The present state of England. Part III. and Part IV. containing I. an account of the riches, strength, magnificence, natural production, manufactures of this island, with an exact catalogue of the nobility, and their seats, &c., II. the trade and commerce within it self, and with all countries traded to by the English, as at this day established, and all other matters relating to inland and marine affairs : supplying what is omitted in the two former parts ...

CHAP. XC. A View of Hungary, and the adjacent Provinces, and of their Trade, Weights, Measures, Coyns, and Commodities of the Growth and Manufacture.

THe Kingdom of Hungary is bounded on the East with Transilvania and Valachia, on the West with Austria, on the South with Sclavonia, and on the North with Poland, and is of it self exceeding Fertile, abounding in Cattle beyond credit, but by Reason of the continual Wars with the Turks, it standing as the Bulwark of Chri∣stendom, no great matter of Trade relating to Merchandise is found there; the little that it consists in, is Hides, Tallow, Wax, Honey, Copper, Tinn, Corn, Wool, Fruits, Fish, Skins, and some Silver Mines, which (since the ci∣vil Disenssions caused by the continual Ban∣dying

of the two parties under pretence of Religion, and the incouragement of those intestines Broyls by the Grand-Sig∣neour) have been thrown in many of them, and thereby render useless Buda, and many of the Principal Cities being now in the Hands of the Turks, and is so Seated upon the River Danube, that it hinders the free Commerce by Boats and great Vessels; that was formerly very advantagious to the Hungarians; so that leaving its to reco∣ver its Trade, by Submiting to its right∣ful Soveraign the Emperor of Germany, and not longer trust the Flattery of the perfideous Ottomans. I shall take a View of Dacia and Sclavonia.

Dacia, is bounded with the Euxine, on the East, and on the West with Hungary, on the North with the Carpathian Moun∣tains, and on the South with Greece, and is divided into these Provinces, viz. Tran∣sylvania, Moldavia, Servia, Valachia, Russia, Bosna, and Bulgaria, all subjected to the Grand-Seigniour, and are Branched and Fer∣tilized with these Rivers, viz. Danubius, Alata, Salvata, Cockle, and Morus, besides others of lesser note.

The Commodities found in the several Provinces are Cattle, Wax, Honey, But∣ter, Cheese, Tallow, Wool, Silk, Cloath,

Mines, of Gold and Silver, Salt-Pits, Wines; and Mountains of Brimstone, which Commodities they send to Constan∣tinople, Aleppo, and other Marts of the Turk∣ish Empire, and receive in exchange the Commodities of all Nations, as for Weights and Measures, they are rarely in use, they selling and buying for the most part by those of the Marts, whether they resort with their Commodities; their Coyns are those currant throughout the Ottoman Em∣pire. Of which I shall come to speak, in the View of Constantinople.

Sclavonia is bounded on the South with the Adriatick Sea, on the North with Hun∣gary, on the West with Italy part, and on the East with the River Drinus, and a Line that passes from thence to the Sea; and is chiefly divided into 2 parts, viz. Illyria and Dalmatia, the name of the former being lately by the Turks, changed into that of Windismark, the which abounds in Butter, Cheese, Cattle, Corn, Oyl, Wine, Hemp, Wool, Wax, Honey, Tallow, Iron, and the like. Of Dalmatia, Rhagusa is the Prin∣cipal City, so that I will not be amiss to reduce the Trade of that Province, which is not Extraordinary into its Metropolis.

Rhagusa formerly called Epidaurus, is Seated on the Adriatick Shoar, and was

once a Common-Wealth of great Traffick, and the first in those parts that Furnished out Ships of War of considerable force, with which they awed their Neighbours, and gave Laws in those Seas, but since the English and Dutch Navigators have turned the currant of Traffick another way, and drained those parts of the Commerce that was wont to Flow in upon them like the Ocean. The Inhabitants are no ways considerable, yet the Commodities of the Province are found there, as Honey, Wax, Horses for War, Hides, Tallow, Silver, and Gold unrefined, some Amber, Corral and the like, but of small value; for which they receive of those English, that make Trading Voyages, Hampshire Carsies, and other Coarse Cloath, Lead, Tinn, and such like; and that mostly for provision.

The Coyns in use here is the Gross, 59 of which are accounted a Sultany, or 8 Shillings Sterling.

The Weight is the pound 100 of which make 80 pound English, which is the Quin∣tal of Rhagusa. Their Measure of Length is the Brace, according with the Venetian Brace, thus, 100 Braces of Rhagusa of the Cloath Brace, are 120 in Venice of the same, and of the Silk Brace 116 of Venice make the 100 of Rhagusa. And thus leaving Hun∣gary,

Dacia, and Sclavonia, I shall pass in∣to Greece, and take a Survey of the Trade of that once famous Empire.