Mr. R A y’j Travels 
Book ir. 
as in moft other Places in Holland, The Stadthoufe is 
a ftately Strudure, and the old and new Churches are 
very large. In the middle of the Quire of the laft of 
thele, you fee the fumptuous Tomb of William Earl of 
Najfaw, Prince of Orange.^ who was affaflinated by the 
Spaniards^ as this following Infcription tells you ; 
D. O, M. ■ 
El 
,MterncB memorise 
Gulielmi Najfoviiy 
Supremi Arauftonenfmm PrincipiSi 
Pair. Pair. 
^i Belgii fortunis fuas pojlhabuil^ 
El fuorum. 
Validijfimos exercitus are plurmum privato 
Bis confcripjit^ bis induxit j 
Ordinum aufpiciis Hifpania tyrannidem propulit 
V <’,ra religionis cultum, avitas patria leges 
Revocavit^ reftituit : 
Ipfam deniqy liber t at em t ant urn non ajjertam 
Mauritio Principi^i 
Paterna virtutis haredi filio^ 
' Stabiliendam reliquit ; 
Herois vere filii^ prudentis^ invidli % 
^em Philip. II. Hifp. R. ille Europa timor^ timuit^ 
Non domuit^ non terruit ; 
Sed empto percujfore fraude^ nefanda 
Suffulit. 
Fcederat. Belg. Provinc. 
Perenne memor. monum. 
Fee. 
In the Quire of the old Church is the Tomb of the 
famous Van Fromp with this Infcription : 
two Burgomafiers^ feven Efehevins, and forty Senators 
which they alfo call the Vroetfehap. ’ 
May 28. We pafs*d by Water, in lefs than an Houf*s 
Time, to the Hague., being rather a Village than a City, 
and not enclofed with Walls or any thino- elfe ; but 
for the Fairnefs of its Streets and beautiful Houfes’ and 
Number of People, may challenge the Preference be- 
fore many Cities, The Grove which is near it, is ex- 
ceeding pleafant, and here I firft faw the Monophyllum 
grow wild, as I found at Scheveling^ a Village on the 
Sea-'fide, near the Hague ^ a Species of Spartum mariti^ 
mum, much larger than our Englifh kind. Whilft we 
were at the Hague ^ we took the Opportunity of view- 
ing the Burial Place of a certain Lady of Zealand, in 
the Church of Laufdun, a Village about five or fix 
Englifh Miles from the Hague, who, as the Infcription 
tells you, was the Wife of Herman, Earl of 
Hennenbergh, and Daughter of Florentius, Earl of Hol- 
land and Zealand, and Sifter to William King of the 
Romans, &c. This Lady being about 40 Years of 
Age, and meeting with a poor Woman that had Twins 
in her Arms, told her that fhe muft have been dilhoneft 
to her Husband, as not believing that two Children 
could be begot at once 5 at which the poor Woman 
being highly concerned, wifh’d that fhe might bring 
forth as many Children at a Birth, as there were Days 
in the Year i which was fulfilled in 1276, when at one 
Birth fhe was brought to Bed of 365 Children of both 
Sexes, who were baptiz’d by Guido, Suffragan of Utrecht, 
in two Brafs Bafons, the Sons having the Name of John, 
and the Daughters that of Elizabelh given them ; and 
foon after died all in one Day, as did alfo the Mother, 
and were buried in this Church of the Village of Lanf- 
dun. This Infcription is to be feen in Latin, over the 
two Bafons, in which they fay, thefe Children were bap- 
tiz’d, and beneath it this Diftich : ^ 
JEterna Memoria, < 
^i Batavos, qui virtutem ac verum labofem amas, lege 
ac luge. 
Batava gentis decus, virtutis bellica fulmen hie facet, qui 
vivus nunquam jacuit, Cd imperatorem Jiantem debere 
mori fuo exemplo docuit ; Amor civium, holUum terror, 
Oceani Jiupor, Martinus Harperti Trompius ; ^0 no- 
mine plures continentur laudes, quam hie lapis capit 
fane ahgujiior ; Et cui Schola Oriens lA Occidens, mare 
materia triumphorum, Univerfus Orhis theatrum gloria 
fuit : Pradonum certa pernicies, commercii fedix ajfertor, 
familiaritate utilis non vilis, pofiquam nautas ac milites, 
durum genus, paterno A cum efficacia benigno rexit im- 
perio, pod L.pralia, quorum Dux fuit aut pars magna, 
poji infignes, fupra Jidem, vidlorias, pod fummos, infra 
meritum, honores, tandem bello Anglico, tantum non 
vidor, certe inviBus, X. Aug. Anno iErse Chriftianse 
M.D.C.LJII. iEtat. LVI. vivere ac vincere defiit. Fee- 
der ati Belgii Patres Heroi optime merito M. P. 
Over his Arms was written the following Diftich. 
Urbs * Phabi cineres fadat, fed currus 1| honores 
Jngreditur quoties egrediturque mari. 
* i. e. Delphi. |j Pheehi nimirum feu foils. 
One Mr. Mere an Apothecary of that City had a 
fine Mufeewn of natural and artificial Rarities, and 
among the reft, the Dens Hippopotami (though I quefti- 
on whether there be fuch an Animal) the Horns of 
the Hircus Bezoardicus, and the Cornua lA Pedes Aids, 
call’d the Elk in Englifh j the fame I fuppofe, which in 
New-England and Virginia, is call’d Moofe ; a Species of 
Deer of a tall and large Size, the Horns being with- 
out Brow- Antlers, but only a broad Palm of feveral 
Shags upon it. I faw one of thofe Horns at Lewes, 
at Mr. Holney*?, an Apothecary, that weighed twenty five 
Pounds, and the Skin of an Elk fluff, in the Great 
Duke of Florence's Gallery. In the Anatomical Theatre 
we alfo faw many Rarities, too many to be inferred 
here. Delft is famous for its Earthen Ware, which is 
made in great Plenty there, in Imitation of China. 
The Government is adminifter’d by a Prator or Schouty 
En tibi monfirofum nimis lA memorabile fadum, 
^ale nec d mundi conditione datum. 
7. May 31. We went in one of their Paflage-boats 
in three Hours from hence to Leyden, being, next to 
Amfierdam, the largeft City in Holland. The great 
Church of St. Peter contains many Monuments of learn- 
ed Men, and in the French Church is among others, 
that of Jofeph Scaliger. The Schools for publick Lec- 
tures is a Strudurc of three Stories high, of Brick, hav- 
ing two Rooms on a Floor; the two lower being af- 
fign’d for Divinity and Phyfick ; middlemoft for Law 
and Philofophy ; and the uppermoft contains the 
Printing-Houfe, fo well known by the Name of Of- 
ficina Elzeviriana. Every Year a Catalogue is printed 
in Latin, and affixed to the School-Gates, containing 
the Names of the ProfefTors, and what publick Ledure 
each of them is to keep the Year following. Behind 
the School-Yard is the Phyfick-Garden, whfch enclofes 
about an Acre of Ground in the Square, and has a con- 
fiderable Number of exotick Plants ; the Catalogues of 
which are alfo frequently publifhed here. They have 
no more than two Colleges here, in the Nature of Hof- 
pitals, for the Suftinence of poor Scholars, the reft of 
the Students living upon their own Purfe, without any 
Gowns or Caps, but walk the Streets with their Swords, 
and appear in the Schools, and perform their Exercifes 
in them, with their Heads uncover’d. Thofe that have 
a Mind to be Members of the Univerfity, apply them- 
felves to the Redor Magnificus (refembling the Vice- 
Chancellor of our Univerfity) who enters them into 
the Book, and gives them a Seal, by which they are 
freed from paying of Excife, yet under a certain Limi- 
tation. Befides the publick Leflures, each of the Pro- 
feflbrs allot certain Hours for reading in private (which 
they call Collegia) for which the Auditors pay a Gratuity. 
Degrees ( of which they have only thofe of Mapler of 
Arts and Dodors) are conferr’d here, without the leaft 
refpedl to the Handing of the Candidates. He that 
is to commence in any Faculty, propofes only certain 
Thefes upon a feleded Subject in Print, which he is 
obliged to maintain againft all Opponents, every one 
having 
