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A24128	The true history of the Jacobites of Egypt, Lybia, Nubia, &c. their origine, religion, ceremonies, laws, and customs, whereby you may see how they differ from the Jacobites of Great Britain / translated by a person of quality from the Latin of Josephus Abudernus ...; Historia Jacobitarum seu Coptorum in Aegypto, Lybia, Nubia, Aethiopia tota, & parte Cypri insulae habitantium. English	Abudacnus, Josephus.; Sadleir, Edwin, Sir, d. 1719.	1692 (1692)	Wing A157; ESTC R7172	21,679	45

Cap in the Figure of a pot but have no sign on their heads as the Papists and Greeks use to have It is a Crime to a Woman to be in the Hermitage where they live neither can any person that is in the Monastery go into a Nunnery every Week almost they are appointed some Mechanick Work as to sow the Ground or to plow the Fields or to grind at the Mill or to bake in the Oven or the like so that they never find any time to spend in laziness but employ their time either in working or praying Their Divine Studies are the Lives of Saints and some spiritual Books of Oraisous wherein they are carefully to exercise themselves In time of Lent the greatest part of them that are more advanced in Age remain alone Days and Nights in Hermitages But now of the sacred Virgins which some call Religious they are amongst the Jacobites as they are amongst the Papists and Greeks They are always shut up in their Monasteries and never go out unless necessity forces some of them that are the chiefest and have the Government when it may conduce to the good and profit of the Monastery in their Victuals they live in all respects as the Monks before-mentioned do only they have no commerce with a stranger or person of any other Tribe unless it be in the Monastery where they are shut as in the Refectory or Choire where it is lawful to them to see one another None are let into the Monastery unless they will be anathematized Yet sometimes to some noble persons it is permitted to enter that they may bestow their Charity but they must first have leave from the Patriarch Their Custom is to build these Monasteries in neat Towns near a Church that they may hear Mass on Holy-days CHAP. XIX Of their FASTS THey are used to fast four times in the Year And first in Lent which continues from Septuagesima-Sunday to Easter and is observed both by Lay men and also by those the French call Religious and finally by all who have attained the Age of sixteen Years They eat only of Bread and Pulses and Herbs which they are not to season with Oyl and of these but once a day and that is in the Evening The second time of fasting is the Advent from the fifteenth day in November till the Feast of the Nativity which happens the twenty fifth of December And then they forbear Flesh and Milk but may eat of Fish lawfully The third is celebrated in honour of the blessed Virgin and begins the twenty fourth day of September and ends the twenty-fifth day of August which is Assumption-day Their fourth and last Fast is in honour of the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and begins the first Sunday in Pentecost and ends on their day viz. the twenty ninth of June But as to the time or duration of this Fast it is not certain for it is according to the course of Easter At this time as well as at the Advent they eat Fish but in time of Lent or when they fast in honour of the blessed Virgin they do not CHAP. XX. Of their Holy Pilgrimages THE Jacobites are used to go on Pilgrimage upon a Religious account for to say in a word there are many places in Aegypt where the Bodies of Saints and Images of the blessed Virgin are kept which they believe to perform many extraordinary Miracles But about the middle of Lent for the most part they are wonted to travel to Jerusalem and because the Road is infested with Thieves and Arabs they use all to gather together in the Metropolis of Aegypt whether Jacobites Greeks or Europeans Merchants or Artificers Pilgrims c. and there joyn in one Body or Caravan as they call it and the number of the Pilgrims is so great that it sometimes exceeds sixty thousand Men. And after in this manner they are assembled together they ascend their Camels and begin their Journey and in twelve or fifteen days space reach the City of Jerusalem But before they arrive there they are to enter into the City of Gaza and then Catea and Ravilay in which three mentioned places they are to pay a Toll or Custom to the Turk such as are Subjects eight French Crowns the rest double to wit sixteen Again when they are come to Jerusalem four Crowns are to be given by the Subject eight by the rest and they live in a sort of Hospitality together as long as they stay at Jerusalem where all the Holy Week they visit the Holy places But on the Sabbath-day they assemble all together in the Church of the Sepulcher and hear Mass which all the Bishops that are present celebrate in so many several Chappels In the Chappel of the Sepulcher only the Patriarch of the Jacobites if he be present otherwise his Vicar with some of the Abyssine Churches upon whom they say a Light shineth out of the Sepulcher But the Turks that are Keepers extinguish all the Lamps and Candles set up that day in the Church which are again lighted by the Divine Light springing out of the Sepulcher But many esteem this to be a fiction and in truth it is so it is possible and many testifie that this might anciently have been when those that professed the Christian Religion were very rare but now the Faith being displayed through the whole World we have no need of any such Miracles But that the Turks may have a good esteem of the Christian Religion they are wont to deceive the credulous minds of the simple with such Arts as may bring no damage to the Christian Faith feigning the Lamps to have been kindled by a light shining out of the Sepulcher when indeed they have a Lamp suspended out of the Sepulcher with which the Priest lighteth up again all the rest that were extinguished And this is done by the Aethiopians or the Jacobites because they alone as we said before celebrate Mass in the Chappel of the Sepulcher Many Europeans believe this but to impose upon the Greeks and Chaldeans in this matter is a thing impossible The first day of Easter being past they visit the Holy Places which are out of Jerusalem as Bethlehem the River Jordan and the rest of the Holy Places of the Passion which they do throughout the whole Week of Easter and after this every one returneth into his own Country But there are also some peculiar places in Aegypt to which they go upon a Religious score as first to the Virgin Mary's Temple to which they are accustomed to go thinking on the eighth day of September which is her Birth-day the Blessed Virgin together with some particular Saints appear in a phantastick manner in the Circuit of the Sanctuary which many flock together to see Many other places likewise they have dedicated to Saints as to St George St. Antony and others and because they are famed for many Miracles out of devotion they repair thither in a great number they take