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A43553	A survey of the estate of France, and of some of the adjoyning ilands taken in the description of the principal cities, and chief provinces, with the temper, humor, and affections of the people generally, and an exact accompt of the publick government in reference to the court, the church, and the civill state / by Peter Heylyn ; pbulished according to the authors own copy, and with his content for preventing of all faith, imperfect, and surreptitious impressions of it.; Full relation of two journeys	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1737; ESTC R9978	307,689	474

we the Nostre Dame in Roven a second in Paris a third in this City a fou 〈…〉 in Boulogne all Cathedrall so also a Nostre Dame in Abbeville and another in Estampes the principal Church in those Towns also had I seen more of their Towns I had met with more of her Temples for of so many I have heard of that if there be more then two Churches in a Town one shall be sure to be dedicated unto her and that one of the fairest of any temples consecrated to the name and memory of our Saviour ne gry quidem there was not so much as a word stirring neither could I marvail at it considering the honours done to her and those to her son betwixt which there is so great a disproportion that you would have imagined that Mary and not Jesus had been our Saviour For one Pater noster the people are enjoyned ten Ave Maries and to recompense one pilgrimage to Christs Sepulchre at Hierusalem you shall hear 200 undertaken to our Lady of Loretto and whereas in their Kalendar they have dedicated only four festivals to our Saviour which are those of his birth circumcision resurrection and ascension all which the English Church also observeth for the Virgins sake they have more then doubled the number Thus do they solemnize the feasts of her purification and annuntiation at the times which we also do of her visitation of Elizabeth in July of her dedication and assumption in August of her nativity in September of her presentation in November and of her conception in the womb of her mother in December To her have they appropriated set formes of Prayers prescribed in the two books called one Officium and the other Rosarium beatae Mariae virginis whereas her son must be contented with those oraisons which are in the common Masse-book Her shrines and images are more glorious and magnificent then those of her son And in her Chappel are more vowes paid then before the Crucifix But I cannot blame the vulgar when the great masters of their souls are thus also besotted The Officium before mentioned published by the command of Pius 2. saith thus of her Gaude Maria virgo tu sola omnes haereses interemisti in universe mundo Catharinus in the Councel of Trent calleth her fidelissimam dei sociam and he was modest if comp 〈…〉 with others In one of their Councels Christs na 〈…〉 quite forgotten and the name of our Lady put in the place of it For thus it beginneth Autoritate Dei patris beatae virginis omnium sanctorum but most horrible is that of one of their writers I am loth to say it was Bernard Becta virgo monstra te esse matrem jube filium which Harding in his confutation of the apologie endeavouring to make good would needs have it to be only an excesse of minde or a spiritual sport and dalliance But from all such sports and dalliances no lesse then from the plague pestilence and famine Good Lord deliver us Leaving our Lady let us go to see her Church which questionlesse is one of the most glorious piles of building under the heavens What Velleius saith of Augustus that he was homo qui omnibus omnium gentium viris inducturus erat caliginem or what Suetonius spake of Titus when he called him Delitias humani generis both those attributes and more too may I most fitly fasten on this most magnificent Structure The whole body of it is of most curious and polisht stone every where born up by buttresses of that excellent composure that they seem to add more of beauty to it then of strength The Quire of it as in great Churches commonly it is is of a fairer fabrick then the body thick set with dainty pillars and most of them reaching to the top of it in the fashion of an arch I am not well able to judge whether this Quire or the Chappell of King Henry VII at Westminster be the more exquisite piece of Architecture though I am not ignorant that Leland calleth that of our King Miraculum orbis I perswade my self that a most discerning eye could find out but little difference between them and that difference more subtile then sound for if such perfection may receive the word of more it might be said that there were more majesty in this of Amiens and more of lovelinesse in that of Westminster yet so that the ones majesty did exceed in lovelinesse and the others lovelinesse exceed in majesty Tam bene conveniunt in una sede morantur Majestas amor But now we are come unto the divinity of the workmanship the front which presenteth it self unto us with two Towers and three gates that in the midst being the principall The front of Welles or Peterborough which we so much fame in England deserve not to be named in the same myriad of years with this of Amiens for here have you almost all the sacred stories engraven so lively that you would no longer think the story of Pygmalions image to be a fable and indeed at the first sight you would confidently believe that the histories there presented were not carved but acted To say no more of it for all my abilities will but disgrace it in the description that of Zeuxis may most fitly he inscribed upon it Invisurum facilius aliquem quam imitaturum so infinitely it is above the ambition of imitation The outside of the Church being admirable you would have thought that art and treasure had left nothing of themselves to bestow within it yet herein would such thoughts deceive you for although the beauty of the Nostre dames in Paris and Roven lay most without yet here it serveth but as a maske to hide and conceal those most admirable graces which are within As soon as entred you will suppose that the materials of it are all of gold such a lustre doth it cast upon the eyes of all those that look upon it The glory of Solomons Temple next unto the description of it in the Scriptures is best read in this Church of which it seemeth to have been the pattern Jupiters house in heaven described by the Poets was never half so gorgeous as this on the earth that therefore which Ovid Poetically spake concerning that imaginary Palace of the false God we may positively verifie of this reall mansion of the true God Hic locus est quem si verbis audacia detur Haud time am magni dixisse palatia regis To instance in particulars the partition between the Quire and the body is so overlaid with gold that the acutest sight could apprehend no other substance of it and yet the art of the workman so fully expressed its power on it that the cost was much inferiour to the workmanship so curiously was it adorned with excellent Imagery and what else the hand of man could fashion into portraiture on the top of it was the Statua of our Lady in the just

administred in the Church with fair water according to the institution of Jesus Christ and without the limitation of any dayes No man shall delay the bringing of his child to Baptism longer then the next Sunday or publick Assembly if it may conveniently be done No person shall be admitted to be a Godfather unlesse he hath received the Lords Supper nor shall women alone viz. without the presence of a man among them be admitted to be Godmothers CHAP. IV. Of the Lords Supper Article I. 1. THe Lords Supper shall be administred in every Church four times a year whereof one to be at Easter and the other at Christmas and every Minister in the administration of it shall receive the Sacrament himself and after give the Bread and wine to each of the Communicants using the words of the institution of it II. 2. The Masters and Mistresses of Families shall be admonished and enjoyned to cause their children and Servants to be instructed in the knowledge of their salvation and to this end shall take care to send them to the ordinary Catechizing CHAP. V. Of Marriage Article I. 1. NO man shall marry contrary to the degrees prohibited in the word of God according as they are expressed in a table made for that purpose in the Church of England on pain of nullity and censure II. 2. The Banes of the parties shall be asked three Sundays successively in the Churches of both parties and they of the Parish where the Marriage is not celebrated shall bring an attestation of the bidding of their Banes in their own Parish Neverthelesse in lawfull cases there may be a Licence or dispensation of the said Banes granted by the authority of the Dean and that upon good caution taken that the parties are at liberty III. 3. No separation shall be made a thoro mensa unlesse in case of Adultery cruelty and danger of life duly proved and this at the sole instance of the parties As for the maintenance of the woman during her divorce he shall have recourse to the Secular power CHAP. VI. Of Ministers Article I. 1. NO man that is unfit to teach or not able to preach the word of God shall be admitted to any Benefice within the Isle or which hath not received imposition of hands and been ordained according to the forme used in the Church of England II. 2. None of them either Dean or Minister shall at the same time hold two Benefices unlesse it be in time of vacancy and only the Natives of the Isle shall be advanced to these preferments III. 3. The Ministers every Sunday after morning prayer shall expound some place of holy Scripture and in the afternoon shall handle some of the points of Christian Religion contained in the Catechism in the Book of common-Common-prayers IV. 4 In their Prayers they shall observe the titles due unto the King acknowledging him the Supreme governour under Christ in all causes and over all persons as well Ecclesiasticall as Civill recommending unto God the prosperity of his person and royall posterity V. 5. Every Minister shall carefully regard that modesty and gravity of apparell which belongs unto his function and may preserve the honour due unto his person and shall be also circumspect in the whole carriage of their lives to keep themselves from such company actions and haunts which may bring unto them any blame or blemish Nor shall they dishonour their calling by Gaming Alehouses Usuries guilds or occupations not convenient for their function but shall endevor to excell all others in purity of life in gravity and virtue VI. 6. They shall keep carefully a Register of Christnings Marriages and Burials and shall duely publish upon the day appointed to them the Ordinances of the Courts such as are sent unto them signed by the Dean and have been delivered to them fifteen dayes before the publication VII 7. The Ministers shall have notice in convenient time of such Funerals as shall be in their Parishes at which they shall assist and shall observe the forme prescribed in the book of Common-prayers No man shall be interred within the Church without the leave of the Minister who shall have regard unto the quality and condition of the persons as also unto those which are benefactours unto the Church CHAP. VII Of the Dean Article I. 1. THe Dean shall be a Minister of the word being a Master of the Arts or Graduate at the least in the Civill Lawes having ability to exercise that office of good life and conversation as also well affected to Religion and the service of God II. 2. The Dean in all causes handled at the Court shall demand the advice and opinion of the Ministers which shall then be present III. 3. There shall appertain unto him the cognisance of all matters which concern the service of God the preaching of the Word the administration of the Sacraments Matrimoniall causes the examination and censure of all Papists Recusants Hereticks Idolaters and Schismaticks persons perjured in causes Ecclesiasticall Blasphemers those which have recourse to Wizards incestuous persons Adulterers Fornicators ordinary drunkards and publick profaners of the Lords day as also the profanation of the Churches and Church-yards misprisions and offences committed in the Court or against any officers thereof in the execution of the mandats of the Court and also of Divorces and separations a thoro mensa together with a power to censure and punish them according unto the Lawes Ecclesiasticall without any hindrance to the power of the Civill Magistrate in regard of temporall correction for the said crimes IV. 4. The Dean accompanied with two or three of the Ministers once in two years shall visite every Parish in his own person and shall take order that there be a Sermon every visitation day either by himself or some other by hi 〈…〉 appointed Which Visitation shall be made for the ordering of all things appertaining to the Churches in the service of God and the administration of the Sacraments as also that they be provided of Church-wardens that the Church and Church-yards and dwellings of the Ministers be kept in reparations And farther he shall then receive information of the said Church-wardens or in their default of the Ministers of all offences and abuses which need to be reformed whether in the Minister the officers of the Church or any other of the Parish And the said Dean in li●● of the said visitation shall receive 4 s. pay out of the Treasures of the Church for every time V. 5. In the vacancy of any Benefice either by death or otherwise the Dean shall give present order that the profits of it be sequestred to the end that out of the revenue of it the Cure may be supplyed as also that the widow and children of the deceased may be satisfied according to the time of his service and the custome of the Isle excepting such necessary deductions as must be made for dilapidations in case any be He shall also give

for without the sweat and bloud of the people no Pillages no Impositions upon our private wares no Gabels upon our commodities Nullum in tam in●enti regno vectigal non in urbibus pontiumve discriminibus Publicanorum stationes as one truely hath observed of us The monies which the King wanteth to supply his necessities are here freely given him He doth not here compell our bounties but accept them The Laws by which we are governed we in part are makers of each Paisant of the Countrey hath a free-voice in the enacting of them if not in his person yet in his proxie We are not here subject to the lusts and tyranny of our Lords and may therefore say safely what the Jewes spake ●actiously That we have no King but Caesar The greatest Prince here is subject with us to the same Law and when we stand before the tribunall of the Judge we acknowledge no difference Here do we inhabite our own houses plough our own Lands enjoy the fruits of our labour comfort our selves with the wives of our youth and see our selves grow up in those children which shall inherit after us the same felicities But I forget my self To endevour the numbring of Gods blessings may perhaps deserve as great a punishment as Davids numbring the people I conclude with the Poet O fortunati minium bona si sua norint Agricolae nostri And so I take my leave of France and prepare for England towards which having stayed 3 days for winde and company we set forwards on Wednesday the 3 of August the day exceeding fair the Sea as quiet and the winde so still that the Mariners were fain to takedown their Sails and betake themselves unto their Oares Yet at the last with much endevour on their side and no lesse patience on ours we were brought into the midst of the channell when suddainly But soft what white is that which I espie Which with its ●●stre doth eclipse mine eye That which doth N●ptunes fury so disdain And beates the Billow back into the main Is it some dreadfull Scylla fastned there To shake the Sailor into prayer and fear Or is 't some Island floating on the wave Of which in writers we the story have T is England ha t is so clap clap your hands That the full noise may strike the neighbouring Lands Into a Pal●ie Doth not that lov'd name Move you to extasie O were the same As dear to you as me that very word Would make you dance and caper over board Dull shipmen how they move not how their houses Grow to the planks yet stay here 's sport enough For see the sea Nymphs foo● it and the fish Leap their high measures equall to my wish Triton doth sound his shell and to delight me Old Nereus hobleth with his Amphitrite Excellent triumphs But curs'd fates the main Quickly divides and takes them in again And leaves me dying till I come to land And kisse my dearest Mother in her sand Hail happy England hail thou sweetest Isle Within whose bounds no Pagan rites defile The purer faith Christ is by Saints not mated And he alone is worship'd that created In thee the labouring man enjoyes his wealth Not subject to his Lords rape or the stealth Of hungry Publicans In thee thy King Feares not the power of any underling But is himself and by his awfull word Commands not more the begger then the Lord. In thee those heavenly beauties live would make Most of the Gods turn mortals for their sake Such as outgo report and make ●ame see They stand above her hig'st Hyperbale And yet to strangers will not gr●te● the blisse Of salutation and an harmlesse kisse Hail then sweet England may I 〈◊〉 my last In thy lo●'d armes and when my dayes are past And to the silence of the gr 〈…〉 I must All I desire is thou wouldst keep my ●ust The End of the Fifth Book and the first Journey THE SECOND JOURNEY CONTAINING A SURVEY of the ESTATE of the two ILANDS Guernzey and Jarsey With the ISLES appending According to their Politie and Formes of Government both Ecclesiasticall and Civill THE SIXTH BOOK LONDON Printed by E. Cotes for Henry Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1656. A SURVEY of the ESTATE OF Guernzey and Jarsey c. The Entrance 1 The occasion of c. 2 Introduction to this Work 3 The Dedication 4 and Method of the whole The beginning continuance of our Voyage with the most remarkable passages which hapned in it The mercenary falsnesse of the Dutch exemplified in the dealing of a man of warre WHen first I undertook to attend upon my Lord of Danby to the Islands of Guernzey and Jarsey besides the purpose which I had of doing service to his Lordship I resolved also to do somewhat for my self and if possible unto the places For my self in bettering what I could my understanding if peradventure the persons or the place might add unto me the knowledge of any one thing to which I was a stranger At the least I was in hope to satisfy my curiosity as being not a little emulous of this kind of living Multorum mores hominum qui vidit urbes which had seen so much of men and of their manners It was also not the last part of mine intention to do something in the honour of the Island by committing to memory their Antiquities by reporting to posterity their Arts of Government by representing as in a Tablet the choycest of their beauties and in a word by reducing these and the Achievements of the people as far as the light of Authors could direct me into the body of an History But when I had a little made my self acquainted with the place and people I found nothing in them which might put me to that trouble The Churches naked of all Monuments and not so much as the blazon of an Armes permitted in a window for fear as I conjecture of Idolatry No actions of importance to be heard of in their Legends in their remembrancers whereby to ennoble them in time to come unlesse perhaps some slight allarmes from France may occasion speech of them in our common Chronicles The Countrey indeed exceeding pleasant and delightsome but yet so small in the extent and circuit that to speak much of them wereto put the shooe of Hercules upon the foot of an Infant For being in themselves an abridgement only of the greater works of nature how could the character and description of them be improved into a Volume Having thus failed in the most of my designes I applyed my self to make enquirie after their form of Government in which I must needs confesse I met with much which did exceedingly affect me Their Lawes little beholding in the composition of them to Justinian and of no great affinity with the laws of England which we call Municipall or common The grand Customarie of Normandy is of most credit with them and that indeed the only rule

his part having been 13 years a Minister he never used it Totos ego tredecem annos quibus functus sum Ministerio sive in Sacramentis iis quae extant in agenda nunquam usus sum and this he speaks as he conceives it to his commendation Where by the way Agenda it is a word of the latter times is to be understood for a set form in the performance of those ministerial duties quae statis temporibus agenda sunt as mine Author hath it In the Capitular of Charles the great we have mention of this word Agenda in divers places once for all let that suffice in the 6 book Can. 234. viz. Si quiis Presbyter in consult● Episcopo Agendam in quolibet loco voluerint celebrare ipse honori suo contrarius extitit Chap. 8. 5. The Churches shall be locked immediately after Sermon The pretence is as it followeth in the next words to avoid superstition but having nothing in their Churches to provoke superstition the caution is unnecessary So destitute are they all both of ornament and beauty The true cause is that those of that party are offended with the antient custome of stepping aside into the Temples and their powring out the soul in private prayer unto God because for sooth it may imply that there is some secret vertue in those places more then in rooms of ordinary use which they are peremptory not to give them Chap. 9. 1. After the preaching of the word And there are two reasons why the Sacrament of Baptism should be long delayed the one because they falsly think that without the preaching of the word there is no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the other to take away the opinion of the necessity of holy Baptism and the administration of it in private houses in case of such necessity In this strictnesse very resolute and not to be bended with perswasions scarce with power As our being in the Isle of Gue●●ay the Ministers presented unto his Lordship a catalogue of grievances against the civill Magistrate And this among the rest that they had entermedled with the administration of the Sacraments This certainly was novum orimen O. Caesar ante hoc temp●● inauditum but upon examination it proved only to be thus A poor man of the Vale had a childe born unto him weak and ●ickly not like to live till the publick exercise whereupon he defires Millet the Incumbent there that he would Baptize it but after two or three denials made the poor man complained unto the Bailiffe by whom the Minister was commanded to do his duty This was all crimine ab un● disce omnes Chap. 9. 5. Names used in Paganism Nor mean they here such names as occur in Poets as Hector Hercules c. though names of this sort occurre frequently in S. Pauls Epistles but even such names as formerly have been in use amongst our ancestors as Richard Edmund William and the like But concerning this behold a story wherein our great contriver Snape was a chief party as I finde in the book called Dangerous positions c. verified upon the oath of one of the brotherhood Hodkinson of Northampton having a childe to be baptized repaired to Snape to do it for him and he consented to the motion but with promise that he should give it some name allowed in Scripture The childe being brought and that holy action so far forwards that they were come to the naming of the childe they named it Richard which was the name of the Infants Grandfather by the Mothers side Upon this a stop was made nor would he be perswaded to baptize the childe unlesse the name of it were altered which when the Godfather refused to do he forsook the place and the childe was carried back unchristned To this purpose but not in the same words the whole history But if the name of Richard be so Paganish what then shall we conceive of these The Lord is near More-tryall Joy-again Free-gift From-above and others of that stamp are they also extant in the Scripture Chap. 10. 2. And that sitting c. or standing c In this our Synodists more moderate then those of the Netherlands who have licensed it to be administred unto men even when they are walking For thus Angelocrator in his Epitome of the Dutch Synods cap. 13. art 8. viz. Liberum est stando sedendo vel eundo coenam celebrare non autem geniculando and the reason questionlesse the same in both ob 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 periculum for fear of bread-worship I had before heard sometimes of ambling Communions but till I met with that Epitome I could not slumble on the meaning A strange and stubborn generation and stiffer in the hams then any Elephant such as will neither bow the knee to the Name of Jesus nor kneel to him in his Sacraments Chap. 10. 4. which will not promise to submit himself unto the Discipline A thing before injoyned in the subscription to it upon all such as take upon them any publick office in the Church but here exacted in the submission to it of all such as desire to be Communicants The reason is because about that time it seemed good unto the brethren to make the holy Discipline as essential to the being of a Church as the preaching of the word and administration of the Sacraments and so essential that no Church could possibly subsist without it For thus Beza in his Epistle unto Cixxe Anno 1572 Magnum est Dei munus quod unam religionem pu●am 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doctrinae viz retinendae vinculum in Scotiam intulistis Sicobsecro obtestor haec duo simul retinete ut uno amisso alterum diu permanere non posse semper memineritis So he Epist 79. According unto which Doctrine Mr. Dela-Marshe in his new Catechism which lately by the authority of the Colloquie he imposed upon the Churches in the Isle of Gu●inzy hath joyned this holy Discipline as a chief note together with the others Chap. 12. 9. That it be no longer solemnized upon the Sunday Wherein so scarcely did the same Spirit rule them both the Dutch Synodists have shewed themselves more moderate then these contrivers they having licensed marriage on all daies equally except such as are destinate to the Lords Supper and to solemn fasts Quovis die matrimonia confermari celebrari poterunt modo concio ad populum habeatur exceptis c 〈…〉 diebus jejunio sacratis Cap. ult art 8. By both of them it is agreed that marriage be celebrated on such daies only on which there is a Sermon and if the Sermon be any thing to the purpose I am content they should expect it Only I needs must note with what little reason these men and their abettors have so often quarrelled our Church for the restraint of marriage at some certain seasons whereas they think it fit at some times to restrain it in their own Well fare therefore our