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Bruges and West Flanders

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The author blends topographical description and historical narrative to portray Bruges and West Flanders, focusing on market-places, medieval monuments such as the Belfry, and town architecture. Selected historical episodes are retold, including local uprisings, key battles, and naval engagements that affected the region's trade. Religious and civic institutions—the béguinage, churches, relics, belfries, and guild halls—are examined, with brief commentary on Flemish painting and architectural features. Attention also falls on the plain, coastal dunes, fishing villages, rural customs, and processions, offering travel impressions of everyday life.

INDEX

Abbey of the Dunes, 172-176; of Melrose, 173
Adinkerque, 159, 176
'Adoration of the Immaculate Lamb,' 69
Albert, Archduke, portrait at Furnes, 126; at the Battle of the Dunes, 135, 140, 142; marries the Infanta Isabella, 136; character of, 137, 138; wounded, 142
Albert, Prince, at Bruges, 82
Ancona, Bishop of, 35
André, St., village of, 23
Âne Aveugle, Rue de l', 15, 17, 23
Angelo, Michael, 30
Anglaises, Couvent des Dames, 27
Antwerp, Cathedral of, 29, 68, 108
Arschot, Duc d', 139
Artevelde, Jacques van, 61, 125
Artevelde, Philip van, 67, 104
Artois, Comte d', 52, 53
Augustinian Nuns, 27

Baldwin, Bras-de-Fer, real founder of Bruges, 14; defends Flanders, 15; marries Judith, 14; builds Church of St. Donatian, 15
Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, 33
Baldwin of Constantinople, 149
Baldwin VII., 18
Bannockburn, 52
Bardi, money-changers at Bruges, 66
Bassin de Commerce at Bruges, 58
Battle of the Dunes, 135 et seq.
Battle of the Golden Spurs, 45 et seq., 52
Béguinage at Bruges, 27; grove of, 7
Béhuchet, Nicholas, 63, 64
Belfry of Bruges, 5, 6, 7, 9
Belgian Parliament passes law for harbour near Heyst, 90
Berlaimont, Comte Florent de, 139
Bernard, St., of Clairvaux, 32
Bertulf, Provost of St. Donatian, 19
Bexley, 175
Bicycles, import duty on, 97
'Bird of Honour,' 82, 83
Blankenberghe, new harbour near, 90; English fleet at, in 1340, 62, 153, 154
Boniface VIII., 49
Bouchoute, Hôtel de, 4
Borthwick, Colonel, 78
Boterbeke, 8, 9
Bourg, Place du, at Bruges, 15, 16, 17
Brangwyn, William, 36
Breidel, John, 45, 48, 50, 52
Breskens, 69
Bristol, Earl of, at Bruges, 77
Bruges, described by John of Ypres, 8, 9; origin of name, 9; primitive township of, 10; boundaries in early times, 10; Market-Place, 4, 5, 45; Halles, 5; early trade, 10; the Loove at, 20; growth of, 18; capital of West Flanders, 14; Baldwin Bras-de-Fer its real founder, 14; Place du Bourg, 15; murder of Charles the Good, 18; Joanna of Navarre at, 46; death of Marie, wife of Maximilian, 30; Hôtel de Ville, 67; Customs House, 57; Oriental appearance in Middle Ages, 75; produce sent to, in Middle Ages, 65; Hanseatic League at, 66; Consulates at, 66; splendour of, in Middle Ages, 67, 68; under the House of Burgundy, 68; loss of trade, 68, 69; pauperism, 74; Charles II. at, 75 et seq.; list of Charles II.'s household at, 77; death of Catherine of Braganza at, 27; fate of Church at French Revolution, 86; Napoleon at, 36; state of, since Revolution of 1830, 86; English Jesuits at, 85; Queen Victoria at, 82; relic of Holy Blood at, 32 et seq.; Procession of the Holy Blood, 36 et seq.; relic of the Holy Cross, 30
Bruges Matins, 17, 45
Brussels, Charles II. at, 81; Church of Ste. Gudule, 30; Hôtel de Ville, 67
Burchard, 19, 20, 21
Burgundy, Charles, Duke of, 30
Burgundy, House of, 107
Burnet, Bishop, 80
Butler, Mr. J., 79, 80

Caine, Mr. Hall, 153
'Cairless,' Mr., 77
Capucins, Chapel of, at Furnes, 128
Casa Negra, 87
Cathedral of Antwerp, 30
Cathedral of St. Martin at Ypres, 138
Cathedral of St. Sauveur at Bruges, 30, 37, 86
Catherine of Braganza, 27
Celestine III., 175
Chapel of the Capucins at Furnes, 128
Chapelle du Saint-Sang (St. Basil's) at Bruges, 32, 35, 37, 86
Charlemagne, 13
Charles II. of England at Bruges, 75 et seq.
Charles the Bald, 13
Charles the Bold, 30
Charles the Good, 18-24
Charles V., 137
Charles VI., 112
Châtillon, Jacques de, 48, 49, 50-53
Chemins-de-fer Vicinaux, 96
Church of Jerusalem at Bruges, 30
Church of Notre Dame at Bruges, 86
Church of St. Donatian at Bruges, 86
Church of Ste. Walburge, 88, 124
Cistercians, 174, 175
Clairvaux, 32
Clauwerts, 17, 46
Clement V., 34
Clement VII., 105
Cologne, 76, 79
Comte de la Hanse, 66
Congress of Vienna, 113
Coninck, Peter de, 45, 47, 48, 50, 52
Consulate of France, 88; of Spain, 8; of Smyrna, 87
Coolkerke, 70
Courtrai, 52, 96
Couvent des Dames Anglaises, 7, 27, 82
Coxyde, 172-174
Cranenberg, 4
Crecy, Battle of, 63
Cromwell, 76, 79, 84
Customs House at Bruges, 57

Dalgetty, Dugald, 77
Damme, 10, 48, 49, 50, 57 et seq.; population of, 59; Röles de, 66; harbour blocked up, 69
Dampierre, Guy de, 46
David, Gerard, 68
Deprysenaere, Jean of Ypres, 117
Digues de mer, construction of, 157, 158
Donatian, Church of St., built by Baldwin Bras-de-Fer, 15; Bertulf, Provost of, 19; site of, 16; murder of Charles the Good in, 17; destroyed, 86
Don John of Austria, 76, 79
Dordrecht, 30, 31
Duinbergen, 62, 166, 167
Dunes, Battle of the, 135; scenery of, 177 et seq.
Dyver, the, at Bruges, 9, 10

Edward III., 61-63, 66
Edward IV., 30
Egmont, Count, 110
Elias, sixth Abbot of Coxyde, 174
English Merchant Adventurers, 88
Erembalds, 18 et seq.; feud with Straetens, 19; destruction of, 23
Ethelbald, 14
Ethelwulf, husband of Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald, 14
Evendyck, 149
Eyck, van, elder and younger, 16, 23, 68, 57, 147

Flanders, state of, in early times, 7, 8; invaded by Normans, 13; origin of title 'Count of,' 14; defended by Baldwin Bras-de-Fer, 15; allied to England, 62; neutrality of, in 1340 and 1830, 61; invaded by French, 67; plain of, 95 et seq.; ignorance of country people in, 97; smuggling between France and, 99; annexed to France, 46, 112; invaded by English, 104; causes of disunion in, 118, 119; ceded to the Infanta Isabella, 136; contrast between different parts of, 147, 171; coast of, 147 et seq.
Flotte, Pierre, Chancellor of France, 49, 53
Flushing, 69
Fox, Sir Stephen, 84
France, Flanders annexed to, 46, 112
France, Palais du, 7, 73
French Consulate at Bruges, 88
Furnes, 124-132; procession of penitents at, 127; Church of Ste. Walburge, 124; Hôtel de Ville and Palais de Justice, 124; Church of St. Nicholas, 124; Corps de Garde Espagnol and Pavillon des Officiers Espagnols, 126

Gand, Porte de, 17
Gardiner, Dr., quoted, 60
Gauthier de Sapignies, 51
Genoese merchants, house of, at Bruges, 88
George III., 84
Germany, emigrations from Flanders to, 150
Ghent, 22, 48, 96
Ghiselhuis, 67
Gilliat-Smith, author of The Story of Bruges, 6
Gloucester, Henry, Duke of, 75 et seq.
Godshuisen, 74
Golden Fleece, Order of the, 30
Golden Spurs, Battle of the, 18, 45
Golf in Belgium, 163-166
'Governor of the English Colony beyond the Seas,' 88
Grande Dame of Béguinage, 28
Grande Salle des Echevins at Bruges, 45
Great storm of thirteenth century, 150
Gruthuise, 7, 31
Guildhouse of St. Sebastian at Bruges, 7, 82
Gustavus Adolphus, 77
Guy de Dampierre, 46

Haecke, Canon van, 34
Halle de Drapiers at Ypres, 115
Halle de Paris at Bruges, 88
Halles at Bruges, 5
Hamilton, Sir James, 78
Hanseatic League, 66
Het Paradijs, 32
Heyst, 62, 90, 153, 154
Hobbema, 176
Hogarth, 41
Holland, Béguinages in, 27
Holy Blood, relic and chapel of, at Bruges, 16, 32; Procession of the, 36
Holy Cross, relic of, 30
Holy Sepulchre, Church of, at Jerusalem, 33
Hoogenblekker, 148
Horn, Count, 111
Hôtel de Bouchoute at Bruges, 4
Hôtel de Ville at Bruges, 7, 16, 17, 67, 91; at Furnes, 126
House of the Seven Towers, 75, 76, 83
Hyde (Lord Clarendon), 77, 78, 81

Idesbaldus, St., 174
Inquisition in Flanders, 127
Isabella, the Infanta, 111, 126, 138

Jerusalem, Baldwin, King of, 33
Jerusalem, Church of, at Bruges, 30
Jesse, Memoirs of the Court of England, 84
Jesuits at Bruges, 85
Joanna of Navarre, 46
John of Ypres, 8, 9
Joseph II., 86, 112
Joseph of Arimathæa, 33
Judith, wife of Baldwin Bras-de-Fer, 14, 124
Justice, Palais du, at Bruges, 16, 17; at Furnes, 124

Kadzand, 65
Kermesse, 101, 102
King, Thomas Harper, 36
Knights of the Golden Fleece, 30
Knocke, 62, 65, 156, 164, 165

Lac d'Amour, 28, 29
La Panne, 153, 156, 159, 160
Le Coq, 153, 162-164
Legend of Montrose, 77
Lejeusne, Mathurin, 128
Leliarts, 17, 46
Leonius, 34
Leopold I., 82, 151
Leopold II., 163
Lilly the astrologer, 78
Lincoln, Bishop of, 35
Lombaerdzyde, 136, 140, 176, 177
Longfellow, quoted, 5,42, 66
Loove, the, at Bruges, 20
Louis of Maele, 67, 105, 107
Louis of Nevers, 61, 67
Louis XIV., 111
Louvain, 27
Luxembourg, 111
Lyger, 172

Maele, Louis of, 67, 105, 107
Maison des Orientaux, 87
Mannaert, 128
Marbriers, Quai des, 15
Mariakerke, 152
Maria Theresa, 112
Market-Place of Bruges, 3, 4, 5, 9, 45, 47
Mary, 'The Gentle,' 30
Matins of Bruges, 17, 45
Maurice of Nassau, 135, 140, 142
Mauritshuis at The Hague, 177
Maximilian, Archduke, 4, 68
Mazarin, 76
Melrose Abbey, 173
Memlinc, 7, 68, 88
Meuninxhove, John van, 83
Michael Angelo, 30
Middelkerke, 152, 153
Minnewater, 28, 29
Miracles wrought by the Holy Blood at Bruges, 35
Morgarten, 53
Mother Superior of Béguinage, 28
Murray, Sir Robert, 77

Napoleon at Bruges, 36; return from Elba, 113; canal to Sluis constructed by, 58
Navarre, Joanna of, 46
Neutrality of Flanders in 1340 and 1830, 61
Nevers, Louis of, 61, 67
Nicholas I., Pope, 14
Nicholas, Sir Edward, 77
Nieuport, 135-144; origin of, 149; besieged by Prince Maurice, 140; fallen state of, 143
Nieuport-Bains, 144, 147, 153, 159
'Nieuwerck,' at Ypres, 115
Nimeguen, Treaty of, 111
Nivelles, 139
Noé, Michael, 82
Normans in Flanders, 13
Norwich, Earl of, 77, 78
Notre Dame, Church of, at Bruges, 7, 29, 86
Notre Dame de Lombaerdzyde, 176
Notre Dame de Thuine, 108

'Old England' at Bruges, 88
Oosterlingen Plaats, 87
Oostkerke, 59
Orientaux, Maison des, 87; Place des, 87
Ormonde, 77, 81
Osburga, 14
Ostend, growth of, 142, 151, 153, 154
Otlet, M. Paul, 154 note
Ouden Burg, 7

Palais de Justice, at Bruges, 16, 17, 20; at Furnes, 124
Palais du Franc, 73
Paradijs, Het, 32
Parijssche Halle, 88
Paris, 159
Parma, Duke of, in Flanders, 109
Pauperism of Bruges, 74
Philip II. cedes Spanish Netherlands to his daughter, 136
Philip III., 136
Philip of Valois, 61, 64
Philip the Fair, 45, 46, 48, 49, 52
Place des Orientaux, 87
Place du Bourg, 15, 16, 17
Pont des Dunes, 175
Pope Clement V., 34; VII., 105; Boniface VIII., 49; Celestine III., 175; Urban VI., 105
Poperinghe, 116
Porte de Damme, 50, 58
Porte de Gand, 17
Porte Ste. Croix, 50, 51
Procession of the Holy Blood at Bruges, 36 et seq.; of Penitents at Furnes, 128
Pruyssenaere, Peter, 82

Quai Espagnol, 87; Long, 57; des Marbriers, 15, 73, 75; du Miroir, 57; de la Potterie, 57, 58, 175; du Rosaire, 9, 57; Spinola, 57, 88; Vert, 73, 128

Rastadt, Treaty of, 112
Richard I., 174
Robinson, Mr. Wilfrid, author of Bruges, an Historical Sketch, 6
Rochester, Earl of, 77
Rodenbach, 89
Röles de Damme, 66
Rome, flight of Baldwin and Judith to, 14
Roosebeke, Battle of, 67, 104
Rosaire, Quai du, 9
Roulers, 104
Route Royale, 159
Roya, 8, 9, 10, 15, 57, 58
Rue Anglaise, in Bruges, 88; de l'Âne Aveugle, 15, 17, 23; des Carmes, 82; Cour de Gand, 87; Espagnole, 86; Flamande, 88; Haute, 75; Neuve, 10; du Vieux Bourg, 7, 9, 10, 76
Ruysdael, 176

Santhoven, 149
Scarphout, 150
'Schielt ende Vriendt,' 51
Schomberg, 111
Schoutteeten, 30, 31
'Scotland,' at Bruges, 88
Scottish merchants at Bruges, 88
Scott, Sir Walter, 77
See-Brugge, 90
Senlis, 14
Sheppey, Isle of, 174
Sluis, 50, 59, 65, 67, 69
Smith, Gilliat-, 5, 6, 23, 24
Smet de Naeyer, Comte, 156
Smyrna, Consulate of, at Bruges, 87
Spaniards, at Bruges, 87; at Furnes, 126, 127
Spanish Inquisition, 127
Spencer, Henry, Bishop of Norwich, 104
St. André, Village of, 23
St. Basil, Church of, 32, 86
St. Bavon, 68
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 32, 175
St. Donatian, Church of, 86
St. George, Society of, 81, 82
St. Idesbaldus, 174
St. John, Hospital of, 7
St. Martin, Church of, at Furnes, 108
St. Nicholas, Church of, at Furnes, 124
St. Omer, Jesuits of, 85
St. Peter's, at Ghent, 22
St. Sauveur, Church of, 7, 24, 30, 37, 86
St. Sebastian, Society of, at Bruges, 81, 82, 84; at Ypres, 104
Ste. Elizabeth, Church of, 7, 29
Ste. Gudule, Church of, 30
Ste. Monica, Church of, 27
Ste. Walburge, Church of, at Bruges, 88; at Furnes, 124, 174
Straetens, 19, 20
Stübben, Herr, 166
Swift, Dean, 41
Sybilla, wife of Thierry d'Alsace, 33
Sydenham, Colonel, 77
Syria, 30