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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55353	A modern view of such parts of Europe that hath lately been and still are the places of great transactions, viz. Italy with all its principalities. France with all its provinces and bishopricks. Germany with the Dukedome of Lorrain, and all the electorates, and lordshops of the empire. Spain, with all its dominions, &c. Wherein is shewed the present state of all those countries, with curious remarks of antiquity interwoven.	Pontier, Gédéon, d. 1709.	1689 (1689)	Wing P2805; ESTC R217679	132,112	321

league is of 2500 paces Antonius Andrew Resendius Gretserus Merula Rabbi Benjamin Count de Brinne Peter de la Vallée a Roman Gentleman John Baptista de Rocole and others have made Itineraries Some Astrologers speaking of Leagues have taken occasion to say that the Sun goes in an hour 290921 leagues of the greatest of France According to this computation he must go as quick or swifter than an Arrow out of a Bow or as a Bullet shot out of a Musket by reason of the greatness of the way he passes day and night On this ground it has been asserted that in case a Carrier could go post from the Earth to Heaven he would not reach to the Starry Heaven in 1300 years if he went not more than 16 or 17 German leagues each day Hesiod says in his Theogonia that it would require nine days and nine nights for an Anvil of Iron to fall from the Heaven of the Moon to the Earth and that it would arrive on it the tenth Let us leave the consideration of these matters to Astrologers FRANCE LOVIS the Fourteenth King of France and Navarre surnamed the Great came into the World the Fifth of September An. 1638. was declared of Age the Seventh of September 1651. Crowned at Rheims the Seventh of June 1654. was Married at St. Johns de Luz An. 1660. the Ninth of June to Mary Theresa of Austrich Infanta of Spain Daughter of Philip the Fourth and of Elizabeth of France This great Princess is a Mirrour of Piety and the Mother of the People Those that have the honour to behold her Countenance have the happiness to find there all the Graces which have taken pleasure to seat themselves in it The Twenty fourth of August of the same year their Majesties made their Royal Entry into Paris accompanyed with Princes Ambassadors and Forreign Ministers with all the Pomp and Magnificence imaginable Heaven has blest this Marriage by the Birth of Monseigneur le Dauphin Loüis is the Most Christian King and the Eldest Son of the Church He has for Motto Consiliis armisque potens And also this Nec pluribus Impar He bears Azure Three Flower-de-luces Or which formerly were Semè or without number and reduced to Three by Charles the Sixth The Scutcheon is Environed with the Collars of The Orders of S. Michael and of the Holy Ghost Ensigned with a Helmet Or entirely open thereon a Crown closed after the manner of ●n Imperial Crown with eight in arched Rayes topt with a double Flower-de-luce and this is the Crest for Supporters two Angels habited as Levites the whole under a Pavilion Royal Semè of France Lined Ermines with these words Ex omnibus floribus elegi mihi Lilium Lilia non laborant neque nent These terms The Lillies do not spin import That the Flower-de-luces which represent the Crown of France never fall to the Distaff that the Female Sex cannot inherit according to the Salick Law as it is amongst the Chaldeans Egyptians Persians Chineses Turks Tartars and Parthians Women have sometimes succeeded in Spain England Sicily and in Sweden but never in France The Arms of Navarre are Gules Chains of Gold interlaced parted into Orles Pales Fesses Counterbands or Saltiers The Livery of the most Christian King is of a Blew colour This Monarch has a Physiognomy more Divine than Humane which moves a most profound respect and we perceive in his Countenance a sweetness which tempers his Majesty he is gifted with the Sublime Science of Governing he is another Solomon in rendring the Oracles of his Judgments Mounting on Horfeback he puts himself in the head of his Armies which he conducts as another David or as another Alexander the Great whose presence imports more than Millions of Captains and an entire Army He takes whole Provinces in all seasons and in a day Four Towns together there is little difference with him betwixt the Design and the Execution what has he not done before these important places Lille Mastrich Valenciennes Cambray Gaunt Ipres and others for their reducement He has performed the Office of a General and of a Captain and has toyled as a simple Souldier He has been all at once King General of an Army Marshal of the Camp Sergeant of the Battel Captain Souldier Engineer and Cannoneer He holds all his Enemies play and the more he has the more he puts to the Rout. He has gotten so many Palms and Laurels that the fires of joy and publick rejoycings have shewn themselves throughout the whole Kingdom His Adventures are a Concatenation of Victories Triumphs and Prodigies He is worthy the Empire of the whole Earth the great Armies which he keeps on foot and his yearly Revenue above one hundred Millions render him formidable to the opposers of his glory We are sheltered under his Royal Mantle seme de lis which is so long and large that it is capable of giving shelter and security not only to his own State but also to Forreigners If the Kings of Spain glory in the Title of Catholick the Kings of France merited it before them Philip de Valois was honoured with it An. 1329. for having upheld the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Its Loüs the Great particularly who extends Christianity even into the new world by his care in maintaining Evangelical Labourers where they cry Vive le Roy de France We shall observe here that this custom of crying Vive le Roy comes from the Hebrews when Solomon was proclaimed King by the sound of the Trumpet the people cry'd often Let the King live On this occasion the Romans cryed at the Proclamation of their Emperours The Gods protect and keep you for ever Froissard and Enguerand de Monstrelet cited by Peter de Romuald say that it is not yet 200 years since that in France instead of crying Vive le Roy they cryed Noël Noël that is as though they said Hosanna which signifies Salus Gloria Blessed be him that comes in the Name of the Lord. It 's to the Kings of France that Heaven sent the Holy Vial for their Consecration in the person of Clovis An ancient Poet made these Verses on this Subject Remigius sacris Regem dum lavit in undis Attulit è sacro Chrisma Columba polo. It is those who have the power and vertue of curing the Kings Evil by the touch of their Royal hands and making the sign of the Cross on the Patient and saying The King touches and God cures How redoubtable to Infidels has been the Royal Standart or Banner which some think to have been sent from Heaven to Clovis I shall say no more the splendour of the Majesty of Loüis the Great dazles me I have not the Eyes of an Eagle to look fixtly on the Sun. I shall onely add something concerning the Education of Monsieur le Dauphin The Dolphin of France and his Marriage THis Prince came into the world the first day of November 1661. The King has enlightned the steps of his youth