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A41077	Batavia, or, The Hollander displayed in brief characters & observations of the people & country, the government of their state & private families, their virtues and vices : also, A perfect description of the people & country of Scotland.; Brief character of the Low-Countries under the states	Felltham, Owen, 1602?-1668.; Weldon, Anthony, Sir, d. 1649? Perfect description of the people and countrey of Scotland.	1672 (1672)	Wing F647; ESTC R13602	23,207	94

cakes would make them long-winded and the children of the Chappel they have brought to eat of them for the maintenance of their voices They say our Cooks are too sawcy and for Grooms and Coachmen they wish them to give to their Horses no worse then they eat themselves they commend the brave mind of the Pensioners and the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chambers which choose rather to go to Taverns then to be always eating of the Kings provision they likewise do commend the Yeomen of the Buttery and Cellar for their readiness and silence in that they will hear 20 knocks before they will answer one They perswade the Trumpeters that fasting is good for men of that quality for emptiness they say causes winde and winde causes a Trumpet to sound well The bringing of Heralds they say was a needless charge they all know their pedigrees wel enough and the Harbingers might have been spared s●●he●ce they brought so many beds with them and of two evils since the least should be chosen They wish the beds might remain with them and poor Harbingers keep their places and do their office as they return His Hangings they desire might likewise be left as Reliquos to put them in mind of His Majesty and they promise to dispense with the wooden Images but for those graven Images in his new beautified Chappel they threaten to pull down soon after his departure and to make of them a burnt offering to appease the indignation they imagined conceived against them in the Brest of the Almighty for suffering such idolatry to enter into their Kingdom The Organ I think will find mercy because as they say there is some affinity between them and the Bag pipes The Skipper that brought the singing men with their Papistical Vestments complains that he hath been much troubled with a strange singing in his head ever since they came aboard his ship For remedy whereof the Parson of the Parish hath perswaded him to fell that prophane Vessel and to distribute the money among the faithful Brethren For his Majesties entertainment I must needs ingeniously confess he was received into the Parish of Edinburgh for a City I cannot call it with great shouts of joy but no shews of charg for Pageants they hold them idolatrous things and not fit to be used in so reformed a place from the Castle they gave him som pieces of Ordnance which surely he gave them since he was King of England and at the entrance of the town they presented him with a golden Bason which was carried before him on mens shoulders to his Palace I think from whence it came His Majesty was convey'd by the Younkers of the Town which were about 100 Halberds dearly shall they rue it in regard of the charge to the Cress and so to the high Church where the only bell they had stood on tip toe to behold his sweet face where I must intreat you to spare him for an hour I lost him In the mean time to report the Speeches of the people concerning his never-exampled entertainment were to make his discourse too tedious unto you as the Sermon was to those that were constrained to endure it After the Preachment he was conducted by the same Halberds unto his Palace of which I forbear to speak because it was a place sanctified by his divine Majesty only I wish it had been better walled for my friends sake that waited on him Now I will begin briefly to speak of the people according to their degrees and qualities for the Lords Spiritual they may well be termed so indeed for they are neither Fish nor Flesh but what it shall please their earthly God the King to make them Obedience is better then Sacrifice and therefore they make a mock at Martyrdom saying That Christ was to die for them and not they for him They will rather subscribe then surrender and rather dispense with small things then trouble themselves with great disputation they will rather acknowledge the King to be their head then want wherewith to pamper their bodies They have taken great pains and trouble to compass their Bishopricks and they will not leave them for a trifle for the Deacon whose defects will not lift them up to dignities all their study is to disgrace them that have gotten the least degree above them and because they cannot Bishop they proclaim they never heard of any The Scriptures say they speak of Deacons and Elders but not a word of Bishops Their Discourses are full of detraction their Sermons nothing but railing and their Conclusions nothing but Herefies and Treasons For their Religion they have I confess they have it above reach and God-willing I will never reach for it They christen without the Cross marry without the Ring receiv the Sacrament without reverence die without repentance and bury without divine Service they keep no Holy-days nor acknowledge any Saint but S. Andrew who they said got that honor by presenting Christ with an oaten cake after his forty days fast They say likewise that he that translated the Bible was the son of a Maulster because it speaks of a miracle done by Barley-Loaves whereas they swear they were Oaten Cakes and that no other bread of that quantity could have sufficedso many thousands They use no prayer at all for they say it is needless God knows their minds without pratling and what he doth he loves to do it freely Their Sabbaths exercise is a preaching in the forenoon and a persecuting in the afternoon they go to Church in the forenoon to hear the Law and to the crags and mountains in the afternoon to louz themselves They hold their Noses if you talk of Bear-baiting and stop their Ears if you speak of a Play Fornication they hold but a pastime wherein mans ability is approved and a womans fertility is discovered At Adultery they shake their heads Theft they rail at Murther they wink at and Blasphemy they laugh at they think it impossible to lose the way to Heaven if they can but leave Rome behind them To be opposite to the Pope is to be presently with God to conclude I am perswaded that if God and his Angels at the last day should come down in their whiest Garments they would run away and cry The Children of the Chappel are come again to torment us let us flie from the abomination of these boys and hide our selves in the Mountains For the Lords Temporal and spiritual temporizing Gentlemen if I were apt to sp ak of any I could not speak much of them only I must let you know they are not Scottishmen for assoon as they fall from the breast of the beast their mother their careful fire posts them away for France which as they pass the Sea sucks from them that which they have suckt from their rude dams there they gather new flesh new blood new manners and there they learn to put on their cloaths and then return into their Countreys to wear them out there they learn to stand speak discourse and congee to court women and to complement with men They spared for no cost to honor the King nor no complemental curtesy to welcom their Country-men their followers are their fellows their wives their slaves their horses their masters and their swords their Judges by reason whereof they have but few laborers and those not very rich their Parliaments holo but three dayes their Statutes three lines and their Suits are determined in a manner in three words or very few more c. The wonders of their Kingdom are these the Lord Chancellor he is believed the Master of the Rolls well spoken of and the whole Councel who are the Judges for all causes are free from suspition of corruption The Country although it be mountainous affords no Monsters but Women of which the greatest sort as Countesses and Ladies are kept like Lions in Iron grates the Merchants wives are also prisoners but not in so strong a hold they have wooden Cages like our Boar Franks through which sometimes peeping to catch the Air we are almost choaked with the sight of them the greatest madness amongst the men is Jealousie in that they fear what no man that hath but two of his sences will take from them The Ladies are of opinion that Susanna could not be chast because she bathed so often Pride is a thing bred in their bones and their flesh naturally abhors cleanliness their breath commonly stinks of Pottage their linen of Piss their hands of Pigs turds their body of sweat and their splay-feet never offend in Socks To be chained in marriage with one of them were to be tyed to a dead carkass and cast into a stinking ditch Formosity and a dainty face are things they dream not of The Oyntments they most frequently use amongst them are Brimstone and Butter for the Scab and Oyl of Bays and Stave sacre I protest I had rather be the meanest servant of the two of my Pupils Chamber-maids then to be the Master-Minion to the fairest Countess I have yet discovered The sin of curiosity of oyntments is but newly crept inro the Kingdom and I do not think will long continue To draw you down by degree from the Citizens Wives to the Countrey Gentlewomen and convey you to common Dames in Sea-coal lane that converse with Rags and Marrow-bones are things o● Mineral-race every whore i● Hound ditch is an Helena and the greasie Bauds in Turnmil street at Greekish Dames in comparison of these And therefore to conclude The men of old did no more wonder that the great Messias should be born in so poor a town as Bethlem in Judea then I do wonder that so brave a Prince as King Iames should be born in so stinking a Town as Edinburgh in lowsie Scotland FINIS

BATAVIA OR THE Hollander displayed IN BRIEF Characters Observations Of the PEOPLE COUNTRY THE GOVERNMENT OF THEIR ●TATE Private FAMILIES THEIR VIRTUES and VICES ALSO A PERFECT DESCRIPTION Of the PEOPLE COUNTRY OF SCOTLAND LONDON ●rinted for G. Widdowes at the Green-Dragon in St. Paul's Church-yard 1672. TO THE READER AS I live Gentlemen I am amaz'd how any Piece could be made such minc't meat as this hath been by a twice-printed Copy which I find flying abroad to abuse the Author who long since travelling for Companies-sake with a Friend into the Low-Countreys would needs for his own Recreation write this Essay of them as he then found them I am sure as far from ever thinking to have it publick as he was from any private spleen to the Nation or any person in it for I have moved him often to Print it but could never get his consent his modesty ever esteeming it among his Puerilia and as he said a piece too light for a Prudential man to publish th truth is it was meerly occasional in his youth and the time so little that he had for observation his stay there not being above three weeks that it could not well be expected he should say more and though the former part be joculary and sportive yet the seriousness of the latter part renders the Character no way injurious to the people And now finding some ruffled Feathers only presented for the whole Bird and having a perfect Copy by me I have presumed to trespass so much upon the Author as to give it you in vindication of him so as I am confilent it was dressed by his own Pen. And after I have begged his Pardon for exposing it without his Warrant I shall leave you to judg by comparing this and the former Impressions whether or no he hath not been abused sufficiently Three Weeks OBSERVATIONS of the Low Countreys Especially HOLLAND THey are a general Sea-Land The great Bog of Europe There is not such another Marsh in the world that 's flat They are an universal Quag-mire Epitomiz'd A Green Cheese in pickle There is in them an AEquilibrium of mud and water A strong Earthquake would shake them to a Chaos from which the successive force of the Sun rather then Creation hath a little emended them They are the Ingredients of a black Pudding and want only stirring together Marry 't is best making on 't in a dry Summer else you will have more blood then grist and then have you no way to make it serve for any thing but to tread it under Zona Torrida and so dry it for Turfs Sayes one it affords the people one commodity beyond all the other Regions if they die in perdition they are so low that they have a shorter cut to Hell then the rest of their Neighbours And for this cause perhaps all strange Religions throng thither as naturally inclining towards their enter Besides their Riches shews them to be Pluto's Region and you all know what part that was which the Poets did of old assign him Here is Seyx Acheron Cecytus and the rest of those muddy streams that have made matter for the Fablers Almost every one is a Charon here and if you have but a Naulum to give you cannot want or Boat or Pilot. To confirm all let but some of our Separatists be asked and they shall swear that the Elizian Fields are there It is an excellent Countrey for a despairing Lover for every corner affords him Willow to make a Garland on but if Justice doom him to be hang'd on any other Tree he may in spight of the sentence live long and confident If he had rather quench his spirits than suffocate them so rather chuse to feed Lob●●ers then Crows 't is but leaping from his window and he lights in a River or Sea for most of their dwellings stand like Privies in moted-houses hanging still over the water If none of these cure him keep him but a Winter in a house without a Stove and that shall cool him The oile is all fat though wanting the colour to shew it so for indeed it is the buttock of the World full of veins and blood but no bones in 't Had St. Steven been condemn'd to suffer here he might have been alive at this day for unless it be in their paved Cities gold is a great deal more plentiful then stones except it be living ones and then for their heaviness you may take in almost all the Nation 'T is a singular place to fat Monkeys in There are Spiders as big as Shrimps and I think as many Their Gardens being moist abound with these No creatures fo● sure they were bred not made Were they but as venemous as rank to gather herbs were to hazard Martyrdom They are so large that you would almost believe the Hesperides were here and these the Dragons that did guard them You may travel the Countrey though you have not a guide for you cannot baulk your road without the hazard of drowning There is not there any use of an Harbinger Wheresoever men go the way is made before them Had they Cities large as their walls Rome would be esteemed a bable 20 miles in length is nothing for a Waggon to be hurried on one of them where if your fore-man be sober you may travel in safety otherwise you must have stronger faith then Peter had else you sink immediately A starting horse endangers you to two deathe at once breaking of your neck and drowning If your way be not thus it hangs in the water and at the approach of your Waggon shall shake as if it were Ague strucken Duke d' Alva's taxing of the tenth penny frighted it into a Palsey which all the Mountebancks they have bred since could never tell how to cure 'T is indeed but a bridge of swimming earth or a flag somewhat thicker then ordinary if the strings crack your course is shortned you can neither hope for Heaven nor fear Hell you shall be sure to stick fast between them Marry if your Faith flow Purgatory height you may pray if you will for that to clense you from the Mud shall soil you 'T is a green sod in water where if the German Eagle dares to bath himself he 's glad again to pearch that he may dry his wings Some things they do that seem Wonders 'T is ordinary to see them fish for fire in water which they catch in Nets and transport to land in their boats where they spread it more smoothly then a Mercer doth his Velvet when he would hook in an heir upon his coming to age Thus lying in a field you would think you saw a Cantle of green Cheese spread over with black butter If AEtna be Hells mouth or fore-gate sure here 's found the Postern 'T is the Port-Esquiline of the world where the whole earth doth vent her crude blackgore which the Inhabitants scrape away for fuel as men with spoon 〈◊〉 excrements-from