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A51275	Geography rectified, or, A description of the world in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries, islands, cities, towns, seas, rivers, bayes, capes, ports : their ancient and present names, inhabitants, situations, histories, customs, governments, &c. : as also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London : illustrated with seventy six maps : the whole work performed according to the more accurate observations and discoveries of modern authors / by Robert Morden.	Morden, Robert, d. 1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing M2620; ESTC R39765	437,692	610

Burroughs into Cities create Offices and out-law Cities by Proclamation lastly he may make Kings Dukes and Marquesses and he is superior to all the Princes of the Empire who for that reason have a great Respect for him The Electors are Eight in all viz. the Arch-Bishop of Mayence Arch-Chancellor of Germany the Arch-Bishop of Treeves Arch-Chancellor of France the Arch-Bishop of Cologn Arch-Chancellor of Italy the King of Bohemia Great Cup-Bearer the Duke of Bavaria G●eat Steward the Duke of Saxony Great Marshal or Constable the Duke of Brandenburgh Great Chamberlain and the Prince Palatine Great Treasurer These Electors pretend that their dignity makes them equal to the Kings of Europe and which is of greater moment for that they Elect and Crown the Emperor after which the Pope by usurpation pretends a Right to confirm the Election and Coronation Four Voices of these Electors suffices to advance any one to the Imperial Dignity and at present the King of Bohemia only has his Seat in the Election The Secular Electors may not nominate themselves Nor can the Lands of their Electorates be alienated In the House of Saxony the Electorship belongs only to the Eldest who shares the other Seigniories with his Brothers The Elector of Brandenburgh is the most Landed of all the rest next to the King of Bohemia his Dominions contain above two hundred German Leagues in length but are for the most part separated one from another and by the late combustion and the Fortune of War he is become the most considerable Prince of that Quality in the Empire Anno 1000 under Otho the Third the Electors had fixed their Electorship which first began by permission under pretence of avoiding confusion and for the good of the common Interest some tell us that the Electors were Instituted after the death of Otho the Third And others say it was in the time of Rodolph of Hapsburg The Ecclesiastical Princes are The Arch-Bishop of Saltsburg the Grand Master of the Teutonick Order several Bishops and other great Prelates Abbots and Abbesses who have no voice but embodi'd these Princes are almost absolute over the Temporality of their Benefices neither has Christendom any Prelates so Potent as they Their Elections to their Dignities belongs to the several Chapters wherein neither the Pope nor the Emperor has any Right to intermeddle Among the Secular Princes there is the Arch-Duke of Austria the Princes of the Electoral Houses some Dukes Marquesses and Landgraves there are also some Earls and Barons who differ only in name and method of the Empire They have their Seat in a Body which has four Voices in the Estates of the Empire But they have also every one their Voices in their particular Assemblies and some of them Coyn Money There are some Noblemen in Franconia in Suabia in the Country of the Rhine and in the Lower Alsatia who are as absolute in their own particular Territories as the most Potent Lords of the Empire in theirs several Principalities in Germany are possessed by one Prince alone and many times one Principality belongs to many The Free Cities which are as so many Republiques are of two sorts viz. Imperial and Hans Towns. The Imperial bear the Eagle of the Empire in their Arms either entire or divided and they have a Right to send their Deputies to the Diets of the Empire where their Corporation has two Voices They exceed the number of fourscore and are considered either as lying upon the Seats of Suabia or the Seats of the Rhine and they are thus divided from the several Seats where the Deputies of the Cities take their places the Deputy of the City of C●logn takes the first place upon the Rhine-Seat and the Deputy of Ratisbourn takes the first place upon the Suabia-Seat Some are govern'd by Noble Families others live under a Popular Government The Hans Towns are in league together to aid one another reciprocally in time of distress as also for the maintenance of the liberty of their Trade and to preserve themselves from being overcharg'd with Impositions by foreign Princes but that League at this day is little regarded by several of these Cities whilest every one endeavours to stand on their own bottom and do their own business themselves Of these Lubeck Cologn Brunswick and Dantzick are the four chief Lubeck may summon all the rest together with the advice of five of the Cities which are next adjoyning to her The most famous Rivers in Germany are the Rhine the Danube the Elb the Odar and the Veser the Ems. The Rhine Rhenus Caesar Strab. Plin. c. Rhyn or Rhein Germ. Le Rhein Gallis Rheno Italis ariseth out of the Alps in two Fountains distant about a days journey asunder the one called the Vorder Rhein or Anterior Rhenus sourceth out of the Hills of the Leponti and Mountain Luckmanier The further named the Hinder Rhein or Posterior Rhenus out of the Alps and the Mountain der Vogel These meeting together about a German mile from Chur or Coire of the Grisons afterwards continued in one Channel towards the North by the Cities of Constance Basil Spire Worms Mentz and Cologn encreased by the way with the addition of several other great Rivers unto the Fort Schenken-Schans from whence it is conveyed into the Ocean by four Branches or Channels first of the Wael by Nimmengen Tiel and Bommel until it loseth its name in the Maes 2. The Leck into which the Rhein diverteth at Duerstede and is carried into the Maes betwixt Dort and Rotterdam 3. The Rhine extended from Schenken-Schans by Huessen Arnhem and Wagening unto Duerstede where the main River being diverted by the Leck with a small Current it is continued by Vtr●tcht and through Holland unto Leyden where in the sandy Downs betwixt it and the Sea it leaveth its name and under another name of the Vlict it is turned towards the South falling into the Maes at Sluys over against the Bre●l The fourth Branch is the Is●l drawn from the Rhine near Arnhem and passing by Zutphen and Daventer falleth into the Zuider or South-Sea at Campen The main Channels of the Rhine in the time of Caesar were the Rhine which then fell into the Ocean at the place where is now Catwick in Holland And the Vahatis or Wart making the Island of the Batavians of Tacitus Chiefer Rivers received into the Rhine are the Neckar Nicer Necarus Flav. A. Marc. arising in Silva Nigra or Swartzwald near Rotweel and falls into the Rhine at Manheim near Hiedelberg The Main Maenus Tac. out of the Mount Fichtelberg passing the Towns of Bamberg and Wurtzburg falleth in below Francfort The Roer Rura Scrip. Belgig in Westphalia flowing hereinto at Duesburg The Lippe Luppia Tac. Lupias Strab. rising not far from Paderborn empties it self at the Wesel The Aar issuing out of the Alps of the Leponti near the Hill of St. Gothard is discharged hereinto near Waldshut The Ill Ellus Flavius out of Suntgew after the receipt

resides Charlsstat is a strong Fort built by the Swedes near the mouth of the River Weser This Country with the Principality of Ferden in Westphalia now belongs to the Swedes by the Treaty of Munster Of Lawenburg THIS Dutchy gives Name to the Princes of Saxon Lawenburg who are Branches of the same House with the Princes of Anhalt It s chief place is Lawenburg or Laubenburg upon the Elb a fine Town but the Castle is ruined and the Duke lives at Ratzeburg though he hath nothing there but the Castle the Town belonging as was said to the Duke of Mecklenburg Of Magdeburg Ditio Magdeburgensis THIS Diocess lies extended on both sides of the Elb betwixt Brandenburg and the proper Saxony The chief Town is Magdenburg Magdenburg incolis Magdburg al. Magdeburg antiquis monumentis Pathenopolis Mesuium Ptol. testis Appiano A Burgraveship of the Empire and Arch-Bishops See giving name to the Country Reedified by Editha Wise unto the Emperor Henry the First and Daughter to Edmund King of England and thus named in Honour of her Sex. Her Effigies in stone is in the Cathedral Church with 19 Tuns of Gold which she gave thereunto though others say it was from the Worship of the Virgin Diana A place of great state large and fair and strongly fortified once the Metropolitan City of Germany famous in the Protestant Wars for a whole years years Siege against the Emperor Charles the Fifth But sacked and burnt by Tilly and 36000 persons put to the Sword and destroyed 1631. and the Town almost ruined 'T was also famous for the first Turnament which was in Germany which was performed here in the year 637. by the Emperor Henry Sirnamed the Fowler These are the chief parts of the Lower Saxony and contain the ninth Circle of the Empire Of BOHEMIA BOiemum Tac. Beiohemum Paterc Bomi Ptol. Boheim Germ. Boheme Galli● Boemia Hispanis Bohemia Italis Czeskazem incolis teste Brieto This Kingdom is environed about with Mountains and Forests as it were with Fortifications The Air sharp and piercing the Country rough and hilly rich in Minerals and yielding sufficient plenty of Corn and other necessary Provisions Wine excepted First inhabited by some of the Germans who were dispossessed by the Boii who gave Name unto the Country The Boii were routed by the Marcomanni a people of Germany And these were also ejected by the Sclaves under Zechus Brother unto Lechus the Founder of the Polish Monarchy about the year 649. called in their own Country-language Czechi but named from the Country they seized upon Boiohaemi upon their first arrival This people were Governed by Dukes until about the year 1086. when Vratislaus or Vladislaus was created the first King of Bohemia in a Diet at Mentz by the Emperor Henry the Fourth about the year 1199. Power was given to the States to chuse their Princes before being Elected by the Grace of the Emperors since which time the Kingdom continued Elective though most commonly enjoyed by the next of blood until the Royal Line being extinct the Kingdom was devolved upon the House of Austria Chief Places are Praga Italis Prag incolis Prague Gallis Marobudum Ptol. teste Sans Briet the Capital and Royal City of the Kingdom of Bohemia seated upon the River Muldaw by the Bohemians Vltave it consisteth of three Towns the Old the New and the Lesser 'T is an Arch-Bishoprick and University where in the year 1409. were reckoned above 40000 Students under the Rectorship of John Hus. The greatest remarks are the Emperors Palace and Summer-house A fair Cathedral Church built 923. The Palace and Garden of Colaredo The Palace of Count Wallestein Duke of Freidland The Bridg being 1700 Foot long and 35 foot broad with two Gates under two High Towers of Stone at each end Near Prague that deciding Battel was fought Novemb. 8. 1620 between Frederick Prince Palatine of the Rhine Elected King of Bohemia and the Emperor Ferdinand the Second where the Victory fell unto the Imperialists Prague forced to yield and King Frederick and his Queen forced to fly into Silesia Teutchin Broda by the River Saczua a strong place when taken by Zisca who then forced the Emperor Sigismund to fly out of Bohemia Janikaw where was fought that famous Battel of Febr. 24. 1643. between Torstenson and the Imperialists the success gave the Swedes the advantage of proceeding further Czaslaw is the place where Zisca was buried that famous Bohemian General who fought when he was blind and when dead wished his friends to make a Drum of his Skin Guttenburg or Cottenburg is famous for its Silver Mines Egra is a strong City accounted the second of Bohemia and chief Magazine of the Country The Mountains of the Giants in Bohemia called Riphaei or Cerconossi are famous for three things for their Signification and Prognosticks of all Tempests for the rarity of Plants Stones and Gems there growing and for a Spectrum called Ribenzal which is said to walk about those Mountains in the form of a Huntsman Anselmus de Boot tells us that Rudolphus the second King of Bohemia had a Table of Jewels which he calls the Eighth Wonder of the World it was wrought with uch Art that the Jewels which were set together with invisible joints presented a most pleasant Landskip naturally representing Woods Rivers Flowers Clouds Animals c. the like not to be found in the World. The Waters of Carolina al. Karsbad found out Anno 1370. in the time of Charles the Fourth will in a Nights time turn Wood into a stony crust That the Loadstones of Bohemia will give the point of the World but not draw Iron and that a Needle touched with one of those Stones never points directly North but decline eight or more degrees to the last That Mummies as good as any in Egypt have been found in Bohemia a whole man of Myrrh Amber Bones of Giants and Unicorns horns are dig'd out of the Mountains See the Hlstory of Bohemia Bohuslao Balbino Soc. Jes in fol. Prag 1679. Other chief Towns are Pilsen large and Walled Tabor upon the River Lauznitz Koningsgratz Ger. Hradium Reginae Kralowikradetz Boh. Kuttenburg Ger. Kutnahora Boh. Budereiss Ger. al. Budeiowice Boh. Leitmeritz Ger. al. Litomierzitze Boh. To these we may add the County of Glatz upon the Borders of Silesia Of Moravia Marherin or Mahren IS a Country lying open only towards Austria and the South upon the other sides environed with Mountains and Forests plain within and exceedingly populous pleasant and fruitful for Corn Wine and Pasturage The Air somewhat unhealthy being debarred from the cleansing East and Northern Winds Once a Kingdom now a Marquisate subject to the Bohemians an Appendant of that State since Anno 1417. when Sigismund the Emperor gave it to Albertus King of Bohemia Chief Places are Olmutz or Olmuntz Germ. Olmuez Olomucium Olomuncium Latino Holemane Boh. the Eburum of Ptol. teste Pyram Appiano rather Barouua teste Laz. A University seated

the Incursions of the Scots and Picts sheltered themselves in those Mountainous parts and to this day retain their Primitive Language which hath the least mixture of Exotick words of any now used in Europe but by reason of its many Consonants is l●ss pleasing to the Ear The People are Faithful and very loving to one another in a strange Country and to strangers in their own Their Gentry brave and Hospital but generally subject to Choler suddenly moved to Anger and as quickly pacified and value themselves very much upon their Pedigrees and Families The Eldest Son and Heir Apparent of our Kings of England is always Qualified during the Life of his Father with the Title of Prince of Wales 'T is bounded on all sides by the Sea except towards England from which it was once separated by a great Ditch called Offa's Dike in many places yet to be seen which Dike began from the Influx of the River Wye in the Severn and reached unto Chester about 85 Miles Most Writers tell us 't is now divided by the River Dee and a Line drawn to the River Wye But Monmouth being taken from it and added to England its present Limits are the River Dee and a Line drawn to the small River Rumpney near Cardiff The Country is generally Mountainous yet not without its fertile Vallies which bears good Corn and breedeth abundance of Cattel Butter and Cheese Other Commodities are Welsh Freezes Cottons Bayes Herrings White and Red Hides Calves-skins Honey Wax It hath Mines of Lead Lead-ore Coals It is well-stored with Quarries of Free-stones and Milstones It once contained three Kingdoms viz. Gwineth Venedotia or North-Wales Deheubarth Demetia or South-Wales And Powisland or Mathraval 'T is now according to an Act of Parliament in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth severed into two parts viz. North-Wales and South-Wales each of these contain six Counties viz. in the North Anglesey Mona Tac. Caernarvon Denbigh Flint Merioneth and Montgomery In the South Brecknock Cardigan Carmarthen Glamorgan Pembroke and Radnor Whose chief Towns are Beaumarish al Beaumorish Bellomariscus of old the chief of Anglesey seated upon the Menai River founded by King Edward the first Aberfraw was the Royal Seat of the Kings of Gwineth or North-Wales And Holy-Head or Caergubi of the Welsh a noted Promontory and passage into Ireland In this Island was the ancient Seat of the Dr●ids brought under the Roman Scepter by Julius Agricola Caernarvon Arvonia of old the best Town of that Shire strong by Nature and Art founded by King Edward the First In the Castle whereof Edward the Second the first Prince of Wales was born Bangor or Banch●r Bangoria Lat. Dignified with a Bishops See. Aberconway raised out of the ruins of the Banonium of Ant. Canovijostium Denbish Denbighia Lat. seated on the River Cluyd once fortified with a strong Castle and Wall. Ruthin seated in the Strat Cluyd Wrexham plenty in Lead Ll●ns●inan a small Village is famous for its Cave in the side of a Rock known by the Name of Arthur's round Table St. Asaph Llan-Elwy Welsh Fannum St. Asaphi an ancient Episcopal See founded by Kentigern a Scotch Bishop of Glasco in Anno 560. Flint which giveth Name to the County Not far from Cajeruis is the famous Well of St. Winnifrid in English Holy-well a place of great note and much resorted unto for the Cure of several Diseases In this County of Flint are yet seen some Ruins of the Bonium of Ant. lying upon both sides of the Dee turned afterwards into a Monastery and named Bancornabury by Bede and Banchor by Malmesbury the first of the Britans containing 2100 persons Harlech had a strong Castle mounted upon a steep Rock but reduced to ruins 't is the place of Assizes for Merionethshire and the chief Market of the Mountaniers Bala seated near Llin-tegid or Pimblemeer through which the Dee is said to run and not to mingle with its waters Montgomery the Shire-Town is so called from Roger of Montgomery Earl of Shrewsbury in the reign of the Conqueror Lanvethlin or Llanvilling is thought to be the Mediolanium of Ptolomy and Ant. Trellin or Welshpool seated on the Severn and in a rich Vale is the greatest and best built Town in the County and its Castle called Powis-Castle is a large and stately building Machleneth the Maglona of the Notitia Mathraval the Seat sometimes of the Princes of Powis Brecknock Brichinia Lat seated at the meeting of the Rivers Hodney and Vsk over which it hath a Stone-Bridge It contains three Parish-Churches and was once strengthened with a strong Castle Built Bu● the Bul●um of Ant. pleasantly seated among the Woods on the Banks of the Wie New Radnor thus distinguished from the old the Magnae of Ant. and Magae of the Notitia seated near the Springhead of the Somergil and in a pleasant Valley At Prestaine seated on the Lug are the Assizes kept Knighton is a well built Burrough-Town The west-part of this County of Radnor is very Rocky and Mountainous the strong refuge of Vortigern King of the Britains when pursued by the Saxons and the fear and hate of his own Subjects Snowden-Hill was the safe retreat of Owen Glendor Cardigan Aber tyvi Welsh Cevetica Lat. seated on a Rock on the Bank of Tywy River near the Influx into the Sea is the Shire Town and governed by a Mayor Llan-beder hath a Market on Tuesdays Aber-y-stwith seated at the mouth of the Rivers Ystwith and Ridol descending from the foot of the Philimon Mountain as doth also the Teme and Wye-River Llanbadernvaur is a well-built Town graced with a fair Church formerly an Episcopal Sea now the Parish-Church of Aberystwith Caermarden the Maridunum of Ptolomy upon the River Tovy over which it hath a fair Stone-Bridg and it is a Town Corporate governed by a Mayor two Sheriffs and sixteen Burgesses all clad in Scarlet and is also famous for the Birth-place of Merlin the British Prophet Higher upon the top of a Hill under which runneth the Tovy stood Dinevour Castle the seat of the Prince of south-South-Wales Newcastle on the edg of Cardiganshire on the River Tyvi thought to be the Coventinum of Ptolomy but Lyn Savatan near Brecknock is the Loventinam or Luentium Camb. In Glamorganshire the chief Towns are Landaff Fanum ad Tattam seated on the River Tavy or Taff having ● large Cathedral a Bishops See otherwise scarce comparable to an indifferent Town occasioned by its vicinity to Cardiff the fairest Town in all South-Wales Containing two Parishes and one Church A strong stately Castle 'T is governed by a Constable and twelve Aldermen c. 'T is the place of the Assizes and the best Market in the Country Neath the Nidum of Ptolomy is much frequented for Coals Swansey or Aber-taw is an ancient Port Reve Town of a good Trade by reason of its Coal-pits and industry of its Inhabitants Boverton not far from Cowbridg is the Bovium of Ant. Loghar upon the River so called is