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A37317	Færoæ & Færoa reserata, that is, A description of the islands & inhabitants of Foeroe being seventeen islands subject to the King of Denmark, lying under 62 deg. 10 min. of North latitude : wherein several secrets of nature are brought to light, and some antiquities hitherto kept in darkness discovered / written in Danish by Lucas Jacobson Debes ... ; Englished by J.S. ... ; illustrated with maps.	Debes, Lucas Jacobsen, 1623-1675.; Sterpin, Jean.	1676 (1676)	Wing D511; ESTC R9923	139,909	451

old Champions Ballad but they use not then to exercise themselves at any scandalous play Besides at their vacant hours they take great pleasure to play at Chess wherein many are very expert as well women as men They are by nature something inclin'd to Astronomy for they do not only know some Stars and take diligent notice of their course specially the Star B●oetes which they call the Star of the day because in the heart of Winter they know by its course in the morning what a Clock it is and how long it is till day that they accordingly may row out on fishing or begin some other work at home they also understand in some manner the course of the Moon that is when it will be new Moon though not by reason of its motion but by the increasing and decreasing of the Sea which being governed by the Moon they know by the streams alteration as the effect of it on which day there is new Moon When there is no Almanack brough into the Ceuntry they understand their computum Ecclesiasticum and can direct the course of the year in the moveable and immovable Holy Days without any fault or error They speak the Language of Norway though in these times most Danish having nevertheless many Norway words There is also a great difference between the Northern Islands Dialects and those that live in the Southern Islands The Air being here as was said before pretty wholsome and the Inhabitants using always one diet here are also usually found very antient folks beyond other places so that not only they attain to the highest age of man whereof David speaketh namely 80 years but many also reach to 90 and 100 years of age and above There is a very remarkable Example of an old man of this Countrey that died not long since whose name was Erasmus Magnusson living in Harold Sound in the Northern Islands who was Magnus Heinesons natural Son of whom is spoken before This Erasmus was first married with an old woman with whom he lived many years and begot no children of her at last his said wife died he being then about 90 years old desiring nevertheless to leave an Heir of his body he married a young woman of whom he begot 5 Children and was 110 years old when he died his youngest Child being seven years of age which he begot when he was 103 years old That one might not think there might be some seandalous suspition in this the woman was an honest woman and of good reputation having left a very good name after her death His eldest Son doth now possess his house being a great and strong young man above many of the Land I have know his Father in his antient age who was a strong and courageous man This example is more admirable than th●● of Abraham who thought strange in his time that he should beget children being 100 years old As the time for women to bear Children is well known to all understanding men so Physitians and Philosophers have designed the natural age for a man to beget Children to be under 65 or at most 70 years whereupon antient Historians do remark as rare aud strange Examples that some men as Alexander Masser pract Med. lib. 4. de sterilitate writes have begotten Children when they have been above 80 years of age much stranger and more worth writing is this Example of one that has begotten Children being above 100 years old and in this late and weak age of the world CHAP. VI. Of the Policie THe Policie of this Country may be divided into three parts namely Acmdministration of Justice Merchandize and providing for the Poor 1. Of the Administration of Justice The Reader may easily perceive by the Histories related above how this Country was govern'd in the beginning when the Common wealth thereof consisted in an Aristochracy and was govern'd by principal men or Chiesetains as also in some manner how when the Country came under the Kings of Norway there were constituted Bishops and Sheriffs over the Nation besides the Kings Bayliff that gathered Taxes and contributions Since the time of Reformation we know not that this land hath been reduced to a government or District wherewith the King of Denmark's Ministers have been intr●sted but their Majesties have ever had their own Bayliffs here that have governed the Land and received the Kings duties which have been paid to them that either by gratification or contract ought to have the same till in our time the high and mighty Prince our Soveraign and Hereditary Lord Frederick the III. of Glorious Memory hath therewith as with a Government gratiously gratified his Excelence the Right Honourable Christopher von Gabel his Majesties State-holder Privy Counsellour and Assessor in the Counsel of State not only with the receipt of the Revenues and the jurisdiction thereof but also with the liberty of establishing and ordaining there his own Bayliff or Deputy to dispose and dispence as he thought fit in matters of Commerce and his said Excellency hath since that time kept his own Bayliff or Deputy over the land to administer in his place having Sheriffs under him for the Land is divided into six divisions or districts namely Norderoe Osteroe Stromoe Waagoe Sandoe and Suderoe Which Sheriff each in his division doth judge of all small causes but they summon the others to the Sessions They receive the Kings Tythes and put in execution what is desired of them by the Kings Commissary Here are also besides Spiritual and Temporal Judges In the Ecclesiastical State though here be no Bishops Canons or other learned men that make up a Chapter in other places yet there is a Synod kept yearly as a Convent or Chapter of Priests The Provost and all the Priests Assembling themselves at Thors haven in Stremoe about Saint Olaus Tide the Sessions being then also kept in the same place and if there be any Chapter cause they are pleaded and judged in the Assembly wherein the Bayliff of the Land presides in the place of the Governour and there is also consulted what may be for the advantage of the Commonalty The Temporal Justice is twofold particular and general The particular is yearly rendred in every division and it is the same thing as the Districts court or first instance in Denmark and is called the Spring Sessions for there being not so many controversies amongst the Inhabitants here as in other places it is kept but once a year namely in the Spring whence it hath the name of Spring-Session where it is the charge of the Sheriff to preside and of the Sworn Recorder to judge what causes they cannot decide or do it wrongfully are appealed of to the law sessions which is the general Court and is as the Provincial in Denmark where his Majesties Bayliff doth preside and hath with him all the six Sheriffs who one after another exhibite to the Court what Law Suits they have either regarding his Majesty or Private

Admiral President in the Councel of Admiralty and Assessor in that of State with Gabriel Ackel●ye Knudson Secretary to take the Oath of Allegiance to his Majesty of all the Inhabitants which was done by the Inhabitants of Feroe with what Solemnity that Country could afford in Thors-Haven the third of August in the year aforesaid as Jens Lauritson describes in his Norrigia Illustrata In the year 1662. the States of Denmark having chosen his said Majesty King Frederick the third and his Successors to be Soveraign Hereditary Lord of Denmark and Norway arrived the second time the 14 of August his aforesaid Excellency the Lord Rix Admiral Henry Bialke to take of the inhabitants of Feroe the Oath of their Hereditary Allegiance to his Majesty whose Hereditary Throne the King of Kings establish for ever and continue his seed till the end of the World which they presently with greatest devotion performed When it pleased the great Lord of Heaven to call the said high and mighty Prince Frederick the third first Soveraign Hereditary Lord and King of Denmark and Norway from this Temporary to his Eternal and Heavenly Kingdom in the year 1670. the 9. of Feb. and his beloved Son The great and Mighty Hereditary Prince Christian the Fifth sate on his late Fathers Royal Throne to be Soveraign King over Denmark and Norway and the Subjects and States of Denmark had sworn Loyal Fidelity and Obedience to his Majesties absolute Government his Majesty the same year the 23. of April graciously dispatch't his Commissary the Honourable Jens Rodsteen Hereditary Lord of Leer Beck his Majesties Vice Admiral and Assessor in the Councel of Admiralty to Island and Feroe with full power in the name of his Majesty to take the Oath of the subjects and Inhabitants thereof where the said Commissary Jens Rodsteen arrived from Island and put into Thors haven in Feroe on Tuesday the 16 of August and on Friday the 19. of the same moneth all the Deputies or Inhabitants of Feroe themselves were gathered together and after the Service of God was performed took their ready and submissive Oath first together in a body and afterwards every one particularly under his Hand and Seal according to every ones State and quality Neither must we here omit to his Royal Majesty our most Gracious Hereditary Lord and King King Christian the Fifth's Immortal Praise and Clory and to the subjects of the Land both that now live and will hereafter succeed their admonition and remembrance to keep exactly the Oath they have taken in all its points and clauses not out of compulsion and fear but by an humble free and loving devotion till Death that his Majesty was graciously pleased to prevent the Inhabitants in giving them notice by his Patent that whatsoever either the States or any private man for himself had to petition and sollicite his Majesty for they or he should deliver it to his Royal Commissary and he receive it to carry unto his Majesty with a most gracious assurance that his Royal Majesty with a particular care and favour would be concern'd in what could be judged beneficial to them according to the time and occasion The wise King Solomon in the 19. chap. 12. verse of the book of Proverbs compareth admirably such Royal grace to the Dew that falleth on-Grass for as Dew vivifieth withered and down-fallen Grass so that it riseth again and groweth bravely up so hath this his Royal Majesties Grace reviv'd the hearts of the Inhabitants of Feroe which were almost fainting away for one cause or another and therefore the Subjects both Ecclesiastical and Temporal delivered the said Royal Commissary several Petitions concerning some of their grievances wherewith the said Commissary on Sunday the 21 of August after the Service of God departed from Feroe for Denmark Thereupon in the year 16-2 three deputies were sent over with full power humbly to represent the Lands necessities and his Majesty was graciously pleased to give the Inhabitants a very profitable Ordinance to prevent and take away all damage and ruine from the Land Whilest the Inhabitants of Feroe were under the subjection of the Kings of Norway and Denmark or before that time one doth not find much that any have been famous for their valiant actions though they have been a hard nation from the beginning except two namely Sigismund Bretteson and Magnus Heirson whose Histories excepted the one out of Snore Sturleson and Mr. Peter Clauson's Writings the other out of Jens Lawritson's Norrigia illustrata and a credible Manuscript of Feroe are for the Readers sake worthy to be here inserted After Trund of Gote of whom we have made mention before had treacherously let murther his fellow Governours of Feroe and his Kinsmen Breste and Beine s●lling their Sons Sigismund Bresteson and F●rgill Beinson privately out of the Country to perpetual Slavery it happened that he that bought them was b● st●rm and bad weather set from 〈◊〉 course with his Ship to the East of Norway there ran the two boyes away from him and got up into the Country ●ow there had been in the Country some time before a young m●n whose name was Torkild that wa● an excellent Huntsman and Shooter and lay usually out on Snow and Ice in the night seeking to kill Wild Beasts caring neither for cold nor frost whence he got the name of Torkild endure Frost he fell in love with a considerable man's daughter called Ingeborrig whose Parents refusing to give her unto him he took her in the Wild Woods but her Father Brothers and Kinsmen sought her out and took her back again Torkild came to her the second time and she went away with him but considering that he could not be in quiet for her kindred on that side of Dorfields he went therefore over the Mountain and setled his habitation close at the North of it in a great Wilderness and savage Forrest where no body came through there being a great way from thence to Towns where people lived and his Servants went into the district of Trundhein to sell skins and hides of wild beasts buying therewith what he had need of and he lived there many years having changed his name Sigismund Bresteson and Torgild Beinson being fled from their Master as aforesaid went up into the Country intending to go into the North of the District of Trund heim but when they came on Dor fields they lost their way and wandered some days ●●ill at last they came down to the place where Torkild Endure Frost liv'd and went in His Wife received them well giving them meat and desired them to tarry there the night over When Torkild came home from the Woods she went to meet him and told him there were come to them two beautiful Boyes desiring him that he would do them no harm he grew angry because he had forbidden her to receive any body in the house or shew any one the way from thence saying we shall doubtless be found out and taken