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A35775	A Description of the seven United Provinces of Netherland wherein is set forth the quality of the country, the productions of the soyl, the trade, manufactures, customes manners and dispositions of the people, the constitution of their laws, the number of the towns, cities and fortification, the original, strength, greatness and riches of each city : together with an exact map of the whole county wherein is laid down the scituations of every city, town, village, castle, fort, and every other remarkable place throughout the whole of the land.		1673 (1673)	Wing D1169; ESTC R13200	17,044	25

A DESCRIPTION OF THE Seven UNITED PROVINCES OF NETHERLAND WHEREIN IS SET FORTH The Quality of the Country The Productions of the Soyl. The Trade Manufactures Customs Manners and Dispositions of the People The Constitution of their Laws The Number of the Towns Cities and Fortifications The Original Strength Greatness and Riches of each City Together with an Exact Map of the whole 〈…〉 wherein is laid down the Scituation of every City Town Village Castle Fort and every other Ramarkable 〈…〉 of the whole LAND LICENSEED Roger L'estrange LONDON Printed for Joseph Moxon and Sold at his Shop on Ludgate-Hill neer Fleet-Bridge at the Signe of Atlas 1673. A brief Description of the Seven Provinces OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS THe Vnited Netherlands is part of Belgia or Lower Germany bounded on the East with Westphalia on the West with the North Sea on the North with Embdenland and on the South with Flanders and Brabant It consists of the Provinces of Gelderland Holand Zealand Friesland Vtrecht Overyssel Zutphen and Groennghen part of Brabant and part of Flanders These Provinces are called the Vnited Netherlands from an Agreement and Contract made among themselves in the year ●571 to throw off their Subjection and Allegiance to the King of Spain their Soveraign Lord and to unite all their Power and Force against him But though they thus united their Power yet are all these Provinces yea and most of their Cities in each Province distinct Commonwealths of themselves and governed by Laws and Customs different from each other Only for managing of Publique Affairs each Province and City of note sends their ●tates or Trustees to the Hague where they debate Affairs in a Parliamentary order And these States thus assembled are ●alled the States General or as they stile themselves The High and Mighty States of the Vnited Netherlands In Councel with these States sate formerly the Prince of Orange General of their Armies who for his many Services done against the Spaniards since their foresaid Revolt was by them made Stadt-holder Admiral of the Seas c. and allowed in their Assembly a double Voice which Offices and Titles have since descended to his Heirs the Successive Princes of Orange But in the year 16 Faction and Jealousie suggested to some Leading Men in their Councels that so much Authority was not fit to be invested in a Sngle Person lest by his Power he should change their Commonwealth into a Monarchy and of Free States make them all his Subjects To prevent which danger they Voted that the Generalship belonged not to the Prince of Orange as his Right but their Courtesie and made an Edict that for the future there should be no more Stadt-holder and caused all the States General to take an Oath to observe this Edict inviolably Nay when this present Prince of Orange in the year 16 was made General of their Armies they caused him to swear never to accept of the Office of Stadt-holder But this seems only the humour of the Hogen Mogens and not the voice of the People for they remembring the many good Offices of his Forefathers done for the State cry out against these proceedings with him and taking an advantage of the present troubles their Country is in in a tumultuous manner force the States to abjure their former Edict and absolve the Prince of Orange of his foresaid Oath and make him their Stadt-holder Amiral Disposer of the Militia and in their Assemblies to have a double Voice as his Forefathers had But to the Description of the Country and First Of Gelderland THe Land now called Gelderland or Gelve was formerly called Ponthis and had from Charles the Emperour the additional name De Caluwe It was first made a Lordship in the year 878. Its first Lord as Guicciardine relates was Winchard van Pont who with his Brother Leopold built the Castle Pont-Gelve which now is the City of Gelder and gives name to the whole Province It is a strong City This Province is begirt in the North with the Land of Overyssel and the South-Sea On the South in part with the Mase and the Lordship of Gulicb in the West with the Rhine and part of Cleveland and in the East with the Bishoprick of Vtrecht It is a plain Country with few Hills but many delightful and profitable Woods as that of Echterwalt to the Northwest of Aernhem and several others The Soyl is generally very fruitful particularly of Corn and in many places especially about the Rhine Mase and Wael excellent Meadows for feeding of Cattle which there are kept in great abundance In this Dakedom besides that of Zutphen and its seven Villages which is an Earldom of it self and therefore shall be discoursed in its proper place are numbred fifteen walled Cities as Nimmegen Aernhem and Reurmond the three head-Cities then Tiel Bommel Harderwijck Wageninghen Hattem Elburg Gelder Venlo Wachten Douck Stralen and Erckelens There are several other Towns in the Dukedom of Gelder and Earldom of Zutphen that have been formerly walled but by several accidents have wholly or in part lost their Walls but yet retain their ancient Priviledges as Batenburgh Gent Montfort Echt Burgh Keppel and several others There are moreover above 300 Villages with Parish-Churches The States of the Dukedom of Gelder and Earldom of Zutphen consist of the Barons Gentry and the four head-Cities aforesaid viz. Nimmegen Aerahem Reurmond and Zutphen Nimmegen was formerly called Magus from one Magus King of Gallia but afterwards when one Bato King of the Katts came into the Land and being delighted as well with the convenience of its scituation as the antiquity of the Place he rebuilt and enlarged this almost-ruin'd City and fortified it with three strong Walls and called the City Nava Magen which name be length of time is now altered into Nimmegen Our Author tells us also that the Betuwers which he calls Bataviers chose this City for the Metropolis and chief Seat of their Kingdom from whence the Land about it is at this day called the Kingdom of Nimmegen and the City it self by Latine Authors Pes Imperii because as some write Charles the Great advanced it to the dignity of one of the three Royal Cities of these Lands Aken being the First this the Second and Theonville in the Land of Lutzenburg the Third Nimmegen lies upon an arm of the Rhine called the Wael which there is very wide and deep It is a great strong and populous City whose Inhabitants after they came under the Oostenrijk Princes much addicted themselves to Learning and Merchandise when as before they only followed the Wars The chief Church in this City is dedicated to the honour of St. Stephen the first Martyr Among the ancient Buildings of this City the chief is the Castle scituate upon the top of an high Hill from whence the whole City is discovered This is held to be built by Julius Caesar who by the means of this Castle intended to keep the Country about it in

subjection to his power In and about this City hath been found for several years last past many Antiquities of the ancient Romans even as about the banks of the Wael several Remnants and Ruines of Roman Fortifications are to be seen at this day from whence those Places are yet called the Roman Footing Nimmegen is a City-Earldom a free City a member of the Kingdom and Coyns money by their own Authority and therefore makes no appeals to the Chancery of Gelderland but at the first instance only to Aken wherefore the Citizens of this City as an acknowledgment of their superiority in the Commonwealth send yearly a Glove full of Pepper which is all the Tax they contribute towards the Publique charges Yet doth not this Priviledge of theirs diminish the Authority of the States of Gelder but they have likewise power to Coyn Money and have the same Jurisdiction in this City as in other Cities of Gelderland Nimmegen came under the Power of the Dukedom of Gelders in the year 1248 by this means Earl Otto the second of Gelder lent William Earl of Holland and King of Rome 21000 Mark of Silver on condition that if he repaid it not again on a set day that then this City and its Appurtenances should be forfeit to him This condition the Emperour Rodoiphus the first confirmed And because the money was not accordingly restored Nimmegen was incorporate into the Dukedom of Gelderland Aerenhem is by Cornelius Taeitus and other ancient Writers called Arenacum It lies on the right side of the Rhine about a mile and half from the place where it divides it self into two branches between Nimmegen and Doesburg which lie each 6 miles from thence It is a pretty large and well-built City with fair and well-ornamented Churches in it the chief of which is dedicated to the honour of S. Eusebius in which Church lies buried Charles the first Duke of Gelderland who died in the year 1538 after whose death he dying without issue the Dukedom of Gelderland and Earldom of Zutphen descended by Contract to the aforesaid Emperour and his lawful Heirs as Dukes of Brahant and Earls of Holland Aernhem us'd in ancient times to be the general place of residence of the Dukes of Gelders It was first compassed with Walls and endowed with City-Priviledges by Otto the third of Nassow Duke of Gelderland Here resides the Provincial Court or Chancery of these two Countries consisting of a Chancellour and ten Judges four of which are of the greatest Nobility of the Land from each Quarter or Circuit one The other six are of Persons learned in the Law From the Decrees of this Chancery there is no appeal yet upon some Grounds another hearing may be had Moreover Philip the second King of Spain as Duke of Gelder erected in Aernhem a Chamber of Accounts consisting of two Accountants an Auditor and a Secretary At this Chamber of Accounts must all the Officers both Civil and Military of the Commonwealth of Gelder and Zutphen give up the Accounts of their Trust Aernhem is the Head-City of the fourth quarter of the Government of Gelder viz. the Quarter called the Veluwe and hath incorporated with it Wageningen Hattem Harderwijck and Elburg all walled Cities besides several Villages that keep Courts of Judicature but with appeal to the upper Courts of this Circuit aforesaid The Veluwe is a small Country begirt on threesides with the South Sea and on the fourth with the Rhine and Yssel so that it is a place both excellent and profitable for Fishing and is beside reasonably well provided of Woods and Forrest full of Game By Aernhem lies another neck of Land called the Veluwe-Zoom and extends on one side as far as Zutphen and on the other side about Wagener which is all Meadow-Grounds and well furnished with store of Cattle At the mouth of the River Ruer or Roer which mingles with the Mase lies the City Ruermond from whence it takes its name which commonly for shortness is called Remond a fair and rich City and as well for its scituation natural accommodations and Populousness is a strong Place whose chief Church is Dedicated to the honour of the Holy Ghost and Dignified with the Title of a Cathedral Ruermond is the Head-City of the second Quarter of Gelderland and to it belongs Venlo Gelder Stralen Wachtendonck and Erckelens with the Freedoms of Monford Echt and Niewerstat lying about four Miles distant from one another as also that of Kessel Midler and Kreckensteel belonging to its particular Lords It is a fair Village and hath belonging to it a strong Castle seated upon a Hill This Village takes its name from the small circumjacent Country called Kessel which belongs to the Dukedom The smaller Towns of Gelderland we shall briefly run over As Hattem a little but strong Town having a Castle whose Walls are 24 foot thick lying on the left hand of the Yssel about 8 Miles from Elburg Elburg is a little Town It lies on the East-side of the South-Sea 8 Miles distant from Harderwijck Harderwijck lies on the South-Sea 20 Miles from Wageningen formerly a Village but made a Town and walled about in the year 1229 by Earl Otto the second of Gelderland who also walled Aernhem Bommel Ruermond Goch and Wageningen formerly all Villages but by him made Towns In this Town is by the States of Gelder and Zutphen a famous School erected wherein is read Philosophy and Divinity but neither Law nor Physick Wageningen is a small but strong Town and very Ancient if it be the same as it is held which Cornelius Tacitus calls Vada It lies 8 Miles from Aernhem and as much from Nimmegen Tiel lies on the right side of the Wael 8 Miles from Bommel is a good strong Town whose power and jurisdiction reaches all over the little Island wherein it lies and from whose name the Island it self is called the World of Tiel Bommel lies on the left side of the Wael It is a good strong Town and Head of that Island which from it is called Bommel-weerd This Isle is made of the Rhine and Mase which together encompass it and as Guicciardine supposes is the same that Caesar where he treats of the Mose calls the Isle of Bataviers In this Island are many fair Villages and particularly Rossem the Birth-place of that famous Warriour Martin van Rossem At this time Bommel is accounted one of the best and strongest frontier Towns of the Vnited Netherlands As also is that strong Fortification St. Andies which lies above Rossem in the Peninsula which can with its Bulwarks command both the Wael and the Mase Stralen is a small but strong Town and lies about 6 Miles from Wachtendonck Venlo lies about 6 Miles on the right hand of the Mose It is a good and strong Town where in the year 1543 the Duke of Clove delivered himself to Charles the Fifth together with all his right and pretensions to the Dukedom of Gelderland and Earldom of Zutphen