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A16489	Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world discoursing of their situations, religions, languages, manners, customes, strengths, greatnesse, and policies. Translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus. And since the last edition by R.I. now once againe inlarged according to moderne observation; with addition of new estates and countries. Wherein many of the oversights both of the author and translator, are amended. And unto which, a mappe of the whole world, with a table of the countries, are now newly added.; Relazioni universali. English	Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617.; Johnson, Robert, fl. 1586-1626.	1630 (1630)	STC 3404; ESTC S106541	447,019	654

tailes from ours being most broad and containing twenty pound in weight There are a kinde of Lions which in many places dare to adventure upon two hundred Horsemen The Leopards are strong and cruell yet seldome hurt they men The beast which the Arabians terme Dabul and the Africans Ieses is a base and simple beast in fashion and bignesse resembling the Wolfe but in feet and thighs like a man This beast will dig mens Carcases out of their graves and devoure them towards all other Creatures he is harmelesse The sorts of Apes are very diverse Here liveth the Mus-cat and the wilde Conie The strange Fishes and other watry Creatures found in Nilus Niger and other principall Rivers are innumerable The Ambara for his shape and hugenesse is prodigious as a Creature containing twenty five foot in length The Hippotame a beast like an Horse and as big as an Asse liveth as well in Waters as on the Land and by his often striking of Boats laden with Merchandize with his sharpe prickles sinketh them under water The Sea Oxe differeth nothing from the Land Oxe save in smalnesse of stature The Tortoise liveth in Desarts and are found oftentimes as big as a barrell The Crocodile resembleth the Lacerta and is twelve cubits long in body and as many in taile Most huge Dragons and poisonsome are often seene What people inhabit Africke FIve severall Nations inhabit this part of the World viz. the Caseres that is people without Law the Moores the Abussines the Aegyptians the Arabians and the Africans whereof some are white and some blacke In Religion some are likewise Gentiles and worship Idols some Mahumetans some Christians and some Iewes All which Nations some Writers will have derived from Cham the Sonne of Noe excepting some certaine Arabians of the feed of Sem which entred Africke after the residue And these Arabians are distinguished into many Families or Regiments use diverse and many habitations and possesse as many Regions some dwelling by the Sea-side properly termed Arabians some in the Up-land and they are called Badium Others in innumerable swarmes leade a roguish life with their Wives and Children in the Wildernesse dwelling in Tents instead of Houses altogether given rospoile and alike infestuous to neighbour and traveller which is the cause that the Inhabitants dare not travell alone but stay the time of the Caravan that is the whole assembly of the Merchants travelling upon Camels and Asses all in one company at a set time of the yeare for feare of the theevish and roguish Arabians As the Nations are diverse so are their languages the chiefe they call Aqu●lamarig that is the rob●e Language and of the Arabians inhabiting Africa the Barbarian Language And this is the true and proper Idiome of the Af● utterly differing from the residue save that it favoureth of many Arabicke words The Gnabets Zombati Ghinians the Mellidi and Gagonti use the Sungai Language The Gubarits Canontes Chesenes and the other blacke-Moores use the G●ber tongue The Abassines have their proper speech Moreover the Chaldean Aegyptian and Arabian tongues with another compounded of all three are in use in some places and by the intercourse of Merchants many are accustomed to speake the Moorish Turkish Spanish and Italian Languages All the Sea-Townes from the Mediterran to Mount Atlas speake the Arabian corruptly except the Kingdome and Citie of Marocco which wholly speake the Barbarian The noblest part at this day is called Barbarie and containeth all that Sea-tract which reacheth from Aegypt to the Gaditan Sea inhabited by the Arabians and including divers Provinces At first it was under the Empire of the Greekes secondly under the Vandals and lastly under the Saracens and Arabians who left them their language Some part thereof at this day is subject to the Turke some to Xeriffe and some to the King of Spaine Their manners are not so much differing from those of the Arabians but that they are somewhat more civill ambitious light subtill treacherous wrathfull boasters suspitious and exceeding jealous They are very active and readie Horsemen but not able to indure labour Barbarie BARBARIE is divided into foure Kingdomes Marocco Fez Telesine and Tunes Sanutus addeth a fifth viz. Barca Into what and how many Shires or Provinces these portions are divided let him reade Leo Afer that desireth the particulars Numidia is the second part of Africke and is termed by Leo Afer Biledulgerid that is the Almond-Countrey But it is of lesse estimation than the residue and therefore injoyeth not the Title of a Kingdome It was once disinhabited as was Barbarie and at this day the Townes are but small base scattering and very farre distant one from another Those places that they manure lye beyond Atlas and are hot and drie but being watered with certaine streams descending from the Mount they yeeld Almonds in abundance but scarcity of Corne nor any fruitfull tree except the Palme Those grounds that border upon Lybia are invironed with craggie Mountaines destitute of water and all manner of trees except some fruitlesse shrubs at the foot of the Hils As for infinite store of Scorpions and Serpents it is so over-laid that many are daily found dead by their venemous bitings In old time they were idolatrous and at this day little better irreligious ignorant base treacherous man-killers and Theeves utterly destitute of any civill knowledge save that some few of them addict themselves to the studie of the Lawes The Arabians that live amongst them love Poësie and are more civill but very poore They live long but their teeth soone perish with eating of Almonds and their sight faileth by the annoyance of the Sands They know not the French disease yea if an infected person should but come into the Countrey it were Physicke enough to cleare him Their chiefe food is Barley Almonds and other most course food as for Bread they never taste it but on Festivals And that Corne which they have they exchange for Almonds Lybia LYbia the third part of Africke was once called Sarra that is desart and so it is a Desart drie and sandy countrie utterly bereaved of Springs and Rivers unfruitfull and those which they have they keepe in standing pooles and those also but rare and salt So that the Merchants which are to travell over those Countries must provide carriage for water otherwise man and beast might perish as not possible to finde one drop in six or seven dayes journey By this Region lyeth the way from Fez to Tombut and from Telesine to Agadas a countrie of the Moores Not past one hundred yeares since they that were to travell from Fez to Cairo were accustomed to travell by these Desarts but upon the rising of the South-wind the Wells although intrenched with skins and bones of Camels were so overwhelmed with sands that the Merchants not able to finde either signe or token of way or water have perished in the journey through extreme thirst Some Rivelets they have descending out of Atlas

RELATIONS OF THE MOST FAMOVS KINGDOMES AND Common-wealths thorowout the WORLD Discoursing of their Situations Religions Languages Manners Customes Strengths Greatnesse and Policies Translated out of the best Italian Impression of Boterus And since the last Edition by R. I. Now once againe inlarged according to moderne observation With Addition of new Estates and Countries Wherein many of the oversights both of the Author and Translator are amended And unto which a Mappe of the whole World with a Table of the Countries are now newly added LONDON Printed by IOHN HAVILAND and are to be sold by IOHN PARTRIDGE at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard 1630. TO THE READER THat this Author hath beene so carefully translated into the Latine Spanish French and English languages is a concluding argument to me that no man of those Nations hath hitherto written so well in this Argument else what needed they to translate him Nay and doubly translated hee hath beene not onely into their tongues but into their bookes seeing that all the Writers of Geographie since his time have translated no small part of him into their Writings Of some of which what is from hence borrowed is their very chiefe credit and ornament How much I pray hath that voluminous French Writer translated into Latine by Godofredus and into English by our Mr. Grimestone beene beholding unto this Author How much hath that Turncoat Apostatizing Plagiarie that Enemie and Threatner of our English Nation closely lurcht out of this Author Some of our owne have beene more ingenuous to name him when they quote him and that 's faire play What the Setters forth of the two former Editions in our language meant in concealing his name we will not doe them so much wrong as to ghesse at Our Title page acknowledges him to be that famous Borero the Italian a Writer that still passes amongst his owne people not only for a Wit but for a Iudgement His way of writing is his owne for t is New and to commend the usefulnesse of it let this be enough that the nimblest Politico's of these active times could perchance have wisht That the Relations of Giovanni Botero had only beene in their owne Libraries That in this third Edition we have taken upon us to adde some new Discourses and to Augment divers of the old we were emboldned unto by the voyces and judgements of the Buyers whom we perceived to be better pleased with those inlargements in the second Edition than with the first In what we have done we have bound our selves to the Authors way and method and how much wee have added the next Page shall tell you We must not in the meane time conceale from you how that divers of the Italians who are as naturall haters as they are fearers of the Spanish greatnesse have taken the same exceptions to Botero that the French of old did to Proislart who for writing so gloriously of the English victories and so truly of the French overthrowes have thought to disgrace his whole storie by calling him a Pensioner of England and a man hired to write by the good Rose-nobles of England In like manner hath Botero say some beene suspected to have had a feeling of the Spanish Pistolets for that hee hath written so magnificently of that Nation This hath made us so wary and so carefull withall by the truth of history to examine whatsoever might that way seeme hyperbolicall Some things in that kinde wee had rather leave to be amended by your judgements than either too much to wrong that Nation or to correct our Copie by bringing it under our Index Expurgatorius Our Author deserves rather to bee numbred among the Polititians than amongst the Historians or Geographers T is to his purpose sometimes to deliver you the situation of the Countrey he discourses upon so to shew you first the Greatnesse of each Kingdome Secondly how formidable or helpefull each Prince is likely to prove to his next neighbour out of which two considerations arise most of those leagues Alliances and those other Tyes of State betwixt Kingdome and Kingdome Thirdly wee hence learne how suddenly either Forces or Merchandizes may bee transported from one Nation to another And all these helpe him to relate of the Greatnesse and Riches of each Kingdome which to doe bee two of his maine purposes The Historie that hee makes use of is to shew you the valours of people the power of taking opportunities the advantages of the use of severall weapons c. and that is also to his purpose Both Geographie and History together which bee the two favourite studies of the times doe serve finally for the delight of the Reader and doe altogether make up our Author into a complete and a fine companion for Gentlemen for Souldiers for Schollers and for all men to passe the time withall and for such an one we here commend him to your acquaintance Fare well and make him your owne Relations newly added or very much inlarged in this Edition Newly added MOst of the Chapter of Observation Navarre 194 The Lords the Estates part of the Low-Countries 200 Vrbine 361 Mantua 362 Millaine 316 Savor 364 Malta 373 Transylvania 394 Estate of Bothlen Gabor in Hungaria 399 A briefe Chronicle of his birth and fortunes 399 The Palatinate 285 Brandenburg 300 Inlarged ROman Empire 284 Bavaria 301 Genoa 337 Tuscanie 324 Sicily 369 Bohemia 376 With divers others altered and amended thorow out the whole and some new Additions in the Indies not here mentioned RELATIONS of the World THE FIRST BOOKE Of Observation BEing to relate of the Customes Manners and Potencies of Nations and great Princes my scope shall not bee to trouble your Readings with proofes out of such obsolete Authors as are accounted very ancient for with these Themes by reason of Indiscoverie those Ages were not so well acquainted Againe their Observations Rules and Caveats being not so well digested nothing so certaine as ours of these lightsomer times were neither so pleasant nor so usefull as these more assured more moderne Relations Time and the Warres have altered much since Aristotle and Ptolomies dayes whose Rules and Observations have since growne partly out of use and beene partly bettered I cannot certainly subscribe to the opinions of such Philosophers who building all upon Influences and Constellations will have the faculties of Soules and Bodies to bee governed by the Starres and Climates But my meaning is to lay downe some few Observations arising from the immutable providence of Nature which remaineth constant immortall and is never changed unlesse by Accident Violence or Times tyrannie which notwithstanding in the revolution of an Age or two returneth againe to its prime operation From thence I will descend to discourse of such Reasons as may in all probabilitie give occasion or advantage to one Prince or Nation to excell another either in keeping or inlarging Thirdly I will lay downe some Instructions for travell And comming in the

much more and besides an infinite provision which they reserve and is paid them over and except their Rents by their Farmers and Tenants as of Wheat foure millions five hundred thousand quarters of Rye two millions three hundred thousand quarters of Oats nine hundred thousand of Barley eight hundred thousand of Pease and Beanes eight hundred sixtie thousand Capons one hundred sixty thousand Hens five hundred sixtie thousand Partridge 50000. Beeves 12000. Muttons one million two hundred thousand Wine one million two hundred thousand Cuues Egges seven millions Butter 230000. Quintaux Cheese five hundred thousand Hogs one hundred thirty six thousand Pigges three hundred forty thousand Tallow sixty thousand Quintaux Hey six hundred thousand loads Straw eight hundred thousand Wood two millions with an infinite proportion of other necessaries imaginary only and incredible And yet he there a voweth all things with as great confidence as if himselfe had had the true abstract from all the Bookes of Accounts in each Monastery and Benefice in this Land For how is it possible the Church should have 200. millions of crownes yearely Rent when as by the computation here are but just so many Arpens of Land in all France which to rate one with another at a crowne an Arpen comes to this account which he allowes the Clergie and then is there nothing left for the other two States of the Nobilitie and people But inasmuch as the better halfe of their Revenue is by the Baise-mani there remaineth the better halfe of the Land to the other two States which notwithstanding is a proportion small enough Neere unto this reckoning commeth that which we reade in Bodin of Alemant a president of accounts in Paris whose judgement must carry good authority in this case as a thing belonging to his profession and wherein he was best experienced The Church Revenues in Land are reckoned orderly at twelve millions and three hundred thousand Livres but I dare justifie saith he that of twelve parts of the Revenues of France the Church possesse seven This opinion Bodin seemes to allow But it is rather thought to be true that the Comment de l' estat saith who of the two hundred millions of Arpens allowes the Church forty seven millions which by particulars of their Vineyards Medowes arable-Pastures and Heaths with their Woods is there set downe which here to follow in particular were too tedious Besides this Temporall they have their Baise-mani as is said that consisteth in Churchings Christnings Marriages Burials Holy-bread Indulgences Vowes Pilgrimages Feasts Processions Prayers for cattle for seasonable weather for Children against all manner of diseases and infinite such purposes for which the superstitious people will have a Masse said which they pay the Priest for particularly over and besides all this there is scarce that Arpen in all France upon which there is not some Dirige or de profundis some libera me Domine or some reckoning or other liable Concerning them of the Reformed Religion whom here in contempt they call Hugnonets yee may note that the number is not small considering that after the conference of Poissie above forty yeares since here were found 2150. Churches of them whereof not one hath escaped without some murthers or massacres and we may imagine that since that time this number is much increased But as for Religion it hath onely beene the cloake and shadow of their ambitious pretences without the which they could never have insinuated themselves so farre into the hearts of the people who are alwayes the gros de la bataille the maine Battell and without whom the Nobilitie may well quarrell but they cannot fight And therefore yee shall reade in some of the same Religion reformed That there were Huguonets as well of Estate● as of Religion These have now free permission to professe and places allotted for exercise with all libertie of conscience possible save that in the chiefe Cities of France they have no Churches allowed neither can be buried in Christian buriall as they call it if any of them die among the Catholikes with whom not withstanding they now live peaceably thorowout the Countrey But me thinkes they have here small reason to let them live together in a house and not suffer them to lie together in a Church-yard And as for warring any long●r for Religion the French-m●● utterly disclaimes it he is at last growne wise marry he hath bought it somewhat deare The Italian is wise b●forehand the Almaine in the doing and the French● after the thing is done saith one of their own writers let us p●s●aetor sap●●● Concerning the Nobilitie of France saith La Nove They are exceeding valorous and courteous and there is no State in Christendome where they are in so great number It hath beene argued before in this Relation that there be at least 50000. able to beare Armes but that is thought with the most Monsieur du Fay thinks them about thirty thousand in which number ye must conclude all degrees of Gentlemen from the highest to the lowest that beare Armes for so the French call their Noblesse whereas we in England make two distinct orders of the Nobility Gentry as they call it Those are Noble which can prove a long tract of time wherein a Fee and Knights service thereto belonging hath resided in their family And another Writer saith In France men are esteemed Noble by bloud and profession of Arme● And sure if there be difference in Nobility as there must needs bee because the causes be different for some are ennobled by their valour and Martiall knowledge and others by their Offices and prudence in the manage of matters of Estate I see no reason but that these last should be holden the more Noble Nobility if I may so say alwayes giving the first place to them that are of Noble Houses by Race For of all these three sorts the French Writers speake when they say There is a difference of Nobles The first by Race The second by Ennobling and of Ennobling there are two sorts One by Patent duly proved in the Court of Parliament The other by meanes of Offices to which they are advanced And howsoever Turquet hereof inferreth that it is la vertu que fait la Noblesse car●ily a de nobles vilains et de vilains nobles Vertue that maketh Nobility for there are Noble Peasants and peasantly Nobles yet sure it is that the degenerating of one from the Vertue of his Ancestors cannot prejudice the Nobility nor Eclipse the glory of his Succeeder who as Histories shew many times excell all the former of their house The highest degree of honour in France is the Pairrie in which order have beene sometimes seven sometimes eleven never above seventeene and most commonly twelve Whereupon they are called the Twelve Peeres of France These have the precedence before all the rest of the Nobility and of these they of the Bloud although they were latest called into the Pairrie Of these Peeres

yeeld due reverence but toward strangers they are all fashioned of pride insolencie and boasting thinking no Nation in the world to equalize them in their speech entertainment and gesture bewraying their inherent insolence faithfull to none but where fidelitie may produce advantage By nature they are as idle and given to excessive eating and drinking sitting close by it three dayes together and secretly not abstaining from Wine although by their Law they are forbidden the drinking thereof No lesse are they addicted to lechery and lothsome unnaturall venery exceeding credulous superstitious relying upon dreames fortunes divinations and destiny beleeving every mans fortune to be written in his forehead impossible to be avoided the fundamentall reason why they adventure like brute beasts into so many desperate dangers As concerning their Religion a man might write much but we studying brevity doe relate that generally as a people too too credulous they embrace many absurd and triviall opinions touching the Creation and end of the world of Paradise Heaven Hell the Earth the creation of Man and Mahumets journey to Heaven even such and so grosse as would make our children to laugh if they heard them fabled They doe all acknowledge one God they reverence Christ not as the Sonne of God but as a Prophet borne of the Virgin Mary and not crucified on the Crosse but some other man foisted in by the subtiltie of the Iewes Idols and Images they will not endure and observe the Friday as wee doe the Sabbath They keepe a Lent of thirtie dayes which they call Ramadan and fast all day but in the night they make amends for all abstaining from nothing that commeth to hand save Swines flesh Wine and Women Next this Feast followeth their Easter by them termed Baydan it continueth three dayes and during that time they take no delight in any pastime This feast falleth not at all times alike but sometimes in the Winter sometimes in the Spring and sometimes in Autumne by reason that they account not their yeare according to the course of the Sun but of the Moone the rising whereof at first quarter they adore bearing the Figure thereof as we the Crosse in their Ensignes They are circumcised Iew-like but not as they on the eighth day but at the eighth yeare They have no Bels after the manner of Christendome neither will they suffer the Christians to have any but five times in one day and night their Priests ascend the Steeples with their lowd roarings and out-cries to call and assemble the people to prayers By their good will they will not be called Turkes for in the Hebrew tongue that denomination signifieth a Vagabond or banished man and is accounted a word of disgrace and therefore forsooth they must be stiled Musolmans that is Right-beleevers They have likewise amongst them as amongst the Papists foure Orders of professed persons viz. the Torlaci the Darvisi the Calenderi and the Hughie mali the most wicked Sect of all the residue giving themselves to all imposture and uncleannesse They are not very daintie to converse with Christians but with small intreatie will eat drinke and trafficke with them yea and sometimes marry the daughters permitting them to live peaceably after their consciences but to the Iewes they are most insociable detesting their company and hating their tables accounting them the basest people in the world neither will they marry with any of that progenie nō nor receive them into the Mahumetan Religion unlesse they be first baptized By their Lawes they may have but foure wives yet by prescription every man taketh as many as he can well maintaine one of these is accounted the wife to her the residue are underlings and may at any time be divorced Their women goe seldome abroad but if they doe they maske their faces are gallantly attired and shine in gold Stone and Jewels Twice a weeke as doe men they frequent the Baths They never blaspheme the name of God nor of Mahumet nor of Christ nor of our Ladie nor of any other Saints but if any bee heard so to offend he is grievously punished let him be of what calling or religion soever At Dice and Cards they never play but only at Alveolo They are very charitable disbursing their Almes not only to Turkes but also to Christians and men of all professions yea to brute beasts sometimes buying quicke Birds which for charities sake they will againe let flye at libertie Their garments are long and open before to the foot except their shirts which they weare without their Broges so that as they goe they are openly seene Their rayment is very faire and costly viz. of cloth silke imbrodery and set with pearle They cover their head with a Turbant except those of the discent of Mahumet these weare altogether greene but the Christians inhabiting among them weare no one colour but as they please greene except They are all clothed in long garments like the Turkes and are not distinguished by any apparell they weare of what profession soever they be but only by the attire of their heads In salutations they never uncover their heads neither doth the meaner salute his better the left hand with them is the place of honour and the better sort ride about their affaires on horsebacke In diet they are very rude they fare basely and grossely and yet they eat thrice a day at morning noone and evening alwayes without Table-cloth or Napkin not sitting orderly at Table but on the ground or some low stoole with their legges acrosse Taylor-like They feed upon all sorts of flesh except Porke which is forbidden them by their Law Their chiefest food is Rice and the Asian Turks care not much for Fish but the European Turks for nothing more By Law they forbeare Wine and therefore drinke water whereunto the better sort mix either Honey or Sugar and in cold weather in stead of a tost they throw in a burning coale to take away the offensive operation of this raw Element They make great use of Opium and there is not one of them but eateth it beleeving that thereby his courage increaseth and thereby lesse dreadeth the hazard of warre They make water cowring downe like women and their private buildings for the most part consist of timber and morter very narrow and ill contrived wherein to say truth they are not intensive esteeming it an hainous sinne to bestow more cost upon the frame than is likely or convenient to last longer than during the life of one man but in building of Temples to the honour of God in providing for publike receptacles of travellers in erecting Hospitals publike Baths watering places for men and cattell and fountaines to wash away their imaginary pollutions before they enter into their Mesehits they are most sumptuous most prodigall No lesse a pride take they in building of Conduits in erecting of Bridges and in paving of high-wayes all which in Turkie you shall see very carefully repaired as a man

GElderland 202 Geneva 304 G●noa 337 Groningen 203 Guatimala 631 Guiana 641 H HEbrides 121 Hispaniola 634 Holland 201 Hungarie 378 I IAmaica 633 Iapan 621 Ilands of England 129 India Asiatica or East-India 574 Ireland 68 Italy 317 Iudea 551 K KAthaia 498 L LOrrayne 428 Lybia 376 M MAlta 373 Man the I le 120 Manly Arts breed martiall valour 29 Mantua 362 Marishes their description and use 44 Mexico 630 Millaine 336 The Great Mogor 578 Moldavia 539 Mona 120 Monomotapa● 453 Moravia 278 Moscovia 463 Mountaines their description and use 42 N NApl●s Kingdome 330 Narsinga 613 Natolla 540 Navarre 194 Negroes Land 429 Netherlands 195 New Spaine 630 Nicaragua 632 Norwey 212 Nova Francia 636 Numidia 427 O OF Observation 1 Over-Isel 203 P PAlatinate 285 People of the North their constitutions complexions and natures 8. Of the South 12. Of the middle Region 15 Persia. 563 Peru. 637 Pol●nd 409 Popes Estate 320 Prester Iohn 444 R REligion a great advancer of Monarchie 30 Rewards military the benefit of them 30 Rivers their use in preserving of Empire 41 Roman Empire 262 Russia 463 SAvoy 364 Sarmatia 463 Saxonie 287 Situation the aptnesse of it for Empire 35 Of the Situation of Nations 4 Scotland 114 Sea the commodities in inlarging Empire 29 Seigniories divers pettie ones easily overcome one by one by a common enemie 37 Siam 602 Sicily 369 Spaine 222 States of the Low-Countries 200 Swethland 213 Switzerland 309 T TArtaria 494 Tartars their manners and armes 485 Temperature the division of it 2 Terra australis 643 Transylvania 394 Travell instructions for it 46 Treasure the use in Warre 33 Turkes their originall and story 554 Turkie 505 Turcomania 545 Tuscanie 324 V VAlour the commendations of it 23. Military Valour how increased 27 Venice 339 Virginia 635 Vrbine 361 Vsage to the Wars the effects 27. Free Vsage of people a meanes to make Princes potent 28 Vtrecht 203 W WAlachia 539 Wales 117 Weapons their qualities and advantages 32 West-India 625 Wildernesses their descriptions 45 Wisdome the use of it in Warres 25 World and the greatest Princes in it and the means to inlarge Dominion 19 X Great Xeriff 433 FINIS * The States of the world * Petrus Bertius Numbers Valour Wisdome Rashnesse I Vse 2 〈◊〉 3 Manly arts 4 Military rewards 3 Religion 4 Weapons Treasure Situation Pettie Seigniories 1 The commodities of the Sea for the defending or inlarging of Empire 2 Rivers 3 Mountaines 4 Marishes 5 Wildernesses 6 Desarts 〈◊〉 Of Minde Of Religion Of Persons and Places Of Language Of Reading Of Conference Of the body Of Exercises Of outward necessa●ies Of Money Of Bookes Of Apparell Manners of Nations Nature of Soiles Of people Of the Spaniard Of the Italian The Frenchman The German Of the Pole laque Of the Netherlander and Dane The Muscovite The Grecian The Turke The Persian The Armenian The Tartar The Moore The Savoyen The Switzer Government The Situation of England Bishopricks Wealth Qualities of the English England compared with Russia and Aethiopia With Germanie With Italie With Spaine With France M Paris fol. 68● The King The Court. The Nobility Courts of Iustice. The Gentry The Citizens The Husbandman or Yeoman compared Compared with the Turk With the Hungarian With the Italian With the Spaniard With the Frenchmen With the German With the Irishman Concerning traffike The disposition of Male-contents abroad What other Nations conceive of us Spaine The Emperor The Pole and Moscovite The Turke Italy Millan Mantua Venice The Florentine The Pope N●ples Sicil. The situation of England Forces At land Neighbourhood France The Spanish The Netherlands The Archduke Scotland Pit coale or Sea-coale Wales Ilands belonging to the Crowne of Great Brittaine Camden and Gyraldus Provinces Commodities Rivers Havens and Ports Paris Vniversitie London compared with Paris For populousnesse For neat and cleane streets For Aire For River For Bridges For a Castle For places of Retreit For seats of Iustice and concourse of Merchants For Colleges for students of the Lawes For Churches For decent riding For unconfused intermixtures For a Maior For the Court. Castles Charges Governments Lawes Officers of Court Great Master Gentlemen of 〈…〉 Mast●r or Stew●●d of the Kings House Great Provost of France Great Faulciner and Common Hunt Gentlemen of the Kings Guard His Forces His Infantery Officers of wa●●e Constable The Marshall Admirall Discipline His Expence His Revenue The Domaine Conquest Pension Trafficke Sale of Offices Riches A good note Officers of his Finances The Treasurer Generalities Elections Receivers Controlle●s His Coine The Clergie The Temporal livings of the Church The grosse errors of the Cabinet of France 〈…〉 ●ec●es of ●●ance Their Apparel Their Exercises Shooting Tennis-play Dancing Musicke Their Language 1. In deliberation 2. In matter of Warre 3. Entertaining of friendship 4. In managing 〈◊〉 〈…〉 his wife 6. In aptnesse to scoffe Townes Nature of the soile Forces Holland G●lde●lan● Over-Isel Vtrec●● Groningen The Riche● Their forces By Land ●y Sea Belgian Riches Forces at Land At Sea Got●●●● Finland Riches Co●per Forces at land Sea-forces Fortifications Borders His dominions in Europe In Africa Within the Streights Without the Streights Vnder the Aequinoctiall In Asia In the New-World Islands Continent The riches of these places Peru. 〈◊〉 Philipinae His greatnesse in Europe Division of his dominions Spaine The Estates of Italy The dominion of India The Low-Countries Italian Provinces under the Spaniard Revenues ordinary Extraordinary Orders of Knighthood Malecontents The Iewes The Portugals The Arragonou The Nobles Revenues from Italie The Italian humou●● The Indies 〈◊〉 yeare 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 made of another O● Flanders Councell Government Correspondencie With the Pope With the College of Cardinals With the Emperour With the Archduchesse With France With Savoy Polonia With 〈◊〉 Tu●ks Forces at land Humours of the Spaniards Their Cavalrie Borderers The Venetians The French The Persian In Barbarie In Tuscanie Parma Vrbine Genoa Malta Lucca Venice From him Forces These Galleons I suppose were but poore ●●gats Borderers Situation Plentie Climate Soyle Commodities Rivers Cities 〈…〉 Temporall Princes Revenue Forces Forces by Sea Austrich Bohemia Moravia 〈◊〉 Swevia Saxonie Situation Borderers Anhault Mansfield Force Erdford Dresden Vniversities Wittenberg 〈…〉 Fertilitie Riches Commodities People Manners of the people Artizans Merchants Nobles Valour Conceit of the English Councell Revenues The Duke of Brunswicke Bavaria Wirtemberg Michelburg Hesse Baden Ansbach Situation Circuit Strength The Territories Fertilitie Handicrafts Revenue Government Behaviour Situation The Causes of their first Revolts Levying of souldiers Government Their Soveraigne Magistrate Situation Length and Breadth Natures and manners of the people Merchants Artificers Husbandmen Sharers The King of Spaine The Pope The Venetians Genoa Florence Sienna Lucca Ferrara Mantua Vrbine Parma The Bishop of Rome Marchia Romagna Riches The State of Rome The College of Cardinals Tuscan Pisa. Florence Manners of the Florentines Arezzo Sienna His forces at land At Sea His Revenues Naples House of Piety Calabria Compasse and conteinue Calabria superior Situation Caesaria Gallipolis Apulia The extent Capitanato Mansredonia Puglia and Abruzze Malsi Benevento Forces at Land At Sea Revenue Nobilitie Riches Calabria Genoa M●ine●s of the 〈◊〉 Venice The increase thereof The description Murano The Glasse-houses Venice The site thereof and hardnesse to approach Division of the State of Venice Of the Continent Of the Island s of the Gulfe Of the Islands out of the Gulfe Riches Of the Sea The strength of the State Forces at land At Sea Of Neighbours The Turke The Spaniard The Emperor The Pope Lombardie Milan Brescia Bologna Verona Modena Mantua Number of Inhabitants Moderne Forces Nature of the people Sicil. Garrisons 〈◊〉 Revenues Forces by land By Sea Bounded Fertility Manners Riches Forces Neighbours 〈◊〉 of Hungarie Bounded Government Forces at land forces by water Fortification Plentie Mines Reasons why the Turke standeth at a stay in Hungarie Causes of greatnesse of Empires Causes of declination Riches Revenues Neighbours Forces Government Riches Revenues Government Forces Riches Forces Infantery Pioners The description of Africke Creatures proper to Africke Numidia Gualata Tombut Gago Borneo Gaoga Kings Court. Its privileges Plentie His manner of government Revenues Forces Fertilitie State Revenue Borderers King of Borno Turke King of Adel. The Slaves Greatnesse Elephants teeth Mines Salomons O●hir Government Fertility Riches Cair Anciently called G●●es Riches Bounded Shires Situation Mosco The soyle and climate Of Waters Forme of government 〈…〉 Riches and commodities Of his Entrada or Revenue Their crueltie in punishing offenders Of his strength Borderers The Circassi The Nagayans The Chrim Tartars Tartaria The Pole The large extent of all Tartaria Their features Their fashions Their Riches The ancient division Their moderne division Tartaria minor The Precopenses Tartaria deserta Astrachan The Zagata●e Bounded Fertilitie Forces His Coronation Government His Countries Cities Their Government The Iemoglans or tribute-children Their preferments A Beglerbeg A Sanziake A Chause The Spachi and then distinctions The Ianizars and their distinguishments Their birth-place Their training Their allowance Their licentious liberty Some say forty thousand The Azapi properly belonging to the Gallies The Tartars Forces at Sea Administration of Iustice. Revenues ordinary besides Timariots Extraordinary The Timariots Report saith that this is againe reconquered by the Persian Administration of Justice Borderers The Persian The Portugals Prester John The Xeriffe The Polander The Austrian The Venetians The Spaniard Patriarches of Constantinople Of Alexandria Of Ierusalem Of Antioch Thrace Gallipolis Macedon Epyrus Achaia Peloponnesus Dalmatia Maesia superior Servia Bulgaria Valachia The reason of the desolation of these Countries Moldavia Pontus Bithynia Bursia Asia minor Caramania Cappadocia or Amasia Cilicia Armenia minor Arabia Deserta Arabia Potrea Arabia Felix Situation Nature of the people The Curdines Gurgist●n or Georgia in times past Iberia Situation * Now Caesaria P●ilippi * Now Gibelin Iordan Asphaltites Forces Galilie Nazareth Samaria Iudea Ierusalem Mount Calvarie Valley of Ichosaphat Bethlem Gaza Jdumea Phoenicia Sydon Acon Beritus Cities Government Desarts Forces Riches Borderers The Mogor The Zagatai The Turke One Tomana maketh twenty French Crownes Government Arts. Forces at land Force at sea Treasure Borderers Riches Forces Government Borderers Aracan Macin