Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	charles_n	king_n	naples_n	2,223	5	11.5373	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81938	Geographia universalis: the present state of the whole world giving an account of the several religions, customs, and riches of each people; the strength and government of each polity and state; the curious and most remarkable things in every region; with other particulars necessary to the understanding history and the interests of princes. Written originally by the Sieur Duval, Geographer in Ordinary to the French King; and made English, and enlarged by Ferrand Spence.	Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619-1682.; Spence, Ferrand.	1685 (1685)	Wing D2919A; ESTC R229216	199,644	399

Neuchatel Wallangery Biel Geneva Mulhausen Rotweil The six first Protestants and Rotweil Catholick Geneva is the best Fortified of all the Burghers or Citizens keep a very exact Guard for the preservation of their Liberty and that of Religion which is Reformed In the Year 1663. the French King obtain'd freedom for the Catholicks to say Mass in that Town where it had not been Celebrated in this Age. The Lake of Geneva is crossed by the Rhosne which mixeth not with its Waters there sometimes arise Tempests even in clear fair Weather because it abutts at the foot of the Mountains In the Country it s said that Julius Caesar caused his Treasures to be cast into this Lake when he was pursued by the Switzers hitherto they have been sought for to no purpose Savoy THis Country formerly the abode of the Allobroges is said to have been called Savoy after one of its Princes had drove away the Robbers It is full of Mountains which we generally call the Alpes tho' several Branches there have their peculiar Names Mount Cenis and the lesser St. Bernard make the two principal Passages for Italy 'T is very cold in these parts the Inhabitants by reason of their drinking the Snow-water are subject to the Goitre which is a swelling of the Throat proceeding from the crudity of that Water Nevertheless there are several Places in this Country both very pleasant and very fertile The Mountains have Marmotes which are seldom seen elsewhere they are great Rats who have short Legs rugged Hair the Mouth and Ears of a Squirrel four Teeth long and cutting they sleep full six Months of the Year without taking in any Food or Nourishment Savoy is reckon'd for the Principal and most Noble Dutchy of Christendom It 's certain that its Dukes have had Alliances with all that 's Royal in Europe After the Houses of England and France that of Savoy is one of the most ancient Ame the eighth had reason to say that he had Princes to his Vassals Most of the Gentlemen of his Dominions come from the Emperours of the East and West from the Kings of Italy from the Princes of Morea from the Counts of Geneva The Power of the Dukes of Savoy is so much the more considerable in that they are Masters of several Passages from France into Italy by the possession of Piedmont of the County of Niece and other Seigneuries Under Savoy is comprehended Genevois Choblais Faussigni Tarentaise Maurienne part of Bugey Chambri is the Capital of the Dutchy and the Seat of a Parliament Montmelion is the strongest in it with a Cittadel which covers the head of almost an inaccessible Mountain where the Keys of Savoy are said to be kept Anneci is the Residence of the Bishop of Geneva Ripaille was the retreat of Felix the Fourth before and after his Pontificate This Prince liv'd there with his Friends in such a disapplication from Affairs that since People say Faire Ripaille when they are merry and without disquiet Italy AMong the Authors who have written concerning Italy few there are but represent it as the most beautiful best and most delicious Country in the World Its situation towards the midst of the temperate Zone affords it all these advantages It is commonly compared to a Boot the figure whereof it does really resemble lying between the Mediterranean-Sea and the Gulph of Venice The Alpes which Livy calls the Walls of Italy and Rome are at those places where it touches France Savoy Suisserland Germany the Appennine Mountain runs quite through it The Po Adige Tiber and Arne are the greatest Rivers of this Country There is not one in the World observ'd in so short a course to have so much encrease as the Po and which is so inconvenient by its over-flowings notwithstanding the Dikes that have been raised for prevention The People of Italy are polite dextrous subtile and prudent extream in their Manners they were formerly Masters of the most considerable Empire that has been seen since the Creation of the World And now stand possess'd of the chiefest Dignity of the Roman-Catholick Church They obey divers Princes who are all Papists but very different in Power and Interests We are oblig'd to the Italians for the Discovery of the New World Columbus was a Genouese Americus Vespucius a Florentine The Cities of Italy are so much the more beautiful and better built in that the Nobility have commonly their abode in ' em Their Churches and other Edifices are adorned with excellent Pictures for which reason the Men and Houses are said to be all painted The Italian Tongue is deriv'd from the Latin Tuscan is received in the Court of Rome and amongst the well-bred people Their way of reckoning the Hours is very different from ours they regulating it according to the Sun 's setting then they count four and twenty Hours and at the entrance of the Night they begin to reckon the Hours of a New Day Insomuch that the number of the Hours at Noon rises and falls according to the Seasons tho' there are always four and twenty Hours for the Civil Day that is for the Day and Night together For Example On the twelfth day of August at Noon which we reckon twelve a Clock the Italians reckon seventeen and so what remains to finish the Civil Day of four and twenty Hours comprehends seven Hours which make up just the time which the Sun employs that day the twelfth of August since the Hour of Noon unto its setting The Sovereign Princes of Italy are the Pope the King of Spain who possess almost half of it the Duke of Savoy the great Duke of Florence the Republick of Genoa the Duke of Mantua the Duke of Modena the Duke of Parma the Bishop of Trent the Republick of Lucca The other Princes are call'd Petty by reason of the small extent of their Dominions The Republick of Venice is independent most of the other States depend either on the Church or the Empire for some Fiefs The Quality of Duke is in Italy more considerable than of Prince bating in the Territories of the King of Spain There are so many Archbishopricks and Bishopricks that the Kingdom of Naples alone has more than all France hath the truth is most of 'em have not so good a Revenue as our Country Curates Italy is divided into three great parts the High which may be called Lombardy the Middle and the Low According to this division there is found in the High Piemont Montferrat Milantz the Coast of Genoa Parmezan Modenois Mantouan the Domain of Venice Trentin The State of the Church Tuscany Lucquois are in the Middle the Kingdom of Naples possesses the rest There is a fourth part if we may add the Isles thereto Piemont according to the saying of a Piemontin is a City of three hundred Miles in compass One and the same Land produces Corn Wine and Fruits Turin the abode of the Dukes of Savoy is a lovely Town accompanied with a strong Cittadel It

possessed by the Crown of Sueden Of Denmark THE Danes make the Name of their Country come from Dan one of the Successors of Noah They make all their Kings to descend from him to Christian the Fifth now Reigning Grandson of Christian the Fourth who had the happiness to sway the Scepter above sixty Years The King of Denmark commands Countries of vast extent which for the most part are cold by reason of their Situation towards the North full of Mountains and Woods and Ice and Snow Of this Number are the Kingdom of Norway Greenland the Isles of Island and of Fero. Towards the North of America there be some Lands which bear the Name of New-Denmark Some Fortresses in Guinea Krankebar in Coromandel in the East-Indies acknowledg subjection to his Majesty of Denmark What is particularly comprehended under the Name of Denmark is the best inhabited the finest and the most fertile It is an Hereditary Kingdom since the Year 1660. before it was Elective the Nobility being now stript of the Prerogative it formerly possessed The King of Denmark styles himself Count of Oldembourg and Delmenhorst as the Eighth King of that Family into which the Crown of Denmark came in the Year 1448. by the Election of Christian I. He is now in possession of it and caused to be built there in the Year 1681. a new City with a Sea-Port under the Name of Christiana The Opinion of Luther is followed in Denmark since the Reign of King Frederiek Elected in the Year 1523. There is no great Trade drove in Denmark but there is a fine Revenue arising from the Customs which the Merchandizes pay that pass through the Streight of the Sound the Key of the Baltick-Sea This Streight is a Mile in breadth and the Course which the Ships there steer with the most safety and conveniency is nearer Cronembourg than Elsenbourg which belongs to the Crown of Sueden This Revenue is no longer so considerable since the Suedes do not pay there now what they did formerly and it would be less if the design was brought about that has been entertain'd of joyning the Baltick Sea to the Elve by the Lake of Swerin if the transportation of Commodities be continued by Land from Hambourg to Lubeck and if the Elector of Brandenbourg brings to perfection the Chanel which he has begun at Mulras for the transporting the Merchandizes of Poland and Silesia from the Oder into the Elve Ships of ordinary Bulk which take their way through the Streight of the Belt cast Anchor before Nibourg and there pay the Impost This Streight is broader but not so deep as that of the Sound by which means the Sea is there very rough the great Ships meet with several Islands there and do not willingly steer their Course that way which they take more directly and more conveniently through the Sound The King of Denmark raises also a great Revenue from the Cattel of his Dominions which afford 'em both very fat and in great plenty The Germans carry away from thence every Year above fifty thousand Oxen into their own Country Other Foreigners go into Denmark to buy Horses Such abundance is there of Deer that three or four hundred are sometimes killed in one Chace alone the Danes are us'd to salt and barrel 'em up for the victualling as they say the King's Ships the hunting of those Creatures is commonly perform'd in Chariots or a sort of running Waggons by reason these Machines do not fright away the Deer The Ports of Denmark are the Peninsula of Jutland and the Islands near the Streight of the Belt Schonen was yielded up to the Crown of Sueden by the late Treaties of Peace Jutland was the abode of Cimbres who have made Conquest in most of the Regions of Europe and who before they were defeated by Marius gave furious Alarums to the Romans There is somewhat Martial found at this day in the Danish Ladies they love Hunting and receive at Table rather than in their Chambers those persons who make 'em visits In Jutland there be four Diocesses towards the North Ripen Arhusen Alborg Viborg two Dutchies towards the South Sleswick and Holstein Those who inhabit near the Coast are at small Charges in making their Houses for that the Wind does often carry there such drifts of Sand as to constrain 'em to get out at the top of their Houses Kolding is the place of Custom for the Cattel Frederic-Ode which is now called Frederic for the rendring the termination of it the more different from that of Frederick-Ohrt in Holstein is in so important a situation that Charles Gustavus King of Sueden having taken it in the late Wars had then the means of making his Army pass over the Ice into all the Neighbouring Islands and go give the Alarum to Copenhagen which was an Action as bold as that never the like was heard of this Prince made the Cavalry march and lead the Artillery over great Arms of the Sea where before a Man on foot would have been afraid of venturing himself True it is that formerly some Battels have been fought there upon the Ice but commonly the War was made in those Parts by Land in Winter and by Sea in Summer The Dutchy of Sleswick was the ancient abode of the English It belongs to the Duke of Holstein who has his Residence at Gottorp and holds of the Crown of Denmark The City of Sleswick has the remains of the Re-intrenchments which were made there at divers times to hinder entrance into the Peninsula One of the late Dukes of Holstein caused Frederickstadt to be built upon the Eider with design of setling there the Guild-Trade He sent in the Year 1633. for that purpose a signal Embassie into Russia and Persia whereof we have both a fine and an exact Relation drawn up by Olearius Secretary of the Embassie Holstein otherwise Holsatia belongs to the King of Denmark and to the Duke of Holstein who have hitherto done Homage for it to the Emperor as Fief of the Empire and have had alternately the administration of Justice the Session in the Assemblies of the Empire and in all the Rights of Regality By the Peace of the Empire with Sueden Protection is granted the Duke against the King of Denmark which was of no use to him in the late Wars and he was only re-established in his Dominions by the Peace of Nimmighen His Riches consist in the Fishery and in the Transportation of Swine which are fatned in the Woods Some Lands in this Country bring forth for three years together the three years following they are covered with Water by the means of Ponds that are made to overflow The Principal Town is Riel which is near the Port of Christianpreis which was Fortified and near which has lately been built the Fortress of Frederick-Ohrt The greatest Isles of Denmark are Zealand and Fionia Copenhagen in Zealand is a Town of great Commerce the usual abode of the King It has a fine Castle-Royal

good Fortifications which afforded its Inhabitants the means of repulsing the Suedes in the late Wars It has also one of the finest Arsenals of Europe wherein is kept a Celestial Globe of six foot Diameter made by Tycho-Brahe the famous Mathematician who made curious observations in the Castle of Vranibourg in the Isle of Vren Vranibourg is really the pleasantest Situated in the World Besides the Prospect they have from thence of the Royal-City of the two Coasts of Zealand and of Schonen they have a full view of all the Ships which pass and repass the Sound from the one Sea to the other Roskild is the Mausoleum of the Kings Elsenour is near the strong Castle of Cronembourg whose Fortifications have lately been augmented The Isle of Fionia is the Appennage of the Prince of Denmark It s City of Ottensec was the place of holding the General Assemblies of the Kingdom which since the Year 1660. are to be held at Copenhagen The Isle of Bornholm was yielded to the Crown of Sueden by the last Treaty of Peace since which the Danes have given in Exchange of that Island an equivalent by the Propriety of several Lords in Schonen Norway possesses the Western part of the great Peninsula of Scandinovia whereof Sueden makes the Eastern A long ledg of Hills which divide 'em into two leaving Norway towards the Ocean Sueden towards the Baltick-Sea From hence they Transport Whale-Oyl dry'd Fish called Stock-Fish abundance of Timber for the building of Ships for the making of Masts and Sail-Yards It s Coast though of a vast extent has few good Harbours by reason of the small Islands Rocks and Shelves wherewith they are environed The Gulph of Maclstroon is also said to swallow up the Ships which approach it What is towards the Pole is full of Forests and of Mountains which have some Mines of Iron and of Copper In the Year 1646. near Opslo was a Mine of Gold discovered which gave the Inhabitants occasion to Publish abroad That they had the Northern-Indies this advantage lasted but as long as the Mine which was afterwards quickly at an end by over-much working This Kingdom has five Governments with as many Castles Bahus Aggerhus Barghenhus Dronthem Vardhus That of Bahus with a Castle of the same Name upon a Rock was yielded to the Suedes by the late Peace Berghen is the best City the Residence of the Vice-roy with the new Fortress Bourg and a Sea-Port where the Ships do easily touch and are safe from all Winds by the means of high Mountains wherewith it is surrounded The Merchants of the Anseatick Towns have their Magazines Dronthem the abode of the ancient Kings of Norway is very much decayed It has still the Title of an Arch-Bisho prick with the remains of one of the Finest and most Magnificent Churches in the North. Ships are secure in that Harbour but have occasion for good Pilots to bring 'em in The other Principal Havens of this Kingdom are in the Western part In some Countries of this Region is Bread made of the flower of Barley and Oats which they bake between two hollow Flints this Bread will keep as they say thirty or forty years The Norwegians are little subject to discourses of such a constitution that when they are in a Feaver a slice of a Gammon of Bacon does 'em more good than a new-laid Egg the inclination of several of them to Sorcery makes 'em have the reputation of selling Winds to Saylors Finmarck which makes part of Lapland advances into the cold Zone so as the day and night last there seven Months together The Inhabitants of this Country have nothing in property they accomodate themselves with the first place they like now in one place to morrow in another They live on their Fishing and their Hunting and only pay the Tribute of some Skins to the King of Denmark they carry their Fish to sell at Berg. The Castle of Wardhus with a Burough of three hundred Houses the most Northern of all our Continent is in the midst of a small Island where it serves to exact some Customs from those who go to Trade by the Ocean at Arch-Angel in Muscovy It s Port is in the Western part of the Island which is separated from the Continent by a Streight of a quarter of a League in breadth where there is passage for Ships It s Neighbourhood is not subject to Ice so as are the other parts of that Sea Of Sueden THe Monarchy of Sueden is the most ancient of Europe if it be true that it has had above a hundred and fifty Kings and that the first of 'em was the Son of Japhet one of the Sons of Noah Upon this foundation perhaps it was that in the Council of Basle a Bishop of Sueden demanded of the Presidents of the Assembly the Precedence for his King over other Christian Princes The most authentick Historians begin the enumeration of the Kings of Sueden at Biorno who was Crowned towards the year eight hundred and shew that the Kingdome was Elective til the Reign of Gustavus de Vaga who rendred it Hereditary in his Family in the year 1544. and who at the same time abolished there the Roman Catholick Religion to follow the Sect of Luther This pretext of Religion did likewise very much serve his Son Charles the 9th called of Sudermania when he deprived his Nephew Sigismond of the Crown who had been Elected King of Poland the third of that name and whose Successors unto Casimir the third did keep the Title of Sueden The King of Sueden stiles himself King of the Suedes of the Goths and Vandals Great Prince of Finland Duke of Schonen Estonia Livonia Carelia Bremen Verden Stein Pomerania Gassubia Vandalia Prince and Lord of Ingria He bears in his Arms three Crowns which sometimes have been Contested with him by the Kings of Denmark the present King is Charles the 11th of the Palatine House of Deux Ponts or Twee-brugge The Goths and Vandales are noted in History for their Conquests the modern Suedes for the Valour of their late Kings and for their acquisitions over their Neighbours which render 'em very Potent on the Baltick Sea where they have more Coasts than all the Princes together who confine upon it The Peace of Bromsbroo in the year 1645. obliges the King of Denmark to restore Jempterland and Herendal to Sueden to yield to it the Isles of Gotland and of Oeland to perpetuity with the Province of Halland for thirty years The Peace of Rotschil in the year 1658. does entirely cede to Sueden Halland Schonen wherein Landscroon is become a very considerable Town Bleking wherein is the new Port of Carlscroon the Isle of Bornholme which is since returned to Denmark by the exchange of other Lands the Fortress of Bahus and the Bayliwick of Dronthem That of Copenhagen in the year 1660. confirms the Treaty of Roschild with reserve of the Bayliwick of Drontheim and purchases the Isle of Ween The

only Temporal Princes and that the Diocesses of the same Name which acknowledge their Bishop for Spirituals have very different bounds In the Year 1680. several places depending on these Bishopricks and which had been dismembred from 'em at diverse times have been adjoyned to the Crown of France The Rivers of Meuse Moselle Saone and Sare have their beginning in Lorrain Under the Emperour Nero they had a design of communicating the Ocean and the Mediterranean-Sea by a Chanel drawn from the Moselle into the Soan which is but very little distant from it and which falls into the Rhosne The Sare is navigable and gives its Name to several places by and through which it passes The French King has caused Sar-Louis and other Fortresses to be built there for the securing the Frontiers of his Dominions Nancy the Capital of the whole Dutchy has had the best Fortifications and Works that were ever seen in Europe Without all these Defences it did gloriously resist Charles Duke of Burgundy who lost the Battel and his Life near the Walls in the Year 1477. In the Battel of Morat in the Year 1476. which followed that of Granson and preceded that of Nancy the Diamond of this warlike and unfortunate Prince fell into the hands of a Suiss who thought himself well payed in having for it a Florin of Gold tho' this Diamond was one of the finest things of the kind in Europe Another Suiss was so lucky in the same Battel as to find the Collar of the Golden Fleece of an inestimable value which the Duke of Burgundy was wont to wear and contented himself with two Crowns that were given him for it in Milan whither he went to sell it at the dearest rate he could Now Nancy is in possession of the French King who offers to yield up Toul to the Duke of Lorrain in case he will sign the Treaty of Nimmeghen The Burrough of St. Nicholas keeps the Relick of its Patron which occasions a great concourse of people to that Town as well as its Fair. Rozieres and Dieuse have Salt-Pits of a great Revenue as have also Marsal Chasteau-Salins and Moyenvik The Annual Revenue of the Salt-Pits of Marsal has commonly been three hundred thousand Livres Luneville has a fine House Remiremont a famous Abby of Ladies Plombieres which is not wall'd is known for its Baths The Dutchy of Barr has the Cities of Barleduc St. Mihel and Pont-a-Mousson Vaucouleurs one of the adjacent Territories is noted for the Birth of the Maid of Orleans in a neighbouring Burrough called Arques Mets Toul and Verdun have been more strictly united to the Crown of France by the Treaty of Munster by that of the Pyrences and by good Cittadels Metz had formerly the Title of a Kingdom which was that of Austrasia with the right of coining Money it is now the Residence of a Parliament 'T is of a large circuit and nevertheless in the Year 1552. it gloriously repuls'd the Emperour Charles the Fifth who besieg'd it with an Army of a hundred thousand men from thence came the Proverb amongst those of the Country when any one undertakes any difficult matter they say He will do e'en as much as the Emperour before Metz. This Disgrace stuck so sensibly close to that glorious Prince's heart that there happening presently after the insult he receiv'd from Duke Maurice of Saxony it 's said to have obliged him to resign his Dominions to his Son and his Brother and make the retreat he did in the Monastery of St. Just in Castille to the amazement of the whole World The Dukes of Lorrain have hitherto styled themselves Princes of the Empire and the Empire has pretended Right of Sovereignty over their Dutchy of Lorrain Nevertheless they pretend to be exempted from the Jurisdiction of the Imperial Chamber of Spire and from all the Contributions by the Empire They have neglected to assist at the Dyets of the Empire that so they might not be bound to give place to such Princes as they esteemed less than themselves The Dutchy of Barr is a Fief depending on the Crown of France and chiefly what is on this side the Meuse as for what is beyond it he pretends its dependence on him under the Title of Marquisate of Pont or Ponta-Mousson From whence it comes that the Inhabitants Barrois are esteemed Natural Frenchmen Anthony Francis Charles the Third Dukes of Lorrain did Homage for it to the French Kings The War of Lorrain which followed that of Italy was made upon the account of this Homage not being paid The Dutchy of Barr was afterwards united to the Crown of France Since which there have been several Treaties between the French Kings and the Dukes of Lorrain The Franche-County THis Country which made part of Great-Burgundy is known under the Name of High-Burgundy by reason of the Course of its Rivers and under that of Franche-Comte by reason its Inhabitants have pretended several exemptions and that in possessing those Lands they might dispose of them without having any regard to Wife Children or any other Relatiions It is a Province very Populous and wholly Roman-Catholick whereof most of the Inhabitants are very rich by reason of Corn Wine and particularly by Salt which made them formely be called The Salted or Pickled Burgundians The Woods raise 'em also a good Revenue and we may say That their Land is no less good now than in the time of Julius Caesar In the Year 1668. the French King pretending the Right of the Queen his Wife made the Conquest with a surprizing Success it being then under the Protection of the Crown of Spain but was bound to restore this Province in consideration of the Peace of Aix la Chapelle The Spaniards kept it until the Year 1674. when having declar'd War upon France the French rendred themselves Masters of it again and were confirm'd in their possession of it by the Peace of Nimmeghen This Province is divided into three parts the High-County of Amont the Middle one of Dole and the Lower one of Aval Grey is in the Upper part Dole or Besanzon is in the Middle Salins in the Nether Grey is very strong upon the River Saon Dole was the Capital of all the County the Seat of a Parliament wherefore the Emperor Charles the Fifth made it be Fortified with seven Bastions Besanzon is both ancient and strong now with a Cittadel The Fertility of the Lands about it have given occasion to the calling it the Granary of the Country It s Archbishop styles himself a Prince of the Holy-Empire but the Germans do not grant him Session in the Imperial Diets The City was Imperial unto the Year 1652. when it became Spanish in exchange for the City of Frankendael which the Spaniards restored in executing the Treaty of Munster the French King has caused the Parliament of the Province to be transferred thither Salins so called from its Salt-Pits is defended by two Castles Its Salt-Garner is a very remarkable