's are these Saint Cloud and Villiers Cotteret which belong to Monsieur Chantilly to M. le Prince there is seen even at this day in his Menagery a Pelican 150 years old having a bill of Ivory The Isle Adam belongs to M. the Prince of Conti Reinci to the Princess Palatine Annet to the Duke of Vandôme the Palace of Ecoüan to the Dutchess of Angouleme Gros-bois to the Marquess of Pienee Ruel to the Duke de Richlieu Verneüil to the Duke of this name Liancour to the Prince of Marcillac Villeroy to the Duke of this name Chaville to M. the Chancellour le Tellier Sceaux to M. Colbert la Cheurette to M. de la Vrilliere Berni to the Marquess de Lionne Chilly to the Marquess d'Effiat Conflans Les-Charenton to M. de Harlay Archbishop of Paris Maisons Vaux Saint Mandé Meudon are also places very agreeable Chassan is another House of Pleasure joyning to Harcueil it belongs to the Abbot of S. Germain des Prez Cardinal Francis de Tournon first Commendatory Abbot of the Abbey of the said S. Germain caused it to be put in order we see there his Arms which are Seme of Flower-de-luces Mademoiselle de Montpensier increases the number of delightful Houses by that which she purchased of late years at Choisy This Princess causes a beautiful Palace to be there built The House of the Dean of Pontoise seven leagues from Paris has one of the fairest Prospects and Terrasses of the Country the Terras is entirely on Rocks Messire Steven de Burtio de la Tour Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbone and formerly Priour and Professour of the said House Knight of the Order of the King under the Title and List of Saint Michael Count of the holy Apostolical Palace and Preacher is Dean When the general Assembly of the Clergy is held at Pontoise the President lodges at his house We see at the entry of this Town as we come from Paris a famous Abbey of Religious Ladyes called de Maubuisson I omit to name many other Ornaments because it would be too tedious to number them Houses and Places of Devotion neer Paris THe pious places about Paris that are most frequented are Mount-Valerian the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis Nostre Dame des Anges otherwise des Bois against the Hermitage of Coubron Nanterre in memory of St. Genevieve Nostre Dame des Vertues S. Prix Nostre Dame in the Forrest and Hermitage of Senar Saint Roch is very famous at Pont-carré they come thither the day of its Festival from all parts Saint Spire is visited for the Falling Sickness We must say something here of Mount-Vale rian If Mount-Valerian vulgarly called le Tertre be not rich it is nevertheless frequented We see there represented to the life the whole History of the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ Round about the top of the Mountain there are seven Chappels or Oratories representing the seven Stations and on the top Calvary on which Jesus Christ is beheld crucified on a tall Cross betwixt two Thieves that the representation of the Order of the Crucifixion should be more lively and plain and also that after the faithful have plung'd themselves by all these exteriour and sensible Objects in the meditation of the Death of Jesus Christ they may die to the World and then rise again with him in a newness of a spiritual life They preach there every Sunday and Festival day and every first Friday of each month there being a great concourse of people that comes from all parts On the day and Feast of the place which is that of the Exaltation of the holy Cross the 14th of September there have been sometimes 30 or 40000 persons either on the Mountain or in the Way The fraternity of the Penitents of Paris goes thither in a Procession yearly some days of the year On Good-friday three different Preachers preach there the Passion successively The Queen who is a Pattern of Piety and Devotion visits this holy place from time to time The Church is serv'd by Priests who live in a Society Messire Michel de Bougi Abbot of St. Vrbain a person of Birth and Merit is Purveyor and the Abbot Hardy Doctor of Sorbone is Superiour The Office of Purveyor is for perpetuity and that of Superiour triennial Under Anne of Austria Queen of France there was a great Law-suit for the possession of this place betwixt the Secular Priests and the Dominicans This business gave much trouble to the Abbot de Bougi and to Master Lafont in his life-time Principal of the Colledge of Narbone The Congregation of the Priests of Calvary on Mount-Valerian was establisht An. 1633. by Letters-Patents of Loüis the Thirteenth who sent for a Priest expresly for this effect a man of a holy life called Charpenter who had already instituted it on the Mountain of Betharan in Bearn which resembles Mount-Valerian The Hermites have been in possession of Mount-Valerian for these 800 years according to an humble Remonstrance made An. 1622. to Cardinal des Retz by the Priests of Calvary There was seen there for some time a recluded Hermite The Treasure which is in the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis and the Tombs of the Kings of France deserve that we should say something of them The Treasury of St. Denis THe Church of the Abbey of St. Denis is extreamly visited both by reason of its Patron and for its Treasure and for being the Burial-place of the Kings of France King Dagobert the First of the name caus'd it to be built and to be covered with silver This Prince Founder of the Abbey died the 19th of Jan. of the year 648. There is seen in the Treasury a Missal written by the hand above 800 years since and a Manuscript above eleven hundred years old which contains the four Gospels written in Characters of gold and silver on Velam of a purple colour A Book of Velam covered with silver containing the Works of St. Denis the Areopagite Another Book written by hand which contains the Epistles and Gospels of the great Feasts Gold pretious Stones and great Pearls cover it Moreover another Book concerning the Ceremonies and Prayers of the Kings Coronation In a rich Cross-case a foot and a halfs length of the true Cross One of the Nails with which the Son of God was fastened to the Cross a Thorn of the Crown and some of the Spunge with which they presented him Gall. Some of the Myrrh which the Magicians presented him one of the Pitchers in which he chang'd Wine into Water at the Wedding of Cana in Galilee and a great many Shrines wherein Relicks are kept A great Cross of massie Gold cover'd with pretious Stones and set round with oriental Pearls A little Crucifix made of the wood of the true Cross The Heads of St. Denis St. Hilary and St. Bennet are extreamly rich The Miter of the first is of Gold and all cover'd with pretious Stones and oriental Pearls those of
place of Residency of this Court. There is a great Bridge and a little River under it call'd Manzanarez on the occasion of which an Embassadour said to the Emperour Charles the Fifth Less Bridge or more Water The Kings Palace is call'd Pallasso del Rey otherwise Palasso Real The eldest Sons of the King of Spain are called Princes of Austria as in France Dolphins in England Princes of Wales in Portugal Princes of Algarves and in Savoy Princes of Piedmont A relation whereof I could quote the Author tells us that a man must be clad in black to speak to his Catholick Majesty I know the contrary by Spaniards who have had the honour to speak to him in grey Clothes I may believe that a man must appear before him in black Clothes when he is in Mourning and be in a decent habit The Coach-men sit on one of the horses which go at the Draught-tree since the time that the Coach-man of Count Alvarez who sate before the Coach reveal'd a Secret of his Master which he had overheard The same thing is practis'd in Germany The chief Houses of Pleasure belonging to the King and out of Madrid are IL Campo il Retiro Aranjues le Pardo the Escurial and Jarzuela The Spaniards make of this last save one the eighth Wonder of the World. Philip the Second laid oâ—r twenty Millions in building it he caus'd the Escurial to be built both in memory of the Victory which he gain'd over the French An. 1557. at S. Quentin in Picardy on the Somme the tenth of August being S. Laurence's day and for having caus'd the Church of S. Laurence of S. Quentin to be beaten down whereupon he made a Promise to God to cause a finer to be built in Spain in the honour of the same Saint and a Monastery where the Monks of S. Hierome are magnificently seated The King has a Seat in the Refectuary and a great Palace without the Convent After the Library of the Vatican which is the first of the World that of these Monks has been greatly valued There is seen at il Campo a great Park for the divertisement of Hunting great Ponds and Gardens At il Retiro otherwise call'd Buen Retiro there is seen Philip the Fourth on a Horse of cast Copper The King passes there the greatest heats of the Summer by reason of its Waters and fine Grotto's of different kinds The fine Walks are there as green in the Summer as in the Spring-time There is a strange Figure there standing in the midst of a great Cistern casting forth water from all the parts of its body which is made use of for watering in a moment a Garden of the Palace full of all sorts of Flowers There is also seen there Gardens full of Fruit-trees At il Pardo are the Pictures of all the Kings of Spain The ancient Palace of one of the Kings of the Moors call'd Halambra is remarkable for being flankt with thirty Towers it is on one of the little Hills of the Town of Grenada The chief places of Devotion IN Madrid the Church of our Lady Almudena and that of Athoca are very famous Our Lady of Athoca call'd according to the Language of the Country Nostra Senora d'Athoca is at Madrid as the Church of our Lady at Paris for Piety and the concourse of People It 's there where the Te Deum is sung Saint James of Compostella in Galicia is a very famous place of Pilgrimage the French Pilgrims that go thither pass over the Trembling Bridge It is thought that this Bridge is so call'd by reason of the flowing of the Sea which coming to press against it makes it tremble It 's a roguish Bridge of wood a little River passes under it The Apostle S. James the Greater is the Patron of all Spain His Relicks are under the great Altar of the Metropolitan Church of Compostella his Figure representing half his body is over it his Pilgrims Staff is on the side of the Quire and his Head at Toulouse in the Church of S. Sernin It 's there where the Pilgrims begin their Pilgrimage S. James has been seen to fight for the Spaniards against the Sarasins holding in his hand a white Standart with a red Cross in it in the time of King Ramires who being assisted with his Apostle charg'd so briskly the Enemies that he cut in pieces 60000 on the place Charlemagne King of France was at Compostella to honour St. James and caus'd his Church to be built Since the Kings of Spain have been Catholicks they have always honour'd him I have read a Relation of divers Voyages in which the Author says that St. James suffered Martyrdom at Compostella It 's a roguish Memoire which has been given him I remit him to the Books of the Acts of the Apostles to the Ecclesiastical History and to the holy Martyrology and he will find that it was at Hierusalem that Herod caus'd him to be beheaded This Apostle having continued some time in Spain return'd to Judoea his Disciples after his death carried him from the Port of Joppe presently to Fa where they embarkt for Spain and after having sail'd all along the Mediterranean Sea and pass'd the Straight of Gibralter they took on the Ocean the course of Galicia where they landed and disembarkt the body of the Saint in the Town of Irisflavia where he continued hidden and unknown till it was miraculously discover'd by a Star which appear'd there This place has been call'd since Compostella that is to say Campus stelloe S. James the Lesser suffered also Martyrdom in Hierusalem whereof he was Bishop he was thrown headlong from the top of the Temple to the bottom and cudgell'd to death After S. James of Compostella Mount Sarra is another place of Piety and of Pilgrimage very much frequented It 's a Mountain in the middle of Catalonia on which there is an Abbey of the Order of S. Bennet and where thirteen Hermites have each their little Cell and little Garden The Angelical Chappel call'd otherwise our Lady of the Pillar is very famous at Saragossa Buterius says that S. James being in Prayer about this Town with his little Flock and being very uneasie that he could not convert in Spain above nine persons whereof there were eight Jews and one onely Spaniard the holy Virgin brought by Angels from Judaea into this Country appear'd to him near the River Eber on a Pillar of Marble some say of Jasper who comforting him foretold to him the Conversion of this People by the Ministry of his Disciples and that St. James rais'd her since this Chappel where this Pillar is seen and on it the Figure of the Virgin holding her Son in her arms This Church is esteem'd the most Ancient of Christendom amongst those that are dedicated to the holy Virgin. The Division of the Spanish Monarchy ITs Kingdoms or to say better its Provinces were formerly to the number of fourteen by counting thus Castille Leon Arragon Catalonia Valencia
du Chesne Coulomb Gautruche and others He governed the Ship of St. Peter eight years and four months His body lies at Marseilles in the Church of the Abbey of St. Victor after having first continued eleven months deposited in the Church of Nostre dame de Dons at Avignon where he died the 19th of December of the year 1370. The Cardinals celebrated his Obsequies with the accustomed Ceremonies He is in the Catalogue of canonized Saints In the House of Roure there have been two other Popes viz. Sixtus the Fourth and Julius the Eleventh both of Genoa Gregory the Eleventh of Limosin called formerly Peter Roger of the House of Beaufort which subsists still in that of the Marquess of Canilhac in Auvergne was Son of William Earl of Beaufort and of Jane Sister to Pope Clement the Sixth Before his Exaltation he was Canon of the Church of Paris Dean of the Cathedral of Bayeux and then afterwards Cardinal by the Title of St. Mary la Neuve His Prophecy was Novus de Virgine fortis It is he that founded for perpetuity in the Church of Nostre dame of Paris the station that is dayly kept there at nine a clock in the morning before the Altar of the Virgin. He died at Rome the 27th of March of the year 1372. some say Anno 1376. others Anno 1378. Two hundred years after his death the Italians erected a new Monument of Marble in his memory in the Church where he was buried as an acknowledgment of the Benefits received from him and caused to be graved on it this Epitaph in great Letters Christi Saluti Gregorius XI Lemovicensi humanitate doctrinâ pietateque admirabili qui ut Italiae seditionibus laboranti mederetur sedem Pontificiam Avenione diu translatam divini afflatus numine hominumque maximo plausu post Annos LXX Romam foeliciter perduxit Pontificatûs sui de Anno VII S. P. Q. R. tantoe Religionis Beneficii non Immemor Gre. XIII P. Opt. Max. comprobante An. ab or be Redempto MDLXXXIV The Italians call the time during which the Holy See was at Avignon till its re-establishment in Rome the years of the Transmigration of Babylon The Church had two hundred forty four Popes from Saint Peter to Innocent the Eleventh There remains yet to come twenty five according to the Prophecies of St. Malachie Primate of Ireland and then will happen the great day of the General Judgment which will close the door of Time and open that of Eternity These Prophecies are not proposed as Articles of Faith for who is the man that can know the times and the moments This is reserved to God alone Jesus Châ—ist said to his Apostles that no body knows the hour of this great Day All that is said is grounded on conjectures and on adjusted senses because the Law of Nature lasted two thousand years the written Law two thousand years it is thought that the Evangelical Law will continue so long Nothing can be said thereon for certain nor concerning the Popes to come before their creation The future Popes conformably to the Prophecies mentioned are these 1. POenitentia Gloriosa 2. Rastrum in Porta 3. Flores Circumdati 4. De Bonâ Religione 5. Miles in bello 6. Columna excelsa 7. Animal Rurale 8. Rosa Vmbriae 9. Vrsus velox 10. Peregrinus Apostolicus 11. Aquila rapax 12. Canis Coluber 13. Vir Religiosus 14. De Balneis Etruriae 15. Crux de Cruce 16. Lumen in Coelo 17. Ignis Ardens 18. Religio de Populata 19. Fides Intrepida 20. Pastor Angelicus 21. Pastor ex Nautâ 22. Flos Florum 23. De Medietate Lunae 24. De Labore solis 25. Gloria Olivae These Prophecies are inserted in a book called Lignum Vitae composed by Arnold Vvion Benedictin St. Malachie began them by Coelestin the Second to the coming of Antichrist and died Anno 1298. in the Abbey of Clairvaux in the arms of St. Bernard who has writ his Life These two great persons are buried the one by the other behind the High Altar The chief Princes of Italy after the Pope are the five following The Duke of Savoy VIctor-Amé the second of the name Duke of Savoy Prince of Piemont Marquess of Saluzze c. was born Anno 1666. professes the Catholick Religion he shews in the tenderness of his age a viril Judgment which raises admiration in Foreign Ministers and gives great hopes that he will one day be Master of the excellent Qualities of his Father which will live in him by the care of his Mother Regent who being ignorant of nothing that ought to be known took care of his Estates during his minority and appointed him persons whom she made choice of for forming his Manners and Conduct The Dutchess laid down the Regency Anno 1680 into the hands of her Son. This Prince gave her his thanks for the care she had taken of his Person and of his Estates and pray'd her to continue to assist him in the Government I shall set down but part of his Coat of Arms though very excellent and most noble because his Scutcheon is extreamly charg'd They may be seen at large in some good book of Heraldry and those of other crowned heads I shall say onely that the Dukes of Savoy bear the silver Cross for having relieved the Isle of Rhodes and repelled the Turks An. 1315. and that for acknowledgment the Knights gave them the Cross with this Motto FERT which signifies Fortitudo ejus Rhodum tenuit I shall also say that these Dukes bear the Arms of the Kingdom of Cyprus This Crown gives them the Title of Royal Highness They are descended from the ancient House of Saxony They were called in the first place Earls of Morienne then Earls of Savoy till Amedée the Eighth whom the Emperour Sigismond created Duke Anno 1416 or 1417. It was Amé the Fifth surnamed the Great who caused Mahomet the second of the name Emperour of the Turks to raise his Siege from before the City of Rhodes The House of Savoy has been acknowledged Soveraign for above six hundred years it has assorded many Empresses and Queens Turin in the Plain of Piemont on the Bank of the Po is the capital City of the Dukes Territories Chamberry is of Savoy and has a Parliament The Court of this Prince is very splendid his Royal Highness holds it at Turin where there is a great Garison The Dukes new Palace is one of the finest of Italy it is composed of four Pavillions with great piles of Lodgings joyning to it and in a great Court is seen the brazen Figure of Charles Emanuel the Second on a Horse of Marble represented to the life The old Palace flankt with four great round Towers guarded with a large Trench and which faces a large void space is embellished with a fair Gallery filled with excellent Pictures which represent the Christian Princes and the Genealogy of the Dukes of Savoy The little Chariot with six horses
Marks of its Devotion Nostre-Dame d Orient in the Diocess of Vabres These two places of Devotion are in Roüergne Nostre-Dame du Calvaire of Betharan in Bearn in the Diocess of Lascar Messire Pierre de Marca has said wonderful things of it in a Book entituled Traité des Merveilles Operées en la Chappelle Nostre-Dame du Calvaire en Betharan It was printed An. 1646. and An. 1648. the word Betharan signifies according to the Language of the Country a fine Branch and according to the Hebrew Tongue the House of the Soveraign and of the most High or the House of Greatness and Eminency In the Territory of the Tribe of Gad there was a Valley of this name which appears by the Book of Joshua The Mountain Betharan has the figure of that of the true Calvary of Jerusalem Many Miracles have been there wrought If Miracles were wrought in the Temples of the Protestants as in these holy places they would make them serve as Seals to their Doctrine and would make them sound forth with a high voice that the Saviour of the World gives the power to them as a most powerful and pressing means to cause the truth of their Faith to be embrac'd and because they have no Miracles they laugh at them To which I oppose that the Jews and Pagans rejected those of Jesus Christ and of the Apostles and with St. Austin that Miracles have been the motives of innumerable conversions to Christianity that Miracles are the Chains that hold us in the Catholick Church Our strayed Brethren chuse rather to suffer themselves to be bound by their own Imagination and by the consequences they draw from the Scripture according to their private spirits and without having either of our most dear Chains neither the antiquity nor the number nor the succession of Chairs nor the Miracles c. which have continued in the Roman Church from Age to Age since the time of the Apostles Let us return to our subject The Church of Nostre-Dame of Ardilliers which is one of the chief suburbs of the Town of Saumur is serv'd by the Oratorian Fathers Saint Maximin and Saint Baume by the Dominicans as also Nostre-Dame de Bonnes Nouvelles at Rennes Nostre-Dame de Rochefort by the Religious Benedictines Saint Reine by the Cordeliers Nostre-Dame d'Orient by the Capucins Nostre-Dame de Consolation de Bezieres by the Religious of St. Francis of Paul vulgarly called les Bons hommes The others by Canons and Secular Priests The twelve ancient General Governments of the Provinces were called together at Paris under Loüis the Thirteenth according to their rank and place in the States General 1614. THe Isle of France Burgundy Normandy Guienne Britany Champagne Languedoc Picardy Daulphine Provence Lyonnois and Orleanois Of these twelve great Governments many others are made Lyonnois comprehended formerly higher and lower Auvergne and also la Marche the higher and lower Bourbounois Beaujolois and the Country of Forrests Orleanois contain'd Poitou Aniou Touraine Loudunois the Town and Government of Rochelle Angoumois le Maine Berry Pais Chartrain le Perche Nivernois and Vandosmois Xaintonge was of the Government of Guienne The Governours of the Provinces An. 1679. are these THe Town Provostship and Vicounty of Paris has for Governour the Duke of Crequy Peer of France Commander of the Kings Orders and first Gentleman of the Chamber to his Majesty He was made choice of by the King to go to Bavaria to carry the Marriage-Presents to Madam the Dolphiness Anno 1680. The Duke d'Estrèes Peer of France is Governour of the Isle of France Soissonnois Laonnois Beauvoisis c. The Prince of Condé Lord Steward of the Kings Houshold has the government of Burgundy and of la Bresse the Duke d'Enguien has the survivourship of his Father The Duke de Montauzier Peer of France and Commander of the Kings Orders has Normandy he was Governour of Monseigneur the Dolphin The Duke de Roquelaure Guienne The Duke de Chaune Britany Marshal Duke de Vivonne of Montmart Champagne and Brie The Duke of Verneuil Languedoc he succeeds Arnand de Bourbon Prince of Conti whose Piety is crown'd in the Coelestial Court he died at Pezenas An. 1666. the 21 day of February and his body was carried into the house of the Carthusians of Villeneufe in Avignon This Prince compos'd two Books one is entituled Devoirs des Grands and the other Memoires du Prince de Conti the former contains very excellent Instructions The Duke d'Elbeuf is Governour of Picardy The Duke les Diguieres of Dauphiné The Duke de Vandôme of Provence Marshal de Grignan is sole Lieutenant-General of this Province he has also been Lieutenant-General of Languedoc The Duke de Villeroy Son of the Marshall of this name is Governour of Lyonnois Forests and Beaujolois The Marquess d' Alluye of Orleannois Blesois Dunois and the Country of Sologne Chartrain and Vandômois Auvergne has for Governour the Duke de Boüillon high Chamberlain Higher and lower la Marche the Marquess de S. Germain Beaupré Limosin the Count d' Auvergne Bourbonnois the Marquess de la Valiere Berry the Prince of Marsillac Francois de la Rochefoucaud Duke of Rocheguion Groom of the Stole and Chief Master of the Game of France Son of the Prince of Marsillac and Grand-child of the Duke of Rochefoucaut married An. 1679. in the Church of S. Roch of Paris Madeleine la Tellier Daughter of the Marquess de Lionnois Minister and Secretary of State and Grand-child of Messire Michel le Tellier Chancellour of France Anjou has for Governour Count d' Armagnac the Kings Master of the Horse Touraine the Marquess de Dangeau Le Maine Laval and le Perche the Marquess de Fervaques Poitou the upper and lower the Duke of Vieville Xaintonge and Angoumois the Duke de Crussol The Country of Aunis and Broüage the Duke de Navailles Nivernois the Duke of Nevers The Country of Foix the Marquess de Mirepoix Navarre and Bearn Duke Anthony-Charles de Grammont Soveraign of Bidache his Father Duke and Earl Marshal of France Knight of the Kings Orders died at Bayonne the 83 year of his age the 12th of July 1678. Conquer'd Countries THe upper and lower Alsatia have for Governours the Duke de Mazarin Duke of Mielleraye and Mayenne Peer of France and particular Governour of the Towns Citadels and Castles of Brisac la Fere Vitre Vincennes Port-Loüis and other places Lorrain the Marshal de Crequy The Town and Citadel of Metz and Vic the Marshal Duke de la Ferte-Seneterre Toul the Count de Pas de Feuquieres The Duke de Noailles Peer of France Captain of the first Company of the Life guard is Governour of Roussillon and Lieutenant-General in upper Auvergne The Duke and Marshal de Duras Knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost has the Government of Franche Comté Marshal d Humicres is Governour and Lieutenant-General of Flanders and particular Governour of Lille Count de Montbron Governour of Arras and Lieutenant-General in
the Archbishoprick of Paris An. 1671. and created Duke and Peer of France An. 1674. It 's the first of this See who has born the Title of Duke and Peer which will pass from him to his Successors He was before Archbishop of Roüen and President in ordinary of the Assemblies of the Clergy of France He never permits any Priest to speak to him with his Hat off but himself is likewise uncover'd though he be a great Lord. The Suffragans of Paris are Chartres Orleans Meaux Chartres has had a hundred and five Bishops from S. Avent or Aventin some say Potentien to Messire Ferdinand de Neufville de Villeroy Counsellor of State in Ordinary formerly Bishop of S. Malo. He was born at Rome under the Embassie of his deceased Father who caus'd the Statua of Henry the Great to be erected there This great Prelate is descended from great Ministers who have been cherisht by our Kings and who have govern'd the State with so much wisdom and prudence He has always had near him persons of eminent Learning Orleans a hundred and seventeen from S. Altin to Messire Pierre Cambout de Coaslin the Kings first Almoner Meaux a hundred and four from S. Sanctin to Messire Dominique de Ligni Successor of his Uncle Dominique Seguier The Archbishoprick of Albi. ALbi has had sixty eight Bishops from St. Clair to Gaspard de Daillon du Lude This Bishoprick very famous for its Revenue was made an Archbishoprick under Pope Innocent the Eleventh at the request of Loüis the Fourteenth in favour of Messire Hyacynthe de Serroni some time Bishop of Orange and afterward Lord Bishop of Mande Count of Givodan and first Almoner of the late Queen-Mother Anne of Austria whose Funeral-Oration he made at Paris in the head of the Clergy of France and of all that is most Illustrious in the Kingdom with the applause and admiration of all his Auditors His rare Piety his profound Learning the long and important Services which he has rendred the Church and State have rais'd him to this high Dignity His devise is Sidus flos lapis There has been counted to the year 1680. sixty eight Bishops of Albi the Abbot de Cam who dayly penetrates Antiquity has discover'd eight or ten more by reading the Councels and the Register and Documents of the Metropolitan Church of Albi whereof he has compos'd the History His merit oblig'd the first Archbishop of this See a lover of Learning and learned Persons to make him his great Vicar and to send him on his behalf to assist in the Estates of Languedoc of the year 1680. The Suffragans of Albi are the nearest to it Vabres Rhodes Castres Cahors and Mande Vabres has had twenty two Bishops from Pierre d'Olargue to Messire Loüis de Barrada The two first Bishops of this Diocess were of the ancient House of Olargue Rhodes fifty three from St. Amant to Messire Gabriel de Voyer de Paulmi Castres twenty nine from Deodat to Messire Michel Tuboeuf Cahors sixty four from Genulphe to Messire N. le Jay Mande sixty two from S. Severian to Messire Francois Placide de Baudri de Piencour He confirms those that are in the good way and recalls those that are astray Five Bishops of this Diocess enlarge the Catalogue of Saints The Archbishoprick of Cambray CAmbray has had nine or ten Archbishops from Maximilian de Berghes to Messire Christophle de Brias he succeeds Gaspar Nemius Many Bishops preceded them for some time those of Cambray were Bishops of Arras they were afterward separated The Archbishop of Cambray stiles himself Archbishop and Duke of Cambray Count du Cambresis and Prince of the Empire This Archbishoprick before the Wars was worth a hundred thousand Livres of Rent The Archiepiscopal Church has a very fair Body adorn'd with a high Steeple some persons think that its Bell call'd Mary-Fontenoise resembles in greatness to George d' Amboise of Roüen or to Cardaillac of Tolose or to that of Mande when it was in being whereof the Clapper is yet to be seen Charies the Fifth caus'd the famous Citadel to be built which is very strong by Scituation and by Art though the King of France took it in a little time and receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity from the Archbishop An. 1677. The Governour of this place being askt at Brussels by the Duke de Villa-Hermosa why he had yielded it so soon answered him in these very terms The King of France was before it in person and I believe if he besieg'd Hell he would fetch all the Devils out in case Hell could be besieg'd and taken by Mortals The Suffragans of this Archbishoprick are Arras Tornai Saint Omer Arras has had fifty three Bishops from Lambert to Messire Guidon de Seve de Roche Chouard Tornai forty eight from S. Plato to Messire Philiberg de Choiseul du Plessis Pralin formerly Bishop of Comminges He preacht the Funeral Sermon on the late Prince of Conti. The Canons of his cathedral-Cathedral-Church are cloath'd in violet The Town of Gand depended formerly for the spiritual on the Bishops of Tornay as we shall see elsewhere Saint Omer ten from Gerard de Hamericourt to Messire Annes Tristan de la Baume Suse His Majesty chose him for a Diocess and a People newly conquered by reason of his particular merit and of his extream sweetness accompani'd with a like Address for governing them He was created before Bishop of Tarbes He expected his Bulls for S. Omer An. 1679. A Historiographer of France says that he has been assur'd that the custom of defending Theses in Greek pass'd from S. Omer to Paris in a Book entituled Les Entretiens de Luxembourg p. 193. The Archbishoprick of Bezancon BEzancon ninety four Prelates and Archbishops from S. Lin to Messire Antoine de Gramont The Canons of his Cathedral bear in their Arms a Camail of Silk Azure doubled with Taffety Gules with a Crosier and a Mitre The Suffragans are Bellai Bâle Lausane These two last are in Switzerland Bellai has had eighty six Bishops from Audax to Messire Pierre du Laurens There was given to this Prelate for devise in a These dedicated to him Crescit suo sydere laurus by allusion to his Arms. Bâle sixty from Justinian to blessed Ramestein who died An. 1651. After that Bâle was entirely Protestant the Episcopal See was plac'd at Potentru Lauzane sixty three from S. Beat to Messire Jean de Vateville who died An. 1649. The See is at Fribourg in Brisgou Buntruc is the ordinary Seat of the Bishop Metz Toul and Verdun are Suffragans of Treves which has been taken and retaken Metz has had eighty nine Bishops from St. Clement to Messire George d' Aubusson de la Fueillade Commander of the Kings Orders Prince of the Empire formerly Archbishop of Ambrun and Embassadour at Venice Henry de Eourbon Duke of Verneüil Jule Mazarin and Prince Guillaume de Fustemberg though in the Catalogue of the Bishops of Metz not occupy the
the Citadel the twelfth Julius Caesar caus'd this great Town to be built whilst he was at Terouanne and the Emperour Charles the Fifth was born and baptiz'd there An. 1500. his Cradle is yet shewn there His Statue is seen in a Market-place on a Pedestal The Episcopal Church is call'd S. Bavon the Bishoprick is worth 30000 Crowns and the Prebendries 2 or 3000 Livres Father Boussingout relates that the Organ of the Church of Saint Michael has three thousand Pipes in a Book entituled The Guide of the Low Countries The most Christian King gave the Government of this place to Comte de Montbron It was restor'd to his Catholick Majesty by the Treaty of Peace concluded at Nimegen betwixt France and Spain In this Town a Cathedral-Church was built and detacht from Tornai An. 1559. by Pope Paul the Fourth at the request of Philip the Second King of Spain The 16th of March 1678. the King judg'd it convenient for the good of his affairs to withdraw his Troops from Messina which he had a long time kept there for the service of those of Messina who had implor'd his assistance The Duke de la Fueillade who succeeded the Duke of Vivonne permitted above four thousand Inhabitants of the Town to embarque themselves they being desirous to come into France to avoid the rigorous consequences of the Spanish Policy The third of May the Town of Ypres surrendred it self to the King it has the title of a Vicounty His Majesty gave the Government to the Marquess de la Trousse Lieutenant-General of his Armies Captain-Lieutenant of the Company of M. le Dauphin The third of May the Town and Fort of Lewe in Brabant were taken from the Spaniards by the Valour and Dexterity of the Sieurs Calvo and de la Breteche this person executed the Enterprize This place is incompass'd with a Marsh a great Trench and a Fore-trench full of water twelve foot deep The fifty Swimmers under the conduct of the Sieur de Cremeau Captain in the Regiment of Piemont did a bold action in passing courageously the waters with their Swords betwixt their teeth being assisted by two hundred Musketeers who openly advancing themselves fired continually on the Enemies to favourize the passage The 31th of the same month the Marshal Duke de Navaille took Puicerda Capital of Cerdaigne The King lessen'd six millions of Livres of the Tailles of the year 1678. and reduc'd them from forty millions to thirty four to be distributed or divided in all the Generalities and Countries Taillables His most Christian Majesty lessen'd them yet more by two millions An. 1679. The Tailles began under St. Loüis to maintain the charge of War against the Infidels in the twelfth age and the Gabelle or Impost on the Salt under Philip called the Long in the thirteenth age of the Incarnation Ancus Martius introduc'd it a long time before at Rome he has been blam'd by some and approv'd by others particularly the Emperour Justinian who assur'd that without the Gabelle it was impossible to make the Republick subsist because the Quiet of the People is preserv'd by Arms Arms by Pay Pay by Imposts Tributes and Tolls The Emperour Nero would have abolish'd the Gabelle but the Senate opposs'd it alleaging that to diminish the publick Revenue was to ruine the Empire In the month of July of the same year 1678. an ill Accident happen'd in America to the French Squadron commanded by the Count d'Estrées six or seven Men of War and five Fly-boats were lost near the Isle of Birds about ten leagues from Curassow being cast by the rapidness of the Currents on Rocks which are there high Many persons in them were drown'd Seven Vessels were sav'd viz. the Duke the Thunder the Star the Lyon the Vigilant the Merillon the Tempest three Fireships and two Flutes Of the Peace betwixt France Holland Spain the Emperour the Elector of Brandenburg and Denmark THe Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Holland was sign'd at Nimegen at the house of the Marshal d'Estrades An. 1678. the tenth of August about midnight The French and the Dutch embrac'd each other with tenderness and shew'd a great Joy to see their ancient Friendship perfectly reestablisht The Marshal d'Estrades Son of the Marshal of this name arriv'd the 15th of the same month from Nimegen at Saint Germains in Laye where he presented his most Christian Majesty the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and the States General of the Vnited Provinces The Ratifications were exchang'd the 20th of September and the 29th following the Peace was publisht at Paris with the accustomed Ceremonies The 5th of October the Marshal d Estrades Embassadour of the most Christian King and the Sieur Beverning Embassadour of the Estates General caus'd publick Rejoycings to be made at Nimegen for the Peace betwixt France and Holland In the same year the 17th of September the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain was sign'd at Nimegen about eleven of the clock at night in the house of the Holland-Embassadours The Ratification followed some time after as also the publication An. 1679. the 5th of Febrnary the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and the Emperour was sign'd in the Chamber of Sir Leoline Jenkins Embassadour of England by the Marshal d'Estrades and the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissi Embassadours Plenipotentiaries for the most Christian King and by the Bishop and Prince de Gurk Count Kinski and the Sieur Stracman Embassadours Plenipotentiaries for the Emperour Signor Bevilaqua the Popes Nuncio has the reputation of having much contributed to this Peace The Treaty of Peace betwixt the Emperour and the King of Sweden was sign'd the same day by the Plenipotentiaries of the Emperour and by Count Oxenstern and Sieur Oliwenkans Embassadours Plenipotentiaries of Sweden The 19th of April the Ratification of the Emperour was exchang'd with that of the most Christian King. The 26th this Peace was publisht at Paris with the ordinary Ceremonies The 29th of June the Sieur Pomponne Minister and Secretary of State and the Sieur Minders Envoy Extraordinary of the Elector of Brandenburg sign'd the Treaty of Peace betwixt his most Christian Majesty and the Elector of Brandenburg Some time after the Peace was likewise sign'd betwixt France Sweden Denmark and the Duke of Holstein Gottorp The Marriage of the Princess Mary-Loüise of Orleans with the King of Spain ANno 1679. the second of July after the suit which the Marquess de los Balbazez made of Mademoiselle in the name for the King of Spain the Chancellor of France the Marshal Duke de Villeroy the Sieurs Colbert and de Pomponne Ministers and Secretaries of State were nominated by the King for drawing the Articles of the Contract of Marriage which was sign'd the ninth by the Commissaries nominated and the Marquess de los Balbazez Embassadour Extraordinary of Spain The 26th of August the Contract of Marriage of the King of Spain was sign'd in the King of France's Closet by all the Royal House and by