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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

into Greece as Phericides Pythagoras Thales acknowledges that they were Disciples to the Aegyptians Pliny will have Atlas to be the first Founder or contriver of it which occasioned the Poets to feign that he beareth Heaven upon his Back Sernius would have Prometheus to find it out Nevertheless all these as I suppose were the beginners of this faculty every man in his own Countrey where he dwelled for even from the beginning of the World the Sons of Seth devised first the science of the Stars and for as much as they feared least their Art should perish before it came to the Knowledge of men for they had heard their Grand-Father Adam say that all things should be destroyed by the Universal Flood they made two Pillars one of Stone the other of Brick to the intent that if the Brick wasted with Water or Storms yet the Stone should preserve the Letters whole and perfect and in their Pillars they Graved all that concerned the Observation of the Stars And therefore 't is probable that the Aegyptians and Caldees learned Astrology of the Hebrews and so consequently it spread it self amongst other Nations Endimion was the first that found out the course of the Moon the reason of her being Eclipsed Pythagoras observed the course of Venus Archimedes found the use of the Sphere Alchimia or Alchimy signifieth infusion or steeping for Chimia in Greek denotes Infused There is a great controversie when Alchimy was invented For neither Pliny though he was otherwise a most diligent Author nor any Greek or Latine Author make any mention of it but I believe that it is very ancient for Suidas writeth that the Art of Alchimy endured till the time of the Argonantes when Jason went to take away the Golden Fleece which was nothing else than a certain Book that taught to turn other Mettals into Gold for those that invented that story conceating its name invented the Golden Fleece The Aegyptians professed this Art very much in the Reign of the Emperour Dioclesian who hating them because they made an insurrection Burned their Writings concerning their destilling of Gold and Silver least as he feared they being made Rich by this Art and having gotten good store of Wealth they should Rebell againe The Emperour Dioclesian was Created in the year 287 so that this Art was rather renewed than new The Authors of the first Names of Countreys were some of the most eminent of them as followeth Arphaxad was the first Founder of the Arabians Lud of the Lidians of the Children of Cham were Chus that named the Aethiopians and Mesre the beginner of the Aegyptians Chanaan of whom the Cananites had their name The Linnage of Chus was Seba whereof the Sebees came and Evila of whom came the Evilites And in the like manner we must believe that of them came all other Nations and People of the World which are now encreased that they can scarcely be numbred Of or from the Aire Anaximenes supposeth all things to have had their beginning Metrodorus affirmeth the Universal World to be Eternal without beginning or end Epicurus one of Democritus Disciples putteth two causes Attomes or Motes and vacuity and emptiness of these he saith the four Elements come These are the Opinions of the Phylosophers that were men without the knowledge of God But as Moses and Josephus record the Scripture concludeth that in the begining God made all things of nothing as St. John saith all things were made by him And therefore as Lactantius writeth let no man be curious in searching of what material God made these great and wonderful Works for he Formed them all of nothing by the power of his mighty Word Of the same Opnion is Plato in his Book called Timeus Amphitheaters and Theatres were certain places as Scaffolds with Pentises wherein the People of Athens stood to behold the Enterludes that were shewed and they were made like half a Circle with Benches one above another that they might without any impediment see the Playes Dionysius did first institute them in Athens in the midst of the Scaffold or Theatre stood the Stage wherein Comedies Tragedies with other Shews were exhebited to the common sort Of whom the Romans took example to make such Scaffolds Caius Curio at his Fathers Burial Builded two Theatres of Timber after such a fashion that they might in time of Enterludes stand one contrary to another in such wise that neither Play should disturb one the other And when it pleased him he turned them together and made an Amphitheatre which was a round Scaffold full of Benches of divers heights wherein he set forth a Game of Sword Players Cains Julius Colsar Builded the first Amphitheatre in the Field consecrated to Mars In which were set forth shews of Wild Beasts and Sword Players for the custome was that such as were condemned to Dye or taken Prisoners in War should be cast there to the wild Beasts to be devoured and slain It was strewed with Sand least the Blood of those which were slain should defile them that fought or discourage them and therefore there were certain appointed for to toss and strew about the Sand. Amber as Diodorus witnesseth was found in the Isle Basilea which lyeth against Scythia above Galatia in the great Ocean where it was first cut up and was never found or seen in any place before B BIBLE the Reading of part of it at Dinner time hath been of a long continuance which did proceed from the Godly Doctrine which Christ instructed his Disciples in at all times but chiefly at his last Supper wherein he Treated of the perfection of all the misteries of Religion And thus our Fathers to keep in memory such an wholesome instituion did bring in this manner of Reading the sacred Scripture before or after Meales Books which contain the monuments of ingenious Wits and a Register of all valiant Prowefs as Laertius expresses were first published at Greece Gellius saith is was Pisitratus that made the first Book and exhibited it to be Read openly But Josephus writes that it was the Hebrews and Priests of Egypt and Chaldee that first set them forth The Athenians multiplyed the number of Books which Xerxes carried from thence into Persia and Seleucus King of Macedony caused them many years after to be conveyed to Athens again after that Ptolomeus King of Egypt collected together 700000. Books which were all Burnt at the Battle of Alexandria Tell Building men at the first lived like wild Beasts in Caves and also Fed on Fruits and Roots of the Earth but after they perceived the necessary use of Fire against the vehement extreamity of cold some began to edifie Cottages of Boughs and Trees and some digged Caves in the Mountains and by often experiencing such means they attained to a greater perfection in Building with Walls that they did get up with long Props and did wind them about with small Rods and so daubed them and to keep out the Storms they covered

it Wrought those words of the Countess of Salshuries to this Splendour he added a collar of Gold full of Red and White Roses with the Image of St. George hanging thereon and about those Roses were also Written the same words in the Garter There are of this order as hath been said Twenty-six Knights of which the Kings of England are Soveraigns and it is so much esteemed for its Excellency that Eight Emperours Twenty-two Forraign Kings and Dukes and divers other Noble-men have been of it About their Necks these Knights wear a Blew Ribbon at the end of which hangeth the Image of St. George upon whose day the installation of the new Knights is commonly celebrated being the Twenty-third of Aprill And although it was first ordained at Bourdeaux yet King Edward determined the place of the solemnization thereof to be at the Church of Windsor here in England where at the same time he Founded Cannons or a Cannonry for the better prosperity and greater flourishing of the Knights of the Order The second Order of Antiquity is of the mnnunciation instituted Anno Dom. 1356 by Amide the sixt of that Name Duke of Savoy Sur-named the Green Knight The Knights of this Order wear a great Collar of Gold made winding with three Laces wherein are enterlaced these words Fert Fert Fert every Letter importing its Latine word thus F. Fortitudo E. Eius R. Rhodum T. Tenuit That is his force hath Conquered Rhodes At this Collar hangeth the Image of our Lady and an Angel saluting her from whence t is called the Order of the Annunciation The Collar is Fifteen Links to shew the Fifteen Misteries of the Virgin each Link being Interwoven one with the other in form of a True-Lovers-Knot The number is Fourteen Knights the Solemnity is held annually on our Lady Day in the Castle of St. Peter in Turin This Duke ordained this Order in Memory of Amide the great Duke of Savoy who succoured the Knights of St. John when they took the Isle of Rodes from the Turks in the year of our Lord 1310. The third in Antiquity is the Order of the Golden Fleece Founded upon the Table of the Golden Fleece that Iason with the other Argonant's went to seek in the Isle of Colchos which is as if we should say that he went to the Mine of Gold or else in Analogie to Gideons Fleece as some will have it This Order was first instituted by Philip the Second Sirnamed the good Duke of Burgundy in the year 1430 the compleat number of which Order were at the first Twenty-five Knights but raised afterwards by the said Philip to Thirty-one and now there are as many as the King of Spaine shall be pleased to invest with it They wear a Collar of Gold Interlaced with Iron seeming to strike Fire out of a Flint the word 's ex ferro flamman at the end hangs the Fleece or Toisond'or Their Cloaks and Hoods are of Scarlet garded with Embroidery like flames of Fire Philip appointed for the celebrating of that Order on St. Andrews day being the Thirtyeth of November But the Emperour Charles the Fifth Heir of the House of Burgundy and chief of that Order changed their Apparrel and ordained that their Cloaks should be of crimson Velvet and their Hoods of Violet coloured Velvet and that underneath they should wear a Cassock of cloath of Silver The fourth in Antiquity is the Order of St. Michael the Arch Angel instituted by Lewis the Eleventh of France the first day of August in the year 1469 and ordained that of that Order there should be Thirty-six Knights which afterwards were augmented to Three-hundred Gentlemen of Name and Arms of whom he himself was chief and Soveraign and after him his successors Kings of France the Brothers and Companions of this Order were bound at receiving of them to forsake and leave all other orders if they were of any either of a Prince or any Company only excepting Emperours Kings and Dukes which besides this Order might wear that Order whereof they were chief with the agreement and consent of the King and Brotherhood of the said Order of other Emperours Kings and Dukes And for the cognissance of this Order and the Knights thereof he gave to every one of them a Collar of Gold wrought with Cockle-shells Interlacing one another with a double pointing Ribbon of Silk with Golden Taggs the word Imensi Arenor Oceani which King Francis the First because of his Name changed into a White-Friers or Franciscans Girdle made af a Twisted cord and caused to be hanged on that collar a Tablet of St. Michael upon a Rock conquering the Devil Of the institution of this Order is a Book made containing Ninty-eight Articles wherein are set down the things whereunto the Knights of the Order are subject The fifth Order is that of the Holy Ghost institutéd by Henry the Third King of France on Newyears-day in the year 1579. It was called by the name of the Holy Ghost because this Henry was on a Whitsonday chosen King of Poland Of this Order is written a Book containing the Articles whereunto the Knights thereof were bound Among which I have principally noted one that is to defend and sustain the Clergy For that the King doth give to every one of them the Rent of certain Abbies Religious Houses or other Spiritual Lands whereof they shall allow a certain Stipend to the entertaining of such a number of Religious persons in every Religious house under him and for that benefit are sworn at the entring into the said Order always to defend the Spirituality and to maintaine the Clergy in their priveledges but how they keep their Oath it is easily to be discerned in every place of their spiritual possessions with which I have been often times very much dissatisfied in for having oftentimes tryed the courteous demeanour that commonly Religious Men use to Strangers that come to visit their houses I have divers times been sufficiently enformed by the Religious how the King hath 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 entertain the fourth part of the number of them appointed many of them are constrained to forsake their houses and beg or else they must starve The Pope considering what dismembring of Church Lands arriseth from this Order in the Realm of France would not grant the Confirmation thereof but notwithstanding the Popes mislike thereof t' is still maintained The Collar of this Order is of Flowers de Lys and Flames of Gold with a Cross and a Dove on it Pendant representing the Holy Ghost Wrought in Orange tawny Velvet garnished about with Silver Beams which the Knights of that Order wear upon their Cloaks before their heart Their Robe is a black Velvet Mantle poudred with Lillies and Flames of Gold and Silver None are admitted to this Order

in his Law which in great Multitudes came into Italy and in the year of our Lord 333 Gregory the Fourth then fitting in Rome and governing the Empire Lewis the First beseiged it took and Sacked the City prophaning the Temple of St. Peter Lading their Ships with Plunder and Prisoners Rome was the Seventh time taken by Henry the Fourth of that name Emperour of Germany Gregory the Seventh then sitting in the Chaire this time Rome was also most cruelly Destroyed by reason that both the Armies of the Pope and the Emperour Skirmished and Fought for a long time within the City and the Capitoll which was then again repaired this was in the year of our Lord 1082 Anthony writes that Rome was very much endamaged at this time also by reason of the lamentable execution performed by the Normans on the Popes side and the Germans for the Emperour Rome was last taken by Charles Duke of Bourboun who being slain as he scaled the Walls at the first Assault the Souldiers being without a head in revenge committed all manner of Enormities and Barbarous cruelties saving that they burnt not the Churches though they spoiled and robbed them without any consideration of their Holiness For a great part of the Army were Germans and most of the Germans Lutherians this ruine happened in the year of our Saviour 1527 Clement the Seventh then sitting in the Chair S A SATYRE is a Poem that sharply rebuketh Vice not regarding of any Persons There are two kinds of Satyrs the one which was both amongst the Greeks and Romans in Antient times used for the diversity of Meters much like a Comedy but that it is more wanton Demetrius of Tharsus and one Menipus a bond-man whom Marcus Varro did counterfeit were expert in this way of writing The Second manner of Writing of Satyres was railing only ordained to enveigh against Vice they were devised of the Romans upon this occasion When the Poets that wrote the old Comedies used to handle for their Arguments not only feigned matters but also things really done which although at the first was tollerable yet afterwards by reason that they were so sharp and bitter against every one that they pleased to have a fling at there was a Law made that no man should afterwards reprehend any person by name The Romans in the place of these Comedies substituted such Satyres as they had newly invented afterwards began the new Comedi which concernes generally all men of mean estat and hath less bitterness and railing but is more pleasant and full of pastime for the Auditors Of these Comedies Menander and Philemon were Authors who abated of the tartness and crabbedness of the old writings of them Caecilus Nevius Plautus and Terentius learned to compile Comedies although as Quintilian will have it they never arrived to the least proportion of their Patrons because as he writes they never attained to the least proportion of their Patrons because the Latin tongue is not so fit to receive the Ornaments of Eloquence as the Greek tongue is The Satyres had the names of Barbarian Gods that were Rude Lascivious and Wanton in behaviour In this form of writing Lucilius Horatius Persius Juvanal were the most eminent The Twelve Sybils the First was of Persia named Samberta or Persica She amongst other Prophesies said The Wombe of the Virgin shall be the Salvation of the Gentiles The Second was of Lybica one of her Prophesyes was The day shall come that men shall see the King of all living things and a Virgin Lady of the World shall hold him in her Lap. The Third was Themis surnamed Delphica for that she was Born and Prophesied at Delphos Her Predictions was A Prophet shall be Born of a Virgin The Fourth was Cumaea born at Cimeria a City of Campania in Italy she Prophesied that God should be Born of a Virgin and converse amongst Sinners The Eifth was Famous Erythrea who had her Birth at Babylon who more especially Prophesied a great part of our Christian Religion in certain Verses recited by Eusebius the first Letters of every of which Verses being put together make the words Jesus Christ Son of God Saviour These Verses were Translated into Latine by St. Austine Lib. 18. and the 23 in his Book de Cinitate Dei the substance whereof followeth The Earth shall sweat the signs of Judgment From Heaven shall come a King which shall Reign for ever that is to say in humane Flesh to the end that by his presence he shall judge the World so the unfaithful as well as the faithful shall see God with their eyes aloft amongst his Saints and in the end of the World the Souls of Men with their Bodies shall appear whom he shall judge when the roundness of the Earth untiled shall be full of Clods of Earth and Grass Men shall cast away their Idols and all their precious Jewels the World shall be consumed with fire he shall peirce the inferiour parts and break the Gates of Hell then to the flesh of Saints shall be given free and clear Light and the evil shall be burned with Eternal fire all Secrets shall be opened and every one shall know the secret of his Neighbour and God shall discover the Consciences and Hearts of all men then shall there be Lamentation and gnashing of Teeth the Sun and the Stars shall loose their Light the Firmament shall be dissolved and the Moon shall be darkned the Mountains shall be thrown down and the Valleys shall be made equal with them there shall be nothing in the World higher then another Mountains and Valleys shall be made plain all things shall cease and the Earth shall be dryed unto powder and dust the Fountains and Rivers shall be burned likewise Then shall a Trumpet sound from Heaven Divers other things were Prophesied by this Sybil and because they were obscure and therefore not to be comprehended by the Gentiles before they came to pass she said they shall think me a false and blind Prophetess but when that they shall see these things accomplished they will remember me and call me not false Prophetess but the Prophetess of the Almighty God The Sixt was Samia Born in the Isle of Samos she said he being rich shall be Born of a poor Maid the Creatures of the Earth shall adore him and praise him for ever The Seventh was called Cumana because she prophesied at Cumas a Town of Campania in Italy her prophesie was that he should come from Heaven and reign here in poverty he should Rule in silence and be Born of a Virgin She is affirmed to have Written nine Books of the Sybils they were all presented by an old Woman to Tarquinius Superbus but he not willing to pay so great a Sum of Money as was demanded denied them whereupon the old woman being vexed Burned three of them requiring as much Money for the other six as for all which being denied she also Burned the other three asking as much for

Coined it was made use of more for mens private Wealth then for any common profit and for that cause Cicero calls it a Servile Craft Although Plutarch writes that Thales Solon Hippocrates and Plato were occupied and employed in this Art The Carthaginians as Pliny expresses in his seventh Book were very early in it but Diodorus will have Mercury to be the first that was cunning in it Pliny in his tenth Book saith that Liber otherwise called Dionysius invented the Trade of Merchandise And therefore it may be imagined that the Carthaginians Learned the Trade of Merchandise of Dionysius But the Hebrews as Josephus affirms used Buying and Selling in the time of Noah and Joseph was Sold to Merchants and carried into Aegypt Saluting with Kisses this custome is very Antient for it was the manner of the Hebrews to kiss strangers at their first meeting as Jacob kissed Rachel before he expressed that he was of her kindred and Laban after he knew him to be his Sisters Son embraced him with his Arms and kissed him The Romans custome was to kiss their kinsfolk but afterwards it was extended to further familiarity and is now too often used Laciviously Although in Rome it was an Ordinance that the women should kiss their kindred 〈◊〉 that if she had drank any 〈…〉 to the Law made 〈…〉 drinking of Wine by 〈…〉 might be discovered and 〈…〉 her intemperance 〈…〉 proceedeth from Worms the Spinning and Weaving of it Pamphila the Daughter of Platis devised in the Isle of Coos The Septemviri or the Seven Electors of the Emperour of Germany and of the Peeres or Paires of France The Election of the Emperours of Germany is in the manner following the Seven Princes Electors called Septemviri meet early about fix of the clock in the Romanco there they Consult untill nine from thence they go in solemn order into St. Bartholomews of them there are three Ecclesiastical and and four Temporal the three Ecclesiastical that is to say the Arch-Bishop of Mentz called the Arch-Chancellor of High Germany being the first next the Arch-Bishop of Collen called the Arch-Chancellor of Italy and then follows the Arch-Bishop of Tryers called the Arch Chancellor of France all in their State befitting so great a Majesty Then the four Temporal that is to say the Marquess of Brandenburg great Chamberlaine of the Empire with a Massy Key of Gould then the Duke of Saxony Lord high Marshall beareth the Sword before the Emperour and is likewise Arch-Sewer in carring the Plate to the Table then the Elector of Bohemia the Taster or else Cup-Bearer to the Emperour for the Triumph These are the only Electors of the Emperour they afterwards descend from their seats and there before the Audience take a Solemn Oath one after another in these following words I doe Swear upon this Evangelist before me that with all my Faith which I owe to God my diligence and care which I owe to the Emperour without former reward or future hope of greater Honour that I will chuse with all my Faith and Truth a Just and fit Man for the Kingdome of Rome as much as in me Lyeth After these and many other ceremonies they proclaim him King of the Romans Heire of Augustus and Emperour of Germany In the Realm of France to be a Peer is the greatest Dignity under the King for that in many things they have allmost equal Authority with Kings for Peer in the French tongue signifyeth equal But because it will be too pro lixe a subject to discourse of all their Prerogatives it shall suffice only to number them and each of their Offices at the Sacring or Coronation of a new King These antient Peers are twelve in number whereof 6 are of the Clergy six are Lay-men the 6 of the Clergy with their offices at the Coronation are the Arch-Bishop Duke of Reins who hath his accustomed charge to anoint and consecrate the King the Bishop Duke of Lacon whose office is to bring the holy Ampoule or divine Water wherewith the King is anointed the Bishop Duke of Langres whose office is to bring the Scepter the hand of Justice the Bishop and Earl of Beanais bringeth the Kings Cloak the Bishop Earl of Chaalous attendeth with the Kings Ring the Bishop Earl of Noyon waites with the Kings Girdle The six Temporal Peers with their Offices at the Coronation are the Duke of Burgundy Dean or chief of the rest whose Office is to carry the Kings Crown the Duke of Guyen carries the 1 st square Banner the Duke of Normandy brings the 2d square Banner the Earl of Tholouse carries the Kings Spurs the Earl of paigne hath the mannagement of the Royal Banner or the Standard of War the Earl of Flanders bringeth the Kings Sword And although the first five temporall Peerdoms are united to the Crown and the sixt be united to another Prince yet at the Kings Coronation there are other Noble men appointed to supply their roome and Offices These are the twelve antient Peers although since their creation others have been made which though they have like Authority to judge in the Court of Parliament yet they want Offices at the Kings Coronatian and bear not that Majesty that the other Peers doe for that they are not of so great Antiquity A Sanctuary as Statius writes was made first by Hercules Nephews in Athens and was called the Temple of Mercy For then it was not lawfull to take any man violently that repaired thither for Assistance and Protection Notwithstanding whatsoever is otherwise expressed by Prophane Authors questionless Moses who was long before Hercules did institute three Franchised Towns whether it was permitted for them to go that had done any Murther unawares or by Chance-Medly Next after him Romulus ordained a Sanctuary in Rome to increase his Citizens and to have the greater number to build and people the City There was a Sanctuary in the Isle Calvaria dedicated to Neptune and another in Aegypt at Campus consecrated to Hercules and another at Osyris and in Syria one hallowed to Appollo There were many others in Christendome King Henry the 8 th amongst his other reformations because of the great crimes and enormities that were commited concerning them thought fit amongst his other devastations to put them down Swearing was first ordained by the Emperour Justinian which was that men should swear by the Sacred Writ the Gospell and now a dayes all that swear lay their hand upon the Book and kiss it saying So help me God c. Because as the Gospell of our Religion and Faith may for no cause be violated so an Oath in no case may be broken T TEMPLES or as they were afterwards called Churches as Diogenes supposeth were caused first to be built by Epimenides in Crete But Victruvius affirmeth that one Ptthius a Carpenter made the first Temple in Prienc in the Honour of Pallas Herodotus saith the Aegyptians Instituted Temples first In Rome Romulus

press the Wine out of the Grape as Saturn did in Italy Some would have it to be Icarins the Father of Penelope that found the virtue of the Grape in Athens who is reported to have been slain by the Husbandmen when they were Drunk Atheneus in one place writeth that Orestus Son to Dencalion first discovered the Vine about Mount Aetna in Sicily In another place he sayes that it was found in the City Plinthina in Aegypt Aruntes a Tirrhen banished out of his Countrey by Lucinon whom he brought up of a Child carried the first Wine into France But before all these Noah was the first that either Tilled the Land or Planted the Vineyard and when that he had tasted too much of the Fruit of the Grape he was Drunk Wine Taverns were set up first by the Lydians a people of Asia which also found out and invented divers Games Staphylus as Pliny saith was the first that allayed Wine But for all these generally entertained Opinions the Poets will have Bacchus to be the first deviser and God of it and that he taught those Countries how to make Ale of Barley which had no Grapes growing into this Drink the Germans afterwards put Hops and called it Beer The Winds were first observed by Aeolus as 't is reported from the prognostication of the Inhabitants of the Islands about Sicily who by the smoak of the said Isles three dayes before were said to know what Winds they should have Aeolus for his great insight into the Nature of them hath by the general consent of Poets the Dominion over them attributed to him The Winds as some divide them are said to be four according to the four principal Regions of the Aire those that are more curious in their search and inquiry of their Natures will have them to be no less then eight And especially one Andronicus Corestes who Builded a Terret in Athens and set on every side of it the Images of the Winds graven against the Rigion whence the Winds came they were placed on Pillars of Marble and in the middle he set a Brazen Image of Triton which he had made so that it would turn with a Gust and stand with its Face towards the Wind that blew being so devised as to point with a Rod to the Image of the said Wind which hath been since imitated and used in most Countries for 't is an usual custome to set up Weather-cocks or Fans to show out of what Quarter the Wind bloweth The seven Wise Men of Greece who lived as one saith when there was a scarcity of Wisedom were as followeth Bias he was born in the Haven Town of Prieane in the Countrey of Jonia Solon was of the Island of Salamine Chilo was of Lacedemonia Cleobolus had his birth at Lindus in the Isle of Rhodes Pittacus was of Mitylene in the Isle of Lesbes Thales received his first breath at Miletum in Greece the last of them was Periander King of Corinth The wonders of the World were reputed seven of the same number of the Wise men of Greece The first were of the Walls of Babylon built by Semeramis of stone joyned together with a strange kind of slimy and gluish Morter which grew in the Mines of those Countryes and especially in the Lake where stood in time past Sodome and Gomorrah now called Asfatilda These walls according to the Town were built in a quadrangle and contained in circuit as saith Pliny in the 26th chapter of his sixt Book 60 miles so that every square was fifteen miles long they were 200 foot high and 15 foot thick To build these walls were hired by Semiramis out of divers Countryes for a long space 300000 men The Second was the Pillar of the Sun offered by the Gentiles unto Jupiter This Pillar stood in the Isle of Rhodes and was made of Iron in the form of a man of incredible greatness insomuch that a man could scarce Fadom the great finger thereof After it had stood 56 years it fell down by reason of an Earthquake and so lay till the Island was won by the Souldan of Aegypt who carried as much mettall away as loaded 900 Camels The Third were the Obelisci or the Piramids of Aegypt of which we have already discoursed The Fourth was the Mansoleum of Mansolus King of Caria Husband to Artimesia this woman for the great love she had to his Memory burnt his body drunk his ashes beaten to a powder thinging no Sepulcher so worthy of him as her own body the remainder of the powder which she found it impossible for her to drink she buried in his Famous Tomb. This Monument was of a most excellent kind of Marble it was 411 feet in circute and 25 cubits high it was invironed with 36 Pillars most curiously carved The Fifth was the Temple of Diana at Ephesus of which in ' its proper place we have also discoursed more at large The Sixt was the Image of Jupiter Olympus in Achia all of Porphyry an infinite number of little pieces being wonderfully joyned together this Statue or Image besides the excellency of the work was more especially admired for the greatness thereof and was the more Famous by reason that the Games called the Olympiades were there kept The Seventh was the Tower Pharos nigh to Alexandria in Aegypt built by Ptolomeus Philadelphus King of Aegypt to direct the Passengers which way to approach the Haven thereabouts by burning of pitch or other light materials This Tower was of a marvelous height and of singular Workmanship the building whereof cost according to our Money 4800000 Crowns some Authors set down for the Eight Wonders the Gardens and Orchards upon the walls of Babylon AN APPENDIX Rare Inventions peculiarly attributed to England and English-men MASONS Carving in Stone and erecting statly Piles with the like Materials The Art of curious Painting and Glazing with Glass now in use were First shewed to the English by one Joanes A Benedictine in the year of Christ 728. and since by Improvement brought to the perfection they are at present found to be in The Famous Invention of Printing being found out in Germany was First brought into England by William Caxton a Mercer who in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth kept a Printing-House in Westminster Abby by the Permission of Simon Islip Abbot of that Place and the First Book there Printed was Tullies Offices Coaches were Invented by Monsieur Pedarus a French-man and brought into England in the year 1559. though Charriots are of a longer standing Watches were the Invention of a German and the Invention brought into England Anno 1580. The Famous Inventers and Improvers were Cornelius Van Dreble and Janus Torrianellus the first Clocks were brought into England much about the same time The Pendulum was Invented by Mr. Hook Fellow of the Royal Society Famous in the Mathematicks and Mechanical Improvement All sorts of Optiek-Glasses and Tubes as the Telescope the Invention of the Famous Galileo the Microscope