purpose But to curse excommunicate murther and damn People as Hereticks because they do not believe and comply with such Stuff as this must be as much beside true Christian Charity as the other is beside a true Faith But let us look a little also into the Trick of the Fraternities and see how these are contriv'd and manag'd for the making provision for these idle useless Drones call'd Religious among whom the Christian Faith like stagnating Water has been so monstrously corrupted for want of being exercis'd duly in Works truly good And upon consideration of the matter we shall find these Fraternities to be as great and wicked a Corruption of Christian Religion as any is in the Roman Church or indeed as any can be To these Monks belongs the Fraternity of the Cord of St. Francis by Virtue of which many of the People are joyn'd to them coming to publick Worship constantly in their Meeting-Places and receiving all Administrations of the Divine Ordinances from them I shall give some Account of this from what themselves say of it in a Book written to recommend it to the People call'd The little Spiritual Wine-press or a short Account of the Original Worthiness Miracles Conditions Priviledges Fruits Indulgences of the far renowned Archbrotherhood of the holy Five Wounds and Sufferings of Christ nam'd the Cord of St. Francis It is pretended indeed that this Fraternity is set up to honour and commemorate the Sufferings of Jesus Christ but we shall find by understanding it that 't is rather design'd to honour St. Francis and to maintain these his Brothers To show how acceptable to God the Remembrance of Christ's Sufferings is they tell this Story of St. Francis He had they say such Compassion and Devotion to the bitter Sufferings of Christ that he would often burst out with Tears and cry and moan most bitterly as if Men were putting him to the greatest Torment Therefore Christ also honour'd him with the Marks of his holy Five Wounds to renew in the World the Remembrance of his Benefits and Love shown to us in his bitter Sufferings So the World is to remember the Sufferings of Christ by the Wounds of St. Francis and I doubt not 't is one Conformity of the pretended Saint to Jesus Christ that Men must expect to be sav'd by the Merits of his Wounds too They say that St. Francis hearing that Scripture read Provide neither Gold nor Silver nor Brass in your Purses nor Scrip for your Journey neither Shoes he immediately threw off his Shoes disposed of the little Money he had and his Purse too and laid aside his Girdle and instead of it girt himself with a Cord. But certainly if this Scripture is to be taken in the strict literal Sence for a common Rule St. Francis should have let alone the Cord and not have girt himself at all for even the Cord might be reckon'd a Girdle But for all that they tell us that through this Cord Almighty God has done many wonderful Works so that not only the Cord but also the Water in which the Cord had been wash'd would heal Diseases which signifies in what great Esteem men ought to hold this Cord. But is it possible for any man seriously to think it worth while for the Infinite Wisdom and Power to alter the Course of Nature and work Miracles for the Honour of this Cord Certainly nothing can be more impious and blasphemous than the ascribing to the great Sovereign and Author of the World the working Miracles on so trifling Occasions as they many times find for them in the Histories of their Saints which is as if the Divine Power like a paultry Jugler would show Tricks for the sake of showing them To go on Pope Leo X. granted to the Order of the Minor Brothers the Power to administer the Cord to all Christian People with great Indulgences and Priviledges Many Great and Noble Persons have born this Cord openly namely 4 Popes 48 Cardinals 2 Emperors 12 Kings many other Noble and a multitude of meaner People Sixtus the Fifth Pope of Rome through his pious and religious Charity establish'd in the Year 1586. this Archbrotherhood of the Cord of Assise for the purposes following In the first place to renew the remembrance of the Sufferings of Christ as is pretended but it might have been let alone for all this because Jesus Christ himself has left us a fit and sufficient memorial of them in the Sacrament of his Supper 2. He having observ'd how great Devotion many People bore to the H. Francis who yet had no opportunity to forsake the World and live under the direction of any of his 3 Holy Rules he therefore instituted this Brotherhood that they might at least in the wearing of this Cord become the followers of St. Francis be excited to all Virtue and might live and die in the love of God 3. And also that all faithful People through the whole World who afford daily Sustenance and Food to the minor Brothers may from the same Religious receive Spiritual Gifts and Assistances And this without doubt is the chief reason for this wise Institution to encourage and oblige an easie and abus'd Devotion to contribute real Benefits for the empty return of Imaginary ones Further to recommend this Brotherhood or wheedle the People are told that among other Privileges granted by God himself to the H. Father Francis this is one That he should release every Year upon the day of his Festival all the Souls of those of his three Orders and the Souls of those who have been Benefactors to them from the dismal Fire of Purgatory The mighty Privileges and Benefits belonging to this Fraternity are too many to be here enumerated but I shall mention some of them Those that enter themselves herein shall enjoy all the Indulgences and Favours granted to the minor Brothers They shall be partakers of the merits of all the Fasts Prayers Watchings and other good Works which are done through the whole World by those who live cloister'd in eternal Idleness the Order of minor Brothers the Clarisses the third Rule and by the whole Brotherhood of the Cord. They shall receive Plenary Indulgence upon the day of their coming into the Brotherhood once and at the day of their Death Upon all the Feast-days of our Saviour and upon all the Festivals of our good Lady upon St. Francis's day All-Saints-day and through the whole good Week before Easter This is granted by Leo the 10th Note That the Brothers and Sisters of the Archbrotherhood ought to seek of their Father Consessor who must also be a Minorite these great Indulgences and Absolutions Plenary Indulgence to all those of the Brotherhood who shall joyn in the monthly Procession of the Archbrotherhood and to those who are not of the Brotherhood but shall join in that Procession an Indulgence of an hundred Years At Ruremond Venlo c. upon the first Sunday of the Month at Brussels Bruges c.
agreeable to a German Soul At another Place the Water comes up through a Pipe very quick and raiseâ— a wooden Ball about Four Foot high from the top of the Pipe and keeps it at that heighth twirling in the Air. As one enters this Place there stands an Obelisk of Stone on the Pedestal are laid five great Globes of Stone and upon them the tall Pillar stands At the top of this is an Effigies of Prince Maurice of polish'd Steel The Memory of this great Man is very fresh and much honour'd here and we shall have something more to say of him anon In this City the Magistracy under the Electour of Brandenburg are of the Calvinist sort but he tolerates every other sort of Religion here with the Indifferency of the Dutch in that matter The Anabaptists have a Congregation here The Protestants have a good large Church encompass'd with a Church-Yard but the Papists are a great Proportion of the People of the City They are in Possession of the great Church as 't is call'd and of the Revenues belonging to it This stands high and is visible long before one comes to the City by two Turrets at the West end of it This is a Collegiate Church and entertains about fifteen Chanoines The Person that show'd it us said they possess all the Revenue that they ever had but it is but small We saw nothing fine in the Church but all was in a pretty good Condition There are two large Monuments of Dukes of Cleve which contain them and their Dutchesses and their Children but are very naked and plain Here they pretend to have the Relicks of some of the famous Companions of St. Ursula who St. Uâ—sula were says Story but Eleven thousand in all and all Virgins they came from Brittaine were taken in a Storm at Sea and drove above an hundred Miles within Land up the Rhine to the Country near Colen There they died all together by the barbarous Huns and Alans when they over-run that Country Some think that the making them amount to so extravagant a Number was occasion'd by mistake and that they were indeed but Eleven in all besides St. Ursula Some ignorant Monk took these Notes XI M V as signifying Eleven thousand Virgins whereas they were intended to fignifie Eleven Martyr'd Virgins But however after him the infallible Tradition of the Roman Church votes for the greater Number among the People and the Governours of the Church are willing to let it run so because that Number will best serve to countenance the abundant Relicks of these Virgins which in many Places are pretended to Bishop Godeau says That in many Churches of France there are Heads shown which are pretended to have been the Heads of some of the Companions of St. Ursula In this Church within a strong Iron Grate to preserve these precious Relicks are seen a Number of Skulls I suppose about eight or nine which they say were the Heads of some of these Virgins and a multitude of little Pieces of Bones are laid up against the Wall which they pretend were theirs and under these things is a Tomb where they say three of their Bodies are interr'd The Church of Rome solemnly commemorates these Virgins on the 21st of October but under the Name of St. Ursula and her Companions without determining the Number because though they believe it not themselves they are willing to continue the pious Fraud if any such there be among their People In the Mass for the Day at a Venture they make the following Prayer O Lord our God may it please thee to grant us the Grace to Reverence with a continual Devotion the Victories of thy Holy Virgins and Martyrs Ursula and her Companions to the â—â—d that although we cannot worthily solemâ—â—â—e their Triumph we may nevertheless be faithful to render them our humble Respects by c. There is also an Order of Nuns that are particularly devoted to St. Ursula they are a Branch of the Augustines but distinguish themselves from the rest by their Devotion to St. Ursula we met with their Houses in many Places of this Journey They began in Italy 't is said where they were approv'd by Pope Gregory XIII in the Year 1572. Yet after all 't is most probable there never was any such Person and Godeau honestly says in his Church History that the Story is full of manifest Falsities I waited upon the Protestant Minister here Lutherans for the sake of seeing his Church and acquainting my self with their way of administring the publick Worship He receiv'd me very civilly and testified great Respects for the Church of England He has also mighty Veneration and Esteem for our King whose Renown and Praises he has publish'd in Latin and High Dutch Verse I saw in his House a Picture in black and white of Martin Luther it represented him with a fuller Face than I had seen before but he said it was very exactly taken from a Picture of him which had been drawn from the Life in the Country where he liv'd It was all done with a Pen and is no bigger then might be cover'd with a little Hand That which seem'd most curious in it is a small Writing in High Dutch Language but in Latin Letters so curiously laid about it that some very artificially makes the Folds of his Gown some is turn'd about upon his Head and makes a Bush of curl'd Hair and two Lines over each Eye form his Eye-brows The Writing contains several remarkable Passages of his Life As the Picture hung up against the Wall tho' but at a little Distance I could not perceive that any of this was Writing but when it was in my Hand I could distinguish the Letters plainly and spell the Words I went into his Church which is a good large one and will hold a multitude of People yet by the Encrease of his Congregation they are forc'd to enlarge their Room The Communion-Table stood here upon an Ascent of one Step at the East End of the Church The Book of Liturgy was upon it and is used there I saw it contain'd their Spiritual Songs and Psalms and Forms of Prayer Over it against the Wall was somewhat a confus'd Picture representing the Benefit which good Men received by the Blood of Christ before his Coming as well as in the Times of the Gospel It might be said to be an Emblem of that Text Jesus Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever Here again I understood that the Rites and Methods of Administring the Publick Worship in the Lutheran Congregations are different in several Provinces and Countries yet Lutherans wherever they come join with Lutherans and scruple not to conform to what they find practised in such indifferent Matters We were told of a small Collection of Roman Antiquities at a Place call'd Bergendale about a Mile from the City we went to it in the Way to Zante upon the Hill being charmed with the Pleasantness of it For
AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY Through some Provinces of Germany In the Year 1698. OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING The Present State OF RELIGION IN THE Romish Church WITH Some REFLECTIONS upon them Made in a JOURNEY Through some Provinces of Germany In the Year 1698. AS ALSO An ACCOUNT of what seemed most Remarkable in those COUNTRIES By THEOPHILUS DORRINGTON Rector of Wittresham in KENT LONDON Printed for John Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1699. TO THE Most Reverend Father in GOD THOMAS By Divine Providence Lord Arch-Bishop of CANTERBURY And Metropolitan of all ENGLAND May it please Your Grace IT affords the greatest Satisfaction and Contentment of any thing a Man can do to serve the Glory of God and the Interest of his True Religion Establish'd among us And I must reckon my self peculiarly oblig'd to endeavour this by the great Favour of the Divine Providence in leading me by his Grace out of an Unhappy Separation in which I had been Educated to unite my self to the Church of England It has also pleas'd the Divine Goodness to make some Use of my mean Endeavours according to a Method usual with his Infinite Wisdom which is Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings to ordain Strength and to chuse the weak things of the World to perform by them some of his most Glorious Effects These things have carried me on in this Endeavour these things have supported me under the Difficulties and Disadvantages I have sometimes encountred And by Vertue of them as I entred the Church of God upon a deliberate Consideration and with a full Conviction of Conscience that it was my indispensible Duty as I did it in Defiance of that terrible Storm of Persecution which threatned it and was begun at that time from a Combination of all the Sorts of its Enemies against it so I thank God I have been so supported that no Hardships have ever been able to make me repent the doing so And I think my self infinitely more oblig'd to the Divine Goodness for having been in any measure able to exercise the Faith and Patience I had occasion for than if I had in any of the Ways of Schism grown Rich and Prosperous in the World And I have Reason at length to say I waited patiently for the Lord and he enclined unto me and heard my Calling This Acknowledgment I think my self bound to make as publick as I can for the Edification of others and for the Glory of God to whom be all Glory for ever and ever My Lord I know what is said in due Thankfulness and Acknowledgment to Almighty God whom you Love and Honour will be very acceptable to Your Grace But I must go on and say that which will not be so acceptable and yet I think my self indispensably oblig'd to say it I must own with all thankfulness that Your Grace has been by Your Condescending Goodness the Instrument of the Divine Providence in my Support and Encouragement And I am oblig'd entirely to Your Grace's Favour for a Competent and Comfortable Subsistence Your Grace has shown herein the Excellent Spirit of a true Church-of England-Man that is of a very good Christian The Disposition which is a Glorious Imitation of the Goodness of God in being Merciful as our heavenly Father is Merciful and ready like him to pardon and favour a returning Penitent May it please the Divine Goodness in Favour to his Church to continue long in Your Important Station a Person who knows so well how to Honour and Recommend his Church to those that are in Error and Disobedience and what is the best Course and Method to cure our Unhappy Divisions May Your Grace live to see us well and generally United among our selves and in a strong League and Union with all Foreign Protestants for our mutual Defence against the common Enemy My Lord I humbly beg leave to present the following Memorials to Your Grace hoping they may obtain the Favour of Your Patronage as demonstrating a Concern for the Glory of God and for the Honour of Christian Religion and as containing Matters of Fact which many among us will be able to make use of in Defence of the Reformation and Conviction of the Roman Church of the heaviest Imputations which ours has ever charg'd upon her to much further and better Purpose than I have done or can do it I could not so justly present them to any Person as to Your Grace because of my greater Obligations to Your Grace than to any other Person in the World And because it was by Your Grace's Favour and Recommendation that I obtain'd the Means and Opportunity to make up these Observations I must now humbly beg Your Grace's Pardon for this Presumption and the Interruption I have given to Your more Important Thoughts And engage my self for ever to be My Lord Your Grace's Most Humble Obedient and Dutiful Son Wittresham Decemb. 8. 1698. Theophilus Dorrington THE PREFACE HAving lately had Occasion to sojourn almost Two Years in a * Antwerp City of the Roman Communion And that such an one as follows and observes all the Methods and Practices of Superstition and Idolatry used in that Church perhaps in as good earnest and with as much Exactness as any other whatever I had thereby Opportunity to observe several things of that Nature in common Vse there which are not now com ✚ monly known to us in England This may well be I think because 't is some time since the Goodness of the Divine Providence to us has happily deliver'd our Church from the Corruptions of Popery Besides this the Church of Rome which hates to be Reform'd has since that time carried its Corruptions and Disorders yet further and to more enormous Degrees to fulfil the Character of Evil Men and Seducers who grow woâ—â—e and worse I saw too among them a Multitude of things that are a plain and perfect Contradiction to those Plausible Expositions and Representations of the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome which have of late been made use of with but too much Success in many Places This Artifice indeed has been lately very learnedly and strongly oppos'd among us and the Cheat of it abundantly discover'd But after all those who go abroad into Places of the Roman Communion and who set themselves to observe what they may and to examine what they observe cannot chuse but think there may be Materials collected which may yet be used to a further Effect against this Desire and I wish there were no need to do this I had therefore a Design to have communicated to the Publick what I had observ'd upon my coming home from that Place but could hardly have perswaded my self to do it because the Observations I had made there were confin'd to one City only I was therefore glad when I found my self engag'd to go abroad again hoping that an Opportunity might offer it self to go further and to improve or confirm them at least by what
I might see elsewhere Things succeeded in some Measure according to my Wish I found I could be spar'd from the Family I was in and easily obtain'd leave to be absent for a little while I resolv'd to improve my time as well as I could and directed my Course to such Places within a little Compass as I thought fittest to afford me the Matter of such Observations as I sought for Thus I came to be furnish'd with the Materials which are here put together I now resolve to publish them for several Reasons and hope they may be serviceable to several important Purposes We have indeed especially the Vnlearned Part of the Nation forgotten what the Popish Religion is in Truth And there is an Ignorance of this among us which gives us a great deal of Disturbance and which does a great deal of Harm For hereby some things among us are cried out against with a mighty Ardour and Fierceness as Popish which are truely Innocent and Vseful and which are deriv'd from the most pious and purest Times of Primitive Christianity And on the other side some things both in Doctrine and Practice are fondly hugg'd and stickled for by the same People who make that unreasonable Out cry which were brought in with and do truely belong to the Corruptions of the Roman Church These People want to have their Notions rectify'd and their Idea of Popery corrected and made more accurate and just by a distinct Representation of the Particulars which will give the true Character of it There are very unhappy Consequences and Effects of this Mistake Some of the Reform'd Churches abroad who do not know distinctly the State of ours are prejudiced against us by the Writings and Reports of these foolish People as having a World of the Popish Superstition and Corruption still among us and as being very tenacious and fond of it And they cannot think us fit for their Correspondence in order to our mutual Defence upon that score Besides the Influence which our Church and Nation might have abroad towards the Defence and perhaps the propagating and promoting of the Reformation is hereby much abated at least if I may not say 't is wholly lost while so many among us apply all their Concern and Endeavour in Caballing against and Seeking to undermine and throw down an Imaginary Popery in the Church of England That Influence might be very considerable if there were a Concurrence of all Parties towards it by the Help of our Extensive Trade and with the Advantage in respect of Learning which our Vniversities and Clergy have over the greatest Part of if I may not say all the Church of Rome But especially under the Conduct and Management of an Excellent Prince who has so wise and just and so great a Zeal for the Honour and Interest of the Reformation in General as his present Majesty has and who has the greatest Renown and Glory and the most extended Interest of any Monarch in the World whom God grant long to Reign over us and to have yet more Influence by his Great Wisdom and Glorious Vertues among us It is an Amazement that amidst all our Jealousies especially since they have most abounded we should never to any Purpose fall upon this to suspect that the Jesuits and Romish Emissaries do in Disguise promote our Divisions on purpose to hinder any such Vnanimous Concurrence amongst us against them We have indeed a Zeal against Popery amongst us but as much of it is lost by a Mistake in the Object so I doubt a great deal of the rest in the Wise Men of the World is of less Effect and Extent than it might and ought to be for want of a due and right Principle I wish it be not their only Concern to secure themselves from the Losses they might sustain in their just Liberties and their Properties if it were imposed upon them at home and that they be not too regardless what becomes of the Reformation in other Parts of the World It seems indeed easie to see but even Wise Men sometimes look too intently upon one thing that while the Protestant Religion is destroy'd by degrees abroad and one Part of the Reformation after another is trodden down the common Interest of it must be weaker and weaker and it must be less able to subsist with us at home It is the great Concern of all sorts of Persons on the other side to promote and propagate their own Religion and to extirpate ours Among them 't is not only the villanous Treacheries and Plots of Jesuits that are employ'd in the Work 't is not the Wheedles of the other Missionary Monks alone or the Business of those who seem to make the greatest Gain of propagating their Religion but even Princes have applyed their utmost Power and have hazarded or lost and almost ruin'd their Dominions in their Zeal to serve their Cause And the greatest Statesmen have found time to consider and serve this amidst their most Important Affairs They concern themselves to extirpate the Protestant Religion not only out of the Countries which they govern but even out of the World And what formidable Successes have they had against us with their continued Applications and Endeavours After other mighty Havocks made upon the Reformation we have seen them trample upon it in our Time in Hungary and France and at this present they are making an End with the small Remainders of it in the Palatinate and that by Virtue of Advantages gain'd against it by their extraordinary Vigilance and Application to the matter in a late Treaty They are zealous and industrious while We are indifferent It has been seen that the Wise Men on our side have been too sharp for those of the other in Matters of Trade while the others have been too hard for them in the Matter of the Interest of the Reformation which speaks plainly the Difference of Application and Concern to the Matter One would suspect from these things that the Trick of Representing and Expounding the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome had cheated our Politicians of the true Notions of Popery and had made them believe the Differences between that Church and those who are Reformed to be but small and inconsiderable and this had betrayed them into Indifferency and Neglect to watch and oppose the Designs of Rome against us And that it were necessary to show even to them or at least to call to their Remembrance how Absurd and Vnreasonable how Impious and Wicked many of the Doctrines and Practices of that Church are to be sure if the Spirit of Christian Religion did every where prevail among us As it is a Disposition possess'd and govern'd by the Reverence and Love of God and the Love of our Neighbour none could be unconcern'd that Christian Religion should be so abus'd and Almighty God so much injur'd in his due Reverence and Honour and the Souls of Men so endanger'd with damnable Errours as these
done on particular Days fixed and known They bind themselves to such and such good Works as are specified in the Rules of the Fraternity for the Relief of the Souls in Purgatory such as Fasting at particular times going to Mass in publick or the performing some private Tasks of Devotion or the giving of some Charities to the Poor And all of the Fraternity promise themselves much Advantage from the Indulgences granted to it and much Comfort and Relief when they die by Virtue of the Prayers and good Works or voluntary Mortifications of all the whole Society We come now to the greatest of the Parochial Churches which is the Cathedral Church here 't is call'd the Vrouwen Kerk or Our Lady's Church because 't is dedicated to the Virgin Mary 'T is a magnificent large and curious Structure worth admiring both without and within and worth the staying a while about it to take notice of what is here observable The Foundations of this Church they say were laid in the Year 1124 it was formerly Collegiate only and entertain'd 24 Chanonries with a Dean But Philip the Second King of Spain out of a Design to preserve the Roman Religion in these Countries erected several new Bishopricks among them as what he thought most conducing to this purpose One of these fell to the Share of this City and the first Bishop is named Franciscus Sonnius who was fixed about the Year 1567. This Church has a great deal of curious carv'd Stone-work on the Outside which adorns the lofty Roof of it and is seen above the Houses that encompass it The Steeple is all Stone from the bottom to the top it is in height 400 Antwerp Feet from thence in a clear day may be distinctly seen Mechlin Louvain Brussels Ghent the Sea and the Islands of Zeeland with the naked Eye The whole Steeple has so much carving about it and is such curious Work that they say the Emperor Charles V. viewing it and considering that Time and Weather must needs deface the Beauty of it as is in some measure already done said It was worthy to be kept in a Case and to be shown only upon Holidays In this Steeple there is a Set of perhaps the most musical Chimes in the World to serve which there are of all Sorts in the Steeple 68 Bells The Church is very fine and rich within in excellent Pieces of Painting in Marble and Brass Pillars and the Altars on high Days are adorn'd with a great deal of Riches in Silver Lamps and Candlesticks and other Works of Silver These being intermix'd very artificially with Bundles of Flowers true in their Season and such are well counterfeited in Winter with Bay-trees also and tall lighted Wax-Tapers all together make the most beautiful Scenes in the World And when there is added to these a Consort of all sorts of excellent Musick as on some Holidays the Mass and all the other Offices of the Day are perform'd in Musick then they make the Church out-do the Play-house in that which is most pleasant there tho perhaps these things are not very proper to be mingled with Christian Worship which is design'd rather to refine and purifie the mind of Man and to elevate it to God and Divine Things than to please and charm the Sences with the Pomps and Pleasures of this World There are a great many Altars in this Church continually and to some of them are granted the obtaining the same Indulgences which are to be gain'd in St. Peter's Church at Rome by those who shall visit these Altars on such and such Holidays of the Year as are specified This is signified by some Prints hanging in Frames in the Church in Latin and in Low-Dutch Besides these upon some Occasions they erect new Altars for the time There are belonging to this Church several Fraternities Confraternities which take the Charge and Care upon them to furnish and adorn particular Chapels in it and to maintain the Performance of Divine Offices in them Some of these it may not be amiss to take notice of here One is call'd the Fraternity of the Circumcision which consists of 24 Principal Citizens some Religious and some Secular They maintain the Chapel of the Circumcision where they pretend to keep and to show upon particular occasions the Prepuce or Foreskin which was cut from our Saviour when he was circumcis'd They say it was sent hither by Duke Godfrey of Bulloine from Jerusalem after that City had been recover'd from the Hands of the Mahometans and he was voted K. of it in the Year 1101. Another Fraternity is call'd the Brotherhood of the Chappel of the Virgin Mary which consists of almost an hundred Brothers some Citizens some Foreigners This Chappel is a large Enclosure on the East end of the North Isle It has a very high Enclosure I think of Marble and at the lower end a Gallery for Musick supported by Marble Pillars This Brotherhood maintain here besides daily Masses and other Offices ordinary and extraordinary a Sett of Musick which sings every day the Hymn Salve Regina which I suppose to be this that follows Salve Regina Mater Misericordiae Vita Dulcedo spes nostra salve Ad te clamamus exules Filii Evae Ad te spiramus gementes flentes in hac lacrymarum valle Eja ergo Advocata nostra illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte Et Jesum benedictum fructum ventris tui nobis post hoc exilium ostende O Clemens O Pia O Dulcis Virgo Maria V. Ora pro nobis sancta Dei Genetrix R. Vt digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi Another is the Fraternity of the Holy Sacrament who have a Chapel enclos'd at the East end of the South Isle of the Church The Partition here is as I remember all of Marble This Altar I have observ'd on great days set off with a great deal of Riches and Finery and these maintain here a Mass and Vespers with Musick daily To this Church also belong the 27 Colledges as they are call'd of Tradesmen in this City who have each of them a Chapel or an Altar at least at which they maintain a Mass upon all Festivals of the Year but upon the Feasts of the Saints whom they reckon the Patrons of their Trade they cause to be sung a Solemn Mass with a Consort of Musick There is in this Church at the top of the Lantern a piece of Painting which is very much admir'd it represents a Heaven as I remember The Master that drew it is one Mees who was lately living in the Town and perhaps is still there Here are to be seen several of the noble Pieces of the famous Rubens's drawing As one comes in at the South Door of the Church there is a Piece of his at the first Altar on the right hand The Altar-piece represents our Saviour a-taking down from the Cross There are Folding-doors put up to open and show or to shut and cover
with Linen which covers all the top of the Table and hangs down at the two ends to the Ground sometimes at the end of that Linen they will have a deep rich Lace but these are some rich Silks and the like stretch'd upon a Frame of a convenient Size and set close before the Altar so as to seem of a piece with it and the Figures upon them are sometimes suited to the Holiday they celebrate so they have several of these things for several Days There were in this great Box or Press I believe about thirty of these things and all different in some respects from one another some of them were Cloth of Silver or Silver mixed with Gold some were Velvet or Sattiâ— or other Silks of Scarlet Purple and other Colours Many of them had large Flowers of Silver some were full of broad Flowers of Gold some had a broad Flanders-Lace or a Point laid round at the Edge of them on three sides that is along the top and down at the ends some had laid across them a deep Gold-Fringe which run from the one end to the other at the distance of about a Foot from the top some were richly embroider'd with Gold and Silver in the place of Lace Some were all over embroider'd with Silver and Gold and some with Silk and the Stalks of the Embroidery I think of more than one were set with a multitude of Pearls one was of flower'd Silk with a great many small Flowers in it and the Eye of every Flower was a small Ruby there must be a great many scores of Rubies in the whole piece One had a great deal of curious Needle-work of divers Colours in Silk and in a large Oval in the middle of it was a small Picture of an handsome Lady at full length whom the Jesuit that show'd these things call'd the Lady of Princen-Land her self and I suppose he told some of their Religion whom he spoke softly to that she had presented this To provide and maintain all this Pomp and Riches this Church of theirs is endow'd as we may say for these things are in the nature and have the effect of Revenues with a multitude of Plenary and other Indulgences to be obtain'd throughout the whole Year They have Indulgences to be obtain'd on the Festivals of several pretended Saints of their own Order besides what they have on the days of other Saints I shall give an Account of the Publications of some of these Gaudy Days as they are celebrated by these good Fathers in which we shall see some of the greatest Extravagancies that the Church of Rome is run into in the Worship and Honour of the Saints Plenary Indulgence Upon the Feast-day of Franciscus Borgia First Duke of Gandia and afterwards Third General of the Society of Jesus in the Church of the Profession-house of the Society of Jesus On Wednesday next being the 10th of October shall be celebrated in the Church of the Profession-house of the Society of Jesus the Feast-day of the holy Franciscus Borgia First Duke of Gandia c. Clemens the 10th has granted to all Believers in Christ who with upright Repentance being confess'd and having receiv'd the most holy Sacrament of the Altar shall there pray for the Union of Christian Princes the Extirpation of Heresies and Advancement of our Mother the Holy Church which Indulgence begins from the first Vespers on the Day before and continues till the Sun-setting on the Feast-day of the Holy Franciscus Borgia which follows On Tuesday it being the Eve of the Feast-Day there shall be perform'd a solemn Laud with the Benediction of the most holy Sacrament of the Altar On Wednesday being the Feast-day of the Saint aforesaid shall be sung at 10 a Clock a solemn Mass Afternoon at 5 a Clock shall be a Sermon after which shall be perform'd a solemn Laud with the Benediction of the most holy Sacrament of the Altar On the Evening of the Feast-day after the Service and during the Octave every Morning for the furthering of the Devotion and Comfort of each person shall the holy Relicks be offer'd to be kiss'd To the greater Glory of God and of the Holy Franciscus Borgia 1696. They have a Plenary Indulgence also for the Feast day of Xaverius whom they call Apostle of the Indies and of Japan which is to be obtain'd in this same Church The Publication of which after the mention of several Devotions to be perform'd promises a Plenary Indulgence to those who within such a time shall come to that Church and pray there for the Union of Christian Princes the Extirpation of Heresies and Advancement of our Mother Holy Church and then concludes That all this is to be done To the greater Glory of God and of St. Franciscus Xaverius An Indulgence of 40 Days is granted to this Church by the present Bishop of Antwerp upon the Day of our Saviour's Ascension and some following Days The Publication of which for the extravagant and impious Form of it is very observable It runs thus The Expectation of the Holy Ghost Through the Intercession of the most holy Maid and Mother of God Mary and of all the Saints in the Church of the Profession-house of the Society of Jesus with Prayer for the Preservation of this City and Indulgence of 40 Days This 40 days of Indulgence is to be obtain'd by those who shall be once present at the Devotions of this time and if they come to them more than once as often as they come so often shall the 40 days of Indulgence be multiplied to them Here we see the Mediation of the Virgin Mary applied to for the Gifts and Graces of the Holy Spirit and they profess to expect the obtaining of these thereby and that at a time when the Christian Church has been wont to celebrate the Ascension of our blessed Saviour into Heaven who promised upon his Ascension to send the Holy Spirit upon his Apostles and Followers So that as true Christian Religion would much more properly and justly direct us at this time to pray for that promise of our Saviour to be fulfill'd upon us in such a measure as may be necessary to our Salvation and to betake our selves to the Intercession of Jesus who ever lives to make Intercession for us This Marian Religion diverts its miserable deluded Votaries from him and teaches them to pray for these greatest Blessings and to expect them through the Mediation of the Virgin Mary Besides this their very fine Church the Jesuits Chappel of the Sodality have here belonging to this Colledge another which they call the Chappel of the Sodality where the Fraternities that are wheedled to joyn themselves and belong to them do perform their foolish Devotions upon their solemn Days Of these we must give some Account They have joyn'd to them a Sodality or Brotherhood of the Virgin Mary which is honour'd as they say with many Indulgences and Favours Particularly the Popes have granted to
there were 8000 Wax Torches and Flambeaus carried before it I doubt not but some mighty Indulgence was the Lure that brought so many People together and perhaps it was a new one granted in consideration of the late Sufferings of the City for these Occasions bring Money both to Priests and People At the place where this Hostie is kept in this Church there hangs up a Table on which are written these Verses following which relate the matter in short Quisquis ades summi quem tangit cura Tonantis Dum proper as coeptum siste viator iter Hic tibi viva caro aeterni Sapientia Patris Christus adest vivus panis una salus Invida Judaeûm quam dum laniare laborat Impietas meritis ignibus ecce ruit Quare age divinos bic funde Viator honores Funde Deo dignas supplice mente preces If this Story were true it might be reckon'd a miraculous Confirmation of the Truth of Christian Religion but it does not all conclude for the Absurdity of Transubstantiation tho' 't is very likely it was at first but a Juggle contriv'd for a pretended Proof of that as it is to this day reputed a mighty one I will allow it to be the best they have In this Church as I remember I saw an Altar with an Image of the Virgin over it which has an Inscription belonging to it that calls her Maria pacis On the Front of the great House before-mention'd call'd the Bakers there is somewhat relating to this matter One sees there two Inscriptions in great Letters which run cross the whole Front the one of which is A Peste Fame Bello libera nos Maria Pacis The other is Hic Votum fecit Elizabetha pro Pace publica I suppose this Elizabeth to have been Isabella-Clara-Eugenia Daughter of Philip the second King of Spain who married her in the Year 1598. to Albert the Sixth Arch-Duke of Austria whom he made Governour of these Countries This Inscription speaks fully out what they mean by their Application to the Saints and downright asks of the Virgin Mary that she would deliver them from the Plague Famine and War It speaks too their Opinion of Images while the Prayer is made as their Phrase is to that particular Virgin Mary and the People in common Talk will say One Virgin Mary has done a great many Miracles but another has done nothing at all There are a great many Convents of Friars and Nuns in this City for these people commonly chuse the most populous and pleasant places to retire from the World and mortifie themselves in many of them were beaten down by the Bombs out of the French King 's ardent Zeal to promote the Roman Religion The Dominicans had a large Church here the Dominicans Walls and Cover of which are up and they were saying Mass at two or three sorry Altars in it to be doing for something doing something coming A large Division of this Church which is almost half of it was before and is design'd again for the Chappel of the Rosary The Rosary is a Set of Prayers to the Virgin which if you will believe them she her self order'd and assisted St. Dominick to recommend to the World a thing that has done mighty matters but chiefly has well provided for this Order and fatned them up as Hogs for the Slaughter For as the Institution of this blessed The Rosary From of Devotion is deriv'd from this Order so they have all the Profits of it The Chappels of the Rosary belong to them and the Brotherhood of the Rosary are their People and are joyn'd to them and all the mighty Priviledges and Indulgences granted to the Rosary are dispensed by these Monks and by Virtue of these matters there is no sort of the pretended religious Orders who look more jolly and fat and shine with their own Grease more than these Butcherly Fellows This method of Devotion has drawn in such multitudes of People of the Roman Communion and makes so great and considerable a part of the Worship and Devotion of that Church that one should give a very imperfect Account of the State of Religion in the Roman Church without somewhat a distinct Account of the Devotion of the Rosary I shall therefore produce some of the most observable Particulars which I have met with relating to this matter wherein we shall see a great deal of dull and tedious trifling under the Name and Pretence of Devotion a deal of impious Idolatry in the Worship of the Virgin if ever there was or can be such a thing as Idolatry in the Worship of a Creature and we shall see the main business of Worship turn'd into Applications to the blessed Virgin and in a word the Christian Religion turn'd Marian. What the Rosary is The Rosary or Garland of Roses is a Set of Prayers to the Virgin Mary intermixed with the Lord's Prayer These both one and other are number'd by the Beads which one shall so often see in the Hands of the People in Popish Countries especially when they go to Church The String of Beads is tied together at the ends and has commonly fifty small and five greater Beads in the round and there are besides about ten◠I think of the small Beads with one great one upon a little strait String with a Cross which hangs to the other On the smal Beads they say so many Ave Mary's as these Prayers to the Virgin are commonly call'd because they begin with the Words of the Angel's Salutation of her when he came to tell her she should be honour'd with bearing the Messias To which Salutation they have added moreover that of Elizabeth and a Conclusion in the Form of a Supplication to the B. Virgin The whole Prayer runs thus Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou above all Women and blessed is the Fruit of thy Womb Jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us poor Sinners now and in the Hour of our Death This Prayer is repeated ten times and then comes the Lord's Prayer which is repeated as often as the great Beads come The whole Rosary or Garland of Prayers consists of this String of Beads three times repeated which comes to fifteen times ten Ave Maries and fifteen Pater Nosters When and upon what occasion the Rosary was instituted This method of Devotion so erroneously partial to the Virgin whom they pray to ten times in it for one Prayer to Almighty God has no other Foundation but a Story as impudent as silly and evidently devised to derive it from the Blessed Virgin her self Indeed this does but help to fill up the Parallel between Rome Heathen and Popish and if Numa Pompilius might pretend to derive his Rules of Religion from a Goddess why might not the holy Dominick derive his from such an one too Thus then as they say this great and divine Institution as brought into the World When the holy Dominick had
Dutchy of Mons and so are under the Dominion of the Duke of Neubourg The Houses of this Village look well and seem as good as those in the common Villages of England After this we pass'd above Zons a little City upon the Rhine on this side which is also in the Bishoprick of Colen We did not go down so far as Nuys on this side but within a near view of it and saw that it is a pretty large and a fortified City When we came to the River there were other Companies had just fill'd and were gone off with the Ferry-Boat so we were forced to be contented with a Naken It was a great deal of trouble to stow upon this three Charrettes one at each end and one in the middle with their Horses This done the Passengers went into another Boat which was fastned to the Naken and so we were conducted over by two sturdy Women and an old Man Each Person paid for himself two Slivers for his Passage The violent Stream carried us I believe almost a Mile down the River in crossing it we got in at a very inconvenient and troublesome place to land at and our Charretes were longer a getting out than in This Passage cost us near two Hours We were glad and thank'd God when we were got safe over this very broad and rapid River in a sorry Boat and with a great deal of encumbrance We had from our Landing-place but an Hour and half to Dusseldorp DVSSELDORP Upon our entrance into this City we were examin'd by the Officer at the Gate he ask'd us several Questions to know what we were and why we came thither We gave him for a general Answer that we were English Men and Students and were travelling only to see the Country He sent a Musquetier with us to the place where we lighted from our Charrette who took us along with him to the Corps du Garde he gave the Officer the Account which we had given at the Gate the Officer talk'd with us in â—ow-Dutch ask'd a few impertinent Questions and then dismiss'd us having first taken notice at what Inn we intended to â—odge This City is situated in a large Plain upon the right side of the Rhine as it descends tho' we left the River as soon as we had cross'd it which makes a turn here it is at this City I believe not much broader than the Thames at Gravesend but this is recon'd one of the narrowest places of the Channel by consequence the Stream runs here very swift and it is they say of a depth like a Sea Dusseldorp in Latin Dusseldorpium has this City Name from a small River call'd the Dussel which runs through it and here falls into the Rhine The Addition of Dorp which signifies a Village seems to intimate that it was at first but such It is now a wall'd City and has a good Fortification 'T is the head City of of the Dutchy of Mons or Berg so call'd from the high and steep Mountains which they say 't is full of I speak thus because we met with none of them in our way We pass'd thro' a plain Country to it and from it full of Corn Fields which prov'd the goodness of the Soil by the richness of the Crops which stood upon it We saw no Hills but at a distance beyond the reach of a distinct view where indeed the Country seem'd to rise very high and the ridge appear'd to us as we were on the other side the Rhine upon that ridge of Hills from whence we look'd down upon Colen We could there see it run as it were parallel to that which we were upon a great way Northward and Southward all the way continued and it seem'd to run both ways beyond our sight This Dutchy of Berg is a part of the Circle of Westphalia it is but of a small extent it lies along the Rhine on the East side between the Country of Mark and the Bishoprick of Colen This City is little at present and so are the Houses they are built some of Timber some of Brick and generally but low a new Street of Brick Houses is lately built with the top of the Fronts after the new Fashion and the Houses are uniform and of an equal height It is likely this will be the Fashion of all the new Buildings intended For 't is said the City at present is too little for its Inhabitants it seem'd indeed pretty full of People but I believe it may cheifly be too little for the Vanity of the Prince He is therefore at present upon the Design of making it bigger The Enlargement will not be round it but on one side The Ditch is already almost finish'd which is to enclose the new Part it is begun at the Rhine upwards from the old Wall and so runs up into the Country as far as the former City reaches with some compass and then turns towards that It seems to include a space as big as that which the present City stands upon We easily walk'd the Compass of the present City almost in half an Hour The Family which has now the Sovereignty Family of the Electors here are but lately come to this Principality They are a Branch of the House of Bavariaâ— and were call'd Dukes of Neubourg from a City of that Name within the Dukedom of Bavaria By Marriage with the House of Cleve they came to pretend to a right to succeed to the Estates belonging to that House upon the Death of John William the last Duke of Cleve Mons and Juliers as hath been said at Juliers and the utter extinction of that Family The Grand-father of the present reigning Prince who was Wolfgang William Duke of Neubourg was the first of the Family that came hither His Father Philip Lewis a zealous Assertour and Friend of the Ausburg Confession bred him in the same way but when he came to contend with the Electour of Brandenburg as has been said about Succession to the Estates of the Duke of Cleve finding the necessity of Assistance from the Spaniards and being supported by them in complaisance to them and to secure them to his Interest he chang'd his Religion and turn'd Papist and made his first publick Profession of his Change in the City of Dusseldorp in the Year 1614 to the great Grief of his Father who was yet living at Neubourg and died in the same Year The Brandenburger on the other side being supported by the States-General of the United Provinces in complaisance to them and to confirm them to his Interest left the Ausburg Confession and turn'd Calvinist This Wolfgang William being chang'd himself fiercely set himself to force all his People who had embrac'd the Reformation to return also to the Follies and Idolatries of the Church of Rome being instigated to this by the Jesuit Reihingius His Son follow'd him in his Religion and Zeal for it and in the Year 1663 went about to Banish all that profess'd
Coats was almost hid with the broad Silver Lace laid upon it The Cloathing of the Kettle-Drums as I remember is Cloth of Silver a deep Fringe of Gold and Silver went round the Drum at the top and a lesser one round about the edge of the Cloathing I never saw any thing of the kind so fine as these all were And this is a particular Affectation of this Prince The reigning Religion here is the Popish Popish Religion here and the Papists are in Possession of the publick Churches We went into some of their Churches and saw nothing in them very fine nor any thing peculiar or worth taking notice of In the Yard belonging to the great Church stand Three Crucfixes with Bodies on them as big as the Life to represent the Crucifixion of our Saviour between Two Thieves There is a large Penthouse over them By the side of another Church we saw the same Representation To these many People in passing by paid a profound Respect but without a distinct Interpretation of these Books the People must be liable to pay the same Respect to those which represent the Thieves as to that which is design'd for our Saviour so that in these Books there are certainly some things as dangerous and as liable to betray People into damnable Error and mortal Sin as are pretended to be in Scripture If that be then an Argument for taking the Scripture out of the Peoples Handâ— it is an Argument for taking their extravagant Pictures and Images out of their Sight Or if any Preference may be allow'd of the Ordinance of Jesus Christ himself before that of his Pretended Vicar the Scriptures should be given to the People and this sort of Books taken away because Christ has given the Holy Scripture for their Instruction and only the Pretended Vicar has instituted these When we came to the City after we were enter'd within the new Ditch we saw several of those little Oratories or Chappels mention'd before standing about in the Fields in each of which is an Altar and Image and for the most part of the Virgin Mary Among the Papists in these Parts the Controversie is now hotly pursued about the Immaculate Conception Immaculate Conception of the Bâ—essed Virgin of the Virgin Mary the head Managers of which are the Franciscanâ— and the Do minicans This has been a long Controversie in the Church of Rome and is likely to continue for both Sides pretend to Miracles Visions and Revelations to confirm their Opinion yea both Sides have drawn the Blessed Virgin to testifie for them and so against her self Besides the infallible Guide of the Church cannot tell what to do in this Case and Bishop Meaux says The Church has not yet defin'd whether the Virgin was born in Original Sin or not The contending Parties are indeed so hot upon their Opinion that they would either of 'em be apt to despise the Pope's Authority if he should venture to decide The Pope's Authority is for a Scare-crow set up against the Protestants but upon Occasion the Papists can make little account of it themselves as Scare-crows are never wont to fright them that set them up Bishop Meaux says 'T is neither Heresie nor mortal Sin not to believe the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin and yet he says 't is Pious to believe it But if this be Pious surely the contrary must be impious If any Proposition be true the direct and full Contradiction to it must needs be false and if any Opinion be pious another which fully contradicts it must deserve a contrary Character and consequently be accounted impious Such poor Shifts is tâ—is shuffling Expounder of the Church of Rome put to that he may render its Doctrines and Practices plausible There are in this City Two Congregations of the Reformed Religion the one Calvinist the other Protestant or Lutheran We spent Lutherans here the Morning of the Lord's-Day in the Protestant Congregation They have not a very large Church but it was well fill'd It stands a little inward from the Street I think they call their People together by a Bell. The Place is Oblong with the Altar or Communion-Table at the East end and a good Gallery over the Entrance at the West end Above that is a little Gallery set up for a small Organ that they might lose no Room by it The Church was very neat but not fine There were but Three distinct Pictures in it and all very free from Popery or Superstition On the South Wall hung a Picture of Moses holding the Two Tables of Stone on which there was only a Scrawl to represent the Writing of the Ten Commandments The Communion-Table was large and very high It stood against the Wall upon a flat of Boards raised a little Step above the Stone Floor of the Church and which goes out at a good distance from the Table Over this Communion-Table or Altar is a good Picture which represents our Blessed Saviour in his Agony in the Garden with an Angel come to encourage him There are Three of the Apostles asleep not far from him and at a distance the tops of the Torches of those who are coming to apprehend him appear from behind a Hill The History is well represented Behind the Picture of our Saviour are black Clouds well drawn and amidst them appears a bright round thing which looks almost as if they design'd to represent the Sun veil'd with these Clouds but it being a Night Piece it must be understood as it is intended to represent the Wafer which they give and receive in celebrating the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper for they administer the Bread in that Form Over this great Piece of Painting is another lesser one which represents our Saviour with a Glory about him as rising from the dead and treading upon a Dragon to signifie that he had now overcome Death and him that had the Power of Death as the Scripture speaks that is the Devil This is a fit Representation of our Saviour but it is an impudent Blasphemy to attribute this to the Virgin Mary as the Papists do in Pictures and Images of her with which I have often seen a Snake or Dragon put under her Feet as dead The Pillars on each side of these Pictures were wreath'd their Chappiters handsomely carv'd all the Work is very neat and decent but the matter is not Marble but Wood painted in Imitation of Marble some of black and some of white Marble streak'd and it is very well done The Altar or Communion-Table was cover'd with a large Velvet Cloth which reach'd to the Ground of a deep blew Colour Before the Worship began I had time to see what Books lay at the Reading Desk and at the Desks of the People The Reader had before him a great Folio Bible in High Dutch and another Book in Folio which had for its General Title Spiritual Songs I look'd into it and observ'd there the Book of Psalms and other of the
which is a great Brick Building like the common Seats of the Barons of these Countries which are commonly call'd Castles Several of which we met with in our Journey and after the Model of some of our old Mannours in England and the whole is encompass'd by a broad deep Moat which was almost big enough to have serv'd for a Town Ditch We may say it is deep because it was of a great depâ—â— From the top to the Water that was in it The Foundation of this Tower down to the Water and somewhat above Ground was made of great square Free-Stone above this all the Building is Brick I do not remember that I saw any where in the Wall on the outside of the Court any Places to let in Light or from whence any could look out It is built very high but in Three Parts The lowest part goes up of an equal bigness to about the height of Three or Four good Stories round the top of that there seem'd to be a Battlement The second part above this is somewhat less than this lower one and stands as within it a little That also like the first goes up all of a bigness and seems as tall as the lower and to have a Battlement at the top The third and highest part is set a little within the second seems not so tall as the other and has Battlements at the top The whole Building seem'd compleat and sound and had no appearance of any ruine or decay about it The Building about the Court look'd decay'd We purposed it being now almost dark to come the next Morning and examine it a little further but our Foreman hurried us away very early and so disappointed us From the Circumstances of the Place I judge this must have been a Watch-Tower or a sort of Castle to view and command here a considerable Pass between it and the Rhine We left this wretched Place betimes in the Morning on the 3d. June and pass'd on for Emmerick The first part of our Journey for about an Hour and a half was over a vast wet moorish Common there were some Cattle feeding in it here and there up to the mid-leg in Water and it seem'd that the Places where the Water stood so were the best for them for these look'd the greenest Our Path through it was sunk a little below the rest sometimes and then full of Water After we left this Common our Way was but indifferent till we had pass'd about Two Thirds of our Journey towards Wesel and then we had a dry Way upon some Downs When we came to the River Lippe that and the Riuer Lippe Rhine were so swell'd with Rains that we could not use the ordinary Ferry here nor go the direct and usual Way to Wesel We waited a great while therefore for a Naken which could carry us where the Ferry-Boat could not and which was on the other side the Lippe and almost a quarter of a Mile above our Place When that was come we hung our Charrette at one end of it stow'd our Two Horses and above a Dozen People in it and mounted the Stream of Lippe which was now very broad till we came to the convenient landing Place This River call'd by Tacitus Luppia comes down from the Dutchy of Westphalia where it has upon it the City of Lipstadt It falls into the Rhine on the right side We had near an English Mile to go from the Place where we landed of this River to Wesel It is they say navigable a great way up into the Country Wesel call'd in Latin Vesalia is one of Wesel the chief Cities in the Dutchy of Cleve It stands upon the right Bank of the Rhine and the more convenient for Trade by reason of the Neighbourhood of the Lippe which is navigable up into the Country This City has been several times taken and retaken between the Armies of the Spaniards and of the States General At last Frederick Henry Prince of Orange Commander of the Armies of the States took it by Stratagem and Surpise in the Year 1629 in the Quarrel between the Marquis of Brandenburg and the Duke of Neubourg fore-mention'd It remain'd with several other Cities in the Dutchy of Cleve in the Possession of the States as a Pawn for Money lent the Electour of Brandenburg in that War And being thus as it were between Two Masters it was not so well look'd to or provided for as it should have been and so was easily taken by the French in the Year 1672 when they made their sudden and unexpected Invasion into Holland But this with the other Cities were restor'd to the Electour of Brandenburg by the Treaty of Nimeguen since which time it has remain'd under that Prince And now it seems better look'd too As we enter'd into it we observ'd a good Fortification about it There is a good Garrison of Soldiers in it they examin'd us strictly at the Gate what we were and whither we were bound The Streets are fair and large the Houses well built much after the Holland Fashion There appear'd in it abundance of Shops and they plentifully stor'd with all sorts of Commodities Many People were passing in the Streets and every thing look'd in a good Condition so that in general it seems at present to be rich populous and flourishing It seems to be chiefly inhabited by those of the Reform'd Religion We passed through a great part of it and saw no where any Marks of the Romish Superstion in publick Yet the Papists have here some of those they call Religious Houses and this is a pleasant and convenient Place for them We did not stay here but just long enough to eat a little Breakfast which we needed the more for having travell'd this Morning three or four Hours and for being disappointed of a Supper the Night before by reason of the Nastiness of the Provision that had been made for us so we had no Opportunity to view much or make any Enquiries concerning this Place Our Way from hence was through a low A Dyke on the Rhine rich Country all enclosed and used The bigger half of our Way to Emmerick was upon a high-rais'd Causway which runs along this part of the Country at some Places at a good Distance from the Rhine at some places just upon it We came upon it about an hour before we came to Rees For the most part as we pass'd this Dyke we had a great deal of Water on our left Hand which was from the Swelling of the Rhine which at this time covered along here some thousands of Acres of good Land some Meadows and some plough'd Ground In some places it came to the very Dyke so deep that it left nothing but the Tops of the Willows which run along by the Divisions of the Meadows to be seen And at the same time we were so far off the Channel that we could not see any thing like it Oftentimes we found the Land
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