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A49689	A late voyage to Holland, with brief relations of the transactions at the Hague, also remarks on the manners and customs, nature, and commical humours of the people; their religion, government, habitations, way of living, and manner of treating stangers, especially to the English. Written by an English gentleman, attending the court of the King of Great Britain.	English gentleman, attending the court of the King of Great Britain.	1691 (1691)	Wing L561A; ESTC R213947	17,332	41

Bulk of their Bodies Sect. V. Of the Nature of the Country in General its Scituation c. FOur of these Provinces Viz. that of Holland Zealand Friezeland and Gromingven are seated upon the Sea and make the strength and greatness of this State The other three with the Conquered Towns in Brabant Flanders and Cleve make only the Out-works or Frontires serving chiefly for safety and Defence of these The Soil of the whole Province of Holland is generally Flat like the Sea in a calm and looks as if after a long contention between Land and Water which it should belong to It had at length been divided between them For to consider the great Rivers and the strange number of Canals that are found in this Province and do not only lead to every great Town but almost to every Village and the infinity of Sails that are seen every where coursing up and down upon them One would imagine the Water to have shared with the Land and the People that live in Boats to hold some proportion with those that live in Houses And this is one great advantage towards Trade which is Natural to the Scituation and not to be attained in any Country where there is not the same level and softness of Soil which makes the cutting of Canals so easie work as to be attempted almost by every private Man and one Horse shall draw in a Boat more than Fifty can do by Cart whereas Carriage make a great part of the price in all heavy Commodities And by this easie way of Travelling an industrious Man loses no time from his Business for he Writes or Eats or Sleeps while he goes whereas the time of Labouring or Industrious Men is the greatest Native Commodity of any Country There is besides one very great lake of Fresh-Water still remaining in this Province by the Name of Harlem Maer which might as they say be easily drained but the City of Leyden having no other way of refreshing their Town or renewing the Water of their Canals but from this Maer will never consent to it Another Advantage of their Scituation of Trade is made by those two great Rivers of the Rhyne and Mase reaching up and Navigable so mighty a length into so Rich and Populus Countries of the higher and lower Germany which as it brings down all the Commodities from those parts to the Magazines in Holland that vent them by their Shipping into all parts of the World where the Market calls for them so with something more labour and time it returns all the Merchandise of other Parts into those Countries that are seated upon these Streams The Flatness of their Land exposes it to the danger of the Sea and forces them to infinite charge in the continual Fences and Repairs of their Banks to oppose it which employ yearly more Men than all the Corn of the Province of Holland could maintain They have found the common Sea-weed to be the best Material for these Digues which fastens with a thin Mixture of Earth yields a little to the force of the Sea and returns when the Waves give back The extream moisture of the Air I take to be the Occasion of the great Neatness in their Towns for without the help of those Customs their Country would not be habitable by such Crowds of People but the Air would corrupt upon every hot season and expose the Inhabitants to general and infectious Diseases which they hardly escape three Summers together especially about Leyden where the Waters are not so easily renewed and for this reason I suppose it is that Leyden is found to be the neatest and cleanest kept of all their Towns The same moisture of Air makes all Mettals apt to rust and Wood to mould which forces them by continual pains of rubbing and scouring to seek a prevention or cure This makes the brightness and cleaness that seems affected in their Houses and is call'd Natural to them by People who think no further So the deepness of their Soil and wetness of Seasons which would render it unpassible forces them not only to exactness of paving in their Streets but to the expence of so long Cawsies between many of their Towns and in their High-ways As indeed most National Customs are the Effects of some unseen or un-observed Natural Causes or Necessities The lowness and flatness of their Lands make it in a great measure the Richness of their Soil that is easily over-flowed every Winter so as the whole Country at that Season seems to lye under Water which in Spring is driven out again by Mills Sect. VI. Of the People of Holland their Manners Humours and dispositions c. THe People of Holland may be divided into these several Classes The Pesants or Boars who cultivate the Land The Marriners or Schippers who supply their Ships The Merchants or Traders who fill their Towns The Renteeners or Men that live in all their chief Cities upon the Rents or Interests of Estates formerly acquired in their Families And the Gentlemen and Officers of their Armies The First we have already treated off in a Sect by themselves in regard of the giving a more particular Character of their Manners and Humours The Second The Marriners are a plain People but of a very rough Hew whether from the Element they live in or from their Food which is generally Fish and Corn and heartier than that of the Boars They are Surly and Ill-manner'd which is mistaken for Pride but I believe is learnt as all manners are by the conversation we use Now theirs lying only among one another or with Winds and Waves which are not mov'd nor wrought upon by any Language or Observance or to be dealt with but by Pains and by Patience these are all the Qualities their Marriners have learnt their Language is little more than what is of necessary use to their Business their Valour is of a size extraordinary even beyond comparison except with that of the English Tarpaulin The Merchants and Trades-men both the Greater and Mechanick living in Towns that are of great resort both by Strangers and Passengers of their own are more Mercurial VVit being sharpned by Commerce and Conversation of Cities though they are not very inventive which is the gift of warmer Heads yet are they great in imitation and so far many times as goes beyond the Originals Of mighty Industry and constant Application to the ends they propose and pursue They make use of their Skill and their VVit to take advantage of other Mens Ignorance and Folly they deal with Are great Exacters where the Law is in their own hands In other points where they deal with Men that understand like themselves and are under the reach of Justice and Laws they are the plainest and best dealers in the World which seems not to grow so much from a principle of Conscience or Morality as from a Custom or Habit introduced by the necessity of Trade among them which depends as much

A LATE VOYAGE TO HOLLAND WITH Brief Relations OF THE TRANSACTIONS AT THE HAGUE ALSO Remarks on the Manners and Customs Nature and Commical Humours of the People their Religion Government Habitations way of Living and Manner of Treating Strangers Especially the ENGLISH VVritten by an English Gentleman Attending the Court of the King of Great Britain Printed for John Humphreys 1691. THE CONTENTS OR Table of General Matters Sect. I. THe Accidents that fell out in our Voyage with a more particular respect to His Majesty also of the Treatment and Reception at the Hague c. Sect. II. Containing a Description of the HAGUE and the King's Pallaces with the Nature Humours and Treatment of the Inhabitants Sect. III. Some Further Relations on the late Affairs and Transactions at the Hague with respect to His Majesty and the several Princes Sect. IV. Containing Particular Observations on the Manners and Customs Nature and Commical Humours of the Dutch Boars or Pesants the Nature of their Habitations way of Living and manner of Treating Strangers Especially the English Sect. V. Of the Nature of the Country in General it 's Scituation the way of Travelling Expences c. Sect. VI. Of the People of Holland in General their several Ranks and Degrees with their Manners Humours and Dispositions Sect. VII Of their Religion the different and Incredible Number of Sects among the People Particularly in Amsterdam Sect. VIII Of their Way of Trade Intreagues in over-reaching and Manner of Increase in Wealth c. Sect. IX Of their Millitary Forces by Sea and Land with their State Revenues c. A LATE VOYAGE TO Holland c. Sect. I. The Accidents that fell out in our Voyage c. WE departed from London Thursday January 16th 1690. about Nine in the Morning and came that Night to Cittingbourn the next Day about Noon we came to Margaret in the Isle of Thanet and the same Evening we went on Board the Frigat that carried His Majesty's Musick which lay then in the Road with the rest of the Fleet Commanded by Admiral Rooke Early the next morning being Saturday the 17th the King Arriv'd from Graves-end attended by the Dukes of Norfolk and Ormond the Earls of Devonshire Dorset and Portland and other Grandees of the Court About Noon the Signal being given from the Admiral the whole Fleet consisting of Twelve Men of War Seven Yatchs and many Tenders set Sail with a fair Gale On Tuesday the 20th We came in sight of the Coast of Holland near the Island of Goree but the weather being darkned with Foggs and the Shore choak'd up with heaps of Ice pil'd up one upon another it was not for us to come near However the King put himself into a Shallop to get to the Land notwithstanding the danger that threatned him and when all the rest were terrified with the Perils wherein His Majesty ventur'd his Person and the Seamen themselves were not in a little Terror it was observ'd that He himself was the only Person nothing at all dismay'd In the mean time the Foggs grew thicker and thicker insomuch that we who were in the Man of War soon lost sight of the Shallop where the King was and Night coming on His Majesty was for Ten hours expos'd to all the Injuries of the Air and the Waves of the Sea which fometimes came into the Shallop so that the Lords who were with him had their Cloaths all covered with Ice However the next morning His Majesty Landed in the Island Goree and went into a Country Man's house which had no more room to receive Him and all the Lords of his Train than one miserable Chamber and a Kitchin But it was a welcome Retreat after so great a Hazard After the King had shifted his Linnen and his Cloaths and had been Complemented by the Magistrate of the Island who offered him his House which His Majesty refused He took Coach again in the same Coach that brought him to the Country Mans House and went aboard the Shallop again to Land upon the firm Continent But then he met with new difficulties for the small Vessel could not get near the Shore for the Ice so that two Seamen were forced to take the King in their Arms and carry him to the Shallop At last His Majesty with our whole Fleet of Tenders the Men of War returning for England Arriv'd at a place called Orangie Poldar here His Majesty was Complemented by the Prince of Nassau Sarbrach Camp-Marshall the Count of Berka the Emperors extraordinary Envoy Monsieur Catonna the Spanish Ambassador the Deputies of the States of Holland the Prince of Frizeland Count Horn and several other Persons of the Highest Quality who attended him to Houslaerdike where he reposed himself for some hours 'T was thought His Majesty would have continu'd here for some Days till all things were ready for the Magnificent Entry they were resolv'd to make for Him But he told them he desired none of those Honours well knowing that the Glory of a Prince does not consist in Appearing but in Acting The King therefore went the same day to the Hague and Arriv'd there about Six in the Evening Accompanied with the Lords already mentioned and surrounded with the Guards of the Body And in regard the Kings coming was in a manner a kind of surprize his Entrance was also without any Ceremony So that all that could be done in Testimony of the publick Joy was only by some Peals of Cannon and Ringing the Bells Nevertheless the Burgesses of the Hague had prepared along time before for His Majesty's Publick Entry and had been at considerable Charges to make a Glorious Appearance and all the Towns adjoyning had prepared to be present at the Solemnity In a Word all the Holl●nders were willing to see the King in Publick and to assure themselves with their own Eye that a Prince whom they love so infinitely and of whom the common Enemy had spread so many false Reports was still alive and returned into their Provinces which obliged the States to entreat his Majesty to make a Publick Entry which he refused a long time that such Ceremonies were but the loss of that time which he had resolved to spend altogether in Action At length all that they could obtain from the King was that he would dine about a quarter of a League from the Hague at a House of the Earl of Portlands and return in his Coach through the midst of the Burgesses ranged in Files from the Court to the end of the City which was done on Thursday February 22d about four of the Clock in the Afternoon to the unexpressible Satisfaction of the People all the Inhabitants of the Towns round about being got together and perhaps there never was seen at the Hague such a vast concourse of People I shall not spend time in describing all the particulars of this Entry which had nothing of extraordinary Magnificence except the three Triumphant Arches which surpassed in Beauty and