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A65095	A pleasant and compendious history of the first inventers and instituters of the most famous arts, misteries, laws, customs and manners in the whole world together with many other rarities and remarkable things rarely known, and never before made publick : to which is added, several curious inventions, peculierly attributed to England & English-men, the whole work alphabetically digested and very helpful to the readers of history.; De rerum inventoribus. English	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.	1686 (1686)	Wing V598; ESTC R21854	60,337	192

c. were first brought to perfection in England by the aforesaid Mr. Hook Antonio Bonele an Italian first taught the English to Spin with a Destaffe in the twentieth year of King Henery the seventh Fine Spanish-Needles were first made in England in the Reign of Queen Mary by a Negro in Cheapside who refused to communicate his Art but in the Eighth year of Queen Elizabeths Reign Elias Corous a German made it known to the English The first English Coach-Maker is Recorded to be Walter Ripon who in the year 1564 made a Coach for the Earl of Rutland and a hollow turning Coach in the year 1585 for Queen Elizabeth In the Tenth year of Queen Elizabeths Reign Richard Dryer brought into England the Invention of making Earthen Fire-pots Furnaces transportable Ovens for baking Earthen ware and had the first sole profit by Pattent in the year 1555. Making of Eopperas was first practised in England by Cornelius de Voss a Merchant in the year 1587. William Saunders a Fishmonger was the first that brought our Coelestial and Terestial Globes to perfection William Mathews in the Fifth year of Queen Elizabeth was the first English Artist that made fine Knives and Hafts marked with the Half Moon for the Propriety of which he had the Queens Paten About the same time the way of making Pins was found out by the English which before were brought in by Strangers to the value of 60000 Pound a year One Bourass made first the Engine for Scale-Boards One Ross is reported to have made the First Bandore in England and to this day that called the Ross Viol is accounted the best The Engine for Clock-Wheels is an English Invention of about one hundred years standing as likewise that for the speedy cutting down Wheels for Watches Chaines for Watches is said to be the Invention of one Mr. Tomackee The First Inventor of Knitting of Worsted Stoekings in England was William Rider a London Apprentice who in the Reign of King James the First presented a paire of his own Knitting to the Earl of Pembrooke The late serviceable Moddel of Shipping is affirmed to be the Invention or Direction of the Famous Sir Walter Raleigh Other late Inventions there are to whom as their Inventors the English lay claime as an Engine for raising Glass an Engine for Spinning Glass an Engine for Cutting Tobacco the Rouling Press the Art of Damasking Linnen and Watering of Silks the way of seperating Gold from Silver and Brass Boulting Mills Makeing Caine Chaires the curious Art of Colouring and Marbling of Books makeing of Horn ware and the Engine to Extinguish Fire and the like Thus Reader it apears that the Industery of our Predecessors was great whereby they brought so many Rarities to perfection and left their further Improvement to Posterity FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by John Harris at the Harrow against the Church in the Poultrey 1 A Discourse of Divine Providence 1. In General That there is a Providence exercised by God in the World 2. In Particular How all Gods Providences in the World are in order to the good of his People By the late Learned Divine Stephen Charnock B. D. sometimes Fellow of New-Colledg in Oxon. Price Bound 3 s. 2 COme and Welcome to Jesus Christ Or a plain and profitable Discourse on John 6. Verse 37. Shewing the Cause Truth and manner of the coming of a Sinner to Jesus Christ with his happy Reception and blessed Entertainment Prince Bound 1 s. 3 A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publicane Wherein several great and weighty things are handled As the Nature of Prayer and of Obedience to the Law with how far it obliges Christians and wherein it consists Wherein is also shed the equally deplorable condition of the Pharisee or Hypocritical Self-righteous Man and of the Publicane or Sinner that lives in Sin and in open violation of the Divine Laws Together with the Way and Method of God's Free-Grace in Pardoning Penetent Sinners proving that he justifies them by imputing Christs Righteousness to them Price Bound 1 s. 4 SIghs from Hell Or The Groans of a Damned Soul Discovering from the 16th of Luke the Lamentable state of the Damned And may fitly serve as a Warning-Word to Sinners both Old and Young by Faith in Jesus Christ to avoid the same place of Torment With a Discovery of the Usefulness of the Scriptures as our safe Conduct for avoiding the Torments of Hell All three by John Bunyon Author of the Pilgrims Progress Price Bound 1 s. 5 THe Saints Comfort in all but more especially in Evil Times Drawn from Twelve several Texts of Scripture which are briefly explained in this small Piece By T. G. Minister of the Gospel Price Bound 1 s. 6 THE True Fortune-Teller Or Guide to Knowledge Discovering the whole Art of Chyromancy Physiognomy Metoposcopy and Astrology Containing 1. A Discription of the Planets their power and influence over the Bodies of Men Women and Children 2. Of the several Lines Mounts Marks Angles and sacred Characters in the Hand and Wrist and by what Planets they are Governed as to good or bad Fortune 3. Of Physiognomy 4. Observations on the Eyes Eye-brows Nose Ears Chin Neck Hair Beard and Face 5. Metoposcopy or the signification of the Lines in the Face 6. Of Moles and their significations 7. Of Dreams and their Interpretations 8. Of Nativities and their Calculation 9. Of the Rod by which hidden Treasure is found 10. Of Marriages and at what time any Person shall be Married 11. Rules to know the danger of Death 12. Of good and bad Days 13. The manner of Resolving doubtful Questions as to Friends Marriages places of Abode Health Prosperity or Adversity Love or Business 14. Of Pythagoras his Wheel of Fortune 15. Of the good and bad days in each Month relating to Health To which is added Aristoteles Observations of the Heavens their motion Of Firy Metors Thunder Lightning Eclipses Commets Earth-quakes and Whirl-winds Illustrated with several proper Figures Price Bound 1 s. 7 A Directory for Midwives or a guide for Women in their Conception Bearing and Suckling their Children The first part contains 1. The Anatomy of the vessels of Generation 2. The Formation of the Child in the Womb. 3. What hinders conception and its remedies 4. what furthers conception 5. A guide for women in conception 6. Of miscarriage in women 7. A guide for women in their Labor 8. A guide for women in their Lying in 9. Of Nursing children by Nicholas Culpepper Price Bound 3 s.

Heaven and from thenceforth they honoured him as a God Commendations to the honour of the dead bodies at Funerals Valerius Publicolia first made in praise of Brutus and that was long before the Greeks had any notwithstanding Gellius writeth that Solon ordained that Law in Athens in the time of Tarquivius Priscus The Romans used to praise the Women at their Burials because they were once contented to give their Golden Jewels to make a Boule to send to Delphus to the God Appollo Horatius the Poet and Servius write that the Romans used customably after a Burial to renew the Sacrifices and Solemn Rites of the Funeral which they named in Latine Novem Diales The Massilians in France passed and spent the day of their Burials with private Oblations and Feastings of their Kindred without any manner of Lamentation or Sorrow In Burials the old Rite was that the dead Corps was bourn before and the People followed after as one should say we must all dye and follow after him as their last words to the course did express For they used to say when it was Buried these words Farewell we shall come after thee and of the following of the multitude they were called Exsequies Although used at Kings and Noble-mens Funerals to go before with Tapers and Torches which custome we keep still G GRACE or the Hollowing of the Table and Meat is derived and was begun from the imitation of our Saviour Christ when he used the same way of sanctifiing of the five Loaves in the Wilderness and at Emaus also where he did consecrate the Table in the presence of his Disciples So was likewise he form of saying Grace after Supper taken from that custome which Christ commonly kept at his Suppers The manner to Read a part of the Bible before or after Dinner time or Supper hath also been of a long continuance and did prooceed from the Godly Doctrine that Christ instructed his Disciples in at all times but chiefly at his last Supper wherein he Treated of the Misteries of our Religion From whence our Fathers to keep in memory such a wholesome institution did introduce this manner of Reading the Scripture before or after Meat God-fathers and God-mothers were ordained by Iginius Bishop of Rome for to be witnesses of the Sacrament of Baptisme that it was received Dood and bad Angels according to the Ancient received opinion are not only to every man but also to every singular place and Family were allotted two Angels by some called the Bonus vel malus Genius whereof the one went about to endamage Mortals the other with all its endeavour studied to do them good These are said to invade particularly every Family to convey themselves into humane Bodies to imbezell and destroy their Health to procure Diseases to illude their Hearts with Pannical and Phantastical Visions and horrid Dreams Grammar next the invention of Letters ordinarily succeeds both because it is the Foundation and Ground whereon all other Sciences rest and for as much as it taketh the name of Letters for Gramma in Greek signifieth a Letter in English Grammar is an Art that doth consist in Speaking and Writing without Fault or Errour so that every Word have his due Letters and as Quintilian determineth is devided into two parts the way to speak congruously and declairing of Poets as Tully writeth there is required in a Grammarian the dedication of Poets the knowledge of Histories the exposition of Words and a certain utterance of Pronounciaiton Grammar took its beginning from marking and observing what was most fit and unfit in communication which thing men counterfeiting in their speech from thence this Art took its Rise even as Rhetorick was perceived For it is the duty both of the Grammarians and Orators to have a regard and respect how to speak Hermipus saith that Epicurus first taught the Art of Grammar and Plato espyed and perceived first the commodity and profit of it In Rome it was nothing esteemed till one Crates Malotes was sent by King Attalus to teach it between the second and third Battels of the Punicks a little before the death of Eunius the Poet. It is of all other Sciences the most useful for it sheweth a way to attain all the rest of the liberal Sciences Neither can any man come to attain to any eacellency in any Art unless he have first his principles of Grammer perfectly known well digested and throughly perceived Therefore in old time Grammarians were called Judges and allowers of all other writers and for that cause they were called Critici In this Art excellent Didymus and Antonius Enipho unto whose School Marcus Cicero resorted divers times after his affaires in the Law were ended Nigidius Figulus Marcus Varro Marcus Valerius Probus and the arrogant Palemon with many others of the Greeks of which Aristarchus Aristotle and Theodoces were the chief Greek old Letters were the same that the Romans use now as Pliny conjectureth by a certain Brass table that came from Delphos which was dedicated and hanged up in a Library in the Temple of Minerua at Rome in his time They were brought into Italy by Evander and the Arcadians which came into Italy to Inhabit there of the Grecians Xenophon Thucidedes Herodotus Theopompus flourished most in writing Histories Guns which of all other Instruments of War have been most destructive to Man-kind were invented by a certain Almain whose name is not known he found them out after this manner it chanced that he had in a Morter powder of Brimstone that he had beaten for a Medicine and covered it with a stone and as he struck Fire it Fortuned that a spark fell into the powder suddenly there arose a great flame out of the Morter and lifted up the stone wherewith it was covered a great height which he perceiving he made a Pipe of Iron and tempered the Powder and so finished this deadly Devilish Engine and taught the Venetians the use of it when they Warred at Candius Dyke against the Genvates which was in the year of our Lord 1380. For this invention he received this benifit that his Name was never known least he might for this Abominable device have been evil spoken off and cursed whilst the World lasts Geometry the Aegyptians gloried to have first invented This Art containeth the description of Lengths Breadths Shapes and Quantities In this knowledge Strabo excelled in the time of Tiberius and Ptolomie In the time of Trajan and Antoninas Measures and Weights were found out by Sydonius about that time Procus Reigned in Alba Aza in Israel and Jeroboam in Jerusalem Games the Principal of them amongst the Greeks were the Olympiads which were kept every fifth year in the Mount Olympus and instituted by Hercules in the honour of Jupiter In this Game Corylus an Arcadian won the first prize though others say Herculus was the first that won it there was Wrastling Running with Horses and on Foot Journying Leaping Coursing with Chariots the contention of