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A27210 The present state of the universe, or, An account of I. The rise, births, names, matches, children, and near allies of all the present chief princes of the world, II. Their coats of arms, motto's, devises, liveries, religions, and languages, III. The names of their chief towns, with some computation of the houses and inhabitants ... IV. Their revenues to which are added some other curious remarks, as also an account of common-wealths, relating to the foregoing heads. Beaumont, John, d. 1731. 1694 (1694) Wing B1623; ESTC R13456 71,782 106

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29. 1671. 3. Ernestus-Augustus born Sept. 17. 1674. 4. Sophia-Charlotta born Octob. 20. 1668. and married to Frederick the Third the present Elector of Brandenburg Octob. 16. 1684. by whom he has had two Princes but only one living viz. Frederick-William born Aug. 4. 1688. The other Princes and Princesses that are Roman Catholicks I. ANna Maria the present Duchess of Savoy Daughter to the Duke of Orleans by Henrietta-Maria youngest Daughter of Charles I. born Aug. 27. 1669. Her Children 1. Maria-Adelheid or Adetherd born Dec. 6. 1685. 2. Another Princess born Aug. 30. 1688. II. ELizabeth-Charlotta the present Duchess of Orleans Daughter to Charles-Lewis Elector Palatine Her Children 1. Philip Duke of Chartres born Aug. 2. 1631. 2. Elizabeth Charlotte Mademoiselle de Chartres born Sept. 13. 1676. III. ANN the present Princess of Conde Daughter to Edward Prince Palatine of the Rhine and Grandchild to the King of Bohemia born July 23. 1647. Her Children 1. Maria-Teresa de Bourbon born 1666. 2. Lewis de Bourbon Duke D'Enghien born 1668. 3. Maria Anna de Monmorency born 1675. 4. Anna Maria-Victoria D'Enghien born 1676. 5. Aloisia Benedicta de Conde born 1678. IV. TWO Daughters of Benedicta-Henrietta-Philippina Duchess of Hanover Daughter to Edward Count Palatine and Grandchild to the King of Bohemia 1. Charlotta-Felicitas born March 8. 1671. 2. Welhelmina-Amalia born Apr. 26. 1673 The Princes of the House of Nassau are to be found in the Genealogies of the Princes of the Empire II. The Sovereign Ensigns Armorial of the King of England are as follows In the first place he bears Azure three Flower de Luces Or for the Regal Arms of France quartered with the Imperial Ensigns of England which are Gules three Lions Passant Guardant in Pale Or. In the second place within a double Tressure Counter-flowred-de-Lys Or a Lion Rampant Gules for the Regal Arms of Scotland In the third place Azure an Irish Harp Or stringed Argent for the Royal Ensigns of Ireland In the fourth place as in the first all within the Garter the chief Ensign of that most honourable Order on which is written this Motto Honi soit qui mal y pense Above the same an Helmet answering to his Majesties Sovereign Jurisdiction upon the same a rich Mantle of Cloth of Gold doubled Ermine adorn'd with an Imperial Crown and Surmounted for a Crest by a Lion Passant Guardant Crown'd with the Like supported by a Lion Guardant Or Crown'd as the former and an Unicorn Argent Gorg'd with a Crown thereto a Chain affixt passing betwixt his forelegs and reflexed over his Back Or both standing on a Compartment plac'd underneath and in the Table of the Compartment is his Majesties Royal Motto Dieu mon Droit King William as Earl of Nassau bears Quarterly 1. Azure a Lion Or armed Gules 2. Or a Lion Leopard Gules armed and crown'd Azure 3. Gules a Fesse Argent 4. Gules two Leopards Or armed and membred as the first As Prince of Orange he bears Quarterly 1. Gules a Bend Or. 2. An Hunters Horn Azure stringed Gules The third as c. over all an Escutcheon of Pretence Checquy Or and Azure More briefly thus quarterly Chalons and Aurange under an Escutcheon of Geneva His Motto is Je maintiendray His Majesties Livery is a Red Colour before his coming to the Crown it was blew He Professes the Protestant Religion according to the Church of England and uses now the English Language Note that as Charles the Fifth who came to the Crown of France An. 1364. was the first who in his Fathers life time was stiled the Dolphin So Edward the Second Son of Edward the First King of England was the first Prince of Wales so created An. 1300 to gratifie the Welchmen his Father Edward the First having slain in Battel Leoline the last of the Welsh Princes and united Wales to the Crown of England And perhaps it was in imitation of this that the Donor of Dolphine would have the eldest Son of France stiled the Dolphin The Title of Prince of Wales in the eldest Son of England having preceeded the other for many years The particular Cognizance of a Prince of Wales is a Plumb of Feathers with this Motto Ich-Dien that is I serve III. London seated on the famous navigable River Thames is the Capital City of England and the undoubted most famous Emporium and for ought appears the greatest and most considerable City of the Universe For as to Pequin in China the only City to be brought in competition which by some is imagined to be greater we have no account of it fit to reason upon The late ingenious Sir William Petty having critically examined the capaciousness and populosity of London and its other advantages and compared them with the other chief Cities of Europe according to what accounts could be gotten of them has accurately made out the following particulars viz. that there are contained in London 696000 Inhabitants and 105315 Houses Paris 488000 and 23223 Houses Amsterdam 187000 Venice 134000 Rome 125000 Dublin 69000 and 6400 Houses Bristol 48000 and 5307 Houses Rouen 66000 and about a third bigger than Bristol Lyons 100000   Tholouse 90000   From the foregoing particulars he makes the following Observations 1. That the people of Paris Rome and Rouen make but 679000 or 19000 less than the 696000 of London alone 2. That the people of the two English Emporiums viz. London and Bristol make 744000 or more than Paris Amsterdam and Rouen these being in all but 741000. 3. That the same two English Cities seem equivalent to Paris Rouen Lyons Thoulose these making in all but 744000. 4. That the King of Englands three Cities viz. London Dublin and Bristol containing 813000 people exceed Paris Amsterdam and Venice containg 809000 people 5. That of the four great Emporiums London Amsterdam Venice and Rouen London alone is near double to the other three viz. above 7 to 4. for the other three make but 387000 London 696000. Sir William Petty farther makes out that the people of London are as many as those of Holland in their twenty eight walled Cities and Towns and in their Dorps and Villages or at least above two thirds of the same He compares London with Paris in several particulars in all which he shews London to exceed the other viz. 1. In the goodness of the Hospitals 2. In the cleanly and more convenient way of living 3. In the richness of the People the number of the Servants and greatness of Equipage 4. In the preference of the River Thames to the River Seine both in pleasantness and navigableness the wholesomness of its water and the Bridge of London being the most considerable of all Europe 5. In the shipping and Foreign Trade London therein incomparably exceeding both Paris and Rouen the City of Bristol appearing by good estimate of its Trade and Customs as considerable as Rouen 6. In the richness of the Lawyers Chambers those of Londen being worth 140000 l. Sterling
by Ancient Burgundy which is bendy of six pieces Or and Azure bordered Gules In the fourth great Quarter Azure semé of Flower de Luces Or with a border Compone Argent and Gules for Modern Burgundy Coupe Or. supported Sable a Lion Or for Brabant These two great Quarters charged with an Escutcheon Or and a Lion Sable arm'd and langued Gules for Flanders Party Or an Eagle Sable for Anvers the Capital City of the Holy Empire For Crest a Crown trefoiled Or rais'd with eight Diadems or Semicircles terminating in a Mond Or which is the Crest of Spain The Collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece encompasses the Shield and on the sides of it stand the two Pillars of Hercules viz. on each side one with this Motto Plus ultra The foresaid Order was refus'd by Lewis the Eleventh King of France as having been founded by a Duke who was Vassal to the Crown of France viz. Philip surnamed the Good Duke of Burgundy who Instituted it at Bruges An. 1429. It may be worth notice that the Arms of Castile and Leon are the first which have been born Quartered The Ordinary Device of some Kings of Spain has been this Omnes Contra nos nos Contra Omnes The Title of the Most Catholick King was given by Pope Alexander the Sixth to Ferdinand the Fifth and his Successors for having rooted out of Spain the Moors and Sarracens You may also note that the eldest Sons of the Kings of Spain are called Princes of the Asturias as those of the German Emperors Arch Dukes of Austria Those of the Kings of England Princes of Wales Those of the Kings of Portugal Princes of Algarves Those of the Dukes of Savoy Princes of Piemont c. The King of Spain's Livery is of a Yellow colour His Majesty Professes the Roman Religion and uses the Spanish Language III. Madrid situate in New Castile having been the place of Residence of the Kings of Spain since the time of Philip the Second is become from a Village to be the most populous Town of all Spain The Houses are built of Brick and the greatest part four Stories high all having Iron Balcones All the upper Rooms in the Town belong to the King who is allowed for them There are in it several Publick Edifices very beautiful among others the famous Square for the Bull Feast This Town is about the bigness of Bristol and is kept very nastily the filth and excrements lying in the Streets tho on this account excusable because the Inhabitants who drink Well Water there are fearful to sink necessary Conveniencies left the Waters should be tainted thereby About seven Miles North from Madrid is seated the Escurial or Monastery of S. Lawrence built by King Philip the Second It s a Structure so splendid magnificent and sumptuous that some think no Building in times past or at present comparable to it The front towards the West is adorned with three stately Gates the middlemost whereof leads into a most magnificent Temple and a Monastery in which are one hundred and fifty Monks of the Order of S. Hierom and a College That on the right Hand opens into divers Offices belonging to the Monastery That on the left into Schools and Out-houses belonging to the College At the four Corners there are four Turrets of excellent Workmanship and for hight Majestical Towards the North is the Kings Palace On the South parts divers beautiful and sumptuous Galleries and on the East part sundry Walks and Gardens very pleasing and delightful It contains in all thirty seven Court and Cloisters Eleven thousand Windows Eight hundred Pillars and is indeed a most noble Structure There are in it Seven Communities seven Priors and a Grand Prior. The Revenue is above Thirty thousand Crowns per annum and there is a Library in it containing above Eighteen thousand Books and among them a great many Arabick Manuscripts Toledo is the Capital City of New Castile being situate near the midst of Spain on the River Tagus It s about Four Miles in compass and is well fortified and beautified with a good number of stately Edifices and by reason of its situation in the midst of Spain it s well inhabited both by Nobility Merchants and Scholars beside such Soldiers and their Officers who are continually garrison'd in it It s also honored with the See of an Archbishop who is the Metropolitan of Spain and President for the most part of the Inquisition having a Revenue of Three hundred thousand Crowns per annum and Seventeen other Towns under his Jurisdiction both in Spirituals and Temporals Granada is the Capital City of the Kingdom call'd by that name whose whole Circuit is said to be Seven Miles it having contain'd in the time of the Moors Two hundred thousand Souls and where the Houses of the best sort are for the most part built of Free stone with delicate and artificial Masonry shewing their Magnificence Sevil the Capital City of Andalusia in the Kingdom of Corduba is look'd upon by some to be the fairest City of all Spain It is in compass six Miles divided into two parts by the River Baetis on which its seated but joined together by a strong and beautiful Bridge the whole environed with beautiful Walls and adorned with many magnificent and stately Buildings as Palaces Churches and Monasteries It has a flourishing University adorned with a goodly Library furnished by Diego the Son of Christopher Columbus the first Founder of it with Twelve thousand Volumes in several Languages gathered together with extraordinary Care and Charge and endowed with a fair Revenue for the Maintenance and Enlargement of it It s also a Town particularly famous for Traffick here being the publick Emporeum of Spain for Wines Oils and Commodities brought from the Indies and other Foreign Parts So much concerning the Towns of greatest Note in Spain The King of Spain has likewise in Italy the City of Milain being the fairest and biggest City of all Lombardy containing Seven Miles in compass and Two hundred thousand People It s seated betwixt the Rivers Ticinus and Addua which run hard by it to the great Conveniency of the Inhabitants both for having things brought to them at cheap Rates and for vending and dispersing their Manufactures which are of great esteem in most parts of the World It flourishes in all Riches and in the Beauty of its Edifices both publick and private but three especially commended for their Magnificence the Castle the Hospital and the Cathedral It s fortified with Walls Ramparts and deep Trenches and the Castle in it is so strong that it s judg'd impregnable The Trade is so great that private Shops there equal publick Store-houses of other Places and the People are so rich that the Wife of every Mechanick goes in her Silks and Taffaties The King of Spain has also in Italy the City of Naples which is the Capital of that Kingdom and contains Seven Miles in compass It 's honoured