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A65095	A pleasant and compendious history of the first inventers and instituters of the most famous arts, misteries, laws, customs and manners in the whole world together with many other rarities and remarkable things rarely known, and never before made publick : to which is added, several curious inventions, peculierly attributed to England & English-men, the whole work alphabetically digested and very helpful to the readers of history.; De rerum inventoribus. English	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.	1686 (1686)	Wing V598; ESTC R21854	60,337	192

special or singular commodity or favour to the furtherance or advantage of the common Livelyhoods of others such were Builders of Citties or Ladyes excelling for their Chastity such as were puissiant in Armes were more especially honour'd for Gods as the Aegyptians had Isiis the Assyrians Neptune the Latines Faunus the Romans Quirine the Athens Pallas the Delphians Appollo the Grecians Jupiter the Assyrians Belus and many Countreys had divers other Gods and some which is a shame to speak Worshipped Brute Beasts and took them for Gods by reason whereof the Greeians had the opinion that the Gods had their beginning of men And thus when men withdrew their phantasies from Images to the Spirits invisible they were perswaded that there were many Gods and of no lesser number than mortall men not to Discourse further of the Opinions of the Phylosophers which were various and dangerous to be mentioned I shall only set down what Plato saith that there is but one God he writes that this World was Created by him and that he was called God because he is so merciful and bestoweth his Blessings so freely on men from whom they receive all things good and profitable God himself being the principal Fountain of all Goodness Men were first called Christians when Philip Converted and Baptised the Samaritans and a certain Evunuch of Candaces Queen of Aethiopia this Evunuch Converted the Queen with her Family and a great part of that Countrey to the Faith of Christ Afterwards in Antioch the Faithfull named themselves Christians Myrrh which is an humour congealed and constipated together with heat is brought out of the Eastern parts and chiefly out of Carmania Pompeius in his Triumph over the Pyrat's or Robbers of the Sea brought it first into Rome N NE-CROMANCY is said to be such a kind of Magick as is for the raising up of the Dead as in Lucan one raised from Death told the Adventures of the Battell of Pharsalia Pyromancy is one part of it which predicted things by the Fire and Lightning as Tenaquilla the Wife of Tarquinius Priscus prophesied that Servius Tullius should be King of Rome because he saw the Fire environ his Head The finding of this Pliny referreth to Amphiaraus Hieromancy that is a kind of prophecieing by the Aire as by flying feeding singing of Birds and strange Tempests of Wind and Haile Hydromancy was a prophecying by Water as Varro Write ththat a Child did see in the Water the Image of Mercury and in 150 Verses told all the success of War against Methridates King of Pontus Geomancy was a Divination by opening of the Earth Chiromancy is a conjectureing by beholding the lines and Wrinkles of the hand commonly called Palusistry The Sages or Wise Men of Persia which in their Language were named Magi being strangely addicted to the honouring of their false Gods were so extreamly foolish that they professed openly that they could not only by the observation of the Stars know things to come but also by the already mentioned pretended Arts that they could bring to pass what they would which illusions and false perswasions of theirs it becommeth all true Christians for to eschew and abhorre Naval Fights Minos made the first for Honour and Profit Merchandise being instituted to furnish Men with necessaries by way of Exchange but after Money was coined it was made use of more for private Wealth The Naval or Sea Crown which was of Gold was first set on his head which boarded his enemies Ship Nets were first said to have been invented by Arachne of Lydia she taught the way of Knitting them to take Beasts Birds Fish and Fowl she also Invented Flax and Linnen as Pliny writes Noah made the first Altar Abraham Isaac and Jacob did make their Offerings rather from their devotion then from any Priestly Authority Notaries were appointed in Rome by Julius the first of that name their Office was then to write the lives of Godly Martyrs and Confessors to Register them for a perpetual example of constant and vertuous living Though I am of Opinion that it was the Invention and de●ice of Clement who Ordained seaven Notaries to Inroll the notable Deeds of the Martyrs And Antherius afterwards did more firmly rectifie them But this now amongst other Offices is perverted to other worldly affaires Nuns or the custome of Consecrating of Virgins to make Vows of Chastity was instituted by Pius the first who also ordained that none should be made before they were Twenty five years old and that they might be Consecrated at no time but in the Epiphany or Twelfth-day Easter Even and on the Feasts of the Apostles unless it were when any professed were in point of dying And Sotherus caused that a Decree was made that no such prosessed should touch Cope or put Incence into the Censors the year of our Lord God 175. It seemeth to have taken it's Original from the Apostles which is proved by St. Paul's words where he saith let no Widdow be chosen before she be Threescore years of age with divers of the like sayings O THE Oath called Jones Stone Which the Antients swore by and Held so Sacred was after this manner he that swore was to hold in one hand a stone and then to pronounce these Words If Knowingly I deceive Jupiter cast me from my Gods from my Countrey and from all happyness as I cast away this Stone The Orders of Chivalry most whereof continue at this day amongst Princes are as followeth The First and antientest of these Orders of Chivalry or Knighthood is the Order of the Garter Instituted in the year of our Lord 1348 in Burdeaux chief City of the Dukedome Guyne in France by Edward the Third King of England and then possessor of the Dukedome which order he consecrated and dedicated to St. George though the motive of the institution thereof proceeded from the Loss of a Garter which he supposed to have been the Countess of Salsburies And it happened in this manner As one day he was entertaining her with pleasant Discourse a Garter chanced to unloose and fall down at the Kings indeavouring to take it up the Noble-men were supprised with a suddain Laughter At which the Countess Blushed to perceive her self rendered so Rediculous and withall being displeased at some more than seemingly Familiarity that had passed she said sharply to the King and the rest Honi soit qui maly pense which in English is Evil to him that Evil thinketh The King to pacific the Countesses displeasure said that before it were long those Noble-men which had made a Jest and Laughing at the Garter sallen down should esteem themselves much honoured to wear it for a mark of Chivalry and thereupon ordained the said Order and consecrated it to St. George and made thereof Twenty-six Knights and ordained that they should wear their Cloakes of Violet-colour Velvet their Hoods of Red Velvet and under the left Knee a Blew Garter Buckled with Gold Garnished with precious Stones and about

c. were first brought to perfection in England by the aforesaid Mr. Hook Antonio Bonele an Italian first taught the English to Spin with a Destaffe in the twentieth year of King Henery the seventh Fine Spanish-Needles were first made in England in the Reign of Queen Mary by a Negro in Cheapside who refused to communicate his Art but in the Eighth year of Queen Elizabeths Reign Elias Corous a German made it known to the English The first English Coach-Maker is Recorded to be Walter Ripon who in the year 1564 made a Coach for the Earl of Rutland and a hollow turning Coach in the year 1585 for Queen Elizabeth In the Tenth year of Queen Elizabeths Reign Richard Dryer brought into England the Invention of making Earthen Fire-pots Furnaces transportable Ovens for baking Earthen ware and had the first sole profit by Pattent in the year 1555. Making of Eopperas was first practised in England by Cornelius de Voss a Merchant in the year 1587. William Saunders a Fishmonger was the first that brought our Coelestial and Terestial Globes to perfection William Mathews in the Fifth year of Queen Elizabeth was the first English Artist that made fine Knives and Hafts marked with the Half Moon for the Propriety of which he had the Queens Paten About the same time the way of making Pins was found out by the English which before were brought in by Strangers to the value of 60000 Pound a year One Bourass made first the Engine for Scale-Boards One Ross is reported to have made the First Bandore in England and to this day that called the Ross Viol is accounted the best The Engine for Clock-Wheels is an English Invention of about one hundred years standing as likewise that for the speedy cutting down Wheels for Watches Chaines for Watches is said to be the Invention of one Mr. Tomackee The First Inventor of Knitting of Worsted Stoekings in England was William Rider a London Apprentice who in the Reign of King James the First presented a paire of his own Knitting to the Earl of Pembrooke The late serviceable Moddel of Shipping is affirmed to be the Invention or Direction of the Famous Sir Walter Raleigh Other late Inventions there are to whom as their Inventors the English lay claime as an Engine for raising Glass an Engine for Spinning Glass an Engine for Cutting Tobacco the Rouling Press the Art of Damasking Linnen and Watering of Silks the way of seperating Gold from Silver and Brass Boulting Mills Makeing Caine Chaires the curious Art of Colouring and Marbling of Books makeing of Horn ware and the Engine to Extinguish Fire and the like Thus Reader it apears that the Industery of our Predecessors was great whereby they brought so many Rarities to perfection and left their further Improvement to Posterity FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by John Harris at the Harrow against the Church in the Poultrey 1 A Discourse of Divine Providence 1. In General That there is a Providence exercised by God in the World 2. In Particular How all Gods Providences in the World are in order to the good of his People By the late Learned Divine Stephen Charnock B. D. sometimes Fellow of New-Colledg in Oxon. Price Bound 3 s. 2 COme and Welcome to Jesus Christ Or a plain and profitable Discourse on John 6. Verse 37. Shewing the Cause Truth and manner of the coming of a Sinner to Jesus Christ with his happy Reception and blessed Entertainment Prince Bound 1 s. 3 A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publicane Wherein several great and weighty things are handled As the Nature of Prayer and of Obedience to the Law with how far it obliges Christians and wherein it consists Wherein is also shed the equally deplorable condition of the Pharisee or Hypocritical Self-righteous Man and of the Publicane or Sinner that lives in Sin and in open violation of the Divine Laws Together with the Way and Method of God's Free-Grace in Pardoning Penetent Sinners proving that he justifies them by imputing Christs Righteousness to them Price Bound 1 s. 4 SIghs from Hell Or The Groans of a Damned Soul Discovering from the 16th of Luke the Lamentable state of the Damned And may fitly serve as a Warning-Word to Sinners both Old and Young by Faith in Jesus Christ to avoid the same place of Torment With a Discovery of the Usefulness of the Scriptures as our safe Conduct for avoiding the Torments of Hell All three by John Bunyon Author of the Pilgrims Progress Price Bound 1 s. 5 THe Saints Comfort in all but more especially in Evil Times Drawn from Twelve several Texts of Scripture which are briefly explained in this small Piece By T. G. Minister of the Gospel Price Bound 1 s. 6 THE True Fortune-Teller Or Guide to Knowledge Discovering the whole Art of Chyromancy Physiognomy Metoposcopy and Astrology Containing 1. A Discription of the Planets their power and influence over the Bodies of Men Women and Children 2. Of the several Lines Mounts Marks Angles and sacred Characters in the Hand and Wrist and by what Planets they are Governed as to good or bad Fortune 3. Of Physiognomy 4. Observations on the Eyes Eye-brows Nose Ears Chin Neck Hair Beard and Face 5. Metoposcopy or the signification of the Lines in the Face 6. Of Moles and their significations 7. Of Dreams and their Interpretations 8. Of Nativities and their Calculation 9. Of the Rod by which hidden Treasure is found 10. Of Marriages and at what time any Person shall be Married 11. Rules to know the danger of Death 12. Of good and bad Days 13. The manner of Resolving doubtful Questions as to Friends Marriages places of Abode Health Prosperity or Adversity Love or Business 14. Of Pythagoras his Wheel of Fortune 15. Of the good and bad days in each Month relating to Health To which is added Aristoteles Observations of the Heavens their motion Of Firy Metors Thunder Lightning Eclipses Commets Earth-quakes and Whirl-winds Illustrated with several proper Figures Price Bound 1 s. 7 A Directory for Midwives or a guide for Women in their Conception Bearing and Suckling their Children The first part contains 1. The Anatomy of the vessels of Generation 2. The Formation of the Child in the Womb. 3. What hinders conception and its remedies 4. what furthers conception 5. A guide for women in conception 6. Of miscarriage in women 7. A guide for women in their Labor 8. A guide for women in their Lying in 9. Of Nursing children by Nicholas Culpepper Price Bound 3 s.