set forth withall unto us both his Power and Wisdom His Power he manifested in the Method of the whole Creation in that he did produce what effects he pleased without the help of naturall causes as giving Light unto the World before he had created either Sun or Moon making the Earth fruitfull and to bring forth plants without the influence or motion of the Heavenly bodies And for his Wisdom he expressed it in as high a degree in that he did not create the very Beasts of the field before he had provided them of fodder and sufficient herbage nor made man after his own Image before he had finished all the rest of his works fitted his house and furnished it with all things necessary both for life and pleasures But all things being fitted and prepared for him at last comes Man into the world and he doth make his entrance with a greater pomp than any of the rest of the Creatures which were before him They came in with no other Ceremony than a Dixit Deus but in the workmanship of Man there was a Consultation held by the blessed Trinity It is there Faciamus Hominem let us make a Man each Person contributing somewhat as it were to his composition For God the Father as the chief Workman or principall Agent gave him form and feature in which he did imprint his own heavenly image The Son who is the living and eternall Word gave him voice or speech that so he might be able to set forth Gods praises The Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of life as the Nicene Fathers truly call him breathing into his nostrills the breath of life whereby he became a living Spirit In this one Creature was amassed whatever thing was excellent in the whole Creation the quantity or substance of Inanimate creatures the life of Plants the sense of Beasts and the understanding of Angells In this one Creature did God shew the excellency of his power and wisdom in printing on him his own Image and giving him Dominion over all the works of his hands which Image of God they look for in a very wrong place who hope to finde it in mans Body though of a gallant composition and erected structure The Heathen Oratour was able in this point to inform some erroneous Christians Ad Divinam imaginem propius accedit humana virtus quam figura Man doth approach more neer to the Image of God in the endowments of his Minde than in the structure of his body as divinely Cicero And as for that Dominion which God gave him over the works of his hands the Patent is at large laid down in the first of Genesis For God no sooner said Faciamus Hominem let us make man after our own Image but presently he addes this Charter of Supreme Authority And let him have dominion over the fish of the Sea and over the fowles of the Air and over the Cattell and over all the Earth A more particular explication of those severall points wherein that Image and this Power do consist especially I shall not take upon me or endeavour now as being not of this place and purpose Which onely is to shew that as man in the very act of his Creation participated more of the Divine Image than all other Creatures so was he by Gods speciall grant infeoffed with a larger power than any of the rest could pretend unto Man though made lower than the Angells is in this above them that all the Creatures of the World were made to be his servants and to attend upon his pleasure And yet this great and mighty Prince this generall Lord of all the World and the Creatures in it setting aside the dignity of his first Creation doth come into the world in a worse condition than any of the Creatures which were made to serve him naked and impotent and speechless without the use of reason neither of power to help himselfe or ask help of others Whereof Lactantius in my minde gives a very good reason who telleth us that God sends man into the world nudum intermem naked and weak and undefenced against all violences and dangers whereas all Creatures else munita indumentis naturalibus armata sunt are naturally both armed and clothed and able to relieve themselves And this he doth unto this end that man being naturally destitute of those outward helps might make use of his inward faculties of judgement wit and understanding in furnishing himself with that which he wants by nature For hereunto the first originall of all Manufactures and mechanick Arts is to be referred as is most plain and evident from the Book of God in which we see that presently upon the procreation of mankind Abel betook himself unto keeping sheep and Cain to husbandry Iubal to handle the Harp Organ and such Musicall Instruments and Tubal-Cain to work upon brass and iron two metalls very necessary to most kinde of Trades The like may be supposed in all other mysteries and Arts of living though there be no expresse mention of them in those early dayes except it be the Art of building or the Carpenters Trade which no question is as old as any as by the building of Cain's City and Noah's Ark is most cleerly evidenced God made the world and fitted it with all things necessary for the life of man leaving man to provide himself of such Additions as rather serve for comforts and conveniencies in the way of his living than the necessities of his life Here then we have the works of God and the works of Men to be considered in pursuit of our present Argument The works of God in shadowing the Earth with Trees and Forrests interlacing it with Chrystall streams and capacious Rivers inriching it with fruitfull and delicious Vales adorning it with lofty Mountains and stocking both the Hils and Vales with all sorts of Cattell But nothing more sets forth the Power and Wisdom of Almighty God as it relates to these particulars than that most admirable intermixture of Want with Plenty whereby he hath united all the parts of the World in a continuall Trassique and Commerce with one another some Countries being destitute of those Commodities with which others abound and being plentifull in those which the others want Insomuch that as in the Body of man that Microsm or little World the Head cannot say that it hath no need of the Foot nor the Foot of the Hand nor other members of the rest so neither in the Body of the great World can Europe say to Asia or Spain to England I have no need of your Commodities or am not wanting in those things whereof thou boastest an abundance Some thing there is in every Countrey which may be spared to supply the defect of others and are accordingly vented in the way of Merchandise Of which thus Du Bartas in his Colonies Hence come our Sugars from Canary Isles From Candie Currans Muscadels and Oyls From the Moluccoes Spices Balsamum From
in its true Criginall he rather chose to grant the world to be eternall than to be made of such ridiculous and unsound though eternall Atoms Et maluit hanc pulobram mundi faciem ab aeterno esse quam aliquando ex aeterna deformitate emersisse Valesius in his Book de Sacra Philosophia so pleads the case in his behalf and I thank him for it who am I must confess a great friend of Aristotles whom some account for the â—recursor of our Saviour Christ in rebus naturalibus as John the Baptist was in divinis Nor doth the Scripture and the light of Reason tell us onely this that the whole world had a beginning but by the help of Scripture and the workes of some learned men we are able to point out the time when it did begin or to compute how many years it is precisely from the first beginning without any notable difference in the calculation For though it be most truly said citius inter Horologias quam Chronologias that Clocks may sooner be agreed then Chronologers yet most Chronologers in this point come so neer one another that the difference is scarce observable From the beginning of the world to the Birth of Christ in the accompt of Beroaldus are 3928. yeers 3945. in the computation of the Genevians 3960. in the esteem of Luther and 3963. in the calculation of Melanchthon between whom and Beroaldus being the least and the greatest there is but 35. years difference which in so long a course of time can be no great matter Now if unto the calculation made by Beroaldus which I conceive to be the truest we add 1648. since the Birth of Christ the totall of the time since the worlds creation will be 5576. yeers neither more nor less A thing which I the rather have insisted on because that from this Epoche or Aera of the Worlds creation we shall compute the times of such Kings and Princes as reigned and flourished in the world before the Incarnation of our Lord and Saviour It being then resolved as a thing undoubted that God made the World and that he made it in such time as himself best pleased let us next look upon the matter and the method which it pleased the Divine Majesty to make use of in this wondrous work First for the matter out of which all things were created I take it as before was said to be that which Moses in the first words of Genesis calls the Heaven and the Earth because they were so in potentia but after telleth us more explicitely that that which he calleth Earth was inanis et vacua without form and void and that which he called Heaven was but an overcast of darkness or tenebrae super faciem Abyssi as the vulgar reads it Of which Chaos or confused Mass we thus read in Ovid who questionless had herein consulted with the works of Moses being before his time communicated to the learned Gentiles Ante mare terras quod tegit omnia Coelum Vnus erat toto naturae vultus in Orbe Quem dixere Chaos rudis indigestaque moles Nec quicquam nisi pondus iners congestaque eodem Non benc junctarum discordia semina rerum c. Which I shall English from G. Sandys with some little change Before the Earth the Sea and Heaven were framed One face had nature which they Chaos named An indigested lump a barren load Where jarring seeds of things ill-joyn'd abode No Sun as yet with light the world adorns Nor new Moon had repair'd her waining horns Nor hung the self-poiz'd Earth in thin Air plac'd Nor had the Ocean the vast Shores imbrac'd Earth Sea and Ayr all mixt the Earth unstable The Air was dark the Sea unnavigable No certain form to any one assign'd This that resists For in one body joyn'd The cold and hot the dry and humid fight The soft and hard the heavy with the light Out of this Chaos or first matter did God raise the world according to those severall patts and lineaments which we see it in not as out of any pre-existent matter which was made before and had not God for the Author or first Maker of it but as the first preparatory matter which himself had made including in the same potentially both the form and matter of the whole Creation except the soul of man onely which God breathed into him And therefore it is truly said that God made all things out of nothing not out of nothing as the matter out of which it was made for then that nothing must be something but as the terminus à quo in giving them a reall and corporall being which before they had not and did then first begin to have by the meer force and efficacy of his powerfull Word And though it be a Maxim in the Schools of Philosophie Ex nihilo nil fit that nothing can be made of nothing that every thing which hath a being doth require some matter which must be pre-existent to it yet this must either be condemned for erroneous Doctrine in the Chair of Divinity or else be limited and restrained to Naturall agents which cannot go beyond the sphere of their own activity Invisible and supernaturall Agents are not tied to Rules no not in the production of the works of Nature though Nature constituted and established in a certain course work every thing by line and measure as a certain Rule And so it was with God in the Worlds Creation he did not only make the world but he made it out of nothing by his Word alone Dixit et facta sunt he spake the word and they were made saith the royal Psalmist Ps 33. v. 9. There went no greater pains nor matter to the whole Creation but a Dixit Deus And this not only said by Moses but by David too Verbo Domini firmati sunt Coeli spiritu Oris ejus omnis virtus eorum v. 6. i.e. by the Word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the Hosts thereof by the breath of his mouth In which it is to be observed that though the Creation of the World be generally ascribed to God the Father yet both the Son and the Holy Ghost had their parts therein Verbo Domini by the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made saith the Prophet David In the beginning was the Word all things were made by him and without him was nothing made saith S. Iohn the Apostle The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters saith Moses in the Book of the Law Et spiritu oris eius and by the breath or Spirit of his mouth were all the Hosts of Heaven created saith David in the Book of Psalms Made by his Word and yet not made together in one instant of time In the first day he laid the foundation and no more in the five next he raised the building and this he did to teach us men deliberation in our words and actions and to
of his Souldiers put an end to the troubles he was unresolved what to do Whether to resign the Empire to the People or retain it still in his own hands That in a business of such importance he durst not rely altogether on his own wisdom That he had made them his Judges as men that could speak soundly and durst speak freely That he knew them to have more care of his honour than profit but of the Common-wealth more than both That his Counsels which course soever he took would not be by them eliminated He therefore intreated them to consider what was to be done and to give up their verdicts 15 Agrippa after a short silence thus began I know thou canst not but marvell O Caesar â—that I who under thine Empire am sure to be beyond precedent exalted should perswade thee to live private But I esteem more thy honour than my profit the publick good than my particular preferment And yet perhaps my Counsell shall be as profitable if not as plausible as the contrary I know thee to be no way delighted with lyes and flattery and will therefore deal with thee freely and plainly Thou hast indeed put a period to the Civill Wars but to what end unless thou dost restore unto the Common-wealth the Liberty for which the Wars were raised What benefit can the people reap from thy Victory if thou dost use it only as an instrument for their greater bondage Dost thou think that the Romans having so many hundred years maintained their liberty will now be willing to forego it No Caesar no Flatter not thy self with these hopes Marius the younger and Sertorius were quickly cut off when their ends were once known and Julius thy Father of happy memory did not long live after his actions seemed to bring the Common liberty in hazard And shall we think that there is no true Roman spirit surviving No Brutus living to attempt the like against thee Believe me Caesar believe me it is far better not to meddle with the Empire at all than to be forced to abandon it But say Divine Providence will so protect thee that thou mayst out-live such practices and shalt thou also not out-live thy glories This present age perchance will not censure thine actions because it dares not But Posteritie free from all respects of love or hatred cannot but call them into question aud brand thy enterprise with Ambition and perhaps Tyranny If thy designs prosper they will judge thee to have risen unjustly if otherwise to have fallen deservedly How much better then were it now when thine honour is without blemish and thy reputation unstained to resign thy authority Indeed when Sextus lorded it over the Sea and Antony over Aegypt it might have been thought want of spirit to have deposed thy self from the Government But now to doe it when thou art without Rivall in the Empire now when thou art sole Commander of the Worlds Forces now when the People and Senate ly prostrate at the feet of thy mercy were to strike dumb detraction and to make the World admire thy Temper Thou art at this present the joy and comfort of the World there is wanting to thee neither Wealth nor Fame Here then fix thy foot For go but one step beyond this Non ultra and thou wilt run into a boundless Ocean of perils which have no end but the end of thy life and reputation 16 Not so excellent Agrippa replyed Mecenas I never heard good Pilot find fault with Sea-room or of more vessels cast away in the Ocean than in the Streights and narrow passages Our Republick is a Ship fraught with divers Nations She hath been long tossed on the waves of Civill dissentions long driven up and down with the Wind of ambition and there is now no place so fit for her safety as the unlimited Ocean of one mans power This Empire at first rising seemed not to require a Monarch but it is now grown too unwieldy to be without one Take then upon thee O Caesar this Empire or to say better do not forsake it I should never thus advise thee did I conceive any possible inconveniences The Senate doth allow thee a competent guard of valiant and faithfull Souldiers whom then shouldest thou fear Nay ill may I prosper if I see any cause of fear were thy Guard cashiered Enemies thou hast none For such as were are either already slain by thy valour or made thy fast friends by thy bounty and clemency To omit Marius and Sertorius I will a little touch at thy Father Julius He too good a Souldier to be a Statist was too heady and violent in establishing his Government Nor could he cunningly temporize and suffer the people insensibly and by degrees to drop into bondage but oppress them all at once Again he committed a great Soloecism in State when discharging his Guard he sought to retain that Empire by fair means which he had gotten by violence I know thee O Caesar to be of a more wary and cunning behaviour Learn also to work out thine own safety by Pompeys misfortunes He after the finishing of the Pontick War at Brundusium disbanded his Army and thereby merited to be accounted an honest and moderate man Certainly he shewed himself in the course of this action rather vertuous than fortunate or politick For presently he began to be contemned and by this improvident weakning of himself made an open passage to his own ruin I commend his modesty more than his brain neither did he himself on better considerations approve his own doings and therefore he resolved had he been Victor in Pharsalâ—a never to have committed the like Oversight So it is and so it will fall out with thee O Caesar if in this action thou propose him to be thy pattern It is not safe Agrippa saith to take the Empire less safe it is to refuse it A settled and innative vice it is in man never to endure that any man above our own rank should over-top us Romes second founder Camillus Scipio that scourge of Carthage were disgraced and M. Coriolanus banished by our Ancestors only because their worth had lifted them above the ordinary pitch of Subjects Do not thou hope to fare better than thy Predecessors Heretofore perchance thou mightest have sought the Empire to satisfie thy ambition The Empire must now be thy refuge and Asylum Credit me the Lords of the Senate after so many years Obedience know not how to Govern neither canst thou having so long been a Governour learn Obedience True it is that in matters of domesticall business a man may stop and desist where he will But in the getting of an Empire there is no mean between the death of an Enemie and the life of a Prince Thou hast already gone too far to retire Now thou must resolve to be Caesar or nothing To say more were superfluous Thine own discretion will suggest unto thee better Arguments Onely this I know that thou hast in
general that is to say on Isabel Daughter of Philip the 2d of Spain and the Ladie Isabel or Elizabeth his Wife the eldest Daughter of Henry the 2d and neece to the said Francis the first and after her decease dying without issue on the Lady Catharine her Sister maried to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy For whom when Philip of Spain claimed this Estate the French pretended a Law against it of their own devising viz. That no Estate being incorporated to that Crown could be aliened from it A proper Law and cousin German to the Salique but such as served their turn by the help of the English who desired not to have the Spaniards so neer Neighbours to them Most of our former Earles of Richmond were Earles and Dukes of this House Their Arms were Ermins THE DVKEDOM OF ANIOV THe DVKEDOM of ANJOV taking it in the full latitude and extent thereof is bounded on the East with La Beausse on the West with Breâ—agne on the North with Normandie and on the South with part of Berry and Poictou In which circumference are comprehended the three small Provinces of Anjou Tourein and Maine the antient Inhabitants whereof in the times of the Romans were the Andes as Caesar or the Andegavii as Plinie calls them the Turones and the Cenomani accounted afterwards a part of the Province of Lugdunensis Tertia The Countrey for the most part is very fruitful and pleasant especially in Tourein as is the whole tract upon the Loir Anjou is somewhat the more hilly but otherwise little inferiour to Tourein affording plenty of white wines the best in France and yielding from those Hills above 40 Riverets falling into the Loire from thence the chief whereof are Mayenne 2 Vienne 3 Dive and 4 Sartre 1 ANJOV called Andegavia by the Latines is situate in the middest betwixt Maine and Tourein so called from the Andegavi the Inhabitants of these parts Principal Cities are 1 Angâ—ers by Ptolomie called Iuliomagus of a large Circuit and well built the See of a Bishop reckoning in it 15 Parishes besides the Cathedral It is seated on the River Sartre in a very good air and therefore chosen for the seat of an Vniversitie founded here by Lewis the 2d Duke of Anjou the Sonne of King Iohn Anno 1388. 2 Beaufort a Town belonging formerly to the Dukes of Lancaster in which Iohn of Gaunt so much delighted that he caused all the Children that he had by Catharine Swinford his third Wife to be called Beauforts which Beauforts were afterward Dukes of Somerset and Exeter and Earls of Dorset This Town came to the house of Lancaster by the mariage of Blaxch of Artoys unto Edmund surnamed Crouchback second Son to our Henry the 3d created by his Father the first Earl of Lancaster Memorable in these later times for giving the Title of a Dutchess to Madam Catharine the beloved Mistress of King Henry the 4th by whom she was mother of Caesar now Duke of Vendosme and Alexander not long since the Grand Prior of France With reference to which the second Sonne of the Duke of Vendosme is honoured at this present with the title of Duke of Beaufort as the eldest with relation to his Mother was made Duke of Mercoeur 3 Baugie neer which was fought that memorable Battle betwixt the English and the French wherein the English lost the day and Thomas Duke of Clarence Brother to Henry the fifth was there unfortunately slain Anno 1422. 4 Saumur pleasantly situate on the Loire and for long time one of the Cautionarie Towns in the hands of those of the Reformed Religion of whom it is the onely entire Universitie of this Kingdome especially famous for the learned Philip du Morney Lord of Plessis sometimes the Governour hereof 5 Loches seated on the River Indre the Castle whereof being mounted on a steep high Rock is thought to be one of the strongest peeces of all France 6 La Flesche of speciall name at the present for a College of Jesuits one of the fairest in this Kingdom The word in the French tongue signifieth an Arrow whence those who make Bowes and Arrowes have the name of Flâ—schers At Nola in the Realm of Naples there is another College of them called Dâ— Arque the Bow On which one wittilie composed this ensuing distich Arcum Nola dedit dedit illis alma Sagittam Gallia quit Funem quem meruere dabit That is to say Nola the Bow and France the Shaft did bring But who shall help them to the Hempen-string 2 On the South-east of Anjou betwixt it and Berry lieth the Countrie of TOUREIN the ancient Seat of the Turones which for the wholesomness of the Air the pleasantness of the Countrie and admirable plenty of all Commodities is by some called The Garden of France Principall Cities in it 1 Amboise pleasantly seated on the Loire and beautified with one of the fairest Castles in France both for the gallantrie of the Building and beautifulness of the Prospect 2 Tours by Ptolomie called Caesarodunum and the Turonum Civit as of Antoninus the Metropolis of Lugdunensis tertia and an Archbishops See a fair rich and well-traded Town situate on the banks of the Loire in a most sweet and pleasing Countrie Famous in that those of the Reformed Religion from the Gate of S. Hugo at which they used to issue out to their Assemblies in the Fields had the name of Hugonots Given to them as some others think as the Disciples of the night-walking Spirit or Robin Goodfellow which they call S. Hugo in regard they had their first meetings for the most part in the nights as had the Primitive Christians in the times of their Persecutions Some more improbably and indeed ridiculously derive the name from the first words of an Apologie which they are fabled to have made to the King which were Huc nos venimus fancying that as the Protestants did derive that Appellation from the words Protestantes and Protestamur so often used by them in their Apologie to Charles the fifth so from those words Huc nos came the name of Hugonots or Hucnots But more assuredly famous for the great Battle fought neer it by Charles Martell Mayre of the Palace and Father of Pepin King of France against an Armie of 40000 Mâ—ors led by Abderamen Leiutenant Generall in Spain for Evelid or Iscam the great Caliph of which 370000 lost their lives in the place Anno 734. 3 Laudun 4 Richelieu pleasantly seated in a rich and flourishing Soil as the name importeth Of no great note till the time of the late great Cardinall of Richelieu who took name from hence by whom it was made one of the neatest Towns in all this Kingdom and honoured with the titles of a Dukedom and Pairrie of France As for the Fortunes of this Province for of Anjou we shall speak more at large anon it had a while its own Proprietarie Earls of the house of Blais conferred by Hugh Capet upon Odon Earl of
in the most Northern parts of the Countrey neer the borders of Delly from the King whereof Mamudza had then newly revolted and therefore would make sure of this place as most in danger 2 Visapore bordering on Cambaia the Princely Seat of Idalean one of the Kings of Decan after it was dismembered into severall Kingdomes 3. Danager confiningon Canara a beautifull and flourishing City once the chief Seat of Nisalamoccus or 〈◊〉 another of the Kings hereof after that division 4. Decan so called by the name of the Province of which the chief City next to Bider the Imperiall Seat Six miles from which there is an hill encompassed with an high wall and kept by a strong Garrison because of the great store of Diamonds which are digged out of it The town so wealthy that the people generally are attired in silks or the purest tiffany 5. Sintacora on the mouth of the River Aliga where it falleth into the Sea 6. Goa a Sea-Town also situate in a little but most pleasant Iland called Ticuarinum fifteen miles in compass opposite to the mouth or out-let of the River Mandova A noted Empory and one of the chief keys which unlock the Indies for number of Inhabitants magnificent buildings and pleasantness of situation one of most note in all this Country Possessed by the Portugals who have here their Arsenall and harbour for their Indian Fleet by which they do command these Seas So strongly fortified withall that though beleagured by Idalcan of whom before with 35000 horse 6000 Elephants and 250 peece of Ordance Anno 1573. yet he could not force it Made in regard of the convenient situation and strength thereof the ordinary Residence of the Portugal Vice-Roy who hath here his Counsell Chancellor and other Officers for the government of such parts of India as belong to that Crown as also of the Arch-Bishop or Primate of the Indian Churches planted by that nation who is hence called the Arch-Bishop of Goa 7. Chaul a Sea-Town in the hands of the Portugals also and by them well fortified Insomuch as Nisamalocco assaulting it at the same time with a very great Army was sain to leave it as he found it 8. Balaguate in the uplands or Hill-Country whence it had the name Balâ— in the Persian language signifying a top or summit of a mountain and Guate an Hill 9. Brampore once the chief seat of another Kingdome now the chief City of those parts of Decan which are subject to the Great Mongul Situate on a great River in the middest of a spacious Plain beautifull and of very great trading in bigness equall unto Paris yet yielded to Echebar the Mogul without any resistance Anno 1600. Miram then King thereof forsaking it and betaking himself to 10. Syra a strong hold both by art and nature Situate on the top of an hill in compass five leagues and environed with a triple wall furnished with victuals and all other necessary provisions sufficient to maintain 60000 men many years 3000 great peeces of Ordnance planted on the walls Besieged herein by Echebar with an Army of 2000â—0 fighting men he held our against him till over come by promises of fair correspondence drawn out of his hold some of his Counsellers being bribed to perswade him to it he was detained by the Mogull and the Commanders won by rewards and hopes yielded up the Fort and therein all the Princes of the Royall family accustomably kept therein when the Throne was full which vacant the next Heir was taken hence to succeed unto it Of the same nature as it seemeth with the hill Amara in Ethropia The Countrey formerly inhabited by a people called Venaz 〈◊〉 by Religion Gentiles and held by them till the year 1300 when overcome by 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 and King of Delly who driving the Inhabitants into the Hill-Countries possessed himself of a great part of it compelling them to submit unto his Religion The residue hereof subdued by Abdâ—â—a whom Sa Nosaradine left here to pursue the warre was by him governed with great justice for 20 years when dying he left his government to his sonne Mamudza confirmed by the Successor of Sa Nosaradine in his Fathers Regency on the payment of an annuall tribute Mamudza soon finding that the young King was of no great Spirit not only refused to pay the tribute imposed upon him but took unto himself the title of King of Decan giving this nameunto the Countrey before called Canara in regard that he had filled it with a Mungril body of Christians Mahometâ—ins and Gentiles acknowledging no common Parent nor agreeing in language customes or Religion the word 〈◊〉 signifying in that tongue as much as an illegitimate brood or a body of Bastards Out of these he made choice of twelve others say eighteen whom he appointed Governors of so many Province not daring to trust any of the old Nobility or of the Natives of the Countrey and hoping that these Slaves thus promoted by him would be more subject to command But here his silly hopes deceived him For these Slaves either governed by their masters example who had done the like unto the sonne and Heir of Sa Nosaradine or presuming on their own strength and some forein aids left to their master nothing but an empty title each one becoming absolute in his severall Province Nor did his Successors for any long time enjoy that title Daquem the last of them being taken at Bider his chief City and thereupon the name of King usurped by every one of those petit Tyrants Reduced at last into fewer hands such of them as were left became considerable Princes as appeareth by the great Army raised by Id tlean for the siege of Goa But in the end distressed on the one side by the Portugals who embarred their trade and invaded on the other side by the Great Mogul with most puissant Armies Melie entituled King of Decan and Miram King of Brâ—mpore were in fine subdued by Echebar about the year 1600. Against whom and his Successors though the Venazarari still hold out as the Resbutes or 〈◊〉 do in the Realm of Cambaia and that the King of Amdanager and perhaps some other petit Princes are not yet brought under yet we may look on the Mongul as the Lord of this Country the residue of these Royteleâ—â— and petit Princes if any of them be remaining being Homagers or Vassals to him Against whose further Progress to the Cape of Comari which Echebar so greedily aimed at the puissant Kings of 〈◊〉 and those of Malabar have opposed their power whose Kingdomes and estates we must next survey before we take a view of those other provinces which are now under the command of that mighty Monarch 9. CANARA CANARA is bounded on the North with Decan where of antiently it was a part on the South with Malabar on the East with Narsinga from which separated by the Mountain Gates on the West with the Ocean The reason of the name I find not