Mountain and presently fill five Ponds have three handsome Cascates or Falls and after run into the Plain and are strong enough in a small space to turn four Mills this is called Wolfsbrun or the Wolfs Fountain from a Princess who formerly retired into a Cave in this desart place and was here devoured by a Wolf While I was at Heidelberg two English men came kindly to me Mr. Villers and Timothy Middleton belonging to Lobensfeldt Cloister a Convent formerly of the Jesuits but since let out to about an hundred English who left their Country 1661. came up the Rhine and by the permission of the Elector setled themselves a few miles from hence living altogether men women and children in one House and having a community of many things They are of a peculiar Religion calling themselves Christian Jews and one Mr. Poole formerly living at Norwich is their Head They cut not their Beards and observe many other Ceremonies and Duties which they either think themselves obliged to from some Expressions in the Old Testament or from some New Exposition of their Leaders From Heidelberg I made an excursion and had a sight of Spire seated in a Plain on the West-side of the Rhine a place of Antiquity conceived to be Urbs Nemetum of old a large place and populous The King of Sweden in the German wars demolished the Works about it not willing to spare so great a number of his Souldiers as was required to Garrison it and make it good It is an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Mentz there are many fair Houses in it divers Churches and a fair Cathedral with four large Towers The Romanists the Lutherans and Calvinists preach in it at several hours It is the more populous and filled with people of good quality by reason of the concourse of persons from other parts of Germany for the decision of Law Suits For here the Imperial Chamber is held and many differences which arise in the Empire are determined and the Electors and other Princes in some tryals at Law may be called hither It is a settled Court which Maximilian the First for the better ease of all persons placed first at Worms and not long after it was fixed at Spire from whence it cannot be now removed but by the consent of all the Estates Things Cognoscible in this Court are determined by an Imperial Judge and sealed with the Emperours Arms so that there lieth no appeal unto the Emperour Another day I went to Manheim formerly a Village seated at the Confluence of the Rhine and Neccar but walled about by the Elector Frederick the Fourth and since is much encreased all the Streets being large and uniform and a Noble Citadel built within which over-against the Gate the Elector designs a Palace the Model of which I saw and at present on the right hand there are three Pavilions of Lodgings in one of which lodgeth the Elector Palatine in another the Prince his Son and in the third the Princess his Daughter behind these there is a handsome Garden and Lodgings for Degen Felderen the Churfursts Mistress Here are some good Pictures as a Head of Hans Holben and a Landskip with the Story of the Union of the Swissers The Bridge over the Moat of the Citadel into the Town is also remarkable as having six Draw-bridges upon it three great ones and three small ones on the side There are Palisado's all along the bottom in the middle of the Ditch and without upon the Esplanade From Heidelberg I travelled to Nurnberg in the Company of Captain Wagenseyl who had been in the Polish and Hungarian wars and was employed a little before in blowing up the Castle of Launsteyn belonging to the Elector Palatine to prevent its surprisal by the Duke of Lorrain He was then employed to raise a Company at Nurnberg for the Service of the Elector Palatine I had a good advantage in my Journey by his Company for he travelled with Authority and was a generous knowing and courteous person The first day we travelled near to the Neccar in stony and rocky way and it being dark before we came to Mospach the Peasants conducted us from Village to Village with bundles of lighted Straw The next day we came to Poxberg where there is an old Castle and in the afternoon reached Morkenthal or Mergetheim the Seat of the Grand Master of the Herrhn Deutchern or the Teutonick Order The Town is well-built hath a fair Piazza with a large Fountain in it and a Statue of one of the Grand Masters with a long Corridore from his Palace This Order hath been of great Fame and hath had large Possessions as may be seen in the exact Account of the Teutonick Knights of Prussia made out from the best Authors by my worthy honoured Friend Mr. Ashmole in his Noble Description of the Order of the Garter and as Lewis du May Counsellor unto the Duke of Wirtenberg hath set it down For the Knights Templars and of St. John having fought prosperously against the Infidels raised an Emulation in some German Gentlemen who waited upon the Emperour Frederick the First in his Expedition to the Holy Land to take the Croisado And because they were installed in the Church and Hospital of St. Mary at Jerusalem they were called Marianites Their Order differed nothing from those above-mentioned but in the form and colour of their Cross and was approved by Pope Celestin the Third Afterwards when Jerusalem was taken by Saladin those Knights betook themselves to Ptolemais from whence the Emperour Frederick the Second sent them back into Germany and employed them against the Prussians and Livonians who at that time were still Pagans But by the Valour and Piety of those Knights their Souls were brought into subjection to Christ and their Bodies to the Order which began that war in the year 1220. a little while after these Knights found themselves Masters of a Country of very large Extent which obeyed the Order till the year 1525. at which time Sigismond King of Poland gave the investiture of Prussia unto Albert Marquiss of Brandenburg In the year 1563. the Great Master became Secular again and took a part of the Lands subject to the Order with the name of Duke of Curland And Livonia having been the Subject and Theatre of many wars between the Polanders Muscovites and Swedes these last did at length become Masters of it and have it in possession still So that there is no more remaining of the Teutonick Order but some Commanderies scattered here and there in Germany And the Great Master hath his Seat and Residence at Mergenthal They wear on a white Mantle a plain black Cross The Dignity of Grand Master is generally held by some Great and Honorable Person and in the Great Assembly he taketh place of all Bishops The present is the Baron of Amring and the Grand Master before him was Leopold William only Brother to the Emperor Ferdinand the Third From hence we
Furnace where the Litharge is driven off agreeth better with the Figure of it in Agricola than those of Hungary some of the Litharge is green Their Buck-work and their Engines which pound the Ore the Coal and Clay are also very neat Much of their Ore is washed especially the poorest and that which is mixed with stones quarts or sparrs This is peculiar in their working that they burn the pounded and washed Ore in the Roasthearth before they melt it in the Smeltzoven or melting Furnace At these Mines of Hungary where I was they used not the Virgula divina or forked Hazel to find out Silver Ore or hidden Treasure in the Earth and I should little depend thereon but here they have an esteem of it And I observed the use thereof and the manner how they did it But I shall omit the Description of it because it is set down in divers Books and it cannot be so well described as shown to the Eye I saw also another Mine called Auff der Halsbrucker about eighty of our Fathoms deep and much worked They have divers sorts of Ore but they contain either Silver and Copper Silver and Lead or all three but they work them only for Silver They have divers damps in these Mines where it is deep The Mines are cold where the outward Air comes in but where not warm The greatest trouble they have is by dust which spoileth their Lungs and Stomachs and frets their Skins But they are not so much troubled with water and have very good Engins to draw the water out The Sulphur or Brimstone Ore which is found here is also rich it is hard and stony as other Ores are that which hath red spots is accounted the best They use a peculiar Furnace to melt the Brimstone from the Ore some whereof yieldeth three pounds of Sulphur out of an hundred weight of Ore which as it melteth runneth out of the Furnace into water or the Exhalations from the Ore near or in the Fire are condensed into Brimstone by the Surface of the Water placed to receive it this is once again melted and purified Some of the Brimstone Ore containeth Silver some Copper and some both in a small proportion Two Miners in their habits Virgula Divina The figure of an Iron retort such as are vsed at the quicksilver worke at Idria The other use and which is more considerable is for the making of Vitriol or Copperose in this manner They take the Ore out of which the Brimstone hath been already melted and burn it once again or let it still burn in the open Air then putting it into a large Fatt they pour water upon it so as to imbibe and drink in the Vitriol this Water is afterwards boyled to a sufficient height and let out into the Coolers where sticks are set in it as in the making of Sugar Candy The purest Chrystallized Vitriol sticks unto the wood the rest to the sides and bottom Thus the Sulphur Ore after the Sulphur is taken out of it still worketh upon the Silver Ore and openeth the Body of it in the Fire but when this Ore is also deprived of its Vitriol it worketh no more upon Metals Friberg is a round well-walled City hath handsome Streets a Piazza the Elector's Castle and five Gates the Church of St. Peter is fair where many of the Dukes and Ducal Family have been buried and have fair Monuments especially Duke Mauritius Elector of Saxony whose Monument in black Marble is raised three piles high adorned with many fair Statua's in Alabaster and white Marble and esteemed one of the noblest if not the best in Germany And when this Town was surrendred unto Holck and Gallas Octob. 5. 1632. the Duke of Saxony paid 80000 Dollars to save the Monuments of his Predecessours from being ransacked and defaced it being the fashion of divers German Princes to be buried in their Robes with their Ensigns of Honour Rings Jewels and the like which would have been booty and probably have run the same fortune as the Cloister of Haibron within twelve English miles of Nurenberg where some of the Marquisses of Onspach who are of the Electoral House of Brandenburg lye entombed where Tillie's Souldiers brake open the Vault and robbed the dead Corpses of the Marquisses George Frederick and Joachim Ernest of the Jewels Rings and other rich Ornaments with which they were entombed There are some Vaults and Subterraneous Cavities in the City by which there are passages into the Mines This place was formerly streightly besieged by the Emperour Adolphus for the space of a year and a month and at last betrayed by a Fugitive who let in a party of the Emperours into the Town by a Subterraneous Passage near St. Donats Gate and upon the continual Batteries made at the Town and concussion of the Earth about it the Earth sunk down in many places and swallowed great numbers of the Emperours Army These Mines afford great benefit unto the City and also unto the Elector They are said to have been found out in the year 1180. But there have been other Silver Mines discovered since as at Schneeberg at Anneberg and at Joachims Dale 1526. Having passed some time at Friberg I ordered my Journey for Leipsick and travelling by Waltheim and Coldick came unto it Leipsick is seated upon the River Elster which arising in Vortland or Terra Advocatorum passeth by it and afterwards runneth into the River Sala It is a rich and great trading City hath three Marts in the year and great resort unto it from many parts It is well-built and divers Houses are seven stories high The Castle is strictly guarded and hath in it a strong white Town But the Works about the Town are not very considerable although they might be made strong The Church of St. Nicholas is well adorned and hath the name to be the fairest within side of any Lutheran Church in Germany they have also a remarkable Burial-place or Godtsaker walled about and cloystered near the Wall wherein the better sort are buried as the rest in the middle and open part Which put me in mind of that noble Burial-place which I saw at Pisa in Tuscany called Il campo Santo because the Earth which the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa brought from the Holy Land for the Ballast of his Ships was laid upon that Ground Leipsick is famous for two great Battels fought near unto it in the last Swedish wars one between Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden and Count Tilly General of the Imperialists 1631. wherein the Swedes obtained a great Victory Tilly was wounded fled and lived not long after Another some years after in the same place wherein Leonard Torstenson the Swede overcame Archduke Leopoldus Gulielmus and Octavio Piccolomini Generals of the Imperial Army And about a mile and a half from hence at Lutzen another great Battel was fought 1632. between the King of Sweden and the Imperial Army commanded by Albert Wallensteyn Duke of Friedland
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
consists all of the same matter which ferments in time grows hot smoaks and burns perpetually and withal drinks in a new Vitriol into its self From the Spà we crossed over to Frapont a Village seated upon the pleasant River Uta or Ourte where we took Boat and went down a rapid Stream yet one of the pleasantest I ever saw winding and turning between so many green Hills in part of the Forest of Arduenna We descended afterwards thirty or forty small Falls in a long Boat made on purpose The Oar or Paddle being only a square piece of Board fixed to the end of a Pole the Pole standing perpendicularly in the middle of it The delightful River Vesa or the Wesdret soon met us and joyning together we fell down with them into the Maes near Liege Upon the Banks of these Rivers all the Arms Guns and other Instruments are made for which the Country of Liege is remarkable Liege Luick Leodium or Augusta Eburonum Learned Men think this City to be seated near that Valley wherein two Legions of Julius Caesar under Sabinus and Cotta were destroyed by Ambiorix chief Commander of the Eburones It is seated upon the River Mosa which entring with two Streams makes some pretty Islands Three other small Rivers arising in the Forest of Ardenna are also here received into the Maes whereby they have plenty of Fish and other Conveniencies The City is very populous and so it hath been in former Ages when as Charles Duke of Purgunay sacked it and destroyed an hundred thousand of the people It aboundeth with fair Churches stately Convents and Religious Foundations richly endowed so that it hath been called the Paradise of Priests and is in that kind the most notable in all these parts The Palace of the Bishop is a noble Fabrick built by Cardinal Erardus Bishop of Liege The Cathedral beareth the Name of St. Lambert who being Bishop of Maestreicht was murdered by Dodo and others about the year 622. The See was afterwards translated unto Liege by Hubertus as it had been formerly from Tongres to Maestreicht and the Body of St. Lambert removed unto this Church which is at present very noble being built of a reddish Stone very much carved without and handsomely adorned within Between the Quire and Sacristy is this Inscription in very large Letters D. O. M. Intemeratae Virgini Mariae Sancto Lamberto Ecclesiae Patriae Divis Tutelaribus Maximilianus Henricus utriusque Bavariae Dux Archiepiscopus Elector Coloniensis Episcopus Princeps Leodiensis Ernesti Ferdinandi Bavariae Ducum Episcoporum Principum Leodiensium Nepos Successor in sui Praedecessorum memoriam Ponebat MDCLVIII The Canons hereof are of great riches and power and have the Election of the Bishop and Prince who hath also had the Titles of Duke of Bouillon Marquiss of Franchimont and Count of Lootz and Hasbania In the Coin of Maximilian the present Elector of Colen and Bishop of Liege I find this Inscription Maximilianus Henricus Dei gratiâ Archiepiscopus Coloniensis Episcopus Princeps Leodiensis Supremus Bullonensis Dux Speutus the Bishop of Liege bought the Principality of Liege of Godfrey of Bouillon when he went to the Holy Land And in the Treaty of Cambray 1559. the possession of Bouillon and precedency of Title was granted to the Bishop of Liege although at this time also the Houses of La Tour and Mark do bear the same Of the Parish Churches that of St. John and of St. Servasius are fair Of the Abbies that of St. Jacob within the Town and of St. Lawrence built by Bishop Raginardus upon an Hill out of the Town are noble There is also a Colledge of English Jesuites well-seated upon a Hill where the Garden is handsome and the Dyals made by Franciscus Linus are worth the seeing And an English Nunnery handsomely built In the Church of the Gulielmites out of the Town lieth the Body of our famous Country-man Sir John Mandeville who after he had travelled through so many parts took an affection unto this place and here passed the remainder of his life and whose Epitaph and some Rarities of his are still to be seen Bishop Notger who was consecrated by St. Gereon Arch-bishop of Colen and died in the year 1007. built the walls of this City and being Tutor to Otho the third he found means very much to beautifie it to repair and build divers Churches and endow them with rich Revenues and let the River Maes into the Town which before ran upon one side of it As their Churches are fair and numerous so are their Bells and Chimes remarkable In the Cathedral of St. Lambert there are eight large Bells and twelve lesser and there is one so great as it is said to require Twenty four men to ring it In the Church of St. Paul the Bells and Chimes are considerable as also at St. Lawrence and the crossed Friers It is also an University and was so famous in former Ages that they still take notice that at one time there have been Nine Sons of Kings Twenty four Dukes Sons Twenty nine of Counts besides many of great Barons Students therein Their Speech here as also at Spaw is called Roman and is a kind of old French or Dialect of that Language a great part of which is made up of Latin or Roman words and they call the Neighbouring Language of the Dutch Tuiscon But many speak very good French They have some Vineyards affording a small Wine The Hills about furnish them with Quarries of good Stone and of several kinds They have also divers Mines and Minerals and great quantity of Pit-coal for Fire in some places fetched deep out of the Earth in others nearer the Surface and in one place I saw them beginning to dig where they immediately found Coal Their Pumps and Engines to draw out the water are very considerable at these Mines in some places moved by Wheels at above a Furlongs distance to which they are continued by strong Wood-work which moves backwards and forwards continually The Citadel standeth upon a Hill and is of great Strength It was built to keep the City of Liege under Subjection For 1649. there being some disturbances in the City Ferdinand the Elector of Colen offering to come into the Town to appease it was opposed by the Consul Jacobus Hennet who was soon after surprised and beheaded together with Bartholomaeus Rolandus the Consul having sworn the Elector should never come in whilst he were alive And the Citadel soon after was ordered to be built The Bridges are handsome that over the great Stream of the Maes is very broad and fair and hath large Arches From hence we could read the Elector's name upon the Citadel Maximilianus although it were at a very great distance the Letters were so large From Liege we had a pleasant passage down the Water to Maestreicht passing by Argentau a Castle seated upon a high Rock on the right side of the River belonging
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