1680. Since the Decease of this Electress in the following year viz. 1684. Oct. 6. he married the Princess Sophia-Charlotta Daughter to Ernestus-Augustus the present Bishop of Osenburg and Duke of Brunswick and Hanover She was born Oct. 20. 1668 the Duke has had by her two Sons but only one living viz. Frederick-William born at two of the clock in the Afternoon Aug. 4. 1688. This Elector has four Brothers and two Sisters living but his Father's Issue by a second Ventre viz. 1. Philip-William born in May 1669. 2. Maria Amalia born Nov. 16. 1670 and first married ann 1687 to Charles eldest Son and Heir apparent to the present Duke of Meckleburg-Gustrow and after his Decease which happened March 15. 1688 to Maurice-William Duke of Saxony and Administrator of Naumburg June 26. 1689. 3. Albert-Frederick born Jan. 14. 1672. 4. Charles-Philip born Dec. 26. 1672. 5. Elizabeth-Sophia born March 26. 1674. 6. Charles or Christian-Lewis born at four of the clock in the Afternoon May 14. or 17. 1677. Note that there are fourteen Princes of the House of Brandenburg alive II. The Duke bears divers Quarterings containing several Alliances and Principalities over all Azure a Scepter in Pale Or which belongs to the Electorship a triple Helm and a triple Crest he has moreover in his Arms a Lion an Eagle crown'd and a Griffin the Shield is componé and contonué His Livery is of a blue Colour He professes the Protestant Religion according to the Doctrine of Calvin and uses the High Dutch Language III. Brandenburg seated on the River Havel is the Capital City of the Marquisate to which it gives the Name His Electoral Highness resides ordinarily at Berlin Spandaw Posdam Berlin is the greatest Town of the Marquisate being seated on the River Suevus it s as big as Montpellier or Beziers in France Magdeburg belonging to this Elector was formerly the Metropolitan City of Germany but scarce half built again since it was sack'd by Tilly and 36000 persons put to the Sword and destroyed IV. His ordinary and extraordinary Revenues are computed to be eleven or twelve and some say fourteen millions of Livers His Territories and Forces are the greatest in Germany next the Emperors and his Court is Royal and the second fairest This Prince may go on his own Land from the Low Countries so far as into Poland and Curland The Elector Palatine THE Palatine and Bavarian Families are known to have had one Rise viz. from Otho Earl of Wittlesbach and Schyre as it s said before in Bavaria who was created Duke of Bavaria by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa ann 1180 and had both the Bavarias as well Upper as Lower granted him for ever His Grandson Otho the Second as 't is said before married Agnes sole Daughter and Heiress to Henry the younger Prince Palatine of the Rhine and by reason thereof obtained of the Emperor Frederick the Second the Investiture of that Palatinate together with the Electoral Dignity ann 1227. his eldest Son was Lewis the Severe born Apr. 13. 1229 who left two Sons viz. Rudolph an 1274 who succeeded his Father Lewis in the Palatinate and Electoral Dignity and was Author of the Rudolphine Line of the Palatinate Family 2. Lewis who was Author of the Bavarian Line of the said Family From the forementioned Rudolph is descended Joannes-Gulielmus-Josephus the present Elector Palatine and Duke of Newburg grand Treasurer of the Imperial House who was born at Dusseldorp Apr. 19. 1650 and married at Newstadt in Austria Octob. 25 new style 1678 the Princess Maria-Anna-Josepha Daughter to the Emperor Ferdinand the Fourth by Eleanor Gonzaga Daughter of Charles Duke of Mantua his third Wife This Electress was born ann 1658. She was brought to bed of a Son but stillborn ann 1683 and ann 1686 she miscarried a second time and continuing indisposed died three years after at Vienna viz. Apr. 7. 1689. The Elector succeeded his Father ann 1690 and his first Wife being dead he married a Daughter of Cosmo the Third great Duke of Tuscany ann 1691. This Elector has six Brothers and six Sisters living born in this order 1. Eleonora-Magdalena-Teresa Empress of Germany born Jan. 6. 1655. 2. Ludovicus-Antonius Greast Master of the Teutonick Order born at Dusseldorp July 9. 1660. 3. Carolus-Philippus born Nov. 4. 1661 and married at Berlin July 24. 168 to Louise Charlotta de Ratzeville Lewis Marquess of Brandenburg's Widow 4. Alexander-Sigismundus Dean of Ausburg and President of the Chapter of Constance born at Neuburg Apr. 16. 1663. 5. Franciscus Ludovicus born at Neuburg July 24. 1664 and elected Bishop of Breslaw Jan. 30. 1683. 6. Fredericus Gulielmus born at Dusseldorp July 20. 1665. 7 Maria-Sophia-Elizabetha born Aug. 16. 1666 and married ann 1687 to Peter King of Portugal 8 Maria-Anna born at Dusseldorp Oct. 28. 1667 and affianc'd to Charles the Second King of Spain Aug. 28. 1689 whose Queen she now is 9. Philippus Gulielmus-Augustus born Nov. 18. 1688. 10. Dorothea-Sophia born July 12. 1670. 11 Hedewig-Elizabetha Amalia born July 18. 1673. 12 Leopoldina Eleanora-Sophia born May 27. 1679. II. The Arms of Charles Count Palatine of the Rhine this Elector's Predecessor in the Electorate who deceased May 16. 1685 were Quartelry In the first and fourth Sable a Lion Or crown'd arm'd and langued Gules In the second and third Lozengys Argent and Azure of one and twenty pieces with a Mond Or which belongs to the Electorate The Elector's Livery is of a _____ Colour and he professes the Roman Religion and uses the High Dutch Language III. Heidelberg is the Capital Town of the Electorate seated on the River Neccar On the Town House is a Clock with divers motions and when the Clock strikes an old Man puts off his Hat a Cock crows and shakes his Wings Soldiers fight with each other c. In a great Building there in the Elector Palatines Palace joining to the Cellars the great Vessel holding two hundred Tuns is famous Ann. 1661 as Dr. Brown has observed in the Account of his Travels about an hundred English came up the Rhine and by the permission of the Elector settled themselves a few miles from Heidelberg living all together Men Women and Children in one House and having a Community of many things they are of a peculiar Religion calling themselves Christian-Jews and one Mr. Poole formerly living in Norwich was their Head They cut not their Beards and observe many other Ceremonies and Duties which they either think themselves obliged to by some expressions in the Old Testament or from some new Exposition of their Teachers Manheim seated on the Confluence of the Rhine and Neccar is the Defence of all the Country there is in it a very fair Palace where the Elector Charles ordinarily resided IV. The Elector Charles beside his own Estates inherited five hundred thousand Livres of yearly Rent after the Death of the Palatine of Simmeren Uncle to Charles-Lewis his Father and formerly his Tutor Philip William Father to the
of the House of Austria so his Brother Ferdinand was Author of the German Line He was born in Spain 1503. Crowned King of Hungary and Bohemia in the Right of his Empress Anne Daughter to Uladislaus King of Hungary 1527 Elected King of the Romans anno 1531 and Emperor 1556 from whom is descended Leopold the Sixth but first Emperor of the Name and Fourteenth Emperor of Germany who was Born Jun. 9. anno 1640 he was Christened Leopoldus-Ignatius-Franciscus-Balthazar-Josephus-Felicianus He was nominated King of Hungary at Presburg Jun. 27. 1655 King of Bohemia at Prague Aug. 2. 1656 Elected King of the Romans at Francfort on the Main Jun. 18. 1658 and Crowned Emperor Jul. 22. of the same year in the same Town having been Elected on the eleventh where the three Ecclesiastical Electors rendred themselves the others sent their Ambassadors as also the French King the King of Spain and others He had for a first Wife Margarida-Maria-Teresa of Austria Daughter to Philip the Fourth King of Spain and Sister to the late Queen of France He espoused her by proxy at Madrid April 12. 1663 and she died March 20. 1673. He had by her two Sons and two Daughters but three of these Children died very young there remaining only one Daughter living named Maria-Antonia-Josepha-Rosatia-Petronilla who was born Jan. 18. 1669 and married to Maximilian-Emanuel Elector of Bavaria ann 1685 or 86. He has had for a second Wife Claudia Felicitas Archduchess of Inspurc Daughter to the Arch-Duke Ferdinand whom the Emperor espoused Oct. 15. in the same year that his first Empress died viz. ann 1673. And this Empress died April 8. ann 1676. She had two Daughters by the Emperor but both short-lived For a third choice the Emperour married Jan. 6. An. 1677. Maria-Magdalena-Teresa-Eleonora Countess Palatine of Neuburg she being the eldest Daughter of Philip-William Duke of Neuburg and Elector Palatine She was born Jan. 6. 1655. Crowned Queen of Hungary in the Town of Oldenburg Decemb. 9. 1681. And the Emperour has the following Issue by her 1. Josephus-Jacobus Ignatius-Joannes-Antonius-Eustachius who was born July 16. Old Stile An. 1678. and is stiled Arch-Duke of Austria at whose birth the Duchess of Newburg carried the Empress her Daughter a Bed and a Cradle of Silver He was Crown'd King of Hungary An. 1688. and chosen King of the Romans An. 1689. 2. Maria-Elizabetha-Licia-Teresa-Josepha born December 13. 1680. 3. Maria-Anna Josepha-Antonina-Regina born Sept. 17. 1683. 4. Maria-Teresa born Aug. 22. 1684. 5. Carolus-Franciscus-Josephus-Wenceslaus-Balthasar-Joannes-Antonius Ignatius born Oct. 1. 1685. 6. Maria-Josepha-Collecta-Antonia born March 6. Old Stile 1687. 7. Anna-Josepha-Antonina-Magdalena-Gabriele born March 28. 1689. Old Stile The Emperour has but one Sister living named Eleanora-Maria-Josepha born May 21. 1653 and An. 1670 she was married to Michael Wisnowitski the late King of Poland elected upon King Casimirs Resignation of that Crown Since his decease An. 1678. she was married to the famous Charles Duke of Lorain whom its conceived she had married before if he had been chosen King of Poland as he stood for it with Wisnowitski upon the Election II. For Armorial Ensigns the Emperour bears Quarterly 1. Barwise Argent and Gules of eight pieces for Hungary 2. Argent a Lion Gules the Tail noued and passed in Saltier crowned langed and armed Or for Bohemia 3. Gules a Fesse Argent for Austria Party and bendwise Argent and Azure a border Gules for Ancient Burgundy 4. Quarterly in the first and last Gules a Castle tripple towered Or-purfled Sable for Castile In the second and third Argent a Lion Purple for Leon. The Shield crested with an Imperial Crown closed and raised in the shape of a Miter having betwixt the two points a Diadem surmounted with a Globe and Cross Or. The Diadem represents the Empire and of the two Points one denotes Denmark and the other Bohemia This Shield which is environed with a Coller of the Order of the Golden Fleece is placed on the Brest of an Eagle displayed Sable in a Feld Or Diadem'd membred and becked Gules holding a naked Sword in the right Talon and a Scepter in the left the two Heads signifie as some judge the Eastern and Western Empires The Motto is Uno avulso non deficit alter This Emperours peculiar Devise is Pax salus Europae His Livery is of a Yellow colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the High Dutch Language III. Vienna seated on the River Danubius in Austria and not much differing from the Latitude of Paris is the Capital City of the Hereditary Countries belonging to the Emperour which are Austria and Bohemia Hungary being Elective and it s the ordinary place of Residence of their Imperial Majesties It s the strongest Town of the Empire and one of the fairest The Ditch of it is large and very deep into which also they can let the River tho it be commonly kept dry lest they should incommode their deep Cellars The whole compass taking in the Suburbs makes a very large Circuit but the City itself which is walled in may be about three Miles in Circumference as populous for the bigness of the place as most great Cities There are in it Turks Tartars Italians Grecians Transylvanians Sclavonians Hungarians Croatians Spaniards French Germans Polanders c. all in their proper Habits a pretty diversified object to behold There is a Bridge in it made by the crossing of two Streets at equal Angles the ground of one Street being as high as the tops of the Houses of the other so that to continue it they were forced to build a Bridge or Arch in the lower Street to let the upper to pass over it The City is fairly built of Stone and well paved many Houses are of six Stories high and are somewhat flat Rooft after the Italian manner each private House has such store of Cellarage for all occasions that as much of the City seems to be underground as is above it the Cellars being very deep sometimes four Cellars one under another they are archt and have two pair of Stairs to descend into them some have an open place in the middle of each Roof to let the Air in and out from the Street somewhat after the manner of the Mines At the entrance over the Gate of the Imperial Palace are set in Capital Letters the five Vowels A. E. I. O. U. which by some are interpreted thus Austriae Est Imperare Orbi Universo The Front of one of the Jesuits Colleges opens into a fair Piazza in the middle whereof stands a large high Composite Column of Copper upon a white Stone with four Angels with Escutcheons and on the top the Blessed Virgin Inscriptions also in which the Emperour Dedicates Austria unto her Patronage Tho the Spire of Landshute in Bavaria be accounted the highest in Germany and that of Strasburg the neatest and fairest yet that of Vienna is the largest and strongest It s accounted above four hundred sixty five Foot high being about
present Elector after the Decease of Charles Elector Palatine which happened ann 1685 became possessed of the Electorate by virtue of the Instrument of Peace at Osnabrug but since was thrown out by the French King anno 1688 and tho he had recovered many places in it ann 1689 by the assistance of the Confederates yet he continued at Neuburg Of the Family of Brunswick and Lunenburg from which the new made Elector of Hanover is descended THE Family of Brunswick and Lunenburg for its great Antiquity seems to bear the Bell in a manner from all the rest It owes its original to the ancient Welffs of whom see in Spencer's Sylloge Genealogica Henry the Lion descended from these Duke of Bavaria and Saxony and Successor to his Father ann 1139 may be properly looked upon as the common Father of all the Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburg tho falling into disgrace with the Emperor Barbarossa he was proscribed and so lost all his Dominions except the Districts of Brunswick and Lunenburg he married Maud Daughter of Henry the Second King of England and had by her three Sons and two Daughters Otho their youngest Son born ann 1204 the other Brothers dying without Issue-male was created the first Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg by the Emperor Frederick the Second From him the present Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburg are descended for Ernestus the Seventh Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg who died anno 1546 left among other Children two Sons Augustus and William of whom the first was Author of the new Line of Brunswick Wolfembuttel whose Sons Rudolphus Augustus and Antonius Ulricus now live together in joint Authority and the other viz. William being Author of the Line of Brunswick-Lunenburg-Hanover whose Grandson Ernestus-Augustus Bishop of Osenburg is now Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg-Hanover He was born Novemb 10. 1629 and ann 1658 he married the Lady Sophia Daughter to Frederick the Fifth Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia born Oct. 13. 1630. This Duke is lately made a new Elector of the Empire There Children are I. Georgius-Ludovicus Prince Hereditary born May 28. 1660 and on Nov. 21. 1682 he married his Cousin German Sophia Dorothea only Daughter of his late Uncle George-William Duke of Zell she was born Sept. 15. 1666. He has Issue by her 1. Georgius-Augustus born Oct. 30. 1683. 2. Gulielmus-Ernestus born 1685. 2. Fredericus-Augustus born Octob. 3. 1661 who died in Hungary 1689. 3. Maximilianus-Gulielmus born Dec. 14. 1666. He died in the Morea 4. Sophia Charlotta born Octob. 20. 1668 and married to Frederick the Third the present Elector of Brandenburg Oct. 6. 1684 by whom she has one Prince alive named Fredericus Gulielmus born Aug. 4. 1688. 5. Carolus-Philippus born Oct. 13. or 23. 1669. he died in Hungary ann 1690. 6. Christianus born Sept. 29. 1671. 7 Ernestus Augustus born Sept. 17. 1674. There are other Princes in Germany of the Houses of Hesse Meckleburg Wirtenburg Baden Anhalt Saxon-Lawenburg c but I give an account only of the Electoral Houses omitting the rest FRANCE 1. HUGH the Great Duke of France Burgundy and Aquitain Marquess of Orleans and Earl of Paris died in the year 956. His eldest Son Hugh Capet upon the Death of Lewis the Slothful last King of France of the Race of Charlemagne was by the unanimous consent of the Peers of France inaugurated King of that Kingdom ann 987 from whom is descended Lewis the Fourteenth the present King of that Kingdom born at St. Germains Sept. 5. new style 1638. Of the several Branches of the Line of Hugh Capet he is descended in a direct Line from Robert Count of Clermont and Lord of Bourbon youngest Son of Lewis the Ninth who died of the Plague at the Siege of Tunis ann 1270. The Surname of Bourbon is derived to the present French King from the said Robert King Henry the Fourth his Grandfather being the first King of France of the said Surname who having first professed himself of the Roman Religion whereas before he had been a Protestant was crown'd King of France ann 1594. The present King succeeded his Father ann 1642 or 3 and Sept. 7. 1651. he was declared Major for by a Sanction put forth by King Charles the Fifth surnamed the Wise who came to the Crown of France ann 1364 the eldest Sons of France were for the future to be declared of Age at fourteen years old and fit to be crown'd and govern he was crown'd at Rheims by the Archbishop of that See Jun. 7. 1654 and Jun. 9. 1660 he was married at St. John de Luz to Maria-Teresa Daughter to Philip the Fourth King of Spain by his first Wife the Princess Elizabeth Daughter to Henry the Fourth King of France She died July 30. 1683 by whom the King has only one Son now living namely Lewis the Fifteenth surnam'd the Hardy the present Dolphin born Nov. 1. 1661 and March 7. 1680 was married to the Electoral Princess of Bavaria Maria-Anna Victoria-Christina Daughter to Ferdinandus-Maria the late Elector of Bavaria The Contract was signed at Munic Dec. 30. 1679. She since died ann 1690. The Dolphin has Issue by her three Sons viz. 1. Lewis Duke of Burgundy born at Versailles Aug. 6. at twenty minutes past ten of the Clock in the Evening ann 1682. 2. Philip Duke of Anjou born Nov. 9. 1683. 3. Gaston Duke of Berry born Aug. 31. 1686. Concerning the Dolphin note that he is so called because Humbert the Second Earl of Dolphiné descended of the Blood Royal of France seeing himself destitute of Issue made over the Province of Dolphiné an 1358 to Philip de Valois the then King of France for forty thousand Florins and on condition that for the future the eldest Son of France should still be styl'd The Dolphin And Charles the Fifth above-mentioned surnamed The Wise who came to the Crown of France ann 1364 was the First who in his Father's Life-time was styled The Dolphin Now besides the Dolphin the present King of France has several natural Children viz. 1. Maria Anna de Bourbon born ann 1666 and married anno 1680 to Lewis de Bourbon Prince de Conti. 2. Lewis de Bourbon Duke of Vermandois born ann 1667 supreme Intendant of the Marine He died ann 1683. These two were born him by Aolisia-Frances de la Beaume la Blanche de la Valiere Duchess of Vaujour and Peeress of France Daughter to Lawrence de la Valiere She is now a Carmelite Nun by the name of Sister Aloisia de Misericordiâ 3. Ludovicus-Augustus de Bourbon Duke of Maine born ann 1670 and made legitimate three years after viz. 1673. 4. Ludovicus-Caesar de Bourbon Count of Vexin born ann 1672. He died 1683. 5. Aloisia-Frances de Bourbon Mademoiselle de Nantes born An. 1673. and married An. 1685. to Lewis Duke of Bourbon 6. Aloisia-Maria-Anna deceased An. 1681. 7. Ludovicus Alexander de Bourbon Count of Toulouse born An. 1678. Legitimated An. 1681 Intendant of the Marine 8. Frances-Maria de Bourbon Mademoiselle
de Blois born An. 1681. These six were born him by Frances Athanasia de Roche Chovart Gabriel Prince de Mortemars Daughter and Wife to Henry-Lewis Paidallan Marquess of Montespan The French King has only one Brother viz. Philip Duke of Orleans born Sept. 1. An. 1640. He espoused for his first Wife the Princess Henrietta-Maria youngest Daughter to our late King Charles the First She was born at Exeter Jun. 16. 1644 and died An. 1670. He had by her four Children viz. 1. Maria-Aloisia born March 27. 1662. and married Nov. 17. 1679. to Charles the Second King of Spain She died without Issue by him An. 1689. 2. Philip who died an Infant 3. Another Daughter not named 4. Anna-Maria born Aug. 27. 1669. and Apr. 9. 1684. married to Victor Amadeus the Second the present Duke of Savoy The next year after the forementioned Duchess of Orleans died An. 1671. The Duke married Elizabeth Charlotta Daughter to Charles-Lewis Elector Palatine who was born in May 1652. The Espousals were celebrated at Metz Nov. 26. of the said year he has Issue by her 1. Philip Duke of Chartres born Aug. 2. 1671. 2. Elizabetha-Charlotta Mademoiselle de Chartres born Sept. 13. 1676. The Princes of the Blood BEing to name the Princes of the Blood I shall shew withal how they are descended and allied to the King of France Robert the Fifth Count of Clermont and Lord of Bourbon youngest Son to King Lewis the Ninth as mentioned before was the person in whom the Line of Hugh Capet is continued in the Crown of France Charles Duke of Vendôme lineally descended from him was born An. 1489. And left among other Children two Sons viz. Anthony the eldest who was Duke of Vendôme and King of Navarr Great Grandfather to the present King of France 2. Lewis Prince of Conde Great Grandfather to the present Prince of Conde Henry-Julius de Bourbon born Jul. 29. 1643. formerly stiled Duke D'Enghien and now since his Fathers death Prince of Conde He was married Dec. 11. 1667. to the Princess Anne Daughter to Edward Prince Palatine of the Rhine who was born July 23. 1647. and is since deceased but he has by her the following Issue 1. Maria-Teresa Mademoiselle de Bourbon born 1666. 2. Lewis de Bourbon Duke D'Enghien born 1668. and married 1685. to Aloisia-Frances Natural Daughter to the King of France by Madam de Montespan who was born 1673. 3. Maria-Anna Mademoiselle de Monmorency born 1675. 4. Anna-Maria Victoria Mademoiselle D'Enghien born 1676. 5. Aloisia-Benedicta Mademoiselle de Conde born 1678. The Prince of Conde had also a Brother viz. Armand Prince de Conti born 1629. married to Anna-Maria de Monmorency Cardinal Mazarines Neice by the Sister 1659. Deceased 1666 leaving behind him two Sons viz. 1. Lewis de Bourbon Prince of Conti born 1661. and in 1680 he married Anna-Maria de Bourbon the Kings Natural Daughter by Madam de la Valiere who was made Legitimate He died without Issue An. 1685. 2. Francis-Lewis de Bourbon the now Prince of Conti born 1664 or 8. Besides these Princes of the Blood the King has also three Cousin Germans living Daughters to his Uncle Gaston-John-Baptist late Duke of Orleans 1. Anna-Maria Duchess of Montpensier born An. 1627. unmarried 2. Margarita-Aloisia born An. 1645. and married An. 1661. to Cosmus the Third Great Duke of Tuscany 3. Isabella born An. 1649 and married An. 1667. to Joseph-Lewis Duke of Guise She is now a Widow Note That tho this King of France be but the twenty sixth King inclusively of the Line of Hugh Capet yet he is the sixty first King of France for there preeceded twenty one Kings of the Race of Merovius and thirteen Kings of the Race of Charlemagne before the Line of Hugh Capet came in II. For Arms he bears Azure three Flower de Luces Or two in Chief and one in Base the Escutcheon is environed with the Collars of the Orders of S. Michael and the Holy Ghost It has for Crest an Helmet Or entirely open thereon a Crown Clos'd after the manner of an Imperial Crown with eight Inarched Rayes topt with a double Flower de Luce. The Supporters are two Angels habited as Levites the whole under a Pavilion Royal semè of France lin'd Ermines with these words Ex omnibus floribus elegi mihi Lilium Lilia neque laborant neque nent These words The Lilies do not Spin as a late French Writer tells us import that the Flower de Luces which represent the Crown of France never fall to the Distaff and that the Female Sex cannot inherit according to the Salique Law The same Custom having prevailed among the Chaldeans Egyptians Persians Chineses Turks Tartars and Parthians tho the Daughters have sometimes succeeded in England Spain Sicily Sueden c. The King of France pretending likewise a right to Navarre bears also for that Kingdom Gules a Carbuncle noued Or which having a resemblance to Chains of Gold is Blazon'd by some Chains of Gold Interlac'd parted into Orbes Pales Fesses Counterbands or Saltiers The King of France's Device is Consiliis Armisque Potens or also this Nec pluribus Impar Note That the Arms of France in the days of Pharamond and his three Successors were Gules three Crowns Or. Clovis the Great altered them to Azure semè of Flower de Luces Or and Charles the Sixth who came to the Crown An. 1380 reduc'd the Lilies in his Coat of Arms to three The Kings Livery is of a blew colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the French Language III. Paris is the Capital City of France which has the pleasant River Seine running thro the midst of it I shall speak concerning the extent and number of the Houses and Inhabitants of this and other Cities when I come to speak of London wherefore I shall pass by these things at present As for his chief Seats of pleasure the chief is that noble Seat at Versailles four Leagues South of Paris of which there being a full and clear description extant in English as also of the Seat of Monsieur at S. Clou and of the Treasury of S. Denis I shall say nothing here of them He has also the noble Seats of Fontainbleau and S. Germains beside the Louvre at Paris celebrated by that famous Distich Non Orbis Gentem non Urbem Gens habet ullam Urbsve domum Dominum nec habet ulla parem 4. The Revenues of the King of France are said to amount to eleven millions of Pounds Sterling being above the fifth part of the Revenues of that Kingdom and the French averr France to contain fifty thousand Parishes The House of England I. WIlliam Duke of Normandy surnamed the Conqueror under the pretence that King Edward the Confessor his Cousin who died without Issue An. 1065. Son of King Ethelred by his Queen Emma had by his last Will and Testament transferred the Kingdom to him made a Descent into England An. 1067. and having slain King Harold in Battle the then
usurping King there after King Edwards death was by the unanimous consent of the Peerage of England Crowned King Now when King William the Conqueror's youngest Son Henry upon the death of his elder Brother William the Second who had succeeded his Father in the Kingdom came to the Crown which was An 1087. He married Matilda or Maud Daughter of Malcolm the Third King of Scotland by Margaret the Sister of Edgar Atheling right Heir of Edward the Confessor as being descended from King Edmund Ironside half Brother to King Edward the Confessor by their common Father King Ethelred and Grandfather to the abovenamed Edgar Atheling and Margaret And the said King Henry the First had by his Wife Matilda or Maud a Son who was cast away at Sea and a Daughter named Maud also the only Legitimate Issue that survived him born An. 1104. She was married first to the Emperour Henry the Fourth who had no Issue by her and after his death to Geoffry Plantagenet Earl of Anjou by whom she had a Son nam'd Henry the Second Now King Henry the First his Son being dead seeing this Daughter his only Legitimate Issue call'd a Parliament An. 1133. in which all the Lords of the Land took an Oath to be true to his Daughter Maud the Empress and her Heirs and acknowledge them as right Inheritors of the Crown And tho Stephen Earl of Bologne and Montagne Son of Stephen Earl of Blois by Adela third Daughter of the Conquerour was set up to the Crown by the working of Henry his Brother Bishop of Winchester after the death of King Henry the First against the undoubted right of the said Empress yet at length seeing his Children dead before him he secur'd the Succession to her Son Henry the Second who was Crown'd An. 1155. And from this Henry the Second in whom the Saxon Line was restored is Descended James the Second of the Royal House of the Stuarts late King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. who was born Oct. 14. 1633. His Majesty Espoused for his first Wife the Lady Ann Daughter to the late Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England c. She died before he came to the Crown and brought him Issue four Sons and four Daughters but all dying young except two surviving Daughters The eldest is the Lady Mary born Apr. 30. 1662. and was married to William Henry Prince of Orange in London at S. James's Nov. 14. 1677. The said Prince being born on the 14. of the same month New Stile 1650 and restor'd to his Hereditary Dignity in the United Provinces An. 1672. concerning whom I shall say more beneath The second is the Lady Ann born Feb. 6 1664. And July 28. 1683. was Espoused to George Prince of Denmark only Brother to the present King of that Kingdom he was born An. 1653. or 1. he has had Issue by his Princess 1. William Duke of Gloucester born in July 1689. and three Children more viz. the Lady Mary the Lady Ann and another Princess who died in their Infancy His Majesty Nov. 21. 1673. took for his second Wife the Lady Mary-Eleanor-Beatrix D'Este late Queen of England still living who was born Sept. 25. 1658. being youngest Sister to Francisco D'Este the present Duke of Modena and Regio c. She was Crowned with his Majesty April 23. 1685. And his Majesty has had by her two Daughters and a Son who all died young before the year 1688. And as some say he has had a Son and a Daughter by her since still living Their Majesties reside at present at S. Germains in France and profess the Roman Religion His Majesty has Natural Issue by Madam Churchil two Sons and two Daughters all living in France The Sons go by the name of Fitz-James The eldest is Duke of Berwick the youngest is stiled Grand Prior of Ireland The eldest Daughter was married to the late Lord Waldegrave by whom he has Issue two Sons The other Daughter is unmarried Now as for William Henry of Nassaw Prince of Orange and now stiled William the Third King of Great Britain c. who married the Lady Mary eldest Daughter to King James as above They were Proclaim'd King and Queen of England France and Ireland the Executive Power in him Feb. 14. 1689. Proclaim'd King and Queen of Scotland April 11. of the same year His Majesty has as yet no Issue by his Queen Now as to the Rise of the House of Nassaw and Orange as it concerns King William I shall not seek to retrieve its Original but its certain it flourisht in the ninth Century and I shall only take notice that from Walram and Otto Sons of Henry surnam'd the Rich Earl of Nassau sprang two Capital Lines viz. that of Idstein afterwards call'd Sarepont from Walram and that of Dillenburg which now enjoys the Principality from Otto and therefore we shall confine ourselves singly to this Now John the Third who was the eighth of his Family Lineally descended from the said Otto inclusively had two Sons viz. Henry and William the Elder Henry was born An. 148â— and from him the Principality of Orange Descended to King William As for William the Elder Brother to Henry he had a Son call'd John who dwelt in the Castle of Dillenburg and had twenty five Children of whom I shall note only four viz. John George Ernestus-Casimire and John-Lewis for from them sprang the several Lines of Siegen Dillenburg Diezen and Hademar on each of which the Emperour Ferdinand the Third in the Diet of Ratisbone March 3. 1654. conferr'd the honour of having a Voice and Seat among the Princes of the Empire As for a farther Genealogical account of these Families it may be had elsewhere To the Royal Family of England I must add Donna Catharina Infanta of Portugal Queen Dowager of England born at Villa Vicosa in Portugal Nov. 14. Old Stile An. 1638. and Espoused at Portsmouth by his late Majesty King Charles the Second in the month of May An. 1662. She being only Sister to Don Pedro of the House of Braganza the present King of that Kingdom She resides at present at Lisbon in Portugal Her original Jointure some settled by King Charles was 40000 l. per annum to which considerable additions have been since made Their Majesties have two Uncles living in England viz. the Earls of Clarendon and Rochester The Princes and Princesses of the Blood Royal of England that are not excluded from the Succession of the Crown by the late Act of Parliament I. PRincess Ann of Denmark afore mention'd II. The Duke of Glocester of whom also see before III. Sophia Duchess of Hanover Daughter to Frederick the Fifth Elector and King of Bohemia Married to the Duke An. 1658. Her Children 1. George-Lewis born May 28. 1660. Who Nov. 1. 1682. Married Sophia-Dorothea only Daughter to the Duke of Zel by whom he has 1. George-Augustus born Oct. 30. 1683. 2. William-Ernestus born An. 1685. 2. Christian born Sept.
a triple Circle of Gold for some Mystery contained in it It s called the Regnum because it denotes the Dignity and Power of Priest and Emperor The late Pope's Devise was Innocens manibus mundo corde The Popes Livery is of a Red Colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the Italian Language III. His ordinary place of Residence is the famous City of Rome seated on the River Tiber it being about eleven miles in compass tho much of the Ground is there taken up in Gardenage and the like As to the Computation of the People of Rome I have already given an account of them in the Head of England where I speak of London but for a farther satisfaction take the following exact account of them as it lately stood for ten years together given to a very ingenious English Gentleman at Rome by the Abbot Nazzari then Author of the Giornali de Litteroati and as I hear now Keeper of the Vatican In the year 1672 they numbered 121064 In 73 120945 In 74 121726 In 75 131912 In 76 128507 In 77 125701 In 78 116287 In 79 126128 In 80 121031 In 81 115722 Flavius Blondus in his Ninth Book of his Roma Triumphans has this great Expression of the ancient Roman Grandeur viz. There were at Rome in ancient times not only twenty thousand but many more of Citizens far surpassing all the Citizens of our present Towns in the Splendor Curiosity and Luxury of their Houses Furniture and all manner of Accommodations for their Families The Cupula of S. Peter's Church at Rome is the greatest of the World it being one hundred and fifty Foot Diameter That on the Cathedral of Florence is next to it in Greatness The Vatican Library also at Rome is counted the greatest and best furnished with Manuscripts of any in the World Before S. Peter's Church at Rome there is an Obelisk erected on a Basis and Pedestal twenty six Foot in height the Obelisk it self being eighty Foot high The Urn which held the Ashes of Julius Caesar was formerly raised on the point of it now it is a Cross The Obelisk consists of one entire Stone which by good Computation is said to weigh four hundred Tuns which perhaps is the greatest Weight in one Bulk raised by the Art of Man The ordinary Revenues of the Papacy arising out of Land-Rents Imposts on Commodities and Sale of Offices Boterus makes to be better than two millions of Crowns yearly but the extraordinary and spiritual to be far beyond SAVOY I. THO the Dukes of Savoy may not be improperly referred to Germany and contained in the Upper Circle of the Rhine yet because they are possessed of all Piemont in Italy as also of many places in France I think it more convenient to treat of them here Now this Family is justly to be numbered amongst those of greatest Antiquity since little that is certain can be spoke of its original by reason thereof This nevertheless is without dispute that Beraldus Marquess of Italy Earl of Savoy and Maurienne flourished in the beginning of the eleventh Century from whom is descended Victor-Amadeus-Francis the present Duke of Savoy born May 17. 1666 he succeeded his Father Jun. 12. 1675 and the Dutchess Regent his Mother deposed the Regency into his Hands ann 1680. And Apr. 9. 1684 he married Mademoiselle de Valois named Anna-Maria the second and youngest Daughter to Philip Duke of Orleans by the Princess Henrietta-Maria youngest Daughter to Charles the First King of England By whom he has Issue 1. Maria-Adelheid or Adelherd born Dec. 6. 1685. 2. Another Princess born Aug. 30. new Style 1688. The Princes of the Blood of Savoy I. CHarles Emanuel the fiest Duke of Savoy and King of Cyprus great Grandfather to the present Duke of Savoy was born Jan. 12. 1562 who marrying Catharine Michaelis of the House of Austria Daughter to Philip the Second King of Spain left Issue by her several Children but only two survived to propagate the Family viz. Victor-Amadeus the First Grandfather to the present Duke and his younger Brother Thomas-Francis Prince of Carignan who Jan. 22. 1624 married Mary of Bourbon Daughter to Charles Count of Soissons by whom he had Issue 1. Charlotta-Christina who died young 2. Aloisia-Christina born August 1. 1627 and married to Ferdinand Maximilian Marquess of Baden ann 1653. She is now a Widow without Issue living 3. Emanuel-Philibert-Amadeus of Savoy Prince of Carignan born Aug. 6. 1628 he was both deaf and dumb and so wholly unfit for Business of State yet ann 1648 he was married to Catharine d'Este Prince Borsus's Daughter by whom he has no Issue living Thomas-Francis had four Sons more but all dead without Issue except Eugenius-Maurice of Savoy Count of Soissons who was born May the third 1635 and died Jan. 7. 1673. On Feb. 20. 1657 he married Olympia Daughter of Michael-Laurence of by Cardinal Mazarine's Sister whom he left a Widow and by her the following Issue living 1. Lewis-Thomas Count of Soissons born Dec. 15. 1657 his Princess's name is Urania de la Cropte Daughter to the Noble Baron de Beauvois whom he married December 17. 1682. 2. Philip born 1659. 3. Francis-Eugenius born 1665. 4. Maria-Joanna-Baptista born Jan. 1666. 5. Aloisia-Philiberta born Nov. 22. 1667. The Duke of Savoy's Mother the Duchess Dowager of Savoy is still living Her name is Maria-Joanna-Baptista Daughter to Charles-Amadeus Duke of Nemours II. This Duke bears Gules a Cross Argent this Coat being given to Amadeus the Great by the Knights of Rhodes ann 1315 with these Letters in lieu of a Motto F. E. R. T. that is Fortitudo Ejus Rhodum Tenuit The occasion was that Amadeus the Fifth Surnamed the Great forc'd Mahomet the Second Emperour of the Turks to raise his Siege at that time from before the City of Rhodes The said Cross is the Cross of S. John of Hierusalem whose Knights at that time were Owners of Rhodes whereas before the Arms of the House of Savoy were Or an Eagle displayed with two Heads Sable arm'd Gules supporting in Fesse an Escutcheon of Saxony that is Barwise of six pieces Sable and Or a Bend flower'd Verte a Coat belonging to the Emperous of the House of Saxony from whom the first Earls of Savoy deriv'd it They bear also the Arms of the Kingdom of Cyprus which Crown gives the Title of Royal Highness His Livery is of a Red Colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the Italian Language III. Turin seated on the River Po in the Plain of Piemont is the chief City of his Principality he there usually keeping his Court his new Palace there being one of the faiest of Italy Adjoyning to it is a Park of the Dukes watered with the Duria Sture and Po six Miles in Circuit full of Woods Lakes and pleasant Fountains which make it one of the sweetest situations in Europe Chambery seated on the Banks of the River L' Arch is the principal City of
THE Present STATE OF THE UNIVERSE Or an ACCOUNT of I. The Rise Births Names Matches Children and near Allies of all the present Chief Princes of the World II. Their Coats of Arms Motto's Devises Liveries Religions and Languages III. The Names of their Chief Towns with some Computation of the Houses and Inhabitants Their Chief Seats of Pleasure and other Remarkable things in their Dominions IV. Their Revenues To which Are added some other Curious Remarks as also an Account of Common-Wealths relating to the foregoing Heads Parvula sic totum pervisit pupula Mundum LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Randall Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1694. Presented to R. Hooke by his Worthy Friend the Author July 4. 1694. To the HONOURABLE CHARLES COTTINGTON Esquire SIR HIstory being much the Study of a Gentleman I have presum'd a Dedication of these few Praeludia relating to it to your self Not but your own Reading Conversation and Travels may have already furnished you with far more and more accurate Particulars in this kind than my poor Essays may afford but what I have written is chiefly intended for your hopeful Offspring to whom I conceived a brief Idea of the World in this kind relating to those chief Potentates under whose Dominion God at present has put it might be of use for initiating their Understandings till being come to more mature years their own Studies and Observations in Travels may inure them to well digested Thoughts concerning the various Governments of the World whereby they may be rendered serviceable to the Nation in which they live It 's well known how Eminent for Parts and Services to this Nation the late Lord Cottington your Uncle was whose Family a few years since being reduced in the Male-Line only to your self you see Providence by vouchsafing you three flourishing Branches of Male-Issue has given you good Hopes and a fair Prospect of a long Continuance of it And as the many Favours I have received from you have highly engaged me to wish Prosperity to it so whenever any thing shall be suggested to my Understanding whereby I may be a Mean to promote it it shall most readily be put in Execution by Sir Your most Obliged Kinsman and most Humble Servant John Beaumont Jun. THE Present STATE OF THE UNIVERSE c. The House of Austria THE Illustrious House of Austria having the largest extent of Dominions among the European Princes I have thought fit to begin with that This House owes its Original to the Earls of Habsburg whom a late Writer derives from the Counts of Mount Aventine of the ancient Perleonian Family which was formerly of the greatest Repute and Authority of any in Rome and had its seat on Mount Aventine Albertus Dives Anicius Perleonius a person Descended of the said Family was driven out of Rome An. 1144. by the Arnaldistick Hereticks together with his Brother Rudolph in defence of the Roman See Whereupon he travelled into Switzerland and there married the Daughter of Wernerus last Earl of Habsburg of the Anician Perleonian Race This Albertus Dives Anicius was Great Grandfather to Rudolph the fourth Earl of Habsburg the first German Emperour of the Anician Perleonian Family This Rudolph the first was the Common Father of the Austrian Family born May 1. 1218. He was elected Emperour An. 1273. by the unanimous consent of the Princes of the Empire and crowned the same year at Aix la Chapelle and at a Diet held at Ausburg An. 1282. he had Austria settled on his eldest Son Albert who was first Duke of Austria and Schwaben on Rudolph his youngest Son Philip the first descended from Albert was born An. 1478. and An. 1496. he married the Princess Johanna eldest Daughter and Heiress to his Catholick Majesty Ferdinand of Spain in whose right he immediately became possest of the Kingdoms of Castile and Arragon He had for his Sons Charles the fifth and Ferdinand the first betwixt which two Princes there was a division made of the Provinces when the House of Austria became likewise divided into the Spanish and German Lines The Spanish Line I. THE Author of the Spanish Line was Charles the fifth born at Ghent in Flanders An. 1500. At fourteen years of Age he had the Government of the Netherlands given him At sixteen he was Crowned King of Spain At nineteen elected Emperour and Crowned the year following at Aix la Chappelle He annexed the Duchy of Milain to his House for ever He concluded a Peace with the Protestants at Passaw An. 1552 and three years after he Abdicated his Government leaving the Empire to his Brother Ferdinand and the Kingdom of Spain with the Low Countries and its other dependencies to his Son Philip Great Grandfather to the present King of Spain Charles the Second who was born Nov. 6. 1661 and on the 21. of December following was Christened Carolus-Joachimus-Josephus-Antonius-Leonardus He succeeded in the Kingdom at the death of his Father Philip the Fourth who died Sept. 17. 1665. and in the year 1675 being entred on the fifteenth year of his Age he took on him the Government of his Estates whereas during his minority the supream Government was under the Regency of the Queen his Mother named Mary-Anne Daughter of the Emperour Ferdinand the Fourth and is now Dowager of Spain She was born Oct 12. 1631. and married to Philip the Fourth King of Spain Nov. 7. 1649. This King Aug. 31. An. 1679. espoused the Princess Mary-Louise of Orleans eldest Daughter to Philip Duke of Orleans by the Princess Henrietta-Maria youngest Daughter to our late King Charles the First The Prince of Conde espoused her in the Chappel of the House of Fontainebleau in the name of the King of Spain and the Marriage was Consummated Nov. 19. of the said year 1679 near Burgos in Old Castile She was born March 7. 1662. And this Queen dying without Issue An. 1689. he the same year married Maria-Anna Daughter of Philip-William Duke of Newburg and Elector Palatine the present Queen born Oct. 28. 1667. II. For Arms he bears Quarterly the first Quarter Counter-Quartered in the first and fourth Gules a Castle triple towered Or each with three Battlements bordered Azure Purfled Sable for Castile In the second and third Argent a Lion Gules Crowned Langued and armed Or for Leon. In the second great Quarter Or four great Pallets Gules for Aragon Party Or four Pallets also Gules betwixt two Flanches Argent charg'd with as many Eagles Sable membred becked and crowned Azure for Arragon and Sicily These two great Quarters grafted in Base Argent a Pomegranate Verte stalked and leav'd of the same open and seeded Gules for Granada On the whole Argent five Escutcheons Azure placed crosswise each charg'd with five Besants Argent placed in Saltier for Portugal The Shield bordered Gules with seven Towers Or three in Chief two in Fesse and two toward the Base for Algarve In the third great Quarter Gules a Fesse Argent for Austria Coupé and supported
present Count Palatine of the Upper Palatinate Duke of Bavaria Prince and Elector of the Empire Steward to the Imperial House and first of the Secular Electors born Jun. 11. 1662. he succeeded his Father May 16. 1679. and An. 1685 he married Anna-Maria-Josepha the only Daughter of Leopold the present Emperour by his first Empress the Princess Margarida-Maria-Teresa of Austria Daughter of Philip the Fourth King of Spain The Duchess was born Jan. 18. An. 1669. and had a Son by the Duke May 1. An. 1689. but he died the same year The Duke has a Brother named Josephus-Clementius-Cajetanus-Franciscus-Antoninus-Gasper-Melchior-Balthasar-Joannes-Baptista-Nicolaus the present Elector of Cologne beforementioned He has also a Sister named Violanta-Beatrix born Jan. 23. An. 1673. and married to Gaston eldest Son and Heir to the present Duke of Tuscany An. 1688. II. His Arms are three Escutcheons joyn'd together the first Sable a Lion Crown'd Or which belongs to the Palatinate The second Fusilè in Bend Argent and Azure in twenty one pieces which belongs to Bavaria The third Gules with an Imperial Globe Or which belongs to the Electorate His Livery is of a _____ colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the High Dutch Language III. Saltsburg was formerly the Capital City of this Country at present it is Munchen seated on the River Isar where the Elector Resides It s in a very sweet and delightful Soil among Ponds and Groves daintily interlac'd with pretty Rivulets and embellisht with many excellent Gardens that of the Elector being extraordinary Norinberg is the fairest City in the Upper Palatinate and perhaps of all Germany of figure it is Square environ'd with a tripple Wall of eight Miles in Circuit The Houses are most of Free-stone and six or seven Stories high and divers of them painted on the outside and adorn'd with gilded Balls on the top At Altorff near this Town in the Anatomy-School is the Skeleton of a Bear bigger than an Horse If the Bavarian Branch fails the Palatinate Family are to re-enter into the ancient Electorship and the other newly erected is to be abolished SAXONY ALbert the Third Elector of Saxony descended of the Family of Anhalt coming to an unexpected and accidental end being without issue ann 1422 Frederick the Warlike Marquess of Misnia and Landgrave of Thuringia Son to Frederick the Sttong was invested in the Electoral Dignity by the Emperor Sigismond ann 1425 from whom is descended I. Joannes-Georgius the Third the present Duke of Saxony Landgrave of Thuringia Marquess of Misnia Grand Marshal of the Empire Prince and Elector who was born June 20. 1647 and succeeded his Father Aug. 22. 1680. and in Sept. 1663 he espoused the Princess Anna Sophia eldest Sister to the present King of Denmark but the Marriage was not consummated till Octob. 9. 1666 she was born ann 1647 and he has had by her two Sons 1. Joannes-Georgius the Fourth Heir apparent born Octob. 17. ann 1668. 2. Frederick-Augustus born May 12. 1670. The Duke has no Brother nor Sister living but there are forty two Princes of the House of Saxony alive II. His Arms are quarterly In the first Upper Saxony In the second Thuringia In the third Misnia In the fourth Lower Saxony Over all the Electorate bears Barwise of six pieces Or and Sable a Bend verte His Livery is of a _____ Colour He professes the Protestant Religion according to the Doctrine of Luther and uses the High-Dutch Language III. Dresden seated on the fides of the River Albis by which it is divided into the Old Town and the New join'd into one by a Bridge eight hundred paces in length is the ordinary place of Residence of this Elector the Country round about it being very rich and pleasant When the first Stone was laid to build the Walls of this Town there was placed in the Earth a Silver Cup gilded a Book of the Laws and another of Coins and three Glasses filled with Wine Magdeburg is the greatest Town of the Country but possess'd by the Marquess of Brandenburgh by virtue of the Treaty at Munster The first Turnament in Germany opened at Magdeburg 635 by the Emperor Henry surnamed the Fowler These Pastimes were afterwards deposed upon the emulation they caused between the Princes and Nobility or haply on consideration that many brave Men lost their Lives in these Encounters for at Darmstadt an 1403 at the twenty third Turnament which was held in Germany the Gentlemen of Franconia and those of Hesse drew so much Blood of each other that there remain'd dead on the place seventeen of the former and nine of the latter Wittenberg seated on the Elb whose chief Beauty lies in one chief Street extending the whole length of the City in former times was the Seat of the Duke-Elector till the Electoral Dignity was conferred on the House of Meissen who liking better their own Country kept their Court at Dresden but so that Wittenberg is still acknowledg'd for the Head City of the Electorate IV. This Electors ordinary and extraordinary Revenues may amount to eight millions of Livers yearly It arises out of his Silver Mines Imposts laid upon Beer the Tenths of all sorts of Increase as of Corn Wine c. Salt-Houses and the like BRANDENBURG THAT the Family of Brandenburg is descended from the Counts of Zollern in Schawben is not to be doubted but from whence these Counts drew their Extraction does not so well appear Their opinion seems to be best which gives them the same original with the Guelphi yet so as not entirely to exclude the Colonnas a Family of an Italian Extraction also In the Catalogue of these Counts we find Conrade the First who flourished about the middle of the twelfth Century and married Anne of Vokburg sole Heiress of the last Burgrave of Nurenburg whereupon he obtained of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to be himself invested in that Burgraviate From him was descended Frederick the Sixth the first Elector of Brandenburg of the Family of Zollern This Frederick was born ann 1372 and served the Emperor Sigismond in his Wars by whom in regard of his great merit he was constituted Vicar or Warden of the Marc ann 1411. Afterwards at a Diet held at Constance ann 1415. he obtained the Electoral Dignity of the said Emperor with the general consent of the other Electors together with the Marquisate of Brandenburg paying down in consideration thereof four hundred thousand Hungarian Shillings The Investiture was afterward solemnly performed in Apr. ann 1417 c. From him is descended I. Frederick III. the present Marquess of Brandenburg great Chamberlain of the Empire and Elector Duke of Prussia c. born at Nine of the Clock in the Morning July 1. anno 1657 he succeeded his Father Apr. 29. 1688 Old Style and on the 23d of August ann 1679 he married Elizabetha Henrica Sister to the present Landtgrave of Hesse she died July 27. 1683 leaving one only Daughter nam'd Louisa-Dorothea-Sophia born Sept. 19.
them have a thousand or eight hundred Families the People being dispersed in Forests and other places where they have store of Timber to build them Houses and store of Pasturage for their Cattle which is the reason they have not so many great Towns nor so well inhabited as usual in far lesser Countries IV. The Revenues are very great they arising first from Church Lands taken to the Crown Secondly from Mines Thirdly from the Tenths of all Increase as Wheat Rye Barley Fish Oxen and the like Commodities Fourthly from Customs imposed on Merchandises paid in all Haven-Towns for all Commodities imported and exported He has also Contributions and Power of imposing Tax in time of War as occasion may require The House of Portugal I. TOward the latter end of the eleventh Century Alphonso the Sixth King of Castile had very frequent and bloody Wars with the Moors in which a certain Prince named Henry descended as some say from the House of Burgundy as others from that of Lorain was chiefly signalized for his Valour and good Services to the Crown King Alphonso in reward of this Merit gave him Portugal then lately recovered from the Moors under the Title of an Earldom together with his Daughter Teresa to Wife yet with this condition that he should continue a Vassal to Castile This Prince's Son was Alphonso the First who throwing off the Spanish Yoke and having subdued several petty Kings of the Moors caused himself to be proclaimed King of Portugal in the year 1139. His great Grandson Alphonso the Third King of Portugal had Algarve given him in Dowry with his Queen the Princess Beatrix Daughter of Alphonso the Tenth King of Castile whence the eldest Son of Portugal is always called Prince of Algarve Of this Family the present King of Portugal is descended Indeed Philip the Second King of Spain on some pretences made himself Master of the Kingdom of Portugal by Force of Arms ann 1580 but 't was again lost by his Grandson ann 1640 for the Portuguese actually rejecting the Spanish Yoke elected John Duke of Braganza descended as above to be their King in whose Line the Kingdom continues What particularly contributed to the Renunciation the Portuguese made to the King of Spain ann 1640 was the permission that King gave to others beside themselves to trade to the East Indies and the Tax he imposed of the fifth peny on all their Merchandizes and other Revenues It s remarkable that the Deliberation of shaking off the Spanish Yoak was kept private above a year betwixt two hundred persons Don Pedro of the House of Braganza King of Portugal and Algarve was born 1648. His elder Brother Don Alphonso the Sixth King of Portugal c. ann 1667 married the Lady Mary-Frances Elizabeth or Isabella Daughter to Charles Amadeus of Savoy Duke of Nemours She was born June the Twenty first 1648. and after sixteen months living with Don Alphonso she obtained a Declaration of Nullity of her Marriage with him retired to a Cloister And ann 1669 Don Alphonso was deposed as judged incapable either of a second Marriage or of the Government and sent the year following to the Tercera Island where he died in the year 1683. Now the present King upon his Brother Alphonso's being deposed was presently declared Prince Regent and after his death King of Portugal and by a Dipensation from the Pope married his Sister-in-Law abovementioned The Cardinal Deacon Louis de Vendôme in quality of universal Legat à Latere gave them the Dispensation under Pope Clement the Ninth Abbot Bon-Filz the Secretary to the Legation has set forth the particulars and the Conferences he had with his Holiness at the end of the Transaction The King had by this Queen a Daughter named Mary Elizabeth who was born ann 1669 and died ann 1690. And the Queen her self dying Dec. 27. 1683. the King ann 1687 took to Wife the Lady Mary-Sophia-Elizabeth Daughter of Philip-William Elector Palatine who was born Aug. 6. 1666 and Aug. 30. 1688 was brought to Bed of a young Prince who died Sept. 3. in the same year And in Octob. 1689 she was brought to Bed of another Prince named John Prince of Bresil The King of Portugal has but one Sister living viz. Donna-Catharina the Queen Dowager of England concerning whom see in the Head of England II. He bears Argent five Escutcheons Azure placed Cross-wise each charged with as many Besants of the first placed in Saltier and pointed Sable for Portugal The Shield bordered Gules charged with seven Towers Or three in Chief and two in each Flanch The Crest is a Crown Or which is the Crest of Portugal Under the two Flanches and the Base of the Shield appear the Ends of two Crosses the first Flower de luc'd Verte which is for the Order of Avis The second Pattee Gules which is for the Order of Christ The five Escutcheons were born in memory of five Kings whom Alphonso the first King slew at the Battel of Obrique ann 1139. The Border with the Towers or Castles were added by Alphonso the Third on his Investiture into the Kingdom of Algarve by Alphonso the Tenth of Castile ann 1257 whose Daughter Beatrix he then married and so conceived himself to have some Relation to the Arms of that Kingdom This King's Livery is of a Green Colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the Portuguese Language which is a Dialect of the Spanish III. Lisbon seated on the River Tagus is the Capital City of the Kingdom and the place where his Majesty keeps his Court. It s seven miles in compass and contains above thirty Parishes and above thirty thousand Houses The Portuguese have this Proverb He that has not seen Lisbon has not seen a fine thing The Buildings are neat and elegant and there are seventy six Turrets or Towers on the City Wall and twenty two Gates towards the Sea shore c. It s the Staple for the Commodities for all the Kingdom and thought to be worth more than the whole Realm besides and doubtless the Revenues which accrue to the King from hence and from his Foreign Plantations are very considerable ITALY The Papacy I. INnocent the Twelfth the present Pope was born at Naples in March ann 1615 elected Pope July 12. ann 1671 he is Son to Prince Minerbino of the Family of Pignato the chief whereof is the Duke of Terra Nova a Grandee of Spain II. Having not the particular Arms of the present Popes Family by me I can here only say that the Popes for a Crest to their Gentilitial Arms are wont to put the Arms of the Popedom which are as follow The Papal Escutcheon is Gules and 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 S. Peter placed in Saltier Boniface the Eighth was the first that wore the Tiara with a double Crown and Urban the Fifth made it in the Form of a Cap adorned with