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A55354	A new survey of the present state of Europe containing remarks upon several soveraign and republican states : with memoires historical, chronological, topographical, hydrographical, political, &c / by Gidion Pontier, &c. ; done into English by J.B. Doctor of Physick.	Pontier, Gédéon, d. 1709.; J. B., Doctor of Physick.	1684 (1684)	Wing P2806; ESTC R40076	132,675	320

opening of it is performed ordinarily the 24th day of December on Christmas-eve by the opening of the holy Door which is so called because by its opening and entrance we enter into Grace and become holy by practising what is ordained by the Bull of the Jubile On the day and Feast of the Ascension of the Son of God which precedes the holy Year two Priests after having read the Gospel read the Bull the one in Latine and the other in Italian and publish the approaching Jubile His Holiness on the Christmas-eve following goes a general Procession the Cardinals the Secular and Regular Clergie the Ambassadours of Christian Princes and the Officers of the City of Rome and all the common people accompany him and about noon he comes to the door of St. Peter of the Vatican which is walled up then the Pope strikes three stroaks with a silver Hammer against this Wall which is presently thrown down the door is washt with holy Water it 's opened the Company enters into the Church they sing Vesperas with all solemnity and at the same time the Pope sends three Cardinals to open the doors of the Churches of St. Paul of St. John Lateran of St. Mary Major where the same Ceremonies are used The Silver Hammer is a Symbol of the Popes power which Jesus Christ gave him by giving him the Keys of St. Peter the Hammer was formerly of Massy Gold The Penitentiaries in such Solemnities are near the Popes Person to shew that he communicates his Jurisdiction to Confessors to whom he gives the power of Absolving from all Crimes and even in cases that are reserved to himself The opening of the Holy Door is an Hieroglyphick of the opening of the Churches Treasure whereof the Pope is the dispenser four doors are open'd to shew that persons are call'd from the four parts of the world The Doors are washt to intimate that those persons gain the Jubile who are cleansed from their faults and defilement by the vertue of the Sacraments and by the application of the Merits of Jesus Christ over the Holy Door they set the Name of the Pope that opened it last and the time The shutting up of the Jubile THe end of the year of Jubile being elaps'd the Pope on Christmass-Eve goes in Procession from the Apostolick Palace to St. Peters Church where after Vesperas are sung his Holiness appoints three Cardinals to go and shut the other three holy doors and at the same time himself accompanied with the Clergy and with all that is great and splendid in Rome marches processionally goes forth at the holy door blesses the Materials appointed to wall it up which is not open'd but the year of the Jubile lays the first stone with some pieces of Gold and of Silver and says in Latine what I turn into English Through the Faith and through the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ Son of the living God who said to the Prince of the Apostles Thou art Peter and on this Rock I will build my Church we lay this first stone for shutting this Holy Door which ought to be again thus shut in this year of Jubile In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost In what sence the Title of Holiness is attributed to the Pope against the Protestants THe Pretenders to Religion who love always to cavil and to mix Controversy in their Discourse conformable to what is said by the Latine Poet Navita de ventis de Bobus narrat Arator Enumerat Miles vulnera Pastor oves not able to endure that we give the Pope the Title of Holiness nor that we call the Doors before mentioned Holy thinking it a Blasphemy I answer them that they blame what they do not understand they ought to consider that there are three sorts of Holiness the first by Nature and Essence which is increated infinite incomprehensible and incommunicable to all other persons but to those of the most Holy Trinity The second by Consecration which is found in animate and inanimate things it is diversly caused by Prayers and Blessings by Oyl and by Unction The third Holiness consists in an Habitual Grace inviolable to sin The Catholicks do not say that the Pope is Holy by a Holiness of Nature or of Essence which belongs but to God alone who is the sole Original final Sovraign of all Holiness the Popes understand it so they own themselves sinners before God implore his mercy and make a confession of their sins When we call the Pope the Holy Father it is by Consecration the Priests the Prophets and the Kings were Anointed and Consecrated under the ancient Law as well as the new and now the Popes and the Abbo●s are blest Churches Altars Tabernacles Crosses Chalices and Bells are holy things with a Holiness of Consecration which is an exteriour Sanctification If the Roman Church be call'd Holy why shall we not call him Holy that presides in it If the Body be called Holy the Head is not Profane The great Priest Aaron wore on his Tiara a Plate of Gold where these ●ords were Engraven Holiness to the Lord. Let us proceed to the other remarks and disquisitions Other Splendid Ceremonies IT 's at Rome where we see Seven other very curious and remarkable Ceremonies the Canonization of Saints the Coronation of the Pope that of the Emperour of Kings of Empresses of Queens and the Creation of Cardinals A touch in the Honour of Rome IF it be said of this Capital of the world that at present Rome is sought for is Rome because it has lost that vain splendour which it drew from its ancient Roman Emperours we say also that what she holds no longer by her arms she possesses by Religion Sedes Roma Petri quae Pastoralis honoris Facta Caput Mundi quicquid non possidet Armis Religione tenet It 's said of St. Peters Church at Rome and of St. Sernin at Tolouse Non est in toto Sanctior orbe locus Three desires of St. Austin ST Austin wisht to see Three things Jesus Christ on the Earth St. Paul in the Chair and Rome the Triumphante The Dominion of the Pope THe Vatican which is the Palace of St. Peter the Palace of St. John Lateran Castelgandolphi Mont-Cavallo otherwise Montquirinal and the Castle St. Angelo belong to the Pope he possesses the Patrimony of St. Peter the Dukedom of Spoleto Marcha Anconitana Romandiola the Dutchy of Benevent in the Kingdom of Naples the Dukedoms of Ferrara and of Vrbin Ceneda in the Marca Trevisano Montaldo and San Stephano on the side of the River of Genoa and the Country of Avignon in France c. You must observe that the Countess Mathilda made the Holy Sea Heir to her Lands which have since been call'd St. Peters Patrimony When the Roman Emperour is at Rome he lodges in the Vatican which is the Imperial Palace Civita Vecchia is famous for it's Port it s there where his Holinesses Galleys are

sound of the Trumpet the people cry'd often Let the King live On this occasion the Romans cryed at the Proclamation of their Emperours The Gods protect and keep you for ever Froissard and Enguerand de Monstrelet cited by Peter de Romuald say that it is not yet 200 years since that in France instead of crying Vive le Roy they cryed Noël Noël that is as though they said Hosanna which signifies Salus Gloria Blessed be him that comes in the Name of the Lord. It 's to the Kings of France that Heaven sent the Holy Vial for their Consecration in the person of Clovis An ancient Poet made these Verses on this Subject Remigius sacris Regem dum lavit in undis Attulit è sacro Chrisma Columba polo. It is those who have the power and vertue of curing the Kings Evil by the touch of their Royal hands and making the sign of the Cross on the Patient and saying The King touches and God cures How redoubtable to Infidels has been the Royal Standart or Banner which some think to have been sent from Heaven to Clovis I shall say no more the splendour of the Majesty of Loüis the Great dazles me I have not the Eyes of an Eagle to look fixtly on the Sun I shall onely add something concerning the Education of Monsieur le Dauphin The Dolphin of France and his Marriage THis Prince came into the world the first day of November 1661. The King has enlightned the steps of his youth and has given him a meet Education and inspired into him that he must never be Absolute but in Reason and Justice These are the firm Pillars of a State His Majesty considering that it is to infect the head of a publick Fountain to corrupt the Soul of a Prince that may one day be seated on the Throne for this reason removes from his company Flatterers and Libertines who might render obscure the precious gifts and rare qualities which Heaven pours with full hands on this Royal Soul which rejoyces France which increases every day more and more by the noble cares by the high lights and by the incomparable Conduct of the Illustrious Persons who have governed and instructed him This Prince in his Orient is the admiration of the whole Court of Ambassadors and of Forreign Ministers and will be one day the Model of the greatest Heroes We see this Divine Plant to grow and rise it self every day to the admiration and glory of France and of the Church Anno 1668 Pope Clement the Ninth sent into France Prince Loüis Cardinal Deacon Duke of Vendôme Legat a Latere to Loüis the Fourteenth for the Solemnity and Ceremony of the Baptism of Monsieur le Dauphin His Holiness was Godfather and he was named Loüis August This Prince has Married the Electoral Princess of Bavaria Mary-Ann-Victoir-Christian People admire her Perfections the excellency of her Understanding her Majestick Air the evenness of her Humour and generally all the excellent qualities that she possesses which yet as eminent as they are are much beneath the Christian Vertues wherewith her fair Soul is endowed This great Princess will give her Spouse Heirs to the Crown and he in exchange will Crown her with Palms and Laurels The Church and the State will gather the fruits of Glory and of Benediction The 7th of March 1680 Cardinal Boüillon great Almoner of France gave them the second Benediction of Marriage at Chalons on Marn Lilia florebunt the Lillies will flourish and diffuse their agreeable odour over all the earth I have spoken of the August Electoral House of Bavaria in the Tract of the Princes Electors of the Empire The Duke of Orleans MOnsieur the only Brother of the King did not fail to signalize his Courage before Lisle and Mastrich when they were reduced and to take Towns on other occasions Before he reduced St. Omer to the Kings Obedience he surpast himself on the eleventh of April of the year 1677. at the Battle which he fought at Cassel being assisted by the Marshals d'Humieres and de Luxembourg where he gained a very great and very famous Victory o'er the Spanish and Dutch Troops commanded by the Prince of Orange The Chevalier de Lorain was always near his person in the Fight and his Brother the Chevalier d'Harcourt may be lookt upon as a second David after having killed at the Battle of Raab the Turkish Goliah who insolently insulted over the Christian Army Cassel is known in History to have been the field of Battle of three Sons of France all called Philip the first was overcome the other two were Conquerers This last and glorious day was remarkable for many singular actions the Cavalry contributed extreamly by their vigour to the gaining of this great Battle they had the advantage to give the beginning to the Victory overthrowing at first onset the left Wing of the Enemy We may say that the first Squadron composed of Scotch and English was not of those that signalized themselves least by the advantage it had to begin and almost to end this great day it was led by the Compt de Bröe more known by the name de la Guette His firmness was like to have cost him his life in the last Charge his sole Squadron which was well kept in order being attackt by five Squadrons of the Enemy This Count Captain-Lieutenant of the English Souldiery for his most Christian Majesty was very fortunate in that it cost him but his liberty ev'n his Enemies rendred Justice to his Merit by treating him with as much Civility as he could wish The Musketeers came very seasonably at the instant that the Victory hanged in doubt they made themselves Masters of the Barricado of Cassel The Commander de Fourbin whose Illustrious and Ancient House has furnisht great Captains and learned Politicians to the State whom our Kings have caressed and honoured with the greatest Employs of the Kingdom and so esteemed them that they have been pleased to have them for their safety as well as for their Councel near their Royal persons it 's the Elogy of their Family The Wise and Valiant Fourbins gave a testimony of both in this dangerous and important occasion and his Majesty shewed his generous acknowledgment by the reception he made him at his glorious return even to give him his Picture which he took from his arm and which the Sieur Commander Captain-Lieutenant of the first Company had more in his heart than all the Pictures that could be given him The Sieur de Hautfaye Lord of Jonvel Captain-Lieutenant of the second Company did his part well there The Chevalier de Lussan in this famous Battle lost one Arm by a Cannon-shot in the service of his King and Country The Count d'Avejan Captain of the Guards bestirred himself vigorously according to his wont The Prince of Condé and the Duke d'Enguien FRance has always been provided with great Men in all Ages and in all kinds It has not been at a loss

Family that of the Palatinate of the Rhine that of Bavaria and that of Cologne which has been for about an Age in this House The Elector of Saxony JOhn Georges the Third of the name Duke of Saxony Landtgrave of Thuringia Marquess of Misnia Great Marshal or Great Gentleman of the Horse of the Empire Prince and Elector Luth. Quarterly 1. upper Saxony 2. Thuringia 3. Misnia 4. lower Saxony Over all the Electorate which is barrely Or and Sable upon that a Crown Verte placed Bendways Dresde on the River Elbe is at present the ordinary place of Residence of this Elector His Revenue both ordinary and extraordinary may amount to about eight millions of Livres Magdebourg is the greatest Town of all the Country The Elector of Brandenburg possesses it by vertue of the Treaty of Munster according to which the Empire has consented that he hold in Soveraignty the Archbishoprick of Magdebourg and the two Bishopricks of Albestad and Minden to indemnifie him for Pomeran●a Vlterior possess'd by the Swedes Besides that his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg keeps a great Garison at Magdebourg he spares nothing in fortifying it The present Archbishop who is Lutheran is also Bishop of All. He enjoys a great Revenue This Prelate or Governour is of the House of Saxony He is married and has Children well grown in years Amongst his Titles he takes that of Primate of Germany the Electoral Archbishops contest this Primacy with him The House of Saxony is esteem'd one of the most antient of Europe Wittemberg was formerly the Seat of the Duke This Town is known throughout the Earth for having first followed the Heresiarch Luther Native of Islebe in the County of Mansfel who having liv'd some time in the Order of the Fryers Hermites of S. Austin left them An. 1517. The publication of a Plenary Indulgence throughout all Christendom in favour of a Croisade against the Turks serv'd him as a Stumbling-block because Cardinal Albert of Brandenbourg Archbishop of Mayence and Commissary of the holy See permitted Father John Tetzellius a Dominican to publish this great Indulgence Martin Luther who at that time was a Religious man and Professor in Divinity took so great a pique at it through a motive of Jealousie and sell into such a fury being assisted by John Stuaupire Vicar-general of his Order that he began to preach against the Pope and against his Indulgences maintaining that they were diabolical Inventions that the Roman Church must be left and a Sect made apart that there needs no Fasting that Ecclesiasticks Religious men ad women ought to marry and an infinite store of the like Errours The sensuality of his Doctrine joyn'd with the Revenues of the Church being employ'd in Pomps in Vanities other worse things drew to him a great many Followers and even persons of power John Frederick Elector of Saxony and Sichingi a great German Captain upheld Luther He chang'd the name of Ludder which signifies a Mocker and Thief into that of Luther which signifies Pure and dyed An. 1646. sixty three years and some months old He made his own Epitaph in these words Pestis eram vivus moriens ero mors tua Papa This Butterflye threaten'd an Elephant the Plague is ceast and the Popes live without interruption in glory Melancthon speaks of this Epitaph in his Funeral-Oration Vpper Saxony belongs to the Elector the lower to the House of Brunswick for the greatest part of it and to that of Saxony Lavenburg on the Elbe which is the Head of the Illustrious House of Anhalt comprizing the Towns of Hambourg Breme and the County of Oldenburg The Town of Brunswick in the middle of Saxony is very much enlarg'd it is at present under the government of the Duke of Wolfem-buttel Head of his Family These three Brothers the Duke of Zell of Hanover and the Bishop of Osnaburg are of the same House The Elector of Brandenburg FRederick William Marquess of Brandenburg Great Chamberlain of the Empire and Elector Duke of Prussia Magdeburg Juliers Cleves Monts Stetin Pomerania Cassubia Windalia or Wenden of Crossen and of Jagendorff Bourgrave of Nuremberg Prince of Alberstad and of Minde Earl of la Mark and Ravenspurg Lord of Ruvestein and other places These are the Titles which I saw in a Brief which his Electoral Highness gave to a person of my acquaintance This Prince was born the sixth of Feb. 1620. he does not enjoy Crossen and Jagendorff but the Emperour This Elector Frederick William married in his first marriage Loüise Henrietta Princess of Orange An. 1646. who dyed the eighth of June 1667. and in his second marriage Dorothy Daughter of Philip of Holstein Gluxbourg Dowager of Christian Loüis Duke of Brunswick the 14th of June 1668. He has many Children by both He is a Calvinist He bears divers Quarterings containing several Alliances and Principalities over all Azure a Scepter in pale Or which belongs to the Electorate a triple Helm and triple Crest The Livery of this Elector is of a blue colour Brandenburg is the capital City of the Marquisate to which it gives the name it is seated on the River Havel It is seen at a great distance by reason of its two great Towers This Town has the title of Bishoprick Luther receiv'd there the Order of Priesthood Berlin Spandau and Posdam are the ordinary places of Residence of his Electoral Highness Berlin is the greatest Town of the Marquisate here nam'd the River Suevus waters it It s Soil is the most fertile and pleasant of the Marcha of Brandenburg Berlin is as big as Montpellier or Beziers They count there three Towns to wit Coln otherwise Cologne on Suevus where is the Palace of the Elector the ancient Town of Berlin and the new which is call'd Fridericverde This Elector next the Emperour has more Land and Souldiery than any of the other Princes of Germany He has ordinarily twenty five or thirty thousand men on foot and good Souldiers His Revenue ordinary and extraordinary is eleven or twelve Millions some say fourteen His Court is Royal and is the best of the Empire next that of his Imperial Majesty He has three Provinces which go by the name of la Marcha to wit the Old the New and the Mean Three Bishopricks Brandenburg le Buz and Havelsberg Frederick Burgrave of Nuremburg bought An. 1417. the March of Brandenburg of the Emperour Sigismond for four hundred thousand Florins after having first sold his Burgraviate for two hundred and forty thousand Florins The Estates of this Elector contain in length above two hundred German leagues from Hussen near Arnhen to Memel in Prussia they are not large This Prince goes on his Lands from the Low Countries as far as Poland and Curland The Oder the Elbe and the Havel water these Estates This Prince is descended from the House of the Earls of Zolleren in Suabia in the Diocess of Constance whereof the Head of the Family is Catholick This Elector has done memorable things

An. 1360. Bartholomew le Noir was at Venice to cast Cannon to the end that the Venetians should make use of them to recover from the Genoeses Fossa Claudia about the year 1378. according to Sabellicus Blondus and others The use was receiv'd in France Anno 1425. at the time that an English Earl call'd Thomas of Montigni besieg'd the Town of Mans. Petrarch falsely believ'd that the famous Archimedes of the Town of Syracuse was the Inventer of Cannon because he conveyed great Rocks by Mathematical Springs into the near Vessels of the Enemies and burnt them with Burning-glasses The Chineses boast that a Demon shew'd the Invention to their first King above a thousand years before the Nativity of the Son of God SPAIN CHarles the Second of the House of Austria King of Spain was born the sixth of November An. 1661. He is Catholick and even so call'd It 's a Title given by Pope Alexander the Sixth to Ferdinand the Fifth and in his person to his Successors for having destroy'd in Spain the Moors and Sarasins He bears quarterly the Arms of Castille which are Gules a Castle triple tower'd Or and those of Leon which are Argent a Lion Gules and within an Escotcheon the Arms of his principal Realms which we should call in France Provinces The Kings Livery is of a yellow colour The ordinary Devise of some Kings of Spain is this Omnes contra me ego contra omnes Since Philip the Second the Town of Madrid scituated in new Castille is the ordinary place of Residency of this Court. There is a great Bridge and a little River under it call'd Manzanarez on the occasion of which an Embassadour said to the Emperour Charles the Fifth Less Bridge or more Water The Kings Palace is call'd Pallasso del Rey otherwise Palasso Real The eldest Sons of the King of Spain are called Princes of Austria as in France Dolphins in England Princes of Wales in Portugal Princes of Algarves and in Savoy Princes of Piedmont A relation whereof I could quote the Author tells us that a man must be clad in black to speak to his Catholick Majesty I know the contrary by Spaniards who have had the honour to speak to him in grey Clothes I may believe that a man must appear before him in black Clothes when he is in Mourning and be in a decent habit The Coach-men sit on one of the horses which go at the Draught-tree since the time that the Coach-man of Count Alvarez who sate before the Coach reveal'd a Secret of his Master which he had overheard The same thing is practis'd in Germany The chief Houses of Pleasure belonging to the King and out of Madrid are IL Campo il Retiro Aranjues le Pardo the Escurial and Jarzuela The Spaniards make of this last save one the eighth Wonder of the World Philip the Second laid out twenty Millions in building it he caus'd the Escurial to be built both in memory of the Victory which he gain'd over the French An. 1557. at S. Quentin in Picardy on the Somme the tenth of August being S. Laurence's day and for having caus'd the Church of S. Laurence of S. Quentin to be beaten down whereupon he made a Promise to God to cause a finer to be built in Spain in the honour of the same Saint and a Monastery where the Monks of S. Hierome are magnificently seated The King has a Seat in the Refectuary and a great Palace without the Convent After the Library of the Vatican which is the first of the World that of these Monks has been greatly valued There is seen at il Campo a great Park for the divertisement of Hunting great Ponds and Gardens At il Retiro otherwise call'd Buen Retiro there is seen Philip the Fourth on a Horse of cast Copper The King passes there the greatest heats of the Summer by reason of its Waters and fine Grotto's of different kinds The fine Walks are there as green in the Summer as in the Spring-time There is a strange Figure there standing in the midst of a great Cistern casting forth water from all the parts of its body which is made use of for watering in a moment a Garden of the Palace full of all sorts of Flowers There is also seen there Gardens full of Fruit-trees At il Pardo are the Pictures of all the Kings of Spain The ancient Palace of one of the Kings of the Moors call'd Halambra is remarkable for being flankt with thirty Towers it is on one of the little Hills of the Town of Grenada The chief places of Devotion IN Madrid the Church of our Lady Almudena and that of Athoca are very famous Our Lady of Athoca call'd according to the Language of the Country Nostra Senora d' Athoca is at Madrid as the Church of our Lady at Paris for Piety and the concourse of People It 's there where the Te Deum is sung Saint James of Compostella in Galicia is a very famous place of Pilgrimage the French Pilgrims that go thither pass over the Trembling Bridge It is thought that this Bridge is so call'd by reason of the flowing of the Sea which coming to press against it makes it tremble It 's a roguish Bridge of wood a little River passes under it The Apostle S. James the Greater is the Patron of all Spain His Relicks are under the great Altar of the Metropolitan Church of Compostella his Figure representing half his body is over it his Pilgrims Staff is on the side of the Quire and his Head at Toulouse in the Church of S. Sernin It 's there where the Pilgrims begin their Pilgrimage S. James has been seen to fight for the Spaniards against the Sarasins holding in his hand a white Standart with a red Cross in it in the time of King Ramires who being assisted with his Apostle charg'd so briskly the Enemies that he cut in pieces 60000 on the place Charlemagne King of France was at Compostella to honour St. James and caus'd his Church to be built Since the Kings of Spain have been Catholicks they have always honour'd him I have read a Relation of divers Voyages in which the Author says that St. James suffered Martyrdom at Compostella It 's a roguish Memoire which has been given him I remit him to the Books of the Acts of the Apostles to the Ecclesiastical History and to the holy Martyrology and he will find that it was at Hierusalem that Herod caus'd him to be beheaded This Apostle having continued some time in Spain return'd to Judaea his Disciples after his death carried him from the Port of Joppe presently to Fa where they embarkt for Spain and after having sail'd all along the Mediterranean Sea and pass'd the Straight of Gibralter they took on the Ocean the course of Galicia where they landed and disembarkt the body of the Saint in the Town of Irisflavia where he continued hidden and unknown till it was miraculously discover'd by a Star which appear'd there