then the hangman having a pan of Coals near him with red hot pincers nip'd of the nipple of one breast then he took a knife and gives him a slash or cut down the back on one side from the shoulder to the waste and presently gave him such another slash three inches from the first then on the top he cut the slashes into one and presently taking pincers took hold of the cross cut and tore him down like a Girse below the middle letting it hang down behind him like a belt after which he took his burning pincers and pluck'd off the tops of his fingers of one hand then passing to another place of the Town his other nipple was plucked off the other side of his back so cut and mangled which they call by the name of rimming his other fingers nip'd off then passing further all his Toes were nip'd off with the burning pincers after which he was inforced to come out of the Cart and go on foot up a steep hill to the Gallows where he was broken with a wheel alive one bone after another beginning at his leggs and ending with his neck and last of all quartered and laid on the Wheel on a high post till Crows Ravens or consuming time consume him This was the manner of both their executions but I speak of the greatest murther particularly because it is reported that all these torments never made him once to change countenance or to make any sign or action of grief to call to God for mercy or to intreat the people to pray for him but as if he had been a sensless stock or stone he did most scornfully and as it were in disdain abide it whilst the other Villain did cry rore and make lamentation calling upon God often The difference was not much in their lives and manner of their deaths but the odds may be great in their dying In the City of Prague is said to be of Churches and Chappels 150. I was there at four several sorts of divine exercise viz. at good Sermons with the Protestants at Mass with the Papists at a Lutherans preaching and at the Jews Synagogue three of which I saw and heard for curiosity and the other for Edification The Jews in Prague are in such great numbers that they are thought to be of Men Women and Children betwixt 50 or 60000. who do all live by Brokage and Usury upon the Christians and are very rich in Money and Jewels so that a man may see 10 or 12 together of them that are accounted worth 20 30 or 40000 l. a piece and yet the slaves go so miserably attired that 15 of them are not worth the hanging for their whole ward-ropes The City of Hamburgh The priviledges of their grand hang-man YOu must understand that this fellow is a Subsidy Hangman to whom our Tyburn Tatterdemallion or our Wapping winde-pipe stretcher is but a Raggamuffin not worth the hanging The priviledges of this Grand haulter-master are many as he hath the emptying of all the Vaults or draughts in the City which no doubt he gains some favour by Besides all Oxen Kine Horses Dogs or any such beasts if they dye themselves or if they be not like to live the hang man must knock them on the head and have their skins and whatsoever Inhabitant in his jurisdiction doth any of these things aforesaid himself is abhorred and accounted as a Villain without Redemption So that with hangings headings breakings pardoning and killing of Dogs flaying of Beasts emptying of Vaults and such privy Commodities his whole Revenue sometimes amounts to four or five hundred pounds a year And he is held in that regard and estimation that any man will converse and drink with nay sometimes the Lords of the Town will feast with him and it is accounted no impeachment to their honours for he is held in the rank of a Gentleman or a rank Gentleman and he scorns to be clad in the cast weeds of executed offenders no he goes to the Mercers and hath his Sattin his Velvet or what stuffe he pleases measured out by the Yard or the Ell with his Gold and Silver Lace his silk Stockings laced spangled Garters and Roses Hat and Feather with four or five brave Villains attending him in Livery Cloaks who have stipendary means from his ignominious bounty Their manner of executing Thieves and Murtherers upon the Wheel I shall name one for a president A Poor Carpenter dwelling in the Town who having stoln a Goose and plucking it within his doors a little Girl his Daughter-in-law went out of his house and left the door open by which means the owner of the Goose passing by espyed the wretched thief very diligently picking what he before had been stealing to whom the owner said Neighbour I now perceive which way my Geese use to go but I will have you in Question for them and so away he went the Caitiff being thus reproved grew desperate and his Child coming into his house ye young whore quoth he must ye leave my door open for folks to look in upon me and with that word he took a hatchet and with a cursed stroak he clove the Childs head for the which murther he was condemned and judged to be broken alive upon the wheel Upon the day of Execution about the hour of 12 at Noon the people of the Town in great multitudes flocked to the place of Execution which is half a mile English without the Gates the Prisoner came on foot with a Divine with him all the way exhorting him to repentance and because death should not terrifie him they had given him many Rowses and Carowses of Wine and Beer for it is a custom there to make such poor wretches drunk whereby they be made sensless either of Gods mercy or their own misery but being pray'd for by others they themselves may die resolutely or to be feared desperately But the Prisoner being come to the place of death he was by the Officers delivered to the hang-man who entring his strangling fortification with two grand hang-men more and their men to assist their Hamburghian brother in this great and weighty work the Prisoner mounted on a mount of Earth built high on purpose that the people about may see the execution a quarter of a mile round about four of the hang-mens men takes each of them a small halter and by the hands and the feet they hold the prisoner extended all abroad lying on his back then the Arch-hang-man or the great Master of this mighty business took up a wheel much about the bigness of one of the fore wheels of a Coach and first having put off his Doublet his Hat and being in his shirt as if he meant to play at Tennis he took the wheel and set it on the edge and turn'd it with one hand like a Top or Whirly-gig then he took it by the Spoaks and lifting it up with a mighty stroke he beat one of the poor wretches legs in
then you will be more sorrowful and less dainty poor Jerusalem had once Beauty Strength Riches spacious Buildings Authority and honour yet these availed them nothing wrong trode down right and Justice was quite forgotten which was their chiefest their greatest their only earthly good But now one little piece of bread they reckoned more upon then ever before they did of bags of Gold Scraps parings and fragments c. which your full sed Corps did usually fling away with them had been a ransom for a King the loathsome garbage which our dogs refuse had been amongst the Jews a dish of state Whilst within Famine plaid the Tyrant the Romans Army strived to win the Walls their Pioners and all their Engines were at work to batter and assault the Wall Now note Jerusalem had three strong stone Walls and long it was ere the Romans could get one but the dearth so spread and death of the sword as that in the streets the living trod upon the dead the Carkasses which the Seditious kill'd fill'd many great houses so that with the stinck of bodies putrefied there dyed a number numberless of people for burial they afforded none but where they fell they let them lye stink and rot yet very unsensible were they of the sad condition of each other by hundreds and thousands then did the souldiers throw their liveless Corpses over the Walls upon this and their dis-uniting the Romans had high advantages and could with more security batter and scale the Walls When the Romans saw their dismal fall from the Walls they told it to Titus which when he perceived he wept and lifted up his hands to Heaven and called on God to witness with him this These flanghters saith he were no thoughts of mine neither was it my fault Indeed those wretches that escaped from out of the City and came amongst their foes in my Army found both relief and pity if any of those that fled to my Army had by the Seditious been caught they had without remorse strook them dead But another misery I must unfold unto you many Jews had swallowed store of Gold which they supposed in their need should help them but from this treasure did their bane proceed the Gold was the cause that many of them perisht amongst them all one unhappy poor creature went privately to do the needs of Nature and in his dung he looked for his Gold where being by the straggling souldiers took they ript him up and searched his Maw to find what Gold or treasure there remained In this sort was many a Man and Woman ript and slain for the gain of Gold that the souldiers gaped for In some they found Gold in many none but had they Gold or not it was all one with them they were unbowelled and searched most barbarously whither they had any or no. But my story briefly to conclude Vespasians Souldiers had subdued the walls his triumphant banner was displayed and that in the midst of the streets at which the Jews were all dismayed and upon which they desperately did retire to the Temple which with ungodly hands they set on fire which noble Titus with great care intreated them they would spare Oh save the house quoth he and I will spare you for the Temple sake quench the fire put out the flame Oh let not after-times report that you have burnt the worlds unmatchable glory For your own sakes your wives and your childrens if from Vespasians hands you expect grace if from Vespasians hands you expect your lives oh save your Temple Titus doth command you to save the Temple The Jews heard of the mercy they might have had but with hearts hard they refused the offer they refused mercy and themselves regarded not but in their madness they burned consumed and confounded to the ground King Solomons great Temple that Temple which did cost thirty Millions was in a moment lost and consumed The blest Sanctum Sanctorum the holiest place often blessed with Johovahs sacred grace where as the Text saith were 22000 Oxen slain and 12000 sheep besides dyed at the same time for an oblation That house of God whose glorious fame made all the World to wonder was burnt and ransackt and laid level to the ground which when it was seen by Vespasian and young Titus they cry'd kill kill those wretched Jews spare not to kill use speedy and Marshal Law the Roman souldiers then fell on and spared none they slew while they were weary of slaying and had no respect to Age or Sex the streets were drowned in bloud and slaughtered-Carkases did swim in in bloud the ablest men that were saved they carryed away for slaves John Simon and Eleazer as they deserved were brought to violent ends Now from that time that the Romans began their siege until the City was won by Sedition by the Sword Fire and Famine were deprived of their lives eleven hundred thousand besides one hundred thousand were taken as beasts and sold for slaves and from the time it was first erected till the Romans had takeâ— it it stood as appears in Histories twenty one hundred seventy and nine years But before Gods vengeance was showred down upon them what strange prodigious Wonders did he shew as warnings how they should avoid their destruction and cause them to repent the wicked evils they had done 1. The Firmament shewed them a Comet like a fiery Sword 2. Divers nights the Temple and the Altar were environed with bright burning lights 3. In the midst of the Temple though una Cow did bear a Lamb. 4. No Bolts or Bars could restrain the Temple-gates but they would fly open of themselves 5. In the Air assembled Armed men and Chariots the pondrous Earth quaked affrighted and trembled 6. To this sense a voice cryed in the Temple the people cry'd oh let us from hence depart These supernatural accidents foretold some fearful Judgment was to come but toyes they were accounted to the Jews or scar-crow-bugbears to fright children with and not minding them nor no way by them being affrighted they did in Jerusalem securely revell they thought these signs were against their foes and not them But when war when death when spoil when ruine had storm'd them appear'd the place so desolate as none could have known there had been a City Thus Juda and thus Jerusalem fell which Christ did foretell and was now fulfill'd that all their joys they should be bereft off and that one stone should not be left to stand upon another FINIS THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK SHeweth that in Asia did God begin his marvellous work of Creation and there was the first Church Collected also the Saviour of the World born and slain In this Asia abounds Myrrhe Frankinsence Nutmegs Pepper c. and it breeds Elephants and many other Beasts and Serpents page 1. 2 3 4. In the City Medina in Arabia is Mahomet Intombed in an Iron Chest supported by Art from falling to the ground 5 A brief
old Law forbad Swines flesh that he might with more ease lead on such as were Jewish he suffered himself to be baptized by Sergius that the Christian too might have in some measure his content Moses and our Saviour he denyed not to be great Prophets but that neither party might emulate the greater observance of other and indeed especially that his own might seem new and yet take place from both he changed the circumsion of the Jews from the eighth day and multiplyes baptism which can be conferred but once for all upon the true believer For the like reason of difference with other Nations and Sects he left both the Jews Sabbath and diem Christianorum Dominicum and commands his holy ceremonies to be celebrated on the Friday for so it was whent he Bull bestowed on him his Alcaran Before they enter the Temple they wash all the unclean parts of their bodies and then to prayer which must be performed five times in a day with their face toward the South They have a Months fast too once every year but it is observed only for the day for they may when the Sun is down redeem it with what gluttony they please Wine is forbidden only for a shew that he might not seem to have loved that which he was guilty to himself had brought him into his Epileptical fits Briefly what he knew would best agree with the brutish desires of the people that he took order should be confirmed by his Laws four or five Wives to every Husband and as many Concubines as they could maintain For their bliss after life he proposed no invisible delights which over reacht their understanding but proportioned to each of their sensual thoughts And promised to those which would keep his Law a Paradise of all kinds of pleasure which they themselves most affected to the covetous wealth to the ambitious Honours to the gluttenous Meats to the Virgins rich attire and embraces of Angels the poor souls were never so fitted and when he had thus for a long time discoursed over his Alcoran he took a yoak from Sergius and put it upon the Bulls neck for it was fore-told by an Inscription brought by his door that whosoever could yoke the Bull it should be a sign to declare the man as one sent from God to govern his people This huddle of Miracles put the Gazers beyond all pause so that in an instant they cryed him up King and held his companion in Reputation of a minor Prophet called themselves Musulmanni true believers which the Turk still affects rather than his right name of Turk which imports banishment and unpraids him the disgrace of his Original And now he hath past the difficulty of his attempt an easie matter to draw on Millions of followers such as would like that Religion best which baulkt not their pleasures yet at last he met with an end answerable to his beginning for he was poysoned by some of his own Family He had long before prophesied that he should be wonderfully conveyed to Heaven and to make good his Fraud had framed an Iron Chest for his Sepulchre which he purposed should have been held up by force of a Load-stone placed in the top of the Temple and by this means have appeared to the beholder to hang in the Air without any support But this trick it seems was prevented by death yet they expected still his ascent to Heaven till he stank upon Earth so that at last they were forced to convey him into his Iron Coffin which remains to this day in Mecha a City of Persia and is visited by the Turks as the Sepulcher of our Saviour at Jerusalem by Pilgrim-Christians China THis Kingdom is in the utmost bounds Eastward of the East India and therefore lyes farthest remote from Christendom the Chinoyse do much exceed us for ample Cities and multitude of Inhabitants It is now a vast Empire and without doubt as they are infinitely populous so they are proportionably Rich beyond any other Nation of the World Their principal Commodities are Silks and Sugars yet besides these they send forth Wool Cotton Olives Metals Rhubarb Honey Purslain dishes Camphire Ginger Pepper c. Musk Salt great store The men are in their several imployments infinitely laborious and ingenuous it is very rare to see any of them in a strange Country nor will they easily admit a stranger far into theirs they are addicted much to Manual Arts for they have excellent practick Wits and indeed for that go beyond any other Nation Much quarrel hath been about the invention of Guns and Printing which several people have been ambitious to take to themselves as the Master-piece of Mans wit but without doubt they were both used here long before any of Europe pretended to the knowledge of either In their writings they make not their Lines from the Right hand to the left as the Hebrews nor from the left to the right as we do but from the top to the bottom of the page and use all one Character through the whole Kingdom Their special skill which we much admire but cannot imitate is in making the Purslain dishes white as very Snow and transparent as Glass formed up only of Cockles found in the Sea-shore mixt with Egg shells but lye buryed in the Earth many years before they come to perfection and are seldom took up by the same Artificer which kneads them but are left as a portion to some of his Posterity When they travel over the Plains they use a kind of Coach yet not drawn with Horses or other Beast but driven with the Wind under-sail as a Bark on the Sea which the people are as perfect to guide which way they please as the Mariner is to direct his course unto any Coast whither he is bound as they sail upon Land as if it were Sea so they dwell as frequent upon the Sea as if it were Land for they have an incredible number of ships and Boats which are in many places ranked like streets upon the Waters and filled with Inhabitants such as are here born live traffick marry and die Mr. Purchas Reports that upon one River from Nanquin to Paquin they are thus ordered for three hundred leagues No marâ—â—l then if their number exceed any part proportionable of the whole Earth since their Land is not sufficient but is forced to borrow room out of the Sea for their habitation Yet are they all governed by one Monarch whom they call the Lord of the World and Son to the Sun In matters of State they are very Politick in Peace wary and in War Valiant crafty and excellent Engineers Their Laws are for the most part just and severely executed especially against idle drones which set not a hand to advance their State or maintain themselves they will not cherish the very blind by Alms since without eyes a man may be fit for some corporal imployment but to the maimed and lame they deny not a charitable maintenance
the Son is bound to exercise his Parents occupation so that no pretense almost is left for Wonderers and briefly as far as humane Laws can provide all other vain occasions for mis-expence of time are taken off for within the Cities no stews are allow'd or lewd persons to withdraw them Adultery is punished with death but yet they have liberty to take many Wives one they keep at home the rest are disposed of abroad where they best please Their Marriages they chiefly solemnize at the New Moon and for the most part in March which begins their year For their Religion they are Gentiles but have a confused knowledge of God Heaven and the Creation When they would decipher their great God they express him by the first Letter in their Alphabet and in their Devotions they worship him as their chief but not only preserver for they have their prayers to the Sun Moon Stars and to the Devil himself that he would not hurt them Their Priests are distinguished into the black and White Friers as we call them for they much resemble Friers in their course of life some are cloathed in White their heads shorn and their Victuals in common others in black long hair and live apart neither are marryed but both take their liberty to live obscurely as the debauchest swaggerers The chief of the Cities is Paquin where the King hath his continual Residence his Pallace here is compassed with a Triple wall carrys the bulk and face of a fair Town for indeed his retinue are no fewer then might well people a large City among the rest he hath 16000 Eunuchs daily attending such as their own Parents have emascul'd in their Infancy to make them capable of this Court preferment The seat Imperial was heretofore at Nanquin where still remains a Golden testimony of her past glory It is a fair City thirty miles in compass seated nine leagues from the Sea upon a fair Navigable River where there Rides commonly at least 10000. of the Kings ships besides Merchants it hath three brick walls the streets are six miles in length of a proportionable breadth and trimly paved The Metropolis is Quinsay or Suntien the largest City in the world for it contains 100 miles in compass it is seated in a low and Fenny ground is subject to floods and hath been forced in very many places to erect bridges for free passage from one street to another there are in all 12000. built of stone and most of them so high that a good ship may strike under them with full sail each of them hath its ten for a night guard The Inhabitants of this City live luxuriously especially their Women who are much more comely then their men yet all of them almost eat both Horse and Dogs flesh Toward the South part of the City there is a great lake about 24 miles in circuit in the midst stand two Islands whither the chief Nobilty repair and invite their friends to Solemnize their Marriage and have in each a stately Pallace erected furnished sufficiently with all fitting Ornaments for a Wedding jollity In many parts of the City there are publick places of Receipt for such as sustain any misfortune by fire there they may lodge their Goods safe upon a suddain casualty till they can make better provision In each Province the Cities stand so thick and are so populous that they all seem to be as one one as well for their continued building almost as their fashion of building for they all observe the same form and dispose their streets alike two broad crossing each other in the middle in so strait a line that the eye may reach clean from one end to the other The Revenues of the whole Empire and number of Inhabitants are not easily to be reckoned Yet this in brief he hath subject under him 70 Crowned Kings gathers up yearly 120 Millions of Crowns stirs not into the field without 300000 foot and 200000 horse Out of the Description of the Kingdom of TARTARY THese Tartaryans for brutish Customs were grown odious to the more civil parts of the World and as Herod in his fourth Book of Histories delivers were wont to sing their Parents to the Grave invite their best Friends to Feast with their Fathers flesh and use his Scull as a cup to drink in at their lascivious banquets Who more the Axiaca who quenched their thirst with the bloud of him whom they first slew as it gushed warm from his wounds who more foolish proud than the Agathyrst who were used to mend their beauty by a deformed painting and ugly staining of their bodies with motly colours You shall have here their Character which is given by most that describe them to have ill fashioned bodies answerable to their rude minds fit houses for so unclean guests Their Stature is different The most part have large shoulders a broad face with a crooked nose deformed countenance swarthy colour hollow eyes hairy and untrimmed beard and head close shaved Their speech is boisterous and clamorous their noise in singing like the yell of Wolves and endurance of hunger thirst heat cold and watching equals them in strength of body to the most able beast for it exceeds the common power of a man Their lust is without Law for they except no kindred but their own Mothers Daughters and Sisters No species for they mix with beasts nor sex for they are unsatiate Sodomites and yet take liberty for as many Wives which they can maintain which contrary to our civil courses they buy of their Parents instead of receiving Dowries Their meat is the raw flesh of horses without regard how they were killed or what diseases they dyed sometimes they suck bloud from the living to appease their hunger and thirst if in a journey they be distressed for want of food Cities they have but few nor houses other then moveable Tents made of Beasts skins which they pitch up by great multitudes in the form of a Town and those are called hordes when the Grass is once eaten bare and the ground yields not meat for their Cattel they trudge with bag and baggage to another quarter and so in course they wander through the vast Desarts unsetled and indeed impatient to be setled or rather imprisoned as they take it within any bounded compass having the wide world to roam in Their chief Arms are Bow and Arrows which they use most on Horse-back for their most speedy flight and have them commonly strongly poysoned for the more sure mischief to the foe their stratagems are downright fraud and breach of truce for they keep no faith with an Enemy regard not any compact made upon terms of peace but follow their own sense and commit what out-rages they can with least danger to themselves Their Religion is answerable to their vile customs Some are Pagans others Mahometans yet will not be called Turks but Bersemany and their chief Priest Seyd whom they reverence more then their Maker and
is a free City not being subject to the Emperour or any other Prince but only governed by twenty four Burgo-masters whereof two are the chief who are called Lords and do hold that dignity from their first Election during their lives The buildings are all of one uniform fashion very lofty and stately it is wonderful populous and the water with boats comes through most of the streets of the Town Their Churches are most gorgeously set forth as the most of them covered with Copper with very lofty spires and within sides they are adorned with Crucifixes Images and Pictures which they do charily keep for Ornaments In St. Jacobs and in St. Katherines Churches there is in one of them a Pulpit of Alablaster and the other a pair of such Organs which for worth and Workmanship are unparallel'd in Christendom as most travellers do relate The Womens Habit. THe Women there are no fashion-mongers but they keep in their degrees one continual habit as the richer sort do wear a Huick which is a Robe of Cloth or Stuff plated and the upper part of it is gathered and sowed together in the form of an English pot-lid with a tassle on the top and so put upon the head and the garment goes over her tuffe and face if she please and so down to the ground so that a man may meet his own Wife and perhaps not know her from another Woman Men and Women draw Carts their Office THey have no Porters to bear burdens but they have big burly-bon'd Knaves with their Wives that do daily draw Carts any whither up and down the Town with Merchants Goods or any other imployments And it is reported that these Cart-drawers are to see the Rich men of the Town provided of Milch Nurses for their Children which Nurses they call by the Name of Ams so that if they do want a Nurse at any time these fellows are cursed because they have not gotten Wenches enough with Child to supply their wants The Lawyer a bad Trade A Lawyer hath but a bad Trade there for any Cause or Controversie is tryed and determined in three days Quirks Quiddits Demurs Habeas Corpus's Cercioraries Procedendoes or any such dilatory tricks are abolished and not worth a button THE Lamentable Destruction OF THE Ancient and Memorable City and Temple OF JERUSALEM Being destroyed by Vespasian and his Son Titus WArs hath brought dreadful Jars and Confusions both of horrour and terrour unto Domestick Forreign Inward and Outward Estates In Jehovahs ire were shafts shot at Juda so that War Fire Sword Famine Infectious Plagues Depopulations and Desolations was the final Conquest of old Jacobs Land These are the Theames of my mournful Muse these are the grounds of my Lamentation Josephus wrote these things in ample manner which I do here Epitomize That worthy Author in a large scope relates and the Books of his Antiquities do tell his Countries alterations how oftentimes they rose how often they fell how often God favoured them and how often his frowns was upon them and at last in his anger he cast them head-long down The seventh Book of Josephus's wars declareth plainly how the Romans did by Conquest gain the Kingdom how death did in sundry shapes tyrannize both in Sword in Fire in Famine and in Rapes Since Hebers Sons enjoyed the Country it hath been six times wasted and destroyed so that if you account all the Wars since the Creation that hath chanced they are nothing to Jerusalems desolation No story no Memory describes the calamity of old Israels Tribes to be parallel'd And indeed if each Land in the universal did recount the bloudy broyls to them it were but a Molehill to a Mountain all which for sin the Almighty in his anger heaped upon this sinful Land It is now about sixteen hundred years since great Vespasian Romes Imperial Prince with his stout Valiant Son brave young Titus did over-run Judea's Kingdom and with a Royal Army renowned did beleaguer Jerusalem with Forces and stratagems as with Rampiers Engines scaling Ladders and Towers with all the Art that either might or sleight could do The besieged amongst themselves in this interim fell to Sedition like Bavines that lyeth near one to another if one burn and burning each one burneth another so did the Jews each other madly kill insomuch as their streets were fill'd with their slain Corpses Eleazer Simon and John disagreeing rent Jerusalem in pieces each contending who should be the chief John scorned Eleazer as thinking himself most worthy to be Superiour on the other side Eleazer thought John to be his Inferiour and Simon scorned them both and each scorned another and would not by any be ruled or over-born The City being thus divided into three Factions sad it is to relate how horrid their bloudy and inhumane actions were there all impieties were committed in sundry sorts of varieties all sacrilegious acts were counted most noble and meritorious facts In evil they strived each other to surpass and laboured most how to serve the Devil These men had no thoughts of grace and goodness but daily each against the other most madly fought and over-turned all things by their hurly burly so violent were they one against another that they burned each others store-houses with their Victuals And with hearts more harder than the Adamantine Rocks they drailed Virgins by the hair of their heads as also the Aged they spared not to drag about the streets some Infants their brains they dashed out and some upon the points of Lances they bore about the streets It is not possible to write with Pen the devillish out-rages and barbarous acts that was committed by them The advantage upon this seditious and most inhumane disorder that the Romans took is most incredible yet credible it may be because the Jews were altogether unmindful of their own safety they wasted and spoiled one another without remorse insomuch as their enemies their cruel foes relented and wept in pity of them whilst they relentness Villains void of pity did their Mother City consume and ruinate the Channels flowed all with gore bloud the streets were bestrowed with murdered carkasses the Temple with unhallowed hands defiled there was no respect to any to Man Woman or Child Thus this three headed multitude or hellish crew did waste themselves till indeed they did at length subdue themselves but you must note they were not altogether neglective some vigilancy they had upon their enemy and whilst they were making their strength more sure within the Romans without with their dreadful Batteries made not only the City to tremble but the Walls to break at which the factious wisely bethought themselves and assembled themselves together with all their powers and as a wonderment it was united together like good friends And then like swoln Rivers bounded in with Banks they sally forth and fight their enemies like as the ambitious torrent breaks his bounds and over-runs whole Lordships so did these Jews out-dare and challenge
Description of Africa in one of which Cities there is 700 Churches and a Castle whose Globes are pure Gold weighing 130000 Barbury Duckets in one Province they allow not a man to Marry till he hath killed twelve Christians where they also Circumcise Male and Female 6 7 8 9 10 A brief description of Europe wherein is plenty of Corn Plants Fruits Rivers and Fountains of admirable vertue 12 13 A brief description of America in which are that Worship Sun Moon and Stars and adore Images made of Cotton-Wool which by the delusion of Satan utters an Hideous noise which works on them a great awe In Peru doth Gold and Silver so abound that it 's reported they ordinarily shooed their Horses with Gold an Brassel men live for the most part in the Bodies of trees In this Region is an herb called Viva which if toucht will shut up and not open till the party that injured it be out of sight 14 15 16 17 18. A brief description of Greece wherein was first setled the Christian Religion by Timothy 20 21 A brief description of Germany and Bohemia In Cullen is received a Tradition amongst the Inhabitants that the bodies of the Wise-men which came from the East to Worship Christ are Interr'd in Acon they Worship a Clout which they take to be our Saviours Mantle in which he was wrapped 24 25 A brief description of France in one of which Provinces called Aquitania was fought the great Battel betwixt our Black Prince and John of France where with 8000 he conquered 40000 took the King and his son Philip prisoners 70 Earls 50 Barrons and 12000 Gentlemen 29 30 In the Dukedom Lutxenburge Quick is this Memorable story that at one time their studyed 9 Kings Sons 24. Dukes Sons 29 Earls Sons 31 A large description of a Tortoys from p. 47. to p. 51 A discription of Great Brittain in very Remarkable stories from p. 51. to p. 106 Amongst which is a notable story in Essex 1581. of an Army of Mice that so over-run the Marshes near unto South Minster that they shore the Grass to the very roots and in Suffolk was taken a fish in all parts like a man and kept in Orford Castle for six months after escaped and went to Sea again 68 69 In the year 1571. Masley-hill in the East of Hereford-shire removed travelling for three days together began upon the 7th of February at six of the clock at night and before 7 next morning had gone forty paces carrying with it sheep in the coots hedge rows and trees mounting to an hill of twelve fathoms high and there rested after three days travel 75 76 Under Knaves-brough in York-shire there is a Well called Dropping-Well of that vertue and efficacy that it turns Wood into Stones 87 A description of Scotland and Ireland 107 to 116 A description of the Spanish Invasion in Eighty eight 116 117 A description of the Turkish Empire their Religion and Manners with the rise of Mahomet from 118 to 126 A description of China and Tartary from 126 to 138 Rare Observations of a Gentleman in his travels to Bohemia 139 to 148 The priviledges of the Grand-hangman of Hamburgh with the manner of executing Thieves and Murderers the habit of their Women and how their men draw Carts and Carriages 148 to 165 The Lamentable Destruction of the Ancient and Memorable City of Jerusalem with the sore and terrible Famine while Grass Hay Barks Leaves of Trees Cats and Dogs c. with the dung of Fowls and Beasts was dainties to the distressed Jews 165 To the end FINIS This is within the compass of that one part which bears the name of Asia propria Captain Tucker succeeded Mr. Moor Governour arriving in May 1616.