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A Journey srom Norwich to Colen. 05
Ships, they cut the chains in sunder, and so took the Town. In the
rooms are very good Paintings by Hemskerk, and Qoltzius, as his Fro-
metheus and other Peeces ; but Cornelius 'van Haerlem most delighted
me, in his peeces of Herods killing the Innocent Children ; his feast of
the Gods, in which Vulcans foot is esteemed ata great rate; and ano-
ther Picture of a Frier and a Nun at a Collation, not inferiour to the
rest, among many Epitaphs in the great Church,there is this Dutch one,
for a Man and his Wife,
Laet lopen die lopen lufte
Onfe tiit is 'verlopen ivy lepppen hier in rufie.
Let them run, that run will
Our time’s run out, and we lye still.
The old Mens house, or an Hospital for sixty aged persons, is large'
and handsome ; having a good Quadrangle and a Garden in it. The
Hospital also for the sick is very cleanly kept.
Here I first saw the manner of punilhing Malefactors by whipping
them with rods, which is more severe than I imagined; they lead them
to a Post upon a Scafsold, their hands tyed and by a Pally drawn up
as high as can be extended, and then an Iron fastned about their wast
to keep them steady ; in which stretched-out posture they receive some-
times fifty or sixty stripes or more, according to the merit os their of-
fence.
Not far from this place there is a great Water, or noted Lake called
Haerlem Meere about twenty Miles in length, which is frozen over in
hard Winters, and men swiftly travel over it by Hiding or in fieds.
When Haerlem was besieged there was a Naval fight upon it ; The
Dutch having about an hundred and fifty Vesfels, and the Spaniards
not many fewer. The Town was afterwards taken by Composition,
but such Cruelty was used by tho Spaniards that they have not y et
forgot it. Amsterdarri,
From Haerlem I went to Amsterdam, a City at present for Riches,
Trade, Shipping, fair Streets, and pleasant habitations, scarce yielding
to any other of the World. It is seated upon the River 7k, and hath
its name, as ’tis reported, from a Castle appertaining long since to the
Lords of Amstel, to whom this place also belonged: At the begin¬
ning, the seat of a few Filhermen ; but afterwards increasing, it re-
ceived many Priviledges from the Counts of Holland, and was made a
Town or City by the favour of their Grants and Charters. In the year
1470.it was walled about with a Brick-wall, to defend it against the
Citizens of Dtrecht, they having been in great danger to have fallen in-
to their hands, if those of Vtrecht had pursued their Victories. In
sew Months after also, the whole Town was almost reduced to Ashes by
fire, but by the increase of their Traffick they easily overcame their
losies, waded through all difficulties, and rendred good Services to
their Counts, and received the honour afterwards from Maximilian
the Emperor to have the Imperial Crown over their Armes, which ar®
three CroJJes on a Fale.
About the year Gelen, sent from the new King of Mundi er,
pasied through Friefland and came to this City; where having made a
Party?
Ships, they cut the chains in sunder, and so took the Town. In the
rooms are very good Paintings by Hemskerk, and Qoltzius, as his Fro-
metheus and other Peeces ; but Cornelius 'van Haerlem most delighted
me, in his peeces of Herods killing the Innocent Children ; his feast of
the Gods, in which Vulcans foot is esteemed ata great rate; and ano-
ther Picture of a Frier and a Nun at a Collation, not inferiour to the
rest, among many Epitaphs in the great Church,there is this Dutch one,
for a Man and his Wife,
Laet lopen die lopen lufte
Onfe tiit is 'verlopen ivy lepppen hier in rufie.
Let them run, that run will
Our time’s run out, and we lye still.
The old Mens house, or an Hospital for sixty aged persons, is large'
and handsome ; having a good Quadrangle and a Garden in it. The
Hospital also for the sick is very cleanly kept.
Here I first saw the manner of punilhing Malefactors by whipping
them with rods, which is more severe than I imagined; they lead them
to a Post upon a Scafsold, their hands tyed and by a Pally drawn up
as high as can be extended, and then an Iron fastned about their wast
to keep them steady ; in which stretched-out posture they receive some-
times fifty or sixty stripes or more, according to the merit os their of-
fence.
Not far from this place there is a great Water, or noted Lake called
Haerlem Meere about twenty Miles in length, which is frozen over in
hard Winters, and men swiftly travel over it by Hiding or in fieds.
When Haerlem was besieged there was a Naval fight upon it ; The
Dutch having about an hundred and fifty Vesfels, and the Spaniards
not many fewer. The Town was afterwards taken by Composition,
but such Cruelty was used by tho Spaniards that they have not y et
forgot it. Amsterdarri,
From Haerlem I went to Amsterdam, a City at present for Riches,
Trade, Shipping, fair Streets, and pleasant habitations, scarce yielding
to any other of the World. It is seated upon the River 7k, and hath
its name, as ’tis reported, from a Castle appertaining long since to the
Lords of Amstel, to whom this place also belonged: At the begin¬
ning, the seat of a few Filhermen ; but afterwards increasing, it re-
ceived many Priviledges from the Counts of Holland, and was made a
Town or City by the favour of their Grants and Charters. In the year
1470.it was walled about with a Brick-wall, to defend it against the
Citizens of Dtrecht, they having been in great danger to have fallen in-
to their hands, if those of Vtrecht had pursued their Victories. In
sew Months after also, the whole Town was almost reduced to Ashes by
fire, but by the increase of their Traffick they easily overcame their
losies, waded through all difficulties, and rendred good Services to
their Counts, and received the honour afterwards from Maximilian
the Emperor to have the Imperial Crown over their Armes, which ar®
three CroJJes on a Fale.
About the year Gelen, sent from the new King of Mundi er,
pasied through Friefland and came to this City; where having made a
Party?