Chap. V. through Austria^ BojfIemiA^ MorAvia^ ^c. 
fprinkled with Water, or Beer, or Wine ? If they are 
tor the Wine, they muft give an Entertainment of Wine 
to the Company. The Queen ot Sweden paffing by 
that Way not many Years before, had prefented them 
with a great Silver Cup, which they , commonly drink 
out of. The 19th, We purfued our Voyage to Baccha- 
rach, famous for its excellent Wines-, under the Eledor 
Palatine. Hence we pafs’d by a very old Cattle, fituate 
upon a Rock in the Middle of the Rhine, called Pfalts, be- 
caufe hither formerly the Princeffes Palatines were fent to 
be brought to Bed. The next Day we patfed along with 
a rapid Stream, which is very dangerous by Reafon of 
the many Rocks that lie under Water and a little above 
it we had a full Sight of a round Tower, on a Rock in 
the Rhine, commonly call’d Moufe-Power, built by 
liatto, Archbithop of Mentz, who having at a Time of 
general Scarcity' invited a great Number of Poor to 
prefent them with Corn, inftead of relieving, fet Fire to 
the Barn in which they were enclofed, and whilft they 
made lamentable Cries, hefaid. Hear how the Mice fcream. 
Soon after, being perfecuted with Rats and Mice to that 
Degree, that he was not able to abide in his Palace, he 
built this round Tower in the Rhine, but being alfo 
profecuted thither by the Mice, he miferably ended his 
Days. Not far above it, upon the Weftern Bank, you 
fee the Town of Bing qv Bingium, an ancient Roman 
Fortrefs upon the Rhine, at the Conflux of that River, 
and the Navus or Naw, over the lafl; of which is a very 
fine Stone Bridge, It belongs to the Eledlor of May- 
ence. From Bing we fet forward for Mayence, and in 
our Way at Rudejheim in the Rhine (fo famous for the 
Excellency of the Wine) we were fliew’d a Boy, whofe 
Hair was as woolly as any of the African Moors, but 
of a whitifh Colour 5 I took fome of the Hair along 
with me. 
Mentz, or Mayence, Moguntia, by the Latins, is fltu- 
ated juft below the Confluence of the two Rivers, the 
Main, and Rhine, over againfl: it extending in Length 
towards the River, abounding with Monafteries, Churches, 
and publick Buildings ; but the Streets are narrow, and 
the private Houfes built after an antick Fafhion ; the 
Country round it is extreamly fertile; Mayence claims 
the Invention of Printing, but may rather be faid to 
have brought it to Perfection. It is famous for the De- 
feat of the Roman Legions, under Varus, by the Ger-~ 
mans, which happened near it \ and Guftavus Adolphus, 
the victorious King of Sweden, made his publick Entry 
here, 1631. in great Magnificence, and laid two Bridges, 
one over the Main, the other over the Rhine, the firfh 
of which is taken away flnce, but the other remains in 
the fame Station. The Elector of Mayence is the firfl; 
in Rank of the EleStoral College, and has his Place at 
the Emperor’s right Hand in all publick Aflfemblies. 
But his Territories are not fuitable to his Dignity, being 
far lefs than thofe of Cologne and Preves ; befides that, 
they lie fcattering in the Palatinate and Franconi,a. 
However his feizing the City of Erfurdt has been no 
fmall Addition to his Power; where he has built a Cit- 
tadel on St. Petef s -Hill, which ferves for an Inlet into 
Phuringia. 
II. From we continued our Voyage up the 
Maine to Franckfort, an Imperial City, call’d PrajeSium 
ad Mcenim, becaufe the Franks ufed to pafs and repafs 
here, whilft they made War upon the Gauls, and to dif- 
tinguifli it from Franckfort upon the Oder, an LTniverfity 
belonging to the Elecftor of Brandenhurgh. The City 
is very large, divided in two by the River, the leffer 
of which is called Saxon-Houfe, joined to the other by a 
fair Stone-Bridge, fupported by twelve or thirteen 
Arches. The Advantage of the River Main, which 
paflTes by Bamberg, Schweinfurt, Wurtzhurg, and other 
Places, and is join’d by the River Pauher, and others 
of lefs Note, together with its running into the Rhine, 
renders this City very commodious for T rade, as may be 
feen at the Time of the two great Marts kept there 
every Year, in March and September, when there is an 
incredible Concourfe of People of all Nations, who buy 
and fell their Commodities, but efpecially Florfes and 
Books, though at other Times the Bookfellers have 
little Buflnefs here. 
In Saxon-houfe is a Palace, belonging to the Knights 
of the Peutonick Order, which is a Sanc^tuary for Debtors 
and Criminals; for fourceenDays. Abundance of 
live in, and frequent this Place they are diftinguifli’d 
from the Chriftians by their Habits, which is a Ruff 
for the old Ones, a Bonnet for the younger Sort, and a 
peculiar Head-drefs for their Yfomen. We continued 
our Journey from Franckfort through the Bergdraet, and 
pairing by Darmfiadt, travelled through a very fruitful 
Country, full of Wall-nut Trees, Vines, Corn, and 
Tobacco in fome Places. Coming to Heidelberg, we 
pafs’d the River Neccar or Necarus, rifing in the Sylva 
Martiana or Black Forejt, and continuing its Current 
through the Duke of Wittenberg^ ^ Dominions, joins its 
Waters with the Rhine at Manbeini. It pafles by Sultz, 
Tubingen, Stutgard, Hailbrun, Heidelberg, and divers 
other noble and famous Cities. 
12. As for the City of Heidelberg, its Situation is 
betwixt a River and a Ridge of Hills, extending from 
Eaft to Weft, which makes it unfit for a regular Forti- 
fication. It was made an Univerfity, in 1346 : It was ta- 
ken by the Spaniards in 1620. when the famous Library 
that was preferved there in the Great Church, was car- 
ried to Rome, and added to the Vatican Library, where 
I faw it in 1664 on one Side of the Gallery, oppofite 
to that of the Duke of Urbin’s. This Church, as well 
as that of St. Peter, contains many beautiful Monuments 
of the Palatine Family and other Perfons of Note. The 
French have a Church here as well as the Lutherans, 
the laft of which is call’d the Church of Providence, and 
the Elector, though a Calvinifl, laid the fiidt Stone of 
it : The Elefloral Family are now Papifts. 
The Town-Houfe is remarkable for its Clock, which 
has feveral Motions, and reprefents feveral Figures of 
Men, fighting of a Cock, Lfc. when it ftrikes. The 
Eledlor’s Stables are near the River-fide, but one half of 
them has been ruined in the laft German Wars, as well 
as the Statues that were on the Ouifide of the Caftle, 
which being upon an Eminency has among other Things 
a very large Tower, formerly call’d Prutzkayfar or De- 
fiance to the Emperor, the Name of which is flnce chang- 
ed into that of the Star-fort. Near it is a beautiful 
Garden, adorn’d with Grotto’s, Caves and Water- worksi 
But the moft remarkable of all are the Cellars, reple- 
nifhed with Veflels of Wine, of a more than ordinary 
Size, among which, that commonly call’d the Pun of 
Heidelberg furpafifes the reft, built in 1664; containing 
near 200 Tuns ; inftead of Hoops it is made with large 
Knee Timber, like the Ribs of a Ship, well carved and 
painted, and fupported by Pedeftals likewife car- 
ved. On one Side is a Stair-cafe forty three Steps 
high, leading up into the Gallery, which is on the Top 
of this great Veffel. 
There is a folitary Place not above a Mile from HeL 
delberg, where you fee three very fine Springs come 
forth out of the Mountain, and after they have fill’d 
five Ponds, and pafled through three Cafcades or Falls, 
carry fo ftrong a Stream through the adjacent Plains, 
that they turn four Mills within a fmall Diftance one 
of another. It is call’d the Whlfs Fountain, from a cer- 
tain Princefs, who, as they fay, was torn to Pieces near 
this Place by a Wolf. At Heidelberg I was vifited by 
two Englifimen, Mr. Fillers and Pimothy Middleton, 
Thefe belonged to a certain Monaftery call’d Lobensfelds, 
poflefled formerly by the Jejuits, but beftow’d fince up- 
on thi Englip, xr\\o, to the Number of about an hundred, 
leaving their Native Country, in 1661, fettled them- 
felves with their Families in this Convent, a few Miles 
from Heidelburg. They call’d themfelves Christian 
Jews, maintain’d a Community of many Things, did 
not cut nor fhave their Beards, and , obferved many 
other Ceremonies enjoin’d in the Old Teftament. Their 
Head was then one Mr. Poole of Norwich. 
Whilft I was at Heidelberg, I took a Turn to Spires, 
and afterwards to Manbeim. The firft (fuppofed to be 
Urbs Nemetum of the Ancients} is fituate in a Plain near 
the 
