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A14341	An abridgement of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergile conteignyng the deuisers and firste finders out as well of artes, ministeries, feactes & ciuill ordinaunces, as of rites, and ceremonies, commo[n]ly vsed in the churche: and the originall beginnyng of the same. Co[m]pendiously gathered by Thomas Langley; De rerum inventoribus. English. Abridgments	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581. aut	1546 (1546)	STC 24656; ESTC S107600	129,908	356

displease their creator For it is better to be ignoraunt in the trueth then to teache errour Therfore to cōclud as Macrobie writeth there is but one God subiecte to no mutabilite of all naturall thynges one eternal of all naturall thynges the cause principal whiche saieth by his Prophet Esaie I am God afore me there was no other neither shalbe after me with out beginnyng onely euerlastyng of whom Virgil writeth thus Heauen and yearth and the vvater large The bright circle of the heauenly sphere The spirite all fostereth and hath ful charge Passyng through all to guyde it euery vvhere AND Plato saieth there is but one God and affirmeth that this worlde was created by him and was called God bycause he geueth frely to men all thynges good profitable and is of all goodnesse in this worlde the cause principal fountain and spryng The .ii. Chapiter ¶ The principles of natural thinges ALBEIT it was cōuenient to haue begonne this present treatise of declaryng the principles of naturall creatures and so consequently to haue expounded the originall of the Goddes forsomuche as they haue their beginnyng of the same thynges yet the reuerence that I haue to the true God whiche was afore all other creatures moueth me to begynne at hym as the cause principal of the rest Therefore as concernyng the causes of thinges I wyl shewe fyrst the myndes of the Philosophiers that be moost probable vntyl I come to the trueth self Thales one of the seuen wyse men of Grece holdeth opiniō that water was matter of all thynges Contrary wyse Heraclitus an Ephesian and Hippasus suppose al to be procreated of fire Empedocles saieth the foure elementes wer the causes of thinges as Lucretius writeth Of vvater earth aire firye glede All thinges natural duely procede Anaximenes thynketh al thynges to haue their beginnyng of the ayre Metrodorus affirmeth the vniuersal worlde to be eternal without beginnyng or end Epicurus one of Democritus disciples putteth two causes Atomos or Motes vacuite or emptines of these he saieth y e foure elemētes come These are the opinions of the Philosophers y t were men without the knowledge of God but as Moses Iosephus recorde the scripture concludeth that God made all thinges of nothing in the beginnyng as s Iohn saieth al thing was made by him And therfore as Lactantius writeth let no mā be curious in searching of what stuffe God made these great and wonderfull workes for he fourmed thē al of nothyng by the power of his mightie worde For as Dauid the prophet singeth he spake the worde and they were made he gaue cōmaundement and they were created Of the same opinion is Plato in his booke called Tymaeus The .iii. Chapiter ¶ The procreacion of man the diuersitee of languages and diuision of nations THE most famous writers of naturall hystories as Diodorus recordeth spake of two sōdry maners of birth and fyrst stocke of mankynd For they whiche contend that the world was vngenerate and with out any daunger of corrupcion saye also that man hath bene in a certaine perpetuite without beginnyng Of this opinion were Pythagoras Architas Xenocrates Aristotle with other Per●patetekes affirmyng that al thinges in the eternal world whiche haue bene or shall hereafter come to passe be by generation endles and without beginnyng and haue onely a circuite and course of generacions wherin both the birth natural resolucion of thynges may be perceyued Other that suppose this worlde had both an originall cause of beyng and shal also sustein an end by putrifaction hold opinion that man had a time of his generacion For this cause the Egyptians report that men wer fyrst borne among them aswell by reason of the fruitful rankenes of the soyle and seasonablenes of the ayre as by cause of the riuer Nilus whiche for the lustye fatnes of the slyme dothe procreate diuerse kyndes of beastes hath in it selfe naturally a certeyn power nutratiue For in the countree of Thebais Mice be engendered of the mudde Wherfore men of those parties merueil muche when they be holde the fore partes of them to the brest walowe moue sensibly in the mire and the hinder partes as yet nothyng fashioned but all out of shap Neuerthelesse Psammaticus their kyng desiryng to knowe in what coūtrie men were fyrst begotten deuised this meane He caused .ii. yong infantes newe borne to be deliuered to his herdmen to be brought vp among his cattel cōmaunded that no mā shuld speake any word to them because he would know what word they would speake fyrst Then two yeare after when the herdmen opened the doore where they were norished they stretched out their handes and cryed Becos which in the Phrigians lāguage signifieth breade Thus it was knowen that the Phrigians were the eldest linage and fyrst borne The Ethiopians of this coniecture thynke them selfes to be the fyrst because no man would come out of any other place into that region and they of that partie bee by a general consente called home bread and as Diodorus sayeth it is probable that those vnder the Meridional equator should be the aūcientest of al. For seyng the heate of the sunne dryeth vp the moysture of the yearth and hath also of it selfe a power to geue and preserue the life of thynges it is like that the place whiche marcheth nerest to the sūne shuld bryng furth y e fyrst liuyng creatures For that cause Anaximander taught that men fyrst sprong of water and yearth warmed with liuely heate Empedocles in a maner cōfirmeth the same where he writeth that euerye particular membre was seuerally made proporcioned of the yearth as a mother and so to haue bene compacted and cōglutinated by heate and moysture into the perfecte figure and shappe of a man Democritus thinketh menne were fyrst made of water and mudde tempered together Zeno iudgeth the cause of mankynde to haue proceded of the newe worlde And menne to be onely begotten by the ayde and comfort of the diuine fyre that is the prouidence of God As for the Poetes some faine howe man was made out of softe claye by Prometheus some say that they sprong of the hard stones that Deucalion and Pyrtha cast and thus muche is of y e vaine opiniōs of Gērilitee But to speake the truth as scripture teacheth y e beginnyng of manne was in Iurye For God when he had finished the worlde did create the fyrst mā Adam of the yerth in the felde of Damasce as some thinke Thus Adā made by God mariyng his wife Eue was auctour and beginner of the whole posterite and linage But forsomuche as God fourmed but one man and indued him w t one kynd of speche onely to vtter and declare the thynges that he conceyueth in his mynde men perchaunce wyl merueile what the cause should be that there be at this daye so many

vnto the trueth had for his trewe testimonie greate enuye of the Iewes insomuche that they persecuted him to the vile death of the crosse for his earnest recorde and reporte of the trueth and they dyd no lesse pursue y e Apostles and messengers of the trueth For when they folowyng the example of their maiester did openly declare the worde of trueth and namely Peter dyd sore rebuke the wickednesse of the Iewes in puttyng to death Christ the authoure of life aduertisyng them to repente amende the Iewes were so furiouse woode that fyrst they murthered Steuen as the Actes of the Apostles testifie bycause he was a vehement witnesse of the trueth This Shephyn dyd two yere continually after Christes death dispute with all the learned menne of Alexandria Cirene Cilicia and Asia and by heauenly wisedome confounded their worldely reasons and humayne learnyng Wherfore they wer so sore vexed with heate and malice against him that they violently thrust him out of the cytie and then cruelly stoned him to death Thus Stephyn was the fyrst open mainteyner defender of our christen religiō Afterward as Luke telleth so bitter and sharpe persecucion dyd brast out agaynst the Christians that were in Hierusalem that they were enforsed to straye abrode and were scattered throughout all Iurye and Samarie sauyng that the Apostles remaygned soiourned stil at Hierusalem Notwithstandyng this persecucion was the occasion of great furtheraunce of the Gospel by reason they seased not but preached styll the worde euerye where with great encrease and augmentyng of the faithful nomber Among the Heathen nacions Nero was the fyrst prince that persecuted oure religion vniuersally and putte Peter and Paule to death and consequently many other innocentes were slain cruelly For when of a deuilishe minde that he had he could not spare euen his countrie but either for displeasure of the ruinouse houses whiche greued him to beholde or els desirouse to se a resemblant of the burnyng of Troye he set on fire the more parte of the cytie of Rome with so houge a flame that it burned sixe daies and sixe nightes cōtinually to the impouerishyng of many thousād riche citezens Then to mitigate the shamefull abhominable deede and to stinte the brute and slaūderouse reporte that went on him for that flagiciouse fact there were forged false witnesses to say the christen men dyd this act and so many simple innocēt smarted for that tirannes pleasure And to obdurate him self in mischief he proclaimed an open persecucion against all that professed the name of Christ Not long after Domitiane renewed afreshe another affliction of the christians Traianus raysed the fourth Marcus Antonius Lucius Aurelius Commodus stired vp the v. persecucion Aelius Pertinax moued the sixte Maximinus procured the seuēth Decius the eight Valerianus the .ix. and Aurelianus caused the .x. And Dioclesianus began the .xi. whiche was sorest sharpest and of longer cōtinuance then any of all the rest in suche sorte that scripture bokes wer burned and churches plucked doune christen magistrates that dyd beare any office were deposed souldiours were enforsed to denye their faith or els forgoo their goodes and forbeare their liues by a general proclamaciō Neither were the thre cruel tyrānes Maxentius Licinius and Maximianus behynde with their partes but were as busie as the best to procure trouble to the christen people Constantinus borne in Englande was the fyrst christen emperour that auaunced and defended the causes of our religion preserued christen men in peace quietnesse In al these persecucions manye dyd suffer martyredome as diuers histories recorde but Stephyn was fyrst martyre of y e new testament For Iohn Baptist died afore the cōsummacion of the old law After his example many other ensued and susteined like crosses for the trueth sake whiche al now reigne with God to whom alone be al glory honour praise worlde without ende Sobeit ¶ The ende of the abridgement of the eight and last booke of Polidore Vergile ❧ A Table by the whiche ye ❧ maie lightly fynde euery special matter or sentence conteined in this booke AARON and Saul fyrst anoynted C.iii. Abbeyes C.xxxv. Abel xii and .lxvii. Aborigines vi Abraham xxvi Abraham taughte the contentes of Geometrie to the Aegiptians xxix Abraham is circumsited lxxxv Abraham ordained the first place of buriall C.vii. Adam the first man vi Adam named beastes lxvii Adam made the firste coate of lether lxix Aduent C.xix Aduoutrie ▪ ix lxxxi Aelas xxv A●olus obserued the wyndes xxvii Aeromancia xxxiiii Aethiopus dispised oyntmentes lvii Age of priestes ▪ x●i Aire iiii Alhalow daye C.xxiiii Almose C.xviii Amber lxi Amphion xxiii Amphitheatres lxxvii Anacletus forbad priestes to haue beardes xci An●xagoras ii Anaximander ii.vi. Ancors lxx● Andronicus xxvii Annates C.xii. Anoyntyng is the tokē of kynges C.iiii. Anoyntyng of childrē Ibidem Antioche lxxxiiii Antoninus Enipho a schpie maister xv Apollo ii Apollo God of medicines xxx Apostles lxxxiiii lxxxix Apparel lxix v.v Apparel in mournyng c.xxvi April xlii Apuleius de asino aurco ▪ c.xvi Arrabians viii Archadiens xxii Archadiēs brought instrumentes into Italy xxiiii Archadiens maner lxii Archagathus the fyrste phisician in Rome ●xx Archebishoppes xcv Archedeacons Ibidem Archelaus xix Archilaus xviii Archilocus founde Iābus xvii Archimedes diuised the spere xxvii Ariopagites iudged in the night xxxix Arrese cloth lxix Aristocracie xxxviii Aristotle had the fyrste liberary xlvi Arithmetike xxix Arke c.vi Arte of memory xlvii Artificial xx●v As●lepiades abbolished phisicke xxxii Assinius Pollo had the fyrst librarye at Rome xlvi Astrologie xxvi xxvii Athanasius c.xvii Athēs made many bokes xlvi ▪ Atlas xxv xxvi Atomes or motes iiii Authours of the names of countries vii Augustus seale lxiii Auriculer cōfession xcv Axe lxxix B BAbilon vii lxxii Bacchus lv Bakyng ▪ lxv Balme an herbe xxxii Baners c.xxix Bank●ttes lxviii Baptesme lxxx●●●● Barbours lxxxii Barchian league liiii Barges lxxx Barkes Ibidem Baskettes lxxviii Bathes Ibidem Battayle on the sea lxxx Beades c.ix Beastes that be badges lxviii Bedel denoūced noone xliiii Beholding the bowels of beastes xxxv Belles c.xxix Belowes lix Belus ii xi Bennettes vse c.xxvii Byble c.xxi Biyng of wyfes ix Birdes xxxv Birth daies c.xxiii Bissextus xliii Bishoppes lxxxvi xc Bishoppes of Rome may chaunge their names xciii Bishoppes of Rome be borne Ibidem Bishops maried maydes c.v. Blod lettyng xxxii Boates. lx●ix Boltes xlix Bonefires lxxxi C iii. Bondage xxxix Bookes xlv Bowe and shaftes xlix Bowelles of beastes xxxv Brakes slynges xlix Brasen trumpe xxiiii Brasse lviii Bricke worke lxx Bridel bittes l Brigantine lxxx Broches lxxv Buildyng lxx Bulles of leade C.xlix Burial is the end of al thinges C.xxviii Buriyng lxxiii Buriyng of an Emperoure lxxiiii Burnyng dead bodies Ibidem C CAdmus xii xiii Cadmus wrote the first storie of Cirus xix Cadmus found golde lviii Cain xii lxv Cain and Abel sacrificed fyrst C.vii. Caius Claudius xvii Calendes xliii