m*^ 
 
AN EXACT 
 
 RELATION 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 ENTERTAINMENT 
 
 Of His Mod Sacred Majefty 
 
 WILLIAM IIL 
 
 K I N G of England, 
 
 Scot la fid, Frame and Ireland i 
 
 Hereditary Stadtholder of 
 
 the United Ketherlandf J ^c. 
 
 At the H J G V E. 
 
 Giving a particular Defcriptionof His 
 MAJESTY'S Entiy there, Jan.z6. 169:-. 
 And of the feverai Triumphant Arches, 
 Pyramids, Pictures, C'c with the In- 
 fcriptions and Derices, 
 
 lUiiftrated with Coffer Plates of thi whole Solcrmiit/t 
 exaBly dravan from the Original. 
 
 By an Er,glijh Gcfitleman. 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed in the Year M DC. XCI. 
 
THE 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 -■ 1f^ VI NG often Ohferved^ that Re^ 
 I lations of Travels^ Voyages , &:c. 
 ■^*H are generalJj 'very /Iccepabh to the 
 ^ A Genius of the EnglijJj Nr.tiov^ I 
 judged that it might not be altogether Imperti' 
 pent to gi've a brief Account of fome remarkable 
 Obfervations made during my Abode in Foreign 
 Countries y efpecially halving Travelled for the 
 fpace of Sixteen Tears through Holland , Ger^ 
 many, Sweden, J)enmark^ and other conjide- 
 rable Tarts of Europe. 
 
 I eafdy forefee^ that it Tvill be toon ObjeBed^ 
 that ^ter Jo great a Manas Sir William Temple, 
 ovho hath already Publijlied a full and incompara- 
 hie Defer ipt ion of l^he Policy aiM Govern7nent of 
 the States of the United Provinces, it "woidd 
 be a vain Vrefumption to attempt any farther oil 
 that SubjeH. However^ "ivithout derogating from 
 his Honour^ I have here in(erted divers particular 
 Remarks, not mentioned by him, but fuch asTra- 
 vellers may make Ufe of to very good purpofe, 
 for ivhofe Information this [mall EJfay is chief y 
 
 defgn^d. 
 
The Preface. 
 
 deJtgfPd. Ani it ivill he the more eminently 
 Xlfeful at this time^ in reffeB of the great num~ 
 her of Englijh Gcntlemen>^ that now Travel that 
 "ivay. Wherefore I doubt not^ but this will be a 
 fufficient Plea to cover me from the Imputation of 
 Vanity^ and to make it appear^ that what I have 
 here petform'*d^ is only intended for the -publick 
 Service in general^ and the -particular Ajfijlance 
 of thofe Gentlemen^ who jhall hereafter Travel 
 through thefe Countries. The Lijls of the Pajfage 
 Boats and Wagons i;? Holland, wit b the Hours of 
 their goi?ig off\ which 1 have inferted^ theTror 
 teller 7vitl find extreamly TJfeful, 
 
 As for the Relation of the Kings Voyage to 
 Holland^ annexed at the end. I Confefs indeed^ 
 That it defe/ves to be Written by an abler Hand • 
 I'ut being at that time at the Hague, / was in- 
 duced by Curiofity^ to take an exatl Account of 
 this fo extraordinary a Solemnity^ which I did at 
 frft for my own privateUfe^ but have now Pub" 
 lijhed it through the importunity offome Friends. 
 The ProfpeBs of the Triumphal Arches^ Pyra^ 
 mids^ ^C. are exaBly Copied from the Original 
 Draughts taken at the Hague, and are the true 
 Reprefentations oj^them* 
 
 A 
 
( I ) 
 
 DESCRIPTION 
 
 HOLLAND^ 
 
 IVtth fome NeceJJary 
 
 DIRECTIONS 
 
 FOR 
 
 Such as intend to Travel through 
 the Province o( HOLLAND^ 
 G E %_MAn r, &c. 
 
 AS they that confine themlelves to 
 their own Country^ have not the 
 opportunity to fee and oblerve 
 Rarities in other Parts of the 
 World ; fb, fuch as go into Foreign Places^ 
 rather Wander at Random ,than Travel^vvho 
 have not the Curiofity to commit to Me- 
 mory or Writing iuch Things they meet 
 with; both for tlieir own and others Satisfa- 
 £ ciion. 
 
a A Defcriftion of 
 
 d'wn, as may demonftrate the Fruits of their 
 "^1 raTcls. 
 
 I confeis , all Travellers arc not of alike 
 Temper; Ibme delight themfelves in Con-^ 
 templation of the Ciiriofities of Arts; fbme 
 ai'e taken with the Varieties of the Works of 
 Nature ^ others fpeculate.vvith a kind of Re- 
 verence, the Decays and JRuins of Antiquity ; 
 otliers (ludioufly inform themfelves with the 
 TranfaAions ot Modern TiiHes; others with 
 ^he Government and Polity ; others ipesulate 
 the ftj-ange Culloms and Fafhions of the Pla- 
 ces they pafs through j to be {hortjCver}' one 
 labours to entertain the Reader with thole 
 Obfcds and Rarities of Foreign Parts his Ge- 
 nius and Liclination is moil affeded with. 
 
 As to my lelf, although during the fpace of 
 16 Years Travel, I might have enlarged, ac- 
 cording to theCuriofity and Opportunity I 
 have had in the rehearial of many rare and 
 cxquifite Things very cblervablef yet my 
 chief Aim was^ to make Hich Remarks as 
 freight moft contribute to the common Good 
 oi' Human Society and Civil Life^ in taking 
 fiotice of the Government and Polity of the 
 feveral States and Dominions where I have 
 been, 'viz. The United Provinces^ Gerrnany^ 
 Defjmark^S-ivetden^snd Other Countries, whole 
 natural Temper and Dilpofition leemed to 
 me molt to fympathize with our EngliJri 
 Nation, and thereby have an occafion to do 
 Ibme good to my owi> Country. Expect 
 
 not,. 
 
^^--•i 
 
HOLLAND. § 
 
 hotj Reader^ a like pundualnej^^ as to all the 
 foreoientibned places^ beeaule veiy many 
 things. Which I might have obfervedj are 
 miicli agreeing, and fo may be referred tol 
 what (hall be iJDokeii of the Polity and G6' 
 vertiment of HoUiwd^ which, for Reaforfs \ 
 Ifiall by and by hint at^ i^ the chief End I 
 aimed at in this Treatiie. 
 
 We will begin then in the firft place witK 
 the Commonwealth of Holland^ and Domi- 
 nions of the States General, which ti:6 for 
 fome years were in a declining condition;,and[ 
 their Forces exceedingly weakened, by rea- 
 son of that fatal War it managed againit Ena^. 
 land^France^ and the Bilhop oi Mufjft-er^ UntO 
 which, if we add the intcftine Divifions of 
 thole two Faftionsthe Prince of Ch-ange and 
 Lcyvefiein, that Politick Body, was \^o totter'd 
 iind torn, as did threaten its utter and total 
 Ruine; 
 
 But as Bodies, whether Natural or Politick^ 
 after that a violent Fit hath fore fiiaken^dilii- 
 pated, and exhaufted their Spirits, may reco- 
 ver vigor, and look lively again, if lb be th® 
 Radical Cohllitution and Natural Temper 
 be not wholly changed and depraved; evca 
 fo thisCommonwea.thof Hi)//rtW hath vilibly 
 recovered Strength again, and attained its 
 former Force and Luihe. 
 
 We will therefore mdke fome Remarks, 
 as to the Defeats and Failings (oblerved not 
 only by me^ but alfo by others) which that 
 
 B 2 tiimous 
 
i(. A Defer ipt ion of 
 
 famous Commonvvealtli hath of late years 
 been guilty of; which I fhall do not out of 
 any Malice^ or defign of Refledion, the in- 
 tention of writing thisTreatile being (imply 
 to infert thole Defaults which the wifeft of 
 Authors have always judged neceflary^ not 
 only for the Reformation of thisj but of all 
 States whatlbever. 
 
 This Commonwealth of Ho//^;« J hadi wor- 
 thily been the Wonder of all Europe during 
 this lart Age.and perhaps not to beparallell'd 
 in the Records of former Times; for if we 
 conlider how many years it was aflaulted by 
 riiC then moft Potent Prince of Europe, who 
 alpired to no lels than theUniverial Empire; 
 and that how formidable foever he vvere,yet 
 they not only maintained their Pretenfions, 
 but with uninterrupted Proiperity and Suc- 
 cefifulnels advanced their Trade^, andlpread 
 their Conquells in all the four Parts of tlie 
 World. 
 
 Rome it felf^ diough moft fimous and vi- 
 cloriouSj yet could not^ as is believed, in io 
 fhorta time do what by this Commonwealth 
 hath been effected. In If^Ma and yifncn th.ey 
 fbon forced the Spaniard and Fcmigmfes to 
 yield to them mo(i of dieir Trade and Pof- 
 leffioos : And tho England put in for a jfiare^ 
 }'et they were a long while vigoioufly op- 
 poled by the Dutch, and to this hour have 
 enough to do to keep wliat they have got- 
 ten; 16 that in lels than loo }'ears thisCon>. 
 
 monwealth 
 
HOLLAND. 5 
 
 monwealth by their Induftry, and Art in 
 Trading, are become Co excellive Rich and 
 Potent;, that the}' began to Inliilt, and would 
 needs be Arbitrators to their Neighbouring 
 Princes and States, and encroach upon their 
 Territories and Dominions. 
 
 This drew upon them that fatal War be- 
 fore-mentioned, by which they were Ibrely 
 weaken'd and brought fo low, that except 
 GOD by a more than ordinar}^ Providence 
 had proteAed and appeared for them, they 
 had certainly been ruinated, and never able 
 to recover themfelves again j however, their 
 Pride hereby was much abated: And as 
 Luxury ^nd Lafcivioulhels are the fad Effects 
 of Profperit3%as well as Pride; fb Hich Vices 
 in a Body Politick and Commonwealth as do 
 corrupt the Pvadical Humours_, by abating the 
 Vigour of the Vital Parts, do inlenfibly tend 
 to theConfumption and Decay of thewl-iole. 
 
 That this Commonwealth hath much re- 
 co\'ered ks Strength, may clearly appear, if 
 we confider what great Things they have ef- 
 feded fince the little time they have enjoyed 
 Peace : The)'' have in lefs than 7 Years built 
 about 40 gallant Ships of War ; They have 
 laid out vattSums of Trealufe in refortif}'ing 
 Narde^j^Mae/ncbt^BreJa^thQGra've^Andmany 
 other Places; They have paid vail Sums of 
 Money to their Allies for their Auxiiiaiy 
 Troop5,as alio 2000c o/. Sterling to the King 
 oiEvgLiTrdto Enjoy their Peace with hlm-And 
 B % he. 
 
€ A D^fcriftion of 
 
 jDcfides all this^ tlieir Encreafe in Riches and 
 Power may be guefl'ed at^bytlie many (lately 
 Houfes built within thefe j Years inAwficr. 
 dafKyRotter daw yund Other Places j to all which 
 we may add , to what exceffivp height the 
 Adions of the Eafi and Wefi-IndU Company 
 are rilen^ and the Obligations from the States 
 are ^o efteemed as to Security, that they can 
 get as muchMony as theypleafeatzpe^^C^w^. 
 Not to fpeak of the exceeding Encreafe of 
 their Subjeds^occafioned hyxho, French King's 
 Tyranny againlt thedirtrelTed Protellantsin 
 France^ Aljacc, and pther parts of his Con- 
 quefts; neither will we Ipeak of other Signs 
 pf the Encreafe of this Commonv/ealth, as 
 not judging it convenient to commit then> 
 to Paper, but will now proceed to ihew the 
 Method of Living and Travelling in the 
 Dominions and Places of the States^ which^ 
 if you dp vvell confider, you may fee how 
 happy and eafy the Government of England 
 is, above that of other Nations. * 
 
 " The Briell in Holland is the ufual place where 
 ^he Pacquet and Jving's Pleafure-boats bring 
 pn iiich as come to fee the United Provin- 
 ces^ but of lax&Helvoet-Sluys is the place the, 
 Pacquet comes to, as being the more conve- 
 nient Port : Here be fure to furnilh your fcif 
 well with Money. From hence you take a 
 Boat to Maejland-Sluys or Rotterdam^ which, 
 if you go in Company with others, will oiiJy 
 foil you y Stivers; but if you take one for 
 
 )'oiu- 
 
3^^j S'nleriaatment' Tap: 6- 
 
HOLLAND. 7 
 
 yourfelfj vvillcoft 25- Stivers for Maefd.ind- 
 Sl/ice, and a Ducaroon to Rotter flaw : TI',e 
 fifth part of which goes to the States for a 
 Tax, they call ^^Ij'^g'i^-' Gdf • and the other 
 fourparts arc for theEoat-Men or Schippers, 
 who alio out of their Gains niuft pa)' a Tax 
 to the States, fb that by Computation you' 
 pay a fifth Penny to the States for your Tra- 
 velling either in Boats by Water, or in Wa- 
 gons by land. 
 
 As }ou pais bv M:rfelafifi-S luce you. will fee* 
 a very fair 1 iiliing \ iilnge, to which be'ong 
 near Two hundred Herring Eulfes , l)ut if 
 you go by the way of Rotter Jd??-/ you Sail by 
 two old I'owns, called FlarJ.in and ScbkJam ; 
 Yet let me advife }'ou before you depart from 
 the Rrielly 10 take a ferious view of ir, as l)e- 
 ing the City which in Qiieen FJi<,abi:tlfs time 
 Was one of the Cautionary Towns Pawned 
 to Evgland. The Rridl had a Voice aiPiong 
 the States, but by reafon Rotterdam hath got 
 away their Trade, by which having loll its 
 former Luftrc,is now become a Fiihing Town 
 only. 
 
 Kotterd^^n is the Second City for Trade i;i 
 HAland^ and h\ Ibme is called, Little Lo?:di n, 
 as having vail iVatiick with Engl.md, info, 
 much, that many of the Citizens Speakgood 
 linglilK Tlieic are in tliis City two coi'ai- 
 derablc Churches of Ens^'iilh and Scotch; 
 A.nd haw great a Trade they d . ive with the 
 Iving oi E'jirland'i bubjed:5 if evident;, for ia 
 i5 4 ' th$ 
 
8 A Defcription of 
 
 the year 1674^ at the openingof the Waters, 
 after a great Froft , there departed out of 
 Rotter Jam 500 Sail of Englifh, Scotch^ and 
 Iriih Ships at once with an Eafterly Wind : 
 And if a Reafon fhoiild be demanded ^ how- 
 it comes to pals that fo many Englifh Ships 
 ihould frequently come to that Haven , It is 
 eafily anlu'ered^, becaufe they can ordinarily 
 Load and Unload^and make returns to Eng- 
 land from Rotterdam before a Ship can get 
 elear from Amfierdam and the Texel : And 
 therefore your Engliih Merchants find it 
 Cheaper, and more Commod ious for Trade, 
 that after their Goods are arrived at Rotter- 
 Jam ^io fend their Goods in Boats Landward 
 into AmJhrdaJf!. 
 
 This City is Famous, as being the place 
 where great Er/^W/j was Born, whole Statue 
 of Brals {lands ereded in the Market-place: 
 And although the Buildings here are not io 
 fiiperb as thofe of Amfierdam^ L(ydc>i, or 
 Haerkm^ yet the places worth the ieeing.are, 
 firff, the great Church, where leverai Ad- 
 mirals lie itately Entombed ; here you fee 
 their Admiralty,Eafl:-India, and Stadt-Houfes, 
 together with that called, Het Gemecn Lands 
 Huis, 
 
 . From Rotterdam you may for five Stivers 
 have a Boat to bring you to Delft, but before 
 you come thither you pafs tlirough a fair 
 V'illage called Overjcble , where the French 
 and Englifh Youths are trained up in Litte- 
 ': rature. 
 
HOLLAND. 9 
 
 rature^ as to the Latin and Dutch Tongue, 
 Book-keeping, c^c From thence in the ferae 
 Boat you come to Delft which is Famous for 
 making of Porceline to that degree, that it 
 much refembles the China, but only it is not 
 Tranlparent. 
 
 In Delft is the great Magazin of Arms for 
 the whole Province of Holland : Their- 
 Churches are ver}' large, in one of which 
 are Tombs of the Princes of Orange, Admi- 
 ral Tromp, and General Morgans Lady, and 
 in the Cloifter over againll the Church, }^ou 
 have an Inlcription in a Pillar of Brafs,lliew- 
 ing after what manner Willi am thQV'iv^, that 
 Famous Prince of Orange, was ihot to Death 
 by a Mifcreant Jefuit, with his deferved 
 Punilliment. 
 
 Delft hath the third Voice in the States of 
 Holland, and lends its Deputies mito the Col- 
 lege of the States General, and to all other 
 Colleges of the Commonwealth. They 
 have alio a Chamber in the EajKIndia Com- 
 pany, as Ihall be more largely l{3oken to^ 
 when we Ihall come to Treat of the State 
 of the laid Company. 
 
 From Delft you may by Boat be brought- 
 to the Hague lor two Stivers and an half ;- 
 which is accounted the fiirell Village in the 
 World, both for pompous Buildings , and 
 the largenels thereof; here die Princes of. 
 Orange iiold their Refidence, as alfo the States 
 <General^ and the Council of State j here you 
 
 have 
 
10 A Defer iptien of 
 
 have the Courts of Juftice^ Chancery, and 
 other Courts of Law. Here yoa fee that 
 great Hall, in which many Hundreds of 
 Colours are hung up in Trophy , taken 
 from the Emperor, Spaniard, and other Po. 
 tentates with whom they have waged War. 
 Their Council Chambers are admired by all 
 that lee them. Many fair Libraiies they 
 have belonging to particular Men. Ths 
 Princes Palace is a moft luperb Building, 
 f^nd there are many coiily Gardens adjo^-n- 
 ijig to tlie Hague, together wirh that to the 
 Princes Houfeintlie Wood, in which Houfe 
 are in a large Hall the m.oll: rare and coitiy 
 Pi(!tures oi Europe t, there alio are thole Mag- 
 nificent andUnparaleird Gardens of the Heer 
 Bentbiun of u^^-.ncjlavd and others. I niighc 
 here fpeak of the iplcndor of His Majelties 
 Comt in. Holland^ ot his Noble \'irtues and Va-, 
 lour,of the molt \ irtuous and Beautiful Prin-. 
 ceis his ivoyal Confoi t, but 1 dare not, lealt 
 1 Jhould iiiriniteh^ fall ihort of what ought to 
 be, and which others have already done be-, 
 fore me : And therefore. leaving the H.^gue , 
 .( ihall only tell }'ou that from chencc vou 
 ma}' for Icven Stivers have a Boat to bring 
 you to Lcydaj. Ley den is a lair and greae 
 City, ^nd the Univerfity is very Famous, 
 there being continually in it icco Students 
 ircm all parts, as Hungary^ Foland^ Germany^ 
 yea from the Ottomans Empire it felf, wlio 
 pretend x.o be Grecians, befides the Englilh^ 
 
 bcots^. 
 
H L I A n f). u 
 
 Scots, and Irilh , who this year were num- 
 bred to be above 80. 
 
 The npll remarkable Things here to be 
 icQw^ fhall fummarily letdown: As the place 
 called the Bergh , fori-qcrly a Caftle belong- 
 ing to the Prince of Luge in Flanders : The 
 Stadt-houle^the UniverfiLy Schools, elj^ecially 
 that of the Anatomy , which excels all di^ 
 Anatomy Schools in the World, a Book of 
 the Rarities whereof you may iiave for fix 
 iStivers ^ their Phyfick Garden, and the Pror 
 feflbrs Clolet are all Ri^villaing in rare Cuht 
 ofitics. But as to their Colleges , they are 
 but two, and very fiiiall, not to be com pa- 
 red with the finalleft Halls in O.v/^^r^^neither 
 have the}' any Lndowments , their maijiter 
 nance being oiily from the Chaiitable Col- 
 lediions of the M iniilers of Holland ; neither 
 are iuiy Students to remain longer there tlian 
 till they attain the Degree of Batchelors of 
 Art: One of die Curators being demanded 
 by me , Why fo Rich a Commonwealth as 
 Holland is , did not Build and f,ndow CoU 
 leges after the manner of Oxford and Canj- 
 bridge ; anfwercd , They had not fp many 
 iible and publick fpirited Men as are in Eng- 
 land^ and to deal plainly widi you^ iaid he, 
 had we(uch Colleges,our Burghcrmallersand 
 Magiftrates would till them with their own 
 and their Friends Sons_, who by leading a 
 lazie and idle Life , would never become 
 capable to lerve the Commonwealth , an^ 
 
 therefore 
 
12 A T>efcription of 
 
 therefore he judged it much better to put 
 them to Penfion in Burghers-Houles,Ieaving 
 them to the care of the Profellbrs^ who are 
 Very diligent in keeping the Students zx their 
 ExerciieSj both at public k Ledures^, and in 
 their private Houfes alib^ where they caule 
 them punctually at their appointed Hours to 
 come to their Examinations and Lectures, 
 befides thole they have in publick. Their 
 Churches are rare, ^o are their Walks round 
 the City, and the Fortifications very pleafing 
 to behold. Here you have the River Rhine 
 running through the Cit}^, and falling into 
 it from Catwyck op Zee. Ley den is very Fa- 
 mous in Hiftory for the long Siege it held 
 out agairift the Spaniard. From hence for 
 .1 2 Stivers and an half }'ou are brought to 
 Haerlem by Water, being 1 2 Englifh Miles. 
 Harle7n is Famous, in that Cojtor one of 
 their Burghers^firll Invented the Art of Vrin- 
 ttng. This Cojior being liilpeded to be a 
 Conjurer, was fain to flee from Haerlem to 
 Cologne in Gamavy , and there perfected his 
 Invention^ having in H.erlem only found out 
 the way of Piinting on one fide of the Paper. 
 The fiiit Book he ever Printed is kept in the 
 Stadt-houle, forthofe that are curious to fee 
 it. Here is one of the f^ireft and largeft 
 Churches of the Seventeen Provinces^ in the 
 Walls whereof there remain to this day f tick- 
 ing, Camion Bullets, fhot by the Spaniards 
 (iiuing the Siege thereof in this Church 
 
 are 
 
HOLLAND. 15 
 
 are three Organs , as alio the model of the 
 three Ships tliat Sailed from Haerkm to Dami- 
 ater ^ feizing theCaftle in which the Earl of 
 Holland was kept a Prilbner^ and brought 
 him away to Holland : In the Tower of this 
 Church hang two Silver Bells^ which they 
 alio brought from thence, and now Ring 
 them every Night at nine a Clock. 
 
 Haerlem is Renowned for making the fineft 
 Linnen Cloth, Tyffinies , Damasks, and 
 Silk Stuffs; alio Ribands and Tapes: They 
 have Mills by which they can Weave 40 or 
 5-0 pieces at a time ; they make the fineft 
 white Thread and Tapes for Lace in the 
 whole World ; their Bleacheries furpals all 
 other whatlbever, their W^aters whitening 
 Cloth better than any in the Seventeen 
 Provinces: They have a moftpleafant Grove 
 like a litde Wocd,divided into Walks, where 
 on Sundays and Holy-da}s the Citizens of 
 AmjtercLim and Other places come to take 
 their pleallire. ffaerlem is the Second City 
 of HollarJ^^nd lends in Deputies unto all the 
 Colleges of the Government, From hence 
 you have a paflage by Boat to Amlierdam 
 for fix Stivers, but when you are come half 
 way, you muft ftep out of one Boat to go 
 into ano'dier, w+iere you lee a itately Palace, 
 where the Lords, called r>>'>^^r^'c;^^ Jit; every 
 one of thele Lords hath his Apartment when • 
 he comes for the Concerns of the Sea-dyke> 
 and Banks: Here are alio two large Sluces,- 
 
 having 
 
14 A Vefcriptioh of 
 
 having Gates to let in or out Water from thd 
 Haerlemmer Meer. Near this place about 
 ^nno 1672, a part of the Sea-Bank was bro- 
 ken by a ftrong North-Weft Wind^ drowns 
 ing aU the Land betwixt Amferda^m and 
 HaerUm ^ whieh coft an incredible vaft Sum 
 to have it repaired. They ilink in this 
 Breach 400 Imall VelTels fil'd with Earth and 
 Stones^ for a Foundation to rebuild the Wall 
 upon, and by unfpeakable Induftry and 
 Charges at laft repaired the Bank. 
 
 I come now to fJ3eak oi Amjhrclam^j\(\c^ 
 having been the place of my abode for ie- 
 veral years , I jhall give a more large and 
 pundual account thereof then I do or other 
 Places : It is elleemed by Intelligent Men, 
 the Second City in the World for Trade, 
 and not inferiour to any in Wealth. Cer- 
 tainly Amfierdam is one of the BeautifoUeft 
 Cities in the World, their Buildings are 
 large, their Streets for the moft part plea- 
 iantly Planted with Trees, and Paved fy 
 neatly^as is to be found no where elfe in any 
 Country, lave in fome of the Seventeen Pro- 
 vinces. And although, as I have already 
 laid, Awlhrdiim may juitly be taken f^r tho 
 Second or Third City after London and ?ans^ 
 yet it hath neither Court nor Univerfity a* 
 they have. And now in treating of all the 
 Excellences and Virtues of Amjterdiim, I 
 ihall not hyperbolize or flatter ; for before 
 I have done, you Ihali le«. I ihall alio faith- 
 fully 
 
HOLLAND. 15 
 
 fal'y declaim againft the Evils^ Miftakes^ and 
 Vices in it. 
 
 Jnjfterdam ftands upoft 1 000 Morgans of 
 i.aiid, encompalTed with a very ftrong Wall 
 and Baft ions mod pleafant to behold, with 
 a very large Gracht or Ditch for the dcfenca 
 of three parts of the City, the fourth being 
 (eciired by an Arm of the Sea called the 
 River T, or (as the Engl ijh Men corruptly 
 call it) the 7). There are i ; Churches in 
 this City for thofe of the Reformed Religion 
 ( called Dutch Vresbyterlans ) to meet and 
 worlhip in, with two French, one High-Dutch^ 
 and one EvgUjlj, all Presbyterian Churches, 
 who only are allowed Bells, and whofeMi^ 
 nifters are maintained by the Magiifrare,» 
 All thele Churches or Congregations maki3 
 lip only a third part of the Inliabitantsof the 
 City. The Vapjisy who have 85- Houles or" 
 Chapels to meet in for their Worfhip, make 
 another third part, and have a long Square 
 of Iloufes for their Nuns to live in. who ar© 
 not Ihut up in Cloifters^ as in Papift Coun- 
 tries they are wont to do_ but may go in and 
 out at their pleafure, yea and Marry alio, if 
 they grow weary of a Nunniih Life. Thcl^ 
 Churches of the Papilh have noEcllsaUow'd 
 them, being look'd upon asConvcnticks^nnd 
 are many times 1 hut up, and again opened at 
 the Scoui *s pleafure. The other tliirtl part 
 of the City is made up by J^'^'^y Luthtransy 
 Armenians J Brownijts'ov Englljh hde^endaKt:^ 
 
I S A Defcriptiofi of 
 
 uinahaptip^md the Qifakers : None of which^ 
 as was alfo faid of the Papifts, have Bells al- 
 lowed them, but are accounted Conventi- 
 cles ; and all that Marry amongft them muft 
 firft be married by the Magiftrate, and then 
 (if they pleafe) among themfelves in their 
 own Affemblies; neither are any of them 
 admitted unto any Office in the Govern- 
 ment^ but fuch only as are of the Reformed 
 or Presbiterian ProfeflTion. 
 
 The Jews, who are very confiderable in 
 the Trade of this City, have two Syna- 
 gogues, one whereof is the largeft in Chri- 
 ilendom , and as fome fay, in the World; 
 fure I am, it far exceeds thofe in Rome, Ve- 
 nice, and all other places where I have been. 
 Within the Court-yard where then* S)iia- 
 gogue ftands, they have feveral Rooms or 
 Schools, where their Children are taught 
 Hebrew,and very carefully (to the Ihame of 
 Chriftians negligence) brought up and m- 
 ih-uaed in the J ewiih Principles _ 
 
 Anijhrda??j, for the wife Statefmen it hacli 
 produced, is faid to be a fecond Athens • 
 others make it the Storehoufe or Magazine 
 bi Europe, for that it hath fuch great (lore of 
 C:orn, where with it flirnifhes many other Na- 
 tions. And fjcondly, for the exceeding great 
 MiFpzine of Spices, which in ancient times 
 die hnetians brought by Land, furniihing all 
 Parts o^ Europe, but now is done by the£4-- 
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 ■f^urope therewith, but many places in the 
 JvJies alio. Thirdly, It hath inconceivable 
 Store of all manner of Pro\'inons lor War, 
 inlbmiich, that Eva^hmi and divers otiie;- 
 Nations lend to Am ft ordain to buy Ai-ms, 
 BufF-Coats, Belts, Match, &c. \ea, here 
 are feveral Shop-keepers u^ho can deliver 
 Arms for fom- or five Thouiand Meai, and 
 at a cheaper rate than can be got any where 
 elle; and this they can dohy reaibn of their 
 great Indallry in the Ingrofiing moll of the 
 Iron Works on tlie Kmm^ and other Rivers, 
 which run into Holland. Fourthly, Amjhr- 
 daw hath more llore of fa wed and prepared 
 Timber for Shipping than can be found in 
 any one Narion in the World ; and this is 
 the Reafoji why her Neighbor Town Sardam 
 is made capable of Building Ships; 20 per 
 Cent, cheaper than they can do in England 
 or France : So that both France , and S^abt 
 do many times buy them in Holland : As 
 lately the King of 5?^i?2. bought Ten. Capital 
 Ships of die two Erotheis tlie Addts Mer- 
 chants in this Cir}\ Fifthly, Ah^jftcrdam is 
 the Staple where the Emperor fells his Quick- 
 filver, not only to the Spaniard , to uic in 
 his Mijies in the Indies , but for the making 
 ot Cimpr'mm or FerrKiUicn , widi whicli Ar/t-^ 
 jhrdam fornilheth not .only Europe^ but ma- 
 ny places in the iW/w. 
 
 Sixthly, Amfierdam is the Market wher':^ 
 the French King boiight his Marble for Ft-f^ 
 
i8 A Defcription of 
 
 fellies^ Louvre, and other of his Palaces in 
 France : There are ftich vaft Magazines in 
 Amjterdam, that a Man would diink, that 
 ^fees thern^ there were Quarries of Marble 
 near the City Gates. Seventhl}-, Amfier- 
 dam hath the mofi conllderable Bank that 
 now is in the whole World ; I have com- 
 pared the Bank o^t^enke with that oiGenoua^ 
 and both d:ieir Banks write not of io much 
 Money in two days, as Amjhrdam doth in 
 one : Further I have compared the Bank of 
 Vtvke with Hamburg, and find both thole 
 Banks fill very much fhort with the Bank oi 
 Amjierdam. There are many other parti- 
 culars I could name, as Arguments to prove 
 the great Riches and Trade oiAmfierdam, as 
 thofe vail quantities of Wines, and Brandy^ 
 wines they Icll in the North and Eall Seas, 
 and thole vail Countries adjoyning thereun- 
 to, from whence they bring Hemp, Pitch, 
 and Tar, and firniih Fravce, Italy, and Spat7i 
 vvidi the lame; and they likewile have much 
 Ingroifed the Copper and Iron oi Swecd. 
 \lmd. I will lay no m.ore of her Stores and 
 . Magazines, but iliall in the riext place Hiy 
 ■Ibniething of her Churches, and Charity to 
 tl:e Poor. I will not Ipeak much of her 
 Churches, but only that tliey are in general 
 -large and vv^ell Built : In one of them the 
 States have fpared no Coll to exceed the 
 whole World in three Things, {yiz.^ an 
 Organ with lets of Pipes that counterfit a 
 
 Chorus 
 
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 f 
 
The stadx-hollte or AnsrzvjDAn 
 
 3>e/<Ttf>i?on ^2^liun? J'ag.jLp- 
 
HOLLAND. i^ 
 
 Chorus of Voices ^ it hath J2 whole Stops 
 befides half Stops, and hath two rows of 
 Keys for the Feet _, and tlireerows of Keys 
 for the Hands ; I have had People of Qua- 
 lity to hear it Play , who could not believe 
 but that there wei-e Men or Women above. 
 Singing in the Organ , imtil they were cont- - 
 vinced by going up into the Organ Room : 
 The Second, Is luch a large Carved Pulpec 
 and Canopy as cannot be found elfewhere irt 
 the World : The Third^Isa Screen of Brals. 
 The Stadthouie, or Guild-hall of Awji^er^- 
 dam^ is defervedly admired and talked of h|y, 
 all the World, it is in Truth a moft neat and 
 Iplendid Pile of Building , and the Reader 
 will not be dllplealed, I believe, if I enlarge 
 a little in its Delcription. Tl lis Noble Towp?^ 
 Houle then, is Built all of Free-Stone , ■ ac-- 
 cordmg to the Modern Architedure of thq 
 Corinthian Order, Adorned with Statues ji^ 
 Brais, and Carving in Marble by the befl; 
 Mafters of the Age. A Prolged whereol 
 lee in the following Figure. It is 282 Fooa 
 wide, 252 Foot deep, and 116 Foot higb^ 
 befides the Tower. The Foundation is laid 
 upon 156)9 Piles of Wood driven into t'he 
 Ground \ the firlt Stone of it was laid Oqfc-. 
 ber 28. 16^8. In the middle over the Cpr« 
 nifh, and jurt before the Tower , is a very 
 handlbme piece of Carving in Marble, of 82 
 Foot long, and 1 8 Foot high, wherein the 
 City of Arnjtadam is reprelented by a Wo- 
 C 2 man. 
 
20 A "^efcription of 
 
 man , on whofe Right H;\nd fits the God 
 Neptune^ with his Trident, and two Sea- 
 GoddefTes bring her the Fruits 6f the Earth, 
 On her Left, two Nat'des prefent her with 
 Laurels and Palms- ; and before her two Tri- 
 tons Dance and Sound their Horns. On the 
 top of this Hands an Image of Brais, repre- 
 fenting Peace, and one oil each fide repre- 
 fenting Providence and Juftice, each Figure 
 being 1 2 Foot high. And on the back part 
 of the Building to anfwerj is luch another 
 piece of Carding, 'in Marble al(b, Ihewing 
 the Grandeur alnd Commerce of the City ' 
 irt'the middle ^ks a Woman3 having on lier 
 H<ikl the Hat vvith Wings of Mercury ; be- 
 liind her is leen the Mails and Sails of a Ship, 
 jtftd round about her lies all Ibrts of Mathe- 
 mrdtical Infthiments uled in Sailirigj at her 
 Feet lie the two Rivers T and Amfiel^ and 
 ^h^achfide, the Inhabitants of the Four 
 I^^fts of tlie World bring her their Fruits. 
 Hfere likewSe are placed three Images of 
 Bi^ais of the fame bignefs with the other ; 
 ?f^at on the top is an Atlas , bearing a very 
 }ki^ Globe of Copper, on the right Hand,' 
 one reprelenting Temperance , and on the 
 left JulKce. On each of the four Corners of 
 the^ Building, over the Cornifli, ftand four 
 Eagles of Brals lupporring an Imperial Crown, 
 all finely Gilt. In the middle is ereded a 
 f6ty handlbm round Tower , advanced a- 
 boxit yo Foot above the reft of theBuHding, 
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HOLLAND. 2r 
 
 the Roof iiipported by Pill.irs^ and adorned 
 with Images j in it hang a very curious 
 Chime of Bells , which at certain times be- 
 ing played on by a Perlbn maintained for 
 that purpole^ afford a very agreeable Mu- 
 lick. So much for die out fide. And now 
 let us enter^ which )'ou may by Seven little 
 Arched Doors, which let you into the Porch, 
 from whence you enter the tloufe by two 
 large Gates, between which openijig by 
 Windows, (with Bars of Cafl-Brafs) to the 
 Street, Hands the Juftice-Hall for Trial of 
 Criminals, which is Adorned with many 
 curious Carvings in Marb'c of Ingenious De- 
 vices, wJiich would be too long to defcribe 
 particularly. Eelow Stairs, within fide, is 
 kept the Office of the B.:-iik, where tlie 
 Merchants v/rite off their Monc}'' , the 
 Priib:is both for Debtors and Criminals, 
 the Guard Chamber where tlie Citizens 
 keep the Head-Watch , and where the 
 Keys of the Cit}' Gates are kept lockt up in 
 a Chelt eveiy Night, and fbme other Offices. 
 From hence you afcend by a handfbme 
 broad pair of Stairs, though not vQr\' light, 
 into to die Burghers-HaU,vvliich is 120 toot 
 long, J 7 Foot broad, and 98 Foot high, 
 in the Floor whereof are inlaid in Marble 
 the two Faces of the Terrellrial Globe, and 
 that of the Cce.eifial, which ingenioufly 
 fhews, as in a Map , the Situation of the 
 Countries of die Earth , and die Conlfella- 
 C X tions 
 
a 2 A Defcriftion of 
 
 tions in the Heavens: Each of which Maps 
 IS 22 Foot Diameter. At the end of this 
 Hall is the Scheepens Chamber, where are 
 Tryed all Civil Caules between Man and 
 Man^ and in the Galleries (which go round 
 two fquSTs, Courts on each fide the Hall, for 
 convenience of Light) aretheleveral Cham- 
 bers, or Offices, belonging to the Govern- 
 ment; as the Council Chamber, where fit 
 the Common Council of the City, who 
 make Laws,choole the Burghermafters, and 
 Scheepens, Deputies for the States, &c. The 
 Burghermafters Chamber, who fit there daily 
 to Adminifter the Government : The Bur- 
 ghermafters withdrawing Room: The Schee- 
 pens Extraordinary Chamber : The Trea- 
 lury Chambers, Ordinary and Extraordinar}'- : 
 The Chamber of Accounts : That of the 
 Commiflioners for Bankrupts : Another for 
 the Commiflioners for Try al of IhiallCaufes, 
 like our Court of Confcience : And one for 
 the Commiflioners of the Holpitals j widi 
 two or three more belonging to the feveral 
 Secretaiies, all which are beautified with fine 
 Paintings, and ingenious Devices carved in 
 Marble over the Door of each Chamber; to 
 give a particular Delcriprion of which would 
 take up a Volume, which is not agreeable to 
 what 1 here pretend, thele being only fhort 
 Remarks to put young Travallers in mind 
 of what is moft worthy their Oblervation, 
 i fhali only therefore fay in generalj that it 
 
 is 
 
HOLLAND. 25 
 
 is alread}' a. ver}- noble, beautifal, and coftly- 
 Building, nnd is a fufficient intimation of the 
 Richnels of the City ^ but fhould they finifh 
 it widiin fide as they pretend , by Painting 
 die Ceilings , and Facing the Walls with 
 Marble, e^c it would make it incompara- 
 bly the fineft and colllieft in the .World. 
 Over thefe Chambers, in the lecond Stor)', 
 is kept a large Magazine of Arms , which 
 takes up one Angle of the Building, and is 
 ver}' compleady Furniflied ; the Arms are 
 all kept in Prelfes Ihut up, to avoid the in- 
 jury of the Weather j the rell- of the Houfc 
 above is not ufed, or Fiu'nifhed at ajl. One 
 thing I muft not omit, and that js. That 
 there are Eight Cifterns of Water kept always 
 full at the top of theHoule, which by Pipes 
 may be let down into ever}' Room, to quench 
 any accidental Fire • and the Chimneys are 
 all lined with Copper, the former Stadthoufe 
 having been Burnt down by Accident. 
 
 I [hall now proceed, and Ipeak of their 
 Alms-houles, and of the Government of the 
 Poor, of dieir Prifbns, and Houfes of Cor- 
 rection. This City is laid to have 20000 
 Poor ever}' day at Bed and Board. The 
 Alms-houles are many , and look more like 
 Princes Palaces than Lodgings for Poor Peo- 
 ple: Firli:, there are Houfes for Poor old 
 Men and Women, then a large fquare Pa- 
 lace for 500 Widovv's , then diere are Kcf- 
 pitals for Boys and Girls, for Burghers Chil- 
 C 4 dren. 
 
3^ A Vefcription of - 
 
 dreii, and for Strangers Children, or thofe ' 
 called Foundlings ; all thefe Boys and Girls 
 have every Sunday, and orher da}^s of Wor- 
 ihip , two Doites given them by the Fathers 
 of thefe Houfes, theAvhich the Children put 
 into the Deacons Bag when they gather for 
 die Poor in the Churches : Then there is an 
 Holpital for Fools, and a Bedlam: There 
 are Houles where common Beggers, and 
 fGameilers, and frequenters of Tap-houles 
 are kept hard at Work : ThereisalfbaHouie 
 called, the Ralp-houfe, where petty Thieves, 
 and fuch as flalh one another with Knives, 
 fiich as beg with cheating Devices, Women 
 with fained great Bellies, Men pretending to 
 have been taken b}' the Turks , others that 
 pretend Wreck at Sea, and fuch as Beg with 
 a Clapper, or a Bell, as if they could not 
 Speak or Hear, fuch as thefe are kept hard 
 at Work, Raiping every day ^o pounds be- 
 tween two of them, or el(e are beaten with 
 a Bulls Piffel, and if yet they Rebel, and 
 v/ont Workj they are iet in a Tub, where 
 if they do not Pimip, the Water will iw-ell 
 over their Heads : Then there is a Houle 
 where Whores are kept to Work , as alio 
 dif-Obedient Children, who live Idle, and 
 take no Courfe to maintain themfelvesj like- 
 wiie Women commonly drinking thermelves 
 Drank, and Scolds ; all thefe forts of Holpi- 
 rals, and Alms-houles are ftately Buildings, 
 ricihiy Adorned with Pidures, and their 
 
 Lodgings 
 
HOLLAND. 25 
 
 Lodgings very' neat and clean. In lomc^ of 
 the Boys and Girls Holpitals diere are i po^ 
 in ibme Soo , and in lome 5^00 in a Houfe ; 
 dien diey have Houfes where a A^an or a 
 Woman may have their Diet, Wafhing, and 
 Lodging for his Life, giving a fmall Sum of 
 Money ; thele are called BroMdcrs Houfes. 
 The Alms Children of this City are held in 
 (iich Veneration and Relpeii:^^ that a Man had 
 as good llrike a Burgherjiialters Clii'd as one 
 of them.Thefe Children are permitted toTra- 
 vel in anyof theTreckfcuts,orPaiLi^e-Boats, 
 freely without Money : Thele Holpitals are 
 Governed by Men and Women, as are of an 
 unfpotted Life, and reputed to be Rich, De- 
 vout, and Pious : It is very oblervable, that 
 the Women govern their Women Ho^itals, 
 better than the Men do theirs j yea , it is a 
 general Oblervation in this Country, that 
 where the Women have the diredion of the 
 Purle and Trade, the Husband leldom prove 
 Bankrupts, it being the property of a trud 
 Born Holland- Wife prefeiitly after Marriage, 
 to apply her lelf wholly to her Bufinelsj but 
 I forbear to lay any more of the Dutch- 
 houfewives, for fear of diipleafing our Englifh 
 Dames, not fo much addided, atleaftnotlb 
 generally bred up to Induifr}- ; But to return 
 to the Ads of Chaiity of Amfierdam, the 
 which is fo extraordinary, that they lurpa£ 
 all other Cities in the World , for they are 
 daily and hourly giving to the Poor, every 
 
 Houle 
 
^6 A Defer iption of 
 
 HoLifs in Anrfierdam hath a Box hanging in 
 a Chain, on which is Written, Think on the 
 Voorfo that when any Merchant fells Goods^ 
 they commonl)' conclude no Bargain, but 
 more or lefs is put in the Poors Box ^ diefe 
 Boxes are lockt up by the Deacons , who 
 once a quarter go round the City, and take 
 the Money out of the Boxes. Then twice a 
 Week there are Men belonging to the Hof 
 pitals that go round the City, and ring a Bell 
 at every Hou(e, to know what the Mafter 
 or Miftrifi of the Houfe will give to the 
 Box, who generally give not lels dian two 
 .Stivers. Then every firft Wednefday of die 
 'Month, the Deacons in their turn, goroimd 
 the Cit)^, from Houle to Houie, to receive 
 what every Houfe-keeper will give to the 
 Poor , then on the Week before the Sacra- 
 ment is given, a Minifter, with an Elder, 
 goes round the City to every Houfe where 
 any Members of the Presbiterian Religion 
 live, and there ask if 'any differences be in 
 die Family, offering their Service to recon- 
 cile them ; alfb to inftrucl and prepare fuch 
 as are to receive the Sacrament : At this time 
 a Minilter may be ieen to go into a Tap- 
 houle or Tavern, for which at another time 
 he would be counted a Wine-Bibber,and the 
 worft of Reprobates : At this time while 
 thefe Miniilcrs an.d Elders go about the Ci- 
 ty on their \ ifitations , the People take an 
 occafion to give to the Poor. And here I 
 
 OUglit 
 
HOLLAND. ,27 
 
 ought not to omit telling you of their great 
 Chanty to the diltrclTed French Proteftants, 
 who are here in great Numbers. They main- 
 tain no lefs than 60 French Minillers y and 
 luito many Handicraft Tradelinen , and 
 makers of Stuffs^ and Cloth, they lend Sums 
 of Money, without Literell, to buy Work- 
 ing Tools, and Materials for their Work ; 
 but this is no other then they formerly did to 
 the Poor diftrefl'ed Proteftants of /re/^ Wand 
 Tiemont ; and their Charity was not a litde 
 that they gave to Geneva towards die Buil- 
 ding their Foitiftcations ; and here give me 
 leave to tell you, what King Charles II. 
 laid of the Charity of Jwjhrdam, when the 
 Duke o^ Lotkrdal, hearing that the Prince of 
 Oranges Army was not able to oppole the 
 French from advancing lb near to Amfer- 
 danty the Duke jearingly laid , Tlmt Oranges 
 would be 'Very [car ce in Holland, ^/t^r Amfter- 
 dam jl)':iuld fallintotbe French Hands to plunder. 
 To which Flis Majefty laid. That he was of 
 Opinion , that God would preferve Amfterdam 
 from being destroyed ^ if it 7vere only for the great 
 Charity they have for the Poor , the which put 
 the Duke out of Countenance; I will fay no 
 more of their Charity, only this , that they 
 leave no Stone unturned to bring Monies in- 
 to the Poors Stock ; they make the Stage- 
 players pay 8 00 00 Gilders a year to the Poor ; 
 there is notaRope-Dancer,Poppet-Player,or 
 any of that Ibrtof umiecelTaf}' Vermin which 
 
 frequent 
 
2S A Defcription of 
 
 frequent Fairs , but pay the third Penny to 
 the Poofj which is carefully looked after, by 
 placing an Alms-man at the Door of the 
 booths, to fee that they cheat not the Poor 
 of their (hare. I iliall now in the next place 
 fay fbmething of the Clergy, I mean thofe 
 c<iUed, The States Clerg^y^ for the States are 
 abfblutely Head of their Church j and when 
 any Synod of Divines meet,two of the States 
 are always prelent to hear that they debate 
 nothing relating , or reflediing on the Go- 
 vernment, or Governors j if they do , pre- 
 lently the States cry. Ho lit mijn Ht-cren Pre- 
 Mcantev^ and if their Minifters meddle with 
 any thing relating to the Government in 
 their Pulpits, they lend them a Brief/wliich 
 ibme call a pair of Shooes) to quit the City, 
 and fbmetimes imprilon them to Boot ; but 
 if they behave themfelves quietly and wcil, 
 as they ought to do, thc}^ then are relpedcd 
 by the People as Gods upon Earth : They 
 have a Form of ]^rayer fent them how tlicy 
 ihall Pray for the States, and Stadtholdcr, 
 nor muft they meddle with any other Reli- 
 gion in the Country , becaufe all forts are 
 Tollerated, at lealt Connived at by the Ma- 
 gilirates. All thofe called the Presbiterian 
 Minifters, or States Clergy , arc obliged 
 under a Forfeiture to have done Preaching 
 and Praying by Eleven of the Clock in the 
 Forenoon on Sundays, becaufo then the 
 Scheepens go to the Stadthoiife, to Marry 
 
 the 
 
HOLLAND. 2^ 
 
 the JewSj Papiftsj and Lutherans^ and otliers 
 that may not marr}^ alter the Cah'iniftical 
 Form ; and the realbn why the States thus 
 marry them fijfb according to Law^ is to ren- 
 der their Children Legitimate^, but they may 
 marry again afterwards as they pleale them- 
 felves : ISione may many until the}' have 
 made their appearance at the Stadthouie be- 
 fore the Lords ; where, if the Parties be 
 agreed;, the Preachers marr\' the Cal-vhtijh, 
 and the Scheepens marry all the reft^who dif- 
 fer from the Religion eibbliihed by Law. 
 
 When one dies^, the Friends dare not bu- 
 ry the Corps until it hadi lain three days 
 open in the Coffin, that the Friends and Re- 
 lations of the deceafed may be (atisfied that 
 the Party hath not been murdered, or re- 
 ported to be dead when alive ,* after three 
 days y the Corps muft be brought to the 
 Church before the Bell ceafeth rolling, which 
 is at two, for if you keep the Body untill half 
 diree , then the Church Doors are lock'd, 
 and for the firft half hour muft be paid 2^ 
 Gilders, and for the lecond 5*0^ and fo until 
 fix, then they may amerle you as much as 
 theypleafe. 
 
 There are many rich people who make 
 that default on purpole, that they may have 
 iblemn occafion of giving to the Poor^, as I 
 knew once an Englilli Merchant did. 
 
 The next thing 1 ihall ipeak of, is the me- 
 diod which the States obieri'e in ordering 
 
 their 
 
go A Vefcription of 
 
 their Maritime Affairs^ one of the greateft 
 Myfteries in their Government : The States 
 General divide tlieir Admiralty, into Five 
 Courts, which they call Chambers. The 
 Firit is Rotterdam^ ( which is the Chamber 
 call'd the Maefe,) and hath the Admirals 
 
 Then y^mfierdam, which hath the Vice- 
 Admiral's Flag i and 'Zealand hath the Rear- 
 Admiral's Flag J the other Two Chambers 
 are thofe in Nurtb-HoUand and Frkjland. Each 
 of thele Five Chambers have their Admirals, 
 Vice-Admirals, and Rear- Admirals , apart 
 from the States-Generals Flags; lb that when 
 the States have occafion to let out a Fleet 
 of an Hundred Ships, more or lels^ every 
 Chamber knows the number they muft pro- 
 A'ide for their proportion, though in regard 
 of its Opulency, Awfierdam frequently helps 
 her Neighbours,and adds two,or more,Ships 
 than their fhare comes to. Thele Cham- 
 bers have lately built 36 Men of War, and 
 now are building of 7 more ; and all this is 
 done without noife,ever}' one building their 
 proportion : And they have admirable mc- 
 thods in prelerving their Ships when built, 
 iin(\ their Magazines are in good order, eve- 
 ry Ship having an Apartment to lay up all 
 its Equipage in ; and at the top of their Ma- 
 gazines are vaft Ciilerns, which are kept 
 conitantly full of Water, having Pipes into 
 every Apartment to let it down upon any 
 
 accident 
 
I 
 
 HOLLAND. 31 
 
 accident of.Fire. And there is in their Ma- 
 gazines a Nui"lery Room, where a Woman 
 keeps an Office, to feed at certain hours of 
 the day a great number of Cats, which af- 
 terward hunt among the Stores for Mice and 
 Rats. This great Magazine in Amfierdam 
 was built in the time of Crormuell, in the 
 Ipace of 9 months and 14 days, in which 
 time the Lords of the Admiralty gave the 
 Workmen dnnkgelt as they call it, to incou- 
 rage them to work more than at an ordina- 
 ry rate. At this time, the biggeft Man of 
 War the States had was thQA-rndta, in which 
 the famous Admiral Trmn^ was kill'd ,* /he 
 was a Ship of no more than ^ 6 Guris, after- 
 ward made a Fire-lhip. Ikit the States quick- 
 ly difcovercd their want of great Ships, and 
 therefore built, the f<ime year, 20 Men of 
 War, from ^o to 80 Guns : But the great 
 Ships built at Amflcrdamj. had like to have 
 proved of no ufe, had not the ingenious 
 Penfionaiy de Wit ibund out a device to cany 
 them over the Vamfusj betwixt thofe they 
 call Water Ships. 
 
 The Admiralty have an excellent method 
 in letting out their Fleets, they neidier preft 
 Soldiers nor Seamen, all go voluntary at the 
 beating of a Drum, each Captain providing 
 Men and Provifions for his i^hip, who, after 
 they have received Orders from the Lords 
 to the Equipage-Mailer to equip out their 
 'Shipsj and receive the Provifions of War, 
 
 then 
 
 i 
 
5 3 A Dtfcription of 
 
 then the States fend aboard each Sliip A 
 Chaplain^ and Check-mafter^ who take cars 
 of the provifion of War, and fee that the 
 Seamen have the States Allowance, and 
 wholelbm Food : And great care is taken by 
 the Lords, tliat both Captains and Seamen 
 receive their Pay pimdually for die tim& 
 they are in the States Service : And foi- the 
 incoLiragJng their Seamen, there is plaillred 
 on a Boar(^, hanging by the Foremaft, the 
 ieveral Rewards to fuch as either take or fire 
 a Flag-fhip, or take or fink any other Ship of 
 the Fncmies : Alfb whatPeniionsawoimded 
 Seaman ihall have, if maim'd or diiablcd ui 
 the States Service, &c. 
 
 The Lords of the Adrairalt)'- follow the 
 iame methods which the States-General ob- 
 serve, as to their Land Obligations, and go 
 through this great Charge by the good Ma- 
 nagement of their Credit • for though it be 
 true, that they are indebted great bums of 
 Money, yet they never want a Supply, nay. 
 Moneys are often foixed upon them by rich 
 Merchants, who fend in their Moneys, and 
 only take the Admiralties Obligations, with 
 which they afterward pay their Cull cms, 
 when their Sliips arrive, at which time the 
 Admiralty allows them Interefl: for the time 
 they have had their Money : And this is it 
 that makes the Admiralties Obligations more 
 valued than ready Money, for it faves die 
 irouble of telling ; And fugh is ihe Credit 
 
 of 
 
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 H L 'h"A N t). '5'5 
 
 of the Admiralty , that' when they ha\'e oc- 
 cafion for any Gcods^ the People ftrive to 
 furniJh tllfcm , and rather take tl-\jsir Obliga- 
 tions than JMoncy.becaufe they getlnterelt; 
 and all other Ailignnients upon the Admi- 
 ralty areve'-y puncliially paid^ and without 
 Exchequer Fees ; no they are Sworn Offi- 
 cers , who are forbid to receive any Agonies 
 for Fees, being contented with the Sailery 
 thev have of the States. And their methiods 
 ufcd at the Cuilom-houfe for loadin?r or iin- 
 loading Ships arc ver}' eafie^, infoniuchj that 
 the Women generally have the charging and 
 difcharging the Ships at the Cullom-houfe, 
 whicli is a great Policy in the States to make 
 Trade ealie for the Encouragement of the 
 Merchants : And the Admhaky are verV 
 grateful and generous unto their Comman- 
 ders ; if any of their Admirals, or Captaiqs 
 are kiil'd at Sea, and have done any confi- 
 derable Service;, they then Eternize their 
 Memories with lailin^; Trophies of Honour, 
 as you may fee by thole Stately Monuments 
 Ol Trump y up Jam J clc Ruher^ the EverfinSj 
 and others ; nor are they Iparinginbeltow- 
 ing large Gifts and PeniionsontheWidows^, 
 and C Jiildrcn of thofe as ha\'e ierved cheni 
 Faithfully, and Valiantly in the Wars, whilij 
 the Treacherous and Cownrdi meet widi the 
 feverity they delerve ^ i might here in tlve 
 next place, in'argc and tell you of the exceU 
 lent mediodi they have in Building, and 
 
gij. A Defer iftion of 
 
 prelcrving their Ships when Euilt^ but I flial^ 
 refer you to that excellent Peice written by 
 the Heer Witfm on that Subject. And ihall 
 now in th'e next place Hiy fomething of their 
 Famous Company , called the Eafi-India 
 C^ompany of the Netherlaids J this Company 
 is laid to be a .Comnlonwealth within a 
 Cx)mmonwealth, and ^t is true, if you confi- 
 der the Soveraign Power and Privileges they 
 , have granted them by die States General, 
 and likewile confider their Riches^ and vaft 
 ' number of Subjeds , and the many Territo- 
 ries and Colonies they polfefs in the E^/- 
 ^ Indies y thcy are laid to have 30000 Men in 
 'conftant Pay, and above 200 Capital Ships, 
 befides Sloops, Ketches, and Yachts. This 
 Company hath by their PolitickContHvances, 
 and Sediilcns Indultry polielTed themleives 
 of many Colonies formerly belonging unto 
 ^the Spaniards^ Portuguifes , and divers In- 
 dian Princes , and as good Chriftians have 
 been at great Charge in Planting the Goijael 
 of Chrilt in many parts there , Printing in 
 ^the Indian I,anguage Bibles, and Prayer 
 Books, and Catechilins, for the Inllrudion 
 of the Indians, maintaining Minill"ers and 
 School-maftcrs, to inform thofe that are 
 Converted to the Chriltian Faith: And now, 
 hecaufe 1 have iaid that this Company is io 
 confiderable, and as it were a Common- 
 wealth apart, I will demon (bate it to be lb ; 
 *f\ii\ by their Pcvv'er_, Riches^ and Strength 
 
 in 
 
H L L A N D. 35 
 
 in the Indies^ lecondly, wb.at Figure they 
 make in Europe, and this very briefly^ for if" 
 I Ihould fpeak of every particular , as to 
 their Polleflions in the Indies, it would Iwell 
 into many Volumes , but I will only begin 
 with them at the Cape de bonm E/perance, 
 Where they have built a Royal Fort^in which 
 they maintain a Garilbn of Soldiers to defend 
 their Ships which come there to take in frefh: 
 Water : From thence let us take a view of 
 them in the Ifland ofjazra, where they have 
 built a fair City called Banct^ia^md Fortified 
 it with Baftions, after the mode o^ Anfier- 
 dam. This City is the place of Refidence of 
 their grand Miniller of State, called the Ge- 
 neral of the Indies, he hath allowed him Six 
 Privy Counfellors in Ordinary-, and Two 
 Extraordinary, thele govern the Concerm 
 of the Company throughout the Indies, and 
 they make Peace and War, fend their Am* 
 balladors to all parts thereof, as occafion re- 
 quiretli. This General hath his Guards of 
 Horfe and Foot, and all Ibrts of Officers and 
 Servants, as if he were a Soverai^n Prince, 
 t*he whole Expence whereof is deTrayed out 
 of the Companies Stock. This General hath 
 much of the direction of Bantam, and other 
 ^arts of the Ifland of ^^x'^ : From whence 
 let us take a viev/ of them in their great 
 o; ;.Poireflions in the Molucca Iflands, and thole 
 ;th ipf Banda, where they are become ib formi- 
 in idable, that they look as if they aimed at the 
 D z SoTt- ' 
 
5 5 A Vefcription of 
 
 Soveraignty of the South Seas : Tliey hava 
 alio a great Trade in China^ and J^fan^ from 
 whence let us return to the Iflands of Suma^ 
 ira^ and on the Coaft of Bengale , where 
 they have Several Lodges : In Terjta they have 
 likewile great' Commerce, and are fb confi- 
 derable, that they wage War with that 
 mighty Monarch if he wrongs them in their, 
 Trade. T+iey alio have feverarColonies and' 
 Lodgeson the Coaft of Malabar mA Cor- 
 mandel, and in the Country of the Greaj:. 
 Mogul, and King of Galcama , but princi- jl 
 pally let us behold them in the rich Iflaftd of Ij 
 Zey'loH, where they are Mafters of the plain 
 Country^lb that the Emperor. or King of that . 
 Ifland , is forced to live in the Mountains|> 
 whilft this Company poffels the City of Co. 
 hmha, and other the moli: confiderable Ga- 
 rifbns of that Ifland: It is laid, that the Com 
 pany hath there in their pay 5600 Soldiers, 
 and atleaft 50a Guns Planted in their Forts- 
 iind Garifbns ; in a word, they are not only 
 Mafters of fhe Cinnamon , but of all other 
 apices except Pepper, and that they would, 
 anb have , had it been for their Intereft to 
 fegrois; but they wifely forelaw that the; 
 £nglifti would be a block in their way, there- 
 fore they corttented themlelves to be Mafters 
 ^f the Mace, Cinnamon, Cloves, and Nut- 
 fhegSj with which they not only lerve £«- 
 fo^el but many places in the Indies ; I will 
 @Y nojnore t)f them ia the l^di^h but let us 
 
 
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HO t t A N p. 5I 
 
 ^Q what Figure they make in Europe. And 
 fxrl\ to begin witii, them in Amficrdam ^ 
 where they have two large ftately Palaces^ 
 one being in the old part of the City , and 
 the other in the new ; in that of the old part 
 of the City they keep their Court, and there 
 fits the Refident Committee of the Company,. 
 \yhere alfo dicy make the Sales of the Com- 
 panies Goods. . There for l^x years the grand 
 Council, or Alfembl)^ of the Seventeen, do 
 meet;, and after fix }'ears are expired, the 
 grand Council of the Seventeen do affemble 
 at MlddLlburg in Zealand for'tWo years , and 
 then agran return to Amjterdunj j the other 
 leller Ciiambeis of Dt Ift^ Rouerdiinj^Hi^me^and 
 Enc/jujj'tn never having t!ie, Aflembly of the 
 ; ^ev'enteen hi tlicir Chambers , lo tiiar only 
 • yiTrjhrd im and ZedanJ have the Honour of 
 that grand Coiuicil. I will therefore crave 
 leave to defcribe unto you the Chamber of 
 Amftlrdiim^ it being tiie rnoli confiderable 
 ^ of tiic Chambers belonging to riiis Famous 
 Company : in dieir Houle ori^a'ace^ witiiin 
 the 9:d City^ are many large Cniccs or A- 
 partteents J as firh, on t\\-z lower Floor, 15 
 their Parliament Chamber^whcre tlie Scveiu 
 teen do fit ; next to this Chamber are feve- 
 ral f\ir Chambers for the Conirnircces to lit 
 in. The}' have al(6 a Chamber of Audi- 
 I ence, where they do receive Princes or Am- 
 balTadors, or other great Men as fjave occa^ 
 fioa to Ipeak with them. In one of thefc 
 D 3 Chambers 
 
5 8 A Defer if Hon of 
 
 Chambers are the Arms of (everal Indian 
 Princes they have Conquered. On the fame 
 Floor is their Treafiiiy Office , where their 
 Receivers fit and receive Money , and Pay 
 out the Orders or Affignments' of the Com- 
 pany ,♦ near to that Chamber fits their grand 
 iMinilter, the Heer Feter 'van Dam, who is 
 laid to be a lecond John de IVit for Parts, tho' 
 not fb in Principle : This great Minifter is a 
 Man of indcfatagable Indultry^ and labours 
 Night and Day in the Companies Service ^ 
 he Reads over twice the great Journal Books 
 v/liich come from the Indies. ^ind out of them 
 makes Minutes to prepare matters of Con- 
 cern neceifary to be confidered by the grand 
 Council of Seventeen, and by the inferiour 
 Committees of the Company , and prepares 
 Inflirudions and Orders to be fent to their 
 Chief Minifters in the Indies j 1 could fay 
 many more things of his gi-eat Worth and 
 Virtues, but fhaU forbear left I ihould be 
 judged a Flatterer : Over-againit this great 
 Minifters Office fit in a Chamber many 
 ClarkSj or under Secretaries, who receive 
 from this Minifter their Orders of Diiparches 
 in the Affairs of the Company j and next to 
 this Chamber is a Regifter Office, where are 
 kept the Journal Books of the Indies , where 
 you may fee the Names of all the Men and 
 Womcix that have ever ferved the Company 
 in the h-dics, ^widi the time of dieir Dc-.th^ 
 or departing the Com,panies Seivice: Then 
 
 next 
 
I 
 
 HOLLAND. 5p 
 
 next to that is a Council Chamber ^ where 
 the Refiding Chamber^ or Committee of the 
 Company always fits ; th.en aifending up 
 StairSj there lit their Book-ho1dcrs,who keep 
 the Accounts of all the Tranfadions of thofe 
 that buv or fell Actions of the Com pan}', and 
 over againft tliis Office firs the Heer Gerbrand 
 Elias , who is die lecond Advocate of die 
 Company : On this Floor are leveral large 
 RoomSj in which are great Stores of Pack'd 
 GoodSj and alio a Room with all forts of 
 . Drugs, Tea, Wax, Ambergrcace^and Musk ; 
 and on the fame Floor is a Chamber where 
 - the Commidioners fit, who govern thePack- 
 houfes ; and next to them Tit their Clerks^ 
 who keep the Rcgiders of the Sales of die 
 Companies Goods: And on the lame Gal- 
 ' lery or Floor, is a Chamber w'lere are kept 
 ; the feveral Books of Divinity, Printed in the 
 Indian Language, that are lent to the leveral 
 ' Colonies of the Company : And at the end 
 •' of this Gallery is a Magazine full of Medi- 
 caments and Inlfmments for Barber Chirur- 
 ' geonsCheds, to furniHi the Companies Ships 
 and Garilbns in the h</ies : Then affending 
 up another pair of Stairs, there are feveral 
 large Magazines of Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, 
 and Cinnamon ; and in a long Gallery are 
 many Men at Work Ibrting ot" Spices tit for 
 Sale : Then afcending up anodier pair of 
 Stairs there are many Rooms full of Spices ; 
 dien dsicending into the Coart-^•ard . ther^ 
 D 4 ' is 
 
40 A Defcription of 
 
 is Guard Chamber, where every Night the, 
 ilouie-kciper hath a Watch, and on the o- 
 ther fide of the Gate there is a Chymilhwho 
 with his Men prepares Medicaments for the 
 Indies^ adjoyi,iing to this Court-yard is their 
 Ware-houle and Pack-houfe for I'epper and 
 Grols Goods,' but before I leave this Houie 
 in die old part of the City ^ I muil lay ibmc- 
 thing of r,he manner or method ufed in th.e 
 Trania<5lions of the Jevt's and others , v«^io 
 make a Trade of Buying and Selliiig die 
 Actions of the Com pany^the which is a great 
 MylJ'ery of Iniquity, and where it inrichech 
 one Man, it ruins an hundred. The Jews 
 are the chief in that Trade, and are faid to 
 Negotiate 17 parts of 20 in the Company ; 
 Theie Adions are bought and fold four times 
 a day,at 8 in the Morning in the Jews-ltreet, 
 at a II on the Dam, at 12 and at one a 
 Clock upon the Exchange, and at fix in the 
 Evening on the Dam, and in the Colleges or 
 Clubs of the Jews until 12 at midnight^ 
 where many times the crafty Jews. and others 
 have contrived to coin bad News to make 
 the Adions fall, and good News to raife 
 them, the which Craft of doing at Atnfisr- 
 dam is not taken notice of, which is much 
 to be wondred at, in fcch a Wile Govern- 
 ment as Amjrerdam is ; for it is a certain 
 Truth , they many times ipread Scandalous 
 Reports touching the Affairs of State, which 
 pais amongil the Ignorant for Truth. 
 
 I 
 
HOLLAND. 4-1 
 
 I {h.ill now in the next place fay (oine- 
 thing of their Palace, or Magazine^ iii th^; 
 new paitof the City, the which maymord 
 properly be cillcd anArfenal : It is a Build- 
 ing ib iuperb, tiiat it looks more like a Kings 
 Palace^, than a Magazine for Mcrcliants ; I ■ 
 have meaiiired the Ground on wiiich this 
 Arlenal Ibnds^ which I find to be 23oo 
 Foot, and Iquare every way, reckoning the 
 M»tes, or Biirgals, about it, I remember 
 the Ingenious Sir //£'p/-> ^Vilihn?(tm mealured 
 the two Rope-Alleys^ by telling the Stone- 
 figures in the Wall^ and foiuid dicm to be 
 1800 Foot long, the like whereof is not to 
 be fcen in the World. On the backfide 
 of this Rope AHc)" lies a ftore of Five Hun- 
 died large Anchors, befides fmall ones • in 
 this Aiicna! ti-icy build the Ships belonging 
 to tills Chamber : And here are all lorts of 
 . Work-houfcs for the Artiiicers that (erve the 
 Company. And in a Chamber next to 
 the jo^'ners Office, is a model of a Ship, 
 diey now build tl"ieii- Ships by, which colt 
 6000 Gilders. When a* Man beholds thg 
 great Stores of Timber, Cordage, and the 
 Provifions of War in their Magazine, a Man 
 would think there were enougli to furnifh 
 a whole Nation : In this Arlenal the Ships 
 unload their Goods, laid up in leveral Apart- 
 ments in the grand Magazine, ajid after- 
 ward is removed to the Houfe in tlie old 
 part of die City, as there is occafion for 
 
 Sale. 
 
j^2 A Vefcriptiou of 
 
 Sale. In the upper part of this large Palace 
 fit the Sail-makers at work ,• but on the lower 
 part of this Houle is an Aparment where 
 the Committee afTemble upon occafion 
 of Bufinefs : * This Arfenal is not to be iktn 
 by Strangers without a Ticket from the Be- 
 winthebbers. Now all what I have Ipoken 
 of thele two Houles^ or Magazines^ doth 
 only belong unto the Chamber of Amlhr. 
 dam. There are yet other Chambers of 
 the Company, who, according to their Quo- 
 ta, orftock in the Company, have the like 
 Houfes and Magazines, as the Chambers of 
 Zealand J Delft ^ Rotterdam ^ Homey and En- 
 kufen. And nov\0[ have named the Six 
 Chambers, of which the Company is com- 
 po(ed, I ihall fay Ibmething of their Con- 
 ilitution, which is from an Oclroy, or Ad 
 of die States-General ; by which they have 
 Sovereign Power over their Servants in the 
 Indies^ yea, their Authority reacheth their 
 Servants in all Territories of the States-Ge- 
 nerals Dominions: It is Death for any of the 
 States Subjeds to be Interlopers againit diis 
 Compan}' j nor may any, of what Nation 
 Ibever, that lives in any of the Companies 
 Territories, as Burghers or Servants, return 
 into Europe without leave from the Com- 
 pany, only thofe called Freemen may de- 
 part without asking leave to remove : The 
 Grand Councel of this Company is the Ai- 
 I'^mbiy of the Seventeen^ which are eleded 
 
 out 
 
HO L L A N D. 43 
 
 put of the leveral Chambers before named, 
 that is, Eight from AmficrdaWy and four 
 from Zealand j Delft ^ Rotterdam, Hurne, and 
 Enkufen, (end one a piece, which makes Six- 
 teen, and the five lelfer Chambers by turns 
 chofe the Seventeenth. In the Chamber of 
 Awjterdam there are 20 Bewindiebbers, or 
 Committee for Management of the Stock, in 
 ordinar}', who are for Life, and have 1000 
 Ducatoons a Year, and Spices at Chriftmasy 
 and their Travelling Charges, when they go 
 up'on the Companies Service. The next 
 Chamber is Zealand^ which hath twelve Be- 
 winthebbers, who have about 25-0 /. a Year, 
 and travelling Charges, and Spices at Chrift. 
 ■mas. The next is Delft, which hath Seven 
 Bewinthebbers,who have only 1 20 /. a Year, 
 and Travelling Charges and Spices at Chnjt- 
 mas. The other Chambers of Rotterdam, 
 Home and Enkufen , have leVen Bewintheb- 
 bers a piece, and the like Salaiy, with Tra- 
 velling Charges and Spices at Chrifimas, as 
 the Chamber of Delft hath. Thefe Bewin- 
 thebbers are clecled or ciiofen out ' of thole 
 Ad'vetjturers called the High Participjnten of 
 the Company : Tliey generally chufe luch 
 as are Rich, and Men of Parts and Wiidom, 
 moft of them being of the Magiftracy of the 
 Country. No Maii is capable of being Ele- 
 <5i:ed a BewintheblDcr who hath not loco /. 
 Stock in the Company, .n a word, this 
 Grand Council of the Seventeen make Laws 
 for the Governing the Ccmpan}-, both in 
 
 India 
 
A^'Vefcription bf^^ 
 
 India and Europe. It is they that appoint the' 
 Days of Sde^ and v/hat Number of Ships 
 each ChAmber muft fend to the hSes \ and 
 likewife order the Building of Ships, and all 
 other grand Concern$'. Tiiis 'Cohipaiiy is' 
 worthily elleemed a Wife, Politique, De- 
 ie^rvijig Company , ijSariilg " nol'oft to getj 
 good Intcllige!ncc of Affiirs, lending Met 
 iengersand ExprciresoverLaiid to tht Ea/L 
 
 dents m all the confdcrable Trading Pax^ts of 
 the \^'orld : They have been fo indiiftrious 
 as to gaiii the Spice Trade, nor 'only from 
 the Venetians .Spanjnrds Portuguifcs, Trench, 
 Danes, and other I">L!rope.'.n Natiojis, but 
 have alfb Tngroifdd all the Spaces s fo that, 
 as I told you before, thq- lei Spices to tlie 
 Indians th.emfslves :> hut this i mull; lay for 
 them, that tiiey are a Generous C onipany, 
 aiid- gratefally paying Rclpccts where ' it is 
 due, as lately thev iiave Coniplemenred his 
 Royal Hi ghiiefs the Prince of Or.i^^^^i'^His pre- 
 lent Majeiry of Great Britain^ with an /in- 
 nual Sum out of the Profits of their Compa- 
 nVj to make him their Fiiend and Pi'ote- 
 ^or. Neither are they backward in beftow- ' 
 ing Preients upon Strangers that have obli- 
 ged them, as I could iiiiiance in Ibnie of our ' 
 own Nation. They ai'e alio very charitable 
 to the Poor, giving them thfi Thouiandth . 
 Gilder of all the Goods they fell. And to 
 all the Reformed \iini((:sr5 in A-mjitrdam 
 
 they 
 
H^O L LAP p. 45 
 
 they lend Spjoes ^t Chrifi^m/^ ^xoyvsiy every 
 i'^W^yJbr the -Welfare and Profperity of the 
 Cornpany. To conclude, this Compaay is 
 a Buckler and Defence for the CommonT 
 weakh upon all urgent Occafions : And tra- 
 ly our Engliih Eaft-Indid-Cojnpmty might be 
 the ,iame to pur King^ if the Differences be- 
 tween' the Two Companies were compofed^ 
 elpecially now they have fuch agreat King 
 fo proted thenij and that die Interlopers 
 are cjeftroyed. 
 
 ^"'And now it is high time I lliQulcJ tell you 
 the Methods a Stranger mu0 tak^ if he hatfi 
 occafion to keep Houle in Amfierda-'n : If a 
 M.^n will hire an Houle^, he mull: take a 
 Tleaie upon Seal'd Paper^, for which yoi^ 
 mufi: pay a Tax to the States, ^uid pay the 
 Broaker that makes the Bargain : But before 
 )ou can buy a ^ouie^you mufl he in a capa- 
 city to be made a Burgher. To thispurpofeic 
 is ulual to ta^ie vvith you to the Stadthoufs 
 yoiir Broakei*^ or any two Securities, and 
 there before the Burghermafters take die 
 Oath of Burgherfohap, wliich is to be faith- 
 ful to the City, to the Magidratcs and Go- 
 vernment, O-'c. But if you buy either Land 
 or Houfes, and lodge privately, you will find 
 your cale much worle ; riien you muft pay 
 a Legion of Taxes to the Mills that drain 
 your LandSj and for maintaining the Banks, 
 and Sluces ; and if the States have occafion 
 to ' build a Fortification on your Lands^ or. 
 
 to 
 
46 A Defcription of 
 
 to drown them in time of War, you muft 
 be contented with the States Terms : And 
 if your Houfe or Houies ftand empty with- 
 out Tenants, )'et you muil pay the States 
 Taxes on that Houfe or Houfes. Thus much 
 for the Method how you are to be advanced 
 to be a Burgher of Amjtirdayn, and to give 
 you a tafte what you are to pa)^ for Houfes 
 or Landj if you letde there j and if you have 
 eitiier purchafed or hired an Houfe, then 
 comes an Officer from the Stadthoule, with 
 •a Printed Sealed Paper, who tells you, you 
 muft pay as followeth. 
 
 Firll, A Pole-Tax for every Male and Fe- 
 male Servant in theHoule above eight Years 
 old, fix Gilders a Year. 
 
 For a Coach, if you keep one, 7^ Gil- 
 ders a Year. 
 
 For a Coach without Wheels, jo Gilders 
 a Year. 
 
 For Soap, as the Number of the Family 
 is. 
 
 The like for Salt. • 
 
 For Wine, as your Qualit}' is. 
 ■/ To the Watch, as your Houle is in Greac- 
 riefs. 
 
 To the Lanthorns, as the largenels of the 
 Houfe is. '.'.A- 
 
 For Butter, every 20 Miind feven Sti- 
 vers. . r„^; 
 
 For Beans, half as much"ak yoti pay for 
 the Beans. ...<•■ 
 
 For 
 
HOLLAND. 47 
 
 i'or Tiirff, every Tun five Stivers. 
 
 For every 20 Gilders in Wood, fix Gil- 
 ders. 
 
 For FlefK the Tax often changeth. 
 
 There is alio a Tax on the Bread. 
 
 Then there is a Tax called the 200th 
 Penny, ajid a Tax called the 8th : Then 
 there are many Taxes in Trade , as that no 
 Man can weigh or meafure out his own 
 Goods if Ibid in grols, but the States Offi- 
 cers mufl: do it. Then the States have a Tax 
 called the l^erpound'mg on all I ands and Hou- 
 fes in their Dominions. Then they have a 
 Tax on Seal'd Paper , and a Tax for Regi- 
 Itering Fands or Floiues j likewiie a Tax on 
 Cows, Horfcs, Calves, and on all fort of 
 Fruit. There are many other Taxes I could 
 name, as a Stiver for every Man that goes 
 out or into any City after the Hour of inut- 
 ting the Gates. Alio you pay for going 
 over fome Bridges, and palling through 
 Gates called TulUk , a Stive? for every Per- 
 fon J but Coaches, Wagons or Horfes pay 
 more. Thefe I liJIe already named , you 
 will fay, are too many ; yet I may not for- 
 get to tell you, that Milk firli: pays as Milk j 
 and again if it be made Butter • yea, the 
 Buttermilk and Whay pays a Tax likewiie, 
 for all which a Man would tliink that a Peo- 
 ple that Itand h much upon maintaining of 
 their Liberty Ihould Mutiny, and refuic pay- 
 ment : But this fwldom happens ^ and if it 
 
 doth, 
 
T48 A Defcription of 
 
 doth^ the States piinilli theln very feverely, 
 I remember that in my time there was a 
 Mutiny at Sardam about paying a newTax^ 
 whereupon the States lent a Regiment of 
 their Souldiers, and feized the Heads of the 
 Mutineers^ and hanged up five or fix of them 
 at the Towns end^ and levercly whipt eight 
 tinder the Gallows. And in the rich City 
 of ^7n]}-er-dr.j7j^\iM\y refufe to pay their Tax, 
 the Magiftrates iend their Officer to pull off 
 tiieir Doors ; and if they remain long ob- 
 Jtinate, they fend and fetch away the lower 
 Windows t>i their Houie^, and they dare not 
 put up others, until the)' have paid the Taxes, 
 However, this is obler\'ab!ej tiiat if any Man 
 will fvi'-ear he is not worth what he is taxed 
 at^ then he is free : But there are many io 
 proud, that they will not let the World 
 know tlieir Condition. I knew a Merchant 
 named Omla, who paid during the War for 
 his 200th Penii}'^ and other Taxes for hh 
 and his Wives Children^ (having had two 
 Rich Wives) 140C0 Pounds Sterling. I al- 
 io knew an Engtilh iftabaptift Merchant;, 
 who told the Englifh Envoy in my pre- 
 lence, That he had paid near 4000 /. Ster- 
 ling to die War, and yet the fame Man did 
 Grumble to pay his Majefties Conllil a pity- 
 ful Fee or Confulat-Money on his Ships : 
 The reafbn whereof I once asked him, who 
 aniU'ered me. That the King could not raife 
 a Penny in Engh^nd without his Parliament, 
 
 and 
 
HO L L AK D. 4^ 
 
 and therefore much lefs could he do it in the 
 States Country. Thus thele Phanaticks had 
 father make Bricks without Straw, thari pay 
 the . lead Tribute to their Natural Prince's 
 C^cer. Should we in Eiigla?jil be oMigeci 
 to pay the Taxes that arc here impoled, 
 there would be Rebellion upon Rebellion : 
 And yet after all that is here paid, no Mart 
 may bake his own Bread, or grind his owri 
 Corn, or brew Iiis Beer, nor dare any Man* 
 keep in his Houle a Hand-Mill, although ic 
 be but to grind Muftard or Coffee. I re- 
 member bne Mrs. Guyn a Coffee- Woman at 
 Rotterdam^ liad like to haVe been ruined for 
 grinding her own Coffee, had not Sir Lyoitel 
 'Jenkins employed his Secretary Dotftor IVyti 
 to intreat the btates on her behalf ,♦ arid ic 
 Was reckoned a grand flivour that fhe was^ 
 only fined, and not banifhed the City, and 
 forfeiture made of aU her Goods. I remem- 
 ber alfo a Landlord of mine \n Ley den bought 
 a live Pig in the Market, and innocently 
 brought it home, and kill'd it, for which her 
 had like to ha^'e been ruined, becaufs he did 
 not firft fend to the Exciiemen to exeife it', 
 and alio let the Vifitors lee that die Pig w:ls 
 free from Difeafes. At another time a Wine- 
 Merchant coming to give me a ViHt^told .m(S» 
 that he had the rareit Rher/ilTi in the City, 
 and chat if I would fend ixfy' Maid to h>jCeI- 
 iflr with fix Botdes , they jTiould be hu d X 
 Whereupon I lent the Maid ojily v/ith t'-/0 
 E Bo?* 
 
5© A Defcription of 
 
 BotdeSj and charged her to hide them un- 
 der her Apron ; but luch was her misfor- 
 ttme, that the Scouts Dienaers met her, and 
 ieized her and her Bottles, and carried her 
 to Prifbn, which coft the Wine-Merchant 
 ipo Gilders ; and had it not been for the 
 ftrongeft Sollicitations made by us, he had 
 been ruined : So facred are Taxes here, and 
 muft fb exa(5lly be paid. And were they 
 not here {6 precife, it were impofltble for 
 fo fmall a Country to fiibfift : And therefore 
 you may hear the Inhabitants generally fay, 
 that what they lutfer is for their fiaderUnd : 
 Hence the meaneft among them are content, 
 to pa}^ what is laid on them, for the)' iay all 
 what' is the Vadtrlands is ours, the Men of 
 War are theirs, the fdmpruous Magazins, 
 Bridges, arid every thing wliat is the l^ndtr- 
 hnds. And indeed in a i^vSk it is fb, for 
 tliey have this to comfort them , that if it 
 pleafe God to vifit diem with Poveny, they 
 and their Children have the Pubiick Purle 
 to maintain them j andthisisonemainRealbn 
 why they fb willingly pay theii- Taxes as they 
 do"'; for there's not a boul born in the States 
 Dominions diat wants warm Cloarhs and 
 Dyct, and good Lodging, if they make their 
 ^ca'ie known j:o the Magiliratcs. And ibr the 
 'Vagabonds that rove up and down the 
 Streets, tliey arc eidier Walloons, or other 
 Strangers as pretend to havs been ruined by 
 ilie late Wars. 
 
 I 
 
H L L A n D. 51 
 
 I /hall now in the next place let you 
 J^now how excellently the laws are here 
 executed aga\nfi: Fraud and Perjury, and 
 the Intention of Murders j which Laws were 
 once much uled in England^ as you fiiall 
 hear hereafter when I (peak of the Duke of 
 Brandenbui ijlfs Court. • 
 . I fhall here inftance a few particulars that 
 happened in my time : There was a Spark 
 that made falle Aflignments on the Admi- 
 ralty^ who tho' related to many of the Ma- 
 giftrates of JmfierduMjhid his Head cut off; 
 and another who was a Clerk in the Mer- 
 chants Bank , who made falfe Pofts in their 
 Books, and had his Head alio cut off^ and all 
 the Portions he had given with his Daughters, 
 the Husbands were tbrced- to pay back, and 
 all his Houies and Goods were fold at his 
 Door in the open Streets : I knew a French 
 Marquis, who 1 wore -his Regiment was com- 
 pleat, and when the States knew that he had 
 not half his Regiment , he likewile had his 
 Head cut off in the Prilbn in the Hague : i 
 alio knew a French Pedagogue, a Runagado 
 Monk, who dellgned to have Murdered his 
 Mafter Major Ca-vellio , and his two Pupils, 
 young Children of the Majors , and after- 
 ward to let the Houie a Fire co colour the 
 Murder, he* had liis Head cut off and let 
 upon a Poll, with his Body on a Wheel near 
 the Hague, I could Name you two othef 
 Cheaters , who were ieverely whipc under 
 E 2 th«r 
 
^^ A Defcriplion of 
 
 the Gallows^ and two under Farmers \vh(y 
 . defigned to run away with the States Money. 
 The Cheat of breaking with a full Hand 
 IS not ib frequent in Holland as in EngLindy 
 (where Ibme ule it as a way to flip out of 
 Euffneis, and then to live conveniently after- 
 ward upon the Eltates of other Men) be- 
 cauie in Holland they are more feverely pu- 
 nillied when difcovered than in England ? 
 As on the contrary, thole that fall to decay 
 through LofTes, and unavoidable Accidents 
 which they could not prevent, find a more 
 ijieedy and eafie way of Compounding and 
 FiniHiing Matters with their Creditors if they 
 be over-lf rict , than the Cuftom or Law 
 oi England doth afford, for the filing out of 
 Statutes of Bankrupts in England doth prove 
 many times fb pernicious both to Creditor 
 and Debtor through the tedioufhefs of the 
 Procecdmgs, and the expenfiveneis of Exe- 
 cuting the Commiffions, that wliat b}^ Com- 
 miffioners Fees, Treats, and other incident 
 Charges , the Creditors are put to fuch Ex- 
 pences as to be utterly difappointed of their 
 Debt, and the Poor Debtors for ever ruined 
 p.nd undone ; I fhall therefore in this place 
 give a fhort Relation of the method uled in 
 Am^crdam in the cafe of Bankrupts, which 
 perh.aps may be taken notice of by our King 
 and Parliament, for the preventing Dilor- 
 ders and fed Abufes that daily happen m 
 Executa^ the Staciities of Bankrupts ; The 
 - • - Masi- 
 
HOLLAND. 55 
 
 Magiftrates of y^mfterdayrj ever}' year Naiiie 
 Commiffioners for Bankrupts^ out of tliofb 
 that make up a Judicature, like toour Courts 
 of Aldermen in London-^ Thefc meet certain 
 days in the Week in a diiiindl Chamber in 
 the Stadthoufe, over whole Door is cut \tx 
 Marble the Emblem of Fortur^e flying avt'.w 
 with Wings, and round Cheih turn'd \.\pm<i 
 down, with Mice and Rats Eating the Mo- 
 ney-BagSy Pens, Inkliorns, and Paper-Books. 
 There tliey receive Petitions from Debtors 
 and Creditors, and as ocsallon requireth^ 
 iiimmon the Parties to appear before them^ 
 and to lay open the true State of the matter ; 
 this dons, they cither by Authority feize tlis 
 Bankrupts Books and Enedts, or elie without 
 any fiir and noile leave all remainbig in t\\t 
 .Debtors Houfes, and fend thither two Cofri- 
 mittees to examine the Books, and make' an 
 inventory of the E(tate,wirh power to comr 
 pole the nmtter, without giving much trotil 
 ble to the Parties. If the Commiilioner i 
 find that t\\e Debtor is come to decay by 
 unexpe<5i:ed Loifes, and unavoidable hczu 
 dents, to v,/hich he did not at all contribute, 
 it is their ufual Vv/ay to propols to the Cre^ 
 dicor fuch ahiicable and ealie Terms, as the 
 Poor Man may be able to perform , alotting 
 Ibmetimes the half of the Eftatc left to the 
 Pebtor, fometimes a third part , and iome- 
 times peri wading tlic Creditors to advaiicsi 
 ro the Poor Man a v^um- of Money to help 
 E X him 
 
54 -^ Defm^tion of 
 
 him lip again in Trade^upon Condition that 
 he do oblige himlelf to pay the Creditors all 
 he oweth them, when God fhall be pleafed 
 to make him able ^ but on the contrary, if 
 the Commiflioners find that a Trader hath 
 dealt Knavifhly, and -broken with a defignto 
 Defraud and Cheat his Creditors, as if it ap- 
 pear that a Bankrupt hath kept falfe Books, 
 ^nd counterfeited Bills of Exchange, Bills of 
 Loading , or pretended Commilfions from 
 Foreign Parts j in fuch a cale they are very 
 levere, arid not only ieize all th^ Books and 
 EfFeds of , the Bankrupt, but alfb Imprifon 
 him, and alfb punifh him Corporally j and 
 if the cheat be of an heinous Nature, Sen- 
 tence him fometime to Death j whereas, if 
 the Debtor be only Unfortunate,and no ways 
 Knaviih , then the CommilTaries ufe all the 
 Power they have to force the Creditors to 
 accept the Poor Mans Terms, the which is 
 better for the Creditors than to ufe the ri- 
 gour of the Law, in committing the Poor 
 Man to Prilbn, feeing in that cale the Cre- 
 fiitorsmuft maintain him in Prilbn according 
 to his Qualit}^, where if he lies a certain time, 
 snd the Creditors be not able to prove the 
 Prilbner hath an Eftate, then the Debtor is 
 admitted to his Oath to Swear he is not worth 
 40 Gilders, befides his wearing Cloths and 
 working Tools, and then he is let at liberty j 
 but in the mean time let the Prilbner have a 
 care r pt to make a falle Oath^ for then he is 
 
 puniihecl 
 
H L L J N D. 155 
 
 punifKed without Mercy ^ an inftance ot" 
 which happened in my time. 
 
 The States having admitted a certain Jew 
 to come and make luch an Oath before them^ 
 were at the fame time informed by the Goaleri 
 that this Jew had been ieen through the 
 chinks of the Door, quilting Ducats of Gold, 
 and Ibme Diamonds in his Cloaths^ to the 
 value of f 000 Gilders. The States hereupon 
 admonifhed the Jew to take heed to what 
 he was about to Swear.becaule the Law was 
 very ftrid againlt fuch as made falle Oaths 
 before diem^ and at die iame time caufed 
 the Oath;, and the I. aw to be Read unto 
 him ; neverthelefs tlie Jew offered to take 
 the Oath, but the Lords not liifTering him to 
 Swear, becaule then he mult die by Law, 
 caufed him to be taken out into another 
 Room and fearchedj where tliey found a- 
 bout him the Ducats and Diamonds : This 
 being told the Lords, they (ent for hinvinfj, 
 and then Sentenced hirtipto have 60 LalKes 
 under the Gallows^ and to be Banillied-the 
 Country; yet^ becaufe the Je\^had many 
 Childrcnj they gave the third part of what 
 was taken about him to his Wile and Chil- 
 dren, and a third tothePoor^ and the other 
 third to the Creditors^ which was enough 
 to pay them their Debt : Thefe Commiflio- 
 ners are paid by the States^ and have not a 
 Doit from Debtors or Creditors^ for all what 
 fhey do : Tliele Commitltoncrs are aWb 
 E 4 much 
 
^6 4 V^fcripthn of . 
 
 niuch to be commended for their readinell 
 
 to do good Offices to thofe Poor Merchfints^ 
 
 vvhp having lived hpneftly, Are brought to 
 
 (decay by Loffes and Croffes in their Trade ; 
 
 >vho when they find any fuch Co Poor that 
 
 they can neither pay their Creditors, nor 
 
 maintain the charge of their Families, it is 
 
 their conilant Ciiltom, to take their CliiU 
 
 (dren from them , and maintain and brkig 
 
 them up in their Holpitals ; yea, often alio 
 
 jfoliiciting the Burghermafters on their be- 
 
 liaifj to bellow ibmefmall Office upon them 
 
 ipr their Ilelief and Subfiftance. And her^ 
 
 I muft not omit to acquaint you, that as th^ 
 
 fconijDoundiog of Matters in Holland betwixt 
 
 Pebtor and Creditor, ib as hath been laidj, is 
 
 very eafie and equitable, lb is alfo their way 
 
 f>f niethod of fuing for Debts very favorable, 
 
 S-vliich is after this^ nnanner ^ In die firft place, 
 
 4 Note or Summons is left at the Debtors 
 
 iHfciule, and if he negled to appear, alecon<^ 
 
 Sufnmons is lent ^.J^ut then it' he neither ap- 
 
 {<eaf,^himfelf^ prlend IiisProdor, theSherins 
 
 ^rder an Arrclt againll him ; and at laft, 
 
 %hen he is brought before them,if the matter 
 
 ^e dipcult , it is referred to two or three 
 
 2qod Ivlen of the City, and time given him; 
 
 ^ put if the Plaintiff rnake Oath, that he ap- 
 
 prehends the Debtor liath a delign to run a- 
 
 way, then muli the Prilbner either give Bail, 
 
 pr return to Priiba It is a Remark that I 
 
 |mve rnade in my Travels , that excepting 
 
 Framri 
 
HOLLAND. 57 
 
 France and Fla','Jersy I never law in any Pri- 
 son above forcv' Prilbners for Debt at one 
 time, and in iome great Towns^ as in Haer^ 
 jem and otliers^ ibmetinies not one ; and the 
 Realbn herepf is plain, for you c.innot lay a 
 Man in Prilon for an Attion or Debt, fin all 
 pr great, but you muft maintain the Priibner, 
 io that many times the Charges exceed the 
 principal Debt, and after all, the Prilbner 
 pan fre* himfelf ^ whereas the Cuftom in 
 England^ encouraged by thofe Varlets the 
 Pettyfoggcrs and Catchpoles; of turning a 
 Man into a Prifon for a Crown , or it may 
 be lor nothing at all, if he cannot find Bail, 
 If^ may lie and Starve there, is an abomina- 
 :ble abuiej as alfo that of SuborrMng fil£e 
 Witnefles, v/hidi is extreamly cried out a- 
 gainit beyond Sea, 
 
 . And now becaule I am Speaking of Petty- 
 joggers, give rae leave to tell you a Story I 
 pet with when I lived in Rome ^ go""'^ with 
 a Roman to lee ibme Antiquities, he ihewed 
 me a Chapel, Dedicated to one St. E-vona^ a 
 Lawyer of' Britain^ who he laid came to Rone 
 io intreat the Pope to give the Lawyers of 
 ^Britain a Patron, to which the Pope replied. 
 That he knew of no Saint but what was dil- 
 .|X)ied of to other Profeflions; at which £w»^ 
 ivas ver}' lad,and earnellly beg'd of the Pope 
 to think of one t<)r them : At laft, the Pope 
 ■propoled to St. E^vona , that he faould ^o 
 round the Church of St. John ds Later a 
 
 Blind- 
 
«;8 A Defcriptton of 
 
 Blindfold^ and after he hadfaid fo many ^x'? 
 Maria's, diatthefirft Saint he laid hold of 
 ihould be his Patron, which the good old 
 Lawyer willingly undertook^ and at the end 
 of his y^T/^ AfariaSy he ftopt at St. Michael's 
 Altar^ where he laid hold of the Devil nnder 
 St. AlicbaePs'^QQt., ajid cry'dout, This is our 
 Saint, let hiin be our Patron ; fo being un- 
 blindfolded, and feeing what a Patron he had 
 cholen^ he went to his Lodgings h deje<a:edj 
 that in few Months after heDiedj and com- 
 ing to Heavens Gates, knockt hard ; where- 
 upon St Peter asked. Who it was that knockt 
 fo boldly, he replied, That he was St. E'vona 
 die Advocate : Away, away, laid St. Peter^ 
 here is but one Advocate in Heaven, here 
 is no room for you Lawyers. O but, laid St. 
 E'vona , I am that honell Lawyer who nevei' 
 took Fees on bot\;i fides , or ever pleaded iii 
 a bad Caij^le; nor did I ever fet my Neight*. 
 hours together by the Ears, or lived b)^ the 
 Sins of the People. Well then, laid St: Peter, 
 come in: Ihis news coming down to Rome, 
 A witty Poet writ upon St. Evnnas Tomb 
 tl'.elc v/ords j St. E'vona un Briton, Advocat 
 mm Larrov.y Hallelujahs This S^ory put rhe 
 in mind of Ben. johnfons going through a 
 Church in Surrey^ feeing Poor People weep- 
 ing over a Grave, asked, one of the Women, 
 Why they wept? O laid flie, we have loft 
 our precious Lawyer, Juliice Randal, he kept 
 us a'i in PCvicCj and alwa^'s was lb good as 
 
 • to 
 
HOLLAND. 5p 
 
 to keep us from going toLavv^ thebeftMan 
 that ever lived. Well, laid Ben. Johnfon^lwiW 
 lend you an Epitaph to write upon his Tomb, 
 which was, 
 
 God zi'orks Wonders noiv and than^ 
 litre lies a Lcnvyer an honejt Man, 
 
 And truly old Be}j. was in the right, for in 
 my time I have oblerved fome Gendemenof 
 that Profeflion, that have not aded like 
 St. Evon-.ij or Juftice Randal ^ I will fay no 
 more of them, but wifh tliem as great Fees, 
 and as much encouragement as the Law}'ers 
 have in Switzerland. 
 
 1 now come to Speak (bmething of the 
 three Taxes I mentioned in the former part 
 of my Remarks on Taxes, of which the tirll 
 ought rather to be called an ufeful and pub- 
 lick Invention, like to that of the Infurance 
 Office in London, then a publick Tax,feeing 
 no Man needs contribute to it unlefi they 
 plea(e, and find his proht by it ; but the o- 
 ther"may be called Taxes, becaule the Sub- 
 jects are obliged to fubmic to them, but then 
 they are fo ealie, that what the publick gets 
 thereby, not only lellons extraordinary bub- 
 fidies, which many times occafions clamour, 
 when becaule of their Rarity, and the ur- 
 gency of Occafions , they muit needs be 
 great. 
 
 Yet 
 
ifo A Dofcription of 
 
 Yet it is luflridently Compenfated by the 
 
 advantage and lecurity in the EiUtes^ which 
 private Perfons, v/ho are obliged to pay it, 
 reap thereby daily : I ani confident^ that 'i 
 the King and Parliament thought fit to intro- 
 duce Ibme , or all three of thele Taxes into 
 England y the publick charge of Government 
 might be defrayed with more eaie, and with 
 left repining and clamour, than when it mult 
 be done by new and high Impofitionsj how- 
 ever, our Governors are the pro}:)er Judges of 
 that. 
 
 The firfl: then is an Hoitfe called the 
 Merchants Bank, which is governed by di- 
 vers Commillioners^ Clerks, And Book- 
 Jkeepers^ikewiie an Eila}-Mailcr,who judgeth 
 of tiie Gold and Silver , ■ that at any time is 
 brought into the Bank uncoined : The iecu. 
 riry given for px^eiervation thereof, are the 
 States and Magillratesof ^^w/fiv/^j'/z?. Now 
 if }-ou have a mind to put Money into th^ 
 Bank, luppofe looo/. lefe or more, you 
 muit go to die Clerks, and ask a Folio for 
 your Name , and then pay in your Money 
 at dirce or four/w Cmt. according as the rats 
 of the BankrMoney is high or low , or you 
 may buy it of thofe called Cafliiers or Brokers j 
 ffieii g^t the Clerks to fet down in the Folio 
 whae you bring in ; having done Ib^you may 
 draw this Sum, or fell it in what parcels you 
 plcaie j but then if you let your Money lie 
 levcn yCv-irs in the Bank^yoi^receive no I|uereft 
 
HOLLAND. 6r 
 
 for the lame. If you ask, Where then is the 
 Advantage for the Mercliants? I anlxverjfirft, 
 yoii have your Money ready at all times for 
 anfvvering Bills of Exchange, and making other 
 Payments : You are at no charge for Bags or 
 Poitage, at no lols by filie tale, or bad Mo- 
 ney, in no danger of Thieves, or unfaithful 
 Servants, or Fire ; and alx>ve all, you have 
 the Accounts of your Calh moft pun(5hially 
 and jurtly kept without any trouble, or run- 
 ning the risk of Goldfinith or Calhierers 
 breaking in your Debt ; for liich is their 
 care, that twice a Year, or Ibmetimes ofr- 
 ner, they ihut up the Bank for 14 Da}-s^ and 
 ihen all that have Concerns therein, m.uifc 
 bring in tliek Accounts to the Clerks, who 
 a few Days after, having viewed the Books, 
 acquaint fuch as have -brought in wrong Ac- 
 counts with their- Miltakes, defiring them 
 to return to their Books, and rec^ifie their 
 Error, not telling them wherein the miftake 
 lies : So that I have known Merchants, in 
 my time, fent back three 9r four times with 
 their wrong Accounts : But if they begin to 
 grow impatient, and fay that they will Hand 
 to their Accounts, then they pay a Muld to 
 the Clerks upon their convincing them of 
 their Millakes, either by charging too much 
 upon the Bank , or forgetting or omitting 
 what was their due. I knew two Merchants, 
 Who having forgot, the one 7 p /. and the 
 other zao /. in their Aoeoimts, were honeit^ 
 
6tt A Defcription of 
 
 ly rectified by the Clerks , fo that they fi:- 
 Itained no Lois. Befides this care of the 
 Clerks in keeping and Itating the Accounts, 
 the Bank is obliged for 5- /. a Year to lend 
 to every Merchant that defires it, their Ac- 
 comits ever}'^* Morning before Exchange- 
 time, of the Moneys written of by them in 
 in the Bank the Day before upon any A4er- 
 chants Account, and vvnat Sums are written 
 of by others upon their Accounts : So that 
 the Merchants may compare the Banks 
 Notes with their Books, and lb lave much 
 of the Charges of Book-keeping. 
 
 Now if it be objected, That though this 
 
 ' be an Advantage to the Merchants, yet what 
 
 can the Publick gain thereb}^, leeing the 
 
 Charges of pa}'ing Officers, Clerks, &c, 
 
 muft needs be very confiderable ? 
 
 I anlu'er. That indeed it is a Myflery to 
 diofe who underftand not the thing j. but if 
 it were once known and practiled, the Ad- 
 vantage of it would appear : For among o- 
 ther things which might be faid , the Magi- 
 flrates of the City take out of the Merchants 
 Bank a lufficient Stock of Mone}' to liippiy 
 the Lumbert, a Bank that lends out Money, 
 and is Governed by four Commiffioners cho- 
 len out of the Magiftrates, who fit in Couit 
 every Day in the Lumbert, wliich is a large 
 Pile of Building 300 Foot long, containing 
 leveral Chambers and Magazines under one 
 Roof j in thefe leveral Chambers the Com- 
 
 miflioner? 
 
1%' 
 
 HO L L An X). 6^ 
 
 miilioners have Officers fitting to lend Money 
 upon all Ibrts of GoodSj even from a pair of 
 Shooes to the richeft Jewel j &c. This is a 
 great convenience for Poor People^ yea, 
 for Mercliants alio, who ibme times may 
 want Money to pay a Bill of Exchange^and 
 prevents the Cheating , and extraordinary 
 Extortion uled by the Pawn-brokers in Evg^ 
 land^ France^ and Other Cpuntries. Andbe- 
 fideSj the Poor have their Pawns iafely and 
 well preferved, neither are they piin<^ially 
 ibid when the Year is out^or denied under the 
 pretext of being miflaid, as the Poor are often 
 times lerved by the wicked Pawn-brokers. 
 , There is alio another convenience in this 
 I.umbertji'/^.. an excellent way they have of 
 difcovering Thieves^ and theftden Goods; 
 they publiih two general open Sales of Goods 
 pawn'd, twice a year, that fuch as will may 
 redeem their Goods, and paying the Inte- 
 reft may have them, although the time be 
 rclapfed. Thus much as to the Lumber:. I 
 was once, according to my Duty, to wait 
 upon the D. of llrk^ at the Bank of Mer- 
 chanfs, where jhewing his Highnefs the way 
 of keeping the Journal-Book of the Bank, 
 which is of a prodigious bignels,his Highnefs 
 was extreamly plealed with the contrivance of 
 prelerving it from Fire ; faying, that the 
 courle they took might be of great ule for 
 the prclerving Patents, and the Deeds of 
 Ijoblefnens Eilates ; This contrivance, which 
 
 per- 
 
5^ A Vefcriptimi of 
 
 perhaps may be thought uleful or iniitatle, 1 
 ihall therefore delcrlbe it ; It is a large Fire- 
 ftone fhaped like a Cheft^ and fet upright in " 
 a Stone- Wallj having a large Brafi Door of 
 a vaft thickneisj witli Flaps to M orer and 
 cover the Lock and Hinges ; into this Cheft 
 the Book is drawn upon Rolh^ it being of 
 fuch a bulk and weight as cannot be handed 
 in by a Man, and there it is io fecurely 
 preierved, that although the Floufe fhould 
 be burntj the Book in all probabilit}^ would 
 be lafe. Should I here give an account of 
 the vaft Sums of Money that daily are writ- 
 ten of in this Bank, I might probably bs 
 thought to fpeak at random, but this I may 
 boldly affirm^that it far exceeds all the Banks 
 in Europe, both for Riches and Bufineis, and 
 riieir Credit is fiich, that the Italians,French, 
 Germans, and Englilh have great Sums in ■ 
 the lame J neither was ever aiiy Man refufed 
 his Money in the worft of times. . 
 
 A lecond Tax is what arileth from the juft 
 and laudable Eftablifhment of a Regifter, a, 
 Tax which I tliink moftMen will b6 willing. 
 to fubmit to, except fuch as defign to cheac 
 and defraud their Neighbours , and live by 
 fiich like Sins and Confiilion, and for die 
 niof i" part die with tlie Curie oi the People 5 
 I'his kegilter in Holland begets fuch affu- 
 rance and fafety in Dealing, that in purcha- 
 ling of Houfes or Land, a Child, thougl% 
 ever-reached in the Value, yet cannot b? 
 cheated as to th§ Tide^ Th* 
 
tiO Lt AKD. 6^ 
 
 The Third and laft Tax is that of Sealed 
 Paper, as it is pradifed in Holland. There 
 are many other things might be (JDoken, as 
 to the Government oi Ar^ft^erdam, butlmuft 
 not tire yoiir patience. However, one con- 
 fiderable thing I would not pals by, touching 
 the Militia: There are in Am/hr dam Sixty 
 Companies of Foot, the lead of them having 
 200 Men, (bme 300, which' in a modelt 
 account, amounts at ieaft to i j-ooo Men, in 
 which number neither Jews nor Anabaptifts 
 who carry no Arms ar^ reckoned, only they 
 are obliged to contribute to the maintenance 
 of the 1400 Soldiers, who are kept in con- 
 ftant pay, as a Guard for the City , and to- 
 wards the' Night-Watch or Rattel-Watch, 
 who walk the Streets the whole Night to 
 keep good Orders, and tell us every half" 
 hour what a Clock it is. There are alfb up- 
 on every Church Tower, Trumpeters, who 
 Sound every half hour ; and if any Fire 
 breaks out in the City, they give a Signal on 
 which fide of the City the Fire is, and Ring 
 tlie Fire-Bell ; and they have excellent ways 
 on a fudden in (uch lad Accidents to quench 
 Fire : But I may not iiilarge any k>nger,but 
 hA^eriputo^Holland. Though before Heave it 
 it will not be amils if I give the Reader a Lift 
 of the Paflage-Boats, which for the conveni- 
 ence of thole chat Travel that way, I have here 
 Colle(5ted,withthe times of their going oi^ 
 which they arc punctual ia oblerving. 
 
 F ■ B«ginning 
 
66 A Ve [motion of. 
 
 Beginning at HJzoetSlujs , where the 
 Pacquet-Eoat fromE?;^/^w^lies. From whence 
 to the Britil there goes a Wagon every Day 
 At 8 in the Morning ^ the Paffage colb 7 
 -Stivers • and the larrte from the Briell to 
 Helvoet. • ..■ •'Vt?'^;;- i::! 
 
 From the BrkU to Rotw^am-j ;ahd from 
 Rotterdam to the ^n>//, there Sails a Boat 
 every Day as the Tide ferves. 
 
 From Kotter'dam to Delft ^ and fi'om Delft 
 to R-otterdam, there goes a Trecht-Scuyt^ ot 
 PalTage-Eoatj every Hour, from 6 in the 
 Alorning to 8 in the Evening, 
 
 From Delft to the Hague , and from ' the 
 Hague to Delfiy the "Boat goes every half 
 Hour. " 
 
 From Dclfi\, and from the Hague to Ley. 
 den ; In the Morning at <^, 7, 9, and half an 
 Hour after 10. In the Afternoon at half an 
 Hour after 12, at 2-^, at ^l, and at 6^ daily^ 
 ss' yon aj-e to underltand all along. 
 
 '-From- Ley den to Delft, or tO the Hague at 
 the feme Hoiirs ; In the Morning at 4, 6^ 
 8; ajTid loi. Afternoon, 12',. 2^, 4^, and 
 6i','- and a Night-Boat at 11. 
 
 From Ley den to Haerlem • In the Morfting' 
 at 51, 6\j 9 and ir. Afternoon, 12J, V^, 
 2, 4, and 6. AJi© a Market-Boat every 
 Day before Noon. 
 
 From Hierkm to heydev j In the Morning 
 a:r 6, 8, 10 and 12. Afternoon at i, 2, 4' 
 and 6 ;; and the Nieht-Boat at 1 1. 
 
 rroni 
 
H L L J N D. 
 
 From Am(terdam to Haerlem^ aiid from 
 Haerlem to Amficrclam^ there goes a Boat 
 every Hour;; from the opening of the Gates^ 
 to 8 of the Clock at Night. 
 
 From Amjterdam to Ley den ^ at 8 at Night; 
 and from Ley dm to Amferdam^il 9 at Night, 
 every Night ; and a Market-Boat at 3 in the 
 Afternoon. 
 
 From Aifijterdam to Utrecht, from the i ) 
 oi March to the If o^ September, at 7 in the 
 Morning, at i in the Afternoon, and at 8 
 in the livening. From the 1 5" of September, 
 to the 1 1 of March, at 8 in the Morning, at 
 I in the Afternoon, and at 7 in the Even- 
 ing. And 
 
 From Utrecht to Amjterdam at the fame 
 Flours. 
 
 From Am^trdam to Gotida^ or Ter^oes, as 
 'tis CDrrLTptly called ,* From the firft of April . 
 ' to the lalt of September, in the Morning at: 
 ji and in the Evenmg at 8. In Ochber, Nc^ 
 'cfember, and Mrrch, Moriiing and Evening 
 at 8. 
 
 From Gouda to Amfterdam j In the Morn- 
 ijig at II, and in the Evening at 8. InDe^ 
 cember, Jamtarj and Febnuivy, no Boat gdes 
 in the Morning from eidier place, and only 
 one at 8 in the Evenijig. 
 
 ^ From Tergoes \o\x may go by Wagon id 
 
 'Rotterdam, or f'om Ro'ttrdam to Tergoes,, for 
 
 about 12 or 14 Stivers, which ib a-con- 
 
 F 2 ^tPAtnt 
 
68 A Defcription of 
 
 venient PaiTage for Strangers^ there being 
 the leaft fhifting of Boats. 
 
 From Amfierdam to Rotterdam^ and from 
 Rotterdam to Amjterdam • The Market-Boat 
 for carrying Goods goes off at 12 at Noon 
 every Day. 
 
 From Amfierdam to the Ha^ue, and from 
 the Hague to Amfterda7n^ the lame at 1 2 at 
 Noon. 
 
 From Amfierdam through Muyden to Naer^ 
 dtn J In the Summer, from the firft ofApn/^ 
 to the lall of September ^ Morning, at 6, 8 
 and iQ J Afternoon, at 2, 4 and 6. In the 
 Winter, Mornings at 7, 9 and 1 1 ; After- 
 noon, I, ; and f. This is a Fortification 
 very well worth leeing. 
 
 From Naerden through Muydefi to Amfier- 
 dam • In the Summer at ) , 7 and 9, Morn- 
 ings ; and at 2, 4 and 6, Afternoons. In 
 the Winter, Mornings, 7, 8 and 10 • After- 
 noons, I, 3 and 5". 
 
 From Ley den to Gouda • Every Da}^ a Boat 
 goes at 1 1 in the Fornenoon, and on Satm-^ 
 days at 2 in the Afternoon. 
 
 From Gouda to LtyAen j Every Day at 1 1 
 in the Forenoon, and on Tburjdays at 1 2. 
 
 From Ley dm through iVoerdtn to Utrecht ; 
 In the Morning at 9, Afternoon at 1 2-j, and 
 Evening at 9. 
 
 From Utrecht through Wocrden to Leydcn j 
 Mornings at 8 and 12, Evenings at 8. 
 
 From 
 
HOLLAND. €9 
 
 From KotHrdam to 7)orf, and from Don 
 to Rotterdam t Every Day a Boat as the Tide 
 lerves ; as alio to Antwerp the iame. 
 
 It will be unneceflary to particularize any 
 more, theie being all that Englifhmen have^ 
 occafion for, for whom thefe Remarks are» 
 made, though it will not be improper if I 
 infert the Order for the Poft-Wagons, which 
 ibme for Expedition make ule of 
 
 The Order of theFofi-lVagons "which go he* 
 tween Amfterdam and the Hague. 
 
 Every Day except Sundays^ from the 26 
 oi February to the 29 of September, there gOCS 
 a Poft-Wagon at 6 in the Morning. 
 
 From the firit of OSiober to the fixth of 
 l^ovember, at 7 in the Morning. 
 
 From the 8 oi November to the 19 ofja. 
 ^Mary^ at half an Hour paft 7 in the Morn- 
 ing- 
 
 From the 21 of January to the 24 of Fe- 
 br^uary ^ at 7 in the Morning. 
 
 In the great Vacation of the Courts of 
 Holland J wliich .is all the Month of Augujl-^ 
 there goes no Wagon in the Morning. 
 
 At 1 2 at Noon there goes a Wagon eve- 
 ry Day. Sundays and all , throughout the 
 Year. 
 
 The Paflagc in the Poft-Wagon for each 
 Peifon is 4G. 3 St. befides Paflage-Gelt. And 
 if any hire a whole Wagon,, they may go 
 F - 
 
^Q A nefcrij^tiQn of 
 
 at wU^t Hour they pleale^ and pay 24 G. 
 18 St. and Paffage-Geltj provided there be 
 no more than 6 perfons. 
 
 And if you are fet down by the way you 
 fhall be abated proportionably of the PaflagSj 
 -but then you muft give notice of it before 
 Hand^ and be content to take your place a& 
 ter tiiofe that go quite out 
 '^ And now having faid Ibrnuch of the Stat-es 
 Cjovernment, and of J mfier dam mpsLrticu- 
 lar.,it will not be amils to take notice of fqme 
 bad Cuftoms and Pra6tices now in vogue in 
 Holland, and leave it to the Reader to judge 
 what they may portend : There are Tolle- 
 rated in the City of Awfierdam, amongft 
 other abuieSj at leaft p MuHck-houles^where 
 ievv^d Perlbns of both Sexes meet and pra- 
 ^ife their Villanies : There is alio a place 
 called the I:t)ng-Seller,a Tollerated Exchange, 
 or publick Meeting Houie for Whpres and 
 Rogues to Rendezvous in , and make their 
 filthy Bargains. This Exchange is open from 
 fix a Clock in the Evening until nine at Night ; 
 ^very Whore muft pay three Stivers at the 
 Door for her Entran(^e or Admiffion. { 
 confe:^ the Nlinifters Preach and cxclaitn 
 from |:he Pulpit again ft this horrible Abufe , 
 but who they be that protect them I know 
 not j yet^ 1 have heard Ibme plead for t\\(i 
 Tolleration of thele wicked Meetings, upon 
 pretext, that when the Eafi-hdia Fleets 
 come home, the Seamen are fb, mad for. 
 
 Womcnj 
 
ROLL An D. 7/ 
 
 Women ^ that if they had not liich Hoiifes 
 to bait in, they would force the very Citl-. 
 zens Wives and Daughters j but it is well 
 known, that as Money does pountenance, fb 
 Dilcipline might Hipprels that abuie. Th^., 
 old leverCj and frugal way of living is now! 
 almoft quite out of date in Holland ^ there is 
 very little to beleen of that Ibber Modefty- 
 in App'arel, Diet, and Habitat'ons a§ for-- 
 merly : In ftead of convenient Dvveriihgs, 
 the Hollanders nov^ build (lately Palaces, 
 have their delightful Gardens^ and Houfcsoi* 
 Pleallirej keep Coaches^ Wagons and SleaS;. 
 have vers' rich Furniture "for tliclr Horfes^ 
 with Trappings adorned with Silver JBells. f 
 have feenthe V^anity Qfa-\intners Son,whQ^ 
 had the BofTes of the Bit. and Trapping of 
 his Horfe of pure Silver; -liisFpor-jV3an ancj! 
 Coach-Man having Sih;er Fring'd Gloves-;;' 
 yea^ lb much is the hi^mourofthe Wome^J 
 altered, and of dieir Children alio, that lio' 
 Apparel can now fcrve theriibut thebeftancir 
 licheft that France and other Countries aC' 
 fords j and their Sons are fo much addiclcjcj 
 to Play/ that many Families in Jimflcr/Iam^o, 
 ruined by it ; not that England is lefs cxtra-r 
 vagant then the Dutch ; who as I ii]id be-^ 
 fore^got luch great Eftates by their Frugal it},;^^ 
 whillt they vv^ere not addic^ted to iiich Pjlxv 
 digality and Wantomiefs as the Englilh are^ 
 Whole excefs I cannot excule ; ncverthelels,^ 
 tlie grave aiid fober People of Holland are' 
 F 4 very 
 
f2 A V^fcriftion of 
 
 very fenfible c^ the great alteration that now 
 is in their Country, and as they lay, Fara- 
 cdft^ ufed to Cure his Patients of their Pifl 
 cale with a full Belly j fo a good Burgher- 
 mafter defirous to convince his Amfterdam- 
 mers of their diflblute kind of Life, invited 
 the ; 6 Magiftrates and their Wives to a Feaft ^ 
 who being come , and the Ladies big with 
 Expeitlation of fbme rare and extraordinary 
 Xntertainnient, fat down at Tiible , where 
 the firft Courle was Buttermilk boild with 
 Apples, Stock-fifii , Butter'd Turnips and 
 Carrots, Lettice, Sallat, and Red Herrings, 
 and only fmall Bear^ vyithout any Wine ; 
 at this the Ladies ilartled, and began to 
 whiiper to their Husbands, that they expe- 
 ^ed no fuch Entertainment, but upon re- 
 moving of the Dilhes and Plates, they found 
 underneath Printed Verfes, importing. That 
 after that manner of living they began tq 
 thrive, and had inlarged their City. 
 
 The Second Courle confifted of Bocke de 
 Kooks, Quarters of Lamb, Roafled Rabbits, 
 and a Ibrt of Pudding they call a Brother j 
 here they had Dort and Englifh Beer , with 
 French Wine, yet all this did not pleale the 
 Dainty, Dames : But upon removing away 
 the Plates another Dirti of Poetry appeared, 
 which acquainted them, That after that mo- 
 deft andiobcr way of living they might keep 
 what they had gpt^and lay up lomecliing for 
 their ChudrefL ' ' ' ■ 
 '' - Then 
 
HOLLAND. 75 
 
 Then comes in the Third Courfe made 
 up of all the Rarities of the Seafbn, as Par- 
 tridges^ Phealants, and all forts of Fowl, 
 and EnglilK Parties, with plenty of Rhenifh, 
 and other forts of Wine, to moiften them ; 
 this put the Ladies in a Frolick, and jolly 
 Humour, but under their Plates was found 
 the Ufe and Application in Verles , telling 
 them , That to feed after that manner was 
 Voluptuous and Luxurious, and would impair 
 their Health, and wafte their Eftates, make 
 them negled their Trade, and fo in time re- 
 duce their ftately and new built fiourifhing 
 City to their old Fifhing Town agaia Al- 
 ter tliis was brought in a Banquet of all forts 
 of Sweat Meats piled up in Pyramids, and 
 delicate Fruit, with plenty of delicious Wines ; 
 and to conclude all , a fet of Mufick and 
 Maskers, who Danced with the young La- 
 dies; but at parting, like the hand writing 
 to Beltefl}az,z,ar upon the Wall, eveiyonehad 
 a Printed Paper of Moralities put into their 
 Hand, Ihewing them the Caulesof the Ruin 
 of the Roman Commonwealth , according 
 to diat of the Poet, 
 
 NulltPft crimen ahejt , facinufque libidinls 
 
 ex (juOj 
 F-aupertas Rom.ma perif. 
 
 with an excellent Advice to them. That if 
 they did npt quit the Buffoonnes^ and Apilh 
 
 Modes 
 
74 ^' Defcription of 
 
 Modes of the French, and return to the Sim- 
 pliclt}', Plainnefs and Modeft}' of their An^ 
 eeftors and Founders^ their Commonwealth 
 could not long laft ^ but sAX the Tlianks the 
 good old Burghermafter had for his kind and 
 chargeable Entertainment in thus Feafting 
 his Countr}'-Men, was to be Floutted at^and 
 Pasquildj the Sparks of Amjterfctam laying in 
 all placeSj That the old Man being now paft 
 the years of Pleafure himielf, would have 
 none others to take theirs : And here I fhall 
 put -a period to what I thought fit to obferve 
 of the States of the United Provinces^ only I 
 wiU beg leave to lay ibmething to the HoU, 
 lander by way <::>'[ Advice, w-t-'. That now 
 they are in a profperous Condition, Rich,' 
 and at Eaie, they would look back and remem- 
 ber what God in his infinite G ^odnels and 
 Mercy did for them in the days of dieir 
 greateft Calamines : For my own part I can^.^ 
 not but admire the great Providence of God' 
 in preierving them from being devoured by.' 
 their many Enemies they had in thelali War^' 
 bcfides their Enemies at home, Ibme of which 
 particulars as they then happened give me 
 leave to relate. At the time when the French 
 came to Invade the Territories of die States 
 General, it then looked as if God had mark d 
 out th.e way for the French to March, by 
 lending fuch a wonderful dry Seafon, that 
 the Rivers cf the Rhine , Bcta^ IVdl^ and 
 other Pavers were Fordable, {o that t-hs 
 
 French 
 
H L L A H D. 75 
 
 French only waded throw^ and became iq 
 Vi(ftorious^ that in a little Ipaee of time 
 (what by the Treafons of ibme , and the 
 Ignorance and Cowardife of others intrufted 
 with the Militia and Gari|bns) the French 
 became Mafters of above Forty Cities and 
 Garifbns, at which rime there was notliing 
 to be heard of in the States Dominions but 
 Confiifion and Mifer}% even in the ftrong 
 and rich City of Amfierdam it lelf^ ^vho at 
 this time beheld theFrenchArmy like a mighty 
 Torrent coming within fight of the dbf, 
 and at the f^me time wantiiig Water in their 
 Canals^ and Burghw4lls to ply their Sluces, 
 and fuch v/as the fcarcity of Rain^ that a 
 Pail of frelh Water was worth Six Pence : 
 Thus Heaven feemed to frown on them, as 
 well as the French Army , by the iKutting 
 up as it were the Conduits of Heaven, and 
 yet a worle thing had like to have fallen 
 out y fo|- at the lame time the Divijions 
 grew io high amongft the Magiftrates 
 in the Stadthoufe, that it vvas putting to 
 tlie QuelHon, Whether or no they Ihould 
 not go and meet tlie Frerxch King with 
 tlie Keys of their Ci!¥;, to fave it f om Fire 
 and Plunder ^ now nothing, in all probabi- 
 lity, cpuld iA\'Q this rich City -from falling 
 into die hands of the Frencli, but an imme- 
 diate hand from Heaven, and it had un- 
 doubtedly come to pals, had not Providence 
 caufcd the French to make a Ihond at Aduy- 
 
y6 A^Pe/cription of 
 
 den J tw© hours from ^mjterdam, at what 
 time the valiant Roman of Amjterdam , 
 Scout Hajfelaer, like a true Father of his Coun- 
 try J oppoled the French Party in th« Coun- 
 iel, calling out to the Burghers from the 
 Stadthoufe, to take Courage, and rather 
 chufe to die, like old Battavians, with their 
 Swords in their hands, than tamely and 
 treacheroufly to yield up their City to the 
 Mercy of the French, as lome of the Ma- 
 gillrates were about to do ; this fo incoura- 
 ged the Burghers, that with great Courage 
 they mann'd the Walls, and Heaven then 
 aflifting them with a fudden and plentifiil 
 Rain, that they ply'd their Sluces, and 
 dround the Lands round the City three or 
 four Foot high, in fome places, which caus'd 
 the vidorious French Army to make a quick 
 retreat, as far as Utrecht, elfe they had paid 
 dear for feeing of Amjterdam • thus was 
 Amfierdam delivered by the hand of 
 Heaven. 
 
 A Second was, when that bloody Duke 
 of Lux€?nburg, who gloried and thanked 
 GOD that he was born without pity or re- 
 morle of Conlcience, took the opportunity 
 of an exceeding hard Froft, to march his 
 Army over the Ice as it had been drygromid, 
 burning in his way the three fiir Villages of 
 Bodygra'L'ej Sivammerdam , and GoudJi.Jluys ^ 
 ad:ing there a more cruel Tragedy, and 
 woriCj than ever did Turk, for they gene- 
 rally 
 
HOLLAND. J J 
 
 rally iave the Country People for Ranibm_, 
 but this cruel Prince cauled ftrong Guards 
 to (urround the Villages, and burnt Men, 
 Women, and Children together: Thus he 
 began his march, with a deiign to burn Ley- 
 tUtij Hague, Rotterdam, J^^lfiy and all the ricli 
 Country of Rhineland : And this he might 
 have done in all probability, for, firft, the 
 Goyernor of Ne-w-jluce^ who commanded 
 the Poft that fhould have ftopt the French, 
 tieacheroufly delivered up the Fort without 
 firing a Gun ; and the handful of Troops 
 then under General Koningfmark were (b in- 
 confiderable, that they, joyned to the Sol- 
 diers under Pain and K;«, the Governor of 
 Nevj-fluce, were not aWe to make head as 
 could oppole Laxembitrg's Army ^ and at the 
 lame time the Prince of Orar.ge was with 
 the States Army at CbarUroy : Now was Ley- 
 den ready to me«t the French with the Keys 
 of their City, and other Cities too, for they 
 had neither Fortifications nor Soldiers to 
 nian their Walls : Thus the whole Country 
 and Cities of RhlneLmd were like to fill un- 
 der the Cruelties and Tyrany of the French, 
 but G O D a fecond time ient theie People 
 Relief from Heaven^ tirl-t by giving fuch un- 
 daunted Courage to that Cjreat itaccs-man 
 Penfionary iv^c/,that he 'ioTQ,QdiCo?un^^fm.irk 
 to rally his Troops together, and to make 
 a ftand near Leyden^ offering himfelf to die 
 at the head of them if there were oceafion, 
 
 but 
 
j8 J X>efcriptioh of 
 
 but GOD referved him for a further Good, 
 to the Commonwealth^ by fending fuch a 
 ludden Thaw as was never leen betbrcj for 
 in lefs than ten hours, the Ice ib iunkj and 
 fuch Floods of Sn^w came down from the 
 Highlands, that the French were fain to 
 make a ver)^ diforderly retreat, marching up" 
 to the middle for hafte, becaufe on the Banks 
 there could not m.areh above four Men' 
 a-breaft, (6 they were conflrained to leave 
 behind them the greateft part of the Plu». 
 der they had robb'd from the Innocent Coun- 
 try People, and the nimble Dutch-men, on . 
 their Scates, fo long as the lee would bear 
 them, did Jhoot down the.French like Ducks 
 diving imder Water, fo that it coll Luxem- 
 hurg's Army dear, though they had the 
 pleaftire to burn the poor People, of which 
 the French afterward wickedly made theii' 
 boaft. 
 
 The third was as wonderful as the two 
 others ; and although I do not believe Mira- 
 cies,' as do the Papills, yet I lay nothing I 
 ever oblerved looked more like a Miracle 
 than this ; to wit, when the Englifh and 
 French Fleet lay before Scbeveling with a de- 
 flgn to land, and the French ready en their 
 March to joyn with the Engiyh and other 
 French as loon as tliey fhould land, at the 
 iarac time the Bili^pof vV'/w^/d^.^ l}'iiig before 
 Groerange?}, aiid 'the French before Gorcc7i7. fo' 
 that novv' all ^things looked with a dreadiiil' 
 
 facs 
 
 i 
 
ti L L J UT>. jp 
 
 face for the Spates^yet at tliis very time God 
 lent a tliird relief ^ by lending luch Milis^ 
 and wonderfiil Ibrts of Tydes, as fo lepara- 
 red the two Fleets^ that the Englifh were 
 forced to quit Scheveling Shore^ and were 
 driven on the fide of the Texel Road ,• from 
 wlience they were conftrained by the £albn 
 of the Year to retire home : And fuch were 
 the Hidden and great Showers of Rain, that 
 the Bilhop of Munfier was forced in dHbrder 
 to raile his Siege at Groeni77gen^;iu.6. the French 
 to quit Gorccm. I could add many moreOb- 
 icrvations of the Providences of God to thela 
 People, as the prelerving the I'rince of 0- 
 'f'^^^gSy His prelent Majeity of Great Britain^ 
 from the many treacherous Defigns contri- 
 ved againll him from his Cradle ; but Mofes 
 mull be preferved, to go in and out before 
 his People. Certainly never )'oung Prince 
 endured lb many Fatigues as did his High- 
 nels in his tender Years, of which I was an 
 Eye-witnelsj and had his Highnels had the 
 Years and Experience, and luch a good Dis- 
 ciplined Army (as now he hath) in the Year 
 1671. when the French entred the Coun- 
 try, his Highnels had given them as good a 
 Welcom as he did at Bsrgeji. I will {■:xy no 
 iliore of this Subjed, only this. That the 
 Peace at Nlrfjeguen was alio a very won- 
 derful thing , for that not above eight Days- 
 before the Peace was ligned, molt of the 
 Plenipotenriaries did believe the \^'ar would' 
 
 liave- 
 
§o A Defcription tf 
 
 have continued another Year ; firft^ becaiife 
 the King of Denmark and Duke of Branden- 
 burg prolpered exceedingly againft Siveed- 
 landy and totally refufed the Propofitions of 
 France ; and lecondly, becaufe the French 
 King writ fuch bitter Letters againft the 
 States-General : Yet eight Days after dreft a 
 Letter unto the States^ in which he calls 
 them his Good Friends^ and Old Atteys^ offer- 
 ing them not only Maejtricht^ but every Foot 
 of Ground they could lay claim to in the 
 World ; alio giving them new Terms and 
 Conditions as to their Privileges in France y 
 byway of Trade. Neither can I forget how 
 Ipeedily and as rtrangely the French King 
 did quit his Conquered Towns after the Va- 
 liant Prince of Orange took Naerden, which 
 ' was the firft ftep to the French's Ruine in 
 the States Dominions. I com& now, accor- 
 ding topromilein thebegimiing of this Book, 
 to give the Reader ibme Remarks I made 
 in other Countries where I have been, du- 
 ring my Sixteen Years Travels. To give 
 a full account of all that might be oblerved 
 in Co many Countries, is not a Task for one 
 Man, nor a Subjed ibr fo fmall a Book j I 
 fhall only therefore briefly take notice of 
 Ibme remarkable Matters which mayinibms 
 niealure latistie theCuriofity ofmyCoiintry- 
 men, who have not been in the laid jplaces, 
 and convince, if poffible, all of them, that 
 no Country that ever I was in_, aftbrds lo 
 
 great 
 
CLEAVE. Si 
 
 great Conveniencics for the generality of 
 People to live in, as the Kingdom of Evg- 
 Ian/ doth. Though I have twice made the 
 
 gTcwd tour ot Germany^ Htingaryy Italy and 
 Friwce, and after my return back to England^ 
 travelling a third time through Holland as far 
 as Strasbourg^ and iJCi back by Framfort XQ 
 Denmark and Sueden ; yet the Reader is not 
 to expecft I Ihould follow a Geograj^^cal 
 Method and Order in fpeaking of'md Plade* 
 I 1-iavc been in ; that is to be lookt for in the 
 Map, and not in Travels ; but only that. 1 
 mention Places as I found them on mvRoadj^ 
 according as Bufinels or Curiofity led me to 
 "Travel. 
 
 Til E firft confiderable Place I then met 
 with, after I was outoftheDominion.-* 
 of the States-General, was Clea-ve, the Capi» 
 tal Cit}' of the Provicice io called j a fair and 
 lovely City (landing upon the RJime^ and 
 tlie llivers If^'aU and Leek. This Prbvincs 
 much relembks Knglavd m rich Soil, and 
 pleafontnefs of its Rivers. The Inhabitants 
 of die Country would have me believe that 
 they were Origir^ally defcended of thofe.SVx- 
 cns who made a defcent into England^ and 
 conquered it ; and to convince the truth cf 
 this, they Ihew d ms a Cloyller Handing en 
 a Hill, called EhhaTrij from which they fay 
 our Elth.^m in Kent had its Name. .' 1 \\ a- 
 mad; to obfciv-:^ alio ^u'o plac-t-; ftmdin^ 
 
8 a A Defcription of 
 
 lipoii the Rhine nQiv Efnmerick^ called DoacL 
 ford y and Gronewlch, which according to 
 fhem, gave the Names to Bedford undiGreen. 
 omch in England : But many luch Analogies 
 and Similitudes of Names aiQ to be found in 
 Other places of Germany ^ but elpecially in up- 
 f)er Saxony and Denmark, The greateft part 
 of this Province oi Cleave ^ and part of the 
 Dutchies oijulkrs and B erg. ^nd of the Pro- 
 -Vinees ofMarke and Ravensbourg^ belongs to 
 ■ tfe Elecflor of Bj-ajidenbcurg^ the rell belong- 
 ing to the Duke of Ntwhourg now Eiedor 
 Talatine, and the Eied:or of Cologne. The 
 Inhabitants, are partly Roman CathoHcks, 
 partly Lutherans^ and partly CalviniilSj who 
 all live promiicuouny and peaceably toge- 
 ther both in City and Country. The City 
 of Cleave is the utmoft Limit of the Territo- 
 ries of the Elector of Brandenbourg on this 
 a^Q of Germany '^ from whence his Ele<5loral 
 Highneis can Travel Two Hundred Dutch 
 Miles out-right in his own Dominions^ and 
 hever fleep out of his own Country but one 
 Night in the Territories of the Bilhop of 
 Ofnahrug. 
 
 F'^ohr Cleave I went to a finall Town 
 called Rbinbtrgy but a very iirong For- 
 tiiication belonging to the Eledor of Co- 
 logne ; which lies at twb Miles diftance from 
 the City of fVefel^ that belongs to the Ele<3:or 
 .of Brandcnbcurg. Through Dujfildorpe^ fituated 
 ■ . > on 
 
COLOGNE. 83 
 
 on ihQ Rhine, iind the Refidcnce of the Duke 
 ti Ncwbowg, I went next to Cologne, a. very 
 large City, called by the Roniaiis Colo?na A- 
 gnjipina, and the French Rome d'Allemagne. 
 
 Cologne is an Imperial City, and a Repub- 
 lick, though for (bme things it does Homage 
 to the Eledor of that Name, and receives 
 ; an Oath from him. It is much decayed with- 
 in thele Hundred Years, having been much 
 Prieft-ridden ; a Misfortune that hath un- 
 done many other great Cities. The Jeiuits 
 have had 16 great Influence upon the Magi- 
 Ibates, that they prevailed with them to ba- 
 ftifli all PrOteftants, who removed to Ham- 
 bourg and Amflerdam j {o that Cologne is be- 
 come io diipeopled, that the Houles daily- 
 fall to ruine for want of Inhabitants, and a 
 great deal of Corn arid Wine novc^ grows 
 within the Walls, upon Ground where Hou- 
 les formerly flood. I dare be bold to affirra, 
 fchat there is twice the Number of Inhabi- 
 tants in the Parifh of St. Martins in the Fields^ 
 as there is in Cologne • and yet it contains 
 as many PariJh-Churches, Monafteries and 
 Chappels, as there are da)s in the Year. The 
 Streets are very large , and ib are the Hon- 
 ies alio, in many of which one may drive a 
 Coach or Wagon into the firft Room from 
 the Streets : But the Streets are fo thin of 
 People, that one may pais fome of them and 
 not meet Ten Men or Wom^n, unlefs it be 
 G 2 Church- 
 
84 ^ Defcriftion of 
 
 Church-Men , or Religious Sifters. The 
 moft confiderable Inhabitants of the City are 
 Proteftant Merchants , though but few in 
 Number, and they not allowed a Chuich 
 neither, but at a place called WcuUin^ a Mile 
 without the City; the rcit of the Inhabitants, 
 who are Lay-menjare miferably poor. 1 here 
 are no lefs than 2000 Students in Cologne 
 taught by the ]Q\mts gratis^ who have the 
 privilege to beg in Mufical Notes in the Day- 
 time, and take to thenilelves the liberty of 
 borrowing Hats and Cloaks in the Night. 
 But if in the Jefuits Schools there be any Rich 
 Burghermafters Sons who have i^arts^ they 
 are lure to be inapt up, and adopted into 
 the Society. Formei-ly^ before the Alatter 
 was otherwile adjufted in the Dyet of Ratis, 
 bmncy there have been Deilgns of Voting 
 Proteftant Magiftrates into the Government 
 agaiAj but fb loon as the Jeliiits came to dil^ 
 CO\'er who of the Magiftrates were ibr that, 
 they immediately preferred their Sons or 
 Daughters, and made them Canons, Abbots, 
 or Canoneffes, and {o diverted them by In- 
 ' terelh It's pky to leo a City lb famous for 
 Traffick in iormer times, now brought to {o 
 great a decay,that were it not for the Trade of 
 Kheniih-Wine, it would be utterly forlaken, 
 and left wholly rotheChurch-Men.The con- 
 tinual Alarms the Magiftiates have had by Fo- 
 . reign Defigns upon their Liberty ^and the Jea- 
 loulies fomented among theinielves-, as it \< 
 
 thought, 
 
T<III E §(. ,85 
 
 thought, by the Agents and Favourers of 
 France, and elpeci;illy the Bifhop of StxaJ' 
 yourgy Iiave, for feveral years, kept them in 
 continual difquiet, and neceffitated them to 
 raile great Taxes^ which hath not a little con- 
 tributed to the impoverifliing of the People, 
 efpecially the Boars round about 5 who, tho* 
 the CoLintr)' they live in be one of the molt 
 plealant and fertile Plains of Germany , yet 
 are (b wretchedly poor,that Canvas Cloachs, 
 Wooden Shoes, and Straw to fleep on in 
 the lame room witii their Bealh, is the 
 greatelt worldly Happinels that moft of them 
 can attain unto. The Elector of Cohgne is 
 Bifhop of four great Biihopricks, fix,. Co. 
 logne, Prince of Liege, Altwfier , and HcL 
 Atrjinwe. To fpcak of all the Miracles of the. 
 tlirce Kings of Cahgne^ and the vait numbea: 
 j.\f S.iints, who were removed out of Kng^ 
 land and interred there, would be but tedi- 
 ous, and perhaps incredible, to the Reader, 
 as well as wide of my defjgn : I ihall- there- 
 fore proceed. 
 
 FRom Cchgne I took Water on the Rhine, 
 and advanced to the City of Bon, and 
 io forward to Coblentz,, the Rellc^cnce of the 
 Elcdor of Trier: Over-againft this City, on 
 the other fide of the Rhine ^ Hands tliat im- 
 pregnable Foit called Hirminjhine, built on a 
 high rocky Hill, as high again ns JVind'or. 
 Caltle j and on the North-fide of ii^ the Ri- 
 G 3 V er 
 
S6 A f)efcription of 
 
 ver Mofelle falls into the Rhine ^ over which 
 there is a ftately Stone-Bridge. This Prince 
 governs his Subje(fts as the other Spiritual 
 Electors do, that is, both by Temporal and 
 Spiritual Authority, which in that Country 
 is pretty abfolute. The chief Trade of this 
 Country is in Wine, Corn, Wood and 
 Iron. 
 
 THE next Country I came to was that of 
 the Ele<5tor of Mayehce or Mentz^^whoi^ 
 likewife both a Secular and Ecclefiafticai 
 Prince, and governs his Subjeds accordingly. 
 He is reckoned to be wholly for the Interelts 
 of the FrenchKing j whOjnotwithllanding of 
 that, pretends a Title to the Citt,idel oi* ^ 
 Mayence. As I was upon my Journey to 
 Mdjence by Land, I made a turn down the 
 Rhine to vifit the famous little City of Back- 
 rack, and Ibme Towns belonging to the 
 Landtgfave of HeJ/e^ but elpecially Backrack, 
 becaufi Travellers lay, it much refembles 
 jerufalem in its Situation and manner of 
 Buildings. The Burghermalter of this City 
 told me, that the whole Country about 5t7c^- 
 rack does not yield above 200 Fouders of 
 Wine a yeaj-j and yet theMerchants of Dor/^ 
 by an Art of Multiplication, which they 
 have ufed Ibme years, furnim England with 
 ieveral dioufand of Fouders. Here I ilial! 
 take the Liberty to relate a ftrange Story, 
 v/hich I fciind recorded in thi§ Country, tho' 
 
M A r B N C'-E. ^y 
 
 I know' it to be mentioned in Hiftory:- 
 There was a certain cruel and inhumitn Bi- 
 fhop of Aliyence, who^ in a year of gv&i^ 
 Icarcity and Famine^ when a great- number 
 of poor People came to his Ga-tes -bcggiiig- 
 for Bread, caufed the poor Wretches, Alen_, 
 Women, .and Children, to be put into a 
 Barn, under pretext of relieving their Ne- 
 ceflities, but lb loon as they were got in^caufed 
 the Barn Doors to be ihut. Fire fet to.it, 
 and ib burnt them all alive : And whirit- the 
 poor Wretches cried and friricked out for 
 Horror and Pain, the barbarous A4ilcreant 
 Ciid to thofe that were aboqfhim. Hark, 
 how the Rats and Mice do cry. But the juft 
 Judgment of GOD fullered not the Fad to 
 pafs unpuniHied 5 for not long after the cruel 
 Biihop was lb haunted with Rats and Mice, 
 chat all the Guards he kept about him could 
 ?iot lecure him- from them, neither at Table 
 nor in Bed ; at length he relblved to flee for 
 safety into a Tower that Hood in the middle 
 of the Rhine ;■ but the Rats purliied him , 
 got into his Chamber, and devoured him 
 alive ; lb that the Juftice of the Almighty 
 made him a Prey to Vermin, who had in- 
 humanly reckoned his Feilovv-Chriftians to 
 be liich. The Tower, which- 1 law, to this 
 day is call'd the Rars-Tower, and the StoiV 
 is upon Record in the Cit)' of A^c7yaK:!.y^"^^^ 
 ■ On my Journey from ^ thence I came to- 
 the little Village of Hoch^in^ not far diliant^ 
 G 4 flamous 
 
88 A Defcriftson of 
 
 fcmous for our Hockomore-Wine, of which, 
 though the place does not produce above i f o 
 Fouders a year, vet the ingenious Hollanders 
 ef Dort nuke (ome thouland Fouders of it 
 go off in England and the Indies. 
 
 FKom Hoc kom I proceeded to Francfort^ a 
 pleaf^nt City upon the River of Maine, 
 called formerly Tetitoburgum ajid Hcltnofvhs, 
 and (\VK<. Frimcfort ^ becaufe here the Franco- 
 nians, who came out of the Province of 
 Franconia^ foarded over^ when they went 
 upon their Expedition into GalHuy which 
 they conquered, and named it France : And 
 1 thought it 'might very well delerve the 
 Name of Tetty-London, becaufe of its Privi- 
 leges, and the Humour of the Citizens. It 
 is a Hanfiatick and Imperial Town, and 
 Commonwealth, the Magiftrates being Lu- 
 ^icrans, which is the publick eltablilhed Re- 
 ligion ; though the Cathedral Church be- 
 longs to the Roman Catbolicks, who alfo 
 have feveral Monafteries there- The City 
 \s populous, and frequented by all Ibrts of 
 Merchants, from moft parts oi Europe, and 
 part ofJ^a alfo,becaule of the two greatFairs 
 that are yearly kept there ; Many Jews live 
 in this City, and the richeft Merchants are 
 Calvinifts, who are not iiiffered to have a 
 Church in the Town, but half an hours 
 Journey out of it^at a place called Bucknam, 
 where \ have told Seventy four Coaches at a 
 
 time. 
 
I 
 
 F<!i,AnCFORt. 8>. 
 
 time, all belonging to Merchants of the 
 City. It was in ancient times much en- 
 richM by Charlemainy and hath been fince 
 by the Conftitution of the Golden- BhU : A- 
 niongft other Honours and Privileges, it's 
 appointed to be the place of the Emperor's 
 Eledion, where many of the Ornaments, be- 
 longing to that Augull: Ceremony, are to 
 be feen. It is ftrongly fortified, hviving a 
 itately Stone-bridge over the Maynty that 
 joyjis it to Saxt-houfen^ the Qiiarter of the 
 Great Mailer of the Teutonick-Order. The 
 Government is eafie to the People, they not 
 being taxed as other Cities are ; and had it 
 not been for die Alarms the French gave 
 them, during the lalt War, they had not 
 been much troubled, but being forced to 
 keep 5 or 4000 Men in conltant Pay to de- 
 fend their Fortifications, the Magiftrates 
 were conllrained to raife Money by a Tax. 
 Befides diat of the Emperor, tliey arc under 
 the Prote<::tion of fbme Neighbouring Prin- 
 ces, as of the Landtgrave of HtjJ't-CajJel ^ 
 Landtgrave oi Armjladt, the Count oiSolmes^ 
 ^id die Count of Hanau^ who are either 
 Lutherans or Calvinifts, amonglt whom thq 
 late Eledor Palatine was alio one ; but whe. 
 ther the pref^nt, who is a Roman Catho- 
 lick, be (b or not, I cannot tell. This 
 City takes great care of dieir Poor, and in 
 their Charity to poor Travellers exceed HoU 
 }avd i I kive feea a Lift of Sevea thouCind 
 
 whom 
 
po A J)efcription of 
 
 whom they relieved in one year. Their 
 great Holpital is a large Court orPalacej where 
 the EngliJli Merchants formerly lived, in the 
 time oi' Qiieen Marfs Perlecution of the 
 Protelbnts^ who, when they were recalled by 
 Queen Eltz,abethyWa:Q fb generous as to give 
 the whole Court, with all their Pack-houles 
 and Lands to the Poor of the City. It was 
 my fortune to be there in that cold Winter 
 in the year r68;, and law a Ceremony 
 performed by the Wine-Coopers of the City, 
 who are obliged by Law , that when ever 
 th^Maim lies faft frozen over for 8 days toge- 
 ther, to make a great FouderFat, Hoops and 
 Staves , and let it up compleat upon the Ice. 
 It was very good diverfion to lee io many 
 Hands at Work, and to oblerve the jollity 
 and mirth of the many Thoulands of Spe- 
 (5tators, who wanted not plenty of Rheniih 
 Wine to Caroule in. 
 
 I had the curiofity afterward to go to the 
 Court of the Landtgrave of Armeftadty a 
 Lutheran Prince, who lives in part of die 
 richeil: Soil in Germany. His Highnels is a 
 very courteous and obliging Prince to Stran- 
 gers, and his Subjeds are in a pretty good 
 Condition again^though they have beeji great 
 Sufferers by the laft War between die Landt- 
 grave pf HejJ'e and this Family. 
 
 Fron; 
 
HEIDELBERG, ji 
 
 FRom thence I went to HeiMeberg, a City 
 I had been formerly in^, in the Life time 
 of that Wife, though unibrtunate Prince 
 Elector, Elder Brother to Prince Rupert. 
 Here I had the Honour to pay my Dutiful 
 Relpeds to the Ele^lor^the Son of that great 
 Prince, whole Commiffary I had the Ho^ 
 nour to be for two years together in Amlhr. 
 clam. This Prince, fince my being there^ is 
 Dead , and left behind him the Reputation 
 of having been, a zealous thorough paced 
 Calvinift, and fo conftant a frequenter of the 
 Church, that Ibme Sundays he went thrice 
 a day to Sermon ; but never failed, if in 
 Health, to be once a day at leaft at the Ga- 
 rifon Church , where he took particular no- 
 tice of liich Officers as were ablent. He was 
 Married to a moil Virtuous Lady, the Royal 
 Sifter of the King of Denmark , and his Bro- 
 ther Prince George. During his Life time the 
 Univerllty of HeUleberg fiourifhed exceed- 
 ingly, fo that the number of Students was 
 fb great, that Chambers and Lodgings in the 
 City were fcarce, and Spanhcmlus was about 
 quitting Leyden to return to his Profellbrs 
 place in Heidleberg j but how matters ftand 
 iince his Death, 1 am as yet ignorant. This 
 Country is called, the Paradile of Germany^ 
 for its fruicfulne^ in Wine, Corn, and all 
 forts of Fruit. I my lelf have i^Qn growing 
 in one Plaiil, at the lame time. Vines, Corn, 
 
 Chcftnuts, 
 
^2 A Defer iptioff of 
 
 Cheftnuts, Almonds, Dates, Figs, Cherries, 
 befides feveml^ other forts of Fruit. And as 
 die Country is fertile in yielding the Fruits . 
 of the Earth, fo the People are carefiil in 
 providing Store Room for them. Tkis I ' 
 take notice of, becaufe *of the prodigious 
 RheniiK Wine Fats which are to be leen there, 
 amongil which there are Seven , the lealt 
 whereof holds the quantity of ifoBarilsof 
 Beer^as I calculated ; but the large and moli: 
 celebrated Fat is that which goes by the name 
 of the great Tun of Hiidlebtyg,. ancl holds 204 
 
 *Foudersof Wine, and cort 705- /. 
 •AFouder s^^rling in Building, for which 
 hc9 (head's. ^^^ i"*^^}' nave a verv^ good Houte 
 
 built. This Fat I have ^tQw twice, 
 and the firl^ time was , when the £led:or 
 Treated the French AmbalGidors that came 
 to conclude die Match betwixt his Daugh- 
 ter, and Monficur the French Kings Bro- 
 dier, who Married her after the Death of 
 Henrietta his tirlt Wife; at wliich Treat there 
 happened an adventure, that I fhall here 
 pleale the Reader with. In a Galleiy that 
 IS over this Fat, the Elaftor caufed a Table 
 CO be placed in the middle, exadly above the 
 Bunghole of this Monltrous Velfel, and to be 
 covered with a coftly Banquet of all forts of 
 Sweat-Meats : The day before, all die Wine 
 being emptied out of this Tun into other 
 Fats, a little before the AmbalTadors, with 
 other Foreign Minillrers and Perfons of Qua- 
 lify' mounted the Stairs to come to die place 
 
 of 
 
HEWEfBEKC. pj 
 
 of Entertainment^ the Eledor cauled twelve 
 Drummers^ with as many Trumpeters^me 
 Kettie-Drums,and other MuUck^to be lodged 
 in the Belly of the Tun, with orders to ftrike 
 up, upon a llgnal given, when the Eledor 
 drank the French Kings Health. All being 
 lat down at Table, and merrily Feeding, 
 the Ele<5l:or drank the Health, and the Signal 
 was given ; whereupon the Mufick began 
 to play its part, with fuch a roaring and un^ 
 couth Noiie out of that vaft Cavity below, 
 that the French and other Peribns of Qua- 
 lity who were unacquainted with the defign, 
 looking upon it to be an iiiibrnal and omi- 
 nous Sound, in great ailonilliment began to 
 cry out, y^fi* Miirui , The I'VorUs at an tndy 
 and to ihift ever)- one for himlelf in fb great 
 Dilbrder and Confufion,. that for hafte to be 
 gone they tumbled down Stairs one over 
 another. All that the Ele(5lor could ixy to 
 compole them, was either not heardpr nor 
 valued, nor could any thing latisfie and re- 
 alTure them, till they Ciw. the A6tors come 
 marching out of dieir Den. Had not many 
 Peribns of Qiiality and Tr^wellers leen. this 
 Fat as well as my Iclf, who know that what 
 I lay of its incredible bignefs to be true, I 
 fhould be afraid the Reader might think I 
 impoled upon his Credulity. 
 
 From Htidltbiig I went to iee that im- 
 pregnable Fort or Cittadel of Manheln alias- 
 Fnamcks^ergj built by th;; HisilorF/(?</i;/c.*, 
 
 Brother 
 
94 ^ Defcription of 
 
 Brother to Prince Rupert ^ a Prince of as 
 good a Head as any Germany afforded; who 
 though Ibme have too partially judged of 
 him by his Misfortunes, yet by the wifeft of 
 the Age was accounted the Cato of Germany. 
 TheWifeftand beft Men of the World have 
 been unfortunate, which makes Ibme to be 
 of the Opinion, That God in his Wildom 
 riiinks fit it fhould be ^o, left otherwife they 
 might attribute their Pro^erit}' rather to the 
 wife direction of their own Condud: , than 
 his All-feeing Providence : And indeed^daily 
 Experience leems to evince the Truth of this, 
 fince we fee Knaves and Fools advanced to 
 Preferment and Riches,when Men of Virtue 
 and Parts die negledled, and poor in the 
 Eyes of the World, though rich in the en- 
 joyment of a contented Mind. But tliis is a 
 digreflion which the Honour I have for the 
 memory of that great Man hath led me into, 
 and therefore I hope will be pardoned by 
 the Reader. In the Cittadel of Manheim I 
 faw Ibme of the Records of that Illuftrious 
 Family, which without dilpute is the moft 
 ancient of all the Secular EleAors, being El- 
 der to that of Ba-variaj which Iprimg fi-om 
 one and the fame Stock * to wit, two Em- 
 perors of^ Germany. Many Writers derivd 
 them originally from Charkmaln , by th^ 
 Line of Fefm King of France. There have 
 been leveral Emperors of that Race, one 
 King of Denmark J and four Kings o^Saedejj^ 
 
 one 
 
S TA S 'B U %G. 95 
 
 one of which was King of Norwaj al(b, be- 
 fides many great G>2nerals of Armies' in Ger~ 
 many^ Hungary^ France, and Other Countrys. 
 Since I can remember there were five Pro- 
 teftant Princes Heirs to that l^leAoral Dig- 
 nity alive J which now by their Death is ' 
 fallen to the Duke of Newhourgy the prefent 
 Prince Elector Tdcnine, a Roman Catholick, 
 whole Daughter is Empreft of Germany^ and 
 another of his Daughters Married to the 
 King of Portugal, a third to the YiAngo^ Spain^ 
 and a fourth to Prince J-ames of V eland. 
 
 BEing fb near Strasbourg, I had the curi- 
 ofit)' to go (ee what figure that Famous 
 City now made, fince it had changed its 
 Mafter ; for I had been thrice there before^ 
 when ic flourilhed under the Emperors Pro- 
 tection, with the liberty of a HanHatick 
 Town : And indeed, I found it ib disfigured, 
 that had it not been for the ftately Cathedral 
 Churchj and fair Streets, and Buildings^ I 
 could Icarcely have known it. In the Streets 
 and Exchange, which formerly were throng- 
 ed with fobcr, rich;, and peaceable Merchants^ 
 you meet with none hardly now but Men 
 in Buff-Coats and Scartfs^ with rabbles of 
 Soldiers their Attendants. The Churches I 
 confeis are gayer ^ but not lb much frequented 
 by the Inhabitants as heretofore^ feeing the 
 Lutherans are thruft into the meanefb 
 
 Churches, 
 
-p6 A Vefcription of 
 
 Churches, and moft of the chief Merchants^ 
 lx)th Lutherans and Calvinilh, removed to 
 Holland and Hambourg. Within a few years, 
 I beleive it will be jult fuch another City for 
 Trade and Riches as Brtfac is. It was ibr- 
 • merly a rich City,and well llockt with Mer- 
 chants and wealthy Inhabitants, who lived 
 under a gende and eafie Government j but 
 now the M^giftrates have little elle to do in 
 the Government , but only to take their 
 Rules and Meafures from a Cittadel and 
 great Guns, which are Edi(5b that Merchants 
 ieail undcrlland. I confels, Strasbourg is the 
 lels to be pittied that it (b tamely became a 
 Slave, and put on its Chains without any 
 firugling. Thole Magiftrates who were In^ 
 itruments in it, are now fenfible of their own 
 FoUy, and bite their Nails for Anger, finding 
 themlelves no better, but rather worfe hated 
 than the other Magiltrates, who did what 
 they could to hinder the Recepdon of their 
 new Mailers the French. I quickly grew 
 weary of being here, meeting with nothing 
 but complaints of Poverty, and paying ex- 
 orbitant Taxes. 
 
 I therefore (bon returned to myVetty-London^ 
 Francfort, and from thence went to CaJ. 
 (d , the chief Refidence of the Landtgrave 
 of HeJ/r. This Prince is a Cilviniit, as molt 
 of his Subjeds are , very grave and zealous 
 m his Religioji : He Married a Princefs of 
 
 Ccurland^ 
 
HESSE, 97 
 
 Courhnel, by whom he hath an hopeful Iffiie ; 
 to wit , three Sons, and two Daughters. 
 King Charles 11. was God-Father t© (jnc oT 
 his Sons, who was Chrillened by the Name 
 of Charles • Captain J fill t am Leo;g, Brother to 
 the Lord Dartmouth , reprefenting his Ma- 
 Jelly as his Envoy. The Court of this Prince 
 does indeed relenible a well-governed Col- 
 lege, or Religious Cloilter, in regai'd of its 
 Modefty and Pvegularity in all Things, and 
 elpecially in the Hours of Devotion. He is 
 Rich in Money, and entertains about Nine 
 Thoidand Men in conllant Pay , under die 
 Command of Count l^andcrlipy a brave and 
 expert Soldier, his Lieutenant General, but 
 Ciin bring many more upon occalion into 
 Field. This Family hath been very happy 
 both in its Progeny and Alliances, many 
 Wile Princes of both Sexes having Iprung 
 from it; and the Mother of this prelenc 
 Lmdtgrave may be reckoned amongd the 
 Illultrious Women of the prefent and pall 
 Ages. After the Death of JVHliam V. Landt- 
 ^rave of HeJJ'e her Husband , Ihe not only 
 lupported, but advanced the War wherein 
 he was engaged, did many fign.il Aciions, 
 enlarged her Territories, and at the conclu- 
 fion of the Peace, kept under her Pay f6 
 Cornets of Horle in hve Redments, i66 
 Companies of Foot, befides 1 3 Companies 
 of Dragoons, and 14 Independent Compa- 
 nies, ill all 24^; Companiv'S of Horle and 
 li Foot : 
 
p8 A Defcri^tion of 
 
 Foot: She was aPiincefsextreamly obliging 
 to Strangers^ elpecially virtuous and learned 
 Divines. I had the Honour a good many 
 yearS ago to kils her Highneffes Hand, at 
 which time fhe was mighty Zealous in pro- 
 moting an Accommodation amongft diffe- 
 rent Religions, as the Roman Catholick, 
 Lutheran and Calvinift , but elpecially be- 
 twixt the two latter j and therefore enter- 
 tained Dodor Duris, at her Court in CaJJels, 
 who wrote ieveral pieces upon that Subjed 
 of Reconciliation^and with lome of liis Friends 
 had a Conference with a Learned Prieff , 
 that came from Rome to forward the Projed j 
 whereupon die Dodor Publilhed his Book of 
 the Hiirmc?fj of Co?jfeJ!t y which is highly 
 eiteemed in Germany. 
 
 FRom this Princes Court I direded my 
 Journey to Hanouer , taking Lamh[frir,g 
 in my way , a place where there is a Con- 
 vent of Englifli Monks ; and diere I met 
 Vv'ith a very aged , worthy, and harmlefs 
 Gentleman, Sir Thomas Gajcoigne^ a Perfbn of 
 feeming great Integrity and Piety; the Lord 
 Abbot and feverai of the Monks I hcid 1(een 
 there formerly. This Monaller}' is very ob- 
 liging to all btrangers that Travel that way, 
 as well as to their cAvn Country-men, and is 
 highly rei}^eded by die Neighbouring Princes 
 of all Perlwafions.as the Princes of the Houfe 
 of Lumnhrg, the Landtgrave of H^Je, and 
 
 Eledor 
 
HA N U E 1{. 9p 
 
 EleAor of Cologne^ who as Bifhop of Hi!- 
 i^er//;eiw. is their Ordinary. The Town of 
 La7nbffring is Lutheran ;, though under the 
 Government of the Lord Abbot and his 
 Chapter , who conftantly chule Lutheran 
 Magi Urates and Officers for the Civil Ad- 
 minillration^ and live together in that Love 
 and Unity, that as yet there hath never the 
 leaft debate happened amongft them ; and 
 indeed, this Harmony is now to be oblerved 
 in moll parts of Germany , where different 
 Religions are profeffed. When Iconfidered 
 £o many goodly Faces, both of Monks and 
 Students in that Abbey, I could not forbear 
 to make a ferious Reliedion on the number 
 of the Englilh whom I had leen in the Col- 
 leges and Cloilters abroad, ^.i^lRome, Rattj^ 
 bonne^ WirtzJ^urg in Lorrai», at Liege, Loti- 
 vain, BruJJels, Dunklrky Ghent, Faris, and 
 , other places, befides the Nunneries ; and 
 withall,on the lols that both King and King- 
 dom fuflercd thereby, when lb many of our 
 Natives , both Men and Women Ihould be 
 conllrained to Ipend their own Eftates, and 
 the Benevolence of others in a ftrange Land, 
 which amounts to more Money tlian at firit 
 one may. imagine; and this thought, I con- 
 f:ls, made me wilh it were otherwife. I 
 would not have the Reader to midake me 
 here, as [f I Efpouled , or Pleaded for any 
 particular Party j no, I plead only for the 
 Sentiments of JHumanity , wichout v/hich 
 Hz OU£ 
 
I CO yi Defer iptiori of 
 
 our Nature degenerates into that of Brutes, 
 and for the love that every honeft Man 
 ought to have for his Country. I am as 
 much a Friend to the Spanim Inquilitiony 
 as to the perlecuting of tender Conicien- 
 ced Proteltants, provided there be no more 
 hut Confcience in the Cafe : And I could 
 heartily wilh that Papills and Proteftants 
 could live as lovingly together in Evgl.md, 
 as they do in Holland^ Germany ^ and other 
 Countries ; for give me leave to fay it, I 
 love not diat Religion , which in itead of 
 JExalting, deftroys the Principles of Mora- 
 lity and human Society. I have met with 
 honeft Men of all Perfwafions , even Turks- 
 iind Jews , who in their Lives and Manners 
 liave far exceeded many of our Enthufia- 
 IHck ProfelTors at home ; and when ever 
 this happened , I could nbt forbear to love 
 the Men without embracing their Religion, 
 for which they themfelves- are to account to 
 their great Malter and Judge. 
 
 In my progrefs towards Hanoner I 
 touched at Hilderjhtiw , a City whofe Ma- 
 gillrates are Lutheran y though Romai) 
 Catholicks have the Cathedral Church , 
 and feveral Monafieries there. The Court 
 ©f Hamuer makes another kind of Figure 
 than that of CaJJcJs, it being the Court of 
 a greater Prince, who is Biihop of Ofnaipur^z, 
 'Duke oi^ Byu72j7i>ick y Lunenburg, H.,muer , 
 
 €!^ct Here I had die Honour to Kifs the ' 
 
 hand^ 
 
HA Isl "V E % lot 
 
 Hands of the Princefs Royal SopbLr, young- 
 efl: Sifter to the Lite Prince Rupert. Her 
 Highnels has the Character of the Merry 
 Dehonnaire Princels of Germany , a Lady of 
 Extraordinary Virtue and Accomplillinicnrs, 
 ancl Miftreis of the Itaiian^French^High ai>d 
 Low Dutch , and Englilh Languages , 
 which jhe Ipeaks to Perfection. Her Hus- 
 band has the Title of the Gendenian of 
 Germany , a graceful and comely Prince 
 both a Foot^ and on Horleback, Civil to 
 Strangers beyond compare, infinitely Kind 
 nnd Beneficent to People in Diftrcls, and 
 known in the World for "I Valiant and 
 Experienced Soldier. I had the Honour 
 to lee his Troops, which,, without Contro- 
 verlie are as good Men ^ and Commanded 
 bv as expert Officers as any are in Europe : 
 Amonglt his Officers 1 found brave SteeL 
 H.md Gordon , Colonel of an excellent Re*- 
 giment of Horie, Grimes^ Hinvlron, Talipot , 
 and others of our Kings Subjects. God hath 
 bleft the Prince with a numerous Olf-fpjing, 
 having fix Sons, all gallant Princes; cyf 
 wl-iom the two Eldeft fiqnaiizcd them-idlves 
 lb bravely at the railing of tiie ^Sicge of 
 Vienna, that ^as undoubted' proof of theiV 
 Viiloui-j thev brought three Turks Home to 
 this Court Piilbners. His elded Son is 
 Married to a molt bcauritlil Princefi, lole 
 LIcircfs of the Duke of Lum-nb'tr^ and ZeWs. 
 Elder brother j , as the lovely Princels his 
 H "3 Daughter 
 
I oa A Defer ijftion of 
 
 Daughter is Married to the Duke of 
 Brandenburg. He is a gracious Piince tp 
 his People^ aiad keeps a very fplendid Courts 
 having in Jiis Stables for the ule of himfelf 
 and Children^ no leJfs than Fifty two lets of 
 Coach-Horfes : He himfeif is a LutherAn^ 
 but as his Subjedis are ChriiHans of different 
 Perfwafions^ and Ipme of them Jews too^ lb 
 both in his Court and Army lie entertains 
 Gentlemen of various Opinions and Coun- 
 trieSj as Italian AbbotSj and Gentlemen that 
 lerve him , and many Calvinifl: French 
 Officers : Neither is he ^o Bigotted in his 
 Religion , bu#that he and his Children go 
 many times to Church with the Princels^ 
 who is a Calvinillj and join with her in her 
 Devotion. His Country is good^ having 
 Gold and Silver Mines iii it j and his Sub- 
 jeAs live well under him,* as do thole alio 
 .of his Brother the Duke oi Lumnburg^ and 
 their Cozen the Duke of IVolfembuttel^ which 
 are the three Princes of the Hquie ot Lu7ien. 
 kttrg'^ of whom it may be faid^ that they 
 have alwa)-s Ihick honeftlv to the right fide , 
 and befriended the Intercils of the Empire ^ 
 lo that no by-Relpe(3:, neither Honoiu: nor 
 Profit, could ever prevail with them, as it 
 lias with others^ to rp^ke them abandon the 
 puMick Concern. 
 
 From 
 
Z E L L. 103 
 
 FRom this Pnnces Court I went to Zell^thc 
 Refidence of the Duke the elder Brother 
 of the Famii)'. This Prince is called the 
 Might}' Jsiwrodj bccaufe of the great delight 
 he takes in Hories^ Dogs^ and Hunting. He 
 did me the honour to let me iee his Stables, 
 wherein he keeps 570 Hories, mofl of them 
 Engliih, or of Englilh Breed. His Dogs, 
 which are alio Engiiih, are lb many, that 
 with great care they are quartered in leveral 
 Apartments according to their Kind. and 
 Qualities, diere being a large Office like a 
 Brewhoule employed for boyling of Mak 
 and Corn for them. It is this valiant Prince 
 who took Trieves from the French^ and made 
 the Marelchal de Cre'jui Prifbner : He is ex- 
 tr«amly obliging to Strangers, and hath leve- 
 ral brave Scotim Officers under his Pay, as 
 Major-General Erskin^ Grahar/ty ColtmaJt^lLu 
 milton^ Mtlvin^ and others. His lieutenant- 
 General is oije Cha-z-ot a Proteilant of yi/jc!- 
 tl.Ty an excellent and expenenced Comman- 
 der. I fhall add no more concerning this 
 Prince, his Officers, or Country ; but that 
 he, witii the other two Princes of theHoule 
 ot Luncnbourgy Hinotter , and IV.dfemhuttely 
 can upon occafion bring into the Field 56000 
 Soldiers, whom they keep in conllant Pay, 
 and (iich Men as 1 never law better in my 
 lile. 
 
 n 4 'After 
 
104 '^ Defcnption of 
 
 • 
 Fter fome ftay at the Court of the Duke 
 oiZell^ I went to Hambowg^ a famous 
 HanfiatickTown. It is a Republick^and City 
 of great Trade, occaHoned partly by the 
 EnglilK Company of Merchant Adve?tTi{rers, 
 but much m.ore by the Dutch Proteftants_, 
 who in the time of the Duke of Alba for- 
 Ibok the Low-Countries and fettled here^and 
 tl^ Protcftants alio who were turned out of 
 Colocrve, and other Places in Germany ^ who 
 neverthelefs are not now allowed Publick 
 Churches within theCicy,but at a place called 
 yf//^f72/7^a Village belonging to the King of I>f ?;- 
 mark.?^ quarter of an hours walk diffant from 
 Hamooio-g. This Commonwealth is Luthe. 
 ran, and governed by 4 Eurghermafters^ 24 
 Radts-heers, and a Common-Council of all 
 the Burghers who have above 40 Shillings 
 fer Annum Freehold. The Symbol or Motto 
 under their Arms, is, T>a Vacem Domme in 
 Dlehus nefiris\ and in their Standards arc 
 thele Letters S. P. Q. H. The People here 
 groan under heavy Taxes and Impofitions; 
 The Stats^becaufe of continual Alarms they 
 have from the King of Denmark, or other 
 Neighbours ; and the Inteltine Broils that 
 iErequently happen here, as well as at Cologne, 
 where the Burghermafters.are often in dan- 
 ger of their Lives from the mutinous Mo- 
 bile; being forced to maintain 6 or 7000 
 Men in Pay, belides 2 or 5 Men of War to 
 
 guard 
 
HJMBOURG. 105 
 
 guard their Havens from Pirats. I fhall not 
 name all the ways of impofing Taxes which 
 this Commonwealth ufes, becaulc in mod 
 they imitate die Methods of the States-Ge- 
 neral as to that, which have been mentioned 
 before : 1 ihall only take notice of fbme pe- 
 culiar Cultoms they have, wherein they 
 idiffer froni Holland. When a Barber, Shoe- 
 maker, or any other Artizan dies, leaving 
 a Widow and Children , another of the 
 lame Trade is not admitted to iet up for 
 himfelf as a Mailer, unlels he compound 
 with the Widow for a piece of Money, or 
 elfe marry her, or a Daughter of hers widi 
 her confent. 
 
 If any Man caufe another to be Arreftcd 
 ibr Debt , or upon any other Suit , the 
 Plaintiff mull go along with the Officer who 
 Arrefts the Party , and ftay by him until 
 ' the Prifbner be examified by the Sheriff; 
 io that if the Sheriff be not to be lj:)oken 
 with that night, the Plaintiff mull tarry 
 with the Prifbner all night, until the SheriiF 
 cxamin the matter, and fee caufe of dil- 
 charging or committing the Party* but 
 this a Plaintiff may do by a Procuration 
 Notaiial. 
 
 If a Prifoncr be committed for Debt, die 
 Plaintiff mull maintain him in Prilbn ac- 
 cording to his Qiialit}^; and if the Parrv 
 lie in Prilbn during the fpace of 6 Years, at 
 the expiration of tiiat time the Prifbner is 
 
 dif: 
 
1 o6 A Defcription of 
 
 difchargcd^ and if during the time of his 
 Imprifonment the Plaintiff do not pundu- 
 ally pay the Prifoner's Allowance at the 
 Months end, the Pjilbner is let at liberty, 
 and neverthelels the Plaintiff mult pay the 
 Gaoler the lalt Month's Allowance. 
 
 This State is (evere in the execution of 
 juftice againfl: Thieves, Murderers, and 
 Cheats. There is no Pardon to be expe- 
 lled for Murder, and a Burghermafter him- 
 lelf , if Guilty , cannot efcape. The Pu- 
 niihment for Murder is here as in Sweden^ 
 breaking Malefad:ors on the Wheel,pinching 
 t'-ieir Breads and Arms with hot Pincers, 
 Ipitting them in at the Fundament, and out 
 at the shoulder: They have alio cruel ways 
 of Torturing to make Priibners confefs; 
 and are very careful not to be cheated in 
 their Publick Revenue, their Excife-men 
 and Coilediors being Punilhed as in Holland. 
 They take a very good courfe not to be 
 che^ited in their Lxciie, for all the Mills of 
 the Country are in the hands of the State ; 
 ib riiat no i3aker nor Brewer can grind his 
 own Corn, but mull have it ground at the 
 States Mills, where they pay the Exciie. 
 There is a General Tax upon all Houies, 
 and that is the Eighth Penny, which never- 
 thelels does not excufe them from Chimney- 
 moncv. The States here, as at Gevoua m 
 haly., are the Publick Vintners, of whom 
 all People mull buy theii' Wiiie , which 
 
 thicy 
 
HAWBOUKCy. 107 
 
 they buy from the Merdiantj or otherwile 
 import it in their own Ships. In their Ce- 
 remonies of Burning and Chriltening, they 
 are ridiculoufly Prodigal ; as for Inftance : If 
 one invite a Burghermafter, he muft give 
 him a Ducat in Goldj if a Radts-heer, that 
 is, an Alderman , a Rixdollar ^ to every 
 Preacher, Doctor of Phyfick, Advocate or 
 Secretary, half a Rixdollar 5 and to every 
 School mailer, the third part of a Rixdollar. 
 The Women are the Inviters to Burials, 
 Weddings, and Chriftenings, who wear an 
 Antick kind of a Drefs,having Mitred Caps 
 as liigh again as the Mitre of a Bifhop. 
 The Churches here are rich in Revenues 
 and Ornaments, as Images and ftately Or- 
 ganSj wherein they much delight. They 
 are great Lovers of Mufuk, inlbmuch that \ 
 have told -?)■ Mafters of feveral forts of Mu- 
 fick in one Church, befides thole who were 
 in the Organ-Gaiicry. Their Organs are 
 extraordinary large : I meafured the great 
 Pipes in the OigaJis of St. Catherine i and 
 St. J.imeiS Churches, and found them to be 
 3 loot and 3 quarters in circuaiijrence, and 
 3?. Foot longj in each of which Organs 
 there arc two Pipes ^ Foot and 8 Inches 
 round. The Wealth and Trade of this 
 City encrcales daily j diey fend one Year 
 with another 70 Ships to Gravland^ ajid 
 have wonderfully LngroiTed that Trr.de 
 f/orn Ev^land and IL'lU'id^ and it's bclvsj^^d, 
 
 'that 
 
io8 A Vefcription of 
 
 that fmall and great there are belonging' t6 
 this Commonwealth five thouland Sail of 
 Ships. After Amjhrdam, Genoua and Venice ^ \ 
 their Bank is reckoned the chief in Credit ; , 
 but in Trade they are accounted the third in 
 Europe^ and come next to London and Am- 
 fierda?n. Hambcurg is now become the Ma- 
 gazine of Germany^ and of the Baltick and 
 Northern Seas. They give great Privileges 
 to the Jews^ and to all Strangers whatfoever, 
 elpecially the Englilli Company of Merchant 
 Adventurers^ whom they allow a large Build- 
 ings where they have a Churchy and where 
 the Deputy-Governour^ Secretary, Minifter^ 
 and the other Officers of the Company live, 
 to whom they yearly make Prefents of Wine, 
 Beer, Sheep, Salmond and Sturgeon in their 
 Icafbns. And {o much of Hamboura-, 
 
 Rom Hamhotirg I went to Luhech^ which 
 is aifb a Commonwealth and Imperial 
 'rown. It is a large well-built City, con- 
 taining ten Pariih-Churchcs* the Cathedral 
 dedicated to St, Vetcr being in length )Oo 
 Foot, with two high Spires all covered widi 
 Brals, as the reit of the Churches of tliat Ci- 
 ty are. In former times diis City was the 
 place where the Deputies of all the Hanfia- 
 tick Towns alTembled, and was once io 
 powerful as to make War againft Denmark 
 and Sweden, and to conquer fevcral places 
 znd lilands belonging to tliofe two Crowns^ 
 
 nay 
 
L U <S E C K. 109 
 
 'fray and- to lend Ships to Eugland and other 
 P(xentatc5, without any prejudice to their 
 own Trade, wherein they vyed in all parts 
 with their Neighbours ; but it is now ex- 
 \ ceedingly^ run into decay, not only in Ter- 
 ritories, but in Wealth and Trade alio. And 
 the reafbn of that was chiefly the Inconlide- 
 rate Zeal of their Lutheran Minifters^ who 
 perfwaded t^ie Magiftrates to baniih all Ro- 
 man Cathollcks, Calviniils, Jews, and all 
 that diffented from them in matter of Reli- 
 gion, even the Engliih Company too, who 
 all weiit and fetled in Hamhomj, to the great 
 Advantage of that Cit}', and almoft ruine of 
 Lubeck^ which hath not now above 200 Ships 
 belonging to it, nor more Territories to the 
 State than the City it lelf , and a linall part 
 called 7er;«<?« J, about eight Miles dillantfrom 
 it. The reft of their Territories are now in 
 
 Jthe pofleflion of the Danes and Swedes, by 
 whom the Burghers are lb continually alarm- 
 ed, that they are quite tired out with keep- 
 ing Guard, and paying of Taxes. The Ci- 
 ty is indeed well fortified ,• but the Gm^ern- 
 inent not being able to maintain above i ^-oa 
 Soldiers in pay, 400 Burghers in two Com- 
 panies are obliged to watch every Day.They 
 have a large well-built Stadthoufe, and an 
 Exchange covered, on the top whereof the 
 Globes of the World are painted. This Ex- 
 change is about ^"0 Yards in the length, and 
 but 1 5 ij:i breadth ; Ovv^r it there is a Room 
 
 whera 
 
no A Defcriptian of 
 
 where the Skins of five Lyons which the 
 Burghers killed at thcCity-Gates in the Year 
 1 2 p. are kept lluft. The great Market- 
 place is very large^ where a* Monumental- 
 Stone is to be ik^n , on which one of their 
 Burghermallers was beheaded for rmming 
 away without fighting in a Sea-Engagement. 
 The People here Ipend much time in their 
 Churches at Devotion, which con Hits chiefly 
 in Singing. The Women are beautiful, "but 
 disfigured with a kind of Antick Drefs, they 
 wearing Cloaks like Men. It is cheap living '" 
 in this Town : For one may hire a Palace 
 for a matter of 20 /. a Year, and have Pro- 
 vifions at very realbnable Rates j befides the 
 Air and Water is very good, the Cit}- being ,. 
 fiipplied with Fountains of Excellenr FreJh 
 Water, which Hawbourg*\vants ; and good 
 Ground for Celleridge, there being Cellars 
 here 40 or p Foot deep. 
 
 I Had the Curiofity to go from Luhech. to 
 fee the Ancient City of Ai^gdehurg^ but 
 found it fo mined and decayed by the Swe- 
 diJh War, that I had no Lncouragement to 
 ftay there. I therefore haitened to Berlin^ 
 the chief Refidence of die Eledor of Bran- 
 denburg ; at whofe Court 1 met with a very 4 
 Ingenuous French Merchant, who told me, 
 that he, and divers other Merchants, were 
 defigned to have lived in England, but were 
 difcouraged by a Letter lent Irom London, by 
 
(BERLIN. Ill 
 
 a French-Man that was removing from thence 
 to yimjlerdawy for thele following Reaibns, 
 which I Copied out of his Letter. 
 
 Firft, Becaufe the Reformed Religion is 
 perfecuted in England as it is France ; the 
 which I told him was a great Untruth, for 
 it is apparent that they have been all along 
 gracioufly admitted, and^ received into his 
 Majefties Dominions, without interruption, 
 and allowed the free Exercife of their own 
 Form of Worfhip,according to the Dodrine 
 and Difcipline of the Churches of France. 
 Kor can they who convede with the French 
 Minifters ejther in France or Holland be igno- . 
 rant , that the chiefeft part, if not ail thole 
 Miniders, are willing to comply with dia 
 Church of Enghmd j and it is evident that 
 molt of the Dutch and French Proteltants 
 {io called) in Holland make ufe of Organs in 
 tlieir Churches. . 
 
 A fccond thing v/as , that bodi the Bank 
 at London and the Bankers Goldfmichs were 
 all broak ; the which I told this Frenchman 
 was not true altogether, for there are many 
 able Bankers whom I named : Neither was 
 the Bank (as he called the Chamber of Lou 
 don) broak, only it had been under the ma- 
 nagement of a bad Perlbn, whof^ defign was 
 to bring it into diigrace. Belides, there i.^ 
 the Eajt-India Ccmpany an unqucltionable Se- 
 curit}' for thole as have Money to dili')ofe of, 
 together with another undeniable Security 
 which is Land. Thiul- 
 
1 1 2 A Defcription of 
 
 Thirdly, he faith. That in England there 
 is no Regifter, and therefore many Frauds 
 in Purchales and Morgages, which beget 
 tedious Suits J and renders both dangerous 
 to tnift. 
 
 Fourthly, That if a Man would purchafe 
 Land he cannot, being an Alien, until Na- 
 turalized. 
 
 Fifthly, That in England there are ^o ma- 
 ny Plots and Confufions in Government, 
 that the Kingdom is hardly quiet 20 Years 
 together. 
 
 Sixthly, diat falfe Witnefles were fb com- 
 mon in England, and the Crime of Perjury 
 lb flighdv pimifhed, that no Man could be 
 (afe in Life or Eltate, if he chanced to be 
 in Trouble. 
 
 LalUy he laid, that the EngliHi are fb refl- 
 leis and quarelfbm, that they not only fo- 
 ment and cherifk Anim.ofities amongll one 
 another, but are every foot contriving :{nd 
 plotring againfl: their Lawfiil Sovereign, and 
 the Government. By fiich Surmi(es and In- 
 sinuations as thele, the French and Germans 
 are Icared from tmfting themlelves and For- 
 tunes in England, and therefore lettle in Am- 
 jhrdam, Hamburgh, and Other Cities, where 
 there are Banks and Regilters : This I fay is 
 one caule, why there are now to be leen at 
 Amfierdam Hich vaft numbers of French and 
 Germans, who have much enricli'd that 
 Cit}'j and railed the Rents of the Houles 20 
 
<B E R L 1 N. 115 
 
 per Cent. And the Silk-vveavers grow alfb ve- 
 ry rich, keeping fb'many Alms-Children to 
 do their Work, and having all their Labour 
 without any Charge, only for the teaching 
 them their Trades ; which hath leflcned the 
 Revenues of the French Crown, and will, 
 in time, greatly increafe the number of the 
 States Subjeds, and advance their publick 
 Incomes. 
 
 Having made this Digreffion, I return to' 
 Berlin'^ Ic is a City enlarged with fair Streets 
 and Palaces : The Magilhates of the place 
 are Lutherans, which is the publick eftabliih- 
 ed Religion in all the Electors Dominions ; 
 though he himielf and his Children be Cal- 
 vinilts : He is look'd upon to be ib true to 
 that Perfuafion, that he is reckoned the Pro- 
 tedor of the Calvinilts ; and indeed he Ibl- 
 licited the Emperor very hard for a Tolera- 
 tion of the Proteftants in Hungary. His 
 Chaplains, as mod of the Lutheran Mini- 
 fters alfb, endeavour to imitate the En^liih 
 in their way of Preaching : had his High- 
 ncls is io much taken with Engiilh Divinity, 
 that he entertains Di^ines for tranflating En- 
 glilh Books into the German Tongue, as 
 The PFhole Duty of Man^ and feveral others. 
 He has a large and ftately Palace at Berlin^ 
 and therein a copious Librar}', enriched with 
 many Manufcripts^ Medals, and Rarities of 
 Antiquity. He may compare ^vidi moft 
 Princes lor handlbm Guards, bving all of 
 I then* 
 
114 ^ Defcri^tion of 
 
 them prop'er well-bodied Men, audi moh 
 part Officers who ride in his Guards oi^ 
 Horie. As he is known in the World to be 
 a Valiant and Warlike Prince, fo he main- 
 tains in Pay an Army of ;6ooo Men ; be- 
 iides five or fix thouland Hodemen, who in 
 time of War are modelled into Troops j 
 with which Body during the late War with 
 Sweden^ his Highnels's Father in Perfon beat 
 the Swedes out of his Countiy. He keeps 
 his Forces in ftricl Difciplinc, obliging a'l 
 the Officers, if Proteltants, on Sundays and 
 Holy-days to march thei^feveral Companies' 
 in order to Church j but if a Superiour Of- 
 ficer be of a contrary Perlvvafion, then the 
 next in Com million iupplies his place. This 
 cuPiom is Religioully oliferved b}' all his High- 
 neffes Garifons, whiilt he himleif goes con- 
 ilantly to the Calvinill Church adjoyning 
 to the Court, with his Children, being five 
 Sons, two Daughters, and two Daughters- 
 ill-Law. 
 
 Am^ongft other Ads of Publick Piety and 
 Charity, thi||Prince hath eftabliilied and en- 
 dowed Ibme Religious Houies or Nunneries 
 ibr ProteClant young Ladies, where they 
 may live viituoully, and fpend their time in 
 Devotion as long as thty pleale, or other- 
 wife A^Iany* if they think tit, but then they 
 lofe die benefit of the Monafteiy. There is 
 one of thefe at Hertford in IVefiphalla, where 
 i was^ and iud the Honour to wait upon 
 
 di& 
 
<B E K L m. ti% 
 
 the Lady Abbeis ihtVnnco^sEliz.aheth^d'Adii 
 Sifter of the late Ele<5tof Palatine and 
 VnncQ Rupert. Notwithftanding the late Wars 
 with Siveden, and that by the prevaleticy of 
 France in that hafty Treaty of Peace conclu- 
 ded at Nimeguen, his late Ele(5toral Highnels 
 Was obliged to give back what he had juftly 
 taken from that Crown ,' yet his Subjects 
 flourifhed in Wealth and Trade Jiis f lighnels 
 having encouraged Manufadkires of all Ibrts^ 
 by inviting Artizans into his Dominions, and 
 eltablijhed a Company of Trading A'ler- 
 chants to the IVeJKIndkSj which will much 
 advance Navigation amongll his Subje(Sls. 
 And in all humane probability they are like 
 to continue in a happy condition_, leeing by 
 the Alliances his Highnefs hath made with 
 
 I' the Proteftant Princes of the Empire^ and 
 elpecially the Houfc of Lumnbourg^ they are; 
 in no danger of being difturbed by their 
 Neighbours. 
 
 I told you before that the Elector of Bran^ 
 denhourg was Married to the Daughter of the 
 Duke of Hanouer^ io that as long as that Al- 
 liance hplds_, the Families of Bra?jdenhcurg 
 and LumnhourgwiW be in a condition to call 
 the Balance of the Empire ,* they both toge- 
 ther being able to bring into the Field Sooco 
 as good Men as any are in Enrols, 
 
 I z ■ Whsf^ 
 
11^ A Vefcnption of 
 
 WHen I parted from Berlin, 1 made 
 a turn back to Lunenbourg in my 
 way to S^vedeland, where I found leveral of 
 my Countrymen Officers in the Garifbn, 
 who fhewed me what was moft remarkable 
 in the City, as the Saltworks^, (which bring 
 in confiderable Sums of Money to the 
 Duke of Lunenbourg ) the Stadthoule, and 
 Churches, iii one of which I law a Commu- 
 nion-Table of pure Ducat-Gold. From 
 thence I went into the Province of Holfiein, 
 and at a Imall Sea-port called Terwend, of 
 which I Ipake before, I embarked for Swe- 
 den. 
 
 He 
 
STOCl^HOLM. 117 
 
 HE that hath read in theHiftories of this 
 laft Age the great Exploits oiGnfia'vus 
 Adolphns and his Swedes^ perhaps may have 
 a fancy that it muit be an excellent Country 
 which hadi bred fuch Warriors ; but if he 
 approach it^ lie will loon find liimfelf unde- 
 ceived. Entering into Sivedeland^ at a place 
 called^<«w^rf , we lail"d forward amongft high 
 Rocks, having no other prolpe(5t from Land 
 but Mountains till we came to DoHers^ which 
 is about four Swedilh, that is, twenty four 
 Engliih Miles from Stockholm ^ the Capital 
 Cit)' of the Kingdom. Upon my coming 
 afliore, I confefs I was a little lurprized to 
 fee the Poverty of the People ; and the little 
 Wooden Houfes they lived in , not unlike 
 Soldiers Huts in a Leaguer : but much more_, 
 when I difcovered little eile in the Country 
 but Mountainous Rocks, and ftanding Lakes 
 of Water. The Reader will excufe mc, I 
 hope, if I remark fiot all that I may have 
 taken notice of in this Countr}', feeing by 
 what I have already written, he ma}^ per- 
 ceive that my Defign is rather to oblerve the 
 Manner of the Inhabitants living, than to 
 give a full Defcription of every thing that 
 may be ^ctn m the Country they live ia 
 However, I fhall lay fomewhat of that too , 
 liaving premifed once for all, that the ordi- 
 nary People are wretchedly poor ;• yet not 
 fo much occafioned by the Publick Taxes, 
 ^ I 2 as 
 
1 1 § A Defer ipthn of 
 
 as the BArrf>nnefs of their Country, and the 
 Oppreilion of the Nobles their Landlords, 
 and immediate Superiours, who till the pre^ 
 ient King put a flop to their Violences^ ty- 
 rannically domineered over the Lives and 
 Fortunes of the poor Peafants. 
 
 FromDcllers I took Waggon to Stockholm, 
 changing Horfes three times by the wa}', 
 by reafbn of the badnels of the Rode, on all 
 hands environed with Rocks ^ that hardly 
 open ^o much as here and there to leave a 
 fKred of plain Ground. At two Miles di- 
 ftance upon that Road the City of Stock, 
 holm looks great, becaufe of the Ring's Pa- 
 lace, the Houfes of Noblemen, and Ibme 
 Churches which are feared upon Rocks: And 
 indeed, the whole City and Suburbs Hand 
 upon Rocks, unlefs it be ibme few Houfes 
 tuilt upon Ground gained from the Rivers 
 that run through the Town, Stockklm has 
 its Name from a Stock or Log of Wood, 
 which three Brothers threw ijito the Water 
 five Mies above the City, making a V^ow^ 
 that whercrcver that Stock ihould Hop, they 
 would build a Caftle to dwell in. The Stock 
 ftppt at the Holm, or Rock where the Pa- 
 lace of the King now ft and s : And the Bro- 
 thers, to be as good as their word, there 
 built their Caftle, which invited others to do 
 the like , fo that in procefi of time the other 
 Rocks or Holms were covered with Build- 
 ingSj which at length became the Capita^ 
 
 City 
 
STOCKHOLM. i;p 
 
 City of theKijigdom, It is now cmbciiiJied 
 with a great man}' Ihitely Houfes, and much 
 improved from what it was 400 "Years ago, 
 as indeed moft Cities are; for the Sradchoufe 
 then biiilt, is lb contemptible andloW;, that in 
 Holland or England it would not be fiiffered 
 to {land to dilgi-ace the Nation. The Coun^ 
 cil-Chamber wiiere the Jiurghmalters and 
 Raedt fit^ is two Rooms calt into one^, not 
 above niiie Foot liigh ; and the two Rooms 
 where the Sheriiis and the Erve College 
 (which is a JLidicature like to die Dodors 
 Commons in E77gL:i:d) Ik^ are not above 
 eight Foot ajid a half h.igh. The King's Pa- 
 lace is a large Square of Stone-buildings in 
 lome places very high^ but an old and irre- 
 gular Fabiick, without a fiifiicient quaiitity 
 of Ground about it for Gardens and Walks. 
 Jt v/as anciently flinounded with V-'atcr ; bup 
 jpme Years lince part of it was hlled up ^o 
 make a Way from the Caltle-Gace dovv^n in- 
 to the old Town, In this Palace there are 
 large Rooms; but the Lodgings of the King, 
 Qiicen^ and Royal Family^ are three Pair of 
 Stairs high^ die Rooms in the tirli and fe- 
 cond Stories being deltinM for thcSenate- 
 Cliamber. and other Courts of Judicature. 
 Tlie King's Library Is four Pair oF Stairs 
 high, being a BvOom about forty fi:: Foot 
 fquare, with a Ciolct adjoyning to it not 
 half the Dimcniions. When I confidcrc^ 
 the Apartments ^.md Furniture of thi^ CciuTi 
 
 i4 I 
 
I20 A Defcription of 
 
 I began to think that the French Author 
 wrote Truths, who in his Remarks upon 
 Sweddand lays^ That when Qiieen Chrijl'ma 
 refigned the Crown to Carohts Gtifiavus, the 
 Father of tliis prefent King^ fhe difpoled of 
 the heft of the Furniture of the Courts and 
 gave away a large fhare of the Crown-Lands 
 ro her Favorites 5 in fo much that the King, 
 confidering the poor Condition Ihe had left 
 the Kingdom in, and leeing the Couit ^o 
 meanty Kirnifhed^ laid. That had he known 
 before he accepted the Crown, what then 
 he did, he would have taken other Mea- 
 foi'es. 
 
 There are many other ftately Palaces in 
 Stockholm belonging to the Nobility j but 
 many of them for want of Repairs, and not 
 being inhabited, run to ruine j ieveral of the 
 Nobles who lived in them formerly, having 
 loft the Eftates that maintained their ancient 
 Splendor, as we fhall fee hereafter^ being 
 retired unto a Country Life. There are al- 
 io ibme other Magnihceiit Strudures begun, 
 but not tinijhed, as that ftately Building in- 
 tended for a.Parliament-Houle for the No- 
 bles, and two or three Churches : But wh.at 
 I moft wonder at, is the Vault wherein the 
 Jate King lies buried, is not as yet covered 
 but with Boards, for it is to be obferved riiat 
 the Kings oi Sweden have no Tombs and Mo- 
 numents as in Ei:gL-2nd and f)ther Countries^ 
 but are put into Copper Coffins, with In- 
 
 fcriptions 
 
STOCKHOLM. 121 
 
 Icriptions on them^ and placed one by ano- 
 ther in VaultSj adjoyning to the Gray-Friers 
 Church. Thcfe Vaults ai-e about eight in 
 Number, having Turrets over them, witli 
 I Veins of Copper gilt, car\Td into the Cy- 
 phers of the leveral Kings who give them 
 their Names by being the firft that are inter- 
 red in them. The Vault of the late King is 
 not yet finifhed, no more than the Fabricks 
 above-mentioned, wliich perhaps may be 
 imputed to the late Troubles of Swedeland. 
 The Number of the Inhabitants of Stockholm 
 are alio much decrealed within thefe few 
 Years, partly by reaibn of the j-emoval of 
 the Court of Admiralty and the Kings Ships 
 from that City to Charks-Cro-wn^ a new Ha- 
 ven lately made about 200 Engliili Miles 
 from thence, which hath drawn many Fa- 
 milies belonging to the Fleet and Admiralty 
 from Stockholm to live there : And partly, 
 becaufe many of the Nobilit}'^ Gentry, and 
 thole that depended on them, are, as I laid 
 before, withdrawn from Stockholm to a re- 
 tired Life in the Country. Neverthelels die 
 ordinary Ibrt of Burghers, who ftill remain, 
 are extreamly poor 5 feeing the Women arc 
 fain to work like Horles, drawing Carts, and 
 as Labourers in England^ ferving Alafons and 
 Bricklayers with Stone, Bricks and Mortar, 
 and unloading VelTels that bring thole Mate- 
 rials ; fome of the poor Crearares in the 
 Summer-time toiling in their Smocks with- 
 out 
 
1 2 s A Defer iption of 
 
 out either Shooes or Stockings. They per- 
 form alfo the part of Watermen , and for a 
 iiiiall matter will Row PalTengers 40 Miles 
 or more if they pleaie. 
 
 Tlie Court here is very thin and filent , 
 the King living frugally, andleldom Dining 
 in publick. He Eats commonly with the 
 two QiieenSj his Mother andConfort, who 
 is a Virtuous Prince(s, Sifter to the King of 
 Denmark. She is tile Mother of five CliiU 
 dren, diree Sons and two Daughters, with 
 whom Ihe fpends moft of her time in Re- 
 tirement: The King is a goodly Prince^ 
 whom God hath Eleiied and. Endowed with 
 Accompliihments far beyond what might 
 have *been expeded from his Education » 
 wherein he was extream'y abufed, being 
 Taught little more than his IVlother Toiigue. 
 He is Gracious, Juft and Valiant^ conltant 
 at his Devotion , and utterly aver^ from all 
 kind of Debauchery, and the uniafhional^le 
 Vanides of other ' Courts , in Plays and 
 Dancing. 
 
 His Iports are Hunting and Exercillng of 
 his Gj^rds, and he rarely appears publickly, 
 or gives Audience to Strangei"s, which is 
 imputed to his Senfe of the iiegled of his 
 Education. He is a Prince that liarh had a 
 very Iiard beginning in the World, which 
 hath man.y times proved fortunate to great 
 Men J and indeed, if we conlldcr all the 
 circumHanc^s of his early Misfortmies, how 
 
 he 
 
I srOCK_HOLM. 135 
 
 he wds flighted and neglected by his Nobles, 
 who would hardly vouchlafc to pay him a 
 vidt when he was aniong them in thaX^oun. 
 try^ or to do him Homage for the Lands 
 tliey held of the Crown ■-, and how by the 
 pernicious Counfels of the French^ and the 
 weaknefs or treachery of his Governors, he 
 was mifled into a War that almolt coft him 
 his Crown, having loll the befl of liis Ter- 
 ritories in Germany and Schoneny and moft of 
 his Forces both by Sea and Land: If, I lay, 
 thele things be confidered, it will probably 
 appear, that hardly any Prince before him 
 hath in a ihorter time, or more fully letled 
 the Authority and Prerogative of the Crown, 
 than he liath done in Sweden • for which he 
 ihuids no ways obliged to France, as he was 
 for the Reftauration of what he loft during 
 the War. He is now as abfblute as the French 
 King, and makes Edids, which have the 
 Force of Laws, without the concurrence of 
 the Eftates of the Kingdom. He hath ereAed 
 two Judicatures , the one called the College 
 of Redudion, and the other of Inipedlions 5 
 the firft of which hadi put his Majefty in 
 PolTeflion again of all Lands alienated li"om 
 the Crowq, and the other called to account 
 all Perfons, even the Heirs and Executors of 
 tliofe who had cheated the Crown, and 
 made them refund what they or their Prede- 
 ^effors had appropriated to their own ule of 
 
 the 
 
1^4 ^ Vefcription of 
 
 the publick Revenue. Thefe two necelTary 
 Conftitutions, as they have reduced many 
 great J^amilies to a pinch , who formerly 
 lived (plendidly upon the Crown Lands and 
 Revenues, and obliged them to live at home 
 upon their ancient anji private Patrimony in 
 the Country , which is one great caule that 
 the Court of Siveden is at prelent (b unfre- 
 quented ; fo have they enabled his Majefly, 
 without burdening of his Subjedb, to lupport 
 the Charges of the Government, and to 
 maintain 64000 Men in pay. The Truth is_, 
 his other Revenues are but finall, what a- 
 riies from the Copper and Iron Mines, one 
 Silver Mine , the Pitch and Tar , the Cu- 
 Itoms and Exci(e amounts to no extraordi- 
 nary Sum of Moneyi, and the Land Tax in 
 fb barren a Country fcarcely delerving to be 
 named. The Culromes and Excile , I con- 
 fefi,are vzry high, and the rigorous manner 
 of exacting them pernicious to Trade: As for 
 inftance ; If a Ship come to St ockholme ivom 
 Lonclcn, with a. hunderd leveral forts of Goods, 
 and tho(e Goods affigned to fifty feveral 
 Men more or leis, if any of thole fifty do 
 not pay the Cuftom of what belongs to him, 
 though it be for a Barrel of Beer , the Ship 
 ihall not be unladen, nor no Man have his 
 Goods out, though he hath fully pay'd the 
 Cuftoms for them, till this laft Man hath 
 pay'd" his. There are feveral other filly 
 
 Cuftoms 
 
STOCKHOLM 195 
 
 Cuftoms in Swedeland that dilcourages Men 
 from Trading there ; as if any Stran'ger Die 
 
 I there, a third of his Eftate muft go to the 
 City or Town where he Traded. No Fo- 
 peign Merchant in Stockholme can Travel in- 
 to any Country where there is a Fair with- 
 out a Paflport : And at preient, feeing there 
 is no Treaty of Trade betwixt England and 
 Sweden, though the Englifh bring as confide- 
 rable a Trade to that Kingdom as any other 
 Country whatlbever, yet they are very un- 
 kindly uled by the Officei's of the Cuftom- . 
 Houie ; whereas the Dutch in Lubeck, and 
 other Cities, have new ?jid greater Privi- 
 leges allowed them. Nor would I Counlel 
 an EngliJK-man to go to Law with a Swedifh 
 Burgher in Sweden , efpecially if he be a 
 Whiggifli Scot , who hath got his Freedom 
 ill Stockholme J for thole are a kind of Scrapers, 
 whom I have oblerved to b'^more inveterate 
 againll: the Englilh than the Native Swedes. 
 Of all the SwediHi Army of 64000 Men, 
 the King keeps but 12 Companies of 200 
 Men a-peice , with Ibme few Horle Guards 
 in Stockholme , who are not upon Duty as 
 Sentinels at the Court Gates, asatthcCouri> 
 of other Princes. The reft are dilperled in- 
 to Quarters and Garilbns upon the Frontiers, 
 which are {k> fardiftant in that large compals 
 of Land which his Territories take up, that 
 it would require a hard and tedious work to 
 bring them together to a general Mufter. 
 
 They 
 
126 /iVvfcripthnof 
 
 They are however kept under very i\n^ 
 Difciplinej and thol^ that lie near, often 
 Viewed by the King. They have odd forts 
 6f PuniJliments for the Soldiers and Officers 
 of all Degrees : For Example ^ if a Serjeant 
 or Corporal be Drunk^ or negligent on Du^ 
 ty, they are put into Arraourjand with three 
 Muskets tied under each Arm, made to walk 
 two Hours before the Court of Guard ; yet^ 
 for all the feverity of Difcipline ufed againft 
 the Soldiers, the}^ commit many Abules in. 
 the Night time. Robbing, and fometimes 
 killing Men upon the Streets in Stockholme, 
 where they have no Lights nor Guards as in 
 Cffpefihagen. In former times there have 
 been at one time 5 j" Colonels , befides Ge- 
 neral Officers in the Swedilli Army , all thei 
 Subjeds of the King of Great Enta'm, but 
 at prefent there are few or none , iinlefi it 
 be the Sons of fome Scotifh Officers De- 
 ceafod j nor did I ever fee an Englilh-Man . 
 in the Kings Guards, Horfe or Foot , ' but 
 one, and the Son of Sir Edward IVood, who 
 hath lince quitted the Service. The Kin^ 
 hath exceedingly won the Hearts of the 
 common People, not only by exempting 
 them from the Tyrannical J urilcjidion of the 
 Nobility and Gentry, who formerly would 
 by their own private Authority, puniili and 
 put to Death the Pealants at theii- pleaiure, 
 vvhich makes the Countries very willing ta 
 Charter the Kings SoldierSj but by his exad- 
 
 nels 
 
StOCEiHOLM. 127 
 
 neft in punilliing Duels, Murder, and Rob- 
 beries. Perjury is Death here Jtlfb, as in 
 Holland J which makes the Magillrates in fbnie 
 parts of this Kings Territories, enjoy n Ibange 
 kinds oi^ Oachs to deter Men from being for- 
 iworn : As for inJlance, in fome places the 
 Witnels is fee with a Staff in his Hand upon 
 ibme Peeble Stones and Charcoal, where he 
 is to imprecate and pray, that if what he 
 Sweareth be not true, his Land' may become 
 as barren as thofe Stones, and his Subdance 
 be Confumed to Allies like the Coals he Itands 
 on , which as loon as he fteps down are fee 
 on Fire. This manner of Swearing io ter- 
 rifies the People, that they commonly trem- 
 ble when they come to take their Oath. 
 
 The Religion of the Dominions of the 
 King of Swcrle?)^ as of thofe of the King of 
 Denmark^ and of other Princes and States 
 whom we have named, is Lutheran, who are 
 more rigid to Roman Catholicks and Calvi- 
 iiifts than theProtelhintsof Gt-rwrf-?;^. There 
 is no Toleradon allowed here to Calvinift 
 Minifters ; and they take an effcdual courle 
 to keep the Country clear of Prieils and Je- . 
 fuits, by Guelding them , whether they be 
 young or old. In Commemoration of the 
 great Loffes and Dcfolation fuibined in the 
 late War,the Suedes ftridly keep four Faffing 
 Days in the Months of ^pr;7, May, Jt(fje^ 
 and Julj • on which days all Ivlcn are pro- 
 hibited by Authority to kindle Fiie#in their 
 
 Houles, 
 
128 A Defer iption of 
 
 HoufeSj or to Eat till after Evening Service 
 is done, which in the Winter time could not 
 be endured. They delight much in Singing 
 in their Churches , which they conftantly 
 perform twice every day. Morning and 
 Evening. In their Marry ings, Chriftenings, . 
 and Buryings they are io prodigally extrava- 
 gant, that if all three happen in one year to 
 a Man of a competent Eltate, it is enough 
 to break him. The Clergy of Sweden are 
 neither fo Rich nor Learned as thole of 
 ' Germany, wanting both the opportunities of 
 Study, and of converfing with Learned Men, , 
 that thofe of other Countrys enjoy , though 
 there be Ibme Learned Men amongft them. 
 A Bilhoprick in Sweden is no great Benefice, 
 if compared with Ibme Parlbnages in Eng^ 
 land'^ for the Arch-bifhop, and Metropolitan 
 hath not above 400 /, fer Annum , and Ibme 
 of the reft are not worth above 1 5*0 or 200 /. , 
 ii year. The inferiour Clergy are not ib 
 regular in their Lives and Converlationinthe 
 Countries dX^tinx.'iYom.Stockholme^ as they are 
 ' near the Couit j and the Reaibn is, partly 
 becaule they entertain Travellers that pais the 
 Countr}'', tfiere being no- Inns in moft places 
 for the Accommodation of Perfons of any 
 (Quality, and lb are obliged to drink with 
 their Guefts ; and partly, becaufeatBur)'ings 
 and Chriftenings, where there is commonly 
 high Drinking, the Pape or Parlbn is Mafter 
 of the Ceremonies: And here give me leave 
 
 to 
 
sfOCK^tioLU iip 
 
 to tell a fhort Story of one of them. A Pape 
 'coming to Chrilten a Child in a Church ,., 
 anc> finding a Scotch Man to be Godfather , 
 Was fb tranfported either with Zeal, . or his 
 Cups^ . that when he came to exorcife th^ 
 Child^ wliich is a Rite ufed in their Office of 
 .Adminiftring this Sacrament ; he negleded 
 the Form prefcribed by the Liturgy^ and in 
 an extemporary Prayer beggd^that the Devil 
 might depart out of the Child , and enter 
 into that ScottHh Heretick, for fo they calf 
 the Presbyterians ofthatNarion. The Prayer 
 of the Pape io incenfed the Scot^ that he 
 Vowed Revenge, and\vatched the Pape with' 
 , Sl good Cudgel next day as he cro'lfed the 
 Church-yard, where he beat him, and left 
 liim all in Blood lying on the Ground , ancf 
 trying out Murder. For this Fadt the Sco* 
 Was had before the Juftice, who asking him, 
 Howhedurft be ib bold as to lay his profane 
 Hands upon the Mart of God ? He, who 
 Ijnew very well what ule to make of the De- 
 vil he had got, Foaming at the Mouth, and 
 . cunningly adihg the Deifioniack, made an- 
 fwer, That the Pape might thank himfelf 
 for what he had met with ; for lince he had 
 Conjured the Devil into hiim Jie Ipared no 
 Body,neithef Wife nor Children, nor would 
 he ipare the Jullice himfelf, and with irhat 
 fell a mangling ^nd tearing the M-!:gi{trate/ 
 that he was i'ain . to betake himfelf tO nis' 
 Keels, crying out, O .' tbs Dsvil^ fa'Oe me ;, 
 
 K' anc" 
 
1^0 A Defctiftion of 
 
 and fb the Scot marched home, no Man da- 
 ring to lay hold on him , for fear of being 
 torn to pieces by the Devil. But the Juftice 
 recoUeding himfelf, fent for the Pape, told 
 him^ That the Scot was a cunning Rogue, 
 and bid him go home, get a Plaifter for his 
 Head, and be filent, lelt if the matter came 
 to the BiihopsEars he might be Cenfured for 
 going againft the Rubrick of the Liturgy. 
 
 The Famous Univerfit)^ where their Clergy 
 are bred, is Upfal^ 8 Swediih Miles from 
 Stockholme. There are commonly i j"©, or 
 200 Students there , but no Endowed Col- 
 leges, as in other Countries. The Library 
 is fb mean and contemptible , that the Li- 
 braries of many Grammar Schools , and of 
 private Men in England or Holla?id are far 
 better ftored with Books than it is. Upon 
 viewing of it, and that of the Kings Palace, - 
 I called to mind the laying of a French Man, 
 upon the like occafion ; That S-weddand < 
 came behind France and £w^/^?;^ in the know-' 
 ledge of Men and Things at leaft 8 oo years; 
 yet Ibme Swedes have been fo conceited, of ^ 
 the Antiquity oi their Country, as to brag , 
 that Paradice wasleated in Sweden j that the 
 Country was turned into £ich heaps of Rocks 
 for the Rebellion of our firll Parents, and that 
 Adam and Eve had Cain and ^/'e/ in a Coun- 
 try three Swedifh Miles dillant from Upfall. 
 A French Man Handing by,and hearing diis 
 Romantick Story, as I was told, fitted him 
 
 with 
 
STOCKHOLU 131 
 
 with the like, telh^iig him, that when ihd 
 World was made in fix days , at the end of ^ 
 
 the Creation all the Rubbifh that remained 
 was thrown together into a Corner, which 
 made up Swedm and Norway. And indeed_, 
 the French ieem to have no great liking to 
 Aie Country , whatever kindnels they may 
 have for the People ; for a French Ambalta- 
 dor, as an Author of that Country . relates, 
 being by order of Queen CbrijUna^ Treated 
 in a Countiy Houle four SwedifiiMile^ from 
 Stockholme, and upon the rode goings and 
 coming, with all the Varieties and Plea£ires 
 that the Country could afford, on purpole 
 to make him have a good Opinion of the 
 lame ; made an{wer to the Queen, ( who 
 asked him upon his return. What he thought 
 • of Sweden ) That were he A-lafter of the 
 whole Country , he would prelendy Sell it, 
 and Buy a Farm infranceov England'^ which, 
 under Favour, I think was a little Tart and 
 Sawcy. 
 
 Having ftayed a confiderable time in 
 Swedelandj'a.na. mod: part at Stockbolme, I let 
 out from thence to go to Elfenbowg by Land, 
 and went a little out of my way to lee a 
 Cnall City calledfE^^/'rcwc, Famous for a Coat -f Qrth 
 of Arms which it got in this manner. A 
 certain Mafculine Queen of Denmark , who 
 had Conquered a great part of Sweden, com- 
 ing to this City, asked the Magilirates, What 
 was the Arms of their City c* Who having 
 Iv 2 told 
 
152 A Defcription of 
 
 her, that the)^ had none, Jlie plucked up her 
 Coats, and iquatting upon the Snow ^ bid 
 them take the mark Ihe left there for their 
 Arms ; its pity Ihe did not give them a lui- 
 table Motto to it alio : What that Figure is 
 called in Bl'azonery I know not , but to dii^ 
 Day the City uies it in their Arms , and for 
 marking their Corrunodities. This Queen 
 came purpofely into Sweden , to pay a vific 
 to a iDrave Woman, that oppoled a King of 
 Swe4elandy who in .a time of Famine would 
 have put to Death all the Men and Women 
 in his Countr}^ above 60 years of Age. The 
 Country all the way I travelled mSwedeland 
 is much of the fame. quality of the Land a- 
 bout Stockholme , untij* I came near the Prou 
 vince of Schomn , which is called the Store- 
 houle, and Kitchin of Sweden ^ where the 
 Country is far better. It was formerly very 
 dangerous to Travel in diis- Province of 
 Scho'um, becaule of the . Snaphances, who 
 tvere a kind of Bloody Robbers, now utter- 
 ly deilroyed by the King; fo that it is lafe 
 enough 1 ravelling there. Entering into 
 Scbonm I faw 29 of thele Rogues upoit 
 Wheels^ and elfewhere in''the Country, x&n 
 ;and twenty at fevcral places. The King uled 
 great leverity in dellroying of them; fome 
 he caufed to be broken upon the Wheel, o- 
 €hers Spitted in at die Fundaitient , and out 
 at the Shoulders ,many had the Flefh pinched 
 'off of their Breads, and h were faftened to 
 
 Stakes- 
 
COPENHAGEN, 133 
 
 Stakes till they Died ; and others again had 
 their Noles and hoth Hands cut off, and be- 
 ing feared with a hot Iron , were let go to 
 acquaint their Comrades how they had been' 
 len^ed. The King is very fevere againlt High- 
 Way-Men and Diiellers. In above a i o o Miles 
 Travelling, we found not a Houfe where there 
 Was eithcrFrenchWine orBrandy,which made 
 me tell a Swede of our Company, who was 
 TraVel'ing to De-jmark, '&?x I would under- 
 take to fhew any Man foo Houf:s, wherein 
 a Traveller might have Wine^and other good 
 Accommodation i.i the fpace of an Hundi'ed 
 Miles upon any rcdc iiom L.nJon. ' There 
 ace feverahfinali Tovvi:is and fertile Land in* 
 this Country bf ScMfien , lying upon rhi 
 S.tmdt'^ at the narrowelt part wlicrcof li€$ 
 Rlfe'fih.urg burnt down by '"he Cane>-i[i*tM 
 lall: War : Here I croll" o'cr to Elj^rmij^^ 
 paiiage being but a^eagtie b-<3adr' ^' ^ r^'^s 
 The King o{ De^rmart:. has 'a Calcic ^tE"/^ 
 fenore, which commands the narrow piJiai^e 
 of the Sotijulty where al'i- Shif^ that cnteFiii^ 
 to, or come out of the Baltick Sea mu.'tpav 
 Toll. Having vilited this C^allle, ,and'llai(J, 
 about a Fortnight vvidvthe EngUili^oftfalj 
 and Sir Johftaul^ late Rc!identattheCouyt 
 0^ Sweddtind ^ I'went to the Daniih Coiua| 
 at CoDtnh(7o;en. ■* 
 
 Copenhagen is the Capital City ot Zr<C 
 la7jdj yutl'and^ Of Dhimark. and place 
 
 of Refidenjc cS tlie King : It Hands dn. a 
 K-3 Flat] 
 
154 ^ Defcription of 
 
 Fiatj encompafTed with a.plealant and de- 
 jightful Country 3 much relembling England, 
 The Streets of the City are kept very neat and 
 clean^ with Lights in the Night time for the 
 convenience and iafety of thofe who are then 
 abroad ; a Cultom not as }^et introduced 
 into Stockbolme , where it is dangerous 
 to be abroad when it is dark. The King? 
 Men of War lie he^r ver}' conveniently^ be- 
 ing orderly ranged betwixt Booms, after the 
 mzsyn-QVoH Amjterdamy 4nd near the Admi- 
 ralty Houle^ which is a large pile of Building, 
 well furnilhed with Stores and Magazins^ le- 
 • cured by a Cittadel^ that not only commands 
 the City, but alio the Haven, and entiy in- 
 to it. The Court of Denmark is Iplendid, 
 and n;akes a far greater figure in the World 
 than that oi Sweden^ though not many years 
 ago, in the time oiCarolm Gufia'vus the Fa- 
 ther of the prefent King of Swedeland, it was 
 dlmoft reduced to its lalt, vi^hen the Walls of 
 Copenhagen faved that Crown and Kingdom. 
 That Siege was FamouSj carried on with great 
 vigour by the Swede j and as bravdy main- 
 tained by the Danes : The Monuments 
 v/hereof are to be feen in the Cannon Bullets 
 gilt that ftill reinain in the Walls of fbme 
 Houfes^andinthe Steeple of the great Church 
 of the Town. The Royal Palace in Copen. 
 hr.gen is but ilnall, and a very ancient Build- 
 ing J but his MajeftieS Houfe Fredenlntrg is z 
 hm^y Fabrick of Modern Arclitedure, and 
 
CO'PEnHAGEN. -135 
 
 very richly Furnifhed. Denwark is at pre- 
 fcnt a flourifhing Kingdom, and the Kjn^> 
 who hath now made it Hereditaiy, furpalfis 
 moft of his Predeceflbrs in Power and 
 Wealth : He hath much enlarged his Domi- 
 nions, as well as Aj^thority ; and by his Pcr- 
 Ibnal and Royal Virtues, no left than thb e- 
 ipinent qualities of a great many able Mini- 
 fters pf State, he hath gained the Univerlal 
 Love of his Subjeds, and the elleem of aU 
 Foreign Princes and St^es. The Court is 
 much frequented every d^y , but elpecially 
 on Sundays where about Eleven of the Clock 
 in the Morning, the Nobility, Foreign Mi- 
 nifters , and Officers of the Army ailemble, 
 and make a giorious Appearance. There 
 one may fee many Knights of the Order of 
 the Elephant olMalto j but I never law any 
 Order of the like Nature as that of Sweden^ 
 that King rarely appearing in his George and 
 Garter j but on days of publick Audience I 
 have obferved at one time above i p Coaches 
 attending at the Court of Denmark , which 
 are ten times more than ever I faw together 
 at that of S:i'eden. The King is affable, and 
 of eafie accefs to Strangers, feen often abroad 
 by his Subjects in his Gardens and Stables , 
 which are very large , and well furnifhed 
 with all forts of Horfes. He is a great lover 
 of Englifh Horfes and Dogs , and delights 
 much in Hunting,as his Eldeft Son the Prince, 
 with his Brothers do in Ccck-.'ighting ; inlb- 
 K 4 uiuch 
 
? 3 ^ • ^ Defcription of 
 
 rnuch , that the Englifh Merchants carmpt 
 make a more acceptable prefent to thole 
 Princes^ than of EnglilK .Game-Cocks. The 
 {landing Forces of Demnark are well difci- 
 plined Men^ and Commanded by good 
 Officers^ both Natives and Strangers^ both 
 l^rench and Scots, as Major General i3«w^w^ 
 and Major General Fe/J^/^^bothScottiih-Men^ 
 whom I iavv^ at Copenhagen. The Soldiers as 
 well as Courtiers are quartered upon the Ci- 
 tizens^ a Cuftom which is likewife pradifsd 
 in Sweden ^ and tho' Ibmewhat uneafie , yet 
 not repined at by the People , who by the 
 care and good Government of the King, 
 find Trade much advanced. For his Ma- 
 jeity by encouraging Strangers of all Reli- 
 gions to live in his Dominions, and allowing 
 me French and Dutch Calvinilts, to have 
 publick Churches^ hath brought many Tra- 
 ding Families to Co^enha^eny and by the 
 fneafure he hath taken for fetling Trade in 
 prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Ma- 
 hufadures^ and Reforming and ntw Model- 
 ling theEaft and Weft/:vrt^/<!zCompanieSjhath 
 fnuch encreafed Commerce , and thereby 
 the Wealth of his Subjeds ; {o that notwith- 
 ftanding the new Taxes impofed upon all 
 Coaches, Wagons^ Ploughs, and all real and 
 perlbnal Eftates, which amount to confide- 
 table Surns of Alone)'- ,• the People live very 
 well and contented. There are commonly 
 'about 8000 Men inGarilbn in Copenhagen ^ and 
 ^ ^ ' his 
 
COPEKHAGEK. 137 
 
 his Majefties Regiment of Foot Guards, who 
 areallCloathedin Red, with Cloaks to keep 
 them warm in the Winter time^is a ver}'hana- 
 ibme Body of I-.len ^ and with the Horle 
 Guards, who are bravely mounted, and Iiave 
 jCheir Granadeers and Hautboys, make a very 
 fine fKew. His Majeity hath cauied ieveral 
 »ew Fortifications to be built upon the E/^, 
 'and other Rivers , and hath now in his Pofl 
 ^ffion, that ftrong Caftle called Htlguelandy 
 itprefeiit commanded by a ScottifK-man. The 
 Queen of Denmark is a moft virtuous Prin- 
 cels, Sifter to theprefentLandtgraveofi^e/Ze' 
 Cajjily and in Perfwafion a Calvinift, ha- 
 ving a Chapel allowed her within the Court, 
 though the publick Religion of the King and 
 Kingdom be Lutheran. The Clergy here are 
 Learned, many of them having ftudied at 
 Oxford and Cambridge^ where they learnt the 
 Englirti Language; andamongft the BiHiops 
 there is one Doctor King the Son of a Scot- 
 tifh-man. But feeing it is my defign rather 
 to obierve the condition of the People, than 
 to be puncfhial in defcribing all the Rarities diac 
 are remarkable in the Countries I have been 
 in, I fhall conclude what I have to fay of Dw- 
 'mark^y acquainted the Reader^that the Peo- 
 ple of that Countr}'' live far better than the 
 6wedes,and as well as moft of their adjoyning 
 Neighbours ; and that there are feveral places^ 
 both there, and in Nonvay^ which have die 
 Names of Englifh Towns^ as Armdak, Tot* 
 vefsj London^ §wC, When 
 
I gS A Defcription of 
 
 When I firfl: began to write this Trea- 
 tife, I had fome thoughts of making Obfer- 
 vations upon the feveral Governments of 
 (Other States and Dominions^ where I had 
 travelled Ibnic years before I was in the 
 Countries I have been fpeaking of^ as of the 
 reft of Germafjy, Hungary^ SwltZjCrlaud^ Italjiy 
 and France ; but that was a Subje<5fc fo large, 
 and the ulefulne^ of it to my prefent De- 
 iign lb inconfidcl-ablej that By doing fo, I 
 found I could neither latisfis the Curious^by 
 adding any thing material to thofe many 
 who have already obliged the Publick by 
 the Remarks of their Travels in thofe Pla- 
 ces J or make my difcontented Country- 
 men more averie than they are already from 
 removing into thole Countries , where I 
 think few of them will chufe to tranfport 
 theml^lves for the lake of Liberty and Pro- 
 perty, though England yjQXQ even worle than 
 they themfelves fancy it can be. Ail that 
 remains to be done then, is to conclude this 
 Treatife with 3,n obvious and popular Re- 
 mark, that thofe Countries, where Cities 
 are greatelt and moll frequented by volun- 
 tary Inhabitants, are always the beft to live 
 in J and by comparing the City of London 
 with all other Cities of Europe^ and demon- 
 ftrating by the Surveys I have made, (which 
 I think will hardly be contrad idled or con- 
 fiited) that of all ^the Capital Cities of Eu~ 
 Tcfe it is the biggefl and molt populous, and 
 
 io 
 
COPENHAGEK. 139 
 
 lb prove conlequeiitially that England, for 
 the gener.ility of People, is the beft Coun- 
 try in the World, efpecially for its Natives, 
 to live ia Now this being an Obiervatipn 
 (for what i know) not hitheito made good 
 by InducTtion and Inftance, (as I intend to 
 do it) I hope it will pleafe the Reader as 
 mudi, as if 1 gave him a particular account 
 of other Countries and Governments, and 
 lea^ve it to his own Refledion to ftate the 
 Cpmparifon. 
 
 Though London within the Walls cannot 
 V)'e for bignefs vvith many Cities of Europe \ 
 yet take the City and Suburbs together, ac- 
 cording as it hath been furvey'd by Mx.Mor^ 
 gan, in breadth from St. Georges Ciiurch in 
 Soutbwark to Skre ditch, and in lengrfifrom 
 Limehoufe to Fetty- France in Wejfminjter^ and 
 it is in a vaft proportion larger in compals 
 of Ground, and number ot Houles, than 
 any City in Europe whatlbever. This I jliall 
 demonftrate firft , by compai-ing it with 
 fome Cities of Holland, and then with the 
 moft confiderable Cities of the other Coun- 
 tries of Europe^ which I (hall let down in an 
 Alphabetical Order, with the number of the 
 Houfes they leverally contain. 
 
 When London and Suburbs was fLirve}'ed 
 feme years ago by Mr. Morgan^ there were 
 reckoned to be in it 84000 Houfes, befides 
 Holpitals, Alms-houfes, and other Buildings, 
 di^t paid no Chimney-money to the King : 
 
 Now 
 
140 A 'Defcription of 
 
 Now if thofe were added, and the vaft 
 number of new Houles that have been built 
 iince that Survey, upon modeft computa- 
 don London may be reckoned to contain 
 ir^ocoo Houfesj nay, 'tis believed 120000, 
 which tmly confidering the exttaordinaiy 
 Additions that have been made lately, is not 
 improbable : I know the French vapour, and 
 would perlwade the World, that Paris is 
 much bigger than London, And the HoUan. 
 ders will fcarce believe, that London hath 
 more Houfes than the 18 Cities in Holland 
 that have Voices in the States,for (lay they) 
 Amfierdam ftands upon loop Morgans of 
 Land, and London itands but upon 1800. 
 To both which I anl\ver^ That it is very 
 true that V^iris takes :up a great ipot of 
 Ground, but then you mafl: confider, that in 
 Vans there are feveral hundreds of Mona- 
 fteries. Churches, Colleges, and Cloi(i:ers, 
 fbme of them having large Gardens, and 
 that in Vans there are 7 5" 00 Palaces and 
 Ports for CoacheSj which have likewile great 
 Gardens j whereas London is vef)- thick built, 
 and in the City the Houfes have Icarce a 
 Yard big enough to fet a Pump or H<?iile' cf 
 Conveniency in; but the Weekly Bills of 
 Mortality will decide this Quellion , and 
 plainly give it to London^ and lo doth Mon- 
 lleur In Ccur^ and Sir TVdliam Petty in his laft 
 EUays dedicated to the King, making it ap- 
 pear, that London is bigger than P<?m, Roan^ 
 
 anci 
 
COfBUHAGEN. ^41 
 
 .d Rocbel altogether ; and as for Amfier- 
 ^am , I do appeal to all knowing Men that 
 ,ve feen it^ that although it be true^ that 
 ftands upon 1000 Morgans of Land^ yet 
 there is not above 400 Morgans built ; and 
 his I prove thus, that the large Gardens^ 
 b'n the Heeregrafpy Kyjersgraft, and Prwcegraft^ 
 and the BurghWalls o'^Amfterdampiko. up more 
 than a third part of the City ; then reckon the 
 BalHonSj and the fpace of Ground between 
 the Wall and the Houles, and all the Ground 
 unbuilt from the UtrkksJpon, to the JVefofer- 
 Tort, Aluytr.^orty and io to the Seafide, and 
 you will find it to be near 300 Mjrgens of Land • 
 There are two Pariilies in the Suburbs of 
 London^ viz. Stef7%ey^ and St. Martins in tJye 
 'l^klds , ( the latter being fo big , that the 
 Parliament divided it into four Parilhes) ei- 
 ther of them have more Houfes than Rotter^ 
 dam or Haevl.yn • and there are ieveral other 
 great ParilKes, as St. Margarets fVefiminji-ery 
 St. Giles in the Fields ^ St.Olaves, and'-Sr. Mar/y 
 ■Sa'viours jtho which if they ftood apart in the 
 •Country would make great Cities^ we reck- 
 on in London, and the Suburbs thereof to be 
 *at leaft 130 Parilhes^which contains 1 00000 
 Houfestj now if you reckon 8 Peribns to e- 
 veryHouIe, then there are near 8ooooa=- 
 Souls in London, but there are Ibme that lay^ 
 there is a Million of Souls in it : I fhall now 
 iet down the Ciries Alphabetically, and their 
 number of Houles , as tliey were given to 
 
 me 
 
1 43 A Defcription of 
 
 me rtot only from the Surveyors and City 
 Carpenters^but from the Books of the Heartn- 
 Money , and CoUedtors of the feveral Taxes 
 in the relpeAive Cities : And firft I fhall be- 
 gin with the 1 8 Cities that have Voices in 
 the States of H13//W. 
 
 Cities' in HOLLA N D. 
 Cities. 
 
 ' "n 
 
 2. JL>/ Haerlem 
 
 - 3. Delfi. 
 4. Leyden 
 5*. Anther dam 
 
 6. Rotterdam- 
 
 7. Gouda' 
 
 8. Gorcom » 
 
 9. Schiedam - 
 
 10. Briell 
 
 11. Scboneho'ven^ 
 
 12. Alckmaar 
 
 15. Horn 
 
 14. Enckhuyfen 
 If. £^^w 
 
 16. Monekendam 
 
 1 7. Medenblick — - 
 •'r 1 8, Turmeran^ 
 
 . • Total 88909 
 
 Cities 
 
CITIES and HOUSES. 143 
 
 Ciries in GER MA NT, and in the * 
 Seventeen Provinces. 
 Cities. Houfes. 
 
 V ^' A ^^^^7 ^^S9P 
 
 2. j\. Aix la Chapelle . — 22 jo 
 
 . 5. Arford^ — ' 8440 
 
 4. Berlin poo 
 
 5*. Bon- ' 410. 
 
 6. Brifack'' • — • 1200 • 
 
 7. Ereme — ■■ • ^■— 9200 
 
 8. Breda. • J420 
 
 9. Boldnke ^ 6240 
 
 10. Berge?i op Zome • - ~ ■ - • 2120 
 
 11. Brujfels • 19200 
 
 12. Cologne ■■' ■ • 12000 
 
 15. Cleave— — • — — ' — 640 
 
 14. Coblentz, — ■ 420 
 
 15-. Cajfds ■ ■ 15" 20 
 
 16. Drefden 6420 
 
 17. Diffeldorpe ■' 620 
 
 18. Dunkirk • • — 2440 
 
 19. Emden r 2400 
 
 20. Francfort • • 10200 
 
 ^l. Groningen- ■ ■ ■' • 8400 
 
 22. Guant — . : l8zoo 
 
 23. Harford — - — *— .— 1420 
 
 24. Hanouer • ^ iSjo 
 
 25". Heidelherg •■ ■■■' '.■ ■■ ' « 75"^*^ 
 
 26. Hambourg r 12J00 
 
 27. Lnbeck ■ -• 6joo 
 
 a8. Lovain ■■- ■ " ■■■■ ■■ ' — « 8420 
 
 29. Lypjick 
 
'f *44 CITIES arid HOUSES. 
 
 29. Lypjick — . 
 
 30. Lunenburg 
 
 31. Lezvardin 
 5'2. Adajence 
 33. Malin 
 
 34. Middelburg 
 -55". MadelbUrg 
 56. Mafiricht 
 ^7. Munfier 
 58. Nurenburg 
 ^9. Ofenburg 
 
 40. Osburg 
 
 41. Oldenburg 
 
 42. Praag 
 
 45. PaJJ'aw 
 44. Ratisbonne 
 45'- Strasbourg 
 
 46. iSp/re 
 
 47. StockholTn 
 
 48. Saisburg 
 
 49. Uytrick 
 yo. Vienna 
 51; F^<?w 
 
 52. Wbrmes 
 
 53. Wefiburg 
 
 Total 514460 
 
 Cities 
 
CITIES af!d HOUSES. 145 
 
 Cities in FRJNCE. 
 ! Cities. Hoiiies. 
 
 ^' A ^'^^^'^°^ " — *~~" — ' 12400 
 
 2. jLjl Amiens 5^200 
 
 3. Bullion- 1400 
 
 4. Bomont '•■-■• - »• 800 
 
 5". Burdeaux • ■ 8420 
 
 6. Call is ' ^524 
 
 7. Caine- . 2147 
 
 8. Chalons — ■ ■ ' iSj'o 
 
 9. Diepe 1920 
 
 10. Lyons ^-— — 16840 
 
 11. Montr e'vil . 820 
 
 12. Montpeiller ■ — ______ 5*240 
 
 15. Marfelles- . '■ ' 9100 
 
 14. Nantes — — 4420 
 
 1 5-, Nifmes • g 1 20 
 
 164 Orleans' 10200 
 
 17. Orange 35-4 
 
 18. Varis . 72400 
 
 19. Rocbel — 42c o 
 
 io. Roan . ii2co 
 
 21. Tolouz^e-- " ■■ — 1320Q 
 
 i 2. Valence . 4^-8 
 
 Total 1 8 70 1 5 
 
 Citie--^ 
 
i^6 CITIES aud H^ a 
 
 Cities in / TJ L Y. 
 
 Cities. Houfes- 
 
 X • "O 0/fl?«I? — • . 1 2400 
 
 2. J3 Florence -^ 85-20 
 
 5. GenoHa- ■ ■- 1720a 
 
 ^.' Luca * ■ « — ■ . . 16^0 
 
 jf. Legonie- — .- . 35-60 
 
 6. Mila7t . . — - — : i8foo 
 
 7. Nuf.es . .- .17840 
 
 8. Tija" . . 2290 
 
 9. Fadtia —^— ■. Sfjo 
 
 io._ Rome 21200 
 
 11. Sen:i -—^ i .^ 1820 
 
 12. Venice. . 24870 
 
 13. Veterba ' 620 
 
 ti[. Vale'ntia 15-20 
 
 Total 1 5" 5-040 
 
 Cities in S JVOT. 
 
 Cities. Houfes. 
 
 'l. y^^Bcimhray 85-2 
 
 2. V^ Sale 520 
 
 5. Turin' •■ ^5'4'^ 
 
 4. ITice : i yoo 
 
 5*. 5f. John de Later an ■ • --■ — 420 
 
 6w Kernes- — — — ._— — ^>— .— 340 
 
 7. Mvloy ^ — , 270 
 
 Total 1 1 242 
 
 Cities 
 
CITIES aifd HOUSES. 147 
 
 Cities in SmTZERLJND. 
 
 Cities. Houfes. 
 
 1. -rj£>-»^ • — ■ 4270 
 
 2. J3 Bale ^ — r- ' p20 
 
 5. Geneva 45*4^ 
 
 4. Lofana — 2100 
 
 5". Solure foo 
 
 6. Zurich ■ •— ■ 6200 
 
 7. Morge — 210 
 
 8. Vina • 320 
 
 9. St. Morricc-' " ■ — -' ■ — ' 300 
 
 Total 23^60 
 
 Cities in D E NMA R K. 
 
 Cities. Hoiifco. 
 
 1 . •''^ O^enh-'gen • 8220 
 
 2. V^ Elfenoi-e • 
 
 Totaf * 
 
 Cities in SWEEDLAND. 
 
 Cities. Houfes. 
 
 1. "^^^OrtJjoancn 600 
 
 2, X^ Stockholmi'—^ T^'OQ 
 
 J. Upfal — « ■■ — 8200 
 
 Total 16500 
 
 L 2 A N 
 
AN EXACT 
 
 IRELATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ENTERTAINIVIENT 
 
 Of His Mofl: Sacred Majefty 
 
 \W ILL I AM III. 
 
 KING of England^ 
 
 Scotland, France and Ireland'', 
 
 Hereditary Stadtholder of 
 
 the United Netherlandfy ^c. 
 
 At the H J G V E. 
 
 Giving a particular Defcriptionof His 
 
 MAJESTY'S Entry there, Jan. 26. 169^-. 
 And of the levenil Triumphant Arches, 
 Pyramids, Pictures, &c. with the in- 
 fcriptions and Devices. 
 
 lUuJlrated with Copper Plates of the whole Solemnity^ 
 exactly drawn from the Original. 
 
 ^rauflatcti from tljc Dutclj. 
 
 LONDON: 
 Printed iii the Year M BC, XCl 
 
A N 
 
 Exad Relation 
 
 Or the Entertainment of Flis 
 Moft Sacred Majefty^ 
 
 WILLIAM III 
 
 ■ At the HAGVE. 
 
 HI S Majeft)' being earncftly Eji- 
 ti-ented by the States of tiJl'vjrt, 
 and the Confederate Princes v\ 
 Germany J &c. to meet at a General CongrelSj 
 t# be held at die Hague , in order to Concert 
 matters for the next Campaign^ was plealed 
 to Condefcend to their RequeiK and hazard 
 His Royal Perfbn by Sea, ( though in t!ie 
 depth of Winter ) His Noble Zeal for the 
 , dood of us in particular^, aAd Europe m 
 -general, furmounting all thofe Difhculties : 
 Whereupon he accordingly took Shipping 
 
2 A Relation ofK^ WilliamV 
 
 ov\. the Sixteenth 9I January 1697. in a 
 Yacht J then lying at Gra^vefeni!, and fet Sail 
 that Afternoon , being attended by divers 
 Yatchts and Men of War^ and a Noble Re- 
 tinue of Perlbns of the bell Quality ; but by 
 Reafbn of the very thick Mlis^ and confe- 
 quently litde Wiiid^ was four days before he 
 could make the Coait q{ Holland j yet^atlaft, 
 when he arrived within two or three 
 Leagues of Gorecj His Majefty ventured to 
 go a Shoar in the Eoat^ attended by the 
 Duke of Oymond^ the Earl of Pertlandj and 
 my Lord Oz-erkirkeprc. and another Boat jbut: 
 mofl unfortunately there fell io thick a Fog, 
 and the Ice furroundcd them fo clofelyj that 
 neither could they make the Shoar , nor get 
 hack to the Ship, but were forc'd to' lie itill 
 for two and twenty Hours, enduring the 
 moft bitter Cold, and without (almoft) 
 hopes of ever getting alive on Shoar : All 
 wliichj His Majeily bore with His wanted 
 Zv/Iagnanimity and Courage, and when one 
 of the Boat-men too freely exprefled his Fear 
 pi Death , he reproved him with this Noble 
 laying. What are you afraid to Die in my CoM- 
 ^auy. Eut it pleafed the Almighty Provi- 
 dence, at length to diffipate the Mift, and 
 Condud His Royal Majeily lafely to the 
 3hoar, and on the 2 lit of 'January , about 
 half an hour 'after Ten, landed at xki<tO/avge 
 folder^ at the Mouth of the- Maefe^ a littlq 
 jjelow M.ijelavd-Slnycc^ but by the long con- 
 tinuance 
 
Entertainment at the Hague. ^ 
 
 tinii-snce in the Cold;, was io Beiiummed, 
 that he could hardly either ftand or Speak. 
 From hence His Majeity went immediately 
 to the Houfe of the Heer Van Rynenbergh^ 
 where having refrefhed Himfeif, and Dined, 
 He halted to Hounjlaerdyke, where He was 
 met, and Congratulated with all Demon- 
 Itrations of Refpeds and Joy, by the Depu- 
 ties of the States ; as dfo by Prince Cajimir 
 of NaJJau^ Stadtholder of FnV2:.e/^«<5^, whom 
 His Majefty received with all the Marks of 
 the molt tender Affedtion imaginable. Em- 
 bracing and Killing them with great Ar- 
 dency. VnncQ Najjiiti Sarbriiggen^ the Count 
 Van Hocrnj and divers other Pcrfons of Qua- 
 tity^ here likewile Congratulated His Maje- 
 Ities Jhappy arrival , who were all molt 
 kindly received by His Majelty. 
 
 'Twas expected that the King would have 
 lain here this Night, and fo have entred the 
 Hague by day light ; but on the contrary. 
 His extraordinary^ Defire of entring imme- 
 diately upon Bulineis, would not let Him 
 give Himlelf lb much as one Nights eale ; 
 And His Majelty, after a very Ihort Refrelh- 
 iiient here, departed for the Hague, attended 
 v;irh live or lix Coaches with fix Horles : 
 In His own Coach accompanied Him the 
 Earl of Portland^ and the Lord Overkirk , 
 arriving at the Hague about half an hour after 
 .five in the Evening ; where (though he was 
 not that Night expeded ) there wanted not 
 
 ■ the 
 
4 A Relation off\. William'/ 
 
 the general Acclamations of the People of all 
 ibrts, who run by His Coach, crying out. 
 Long Live Kmg William, f-Felcom, fVelccw^ 
 &-€. His Majelty Rode througli the Trium- 
 phant Aiches, Ereded by the Lords of the 
 Hague^ and the Honourable the Lords Com- 
 mittee of the Council of Holland^ (of which 
 we iliall give an exad Delcription in their 
 proper Places) directly to the Court, where 
 being arrived, and the Gates fnut to keep 
 out the extraordinar}^ prels of People, thirty 
 peices of Cannon , which were planted up- 
 on the Vyverberg^ were thrice difcharged, 
 Publick Thanklgivings were made in all the 
 Churches, and the Bells rung with great 
 Joy j and tliroughout the Town almolt all 
 the HoLifes were Illuminated with great 
 numbers of Candles in their Windows, 
 whilll: all the People, Rich and Poor, Old 
 and Young , made all Demonitrations of 
 their inexpreffible Joy for Flis Majcfties 
 moft happy Arrival. 
 
 That Evening the Earl of Berka, Envoy 
 Extraordinary from the Emperor, waited 
 upon His Majefly, And was a long time in 
 private with Him j and the next day fsveral 
 Members of the States, and divers Perfbns 
 of Qiiality came to Compliment His Maje- 
 ft}% and Congratulate His Arrival. 
 
 The Miniilers of the feveral Confederate 
 Princes, who upon the Kings arrival had^ 
 lent Exprelfes to their reipedive Mafrers, 
 
 aiTem.blina 
 
Entertainment at the Hague. 5 
 
 aflembling themfelves in Congrels ; imme- 
 diately after their breaking up, thejmperial;, 
 Spaniih, and Brandenburgh Envoys^, came 
 to wait upon His Majelty ; as alio the 
 Council of State^ and die Lords of the Ge- 
 neral Accounts, with all their Members, to 
 Congratulate and Complement Him. 
 
 The King immediately applied Himfelf 
 to the Affairs of State, and taking firft into 
 His Confideration the Sea Affairs, gave the 
 Command of the Dutch Fleet to the Heer 
 Cornelius Van Trompj with the Title of Vice- 
 Admiral of Holland ^ who gratefully accep- 
 ted the lame, and immediately beat up his 
 Drums for Seamen, who flocked to him iqr 
 great abundance. Kis Majeity gave alfo out 
 CommiiTions for two Regiments of Manners 
 to be raifcd. 
 
 Tlie Eledor of Brmdenhurgh , who liad 
 waited Ibme time at Cleave^ as fbon as he 
 received advice of His MajelHes arrival, fet 
 forward for the //?^«e. 
 
 In the mean time it was Defired, and 
 Agreed to by His Majefry , That His Ala- 
 jelly would Pieafe to Honour the Hague 
 with a Publick Entr}', on Monday^ January 
 the 26th : Whereupon the Trained Bands, 
 and the Guards were ordered to be ready ; 
 And accordingh' on ,Alonday, at two of the 
 Clock in the Aicernoon, His Majeily went 
 out of die Town by the way of the Vyver- 
 y^rg^ to the North-end , and from thence 
 . round 
 
6 A Relation ef J^. William'/ 
 
 round the Wall to the Weft-end, and ib to 
 the Hotwjlaerdyke^ or jLo(?/^«)'«'s-bridgejWherc 
 began the Triumph. Over this Bridge vyas 
 Ereded , by the Burghermafters of the 
 Hague ^ a Triumphant Arch, the Figure 
 whereof we have here Reprefented. Over 
 the Arch in the Front , is a Man and a 
 Woman ftanding at an Altar Sacrificing , 
 with the Words, lo Triumpbe. On the top 
 of all ftands the Statue of His Majefty, with 
 a Staff in His right Hand , at the top of 
 which is a Cypher of His Name , with a 
 Crown. On the two Columns of the Arch, 
 on one fide are thele Words, 
 
 Oif Cives Servatos: For having preferved 
 
 his Country-jnen. 
 Ob Hofies Fiigatos: For having defiroyed 
 
 his Enemies, 
 and on the other fide, 
 Rejiitutis Prcvinciis : The Provinces being 
 
 Re/hreJ. 
 Lihertatis Regnis : The Kingdoms beii*g 
 
 Delivered. 
 Behind each Column is a fmall Oval, in 
 one a Lawrel with this Word, 
 
 Viciori.a^ Victory^ 
 'on the other a Palm, with the Word, 
 Clementid, Mer^y. 
 
 Here His Majefly was received b)r the 
 Vhgiftrates 0!* the Agtie, who Comi' linien« 
 
 te(4 
 
Enter ainment at the Hague. 7 
 
 ted Him, and Congratulated His Arrival, 
 the Penfionary Vamltr Hoeck being their 
 Speaker, who humbly Thanked die King 
 in the Name of the Magiftrates and Burg- 
 hers, for the Honour His Majefty was plea- 
 fed to do them by His Prelence , in a mod 
 Eloquent Oration. 
 
 From hence was a Lane made on each 
 fide by the BurgliiersinArms, who appeared 
 in very great Splendour, being moftof them 
 very richly clad, many having been at great 
 Expence tor their Equipage. 
 
 Thele Trained Bands confifl of fix Com- 
 panies, of about two and three Hundred 
 Men in each Company ,* they make in all 
 about Fifteen Hunderd Men : Thefe Hand- 
 ing in their Order , reached all along the 
 Weft-end, the great Market, the High Street, 
 and fb to the Court-yard. 
 
 All along this way, quite up to the Court, 
 before the Houfes and Stalls, were built 
 Scaffolds, which were filled by a vaft multi- 
 tude of Spectators, who fcrupled not to give 
 an 1 00 Guilders in Ibme places for the ule 
 of a Chamber during the Shew. The num- 
 ber of Spectators being the greateft that has 
 ever been feen in the Hague • inlbmuch, that 
 >one would have judged all the Inhabitants 
 of Hulland to have been in this Town. 
 
 After thePenfionar)' had ended his Speech^ 
 and His Majefty kindly Thanked them, the 
 Cavalcade proceeded. Firft went two very 
 
 rich 
 
S A Relation oftC Williams. 
 
 rich Coaches with fix Horfes^ in which wer« 
 divers Perfbhs of Quality ;, next the Kings 
 Life Guard;, the Officers in extraordinary 
 rich Equipage : After them a great number 
 of Lacquees and Footmen all in the Kings 
 Lively, and black Velvet Caps,- after them 
 came.the Kings Pages J Gent^emen^ and Ser- 
 vants on Horleback , in extraordinary rich 
 Liveries. Then came His Majefty riding in 
 a large, and very richly Gilt Coach, drawn 
 by Six White Stone Horfes, accompanied by 
 the Lord Overkirk on the left Hand, and the 
 Earls of Monmouth and Scarborough over- 
 againli: him. On each fide of the Coach the 
 Switzers with dieir Halbards, in rich Livery 
 Coats alio, walked on Foot. The Provoll 
 General Urck^ and the Heer Roulas Captain 
 of the Switzers rid on Horleback immediate- 
 ly before the Kings Coach, and after it came 
 about Twelve Coaches with Six Hoi-les , 
 wherein Rid the Duke of Norfolk , the Earls 
 of Devonjlihre and PortLmd , the Bi/hop of 
 Lofidon^^nd fcveral other Englilh Noblemen ; 
 as alfb the chief Minifters of the Govern- 
 ment, and the Magiltrates of the Hague , 
 befides thefe, were many Coaches with 
 FourHorfes. 
 
 The King as he palTed along, was Salu- 
 ted, and Complimented by divers Perfons 
 of Quality, which His Majefty returned 
 with great Kindnefs, often looking out of 
 the Coach, with great Satisfaction upon the 
 
 People, 
 
'Entertdinntcnt at the Hague. 9 
 
 People, who fhouted with extraordinary 
 Chearfulnefi, cr>'ing out^ Long Live the King 
 cur Stndtholdery C^c. 
 
 The Stadthoiife , by which the King was 
 to Ride, was Beautified with Seven very 
 Noble Tranfparent Pidiires ; behind which 
 they put Lights in the Evening, which were 
 fet off with Garlands of made Flower^ :' 
 Above in the middle , was the King and 
 Queen , and on each fide of them anoriier 
 Pidure ; One of a Lion with this Motto, 
 
 Flaciclum ^mernntur^ d^ horrent infefinm : 
 
 Xhey Wbrf>np him when he is Calm, and Dre^d 
 him "when he is Angry j 
 the Other of an Unicorn, with this Motto, 
 
 Nihil p^JJh Veneni : She can endicre no Toifon, 
 
 Underneath there are three other Pictures, 
 one of a Crane fitting upon his NeH:,clapping 
 his Wings upon break of a Day, and Sun 
 Rifing, with this Motto, 
 
 Rvcreatitr ah Ortu : He is refre^ied by the 
 RiPg. 
 die other of an Atlas bearing the World up- 
 cn his bending Shoulders , reliing with his 
 Breaft upon a linall Hill, wit^h this Motto, 
 
 /?; te Dornus inclin.rta ncm/ibit : The leaning 
 Hoiife rejis on Thee. 
 The Third, a Crane ftandihg on his Neft, 
 and chattering upon the Rifing of the Sun, 
 with this Motto, 
 
 Vidit & Exalt avit: He faw it end ovas 
 gild. 
 
 In 
 
10 A Relation ofK, William V 
 
 In the Court of Juftice by the fide of the 
 Stadthoufe, a Pillar was Erecled four Rows 
 highj garnifhed with Coats of Arms; upon 
 which towards Night they fet great numbers 
 of Flambeaux. 
 
 The Lords of the Hague railed alfb a Rich 
 and a Glorious Triumphal Arch in Honour 
 of this great Monarch, in the Market Place : 
 This was done upon the Account of his ha- 
 ving been Born there ; which as they look 
 upon to be one of the greateft Glories of the 
 Place;, and whereof hereafter they will have 
 the greateft Realbn to Boaft, io they were 
 defirous to fhevv^ what Sence they had of it, 
 upon (6 ver}' Glorious an occafion. 
 
 This is much the higheft Arch of them all ; 
 without any Pillars , and on both fides are 
 many Pidures done in light Colour; and 
 juft over the pallage there are two oriiei-s 
 done upon Silk, and Transparent, fo as that 
 by Lights , which were let behind them in 
 the Evening, they appeared very Glo- 
 rioufly. 
 
 At the top of all was placed a Sphear, and 
 above that , Fam^ Sounding a Trumpet in a 
 flying pofture, and leading iFegafus^ with 
 Trophies at each Corner. 
 
 Behind this Arch,towards the High-ftreet,- 
 the Arms of the Emperor Adolf bus , ( wha 
 was Defcended of the Houic oiNaJJau) were 
 let up ; and over them the Sixteen Quarters 
 of His Majsftiss Arms ; But thofe that ma^ 
 
 naged 
 
lE.hteHainmeht at the Hague. 1 1 
 
 mged this rndtter^ not underftanding it f6 
 Well as they ought to have done , they have 
 Committed leveral Miflakes, which in the 
 Graving I have altered : It is to no purpofe 
 to fet down the particulars, which lie chiefly 
 in the Hating of the feveral Scutcheons, ac- 
 cording to the precedency of the Kingdoms 
 over which His Majelties Anceftbrs had the 
 Governments, whicli though they are not 
 generally taken notice of b)^ ordinary Ob- 
 lervers j yet , fmce upon llich Solemnities,, 
 the curiouleit and molt inquifitive Men are 
 always prefcnt, it was much to be Wilhed, 
 that thoie Things had been more exadly 
 regulated. 
 
 There were feveralinicriptions round the 
 Arch : On the Front abov6 the Gats, and 
 under die Arms of the Hague ^ was tliis, 
 Hic Incunabula Divum : Here was the Cradls 
 of the Gods, 
 \Jncmiabula are propeily the Swadling-Cloths 
 in which new Korn Infants are wrapt up. J 
 .Above,beneath,and on both fides was Writ, 
 Nohtlium primo^ Ducum Maximo , Pcjl-bum& 
 Gidielmo III, Ccelhus dat. To the chhfejt of 
 JSloblemen/he greatefi of Dukes ^bt Generals ^ 
 the word being alnbiguous, coming 
 after Noblemen J the t^ofi humous IViP 
 ^ lia7?7 III. given fruM Heaven. 
 
 And behind above the Pi(5hires, 
 Viclortis^ Tro^hxis ^Fort [IJimo Imperatcri iDefu 
 fiatQyCauttJfimo Guhernatcri^ 
 
12 A %dation of K^ VViIliam»i' 
 
 and underneath at tl>e bottom of the Arch, 
 QuaXuoT RegnorufH Regi , Foederati Belgii 
 Guhernatori^ Gulielmo III. Virtute d^ 7r/- 
 umphis fulgentiy Grati Animi (^ Letitia 
 fublica Signum hoc erexit Haga Cowitis. 
 i. e. The Hague EreBedthis as a Tefiimony of her 
 Gratitude y and of the puhltck yoy for the 
 Vi^ories and Trophies of William III. 
 King of Four Kingdoms ^ Stadtholder of 
 the United Vrcuinces ^ equally Glorious 
 for his Virtue and his Succejs, 
 On each fide of the Arch there are two 
 Wings, which make a Semi-Circle j within 
 each of which are Seven Pictures reprelenting 
 the Battels and Vi(5tories of the former Princes 
 o^ Orange by SeA and Land ; every Pid:iu*e ha- 
 ving an Inlcription under it. 
 
 On the Firlt, on the Right Yi^xvA^fatientia 
 lafa fit furor : Injured Patience turns to Rage : 
 Intimating , that they had endured the Imb- 
 lencies of the Spaniards as long as was poffi- 
 ble^ and that at laft they were forced to Riie. 
 On the Second^ Res pofcit Opem^ &- Con- 
 fpirat Amice : The Matter needs help ^ and 
 Profpers by Friendly Conference. 
 
 On the Third, Per Tela yperUadas : Through 
 IVeapons and fVefoes, 
 
 On the Fourth, Audentes Deus ipfe juvat : 
 God himfelf helps the daring. 
 
 On the Fifth, Tantas dedit Unio vires : 
 Such Strength htts Union given. 
 
 On 
 
Entertainment at the Hague. 1 5 
 
 On the Sixth, Abulias & Mcenia ceftt : He 
 took Standards a?id Cities. 
 
 On the Seventh, Celfaf fuperat virtute Ca» 
 rinas : He Conquers tall Ships by his Valour. 
 
 On the firlt Pia^ure of the left Hand, Re* 
 felenda quiefcunt Arma 'virum: The Arms of 
 the h'ave are at refi^ hereafter to be refumed 
 again. 
 
 On the Second, Non uno Virtus contents 
 Triumpho : Virtue not content -with one Triumph. 
 
 On the Third, Crefcunt numero crefcente 
 Trophcea : As the number encreafes fo do their 
 Trophies too. 
 
 On the Fourth, Caforum replebant Funera 
 Campos : The Funerals of the Slain filled all the 
 Fields. 
 
 On the Fifth, Ultra Garamantas & Indos : 
 Beyond the furthermofi parts of the Earth. 
 
 On the Sixth , Fortis PromiJJa Juventa : 
 The promiffes of 'valiant Touth. 
 
 On the Seventh, Deos in pralia cotfert : 
 He brings the Gods to Combat for him. 
 
 Between thele Wings there are two Py- 
 ramids tixt upon Pedeftals, each having a 
 Pidure in the Front : In that on the Right 
 fide, there is a Circle made up of Hearts , 
 '■with this Inlcription, Hanc accipe Magne 
 Coronam: Great Hero accept this Crown. 
 
 In that on the Left (iide, there is an Altar 
 with Incenie, and this Inlcription, Thure tuo 
 redolent Ar^ : The Altars jeild a fragrant Smell 
 With thy Frankincmfe. 
 
 M z ' Thefe 
 
l£^ A Kelaiion of K, ¥¥11113111'/ 
 
 Thefe Pyramids have each of them before 
 tliem three Traniparent Pidures^ containing 
 Hieroglyphicks and Trophies of Vidory j 
 The Pyramids being covered on the fides 
 with Green : On one of thefe Pyramids was 
 fet the Kings Pidurej on the other the 
 Queens J at full length; On that of the 
 Kings was this Inlcription , Quis gratior ap- 
 pdit Oris : What more acceptable Perfon e-ver 
 touched our Coafis. Upon the Qiieens^ Re- 
 frimit d^ R^fig^^ * ^he Repre£es and Re-ejta- 
 hlijloes. 
 
 Over the Wings, the Figures of the Four 
 late Princes of Orange are let up -^ and un- 
 der each Ibme marks of Vidory. Under 
 William the Firlt , Fajria Liberatori : To the 
 Dell'verer of his Country. Under Prince Mau- 
 rice^ Gloria Vmdici : Ibe Vitidicator of our Glory : 
 Under Frederick- Hmrj,. Libert at is Affertori: 
 The Affertor of our Liberty. And under Prince 
 William the Second, Publico Felicitatis Statori: 
 To the Efablijlxr of the fublick Happinefs, 
 
 Ihe TritdrnpiAl Arsh in the Court » 
 
 P Ailing from hence to the High-ftreet they 
 met another Triumphal Arch, which 
 rcpreicnts a pleafent Building, Beautified ori 
 both iides with Pillars of red and white 
 Marble, the Body of the Work being of black 
 and white Marble 5 the Bales and Chapiters 
 s>re gilt ; It has tvvo large Pidures before , 
 
 and 
 
Eutertainmcttt at the Hague, t 5 
 
 ^nd as many behind^ Painted in lively Co- 
 lours ; thole before J reprelenting a Roman 
 Field Battle and Sea Fight* thoie behind, 
 one War, the other Peace ; That of War 
 has the World in a Flame ^ with leveral Fi^ 
 gurcSj fome Dead ; others Living, make Ju- 
 Itice lie down in E)illrers : That of Peace has 
 a Globe, upon which Itand Jul Hce and Peace 
 embracing one another, whillt F m and his 
 Companions make themielves Merry with the 
 Fruits of the Earth. Over all in the middle 
 of the Arch, on a Pedeftal, Itands the Stame 
 of the King onHorfeback , as. big as the ^ 
 Life, and painted like Br;^ ; on both fides 
 of the Pedeltal there is this Infcription, R-gi 
 Triumphanti : To the Triumphing King. Over 
 his Head, which is adorned with Green, 
 there are twq Wreaths placed crofs ways_,and 
 over them a Royal Crown and Scepter^ and 
 underneath a Crols. 
 
 On both lides of the Arch there are two 
 Squares, wherein are fet , both behind and 
 before , tranlparent Pid:ures for the conve- 
 nience of letting Lights behind in the Even- 
 mg. On the outfide of thefe Squares there 
 was Painted a Cloudy Pillar, and a Pillar 
 of Fire, with the Corners adorned with 
 Green. 
 
 On the gilded Prize of the Arch there is 
 
 this Inlcription , Solo<jue, Saloejue^ in repri- 
 
 mcndd Tyrannide^ &" Rejtituenda Seculi Felicir 
 
 ta:^: By Land and by Sea^ for repreJJIng {Ty- 
 
 M 3 u.nny^ 
 
i6 A Kelation ofI<i, VVilUam'x 
 
 ranny^ and Refioring the Happinefs of the y^ge. 
 And on the fides of the aforelaid Frizes are 
 thefe WordSj Hcreibus Priori : To him who is 
 above Heroes. Antiquis Mujori : Greater than 
 the Antients. 
 
 On the fides of the Pedeftalj on which 
 ftands the Kings Horfe ^ there are two Suits 
 of Armour gilt,and two cover'd with Silver^ 
 with a Plume of Feathers over them, be- 
 fides other Marks of Triumph , as Shields, 
 Standards, &c. Before is the King of Eng^ 
 land's ArniSj and behind his Cypher. 
 
 At each end of the Arch there are two 
 WingSj upon whjph on both fides there were 
 Several Hiftories Painted on wiiite and black ; 
 as of Hercules^ Tbefetts^ Thaethon^ Terfeirs and 
 Andromeda^ with the Arms of England, Scot- 
 land^ France and Ireland. Under all, quite 
 round the Arch, there are thele Words, 
 Sceptris^ Exercitihiis^ ClaJJibus^ Votis, Augufio^ 
 Armato^ Tarato, Recepto • which ought to be 
 Read thus, Augufio Sceptri^, Armato Exerci- 
 tibus^ Parato Cla(]ibus^ Recepto Votis: Augujl 
 hy his Crowns^ Defended by his Armies, Ready 
 "ivith his Fleet, Received "with Acclamations. 
 
 Within the Arch of either fide, there are 
 two Pictures ^ one of Emop, to {how its 
 Glory , with a Bull on one fide , and this 
 Mottb, Eripe Raptor i Mifera/n : Deliver the 
 Miferable from her RaviJJier, ^ The Other, 
 Neptmie, carrying Thetis pvpr the Sea, vyith 
 this Motto ^ Mea jura Ti4?n ' Defend my 
 Rights, Over 
 
Entertainment at the Hague. 1 7 
 
 Over the P^flage, is thislnlcription^f^-^t 
 
 fofuit Cenfulum Decreto : The Hague ErdUd it 
 by the Burgher majlers Order. 
 
 7 he Triumphal Arch in the outwardCourtf 
 at the Entrance of the Court Gate, 
 
 THis Triumphal Arch was Ere(5led by the 
 Order of their High and Mighty 
 Lord/hipsj^the Committee of the Council of 
 Holland: It is of the DorickOrder^ after the 
 Italian manner, with three Paflfages, and the 
 middle higher than therelt of the Building. 
 It ftands upon Eight Pillars of each fide, 
 fiipported by broad Pedellals, each whereof 
 bears two Pillars : Over the middle Pallage 
 there is a Cupola- of an Odiogenal Figure, 
 whereon upon a Pedeltal ftands the Statue of 
 His Majefty on Horfeback, as big as the 
 Life, all richly gilt; two Prifoners lie by 
 the Pedellal Chained with their Backs to it, 
 done over with Copper: The whole Arch 
 is Painted of a Free-Stone Colour ; the whole 
 intercolumniation of both fides, is beautified 
 with Pidures dravyn in white and black, 
 with Hiftories of the Heroick and lUuftrious 
 Adions of this great Monarch. Over thefe 
 Eight Pillars are placed Eight Figures of both 
 Sexes, as big as the Life . of a Copper Co- 
 lour. On that fide which faces the Viver, 
 is the Repreleatation of a Victory atSeajaiid 
 M 4 a 
 
l^! A Relation oflQ WilliamV 
 
 a Neptune lying down with his Trident, with 
 this Infcriptipn^ Triumfhet in Undis : Let him 
 Triumfh in the Waves. Towards the Lane , 
 Trophies of Victory by Land^with this Motto^ 
 Attivgat Solium jovis : Let him reach to 
 Jupiter'^ Throne. 
 
 - Thefe Words are Written round the 
 Cupola of this Building;, Vio^ Felicia Inclyto^ 
 Triumphant i J P atria Vatri Gulielmo III. Guber^ 
 natori P, C, J. P. Kefiauratori Belgii Foederati^ 
 Liberator} Angli/e^ Servatori Scotia^ Pacifica- 
 tori Hiberni^y Reduci : To the Pfotis^ Happy.^ 
 Kcncwned William IIT. Triumphant.^ Father of 
 his Country ^ Stadtboldcr and Refiorer of the 
 United Netherlands^ Redeemer of England, 
 Treferuer of Scotland, Quieter <5^ Ireland, noii^. 
 return' d home. 
 
 On the Front, under the Images, towards 
 the outer Court, there are Four Spaces, up- 
 on which are thele Infcriptigns. 
 
 In the Firft, tofi Maximas res Domiforif 
 e^ue Gejtas^ ArtiiJJimo cum Principibus iclo Fa-- 
 dere , Suorum Vmdex ^ Defenfor OppreJJorum : 
 After having done Glorious Things^ at home and 
 abroad^ having made a mojt firm Alliance ivith 
 other "Princes., He is become the Avenger cf His 
 oivn Peoples Wrongs., and a Defender cf the Op- 
 frejftd. Under this there is a Pannel, on 
 which is a great Pidlure , in which leveral 
 brave Men are defcribed Fighting againft a 
 Dragon, with this Motto , Uniti Fortim cb- 
 fia'nt : They' make the firmer Refifiance being 
 United, ' ' In 
 
Entertai/jment at theHaguc. 15 
 
 In the Second Space, Mare Tranjvt^ius 
 Ifherat Britanniam , &" late Dowinantibus Or- 
 jiatus Sceptris^ in Vatrinm ptblicd cum Latitid 
 receptus efi : Crojjing the Seas He ileliz^ered Bfir 
 itain, where being Honoured ivith Scepters of 
 large extended Tower , He is received again into 
 his own Country with publick Joy. Under- 
 neath in the fmall Pannel, there is aBallance, 
 and in one Scale leveral Crowns, in the other 
 a Sword, which outweighs the Crowns, with 
 this yiotto jVramia non z^quant : The Rewards 
 do not e(jual the Aderit. 
 
 In the Third Space, Lugejtte Tat rid, Ma^_ 
 rente EuropJy AfjiiBd Antic^uijjimd NaJJ'avio- 
 Yum Stirpe^ Herount, Imperatorum, Trincipum 
 Faeunda : His Country Mourning , Europe 
 Grieving ^ the mofi autient Family of NafTali , 
 which was fruitful cf Heroes , Emperors and 
 Trinces^ Lamenting. And in the Pannel, 
 there is defcribed a burning Phoenix, with a 
 young one arifing out of her Allies, and this 
 Motto, Tralucet Tofihuma Troles : His Tofhu- 
 mous IJJlie jlnnes the brighter. This is defigned 
 for William the Second , who died without 
 llTue, leaving the Princels Royal with Child 
 of His Majelly. 
 
 In the Fourth Space, Gulielmum^ Tofthu. 
 mum, Britannorum , Araujionenftim Tertium , 
 T atria Spem^ Reipublica Talladium: William the 
 Tofihumous^ the Third of Britain and Orange, 
 His Countries Hope, the Talladium of the Common- 
 wealth. His Birth is delcribed upon the Pi- 
 cture, 
 
to 4 Relation of^ William'/ 
 
 fbure^ and three Crowns with a Scepter up- 
 on the Pannel, with this Motto, Temes or- 
 nant Diademate Cuna : Hts tender Cradle adorns 
 the Diadem, 
 
 On that fide towards the inner Court, 
 there are on the Fronts four other Spaces. 
 
 In the Firft Space, there is this Inlcripti- 
 on, Fatum Europe favens de Calo dedit, futu^ 
 ram fortendens^ Map^atem^admodum Tuerumy 
 exemplar conjtituit. A favourable Fate to Eu- 
 rope ga've him from Heaven , and portending 
 future Majefiy^ fet Him for a pattern when he 
 was yet very Toung, Underneath His Edu- 
 cation is defcribed, with a young Eagle 
 Soaring againft the Sun Beams upon the 
 Pannel, with this Motto, Temr adverfis eni~ 
 titur alls : Though Young he bears up againjt it 
 with His Wings. 
 
 In the Second Space , Qui Juventute Stre- 
 uue TranfaBd , Funefiis jaBatd bellis ac di(jidiis 
 in tanto rerum difcrimine : fVho fpent his Touth 
 bravely^ whill^ it "was toffed about by Bloody 
 Wars and Dijcords^ the publick being in fuch 
 dangerous Cir cum fiances. Upon the Pannel 
 there is a Caftle ftanding upon a Hill , with 
 a Pike by it, and two Lawrels Springing out 
 of it, with this Motto , Contorta Triumphos 
 portendit : Vl^hen wreathed together it portends 
 Triumphs. 
 
 In the Third Space , Nutantis Belgii^ qud 
 Man^ qua Terrd^ admotus in Vrifiinum Decus 
 Gubernaculi^ Glortam^ Aras ^ Focos afferuit: 
 
 He 
 
Entertainment at the Hague, a i 
 
 , He being Refiored to His Antient Dignity and 
 Government^ Defended the Religion and FropeV' 
 ties of the tottering Loiv Countries both by Sea 
 Land: On the Pannel there is a Ship row'd 
 by Men in Armour^, with this Motto^ Alter 
 frit Typhu : There jljall be another Typhis. 
 
 In the fourth Space^ Merit is Famam Suj>e^ 
 rantibus Trophaeis^frincipiAtavis Regibus Edit a 
 Felicibfts jnnBits Hymenals : Hfs deferved Tro. 
 pbies out doing even Fame^ He was happily joyn- 
 edin Wedlock to a Vrincefs defcendedfrom an An- 
 tient Race of Kings. The Pidure reprelents 
 Their Majefties Marriage ; and there are 
 alio in the Pannel an Unicorn and a Lyon 
 moving together ; and the Unicorn Goar- 
 ing of Serpents and Vipers, with this Motto, 
 Virufque Fugant^ Virefque Repellunt : They both 
 drive away the Toifon^ and repel the Strength, 
 
 At the top , upon the Pedeftal of the 
 Kings Statue before, there are thefe Words, 
 Fopult Salus : The Peoples Happinefs. And 
 behind , Procerum Deeus : The Honour of (he 
 Nobility. 
 
 Upon the great Cupola there are four 
 diftind Hiftories Painted in four Pannels. 
 
 The Firft has this Motto^ Refert Saturnia 
 Regna : He brings back the Saturnian Reign, 
 
 The Second this^ Novos Orbes, nova Seep- 
 tra faramns : We prepare new Worlds^ and neiv 
 Scepters. 
 
 The Third tliis. Super are & par cere vefirum 
 fP ; It 15 your part to Qom^mr and to Spare, 
 
 The 
 
^ % A Relation of ^. WilliamV 
 
 The Fourth this, Catera Tranjibunt : Other 
 Things jhall pafs away. 
 
 Over the finall Arch on both fides, the 
 J^s^ls of England were placed, with their 
 Supporters : Over the great Arch the Arms 
 pf Holland were placed, with two flying 
 Images of Fame blowing of Trumpets. 
 
 A T)efcript'tQn of the Fire- 
 vporl^^ mth their R^epe- 
 fentations. 
 
 IN the Canal behind the Court, upon a 
 large Scaifold , there were very fine 
 Fireworks prepared , which were Lighted 
 the Evening aiter His Majefty entred tlie 
 Hague. 
 
 In the middle was the Kings Cypher, 
 with a Crown over it : On the fides ltood| . 
 two high Pyramids, a Lyon, a Hercules, 
 and a Sun : On each Corner of the Scaffold 
 there were four Cafes of Rockets , four of 
 which were much larger then the reft, which 
 reprefented the four Kingdoms of England^ 
 Scotland, France and Ireland, with the Arms 
 of thofe Kingdoms : Round about there was 
 
Enterainnient at the Hague, q j 
 
 jPalliflado ftuck with. Rockets, fome Orange 
 colour^ fome white, fome blew, placed al- 
 ternately to the number of Three Huaderd 
 and Fifty. 
 
 They placed Fifteen Bulwarks round the 
 Scaffold , on which they had mounted 
 Cannon and Mortar pieces : Between which 
 they had large Mortars made like Beehives 
 and Pumps, which were charged with leve- 
 ral forts of Fireworks. 
 
 About half an hour after Six in the Even- 
 ning» the Fireworks were Lighted : Juft be- 
 fore Thirty pieces of Cannon that were 
 ^ planted upon the Wall of the Viver were 
 [ difchnrged j then follow'd Twenty five 
 Mortar fhot On both fides of the Scaffold, 
 and afterwards the Crown and Cypher, 
 IVR. which appeared like 3 jo Pearls Ihining 
 in the Air. 
 
 About the PallifTadoes they had planted 
 ieveral Devices : Towards the States Cham- 
 ber was one with thefe Words, Trtumpbat 
 : Jemper Augnfius : He Triumphs always Atfgufi. 
 On each fide of this there was one planted ; 
 One was, Ofenjum metuunt Hopes : His Em^ 
 mies Dread him when he is Offended. The 
 ©tliter, Carnm -venerantur Amici : His Friends 
 JVorjhip Him "who is Jo dear to themi Thefe 
 fhining very bright in the Air-, made a very 
 pleafant ihow. 
 
 Over the Cipher and Crown was a Ship' 
 tofs'd about as in a Storm, with this Motto, 
 
aJ^. A Relation of I^^.WiWhm's 
 
 Ne metuaSy Cafarem 'Vehis : Fear not, thou car^ 
 riefi Oeiar. This alfo was vifible in the 
 Air. 
 
 When the Pyramids were Fired, they 
 gave a lowd buzzing Noile^ which was now 
 and then Anlwered by the Mortars. 
 
 Then the Belgick Lyon, and the Hertuks^ 
 play'd very wonderfully. Hercules\ Arms 
 were Expanded, firing with Eight leveral 
 Paules, to denote his Labours, wkich were. 
 
 1. The EJ^abliJhment ef Religion and Liberty. 
 
 2. The fecuring the Tranquidity of Europe. 
 
 3. The Settlement of the Government upon a right 
 Bottom. 4. The Vrefervation of the Common 
 Interefis of the People, 5". The Prefervation of 
 Unity amongft the Neighbouring Princes, 6. The 
 clearing of the Sea, and the incre^Jing of Trade, 
 
 ''J. .The Advancement of the Glory of this State, 
 8. The concluding of a firm and lafiing Peace. 
 
 While the Fire play'd fb finely, the Air 
 was full of the crackling Noife, and the 
 Buzzes of the feveral forts of Fireworks, and 
 they continued fo very thick, that it did in 
 a good meafure dilpel the Fog , which was 
 then very thick. At times they lighted 
 Water-Balh, Water-Candles, Water-Bullets, 
 Water-Boats, Water-Morters, Rats and Dol- 
 phins in a Veffel upon the Canal, which 
 iputtering and. crackling upon the Water, 
 gave an Entertainment fo great, that leveral 
 Ingenious Men, who underltood thele Mat- 
 ters, owned, that they had never leen any 
 Thing like it. They 
 
Bntertainvtent at the Hague. 2 5 
 
 They kindled aUblbme Hundreds of pitch 
 Barrels let round the Scaffold , which en- 
 crealed the lights whereby the other Works 
 which play'd all the while^ were difcemed 
 the better. It laftcd till about Eight _, and 
 was ended with Twenty five Mortar Ihot j 
 after which the Cannon were feveral times 
 discharged : The whole was done without 
 any Milchance, lave only the lols of one 
 Gunner^ who Iweeping a Cannon, loft both 
 his Hands, and died of his Wounds. When 
 HisMajefty came to Court^ the Militia ftood 
 in order in the outer Court, before the Tri- 
 umphal Arch, ^';^.. Baron Friefem\ Regi- 
 ment of Foot , Baron Heyde*s Regiment of 
 Horfe, who having dilcharged all together, 
 went to the Fiverkrgb to give way to the 
 Train Bands in Arms. Several of tlie -Lords 
 of the States were in the Council Chamber, 
 to Countenance this publick Joy. 
 
 The Count ^e Berka, and the Heer Co- 
 lomma^ the Imperial and SpanifFi Minifters 
 teftified their Satisfaction by Illuminations 
 before their Lodgings : Mijn Heer SchuyUn- 
 hergh did the lame at his own Houle upon 
 the Vl'verbergh with Noble Illuminations, 
 beautified with leveral Devices : As, Regi 
 Ghlielmo Reduci : ' To King William returned 
 again. Tranjiit^ue fir it que : He pajjes by and 
 firikes. Imperat Aiigufiui: Augu ftus Gox'frw. 
 Super at Cxlejtihm aUs: He mount i , ivith 
 Heavenly Iflngs, Geverofus ah Ortu: Nohk 
 
 from 
 
^6 A^etdtidn6fK.Wi\lhm''s 
 
 from his Birth. Theie were to be feen Ibme 
 time after. Others alio gave other inftan- 
 ees of their Satisfaction , every Man after 
 his own Fancy. 
 
 This was alio graced with {6 vaft a refbrt 
 of Peoplej as had never before been ktn at 
 the Hngue : Some coming to lee the Solem- 
 nity^ others to lee the King once more re- 
 turned again^ and Crowned with fb much 
 Honour. 
 
 The King well latisfied with all thele their 
 Demonftratioris of Efteem and Reverence, 
 immediately applied himlelf to Bufinels j 
 having firft given Audiences of Congratula- 
 tion to all the Colleges and Deputies of the 
 Cities^ and to Ibme great Lords and publick 
 Minilters. 
 
 The Elector of Brandenbtirgh , and two 
 Princes of the Houle of y^w/p^^c^;, (who came 
 two days before the publick Entry) were often 
 with the King, and Ibmetimes the Kdinifters 
 of the other Allies joy ned with them : It was 
 faid, That three Ruffians were lent from the 
 French Court to cut off the King, and that 
 there were particular Informations given in 
 of their Perlbns. 
 
 February the 7th in the Afternoon the King 
 went into the AlTembly of the States General^ 
 and took his place as btadtholder and Cap- 
 tain General; and made an Oration to thcm^ 
 to this puipofe. 
 
Entertainment at the Hague. i j 
 
 That when His Majefiy ivas lajt in Council^ 
 he acijuainted their High and Aiightynejjes with 
 His Intention to go ffvcr into England ivith the. 
 Afjljtance which they were pleafed to gi-ve Him, 
 to deliver that Natio?t from their Impending 
 Dangers, and which in fart had befallefi them : 
 And that God Almighty had fo far Blejfed Him^ 
 iis that He had brought His Affair's to a Happier 
 IJjue then atfirjt He could fojjibly JVi^j for j for 
 which Reafon they cjfered Him the Crowns of 
 . Great Britain and Ireland , which He accepted 
 cfy not out of any Ambition , (for He was not 
 to be Corrupted with thatj or Money) but only 
 to prefer've Religion and Liberty in thofe King' 
 doms ; and to be able to give the Allies a vigorous 
 AJJijtance againjt the Power of France, which 
 he had given before in a more particular rlianner^ 
 if the Affairs of Ireland had not diverted Him j 
 v^hich being now better fettled than they were be- 
 fore^ He was now come over^ not only to take 
 fuch Meafures with their High and Mighty 
 Lordjhips^ asjhould be mojt for the advantage of 
 the Confederates^ but alfo to peform the Duty of 
 Captain General % And that from His tender ef^ 
 Tears He had always a High Regard for that 
 State^ a?id jlmdd always be ready to give greater 
 Troofs ^ if it were pvjfble^ how ready He 
 jfliould be to promote their U^dfare , for Which he 
 7Vould joyfully haz,ard His Life, f it might be a 
 means to preferve the Liberty of Europe, and 
 to encreafe the Ftliaty of the United Provinces ; 
 And finally, He Recommended Himfelf to the 
 N good 
 
^§ A Relation of K. VV'iilktn^s 
 
 good IV/jhes of their Higlo and Mighty Lord- 
 jhlp's. 
 
 Hibreupon the Lord Prefident Thanked 
 His Majeily in dieir Lordlhips Name ^ for 
 the Honour which was done unto them by 
 his appearing oriee' more in Perlbn amongit 
 them : And he aiTured hiitt, that they were 
 highly lenlible of thofe Obligations which he 
 had Conferred upon them from time to time^ 
 by engaging in \o great dangers fo readily 
 for tlieir Sakes-: And further^that they fhould 
 always- Thankfully Acknowledge how much 
 He had done for them ; wijhing Him all 
 Happinefs in all tlis Undertakings , promi- 
 sing their Concurrence with Hi? Majeity ta 
 the utmoft , and that they ihould contribute 
 whate\'er they were able, to advartce the 
 common Intcreilj and His Majeflies Satis- 
 laftionv 
 
 He a5:erwards made a Speech to the States 
 of Holland, and Was anfvvered much to the 
 lame purpoie. 
 
 Tlie Evening before the King vifited the 
 Piincels of NaJJ'iw , Lady ta the Hereditary 
 Staduholder of FriezeLwd - as alio the Prin- 
 ceis Rad.:iei'ile , and the Princels of Saxe^ 
 Eyjhach. The next day die King Treated 
 tiie Ele*!-L0r of Brandenhnrgh , the DukC of 
 Nc^rfolk , and feveral other Lords at the 
 Houfe in the Wood, and returned in the 
 Lvening again to the H.igue,- 
 
 The 
 
EnHrtaminent dt the Hague. 2^ 
 
 The Ninth in the Morning the Heer 
 Vridmeyer^ . the rnvoy of the Elector of Ba~ 
 'varia^ had Audience of His Majefty ; he 
 was Conduced from his Lodgings about 
 Ten a Clock, by the Mafter of the Cere- 
 monies, with feme Coaches and Six Horfes, 
 and was received at the Stair-foot by the 
 Swifs Guards placed in Order, and received 
 by their Officer at the end of the Guard 
 Room, and thence condudcd through the 
 Ajiti-Chanlber into the Prefence ; where af. 
 ter he had paid the accouilomed Reverencesj 
 he made a Harangue in French to this 
 purpofe. 
 
 Th;it he Was f'enr by the EleBor bis Mnfter to. 
 Congratulate His M.:ijejlks happy Sucpejj'es , and 
 that his Mafler had begun his Journey as foon as 
 ever he had heard that His Majtfly had begun 
 His J fo that he expeBed him every Hcur^ h be 
 ready upon the [pot to ajjitre His Majejly of hii 
 Readimjs to Jerve the cowrrion Caufej and partis 
 cularJy to fctr.nd thofe Gloricns Undertakings ^ 
 "ivhich His Alajefly had jo happily begun : And 
 for his part , he only farther begg'd j That his 
 Per (on mi^ht not be unacceptable. 
 
 To this the King replied, That he Tloanli^d 
 his Electoral Hitrhnejs, lozt he jlmdd always en^, 
 rkavour to promote the cowrnon Jntcrtjt ; and 
 therefore would jbyh with the Elitlcr^ and that 
 He w.:s Obliged to his Highnefs for this Trouble y 
 and lailly, that his Perfon was very acceptable'* 
 
 N i Thed 
 
3<9 ^ ^lation of I\. VVilliam'i* 
 
 Then the Envoy prelented his Gentlemen 
 to the King, who kilTed his Hand ; and af^ 
 terwards the Envoy was carried back in the 
 fame mamier to his Lodgings as he was 
 broLigb.t up. 
 
 Then the Envoys of Mentz.^ Cologne, 
 Mmifcer and Hambourg^ Iiad their publick 
 AudienceSj after whom came the Elector of 
 Brandenburgh, who had a private Audience 
 of near two Hours. 
 
 The Duke Adminiftrator of Wirtenhergh, 
 with his Brother, who were there tnccgnko^ 
 were admitted without Ceremonies. 
 
 Alfo the Deputies of the Cities and Coun- 
 tries, who were obliged to go home to give 
 an account of their Affairs, had their Aur 
 dience of Cofige of His Majefty : And after-* 
 wards the Pcnfionary, Secretaries, and De- 
 puties of the States of Zealand ^ had their 
 Audiences, and Complemented the King. 
 
 The Count of Erbagh came from Prince 
 JValdeck^ an(^ leveral Foreign Minifters from 
 the Eniperor, the King of Spain ^ the Duke 
 of Savoy had their Audiences. 
 
 The 1 2th in the Evening Count TFmditf- 
 Z.''''itz,, Ambailador Extraordinary from his 
 Imperial Majefty arrived, and had his Au- 
 dience at Ten .1 Clock. 
 
 The 14th at Noon the King wentintothe 
 Council of the States, and after Ibme Affairs 
 were dilpatched, he went with the Lords 
 C^ommiilioners into the Affembly of their 
 I'^J. ' ■■ High 
 
Entertainment at the Hagu e, 51 
 
 High and Mightynefles^ where the State ot 
 the War for the Year 1691. was prelented, 
 which the Deputies were to fend down to 
 their relpeclive Provinces; afterv/ards the 
 King went to Court, and gave Audience 
 to leveral Foreign Minifters and General 
 Officers, and among the rell to General 
 Dehi^'ich. 
 
 The 15'th the King, with the Duke of 
 Norfolk^ the Earls of 'Portland and Dexion- 
 fljircj with feveral other Noblemen , Dined 
 with the EleAor of Brandenburgh : The Ele-- 
 <ftor received the King without, and Con- 
 duded him to the Dining-Room. The 
 King went awa}'- at Four a Clock, and gave 
 Audience afterwards to the Ele<5lor Valatinc's 
 Miniiter. Mr. Berenfdorff came hither alio 
 from die Duke oiZell'^ and Mr. Klenck from 
 die Duke of Hajwiter J to Complement His 
 Majefty in their Mafters Names. . Prince 
 JValdeck came alfb to Court, and had Audi- 
 ence of the King immediately : And Mf. 
 Chamgagne came from the' Eledor of Trez-es. 
 
 The 1 6th the Eleftor o^ Bcrjaria arriv'd, 
 who acquainted the King of his arrival at 
 Ten a Clock, by one of his Gendemen ; 
 he Lodged in his Envoys Houle : Next 
 Morning my Lord Portland , and the Elector 
 of Brandenburgh went to Complement him. 
 The Eledor was met at the Entrance of the 
 Hou(e. About five in the Evening he went 
 privately to the King , and Iraid about an 
 N 3 Hour 
 
3? A Relation of ^W\\\m\v^ 
 
 Hour and half; and the next day the King 
 returned his Vifit. 
 
 The 1 8th in the Evening, the Marquis de 
 Qafianaga^ Governor of the Spamjh Net her" 
 /.'zw^/j- arrived with a very Iplendid Equipage: 
 As fbon as he arriv'd he went to Cpurt^ and 
 was Received with the Honour due to hi> 
 Charader^ the Swifs Guards being placed in 
 Ranksj with their Otircer. polted at the 
 Head of them. He had a particular Au- 
 dience of the King an Hour long , the Ele- 
 iilor of 5^;i;jri^ being by ; the Swifs Guards 
 appeared then in ArmSj it being the firlt 
 time that the Eledor of /^^x'^ri^ had appeared 
 at Court publickl}' : Th.e fame day alio the 
 Eieclor of Brandejibiirgh had his Audience : 
 Next Morning the Marquis de Gafianaga was 
 at the Kings Rifmg, ajid then paid a V ifit to 
 the Eledpr of Bravdcnburgh j the King was 
 that day above two Hours in the Committee 
 of the Council of 5tate, and Dined with the 
 "^{^ctoi: Q^ Brandenbtirgb at my Lord Pcrr/^w^/j-. 
 
 Mr. Arnatildj Pjeacher and Head of the 
 Vaiidois^ who Commcinded them fq bravely 
 agaiiift the Frencn laft Summer , came allp 
 to the Hjg:k , and had an Audience of the 
 King concerning their Affairs. 
 
 The 19th in the Afternoon the Kin^went 
 a Ha\vking x\C2i^' Sorgvlkt ^ vyith the Elector 
 pF Brandtnburgh^ and feveral other Perfbns 
 of great Qualit}' : 'Next Morning he went a 
 Hunting with the Elector of Bavaria, and 
 
Entertainment at the Hague, 5 5 
 
 the Marqilis of Gaftanaga noar Howijlaerdyke^ 
 where they Dined, and came back again in 
 the Evening to tlie H^igus. 
 
 The 20th, the Prince of CotdrLwd , with 
 another Prince of the Houfe of Holjhm ar- 
 rived here. 
 
 The zift , the Landtgrave of Hjfe came 
 hither with his Envoy , and Icvcral other 
 Lords : lie immediately went toCourc, imd 
 (laid Ibme time with the King j and the next 
 day he paid a Vi(it to the Electors oi Bnm- 
 Atnburgh and Bavaria. The Duke of ZaliJ- 
 hach came alio with General Ddutcl , as it's 
 believed, to Complement the King in the 
 Elector PaL: tine's Name. 
 
 The Congreis was now often kept : Cc~ 
 lontm the Spaniih Envoy had a Conference 
 on the 2 5d in die Morning vvidi the Depu- 
 ties of the Stares General, and afterwards 
 4(Jii|:ed in the Congreis 5 wliere was alio riie 
 Count I'Vmdirfgraiz.y die Emperors Picnlpo- 
 tentiar)' ; and the Count d^ Berka , and the 
 Chevalier Cram^richt the odier Imperial Mi- 
 iiiilers were by, Vv^hen he ihow'd his Creden^ 
 tials, and the States alilired him, that he 
 Ihould liave Audience wich the ufual Cere-, 
 monies in two or three da>s. Tlie Coun- 
 cilor A/e^w, who was lent by the Prin:e a'ld 
 Chapter of L;<?^e , allllted alfb in d.c Coi- 
 grels, and the Emperors Miniilcr,with mg t 
 of th- other Miniltcrs waited upon his Ivli- 
 jefty. 
 
 N 4 This 
 
34 A Y^eUtion ofK^.VY^izrci^s 
 
 This extraordinary Concourle has made 
 the Court at the Ha^ut .. io- very Splendid^, 
 that it has out-done any thing elfe in any 
 other Court of Ch'iltendom. Above 50 
 Sovereign Princes vi/ere there , befides Mar- 
 quelTes, Earls, Barons, and Gentlemen with- 
 out Number. The Eledor ofBa'L'aria, and 
 the Marquis de Gifianaga kept publick Tables. 
 
 The 24th, about Ten in the Morning^the 
 Count de IVmditjgratTi, had publick Audience 
 of the King, Conducted by the 'Mafter of 
 the Ceremonies , with all the uftial Solemni- 
 ties: He Congratulated His Majefties happy 
 SucceffeSj and ailiired him that the Emperor 
 his Mailer efteemed himfelf very much ob- 
 liged to His Majefly, for that Care and Con- 
 cern which he mow'd for the common 
 Cauie 5 and he further added, ' that his Ma- 
 iler look'd upon His Britannick Majefty, as 
 the principal moving Caufe upon whom 
 every thing elle depended, that might be for 
 the advantage 6f the Confederacy. 
 - The Elector of Saxonfs Envoy had Audi' 
 ence of the King the iame day. 
 
 The z^-th in the Morning the King, with 
 the Eieftor oi Brandenhurgh^ and the Landt- 
 ^rave of H^Jje , went to the great Church, 
 where they heard a Sermon Preached by 
 Mr. t7//er • Vv/ho tov/ards the latter end, laid 
 feveral moving Things to His Ma jelly. In 
 tlie Afternoon, the Ktn^g, with the Eie<5^orv 
 ef Bavaria ;i.nd Br andenhrgh^ and theEandt- 
 
 igrav^ 
 
Entertainment at the Hague. 5 5 
 
 grave of Htjje, all four in a Coach, took 
 three or four turns round the Voorhout, with 
 the GlalTes down upon the Kings fide;, who 
 was received by the thronging Multitudes 
 with all imaginable Demonltrations of Affe- 
 ction and Joy. 
 
 The 26th, the Count de Frela Doria, En- 
 voy Extraordinary from the Duke of Savoy ; 
 Count d"* Jutel jWkh the fame Charaderfrom 
 the Elector Palatine , had Audience of His 
 Majefty, as had on the 27th the Sieur Hax- 
 kujfen from the Elector of Saxojjy. 
 
 March the 5'th , the Earl of DevonjJiire 
 Treated the Elector of Brandenburgh, the 
 Eandtgrave of Hefje^ the Prince Commercy^ 
 and divers other Perlons of Quality with great 
 Magnificence^ where His Majefty was pleafed 
 to Honour his Lordlhip witii His Prefence. 
 • On the nth the Duke of Zd arrived at 
 the Hague , and the Duke of Wolfembuttcl on 
 the 14th. 
 
 During all this time the CongrefTes had 
 been held almoft every day, with great Se- 
 crecy, His Majefty always Honouring them 
 with His Prefence, when at laft, the matters 
 being fully Concerted, and all Things agreed 
 Upon to the mutual Satisfadion of all the 
 Princes, this great Council broke up, and the 
 Princes returned to their relpedive Homes ^ 
 to put in execution the Dellgns here agreed 
 upon, the good EffeAs whereof we doubt 
 pot biit to leetliisCampagne, notwithlland- 
 
^6 J Relation df Ki. WilliamV 
 
 ing thp unhappy accident of the lols of 
 
 His Majefty having given Orders to all 
 the Troops to be in a readinefs to take , the 
 Fiel4 by thehrft oi Afril^ waspleafedonthe 
 1 6th to depart for Loo , being accompanied 
 with the Duke of ZeU, who Rid in the lame 
 Coach with Him, and lay that Night at the 
 Houle of Monlieur ZulUjiein ^ where he was 
 met by the Eledor of Bavaria, who likewife- ( 
 accompanied His Majefty to JLob^where diey 
 arrived the next Evening, having been Com- 
 plemented OS they paffed along with all De- 
 nionfl'rations of Refpecl and Affedion, by j 
 the City of Utrecht , and the feveral Towns ' 
 lie pals'd through, and accompanied ever\' 
 where with the loud Acclamations of the 
 People, who were aimoft overwhelm'd Vv'itii 
 Joy, at the extraordinary Honour they ic- 
 ceived by the Prelence of this moft iiluitrious 
 Monarch. 
 
 But His Majefty had not been long there 
 before he received the unwelcome Tidings 
 of the Siege oi Mg7u , an Exprels arriving at 
 the Hague on the 1 6th in tlie Evening, that ,- 
 the French Troops had luddenly invelted thQ] i 
 Town of Aions, their Horle having tfikem J 
 Poifeilion of all the Avenues on die i ^th of 
 MuYch^ and that the Foot were marcliingup. 
 with all Diligence. 
 
 The Prince of Steenhuyfen^ and the Mar- 
 quis Bulmar ^ being lent ii'om the Governor 
 
 of 
 
Bntertahment at thelisigue. 57 
 
 of Flanders y arrived at the Hague the 17th, 
 and after a fhort Conference with Prince 
 li^aldcck, went Poil to Loo^ to give His Ma- 
 (cfty an account of the State of the Affair. 
 Wiio being relblved Himielf to Head the 
 Ai-ni}^^ in order to raife the Siege^ returned 
 to the Hague • from whence having difpatched 
 Prince IValdeck with necelTary Orders for 
 Flanders J fet forward Himfeli the 26th for 
 BruJJels • the Army in die mean time pre- 
 paring with all imaginable diligence to Multer 
 at Hally whither His Majefty went on the 
 6th of yipnl^ intending to haye marched the 
 next day at the Head of the Arm)-, which 
 confiftpd of 50006 Foot and 16000 Horle, 
 with a Train of Artillery of 71 pieces of 
 Caimon and 14 Mortars. But the Carriages 
 not being all come up, was obliged to defer 
 His March for two or threedays. 
 
 The French had all this time very vi- 
 gouroufly attacked the Outworks of the 
 Tov/n, but were a3 vigourouHy repulled by 
 the Belieged, to the great lols of die Enemy, 
 who paid dearly for what he gained J inlo- 
 muciijthat it was not doubted,but the Town 
 would have been able to lia\'e held out till the 
 Ariiiy came up to its Relief, but the French 
 King (who was himielf all the while at St. 
 C-Jlai-f!, near the Cauip^, the Dauphin Com- 
 rnanding in Chief) according to his old Me- 
 thods, had foimd means of gaining a Party 
 among the Burghers and Clergy in the 
 ; Town, 
 
^S A Relation ofI(. WilJiamV 
 
 Town, who prevailing upon the reft, by the 
 terrifying Deltriidion the Bombs and Cannon 
 made in their Houles, and perluading them 
 that by a timely Surrender of the Town they 
 might obtain Honourable Conditions, made 
 them balely defert the publick Good, and 
 altogether unexpectedly, even to the French 
 themlelves, on the 8th of^prily beat aParley^ 
 and fent out three Officers , as Hoftages for 
 three French Officers, who immediately en- 
 tred the Town , to Treat upon Articles of 
 Surrender ; the Governor the Prince ile Bergue 
 oppos'd the Surrender, and refus'd to deliver 
 the Gate to the French as riie Burghers had 
 2greed,endeavouring to diffwade them from 
 tliis their Refolurion, alledging he could ftill 
 hold out till riie Relief came j but all would 
 not do,the Burghers were refolved,and riiey 
 being ftronger than the Garifbn, who were 
 all emplo)'ed in theOutworks,the Honourable 
 Governor was forced to fubmit, and about 
 A-lidnight the Capitulation was Signed on 
 both fides ; and the next day ^fr'd the 9th, 
 a Gate of the Town was deliver'd up to the 
 Frencli Guards ; and on the 10th, the Ga- 
 rilbn marched out, being about 4000 Foot 
 and 4ooHo:fe, with Arms, Baggage, Drums 
 beating. Colours flying, fix pieces of Cannon, 
 |:wo Mortars, &c. and were conduced to Tu~ 
 biefe^ a few Miles from -Mo^j towards BruJJ'els. 
 
 The King having received this furprizing 
 News,)uft as he was ready to march to their 
 
 Relief, 
 
Entertainmnt at the Hague. 3 p 
 
 ReliefjWas forced to alter his Meafures ; and 
 imderftanding that the French King had fe- 
 perated liis Troops , and difpos'd 'em into 
 Garifbns ; and that he with the Dauphin^c^c. 
 were return'd to Verf, iUes ^brokQ up the Camp, 
 and having fent Reinforcements to Charkroy^ 
 Aethy Namar, and the other Frontier Gari- 
 Ibns, went to Brujfels ; and from thence to 
 the Hague, where he was pleated to Honour 
 the Duke of Ze/I (who was likewife return'd 
 thither from the Camp) with the Noble Or- 
 der of the Garter, who was invefted with 
 the Garter and George by the King Himfel^ 
 aflifted by the Dukes of Norfolk and Ormond^ 
 and the Earl oiDe'vonjlnre : This was perfbrm'd 
 privately in the Kings Bed-Chamber the 1 8di 
 of April : And the next day. Garter King at 
 Arms prelented to his Highnels the reft of 
 the Enfigns, with the whole Habit and Or- 
 naments of the Order, which his Highnels 
 having Received, was pleafed to make a ve- 
 ry Noble Prefent to the King at Arms, and 
 to all the Retinue he had brought with liim 
 upon this Occafion. 
 
 April the 2 2d, His Majefty having taken 
 leave of the States General, and been Com- 
 plimented by them, with all the ExpreC 
 lions of fincere AfFedion , took Shiping 
 in the JUfaefe in order to his Return for Eng. 
 land, and the Wind being fciir,the next Morn- 
 ing made the Englifh Shore; and that Even- 
 ings vix,. April the 13th, 1691. 0* S. about 
 
 Eight 
 
J^6 A ^eldtiott ofK. Williafti'i 
 
 Eight of the Clock landed AtTVhitehall^h^ving 
 been Saluted by the Fleets as hepalTed along 
 with all their Guns and the repeated Huzza's 
 of the Seamen, who Demonllrated the nioft 
 extraordinary Joy imaginable ; and by die 
 Guns of the Forts of T/ZW^, Grave fend^ and 
 the Tower ; alfo by the Ships that la}' in the 
 River j and the Ja}'ful Acclamarions of the 
 People, who crowded in great Numbers 
 upon the Shore, and in Boats, to fee His 
 Majeft^^and exprefe their Joy tipon liis happy 
 Return, continually Repeating, 
 
 God Save King William and Queen Apiary, 
 
 and Profper their Arms by Sea and Land, 
 
 Thus have we finillied our fhort Journal 
 of His Majefties Voyage into Holland ^^vhcvo- 
 m we have been as particulai' as was conve- 
 nient, and as brief as poflible j we have all 
 along carefully avoided all manner of Re- 
 flexions r.nd Animadverfions of our own , 
 and given only a true Relation of the matter 
 of Fad: as it occur'd j wherein if we have 
 the good Fortune to pleafe the Reader, we 
 have our End. 
 
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