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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64224	Thesaurarium mathematicae, or, The treasury of mathematicks containing variety of usefull practices in arithmetick, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy, geography, navigation and surveying ... to which is annexed a table of 10000 logarithms, log-sines, and log-tangents / by John Taylor.	Taylor, John, mathematician.	1687 (1687)	Wing T534; ESTC R23734	190,995	514

rich by reason of his great Expences to keep his Dominions in which are eleven Archbishops and 52 Bishops and hath these most notable Cities viz. Toledo Madrid Leon Fax Siville Grenado Mursy Saragosa Bracelon Pamphelune Bilbo Priede St. James of Compostella and Lesbone and Rivers famous are the Dower Tagus Gadian and Guadalguinr Great Britain consisteth of England and Scotland and is the Biggest Isle in EUROPE and the Glory thereof it is a temperate Soyl a sound Air and yieldeth all manner of good things 't is environed all round with the Seas I shall begin first with England England hath many pleasant Rivers well stored with Fish excellent Havens commodious Mines of Silver Lead Iron and Tinn abundance of Woods good Timber plentifull in Cattle good Wool of which is made fine Cloath which serves not only themselves but vended into other Countreys the chief City is London in which are two of the Wonders of the World viz. the Monument and Bridge over the Thames the People are brave Warriers both by Sea and Land as Europe has felt and can testifie to their Grief they are learned in all manner of noble Sciences the Order of Knighthood is that of St. George or the Garter there are 26 Knights of it whereof the King is the Soveraign their Ensign is a blue Garter buckled on the left Leg with this Motto Hony Soit Qui Mall 〈…〉 Pense and about their Necks they do wear a blue Ribbon at the End of which hangs the Image of St. George upon which day this Order is Celebrated secondly of the Bath instituted 1009 they use to be Created at the Coronation of Kings and Queens and at the Enstalling of the Prince of Wales The Knights thereof distinguished by a red Ribbon which they wear about their Necks their Duty is to defend Religion Widows Maids and Orphans with the Kings right Thirdly of Barronets and Hereditary Honour the Arms are Mars three Lions Passant Gardant Sol their Religion is the Protestant they have two Archbishops and twenty Bishops The length of England is 320 and breadth 250 Miles it hath 857 famous Bridges 325 Rivers it 's defended and invironed with Turbulent Seas guarded by unaccessible Cleves and Rocks and defended by a strong and Puissant Navy so that of it may well be said Insula praedives que toto vix eget Orbe Et cujus totus indiget Orbis ope Insula praedives cujus miretur optet Delicias Solomon octavianus opes It s chief Cities are London York Bristol and Rivers are the Thames Severn Humber and the Ouze Wales is bounded on all sides with the Sea except towards England on the East it is a barren and mountainous Countrey It s chief Commodities are their Freeze and Cottons The Inhabitants are faithfull in their promises to all men but yet much enclined to Choler and subject to Passion which Aristotle calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It contains 14 Shires 13 Forests 36 Parks 230 Rivers and 1016 Parishes They are so resolute and valiant saith Henry III. writing to Emanuel then Emperour of Constantinople That they dare encounter Naked with armed Men being ready to spend their Blood for their Countrey and pawn their Life for Praise They are Protestants and have four Bishops but no Towns of Note Scotland is the Northern part of Britain environed all round with the Sea unless where it is joyned to England Polydore saith it is 480 in length and 60 miles in breadth divided into Highlands and Lowlands the Highlands are Irish-Scots and the Lowlands English-Scots It is not so fruitfull as England the chief City is Edenbrough Its Commodities is course Wool and Cloth Malt Hides and Fish. The Order of Knighthood is that of St. Andrew the Knights did wear about their Necks a Coller interlaced with Thistles with the Picture of St. Andrew appendant thereunto having this Motto Nemo me impune lacessit 2. Of Nova Scotia instituted by King James Anno 1622 hereditary the Knight hereof distinguished by a Ribbond of Orange-tawny The Arms of Scotland is Sol a Lion Rampant Mars within a double Tressure counterflowered they are Protestants and have 2 Archbishops and 12 Bishops The Cities most Famous are Edenbrough Sterlin Aberdeen and St. Andrews and they have the Famous Rivers Tay and Tweed Ireland is on all sides environed round with the Irish Seas and St. Georges Channel In length is 300 and breadth 120 miles The Natives are strong and nimble haughty careless hardy bearing cold and hunger with patience and in a word if they are bad you shall neve● find worse but if good scarcely find better The Wild Irish have a custom to kneel down to the New Moon praying it to leave them in as good health as it found them They received the Christian Faith 435. The Soil is fruitfull and it hath good Pasture yet full of Boggs and Woods and multitude of Fowls and in it will dwell no venomous Creature The Revenues yearly have been 40000 li. The Air is Temperate cooler in Summer and hotter in the Winter than in England Their Arms are Azure an Harp or stringed Argent they are some Protestants and Papists mixt they have 4 Archbishops and 19 Bishops the chief City is Dublin The Islands belonging to Great Britain are 1. Wight the place where I first drew my Breath and the Land of my Nativity 2. Surlings 3. Garnsey 4. Jersey 5. Anglesey 6. Man 7. Hebrides 8. Orcades 9. Portland 10. Sunderland 11. Holy Island And thus I have done with the British Empire all these Parts described belong to it and are under the Royal Sceptre of his Sacred Majesty JAMES the Second whom God long preserve Thus I have finished the description of Great Britain having this only to say Quae Deus conjunxit nemo separet Belgia or the Low Countreys consisteth of several wealthy Provinces viz. The Dukedom of Brabant Guelderland Lymburge Flanders Artois Henault Holland Zeland Mamen Zukfen the Marquisate of the Holy Empire Freezeland Michlen Ouserisen and Graving All which Lands are very fertile and populous having 208 Cities and 6300 Villages with Parish-Churches Castles and Forts and is watered with the Rhine and the Mose the Mara and the Sheld It hath commodious Havens the Inhabitants are brave Warriours good Mechanicks their chief Commodity is Rhenish Wine Linnen and Woollen Cloth Camericks Lace of Gold and Silver Silk Taffatys Velvet Grogerams and Sayes all manner of Twined threds refined Sugars Buff Ox-hides Spanish-leather Pictures Books Cables Ropes and Herrings Now Belgia is bounded East with Westphalen Gulick Cleve and the Isle of Triers West with the Main Ocean North with the River Ems and South with Picardy and Champagne The People are of the reformed Religion all except Flaunders and Artoise and they have the Popish Tenents here are three Archbishops and fifteen Bishops The Order of Knighthood is that of the Golden Fleece instituted 1439. their Habit is a Coller of Gold interlaced with Iron Or.