dye before the eight day he is circumcised at the graue without any prayers but a signe is erected in memorie of him that GOD may haue mercie vpon him and raise him at the day of the Resurrection In some places all the people stand except the God-father because it is written All the people stood in the Couenant But to pursue the rest of their niceties grounded vpon such interpretations would bee endlesse We will follow the childe home if you be not alreadie wearie and see what rout is there kept Ten must bee the number you haue heard of the inuited ghests and one or two of these learned Rabbins who must make a long prayer and Sermon at the table although others meane while are more busied in tossing the cups of Wine I was once present saith Buxdorsius at one of their Circumcision feasts and one of their Rabbins preached on Pro. 3.18 Wisedome is a tree of life but more woodden or ridiculous stuffe I neuer heard in all my life This feast they obserue by example of Abraham who made a great feast when the childe was weaned their Kabal peruerts it when hee was circumcised The Circumciser abideth sometime with the Mother lest the bloud should againe issue from the childe The mother keepeth within sixe weekes whether it bee a male or female all which time her husband must not so much as touch her or eate meate in the same dish with her If a female child bee borne there is small solemnitie onely at sixe weekes age some young wenches stand about the Cradle and lift it vp with the child in it and name it shee which stands at the head being God-mother and after this they iunket together §. V. Of the Iewish Purification Redemption and Education WHen the fortie dayes are accomplished before the wife may accompanie or haue any fellowship with her husband shee must bee purified in cold water and put on white and cleane garments Their washing is with great scrupulositie in a common watering or in priuate Cisternes or Fountaines which must bee so deepe that they must stand vp to the necke in water and if it bee muddie in the bottome they must haue a square stone to stand on that their whole feete may stand in cleere water and that the water may passe betwixt their toes for the least part not couered with water would frustrate the whole action and for this cause they lay aside all their haire-laces neck-laces rings they diue vnder the water so that no part may bee free from the same Some Iewesse must stand by for witnesse hereof which is twelue yeers old and a day at least They redeeme their first-borne in this sort when the child is one and thirtie dayes old his Father sendeth for the Priest with other friends and sets the child on a Table before him adding so much money or monies-worth as amounteth to two Florens of gold or two Dolars and a halfe My wife saith he hath brought me forth my first-borne and the Law bids me giue him to thee Doest thou then giue me him saith the Priest He answereth Yea. The Priest asketh the Mother if she euer before had a childe or abortion If shee answere No then the Priest asketh the Father Whether the childe or the money be dearer to him he answereth The childe then doth the Priest take the money and lay it on the head of the Infant saying This is a first begotten child which God commanded should be redeemed and now saith hee to the childe thou art in my power but thy parents desire to redeeme thee now this money shall be giuen to the Priest for thy redemption And if I haue redeemed thee as is right thou shalt bee redeemed If not yet thou being redeemed according to the Law and custome of the Iewes shalt grow vp to the feare of God to marriage and good workes Amen If the father dye before the childe be one and thirtie dayes old the mother hangeth a scroll about his necke wherein is written This is the first-borne and not redeemed and this child when he commeth of age must redeeme himselfe The Iewish Chachamim or Wise-men haue left no part of life vnprouided of their superstitious care as we haue seene concerning the birth and circumcision of their children with the Purification of the mother and Redemption of the first-borne To proceed with them they enioyne the mother while she giueth sucke to eate wholesome food of easie digestion that the Infant may sucke good milke so that the heart and stomacke be not stopped but may come so much more easily to obtaine wisedome and vertue For God hath great care of children and hath therefore giuen a woman two brests and placed them next her heart yea in the dangerous persecution vnder Pharaoh Exod. 1. hee caused the earth to open it selfe and receiue their Male children and created therein two stones from one of which the Infant sucked milke and from the other honie till they were growne and might goe to their Parents yea and if you beleeue their Gemara can you choose a poore Iew hauing buried his wife and not able to hire a nurse for his childe had his owne brests miraculously filled with milke and became nurse himselfe Yea Mardochaeus saith their Medrasch sucked the brests of Hester and for this cause did she after her exaltation so preferre him The conclusion is if she giue grosse food to her Infants she shall be cast into hell She must not go naked brested nor too long fasting in a morning nor carrie her Infants or suffer them to goe or be naked lest the Sunne hurt them if it bee in the day or the Moone in the night and that they may soone learne that the earth is filled with the Maiestie of diuine glory and for this cause must they beware that they neuer goe bare-headed for this were a signe of impudencie and ill disposition And as religiously they must prouide that they be alway girded with a girdle for the girdle distinguisheth betwixt the heart and the priuities and in his morning prayer he saith Blessed be thou O God which girdest Israel with the girdle of strength which if he should not haue a girdle on would be in vaine Their Mothers therefore sow their girdles to their coats with great care they auoid going bare-foot especially in Ianuary and February When they can speake they are taught sentences out of Scripture and to salute their Parents with good-morrow good-Sabbath c. and after seuen yeeres they adde the name of God God giue you good-morrow c. but they must not name the name of God but in a pure place These teach them the names of things in the vulgar and some Hebrew names among that so they may not commonly be vnderstood for pure Hebrew they cannot speake except their most learned Rabbines onely Their Children must not conuerse with children of Christians and their Parents make all things
Ierusalem was entred on the twelfth of Iuly 1099. being Friday and after much bloud and slaughter in the Citie they set vpon those which had betaken themselues to Salomons Temple so was that called which Homar built where saith Robertus Monachus was so much bloud shed that the slaine bodies were rolled by the force thereof and armes or dismembred hands swamme vpon the bloud and were ioyned to strange bodies the killing souldiers were scarce able to endure the hot vapours of the bloud of the slaine Guibertus Abbas saith the bloud reached to the ancles Baldricus to the calfe of the legge Raimond de Agiles that they rode in bloud vp to the knees and to the brydles of the Horses and Fulcherius that there were slaine in this Temple about ten thousand and many of them were ripped vp by the Frankes to finde gold which they had swallowed and the bodies after burned in heaps to finde the mettall in the ashes Albertus Aquensis addeth that the third day after the victorie for feare of the remained captiued Saracens lest they might ioyne with the enemie against them and in furious zeale they made a fresh massacre slaying those which for pittie or couetousnesse of ransome they had in hotter bloud spared not the honour of Noble Matrons not the delicacie of tender Maydens not the children yet in the wombes of their pregnant mothers not the Infants now sucking at the brest not the hopes of innocent yonglings playing or crying by the mothers hands not sighes teares promises prayers lamentable cryes twyning embraces of the legges bodyes hands of the bloudie Souldier could stay the hand euen then giuing the fatall blow but Ierusalem was now againe filled with slaine carkasses Generally it is agreed that they found much wealth in the Citie to pay them for their paines Soone after they encountred an Armie of three hundred thousand Saracens which they ouerthrew being but twentie thousand Christians where Robert Duke or Earle for I finde both Titles often giuen him but in ancient Stories of those times both hee and King William his father are oftenest called Earles of Normandie tooke with his owne hand the chiefe standerd of the Enemie being a long speare couered with siluer with a golden Globe or Apple on the top hauing slaine the bearer and thereby terrifying the enemie and putting them to rout which was long after reserued as a monument in the Temple of the Sepulchre Many other victories being obtained the Saracens were either expelled Palestina or subiected to the Franks and the Christians which were poorer few recouered freedom Yet as few as they were in the Cities Raimond tells of threescore thousand Surians or Christians of that Countrey which in this long Saracenicall night continued their habitations in the Mountaines of Libanus But of this is no maruell for euen till these dayes notwithstanding the manifold changes and chances of those Regions and peoples there haue in the Mountaines and Desarts of Palestina and Syria liued some Nations neither acknowledging the Saracenicall Law nor Empire §. IIII. Of the Azopart and Assysine SVch were the Azopart which liued in Caues in the Desarts of Ascalon which King Baldwin the successour of Godfrey sought to smoake and fire out of their dens and by cunning Stratagems destroyed as many as hee could and iustly For these being blacke in hue blacker in conditions vsed to rob and slay such as they could lay hold on Such were the Assysines which liued in the Prouince of Tyre as Tyrius reports of them not farre from Antaradus which had ten strong holds with the Countrey adiacent and were thought to bee in number sixtie thousand Their gouernment went not by inheritance but by Election the chiefe or Grand Master of them being called The Old Man who was obeyed in whatsoeuer hee commanded were the attempt neuer so dangerous If he gaue to one or more of them a weapon and enioyned the killing of such an Enemie Prince or priuate man they gladly vndertooke it with the death of that partie or themselues in attempt Both Saracens and Christians called them the reason of the name vnknowne Assysines For the space of foure hundred yeeres they were zealous followers in a preciser course of the Mahumetan Sect But about the time when our Author the Archbishop of Tyre wrote this their OLD MAN grew into distaste of his Religion and by reading the Scriptures became desirous of Christianitie Hee perswaded his Subiects also to forsake Mahumetisme prohibiting their Fasts demolishing their Moschees allowing Swines flesh He sent also to Almaricus King of Ierusalem offering to turne Christian if hee might hue peaceably and bee released of two thousand Byzantines which he yeerely payd for quietnesse to the Knights Templers who had certaine Castles bordering on him The King was content to pay this money himselfe but by the treacherie of the Templers the Legat was slaine and foule scandall inflicted on the Christian name the Assysines neuer after returning to their old Mahometrie or turning anew to Christianitie Mathew Paris relateth that these Assysines thus closely and treacherously murthered Raimund Earle of Tripolis Anno Dom. 1150. Paulus Aemylius affirmeth that these Assysines came out of Persia that they were taught from their child-hood diuers Languages and to conceiue it meritorious of heauenly reward to kill the enemies of their Faith that their OLD MAN was called also Arsacida Two of them saith hee slew Raimund two of them after slew Conrad Ferratensis walking in the Market-place of Tyre which Citie hee had defended against the enemies who being executed therefore seemed very cheerefull And Saint Lewis himselfe hardly escaped the like treacherie Marcus Paulus reporteth of one in the North-East parts of Persia called The Old Man of the Mountaine by proper name Aloadin which had built a strong Castle and therein an imaginarie Paradise who vsed that Assasine mysterie promising to reward these murtherers with the pleasures of Paradise a taste of which in all fleshly delights he had before giuen them In the Tartarian conquest sayth Odoricus he had so slaine diuers Tartars which therefore besieged his Castle and after three yeeres siege forced it for want of victuall So Paulus but Haithonus hath seuen and twentie yeeres and that then it was yeelded for want of cloathes and not of meates hee calls this Castle Tigado and the inhabitants by the former names of Assasines This was done by Haalon the Tartar Anno 1262. About a hundred yeeres since they tell of the ike Paradise of Aladeules in those parts destroyed by Selym the Turke but I thinke it was rather the memorie of Aloadin then any truth of Aladeules It is most remarkeable that Marcus Paulus testifieth of two Deputies or Lieutenants vnder him the one in Curdistan where the like generation of irreligious and robbing Curdi do yet remaine the other neere to Damasco of whom we haue spoken The place where this OLD MAN liued was called Mulchet that
to liue long In their Winter they haue much sicknesse and mortalitie The goods of the deceased descend not to his Children but to the Brethren if he haue any otherwise to his Father If it bee a Woman her Husband deliuereth her marriage goods to her brethren When the King dies the Sepulchre is made like a house and as well furnished as if they were aliue being guarded night and day by armed men to bring him any thing which he shall need Their Noses are flat not naturally but by pressing them downe in their Infancie esteeming it a great part of beautie Their hot stomackes can digest raw flesh and therefore Alexander Aphrodisicus and Coelius Rhodiginus that thinke their naturall heate extracted to the outward parts to be the cause of their blacknesse are deceiued They eate the enemies which are slaine in the warres which are very rife amongst those Nations and those which are taken are euerlasting prisoners And in some more important warres which they vndertake they will burne their dwellings before they goe lest either the enemy might possesse them by conquest or themselues become too mindfull of a returne In these warres they prouide themselues of some good light Armour wearing at such times no other apparell Their Women are vnfaithfull Secretaries in Natures most hidden secrets vsing in the sight of men women boyes and girles to be deliuered of their Children whom after they circumcise whether they be of the male or female sexe §. IIII. Of the Marriages Manners Religion Funerals Gouernment and other Rites of the Guineans collected out of a late Dutch Author ANd if we may leaue to follow a Dutch guide well acquainted in these parts whereof he hath written a very large Treatise you may feast with them at their spousals and againe after a view of their liues at their Funerals At the marriages of their Daughters they giue halfe an ounce of Gold to buy Wine for the Bridale the King himselfe giueth no other portion The Bride in the presence of her friends sweareth to be true to her Husband which the man doth not For Adulterie he may diuorce her and the Adulterer payeth to the King foure and twenty Pesos of gold and the husband also may driue him out of Towne but the Dutchmen payd no fine therefore the Women onely were blamed and payd foure Pesos If the husband suspects his wife hee makes tryall of her honesty by causing her to eate salt with diuers Fetisso ceremonies hereafter mentioned the feare whereof makes her confesse They haue many Wiues if they can buy and keepe them each dwelleth in a house by her selfe though there be ten of them they eat and lodge asunder sometimes they will bring their cheere together The Husband closely takes which he will haue lye with him to his roome where their bed is a Mat. The Women after trauell wash themselues and acccompany not with their husbands for three moneths after The Child newly borne hath a cleane cloath wrapped about the middle and is layd downe on a mat The Mothers vse to beare their Children at their backes and so trauell with them none prouing lame notwithstanding that shaking of their bodies they giue them the brest ouer their shoulders When it is a moneth old they hang a net about the body like a shirt made of the barke of a Tree hanged full of Fetissos to secure it from the Diuell who otherwise would they thinke carry it away They hang the haire full of shels and Corals about the necke armes and legges applying diuersi Fetissos or wreathes with superstitious fancies that one is good against Vomiting a second for Falling a third for Bleeding a fourth to make it Sleepe a fifth against wilde Beasts and so on in the rest giuing to each Fetisso a seuerall name They quickly learne them to eate and then leaue them about the house like dogs they soone learne to goe to speake to swim When they are first borne they are not blacke but reddish as the Brasilians Each woman brings vp her owne they teach them no ciuilitie and beat them sometimes cruelly with staues When they are eight or ten or twelue yeeres old they learne them to spinne Bark-threed and make nets after that they goe with their Fathers to fish At eighteene yeeres old they begin to set vp for themselues two or three of them together hiring a house and Canoa and then they couer their priuities grow amorous and their Fathers looke out wiues for them They haue little haire on their face at thirty they weare nayles as long as the joynt of a mans finger as a token of Gentilitie which is also obserued by Merchants they keepe them very cleane and as white as Iuorie They are great in flesh beyond Men of these parts At threescoore and ten or fourescore their blacknesse decaies and they grow yellow They haue small bellies long legges broad feet long toes sharpe sight quicke wit Estridge mawes are spitefull curiously neat Drunkards Theeues Lecherous and subject to the Pockes whereof they are not ashamed as neither of shewing their nakednesse Yet it is holden shame with them to let a fart which they wondered at in the Hollanders esteeming it a contempt The Women goe long naked are libidinous and would boast of their filthinesse if they could haue their pleasure with the Dutch decking themselues of purpose They weare beades about their neckes and straw Fetissos about their feet The Mulato women in Mina cut their haire short for brauerie They cut three gashes on their fore-head an inch long and likewise on their cheekes neere their eares which they suffer to swell and colour it with painting They make also white strakes vnder their eyes They curle and fold the haire of their head making a hill in the middest like a hat with frizzles round about They vse long combes with two teeth onely each a finger length these they vse also for salutation plucking them out and in as heere men put off or on their hats they make also white spots on their faces which afarre off shew like pearles They rase their armes and brests with diuers cuts on which euery morning they lay colours which cause them to shew like blacke silke doublets cut and pinked They haue earings and bracelets of Copper the vnmarried Maides weare thirty or forty on each arme of Iron the common Queanes weare copper rings with bels on their legs These women are strong nimble well proportioned good house-wiues home-keepers and cookes not very fruitfull The riches of the Guineans are store of Wiues and Children They take great pride of white teeth which therefore they rub with a certaine wood they shew like Iuorie Their garment is a fadome or more of Linnen cloth which they weare about their bodies from beneath the brests to the knees vpon which they girt a piece of blue or yellow cloth whereon hang their kniues and keyes and diuers wispes of straw or Fetissos When
to the Ilands for slaues at times in seuenteene yeers a Million of people But why doe I longer trace them in their bloudy steps seeing our Authour that relates much more then I yet protesteth that it was a thousand times worse Or what should I tell their sparing 〈◊〉 persons plucking the child from the brest to quarter it to his Dogs Torturing Kings with new deuices borrowed eyther from the Inquisition or from Hell Cutting off the nose and hands of men and women that liued in peace with them Selling the Father Mother Child to diuers places and persons Lying with the women as one of them bragged that being with childe they might yeeld more money in the sale How was Nature become degenerate in these prodigious monsters Euen the nature of things might bee abashed with the sense of this vnnaturall senselesnesse The Tygre would but deuoure his prey and not curiously torment it the Lion sometimes spares it nay their Dogges haue sometime beene lesse dogged then their doggish Deuillish Masters How may wee admire that long suffering of God that rained not a floud of waters as in Noahs time or of fire as in Lots or of stones as in Iosuas or some vengeance from Heauen vpon these models of Hell And how could Hell forbeare swallowing such prepared morsels exceeding the beastlinesse of beasts inhmanitie of wonted Tyrants and Deuillishnesse if it were possible of the Deuils But these you will say were Souldiers let vs leaue the Campe and looke to their Temples There perhaps you shall see their Priests reading praying and this they most glory of preaching to conuert the Indians by their word and workes Aske Colmenero a Priest of Saint Martha who being asked what hee taught the Indians said that hee deuoted them with curses to the Deuill and this sufficed if he said to them Per signin Santin Cruces You haue heard what good Diuinitie the Dominican preached to Atabaliba King of Peru which wanted not her wants of Millions by their cruelties as well as the former They teach them saith Acosta a few Prayers in the Spanish Tongue which they vnderstand not and they which are more painfull a Catechisme without explanation Their teaching is but a iest and shadow to get mony they follow dicing hunting whooring in so much that Baptisme is scorned and the Indians are forced to it against their wil◠and a sincere and vpright Iudge was wont to say that if hee came into Spaine hee would perswade the King to send no more Priests into America such is their dissolutenesse They had then indeed three Archbishopricks that of Dominico which had sixe Suffragane Bishops the second of Mexico which had 7. the third of Los Reyes to which were subiect three Bishops yet these teach the people vices by their practice and ill example insomuch that the Indians sayth Casas are of opinion that the King of Spaine which hath such subiects as the Spaniards shew themselues is himselfe most cruell and liues on mans flesh and that of all Gods the God of the Christians is the worst which hath so bad seruants longing for their owne Gods of whom they neuer receiued such ill as now by this of the Christians The Spaniards cannot endure the Indians to heare a Sermon thinking it makes them idle as Pharaoh said of the Israelites and captious they learne them Vsury lying swearing blasphemie and things repugnant to their nature Thus did a Cacique describe a Christian to Benzo by the vnchristian course of the Spaniards Christians sayth he looking Benzo on the face what are Christians They imperiously demand Maiz Hony Silke Rayment an Indian woman to lye with them they call for Gold and Siluer they will not worke are Gamesters Dicers Wicked Blasphemers Backbiters Quarrellers and concluded that Christians could not be good Benzo said that euill Christians did such things not the good ones hee replyed Where are those good for I neuer saw any but bad Hee was seuenty yeeres old and spake Spanish perfectly Benzo sayth that they would not looke on the Christians but curse them and as before is said called them Sea-froth Hee being very inquisitiue to see what they thought of our Faith reporteth that some of them taking a piece of Gold will say Loe heere the Christians God for this they kill vs and one another for this they play blaspheme curse steale and doe all manner of villanies A Franciscan publikely said that there was neyther Priest Monke nor Bishop good in all India and the Priests themselues will say they came thither for gaine A Caciques Sonne which was towardly in his youth and proued after dissolute being asked the reason thereof said Since I was a Christian I haue learned to sweare in varietie to dice to lye to swagger and now I want nothing but a Concubine which I meane to haue shortly to make me a compleate Christian These indeed are the Miracles that the Spaniards worke in the Indies sayth our Author I asked an Indian once if he were a Christian he againe asked me if hee should be the Bishops Groome a doozen yeeres to keepe his Mule Others of the Indians saue a little washing and some cold Ceremonies know nothing of our Religion You haue heard what Commerce and conference many of them were wont to haue with the Deuill and how the Spaniards haue taught them now to scarre him away with the signe of the Crosse And this is the report of a certaine Spanish Treatise of Prelates that the Deuill is now frayed away with the presence of the holy Sacrament of the Eucharist and of the holy Crosse weapons spirituall in pretence carnall in the inuention but neither preuayling like the spirituall which Paul mentions nor effecting so much as some say of those which are indeed carnall and wholly materiall Yea these thus vsed with deniall of the power of the Crosse and godlinesse are the Scepters of his Empire amongst them And for those carnall weapons which Paul disclaymed the Spaniards doe not onely acknowledge but glory off Nunno di Gusman auerreth in a writing to the Emperor that howsoeuer some find fault with their wars vpon the Indians so to bring them to the faith yet he accounts it a most worthy holy work of so great merit that in the seruice of God none can be greter The Indians haue liued at more quiet with the Spaniards since the King proclamed them free yet still hate them and for their Christianitie Franciscus à Victoria protesteth that it doth not appeare to him that Christian Religion had beene propounded in meete sort to the Indians Miracles he heard not of but on the contrarie scandals villanies and many impieties This is the Preaching and Conuersion the Romists boast of and gull our European World with musters of their Miracles and thousands of their Proselytes which we rather pittie then enuie How the case is altered since that new generation of the Ignatian
was first inhabited both before and after the Floud : and from thence were Colonies sent into Syria and Phoenecea , which held their Language pure by reason few Strangers had recourse to them till after the 〈◊〉 of the first Temple as appeareth by Coynes of the Tyrians and Sidonians which are digged out and found daily PSAMMETICHVS King of Egypt caused two Children to bee closely brought vp by a Shepheard who should at times put Goates to them to giue them sucke without euer hearing humane voyce After two yeares they vttered the word Bec Bec which was the voyce that they had heard of their Nurses the Goates but not so interpreted by Psammetichus for hee inquiring in what Language Bec was significant and hearing that the Phrygians so called Bread ascribed to them the prioritie of all Nations and Languages Melabdim Echebar the great Mogor as the Iesuites Epistles declare made the like tryall of thirtie Children whom hee caused without hearing of man to be brought vp setting Guards to obserue the Nurses that they should not speake to them purposing to bee of that Religion whereto they should addict themselues But neither could they euer speake or would he euer addict himselfe to one certaine Religion Goropius by a few Dutch Etymologies grew into conceit and would haue the World beleeue him that Dutch was the first Language which if it were wee English should raigne with them as a Colonie of that Dutch Citie a streame from that Fountaine by Commerce and Conquests since manifoldly mixed But his euidence is too weake his authoritie too new The common and more receiued opinion is that the Hebrew was the first confirmed also by Vniuersalitie Antiquitie and consent of the Christian Fathers and Learned men grounding themselues vpon this Reason That all the names mentioned in Scripture before the Diuision are in that Language onely significant besides it is not like that Shem conspired with these Babylonians and therefore not partaker of their punishment Now it is very probable and almost manifest that hee was the same which after is called Melchisedech King of Salem betwixt whom and Abraham in that familiaritie it is not likely that there was much dissonance in Language Hee is also called the Father of all the Sonnes of Heber by a peculiar proprietie although hee had other Sonnes because the puritie of Religion and Language remayned in Hebers Posteritie And why should Heber call his Sonne Peleg Diuision but of this Diuision which then happened The Nation and Language of Israel borrow their name Hebrew of him And if it had happened to himselfe why should hee more then others haue so named his Sonne CHAP. IX A Geographicall Narration of the whole Earth in generall and more particularly of ASIA TYPUS ORBIS TERRARUM Domini est terra plenitudo ejus orbis terrarum universi qui habitant in eo Psalmo 24. יהוה WE haue all this time beene viewing one Nation which alone was knowne in the Earth vntill confusion of Language caused diuision of Lands and haue taken notice of the Heads and Authours of those Peoples and Nations that from that time were scattered ouer the World and after setled in their proper Habitations We haue not followed the opinion of some both of the Ancients and later Writers in defining the number of Nations and Languages through the World reckoned by them seuentie two For who seeth not that Moses in that tenth of Genesis is most carefull to describe the Posteritie and bounds of Canaan which GOD had giuen to Israel which it were absurd to thinke in so small a Territorie to bee of so many that is eleuen seuerall Languages And how many Nations were founded after that by Abrahams Posteritie not to mention so many other Fountaines of Peoples by the sonnes of Hagar and Ketura and Esau the Sonne of Isaac Neyther could the World so suddenly bee peopled and of that which then was peopled Moses writing a Historie of and for the Church so farre mentioneth the Affaires and Nations of the World as it was meete for the Church and especially that Church of the Israelites to know according as it was likely they should haue then or after more or lesse to doe with them Africanus hath reckoned the seuentie two by name But how easie were it in these dayes to set downe seuentie two more of differing Nations both in Region and Language and how little of the World was then knowne shall presently bee shewed Besides it may bee a question whether diuers of those there mentioned did not speake the same Language as in Chaldaea Syria and Canaan with some diuersitie of Dialect a little more then in our Northerne Westerne and Southerne English Which may appeare both by the Pilgrimages of the Patriarkes Abraham Isaac and Iacob in those parts which had needed new Interpreters by that rule in euery two or three dayes trauell except themselues had beene almost miraculously skilfull in Languages and by the Chaldaean and Syrian Monuments and Bookes which some obserue to come nigh to the Hebrew Doctor Willet reproueth Philoes opinion That the Chalde and Hebrew was all one because Daniel an Hebrew was set to learne the Chalde or that the Syrian and Chalde according to Mercerus opinion was the same yet grants that in the first times the Syrian and Chalde little differed Scaliger a fit man to speake of Languages who could speake so many saith as before is obserued That in Assyria was the first both Man and Language euen the same which thence passed with their Colonies into Syria and Canaan where it remayned pure euen then when in Assyria it selfe it was corrupted by entercourse of strangers Abraham spake this corrupted Syrian which tooke place only in the Tracts of Euphrates at the first but after both he and his Posteritie vsed the Language of Canaan so that Laban whose Kindred Countrey and Language was the same with Abrahams yet spake another and differing Language from that of Iacob one calling that Galed which the other calleth Iegarsabadutha Thus it appeareth by him that the ancient Syrian Assyrian and Chaldaean were first that which is now called Hebrew because the Hebrewes obserued and retayned it and onely haue left Bookes to vs written therein whom the Cananites called Hebrewes as Scaliger and Montanus affirme because Abraham had passed ouer the Riuer Euphrates vnto them but after degenerated first in the parts neare Euphrates where it was first spoken and when the Tyrians and Sidonians had the Empire of the Sea by reason of their Traffique it proued impure there also howsoeuer in the time of Elisa or Dido the Phoenician or Punicke which shee carryed into Africa was pure Hebrew as were also their Letters The later Carthaginian Letters were read from the left hand to the right as the Latine and Greeke but those from the right hand yet not the same which now are called Hebrew but ought rather
in his Image Male and Female created hee them And he called their name ADAM yet after this is mention of Adams solitarinesse and forming of Eue out of his side that is cutting the female part from the Male and so fitting them to generation Thus doth Leo Hebraus reconcile the Fable of Platoes Androgynus with Moses narration out of which he thinketh it borrowed For as hee telleth that Iupiter in the first forming of mankinde made them such Androgyni with two bodies of two sexes ioyned in the brest diuided for their pride the nauill still remaining as a skarre of the wound then made so with little difference is this their interpretation of Moses §. III. Of the Iewesses Conception and Trauell and of Lilith WHen a Iewish woman is great with Childe and neare her time her chamber is furnished with necessaries and then some holy and deuout man if any such may bee had with Chalke maketh a circular line round in the chamber vpon all the walls and writeth on the doore and within and without on euery wall and about the bed in Hebrew Letters Adam Chaua Chuts Lilith or after the Iewish pronuntiation Lilis that is Adam Eue away hence Lilis Hereby they signifie their desire that if a woman shall bee deliuered of a sonne GOD may one day giue him a wife like to Eue and not a shrew like Lilis This word Lilis is read in the Prophet interpreted a Skritch-Owle but the Iewes seeme to meane by it a diuellish Spectrum in womans shape that vseth to slay or carry away Children which are on the eight day to be Circumcised Elias Leuita writeth that hee hath read that a hundred and twentie yeeres Adam contained himselfe from his wife Eue and in that space there came to him Diuels which conceiued of him whence were ingendred Diuels and Spirits Fairies and Goblins and there were foure mothers or dammes of Diuels Lilith Naemah Ogereth and Machalath Thus is it read in Ben Sira when GOD had made Adam and saw it was not good for him to bee alone hee made him a woman of the earth like vnto him and called her Lilis These disagreed for superioritie not suffering Caesarue priorem Pompeiusue parem Lilis made of the same mould would not be vnderling and Adam would not endure her his equall Lilis seeing no hope of agreement vttered that sacred word IEHOVA with the Cabalisticall interpretation thereof and presently did flie into the Ayre Adam playning his case GOD sent three Angels after her viz. Senoi Sensenoi Sanmangeleph either to bring her backe or to denounce vnto her That a hundred of her Children should dye in a day These ouertooke her ouer the troublesome Sea where one day the Aegyptians should bee drowned and did their message to her shee refusing to obey they threatned her drowning but she besought them to let her alone because shee was created to vexe and kill children on the eight day if they were men if women children on the twentieth day They neuerthelesse forcing her to goe Lilis sware to them That whensoeuer she should finde the name or figure of those Angels written or painted on Schedule Parchment or any thing shee would doe Infants no harme and that she would not refuse that punishment to lose a hundred children in a day And accordingly a hundred of her children or young Diuels dyed in a day And for this cause doe they write these names on a Scroll of Parchment and hang them on their Infants neckes Thus farre Ben Sira In their Chambers alwayes is found such a scroll or painting and the names of the Angels of Health this office they ascribe to them are written ouer the chamber doore In their Booke Brandspiegel Printed at Cracouia 1597. is shewed the authoritie of this Historie collected by their Wise-men out of those words Male and Female created hee them compared with the forming of Eue of a Rib in the next Chapter saying That Lilis the former was diuorced from Adam for her pride which shee conceiued because she was made of earth as well as hee and GOD gaue him another Flesh of his flesh And concerning her R. Moses tels that Samael the Diuell came riding vpon a Serpent which was as bigge as a Camell and cast water vpon her and deceiued her When this Iewesse is in trauell shee must not send for a Christian Mid-wife except no Iewish can bee gotten and then the Iewish women must be very thick about her for feare of negligence or iniurie And if she be happily deliuered of a sonne there is exceeding ioy through all the house and the father presently makes festiuall prouision against the Circumcision on the eight day In the meane time ten persons are inuited neither more nor fewer which are all past thirteene yeeres of age The night after her deliuerie seuen of the inuited parties and some others sometimes meet at the Child-house and make there great cheere and sport all night Dicing Drinking Fabling so to solace the Mother that shee should not grieue too much for the childs Circumcision §. IIII. Of the Iewish manner of Circumcision THe Circumciser is called Mohel who must bee a Iew and a Man and well exercised in that facultie and hee that will performe this office at the beginning giueth money to some poore Iew to be admitted hereunto in his children that after his better experience hee may be vsed of the richer And this Mohel may thence-forwards bee knowne by his thumbes on which he weareth the nayles long and sharpe and narrow-pointed The circumcising Instruments is of stone glasse yron or any matter that will cut commonly sharpe kniues like Rasors amongst the rich Iewes closed in siluer and set with stones Before the Infant be Circumcised he must be washed and wrapped in clouts that in the time of the Circumcision hee may lie cleane for otherwise they might vse no prayers ouer him And if in the time of Circumcision for paine he defileth himselfe the Mohels must suspend his praying till he be washed laid cleane again This is performed commonly in the morning while the child is fasting to preuent much fluxe of bloud In the morning therefore of the eight day all things are made readie First are two seates placed or one so framed that two may sit in the same apart adorned costly with Carpets and that either in the Synagogue or some priuate Parlour If it bee in the Synagogue then the seat is placed neere the holy Arke or Chest where the Booke of the Law is kept Then comes the suretie or God-father for the child and placeth himselfe at the said seat and neere him the Mohel or Circumciser Other Iewes follow them one of which cryeth with a loud voyce That they should bring presently whatsoeuer is needfull for this businesse Then come other Children whereof one bringeth a great Torch in which are lighted twelue waxe Candles to represent the twelue Tribes of Israel after him two
other Boyes carrying cups full of red Wine After them another carrieth the circumcising knife another brings a dish with sand another brings another dish with Oyle in which are cleane and fine clouts which after the Mohel applyeth to the wounds of the child These stand in a ring about the Mohel the better to marke and learne and these their Offices are bought with money by those children Some come thither also with Spices Cloues Cinnamon strong Wine to refresh if any happen to swoune These being thus assembled the God-father sitteth downe vpon one of those two seats right against him the Mohel placeth himselfe and sings the song of the Israelites and others Then the women bring the child to the doore all the congregation presently rising vp The God-father goeth to the doore taketh the child sitteth downe on his seat and cryeth out Baruch habba that is Blessed be hee that commeth in their Cabalisticall sense habba being applyed either to the eight day which is the day of Circumcision or the comming of Elias whom they call the Angell of the Couenant so they interpret the Prophet and say that Elias commeth with the Infant and sits downe on that other emptie seat For when the Israelites were prohibited Circumcision and Elias complained thus The children of Israel haue forsaken the Couenant that is Circumcision God promised him That from thence-forwards hee should be present at Circumcision to see it rightly performed And when they make readie that seat for Elias then they are bound in set words to say This seat is for the Prophet ELIAS otherwise as a vnbidden ghest he commeth not This seat remaineth for him three whole dayes together Then when the God-father holdeth the child in his lap the Mohel takes him out of his clouts and layeth hold on his member and holding the fore-skinne putteth backe the top thereof and rubbeth the fore-skinne so to make it haue the lesse sense of paine Then he taketh from the Boy the circumcising-knife and saith with a loud voyce Blessed bee thou O God our Lord King of the World which hast sanctified vs with thy Commandements and giuen vs the Couenant of Circumcision and whiles he thus speaketh cuts off the fore-part of the skin that the head of the yard may bee seene and presently hurleth it into the Sand-dish and restoreth his knife to the Boy againe taketh from another a cup of Red Wine and drinketh his mouthfull which hee presently spitteth out on the Infant and therewith washeth away the bloud and if he see the child begin to faint he spitteth out some thereof on his face Presently he taketh the member of the child in his mouth and sucketh out the bloud to make it stay from bleeding the sooner and spitteth out that bloud so sucked into the other cup full of Wine or into the dish of Sand This hee doth at least thrice After the bloud is stayed the Mohel with his sharpe-pointed thin nayles rendeth the skinne of the yard and putteth it backe so farre that the head thereof is bare Hee is more painefull to the Infant with this rending of the remaining skinne which action is called Priah then with the former This being done hee layeth the clouts dipped in oyle aforesaid to the wound and bindeth them three or foure times about and then wrappeth vp the Infant againe in his clouts Then saith the Father of the child Blessed bee thou O God our Lord King of the World which hast sanctified vs in thy Commandements and hast commanded vs to succeed into the Couenant of our Father ABRAHAM To which all the Congregation answerth As this Infant hath happily succeeded into the Couenant of our Father ABRAHAM so happily shall hee succeed into the possession of the Law of MOSES into Marriage also and other good workes Then doth the Mohel wash his bloudie mouth and his hands The God-father riseth with him and standeth ouer-against him who taking the other cup of Wine saith a certaine prayer and prayeth also ouer the Infant saying O our God God of our Fathers strengthen and keepe this Infant to his Father and Mother and make that his name in the people of Israel may bee named heere he first nameth the Child calling him Isaac ISAAC which was the sonne of ABRAHAM Let his Father reioyce in him that hath come out of his loynes Let his Mother reioyce in the fruit of her wombe as it is written Make glad thy Father and Mother and her that bare thee to reioyce And GOD saith by the Prophet I passed by thee and saw thee troden in thy bloud and I said vnto thee In thy bloud thou shalt liue yea I said vnto thee In thy bloud thou shalt liue Heere the Mohel puts his finger into the other cup of Wine wherein hee had spit the bloud and moysteneth the Childs lippes three times with that wine hoping that according to the former sentence of the Prophet he shall liue longer in the bloud of his Circumcision then otherwise he should Dauid also saith He is mindfull of his marueilous acts which hee hath done and of his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth c. Then hee continueth his prayer for the present assembly and that God would giue long life to the Father and Mother of the Boy and blesse the child This done he offers the blessed Cup to all the yong men and bids them drinke Then with the Childe who is thus made a Iew they returne to the Fathers house and restore him to his Mothers armes This last prayer he makes neere the Arke and some of the deuouter Iewes before and after Circumcision take the Childe and lay him vpon Elias pillow that Elias may touch him The skinne cast into the sand is in memorie of that promise I will make thy seed as the sand of the Sea and of Balams saying Who can number the dust of IACOB that is his posteritie whose fore-skin is cast in the Sand or Dust and because the Curse on the Serpent is thus fulfilled Dust thou shalt eat that is this skin in the dust thus to their enemie the Serpent fulfilling also that precept If thine enemie hunger feed him And by this meanes the Serpent can no more seduce this man If a Childe bee sicke on the eight day they deferre Circumcision till his recouerie they hold also the blowing of the North winde necessarie to this action and therefore thinke that their Fathers for bare circumcision those fortie yeeres in the Wildernesse because the North winde blew not all that time lest it should haue blowne away the piller of smoake and fire and besides this winde is wholsome for wounds which else are dangerous But lest they should stay beyond the eighth day expecting this Northerne breath their Talmud tels that euery day there blow foure windes and that the North is mixed with them all and therefore they may Circumcise euery day If the Child
away and they dyed whence came that custome of saluting and praying well to men in neezing The strangling of Achitophel they also interpret of this neezing farewell The fourth dayes fast is for Women which are with childe or giue sucke but the Tuesday and Wednesday in likelyhood were not ordinarie as the other Sunday might not bee thus honoured being the Christian Sabbath and Friday was the preparatiue to their owne Those two dayes are generally halfe holy-dayes Assembling earely in their Synagogues besides their ordinarie prayers they annexe many other Among others they vse one Prayer called Vchurachum of miraculous effect as appeared in Vespatians time who committing three Ships full of Iewes without Oare or Mariner to the wide Seas which arriued in three seuerall regions Louanda Arlado Burdeli worke for Geographers Those which arriued in this last port by tyrannicall Edict of the King were to be tryed whether they were true Iewes as Hananias Misael and Azarias made proofe of their Religion Whereupon three dayes being required as they said Nebuchadnezzar had granted them wherein to betake themselues to fasting and prayer in this time of respite three deuout Iewes Ioseph Beniamin and Samuel inuened each of them a prayer which they ioyned into one and continued in praying the same three dayes at the end whereof they cast themselues into the fire and there continued till it was consumed Hence arose this ordinance euery Munday and Thursday to vse the same prayer which is this And hee is mercifull and pardoning sinne doth not destroy the sinner Hee often turneth his anger from vs and doth not kindle all his wrath Thou O my God suffer me not to want thy mercie let thy gentlenesse and truth keepe mee alwayes Helpe vs O God our God and gather vs from the Gentiles c. for their restitution as in other their prayers and destruction of their enemies the Christians After this they prostrate themselues on their faces as before with many other orisons to the like effect §. II. Of their Law-Lectures THeir solemne ceremonie of the Law-lecture followeth In all their Synagogues they haue the fiue bookes of Moses written in great letters on Parchments of Calues-skins sowed together in length which at both ends are fastened to pieces of wood by which the booke may be lifted and carried This booke is kept in an Arke or Chest set in some wall of the Synagogue Before the doores of the Arke is a hanging of Tapestrie more or lesse precious according to the qualitie of their Feasts and for the most part wrought with Bird-worke The booke is wrapped in a linnen-cloath wrought with Hebrew words without that is hanged about some other cloath of Linnen Silke Veluet or Gold to which is fastened a plate of Siluer by a chayne of Gold vpon the which is written The crowne of the Law or holinesse of the Lord Then goeth one about crying Who will buy Gelilah etzchaijm This is an office whereby they are authorized to handle those pieces of wood and to open the booke of the Law Hee which giueth most for it hath it the money is reserued for the poore The pieces of wood are called etzchaijm tree of life according to Salomon Wisedome is a tree of life to them that lay holde thereon When the chiefe Chanter hath taken out the booke and goeth with it into the Pulpit they all sing out of Num. 10.35 Arise O Lord and let thine enemies bee scattered and let them that hate thee flye before thee And out of Esay 2.3 Many people shall goe and say Come let vs ascend to the mount of the Lord to the house of the God of IACOB and hee shall teach vs his wayes and wee will walke in his pathes for the Law shall goe out of Sion and the Word of the Lord from Ierusalem When this Praecentor layeth the booke on his arme hee saith Magnifie the Lord with mee and let vs exalt his name together to which all the people answer Exalt yee the Lord our God and bow before his foot-stoole for it is holy exalt yee the Lord our God and bow to the mountaine of his holinesse for Iehouah our God is holy There vpon a Table couered with silke hee layeth downe the booke and he which hath bought the Office taketh from it the cloathes wherein it is wrapped Then these two call some one of the Congregation by his owne and his Fathers name who commeth foorth and kisseth the booke not on the bare Parchment for that were a sinne but on the cloathes which couer it and taking it by those pieces of wood saith aloud Praise the Lord c. Blessed bee thou O Lord who hast chosen vs before any other people and giuen vs thy Law Blessed bee thou O God the Law-giuer Then the Praecentor readeth a Chapter out of the booke and then hee which was called foorth with like kissing and blessing returneth Then another is called foorth and doth likewise After him another who had need bee of strong armes for hee lifteth vp and carrieth this booke that all may see it all crying This is the Law which Moses gaue to the Israelites This Office is called Hagbahah and is sold as the former The women meane-while contend amongst themselues in this Synagogue by some Lattice to haue a sight of the Law for the women haue a Synagogue apart seuered with Lattices so besides their pretence of modestie to fulfill the saying of Zacharie The family of Dauid shall mourne apart and their wiues apart c. If he which carrieth the booke should stumble or fall it were ominous and should portend much euill These two Officers fold vp the booke as before and then come all and kisse the same and then it is carried to his place with singing After this they end their Prayers as at other times saying Lord leade mee in thy righteousnesse because of mine enemies direct thy way before me And The Lord keepe my going out and comming in from henceforth for euer Which they also say when they goe foorth on a iourney or to worke §. III. Of the Iewish Sabbath THey prepare themselues to the obseruation of their Sabbath by diligent prouision on the Friday before night of the best meates well dressed especially the women prouide them good Cakes They honour the Sabbath with three bankets first on the Friday night when their Sabbath beginneth another on the Sabbath day at noone the third before sunne-set Eate yee it to day to day is the Sabbath of the Lord to day yee shall not find it Manna in the field do you not see To day thrice mentioned and therefore by Moses owne ordaining that Manna must so often bee eaten on the Sabbath The richest Iewes and most learned Rabbins disdaine not some or other office at chopping of hearbs kindling the fire or somewhat toward this preparation The Table remaineth couered all that night and day They wash and if need
hand Fifthly To weare any base attire and to patch their clothes whether there bee any need or not Sixthly to take or steale from any stranger whatsoeuer they can get Seuenthly Towards their owne to bee true in word and deede Eightly To suffer no stranger to come within their Dominion but the same to bee slaue to the first taker except they haue a Pasport But by this time I thinke the Reader will wish mee their pasport to bee gone from them who haue shewed my selfe no Tartarian whilest I dwell so long on this Tartarian discourse happily herein as tedious to him as staying in one place would be to the Tartar a thing so abominable as in anger he wisheth it as a Curse Would GOD thou mayest abide in one place as the Christian till thou smell thine owne dung Indeed this Historie not throughly handled before by any one drew me along and I hope will purchase pardon to this prolixitie CHAP. XVI Of the Nations which liued in or neere to those parts now possessed by the Tartars and their Religions and Customes FRom those Countries inhabited by the Persians and Zagathayan Tartars Eastward we cannot see with M. Paulus his eyes the best guides wee can get for this way any Religion but the Saracen till we come to Bascia a Prouince somewhat bending to the South the people whereof are Idolaters and Magicians cruell and deceitfull liuing on Flesh and Rice Seuen dayes iourney from hence is Chesmur wickedly cunning in their deuillish Art by which they cause the dumbe Idols to speake the day to growe darke and other maruellous things being the wel-spring of Idols and Idolatrie in those parts They haue Heremites after their Law which abide in their Monasteries are very abstinent in eating and drinking containe their bodies in straight chastitie and are very carefull to abstaine from such sinnes wherewith they thinke their Idols offended and liue long There are of them many Monasteries They are obserued of the people with great reuerence The people of that Nation shed no bloud nor kill any flesh but if they will eate any they get the Saracens which liue amongst them to kill it for them North-eastward from hence is Vochan a Saracenicall Nation and after many dayes iourney ouer mountaines so high that no kind of birds are seene thereon is Beloro inhabited with Idolaters Cascar the next Countrey is Mahumetan beyond which are many Nestorian Christians in Carchan There are also Moores or Mahumetanes which haue defiled with like superstition the Countâ—ies of Cotam and Peym where the women may marrie new husbands if the former be absent aboue twenty dayes and the men likewise and of Ciarcian and Lop. From Lop they crosse a Desart which asketh thirtie dayes and must carrie their victuals with them Here they say spirits call men by their names and cause them to stray from their companie and perish with famine When they are passed this Desart they enter into Sachion the first Citie of Tanguth an Idolatrous Prouince subiect to the Great Can there are also some Nestorians and Saracens where they haue had the Art of Printing these thousand yeeres They haue Monasteries replenished with Idols of diuers sorts to which they sacrifice and when they haue a male child borne they commend it to some Idoll in whose honour they nourish a Ramme in their house that yeere and after on their Idols festiuall they bring it together with their Sonne before the Idoll and sacrifice the Ramme and dressing the flesh let it stand till they haue finished their prayers for their childs health in which space they say their Idoll hath sucked out the principall substance of the meate which they then carrie home to their house and assembling their kinsfolke eate it with great reuerence and reioycing sauing the bones in goodly vessels The Priests haue for their fee the head feet inwards skinne and some part of the flesh When any of great place dieth they assemble the Astrologers and tell the houre of his natiuitie that they may by their Art finde a Planet fitting to the burning of the corps which sometime in this respect attendeth this fiery constellation a weeke a moneth or halfe a yeere in all which time they set before the corps a Table furnished with bread wine and other viands leauing them there so long as one might conueniently eate them the Spirit there present in their opinion refreshing himselfe with the odour of this prouision If any euill happen to any of the house the Astrologers ascribe it to the angry soule for neglect of his due houre agreeing to that of his Natiuitie They make many stayes by the way wherein they present this departed soule with such cates to hearten it against the bodies burning They paint many papers made of the barkes of trees with pictures of Men Women Horsâ—s Camels Money and Rayment which they burne together with the Body that the Dead may haue to serue him in the next World And all this while of burning is the Musike of the Citie present playing CHAMVL the next Prouince is Idolatrous or Heathenish for so we distinguish them from Saracens Iewes and Christians which I would were not as guilty of Idolatrie as the former in so many their forbidden Rites although these haue all and the other part of the Scriptures whereof those Heathens and Idolaters are vtterly ignorant Here they not onely permit but account it a great honour to haue their wiues and sisters at the pleasure of such strangers as they entertaine themselues departing the while and suffering all things to be at their guests will for so are their Idols serued who therefore for this hospitalitie they thinke will prosper all that they haue And when as Mangu Can forbad them this beastly practice they abstained three yeeres but then sent a pitifull Embassage to him with request That they might continue their former custome for since they left it they could not thrine who ouercome by their fond importunitie granted their request which they with ioy accepted and doe still obserue In the same Prouince of Tanguth is Succuir whose Mountaines are clothed with Rheubarbe from whence it is by Merchants conueyed through the World Campion is the mother Citie of the Countrey inhabited by Idolaters with some of the Arabian and Christian Nations The Christians had there in the time of M. Paulo three faire Churches The Idolaters had many Monasteries abounding with Idols of wood earth and stone couered with gold and artificially made some great ten paces in length lying along with other little ones about them which seeme as their Disciples to doe them reuerence Their religions persons liue in their opinion more honestly then other Idolaters although their honestie is such as that they thinke it no sinne to lie with a woman which shall seeke it at their hands but if the man first make loue it is sinfull They haue also their Fasting-dayes three foure or fiue in a moneeh in
superstition They marry but one wife and admit no second succeeding marriage The Bramenes must descend of the Bramene Tribe and others cannot aspire to that Priesthood but some are of higher account then other For some serue for messengers which in time of warre and among theeues may passe safely and are called Fathers They will not put a Bramene to death for any crime Heurnius reporteth that they haue bookes and Prophets which they alledge for confirmation of their opinions that they thinke God to be of blacke colour that they worship the herbe Amaracus or Marioram with many superstitious Ceremonies that they haue in their writings the Decalogue with the explanation thereof that they adjure all of their Society vnto silence touching their mysteries that they haue a peculiar language as Latine in these parts wherein they teach the same in their Schooles that their Doctors hallow the Sundayes in diuine worship adoring the God which created heauen and earth often repeating the sentence I adore thee O God with thy grace and aide for euer to take food from the hands of a Christian they account as sacrilege When they are seuen yeeres old they put about their necke a string two fingers broad made of the skinne of a beast called Cressuamengan like a wilde Asse together with the haire which he weareth till he is fourteene yeeres old all which time he may not eate Betelle That time expired the said string is taken away and another of three threeds put on in signe that hee is become a Bramene which hee weareth all his life They haue a Principall amongst them which is their Bishop which correcteth them if they doe amisse They marrie but once as is said and that not all but onely the eldest of the brethen to continue the Succession who is also heire of the fathers substance and keepeth his wife straitly killing her if he finde her adulterous with poison The yonger brethren lie with other mens wiues which account the same as a singular honour done vnto them hauing libertie as Balby affirmeth to enter into any mans house yea of the Kings no lesse then of the Subjects of that Religion the husbands leauing the wiues and the brethren their sisters vnto their pleasures and therefore departing out of the house when they come in And hence it is that no mans sonne inheriteth his fathers goods and I knowe not whether they may inherite that name of father or sonne but the sisters sonne succeedeth as being most certaine of the bloud They eate but once a day and wash before and after meate as also when they make water and goe to stoole They haue great cournuâ—s belonging to their Churches besides offerings and at set houres of the day resort thither to sing and doe other their holy Rites Twice in the day and as often in the night their Pagode is taken out of the Altar and set on the Bramenes head looking backward and is carried in Procession three times about the Church the Bramenes wiues carrying lights burning euery time they come to the principall doore of the Church which is on the West side thereof some Churches haue two doores on a side they set it downe on their offering-stone and worship it Twice a day they bring it to eate of their sod Rice as often it seemeth as the Bramene is hungry When they wash them which is often they lay a little ashes on their heads foreheads and breasts saying that they shall returne into ashes When the Bramenes wife is with childe as soone as he knoweth it he cleanseth his teeth and abstaineth from Betelle and obserueth fasting till shee bee deliuered The Kings of Malabar will scarce eate meate but of their dressing They are of such estimation that if Merchants trauell among theeues and robbers one Bramene in the companie secureth them all which Bramene will eate nothing of another mans dressing and would not become a Moore for a Kingdome Nic. di Conti saith he saw a Bramene three hundred yeeres old hee addeth that they are studious in Astrologie Geomancie and Philosophie To be short they are the Masters of Ceremonies and the Indian Religion in whose precepts the Kings are trained vp The Bramenes haue it seemeth much familiaritie with the Deuill so strangely doe they foretell things to come though they bee contingent They also interpret Prodigies Lots Auguries and thereby growe into great credit the people depending on them and the Kings becomming of their Order They perswade the people that their Pagodes doe often feast together and therefore would haue such dainties offered which they and theirs deuoure threatning if they be sparing and niggardly plenty of Plagues and diuine wrath Besides these Secular There are other Religious or Monasticall Bramenes which are called Iogues anciently called by the Greekes Gymnosophists because they went naked and so they still doe professing much austeritie of life at least for a time with long Pilgrimages and much bodily exercise little profiting the soule possessing nothing but want and beggarie seeking thereby to winne credite to themselues and their Sect The Verteas I take to bee another Sect the religious Votaries of the Banians or Pythagoreans Both those and these are kindes of Ethnike Monkes which professe by strict penance and regular obseruations to expiate their sinnes and procure saluation to their soules There are also some that liue as Heremites in Desarts some in Colledges some wander from place to place begging some an vnlearned kind are called Sanasses some contrary to the rest nothing esteeme Idols obserue chastitie twenty or fiue and twenty yeeres and feed daily on the pith of a fruit called Caruza to preserue in them that cold humour neither doe they abstaine from flesh fish or wine and when they passe along the way one goeth before them crying Poo Poo that is way way that women especially may auoid for their vow will not permit the sight of a woman These weare not the three threads which the other Bramenes weare neither are their bodies burned after death as of the rest yea the King himselfe honoreth them and not they the King some liue inclosed in iron Cages all filthie with ashes which they strew on their heads and garments some burne some part of their body voluntarily All are vain-glorious and seeke rather the shell then the kernell the shew then the substance of holinesse Xauerius once in conference with the Bramens demanding of them what their God commanded to those that would come to Heauen was answered Two precepts one to abstaine from killing of Kine in whose shape the Gods were worshipped and the other to obserue the Bramenes the Ministers of their Gods But they haue more mysticall learning which one of them secretly disclosed to the Iesuite This was of a famous Schoole College or Vniuersity of those Bramenes all the Students whereof at their first Admission he said were sworne by solemne Oath vnto
was sometime sacred famous for the Garden of the Hesperides neere to which is that Riuer of Lethe so much chaunted by the Poets Nigh to this place also are the Psylli a people terrible to Serpents and medicinable against their poysons both by touching the wounded partie and by sucking out the poyson and by enchanting the Serpent The Oracle of Iupiter Ammon is famous among the Ancient The place where this Temple was hath on euery side vast and sandie Desarts in which they which trauelled as wee finde in Arrianus and Curtius seemed to warre with Nature for the Earth was couered with sand which yeelded an vnstable footing and sometime was blowne about with the windie motions of the Aire Water was hence banished neither Cloudes nor Springs ordinarily affoording it A fierie heate did possesse and tyrannize ouer the place which the Sands and Sunne much encreased Neither was here Tree or Hill or other marke for Trauellers to discerne their way but the Starres In the middle of this Desart was that sacred Groue which Silius Italicus calleth Lucus fatidicus not aboue fiftie furlongs in circuit full of fruit-bearing Trees watred with wholsome Springs seasoned with temperate Aire and a continuall Spring The Inhabitants called Ammonians are dispersed in cottages and haue the middest of the Groue fortified with a triple wall The first Munition contayneth the Kings Palace the second the Serail or lodgings for his women where is also the Oracle the third the Courtiers inhabite Before the Oracle is a Fountayne in which the Offerings were washed before they were offered The forme of this God was deformed with Rams-hornes crooked as some paint him according to Curtius without forme of any creature but like a round Bosse beset with jewels This when they consult with the Oracles is carried by the Priests in a gilded ship with many siluer Bells on both sides of the ship The Matrons follow and the Virgins singing their dis-tuned Procession by which they prouoke their god to manifest what they seeke These Priests were about fourscore in number Alexanders ambitious pilgrimage to this Oracle is sufficiently knowne by the Relations of Curtius and Arrianus This we may adde out of Scaliger That after that the Cyrenaeans to sooth this prowd King which would needes bee taken for the sonne of Ammon stamped his shape in their coynes with two hornes of a Ramme and without a beard whereas before they had vsed the forme of Iupiter with a beard and hornes wherein the other Easterne people followed them The Syrians vsed the like stampe with the name of King Lysimachus which Scaliger who hath giuen vs the pictures of these Coynes thinketh to be Alexander Rammes-hornes are said to bee ascribed to him because Bacchus wandering in these Desarts with his Armie was guided to this place by a silly Ramme Likewise Pausanias in his Messenica saith that one Ammon which built the Temple a Shepheard was authour of this name to their God Plutarchs reason of Amus we haue before shewed Others deriue this name from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sand which may well agree with all Idoll deuotion as being a sandie foundation although it is here intended to the situation But that which I haue before noted of Ham the sonne of Noah soundeth more probable as being Progenitor of all these Nations and of this minde also is Peucerus This Strabo in his time saith was not in request as no other Oracle besides For the Romanes contented themselues with their Sybils and other diuinations This Oracle was not giuen by word but by signes This defect of Oracles in generall and especially of this occasioned that Treatise of Plutarch of this subiect enquiring the cause of the Oracles fayling Neuer had he read that the Gods which had not made heauen and earth should perish out of the earth nor had he eyes to see that Sunne of Righteousnesse the Light of the world whose pure beames chased and dispersed these mists of darknesse And therefore are his coniectures so farre from the marke as not able with a naturall eye to see the things of God The antiquitie of this Oracle appeareth in that Semiramis came to it and inquired of her death after which the Oracle promised to her diuine honours Perseus also and Hercules are reported to haue consulted the same in their aduentures against Gorgon and Busiris Besides this Groue there is another of Ammon which hath in the middest a Well they call it the Fountayne of the Sunne whose water at Sunne-rising is luke-warme and cooleth more and more till noone at which time it is very cold and from thence till mid-night by degrees exchangeth that coldnesse with heate holding a kinde of naturall Antipathy with the Sonne hottest in his furthest absence coldest in his neerest presence Plinie and Solinus place this Fountayne in Debris a Towne not very farre from those parts amongst the Garamants Lucretius mentions it and Philosophically disputeth the cause thereof nimirum terra magis quod Raratenet circum hunc fontem quà m caetera tellus Multaque sunt ignis prope semina corpus aquai c. The substance whereof is that the fire vnder that subtile earth by cold vapours of the night is pressed and forced to that waterie refuge but by the Sunne beames receiuing new encouragement forsaketh those holds and holes and for a little while takes repossession of his challenged lands The Ammonian women haue such great brests that they suckle their children ouer their shoulder their brest not lesse if Iunenal be beleeued then the childe In Meroe crasso maiorem infante mamillam In Meroe the monstrous Pappe Is bigger then the childe in lappe Pausanias reckoneth an Ammonian Iuno among the Libyan Cities as well as this Iupiter He addeth the Lacedemonians had this Ammon in much request and built to him diuers Temples as at Gytheum one which had no roofe and the Aphytaeans did him 40 lesse worship then the Libyans Ortelius who hath bestowed a Description of this Temple supposeth that his Image was painted with hornes but that Vmbilicus was accounted the Deitie it selfe or the signe of his presence which shapelesse shape he sampleth by many like in other Nations The ship he coniectureth to signifie that the Religion was brought from some other place But if Ammon be that sonne of Noah it might rather bee a memoriall of the Arke wherein Noah and his sonnes were preserued as that also of Ianus who is imagined to be Noah may more fitly be interpreted then according to the Poets glosse Sic bona posteritas puppim formauit in aere Hospitis aduentum testificata Dei So well-dispos'd Posteritie did frame A ship to shew which way their strange God came The ancient frugalitie of the Cyrenians is commended in Authors Sulpitius bringeth in Postumianus in his Dialogues telling That landing there by force of weather hee went with the
they would not suffer our men to see but feasted there two houres On a sudden all arose with cudgels in their hand and made a lane as is before said and the children being laid downe vnder a tree to their seeming without life they all fell into a ring againe and danced about the children a good space and then sate downe in a circle about the tree Raphanna in the mids caused burdens of wood to be brought to the Altar made of poles set like a steeple where they made a great fire which our men thought but were deceiued was to sacrifice their children to the Diuell whom they call Kewase who as they report suckes their bloud They were vnwilling to let them stay any longer They found a woman mourning for yong Paspiha sacrificed at the Towne of Rapahanna but this Paspaiha is now aliue as Mr Rolph hath since related to me and the mourning of the women is not for their childrens death but because they are for diuers moneths detained from them as we shall after see Yea the Virginians themselues by false reports might delude our Men and say they were sacrificed when they were not For euen still they are very inconstant it is Mr Rolphs report in all that they speake of their Religion one denying that which another affirmeth and either not knowing or nor willing that others should know their diuellish mysteries And hence perhaps it was that as Captaine Smith addeth a Werowance being demanded the meaning of this sacrifice answered that the children were not all dead but that the Oke or Diuell did sucke the bloud from their left brest who chanced to be his by lot till they were dead but the rest were kept in the wildernesse by the yong men till nine Moones were expired during which time they must not conuerse with any and of these were made their Priests and coniurers This Sacrifice they held to be so necessarie that if they should omit it their Oke or Diuell and their other Quiyoughcosughes or gods would let them haue no Deere Turkies Corne or Fish and who would besides make a great slaughter amongst them They thinke that their Werowances and Priests which they also esteeme Quiyoughcosughes when they are dead doe goe beyond the Mountaines towards the setting of the Sunne and euer remaine there in forme of their Oke hauing their heads painted with Oyle and Pocones finely trimmed with feathers and shall haue Beades Hatchets Copper and Tobacco neuer ceasing to dance and sing with their Predecessors The common-people they suppose shall not liue after death Some sought to conuert them from these Superstitions the Werowance of Quiyoughcohanock was so farre perswaded as that he professed to beleeue that our God exceeded theirs as much as our Guns did their Bowes and Arrowes and many times did send to the President many presents entreating him to pray to his God for raine for his God would not send him any William White reporteth these their ceremonies of honouring the Sunne By breake of day before they eate or drinke the men women and children aboue ten yeeres old runne into the water and there wash a good space till the Sunne arise and then they offer sacrifice to it strewing Tobacco on the land or water the like they doe at Sun-set Hee also relateth that one George Casson before mentioned was sacrificed as they thought to the Diuell being stripped naked and bound to two stakes with his backe against a great fire then did they rip him and burne his bowels and dryed his flesh to the bones which they kept aboue-ground in a by-roome Many other of our men were cruelly and treacherously executed by them though perhaps not sacrificed and none had been left if their ambushes and treasons had taken effect Powhatan thus inuited Captaine Ratliffe and thirty others to trade for corne and hauing brought them within his ambush murthered them Alexander Whitaker saith That their Priests whom they call Quiokosoughs are Witches of whom the people stand in great awe The manner of their life is Heremite-fashion in woods in houses sequestred from the common course of men where none may come or speake with them vncalled They take no care for victuals for all such necessaries are set in a place neere his Cottage for his vse If they would haue raine or haue lost any thing he at their request coniureth and often preuaileth He is their Physician if they bee sicke and sucketh their wounds At his word they make warre and peace and doe nothing of moment without him Master Rolph affirmes that these Priests liue not solitarily and in other things is of another opinion which perhaps our former Author at his first comming might haue by relation of others The Wirowance of Acawmacke told our men of a strange accident two children being dead and buried being reuiewed by the parents seemed to haue liuely and cheerefull countenances which caused many to behold them and none of the beholders escaped death §. III. Of the Sasquesahanockes with other and later obseruations of the Virginian Rites THe Sasquesahanockes are a Gyantly people strange in proportion behauiour and attire their voice sounding from them as out of a Caue their attire of Beares skins hanged with Beares pawes the head of a Wolfe and such like iewels and if any would haue a spoone to eate with the Diuell their Tobacco pipes were three quarters of a yard long carued at the great end with a Bird Beare or other deuice sufficient to beat out the braines of a Horse and how many Asses braines are beaten out or rather mens braines smoaked out and Asses haled in by our lesse Pipes at home the rest of their furniture was sutable The calfe of one of their legges was measured three quarters of a yard about the rest of his limbes proportionable With much adoe restrained they this people from worshipping our men And when our men prayed according to their dayly custome and sung a Psalme they much wondered and after began in most passionate manner to hold vp their hands to the Sunne with a Song then embracing the Captaine they began to adore him in like manner and so proceeded notwithstanding his rebuking them till their song was ended which done one with a most strange action and vncomely voice began an Oration of their loues That ended with a great painted Beares skinne they couered the Captaine another hung about his necke a chaine of white Beades Others laid eighteene Mantles at his feet with many other ceremonies to create him their Gouernour that hee might defend them against the Massa-womekes their enemies As these are very great so the Weighcocomocoes are very little I may also heere insert the ridiculous conceits which some Virginians hold concerning their first originall as I haue heard from the relation of an English Youth which liued long amongst the Sauages that a Hare came into their Countrey and made the first men and after preserued them
which I haue obserued in this long and tedious Pilgrimage there is some sparke left of Religion euen in the acknowledgement of a Deuill and of eternall rewards and punishments §. II. Of their Priests or Magicians THis is further confirmed by that which is written of certaine Magicians or Priests amongst them which perswade the people that they haue dealings with Spirits that by their meanes they haue their Roots and sustinance and may by them haue fortitude I saith Lerius was present at one of their Assemblies where sixe hundred were gathered together which diuided themselues into three parts the men went into one house the women into a second the children into a third The Cariabes forbade the women and children to depart their houses but to attend diligently to singing and we saith he were commanded to abide with the women Anon the men in one house fell to singing He He He answered by the women in the other with the same They howled it out for a quarter of an houre shaking their brests and foming at the mouth and as if they had had the falling sicknesse some falling downe in a swoune the Deuill in seeming entring into them The children also followed in the same harsh deuotions After this the men sung pleasantly which caused me to goe thither where I found them singing and dancing in three seuerall Rings in the middest of each three or foure Caraibes adorned with Hats and Garments of Feathers euery one hauing a Maraca or Rattle in both his hands These Rattles are made of a fruit bigger then an Ostriches Egge out of which they said that the Spirit would speake and they continually shooke them for the due consecration These Caraibes danced to and fro and blowed the smoke of Petum on the standers by saying Receiue yee all the Spirit of Fortitude whereby yee may ouercome your Enemies This they did often the solemnitie continued two houres the men ignorant of Musicke and yet rauishing my spirit with the delight I conceiued in their Song Their words sounded this that they were grieued for the losse of their Progenitors but were comforted in the hope that they should one day visit them beyond the Hils and then threatned the Ouetacates which dwell not far from them and are at enmitie with all their Neighbours as swift as Harts wearing their haire to the buttockes eating raw flesh and differing from all others in Rites and Language and now prophesied their destruction at hand Somewhat also they added in their Song of the floud that once had drowned all the World but their Ancestors which escaped by climbing high trees That day they feasted with great cheere This solemnitie is celebrated euery third yeere and then the Caraibes appoint in euery Family three or foure Maraca to bee adorned with the best Feathers and sticked in the ground with meate and drinke set before them and the people beleeue they eate it They minister vnto their Maraca fifteene dayes after which in a superstitious conceit they think that a Spirit speakes to them while they rattle their Maraca They were exceedingly offended if any tooke away any of this Prouision as the French sometimes did for which and denying other the Caraibes lyes those Priests hated them exceedingly Yet doe they not adore their Maraca or any thing else Peter Carder saith he could obserue no Religion amongst them but the worship of the Moone specially the New Moone whereat they reioyced leaping singing and clapping of hands Stadius tels as you heard that they ascribed his taking to the prediction of Maraca Hee tels of their consecration that the Paygi so hee cals them enioyne that euery one should carry their Tamaraka to the house where they should receiue the faculty of speech Euery ones Rattle is pitched in the ground by the steele or stalke and all of them offer to the Wizard which hath the chiefe place Arrowes Feathers and Eare-rings he that breathes Petum on euery Rattle puts it to his mouth shakes it and saith Nec Kora that is Speake if thou be within anon followeth a squeaking voyce which I saith Stadius thought the Wizard did but the people ascribed it to the Tamaraka Then those Wizards perswade them to make warres saying that those spirits long to feed on the flesh of Captiues This done euery one takes his Rattle and builds vp a Roome for it to keepe it in where he sets victuals requireth and asketh all necessaries thereof as we doe of God and these as Stadius affirmeth are their Gods These Paygi doe initiate Women vnto Witchcraft by such Ceremonies of smoke dancing c. till shee fall as in the Falling sicknesse and then hee sayth hee will reuiue her and make her able to foretell things to come and therefore when they goe to the Warre they will consult with these Women which pretend conference with Spirits Andrew Theuet which was in this Antarctike France with Villagagnon agreeth in many of the former Reports he addeth that for feare of Aignan they will not goe out but they will carry fire with them which they thinke forceable against him He writes that they acknowledge a Prophet called Toupan which they say makes it thunder and raine but they assigne no time nor place to his worship They tell of a Prophet which taught them to plant their Hetich or Root which they cut in pieces and plant in the Earth and is their chiefe food of which they haue two kinds The first Discouerers they much honoured as Caraibes or Prophets and as much haue distasted the Christians since calling them Mahira the name of an ancient Prophet detested by them But Toupan they say goeth about and reuealeth secrets to their Caraibes Theuet addes that they obserue Dreames and their Payges or Caraibes professe the interpretation of them which are also esteemed as Witches which conferre with Spirits and vse to hurt others with the poyson called Ahouay a kind of Nut. They doe a kind of worship to these Payages and will pray them that they may not bee sicke and will kill them if they promise falsly In their consultations they will prouide a new lodging for the Wizard with a cleane white bed and store of Cahouin which is their ordinary drinke made by a Virgin of ten or twelue yeeres old and of their Root-food into the which they conuey him being before washed hauing abstained nine dayes from his Wife Then doth he lye on that Bed and inuocate none being with him in the House and rayseth his Spirit called Hauioulsira which sometimes as some Christians affirmed to our Authour appeareth so as all the people may heare though they see him not And then they question him of their successe in their enterprises They beleeue the soules Immortality which they call Cherepiconare with rewards to the valiant Man-eaters in goodly Paradises and Agnans punishments to others But his boldnesse makes me the lesse bold in following him in these and other things which I
their Rites 587 Their dispositions ibid. Adams his Voyage thither 588. seq Captaine Saris his Voyage 590 Their hatred of Chinois ibid. Their gouernment 590. Their desperatenesse and crueltie 591 Their executions crossing and crucifying 592. Their Sects 592 593. Taicosoma and Quabacondonoes crueltie and vanitie there 591. 593. Their Bonzij 594. Colosses ibid. Feasts 595 Confession 597. Idols and Temples 597. 598. Funerals 599 Earthquakes 599. Polos reports 600. Schismes 601. Iesuites there ibidem Ilands adioyning 601. 602. The Map of Iapan 588 Iarchas chiefe Brachmane 478 479 Iason the Story of him and his Fleece 347 Iaua greater and lesse 579. 609 Eight Kingdomes in Iaua Minor 609 Iaua Maior the cruell Rites ibidem The diuers Kingdomes therein 610. The old King and his wiues custome ibidem Their Religion Comoedies c. 611. seq Acts of Iauan slaues in Patane 495. 496. In Banda 578 607 Iberians of Thubal 37 Ineria the situation and description thereof 346 Ibis a Bird-god 642 Icaria 823 Ice fortification 974 Ice many leagues long 712. Ilands of Ice 907 Ichneumon an African Beast described 624 Icthyophagi 794 Idolatry 29. 45. 53. 57. 79. 123 124. 242. 415. 428. 460. 461 597. Reade the whole Story of Aegypt The Authors and originall thereof 45. 95. 96. 123 How monstrous 79. 213. The strange Idols of the Tartars 415 By Idolaters whom vnderstood 428. 429 Idols in China 461. In Iapan 597. 598. In Aegypt 635. Virginia 839 Idols in Golchonda 999. 1000 Idumaea how situate and whence so called 85 Iebussulem 94 Iehouah the name of God 2. 3. 4 Written Ioua and Iehueh ibid. Whither the word fit to bee pronounced 101 Ierusalem 93. 94. New Ierusalem 96. 97. The holy Citie 102 The glory and ruine thereof 137 Taken by Antiochus 73. By Titus and Adrian 94. By Ptolemey 108. Iewish dreame thereof 145. 146 Ieremy the Prophet worshipped 644 Ieselbas Tartars 424. 425 Iesuits impudence 76. Reports of Miracles 395. 396. Strict obedience 158. Babels bablers 586 Deuisers of lyes 395. Veteratores and yet Nouellers 412 Their being and acts in China 474. 475. seq In Siam 490 Their Reuenewes at Goa 545 546. When they first entred the Mogols Countrey 515. Their Iesuitisme there 527. 528. their pranckes in Asia 586 Iethroes counsell 96. 97 Iewish dreamer 30. Priuiledges 89. Apostasie 90 Iewes compared to Gideons fleece 90. Why and when so called 91. Their three Courts 98. Punnishments 99. 100. Computation of dayes houres watches moneths yeares 105 106. seq Their Tekupha 107. Feasts 107. Sabboath 106. 107. New Moone and Passeoner 107. 108. Pentecost Trumpets Reconciliation Tabernacles ibid. 109. 110 111. 112. Feast of Lots 114 Of Wood-carrying Dedication and other Feasts and Fasts 114 115. Oblations Gifts and Sacrifices of the Iewes 115. 116 Tithes and first-fruits 117. 118 Personall Offerings 119. 120 Their Priests and Leuits and First-borne 121. 122. Their Sects 123. 124. 125. Washings 127. Temple vide Temple The Iewes distinguished into Hebrewes Graecians and Babylonians 124. Into Karraim Rabbinists 125. 126. Hatred of the Samaritans 136. 137. Odious to all people 140. Destroyed by Titus 140. 141. By Adrian 141. 142. Forbidden to looke into Iudaea 142. Their Rebellion vnder Traian 143. Their Barcosba 142. Their Pseudo-Moses and Andrew 143. Their false Christs 143. 144. The dispersions of Iewes and destruction in Asia Africke Europe Germany 144. 145. in France Spaine Barbary 145. 146. In Zant Solinichi ibidem Their estate and dispersions in the time of Beniamin Tudelensis 146 147. 148. 149. Iewes lately found in China 150. In England 151. The manner of their life gouernment in England 152. Their Villanies there ibid. Chronologie 153. 154. The Iewish Talmud and Scripture 155. 159. Their conceits of the Traditionall Law ibidem When and by whom written 157. Preferring it before the Law written ibid. Paralelled with Papists 158. 159. By whom this Tradition passed ibidem Absurdities thereof 160. Of the Iewish Cabala and Cabalists 161. 162. The three Parts of the Cabalisticall Arte ibidem Testimonies of Iewes against themselues 163. Their Blasphemie of Christ 164. Of their Rabbines and the Rites of their Creation 164. seq Of their Rabbinicall Titles Dignitie diuers Rankes Degrees Academies 165. 166 sequitur Their yeeres sitted to diuers Sciences c. 167. The Iewes dealing in and with the Scriptures their Interpretations c. 168. 169. sequitur Letters and Prickes and Masoreth 170 The Moderne Iewish Creed 170. 171. Their Interpretation of the same 172. Their Affirmatiue and Negatiue Precepts 173. The Negatiue Precepts Expounded by the Rabbines 174. The Affirmatiue vnfolded 175. 176 Their Absurde Exposition of Scriptures 177. sequitur Their Dreames of Adam 178. Iewesses Conception Trauell and Tales of Lilith 179. The Iewish manner of Circumcision 179. 180. If Female Children 180. 181 Of the Iewish Purification Redemption and Education 181. 182. Dreames of Sucking Going Bare Vngirt c. ibidem Iewish Prayers at Morning 183. Their Rising Clothing Washing 134 Of their Zizis and Tephillim and holy Vestments 184 185. Of their Schoole or Synagogue 185. Of their Prayers and an hundred Benedictions 186. sequitur Redeeming of Sacrifices ibidem Of their Echad and other Prayers 187 188. Superstition in place and gesture and their Litanie ibidem Why they keepe Cattell 188. Their washing and preparing to meat behauiour at meat opinion of Spirits attending their meates and Graces 188. 189 Their Euen song Nocturnes ibidem Their Mundayes and Thursdayes 190. Their Law-Lectures 191. Their selling Offices womens Synagogue ibid. their preparations to the Sabbath 192 Their Sabbataery Superstitions opinions 192. 193. Fables of Sunne and Moone Sabbatary soules ibid. Of the Iewish Passeouer and the Preparation therevnto 194. 195. The Rites in obseruation thereof ibid. Their Pentecost and Tabernacles 196. 197 Their New-moones New yeeres day Iudgement day Saint-worship 196. 197. Their Confession Lent Cock-superstition and Penance 197. 198. Of their Cookerie and Butchery 200. 201. Of their manifold coozenage ibid. Of their Espousals and Marriage 201. 202. Marriage duties and Diuorce 203. 204. Of the Iewish Beggars 205. Diseases ibidem Iewish Penances ibid. Their Ceremonies about the sicke about the dead in the house at the Graue and after the Buriall with all their Funerall Rites 206. 207. Iewish Purgatory ibid. Their two Messiasses and the signes of the comming of their Messias 207. 208. 209 Acts of Messias Ben Ioseph ibid. Iewish tales of monstrous Birds Fishes and Men 210. Their Messias his Feast 211. the hopes and hinderances of the Iewes Conuersion 212. 213. seq Scandals to the Iewes ibid. A merry tale of a Iew of his fellowes deluded 580. 581. Their trauell to the Sabbaticall Riuer ibid. Iezid sonne of Muaui the 8. Chalifa 021. Iezid sonne of Abdulmelic the 16. Chalifa 1025 Was giuen to women playes and spectacles ibid. Ignatius Loyala the Iesuite-founder 158 Ilands adiacent to Asia 577. seq Ilands peculiar to one sexe 578 Ilands adiaceat