\ 
744 Dr. Bro-w 
The Library belonging to this Church has feveral old 
Manufcripts, and among the reft a Bible in fix Vo- 
lames, painted and gilded after a very ancient Way. 
The two German Idols, beftowed upon this Place by 
the Emperor Henry IV. are worth taking Notice of for 
their Antiquity’s Sake : As alfo a Horn faid to be made 
of Ivory. I law alfo three Sea-Unicorns Horns, (be- 
ing an Animal in the Northern Seas) one of which 
being tipp’d with Silver, ferved for a Drinking-Cup. 
They were about five Foot long *, though the King of 
Denmark has two that were taken near Nova Zembla.^ 
that have ten Foot in Length : This King’s Father had 
fo many of them, that he beftowed above one hundred 
of them for the making of a magnificent Throne. I 
myfelf have feen fome fifteen Foot long, and a Walk- 
ing-Staff, a Sceptre, Scabbard for a Sword, and other 
Curiofities made of the Teeth of this Animal, but could 
never be convinced of its Effedls againft Poifon, or any 
contagious Diftemper, though I have given it frequent- 
ly, and in very great Qiiantities. 
Here I had alfo the Honour to fee Dr. Cyprianus, ah 
OcSterga.^ Dr. Regius., Voetius., the only Member left 
alive of the Synod of Dort i but unfortunately mifs’d 
the Sight of the famous Anna Maria Skurrnan^ ftie be- 
ing gone into the Country, yet had the good Fortune 
to fee her Pidlure, drawn by her own Hand, with this 
Infcription : 
Cernitis hie pihid noftros in Imagine vultus^ 
Si negat ars formam gratia veftra dahit, 
I travel’d from Utrecht., in two Hours, to Frifwick., 
and croffing the River Leek to Vianen, where there is no- 
thing remarkable befides the Houfe and Gardens of 
Count Brederode, accounted the nobleft Family in Hol- 
land., as that of Wajfenger is the moft ancient, and that 
of Egmont the richeft. A Mount belonging to this 
Garden, makes Part of the Rampart of the Place. 
The Statues of the Twelve Ccefars., of Ariiiotle., with 
fome Pyramids, Partitions, and Paintings, are Orna- 
ments, fuitable to a Traveller’s Curiofity. 
Hence I pafs’d by Boat through the Country of Ar- 
kel^ and came the fame Night to Gorcum, a City fitu- 
ate near the three Rivers, the Ling, the kFaal, and the 
Maefe : It has a pretty handfome Market-place, and 
a Church with a very high Steeple. The Fortifica- 
tions are of Earth j and over the Water-Gate you fee 
this Infcription : 
Civitas in qua maxime Gives legihus parent, lA in pace 
be at a, (A hello invidia. 1642, 
Which Infcription feemed to have been fulfil’d in 
1672, when the powerful Army of Lewis XIV. King 
of France, who conquered thirty Cities in one Cam- 
paign, did not extend their Conquefts beyond this 
Place. From Gorcum I went to W or cum, on the other 
Side of the River, and fo by the Caftle of Loveftein, 
famous for the Imprifonment of Barnevelt •, which, 
fince that Time, has given that Name to the whole 
Party, which is generally called in Holland the Lovefiein 
Fadlion. 
5. Pafiing farther up the Maefe, we came the next 
Day to Hertogen Bofehe, having left Proye on the Left, 
and Heufden on the Right Hand. This City, called by 
fome Sylva Duds, Boifeduc, and Bolduc, is a well for- 
tified City, fituate upon the River Difa, or Deefe, which 
joins its Waters, two Leagues below this Place, with 
the Maefe, being one of the chief Frontiers belonging 
to the United Provinces on that Side, and ftrong both 
by Art and Nature. Its Avenues are only Caufeways 
made through the Marfhes, with various Turnings, 
commanded by fix fmall Forts ; befides which, the 
Town is both commanded and defended by a Cittadel, 
confifting of five regular Baftions. The Market-place 
here is triangular. In the Cathedral (which is dedicated 
to St. John) are many of the Arms of the Knights of 
4he Golden Fleece, and on the upper Stalls an Infcrip- 
tion containing a Ihort Account of the firft Inftitution 
‘ of this Order, by Philip firnamed the Good, Duke of 
NEU Ffavels Book If. 
Burgundy, Lorrain, and Brabant. It was made an Epifi 
copal See in 1559, and taken by the Dutch from the 
Spaniards in 1628. 
From hence we purfued our Journey through a plain 
and fandy Country to Breda, a City fituated upon the 
River Merk. It is very w'dl fortified, with a large Ditch 
round the Counterfearp, and a Ravelin betwixt each 
Baftion, joined to the Rampart with-infide of the Ditch 5 
befides a good Number of Flalf-moons and Korn- 
works, and a Parapet ftrengthened with a double Row 
of Elms. This Place belongs to the Prince of Orange, 
The Spaniards took it in the Beginning of the Low 
Country Wars ; but the Dutch not long after furprized 
it, by putting eighty armed Men in a Boat covered with 
Turf, who thus entred the Caftle. 
It was taken by the Spaniards in 1625, and after- 
wards regained again by Frederick HenryPtmet of Oran<^e. 
It has a very fair Church, in which are many good 
Tombs ; and among the reft thofe of Englebert Count 
ol Najfaw, with his Family ; of the Heer Van Horn, 
and his three Wives ; and of Henry Earl of Naffiw, 
who being the Founder of the Caftle of Breda, his 
Armour is fupported by four Warriours upon their 
K nees : The Gardens, Gallery, Walks, and Dials be- 
longing to this' Caftle, are worth a Traveller’s Oblerva- 
tion. From Breda we travel’d by Land to St. Gertruy- 
denherg, the utmoft Frontier Place of the Dutch on the 
North Side of Brabant. It is of no grear Extent, but 
abounds in Fifb, which are catch’d in a Kind of a Lake 
called the Waart, made fo by the Falhng into it of the 
Maefe, and divers other Rivers. You fee here a very 
fair Church, and the Ruins of a large Steeple. We 
pals’d hence over a large Water, which had overflow’d 
the Country, and drown’d tweriiy-rwo Panfhes, and, 
pafiing by the ancient Tower called Murvey Houfe, 
came to Dort, or Dordracum. This City, which is 
fcated in the Waves of tliofc great Lakes made by the 
Maefe and the Wael, is reckoned the chief Town of 
South Holland, as having the Privilege of the Mint, and 
the Staple for Rhenifo Wine and Englifh Cloth ; we 
have two Churches here, as the French have one. The 
great Church has a Steeple of 312 Steps high. I took 
a View of the Apartment where the Synod of Dort 
had been held in 1611 ; which was a very fair one, 
and had an extraordinary agreeable Profpedt into the 
Country. The large round-bellied VeflTcIs, which ftand 
betwixt this City and Cologn, intermixed with long 
Liege Boats, afford an odd Speftacle to Strangers. 
6. I embarked in a Vefifel bound for the Ifle of WaL 
cheren, and failing by moft of the Iflands of Zealand, 
and in Sight of the Tov/ns of Williamfladt, Zirickzee, 
Fergoes, &c. we came afhore at Fer-Vere, where there is 
a convenient Flarbour. It has a fair long Market- 
place. The Scotch have had a Fadory here for above 
200 Years ; over-againft it you fee a Steeple, the poor 
Remainder of a noble Town, which has been fwallovv’d 
up by tlie Sea. 
From hence to Middlehurg the Way is paved with a 
Kind of fmall hard Brick ; the fame being to be ob- 
ferved in many Places alfo in Holland. The City of 
Middlehurg is feared in the very Centre of the He of 
Walcheren, being very w'ell built, fpacious and popu- 
lous, the fourth Chamber or Port of the Eaji-India 
Company ; Amflerdam being in the firft Rank, Rot^ 
ter dam the fecond, and Flujhing the third. There is a 
broad Water within the Compafs of the Town, from 
whence is cut a Channel, which carries VefTds to the 
Sea. It is very well fortified, and beautified with many 
fair Churches, and other publick and private Struc- 
tures. The new Church is of an odogon'al Figure, 
with a Cupolo j the Steeple of the old Church is fa- 
mous for its Height, the Town- houfe confiderable for 
its old Statues, and the Piazza of a circular Figure. 
The Country round it being cover’d with fruitful Gar- 
dens. The Zealanders are generally great Lovers of the 
Family of Orange. Hence I went to Flufhing, a ftrong 
Sea-port Town, ftrengthen’d with Stone-Walls towards 
the Sea, and Mud-works to the Land-fide. This be- 
ing one of the firft Places the Dutch took from the 
Spaniards in 1572, was, together with Rammahn and 
the 
