Chap. III. Low-Countrie 
ferent Face from what you fee in Holland, their Fields 
being for the moft part plough’d Lands enclofed with 
flrong Hedges. 
Two Hours from Utrecht we pafs’d in Sight of Zeijl, 
and of the Caftle on the Right Hand; It is a very 
handfom Strudlure, enclofed with a Ditch full of run- 
ning Water, adorn’d with Labyrinths, Gardens, Sta- 
tues, Fountains, and other Ornaments, being built not 
many Years ago by one of the richeft Lords of this 
Country. The Fields betwixt Rhenen and Arnheim are 
for the moft part planted with Tobacco, propp’d by 
Stakes ; and at Rhincom, a Village three Hours on this 
Side of Rhenen, you fee a Stone, which is the Boundary 
betwixt the Lordfhip of Utrecht and the Province of 
Guelders. 
Arnhem has nothing remarkable but its Fortifica- 
tions. Two Hours and a half beyond it we pafs’d the 
TJfel, divided into three Branches near each other ; 
and afterwards continuing our Journey through Doef- 
hurgh, (a little City on that River, in the Province of 
Zutphen) we dined in a poor Village, if Milk with Bif- 
cuit may be call’d a Dinner ; but the worft is, that our 
Fare was no better at Night, when we lodg’d at TJfel- 
iurgh, a fmall difmantled Town upon the Borders of 
Cleves. 
Between this laft Place and the City of Wefel the 
Country is fandy, and full of Woods : Its Fortifica- 
tions are but indifferent, but they were then bufy in 
erefting a Citadel betwixt this City and the Fort of 
Lippe upon the Bank of the Rhine, It is under the 
JurifdiClion of the Eledfor of Brandenburgh, who, by 
vertue of a Treaty made with the Duke of Newburgh, 
(now Eledtor Palatine) grants Liberty of Confcience to 
the Roman Catholicks, the fame being allow’d recipro- 
cally to the Protestants in the Dutchies of Juliers and 
Berg, under the Eledor Palatine's Jurifdidion. The 
Calvinists have two Churches, the Lutherans and Roman 
Catholicks each of them one, for the Exercife of their 
Divine Worftiip. The Jews have likewife a little Syna- 
gogue there. 
About half an Hour beyond Wefel we pafs’d the Ri- 
ver Lippe, which joins its Waters with the Rhine, and 
arrived before Night at Duishurgh, a City of the fame 
Bignefs with Wefel, but without any Fortifications : It 
has however an Univerfity, but no great Concourfe of 
Scholars. The great Church belongs to the Protejiants, 
but the Roman Catholicks enjoy alfo the fame Exercife 
of their Religion, and have even the Liberty of car- 
rying the Hoft in publick ProcelTion, though they re- 
frain from doing it, for Fear of giving Occafion of 
Difturbance. 
Not above half a League beyond Uuisburgh we en- 
tred the Country of Berg, and in two Hours after pafs’d 
through the little City of Keyferwaert, feated upon the 
Rhine, and very well fortified. 
Hence we continued our Journey to Dujfeldorp, the 
Refidence of the Eledoral Prince Palatine. It is much 
larger and better peopled than Duisburgh, and its For- 
tifications in a very good State, but has no Suburbs, 
any more than Keyferwaert. 
6. The City of Cologne affords a moft agreeable 
Profped at a Diftance, by its Situation in a plain and 
level Country, and the vaft Number of Steeples, which 
make a moft glorious Shew. Though it be of prodigious 
Extent, yet is it furrounded with a Wall, Towers, Baf- 
tions, and a dry Ditch. It has twenty four Gates, 
thirteen to the Land, and eleven on the Rhine. It is 
an Imperial City, govern’d by its own Magiftrates, 
though the Archbilhop and Eledlor of that Name has 
fome Share both in the Civil and Criminal Jurifdic- 
tion, and a Prerogative of pardoning Criminals. The 
Oath, which the Citizens take to this Prince, feems to 
be a Kind of Homage, conceived in thefe Terms ; 
W ? the free Citizens of Cologne do this Day, for now 
and for ever, fromife to A. B. Archbifbop of Cologne, 
to be faithful and favourable to him, as long as he Jhall 
preferve, in our Rights and Honour, and in our ancient 
Privileges, Us, our Wives, our Children, and our City 
of Cologne. So God and his Saints help u§. 
VoL, II. Numb. 105, 
3, Germ ANY, 525 
The Anfwer of the Archbilhop is as follows ; 
We A. B. by the Grace of God, Archbilhop of the holy 
Church of Cologne, and Arch-Chancellor of the Empire 
in Italy, to the End that an amicable Confederacy, entire 
Confidence, and fine ere and lafiing Peace, may be cultivated 
betwixt Us and our dear Burgeffes of the City of Cologne, 
do make known by thefe Prefents, and promife and declare 
fincerely, without Fraud, that we do confirm all their 
Rights and Privileges, written or not written, old or new, 
within or without the City of Cologne, which have been 
granted to it by the Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Arch- 
bijhops of Cologne, without ever doing any Thing to vio-* 
late the fame. In T ftimony whereof, &c. 
The whole Chapter of Cologne is compofed of fixty 
Canons, who muft be Princes or Counts, but the 
twenty four eldeft are the Capitularies. -According to 
the Golden Bull, the Eledlors of Cologne ufed to crown 
the Emperor ; but thefe Archbilhops not having beeS^ 
Priefts for a confiderable Time, thofe of Mentz have 
perform’d the fame in their Stead, and fince that chal- 
lenge it as a Right. 
There are a confiderable Number of Protejiants in 
this City, who have a Church not far thence, in the 
Territories of the Duke of Newburgh, they ftile them 
Gueux or Beggars to this Day, by the fame Name that 
was given at Brujfels to the firft Authors of the Agree- 
ment by the Count de Barlemont. 
The Townhoufe is a vaft Fabrick, after the Gothick 
Manner : Here they Ihew whole Rooms full of Bows, 
Arrows, Crols-bows, Bucklers, and fuch Sort of antick 
Arms. One of thefe Crofs-bows was of Whalebone, 
and twelve Foot long, eight Inches broad, and four 
Inches thick. From the Tower of this Houfe there is 
a moft delightful Profpeift of the whole City and of 
the adjacent Country. That Part which lies oppofite 
to the City, on the other Side of the River, is chiefly 
inhabited by the Jews, and belongs to the Territories 
of Newburgh. The Cathedral Church (or rather its 
Beginning) is fo fine, that it is a thoufand Pities it 
Ihould not be brought to Perfeffion. Here lies en- 
tomb’d, as is pretended, the three Kings of the Eaft> 
that came to worlhip our Saviour, being transferr’d hi- 
ther from Milan, A. D. 1162. at the Time when Fre-^ 
derick Barbarojfa laid that City defolate. They report 
here abundance of Miracles wrought by them j and 
among the reft, that an exceflive Dearth having been 
occafioned by a great Drought in Hungary, abundance 
of that Country came hither to implore the Affiftance 
of thefe three Kings, who promifed them Rain, which 
following foon after in great Plenty the Hungarians, in 
Remembrance of this Miracle, come every feven Years 
in Pilgrimage to Cologne, where they are entertained 
by the Magiftrates for a Fortnight, in a handfome 
Houfe built for that Purpofe. 
In the Vaulted Roof of this Church, almoft over the 
Chapel that contains thefe precious Relicks, is a Hole 
of three or four Foot wide, round the Opening of 
which you fee thefe Words •, Anno 1404. 30 OSi. Ven^ 
tus de noble flat ingens, grandem per tedium lapidem pellit ; 
i. e. On the o^oth of Odober, 1404, the Wind blew very 
hard in the Night, and forc'd d great Stone through the 
Roof ; The Stone is ftill to be feen upon the Floor near 
this Chapel ; they call it the Devil's Stone, becaufe they 
were of Opinion that the Devil threw it out of Malice, 
Over one of the Doors of the fame Church we faw thirty 
fix gilt Staves about three Foot long each, with this Di- 
ftich under them ; 
^ot pendere vides Baculos tot Epifeopus Annos 
Huic Agrippin<£ prafuit EccleficB. 
Upon Enquiry we found, that the prefent Ele€for 
was then in the thirty feventh Year of his Reign, but 
could not learn either the true Original or Ufe of this 
Cuftom. 
In the Church of St. Urfula they fhew you the Tombs 
of the eleven thoufand Virgins that were maflacred by 
the Huns 2X Cologne, in the Year 238, together with 
this Saint, unto whofe Memory is dedicated this 
6 S Church. 
