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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

given of it by Monsieur Thevenot who saw it himself Famous moreover to all posterity for the Children of Israel's passing it on dry ground at their entrance into Canaan and the Prophet Elijah's doing the same in company with Elisha Our Saviour received Baptism here from the hands of S. John near to which particular place the Christians built a Monastery that is now in ruins The Pilgrims delight to bathe in this River fancying the Water sanative from the virtue of that Sacred Contact It overflows in Summer with the melted Snow from Mount Libanus But in the Winter runs a low Water and after its Current into the Dead Sea it is clear without mixture for above a League together issuing thence by a subterraneous Channel into the Mediterranean Ioyeuse Gaudiosa a Town in France in the Province of Vivarais towards the Borders of Languedoc honoured by being first a Viscounty next a Dutchy and giving Name to a Noble Family Ipepa Hypaepa a City of Lydia in the Lesser Asia between Mount Tmolus and the River Caystro not far from Thyatira It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ephes●s Ipre See Yperen Iprichia the same with Africa Ips Ipsium and Ibissa a Town in Austria Ipsala Cypsella a City in Thrace by the River Mela at first a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Trajanopoli or Zernis afterwards it became the Metropolis It lies between this City to the West twenty nine Miles and Drusilaba to the North-East twenty six Miles the River in our latter Maps is called Larissa and falls into the Archipelago over against the Isle of Lembro just behind that Peninsula which makes the Dardanels straight Ipswich Gippo-vicus the County Town of Suffolk heretofore called Gippwich seated on the North side of the River Stour upon the foot of a steep Hill in somewhat a low Ground it has a commodious Haven and was heretofore a place of great Trade with many wealthy Merchants in it and a vast number of other people but now decayed as to both It was also formerly fortified with Trenches and Rampires the loss of which is not to be lamented the Town being so seated that it can never be made a place of Defence the Hills on all sides but the South and South-East commanding it It has fourteen Parish Churches and a great many goodly Houses the tokens of its former Wealth In 991. the Danes sacked it and nine years after repeated their Cruelty upon it In the Reign of S. Edward it had eight hundred Burgesses who paid Custom to the King There was also a Castle built here by the Normans which Hugh Bigod Earl of Norfolk defended against the Usurper King Stephen but was forced to surrender at last the ruins are now lost Mr. Cambden supposeth it to have been demolished by Henry II. when he did the same by Waleton Castle not far off Here landed the three thousand Flemings which the Nobility called in against Henry II. when his Son rebelled against him In the late Rebellion this Town stood clear of all those Calamities which involved the rest of the Nation The Bishop of Norwich hath a House here and the Viscount of Hereford another befitting his degree and quality The Honourable Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Grafton was created Viscount Ipswich Aug. 16. 1672. who died of the Wounds that he received in the Service of King William before Cork Octob. 9. 1690. This Town is also a Corporation and sends two Burgesses to the Parliament It has a Free-School with the convenience of a good Library and a Hospital Cardinal Wolsey was born here and began the building of a stately College which bears his Name to this day Ireland Hibernia Ivernia is a great fruitful and noble Island on the West of Great Britain accounted in ancient time for greatness and glory the third Island of the World and called then the Lesser Britain Orpheus Aristotle and Claudian call it Ierna Juvenal Mela Juverna Diodorus Siculus Iris. Others Jovernia Overnia and Burnia The Natives Erin The Welsh Yuerdon The English Ireland It is three hundred Miles long and two hundred broad on the East it has the tempestuous Irish Sea between it and Great Britain on the West the Vergivian Ocean on the North the Deucalidonian Sea and on the South the British Ocean Divided into four Provinces Leinster Mounster Vlster and Connaught which heretofore sustained the Title of as many Kingdoms comprehending in all thirty Counties four Archbishopricks and twelve Bishopricks The Country is full of Woods Hills and Bogs The Soil rich and fruitful especially as to Grass Pomponius Mela in the times of the Emperour Claudius gives the very same character of it and therefore it has ever abounded in Cattle which is its most Staple Commodity The principal Rivers are the Shannon the Sewer the Barow the Black-Water the Shour the Neure the Boyne the Leffy c. The Capital City heretofore Armagh now Dublin The Air is at all times temperate but too moist to be at all times pleasant or wholsome The Romans in all probability never had any footing in this Island This Nation was converted to Christianity in the fifth Century by Palladius and S. Patrick especially the latter who planted not only Religion but so much Learning too amongst them that in the next Age the Monks of Ireland were eminent for Holiness and Learning and Ireland thence called Insula Sanctorum an Island of Saints In 694. Egfrid King of Northumberland first entered and destroyed this Nation with Fire and Sword after this the Danes for thirty years together wasted and destroyed them After these the Germans After them Edgar the most powerful King of England conquered a great part of Ireland And when by Massacres and other Accidents the Irish were freed from all these Calamities there ensued Domestick Broils among themselves In 1155. Henry II. being called in by the Natives resolved on the Conquest of them whereupon Richard Strongbow Earl of Pembroke began it in 1172. Henry II. in Person entered Ireland and taking upon him the Stile of Sovereign Lord of Ireland the States and all the petty Kings submitted to him and passed over all their Rule and Power which was confirmed by Pope Hadrian The Kings of England continued the Title of Lords of Ireland till the Reign of Henry VIII who took first upon him the Stile and Title of King of Ireland in 1541. which was confirmed to Mary his Daughter by Pope Paul IV. in 1555. The Irish have ever looked upon this Conquest as a Wrong and an Usurpation which no Act of theirs nor Time it self could make valid Hence when ever England has been imbroiled they have taken the opportunity of Revolting In the Reign of Edward I. when that Prince was engaged against the Scots one Donald O-Neal stiled himself King of Ulster and in Right of Inheritance the undoubted Heir of all Ireland But when in the Reign of Henry VIII the pretence of Religion was added first the Earl of Kildare rebelled

Vberrimus undis Millia qui novies distat ab Vrbe decem Sultzbach Sultsbachium a small Town in Nortgow in the Vpper Palatinate of the Rhine one Mile distance from Amberg to the South-East which gives the Title of a Prince to some Branches of the Palatine Family Sumatra a vast Island in the East-Indies to the South-West of the Promontory of Malaccia from which it is separated only by a narrow streight as also by another from the Isle of Java to the South It extends from North-West to South-East one hundred and eighty five German Miles or nine hundred and ten English and is two hundred and ten broad in the middle There are several Kingdoms in this Island which ordinarily go to war with one another The principal of which are Achem Camper Jamby Menanchabo Pacem Palimban and Pedir The principal City in the whole Island and Kingdom is Achem towards the North the King whereof possesses one half of the Island The Coast upon the streights of the Sund is under the obedience of the King of Bantam Some parts are covered with Wood and Mountains amongst which latter one in the middle of the Island casts forth flames by intervals It is divided by the Equator into almost two equal parts the Air is very hot and unhealthful the Soil will produce little Grain but Rice and Millet It yieldeth Ginger Pepper Camphir Agarick and Cassia in great abundance Wax and Hony Silks and Cottons rich Mines of Tin Iron and Sulphur and such quantity of Gold that some conceive it to be Solomons Ophir and some the Taprobane of the ancients The Inhabitants are for the most part Pagans except the Sea Coast where Mahometanism has got some footing It has a vast number of Rivers and Marshes which with the Woods do much promote the unwholsomeness of the Air. The Hollanders enjoy four or five Fortresses in it and are become more powerful than some of the Kings The Portuguese traffick to it but it is when the others will permit them for they have no establishments here Sie Sund Sundae Fretum Sundicum fretum a streight between the Baltick Sea and the German Ocean call'd by the Dutch Ore Sunn by the English the Sound It stretcheth fifty Miles from North-West to South-East about fifteen at its greatest breadth but between Elsingburg and Cronenburg not above three over which necessitates all Ships that pass to and fro to pay a Toll to the King of Denmark he being able otherwise by the Cannon of his Castles to shut up the Passage § This name is attributed also to the Streights betwixt the Islands of Java and Sumatra in the East-Indies The Dutch call it Straet Van Sunda and Latin Writers Sundae fretum The Island of the Sund or Souud comprehend in the Portugueses's accounts who gave them this name all those Islands in the Indian Ocean which lye beyond the Promontory of Malaca some near some under the Equinoctial Commonly divided into the Islands of the Sund to the East and to the West Of the former Gilolo Banda Flores Macasar and the Moluccaes are the Principal Of the other Borneo Java and Sumatra Sundenberg or Sunderbourg a Town and Duchy in the Isle of Alsen near Iutland Sunderland Sunderlandia a small Island at the Mouth of the River VVere in the North-East part of the Bishoprick of Durham in Esington Ward once a part of the Continent but rent off by the violence of the Sea from whence it has the name of Sunderland A place of no great note only for its Sea-Coal Trade till it was made the Title of an Earldom by Charles I. who in 1627 Created Emanuel Lord Scrope of Bolton President of the North Earl of Sunderland He dying Childless Henry Lord Spenser of VVormleighton in 1643. was Created Earl of Sunderland and slain the eighth of June the same year in the first Battel of Newbery To whom suc●eeded Robert his Son sometime Principal Secretary of State and President of the Council to King James II. Sungkiang a trading and populous City in the Province of Nanking in China The Capital over two others Suntgaw or Sundgow Suntgovia a Province of Germany now under the King of France by the Peace of Munster Bounded on the North by Alsatia on the East by the Rhine and the Canton of Basil which last is sometimes included under this name on the South by the Dominions of the Bishop of Basil and on the West by the Franche Comté The Principal Places in it are Befo rt Mulhausen Ferrete whence it hath the name also of the County of Ferrete and Huningue The last has been lately fortified by the King of France Sura an ancient Episcopal City of Syria near the Euphrates The See is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Hierapolis § Plutarch remembers us of a Town of this name in Lycia in the Lesser Asia famed for Oracles in ancient times delivered there Betwixt Phellus and Strumita Surate Surata a very famous City of the Hither Indies in the Kingdom of Guzarat upon the Bay of Cambaya under the Dominion of the great Mogul which has a convenient Port or Haven much frequented by the European and Armenian Merchants for Diamonds Pearls Ambergrease Musk Civet Spices and Indian Stuffs procured from divers parts and here laid up in Mazagines It lies saith Monsieur Thevenot 21. deg and some minutes from the Line and was then designed to be Fortified with a Brick instead of its ancient Earthen Wall which had not been able to preserve it from the depredations of a Raja In the time of the Monson or Fair kept in the Spring Quarter it is exceeding full of People not meanly furnished at others nor are those Inhabitants less considerable on the account of their Wealth than Number The English and Dutch have their Factories here it is the Staple of the English Trade in the East-Indies It has a Castle at the South end of the Town upon the River which is square flank'd at each corner by a large Tower The Ditches on three sides are filled with Sea Water on the West the River runs and there are many Cannon mounted in it The Governor commands over all the adjacent Provinces and keeps the train and equipage of a Prince For the rest you may consult Thevenot Part III. pag. 15. Surina a Province of South America between the confluence of the River Cayana and that of the Amazons Surrey Suria is separated on the North from Buckingham and Middlesex by the great River Thames on the East it is bounded by Kent on the South by Sussex and Hampshire and on the West by Hampshire and Barkshire In length thirty four Miles in breadth about twenty two in circumference one hundred and twelve including one hundred and forty Parishes with eight Market Towns The Air is sweet and pleasant the Soil especially in the verges of the County fruitful the middle Parts being somewhat hard to cultivate Whence the People are used to say their County is like a

antient Emporiae Ampurias upon the Mediterranean 6 Leagues from Girona sometime divided betwixt 3 Nations Spaniards Greeks and Romans Cato obtain'd a signal Victory over the Spaniards here in the year of Rome 558. It was afterwards the Seat of a Bishop but being ruin'd in the Wars with the Moors the See was translated to Girona Amrom or Amrod an Island towards the Dutchy of Sleswick in Denmark Amsterdam Amstelodamium is the chief Town of the Province of Holland seated upon the River Yam It is a new City first Fortisied in 1492. but within this last hundred Years it has received its greatest growth and is now one of the greatest Marts in Europe It takes its Name from the River Amstel which glides by it and has a large convenient and a well-traded-haven The Riches number of Ships and Merchants belonging to it are equal to those of most Cities in Christendom It was taken by the Hollanlers under Prince William of Nassau from the Spaniard in 1578. having been heretofore one of the Imperial Cities it stands about two Leagues from the Zuider Sea and four from Vtrecht § The Hollanders have given the Name of Amsterdam to an Island in the Frosen Sea toward Greenland To a Town and Port of theirs in their Colonies in the Northern America To an Island in the Indian Ocean betwixt Madagascar and new Holland And lastly to another Island by them discover'd towards Japan Amu or Amus a Lake in the Country of Vsbech in Tartary Amudez a Town in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa Amurgos or Murgos an Island in the Archipelago with a City that has sometime been the Seat of a Bishop Simonides the antient Poet was born here Amyclea an antient City in the Terra di Lavoro in Italy whose surprisal and destruction by the Enemy occasioned that known Proverb Amyclas perdidit silentium Amycles See Scala Marmorea § The Name also of an antient City in the Morea where Apollo had his Temple Amydon an antient City of Macedonia upon the River Axïus Amyrus a River of Thessalia Amyzon See Mezo Ana a Town of Arabia Deserta upon the River Euphrates Anabagatha a City and an Archiepiscopal See under the Patriarch of Antioch in Asia Anacandrians Indians in the Isle of Madagascar Anachimoussi other Indians in the same Anactoire an antient City of Epirus upon the Bay of Ambracia the Anactorium of the Antients And another in Ionia Anacuies Indians of Brasil Anaf or Anfa a Town sometime the Capital of the Province of Temesen in the Kingdom of Fez upon the Atlantick Ocean Burnt by Alphonsus King of Portugal in 1468. Anaghelome a small Town in the County of Down in ulster in Ireland upon the River Ban. Anagni or Agnani a City and Bishops See in the States of the Church in Italy Rich and powerful in the time of the old Romans now almost ruin'd and little inhabited Anagyrus a Tract in Achaia so call'd from the growth of Bean-Cod Trees there Anandale is a County in the West of Scotland upon the River Solway which parts Scotland from England It takes its Name from the River Anan as doth also the principal Town in it which saith Camden lost all the Glory and Beauty it had by the English War in the Reign of Edward VI. Anapanomene a Fountain of Epirus mention'd by Pliny Anaph an Island in the Archipelago now call'd Nanfio Anaplyste an antient Maritim Town in Greece near Athens Anapo Anapus a River of Sicily § Also another of Epirus Anapuia a Province of Venezuela in the South America Anaquito a Country in the Province of Quito in Peru where the two Parties of Almagra and Pizarro joynt-discovers of Peru engag'd each other in Battel in 1546. See Almagra Anatolia Asia Minor call'd by the Turks Natolie is a considerable part of Asia extending it self Westward to the Shoars of Greece It is bounded on the North with the Euxine or Black Sea on the East it is separated from Syria and Armenia Major by the Euphrates on the South it has the Mediterranean and on the North it is severed from Greece and Thrace by the Bosphorus and many other Seas It is all of it in miserable Slavery under the Turks who have strangly depopulated impoverish'd and ruin'd this once most rich and powerful Country Anatolico A Village of the Province of Despotato or the antient Aetolia in Greece built in a Marsh like Venice Anazarbe See Aczar Anazzo Gnazzi or Torre d'Anasso a City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples supposed to be the ruinated Egnatia whose Episcopal See is transferr'd to Monopoli Ancam Ancamia an Island on the Coast of China to the Province of Canton Ancamares or Anoamares Indians in the South America along the River Madera Ancaster the antient Crocolana or Crorolana a Town upon Lincoln Heath within 12 Miles of Lincoln Ancenis Ancenesium a City in Britany in France upon the Loyre The Castle that it had is ruin'd Anchiale the same with Kenkis § Also a City of Cilicia in Asia remarkable for the Tomb and Statue of the Effeminate Sardanapalus Anchisa a part of the Mountain Atlas Anchora Asine an antient small City in the Morea near Modon Anclam Anclamum a very strong Town in Pomerania under the Government of the King of Sweden upon the River Pene. It was taken from the Swedes by the Duke of Brandenburg in 1676. and restored to them in 1679. It lies 8 German Miles South-East from Stetin Ancona the principal City of Marca Anconitana which Territory takes its name from this City it stands upon the Adriatick Sea near the Promontory of S. Ciriaco Built by the Syracusans who fled hither to avoid the fury of their Tyrant The Haven was built by Trajan the Emperor and is one of the fairest in the World but not so safe as capacious In 1532. Pope Clement the VII built here a a very strong Castle upon pretence of securing the City against the Turks but in reality to bring it into a greater subjection to the Popedom in whose Dominions it is tho formerly a kind of a Republick it has a Bishop who is not under any Archbishop It is distant from Rome 110 Miles to the North-East and from Vrbino 53 Miles to the South-East Ancyra See Engury Anczakrich Anczacricus a River of Vkrane in Poland which falls into the Black Sea within one Polish Mile of Oczakow which is now in the Possession of the Turcks and stands near the Mouth of the Neister Borysthenes Andaguaslas Indians of Peru in America between the Rivers Abanca and Xauxa Andaluzia Vandalitia a Kingdom in the South of Spain bounded on the North with the Province of Estremadura and New Castile on the East with the Kingdom of Granada on the South with the Ocean and the Mediterranean and on the West with the Atlantick Ocean and Algarve in Portugal This is the most rich and fertile Country in all Spain The Moors erected in it two Kingdoms that of Corduba and that

See Slawkow Austrasie Austracia which the Germans called the Westrich was a considerable part of France during the first Race of Kings and had the Title of a Kingdom which was afterwards called the Kingdom of Mets because that City was the Capital of it Under the second Race of Kings it was called the Kingdom of Lothaire The bounds of it were very various sometimes bigger and at others less Austria called by the Inhabitants Oesterreich by the French Autriche by the Turks Beetstan or Weetzstan by the Poles Rakusy is a Province of Germany bounded on the North by Bohemia and Moravia on the East with Hungary on the South with the Dukedom of Stiria and on the West with Bavaria and Salsburgh it is divided almost into two equal parts by the Danube This Province was first under Marquesses from 928. In 1156. they had the Title of Duke given them and Frederick who was after Elected Emperor had the Title of Arch-Duke conferred on him which is the only Title of Arch-Duke in the World From this Country it is that the House of Austria takes its Name of which Family the Emperors of Germany have been ever since 1438. and the Kings of Spain since 1515. It is a very fertile Country amply supplyed with Mines and Rivers Vienna the Capital The Archduke has a particular power of creating Counts and Barons over all the Empire by antient Concession with this privilege besides that he cannot be deprived of his Lands and Principalities by the Emperor himself Authie Attilia a River of Picardy in France It arises near a Castle of the same name in Artois glides by Dourlens and Auxi then falls into the Sea at a place call'd Pas d'Authie Autun Angustodunum Hedua is a very antient City in the Dukedom of Burgundy and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Lions seated upon the River Arroux Arotium which falls into the Loire 25 Miles West of Chalon and about the same distance South-West from Dijon Auva a City and Kingdom of Japan Auvagdonne or Achad Achadia a City in the County of Gallway in Connaught in Ireland which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Tuam Auvergne Alvernia is a large Province almost in the midst of France it has the Dukedom of Bourbonne on the North the Earldom of Forez on the East the Marche and Limosin on the West and on the South Rouergue The Southern part is mountainous the Northern is very well watered and fruitful The chief Town is Clermont It had Earls which govern'd it till 1024. when Philip the August put an end to this Earldom upon the Rebellion of Guido the last Earl and annexed it to the Crown of France In this Province there are thirteen Towns which send their Deputies to the Assembly of the States in France Aux Auscii an Archbishoprick and a City in the County of Armagnac in France This City stands upon the River Sers which runs not far before it falls into the Garonne It is distant from Tholouse almost 20 Miles to the North-West and the Archbishoprick is esteemed one of the richest in France Auxerre Antissiodorum is a City and an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Sens upon the River Yonne Icauna which falls into the Seyne Sequana This City is large and beautiful seated in a fruitful Plain about 12 Leagues from Sens. Auxerrois a small Territory in France adjacent to Auxerre Auxois Alexiensis tractus a Bailiwick in Burgundy in France Auxone Aussona a small but very strong City of the Dukedom of Burgundy upon the River Sone from whence it has its name It is five Leagues from Dijon East and four from Dole Auzone Auzonum a small City of Auvergne in France in a mountainous Country near the River Allier Elaver which falls into the Loire It has an old Castle and is distant from Clermont ten Leagues North. Axbridge a Market-Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Winterstoke upon the River Axe Axel Axella a small but strong Town in Flanders under the Dominion of the States of Holland whose Surprisal was the first exploit of Count Maurice of Nassau Captain General of the United Provinces after his entrance upon that Employment in 1587. It stands 4 Leagues from Gant and about 6 from Antwerp West Axholm an Island made by the Rivers Trent and Dun in Lincolnshire About 10 miles in breadth and 5 in length The middle part which is the more rising ground is very fruitful and particularly of Flax. Alabaster is found in it Axmister a Market Town in Devonshire upon the River Axe the Capital of its hundred Axum Auxuma a City and heretofore the Capital of the Kingdom of Tigre in the Province of Sire in Aethiopia Ayr a small Town upon Dunbritain Frith in the South part of Scotland with a River of the same name in the Territory of Kile in which Oliver Cromwel built a strong Citadel or Fort to keep the Scotch Nation in awe Ayr Arola a small River in France which riseth in the Dukedom of Barrois and running North watereth Clermont and Varenne and at last falls into the Aisne Aza a Town in Cappadocia upon the Borders of Armenia betwixt Trebizonde and Neo-Cesaraea Azack Tanais See Asoph Azamor a Town in the Province of Duguela in the Kingdom of Marocco at the mouth of the River Ommirabi The Portugueze took it in 1508 and in 1540 they abandoned it The Moors afterwards repeopled it but being all kill'd or taken in a night by a surprize of the Portugueze it has continued desart ever since Azaotan Azaot the vast Desarts of Libya in Africa Azeca an antient Town of the Amorites in Chanaan where God Almighty rain'd down Hailstones upon them from Heaven Josh 10. 11. Rehoboam repair'd it 2. Chron. 11. 9. It was afterwards ruined in the Wars by the King of Babylon Jerem. 34. 7. Azem a Kingdom in the Terra firma of the Indies beyond Ganges in one of the most plentiful Countries of all Asia for all things necessary to human life The Capital of it is Kemmerouf 21 days journey distant from the Town Azem The People live altogether at their ease They esteem the flesh of dogs particularly above other meats selling great quantities thereof in their Markets Azores commonly call'd by English-men the Canary Islands are 7 Islands in the Atlantick Ocean not unknown to the Antients and by Pliny Solinus and others mentioned under the name of the Fortunate Islands and tho they differ as to the number yet all agree Canaria was one of them but which is most wonderful the knowledge of them was perfectly lost till 1330. when a Ship being distressed by Weather discovered them and it is not agreed whether it was an English French or Dutch Ship In 1334. the Portuguese attempted to conquer these Islands and were beaten off In 1417. Henry King of Castile granted these Isles to one John Betancourt upon condition he should hold them under the Crown of Castile and he accordingly subdued four of

Pont near Belsey in the County of Northumberland giving the Title of Earl to the Duke of Newcastle and its name to the VVard it stands in It did formerly belong to the Barons Ogle Oglio Ollio Ollius a River in the States of Venice in Italy it springeth from the Mountains above Edulum in the Borders of Switzerland in the Valteline and flowing through Brescia or Brexa into the Lake de Iseo it leaves it at Calepio a little lower separating the Territory of Brescia from that of Cremona or the State of Venice from the Dukedom of Milan and watering part of the Dukedom of Mantoua it falls into the Po at Burgoforte Oie a County in Picardy It is extended from Calais as far as to Graveling and Dunkirk and hath a Town in it of the same name The Spaniards during the Civil Wars of the League possessed themselves of this County till by the Treaty of Vervin in 1598. it was surrendred again to the Crown of France The English heretosore held it above two Ages § There is a small Island Oie near that of Rè upon the Coast of Saintonge in Aquitain L'Oise Osesia Isauria Oesia Aesia a River of France which ariseth in Picardy in the Confines of Hainault and Champagne and washing Guise Lafere and Noyon at Compeigne it takes in the Aysne a bigger River than it self so by Pont S. Maxiente Beaumont and Pont Oyse falls into the Seyne six Miles below Paris towards Roan Okeham or Oakham the Capital Town of the County of Rutland seated in the rich and pleasant Vale of Catmoss and said to derive its name from the plenty of Oaks growing in its neighbourhood It has a Castle where the Assises are kept a Frecschool and a Hospital And by an ancient Privilege belonging to its Royalty a Nobleman entering on horseback within its Precincts pays the homage of a Shooe from his Horse Therefore upon the door of the Shire-Hall there are many Horse-shooes nailed and over the Judges Seat in the same one curiously wrought five foot and a half long with a breadth proportionable But this Homage or Forfeiture may be commuted for money Okehampton a Borough and Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Black-Torring It returns two Members of Parliament Old or Ould Olitis a River in Quercy in France Olde or Oude Vlda a River in Bretagne Oldenburg Oldenburgum Brannesia a small City in VVestphalia the Capital of a County of the same name seated upon the River Honta twenty five Miles from Breman to the West and forty from Embden to the East Built by Otho the Great and almost totally ruined by Fire in the year 1676. that very day the Citizens were to have taken the Oath of Allegiance to the King of Denmark The County of Oldemburg is a small County in the Circle of VVestphalia between East-Friesland to the West the Dukedom of Bremen to the East the Bishoprick of Munster to the South and the German Ocean to the North. Very fruitful especially as to Pasture and Cattle the Air is cold and Foggy This for a long time was under Counts of its own who are derived from VVittikindus the last King and first Duke of the Saxons VValepart one of his Nephews in 850. being the Earl of Oldemburg This Line continued with some small variation for twenty three or twenty four Descents and in 1676. failed Since which it has been annexed to the Crown of Denmark that King being descended of the Eldest Branch of the Earls of Oldenburg Oldenborg a Town in Holstein in the Territory of Wageren once a Bishops See but removed long since to Lubeck it stands not above three Miles from the Baltick Sea and thirty from Lubeck to the North. Oldenpo Oldenpoa a Tract in Esthonia in Livonia between Lettonia to the South Esthonia properly so called to the West Alentak to the North and Moscovy to the East under the Swedes the chief Town in it is Tonspat Oldenzeel or Oldensel Odesalia a strong Town in Overyssel in the Vnited Netherlands taken and dismantled by the Hollanders in 1626. Oldeslo Oldensloe Oldesloa a Town in Holstein in Wageren upon the River Trava in the Borders of Lavemburg three German Miles from Lubeck to the West and five from Hamburgh to the South-East The King of Denmark erected here a spacious Fortification in 1688. At which Lubeck was not a little alarm'd Oleron Vliarus an Island on the Coast of Aquitain belonging to the Duchy thereof upon the Shoar of Saintonge against the Mouth of the River Charente two Leagues from the Continent Six from North to South two from East to West strengthened by a very strong Castle on the South Side and universally famous for the Sea-Laws here Published by Richard I. King of England at his Return from the Holy Land in the fifth year of his Reign at which time this Island lay under the Dominion of the Kings of England This is the same Island with the Olarion of Sidonius Apollinaris which he says yields plenty of Rabbets Oleron or Oleron sur le Gave Oloronensis urbis Huro Hurona Elarona Loronensium Civitas a City of Bearn in the South of France which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Aux Destroyed by the Normans in the year 1080. and rebuilt by Centulus one of the Earls of this Province upon a Branch of the Gave thence called Le Gave de Oleron ten Leagues from Tarbes to the West eighteen from Dax to the South and twenty four from Pampelona to the North. It stands upon an Eminence having an old Tower Olika Olica a City in Volhinia a Province of Poland five Miles from Lucko to the South-East which in 1651. sustained a Siege against the Cossacks and preserved it self out of their Hands Olinde Olinda a Maritim City of Brasil in America the Capital of the Province of Pernambuc Taken by the Hollanders in 1629. and fortified but afterwards deserted and returned under the Crown of Portugal This City stands upon a Hill near the Mouth of the River Bibiribe has a Castle called S. George and a large Haven In 1676. it was made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of S. Salvadore Olivenza Evandria Oliventia a strong City of Portugal upon the River Guadiana three Leagues from Elvas to the South-West and twelve from Evora to the East Taken by the Spaniards in 1658. and restored to the Portuguese by the Treaty of Peace at Lisbon in 1688. Olivero Oliverio Helicon a River on the North of Sicily The Mount of Olives Mons Olivetus a Mount in the Vicinage to the East of the City Jerusalem in Palestine which hath the Valley of Jehosaphat lying betwixt Jerusalem and it and the Brook Kedron gliding at its Foot About two thousand Paces in length from North to South and six hundred in heighth affording a delightful Prospect not only over Jerusalem but towards the Mountains of Arabia towards Jordain and the Dead Sea Hebron and Samaria It breaks into three Points or little Hills whereof the

Taro takes its course to the Po. The Towns Campiano and Borgo di Val di Taro stand in this Principate Pristina a large City in Bulgaria situated in the midway between Nissa and Vscopia Taken by the Imperialists in the year 1689. Prochita or Procida an Island three Miles in compass on the Coast of Terra di Lavoro near the Bay of Naples which has a fine Castle and a Monastery Propontis the Sea betwixt Asia Minor and Thrace now called the Sea of Marmora See Marmora La Provence Provincia one of the Southern Provinces of France The first part of France which the Romans conquered and reduced into the form of a Roman Province from whence it has its Name Provincia Romana In those times it was bounded on the East by the Maritim Alpes on the South by the Mediterranean Sea on the West by the Rhosne and on the North by the Vocontii Caturiges and Ebroduntii three Gallick Tribes or Nations within which bounds it contained all these other Tribes the Cavares the Salii Desviates Albici Mimeni and Oxybii It is now much less than it was then but still one of the greatest Provinces in France bounded on the North by the Dauphine on the East by the Alpes and the County of Nizza on the West by Languedoc cut off by the Rhosne and on the South by the Mediterranean Sea From East to West from the Rhosne to the Var forty four Leagues from North to South thirty two in Circuit one hundred fifty eight as Honorate de Bouche has shewn in a very exact Description of it lately published The Capital of this Province is Aix the other Cities are Antibe Arles Avignon Carpentras Digne Dragugnan Frejus Grasse Marseille Orange Sisteron Tarascon Toulon Voison The Rivers Rhosne Var Durance Verdon Argens c. water it This Province was conquered by the Romans before Julius Caesar entered France upon the complaint of the Marsilians against the Salians M. Fulvius Flaccus was sent with an Army against them in the year of Rome 627. one hundred twenty three years before the Birth of our Saviour and the War was ended by Fabius Maximus in 632. It continued under the Romans till the year of Christ 411. when it was granted to Atholphus King of the Goths with Placidia a Sister of the Emperour Honorius by that Prince Theodorick expelled this Nation in 462. and brought it under the Ostrogoths or Goths of Italy from whom it passed to Theodobert King of Metz a Frank about 549. by the Grant of the Emperour Justinian From these it passed to Rodolph Duke of Burgundy and in 876. Hugh de Arles obtained this Province of Boson King of Burgundy by the Title of Earl of Provence It continued under Earls with the changes of Families till 1481. when Charles Earl of Maine the last Earl of Provence gave it to Lewis XI King of France his Cousin German from which time it has been united to the Crown of France There were in this Province three other small States not subject de Jure to the Crown of France as Avignon under the Pope Nizza under the Duke of Savoy and Orange under the Prince of Orange Provins Provinum a Town sometime the Capital of la Brie in France upon the River Vousie whence the Province-Roses take their denomination It has been understood by some to be the Agendicum of the Ancients Prusa See Bursa Besides which two other ancient Episcopal Cities in Bithynia in the Lesser Asia have their Names remembred by Strabo Pliny and Ptolemy Said to be now called Cheris and Barech Prussia Borussia Pruthenia a great and fruitful Province of the Kingdom of Poland which is a Dukedom called by the Inhabitants Prouss by the Poles Prussy by the Germans Preussen and by the Italians Prussia Bounded on the North by the Baltick Sea on the West by Pomerania on the South by Poland and Mazovia on the East by Lithuania Samogitia This Province was at first under Sovereign Dukes of its own after that under the Knights of the Teutonick Order who in 1228. began a long and bloody War towards the Conquest of it in 1454. the Western part was lost from that Order being subdued by the Poles In 1500. the Grand Master of the Order triumphed over the Moscovites that had fallen upon Prussia and Lithuania In 1525. the Eastern part submitted to the Crown of Poland too Albert Marquess of Brandenburg the thirty fourth and last Master of that Order doing Homage and obtaining from that Crown the Eastern part with the Title of Duke of Prussia It stands now divided into two parts called the Regal and the Ducal Prussia in the first are Dantzick Marienburg Elbing and Thorn in the second are Koningsberg and Memel The Regal Prussia Dantzick excepted was yielded by a Treaty in 1655. to the Crown of Sweden The Ducal is under the Duke of Brandenburgh who farmes the Amber-Fishery along the Coast of the Baltick Sea in this Province at eighteen or twenty thousand Crowns a year Pruth Porata Hierasius a River of Moldavia which arising in Red Russia entereth Walachia and watereth Jaczy the Capital of that Province and at last falleth into the Danube Pruym or Prume Prumia a Castle Town and Monastery in Germany of the Order of S. Benedict in the Forest of Ardenne built by Pepin King of France in the year 760. It stands upon a River of the same Name which falls into the Saar betwixt the Electorate of Trier and the Dutchy of Luxemburgh seven Leagues to the North from Trier and six from Limburg to the South Lotharius the Emperour Son of Lewis the Debonnaire resigning the Imperial Dignity died a Monk in this Monastery in 855. In 1576. the Territory belonging to the Abbey which till then had been subject to the ●bot of this House only fell under the Elect of Trier whose Successors are ever since the pectual Administrators of this Jurisdiction confirm therein by the Diet at Ratisbone in 1654. which extends to some Villages about this Monastery Przemysl Premislia a City of the Kingdom of Poland upon the River san in Red Russia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lemburg and sixteen Polish Miles from Sandomir to the South and eighteen from Lemburg to the West It stands upon an Hill well peopled and in a flourishing state Psylli an ancient people of Libya in Africa described by Suetonius Herodotus Gellius c. to have had a particular art at expelling and mortifying of Poisons whence Augustus Caesar desiring to preserve Cleopatra for a Triumph caused these Psylli to suck the Poison out of her But too late Ptolemais See Aca. Ptolemais Cyrenaica one of the five Cities of the ancient Pentapolis in the Kingdom of Egypt which was a Bishops See of great note heretofore in the Person of Synesius its Bishop who in 411. assembled a Council at it for the excommunication of Andronicus Prefect of the Country The modern Name of it is Tolometa