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A16281	The fardle of facions conteining the aunciente maners, customes, and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affrike and Asia.; Omnium gentium mores. Book 1-2. English	Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae.; Waterman, William, fl. 1555?	1555 (1555)	STC 3197; ESTC S102775	133,143	358

Armenia and Ass●ria on the Southe Persie and on the aft Hircama and Parthia Sauing that betwixte Parthia and it there ronneth a mounteigne that seperateth their frontiers The feactes that thei mooste exerci●e are shootyng and ridyng Wherein thei be righte experte almoste for those quartres without matche or felowe It hathe bene there a longe continued and aunciente custome to honour their kynges like goddes The rounde cappe whithe thei cal Tiara and their long sliued garmentes passed from them to the Persians together with the Empire It was a peculier maner vsed of the Kynges of the Medes to haue many wiues Which thyng was aftrewarde also taken vp of the communes so that at lengthe it was thought vnmiete to haue feawer wiues then seuen It was also a goodlie thyng for a woman to haue many husbandes and to be without fiue at ones was compted amiserable state The Medes entre leagues and conenauntes both aftre the maner of the Grekes and also with drawing bloud vpō some parte of the arme aboute the shouldre one of another whiche thei vse to licke eche of of others body All that parte of the coūtrey that lieth towarde the Northe is barrein and vnfruictefulle Wherefore thei vse to make store of their fruicte and to drie them and so to woorke them into a masse or lumpe for their foode Of rosted Almondes thei make their breade and their wine of the rootes of certein herbes Thei eate great plentie of the fleshe of wilde beastes ¶ The. vj. Chapitre ¶ Of Parthia and the maner of the Parthians ACerteine nombre of Outlawes and Banisshed menne called Parthie gaue name to this Countrie Aftre suche tyme as by train and stealth thei had gotten it On the Southe it hath Carmania on the North Hircanum on the Weast the Meades and on the easte the country of Arabia The countrie is hilly and full of woddes and of a barreine soyle And a people which in the time of the Assiriens and Medes ware scante knowen and litle estiemed In so moche that when the highe gouernaunce of the whole whiche the Grekes call the Monarchie was yelded into the hādes of the persians thei ware made a butin as a nombre of raskalles without name Laste of all thei ware slaues to the Macedonies But afterward in processe of time suche was the valeaūtenes of this people and such successe had thei that thei became lordes not ouer their neighbours onely rounde aboute theim but also helde the Romaines the conquerours of the worlde suche tacke that in sondrie warres they gaue them great ouerthrowes and notablye endamaged their power Plinie reherseth xiiii kingdomes of the parthians Trogus calleth them Emperours of the east part of the worlde Althoughe they and the Romaines holding the weste had deuided the whole betwixte them Aftre the decaye of the Monarchie of the Macedonians this people was ruled by kinges Whome generally by the name of the first king thei termed Arsaces Nexte vnto the kinges maiestie the communaltie bare the swaye Dute of whome they chase bothe their Capteignes for the warres their gouernours for the peace time Their language is a speache mixte of the Scithians Medes Their appareil at the firste was aftre their facion vnlike to all other But when thei grewe vnto power louse and large so thinne that a man mighte see thoroughe it aftre the facion of the Medes Their maner of weapon armour was the same that the Scithians vsed But their armies ware altogether almoste of slaues and bondemen contrary to the maner of other peoples And for that no manne hath aucthoritie amonge them to giue fredome vnto anye of this bonde ofspring The nombre of them by continuauce came vnto a greate multitude These do thei bringe vp and make of as deerly as thei do of their owne children teachinge them to ride to shote to throwe the darte and suche like feates with great diligence and handsomenes Eche communerther acording to his substaunce findeth a greate nombre of these to serue the kinge on horsebacke in all warres So that at what time Anthonie the Romaine made warre vpon the parthians wher thei mette him with fyftie thousande horsemen there ware of the whole nombre but eyghte hundred fre borne They are not skylfull to fighte it oute at hande stripes ne yeat in the maner of besieging or assaulting but all together aftre the maner of skirmisshe as thei spie their aduauntage Thei vse no trompet for their warninges or onsettes but a dromme neither are thei able to endure longe in their fighte For yf they ware so good in continuaunce as thei be violente at a brunte ther ware no multitude able to susteine their force For the moste parte thei breake of when the skirmiche is euen at the whottest And within a while aftre thei feigne a flight wher with thei beginne againe a newe onsette So when thou thinckest thy selfe mooste sure of the honour of the fielde thē arte thou at the poinct of the hardest hasarde Their horsemen vse armour of mayle entrelaced with fethers bothe for their owne defence the defence also of their horses In times passed thei occupied no golde ne siluer but only in their armour Vpon regarde of chaunge in their luste thei mary echeone many wiues and yet punishe thei none offēce so greuously as adultery For the auoyding wherof thei doe not onely forbidde their women by generall restrainte from all feastes and banckettinges of men but also from the sighte of them Some neuerthelesse do wrighte amonge the whiche Strabo is one that thei vse to giue their wiues sometime to their friendes as in the waye of mariage that thei maye so haue issue Thei eate none other fleshe but suche as thei kylle at the chace Thei be euer on horsebacke whether thei go to the fielde or the banket to bye to selle to cōmune of aughte with their friende or to do any thing that is to be done Yea thei dispatche al commune and priuate affaires sittinge on horsebacke And this is to be vnderstonden of the fre borne for the slaues are alwaies on foote Their buriall for all menne sauinge the kinge is the dogges bealy and the kytes But when thei or suche like haue eaten of the fleshe thē couer thei the bare bones with earth Thei haue great regarde vnto their goddes the worship due vnto them Thei are men of a proude nature busie medlers and sedicious craftie deceiptfull malaparte and vnshamefaced for thei holde opinion that it becometh the man aswell to be sterne as the woman to be mylde Thei be euer in some stirre either with their neighbours or elles amonge them selues Men of fewe wordes and readier to doe then to saye And therfore whether it go with them or against thēt thei lappe it vp in scilence Thei obey not their superiours for any reuerence bu for feare Altogether giuen to lechery and yet skante in fiedinge No farther trewe of worde or promesse then semeth

the people that onely of all other may chalenge the honour of auncientie This is the people alone that mighte haue glorified in the wisedome and vnmedled puritie of Language as beinge of all other the firste This is the people that was mother of lettres and sciences Amonge these remained the knowledge of the onely and euerliuinge God and the certeintie of the religion that was pleasaunte in his eies Among these was the knowledge and foreknowledge of al sauinge that Helas they knewe not the visitour of their wealthe and the ende of their wo Iesus the sauioure of all that woulde knowe him and sieke life in his deathe But him whome thei knew not when by reason thei should him shal thei yet ones knowe in time when the father woulde The Israelites the Hebrues or the Iewes for all in effecte soundeth one people liue aftre the rule of the lawes whiche Moses their worthy duke and deuine chiefteine declared vnto theim Withoute the whiche also or anye other written thei liued holily hundred of yeares before atteininge to the truthes hidden from other by a singuler gifte aboue other That Philosophre of Philosophers and deuine of deuines Moses the merueilous waienge in his insight that no multitude assembled coulde be gouerned to continuaunce without ordres of equitie and lawes when with rewardes to the good and reuenge vpon the euill he had sufficiently exhorted and trained his people to the desire of vertue and the hate of the contrarie at the last beside the two tables receiued in the mounte Sinah added ordres of discipline and ciuile gouernaunce full of all goodlines and equitie Whiche Iosephus the Iewe a manne of greate knowledge and eloquence aswel in the Hebrewe his natural tōgue as in the Grieke amonge whome he liuen in notable fame not a fewe yeres hath gathered and framed into one seuerall treatise Out of the which because I rather fansie if I maye with like commoditie to folowe the founteines of the first Authours then the brokes of abredgers which often bring with them much puddle I haue here translated and annexed to the ende of this booke those ordres of the Iewes commune welthe sēding the for the reste to the Bible And yet notwithstanding loke what I foūde in this Abredger neither mencioned in the bible nor in that treatise the same thus ordrely foloweth The heathen writers and the Christianes do muche diffre concerninge the Iewes and Moyses their chiefteine For Cornelius the stylle in his firste booke of his yerely exploi●tes called in Latine Annales dothe not ascribe their departure oute of Egipte to the power and cōmaūdement of God but vnto necessitie cōstrainte with these wordes A great skuruines and an ytche saieth he beinge risen throughe oute Egipte Borchoris the king sekinge remedye in the Temple of Iupiter Haminon was willed by responcion to clense his kingdome And to sende awaye that kinde of people whom the goddes hated he meaneth the Iewes into some other cōtrey The whiche when he had done and they as the poompe of al skuruines not knowing wher to become laye cowring vndre hedges and busshes in places desert and many of them dropped away for sorowe and disease Moyses whiche also was one of the outecastes saieth he counseiled them not to sitte ther awaytinge aftre the helpe of God or of man whiche thei ware not like to haue but to folowe him as their capteine and lodesman and committe them selues vnto his gouernaunce And that hervnto thei all agreinge at wilde aduentures with oute knowing what thei did tooke their iorney In the which thei ware sore troubled and harde bestadde for lacke of water In this distresse whē their ware now ready to lye them downe die for thirst Moyses espienge a great heard of wilde Chamelles comming fro their fiedinge and going into woddie place ther beside folowed them And iudginge the place not to be without watre for that he sawe it fresshe and grene digged and founde plenty of watre Wherwith when thei had releued thē selues thei passed on of daies iourney and so exployted that the seuenth daye thei had bearen our all the enhabitauntes of the contry where thei builte their Citie their temple Moyses then to the entent he might satle the peoples hartes towarde him for euer deuised them newe ordres and ceremonies cleane contrary to all other nacions For saieth Cornelius Looke what so euer is holy amonge vs the same is amonge them the contrary And what so euer to vs is vnlawfulle that same is compted lawefull amonge theim The ymage of the beaste that shewed them the waye to the waters and the ende of their wanderinge did thei set vp in their chambres and offre vnto it a rambe in the despight of Iupiter Hammō whom we worship in the fourme of a Rambe And because the Egiptians worshippe their goddesse Apis in the fourme of a cowe therfore thei vse to slea also in sacrifice a cowe Swines flesshe thei eate none for that thei holde opinion that this kynde of beaste of it selfe beinge disposed to be skoruie mighte be occasion againe to enfette them of newe The seuenth daye thei make holy day That is to say spende awaie in ydlenes and rest for that on the seuenth daye they founde reste of theyr wandering and misery And when they had caughte a sauour in this holye daye loytering it came to passe in processe of tyme that thei made a longe holydaye also of the whole seuenthyere But other holde opinion that thei do obserue suche maner of holye daies in the honour of Saturne the god of fasting and famine with whose whippe thei are lothe againe to be punisshed Their breade is vnleauened These ceremonies and deuises by what meanes so euer they ware brought in amonge them thei do stiffely defende As thei are naturally giuen to be stiffe in beliefe and depe in loue with their owne althoughe towarde al other thei be most hatefull enemies So that thei neither will eate ne drincke with them no nor lye in the chambre that a straunger of a nother nacion lyeth in A people altogether giuen vnto leachery and yet absteining from the enbrasinges of the straunger Emonge them selues thei iudge nothinge vnlawfull Thei deuised to roūde of the foreskinne of their yarde whiche we call circumcision because thei would haue a notable knowledge betwene thē and other nacions And the firste lesson thei teache vnto their children is to despise the goddes The soules of those the die in tormentes or in warre thei iudge to be immortall A continuall feare haue thei a regard of heauen and helle And wher● the Egiptians honour many similitudes and Images of beastes and other creatures whiche thei make them selues the Iewes onely doe honour with their spirite and minde and conceiue in their vndrestandyng but one onely Godheade Iudging all other that worshippe the Images of creatures or of manne to bee vngodlie and wicked These and many other thinges doth Cornelius write and Trogus also in his xxxvi

patched it vp together with peces of all maner of sectes He thoughte it good to sette out Christe with the beste affirminge that he was a manne excelling in all holinesse and verrue yea he extolled him to a more heigth then was appliable to the nature of mā calling him the woorde the spirite the soule of GOD borne out of a virgines wombe whome he also with many wondrefull praises magnified He confirmed with his consente the miracles and story of the gospel as farre as it varieth not from his Alcorane The Godspelles said he ware corrupte by the disciples of the Apostles And therfore it behoued his Alcorane to be made for to correcte and amende them Thus fauning into fauour with the christiās he would haue bene christened of Sergius Then to procure moue other also to fauouor his procedinges he denied with the Sabellians the Trinitie With the Manicheis he made two goddes with Eunomius he denied that the father and the sonne ware equal With Macedonius he said that the holy ghoste was a creature or substaunce created With the Nicholaites he allowed the hauinge of many wiues at ones He allowed also the olde testament Althoughe sayd he it ware in certain places faultie And these fondenesses did he beswiete with a wondrefull lure of the thinges that menne in this lyfe mooste desire Lettinge louse to as many as helde of him the bridle of al lechery and luste And for that cause doth this contagious euil sprede it self so wide into innumerable contries So the if a mā at this day compare the nombre of them that are by him seduced with the other that remaine in the doctrine of faithe he shal easeli perceiue the great oddes ware it but herin That wher Europe alone and not al that by a great deale stādeth in the belief of Christe almoste all Asie and Aphrique yea and a greate pece of Europe standeth in the Turkisshe belief of Mahomete The Saracenes that firste receiued the brainesicke wickednesse of this countrefeicte prophete dwelte in that parte of Arabia that is called Petrea wher it entrecommuneth with Iewry on the one side and with Egipt on the other So named of Sarracum a place nere vnto the Nabatheis or rather as thei woulde haue it them selues of Sara Abrahams wife Wherupon thei yet sticke faste in this opinion that thei onely of al mē are the lawfull heires of goddes beheste Thei gaue them selues to tilthe and cattle and to the warres But the greater parte to the warres And therfore at what time they ware hired of Heraclius in the warres againste the persians when he had gotten the victory and thei perceiued them selues to be defrauded by him kindled with the angre of the villanye thei had had done vnto them by the counsell and perswasion of Mahomet who tooke vppon him to be their captaine thei forsoke Heraclius And going into Siria enuaded Damasco Wher when thei had encreased them selues bothe in nombre and purueiaunce necessary for them thei entred into Egipte And subdued firste that then Persis then Antioche then Ierusalem Thus their power and fame daily so encreaced and grewe that men muche feared that any thing afterwarde shoulde be able to resiste them In the meane season the Turkes a fer●e and a truell people of the nation of the Scithiens driuen out by their neighbours fro the mountaines called Caspij came downe by the passage of the moūte Cancasus firste into Asia the lesse then into Armenia Media and Per●is And by stronge hande wanne all as they came Against these the Saracenes went forth as to defende the bordres of their gouernaunce But forasmuche as this newe-come power was to harde for them the Saracenes within a while felleinto such despaire of their state that vppon condition that the other would receiue Mahometes belief thei ware content thei ●hold reigne felowlike together with them in Persis Wherto when thei had agreed it was harde to save whether of the peoples had receiued the greater dammage The Saracenes in yelding to them the haulf right of their kingdome or the other whiche for coueteousnes therof yelded them selues to so rancke and wicked a poyson of all vertue and godlynes One bonde of belief then so coupled and ioyned them that for a space it made to them no matier whether ye called them all by one name Saracenes or Turkes But nowe as ye se the name of the Turkes hath gotten the bettre hande the other is out of remembraunce This people vseth moe kindes of horseme thē one Thei haue Thimarceni that is to saye Pencioners aboute a foure skore thousande These haue giuen vnto them by the kinge houses villages and Castles euery one as he deserueth in the steade of his wages or pencion And thei attende vppon the Sensacho or capitaine of that quarter wher their possessions lye At this daye the Turkes are deu●ded into two armies the one for Asie and the other for Europe And either hath a chief teine at whose leading thei are These cheifteimes in their tongue be called Bassay Ther are also another sorte much lyke to our aduenturers that serue withoute wages called Aconizie And these euer are spoiling afore when the campe is yet behynde The fiueth parte of their butine is due vnto the king And these are aboute a fourty thousande Their thirde sorte of horsemen is deuided into Charippos Spahiglauos Soluphtaros The beste and worthiest of these are the Charippie of an honourable ordre of knight hode as it ware for the kinges body And those be euer about him to the nombre of eyghte hundred all Scithians and Persians and elles of none other kinde of menne These when nede is being in the sighte of the kinge fight notably and do wondrefull feates on horsebacke Spahy and Soluphtary be those whiche haue bene at the kinges bringing vp frō their childehode to serue his filthy abhomination And when thei are come to mannes state thei marye at the kynges pleasure And be enriched bothe with the dowery of their wife and a stipende These for the moste parte serue for embassadours deputies lieutenauntes and suche other dignities and are nerte vnto the kinge on bothe sides of him when he goeth any whether as a garde Thei are in nombre a thousande and thre hūdred Among the footemen are thre sortes Ianizarie these be chosen all the Empire ouer of xij yeres of age or there aboute by certein that haue Commission for the purpose And are for a space enstructed in the feactes of warre in commune schooles And then aftrewarde are thei chosen into souldie and haue giuen them a shorter garmente and a white cappe with a tarfe tourned vpwarde Their weapon is a Targette a Curtilase and a Bowe Their office is to fortifie the Campe and to assaulte cities Thei are in nombre about twentie thousande The seconde sorte are called Asappi and are all footemen of light harnnesse weaponed with swearde target and a kinde of long Iauelines wherwith thei ●●ea