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A16281	The fardle of facions conteining the aunciente maners, customes, and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affrike and Asia.; Omnium gentium mores. Book 1-2. English	Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae.; Waterman, William, fl. 1555?	1555 (1555)	STC 3197; ESTC S102775	133,143	358

ouer and beside that the longe pilgrimage that mankinde by longe renolucion maketh from one generation to another from the tyme of our redemption saluacion and sauyng vntill the laste daie of time Wherfore duryng this while vpon consideracion of the diuerse happe and hasarde wherwith the Churche is tossed like a Shippe in the troubled Seas she neither greatly reioiseth ne soroweth but redeth greate chaunge of bookes out of the olde and newe Testamente to the ende she maie walke the warelier and the bettre wtjnde her self out of the stormes that are trady to assaile her From Aduente to Christemas to remembre the tyme from Moses to the commyng of Messias In the whiche mankinde certefied of saluacion bothe by the lawe and the Prophetes awaited with moste earneste desires for his comming and the kingdōe that he shold haue Wherefore thei ordeined that the Prophecies should be redde and fasting exercised That the churche the bettre enstruited and abled by these mighte the worthelter receiue the Birche daie of Christ her Lorde whiche euer falleth the fowerth wieke aftre and from thens holde on with feaste and continuall gladnesse vntill Septuagesima Retoisyng that he was now rome whiche should bee the saulutour of the worlde Their oratories Temples or places of praier whiche we calle Churches might not be built without the good will of the Bishoppe of the Diocese And when the Timbre was redy to be framed and the foundacion digged it behoued them to sende for the Bishoppe to hallowe the firste corner stone of the foundaciō and to make the signe of the crosse thervpon and to laie it and directe it iuste Caste and Weste And then might the Masons sette vpon the reste but not afore This Churche did thei vse to builde aftre the facion of a crosse and not vnlike the shape of a manne The Chauncelle in the whiche is conteined the highe Altare and the Quiere directe full into the East representeth the heade And therfore ought to be made somwhat rounde and muche shorter then the body of the churche And yet vpon respecte that the head is the place for the eyes it ought to be of more lighte and to bee separate with a particion in the steade of a necke from the body of the Churche This particion the Latine calleth Cancellj and out of that cometh our terme Chauncelle On eche side of this chauncelle peraduēture for so fitteth it beste should stand a Turret as it ware for two eares And in these the Belles to be hanged to calle the people to Seruice by daie and by night Undre one of these Turrettes is there commonly a voulte whose doore openeth into the quiere And in this are laid vp the hallowed vesselles and ornamentes and other vtensiles of the church we calle it a vestrie The other parte oughte so to be fitted that hauing as it ware on eche side an arme the reste maye resemble the bodye with the fete stretched in breadthe and in lengthe On eche side of the bodye the pillers to stonde Vpon whose coronettes or heades the vaulte or rophe of the churche maye reste And to the foote beneth aulters to be ioyned Those aulters to be ordrely alway couered with two aulter clothes and garnisshed with the crosse of Christe or some litle cofre of reliques At eche ende a candelsticke and a booke towarde the myddes The walles to be parieted without and within and diuersly paintted That thei also should haue in euery parisshe a faire sounde stone made holowe and fitte to holde water in the whiche the water consecrate for baptisme may be kept for the christening of children Upon the right hande of the highe aulter that ther should be an almorie either cutte into the walle or framed vpon it in the whiche thei woulde haue the Sacrament of the Lordes bodye the holy oyle for the sicke and the Chrismatorie alwaie to be locked Furthermore thei woulde that ther should be a pulpite in the middes of the churche wherein the prieste maye stonde vpon sondaies and holidayes to teache the people those thinges that it behoueth them to knowe The Chauncelle to serue onely for the priestes and clerkes The rest of the tēporalle multitude to be in the body of the church Seperate notwithstonding the men on the ryghte side and the women on the lefte And eche of them to be sobre and honest in apparelle and behauour Whatsoeuer is cōtrary to good facion or christiane religion with greate diligence to shonne it It was the maner in the first churche both amonge men and women to lette their heare growe to shewe out their naked skinne and very litle or nothing to diffre in apparelle Sainct Peter put first ordre that women should couer their heades and menne rounde their heare and either of them to go in seueralle and sondrye apparelle Moreouer that to euery churche shold be laid out a churchyarde of the grounde adioyning in the whiche all christen mennes bodies mighte indifferently be bewried The same to be consecrate or halowed by the bisshoppe and to enioye all the priuilegies that the churche may enioye The funeralle for the deade thei kepe not in euery place ylike Some mourne and kepe dirige and Masse seuen daies continualle together some .ix. some .xxx. or fourtye some fiuetie and a hundred and other a whole yere wrapped vp in blacke The coūseile of Toledo ordeined that the corps beinge firste wasshed and then wrapped vp in a shiete shoulde be caried forthe with singing by menne of his owne condicion or sorte clerkes by clerkes and laye menne of laye menne And aftre what time the priest hath sensed the corps throwen holy water vppon it said certeine prayers to laye it into the graue with the face vpwarde and the heade into the weaste Then to throwe in the earth again and in token that ther is a christiā ther bewried to sette vp a crosse of wodde garnisshed with yvie cipres or laurelle These be the ordres and facions of the Christiane religion FINIS ¶ The treatise of Iosephus cont eyning the ordres and Lawes of the Iewes commune wealthe ¶ To the Reader THis lytle treatise good Reader haue I translated out of a Latine texte laid worde for woorde aunswe ringe to the Grieke for in that tonge Iosephus compiled it as niere as it was possible And looke howe scrupulous myne Authour was in matching the latine so scrupulous haue I also bene in deuising myne englysshe Remembring alway that thoughe in other writinges of mennes denyse an enterpretour maye eyther to giue lighte to the sentence or to obserue the naturalle phrase of the tonge that he enterpreteth in specially wher ther lieth no matier of importaunce or coutrouersie vse a more libertie of woordes and sentence yet in these holy writinges deliuered vs fro GOD in them I saye and enery braunche of them we oughte rather to shonne then to seke suche libertie asmuche as we maye Studienge nowe not so m●che to flourishe in painted penning as

and there to stande without And then the Priest should enquire before the childe be dieped in the Fonte whether it haue renounted Sathan and all his pompe and pride If it beleue certeinely and wholie all the Articles of the Christiane faithe And the Godfathers answeryng yea for it the Prieste breathyng thrise vpon his face exorciseth it and cathechiseth it Aftre that doeth he seuen thinges to the childe in ordre Firste he putteth into the mouth hallowed salt Secondely he mingleth earthe and his spattle toguether and smereth the eyes eares nosethrilles of the childe Thirdly giuyng it suche name as it shall euer aftre bee called by he marketh it on the breast and backe with holie oile aftre the facion of a crosse Fourthly he diepeth it thrise in the Watre or besprinckleth it with watre thrise in maner of a crosse in the name of the holie Trinitie the father the sonne and holie ghost In the whiche name also all thother Sacramentes are ministred Fiuethly weting his thumbe in the holie ointement he maketh therewith a Crosse on the childes foreheade Sixthly he putteth a white garment vppon it Seuenthly he taketh it in the hāde a Candle brennyng The Iewes before thei be Christened by the determinacion of the counsaile holden at Agathone are cathechised that is to saie are scholers as the enstruction of our beleue nine monethes And are boūd to fast fourtie daies to dispossesse them selues of all that euer thei haue and to make free their bonde men And looke whiche of their children thei haue Circumcised acording to Moses lawe hym are thei bounde to banishe their companie No merueile therfore if thei come so vnwillingly to christēdome Bishopping whiche the Latines calle Confirmacion a confirming a ratifieng establishyng aucthorisyng or allowyng of that went before is the second Sacramente And is giuē of the Bishoppe onely before the Aultare in the Churche to suche as are of growē yeres and fastyng if it maie be aftre this maner As many as shal be Confirmed come all together with euery one a godfather And the Bishoppe aftre he hath saied one oraison ouer thē all wetyng his thumbe in the holie oile maketh a crosse vpō eche of their foreheades In the name of the father sonne and holie ghoste And giueth hym a blowe on the lefte chieke for a remembraunce of the Sacrament that he come not for it againe The godfathers to the ende the enoilyng should not droppe awaie or by negligence bee wiped awaie clappe on a faire filette on the foreheade whiche thei iudge to be vnlawfully takē awaie before the seuenth daie The holie fathers estemed this Sacrament so highly that if the name giuen to the childe at his Christendome f●●med not good the Bisshoppe at the giuyng hereof mighte thaunge it The thirde Sacramente is holie Ordres whiche in the firste Churche was giuen likewise of the Bishoppe onely in the monethe of Decembre But now at sixe seueralle tymes of the yere that is to saie the fowre Saturdaies in the embre wekes whiche ware purposely ordeined therefore vpon the Saturdaie whiche the Churche menne calle Sitientes because the office of the Masse for that daie appoincted beginneth with that woorde and vpon Easter euen This Sacrament was giuen onely to menne and but to those neither whose demeanour and life dispocisiō of bodie and qualitie of minde ware sufficiently tried and knowē Aftre the opinion of some there ware seuen ordres or degrees wherby the holy fathers would vs to beleue that there ware ●●uē speciall influences as it ware printed in the soule of the receiuer wherby eche one for eche ordre was to be compted an hallowed manne Aftre the mindes of other there ware nine That is to saie Musicens whiche encludeth singing and plaieng Doore kiepers Reders Exorcistes Acholites Subdeacon Deacon Prieste and Bishop And for all this it is cōpted but one Sacramente by the reason that all these tende to one ende that is to saie to consecrate the Lordes bodie To euery one of these did the Counsaile of Tolede in Spaine appoincte their seueralle liueries and offices in the Churche The Doorekepers had the office of our Common Sexceine to opē the churche dores to take hede to the churche and to shutte the dores And had therfore a keie giuen vnto theim when thei ware admitted to this ordre The Reader in signe and token of libertie to reade the Bible and holie stories had a greate booke giuen him The Exorcistes serued to commaunde euill spicices out of menne and in token therof had a lesse booke giuen them The Acholite had the bearyng and the orderyng of the Tapers Candelstickes and Cruetres at the Altare and therfore had a Candlesticke a Taper and two emptie Cruorettes deliuered hym The Subdeacon mighte take the offring and handle the Chalice and the Patine ca●ie theim to the Altare and fro the Altare and giue the Deacon Wine and water out of the Cruettes And therfore the Bishoppe deliuereth hym an emptie Chalice with a Patine and the Archedeacon one Cruet full of wine and another full of watre or Chaptres and those againe into Paroches and to set that goodly ordre that yet continueth aswell emong the clergie as the laietie That the parishe should obeie their lawfull Persone the Persone the Deane the Deane the Bishoppe the Bishoppe the Archebishoppe The Archbishoppe the Primate or Patriarche the Primate or Patriarche the Legate the Legate the Pope the Pope the generalle Counsaile the generalle Counsaile God alone For the fourthe Sacramente it is holden that euery prieste rightly priested acordyng to the keies of the Churche hauing an encente to consecrate and obseruynge the fourme of the woordes hathe power of wheaten breade to make the very bodie of Christe and of Wine to make his very bloude Christe our Lorde hym selfe the daye before he suffred kepte it solemply with his disciples and consecrated and ordeined it continually to be celebrated and eaten in the remembraunce of him selfe And about this mattier a man had nede of a great faythe Firste to beleue the breade to be chaunged into the body and the wine into the bloude of Christe Againe thoughe this be done euery daye that yet Christ for all that should growe neuer a whitte the bigger for the making nor the lesse for the eatinge Thirdely that the Sacrament being deuyded into many partes Christ should yet remaine whole in euery cromme Fourthly that thoughe the wicked eate it yet should not it be defiled Fiuethly that it bringeth to as many euyll as receius it death and to the good euerlasting life Sixthly that it tourneth not into the nature of the eater to his nourishemente as other meate dothe but turneth the eater contrariwise into the nature of it selfe And yet being eaten that it is rapte into heauen vnhurte or vntouched Seuenthly that in so smalle a syse of breade and wine the infinite and incomprehensible Christe God and manne shoulde be comprehended Then that one and the self same bodye of