through Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Wc. 74S 
Chap. V. 
the BrilU made a Cautionary to Queen Elizabeth, 1585, 
and reftored again to the United Provinces in 1616, by 
King James I. The Mouth of the Harbour is fur- 
rounded with Piles driven into the Ground, and thefe 
again are fecured by Rulbes, Flags and Reeds, flaked 
down, intermix’d with Ofiers and Hurdles, to break 
the Force of the Water. The Stadt-Houfe is a 
noble Strudure, Handing in the Market-place, and 
affords a fair Profpecfl in Front, which is adorned with 
three Rows of Pillars, one above the other ; the lower . . 
Row being of the Borick, the fecond of the lonick, and of the Virgin Mary had this infcription : 
the Uppermofl of the Corinthian Order, on the Top 
of which is a Gallery, from thence you may difcover 
Ships at a great Diftance at Sea. We faw here many 
Ships, and among them fome Men of War of confide- 
rable Bignefs. The Women in the He of Walcheren 
clad for the moft Part in red Cloth, and wear 
Straw Hats. If a Man happen to die here, a, great fee the Church of St. JV alhurgis, an Englijh Saint. The 
Connuhialis amor de Mulcibre fecit Apeuem, 
I took alfo a View of the Abbey of St. Michael, fea- 
ted upon the River Schelde ; among other Rarities I faw 
here a Glafs which reprefented the Pidlures of our Sa- 
viour and the Virgin Mary, collefted from the putting 
together of divers other Heads : One being reprefented 
from a certain Pidture, which contained no lefs than 
thirteen Faces, and the other from one of twelve. That 
T)iva nitet variis exprejfa Maria Figuris^ 
In this Abbey, which contains fixty three Monks, I 
faw alfo the Tomb of a Countefs of Brabanti who was 
drowned, and her Statue. Near the Wharf- gate, you 
Bundle is laid at the Door, if a Child a little one, if a 
Male it is put on the right Side, if a Female on the 
left. When a Woman is delivered, they give Notice 
of what Sex the Child is of to all the Neighbourhood, 
by tying a Piece of Lawn to the Rapper of the Door, 
made up into the Shape of a Puppet, and reprefenting 
the Sex of the new born Child. I returned to Middle- 
Town-houfe of Antwerp is a fine Strudlure, that be- 
longed formerly to the Eaftern Merchants very magni- 
ficent and large, but run to Ruin 5 here were preferved, 
feveral Sorts of Mufical-Inftruments, not known now- 
a-days. The Hejjen Floufe has been none of the worft 
in former Time. The Water which they make ufe of 
in Brewing, is conveyed hither from Herental, at leaft 
burgh by Land, where I embark’d again, and paffing thirty Miles, by Means of a Canal. ^ This City pro- 
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down the River by the Fort Rammaken, entered the Ri 
ver Schelde, and failing up, pafs’d the Fort Frederick 
Henry, and fo to the Fort Lillo, where we were for- 
ced to flay till our Ship was fearched. Juft oppofite 
to the laft of thefe two Forts, on the other Side of the 
River, is the Fort called Lifgens hoek, and on the other 
Side another call’d de la Croix, the laft belonging to the Sluices, the Country 
Hollanders’, t\\Q Spanijh Forts to defend this Frontier higher than 
duces alfo many great Colledfions of Pictures, and fome 
of the beft Miniature, done by Gonfol •, of that kind 
I faw one curious Piece, done by thirty five feveral 
Mailers. 
8. I went from Antwerp to Brujfels by Water, chang- 
ing Boat five times, by Reafon of the many Locks and 
about BruJJels being 200 Foot 
There is a Place call’d Fontaine, 
are, the Philip, the Pearl, and the Mary. about five Miles from Brujfels, where three Rivers crofs 
7. The River Schelde, mentioned by Cafar, has its one another, and one of them is carried over a Bridge. 
Rife in the Country of Vermandois, and paffing by Cam- The Market-place of BruJJels is a long Square, hav- 
hray, Valenciennes, Pournay, Dornick, Oudenard, Ghent, ing the Town-houfe 'at one End, and oppofite to it 
Rupelmond and Antwerp, divides itfelf afterwards into the Royal Palace, near v^^hich the Counts of Egmont 
two Channels, whereof the Southern is call’d the Hont and Horne were beheaded. On the Top of theTowm- 
{Bog,) the other taking Couvk ixom Bergen-op-Zoom, houfe you fee the Statue of St. Michael, the Patron of 
falls into the Sea between the Hes of Zealand. The this City, in Brafs. In the Church of the Carme- 
uext Day we continued our Voyage upon the Schelde, lites, the Altar is a very noble Piece, and^ near the 
and arrived fafely at Antwerp. This City is of a large Church ftands a Statue of a Boy piffing, which ferves 
Extent j its Walls very broad, with Rows of Trees up- inftead of a continual Conduit. We alfo took a View of 
on them, faced with Brick and Free-ftones, after the the Armory, v/hich was well furnifii’d formerly, but 
modern Way, though the Baftions are none of the lar- has now only fome few Remains, fuch as the Armour 
geft, but the Ditch is very broad and deep. The Ci- of Charles V. of the Duke d* Aha, of the Cardinal In^ 
tadel is accounted one of the beft Fortifications of five fanta, and fome few others, and divers Bucklers curi- 
Baftions, in thofe Parts, very well lin’d with Brick and oufly wrought ; the Sword of Charles V. wherewith he 
Stone, and commanding the City, the River and the ufed to make the Knights of the Golden Fleece ; and 
adjacent Country. There is alfo another Fort near the fome Banners taken at the Battle of Pavia from Fran- 
Schelde. The Exchange of Antwerp is fupported by cis I. Before the Court of the Palace ftand five Brafs 
thirty fix Pillars, each carved a different Way. It ftands 
in the Middle of four Streets, wh'kh lead unto it. The 
Meer, the moft remarkable Street of the City, has the 
Water running under it, and here the Coaches meet 
to take the Four-ala-mode ; at one End of it you fee a 
large Brafs Crucifix, placed upon a Pedeftal of Marble. 
Statues, and on one of the Towers a Bird pierced with 
an Arrow, in Memory of the Shot which the Infanta 
Ifabella made. The Park has very pleafant Walks, fet 
with Trees, and intermingled with Grotto’s, Fountains, 
and Water-works j one Piece comes near to Frajcati, 
imitating the Sound of all mufical Inftruments, by a 
The Jefuits Church exceeds for Magnificence any that Kind of perpetual Motion. But what is moft furpri 
ever I met with out of Italy. The Front is a noble fing in this Park is, the Echo, which makes ten or 
Piece of Architedlure, having the Statue of Ignatius twelve diftind Replies. The Church of St. Gudula 
Eoyola on the Top. The Roof is for the moft part claims the Preference for Bignefs ; and two Chapels 
painted by Rubens and Van Byke ; the Carving is moft here are worth the Travellers Obfervation ; in one of 
excellent, and the Flower Work done by S eg ers z.jejuii. which is prefented the Hoft, which bled when ftabb’d 
It has a very handfome Library, kept in four Chambers, by the Jews. The Bominican Church is famous for 
the Founder of which was Godfrid Houtappel, whofe 
Tomb is to be feen in a Chapel on the South-fide of 
the Church. The Carmelite Church is famous for the 
large Statue of Silver of the Virgin Mary. The Church 
of our blejfed Lady is the biggeft, and the Steeple the 
nobleft and one of the beft built in the World, beins 
459 Foot high. This Church abounds alfo in many 
curious Pieces of Paintings, and among the reft, there 
is one highly efteem’d, done by Fjuintin, who being at 
firft a Smith, made that curious Iron Work of the 
Wall before the Weft Door ; but afterwards, to gain 
his Miftrefs, turn’d Painter, and became famous in 
this Art. His Head, cut in Stone, is placed near the ned at the Fifh-Tavern, (noted for its Pidures) T re- 
Church Door, with this Infcription : turned to Antwerp, and travelling the 4th of OAober, 
9 D through 
the Monuments of the Duke and Dutchefs of Cleve, in 
Corinthian Brafs. The Beguines, or pious Maids, (a 
Kind of Nuns) of which there are near 800 at Brujfels, 
have alfo a very fair Church, which is milk-white, 
and lately built. The EngliJh^ have alfo a Nunnery 
here. There were at that Time above , 300 Houfes 
fliut up, infedled with the Plague, and marked with 
this Token, 
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IHS 
Which made me haften away j fo that after I had di- 
V o L, II. N^? 120. 
