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

but Paper and a few Sols and doublesse of Brasse that made it so swell in all scarce eighteene pence sterling Hee is Oftentator a Craker who comming to such as have great horses to sell makes them beleeve he will buy some And at great Faires drawing to their shops that sell apparell cals to see a sute of an hundred pounds and when they are agreed of the price fals out with his boy for following him without his purse Such a one was the Gallant who in the middest of his discourse with many Gentlemen suddenly turned backe to his Lackie and saith Fetch me my Clocke it lies in my lodging in such or such a place neere such or such a Iewell The Lalero bethinks himselfe that it is in his pocket which hee knew well enough before presently he puls it out not so much to shew how the time passeth whereof he takes little care as the curiousnesse of worke and the beauty of the case whereof hee is not a little bragge and enamoured To speake thus particularly of all his severall humours and customes would be very prolix and not much necessary I will onely referre you to the fourth of Tullies Rhetorick where he speaketh of a bragging Rhodomonte and to the first Booke of Horace Satyres speaking of an endlesse and needlesse Prater a fastidious irksome companion Where you shall see the French naturall very lively and admirably well described I will only speake of his impatience and precipitation in deliberations of Warre or Peace and such other affaires of greatest importance and so end To this effect Bodin saith of him The French is of so sudden and busie disposition that he quickly yeelds to that a man demands being soone tired with messages to and fro and other delayes peculiar to the Spaniard And in another place The Spaniard had need of a more ready dispatch than he hath and the French of more moderation in his actions and passions And whereas Commines saith of us that we be not so craftie in our treaties and agreements as the French I thinke saving the credit of so great an Author he might better have said so head-strong and precipitate But where he saith that he that will treat and determine matters with us must have a little patience I yeeld unto him hee hath good reason so to say for his Countrey-men the French can endure no delay they must propound conclude all in one day By this haste of theirs they lost more saith Bodin by one Treatie at Cambrey Anno 1559. to the Spaniard than he had before got of the French in fortie yeares by warre Navarre TO the Title and Armes of France wee see these of Navarre annexed notwithstanding that this Kingdome lies Westward of the P●rencan mountaines touching upon Arragon on its South and Biscar on its North part two of the Spanish Provinces The old Inhabitants were the Vascones the Berones c. The present name of Navarre it hath either from the Spanish word Navas signifying a Campagnia or woodlesse champaigne Country or field naturally fenced with trees round about of which divers are in this Kingdome or else from Navarrin a towne in the mountaines and a chiefe Fort against the Moores of old time About the yeare 716. Garcia Ximenes freeing it from the Moores gained it the honour of a petty Kingdome which his Ancestors so well increased that within three hundred yeares after Sancho the great wrote himselfe King of Spaine for Leon he held by force Arragon had beene before united by marriage and himselfe obtained Castile in right of his wife out of other parts hee had driven the Moores also But this union himselfe againe disjoynted by a division of 〈◊〉 amongst his owne sonnes Navarre thus againe dissevered came about the yeare 1483. unto Katherine Countesse of ●●ix and Bigorre and Princesse of Bearne who unhappily marrying with Iohn Earle of Albret a French Coun●●●● 〈◊〉 those three of his wives also lost the Kingdome to the Spaniard The quarrell was this Lewis the twelfth of France falling at warres with the Spaniards Venetians and Germans was seconded by this Iohn of Albret and both for this opposed and excommunicated by the Pope Iulius t●e se●o●d Navarre being by a Bull exposed to the Invader Vpon this hint Ferdinand of Spaine puts in demands passage thorow Navarre for his Army pretended against the Moores which upon deniall of his request he turnes upon Navarre and before the slow succours could come out of France carries the whole Kingdome not so much as a box on the eare being given in resistance Thus the Spaniard ga● the possession though Henry of Albret sonne to Katherine and Iohn aforesaid retaines the title from whom also the French King challengeth it as being descended of this Henry and his wife Margaret of Valois Sister to King Francis of France from whom came Ioan Albret Queen of Navarre whose husband was Anthony Duke of Burbon whose son was Henry the great King of Navarre first and of France afterward whose sonne in Lewis the thirteenth the present King of France The chiefe Citie of Navarre is Pampelona the strength is made use of by the Spaniard as a Bulwarke against France there being but two passages thorow the Pyrenean mountaines out of this kingdome into Bearne in France which he easily keepes fortified Belgia Netherland NExt lyeth the seventeene Provinces called the Low-Countries the Netherlands or Germania Inferior concerning whom the world can but wonder how any Prince would neglect such a benefit and inheritance of goodnesse greatnesse and wealth which united with the love of the Inhabitants would have exceeded Spaine for Revenues multitude of people Cities shipping and all things else tending to worldly felicitie In observing the distraction whereof a discreet Reader may truly learne the inconstancie of worldly prosperitie most commonly procured by Princes themselves in following ill counsell and youthfull distemperature The Region containeth the Dukedomes of Brabant Limburk Luzzenburg and G●lderland the Earledoms of Flanders Artoys Hennalt Holland Zealand Nemours and Z●●ph●● the Marquesa●e of the Empire the Lordships of Friesland M●e●●lin Virech Over-isel and Groning East Friesland belongeth to a Prince of its owne who ever disclaimed to bee united to the residue belike to prevent all claime that either Empe●our or King might by cavill lay thereunto They invented the Art of Printing restored Musicke framed the Chario● devised the laying of colours in Oyle the working of colours in Glasse the making of Tapestrie Sayes Searges Woosteds Frisadoes and divers sorts of Linnen-cloth with innumerable other small trifles all sorts of Clocks and Dials and the Mariners Compasse In these Provinces are numbred two hundred and eight great Townes munited with wals ramparts ditches warlike ports draw-bridges and in which are continuall guards either of the Burgers of Souldiers lying there in garrison according to the proximitie of the enemie the importance of the place of necessitie of the time The Villages or Dorps are six thousand

cause why none of them rise by their owne industry to any great wealth They never combate amongst themselves but revenge injuries with words except upon objection of cowardize whereof the charged is never disburthened untill he have proved himselfe in singular combate with a Turke It hath beene an ancient custome amongst them that none should weare a feather but hee who hath killed a Turke to whom it was lawfull to shew the number of his slaine Enemies by the number of feathers in his Cap. They punish Adulterie and Fornication with death the Husband forcing his Wife the Father his Daughter and the Brother his Sister to the place of Execution The Sonnes inhabit equally after the death of their fathers occupying for the most part the possessions left them in common The Daughters have the value of the part of the Lands in money They are desirous of warres above measure they admit no unprofitable man into their Campe but such as hold servants are served with men They march in troopes both Horse and Foot lodging apart but not in that good order which is used by the Germans who distinguish both their Companies and Regiments into streets placing their baggage at their backs or flankes according to necessity They goe no round neither in their Campes nor Townes but in stead thereof one Sentinell whoopeth to another as in like case doe the Turkes The Horse-men in battell range themselves in files after the German order as doe also their foot placing all their shot on front They give a furious charge and the Enemie broken fall presently to spoile leaving to follow the execution for any small booty but being broken they fly every man home without ever turning head lying in wait by the way for their enemies whom they rob in their flight counterfeiting for the more terrour the clamour of the Tartars from whom they differ in the fashion of their Caps The Government in the times of the Kings of Hungarie which in these latter ages were still elective was administred partly by the great Officers of the Spirituality and of the Secular powers The chiefe of the Spirituality was the Archbishop of Strigonium who was ever to be the Lord Keeper or Chancellour principall Secretary of Estate and Primate of Hungaria The other Archbishop was hee of Colozza these two had fourteene Suffragan Bishops under them all now swallowed up by the Turke except Sirigonium Nitria ●aver●ne and ●●cia The chiefe Officer of the Secularitie is the Palatine of Hungaria chosen by the States and Lords of the Kingdome his authoritie is marvellous large both in the Court of the King the Courts of Justice in the ordinary Diets and especially in the vacancie of the Throne The Kingdome of Hungaria is now divided betweene three First the Turke who hath the greater part and is Master of Buda it selfe the chiefe Citie of the Kingdome Secondly Bethien Gabor who possesses most of the upper Hungarie lying betwixt Transilvania and the River Tibiscus and the third part is in possession of the Emperour whose sonne was lately chosen King of Hungaria For the due administration of Justice under the Secular the ancient Lords divided their Land into twenty Counties appointing to every County a Baron for Governour with one and twenty Doctors of Law to be his Assistants reserving ever to themselves an Appeale for the redresse of Injustice and preventing of extortion Now since the Princes of Austria got the Crowne their tyrannie so yoketh the Peasants that nothing may bee done without the Lords leave Insomuch that these people living in the true condition of slavery want nothing but the name thereof In the time of the ancient government when the Kings would alter any thing in the administration of the Common-weale undertake a forren warre or conclude a peace there assembled together at one place three degrees of Subjects Barons Bishops and Gentlemen with consent of the greater part whereof the Kings had authority to confirme abrogate or institute lawes to denounce warre to conclude peace and to charge their Land with impositions fit for their necessities This assembly is still in use but the freedome thereof is altered nothing being at this day propounded to the assembled by the new Governours but a contribution of money to which demand at a day given the Nobility give their resolutions which in the yeere 96. and 97. when the Turkish Emperour threatned to descend himselfe in person was That the Nobility would put themselves in Campania with their Forces and promised for their subjects for so they terme their Peasants that every Housholder should send a man and give two Dollars of money for entertainment of Souldiers but the Turkish Emperour not comming in person the Gentiles did not further bind themselves than that their subjects should pay every house one Dollar with which money were to be waged 20000. horse and foot the halfe of which never appeared in field there being not at any time in armes under the three Generals of Teufeubach in upper Hungarland of Palfeis upon the border of Danubius and of Zerius in nether Hungarland above nine thousand men And at the battell of Keresture in 96. where were assembled the greatest forces that could bee made by the three Confederates Germany Hungary and Transilvania the Combatants amounted not to above 51000. viz. out of Hungarland arrived six thousand horse and 10000. foot out of Transilvania six thousand horse and 12000. foot out of Germany nine thousand five hundred horse and seven thousand foot The Germans were so well appointed horse and foot as for quantity of Armes and goodnesse of horse nothing could be better devised Of the foot the third part were Pikes armed compleat the rest were shot whereof three parts were Muskets the Horsemen were allarmed many of whose Curases were Musket-proofe some of them carried five Pistols most foure all two That which was indeed a want amongst them was that three parts were Servants according to the German custome many of whom tooke pay for eight Horses The Hungarish and Transilvanian foot were all naked part of whom carried Fire-lockes of two foot and the residue Pikes of nine foot long either Armes of small or no use either in offence or defence whether in Forts Streights or Campania The Horse-men carried hollow Launces of twelve foot long which they brake by the helpe of a leather thong fastened to their saddles for the rest they were armed according to their meanes the rich with Cura●es the meane with Shirts the poore with Sleeves of Male and all with Caskes which kind of arming as it maketh them much defective in proofe so are they of lesse worth for their horses which for their manner of riding bridles and sadd●●s are more forceable to doe execution upon victory to make excursions and to discover than they be either to give or to sustaine a charge Their forces by Water or to speake more properly the Emperours were much impaired by the losse of

will play the Pultrones and the best foot the cowards They are both the meanest souldiers of Christendom Of Weapons they handle the Sword and the Pike better than the Harquebuze In the field they are very strong as well to charge as to beare the Shocke for Order is of great effect which is as it were naturall unto them with a stately pace and firme standing They are not accounted of for the defence of fortresses and for their corpulent bodies I hold them not fit for the assault of a breach And therefore they are to be accounted rather resolute and constant than fierce and couragious for they will never come to the service wherein courage and magnanimitie is to be shewed After the victorie they doe kill all whom they meet without difference of age sex or calling If the warre be drawne out at length or if they be besieged they faint with cowardize In Campe they can endure no delayes neither know they how to temporize If their first attempts fall not out to their mindes they are at their wits end and lose courage if they once begin to run they will never turne againe He that retaines them must be at extraordinary charges and great trouble by reason of their wives who consume so much provision that it is a very hard thing to provide it almost unpossible to preserve it and without this provision they stand in no stead Their horses are rather strong than couragious and because of ten which goe to the warre eight are prest from the plough they are of small service and when they see their bloud their heart quaileth The Spanish Genets in this case wax more fierce In Sea-forces they are not much inferiour to their Land-forces although they use no Sea-fights the Cities of Hamburg Lubeck Rostoch and some other places are able to make an hundred ships some say an hundred and fifty equall to the forces of the Kings of Denmarke and Swethland When these strong and invincible forces are united they feare no enemie and in imminent perill they are sure of the aid of the Princes of Italie Savoy and Lorraine for these Princes never forsooke the Empire in necessitie To the Zegethan warre Emanuel Duke of Savoy sent six hundred Argolitrees Cosmo Duke of Florence three thousand foot-men paid by that State Alphonsus the second Duke of Ferrara was there in person with fifteene hundred horse-men better horse-men there were not in the whole Campe. William Duke of Mantua was there also with a gallant troope of foot-men and Henry of Lorraine Duke of Guis●● had there three hundred Gentlemen The Common-weales of Genoa and Lucca assisted them with money With the aid of these Princes and with those whom Pius the fifth sent to his succours Maximilian the second had in the field ond hundred thousand footmen and five and thirty thousand horse Anno 1566. the States of the Empire at the Diet of Ausburg granted him an assistance of forty thousand foot-men and eight thousand horse-men for eight moneths and twenty thousand foot-men and foure thousand horse-men for three yeares next following And now because the Westerne Empire hath continued in the most noble Familie of the House of Austrich and eight Emperours have successively succeeded one another of that line for the delight of the Reader wee will speake somewhat thereof This House grew famous almost about the same time that the Ottoman Prince began his Empire and as it may seeme was raised up of God to stand as a Wall or Bulwarke against these Turkes and Infidels Philip the first King of Spaine Arch-Duke of Austrich c. had two sonnes Charles the fifth afterward Emperour and Ferdinand the first King of Romans To Charles as to the eldest fell Belgia and Spaine with their dependances Ferdinand succeeded him in his Lordships of Germanie as Austrich Boheme Tirol and other Provinces whereunto by the mariage of his wife Anne Hungarie was adjoyned This Ferdinand left three sonnes behinde him who although they divided their inheritance into three parts yet their successours even to this day did and doe governe them as one intire government their counsels are one their mindes one their designements one most lively representing the ancient Gerion where for the common safetie if any part be afflicted every member runneth to the succour of the other as if it were to their peculiar tranquillitie Their dominion stretcheth so large and is of such force that if by reason of the great tract of Land lying betweene the Carpathie Mountaines and Segonia they did not border upon the great Turke who alwayes constraineth them to stand upon their guard and to be at excessive charges no Potentate thorowout the Christian World could goe beyond them for numbers of people for Wealth and Treasure or for magnificent Cities Any man may perceive this to be true that considereth the distance from Tergiste to the Borders of Lusatia from Tissa to Nobu● from Canisia to Constantia upon the Lake Podame Austria was sometimes a kingdome of it selfe and called Ostenrick made so Anno 1225. It held this honour but eleven yeares Duke Albert sonne to the Emperour Rodolphus by mariage united Tirole Stiria Carinthia and Carniola whose descendant Frederike 3. Emperour raised it to an Arch-dukedome This House is divided into foure illustrious Families The first is Spaine The second Gratz of Stiria of which House this present Emperour Ferdinand is The third Inspruck And the fourth Burgundie It is a goodly and a rich Countrey yea the best of all Germanie both for Corne Cattell Wine and Fish Divers good Cities it hath whereof Vienna is small but for strength the very Bulwarke of Europe at the siege of which the Turke lost 60000. Souldiers The first walls were built with the ransome of our King Richara the first The Protestants were much gotten into these parts before these late warres and the Emperour had much adoe to suppresse the Boores who in the yeare 1627. under Student Potts a Scholer stood stoutly for their conscience His revenue must needs be good as having some silver mines the transportation of Wine and Beeves yeelds much to him His Forces are still in Garrison in Hungary against the Turke The Sea comes not neere him Under the Emperour at this day are Lusatia Silesia Bohemia Moravia Austria and a great part of Hung●rie Territories large and ample abounding with people corne and riches Then follow Stiria Carinthia Carniola the Countries of Canisia Tirol Slesia the Princedomes of Swevia Alsaria Brisgovia and Constantia The Kingdome of Bohemia being in a manner round is incompassed with great Mountaines and the Hercynian woods it containeth in the whole circuit five hundred and fifty English miles the length is three dayes journie Those Mountaines as I have said elsewhere as also the whole soile are pleasant and fruitfull abounding with corne wood wine and grasse and afford gold silver copper tinne lead and iron in great quantities only here is no salt but such as