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A65093	The works of the famous antiquary, Polidore Virgil containing the original of all arts, sciences, mysteries, orders, rites, and ceremonies, both ecclesiastical and civil : a work useful for all divines, historians, lawyers, and all artificers / compendiously English't by John [i.e. Thomas] Langley.; De rerum inventoribus. English	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.	1663 (1663)	Wing V596; ESTC R28374	121,672	340

use of Dancing as Livy saith came from the Hetruscans to Rom● which we exercise much on Holidayes as they did not without slander of our Religion and hurt and damage of chastity As for Masks they be so devillish that no honesty can be pretended to colour them Zacharias Bishop of Rome made a decree against it but that availeth nothing At the Kalends of May the Youth as well men as women are wont to go a Maying in the fields and bring home boughs and flowers to garnish their houses and gates and in some places the Churches which fashion is derived of the Romans that use the same to honour their Goddess Flora with such Ceremonies whom they named Goddess of fruits The Christmas Lords rhat be commonly made at the Nativity of the Lord to whom all the houshold and family with the Master himself must be obedient began of the equality that the servants had with their Masters in Saturnus Feasts that were called Saturnalia wherein the Servants have like Authority with their Masters during the time of the said feasts And this furnishing of our bellies with delicates that we use on Fastingham Tuesday what time some eat till they be enforced to forbear all again sprung of Baccbus feasts that were celebrated in Rome with great joy and delicious fare And our Midsummer bone-fires may seem to have come of the Sacrifices of Cer●s Goddess of Corn that men did solemnise with fires trusting thereby to have more plenty and abundance of Corn. Disguising and Mumming that is used in Christmas time in the North parts came out of the Feast of Pallas that were done with Vizors and painted Visages named Quinquatria of the Romans CHAP. III. The manner of anointing Priests Kings them that be Christned confirmed of sore sick WHen Moses had builded the Tabernacle he was commanded to make a confection of holy Ointment wherewith both the Work the Vessels Priests and also Kings which be called to that office or dignity ought to be anointed so that it came to passe that the anointing was the very token and difference whereby Kings were known among the Hebrews as the Emperours in Rome were known by their Purple Roabs Aaron and his Sons were the first anointed Priests and Samuel anointed Saul first King over Israel and so consequently it grew into a custome that Priests and Kings were anointed By which thing is signified that they be specially favoured of God and like as Oyl lyeth aloft on the water or other Liquor so the office of a Priest and dignity of a Prince surmounteth all other degrees of Ministers both in the active and also contemplative life Silvester Bishop of Rome ordained first that all that were Christned Churches and Chalices should be annointed with Oyl Our oyl that is now used is made of Oyl Olive and natural Balm Fabianus commanded that it should be renewed every Munday and Thursday Clement the first ordained that all Children and other that were Christned should be anointed again with Crisme and he instituted also the Sacrament of Confirmation supposing that no man were a perfect Christian if that Rite and Ceremony were by negligence omitted For this cause that the Holy Ghost might more plentifully be given to them by the hands of the Bishop This thing began of the example of the Apostles which sent Peter and John into Samaria to lay their hands on them that they might receive the Holy Ghost It is onely ministred by a Bishop in this wise first he asketh the name of the child and then maketh the sign of the Crosse in the forehead with the Chrisme saying I sign thee with the token of the Crosse and confirm thee with the Crisme of Salvation In the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost that thou may be reple●ished with the Holy Spirit and have everlasting life So 〈◊〉 And then he smiteth the cheek of 〈◊〉 Child softly but if he be of a great age he giveth a sharp stroke that he may remember that mystery saying Peace 〈◊〉 with thee Felix the fourth did institute That such as were in extreams should be anointed following the example of the Apostles which as Mark wi●nesseth cured many diseases by anointing them and S. James speaketh of a like thing in his Epistle CHAP. IV. The beginning of Marriage of Priests when it was forbidden with other Laws touching Marriage MOses the Minister of God among the Israelites which were desirous to augment and amplifie their issue ordained that all men indifferen●ly as well Priests as Lay-people should take wives lest the debarring them from matrimony might be occasion of greater enormity and inconvenience among them Albeit because of the dignity of the ordet of Priesthood he made restraint that they should marry none that was taken prisoner bond-woman or divorced from their former husband and the Bishops might not be married but to Maids As concerning our Priesthood Sylvester the first after the Text of S. Paul commanded that a Priest should marry but one wife and after to live sole alone as Paul had a wife as may appear in his Epistles to the Philipians and Corinthians And Clement Bishop of Alexandria and Ignatius which was in Paul's time witnesse the same Peter and Philip had wifes and daughters whom they bestowed honestly in marriage to husbands And S. Peter seeing his Wife led to death for the profession of Christ with great joy of her constancy said Wife remember the Lord. This order the Greeks and all the East parts of Christendome do use which would not consent to the Councel of Neece wherein it was propounded That the Priests should forsake their Wives and namely Paphnutius the holy and chaste Bishop that came out of the borders of Egypt withstood that Decree very earnestly Stiricius the first forbade the Priests of the West parties and Deacons to marry the year of our Lord 337. He instituted also That he that either wedded a Widow or took a second wife could not be made Priest Pelagius the second enforced the Sub-deacons to forsake their wifes And Gregorius because he thought it violent to divorce them ordained That from his time none should be Sub-deacon unlesse he vowed Chastity before Notwithstanding the Lawes before made took no effect among the Priests of the West parts untill the time of Gregory the seventh which was the year of our Lord 1074. And here Polidore protesteth That the single life of Priests doth more harm to the Religion shame to the Order and grief to honest men then their constrained chastity profieth If they were restored to the liberty and choice it were no prejudice to the Christian Common-wealth and honesty for the Order In the beginning men married their sisters and kinswomen but Moses restrained them of the Hebrews from the first and second degrees and Fabianus forbade the third and fourth which Custome standeth now in effect Theodorus did inhibit first That a

but not in a Vessel which is called Lacopella or Cupella and they have many other notable inventions Likewise they have found out strong waters wherewith they separate Brasse from Silver and Gold which could not be done in ancient times as Vlpianus the Lawyer affirms in lib. 5. § 3. ff De rei vindicat Where he saith that if Brasse were mixed with Gold it could not be deducted Those strong waters do wonderfully trouble the sight when they separate Gold from Silver For the Silver may be seen to ascend through the middle as if it were some certain Column and it is changed into green red and other colours and at last it is scattered in the water so that the Silver can be seen no more but all is full of water the Gold remaining in the Bottom The Cupella was lately found that admirable vessel is made of a bone of an Oxe In this Gold and Silver is put to be polished and purged of all spots and blemishes wherein nothing but even the very pure refined Gold remaines The Gold or Silver being involved in a thin leaf of Lead is cast into that little Vessel which is put on the fire and then the Cupella or little Vessel consumes all the other mettal which is in it but leaves the true Gold or Silver which lyeth in the bottome without any mixture untouched But there is a doubt whether Alchymy be lawfull or no And truly the interpreters as well of the Civill as spiritual or Canon Law affirm with one consent that though at the first sight it may seem to be concluded negatively forasmuch as it belongs to God alone to change one substance into another because no man though of never so great fame can perform that And therefore the Devill when he tempted Christ as if he were in doubt whether he were the Son of God or no said If thou art the Son of God cause that these stones may be made bread that is Do something which onely belongs to God to do Yet they concluded at last that Alchymy was lawfull And upon this Argument● viz. because all mettals proceed out of Sulphur and Quick-silver which the Alchymists call Mercury which if they receive Ayre Water and Heat sufficient are turned into Gold but if they want a fit temper that they cannot be brought to that perfection then they make Silver Tin Lead or Brasse according to the influence and disposition of the Elements Therefore humane Art doth not turn one substance into another but heat and temperament Sulphur and Quicksilver having the force and power to turn into Gold and if it cannot be done by reason of some defect then the Alchymists do supply that heat and temperament by their Art which will bring the Sulphur into the substance of Gold as well as if it had been natural John Andrea a noted interpreter of the Pontifical Law writeth that Arnoldus de villa nova turned Brass into little Rods of Gold in the Roman Court many Cardinals being present and presently departing he left it to any sort of trial The Art may be true but I believe that there are very few yea scarce one that is expert in it For those that professe it are either Fools or much inclined to poverty Therefore it is an ancient Proverb I never saw a rich Alchymist CHAP. IV. Of Distillation DIstillation was invented after that the Roman Empire was established It is credible that it was found at the same time in the exercise of Alchymy Some say that a certain Physitian having a dish upon the Table full of hearbs being suddenly called to visit a sick person covered that dish with another and then went away but being returned he found the uppermost dish moistned and hence considering that he might easily extract juices he bent his wit so far that thence he made the beginning of Distillation Others having imitated him by practising that Art have made it perfect That Art is profitable because out of it came Aquavitae Oyl of Cinnamon and innumerable other Liquors which are of very great effect By this means it happens that all those waters out of Succocory Capers and other hearbs which are wont to be administred to sick persons are now distilled whereas formerly they were onely boyled and the Decoction given to the Patients FINIS A Table containing most of the speciall Matters or Sentences in this Book A. AAron and Saul first anointed 196 Abell 23 Aborigines 11 Abraham 49 He taught the contents of Geometry to the Egyptians 53 He is circumcised 161 ordained the first place of buriall 203 Adam the first man 12. he named beasts 127. He made the first Coat of Lether 130 Advent 226 Advoutry 153 Aeolus observed the winds 50 Aeromancy 62 Aethiopus despised oyntments 106 Ayre 8 Alchymy 305 Alhallow-day 336 Alms. 224 Amber 113 Amphion 43 Amphitheaters 143 Anacletus forbade Priests to have beards 172 Anaxagoras 3 Anaximander 4 11 Anchors 151 Andronicus 51 Annates 286 Anointing is the token of Kings 196 Anointing of Children 197 Antioch 159 Antonius Enipho a Schoolmaster 28 Apollo 3 Apollo god of Medicines 54 Apostles 168 Apparrell 130 Apparrelin mourning 139 April 78 Apuleius de asino aureo 221 Arabians 15 Arcadians 41 Archagathus the first Physitian in Rome 56 Archbishops 179 Arch-Deacons ibid. Archelaus 34 Archilocus found Iambus 31 Archimedes devised the Sphear 50 Ariopagites judged in the night 71 Arras Cloath 130 Aristocracy 170 Aristotle had the first Library 84 Arithmetick 54 Ark 202 Art of Memory 87 Asclepiades abolished Physick 58 Assinius Pollo had the first Library in Rome 85 Astrology 49 Athanasius 223 Athens made many books 84 Atlas 49 Atomes or Motes 8 Authors of the names of Countries 13 Augustus's Seal 118 Auricular Confession 112 Axe 148 B. BAbylon 13 137 Bacchus 103 Baking 123 Balm an herb 57 Banners 245 Banquetes 128 Baptism 163 Barbers 154 Barchian league 101 Barges 150 Barques ibid. Baskets 149 Baths 146 Battel on the Sea 151 Beads 208 Beasts that be badges 129 Beadel denounced noon 81 Beholding the bowels of beasts 63 Bells 245 Bellowes 109 Belus 3 21 Bennet's use 224 Bezoars stone 304 Bible 231 Buying of wives 17 Birds 64 Birth-dayes 234 Bissextus 79 Bishops 160 Bishops of Rome may change their names 176 Bishops of Rome be carried on mens shoulders ibid. Bishops married Maids 195 Blood-letting 59 Boats 150 Bolts 90 Bone-fires 153 199 Bondage 71 Books 84 Bow and shafts 90 Bracks and Slings 90 Brazen Trump 44 Brasse 107 Brick-work 132 Bridle-bits 91 Brigantine 150 Broches 141 Building 132 Bulls of Lead 284 Burial is the end of all things 243 Burying 138 Burying of an Empeperour 140 Burning dead bodies 139 Buttons 299 C. CAdmus 22 23 24 Cadmus wrote the first story of Cyrus 36 Cadmus found gold 107 Cain 23 122 Cain and Abel sacrificed first 204 Calends 79 Camillus 101 Cancer 59 Candles 109 Candlemas-day 191 Canis 95 Canonizing of Sainss 238 Caps 183 Cardinals 174 Carpenter's Art 147