowned in a Butt of Malmesey The second King at Arms retains the Surname of Clarencieux as appertaining formerly to the Dukes of Clarence At present the Title of Earl of Clare is in the Family of Hollis § There is also a Town and County in the Province of Connaught in Ireland of this Name the former standing near the Fall of the River Fergus into the Shannon Clarendon or Clarindon is a Noble Country House and Park belonging heretofore to the Kings of England about 2 Miles North of Salisbury in Wiltshire Famous of old for a Parliament here held in 1164. where were made the Constitutions of Clarindon Charles II. of blessed Memory added a new and lasting Honor to this Place when April 20. 1661. three Days before his Coronation he created the Loyal Edward Hide late Lord Chancellor Earl of Clarâ—ndon Viscount Cornbury c. who dying at Roüen in Normandy in 1674. was succeeded by Henry his eldest Son a Person of great Virtue and Goodness Clarentia or Clarenza a Country in the Morea described to contain the antient Achaia properly so called Sicyonia and Corinth Heretofore renowned under particular Dukes of its own The capital City bears the same Name of Clarenza Claros a mountainous Island of the Aegean Sea consecrated in antient times to Apollo Called at present Calamo § The Name of Claros is likewise born by a Town now unknown but mentioned we find amongst the Antients as belonging to the Colophonii in Ionia Apollo having had an Oracle in it and his Attribute thence deriv'd of Clarius Deus Claven Cleven Clavenna a small City in the Valtoline with an Earldom call'd by the Germans the Graffschaft von Cleven This City stands 5 Leagues from the Lake that bears its Name to the North upon the River Maiera called by the French Chiavenne Clausenbourg Claudipolis called by the Inhabitants Coloswar is the principal Town in Transylvania great populous and ennobled with an antient Castle All the Publick Affairs of that Principality are transacted and Justice administred here It stands upon the River Samosch nine German Miles from A'ba Jùlia North and fifteen from Waradin East The Duke of Lorrain put into it an Imperial Garrison Oct. 19. 1687. upon Articles agreed in a peaceable manner by the Magistrates and Governor for the late Prince Abafti Clay a Market-Town in the County of Norfolk and the Hundred of Holt. Clazomenae the Birth-place of the Philosopher Anaxagoras an antient City of Ionia in Asia Minor built in the Year of Rome 98. upon the Aegeun Sea betwixt Smyrna and Chio. Clebuâ—g Mortimer a Market-Town in Shropshire in the Hundred of Stottesden Clerac or Clairac a Town in the County of Agennois in Guyenne in France 4 Leagues from Agen and the same Distance from Nerac It stands upon the River Lot which a little below falls into the Garonne And has a famous Abbey in it Clermont en Argene a Town in the Dukedom of Bar upon the River Ayr four Leagues from Verdun West and seven from Barleduc North-East This belongeth to the Duke of Lorrain but in 1654. was taken from him and annexed to the Crown of France It is honoured with the Title of an Earldom Clermont en Auvergne Arvernae Claromons Claromontium the principal City of the Province of Auvergne and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourges It stands upon a declining ground in a Territory called Limaigne which is very fruitful upon the River Tiretaine twenty Leagues South of Moulins and twenty five East of Limoges Here was a General Council celebrated in 1095. under Pope Vrban II. in which the Croisade for the recovery of the Holy Land was concluded and Godfrey of Bouillon declared General of the same Also Philip I. King of France was excommunicated until his repentance for Adultery This is thought to have arisen out of the Ruines of Gergovia an old Roman Town It is honoured with the Title of an Earldom belonging to the Crown ever since the Union of Auvergne with the Crown Clermont on Beauvais a Town in the Isle of France five Leagues South of Beauvais in the North-East Border of that County The Earldom of this place is famous for giving a beginning to the Royal House of Bourbon in the Person of Robert of France Earl of Clormont en Beavais the Son of St. Lewis Clermont de Lodeve a Town in Languedoc upon the River Lorgue four and twenty Leagues from Avignon West So distinguished because standing in the Diocese of Lodeve It gives Name to an Honourable Family and is beautified with a Collegiate Church a Cattle and some Monasteries § There are other Clermonts in this Kingdom One in Danphine in the Territory of Viennois giving the Title of an Earldom
Culemburgum a Town and Castle in Guelderland belonging to the United Provinces yet as to the Revenue possessed by its own Count it stands on the River Rhine above two German Miles from Vtrecht to the South-East and six from Nimeguen to the West Taken by the French in 1672. and dismantled in 1674. Culiacan a Province in New Spain in America within the Jurisdiction of the Governor of Guadalaxara between New Mexico to the North New Biscay to the East and the Purple Sea to the South and West It has a City of the same Name Cuma Cumae once a Colony and famous City of Italy in the Kingdom of Naples which in 1207. was utterly ruined by the Saracens The Ruines of it are yet visible upon an Hill on the Tyrrheman Sea twelve Miles from Naples to the North-West In the latter times of the Roman Empire this City was wonderfully fortified so that Narses the General of Justinian could not take it without a tedious Siege and at this day the Ruines of it are wonderful many Noble Antiquities are to be seen amongst them The Bishops See that was fixed here is united with that of Averâ—a Virgil speaks of an admirable Temple of Apollo and a Fortress that adorned this City in Ancient Times Neither must it be forgotten that the Sibylla Cumana her Grott being in the neighbourhood took her Title from hence whose Verses prophesied so favourably of our Saviour that Julian the Apostate thought fit to order them to be burnt § The Ancients mention other places of the same Name One upon the Gulph of Smyrna in Asia Minor now called Foya Nova betwixt Smyrna and Pergamus accommodated with a Port and Fortress Near to which the Venetian Fleet obtain'd a Victory over the Turks in the year 1650. Of the rest nothing said Cumberland is the most North-Western County of England on the North bounded by Scotland on the South and West it has the Irish Sea and on the East Lancaster Westmorland the Bishoprick of Durham and Northumberland It took its Name from the Inhabitants who being of the old British Race called themselves Kumbri or Kambri The Country though cold and uneven is yet not unpleasant to the Traveller And it affordeth great plenty of Corn Cattle Fish Fowl and Metals nor is it destitute of many Roman Antiquities the Reliques of the Roman Garrisons who lay here to defend Britain from the devouring Picts The principal City is Carlisle Prince Rupert whilst he lived was Duke of Cumberland by the Creation of King Charles I. his Uncle 1643. He dying without Issue November 30. 1682. that Honor is now in the Person of his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark It became a Dukedom from an Earldom For in the year 1525. H. VIII conferred the Title of Earl of Cumberland upon Henry Lord Clifford in whose Family it continued from thence to 1642. The Eden is the principal River of this County Cuneo Cuneus See Coni. Cuningham a County of Scotland on the Western Shoar over against the Isle of Arran on the West it has the Irish Sea on the North Dunbritoun Fyrth which parts it from Lentieth on the East Cluydsdale and on the South Kile The chief Town is Largis on the Irish Sea seventeen Scotch Miles from Glasco to the West Cunsar one of the Names of the Hyrcanian Sea Curacao or Curassaw one of the Islands known by the Name of Sottovento in the South America over against the Province of Venezuela betwixt Oraba and Bonnaire Taken from the Spaniards by the Dutch in 1632. Curdistan Chaldaea a vast Province in Asia under the Dominion of the Turks but upon the Borders of the Kingdom of Persia containing Chaldaea part of Assyria towards Media and a great part of Armenia Major The Western Bounds are closed by the River Euphrates and the Eastern by the Tigris having Tarcomania to the North and Alidulia to the South The Curdes a People partly Mahometans Heathens and Christians take their Name from and dwell in this Province The ancient Chaldaea was divided into two parts the one North of Mesopotamia in which Vr stood the Country of Abraham the other South of Babylon near Arabia Deserta a large Champion Country in which the Philosophers lived and flourished whose same became extended over all the East and whose enquiries gave the first birth to Astronomy Astrology Magick Philosophy and Theology Babylon was the Capital of the ancient Chaldaea La Cure Cora Chora a River of France arising in the Dukedom of Burgundy and flowing through Nivernois Vezelay or Verzelet and Clamessy at Vermenton just opposite to Crevant in the Dutchy of Burgoigne falls into the Sure Cures an ancient Town of the Sabines in Italy from whence the Name of Quirites became derived to the Romans and remarkable also for being the Birth-place of Numa Pompilius It is thought Vescovio was afterwards built upon the Ruines of this Town Curetes a Name of the ancient People of the Island of Crete Curiale Dianae Oraculum a small Town on the Coast of Arabia Foelix towards the Persian Gulph about twenty seven Miles to the North-West of Cape Raz the most Eastern Point of that Country and and eight from Mascate a City Curland Curlandia a Province of Livonia called by the Germans Kureland by the Dutch Coerlandt by the French Courlande is bounded on the East by Semigalen on the South by Samogithia and on the North and West by the Baltick Sea This Country belonged anciently to the Teutonick Order but Sigismund Augustus King of Poland in 1587. forced Gothardus Ketler Master of that Order to renounce their Right and hold it together with Semigalen as a Fee of the Crown of Poland So that ever since it has been separated from Livonia and annexed to that Crown and is still in the Possession of the Family of Ketlers as Dukes of Curland and Subjects to the Crown of Poland The Capital City of it is Goldingen Curresi Avens a River of Italy in the State of the Church in the Diocese of Sabina between Campania to the South and Vmbria to the North. It watereth S. Lorenzo and the Abby di Farfa and then falls into the Tyber fifteen Miles North of Rome Curta a Village of Hungary upon the Danube between Comora and Gran. It is a Roman Town ruined Curzola Corcyra Nigra an Island of the Adriatick Sea on the Coast of Dalmatia under the Dominion of the State of Venice which is twenty five Miles in length from North to South and five in breadth It has a small City or Town of the same Name which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Raguza and there are five other small Villages in it It lies only five Miles from Cape Cabiccello a Promontory of Dalmatia Le Curzolari Echinades Echinae five small Islands over against the Mouth of the Gulph of Lepanto Near to which the Christians gain'd that Signal Naval Victory over Selim II. his Fleet in 1571. in the Battel called the Battel of Lepanto Cusa an
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
of the Eastern part or Shoar of Kent upon high Cliffs twelve Miles from Canterbury to the South-East and fifty five from London and seven Leagues distant by Sea from Calais in France That part of the Town next the Sea had anciently a Wall some of which is still standing On the top of a rugged high Cliff or Rock is a stately and very strong Castle which may be supposed to have been built by the Romans however this place was certainly a Station of theirs and has ever since been reputed one of the Keys of England at all times carefully guarded besides it is one of the Cinque-Ports and in times past was to set out to the Wars one and twenty Ships Therefore Philip King of France said that Lewis his Son when called in hither against King John by the Barons had not one foot of Land in England if he were not Master of Dover-Castle It had formerly seven Parish Churches now two and it is now as heretofore most frequented upon the account of its being the shortest passage into France The Honorable Henry Lord Jarmin was created Baron of Dover in the first year of King James II. But before in Anno 1627. Henry Carey Viscount Rochford and Baron Hunsden enjoyed the Title from King Charles I. of Earl of Dover Dour or Adour Aturus a River of Aquitaine the Southern part of France or rather three Rivers called by the same Name the principal of these riseth in Bigorre out of the Pyrenean Hills near Baretge and running North watereth Tarbe then turning Westward it passeth on the North of Aire St. Sever and Dax or Acqs so falleth into the Bay of Biscay at Bayonne having entertained Gaue de Oleron Gaue de Pau and several other Rivers The Outlet was anciently at le Bocau six Leagues beneath Bayonne but by the Industry of Lewis de Foix an excellent Ingineer and Architect of France in 1579. its course was altered as Thuanus saith The same Gentleman was the Contriver of the Palace in Spain and the Light-House at the Mouth of the Garronne called Tour de Cordovan Dourdan a small Town in the District of Hurepois in the Isle of France upon the River Orge towards the Frontiers of la Beauce thirteen Leagues from Paris and two or three from Estampes The Huguenots took and almost ruined it in the years 1562 1567. It had been often mortgaged sold and remitted from one to another before Lewis XIII redeemed and reunited it to the Crown in 1610. Dourlens Doulendium a Town in Picardy in France very strongly fortified on the Borders of Artois upon the River Asselane which falls into the British Sea between Crotoy and Estaple six Leagues from Amiens to the North and seven from Arras to the South This Town did heretofore belong to the Earls of Pontieu and became united to the Crown of France in 1559. Doustre Dostra a River of France in the Vicomte de Turene in Limosin Le Doux See Dou. Douzi Duziacum Duodeciacum a Castle in the Diocese of Rheims in France upon the River Cher betwixt Ivoy and Sedan Remarkable for two Councils celebrated at it in the years 871. 874. The first of which deposed and imprisoned Hinâ—mar Bishop of Laon for adhering to the Papal Interest contrary to the Usage and Liberties of the Gallican Church who some time after had his Eys put out Dowglass a Castle in Cuysdale in the middle of the Southern part of Scotland which takes its Name from the River Dowglass as doth also the Dale or Valley in which it stands This Castle is seated about six Scotch Miles West of Lanrick where Dowglass River unites with the Cluyd fifteen from Glasguo to the South and thirty five from Edinburgh to the South-West It is only memorable for its Earls sometimes so very powerful they were a terror to the Kings of Scotland themselves there being at one time six Earls of this Family that is Dowglas Angus Ormond Wigton Murray and Morton as Mr. Cambden reckons them § There is a Castle of this Name in the Isle of Man Down Dunum a City and Bishoprick in the Province of Vlster in Ireland the Bishop of which is under the Archbishop of Armagh The Bishoprick of Connor has been united to it ever since 1442. The City stands upon the Irish Sea upon a Peninsula made by the Sea and the Lake of Cone which affords it an excellent Haven twenty Miles from Dormore to the East thirty two from Carrick fergus to the South The County of Down is bounded on the East by the Irish Sea on the North by the County of Antrim and the Lake of Neaugh on the West by Armagh and on the South by the County of Louth from which it is severed by the River Newry This County saith Mr. Cambden is generally very fruitful where it is not overspread with Woods and has several safe Harbors upon the Seas Down is one of the most ancient Towns in Ireland made more famous by keeping the Bones of S. Patrick S. Bridget and S. Columbus than by the mention which Ptolomy has made of it by the Name of Dunum though not in its right place Downham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Clackcloss upon the River Ouse over which it hath a Bridge Downton or Duncton a Market Town in Wiltshire the Capital of its Hundred situated upon the Salisbury Avon It returns two Burgesses to the Parliament Drac Dracus a River in the Dauphinate in France which riseth about four Leagues North of Embrun and running Northward falls into the Isere at Grenoble bringing with it another small River which comes from La Grace and falls into the Drac at Viville four Miles South of Grenoble Draco or Drago Acragas or Agragas a River of Sicily called Biagio di Gergenti di Naro also and falls into the African Sea three Miles beneath Gergentum to the East thirty five West of Terra Nova Dragone Draco a small River in Campagnia in Italy which riseth in Mount Vesuvius and washing the City of Nocera falleth into Sarno a River which divideth the Principatus Citerior from the Terra di Lavoro and endeth in the Bay of Naples eleven Miles South of Naples Dragonara once a Bishops See now a small Village 7 Miles from S. Severina in Naples to the West Dracone See Orontes Dragonera Colubraria or Moncolibre a small desert Rock or Island between Majorca and Valentia which has its Names from the Snakes and Serpents that only inhabit it Draguignan Draguinianum Dracenae one of the best situated Towns in Provence in France in the Diocese of Frejus adorned with a Collegiate Church and divers Religious Houses Its Arms are observable being a Dragon with this Motto Alios nutrio meos devoro Drangiana regio an ancient Province of the Kingdom of Persia in the most Eastern part thereof now called Sigistan or Sitsistan It s principal Cities were Ariaspe and Propthasia Dravaniza See the Vistula The Drave or Dravus called
the Mortality which in many Circumstances appeared so strange as not to find in History its parallel since an Angel destroyed so many thousand in the Camp of Sennacherib Dundee or Dundy Alectum Deidonium Allectum a City in the North of Scotland in the County of Angus upon the North side of the Fyrth of Tay which is a frequented Harbour and of great safety ten Miles North of S. Andrews This is a very strong Town and in 1651. when almost all Scotland had yielded after the defeat of Dunbar presumed still to hold out General Monk afterwards Duke of Albemarle coming up and summoning it upon their refusal to yield took it by Storm September 1. of that year though there were in it eight hundred Soldiers besides Inhabitants He put all in Arms to the Sword and Plundred the Town of its Wealth which amounted in Silver Gold and rich Goods to a vast summ of mony being then the richest Town in Scotland and made yet richer by the Neighbourhood who sent what ever they had that was valuable thither as to a place of security Sixty Sail of Ships which lay then in the Harbour yielded too after which Aberdeen and S. Andrews which only remained to the Covenanters yielded upon the first Summons Dunfermeling Dunfirmeling is a Town on the North Shoar of the Fyrth of Edinbâ—row seventeen Miles from it to the North-West Once a famous Monastery the building and the burial place of Malcolm King of the Scots afterwards advanced to an Earldom in the behalf of Sir Alexander Seton who being a wise and a great Statesman was raised by K. James I. from Baron of Tivâ— to be Earl of Dunfermeling and Lord Chancellor of Scotland But much more famous for the birth of Charles I. the blessed Martyr for the English Church and Nation who was born here November 19. 1600. Dunfreis Dunfreia a Town in the County of Nithesdale in the South of Scotland upon the River Nith or Nid near Solway Fyrth Dungall dungalia a Sea-Port-Town and Castle and a County in the North-West part of Ireland in the Province of Vlster on the South side of the River Esk. The County of Dungall has the Ocean on the West Lagh Gormely on the South and Tome Lagh on the North a Barbarous and Wild place as Mr. Cambden describes it See Tirconnel Dungannon Dunganum the chief Town of the Vpper Tyrone in the Province of Vlster in Ireland near Armagh Dungarvan a strong well fortified Town with a Castle and Haven situate on the Southern Shoar of Ireland in the County of Waterford in the Province of Mounster thirteen Miles from Waterford to the West First granted by Henry VI. to Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury and afterwards for convenience annexed to the Crown of England by Act of Parliament Dungesby Head Veruvium Promontorium the most Northern Cape of all Scotland which lies in 59. deg of Latitude whereas Novantum the Mule of Galloway the most Southern lies in 55. 10. Dunkeld or Dunkelden Castrum Caledonium Dulcheldinum a City on the Tau in the County of Perth ten Miles North of Perth which was adorned by King David of Scotland with a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Andrews supposed to have been the City of the ancient Caledonians Dunkeran Donequine or Doneyne Juernis a small Town and Port upon the Gulph of the River Maine in the County of Desmond in Mounster in Ireland Dunkirk Dunquerque Dunquerca called by the Flemmings Duynskerke and by the Italians and Spaniards Doncherca is a large strong well fortified Town and Sea-Port in Flanders which has a very noble and strong Castle lately built 3 Leagues from Graveline 5 from Newport and 6 from Calais This Town was first fortified by Charles V. It stands on the River Colme upon the Shoars of the German Ocean Taken by the French in 1646. but during their Civil Wars the Spaniards recovered it again In 1658. it was retaken by the English and French united chiefly by the valor of the English Don John of Austria and all the Spanish Forces who came to relieve it being totally routed and defeated the Town was surrendred to the French but by them according to Articles put into the Hands of the English and so it continued till 1662. when it was sold to the French The present King of France Lewis XIV has bestowed incredible cost in fortifying it in inlarging and securing the Haven by Mounds and Forts Dun-le-Roy Regiodunum a Town in Berry in France upon the River Auronne five Miles from Bourges to the South and nine from la Charite to the South-West § Another in the Dukedom of Burgundy near Beaujolois Dunmour or Dunmore a Market Town in the County of Essex The Capital of its Hundred Dunois a Territory within the Province of Beauce in France the Capital whereof is Chateau Dun. It was advanced to the dignity of a Peerdom and Dukedom in 1525. Dunnington a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Kirton and the Division of Holland situated in a waterish Flat Dunnington-Castle a Market Town in Leicestershire in the Hundred of Goscote honoured with a noble Seat belonging to the Earl of Huntingdon Dunstable a Market Town in Bedfordshire in the Hundred of Manshead upon a Chalky dry Hill Built by K. Henry I. out of the ruins of the ancient Magsovinium K. Edward I. caused a noble Column or Cross to be here erected in memory of Eleanor his Queen whose Corps rested in this place in their journey from Lincolnshire to Westminster Abbey Dunstaburge Bebba a Castle in Northumberland on the Sea Shoar eighteen Miles South of Berwick and twenty five North of Newcastle which belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster Bede reports that this Castle was taken and burnt by Penda King of the Mercians Roger Hoveden thus describes it Bebba is a strong City not very great but containing two or three fields having one hollow entrance into it and that raised on high by Stairs after a wonderful manner on the pitch of an Hill is a very fair Church and Westward on the top a pleasant clear Fountain adorned with excellent Workmanship In our times saith Mr. Cambden it is rather a Castle than a Town yet so big as that it might contain a small City nor was it esteemed otherwise when King William Rufus besieged the Rebellious Moubray who lurked in it In the Wars between the House of Lancaster and York it was ruined again And last of all the Winds and Seas have exercised their rage upon it endeavouring to level it by driving up the Sea Sand into the hollow parts and fetching down its once haughty Battlements Dunstafag Evonium a small ruined City in the West of Scotland in the County of Lorne which has an Haven over against the Island of Maly fifty five Miles from Dunblane to the West This was the Seat of the ancient Kings of the Picts but now a Village and yet perhaps in a better state than when it was a Royal City Dunster a
and Forli to the South twenty Miles from Ravenna to the West It is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Ravenna and under the Dominion of the Pope only famous for Earthen Ware The French call it Faience Faience Faventia a small City in Provence in France upon the River Benzon three Leagues from Grasse to the West and six from the Mediterranean Sea The Bishops of Frejus are Lords of it The French call Faenza in Italy Faience Faire-Foreland Robodigum the most North-East Country of Ireland in the County of Antrim in the Province of Vlster Faire-Isle a Rock in the Caledonian Sea between the Orkneys and Shetland in which is the Castle Dumo Fairford a Market-Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Brittlesbarrough Fakenham a Market-Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Gallow. Falaise Fallesia Falesia a Town in Normandy upon the River Ante which falls into the Dive at Morteaux seven Leagues from Caen to the South and four from Argentan to the North-West The principal Seat and Garrison of the first Dukes of Normandy William the Conqueror Natural Son of Robert II. Duke of Normandy was born here This Place was taken by the English from the French in 1417. There is now a round high Tower standing in it Cape Falcon a Promontory West of Oran in Barbary Falconara Assinarius a River of Sicily It flows by the Town of Noto and falls into the Ionian Sea between the Cape of Passaro Pachynum and the City of Syracuse ten Miles from the Cape to the North and twenty five from the City to the South This River is made famous by the Defeat of the Athenian Forces here by the Syracusans in the Year of the World 3537. which Victory being gained by the Assistance of the Lacedemonians they took the Advantage of it and at last in 3546. took Athens under Lysander Faleria Faleris a ruined City of the Province of Tuscany in Italy mentioned by the Ancients The Episcopal See which it possessed formerly was transferred to Civita Castellana a City built nigh the Ruins of this Falernus a Mountain of Campagna di Roma in Italy famous for the excellent Wines growing upon it which animated the ancient Poets so often to sing its Praises Falisci an ancient People of Hetruria in Italy who made War a considerable time with the Romans their Neighbours till reduced by Camillus in the Year of Rome 360. They are said to have come hither out of Macedonia The Capital of their Dominions was the ancient Faleria Falkenburg or Valkenburg a small Town in Brabant upon the River Geule two Leagues from Maestricht to the East and four from Aquisgrane It was under the Dominion of the Hollanders till 1672. when it was taken by the French and dismantled But in 1678. returned under them again with Maestricht This Town is called by the French Fauquemont and in Antoninus his Itinerary Coriovallum Falkland a small Town in Scotland in the County of Fife beautified with an ancient Retiring House of their Kings and very commodious for the Pleasure of Hunting Fallekoping or Falcoping Falcopia a Town in the Province of Westrogothia in the Kingdom of Sweden five or six Leagues from Scaren Falmouth Voluba a noble Haven on the South of Cornwal as great as Brundusium in Italy and as safe an hundred Ships may ride in it out of sight each of other secured by two Castles at its entrance built by Henry VIII In 1664. Charles II. Created Charles Lord Barkley Earl of Falmouth who was slain at Sea June 2. 1665. George Fitz-Roy now Duke and Earl of Northumberland was Created Vicount Falmouth by the same Prince Octob. 1. 1673. The old Roman Town Voluba from which it had its name is now totally ruined and gone it stood higher up into the Land upon the River Valle over against Tregony Falster Falstria Insula Dianae an Island in the Baltick Sea on the South of the Isle of Zeeland from which it is parted only by a narrow Channel called Groene-Sund It has one Town call'd Nykoping and gives name to a good Family in Denmark Faluga-diabete a small Island belonging to Sardinia on the West of that Island Famagosta Fama Augusta called by the French Famagouste is a very strong City in the Island of Cyprus on the Eastern Shoar which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Nicosia and was of old called Arsinoe This City has a large and a safe Port And was taken by the Genouese in 1370. By the Venetians about 1470. and by the Turks from the Venetians in the Year 1571. after a Siege of ten Months Famar or Fanar a Town at the Entrance of the Black Sea in Thrace four German Miles North of Constantinople Famar Arietis Frons Criumetopon the most Southern Cape of the Little or Krim Tartary Tanricia which lies an hundred and fifty Miles from Constantinople to the North-East Famastro Amastrus a City upon the Euxine or White Sea upon the East Side of the River Dolap fifty Miles from Scutari East and the same from Amasia North-West It grew up out of the Ruins of four neighbouring Cities to a vast greatness Fanar Acheron a River and Town of Epirus Fanari-Kiosc a Royal Pleasure House belonging to the Grand-Seignior one League Distant from Constantinople and Galata at the Entrance of the Streights of Constantinople near the Port of Chalcedon in Natolia Built by Solyman II. Vessels arriving upon this Coast by Night are lightned by a Fanal from hence Fano Fanum Fortunae an Episcopal City in the States of the Church in the Dukedom of Vrbino but not of it twenty Miles from Vrbino to the East and thirty seven from Ancona to the North. This was the Country of Clement VIII his Father a Florentine living here as an Exile The Temple of Fortune which the Romans built in Memory of their Victory over Asdrubal the Brother of Hannibal in the Year of Rome 547. wherein they slew Asdrubal himself with 50000 Men did stand near this City Fanshere a River in the Island of Madagascar Fantin a small Kingdom in Guiney in Africa where the English and Dutch have some Castles Fanu an Island near Corfu to the North-West Fara Pharan a City and Mountain in the Stony Arabia upon the Red-Sea twenty Miles from Sues South and from Eltor North over against Dacata in Aegypt Farfar Fabris a small River in the State of the Church It riseth near a Castle called Capo Farfar and running to the North-East it watereth a Monastery of the same Name then falls into the Tibur § Farfar Farfaro Fer Orontes a River of Syria which ariseth from Mount Libanus and running Northward it watereth Apamia and the great Antioch then falls into the Mediterranean Farham a Market-Town in the County of Southampton The Capital of its Hundred Faribo Helicon Haliarkmon one of the most considerable Rivers of Macedonia which rising out of the Mountains of Albania and traversing the whole breadth of that Kingdom from thence falls into the Bay
of a different both Stature and Humour from the rest of France which is not much to be wondered at considering the English Nation for three hundred years together were possess'd of this Country See Gascoigne The principal Rivers of it are the Garonne and the Dordonne which meet at Retraicte and in one Channel fall into the Ocean The chief Cities are Bourdeaux Baionne and Dax or D'Acqs Guienne is thought to be but a Corruption of Aquitania which was the Roman Name for it then enlarged to a sar greater Extent Guilan or Guilao the Hyrcanian Sea Guilford the Capital Town of the County of Surrey in the Hundred of Woking which returns two Members to the House of Commons It is pleasantly situated upon the River Wey containing three Parishes well frequented accommodated and handsom The Saxon Kings had a Royal Mansion here in whose time it was a Place of greater Extent The Ruins of a large old Castle near the River remain yet to be seen In the year 1660. King Charles II created Elizabeth Viscountess of Kinelmalky in Ireland Countess of this Place for her Life In 1674. the Title of Earl of Guilford was granted by the same King to John Maitland the late Duke of Lautherdale in Scotland After whom the late Lord Francis North received the Title of Baron Guilford from the same King also S. Guillain Gislenopolis a Town in Hainault which has a Monastery belonging to it Taken by the French in 1654. and retaken by the Spaniards in 1656. Guimaranes Catraleucos Vimananum Egita Araduca once a City and frequently mentioned as such now a small Village in Entre Douero è Minho in Portugal three Leagues from Braga towards the East This was the Place where S. Damasus one of the ancient Popes was born Guinee Guinea a very great Country on the Western Shoars of Africa which by the Portuguese the first Discoverers of it is divided into two Parts the Upper and the Lower The Upper Guinee is bounded with Nigritia on the North the Atlantick Ocean on the South and has the Kingdom of Congo on the East and the Mountains of Leon on the West It is a very fruitful Country in Gold Ivory Sugar Cotton Rice c. of a great Extent from East to West and much frequented by the European Ships It is divided into three Parts Guinee properly so called which lies in the middle Malâ—gueta which lies to the West and the Kingdom of Beni which lies to the East § Guinee properly so called is a very large Country in Africa upon the Shoars of the Ocean between Malegueta to the West from which it is separated by the Cape of Palmes and the Kingdom of Beni to the East from which it is divided by the River de la Volta It is divided into la Coste d'or which lies East between the Rivers Asien and la Volta and la Coste des Dents which lies West between the Cape of Palmes and the River Asien by which it is parted from the former On the Coste d'or are many Castles belonging to the English Swedes Danes and Hollanders This Country was discovered in 1365. by the French as is pretended Baudrand But in the dismal Wars between the English and French under Charles VI and VII they were forc'd to omit the Prosecution of this Navigation Hofman It is much more probable and better attested that it was discovered in 1452 by Henry Duke of Visco Son of John I. King of Portugal But then the Spaniards in 1477. pursued this Discovery and till 1479 excluded the first Discoverers who regaining the Trade in the Island of S. George built he the strong Fort or Town of Mina in 1486. to secure their Trade there for the future and command all the rest of this Coast Which was the first Place built by the Europeans on this Coast New-Guinee this Country has not been hitherto so far discovered as that we know whether it be an Island or a Part of the Continent of the Terra Australis It is separated from Terra de Papaous which lies East of Ceram and Gilolo in the East-Indies in 51 deg of Southern Lat. by a narrow Straight of the Sea Guinegat a small Town in Artois made famous by a great Defeat of the French Forces by the Flandrians in 1479. by which Victory Maximilian the Emperor then married to Mary the Daughter of Charles the Hardy the last Duke of Burgundy recovered Tournay out of the Hands of the French and settled the Low-Countries in the House of Austria It lies three French Miles from S Omar to the South the same from Renty to the East and two from Ayre to the West Guines a fine Town two Miles East of Calais and the Capital of a County of the same Name having Boulonois on the South and East Terre d'Oye on the North and the German Sea or Streights of Calais on the East This County was of old a Part of Boulonois and the Town belonged then to Picardy King Edward III. of England possessed himself of both in 1351. to whom afterwards they were confirmed by a Treaty in 1360. And in the Reign of Charles VI. of France lost again to that Crown Guipuscoa Ipuscoa now a Province but once a Kingdom in Spain In the middle Times annexed to the Kingdom of Navar but now separated from it and united to Biscay By which it is bounded on the West on the South it has Aâ—ava on the North the Bay of Biscay and the Kingdom of Navar on the East The principal Cities in it are Tolosa which is the Capital S. Sebastian and Fontarabie It is about thirty six Miles in Compass anciently peopled by the Cantabri a hardy and a valiant People This Country was wrested from the Crown of Navar in 1079. by Alphonsus I King of Castile but it was restored again and continued under that Crown till 1200. when it revolted to Castile again and ever since it has been united to Biscay Guir Dirus a River of Mauritania Guise Guisa Guisia a Town in Picardy in France in the Territory of Tierache which has a Castle seated upon the River Oise in the Confines of Hainault nine Miles from Cambray to the South five from la Fere to the North-East and about seventeen from Amiens to the East This Town was besieged by the Spaniards without any Success in 1650. But that which made it most remarkable was the Dukes of Guise who in former times had a very great Hand in all the Affairs of France from the Reign of Francis I. to that of Henry IV. This Family was a Branch of the House of Lorrain advanced by Francis I. in 1528. from Counts or Earls of Guise which was their Inheritance to Dukes of the same Place The first thus raised was Claude the Son of Renate II. He had eight Sons of which were Francis Duke of Guise Claudius Duke of Aumale and Renatus Marquess of Ellebove Francis became very famous by his defence of Mets against Charles V.
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
given of it by Monsieur Thevenot who saw it himself Famous moreover to all posterity for the Children of Israel's passing it on dry ground at their entrance into Canaan and the Prophet Elijah's doing the same in company with Elisha Our Saviour received Baptism here from the hands of S. John near to which particular place the Christians built a Monastery that is now in ruins The Pilgrims delight to bathe in this River fancying the Water sanative from the virtue of that Sacred Contact It overflows in Summer with the melted Snow from Mount Libanus But in the Winter runs a low Water and after its Current into the Dead Sea it is clear without mixture for above a League together issuing thence by a subterraneous Channel into the Mediterranean Ioyeuse Gaudiosa a Town in France in the Province of Vivarais towards the Borders of Languedoc honoured by being first a Viscounty next a Dutchy and giving Name to a Noble Family Ipepa Hypaepa a City of Lydia in the Lesser Asia between Mount Tmolus and the River Caystro not far from Thyatira It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ephesâ—s Ipre See Yperen Iprichia the same with Africa Ips Ipsium and Ibissa a Town in Austria Ipsala Cypsella a City in Thrace by the River Mela at first a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Trajanopoli or Zernis afterwards it became the Metropolis It lies between this City to the West twenty nine Miles and Drusilaba to the North-East twenty six Miles the River in our latter Maps is called Larissa and falls into the Archipelago over against the Isle of Lembro just behind that Peninsula which makes the Dardanels straight Ipswich Gippo-vicus the County Town of Suffolk heretofore called Gippwich seated on the North side of the River Stour upon the foot of a steep Hill in somewhat a low Ground it has a commodious Haven and was heretofore a place of great Trade with many wealthy Merchants in it and a vast number of other people but now decayed as to both It was also formerly fortified with Trenches and Rampires the loss of which is not to be lamented the Town being so seated that it can never be made a place of Defence the Hills on all sides but the South and South-East commanding it It has fourteen Parish Churches and a great many goodly Houses the tokens of its former Wealth In 991. the Danes sacked it and nine years after repeated their Cruelty upon it In the Reign of S. Edward it had eight hundred Burgesses who paid Custom to the King There was also a Castle built here by the Normans which Hugh Bigod Earl of Norfolk defended against the Usurper King Stephen but was forced to surrender at last the ruins are now lost Mr. Cambden supposeth it to have been demolished by Henry II. when he did the same by Waleton Castle not far off Here landed the three thousand Flemings which the Nobility called in against Henry II. when his Son rebelled against him In the late Rebellion this Town stood clear of all those Calamities which involved the rest of the Nation The Bishop of Norwich hath a House here and the Viscount of Hereford another befitting his degree and quality The Honourable Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Grafton was created Viscount Ipswich Aug. 16. 1672. who died of the Wounds that he received in the Service of King William before Cork Octob. 9. 1690. This Town is also a Corporation and sends two Burgesses to the Parliament It has a Free-School with the convenience of a good Library and a Hospital Cardinal Wolsey was born here and began the building of a stately College which bears his Name to this day Ireland Hibernia Ivernia is a great fruitful and noble Island on the West of Great Britain accounted in ancient time for greatness and glory the third Island of the World and called then the Lesser Britain Orpheus Aristotle and Claudian call it Ierna Juvenal Mela Juverna Diodorus Siculus Iris. Others Jovernia Overnia and Burnia The Natives Erin The Welsh Yuerdon The English Ireland It is three hundred Miles long and two hundred broad on the East it has the tempestuous Irish Sea between it and Great Britain on the West the Vergivian Ocean on the North the Deucalidonian Sea and on the South the British Ocean Divided into four Provinces Leinster Mounster Vlster and Connaught which heretofore sustained the Title of as many Kingdoms comprehending in all thirty Counties four Archbishopricks and twelve Bishopricks The Country is full of Woods Hills and Bogs The Soil rich and fruitful especially as to Grass Pomponius Mela in the times of the Emperour Claudius gives the very same character of it and therefore it has ever abounded in Cattle which is its most Staple Commodity The principal Rivers are the Shannon the Sewer the Barow the Black-Water the Shour the Neure the Boyne the Leffy c. The Capital City heretofore Armagh now Dublin The Air is at all times temperate but too moist to be at all times pleasant or wholsome The Romans in all probability never had any footing in this Island This Nation was converted to Christianity in the fifth Century by Palladius and S. Patrick especially the latter who planted not only Religion but so much Learning too amongst them that in the next Age the Monks of Ireland were eminent for Holiness and Learning and Ireland thence called Insula Sanctorum an Island of Saints In 694. Egfrid King of Northumberland first entered and destroyed this Nation with Fire and Sword after this the Danes for thirty years together wasted and destroyed them After these the Germans After them Edgar the most powerful King of England conquered a great part of Ireland And when by Massacres and other Accidents the Irish were freed from all these Calamities there ensued Domestick Broils among themselves In 1155. Henry II. being called in by the Natives resolved on the Conquest of them whereupon Richard Strongbow Earl of Pembroke began it in 1172. Henry II. in Person entered Ireland and taking upon him the Stile of Sovereign Lord of Ireland the States and all the petty Kings submitted to him and passed over all their Rule and Power which was confirmed by Pope Hadrian The Kings of England continued the Title of Lords of Ireland till the Reign of Henry VIII who took first upon him the Stile and Title of King of Ireland in 1541. which was confirmed to Mary his Daughter by Pope Paul IV. in 1555. The Irish have ever looked upon this Conquest as a Wrong and an Usurpation which no Act of theirs nor Time it self could make valid Hence when ever England has been imbroiled they have taken the opportunity of Revolting In the Reign of Edward I. when that Prince was engaged against the Scots one Donald O-Neal stiled himself King of Ulster and in Right of Inheritance the undoubted Heir of all Ireland But when in the Reign of Henry VIII the pretence of Religion was added first the Earl of Kildare rebelled
in 1537. and was presently suppressed taken and beheaded with his five Uncles In 1539. O-Neal began another Rebellion but so soon as Thomas Earl of Sussex Lord Lieutenant came against him with an Army the Gentleman grew humble submitted and was pardoned He flew out again in 1563. burnt the Cathedral of Armagh and besieged Dundalk but with no success In 1565. Sir Henry Sidney Lord Lieutenant went against him and in a Fight broke his Forces so that flying to the Scots whom he had likewise injured in 1567. he was assassinated in cold blood and presently after attained in Parliament and the Title of O-Neal abolished The Earl of Desmond was the next who in 1579. calling in the Spaniards began another Rebellion which ended ill for him the Spaniards being driven out the year after and this Earl taken and slain in 1583. In 1595. Tir-Oen who had done great Service against the Earl of Desmond and was highly favoured by Queen Elizabeth most ungratefully began a Rebellion the most dangerous of all the other this Earl having been bred in the Queens Service and learned Military Diâ—cipline from the English which he now made use of against them In 1598. he defeated the English at Blackwater In 1599. brought the Earl of Essex to condescend to a Treaty with him In 1601. he brought the Spaniards over to his Assistance who took and garrisoned Kinsale which was retaken by Sir Charles Blunt afterwards Lord Montjoy and the Spaniards totally driven out whereupon Tir-Oen submitted and was brought over by the Lord Lieutenant to King James I. in 1603. This War lasted eight years and might have proved fatal to the English if God had not prevented it After this I find no general Insurrection of the Irish till 1641. when seeing Charles I. engaged in War with the Scots at home they on a sudden rose up and assassinated two hundred thousand English in a few days when no body suspected any such thing This Insurrection began September 3. The Troubles of England gave them some respit but in 1649. and fifty Oliver Cromwell began their Chastisement so effectually that Ireton and those he left to carry it on erected mournful Trophies of the Divine Vengeance against them with no great expence of Time Blood or Treasure it missed but a little that the Irish Name and Nation had been totally extirpated Charles II. upon his Restitution in 1660. shewed them more Mercy restored such as had any pretences of Loyalty to plead for their Estates and governed them all his time with so much Clemency that this Nation never was in a better State since they fell under the English than at the time of the Death of that Good Prince Irenopolis an ancient City of Cilicia in Asia Minor Afterwards called Neronias and made an Episcopal See some write under the Archbishop first of Selencia then of Anazarbus Others place an Episcopal City of this Name near Babylon under the Patriarch of Antioch Iris Eurotas a River in the Morea which washeth Misitra and falls into the Gulph di Colochina on the South side of the Morea It is now called Vasilipotamo or Basilipotamo that is the Kings River § Another in Cappadocia understood by Valerius Flaccus where he says longisque sluens amfractibus Iris now called Casalmach See Casalmach Irneo Vindius Hirmius a Ledge of Mountains in Spain commonly called El monte de las Asturas the Mountain of the Asturas which is a Branch of the Pyrenean Hills running out to the West between the Asturas to the North and the Kingdom of Leon to the South the greatest is called Irneo or Erneo and also Cueto de Hano or Ori. Iroquois a valiant Nation of Indians in New France in the North America They have maintained divers bloody Wars with the French there and are the particular Enemies of the Hurons another salvage people of the same Country Irus a Mountain mentioned by Arrian upon the Shoars of the River Indus towards Gedrosia Is an ancient Town of Susiana in Asia eight days journey from Babylon upon a River of the same Name which discharges its Streams into the Euphrates Both remembred by Herodotus and Stephanus Isauria a Province according to the ancient division of Asia Minor now thrown into a part of Caramania and subject to the Turks It s Capital City was Isauropolis or Isauria by Ammianus Marcellinus called Claudiopolis now Saura Publius Servilius first reduced this Province under the Dominion of the Romans whence he attained the Title of Isauricus Claudian thus mentions them and him Indomites curru Servilius egit Isauros Historians write of their Incursions into the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth Centuries Iscariot a Village of the Tribe of Ephraim or as others say Dan in Palestine not far from Samaria to the East The Birth-place of the traiterous Judas Ischar Jatrus a River of Bulgaria which riseth out of Mount Hemus and watering Ternova a City of that Province falls into the Danube at Suistefo It is the third River from the Western Border and now more usually called Iantra Ischeboli or Ischepoli Scopelus an Inland City of Thrace made a Bishops See by Leo the Emperour under the Archbishop of Adrianople I suppose it is the same with that which is now called Ipsola Ischia Aenaria Inarime Pithecusa an Island on the Coast of the Kingdom of Naples near the Bay of Puteolum not above three Miles from the Shoar to the West It s Circuit is of twenty Miles of old called Inarime and by the Greeks Pithecusa It has a City of the same Name well fortified with a Castle built on a Rock in which Ferdinando King of Naples found shelter during the storm brought upon him by Charles VIII of France who in 1495. conquered this whole Kingdom in a few days This City is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Naples eighteen Miles from Naples to the West Claudius Nepos a Frenchman in 1586. published an exact Map and Description of this Island which is inserted into the Description of Italy published by Antonius Maginus Iscodar the Turkish Name of Scutari or Scodra Idenstein a County in Weteraw a Territory in the Upper Circle of the Rhine between Hassia to the East and the Rhine to the West by some Isembourg Isakal Lein Alschemes Busiris Ramesses a ruined old City in Egypt within the Delta the ruins of which are so called Isenberg Isidis Mons a Mountain in Schwaben near Ausburgh Isendyck Isendium a small but strong Town upon the Sea Coast in Flanders over against Biervliet a Town belonging to the Hollanders This Town stands upon the Scheld three French Leagues from Sluys to the East and something above four from Middleburgh to the South and was fortified by the Spaniards against the Dutch Isenach See Eysenach Isenghien Isegemium a Castle in Flanders in the Territory of Courtray which gives the Title of an Earl or Count to the Family of Vilnia It is now under the French two Leagues from Courtray towards Bruges
the Nation on the account of the Haven and the Castle which being Garrisoned keeps the Country quiet and in awe In the time of the Rebellion of the Irish it held out against them and afforded shelter and relief to many thousands which fled to it When Cromwell came up it yielded without a Stroke in 1649. It surrendred to General Schomberg for want of Ammunition August 27. 1689 upon Articles after a Siege of eight or ten Days by Sea and Land King William landed here June 14. 1690 at his coming into Ireland At this day the Trade is going to Belfast a Town eight Miles more to the South upon the same Haven and that has put a stop to the Growth of Knockfergus Knockenhauss a Town in Livonia in Leisland upon the River Duna which belonged heretofore to Poland but is at present under the Swedes it lies sixteen German Miles East from Riga upon the same River Knoctoe that is the Hill of Axes a place in the County of Gallway four Miles from the City of Gallway on the West of Ireland under which the Noble Girald Fitz-Girald Earl of Kildare and by times for the space of thirty three years Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1516 overthrew the greatest Rabble of Rebels that ever was seen together before in Ireland which had been assembled by William Burk Obrian Macnemare and O. Carral Knottesford a Market Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Bucklow Kola a small Town of Lapland which stands upon a River of the same Name and has a Haven upon the White Sea This is under the Dominion of the Russ much frequented by the Ships of England and Holland It lies sixty German Miles South-East from the North Cape ninety five North-West from Archangel in Long. 57. 30. Lat. 68. 30. Koldinguen Coldinga a City of South Jutland which has a Castle called Arensborch and a Haven upon the Baltick Sea over against the Isle of Fiona Here the Horse and Oxen which are driven into Holstein and Germany in vast Numbers pay a Toll to the King of Denmark Christian III. King of Denmark died here in 1559. Kolom Columna a considerable City in the Province of Mosco upon the River Mosco where it falls into that of Aka or Occa sixteen Miles to the East from Mosco It has a delightful appearance by reason of its Towers and Stone Walls which are not usual in Moscovy The Duke has here a Governor or Vaiwod And it is also the See of the only Bishop in this Province Koloswar See Clausenburgh Kom Komum a vast City in Persia in the Province of Hierach in the middle between Hispahan and Casbin Komare Komore Komorra Comaria a very strong and well fortified Town in the Lower Hungary seated on the South point of the Isle of Schut where the Danube reunites into one Stream four German Miles from Raab two from Neuheusel to the South and five from Gran to the North. This Town was first fortified by Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary in 1472. against the Germans in design but for them in effect it having been one of the impregnable Bulwarks of Christendom against the Turks ever since they took Gran in 1542. It is a great populous rich City as well as a strong one By a Line drawn from the Waagh that is the Southern Branch of the Danube to the Northern Branch of the Danube strengthened with four Bastions the Emperor has much inlarged it The Emperor kept here always a great Garrison and a Trusty Governor After the taking of Raab in 1591. Sinan Bassa besieged this Town with sixty Ships and a great number of Turks and Tartars but without any success to the great slaughter of the Tartars especially All his Treachery for he sent five Turks to suborn Baron Brown the then Governor to sell the Town under the shew of a Parly and Valor too were here equally baffled sour of the five Turks having their Heads set upon Spears and the fifth being sent back to the Bassa to let him know there were no more Traytors to be bought The chief strength of it is in a Fort called the Tertise Kongel Congella a City in Norway in the County of Babuis upon the River Trolhet five Miles above its outlet and twelve from Gottenburgh to the North now under the Swedes Koningsberg Mons Regius Regio-mons or Regiomontum a City in Prussia Ducalis whereof it is the Capital under the Elector of Brandenburgh upon the River Pregel Adorned with a Ducal Palace and an University which was sounded by Albert Duke of Prussia in 1544. It is a great and handsome a trading and an Anseatique City Koning-gratz Gradium Reginae Ragino Gradecium a City of Bohemia called also Kralowihrades and Koningsgrats which in 1664. was made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Prague by Pope Alexander VII It is seated upon the Elbe twelve Miles from Prague to the East thirty two from Vienna to the North-West in the prefecture of Gradetz Konitz Conitia a Town in Prussia Regia upon the River Bro near the Desart of Waldow in the Confines of the Brandenburgh-Pomerania eight Polish Miles from Culm to the West This Town is called by the Poles Choinicke Koperberg Cuprimontium a Free Town of Sweden which has rich and most useful Mines of Copper from whence it has its Name It stands not far from a Lake in the Province of Gestrick fifty Miles from Gevals a Town in the same Province to the West and a little more from the Botner Sea See Gestrick Kopizath Imaus See Imaus Koppan Campona Copanum a Town in the Lower Hungary upon the Danube mentioned by Antoninus in his Itinerary which is near Buda some suppose it the same with this others Keppel and others Theten two Miles from Buda Korbaten Colapiani the Croates See Croatia They are also called Krabaten by the Germans Kornthaurn Taurus a Mountain of Carinthia between it and Salisburgh mentioned by Tacitus Jornandes Eutropius and Herodian Ortelius saith it is of a vast height and is called Thaurn Kornthaurn Krumlechthaurn and Rhadstratterthaurn Korsoe Corsoa a small City in Denmark on the Western Shoar of the Island of Zealand at which Charles Gustavus first Landed in 1658. It stands upon that Arm of the Baltick Sea which is called Die Belt over against the Island of Fionia and the City of Newborg two English Miles West of Skelsor and has a Castle belonging to it Korsum Korsuma a Town in the Palatinate of Kâ—ovia upon the River Rosse built in 1581. by K. Stephen and memorable for a great Victory obtained over the Poles by the Cossacks in 1648. It stands five Polish Miles from Czyrkassy to the West Kotting Cotuantii an ancient People amongst the Grisons the same perhaps with the Gotthouspunt Kouuno Couuna a City in Poland in the Dukedom of Lithuania upon the River Chronus or Niemen where it receives the Vil in the Confines of Samogitia eighteen Polish Miles from Vilna to the West fourteen from Troki in which Palatinate it
by the Arabs Hamammetha In the Year 394. a Council was held here the Canons whereof are confused amongst the Body of the Canons of the African Church Long. 36. 40. Lat. 32. 40. Majaquana one of the Luccaye Islands belonging to North America between Hispaniola to the South and Samana to the North. Maida a Principality in the further Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples near Nicastro Maidenhead a Market Town in Berkshire in the Hundred of Bray Maidstone Madus Vagniacae is a fair sweet populous Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath upon the River Medway near its head from which it has this name There is a fair Stone Bridge built by the Archbishops of Canterbury over this River Edward VI. Incorporated this Town and granted it a Mayor which was taken from them in Queen Maries time for favouring Wyat's Rebellion in 1554. But Queen Elizabeth restored them to their former State In ancient times their chief Magistrate was called a Portgreve from Grave an old German word still used by the Germans in Markgrave Reingrave and Landtgrave Charles I. added another Honor to this Place when in 1628. he created Elizabeth Finch Grandmother to the late Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey late Lord Chancellor of England Viscountess of Maidstone and Countess of Winchelsey with an Entail upon her Heir Males which Honors are now possessed by Heneage Her Grandchild the Second of this Family Heneage late Earl of Nottingham and Lord Chancellor of England was another of Her Posterity This is the Town where the Assizes and Sessions are kept with which honour it has that of the Election of two Members of the House of Commons Maienne See Mayenne Majella Nicates a Mountain in Abruzzo a Province of the Kingdom of Naples near the River Pescara Aternus as Holstenius affirms Maillezais or Mallezais Malleaca Malleacum a small City in Poictou in France seated in a Morass made by the Rivers Seure Niortoise which falls into the Bay of Aquitain and the Hautize The ancient Earls of Poictou and Dukes of Guyenne chose it for their Residence and Founded in it an Abbey about the Year 1030. which by P. John XXII in 1317. was changed into a Bishops See but being little inhabited by reason of the badness of the Air the Bishoprick was suppressed in 1649. and the City of Rochell substituted in its place by Pope Innocent X. It stands nine Leagues from Rochell to the North-East and five from Niore to the South Long. 19. 36. Lat. 46. 21. according to the last Maps Mailly a Seigniory near Amiens in Picardy giving name to an honorable Family of that Province Maina or Maines or Braccio di Maina a City on the South of the Morea supposed to have been the ancient Leuctra or Tenarus in Laconia on the East side of the Gulph of Coron North of Cape Matapan the most South Cape of the Morea The Inhabitants are called the Mainotes and have in this present War contributed very much to the driving the Turks out of the Morea by serving in great numbers under the Venetians against them It is said it was a Common-wealth before but Coronelli in his late description of the Morea assures us it was a Fort built by the Turks upon the Ruins of Cersapolis to keep these Mainotes under who being impatient of the Turkish Slavery and extremely Warlike had betaken themselves to the Rocks and Forests and would pay no Tribute to the Turks thereupon the Turks began to build the Fort of Maina but Querini Captain of the Gulph for the Venetians in 1570. understanding their design Landed and by the help of the Mainotes took this Fort and ruined it entirely by which means the Mainotes were preserved and obliged to the Service of this State Main Amber a noted strong Rock nigh to Mounts Bay in the County of Cornwall mounted upon others of a lesser size with so equal a ponderation that it may be stirred 't is said yet not moved out of its place Maine le Maine Cenomanensis Provincia is a great and fruitful Province in France the old Inhabitants of which were the Cenomani Aulerci its greatest extent is from East to West on the North it is bounded by Normandy on the West by Bretagne This part is called the Lower Maine on the South by Anjou and on the East by Le Perche This the Vpper Maine and of the two the most fruitful and pleasant The Rivers Huisne Sarte and Mayenne water it The Principal City in it is Mans the next Mayenne Charles the second Son of Francis Duke of Guise being made Duke of Maine and after that General of the League against Henry III. and IV. of France made this Province frequently mentioned in the Histories of France of those times The Common Proverb of the People of this Province is Qu' un Manceau vaut un Norman demy One Man of Maine is worth one Norman and the half of another Main Land Pomona the Principal of the Isles of Orkney which is twenty two English Miles long and has a Town called Kirkwall on the Northern Shoar for its Capital its greatest extent is from East to West and its greatest breadth about ten Miles The Mainotes See Maina Maintez Meintez See Mentz Majorca or Mallorca Balearium insulae Palma Majorca an Island in the Mediterranean Sea on the Eastern Coast of Spain over against the Kingdom of Valencia at the distance of about sixty Miles between Minorca to the East and Yvica to the West which three Islands constituted the Kingdom of Majorca so called from this the greatest of them It s Circuit is near one hundred and ten Miles the Principal City is Mallorca Palma or Majorca which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona and a flourishing University in which Raymundus Lullius taught and his tenets are now ex instituto maintained It is great strong and has a Haven belonging to it on the Western shoar of the Island Long. 24. 40. Lat. 40. 00. The Maps place it in Lat. 38. 26. The Inhabitants of this Island were of old famous Archers from whence they were called Baleares at first they went naked being subdued by the Carthaginians Anno Mundi 3500. they became more civilized and served in the Carthaginian Wars against the Romans till together with Spain they fell under that Republick in the Year of Rome 630. 521 Years before the Birth of our Saviour The Moors were their next Masters who crossing out of Africa took Possession of them about the same time they Conquered Spain Raymund Earl of Barcelone by the assistance of the Genouese expelled the Moors in 1102 but the Genouese as if they had repented this good Deed restored them again In 1228. they were finally ex elled by James King of Arragon This Prince in 1230. made James his Son King of Majorca whose Posterity enjoyed this Kingdom till 1341. when James III. the fourth King of Majorca was slain in Battel by Pedro IV. King of Arragon and ever since
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
through it but now it lies in Ruins therefore called Rovine di Mariana nothing being left but the Cathedral Church which has no Roof neither the Bishops See being removed to Bastia in 1575. Marib See Mecca Mariemberg Mariae-berga a Town of Germany in the Vpper Saxony in Misnia nine German Miles from Meissen the Capital of that Province to the South This is one of the Mine Towns seated in the Mountains near Annaberg in the Borders of Bohemia built by Henry Duke of Saxony in 1519. and still in the Hands of that Family Marienbourg a Town in Hainault in the Low Countries built by Mary of Austria Queen of Hungary and Governant of the Low Countries in 1542. and strongly fortified against the French who nevertheless gained the possession of it by the Pyrenean Treaty in 1660. and dismantled it This stands upon the River Aube eleven French Leagues from Mons to the East and four from Charlemont to the South-West Marienburgh Mariaeburgum called by the Poles bork by the Inhabitants Margenburgh is a strong City in Prussia Regalis whereof it is the Capital upon the River Nogat a Branch of the Vistula six German Miles from Dantzick to the North-East and four from Elbing to the South-West Heretofore the principal Seat of the Knights of Prussia who built it and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary the Castle in 1281 the Town in 1302. Casimirus King of Poland took this City in 1460. The Swedes in 1625. The Castle was burnt in 1644. and restored to the Poles in 1655. by Treaty Marienburgh or Marieburgh the same with Queen's Town in Ireland See Queen's County Mariendal the same with Mergentheim Mariestadt Mariaestadium a new City in Westrogothia in Sweden between the Lakes of Wener and Neter three German Miles from the former and six from the latter Long. 31. 19. Lat. 58. 27. Marigalante one of the Caribby Islands in South America under the French six Leagues from Guadeloupe and ten or twelve from Dominco Recommended for Fruitfulness Marignano Melignanum Meriganum a Town in the Duchy of Milan upon the River Lambro in the middle between Milan and Lodive ten Miles from either Near this the Swiss were beaten by Francis I. in 1515. Marinat Scardus a Mountain in Macedonia it parts Servia Albania and Macedonia and ends at the Euxine Sea near Saramontin the Borders of Romania Drino and many other Rivers spring from it In the Maps it is written Mazinai Marish Mariscus Marus a River of Transylvania it ariseth from the Carpathian Hills and passeth by Neumark Radnot Alba Julia or Weissenburg Branksa and Lippa to Segedin where it ends in the Tibiscus This is the principal River of Transylvania Mariza Hebrus a River of Thrace it ariseth out of Mount Hebrus which is a Branch of Mount Marinat in the Northern Confines of Macedonia Servia and Bulgaria where they all meet from two Fountains and running East it watereth Phileba or Philippopolis Adrianople and Ploutin where it receives Copriza and turning Southward falls into the Archipelago over against Lembro Mark See Marck Market-Iew a Market Town in the County of Cornwal and the Hundred of Penwith Marieborow or Marleburg Cunetio an ancient Roman Town seated upon the River Kenet in Wiltshire in the North-West Bounds towards Barkshire upon the ascent of an Hill In this there was a famous Parliament held for ending the Differences between the Barons and the King in the fifty second year of Henry III. A. C. 1267. where were made the Statutes called the Statutes of Marleburgh The Parliament assembled in a Castle which this place anciently had belonging unto John Sans terre as he was surnamed afterwards King of England It is still a Corporation which sends two Burgesses to the Parliament and hath withal the Convenience of Savernake Forest and Aldburn Chase in its Neighbourhood Charles I. at his Coronation added another Honour to this place by Creating James Lord Ley Lord Treasurer Earl of Marleborow February 5. 1625. which was afterwards possessed by William the fourth Earl of this Family Grandchild to the first Earl who succeeded Henry his Nephew slain in a Sea-Fight against the Dutch in 1665. The Lord Churchill enjoys this Title at present by the Creation of King William Marlow Magna a Market Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Disborough probably so called for the Store of Marl or Chalk here dug up Marmara Strymon a River on the South of Macedonia towards the Borders of Thrace more usually called Stromona and also Radnitz and Iscar it falls in the Archipelago at Amphipoli Marmora Elaphonesus an Island in the Propontis on the Coast of Asia famous for Marble Quarries it is ten or twelve Leagues in circuit with a City the Capital of its own Name and divers Villages inhabited by the Religious Caloyers The adjacent Sea is called from hence the Sea of Marmora which discharges it self on one side into the Pontus Euxinus by the Bosphorus Thracius and on the other towards the South into the Aegean Sea by the Hellespont The ancient Poet Aristeas adorned this Island with his Nativity It communicates its Name to the three Neighbouring Islands Avezia Coutalli Gadaro called in general the Islands of Marmora They all stand in a good Climate abounding in Corn Wine Cattel Cotton and Fruit inhabited principally by the Religious Greeks and some Arabians Ptolemy mentions Marmora by the Name of Proconnesus Others call it Neuris Marmorica the present Kingdom of Barca in Africa it had heretofore for its Bounds Libya Propria to the East and Cyrenaica to the West Marne Matrona a great River in France which ariseth in Champaigne near Langres in a Village called Marmote in the Confines of the Franche Comte and running North-West watereth Langress Chaumont â—oynevil S. Dizier Chalons and Meaux then falls into the Seyne two Miles above Paris Maro A Valley Marquisate and Town upon the Confines of the States of Genoua belonging to the Duke of Savoy Marocco is both a City and a Kingdom in Africa in the West Part of Barbary the Kingdom of Marocco is a considerable part of Mauritania Tingitana extended on the Atlantick Ocean from the River Abene to that of Azamor on the East it has the River Malava which parts it from Tremesen on the West the Atlantick Ocean on the South Mount Atlas and on the North the Kingdom of Fez. The Country is said to be very fruitful and pleasant abounding in Cattle Fruits Corn Sugar Oil Hony and whatever is useful to the Life of Man Divided into seven Provinces which are Guzzula Sus Marocco Hea Hascora Daccala and Tedles The King takes the style of Emperour of Barbary and Marocco King of Fez Suz c. Hath a great number of Castles in this Kingdom yet there is one kept by the Portugueze two Leagues from Azamor Marocco Marochum Marochia Marochium the principal City which gives Name to the whole called by the Spaniards Maruccos by the Italians Marocho is supposed to have been the Bocanum
demolished by the English It has a Collegiate Church § There is another Meun in the same Province upon the River Inde betwixt Chateau-roux and Bruzancais § And a Third in the Province of Orleanois under the right side of the Loyre betwixt the City Orleans and Baugency Adorned with a Collegiate Church and taken heretofore by the Victorious English under the Earl of Salisbury In Latin Magdunum Meurs Meursia a small City of the Dukedom of Cleves though seated in the Bishoprick of Cologn which is an Earldom and belongs together with its Territory to the Prince of Orange by the gift of the last Countess in 1600. Yet the Duke of Brandenburgh lays claim to it as Duke of Cleves It lies two Miles from Rhineburgh to the South one from the Rhine to the West about ten from Cologn to the North-West and seven from Cleves to the South-West Meurtre Mourtre Murta Morta a River of Lorrain it ariseth from Mount Vauge and watering Nancy falls into the Moselle three Leagues above Pont Mouson Meuse Mosa the same with the Maes Mexico Mexicum a vast City in the North America the Capital of New Spain and of a Province of the same name in that Kingdom the Seat of the Spanish Viceroy of the West-â—naâ—es and an Archbishop's See This City stands upon the North side of a Lake of the same name in a most pleasant fruitful and large Plain and in great part surrounded with the Lake The Inhabitants pretend it was built in 1322. The Spaniards by the current and thread of their Story say it was built in 902. It was many Ages since the Royal Seat of the Kings of Mexico had then a great and splendid Palace called in their Tongue the Tepac but burnt together with the City when it was taken by the Spaniards in 1521. by Francis Cortez who rebuilt the City and made it the Capital of his Conquests Its Streets are great streight and beautiful its Churches magnificent its publick Buildings noble It has an Aquaduct three Miles long and many Monasteries John de Turre Cremata our Countryman Mr. Gage and some others have given large accounts of this noble City which is the greatest in America It has no Walls Forts Bastions nor any Cannon or Defence whatsoever beside what the number of its Inhabitants afford which is a part of the Spanish Jealousie for fear a Viceroy should set up for himself In 1527. Pope Clement VII made it a Bishop's See In 1547. Paul III. made it an Archbishop's See in which Year Cortez the Conqueror died It was made an University in 1551. by Charles V. As it is seated in a very low ground so it has often suffered very much by Inundations of the Lake particularly Septemb. 21. 1629. forty thousand of its Inhabitants were drowned to prevent this for the future they have with great Charges found out a means to drive part of these Waters other ways There is no way to the City but over three Causways on the North West and South sides the latter of which is the longest Long. 269. 00. Lat. 28. 30. eighty Spanish Leagues from the South Sea and the same distance from the Shores of the Bay of Mexico See Golfo di Mexico There are also two Lakes of Water called by the name of this City one of which is fresh Water seven Leagues long six broad the other is salt Water forty Leagues in compass Meydenburg See Magdeburg Meylandt the German Name for Milan Meyne See Mayn § Also a Mineral Spring much resorted to of late near the City Arles in Provence Mezaal a pretended Island in Aethiopia See Meroë Mezieres Maderiacum Meceria a City of France in Champagne in the Territory of Retelois built upon and almost encompassed with the Maes and very well fortified besides It stands not above half a League from Charleville four beneath Sedan to the West three from the Confines of Luxemburgh and sixteen from Reims to the North-East and hath a Collegiate Church Mezo Amyzon a City of Caria in the Lesser Asia still extant and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Sancta Croce being seated between Magnesia and Alabanda thirty Miles from Miletus now Melasso and the same distance from the Shoares of the Archipelago to the East Mezuma oppidum novum a City in the Kingdom of Algïer in Africa in the Province of Tenez between Algier and Tremesin Mezzaba a Province in Biledulgerida in Africa with a City of the same name by the great River between Zeb and Tegorarina to the West Mezzovo Pindus Miana Apamia or Apamea a City of Media Long. 79. 50. Lat. 34. 20. Miary a River in Brasil which receives the Ovaro Covo and divers other Rivers then falls into the Ocean near the Island of Maragnan upon the Coast of Brasil Micoli an Island of the Aegean Sea betwixt Nicaria to the East and the Islands Tenon and Andron to the North. One of the Cyclades called by the Antients Mycone and Myconos It produces Wine Cotton Barley and abundance of Game planted with one only Village which pays a yearly Tribute to the Turks Middleburgh Metelli Castrum Middleburgum Metelloburgum a Town in Zealand the Capital of the Isle of Walcheren made a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Vtretcht in 1559. by Pope Paul IV the Collegiate Church in 1561 being converted into a Cathedral and the Revenues of a famous Abbey that was here applied to serve for the use of the Bishoprick It is great rich populous extremely well fortified and has been under the Vnited Provinces ever since 1574 in which it was taken by their Forces from the Spaniards The Abbey is now the Town-house § There is a Town in Flanders under the Vnited Provinces two German Miles from Bruges to the North and an Island in the East-Indies both called by the same name Middlefart a Town in the Island of Fuynen in the Baltick Sea giving name to the Channel Middelfart or Middle-Passage betwixt this Island and Jutland Middlesex Middlesexia Trinobantes is bounded on the North by Hartfordshire on the West by Buckingham separated by the River Colne on the South by Surrey cut off by the Thames and on the East by Essex divided from it by the Lea. It is nineteen English Miles in length and sixteen in breadth one of the least Counties in England but its Fertility and nearness to London abundantly recompenseth this want of Extent The ancient British Inhabitants were the Trinobantes afterwards it was a part of the Kingdom of the East-Saxons White-hall and S. James the Royal Mansions of the Kings of England are both in this County to which may be added Hampton Court their Country House of Pleasure and LONDON the Capital of England is its Head The Honorable Charles Sackville Earl of Dorset is also Earl of Middlesex by a Creation of Feb. 4. 1674. Which Title was first bestowed by K. James I. in 1622. on Lionel Lord Cranfield Lord Treasurer of England whose Son James enjoyed the same and after
Pope Lucius III. adorned with this Archiepiscopal Chair in the Year 1182 at the Request of that Prince who assigned this See a large Revenue and built a stately Palace for the Archbishops Mons Montes Montes Hannoniae the Capital City of the Province of Hainault in the Low Countries called by the Dutch Berghen by the Germans Berg by the French and English Mons Seated upon the River Troville which a little lower falls into the Haisne in the middle between Douay to the West and Namur to the East twelve Miles from either and ten from Brussels to the South-West It is very strongly seated because all the Country about it may be drowned and it is well walled has three deep Trenches about it a Castle in it The publick and private Buildings are very Magnificent many of them adorned with excellent Fountains The French besieged it with an Army of thirty thousand Men in 1678 under the Command of the Duke of Luxemburgh and so strongly retrenched their Army that they despised any Attempt that could be made upon their Camp yet the Prince of Orange coming up to the Relief of this City bravely and resolutely attacked them and by the Valour chiefly of ten thousand English led on by the brave Lord Ossory entered the French Camp with their Swords drawn at high Noon-day the French General very hardly escaping This rich strong populous City defended it self against the encroachment of the French and remained in the hands of the Spaniards till 1691. when the French besieg'd and took it The ancient Counts or Earls of Hainault used the title of Earls of Mons. There is a famous Abbey of Chanonesses in it permitted to marry Mons en Puelle a Village and Castle in the Chastellanie of L'isle in Flanders betwixt the Cities L'isle and Doway where Philip le Bel K. of France fought the Flemings Aug. 18. 1304. and killed of them 25000. Monserat or Montserrat Mons Serratus a Mountain in Catalonia in Spain upon the River Lobregat nine Miles from Barcelone to the South-West very high and steep in the middle of it is a Monastery famous for the Worship of an Image of the Virgin Mary which was found here in 880. Monsoreau a Town in Anjou in France Monstieres a City and an Archbishoprick in Tarantaise in Savoy Mont a Marquisate in the Ecclesiastick State subject to the Pope Montacute a sharp-pointed Hill in the South parts of Somersetshire which has the honour to give the title of a Viscount to the R. H. Francis Brown descended from Anthony Brown created Viscount Montacute in the Reign of Qu. Mary in 1554 which Anthony was descended from Tho. Montacute Earl of Salisbury created Lord Montacute and afterwards Marquess Montacute by K. Edw. IV. Montagnia a considerable City of Natolia upon the Coast of the Sea of Marmora and the Gulph called heretofore Cianus Sinus five Leagues from Bursa accounted to have five or six thousand Inhabitants of Turks Greeks and Jews and by the way of the Gulph entertaining a good Commerce with Constantinople Montaldo a small place in Piedmont subject to the Pope Mont-alcino or Monte Alcino Mons Alcinous and Mons Alcinus a small City in the Territory of Siena under the Great Duke of Tuscany built upon an Hill twenty one Miles from Siena to the South-West and fifty five from Piombino to the North-East A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Siena but exempt from his Jurisdiction Montalto Mons Altus a New City in the Marchia Anconitana in the States of the Church under the Dominion of the Pope upon the River Monocia twelve Miles from Fermo to the South-West and eight from Ascoli to the North A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ferme founded by Pope Sixtus Wwho was born here § There is another Montalto in the Hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which passes for the Vffuguim of Livy A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cozenza § Besides a small Town under the Pope in Italy upon the Confines of Piedmont and the Dukedom of Montferrat Montames Caliabrum once a City of Lusitania and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Merida now a considerable Town in the Province of Estremadura in Spain which has a Castle in the Possession of the Knights of Saint James six Leagues from Merida Montargis Montargium a pleasant City in le Gastinois a Province of France seated upon the River Loing which falls into the Seyne twenty five Leagues from Paris to the South and eighteen from Orleans to the East Being besieged by the English in 1418. it was burnt and rebuilt in the Year 1528. since which time it has been esteemed the Capital of le Gastinois Montauban Montalbanus Mons Aureolus Mons Albanus a City of France in the Province of Quercy in Aquitain in the Confines of Languedoc which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tolose founded by Pope John XXII in 1317. upon the River Tarn eight Leagues from Tolose to the North nine from Caors to the South and ten from Agen to the North-East This is a pleasant great rich populous City generally built with Brick and a very strong Place By the Edict of Nants made in 1599 by Henry IV. this was one of the places put into the Hands of the French Protestants for their Security They quietly enjoyed it till the Year 1621 when it was in vain attempted to take it from them by a potent Siege It had a Brick Bridge upon the River which being much damnified in this Siege was rebuilt in 1667 with a flanting Inscription in Latin Montbelliard See Monbeliar Montblanc Mons Albus a small Town in Catalonia Honored by being made the Title of a Dukedom it stands upon the River Francolinum five Leagues from Tarragona to the North. Montbrison See Monbrison Monte-Cassino See Cassin Monte-Corbino a City of the Kingdom of Naples in Italy of good antiquity It was heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento but in 1433 the See became united with that of Vulturara in the same Kingdom Monte-Falco a Town in the Province of Ombria in Italy near the City Spoleti Monte-Fiascone Mons Physcon a small City in S. Peter's Patrimony in Italy made a Bishops See by Pope Vrban V. It stands upon the Lake of Bolsena Volsinium between Viterbio to the East and Bolsena to the West eight Miles from either of them and twenty from Corneto to the North. with the Bishoprick of which this is united for ever The Wines of this place have ever been in great esteem Monte-Fiore a Town in the Marcha Anconitana in Italy Monte-Leone Mons Leo Hippo Vibo a City and Colony of the Brutii now in the Further Calabria which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cosenza but that Chari was removed to Melito by Pope Gregory VII This place is in a very good estate four Miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea twenty from the Ionian Sea and about thirty eight from Cosenza to the South See Melito Some
Over the Trent and the Line it has two Bridges besides two others over two Ponds called the Cheney Bridges It has three Churches and a strong and goodly Castle built on a steep Rock on the West side of the Town In the Reign of Burthred King of the Mercians and Aethelred King of the VVest-Saxons the Danes having got the Possession of this Castle kept it against three Kings united against them and forced them to a Peace After this Edward the Elder walled the Town the South part of which was standing in Mr. Cambden's time The Castle which is now standing was rebuilt by VVilliam the Conqueror to curb the English Edward IV. repaired it In 1â—75 it was besieged by Henry II. but could not be taken In the Barons Wars it was surprised by Robert de Ferrariis an Earl otherwise it was never taken by force as the same Author observes Long. 22. 14. Lat. 53. 00. Charles Lord Howard descended from the House of Norfolk by the Mowbrays Earls of this County from 1377. to 1475. was in 1597. created Earl of Nottingham This Family ending in Charles Lord Howard the third in that Line the Honor was conferred May 12. 1681. upon Heneage Lord Finch Baron of Daventry then Lord Chancellor of England and it is now enjoyed by Daniel Son of the said Heneage Nova Antequera a City of New Spain in America in the Province of Oaxaca eighty Spanish Leagues from Mexico to the East seventeen from the North Sea to the South and seventeen from Vera Cruz. It is little and not much inhabited though a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico ever since 1535. Nova Guinea a large Country in the Western part of the Pacifick Ocean which is a part of the Terra Australis on the East of the Molucco Islands First discovered by Andrew Ardaneta a Spaniard in 1528. and then thought to be an Island but since to be a part of the South Continent Novara Novaria a City of Italy which in Pliny's time was the Capital of Insubria It is now a part of the Duchy of Milan and a Bishop's See under that Archbishop the Head of a small Territory called by its name Very strong and can shew many ancient Roman Inscriptions as Testimonies of its Antiquity It stands twenty five Miles from Milan to the West and ten from Turin in a well-watered and fruitful Soil and upon an Eminence well fortified Near this Lewis Sforza Duke of Milan was taken by the French in 1500. But twelve years after the Swiss gave the French a great Overthrow in this Place to abate their joy for their former Success Peter Lombard the Master of the Sentences and sometime Bishop of Paris was a Native of this City and Pope Innocent XI Bishop of it when he was chosen Novellara a fine Town in the Lower Lombardy between the Territories of the Dukes of Mantoua and Modena subject to a Count of its own who is of the Family of Gonzaga ten Miles from Regio towards the North. It has a Castle called Bagnuollo Novibazar Novus Mercatus one of the principal Cities of Servia upon the River Orasâ—a fifty Miles from Nissa to the West Novigrad Novigradum Argyrutum a Town in Dalmatia which has a Castle seated upon a Bay of the same name twenty Miles from Zara to the East and twenty five from Sebenico to the North. It belonged to the Venetians but was taken by the Turks in 1646. Novigrad a small City in the Vpper Hungary which gives name to a County one German Mile from the Danube five from Gran to the North-East and four from Vaccia It has a Castle which is seated on a Rock and a Dike thirty four foot deep cut in the same Rock which makes it almost inaccessible yet the Turks took this strong Place in 1663. Novogorod Velki Novogardia Magna a City of Moscovy called by the Germans Neugarten which is very great and an Archbishops See the Capital of a Principality of the same name seated in a spacious Plain upon the River Wolkow where it issueth from the Lake of Ilmen an hundred and five German Miles from Mosco to the North-West forty six from Pleskow to the East and forty from Narva to the South East Long. 50. 00. Lat. 58. 23. The River Wolchou or Woldga saith Olearius falls by Notteburgh and the Gulph of Finland into the Baltick Sea this River is the chief cause of the Wealth and Greatness of the City being Navigable from its Fountains almost to the Baltick which has made this City the chief for Trade in all the North. Vithold Great Duke of Lithuania was the first who in 1427. obliged this City to pay a vast Tribute John Basilowitz Grotsden Duke of Muscovy overthrew an Army raised by this City in 1477. Thereupon he made himself Master of it and carried thence to Mosco three hundred Wagons loaden with Gold Silver and rich Goods John Basilowitz another of their Princes in 1569. slew two thousand seven hundred and seventy of its Inhabitants and cast them into the River upon a bare groundless suspicion besides a vast number trodden to death by a Party of Horse This City was taken by the Swedes in 1611. and restored to the Russ in 1634. It hath formerly been so puissant that it passed for a common Proverb Who is there that can oppose himself to God and the great City of Novogrod They reckon about seventy Monasteries in it It s largeness has been set in the parallel with that of Rome but its Walls are of Wood and the Buildings mean Novogorod Nisi that is the Lower is a vast City of Moscovy seated upon the Wolga where it takes in the Occa an hundred German Miles from Mosco to the North-East and forty from Wologda to the South-East Novogrod Novogroda sirnamed Litawiski is a City of Lithuania under the Crown of Poland the Capital of a Palatinate of the same name in which the Diet of Lithuania ought by turns with Minsko to be holden It stands scarce four Polish Miles from the River Niemen or Memel and twenty from Vilna to the South Novogrodeck Seviersky a strong City of Russia which has been attributed to Lithuania when under the Poles but now it is under the Russ again It stands upon the River Dezna seventeen Polish Miles from Czernichou to the North-East forty six from Kiovia to the same and the same distance from Smolensko to the South This is also the Capital of a Palatinate Noyon Novomagâ—s Noviodunum a City in the Isle of France near the Borders of Picardy of which it was a part upon the River Vorse which two Miles lower falls into the Oise eight Leagues from Soisons to the South-West fifteen from Amiens six from Reims to the West and twenty two from Paris to the North. It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Reims the Bishop of it is one of the three Earls and a Peer of France the Diocese which belongs to it is called Le Noyonois â—â—bia a
the loss of Calais the Garrison of which was drawn out by King Philip to manage this Siege two years after the French recovered S. Quintin by a Treaty and kept Calais too It stands upon the River Somme six Leagues from Perronne to the East and seven from Cambray to the South Quir a part of the unknown Terra Australis discovered by a Spaniard of the Name but uncultivated as yet by Europeans Quiscon or Quiscun Ionia a Province of the Lesser Asia Quiso Cissa a River of the Colchi which falls into the Euxine Sea seventy six Miles South of the Mouth of the Phasos now called il Fazo Quiess Quissus a River of Bohemia in the Lower Silesia which in the Borders of Lusatia falls into the Borber near Sagan seven German Miles from Glogaw to the West Quiteva or Quieteva a City and Kingdom in Africa on the South of Aethiopia heretofore a part of the Kingdom of Monotapia towards Zanguebar Quito a Province of Peru in South America in the North part of that Kingdom between the Province of Quixo to the East and the Pacifick Ocean to the West eighty Leagues long and thirty five broad It had at first Kings of its own but before the arrival of the Spaniards was Conquered by the King of Peru and together with it fell under the Dominion of Spain El Quito the Capital City of the Province called by its name a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lima in a fruitful Valley at the foot of a Mountain called Volcano Pinta near Machangara and Machangavilla two Rivers almost under the Line It is likewise called S. Francisco del Quito Two hundred and fifty Spanish Leagues from Lima to the North and six from the Pacifick Ocean to the East In 1586. there was an University opened here The Government of Quito is a considerable part of South America and one of the three principal Provinces of the Kingdom of Peru on the North it is bounded with Popian on the East with the Rivers of Pulumaio and Amazons on the South with the rest of Peru and on the West with the Pacifick Ocean The Andes divide it into two parts besides Quito it contains Canela Quixos and the South and middle Popian with some other Territories of small Note This is a fruitful populous and well watered Province Quivira a Province in North America between New Mexico Mount Sual and Florida which was never Conquered by any of the European Nations nor indeed throughly Discovered It affords good pasturage along the Sea Coast Quixos or los Quixos Quixorum Provincia la Province in the North of Peru between Quito to the West and Canela to the East first Discovered in 1557. by the Spaniards who have only four Colonies in it R A. RAab Jaurinum See Gewer Raab or le Rab Arrabo a River of Hungary which ariseth in the Lower Stiria near Gratz and running Eastward through the Lower Hungary by the Counties of Salawar and Gewer it entertains the Lausnitz the Binca and the Guntz and watering S. Gothard and Kerment beneath Sarvar it divides into two Branches the right Hand Branch is called Rabnitz the other Rab these two make the Isle of Rab seven German Miles in length At Rab or Javarin they reunite into one Stream again and fall into the Danube This River is particularly memorable for a great Defeat of the Turkish Forces by the French and Germans in 1664. upon the Banks of it near Kerment See Ricaut's State of the Ottoman Empire pag. 207. Rabasteins Rapistanium a Town in the Vpper Languedoc in the Diocese of Alby in France upon the River Tarn whose Coat of Arms is three Turneps suitable to the Derivation of its Name from both the French and Latin Rave and Rapa a Turnep Rabath Oppidum Novum a City in the Kingdom of Fez sixty two Miles from Tangier and seventy four from Fez. Rabath See Petra Racanella Cylistarnus a River of the Hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which flowing by Cosano falls into the Bay of Taranto Rachelburgh See Ratzburgh Rackelspurg Polentium Raceburgum a City of Germany in the Lower Stiria upon the River Muer under the Emperor as Archduke of Austria four German Miles from the Borders of Hungary to the West and six from Gratz to the East This City is a Roman Town ascribed by Antoninus to the Vpper Pannonia Radicofani a Castle and Seigniory in Tuscany between Stena and Rome Radini the same with Strymon a River which parts Thrace and Macedonia Radnorshire Radnoria one of the twelve Shires in the Principality of Wales Bounded on the North by Monmouth on the East by Shropshire and Herefordshire on the South by Brecknock cut off by the Rivers of Clarwen and Wye the Western point falls upon Cardiganshire It s form is Triangular the sides almost equal the whole Circumference being about ninety Miles The Air is sharp the Soil barren The Silures were the ancient Inhabitants of this County The Town of Radnor which gives name to it was by the Romans called Magi or Magnos pleasantly seated under an Hill which bears upon his top a large and strong Castle from whose Bulwarks there is a Trench drawn along the West of the Town on which has stood a Stone Wall it is represented by one Burgess in the English Parliament It s Long. is 17. 00. Lat. 52. 45. John Roberts Lord Roberts of Truro was by Charles II. July 23. 1679. Created Viscount Bodmyn and Earl of Radnor the first Earl of this County This County proved fatal to Vortiger the last Monarch of the British Blood here slain by Lightning and to Llewellin the last Prince of the British Race in 1282 found hid in the vast Mountains of this County and slain by one Adam Francton his Head being Crowned with Ivy was set upon the Tower of London in whom the British Race of Princes ended Radom a Town in the Lesser Poland in the Palatinate of Sendomir which is the Capital of a District of the same name Twenty Polish Miles from Warsaw to the South and fifteen from Sendomir to the North. Raglins Ricina an Island on the North of Ireland on the Coast of the County of Antrim which has a Castle sometimes reckoned amongst the Hebrides though it lies but eight Miles from the Continent Ragusa Ragusium Epidaurus Rhanzium a City of Dalmatia which is an Archbishops See and a Free State called by the Sclavonians Dubrounich by the Italians Ragusi It stands in the Confines of Albania on the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea to which it has a Port at the foot of a Mountain called by the Greeks Lau upon a Rock in so disadvantageous a situation that the Turks by rouling down great Stones from the Mountain might have overwhelmed it and so have become absolute Masters of it if they had ever desired to be so This City is about a Mile in compass has large Suburbs beside populous rich well Traded and Fortified About a League from it lies the Harbour of Santa Cruz
of Somerset Rochford a Market Town in the County of Essex The Capital of its Hundred Rochitzerbergh Claudius a Mountain in Stiria called by various names Rockingham a Market Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Corby upon the River Weland giving the Title of Baron to the Right Honorable Edward Watson Lord Rockingham to whom belongs the Castle here which hath lost its strength long since Rocroy Rupes Regia a strong Town in Champagne in Retelois in the Borders of Hainault twelve Leagues from Retel to the North four from Mariebourgh to the South Near this Place the Spaniards received a great Defeat from the French under the Duke D'Anguien May 19. 1643. six days after the death of Lewis XIII King of France But afterward the Spaniards took this Town under the Prince of Conde's Conduct in 1653. It is since returned under the Crown of France Rodaun Erodanus a River in Prussia in Poland which riseth out of a Lake twenty five Miles above Dantzick and falling into the Vistula not much above this City a little beneath it enters the Baltick Sea Roden a small River in Shropshire Rodez or Rhodes Segodunum Rhuteni Rutenae Segodunum Retunorum a City of Aquitain the Capital of the County of Rovergne and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourges The Bishop takes the Title of an Earl a great and beautiful City seated upon the River Veronium fifteen Leagues from Mende to the West thirty two from Narbone to the North and twenty two from Cahors to the East A very ancient City and mentioned by Julius Caesar The Goths Saracens and Franks successively ruined it in their times It served heretofore under its own Counts till it became united with the Crown of France in the Person of Henry IV. Roding a Stream in the County of Essex Rodosto Redcestum a City of Thrace which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Heraclea it stands upon the Propontis twenty Miles from Heraclea to the South at the foot of an Hill by a Bay of the same name which affords it a convenient and very large Haven so that it is now a Place of considerable Trade and reasonably populous Pliny calls this City Resiston It is beautified with many great Mosques some Grecian Churches and two Synagogues and much frequented by the Merchants of Romania the Sea of Marmora and the Black Sea Roer Rura in Trithemius Rera Adrana a River of Germany called by the French Roure It ariseth in Eifel in the Dukedom of Juliers and watering Juliers and Linnich at Roermonde it falls into the Maes Roermonde Ruremunda a City of the Low Countries in the Province of Guelderland called by the French Ruremonde It stands upon a River of the same name and the Maes having the first to the South of it the second to the West three Leagues from Venlo to the South twelve from Liege to the North Cologne to the West and Wesel to the East Made a Bishops See by Pope Paul IV. under the Archbishop of Mechlin in 1559 he changing its Collegiate Church into a Cathedral and was an Hanse Town till 1635 when it fell into the Hands of the Hollanders from whom it is since recovered by the Spaniards In 1665. it suffered much by a Fire Rohaczow Rohaczovia a considerable Town the Capital of a Territory of the same name in Lithuania upon the Nieper where it takes in the Odrucz twenty Polish Miles from Mohilow to the South and forty from Kiovia to the North. Roham-Thaura Antitaurus a Mountain in the Lesser Armenia which lies to the North of the Great Taurus between the Euphrates and the Arsanius separated from the said great Mountain and therefore by the Ancients called Antitaurus In the Valleys beneath it stands the City of Comdna now called Tabachasa Roia Rodium a City of France in the Province of Picardy upon the River Auvergne in the Territory of Santerre four Leagues from Noyon to the West nine from Amiens and seven from Compeigne to the North. A small City but populous Roll-rich-stones a Monument of vast unwrought Stones circularly set near Ensham in Oxfordshire supposed to have been erected in Commemoration of some great Victory in ancient Times Rom one of the Names of the Lesser Asia Rom Roma a small Island in the Baltick Sea upon the Coast of the Dukedom of Sleswick about two English Miles from the Shoar under the King of Denmark Romagna Romandiola a great Province in Italy in the States of the Church of old called Aemilia Regio Bounded on the West by Bononia on the North by the Dukedom of Ferrara on the South by the Dukedom of Vrbino and on the East by the Adriatick Sea a small part of it towards the Appennine is subject to the Duke of Florence and therefore called Romandiola Florentina The rest which is the far greatest part is under the Pope as a Temporal Prince The principal Places in it are Ravenna the Capital Faenza Imola Forli Bertinoro Rimini Cervia Cesena Sarsina and some others Romania the same with Thrace Romania Argia the Eastern Province of the Morea the Capital of which is Napoli di Romania The other Places are of small importance Romans Romantium Romanis a spruce fine City in Dauphine in France seated in a pleasant Plain upon the River Iseure over which it has a Bridge four Leagues from Valence to the South-East toward Grenoble ten Miles and the same distance from Vienne to the South It is thought to represent Jerusalem in its Situation and Figure insomuch that in 1520. there was a Building added to it made in the fashion of the Holy Sepulchre that stands upon Mount Calvary Francis I. King of France himself laying the first Stone And also a Convent founded under the Name of the House of Mount Calvary now in the possession of the Recollects but first given to the Religious of the Order of S. Francis The Huguenots sacked and ruined this City in 1562. It has been often taken and retaken in the Civil Wars Rome Roma the Capital City of Italy once the Sovereign and Mistriss of the whole World the more immediate Capital now of Campagna di Roma The Emperour Commodus desired to fasten his own Name upon it by calling it Commodiana as a Gothish King called it Gothia and other Princes the like But the Name of Rome still has been always preserved by it This City is seated upon the Tyber twelve Miles above its fall into the Tyrrhenian Sea to the North-East one hundred and twenty from Naples to the North three hundred from Genoua to South one hundred thirty five from Ancona and one hundred and forty from Florence Long. 36. 30. Lat. 40. 40. Though there are great Controversies concerning the Time and the Founder of it yet the most received opinion is that it was built by Romulus and Remus in the first year of the seventh Olympiad Anno Mundi 3198. seven hundred and fifty years before the Birth of our Saviour Its Foundations were small and
County of Vallesia S. Neots or S. Needs a Market Town in the County of Huntingd. in the Hundred of Toseland Deriving its Name from a learned Monk of Glastenbury called Neotus whose Body being translated hither from S. Neots or Neotstoke in Cornwall the Palace of Earl Elfride in this Town was in honour thereof converted into a Monastery S. Nicolas Fanum Sancti Nicolai a pleasant Town upon the Meurte in Lorain two Leagues above Nancy to the South much addicted to the Honour of S. Nicolas Bishop of Myra whose Reliques it reserves § There is another Town of the same Name in Flanders three Miles from Antwerp toward Gant from which it stands five Miles S. Nicolas a City of Moscovy upon the White Sea on the Western Shoar of the River Dwina over against Archangel from which it stands ten German Miles to the North-West A Place of so considerable a Trade that the White Sea is from it frequently called the Bay of S. Nicolas into which the Dwina falls S. Omers Audomarensis Vrbs a City in Artois heretofore called the Abbey of Sithieu upon the River Aa which beneath Gravelin falls into the British Sea eight Miles from Bologne to the East three from Arras to the North six from Dunkirk to the South-East and five from Gravelin to the East It has this Name from Audomarus a holy Bishop who died here in 695. Made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cambray in 1559. in the stead of Terouanne a ruined City which stands three Miles from it to the North. Fulco Abbot of S. Bartin began to wall it about the year 880. Baldwin II. Earl of Flanders perfected that Work in 902 There was a Council held here in 1099 under Robert Earl of Flanders and another in 1583. About 1595 Philip II. King of Spain sounded here a College for English Jesuits to which he gave a good Annuity That House has since purchased Watton Cloister a pleasant Place belonging before to the Benedictines two Leagues from S. Omers which is worth five hundred pounds a year In 1639 the French besieged this Place without any good success But in 1677 the Spanish Forces being much weakened after the Battel of Cassel they took it and by the Treaty of Nimeguen in 1678 it was yielded to them Long. 23. 22. Lat. 50. 47. It is a handsome large City strongly sortified near a great Lake with the River and a Marsh on one side of it and a Castle and Fosses on the other S. Palais Fanum S. Palatii the capital Town of the Lower Navarre under the French situated upon the River Bidoussâ— near Grammont S. Papoul Fanum Papuli a small City in Languedoc which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tolouse by the Institution of Pope John XXII who changed its antient Monastery that had been sounded about the end of the eighteenth Contury into a Cathedral in the year 1317. Five Leagues from Carcassone to the South-West and nine from Tolouse S. Paul de Leon. See Leon or Leondoul S. Paul de Trois Chasteaux Augusta Tricastinorum Sancti Pauli Tricastinorum Civitas an ancient City ascribed by Pliny to Gallia Narbonensis now in the Dauphine and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Arles but formerly of Vienne It is a flourishing Town built upon an advanced Cliff one Mile from the Rhosne four from Montelimart to the South and from Oranges to the North. The Huguenots had the possession of it near fifty years in the last Age till 1599. It is the Capital of the Territory called Tricastin which preserves the name of the antient People Tricastini mentioned by Ptolemy S. Pierre le Moutier Monasterium Sancti Petri a Town in the Province of Nivernois in which the Law-Courts of that Province are fixed It stands between Nevers to the North and Moulins to the South seven Leagues from either S. Pons de Tomiers Tomeria or Pontiopolis Sancti Pontii Tomeriarum Vrbs a City of Languedoc which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Narbonne from whence it stands eight Leagues to the North and a little more from Alby to the North-West It is a small City seated amongst the Mountains not much peopled and honored with this Bishops See by Pope John XXII in 1318 who at the same time changed its Benedictine Abbey that had been founded in the year 936. by Raymond sirnamed Pons Pontius Earl of Tolouse into a Cathedral The Bishop is Lord of the Place S. Quintin Augusta Nova Veromanduorum Quinctinopolis Samarobrina Quintini Fanum a City of Picardy upon the River Somme or rather between it and the Oyse which sprung out of a Roman Town called Augusta Nova c. two Miles from this Place It stands six Leagues from Peronne to the North-East and seven from Cambray to the South Taken by the Spaniards in 1557 after a great Defeat of the French Forces upon S. Quintin's day Aug. 10 and restored by the Treaty of Cambray in 1559. The French sometimes write it S. Quentin It is the Capital of the County of Vermandois in Picardy hath been honoured with the Sessions of French Synods in the yeares 1235. 1237. and 1271. and now contains divers Monasteries and Churches besides a Collegiate Church S. Semi a small Town in Provence four Leagues from Arles adorned with a Collegiate Church of the Foundation of Pope John XXII about the year 1330. It s antient Name was Glanum There are Urns Medals and Inscriptions frequently discovered here which prove its Antiquity And near it a triumphal Arch with a stately Mausoleum illustrated with Trophies is observed with admiration S. Semo Fanum S. Remuli or Remigii a Sea-Town upon the Coasts of Genoua in Italy in a fruitful Country for Oranges Citrons and Olives Santa Saba so called by the Italians or the Province of Arcegovina lies between Dalmatia Bossinia and the Quarter of Montenegro seventy Miles long thirty broad inhabited by about fifty thousand Families of which the Turks make not the tenth part Castlenovo stands in this Province The Inhabitants were very forward to put themselves under the Protection of the Venetians in 1688. S. Salvador Soteropolis the Capital City of the Kingdom of Congo in Africa seated one hundred and forty Miles to the East from the Ocean and sixty from the River Zaire to the South The Inhabitants call it Banza but the devout Portuguese gave it this Name S. Salvador Soteropolis a City in South America which is the Capital of Brasil an Archbishops See the Seat of the Vice-Roy and of the Courts of Justice for that Kingdom It stands on the Eastern Shoar of Brasil has a capacious Harbor on the Ocean strongly fortified and defended by three Forts yet the Hollanders took this City in 1624. The year following the Portuguese recovered it and are at this day in the Possession of it The Archbishops See was erected in 1676 by Pope Innocent XI San Salvaâ—oâ— a â—â—â—ll City in North America in the Province of Guaâ—iâ—â—ala called by the Natives Cuzcatlan
of Oesel in the Baltick Sea Sonnemberg a Town in the Marquisate of Brandenburgh in Germany near Poland to the East Sor or Soro a River in the Kingdom of Portugal which divides Alentejo from Extremadura and falls into the Taio at Salvaterra nine Miles above Lisbone Sora a City of Latium upon the River Garigliano now a Bishops See in the Kingdom of Naples in the Terra di Lavoro which is under no Archbishop It has a splendid Castle honoured with the Title of a Dukedom belonging to the Family di Boncompagno and slands fifty five Miles from Rome to the East and ten from the Lake di Celano Fucinus to the South § This is also the name of a City in the Island of Scelandt in the Baltick Sea belonging to Denmark which has an University in it founded by Frederick II. and re-established by Christian IV. Kings of Denmark Soracte a Mountain in the Dukedom of Tuscany in Italy consecrated to Apollo in the Heathen Ages there It is now called Monte di S. Silvestre Soratoff Soratovia a City in the Kingdom of Astracan upon the Wolga in the middle between Casan to the North and Astracan to the South Lat. 52. 12. in a great Plain The Inhabitants are all Muscovites See Olearius Pag. 162. Soraw Sorava a small City in Lusatia the Capital of the Lower part of that Province and under the Elector of Saxony It stands in the Borders of Silesia two German Miles from Sagan to the West and five from Crossen to the South often taken and retaken in the Swedish War Sorge Sorgue Orge Sorge Sulga Sulgas a River of Gallia Narbonensis which ariseth in the County of Vendosmois in Provence and falls into the Rhosne above Avignon but very near it at a Town called Pont-Sorge Soria Syria Soria Numantia Nova Soria a City of New Castile not above one League beneath the Ruins of the ancient and celebrated Numantia seated in the Mountains well peopled and having belonging to it a very large Jurisdiction It stands twelve Leagues from Baubula to the South-West and eight from Tarazona to the North-West Soritae an ancient people mentioned by Pliny as neighbouring upon India and living altogether upon Fish Sorlings See Silly-Islands Sorrento Sorriento Surrentum Surentum a City in the Kingdom of Naples which is an Achbishops See in the Terra di Lavoro on the Bay of the Hither Principato twenty four Miles from Naples to the South It is seated in a fruitful Plain and though very ancient being mentioned by Pliny and Livy yet in a good Estate Long. 38. 20. Lat. 40 33. Sosteropolis Soteropolis a ruined small City which stood near Nicomedia in Bithynia in Asia Minor where according to Zoneras died Constantine the Great of Poyson Soubiac or Sublac a small Town in Campagna di Roma in the Dominions of the Pope It stands upon the River Teverone and is noted for an Abbey of the Order of S. Benedict who did himself choose a Retreat here Souilly or Seulley a Town in the Dukedom de Bar in Lorain Soul Sous a Kingdom in the East part of Biledulgerid in Africa under the King of Marocco Soule a Territory in the Pais des Basques in France Honoured with the Title of a Viscounty The chief Town in it is Mauleon de Soule Soumel a Town in the Kingdom of Bengale in the Empire of the Great Mogul towards the Ganges The Sound See Sund. Sour See Tyre Soure Sura a River in the Dukedom of Luxemburg called by the Germans Saur by the French Soure It ariseth near Bastoigne eight Leagues from Luxemburg and being increased with some smaller Rivers watereth Dietkirch beneath which it receivs the Vr from Viande to the North then passeth to Echternach and Wasser-bilch where it falls into the Moselle two Leagues above Trier to the South Souri a Province of Turcomania in the Lesser Asia Sourie the same with Zurich Souriquois a Tribe of the unconquered Salvages of New France in North America Souristan the same with Syria Sousos a people of Nigritia in Africa Souster Susa the Capital of Chusistan in the Kingdom of Persia one hundred and eighty Miles from Bagdad to the East now in a flourishing State Southampton Clausentum Antonia Magnus Portus Trisantonum Portus a small City in the County of Hamshire seated on the West side of the River Anton or Hampton which comes from Winchester and here falls into the great Bay of South-hampton ten Miles from Winchester to the South This was a Roman Fort called Clausentum and ruined by the Danes in 980. Also plundered and burnt by the French under Edward III. and rebuilt in the Reign of Richard It is a strong rich populous well traded City fenced with a double Ditch strong Walls and many Turrets for the Defence of the Haven it has a strong Castle built by Richard II. The Haven is capable of Ships of good Burthen up to the Key and lies opposite to Jernsey Garnsey and Normandy There are now five Parish Churches in this City Henry VI. granted it a Mayor and made it a County in 1067. Beauvois of Southampton that celebrated Warriour was its first Secular Earl in 1538. The Bishops of Winchester being before reputed to be Earls of Southampton and so styled in the Statutes of the Garter made by Henry VIII Willam Fitz William Lord Admiral in 1547. Thomas Wriothsley Lord Chancellour was created the third Earl by Edward VI. to whom succeeded three of his Posterity The last died in 1667. In 1675. Charles II. created Charles Fits Roy eldest Son to the Duchess of Cleaveland Baron of Newbery Earl of Chicester and Duke of Southampton Southwark a large Borough in the County of Surrey and the Hundred of Brixton opposite to London on the other side of the Thames and under the Jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor of London yet enjoying several ancient Privileges peculiarly to it self and represented in the Lower House of Parliament by its own Burgesses In the number of Inhabitants and Buildings it exceeds most Cities notwithstanding its Losses by many great Fires S. Thomas's Hospital founded by the Citizens of London stands here Southwell a Market Town in Nottinghamshire in the Hundred of Thurgarton of good Antiquity upon a Rivulet falling not far off into the Tren◠Adorned with a Collegiate Church Southwould Sowold or Swold a small Corporation and Sea-Port Town in the County of Suffolk famous for the many Rendezvouzes of the English Fleets when ever we have had any Wars with the Hollanders especially for two great Naval Victories obtained against them in the Bay of this Town the first June 3 1663. the second May 28. 1672. Both under the Conduct of King James II. as Lord Admiral of England under his Brother Charles II. of Blessed and Pious Memory It is a strong and pleasant Town in the Hundred of Blithing upon a Cliff with the Sea to the East the River Blithe over which there is a Draw-Bridge to the West and a Bay of its own name to the
Vberrimus undis Millia qui novies distat ab Vrbe decem Sultzbach Sultsbachium a small Town in Nortgow in the Vpper Palatinate of the Rhine one Mile distance from Amberg to the South-East which gives the Title of a Prince to some Branches of the Palatine Family Sumatra a vast Island in the East-Indies to the South-West of the Promontory of Malaccia from which it is separated only by a narrow streight as also by another from the Isle of Java to the South It extends from North-West to South-East one hundred and eighty five German Miles or nine hundred and ten English and is two hundred and ten broad in the middle There are several Kingdoms in this Island which ordinarily go to war with one another The principal of which are Achem Camper Jamby Menanchabo Pacem Palimban and Pedir The principal City in the whole Island and Kingdom is Achem towards the North the King whereof possesses one half of the Island The Coast upon the streights of the Sund is under the obedience of the King of Bantam Some parts are covered with Wood and Mountains amongst which latter one in the middle of the Island casts forth flames by intervals It is divided by the Equator into almost two equal parts the Air is very hot and unhealthful the Soil will produce little Grain but Rice and Millet It yieldeth Ginger Pepper Camphir Agarick and Cassia in great abundance Wax and Hony Silks and Cottons rich Mines of Tin Iron and Sulphur and such quantity of Gold that some conceive it to be Solomons Ophir and some the Taprobane of the ancients The Inhabitants are for the most part Pagans except the Sea Coast where Mahometanism has got some footing It has a vast number of Rivers and Marshes which with the Woods do much promote the unwholsomeness of the Air. The Hollanders enjoy four or five Fortresses in it and are become more powerful than some of the Kings The Portuguese traffick to it but it is when the others will permit them for they have no establishments here Sie Sund Sundae Fretum Sundicum fretum a streight between the Baltick Sea and the German Ocean call'd by the Dutch Ore Sunn by the English the Sound It stretcheth fifty Miles from North-West to South-East about fifteen at its greatest breadth but between Elsingburg and Cronenburg not above three over which necessitates all Ships that pass to and fro to pay a Toll to the King of Denmark he being able otherwise by the Cannon of his Castles to shut up the Passage § This name is attributed also to the Streights betwixt the Islands of Java and Sumatra in the East-Indies The Dutch call it Straet Van Sunda and Latin Writers Sundae fretum The Island of the Sund or Souud comprehend in the Portugueses's accounts who gave them this name all those Islands in the Indian Ocean which lye beyond the Promontory of Malaca some near some under the Equinoctial Commonly divided into the Islands of the Sund to the East and to the West Of the former Gilolo Banda Flores Macasar and the Moluccaes are the Principal Of the other Borneo Java and Sumatra Sundenberg or Sunderbourg a Town and Duchy in the Isle of Alsen near Iutland Sunderland Sunderlandia a small Island at the Mouth of the River VVere in the North-East part of the Bishoprick of Durham in Esington Ward once a part of the Continent but rent off by the violence of the Sea from whence it has the name of Sunderland A place of no great note only for its Sea-Coal Trade till it was made the Title of an Earldom by Charles I. who in 1627 Created Emanuel Lord Scrope of Bolton President of the North Earl of Sunderland He dying Childless Henry Lord Spenser of VVormleighton in 1643. was Created Earl of Sunderland and slain the eighth of June the same year in the first Battel of Newbery To whom sucâ—eeded Robert his Son sometime Principal Secretary of State and President of the Council to King James II. Sungkiang a trading and populous City in the Province of Nanking in China The Capital over two others Suntgaw or Sundgow Suntgovia a Province of Germany now under the King of France by the Peace of Munster Bounded on the North by Alsatia on the East by the Rhine and the Canton of Basil which last is sometimes included under this name on the South by the Dominions of the Bishop of Basil and on the West by the Franche Comté The Principal Places in it are Befo rt Mulhausen Ferrete whence it hath the name also of the County of Ferrete and Huningue The last has been lately fortified by the King of France Sura an ancient Episcopal City of Syria near the Euphrates The See is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Hierapolis § Plutarch remembers us of a Town of this name in Lycia in the Lesser Asia famed for Oracles in ancient times delivered there Betwixt Phellus and Strumita Surate Surata a very famous City of the Hither Indies in the Kingdom of Guzarat upon the Bay of Cambaya under the Dominion of the great Mogul which has a convenient Port or Haven much frequented by the European and Armenian Merchants for Diamonds Pearls Ambergrease Musk Civet Spices and Indian Stuffs procured from divers parts and here laid up in Mazagines It lies saith Monsieur Thevenot 21. deg and some minutes from the Line and was then designed to be Fortified with a Brick instead of its ancient Earthen Wall which had not been able to preserve it from the depredations of a Raja In the time of the Monson or Fair kept in the Spring Quarter it is exceeding full of People not meanly furnished at others nor are those Inhabitants less considerable on the account of their Wealth than Number The English and Dutch have their Factories here it is the Staple of the English Trade in the East-Indies It has a Castle at the South end of the Town upon the River which is square flank'd at each corner by a large Tower The Ditches on three sides are filled with Sea Water on the West the River runs and there are many Cannon mounted in it The Governor commands over all the adjacent Provinces and keeps the train and equipage of a Prince For the rest you may consult Thevenot Part III. pag. 15. Surina a Province of South America between the confluence of the River Cayana and that of the Amazons Surrey Suria is separated on the North from Buckingham and Middlesex by the great River Thames on the East it is bounded by Kent on the South by Sussex and Hampshire and on the West by Hampshire and Barkshire In length thirty four Miles in breadth about twenty two in circumference one hundred and twelve including one hundred and forty Parishes with eight Market Towns The Air is sweet and pleasant the Soil especially in the verges of the County fruitful the middle Parts being somewhat hard to cultivate Whence the People are used to say their County is like a
two and twenty Miles from Clermont to the West and fourteen from Limoges to the South Long. 22. 59. Lat. 45. 20. The Bishops are Lords and Viscounts of the City Tulujas Tulugiae a Castle in the County of Rousillon in Catalonia one League from Perpignan at which in 1050. the Council called Concilium Tulugiense was celebrated Tun a River in the County of Kent falling into the Medway Tunbridge stands upon it Tunbridge a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath upon the River Tun. Much noted for its Mineral Wells Tunchang a City in the Province of Xanton in the Kingdom of China upon the River Inn in the Borders of Pechin Tunis Tunes Tunetum a City and Sea-Port on the Coast of Barbary upon the Mediterranean Sea now called by the Natives Tune by the Spaniards Tunez by the Italians Tunisi It is great strong and populous about five Miles in compass containing three hundred Mosques besides the grand one which is a Noble Structure twelve Christian Chappels eight Synagogues of the Jews twenty four Cells for Hermites one hundred and fifty Hott-Houses eighty six Schools nine Colleges maintained upon the Publick Expence sixty four Hospitals and about ten thousand Families The Venetians Genouese and others drive a great Trade with it It has two Walls a Palace Royal a Magazine of Merchandises a spacious Haven and Prisons for Christian Slaves too well known Seated in a Plain by the Lake Barbasueco nine Leagues from the Ruines of Carthage and from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea eighteen from Goletta at the bottom of a Bay to the West of the most Western Cape of Sicily Not far from this place Regulus the Roman Consul was defeated and taken by the Carthaginians In the Times of Christianity it was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Carthage In the year 1270 unsuccessfully besieged by Lewis IX King of France In the year 1535. taken by Charles V. In 1570. it returned under its former Kings who being since extinct it is governed like a Common-wealth under the Protection of the Turk but very infamous for Pyracies Long. 34. 53. Lat. 32. 10. The Country about it yields Olives Fruits Grain and Pasturage very well The Kingdom of Tunquin or Tonquin Tunchinum is bounded on the East and North by that of China on the South by Cochinchina and by the great Bay on the West by the Kingdom of Brama The Capital City of it is Kecio The King of this City is also Master of a part of the Province of Quansio He formerly paid Tribute to the Emperour of China Now Homage only by an Ambassadour by an Establishment in 1667. Of late years the Christian Religion has been preached with good success as is said by the Missionaries of the Church of Rome A Kingdom of great power and nigh as large as France situated in 20 deg of Lat. and 145. Long. Mostly under the Torrid Zone yet very fruitful and healthful and watered with above fifty Rivers Cochin China was formerly a Province of it now a Kingdom tributary to it It is said to contain about twenty thousand Towns and Cities The Sect of the Chinese Philosopher Confusius obtains much amongst the Tonquinese It became a separate Kingdom about seven hundred years ago Before which it depended as a Province upon the Empire of China Turcomania Armenia Major a vast Country in the Lesser Asia of old called Armenia It lies between Georgia to the North the rest of the Lesser Asia to the West Persia to the East and Diarbeck to the South This was the first Country the Turks possessed after they came out of Tartary being most probably descended from the Scythians that lay betwixt the Euxine and Caspian Seas under Tangrolipix about the year of Christ 1037. But the present Line was begun by Osman or Ottoman about the year 1290 who was a Husbandman or common Labourer and by his Valour raised this Family Bursa in Bithynia was the first Seat of their Empire afterwards Adrianople and then Constantinople Solyman the present Emperour of the Turks is the one and twentieth of this Line set up by the Army against Mahomet IV. his Brother out of a Discontent at his Misfortunes in the present War against the Christians November 9. 1687. Turenne Turena a Town in Limosin two Leagues from Courez and four from Tulles Turin Turino Augusta Taurinorum Tauriana Taurinum the Capital City of Piedmont in Lombardy called by the Italians Torino by the French Turin It is an Archbishops See and the Seat of the Duke of Savoy in a very fruitful and pleasant well watered Plain twenty Miles from the Alpes upon the River Po where it receives the Doria Adorned with a strong and beautiful Castle built by Emanuel Philbert Duke of Savoy in 1565. It has also an University opened here by Pope Benedict XIII in 1405. and the Courts of Justice for that Province are held in it The City is very strong and grows greater and more splendid yet in the year 1640. it was taken by the French Long. 29. 30. Lat. 43 50. The dispute betwixt the Bishops of Vienne and Arles for the Primacy was heard but not definitively decided by an ancient Council held here in 397. or 401. The Empire of the Turks containeth from East to West accounting from the Western Borders of the Kingdom of Algiers to the City Balsara upon the Persian Gulph the space of at least eight hundred Leagues From North to South that is from Caffa in the Taurica Chersonesus or rather from the City Tanais near the Lake of Moeotis to Aden on the Mouth of the Red Sea and the Streights of Babelmandel 7 hundred other Leagues which together make an Empire of the greatest Extent of any Seignior or Sovereign in these parts of the World and therefore the Emperor thereof bears the Title of the Grand Seignior He hath in Asia Natolia Syria Turcomannia Diarbech and the three Arabia's In Africa he hath the Kingdoms of Barca and Egypt and the States of Algiers Tunis and Tripoli are under his Protection In Europe his Dominion extends over Romelia Macedonia Albania Thrace most of the Islands of the Archipelago Sclavonia Servia Croatia Bulgaria and part of Hungary except what this present War hath dismembred from them when the Princes of Transylvania Moldavia and Walachia paid him also Tribute as the Republick of Ragusa also did and even the Crim Tartars recognize his Protection In the whole before the present War there were twenty five Governments in this Empire To wit Cairo in Egypt for Africa Aleppo Caramit Natolia Cogni Chars Damascus Van Mosul Suvas Bagdet Erzerum Trebizonde Tripoli c. in Asia In Europe Caffa Candia Cyprus Romelia Bosnia Temeswaer and Buda The beginning of this Empire was laid in the Greater Armenia about the year 1037. In 1290. the Ottoman Line took its rise See Turcomania whose Power over the Subject is come to be completely Absolute Arbitrary Despotical Tyrannical They pray by the Alcoran and
same with Furnes Wernow Chalusus a City of Germany near Rostock Wersaw See Warsaw Wert the same with Donawert Werthaim a County in Franconia in Germany Wesel Aliso Vesalia a strong City in the Dukedom of Cleve and an Hanse Town which has a Castle belonging to it It stands upon the Rhine at the confluence of the Lippe twelve German Miles from Cologne North and five from Dorsten to the VVest Taken by the Hollanders from the Spaniards in 1629. From them by the French in 1672 and in the year 1674 it was left to the Duke of Brandenburg after it had been dismantled by the French Rudolphus I Emperor of Germany granted this City to Theodorick VIII Earl of Cleve Weser or the Little Weser Visurgis a small River which ariseth in the Dukedom of Limburgh in the Borders of Juliers and watering Limburgh falls into the Maes above Liege Weser Visurgis a great River of Germany which ariseth in Franconia in the Territory of Coburg near Eisfeldt and flowing through Thuringe near Smalcald receives the Ness below Eysenack and in Hess the Fuld Turning to the North between Brunswick and Westphalia it takes in the Dymel and waters Corby Hammel Minden Cities of Westphalia beneath Ferden admits the Alder and salutes Breme takes in the Wemma and the Honte and beneath Carlestadt â—â—lls into the German Ocean Wesho Vexio a City of Sweden in the Province of Smalland which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Vpsal called also Vexsioe and Vexsieu Thirty five Miles from the Lake of Weter South and from the Baltick Sea West Westbury a Market Town and Corporation in Wiltshire upon the River Broke falling into the Avon the Capital of its Hundred and honoured with the Election of two Parliament Men. Westerwaldt Bacenis Buronia a part of the Hercynian Forest called also Hartzwaldt It makes the South parts of the Dukedoms of Brunswick and Thuringe in the Lower Saxony others say it lies by Schelde near Cologne Westerwick Vestrovicum a Sea-Port City in the Province of Smalland on the Baltick Sea in Sweden fifty five Miles from Calmar to the North. West Froson See Friseland Westmannia Vestmania or Westmanland a Province of Sweden between Vpland to the East Gestricia to the North Sudermannia to the South and Nericia to the West The Cities of it are Arosen and Arbosen Westminster Westmonasterium once a Suburb seated a Mile from the City of London and called Thorney now a great and populous City by its Buildings conjoined to London so that it seems to be a part of it but is indeed a distinct City having its peculiar and proper Magistrates and Privileges In the times of the Romans there stood here a Temple of Apollo which in the Reign of Antoninus Pius was subverted by an Earthquake Out of the Ruins of it Segebert King of Kent built a Church in honour of S. Peter about the year 655. About the year 701. Offa King of the East Angles inlarged this old Church which being destroyed by the Danes about the year 854 S. Dunstane Archbishop of Canterbury re-edified it about 970. Edward the Confessor in the year 1061. made great additions to this Fabrick In the year 1221. Henry III. pulled down this Saxon Building and in the same place erected that great and noble Pile now standing and put it into the hands of the Monks to which Henry VII added the Chappel called by his Name In the years 1066 and 1226. Councils were celebrated here At the Reformation instead of the Monks was placed here a Dean twelve Prebends and a Bishop which last is since suppressed In this Church is usually performed the Coronation it likewise contains the Bones of a vast number of the Kings of England and was the Mother of Westminster which from it as from a Centre has spread it self every way Especially after Westminster-Hall became the fixed place for the Courts of Justice built by William Rufus in the year 1099. Rebuilt by Richard II. as Mr. Camden observes and Whitehall the Royal Palace of our Kings about the year 1512. Westmorland Damnii Vestmaria Westmorlandia one of the Northern Counties of England took this Name from its situation and the great number of Moors in it On the North and West it is bounded by Cumberland on the South by Lancashire and on the East by Yorkshire From North to South it is thirty Miles from East to West twenty four in circumference one hundred and twelve Containing twenty six Parishes and eight Market Towns The Air is sharp and piercing healthful the Soil barren and not easily improved two ridges of high Hills crossing it as far as Cumberland Yet the Southern parts contain many fruitful Valleys Meadows Arable and Pasture Grounds The Rivers Eden Ken Lon and Eamon watering them besides two noted Lakes the Vlleswater and Windermeer the last bordering upon Cheshire the other upon Cumberland and Westmorland The ancient Inhabitants were the Brigantes who in the Saxon Heptarchy constituted a part of the great Kingdom of Northumberland The first Earl of this County was Ralph Nevil Lord of Raby E. Marshall in 1398 created Earl of Westmorland by King Richard II. This Family in six Descents continued till the year 1584. it failed in the death of Charles Nevil In 1624. this Honour was revived in Francis Fane created Earl of Westmorland and Baron of Burghersh by James I. as a descendent from the Nevils whose Posterity still enjoy it Westphalia a great Circle or Province in Germany called by the Germans die Wephalen It lies between the Lower Saxony to the East and the Low-Countries to the West bounded on the North by the German Sea on the East by the Dukedom of Breme Ferden Lunenburg and Brunswick on the West by the Vnited Netherlands on the South by the Dukedom of Guelderland the Bishoprick of Cologne VVesterwaldt and Hassia It contains the Bishopricks of Munster Paderborne and Osnaburg the Dukedoms of Cleve and Berg the Principality of Minden the Counties of Oldenburg Mark Hoye Diepholt Ravensberg Lingen Lippe Benthem and Scaumburg East Friseland and the Dukedom of Westphalia The capital City of this Circle is Munster The Dukedom of Westphalia is bounded on the North by the Bishopricks of Munster and Paderborne on the West by the County of Mark on the South by Wester-waldt and Hassia on the East by the County of Waldeck The principal places in it are Arensberg Cleve Dussel-dorp Embden Emerick Ham Lipstad Minden Munster Oldenburg Osnabruck Paderborne Soest Dortmund and Wesel Besides what is above expressed this Circle includes the Dukedoms of Juliers and Guelderland the Bishoprick of Leige and the States of Vtrecht but this last has been separated from it ever since 1548. Westram a Market Town in the County of Kent in Sutton Lath upon the River Darent Westrick Westrych Westryck Austrasia Lotharingia taken in its largest extent contained Brabant Hainault Liege Namur Luxemburg Juliers Epfall Wasgow Imperial Flanders and Lorain And under the first Race of the Kings of France
North to South thirty nine Miles from East to West twenty nine in circumference one hundred thirty nine containing three hundred and four Parishes and twenty three Market Towns amongst which Wilton its ancient Capital gives Name to it The Air very sweet temperate healthful the Soil fertile The North parts swell into fruitful and pleasant Hills diversisied with pleasant Rivers and large Woods The South are more level and watered with the Wily Adder and Avon the Isis Kennet and Deveril The middle is commonly called Salisbury Plains by reason of its great evenness which feeds vast numbers of excellent Sheep This Country was the Seat of the Belgae They being reduced by Vespasian it became afterward a part of the Kingdom of the West Saxons The principal City is Salisbury William Lord Scrope Lord Treasurer was the first Earl of this County in the year 1397. James Butler Earl of Ormond another Lord Treasurer in 1448. John Stafford second Son of Humphrey Duke of Buckingham was the third Earl in 1469. who had two Successors of the same Name Thomas Bullen Father of the Lady Anne Bullen Mother of Queen Elizabeth the sixth Earl in 1529. In 1550. William Paulet afterwards Marquess of Winchester was created Earl of Wiltshire by King Edward VI. whose Posterity in the fifth Descent now enjoy this Honour Wilton a Market Town in Wiltshire to which it gives Name betwixt the Rivers Willy by the North and Adder or Nadder to the South It was anciently the Capital City of the County a Bishops See and the Residence of several Bishops before the Translation of the See to Salisbury The loss whereof was a great occasion of the decay of this place It only retains the honour of being by two Members represented in Parliament The Sheriffs keep their monthly Courts here and the Knights of the Shire are usually elected at it Wimpfen Wimpina Vimpina a City of Germany in the Circle of Schwaben upon the Necker where it receives the River Jaxt two German Miles from Hailbrune to the North and five from Heidelburg to the East This though small is an Imperial Free City Wincaunton a Market Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Norton Ferris upon the side of a Hill Winchcomb a Market Town in Gloucestershire in the Hundred of Kistgate Winchelsey a Sea-Port Town in the East part of Sussex where it adjoins to Kent in Hastings Rape upon an Inlet of the Sea in the neighbourhood of Rye A Member of the Cinque Ports once a strong and a beautiful Town walled having eighteen Parish Churches but by the recess of the Ocean now much decayed and the Haven choaked up In the year 1250. the greatest part of this Town was destroyed by the Sea It consists now but of one Parish In 1628. Charles I. created Elizabeth Finch Viscount Maidstone Countess of Winchelsey to which Honour Thomas her Son succeeded in 1633. and Henneage her Grandchild in 1639. Winchester Venta Belgarum Vintonia Wintonia a City of Hampshire which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the River Itching fifteen Miles from the British Sea to the North. It stands pleasantly in a Vale betwixt two Hills adorned with five Parish Churches a Noble Cathedral dedicated to the Trinity in which the Bones of divers of the Saxon Kings and Queens with two of the Danish Line of Kings and two of the Norman rest A fine Hall for the Assizes and Sessions where King Arthur's Round Table hangs as a Monument of Antiquity a College for the Education of Youth built and endowed by Will of Wickham the Founder of New College Oxon for a Seminary to the same College a Hospital an Episcopal Palace and a strong Castle upon a Hill The Welsh call this ancient City at this day Caer Cruent that is the White City because it stands upon a Chalk and the Latin Writers Wintonia In the Roman times it was one of the principal Cities of Britain In the Saxons days twice consumed and rebuilt being made the Seat of the West Saxon Kings which Family at last prevailed against all the rest The Bishops See was founded here in 660. by Kingil the first Christian King of the West Saxons It felt the fury of the Danes In the Norman times it kept up its Head but in the Reign of King Stephen it was sacked in the Wars betwixt the Empress Mand and him Edward III. to revive it made it the Mart for VVool and Cloth In our days saith Mr. Camden it is about a Mile and a half in compass reasonably well peopled The ancient Bishops of this See were reputed Earls of Southampton and pass by that Style in the New Statutes of the Garter made by King Henry VIII The present Bishop Dr. Mew is the seventy third Bishop The first Earl of Winchester was Saer de Quinsey in 1207. The second Roger de Quinsey in 1219. who died in 1264. The third Hugh de Spencer created in 1322. and beheaded in 1326. The fourth Lewis de Bruges in 1472. In 1551. VVilliam Pawlet Earl of VViltshire was created Marquess of VVinchester whose Posterity in the sixth Descent now enjoy it In the years 855. 975. 1021. 1070. 1076. 1129. 1142. English Councils were celebrated in this City The second under S. Dunstan The sixth in relation to King Stephen's Usurpation of the Lands of the Church Windaw Vinda Vindavia a City of Curland called by the Poles Kiess and by the Germans Windaw and Winda It has an Harbor at the Mouth of the River VVeta upon the Baltick Sea fifteen Polish Miles from Memel to the North and thirty from Riga to the West Winder or VVimander Meer a Lake dividing a part of Lancashire from the County of VVestmorland and extending about ten Miles in length and three or four in breadth full of Fish with a clear pebbly bottom Windham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Forehoe Windrush a River in Oxfordshire upon which VVitney stands and Burford near it Windsor Vindesorium a Castle upon the South side of the Thames in Berkshire upon an high Hill which rising by gentle degrees affords at the top a pleasant Prospect This Place was granted by Edward the Confessor to the Monks of Westminster and soon after by William the Conqueror recovered back to the Crown by an exchange for Wokendune and Ferings In this pleasant Place was Edw. III. born who afterward built that Noble Castle which has since been the delightful Retreat of the Kings of England from the Cares of Government and the Crowds of Men. In the same place that Victorious Prince instituted the most Noble Order of the GARTER The Ceremony whereof hath been usually since celebrated here upon S. George's Day Out of the Castle sprung the Town and that in Buckinghamshire not in Barkshire it being on the North side of the River and joined to the Castle by a Timber Bridge In the Church of this Castle lie buried two of our Kings of the most distant Fortunes