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A77171	The martial-field of Europe being a geographical and historical description of those parts of Europe, which are most famous in this present war, viz. I. Flanders, II. The Rhine, III. Savoy, IV. Catalonia, V. Hungary, VI. Greece. With an account of the several revolutions of those places, either by conquest or treaties of peace, particularly from the treaty of Munster in 1648. to this present time. By A. Boyer, Gent.	Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.	1694 (1694)	Wing B3916; ESTC R203420	162,311	286

Riches that the King of Spain's Revenues from thence when he had all was greater than any Prince in Christendom the King of France excepted but at present the charge of keeping is much greater than the Revenues The strength Strength of these parts is very great but it s best and strongest places are in the possession of the French and for a long time the Spaniards have not been able to keep those they have still without the help either of the English Dutch or Brandenburghers The Traffick Traffick in Flanders has been always very great but now nothing so much as formerly by reason of the prodigious increase of the Vnited Provinces in these late years It chiefly consists of several sorts of Manufactures as rich Tapestries fine Camlets Serges coloured Says Mock Velvets great quantities of fine Linnen Damasks Cambricks Taffaties Points Laces and striped Stuffs for Beds which are transported into many Countries all sorts of Ribbons Bastard Sattins and many other things of this Nature made at the Cities of Mons Ghent Brussels Ypres Lille Bruges Mechlin Valenciennes c. The Inhabitants Inhabitants of these Provinces consist of Flemmings Walloons Spaniards with some intermixture of French Dutch and English especially at present The Religion Religion among them is various according to their several Nations In those places which are in the Possession of the Spaniards and French that of the Roman Church is only publickly allowed and the Protestants tolerated out of Policy by the Spaniards only On the contrary in those places that belong to the Hollanders the Protestant is only publickly exercis'd and the Popish suffered in private The Archbishopricks and Bishopricks are all Roman Catholick The Languages Language most generally used in these Parts are the Walloon and Flemmish The Walloon is a corrupt French spoken in Artois Hainault Namur Luxemburg French-Flanders part of Brabant and the Bishoprick of Liege The Flemmish or Low-Dutch is a Dialect of the German spoken in the Marquisate Mechlin part of Brabant Flanders and part of the Bishoprick of Liege The Spanish is also much in use among the King of Spain's Subjects and the French among the better sort The German has been lately introduced there by the Duke of Bavaria Governour of the Spanish Netherlands The Principal Rivers Rivers in these Parts are the Maes or Meuse and the Scheld or Escaut 1. The Maes Lat. Mosa has its source in France near Mount de Vauge in the Bishoprick of Langres in Champagne passes through Charlemont Bouvines Dinant Namur where it receives the River Sambre Liege Maestricht Venlo Grave and Dort and falls into the Wahal a branch of the Rhine near Hervoerden where it takes the name of Merwe and having form'd an Island called Ysselmonde near Dordrecht runs into the Ocean 2. The Scheld has its source in Picardy a Province of France and having wash'd the Towns of Cambray Valenciennes Tournay Ghent and Antwerp and embraced the Island of Zealand it falls into the Ocean big with the Waters of the Rivers Lys Lieve Dendre and Rupel In these Provinces are two Archbishopricks Archbishopricks 2. viz. Cambray and Mechlin and eleven Bishopricks Bishopricks 11. viz. Antwerp Boisleduc Bruges Ghent Ruremond and Ypres under Mechlin Namur Arras St. Omers and Tourney under Cambray and Leige under Cologne in Germany Here are also 155 Cities or Walled Towns Towns 155. besides those in Cambray and part of Gelderland Chief City and 6867 Villages Villages 6867. besides the Castles Forts and Noble Mens Houses which are almost innumerable The Chief City of the whole is Antwerp but Brussel is now adays the most remarkable being the seat of the Spanish Governour The Chief City of the French is Mons of the Hollanders Boisledue or Maestricht and of the Bishop of Liege Liege The Government Government of this Country belongs by right to the Spaniards but at present they have only the Marquisate Mechlin Spanish about 3 quarters of Brabant nigh half of Limburg and Flanders a quarter of Hainault with some of Gelderland The French have Artois Cambray Luxemburg Namur three quarters of Hainault French nigh half of Flanders and a quarter of the Bishoprick of Liege The Hollanders have above half of Limburg Dutch above a quarter of Brabant a sixth part of Flanders and a small part of the Bishoprick of Liege The Bishop of Liege has above half of that Province Flanders comprehending the Cambresis the Country of Liege Division and part of Gelderland is divided into twelve parts viz. 1. The County of Flanders Ghent Bish 2. The Dukedom of Brabant Brussel Capital 3. The Marquisat of the Holy Empire Antwerp Bish 4. The Lordship of Mechlin Mechlin Archbp. 5. Part of the Dukedom of Gelderland Gelders 6. The Dukedom of Limburg Limburg 7. The Country of Liege Liege Bish 8. The County of Namur Namur Bish 9. The Dukedom of Luxemburg Luxemburg 10. The County of Hainault Mons 11. The Cambresis Cambray Archbp. 12. The County of Artois Arras Bish Article I. Of the County of Flanders properly so called Comitatus Flandriae FLanders is the first County of the Low Countries and the most considerable and noble in all Christendom some derive its Name Name from Flandrina Wife to Lideric II. Prince of Buc and great Forester of Flanders who governed it under Charlemaigne and Lewis the Debonair Others fetch it from Flambert Nephew to Clodion King of France who having married Blesinda Daughter to Gol●uerus King of the Ruthinians drove the Romans out of the Belgick Gaul This Province borders on the North the Ocean and the Mouth of the Scheld Bounds called the Hont that divides it from Zealand On the West the Ocean and part of Artois On the South Artois and Hainault And on the East part of Hainault and Brabant It is extended South and North about 66 miles Extent and near as much West and East It is a very fine and rich Country Quality most plentiful in Corn and Pastures it has Fish in abundance affords Kine and Warlike Horses There are in it 28 or 30 Walled Towns Towns and some others of no small consideration 1154 Villages Villages 48 Abbeys Abbeys and a great number of Priories Priories Colledges Colledges and Monasteries Monasterys It is in most places so populous that the Spaniards who followed Phillip II. in Flanders were used to say that the whole was but one City It has five Viscounties viz. Ghent Viscounts Ypres Furnes Wynoxberg and Haerlbeck 3. Principalities Principalities viz. Steenhuyse Gavre and Epinoy Ports 4. Famous Sea-ports viz. Dunkirk Newport Ostend and Sluys And 31 Chattelenies or Castelanships This Province was heretofore governed by Earls which did Homage to the King of France History as did also Philip Duke of Burgundy after that Flanders was fallen to him by marrying Margaret Daughter of Lewis Malatin Earl of Flanders in

1369. passing afterwards into the House of Austria by the Marriage of Mary Daughter and Heiress of Charle les hardy Duke of Burgundy to Maximilian Emperor of Germany Charles V. as we have already hinted when he took Francis I. Prisoner in the Battel of Pavia in Italy enfranchis'd it from that servitude But afterwards in King Philip II's time it was extreamly curtail'd and harrass'd which made many of the inhabitants retire into England and this did not only depopulate it but impoverish'd it considerably by carrying away a great part of its Trade The Hollanders revolting at the same time added to its Calamities by a War of 40 years continuance and the French have of late made great Devastations in it A Chronological Succession of the Earls of Flanders   Years of our Lord. Gov. 1. BAldwin I. Ironside 860 17 years 2. Baldwin II. the Bald. 878 40 years 3. Arnold I. the Great 918 45 years Baldwin III. the young     4. Arnold II. the young 963 26 years 5. Baldwin IV. 989 45 years 6. Baldwin V. of Lile 1034 33 years 7. Baldwin VI. of Mons. 1067 3 years 8. Arnold III. the Unfortunate 1070 1 year 9. Robert I. the Frieslander 1071 22 years 10. Robert II. of Jerusalem 1093 18 years 11. Baldwin VII Hapeule 1111 7 years 12. Charles the Good of Denmark 1118 9 years 13. William the Norman or the Cliton 1127 1 year 4 M. 14. Thierry of Alsatia 1128 40 years 15. Philip of Alsatia 1168 23 years 16. Baldwin VIII the Brave 1197 4 years 17. Baldwin IX Emperor of Constantinople 1195 11 years 18. Joan 1206 38 years 19. Margaret I. 1244 31 years William of Bourbon Dampiere     20. Gay Dampierre 1275 30 years 21. Robert III. of Bethune 1305 17 years Lewis     22. Lewis II. of Creci 1322 24 years 23. Lewis III. Malatin 1346 38 years 24. Margaret II. 1384 20 years Philip of France     25. John the Undaunted or Sans Peur 1404 15 years 26. Philip the Good 1419 48 years 27. Charles le Hardi 1467 10 years 28. Mary of Burgundy 1477 5 years Maximilian Emperor     29. Philip of Austria 1482 24 years 30. Charles V. Emperor 1505 49 years 31. Philip II. King of Spain 1555 43 years 32. Elizabeth-Clara-Eugenia 1598 38 years 33. Philip IV. King of Spain 1636 29 years 34. Charles II. King of Spain 1665   The Chief Rivers Rivers are 1. Scheld which here washes Tournay Oudenard Ghent and Antwerp and soon after falls into the Sea 2. Lys which here washes Armentiers and Courtray and falls into the Scheld at Ghent 3. Dender which washes Geersberg Nienove and Aelst and casts its Waters into the Scheld at Dendermond 4. Scharp which washes Doway and St. Amand and then discharges itself into the Scheld Flanders is commonly divided in three Division viz. 1. Flemish-Flanders or Flammingant where the Country Language is spoken it is extended from the North Sea to the River Lys. 2. French-Flanders or Gallican where French is most in use it lies on the South of Flammingant and on the North of Cambresis and borders the Scheld on the East and Lys on the West 3. Imperial-Flanders which lies between the Scheld and the Dender and comprehends the County of Alost and the four Offices which formerly belong'd to the Emperor Flanders is also divided into Teutonick Walloon Imperial and Dutch The first lies between the Sea and the Lys. The second between the Lys and the Scheld The third between the two others And the fourth on the North of them all But now adays it is usually divided into three parts according to its Masters viz. the Spaniards the French and the Dutch as you may see in the following Table 1. Spanish-Flanders in which the most remarkable places are Ghent Bish Cap. Bruges Bish Ostend Newport Oudenard Alost or Aelst Ninove 2. French-Flanders in which are Lille or Rissel Cap. Ypres Bish Tournay Bish Dunkirk Graveling Wynoxberg Courtray Doway Furnes Dixmude Cassel Orchies St. Amand. Armentiers 3. Dutch-Flanders in which are Sluys Sas van Ghent Ardenburg Description of the Chief Towns in Flanders Chief Towns belonging to the Spaniards I. Ghent GHent or Gaunt in Latin Gandae aut Gandavum aut Gandavium Gand. is one of the largest Cities in Europe being seven Miles in compass within the Walls They give out that it was founded by Julius Caesar in a very Commodious place for Trading viz. on the Confluent of four considerable Rivers the Scheld the Lys the Moer and the Leye which run through it and divide it into 26 Islands which are joined together with as many great Bridges and 72 little ones It is well Walled and Trenched about and the private Buildings for the most part fair and stately There are a great many Water and Wind-Mills Seven Churches and 55 Monasteries or Hospitals Several Market-places of which that of Fryday's has no equal in Europe The Castle which is the Princes Palace contains as many Rooms as there are Days in the Year there the Wooden Cradle of Charles V. is still to be seen The Cathedral is a most Magnificent Building and the Tower Bell-fort is above 400 steps high The Town-house is also worth taking notice of The Cittadel consists of four regular Bastions but it lies not so very convenient as many others in these parts This City is the seat of the Parliament or Provincial Court of Flanders yet one may appeal from it to that of Mechlin which judges without further appeal The Trade of this City consists chiefly in Cloths Stuffs and Silks of which there are so great quantity made that among the 50 Companies of Tradesmen those relating to Commodities of this Nature make one third It stands about twelve Miles from the Sea 27 miles South West of Antwerp 30 North West of Brussels 94 South of Amsterdam 154 North East of Paris and 160 East of London Long. 22 d. 58 m. Lat. 51. d. 6. m. Fifty thousand Inhabitants of this City under the Standard of Gaunt have formerly been formidable to the neighbouring States and their Princes themselves in the Reigns of Philip of Valois and Charles VI. Kings of France In 1539. they revolted from the Emperor Charles V. and would have put themselves under the protection of Francis I. King of France who not only refused their offer but gave the Emperor free passage thro' his Dominions into the Low-Countries The Emperor having reduced them to obedience put to Death 30 of the principal Burgesses and banish'd a great number took from them their Artillery Arms and Priviledges and built a Cittadel to curb them for the future This City was invested by the French King's orders the first of March 1678. On the fourth the King in Person came before it The besieged to no purpose cut their Dikes and drowned part of the Country for the King lodged his Forces and pressed so vigorously the Siege that on the 9th of the same month the Town and

he had Frederick the Vth. who was Chosen King of Bohemia in 1619. but Dethroned after the Battel of Prague in 1620. and his Territories were given to the Duke of Bavaria with the Dignity of Elector He died at Mentz in 1632. leaving behind him three Sons by Elizabeth Daughter of James the First of Great Brittain viz. Charles Robert and Edward Robert commonly called Prince Robert and well known in England was Created Duke of Cumberland and Died without Legitimate Issue Edward Died a Papist at Paris in 1663. leaving three Daughters by Princess Ann of Mantua one of them viz. Anne Married to the Prince of Conde Charles had part of his Fathers Inheritance restored to him by the Peace of Munster in 1648. and a Eighth Electorate was Created in his behalf viz. that of the Palatine of the Rhine and the Upper Palatinate remained in the Duke of Bavaria's Hands The Elector Charles Married Charlotte Daughter to the Landtgrave of Hesse Cassel by whom he had Charles and Elizabeth Charlotte who was Married to the Duke of Orleans only Brother to King Lewis the XIVth of France Charles Succeeded his Father in the Electorate and in 1671. Married Wiellielmine Ernestine Daughter to Frederick the IIId King of Denmark He died in 1685. without Issue and was Succeeded by Philip William Duke of Newburg a Popish Prince In 1688. and 1689. The French entered his Territories and laid most part of them wa st on pretence of the Allodial Claim'd by the Dutchess of Orleans Sister to the late Elector who died without Issue This Country is divided in two viz. the Palatinate properly so called and the Dominions of several particular Princes adjoining to it The Palatinate properly so called where are Heidelberg Cap. Manheim Frankendal Openheim Caub Creutznach Newstat Keiserslautern Bacharach Simmeren Earld Ingelheim Places adjoining to the Palatinate and Subject to several Princes Spire Imper. Bish Wormes Imper. Bish Philipsburg to the French Darmstat Landgraviat Deux-Ponts Dutchy Birkenfeld Earld Mont-Royal Remarkable Towns in the Palatinate of the Rhine I. Heidelberg HEildelberg Lat. Heilderberga which some think to be the Budoris of the Ancients is Metropolis of the Palatinate of the Rhine seated at the foot of an Hill on the Neckar over which it has a Wooden Bridge it is said to have formerly belonged to the Bishoprick of Worms but was granted to Lewis Count Palatine in 1225. It was enlarged by Robert Count Palatine who was Chosen Emperor in 1392. And Rupertus Count Palatine Founded an University here in 1346. This Town is large fair well Built and well Peopled and the usual Residence of the Elector who had a Noble Magnificent and Strong Castle here till the French blew it up in the present War when they were forced to leave it contrary to the Capitulation with the Dauphin in 1688. The Town-House and the Churches of St. Peter and the Holy Ghost are stately Buildings The Wine of this Place is much esteem'd The Castle is also Famous for a great huge Tun commonly called The Tun of Heilderberg The University has great Priviledges one of which is Power of Life and Death over all that belong to it without Power of Revocation or Infringement in the Prince himself This University has been Famous for many great Men and had one of the best Libraries in Europe which Count Tilly sent to Rome in 1622. after he had taken the Town which suffered extreamly in the late German Wars It was taken by the French in 1688. and a little while after burn'd and abandon'd In 1693. Heidelberg was Betrayed to the French King's Troops under the Command of Mareschal De Lorge the City laid in Ashes the Tombs of the Dead Princes and Princesses inhumanely Destroyed and their Corps exposed the Garrison and Inhabitants Cruelly Butchered and the Women after Protection brutishly Ravish'd Part of the Garrison flying to the Castle Capitulated A little while after Heidersdorf the Governour being Condemned to Death by a Council of War at Hailbron was Reprieved but degraded of the Teutonick Order led about the Imperial Camp in a Cart buffetted in a disgraceful manner by the Common Hangman treated with the heighth of Ignominy then Banished and Cudgelled to Death by the Peasants after he was let go by the Executioner Heidelberg stands 13 Miles N. E. of Spire 22 S. E. of Worms 18 N. E. of Philipsburg and 48 almost S. of Francfort Long. 28 d. 27 m. Lat. 49 d. 17 m. II. Manheim Manheim is seated on the Confluent of the Rhine and the Neckar It was taken and ruined by the Spaniards in the beginning of the XIIIth Century but was Rebuilt and handsomly Fortified by Charles Lewis Elector Palatine It was taken and abandoned by the French in 1689. and since that time they have intirely ruined it in a most Barbarous manner It stands 11 Miles almost N. W. of Heidelberg III. Frankendal Frankendal Lat. Franchendalia formerly no more than an Abbey afterwards a Place of Refuge for the Belgian Exiles about 1574. now a new City which was well Fortified scarce a League distant from the Rhine afterwards taken by the Spaniards and restored to the Elector Palatine by the Pacification of Munster but in the present War most cruelly laid in Ashes by the French It stands 18 miles N. W. of Heidelberg VI. Oppenheim Oppenheim Lat. Oppenhemium a small City Imperial and Free until it was granted with its Territory to Rupert Prince Palatine by the Emperor in 1402. It stands upon a Hill near the Rhine 11 miles almost S. of Mentz and 17 N. of Worms The French put a Garrison into it in 1688. and have Ruin'd it since V. Caub Caub is a little Town with the Castle of Gudenfelts on the Rhine against which in the middle of the River is the Castle of Pfaltz whence some but falsly would have the Princes Title of Pfaltzgrave derived VI. Creutznach Creutznach is a little Town on the small River Nake with a strong Castle Subject to the French since 1688. It stands 20 Miles almost S. W. of Mentz VII Newstat Newstat is a small Town seated on the River Spirebach Eight Miles N. of Landau and 15 almost W. of Spire and Philipsburg It is now Subject to the French VIII Keiserslautern Keiserslautern Lat. Caesaropolis is upon the River Lauter near the Dutchy of Deuxponts the French call it Caseloutre they took it in September 1688. under the Marquis of Boufflers after they had been repulsed in two several Storms It stands 28 Miles almost S. W. of Worms 32 W. of Spire and 40 almost S. of Mentz IX Bacharach Bacharach is a small Town on the Rhine once Free and Imperial now belonging to the Elector Palatine It stands 22 Miles W. of Mentz X. Simmeren Simmeren Lat. Simmera is the Capital City of a little Province of the same Name bearing the Title of Earldom This little Place is adorned and strengthned with a very considerable Castle It belongs to the Elector Palatine but is now Subject