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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

who cannot prove their Nobility by three Descents at least The Sixth Order is of the Bath brought first into England 1399 by Henry the Fourth they are Created at the Coronation of Kings and Queens and at the Installation of the Princes of Wales Their Duty is to Defend true Religion Widdows Maids Orphans and to maintain the Kings Rights Obelisci or Pyramids which may be called long broches or Spires were great and huge stones in Aegypt made by Masons from the bottom smaller and smaller of a large length they were consecrated to the Sun because they were long much like to the beams of the Sun The First of them was instituted by Mitres who reigned in Heliopolis being commanded by avision to make it and so it was recouded and written on the same King Bochis set up four that were every one of them 48 Cubits long Ramesis in whose time Troy was destroyed reared up one Forty cubits in length and another of 819 Foot and every side was four cubits broad Ptolomeus Philadelphus made one at Alexandria of four cubits And Pheron set up two in the Temple of the Sun of a hundred cubits length a piece and four cubits broad on this occasion it fortuned that this King for a great crime that he had commited was stricken blind and continued so ten years and after by Revelation at the City Bucis it was told him that he should receive his sight if he washed his Eyes with the water of a Woman that was never defiled with any strange Man but was alwayes content with her Husband First he tryed his own Wife and afterwards many others till at last he received his sight and Married her by whose Urine he was healed and was recovered and all the other with his first Wife he caused to be burnt Afterwards for a remembrance he made his Oblation with the two aforesaid Pyramids in the Temple of the Sun Augustus Caesar brought two of these Broches or Spires to Rome and set one in the great Tiltyard or Lists called Circus The other he set up in the field called Campus Martius Ointments Pliny is of opinion that they were used long before the Battel of Troy for Jacob sent to his Son Joseph in Aegypt Ointments and Moses that was three hundred and fifty years before the Siege of Troy maketh mention of Ointments concerning the Sanctification of the Tabernacle and the Priests of the Old Testament Pliny and Solinus report that Alexander when he conquered the Army of Darius found amongst other Jewels spoiles and things of value a Casket of Ointments that he highly esteemed of But Herodotus affirms that they were frequently used long before Darius time For Cambyses Son to Cyrus sent Ambassadors to Aethiopus King of the Macrobians with great presents whereof a Box of Ointments was one It is not certain when they first were used in Rome but I find in Pliny that the five hundred sixty fifth year of the City Antiochus being Vanquished P. Licinus Crassus and Julius Cesar then Censors commanded that no Forraign or Strange confection of Ointments should be sold in the City The Original of the Heathen Gods as the Scripture hath it Ephes 6. was When the Spirits of the air the Rulers of this World began to give Prophetical answers out of Images made to resemble mortal men and by their wicked Subtlety did pretend themselves sometimes to be of the Number of good Spirits sometimes Coelestial Gods sometimes the Souls of Valiant Lords they brought Men into such error and perplexity that in a short space they did alienate their hearts from the Religion and Reverence of the true God and so deluded them as to make them to repare to them for help and to inquire their Oracles and Answers which of purpose had doubtful understandings least their Ignorance should be perceived By these deceitful means they were by divers Nations Deified and sundry people after divers manners chose them for Gods and with great reverence Worshiped them These spirits of the Air that gave such doubtful answers to them that euquired any question of them were at the comming of our Saviour Christ all destroyed For when he was carried into Aegypt which was a Countrey full of Superstition and Idolatry all the Idols of that Nation were overthrown and Fell to the ground at his comming And in the time of Adrian the Emperour both their wicked Sacrifices were abolished and also the Oracles of Appollo at Delphos of Jupiter Hammon in Aegypt with the like vanities were subverted The Opinions of the Philosophers concerning the birth of Man Were divers Diodorus recordeth that they spake of two sundry manners of birth and first stock of Mankind for they which contend that the World was not generate and without any danger of Corruption say also that Man hath been in a certain Perpetuity without Beginning Of this Opinion were Pythagoras Xenocrates and Aristotle with other Peripateticks affirming that all things in the Eternal World which have been or shall hereafte come to pass are by Generation endless and without Beginning and have only a circuit or course of Generations wherein both the Birth and natural resolution of things may be perceived Others suppose this World had both an Original cause of Being and shall also end by Putrefaction they hold Opinion that Man had a time of his Generation P PHYSICK some referr the invention of it to Appollo because the moderate heat of the Sun seems to be the repeller of all Sickness Others attribute the finding of it to the Aegyptians but the enlarging of it to Aesculapius who besides other more rare Experiments found out the way of drawing of Teeth In Rome Archagathus of Peloponesus was the first Physitian In Aegypt and Babylon they used no Physitians but brought the Sick Persons into the Streets Publick places that so the Passengers might tell them what manner of Medicine or Dyet was good for them neither was it Lawful for any Man to pass by till that he had spoke with the Patient Afterwards the Aegyptians did so distribute the Art of Physick that every Disease had a distinct Physition to look after it one for the Head another for the Eyes others for other parts according as they excelled Of Medicines made by Herbs we have already in another place in part discoursed Chiron the Son of Saturn as he was reported to have been so knowing in the virtue of Herbs may be Accounted to have been one of the first inventers of Salves for Wounds and Sores he found out the Herb called Centaurie wherewith he cured the Wound that he had received from Hercules's Arrows falling on his Feet as he was handling of his Quiver Mercury found out the use of Moly and Achilles the virtue of Yarrow Medicines made with Honey were from Sol the Son of Oceanus several Herbs also very necessary for Medicines were discerned from those cures Beasts out of an instinct of Nature made on themselves Dittany by the Hare which being Wounded

them with Reeds Boughs or Fen-sedges Thus in process of time they came to the Art of Building which as Diodorus saith is ascribed to Pallas But we are rather to believe that either Cain or Jubal the Son of Lamech found out this Art Bells came first from the Hebrews where the High Priest or Bishop had in the skirts of his uppermost Vestments little Bells to Ring when he was in the Holy place within the Vaile Banquets and delicate Dishes were begun in Jonia and after that Gluttonous custome was taken up in other Countreys though that there were Laws made in Lacedemonia by Lycurgus and in Rome by Faunius for the abolishing of such excessive Feasting But I could wish there were some good Law prescribed for good Hospitality For I believe there was never so little as is in these times Baths of which those that were hot were used first privately of all men according to their degree and ability for the preservation of their Health but in process of time they builded common Baths and Hot-houses for to Sweat in and the Noble did Bath and Wash with the Common and at last men and women were permitted most Laciviously to Bath together Most notable Baths were they that Agrippa Nero Titus Vespasian with other Emporours made as Julius Capitolinus writeth they were great and most gorgeously dressed with several places of Pleasure to maintain excessive Riot for all sorts of people Bondage or Slavery I find that it began amongst the Hebrews and had its Original proceeding of Canaan the Son of Cham who because he had Laughed his Father Noah to scorn as he lay dissolately when he was Drunk was punished in his Son Canaan with Bondage and Thraldome The order of Manumission in old time was in this manner The Lord or Master took the Bondman by the head or some other part of his Body saying I will this Fellow be-free and so dismissed him Pliny was of opinion that Bondage began in Lacedemonia Barthers to shave and round were instituted by the Abantos because their Enemies in War should have no occasion to pluck them by the Hair P. Ticinius Mena brought them into Rome the 354th year after the Building of the City before they were unshaven C COIN of what Mettle soever it was made as appears by Josephus is very ancient and Cain the Son of Adam was very covetous in gathering together Money Herodotus affirmeth that the Lydians first Coined Silver and Gold to buy and sell with For before the Seige of Troy as Homer sings men used to change one Commodity for another Yet in the time of Abraham there was Money currant for he bougt the Cave to Bury his Wife Sarah of the Hittite Ephron for 40 Shekels of Silver which was before the Seige of Troy many years The Carpenters Art as Pliny writeth was first invented by Daedalus with these following Tools the Saw the Axe and Plumline whereby the evenness of the squares are tryed the Augore or Wimble the Square the Line the Shaving-Plain the Pricker or Punch were devised by Theodore a Samian Ovid writeth that Talus Daedalus Sisters Son invented the Compass and Fashioned the Saw in imitation of the Back-bone of a Fish but Daedalus envying that a Boy being his Apprentice should excell his Master cast him down out of a Tower as Ovid writes and slew him Pythagoras a Samian devised another manner of Rule then this that we commonly use fit for all manner of Buildings as Victrnuius declaireth in his 9th Book of Archetecture Though in my judgment the invention of this Art ought rather to be referred either to the Hebrews which used such Arts before Daedalus time and more especially in the curious Building of the Tabernacle or else to the Tyrians who were reputed in this mistery to have excelled the Hebrews For which cause Solomon wrote to the King of Tyre for Work-men to Build the Temple The Common-wealths administration was after three several ways as Plato divideth it Monarchy where one Ruleth Aristocracy where the most eminent Persons Govern Democracy or Popular State where the common People have a stroke in Ruling of the Publick-weale Principality or Regal Government was first begun by the Aegyptians who could not long subsist without a King or head Ruler There Reigned first as Herodotus writes Menes and their manner was to choose him amongst the Priests of their Religion and if it Fortuned that any stranger obtained the Relme by conquest he was compelled to be consecrated a Priest and so was the Election Legitimate when he was King and Priest The Diadem which was the token of the Honour Royal had its first institution from Libes Bacchus The Athenians ordained the state of a Common-wealth that was Governed by the whole Commons as Pliny writes although they also had Kings whereof Decrops Diphyes which Reigned in Moses time was the first For as Justine writes every City and Nation had at the first a King for their chief Governour which attained to that dignity by no Ambition or Favour but by his singular desert As concerning the institution of the Common-wealth where the Commons bear the sway I suppose it began amongst the Hebrews who were Ruled by a popular State many years before that Athens was Built Councils the custome of assembling of them to take deliberation of things doubtful or of serious Affairs are of great Antiquity as well amongst the Hebrews as other Nations They either called for Humane or Divine Affairs for the latter by such a manner of Council Matthias surrogated and substituted in the Stead of Judas into the number of the Apostles And by Council holden at Jerusalem the Apostiles discharged the Gentiles of Moses Law Cornelius was the first that called together any Council and that was in Rome of 600 Bishops and as many Priests with a great multitude of Deacons Charms or the manner of the driving Evil Spirits out of Persons that were possessed with them King Solomon taught as Josephus witnesseth and he saw it done by Eleazar in his time before Vespation the then Emperour writ the manner of Healing them Consuls in Rome took their beginning from the Banishment of Tarquinius for the horrid Crime and notorious Rape of Lucretia committed by his Son Junius Brutus and Lucius Targuinius Collatinus were the two first that had the Name and Title of Consuls of the consultation and the provision that they made for the Common-wealth They rul'd the Empire conducted Armies and by these Officers because they were annual the year was counted The Chattering of Birds was first observed by Caras The Divinations by looking on their Feeding was devised by Theresius a Theban and Pythagoras understood the mistery of their flights Chrystal is a stone that is congealed of pure Waters not with cold but by a power of Divine heat whereby it doth retain its hardness and never giveth again or melteth but receiveth divers colours this is the opinion of Diodorus But Pliny supposeth that it

at the Battell of Alexandria Nevertheless S●rabo recordeth that Aristotle did institute the first Library and left it to Theophrastus his Disciple and taught the Kings of Aegypt how they should order their Library Theophrastus left it to Molus and of him Scepsis received it There was also a very ancient Library at Pergamus In Rome Afinius Pollio had the first Library which Employed the great Wits in study to the ample furtherance and commodity of that Common-wealth At this time the World flourisheth with Libraries to introduce ingenuous Persons to a more suddain perfection Legends of Saints were made in the year of our Lord 800. by Paulus Diaconius Isuardus a Monk at the desire of Charles the great And for as much as the Persecutions were so great that in the time of Dioclesian the Emperour there were put to death 1700 Christians within thirty days space they could not particularly write all their Lives but made general Legends of Martyrs Confessours Virgins which the Fathers commanded to be read in the Church on such Saints days M MONEY was first Coined in Rome 547 years after the Citty was Built the first Coin was named a Ducat Phedon began Silver Coin in the Isle of Aegina which was Minted in Rome 454 after the Citty was Built the print of it being a Charriot with two Horses Janus caused Base Coin to be made with a Face to the one side and a Ship on the other that he might gratifie Saturne who arrived there in a Ship by perpetuating his memory to posterity Serius Tullius Coined Brass with the Image of a Sheep and an Oxe Marriage or Matrimony Antiquity reports that Cecrops King of Athens first ordained and therefore the Poets feigned him to have two Faces Notwithstanding the customes of Marriage were not alike in all Countreys nor kept after the same manner For amongst the Indians Numidians Aegyptians Hebrews Persians Parthians and almost all the Barbarians every one Married according to the substance or riches which they enioyed The Seythians Scots and Athenians at first used the Women in common publickly like Beasts the Massagers Married their Wives but they also used them in common Amongst the Arabians it was the custome that all the Kinsmen should have but one Wife and he that came to meddle with her should set his Staffe at the Door The Assyrians and Babilonians bought their Wives in the Market for a price which custome still remains amongst the Arabians and Saracens The Nazomons when they are first Married use to suffer their Wives to be Layne withall the first Night by all their Guests and after that keep them entire to themselves There were a certain People of Affrick that were wont to offer such Maids that were to be Married to the King of their Religion to deflowre such as he pleased It was also the custome amongst the Scots that the Lord of the Manner was to Lye with the Bride the first Night which custome remained till it was abolished by Malcolme the third Marriage amongst the Romans was kept inviolable till divorcement began The Rites of Marriage were various in Rome and the manner was that two Children should Lead the Bride and a third bear before her a Torch of White-Thorn in honour of Ceres which custome was also observed here in England saving that in place of the Torch there was carried before the Bride a Bason of Gold or Silver a Garland also of Corn Eares was set upon her Head or else she bare it on her Hand or if that were omitted Wheat was scattered over her Head in Token af Fruitfulness also before she came to Bed to her Husband Fire and Water were given her which having power to purifie and clease signifyed that thereby she should be chast and pure in her Body Neither was she to step over the Threshold but was to be bourn over to signifie that she lost her Virginity unwillingly with many other superstitious Ceremonies which are too long to rehearse Marriage began first in Paradise where God joyned Adam and Eve together before they knew Sin that by the congression and company of these two Sexes and Kinds their issue might be enlarged to replenish the World Mahomets Sect questionless is one of the most Diabolical of all other as well for the filthiness of all unlawful Lusts as also for other outragious naughtiness that it is so strangely possessed with to the great mischief of Christendome and encrease of their own infidelity Of this most superstitious Sect Mahomet Born in Arabia or as some report in Persia was the Author his Father was a Heathen Idolater and his Mother an Ismaelite which caused her to have the more insight into the Law of the Hebrews This wicked Plant brought up and fostered under his Parents and instructed like a Mungrell in either of their Laws became expert being of a quick and ready Wit after the Death of his Father and Mother he was a Servant to one Abdemonaples an Ismaelite who put him in trust with his Merchandise and other Affaires and after his death he Married his Mistress There he fell into acquaintance with the Monk Sergius an heretick of Nestorius Sect that fled from Byzance into Arabia and by his Council and advice this Mahomet about the year of our Lord 520 and the twelfth year of the raign of the Emperour Heraclius began in Arabia to found a new Sect and by Seditious Sermons seduced many people in several Countries He conquered through the assistance of the Arabians divers lands and subdued them as Tributaries and compelled them to live after the Tradition of his Laws that he gathered out of the New and Old Testamants and divers Herisies of the Nicoluits Maniches and Subelians He died in the 40 th year of his age his body was carried by the Saracens into a City of Persia called Mecha and put into a Coffin of Iron which through the attraction of a Load-stone to those that know not the Sympathy of Nature makes it to seem as if it hung miraculously This Sect encreaseth more and more partly through the discord of Christian Princes and by reason of our greivious sins which hath caused us Christians to feel the heavy hand of God upon us Musick by the Testimony of the Ancients is of great Antiquity for Orpheus and Linus being both of the Linnage of the Gods were both of them incomparable Musicions The Invention of Musick some do ascribe to Amphion the Son of Jupiter by Antiope others do ascribe the finding of it to Dionisius others say that it was first brought out of Creete and being perceived by the ringing and shrill sound of Brass was brought at last to Number and Measure others ascribe it to the Arcadians but it is most generally affirmed that Mercury found out the Notes and Concords of singing He also as we have already mentioned was the first that invented the Harp Shalms were at the first made of Cranes-legs afterwards of a great Reed Dardanus Tezenius used