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in this city a hend so large an Extent of Ground as Ghent, but
'^o^sit ’>thet much better inhabited, and its Buildings are
Town-houfe, rfe more uniform. Ships of Five hundred Tuns may
Water-house, come up to it by the great Canal, but Holland
Epijcopal Pa- has drawn the Trade from hence as well as from
lace Cache- A„twer.
ar al, great 1
Market-place, the Colleges os the Four Nations os Flanders, the Church os the
Jesuits, and, sederal magnisicent Tombs in the Collegiate Church os Our Lady.
In the Cathedral, at the fide os the Quire, they jbew the Place where Charles
the Good, Count os Flanders, was assassinated by fame Perstns, whom he had
eompell'd to open their Magazines in a time os Famine. Voyage to Flanders.
You know that the Order of the Golden Fleece
* The toth or was * instituted at Bruges, by f Philip the Good,
19th os Janu- Jjuke of Burgundy : But perhaps you are not so
7/3’0*42S’ °r we^ acquainted with the Occasion of its Institu-
+ Philip HI. tion. At least, ’tis certain, that the Story is rela-
sirst he ere- ted by several Authors in a very different manner.
afe<i th Some say, that esteeming the extraordinary Plen-
ylars aster^he^f and Abundance of the Year of his || Marriage
added 6 more; with Elizabeth or IJabel of Portugal, to be a Pre-
Charles V. sage of future Happiness; and observing, that the
womb’r J™"3! Letters of the Five Months of Autumn,
^Philip* IL Jub > Augusi, September, October, and November,
and III. crea- make the Word JASON, he instituted this
ted as many as Qrc|er with allusion to the celebrated Fleece of
witkout^obser- ^°^es’ Several Authors write, that this Institu-
ming any cer- tion was occasion’d by that Prince’s falling in love
tain number, with a Maid of mean Parentage, whose Gown
\\ Hewas thnee was forr’d with Lambs-skin. Some affirm, that
math\s\-hi\ r'ie Girl was red-hair’d, and that when the Duke
le of France, went to lee her, he found a certain Lock or her
sifth Daughter Hair on her Toilette, which he gather’d up very
viCrar7/ carefully, and preserv’d as a precious Treasure.
with Bonne </They a^d, that Courtiers having taken the
Artois, sister Liberty to break some Jests on this occasion, the
of the comt Prince took a Resolution to institute an Order of
Knighthood, by the Title of the Golden Fleece, in
Isabeso/por- Honour to the Lock of Red Hair. Davity says,
tugai. that
in this city a hend so large an Extent of Ground as Ghent, but
'^o^sit ’>thet much better inhabited, and its Buildings are
Town-houfe, rfe more uniform. Ships of Five hundred Tuns may
Water-house, come up to it by the great Canal, but Holland
Epijcopal Pa- has drawn the Trade from hence as well as from
lace Cache- A„twer.
ar al, great 1
Market-place, the Colleges os the Four Nations os Flanders, the Church os the
Jesuits, and, sederal magnisicent Tombs in the Collegiate Church os Our Lady.
In the Cathedral, at the fide os the Quire, they jbew the Place where Charles
the Good, Count os Flanders, was assassinated by fame Perstns, whom he had
eompell'd to open their Magazines in a time os Famine. Voyage to Flanders.
You know that the Order of the Golden Fleece
* The toth or was * instituted at Bruges, by f Philip the Good,
19th os Janu- Jjuke of Burgundy : But perhaps you are not so
7/3’0*42S’ °r we^ acquainted with the Occasion of its Institu-
+ Philip HI. tion. At least, ’tis certain, that the Story is rela-
sirst he ere- ted by several Authors in a very different manner.
afe<i th Some say, that esteeming the extraordinary Plen-
ylars aster^he^f and Abundance of the Year of his || Marriage
added 6 more; with Elizabeth or IJabel of Portugal, to be a Pre-
Charles V. sage of future Happiness; and observing, that the
womb’r J™"3! Letters of the Five Months of Autumn,
^Philip* IL Jub > Augusi, September, October, and November,
and III. crea- make the Word JASON, he instituted this
ted as many as Qrc|er with allusion to the celebrated Fleece of
witkout^obser- ^°^es’ Several Authors write, that this Institu-
ming any cer- tion was occasion’d by that Prince’s falling in love
tain number, with a Maid of mean Parentage, whose Gown
\\ Hewas thnee was forr’d with Lambs-skin. Some affirm, that
math\s\-hi\ r'ie Girl was red-hair’d, and that when the Duke
le of France, went to lee her, he found a certain Lock or her
sifth Daughter Hair on her Toilette, which he gather’d up very
viCrar7/ carefully, and preserv’d as a precious Treasure.
with Bonne </They a^d, that Courtiers having taken the
Artois, sister Liberty to break some Jests on this occasion, the
of the comt Prince took a Resolution to institute an Order of
Knighthood, by the Title of the Golden Fleece, in
Isabeso/por- Honour to the Lock of Red Hair. Davity says,
tugai. that