Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	protestant_n	roman_a	3,280	5	7.8264	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37736	Flanders, or the Spanish Netherlands, most accurately described shewing the several provinces, their bounds, dimensions, rivers ... and a large and exact description of the cities and who they are at present subject to : with a large and useful index of the cities ... rivers &c. in such a manner as may serve for a geographical dictionary for these parts : extraordinary necessary for the right understanding of these parts, the present wars and encampment of the Confederate and French armies.	Echard, Laurence, 1670?-1730.	1691 (1691)	Wing E143; ESTC R43139	31,727	120

FLANDERS OR THE Spanish Netherlands Most Accurately described SHEWING The several Provinces their Bounds Dimensions Rivers Riches Strength Traffick Religion Languages Archbishopricks Bishopricks Universities And a large and exact Description of the Cities and who they are at present Subject to With a large and useful INDEX of all the Cities Towns Ports Forts Castles Rivers c. in such a manner as may serve for a Geographical Dictionary for these Parts Extraordinary Necessary for the Right Vnderstanding of these Parts the present Wars and Encampments of the Confederate and French Armies Price bound 1 s. London Printed for Tho. Salurbury at the Sign of the Temple near Temple-Bar in Fleetstreet 1691. THE PREFACE To the READER THE Design of this small Tract is to give an easie and clear Account of these Parts which are now the Seats of Noble and Heroick Actions in which every Thing is so well Contrived and set in such good Order and Method as I believe will give due Satisfaction to all such as are Curious and Inquisitive after the Affairs of these Times All the Towns of Note are here mentioned and their Situation so well designed that they may very easily and quickly be found in any good Map but especially by the help of the Index where their Longitude and Latitude is also set down according to F. de Wits Maps the first Meridian beginning at Tenneriff which is a great help towards the easie finding of a Place Those Towns that are of greatest Note and those that are Frontiers and probably may be places of Action are here very exactly and particularly described more largely and better than are in the vulgar Geographies And such Descriptions as these are both Pleasant and Profitable and very much needed in these Times In short Reader here is scarce any thing wanting that may be reasonably expected from such a Volumne and if it should afford you any Profit or one or two hours Divertisement is all that I Desire and shall think my time not ill bestow'd if it shall deserve your Perusal Vale. FLANDERS OR The Spanish-Netherlands Accurately Described Of FLANDERS in General THE Spanish Netherlands Bounds or the Catholick Provinces commonly called by the general Name of Flanders the Principal of these Provinces are bounded on the East with Germany on the West or rather North-West with the German Ocean which parts 'em from England on the North with Holland or the Vnited Provinces and on the South and South-West with France The whole is of a kind of a Triangular From Dimensions being in length from the most Eastern parts of Luxemburg to the most Western parts of Artois about 192 Miles and in breadth from the most North parts of Brabant to the most South parts of Luxemburg about 155 Miles the whole Circumference being scarce 600 Miles containing according to Sellers Account 7197000 of Acres The Principal Rivers in these Provinces Rivers are 1. Maes which besides its course in France passes through Namur Liege and Gelderland washing the Towns of Charlemont Dinant Namur Liege Maestricht Ruremond Venlo Grave and Dort below which it falls into the Sea 2. Scheld or Escaut passing through Cambray Hainault and Flanders washing the Towns of Cambray Valenciennes Tournay Ghent and Antwerp a little below which it falls into the Sea 3. Lys passing through Artois and Flanders and washing the Towns of Air and Courtray and at Ghent falls into the River Scheld Those of less Note shall be spoken of afterwards This is but a small spot of Land Riches Strength but exceeding populous full of excellent Towns and Villages and most plentifully endowed with all things necessary either for Pleasure or Profit So very rich that at once the King of Spain's Revenues from thence when he had all was greater than any Prince in Christendom the King of France excepted but at present the charge of keeping is much greater than the Revenues The Strength of these parts are very great and were it not for the vast increase of the French Power and the decay of the Spanish it would be thought much greater But for a long time the Spaniards have not been able to keep those they have still without great help from others The Traffick in these parts have been always very great Traffick but now nothing so much as formerly by reason of the prodigious increase of the Vnited Provinces in these late years It chiefly consists of several sorts of Manufactures as rich Tapestries fine Camlets Serges coloured Says Mock-Velvets great Quantities of fine Linnen Damasks Cambricks Taffaties and strip'd Stuffs for Beds which sell well in many Countries all sorts of Ribbons Bastard Sattins and many other things of this Nature made at the Cities of Mons Gaunt Brusselles Ypres Lille Bruges Valenciennes c. The Inhabitants of these parts consist of Flemmings Inhahitants Walloons Spaniards with some intermixture more especially at present of French Dutch and English The Religion among them may be said to be various according to their several Nations but howsoever that of the Roman Church is only publickly allowed The Protestants which are of no small Number in many of the chief Cities are rather suffered out of Policy The Archbishopricks and Bishopricks are all Roman Catholick The Languages most generally used in these parts are the Walloon and Flemmish Languages the Walloon is a corrupt French spoken in Artois Hainault Namur Luxemburg French Flanders some of Brabant and the Bishoprick of Liege The Flemmish or Low-Dutch is a Dialect of the German spoken in the Marquisate Mechlin the rest of Brabant Flanders and the Bishoprick of Liege The Spanish is also much in use among the King of Spain's Subjects and the French among the better sort English and Latin is here well understood by many In these Provinces are two Archbishopricks Remarks viz. Cambray and Mechlin and eleven Bishopricks viz. Antwerp Boisleduc Bruges Ghent Ruremond and Ypres under Mechlin Namur Arras St. Omers and Tournay under Cambray and Liege under Cologne in Germany Here are also 155 Cities or Walled Towns besides those in Cambray and part of Gelderland and 6867 Villages besides the Castles Forts and Noble Mens Houses which are almost innumerable The chief City of the whole is Antwerp but Brussels being the Seat of the Spanish Governor and the Heart of the Country I shall reckon the distances from that The chief City of the French is Mons of the Hollanders is Boisleduc or Maestricht and of the Bishop of Liege Liege The Provinces are in Number 10 Provinces viz. 1. Flanders 2. Artois 3. Hainault 4. Namur 5. Brabant 6. Marquisate of the Empire 7. Mechlin 8. Bishoprick of Liege 9. Limburg and 10. Luxemburg to these may be added that part of Gelderland that is under the Spaniards and the Dutchy of Cambray Of these Flanders borders on the Sea Brabant on the Vnited Provinces as likewise does Flanders Artois and Hainault on France with the Dutchy of Cambray