A GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. In which are Described the most Eminent COƲNTREYS, TOWNS, PORTS, SEAS, STREIGHTS, and RIVERS in the whole World. Very Ʋseful for the Ʋnderstanding of all Modern Histories.
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[Page 1]A GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY: In which are Described The most eminent Countries, Towns, Ports, Seas, Straights, and Rivers in the whole World. Very useful for the understanding of all Modern Histories.
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ABbeville the chief Town of the County of Ponthieu in Picardy.
Aberdene, a Town, and Sea Port in the Northern Part of Scotland, famous for a University, and the fishing of Perles and Salmons.
Aberfraw, a Town in the Isle of Anglesey, formerly the Residence of the Kings of North-Wales.
Abernethy, a Town in Scotland on this side [Page 2] the Taye, anciently the seat of the Kings of the Picts.
Abex, a Coast in Abissinia upon the Red Sea.
Abissinia or Abassinia, the greatest Kingdom in all Africa.
Abe, a Town in Finland.
Abruzzo, a Province in the Kingdom of Naples.
Abapulco, a Sea Port in new Spain, where they usually embarque for Peru, and the Phillipine Islands.
Accadie, a Peninsula in New France.
Aere or Ptolemais, a Town and Sea Port in Phenicia, formerly the Residence of the Knights of Malta.
Aden, a Town of great Traffique in Arabia giving name to a Kingdom, of which the Turk having hang'd up the King has possessed himself.
Adour, a River in Gascoigne in France, running to Bayon.
Adria, a Town in the Venetian Signiory, which first gave the name to the Adriatick Sea.
Africa, one of the four parts of the world, lyes Southerly from England.
Agde, a City and Bishoprick in Languedoc in France, lately made a Port.
Agen, a City and Bishoprick in Guienne in France neer the River Garomne.
[Page 3] Agra, a City in the Continent of India, the Residence of the great Mogol.
Agram, a City in Sclavonia, properly belonging to the house of Austria.
Agria or Eger, a very strong Town in Hungary under the subjection of the Turk.
Aiazzo, a Town and Port in the Isle of Corsica.
Aiehstet, a City and Bishoprick of the Empire, situate in the upper Palatinate.
Ainaon, an Island upon the Coast of China, famous for the abundance of Pearls found there.
Aigues Mortes, a Town in the lower Languedoc, neer the mouth of the River Rhone.
Ainza, a Town in Arragon.
Aire, a very strong Town in Artois.
Aire, a City and Bishoprick in Gascony.
Aix, in Provence in France, a City and Arch-bishoprick, and Seat of a Parliament.
Aix, an Imperial City lying neer the low Countries.
Albe, a Town in Montferrat, belonging to the Duke of Savoy.
Albano, formerly Alba Longa, a Town in Italy twelve miles distant from Rome.
Alba Regalis, a City of Hungary, where the Kings formerly were Crowned.
Alberg, a City and Bishoprick in Jutland.
[Page 4] Albret, a Country and Dutchy in Gascony.
Albreton, a Town and Port in Barbary.
Alby, a City in Languedoc, the richest Bishoprick in all France.
Alcali de Henares, a Town and University in the new Castile.
Alcantara, a City of Castile.
Alemaer, a Town in the Northern part of Holland.
Almaigne, see Germany.
Alenson, a City and Dutchy in Normandy.
Aleppo, a Town of great Traffique in Asia, where the Garravannes arrive, and the Rendezvous of the Turkish Armies, in their wars against Persia.
Aletz, a City and Bishoprick in Languedoc.
Alexandretta or Scandero, a Sea Port at the bottom of the Streights.
Alexandria, a City of Egypt, seated on the Mediterranean Sea, a Patriarchal seat, having two Ports, and famous for the Pharos there built, one of the seven wonders of the World.
Alexandria, a City in the Dutchy of Milan.
Algabria, a Province in the South of Portugal.
Algiers, a City and Republique in Africa, upon the confines of Barbary, famous for Pyracies, and the defeat of the Emperour Charls the Fifth's Fleete.
[Page 5] Alicante, a Town and Port in the Kingdom of Valentia in Spain.
Alize, a place in the Dutchy of Burgundy, now ruinous, formerly famous for the siege it endured against Julius Caesar.
Allier, a River in France, it runs to Moulins.
Almeria, a Town and Port in Granada.
Alps, Mountains which divide France and Italy.
Alost, a Town in Flanders.
Alsatia, a Province of Germany.
Altembourg, a Town and Dutchy of the Empire in Misnia.
Amalfi, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples, where was first found out the use of the compass.
Almara, a Town seated on a Mountain in Abissinia, where are kept the Princes of the blood Royal.
Amasia, a Town in Anatolia.
Amberg, the chief Town of the upper Palatinate.
Amboina, an Island in the Indian sea, upon the North from the Molluccos.
Ambois, a Town and Castle in Tourane in France, seated on the banks of the River Loir.
America, one of the four pants of the world, otherwise call'd the West-Indies.
[Page 6] Amiens, a City and Bishoprick, and chief Town of Picardy, one of the most considerable in France, beautified with a very strong Citadel, built there by Henry the IV. after he had taken the Town from the Spaniards in the year 1596.
Ammon, a Town of Bile Dulgend, formerly famous for the Temples and Oracles of Jupiter.
Amsterdam, the chief Town of Holland, a place of the greatest traffique in Europe.
Ana, a Town in Arabia deserta, upon the River Euphrates.
Anatolia, a province in Asia, under the subjection of the Turk.
Anclam, one of the Hans Towns in Pomerania.
Ancona, a Town and Port upon the Adriatick sea, or Gulfe of Venice, under the subjection of the Pope.
Andaluzia, a province in Spain.
Andernac, a Town under the Archbishop of Colen.
Adrianople, a City in Romania, the seat of the Turkish Emperours before Constantinople.
Angiers, the chief Town (and a Bishoprick) of the province of Anjou in France.
Anglesey, an Island upon the Coast of Wales.
[Page 7] Angola, a Kingdom in Africa, upon the South of the Kingdom of Conge.
Angoulesme, a City, Bishoprick, and Dutchy, the chief Town of the Province of Angoulmois.
Angoulmois, a Province in France.
Angra, the chief of the Tercera Islands.
Anian, a streight between America and Asia, takes it name from a Country of new Mexico.
Anjou, a Province in France.
Annecy, a Town of Savoy, formerly the chief of the Country of Geneva, and residence of the Bishop of Geneva.
Antibes, a Town and Port in Provence.
Antioche, a Patriarchy in Asia.
Antivary, a City in Dalmatia, under the subjection of the Turk.
Antwerp, a City in Brabant, under the King of Spain, a place of great traffique, and strengthened with one of the Noblest Citadels of Europe.
Aoust, a City and Dutchy in Piedmont.
Appenines, Mountains which passe from the East to the West of Italy dividing it.
Appenzel, a Town and chief of one of the Cantons of Switzerland.
Apt, a City and Bishoprick in Provence.
Apulia, a Province in the Kingdom of Naples.
[Page 8] Aqui, a Town in Moutferrat, where there are hot Baths.
Aquila, a Town in the Kingdom of Naples in Italy.
Aquilea, a Town in Friuli, under the Venetians, ruinated by Artila King of the Huns, after a three years siege. It was formerly the seat of a Patriarch, whose residence is now at Ʋdino.
Arabia, a country in Asia; there are three countries of them distinguished by the Epithetes of Petrea, the Stony; Deserta, the Desart; and Foelix, the Happy.
Arauques, a people of Chili, the most warlick of all the Americans.
Archipelago, formerly the Aegean sea, between Europe and Asia.
Arbois, a Town in the Franche county, famous for the good Wines it yields.
Ardennes, a Forrest in Luxembourg upon the Frontiers of France.
Ardres, a very strong Town in Picardy.
Aremberg, a county of the Empire, bordering upon the States of Juliers and Colen.
Arguin, a small Island and a Fort upon the Coast of Nigritia, belonging to the Hollanders.
Arhusen, a Town, Port, and Diocess in Jutland.
Ariea, a Port in Peru, where they ship the [Page 9] Silver brought from Petosi.
Arles, a City and Arch-bishoprick in Provence, upon the Rhone, one of the Ancientest Towns of France.
Armagh, a Town and Arch-Bishoprick in Ʋlster in Ireland, whose Archbishop is Primate of all Ireland.
Armagnae, a County in Gascoyne.
Arnehim, a Town in Guelderland.
Arona, a Town in the Dutchy of Milan.
Arques, a small Town in Normandy, Famous for the Victory obtained there by Henry the Fourth, in the year 1589.
Arquico, or Erroco, a Town upon the confines of Abex, belonging to the Turk.
Arragon, formerly a Kingdom, now a Province in Spain.
Arras, the chief Town of Artois.
Artois, a Country between France and Flanders, shared by the Kings of France and Spain.
Aschaffenbourg, a Town in Franconia, the Residence of the Elector of Mentz.
Asia, one of the four Parts of the World
Assisi, a Town in Italy, in the Patrimony of the Church in Ʋmbria.
L'Assumption, a Town in the Country of Plata in America.
Ast, a Town and Country lying between Piedmont, and Montferrat.
[Page 10] Astorga, a Town, and Bishoprick in the Kingdom of Leon in Spain.
Astracan, a Town, and Kingdom, in the greater Tartary, near the mouth of the River Volga, belonging to the Great Duke of Muscovy.
Asturia, Anciently a Kingdom, now a Province in Spain.
Athenes, now Setines, a ruined Town in Greece, anciently the Head of a Noble Commonwealth.
Atlantick, Sea, Part of the Western Ocean.
Atlas, or Claros, a Mountain in Africa, towards the South of Barbary, one of the highest in the World.
Athlone, a Town in the Province of Connaught in Ireland.
Auche, the Metropolitane Town of Gascony, whose Archbishoprick is esteemed to be the richest in France.
Avein, a Town in Luxembourg.
Avesnes, a Town in Hainault.
Auge, a Country in Normandy.
Avigliano, a small Town in Piedmont.
Avignon, a City and Archbishoprick, and chief of the County of Venaissin, upon the Rhone, between Provence and the Principality of Aurange, belonging to the Pope.
Avii, a Town in Portugall.
[Page 11] Aulnis, a Country in Xaingtonge, of which Rochelle is the chief Town.
Auranches, a Town, and Bishoprick in Normandy.
Auray, a Town and Port in Britany.
Aurick, a Town in Friseland, Residence of the Counts of Embden.
Ausbourg, a Town in Swabeland.
Aussone, a Town in Burgundy, upon the River Saone.
Austria, a Country in Germany, the only Arch-Duchy in Europe.
Autun, a very Ancient City and Bishoprick in Burgundy.
Auvergne, a Province in France.
Auxerre, a City and Bishoprick in Burgundy.
Auxois, a small Country in Burgundy.
Axel, a Town in Flanders, whose surprisall was the first Exploit of Count Maurice of Nassau, Captain General of the united Provinces
Azac, or Azoff, a Town seated in the Marishes made by the Lakes called Meotides, between Europe and Asia.
Azin Court, a small town in Artois, where in the year, 1415. the French Army consisting of 80 thousand, and commanded by the Connestable D'Albret, were defeated by King Henry the Fifth of England.
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Babelmandel, an Island, in the Streights, at the entry of the Red Sea.
Bache Serrail, a Town in the lesser Tartary.
Badoiox, a Town in Castillia Nova, upon the confines of Portugal.
Bade, a Town in Switzerland, where the Assembly of the Cantons is held.
Baden, a City and Marquisate in Alsatia, subject to the Emperour.
Bagded, a Town upon the River Tygris in Asia, a place of great Traffick, by reason of the passage from Turky to Persia, a little dayes journey from the Ancient Babylon.
Bagalouq, a Town upon the Frontiere of Bosnia and Dalmatia, under the Dominion of the Turks.
Bahama, an Island, and the most Rapid Channel in all America, being Eastwards from Florida, thorow which the Spanish Fleets pass to the Havana.
Bah [...]rem, an Island in the Gulfe of Persia.
Baieux, a City and Bishoprick in Normandy.
Baio [...]ne, a City and Bishoprick in Gascony, upon the borders of Biscaye.
Balaguier, a town in Catalonia.
[Page 13] Balbastro, a City and Bishoprick in Arragon.
Balsora, a town in Turcomania, in Asia, near the mouth of the River Tigris.
Baltick Sea lies between Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Poland.
Bamberg, a City, and Bishoprick of the Empire.
Bangor, a City and Bishoprick in Wales; famous for the Abbey Anciently founded there, in which twelve hundred Monks lived upon their own Labour.
Bantam, a town in the Isle of Java, the General Mart of almost all the East Indies.
Bapaume, a Town seated upon Rising in Artois, very hard to be besieged, by reason of the scarcity of Water in those parts.
Barca, a town in the Eastern part of Barbary.
Barca, a desart in the Eastern part of Biledulgend.
Barcelona, a City and Bishoprick in Catalonia, the chiefest town of that Province, very rich, Populous, and of great traffick, being seated upon the sea.
Barcelonete, a City and Principality in Piedmont.
Barbary, a country in Africa, lying upon the Mediterranean Sea.
Bar upon Aube, a town in Champaigne in France.
[Page 14] Bar, upon the Seine, a town in Burgundy.
Bari, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples, where the Kings of the two Sicilyes were anciently crowned.
Bar le Duc, the chief town of Artois.
Barletta, a City, and Archbishoprick, and Fortress in Apulia, in the Kingdom of Naples.
Barrois, a Country lying between Lorraine, and Campaigne.
Barnagesso, a Kingdom in Abissinia, which payes annually to the Turk a thousand ounces of Gold.
Barwick, a very strong Town in England, upon the Frontiere of Scotland.
Basil, a City, giving name to a Canton of the Switzers, seated upon the River Rhine, one of the fairest of all that country.
Biscaye, a country bordering upon Gascony.
Bass, a small Island not far from Edenburgh, famous for the great quantity of Geese that frequent it at certain seasons.
Bassigny, a country in Campaigne.
Bastia, the chief town of Corsica, where the Governour resides.
Bastic, a small Town upon the coast of Epirus, where they usually imbargue for Constantinople.
Batavia or Jacatra, a Town in the Isle of [Page 15] Java, belonging to the Hollanders.
Baudissen, a Town in Lusatia, the Residence of the Governour.
Bauge, a small Town in Anjou in France, where Charles the Eighth, then Dolphin, obtained a signal Victory over the English, then commanded by the Duke of Clarence, who was there slain, in the year 1420.
Bavaria, a country, and Duchy in Germany.
Bazas, a City and Bishoprick in Guienne in France.
Bearne, a province of France upon the borders of Navarre, also a Canton of Switzerland joyning to Geneva.
Bearford, a small town in Groenland.
Beaucaire, a Town in Languedoc, upon the banks of the Rhone.
Beausse, a Province in France, of which Orleans is the chief Town.
Beaufort, a Town in Anjou in France, but that that gives a Title to the Ducthy is in Champaigne.
Beaujolois, a small country, comprised under the Lyonnois a province in France.
Beaumaris, a Town in the Isle of Anglesey.
Beaune, a Town in Burgundy, famous for the excellent Wines it yields.
Beauvais, a City, Bishoprick, and Peerdom [Page 16] of France, within the Government of the Isle of France.
Beja, a Town in Portugal.
Belac, a Town in Marche, a smal Province comprised under that of Poictou in France.
Belgrade, the chief City of Servia seated upon the Danube.
Bellegarde, a strong Town in Burgundy, upon the River Saone.
Belley, a City, and Bishoprick in Bressia, near the Franch county.
Bellinzone, a small Province in Switzerland, under the protection and jurisdiction of the three principal Cantons.
Belle-Isle, an Island upon the coast of Britany in France.
Benavarri, a Town in Arragon in Spain.
Benevent, a City, Archbishoprick, and Dutchy in the Kingdom of Naples, under the subjection of the Pope.
Bengala, a Kingdom and Gulfe in the East Indies.
Benin, a Town and Kingdome in Guine.
Benthem, a City and County under the Dominion of the Emperour in Westphalia.
Bergamo, a City not far from the Alps, under the Dominion of the State of Venice.
Bergerac, a Town in Perigort in France. Bergen, a Town in Norway.
[Page 17] Bergen op zon, a strong town in Brabant, subject to the States of Holland.
Berlin, the chief city of Brandenburg, and Residence of the Elector.
Bern [...]des, an Island towards the East of Virginia, subject to the King of England.
Berne, a protestant city and Canton of the Switzers, bordering upon the Lake of Geneva, the most powerful of them all; also a country in the Kingdom of Navarre.
Berri, a Province in France.
Bertogade, an Imperial Town in Bavaria.
Bervalde, a town in Brandenbourge, where the Treaty was between the French and Swedes, in the year 1631.
Besancon, an Imperial city, and Archbishoprick in the Franch county.
Besarabie, a country which makes up part of Moldavia; subject to the Turk.
Bethune, a town in Artois.
Beziers, a city and Bishoprick in Languedoc in France.
Bidache, a small Soveraignty, in the lower Navarre.
Bielsk, the chief town of Polaquia.
Bienne, or Biel, a town in Switzerland leagued with the cantons.
Bigorre, a town in Gascony.
Bilbao, the chief town of Biscaye, famous [Page 18] for the Excellency of its corn, beyond all the rest of Spain.
Biledulgerid, or Numidia, a country in Africa.
Biledulgerid, a particular Town of that country.
Biminis, a small Island Eastward of Florida.
Biolizero, a Fortress seated in a Lake in Muscovy, where the Great Duke keeps his Treasures.
Bir, a Town upon the River Euphrates, the usual place of Imbarguing for Bagdet.
Biscaye, a Province of Spain.
New Biscaye, a Province of new Spain.
Bitche, a County in Lorraine, upon the Frontiers of Germany.
Black sea, anciently the Euxine sea, lyes between Asia and Europe above Constantinople.
Blaye, a Town and Fortresse upon the River Garomne in Guienne.
Bletterans, a Town in the Franche county.
Bloys, a town and county with a Royal castle seated upon the Loire.
Bohemia, a Kingdom near Germany, now possessed by the Emperour.
Bois belle or Enrichmont, a small soveraignty in Berry in France.
Bologne, Sur Mer, or upon the sea, a City and Bishoprick in Picardy in France.
[Page 19] Bolognia la grassa, so called by reason of the fatness of the soyl, a City, Archbishoprick and famous ancient University in Italy, the second town in the Popes Dominions.
Bommel, an Island beautifyed with a fair town, in the Dutchy of Guelderland.
Boni, a Town upon the Loyr, between Neverrs and Orleans, and ancient residence of the Knights of St. Lazarus, an order now abolish'd in France, and incorporated with that of St. Maurice in Savoy.
Bonificaio, a Town and Port in the Isle of Corsica.
Bonne, a Town upon the River of Rhine, alittle above Colen, the Residence of that Elector.
Borcholme, a Fortresse in the Isle of Oeland near Gotia.
Boriquen, one of the greatest Islands upon the coast of America.
Boristhenes, a River in Scythia.
Bormio, a town and county in Switzerland, belonging to the Grisons.
Borneo, an Island in Asia, with a town of the same name.
Bosledue, a strong town in Brabant, subject to the States of Holland.
Bosnia, a Province of Europe, under the subjection of the Turk, it was anciently a Kingdom.
[Page 20] Bothnia, a Province in Swedeland.
Bovines, a town in the county of Namur, made famous by the bloody field which Philip, sirnamed August, King of France, won of Ferdinand, Earle of Flanders, who was there taken prisoner.
Bourbon L' ancy, a town in Burgundy.
Bourbon L' Archam bault, a city in the Province of Bourbon in France, famous for the Baths, and the title which the Royal house of France thence assume.
Bourbonnois, the name of that Province in France.
Bourdeaux, a city and Archbishoprick, the chief town of Guienne, and seat of a Parliament, famous for the great traffique there used for Wines.
Bourg in Bressia, the chief Town of that province.
Bourg Sur Mer, or upon the sea, a town of Guienne, built upon the banks of the River Dordogne.
Bourges, a city and Archbishoprick, the chief town of Berry, and seated in the very center of France.
Bourgogne or Burgundy, a Province of France.
Bozolo, a principality belonging to the Duke of Mantoua.
Brabant, a Dutchy, and one of the 17. provinces of the Netherlands.
[Page 21] Bracciano, a city and Dutchy within the Popes Dominions, of whom it is now held by the Antient family of Ursini in Italy.
Braga, a city in Portugal, whose Archbishop pretends to the primacy of all Spain.
Braganza, a city and Dutchy in Portugal, the title of King John the fourth, before he was proclaimed King.
Brandenbourgh, a county, city, and Electorate in Germany.
Breda, a city and barony belonging to the prince of Orange, seated in Brabant.
Bregens, a town and county in Tirol.
Bremen, one of the Hans towns in the lower Saxony, the Archbishoprick of Bremen was raised to a Dutchy, and by the peace concluded at Munster in the year 1648. given up to the crown of Sweden.
Bremgarten, a Baylywick in Switzerlnnd, and belongs to the eight antientest Cantons.
Bresil, a country of a vast extent, in the Eastern parts of the Southern America, and possessed by the Portugals and Hollanders.
Breslaw, the chief town of Silesia, and one of the fairest of all Germany.
Bressia, a town lying under the Alps, belonging to the State of Venice.
Bressia, a province of France between Lyons and Geneva.
[Page 22] Brest, a town and famous port in the extremest Westerne part of the lower Britany.
Britain, Great Britain, the greatest Island of Europe, comprising England and Scotland; also a province of France, divided into the higher and lower Britany.
Brian con, a Town in Dauphine in France, conceived to be one of the highest in the World.
Briare, a town upon the Loyre within the Dutchy of Orleans, where the channel is cut for the communication of the Loyr and the River Seine.
Brie, a country in Champaigne in France.
Briege, a town in Silesia.
Bregnol, a town in Provence, whence come our best prunellaes.
Brilinton, a small town in York shire where the Queen landing at her return from Holland was barbarously treated by four of the parliaments ships, who for a long space played with their canon on the town, especially on that house in which her Majesty was shelterd,
Brille, a famous town and port in Holland.
Brindisi, formerly Brundusium, a city, Archbishoprick, and famous port within the Kingdom of Naples.
Brinne, a town in Moravia.
Brisack, a city in Brisgau a country of Alsatia, [Page 23] and one of the strongest of all Germany; it was yielded up by the house of Austria to the crown of France, in the year 1648.
Brisack, a town and Dutchy in Anjou in France.
Bristol, a city of great traffique, situate both in Somersetshire and Glostershire, but is a free county of it self, not far from the borders of Southwales.
Brives, a town in Limosin a province of France.
Brixen, a city and bishoprick in the county of Tirol, under the Emperour of Germany.
Brouage, one of the fairest and strongest forts in France, in Xaintonge not far from Bourdeaux.
Bruges, a city in Flanders, the fairest and best built of any in that province, famous also for the beauty of its female Inhabitants.
Brunswick, a town in Germany, one of the four principle Hans towns, also a country and Dutchy in Germany.
Bruxelles, a city in Brabant, the Residence of the prince or Governour of the Low Countries under the King of Spain.
Buda, the chief town of the Kingdom of Hungary, the residence of a Bashawe.
Budu veis, a town in Bohemia.
Buenos Aytes, a town upon the River Plata in the West-Indies, whither the King of Spain [Page 24] was perswaded to bring his Silver from Potosi, but found it not convenient, by reason of the vicinity of the Portugalls in Bresil.
Buckingham, a Town and county, with the title of Dutchy, now born by the Noble Family of the Villiers.
Bulgaria, a province of Europe, under the subjection of the Turk.
Burgau, a Marquisate in Swabeland, belonging to the house of Austria.
Burgos, a city and Archbishoprick in the old Castille.
Bursa, a city of Anatolia, the seat of the first Emperours of the Turks, and one of the fairest of all Turky, little Inferiour to Constantinople.
Butrinto, a place upon the confines of Epirus, belonging to the Venetians.
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Cab [...] d'Istria, a Town in Istria, in the Venetian Territories.
Cabul, a City and Kingdom upon the continent of India, belonging to the Mogull.
Cachieu, or Serra Leona, a Town in Guinee belonging to the Portugalls.
Caen, a City and University in Normandy.
Caffa, a Town in the Peninsula of the lesser [Page 25] Tartary, belonging to the Turk.
Caffreria, a country in Africa.
Cagliari, the chief City, and an Archbishoprick in Sardinia.
Cahors, the chief City, and a Bishoprick in Quercy in France.
Cairo, the Chief City of Aegypt, and second of the Turkish Empire, near to which are built the Pyramides, one of the seven wonders of the World.
Cairoan, a Town in Barbary, in the Kingdome of Tunis, formerly the Residence of a Mahometan Calife.
Calabria, a Province in the Kingdom of Naples.
Calais, a Town in Picardy, opposite to Dover, formerly in the possessions of the Kings of England, but surprised by the French in the Raign of Queen Mary. Its Situation gives it the reputation of one of the Keyes of France▪ and its gallant Fortifications and great Traffick gain it a place among the best Towns of that Kingdom.
Calatajub, a town in Arragon.
Calatrava, a City in Castilla Nova.
Calcedon, a City in Anatolia, famous for the General Councill held there.
Calicut, a Town in a Peninsula made by the River Indus, on this side the River Ganges, belonging to the Portugalls.
[Page 26] California, an Island near to new Mexico.
Caliz or Cadiz, an Island and City upon the Coasts of Andalusia, with a famous Port, the usual Rendezvous of the King of Spains Armadoes, where also his West-Indian Fleets do still come in; a place of that consequence, that Charles the Fifth recommended the preservation of it to his Son, as one of the Keyes of his Dominions, the other two being Gouletta in Barbary, and Flushing in Zealand.
Callo, a Fort in Flanders, where the States Army received a sharp check in the year 1638.
Calmar, a Town in Gothland, strongly fortified, by reason it is upon the Frontiers of Denmark; it hath also a Port upon the Baltick Sea.
Cambaja, a City and Kingdom in India.
Cambalu, a Town of Tartary, and chief of the Province of Cathaye.
Camboja, a Kingdom, and Town of the same name in India.
Cambra, a City and Archbishoprick of the Empire, seated between France and the low Countries, strengthened with two brave Cittadels.
Cambridge, one of the two most famous Universities in the World.
Camin, a City, and Bishoprick of the Empire, in Pomerania.
Canada, or new France, a large Country in the Northern part of America.
[Page 27] Canaries, Islands belonging to the King of Spain.
Canaria, a Town in these Islands, famous for the excellency of its wine.
Candahar, a Kingdom and City of the same name, upon the East of Persia, belonging to the Mogull.
Candea, a Town in the Isle of Ceilan in Asia.
Candie, an Island and Kingdom in the Mediterranean Sea, under the subjection of the Venetians, and for these many years the seat of war between them and the Turks. It was anciently called Crete.
Candia, the chief City, and an Archbishoprick of that Kingdom.
Canea, a Town in the Isle of Candy, taken by the Turks in the year 1645.
Canterbury, a City in Kent, the seat of the Archbishop and Metropolitane of all England.
Canton, the richest Town, and of the most Traffick in all China.
Capoua, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Caprarola, a small Town in the Ecclesiastick State, but made famous by one of the most Noble Palaces of all Italy, belonging to the Duke of Parma.
Capria, an Island near Naples.
[Page 28] Cap verde, an Island upon the West of America.
Caramit, a Town of Diarbuh a province of Turky in Asia.
Carcassone, a city and Bishoprick in Languedoc in France.
Cardiff, a Town in Southwales.
Cardona, a city and Dutchy in Catalonia, famous for its Mountain of Salt.
Caribes, a people in Guiana in America, who eat those Enemies whom they take in battle.
Carignan, a principality and city of the same name in Piedmont.
Carinthia, a province of Germany.
Carlisle, a strong Town in Cumberland, upon the borders of Scotland.
Carlinforde, a Town and port in the province of Ulster in Ireland.
Carmagnole, a fortress in the Marquisate of Salusses in Piedmont.
Carmarden, a country and Town of the same name in Wales.
Carniole, a province in Germany.
Carpentras, a City and Bishoprick in the County of Avignon in France, but belonging to the Pope.
Carpy, a city and principality belonging to the Duke of Modena.
Carrikke, a province in Scotland.
[Page 29] Carthage, a ruined place near Tunis in Barbary.
Cartagena, a city in Murcia, the best port of all Spain.
Cartagena, a Town in Castile d' oro, advantaged with a fair port, which renders it the most considerable of America.
Casal, the chief city of Montferrat, belonging to the Duke of Mantoua, and which being under the protection of France, and fortified with a gallant Cittadell, has proved many times the ball of discord between the Kings of France and Spain.
Casbin, a city in Persia.
Cascar, a Kingdom, and city of the same name in Turquestan in Tartary.
Cashell, a city, and Archbishoprick in Munster in Ireland.
Caspian Sea, de Sala, or de Bachue, a Sea in forme of a Lake in Asia.
Cassell, the chief city of Hessen.
Cassovia, a city in the higher Hungary belonging to the house of Austria.
Castel-Arrogonese, a strong Town in the Isle of Sardignia.
Castelnau Darry, a Town in Languedoc, near to which was defeated and taken the Duke of Montmorency in 1632. who was not long after beheaded at Tholouse.
Castille, a Kingdom in Spain; there are two [Page 30] of these Castilles, the old, and the new.
Castille d'oro, a country in America.
Castillon de Stivere, a small Soveraignty, and Marquisate belonging to the Duke of Mantuxa.
Castillon, a Town in Perigord in France, near which were defeated the English, and their General slain upon the place, in the year 1451. by which victory Charles the seventh recovered the province of Guienne.
Castres, a City and Bishoprick in Languedoc in France.
Castro, a Dutchy, and Town of the same name, in the Ecclesiastick State, but belonging to the Duke of Parma.
Catalognia, a province, and principality in Spain, upon the Mediterranean Sea.
Cathaye, a country in Tartary in Asia.
Cavilon, a City and Bishoprick in the County of Avignon.
Caudebec, a Town in Normandy.
Caux, a country in Normandy.
Cauamalca, a small place in Peru where Atabalippa the last King of that country was defeated and taken by the Spaniards.
Cazan, a Kingdom and Town of the same name in Tartary belonging to the great Duke of Moscovy.
Cephalonia, an Island, and Town of the same name upon the West of Greece, belonging to the Venetians.
[Page 31] Ceilan, an Island in Asia.
Ceneda, a Town under the subjection of the Venetians.
Cerigo, an Island near the Morea, belonging to the Venetians.
Cerisoles, a small Town in Piedmont, famous for the Victory obtained by the French under the conduct of the Duke d'Enquieu, over the Marquess Du Guast 1544.
Ceve, a town and Marquisate in Piedmont.
Cevenes, a country upon the Mountains of Languedoe in France.
Ceuta, a town of Barbary, upon the streights of Gibraltar belonging to the King of Portugal.
Chaalons Sur Marne, a City, Bishoprick, and county in Champagne, Famous for the Victory obtained by the French, Romans, and Goths, over Attila King of the Huns, in the year 453.
Chagra, a River upon the confines of the two Americaes, where pass the Merchandises bound for Panama, and Peru.
Challo [...], a City and Bishoprick in Burgundy.
Chamb, a town and county in the upper palatinate.
Chambery, the chief town of Savoye.
Champagne, a province of France.
Champ Arrien, a small town near Bourdeaux where Charle Maigne Defeated the Gothes.
[Page 32] Charante, a River in France, running to Angoulesme, and Seintes.
La Charite, a town in the Dutchy of Nevers in France.
Charlemont, a town strongly seated in the county of Namur, one of the seventeen provinces of the low countries.
Charle ville, a town upon the Meuse, in the North part of Champagne.
Charolles, the chief town of the county of Charrolloi in Burgundy.
Chartres, a town in B [...]ausse in France, an ancient Residence of the Druides,
Chasteau-Dun, the chief town of a little country called Dunois, near unto Beausse.
Chasteau Regnaud, a little Soveraingty upon the Meuse in Champagne.
Chasteau-Roux, a town in Berry.
Chasteau Thierry, a town within the Government of the Isle of France.
Chastelleraud, a town upon the River Vienne in Poictou in France.
Cher, a River in France, which discharges itself into the Loyre a little below Tours.
Cherbourg, a town upon the coast of Normandy.
Chesne povilleux, a town in Champagne, where the inhabitants claim a priviledge to assist at the coronation of the Kings of France, and to convey the holy Ampoulle or oyle [Page 33] (pretended to be brought by an Angel at the consecration of the first Christian King of that Kingdom) from St. Remy to our Ladies Church in Rheimes.
Chester, the chief town of the county palatine of Cheshire where we usually embarque for Dublin, and the parts adjacent, in Ireland.
Chiavene, a town and county in Switzerland.
Chier, a town in Piedmont, where the French obtained a signal victory over the Spaniards in the year 1639.
Chili, a country in America.
China, the most considerable kingdom of all Asia.
Chinon, a town in Tourrain in France.
Chio, an Island, where there is also a town of the same name, the most pleasant & fertile of any Island in the Archipelago, famous for the Mastick & Malvoisy wines which it yields.
Chiorlick, a town of Romania, near to which was defeated Selim by his Father Bajazet Emperour of the Turks.
Cilley, a town upon the East of Carniola.
Ciotat, a town and port in Provence in France.
Cirenza, a city and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Circassia, a county in Georgia, where the Mamalukes had their original.
[Page 34] Citta di castello, the chief town of a small province, within the Ecclesiastick state.
Ciudad del Rey Philippo, a colony of Spaniards planted in Magellanica at the mouth of the Streights of Magellan, but dissipated by famine.
Civita de chieti, a city and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Clermont in auvergne, a bishoprick and chief city of that province in France.
Cleves, a country and Dutchy in Germany upon the Rhine.
Clissa, a Fortresse in Dalmatia, taken by the Venetians in 1648.
Cobtentz, a city of the Archbishoprick of Triers, where the Rhine and the Moselle meet.
Cobourg, a city and Dutchy of the Empire, in Franconia.
Cochim, a Kingdom with a Town of the same name in India.
Cochin china, a Kingdom in India bordering upon China.
Coeverden, in Overissel, the most regular fortification in Europe.
Cogoreto, a town upon the coast of Genoa, the country of Christ. Columbus.
Coimbra, a town in Portugal; famous for its University.
Coire, the chieftown of the Grisons.
Colberg, a very well fortified town upon the Baltick sea.
[Page 35] Colchester, a town in Essex, where the Royallists made a brave resistance against the Parliamentarians under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, but being at length (vanquished by necessity) forced to yield, Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were harquebusiered after the Rendition of the town.
Colleoure, a strong town in the county of Ronssillon, taken from the Spaniards by the French in 1648.
Colmar, an Imperial Town in the upper Alsatia.
Colocza, a city and Archbishoprick in Hungary.
Colen, an Imperial town upon the Rhine, the Archbishop of that place is one of the Electors of the Empire, and keeps his residence at Bonne.
Como, a town in the Dutchy of Milan, gives name to a great Lake not far from it.
Cominges, a country in Gascony.
Compiegne, a town in the Isle of France.
Compostella or St. Jago, the chief town of Galicia, famous for the pilgrimages thither made to the Reliques of that Saint who gives name to the chiefest order of Knights in Spain.
Concarneau, a strong town and port in Britany in France.
Condom, a city and Bishoprick in Guienne.
[Page 36] Congo, a Kingdom in Africa.
Coni, a town in Piedmont very advantageously seated.
Connaught, a province in the West of Ireland.
Conserans, a country in Gascony.
Constance, a Town in Swabeland, gives name to a Lake not far from it.
Constantine, a City and chief of a Kingdome in Barbary.
Constantinople, a City in Romania, seated the most pleasantly of any in the World, anciently the Residence of the Eastern Emperours, now of the Grand Signior of the Turkes.
Constantinow, a place in Padolia in Poland, near to which were the Polish forces roughly handled by the Revolted Cosackes in 1648.
Conza, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Copenhagen, a City in the Isle of Zealand, chief of the Kingdom of Denmark, and usuall Residence of its Kings.
Corbeil, a town upon the Sein within the Government of the Isle of France.
Corbie, a Town in Picardy upon the Some, taken by the Spaniards, and retaken by the French in 1636.
Cordova, a City in Andalusia, chief of a Kingdome, during the Raign of the Moores [Page 37] in Spain, but much more considerable under the Romanes.
Corena, a Town in Barbary, in the country of Barca.
Corfou, an Island, City and Archbishoprick in the Venetian Territories, lying on the West of Greece, accomodated with a good port, and strengthened with two Castles, whose Scituation renders them almost Impregnable.
Cori, one of the chiefest Towns in Georgia.
Corinth, a Town seated in an Isthmus in that part of Greece, now called Morea, formerly more famous then now adayes.
Cornewall, a County in the South-West part of England, famous for the abundance and excellency of the tinne it yields.
Corregio, a Town and principality in the country of Modena, Subject to the Duke of that country.
Coromandel, a place upon the coast of the River Indus.
Corsica, an Island in the Mediterranean Sea, upon the South of Italy, belonging to the Republick of Genoa.
Coruna, a town and port in Gallicea, one of the best of all Spain.
Cosaques, Auxiliary Souldiers entertained by the King of Poland, and kept upon his [Page 38] frontiers to oppose the Incursions of the Tartars.
Cofenza, a city and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Cosmopolis, a Town in the Isle of Elbe in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to the Duke of Florence, accomodated with a fair and well fortified port.
Cossir, a Town in Aegypt upon the Red Sea.
Cotbus, a Town in Lusatia, belonging to the Electors of Brandenbourg.
Courtray, a Town in Flanders upon the Lys, famous in the late wars, but more in the year 1302. by the defeat of the French, who there lost the greatest part of the Nobility of France, besides the connestable, the King of Majorque, the Count of Artois, and many other great persons there slain.
Coutances, a city and Bishoprick in the Lower Normandy.
Coutras, a town in Guienne, famous for a battle fought there in the year 1587.
Cranganor, a city and Archbishoprick in the Peninsula made by the River Indus, belonging to the Portugalls.
Creci, a place in Picardy famous for the bloody Victory which the English there got over the French, who there lost the King of Bohemia, the brother of King Philip of Valois, the Duke of Lorraine, the Countes [Page 39] of Blois, Flanders and St. Pol, in the year 1346.
Crema, a town in the Venetian territories.
Cremona, a city within the Dutchy of Millain.
Crevant, a town in Burgundy, where in the year 1423. the Connestable Stuart lost a memorable battle, fought against the English and the Burgundians.
Crim, a town in Tartary the lesser.
Croatia, a province in Europe divided between the Turk and the house of Austria.
Croia, a town in Albany, the Country of Scanderbeg, the scourge of the Ottoman Empire.
Cromarty, a Sea port in Scotland.
Crossen, a town and Dutchy in Silesia, belonging to the Electors of Brandenbourg.
Cuba, an Island upon the coast of America, and one of the most considerable in those parts.
Cujavie, a province of Poland.
Cullembach, a principality of the Empire in Franconia.
Culm, a town in Prussia, and chief of a little country there.
Curlande, a province between Poland and Swedeland, governed by a Duke of their own under the protection of Poland.
Cuscou, a town in Peru, the ancient Residence [Page 40] of their Kings, whom the Inhabitants call Incas.
Custrim, a very strong town in Brandenbourg.
Czirnicz, a town in Carniola, where there is also a Lake, where the retreat and reflux of the waters affords the pastime either of hunting or fishing.
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Dalmatia, a province of Europe lying upon the Gulph of Venice, anciently a Kingdom, but now subject to many Masters.
Damas, the chief town of Phenicia, residence of a Bashaw, famous for its good grapes, excellent blades, and other Damasco works.
Dambea, a town in Abyssinia.
Damietta, a town in Aegypt, upon the Sea, formerly conquered by St. Lewis King of France.
Damvillers, a strong town in Luxembourg.
Danemark, a Kingdom in the North part of Europe.
Dantzick, a town in Prussia, one of the principall of the hans towns.
Danube, the most Eminent River of Europe, rises in Swabeland, and falls into the black Sea.
[Page 41] Darby, a Shire and Town of the same name, about the middle of England.
Dardanelles, castles upon a streight in the Hellespont.
Davis, a streight towards China.
Dax, a City and Bishoprick in Gascony, famous for its Baths.
Dead sea, in Judea in Asia.
Decan, a Kingdom in the East Indies.
Delf, a Town in Holland, where William Prince of Orange was assasinated.
Delli, a Kingdom, and City of the same name, sometimes the Residence of the great Mogull.
Denia, a Port Town in the Kingdom of Valentia.
Derbent, a Town in Georgia, seated upon the Caspian sea, and belonging to the Turk.
Dessau, a Town in the upper Saxony, residence of the Prince of Anhalt.
Deventer, the chief Town of Over-Issel.
Diarbecb, a Province of Turkie in Asia.
Die, a City and Bishoprick in Dauphine.
Dieppe, a Port Town in Normandy, opposite to Rye in Sussex.
Digue, a City and Bishoprick in Provence.
Dijon, the chief Town of Burgundy, and seat of a Parliament.
Dinan, a Town within the Bishoprick of Liege, which boasts of 17 Sieges it hath withstood.
[Page 42] Dingle, a Port Town in Ulster in Ireland.
Dinkespiel, an Imperial Town in Swabeland.
Diu, a Fortress of the Portugals, in a little Island, near the mouth of the River Indus.
Dol, a City and Bishoprick in Britanny in France.
Dole, the chief Town in the Franche County.
Dombes, a Principality in Bressia in France, belonging to Madamoiselle the eldest daughter of the late Duke of Orleans.
Donavert, an Imperial Town in Swabeland, a great pass upon the Danube.
Donquerque, a strong Town and Port in Flanders, having several time been under the subjection of the French and Spanish, is now in the possession of the King of England.
Donzi, a Town of the Dutchy of Nevers in France.
Dorchester, the chief Town of Dorsetshire, in the South part of England.
Dordogne, a River in France, which falls into the Garomne five leagues below Bordeaux.
Dordrecht, a Town in Holland, famous for the National Synod held there in the year 1619.
Douay, a Town in Flanders, where the [Page 43] English of the Romish Church have a Colledge.
Douglas, a Castle in the County of Cliddesdale in Scotland.
Doullens, a Town in Picardy.
Douro, a River in Spain, rising in old Castille.
Doutling, a Town in Swabeland, where the French Army had a harsh entertainment in the year 1643.
Dover, a famous Port and Castle in the County of Kent, where King Charles the second upon his happy restoration to his just Rights first landed.
Dresde, the chief Town of Misnia, and residence of the Elector of Saxony.
Dreux, a Town within the Government of the Isle of France, famous for a great battle fought there in the year 1562.
Drogedah, a Sea Port in Ulster in Ireland, where Cromwell most barbarously murthered the Garrison in cold blood after quarter given.
Dront [...]em, a chief Town of Norway.
Dublin, a Port, City, Arch-Bishoprick and University in Ireland, the chief Town of that Kingdom, and usual residence of the Lord Lieutenant.
Dungarvan, a Port Town in Munster in Ireland.
[Page 44] Dunghall, a County and Castle of the same name in Munster in Ireland.
Dunkelden, an ancient Town in Scotland.
Dun le Roy, a Town in Berry in France.
Dunstafag, a Town in the West part of Scotland, anciently the residence of the Scottish Kings.
Durance, a very rapid River in Provence, which infesteth the Countrey with frequent inundations.
Durazzo, a Port Town in Albani in Greece.
Durham, a City, Bishoprick, and County Palatine in the North of England, where was fought a memorable battle between the English and the Scots in the year 1346.
Durlach, a Town and Marquisate of the Empire in Alsatia.
Dusseldorp, the chief Town of the Dutchy of Bergh upon the Rhine.
Dwelande, an Island in Zealand, famous for the passage of the Spaniards through the Sea in the year 1575.
Dwina, a Town of great traffique in the North part of Moscovy, in a Province, and upon a River of the same name.
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ECclofiastique State, the Popes Dominions, lying in several Countreys in Italy.
Ecija, a Town in Andalusia.
Edinbourgh, the chief Town of Scotland.
Egra, a Town and Seigniory in Bohemia, where in the year 1634. Wallestein Duke of Freidland, and Generalissimo of the Imperial forces, was assassinated.
Egypt, a Countrey of Africa, lying upon the Red Sea.
Elbe, a River of Germany, which rises in Bohemia, also an Island in the Mediterranean Sea, on the coast of Tuscany, belonging to the Duke of Florence.
Elbing, a Hans Town in Prussia.
Elnbogen, a Town and Seigniory in Bohemia.
Elsenore, a Town in the Isle of Zeland in Denmark, whose Castle commands the Sound.
Elsimbourg, a Town in Schoneland in Denmark, upon the Sound.
Elvas, a Town in Portugal, famous for the excellency of its Oyls.
Embden, a Town and County of the Empire in Westphalia.
Embrun, a City and Archbishoprick in Dauphiné in France.
[Page 46] England, a Kingdom in the West part of great Britain, New England, a Countrey in Canada.
Ems, a Town in Austria, upon a River of the same name.
Ensistheim, the chief Town of the higher Alsatia.
Epirus, a Province, anciently a Kingdom in Greece.
Erfort, the chief Town of Turingia in Germany.
Ervansarat, the chief Town of Bosnia.
Escaut, a River in the low Countreys, rising in Picardy.
Escuriall, a Royal Castle near Madrid, built by King Philip the second of Spain, in form of a Grid-iron, in memory of the battle of St. Quentins; this structure cost him twenty Millions of Gold.
Eslingen, an Imperial Town in Swabeland.
Estampes, a Town and Dutchy in Beausse in France.
Este, a Town in the Venetian Dominions, from whence the family of the Dukes of Modena have their name.
Estella, a Town in the Kingdom of Navarre; it is also called Merinda.
Esthonia, a Province & Dutchy in Livonia.
Estotilande, a Countrey in the North part of America.
[Page 47] Estrac, a County in Gascony.
Estramadura, a Country in Castille, and Portugal.
Etna, a Mountain in Scicily, famous for the flames it oftentimes breaths forth at the top of it.
Euphrates, a River in Turkie in Asia.
Evora, a City and Arch-bishoprick in Portugal.
Eureux, a City and Bishoprick in Normandy.
Europe, one of the four parts of the world.
Exceter, the chief Town of the County of Devonshire in the South-West of England.
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FAience, a Town in Provence, famous for the white earthen ware there made.
Falaize, a Town in Normandy, the Countrey of William the Conquerour.
Famagousto, a Port Town in the Isle of Cyprus.
Faso, a Town in Georgia.
Fer, The most Western Island of the Canaries, famous for a most miraculous Tree growing there, which supply the Inhabitants with as much water as they have need of.
[Page 48] Ferden, an Imperial City and Bishoprick, now a Dutchy, given up to the Crown of Sweden by the treaty of Munster 1648.
La Fere, a strong Town in Picardy.
Fermo, a City and Arch-bishoprick in the Ecclesiastique state, in Marcha Anconitana.
Ferrara, a Dutchy and City of the same name near the River Po, now subject to the Pope, anciently governed by a Duke of its own.
Fez, a Kingdom and City of the same name, with an University, in Barbary.
Final, a Town and Marquisate upon the coast of Genoa, under the subjection of the King of Spain.
Fino terra, The most Western Cape in Europe in Gallicia.
Finland, a Province of Sweden.
Finmarque, the most Northern part of Norway.
Fiumo, a Town in Dalmatia near unto Italy, belonging to the house of Austria.
Flanders, the most noble County of Christendom, and one of the 17 Provinces, subject to the King of Spain.
La Fleche, a Town in Anjou, famous for the Colledge of Jesuits, which by the donation of Henry the fourth, have nested themselves in one of the Royall Palaces.
Flensbourg, a Port town in Jutland, where the [Page 49] assembly of Estates of Denmark is usually held.
Flushing, a very strong port town in Zealand.
Florence, the fairest city of Italy in Tuscany, an Archbishoprick and residence of the Great Duke.
Florida, a Countrey in America.
Fogie, a town in Anatolia, upon the Archipellago, where the Venetians obtained a memorable naval victory over the Turks in 1649.
Foligui, a town in the Ecclesiastique State in Umbria.
Fountain bleau, the fairest of the King of France his houses, within the Government of the Isle of France.
Fontarabie, a strong fortress in Biscay, where the French received a defeat in 1638.
Fontenay le Comte, the chief town of the lower Poictou.
Forden, a strong town in Scotland.
Forez, a Province in France near Lyonnois.
Fournoue, a town in the Dutchy of Parma, where King Charles the eighth of France obtained a signal victory over the Princes of Italy 1494.
France, a brave Kingdom of Europe, whose King carries the title of the most Christian.
Isle of France, a province in which Paris stands.
[Page 50] Franckfort upon the Maine, an Imperial town in Franconia, famous for the fairs, and the Election of the Emperours.
Frankfort upon the Oder, a town in Brandenbourg.
Franch Comte, a province within the Kingdom of France, but subject to the King of Spain.
Franconia, a province in Germany.
Frankendale, a strong town in the lower Palatinate.
Frieberg, a town in Misnia, the burial place of the Electors of Saxony.
Freiuis, a city, Bishoprick and port in Provence.
Fribourg, a town in Alsatia, and chief of the province of Brisgaw.
Fribourg, a Canton and Town of the same name in Switzerland.
Friuli, a province in the Venetian Territories.
Friseland, one of the seven united provinces.
Friseland, a countrey in the North Sea, taken for a part of Groenland.
Fromigni, a Village in the lower Normandy, where the English were defeated by the French in 1450.
Frontignan, a small town in Languedoc, famous for the excellence of its Wines.
[Page 51] Fulde, a Town and Abby in Hesse, whose Abbot is a Prince of the Empire, and first Abbot of Germany.
Funchal, the chief town of the Isle Madera.
Fures, the chief town of the province of Forez.
Furnes, a town in Flanders, where Philip the Fair of France gained a memorable victory over Guy Count of Flanders, who lost there 16000 of his men.
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GAietta, one of the strongest Towns in the Kingdom of Naples.
Gallicia, a province in Spain.
New Gallicia, a province in New Spain.
Gallipoli, a town in Romania, upon a streight of the same name, otherwise called the Dardanelles, St. George his arms, and the Hellespont.
Galloway, a port town in Connaught in Ireland.
Gand, the chief town in Flanders, formerly so populous that it could raise an Army of 80 thousand men.
Ganges, a River in India, which divideth it into two parts.
[Page 52] Gapi, a City and Bishoprick in Dauphine.
Garomne, one of the four principal Rivers of France, it rises in the Pyrennean Hills, and falls into the Ocean below Bourdeaux.
Garnzy, an Island upon the coast of Normandy, subject to the King of England.
Gascogny, a province in France.
Gostinois, a small countrey near Beausse in France.
Gaure, a small countrey in Gascogny.
Gemblours, a town in Brabant, where the Confederates of the low Countreys were defeated by the Spaniards in 1578.
Genoa, a Republique and famous City of the same name in Italy, governed by an Elective triennial Prince.
Geneva, a considerable Town and Commonwealth, seated upon a Lake of the same name, leagued with the Switzers; the first seed-plot and nursery of Presbytery.
Gennep, a town in the Dutchy of Cleves, taken by the Hollanders 1641.
Georgia, a countrey in Asia.
Germany, a countrey in the North part of Europe, it hath the title of an Empire, and comprehendeth many great provinces and principalities.
Gex, a town and Bayliwick in France, between Bressia and Switzerland.
Gibraltar, a town and famous streight between [Page 53] Europe and Africa, at the entry of the Mediterrancan Sea.
Girone, a town in Catalonia, formerly the apportion of the eldest Son of the Kings of Arragon.
Gisors, a Town in Normandy, in the County of Vexein.
Givaudan, a countrey in the Cevenes in Languedoc in France.
Glandeve, a City and Bishoprick in Provence.
Glantz, a Canton and Town of the same name in Switzerland.
Glascowe, a City and Arch-bishoprick in Scotland.
Glatz, a town and county appendant to Bohemia.
Gloucester, a shire, with a town and county of the same name, famous for the combat between Edmond Ironside and Canutus King of the Danes.
Glukstad, a fortress in Holsatia, upon the Elbe, subject to the King of Denmark.
Gnesne, a City and Bishoprick, the Primacy of all Poland, whose Archbishop executes the Regal Office in the Interregnum or Vacancy of the King.
Goa, a City and Archbishoprick in the East Indies, the Residence of the Vice Roy of Portugal.
[Page 54] Goi [...]me, a Kingdom and town of the same name in Abissinia, where is supposed to be the source of the River Nilus.
Goritz, a county and town of the same name, belonging to the house of Austria.
Gorlitz, the chief town of Lusatia.
Gothbourg, a port town in Gothland.
Gothland, antiently a Kingdom of it self, now subject to the King of Sweden.
Gothland, an Isle in the Baltique Sea, belonging to the King of Sweden.
Gottingue, a Town and Dutchy in the countrey of Brunswike.
Gouletta, a fortress at the entry of the port of Tunis.
Grace, a City and Bishoprick in Provence.
Gradisque, a town in the county of Goritz, belonging to the house of Austria.
Gran, or Stiggonia, a City and Archbishoprick in Hungary upon the Danube, now under the Turk; the Archbishop of that place is perpetual Chancellour of that Kingdom, and hath the honour to Crown the King after he is Elected.
Granoon, a town in Switzerland, where Charles Duke of Burgundy with an Army of 50000 men was defeated by 5000 Switzers, who came too late to the relief of the Town, in the year 1476.
Granville, a port town in Normandy.
[Page 55] Graveline, a Town in Flanders, one of the strongest of all Europe.
Greece, a countrey of Europe, now subject to the Turk.
Greez, the chief town of Stiria.
Grenada, a Kingdom in Spain, very considerable in the time of the Moors Dominion there.
Grenada, a town in the same Kingdom, one of the biggest of all Spain.
New Grenada, a Kingdom in Castille d'Oro in America.
Grenolle, a City and Bishoprick in Dauphine, and seat of a Parliament.
Grisons, a people bordering upon, and leagued with the Switzers.
Gripswalde, a Town and University in Pomerania.
Grol, a town in the county of Zutphen in the Low Countries.
Groeneland, a great countrey towards the Arctique Pole, it is an Island or Peninsula.
Gronengue, a Town and Seigniory, one of the united provinces.
Glogaw, a town in Silesia upon the Oder.
Gruiers, a town in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Grunninguen, a town in Saxony in the principality of Halberstat.
Guadalaiara, a town and province in New Spain.
[Page 56] Guadaloupe, one of the Islands called the Azores, of which there are many upon the coast of America.
Guadalquivir, one of the greatest Rivers in Spain, it runs to Sevill.
Fuadarfuj, the most Eastern Cape of Africa.
Guadiana, a River in Spain, which its said, runs under ground.
Guanahani, one of the Azores, the first that was discovered by Columbus.
Guastella, a town and principality under the Duke of Mantoua.
Guatimala, a province and town of the same name in New Spain.
Gueguere, an Island in Aethiopia, in the River Nilus.
Guelderland, a Dutchy, and one of the seventeen provinces, divided between the King of Spain and the Hollanders.
Gueret, the chief town of Marche, a province in France.
Guiana, a countrey in the South part of America.
Guienne, a province in the West part of France.
Guinée, a countrey in Africa.
New Guinée, a countrey lying East of the East Indies.
Guinegat, a small town in Artois, famous [Page 57] for a defeat the French there received in the year 1478.
Guise, a town and Dutchy in Picardy in France, strengthened with a brave Castle.
Gustrou, a town in Mechlenbourg, and residence of the Duke of Mechlenbourg.
H.
HAbsbourg, a ruined Castle in Switzerland, it hath the title of an Earldom, and was the first possession of the house of Austria.
Hadersluven, a port town in Jutland.
Harlem, a town in Holland, famous for the first Invention of Printing.
Hag, a town and county of the Empire in Bavaria.
Hague, the fairest, best built and most pleasant village of Europe, the residence of the Prince of Aurange, and the Councel of the united provinces.
Haguenau, an Imperial town, and chief of the lower Alsatia.
Hailbron, an Imperial town in Swabeland, upon the Nekar.
Hainaut, one of the seventeen provinces, under the subjection of the King of Spain.
Halberstat, a city, Bishoprick and principality of the Empire in Saxony, now belonging to the Elector of Brandenbourg.
[Page 58] Halderstein, a small Seigniory in Switzerland, near to Coire.
Hall, an Imperial town in Swabeland; there are many other places of the same name in Germany.
Ham, a Hans town in the county of Mark in Westphalia.
Hambourg, a Hans town of great traffique upon the Elbe in the lower Saxony.
Hamiltown, a Castle in the South part of Scotland, the possession of one of the principal families of that Kingdom.
Hanau, a town and county in Veteravia, a countrey of Germany, which makes up part of Hesse.
Hartford, a town in a Shire of the same name in the Eastern part of England.
Hastings, one of the cinque ports in the county of Sussex, famous for the victory obtained there by William the Conquerour.
Havana, an eminent port town in the Isle of Cuba, the Rendezvous of the Spanish Fleets
Havre de Grace, or New Haven, a very strong port at the mouth of the River Seine in Normandy, fortified with a most impregnable Cittadel.
Hebrides, Islands to the number of 300. upon the coast of Scotland.
Hecla, a mountain in Isleland, famous for the fires it sends out.
[Page 59] Heiterskeim, a Castle in Brisgow in Alsatia, the residence of the grand Prior of the Order of Malta.
Henday, a town of France, in the county of Biscay, famous for the exchange of two Queens, Anne of Austria, married to the French King, and Isabella of Bourbon, married to the King of Spain.
Henneberg, a county of the Empire in Franconia.
Herac, a town in Arabia deserta.
Hermanstad, the chief town of Transilvania.
Harmanstein, a fortress near the Rhine, in the Archbishoprick of Triers.
Hesdin, a strong Town in Artois.
Hesse, a countrey of Germany, the Soveraign of it is known by the title of Landgrave.
Hieres, a town in Provence, which gives name to the neighbouring Islands.
Hispaniola, an Island, one of the chiefest upon the coast of America.
Hoentwiel, a Fortress in Swabeland in Germany, belonging to the Duke of Wirtemberg, seated upon a Rock, and hath bravely withstood seven or eight Sieges against the Imperialists.
Hola, a small town in Island.
[Page 60] Holac, or Hoenloe, a county in Franconia, whose chiefest town is Veikersheim.
Holland, the most considerable of the seven united provinces.
Holdenby, a Castle belonging to the Crown, in Northamptonshire, where King Charles the first was first kept a prisoner by the Parliamentarians.
Holsatia, a province between Germany and Denmark.
Honduras, a province and Gulph in New Spain.
Honnecour, a small town upon the Frontiers of Picardy, where the French received a notable defeat in the year 1642.
Hudson, a streight in a Sea in the North of America, otherwise called Christian.
Hulst, a town in Flanders, taken by the Hollanders, in 1645.
Hungary, a Kingdom upon the North-East of Germany, divided between the house of Austria, and the Turk.
Hutons, a people of Canada.
J
JAcca, a city and Bishoprick in Arragon, strengthened with a fair cittadell.
Jaon, a town, formerly a Kingdom in Andalusia in Spain.
[Page 61] Jamaica, an Island upon the coast of America, now subject to the Crown of England, the pittiful return of many thousands lavished by Cromwell in his expedition for Hispaniola.
Jametz, a strong place in Lorraine, yielded to the King of France in the year 1632.
Jamsuquiam, a River in China, otherwise called Nanquim.
Janewits, a town in Bohemia, where in the year 1645 the Swedes gained a great battle over the Imperialists.
Japan, an Island in Asia.
Jarnac, a town in Angoulmois in France, famous for a great battle fought there, in the year 1569.
Jaroslaw, a town and Dutchy, the apportion of the eldest son of the great Duke of Moscovy.
Jarzy, an Island upon the coast of Normandy, but subject to the Crown of England, and with its neighbour Island of Garnzey, under the Bishoprick of Winchester.
Java, an Island of Asia.
Javarin, or Raab, a Fortress in Hungary, belonging to the house of Austria.
Jaycza, the chief Town of Bosnia.
Jegerndorf, a Town and Dutchy in Silesia.
Jemmingen, a small town in Westphalia, famous for the defeat of the Confederates of [Page 62] the Low Countries, under the command of Lewis of Nassau, by the Spaniards, under the conduct of the Duke d'Alva.
Jerusalem, a town in the Holy Land in Asia, the Theatre upon which were acted the chief Mysteries of our Salvation.
Indus, a River in the East Indies, giving name to that great countrey, in Asia.
Indies, West, the same with America.
Ingolstat, a town upon the Danube in Bavaria.
Ingria, a province in the Kingdom of Sweden.
Inspruck, the chief town of Tyroll, and seat of a Parliament.
Joinville, a town and principality in Champagne in France.
Jordan, a River in the Holy Land in Asia, it falls into the dead sea.
Joux, a Fortress in the Franch county, taken by the French 1639.
Ipre, a town in Flanders, where Cornelius Jansenius was Bishop.
Ireland, an Island in the Western Ocean, formerly a Kingdom of it self, but long since conquered by the English, to whose King it is still subject.
Iroqu [...]is, a people of Canada.
Ischia, an Island and Fortress not far from Napl [...].
[Page 63] Isembourg, a county of the Empire in Veteravia, in Germany.
Isere, a very rapid River in Dauphine, falls into the Rhone, not far from Valence in the same province.
Island, an Island belonging to the King of Denmark.
Isenach, a Town and Dutchy of the Empire in Turingia.
Ispahan, the chief town of Persia, and residence of the Sophy.
Issoudun, a town in Berry in France.
Istria, a province in Italy, upon the Gulph of Venice, and subject to that State.
Jucatan, a peninsula in New Spain.
Juliers, a Town and Dutchy of the Empire, in Germany, not far from the Low Countries.
Ivree, a Town and Marquisate in Piedmont, belonging to the Duke of Savoy.
Ivry, a Town in Normandy, famous for a memorable victory there gotten by Henry the fourth of France, in 1590.
Jutland, a peninsula in Denmark.
K
KAmenieck, the chief town of Podolia in Poland.
Kanisa, a town in Hungary, the residence of a Turkish Bashaw.
[Page 64] Kempen, a town in the Archbishoprick of Colen.
Kendall, a town in Westmorland in the North of England, which gives a title to the eldest son of the Duke of Espernon in France, who is called Duke of Candalle.
Kildare, a town in a county of the same name in Lemster in Ireland.
Kilkenny, a town in a county of the same name in Lemster in Ireland.
Kimpercorentin, a City and Bishoprick in the lower Britanny in France.
Kingstown, the chief town of the Kings County in Lemster in Ireland.
Kingsail, a port town in Munster in Ireland.
Kiow, the chief town of Volhinia, upon the Boristhenes a River in Scythia, very strongly sortified, by reason of the vicinity of the Tartars.
Knock feergus, a port town in Ʋlster in Ireland.
Kolding, a town in Jutland, where there is an Imposition of a Rix-dollar upon every head of great Cattle that passes there.
Komorre, a Fortress upon the Danube in Hungary, belonging to the house of Austria.
Konigsberg, the chief town of Prussia Ducall, belonging to the Duke of Brandenbourg.
Krempe, a very strong town in Holsatia.
L.
LAdoga, a town and lake in Moscovy, upon the frontier of Sweden, the greatest in Europe.
Laguibraj, a town in Normandy, famous for the Fairs held there.
Lahor, a town in a Kingdom of the same name in India, belonging to the great Mogol, where the Caravannes pass.
Laiazzo, a town in Anatolia upon the frontiers of Souria, where Bajazet the second Emperour of the Turks was defeated by the Soldan of Egypt.
Lancaster, the first town of the county Palatine in Lancaster, and a Dutchy title of one of the younger sons of the King of England.
Lanciano, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Landes, a county in Gascogny.
Landrecy, a strong town in Hainault.
Landsberg, a town in Brandenbourg.
Langres, a City and Bishoprick of Champagne in Bassigni, whose Bishop is Duke and Peer of France.
Languedoc, a province of France upon the Mediterranean Sea, and bordering upon Catalognia.
[Page 66] Lantriguet, or Triquier, a City, Bishoprick and Port Town in Britany in France.
Laon, a City and Bishoprick, the chief of a small countrey in Picardy, the Bishop is a Duke and Peer of France.
Laponia, or Lapland, a province, part of which is subject to the King of Sweden, the other part to the great Duke of Muscovy.
Laredo, a port town in Biscaye, where in the year 1539 the Archbishop of Bourdeaux defeated the Spanish Fleet.
Larmiro, a port town in Thessaly in Greece.
Larta, a town in Epirus.
Lavaur, a City and Bishoprick in Languedoc in France.
Laubach, the chief town in Carniole.
Lave munde, a town in Corinthia.
Lauraguais, a countrey in Languedoc.
Lausanne, a City and Bishoprick in Switzerland, the Bishop resides at Fribourg.
Lawenbourg, a Town and Dutchy of the Empire in the lower Saxony.
Lawingen, a town in Swabeland upon the Danube, the countrey of Albertus Magnus.
Le [...]oa, a town in the Kingdom of Naples, reputed the second best of that Kingdom.
Leicester, a town in a Shire of the same name about the middle of England.
Leipsick, a town in Misnia, famous for three memorable battles in 1631, 1632, and [Page 67] 1642. all to the advantage of the Swede.
Leith, a small town not far from Edinbourg in Scotland.
Leitour, a City and Bishoprick in Gascogny.
Lemster, a province in the East part of Ireland.
Leon, a Kingdom in Spain, also the chief town of that Kingdom, where many of the Kings of Spain are interred.
Leondule, or St. Pol de Leon, a City and Bishoprick in Britany in France.
Leopolis, see Lewemberg.
Lepanto, a town in Greece, where the Christians obtained a memorable victory over the Turks, in 1571.
Lerida, a town in Catalognia.
Lescar, a City and Bishoprick in Bearne.
Lespece, a Town and Gulph upon the coast of Genoa.
Leucatc, a Fortress in Languedoc.
Leuchtemberg, a Landgraviate in the upper Palatinate.
Leutmaritz, a town in Bohemia.
Levin, a valley in the Valtoline, where the Duke of Roban General of the French defeated the Army of the Imperialists, 1635.
Lewarden, the chief town of West Friseland.
Lewemberg, a Soveraignty in Pomerania, subject to the Crown of Poland.
[Page 68] Lewemberg, or Leopolis, and L [...]uvou, a City and Arch-bishoprick in Black Russia.
Leuvin, a Lake and Castle in the South part of Scotland, once the prison of that famous Princess, Mary Queen of Scotland, and Dowager of France.
Leyden, a town in Holland, famous for its University, and that memorable srege of the Spaniards it withstood in the year 1574. the besiegers there receiving a total rout.
Libourne, a town in Guienne in France.
Liesse, a small town in Laonnois, a countrey in Picardy, famous for the Devotions there paid to our Lady.
Ligorne, or Livorne, a brave new port and town in Tuscany.
Lisle, a town of great traffique in Flanders.
Lillo, a Fortress below Antwerp, belonging to the States of Holland.
Lima, or Los Reyes, an Archbishoprick and chief town of Peru, the residence of the Vice Roy of Spain.
Limaigne, a rich valley in Auvergne, a province in France.
Limbourg, a Town and Dutchy, one of the 17 provinces, subject to the King of Spain.
Limerick, a town in a county of the same name in Munster in Ireland.
Limoges, the chief town of Limosin, a province in France.
[Page 69] Lincolne, the chief town of a county of the same name in England, upon the German sea.
Lindau, an Imperial town of Swabeland, upon the lake of Constans.
Lingen, a strong town in Westphalia.
Lin [...]ithgo, a town and county in Scotland, West of Edinbourgh.
Lints, a town in the upper Austria.
Lipars, Islands in the Mediterranean sea, upon the North of Sicily.
Lire, a town in Brabant.
Lisbone, the chief town of the Kingdom of Portugal, one of the fairest, richest and most populous town of Europe.
Lisieux, a City and Bishoprick in Normandy.
Lithuania, a Province and Dutchy in Poland.
Liverdune, a town in the Dutchy of Lorraine.
Livonia, or Leifland, a province in Poland, subject to the Crown of Sweden.
Locarne, a Town and Bayliwick in Italy, belonging to the Switzers.
Loches, a town in Tourraine, a province in France.
Locomoriens, a people of Tartary.
Lodere, a City and Bishoprick in Languedoc in France.
[Page 70] Logan, a Town and Bayliwick in Italy, belonging to the Switzers.
Loire, one of the principal Rivers of France, it rises in the Gevennes in Languedoc, and falls into the Western Ocean below Nantes in Britany.
Lombardy, a countrey in Italy, upon the Po.
Lombez, a City and Bishoprick in Gascogny.
London, the chief Town of England, seated upon the River Thames, one of the fairest and richest of the world.
Lopia, a countrey of Tartary.
Loretto, a town in the Ecclesiastique State, upon the Adriatique Sea, famous for the Devotions and Pilgrimages there made to our Lady.
Lorraine, a Dutchy, Soveraign in Europe.
Los Isleos, a Government in Bresill.
Los Reyes, see Lima.
Los Santos, a Fortress in Bresill.
Lot, a River in Cahors in France.
Loudun, a town in Poictou, gives name to a little countrey in that province.
Louvaine, a town in Brabant, with an eminent University.
Low Countries, the seventeen provinces of Belgia or lower Germany; there is also another countrey in Canada which bears the same name.
[Page 71] Lubeck, an Imperial Hans town, in lower Saxony.
Lublin, a town in the higher Poland, the seat of a Parliament in summer.
Lugon, a City and Bishoprick in Poictou, the first preferment of Cardinal Richlieu.
Luequa, a Town and Republique in Tuscany in Italy, lyes between Genoa and Florence.
Lunden, a City and Bishoprick in Sconeland, the Metropolis of Denmark.
Lunebourg, a Hans town, and Soveraign Dutchy of the same name in Saxony.
Lure, an Abbey and Soveraignty in the Franche county.
Lusatia, a province in Germany.
Lusignan, a town in Poictou in France, from whence is issued a family some of whose branches have been Kings of Cyprus and Jerusalem; famous also for the noble Castle of Melusine.
Lutzeilstein, a County in Lorraine.
Lutzen, a town in Misnia in Germany, famous for the last victory and death of the King of Sweden, in 1632.
Luvou, see Lewembourg.
Luxembourg, a Dutchy and one of the 17 provinces of the low Countreys.
Luxembourg, the chief town of that Dutchy; also the name of one of the noblest Palaces of Europe in Paris, built by Queen Mary de Medicis, the wife of Henry the Great of France.
[Page 72] Lyege, a town upon the Meuse, chief of a Bishoprick of the same name.
Lygeois, a Bishoprick and Principality bordering upon the low Countreys.
Lyons, an antient City, standing upon the Rhone, and the Soane, one of the fairest, richest, and of greatest traffique of France, the Archbishop of Lyons stiles himself Metropolitan of France.
Lyonnois, a province of which Lyons is the chiefest City.
M.
MAcao, a town in an Island of the same name upon the North part of China, subject to the Portugals.
Madagascar, vid. St. Laurenslis.
Madera, an Island upon the West of Barbary, lying in the Western Ocean, belonging to the King of Portugal.
Madrid, a town in Castillia nova, the chief town in Spain, and residence of the King.
Magdebourg, a Hans town in Saxony, often sacked by the Imperialists, against whom it withstood a memorable siege for the space of fifteen mon [...]ths, in the year 1545. one half of the Town is free; the other half is subject to the Elector of Brandenbourg, who was put into the possession of it by the peace concluded in the year 1648.
[Page 73] Magellan, a famous streight upon the South of America.
Magellanica, a countrey in the Southern part of America.
Mahamorra, a Fortress upon the coast of the Kingdom of Fez, belonging to the King of Portugal.
Maienne, a town in the Dutchy of Maine.
Maine, a province in France.
Maillezais, a City and Bishoprick in Poictou in France.
Maina, a small Republique in the Morea.
Majorque, a town in an Island of the same name upon the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean sea, antiently a Kingdom.
Malabar, a countrey in the East Indies, on this side the River Ganges.
Malaca, a town in a Peninsula made by the River Indus; it is now in the possession of the Hollanders, who took it from the Portugals.
Malaga, a port town in the Kingdom of Granado, famous for the Wines it sends forth.
Maldives, an Island in Asia.
Male, the chief town of that Island.
Malespine, a Marquisate, and Soveraignty in Tuscany in Italy.
Malines, a Town and Soveraignty in Brabant, one of the 17 Provinces, belonging to the King of Spain, and seat of the chief Parliament, of all the Catholique part of the low Countreys.
[Page 74] Malleguetta, a countrey upon the coast of Guinée.
Malta, an Island in the Mediterranean sea, between Sicily and Africa, whose Knights are a considerable Bulwark of Christendom.
Malvoisia, a town in the Morea, famous for the Wines it yields.
Man, an Island lying in the Irish sea, between Lancashire and Ireland.
Manar, a small Island upon the coast of Ceilan, an Island of Asia, famous for the abundance and excellency of the Pearls there taken; The Portugals have a Fortress there.
Manfredonia, a City and Arch-bishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples, it lyes upon the Gulph of Venice.
Manheim, a Fortress in the lower Palatinate, where the Rhine and the Neckar meet, it is now dismantled.
Manilha, a City and Archbishoprick, the chief of the Philippine Islands.
Manoa-el dorado, a town in Guiana.
Le Mans, the chief town of the Dutchy of Maine.
Mansfeld, a Town and County of the Empire, in the upper Saxony.
Mant, a town in the Government of the Isle of France.
Mantouan, a Countrey and Dutchy in Italy.
[Page 75] Mantoua, the chief town of that Dutchy, and residence of the Duke.
Maranhox, or Miari, a River, and Government in Bresill.
Marche, a province of France.
Margaias, a people of Bresill.
Margareta, an Island upon the coast of Castille d'Oro, famous for the Pearls which come thence.
Mariembourg, a strong town in Hainault.
Marignan, a town in the Dutchy of Milan in Italy.
Marmora, a sea between Asia and Europe, formerly called the Propontis, between the Hellespont and Constantinople.
Marne, a River in Champagne in France.
Marocco, a town in a Kingdom of the same name in Africa, upon the West of Barbary.
Marpurg, a town in Hessen, a province of Germany.
Marquenterre, a countrey in Picardy.
Marsalquivir, a port town in the Kingdom of Algiers, possessed by the King of Spain.
Marsan, a countrey in Gascogny in France.
Marseilles, a City and Bishoprick in Provence upon the Mediterranean Sea, the most antient town of all France, accommodated with as secure a port as any in the world besides; the antient inhabitants have expressed their dexterity and courage in opposing two [Page 76] of the greatest Emperours of the world, Julius Caesar, and Charles the fifth.
Martegues, a port town in Provence.
Mascon, a City and Bishoprick in Burgundy.
Mase, see Meuse.
Massa, a town in a Soveraign principality of the same name in Italy, between Tuscany and Genoa, famous for its Marble Quarries.
Masseran, a principality in Piedmont.
Mastrich, a town in Lyegois upon the River Mase, subject to the States of Holland.
Matapan, the most Southern Cape of Europe, in the Morea.
Matera, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Mauleon, a town in Biscaye.
Mazagan, a Fortress of the King of Portugal, upon the coast of Marocco.
Mazara, a town in Sicily.
Mazzo, a small town in the Valteline, where the French, under the conduct of the Duke of Roban gained a memorable battle against the Imperialists, in the year 1635.
Meaco, the chief town of Japan.
Meaux, the chief City and Bishoprick of Brie in France.
Mecqua, a town in Arabia, where Mahomet was born.
Medellino, a town in Castille nova.
Medina, a town in Arabia, where Mahom [...]ts Tombe is.
[Page 77] Mediterranean Sea, lyes in the midst of our Continent, between Europe, Africa, and a part of Asia.
Medoc, a countrey in Guienne in France.
Mechelbourg, a Countrey and Dutchy of the Empire, in Germany.
Meliapor, or St. Tomaso, or St. Thomas, a town in the Peninsula made by the River Indus, on this side Ganges.
Meldola, a Marquisate and Soveraignty in the Ecclesiastique State.
Mellila, a town in Barbary, subject to the King of Spain.
Melinda, a Kingdom and Town in it, in Zanguebar in Africa.
Melun, a town in the Isle of France.
Mentz, a free town upon the Rhine in Germany, which gives name to an Electoral Archbishoprick.
Mende, a City and Bishoprick in the countrey of Givaudan in the Cevenes.
Meotides, Lakes and Marishes between Europe and Asia.
Mergetheim, a town in Franconia.
Merida, a town in Castille nova, antiently so populous that it could raise an Army of 80000 foot, and 10000 horse.
Mersbourg, a City and Bishoprick in Misnia.
Messina, a City and Archbishoprick in Sicily, the bravest port in the whole Island.
[Page 78] Metelene, a town in an Island of the same name in the Archipellago, upon the coast of Asia, under the Turk.
Metz, a City and Bishoprick in Lorraine, now subject to the French Crown, and seat of a Parliament.
Meulan, a Town and fortress upon the Seine, in the Government of the Isle of France.
Meurs, a town in a country of the same name in Germany, bordering upon the Rhine.
Meuse, or Mase, a River running through Lorraine, Champagne, and the low Countreys.
Mexico, an Archbishoprick, and chief town of New Spain, residence of a Vice Roy, and famous for its silver, which is esteemed to be the best in the world.
Mexico, or New Spain, a countrey in America.
New Mexico, a countrey of great extent in the West part of America.
Mezieres, a town in Champagne, strengthened with a brave Cittadel.
Micona, a small Island in the Archipellago, belonging to the Venetians.
Middlebourg, the chief town in the Island of Zealand.
Middlebourg, a town in Flanders, under the subjection of the States of Holland.
Milan, the greatest and fairest town in Italy.
[Page 79] Milanez, the fairest Dutchy in all Italy.
Milforde, a port town in Wales.
Mingrella, a county in Georgia in Asia.
Minorqua, an Island in the Mediterranean sea, upon the coast of Spain.
Mirandola, a town in a Dutchy and Soveraignty of the same name near Mantouan, in Italy.
Mire Court, a town in Lorraine.
Mire poix, a City and Bishoprick in the county of Foix in France.
Misistra, antiently Sparta, a ruined town in the Morea in Greece.
Misne, or Meissen, a City and Bishoprick in Misnia.
Misnia, a province of Germany.
Mocandan, a streight at the entrance of the Persian sea.
Modena, the chief town of Modenois.
Modenois, a County and Dutchy in Italy.
Mogacz, a place in the lower Hungary upon the Danube, where the Christians had a great overthrow by the Turks.
Moldavia, a county of Europe, but tributary to the Turk.
Molueques, Islands of Asia.
Mombase, a Kingdom in Zanguebar, with a fortress in an Island of the same name, belonging to the King of Portugal.
[Page 80] Mombelliard, a Town and County in the Franche County, belonging to the Duke of Wittemberg.
Mombrisson, a town in Forez in France.
Momgommery, a town in Normandy, the title of that Gentleman who unfortunately slew Henry the second of France, with a lance, in a jest.
Mommedi, a strong town in Lorraine.
Mompellier, a City, Bishoprick, and antient University in Languedoc in France.
Mompulcian, a town in Tuscany in Italy.
Monaco, or Mourgues, a port town and fortress upon the coast of Genoa, governed by a Prince under the protection of France, since 1641.
Mon Castell, a town in Flanders.
Monson, a town in Arragon in Spain.
Moncontour, a town in Poictou in France.
Montferrat, a province of Italy, divided between the Dukes of Savoy and Mantoua.
Monmouth, a town in a county of the same name in Wales.
Monomotapa, a Countrey and Kingdom in Africa.
Monce, the chief town in Hainault.
Monserat, in Catalonia, famous for the devotions there paid to our Lady.
Monsoreau, a town in Anjou in France.
[Page 81] Monstieres, a City and Archbishoprick in Tarantaise in Savoy.
Mont, a Marquisate in the Ecclesiastique State in Italy.
Montaldo, a small place in Piedmont, subject to the Pope.
Montargis, a town in Gastinois upon the East of Beausse, a province in France.
Montauban, a City and Bishoprick in Quercy in France, famous for the memorable sieges it hath withstood.
Mont de Marsan, a town in Gascoigne in France.
Montefiascope, a town in the Ecclesiastique State in Italy, famous for the Muscatello Wines.
Montelimark, a town in Dauphine in France.
Monterreau-faut-yonne, a town in the Government of Champagne, where was killed the Duke of Burgundy, the sworn enemy of the house of Orleans.
Monte St. Angelo, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Montesia, a town in the Kingdom of Valentia in Spain, it gave name to an Order of Knights.
Montgommery, a town in a shire of the same name in Wales.
Montleherry, a town in the Isle of France.
[Page 82] Mont [...]lian, a Town and Fortress, the Key of Savoy.
Montreal [...], a City and Archbishoprick in Sicily.
Montreuill, a Town and Fortress in Picardy in France.
Montrose, a Marquisate in the North of Scotland, made famous by the last Marquesse there of, one of the greatest Captains in our age, who most faithfully supported the Interest of King Charles the first, and the second, against the Covenanters, who ro their eternal ignominy most basely Murthered him.
Moravia, a province in Germany.
Morea, a peninsula in Greece, antiently called Peloponesus.
Moock, a town in Guelderland upon the Mase, where the Spaniards gained a memorable battle against the Confederated Dutch.
Mora [...], a town in Switzerland, where Charles Duke of Burgundy received a defeat in 1476.
Morlaix, a port town in Britany in France.
Mortaro, a Town in the Dutchy of Milan, where Charles le Magne formerly obtained a signal victory over the Lombards.
Moscou, the chief town of Muscovy, residence of the Great Duke, and a Patriarch.
Moscovye, see Russia Blanche, or the White.
[Page 83] Moselle, a River running through Lorraine and Germany.
Mosul, antiently Nineve, a town in Diarbech in Asia.
La Mothe, a Fortress in Lorraine, razed by the French in 1645.
Moulins, the chief town of Bourbonnois in France.
Mountains of the Moon, Mountains upon the North of Monopotapa in Africa.
Mourgues, see Monaco.
Mouzon, a town in Champagne, famous for the brave resistance it made against the imperialists, under the Command of Picolomini, one of the greatest Captains of his time.
Mozambique, a Kingdom in Zanguebar in Africa, with a Fortress in an Island of the same name, the most considerable Government which the Portugals there have.
Mulberg, a town in Misnia in Germany, where Charles the fifth defeated the Elector of Saxony.
Mulhausen, an Imperial town in Alsatia.
Munick, the chief town of Bavaria, and residence of the Duke.
Munster, a province in the South of Ireland.
Munster, a City and Bishoprick of the Empire in Westphalia.
[Page 84] Murcia, a Kingdom in Spain upon the Mediterranean Sea.
Murcia, a chief town in that Kingdom, famous for its traffique of Silk.
Muret, a town in Gascoigne in France, where Simon Earle of Montforde obtained a great victory over the Albigeois, and Arrogonois, the King of Arragon being there slain upon the place, with above 20000 others, in the year 1206.
N
NAgera, a place in Navarre, where was instituted the Order of Knights of the Flower de Lys, in 1048.
Namur, the chief town of the County of Namur, one of the 17 provinces, subject to the King of Spain.
Nancy, the chief town of Lorraine: Before this town was Charles Duke of Burgundy slayn by Rene Duke of Lorraine, in 1477.
Nangasachi, a town in Japan.
Nanquim, a city in China, near a River of the same name.
Nantes, a City and Bishoprick upon the River Loire, in Britany.
Naples, a fair town in a Kingdom of the same name in Italy, subject to the King of [Page 85] Spain, for which he payes a small yearly tribute to the Pope.
Napoula, a town in the Morea.
Narbone, a City and Bishoprick in Languedoc in France.
Narsingue, a town in a Kingdom of the same name in India.
Navarre, a Kingdom in Spain.
Navarrin, a port town in Morea.
Navarrins, a Fortress in Bearne in France.
Naumbourg, a City and Bishoprick in Misnia.
Negrepont, a town in an Island of the same name in the Archipellago, subject to the Turk.
Nemours, a Town and Dutchy in the Government of the Isle of France.
Nerac, a town in Guienne, and chief of the Dutchy d'Albert.
Nermonstier, an Island upon the coast of Poictou in France.
Nerva, a strong town in Livonia.
Newbourg, a Town and Dutchy of the Empire in Bavaria.
Newcastle, a strong town in the County of Northumberland, whence come great abundance of Coales.
Neuf Chastell, a Town and County belonging to the Duke of Longueville.
Nevers, a City, Bishoprick, and Dutchy, the chief town of Nivernois upon the Loire.
[Page 86] Newport, a town in the Isle of Wight, also a port town not far from Ostend in Flanders.
Newark, a town in Nottinghamshire upon the Kiver of Trent.
Newsell, a Fortress in Hungary.
Nicaregua, a province in New Spain.
Nice, a City and Bishoprick in a County of the same name in France, upon the Mediterranean Sea, strengthened with a fair Citadel.
Nice de Paille, a town in Montferrat.
Nicosia, a town in the Isle of Cyprus.
Nieper, or Bonithenes, a River in Poland.
Nigeboli, a town in Bulgaria, where Bajazet Emperour of the Turks gave a great defeat to the Christians.
Nigritia, a Countrey in Africa.
Niger, a River in that Countrey.
Nile, a River in Africa, running through Abissinia and Aegypt, where it falls into the Mediterranean sea.
Nimmeguen, a town in the Dutchy of Guelderland.
Niort, a town in Poictou.
Nitaw, the residence of the Dukes of Curland.
Nivernois, a province in France.
Nogent le Retrou, the fairest Village of France, in Perche.
[Page 87] Noion, a City and Bishoprick, and one of the antient Peerages of France, which assist at the Kings Coronation.
Nombre des Dios, a town in Castille d'Oro, whose commerce is now translated to Porto Belo.
Norfolk, a rich County in the East part of England.
Norlinguen, an Imperial town in Swabeland.
Normandy, one of the fairest provinces of France.
Northampton, the chief town of a Shire of the same name about the middle of England.
Northausen, an Imperial town in Turingia.
Northumberland, a County in the North of England.
Norway, a Kingdom in the North of Europe, subject to the King of Denmark.
Norwich, the chief City in Norfolk, famous for the manufactury of stuffs.
Notebourg, the chief Fortresse of Ingria.
Noto, a Town, and Valley in Sicily.
Nottingham, a town in a Shire of the same name about the middle of England.
Novara, a Town in the Dutchy of Milan, [Page 88] where in the year 1512. the Switzers gave the French a great overthrow.
Novelare, a Town and County under the Duke of Mantoua.
Novogrode-Veliki, or the Great, a City and Archbishoprick in Moscovy.
Nisi Novogrode, or the Lesse, a town in Muscovy, upon the River Volga.
Nubi [...], a Kingdom in Africa, also the chief town of that Kingdom.
Nuremberg, an Imperial town in Franconia.
Nuys, a town in the Archbishoprick of Colen upon the Rhine, famous for its brave resistance against the siege of Charles Duke of Burgundy, in the year 1474.
O.
OBI, a River in Asia.
Ocziacow, a town in Podolia in Poland, where the River Boristhenes falleth into the Black or Euxine Sea, belonging to the Turk.
Oder, a River in Germany, running through Silesia, Brandenbourg, and Pomerania.
Oelande, an Island in the Baltique Sea.
[Page 89] Offembourg, an Imperial town and chief of the County of Ortnau in Alsatia.
Oldembourg, a Town and County of the Empire in Westphalia.
Oleron, a fair Island and Fortress in the Western Ocean upon the coast of Xaintonge, a Province of France.
Oleron, a City and Bishoprick in Bearne.
Olinde, a town in Bresil, taken by the Hollanders in 1630.
Olite, a town in Navarre.
Olmuts, a City and Bishoprick in Moravia.
Olonne, a port upon the coast of Poictou in France.
Ombria, a province in the Ecclesiastique State in Italy.
Oneille, a Town and Marquisate upon the coast of Genoa, belonging to the Duke of Savoy.
Onspach, a Town and Marquisate of the Empire in Franconia.
Oran, a town upon the coast of Barbary, subject to the King of Spain.
Orange, a town and principality upon the Rhone, bordering upon the County of Avignon, and the province of Dauphine in France.
Orbitelle, a town upon the borders of Tuscany in Italy.
[Page 90] Orcades, Islands upon the North of Scotland.
Orehelana, a River between Guiana and Bresil.
Oristano, a City and Archbishoprick in Sardignia.
Orleans, a City and Bishoprick upon the Loire in France, it was antiently the head of a Kingdom, but now the title of the French Kings second son.
Ormus, a Town in a Kingdom in Persia.
Ornano, a Seigniory in the Isle of Corsica.
Orvietto, a town in the Ecclesiastique State in Italy.
Osma, a City and Bishoprick in the Old Castille.
Osnabrug, a Hans town in Westphalia.
Ostend, a strong port town in Flanders.
Ostia, antiently a famous port at the mouth of Tiber.
Otranto, a City, and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples, where they imbarque for Greece.
Ottansee, the chief town of Fionia.
Overisle, one of the united provinces of the Low Countreys.
Ouessant, an Island upon the West of Britany in France.
Oviedo, the chief town of Biscay, where sonie of the Gothish Kings retreated upon [Page 91] the approach of the Moores.
Ourque, a town in Portugal, famous for the victory of King Alfonso over five Kings of the Moors.
Oxford, a town in a Shire of the same name, it is also the most eminent University in the world.
Oyse, a River running through Picardy and the Isle of France.
P
PAderborne, a Hans town in Westphalia.
Padoua, a City and Bishoprick, and famous University, about 25 miles from Venice, and subject to that Commonwealth.
Palatinate, a province in Germany upon the Rhine.
Palamos, a port town in Catalognia.
Palermo, a City and Bishoprick in Sicily, and residence of the Vice Roy of the King of Spain.
Palmela, a town near Setuvall in Portugal.
Palma la nova, a Fortress in Friuli, the the most regular Fortification in the world, guarded with nine Bastions, and 700 pieces of Cannon.
Palos, a port town in Andalousia, where [Page 92] Columbus set fail, when he went to the discovery of the West Indies.
Pamiers, a City and Bishoprick in the County of Foix in Languedoc in France.
Pampeluna, the chief town of the Kingdome of Navarre.
Panama, a town in Castille d'Oro upon the South sea.
Para, a fort and Government in Bresil.
Paraguay, a Country in America, comprising Tucuman and Plata.
Paraiba, a town in Bresil, possessed by the Hollanders.
Paria, or Ore noque, a River between Castille d'Oro and Guiana.
Parime, a Sea or rather Lake in Guiana.
Paris, a most noble City and Archbishoprick, the chief town of France, and residence of the King, and seat of the chief Parliament.
Parma, the chief town of a Dutchy of the same name in Italy.
Parmezan, the Country where Parma stands.
Passage, a Port town in Biscay.
Passau, a town of the Empire in Bavaria, upon the Danube.
Patagous, a people in Magellanica, ten foot high.
[Page 93] Patay, a town in the Province of Beausse in France, where the French under the conduct of John Duke of Aleneson, got a memorable Victory over the English, commanded by the great Talbot, the terrour of the French.
Patras, a town in the Morea in Greece.
Patrimony, of St. Peter, a province in the Ecclesiastick stare in Italy.
Pavia, a great town in the Dutchy of Milan, where Francis the first of France was taken prisoner.
Pavoasan, a town in the Isle of St. Thome.
Pegu, a town in a Kingdom of the same name in India.
Peguin, the chief town of China, and residence of the King.
Pembroke, a town in a County of the same name in Wales.
Penon de Veloz, a Fortress of the King of Spain's, upon the Coast of Barbary.
Pirche, a province in France.
Perigord, a province in France.
Perigueua, the chief City and a Bishoprick in Perigord.
Peron, a very strong town in Picardy.
Perpignan, the chief town of the County of Rousillon strengthened with one of the [Page 94] fairest and best fortified Citadells in Europe.
Persia, a great Kingdom in Asia.
Perthois, a Countrey in Champagne.
Peru, a Countrey in America.
Perugia, a town in a province of the same name in the Ecclesiastique State.
Petillano, a soveraign County in Tuscany in Italy.
Petrikow, the seat of the Parliament in Poland in the winter time.
Psalzbourg, a principality in Lorraine.
Phenicia, a province in Asia.
Philippe ville, a strong Town in Hainault.
Philippine, Islands upon the coast of Asia, of which Lucon is the chiefest.
Philisbourg, a Fortress in the lower Palatinate, one of the Keys of Germany, subject to the Archbishop of Tryers.
Pica, a Mountain in the Island of Tenariffe, one of the Canary Islands, and one of the highest in the world.
Picardy, a province in France.
Piedmont, a Countrey of Italy, subject to the Duke of Savoy.
Pignerol, a Town and Citadel in Piedmont, the Key of Italy.
Pilsen, a town in the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Piombino, a Town and Principality upon the coast of Tuscany.
[Page 95] Pisa, a City and Archbishoprick in Tuscany, between Ligorne and Florence, residence of the Knights of the Order of St. Stephen.
Placentia, a City and Bishoprick in the Kingdom of Leon.
Plaisensa, a town in a Dutchy of the same name in Lombardy, subject to the Duke of Parma.
Plata, a River; also a Countrey in America; also a City and Archbishoprick in Peru.
Pleskow, a strong town in Muscovy, upon the frontiers of Sweden and Poland.
Pleurs, a town in the Grisons Countrey, overwhelmed with a fall of a Mountain, in the year 1618.
Plimouth, a town of great traffique by reason of its two ports, in Devonshire, in the South-west part of England.
Pludents, a small Seigniory in Tyrol, belonging to the King of Spain.
Po, the greatest River of Italy, it runs through Lombardy, & falls into the Adriatique Sea or Gulph of Venice in several branches between Venice and Ravenna.
Poblet, a Monastery in Catalognia, where the Kings of Arragon were antiently buried.
[Page 96] Podolia, a province of Poland.
Poissi, a town upon the Seine in the Isle of France.
Paictiers, a City and Bishoprick, the chief town of Poictou, and one of the greatest circumference in France, famous for its University, and many memorable battles, especially that of the black Prince.
Poictou, a province of France.
Pola, a town in Istria.
Polaquia, a province of Poland.
Pomejok, a town in Virginia.
Pomerania, a country in Germany, shared between the crown of Sweden, and the Elector of Brandenbourg.
Pont a Mouson, a town in Lorrain.
Pont de Ce, a small town and Castle upon the Loire, in the province of Anjou in France.
Pont de l' Arche, a strong town in Normandy.
Pont du Gard, three bridges built, one over the other, over the River Gardon, for the continuing of an Aquaduct to Nismes, the lowest Bridge having six Arches, the second eleven, and the highest thirty four, a thing of great antiquity.
Pont eau de Mer, a town in Normandy, between Caen and Roven.
[Page 97] Pont l'Evesque, a town, not far from Caen in Normandy.
Pont Oise, a town in the Isle of France, not far from Paris.
Pont Orson, a town in Normandy, upon the frontier of Britanny.
Pont St. Esprit, a town in Languedoc upon the Rhone.
Ponthieu, a County in Picardy.
Pontremoli, a Town and Signiory between Genoa and Tuscany, belonging to the Duke of Florence.
Popaien, a town in a Countrey of the same name in Castillia d'Oro.
Porentru, a town in Switzerland, the residence of the Bishop of Basil.
Port Hercole, a town and port in Tuscany, belonging to the King of Spain.
Port Lewis, or Blavese, a secure and well fortified port in Britanny in France.
Porto Royale, a port in Acadia in New France.
Porto, a town in the Ecclesiastique State, at the mouth of the River Tiber.
Porto, a town of great traffique in Portugal, which first gave name to that Kingdom.
[Page 98] Porto Belo, an eminent port in Castillia d'Oro, where arrive all Marchandises from Spain to Peru.
Porto Longono, a fortress and port in the Isle of Elve, upon the coast of Tuscany.
Porto Seguro, a Government in Bresill.
Portsmouth, a strong town and port in Hampshire.
Portugal, a Kingdom in Europe, inclosed by Spain on all sides, except where it opens to the Western Ocean.
Posega, a town in Sclavonia, subject to the Turk.
Posna, the chief town of the Lower Poland.
Povengi-O-Rio Grande, a Fortress in Bresill.
Potosi, a Town and Mountain in Peru, where are the richest Silver-Mines in the world.
Prague, the chief City, and an Archbishoprick in Bohemia.
Precop, a town in the Lesser Tartary, which is thence called Precopense.
Presbourg, the chief town of that part of Hungary which is under the house of Austria.
Preveza, a town in Epirus in Greece.
Provence, a gallant province of France.
Provins, a town in Brie.
Prussia, a province of Poland: it is distinguished [Page 99] into Royal and Ducal, the latter belonging to the Elector of Brandenbourg, who does homage for it to the Crown of Sweden.
Le Puy, a City and Bishoprick in Vellaj, in the Gevenes in Languedoc.
Puy Cerda, the chief town of the County of Cerdaignia between France in Spain.
Pyrenean Hills, Mountains which separate the Kingdoms of France and Spain.
Q.
QƲebec, a town upon the great River in the County of Canada or new France.
Quedelimbourg, an Abbey in Saxony.
Quercy, a province in France.
Quieras, a town in Piedmont.
Quiloa, a town upon the coast of Zanguebar, belonging to the Portugals.
Quimpercorintin, a City and Bishoprick in the Lower Britany.
Quito, a town in Peru.
R.
RAab, or Ravarin, a Fortress in Hungary belonging to the house of Austria.
Radicofani, a Castle and Signiory in Tuscany, between Siena and Rome.
Ragusa, a City, Archbishoprick, and Republique in Dalmatia, tributary to the Turk.
Ranzou, a Castle in Holsatia.
Rappers viler, a town in a County of the same name in Switzerland.
Rattisbone, a City and Bishoprick of the Empire, it stands upon the Danube in Bavaria.
Ravenna, a City of great antiquity in Romania in Italy, not far from the Gulph of Venice.
Ravensberg, a County of the Empire in Westphalia, belonging to the Elector of Brandenbourg.
Razebourg, a town in Finland.
Re, an Island in the Western Ocean, not far from Rochelle.
Red Sea, the Sea of Meca, or the long Sea, a Gulph or Sinus, extending it self from the Arabian almost to the Mediterranean Sea, and dividing Africa and Asia.
Redding, a Borrough town in Bark-shire upon the Thames.
[Page 101] Rees, a Town and Dutchy in Cleves, now under the power of the States of Holland.
Reggia, a town in Modenois in Italy.
Rheggio, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Rheimes, a City and Archbishoprick in Champagne, the Archbishop hath the title of Premier, or first Duke and Peer of France, to him belongs the priviledge to Crown the French King.
Remorentine, a town in Sologne in France.
Rendam, a Castle in Auvergne, before which died the Constable Guesclin.
Rennes, a City and Bishoprick, the seat of the Parliament of Britanny.
Renti, a Fortress in Artois.
Retel, a town in Champagne, near which did the French obtain a notable victory over the Spanish Forces, in the year 1650.
Retimo, a town in Candia, taken by the Turk in 1646.
Revel, a port town in Livonia.
Rhimberg, a town of Germany upon the Rhine.
Rhinfeld, a town of Swabeland upon the Rhine, famous for the defeat of the Imperialists, and the taking of John de Wert, by the Duke Bernard Weymar, in the year 1638.
[Page 102] Rhodes, a town in an Island of the same name near Anatolia, in the Mediterranean Sea, formerly the Residence of the Knights of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, who most exquisitely fortified, and as bravely defended it against Solyman Emperour of the Turks, to whom after a long siege they were forced to yield it; it was at the entry of this port that stood the huge Colossus, from whence the Rhodiots were called Colossians.
Rhosne, a River which rises in Switzerland, and running through the Lake of Geneva, and a great part of France, at length falls into the Mediterranean Sea near Aygues mortes in Languedoc.
Richelieu, a new Town and Dutchy in Poictou in France.
Richemonde, a Town and Dutchy in Torkshire.
Rieti, a Town in the Ecclesiastique State in Ʋmbria, about the midst of Italy.
Rieux, a City and Bishoprick in Languedoc.
Riez, a City and Bishoprick in Provence.
Riga, a City and Archbishoprick in Livonia, of which it is the chief town.
Rimini, a Town in the Ecclesiastique State.
[Page 103] Riogrande, a Government in Bresill.
Riom, a town in Auvergne.
Ripaille, a town in Savoy upon the Lake of Geneva.
Rivoli, a town in Piedmont.
Roanne, a town upon the Loire in Forez, not far from Lyons, where Travellers usually take the convenience of that River to descend to Orleans, &c.
Rochelle, a strong town and port in the Countrey of Aulnis.
Rochester, a port town in Kent.
Rocroy, a strong town in Champagne, near to which the Duke d'Enguyen, now Prince of Conde, defeated the Spanish Forces, in the year 1643.
Rodez, a City and Bishoprick in Rouergue in Languedoc.
Romagnia, a province in the Ecclesiastique State.
Romania, a province in Europe, subject to the Turk.
Romans, a Town in Dauphine in France.
Rome, a town in Italy upon the Tiber, the seat of the Pope, and formerly the head of the most flourishing Empire of the world.
Roncevaux, a place in Navarre, where the French received a great defeat under Charlemagne, in the year 792.
[Page 104] Roneiglione, a County in the patrimony of St. Peter.
Rose-Com [...]n, a County in Connaught in Ireland.
Rosevecq, a small town in Flanders, famous in History for a battle which Charles the sixth won against the Rebels of Gante; of whom were slain 40000. upon the place, and their General Philip d'Artevill was taken and hanged.
Roses, a very strong town and port in Catalognia.
Rosette, a port town in Egypt.
Roskill, a City and Bishoprick in the Isle of Zeland in Denmark.
Rossano, a City and Archbishoprick in Calabria, a province in the Kingdom of Naples.
Rostoc, a town in Mechlebourg.
Rothsaye, a Castle in an Island in the Gulf of Dambritton, it hath the title of a Dutchy, and was formerly the Apportion of the Prince of Scotland, from whence, its said, issued the Royal Family of the Stewarts.
Rotterdam, a port town in Holland, famous for the Birth of the learned Erasmus.
Rotweil, an Imperial town in Swabeland.
Rouen, a city of great traffique, and an Archbishoprick in Normandy.
[Page 105] Rovergue, a country in the Province of Languedoc.
Rovigo, a town in Italy, subject to the Venetians.
Rousillion, a country between Languedoc and Catalognia.
Royans, a town in Xaintonge near the mouth of the River Garomne.
Ruyen, an Island and principality upon the Coast of Pomerania, subject to the crown of Sweden.
Ruremond, a town in Guilderland, belonging to the King of Spain.
Rushin, a town in the Isle of Man.
Russia, black Russia, a province in Poland. White Russia is the same with Moscovy, a great Empire in the North part of Europe.
S.
SAbaria, a town in Hungary.
Sabionetta, a strong town and Soveraign Dutchy in Mantouan.
Saguenay, a town in new France.
Sahid, a town in a country of the same name in the higher Aegypt.
St. Andrew, a City and Archbishoprick in Scotland.
St. Antonin, a Town in Rovergue in France.
[Page 106] St. Aubin, a small town in Britany, famous for the Victory there obtained by Lewis of Fremoville, General for Charles the eighth over the Duke of Britany and other Princes, in 1488.
Cap of St. Augustin, the most Eastern of all Africk.
St. Augustino, a port town in Florida.
St. Beaume, a town in Provence where is the Grotto of Mary Magdalen, whose body is said to be there yet preserved.
St. Bertrand de Gominges, a City and Bishoprick in Gascony.
St. Borondon, an Island upon the West of the Canaries, supposed inaccessible by reason of the clouds which perpetually obscure the coasts of it.
St. Brieux, a City and Bishoprick in Britany.
St. Christopher, an Island lying towards America, possessed by the English and French.
St. Denis, a town in the Isle of France, four miles distant from Paris, the Sepulchre of the French Kings.
St. Dizier, a town in Campagne.
St. Domingo, the chief town of the Island called Hispaniola.
St. Fe, a town in new Mexico.
St. Fe de Bogosa, a town in the new Kingdome of Granada.
[Page 107] St. Flour, a City and Bishoprick in the upper Auvergne.
St. Foy, a town in Guienne upon the Dordogne.
St. Gal, a town and Abby in Switzerland.
St. George de la Mine, a Port town and Fortress in Guinee, belonging to the Hollanders.
St. Germane in Laye, one of the noblest of the French Kings Palaces, seated upon the Seine in the Isle of France, seaven leagues distant from Paris.
St. Guirtrembourg, a strong Town in Holland, famous for the Salmon-fishing.
St. Helene, an Island in the Aethiopian sea very remote from the Terra Firma, and called the sea Inn, by reason of the abundance of fresh water, which ships take in there.
St. Hubert, a City and Bishoprick in Luxembourg.
St. Jago de chili, the chief Town of Chili.
St. Jago, de Compostella, the chief Town of Gallicia, famous for the Pilgrimages made thither in devotion to St. James, whose Relicks are reported to be still there reserved.
St. Jago del Estero, a town in Tucuman a country in America.
[Page 108] S. Jean d' Angeli, a town in Xaintonge in France.
St. Jean de Loon, a town in Burgundy upon the Saone.
St. Jean de Luz, a small town in Biscay.
St. Jean de Morienne, a City and Bishoprick in Savoye.
St. Jean Pie di Porto, a town in the lower Navarre, subject to the french King.
St. Joan de Porto Rico, a town in the Island B [...]riquen.
St. Johns town, a town in Scotland.
St. Laurens, or Madagascar, an Island upon the East of Africa, one of the greatest in the World.
St. Laurence, a river and gulfe in Canada.
St. Legar de Conserans, a City and Bishoprick in Gascony.
St. Lucar, a port town of great traffick in Andalusia, at the mouth of the River Guadalquivir.
St. Malo, a City, Bishoprick, and famous port in Britanny.
St. Marguerite, an Island upon the Coast of Provence.
St. Marino, a town and smal Republick in the Ecclesiastick state.
St. Matheo, a port town in Florida.
St. Maure, and Island and Fortress of the [Page 109] Turks upon the Coast of Epirus.
St. Menehoud, a town in Champagne.
Mont St. Michel, a town built upon a rock in the sea between Britanny and Normandy, whence came the first institution of the Knights of the order of St. Michel.
St. Michel Aroange, a port town of great traffick in Muscovy.
St. Michel, the chief town of Barrois.
St. Morris, a town in the country of Vallesia.
St. Nicholas, a port town in Moscovy, which gives its name to a Gulfe, which is also called the white sea.
St. Omer, a strong town in Artois.
St. Palaci, the chief town of the lower Navarre.
St. Papoul, a City and Bishoprick in Languedoc.
St. Patrick, a place in Ʋlster, called the purgatory of Ireland.
St. Pierre le Moustier, a town in Nivernois.
St. Pol de Leon, a City and Bishoprick in the lower Britanny.
St. Pol trois Chasteaux, a City and Bishoprick in Dauphine.
St. Pons de Tomiers, a City and Bishoprick in Languedoc.
[Page 110] St. Quentin, a town in Picardy, near which in the time of Francis the second were defeated the French in the year. 1557.
St. Salvador the chief Town of Bresil, subject to the Portugalls.
St. Salvador the chief town of Congo.
St. Sever, a town in Gascony.
St. Sebastian, a port Town in Biscaye.
St. Thomas Meliapor a town in India.
St. Thome, an Island and Gulfe in the Aethiopian sea.
St. Veit, the chief town of Corinthia.
Saintes, a City and Bishoprick, and chief of Saintonge.
Saintonge, a province of France not farr from Rochelle.
Salamanca, a town in the Kingdom of Leon, famous for its University.
Salces, a Fortress in Roussillion.
Salerna, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kindom of Naples, famous for its Physick School, it is also a principality, and was anciently the Title of the eldest son of the King of that Kingdom.
Salfeld, an Abby of the Empire in Turingia.
Salisbury, a noble City in Wiltshire.
Sallies, a town in Bearne, famous for a fountain of White-salt issuing there.
Salme, a county in Lorrain.
[Page 111] Isle of Salomon, an Island in the pacifick sea; so called by the Spaniards, as if Salomon had sent thither for his Gold.
Salon, a town in Provence.
Salone, a ruined town upon the Coast of Dalmatia.
Salonicque, a town in Macedonia.
Salzbourg, a City and Archbishoprick in Bavaria, whose Archbishop is a Prince of the Empire.
Samarcanda, a town in Tartary, the Residence of the great Tamerlane.
Samogitia, a province in Poland.
Samoiedes, a people in Tartaria deserta.
Sancerre, a town in Berry in France.
Sanchoan, an Island upon the Coast of China, where the Portugalls first landed in those parts, where also Francis Xaverius, a brother of Ignatius of Loyola, who with him first instituted the order of Jesuites dyed.
Sandwiche, a port town in Kent.
Sanguessa, a town in Navarre.
Sanscverina, a City and Archbishoprick in Calabria.
Sanferre, a country in Picardy.
Santoss, a fortress in Bresil.
Saone, a River of France, falling into the Rhosne, just below the city of Lyons.
Sarbruc, a County between Lorraine and Germany.
[Page 112] Sarragosa, the chief City of Arragon.
Sardinia, an Island in the Mediterranean sea, opposite to Genoa, and subject to the crown of Spain.
Sargan, a county subject to the Switzers.
Sarlat, a City and Bishoprick in Perigord in France.
Sarzana, a frontiere town between the Republick of Genoa, and the dutchy of Tuscany.
Sas de Gand, a Fortress in Flanders, taken by the Hollanders in 1644.
Sassari, a City and Archbishoprick in Sardinia.
Sattalia, a town in Anatolia.
Saverne, a town in Alsace, and residence of the Bishop of Strasbourg.
Savillan, a town in Piedmont.
Saumure, a town in Anjou upon the Loire.
Savoye, a Soveraign Dutchy between France and the Switzers country.
Savona, a Port upon the Coast of Genoa.
Saxony, a country and dutchy in Germany, it is divided into the higher and the lower Saxony.
Scagen, a town and Promontory in Jutland.
Scardona, a town in Dalmatia.
Scarlin, a Castle upon the coast of Tuscany, before which was slayn the famous Strozzi Prior of Capoua, in the French quarrel.
[Page 113] Scarpanto, an Island upon the coast of Anatolia, belonging to the Turk.
Scaffhausen, a town, and one of the Protestant Cantons in Switzerland.
Scalold, a town in Island.
Sconeland, a Countrey upon the coast of Denmark.
Schwerin, the chief town of Mechlenbourg, it stands upon a Lake, and is the residence of the Dukes of that Countrey.
Scenk, a Fortress in Guelderland, belonging to the States of Holland.
Scouven, an Island in Zeland, famous for the bold attempt of the Spanish Captain Mondragon.
Schwartzembourg, a County of the Empire in Turingia.
Schweinfurt, an Imperial town in Franconia.
Schianhai, a port town in China.
Sclavonia, a Countrey upon the South of Hungary, divided between the Turk and the house of Austria.
Scone, a famous Abbey in the County of Perth in Scotland, made more illustrious by the Coronation of the Kings there celebrated.
Scotland, a Kingdom upon the North of England, united by the happy succession of King James the undoubted heir to both those Crowns.
Scutars, a town in Albany upon a Lake [Page 114] of the same name subject to the Turk.
Sebenico, a town in Dalmatia, which most bravely repulsed the Turks four several times.
Sedan, a very strong town and chief of that Province, upon the frontiers of Champagne and Luxembourg.
Seez, a City and Bishoprick in Normandy.
Segui, a town in the Ecclesiastick State, whére its said was the first invention of Organs.
Segovia, a town in Castille, famous for an Aquaduct of 177 arches in length.
Seine, a river of France, runs through Paris, Roven and falls in the British sea at Hauvre de Grace.
Sempach, a town in Switzerland, under the protection of the Canton of Lucerne.
Senega, a town and river, a branch of the river Niger in Nigritia.
Senez, a City and Bishoprick in Provence.
Sentis, a City and Bishoprick in Valois.
Seni, the chief town of Senois, a small Province under the Government of Champagne.
Seregippa, a town and Government in Bresil.
Serraliona, a mountain, and town in Guinee, called also Cachieu.
Servia, a province of Europe subject to the Turk.
[Page 115] Setines, anciently Athenes, a ruined town in Greèce,
Setaval, an eminent port town in Portugal.
Seville, a City of great traffick in Andalouzia, where the West India Fleets usually land their merchandises.
Sfachia, a town in the Isle of Candy, which gave name to the Sfachiots, the bravest souldiers of that Island.
Shetlande, and Island upon the North of the British Isles.
Sian, a town in a Kingdom of the same name beyond the river Ganges.
Sicily, an Island and Kingdom lying in the Mediterranean sea at the lower end of Italy, from whence it is apassage but of half a league, and the mouth of the gulfe of Venice; subject to the King of Spain.
Sienna, a City and Archbishoprick in Toscany, distant about a dayes journey from Florence.
Silesia, a province in Germany.
Syllyes, see Sorlinges.
Sion, a City and Bishoprick, the chief Town of Vallesia, a country leagued with the Cantons of the Switzers, and lying between them and Geneva.
Syracusa, a port town in Scicily, memorable in history for the defence it received [Page 116] from the Engines invented by Archimedes.
Simmeren, a principality of the Empire in the lower Palatinate.
Sinobi, a port town in Anatolia upon the Black, or Euxine sea.
Siponte, a City and Arch-bishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Sisseg, a town in Croatia, belonging to the house of Austria.
Sittia, a town in Candia.
Sisterou, a city and bishoprick in Provence.
Sixenne, a Priory in Arragon of Ladies, of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Slaboda, a town in Muscovie.
Sleswick, a Town and Dutchy in Jutland.
Sluyse, a most impregnable town in Flanders, under the power of the States of Holland
Smirna, a great port in Anatolia.
Smolensko, a town in Muscovy, now under the power of the Polander.
Soczou, the chief town of Maldavia.
Sodor, a town in the IIsle of Sura, one of the Hebrides, where are interred 48. Kings of Scotland, 4. Kings of Ireland, and 8. Kings of Norway.
Sofala, a Castle and a, River in Cafreria, subject to the King of Portugal, near to which he gets great quantity of very pure Gold.
Soissons, a City, Bishoprick, and County in Picardy.
[Page 117] Solfarin, a small Signiory in Mantovan.
Soloturne, a town and canton of Switzerland.
Sologne, a country upon the South of Orleance.
Solms, a county of the Empire in Veteravia
Solsona, a town in Catalonia.
Somme, a River in Picardy.
Sonde, or Sounde, a streight in Denmark, and key of the Baltick sea. There is also another streight, called by the same name, between the Islands of Sumatra & Java in Asia.
Sonnemberg, a town of Brandenbourg, anciently the residence of the Grand Prior of Malta.
Sophia, the chief town of Bulgaria.
Soria, a town in Castile, near to which are the ruines of the ancient Numantia.
Sorlinges, a great many small Islands, upon the West of England, 6. of which are inhabited
Sorrento, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Souria, a province of Tur comania in Asia.
Southhampton, a town of great traffique, and chief of the county of Hampsh.
Sous, a Kingdom in the West part of Biledulgerid.
Spa, a small Town in the principality of Lyege, famous for its Medicinal waters.
[Page 118] Spalatro, a City, Archbishoprick and Port in Dalmatia.
Spandau, a Fortress in Brandenbourg.
Spigelberg, an Island or Peninsula towards the Artique Pole not yet well discovered.
Spire, a City and Bishoprick of the Empire.
Spiritu Santo, a town and government in Bresil.
Spirlinga, a small town in Sicily, the only one that was Innocent of the conspiracy of the Sicilian Vespers.
Spoleto, the chief town of Ombria in the Ecclesiastick State.
Staffanger, a City, Bishoprick, and Port in Norway.
Stafford, the chief town of Staffordshire.
Stalimene, an Island in the Archipelago.
Stavelo, an Abbey of the Empire, between the Archbishop of Triers, and the Low Countries.
Stenai, a town in Lorraine upon the Maase.
Stendel, a town in Brandenbourg.
Sterlin, a town in Scotland.
Stetin, a hans town, and chief of Pomerania, its now under the Swede.
Stives, anciently Thebes, a ruined town in Greece.
[Page 119] Stockholme, a port and chief town of the Kingdom of Sweden at the mouth of the Lake of Meler.
Solberg, a county of the Empire in the upper Saxony.
Stralsonde, a hans town in that part of Pomerania, which is subject to the Swede, and port upon the Baltick sea.
Strasbourg, an Imperial town in Alsatia, famous for its Arfenal clock and tower, that hath 630. stairs up to the top of it.
Strido, a town of Stiria the Country of St. Jerom.
Stugarde, the chief town of Wirtemberg.
Suaquem, a town in the coast of Abex, upon the Red sea, under the power of the Turk.
Suda, a port town and Fortress in Candia.
Sues, a port town of Aegypt, at the end of the Red sea, the Turks Arsenal or Magazine.
Sulmone, a town in the Kingdom of Naples.
Sulzbach, a Seigniory of the Empire in the upper Palatinate or Bavaria.
Sumatra, an Island upon the coast of Asia.
Sundenberg, a town and Dutchy in the Isle of Alsen near Jutland.
Surate, a port town in Cambaia, a Kingdom in India.
Susdal, a City, Archbishoprick and Dutchy in Muscovy.
[Page 120] Swabeland, a province of Germany.
Sweden, a Kingdom in the most Northern part of Europe.
New Sweden, a country in the North of America, not far from Virginia.
Switzerland▪ the country of a most Warlike Nation in Europe, lying upon the Alpes, and the borders thereof, and divided into thirteen cantons, each of which is a particular republick.
Suz, a town in Persia, the ancient residence of its Kings.
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TAbasco, a town in New Spain, where Correz the spanish General gave an irrecoverable defeat to the Mexicanes.
Tabor, a very strong town in Bohemia.
Tadousac, a town in New France upon the great river.
Tagus, a river in Spain, anciently famous for its golden Sandes, it passes through Toledo, and Lisbone.
Taillebourg, a town in Saintouge.
Tamaraca, a town and Government in Bresil, belonging to the Hollanders.
Tanacy, otherwise called Dom, a river which divides Europe and Asia.
Tangier, a town in Africa, upon the streight [Page 121] of Gibraltar, subject to the King of Portugal.
Tangermund, a town of Brandenbourg, where the Emperor Charles the fourth kept his court.
Tannez, a town of Sundgow, in the upper Alsace.
Tarascon, a town in Provence, upon the Rhosue.
Tarbes, a City and Bishoprick, and chief of Bigorre, a small country in Gascogny.
Tarentum, an Archbishoprick, and port town in the Kingdom of Naples.
Tarne, a river in Languedoc, running to Albi and Montauban.
Tarragone, a town upon the sea coast in Catalonia, one of the most ancient of all Spain.
Tartar, or Tatar, a town in the North part of Tartary.
Tartarie, a country in Asia, of the largest extent of any other of the world.
Tartarie the lesser, a principality in Europe, oftentimes called Precopensis or Crimea, leagued with the Turk.
Tarudante, the chief town of the Kingdom of Sous in Biledulgerid, a country in Africa.
Tauris, a town in Persia, sometimes the residence of the Sophy.
Tay, a river in Scotland, dividing it in two parts, the Northern and the Southern.
Telusin, see Tremisen.
[Page 122] Temesvar, a very strong town in Hungary, the residence of a Beglerbeg.
Tende, a town and Seigniory in Piedmont,
Tenedos, an Island in the Archipelago, belonging to the Venetians.
Tercera, an Island in the West Ocean.
Tergovis, or Tervis, the chief town of vaelachia.
Ternate, the chief of those five little Islands called the Molucquaes.
Terouene, a town in Artois ruined by the Emperour Charles the Fifth.
Terracino, a town in the Champagne of Rome.
Texel, an Island and Port in Holland.
Thames, commonly the Temmes, the fairest and most pleasant river in the World, it runs through London to Gravesend, &c.
Thessalonica, a town and gulph in Macedonia, a province of Greece.
Thoursan, a country in Gascony.
Thionville, a very strong town in Luxembourg
Thoulouse, the chief City and Archbishoprick in Languedoc, the seat of the Parliament of that province.
Tiber, a River running through a great part of Italy, through Rome, a little below which place it falls into the Mediterranean sea.
[Page 123] Tierache, a country in Picardy.
Tigris, a River in Turquic of Asia.
Tillemont, a town in Brabant, pillaged by the French and Hollanders, 1635.
Timerais, a small country in Perche.
Tingocses, a people of Tarta [...]y.
Tirconnel, a Castle in a County of the same name in Ʋlster in Ireland.
Tirol, a county in Germany, one of the biggest of Christendom.
Tokay, a very strong town in Hungary, belonging to the House of Austria.
Toledo, a very ancient City and Archbishoprick in Castile, it had anciently the title of a Kingdom under the Moores.
Tolen, a town in Zealand.
Tolentino, a town in the Ecclesiastick state.
Tomar, a town in Portugal.
Tombut, a town in a Kingdom of the same name, the most considerable of Nigritia.
Tongres, a very ancient town in the country of Lyege.
Tor, a port town in Arabia Petrea or the Stony.
Torgan, a town in Misnia.
Tornus, a town in Burgundy.
Tortona, a town and castle in the Dutchy of Milan.
Tortosa, a City and Bishoprick in Catalognia.
[Page 124] Torreglia, a Sovereign Marquisate, between the Countreys of Milan and Genoa
Toscany, a Dutchy in Italy, the Duke of it has the title of Great Duke, he keeps his Court at Florence.
Toul, a City and Bishoprick of the Empire in Lorraine, and seat of a Parliament.
Toulon, a City, Bishoprick, and port in Provence, the Rendezvous of the French Kings Galleys.
Tonpinamboas, a people of Bresil.
Touraine, a province of France.
Tournai, a town in Flanders.
Tournon, a town in Vivaretz in Languedoc in France.
Tours, the chief town of Touraine, seated on the Loire, near which town Charles Martel overthrew 400000 Sarazens, of which 375 thousand were slayn upon the place.
Touvres, a famous fountain in Angoulesme.
Trans, a City and Archbishoprick in the Kingdom of Naples.
Transylvania, a principality of Europe, tributary to the Turk.
Transisalane, otherwise Overissel, one of the united provinces of the Low Countreys.
Trebisonde, a town in Anatolia, seated on the Black or Euxine Sea, antiently the head of an Empire, which was subjected to the Turk by Mahomet the second, who put the Emperour thereof to death.
[Page 125] Treguier, or Lantriguet, a City and Bishoprick in Britanny in France.
Tremisen, or Teleusen, a town in a Kingdom of the same name in Barbary.
Trent, a City, Bishoprick, and Principality of the Empire in Italy, almost incompassed with the Venetian territories, famous for the Councel held there.
Treviso, a town in the Venetian territories, and chief of the province called Marchia Trevisana.
Trevaux, the chief town of the principality of Dombes in France.
Triers, a City and Electoral Archbishoprick of the Empire, whose surprise by the Spaniards in the year 1635 was one of the chiefest occasions of the War between France and Spain.
Triest, a port town in Istria, subject to the house of Austria.
Trin, a town in the province of Mont [...]errat in Italy, subject to the Duke of Savoy.
Tripoli in Barbary, a town in a Kingdom of the same name in Africa, seated upon the Mediterranean Sea, and subject to the Turk.
Tripoli in Souria, a port town in Asia upon the Mediterranean Sea.
Troyes, the chief City and an Archbishoprick in Champagne.
Tucuman, a Countrey in America, subject to the King of Spain.
[Page 126] Tudela, a town in Navarre.
Tulles, a City and Bishoprick in Limosin.
Tunis, a city and port in a Kingdom of the same name in Barbary, subject to the Turk, near the place where Carthage formerly stood.
Turcomania, a province in Asia.
Turgow, a Countrey subject to the Switzers.
Turin, the chief town of Piedmont, and usual residence of the Dukes of Savoy.
Turingia, a Countrey and Langraviate in Germany.
Turquestan, one of the greatest parts of Tartary in Asia.
Turkie in Asia, a countrey so called in Asia.
Turkie in Europe, a countrey so called in the Eastern part of Europe.
Tuy, a City and Bishoprick in Gallicea.
Tyre, or Syr, a port town in Phenicia, at the end of the Mediterranean Sea in Asia, antiently more famous than it is at this day.
Tyrone, a county in the province of Ʋlster in Ireland.
Tzebona, a very strong town in Bohemia.
V.
VAbres, a City and Bishoprick in Rouergue in France.
Vai, a port town upon the coast of Genoa.
Vaijon, a city and Bishoprick in the country of Avignon.
Valaquia, a principality in Europe, tributary to the Turk.
Valdivia, a town in Chili, a countrey in America.
Valence, and city and Bishoprick upon the Rhone in Dauphine.
Valentia, a city and Archbishoprick in a Kingdom of the same name upon the Mediterranean Sea in Spain.
Valentia, a strong town in the Dutchy of Milan.
Valencrennes, a town in Hainault.
Valette, a town in the Isle of Malta, residence of the Grand Master of the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Valadolid, a town in Castille, one of the fairest of all Spain, antiently the seat of the Kings of Spain.
Vallage, a countrey in Champagne.
Vallai, or Vallesia, a countrey in a valley [Page 128] ly between the Alps and Geneva, leagued with the Switzers.
Valois, a country and Dutchy in the Isle of France.
Valona, a port town in Albania, subject to the Turk.
Valteline, a province in Switzerland, subject to the Grisons.
Van, a fortress of the Turks upon the frontiere of Persia.
Varna, a place in Bulgaria upon the black or Euxine sea, where the Turks gave the Christians a great overthrow.
Varnemund, a port town in Mehelbourg.
Vasserbourg, a town in Bavaria, where the Duke keeps his chiefest treasures.
Vaucluse, a fountain in the County of Avignon, famous for the frequent resort of the learned Poet Petrarck thither.
Vaudre vange, a town in Lorrain.
Ʋdenheim, or Philisbourg, a fortress in the Bishoprick of Spire.
Ʋdino, the chief town of Friuli, and residence of the Patriarck of Aquilea.
Veissel, or Vistule, a river in Poland, it runs to Cracovia, Warsovia, and Dantzik.
Vellai, a country in the Cevennes in Languedoc in France.
Venaissen, a county in which stands the town of Avignon, between Languedock Province, [Page 192] and the principality of Aurange.
Vence, a City and Bishoprick in Provence.
Vendosme, a Town, Dutchy, and small countrey upon the West of Beausse, a province in France.
Venice, a famous City and Head of as noble a Republique, seated in the sea, five miles distant from any land.
Venlo, a town in Guelderland, subject to the King of Spain.
Vennes, a City and Bishoprick in Britanny in France.
Vera-Cruz, a port town in New Spain, where arrive the Fleets which usually came to St. John d'Ʋlloa.
Veneeil, a City, Bishoprick, and Seigniory in Piedmont.
Verdemberg, a County subject to the Switzers.
Verdun, a City and Bishoprick of the Empire in Lorraine.
Verdun, a town in Burgundy.
Verdun, a town in a countrey of the same name in Gascony.
Vermandois, a countrey in Picardy.
Vermeio, a Sea, or rather a Streight near New Mexico.
Verneuil, a town in Normandy, famous for the overthrow the English there gave to the French in the year 1424, where 4500 French [Page 130] were slain upon the place, and the Earle of Narbone being taken was hanged, for assisting at the massacre of John Duke of Burgundy.
Verona, the chief town of a Countrey of the same nam ithin the Venetian Territories in Italy.
Vervins, a town in Picardy.
Vesel, a town in the Dutchy of Cleves, possessed by the States of Holland.
Veser, a River in the lower Saxony.
Vexin, a Countrey in Normandy and the Isle of France.
Veteravia, a Countrey in Germany upon the West of Hessen.
Viana, a town and principality in Navarre, antiently the apportion of the Prince of Navarre.
Vie, a town in Lorraine, where was held the treaty in the year 1632 between the French King and the Duke Charles of Lorraine.
Vicenza, the chief town of a small countrey in Italy, not far from Padua.
Vie le Comte, a town in Auvergne.
Vienna, the chief and strongest town of Austria, and residence of the Emperour of Germany.
Vienne, a City and Archbishoprick upon the Rhone in Dauphine, 5 leagues distant from Lyons.
[Page 131] Vienne, a River which runs to Limoges, a town in France.
Vigevan, a town in a small countrey of the same name in the Dutchy of Milan.
Vignoris, a town in Champagne.
Vihitz, the chief town of Croatia, possessed by the Turk.
Vilaine, a River in Britanny, runs through Rennes, the chief city of that province.
Vilne, the chief town of Lithuania, a province in Poland.
Villach, a town in Carinthia.
Villa France, a town in Piedmont, where the French defeated Prosper Colomna in the year 1516.
Ville Franche, a town in Rouergue.
Ville mur, a town in Languedoc.
Vimeux, a countrey in Picardy.
Vindau, a town in Curland.
Vineros, a port town in the Kingdom of Valentia in Spain.
Vire, a town in Normandy.
Virginia, a countrey of a vast extent in America.
Visapor, a town in India, on this side Ganges.
Visbui, a town in Gothland.
Viterbo, an antient town in St. Peters Patrimony, 40 miles on this side Rome.
Vitre le Francois, a town in Champagne.
[Page 119] Vitstock, a town in Brandenbourg, where the Swedes and Saxons got a great victory over the Imperialists, in 1636.
Viviers, the chief town of Vivaretz, a country in Languedoc upon the Rhone.
Vivaretz, as in Viviers.
Ʋlme, a town in Germany, where the Danube begins to grow navigable.
Ʋlster, a province in the North of Ireland.
Volfembutell, a fortress, and residence of the Dukes of Brunswick.
Volga, a river in Moscovy, and one of the greatest of Europe.
Volhinia, a province in Poland.
Vouille, a place near Poictiers in France, where Clovis King of France gained a great victory over Alaric King of the Gothes, whom he slew with his own hand.
Voutenai, a place near Auxerre in Burgundy, where Charles surnamed the Balde, got a great Victory over Lothaire, in the year 841.
Ʋpsal, a City and Archbishoprick, the Metropolitane of Sweden, where the Kings and Queens of that Kingdom are usually crowned.
Ʋraniborg, a Castle in an Island near Copenhagen, made famous by the residence of that learned Mathematician Tycho Brahe.
[Page 122] Ʋrbin, a City and Archbishoprick in the Ecclesiastick state, formerly the head of a Dutchy, which is now escheated to the church.
Ʋscoqs, a people in Dalmatia, subject to the house of Austria.
Ʋtrecht, a Seigniory, and one of the united provinces of the Netherlands.
Ʋtrecht, the chief town of that province, and one of the noblest in the low countries.
Ʋserch, a town in the province of Limosin in France.
Ʋses, a City, Bishoprick, and Dutchy in Lauguedoc in France.
W
WAles, a principality upon the West of England, of which the King of Englands eldest son carries the title of Prince.
Wardhust, a Castle in Norway.
Warrington, a town in Lancashire, upon the edge of Cheshire, where the scottish Army under Duke Hamilton were defeated by the Parliamentarians, in the year 1648.
Warsovia, the chief town of Mazovia in Poland.
Warwick, a town in a County of the same name, about the middle of England.
Waterford, a port town in Munster in Ireland.
Wiegats, a streight upon the south of new Zemble, through which the Hollanders in vain sought a passage China.
[Page 134] Weikersheim, the chief town of the County of Holac in Franconia.
Weymar, a town and Dutchy of the Empire in Turingia, the title of one of the greatest Captains of his time, Duke Barnard Saxon Weymar,
Weisemburg, an imperial town in Swabeland.
Weisembourg, a small province of the Empire in Alsatia.
Werthaim, a County of the Empire in Franconia.
Westphalia, a province of the Empire.
Wexforde, a port town in a County of the same name in Lemster in Ireland.
Wibourg, a town of great traffick in Leifland.
Wibourg, a city and diocess in Jutland.
Wighte, an Island upon the South of England in the British sea, under the Sheriff of Hampshire.
Winchester, a City and Bishoprick in Hampshire, the Bishop of which is prelate of the Garter.
Windsor, a castle Royal, upon the Thames, where are performed the ceremonies of the noble order of Garter.
Witzbourg, a City and Bishoprick of the Empire, whose Bishop has also the title of a Duke.
Wismar, a Hanse and Port town in Mekelbourg, given up to the crown of Sweden in 1648.
[Page 109] Wirtemberg, a Castle and dutchy of the Empire in Swabeland.
Wittemberg, the chief town of the Electorate of Saxony, famous for its fortifications, University, Regence of Luther, and residence of the Electors.
Whadislaw, the chief town of Cujavia a province in Poland.
Wolodimer, a town in Moscovy, formerly the residence of the great Dukes.
Wolgast, a town in Pomerania.
Wologda, a dutchy and fortress in the north part of Moscovy, where the great Duke keeps his chiefest treasures.
Worcester, a City and Bishoprick, the chief of Worcestershire about the middle of England.
Wormes, a City and Bishoprick of the Empire, in the lower Palatinate.
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XAintonge, the same with Saintonge.
Xarandille, a town in Castille near to Placentia, in Spain.
Xativa, a town in the Kingdom of Valentia in Spain.
Xeres de la frontera, a town in Andaluzia, where the Moores gave the Gothes a great overthrow in the year 712.
Y.
YArmouth, a port town in the county of Norfolke.
Yenne, a town in Savoy upon the Rhone.
York, a City, County, Archbishoprick and Dutchy, the second son of the King of England, has the title of the Duke of York; it is famous for the Residence of two Emperours, Severus and Constentine, who dyed there.
Youghall, a port town in Munster in Ireland
Yverton, a town in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Yvetot, a Signiory in the country of Caux in Normandy, it bore antiently the Title of a Kingdom.
Yvice, a town in an Island of the same name in the Mediterranean sea, upon the Coast of Spain.
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ZAara, or the Desart, otherwise called Lybia, a country in Africa.
Zagathai, a part of Tartary in Asia.
Zagrab, a town in Sclavonia, belonging to the house of Austria.
[Page] Zahaspe, a port town in the Caspian sea in Zagathai.
Zaire, a River of Congo, also a Lake of the same name in Abissinia.
Zamos [...]y, a town in Poland.
Zanguebar, a country in Africa.
Zanhaga, a country and wilderness in Lybia.
Zante, a town in an Island of the same name upon the West of Greece, subject to the state of Venice.
Zara, a very strong City, Archbishoprick, and Port, the best in all Dalmatia, subject to the Venetians.
Zegne, a port town in Dalmatia, subject to the house of Austria.
Zeland, an Island in Denmark.
Zeland, an Island and one of the united Provinces of the Low countries.
New Zemle, an Island in the Northern seas near Europe and Asia, newly discovered.
Zerbi, a small Island upon the coasts of Barbary, near the Kingdom of Tripoli.
Zibith, a town and Kingdom of Turkey in Asia, in Arabia the happy.
Ziden, a port town in Meca▪ in Arabia the happy.
Zimbao, a town and fortress in Monomotapa.
Zoaro, a town in Barbary upon the coast of Tripoli.
Zocotora, a town in an Island of the same [Page 138] name upon the coast of Zanguebar.
Zollingen, a town in Germany near the Rhine
Zuhal, one of the Philippine Islands, made eminent by the death of the famous Magellan.
Zug, a town and Canton in Switzerland.
Zuickau, a town in Misnia.
Zulch, or Zulpich, formerly Tolbiac, a town in the Dutchy of Juliers.
Zurich, a town and Canton in Switzerland.
Zutphen, a county, and one of the united Provinces, also the chief town of that county Zweibruck, a Dutchy of the Empire in the lower Palatinate.
Zygeth, a town in Hungary, at the siege of which dyed the great Emperour of the Turks, Solyman the Magnificent, in the year 1566.
A Catalogue of some Books Printed for H. Brome' at the Gun in Ivy-Lane.
THe alliance of Divine Offices, exhibiting all the Liturgies of Engl. since the Reformation, by Hamon L'estrange in fol.
The Souls Conflict, being eight Sermons preach'd at Oxford, and so much recommended by Dr. Hewit, in 8
Dr. Browns Sepulchral Urns and Garden of Cyrus, in 8
Two Essayes of Love and Marriage, in 12
The Royal Exchange, a Comedy in 4. by R. Brome.
Five new Playes, by R. Brome, never belore printed in 8
Poems by the Wits of both Universities, in 8.
A Treatise of Moderation, by Mr. Gaule in 8
St. Boniventure's Soliloques, in 24.
Mr. Baxters treatise of Conversion, in 4
Golden Remains, by that most learned R. Stuart, D. D Dean of Westminster, and Clerk of the Closet to King. Charles the first, being the last and best Monuments that are likely to be made publick, in 12
Mr. Sprats plague of Athens, in 4
Jewes in America by Mr. Thorowgood, in 4
The Royal Buckler, or a Lecture for Traytors, in 8.
A review of some late remarkable Transactions, leading to the happy Government under our gracious Soveraign K. Charles the Second, by R. L'estrange Esq; in 4.
The Holy Cheat, proving by the undeniable practises of the Presbyterians, that the whole design of that party is to enslave both King and People under the colour of Religion, by R. L'estrange Esq;
The Relaps'd Apostate, or notes upon the Presbyterians petition for peace.
State Divinity, or a supplement to the Relapfed Apostate, all by R. L'estrange.
A Caveat to the Caveliers.
[Page] A modest plea both for the Caveliers and the Author
All the Songs on the Rump, in 8
The Pourtracture of his sacred Majesty King. Charles the Second, from his birth 1630 till this present year 1661 being the whole story of his escape at Worcester, his travels and troubles.
The Covenant discharged by John Sussell, in 4
The compleat art of Water-drawing, in 4
Mr. Boys his Translation the 6th book of Virgil, in 4
Mr. Walwin's Sermon on the happy returne of K [...]ng Charles the second.
A perfect Discovery of Witchcraft, very profitable to be read of all sorts of people, especially Judges of Assize before they passe sentence on condemned persons for witches, in 4
A short view of the Lives of the Illustrious Princes, Henry Duke of Gloucester, and Mary princess of Orange deceased, by T. M. Esq; in 8
Aeneas his Voyage from Troy to Italy, an Essay upon the third Book of Virgil, by J. Boys Esq; in 8
Mr. Grenfields Sermon in behalf of the Loyal party.
Mr. Stones Sermon at St. Pauls October 20. 1661.
The Harmony of the World, in 8
Blood for Blood in 35 Tragical stories; the five last being the sad product of our late Rebellion; in 8.