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father_n	eternal_a	ghost_n	holy_a	29,948	5	5.9119	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08536	Theatrum orbis terrarum Abrahami OrtelI Antuerp. geographi regii. = The theatre of the vvhole world: set forth by that excellent geographer Abraham Ortelius; Theatrum orbis terrarum. English	Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598.; Bedwell, William, ca. 1561-1632, attributed name.; W. B.	1608 (1608)	STC 18855; ESTC S122301	546,874	619

must euery day if opportunity be offered heare a masse or diuine seruice Secondly when need requireth viz. when there is any generall warre against the Pagans or Infidels he must aduenture both body and goods in the quarrell of the Church that is he is bound either to go in his owne person or to send thither of his charges some one sufficient man or other Thirdly he is bound by that oath to defend and free in as much as in him shall lie the holy Church of God and all the members of the same from their persecutors and from the enemies of Christianity Fourthly he must altogether shunne vniust warres filthy lucre and hire fencing iusts torneaments combats and such like but only for exercise and making of himselfe more fit for the sacred warre Fifthly he must procure peace and concord between faithfull Christian people do his best to grace and enlarge the bounds of his country defend orphanes and widdowes he must carefully take heed of cursed oathes periuries blasphemies rapes vsurie sacriledge murther drunkennesse suspected places infamous persons and to shunne and keep himselfe as from the deadly plague from all those vices of the flesh that mortall man by nature is so much subiect vnto and that he do so cary himselfe that in the iudgement of men he shall not be blame worthy but shall shew himselfe worthy of that honour that he is called vnto by frequenting the Church procuring the honour and glory of God in what he can It is therefore demanded of him whether he be ready with hart voice to protest sweare performe all these things Answear IN. do protest and promise before our Lord Iesus Christ and the blessed Virgin Mary his mother that I will to the vttermost of my power obserue all these things These being done the Sword is blessed or consecrated by the Gardian according to the blessing beneath prescribed if it be not otherwise consecrated before but if it be blessed then after that blessing or consecration calling one of those that are to be made Knights and causing him to kneell downe before the holy sepulchre the Gardian putteth his hand vpon his head and saith Thou N. be thou a faithfull true stout good and braue souldiour of our Lord Iesus Christ and of his holy sepulchre whom we pray to vouchsafe thee his heauenly glory with his chosen Saints Amen Then the father Gardian giueth him a paire of gilded spurres which he must put vpon his heeles standing vpon the ground Afterward he giueth the naked sword to the Knight saying Take thou N. the holy Sword In the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Amen making withall 3 crosses vpon the same Vse it for thine owne defence for the defence of the holy Church of God to the offence and confusion of the enemies of the crosse of Christ and Christian faith and to thy vttermost power thou shalt hurt no man wrongfully with it which he vouchsafe to grant who with the Father and the holy Ghost raigneth one God both now and for euer Amen Then the Sword is put vp into the scabberd the Gardian girdeth the Sword about the Knight saying Be thou N. most valiant girded with thy Sword vpon thy thigh in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ and obserue that the Saints haue conquered kingdomes not by their swordes but by faith The Knight thus girded with the Sword ariseth and resting vpon his knees and leaning his head vpon the holy Sepulchre he is dub'd by the Gardian 3 times smiting the Sword vpon the shoulders of the Knight and saying thrise these words I ordain make thee N. a Knight of the holy Sepulchre of our Lord Iesus Christ in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Amen making as afore 3. crosses Then he kisseth him and putteth vpon his necke according to the old maner a chaine of Gold with a crosse hanging vpon it Lastly the Knight kissing the Sepulcher restoreth all these ornaments goeth aside and another is called which is to be dubbed with the like ceremonies In the meane time the Knight first made must stay in the hall of the holy Sepulchre vntill such time as all the rest that are to be preferred to this dignity haue obtained the same When they are all made then Te Deum is song by the Friars and from thence they go to the chappell of the Minorites or else there they stay still as the Gardian shall please or appoint Then these words following are spoken in the singular number if there be but one if there be many in the plurall In the singular it is said Thou more beautifull than the sonnes of men thou N. gird c. with thy sword vpon thy thigh o thou most mighty If there be many it is spoken in the plurall number The Versicle Lord heare c. Answear And let my crie come vnto thee The Lord be with you And with thy spirit Let vs pray Grant vnto thy Church most mercifull God that being gathered together in the Holy Ghost it may no manner of way be disturbed by the assault of the enimy Almighty and euerlasting God powre the grace of thy blessing vpon this thy seruant or these thy seruants which at this instant desireth to be girded with the glorious sword cause him being defended by the power of thy right hand to be continually garded with a garrison of heauenly souldiers against all aduersaries whereby he may not be molested in this world with any tempestuous stormes of bitter wars by Christ our Lord c. Lastly the Gardian and others if they please do embrace him The blessing of the sword Hee that blesseth it must hold the sword naked before him and say Our help is in the name of the Lord c. Let vs pray Listen we pray thee o Lord vnto our praiers and vouchsafe with the right hand of thy Maiesty to blesse this sword wherewith this thy seruant desireth to be armed to the end that he may be a defendour of the Church of widdowes orphanes and of all such as serue God against the fury of the Paganes and Infidels and a terrour and dread to such as shall assault or go about to hurt him assuring him of the certain effect of iust lawfull defence and offence by Christ our Lord Amen Let vs pray Blessed Lord holy Father almighty and eternall God by the inuocation of thy blessed name by the comming of thy sonne Iesus Christ our Lord and by the gift of the holy Ghost blesse this sword that this thy seruant which this same day by thy bounteous fauour is to be girded vnto him may ouerthrow and beat downe all thy enemies both visible and inuisible and he getting the vpper hand may continually abide void of all danger by Christ our Lord Amen The blessed Lord my rocke which teacheth my hands to fight and my fingers to warre my largesse and my castle my

the Portugals still called Cussij of Cush I make no question The people are blacke or of a deep tawny or blackish colour and blacke we say in our common prouerbe will take none other hue Whereupon the Prophet Ieremy in the 23. verse of the 13. chapter of his prophecy saith thus Can ישוכ Cushi the Abyssine or Blacka-moore change his skinne or the leopard his spots For the same reason also the learned Diuines do iudge that Dauid in the title or superscription of the seuenth Psalme by Cush did meane Saul for that his deadly hate was such toward him that by no good meanes that he might vse he could make him change his mind more than an Indian doth his skinne as Kimchi the great Rabbine doth interpret this place The people are by profession Christians as appeareth by the letters of the said Dauid written vnto Pope Clement the seuenth Of whose manner of life customes and religion we haue gathered these few lines out of the trauels of Francis Aluares written and imprinted in the Italian tongue In these countries there are very many Monasteries and Religious houses both of men and women Into the Monasteries of the men there is neither woman nor any liuing creature of the female sex that may enter or once looke within the gates Their Monkes which heere do hold their Lent for fifty daies together do fast for the most part only with bread and water For in these countries there is small store of fish especially in the vpland places for although the riuers are well stored of fish yet they giue not their mind to fishing because they know not how to catch them there is none skilled in that art In time of Lent certaine of these Monkes do not eat any bread at all only they liue vpon rootes and herbs some of them for all that time do neuer go to bed nor sleepe but as they sit in the water vp to the chinne In their Churches they haue bels as we haue but for the most part made of stone Their Ministers and Priests are married They say Masse and do go in procession with crosses and censers like as they vse in some Churches in Europe The Friars do weare their haire long but their Priests do not so neither of them weare any shoes nor any man neither Churchman nor Layman may once enter within the Church dores with shoes on his feet They keep Sundaies and Holy-daies vpon which they do no manner of worke They are all circumcised both men and women but they are also baptised in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost yet not vntill the fortith day after their birth they which liue not till this day are buried vnchristened to all those that are baptized the holy communion or Eucharist as they call it is at the same instant administred powring a great deale of water into the childes mouth that he may so much the more easily get it downe The proper names which then are giuen them are all of some signification They affirme that they were conuerted vnto Christian religion by Candaces a Queen of this country spoken of in the 27. verse of the 8. chapter of the Acts of the Apostles whose proper name they thinke was Iudith They haue a booke diuided into 8. parts this they call Manda and Abetilis which they do verily beleeue was written by all the Apostles being iointly for that purpose gathered together at Hierusalem all the contents of this booke they do most diligently and strictly obserue The baser sort of people do without any controwlement or feare of punishment marry 2. or 3. wiues according to their ability and as they can tell how to maintaine them but these are excommunicated and forbidden by the Cleargy to enter into the Church Their lawes do tolerate diuorcements The Noble-men do esteem raw beefe serued in with fresh or hot bloud in manner as we vse our boiled meats with pottage or stewed broth for a great and dainty dish In all the kingdome of Prester Iohn they haue no manner of brasen or copper money but in steed of it they vse pure gold vncoined of a certaine weight In like manner salt yet not only in these prouinces but also generall throughout all Africa is vsed in exchange and buying and selling in stead of money In some places small pieces of iron bright and burnished do serue that turne But pepper amongst these people is of such great price that whatsoeuer a man will buy he may easily obtaine it for that merchandice These countries haue almost all sorts of beasts and fowles as Elephants Lions Tygres Losses Lynces the Latines call them Badgers Apes and Stagges contrary to the opinion of the old writers which haue generally denied that Africa doth veeld this kind of beast but in all that six yeare which Aluares this our authour dwelt in these countries he writeth that he neuer saw any Beares Conies Linnets Magpies or Cuccoes Yet Iohn Leo an African borne in his 9. booke saith that in Barbary there is wonderfull store of Conies The Locusts do more vex and hurt this country than any place of the World beside so that this plague is almost proper and peculiar to them Such oftentimes is the number and abundance of them that as they flie they do seeme to darken the aire and shadow the earth they flie together in such great flockes and thicke troupes that they do vtterly spoile and consume the fruits sometime of one prouince sometime of another wholly almost deuouring all their corn vpon the ground eating vp the leaues and barkes of the trees leauing their meddowes and pastures bare of grasse so that the people do oftentimes leaue their natiue soile where they were bred and borne and are forced for want of victuals to go seeke some other place to dwell in There is in these quarters a city named Cassumo sometime the seat as their histories do record and place of the Queen of Saba Maquedam that is as I thinke Antistes a Prouost or President they say she was called By whom they affirme that Salomon King of Isra l had a sonne named Meilech that is The King In this city they are perswaded that the Queen Cand ces did afterward dwell But it is best that the Reader that is desirous of further satisfaction to haue recourse to the same Francis Aluares who hath very curiously described those thing which he did most diligently obserue in that his Ambassage into these countries Item Iohn Bermundes who set foorth his Ambassage vnto the Abyssines in the Portugall language Let him also read a little treatise of Damianus à Goes which he wrot out of Ethiopia and Sabellicus his 10. Enneas of his 8. booke Of the originall of Prester Iohn and by what meanes he came out of Asia where he was knowen to writers about 200. yeares since and seated himselfe in Africa read Iohn Nauarchus in his Epistol Asiatica and Gerard Mercator in his