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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69794	An accurate description of the United Netherlands, and of the most considerable parts of Germany, Sweden, & Denmark containing a succinct account of what is most remarkable in these countries, and necessary instructions for travellers : together with an exact relation of the entertainment of His Most Sacred Majesty King William at the Hague / written by an English gentleman.	English gentleman.; Carr, William, 17th cent.	1691 (1691)	Wing C631; Wing E3688; ESTC R20438	82,243	192

To this the King replied That he Thank'd his Electoral Highness That he should always endeavour to promote the common Interest and therefore would joyn with the Elector and that He was Oblig'd to his Highness for this Trouble and lastly that his Person was very acceptable Then the Envoy presented his Gentlemen to the King who kissed his Hand and afterwards the Envoy was carried back in the same manner to his Lodgings as he was brought up Then the Envoys of Mentz Cologne Munster and Hambourg had their publick Audiences after whom came the Elector of Brandenburgh who had a private Audience of near two Hours The Duke Administrator of Wirtenbergh with his Brother who were there incognito were admitted without Ceremonies Also the Deputies of the Cities and Countries who were obliged to go home to give an account of their Affairs had their Audience of Congé of His Majesty And afterwards the Pensionary Secretaries and Deputies of the States of Zealand had their Audiences and Complemented the King The Count of Erbagh came from Prince Waldeck and several Foreign Ministers from the Emperor the King of Spain the Duke of Savoy had their Audiences The 12th in the Evening Count Winditsgratz Ambassador Extraordinary from his Imperial Majesty arrived and had his Audience at Ten a Clock The 14th at Noon the King went into the Council of the States and after some Affairs were dispatched he went with the Lords Commissioners into the Assembly of their High and Mightynesses where the State of the War for the Year 1691. was presented which the Deputies were to send down to their respective Provinces afterwards the King went to Court and gave Audience to several Foreign Ministers and General Officers and among the rest to General Delwich The 15th the King with the Duke of Norfolk the Earls of Portland and Devonshire with several other Noblemen Dined with the Elector of Brandenburgh The Elector received the King without and Conducted him to the Dining-Room The King went away at Four a Clock and gave Audience afterwards to the Elector Palatine's Minister Mr. Berensdorff came hither also from the Duke of Zell and Mr. Klenck from the Duke of Hanouer to Complement His Majesty in their Masters Names Prince Waldeck came also to Court and had Audience of the King immediately And Mr. Cha●gagne came from the Elector of Treves The 16th the Elector of Bavaria arriv'd who acquainted the King of his arrival at Ten a Clock by one of his Gentlemen he Lodged in his Envoys House Next Morning my Lord Portland and the Elector of Brandenburgh went to Complement him The Elector was met at the Entrance of the House About five in the Evening he went privately to the King and staid about an Hour and half and the next day the King returned his Visit The 18th in the Evening the Marquis de Gastanaga Governor of the Spanish Netherlands arrived with a very splendid Equipage As soon as he arriv'd he went to Court and was Received with the Honour due to his Character the Swiss Guards being placed in Ranks with their Officer posted at the Head of them He had a particular Audience of the King an Hour long the Elector of Bavaria being by the Swiss Guards appeared then in Arms it being the first time that the Elector of Bavaria had appeared at Court publickly The same day also the Elector of Brandenburgh had his Audience Next Morning the Marquis de Gastanaga was at the Kings Rising and then paid a Visit to the Elector of Brandenburgh the King was that day above two Hours in the Committee of the Council of State and Dined with the Elector of Brandenburgh at my Lord Portlands Mr. Arnauld Preacher and Head of the Vaudois who Commanded them so bravely against the French last Summer came also to the Hague and had an Audience of the King concerning their Affairs The 19th in the Afternoon the King went a Hawking near Sorgvliet with the Elector of Brandenburgh and several other Persons of great Quality Next Morning he went a Hunting with the Elector of Bavaria and the Marquis of Gastanaga near Houns●●erdyke where they Dined and came back again in the Evening to the Hague The 20th the Prince of Courland with another Prince of the House of Holstein arrived here The 21st the Landtgrave of H●sse came hither with his Envoy and several other Lords He immediately went to Court and staid some time with the King and the next day he paid a Visit to the Electors of Brandenburgh and Bavaria The Duke of Zal●sbach came also with General Dautel as it 's believed to Complement the King in the Elector Palatine's Name The Congress was now often kept Colomna the Spanish Envoy had a Conference on the 23d in the Morning with the Deputies of the States General and afterwards assisted in the Congress where was also the Count Winditsgratz the Emperors Plenipotentiary and the Count de Berka and the Chevalier Crampricht the other Imperial Ministers were by when he show'd his Credentials and the States assured him that he should have Audience with the usual Ceremonies in two or three days The Counsellor Mean who was sent by the Prince and Chapter of Liege assisted also in the Congress and the Emperors Minister with most of the other Ministers waited upon his Majesty This extraordinary Concourse has made the Court at the Hague so very Splendid that it has out-done any thing else in any other Court of Christendom Above 30 Sovereign Princes were there besides Marquesses Earls Barons and Gentlemen without Number The Elector of Bavaria and the Marquis de Gastanaga kept publick Tables The 24th about Ten in the Morning the Count de Winditsgratz had publick Audience of the King Conducted by the Master of the Ceremonies with all the usual Solemnities He Congratulated His Majesties happy Successes and assured him that the Emperor his Master esteemed himself very much obliged to His Majesty for that Care and Concern which he show'd for the common Cause and he further added that his Master look'd upon His Britannick Majesty as the principal moving Cause upon whom every thing else depended that might be for the advantage of the Confederacy The Elector of Saxony's Envoy had Audience of the King the same day The 25th in the Morning the King with the Elector of Brandenburgh and the Landtgrave of Hesse went to the great Church where they heard a Sermon Preached by Mr. Ulier who towards the latter end said several moving Things to His Majesty In the Afternoon the King with the Electors of Bavaria and Brandenburgh and the Landtgrave of Hesse all four in a Coach took three or four turns round the Voorhout with the Glasses down upon the Kings side who was received by the thronging Multitudes with all imaginable Demonstrations of Affection and Joy The 26th the Count de Prela Doria Envoy Extraordinary from the Duke of Savoy Count d' Autel with the same Character from the Elector Palatine had Audience of His Majesty

by sending such a sudden Thaw as was never seen before for in less than ten hours the Ice so sunk and such Floods of Snow came down from the Highlands that the French were fain to make a very disorderly retreat marching up to the middle for haste because on the Banks there could not march above four Men a-breast so they were constrained to leave behind them the greatest part of the Plunder they had robb'd from the Innocent Country People and the nimble Dutch-men on their Scates so long as the Ice would bear them did shoot down the French like Ducks diving under Water so that it cost Luxemburg's Army dear though they had the pleasure to burn the poor People of which the French afterward wickedly made their boast The third was as wonderful as the two others and although I do not believe Miracles as do the Papists yet I say nothing I ever observed looked more like a Miracle than this to wit when the English and French Fleet lay before Scheveling with a design to land and the French ready on their March to joyn with the English and other French as soon as they should land at the same time the Bishop of Munster lying before Groeningen and the French before Gorcom so that now all things looked with a dreadful face for the States yet at this very time God sent a third relief by sending such Mists and wonderful sorts of Tydes as so separated the two Fleets that the English were forced to quit Scheveling Shore and were driven on the side of the Texel Road from whence they were constrained by the season of the Year to retire home And such were the sudden and great Showers of Rain that the Bishop of Munster was forced in disorder to raise his Siege at Groeningen and the French to quit Gorcom I could add many more Observations of the Providences of God to these People as the preserving the Prince of Orange His present Majesty of Great Britain from the many treacherous Designs contrived against him from his Cradle but Moses must be preserved to go in and out before his People Certainly never young Prince endured so many Fatigues as did his Highness in his tender Years of which I was an Eye-witness and had his Highness had the Years and Experience and such a good Disciplined Army as now he hath in the Year 1671. when the French entred the Country his Highness had given them as good a Welcom as he did at Bergen I will say no more of this Subject only this That the Peace at Nimeguen was also a very wonderful thing for that not above eight Days before the Peace was signed most of the Plenipotentiaries did believe the War would have continued another Year first because the King of Denmark and Duke of Brandenburg prospered exceedingly against Sweedland and totally refused the Propositions of France and secondly because the French King writ such bitter Letters against the States-General Yet eight Days after drest a Letter unto the States in which he calls them his Good Friends and Old Alleys offering them not only Maestricht but every Foot of Ground they could lay claim to in the World also giving them new Terms and Conditions as to their Privileges in France by way of Trade Neither can I forget how speedily and as strangely the French King did quit his Conquered Towns after the Valiant Prince of Orange took Naerden which was the first step to the French's Ruine in the States Dominions I come now according to promise in the beginning of this Book to give the Reader some Remarks I made in other Countries where I have been during my Sixteen Years Travels To give a full account of all that might be observed in so many Countries is not a Task for one Man nor a Subject for so small a Book I shall only therefore briefly take notice of some remarkable Matters which may in some measure satisfie the Curiosity of my Country-men who have not been in the said places and convince if possible all of them that no Country that ever I was in affords so great Conveniencies for the generality of People to live in as the Kingdom of England doth Though I have twice made the grand tour of Germany Hungary Italy and France and after my return back to England travelling a third time through Holland as far as Strasbourg and so back by Francfort to Denmark and Sueden yet the Reader is not to expect I should follow a Geographical Method and Order in speaking of the Places I have been in that is to be lookt for in the Map and not in Travels but only that I mention Places as I found them on my Road according as Business or Curiosity led me to Travel THE first considerable Place I then met with after I was out of the Dominions of the States-General was Cleave the Capital City of the Province so called a fair and lovely City standing upon the Rhine and the Rivers Wall and Leck This Province much resembles England in rich Soil and pleasantness of its Rivers The Inhabitants of the Country would have me believe that they were Originally descended of those Saxons who made a descent into England and conquered it and to convince the truth of this they shew'd me a Cloyster standing on a Hill called Eltham from which they say our Eltham in Kent had its Name I was made to observe also two places standing upon the Rhine near Emmerick called Doadford and Gronewich which according to them gave the Names to Dedford and Greenwich in England But many such Analogies and Similitudes of Names are to be found in other places of Germany but especially in upper Saxony and Denmark The greatest part of this Province of Cleave and part of the Dutchies of Juliers and Berg and of the Provinces of Marke and Ravensbourg belongs to the Elector of Brandenbourg the rest belonging to the Duke of Newbourg now Elector Palatine and the Elector of Cologne The Inhabitants are partly Roman Catholicks partly Lutherans and partly Calvinists who all live promiscuously and peaceably together both in City and Country The City of Cleave is the utmost Limit of the Territories of the Elector of Brandenbourg on this side of Germany from whence his Electoral Highness can Travel Two Hundred Dutch Miles out-right in his own Dominions and never sleep out of his own Country but one Night in the Territories of the Bishop of Osnabrug FRom Cleave I went to a small Town called Rhinberg but a very strong Fortification belonging to the Elector of Cologne which lies at two Miles distance from the City of Wesel that belongs to the Elector of Brandenbourg Through Dusseldorpe situated on the Rhine and the Residence of the Duke of Newbourg I went next to Cologne a very large City called by the Romans Colonia Agrippina and the French Rome d'Allemagne Cologne is an Imperial City and a Republick though for some things it does Homage to the Elector of that Name