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A16718	Enquiries touching the diuersity of languages, and religions through the cheife parts of the world. Written by Edw. Brerewood lately professor of astronomy in Gresham Colledge in London	Brerewood, Edward, 1565?-1613.; Brerewood, Robert, Sir, 1588-1654.	1614 (1614)	STC 3618; ESTC S106411	137,209	224

had full possession of the city and presently fourteene Ministers of the Gospell in one day were by force and violence thence eiected But the condition of the Protestants residing amongst the Cantons of Heluetia and their confederates the city of Geneua the towne of S. Gall the Grisons Valesians or seuen communities vnder the Bishop of Sedune is a great deale more happie and setled in so much that they are two third parts hauing the publique and free practise of Religion for howsoeuer of the 13. Cantons onely these fiue b Thesaur Pol. Apot. 49. Zuricke Schaf●use Glarona Basile Abatistella are entirely Protestant yet these in strength and amplenesse of territory much exceede the other seuen and hence Zuricke the chiefe of the fiue in all publicke meetings and Embassages hath the first place Already then we find the state of Orthodox professors of the Gospell to be such that we neede not complaine of their paucitie and if wee further proceede to view the many regions of the Empire we shall haue cause to magnifie the goodnesse of God for their multitudes The whole Empire excluding Bohemia and Austria because the King of the one is rather an Arbiter in the election of the Emperour then an Elector in this sole case giuing his voice when the other six Electors are equally diuided and the Archduke of the other hath onely a kind of extraordinary place in the Dyet amongst the Ecclesiasticall Princes as sometimes the Duke of Loraine had consisteth of three Orders or States the Princes Ecclesiasticall the Princes Temporall and the free Cities The last of these before some of them come to be possessed by the French Polonian Heluetians and others were in number about a Liberae ciuitates quae non alium principē praeter Imperatorē agnoscunt suis vtuntur quaeque legibus olim erant 88. lam vero pauc●o res sunt alijs a Galliarū Poloniae Regibus alijs occupatis Thes. polit apot 6. 88. and although in regard of this multitude at this present they are much diminished yet the remainders of them are so potent that a few of them termed the Hanse-Citties seated in the Notherne part of Germany inclusiuely betweene Dantisck eastward Hamburg westward and ioyned in an offensiue and defensiue league haue been able to make good their opposition against some mightie neighbour Princes infringing immunities These with the rest of the b Protestantiū partes sequuntur liberae Ciuitates seculares Principes ferē omnes Catholico●um à secularibus Principes pauci v● 〈◊〉 Cl●●●nsis Thesaur Pol. Apot 6. Free Citties which are of some number and strength doe all in a manner either in whole or part for in some of them as in Ratisbone Argentine Augusta Spire Wormes Francfort vpon Moen both Papists and Protestants make publique profession embrace the sincere doctrine of the Gospell And if wee passe ouer the Ecclesiasticall Princes who excepting the three Electour Ar●hbishops of Colen Mentz and Triuers the Archbishops of Wer●zburg and Saltsburg and some elect Bishops or Administrators of bishopricks being laymen and of the reformed Religion are of small power all the Princes Temporall of the Empire none of note excepted besides the Duke of Bauaria are firmely Protestantes Now what the multitudes of subiects are professing the same faith with these Princes we may guesse by the amplenes of the dominions vnder the gouernmēt of such only as for their cōmands are chiefe and most eminent amongst them As of the Prince Elector Palatine the Duke of Saxonie the Marquesse of Brandeburge the Duke of Wirtenburg Landgraue of Hesse Marquesse of Baden Prince of Anhalt Dukes of Brunswicke Holst Luenburg Meckleburge Pomerane Sweyburge Nauburge amongst whom the Marquesse of Brandeburge hath for his Dominion not only the Marchasate it selfe contayning in circuit about 520. miles furnished with fiftie cities and about threescore other walled Townes but likewise part of Prussia for which he is feudatarie vnto the king of Poland the Region of Prignitz the Dukedome of Crossen the Signories of Sternberg and Cotbus the Countie of Rapin and lately the three Dukedomes of Cleue Gulick and Berg of which the two former haue either of them in circuit 130. miles Neare adioyning vnto these three last Dukedomes are those Prouinces of the low Countries gouerned by the States namely Zutphen Vtrech Oberyssel Groningham Holland Zeland West-frizland in which onely Protestants haue the publicke for otherwise Arrians Anabaptists Socinians are here priuately tolerated and free exercise of their Religion as also in the neighbour dominion of the Earle of East Freezland But to passe from these vnited Prouinces vnder the States vnto France in this mighty kingdome those as they usually stile them of the Religion besides the Castels and fortes that doe belong in propertie vnto the Duke of Bullen the Duke of Rohan Count of Laual the Duke of Trimouile Mounsieur Chastillion the Mareshall of Digners the Duke of Sully and others are seased of above 70. Townes hauing Garrisons of souldiers gouerned by Nobles and Gentlemen of the Religion they haue 800. Ministers receiuing pensions out of the publicke Finance and are so dispersed through the chiefe prouinces of the kingdome that in the Principalitie of Orange Poincton almost all the Inhabitants in Gasconynie halfe in Languedoc Normandie and other westerne Prouinces a strong partie professe the Euangelicall trueth Which multitudes although they are but small and as it were an handfull in comparison of all bearing the names of Papists throughout the spacious continent of France yet in regard of such as are entirely Popish they haue some proportion For to omitte a great part of French Papists who in heart beleeue the sincerity of the Gospell but dare not make profession thereof for worldly respects as to obtaine great Offices to auoide penalties and iniustice in their litigious suites almost all the lawyers a Vide instruct Missin's des Roys Tres ch●s●●ns ●eleurs Ambassadeu●s concernant le Councile de Trent Bor●ellum l. 4 de decret Ecclesiae Gallicae ● ti 21.22 Dua reuam li. 2 de benefi cap. 10 11. ● 5 cap. 11. and learned sort who no doubt haue many adherents of lesse knowledge hold That the Bishop of Rome was aunciently the first and chiefest Bishop according to the dignity of precedencie and order not by any diuine Institution but because Rome was the chiefe Citty of the Empire That he obtained his primacy ouer the Westerne Church by the guift and clemency of Pipine Charles the great and other Kings of France and hath no power to dispose of Temporall things That it belongeth to Christian Kings and Princes to call Ecclesiasticall Synods and to establish their decrees to make Ecclesiasticall lawes for the good of the Church reforme the abuses therein and to haue the same power and authority ouer sacred persons in causes Ecclesiasticall as was exercised by Iosias and Constantine the Great who said he was a Bishop ouer the outward things of the Church

part of Afrique adioyning to Aegypt was full of Greeke Citties These were the places where the Greeke tongue was natiuely and vulgarly spoken Hieroni● Loco supra citato either originally or by reason of Colonies But yet for other causes it became much more large and generall One was the loue of Philosophie and the liberall arts written in a manner onely in Greeke Another the exceeding great trade and traffique of Grecians in which aboue all nations except perhaps the old Phenicians to whom yet they seeme not to haue beene inferior they imployed themselues A third beyond all these because those great Princes among whom al that Alexander the Great had conquered was diuided were Grecians which for manie reasons could not but exceedingly spreade the Greeke tongue in all those parts where they were Gouernors among whom euen one alone Seleucus by name is registred by Appian to haue founded in the East parts vnder his gouernement Appian L. de Bel●s Syriac at least 60 Citties al of them carrying Greeke names or else named after his father his wiues or himselfe And yet was there a fourth cause that in the after time greatly furthered this inlargement of the Greeke tongue namely the imployment of Grecians in the gouerment of the prouinces after the translation of the Imperiall seate to Constantinople For these causes I say together with the mixture of Greeke Colonies dispersed in many places in which fruitfulnesse of Colonies the Grecians far passed the Romanes the Greeke tongue spred very farre especially towards the East In so much that all the Orient which yet must be vnderstoode with limitation namely the Orientall part of the Romane Empire or to speake in the phrase of those times the dioces of the Orient which contained Syria Palestine Cilicia and part of Mesopotaneia and of Arabia is said by Hierome Hieror bisuper to haue spoken Greeke which also Isidore specially obserueth in Aegypt and Syria to haue beene the Dorique dialect I●●dor Origin L. 9 C. 1. And this great glory the Greeke tongue held in the Apostles time and long after in the Easterne parts till by the inundation of the Saracens of Arabia it came to ruine in those prouinces about 640 yeares after the birth of our Sauiour namely in the time of the Emperour Heraclius the Arabians bringing in their language together with their victories into all the regions they subdued euen as the Latine tongue is supposed to haue perished by the inundation and mixture of the Gothes and other barbarous nations in the West Of the Decaying of the ancient Greeke tongue and of the present vulgar Greeke CHAP. 2. BVt at this day the Greeke tongue is very much decayed not onely as touching the largenesse and vulgarnesse of it but also in the purenesse and elegancy of the language For as touching the former First in Italie Fraunce and other places to the West the naturall languages of the countries haue vsurped vpon it Secondly in the skirts of Greece it selfe namely in Epirus and that part of Macedon that lieth towards the Adriatique sea the Sclauonique tongue hath extinguished it Thirdly in Anatolia the Turkish tongue hath for a great part suppressed it And Lastly in the more Eastward and South parts as in that part of Cilicia that is beyond the riuer Piramus in Siria Palestine Aegypt and Libia the Arabian tongue hath abolished it Abolished it I say namely as touching any vulgar vse for as touching Ecclesiasticall vse many Christians of those parts still retaine it in their Leiturgies So that the parts in which the Greeke tongue is spoken at this day are in few words but these First Greece it selfe excepting Epirus and the West part of Macedon Secondly the Isles of the Aegaean sea Thirdly Candie the Isles Eastward of Candie along the coast of Asia to Cyprus although in Cyprus diuers other languages are spoken beside the Greeke and likewise the Isles Westward of Candia along the Coastes of Greece and Epirus to Corfu And Lastly a good part of Anatolia But as I said the Greeke tongue is not onely thus restrained in comparison of the ancient extention that it had but it is also much degenerated and impaired as touching the purenesse of speech being ouergrowne with barbarousnesse But yet not without some rellish of the ancient elegancie Neither is it altogether so much declined from the antient Greeke Bellon Obseruat L. 1. c. 3 Turcogroec L. 3. 5. as the Italian is departed from the Latine as Bellonius hath also obserued and by conferring of diuers Epistles of the present language which you may finde in Crusius his Turcograecia with the ancient tongue may be put out of question which corruption yet certainely hath not befallen that language through any inundation of barbarous people as is supposed to haue altered the Latine tongue for although I know Greece to haue beene ouerrunne wasted by the Gothes yet I finde not in histories any remembrance of their habitation or long continuance in Greece of their coalition into one people with the Grecians without which I conceaue not how the tongue could be greatly altered by them And yet certaine it is that long before the Turkes came among them their language was growne to the corruption wherein now it is for that in the writings of Cedrenus Nicetas and some other late Greekes although long before the Turkes inuasion there is found notwithstanding they were learned men a strong rellish of this barbarousnesse Insomuch that the learned Grecians themselues Ge●●ach in epist ad Crusi●m TurcoGrae● L. 7. pag. 489. acknowledge it to bee very ancient and are vtterly ignorant when it began in their language which is to me a certaine argument that it had no violent nor sodaine beginning by the mixture of other forrain nations among thē but hath gotten into their language by the ordinarie change which time and many common occasions that attend on time are wont to bring to all languages in the world for which reason the corruption of speech growing vpon them by little and little the change hath beene vnsensible Yet it cannot be denied and * ● Zygomalos in Epist. ad Cius Turcog pag. some of the Grecians themselues confesse so much that beside many Romane words which from the translation of the imperiall seate to Constantinople began to creepe into their language as we may obserue in diuers Greeke writers of good antiquitie some Italian words also and Slauonian and Arabique and Turkish and of other nations are gotten into their language by reason of the great traffique and commerce which those people exercise with the Grecians For which cause as Bellonius hath obserued Bello● Obseruat L. 1. C 3. it is more altered in the maritime parts and such other places of foraigne concourse then in the inner region But yet the greatest part of the corruption of that language hath beene bred at home and proceeded from no other cause then their owne