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A08698 The varietie of memorable and worthy matters. By Walter Owsolde Owsolde, Walter. 1605 (1605) STC 19001; ESTC S113804 16,833 30

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image of our Lady and of an Angell saluting her and for that occasion is called the Order of the Annuntiation This Earle ordained this Order in memory of Amé the great Earle of Sauoye which succoured the Knights of Saint Iohn when they conquered the I le of Rhodes vpon the Turkes in the yeare of our Lord 1310. The third in antiquitie is the Order of the golden Fleece founded vpon the fable of the golden Fleece that Iason with the other Argonautes went to seeke in the I le of Colohos which is to meane that hee went to the mine of gold and ordained by Phillip the second surnamed the good Duke of Burgundie in the yeare of our Lord 1430 the complete number of which Order are 24 Knights and weare their cloakes and hoods of Scarlat garded with imbroderie made with flames of fire and a Collor of gold made with fire stones sparkling out fire whereat hangeth a Fleece of gold and appointed for the celebrating of that Order Saint Andrewes day being the 30 of Nouember But the Emperour Charles the fift heyre of the house of Burgundie and chiefe of that Order changed their apparell and ordained that their clokes should bee of crimson Veluet and their hoodes of violet coullor Veluet and that vnderneath they should were a Cassoke of cloath of siluer The fourth in antiquitie is the Order of Saint Michaell the Archangell instituted by Lewis the 11 King of France the first day of August in the yeare of our Lord 1469 and ordained that of that Order there should be 36 Knights gentlemen of name and of armes without reprooch of whom hee himselfe was chiefe and Soueraigne and after him his successors Kings of Fraunce And the brothers or companions of this order were bound at the receiuing thereof to forsake and leaue all other Orders if any they had either of a Prince or any companie onely excepting Emperours Kings and Dukes which beside this Order might weare that Order whereof they weare chiefe with the agreement and consent of the King and confrarie of the sayd Order and in like manner the sayd Kings of Fraunce might weare beside his owne the Order of other Emperours Kings and Dukes And for the connoissance of this Order and the Knights thereof hee gaue to euery of them a Coller of gold wrought with Cocquell shells enterlacing on another with a double pointing Ribon of silke with golden Tagges which King Francis the first because his name was Francis changed into a white Friers or Franciscans girdle made of a twisted corde and hangeth on that Collor a tablet of Saint Michaell vppon a Rocke of the institution of this Order is made a booke containing 98 Articles wherein are set downe the things wherevnto the Knights of this Order are subiect The fift Order is that of the holy Ghost instituted by Henry the third King of Fraunce at this present on New yeares day in the yeare of our Lord 1579 of this also is written a booke containing the Articles whereunto the Knights thereof are bound Among the which I haue principally noted one that is to defend and sustaine the Clergie for the king doth giue to euery of them the rent of certaine Abbeys religious houses or other spiritually Lands whereof they shall alow a certaine stipend to the entertaining of a certaine number of religious persons in euery religious house vnder him and for that benefite are sworne at their entring into the sayd Order alwaies to defend the spiritualitie and maintaine the Clergie in their priuiledges but how they keepe their oath it is well seene in euery place of their spirituall possessions and thereof my selfe haue often times had oculare experience for trauelling in that Countrie and passing often times by goodly religious houses I haue sometimes for recreation hauing wel tried the curtious demeanor that cōmonly religious men vse towards strangers that come to view their houses entred into sundry of them where I haue diuers times beene sufficiently enformed by the religious how the king had giuen the rents and possessions of their houses to the Knights of his Order with the conditions already rehearsed which Knights alow them such bare exhibitation that by reason it is not sufficient to entertaine the fourth part of the number by them appointed almost all of them are constrained either to forsake their houses begge or else there to starue through which occasion many goodly religious houses are of late fallen in decay for want of reparation trimming vp and inhabiting and will doe more and more without a redresse And this haue I learned in diuers religious houses beside the common murmering of the Clergie and so wee may see how these Knights called of the holy spirit for to defend and maintaine the spiritualitie doe vnder pretence thereof rob and prodigally wast the spirituall possessions so that it may seeme only to be a pollicie vnder the correction of better iudgement put in the kings head to diminish spirituall liuings which in that Country are wonderfull great satisfie his prodigall minde in rewarding by that meanes his flatterers because through his exceeding lauishnesse hee is scarce able otherwise to reward them The Bishop of Rome considering what dismembring of Church-lands and decay of Gods seruice commeth through this Order in the Realme of Fraunce will not grant the confirmation thereof although the King hath beene instant for the same but notwithstanding the Popes misliking thereof the Order is maintained though to the great weakening of the religion in that Country Yea at the last celebration thereof which was on New-yeeres day eeuen 1581 I saw three Bishops were admitted into that Order the connissance wherof is a Doue representing the holy Ghost wraught in Orenge tauny Veluet garnished about with siluer beames which the Knights of that Order weare cōmonly vpon their clokes before their hart The 13 Cantons of Swisserland THE inhabitants of Heluetia or Swisserland after they had emancipated themselues from the yoke of the Empire and expelled the nobilitie of the Emperiall faction began to make leagues and confederacies one towne with another to fortifie themselues by that meanes against forraine inuasions if any hapned And in processe of time within little more then an hundred yeeres are increased to the number of 13 which they call Cantons by which the whole Country of Swisse is gouerned and defended And heere according to theyr antiquitie I place them the first that confederated together and gaue example to the rest were Vri Swits Vnderuard Villages and these three by little and little haue drawne to theyr faction all the rest that followeth Lucerne Zurich Citties Glaris Zug Villages Berne Fribourg Soullcurre Basle Schaffouse Citties Appensel village Whereof 7. professe the Romish religion j. Vri Swits Vnderuard Zug Lucerne Fribourg and Soullcurre the rest are Zuinglians which diuersitie of religion hath caused dissention and mortall warres of late yeeres among them although they be all sworne together to defend theyr liberties against strangers FINIS Non munus sed animus