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A01395	The glory of England, or A true description of many excellent prerogatiues and remarkeable blessings, whereby she triumpheth ouer all the nations of the world vvith a iustifiable comparison betweene the eminent kingdomes of the earth, and herselfe: plainely manifesting the defects of them all in regard of her sufficiencie and fulnesse of happinesse. By T.G.	Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?	1618 (1618)	STC 11517; ESTC S102803	192,041	344

the bu●…nesse in hand but to please one another in matters of incontinency yet haue they many wiues who striue with all ●…cting demeanour to bee best beloued of their 〈◊〉 But you haue diuers bookes of this subiect both an●… and moderne as Herodotus Pliny and other Cosmographers who thus relate the matter that since the conquest of Bacchus whom by another name they call ●…oer Pa●…r they haue settled in their countrey with magnificent eq●… page 5000. principall cities aduancing a fashion ●…le gouernment to equall the best Common-wealths onely they adored Bacchus for a God and Hercules for a giant they neuer intruded into any other princes territories but haue defended their owne from all innouation of strangers as Q. Curtius relateth adding withall a delicate commentary of their famous exploits and noble greatnesse euen against the Conquerour of the world in the time of the He●…e Porus who with great maiesty valour and armies of Elephants would haue maintained their freedome and glory but that Fortune and Successe had condescended to the conditions of ratifying Alexanders prosperity And although the many Princes haue sometimes repined one against another and for superiorities sake shewed the ●…ety of their owne glories and mightinesse yet 〈◊〉 still combined in the prop●…ing of for●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appeasing priuate encombrances not reaching 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ciuill deciding and hating iniustice and co●… 〈◊〉 much as may bee They loue and reuerence their Kings amongst whom the great Mogull hauing vs in some estimation before other Princes of Europe and with whom we haue a kinde of correspondency as by reciprocall letters may appeare is principall and of greatest reputation making holy-day when hee shaueth his head and attending his chariot with pompous brauery spredding the way where he must passe with costly ornaments and delicate perfumes For hee is carried in great pomp on the shoulders of men adorned with purple golde and precious stones the chaire hanging with orient pearle and all thing so ordered as if the best of our ceremonies should adde an honor to Maiesty His Guards for his person are many and the best of his souldiers who suffer no neerer approaches to his stately throne then hee himselfe shall command which is publikely knowen by the disrobing of his head of common ornaments and inuesting himselfe with a magnificent Diadem then are Embassadors admitted and diuers lawes enacted for the good of the people Another booke will discouer that when hee disposeth himselfe to pleasure his concubines are sent for to be partakers of the hunting and then in open view the beasts are killed being chased before hand into certaine straight enclosures for the purpose but if he determine a longer progresse their chariots are drawne with Elephants and their honourable Queenes left at home but the wantons are enstructed to make proud incontinency swell with variety not accustoming their wiues to be partaker of such lasciuious changes but reseruing them for necessity of children or moderation of contentment when he determineth to sleepe or peraduenture is ouerloded with wine that he must resettle his spirits and senses with rest and ease the loueliest dames bring him to bed singing a song of inuocation to the God of silence and the night Another will relate how worthily their honest matrons liue after they haue had children how euer they yeelde their chastities at the first to their louers for the price of an Elephant which yet neuer exciteth any exprobation against them In some places when a virgin desireth marriage her parents bring her to publike view amongst a number of young men where shee electeth whom shee fancieth In their mutuall commerces they hate vsury disclaime iniustice denie indentures of couenant contracts of writing and haue many seeming excellencies of loue confidence and trusting one another onely they are impatient of wrong and thinke it a glory to take reuenge but will not offer the occasion Another will tell you that they once esteemed two sorts of wisemen by the names of Samaraei and Brachamanes both which were charactered for Gymnosophists but the Samaraei for their precisenesse were better esteemed of the Kings for liuing more moderate then the rest as eating neither fish nor flesh it added to their reputation that the peace of their Kingdomes was established by their orizons and the prosperity of the countrey confirmed through their holinesse Another will demonstrate how St. Thomas conuerted them to Christianity how euer with the Syrians in Samaria they haue since intermingled horrible idolatry and vntill the Portugals came amongst them would scarse reforme the most grossest abuses Another will enlarge the conquest of their countrey by the Portugals and Spanyard with a full description of all things which may shew you the perfect portraiture of their kingdomes courts common-wealth riches pleasures ciuill administration and mightinesse yet as I take it so farre from a conquest as wee were ouer France when we had only Callis in Picardy or Turwin and Tornay which cost more the re-edifying then all the country about it was worth Heere you shall also finde how they haue striued with the Aegyptians for antiquity and cunning how many Ilands are subiected vnto them amongst whom Summatra in times past called Taprobana mustreth the power of eight Kings Iapan affoordeth our English a harbour and at Bantam they receiue the commodities of China from the Indian Marchants who are only admitted to commerce amongst them and diuers others as are therein variated with many particulars To conclude no one Countrey comes neere it for greatnesse which without other addition lifteth vp her title alone as challenging all the territories betweene China and Persia yea in times past China it selfe almost 1200. English mile and amongst many Kings hee is principall that obtaineth by force or popularity But of late they haue ouer-exalted the high Priest called Voo who in spirituall matters as I may say hath absolute power and authority and vpon whose blessing or cursing dependeth the expectation of future happinesse Yet hath this idolatrous superstition acknowledgement of a God whom they inuest with a triple crowne not yeelding any reason for the same but that he commandeth Heauen Earth and Hell The Iesuites haue taught them to baptize infants in some places and to fast wherein they are now tedious obseruants as barbarous people are best maintainers of customes and ceremonies and they vse the signe of the crosse but it is where they are enforced by the Spanish garisons otherwise what I spake before of China for all their silkes clothes of gold delicate beds houses of canes Serpents Elephants precious stones minerals pearles perfumes drugs spice sweet wood barkes of trees shels nuts and other things of estimation I may with a Christinn-like sorrow amplifie concerning their turpitude and morosity As for their cities euery one would affoord a story and I am vnwilling to runne into the errour of fiction or miracle considering your best Cosmographers haue onely extended the relations of others

mens Cosmography who tell you of Turwin and Tornay and those noble endeuours of Hen. 8. when the King of France claimed Artois and Flanders as well as Picardy The Prouince of Gelderland is altogether champaine yet intermingled with woods and stored with euery thing to satiate our desire especially if wee looke after plenty of corne and pasture which both stuffeth full their garners and fatteth their cattle insomuch that they bring them leane in great heards from the furthest part of Denmarke to receiue here as it were a more seemely forme It is visited with the three riuers of Rhene Mase and Whale it hath 22 walled townes attended on by the care and diligent seruice of 300 villages amongst whom Numegam is metropolis and indeed boasteth not onely of antiquitie but the royaltie of a King had not time worne out the shining brightnes of his Crowne or some boistrous hand pull'd the scepter out of his arme and shouldred him quite aside from his Throne or else it was as the Kings of Cities in Mesopotamia Reges à regendo when nine of them made battaile together and the preuailers spoiled Lot and tooke him prisoner Herein is also contained the country and Earledome of Zutphen and the delicate Iland of the Betto how euer Holland would challenge her of disobedience if shee should call another mother For Goricum Worchum and many other townes are reputed hers onely Arnham on the other banke of the Rhene with the sweet fields of the Vellwe will still belong vnto Gelderland and could tell you of a sconce builded ouer against it of another on the banke of Icell of another before Numegen where that valiant German Sir Martin Skinck lost his life and was tossed from graue to graue vntill a military ceremonie laid him in an honorable place of rest and of another at the point of the Iland diuiding the riuer into the Rhene and Whale which saies you can scarce shew such another and is proud of nothing more than her founder and title For it is called still Skinck sconce and could affright you with the relation of many strange designes and changes of military seruice as if the Armies chose these parts of the country to play at base in and as it were dance a mattachene in armour For I my selfe knew the leaguer one yeere in Gelderward within two mile of Eltam another yeere at Bommel a third at Berck a fourth in Cleueland c. It flourished vnder Otho the third Earle of Gelderland who walled in Ruremond Arnham Harderwick Bomell Gooch and Waggenhen and so held the title of a Countie vntill Rheinaldus the second whom for his valour iustice piety and other vertues the Emperor Lodwick lifted vp to the dignitie of a Duke in the presence of the Kings of England France and the Princes Electors 1339. Zeland is a new name and not read of in ancient histories as if a man should say a countrey compounded both of land and sea For it is euery where distinguished with Ilands which are environed with water and knowne by 15 seuerall names against whom the sea hath much preuailed and not long since with violent invndations swallowed 300 of their inhabited townes so that now you may saile by the steeples of Churches and not knowing the reason wonder to what purpose the Towres were so erected There remaine now three principall which are preserued against the rage of the Ocean with exceeding cost and powerfull industry namely Walcheren Schouen and South-Beueland and foure inferior Diuelant Tolen North-Beuelant and Woolfersdike which are graced with the prerogatiues of eight walled townes whereof six continue their Estates Deputies for the whole County Midelborough Flushing Camphere and Armenden which hath no voice although it cry out neuer so loud that it standeth with the rest in Walcheren In Schouen Sirexee and Bucers hauen which hath likewise no voice In South-Beueland which is the greatest and fertilest Iland the towne of Tergowse and in the land of Tolen the towne of Tertolen and Martins dike which hath also no voice These Ilands are preserued by the downes which be certaine bankes of sand cast vp with the tides and where there are no sands as toward the south the dikes are raised by the industry of man and proportioned with equall height to the rest all so rammed with mats casses of fagots 6 or 7 foote long that it not only performeth the effect of their securitie but seemeth an artificiall gracefulnes and being so neere England is worthy the ouer-viewing In times past the Marquis of La Vere and Flushing were onely at the Generall Councels of the countrey now the places are supplied with Deputies and new times haue giuen way vnto new orders For these inheritances and titles are incorporated in Prince MAVRICE of NASSAV and the Abbot of St Martins in the towne of Midlebourgh which at this instant is the Court of Zeland As for the Prince he is the seruitor of the States and can doe nothing absolute of himselfe without their direction And for the Abbot his name is extinguished with his superstition and the reformation of religion hath also reformed his very title and authoritie so that the Estates make the Democratia a princely gouernment and assume to themselues the power of life death controuling punishing rewarding and resolute ordering all their affaires except in cases of necessitie wherein there is no disputing nor interiecting any cause of imputation either of negligence or improuidence For so great Princes either diminish or augment their illustrious royaltie and Monarks whose pride at the first swelled ouer the banks of preuailing haue in one age bin left bare on the sands of an ebbing fortune The cheefest trade of the inhabitants is nauigation fishing and making salt yet within the land they imploy themselues to tillage and feeding of cattle The people doe so multiply and increase that they are compelled to inlarge their Townes as well for their owne inhabitants as frequentation of strangers who since the troubles of Antwerpe resort hither extraordinarily but if I should adde the brauery of fortifications I should do them no wrong nay I might augment their glory For Flushing is one of the strongest Townes of Europe and Midleborough so ramparted and guarded that a very militarie renowne is attributed vnto them and the Burgers themselues deserue well of all good reports The prouince of Holland is as it were a Peninsule circumuironed with water For the sea the Rhene and the meeting riuers open their doores in such a manner that you may goe as it were round about the house except in one corner toward Gelderland and although it containeth not in circuit aboue two hundred English mile yet lifteth vp the wals ramparts and warlike ports of thirty townes of such receipt wealth and shipping that the pride of Tyrus and Sidon exclaimed vpon by so many Prophets had not greater occasion of raging and oftentation howeuer they are yet blessed with