them have a thousand or eight hundred Families the People being dispersed in Forests and other places where they have store of Timber to build them Houses and store of Pasturage for their Cattle which is the reason they have not so many great Towns nor so well inhabited as usual in far lesser Countries IV. The Revenues are very great they arising first from Church Lands taken to the Crown Secondly from Mines Thirdly from the Tenths of all Increase as Wheat Rye Barley Fish Oxen and the like Commodities Fourthly from Customs imposed on Merchandises paid in all Haven-Towns for all Commodities imported and exported He has also Contributions and Power of imposing Tax in time of War as occasion may require The House of Portugal I. TOward the latter end of the eleventh Century Alphonso the Sixth King of Castile had very frequent and bloody Wars with the Moors in which a certain Prince named Henry descended as some say from the House of Burgundy as others from that of Lorain was chiefly signalized for his Valour and good Services to the Crown King Alphonso in reward of this Merit gave him Portugal then lately recovered from the Moors under the Title of an Earldom together with his Daughter Teresa to Wife yet with this condition that he should continue a Vassal to Castile This Prince's Son was Alphonso the First who throwing off the Spanish Yoke and having subdued several petty Kings of the Moors caused himself to be proclaimed King of Portugal in the year 1139. His great Grandson Alphonso the Third King of Portugal had Algarve given him in Dowry with his Queen the Princess Beatrix Daughter of Alphonso the Tenth King of Castile whence the eldest Son of Portugal is always called Prince of Algarve Of this Family the present King of Portugal is descended Indeed Philip the Second King of Spain on some pretences made himself Master of the Kingdom of Portugal by Force of Arms ann 1580 but 't was again lost by his Grandson ann 1640 for the Portuguese actually rejecting the Spanish Yoke elected John Duke of Braganza descended as above to be their King in whose Line the Kingdom continues What particularly contributed to the Renunciation the Portuguese made to the King of Spain ann 1640 was the permission that King gave to others beside themselves to trade to the East Indies and the Tax he imposed of the fifth peny on all their Merchandizes and other Revenues It s remarkable that the Deliberation of shaking off the Spanish Yoak was kept private above a year betwixt two hundred persons Don Pedro of the House of Braganza King of Portugal and Algarve was born 1648. His elder Brother Don Alphonso the Sixth King of Portugal c. ann 1667 married the Lady Mary-Frances Elizabeth or Isabella Daughter to Charles Amadeus of Savoy Duke of Nemours She was born June the Twenty first 1648. and after sixteen months living with Don Alphonso she obtained a Declaration of Nullity of her Marriage with him retired to a Cloister And ann 1669 Don Alphonso was deposed as judged incapable either of a second Marriage or of the Government and sent the year following to the Tercera Island where he died in the year 1683. Now the present King upon his Brother Alphonso's being deposed was presently declared Prince Regent and after his death King of Portugal and by a Dipensation from the Pope married his Sister-in-Law abovementioned The Cardinal Deacon Louis de Vendôme in quality of universal Legat à Latere gave them the Dispensation under Pope Clement the Ninth Abbot Bon-Filz the Secretary to the Legation has set forth the particulars and the Conferences he had with his Holiness at the end of the Transaction The King had by this Queen a Daughter named Mary Elizabeth who was born ann 1669 and died ann 1690. And the Queen her self dying Dec. 27. 1683. the King ann 1687 took to Wife the Lady Mary-Sophia-Elizabeth Daughter of Philip-William Elector Palatine who was born Aug. 6. 1666 and Aug. 30. 1688 was brought to Bed of a young Prince who died Sept. 3. in the same year And in Octob. 1689 she was brought to Bed of another Prince named John Prince of Bresil The King of Portugal has but one Sister living viz. Donna-Catharina the Queen Dowager of England concerning whom see in the Head of England II. He bears Argent five Escutcheons Azure placed Cross-wise each charged with as many Besants of the first placed in Saltier and pointed Sable for Portugal The Shield bordered Gules charged with seven Towers Or three in Chief and two in each Flanch The Crest is a Crown Or which is the Crest of Portugal Under the two Flanches and the Base of the Shield appear the Ends of two Crosses the first Flower de luc'd Verte which is for the Order of Avis The second Pattee Gules which is for the Order of Christ The five Escutcheons were born in memory of five Kings whom Alphonso the first King slew at the Battel of Obrique ann 1139. The Border with the Towers or Castles were added by Alphonso the Third on his Investiture into the Kingdom of Algarve by Alphonso the Tenth of Castile ann 1257 whose Daughter Beatrix he then married and so conceived himself to have some Relation to the Arms of that Kingdom This King's Livery is of a Green Colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the Portuguese Language which is a Dialect of the Spanish III. Lisbon seated on the River Tagus is the Capital City of the Kingdom and the place where his Majesty keeps his Court. It s seven miles in compass and contains above thirty Parishes and above thirty thousand Houses The Portuguese have this Proverb He that has not seen Lisbon has not seen a fine thing The Buildings are neat and elegant and there are seventy six Turrets or Towers on the City Wall and twenty two Gates towards the Sea shore c. It s the Staple for the Commodities for all the Kingdom and thought to be worth more than the whole Realm besides and doubtless the Revenues which accrue to the King from hence and from his Foreign Plantations are very considerable ITALY The Papacy I. INnocent the Twelfth the present Pope was born at Naples in March ann 1615 elected Pope July 12. ann 1671 he is Son to Prince Minerbino of the Family of Pignato the chief whereof is the Duke of Terra Nova a Grandee of Spain II. Having not the particular Arms of the present Popes Family by me I can here only say that the Popes for a Crest to their Gentilitial Arms are wont to put the Arms of the Popedom which are as follow The Papal Escutcheon is Gules and consists of a long Cap or Head-piece Or surmounted with a Cross pearled and garnished with three Royal Crowns with the two Keys of S. Peter placed in Saltier Boniface the Eighth was the first that wore the Tiara with a double Crown and Urban the Fifth made it in the Form of a Cap adorned with
in all Barbary which equals Fez in Greatness Beauty and Number of Inhabitants Some count in it twenty eight thousand Housholds and seven hundred Mosques the chief of which is Carnven being a mile and an half in compass the Roof is large and high raised it s one hundred and fifty yards in length and eighty in breadth there is a College called Amadorach a most curious and delicate Building it has three Cloisters of admirable Beauty supported with eight square Pillars of divers Colours the Roof is curiously carved and the Arches of Mosaick Work of Gold and Azure The Gates are of Brass finely wrought and the Doors of the private Chambers are of inlaid Work This College cost the Founder three hundred and eighty thousand Crowns There are about one hundred hot Baths well built with four Halls to each and certain Galleries without where they put off their Cloaths when they go to bath themselves IV. As for his Revenues he is absolute Lord of the whole Estate and of his Subjects Goods and Bodies He has the Tenth and First Fruits of all Fruits Corn and Cattle tho many times contented in the Name of the First Fruits with one in twenty He receives the fifth part of a Ducat for every Acre of Land throughout his Dominions the other four parts for every Fire and as much for every Head above fifteen years of Age. Of Merchandize he receives of every Native two in the hundred of every Alien ten and has a large Impost upon every Mill. When any of his greater Officers or Judges die he is sole Heir of all their Goods and yet advances great Sums by the Sale of those Offices And upon extraordinary Occasions he levies what Taxes he pleases but commonly he is pretty moderate in them HABESSINIA I. THE Emperors of the Habissins and Kings of Upper Aethiopia pretend to be descended from Solomon and Magueda or Nizaule as Josephus names her the Queen of the South or of Sheba The name of the present Emperor is Malec Saghedus The genuine style of an Epistle written by him to the Pope was thus Libellus Epistolae à Malec Saghedo Rege Regum Aethiopiae perveniat ad Sanctum Patriarcham Romanum II. The Arms of this King are usually said to be the same with those of the Tribe of Judah viz. a Lion Rampant in a Field Or with this Motto Vicit Leo de Tribu Judah But others say his Arms to be Luna a cross Portate Mars charged with a Crucifix Sol betwixt two Scourges of the Second He professes the Christian Religion but is a Schismatick and owns the Patriarch of Alexandria He uses the Aethiopick Language which is a Dialect of the Hebrew but the Dialect there used by the Persons of Quality and the Learned is the Amarick III. He has scarce any considerable Town People living there most in Tents IV. His Revenues are not in Ready Mony but consist of the natural Products of his Country by an even way of Tribute some pay Gold others Horses Cows Oxen Sheep Bread Corn Ox-hides and Garments c. MONOMOTOPA I. THE King of this Country was baptized with his his whole Court by one Gonsalvo a Jesuit by the name of Sebastian that being the name of the then King of Portugal ann 1560 but he caused the said Gonsalvo to be put to death afterwards at the solicitation of four Mahometans whom in the end he also caused to be slain II. His Arms are Azure two bearded Arrows in Pale Or. Some give him a Dart and a Pickax III. His Capital City is Monomotopa the Houses are made of Wood and Earth bound together with a sort of Bitumen they are but two stories and are covered with Straw or Branches of Trees the tops are raised like a Tent they are contrived to lie open after such a manner as to be refreshed by the Winds which reign according to the diversity of the Seasons all their Fronts resemble each other and are painted with divers Colours and embelished with many Figures they mix certain Gums with those Colours which make them resist the Injuries of the Weather The Emperor's Palace is not without its Beauty CONGO I. IN the Reign of John the Second King of Portugal ann 1490 the Discovery and Conversion of the Kingdom of Congo happened the then King there being Christened John from whom the present King is descended and continues of the Roman Religion according to a Relation given by the Capucins ann 1665. II. His Arms are Gules a Cross Argent cantoned with four Escutcheons of the same each charged with five Roundles Sable placed in Saltier These Arms having been formerly given one of the Kings of Congo by Don Alphonso King of Portugal Others say these Arms in their beginning were Gules a Cross flowered Argent charged in the midst with an Escutcheon Azure charged with five Besants Argent placed in Saltier within a Border Azure charged in each Angle with two Cockle-Shells Or. Others say his Arms are Mars five Swords meeting in Base Sol which Coat was taken by Alphonso the Second Christian King of Congo because in the Battel which he fought against Panse Aquitine he and his Soldiers saw or fancied they saw such a Number of shining Swords hanging in the Air with their Points turned directly upon the Enemy III. His chief Town is S. Salvador which is of large extent and well peopled the Houses are built with Wood and Branches of Trees bound together with a little Earth mixed with Lime IV. The only Money of this Kingdom is Cockle-Shells tho the King has great Treasures from Mines of Silver and other Metals from the Sale of Slaves from Elephants Teeth c. FINIS Advertisement to the READER AS to the Account here given concerning the Chief Princes of the World and the several Heads relating to them I well know that the last year a small Book was printed in 120 relating to the first Head of mine viz. The Births and Names of the Chief European Princes I know also that a few years since a Book was set forth in Latin by a German Writer giving a Genealogical Account of the Chief Princes of Europe which Book was translated into English and publish'd also the last year But it cannot be said that I transcribe from these for it s well known to many Gentlemen in London that the year before Mr. Gadbury set forth the Births of some European Princes in his Almanack I had a Collection of them ready for the Press Indeed as for what Princes have been born since that time I have now and then made use of those Books tho their Births are also to be found in our Gazettes And as to the Rise of the European Princes I have generally followed the said German Author tho I only briefly intimate the Rise and Descent of each Prince in his direct Line and do not deduce an entire Genealogical Series of them according to the several Branches of their Families as he has done As to the Blazon of the Princes Coats of Arms and some other particulas in the Work I have chiefly followed two French Writers in them viz. Manesson Mallet in his Geographie Universelle and Gedeon Pontier in his Cabinet des Granâ—â— As to the greatness and Populosity of Cities I have chiefly used Sir William Petty's Account of them and some things I have taken from Dr. Brown's Account of his Travels relating to them And as for other Matters I have us'd several Authors according as things have occur'd to me in my Reading and inserted what I have otherwise receiv'd by information Upon the whole I conceive a brief view of the World according to the Heads set down by me may be gratefulâ—â— and usefully instructive to Gentlemen tho I cannot 〈…〉 them with that accurateness or rendred them 〈…〉 as a second Edition set forth by me or some other industrous Hand hereafter may afford FINIS
by Ancient Burgundy which is bendy of six pieces Or and Azure bordered Gules In the fourth great Quarter Azure semé of Flower de Luces Or with a border Compone Argent and Gules for Modern Burgundy Coupe Or. supported Sable a Lion Or for Brabant These two great Quarters charged with an Escutcheon Or and a Lion Sable arm'd and langued Gules for Flanders Party Or an Eagle Sable for Anvers the Capital City of the Holy Empire For Crest a Crown trefoiled Or rais'd with eight Diadems or Semicircles terminating in a Mond Or which is the Crest of Spain The Collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece encompasses the Shield and on the sides of it stand the two Pillars of Hercules viz. on each side one with this Motto Plus ultra The foresaid Order was refus'd by Lewis the Eleventh King of France as having been founded by a Duke who was Vassal to the Crown of France viz. Philip surnamed the Good Duke of Burgundy who Instituted it at Bruges An. 1429. It may be worth notice that the Arms of Castile and Leon are the first which have been born Quartered The Ordinary Device of some Kings of Spain has been this Omnes Contra nos nos Contra Omnes The Title of the Most Catholick King was given by Pope Alexander the Sixth to Ferdinand the Fifth and his Successors for having rooted out of Spain the Moors and Sarracens You may also note that the eldest Sons of the Kings of Spain are called Princes of the Asturias as those of the German Emperors Arch Dukes of Austria Those of the Kings of England Princes of Wales Those of the Kings of Portugal Princes of Algarves Those of the Dukes of Savoy Princes of Piemont c. The King of Spain's Livery is of a Yellow colour His Majesty Professes the Roman Religion and uses the Spanish Language III. Madrid situate in New Castile having been the place of Residence of the Kings of Spain since the time of Philip the Second is become from a Village to be the most populous Town of all Spain The Houses are built of Brick and the greatest part four Stories high all having Iron Balcones All the upper Rooms in the Town belong to the King who is allowed for them There are in it several Publick Edifices very beautiful among others the famous Square for the Bull Feast This Town is about the bigness of Bristol and is kept very nastily the filth and excrements lying in the Streets tho on this account excusable because the Inhabitants who drink Well Water there are fearful to sink necessary Conveniencies left the Waters should be tainted thereby About seven Miles North from Madrid is seated the Escurial or Monastery of S. Lawrence built by King Philip the Second It s a Structure so splendid magnificent and sumptuous that some think no Building in times past or at present comparable to it The front towards the West is adorned with three stately Gates the middlemost whereof leads into a most magnificent Temple and a Monastery in which are one hundred and fifty Monks of the Order of S. Hierom and a College That on the right Hand opens into divers Offices belonging to the Monastery That on the left into Schools and Out-houses belonging to the College At the four Corners there are four Turrets of excellent Workmanship and for hight Majestical Towards the North is the Kings Palace On the South parts divers beautiful and sumptuous Galleries and on the East part sundry Walks and Gardens very pleasing and delightful It contains in all thirty seven Court and Cloisters Eleven thousand Windows Eight hundred Pillars and is indeed a most noble Structure There are in it Seven Communities seven Priors and a Grand Prior. The Revenue is above Thirty thousand Crowns per annum and there is a Library in it containing above Eighteen thousand Books and among them a great many Arabick Manuscripts Toledo is the Capital City of New Castile being situate near the midst of Spain on the River Tagus It s about Four Miles in compass and is well fortified and beautified with a good number of stately Edifices and by reason of its situation in the midst of Spain it s well inhabited both by Nobility Merchants and Scholars beside such Soldiers and their Officers who are continually garrison'd in it It s also honored with the See of an Archbishop who is the Metropolitan of Spain and President for the most part of the Inquisition having a Revenue of Three hundred thousand Crowns per annum and Seventeen other Towns under his Jurisdiction both in Spirituals and Temporals Granada is the Capital City of the Kingdom call'd by that name whose whole Circuit is said to be Seven Miles it having contain'd in the time of the Moors Two hundred thousand Souls and where the Houses of the best sort are for the most part built of Free stone with delicate and artificial Masonry shewing their Magnificence Sevil the Capital City of Andalusia in the Kingdom of Corduba is look'd upon by some to be the fairest City of all Spain It is in compass six Miles divided into two parts by the River Baetis on which its seated but joined together by a strong and beautiful Bridge the whole environed with beautiful Walls and adorned with many magnificent and stately Buildings as Palaces Churches and Monasteries It has a flourishing University adorned with a goodly Library furnished by Diego the Son of Christopher Columbus the first Founder of it with Twelve thousand Volumes in several Languages gathered together with extraordinary Care and Charge and endowed with a fair Revenue for the Maintenance and Enlargement of it It s also a Town particularly famous for Traffick here being the publick Emporeum of Spain for Wines Oils and Commodities brought from the Indies and other Foreign Parts So much concerning the Towns of greatest Note in Spain The King of Spain has likewise in Italy the City of Milain being the fairest and biggest City of all Lombardy containing Seven Miles in compass and Two hundred thousand People It s seated betwixt the Rivers Ticinus and Addua which run hard by it to the great Conveniency of the Inhabitants both for having things brought to them at cheap Rates and for vending and dispersing their Manufactures which are of great esteem in most parts of the World It flourishes in all Riches and in the Beauty of its Edifices both publick and private but three especially commended for their Magnificence the Castle the Hospital and the Cathedral It s fortified with Walls Ramparts and deep Trenches and the Castle in it is so strong that it s judg'd impregnable The Trade is so great that private Shops there equal publick Store-houses of other Places and the People are so rich that the Wife of every Mechanick goes in her Silks and Taffaties The King of Spain has also in Italy the City of Naples which is the Capital of that Kingdom and contains Seven Miles in compass It 's honoured
present Elector after the Decease of Charles Elector Palatine which happened ann 1685 became possessed of the Electorate by virtue of the Instrument of Peace at Osnabrug but since was thrown out by the French King anno 1688 and tho he had recovered many places in it ann 1689 by the assistance of the Confederates yet he continued at Neuburg Of the Family of Brunswick and Lunenburg from which the new made Elector of Hanover is descended THE Family of Brunswick and Lunenburg for its great Antiquity seems to bear the Bell in a manner from all the rest It owes its original to the ancient Welffs of whom see in Spencer's Sylloge Genealogica Henry the Lion descended from these Duke of Bavaria and Saxony and Successor to his Father ann 1139 may be properly looked upon as the common Father of all the Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburg tho falling into disgrace with the Emperor Barbarossa he was proscribed and so lost all his Dominions except the Districts of Brunswick and Lunenburg he married Maud Daughter of Henry the Second King of England and had by her three Sons and two Daughters Otho their youngest Son born ann 1204 the other Brothers dying without Issue-male was created the first Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg by the Emperor Frederick the Second From him the present Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburg are descended for Ernestus the Seventh Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg who died anno 1546 left among other Children two Sons Augustus and William of whom the first was Author of the new Line of Brunswick Wolfembuttel whose Sons Rudolphus Augustus and Antonius Ulricus now live together in joint Authority and the other viz. William being Author of the Line of Brunswick-Lunenburg-Hanover whose Grandson Ernestus-Augustus Bishop of Osenburg is now Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg-Hanover He was born Novemb 10. 1629 and ann 1658 he married the Lady Sophia Daughter to Frederick the Fifth Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia born Oct. 13. 1630. This Duke is lately made a new Elector of the Empire There Children are I. Georgius-Ludovicus Prince Hereditary born May 28. 1660 and on Nov. 21. 1682 he married his Cousin German Sophia Dorothea only Daughter of his late Uncle George-William Duke of Zell she was born Sept. 15. 1666. He has Issue by her 1. Georgius-Augustus born Oct. 30. 1683. 2. Gulielmus-Ernestus born 1685. 2. Fredericus-Augustus born Octob. 3. 1661 who died in Hungary 1689. 3. Maximilianus-Gulielmus born Dec. 14. 1666. He died in the Morea 4. Sophia Charlotta born Octob. 20. 1668 and married to Frederick the Third the present Elector of Brandenburg Oct. 6. 1684 by whom she has one Prince alive named Fredericus Gulielmus born Aug. 4. 1688. 5. Carolus-Philippus born Oct. 13. or 23. 1669. he died in Hungary ann 1690. 6. Christianus born Sept. 29. 1671. 7 Ernestus Augustus born Sept. 17. 1674. There are other Princes in Germany of the Houses of Hesse Meckleburg Wirtenburg Baden Anhalt Saxon-Lawenburg c but I give an account only of the Electoral Houses omitting the rest FRANCE 1. HUGH the Great Duke of France Burgundy and Aquitain Marquess of Orleans and Earl of Paris died in the year 956. His eldest Son Hugh Capet upon the Death of Lewis the Slothful last King of France of the Race of Charlemagne was by the unanimous consent of the Peers of France inaugurated King of that Kingdom ann 987 from whom is descended Lewis the Fourteenth the present King of that Kingdom born at St. Germains Sept. 5. new style 1638. Of the several Branches of the Line of Hugh Capet he is descended in a direct Line from Robert Count of Clermont and Lord of Bourbon youngest Son of Lewis the Ninth who died of the Plague at the Siege of Tunis ann 1270. The Surname of Bourbon is derived to the present French King from the said Robert King Henry the Fourth his Grandfather being the first King of France of the said Surname who having first professed himself of the Roman Religion whereas before he had been a Protestant was crown'd King of France ann 1594. The present King succeeded his Father ann 1642 or 3 and Sept. 7. 1651. he was declared Major for by a Sanction put forth by King Charles the Fifth surnamed the Wise who came to the Crown of France ann 1364 the eldest Sons of France were for the future to be declared of Age at fourteen years old and fit to be crown'd and govern he was crown'd at Rheims by the Archbishop of that See Jun. 7. 1654 and Jun. 9. 1660 he was married at St. John de Luz to Maria-Teresa Daughter to Philip the Fourth King of Spain by his first Wife the Princess Elizabeth Daughter to Henry the Fourth King of France She died July 30. 1683 by whom the King has only one Son now living namely Lewis the Fifteenth surnam'd the Hardy the present Dolphin born Nov. 1. 1661 and March 7. 1680 was married to the Electoral Princess of Bavaria Maria-Anna Victoria-Christina Daughter to Ferdinandus-Maria the late Elector of Bavaria The Contract was signed at Munic Dec. 30. 1679. She since died ann 1690. The Dolphin has Issue by her three Sons viz. 1. Lewis Duke of Burgundy born at Versailles Aug. 6. at twenty minutes past ten of the Clock in the Evening ann 1682. 2. Philip Duke of Anjou born Nov. 9. 1683. 3. Gaston Duke of Berry born Aug. 31. 1686. Concerning the Dolphin note that he is so called because Humbert the Second Earl of Dolphiné descended of the Blood Royal of France seeing himself destitute of Issue made over the Province of Dolphiné an 1358 to Philip de Valois the then King of France for forty thousand Florins and on condition that for the future the eldest Son of France should still be styl'd The Dolphin And Charles the Fifth above-mentioned surnamed The Wise who came to the Crown of France ann 1364 was the First who in his Father's Life-time was styled The Dolphin Now besides the Dolphin the present King of France has several natural Children viz. 1. Maria Anna de Bourbon born ann 1666 and married anno 1680 to Lewis de Bourbon Prince de Conti. 2. Lewis de Bourbon Duke of Vermandois born ann 1667 supreme Intendant of the Marine He died ann 1683. These two were born him by Aolisia-Frances de la Beaume la Blanche de la Valiere Duchess of Vaujour and Peeress of France Daughter to Lawrence de la Valiere She is now a Carmelite Nun by the name of Sister Aloisia de Misericordiâ 3. Ludovicus-Augustus de Bourbon Duke of Maine born ann 1670 and made legitimate three years after viz. 1673. 4. Ludovicus-Caesar de Bourbon Count of Vexin born ann 1672. He died 1683. 5. Aloisia-Frances de Bourbon Mademoiselle de Nantes born An. 1673. and married An. 1685. to Lewis Duke of Bourbon 6. Aloisia-Maria-Anna deceased An. 1681. 7. Ludovicus Alexander de Bourbon Count of Toulouse born An. 1678. Legitimated An. 1681 Intendant of the Marine 8. Frances-Maria de Bourbon Mademoiselle
de Blois born An. 1681. These six were born him by Frances Athanasia de Roche Chovart Gabriel Prince de Mortemars Daughter and Wife to Henry-Lewis Paidallan Marquess of Montespan The French King has only one Brother viz. Philip Duke of Orleans born Sept. 1. An. 1640. He espoused for his first Wife the Princess Henrietta-Maria youngest Daughter to our late King Charles the First She was born at Exeter Jun. 16. 1644 and died An. 1670. He had by her four Children viz. 1. Maria-Aloisia born March 27. 1662. and married Nov. 17. 1679. to Charles the Second King of Spain She died without Issue by him An. 1689. 2. Philip who died an Infant 3. Another Daughter not named 4. Anna-Maria born Aug. 27. 1669. and Apr. 9. 1684. married to Victor Amadeus the Second the present Duke of Savoy The next year after the forementioned Duchess of Orleans died An. 1671. The Duke married Elizabeth Charlotta Daughter to Charles-Lewis Elector Palatine who was born in May 1652. The Espousals were celebrated at Metz Nov. 26. of the said year he has Issue by her 1. Philip Duke of Chartres born Aug. 2. 1671. 2. Elizabetha-Charlotta Mademoiselle de Chartres born Sept. 13. 1676. The Princes of the Blood BEing to name the Princes of the Blood I shall shew withal how they are descended and allied to the King of France Robert the Fifth Count of Clermont and Lord of Bourbon youngest Son to King Lewis the Ninth as mentioned before was the person in whom the Line of Hugh Capet is continued in the Crown of France Charles Duke of Vendôme lineally descended from him was born An. 1489. And left among other Children two Sons viz. Anthony the eldest who was Duke of Vendôme and King of Navarr Great Grandfather to the present King of France 2. Lewis Prince of Conde Great Grandfather to the present Prince of Conde Henry-Julius de Bourbon born Jul. 29. 1643. formerly stiled Duke D'Enghien and now since his Fathers death Prince of Conde He was married Dec. 11. 1667. to the Princess Anne Daughter to Edward Prince Palatine of the Rhine who was born July 23. 1647. and is since deceased but he has by her the following Issue 1. Maria-Teresa Mademoiselle de Bourbon born 1666. 2. Lewis de Bourbon Duke D'Enghien born 1668. and married 1685. to Aloisia-Frances Natural Daughter to the King of France by Madam de Montespan who was born 1673. 3. Maria-Anna Mademoiselle de Monmorency born 1675. 4. Anna-Maria Victoria Mademoiselle D'Enghien born 1676. 5. Aloisia-Benedicta Mademoiselle de Conde born 1678. The Prince of Conde had also a Brother viz. Armand Prince de Conti born 1629. married to Anna-Maria de Monmorency Cardinal Mazarines Neice by the Sister 1659. Deceased 1666 leaving behind him two Sons viz. 1. Lewis de Bourbon Prince of Conti born 1661. and in 1680 he married Anna-Maria de Bourbon the Kings Natural Daughter by Madam de la Valiere who was made Legitimate He died without Issue An. 1685. 2. Francis-Lewis de Bourbon the now Prince of Conti born 1664 or 8. Besides these Princes of the Blood the King has also three Cousin Germans living Daughters to his Uncle Gaston-John-Baptist late Duke of Orleans 1. Anna-Maria Duchess of Montpensier born An. 1627. unmarried 2. Margarita-Aloisia born An. 1645. and married An. 1661. to Cosmus the Third Great Duke of Tuscany 3. Isabella born An. 1649 and married An. 1667. to Joseph-Lewis Duke of Guise She is now a Widow Note That tho this King of France be but the twenty sixth King inclusively of the Line of Hugh Capet yet he is the sixty first King of France for there preeceded twenty one Kings of the Race of Merovius and thirteen Kings of the Race of Charlemagne before the Line of Hugh Capet came in II. For Arms he bears Azure three Flower de Luces Or two in Chief and one in Base the Escutcheon is environed with the Collars of the Orders of S. Michael and the Holy Ghost It has for Crest an Helmet Or entirely open thereon a Crown Clos'd after the manner of an Imperial Crown with eight Inarched Rayes topt with a double Flower de Luce. The Supporters are two Angels habited as Levites the whole under a Pavilion Royal semè of France lin'd Ermines with these words Ex omnibus floribus elegi mihi Lilium Lilia neque laborant neque nent These words The Lilies do not Spin as a late French Writer tells us import that the Flower de Luces which represent the Crown of France never fall to the Distaff and that the Female Sex cannot inherit according to the Salique Law The same Custom having prevailed among the Chaldeans Egyptians Persians Chineses Turks Tartars and Parthians tho the Daughters have sometimes succeeded in England Spain Sicily Sueden c. The King of France pretending likewise a right to Navarre bears also for that Kingdom Gules a Carbuncle noued Or which having a resemblance to Chains of Gold is Blazon'd by some Chains of Gold Interlac'd parted into Orbes Pales Fesses Counterbands or Saltiers The King of France's Device is Consiliis Armisque Potens or also this Nec pluribus Impar Note That the Arms of France in the days of Pharamond and his three Successors were Gules three Crowns Or. Clovis the Great altered them to Azure semè of Flower de Luces Or and Charles the Sixth who came to the Crown An. 1380 reduc'd the Lilies in his Coat of Arms to three The Kings Livery is of a blew colour He professes the Roman Religion and uses the French Language III. Paris is the Capital City of France which has the pleasant River Seine running thro the midst of it I shall speak concerning the extent and number of the Houses and Inhabitants of this and other Cities when I come to speak of London wherefore I shall pass by these things at present As for his chief Seats of pleasure the chief is that noble Seat at Versailles four Leagues South of Paris of which there being a full and clear description extant in English as also of the Seat of Monsieur at S. Clou and of the Treasury of S. Denis I shall say nothing here of them He has also the noble Seats of Fontainbleau and S. Germains beside the Louvre at Paris celebrated by that famous Distich Non Orbis Gentem non Urbem Gens habet ullam Urbsve domum Dominum nec habet ulla parem 4. The Revenues of the King of France are said to amount to eleven millions of Pounds Sterling being above the fifth part of the Revenues of that Kingdom and the French averr France to contain fifty thousand Parishes The House of England I. WIlliam Duke of Normandy surnamed the Conqueror under the pretence that King Edward the Confessor his Cousin who died without Issue An. 1065. Son of King Ethelred by his Queen Emma had by his last Will and Testament transferred the Kingdom to him made a Descent into England An. 1067. and having slain King Harold in Battle the then
usurping King there after King Edwards death was by the unanimous consent of the Peerage of England Crowned King Now when King William the Conqueror's youngest Son Henry upon the death of his elder Brother William the Second who had succeeded his Father in the Kingdom came to the Crown which was An 1087. He married Matilda or Maud Daughter of Malcolm the Third King of Scotland by Margaret the Sister of Edgar Atheling right Heir of Edward the Confessor as being descended from King Edmund Ironside half Brother to King Edward the Confessor by their common Father King Ethelred and Grandfather to the abovenamed Edgar Atheling and Margaret And the said King Henry the First had by his Wife Matilda or Maud a Son who was cast away at Sea and a Daughter named Maud also the only Legitimate Issue that survived him born An. 1104. She was married first to the Emperour Henry the Fourth who had no Issue by her and after his death to Geoffry Plantagenet Earl of Anjou by whom she had a Son nam'd Henry the Second Now King Henry the First his Son being dead seeing this Daughter his only Legitimate Issue call'd a Parliament An. 1133. in which all the Lords of the Land took an Oath to be true to his Daughter Maud the Empress and her Heirs and acknowledge them as right Inheritors of the Crown And tho Stephen Earl of Bologne and Montagne Son of Stephen Earl of Blois by Adela third Daughter of the Conquerour was set up to the Crown by the working of Henry his Brother Bishop of Winchester after the death of King Henry the First against the undoubted right of the said Empress yet at length seeing his Children dead before him he secur'd the Succession to her Son Henry the Second who was Crown'd An. 1155. And from this Henry the Second in whom the Saxon Line was restored is Descended James the Second of the Royal House of the Stuarts late King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. who was born Oct. 14. 1633. His Majesty Espoused for his first Wife the Lady Ann Daughter to the late Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England c. She died before he came to the Crown and brought him Issue four Sons and four Daughters but all dying young except two surviving Daughters The eldest is the Lady Mary born Apr. 30. 1662. and was married to William Henry Prince of Orange in London at S. James's Nov. 14. 1677. The said Prince being born on the 14. of the same month New Stile 1650 and restor'd to his Hereditary Dignity in the United Provinces An. 1672. concerning whom I shall say more beneath The second is the Lady Ann born Feb. 6 1664. And July 28. 1683. was Espoused to George Prince of Denmark only Brother to the present King of that Kingdom he was born An. 1653. or 1. he has had Issue by his Princess 1. William Duke of Gloucester born in July 1689. and three Children more viz. the Lady Mary the Lady Ann and another Princess who died in their Infancy His Majesty Nov. 21. 1673. took for his second Wife the Lady Mary-Eleanor-Beatrix D'Este late Queen of England still living who was born Sept. 25. 1658. being youngest Sister to Francisco D'Este the present Duke of Modena and Regio c. She was Crowned with his Majesty April 23. 1685. And his Majesty has had by her two Daughters and a Son who all died young before the year 1688. And as some say he has had a Son and a Daughter by her since still living Their Majesties reside at present at S. Germains in France and profess the Roman Religion His Majesty has Natural Issue by Madam Churchil two Sons and two Daughters all living in France The Sons go by the name of Fitz-James The eldest is Duke of Berwick the youngest is stiled Grand Prior of Ireland The eldest Daughter was married to the late Lord Waldegrave by whom he has Issue two Sons The other Daughter is unmarried Now as for William Henry of Nassaw Prince of Orange and now stiled William the Third King of Great Britain c. who married the Lady Mary eldest Daughter to King James as above They were Proclaim'd King and Queen of England France and Ireland the Executive Power in him Feb. 14. 1689. Proclaim'd King and Queen of Scotland April 11. of the same year His Majesty has as yet no Issue by his Queen Now as to the Rise of the House of Nassaw and Orange as it concerns King William I shall not seek to retrieve its Original but its certain it flourisht in the ninth Century and I shall only take notice that from Walram and Otto Sons of Henry surnam'd the Rich Earl of Nassau sprang two Capital Lines viz. that of Idstein afterwards call'd Sarepont from Walram and that of Dillenburg which now enjoys the Principality from Otto and therefore we shall confine ourselves singly to this Now John the Third who was the eighth of his Family Lineally descended from the said Otto inclusively had two Sons viz. Henry and William the Elder Henry was born An. 148â— and from him the Principality of Orange Descended to King William As for William the Elder Brother to Henry he had a Son call'd John who dwelt in the Castle of Dillenburg and had twenty five Children of whom I shall note only four viz. John George Ernestus-Casimire and John-Lewis for from them sprang the several Lines of Siegen Dillenburg Diezen and Hademar on each of which the Emperour Ferdinand the Third in the Diet of Ratisbone March 3. 1654. conferr'd the honour of having a Voice and Seat among the Princes of the Empire As for a farther Genealogical account of these Families it may be had elsewhere To the Royal Family of England I must add Donna Catharina Infanta of Portugal Queen Dowager of England born at Villa Vicosa in Portugal Nov. 14. Old Stile An. 1638. and Espoused at Portsmouth by his late Majesty King Charles the Second in the month of May An. 1662. She being only Sister to Don Pedro of the House of Braganza the present King of that Kingdom She resides at present at Lisbon in Portugal Her original Jointure some settled by King Charles was 40000 l. per annum to which considerable additions have been since made Their Majesties have two Uncles living in England viz. the Earls of Clarendon and Rochester The Princes and Princesses of the Blood Royal of England that are not excluded from the Succession of the Crown by the late Act of Parliament I. PRincess Ann of Denmark afore mention'd II. The Duke of Glocester of whom also see before III. Sophia Duchess of Hanover Daughter to Frederick the Fifth Elector and King of Bohemia Married to the Duke An. 1658. Her Children 1. George-Lewis born May 28. 1660. Who Nov. 1. 1682. Married Sophia-Dorothea only Daughter to the Duke of Zel by whom he has 1. George-Augustus born Oct. 30. 1683. 2. William-Ernestus born An. 1685. 2. Christian born Sept.
they assemble separately the Catholicks take for the place of their Congress Lucern and the Protestants Arau on the River Aur. All the Cantons are as many Republicks which are Govern'd by their Burgomasters or Avoiers their Government being Democratical The Cantons which have no Towns call their Magistrates Landanes instead of Burgomasters The Switzers have several Towns and States confederate with them viz. The Abbot and Town of S. Gal. Four Bishops viz. of Sion Basil Constance and Croired The Towns of Neuchatel Valengen Nuenberg Biel Geneva Mulhausen in Alsatia Rotwel in Suabia beyond the Danube They have also many Prefectures that is such little Parcels and Additaments as have accrued to their State and are subject to their Authority either by Gift Purchase or Chance of War The Principal Prefecture is the Town of Baden taking its name from the Baths there and is the place of meeting for the Councel of State of all the Confederates The Grizons also are Confederate with the Switzers and of those there are three Divisions I. The Grey League so call'd because the Inhabitants wear a Grey Scarf 2. The League of the House of God so call'd because it was the proper Patrimony of the Bishop and Church of Chur. 3. The League of the Ten Commonalties All these Confederates are able on occasion readily to set forth an Army of sixty thousand Men. The Republick of Geneva I. THIS Republick professes Calvinism An. 1679. Mass was said in the City of Geneva with leave at the House of Sieur Chauvigny the French Kings Resident there which had not been done since the year 1535. That Calvinism was there Establisht by a Decree of the Senate II. Geneva gives for Arms Party Or and Gules the fiâ—st has a demy Eagle display'd Sable the second a Key Argent with this devise Post Tenebras Lux. The Romanists say the words are misplac'd and that it ought to be Post Lucem tenebra III. The City of Geneva is situate on the Lake Lemanus the River Rhone passing thro the lower part of it The buildings are fair and of Freestone the Compass of the whole City being about two Miles in which there are suppos'd to be about 16 or 17000 souls Munster calls it Mirae voluptatis Urbem It s allied with the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland and in two or three hours it advertises all the Canton of Bern to come to its succour with 50 or 60000 Men who may come on the Lake a day after the Signal which consists in lighted Torches set from Tower to Tower It s Govern'd by twenty five Senators who follow the written Law Beside this Councel of twenty five they have one of sixty and another of two hundred POLAND I. POland from the year 694 that Lochus of Croatia was the first Duke has been Govern'd by Dukes Palatines Kings and Dukes again till the year 1295 that Primislaus surnam'd Posthumus Duke of Posna again assum'd the name of King which continued ever since to his Successors of the same Family till the year 1574. Henry Duke of Anjou Son to Henry the Second King of France was chosen on the death of Sigismund-Augustus who was the first Stranger to the Blood John the Third of the Illustrious Family of Sobieski is the present King of Poland c. Elected King March 20. 1674. being before Senator Grand Marshal and Generalissimo of the Armies of the Crown he made his solemn entrance at Cracow Jan. 3. 1676. and was crown'd there on the second of February following by the Bishop of that place call'd Olzaski He married before his coming to the Crown a French Lady nam'd Maria Casimire de la Grange Daughter to Henry de la Grange Knight Marquess of Arquien Lord of Beaumont Master of the Camp of a Regiment of Cavalry and Captain Colonel of the hundred Switzers of the Guard of the late Monsieur Duke of Orleans This Princess was crown'd on the same day with her Husband and has brought him many Children 1. Prince James born An. _____ and An. 1691. he married Hedewig-Elizabetha-Amalia youngest Daughter save one to Philip-William Duke of Neuburg and Elector Palatine 2. Prince Alexander born about the year 70. 3. John born An. _____ 4. Casimire born An. _____ 5. Leopold born An. _____ 6. The Princess Louise Adelaia born Oct. 3. 1677. held at the Font of Baptism by the Palatine of Russia for his late Majesty Charles the Second King of Great Britain c. This Princess was Baptised with the Water of the River Jordan whereof the King her Father just before her birth had been presented with a Pot full as also with many other rarities from Asia II. As King of Poland he bears Quarterly In the First and Fourth Gules an Eagle Argent crown'd membred and becked Or for Poland In the Second and Third Gules a Cavalier arm'd Argent holding a Sword with the Right Hand of the same and a Shied Azure in the Left charg'd with a Cross Or with double Cross-Barrs his Horse barded Azure and nail'd Or for Lithuania On the whole Azure a Buckler Or for Sobieski For a Crest a Crown rais'd with eight small Flowers and clos'd with eight Semicircles terminating in a Mond Or which is the Crest of Poland The Shield environ'd with the Orders of France The general Motto of the Kings of Poland is Habent sua sydera Reges His Livery is of a Blew Colour He professes the Roman Religion but Greeks Protestants and other Sects are there tolerated He uses the Poland Longuage wich is a Dialect of the Sclavonian III. Warsaw seated on the River Vistula is most frequented best traded and the Capital City of the Kingdom honour'd for the most part with the Kings Court the holding of all Publick business of Peace and War Cracow seated on the same River is little inferiour to the former the Buildings here being fairer than elsewhere in Poland of Freestone and four Stories high but for the most part cover'd with Shingles or Tiles of Wood. IV. The Revenues of this King are computed to be 600000 Crowns per annum drawn chiefly out of Salt-works near Cracow and from Mines of Copper Lead Tin and Silver from the fishing Trade in Prussia and the Tribute of the Jews His Daughters are provided for at the Publick Charge and for the most part the expence of his Houshold defray'd In time of War he is inabled by the Diets to lay Impositions and Taxes on the people In Poland it s an affront to call a Man Cossack as in Italy Calabrian in Germany Switzer in Spain Galician in Sueden Finlander in France Norman in England Welchman c. Russia or Moscovy I. THE first Great Duke of Moscovy who shook off the Tartarian bondage was nam'd John who Reign'd about the year 1500. Since him the Government has gone partly by Election and partly by Succession The last Elected was Michael Fredrowitz Son of Theodore the Patriarch of Mosco and Grandfather to the present Czars He was Elected An.
the Emperor should have what he pleased so he might have freedom to see the sight and parted with his House accordingly The Palace of the Seraglio contains three Courts one within another the Buildings yielding unto those of France and Italy for the neat contrivances but far surpassing them for cost and curiousness The Grand Seignior has many other considerable Cities the chief is Grand Cairo in Egypt which is eight miles in compass and being viewed from a high place it presents a most delightful prospect the Mosques being built of various Colours and very beautious and the other Houses tho but two stories high having generally their Roofs raised with Turrets for Coverings and being all surrounded with Palm Trees and Gardens Alexandria also in Egypt has been a considerable Town belonging to the Grand Seignior it s at present full of Ruins and but poorly inhabited the cause is imputed to the illness of the Air during the Months of July August September and October which is thought to proceed from this that the greatest part of the Houses are built on solid Vaults which serve as Cisterns to keep the Waters of Nilus whence the Air becomes corrupted and inclines to Diseases He has also the City of Babylon in Chaldea not the ancient Babylon but another City going by that name situate forty miles more North maintained chiefly at present by the Trade of Aleppo and being seven miles in compass IV. The Turkish Empire being of so vast an extent in three parts of the World viz. Africa Asia and the better part of Europe must of necessity yield an immense Treasure a certain Author says he has under him seventy Kingdoms and three Empires The Revenues consist chiefly in Tributes raised on the People and in Customs and these are paid for the most part in Silver As for the Gold which is raised it proceeds from four Sources whereof two are foreign and two of the Country One of the first is the Trade of the English French Dutch Italians Moscovites and Polanders who bring Ducats from their Countries The other is their annual Tribute of the Cham of the Lesser Tartary the Princes of Transylvania Moldavia Valachia the Republick of Ragusa and a part of Mingrelia and of Russia ought to pay the Grand Seignior in Gold which amounts to considerable Sums One of the two Sources of the Country is the Spoils of the Bacha's all their Monies which for the most part is Gold coming to the Grand Seignior at their Deaths the other the Revenue of Egypt which amounts yearly to twelve millions of Livres Beside this yearly Income the Turk has a secret Treasure consisting of such stores of Gold as have been laid up by the Ottoman Princes and in this private Treasury when Ibrahim this Emperor's _____ came to the Crown there were four thousand Bags of Gold each containing 15000 Ducats of Gold or thirty thousand Crowns which Summ makes three hundred and sixty millions of Livres Some have affirm'd the Grand Seignior to be Proprietor of all the Lands under his Dominions and that Fathers do not leave the Succession to their Children which is a great mistake for the right of inheriting according to the degrees of Blood is not only granted the Turks but likewise to the Greeks they paying the Grand Seignior only about three per Cent. at each change of Heir PERSIA I. HIstorians make eight Dynastyes of Persian Kings The fifth of these Dynastyes was begun in the person of Tangrolipix the first Persian King of the Turkish Race ann 1020 who is mentioned by me in my foregoing Account of Turky This Race failing the sixth Dynasty began in Haalon made King of Persia by Occata the Great Cham of Tartary ann 1260. This Tartarian Dynasty ended also in Persia with the Race of Tamerlane and the seventh Dynasty of the Turcoman or Armenian Race began in Ussan Cassanes ann 1472 he being the Son of one of those poor Armenian Princes dispossessed by Bajazet the First Emperor of the Turks and restored by Tamerlane who grew at length to that power that he overthrew in a pitched Field Zeuzes the last of the Tartarian Race and slew him This Dynasty of the Turcoman or Armenian Race continued till 1496 that Alanat the last King of it was overthrown and slain by Hysmael one of the Sophian Race and Faction The Quarrel and Occasion was thus Mahomet the Impostor and first Emperor of the Saracens by his last Will and Testament bequeathed the Succession of that Estate to Haly his near Kinsman and Husband to Fatima his eldest Daughter but Abudezar Haumar and Osman three powerful Men and the chief Commanders of the Army in the time of Mahomet successively followed one another in the supreme Dignity After their Death 's Hali enjoyed that Honor for a little while supplanted first and afterwards vanquished by Muhavias a great Man of War who succeeded in it and to secure himself slew Hasen or Ossan the Son of Hali and eleven of his Sons a twelfth escaping called Musa Ceredine from whom Hysmael Sophi abovementioned was lineally descended who after his Victory and being crowned King or Shaw of Persia altered the Form of Religion making Hali and himself the sole Successors of Mahomet and condemning Abudezar Haumar and Osman with the Turks as Rebels and Schismaticks Hence proceeded the Bloody Wars betwixt them and the Turks the Persians burning whatsoever Book they found concerning those three and the Turks holding it more meritorious to kill one Persian than seventy Christians This Hysmael Sophi was the Founder of this eighth Dynasty of the Persian Kings ann 1505 from whom is descended Cha Soliman the present King of Persia at his coming to the Crown called Cha Sophi he came to be King ann 1665 his Father great Cha Abas then dying himself at that time being thirty five years of Age. It s a remarkable Passage concerning the change of this King's Name and his being twice crown'd which was on this occasion It happened some time after his being crowned that he grew indisposed in his Health and his Physician had tried several methods on him without success whereupon the King's Mother growing impatient fell severely on the Physician and charged him for being either Fool or Traitor that he did not cure the King The Doctor finding himself so hardly put to it had no way to shift himself but by charging the Fault on the Stars and the Astrologers and told her if the King languished and could not recover a perfect health it proceeded not from any Failure in him or his Medicines but for that the Astrologers had not taken the Aspect of a fortunate Constellation at the time of his Coronation The Physician was back'd by all his Friends at Court and particularly by one of the King's Astrologers who had a secret hatred against the Prince of the Astrologers who had been appointed to observe the favourable hour for the King's Coronation and the former made out the mistake astrologically
to the Grandees of the Court so that the King and Queen Mother were possessed of the truth of what the Physician had averred The chief Astrologer seeing how things went was forced for fear of drawing on him somewhat worse not only to forbear contradiction but withal to applaud what was said and upon this second Inauguration the King changed his name as is said before which was judged unfortunate to the State and he began as he thought to find himself better afterward Note that the word Cha in the Persian Tongue signifies King and that tho many call all the Kings of Persia Sohpies some modern Accounts say it is an Error so to do and that Sophi is a proper name or rather a name of the Religion of Hali it signifying wise and knowing in the Law II. Concerning this King's Arms there are various opinions According to his Picture to be seen in many places there is a Sun Or in a Field Azure According to some ancient Books of Heraldry the Kings of Persia have a white Banner charged with an Eagle displayed and crowned Or. Another Author assures us they give the Cressent as the Turkish Emperors with this difference that there is an Hand added to it Others maintain that beside their bearing the Cressent they cause it to be carried before them when they walk in Ceremony and that all Mahometan Kings have the Cressent in their Arms and that Blazon and Coats of Arms are not much used in those Countries but that in lieu they make use of some Marks Another says they bear Or with a Dragon Gules and another says Or with a Buffalo's Head Sable Others say they give the Sun and Moon and others a rising Sun on the back of a Lion with a Cressent and in truth this is their Emblem and Hieroglyphick and the Armenians Subjects to the Persian that are at Paris say that these are the Arms of this Crown and our Merchants at London who have lived in Persia many years affirm this to be the great Seal of the King of Persia His Livery is of a _____ Colour He professes the Mahometan Religion according to the Doctrine of Hali the Turks following that of Osman and he uses the Persian Language which is not limited within the Provinces of the Persian Empire but used also in the Court and Camp of the Great Mogul and some parts of Zagathay and where it s not vulgarly spoken it s studied and understood by persons of the more eminent sort as the Latin by the Gentry of these Western parts so that he that has this Language may travel over all the East without an Interpreter III. Hispaan seated on the River Senderut is the Capital City of Persia and the ordinary place of Residence of the Kings The Town and Suburbs are almost of as great extent as Paris but the number of the Inhabitants is much lesser The greatest part of the Houses there are but of one story or two at most they are built of Bricks only dryed in the Sun and generally they have flat Roofs as generally in the East and have Terasses on the tops The Fronts facing the Streets are very mean and the Mens Apartments are very neat as for those of the Women Strangers are no ways permitted to see them Each considerable House has a Garden belonging to it where they do not now suffer the great number of Plane Trees to grow which formerly made the Town at a distance seem like a Forest The streets are narrow oblique and very dark because for the greatest part they have Arches made on each side of them for walking dry They are not paved wherefore the Dirt is very troublesome in the Winter and the Dust in the Summer The Town-Walls are only of Earth He has a Seat of Pleasure at Tawgebawt it s of no great Receipt but for the Cost and Ornaments of it and for the Delightfulness of the Gardens adjoining to it not yielding to any in this large Empire and for Grotto's Ecchoes Labyrinths and other Excellencies of Arts perhaps not fellowed in the World especially considering that it stands in the midst of a Sandy Desert IV. Pontier a late French Writer tells us that the King of Persia has fifteen millions of Crowns annual Rent His Revenues arise from the Fishery of Pearls found on his Coasts from the Mines of the old and new Rocks of Turky Stones from the Customs and the Sale of all sorts of Merchandizes which pay proportionably to the price they are sold at And each publick Hall built for the Entertainment of Travellers pays the King a Tribute The Government of the King of Persia tho it be despotical and severe has a great deal less of the Tyrant in it than any other of the Mahometan Kings or Princes these cherishing their Brethren maintaining Nobility amongst them and encouraging Industry which makes them to be better served than the Turk or Tartar to both whom they are far inferior both in Power and Treasure Their Officers of State and Men of principal Employment for the most part are Eunuchs as generally in all Empires of the East such persons being thought most trusty because abstracted from the Obligation of Wife and Children they study more the Prince's Service than their own Advantages Grand Tartary and China I. THE Chronicles of China tell us of three hundred and forty Kings which for the space of 4000 years there Reign'd and that the Country being without Rule or settled Government before was first reduc'd into Order by one Vitey by whom the people were instructed in Physick Astrology Divination the Arts of Tillage Shipping c. Of this Kings Race there are said to have been two hundred and seventeen Kings who held the State 2257 years The last of them was Tzaintzon who being ill Neighbour'd by the Scythians not yet call'd Tartars is said to have built that vast Wall extended four hundred Leagues in length parting Tartary from China having at the end of every League a strong Rampart or Bulwark continually Garrizon'd and well furnish'd with all warlike Necessaries This Wall in reality is only a continuation made good of a Chain of Mountains dividing the two Countries there being a Work of the like Nature tho not for the same use in the Kingdom of Peru in America of which I have given an account before Now this King Tzaintzon being slain by some of his Subjects who found themselves burthen'd and wasted with this Work the Race of these Kings ended and then several Princes of Chinese Families held the Government one after another and afterwards several Tartar Princes China being Conquer'd by the Tartars and made a Province by them till about the year 1269 when a Chinese nam'd Hugh a mean Person but of great Courage rais'd to himself a strong Party and drove the Tartars out of all and was Crown'd Emperour of China taking to himself the name of Hungus by some Writers commonly call'd Hombu that is a famous Warrior and
not any account thereof to rely on but it s generally agreed that the Houses for the most part are but of one Story and the Sreets being not pav'd so troublesom a dust is rais'd by the Wind in the Summer that it forces those who have not Portative Chairs to cover their Faces with a Linnen Cloth reaching to their Girdles thro which they may see without being seen and the Dirt makes the Streets altogether as offensive in the Winter In this City as they say the King has a Pallace of great Magnificence and Curiosity Nanking is the next chief City of China and not inferiour to the former only in the number of Inhabitants which by reason of the Kings Residence at Peking is there greater The Houses of the chief Merchants are very well built and of many Stories They compute in it a Million of Inhabitants without comprising a Garrison of forty thousand Men kept there by the Tartars under the Command of the Lieutenant General of the Southern Provinces who resides there There are several accounts of the vast numbers of Cities Towns Villages Houses and Inhabitants of China as also of their incredible numbers of Shipping concerning all which we want more perfect accounts to rely on IV. It s said that the Kings of China have ordinarily had an yearly Revenue of above one hundred and fifty Millions of Crowns His Revenues as C ham of Tartary may be what he lists himself he being the absolute Lord of all the Subject has without any thing he can call his own But that which ordinarily accrues to him is the Tenth of the Wooll Silk Hemp Corn and Cattle and he draws into his own Hands all the Gold and Silver which is brought into the Country and which he causes to be melted and preserv'd in his Treasury imposing on his people instead of mony in some places Cockleshells others a black Coin made of the Bark of Trees with his stamp on it and he keeps to himself the whole Trade of Pearl fishing which no Man upon pain of death dares fish for but by leave from him INDIA I. THE Emperour of India call'd the Great Mogul or King of Indostan is nam'd Aureng-Zebe which in the Indian Language signifies The Ornament of the Throne He is call'd the Mogul by reason of his descent from the Mongul Tartars one of the five great Tribes or Nations mention'd in the foregoing Head into which that people was divided deriv'd Originally from the Great Tamerlane The present Emperour began to Reign An. 1660 after the cruel Deaths which he made his own Father and Brothers to suffer he being the third of four Sons of that Prince He has many Children and his eldest Son is call'd Sultan Mahmond II. The Armorial Shield of India is Argent semè with Besants Or his Livery is of a _____ colour He professes the Mahometan Religion which has been long Embrac'd by the Tartars from whom they were originally descended and he uses the Scythian or Tartarian Language from which the Turks a Scythian people differ but in Dialect and a sprinkling of the Persian intermixt with it III. The City where he keeps his Court is call'd Agra He formerly resided at Lahor Agra is esteem'd twice as great as Hispaan The Houses of the Persons of Quality are Magnificent tho they are but of one Story or two at most and are environ'd with very high Walls to keep their Wives from being seen IV. This King has an infinite Treasure in Gold and pretious Stones His yearly Revenue is said to be fifty Millions of Crowns and he is Heir to every Mans Estate that is worth an having the Persons and Purses of his Subjects being at his sole disposal so that he may amass what Treasures and raise what Forces for War he pleases Decan and Cambaia I. THE name of the King of Decan and Cambaia is Idalcansi or Idalschaa II. He bears Verte encompast with a Collar of large precious Stones His Livery is of a _____ colour He professes the Mahometan Religion and uses the _____ Language III. His chief Cities are Decan and Visapore tho he resides ordinarily at Danoger There is much talk of a great Canon he has in his Artillery He has in his Country an Hill encompast with an high Wall and kept by a strong Garrison because of the great store of Diamonds and other Precious Stones which are dug out of it An. 150◠the Portugueses took from a Prince of Decan the Island and Town of Goa which they have since made the Capital of their East India Conquests Golchonda and Orixa I. THE King of Golchonda and Orixa is call'd Cha John II. He professes the Mahometan Religion III. His Capital City is Golchonda which is very fair and strong All the Merchants Lodge in the Suburbs and the Kings Officers and persons of Quality in the Town IV. This Prince has in his Estates a very rich Mine of Diamonds CALICUT I. THE name of the King of Calicut is Zamorin II. He professes the Mahometan Religion III. His Capital City and the ordinary place of his Residence is Calicut It is in length extended upon the Sea shore three Miles and a Mile in breadth containing about six thousand Houses but mean and low built few of them exceeding the height of a Man on Horseback the Soil being so hollow and full of water that it is not capable of a Foundation for an heavier building and for that cause unwall'd so that Merchants Houses are here valued but at twenty Crowns those of the Common sort no more than ten yet it is of great Trading The Portuguese forc'd a Foundation on the shore there for a strong Castle but were so put to it by the King of Calicut that they were fain to demolish it and to quit their Posts The Priests or Bramans there were yellow clothing because they think this colour Consecrated to God by reason of its resemblance to the Sun and to Gold PEGU THE Kingdom of Pegu and the Town of its name are now almost ruin'd Siriangh is at present the most considerable Town of the Kingdom and the ordinary place of the Kings Residence Pegu was once the chief City and was very famous having round about it a Moat in which Crocodiles were kept to keep people from surprising the Town The people of Pegu have white Elephants in great Veneration and think they draw on them a Benediction and that their false Prophet Xaca was Metamorphoz'd into that Animal This King is a Pagan SIAM I. THE present King of Siam is about forty years of Age. II. He is a Pagan tho the people of Siam are generally Adiaphorists that is to say all Religions are indifferent to to them because they believe them all good wherefore they tolerate them all so they may consist with the Laws of their State III. The Capital City is Siam it s said to be one of the finest a Man can look on The buildings are of an admirable Structure and the
Temples Monasteries and gilded Towers appear so rich and beautiful that they surpass all may be imagin'd of most stately JAPAN I. POntier tells us the Emperour of Japan's name is Xogun or Taico Mallet says its Quane II. According to the Relation of the Ambassadors of the Dutch East-India Company sent to this Emperour his Arms are Or with six Stars Argent in an Oval Shield and bordered with little Points of Gold Mallet says he bears Sable with three Trefoils Argent He is a Pagan III. Meaco was formerly the Capital City of Japan while the Emperours there resided but since he has left it it is not so considerable tho it contains still above one hundred thousand Houses the most part built of Carpenters Work as being less subject to be shaken with Earthquakes which are there very frequent In this City is a most magnificent Palace in which the Dairy or Chief Priest resides Yedo is now the Capital City the Emperour there residing The Houses are generally built of Clay and cover'd with Wood that the moisture might not prove offensive The great Mens Palaces are numerous and of a magnificent Structure There is one Street in the Town near four Leagues in length The Emperours Palace there is one of the most beautiful of Japan The Temple of Amida in Yedo is very stately IV. This Country is very Fertile in Corn Beasts Wild-Fowl Pearls Mines of Gold and Silver and others Rice alone as it s said brings this Emperour yearly two Millions of Crowns TONQUIN I. THE present King of Tonquin is about fifty five years of Age. II. He is a Pagan and when a King is there newly elected the number of Beasts sent to be Sacrifis'd in the Temples of their false Gods is said to be one hundred thousand III. The Capital City is Checo Tonquin is judg'd almost in equal extent with France The Tonquineses say that the whole Kingdom contains above twenty thousand Cities and Towns and many more there would be but that many of the people choose rather to live on the Water than on the Land so that the greatest part of their Rivers is cover'd with Boats which serve them instead of Houses IV. The chief Riches of Tonquin which yield a great Revenue to the King consists in the great quantities of Silks which are there worn by Rich and Poor and in their Musk and Lignum Aloes of which there is some worth one thousand Crowns the pound according to its goodness and oiliness tho there is some not worth above 3 l. it being dry The Names and Ages of some other East-India Princes THE old Sultan of Bantam nam'd Abdul Fete if now living is about sixty years of Age. His Son Sultan Annum-Cassar Abdull-Massar is aged thirty seven years Sasnum Emperour of Java vulgarly call'd the Mandarin is aged about forty years Sultan Annum-Abdull-Negara King of Jambee is aged about forty five years Sultan Rutterro King of Cherriboam aged about thirty nine years Sultan Adisbull-Abdull-Isphew King of Macasser aged about forty four years Raja Pallacca King of the Buggesses the High Land of Macasser aged about fifty seven years The King of Ceilon now about eighty six years of Age. MOROCCO and FEZ I. NOT to go farther for the Rise of the Emperors of Fez and Morocco a Family of them called the Marine Family begun in Jacob Ben-Joseph ann 1270 who held their Residence at Fez as the first Seat of their Empire Morocco being then governed by an Under-King and the rest of the Provinces of the Kingdom cantoned into several States Now it happened about the year 1508 that Mahomet Ben Amet a Native of Dora in the farther Numidia pretending a Descent from their Prophet Mahomet caused himself to be called Xeriffe a Name by which the Kindred and Successors of that Impostor used to call themselves and being a poor Hermite only which sort of pretended Saints have often imposed on this People plotted to make his Sons the chief Princes of Mauritania To this end he sent them to Meccha whence they returned with such an opinion of Sanctity that Mahomet the then King of Fez made Amet the elder of them Governor of the famous College of Amadorach and the youngest called Mahomet Tutor to his Children In those days the Portuguese greatly infested the Provinces of the Realm of Morocco to repress whose Insolences Mahomet and Amet obtained Commissions tho much opposed therein by Muley the King's Brother who told him that under colour of Religion they might quickly raise themselves to a power and how unsafe it was to trust an arm'd Hypocrisie But this Counsel was rejected and they being furnished with an Army defeated Lopez Barriga Commander of the Portugal Forces under King Emanuel and compelled that King to abandon all his Footing there and they subdued Duccata Sus and Hea three Provinces of the Realm of Morocco entered that City poisoned the Tributary King and salute Amet King thereof by the name of Xeriffe of Morocco investing Mahomet the other Brother in the Kingdom of Sus. During these Successes the King of Fez died and his Successor named Amet an improvident young Prince confirms his quondam Tutors in their new Estates conditionally they should hold of him in Chief and pay him the accustomed Tributes Amet denied both Tribute and Superiority to the King of Fez whom he overthrew in a set Field and was himself afterwards vanquished and dispossessed of his Kingdom upon some quarrel breaking out by his Brother Mahomet King of Sus who having got the Kingdom of Morocco united Fez unto it also by the vanquishment of Amet the King thereof who at last was slain by the Turks of his Guard From this Mahomet is descended Ismael Muley or Muler her Brother to the late King of Taffilette by the Mother-side present Emperor of Barbary and Morocco King of Fez Susa and Taffilette being about forty years of Age. II. He bears for Arms three Wheels Argent He professes the Mahometan Religion and styles himself Xeriffe of the Race of Mahomet Xeriffe signifying an illustrious and sacred person The Language spoken at present in most of the Maritime Towns of Barbary except those of Fez and Morocco is the Arabick In those two Kingdoms and most part of the Country Villages the Punick or Old African the ancient Languages of the Country is spoken The Punick in all places where anciently the Carthaginians were of any power the African whatsoever it was in the parts of Mauritania not subject to them III. The two Capital Cities are Fez and Morocco the latter was reckoned once amongst the greatest Cities of the World at what time it was said to contain one hundred thousand Families but by the Depredations of the Barbarians and the removal of the Seat Royal to Fez it s hardly a third part so big as formerly The Castle there is very large and strong on a Tower whereof stand three Globes made of pure Gold prized at six hundred thousand Livres There is no City