of certaine Abbies religious Houses or other spirituall lands whereof they shall alow a certaine stipend to the entertaining of a certaine number of religious persons in every religious house under him and for that benefit are sworne at the entring into the said Order alwayes to defend the Spirituality and maintaine the Clergy in their priviledges but how they keepe their Oath it is well seene in every place of their spirituall possessions and thereof my selfe have oftentimes had oeular experience for travailing in that Countrey and passing oâ—tentimes by goodly religious houâ—ses I have sometimes for recreâ—ation having well tryed the courteous demeanor that commonly Religious men use towards strangers that come to view their houses entred into sundry of them where I have divers times beene sufficiently enformed by the religious how the King had given the rents and possessions of their houses to the Knights of his Order with the conditions already rehearsed which Knights allow them such bare exhibition that by reason it is not sufficient to entertaine the fourth part oâ— the number by them appoynâ—ted almost all of them aâ— constrayned eyther to forsakâ— their houses and begge oâ— else there to starve througâ— which occasion many goâ—â— religious houses are of late fallen in decay for want of reparation trimming up and inhabiting and will do more and more without a redresse And this have I learned in divers Religious houses beside the common murmuring of the Clergy and so wee may see how these Knights called of the Holy Ghost for to defend and maintaine the spirituality doe under pretence thereof rob and prodigally wast the spirituall possessions so that it may seeme only to be a policy under the correction of better judgement put in the Kings head to diminish spirituall livings which in that Countrey are wonderful great and satisfie his prodigall minde in rewarding by that meanes his flatterers because through his exceeding lavishnesse hee is scarce able otherwise to reward them The Bishop of Rome considering what dismembring of Church-lands and decay of Gods service commeth through this Order in the Realme of France will not grant the confirmation thereof although the King hath beene instant for the same but notwithstanding the Popes misliking thereof the Order is maintained though to the great weakning of the Religion in that Countrey Yea at the last celebration thereof which was on New-yeares day even 1581 I saw three Bishops were admitted into that Order The Collar is of Flowers de lys and flames of Gold with a Crosse and a Dove on it pendant representing the Holy Ghost wrought in Orange-tauny Velvet garnished about with silver beames which the Knights of that Order weare upon their Cloakes before their heart Their robe is a blacke Velvet Mantle poudered with Lillies and flamâ—s of Gold and Silver None are admitted to this Order who cannot proove their Nobility by 3 descents at least The sixt Order is of the Bath brought first into England 1â—99 by Henry the Fourth They are created at the Coronation of Kings and Queenes and the installation of the Princes of Wales Their duty is to defend true Religion Widdows Maids Orphans and to maintaine the Kings rights Of the Cannibals THe Cannibals are wilde people feeding uppon mans flesh which is a very sweete kinde of flesh If they get or finde any children within the age of 14 yeares they feede them and cram them as we doe Capons but those which are beyond 14 yeares of age they kill them out of hand devouring their hot guts immediately and the other parts of their bodies they salt and lay up as we doe poudred flesh they eaten women but keepe them onelâ— for the bearing of children 〈◊〉 we doe Hennes for egges If any for age is past childe bearing shee doth all drudgeâ—ry like unto a bond-woman they have no houses but the erect many trees together and so combine them in the top that it serveth for lodging Their beds be made of Silke and Hey they have no Iron but they use bones instead of Iron they dresse their meate in earthen pots mingling the flesh of Parats Geese Ducks and mans flesh together They are now come to more civility then they had in times past Of the Lyon LYons live in many Countries in Affrica they have a cruell and terrible looke and thinne haires Pliny thinketh that his especiall valiancy is when his maine covereth his necke and shoulders In Affrica for the scarcity of waters many wilde beasts meete together at some one puddle where males and females of divers kindes use naturall conjunction whereof commeth monstrous yong Aristotle saith that the shee Lyon hath at her first generation five yong and that every year-after shee bringeth forth lesse by one untill shee waxe barren and that her yong are without shape or fashion about the bignesse of a Weasell Herodoâ—us and Gellius thinketh the contrary that shee bringeth forth one every yeare Democritus saith this beast onely is bred and brought forth with open eyes and that hee is given to little sleep as it may appeare because his tayle is often wagging as hee sleepeth The Male Lyon maketh urine like unto a Dogge which is strong in savour The Lyons drinke seldome they feed every other day after satiety they be without meat for 3 dayes they devoure such things as they can wholly they live long The Lyon only of al fierce and cruell beasts sheweth clemency towards the humble for hee spareth the prostrate and when he rageth he useth his violence rather against Men then Woemen He never uttereth his Force against infants and children but beeing driven with great Famine thereto His tayle is a note of his minde and stomacke as the eares bee in a horse for if his tayle stirreth not he is gentle and peaceable the which is a rare thing for he is most commonly angry He keepeth his desire of revenging long against any that hatve hurt him being wounded hee doth note and marke him that gave the wound and in a great multitude will invade him His bones are sound and not hollow whereof some write that out of his bones fire may be striken as out of stones and therefore sometimes he is so raging with anger and in such a burning heate that hee dyeth presently He is never exasperate or moved but either by famine or hurt This one thing is to be noted in so cruell a beast that wheeles runned about and empty Carts and the combes and singing of Cocks doth make him afraid but especially hee is afraide of fire Of the people called the Nigrites and others THere is a kinde of people nigh unto the confines of the west Arabians called Azanagi whose colour is betwixt blacke and ash-colour they live with Barley and Dates and Camels milke and because they are neare unto the Nigrits they feede sometimes upon divers kinde of pulse they be no great feeders for the scarcity of victuals maketh them to suffer and tollerate much famine The Portugals use merchandize
Mistresse being a widdow of the Ismael stock and fifty yeares of age having great wealth and riches who also brought him up This pestilent man being puft up with his Wives riches applyed his minde to all kinde of detestable acts through his corrupt and depraved wit being of himselfe otherwise prompt and given to all kinde of presumptuous boldnes his temerity and malapertnesse was also encreased by the unconstancy and unfaithfulnesse of one Sergius a pestilent Monke so that in a short space hee came to such estimation amongst the Arabians that he was called and beleeved to be the great messenger of God and the great Prophet and this in every mans mouth This Sergius being a Nestorian Arch-heretick banished from Constantinople fled into Araby and associating himselfe unto Mahomets familiarity an ill master and governour with a most filthy and abhominable scholler was soone united together Hee was a prater and full of words bold rash impudent subtil crafty and in all things agreeing with Mahomet who now was waxed mighty and could helpe at a pinch and whose name began to be famous and so at the length the runnagate found a filthy privy and dungeon of all wickednesse Whom his unhappy master taught Nestorians madnesse and perswaded him to expulse and remoue the Christians and their Priests from Damascus Syria and Arabia and so to corrupt the Iudaicall law and to deprave the Christian Faith It cannot well be rehearsed by how many crafty and subtill meanes this most unfaithfull Apostata and runnagate hath deceived and seduced the people Now Mahomet being taught all kinde of ungraciousnesse of his detestable master through intemperate living and continuall drunkennesse fell at the length into the Falling-sicknesse the which his wife could not well suffer for the often comming thereof Wherefore the old dissembling knave to deliver himselfe from that infamy doth hide and cloake his disease saying it to be the marvellous brightnesse of Gabriel the Angell and Messenger of God of whom hee being put in that trance did receive and learne most secret and strange things and that he was not able to abide the presence of him with a manifest lye he affirmed it O my deare and wel-beloved wife he saith marvaile noâ— that this commeth to me when I conceive the spirit of GOD himselfe who suggesteth in mee things to come and to make mee privy of many matters he commeth often to me The â—ame hereof was spread abroad immediately and hee was openly called the Prophet of God the which opinion be encreased with a new art and craft by the instruction of his Master Sergius For hee accustomed and taught a Dove to be fed and fetch meate at his eares the which Dove his most subtill and crafty master called the Holy Ghost Hee preached openly and made his bragges â—ike a most lying villaine that his Dove did shew unto him the most secret counsell of God â—s often as the simple fowle did â—y unto his eares for nourishment His Wife being now â—ead left him her heire and â—ll that shee had so that he enâ—reased in wealth and authority â—ayly and beganne to make 〈◊〉 new Law by the helpe of â—is master Sergius and cerâ—aine Iews that were his compaâ—ions borrowing some things â—f the Hebrews and some things â—f the Christians discipline He â—id write in a certaine volumne â—ll the Lawes of his new sect â—he which bookes name is Alâ—oran that booke not many â—eares agoe hath come into Print And that hee might the more craftily deceive his people and Nation given wholly to the belly and to sleepe hee brought up and fed a certaine Bull which was used onely to take food from the hands of Mahomet he bound a bookâ— betwixt his hornes and the simple people looking about with an high voyce hee called the Bull out of a secret place and when hee with his babling tongue had utred many thingâ— concerning his lawes suddenâ—ly the Bull started forth and oâ—verthrowing many in his comâ—ming he layeth down the Booâ— in the hands of Mahomet as 〈◊〉 had beene a gift sent from Heaâ—ven The which hee receiving with much honour did immediatly interprete many thingâ— out of it to the people and with his forged and subtile device hee named himselfe a Prince and Serius a Prophet For the Dove brought â— paper about her necke written with Golden letters in this manner Whosoever shall put â—he yoake on the Bulls necke â—et him be King Sergius brought â—he yoke and gave it to Maâ—omet who did easily put it on the Bull and by and by â—ee was called King of the simple people thinking these â—hings to be done by Gods providence and that hee tooke the booke no otherwise In this booke they are commanded to be circumcised not for any Religion but for meere superstition or else as some say that no filth should remaine under the skinne of the yard when they did wash and bath them There was also commanded abstinence of wine and flesh that hee might the more easily cloake his disease who felt himselfe oppressed with Wine of late for Wine taken more excessively and intemperately in stopping the passages of the braine that no respiration might be had doth breed and nourish the falling sicknesse and Swiâ—â— flesh maketh grosse humourâ— wherewith obstruction of the braine commeth quickly and many other diseases springeâ—â— thereof The booke of Alcorâ—â— commandeth also the fasting of one moneth wherein a maâ— may eat all the night long so that dayly abstinence is recompensed with night 4urfeiting Mahomet appoynted also because he would have his law disagred from Christians and Hebrewes that the Friday should bee consecrated as Holy-day because hee was made King upon that day and also would not agree with any other â—ect For the same cause doe â—he Turkes also turne them into â—he South at their prayers aâ—ainst the manners of other Nations He hath also granted â—o every man foure wives of his â—wne kinred but concubines â—ond-women bought it is lawâ—ull for every man to have as many as he can keepe so that â—hey may forsake them and make a devorce as often as they â—ist and this was done to draw â—he common sort and rude mulâ—itude unto him more easily He â—aught also that the pleasures of â—he body did not hinder the hapâ—y life to come and he promised to the observers of his law a Paradise and garden of all pleasures wherein they should use their most desired joyes and all kinde of pleasures as Maidens most beautifull adorned and the embracings of Angels and all other kinde of pleasures that any man would desire with the which subtill craftinesse hee led the people flexible of their owne nature whither he would because he promised all kinde of libidinoâ—â— pleasures He reprehended the Iews for that they denied Christ to bee borne of the Virgin seeing that the Prophet through divine inspiration did prophesie the same He reproved the Christians of foolishnesse because they did beleeve JESUS to
their computation of time from the birth-day of Mahomet by the name of this word Hegyra as the Spaniards were woâ—â— of long time after they were subdued by the Romans to number their yeares from Augustus Caesars Reigne by these 4 letters A er a which is Annus â—rat Augusti These Infidels and Pagans observe a memoriall for the nativities of their Kings and Princes throughout the whole world In Persia the birth of Cyrus upon the 16 day of the Moneth Lois In Macedonia the nativity of Alexander the great upon the Ides of February And in Rome the nativity of Romulus upon the 21 day of September In like sort the nativity of Iulius Caesar upon the fourth of the Ides of Iuly The nativity of Nerva upon the 4 Calend of December The Nativity of Adrian upon the 6 Calend of November Of Antonius pius upon the first of Aprill Of Gordianus upon the 13 of Ianuary Of Constantine the great upon the 4 Calend of Februâ—ary And so of Traiane Vespatian and others whose Natiuities were with great honour observed and with great dignity of triumphes feasts sacrifices games and playes with all pompe and glory in remembrance of good Kings nativities solemnized For Beata respâ—â—â— cui princeps Philosophus All the Kingdomes of the World in their feast Natalitiâ— in memory of the most happy state of a good King used all kinde of strange inventions to magnifie their Kings the Egyptians in their Pyramides and Obeliskes the Grecians in their triumphant Arches and Pillars the Persians with feasts and banquets solemnized the Nativities of their Kings and the Romans excelled with sundry pompes of triumphs to set forth â—he dignities of their Kings Dictators and Consuls Others â—n the sacred Wood Aricinâ—m doe sacrifice to Diana with â—heir pompe of Peplon c.. Beside such magnificent and triumâ—hant Games and Playes to set â—orth the dignities of the feast Natalitia in memory of good â—rinces nativities As at Aâ—ens Magna Panathenaea first â—stituted by Ericthonius to hoâ—our Minerva every fift yeare â—n like manner as the games â—f Olympia was by Hercules celebratâ—d to honour Iupiter or Isthmia was by Thaeseus made to honour Neptune So in Rome the great Playes and Games called Ludi triumphalâ—â— Ludi Natalitij were onely toâ— that effect invented to magnifie good Princes and to record their worthinesse with Feasts Triumphes and Playes in memory of their nativities For 〈◊〉 this feast of Natalitia the common people assembled together with sweete flowers green hearbes some made them boothes with Oken bougheâ— and some tents covered witâ— with long Reeds with greaâ— banquets and much mirth 〈◊〉 honour the nativityes of Kingâ— The Roman shepheards dresâ— upon that day their sheepe-â—â—â— with greene rushes sweet floâ—ers with branches and boughâ— they their Wives and Families with nose-gaies and garlands with Bagpipes and fiddles celebrated their feast Natalitia at the birth of any King Dictator or Consull of Rome In other places they celebrated the games Saturnalia in December their games Sigillaria in Ianuary the Games Lupercalia in February But in Athens their Bacchanalia is solemnized in November where the Ministers and Priests of Bacchus and Diana by the names of Mimallones Sileni Mâ—nades Bacchae Satyrae c. all crowned with Ivey Garlands and with Ivey speares in their hands singing the song of Dithirambos dancing Enoplia with the pompe of Peplon to honour Bacchus then how ought wee to celebrate the Natalitia and inauguration of our Englands joy the establisher of our peace King Iames of blessed memory and also his sacred Majesty who is the greatnesse of great BRITAINE and the unparallel'd patterne to all Kingdomes of Piety and Religion of whom it may be truely said With Graces three with Muses nine With Sibyls twelve can he With three the fourth with nine the tenth With twelve the thirteenth be Of the inauguration and anointing of the great Duke of Muscovia with the ceremonies at their Coronation AT the Coronation of the great Duke of Muscovia 〈◊〉 the States of Muscovia whicâ— they call Camesi assemble together at Saint Michael their chiefe Temple the day appointed for the Coronation the Citty is so strawed with flowers and sweet odours and set forth with boughes that their triumph is great feasting according to the custome of the Musâ—ovites The great men meete the Duke or the Emperour and â—ring him into the Temple who â—t his comming into the Temple an old fatherly man meeteth him having on a long garment downe to the ground Bombycina veste This embraced the Emâ—erour most courteously for â—ee was the Metropolitan of Muscovia or the chiefe Priest which they call Princeps sacroâ—um whose authority and command in that Countrey is very great In the midst of the Temple was made a Theater with seates to fit on and with staires to passe to every place of the Theater being set forth with most sumptuous showes the feat of the Emperours was made most royall and with great magnificence sitting in Scamno with a rich purple cap on his head beset with Gold and precious stones a precious garment wrought with Gold and laced close at his breast called Bombycina vestis his hands so be set with Jewels that onely the Emperours hands and his head were to bee wondred at Now the Emperour being in his Palace the States and the great men in their feats the chiefe Priest or the Metropoliâ—tan turneth his face and looketh upon the Emperour saying My most loving Sonne and great Duke of Muscovia now the Gods have placed thee in the highest Tower of Fortune and in the great state of Dignity not to harme or hurt thy people but to helpe and to guide them not to devoure them but to relieve them ministring Lawes and Iustice to every man alike laying before thine eyes the noble Examples of the best Emperours thy Father brought much calamity and wrought many dangers to this Empire Wilt thou defend thy Countrey with Iustice and with armes make much of good men and subdue the wicked If thou doe this we thy Cittizens here will pray unto the regall Gods of supernall and infernall power to blesse thee with much felicity that in thee wee may see our Countrey flourish This being done the people make great joy and triumph form the highest to the lowest and therewithall much money is throwne among the vulgar people I could not read of any crown nor of any other monuments among the Muscovites for it seemed by the tyranny of the Emperours that they use very few godly ceremonies I should have set downe at the comming of the great Duke through the streete the peoples throng was such that many were with naked swords to make way for the Emperour to passe by who commanded by all rigour and extremity to keep the people off The Nativity of our Saviviour Christ. THe Nativity of our Saviour Christ seemed so simple his life so poore and his death so â—gnominous that he was a stumbling blocke to the Iewes
divination of the Augurers made Kings and instructed in their Kingdomes so the Kings of Persia were by their Magi instructed in their sacrifice and taught in their Religion without whom neither was it lawfull for the Romans to doe sacrifice without their Augurer stood by or for the Persians without their Magi being in place The manner and order of the Indians in celebrating the nativity of their Kings THe Indians so honoured the birth-day of their King at what time the dayes beganne to lengthen that the King with all his Nobles went to the River Ganges to wash and bathe themselves where they offered in sacrifice to the Sunne a number of blacke Bulls for that colour among the Indians is most esteemed After sacrifice done to the Sunne the King held a Feast which the Romans called Hilaria which was wont to be celebrated upon the â— Calend of April at what time the Roman Matrones and the yong women of Rome crowned with Myrtle bathed themselves before they sacrificed unto Venus This very time the yong men of Athens kept festivall dayes with mirth and pastime to honour the Moone for the like cause as the Indians had for the Sun This feast Hilaria had all publicke and solomne Playes with all kinde of triumphes for joy that the Sun began to turne his face and to lentghen their dayes tanquam patriae solatium initium laetitiae Of the Nativity of King Cyrus and of the Persian feasts or ioy thereof THE great King Cyrus for so the Persians named their Kings after Cyrus time upon the very day that he was borne hee had victory over the Scythians and Saracens he so honoured and magnified that day that Cyrus commanded that they should bee called the great Kings and appointed that it should be solemnized yearely with a regall noble feast called Sacaea after the name of that Nation conquered in the which feast was celebrated divers strange kinds of ceremonies as the Masters to attend upon the Servants the Mistresses upon their maids imitating the orders and manners in the feast Saturnalia wherein also were Bacchanalia used in the which feast were men women and children which disguised themselves like Faunes with Javelins wreathed about with Ivie in their hands and with Ivie crownes on their heads dancing and skipping after Psalters and Howboyes singing sacred songs unto Bacchus called Orgya and Dithyrambos this feast Cyrus commanded to be yearly solemnized in Babylon upon the sixteenth day of the moneth Loys on the which day Cyrus as some suppose was borne which day among the old Persians was highly honoured for of all the feasts and sacrifices of all solemne great daies the daies of their Kings nativities were most in honour esteemed This was the onely and greatest feast of the Persians for the rich men would celebrate the feast of their Kings birth with sacrificing of whole Camels Horses Oxen and Asses sparing no cost in this feast the poorer sort strained themselves with all charges to set forth the feast of their Kings nativities at what time the Magistrates used to sing the song Magophonia at their feast and the song Theogonia at their sacrifice For this feast Sacaea was called among the Thessalians Piloria in Creete called Hermea in some place called Penagria in another place called Saturnalia but in all places used and celebrated with great solemnities at the nativity of Kings and Princes Of the funerall pompe of the Egyptians THE Kings of Egypt were most sumptuously reserved in this order their bodies were opened and were in such sort used as the Egyptians use with Myrhe Aloes Honey Salt Waxe and many other sweete odours being seared up and anointed with all precious oyles and so they reserved the bodies of their Kings in high buildings made for the purpose far from the ground as in their Pyramides and Labyrinth before spoken The Funerall was so lamented that all Egypt mourned in this sort the men would clap dung and dirt upon theiâ— heads beate their bodies striâ—â— their breasts knocking their heads to every poste howling and crying for their King their women bare-breasted besmeard with all kind of filth running up and downe in furious manner fasting and mourning 72 dayes from wine or any other meat saving bread the water of Nilus Of the funerall pompe of the Thracians THe Thracians Funerall is ful of mirth and melody for when they bring their Friends to the Grave they use to sing Thracian Songs with all sweet musicke onely this ceremony they reserved when any man that was of great calling dyed his Wife must be brought the same day to the grave of her husband in her richest ornament and best apparell accompanied with her Parents and next in blood with great solemnity which after sacrifice done upon the Grave of her husband she must make sacrifice of her selfe The Priest must bring her to the Altar where shee is sacrificed with a vaile over her face and after oblations prayers done shee is slaine upon her husbands Grave for sacrifice Of the sacred anointing of the Kings of Israel THe anointing of the first King of Israel was by Samuel the Prophet who was commanded to anoint Saul the first King of the world that was anointed hee powred oyle upon his head he kissed him and said the Lord hath anointed thee King over his inheritance and the people shouted and said God save the King at this time began first the use of oyle in anointing of Kings after this manner were Saul and David anointed Kings of Israel and after David his son Solomon The order and ceremonies were to ride upon the Kings beast and to sit upon the Kings throne where the Prophet being called the Seer poured the oyle upon his head to signifie the gift of the Holy Ghost Then the Prophet kissed the King upon the cheek and turned his face to the people and said God save the King then they sounded the trumpets and brought him to his Dinner with all mirth and musicke Thus were Saul and David anointed by Samuel and after them Solomon anointed King Of the solemnity on the birth-day of Prince Aratus by the Achaians with feasts and sacrifice IN like manner the Achaianâ— solemnized the nativity of Aratus with a royall feast and sacrifice yearely upon the Grave of Aratus which was called Aratium The Priests were girded about with a purple cloth the Senate in white robes with Garlands of flowers on their heads the magistrates and chiefe officers of all Achaia with great pompe crowned with Lawrell and Myrtle with hymnes and songs made a solemne procession round about Aratium upon the birth-day of Aratus such was his love among the Grecians that hee was chosen seventeene times Generall of the Achaians The Trophies and triumphs that were invented to honour the nativities of Kings and Princes were such that some builded Citties as Alexandria to honour Alexander Caesarea to honour Caesar and Antiochiae to magnifie the name of Antiochus the great Yea such were the
dignities and honours of Princes that the Senators and Patricians of Rome by common consent of all the Magistrates changed the name of the Moneth Quintilis to bee called Iuly to honour the name of Iulius Caesar and the Moneth Sextilis to bee called August in memory of the birth-day of Augustus which to this day stands Yet Domitianus the Emperour though hee had commanded by a decree that the Month October should bee called Domitianus after his owne name in remembrance of his Nativity And Germanicus Father to Caligula commanded the Moneth September to bee called Germanicus to hold his birth-day yet tooke no effect Such is the continuance and long memory of a good Prince and such is the decay and short remembrance of a wicked Prince The birth of Minerva IN like manner upon the Calendes of March the feast of Minerva was celebrated in Mount Celio at Rome where the plaies called Quinquatriae were sumptuously solemnized continuing five dayes at what time they presented Minerva with presents and rewards On the which day the yong knights and lusty youths of Rome entred in Armes on horsebacke and on foote into Martius field to honour Minervas nativity with feats of Armes This feast was in Athens solemnized by the name of Panathenaea their Poets Orators and Musitians contended for victories on the day of Pallas birth as they did in the games called Scoenici The prize and reward of the Victor was to weare a long precious garment called Palladium wrought over with gold and to weare a crown of Laurel and to sit in the chaire of Pallas Of the birth of Xerxes and of the solemne Feast thereof THe great Xerxes King of Persia upon the very day that hee succeeded his Father Darius Hisdaspis as King hee yearely most solemnely used to celebrate such a princely noble Feast in memory of that day which the Persians so honoured tanquam Imperij natalem as hee would command all the Nobles of Persia to come in the greatest pompe they could and he himselfe in his most sumptuous Persian Robes with his Diadem upon his head solemnized the Feast with all pompe and glory Upon the which day Xerxes was called of all the Peeres Nobles and all his people Tiâ—â—n This day was so celebrated among the Persians in remembrance of Xerxes first day to his Kingdome So the Siracusans honoured Tiâ—olion for his great victories in memory whereof they yearely upon the day of his Birth decreed that playes games of musick with running wrastling throwing of darts swimming running of horses with other exercises of the body should be celebrated In like sort the Parthians observed that day that Arsaces their King had subdued Seleucus with all kinde of joyes mirth and triumphs that the Parthians could invent they magnified that day with all games and playes and kept a great solemne Feast in remembrance of their liberty and deliverance from their bondage and thraldome under Seleucus by Arsaces If therefore they honoured that day Tanquam initium libertatis with songs Theogonia shall wee not Canere Paean who have so long enjoyed peace and quietnesse of liberty by the happy reigne of our most gracious Soveraigne of whose nativity and happy government we may sing with joy Blest is that land whom God lends such a King Who Peace Religion Piety doth bring And who doth strive these blessings to uphold To lead his subjects unto Heavens fold We all are bound to pray for his long life Which keeps this Iland free from feare strife FINIS Heliogabalus had his Chamber-pot of Gold Silver No venemous beast in Ireland Barnacles comming of a tree A singular memory An easie kinde of death Stomacke digestion Wine forbidden to Women Kissing Sobriety Common things be not straÌ„ge No hâ—mane policy can with stand Gods iust iudgment A strange hill An Emperor eaten with lâ—ce Peregrinations Every piece 12 pence 7 pintes Harts horne against poison Cleopatra Pearle Mahomet had the falling-evill A Dove A Bull. Wine A drunkâ—n parliament Tomyris Cyrus Drunkennes taken for a glory Ants as big as Foxes Change of wives Salamandra Garments that will not be coÌ„sumed with fire The Torneyments were first invented in the time of Henry Auceps the 2 Emperour of Germany in the yeare of our Lord 934.
and pompe for after that the Pope is new elected by the whole Colledge of Cardinals hee commeth from his Palace of Saint Angelo with great glory and honour towards Saint Peters Church First the Officers as Stewards Controllers Treasurers and chiefe Rulers apparrelled all in long Scarlet-gownes Secondly the Knights of Rome Thirdly the Barons Counts and Marquesses Then the Abbats then followed the Bishops after the Bishops the Arch-bishops in their long Pontificall garments with silver Miters richly beset with stones After came 3 degrees of Cardinals Deacon-Cardinals Priest-Cardinals and Bishop-Cardinals The Pope with passing pompe is carryed upon mens shoulders in Cellagestatoria with his triple Crowne on his head full of precious stones and with a most sumptuous and precious robe wrought over very artificially with Gold and set with divers stones and so carryed in pompe to St. Peters Church upon Kings Embassadors shoulders After some prayers and sacrifice done he is againe upon mens shoulders carried from St. Peters into Saint Andrews Chappell where after many rites and ceremonies finished which were provided for his inauguration hee is taken up againe into his golden chaire from St. Andrew's Chappell where Andrew the Apostles head is presented thence hee is carried to the Chappell of St. Peter and St. Paul thence carried from place to place by the Legats and Embassadours of all the Kings of Christendome then being in Rome representing the states of Kings and Emperours Oh superbum animal for betweene golden and silver Crosses the Miters of Bishops and Cardinals Hats shining as stars with divers kinds of precious stones with Jewels the Popes triumphant carriage under suchâ— regall Canopy with his triple Crowne his rich and Pontificall garments blessing the people passed farre the pompe oâ— great Xerxes in his voyage into Greece or the triumphs of great Pompey over all Affrica and Asia at Rome Hos ludos iocos diceres prout rabies Papa with such peales of Gunnes ringing of Bells sounding Trumpets with such clamours and noise of other brazen Instruments that it far surmounted the besieging of Carthage or the assaulting of Numantia In like triumph and pompe he is againe carried into his Palace of St. Angelo blessing the people from place to place and in every place as he is carryed the people againe crying out wishing him the felicity of Augustus and the love of Traian using severall solemne Ceremonies with the greatest pompe that can be invented His Dinner that day exceeded Ca. Caesar who in his triumph over Affrica prepared 22000 â—bles most roially furnished and his banquets after dinner farre excelled the banquets of Lacius Lucullus or Marcus Antonius His Mirthe and Musicke passed the feast Hyacinthia The funerall pompe of the Romane Emperours THe pompe and solemne state of the Funeralls of the Roman Emperours were such as being set forth the solemnity of the dead Emperour were such as the Senators Dictators Consuls and chiefe magistrates of Rome being in their appointed funerall garments attending to carry the Coffin with one before the Herse playing upon a Shalme or a Flute with a mournfull funerall Song called Nania which in like manner the Grecians used at the funerall of their Kings the song which they called Ialemos Then the Patricians and Senators carried before the dead Emperour his Statues and Images and after that the Statues and Images of his predecessors to set forth the dignity of his stocke as Ca. Caesar did the funerall of his Aunt Mother to Marius whose Statues Caesar caused to bee carried before the Coffin with all the Serjeants carrying their Axes and rods with all the Ensignes Crowns rich spoyles and Trophies which Marius had gotten in his victories In like manner Tiberius Caesar the third Emperour of Rome caused at the funerall of his Father Drusus that the statue of Aeneas and all the statues of the Kings of Alba untill Romulus time the 17 after Aeneas and the statue of Romulus and of the whole family of Gens Iulia from Romulus time to Iulius Caesar lineally The like pompe was before Sylla and others by the Patricians and Senators Yet Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Pomponius Atticus with some others commanded that they should not be brought into the Field of Mars with any solemnity of Iupiters coate of triumphant garments Purple robes and such other pompe But specially if any dyed in the field the rare sight of the solemnity excelled the Generall and chiefe Captaines and every Officer with his band trayling their Pikes after them on the ground with the points of their Swords downeward their Ensignes folded together their horses sheard and clipt their dumbe Musicke with all the ruefull sights that might be invented c. Of the order of the inauguration and Coronation of the Kings of Persia. IN Persia after great King Cyrus death for so were the Kings of Persia called Great Kings his successors used Cyrus orders with the like ceremonies as was solemnized at the inaugurations of King Cyrus for then there was no anointing of any King in the whole World but of the Kings of Israel other Nations used such ceremonies as their Countries observed in their electing of Kings In some countries they made choise of the most likely est men in sight as among the Ethopians Among the Medes he that excelled in comelinesse and talnes of person and strength of body should be elected King In Lybia hee that was most swift in running should bee King In Persia then a Kingdome under the Medes untill Cyrus time whose greatnesse grew such as he became the onely Monarch by whom all the East Kingdomes were subdued his Successors the great Kings of Persia were with these ceremonies made Kings They should sit in Cyrus Chayre they should put on those garments that Cyrus first ware which were kept as monuments and reliques for the Kings of Persia. The new King sitting so in Cyrus Chaire three of the greatest Peeres in Persia brought unto him three dishes in the one was five dry figges In the second a little Turpentine the third Milke These Ceremonies being finished after that the new King had eaten of the dry figges and had tasted of the Turpentine and dranke of the Milke hee rose from Cyrus Chaire and was thence brought unto the next Hill for the Persians had no Temples nor Alters there Aftar supplications done they sacrificed unto the Sunne whose Temple say they is the whole World thence the King is brought to Persepolis where the new King againe putteth on the twelve sundry robes of Cyrus one after another by several ceremonies to be done while they doe sacrifice unto the whole hoste of Heaven the Sun the Moone and the Stars whom the Persians calâ— in one name Iupiter Magi there having Tiara on their heads and crowned with Myrtle sang their sacred songs Theogonia while the new King is putting on of these twelve Robes After this the King went to Cyrus chaire and read the lawes of Persia For as the old Kings of Rome were onely by the