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A16489	Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world discoursing of their situations, religions, languages, manners, customes, strengths, greatnesse, and policies. Translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus. And since the last edition by R.I. now once againe inlarged according to moderne observation; with addition of new estates and countries. Wherein many of the oversights both of the author and translator, are amended. And unto which, a mappe of the whole world, with a table of the countries, are now newly added.; Relazioni universali. English	Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617.; Johnson, Robert, fl. 1586-1626.	1630 (1630)	STC 3404; ESTC S106541	447,019	654

that there may easily be mustred and maintained fourescore and odde thousand horse of one sort or other that is launce and light-horse But I feare me we may say of them as Plutarch saith of the Nobles of Athens having usurped upon the Democracie of that Citie They were indeed but foure hundred and yet caused themselves to be stiled the five thousand So I feare me hee reckoneth after the Athenian rate ten for one The Cabinets reason is this There be in France 50000. Gentlemen that are able to beare Armes for saith he rate this proportion at a Gentleman in each league by the measure of ●rance which are forty thousand in square and it wanteth but a fifth Howbeit saith he in some Countries yee shall have thirty or forty within the compasse of one league besides their children Out of these if the King would he might compose a Gens d' armerie of 8000. men at Armes and 16000. Archers which body of 24000 Gentlemen would represent in the field 60000. horse Hee aught also have a cavallerie Legiere of foure or five thousand Gentlemen He might also furnish the Ban and Arne●-●an according to the old fashion with twelve or fifteene thousand Gentlemen And yet might he have besides all this foure or five thousand for the state of his Court and government of his Provinces This is his computation But you shall see it proved when we come to speake of the Nobility of France that it is exceedingly shortned in number and decayed in estate and therefore nothing able to come neere this number As good a consequent it were to say ●hat because ye have two or three millions of men in England able to fight that therefore our State can bring so many into the field without considering the provision of Armes and all other things necessarie But this Cabinet was made by one of the Religion that was transported out of himselfe by the heat of his zeale and hate to the temporall livings of the Church Whose projects and drifts are much like those of the Supplication of Beggers a booke made in King Henry the eighths dayes where he frameth in his fan●● an Vtopia and felicity not to be hoped in France building Castles in the Aire and concluding that if it would please the King to alien the Church temporall livings and unite them to the Domaine nihil est dictu facilius a thing easily said but not easily done that over and besides the forces o fourescore thousand horse abovesaid he might al●o maintaine an Infantery of the French Gentlemen of tw●lv● thousand Item another of the popular of forty ●●ght thousand and lastly yet another Infantery legionarie of forty eight thousand The Supplication was answered by Sir Thomas Moore his booke called The Pitifull complaint of the puling soules ●● Purgatory How well I know not but of this I am sure that if such a number of horse and foot should either bee ●aintained upon the Church living or upon the poore people upon whom all these charges of the Gens d'armes lieth here would be many more p●li●g soules and pitifull complaints in France than are in Sir Thomas Moores Purgatory It then remaines that wee hold our selves to the judgement of La Nove afore set downe who also confesseth that in Charles the sixth his time there were in the field twenty two thousand Launces but since the Gens d'armerie was in●●ituted were never but once at Valencie●nes above ten thousand For as for that great number whereof yee reade in M. d' Argenton that besieged Lewis the eleventh in Paris they were the forces of three great Princes and the better part Burgognions The French reckon above an hundred and twenty strong Townes some very strong already all the rest easie to be made defensible Their Ordnance and Field-peeces they have reduced to a proportion of boare and length that so the gartridges and bullet of the same weight may be service able for most of their peeces and if a carriage breakes the peece may be readily mounted upon another The usuall length of their Field-peeces is almost ten foot the length of the carriage fourteene foot so that both together take up nineteene foot being mounted upon the Batterie Of all Nations the French confesse that they feare none but the Switzers and them they doe for that being so neere neighbours they may fall upon them at unawares To prevent which they have fortified the Frontiers next to them knowing well that the nature of the Switzer is rather to hazzard a field than to sit downe about a lingring siege But these Frenchmen have forgot that England is farre too hard for them at Sea and that Spaine and the Emperour together have in a manner besieged them round about by Land I must now remember you of the Officers for the warre in France and because warre is made both by sea and by land I must also reckon the sea Officers but as for the French Kings forces at sea I have not yet learned that he hath any and therefore can say little thereof The first and principall and which commandeth all in the Kings absence even the Peeres and Princes of the bloud wha●soever is the Constable who as hath before beene remembred hath his name of Comes stabul● for in former t●nes the Kings chiefe Officers were called Counts with an addition of their Office as Comes Palatit Comes Praesidii Comes re●●m privatarum Comes sacrarum largitionum Com 〈◊〉 Comes navium Count of the Palace Count of the Guard c. And though he hath not now the command of the Kings horse yet keepeth he still the name This Office was erected in Lewis le Gros his time it was bestowed upon the house of Memorencie in Francis the first his time and remaineth still in the same The ancient device of the house of Memorencie is this God and the prime Christian and ancientest Baron of France He hath the keeping of the Sword Royall And as the great ●squire hath the Sword in the Scabberd Azure seeded with Flowers de Lyce Or added to his Armes so beareth the Constable for an honour the naked Sword The Marshals beare the Battell-axe and the Admirals the Anchor The Constable and Marshals give the oath to the King He sitteth chiefe Iudge at the Table of Marble upon all per●●●s ●●its actions and complaints whatsoever touching the warres When the King entreth a Citie in his greatest pompe or upon a deliverie he goeth before with the Sword naked and when the King sitteth in Assembly of the three States he is placed at his right hand He that killeth the Constable is guiltie of high Treason The Marshals are named as some say of Marc. Cheval a Horse and Schal Master or Commander of the Horse Others of Marcha that is March or Frontier quasi Praefectus limitum as it were Governour of the Marches Till Francis the first there were but two in all France afterward foure and now ten for

but with a tribune-like authority they signifie unto the Councell what their requests are Not long since their authority and reputation grew so mighty that they now carry themselves as heads and Governours rather than Officers Ministers of the publike decrees of the estates One of the Councell after the manner of Clodius refused his Senators place to become one of these Officers When a King is to be chosen these men doe more and more limit his authority not suffering it to stretch one jot farther than accustomed But although the Crowne of Poland bee at the disposition of the Nobility yet was it never heard that they rejected or overslipped the Kings successour or transferred the Kingdome into any other line more than once when deposing Ladislaus whom notwithstanding they afterward restored they elected Wenceslaus the Bohemian Likewise they have alwayes a regard to the Kings daughters as of Hedwiga married by them to Iagello and in our times of Anne given in marriage to King Stephen It was no small cause of the advancement of Sigismund the third to the Crowne of Polonia that hee was the sonne of Katherine sister to Sigismund the Emperour and of the foresaid Anne And although the Kingly authority bee elective yet after he is chosen his power is absolute in many things As to call the Diets to appoint the times and place at his pleasure to chuse Lay Counsellours and nominate the Bishops and whom he will have to be of the Privie Councell he is absolute disposer of the Revenue of the Crowne Lord of those which hold of him immediate but over the Tenants of the Nobility he hath no jurisdiction he is absolute establisher of the decrees of the Diets and Soveraigne Judge of the Nobles in criminall causes it is in his power to reward and advance whom pleaseth him to speake in a word such as is his valour dexterity and wisdome such is his power authority and government As the Polanders say the decrees of their King indure but three dayes and they converse not with him as Cosins as in France but as Brethren And as the King hath absolute authority over them which immediately hold of him so the Nobility dispose absolutely of their vassals on every of whom they exercise more than Kingly authority in manner as upon slaves In establishing their Kingdome they have done one thing worthy the noting which is that as the Romans increast their Name and Dominion by communicating the Lawes and Honours of Italy and the City of Rome to other Cities yea whole Provinces so the Kings of Polonia have inlarged united and strengthened their estate by participating the privileges of the Polish Nobility to those Provinces which either they have conquered by Armes or otherwise purchased gracing the Nobles thereof with favours equall to any bestowed on the Polish Nation By this equallizing King Ladislaus strongly united Russia and Podalia Sigismund Augustus Lituania Stephen Livonia for respect in offices and promotions knitteth affections in peace and warre The force of this Kingdome as of others consisteth in graine Coine Foot-men Horse-men Armour and Munition Of graine we have spoken already In coine it is not very rich for excepting Danske they have never a Mart-Towne worthy estimation and the warres that are brought from Prussia and Livonia doe not enrich the Kingdome with ready money yea they doe hardly suffice to barter with the English and Flemish for Cloth Silks or Woolls or with the Spanish Portuguize and other Merchants for Sugars Spices Fruits and Malueseies For when the Countrey is not given to traffike nor the Cities to buy and sell nor the people to labour and the Nobility is very gallant prodigall in expences spending more than their Revenues in diet and apparell and the seasoning of their Viands for the Polanders use more Spices than any other Nation and their Wine their Silke the greatest part of their Woollen Cloth is brought from forren Nations how can the Kingdome be rich in Silver For in transporting of much ware and returning of little consisteth the wealth of every dominion gathering together by venting home-bred commodities the come of forren Nations and keeping it once brought in from passing abroad In this practice consisteth the wealth of Naples and Millan for Naples sendeth to Sea great store of Corne Wine Oyle Silke Woad Horses Fruits and such like commodities which bring in huge masses of forren coine Millan supplieth the want of other Provinces with Corne Rice Cloths Iron-workes wares of all sorts and returneth little againe If the Kingdome of Sicil were as well stored with manual workmanship as it is provided with Corne Sugar-canes and Silke no other Kingdome could compare with it To returne to Poland notwithstanding their riches are not so small as some say they are for the Revenues of the Crowne raised of the Mines of Salt and Silver amount yearely to 600000. Ducats True it is that Sigismund Augustus pawned part of these Revenues and King Henry a moneth before his flight to binde some part of the Nobility unto him sold unto them more than three hundred thousand Ducats of yearely rent It is lawfull for the King by sales of escheats falling to the Crowne to purchase livings for himselfe and of the said Revenues to retaine great portions to his proper use and to spare his owne expences for when the King with his Court ●bideth in Lituania the Lituanians defray the charge the like is done in most places of Poland He that weigheth with himselfe that the ordinary Revenues of Scotland Naples or Sardinia exceed not yearely one hundred thousand Ducats nor the Kingdome of Arragon to yeeld above one hundred thousand crownes every three yeares cannot lightly esteeme of the Revenues of this Kingdome yet the King might raise his Revenues to a higher reckoning if he were lesse bountifull to his Palatines and Castellanes For most commonly he bestoweth on them two parts and three parts yea now and then the whole profits arising in their governments But in the time of warre yet by the decree of the assemblies of the Kingdome the King doth lay grievous impositions and taxes on the people which are either levied of the Provinces or of the excise of victuall and these tallages have amounted to such a reckoning that therewith King Stephen sustained the burthen of a most heavie three yeares warre against the great Duke of Moscovie yea the Gentlemen for defence of the Kingdome are bound to serve at their owne charges These serve on Horse some armed as our men at armes some more light some like the Tartars And those they terme Cossaches or Adventurers trained up to steale to depopulate waste and to turne all things up-side downe These Gentlemen serve in the field gallantly furnished attired in Cassocks and Hose shining with Gold and Silver and a thousand other colours they adorne themselves with plumes and feathers of Eagles with the skinnes of Leopards and Beares and with many Banners and

obedience so that at this day the Empire is inclosed in Germanie Whereupon sithence the glory thereof at this day consisteth only in Germanie It is good reason to say somewhat of this most ample and flourishing Province It lyeth betweene Odera and Mosa betweene Vistula and Aa and betweene the German Sea the Baltick Ocean and the Alpes The forme thereof is foure-square equall in length and breadth stretching six hundred and fifty miles every way● That it aboundeth with Corne Cattell and Fish let experience shew For Charles the fifth had under his Ensignes at Vienna ninety thousand foot-men and thirty five thousand horse Maximilian the second at Iavorin had almost one hundred thousand footmen and thirty foure thousand horse and yet no man complained of dearenesse or scarcitie In the warre betweene Charles the fifth and the Protestants for certain moneths one hundred and fifty thousand men sustained themselves abundantly in the field And surely of all Europe it is the greatest Countrey and beautified with the best and richest store of Cities Townes Castles and Religious places And in that decorum and order for in a manner see one and see all as if there had beene an universall consent to have squared them like Courts to one anothers proportion whereto may be added a secret of moralitie That the inhabitants for honesty of conversation probity of manners assurance of loyaltie and confidence of disposition setting apart their imperfect customes of drinking exceed our beleefe For notwithstanding these their intemperate meetings and phantasticalnesse in apparell yet are they unoffensive conversible and maintainers of their Honours and Families wherein they steppe so farre as if true Gentrie were incorporate with them and there had his principall mansion And wanted they not an united and heeditary succession of government having sometime an Emperour by partiality of election and sometime by the absolute command of the Pope I should stand as forward as the best to say with Charles the Emperour That they were indeed a valiant a happie and an honourable Nation But in respect of these apparant and materiall defects in some abatement of their ostentation concerning their owne glory and the honour of Majestie in my judgement they should not doe amisse to reforme the custome of intituling the younger sonnes of Dukes Earles and Barons by the honourable Titles of their Ancestours especially sithence the Italians in facetiousnesse doe jest That these Earles of Germanie the Dukes of Russia the Dons of Spaine the Monsiers of France the Bishops of Italy the Knights of Naples the Lairds of Scotland the Hidalgos of Portugal the Nobles of Hungarie and the younger Brethren in England make a very poore company Otherwise if noveltie transport you to view their Palaces of Honour you shall eft-soones bee brought into their well fortified Cities wherein you shall finde Armorie Munition c. with a presence of the very Burgers excellently well trained in Militarie discipline you shall see brave musters of Horse with their exercises of Hunting Hawking and Riding yea how every man liveth of his owne the Citizen in quiet and the women blessed with plentifull issue The Nature of this Climate is temperate enough somewhat of the coldest yet tolerable and healthie No place thereof unlesse by nature it be utterly barren lieth unmanured insomuch that few remainders of that huge wood of Hercynia are to bee seene at this day unlesse in place where humane necessitie requireth their growing or Nature hath made the Earth fit for no other imployment as are the Blacke-Wood the Ottonique Wood and the Woods of Bohemia And yet doe they neither carry that horrid face of thicknesse as in old times neither are they so untravelled or unhabitable but exceeding full of Habitations Hamlets Villages and Monasteries It is rich in Mines of Gold Silver Corne Vines Bathes and all sorts of Metall and therein surpasseth the residue of the Provinces of Europe Nature hath also bestowed upon the Vp-land Countries many Springs and pits of Salt Water of which hard Salt is boiled Neither is it lesse stored with Merchandize for the Inhabitants more than any other Nation doe excell in curious workmanship and mechanicall invention and it is so watered with Navigable Rivers that all sorts of merchandize wares are with ease conveied from one place to another The greatest of them is Danow next the Rhene which runneth cleane through the Country from the South to the North as the Danow from East to West Albis riseth in Bohemia passeth by Misnia Saxonie Marchia and the ancient Marquisat Odera springeth in Moravia watereth S●●●sia the two Marquisats and Pomeran Then followeth Wesar Neccar Mosa Moselia Isara C●nus Varia the Mase This divideth Germanie into two parts the higher and the lower The high stretcheth from the Mase to the Alpes the low from the Mase to the Ocean It is divided into many Provinces the chiefe whereof I meane the true members of the Empire are Alsatia Swevia Bavaria Austria Bohemia Moravia Silesia Lusatia the two Marquisates Saxonie Masaia Thuringia Franconia Hassia Westphalia Cleveland Magunce Pomeran In these Provinces besides Belgia and Helvetia are esteemed to bee ten Millions of men and eightie great Cities Villages innumerable and those plentifully stored with all sorts of Mechanicall Occupations Those which are seated neere Rivers for the most part are builded of Stone the Vp-land part of Stone and part of Timber The Houses thereof are very faire and high the Streets strait large and paved with stone yea more neat and handsome than those of Italy Strabo writeth that the Romans excelled the Grecians in cleanlinesse of their cities by reason of their Channels to conu●y away the soile but at this day the Dutch-men doe farre exceed the Romans herein These Cities are of three sorts viz. free Cities yet those stiled imperiall Hanse-townes and Cities by inheritance immediately holden of Princes and Prelates The free Cities are those which are by time and prescription immediately subject to the Emperour and have no other protector but him onely In times past they have beene accounted 96. now 60. Of Hanse cities there were 72. mutually bound by ancient leagues to enjoy common privileges and freedomes both at home and in forren Countries In ancient times they were of high estimation in England and other Provinces in regard of their numbers of shipping Sea-trade whereby they stored all Countries with their Easterne commodities and served Princes turnes in time of warre with use of shipping But at this day wee shall finde neither themselves nor their meanes so great that the English should either feare them or favour them especially in cases of prejudice I write this because of their continuall grudges and complaints against our Nation For if the State upon occasion as of late yeares after the example of other Princes should forbid them all offensive trade into Spaine which is their chiefest support they would in short time be quit of that indifferent

may say sumptuously and magnificently provided for Except upon the frontiers in Turkie you shall see no fortified Cities but rather the wals that have beene fortified ruinated and the fields wasted according to their proverbe Quà Ottomanicus aliquis transivit ibi nec folia nec gram●na proveniunt And not untruly for as soone as they have conquered any Province they extinguish the great ones especially those of royall bloud as for the wealth●est Burgers they transport them into remote Provinces already inured and subjected to their Lawes and Government not forcing their consciences but onely despoyling them of their armes restraining them of liberty to travell out of their limits and forbidding them to serve any other Potentate in prevention of rebellion In invention of engines against their neighbours they are admirable industrious not caring to obtaine that by craft and faithlesse cowardize which they cannot gaine by force or the effusion of much bloud but those base projects not prevailing without respect of honour or military glory they are not ashamed to betake themselves to their heeles Yet to speake truth they are good souldiers and to their especiall advantage excellently disciplined being obedient to their Commanders most laborious in the fabrikes content with a small refreshment of victuall and that most grosse contrary to gluttonous behaviour of all Christian warfare Their Armes are a Launce a Bow and a quiver of Arrowes an iron Mace a Battle-axe and a Cemiter and those enchased with Gold and Silver besides their great Ordnance whereof at this day they are Lords of infinite peeces This Empire beganne to take root in the yeare 1300. under the fortunes of one Osman or Ottoman from whom the succeeding Princes of that house have derived and usurped the surnames of Ottoman even as the Emperours of Christendome have continued the title of Caesars since the first Roman Iulius From that time untill the yeare 1608. and from that Ottoman untill this Acmach wonder it is to relate how in the space of three hundred yeares from so meane a Captaine so base a people and in so short a time considering the growth of the Roman Empire this Soveraignty is now growne to be the terrour of the world and almost to equallize that of the Romans How long every particular Prince reigned and what exploits they performed I rue to record and meane not to relate onely let me remember you of that devillish policie of theirs how one brother at his first comming to the Crowne murdereth all the residue of his fathers children and male-competitors thereby presuming to live secure and fearelesse of innovation judicet Deus They first seated the modell and majesty of their Empire in Prusia a City of Bithynia then they transported it to Hadrianople and lastly to Constantinople In which Imperiall Citie is now his Court or Palace three or foure miles in compasse wholly inclosed with a strong wall and situated the pleasantest of any Palace on the face of the earth termed by them the Port or Seraglio Within the inclosure of this wall are many pleasant Parkes sweet Fountaines sumptuous Arbours and innumerable lodgings richly built especially those wherein the great Turke himselfe resideth Within this inclosure likewise are two other inclosed receptacles or lodgings for women in the one are continually kept at least fifteene hundred damosels out of which are culled one hundred and fifty for the daily service of the Emperour and those sequestred into the other of the lesser lodgings For his guard he maintaineth daily by turnes foure thousand footmen by them stiled Ianizars viz. slaves by way of tribute haled in their infancies from the bosomes of their Christian parents Hee hath alwayes in Court likewise attendant on his person fifteene hundred horsemen besides those that serve under the Beglerbegs and those are divided into foure classes or orders viz. Sp●zi Vlufagi Steliftari and Caripici all payed out of his Casna or Exchequer Besides these Pretorian bands he likewise maintained out of his Exchequer not so few as ten thousand Ianizars garrisoned thorow all parts of his Empire under severall leaders acknowledging no other Lord Soveraigne or maintainer but the grand Seignior Moreover hee hath another order of Souldiery termed Timario●s what they are and how maintained you have heard before So many as at this day are raised in Europe are thought sufficient to entertaine eighty thousand horsemen those in Asia or Na●olia fifty thousand and those wrested from the Crowne of Persia forty thousand What are raised in Syria and the adjacent Regions of Aegypt and Africa have not beene estimated but all these serve under their Sanziaks and they at the commands of their Beglerbegs or Colonels The Court is commonly stiled by them Capi that is the Port wherein are many great Officers by us spoken of before But those whose services are onely destinated to uses within the Seraglio are for the most part Eunuches with their rabble of under-Eunuches Without the Seraglio are also divers honourable Offices for the government of the Empire the chiefe whereof is their Mufii or Pope In the second ranke are their Cadeleschers viz. chiefe Justices After the Cadeleschers follow the Vice-Roy Bassae● Counsellours of estate whose number is uncertaine in old time three or foure but of late nine The President of these the Turkes terme Vice-Roy And in truth it is a place of great dignity and authority in managing the affaires of the State as the man with whom the grand Seignior doth onely communicate his weightiest intentions and secretest deliberations And were it certaine either for yeares or life For profit and honour this place would not be much inferiour to the estate of many great Princes in Christendome But such is the tyranny of this Monarch that upon every suggestion and jealousie he is sometime deprived and sometime strangled Within these sixteene or seventeene yeares last past it hath beene observed that fourteene of these Officers have thus beene used Five have died naturall deaths after deprivement and nine deprived and afterwards murdered In the next place appeare the Beglerbegs masters del Campo the chiefe whereof is he that is termed of Romania or Grecia The second of Anatolia or Asia The third is the Denizi Beglerbeg that is to say the Lord high Admirall And these three Beglerbegs have equall place and authority with the former Bassaes in the Divano or place of publike audience Before the last warre of Persia this Empire was under-governed by forty Beglerbegs who likewise had under them two hundred and seventy Sanziaks But since those times this number hath beene much augmented viz. in Europe reside seven In Afrike foure In Asia twenty nine The Turkish Arsenals for shipping are foure the first is at P●ra and containeth three and thirty docks or stations for so many Gallies The second is at Gallipolis and containeth twenty both under the charge of the high Admirall and his servitors The third is at Suez upon the Red-Sea containing five and

shoulders of these slaves In a word as a lawfull and just Prince hath a great regard and singular care to have the liking and love of his people by which being guarded and environed as with a strong rampire hee is able to withstand all attempts so contrariwise tyrants knowing themselves hatefull to their subjects imploy their whole study how to win the favour of their souldiers and slaves thereby to represse innovations at home and invasions from abroad Seeing therefore the safety and foundation of their greatnesse is built on the entertainment of their Souldiers as their Naiors their Ianizars free or bond strangers or subjects yea whatsoever they be it must needs follow that onely actions of warre may be the end and scope of their cogitations as likewise that they be very prodigall to keepe their estates very well furnished and appointed with souldiers and provisions And these reasons I take to be sufficient inducements to beleeve the reports of this King of Cambaia and these other barbarous Indian Princes For besides that I spake of before it is reported that with this army did march a thousand peeces of Ordnance among which were foure Basiliskes every one drawne with an hundred yoke of Oxen five hundred Wagons laden with Gun-powder and Bullets two hundred armed Elephants five hundred Chests full of Gold and Silver to pay souldiers wages besides many Princes and petty Lords with their Followers Merchants Victualers Artificers and their Seruants numberlesse Notwithstanding this his incredible preparation hee was twice overthrowne by Marhumedio once in the Territory of the City of Doce and another time at Mandao from whence disguising his apparell to save his life he fled to Diu. Being out of danger and feare he sent Ambassadors to Soliman with a present esteemed worth 60000. Crownes desiring his aid in these warres But afterward weighing in his minde that these affaires required speedier succours hee contracted a league with those Portugals which were neerest adjoyning to make them his friends and partners of the Warre the composition was that he should permit them to build a Castle in the Iland of Diu. Now to speake of Marhumedius his fortunes were not much unlike to those of Tamerlan for as this Prince brought terror and feare upon the inhabitants of Persia and Asia so did that no lesse innovation and trouble upon India and the Orient This defeated in battell Bajazet Emperour of Turkes that overthrew Badurius King of Cambaia and his army farre greater than his owne both of them had the sirname of Great When the Mogors understood of the riches of India and the fertility thereof they never ceased by a continuall course of victory their armes and invasions till they had made themselves Lords of the Provinces lying betweene Caucasus and the Sea Ganges and the River Indus In this tract are contained seven and forty Kingdomes For Adabar the successor of Marhumedius won Madabar with the better part of Cambaia Of what goodly consequence this Province is may bee imagined by the famous City of Madabar Campana so called for situation upon the top of a high hill rising in the midst of a spacious plaine and Cambaia a City consisting of an hundred and thirty thousand houses as likewise by the populous host of King Badurius his warlike provision for such an army and plenty of graine to sustaine such multitudes I assure you the world affords not a soile for all necessaries for the life of man as Rice Corne Pulse Sugar Oxen Sheepe Pullen of all sorts and Silke more richer or plentifull than this Province wherein also there are reported to be sixty thousand Burroughs which number certainly is very great and admirable Guicciardine writeth that in Netherland within the Territory of the seventeene Provinces are contained two hundred and eight walled Townes and an hundred and fifty Burroughs enjoying the rights and privileges of Cities and six thousand three hundred Villages having Parish Churches In Naples are a thousand eight hundred of these some are Townes some but Castles In Bohemia are seven hundred and fourescore Townes and thirty two thousand Villages In France as Iohn Bodine writeth are two thousand seven hundred Boroughs having Parish Churches besides those in Burgundie which in those times were not numbred amongst the Townes of France I write this to induce a true and absolute judgement of the power of any Province by the number of Parishes for I know that that ought to be made according to their greatnesse but yet their number maketh much to the purpose as in both which Cambaia may carry the credit and esteeme of a most spacious populous and puissant Kingdome Acabar also conquered the rich Kingdome of Bengala so that a man may truly say that in this part of the Orient there are three Emperours one in Cambaia the other in Narsinga and the third in Bengala whereof Cambaia and Bengala farre exceed all the other Provinces in fertility of soile and concourse of Merchants both riotously abounding in Sugar Cotton-wooll Cattell Elephants and Horses In Bengala also groweth long Pepper and Ginger The first is watered and cut as it were into two halfes by the River Indus the other by Ganges having two famous Mart-townes Satagan and Catagan The great Mogor doth likewise possesse the Kingdomes of Citor Mandao and Delly wherein he keepeth his Court. He hath infinite store of Horses Elephants and Camels as also all sorts of Artillery and warlike furniture by meane whereof he is growne fearefull to the whole Inhabitants of the East It is written of him that he is able to bring into the field three hundred thousand horse and that there are within his Dominions fifty thousand Elephants Some man perhaps will aske how it commeth to passe that this Prince being so mighty and his neighbours so naked unarmed and poore doth not get into his possession the Dominion of the rest of India and the Orient In this as in the former unlikelihoods the wisest man is soonest answered There are many obstacles one is that as the spirit and body of man cannot endure in continuall travell and motion for that is onely proper to God and Nature so a continued and open passage is not evermore given to the ambitious apprehensions of Kings and Princes Great Empires seldome feare forren invasions yet oftentimes faint they under their owne weight It is not destinied unto great things to stand alwayes at the highest much lesse to increase they have their floud but upon a remedilesse condition that there follow an ebbe They are lifted on high but by the irrevocable decree of Nature that a fall succeed yea and that themselves by themselves decline The greater they are the more subject to mutabilitie the larger the harder to hold and mannage they move but slowly and of what effect celerity is in warre who knoweth not The greatest conquest carrieth the greatest envie with it and greatest care to conserve what is got and yet not care but long continuance perfecteth these