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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70807	The English atlas	Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654-1696.; Nicolson, William, 1655-1727.; Peers, Richard, 1645-1690.	1680 (1680)	Wing P2306; Wing P2306A; Wing P2306B; Wing P2306C; ESTC R2546	1,041,941	640

Light-horse as the King thinks fit and pay in yearly such a sum of money into the Treasury But these are neither so numerous nor large as before the alteration of Government in the year 1660. Again out of the Nobility are chosen all the Court-Officers Of which the chiefest are 1. Court-Officers The Chancellor 2. The Admiral who takes care of the building and repairing of all sorts of Ships belonging to the Crown He has under him a Vice-Admiral who acts by his Commission 3. The Marshal who provides necessaries for all manner of dispatches in the times of war and peace 4. The Treasurer who receives in and gives acquittances for all summs paid into the Kings Exchequer he has under him two Secretaries of the Nobility and a great number of inferior Scribes 5. The Master of the Horse There are only seven Bishopricks in Denmark Bishopricks which are all as in England in the Kings gift 1. Copenhagen where the Bishop has Archiepiscopal rights tho without the title 2. Ripen and 3. Arhusen both in the Northern Jutland 4. Odensee in Funen 5. Wiburg 6. Arhusen 7. Sleswic in the Southern Jutland The Cities are governed by their distinct Corporations Cit●●● And the Citizens enjoy peculiar Priviledges and Charters as in other parts of Europe The Rustics are either Freeholders Frybunder Rustics such as have hereditary Estates paying only some small Quit-rent to their Landlords Or Wornede Villains absolutely in the power of their Lords Whilst the Kingdom of Denmark lay confused and broken into several incoherent parts La●● the Provinces had not all the same Laws but were governed by peculiar Statutes established by their petty but independent Princes Whence in Danish Authors we meet often with mention made of the Leges Scanicae Leges Sialandicae c. But afterwards when all these scatter'd members came to be re-united under the same head they were all subject to the same Government and Laws The Laws now in use were drawn into one body which they call the Jydske Lowbog or the Book of the Laws of Jutland and established by King Waldemar the first and revised and confirm'd by Waldemar the second To the observation of these as the only Municipal Laws of the Land the Kings of Denmark have formerly bin sworn at their Coronation Howbeit some of them have been since changed As for instance by the ancient Laws of Denmark as well as in England as may appear by the frequent mention of manbot and wergild in our English-Saxon Laws murder was not punished with death but a pecuniary mulct This custom was observed till the days of Christian the third who looking upon it as a constitution inconsistent with the Law of God and dictates of humane reason abrogated it ordering that from thenceforward wilful murder should be judged a capital crime The ancient Danes were so careful and zealous to transmit their Estates to their right heirs that tho they could be so merciful as to suffer murderers to live yet they punished Adultery with death Which Law is still in force in Saxony as may be seen in any Sachsen-Spiegel and many other parts of Germany The fashion of deciding all manner of causes in our English Courts by a Jury of twelve men Jud●●●ture may seem to have bin borrowed from the Danes who used formerly as they do still in some parts of Jutland to assemble every Parish by themselves once a year in the fields to determine all differences by twelve select men From whom if the disagreeing parties were not reconciled an appeal lay to the Judge of the Province and thence to the supreme Court of Justice as is shown before The Heathen Danes had another way of determining Controversies by Duels in which the Challenger was to demonstrate the justice of his cause by his success This custom lasted till the first planting of Christianity by Poppo who to confirm the truth of his Doctrine took up with his bare hands glowing-hot bars of Iron without the least harm to the admiration of all beholders This miracle wrought not only a change in the Religion but Laws also of the Kingdom For hereupon King Sueno or Suenotto ordered That thence forward all persons accused of any hainous crime should clear themselves by carrying in their hands a glowing plough-share or some other piece of hot iron This kind of purging is called by some of the Danish Writers Jerntegn i. e. Iron-token by others Ordale Whence this last word should fetch its original is not agreed on by our modern Etymologists Verstegan brings it from Or an old word for Law and deal a part or portion And indeed the German word Vhrteil seems to favour this derivation Our fore-fathers the Saxons had borrowed from the Danes several kinds of Ordale As by carrying a bar of hot iron up to the high Altar bare hand by treading barefoot and blindfold over a certain number of glowing barrs laid on the ground at unequal distances by thrusting the naked arm into a pot of boiling water and lastly as they use to try Witches by throwing the accused party into a River or deep Vessel of cold water He that desires to see an exact account of the ceremonies used in the second and third kinds of Ordale may read them at large in the Ecclesiastical Laws of King Athelstane published by the Learned Sr. Henry Spelman Concil Britann tom 1. pag. 404. And in the same Kings Laws as they are published by Mr. Lambard you have the other two sorts described The first that throughly abolished all kinds of Ordale in Denmark was King Waldemar the Second about the year 1240 at the request of Pope Innocent the Third who thought it an intolerable and hainous impiety thus to tempt God Barclay in his Icon Animorum wonders that such innumerable swarms of men should sally out of these parts as were able to overrun the greatest part of Europe whereas at this day there is such a scarcity of Inhabitants that the King of Denmark is hardly able to wage war with any of his Neighbours without a supply of Souldiers out of foreign Countries But this is no such great miracle when we consider how the vastest Empires in the World Assyria Egypt Judaea and Rome it self vainly flattered with the name of Vrbs Aeterna have had their periods The greatest strength of the King of Denmark as of all Princes of Isles consists chiefly in the number of their Mariners and good Ships In all Skirmishes and Wars between the Dane and Swede it is obvious to observe how much the latter have usually prevail'd at Land and the former at Sea Christian the second upon a short warning fitted out a hundred good men of war to aid Henry the Second King of France against the English and this present King has a much larger Fleet always ready for action The Danish King can afford to build yearly twelve men of war without impoverishing his Exchequer And in this Naval force the

Soldiers before William Archbishop of Mentz wall'd it in the year 964. The whole trade of the Citizens is in sowing gathering and dressing Woad They have three sorts of this herb the first of which they sow about Christmas the next call'd Summer Woad is sown in the Spring Summer or Harvest and of this they have usually three crops the third is not sow'n at all but grows wild Besides the good quality of this Herb it is reckon'd a very Soveraign Balsamic and cures wounds if taken in time almost with a touch It something resembles Plantain but shoots out a longer leaf The roots of it exceedingly fatten and improve barren ground and for that reason it has been of late years brought over into England with Clover-grass Cinque-foil and other herbs of the like nature and in many parts of this Kingdom particularly in Northamptonshire is now sow'n with good success Towns of less note are 1. Eysennach or Isenach on the borders of Hessen the Seat of a great branch of the House of Saxony 2. Mulhausen an Imperial City but of no great consequence 3. Hahn 4. Arnstadt c. COMITATVS MANSFELDIAE DESCRIPTIO Auctore Tilemanno Stella Sig. Apud Janssonio-Wassbergios Mosem Pitt et Stephanum Swart THE COUNTY OF MANSFELD SOME of the German Historians tell us that Heger Count of Mansfeld was one of the Commoners at our British King Arthur's round Table and hence they endeavor to prove the Antiquity of this County For King Arthur is suppos'd to have reign'd about the year of Christ 540 and Mansfeld in Notinghamshire which these men say was built by the foremention'd Heger is thought of age enough to justifie this story But others trace its Antiquities much higher and derive the name of Mansfeld from Mannus Tuisco's Son and Father of the Germans And this fancy is back'd with the name of Ascania a neighbouring Town in the Principality of Anhalt which say they must needs have been so call'd from Ascenas the Father of Tuisco and the German Nation This is one of the four Hercynian Counties the other three being those of Stolberg Hohenstein and Regenstein It is bounded on the East with the River Sala which separates it from the Bishopric of Mersburg and other parts of the Elector of Saxony's Dominions on the North with some part of the Principality of Anhalt on the West with the Counties of Schwartzburg Stolberg and some other lesser Principalities on the South with Thuringen In this County there are great store of Mines which afford several sorts of Metals and Minerals to the no small profit of the Inhabitants Amongst the rest the Scheiffersteyn a kind of Mineral peculiar to this and the neighbouring Provinces is here found in great abundance 'T is a blackish glistering sort of Slat which being bray'd and melted down yeilds a vast quantity of Copper and a considerable deal of Silver John Hubensak a German Commentator on some part of Munster's Cosmography gives the following account of this Mineral The Counts of Mansfeld says he have in their Dominions several Mines of Scheifferstein the like whereof the whole world can scarce pretend to For out of this stone the inhabitants melt a Copper each hundred weight whereof contains betwixt ten and twelve ounces of pure silver Nor are the Mines like to fail in hast since in what part soever of the whole County you dig for this Mineral you are sure to speed I my self have been an eye-witness of a strangely extravagant curiosity of Nature in the composure of this stone There is in the neighbourhood not far from Eisleben a Lake of several miles in length and breadth abounding with several sorts of Fish and other living Creatures as Frogs Water-Rats c. all which are lively represented in many of these Scheifferstones by fair Copper-strokes thro the very body of the Slat So far Hubensak Now what credit may be given to the later part of his story I shall not determine but leave it to the Reader 's discretion to believe or reject it Many of Hubensak's Countrymen are forward enough to second him in the assertion and Petrus Albinus in his Chronicle of the Mines of Misnia not questioning the truth of the story endeavours to lay down the true and natural reasons of these appearances And possibly Nature has wrought no greater miracles in these then in other stones daily found in many parts of our own Island We may here in one County meet with lively pourtraictures of Plants Insects Fishes Birds Beasts nay and several parts of man's body delineated by Nature her self in the bodies of hard and flinty stones For a testimony of this truth I shall only refet the Reader to the fifth Chapter of our ingenious Dr. Plot 's Natural History of Oxfordshire where he may find a faithful register of almost innumerable Instances in this kind together with a learned conjecture at the reasons of such variety of shapes They that attempt the running up the pedigree of the Counts of Mansfeld as high as Heger or Mannus are too Romantic to be credited Counts or taken notice of in this place The more sober Genealogists are content to fetch the original of this Family from Burchard the fifth Count of Quernfort on whom the Emperor Frideric Barbarossa bestow'd this County in requital of the many signal services done by him both in the wars against the foremention'd Duke Henry and in the Holy Land His grandchild Burchard by a Son of the same name was the first that assum'd the Title of Count of Mansfeld about the year 1250. Since which time that Honour has been continued down to several Princes of the same Line who have nevertheless always paid some small acknowledgment of Homage to the Electors of Saxony Amongst these Counts the most eminent have been 1. Walerad Privy-Counsellor to the Emperor Sigismund a faithful Servant to the Empire and a notable Improver of his own Estate 2. John George for some time Deputy-Governor of Saxony under Duke Augustus 3. Peter Ernest Governor of Luxemburg under the Emperors Charles the Fifth and Philip the Second by both of whom he was employ'd in their wars with France and against the Rebels in the Netherlands 4. Albert a constant Friend to Martin Luther and a faithful follower of John Frideric the deposed Elector in whose quarrel he lost his Estate and was forc'd to retire to Magdeburg which City was afterwards by him bravely defended against the Emperor's forces 5. Ernest Grandchild to the foremention'd Albert by his Son John famous for his couragious and gallant behaviour in managing and carrying on the war against the Emperor Ferdinand the second in behalf of Frideric Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhine and the States of Bohemia At this day the Family of the Counts of Mansfeld is branch'd out into four or five distinct Houses which division has render'd them much more inconsiderable then formerly they have been The Metropolis of this County Eisleben and chief place