Burials are strange as soon as the breath is out of the body as we commonly express it they carry the Corps into the Church where it abides not long before it be buried in the Church-yard The Wife of the deceased is obliged to howl most pitifully and hire others to do the like but little reason have they to do it considering their severe usage but custom not love may possibly incite them to do it Ut flerenâ— oculos erudiere suos is Ovid's generaâ— observation on the whole Sex The Russians count that the greatest Funeral where are most Women-mourners such were the Praeficae among the old Romans These therefore in a doleful tone cry out as the wild Irish do O hone Timminny Dooshinca Alas my Dear why hast thou left me was I not obedient to to thee in all things was I not careful of thy House did I not bring thee fine Children hadst thou not all things in abundance Or thus Why wouldst thou die hadst thou not a fair Wife pretty Children much Goods good Clothes and Brandy-wine enough As soon as any one is dead they open the windows and set a Bason of holy Water for the Soul to bath in and a Bowl of Wheat at the head of the Corps that he may eat having a long Journey to go After this they put on his feet a pair of black-shoes and some Copeakes or pieces of money in his Mouth with a Certificate in his hand from the Metropolite of the place to St. Nicholas of his life and conversation If any one dies without Confession and Extreme-Unction he is denied Christian burial Such as are kill'd or frozen to death are brought into the Zemzky precaus an Office for that and many other trials and there they are exposed to view three or four dayes if any own them they are carried away if not they are sent to the Bosky or Boghzi Dome i.e. God's House which is a great pit in the fields arched over wherein they put an hundred or two hundred and let them rest till Midsummer and then the Popes go and bury them and cover them with earth Thirty daies after burial they read the Psalter over daily upon the Grave having a little Booth made up of Mats to shelter them from the weather but what their meaning is in this I cannot understand In the Carnaval before Quadragessima or Lent they give themselves over to all manner of debauchery and luxury and in the last week they drink as if they were never to drink more Some drink Aqua-vitae four times distill'd until it fire in their mouths and kindle a flame not unlike that of Bocca di inferno which issues out at their throat if they have not milk given them to drink they presently die Much wiser in my judgment are our English Bully-rocks who love to keep fire at its due distance no less then a Pipes length off their Noses These drinking bouts are commonly attended with quarrels fightings and murthers This custom the Jovial Poet look'd upon no less then barbarous Inter potandum pugnare Thracum est barbarum tollite morem verecundumque rixis prohibete Bacchum Some of these going home drunk if not attended with a sober companion fall asleep upon the Snow a sad cold bed and there they are frozen to death If any of their acquaintance chance to pass by though they see them like to perish yet will they not assist them to avoid the trouble of examination if they should die in their hands For those of the Zemsky precaus will extort something out of every bodies purse who comes to their Office 'T is a sad sight to see a dozen people brought upright in a Sledge frozen to death some have their arms eaten off by Dogs others their faces and others have nothing left but Bones Two or three hundred have been brought after this manner in the time of Lent By this you may see the sad consequence of drunkenness the Epidemick distemper not only of Russia but of England also CHAP. V. Of their Imagery Pictures exchanged in the God market saved in Constagrations they highly prize them bestow Jewels on them The punishment of a Woman who stoll her pearl from an Image though in case of necessity Heresie punished Of their Friars and Nuns THeir Imagery is very pitiful painting flat and ugly after the Greek manner I asking why they made their God's so deformed they answered me they were not proud When a Picture is worn out they bring it into the God-market where laying it down they chuse out a new one and deposite money for the exchange for they must not be said to buy it if the money be not enough the God-maker shoves it back and then the Devoto adds more till the other be satisfied An obliterate Image they put into the River and crossing themselves bid it Prosti i. e. Farewell Brother And if any of their Brethren meets with Jove he turns into Neptune and they crossing themselves cry Prosty Bradt God be with you Brother In time of fire they strive above all things to save their Images but if they escape not the Conflagration they must not be said to be burnt but gone up If a Church be burn'd they say it is ascended they must not say burn'd These are their pretty ridiculous distinctions 't is wonder they do not with Anaxagoras affirm Snow to be black Sometimes they will hold their Gods to the fire trusting they can help them if they will A Fellow thinking to have staid the fire by that means held his Micola so long that he had like to have been burnt himself and seeing he did him no good he threw him into the midst of the fire with this curse Noo Chart. i. e. The Devil take thee They bestow Jewels upon them of a great value This year a Woman who had formerly adorn'd her Micola with some Pearl being necessitated came to the Church and pray'd Micola to lend her some of his Jewels for she was at present in great want the dumb brute not speaking any thing to the contrary she thinking silence gave consent made bold to take a Ruby or two off him but the Pope spying her complains to the Justice who commanded both her hands to be cut off which was done three months since In their private houses they do ordinarily give and take as they thrive in their business for if they have any great losses they will come home and rob Micola to his shirt Herosie among the Russes is punished with fire The Heretick goes up to the top of a little house and so jumps in and upon him they throw straw and Luchines which are dry splinters of Fir-wood these being fir'd soon soffocate him Satis superque severa est hac animadversio The Fryars and Nuns are not so strict as in the Roman Church The Fryars are great Traders in Malt Hops all sort of Corn Horses Cattle and whatsoever else may but enrich them The Nuns go
clothes is like that of 〈◊〉 Nobility but only richer That of â—he Empress is the like only the tire of 〈◊〉 head is higher and her smock-â—â—eeves longer about ten or twelve yards English and her upper most Gown has wide sleeves like our Batchelors of Arts which all her women of honour wear also Commonly her Imperial Majesty makes her Journeys in the night with most of her women in Waggons cover'd with red cloth viz. Chamber-women Ladies and Embroideresses Not long since they were use to ride on Horseback with white Hats a skain of silk about their Necks and Asâ—ride Riâ—um teneatis Amici The mode of men and women rich and poor are all one all over the Empire from the highest to the lowest and their Language one yea and Religion too which certainly must hugely tend to their peace and preservation Here I might make some Reflections upon our own unhappy divisions and differences in opinions but this perhaps might be censur'd as an unhistorical Action and therefore Cynthius aurem The Russians are a People who differ from all other Nations of the world in most of their Actions Their Shirt they wear over their Drawers girded under the Navel to which they think a Girdle adds strength None neither male nor female must go ungirt for fear of being unblest They whistle not with their lips that they count prophane but through the Teeth a strange way of whistling indeed Wheâ— they spit on any thing to wipe it as Shoes c. they do use an action noâ— unlike sneezing In cases of admiration or incredulity instead of a shrug they wave their heads from one shoulder to another Their very speech and acceâ—â— also differs from other Nations 'T is 〈◊〉 grand Sin with them to omit lotionem â—â—st mictum As we use paper in our â—acking-Office to clear accounts so Juâ—â— de Rusco uses a little Spade made of 〈◊〉 thin shaven like the Ivory Spatula's â—hich Merchants and Scriveners use to â—â—ld up letters and smooth them In our Clock-Dyals the Finger moves 〈◊〉 the Figure In the Russian e contra 〈◊〉 Figures move to the Poynter One Mr. Holloway a very ingenious man contrived the first Dyal of that fashion â—ying because they acted contrary to 〈◊〉 men 't was fitting their work should â—e made suitable Because the Roman Catholicks kneel at their devotion they will stand for they look upon kneeling â—s an ignoble and barbarous Gesture â—ecause the Polonians shave their â—eards they count it sinful to cut them Because the Tartar abhors Swines-flesh â—â—ey eat it rather than any other flesh â—â—though its food is most Pogano or unâ—lean of any Beast They count it a â—â—eat sin for a Russ to lye with a Dutch woman or English Woman but a veâ—ial Piccadillo for a Russ woman to prostitute her self to a Stranger for they say her issue will be educated in the true ancient Faith but a Russ gets an uncircumcized child of a Stranger The preâ—eâ— Rye above Wheat and stinking Fish above fresh They count their miles bâ—ninties and not by hundreds Theiâ— New years day is the first of Septemberâ— From the Creation they reckon 706â— and odd years To things improbablâ— they easily give credit but hardly believe what is rational and probable In their salutes they kiss the womanâ— right cheek Lands 25 of Inheritance are entayl'd upon the youngest Brother They write upon their knees thougâ— a table stand before them They sow with the needle towardâ— them and thrust it forward with theiâ— fore-finger it should seem they are baâ— Taylors They know not how to eat Pease anâ— Carrets boyld but eat them shells anâ— all like Swine They do not pick theiâ— Pease but pull them up by the roots and carry them into the Market to bâ— sold They know not the name of Cornuto â—ut of a Cuckold they say He lyes under â—e Bench. They will sooner take the word of a â—â—an who has a Beard than the oath of â—â—ne who is Beardless The beauty of Women they place in â—â—eir satness juxta illud â—â—alicum Dio â—â—i faccia grassa to mi faro bella God â—â—ake me â—at and I 'le make my self beauâ—â—ful Their painting is no better than that â—f our Chimneys in the Summer viz. â—â—ed Oaker and Spanish White They paint or stain their teeth black â—â—on the same design that our Ladies â—ear black patches Or it may be their â—â—eth being spoil'd by mercurial paintâ—â—g they make a vertue of necessity and â—â—y up that for an Ornament which is â—â—ally a Deformity Low foreheads â—â—d long eyes are in fashion here to â—hich purpose they strain them up so â—â—rd under their Tyres that they can 〈◊〉 ill shut them as our Ladies lift up â—â—eir hands to their heads They have secret amongst them to stain the very â—lls of their eyes black Narrow 〈◊〉 and slender Wasts are alike ugly in the sight A lean Woman they account uâ— wholsom therefore they who are iâ—clined to leanness give themselves ovâ—â— to all manner of Epicurism on puâ—pose to fatten themselves and lye a beâ— all day long drinking Russian Branâ— which will fatten extreemly theâ— they sleep and afterwards drink agaiâ— liste Swine design'd to make Bacoâ— These are their odd customs which 〈◊〉 may justly censure as the Satyrist dâ—â— the debauch'd Romans in his time saying Dum vitant stulti vitia in contrarâ— currunt And indeed to say truth theâ— madness is so great that all the Helâ—bore in Anticyra cannot purge it away CHAP. XVI Of their Judiciary proceedings Of murther how punish'd the accused must confess the fact Of their Executioner and cruel Torments The punishment of Coyners A Fellow that shot at a Jackâ—aw how punish'd Conspirators banished into Syberia c. Hanging lately used amongst them and how I Cannot at present give you an account of their Judiciary proceedings which are very confused and yet they have a method and every Province its Precause or Office wherein is a Bayor or Lord and a Chancellor call'd a Diac who hath many Clerks under him He represents the Boyar who is the Representative of his Imperial Majesty If there be a Suit in Law and no bribes on either side most commonly the Plaintiff gets the better for they presume he has most right Murther is here to be bought off with money If a Man kill his Slave or his Wife in correcting them there is no law against them Or if a man is murther'd and no body prosecured his murtherer the law takes no notice of his death The accused cannot be condemn'd although a thousand witnesses come in against him except he confesses the Fact and to this end they want not torments to extort Confessions For first they put them upon the Strappado if this does not they secondly whip them and herein their Hangmen are very exquisite For 't is said at six or seven lashes they are able to kill a man Sometimes the consederate will see the enemy to execute such a piece of
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Partridge with a Sermon on the same occasion by Iames Sharp The welcom Communicant in Octavo The present state of Russia by Dr. Samuel Collins who resided nine years in that Court 〈◊〉 Octo. 1. The discovery of natural corruption 2. The remedy of natural corruption 3. Meditations of mortality 4. The description of a Friend 5. Gods Troops invading man 6. The helpfulness of faith in great tryals These six several Treatises by Nicho. Lockiâ—â— Minister of the Gospal FINIS Poles Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Fig. 6. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Fig. 6.