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Misson, François Maximilien; Goodwin, Timothy [Oth.]; Wotton, Matthew [Oth.]; Manship, Samuel [Oth.]; Tooke, Benjamin [Oth.]
A New Voyage to Italy: With Curious Observations On several other Countries, as Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, Geneva, Flanders, and Holland. Together, With Useful Instructions for those who shall Travel thither. Done out of French. In Two Volumes (Vol. II.) — London: Printed for T. Goodwin, at the Queen's-Head; M. Wotton, at the Three-Daggers in Fleet-street; S. Manship, at the Ship in Cornbil; and B. Took at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, 1699

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186 A Keitt Voyage Vol. II.
Court believe that they fliall be still treated with
the same Respedt. And they are so firmly per-
* 4 little as. swaded of the * French Civility, that tho’ they
ter the sirft lie open to an Invasion, in case of a Rupture, they
Edition os this never think of removing either the Court or
Original Records.
■acre plunder'd by the French Troops, without the leaft regard to the Imperial
Chamber.
I fliall pais from Spire to Colen, having nothing
We pass'd by to add to the account I have already given you of
Naess. tjie Qtjes that ue between ’em.
At our departure from Colen we took the Road
JULIERS. to Juliers, the Metropolis of the Dutchy of the
same Name. As far as we could judge by the
slight view we had of it, ’tis pretty well fortified.
Here the Protessmts enjoy the free exercise of
their Religion, by vertue of the Treaty which
I mention’d before.
Leaving Juliers, we pass'd thro’ a good and
pleasant Country, and in four or five hours
A I X LA came to Aix la Chapelle. That famous City is
CHAPELLE, in ]arge an(J beautiful, tho’ it has lost much
’ts anc’ent lustre- It has also preserv’d its
end'd Royal, Liberty entire ; only the Duke of Newburg, as
being perhaps Duke of Juhers, within whose Lands it lies, has a
honour d with Right to name the Burgo-tnasser. ’Tis under the
scars-1 accord- Broteflion of the King of Spain, as Duke of
ing to the Te- Brabant.
Mr os the Gol-
den Bull, the King os the Romans ought to receive his Jirsl Crown here. HcisE
* This city is This * City was almost wholly rebuilt by
double: The Charles the Great, having lain desolate for almost
cod’d Caroil- f°ur Ages, a^ter tt was sack’d by Attila. The
na, is enclos’d same Emperor endow’d it with several Privi-
with its and- leges, made it the capital City of Gaul beyond the
ent WaUs.^ and honour’d it with his usual Relidence.
Icn ' He built also the great Church, from which the
Town took the Name of Aix la Chapelle, where-
x as
 
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