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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

endeavours Pliny says that Cadmus Milesius first writ Histories amongst the Grecians which contain the Actions of Cyrus King of Persia Albeit Josephus supposeth it to be probable that Histories were begun by the old writers of the Hebrews as in the time of Moses who wrote the Lives of many of the most ancient Hebrews and the Creation of the World or else to the Priests of Aegypt and Babylon For the Aegyptians and Babylonians have been reputed of a long continuance the most diligent writers in so much that their Priests were appointed for that purpose to preserve things that were worthy to be had in memory Hunting and Fishing the Phenecians first found out Warrens and Parks were made first by Fulvius Hirpinus and now they are every where in use I am sure too much in England to the so great damage of Pastures that might Feed other Cattle more benificial to the Common-wealth I IRON and BRAS as Strabo writes a certain People named Thelchines first wrought on The Smiths Forge some think the Calybians found and some suppose they were the Cyclops Vulcans Smugs which first used the Smiths craft Diodorus is of opinion that the Iclei Dactyli and Vulcan were the first inventers of Iron and of all Mettalls that are wrought with the Fire Sothering of Iron Glancus found But as I take it that all these before named sound the use of such things in their own Countries For t is not to be questioned but that the use of all such Mettalls was perceived in the beginning of the World by Tubal-cain which was Son to Lamech expert and exercised in the Smiths craft Clement referreth the tempering of Iron to Delas The institution of the Anointing of Kings and Priests was to signify that they were especially favoured of God and like as Oyl lyeth aloft in the Water or other Liquor so the Office of a Priest and Dignity of a Prince surmounts all other degrees of Ministers both in the active and also contemplative life When Moses had builded the Tabernacle he was commanded to make a confection of holy Oyntment wherewith both the work and vessels of Priests and also of Kings which were called to that Office or Dignity ought to be Anointed so that it came to pass that the Anointing was the very token and difference whereby Kings were known amongst the Hebrews as the Emperours in Rome were known by their Purple Robes 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 L THe Law is a constant and perpetual good thing without which no House no Citty no Countrey no Estates of Men no Natural Creature nor the World it self can consist firm and stable For it obeyeth God and all other things Aire Water Land and Men are in obedience to it Chrysippus calleth it a knowledge of all Divine and Humane Affairs commanding equity and expulsing wickedness and wrong There are of Laws three kinds one Natural that is not only appropriated to man but also it concerneth all other living things either in the Earth Sea or Aire as we perceive in all kinds of living Creatures naturally a certain familiarity of Male and Female procreation of Kind and a proclinity to nourish the same the which proceedeth from a Natural Law engrafted in them Nature her self that is God was the Author of this The second is Named the Law which all men use generally throughout the World as to shew a man the way to communicate to men the commodity of the Elements Water and Aire to this kind appertaineth the Law of Armes and it is called in Latine Ius Gentium-Civil Law is of every Country or Citty as of the Romans Lacedemonians Athenians c. This consisteth in decrees of Princes Statutes and Proclamations The chief and principal Laws were promulgate by God confirmed after the most pure and perfect manner stable constant and subject to no transmutation After the example of these Man hath invented Laws to defend and preserve good men and to punish and keep wicked Persons in good Order Such Laws Ceres made first as Diodonus writes but others suppose it to be Rhadamantus and afterwards others in divers Countreys devised and ordained Laws as in Athens Draco and Solon in Aegypt Mercury in Creet Minos in Lacedemonia curgus in Tyre Tharandus in Argos Phoroneus in Rome Romulus in Iltaly Pythagoras or after the mind of Dionisius the Arcadians that were under Evander as their Soveraign Lord and chief Captain Notwithstanding the very true Author of Laws is God which as hath been said first planted in us the Law of Nature and when it was corrupted by Adam and his posterity he gave the Written Law by Moses to reduce us again to our first state and true instinct of Nature which was before all other as Eusebius declaireth Lotts the casting of them Numerius Suffusius devised first at Preneste Looking-Glasses of Silver were invented by Praxiteles in the time of Pompey the Great there were also invented Looking-Glasses of Steel Lead Christal-Glass which one Sydon is reported to have been the first inventer of Glass was found out in Phenicia being ingendered in the River which is called Belus and it happened on this occasion A Merchants Ship being fraighted with Salt-peter came to that place and as they were prepairing their Meat on the Sands they could not find Stones to bear up their Vessels so that they were fain to lay great pieces of Nitre under them which being set on Fire and mingling with the Sand there appeared great flakes of melted Glass Lamps and Hanging Lights began of the Candles that Moses set up to burn in the Tabernacle Laws of Mourning of Obit's Funeral Exequies that are performed over dead Bodyes were the institution of Polugius although Isidore ascribeth the Original of it to the Apostles and he himself did augment the Rites that we use at this time Ambrose supposeth that Mourning proceeded from the Custom of the Hebrews which Lamented Jacob Forty days and Moses the space of Thirty days for that time was but counted sufficient for the Wife to weep in It was also the custom of the antient Romans to mourn For Numa Pompilius assigned Oblations to the Infernal Gods for the dead and did inhibite that a Child under the age of three years should be bewailed and that the elder sort should be mourned no more months then he had lived if any were married within that space again it was counted for a great reproach Wherefore Numa ordained that such as left of Mourning before the day limited should offer a Cow that was great with calf for expiation If that Rite were used now adayes and namely in England we should have small store of Veals there be so many that Marry within the space of time prescribed Plutarch writeth that the Women in their Mourning laid aside all Purple Gold and Sumptuous or rich Apparral and were cloathed

the other three remaining as for the rest which Superbus amazed gave and the old Trot vanished The Books contained manifest prophesies of the Blessessed Kingdome of Christ his Name his Birth and Death they were burned by the Arch Traytour Stilico so that those Prophesies which are now extant are only such as are extracted out of other Writings The Eight was Helle-spontica Born at Marmisea in the Territory of Troy her Prophesie was that a Woman shall descend of the the Jews called Mary and of her shall be Born the Son of God Named Jesus and that without Carnal copulation for she shall be a Virgin before and after his Birth he shall be both God and Man he shall fulfill the Laws of the Jews and shall add his Law thereunto and his Kingdome shall remain for ever The ninth was of Phrygia and Prophesied in the Town of Ancire one-of her sayings were The Highest shall come from Heaven and shall confirm the Counsell in Heaven and a Virgin shall be shewed in the Valley of the Desarts The tenth was Albunea Surnamed Tyburtina because she was Born at Tyber Fifteen Miles from Rome her Prophesies was that the invisible Word shall be Born of a Virgin he shall converse amongst Sinners and shall of them be despised Lactantius Finuianus rehearsed divers of their Prophesies without making any particular mention of them it is the opinion of some that they are to be referred more especially to Sibylla Samberta who Wrote Twenty-four Books in Verse chiefly Treating of the comming miracles and life of Christ whereunto the sayings of all the other Sybils are conformable St. Austine likewise in his Twenty-third Chapter of his Book de Cinitate dei reciteth these Prophesies as followeth Then he shall be taken by the wicked hands of the Infidels and they shall give him Buffets on his Face with their sacrelegious Hands they shall Spit upon him with foul and accursed Mouths He shall turn unto them his Shoulders suffering them to be whipped yea he shall hold his peace not speaking one word to the end that none shall know from whence his Words proceed He shall also be Crowned with Thorns and they shall give him Gall to eat and Vinegar to drink Behold the Feast that they shall make him insomuch that the ignorant and blind People shall nevertheless not know their God conversing amongst Men But they shall Crown him with Thorns mingling for him Gall and Vinegar then the Vaile of the Temple shall be rent at Mid-day it shall be dark Night for the space of three hours So the Just shall dye the Death and this Death or Sleep shall continue three dayes and when he shall have been in the Bowels of the Earth he shall rise again and return to Life Lactantius Lib. 4. Chap. 15. rehearseth these Prophesies of them He shall raise the Dead the Impotent and Lame shall walk and run nimbly the Deaf shall hear and the Blind shall see the Dumb shall speak and that with five Loaves and two Fishes he should nourish in the Desart Five-thousand men and the fragments thereof should be sufficient to satisfy many more Many other things were foretold by these Sybils as well of the ruins of great States as of what they predicted of Christ The Eleventh they called Epyrotica some were of opinion that she should be the same that Phrigia was she came from Troas to Dodona where she Prophesied and was like the other denominated from the place others write that she was called Phaenni so writes Johannes Tsetses she Prophesied that the true word should proceed from a Virgin how he should willingly come down from Heaven and seem poor to the World yet should govern all things whose Rule and Kingdom should never cease and that he should be both God Man and that this his Kingdom should principally reside in the Souls of Men whom he would govern and save to another life thus Laelius Cleophassis and others affirm Colophonia Lampusia was the Twelfth she came out of Greece from Colophonia a City of Jonia she Prophesied of the changes of Kingdoms and Inundations Earth-quakes and of Wars she said that God was only to be adored that he was angry at Vice and punished it that he did delight in holy and upright men She Prophesied also that the whole World should be Burnt and wished them to adore that God while they lived here which could punish them so severely hereafter for their contempt The First Ship which was called the Arke Noah made wherein he preserved from the danger of the Water all the Living Creatures that were to multiply the World and that was the first Pattern that all others made their Ships after Strabo Writes that Minos King of Creet had the first Rule of the Sea but Diodorus affirms that Neptune had the Empire of it before him for he invented the feat of Rowing in Boats and gave directions as to the making of a Navy and was made Admiral of it by his Father Saturn Pliny reports that King Erichthr as first devised Boats and Rowed in them in the Red-Sea some Write that the Trojans used them first in the Narrow Seas called Hellespontus some imagine that they were invented in the English Sea and covered with Leather and Hides of Beast Danaus was the first that used any Ship when he Sailed out of Aegypt into Greece as Pliny recordeth although some suppose it to be the Samotracians and some Atlas that found it Jason made the first Galley which Sesostrias King of Aegypt used after him Aeytheus invented the Barge with two order of Oars on a side Amocles of Corinth that with three course of Oars on a side the Carthaginians that with four Oars on a side and Nesichthon of Salamis that with sive Oars on a side which the Romans made in the first Punick Battell Zinagoras a Syracissan devised that with six rows of Oars Hippius a Tyrian conceived the making of the Lighter The Cyrenians invented the Hoy or Gallion The Phenicians the Keel or Demy-Bark The Rhodians the Brigantine The Cyprians compleated the Bark The Germans the Boats of one piece The Illyrians the Cock-Boat or Lighters Rhudders were invented by the Copians the broad Oars the Plateans devised Sails Icarus found the use of but Diodorus saith it was Aeolus Daedalus invented the Mast and the Cross-piece whereunto the Saile is fastned Ferry-Boats the Athenians or the Salaminians are said to have found Close Galleys were invented by the Thasians The Tyrrhenes devised the Anchors and Eupalamus made it with two points of Teeth but some refer it to Anacharsis who also invented the Tackle of a Ship The Stern of a Ship Piseus devised Tiphis found out more perfectly the use of the Stern after the example of the Kite which in her flying turneth all her Body with the turning of her Taile Minos Fought the first Battell on the Sea Merchandise was first instituted to furnish men with Necessaries by way of Exchange but after when Money was

casting of Lots c. The inspection of the Bowels of Beasts was invented by the Hetrurians which chanced thus It happened that a man going to Plow chanced to raise up a deeper Furrow then he was wont to do One Tages upon a sudden arose out of the Earth that taught them all the misteries of Sooth-saying Divination by looking on Birds was found out by Tiresias the Theban Orpheus added Divination by other Beasts Numerius Suffusius was the first that invented the casting of Lots Dreams The first expounding of them Pliny ascribes to Amphichon But Trogus assigns it to Joseph Son to Jacob Clement writes that the Telmesians were the first interpreters of it 't is no great matter who were for the little credit that is to be given to them Dedication of Churches is of great antiquity For Moses did sanctifie the Tabernacle and Solomon consecrated the Temple that he builded at Jerusalem And Esdrus after when they return'd from the captivity of Babilon new hallowed the Temple again From them we receive our Rite of dedicating of Churches I cannot be so positive as to write certainly where the first Church of the Christians was built but by all conjectures it was edified by the Apostles in Aethiopia where St. Mathew Preached or in the lower India where St. Bartholmew taught or in Scythia where St. Andrew Preach'd the Word of God where they doubtless either caused new Churches to be edified or else transposed the Idols of the Temples abolishing superstition and Planting the true Religion of Jesus Christ Although it is not against reason to suppose there was a Temple or House of Prayer appointed by St. James at Jerusalem In Rome the first that I Read of was consecrated by Pius Bishop of Rome in the Street called Patricius at Novatus Baths in honour of the Virgin Prudentia at the request of Praredis her Sister And after Calitus built a Temple to the Virgin Mary in a place beyond Tyberis and instituted a Church-Yard in Appius-Street Dinorcement when it first began Wedlock was not so sincerely and reverently observed of the Romans which although it be an occasion that Women should more earnestly keep their chastity yet our Religion doth scarcely permit it One Spurius Servilius the year after the City of Rome was Founded 522. Marcus Pomponius and Cain Papyrius being Consuls first sued a divorce from his Wife because she was Barren For which Fact although he affirmed openly before the Censors that he did it only because he would have issue yet was he for it scandalized and evil spoken of by the common People This decree of divorcing was taken out of the Laws of Moses which made the first constitution of that Statute yet was there this difference For by Moses it was only Lawful for the Husband to forsake his Wife but the Romans decree gave them both like liberty Dyals was first found out by a Milesian amongst the Lacedemonians which declaired the hours by the shaddow of the Hand It was a good while ere that they were used in Rome but in the twelve Tables there was only rehearsed the rising and going down of the Sun and a few years after Noon or Mid-day was found And this was only on clear days when they might perceive the course and altitude of the Sun The first Dyall was set up on a Pillar openly which stood behind the common Pulpit or Barre called Rostra at the charge of Valerius Messala then Consul in the first Punick Battle The water Dyall was first used in Rome by Scipio Nasica to divide the hours of the Day and Night who were the inventers of Clocks Sand-Dyals and Hour-Glasses is yet unknown F FIRE was first struck out of a Flint by Pirodes Prometheus taught first to keep it in Matches Pliny writes how the spyes in Armies and Camps or else the Shepards devised Fire by rubbing of two pieces of Wood together Laurel and Ivy are best for that use Bellows were found by Anacharsis as Strabo writes Candles the Aegyptians invented Fire and Water were given for Signes of the chastity of the Maids of Rome and Greece before they came to Bed to their Husbands which Elements as they have the power to purifie and cleanse signifi'd thereby that they should be chast and honest of their Bodies Minerals or the manner and rites of Burials in several Countreys were of sundry and various Fashions as the Massegetes and Derbians judged them that dyed in Sickness to have been very wretches and therefore when their Parents and Kindred were Aged they strangled them and Eat them supposing that it was better that they should devour them than the Wormes in the Earth The Alban's that dwelt by the Mount Caucasus took it for a mortal crime once to name those that were departed The Thracians kept solemnly the Funerals of the Dead Corps of men with great joy and solace for that they were discharged by Death from humane miseries and rest in eternal Felicity and contrariwise at the Birth of their Children they expressed great sorrow and lamentation because of the calamities that they must sustain in this miserable Life The Women in Judia take it for a great honour and triumph to be Buried with their Husbands which priviledge is granted to her that loves him best There are other divers manners of Burying amongst the Pagans and Heathens which forasmuch as they exceed the bounds of humanity and have in them no hope of a Resurrection I shall here omit The Romans because the Dead Corps that were killed in Battel were after their buryal digged out of the ground instituted the manner of burning the carcasses of men departed which rite was Executed on Sylla chief of all the House and Kindred of the Cornelians who feared least he should be served as he had used Marius They had also in Rome a manner of defying or hollowing of their Emperours bodies after this manner when the Emperour was dead and his body reverently buried with great exequies they Formed an Image of the Emperour pale as though he was sick and layed it at the Gate of the Pallace in a bed of Ivory and the Physicians resorted thither to the bed six days continually the Lords ef the Senate and Noble Ladies and Matrons standing on every side of the bed The seventh day the young Lords and Nobility bare him on their Shoulders in the bed first into the old place of Judgments called Forum Vetus and then into the Field called Campus Martius where they chose their Magistrates and high Officers where they layed him in a Tent built for the same purpose like a Tower and filled it with dry Wood and sweet Oyntments and after they had finished the Rites and Ceremonies of their Law he that should succeed in the Empire put a Fire-brand to the Tent and then others did the like And after all was burned they let fly an Eagle out of the top of the Turret which as they supposed carried the Soul of the Emperour to