the Citadel the twelfth Julius Caesar caus'd this great Town to be built whilst he was at Terouanne and the Emperour Charles the Fifth was born and baptiz'd there An. 1500. his Cradle is yet shewn there His Statue is seen in a Market-place on a Pedestal The Episcopal Church is call'd S. Bavon the Bishoprick is worth 30000 Crowns and the Prebendries 2 or 3000 Livres Father Boussingout relates that the Organ of the Church of Saint Michael has three thousand Pipes in a Book entituled The Guide of the Low Countries The most Christian King gave the Government of this place to Comte de Montbron It was restor'd to his Catholick Majesty by the Treaty of Peace concluded at Nimegen betwixt France and Spain In this Town a Cathedral-Church was built and detacht from Tornai An. 1559. by Pope Paul the Fourth at the request of Philip the Second King of Spain The 16th of March 1678. the King judg'd it convenient for the good of his affairs to withdraw his Troops from Messina which he had a long time kept there for the service of those of Messina who had implor'd his assistance The Duke de la Fueillade who succeeded the Duke of Vivonne permitted above four thousand Inhabitants of the Town to embarque themselves they being desirous to come into France to avoid the rigorous consequences of the Spanish Policy The third of May the Town of Ypres surrendred it self to the King it has the title of a Vicounty His Majesty gave the Government to the Marquess de la Trousse Lieutenant-General of his Armies Captain-Lieutenant of the Company of M. le Dauphin The third of May the Town and Fort of Lewe in Brabant were taken from the Spaniards by the Valour and Dexterity of the Sieurs Calvo and de la Breteche this person executed the Enterprize This place is incompass'd with a Marsh a great Trench and a Fore-trench full of water twelve foot deep The fifty Swimmers under the conduct of the Sieur de Cremeau Captain in the Regiment of Piemont did a bold action in passing courageously the waters with their Swords betwixt their teeth being assisted by two hundred Musketeers who openly advancing themselves fired continually on the Enemies to favourize the passage The 31th of the same month the Marshal Duke de Navaille took Puicerda Capital of Cerdaigne The King lessen'd six millions of Livres of the Tailles of the year 1678. and reduc'd them from forty millions to thirty four to be distributed or divided in all the Generalities and Countries Taillables His most Christian Majesty lessen'd them yet more by two millions An. 1679. The Tailles began under St. Loüis to maintain the charge of War against the Infidels in the twelfth age and the Gabelle or Impost on the Salt under Philip called the Long in the thirteenth age of the Incarnation Ancus Martius introduc'd it a long time before at Rome he has been blam'd by some and approv'd by others particularly the Emperour Justinian who assur'd that without the Gabelle it was impossible to make the Republick subsist because the Quiet of the People is preserv'd by Arms Arms by Pay Pay by Imposts Tributes and Tolls The Emperour Nero would have abolish'd the Gabelle but the Senate opposs'd it alleaging that to diminish the publick Revenue was to ruine the Empire In the month of July of the same year 1678. an ill Accident happen'd in America to the French Squadron commanded by the Count d'Estrées six or seven Men of War and five Fly-boats were lost near the Isle of Birds about ten leagues from Curassow being cast by the rapidness of the Currents on Rocks which are there high Many persons in them were drown'd Seven Vessels were sav'd viz. the Duke the Thunder the Star the Lyon the Vigilant the Merillon the Tempest three Fireships and two Flutes Of the Peace betwixt France Holland Spain the Emperour the Elector of Brandenburg and Denmark THe Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Holland was sign'd at Nimegen at the house of the Marshal d'Estrades An. 1678. the tenth of August about midnight The French and the Dutch embrac'd each other with tenderness and shew'd a great Joy to see their ancient Friendship perfectly reestablisht The Marshal d'Estrades Son of the Marshal of this name arriv'd the 15th of the same month from Nimegen at Saint Germains in Laye where he presented his most Christian Majesty the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and the States General of the Vnited Provinces The Ratifications were exchang'd the 20th of September and the 29th following the Peace was publisht at Paris with the accustomed Ceremonies The 5th of October the Marshal d Estrades Embassadour of the most Christian King and the Sieur Beverning Embassadour of the Estates General caus'd publick Rejoycings to be made at Nimegen for the Peace betwixt France and Holland In the same year the 17th of September the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain was sign'd at Nimegen about eleven of the clock at night in the house of the Holland-Embassadours The Ratification followed some time after as also the publication An. 1679. the 5th of Febrnary the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and the Emperour was sign'd in the Chamber of Sir Leoline Jenkins Embassadour of England by the Marshal d'Estrades and the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissi Embassadours Plenipotentiaries for the most Christian King and by the Bishop and Prince de Gurk Count Kinski and the Sieur Stracman Embassadours Plenipotentiaries for the Emperour Signor Bevilaqua the Popes Nuncio has the reputation of having much contributed to this Peace The Treaty of Peace betwixt the Emperour and the King of Sweden was sign'd the same day by the Plenipotentiaries of the Emperour and by Count Oxenstern and Sieur Oliwenkans Embassadours Plenipotentiaries of Sweden The 19th of April the Ratification of the Emperour was exchang'd with that of the most Christian King. The 26th this Peace was publisht at Paris with the ordinary Ceremonies The 29th of June the Sieur Pomponne Minister and Secretary of State and the Sieur Minders Envoy Extraordinary of the Elector of Brandenburg sign'd the Treaty of Peace betwixt his most Christian Majesty and the Elector of Brandenburg Some time after the Peace was likewise sign'd betwixt France Sweden Denmark and the Duke of Holstein Gottorp The Marriage of the Princess Mary-Loüise of Orleans with the King of Spain ANno 1679. the second of July after the suit which the Marquess de los Balbazez made of Mademoiselle in the name for the King of Spain the Chancellor of France the Marshal Duke de Villeroy the Sieurs Colbert and de Pomponne Ministers and Secretaries of State were nominated by the King for drawing the Articles of the Contract of Marriage which was sign'd the ninth by the Commissaries nominated and the Marquess de los Balbazez Embassadour Extraordinary of Spain The 26th of August the Contract of Marriage of the King of Spain was sign'd in the King of France's Closet by all the Royal House and by
Inspruc Bremen Hanover Spire 232 233 The Imperial Maritime and Hans-Towns 233 The Archbishopricks and Bishopricks of Germany 235 The Principalities and Lordships of the Empire and its Division 236 The chief Rivers in Germany 237 The Electors of the Empire 239 The Archbishop and Elector of Mayence 240 Boniface condemned the Bishop of Saltzbourg for an Heretick for believing the Antipodes Of the Towers of Rats 242 The Invention of Printing 243 The first Bible that was printed 245 The Archbishop and Elector of Treves 247 The Archbishop and Elector of Cologne 249 The Homage to the Elector of Cologne 250 An Observation on the three Ecclesiastical Electors 254 An Observation on the Lay-Electors ibid. The Electoral Habit 255 The Treaties of Peace betwixt England France and Holland by Sir Joseph Williamson c. at Cologne 256. Of Treaties of Peace in the years 1678 and 1679 257 The Elector and King of Bohemia 258 The Elector of Bavaria 261 Dr. Vossius Prebend of Windsor his MS. 262 The Electory of Saxony 264 Of Martin Luther of Wittemberg 265 The Elector of Brandenburg 267 Taking of Stetin Stralsont and Gripswal Anno 1677 and 1678. of Anclan 1679. 270 Prince Loüis of Brandenburg married Anno 1681. 273 The Elector Palatine 274 The Consecration of the new Church at Frederickbourg 1680. 278 Of the number of the Electors and other Circumstances 279 The Invention of Powder and Cannon 280 Of SPAIN 282 THe chief Houses of Pleasure that belong to the King and out of Madrid 283 The chief places of Devotion 285 The Division of the Spanish Monarchy 287 Catalonia Portugal c. 288 The Towns of Spain ibid. Madrid Toledo Sevil Grenada 289 Sarragossa Valencia Compostella Salamanca Cordona Barcelona Cadiz 290 291 The Rivers of ancient Spain 291 The Archbishopricks of Spain 293 The Castillian Language 297 The King of Spain his Letter to Don John December 24. 1676. 298 The Queen-Mother her Letter to Don John December 27. 1676. 299 Don John of Austria's Answer 300 Marquess of Villa banisht An. 1678. restored An. 1681. 301 Don John of Austria died 1680. ibid. The King of Spain's Marriage 302 A New Survey OF THE STATE of the WORLD ITALY The PAPACY INnocent the Eleventh Vicar of Jesus Christ on the Earth and Bishop of Rome formerly Benedict Odescalchi was born in the year 1613. at Como in the Country of Millain was created Cardinal under the Title of St. Onuphrius in the year 1645. by Innocent the Tenth whose name he bears by way of acknowledgment He was elected Pope Anno 1676. the 21 of September being the day and Feast of St. Matthew was exalted the 4th of October following Cardinal Maldachin first Deacon of the Sacred Colledge performed the Ceremony of the Proclamation The 8th of November this Prelate went from St. Peter's Church to St. John Laterans where he receiv'd at entrance the two Keys the one of Gold the other of Silver from the hands of Cardinal Chisi who is Archpriest after having first kiss'd the Cross which his Eminency presented him There were carried in this Cavalcade according to custom the vacant Hats which were at that time to the number of six There was vacant a twenty third place in the Sacred Colledge by the death of Cardinal Bernardino Rocci which happened at the end of the month November 1680. The Arms of his Holiness's House are in a Field Argent six Salvers Gules three in chief two in flank or in fess and one in point or in base These surmounted by three Bars of the same debrused with an Escutcheon Argent charg'd with a Lion Passant Gardant Gules Lastly a Chief Or thereon a single Eagle display'd Sable His Prophetick Motto was Bellua insatiabilis because this Pope has in his Arms the Eagle and the Lion insatiable Animals with Salvers or else because he has continually with him in his principal actions Cardinal Cibo which signifies Food who follows him in his Chappel in the Church in the Consistory and elsewhere See the Allusion Wherefore after that Innocent had declared his Eminency his first Minister and Secretary of State some person writ Verè bellua insatiabilis quia sine Cibo nunquam vivere potest We may and ought better to understand insatiable of the salvation of Souls and in a word of his Zeal for the House of God conformably to the Motto of the Royal Prophet Zelus domus tuoe Comedit me and to see the glory of God the onely thing that can satisfie as the same King and Prophet says Satiabor cum apparuerit gloria tua The Prophetick Motto of Pope Vrban the Third called before his Exaltation Lambert Cribelli was Sus in Cribo because his Arms were a Sow in a Sieve and that he was of Millain where its Founders lighted on a Sow covered the one half with Wooll and the other with Hair whence is come the word Mediolana de Medio-lanum The Prophetick device of Eugenius the Fourth was Lupa Coelestina the Wolf Coelestine because he had for Arms a Wolf and had been a religious man of the Coelestins The four Evangelists are mystically represented under the Figures of four Animals St. Matthew has for Emblem a Man St. Mark the Lion St. Luke the Ox and St. John the Eagle These are the four Animals that the Prophet Ezekiah saw in a Vision which carried the Throne of God. Jesus Christ is called the Lion of the Tribe of Juda Vicit Leo de Tribu Juda. The Papal Scutcheon which is Gules consists of a long Cap or Head-piece Or surmounted with a Cross pearled and garnished with three Royal Crowns with the two Keys of St. Peter placed in Saltier Boniface the Eighth was the first that wore the Tiara with a double Crown and Vrban the Fifth made it triple in the form of a Cap adorned with a triple circle of Gold for some Mystery that is contained in it They call it the Regnum because it denotes the dignity and power of Priest and Emperour The Popes never wear it on their heads in doing their Office it may be upon the Altar but they make use of Miters the Tiara serves but at the Coronation of the Pope and other Solemnities going and returning from the Church It was typified by that of the great Priest of the Hebrews of which Josephus says that it was called Aurea Corona Pontificis in triplicem fabricata seriem No Pope in his Exaltation has dar'd to take the name of Peter through respect to the first Vicar of Jesus Christ The ordinary place of Residence of the Popes is Rome pleasantly watered with the River Tiber which divides it into two unequal parts The day of their Coronation the Master of Ceremonies kneeling on the ground burns Flax in their presence and says to them thrice with a loud voice Pater Sancte sic transit gloria Mundi Holy Father behold the continuance of this fire thus passes the glory of this world It is reported that they say to them also in this
the three Kings or Magi who adored the Son of God in the Manger and it is believ'd that they are there entire The Church of St. Vrsula is famous by reason of the eleven thousand Virgins cast by a Tempest on the coasts of Germany There are seen an infinite number of bones all round the walls of the Quire in high Cupboards and many Tombs in the body of the Church and on an Altar many heads of silver where is that of St. Vrsula The Colledge of Sorbonne a Member of the faculty of Divinity of Paris has for Patronesses this holy Daughter of a King and her Companions Cardinal Baronius says in his Annotations on the Roman Martyrologie that the true History of these Virgins is lost thence it comes that we find many uncertain things of it Mr. Joli Canon of the Church of Paris has said remarkable things of it in his Book entituled A Voyage made to Munster in Westphalia and many other neighbouring places An. 1646 and 1647. Printed by Francis Clauzier Father Boussingault in his Guide of the Low Countries p. 101. and 219. says that the Church St. Mary of the Capitol has two Bodies and two Quires in the one of which the Canons say their Office and in the other the Canonesses where the one being on one side and the others on the other they sing the Praises of God. There is a like thing practis'd at Nivelle in Brabant the Canons come on certain days of the year into the Church of the Canonesses to sing with them The Abbess as Lady spiritual and temporal of the Town of Nivelle it being of her Jurisdiction presides in the Chapter the Canons and Canonesses joyntly confer the Benefices which are vacant by the death or by the marryage of the Canonesses The Ladies wear in the Church a Rochet with a black Mantle over it which trains on the ground a starcht Linnen-cloath on their arm instead of the Aumusse or the furr'd Ornament worn by Canons and a Couvre-chef on their head St. Bruno Founder of the Charthusians was born at Cologne and Mary de Medicis dyed there the third of July 1643. In the same year dyed Loüis the Thirteenth and Cardinal Richelieu Cologne has had eighty Bishops and Archbishops from Matternus to Maximilian Henry of Bavaria seventeen Bishops preceded there the Metropolitans St. Agilulfe was its first Archbishop Pope Zachary declar'd this Church Metropolitan An. 744. The Suffragans are Munster Minden and Osnaburg An Observation on the three Ecclesiastical Electors YOu must observe that the three Ecclesiastical Electors have no Passive Voice in the Assemblies of Election that is to say they cannot nominate themselves Emperours they may nominate and give their Suffrages for others but not for themselves it having not been judg'd proper that one and the same head should wear the Miter and the Imperial Crown and one and the same hand carry the Cross and the Sword and to the end that since they cannot arrive at the Crown they may keep the other Electors within the bounds of their devoir Another Observation on the Lay Electors THe Secular Electors may nominate themselves Sigismond of Luxembourg King of Bohemia nominated himself after the death of Robert of Bavaria and the other Electors acknowledging his merit gave him unanimously their Voices and Suffrages The Ecclesiastical Electors are elected by their Chapters who may exercise the Archiepiscopal Functions during the vacancy of the See but not the Electoral The Electoral Habit. THe Electoral Habit comes near that of the Presidents of Soveraign Courts That of the Ecclesiastical Electors is of Scarlet Cloath and that of the Lay Electors is of Crimson Velvet They are all lin'd with Hermines as likewise their Cap. There are some of them to be seen drawn at large with their ceremonial Habits in one of the fairest and richest Galleries of Duke Mazarin formerly belonging to the Cardinal of this name The King of Bohemia instead of the Electoral Cap wears a Royal Crown on his head You must observe that An. 1673. the Town of Cologne was chosen to treat there of a Peace betwixt the Kings of France and of Great Britain and the Hollanders and the Assembly was held at the Convent of the Carmelites a place very convenient His most Christian Majesty sent thither for his Plenipotentiaries the Duke of Chaulne and the Sieurs Courtin and de Barillon who arriv'd there the first the King shewing that he would not retard the work of Peace where so many Princes concern'd themselves though loaded with Victories They were followed by three Embassadours of Sweden who had a deference of Honour from all the rest they being then in quality of Mediators Two Plenipotentiaries came afterward from England and they expected for third the Earl of Sunderland chief of the Embassie During his absence Sir Joseph Williamson perform'd for him Those of Holland came to the number of four and afterward the Plenipotentiaries of Spain who had no other quality but of Envoys The Elector of Cologne had one Embassadour Prince William of Fustemberg the Elector of Brandenburg sent thither the Baron of Zminzin who had a Colleague The Emperour deputed the Baron d'Isola and others and the Bishop of Munster sent two there He was one of the Parties concern'd This Illustrious Assembly had no success because the seizing and carrying away by force the person of Prince William of Furstemberg by the Imperialists though vested with the character of Plenipotentiary in a place which ought to be a Sanctuary oblig'd his most Christian Majesty considering the Laws of Nations violated to recal his Nimegen was since made choice on for renewing the Conferences of the general Peace The Duke de Vitry the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissi and the Sieur de Mesmes Count of Avaux were appointed Plenipotentiaries of France Anno 1675. Marshal d' Estrade succeeded the Duke de Vitry. The 11th of August 1677. the Bishop and Prince of Gurc chief of the Embassie of Germany for the Conferences of the Peace arrived at Nimegen accompanied with Count Kinski and with Sieur Straman his Colleagues who went before him All the other Plenipotentiaries repair'd thither The Estates of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries appointed for their Plenipotentiaries the Sieur Hieromy Beverning Lord of Teylingen Curator of the University of Leiden the Sieur William of Nassau Lord of Odik Cortegene c. and the Sieur William Haren Grietman du Bildt The Treaties of Peace and of Commerce Navigation and Maritime affairs betwixt France and the States General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries were concluded at Nimegen the 10th of August 1678. In the same year the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain was sign'd and the year following 1679. that of France and of the Emperour whereof we have spoken elsewhere The Elector and King of Bohemia THe King of Bohemia one of the seven Electors formerly the Emperours great Cup-bearer is at present the Emperour himself Cath. His Arms
ancient Dukes of Pomerania The whole was concluded by a magnificent Entertainment where all the Burgesses that came were admitted The 19th of December 1677. this Elector gave a publick Audience in his Camp before Stetin to the Envoy of the Cham of Tartary Precopites His Electoral Highness sate in a Seat of Crimson-Velvet trim'd with Gold on a Scaffold rais'd two steps cover'd with a rich Turky Carpet This Envoy had three Letters one from the Cham one from the Sultan Galga his eldest Son for his Electoral Highness and one for the Electoress consisting of Complements and offerings of Service The 26th of December of the same year the Town of Stetin Capital of Pomerania surrendred it self to his Electoral Highness after a vigorous resistance of six months siege The 24th of the same month the Capitulation was concluded and sign'd on both sides The 26th in the morning the Composition being made his Electoral Highness commanded two thousand men to possess themselves of the Gate of the Bastion c. His Electoral Highness granted the Town ten years Exemption and the liberty of Fishing that the Inhabitants might employ the publick Revenues in the reparation of the Ruines of the Churches and his Highness took on himself the reparation of the Cathedral The Elector gave to Baron Orflin Camp-Marshal of his Army the government of Pomerania as Count Wrangel enjoy'd it in his life-time and made Major-General Suering Governour of Stetin and Col. Barstel Commander under him The Siege of this place cost his Electoral Highness four hundred thousand Crowns in Powder Bullets and Shot according as some relate This Elector made his solemn Entry into the Town of Stetin the sixth of January 1678. on Twelf-day and after having heard the Sermon and receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity from the Magistrates and the People the Medals which his Highness had caus'd to be made were distributed to the People In the Evening he retir'd into his Camp whence he parted the eighth to return to Berlin where they gave him an August Reception This Elector was not satisfied with giving Orders for repairing Stetin with all possible diligence but moreover he would adde there new labours for rendring this place of Importance more strong than it was before The 22th of Octob. 1678. the Town of Stralzond surrendred it self by composition to his Electoral Highness who made there his publick Entrance the 30th of the same month The Elector granted the Inhabitants an Exemption for ten years from all the Impositions that they were wont to pay to capacitate them to re-establish themselves because of two thousand houses that there were in the Town before the Siege there remained not fifty which were not consum'd with the fire The 17th of November of the same year Gripswal incurr'd the same fate the Elector receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity of the Inhabitants the twentieth of the same month This Town has the title of University it 's half a league om the Sea. The Swedes entred Germany forty or fifty years since assisted with the Protestants against the Catholicks At the beginning of the year 1679. all the Estates of the Elector of Brandenburg resolv'd to erect for this Prince a Statue of cast Copper in the Town of Berlin in memory of his great Victories This Prince has restor'd to the King of Sweden the places that he had taken from him Stetin is of the number which is the onely place that his Electoral Highness insisted on keeping because it had cost him so much and that it was the Seat of the ancient Dukes of Pomerania his Predecessors There is seen at his Court a Fugitive to whom the Father General of the Capuchins spake on a day in these words with Tears in his Eyes Religion has given you Honey and you return it back Gall. An. 1680. Vrslan Aga Envoy of the Cham of the Crim-Tarters presented the Electoress from the Cham's Wife a Shift of Egyptian-Cloath and a sort of Buskins embroidered with Gold such as are worn by the Sultans The third of Jan. 1681. Prince Loüis of Brandenburg fourth Son of the Elector of this name married the Princess Loüise onely Daughter of the late Prince Bogeslaus Radzevil she being 14 years of age a very rich Heiress This Princess possesses above 40 leagues of Land in Lithuania on the frontire of Livonia where she has two places well fortified The Elector Palatine CHarles Count Palatine of the Rhine Prince and Elector of the Empire Great Treasurer of the Imperial House was born 1651. Calvinist He bears quarterly in the first and fourth Sable a Lion Or crown'd of the same arm'd and langued Gules in the second and third Lozenge Argent and Azure of twenty one pieces and then a Mond Or in a Field Gules which belongs to the Electorate Heidelberg is his capital Town in the lower Palatinate on the Necar It was taken An. 1621. by the General of the Emperour Ferdinand the Second The Tower where the Clock is is very high and of a very excellent Architecture Manhein is the Fence of the whole Country there is a very fair Palace there where the Prince ordinarily resides Charles Loüis Father to the present Elector was admirably skill'd in the Civil Law he has been heard to dispute against publick Theses dedicated to his Electoral Highness with such a strength of Spirit that he has put to a stand both Defender and Master Books are no less worthy of a Prince than the Military Art Minerva and Mars are both Children of Jupiter Alexander the Great read Homer's Iliads and Odysses Julius Caesar has left us his Commentaries Alexander Severus read Plato's Republick Tulliee Offices and Horace The great Captain Scipio studied the Institution of Cyrus Tiberius and Adrian the Works of Ovid. Charlemagne King of France and Emperour read the Scripture the Fathers and particularly the Works of St. Austin made Rules for the Reformation of the Church entituled Capitula Caroli Magni Charles the Fifth King of France nam'd the Wise caus'd the Latin Bible to be translated into French and caus'd other Versions to be made S. Loüis Francis the First and other Kings of France have lov'd Learning and learned persons Alphonsus the Tenth King of Castile compos'd Books â—â— the Civil Law fine Astronomical Tables and even the General History of Spain it has been observ'd that he read the Bible fourteen times St. Bruno in his Book entituled the present state of the Affairs of Germany with the Interests and Genealogies of the Princes of the Empire reduces the Estates of the Prince Palatine to ten Bailiwicks and notes his Revenue he has inherited five hundred thousand Livres of Rent since the death of the Palatine of Simmeren Uncle of Charles Loüis and formerly his Tutor The Elector Palatine and he of Bavaria are of the same Family The House Palatine is the eldest Frederick the Fifth Count Palatine elected King of Bohemia had the Electoral Dignity taken from him An. 1623. at the Diet of Rat
Valencia three Compostella fifteen Taragon seven Toledo has two hundred thousand Piasters yearly Sevil eighty Sarragossa fifty thousand Burgos thirty thousand Grenada thirty thousand Valencia thirty thousand Compostella twenty four thousand Taragon sixteen thousand The Bishoprick of Ciguenca brings fifty thousand Piasters and Cadiz twelve thousand The Archbishopricks and Bishopricks have a great Revenue in Spain If the number of Archbishopricks be there small it is very great in the Estates of Naples which are possess'd by his Catholick Majesty it is true that these here are very much limited in the extent of Country and in their Rents as in the rest of Italy excepting the Archbishoprick of Milan Naples and Messina They count in the Kingdom of Naples twenty Archbishopricks and a hundred twenty seven Bishopricks Pope Adrian the Fourth granted to the Kings of Spain in the person of Charles the Fifth of whom he had been Tutor the Right of Nomination to Bishopricks and other Consistorial Benefices they have the Nomination but of some in the Kingdom of Naples The same Pope Adrian a Spaniard gave the Conquest of the New World to the Kings of Spain wherein other Nations do not agree Atabalipa one of the Kings of Peru call'd the Incas being told that this Pope had given the King of Spain his Country said with a laughter Who is that man who gives that which belongs to another This Incas being taken Prisoner by the Spaniards offered for his liberty a Chamber full of Gold and pretious Stones which could not save his life Before he died he appeal'd to the Justice of the God of Christians Protector of the afflicted and innocent Pizarre has been blam'd every where for having caus'd him to be strangled he fear'd that if he let him live he would be taken by force from him Philip the Second boasted that he comprehended the course of the Sun within his Dominions by reason of America because the Sun shines there always when it is set in Europe A Grandee of Spain having said on a day to this Prince that a year before the Emperour Charles the Fifth had left to him his Crowns he replied that it was a year since also that he repented of it The said Philip died of the Lowsie Disease after having lost the Kingdom of Tunis and Holland Pope Clement the Seventh ended his life also by the same Disease caus'd through a great corruption Philip the Fourth fell much from his vast Dominion by the loss of Portugal with all its dependancies in the East and West and after the seizure of Jamaica by the English Spain was extreamly dispeopled by the Expulsion of the Moors and Jews it was farther emptied to stock the Indies and these Dominions being disperst in many places cannot easily be reliev'd Its Mountains are barren and its Women not very fertile The Spaniards are grave in their walk and discourse This makes me think of a pleasant passage related by a modern Author he says that a Buffoon with his ridiculous Gestures and Expressions having on a day made the Queen laugh extreamly at Table it was said to her that a Queen of Spain ought to be serious This Princess who was in her Orient newly come from Germany answer'd that they should then take away that Fellow from before her eyes if they would not have her laugh The Spanish Nation has the repute of making Rodomontadoes the following is not mean made by an Officers a Prisoner of War in France Loüis the Thirteenth having askt him wherefore the King of Spain went not to the Wars as the Kings of France he answered with an Exclamation Ho it is not necessary if the King my Master went to the Army he would make the whole Earth to tremble The Spaniards are fit for holding a long Siege because being sober they endure hunger and thirst a long time They fear much the English wherefore they have said La Guerra con toto il Mundo y la pace con los Inglesos War against the whole World and Peace with the English because they are better Souldiers than them on the Sea. All men are not fit for the Sea. There grows not much Corn in Spain because the Lands are ill cultivated France and Sicily are its its Granaries and of the Low Countries Its Mines of Andalusia Estramadura Grenada Murcia and of some other places are very famous They embark at Malaga the Wine of Grenada which is brought to Paris at Alicant that of Murcia and at Cadiz that of Andalusia The white-Wine is there better than the Claret Arragon and Castille produce not much Wine that of Portugal is almost of a Crimson colour Their Oyls of Olives their Woolls their Silks their Horses and their Mines are very considerable The Castilian Language is the finest of all Spain Charles the Fifth said that if he were to speak to God he would speak in the Spanish Tongue by reason of its Gravity to Men in French to Ladies in Italian to Horses in the German Some Castilians have dar'd to say either through a gayness of Spirit or as a Rodomontado that God spake Castilian to Moyses on Mount Sinai They speak grossly in Galicia Agrippa describing the Humour of four chief Nations of Christendom says among other things that in their singing The Spaniards Groan The Italians Bleat The Germans howl The French Quaver The 27th of Decem. 1676. the King of Spain writ a Letter to Don Juan by which his Catholick Majesty signified to him that he judg'd it convenient to have him near him to assist him with his Counsel It is coucht in these terms according to an Extract taken from the London-Gazette of the fifth of Feb. 1677. The Copy of the Letter of the King of Spain writ to Don John of Austria DOn Juan of Austria my Brother of the Council of State Governour and Captain-General of the Spanish Low Countries and Commander General of all our Sea-Forces the Affairs of this Monarchy being at present in such a condition that I find my self oblig'd to seek all sorts of ways for setling them as they ought to be and having considered that you are therein so very much interessed and that I must impart to you the greatest part of my Resolutions I propos'd to my self to require you to repair hither without any delay to assist me in a juncture so important it 's what I promise my self from the zeal which I have always found in you for the good of the State. God keep you in his protection as I wish From Madrid the 24th of Decem. 1676. EGO REX By the Command of our Lord the King D. Hierom de Eguia The Copy of the Letter of the Queen-Mother to Don John. THe King my Son has resolv'd as you may understand by the Letter which he has written to you that you repair hither as soon as may be to assist him in the administration of the Affairs of the Monarchy and I may tell you that there is nothing which can please me more than to see you embrace the direction with all the diligence which the juncture of affairs requires In which I shall rely on your zeal and good intentions assuring you that for as much as shall be in my power I shall always use my endeavours for procuring you all satisfaction From Madrid the 27th of Decem. 1676. The Answer of Don Juan to the Queens Letter Not doubting but your Majesty sees the Answer which I have made to the Letter of the King my Brother whom God preserve it would be to no purpose for me to repeat it to you assuring your Majesty that you never may have had nor never will have any person who wishes and wishes again to your Majesty with a more sincere intention that which I take God to witness to be most beneficial and advantageous for the service of your Majesty At whose feet I cast my self praying God to maintain your Majesty a long uninterrupted course of years in Posterity From Sarragossa the first of Jan. 1671. In the same year the Marquess de Villa Seria lost the Kings Favour His Catholick Majesty arriv'd at Sarragossa accompanied with Prince Don Juan the Duke Medina Coeli Great Chamberlain the Constable of Castille Great Steward of the Kings Household the Count de Talaras the Duke de Montery and with Count d'Arcot The Queen was in her Government of Toledo Some time afterward the new Corrigidor of Madrid or the chief Governour of the Polity for remedying the inconveniencies which ordinarily happen in the night ordain'd the seventh of October conformably to what has been practis'd of late years at Paris and at Amsterdam for the publick good that for the future there should be expos'd throughout the whole Town of Madrid Lights in the Streets by the means of Lanterns and ordered that from five to five houses there should be a Light for which the five houses should contribute proportionally This Sentence has been put in execution At the beginning of the year 1678. the Council gave sentence in the case of Don Ferdinand of Valenzuela Marquess of Villa Seria who was condemn'd to a perpetual banishment and sent to the Philippine Islands Intelligence was given An. 1680. that the King of Spain call'd him back from banishment from the Islands where Don Juan had caus'd him to be banisht The 17th of September Don Juan of Austria natural Son of the late King Philip the Fourth died being fifty years of age His Body was carried to the Escurial This Prince died at the same hour the same day and the same month as the late King his Father 1666. He was a great Captain fearless in War a man of great Reservation a great Minister of State penetrating all things and neglecting nothing The Kings Marriage CHarles the Second King of Spain being given to understand that the King of France had granted him the Princess Mary Louise of Orleans for Spouse made extraordinary Rejoycings at Madrid all the Town appear'd in fire for many days the People cryed with a loud voice That France had always giv'n them good Queens At their Arrival the Patriarch of the Judges gave their Catholick Majesties the second Benediction The 13th of January 1680. the Queen of Spain made her publick and solemn Entrance at Madrid FINIS
A MODERN VIEW Of such PARTS of EUROPE That hath lately been and still are the places of great Transactions Viz. ITALY with all its Principalities FRANCE with all its Provinces and Bishopricks GERMANY with the Dukedome of Lorrain and all the Electorates and Lordships of the Empire SPAIN With all its Dominions c. Wherein is shewed the Present State of all those Countries with Curious Remarks of Antiquity Interwoven LONDON Printed and Sold by J. Bird at the Sun near the Kings-Bench in Westminster-Hall 1689. TO THE Candid Reader THis Treatise exposeth to your view the most eminent Things and Transactions of this World concerning Ecclesiastical States Monarchies Republicks the varieties of Sects and Religions the Origine of Arts and Sciences several unparallel'd Accidents variety of Recherches in Antiquity and Memoires containing the Combats Battels Sieges surprizal or taking of Towns and the most signaliz'd and memorable Actions that have happened in this Modern Age. If any curious Reader shall oppose the Digressions of this Tract I must desire him to consider that they are both useful and necessary and so far from exposing him to Fatigue and Trouble that they will prove a grand Satisfaction and Diversion I must confess I have in this Composition discovered several gross Errours in some Authors whom I have forborn to recite because I scorn to shame them but if any Criticks desire a more regugular Method than herein is chalked out which is a thing of more than ordinary difficulty in a Business of this nature and in so great variety of Matter I desire them to take into their consideration that this Natural way of Writing will be by all Persons of Ingenuity preferr'd before any Scholastick Dissertation or Disputation whatsoever I have no more to say but this You will herein find Variety the Comfort and Satisfaction of Mankind that Gravity which will please the Serious that Diversion which will gratifie the Curious that Variety which can displease none but such as are void and destitute both of Sense and Reason And therefore I shall detain you no longer from the perusal of this Treatise onely give me leave to acquaint you that there is herein contain'd nothing but what is grounded upon Truth and gathered from the most Authentick Writers and present State of this Modern Age. Yours Gidion Pontier A TABLE OF THE Contents of this Book Of ITALY THe Papacy pag. 1 The Etymology of the Name Cardinal his Institution and his Habits 10 The Continuation of the Actions of Pope Innocent the Eleventh 13 The Singularities and curious remarkable Actions of some Popes 15 Observations on the reducement of Jubiles under what Popes and in what times 22 The opening of the Jubile 25 The splendid Ceremonies and the Honour of Rome 29 St. Austin's three Desires ibid. The Dominion of the Pope 30 Places of Pleasure ibid. Ornaments of Rome 32 The chief Towns of Italy with their Epithets and Elogies 33 The chief Rivers of Italy 35 Popes by birth French-men and Passages of their Lives 36 The future Popes how conformable to the Prophecies 54 The chief Princes of Italy after the Popes are five First the Duke of Savoy 55 Secondly the Great Duke of Tuscany 62 Thirdly the Duke of Mantua 67 Fourthly the Duke of Modena 69 Fifthly the Bishop of Trent 71 The Figure of Italy and its length ibid. An Itinerary 72 Of FRANCE 75 THe Dolphin of France and his Marriage 79 The Duke of Orleans 81 The Prince of Condé and the Duke d'Enguien 83 Prince Henry de la Tour d'Auvergne Vicount de Turenne 84 The ancient Marshals of France living An. 1680. 86 The Ministers and Secretaries of State ibid. The Chancellor 87 M. de la Villiere 89 M. de Louvois 90 M. Colbert 91 M. Colbert Croissi 93 The Councils 94 France the Mountain of the Muses 97 King of France his places of Residence 98 The Louvre ibid. The Tuilleries 100 Fontainbleau ibid. Versailles 101 Paris 103 Colledge Mazarin its Institution Library and Academy 109 The House of President Perrot 112 Houses of Pleasure about Paris 116 Houses and Places of Devotion near Paris 118 The Treasury of St. Dennis 120 The Tombs of the Kings of France 124 Other famous places of Devotion and Pilgrimages greatly frequented in the Kingdom 125 The twelve ancient general Governments of the Provinces called together at Paris under Loüis the Thirteenth according to their rank and place in the States General 129 The Governours of the Provinces 130 Conquered Countries 133 The Fertility of France 134 The Channel of Languedoc 135 The chief Towns of France 138 The most considerable Maritime Towns ibid. The great Rivers 142 The Epithites of the great Rivers 144 The principal small Rivers 145 Pont du Gard 150 A Catalogue of the Archbish and Bishops of France containing the number and name of the first and last Bishop of each Diocess to An. 1680. 153 The Archbishoprick of Rheims ibid. The Archbishoprick of Narbonne 156 The Archbishoprick of Bourges 159 The Archbishoprick of Vienne 160 The Archbishoprick of Tolose 162 The Archbishoprick of Roüen 163 The Archbishoprick of Sens 164 The Bishops of Bethlem 165 The Archbishoprick of Lyons 167 The Archbishoprick of Bourdeaux 169 The Archbishoprick of Arles 170 The Archbishoprick of Ambrun 172 The Archbishoprick of Tours 174 The Archbishoprick of Aix 176 The Archbishoprick of Paris 177 The Archbishoprick of Albi 179 The Archbishoprick of Cambray 181 The Archbishoprick of Bezancon 183 The Rank and Seats of the Prelates 184 Agents General of the Clergie of France 185 The ordinary List of the Parliaments of France and the time of their erection 187 The Countries of State 193 Remarkable things of these times happening from the year 1672 to the beginning of 1680. 193 Of the Peace betwixt France Holland Spain the Emperour the Elector of Brandenburg and Denmark 203 The Marriage of the Princess Mary Loüise of Orleans with the King of Spain 205 A Continuation of Affairs to this time 206 Of LORAIN 208 THe chief Towns in Lorain 210 Those of the Dutchy of Bar ibid. Mausoleums of the Dukes of Lorain ibid. The Marriage of Prince Charles of Lorain 213 Of GERMANY 214 OF the City of Vienna 215 221 The chief Houses of Pleasure in the Country 215 The Coronation of the Emperour with the signification of the three Crowns 216 The Golden Bull 217 Prerogatives of the Emperour 219 Fourteen Emperours of the House of Austria ibid. The chief Towns of Germany 220 The Cities of Prague and Presburg 222 Of Aix-la-Chappelle and Ratisbonne 223 Of Erfort Munic and Strasburg 224 The Tower Clock Bridge and famous Trees of Strasburg 225 The Ceremonies of Electing the Bishop of Strasburg 226 The number and Residence of the Canons of Strasburg 227 The ancient Entrance of the Bishop of Strasburg and the number of Bishops it hath had 228 Of the Cities of Hamburg and Munster 229 The Cities of Magdeburg Nuremburg and Ausbourg 231 The Cities of Francsort Passau Visbourg Brunswick
Camps and Armies and Colonel-General of the French Cavalry is recommendable for his famous Exploits and for the important Victories that he has gained over the Enemies of the State and more in this happy day that renouncing the Errour in which he was born and in which he had lived he embraced with a sincere heart the Catholick Faith which leads to Eternal Salvation the Church Militant has not had less joy than the Triumphant Though Learning was familiar to this Prince and that he has been heard to say very convincing things for the proof and maintaining of Catholick Truths the Church is obliged to Cardinal de Boâ—illon his Nephew for having contributed to so illustrious a Conquest Italian Princes were heard to say to his Highness at his promotion to the Cardinalship La promotion di vestra Altezza al Cardinalato Colmo d'honore il Sacro Collegio I shall not omit that if the said Henry de la Tour left the Earth the Twenty first of July 1675. to rest from his labours being killed by a Cannon-shot near Satzbach as he went to take a view of a Post of the Imperial Army to the end to give it Battle after the loss of so great a Man the King to comfort himself made Nine Marshals of France the Count d'Estrade the Duke de Navailles the Count de Schomberg the Duke de Duras the Duke de Vivonne the Duke de la Feüillade the Duke de Luxembourg the Marquess de Rochefort and the Count de Lorge His Majesty honour'd them with the dignity of the Marshals staff the Thirtieth of July of the same year of Vicount Turenne's death The Ancientest Mâ—rshâ—ls of France living Anno 1680. are these THe Marshal Duke de Villeroy the Marshal Duke de la Ferte-Seneterre the Marshal de Crequi the Marshal de Bellefond and the Marshal d'Humieres these three last are of the penultimate Promotion The Marshal de Rochefort dyed An. 1676. he quitted the life Military for the glorious The Ministers and Secretaries of State. IF the King be the Soul of the Monarchy his Ministers are the Organs by which he works His Majesty has carried the glory of France to so high a point that it may hope all things and its Enemies fear all Its Ministers and Secretaries of State are indefatigable in their pretious vigilancy and in the cares they take for the rest of the Kingdom They have all signalized themselves their spirit is filled with lights so shining that there is no cloud that they do not pierce nor no Forreign or Domestick Factions which they do not dissipate and subvert their experience is universal A very famous Preacher who is an Archbishop Preaching in Sorbon on the day of St. Vrsula the Patroness Feast of that Colledge in the presence of Anne of Austriche Queen of France said that Cardinal Richlieu had the Spirit of the Prophet Elias and Cardinal Mazarine that of the Prophet Elizeas I believe that these have the Spirit of Elias and Elizeas Richlieu and Mazarine Nor is it to be wondred at all their lights being but necessary and favourable emanations of the great splendour of the Sun who animates and enlightens them The Chancellour MEssire Michael de Tellier Chevalier Chancellour and Keeper of the Seals of France Commander of the Kings Orders Lord of Chavilles Barbezieux and other places excels in Councel Understanding and Integrity he is consummated in the decision of affairs of greatest difficulty Italy has been the Theater of his great Actions as well as France For this reason Loüis the Thirteenth made him Secretary of State and Loüis the Fourteenth Created him Chancellour and Keeper of the Seals for the faithful and important Services that he has rendred his Majesty for above thirty six years in the functions of Minister and Secretary of State. He has the esteem of all great persons and the applause of the people his Memory will be preserved eternally in the Chronicles of France The Arms of his House are Three Lizards which are friendly to Man. That which renders particularly eminent the Office of Chancellour which this person possesses is that he is Chief Minister of the Kings Justice and of his Councel it is he who like another Legislatour Moses ascends into the Mountain he enters into the Cloud which environs the Throne of his Prince where the Rayes and Lightning of Royal Majesty display themselves and where he receives the Laws and Ordinances which he afterwards pronounces to all the people He never wears Mourning because in some sort he deposes his own person to represent for the future nought but Justice it being not decent for this vertue which is wholly Divine to shew a feeling of humane infirmities He has for exteriour mark of his high dignity on his Scutcheon a Cap of Honour of Cloth of Gold faced with Ermines topt with the figure of a Queen the Hieroglyphick of France with the Scepter in the right hand and the Seals of the Kingdom in the left behind the Scutcheon two great Maces of Silver gilt plac'd in Saltier with a Mantle like those of the Dukes and Peers of France adorned with rayes of Gold towards the top and lined with Ermins which encompass all the Scutcheon The door-keepers of the Chancery-Court carrying a Mace of Silver gilt on their Shoulders march before him and the other door-keepers in order In the Book entituled l'Estat de la France Printed An. 1678. pag. 199. I found these following Lords ranged in this following manner as I place them If I have not well followed the order there will be no contest betwixt them for precedency each of them knowing very well his right and duty they teaching them to others M. de la Vrilliere MEssire Loüis Phelipeaux Chevalier Lord of Vrilliere Marquess of Chasteaux-Neuf on Loire and of Tanlai Count de S. Florentin Baron de Hervi and the ancientest Secretary of State was Sworn to his Office An. 1629. He has a great zeal for the welfare of the Church the general affairs of the pretended Reformed Religion are committed to him and many others Languedoc the County of Foix Guienne Rovergne and Quercy Broüage and the Country of Aunis Touraine Anjou le Main and le Perche Normandy Burgundy and Brest and all that is under his charge gives testimony of his Vertue and Merit He has a Son who possesses the See of the Patriarchal Archiepiscopal and private Church of Bourges Messire Pierre Balthazar Phelipeaux de la Vrilliere Marquess of Chasteau-Neuf who has the Reversion of the place of Secretary of State and of the Kings Orders treads in the glorious footsteps of his Father the marks which he daily gives are proofs of what he will be hereafter M. de Louvois MEssire Francois Michel de Tellier Chevalier Marquess of Louvois and of Courtanvau Councellor in ordinary to the King in his Councels Chancellour of his Orders Minister and Secretary of State and of his Majesties commands Vicar-General of the Order of Nostre
Dame du Mount Carmel and of St. Lazarus of Hierusalem great Post-master and Superintendant of the Posts and Stages of France c. has given an infinite number of manifest proofs of his Consummated skill in Military Discipline It seems as though he had exercised himself in it all his life-time this shews that great men are capable of all things his name is known throughout the whole Earth the Hollanders Spaniards and others when the War was at the highest declared that he went like Lightning when the Service of his King and Country called upon him He possesses the eminent qualities of his Father the Chancellour of France Poitou la Marche Lionnois Dauphine Catalognia and Roussillon Pignerol Lorrain Alsatia the places Conquered and yeilded the Fortifications of these Generalities the War the Taxes raised for the support of the Souldiery and the Artillery are things belonging to his Charge M. Colbert MEssire John Baptist Colbert Chevalier Marquess of Seignelay Baron of Moneteau Beaumont Cheni Ormois Sceaux and other places Counsellor in ordinary to the King in his Councils and of the Royal Council General Controuler of the Kings Revenue Superintendant of the Navy Arts and Manufactures of France Minister and Secretary of State. He has acted vigorously for the subsistance of the Armies of the French Monarchy in finding means to raise such Moneys as were necessary which are the Nerves of War. He has the prudence of the Serpent as it is express'd in his Arms. Cardinal Mazarine considering his Desert before he died wisht the King to make use of him as his Minister for his fidelity and for his service His admirable Conduct daily manifests it self both in general and in particular even to the education of his Children and of his Illustrious Relations Messire Charles Edoüard Colbert Marquess of Seignelay is the eldest of the House he makes himself daily admir'd in the diversity of his Employs and Affairs wherewith he is taken up in his Majesties service he is Secretary of State Superintendant of the Maritine affairs both in the East and West I saw Anno 1677. Messire Julius Armandus Colbert Lord of Ormais at the age of fourteen years defend publick and general Theses of Philosophy in the University of Paris under the Presidency of his Brother the Abbot Messire Jacques Nicolas then Prior of Sorbonne to the admiration of all that there is of Great and Learned in the Kingdom I cannot hold from saying of this noble Defender in his Orient what was said of St. John Baptist at his birth Quis putas puer iste erit It 's a rare thing to see a Brother perform that Office under a Brother and with so wonderful a presence of understanding These are Prodigies and Marks of their great Genius It may well be said on this occasion Fortes creantur fortibus and with the Oracle Corona senum filii filiorum gloria filiorum patres eorum I shall not be more large lest I offend the modesty of the Father and of his Children I shall onely say that this wise Manager of the Kings Revenue has in his division Paris the Isle of France and the Country of Soissons as far as Noyon Orleanois Blezois the Kings House the Clergy what regards the Sea Trade and Manufactures As I write this Article the admirable and elegant Sermon which the Illustrious Abbot his Brother made one day on the Feast of St. John Baptist comes into my mind Paris rendered it self that day at Sceaux to hear it This Sermon was followed with many others in the Capital City of the Kingdom and always with excellent success This Abbot is Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbonne and Coadjutor to the Archbishop of Roüen since the second of Feb. 1680. M. Colbert Croissi MEssire Charles Colbert Chevalier Marquess of Croissi Minister and Secretary of State President of the Parliament of Paris formerly Master of Requests and Intendant of Justice has acquired the Political and Geographical knowledge of all the States of the World that of Ancient and Modern History and of all the Interests of the Princes and Potentates of Christendom in his Ordinary and Extraordinary Embassies at Rome in England Spain at Aix la Chappel and in quality of Embassadour and Plenipotentiary at Nimigen for the general Peace of Europe and at Bavaria for the Marriage of Monseigneur le Dauphin with the Electoral Princess and in other important Negotiations Holland shewed him the joy they received after the Peace concluded to see him in their Country and he manifested his by his profuse liberality of his Gold and Silver to the People in some Towns. This Minister having seen so many Countries and Nations and all Courts it may be said of him what Homer said of Vlysses in the beginning of his Odysses according to the translation from the Greek into Latine Multorum autem hominum vidit urbes mores novit Champagne and Brie Provence Britany Berry Limosin Angoumois Xaintonge Bearn Bigorre the three Bishopricks of Metz Toul and Verdun the Principality of Sedan and the Forreign Countries which are also in his division have all a veneration for his Conduct and Generosity He succeeded to Messire Simon Arnaud Chevalier Lord of Pomponne in his Charge of Secretary and Minister of State which he demised in the Month of December An. 1679. The Councels THe Councels are composed of the Chancellour Keeper of the Seals of France of the Marshal Duke de Villeroy Chief of the Royal Council for the Kings Revenue of Twelve ordinary Councellours of State Three Councellors of the Church and Three of the Sword Twelve attending every six Months The King regulating the Councel An. 1673. added the Controuler General of his Revenues and the two Intendants of them to have place in the Councels des Parties as they have in those of the Revenue The Councellours of State are chosen by his Majesty being such as have past the greatest part of all the Offices of the Robe having been Intendants of Justice or Ambassadors or first Presidents of the Parliaments these are at present the best and most sought-for Offices of the Kingdom and which come nearest the King who gives such persons daily the best employs and Commissions of greatest importance for the service of himself and the State. To these Councels the Masters of Request have access which are to the number of Eighty whereof Twenty serve each Quarter after having been honoured with many Commissions and Intendancies they are preferred by his Majesty to Employs of the highest nature where he designs them The two Intendants of the Revenue are Messire Vicount Hotman and Messire Nicholas des Marests Colbert The first has been Councellor in the grand Councel Master of Requests and Intendant of Justice in Guyen and in Tourain Proctor-General of the Chamber of Justice and afterwards honoured by the King with a place in his Councels and with the Commission of Intendant of the Kings Revenue and of Justice in the generality of Paris
all these great Employs are marks of his singular Merit which he has signalized in all occurrences Messire Nicolas des Marests has been Counsellour to the Parliament of Paris and is at present Master of Requests and Intendant of the Kings Revenues There is no man but knows that he has always done things with skill and integrity his Ability his Candour and the care that he takes appear in his Conduct as three great lights which make him known to those that will be enlightned When the waves are troubled the Vessel has most need of skilful Pilots the perfect knowledge that these two Intendants have of the Interests of the Provinces has served them as a Watch-tower to keep them from erring and the zeal they have for the advantage of his Majesties Revenue is another means for them to behave themselves well betwixt the Soveraign and his Subjects in a word to the end that the King may receive as much aid as his people comfort The Illustrious Controller General of the Kings Revenues of whom I have spoken before may rely on the fidelity of these two Intendants The Four Secretaries of the Kings Revenues are the Sieur Bechameil Berrier Ranchin and Coquille The Four Clerks of the Councel des Parties are the Sieurs Aguillaumie Pecot le Foüyn and Brunet The Keeper of the Royal Treasury in waiting enters into the Councel of the Kings Revenues and also the Treasurer of the casual Revenues in waiting when they are upon the Rolls of the casual Revenues this person stands behind the Chancellours Chair Besides the Councel of the Finances and the Councel des Parties the King has also a Councel of Dispatches a Councel of War and others according to different affairs the Councel of Dispatches is held in the Kings Chamber where attend the Duke of Orleans the Chancellour the Marshal de Villeroy the Four Secretaries of State and those that are received for that Office upon Survivorship His Majesty presides in the Councel of War the Princes the Marshals of France and other Lords skilful in the Military Art are ordinarily called to it France the Mountain of the Muses IF France be the field of Mars it is also the Mountain of the Muses and the refuge of Arts. Philosophy has left Egypt and Greece to make its residence in this Kingdom The Spaniards confess this truth by this Proverb used in the University of Salamanca Dat Lutetia Aristotelum Salamanca Deum It 's at Paris particularly where we find new Plato's and Aristotles in subtilty and solidness Consummated Divines Orators like Cicero and Quintilian Cujas's and Bartholus's for the Canon and Civil Laws second Galen's Hippocrates's and Esculapius's in Physick Astrology gives us in the House of the Observatory its Ptolomy's it s Alphonsus's and its Tico-Brahe's the Mathematicks Cluverius's Poesie it s Virgil's its Ovids its Martials and its Homers Painting its Apelles and Carvers its Phidias It 's in France where Forreigners come and suck the Ambrosia and drink large draughts of the Nectar of the Gods. The ordinary places of Residence of their most Christian Majesties PAris Saint Germains in Laye Versailles Vincennes Fontainbleau Chambort Blois Compeinne These dwelling-places are truly Royal the Louvre the Chasteau des Tuilleries that of Fontainbleau and Versailles are a Miracle of Nature and a Prodigy of Art in all things and in a word the Centre of the Rarities and beautiful things of the world The Louvre PHILLIP August ended the Building of the Louvre An. 1214. This Palace being the first of the Kingdom and as a Master-piece some Authors think that this Monarch called it le Louvre as though he would say l'Oeuvre the Work by Excellency others think it so called from a street called Lupura or Lupara in which it is thought to be built Loüis the Fourteenth putting the last hand to it has so enlarged it that it is capable of receiving three Kings A Learned and excellent Wit of our time has made this Inscription for the Louvre which comprehends and expresses the greatness of the Building the greatness of the person and of the Name of King Loüis le Grand and the explication of his Devise or Motto Nec pluribus Impar in these terms Haec licet ampla domus longè tamen amplior hospes Ludovico magno nec totus sufficit orbis Sufficeret solus multis nec pluribus Impar The same Inscription in English This House though great the Person whose Command It owns is greater much Loüis le Grand Does find the world too scant for he alone Would serve for many fit for more than One. It 's in the Louvre where Learning has been stript of the gross Bark of the School it 's there where the Muses are habited a-la-mode and where they are given the fine turn of Politeness by the means of the French Academy instituted by Cardinal Richlieu An. 1635. for the pureness and perfection of the French Tongue Of late some Towns of this Kingdom have erected Academies for this purpose as Arles Suissons and others We shall here observe that in France in the time of the said Cardinal the Gazette which according to the term de Gaza signifies a heap of divers things began An. 1631. and that the first Gazettier called Theophrast Renaudot Physician of the faculty of Montpellier dedicated it to Loüis the Thirteenth I saw it in the Library of Colledge Mazarin it succeeded the French Mercury its dates and Chronologies were in the Margin The Tuilleries THe Tuilleries are call'd by this name because in this place formerly there was a Tuillerie or place to make Tiles Queen Catherine de Medices caused this building to be began in the Month of May of the year 1564. Loüis the Fourteenth has compleated it and rendred it August this Prince has planted in the Garden Sycomers and Indian Maroniers and other beautiful Trees he has made Knots and Beds with all sorts of Flowers large Allies little Wildernesses great Cesterns with their Jet d'Eaux and Terrasses and has placed excellent Statues in it that of Time which devours its Children is very remarkable We see Diana of Ephesus in one of the four Chambers of the ancient Pieces of the Louvre Fontainbleau THe number of excellent Fountains and great streams of water have given to this place the name it bears The Inhabitants think that the name Fontainbleau comes from a Fountain of fair water that is to be seen there at this day In the Palace we find four of them and as many Gardens its Chambers are very rich and its Galeries very beautiful in one of them are represented in excellent Painting the Fights and Victories of some Kings of France We see in another the Antiquities the Garden-Knots the Grotto's the Water-falls the fine Walks the great Mail the Meadows and the Groves that render this place famous we see the Hermitage of St. Loüis on a little knap in the midst of the way of the Forest which is very large and very
persons think that it was in order to make some Sea-fights alledging that Nismes did not want water for its ordinary use The first Bridge contains six Arches the second eleven the third thirty six The first is a hundred and fifty paces in length the second two hundred seventy five and the third three hundred They say that that person has not seen Pont du Gard who has not seen the Hare because the figure of it is seen there in Relief on the second Bridge against the top of the Pillar of the third Arch. Louis the Thirteenth and Loüis the Fourteenth Kings of France went to see this curious Piece of Roman Antiquity when they were in Languedoc This Bridge was call'd Pont du Gard because it is scituated on the River Gardon and retains its name even to this present time The Marquess of S. Privat Baron of Fournez and Lord of other places has a Castle by the side of the Bridge and resides there ordinarily when he is in his dominions Cardinal de Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin have lodged there This ancient House has always been well allyed and with the chief of Daulphiné These great Springs of Water that boil forth the Fountain of Vigan and of Sauve in Sevenes and that of Nan in Roüergue which equal Rivers deserve to be mentioned with that of Nismes at the foot of Tournemagne adorn'd with a great Cestern and which drives six or seven Mills The Fountain of Vaucleuse is likewise famous If that of Nismes be considerable for the opening of a Rock whence issues a great Spring of very clear water the bottom of which is not to be perceiv'd Its Amphitheater there is remarkable for its great and large Stones A modern Author has committed on this subject a great Anacronism or a supposition of a time far distant from another when he said that these Stones clove asunder at the death of Jesus Christ not considering that the Amphitheater was not then in being and that it was not built till a long time afterwards It is thought that it was begun under the Emperour Adrian and ended under Antonius Pius Native of Nismes a long time after the Ascension of the Son of God. The same Author did not also observe that the Goths Enemies of the Works of the Romans put fire to this Amphitheater which has caus'd the cleaving and blackness You may see what is writ thereon by the ancient Counsellor Guiran of Nismes he is the last who has spoken of it The square House which serv'd for the Proetorium or the place where Justice was administred and the Temple of Diana are moreover ancient Monuments of this Town formerly a Colony of the Romans Arles and Xaintes have also Amphitheaters where many sports were celebrated and where men were made to fight with wild Beasts If the Fountains of which I spake even now are publickly known those of Main and Monfrin in bas Languedoc of Vic in Auvergne at the foot of a Mountain of Vals in Vivarez and at Fonsanche half a league above Sauve are extreamly frequented for their Medicinal and Purgative vertue they are as good as those of the Spaw and of Ems in Germany The goodness of the Fountain of Vic was discover'd by a Cow which being the leanest of the Herd became the fairest and fattest because she alone drank of that water Amongst the Medicinal Fountains of Vals we see four that issue from the same Rock and pass through divers Minerals producing different effects That of Fonsanche ebbs and flows men drink at one place there and bathe at another the Mud of this Fountain is good against sore Eyes The Waters of Camarez in Roüergne are also esteemed A value also is set on the Waters of Sainte Reine in Burgundy and on those of Forges The Baths of Baleruc four leagues from Mont pellier those of Bagnols in Givodan those of Moulins Alchambaut in Bourbonnois and of Barege at the Pyreneans are singular they strengthen comfort and cure many infirm persons There is seen in the season a great concourse of people In the year of the World 2218. Ana the Son of Sebeon Prince of Seir found first of all Springs of hot Water he is the Inventor of Hot Baths according as Torniel and the greatest part of the Interpreters of Scripture affirm A Catalogue of the Archbishopricks of France and the Suffragan Bishopricks containing the number and the name of the first and last Bishop of each Diocess to the year 1680. The Archbishoprick of Rheims RHeims has had ninety four Bishops and Archbishops from S. Sixtus to Messire Charles-Maurice le Tellier first Ecclesiastical Duke and Peer of France Legat of course to the Holy See and Primate of the Belgick Gauls Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbon and Great Master of the Kings Chappel of Musick He succeeds Cardinal Antony Barbarin whose Epitaph which denotes a profound Humility is coucht in these terms by the order of his late Eminency Hic jacet pulvis cinis nihil The Archbishop of Rheims at the Royal Consecration and Coronation Anoints and Crowns the King. It s Suffragans are eight Amiens Beauvais Boulogne Châlons on Marne Laon Noyon Senlis and Soissons Cambray and Tournay belong'd formerly to the Archbishoprick of Rheims wherefore the Archbishops of Rheims signified their Protestation against the erection of the Archbishoprick of Cambray Messire Charles le Tellier caus'd his to be signified to Messire Christopher de Brias An. 1679. in the month of June the King gave in his Council to the Archbishop Duke of Rheims a place of Counsellor of State in Ordinary who seats himself as first Duke and Peer above the Dean of the Council immediately after the Chancellor of France Amiens has had seventy six Bishops from St. Firmin to Messire Francois Faure he was Preacher in Ordinary to the late Queen Mother Ann of Austria Beauvais eighty nine from St. Lucien to Messire Toussaint Fourbin de Janson Count and Peer of France and Vidame of Gerbroi This Prelate carries the Mantle Royal at the Kings Consecration and Coronation He was Bishop of Dignes and afterward of Marseilles and a long time Embassadour in Poland I speak of it in the Tract of the Sarmathians he was propos'd by the Pope in his Consistory for the Bishoprick of Beauvais though he had not been precogniz'd because a Precognization is not necessary when his Holiness proposes a Subject The Cardinals with a common voice gave him gratis a half of the Bulls The 27th of November 1679. he was received in the Grand Chamber of the Parliament with the usual Ceremonies and took there his place betwixt the Bishop Duke of Langres and the Bishop Count de Noyon in the presence of the Duke d Enguien of the Prince of Conti of the Prince de la Roche-sur-You and of seventeen Dukes and Peers whereof three were Ecclesiasticks He gave afterward a Dinner to the Princes of the Bloud and to the Dukes and Peers Boulogne has had
fixt at Anneci after that the Protestant Ministers had driven from the Town the Bishop and the Catholicks The Duke of Savoy nominates to this Bishoprick Cardinal Robert Bishop of Geneva was Pope under the name of Clement the Seventh Grenoble sixty two from Domninus to Messire Etienne le Camus Bishop and Prince President of course of the Estates of Daulphine formerly Almoner of his Majesty He might say with the Evangelical Prophet Quid debui ultrafacere vineae meae non feci I wish him the same fate with S. Gregory of Neocesarea call'd Thaumaturgus who having askt as he lay on his Death-bed how many Infidels remain'd in the City of Neocesarea after that it was answered him onely seventeen he said in rendring thanks to God that the day he took the Government of the Diocess he found full as many Catholicks S. Jean de Morienne is at the nomination of the Duke of Savoy Viviers ninety five from S. Janvier to Messire Loüis-Francois de la Chaume of Susa Count of Vivarez and Prince of Donzere The Archbishoprick of Tolose TOlose has had forty eight Bishops the first S. Saturnin vulgarly S. Cernin and twenty nine Archbishops from Raymond de Comminges Cardinal to Messire Joseph de Montpezat of Carbon formerly Bishop of S. Papaoul who deserv'd in the Prelateship the same elevation as his Illustrious Brother the Archbishop of Sens. The Suffragans are seven Pamiers Lombez Mirepoix Montauban Rieux S. Papaoul Lavaur Pamiers twenty nine Bishops from Loüis de Sicile surnam'd de Marseille to Messire Francois Etienne de Caulet Lombez twenty nine from Arnoldus Rogier de Comminges to Messire Cosme Roger before General of the Order des Feüillans and Preacher in Ordinary to their Majesties He was nominated to the Bishoprick of Pamiers An. 1680. Mirepoix thirty two from Raymond Athon to Messire Gabriel de la Broüë Preacher in Ordinary to the King. Montauban twenty eight from Bertrand du Pui to Messire Jean Baptiste Colbert de S. Poüages Rieux twenty three from Cardinal Pilefort de Rabastein to Messire Antoine Francois Bertier S. Papaoul thirty from Bernard de la Tour to Messire Barthelemi de Grammont Lavaur thirty one from Rogier d'Armagnac to Messire Charles le Goulx de la Berchere formerly the Kings Almoner The Archbishoprick of Roüen ROüen eighty nine from S. Nicaise to Messire Francois Rouxel de Medavi de Grancei Counsellor of State in Ordinary Primate of Normandy Messire Jacques Colbert is his Coadjutor He was created Titular Archbishop of Carthage the 4th of Aug. 1680. The Suffragans of Roüen are six Avranche Bayeux Coûtance Evreux Lisieux and Sées Avranche fifty six from Nepos or Nepus to Messire Gabriel Philippes de Froulé de Tessé Bayeux sixty eight from S. Exupere to Messire Francois de Nesmond Coûtance eighty eight from S. Ereptiol to Messire Charles-Francois de Lomenie de Brienne Evreux sixty seven from S. Taurin to Messire Loüis-Joseph de Grignan formerly Agent-General of the Clergy of France He succeeds Henry de Maupas of Tours sometime Bishop of Pui who was deputed to Rome for the Beatification and Canonization of S. Francois de Sales and has given the publick the Life of Priest Vincent General of the Congregation of the Mission of S. Lazarus The same Prelate has compos'd some other Works Lisieux forty nine from S. Theobaud to Messire Eleoner de Matignon If his high Birth fills him with Honour his excellent Actions accumulate him with Glory Sées sixty eight from S. Latuin to Messire Jean Forcoal before Almoner to the King. The Archbishoprick of Sens. SEns a hundred and sixteen Prelates from S. Savinien to Messire Jean de Montpezat de Carbon Primate of the Gauls and of Germany He was Bishop of S. Papaoul and then Archbishop of Bourges and afterward nominated to the Archbishoprick of Tolose which he did not occupy The Suffragans are Auxere Nevers and Troyes Before that Paris was made an Archbishoprick they were six in number Auxere an hundred and three from S. Peregrin to Messire André Colbert Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbonne Nevers ninety two from Tauritius or Astremonius to Messire Edoüart Vallot Troyes eighty three from S. Amant to Messire N. de Chavigni formerly the Kings Almoner Bishops of Bethléem BEthléem which was but a Village in Palestina belonging to the Tribe of Juda was honour'd with the Title of Bishoprick an 1110. by Pope Pascal the Second in the honour of the birth of the Son of God. The Episcopal See was transferr'd into France in the Diocess of Auxere in the faux-bourg of the Town of Clameci against Nivernois Guillaume the fourth of the name Count of Nevers being in the Holy Land for reconquering of it and considering that the Bishop of Bethléem could not subsist there founded him 500 Livres of yearly Rent for his subsistence in the faux-bourg before-nam'd Charles the Fourth King of France confirm'd this Donation The present Bishop is called Francois Batailler he depends immediately on the Holy See and is very much employ'd in Ordinations and Missions His ancient Predecessors were Suffragans of the Patriark of Hierusalem Messire Francois Batailler was propos'd to go and serve Portugal at the time that this Crown was found reduc'd to one onely Bishop by reason of the Refusal which the Court of Rome then made to give it any on the account of Spain whose Embassadour at Rome made great instances on this subject Auchs joyn'd with the Country of Eusan ninety six Prelates from Ceratius to Messire Henry de la Motthe Houdancourt Commander of the Kings Orders and Purveyor of Navarre formerly Bishop of Rennes and Almoner of the deceas'd Queen-Mother He is esteem'd one of the most learn'd Prelates in Antiquity and in the Science of the Canon-Law absolutely necessary for the government of the Church It 's what is requir'd at Rome The Suffragans are ten Aire Acqs or Dax Bayonne Couserans Comminges Leitoure Lescar Oleron Tarbes Bazas Aire fifty one from Marcel to Messire Jean-Loüis de Fromentieres Preacher in Ordinary to the King. Acqs fifty seven from S. Vincent Martyr to Messire Philippes de Chaumont Bayonne twenty nine from Leon to Messire Henry de Garsias the Prelate that occupies it at present is call'd Messire Jean Dolce Couserans sixty three from S. Valere to Messire Gabriel de S. Etienne vulgarly Esteve Comminges forty seven from Suavis to Messire Loüis de Rechignevoisin de Guron Leitoure forty five from Heutherius to Messire Hugues de Bar. Lescar forty five from S. Julien to Messire Jean de Haut de Sallies President of the Estates of Bearn first Counsellor to the Parliament of Pau and first Baron of Province Oleron forty four from Gratus to Messire Arnaud-Francois Maitié Tarbes forty nine from Antomerius to Messire Francois de Poudens Bazas fifty from Sextilius to Messire Guillaume de la Boissonade of Ortie formerly Chanter of the Church of Agen he succeeds Samuel Martineau Elne joyn'd with Perpignan a hundred
the Archbishoprick of Paris An. 1671. and created Duke and Peer of France An. 1674. It 's the first of this See who has born the Title of Duke and Peer which will pass from him to his Successors He was before Archbishop of Roüen and President in ordinary of the Assemblies of the Clergy of France He never permits any Priest to speak to him with his Hat off but himself is likewise uncover'd though he be a great Lord. The Suffragans of Paris are Chartres Orleans Meaux Chartres has had a hundred and five Bishops from S. Avent or Aventin some say Potentien to Messire Ferdinand de Neufville de Villeroy Counsellor of State in Ordinary formerly Bishop of S. Malo. He was born at Rome under the Embassie of his deceased Father who caus'd the Statua of Henry the Great to be erected there This great Prelate is descended from great Ministers who have been cherisht by our Kings and who have govern'd the State with so much wisdom and prudence He has always had near him persons of eminent Learning Orleans a hundred and seventeen from S. Altin to Messire Pierre Cambout de Coaslin the Kings first Almoner Meaux a hundred and four from S. Sanctin to Messire Dominique de Ligni Successor of his Uncle Dominique Seguier The Archbishoprick of Albi. ALbi has had sixty eight Bishops from St. Clair to Gaspard de Daillon du Lude This Bishoprick very famous for its Revenue was made an Archbishoprick under Pope Innocent the Eleventh at the request of Loüis the Fourteenth in favour of Messire Hyacynthe de Serroni some time Bishop of Orange and afterward Lord Bishop of Mande Count of Givodan and first Almoner of the late Queen-Mother Anne of Austria whose Funeral-Oration he made at Paris in the head of the Clergy of France and of all that is most Illustrious in the Kingdom with the applause and admiration of all his Auditors His rare Piety his profound Learning the long and important Services which he has rendred the Church and State have rais'd him to this high Dignity His devise is Sidus flos lapis There has been counted to the year 1680. sixty eight Bishops of Albi the Abbot de Cam who dayly penetrates Antiquity has discover'd eight or ten more by reading the Councels and the Register and Documents of the Metropolitan Church of Albi whereof he has compos'd the History His merit oblig'd the first Archbishop of this See a lover of Learning and learned Persons to make him his great Vicar and to send him on his behalf to assist in the Estates of Languedoc of the year 1680. The Suffragans of Albi are the nearest to it Vabres Rhodes Castres Cahors and Mande Vabres has had twenty two Bishops from Pierre d'Olargue to Messire Loüis de Barrada The two first Bishops of this Diocess were of the ancient House of Olargue Rhodes fifty three from St. Amant to Messire Gabriel de Voyer de Paulmi Castres twenty nine from Deodat to Messire Michel Tuboeuf Cahors sixty four from Genulphe to Messire N. le Jay Mande sixty two from S. Severian to Messire Francois Placide de Baudri de Piencour He confirms those that are in the good way and recalls those that are astray Five Bishops of this Diocess enlarge the Catalogue of Saints The Archbishoprick of Cambray CAmbray has had nine or ten Archbishops from Maximilian de Berghes to Messire Christophle de Brias he succeeds Gaspar Nemius Many Bishops preceded them for some time those of Cambray were Bishops of Arras they were afterward separated The Archbishop of Cambray stiles himself Archbishop and Duke of Cambray Count du Cambresis and Prince of the Empire This Archbishoprick before the Wars was worth a hundred thousand Livres of Rent The Archiepiscopal Church has a very fair Body adorn'd with a high Steeple some persons think that its Bell call'd Mary-Fontenoise resembles in greatness to George d' Amboise of Roüen or to Cardaillac of Tolose or to that of Mande when it was in being whereof the Clapper is yet to be seen Charies the Fifth caus'd the famous Citadel to be built which is very strong by Scituation and by Art though the King of France took it in a little time and receiv'd the Oath of Fidelity from the Archbishop An. 1677. The Governour of this place being askt at Brussels by the Duke de Villa-Hermosa why he had yielded it so soon answered him in these very terms The King of France was before it in person and I believe if he besieg'd Hell he would fetch all the Devils out in case Hell could be besieg'd and taken by Mortals The Suffragans of this Archbishoprick are Arras Tornai Saint Omer Arras has had fifty three Bishops from Lambert to Messire Guidon de Seve de Roche Chouard Tornai forty eight from S. Plato to Messire Philiberg de Choiseul du Plessis Pralin formerly Bishop of Comminges He preacht the Funeral Sermon on the late Prince of Conti. The Canons of his Cathedral-Church are cloath'd in violet The Town of Gand depended formerly for the spiritual on the Bishops of Tornay as we shall see elsewhere Saint Omer ten from Gerard de Hamericourt to Messire Annes Tristan de la Baume Suse His Majesty chose him for a Diocess and a People newly conquered by reason of his particular merit and of his extream sweetness accompani'd with a like Address for governing them He was created before Bishop of Tarbes He expected his Bulls for S. Omer An. 1679. A Historiographer of France says that he has been assur'd that the custom of defending Theses in Greek pass'd from S. Omer to Paris in a Book entituled Les Entretiens de Luxembourg p. 193. The Archbishoprick of Bezancon BEzancon ninety four Prelates and Archbishops from S. Lin to Messire Antoine de Gramont The Canons of his Cathedral bear in their Arms a Camail of Silk Azure doubled with Taffety Gules with a Crosier and a Mitre The Suffragans are Bellai Bâle Lausane These two last are in Switzerland Bellai has had eighty six Bishops from Audax to Messire Pierre du Laurens There was given to this Prelate for devise in a These dedicated to him Crescit suo sydere laurus by allusion to his Arms. Bâle sixty from Justinian to blessed Ramestein who died An. 1651. After that Bâle was entirely Protestant the Episcopal See was plac'd at Potentru Lauzane sixty three from S. Beat to Messire Jean de Vateville who died An. 1649. The See is at Fribourg in Brisgou Buntruc is the ordinary Seat of the Bishop Metz Toul and Verdun are Suffragans of Treves which has been taken and retaken Metz has had eighty nine Bishops from St. Clement to Messire George d' Aubusson de la Fueillade Commander of the Kings Orders Prince of the Empire formerly Archbishop of Ambrun and Embassadour at Venice Henry de Eourbon Duke of Verneüil Jule Mazarin and Prince Guillaume de Fustemberg though in the Catalogue of the Bishops of Metz not occupy the
Episcopal See. Toul eighty six from Mansuet to Messire Jacques de Fieux Prince of the Empire Verdun ninety four or ninety five from St. Sanctin to Messire N. de Bethune Bishop and Count of Verdun and Prince of the Empire He succeeds Messire Armand de Monchi d' Hoquincourt The Rank and Seats of the Prelates THe Archbishops and Bishops have Rank and Seat in the General Assemblies of the Clergy according to the antiquity of their Consecration The Prelates which are Dukes and Peers of France have the precedency above the others at the Ceremony of the Consecration of the Kings and in the Seats of Parliament and enter with their Coaches into the Court of the Louvre Agents General of the Clergie of France THe Clergy has two Agents General at Court to mind Eccesiastical affairs the Archbishops and Suffragan Bishops name them alternatively They hold their Charge five years because at each General Assembly of the Clergy two are created who are deputed each by the Province which names at his turn Messieurs the Abbots of Maretz Colbert and of Bezons Doctors of Sorbonne were created Agents An. 1680. having been nominated the one by the Archbishop of Rheims and the other by him of Narbonne Bourges and Vienne gave Agents An. 1675. It is observ'd that there is no Prelate who has been Agent-General of the Clergy but that he understands affairs for as men do business so business makes men The Clergy has also its Treasurer call'd otherwise Receiver-General Those that would know the continuation and succession of all the Archbishops and Bishops of France must read a Book of a great labour in four Volumes in Folio compos'd by the Sieurs de Sainte-Marthe entituled Gallia Christiana there are seen there a great number of Popes Bulls the day of the creation of the Prelates their Qualities their Arms the names and the number of Abbeys This Work was printed An. 1656. and is worth a thousand other Impressions There is to be seen also another Book on this subject which has for Title Series Episcoporum Pierre Frison has given the publick Gallia Purpurata Since some time the King seldom gives Archbishopricks to Ecclesiastical persons if they are not actually Bishops These Archbishopricks contain many Suffragans under them our Conquests increase the number The sole Province of Languedoc has had to this time twenty two Bishops and as many Barons entring yearly into the Estates The Duke of Verneüil is Governour of this Province the Marquess de Cauvisson the Comte de Roure and the Marquess de Montanegue are Lieutenants General for the King and Messire Henry d'Aguessau Master of Requests and President of the Grand Council is there Intendant of Justice Polity and Finances He succeeds Messire Claude de Bezons Counsellor of State in Ordinary who liv'd there a long time and who manag'd well the Kings affairs We shall remark in favour of this Province that the Law of Aubeine or Escheatage has no place here by priviledge and exemption of the King nor in the Vicounty of Turenne Laurence Bouchet Advocate in the Court of Parliament of Paris is formal in the point in his Book entituled La Bibliotheque ou Tresor du droit des Francois in which are treated civil criminal and beneficial matters govern'd as well by the Ordinances and Customs of France as decided by Decrees of Soveraign Courts summarily extracted from the most famous French Lawyers and Practitioners and compar'd in many places with the Laws and Customs of Foreign Nations This book was printed at Paris An. 1629. There may be seen also thereon the book of the Province which contains its Priviledges The ordinary List of the Parliaments of France and the time of their erection PAris Tolose Grenoble Bordeaux Dijon Roüen Aix Rennes Pau and Metz. There are added Tornai and Dole its Parliament was plac'd at Bezancon An. 1674. Perpignan has a soveraign Council which judges without appeal as also Pignerol Brisac and other places That which the French call Parliament that is to say conference and debate concerning things belonging to Justice the Spaniards name Soveraign Council and the Savoyards the Senate The Parliament of Paris was made of constant Session on the place by Philippes le Bel An. 1302. and according to Chorier An. 1288. It was before liable to be remov'd from place ro place The 19th of May 1678. Loüis the Fourteenth nominated Messire Nicolas Potier Chevalier Lord of Novion and of Vilbon President of the Cap to the place of first President of this Parliament This place has been long due to his Merit to his Integrity to his great Lights and to that long experience of the Parliament-house which he has acquir'd with an indefatigable and wholly wonderful Assiduity He has rendred himself considerable on all occasions and particularly on those great days which he held at Clermont in Auvergne 1665. Tolose was instituted by the same Philippe le Bel and in the same year as Paris An. 1302. and made fixt An. 1443. and according to Chorier An. 1320. Its first President is at this day Messire Gaspart de Fieubet Grenoble by the Dolphin Loüis Son and Successor of Charles le Bel who confirm'd Anno 1453. by his Letters-Patents that which the Dolphin had done Its first President at this day is call'd Denis le Goux de la Berchere Bourdeaux by Loüis the Eleventh An. 1462. Bourdeaux and Grenoble sit by turns That of Bourdeaux was transferred some years since to Condom and afterward to Marmande from Marmande to la Reole This Parliament has at present for its first President N. d Olide by the voluntary demission of Messire Arnaud de Pontac Dijon by the same King Loüis the Eleventh An. 1476. Messire Loüis Laisne Chevalier Lord de la Margrie after having been many years Counsellor to the Grand Council Master of Requests and having exercis'd divers Intendances of Justice Polity and Finances in Guienne Normandy Burgundy and had many important Commissions in Languedoc for the Kings service and in his Armies was created for his merit first President of the Parliament of Dijon An. 1653. and has kept the place with all the Splendour Honesty Honour and Understanding imaginable so far that his Majesty judg'd him necessary in his Council where he has been one of the most employed in the Affairs of State and of the Finances Messire Nicolas Brulard has been some years first President of this Parliament Roüen was establisht by Loüis the Twelfth An. 1499. The Author of the book entituled L'Etat de la France sets this Parliament after that of Tolose he speaks in these terms The Soveraign Court of Normandy regulated under the name of Echiquier by Philippe le Bel An. 1302. was made perpetual by Loüis the Twelfth An. 1499. though it did not bear the name of Parliament but under Francis the First An. 1515. Messire Claude Pellot is here President since his Intendances of Justice Aix An. 1501. by Loüis the Twelfth Late Messire Geofrey Camus
Lord of Pont-carré Counsellor to the Parliament of Paris and Master of Requests was nominated after his Intendancies of Justice in Guienne Languedoc and Provence first President of the Parliament of Aix by Letters-Patents of King Henry the Fourth and call'd shortly after to the Council of his Majesty where he died Sub-dean and honourary Counsellor to the Parliament of Paris Late Messire Elie Laisné Chevalier Lord of Marguerie Father of Messire Loüis Laisné Lord of Marguerie Counsellor of State in Ordinary was also first President of the Parliament of Aix He has given the publick a Commentary on the Prophet Esay in folio which a great Pope honour'd with his esteem having said that it belong'd to a Counsellor of State to explain another Counsellor of State. He has left a posthumous Work on Job Late Messire Jean de Mesgrigni Counsellor of State was the first President of this same Parliament Messire Arnoul Marin Lord of Chateneraye occupies at present this Tribunal Rennes by Henry the Second An. 1553. This Parliament was transferr'd to Vannes An. 1675. Messire Loüis Phelipeaux de Pont Chartran is at present its first President he succeeds Messire Francois d'Argouges now Counsellor of State. Pau and Metz are the work of Loüis the Thirteenth Pau was created An. 1620. and Metz An. 1633. Messire Bernard de la Vie is in the head of the Parliament of Pau and Messire Thomas de Bragelone at that of Metz. Tornai by Loüis the Fourteenth An. 1675. The Order of the Session of Parliaments was regulated An. 1557. at the Estates General held at Paris under Henry the Second The first President of each Parliament wears on his Cap two Galloons of Gold and three Borders of Gold likewise on his Mantle lin'd with Hermines on the backside to distinguish him from other Presidents of the Cap who have but one on their Cap. The Presidents the Counsellors and their Atturneys and Sollicitors-general wear red with trimmings of black Velvet on the days of Ceremonies the Hoods are lin'd with Hermines The chief Register and the first Door-keeper wear also a red Robe this wears a Cap of Gold. There are in France ten Courts or Chambers of Accounts The Towns where they are establisht are Paris Roüen Dijon Nantes Montpellier Grenoble Aix Pau Blois and Lille in Flanders That of Paris is very ancient its Presidents as also those of the Grand Council wear on the days of Ceremony a Robe of black Velvet A book entituled L'Etat de la France marks the Jurisdiction of all the Superiour Courts and after what manner the Officers are cloath'd on solemn days There are counted in the Kingdom twenty three Generalities about an hundred sixty four Elections There were counted three Chambers of Edict that of Grenoble that of Castelnaudari which was before at Castres and that of St. Machairus formerly at Bordeaux they were incorporated in their Parliaments An. 1679. These Chambers were instituted in favour of persons of the pretended reform'd Religion pursuant to the Edicts of Pacification made in the years 1576 1577 and 1578. This last is call'd the Edict of Nantes or of January These Courts or Chambers of Edict were called Miparties because they were compos'd of an equal number of Magistrates Catholick and of the pretended Religion The 22th of April 1666. the King set forth a Declaration which remov'd the affairs of persons converted to the Catholick Religion from the Chamber of Edict of Castres to that of Grenoble because many particular persons converted to the Roman Catholick Religion complain'd that they could not hope for any Justice in the Chamber of Edict of Castres The Archbishops and Bishops and other Ecclesiasticks deputed in the General Assembly of the Clergy carried their Complaints to his Majesty the 8th of September 1679. The Chambers of Edict of Paris and of Roüen were suppressed An. 1669. The Presidential Seats are in a very great number these are of a Jurisdiction of a vast extent the Castelet at Paris that of Tolose that of Lyons that of Poitiers that of Nismes and that of Rion in Auvergne The Sevenes Givodan and Vivarez plead at the Presidency of Nismes whereof the Marquess of Monfrin is Seneschal The Inhabitants of Velai have their Presidential Seat in the Town of Puy The Countries of State are BVrgundy Dolphine Provence Languedoc and Britany Remarkable things of these times happening from the year 1672. to the beginning of 1680. ANno 1672. the 7th of April there was publisht at Paris the Kings Proclamation by which his Majesty declar'd War against the States General of the Vnited Provinces both by Sea and Land. His Majesty conquer'd in a little time on them above fifty or sixty places as well Towns as Forts and took a great number of Prisoners without speaking of the reducement of three Provinces By reason of these great Conquests it was deliberated in the Guild-hall of Amsterdam for carrying the Keys of their Town to the King of thirty six voices there were twenty seven An ancient Burgomaster assisted with eight persons of the contrary opinion reverst the Deliberation and caus'd the Sluces to be drawn up After that they were drawn up they would have sent this ancient Burgomaster into Spain with the Character of Embassadour he excused himself on the account of the weakness of his age M. le Prince drew very near Amsterdam and many persons think that he had entred it had it not been for the hurt he receiv'd in his hand at Tolhus a place where the Rhine divides it self and where is built the famous Fort of Schenk The 23 of the same month and of the same year the King put in possession of the Seals Messire Etienne Deligre and rais'd him the month of January An. 1674. to the place and dignity of Chancellor of the Kingdom for his merit and long services rendred to the State. He was Son of a Master his Father having been Chancellor and Keeper of the Seals Anno 1673. the War was declar'd betwixt France and Spain At the beginning of the year 1675. the King chose for his Confessor Father de la Chaize who has been Professor of Divinity in his Society Rector and Provincial of the Province of Lyons He is consummated in all sorts of Knowledge and particularly in the Moral Positive and Scholastick learning in the Mathematicks and in Medals whereof he has written a Book It 's a Chair of Truth and Piety whence issue Oracles to instruct and Examples to edifie it 's wherefore Loüis the Great by the high Lights which Heaven has communicated to him knowing his merit the solidity of his Understanding committed to him his Conscience and his Soul entirely He possesses in an eminent degree the excellent and great Qualities of those that have preceded him in the Office of Counsellor Confessor of our Kings the first was Aymon Auger the following Coton Arnoux Siguerand Suffren Malliand Gourdon a Scot Caussin Sirmond Dinet Paulin Annat and Ferrier Henry the Third was the first
the Marquess de los Balbazez and afterward the Affiances were made by Cardinal Boüillon great Almoner of France The Ceremony of the Marriage was perform'd in the Chappel of the House of Fontainebleau The 20th of September the Queen of Spain parted from Fontainebleau for Spain she went into a Coach with the King the Queen M. le Dauphin Monsieur and Madame they went together two leagues on the way and parted from each other after having bid an Adieu very tenderly Her Catholick Majesty accompanied with Monsieur and Madam went on her way the Marquess and Marchioness de los Balbazez went the Journey with her The 30th of December of the year before-mentioned 1679. was sign'd at Munic the Contract of Marriage of M. le Dauphin with the Electoral Princess of Bavaria Mary An-Christian Victoir A Continuation of Affairs of this time THe King re-establisht by an Edict of 1679. the study of the Civil Law which had not been taught since the Ordinance of Blois of the year 1579. Messieurs Boucherat and de Bezons Counsellors of State who were nominated Commissioners for determining the difficulties which might hinder the execution of the Edict were present at the Harang which the Sieur Deloy Professor made the 17th of December in the Schools of Law to thank his Majesty for the favour granted Some time after the King to render more flourishing the study of the Civil Law of Paris made a Society of twelve Doctors who took the Oath tendred them by the same two Counsellors of State nominated Commissaries for this effect the Sieurs Boccager and le Gendre are of the number of the associated Doctors for their particular merit His most Christian Majesty appointed 200000 Livres to be distributed in the Diocesses of Narbonne Beziers Agde and S. Pons by reason of the Damages that they had suffered by the drought of the same year An. 1680. on the 15th of January the Contract of Marriage of Loüis Armand de Bourbon Prince of Conti with Mademoiselle de Blois Ann Mary de Bourbon was sign'd in the Kings Chamber the next day after Cardinal Boüillon perform'd the Ceremony of Marriage in the Chappel of the House of S. Germain in Laye The King nominated Abbot Hervaux to the Office of Auditor of the Rota possess'd before by Messire Charles de Bourlemont LORAIN LOrain Lotharingia took its name from Lotharius Grandchild of the Emperour Charlemagne The Ducal and Soveraign House of Lorain contains many Escotcheons over all a Bend Gules charg'd with three Alerions Argent in memory of Godefroy de Bouillon who at one sole shoot of an Arrow broacht three little Birds on it Its Princes bear also in their Arms the Cross of Hierusalem by reason of their pretences to the two Sicilies whereof the Kings were also Kings of Hierusalem Lorain has for capital City Nancy two Duchies that of Lorain and that of Bar. They count there three Bailiwicks or Seats of Judicature to wit that of Nancy that of Germany Lorain and that of Vauge These Bailiwicks comprize a great many Lands and Lordships as the County of Vaudemont the Marquisat Nomeni the Marquisat Hatonchatel the Lordships of Epinal on the Moselle Marsal Blamont Salverdin Boulai c. Charles the Fourth Duke of Lorain Uncle of Charles the Fifth Son of Francis Count of Vaudemont was depriv'd of his Estates for some years and restor'd to them upon the general Peace by special Articles the 3d of March 1661. The King of France and the King of Spain have been Masters the one of the Estates of this Prince and the other of his Person Henry the Second King of France conquer'd Metz Toul and Verdun these three Towns were straitly united to the Crown of France by the Treaty of Munster and by that of the Pyreneans Loüis the Thirteenth conquer'd the Town Bar le Duc and all the Country of Barrois and also the strong places Moyenvic Stenai Dun Jametz and the County of Clermont which ought to continue incorporated to France according to the Treaty of Peace made in the Isle of Faisans 1659. Loüis the Fourteenth on consideration of this Peace restor'd Prince Charles to the possession of the Dutchy of Lorain after having caus'd his Fortifications of Nancy to be demolish'd on condition that the Duke should leave off all Leagues Intelligences Associations and Practices with any Prince whatsoever which having not perform'd his Majesty dispossess'd him Since this Treaty of Peace Duke Charles has yielded up to the most Christian King the Property and Soveraignty of his Duchy of Lorain and Bar. The most learned Genealogists draw the Origine of the House of Lorain from above 2000 years It descends from Echinoal Maire of the Palace under Clovis the Second King of France 648. It 's the same Family with that of Austria at present Its Princes repair not to the Diets of the Empire fearing lest they should not have that place allow'd them which they pretend to conformable to their Birth The Dutchy of Bar is a Fief holding of the Crown of France The chief Towns of Lorain are NAncy Mireout Luneville Spinal Remiremont Diuze Valdegrange Rosieres Neufchatel c. Those of the Dutchy of Bar BAr le Duc S. Mihiel Pont-Amousson Stenay Estein Vizelise Moyenvic Commerci Pont-Amousson has the title of University its principal Founder was Prince Charles the Third The Country Messin contains a great many Towns Burroughs Villages Hamlets Castles c. At Luneville near Rosieres there is a fair House of Pleasure belonging to the Dukes of Lorain Mausoleums of the Dukes of Lorain THeir Tombs are in divers Abbeys to wit in that of Clairlieu Clairfountain Beaupre and since these three hundred years at Nancy at S. Georges and at the Cordeliers There are in Lorain four famous Abbeys of Ladies Canonesses to wit of Remiremont Epinal Poussai and Boussiere these Ladies may marry themselves excepting the Abbesses and others of the chief they are of Noble extraction Lorain is very fertile both in Corn Wine and Pasturage it brings forth good Horses and divers Animals Venison is almost as common as Beef in a great many Butchers stalls Fish abound there by reason of the River Maes and other Rivers very full of them as the Moselle the Sare the Meurte and the Selle This issues from the Pond Indre of which the Carps alone bring its Master once in three years 16000 Livres of Rent as it has been attested to me by some of the chief Officers of the late Prince Charles the Fourth The other Ponds are considerable there are four or five of this greatness If Switzerland has great Lakes Lorain has Ponds very full of Fish A Lake is distinguisht from a Pond or Marsh that the first is a deep water and has Springs which never dry and a Pond is a gathering together of waters more subject to diminish Ponds are emptied but not Lakes This Country has Salt-works of a great revenue Rosieres Dieuze Marsal Moyenvic Salone and Chasteau are places of Salt-works and
and has given him a meet Education and inspired into him that he must never be Absolute but in Reason and Justice These are the firm Pillars of a State. His Majesty considering that it is to infect the head of a publick Fountain to corrupt the Soul of a Prince that may one day be seated on the Throne for this reason removes from his company Flatterers and Libertines who might render obscure the precious gifts and rare qualities which Heaven pours with full hands on this Royal Soul which rejoyces France which increases every day more and more by the noble cares by the high lights and by the incomparable Conduct of the Illustrious Persons who have governed and instructed him This Prince in his Orient is the admiration of the whole Court of Ambassadors and of Forreign Ministers and will be one day the Model of the greatest Heroes We see this Divine Plant to grow and rise it self every day to the admiration and glory of France and of the Church Anno 1668 Pope Clement the Ninth sent into France Prince Loüis Cardinal Deacon Duke of Vendôme Legat a Latere to Loüis the Fourteenth for the Solemnity and Ceremony of the Baptism of Monsieur le Dauphin His Holiness was Godfather and he was named Loüis August This Prince has Married the Electoral Princess of Bavaria Mary-Ann-Victoir-Christian People admire her Perfections the excellency of her Understanding her Majestick Air the evenness of her Humour and generally all the excellent qualities that she possesses which yet as eminent as they are are much beneath the Christian Vertues wherewith her fair Soul is endowed This great Princess will give her Spouse Heirs to the Crown and he in exchange will Crown her with Palms and Laurels The Church and the State will gather the fruits of Glory and of Benediction The 7th of March 1680 Cardinal Boüillon great Almoner of France gave them the second Benediction of Marriage at Chalons on Marn Lilia florebunt the Lillies will flourish and diffuse their agreeable odour over all the earth I have spoken of the August Electoral House of Bavaria in the Tract of the Princes Electors of the Empire The Duke of Orleans MOnfieur the only Brother of the King did not fail to signalize his Courage before Lisle and Mastrich when they were reduced and to take Towns on other occasions Before he reduced St. Omer to the Kings Obedience he surpast himself on the eleventh of April of the year 1677. at the Battle which he fought aâ— Cassel being assisted by the Marshals d'Humieres and de Luxembourg where he gained a very great and very famous Victory o'er the Spanish and Dutch Troops commanded by the Prince of Orange The Chevalier de Lorain was always near his person in the Fight and his Brother the Chevalier d'Harcourt may be lookt upon as a second David after having killed at the Battle of Raab the Turkish Goliah who insolently insulted over the Christian Army Cassel is known in History to have been the field of Battle of three Sons of France all called Philip the first was overcome the other two were Conquerers This last and glorious day was remarkable for many singular actions the Cavalry contributed extreamly by their vigour to the gaining of this great Battle they had the advantage to give the beginning to the Victory overthrowing at first onset the left Wing of the Enemy We may say that the first Squadron composed of Scotch and English was not of those that signalized themselves least by the advantage it had to begin and almost to end this great day it was led by the Compt de Bröe more known by the name de la Guette His firmness was like to have cost him his life in the last Charge his sole Squadron which was well kept in order being attackt by five Squadrons of the Enemy This Count Captain-Lieutenant of the English Souldiery for his most Christian Majesty was very fortunate in that it cost him but his liberty ev'n his Enemies rendred Justice to his Merit by treating him with as much Civility as he could wish The Musketeers came very seasonably at the instant that the Victory hanged in doubt they made themselves Masters of the Barricado of Cassel The Commander de Fourbin whose Illustrious and Ancient House has furnisht great Captains and learned Politicians to the State whom our Kings have caressed and honoured with the greatest Employs of the Kingdom and so esteemed them that they have been pleased to have them for their safety as well as for their Councel near their Royal persons it 's the Elogy of their Family The Wise and Valiant Fourbins gave a testimony of both in this dangerous and important occasion and his Majesty shewed his generous acknowledgment by the reception he made him at his glorious return even to give him his Picture which he took from his arm and which the Sieur Commander Captain-Lieutenant of the first Company had more in his heart than all the Pictures that could be given him The Sieur de Hautfaye Lord of Jonvel Captain-Lieutenant of the second Company did his part well there The Chevalier de Lussan in this famous Battle lost one Arm by a Cannon-shot in the service of his King and Country The Count d' Avejan Captain of the Guards bestirred himself vigorously according to his wont The Prince of Condé and the Duke d'Enguien FRance has always been provided with great Men in all Ages and in all kinds It has not been at a loss for great Captains men of Brain and execution good for War and for Peace for Battles and for Treaties such as have not been like the Emperour Domitian who amus'd himself in running through flyes with a Golden Bodkin or Aropas King of Macedon who made Lanterns or Hartabus King of the Hircans who caught Moles or Biantes King of the Lydians who ran Frogs through It has in this Age Loüis de Bourbon Prince of Condé and the Duke d'Enguien Sons of Mars and Bellona to whom the nuâ—â—er of Enemies does but add courage bloody occasions being their divertisements and for this reason they have done actions that might better be imagined than written Their Swords have painted them much more lively with the blood of the Spaniards and other Nations than they may be represented with a Quill The most intelligent know well that these are not chance-blows but ordinary effects of their dexterity and courage The famous and bloody Battle of Senef Crowns their Military Exploits They have joyned Learning with Arms and have an excellent Library where there are rare Greek and Latine Manuscripts The Father and the Son are living Libraries Prince Henry de la Tour d'Auvergne Vicount de Turenne FRance has its Marshals and its Captains and an infinite number of valiant and flesht Souldiers the greatest part of them capable of commanding and he that has commanded them so long time and so gloriously Henry de la Tour d'Auvergne Vicount de Turenne Marshal-General of the Kings