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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68345	The Low-Country common wealth contayninge an exact description of the eight vnited Prouinces. Now made free. Translated out of french by Ed· Grimeston	Le Petit, Jean François, 1546-ca. 1615.; Grimeston, Edward.	1609 (1609)	STC 15485; ESTC S108474	144,538	311

bee filled with buildings The rampars of these new workes are but of earth with mightie bulwarks flanking one another where there is alwaies something to repaire At the same time when as these workes were made the Magistrate caused the Steeple of the Abbaie Church to bee new built vp whereas they now keepe the Court of Zealand they haue drawne a ●ell vppe into this steeple of eighteene thousand waight to strike the houres on and some 24. small ones which serue for the chyme but this steeple is fallen crooked else it were one of the goodlyest peeces in the whole country The Court which was wont to bee an Abbaie is faire and spatious and is the lodging of Princes when they come into Zealand There the Councellors of Estate for the Countie are established as also for the Admiralty the Chamber of account and the Treasor The Admirall and in a manner all the Councellors are well lodged there This house was founded by Goudebault the three and twentith Bishoppe of Vtrecht and afterwardes amplyfied and in a manner built a new by Cont Wiliam King of the Romaines who lyes there interred with Queene Elizabeth his wife the foundation was made in the yeare one thousand two hundred fifty sixe The towne is good of it selfe faire and neate and of great trafficke which the Gallies of Spaine which came to Scluse vnder the commaund of Dom Frederic Spinola restrained for a time But since they haue vndertakē long voiages to the East West Indies as wel as the Hollanders frō whence they draw great commodities withal since the taking of the Scluse the said galleis being falne into the Estates handsthey are no more anoied neither haue they any more feare on that side this town alone hath the right of the staple for all wines that come frō Frāce Spain Portugal Candy the Canaries other places by sea not many years since they purchased the Towne of Arnemuyden being then but a Bourg in regard of their roades and the Salt-pits the which they had good cheap from the Proprietary But this sale was afterwards changed as we wil shew in the description of the towne of Arnemuyden In this towne the ordinary Soueraigne Iudge doth commonly remaine they call him the Receiuer of Beuerslersheldt to whom all commandements come from the higher powers for the execution of iustice by the sword in his precinct Many learned excel ent men were borne in this towne Among others Paul surnamed of Middelbourg a famous Mathematician who for his great knowledge was called to Rome and presently made a Bishop Then Nicholas Euerardi a great Lawyer and well seene in matters of State President of the Prouincial Councel of Holland and afterwards of the Parliament or great Councell of Macklin where he died in the yeare 1532. leauing many children all men of qualitie worthy of such a Father The first was Peter Nicholai Doctor of Diuinity and Ciuill Law Prelat of the Abbay of Middelbourg The second was Euerardi Nicholai a Licentiat in the lawes who was President of the Councel in Friesland afterterwardes as the father of the great Councel at Macklin wher he died in the yeare 1560. The third was Nicholas Nicolai Licentiat in the lawes very learned in al faculties a good Poet Historiographer which aduanced him ●o be Councellor to the King of Spaine and Register of the order of the golden fleece The fourth was Adrian Nicolai who was Chancellor of Geldres The fift was Iohn Nicolai surnamed the second who was an excellent Poet giuing great hope of him but death preuented him in his course Veere or Camp-veere VEere or Camp-veere is a good Sea-towne one of the foure of the Iland of Walchren it retaines this name of the passage it was wont to haue vnto the Village of Campe in the Iland of Northbeuelandt right against it Which Village within these ten yeares with the whole Iland hath beene recouered from the Inondation which happened in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred twentie foure This town was in the yeare one thousand three hundred sixtie eight walled in by the Lord of Borsell Being since made greater it was endowed with goodly priu●lidges so as in the time of Maximillian of Bourgongne their Lord it was made a Marquisate And for the commoditie of the feat the goodnesse of the hauen and of the road it was frequented by many nations They were the first that sent vnto the Canaries from whence they brought in the yeare 1508. a shippe laden with sugar They haue trade into France where they haue priuiledge of Franche Grue that is to say free lading and vnlading In like manner into the East-countries they had liberty to traffick before that the townes of Antwerp and Amsterdam had any trade thether As also into Scotland the Scotishmen hauing many yeares since held their staple there for diuers sorts of Marchandize as they do at this day for their cloth and frizes and for their Salt-fish This towne hath also the fishing for herring wherof there is a staple and the marke is well knowne in diuers Kingdomes where the Bourgers trafficke most as to Spaine France and other countries and of late yeares they haue trade to the East VVest-Indies This towne was in the old time honoured with the Residence of the Admirall Generall and the Admiraltie of the Netherlands To which end the King of Spaine as Prince of the said countries caused a goodly Arcenall or Magasin for munition to bee built in the yeare 1568. wherein they laid all their prouision and furniture belonging to the sea The Inhabitants of this towne are growne ciuill and curteous by the daily frequentation of their Lordes and their Attendants keeping their Court within an arrow shotte of the Towne at the goodly castle of Sanderburg which is quite ruined in these last troubles as being too neere a neighbor vnto the towne This Marquisat was sold by decree for the debts of the said Marquis Mazimillian which Philip King of Spaine caused to be bought in his name But when the creditors were not paid it was sold again and bought by the Prince of Orange who to the great contentment of the Burgers and all the subiectes receiued the possession in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred eighty one giuing them goodly priuiledges with high and base Iustice in nine Villages depending thereon whereof Oest capel is one By the death of which Prince and by his Testament the most worthie Prince Maurice of Nassau Gouernor Captaine Admiral general of the vnited Prouinces his son was left heire of the said Marquisat and put in posssion in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred eighty eight and in the yeare after of that of Flissinghe Besides other particularities one thing is specially to be noted that the Magistrate of this towne neuer shewed any rigor against them of the reformed religion yea hath alwaies fauoured and supported them as much as he might so as in the beginning of the

and there made his aboad calling it new Frisland whereof the Inhabitants were called Frisiabenes And on a certain place where as since the towne of Alcmar was built he seated a towne which by his wiues name hee called Frougast But as in the Frison tongue as wel as in the Germaine they do vsually pronounce a V. consonant for an F. In succession of times this word is changed into Vrougast or Vroulegast with which word Geyst there are many places end in Frisland This towne of Vrougast became afterwards great and of good trafficke The which the Romaines making warre against the Battauians and Frisons for the affinitie which this name had with their towne of Verona in Italie they also called it Verone Of this VVest-Frisland is that to be vnderstood which Tacitus writes was done by the Frisons for their neighbourhood with the Battauians In this Estate was Frisland maintained since the comming of Friso their first prince the space of one hundred ninety three yeares wherof Staueren was the chiefe town whereas the Princes kept their Court gouerning the other quarters called Zeelandts by their Lieutenants This Towne of Staueren grew so proud by their wealth and Nauigation as they seemed all gold gilding the posts of their houses and their vanitie was so great as a rich widdow hauing commaunded the Maister of her shippe to bring her the best Marchandise hee should finde in the East Countries For that hee brought nothing backe but Wheat which hee held to bee best This vaine woman commaunded the Maister that if hee had laden it on the larboord side hee should cast it into the Sea on the starboord side which hauing done God sent a tempest which did so moue the sandes of the sea as in the same place where the Wheat had beene cast forth there did rise a barre or banke of sand which hath euer since spoyled the Hauen of the said Towne which hath depriued them quite both of their Nauigation and wealth so as since the Inhabitants hauing beene often spoyled are now growne more modest All that Prince Friso had left in writing was not done in the Frison tongue but in Greeke letters hauing raigned sixtie yeare hee died two hundred twenty seauen yeares before Christ Adel his eldest sonne succeeded him who raigned ninetie foure yeares and dyed one hundred thirty one yeares before Christ After him came Vbbo his sonne who gouerned eighty yeares and died fifty one yeares before Christ. Friso or Frisius son to Grunnius who built the towne of Groning as wee haue said marryed the Ladie Frou To whome succeeded his sonne Asniga Ascou 4. Prince of Frisland who raigned 82. yeares and died 31. yeares after the birth of Christ Diogarus Segon was 5. Dibaldus Segon 6. Tabbo 7. al which together liued 443. yeares thē had they as many Dukes whereof Ascon was the first who had foure sonnes whereof Adelbold the eldest succeeded him and was second Duke of Frisland dying without children hee left his brother Tito Bocaial his successor who dying also without children had Vbbo sonne to his brother Richold Nephew to Ascon for his heire who was 4. Duke of Frisland To whome succeeded his sonne Haron fift Duke who dyed in the yeare of Christ three hundred thirty fiue After him came his son Odibald sixt Duke then Vdolph Haron seauenth and last Duke For after him vnto Charlemaigne Frisland had nine Kings These seauen dukes altogether raigned two hundred sixty two yeares Then came Richold Vtto who was first King of East Frisland wee call it so in regard of VVest-Freezeland into the which Friso the young sonne of Grunnius ledde the first Collonies To him succeeded Odibaldus second King of Frisland Then Richold third King And after him Beroald sonne to Valck fourth King of Frisland in the time of Clotaire King of France and by him slaine in battaile Adgil was fift King of Frisland Radbod the first of that name 6. King of Frisland After whom came Adgil the 2. the 7. King who had three sons Gombauld the 8. King of Frisons Iohn called the Priest Radbod Gōbauld was a good Christian went to serue Charlemaigne where he was slain with Rolland and other peeres of France at the battaile of Ronseual Iohn called the Priest so called for his holynes of life followed Charlemaigne in his voyage to Ierusalem from whence as Suffridus Petri a Frison writer sayeth hee past on with a Collonie to the East Indies where hee erected a Kingdome the which was called by his name the Kingdome of Prestre Iean whose successors which came afterwards into Affricke into the Kingdome of the Abissens are at this day called Prestres Ieans Radbod the third son of Adgil the second of that name was King of Frisland a great persecuter of Christians he was twise vanquished by the French It was he which retyred from the font being ready to be baptized vppon a foolish answer which the Bishop of Soissons made him going to baptize him He did great spoyles vnto Christians as farre as Vtrecht● the which hee ruined aud destroyed the Temple of S. Thomas which King Dagobert had built He raigned fifty yeares and with him ended the Kings of Frisland the Realme beeing after that anexed to the Crowne of France Wee haue before made mention of Friso the yong who led the first Collony into West Frisland let vs now speake of the second who was brought into that quar●er which is now called Waterlandt which hapned in this manner wee haue before said that Ascon first duke of Frisland had four sons Adelbod Tito Richold Radbod that the two first were dukes successiuely and that Vbbe the son of Richold was the 4. Duke of Frisland there then remained Radbod the 4. son of Ascon hauing taken a wife out of West-Frisland of the race of Friso the yong hee had by her one son called Thierry who in the 300. yeare of CHRISTS natiuity which was the 2. of the raign of Haron the 5. duke of the old Frisons his cousin led a Collony into that quarter of West-frisland with the help of the said Haron and other four of his cousins the which at that time by reason of the multitude of Ilands Moores Lakes and other stil waters was not yet inhabited yet with that aid and the interest he had by his wife he made this second part which at this present is Waterlandt habitable and fertil in the which are Edam Monikendam Purmerends Woormer Ryp Graft and other good villages so as of these two parts ioined togither with that which he added afterwards on the west part he made an Estate and built a Pallace at Medenblike which he made the cheefe town of the whole country VVho pretending to make it a Kingdome Haron his Cousin Duke of East Frisland hindred him for the which they were long in controuersie til in the end Haron forced him to content him-selfe with the title of a Duke This Thierry Duke of West-Frisland had one sonne which