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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29331	A narrative of the proceedings of a great councel of Jews assembled in the plain of Ageda in Hungaria ... to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ, on the 12th of October 1650 / by Samuel Brett, there present ; also a relation of some other observations in his travels beyond the seas ...	Brett, Samuel.	1655 (1655)	Wing B4400; ESTC R19639	9,078	16

There died some thousands of the Plague the day before the flowing of Nylus in Grandcairo as they certified me a day or two after not one person more died of the Infection This I observed that the Land is full of unhealthy fogs mists and vapours which cause the disease and it seems the Waters of Nylus do purifie it again In the Kingdom of Grandcairo alias Pharaoh's Town is the City and it is greater then any elsewhere I did behold but Memphis is the neater City and being there I went to see the Land of Goshen where the Israelites did inhabit this is a very pleasant and fruitful Land for Pasture such as I have nowhere seen the like At this time also I had an opportunity to see the Red-sea and the place where as they enformed me the Israelites did enter their Journey through the same there also they shewed me the great Mountains that inclosed them when Pharaoh pursued them with his great Army and the Hills where the two Armies lay in sight one of another and there I found the true reason why it is called the Red-Sea not because the Water is red naturally but because the Sand is red and this was clear to me by plain demonstration for I put some of the Water into a clean vessel and there I did see it had the same colour of other Water but the Sand is reddish and giveth the same colour to the Water I shall omit many other things concerning Aegypt onely this it is under the Turk's Dominion and the Natives are his miserable slaves Thirdly You may expect some news from Rome where also I was and did behold their great Solemnity it being then the Anno Sancto as they there call it that is the yeer of Jubilee There I beheld the Pope in his glory and how in great state he was carried about the City the streets were thronged with the people and as he passed by they made them even to ring with acclamations and rejoycings he was carried by some eminent men having a rich Canopy over him He made his Crosses in the Air with his fingers and threw his blessings amongst them And truly these delusions were so prevailing with the people that poor souls they seemed to me to rejoyce as if Christ himself had been come to Rome and brought them down the foelicities of Heaven At one time I beheld in Naples perhaps it will seem strange but it is true about eight thousand Pilgrims going to Rome for their absolution all which the Vice-Roy of Naples maintained three dayes at his own charge and on the fourth day they did present themselves before him at his Palace in Prilgrim Weeds viz. with leaden Pictures of Saints in their Hats with leather Collers about their Necks which fell down half way over their Arms and their Staves in their Hands and thus they marched away from Naples in the posture of an Army towards Rome and so farewel Rome Vidi satis est vidisse I omit to recite many other occurrences which by conferrence I shall willingly communicate to my Friends they being too many to commit to writing onely now the fourth remarkable thing remaineth to present you withal and that is The proceedings of a great Councel of Iews assembled in the Plain of Ageda in Hungaria about thirty Leagues distant from Buda to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ on the twelfth of October 1650. It hath been much desired by many honest Christians that this Narrative of the Iews Councel should be published which I did intend only to communicate to private friends the chief Argument by which they have perswaded me to do it is because they do conceive it to be a preparative and hopeful sign of the Iew Conversion and that it will be glad tidings to the Church of Christ and therefore I have yielded to satisfie their desires therein And thus it was At the place abovenamed there assembled about three hundred Rabbies called together from several parts of the World to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ and it seems this place was thought most convenient for this Councel in regard that part of the Country was not much inhabited because of the continual wars between the Turk and the King of Hungaria where as I was informed they had fought two bloody Battels yet both Princes notwithstanding their own differences did give leave to the Iews to hold their Councel there And for their accommodation there the Iews did make divers Tents for their repose and had plenty of provision brought them from other parts of the Country during the time of their sitting there There was also one large Tent built onely for the Councel to sit in made almost foursquare the North and the South part of it being not altogether so large as the East and West part thereof It had but one Door and that opened to the East and in the middle thereof stood a little Table and a Stool for the Propounder to sit on with his Face towards the Door of the Tent The said Propounder was of the Tribe of Levi and was named Zacharias and within this Tent round about were placed divers forms for the Consulters to sit on It was also inclosed with a Rail that stood a distance from it to prevent entrance to all strangers and to all such Iews as could not prove themselves to be Iews by Record or could not dispute in the Hebrew-tongue which many had forgotten which lived in such Countries where they are not allowed their Synagogues as in France Spain and those parts of Italy that do belong to the King of Spain viz. the Kingdom of Naples with the Province of Calabria and Apuleia the Kingdom of Cicilia and Sardania in which places if a Iew be found and he deny the Popish Religion he is in danger to be condemned and executed for it and yet profit and benefit allureth them to dwell in those Countries notwithstanding their fears and dangers and themselves are willing to forget and so neglect to teach their Children their native Language rather then they will lose their opportunity of profit and some have burned the ancient Records of their Tribe and Family that they might not be discovered by searching or otherwise And for this defect that they could not prove their Tribe or Family they were not permitted to come within the Rail but were commanded to remain without with the strangers that remained there to see the issue of their proceeding which were above 3000 persons and they were for the most part of them Germans Almaines Dalmatians and Hungarians with some Greeks but few Italians and not one English man that I could hear of besides my self I was informed that the King of Hungaria not favouring the reformed Religion did give no encouragement to any Protestant Churches to send any Divines thither but he did allow that some Assistants should be sent from Rome and their coming thither did prove a great unhappiness to this hopeful Councel When