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A28561	A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names of all the counties, provinces, remarkable cities, universities, ports, towns, mountains, seas, streights, fountains, and rivers of the whole world : their distances, longitudes, and latitudes : with a short historical account of the same, and their present state : to which is added an index of the ancient and Latin names : very necesary for the right understanding of all modern histories, and especially the divers accounts of the present transactions of Europe / begun by Edmund Bohun ... ; continued, corrected, and enlarged with great additions throughout, and particularly with whatever in the geographical part of the voluminous, Morey and Le Clerks occurs observable, by Mr. Bernard ; together with all the market-towns, corporations, and rivers, in England, wanting in both the former editions.	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.; Barnard, John Augustine, b. 1660 or 61.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3454; ESTC R13938	1,110,589	500

of a different both Stature and Humour from the rest of France which is not much to be wondered at considering the English Nation for three hundred years together were possess'd of this Country See Gascoigne The principal Rivers of it are the Garonne and the Dordonne which meet at Retraicte and in one Channel fall into the Ocean The chief Cities are Bourdeaux Baionne and Dax or D'Acqs Guienne is thought to be but a Corruption of Aquitania which was the Roman Name for it then enlarged to a sar greater Extent Guilan or Guilao the Hyrcanian Sea Guilford the Capital Town of the County of Surrey in the Hundred of Woking which returns two Members to the House of Commons It is pleasantly situated upon the River Wey containing three Parishes well frequented accommodated and handsom The Saxon Kings had a Royal Mansion here in whose time it was a Place of greater Extent The Ruins of a large old Castle near the River remain yet to be seen In the year 1660. King Charles II created Elizabeth Viscountess of Kinelmalky in Ireland Countess of this Place for her Life In 1674. the Title of Earl of Guilford was granted by the same King to John Maitland the late Duke of Lautherdale in Scotland After whom the late Lord Francis North received the Title of Baron Guilford from the same King also S. Guillain Gislenopolis a Town in Hainault which has a Monastery belonging to it Taken by the French in 1654. and retaken by the Spaniards in 1656. Guimaranes Catraleucos Vimananum Egita Araduca once a City and frequently mentioned as such now a small Village in Entre Douero è Minho in Portugal three Leagues from Braga towards the East This was the Place where S. Damasus one of the ancient Popes was born Guinee Guinea a very great Country on the Western Shoars of Africa which by the Portuguese the first Discoverers of it is divided into two Parts the Upper and the Lower The Upper Guinee is bounded with Nigritia on the North the Atlantick Ocean on the South and has the Kingdom of Congo on the East and the Mountains of Leon on the West It is a very fruitful Country in Gold Ivory Sugar Cotton Rice c. of a great Extent from East to West and much frequented by the European Ships It is divided into three Parts Guinee properly so called which lies in the middle Mal●gueta which lies to the West and the Kingdom of Beni which lies to the East § Guinee properly so called is a very large Country in Africa upon the Shoars of the Ocean between Malegueta to the West from which it is separated by the Cape of Palmes and the Kingdom of Beni to the East from which it is divided by the River de la Volta It is divided into la Coste d'or which lies East between the Rivers Asien and la Volta and la Coste des Dents which lies West between the Cape of Palmes and the River Asien by which it is parted from the former On the Coste d'or are many Castles belonging to the English Swedes Danes and Hollanders This Country was discovered in 1365. by the French as is pretended Baudrand But in the dismal Wars between the English and French under Charles VI and VII they were forc'd to omit the Prosecution of this Navigation Hofman It is much more probable and better attested that it was discovered in 1452 by Henry Duke of Visco Son of John I. King of Portugal But then the Spaniards in 1477. pursued this Discovery and till 1479 excluded the first Discoverers who regaining the Trade in the Island of S. George built he the strong Fort or Town of Mina in 1486. to secure their Trade there for the future and command all the rest of this Coast Which was the first Place built by the Europeans on this Coast New-Guinee this Country has not been hitherto so far discovered as that we know whether it be an Island or a Part of the Continent of the Terra Australis It is separated from Terra de Papaous which lies East of Ceram and Gilolo in the East-Indies in 51 deg of Southern Lat. by a narrow Straight of the Sea Guinegat a small Town in Artois made famous by a great Defeat of the French Forces by the Flandrians in 1479. by which Victory Maximilian the Emperor then married to Mary the Daughter of Charles the Hardy the last Duke of Burgundy recovered Tournay out of the Hands of the French and settled the Low-Countries in the House of Austria It lies three French Miles from S Omar to the South the same from Renty to the East and two from Ayre to the West Guines a fine Town two Miles East of Calais and the Capital of a County of the same Name having Boulonois on the South and East Terre d'Oye on the North and the German Sea or Streights of Calais on the East This County was of old a Part of Boulonois and the Town belonged then to Picardy King Edward III. of England possessed himself of both in 1351. to whom afterwards they were confirmed by a Treaty in 1360. And in the Reign of Charles VI. of France lost again to that Crown Guipuscoa Ipuscoa now a Province but once a Kingdom in Spain In the middle Times annexed to the Kingdom of Navar but now separated from it and united to Biscay By which it is bounded on the West on the South it has A●ava on the North the Bay of Biscay and the Kingdom of Navar on the East The principal Cities in it are Tolosa which is the Capital S. Sebastian and Fontarabie It is about thirty six Miles in Compass anciently peopled by the Cantabri a hardy and a valiant People This Country was wrested from the Crown of Navar in 1079. by Alphonsus I King of Castile but it was restored again and continued under that Crown till 1200. when it revolted to Castile again and ever since it has been united to Biscay Guir Dirus a River of Mauritania Guise Guisa Guisia a Town in Picardy in France in the Territory of Tierache which has a Castle seated upon the River Oise in the Confines of Hainault nine Miles from Cambray to the South five from la Fere to the North-East and about seventeen from Amiens to the East This Town was besieged by the Spaniards without any Success in 1650. But that which made it most remarkable was the Dukes of Guise who in former times had a very great Hand in all the Affairs of France from the Reign of Francis I. to that of Henry IV. This Family was a Branch of the House of Lorrain advanced by Francis I. in 1528. from Counts or Earls of Guise which was their Inheritance to Dukes of the same Place The first thus raised was Claude the Son of Renate II. He had eight Sons of which were Francis Duke of Guise Claudius Duke of Aumale and Renatus Marquess of Ellebove Francis became very famous by his defence of Mets against Charles V.

Ravensberg once an Imperial and Free City governed by its own Magistrates but in 1647. taken by the Duke of Brandenburg as Count of Ravensberg of which this was pretended to be a Member In 1673. it was retaken by the French and soon after deserted and restored to that Duke It stands ten German Miles from Munster to the East five from Minden There is in it a Nunnery the Abbess of which is a Princess of the Empire Herzegovina Arcegovina Chulmia Zachulmia Ducatus S. Sabae a Province in Servia called by the Turks Caratze-dag-ili that is the Black VVood by the Inhabitants Herzegovina by the French Le Duché de Saint Saba It is the upper part of the Kingdom of Bosnia lying upon Dalmatia towards the West and South the principal Town in it is S. Saba This was heretofore under Dukes of its own of the Family of Cossa in Venice Hesdin or Hesdin-Fert Hesdinum Hedena a fortified Town in the Borders of Artois upon the River Chanche Quantia which falls into the British Sea below Staple to the North. Built by the Spaniards in 1554. in the place where the Village of Mesnil formerly stood as a Fort against the French who have several times since taken it till in 1659. by the Pyrenean Treaty it was yielded to them It is seated in a Morass eight Miles from Abbevill to the North. Heserwaldt a Forest in the Dukedom of Cleves Hesperia the Name of Spain and Italy amongst some ancient Geographers Hessen See Hassia Hessi the People of Hessen or Hassia which drove out the Chatti and possessed their Land Heszgang the Cataracts of the Danube in Austria beneath Lentz Hethy Ocetis one of the Isles of Orkney called also Hoy. Hetland the same with Shetland another of those Isles Hetruria a large Country in the ancient division of Italy lying betwixt the Tyber the Apennine Mountains the Tyrrhenian Sea and separated from Liguria by the River Macra now Magra It was likewise called Thuscia The present Toscana or Province of Tuscany containing the greatest part of it Heu Itis the same with Assin a small River in Ross in the North-West part of Scotland Hexamili Isthmus Corinthiacus that Neck of Land which joins the Morea to the rest of Greece called thus because it is six Miles over This Passage has been attempted to be cut through to make the Morea an Island by Demetrius Julius Caesar Caligula Nero and after by Herodes Atticus a private Person These all failing it was walled against the Turks by a Grecian Emperour in 1413. By the Venetians in 1224. Amurath II. threw down this Wall in 1463. Mahomet II. in 1465. intirely ruined it though the Venetians had spared neither labour nor charge to fortifie and strengthen it making to the Wall one hundred and thirty six Towers and three Castles In 1687. the Venetians cast out the Turks again and are possessed of it See Morea Herham a Market Town in the County of Northumberland in Tindale Ward upon the River Tyne and the South side of the River Trent This has been anciently a place of great account For in the Infancy of the Saxon Church we read in Bede it was an Episcopal See with the Title of Episcopus Hagulstadiensis in the Person of S. Eata the fifth Bishop of Landisfarne and the first of Hexham to whom afterwards succeeded nine others till the fury of the Danes discontinued it and the Jurisdiction was annexed to the See of York King Henry VIII removed it from that See to the County of Northumberland whereby it became annexed to the Bishoprick of Durham The Church here was scarce inferiour to any in England before the Scots pulled a great part of it down It is fourteen Miles from Newcastle to the East and hath claimed the privilege of being a County Palatine Heydon See Headen Heyssant an Island upon the Coast of Bretagne in France Hiamuen a strong Town in the Province of Fokien in China in a near adjacent Island to the South of Ganhay from whence the Merchandises of China are transported into the Indies and the Philippine Islands It is a considerable Place as well for its Buildings as its Commerce yet the Chinese give it but the Name of a Fort because it is a Garrison Hichan the same with Chios an Island in the Mediterranean Hickling a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Happing Hidro a Mountain in Otranto in Italy Hielmeer a Lake in Sweden between the Provinces of Suderman and Neritia Hierapolis an ancient Archiepiscopal City of Syria The See was subject to the Patriarch of Antioch Also called Bambyca § There was a second in the Province now called Germian or Phrygia Major in the Lesser Asia which was likewise an Archiepiscopal See under the same Patriarch The Turks call the Ruins of this latter yet extant Bamboukale Hieres Olbia Area a small Town upon the Coast of Provence in France two Leagues from Thoulon which communicates its Name to those Islands in the Mediterranean over against it called the Hieres This was an ancient Colony of the People of Marseilles who then gave it the Name of Olbia from the Happiness of the Soil it stands in and being afterwards changed to Area it thence came to be called Hieres Charles I. King of Jerusalem and Earl of Provence purchased it of the Viscounts of Marseilles being heretofore one of the strongest Garrisons on the Coast of Provence and the ordinary place of embarquation for the Pilgrims to the Holy Land It has been adorned with a Collegiate Church ever since 1572. Hiero-Caesarea an ancient City of Doris in the Lesser Asia so called in honour of Caesar before Hierapolis Tacitus reckons it amongst the twelve Towns to which being in a great part all ruined by an Earthquake in one night Caesar remitted their Tribute for five years to recompence their loss There stood a celebrated Temple here dedicated by Cyrus to Diana L'Hiesmois Oximensis Pagus a Territory in Normandy which takes its Name from Hiesmes a Town in Normandy sixteen Miles from Caen to the South-East and eighteen from Mans to the North. Higham-Ferris a Corporation in the County of Northampton which has the Election of two Parliament-men The Capital of its Hundred It stands upon the Eastern banks of the River Nen with a Bridge over the same a Free-School an Alms-house and anciently a Castle whose Ruins yet are visible Highworth a Market Town in Wiltshire The Capital of its Hundred Hiind Indus the great River in the East-Indies Hildesheim Ascalingium Hildesia Hildesheimum Brennopolis a City in the Lower Saxony which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mentz erected by S. Lewis the Emperour it is seated upon the River Innerste not above two Miles from the Borders of the Dukedom of Brunswick seven from Zell to the South and six from Hamelen to the East The Bishop being the only Roman Catholick Bishop in all Saxony is the Protector of it which is otherwise a Free Imperial

City § The Bishoprick of Hildesheim makes a particular District of it self about ten or twelve Leagues long between the Dutchies of Brunswick and Lunenbourgh and the Principality of Halberstad In which extent there are divers Towns following the same Religion Himera an ancient City of the Island of Sicily so called from its situation at the Mouth of the River Himera or the modern fiume ai Termine Hannibal destroyed it about six hundred forty eight years before the coming of Christ two years after which the Carthaginians near its Ruins built another named Thermae Himerae or Thermae Himerenses from the Hot Baths that were in the place This is now called Termine The Poet Stesichorus was a Native of the ancient Himera Hinckley a Market Town in Leicestershire in the Hundred of Sparkingho Hindon a Corporation in VViltshire in the Hundred of Mere which elects two Members of the Lower House Hingham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Forehoe Hinghoa a great City of the Province of Fokien in China The Capital of a Territory of the same Name commanding one other old City and divers Towns and Villages It is beautified with Magnificent Buildings and many Triumphant Arches and Sepulchres Hippocrene a celebrated Fountain in Boeotia in Greece sacred to the Muses amongst the ancient Poets Hippone Hippo Regius See Bonne Hippopodes an ancient People mentioned by Mela that dwelt about the Scythian Sea and were fabulously reported to have Horses feet from nothing but their agility and swiftness in running Hirpini an ancient People of Italy amongst the Samnites so called from their Capital City Hirpinum which is now a Village says Leander by the Name of l' Arpaia The farther Principate in the Kingdom of Naples was the Seat and Country of this People Hirschfeld Herofelda a small Town in Hassia upon the River Fuld which had heretofore a celebrated Abbey and was an Imperial Free-Town under the Jurisdiction of its own Abbot together with the Territory in which it stands but is now under the Land●-Grave of Hessen-Cassel with the Title of a Principality by the Treaty of Munster It stands five German Miles from Fuld to the North and seven from Cassel to the South Hispahan See Haspaam Hispaniola San Domingo and S. Dominique a great Island belonging to the North America called by its Natives Ayti First discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The Spaniards afterwards gave it this Name though it is also commonly called La Saint Domingue from its principal Town It is seated in the Bay of Mexico with Cuba and Jamaica to the West Porto Rico and the Caribbe Isles to the East the Atlantick Ocean on the North and the Bay of Mexico on the South It extends from 299 to 307. deg of Long. being one hundred and forty Spanish Leagues from East to West sixty in breadth and four hundred in compass between eighteen and twenty degrees of Northern Latitude The Spaniards have some Colonies at the East end the French others at the North-West end towards Cuba The Air is extreme hot in the Morning but cooler in the Afternoon by reason of a constant Sea Brize which then riseth The Country is always green affords most excellent Pasture the Cattle grow wild for want of Owners they encrease so prodigiously Herbs and Carrots in sixteen days become fit to Eat It affords Ginger and Suger-Canes in vast abundance and Corn an hundred fold It has also Mines of Brass and Iron some say of Silver or Gold When first discovered extreamly populous but the Spaniards in a few years destroyed three Millions of Natives so that now there are very few left The prinpal Town is St. Domingo built by Bartholomew Columbus in 1494. and removed in 1502 to the opposite Shoar of the River Ozama Whilst the Natives were Masters of this Island it stood divided into divers petty Provinces each under the obedience of a distinct Cacique or Prince of their own The Spaniards have cast it into five Cantons viz. Bainora Cubaho Cajaba Cassimu and Guacayatima San Domingo stands in Cassimu In 1586. Sir Francis Drake made a Descent here took Domingo and kept it a Month till the Spaniards redeemed it with their money again Histria Hystereich Istria is a County in Italy which on the East West and South has the Adriatick Sea and on the North Friuli It is full of Woods and Quarries affords Venice under which it is Materials both for Ships and Houses but otherwise not comparable to the rest of Italy in point of Fertility the Air is besides sickly and unwholsom The compass of it is about two hundred Miles This Country was conquered by the Venetians first in 938. and finally subdued in 1190. ever since which they have been under this State though they have made several attempts to shake off their Yoak and regain their ancient Liberty Hitchin a Market Town in Hartfordshire The Capital of its Hundred Hoaiching one of the principal Cities in the Province of Honan in the Kingdom of China Hodu the Persian Gulph Hoddesdon a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Hartford upon the River Lea. Hoeicheu a City of the Province of Nanquin in the South part of it towards Chekiam which stands in a Mountainous Country and has five small Cities under it Hoencourt a Town in the Bishoprick of Cambray near which the French were defeated in 1642. It lies three German Miles from Cambray to the North-West and a little less from Arras to the South-West Hoentwiel a Fortress in Schwaben in Germany belonging to the Duke of Wirtembergh seated upon a Rock between the Rivers Schlichaim and Breym which both fall into the Necker one above the other beneath Rotweil This Castle is seated less than two German Miles from the Danube to the North and two Miles and an half from the Fountains of the Necker to the East It stood seven or eight Sieges against the Imperialists who in one of these viz. that in 1641. spent a whole Summer upon it and at last could not take it Hog-Magog-Hilis a ridge of Hills two Miles South-Eastward of Cambridge on the top whereof is seen a Rampier formerly so strengthened with three Ditches as to be esteemed almost impregnable The same was a Danish Station Hohenloe or Holach Holachius an Earldom in Franconia in the Borders of Schwaben by the River Cochar between the Marquisate of Anspach and the Dukedom of Wirtemberg under its own Count or Earl Holbech a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Ellow Holland one of the three parts in the division of the County of Lincoln which contains the Southern Towns from Lindsey towards the Sea Adorned with the Title of an Earldom since the year 1624. When King James I. created Henry Rich Earl of Holland whose Grandson Edward Rich is the present Earl of Warwick and Holland Holland Batavia Hollandia the principal Province of the Vnited Netherlands called by the Spaniards la Olandia and by all others Holland because

It is sufficiently known how the first Romans under Romulus procured themselves Wives from this People their Neighbours Sabionetta Sabuloneta a strong Town in Lombardy which has a strong Castle Garrisoned by Spaniards It is the Capital of a Sovereign Dukedom belonging heretofore to the Caraffa's and now to the Gusman's a Spanish Family between the Dukedom of Mantoua to the East and the Territory of Cremena to the West twenty five Miles East of Cremona and fifteen North of Parma Sablé Sabolium a small City in the Province of Maine upon the River Sarte ten Leagues from Anger 's to the North and from Mans to the South Sablestan Sablistania an inland Province in the Kingdom of Persia towards the East in the Mountains between Chorazan to the North and Khermon or Caramania to the South The Cities of which are Zarans Bost and Nebesaet Sacae an ancient People of Scythia betwixt the Mountain Imaus and the Sarmatian Alani represented by Dionysius Africanus and others as a wild and cruel Nation Sacania Laconia the most Southern Province in the Morea containing that part which was anciently under the Lacedemonians and Argia The Capital of which is Misitra Sacay Sacaia a City in Japan Sacca Siacca Saxa Xacca a City on the South Shoar of Sicily in the Valley of Mazara called by the Ancients Thermae Selinuntiae It stands at the foot of a Mountain and has an Harbour twenty two Miles from Mazara to the East and forty from Gergenty Cluverius saith it has an ancient Castle which is now carefully upheld and repaired A Synod was held here in 1579. Sachsen See Saxony Sadodela Edus a River of Liguria in Italy now in the States of Genoua which falls into the Porcevera Saffay Savus a small River of Barbary which falls into the Mediterranean Sea in the Kingdom of Argier between Accharara and Metafus Sagabria See Zagabria Sagan Saganum a City in Silesia in the Kingdom of Bohemia the Capital of a Dukedom of the same name called by the Germans Zeigan It stands upon the Bober where it receives the Queiss seven German Miles from Glogaw to the West and six from Crossen to the North. Now in the Hands of the Emperor as King of Bohemia whose Predecessors in 1548. redeemed to out of the Hands of the Elector of Saxony to whom it was Mortgaged together with its Dukedom Sagone a ruined City in the Island of Corsica which is yet a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Pisa in Italy the Bishop keeping Residence at a neighbouring Town Sagriano Sagra a small River in the Farther Calabria Saguenay a River Town and Province in New France The River discharges it self into the Gulph of S. Lawrence Saguntum a noble and famous City of the ancient Spain whose memory is recorded with honour for their fidelity to their Allies the Romans when Hannibal desieg'd them nine months together in the year of Rome 535. Chusing rather than betray the one or fall into the Hands of the other in one vast fire made in the middle of the City to destroy themselves their Wives and Children with every thing that was dear and valuable to them Hannibal razed the place Which fact of his became the Subject of the second Punick War Flor. 2. 6. Sahid Delta an Island made by the divided Branches of the Nile and the Mediterranean Sea which is the best part of the Lower Egypt See Delta Saille or Haute-Saille Alta Sylva a Monastery of the Cistercian Order in the Pais de Vauge in the Dukedom of Lorain first established about the year 1140. in the midst of a great high Forest and therefore called Saille by a corruption of the word Silva Saint Santo Santa Sainct Is a VVord frequently put before the Names of Places since Christianity prevailed in the VVorld of which those that are omitted under their proper Names are as followeth S. Agatha di Gotti Agatha or Fanum Sanctae Agathae Agathopolis a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Further Principate which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Benevento nine Miles from Telese to the South and fourteen from Capua and Benevento S. Aignan or Agnan a Town of the Dukedom of Berry in France which stands at the reception of the River Saudre by the Cher adorned with the Title of a Dukedom and Peerdom now of an Earldom before and so called in honour of a Bishop of Orleans of this name its tutelar whose reliques they preserve here It s more ancient name was Hagand S. Alyre a Town and Abbey in the Province of Auvergne in France near Clermont by which the River Tiretaine passes S. Amand Elno a Town in the Earldom of Flanders and Confines of Hainault in the Hands of the French and heretofore very strong but now dismantled It stands upon the River Scharpe which a little Lower falls into the Schelde four Leagues from Tournay to the South and three from Valenciennes The Lands lying between the Scharpe and the Schelde are from this place called the Isles de St. Amand but it s greatest glory is a celebrated Monastery Abbatia S. Amandi Elnonensis where the Saint of that name dyed This Town was taken by the French in 1667. The Forest beginning upon the Frontiers of Flanders and extending nigh to Valenciennes in Hainault hath the name also of the Forest of S. Amand. S. Amour a small Town in the County of Burgundy in France and the Diocese of Lyons Honored of late with a Collegiate Church S. Andero Andreapolis Antiqua Flavionavia a Town and Port in the Principality of Biscay in Spain lately advanced to the Dignity of a Bishop's See Some place it in the Asturias S. Andiol a Town in the Province of Vivaretz in France upon the Rhosne adorned with divers Ecclesiastical and Religious Houses and a College of the Barnabites It s ancient name in Latin was Gento Gentibo Gentibus This of S. Andiol and Fanum S. Andeoli descended upon it by the Martyrdom of S. Andeolus a Graecian Subdeacon here in the Reign of the Emperor Severus about the year 190 who with others had been sent to serve the Gauls by S. Polycarp from the East It hath the Latin name also of Vivariense Monasterium being under the Bishop of Viviers S. Andre or Fort de Saint Andre a strong Cittadel in the Dutchy of Guelderland in the Low Countries situated betwixt the Maze and the VVael about two Leagues from Bosteduc Built in 1599. by Andrew Cardinal of Austria and the year after taken by the Dutch who remain the Masters of it Only in 1672. the French gained it and soon after ruined and abandoned it § A Town near Buda in Hungary supposed by Bonfinius to be the Quarta decima legio Germanica of Ptolemy bears this name also Capo di S. Andrea a Promontory of the Island Cyprus the same which Pliny calls Dinaretum Capo S. Andrea a Promontory of the Peloponnesus in Achaia the same with the ancient Antirrhium of Ptolemy and Pliny S. Andres Lavantum

River of Cilicia in the Lesser Asia which springeth out of Mount Taurus and falls into the Mediterranean Sea between the Cities of Anemora and Arsinoë Sentino Sentinus a small River in the Marchia Anconitana which running by Sentina once a considerable Town but now only a Castle in the Dukedom of Vrbino in a pleasant Valley fifteen Miles from Eugubio the Town being ruined by the Lombards falls into the Esino Sephoris an antient City of Palestine in Galilee four Miles from Nazareth towards Mount Carmel upon a little Hill in the midst of a Plain Herod made it the principal Place for Strength in all Galilee for the greater security of his Tetrarchy Joachim and Ann the Father and Mother of the B. Virgin were Natives and Inhabitants of it in the place of whose House a Christian Church in the Primitive Times was erected as appears by the remaining Ruines There is a very large Fountain near it called commonly by the same name of the Fountain of Sephoris by which the Christian Armies often assembled in the times of the Kings of Jerusalem From Sephoris some write that Joachim and Ann removed to Nazareth and thence to Jerusalem It has been since called Dio-Cesarea but now lies in Ruines Ser Cyrrhus a River of Albania a Province or Kingdom of Greece Seraio Seraium a City of Bosnia upon the River Migliazka in the Lower Bosnia It is great and strong the Capital of that Kingdom being some few Miles from the Borders of Servia and about thirty from the Save to the South and about hinety from Belgrade to the South-West Seram a River of Bugey in France in the Territory of Valromey passing under the Bridge of Soy into the Ser●erin and thence near Rochefore into the Rhosne Serchio Aesaris Auser Sarculus a River of Italy which ariseth out of the Apennine in Tuscany in the Borders of the Dukedom of Modena and flowing through Carfagnana and the States of Luca not far from the Capital City of that State entertaineth the Osaro and entring the Dukedom of Florence falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea five Miles North of the Mouth of the River Arno. Sere Sara a River of France in Touraine Another in the Low Countries which falls into the Oyse Seregippe del Rey a City in Brasil in South America built on an Hill near the Mouth of the River Potigipeda on the Eastern Coast the Capital of a Province of the same name between Pernambuc to the North and the Province of All Saints to the South both City and Province being subject to the King of Portugal Sereth Tiarantus a River of Moldavia which falls into the Danube near Galacz or Axiopolis Serica a great Region of the ancient Asia betwixt China to the East and the Mountain Imaus to the West famous heretofore for Manufactures in Silk Its Cities were Issedon Serica Ottorocorra Piada c. The Inhabitants are known in Antiquity by the name of Seres This Country at present lies contained in the Kingdoms of Niuche Tangut c. in the Asiatick Tartary to which some add Cathay As some include it in the ancient Scythia Asiatica others make them separate The Occhardus now Tartar is a River of Serica Serio Serius a River in Lombardy in the States of Venice which springeth out of the Mountains in the Borders of the Grisons and flowing South by Bergamo and Crema falls into the Adda above Piciglione a great Town in the Dukedom of Milan five Miles from the Borders of the Dukedom of Parma Sermoneto Sulmo Sermineta a Town in Campagua di Roma in the States of the Church which gives the Title of a Duke to the Family of Cajetan It stands twenty eight Miles from Rome to the South and seventeen from Terracina to the North-East Serpa a Town in the Kingdom of Portugal towards the Borders of Andalusia near the River Guadiana upon an Eminence with a Castle for its security It hath an unfruitful Country about it Serphino or Serfinus Seriphus an Island in the Archipelago towards Europe full of Rocks about thirty Miles in Circuit betwixt the Islands of Fermema or Thermia and Sifano The Romans used to banish Criminals to it Serrano a small uninhabited Island in the North-Sea in America betwixt Jamaica and the Region of Nicaragua in New Spain to which the Misfortunes of a Spaniard called Serrano who was Shipwrack'd upon it in the time of Charles V and detained all alone some years there for want of a Vessel to take him up again have fastned his own name Serres or Seres Serrae a City of Macedonia mentioned in Niceta Cedrenus and the latter Greek Writers by Leunclavius now called Seres It is now a considerable and well peopled Place advanced to the Honour of an Archbishops See in the place of Amphipolis between which Thessalonica and Philippi it stands upon an Hill our latter Maps place it thirty four Miles from Amphipolis to the South-East sixty from Thessalonica to the North-East and thirty from Contessa to the North-West Servan or Schirwan Servania Atropatia a Province in the North West of the Kingdom of Persia towards the Borders of Georgia and the Turkish Empire the Northern Bounds of which are the Caspian Sea It has many great Cities and is one of the most Fruitful and Populous Provinces in that Kingdom though it has suffered much in latter times by the Depredations of the Turks The Cities of it are Tauris Schamachie Servan Ardebeil and Ba●● This Country makes a part of the ancient Media Servia a Province of the Turkish Empire called by them Zirfia It is of great extent Bounded on the West by Croatia or rather Bosnia and Dalmatia and in part by Sclavonia on the North by the Danube which separates it from the Vpper Hungary and Moldavia on the East by Bulgaria and on the South by Macedonia Albania and Dalmatia The chief Towns and Cities in it are Belgrade Prisren Novibazar Procupie Semander and Scopia which was anciently the Capital In the times of the Romans this was called Moesia Superior esteemed a part of Thrace and the most barbarous Nation the Romans had subdued which was done by Marcus Licinius Crassus in the times of Augustus Caesar In the fall of the Roman Empire the Servi a Branch of the Sclaves became Masters of this Country and gave it the name of Servia About 1000. it was conquered by the Emperors of Constantinople but suffered to continue under their own Princes as Homagers to the Empire Amurath I. was the first of the Ottoman Princes who invaded this Country He took Nissa about 1374. after which they maintained a Bloody War with some Intermissions till 1460 when they finally submitted to Mahomet the Great and ever after esteemed a Province of that Empire The Christian Faith was first setled here by Cyril and Methodius between 860. and 890. Methodius taking care to give them the Bible in the Sclavonian Tongue together with the Divine Offices which they hold in high esteem to this day The

having been excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII rendred himself to the Pope's Discretion and thereupon received Absolution in the Year 1077. § This is also the name of a County in the Modenese in Italy near Parmesan Canstat a small City in the Dukedom of Wirtemburg upon the River Necker within one Mile of Stuttgard and five of Pfortzhaim to the East Cantabri an antient Valiant People of Spain being those properly of the Provinces of Guipuscoa and Biscay who withstood Augustus in several Rencounters and at last kill'd themselves rather than to submit to Servitude Canterbury Cantuaria Darvernum Dorovernia is the principal City in the County of Kent very antient and without doubt saith Mr. Camden famous in the times of the Roman Empire It stands on the Eastern Shoar of the River Stour called by the British ●uvwhern from whence it had its antient Names Being the Royal Seat of the Kings of Kent when Augustine the Monk came over to convert them it by that Means became the Metropolitan See of England The Bodies of eight Kings lye interr'd in the Cathedral as likewise the Body of Thomas Becke● the famous Roman-Catholick Saint once Archbishop of this See There has been several Provincial Councils celebrated here The Coronation of King John and Queen Isabel his Wife the Marriages of Henry II. and Edward I. were all performed here Augustine the first Archbishop was consecrated in 568. Dr. William Sancroft the LXXVII in this Succession was consecrated Jan 27. 1677. It lies in Long. 24. 51. Lat. 51. 16. Two Burgesses are elected for the Parliament by the Corporation Canton a Province and City in the East of China suppos'd to be the Cattigara of Ptolemy which tho the least of their Metropolitan Cities is yet beautified with many triumphant Arches large Streets and goodly Bridges over a Navigable River running on the South side of it also fortified with deep Ditches eight Bulwarks and seated in a rich and plentiful Soil The Portugals drive here saith Dr. Heylin a wealthy Trade being permitted in the day time to come into the City but at night excluded and forced to find Lodgings in the Suburbs This City lies in Alvares Samodo's Map about Long. 125. and about 26. Lat. According to others in Long. 170.00 Lat. 24.00 See Quancheu The Switz Cantons See Switzerland Capace or Capaccio Caput Aqueum a City of the Principatus Citerior in the Kingdom of Naples and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Salerno in the place of Pesti which was ruined by Frederick the Emperor in 1249. though since rebuilt again This City lies 22 Miles from Salerno to the South in Long. 38 52. Lat. 40. 28. Caparra Capara a City of Extremadura in the Kingdom of Leon in Spain which stands in the middle between Emerita now Merida and Placentia Cap-D-Aguer the same with Santa Cruz in Africa Capelan a Mountain in the Kingdom of Pegu beyond the Gulph of Bengala in the East-Indies A Quarry of Precious Stones of divers Colours is found within it La Capelle a Fortress in the Territory of Tierache within the Province of Picardy towards the Frontiers of Hainault built in the last Age to oppose the Incursions of the Low-Countries about a League from the River Oyse It has been many times taken and retaken Capernaum or Capharnaum the Metropolitan City heretofore of Galilee in the Tribe of Naphtali towards the Borders of Zabulon near the Mouth of Jordan and upon the Coast of the Sea of Tiberias where our Saviour first began to preach S. Matthew was a Publican here when called to be an Apostle Since Solyman reduc'd this City into Ashes it has only been inhabited by a few Moors who ask Money of the Pilgrims that goe to visit the holy Places Capes a River of the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa springing from Mount Atlas and discharging it self into the Mediterranean near a Town call'd Capes where it makes a Gulph of the same Name Caphareus a famous Promontory on the East point of the Isle of Negropont otherwise now call'd Capo del oro and Capo Figera very dangerous to navigate The Grecian Navy seduc'd by N●upl●●s King of Eubaea by a false Light in revenge of the Death of his Son Palimedes by Vlysses being all said to have been shipwrack'd upon these Rocks Capitanata a Province of the Kingdom of Naples which in the more antient times was call'd Apulia Daunia bounded on the North and East with the Adriatick Sea on the West with the County of Molise and on the South with the Principatus Vlterior the Basilicata and the Bariano a very fruitful well watered Country the chief City is Manfredonia The Capitol Capitolium a famous Fortress of Old Rome founded by Tarquinius Prisous in the year of Rome 139. Perfected by Tarquinius Superbus in the year 221. Burnt in the Reign of Vitellius Rebuilt by Vespasian Burnt again by Lightning under Titus and reedified with very great pomp by Domitian who constituted a Quinquennial Celebration of Games which became an Aera by the Name of Agones Capitolini after the manner of the Olympiads Jupiter had a Temple here in his honour whence they denominated him Capitolinus In this place the Christians have built a Church call'd Ara Caeli dedicated to the B. Virgin Mary Capo D' Istria Caput Istriae Aegida the capital City of the Province of Histria in Italy See Cabo d'Istria Capo Cabo cap Cape de Aden Ammonium a Promontory in Arabia Foelix next to Africa in Long. 76. 30. de Alguer Atlantis in Mauritania Tingittana de Bona Speranza of Good Hope Is a famous Promontory upon the most Southern Part of Africa first discovered by Bartholomew Diaz a Portuguese in 1487. in 32 of Southern Lat. 50 of Long. It had this name given it by Emanuel then King of Portugal because he hoped by the doubling it a passage would be open by Sea to the East-Indies as it came to pass to the great enriching of his Kingdom The Hollanders near this Cape have a settlement of about 100 Houses with a strong Fort. The Natives are divided into several distinct Nations of Cornwall or the Lands End the most Western Point of England di Corso a Promontory in Corsica di Faro Pelorum the most Northern Cape of Sicily of Farewel in Greenland di Formoso in Guinea de Sierra Liona Hesperium Cornu supposed to be the most Western Point of Africa known to the Antients 70 Spanish Leagues beyond the most Southern Mouth of the River Niger de Verde the most Western Point of Africa in the Division of Nigritia South to the Mouth of the River Senega in 14 deg of Lat. There is an innumerable number of other Capes which the Brevity of this Work will not admit The Islands of Capo de Verde are a knot of small Islands by some taken for the Hesperides by some for the Gorgades of the Antients lying demicircularly with the Points to the Sea 150 Leagues off of Cape Verde under the Portuguese but

mostly discovered from this Cape and the Island of Tenedos in the Aegoan Sea stands at the distance of a League from it Ianowitz a small Town in Bohemia where the Swedes in 1645 gained a great Victory over the Imperialists six German Miles from Prague to the North-West towards the Confines of Moravia Iaocheu a great City in the Province of Kiangsi in China with a Territory of the same Name whereof it is the Capital extending its jurisdiction over six other great Towns and particularly remark'd for good Porcelain Ware Iantra See Ischar Iapan Japonia a vast Country in the Eastern Ocean called by the Inhabitants Niphon by the Chinians Gepuen that is the East and from thence by the Europeans Japan On the West it is bounded by the Sea of China which divides it from China and the Island or Promontory of Corea It is supposed to be an Island one hundred and fifty German Miles in length seventy in breadth The Inhabitants are all under one Prince Heathens and sworn Enemies of Christianity which begun to take rooting amongst them by the Preaching of the Portuguese but was extirpated by Fire Sword and the bloodiest Persecution that ever was practised amongst Men. The Dutch who Trade here are secured with the utmost Caution that they may not surprize any part of the Shoar or build any Fort or do any other Act whereby they may settle themselves nor will they permit them to see more of the Country than one small Peninsula or of the Inhabitants than those they Trade with and for a long time they would not permit them to Land Buy or Sell till they had renounced their Christianity This Island lies sixty Leagues from Cantan a Province of China to the East and about three hundred from New Spain in America mountainous and generally barren but it maintains a vast number of Cattle yet the Inhabitants do not know how to make either Butter or Cheese This Island totally unknown to the Ancients was first discovered by Antonio Mota a Portuguese in 1542. The Jesuits in 1556 sent S. Francis Xavier to Preach here who is called therefore the Apostle of Japan at first they had great success insomuch that in the Year 1587 they pretended to have gained two hundred thousand Converts But this lasted not long for about the Year 1622 there began so dreadful a Persecution as is no where to be met with and these new Converts having never been well grounded in their new Religion Apostatized so fast that in seven years there were very few Christians to be found and perhaps at this time none This Country lies in 35 degrees of Lat. In Long. betwixt 171. and 188. The air very healthful and generally cold The Earth affords Gold Silver and Pearl watered by divers Rivers and Lakes with good Ports Some describe it to be a Mass of many Islands going altogether under the Name of Japan and that the three most considerable are Niphonia Ximo and Nicoco The Japonese are jealous fierce pompous in their habits and language sincere in Commerce and ingenious imitators of the Characters and Hyeroglyphicks of the Chinese from whom they descend The principal City is Meaco tho the Emperor of late has resided at Jendo Iapara a Kingdom in the North of the Island of Java in the East-Indies with a City of the same Name which has a good Port. Iappenaw Japodes a small District in Carniola under the Emperor Iaracazes Canea two Rocks at the entrance of the Euxme Sea in the Propontis Iaretta Terias Simethus the greatest River in the Island of Sicily it falls into the Sea three Miles from Catania to the South West Iarnac Jarnacum a small Town in Angoulmois upon the River Charente dignified with the Title of an Earldom between Angoulesme to the East and Saintes to the West eight Miles from either memorable for a Battel here fought in the Year 1569 betwixt the Roman Catholicks and Huguenots in which the old Prince of Condy who commanded the latter was slain by one Montesque a Captain under the Duke of Anjou afterwards K Henry III. the head of the Catholicks tho he offered one hundred thousand Crowns for his Ransom and the Hugenots defeated after a bloody Fight of ten hours continuance Iaromitz a small Town in Bohemia upon the Elbe twelve Miles from Prague to the East Iaroslaw a pleasant Town in Red Russia belonging to the Poles upon the River Sane with a Castle forty five Polish Miles from Warsaw to the South thirty five from Cassovia to the North-East and twenty from Lemburg to the North-West near this place the Swedes gave the Poles a fatal overthrow in 1656. In 1625. it suffered much by Fire Iaroslaw a great City in Muscovy which is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name and has in it a Timber Castle it is seated upon the Wolga thirty German Miles South of Wolgda thirty seven North of Moscho The Dukedom of Jaroslaw is very great and lies between that of Wologda to the North Rostow to the South and the River Wolga to the East Governed by a Prince of its own till John Basilovits Duke of Russia Conquered it and annexed it to his own Dominions Since that it has been given to the eldest Son of the Duke of Muscovy as his Title and Residence Iarrow a Town in the Bishoprick of Durham in Chester Ward deserving a remark for being the Birth place of the Venerable Bede Iarsey Caesarea an Island on the Coast of Normandy and part of the Dukedom of Normandy but now annexed to the County of Southampton This and Guernsey being all that is left to the Kings of England of their great Dominions in France from the Shoars of which it lies about five Miles to the West and thirty from those of England to the South The Inhabitants speak a Norman kind of French There are in it twelve Parishes and two Gastles Montorgueil and Elizabeth This Island was one of the last that yielded to the prevailing Rebels not without force in October 1651. after the Kings return to France from the Battel of Worcester The same Prince in 1663. sent them a Silver Mace to be born before their Chief Magistrate as a remembrance of this their fidelity to him in his greatest distress Iasque a Principality of the Kingdom of Persia upon the Borders of the Province of Kherman extended along the Sea Coast from thence betwixt the Cape Jasque and Cape Guadel which two are the most Southern points of Persia and possessed by three petty Princes of whom the chief takes the Style of the Prince of Jasque This Prince after the Conquest of Ormus by Cha-Abas I. K. of Persia paid a yearly tribute to that Crown which being remitted in the Reign of Cha-Sephi his Successor Cha-Abas II. endeavoured by War to compel the Prince of Jasque again to pay the same but in his attempts was beaten Jassy or Yassi Jassium a City of Walachia called by the French Jas upon the River Pruth

of Poland called by the Natives Poconk or Pocouth It is a part of the Territory of Halitz between the River Tyra now the Neister and the Borders of Transylvania and Walachia the principal Town is Sniatim upon the Pruth the rest Colomey and Martinow Podgarim Babylonia a Province in Asia Podolia Bodeni Budini Patzinacae Populi a Province of the Kingdom of Poland comprehended under the Red Russia of which it is a part and subject to a Palatine of its own Bounded on the North by Volhinia on the East by the Palatinate of Braslaw on the South by Wallachia and on the West by Russia properly so called or the Black Russia This Country extends Eastward through vast uninhabited Countries as far as the Euxine Sea They divide it ordinarily into the Vpper Podolia to the West and the Lower to the East The people are Russians by their Original conquered by the Poles and in the year 1434. admitted to the same Privileges with the rest of Poland by Vladislaus then King of Poland It is fruitful to a wonder yet more accommodated to the life of Beasts than Men. Could it enjoy a steady Peace it should not need to envy the Fertility of Italy or any other Country but being a Frontier against the Turks and Tartars and always exposed to their devouring Incursions it is but meanly inhabited and not much improved In the year 1672. it was yielded to the Turks a part of it has been retrieved since The principal place is Caminieck in the Vpper Podolia the rest are Tzudnow Bratzlaw in the Lower and Orczakow which last is in the hands of the Tartars Poictiers Pictavium Augustoritum Pictava Pictavorum Vrbs a City which is the Capital of the Province of Poictou in France a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bourdeaux and a celebrated University founded by Charles VII in 1431. It stands upon the River Clain at its Confluence with another small River which there makes a large Lake fourteen Leagues from the Loyre to the South thirty from Saintes to the North and thirty five from Bourges to the West Famous for many Battels sought near it especially that of the Black Prince in the year 1356. In which John King of France was taken Prisoner together with many Lords and two thousand Knights and Esquires Fifty two Lords one thousand seven hundred Knights and Gentlemen were slain of the French Three French Battalions the least of which exceeded the English were intirely routed and in great part destroyed In the Reign of Charles VII King of France whilest the Victorious English were Masters of the Capital of the Kingdom the Parliament of Paris for some years sat here The old Castle by the Gate of S. Lazare is thought to have been the Work of the Romans who built besides an Amphitheatre and other Edisices yet apparent in their remains This City contains twenty four Parishes five Abbeys and divers Monasteries The Episcopal See became famous in the Primitive Times by the Person of S. Hilary Divers Councils have been celebrated at it In one Anno 1075. Berengarius appeared whilst the Doctrine of the Presence in opposition to his was received recognized and established Another under Pope Paschal II. excommunicated Philip I. King of France The Roman Catholicks took Poictiers from the Huguenots and plundered it in 1562. In 1569. the Huguenots under Admiral Coligny besieged it but were forced to rise without success Poictou Pictaviensis Provincia is a large Province in France which was a part of Aquitain whilest under the Romans and called by the Italians Poitu It s greatest extent is from East to West being bounded on the East by Touraine and la Marche on the North by Anjou and Bretagne on the West by the Bay of Aquitain or the British Sea and on the South by Saintonge and Angoulesme This Province was pillaged in the fifth Century by the Vandals Huns and Germans The Romans in the Reign of the Emperour Honorius left it to the Wisigoths whom Clovis the Grand expelled about the year 510. Then from the time of Charlemaigne it was under Sovereign Counts of its own till 1271 when upon a failure of the Line it was united to the Crown of France These Counts had for about nineteen several Successions attained the Title of Dukes of Guyenne Not to omit the the Descent of the Provinces of Guyenne and Poictou upon the Crown of England in 1152. by Eleanour Wise to Henry II. Nor the attempt made in 1242. though without success by Richard Earl of Cornwall Brother to King John to reduce Poictou under the Obedience of England again after the French pretended K. John had forfeited his Rights by the Death of Arthur The principal Towns next Poictiers are Chastelleraud Thouars S. Maxient Fountenay Loudun Niort Parthenay and Richelieu Poissy Pisciacum a Town in the Isle of France which has a Stone Bridge over the Seine six Leagues above Paris to the East S. Lewis King of France was born here in 1215. The heart of King Philip le Bel was interred in a Church here of his own foundation It has divers Religious Houses And in the last Age was more especially famous upon the account of a Conference of Religion betwixt the Roman Catholicks and Huguenots from September 4. 1560. to November 25. held in the presence of Charles IX King of France and Catherine de Medicis the Queen Regent assisted with the Princes of the Blood a great number of Cardinals Bishops Counsellors and Grandees of the Kingdom and Learned Men of both Religions Beza as the Head of the Reformed chiefly managing and bending his utmost force against the Doctrine of the Presence Pola Polia Julia Pietas a City and Colony in Istria mentioned by Strabo and Pliny still called by the same Name being one of the strongest Cities in Istria and a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja Seated on a Hill near the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea upon which it has a large Haven twenty eight Miles from Parenzo to the South sixty from Trieste and an hundred from Ancona to the North. Said to have been built by the Colchi Now under the States of Venice but small and not much inhabited it having not above seven or eight hundred Inhabitants The Venetians send a Governour however to it who takes the Title of a Count. It has a small Cittadel In the time of the Roman Empire this City as a Free State dedicated a Statue to Severus the Emperour it has several other noble Remains which speak its Greatness and Antiquity as Mr. Wheeler acquaints us in his Travels pag. 5. Long. 37. 00. Lat. 45. 04. Polan Bollia a River of Stiria Polana Monalus a River in the North of Sicily written in Baudrand Polina Poland Polenia is one of the principal Kingdoms in Europe called by the Natives Poloska by the Germans die Polen by the French Pologne by the Spaniards and Italians Polonia by the English Poland A part of the old Salmatia Europaea and has its