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A61047	An epitome of Mr. John Speed's theatre of the empire of Great Britain And of his prospect of the most famous parts of the world. In this new edition are added, the despciptions of His Majesties dominions abroad, viz. New England, New York, 226 Carolina, Florida, 251 Virginia, Maryland, 212 Jamaica, 232 Barbados, 239 as also the empire of the great Mogol, with the rest of the East-Indies, 255 the empire of Russia, 266 with their respective descriptions.	Speed, John, 1552?-1629.	1676 (1676)	Wing S4879; ESTC R221688	361,302	665

turneth Scotos into Scyttan and so saith Walsingham from one and the same original Scythae Scytici Scota Scotici take their names as from Geta Getici Gothi Gothici have done The Southren parte of Scotland wherin is y e strange Lake Lomund Petrus Kaerius caelavit 6 Their Manners were alike saith Diodorus Siculus and Strabo and their Garments not much different as by Sidonius Apollinaris may be gathered where he seemeth rather to describe the modern Wild-Irish than the antike Gete Notwithstanding this Nations Original by some hath been derived from Scota the supposed Daughter of the Egyptian King Pharaoh that nourished Moses afterwards married unto Gaithelus the Son of Cecrops Founder of Athens who first seating in Spain passed thence into Ireland and lastly into Scotland where his Wife Scota gave Name to the Nation if we believe that they hit the mark who shoot at the Moon 7 But that the Scythians came into Spain besides the Promontory bearing their name Scythicum Silius Italicus a Spaniard born doth shew who bringeth the Concani a Nation therein seated from the Massagetae which were the Scythians and the Sarmatae whom all confess to have been Scythians were the builders as he saith of the City Susanna in Spain And how from Spain they possessed themselves of Ireland at the time when the Kingdom of Iudah flourished Ninius the Disciple of Elvodugus doth tell and their own Histories of Nemethus and Delas besides Cisnerus and others do shew who were first known by the name of Scots as is gathered out of Porphyry alledged by S. Ierome in the Reign of Aurelianus the Emperour Gildas calleth them the Irish-Spoilers Giraldus A Scottish Nation descended from Ireland which in regard of them by Eginhardus is termed The Isle of Scots by Beda The Isle inhabited by the Scots and by other Historians Scotland the great as their seat in Britain was called Scotland the less The Eastern part of Scotland wherin ther are diuers Shires and the Vniversity of Aberdyn Petrus Kaerius caelavit 9 Scotlands South-part in Galloway washed with the water of Solway-Bay toucheth degree 56 of Latitude and thence imbosoming many Loughs and Inlets upon the East and West extendeth it self unto the degree 60 and 30 minutes whose Logitude is likewise laid betwixt the degree 13 and 19 and the same grown very narrow being so near the North-Pole as lying directly under the hinder-most Stars of the Greater Bear 10 The which Kingdom is divided into two parts by the great River Tay the South whereof is the more populous and more beautified in manners riches and civility the North more rude retaining the customs of the Wild-Irish the ancient Scot in whose several Territories these Counties ensuing are contained South Teifidale Merch Laudier Liddesdale Eskedale Anuandale Niddesdale Galloway Carricke Kyle Cunningham Arrar Cluidesdale Lennox Stirling Fife Stratberne Menteith Argile Cantire Lorne North. Loquabrea Braidalhin Perth Athol Anguis Merns Mar Buquhan Murrey Rosse Sutherland Cathanes Strathnavern Part of Scotland it is called of the înhabitance Stranauerne with his borderers Petrus Karius caelavit 1599. 11 And these again are subdivided into Sheriffdomes Stewardships and Bailiwicks for the most part Inheritory unto honourable Families The Ecclesiastical Government is also subject under two Metropolitan Arch-Bishops which are of S. Andrews the Primate of Scotland and of Glasco whose Iurisdictions are as followeth S. Andrews Dunkeld Aberdon Murray Dunblan Brechin Ross Cathenes Orkney Glasco Galloway Argile Iles. Amongst the things worthy of Note of Antiquity in this Kingdom most memorable was that Fortification drawn from Abercorne upon the Frith of Edenboroug● unto Alcluyd now Dunbritton opening upon the West-Sea where Iulius Agricola set the limit of the Roman Empire past which saith Tacitus there was no other bounds of Britain to be sought for and that here the second Legion Augusta and the 20 Legion Victrix built a part of the Wall certain Inscriptions there digged up and reserved at Dunloyr and Cader do witness as also an ancient coped Monument of an high and round compass which as some think was a Temple consecrated unto the God Terminus others a Trophy raised by Carausius who fortified this Wall with seven Castles as Ninius doth declare The Iles of Hebrides w th ther borderers Petrus Kaerius caelavit 13 Ninian a Britain is recorded to have converted the South-Picts unto the Faith of Christ in the Reign of Theodosius the you●ger and the Church in Galloway bearing his name doth witness it so likewise in the same age Palladius sent from Pope Celestine became an Apostle unto the Scots whose Reliques lay enshrined at Fordon in Mernis as was verily supposed but that Christianity had been formerly planted in this uttermost Province is testified by Tertullian in saying the Britains had embraced the Faith further than the Romans had power to follow or persecute them whereupon Peter Monk of Clun in Spain concludeth their conversion to be more ancient than the Southern Britains 14 But touching things observable for the present surely admirable is the report of the plenty of Cattel Fish and Fowl there abiding their Neat but little yet many in number Fish so plentiful that men in some places for delight on Horse-back hunt Salmons with Spears and a certain Fowl which some call Soland-Geese spreading so thick in the Air that they even darken the Suns light of whose Flesh Feathers and Oyl the Inhabitants in some parts make great use and gain yea and even of Fishes brought by them abundant Provision for Diet as also of the Sticks brought to make their Nests plentiful provision for Fuel CATHANES and ORKNAY INS Petrus Kaerius caela 16 No less strange than any the fore-mentioned waters but more lamentable is the remembrance of the great inundation hapning by the sudden rising of Tay which bare away the Walls and Town of Berth and with it the Cradle and young Son of King William into the Sea wherein the Royal Infant with many others perished the King and his Courtiers hardly escaping the danger with life The ruine of this Town raised another more famous and more commodiously seated even Berth since called Saint Iohns-Town 17 Islands and Ilets yielding both beauty and subjection to this Scottish-Kingdom are the Western the Orkneys and the Shetlands reckoned to be above three hundred in number the Inhabitants for the most part using the frugality of the ancient Scot. 18 The Western lying scattered in the Deucalidonian Sea were anciently ruled by a King of their own whose maintenance was out of their common Coffers and the Regal Authority never continued in lineal succession for to prevent that their Kings were not permitted to have Wives of their own but might by their Laws accompany with other mens as the like Law was in the other parts of Scotland that the Virginity of all new Wives should be the Landlords prey till King Malcolme enacted that half a mark should be paid for redemption The residence of those fore-mentioned Kings was chiefly

honour which were after in frequent use to stir up the souldier to deserving actions 11 Their sixth Servius T●llius was so d●x●erous in his rule that no person past him almost without equity of his wealth years worth employments for which special purpose he distinguished the people by several Tribes and overlookth all by this method with as much ease as a nimble housewife doth her private family 12 Tarquinius Superbus was the seventh and last King proud and cruel yet that too though it cost him his Crown enlarged the Kingdom to the Romans for it prevailed upon many strong Provinces of Italy which they after enjoyed with better hearts and ruled with more equity than he used in the unjust oppression of his neighbours His name was grown odious when the lust of his Son Tarquinius wronged the chaste Lucretia both together stirred the people to dis●obe him of his Title and bethink themselves of some other form of government which might sound more of the Roma● liberty 13 This variety had took up hitherto scarce 245. years since the City was first built a time too short for her greatness if we compare her with the progress of other Nations yet to her own ensuing fortunes it is esteemed but her child-hood her infancy while she had not yet spake nor the world well heard of her actions farther than her own home and her Countries near about She began now to feel her strength and when she had first freed her self from the oppression of her home bred Tyrant she soon after spread her Arms over all Italy and her fame through most parts of the world Her power was now no more at the disposing of one King but designed over into the hands of two aged and wise Citizens of their own though the best rank and this they were to use rather as ●eo●●es in trust than free possessors wherefore the Romans baulkt their insolency which their last King had before practised both in the name of their new Governours for they were called only Consules à Consulendo and in their term of Government for it became now annual which was not before limited unless by death and lastly by their ensigns of state their twelve lictors and fasces which were not allowed to both but to each in turns for their several month And this went on without breach almost six years till the Romans thought fit to correct their Laws by the Greek Copy and therefore deputed three of their best esteemed subjects to see Athens to peruse their orders and customs of which the world had then a great opinion for it was indeed the mother of learning 14 They returned them written at first in ten tables made of brass two more were soon after added and together were distinguished from their own municipal laws by the name of Leges 12. tabularum The Consuls power was now taken off and thus was their rule of justice put into the hands of ten whom they called Decemviri Each ruled in his turn and for that course had a power well-nigh as large as their Kings or Consuls else differed little at other times from a private Romane This began some 303 years after their first founder and had continued but three when Appius laid false claim to Virginia for his bond-maid that indeed he might dishonour her as his strumpet By this means he doubly provoked the Commons both with her injuries and her fathers sorrow who was forced to murder his own daughter to quit her from the lust of the Decemviri and therefore they took revenge not upon him only but his office abrogated the Decemviratus and returned the authority into the hands of Consuls as before yet so as oft times by intercourse the Tribuni militum put in for a consulary soveraignty and was admitted to the same dignity though not the name which the Patricii only referred to themselves as their royalty It was first procured by the importunate motion of the Commons that they might be equally capable of the Consulship To this though the nobility would not give their full assent in all circumstances yet they were constrained for their own peace to yield in effect and mince it with another title of Tribuni plebis Consulari pot●state 15 Under these forms of government for three hundred years after the fall of Tarquinnius to Appius Claudius and Q Fulvius Coss. They were still in growth but not yet come to their state of honours and therefore Florus rightly styles it the youth of Rome in comparison to the age of man In this while their most famous stories are the war with Porsenna some eight years after their first Consuls the creation of Dictators and Tribunes of the People within twenty the injuries of M. Coriolanus and attempt against his own Country not long after the construction of many set Laws which continued in force to after ages the Lex ag●aria Publia de Aventino Tarp●ia of the twelve Tables Clodia Ae●●ilia de Ambitu de Mulctis c. The Censors fi●st created about 68 years after the Regifugium the conspiracy of the servants some 92 after many victories in the interim and Rome her self at last taken by the Gaules but freed by Camillus about the 120. Marcus Curti●s casts himself into the pit to preserve his Country more Laws are made the first Punik● war waged all within 120 and odd years after Rome was surprised some 28 after that the Bellum Ligusticum and Ianus Temple the second time shut then the Bellum Illyricum Gallicum Ci●alpinum and the last of this age the second Punike war 16 By this time Italy was subdued and now she swept on with full sayl and confirmed strength and about twenty after was able to resist the Macedonian made war with Perses set on to the third Punike war wasted Carthage and then Numantea took Arms against Iugurtha all in less compass of years than one hundred and about this time was the Eagle took up by Marius for the Roman ensign Soon after was the Bellum Marsicum and Mithridaticum Catilines conspiracy and the noble acts of those great Heroes Scylla and Cicero C●s●r and Pompey and the rest which removed the Greek Empire to Rom● and made her the seat of the fourth Monarchy about seven hundred and three years after the City was built forty eight before Christ. 17 Hitherto though with some change and curb they continued the succession of Consuls till Iulius Caesar returned from Spain with victory over Pompeys sons and then the Senate expressing more worship to him than foresight of their own future mischief invented new titles of singular honour call him Pater patriae C●nsul in Decennium Dictator in perpetuum Sacrosanctus and Imperator all which himselfe made good not in bare name only as perhaps they meant but in short space gathered a power equal to their fla●tery and by his own strength kept what was only thei●s to give till by Brutus and Cassius he was slai● in the Senate and

from the report of 〈…〉 and other ancient Writers But the reason I hold not good for ●owso●ver it might be true in 〈◊〉 times of some and the most part perhaps of 〈◊〉 as it was then 〈◊〉 that it w●s 〈…〉 yet now she hath changed her 〈…〉 6 By her first Geographers she was 〈…〉 tongue and Empire exercised over the Region of Prussia South-ward she reacheth beyond Danubius to the very Alpes which border upon Italy North● ward she hath ever kept her own but hath been curb'd indeed from seeking new Kingdoms in that tract by the main Ocean which divides her in part from Swevia Norway c. And to these limits we apply our Description No marvel● if it give her more honour than she had in former times For her compass now is reckoned to be 2600 English miles Her ground fertile enough of it self and yet besides enjoyes the benefit of many Navigable Rivers which enrich her with traffique from other Kingdoms 7 Those of greatest fame are 1 Danubius the largest of Europe called by Pliny and others Ister It takes in sixty Navigable Rivers and is at last discharged by many passages into the Pontus Euxinus 2 Rhene which hath its rising from the Alpes and runs into the German Ocean From thence have we our best Rhen●sh Wines and upon his banks s●ands the City Strasburge 3 Ama●us Fms which glides by W●stphalia into the German Sea 4 Maemu Megu whose head is in the Mountains of Bo●emia and from thence passeth by Francfort into the German sea 5 Albis Elve which riseth from the eleven Fountains meeting into one about the Sylva Hircinian 6 Odeca which hath not his passage immediately into the Sea but in●o the River Albis The middle mark of this Country is the Kingdom of ●ohemia encompassed with the Sylva Hircinia 8 The chief commodities of Germany are Corn Wine Salt Metals of all sorts Fruits good store Safron c. The Aire wholsome her Bathes healthful her Gardens pleasurable her Cities fair her Castles strong and her Villages very many and well peopled 9 The Inhabitants have put off their ancient rudeness as the Country her barrenness They are as goodly of person as ever as stout as ever and far more civill than in the time of the Romans It seems they were then esteemed but an ignorant and simple people more able to fight than to m●nage a battle They were ever hardy enough but wanted Commanders of their own of skill and ●udgement Since they had commerce with other Nations and have suffered the upbraid asit were of their Predecessors dulness they have been in a manner shamed out of it and are now become rather by industry than wit a most ingenious people and skilful in the Latine Greek and Hebrew learning famous beyond any others in Europe unless Belgia for the invention of many notable and ●seful Engines The Gun and Gun-powder was first brought to light by one Bertholdus Swart a Franciscan which hath almost put by the use of any other warlike Instrument in those parts of the world where the practice is perfectly understood Generally the poorer sort are excellent Mechanicks and the rest for the most part Scholars 10 It bred Albert●s M●gnus Appean Ge●ner Munster Luther Vrsin Zuinglius Scultetus Iunius Keckerman and many others in their several kinds and Religions some Papists some Lutherans some Calvinists and among the rest many Iews 11 The Government of this Germany is Imperial as once that of Rome was though it flourish not in so full glory The right descends not by succession nor is the election continued by the like suffrage as in old Rome The power of choice was conferred by Pope Gregory the tenth upon seven German Princes three Spiritual and four Temporal These are the Arch-bishop of Ment● Chancellour of the Empire through Germany Archbishop of Cullen Chancellour of the Empire through Italy Arch-bishop of Triers Chancellour of the Empire through France The Temporal are the King of Bohemea who hath the casting voice only in case of equality among the other six his office is to be chief Cup● bearer at the great solemnity Next him the Count Palatine of the Rhene Arch-sewer to the Emperour Duke of Saxony Lord Marshal and Marquess of Brandenburge chief Chamberlain Each of these perform his own Office in person upon the day of Inauguration The Duke of Saxo●y bears the sword The Count Palatine placeth his meat on the Table The King of Bohemia bears his Cup and delivers it him to drink Marquess of Brandenb●rg serveth him water to wash And the three Bishops bless his meat He receiveth three Crowns before he is fully setled into the Majesty of the Empire The first is of Silver for Germa●y The second of Iron for Lombardy And the third of Gold for the Empire the last is set on at Rome For to this day it pretends to the name of the Roman Empire and gives the title o● Caesar or Ro●ani imperii Imperator 12 The first which enjoyed the institution of Pope Gregory was Radulphus Nabs Purgensis 1273. after twelve years interregnum The last before him was our Richard Earl o●● Cornwall and brother to Henry the third King of England Since it hath continued firm in this course of Election howsoever not with that liberty as was intended For commonly the Emperour in being while he hath his power about him and can at least intreat if not command the subjects of the Empire promise a choice of the Rex Ro●a●orum who is no other than a Successour designed to rule after his death or resignation And by this means it hath a long time continued in the house of Austria without any intermission 13 Thus we ●●e much plotting great state many ceremonies to the making up of an Emperour and yet when it is well weighed it is little better then a bare title For howsoever these outward ob●ervances of the G●rman Princes make show of an humble subjection to the Emperour yet when it comes to tr●all it hath very little to do in their Governments But each of them takes upon ●im as a ●ree and absolute Commander in his own Country permitteth or suppresseth the Beligion which he ●ither likes or disl●kes makes and abrogates Laws at pleasure stamps Coyn raiseth souldiers and sometimes against their great Master as the Duke of Saxony against Charles the fi●th and at this day divers others in defence of the Princ● P●latine For of this q●ality and power there are many Dukes Marquesses Counts c. besides 64 Franc Cities which make only some slight acknowledgment to the Emperour appear perhaps at his ●arliaments and they say are bound to ●urnish him at need with 3842 horse amonge them and 16200 foot 14 The chei●est Regions of Germany best known to us and noted by our Geographers with a more eminent Character than the rest are these 1 East Frizeland 2 Westphalia 3 Cullen 4 Munster 5 Triers 6 Cleve 7 Gulick 8 Hassis 9 Alsatia 10 Helvetia 11 Turingia

precepts of civility from their Fore-fathers though never so long since For what people can we read of in Stories which have at any time been enlightned with the truth and yet afterward fallen into that gross barbarism which is now found among the Tartarians See their Character which as they are by most described deals impartially gives them ill-fashioned bodies answerable to their rude minds fit Houses for so unclean Guests 7 There stature is different The most part have large shoulders a broad face with a crooked nose deformed countenance swarthy colour hollow eyes hairy and untrimmed beard and head close shaved Their speech is boysterous and clamourous their noise in singing like the yell of Wolves and endurance of Hunger Thirst Heat Cold and Watching equals them in strength of body to the most able beast for it exceeds the common power of a man Their lust is without law For they except no kindred but their own Mothers Daughters and Sisters No species for they mix with Beasts no sex for they are insatiate Sodomites and yet take liberty for as many wives as they can maintain which contrary to our civil courses they buy of their Parents instead of receiving dowries Their meat is the raw flesh of Horses without regard how they were killed or of what diseases they died sometimes they suck bloud from the living to appease their Hunger and Thirst if in a journey they be distressed for want of food 8 Cities they have but few nor Houses other than moveable Tents made of Beasts skins which they pitch up by great multitudes in the form of a Town and those are called Hordes when the grass is once eaten bare a●d the ground yields not meat for their Cattel they trudge with bag and baggage to another quarter and so in course they wander through the vast deserts unsetled and indeed impatient to be setled or rather imprisoned as they take it within any one bounded compass having the wid● world to roam in Their chief Arms are Bow and Arrows which they use most on Horseback for their more speedy flight and have them commonly strongly poysoned for the more sure mischief to the Foe Their Stratagems are down right fraud and breach of truth for they keep no Faith with any enemy regard not any compact made upon terms of peace but follow their own sense and commit what outrages they can with least danger to themselves 9 Their Religion is answerable to their vile customs Some are Pagans others Mahometans yet will not be called Turks but Bersemanni and their chief Priest Seyd whom they reverence more than their Maker and admit that none should touch his Hand but their Kings and these too with an humble gesture their Dukes aspire not above his knee nor their Nobles higher than his feet the rest are happy if they can but reach at his garment his horse his any thing so simple are they in their Superstition and thus have they continued either Atheists or false Idolaters ever since their first entrance upon this Kingdome in the year 1187. Before they were not esteemed a Nation at all but wild people without law or reason almost who lived in the open fields and conversed with no other than their own Heards of Cattel 10 Their first King was one Chinchis a man of low birth but high spirit impatient of that slavish condition to which he was bred he brake forth at last and drew more by his example into the thoughts of better fortunes which he ceased not to prosecute till he had made good his purpose and not only setled himself in the throne but enlarged the dominion of the Tartars through a great part of Asia and Europe which had scarce before heard of any such people His first Forces he imployed upon Tenduch and Argon bounded with the Eastern Seas both of them were then Provinces governed by Vnchan or Presbyter Iohn Soon after they got ground in Sarmatia Asiatica followed their blow upon Russia Hungary and Polonia fetcht in the Kingdoms of China Mein and ●engala and left many out-reaches to their successors which have not kept entire to this day as being not able to match so many potent adversaries as they have from every quarter of their Kingdome 11 The limits are now on the North the Scythian Ocean on the West the Muscovian Empire Sarmatia Europoea and mare Caspium on the South Mount Caucasus the Kingdom of Persia and part of India and on the East partly the Easterly Seas and partly the Kingdom of China Thus divided she contains five Provinces 1 Tartaria minor 2 Asiatica 3 Antiqua 4 Zagathai intra Imaum 5 Cathai extra Imaum 12 Tartaria minor is called likewise Horda Precopensium a sort of Tartars which have their name from one City Precops but inhabit all those plains which lie round about the ●ontus Euxinus or Mare Magor and Palus Maeotis including the whole Taurica Chersonesus so that she extends her limits from the banks of the River Boristhenes as far as Tanais Her chief Province is the Chersonesus a Peninsula seventy miles in compass which took the name of Taurica from O●yris who they say first ploughed this Land with a yoke of Bulls It was invaded by one Vlanus from whom the Inhabitants of this whole Region were sometimes called Vlani as they were after Crym Tartars from that City Crym once the Kings seat of this Peninsula though it stood not within her limits For her principal Town was 1 Theodosia now Casta where there was heretofore a Colony of Genoaes till they were dispossest by Mahomet the eighth Emperour of the Turks 2 Eupatoria 3 Parthenium c. The other Towns of this Tartaria Precopensis which stand without the Chersonesus are Oc●acon which this people took from the Dukes of Lituania and Tanas which stands in the utmost part of this Tartaria above the mouth of the River Tanais some three miles distant It is called by the Inhabitants Azac and it is a place of great Traffique and free access from many neighbouring Nations Near this South-ward begins the Palus Maeotis reacheth as far as the Taurica Chersonesus betwixt which and the main Land is the Bosphorus Cimmerius and on their South banks flows their Poutus Euxinus which runs into the Propontis but returns not This Sea is in some places so deep that the water appears at top black and was therefore called Mare nigrum It might be thought that the people living so near the civil parts of Christendome were better mannered than the Asiatick Tartars but their stubborn rudeness takes in foul scorn to be taught by any other Nation and therefore stands stiffly to their old course of life in Woods and wild Fields and cease not to commit continual murders and rapines upon the Countries adjoyning with an inveterate hate to such as profess the Name of Christ insomuch that they have engaged themselves to pay yearly three hundred Christians as tribute to the great Turk which number they draw

called Pint●h● a stately and pleasant Seat the Royal Mansion of the King of the Nahissans who is an absolute Monarch About fifty miles from Sapon is Ak●●atzy a small but well-peopled Island lying upon the direct course of the River and bearing South and by West governed by two Kings the one Superintendent over their Martial affairs the other over their Hun●ing and Husbandry Thirty miles farther South-west from Akenatzy are the O●nock Indians dwelling in a Town built round a Field in which they usually practice their sports and exercises of activity Their Houses are built some of Reed and Bark some of Watling and Plaister Their Government is Democratical Fourteen miles South-west of the Oenocks dwell the Shackory Indians whose Countrey abounds in Antimony Forty miles farther South-west is Watary Thirty miles farther Westward is Sara lying more towards that ridge of the Apalat●an Mountains by the Spaniards called Suala where great quantities of Cinabar are found South-west from thence is Wisacky over a continued marish ground overgrown with reeds this Town is subject to the King of Ushery on which also this King hath his Royal Seat about three miles from the Town and this is the utmost Town South-west that I find mentioned belonging to Carolina To the North over the Suala Mountains lie the Rickockans but back again North-east returning on the other side of the River toward Virginia is the Town of Katearas a place of notable Trade and the Seat of the proud Emperor of the Toskiroros called Kascusara or Kascous There are also the Towns of Kasriocam and Mencherink which though on the Virginian side of the River Rorenock yet are accounted rather belonging to Carolina The Countrey as it is now in possession of the English is divided and governed according to a platform and model drawn up by my Lord Shaftsbury with the consent and approbation of the rest of the Lords Proprietors judged by many serious persons that have perused it of equal advantage to the Inhabitants with any that ever hath been yet experienced in respect of the equal ballance of the interests of all parties The whole Province is divided into several Counties each containing forty square plats of 12000 acres a piece of these square plats eight are to be divided among the Lords Proprietors that is each to have one with the title of a Signory eight more among the Nobility of which there are to be three in every County a Landgrave and two Cassiques only the Landgrave to have double the proportion to the two Cassiques that is four to their two a piece the rest containing 24 acres falls to the people and this division is to be observed alike in every County by which means one fifth of the Land comes to the Proprietors another to the Nobility and three to the People The Signories or Lands belonging to the Proprietors are to be hereditary and descend with the Dignity to their Heirs and in like manner the Baronies The Parliament which is to be Biennial is to consist of the Proprietors the Nobility and for the people one chosen out of every District by the Freeholders which representatives are to have a free Vote in the making of Laws the force whereof is determined to set a time viz. sixty years or thereabouts to prevent the incumbrances and mischiefs arising from the multiplicity of rules and penalties which the longer a Law continues are liable to be increased and perplexed by the cunning of such as make a gain by the practice of the Law Besides the Parliament which hath the Legislative Power there are e●ght supreme Courts for the dispatch of all publick affairs The first is that of the Palatine for so the eldest of the Proprietors is stil'd who hath power to call Parliaments and dispose of publick affairs The second is the Chief Iustices for the judging of Criminals and trial of Causes about Right and Propriety The third is the Chancellor's Court which is for the passing of Charters and managing the grand affairs belonging to the Province The fourth is the High-Constabl●s which is for the ordering of the Land-Militia The fif●h is the Admirals for the disposing of the Naval-Forces and other Maritime affairs The sixth is the High Stewards which inspects into the business of Trade The seventh is the Treasurers which looks after the incomes and disbursements of the publick Stock or Treasury The eighth is the Chamberlain's which marshals and orders the ceremonies and fashions in all great Marriages Burials and publick Solemnities All these Courts each of which consists of one Proprietor and six Counsellors whereof two are chosen by the Nobility and two by the People joyned together make up the Council of State or Grand Council by which all affairs of highest concernment are managed and to which the last appeal lies in all Causes belonging to them There is also a Court in every County and in every District another in each of which to prevent long Suits whereby the people suffer only to enrich a numerous Tribe of glib-tongu'd Orators no Cause is tried above once only an appeal to be made from an inferior to a superior Court till it come to the Proprietors Court where the last determination is made without farther appeal neither indeed are there any mercenary Pleaders allowed And farther to prevent the occasion of Controversies and S●●●s in Law there is to be a Register of all Grants and Conveyances of Land Lastly to prevent all disturbance and annoyance to publick or private weal and safety strict enquiry is to be made into the conversations of such as shall be found to have neither estates not employments such provision being to be made as shall take away all excuses of following illegal courses nor are any to be suffered to make a Trade of begging who have ability of body and are obliged by necessity to work since it is apparent that idle●ess and beggery are the source of all those villanies which by the hand of Iustice bring so many to untimely ends whose lives might otherwise haply have one way or other conduced to the service of their King or Countrey and that it must needs be much more advantagious to the publick to prevent the necessity of inflicting capital punishments than to inflict them when deserved As to the Government in point of Religious affairs there is only this to be observed that a free toleration and liberty of Conscience is granted to all excepting in the case of Atheism Profaneness and debauchery of life as destructive to all Government and humane Society whereas ceremonies and indifferent circumstances in Religion are judged to tend most to disturbance when most strictly and rigorously imposed A Map of EAST INDIA The Description of India INDIA by the Ancients simply so denominated but by the Moderns sirnamed Orientalis for distinction sake in regard America or the new found World is usually stil'd India Occidentalis or the West-Indies is that Region of Asia which under one appellation