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

endeavours Pliny says that Cadmus Milesius first writ Histories amongst the Grecians which contain the Actions of Cyrus King of Persia Albeit Josephus supposeth it to be probable that Histories were begun by the old writers of the Hebrews as in the time of Moses who wrote the Lives of many of the most ancient Hebrews and the Creation of the World or else to the Priests of Aegypt and Babylon For the Aegyptians and Babylonians have been reputed of a long continuance the most diligent writers in so much that their Priests were appointed for that purpose to preserve things that were worthy to be had in memory Hunting and Fishing the Phenecians first found out Warrens and Parks were made first by Fulvius Hirpinus and now they are every where in use I am sure too much in England to the so great damage of Pastures that might Feed other Cattle more benificial to the Common-wealth I IRON and BRAS as Strabo writes a certain People named Thelchines first wrought on The Smiths Forge some think the Calybians found and some suppose they were the Cyclops Vulcans Smugs which first used the Smiths craft Diodorus is of opinion that the Iclei Dactyli and Vulcan were the first inventers of Iron and of all Mettalls that are wrought with the Fire Sothering of Iron Glancus found But as I take it that all these before named sound the use of such things in their own Countries For t is not to be questioned but that the use of all such Mettalls was perceived in the beginning of the World by Tubal-cain which was Son to Lamech expert and exercised in the Smiths craft Clement referreth the tempering of Iron to Delas The institution of the Anointing of Kings and Priests was to signify that they were especially favoured of God and like as Oyl lyeth aloft in the Water or other Liquor so the Office of a Priest and Dignity of a Prince surmounts all other degrees of Ministers both in the active and also contemplative life When Moses had builded the Tabernacle he was commanded to make a confection of holy Oyntment wherewith both the work and vessels of Priests and also of Kings which were called to that Office or Dignity ought to be Anointed so that it came to pass that the Anointing was the very token and difference whereby Kings were known amongst the Hebrews as the Emperours in Rome were known by their Purple Robes Aaron and his Sons were the first Anointed Priests and Samuel Anointed Saul first King over Israel and so consequently it grew into a custome that Priests and Kings were Anointed L THe Law is a constant and perpetual good thing without which no House no Citty no Countrey no Estates of Men no Natural Creature nor the World it self can consist firm and stable For it obeyeth God and all other things Aire Water Land and Men are in obedience to it Chrysippus calleth it a knowledge of all Divine and Humane Affairs commanding equity and expulsing wickedness and wrong There are of Laws three kinds one Natural that is not only appropriated to man but also it concerneth all other living things either in the Earth Sea or Aire as we perceive in all kinds of living Creatures naturally a certain familiarity of Male and Female procreation of Kind and a proclinity to nourish the same the which proceedeth from a Natural Law engrafted in them Nature her self that is God was the Author of this The second is Named the Law which all men use generally throughout the World as to shew a man the way to communicate to men the commodity of the Elements Water and Aire to this kind appertaineth the Law of Armes and it is called in Latine Ius Gentium-Civil Law is of every Country or Citty as of the Romans Lacedemonians Athenians c. This consisteth in decrees of Princes Statutes and Proclamations The chief and principal Laws were promulgate by God confirmed after the most pure and perfect manner stable constant and subject to no transmutation After the example of these Man hath invented Laws to defend and preserve good men and to punish and keep wicked Persons in good Order Such Laws Ceres made first as Diodonus writes but others suppose it to be Rhadamantus and afterwards others in divers Countreys devised and ordained Laws as in Athens Draco and Solon in Aegypt Mercury in Creet Minos in Lacedemonia curgus in Tyre Tharandus in Argos Phoroneus in Rome Romulus in Iltaly Pythagoras or after the mind of Dionisius the Arcadians that were under Evander as their Soveraign Lord and chief Captain Notwithstanding the very true Author of Laws is God which as hath been said first planted in us the Law of Nature and when it was corrupted by Adam and his posterity he gave the Written Law by Moses to reduce us again to our first state and true instinct of Nature which was before all other as Eusebius declaireth Lotts the casting of them Numerius Suffusius devised first at Preneste Looking-Glasses of Silver were invented by Praxiteles in the time of Pompey the Great there were also invented Looking-Glasses of Steel Lead Christal-Glass which one Sydon is reported to have been the first inventer of Glass was found out in Phenicia being ingendered in the River which is called Belus and it happened on this occasion A Merchants Ship being fraighted with Salt-peter came to that place and as they were prepairing their Meat on the Sands they could not find Stones to bear up their Vessels so that they were fain to lay great pieces of Nitre under them which being set on Fire and mingling with the Sand there appeared great flakes of melted Glass Lamps and Hanging Lights began of the Candles that Moses set up to burn in the Tabernacle Laws of Mourning of Obit's Funeral Exequies that are performed over dead Bodyes were the institution of Polugius although Isidore ascribeth the Original of it to the Apostles and he himself did augment the Rites that we use at this time Ambrose supposeth that Mourning proceeded from the Custom of the Hebrews which Lamented Jacob Forty days and Moses the space of Thirty days for that time was but counted sufficient for the Wife to weep in It was also the custom of the antient Romans to mourn For Numa Pompilius assigned Oblations to the Infernal Gods for the dead and did inhibite that a Child under the age of three years should be bewailed and that the elder sort should be mourned no more months then he had lived if any were married within that space again it was counted for a great reproach Wherefore Numa ordained that such as left of Mourning before the day limited should offer a Cow that was great with calf for expiation If that Rite were used now adayes and namely in England we should have small store of Veals there be so many that Marry within the space of time prescribed Plutarch writeth that the Women in their Mourning laid aside all Purple Gold and Sumptuous or rich Apparral and were cloathed

Marcus Tuditanus being Consuls set forth the first Enterlude or Fable a year before Ennius was Born Before those days it was so despicaple that if one had professed himself to be a Poet he was imagined to be as bad as a Murtherer The Author of Meter was Almighty God who proportioned the World with a certain order as it were a Meter For there is none as Pythagoras taught that can possibly doubt but that there is in things Heavenly Earthly a kind of Harmony unless it were govern'd with a formal concord and described number how could it so long continue all other instruments that we poscess are all fashioned by a manner of Measure Diodorus assigneth the invention of Meter which the Poets by a Spiritual influence used in their Works to Jupiter to the Almighty God Of Meters there are divers kinds that have their Name either of the thing that is described therein as Heroical Meter is so called of the Wars of Noble men that are conteined in it wherein also Appollo gave his Oracles therefore Pliny saith we have that Meter of Pythius Oracle or of the inventour as Aesclepiadicall or of the quantity of Jambicks because it consisteth of a short and long which Archilocus first invented of the number of Feet as Hexameter and Pentameter which is also called Elegaical The Shepards Song Daphus the Son of Mercury was first expert in others in process of time made a further progress in this Art Prose as Pliny expresses was first writ by Phiresides a Syrian in the time of King Cyrus For t is not to be questioned but that he that write Histories write also Pross first and Pheresides was long after Moses which was 688 years after Joatham King of the Jews In whose time the Olympiads began and this Pheresides as Eusebius writes was but in the first Olympiad Pope Jone she was after the time of Charles the Great in the year from the Birth of Christ 154. She Governed the Apostolical Seat two years some months and dayes she held this for a Maxime Nascitur indigne per quem non nascitur alter Indigne vinit per quem non vinit et alter The Purple Colour was found as Pollux writeth upon this occasion Herades being in Love with a Beautiful Lady named Tyro as he walked by a Sea Cliffe his Grey-hound chanced to find a Shee l called a Purple and when he had crackt it with his strong Teeth the orient colour of the Blood remained on his Snout which flesh pleasant colour the Lady espying threatned Hercules that she would never admit him to injoy her untell he brought her a Cloath dyed with that precious colour Hercules willing to accomplish his Ladies desire got the Purple Fish and carried the Blood to his Soveraign Lady And after this manner the Purple colour first began amongst the Tyrians The Emperours of Rome were the first that wore the Purple Robes which have since been so honoured by Princes so as it is now accounted for the Royal colour Pardons were first proclaimed by St. Gregory This seed Sown by him grew to a ripe Harvest in the time of Boniface the Ninth who Reaped much Money for that Chaffe Parishes after that the Priesthood was ordained both least the care should be overgreat and also that every man might know what his charge was and how far his Office extended Dionisius in the year of our Lord 267 devised both in Rome and other places Churches Church-Yards and Parishes to Curats and Diocesses to Bishops and commanded that every one should be contented with his prescript bounds Phylosophy which Tully calleth the studdy of Wisdome the searcher of Virtue and expulser of Vice according to divers opinions was brought first out of Barbary into Greece by Persia the Magi for so they called their Wise men that excelled in Knowledge in Asia the Chaldees in India the Gymsophists so called because they went Naked of which Faction one Budas was chief In France the Druider in Phenice Ochus in Thrace Xamolxis and Orpheus in Libia Atlas The Aegyptians affirm that Vulcanus the Son of Nylus found the first principles of Phylosophy Lacertus Writes that Phylosophy began in Greece that Maseas and Linus were the first Learned men but Eusebius will have it that Phylosophy like all other Sciences sprung amongst the Hebrews and from them the Greek Phylosophers which were a Thousand years after Moses which derived their Knowledge from them Phylosophy the Name of it was not used amongst them till the time of Pythagoras for he called himself a Phylosopher and the studdy of Wisdome Phylosophy whereas formerly it was named Wisdome and they that professed it had the Title of Wise men There are three parts of it one called Natural another Moral and the faculty of disputing called Logick The Natural is of the World and the contents thereof which Arthelaus brought out of Jonia into Athens Moral reformeth the Life and Manners of men this part Socrates traduced from Heavenly things to the use of Life to discern good and bad Logick inventeth reason on both parts it was first said to have been found out by Zeno Eliates others devide Phylosophy into Five parts Natural Supernatural Moral Mathematical and Logick The Potters Craft that worketh things in Clay and Earth Chotibus an Athenian is said first to have invented as Pliny Writes in his seventh Book but in his Thirty-fifth Book he ascribeth the Original of it to Dibutades at Corinth whom he saith by the help of his Daughter invented this Art who after she understood that her Lover was to depart into a strange Nation for the tender Love that she bore to him she drew his Image on a Wall after the form of his shaddow by Candle-light which her Father filled and Fashioned with Clay and made it into a figure and resemblance of his Body and dryed it with the fire and set it in the common Hot-house where the Maids and Women kept their Baths and there it remained till Mummius destroyed Corinth Demeratus Father to Tarquinius Priscus King of the Romans first brought it into Italy Lisistratus a Serenian invented the making of Moulds and found the way to work Images in them The Potters Wheel or Frame as Ephorus writes Anacharsis a Phylosopher of the Countrey of Scythia invented The chief Work-men in this Art were said to have been Demopholus and Gorgosus Prayer was from the Beginning Abel prayed Noah Abraham Isaack and Jacob with other Patriarcks fought God by prayer in all their doubtful affaires and gave thanks for the good atchieving of them Moses and Aaron with others as Anna the Wife of Helcanah gave us an example of Prayer But Christ is the first that shewed us any special form of prayer as appeareth in the Gospel of St. Matthew There were devised by one Petrus Heremita of the City of Amiens Beads to say the Ladys Psalters on in the year of our Lord 1090. The same Peter the Hermit was the occasion that Pope