wherein the Swedes obtained the Victory but the King of Sweden was slain and on the Imperial side that famous Commander Godfrey Count of Pappenheim There is also an University at Leipsick first occasioned by the German Scholars of Prague who in the troubles of the Hussites came hither to the number of Two thousand in one day and is still one of the Three Universities in the Elector's Dominions the other being Jena by the River Sala and Wittenberg upon the Elbe In this University they are much addicted to the study of the Law but there are also Learned men in other Faculties The Magistrates of Leipsick are also considerable Der herr von Adlershelme was the Burgomaster a courteous Learned Person and great Virtuoso who had collected and observed many things He hath had five fair Daughters brought up in all commendable ways of working Drawing Painting Inlaying with Flowers with Mother of Pearl Stones and other pretty Works And they speak divers Languages which they learned at a School in Holland So that his House hath a great deal of excellent Furniture of his Childrens work and is one of the most considerable Curiosities to be seen in Leipsick His Summer-house is handsome painted both within and without And in the Water about are Muscovy Ducks Indian Geese and divers rare Fowls In his Chamber of Rarities there are many things considerable But I have seen divers of them in other places and lately set down some Varieties of the Elector of Saxony I shall mention but a few An Elephants Head with the dentes molares in it An Animal like an Armadillo but the Scales are much larger and the Tail broader Very large flying Fishes A Sea-horse Bread of Mount Libanus A Cedar-branch with the Fruit upon it Large Granates as they grow in the Mine A Sirens hand A Chameleon made out of a Fish A piece of Iron which seemeth to be the head of a Spear found in the Tooth of an Elephant the Tooth being grown about it The Isle of Jerscy drawn by our King A piece of Wood with the Blood of King Charles the First upon it A Greenland Lance with a large Bell at the end of it Much Japan painting wherein their manner of hunting and working may be observed A Picture of our Saviour the Hatches of which are writing or written and contain the story of his Passion Bevers taken in the River Elbe A Picture of the murther of the Innocents done by Albert Durer Pictures of divers strange Fowls A Greenland Boat The Skins of white Bears Tigres Hilves and other Beasts And I must not omit the Garter of an English Bride with the story of it of the Fashion in England for the Bridemen to take it off and wear it in their Hat which seemed so strange to the Germans that I was obliged to confirm it to them by assuring them that I had divers times wore such a Garter my self Leaving this busie and trading City of Leipsick I directed my Journey unto Magdeburg and travelled through a plain Country between the River Sala and the Elbe by Landsberg nigh to Petersdorff where there is a small Hill which overlooks all the Country so to Kihten the Residence of the Prince of Anhalt then to Caln and over the River Sala before it runneth into the Elbe which arising at Mount Fichtelberg now hastneth towards it Fichtelberg is a considerable Mountain near which are divers Mines Bathes and Mineral-waters of which Gaspar Bruschius hath written a Description And from it arise four Rivers running to the four quarters of the World The Maine or Moenus towards the West the Nab or Nabus towards the South the Aeger towards the East and the forementioned Sala towards the North. These four afterwards fall into the three greatest Rivers of Germany the Danube the Rhine and the Elbe Then to Sals or Saltz a placed noted for Salt-springs and that night to Magdeburg Parthenopolis or Magdeburg is seated by the River Elbe formerly the Metropolitan City of Germany now under the Marquiss of Brandenburg of very great Circuit but little more than half built again since it was sacked and burnt by Tilly and Thirty six thousand persons put to the Sword and destroyed I could not but observe the ruinous and destructive effects of the late wars in many parts of Germany but not in any so great and flourishing a place as this And a man might think that after this great destruction of Houses and People this place should not be able to stand a Siege yet a few years after it was besieged by General Hatzfield unto whom Bannier the Swede not being able to relieve it it was yielded The Cathedral Church is very fair and built like an English one by the Emperour Otho the First and his Empress Editha an English woman Daughter unto King Edmund whose Effigies in Stone I saw in the Church with nineteen Tuns of Gold by her which she gave thereto And to say the truth English mony hath done great things in Germany for hereby or with a good part thereof this Church was built or endowed Leopoldus Duke of Austria built the old Walls of Vienna with the ransome of King Richard the First whom he detained in his return through Austria from the Holy Land King Edward the First sent a great Sum of Mony unto the Emperour Adolphus for the raising of Souldiers in Germany which the Emperour employed in purchasing a great part of Misnia for himself The Lutheran Churches are handsome and their Pulpits are extraordinary noble and richly set off as I observed through all Saxony Norimberg And where they are Masters of the Places and have not their Churches only by permission here they shewed me in the Cathedral Church of St. Maurice the Statua's of the five wise Virgins smiling and of the five foolish Virgins lamenting which are very well expressed They shewed me also two odd Reliques which they still kept as Rarities that is the Bason wherein Pilate washed his hands when he declared himself free from the blood of our Saviour and the Ladder whereon the Cock stood when he crowed after St. Peter's denying of Christ In the Ruines of the Cloister of the Augustines there is still to be seen Luther's Chamber his Bedstead and Table and upon the Door are these German Verses Dis war Lutheri Kammerlin Waner in 's Closter kam herin Gedachnis halb wird noch it zund Herin gesehen sein Bettespund i. e. Luther did lodge within this little Room When first he did into the Cloister come In memory whereof we still do keep The Bedstead upon which he us'd to sleep I lodged at Magdeburg in an old man's House who would tell me many stories of the burning of the Town the cruelties and bloody usage of the people who were destroyed without exception The Nuns many of them being drowned in the River Elbe After which some observed that Count Tilly never prospered in his wars He told me also that Dureus lodged with
There are divers Piazza's large and fair in one of which stands a large gilded Statua of Charles the Fifth Emperour and King of Spain who was born in this City The whole Town is generally well-built and the Streets are fair and clean The Inhabitants hereof have been taken notice of to be extreamly given to Sedition and for their sakes a great many other Cities in Europe are punished and have in a manner totally lost their Liberties For the Spaniards to curb the Seditious humour of the People of Ghent were put upon the Invention of building Citadels in Cities whereby a few Souldiers are able to suppress any Commotion or beat down the Town so that here I saw the first Citadel that was built in Europe by Charles the Fifth It is not large and the Bastions little and though of a Regular Figure yet not so convenient as those of latter days since that Art hath been improved From Ghent we passed by water about Twenty English miles to Bruges a very elegant large City and formerly a place of very great Trade being within three Leagues of the Sea so that from the tops of their highest Buildings the Ships under Sail are visible and at the same time a Fleet of Ships and a large Territory of a fruitful pleasant Country cometh under your eye It is fortified with Works of Earth and deep Ditches The Convents are numerous The artificial Cuts of Water from this Town to all places maketh it of easie access and though it hath no Port the Passage from hence to Ostend by water is short And they are at present upon a Design of bringing Ships up to this City Ostend is about Ten English miles from Bruges seated upon the waves of the German Ocean which wash it continually on one side And they have now contrived it so as to let the Sea in almost round the Town for a great space whereby it is become much more strong and defensible than before For when I looked upon it and considered what it was when it was besieged by Archduke Albertus and taken by Marquiss Ambrosius Spinola 1604. with an honourable Surrender after three years Siege I cannot but ascribe very much unto their Supplies from England and the obstinate Valour of the Defendants especially the English under Sir Francis Vere Sluys being in the hands of the States of the United Provinces and Dunkirk under the French The Spaniards possess no other Port in Flanders but this and Newport and this being the most considerable they are now making the Haven large and are upon a considerable Work in order to the carrying of their Ships over into that Cut which goeth from Ostend to Bruges out of their Harbour by the means of a very great Lock or Receptacle of Water which is to communicate with both which when it is finished may be very advantageous to the Traffick of the Spanish Netherlands This Town stands very low but the Streets are streight large and uniform From hence I went all along upon the Sea-shoar to Newport a handsome Town with large fair Streets but low built There were then a great number of small Ships in the Harbour This place is famous for the Battel of Newport fought here by Albertus and Count Maurice wherein the Spanish Forces lost the day and much of the honour of the Field was due unto the English under Sir Francis Vere since which time although there hath been much blood shed in these Quarters yet there hath not been so considerable a Battel ever since although the English had also the fortune to do great Service hereabout at a fight called the Battel of the Sandhils when a part of the Army of French and English which besieged Dunkirk fought with the Spanish Forces by Newport and overthrew them From Newport we put to Sea sailing out of the Harbour and intending for England but the wind being very high and contrary after having been at Sea all the night and had leisure to take notice of the great number of Sands upon that Coast in the morning we put into Mardike where at present there is only a Fort of Wood just above the High-water mark with some few Guns mounted The other Fort more into the Land being demolished Dunkirk is much increased of late and the King of France hath not spared mony to render it considerably strong He hath very near finished a noble Citadel begun by the English while this Town was in their possession which hath the Sea on one side of it the Haven on another and the Sandhills towards the Land which when the wind is at South-west doth somewhat annoy it To prevent which the French have made divers Cuts and Chanels through the Sands into which the Sea entring doth moisten and fix the Sand so as they are not so apt to fly And every Bastion is sprucely kept and covered within with green Turf Beyond the old Wall of the Town there are now great Works drawn which encompass so large a space of Ground that the Town is made bigger by half And in this part stands the English Nunnery and many handsome Buildings The new Fortifications are very large and the Bastion towards the North the most stately upon which the King of France entertained the Duke of Monmouth The Port is large and capable of receiving a great number of Ships but at low water it is almost dry and there are so many Sands before it that at that time the Sea comes not in any depth within a mile of it From Dunkirk we travelled by Land to Graveling where the Works are of Earth large and high the Church stately the Streets broad but the Houses low and at present not populous From Graveling I came to Calais from whence setting Sail in the morning we came to Dover and the same day to London FINIS A Catalogue of some Books Printed for Benj-Tooke at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard THe Works of the Most Reverend Father in God John Bramhall late L. Arch-Bish of Ardmagh Fol. Several Chirurgical Treatises by Richard Wiseman Serjeant Chirurgion to his Majesty Fol. Skinneri Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae Fol. Bishop Sanderson ' s Sermons Fol. Bentivolio and Urania by N. Ingelo D. D. Fol. Mr. Faringdon ' s Sermons compleat Three Vol. Fol. Dr. Heylin on the Creed Fol. Lord Bacon ' s Advancement of Learning Fol. Lightfoot Horae Hebraicae in Johannem Quarto Dr. Brown ' s Travels in Hungaria Servia Bulgaria Macedonia Thessaly Austria Styria Carinthia Carniola and Friuli with Sculptures Quarto A Representation of the State of Christianity in England and of its decay and danger from Sectaries as well as Papists Langhornii Elenchus Antiquitatum Albionensium Oct. Batei Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia Johannis Stearne de Obstinatione Opus Posthumum Praefixa sunt Prolegomena Apologetica Octavo Two Letters of Advice 1. For susception of H. Orders 2. For Studies Theological especially such as are Rational Oct. Some Considerations of present Concernment how far the Romanists may be trusted by Princes of another Perswasion 8. Two short Discourses against the Romanists 1. An Account of the Fundamental Principle of Popery and of the Insufficiency of the Proofs they have for it 2. An Answer to Six Queries 12. These four by Henry Dodwell M. A. sometimes Fellow of Trinity Colledge near Dublin
neatness as their Antiquity and odd shape As also a Horn made out of a Tooth said to be given at the same time There are also three Unicorns Horns little differing in length the longest being five foot and an half I drank out of one of them the end being tipp'd with Silver and made hollow to serve for a Cup. These were of the Sea-Unicorn or the Horn or long wreathed Tooth of some Sea-Animal much like it taken in the Northern Seas of which I have seen many both in Publick Repositories and in Private Hands Two such as these the one Ten foot long were presented not many years since to the King of Denmark being taken near to Nova Zembla and I have seen some full fifteen foot long some wreathed very thick some not so much and others almost plain Some largest and thickest at the End near the head others are largest at some distance from the Head Some very sharp at the end or point and others blunt My honoured Father Sir T. B. hath a very fair piece of one which was formerly among the Duke of Curlands Rarities but after that he was taken Prisoner by Douglas in the wars between Sweden and Poland it came into a Merchants hands of whom my Father had it he hath also a piece of this sort of Unicorns Horn burnt black out of the Emperour of Russia's Repositorie given him by Dr. Arthur Dee who was Son to Dr. John Dee and also Physician to the Emperour of Russia when his Chambers were burned in which he preserved his Curiosities I have seen a walking Staff a Scepter a Scabbard for a Sword Boxes and other Curiosities made out of this Horn but was never so fortunate as from experience to confirm its Medical Efficacy against Poysons contagious Diseases or any other evident effect of it although I have known it given several times and in great quantity But of these Unicorns Horns no man sure hath so great a Collection as the King of Denmark and his Father had so many that he was able to spare about an hundred of them to build a Magnificent Throne out of Unicorns Horns I had the honour to see divers Persons of Note in this City as D. Cyprianus ab Oostergo Dr. Regius Voetius the only Member then left alive of the Synod of Dort and others but missed the sight of the Learned Anna Maria Skurman who was then gone out of Town and was forced to content my self with beholding her Picture well drawn by her own hand with this Inscription of hers under it Ceruitis hic pict â nostros in Imagine vultus Si negat ars formam gratia vestra dabit The Painters Hall is considerable wherein are many good pieces to be seen of several Masters Amongst which there are good Heads by Van Colen and Tuart Landskips by Soft-lever and good Drapery especially in some Turkish Habits by Van der Mere. This Town is also beautified with a fair Piazza or Market-place divers long Streets and a Pall-mall with five rows of Trees on each side In the Church of St. Katherino is the Tomb of my Lord Gorge Though I had seen France and Italy and the Noble Cities thereof which are worthily admired by all yet I was much surprized upon the first sight of the United Provinces especially of Holland and the adjoyning places He that hath observed the easie accommodation for Travel therein both by Land and Water their excellent order and regular course in all things the number of Learned men the abundance of Varieties in all kinds the industry frugality and wealth of the people their numerous good Towns their extraordinary neatness in their Buildings and Houses their proper Laws and administration of Justice and their incredible Number of Shipping and Boats will think it an omission to rest in the sight of other Countries without a view of this A Country of little extent and soon travelled over but so replenished with People with good Cities fair Towns and Villages as not to be met with upon so little a compass of ground except perhaps in China From Utrecht in two hours I came to Friswick and passed over the River Leck to Viaenen where there is little remarkable besides the House and Gardens of Count Brederode one of the Ancient Nobility of Holland or according to common esteem of the most Noble Family of all the Family of the Egmonds being formerly esteemed the Richest the Wassenaer's the most ancient and the Brederodes the Noblest The Mount in this Garden serveth for the Rampart to the Town and on a round Bullwark are divers small brass Guns planted The Statua's of the twelve Caesars of Aristotle the Pyramids and Partitions with the Paintings upon the wall are the rest of its Ornaments From hence I passed still by Boat through the Land of Arkel some say derived from Hercules belonging formerly to the Lords of Gorchom and Arkeland till by Mary daughter to the last Lord of Arkeland it sell to John Lord of Egmond and afterwards was sold to William the sixth Earl of Holland I arrived this night at Gorchom a Town well seated near three Rivers the Ling the Wael and the Maes The Market-place is fair the Stadthuis is sunk somewhat on one side The Governour hath a good House and the Church a very high thick Steeple the Works are of Earth the Water-gate is handsome and over it in Great Letters is this Inscription Civitas in quâ maximè Cives legibus parent in pace beata bello invicta 1642. The more remarkable because it made good its Inscription in the year 1672. when Louis the Fourteenth King of France came down with so powerful an Army into the Low-Countries that in that Summers Expedition he took thirty walled Towns and Cities this Water-gate being the Limit to his Conquests this way beyond which his Forces were not able to attempt any thing Leaving Gorcum I passed by Worcum on the other side of the River and then by the Castle of Lovesteyn strongly seated and well fortified and therefore hath been often made use of to secure Persons of Note Sir George Ascue of late years suffered his Imprisonment herein and formerly Barnevelt upon which occasion this Castle hath been much spoken of and hath given the name to that whole party who sided with him well known at present by the name of the Lovestein Faction Passing on further up the Maes I left Proye on the left hand and Huesden on the right and the next day morning arrived at the Bosch Hertogen Bosch Sylva Ducis Boscum Ducis Boisleduc Bolduc takes its name from a Wood belonging to the Dukes of Brabant It is a strong pleasant City seated upon the River Disa or Deese which entreth the Maes about two Leagues below it one of the greatest Cities in Brabant and for its strength for which 't is beholden both to Nature and to Art the States of the United Provinces possess not any one more considerable and is a very