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A14341	An abridgement of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergile conteignyng the deuisers and firste finders out as well of artes, ministeries, feactes & ciuill ordinaunces, as of rites, and ceremonies, commo[n]ly vsed in the churche: and the originall beginnyng of the same. Co[m]pendiously gathered by Thomas Langley; De rerum inventoribus. English. Abridgments	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581. aut	1546 (1546)	STC 24656; ESTC S107600	129,908	356

founde Dedalus slewe his neuewe for enuie Pythagoras rule Penthesilia Axe Tyrians wer connyng carpentars Barelles Speusippus Baskettes Ceres Who was ruler on the sea firste Neptune Rowyng in boates Erichthras diuised boates English seas Firste shippe Noha made the first ship Galey Barges Lighter Howe Keele Brigantyne Barke Boates of one pece Corke ●oate Rudders Sayles Maste Crosse pece Ferry boates Ancores Grapull Stemine Sterne Battaill on the sea Marchādise Philosophiers wer marchantes Cartagiens firste marchantes Dionisius taught the trade of marchaundise Hebrues dyd bye and sel Lidians Mercers Venus a common woman Stewes Maydes of Cypres Bacchanalia Maskes Bonefyres Spu. Posthumius abrogated Bacchus feastes Cōmon women were of long tyme. Punishment for aduoutry ▪ Lucretia Susanna Ioseph Diyng of heare Brode foreheades Bunglyng Phisicians are blamed Barbours P. Ticinius Mena. Thynges whose auctours be not knowen Atheneus in the .iiii. booke sayeth that C●essebius a barboure of Alexandria foūd out the orgānes and bringeth the testimony of Aristotle Our religion beganne of the Hebrues Enos called fyrst on God Israel xii tribes Iob. Ioseph Egiptians superstitiouse Moses deliuered the Israelites from bondage Gods mercy is shewed God is made man What yere Christ was incarnate Christ was persecuted to death The yere of Christes deth resurrection The holy gost is sent Peter conuerted iii. M. Stephyn is martyred Philippe Men were fyrst called christians in Antioche Thomas Mathewe Bartlemewe Andrewe Peter bishop of Atioche Mari the virgyn died Paule is conuerted Paule was headed Peter was crucified Circumcisiō Abraham circumcised Why y e blod was shed The second circumcision Circumcisiō Other countries do circumcise What circūcision signifieth Baptisme Iohn Baptest auctoure of baptisme Signes of Baptisme Christenyng of enfantes Godfather godmother When lay men may christen Thre baptismes The olde custome of baptisyng Whitsonday Laytie Clergy Priesthod Aaron fyrst priest Noe made the fyrst alter Leuites Ministers Subdeacons Sextyns Readers Chaunters Coniurars Succession in priesthod Christ auctor of our priesthod Spiritual priesthod All christen menne are priestes Second priestehode is a ministery Apostles Discip●●s Priestes Bishoppes The maner of consecratyng in the apostles time Laiyng on of handes The fashion of the primatyue churche A bishoppes office Scripture ●ereth these Rome made mo orders Iginius did diuise firste orders The office of a prieste The shauen croune is the prestes badge Occacion of shauyng crounes Peter was mocked for his baldnesse Shauē crounes came of the Nazarees Priestes of Egipte wer shauen What the croune signifieth Anacletus forbade priestes too haue beardes Siricius decree of theim y t were twyse maried Lame mēne maie not be priestes The age of priestes Stallyng a bishoppe Dionisius Churches Churcheyardes Parishes Dioceses Cures in Rome Cardinalles Innocencius Cardinalles ride Cardinall hattes Scarlet roabes Order of cardinalles Notaries Who ordayned notaries Chamberlaines Offices bee sold in Rome The bishoppe of Rome mai chaunge hys name Sergius inuēted the chaūgyng of his name Bishoppes of Rome be borne on mennes shulders Eleccion of the bishoppe of Rome The Empire is remoued in to Fraūce by bishoppes of Rome The cardinalles chose hym nowe Charles gaue the lādes to y e sea of Rome Otho a Germain is made Emperoure Princes Electoures Decre by the Bishoppe of Roome Patriarches Archebishoppes The paule is decreed to the patriarches Archdeacons Chaungyng of bishopprickes A priest might not bee conuented An oth might not bee required of a priest The maner of swearyng Sweryng by the Gospell Excomunicacion Druides Nunnes The age of Nunnes at their profession The tyme of professyng Nunnes might touche no coape nor encense When it beganne Women may not be bare headed in the churche Takyng offe of cappes Kissyng the bishop of Romes feete Right hande Salutyng with kisses Law for drinkyng wyne Washyng of feete on maūdy thursday Kynges and Quenes of England Flamen Dialis Vestals Amata Pontifex maximus Salii Faciales Sacerdotes Pater Patratus Rex Sacrificulus Epulones Sodales Titii Deckyng of churches Offeryng Images of waxe or tapers Candelmasse day Lampes Hangynges Lightes Writyng tables of miracles Fyrst Masse of priestes D●inkyng on Maundy thursday Castyng of mony abrode Newe yeres gyftes The laudable maner of the Italians Daunsyng Maskes Maiyng Christenmas lordes Fastins euen Bonefyres Disguisyng Kynges and priestes were anoynted Anointyng is the token of kynges Purple robe is the difference of the Emperoure Aaron and Saul fyrst anoynted The nature of oyle Anoyntyng of children christened Churches Chalices The cōfection of our oile Chrisme Cōfirmacion The maner of confirmyng Felix Exteme vnction Whē a priest mighte not mary Siluester Bishoppes maried maides A priest might but mary on● Paule Peter Philip had wifes Panu●ius withstode the counsaill of Nice Subdeacons forsake their wifes Gregory stablished the single life of pristes Degrees of kindred inhibited God brother God sister Lamech had twoo wifes Purificacion of women at child beryng Moses buylded a tabernacle The Arke Salomon made the first tēple to God The firste churche of christians First churche in Rome A churchyard Abraham ordaigned the firste place of buriall Noha buylded the first alter Bonifacius caused alters to be couered with lenyn clothes Cōstātine for bade puttyng too death on the crosse No Image of the crosse mighte not bee grauen in yearth Helene found the crosse Cain and Abel sacrificed firste Menne were sacrifyced by the Gentiles Punishmētes that thei suffred for omittyng the oblacions Holy daies Dedicatyng of churches Fire Emperoures of Rome had fire bourne afore theim Oracles seased at Christe his comming Holy Water Praier Prayer was at the beginnyng Christ prescribed a praier Beades Turning our faces Eastewarde Preachyng Ihō Baptist The instituciō of the sacrament Alexander decreed that the Sacramente should be consecrated of swete breade The olde rite of consecratyng Iudicame deus Confi●eor Kyrie eleeson Gloria ī excelsis Collectes Grayle Alleluya ▪ Sequences Epistle Gospell Saincte Hierome did deuide the Epistles and Gospelles Standing at the Gospell Credo Offertory Prefaces Washyng of the handes Ensence Canon Qui pridie Hanc igitu● Pax. Blessyng with chalices Agnus dei Turnyng aboute of the prieste Ite missa est Masse Ceremonies One Masse on a day Thre Masses on Christmas day Masse must be sayd in places cōsecrated Corner masses be forbodden Dayly communion Vncharitable persons were interdited from seruice Takyng of the housel at Easter Kepyng the Sacrament in Churches We be reconciled bi Christ Repentaunce a remedy of synne Desperacion is forbodden Auticular Confession Innocencius dyd ordayne confession to the priest Common penitencers Textes prouyng confession Matyns Pryme and houres Apuleius de asino aureo libro .xi. Pelagius charged priestes to say maryns daily Deus in adiutorium was added by Gregory Lady matyns Nocturnes Who made Gloria patri Syngyng Psalm●s by course Our cōmon singers be rebuked Athanasius Libro confes and .x. The Crede was sayd euery houre Tunes of the hymnes Legendes Common Legendes Vses in the seruice Benettes vse Fastyng Almesse Moses made the fyrst

Wherfore I dedicate this boke to your Maistership for the conformitie of the argument beyng to your foresaied desire correspōdent In somuche as it conteigneth the original of all ciuill artes and handecraftes and also the inuentoures of all suche ceremonies as bee vsed in the churche And here playnely maie bee perceiued what the scripture of GOD commaundeth what thynges mennes pollycye haue diuised for the setting furth of good order and what hath crepte in to the congregacion to the peruertyng of our faithe and seducyng simple people with supersticion as these manyfolde swarmes of popish religiōs that here emōg vs were not long ago vsed with other papisticall baggage And I tooke it to bee my bonde dewtie to bestowe the first frutes of my labours albeit thei bee verie slender and rude after suche sorte that thei might be not onely a continuall monument of the speciall loue and mynde that you haue too further the knowlage of the trueth and abholishe ignoraunce hipocrisie and all other like peinted holines but also too bee a testimonie of my honest and louyng herte toward all fauorers of good learnyng and most specialli toward your Mastershipe whose worthie fame mē of pure liuyng and high knowlage doo so extoll bothe for your alacritee and redinesse in preferryng the blessed woorde of God and the sincere setters furthe of thesame that you nede nothyng the testimonie of my commendacion Notwithstandyng when oportunitee shalbee giuen me I shall not apere slacke in this behalfe desiryng you in the meane tyme to take this litle booke into your tuicion so dooyng you shal bolden and encorage me hereafter to employe more earnest laboure in doyng some thyng that maie redownd to your perpetuall memorie and renoune Praiyng in the meane tyme for the long continuaunce of your Maistershipe in health felicitee encrease of knowledge in our lorde to whom be onely honour for euer The first booke The fyrst Chapiter ¶ The original of the Heathen Goddes WHAT tyme the spirites of the aire whō the scripture callethe rulers of thys worlde began to geue answeres of Prophecie out of Images made to resemble mortall menne and by their wicked subteltie dyd pretend thē selfes some tyme to be of the nomber of good spirites some tyme Goddes celestiall and sometyme the solles of valiaunt lordes they brought men into suche errour and perplexitee that in short space they dyd all together alienate mens heartes from the religion and reuerence of the verye God And for somuche as their spiritual nature is subtile they vsurped y e name of good Angels For after the opinion of antiquitie not onely to euery man but also to euerye singuler place and familie were allotted two Angelles Wherof the one wente aboute to endomage vs the other with all endeuour studied to profite vs. These inuaded particularly euery house conueighed them selues into mennes bodies and closly in their entrailes imbecilled their health procured diseases illuded their heartes with fantastical visions and dreames And by suche mischief enforsed menne to repayre to them for helpe and enquire their oracles and answeres whiche of purpose had doubtfull vnderstandynges lest their ignoraunce should be perceyued By these deceiptfull meanes they were so deified that sundery people after diuerse sortes chose theim goddes and with greate reuerence worshypped them For suche menne as euery nacion had attained any speciall commoditee by to the furtheraunce or garnishyng of their liuyng or buylders of cities or ladies excellent in chastitie or menne puissaunt in armes were honored for goddes as the Egyptians had Isis y e Assirians Neptune the Latines Faunus ▪ the Romaines Quirene Athens Pallas the Delphians Apollo the Cretians Iupiter y e Assirians Belus and manye countries had diuerse other goddes some whiche is shame to speake worshypped brut beastes tooke theim for goddes by reason wherof the Grecians had the opiniō that the goddes had their beginnyng of men And thus when menne withdrewe their phātasies from imagerie to the spirites inuisable they persuaded them selues that there wer many goddes of no smaller nombre then mortal men Of this varietie of opinions the Philosophiers whiche laiyng away al priuate and publique affaires employed all their studie in tracyng out the trueth toke occasion to dispute of the nature of goddes diuersely As Thales Milesius which fyrst serched suche maters sayd that God was an vnderstandyng that made and fashioned all thynges of the water as matter preiacent Pythagoras called him a liuely mynde that pearsed and passed through al thynges of whom all liuyng creatures receyued theyr lyfe and Cleanthes defined God to be the ayre Anaxagoras estemed him to be an infinite mynde whiche did moue it self Chrysippus thought he was a natural power endued with godly reason Some were of the opinion that there was no goddes As Diagoras and Theodorus affirmed plaine that there was no God at al. Protagoras reported that he knew no certaintie of the Goddes wherefore the Atheniens banished him out of their empire Epicurus graūted there was a god but suche one as was neither liberal bounteful nor that had any regarde of thinges that is to say God is no God but a cruel vnkynde monster Anaximander supposed the Goddes to be borne and not to dye tyll after many ages The Egyptians bycause of the aūcientie of their linage faine the Goddes to haue begonne among theim and that they were but twoo and euerlastyng the sonne whō they called Osiris the Moone that was named Isis Notwithstandyng Lactācius writeth that Saturnus was the first father of the goddes whiche begat Iupiter Iuno Neptune Pluto and Glauca by his wyfe Ops. And for the benefites that they shewed to their subiectes they were deified of them But in suche varietee of opinions it is a thyng difficile too determine the first ofspryng of the goddes both bycause they be but vayne and also sprong out of mortal humanitie And againe to speake of God as he is in his supernatural essence is a thing daūgerous bycause we can neither behold the resplēdent brightnesse of his maiestie with oure corporal eyes nor with any quickenesse of wit comprehende his infinite might as the Poetes Simonides dyd declare verie well for when he was required of kyng Hiero to shew him what thyng and of what sorte God was he desired to haue one day respite when he asked him the nexte daye he praied to haue two dayes and so often as the kyng enquired of him an answere he encreased the nomber of the daies of deliberacion the kyng meruelyng that he doubled so many tymes the daies enquired why he dyd so For y e more ꝙ he that I cōsidre the thyng and muse on ●t the more obscure and in●ricate it semeth to me The wh●che thyng if the Philosophiers ●●●che lyke to blynde warriers wanderyng in darkenesse had doone they would not haue diuised so many lyes to offende or

and beast Albeit I cā rather take it to be an imitacion of y e olde Romayne feastes whiche thrise in the yere had sacrifices for the prosperous successe of their corne one Vinalia for their wynes the other Robigalia for all their grayne least it should be mildued The third Floralia for all their fruites These vayne superstitious old bishoppes of Rome turned to a godly vse and trāsposed their feastyng into fastyng that the rather at the contemplacion of oure praiers and fasting God might prosper the increse of al the fruites to the sustentacion of his creatures The .iiii. Chapiter ¶ Watches were turned into fastes fastyng of Fridaies and Wednesdaies namyng the daies of the weke in sundry wise IT was the maner from the begynnyng of oure christen faith that for so much as it pleased our sauioure to be borne in the night priestes dyd ryse in the nighte season and song the houres canonical otherwyse named the Matyus the laye people was accustomed on those sainctes euens that were any solemne feastes to watch at the tombes of Martyr spraiyng and singyng holy psalmes Which thing the testimony of Plinie doeth well approue wher he writeth in a pistle to Traiane how that much nomber of people was slaine in whom he could neuer espye any faulte sauyng that afore daye at certayne tymes and feastes they arose and song of cōmendacion of Christ whom they called God But as tyme is corrupter of al thynges worldely in processe as deuocion beganne to abate in stead of hymnes they song dissolute balades praier was turned into wanton daliaunce The youth went about lyght amorous companye the eldest personnes practised baudry women were not ashamed to geue them selues to be corrupted in al kynd of whordome Vpō this occasion the olde fathers seyng least it myght growe to a further in conuenience turned the Vigilles into fastyng dayes Notwithstandyng the priestes vsed their ordinarye tymes of seruyse as they were wont to do and suche feastes were called by the name of Vigilles and obserued with no lesse reuerence then the faste of Lent This remedy was prouided after sainct Hieromes tyme whiche died the yere of oure Lorde cccc.xxii when Bonifacius the seconde was bishoppe of the sea of Rome The lyke custome was also obserued among the Egyptians whiche on the euens of theyr hyghe feastes fasted and after thei had slepte thei offered a cowe all suche night sacrifices and obseruances for like causes wer by a perpetuall lawe in Grece abrogated by Diagundas a Thebane The faste of wednesdaie and Fridaie was cōmaunded by the fathers bicause on the one daie Christ was crucified and on the wednesdaie Iudas purposed in his minde to betray him as Apolonius the eloquent oratoure supposed Siluester the first bishoppe of Rome abhorryng the memorial of the vain Gentile godes decreed that the daies of the weke whiche had afore the names titles of the Sonne Moone Mars Mercury Iupiter Venus and Saturne should be called the first second third fourth fifth sixte seuenth ferie in semblable maner as the Iewes coumpted their daies frō the Sabboth daie He did also call y e firste ferie Dominicus dies that we name Sonday and called Saturday Sabbatum of the olde holy daie and rest of the Hebrues al these thynges wer dooen at the sute of Constantine then Emperour Albeit the Apostles afore that tyme had consecrated the Sondaie to the Lorde bicause that daie he rose from death the Iewes Sabboth was turned into it as maie appere by the decree of Pius that ordained the Easter to bee kepte on the Sundaie and therfore I thynke Siluester did but onely renewe thesame acte of the Sundaie It was the inuencion of the Egiptians y t the daies wer firste named after the seuen planetes as Diodorus recordeth Sācte Gregory was the authour that neither fleshe nor any thyng that hath affinitee with it as chese milke butter egges should bee eaten on suche daies as were fasted Wee haue also a maner vsage of hallowyng the table and meate afore wee bee set that begonnen of the imitacion of Christ whiche vsed thesame fashiō ouer the fiue loues in the wildernesse and at Emaus also he did insemblable wise consecrate the table in the presence of his disciples so was the fourme of saiyng grace after supper taken like wise of the custome that Christe commonly kept at his suppers The maner to reade apart of the Bible at dyner tyme hath been of long continuance and did proceade of the Godly doctryne that Christe instructed his disciples in at all tymes but namely at his last supper wherein he treated of y e perfecciō of al y e misteries of our religiō And thus our fathers to kepe in memory suche an holsom instituciō did bryng in this maner of readyng the scripture at meate or meale tyme. ❧ The .v. Chapiter ¶ The originall of holy daies Paschall candelles birthe daies LYKE as the Iewes had in their law whiche was but onely a shadawe of thynges too come holy daies appoyncted for the execucion of the misteries of their religion whom thei in one generall terme named Sabboth dais of the rest and vacasiō that thei had from bodely labours semblably our fathers haue ordaigned festiuall daies in the new testament wherein Christen men all profane businesses and eiuil maters laied aparte might wholy apply and bend themselfes to Godly and spirituall meditacions As the perusyng and readyng of scriptures heryng of deuoute sermons renderyng honor to God by sacrificyng praiyng and well dooyng bee woorkes fete and conuenient for the holy daie and also reuerencyng the memoriall of sainctes on suche daies as bee assigned to that purpose is on the holy daie laudable For oblacion is onely due to God as Paule Barnabas did openly testifie at Listra For whē he had commaunded by the power of the worde of God that the man whiche was lame from his mothers wombe should arise and walke the people for wonder and maruaile of the miracle would haue dooen sacrifice to them but thei renting their clothes departed out of the prese and with sharpe woordes rebuked their enterprise as a thyng vnmete to bee dooen to any mortall man or worldly creature Firste of all the feaste of Easter was instituted by y e Apostles and prescribed by Pius the first to be solemnised on the Sondaie Afterward as it chaunsed that alteracion of that matter arose Victor that was bishop of Rome aboute the hundred nynetie and sixe yere of our lord decreed that it should altogether bee kepte and celebrated on the Sondaie frō the fourtene daie of the firste moneth that was Marche vntill y e .xxii of the same least our ordre coumpte should agree with the Iewes whiche kept it somewhat soner then that appoyntemente speaketh of albeeit many foreyne bishoppes at the firste refused that cōstitucion bicause thei thought it not out of