having put their Bishop in prison and governed the Ship of St. Peter eleven years four months and eighteen days some say eleven years and a half He called into his Council St. Bruno Founder of the Order of the Charthusians He called the Council of Clairmont in Auvergne where he made the Enterprize of the holy War succeed which he called the Croizade because those that listed themselves were all crossed wearing a Cross sewn on their Habits He died An. 1110. Calixtus the Second was named Guy others say Guigue He was a Burgundian Uncle to Adelais Queen of France and near Cousin to the Emperour Henry He was Archbishop of Vienne in Daulphiné Suger Abbot of St. Dennis says that the night before his Election he saw as a Prognostick of his future Election a great Person that gave him the Moon to keep under his Archiepiscopal Cope fearing lest the Church might incur some danger by the death of Pope Gelasius He soon found the truth of this Vision seeing himself soveraign Pontife His Election was made whilst he was in the Abbey of Clugny An Anti-pope appeared at that time in Italy called Bourdin who was taken notwithstanding his intrenching and fortifying himself the Souldiers that took him mounted him on an old Camel and walkt him about the Streets publickly in derision with his face turn'd towards the Tail which they made him hold as a Bridle and afterwards he was confined to a perpetual imprisonment Calixtus assembled a Council at Rheims possest the Holy See about six years died the 19th of December 1124. In the time of his Pontificate St. Norbert founded his Order called Proemonstratensis from the place where he retired himself which is in the Diocess of Laon. Vrban the Second of the Town of Troy in Champagne was the Son of a Cobler and called James Pantaleon he recompensed the defaults of his birth by the eminency of his Learning and Vertue After having been Canon and Archdeacon of Laon and afterwards of Liege he was made Bishop of Verdun from Bishop he became Patriark of Hierusalem from Patriark Legate in divers places and then afterward Pope The Prophetick Motto was Hierusalem Campaniae When any one reproached him with the lowness and obscureness of his Birth he answered That the Nobility which is acquired by the gifts of the Understanding is more valuable than that which comes from Birth alone and that it consists in Vertue Those that are born Noble may say to their advantage and with truth that Jesus Christ was a Gentleman and the holy Virgin a Gentlewoman It is very true when Nobleness of Bloud is joyned with that of Vertue it is Perfection Superiours of an ignoble Birth may object that St. Peter who had the government of the Church was no Gentleman This Prelate after three years of the Pontificate left this mortal life the last day of September and according to Onuphrius the second day of October 1264. Clement the Fourth called before Guy Foucaut according to du Chesne was Native of the Town St. Gilles in Languedoc and according to Father Gautruche a Jesuit of a Village near Narbonne He was Bishop of Puy Archbishop of Narbonne and Cardinal by the Title of St. Sabine and Legate in England St. Loüis made him Counsellor of State because he was greatly skilled in the Laws Some think that he was elected Pope the 5th or 11th of February 1265. He crowned at Rome Charles of Anjou King of Naples and of Sicily with the ordinary Ceremonies in St. John Lateran's He had in his Arms an Eagle holding a Dragon in his Talons His Prophetick Motto was Draco depressus He died the 29th of November 1268. after three years and a half being Pope Martin the Fourth formerly Simon de Brie was Native of Mont-pincé or of the Village de Suci He founded the Chapter of Champeaux which is in the Diocess of Paris He was Treasurer and Canon of St. Martins of Tours and Cardinal by the Title of St. Cecil was elected Pope the 22th of February 1282. Under his Pontificate the year of his Election the French had their Throats cut throughout all Sicily This Massacre was called the Sicilian Vesperas because it was committed at the hour of Vesperas on an Easter-day O cruel Vesperas Peter of Arragon having an Army on foot under pretext of going into the Holy Land usurpt the Country at the sollicitation and detestable enterprize of a young Italian Gentleman a sworn Enemy to the French. The Pope struck with a mortal grief excommunicated the Sicilians and those of Arragon for their Attempt and black Treason This Prelate created many Cardinals amongst others the Dean of the Church of Nostre Dame at Paris called Geofry de Barbo a Burgundian The Prophetick saying on this Pope was Ex Telonio Liliacei because he was Treasurer of St. Martins of Tours others say Liliacei Martini believing that this Church was adjudged the midst and the centre of France the Kingdom of Flower-de-luces God took him out of this World at Peruse the 28th or 29th day of March 1285. Two Miracles happened at his Burial Clement the Fifth born at Bourdeaux had for his Father Beraud Chevalier Lord of Villandrault Before his Exaltation he was called Bertrand Gout de Gutto He had in his Arms three Bars Gules in a Field Or the Prophecie was de Festis Aquitanicis The Cardinals continued ten months in the Conclave for the creation of this Prelate before Bishop of Cominges then Archbishop of Bourdeaux whereof he performed the Function even till they had brought him the Decree of his Election with the Letters of the whole Colledge He took solemnly possession of the Apostolical Chair at Bourdeaux in the Cathedral-Church of St. Andrews caused himself to be crowned at Lyons the greatest part of the Cardinals rendered themselves there pursuant to his Orders the Kings of France of England and of Arragon assisted at this Ceremony The Italian Cardinals thinking to lead him to Rome he transferred the Holy Sea to Avignon where it continued seventy years or seventy two from Clement to Gregory the Eleventh who re-established it at Rome Anno 1375. At his first promotion of Cardinals he created ten all French-men In the third he made Cardinal William de Maudagout Archbishop of Embrun who was born at Sevenes above the Town Vigan The Castle of Maudagout is at present Protestant and encompassed with Chesnut-trees His Arms are yet to be seen over the great Gate Clement built the Castles of Villandrault Budos and la Brede He governed the Church eight years ten months and some days died Anno 1314. in the Castle of Roguemaure scituated on the Rhone in the Diocess of Avignon and not of Nismes as some persons have said His Body reposes in Guyenne in the Church of the Canons of Vzeste whereof this Prelate was the Founder See here a remarkable thing related by Andrew de Chesue in the Life of the Popes Clement whilst he was yet Archbishop of Bourdeaux having deposed Gautier
Apparation happened on a day that St. Gregory the Great carried in a solemn Procession the Image of the Virgin at a time when the Plague wholly dispeopl'd Rome This Scourge ceased as soon as the Angel had sheathed his Sword. There is to be seen since in that place the Figure of an Angel in Marble The Emperour Adrian a great lover of Building caused this Fortress to be built which was the place where he was buried Pope Sixtus the V. left there five millions of Gold with a Bull defending all Popes under pain of Excommunication to alienate them but in the extremest necessity for the defence of the Popes and of the City Pope Vrban the Eighth caused this Castle to be well fortified placing in it the fairest pieces of Cannon that are any where to be seen there are six which were given by a King of England some of them are made of many Statues of the false Gods melted The Tower in the middle of it is so elevated that it commands all the approaches of the Town The Coridor of the Vatican-Palace reaching to the Castle St. Angelo is very convenient for the retreat of the Popes in times of War or of Sedition Other Ornaments of Rome IN Rome the beautiful Churches the fair Pillars the Antiquities the Popes Court the Aquoeducts the large Streets the Obelisks the Mausolea the Catacombi the Library of the Vatican draw the admiration of all men There is so great a number of Fountains that it's thought if they ran all into one Channel they would make a River and some think large enough to bear Vessels The Vatican draws its Etymology from Answers or Oracles which the Latines call Vaticinia It s Library is described by the Sieur le Gallois in his book intituled Traité des plus belles Bibliotheques de l'Europe It contains excellent Disquisitions and Curiosities It was printed at Paris An. 1680. The Rota is a famous Tribunal composed of twelve Auditors of different Nations the jurisdiction whereof extends it self on beneficiary and profane causes It 's thought they are so called because they sit in a Circle and roul about the most important differences of the Christian World. Their Judgments are called Decisions of the Rota and to express well their force and authority it suffices to say The Rota has thus determined The chief Towns of Italy with their Epithetes and Elogies are ROme the Holy Roma la Santa Naples the Noble Napoli la Gentile Venice the Rich Venetia la Ricca Genoa the Proud Genova la Superba for its Palaces and Buildings Milan the Great Milano la Grando Bolonia the Fat Bolonia la Grassa for the fertility of its Soil Ravenna the Ancient Ravenna l' Antica Padua the Learned Padua la Dotta for its University because good learning has always flourisht there According to Sabellicus we may place Mantua in parallel with Ravenna for Antiquity and with Bolonia for the goodness of its Soil Italy is called the Garden of Europe for its charming Delights and Beauty and according to the Proverb A man has seen no fine Country if he has not seen Italy I cannot end this Paragraph of the remarkable Towns of Italy without naming that of Melphi in the Kingdom of Naples which is famous for having brought forth Flavio to whom is attributed the invention of the Sea-Compass which shews Pilots the course they ought to steer the place whence they come and that whither they are going and where they are According to the common Opinion this Flavio of Melphi invented it the year of our Salvation 1300. It was called Boussole from Buxus or Buxeolus because those of the West put it at first in a Case of Box. The Sieur Faucher President of the Mint-concern says that it was called in France for above 400 years the Marinotte Some persons over-speculative think it may be presumed to have been in use in the time of the Children of Noah because they had Iron and the Load-stone proper to compose it and the knowledge of the Mathematicks Levinus and Pineda say that Solomon's Pilots made use of it to go to the Islands of Tharsis and of Ophir The Scripture notes that Solomon having equipt a Fleet on the Coast of the Red Sea Hiram King of Tyre furnisht him with his Sea-men skill'd in the Art of Navigation The Greek Poet writes that the Pole was observed in Navigation in the time of the Trojan War And the Latine Poet that men observed the Stars And thence some think that this could not be done without the Sea-Compass not considering that men before did nothing but coast about upon the Sea and sail in Roads After having mention'd the Town of Melphi on the account of Flavio that of Ferrara comes into my mind on the occasion of a great Lover of Learning viz. Coelius Calcagninus a Noble Person of Ferrara living Anno 1249. it was his will to be buried in his Library which has this Inscription on the door Index tumuli Coelii Calcagnini qui ibidem voluit sepeliri ubi semper vixit The chief Rivers THe River Po the Tiber Ticinus Doero Laddo Rubicon called now Pisatello Menzo Garrigliano Offranto in Poüille Arnus and others The Po is called by the Greeks Eridanus it passes at Turin Cazal and Valentia near Milan and at other places This River is famous amongst the Poets for the fabulous fall of young Phaeton its source is in the highest Mountain of the Alps called Montviso on the side of Piedmont it receives thirty Rivers into its Channel and a great many Lakes and Ponds its course is from the West to the East Popes by birth French-men and some passages of their Lives SYlvester the Second Vrban the Second Calixtus the Second Vrban the Fourth Clement the Fourth Innocent the Fifth Martin the Fourth Clement the Fifth John the Twenty second Benedict the Eleventh Clement the Sixth Innocent the Sixth Vrban the Fifth Gregory the Eleventh Sylvester the second of the name called before Gilbert or Gerbert born in Aquitain was a Religious man and Benedictine of St. Gerard of Aurillac in the Diocess of St. Flour and Tutor to Robert King of France and to the Emperour Otho the Third who raised him to the soveraign Pontificate He was first Archbishop of Rheims and then of Ravenna and lastly Pope which gave occasion for this Verse to be made on him Scandit ab R. Gerbertus in R. post Papa Regens est He was a great Mathematician which caused his Enemies to accuse him of Magick He was falsely charg'd for having in his Closet a Head of Brass by which the Devil answered what he askt He died the 12th day of May 1003. Pope Sergius his Successour writ his Epitaph which is yet to be seen and shews that he lived and died a holy man. Vrban the second of the name was born at Chastillon on Marne Son of Milon He was called before his Exaltation Cardinal Otho Bishop of Ostia He excommunicated the Diocess of Compostella for
all these great Employs are marks of his singular Merit which he has signalized in all occurrences Messire Nicolas des Marests has been Counsellour to the Parliament of Paris and is at present Master of Requests and Intendant of the Kings Revenues There is no man but knows that he has always done things with skill and integrity his Ability his Candour and the care that he takes appear in his Conduct as three great lights which make him known to those that will be enlightned When the waves are troubled the Vessel has most need of skilful Pilots the perfect knowledge that these two Intendants have of the Interests of the Provinces has served them as a Watch-tower to keep them from erring and the zeal they have for the advantage of his Majesties Revenue is another means for them to behave themselves well betwixt the Soveraign and his Subjects in a word to the end that the King may receive as much aid as his people comfort The Illustrious Controller General of the Kings Revenues of whom I have spoken before may rely on the fidelity of these two Intendants The Four Secretaries of the Kings Revenues are the Sieur Bechameil Berrier Ranchin and Coquille The Four Clerks of the Councel des Parties are the Sieurs Aguillaumie Pecot le Foüyn and Brunet The Keeper of the Royal Treasury in waiting enters into the Councel of the Kings Revenues and also the Treasurer of the casual Revenues in waiting when they are upon the Rolls of the casual Revenues this person stands behind the Chancellours Chair Besides the Councel of the Finances and the Councel des Parties the King has also a Councel of Dispatches a Councel of War and others according to different affairs the Councel of Dispatches is held in the Kings Chamber where attend the Duke of Orleans the Chancellour the Marshal de Villeroy the Four Secretaries of State and those that are received for that Office upon Survivorship His Majesty presides in the Councel of War the Princes the Marshals of France and other Lords skilful in the Military Art are ordinarily called to it France the Mountain of the Muses IF France be the field of Mars it is also the Mountain of the Muses and the refuge of Arts. Philosophy has left Egypt and Greece to make its residence in this Kingdom The Spaniards confess this truth by this Proverb used in the University of Salamanca Dat Lutetia Aristotelum Salamanca Deum It 's at Paris particularly where we find new Plato's and Aristotles in subtilty and solidness Consummated Divines Orators like Cicero and Quintilian Cujas's and Bartholus's for the Canon and Civil Laws second Galen's Hippocrates's and Esculapius's in Physick Astrology gives us in the House of the Observatory its Ptolomy's it s Alphonsus's and its Tico-Brahe's the Mathematicks Cluverius's Poesie it s Virgil's its Ovids its Martials and its Homers Painting its Apelles and Carvers its Phidias It 's in France where Forreigners come and suck the Ambrosia and drink large draughts of the Nectar of the Gods. The ordinary places of Residence of their most Christian Majesties PAris Saint Germains in Laye Versailles Vincennes Fontainbleau Chambort Blois Compeinne These dwelling-places are truly Royal the Louvre the Chasteau des Tuilleries that of Fontainbleau and Versailles are a Miracle of Nature and a Prodigy of Art in all things and in a word the Centre of the Rarities and beautiful things of the world The Louvre PHILLIP August ended the Building of the Louvre An. 1214. This Palace being the first of the Kingdom and as a Master-piece some Authors think that this Monarch called it le Louvre as though he would say l'Oeuvre the Work by Excellency others think it so called from a street called Lupura or Lupara in which it is thought to be built Loüis the Fourteenth putting the last hand to it has so enlarged it that it is capable of receiving three Kings A Learned and excellent Wit of our time has made this Inscription for the Louvre which comprehends and expresses the greatness of the Building the greatness of the person and of the Name of King Loüis le Grand and the explication of his Devise or Motto Nec pluribus Impar in these terms Haec licet ampla domus longè tamen amplior hospes Ludovico magno nec totus sufficit orbis Sufficeret solus multis nec pluribus Impar The same Inscription in English This House though great the Person whose Command It owns is greater much Loüis le Grand Does find the world too scant for he alone Would serve for many fit for more than One. It 's in the Louvre where Learning has been stript of the gross Bark of the School it 's there where the Muses are habited a-la-mode and where they are given the fine turn of Politeness by the means of the French Academy instituted by Cardinal Richlieu An. 1635. for the pureness and perfection of the French Tongue Of late some Towns of this Kingdom have erected Academies for this purpose as Arles Suissons and others We shall here observe that in France in the time of the said Cardinal the Gazette which according to the term de Gaza signifies a heap of divers things began An. 1631. and that the first Gazettier called Theophrast Renaudot Physician of the faculty of Montpellier dedicated it to Loüis the Thirteenth I saw it in the Library of Colledge Mazarin it succeeded the French Mercury its dates and Chronologies were in the Margin The Tuilleries THe Tuilleries are call'd by this name because in this place formerly there was a Tuillerie or place to make Tiles Queen Catherine de Medices caused this building to be began in the Month of May of the year 1564. Loüis the Fourteenth has compleated it and rendred it August this Prince has planted in the Garden Sycomers and Indian Maroniers and other beautiful Trees he has made Knots and Beds with all sorts of Flowers large Allies little Wildernesses great Cesterns with their Jet d'Eaux and Terrasses and has placed excellent Statues in it that of Time which devours its Children is very remarkable We see Diana of Ephesus in one of the four Chambers of the ancient Pieces of the Louvre Fontainbleau THe number of excellent Fountains and great streams of water have given to this place the name it bears The Inhabitants think that the name Fontainbleau comes from a Fountain of fair water that is to be seen there at this day In the Palace we find four of them and as many Gardens its Chambers are very rich and its Galeries very beautiful in one of them are represented in excellent Painting the Fights and Victories of some Kings of France We see in another the Antiquities the Garden-Knots the Grotto's the Water-falls the fine Walks the great Mail the Meadows and the Groves that render this place famous we see the Hermitage of St. Loüis on a little knap in the midst of the way of the Forest which is very large and very
full of all kind of Deer Joüin de Rochefort has excellently particulariz'd this Royal House Versailles THere is nothing more agreeable nothing more sumptuous nor magnificent than the Palace of Versailles Silk Gold Silver Pearls and Pretious Stones Paintings and Tapestry enrich it and yet infinitely more the presence of the Master Its Gardens are vast and charming and the water falls the finest that may be seen How admirable is the great Park with the great Channel which is thirty two fathoms wide nine hundred in length the two Horses that stand at its entrance in a fierce posture as those of Montecavallo in Rome draw on them the fixt eyes of the Passengers The Vivarium contains all sorts of wild Animals By the rule conveniunt rebus nomina saepè suis Versailles deserves to be called by this name because his Majesty pours there ordinarily his Favours and Blessings in a profuse manner on those who have the honour to be known to him This place is another Terrestrial Paradise for delights I think I give it its Elogy in saying It 's the work of Loüis the Fourteenth worthy of its Author so I say all The famous Painter Apelles being to represent the greatness of a Giant and considering that he could not include so great a Body in so small a space he be thought himself to represent only the Thumb with this Inscription at the bottom of the Picture Ex ungue Leonem The Lyon is known by his Claw that is to say from the proportion of this Thumb the greatness of the rest of the Body might be known A Greek Orator thought he had made a full Panegyrick on Philip King of Macedon by saying that he was Father of Alexander Cum te patrem Alexandri dixi totum dixi I judge also that the Elogy of Versailles is compleat after having said that it is the Work of our present King because this word in expression drains and consummates all its praises Non datur ultra The Ambassadors of Forreign Princes admiring this House of Pleasure say that it belongs but to a King of France to make the like I do not particularize it because we see on this subject a large Book which gives the entire description of it Paris ALL the Towns of the Kingdom govern themselves according to the motion of that of Paris which they look on as the Primum Mobile and as the Capital It is Royal Sacerdotal and the seat of the Prophets and one of the greatest and most famous of all Christendom They count in this famous City a Million and a half of persons the pleasant River Sein passes through the midst of it and wrests itself in and out at parting from it as though it were unwilling to leave it and to render it yet more agreeable the River Ourques is brought to it to supply the Trenches on the side of Montmartre by the cares of Sieur de Manse Treasurer-General of the Royal Hunting and Hawking Saint Denis Consecrated there the Churches of St. Steven of the Greeks that of Nostre Dame des Champs and that of St. Bennet of the University which was called before of the Trinity those of St. Denis of Charters and of St. Symphorien are very ancient Phillip the Second called August made an end of Building the great and stately Temple of Nostre Dame about the year 1200. It s Structure is admirable this Cathedral Church contains sixty six fathom in length twenty four in breadth and seventeen in heighth one hundred and twenty Pillars forty five Chappels a great many doors over the three chief there are twenty eight Statues of Kings of France of the holy Mysteries of our Religion which excites the Piety of the faithful There are three hundred eighty nine steps to the place where the Bells are the Towers are thirty four fathom in heighth above the Earth This place is lookt upon as the lowest of Paris the Office is there celebrated after a Divine manner Miracles are there wrought Matins are sung at Midnight six of its Canons have been Popes to wit Gregory the Ninth Adrian the Fifth Boniface the Eighth Innocent the Sixth Gregory the Eleventh and Clement the Seaventh fifteen or sixteen Canons of the same Church have been Cardinals Abbot Parfait the ancientest Canon of this Church has composed a fine Book containing the number of Popes Cardinals Bishops and Archbishops that this Metropolis has afforded and other singularities since St. Denis to Messire Francis de Harlay de Chanvalon The late Dean Messire John de Contes Counsellor of State in ordinary consummated in the practice of the Church has often governed this Diocess to the satisfaction of all men He dyed full of years the fourth of July 1679. His most worthy Nephew Abbot Mony who walks in his steps succeeded him as Heir to his Vertues his Actions are accompanied with sweetness prudence gravity and modesty His Brother Abbot Bongueret Canon in the same Church is very learned in the Science of the Canon-Law This Chapter is a Nursery of Bishops This City contains Eleven Chapters a great number of very fair Parishes whereof some are equal to good Bishopricks above sixty Colledges it was once propos'd to have them reduced to six because many of them are one-ey'd so call'd because there is nothing done in them as in many other Kingdoms This Town contains also an infinite number of Religious Houses excellent Fountains Aqueducts many Bridges amongst which Pont-neuf which is all of stone surpasses all the rest We see in the midst of it a Monarch who was in three rang'd Battles which he gain'd in thirty three Rencounters in an hundred and forty fights and in three hundred Sieges of several places it 's Henry the 4th excellently represented on a Horse of cast Copper and at the end of it the Clock of the fair Fountain of the Samaritan and Loüis the Thirteenth on another Horse of cast Copper with excellent Devises on the Pedestal in the midst of the Place Royal which is one of its ornaments with the Queens Tour. The Place Royal was begun to be built Anno 1604. It 's there where Coaches go the Tour where they run the Ring and use other publick Divertisements The new Hôtel Royal of disabled men called otherwise the Hôtel of Mars as large as a Town built for the place of residence and entertainment of Souldiers that are lamed and dismembred in the Army for the service of the State is a Monument of the acknowledgment and gratitude of Lewis the Fourteenth and a subject of the great care that the Marquess de Louvois has taken for the perfection of this Work. The Fort of the Observatory for Astronomers is worthy consideration Before that part of St. Germains formerly called le Fauxbourg St. Germain des Prez and others were taken into the Town there were counted twenty four doors that of Saint Anthony is Royal the figure of the King on Horseback is over the Triumphal Arch. The late
the others are also of a great price The Head of St. Loüis King of France is at Paris in the holy Chappel of the Palace Jean d'Eureux Queen of France took it from the Treasury of St. Denis and put in its place parcels of all the Relicks that are in the said holy Chappel There is seen in the same Treasury of St. Denis a Cup of Tamarisk-wood in which St. Loüis drank to keep himself from the Spleen A Vessel of an oriental Agate esteem'd one of the most pretious pieces of the Treasury for its largeness antiquity and work It 's believed that Ptolomy Philadelphus caused it to be made and that it was working with the point of a Diamond for thirty years Another Vessel of Gold in the form of a Salver adorn'd with Granats Jacinths and with a great white Saphire in the midst on which is seen the Effigies of King Solomon seated in his Throne It is judg'd that it appertained to this Monarch as also a great Vessel of Rock-Christal by reason of some Inscriptions in Samaritan Characters A Gamahaea in an Agat-stone expressing the Image of the Queen of Saba Many Crowns of Gold and Silver that of Charlemain St. Loüis Henry the Fourth Loüis the Thirteenth and Loüis the Fourteenth Each of these Kings has given to the Treasury two Crowns one of Gold the other of Silver gilt That of Charlemain which is carried to Rheims to serve at the Coronation of our Kings with the other Royal Ornaments is all of Gold adorn'd with great Rubies Saphirs and Emeralds The Crown of St. Loüis is likewise of massie Gold adorn'd with very beautiful pretious Stones amongst others with a Ruby valued at a hundred thousand crowns in which is inchast by the Kings order a Thorn of the Crown of the Son of God. There is seen the Image of the same St. Loüis grav'd on a Ring with these two letters S and L that is to say Sigillum Ludovici because he made use of it to seal his Letters All the Kings have shewn themselves liberal to this Treasury some Abbots of the Order have also given to it particularly Abbot Suger His two little Pots are not common the one is of Rock-Christal the other of Beril cut with the point of a Diamond His Chalice is made of a very fair oriental Agate In this Treasury are kept a great many Swords that of Charlemain that which St. Loüis brought with him at his first Voyage from the Holy Land that of the Pucelle of Orleans Joanne d'Arc and also the Sword of Turpin who having been made Archbishop of Rheims afterwards bore Arms against the Infidels There are seen there many other Pieces of Antiquity So much for a Sample of this Treasury He that desires to see more may go to St. Denis where a Religious man shews it every day at two of the clock in the afternoon Those that cannot come to see it may read a little Book in 12º entitul'd Inventaire du Tresor de S. Denis where all the Pieces are briefly describ'd according to the Order of the eight Presses where they are shewn This little Book is printed at Paris by Pierre de Bost Rue S. Jacques at the signe of St. Francis near St. Severin The Tombs of the Kings of France DAgobert the First eleventh King of France and St. Loüis the forty fourth have their Tombs in the Quire of the Church and many other Kings and Queens In the common Vault of Rites repose Henry the Fourth Mary de Medicis his Wife Loüis the Thirteenth Anne of Austria his Spouse The Duke of Orleans the Kings Uncle Madam de Montpensier his first Wife Henriette-Marie Queen of England Henriette-Anne her Daughter the first Wife of Monsieur the Kings Brother and others The Monument of Francis the First is out of the Quire on the side of the Cloister in a rais'd Monument They count five Kings out of the Quire on the Gospel-side Marshal de Turenne is in a Chappel near the high Altar Loüis the 14th has caus'd a Monument to be rais'd in his memory and in acknowledgment of the great Services he did to France After his death many Services and Funeral Prayers were said for him in the principal Churches of Paris Bertrand du Quesclin Sancerre a Gentleman of Britany Constable of France has his Tomb for his Fidelity and Valour amongst those of the Kings by the order of Charles the Fifth called the Wife Clouis the first of the name the fifth King of France and Clotilde his Spouse have their Mausolea at Paris in the Abbey of St. Genevieve in the Quire. Other famous places of Devotion and Pilgrimages greatly frequented in the Kingdom and favour'd with the kindest Aspect of Heaven THe Church of Nostre-Dame at Paris in the Isle of France that of the Abbey of St. Genevieve and the Chappel of the Hospital of the Holy Ghost Nostre-dame de Grace near Gallion in the Diocess of Roüen Nostre-Dame de Chartres in Beausse Nostre-Dame de L'Epine near Chalons in Champagne Nostre-Dame de Liesse in Picardy Nostre-Dame de Bologne on the Sea. Nostre-Dame de la Deliverance and Mount S. Michel in Normandy Sainte-Reine in Burgundy Nostre-Dame d'Alizor near Lyons Nostre-Dame de Loisiere and la Chartreuse of Grenoble in Daulphine St. Maximin Saint Baume and St. Martha in Provence Nostre Dame de Rochefort in Languedoc les Avignon Nostre-Dame de Grau called la Grenoüillade at half a league from Agde Nostre-Dame de Consolation half a league from Beziers and Nostre-Dame de Gignac in the same Diocess Nostre-Dame de Liviniere in the Diocess of S. Pons of Tomiers Nostre-Dame de Lorme and Nostre-Dame d'Alen in the Diocess of Montauban Nostre-Dame de Ladreiche a league from Alby The Hermitage of Nostre-Dame de Moinier in the Territory of Pompignan on the top of a high Mountain in the Diocess of Nismes St. Sernin at Tolose where are the entire Relicks of many of the Apostles Nostre-Dame d Alet and Nostre-Dame de Roqueville three leagues off Nostre-Dame de Garaizon in the Diocess of Ausche Nostre-Dame de Verdelez at Cadiliac near Bourdeaux Nostre-Dame de Nazareth in Britany three leagues from Dinan and Nostre-Dame de bonnes Nouvelles at Rennes Nostre-Dame d'Ardilliers in the Diocess of Anger 's in Anjou Nostre-Dame de Mibonnet a league from Moulins in the Diocess of Authun in Bourbonnois Nostre-Dame de Clery near Orleans on the Loire Nostre-Dame du Puy Nostre-Dame de Fridieire and Nostre-Dame de Pitie in Auvergne This is without the Town of Chaude-Agues on a sharp Rock Abbot Cholmerl is the Founder Nostre-Dame de Banelle and Nostre-Dame de Sabar are in the County of Foix in the Diocess of Comminges Nostre Dame de Quezac in Givodan near St. Maur the Abbey of St. Bennet in the Diocess of Mande Nostre-Dame de Roquemadou and Nostre-Dame de Liaurou in Quercy in the Diocess of Cahors Nostre-Dame de Cignac in the Diocess of Rhodes The House of Arpajou has given it great
Bertius this Speculum Salutis whereof each Page was made on a Frame or Table engrav'd or cut as it were and not with separated Characters composing apart the syllables words and lines The Parthians wrought their Letters on Linnen-cloath after the manner of Embrodery The Invention of Powder and Cannon is more ancient it was invented An. 1354. We shall speak of it elsewhere The Archbishop and Elector of Treves JOhn Hugo de Dorsbec Archbishop of Treves and Bishop of Spire Prince and Elector of the Empire Governour of Prumb and President of Weisembourg Catholick He stiles himself Grand Chancellor of the Gaules and of the Kingdom of Arles He resides at Wilich He succeeds Charles Gasper Van Derleyen Coblens and Hermenstein are very strong places by reason of their scituation on the joyning of the Rhine and the Moselle they belong to his Electroal Highness It is said that the Revenue of this Archbishoprick may go yearly at eleven or twelve hundred thousand Livres The Archbishoprick comprehends twenty four Bailiwicks The Chapter is compos'd of sixteen Capitulary Canons none but Gentlemen are receiv'd Princes and Earls are receiv'd with difficulty This Elector and that of Cologne take their Seats alternatively when the Emperour is not present this alternation is made from week to week successively The three Ecclesiastical Electors are no longer deem'd Chancellors onely titular to the Kingdoms of France Arles Austrasia and Italy The 30th of August 1670. Christopher de la Fosse a Fleming of the Town of Mons having stil'd the Elector of Treves amongst his Titles Archchancellor of France and the Kingdom of Arles in a Thesis which he was to defend at Paris for his Doctorship he was hindred from defending the said Thesis Another good Writer has observ'd that when this Elector is call'd Grand Chancellor of the Gauls this is understood of the Country which the Roman Emperours possessed within the bounds of the ancient Gaul on this side the Rhine which was call'd formerly the Kingdom of Arles Treves call'd in Latin Augusta Trevirorum was built as Aeneas Sylvius relates in the time of the Patriarck Abraham 2000 years before the Incarnation by Trebeta Son of Ninus King of the Assyrians who being driven from the Kingdom by his Step-mother Semiramis came and built this Town on the Moselle Alstedius says its founder was Trevir Son of Man King of Germany This place has been a Theatre of War having been taken and retaken in our time It has had 101 Bishops and Archbishops from S. Eucher to John Hugo de Dorsbec Popo was its first Archbishop The blessed Rhenanus assures us L. 3. de rebus Germanicis that the Church of Mayence and that of Cologne were formerly under that of Treves It s Vniversity is the most ancient of Germany The Archbishop and Elector of Cologne MAximilian Henry of Bavaria Archbishop of Cologne Bishop and Prince of Liege and Bishop also of Hildesheim Prince and Elector of the Empire Grand Chancellor of Italy and Legate ex officio of the Apostolick See has many other Titles Catholick His Arms are those of the House of Bavaria hereafter mention'd This Prince came into the World An. 1622. the 8th of October he succeeds his Uncle by the Father side Ferdinand of Bavaria of whom he was made Coadjutor An. 1643. and consecrated Archbishop by Fabius Chigi Nuncio to Pope Innocent the Tenth for the Peace of Munster who has since been Pope under the name of Alexander the Seventh The Archbishoprick has in its Arms a Cross Sable in a Field Argent Bona on the Rhine is the ordinary place of Residence of the Archbishop his Revenue from the Archbishoprick arises to six or seven hundred thousand Crowns The Chapter of the Cathedral Church is compos'd of twenty four Canons who are all Princes or at least Earls bare Gentlemen are not admitted there The day that the Archbishop takes possession of the Archbishoprick the Town though it be Imperial does him Homage in these terms We free Citizens of Cologne promise this day for this day and the days to come to N. our Archbishop of Cologne to be faithful and friendly to him as long as he shall preserve us according in our Rights Honour and ancient Priviledges we our Wives our Children and our Town of Cologne So help us God and his Saints The Archbishop obliges himself reciprocally in these terms We by the grace of God Archibishop of the holy Church of Cologne Elector and Archcancellor of the Empire in Italy to the end that there may be an amicable Consideration an entire Confidence and a sincere and inviolable Peace betwixt us and our dear Citizens and Town of Cologne do declare by these present Letters that we have promis'd and assur'd and do promise and assure in good Faith and without Fraud that we confirm all the Rights and Franchises written or not written old or new within and without the Town of Cologne which have been granted it by Popes Emperours Kings or the Archbishops of Cologne which we will never countervene In testimony of which we have set the Seal of our Arms to these Presents the c. The Archbishop was oblig'd to come every year to Cologne on Twelf-day and the Town gave him four hundred Florins of Gold with a hundred measures of Oats which he lost if he came not There has been a composition since for this Rent by a new agreement When he comes there he cannot stay there above three days together unless he has permission from the Burgomasters and the number of persons which he brings there with him is limited He keeps in the Town a Magistrate who judges criminal Processes assisted with two Sheriffs The People of the Country call this Town Collen The Empress Agrippina Julia Wife of the Emperour Claudius having been born there and peopled it with Romans gave it its name since that time it is call'd Colonia Agrippina Trajan was chosen Emperour there It is said amongst the Germans that he who has not seen Cologne has not seen Germany Qui non vidit Coloniam non vidit Germaniam This Proverb supposes it to be very famous Ammianus Marcellinus calls it Vrbem ampli nominis munitissimam amplam copiosam The Rhine gives it the figure of a Bow or of a Crescent because it bends it self there by reason of some Banks which are carefully kept The French took it under Childeric the First and it continued in their hands to the Emperour Otho the First who restor'd it again to the Empire amongst the Free and Hans-Towns It has for Devise Colonia sidelis Romanae Ecclesiae filia and for Arms three Crowns Or. It has a great number of Churches and other beautiful Edifices Good Walls and double Trenches environ it It s ordinary Guard is of three hundred Waloons or Germans In the Metropolitan Church which is consecrated under the name of S. Peter and the three Kings called vulgarly the Dome are shewn the three Heads or Sculls being very black of
Andalusia Grenada Murcia Galicia Portugal Algarve the Asturies Biscay Navarre Catalonia is a County and not a Kingdom when the King of Spain makes his first Entrance into Barcelona which is the capital City he enters there in quality of Earl wherefore when he is before the Gate which he finds shut after having knockt they ask from within the Town the name of him that will enter his Catholick Majesty answers twice The King of Spain and they do not open the Gates to him till he says it 's the Earl of Barcelona King of Spain who will come in At these words the Gates are incontinently open'd and they give his Majesty a Reception becoming him Portugal and Algarve have their King. Biscay is a Lordship Navarre belongs to France a part of Biscay is possess'd by the French and the other by the Spaniards Spain may have two hundred and sixty French leagues in length and two hundred in breadth without comprizing what it has in Italy in Flanders and in America and along the coasts of Barbary on the Mediterranean Sea. The chief Towns are MAdrid Toledo Sevil Grenada Sarragossa Valencia Compostella Salamanca Barcelona Cadiz Madrid is increast since that the Kings of Spain have kept there their Court it has no Suburbs It has been said that this Town was wall'd round with Fire by reason of its ancient Walls built in many places with great Stones that strike fire It s Fountain is very famous after that of Palermo in Sicily and of Navona at Rome which are esteem'd the finest of Europe The Fountain Arethusa is celebrated in History it has been the ground of many Roman Fables Toledo is adorn'd with two fair Palaces with that which Charles the Fifth caus'd to be built there and with that of the Archbishop The Metropolitan Church has a Clock resembling that of Strasburg in Alsatia in its height and Architecture the Doors of this Church are of cast Copper the Streets of the Town are very narrow the Moors built the Walls Sevil is the Capital of Andalusia the Spaniards say thus Que no ha vista Sevilla no ha vista la Maravilla He that has not seen Sevil has not seen a Wonder The Duke of Medina Coeli has a fine Palace there It is held that this Town call'd Hispal or Hispalis gave the name of Spain to all the Kingdom Grenada is larger in compass than any Town of Spain the Moors built it The Streets are narrow and the Houses rang'd after such a manner that they resemble the kernel of a Pomegranat The Kingdom has a great number of Mountains Sarragossa is the Capital of the Kingdom of Arragon it has an Archbishoprick Parliament Inquisition and University Valencia call'd the Beautiful and the Great is the Capital of the Kingdom whose name it bears it is honoured with an Archbishoprick Parliament and University Compostella Capital of Galicia is famous for the Relicks of the Apostle St. James the Greater Brother of St. John the Evangelist The Spaniards call Compostella San Jago di Compostella Salamanca is recommendable for its largeness and University which is the most famous of all Spain It has a great House adorn'd with a Court where are the Schools and the Halls where the Acts are made and where Persons are admitted to Degrees Metaphysick is there in its Throne The Preachers there are very full of Gestures to express naturally their Thoughts and Motions they make use of all the parts of their Body of the Head Hands Feet and Eyes Though they said nothing a man might guess very near what they would say Francis Relux a Dominican Doctor of the Faculty of Divinity of Salamanca formerly Confessor of Charles the Second King of Spain and at present Bishop of Placenza has for Successor in his place of Confessor Father Bayono Professor of the University of Alcala Cordona capital City of the Dukedom whereof it bears the name has a Mountain of Salt. Barcelona call'd by the Spaniards Barcino is an important place the French possess'd it under the Reign of Loüis the Thirteenth The Palace of the Duke of Cardona there is August there are seen there some Figures of the Earls of Barcelona This Town which is at present double has a Bishop a Parliament an University Inquisition and a Port where many Ships have often been cast away in the Road. Cadiz is famous by reason of the advantageous scituation of its Port it 's there where the Gallies arrive that come from Peru laden with Gold and Silver This Town is very strong and well peopled in those late Wars its Bishop coming from Italy was stopt at Montpellier and sent afterward from Tholose into his Diocess in exchange for some Prisoner Rivers of ancient Spain TAgus the Ober the Guadian Guadalguivir the Douro and the Minhio the Guadalaiar the Seger the Liuga and others The Tagus famous for its Golden Sand passes at Toledo Villa Franchia and at Lisbon The Iber Iberus at Sarragossa and Tortoza this River gives the name of Iberia to all Spain The Latins call the Guadian Anas and the Guadalaiar Bertis the Douro Durius the Seger Sicoris The Spaniards boast of having a Bridge on which above ten thousand horn'd Beasts may feed together This proceeds from the River Anas which hiding it self for six leagues passes under a great Meadow-ground According to a Map made in Spain which the Sieurs Samsons Geographers in Ordinary to the King have shewn me and which they find good this River loses it self and rises again It is metaphorically call'd Anas because of its entrance and coming forth of the Earth as a Duck does in water Its waters supply Baiados and other places Some Rivers in France lose themselves in like manner and appear again as the River Sumene at the foot of the Sevenes the Rize near Masdazille in the Country of Foix the Vouzeille in Poictou four leagues from Poictiers on the West-side the Bandiat near Angouleme the Rile in Normandy near Beaumont le Roy the River Drome near Bayeux the Venelle which passes at Selongay in Burgundy seven or eight leagues from Dijon on the North-side The Guadalguivir waters Corduba and Sevil The Douro Valladolid and Zamora The Seger descends from the Pyrrheneans into Catalonia passes at Vrgel and Lerida Cesar and Lucan speak of the River Cinga which is by the Pyrrheneans and which has retain'd its name even to this day The Archbishopricks TOledo Sevil Sarragossa Burgos Grenada Valencia Compostella and Taragonia Cardinal Porto Carero is Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain He succeeds Dom Pascal Cardinal of Aragon Archbishop of Toledo who died at Madrid the 28th of September 1677. After having given all he had to the Poor he gave his Nephew onely a Picture of Devotion Cardinal de Porto Carero gave An. 1679. to Dom Francisco Canon of the Church of Toledo the Archdeaconship of Toledo which is worth forty thousand Duckets of Rent Toledo has eight Suffragans Sevil three Sarragossa six Burgos three Grenada two