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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	day_n	observe_v	sabbath_n	4,146	5	9.8777	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07871	A briefe collection and compendious extract of the strau[n]ge and memorable things, gathered oute of the cosmographye of Sebastian Munster. Where in is made a playne descrypsion of diuerse and straunge lavves rites, manners, and properties of sundry nacio[n]s, and a short reporte of straunge histories of diuerse men, and of the nature and properties of certayne fovvles, fishes, beastes, monsters, and sundrie countries and places; Cosmographia. English. Abridgments	Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576, attributed name.	1572 (1572)	STC 18242; ESTC S107531	75,351	206

the eeares of the Bishoppe of that place who was nothing fauorable to the Iewes The Bishop vnderstanding that the stub horne Iewes for the scrupulous obseruation of their Sabbothe daye woulde not help their brother out of the Iakes commaunded vpon payne of deathe that they which did so ●uriously obserue their own Sabb●th day shoulde in lyke manner as religiously obserue and kepe with the lyke solemnit●e the next daye after beinge the Christians Sabboth daye This was an harde case what shoulde they nowe do vpon payne of death they must obay In the meane tyme the miserable Iewe in the Iakes was enforces to continue ●ii daies and ii nightes in great filth and stinke daunger of his lyfe● The like history you shall fynde in Fabians Chronicle How the Torneymentes and ●ustes began first in Saxony HEnry Duke of Saxony in the yeare of our Lorde .934 being much assaulted and incūbred with infidels and heathen nations made an assemble of a greate multitude of the nobilitie to assist him in his warrs against the Sarracens wherin he had so good successe that triumphantly he had the victory ouer thē Thus after that he had geuen the repulse to the Infidels considering what a number of the nobilitie hee had dailye exercising themselues in martial acts thought it meete that after the ende of his longe and great warres to recreat theym with some honest and pleasaunt exercise Hee had compassion ouer them because some of them inhabitinge amongest Cittizens should be occupied with ciuill busines not in the exercise of noble and honorabie pastimes meete for suche personages as they were and therfore he prescribed certayne articles accordinge to the whiche they sho●ld liue and if they did tran●gres them that then they should bee punished in the open Turniament These articles were twelue in number The firste whosoeuer of the Nobilitie should say or do any thing agaynst the holy faith hee shoulde be restrayned from y torneyment and if vnder the colour or excuse of the noblenes of any of his auncestours any doth presume to enter the lists or the Torneyment let him with shame be driuen away The second whosoeuer comminge of noble bloud doth attempte any thinge againste the Royall maiesty of Cae●ar let him bee punished openlye in the Torneyment and of this article was the author Conradus a prince of Palatyne The Duke of Franconia was the author of the third which is this Whosoeuer comminge of a noble house betraieth his Lorde or forsaketh him or exciteth to flye away in an army without any necessary cause or sleath his innocent companions let him haue punishment in the open Torneyment The Duke of Sue●eland made the fowerth after this sort Who so euer comming of noble parentage doth violate or diffame by wordes or deedes virgins or women let him be openly corre●ted in the Torneyment The fifte article the Duke of Bauaria made in this man●●r If anye of the nobilitye bee apprehended or reproued to to haue corrupted or falsefyed the seale or to haue violate his othe or hath bene noted of infamye let him as vnworthy be kept from the torneyment The sixt is if any noble man did either secretly or openlye slea his wife and bedfellowe or had helped by his counsell or dede to the destroying of his Lorde that the lawe of the Torneyment should take place agaynst him The seuenth If any did spoyle rob churches chapples widdowes or war●es or kepte by force that whiche was ●heirs from them wher as they were ra●her to bee helped and mainteyned that he should be duly corrected for it The eight If any noble man were be●ome an enemie to an other and did not ●ayntayne his cause by lawfull order● or by martiall law but would hurt his aduersary by robberies or by destroying of ●is goods especially his wines corne ●herby the common wealth is endama●ed let him be tormented in the Torneymente The ninthe If anye did presume to make any alteracion or set anye heauye burden vppon others otherwise then of auncient times were vsed how so euer it were done c. that he should haue his correction in open Torneyment The tenth if any were canuicte of adulterye c. in like manner let him bee amended The eleuenth What so euer Noble man doth not liue as a noble man should do c. in lyke maner let him be punished The twelfe He that wil be at the torneyment not cōming o● noble parentage or cannot proue his nobility in foure descents he may not enter into the exercise of the Torneyment Thus in a briefe somme you may see the manner of the Tor●eymente in Saxony the whiche Munster moste largely doth set forth with euery article in his order Of wilde Bulles iu Prussia THere be wild Bulles in the woods of Prussia like vnto the common sort of Bulls sauing that they haue shorter hornes and a long beard vnder the ●hinne They bee cruell and spareth ney●he man nor beast and when any snares or disceite is prepared to take thē or they ●e wounded with arrowes in the woods they labour most vehemently to reuenge their wounds vpon him that gaue them the which thing if they cannot do rushing and stumbling on trees they kill thē selues They be of such bignes that two men may sit betwixt their hornes Of Iselande IN this countrye from the .x. of Iune for a moneth space or moore they haue no night at all and about the tenth of December they haue no day at all The people liueth in dens and holowe places in hilles sydes with them mountaynes and ●illes are in steede of Townes and spring waters for delicate drinkes An happy nation whose poore estate none doth enuye and so much the more that is ●at● receiued christiannitie The marchauntes of England and Denmarke do not suffer thē to be content with their owne but by reason of the goode fishing● there they repayre thither often times with their marchaundize they carry thy●ther their vices and enormities They haue learned now of late to brewe with malt and haue left the drinking of playne water They haue also golde and siluer in admiraciō as well as other nations The king of Denmarke that ruleth also Norway maketh a ruler amōgest them yearly all thinges be common amongest them sauing their wiues they esteme their yong cattel as much as their children and of the pore sort you may soner obtayne their child then their cattel They honour their Bishop as a king to whose wyll and pleasure all the people hath great respect whatsoeuer he determineth by lawe scripture or by custome of other nations that they do curiouslye obserue and yet now the king hath cōpel●ed them to take a ruler They haue so great store of ●ishe in this isle that they make their ●ales of them in piles as high as ●ouses they liue most cōmonly there by fishe for the great penurye of wheate and corne which is brought vnto theym ●rom other nations that with great lucre

Turkes are wonte to faste one moneth and one weeke euery yere bu● they do not alwayes keepe one prefixe● tyme for if this yeare they faste in ●●mmary the next yeare they will doo it i● Fe●ruarye● the third in Marche and so orderly of the rest and when they doe fa●●● they taste and eate nothinge all the whole day not so much as bread or water 〈◊〉 when ●●errs appeare it is lawfull for them to eate al thinges sauinge thinges which are suffocate and swynes fleshe They haue vineyardes the fruite and cōmoditie wherof they vse diuerslye The Christians make wine and the Turkes do so prepare honye raysons that they appeare alwayes freshe both in tas●e and sight they haue three maner of drinkes the first of Sugar or hony mixte with water The seconde of raysons sod in water the stones castaway and then rose water is added vnto them and a little of the best ●ony The third is made of wine wel sodden and representeth a kynde of honnye both in tast and sighte this is tempered withe water and geeuen to seruaunts to drinke When they should eat any thing they strewe their floores and groundes with matts and other thinges then they lay carpets and tapestrye worke or rushines a●d some sit downe vpon the naked earth their table is of some skinne as I s●ide before● it is drawē at large and shit ●●g●ther agayn as a purse they sitte not downe after oure manner nor yet as the people of olde were wonte to do leaninge on their elbowes but with their feet folde● together in the formes of this letter X. lyke vnto the maner of bo●●hers and before they take take any meat they hau● their prayers or thankes geuinge The●●●te gredelye and hastelye with greate silence but al their wiues ●epeth the in ●elues in secret Those whiche are captiue 〈◊〉 neuer go abrode nor can get lycence but with other Turkishe women when they go to washe them in bathes ●r in any other place ou● of the cittie for recreation sake into gardens or vineyar●●● ●●t alwayes keepe hoome at their worke and it is not lawfull for other women 〈…〉 sant wit● their captiues Of th● 〈◊〉 of the Turkes THe 〈…〉 not in 〈…〉 the manner 〈…〉 as the 〈…〉 eyght yeares and can speake the 〈◊〉 ●ell the whiche 〈…〉 them for y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 whiche are 〈◊〉 before 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 for thys 〈…〉 in to the ●●●ple but is circumcised at home in his parents house There be assembled at this notable feast al their frendes and commonly amongst the richer sort they kil an Oxe and therin they include and put in a Sheepe exenterate and readye dressed in the whiche Sheepe there is a Hen in the which hen there is an Egge which are all rosted together for the solempnitie of that daye then at supper time in their banquet the child which must be circūcised is brought in whose yearde and priuie member the phisician openeth and apprehendethe the folded skinn with a fine payre of pinsons then to take al feare from the childe hee ●aith that he will make the circumcision the next day and whileste hee vseth those wordes he sodeyn●ye cutteth the prepuce whiche is the skin that couereth the head of the yearde layinge a little salt on the wound They do not geue names to their children in the day of circumcision but in the day of their natiuitie after thre days space he that is circumcised is led withe great pompe vnto the hath when he commeth home agayne he is led throughout all the gestes whiche offer vnto him their prepared gifts some geue silke garmēts some siluer cups others present him monye or horses If any christian man of his owne accorde confessing Mahumet wyll suffer himselfe to be circumcised whyche thing chaunceth often times for the greuouse exaction and burden of the tribute such one is ●e● throughout all the stretes and lanes of the cittie with greate honor and triumphe of the people for ioye playinge on the drummes and to him manye giftes are presented and afterward he is made fre from their payment and tribute Yet the Turkes compel no man to the denial of his religion although they be cōmaunded in the booke of Alcoran to expulse the aduersaries and gainsayers wherof it commeth to passe that so many and diuerse sectes of people are found amongest the Turkes al whiche do reuerrence and honour God after their peculier rites and customes Their priestes do little differ from the laitie and ther is no great learning to be required in them it is ynoughe if they can reade the booke of Alcoran but those which can interprete the booke according to the texte are estemed as most cunning because Mahumet gaue his precepts not in the vulgar turkishe tonge but in the Arabicall tonge they thinke it a wicked vnlawful thing to haue them interpreted or set forthe in the vulgar tongue these ministers haue their stipende and rewarde of the prince for their paynes they haue wiues and apparell euen as secular men if the stipend be not sufficient for the multitude number of their children then may they practise and vse al maner of artes crafts and trades that other men doe but yet they are free from exactions and other imposicions and are greatly estemed of the cōmon sorte They haue diuers liuing solitarye like vnto monkes which vnder the colour of religion inhabite the woodes desert places vtterly renounsinge mens company and som of them haue nothing of their owne but they go almoste naked sauing that their priuy partes be couered with Sheepe skinnes they traueyle and wander through oute countries askinge almes as well of the Christians as of the Turkes Some of theym goe seldome abroade but continue in temples hauinge in the corners of churches litle cottages their heades vncouered their feete without shoes their bodies without garmēts bearing nothing about thē but one shirt they fast many dayes and praye that God would reueale vnto them things to com and the prince of the Turkes is wonte to aske counsell of them when soeuer he goeth about any warres VVhat execution of Iustice the Turk● haue what kinde of mariages what maner of apparell and liuinge THe Turkes do execute iustice mo●● exquisitely for hee that is giltie of slaughter or bloudshed is alwayes punished with like vexacion and torment He that is taken withe a woman in adultrye is stoned to death without mercy or ●arying There is also a punishmente appointed for those whiche are taken in fornication for who so euer is apprehended for it he must suffer eight hundred lashes with a whip a thiefe for the firste and second tyme is so manye times scourged also but if he be taken the third tyme he loseth his hand at the fowerth tyme hys foote Hee that doth any damage to anye bodye ●s compelled to make satisfaction according to the estimate of the losse They admit no witnesses but very mete and allowable persons and such as may be