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An exact survey of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Of their cities, castles, fortresses, and other their dominions there: With some remarques of their government, antiquities and memorable actions. Together with an exact map of the Seven Provinces: which is also to be sold alone. / Collected by T.W.
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Wing W118A; ESTC R186113
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AN EXACT SURVEY OF THE UNITED PROVINCES OF THE NETHERLANDS OF Their Cities Castles Fortresses and other their Dominions there With some Remarques of their Government Antiquities and Memorable Actions Together with an Exact Map of the SEVEN PROVINCES Which is also to be Sold alone Collected by T. W. Vade Liber verbisque meis loca grata saluta LONDON Printed for Edward Berry and William Berry and are to be Sold at their Shops in Holborn-Court in Grays-Inne neer the Hall-door and at the Globe in the Strand betwixt York-House and the New-Exchange 1673. To the Right Honourable William Earl of Craven Viscount Craven of Vffington Baron Craven of Hamsted-Marshal one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex and Borough of Southwark My Lord THe Belgick Provinces for the last Century have been such a Theatre of Mars that all the Princes of Europe have little reason to thank the Spaniard for enforcing the States of Holland to know and use their own power and strength and therefore it was gravely expressed by a sober Person that to have all the Low Countries governed by a few States or by one Prince wholly depending upon the King of Spain would be equally dangerous but it doth most comport with the interest of England in Wisdom and Policy to erect and establish such a Prince as should neither altogether depend upon France or be wholly devoted unto Spain or else to divide the Seventeen Provinces into divers several Cantons whereby some of them being induced to affect England and others to favour Princes of their Religion they could not render themselves so formidable How prudent an expedient this would be for the security of England and to establish peace in Christendom I submit it unto your Lordships grave judgement who is perfectly acquainted with all the Criticismes of State But that which is the just admiration of all wise men the lesser moiety of these Provinces hath far exceeded even the whole and seven Provinces are become greater and more potent then Seventeen In Riches and Power they have out-done some of the greatest Princes in Europe Their Cities are many and splendid and yet there are more Sects among them then Cities and as many Creeds as Heads but if they had imitated your Lordship when you did them the honour to live amongst them the regularity of your Devotions being with such reverence you had made all their Provinces Canonical yet they have learned to vernish their lucre with Devotion and to make godliness a Page to their private Interest and to be so wise in any of their meetings never to discourse of Religion their Opinions therein being as opposite as the sides of the Diameter but they all concentre in this one Ecliptick line to darken the Authority of Princes Your Lordship being so great an Artizan of State understands all their Arcana and Mysteries and so great a Captain as this AGE with much difficulty hath not produced a greater you know all their Policies and Stratagems of War by the first your Lordship hath much engaged your own Nation by the other you may live to oblige all Nations of the World I do beg your Lordships pardon for this interruption leaving the Grandeur of your Actions and the Glory of your Name to be blazon'd by the Heralds of Time and celebrated in the lasting Chronicles of after-Ages I am Your Lordships Humble Servant T. W. THE PREFACE TO THE READER LEst thou shouldest have cause Gentle Reader to Quaere this present Edition of the Exact Survey of the Vnited Provinces of the Netherlands considering the many Essays written of that Subject at the instance of the worthy Author of this excellent and useful Discourse I was desired to advertise thee that some honourable Friends of his put him upon this present work which in their noble conceptions would be very acceptable to the Publick By this Topographical Discourse thou art brought to more familiar acquaintance with the scite strength present state and condition of those Belgick Countries which for this last Century had so bravely quit themselves maugre the utmost Policies and Hostilities of their great and formidable Enemies and when you hear of this or that other Town or Castle of theirs either taken or besieged upon a slight perusal of it upon all occasions you may be able to judge of those matters The Author hereof hath seriously consulted with most of the Grave Writers both Cosmographers Historians and others of the greatest note which have hitherto written of those Countries and Provinces from whom besides his own observations he hath received no small light assistance having brought this Web out of the Loom he here presents it to the judicious Eye of the Candid Reader wherein without much trouble or cost he may behold the sad face in its full dimension of the late most High and Mighty States of the Vnited Provinces that seemed so lately to eclipse and shadow much of the Grandeur and Glory of the most Potent and absolute Princes now lamentably it self eclipsed and rent in pieces and Peace the fairest flower in Paradise and the pleasantest Fruit upon the Tree of Life is here in Exile so that you may say of them as the Poet of Rome Qui miserandae videt veteris vestigia Romae Ille potest merito dicere Roma fuit They who the Ruines of first Rome behold May say Rome is not now but was of old If in Anno 1584 the poor distressed People of the Low Countries was their Epithet in all their humble Addresses to the then Queen of England what they then spake as Politicians possibly the same they may now say as Realists But Pride will have its Fall sooner or later Perfidiousness and Ingratitude will never go long unpunished And truly three of the hardest things in the world are To Quadrate a Circle to finde out the Philosophers Stone and to make the Dutch grateful The first Office of Gratitude is to receive a good turn Civilly then to retain it in Memory and acknowledge it and lastly to endeavour a requital How far they are from these their Insolencies to the English Nation will easily tell you they daily do heap injuries on the English whom they have so highly wronged as if the latter injuries would give countenance of Justice to the former and to speak truly if we should be left to their mercies we should be stript as bare as Diogenes did Plato's Man 'T was England that first raised them and it was the King of Great Britain that under God would have preserved and protected them if they had kept their Ancient Boundaries and not been too ignorant of their true Interest At present they seem to the world a lost People full of intrinsick confusions and upon the point of Ruine and they that have been reckoned for Great and Dominical Letters in the Worlds Alphabet are now almost blotted out For their Country it was
Vtrecht It hath two Chanels which pass through the Town Anno 1536 the beauty of it was much eclips'd by Fire but built up again fairer then formerly it was In this Fire there happen'd so memorable an accident that happily the like hath not been recorded in any Story In this town the Storks Nest almost in every house to breed the Fire being the third of May at which time the young Storks are grown pretty big the old ones perceiving the Fire to approach their Nests attempted to carry them away but could not they were so weighty which they perceiving never ceas'd with their wings spread covering them until they all perish'd in the Flames Jasper Veldius an Author of great estimation reports the same in 's Book of Storks This Town holds the third rank and suffrage for the Country of Holland It 's four Leagues from Leyden Near this Town is Loresendam a great and fair Village not far off it is Losdan and Voorburg the last a good Town In this Town was the Body of the Famous Hugo Grotius inter'd Anno 1584 William Prince of Orange was here shot with a Bullet by Balthasar Gerard a Burgundian It 's a Town of great Trade for Cloathing It 's the Birth-place of that Monstrous Heretick David George who call'd himself King and Christ immortal Gertruden-burgh Is a strong Town both by Nature and Art scituated on the left Bank of the River Merew it hath a good Garrison in 't so nam'd as Hondius supposeth from Geertruyd the Daughter of Pipinus de Landen who was a Religious Woman and liv'd here and Anno 664 here died Scheidam Hath a good Haven upon the Mewze it 's scituated upon a current of Water which comes out of the Country call'd Schie and from thence it takes its name In this place there is an Hospital call'd the New-dam which hath these Priviledges that a Burger dying within or without the Town or in the liberties thereof the best garment he leaves doth belong unto the Hospital The chief Trade of this Town is Fishing which they send into all parts Vlarding is hard by a small Village but formerly a strong Town Mausouluis is a fair Burrough two Leagues lower Woerden Is seated on a Moor and hath a strong Castle to it and cannot be approach'd because it may be overflown round about it Anno 1374 this Town was built by the Bishop of Vtrecht to awe his Subjects In this Castle the Admiral of Aragon was kept Prisoner a great while after the Battle of Flanders Worcom It 's beyond the River of Wahal on Brabant-side right against the strong Castle of Loveisteine a little lower on the other Bank stands Gorchom It 's well fortifi'd with good Ramparts Bulwarks and Ditches It did belong to the Earls of Horn. Neer this Town is the Castle and Territory of Altena being in ancient time drown'd but now it 's a Country full of good Pastures and is the Rampart of the whole Province Gorcum is one of the strongest Towns in the Netherlands It 's one of the Keys of Holland Famous for being a Prison to Hugo Grotius and of the Arminian Ministers The chief of the Holland-Villages is the Hague or Graven-Hague in Latine Haga Comitis because formerly the residence of the Earls of Holland So call'd as Junius supposed from Hagh which signifies a Hedge from the many Hawthorn-Hedges that grow thereabouts It 's rich in Wealth pleasant in Gardens and stately in Buildings having 2500 Houses amongst which the most magnificent is the Court built here Anno 1249 by William Earl of Holland now the Residence of the Prince of Orange It 's a Castle with Ditches and Gates It 's always guarded There are the Courts of Justice the States Chamber for the Province and for the Union whither all Causes are brought by Appeal and finally determin'd Here resides the Count Fischal of Brabant the States General the States of Holland and West-Friesland the Councel of State the Masters of the Chamber of Accounts of Holland the Councel of War every of these have their several Chambers Hard by there 's a Park 1501 Paces long Princes Earls Lords all sorts of people walk here and take the pleasure and profit of the place Not far from it you come to shady Walks which have at once the reverence and content of Heaven If you please to walk a little further you 'll see all Europe floating on the one hand by water carried on the other by Land to this great Mart of Christendom for Trade and Intelligence It 's no wall'd Town neither do the Inhabitants desire it for they had rather have it accounted the chief Village in Europe then the second City Not far from it is Hontstardick where the last Prince of Orange built a most stately House beautifi'd with Walks and Galleries Riisuick is another fair Village there the same Prince hath another House in a very pleasant scituation amongst Meadows and it 's a noble Prospect to those which come from Delft Anno 1574 at Scheveling neer the Hague the Sea brake in and carried away 121 Houses as 't is to be seen recorded upon a Picture in the Church The other Villages of Note are 2 Egmond 3 Brederode 4 Wassenare which is a fair and beautiful Town two Leagues from Leyden from hence the noble Family of the Wassemers fetch'd their Original They pretend to be descended from that Noble and Famous Captain Claudius Civilis of whom Tacitus makes honourable mention From them are descended the Duvenvords the Warmonds the Bouchorts the Polanes the Malenesses all the flower of the Dutch Nobility The three forementioned Townes anciently gave names to three ancient Families of which none so illustrious and renown'd as that of Egmond descended lineally from Radbolt Son of Agillis the King of the Frisons They were made Earls of Egmond by Maximilian the Emperour Anno 1592. Thierry of Aquitaine the first Earl of Holland built an Abby for Monks neer unto Egmond inrich'd with great Revenues In the year 1565 the Prince of Orange the Earl of Horn and the Baron of Brederode went with the Earl of Egmond to Dine in this Abby when they were to wash my Lord Abbot who was but a Monk took the three Noblemen by the hands to wash the Earl of Egmond coming to present himself the Abbot said unto him No for you are my Vassal it becomes you not to wash with your betters yea he offer'd to put the Towel upon his shoulder to give it to the other Noblemen when they had wash'd whereat the Earl was much discontented and went away Brederode is descended from Ziphard the second son of Arnulph the third Earl of Holland and Zealand who to avoid his Fathers displeasure retired into Friesland and married the Potestates Daughter of the Countrey by whom he had two Sons but being afterwards reconveyed to his Father he had certain Lands allotted him for his Portion which were measur'd by the great Rod the which in the Country-Language