Volume 1

The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri].

  • Moréri, Louis, 1643-1680.
Date:
1701
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Credit: The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Vigilance and Induftry of its Inhabitants draws into it vaii Sums from the Neighbouring Countries, efpccially in time ot Peace; Ibme having calculated that they fell 14 Millions of Livres worth of Silks into Foreign Countries every Year. That their Wine brings’em 15, their Brandy 5, and their Salt 10 Millions, and lb of feveral others; and it’s well known, they have a confiderable part of what the Spaniards draw from America, for the leveral Commodities they ferve that Nation with. Prance has no great Matter in the other parts of the World, befidcs fome Colonies in the Iflands, in the Northern Parts of Hijpanwla, with the Fifhery in Kew- fonnd-Land, fome Colonics in Canada -in& New France. It’s true, they have often form’d a Defign of getting looting in the Eal}-Indies, hnt the Hollanders arc too Potent in thole Parts tofutfer it. As for the Revenues of France, the Clergy who are faid to have three Fifths of the whole have a Hun¬ dred and four millions and hive hundred thoufand Livres Yearly Income. The King, by the heavy Impofitions he has laM upon the poor Subjefts, has rais’d his to an Hundred and fifty milliors; whereas in King //enr/IVth’s Reign, the' Re¬ venue of the Crown did not exceed Nineteen millions of Livres. As for the number of its Inhabitants, Cardinal Riche¬ lieu having order’d as exaft a Suppuration as could be well made, bragg’d that itmightfurnilhdooooo Foot, and 150000 Horfe : But the late Perfecution has made it much thinner. There were formerly Dakes, Counts, and other Lords in France, that were very powerful; who though they pay’d the King Homage, obey’d him but when they thought fit; Now there is no fuch thing, all tliofe Lands being incorporated in the Demefns of the Crown; the Diitchies and Counties now being only Lordfhips, honour’d with the fpecious Titles, without Sovereignty or Jurifdiftion. And Richelieu and Ma- i^arine have fo weakned the other Gentry, that they are fcarce a Shadow of what they were. The Laws of this Kingdom are either Temporary, or Alterable; or Fundamental, which neither King nor Parliament, as they fay, can alter: As the Salique Law, and Law of Appennages. By the firff. Women cannot enjoy the Crown, nor any in their Right: And by the fecond, the Younger Sons of Kings are not to have Partage in the Kingdom with their Elder Brothers; but muff content themfelves with a certain Revenue fctled upon them, with the Title of Dukes, Counts, or as the King pleafes. As for the Clergy of France, they fland more againft the Encroachments of the See o{Rome, than any other that lives under the Pope’s Authority ; which they acknow¬ ledge fo far only as is confiflcnt with their own Privileges, and the Right of their Sovereign, over whom they deny any Temporal Power in the Pope. In formet Times, the Eleftion of Archbifhops, Bifhops Abbots, ify-c. belong’d to the Chapters and Convents, which was confirm'd by the Councilof-B.t/e; according to which, the pragmatieal San¬ ction of Charles VII. was modell’d. It’s true, this was abolifh’d by the Concordate made between Francis 1. and Pope Yeo X. in 1515. Now the King, in d Months after the Deceafe of any Prelate or Abbot, names a fit Perfon to fucceed, who is confirm’d by the Pope, and during the Va¬ cancy, the King enjoys the Revenues, and all other things be¬ longing to the vacant See; which is call’d Xe^ij//<r,or the Prero¬ gative Royal.The manner of holding an Alfembly oftheEftates- Gcneral of the Kingdom, is as follows. Thefe States, which are much the fame with our Englijh Parliaments, confift of three Orders, or Ranks of Men, vin^. The Clergy, the Noblefs, and the third Eft ate. The King calls them together at his pfcafure, by a Summons fent to the refpeffive Parliaments, or Courts of Juftice, which Parliaments tranfmit the Edict, or Summons to the Bailiffs, and other inferiour Judges; E- very Town draws up a Bill or Schedule of what they intend to propofe in the Affembly; The Clergy likevvife, and the Noblefs obferve the fame Method : Thefe three Schedules being fent to the refpeCtive Bailiff, are contracted or form’d into one, which is carried to the Parliament of the DiftriCt, where a general Bill for each Province is drawn up. The Deputies of the Three EJiates of each Province being pre- fent, the Bills or Articles of the whole Kingdom are reduc'd to three, one for the Clergy, another tor the Noblefs, and a third for the third Ejlate. At the laft Affembly of the E- jlates-General, held at Paris in 11514. The Clergy had a hun¬ dred and forty Reprefentatives, confifting of Cardinals, Arch- bilhops, Bilhops, and other inferiour Eeclefiafticks; The No¬ blefs were reprefented by a hundred and thirty two of their Order; and the third Ejiate, had a hundred and ninety two Deputies, who had, moft of ’em, Commiffions in the Courts of |uflice, or in the Treafury and Royal Revenues. In the lole'mn ProcefTion of this Affembly; The third Eftate goes firff, the Noblefs ne-Kt, and the Clergy laft: In the great Hall where they attend the King. There are two Benches of eaeh fide ; where the Eeclefiafticks fit on the Right, and the No¬ blefs on the Left-hand, having the third Eftate plac’d behind tliem. Thefe three Orders, or Chambers, have each their refpeffive Prefident, and in the Alfembly above-mention’d, the Cardinal of Joyeufe was for the Clergy ; the Baron d' Se- necy, for the Noblefs, and the Frevoft des Merchans, or Mayor of Paris tor the third Eftate. Some Authors will have this Affembly confift of four Orders, making the Officers of Ju¬ ftice the fourth ; but thefe, in reality, by the French Conffi- tution, are but part of the third. The Affembly of the E- ftates-General Iras not been conven’d fince Lewis the Xlllth. the Royal Prerogative being fo much enlarged fince that time that’tis now the Method of that Court to raife Taxes,and fet¬ tle affairs without them. The Kings of France ffile them¬ felves Moft Chriftian, pretend a Right of Precedency for their Embafliidours, before thofe of all other Crown’d Heads in Europe, except the Pope and Emperour. They are Crown’d at Rheims, and Bury’d at St. Denys; the Ceremonies of both which Solemnities are too many to be inferted here. The Emperour Charles V. us’d to fay. The Italians appear Wife, and are really fo; the Spaniards feem Wife, but are not: but the French are Wife, without appearing fo. If we will believe their own Authors, the good Qualities and Moral Vertues of the Chief Parts of Europe, are found eminently in fome one of their Provinces; as, the Freenefs of Germany, in Picardy ; theG^nerofity of theS'weYe, in Champagne-, the Affivity of Poland, in Languedoc-, the Prudence ofin Provence-, the Gravity of Spain, in Gafeony-, the Faithfulnefs of land, in Dauphine'i the Subtilty of Greece, in Normandy-, and the Induftry of Flanders, in Burgundy. Their Language is a Mixture of the Greek, Latin aud German Tongues: The Latin was formerly much us’d in the Provinces about the Loire-, and the PubJick Aff;s were in that Tongue, until 1535. that Francis 1. order’d they fhould be made in French. The Duration of this Monarchy is reckon’d 1300 Years; and Lewis XIV. is their dqth. King. See The Prefent State of France. Puffendorff, IntroduU. Hift. FRANCFORT upon tlie Mein, in I.atin Francofurtum, an Imperial City of Germany in Franconia, within the Diocefs of Mayence, is divided into two parts by the River, of which the larger part retains the Name which is common to the whole City ; The other, which is a kind of Suburb, is call’d by the Name of Saxen<‘Haufen, or the Houfe of the Saxons. Both parts are very ffrong, and furrounded with wide Moats full of Water, and well faced. The moft confiderable Stru- ffures are, St. Bartholomew's Church. The Town-Houfe, where the Golden Bull is kept; The Imperial Palace; the Fortrefs; the Bridge between two Towers; the Haven, ify-c. The Cathedral is fuppes’d to have been built by King Pepin, or rather by Lewis the Pious, King of Germany, who died ac Franefort. The Houles are built of Wood cover’d with Plai- fter, and Painted on the out-fide. There are in it feveral fair Squares, inhabited by wealthy Merchants. Three things make her famous; the Eleftion of the Emperours, who have been always cholen there fince the Conftitution of the Gol¬ den Bull; it’s being the place where the fame Golden Bull is preferv’d ; and the place where two of the greateft Fairs in Germany are kept for the Utterance of all forts of Commo¬ dities, and particularly for Books, both printed and Sold in that Town. This City was call’d thus before the Reign of Charles the Great, upon the Account of the Paffage the Franks had here over the Mein; though it was a City long before under another Name. But the Suburbs was call’d Saxen- Haufen, the Dwelling of the Saxons. The greateft part of J:he Citizens are Lutherans, though Roman Catholicks and Calvinifls zre tolctzteA, as alfo the ye»>r. The Town is go¬ vern’d by Confuls, Senators and Sheriffs chofen by the Tra- defmen. In the Year 794. there was a General-Council of the W'effern-Church, held at Franefort, under Charles the Great-, at which, Theophylatius and Stephanas, the Pope’s Legates, and about 300 r.ilhops were prelent. The two principal Points difputed, determin’d and condemn’d in this Synod, were, Firff, The Herefie of Elipandus Bifhop of Toledo, and Felix Bifhop of Vrghell. They maintain’d that our Saviour was only the Son of God by Adoption. Second- ly. The Controveriie about Images being examin’d to the Bottom; it was, at laff, decreed, that they might be re¬ tained in Churches for ri.freihing the Hiftory of what they reprefented upon the Memory, and for Ornament-fake, but by no means to be ador’d or worfhipp’d, in any Meafure; Infomuch that the Atls of the fecond Council of Nice, drawn up with Indifcretion and Arrogancy, for the Adora¬ tion of Images, or to ufe the words of the Opus Carolinum, Qua in partibus Gracia, pro adorandis Imaginibus ftolide five ar- roganter gefta eft, upon a full Debate of the Cafb, vvere condemn’d and revers’d: The Teftimonies of the Fathers and other Ecclefiaffical Authors, made ufe of by the Ni- cene Affembly, were brought upon the Board, and ill the Sophiffry and falfc Colouring of that Council folidly refu¬ ted ; fo that upon the whole matter, this Council of Franc- fort pronounc’d the fecond Council of Nice, no General- Council, neither was it effeem’d any other than a Pfeudo or pretended Synod, by the Writeis of that Age. This, befides other Inffances, may be prov’d from a French Anna- lift, where mentioning the Year 794. p. 13. he fpeaks of the Council of FYanefort, in thefe words, Pfeudo-Synodus Graco- rum pro adorandis Imaginibus habita, fpp falfo Jeptima vocata, ab Epifeopis damnatur, whieh words are repeated by the Au¬ thor of Charles the Vth’sLife, pag. $6. That matters were thus tranliifted, in the Council of Franefort, appears, not only by the Teftimony of almoff all the confiderable Writers of that, and the next fucceeding Ages, uQ. Of Adrian, a Synod