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A10231	Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... The fourth edition, much enlarged with additions, and illustrated with mappes through the whole worke; and three whole treatises annexed, one of Russia and other northeasterne regions by Sr. Ierome Horsey; the second of the Gulfe of Bengala by Master William Methold; the third of the Saracenicall empire, translated out of Arabike by T. Erpenius. By Samuel Purchas, parson of St. Martins by Ludgate, London.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.; Makīn, Jirjis ibn al-ʻAmīd, 1205-1273. Taŕikh al-Muslimin. English.; Methold, William, 1590-1653.; Horsey, Jerome, Sir, d. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 20508.5; ESTC S111832	2,067,390	1,140

that the Chederles and Gaib-erenlers are diuers and perhaps that Martiall Nation in conquest of the Christians of those parts would soone reconcile themselues to that Martiall Saint and drinke in those further deuotions which his horse pissed Such Emblemes were those of Christopher Catherine George which the Papists inuocate as Saints an errour proceeding from those pictures as it seemeth in Churches according to that of the Prophet The stocke is a doctrine of vanitie and the image is a teacher of lies The ruder posteritie in that mist of Antichrist and smoke from the bottomlesse pit not being able to discerne an Emblem and Historie asunder haue made Saint George the Mars of the Christians quem nostra iuuentus pro Mauorte colit Bellarmine struggleth much rather then hee will lose his Saint and yet confesseth the Historie Apocryphall Baronius his fellow Cardinall but beyond in truth acknowledgeth it an Image of a Symbole rather then of a Historie which Iacobus de Voragine without good authoritie in his Golden Legend maketh historicall He saith the Virgin representeth some Prouince which imploreth the Martyrs helpe against the Deuill But Hyperius and Villauicentius Posseuini interpret it more fitly to signifie the Church assaulted by the Diuell protected by the Christian Magistrate in which respect our Defender of the Faith may iustly be termed the Patron of that renowned Order which hath now learned their George to be Symbolicall not a Cappadocian and as Princes of Gods husbandrie which gaue name to Saint George to fight against the Dragon and the beast with hornes like the Lambe but speaking like the Dragon As for the Popish George Baronius also hath another originall from the Arrians worshipped of them for a Martyr But if any would bee further acquainted with this Knightly Saint let him resort to Doctor Rainolds his larger Discourse touching these Romish Idolatries which howsoeuer Serarius seekes to confute mustering a huge Armie of eight and twentie Arguments to fight for this fighting Saint Yet doe none of these Georgian Souldiers strike one stroke to proue that their Legendary Martyr nor so much as conclude his Horse tayle or Dragons teeth or his owne sword or speare no nor shew whether This George thus related pointed worshipped bee the childe of Historie or Mysterie heire of the Painter Poet or Historian Symbolicall or Historicall As for George Christopher Catherine Hippolitus that some Saints haue beene called by these names wee much deny not care not if these thus deliuered in their Stories bee but monsters or mysteries CHAP. XIIII Of their Priests and Hierarchie with a digression touching the Hierarchie and Miserie of Christians subiect to the Turke AFter the discourse of their Regulars which in estimation of deuotion haue with the Turkes and therefore in this Historie the first place their Secular Priests follow to be considered These are of differing degrees which Menauino thus reckoneth first the Cadilescher vnder which the Mofti or Mufti the third the Cadi and after these in subordinate orders the Modecis Antippi Imam Meizini and besides these the Sophi A certaine Ragusian in an Oration before Maximilian the Emperour doth not much disagree but for Cadilescher he calleth the first Pescherchadi whereof hee saith there are two one in Romania the other in Natolia chiefe Iudges of the Armie hauing power to reuerse the sentence of the Emperour if it be against the law of Mahomet A second Magistrate saith hee is called Muchti the chiefe Interpreter of the law from whose sentence is no appeale Nic. Nicolai saith the same of their two Cadileschers and that they are chosen out of their most learned Doctors of their Law and alway follow the Court and with the consent of the Bassaes constitute and depose the Cadi hauing for their annuall stipend seuen thousand or eight thousand duckets besides their ordinary gaines They haue tenne Secretaries kept at the Grand Seigniors charge and two Moolorbassis which are busied about the horses they haue also two hundred or three hundred slaues They vse few words but such as are of their Law and Religion altogether with very much shew of grauitie Ariuabene in his Preamble to the Italian Alcoran maketh Cadilescher to be a generall name to all their Orders of Priests Others doe place the Mufti in the highest place and the Cadilescher in the second ranke and perhaps others gaue the Cadilescher the first place because their life was more in action and gouernment as attending on the Court and on the warres but the Mufti being highest Interpreter of their law though without gouernment must indeed haue preeminence And so Menauino seemeth to affirme who though he placeth the Cadilescher first yet saith that when happily appeale is made from his sentence they haue recourse to the Mophti And this opinion is now generall and most current which ascribeth to the Mufti the chiefe place Master Harborn sometime Embassador into Turkie for Englands Queene the worlds wonder our Westerne Hesperus that shined so farre ouer and beyond all Christendome into the East but my words are too base to vsher in that renowned name ELIZABETH thus reporteth The Turkes doe hold for head and chiefe of their Religion the Mufti the choice of whom is made by the Great Turke himselfe such a one as is knowne to be wise and learned and chiefly of a good life His authoritie is so esteemed that the Emperour will neuer alter a determination made by him He intermedleth in all matters as best him liketh whether they be ciuill or criminall yea or of State And yet he hath no power to command but is in each mans free libertie when there happeneth any doubt of importance to make in some few words by writing a declaration of his matter in forme of a question to whom the said Mufti in writing likewise called Zetfa giueth a briefe answere containing his iudgement thereon This Zetfa brought to the Iudge is the rule of his sentence prouided that the declaration made before to the Mufti contained no vntruth Also the Grand Signior to shew that he is religious and iust doth serue himselfe of the authoritie of this Mufti in affaires of warre and peace demanding his iudgement in manner aforesaid by this course the subiects being inclined to more forward obedience But yet the Mufti will commonly flatter him and leane to that part to which he seeth him incline as in the time of Selym the second the Mufti hauing discouered the Emperours intent to warre vpon Cyprus approued the same in his Zetpha But after vpon great offers made to Mehemet the Visier to breake that resolution the Mufti by him wonne to fauour the matter affirmed still that the warre against Cyprus was good and iust but that his Maiestie had a greater obligation in conscience which hee was bound to take in hand namely to procure the reuolt of the Moores in Spaine there oppressed by the Christians wherein

their meat naked and where they dresse and eate their meat make a Circle within which none must enter during that time Their women are brought vp from their child-hood with shackles some of Siluer some of Brasse and some of Iron on their legges and Rings in their eares all which encrease with themselues being made bigger as they grow so that in time a man may thrust his hand through the holes of their eares Also they weare Bracelets of Elephants teeth about their armes from the wrist to the elbow Wee haue alreadie spoken of the Bulloches their Northerly neighbours Sunne-worshipping Giantly bignesse and Inhumane humanitie in eating mans-flesh and likewise of the Puttans or Agwans The Bulloches in Sinda and vpon the Persian Gulfe it seemes of this generation are Mahumetans Robbers by Land and Pyrats by Sea whereto they adde the murther of those they rob Their treachery to Sir R. Sherly and the Expedition is before mentioned which had it had expedition according to their plot they had murthered all but the Surgeon the Musician the Boyes and the Women When I was in Sinda saith M. Withington they tooke a Boat with seuen Italians and one Portugall Fryar this ripped vp by them to seeke Gold in his entrailes the rest slaine in the fight Yet there are very honest men of them in Guzerat and about Agra Touching other Superstitions of this Kingdome thus wrireth Ioannes Oranus in the Narration of this Kingdome Not farre from the Citie Lahor is an Idoll resembling a woman which they call Nazar Coto framed with two Heads six or seuen Armes and twelue or fourteene Hands one of which brandisheth a Speare another a Club. Hereunto resort many Pilgrims to worship and hereof they tell many miracles as that many cut off their tongues which are againe restored whole vnto them but remaine mute Some thinke our breath to bee our Soule Some affirme That all things are the same thing Some that God onely hath a being other things are shadowes and appearances Some thinke all things and some the round Circle of the World and some themselues to bee God Almost all doe hold the commigration of Soules into the bodies of Beasts They say the World shall last foure Ages or Worlds whereof three are past The first lasted seuenteene Laches euery Laches contained an hundred thousand yeeres and eight and twentie thousand yeeres Men in that World liued ten thousand yeeres were of great stature of bodie and great sinceritie of minde Thrice in this space did God visibly appeare on the Earth First in forme of a Fish that hee might bring out the Booke of the Law of Brama which one Causacar had hurled into the Sea The second time in forme of a Snaile that he might make the Earth dry and solid Lastly like a Hog to destroy one that said he was God or as others of them as truely say to recouer the Earth from the Sea which had swallowed it The second World lasted ten Laches and ninetie two thousand and six yeeres in which men were as tall as before and liued a thousand yeeres God did appeare foure times First in a monstrous forme the vpper part a Lion the lower a Woman to represse the pride of one which gaue out himselfe for God Secondly like a poore Bramane to punish a proud King that would by a new-deuised Art fly into Heauen The third time to be reuenged of another King which had slain a poore Religious man he came in the likenesse of a Man named Parcaram and lastly like one Ram the sonne of Giocorat which had slaine Parcaram The third World continued eight Laches and foure thousand yeeres wherein men liued fiue hundred yeeres and God appeared twice in Humane likenesse The fourth Age shall endure foure Laches whereof are alreadie passed foure thousand sixe hundred fourescore and twelue yeeres They say God will also appeare in this Age Others imagine That he hath alreadie appeared and that Echebar is hee Some hold That those ten Appearances were but creatures which had receiued Diuine power They themselues easily perceiue the vanity of these Chimaera's and monstrous opinions but will not leaue them lest they should at the same cast lose their Wealth and Superstition together In the Countrey of the Mogor they haue many fine Carts carued and gilded with two Wheeles drawn with two little Buls about the bignesse of our great Dogs in England and they will runne with any Horse and carry two or three men in one of those Carts They are couered with Silke or fine Cloth and be in vse as our Coaches in England But we will shut vp this too great discourse of the great Mogols Greatnesse in the words of the Worlds Greatest Foot-post He tels vs from the very Mogols Court That this present Prince is a man of three and fiftie yeeres of age of complexion middle betwixt white and blacke in a more expressiue Epitheton Oliue of a feemely composition of bodie of stature little vnequall to Mine but much more corpulent hee neuer trauelled so much on foot nor ten moneths together with fiftie shillings expence His Dominion is little lesse then foure thousand English miles which if it come short of the Turke in Geometricall dimension of ground it is with a great pleonasme supplied by the fertilitie of his Soyle and in the vnion of all his Territories Againe hee exceedeth him in Reuenue a great deale more then M. Coryats reckoning hee presenteth himselfe thrice euerie day at the rising of the Sunne which hee adoreth by the eleuation of his hands at noone and at fiue of the clocke in the euening but he standeth in a roome aloft alone by himself and looketh from a window that hath an embroidered sumptuous Couerture supported with two siluer Pillasters to yeeld shadow vnto him In feeding of his Beasts hee spendeth at the least ten thousand pound sterling a day and keepeth a thousand women for his owne body whereof the chiefe is Normal I haue bin in a Citie in this Country called Detee where Alexander ioyned battell with Porus in token of his victory erected a brasse Pillar which remaineth there to this day There arriued foure English ships at Surat and in the same Sir Thomas Rowe the English Embassador to the Mogol the newes whereof came to Asmere Octob. 8. 1615. and did much resocillate M. Coryats spirits as did M. Brownes verses from Amadavars and so I hope will yours CHAP. VIII Of Cambaya Decan and the neighbouring Nations §. I. Of the Cambayans ALthough we might seem to haue spoken sufficiently of the Cambayans alreadie in our former Mogol-Relations yet both as better knowne and because such was our Order in the former Editions wee haue allowed them a Chapter here by themselues Cambaya is also called Guzarat containing in length from the Riuer Bate to Circam a Persian Region fiue hundred miles of Sea-coast being on other parts enuironed with the Kingdomes of Dulcinda and

PVRCHAS his PILGRIMAGE OR RELATIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE RELIGIONS Obserued in all Ages and places Discouered from the CREATION vnto this PRESENT CONTAYNING A THEOLOGICALL AND GEOGRAphicall Historie of ASIA AFRICA and AMERICA with the Ilands adiacent Declaring the ancient Religions before the FLOVD the Heathenish Iewish and Saracenicall in all Ages since in those parts professed with their seuerall opinions Idols Oracles Temples Priests Fasts Feasts Sacrifices and Rites Religious Their beginnings Proceedings Alterations Sects Orders and SVCCESSIONS VVith briefe Descriptions of the Countries Nations States Discoueries Priuate and publike Customes and the most remarkable Rarities of NATVRE or Humane industrie in the same The fourth Edition much enlarged with Additions and illustrated with Mappes through the whole Worke And three whole Treatises annexed One of Russia and other Northeasterne Regions by Sr. IEROME HORSEY The second of the Gulfe of Bengala by Master WILLIAM METHOLD The third of the Saracenicall Empire Translated out of Arabike by T. ERPENIVS By SAMVEL PVRCHAS Parson of St. Martins by Ludgate LONDON Vnus Deus Vna Veritas LONDON Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Rose 1626. TO HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE Charles BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF Great Brittaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. YOur Maiesties goodnesse hath inuited this boldnes in accepting my late Voluminous Twinnes of Pilgrimes then also vouchsafing to aske of this my Pilgrimage whether it were there annexed and wherefore it was not a sufficient prouocation to This Edition and Dedication that I mention not Your Pietie which cannot denie hereditarie respect where your Royall Father of euer blessed memorie the King of learned and Learnings kings manifested so much fauour as to make it Ordinarie of his Bed chamber where vpon occasion of those later Volumes then presented he questioned the difference and professed freely that he had read this worke seuen times giuing thereof a present testimonie in his learned discourse and censure No lesse did hee promise touching the Pilgrimes which he made his Nightly taske till God called him by fatall sicknesse to a better Pilgrimage and of a more enduring Kingdome euen the last day in which that Sunne yeelded his present rayes to this Citie sending an Honourable messenger with a fauourable message of his gentle approbation and incouragement Such a testimonie is a King of Testimonies and no lesse reward to the Author then commendation of the Worke to his worthy Heire and to all English Readers Once it hath produced this my present aduenture on your Maiestie being otherwise ambitious that as my selfe so all mine may there acknowledge subiection and reference I might adde also that some Additions here inserted had more fitly beene ranked in those Pilgrime files which in more speciall proprietie attended your Royall standerd And although these times seeme more to sauour of Armes then to fauour Arts inter arma silent Musae yet Our Muse is not of the softer socke but more Masculine an armed Pallas not bred in Poeticall mysterie but borne a reall Historie containing actions factions fractions of Religions and States through the whole World of Place and Time not nicer effeminate fictions of idle-busie fancifull braines Howeuer may it please your Maiestie to accept his wel-intended indeuours who hath borrowed of thousands to furnish this one Worke of and to the World and to admit the Pilgrimes heartie acclamation of ioy ioy to Your happie Inauguration with prayers that the vertuous goodnesse of King IAMES may be succeeded and exceeded in the greatnesse and vertues of Great Britaines Great Charles AMEN Your vnworthy Subiect Samuel Purchas TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD GEORGE BY THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE LORD Archbishop of CANTERBVRIE Primate of all ENGLAND and Metropolitane one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell ABoue thirteene yeeres are passed since first your Graces auspicious name graced the Frontispice of this Pilgrimage which promising the World and her Religions in foure Parts hath onely and that foure times performed One. And as a late Queene ambitious of Souereigntie to all her Sonnes found the Mathematicians which had foretold it true but her hopes false that falling out by fatall succession in one Kingdom which shee had exspected and indeuoured in diuers so hath this our First-borne with successiue improuements beene so often the sole heire and successor to himselfe Now the Fourth time doth this Pilgrimage glory in your Graces benediction and although my trauelling braine hath not beene deliuered of those promised Pilgrimages yet bath it by a strange superfaetation procreated lately presented to kisse your Graces hand foure twins of Pilgrimes which did not indeede formally pay the former debt yet presumed to yeeld that which should bee as vsefull to the World in the knowledge of her remoter parts These issues exhausting their Parents procreatiue powers his hastned age expects exacts Rest for the rest and now for This hauing been often quarelled for forcing men by frequent Additions in later Editions to renew their purchase of Purchas his renewed Pilgrimage though he durst not bestow a Childs portion on it yet would he not send it forth without a Fathers blessing The Three Treatises annexed had found fitter place with my Pilgrimes had they then comne to my hands but their rarities merit a place yea a welcome in what place soeuer For the Author if his reiterated paines if his here borrowing of aboue thirteene hundred Authors of one or other kind in I know not how many hundreths of their Epistles Treatises and Relations if his weekly redoubled cares of the Pulpit daily and howerly of a weak body and not strong family if the Argument it selfe being of Religions though irreligious to a most Reuerend and religious Prelate if the worlds approbation pressing it to so often view and censure if None of these if All of them may not excuse so often resumed presumption on your Grace yet is he forced by necessarie dutie and the sum of all duties Thankefulnes Yea this I am sure will be full excuse if not commendation of that which I haue foure times obtruded the testimonie of our late deceassed Soueraine of happie memorie the King of literature also King IAMES who shewing me it by him in his Bed-chamber said that he had read it seuen times Whereto if I should adde his iudicious questions of diuers particulars therein his ready and milde satisfaction his ample commendation copious discourse piercing wit admirable memory gentle affabilitie I might seeme to some emulous carpers to magnifie my self in relating that truth which rather indeede doth illustrate to all posteritie his worth then my worthinesse God and Gods greatest Vicegerents delighting rather to shew Grace then to admit Plea of Merit It pleased his Maiestie to enquire further of the different scope of my Pilgrimage my then presented Pilgrims which here also for the Readers sake I think

Epiphanius hath written of the Gnostikes alone fully and particularly be considered all these Ethnike and Mahumetan superstitions would comparatiuely be iustified So true is that olde saying Corruptio optimi pessima and of the Truth it selfe Sodom and her daughters not comparable to Ierusalem with hers and of the iustest Iudge that it shall bee easier at the day of Iudgement for Those then These And what indeede doth more set forth the glory of Gods grace then in pardoning his power then in reforming his justice then in giuing men vp to such delusions Are not these the Trophees and glorious victories of THE CROSSE OF CHRIST that hath subuerted the Temples Oracles Sacrifices and Seruices of the Deuill And maist not thou see herein what Man is and thou thy selfe maist bee if God leaue thee to thy selfe Read therefore with prayses vnto GOD the Father of thy light and prayers for these Heathens that GOD may bring them out of the snare of the Deuill that Christ may be his saluation to the ends of the World And let me also obtaine thy prayers in this my Pilgrimage to be therein directed to the glorie of GOD and good of my Countrie Euen so LORD IESVS THE CONTENTS OF THE SEVERALL CHAPTERS AND PARAGRAPHS IN THESE BOOKES ENSVING ASIA THE FIRST BOOKE Of the first beginnings of the World and Religion and of the Regions and Religions of Babylonia Assyria Syria Phoenicia and Palestina CHAP. I. OF GOD One in Nature Three in Persons the FATHER SONNE and HOLY GHOST pag. 1 CHAP. II. Of the Creation of the World pag. 5 CHAP. III. Of Man considered in his first state wherein he was created and of Paradise the place of his habitation pag. 13 CHAP. IIII. Of the word Religion and of the Religion of our first Parents before the fall pag. 17 CHAP. V. Of the fall of Man and of Originall sin p. 21 CHAP. VI. Of the reliques of the Diuine Image after the fall whereby naturally men addict themselues vnto some Religion and what was the Religion of the World before the floud pag. 25 CHAP. VII Of the cause and comming of the Floud p. 30 CHAP. VIII Of the repeopling of the World and of the diuision of Tongues and Nations pag. 34 CHAP. IX A Geographicall Narration of the whole Earth in generall and more particularly of Asia pag. 39 CHAP. X. Of Babylonia the originall of Idolatrie and the Chaldaeans Antiquities before the Floud as Berosus hath reported them p. 44 CHAP. XI Of the City and Country of Babylon their sumptuous Wals Temples and Images pag. 47 CHAP. XII Of the Priests Sacrifices religious rites and customes of the Babylonians pag. 51 CHAP. XIII The Chaldaean and Assyrian Chronicle or computation of Times with their manifold alterations of Religions and Gouernment in those parts vntill our time pag. 59 CHAP. XIIII Of Niniue and other neighbouring Nations pag. 65 CHAP. XV. Of Syria and the ancient Religions there of the Syriàn Goddesse and her Rites at Hierapolis of the Daphnaean and other Syrian Superstitions pag. 67 CHAP. XVI Of the Syrian Kings and alteration in Gouernment and Religion in those Countries pag. 73 CHAP. XVII Of Phoenicia and of the Theologie and Religion of the ancient Phoenicians of their Arts and Inuentions pag. 76 CHAP. XVIII Of Palaestina and the first Inhabitants thereof the Sodomites Idumaeans Moabites Ammonites and Canaanites with others pag. 83 THE SECOND BOOKE Of the Hebrew Nation and Religion from the beginning thereof to our times CHAP. I. THe Preface of this Booke and a Description of the Region of Palaestina since called Iudaea and now Terra Sancta pag. 89 CHAP. II. OF the Hebrew Patriarches and their Religion before the Law also of their Law and Politie pag. 95 § I. Of the Patriarchs and Religion before the Law ibid. § II. Of the Law of Moses the twelue Tribes and of Proselytes pag. 96 § III. Of the Hebrew Polity and ciuill Gouernment pag. 97 § IIII. Of the Iewish Excommunications pag. 100 CHAP. III. OF the Religious places among the Israelites their Tabernacle Temples Synagogues pag. 101 CHAP. IIII. OF the Iewish computation of Time and of their Festiuall dayes pag. 105 CHAP. V. OF the Festiuall dayes instituted by God in the Law pag. 108 CHAP. VI. OF the Feasts and Fasts which the Iewes instituted to themselues with a Kalender of their Feasts and Fasts through the yeere as they are now obserued pag. 113 CHAP. VII OF the ancient Oblations Gifts and Sacrifices of the Iewes of their Tithes and of their Priests and persons Ecclesiasticall and Religious pag. 115 § I. Of their Oblations Gifts and Sacrifices ibid. § II. Of Tithes and their manner of Tithing pag. 116 § III. Of their Personall Offerings and of their and our Ecclesiasticall Reuenues pag. 119 § IIII. Of their first-borne Priests Leuites and other Religious persons pag. 121 CHAP. VIII OF the diuers Sects Opinions and Alterations of Religion amongst the Hebrewes pag. 123 § I. Of their ancient Diuisions and Idolatries ibid. § II. Of the Karraim and Rabbinists and of Hasidaei pag. 125 § III. Of the Pharises pag. 126 § IIII. Of the Sadduces pag. 129 § V. Of the Hessees pag. 130 § VI. Of the Scribes pag. 132 § VII Of many other Iewish Sects and Heresies pag. 133 CHAP. IX OF the Samaritans pag. 136 CHAP. X. THe miserable destruction and dispersion of the Iewes from the time of the desolation of their Citie and Temple to this day p. 140 § I. Of the destruction of the Iewes vnder Titus ibid. § II. Of the destruction of the Iewes vnder Adrian pag. 141 § III. Of other their false Christs and seducing Prophets pag. 143 § IIII. Of the miserable dispersions of the Iewes pag. 144 § V. Of the estate of the Iewes and their dispersed habitations in the time of Ben. Tudelensis pag. 146 § VI. Of some Iewes lately found in China and of their late accidents in Germany pag. 150 § VII Of the Iewes sometimes liuing in England collected out of ancient Records by Master Iohn Selden of the Inner Temple pag. 151 CHAP. XI A Chronologie of the Iewish Historie from the beginning of the World briefly collected pag. 153 CHAP. XII OF the Iewish Talmud and the composition and estimation thereof also of the Iewish learned men their succession their Cabalists Masorites their Rabbines Vniuersities Students Rabbinicall Creations their Scriptures and the Translations of them pag. 155 § I. Of the Talmud ibid. § II. Of the ancient Iewish Authors and their Cabalists pag. 161 § III. Of the Rabbines the Rites of their Creation the Iewish Vniuersities and Students pag. 164 § IIII. Of the Scriptures and their Interpretations pag. 168 CHAP. XIII OF the Moderne Iewes Creed or the Articles of their Faith with their interpretation of the same and their Affirmatiue and Negatiue Precepts pag. 170 § I. Of their Creed ibid. § II. Of the Negatiue Precepts expounded by the Rabbines pag. 174 § III. Of their Affirmatiue Precepts pag.

further the Priests hindrances Ceremoniall was the third Tithe as dependant on the Temple and Feasts The Fourth Iudiciall as reliefe to the poore of that Iewish state whether Leuites or Lay-man in their seuerall habitations But if any lust to fill themselues with matter of this argument let them reade what hath beene written by Master Selden and his Antagonists which maintaine the portion of Leui in the Euangelicall Priest-hood against his Historie of Tithes seeming by way of Storie to vndermine it Wherein Sir Iames Sempills labours that I mention not many of our owne more interessed deserue honorable mention in all Leui's Tents and to all his generations §. III. Of their Personall Offerings and of their and our Ecclesiasticall Reuenues BEsides First-fruits and Tithes they payed to the Treasurie personall offerings as Exod. 30.12 Euery man payed halfe a shekel which the Hebrewes interpreted to be perpetuall for the maintenance of the Sacrifices others temporarie then onely put in practice As for that collection 2. King 21. made by Ioas for the repayring of the Temple and that after by Nehemiah Chap. 10. the circumstances shew much difference This Treasurie in regard of this Poll-money grew very rich as appeared in Crassus robbing the same often thousand talents at one time besides a great beame of gold which Eleazarus the Treasurer vpon Crassus his Oath afterwards violated neuerthelesse to redeeme the rest deliuered to him weighing three hundred Mina euery Mina being two pounds two ounces and a quarter Troy Tully and other Authors mention these Oblations of the Iewes to their Treasurie yeerely These Gifts and offerings the Law exacted they performed many other also either of their free-will or of Vow otherwise little differing from the former Leuitici vltimo Many other Ceremonies of their meates garments fastings Trumpets and in other cases I hope I shall haue leaue to omit in this place and remit him that would further know of them to the Scripture it selfe hauing pointed out the principall But by this is apparant which Doctor Downam hath obserued that all these being deliuered them in the Lords Treasurie without their labour or cost together with their eight and fortie Cities assigned them amounting to a farre greater proportion for the maintenance of that small Tribe then all the Bishoprick Benefices Colledge-lands or whatsoeuer other Ecclesiasticall endowments and profits in this Land although the prophane Ammonites or hypocriticall Cloysters had neuer conspired to shaue off our beards and our garments by the Buttocks not leauing to couer our nakednesse or their shame And yet how sicke is Ahab for Naboths Vineyard And would GOD we had no Iezabels to play the too cunning Physicians in this disease Let me haue a little leaue to say no more then others for the substance in bookes and Sermons haue said alreadie although those Bellies to whom we speake haue no eares The first stroke that wounded vs and causeth vs still to halt was from Rome The mother of abominations and whoredomes Here as in the suburbs of Hell were founded the Churches Ruines Our Bulls of Bashan Abbey-lubbers and Cloysterers with the leaden hornes of those Romane Bulls haue pushed downe our Churches our Chauncels at least and made them to fall into those Cages of vncleane Byrds the Popish Monasteries Of nine thousand two hundred eightie and foure Parishes in England after Master Camdens account three thousand eight hundred fortie fiue were it is properly termed impropriated And who knoweth whether those Appropriations did not supplant their Supplanters and dispropriate them of that which in a iuster proprietie was giuen them in their first foundations for that three-fold maintainance of themselues of learning and of the poore yea happily yet if we obserue the course of Diuine Iustice we may see many whose former inheritances haue by the addition of these as of a contagious garment beene infected and haue either died or beene sicke at the least of this plague The Arke when it was in Dagons Temple because imprisoned in an Idoll-Temple brake Dagons neck and when it was thence translated to their Cities they also were filled with diseases Our Arke hath thus dealt with the Temples and cannot well brooke the Cities and Lay-hands which imprison or if they will appropriate it O that they would once send it home where it should be How fitly and fully doe those words of Habacuk agree to the houses founded for Religion by this and like irreligion peruerted and at last subuerted They coueted an euill couetousnesse to their houses they consulted shame to their owne houses by destroying many people and sinned against their owne soules The stone hath cryed out of the wall and the Beame out of the Tymber hath answered it Woe vnto him that buildeth a Towne with blood and erecteth a Citie by iniquitie Thus we see the stones haue cryed out of their walles indeede and by their demolished heapes may receiue Labans name Iegar schadutha the heape of witnesse their ruines remayning testimonies of GODS iudgements A violent streame saith Master Camden breaking through all obstacles hath rushed out vpon the Ecclesiastick state of this Land and ouerwhelmed to the worlds wonder and Englands griefe the greatest part of the English Clergie with their most beautifull buildings and those riches which the Christian pietie of the English had from the time of their first Christianitie consecrated to God were as it were in a moment dispersed and if I may so say prophaned And let not our Temporall men pretend inheritances and humane Lawes in these things of diuine right For how can Kyrkes so called as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the Lords houses before giuen vp by solemne consecration into diuine possessions with their liuings become humane without surrender of the owner or satisfaction to him As the word since hath receiued a double aspiration so the things themselues a doubling and deceiuing alteration wherby we haue robbed our GOD as in Malachie he complaines worse then the heathen which he there iustifies and which in that extreme Aegyptian famine alienated all Lay possessions but wanted this Aura sacra fames sacri left the Priests Lands inuiolated which yet were very large as in our Aegyptian Relations shall appeare Poore Vzzah offered in a good intent which I also thinke of many which were forward in suppression of Religious houses in the daies of King Henrie and of other Church lands in King Edwards time but GOD accepted not such zeale and he by his vntimely fates left the name to the place Perez Vzzah vntill this dvy Nor did King Henry long enioy that his Ecclesiasticall purchase or long continue much wealthier by it but was forced to base monies before his end that I speake not of the short raigne of King Edward his sonne that vertuous Prince whose times rather then his holy hands caused the desolations of the Chauntrie lands and how many other vanished away in

had fiue hundred dishes well dressed Generall Best weary of sitting so long in the water had leaue to depart an houre before the Rest the Captayne of the Dutch house tooke his bane either with hote drinkes or cold sitting so long in the water and soone after dyed The King gaue the Generall a New Title calling and charging his Nobles to call him Arancaia Pule that is the honourable white man Iune the second They were entertayned with a fight of foure Elephants and a wilde Tygre which was fastened to a stake and yet so fastened on their Trunks and legs that he made them roare and bleed extreamly Sometimes wild Elephants fight before Him which would soone kill each other but that tame ones are fastned to them which draw them backe fourescore or a hundred men helping And for their taming they vse to set one wilde betweene two tame This King sent to his Majestie a Present and a Letter in forme for painting and writing very curious the words thus interpreted PEDRVCKA SIRIE SVLTAN King of Kings Renowmed for his warres and sale King of Samatra and a King more feared then his Predecessours feared in his Kingdome and honoured of all bordering Nations in whom there is the true image of a King in whom raignes the true methode of Gouernment formed as it were of the most pure mettall and adorned with the most fine colours whose seate is high and most compleat like to a Chrystall Riuer pure and cleere as the choisest Glasse from whom floweth the pure streame of Bounty and Iustice whose presence is as the finest Gold King of Priaman and of the Mountayne of Gold viz. Solida and Lord of nine sorts of Stones King of two Sumbreroes of beaten Gold hauing for his Seates Mats of Gold His furniture for his Horses and Armour for Himselfe being likewise of pure gold His Elephant with teeth of Gold and all prouisions thereunto belonging His Lances halfe Gold halfe Siluer his small Shot of the same a Saddle also for another Elephant of the same mettall a Tent of Siluer and all his Seales halfe Gold halfe Siluer his Sepulchre of Gold whereas his Predecessours had all these halfe Gold halfe Siluer his seruices compleat of Gold and Siluer A King vnder whom there are many Kings hauing taken Othe King of Aurow all the Countrey of Priaman Tecoo Barouse being subdued by Him is now vnder His command Seuentie Elephants and much prouisions carried by Sea to make his warres in Aurow where God gaue Mee more Victorie then Any of my Predecessours This great King sendeth this Letter of Salutation to IAMES KING OF GREAT BRITAINE viz. England Scotland France and Ireland to signifie the great content Hee hath receiued by His Highnesse Letter deliuered by the bands of Arancaia Pule Thomas Best His Maiesties Embassadour at the receipt whereof His Eyes were surprised with a coelestiall brightnesse and his Spirits rauished with a Diuine Ioy the opening thereof rendred a sauour more fragrant then the most odoriferous Flowers or sweetest perfumes in the world For which cause I the Great King of Samatra doe professe my selfe to bee of One heart one minde and of one flesh with the most Potent Prince IAMES King of England and doe earnestly desire that the League begunne may bee continued to all Posterities And herein I take my greatest Felicitie there being nothing in the world more pleasant or ioyfull to Mee And for a testimony of my desire that the League and Amitie begunne may bee continued betwixt Vs I haue returned this Letter vnto your Maiestie making also My Prayers vnto the Great God for the Continuance of the same And it shall bee My greatest Honour to receiue Memoriall from so Great a Potentate and so Remote a Nation And for a pledge of My Loue and Honour and Continuance of our League I send your Maiestie a Creese wrought with Gold the hilt thereof being beaten Gold with a ring of Stones an Assagaya of Swasse halfe Copper halfe Gold eight Purslan dishes small and great of Camphire one piece of Sowering stuffe three pieces of Calico Lawne Which your Maiestie accepting as from a Brother I shall rest satisfied and much honoured And so with my prayers to the Great God Creator of Heauen and Earth for your Maiesties long life with Victorie ouer your Enemies and Prosperitie in your Land Giuen at Our Palace at Achi the 1022. yeere of Mahomet by the Accompt of the Moores This Letter for the strange swelling forme and because it contayneth a pettie Inuentorie of the Kings Wealth and some knowledge of the adjoyning Kingdomes I haue thus verbatim expressed This King of Achi is a proper gallant man of warre they are Master Coplands words of two and thirtie yeeres of middle size full of Spirit strong by Sea and Land his Countrey populous his Elephants many whereof wee haue seene a hundred and threescore or a hundred and fourescore at a time His Gallies and Frigats carry in them very good Brasse Ordnance Demicanon Culuerin Sakar Minion and the like His building is stately and spacious but not strong his Court at Achi pleasant hauing a goodly branch of a maine Riuer running about and thorow his Palace which branch Hee cut and brought sixe or eight miles off in twentie dayes whiles wee continued at Achi. Samatra is very Mountainous the people courteous Without the Kings Chop no Stranger may haue ingresse or egresse Hee desired the Generall to commend Him to the King of England and to intreat Him to send him two white Women For said Hee if I beget one of them with Child and it proue a Sonne I will make Him King of Priaman Passaman and of the Coast from whence you fetch your Pepper so that you shall not need to come any more to Mee but to your owne English King for these Commodities He is cruell he plucked out one of the eyes of a Nobleman for looking on one of the Kings women washing in a Riuer Another wearing a Shash beyond his degree had his head cut round so farre as that too large some he boyles in scalding Oyle some are sawne in pieces spitted aliue their legs cut off or otherwise tortured It is reported that in his Predecessors time when Malacca was besieged the Portugals putting on shore here by the ozie and myry landing were made an easier prey to an Ambush of Achiners in the Reeds which tooke many of them who by the Kings command had all of them all their Priuities presently cut away To returne to M. Copland on the third of Iuly 1613. the Kings Armada of a hundred and twenty or two hundred Frigats and Gallies arriued from Ioar which Kingdome Laxamar the Generall had then subdued to this King with the Kingdome of Siak bringing both those Kings with two of their brethren and some Dutchmen prisoners to Achi. At Tecoo they stayd eleuen weekes and bought a hundred and twenty tunnes of Pepper burying fiue and twenty men which got their

Iupiter Ammon or Cham which wee before spake of instituting vnto them Priests and golden statues Menas is reckoned the first King after those Demi-gods who built a Temple to Vulcan and taught the people to sacrifice and other rites of Religion Long after him Busiris built Thebes which was said to haue an hundred Gates and many stately erections of Temples Colosses Obeliskes by the one name they call their more then giantly Images by the other their pillars of one stone fashioned like a needle Pomponius Laetus and Martianus speake of two of these Obeliskes with hieroglyphicall inscriptions carryed from Hieropolis in Egypt by Augustus to Rome the one fourescore foote high the other an hundred and thirtie which was broken in the raysing Plinie mentions these and others at Rome one of which hee made serue for the measuring of the Sunnes shadow in Campus Martius in Dyall-wise He speaketh of an Obeliske at Thebes made and raysed by twentie thousand men Of foure Temples there was one contayning in circuit thirteene furlongs in height fiue and fortie cubits the wall foure and twentie foote thicke The ornaments answered to the structure But the Gold Siluer Iuorie and Iewels were taken away by the Persian● when Cambyses burned the Egyptian Temples Out of those fires they report flowed three hundred talents of gold and two thousand and three hundred of siluer Amongst the seuen and fortie Sepulchres of their Kings that of Simandius was reckoned most sumptuous the gates whereof were two hundred foote long and fiue and fortie cubits high within was a square Cloyster contayning in each square foure hundred foote borne vp with statues of beasts in stead of pillars of sixteene cubits the roofe made of stones of two paces broad beautified with starres Then was there another gate like to the former but fuller of worke with three huge statues to himselfe his mother and daughter Within this was another Cloyster more beautifull then the former But for the particulars of these things let our Reader refort to Diodorus Siculus who partly from the Priests relations and in great part from his owne sight deliuereth them at large He addeth that there was an inscription contayning the cost and charges hereof to be three thousand and two hundred millions of Minae These summes are admirable and scarcely to bee paralleld in any Historie excelling euen those summes which Dauid left Salomon for the Temple and onely surmounted by those which Sardanapalus is said to haue consumed together with himselfe in his funerall fire For if we account euery Mina three pound two shillings and sixe pence as Master Brerewood hath obserued of the Atticke Mina out of many Authors which yet is lesse then the Egyptian and but halfe so much as that of the Hebrewes and Alexandrians it comes to ten thousand millions of our pounds a summe incredible improbable that I say not impossible Yea neither are those things credible which Ctesias tells of Sardanapalus which Brerewood summeth after the Attick Talent at two and twentie thousand and fiue hundred millions of pounds in gold and eighteene thousand two hundred and fiftie millions of pounds in siluer Euen in those things also which the sacred Historie auoucheth of Dauid howsoeuer the truth is beyond all names of certaintie yet the interpretation of that truth is not fully agreed vpon as we haue elsewhere shewed This cost of Samandius although inlarged in the telling doth not disagree to that Egyptian opinion esteeming their houses their Innes and their Sepulchres their eternall habitatations Of the race of Simandius was Ogdous that built Memphis called in the Scripture Noph compassing a hundred and fifty furlongs at the parting of Nilus into that Delta-diuision where the succeeding Kings abode forsaking Thebes till Alexandria was after built by Alexander Thebes was called Diospolis or Iupiters City where as Strabo reporteth was consecrated to Iupiter a beautifull Virgin of noble birth who vntill the time that shee had her naturall purgation had the carnall company of whomsoeuer shee pleased and at this her menstruous accident was bewayled as dead and after married Such Virgins the Greeks sayth he called Pallades Many yeeres after Ogdons succeeded Sesostris Iosephus is of opinion that Herodotus erred in the name and ascribed the deeds of Shoshak to Sesostris to which also the computation of Herodotus doth agree reasonably in the time Others account him the same with Sesachis in Diodorus The huge Conquests of this Sesostris are beyond all that euer Alexander atchieued if we credit Authors At his returne he builded in euery City of Egypt a Temple to their chiefe God at their owne costs and offered a ship of Cedar two hundred and eighty Cubits in length siluered on the in-side gilded on the outside to the chiefe God at Thebes and two Obeliskes one hundred and twenty Cubits high wherein were ingrauen the greatnesse of his Empire and Reuenues At Memphis in the Temple of Vulcan he dedicated Statues of himselfe and his wife thirty Cubits high of his children twenty And when he went to the Temple or through the City his Chariot was drawne by Kings as Lucan singeth Venit ad Oceasum mundique extrema Sesostris Et Pharios currus Regum ceruicibus egit Sesostris in the Westerne World by Warre Compelled Kings to draw his Memphian Carre Thus we reade in our owne Chronicles of Edgarus Pacificus sometimes King of England rowed in a Boat by eight Kings himselfe holding the Sterne Tacitus telleth of Rhameses an Egyptian King who conquered the East and South parts of the World helped herein as the Priests told Germanicus with the forces of Thebes who had then seuen hundred thousand fighting men This was written in Egyptian Characters at Thebes interpreted by one of the Priests together with his reuenues not inferiour to the Romane or Parthian Empires Pheron the Sonne and Successor of Sesostris enraged at the rage of Nilus swelling aboue eighteene Cubits cast a Dart against the streame and thereupon lost his sight which by the aduice of the Oracle in Butis was restored by the vrine of a woman which had neuer knowne man but her husband which caused him to burne his owne wife and many other fayling in this new experiment and to marry her whom at last he found by this proofe to be honest He set vp in the Temple of the Sunne two Pillars each of one stone of 100. Cubits high and eight broad After succeeded Memphites Rhasinitus and Cheopes This last shut vp all the Temples in Egypt and busied them in his owne workes one hundred thousand by course ten yeeres together in building a Pyramis for his Sepulchre The least stone was thirty foot and all grauen Nilus passeth vnder it by a Trench It was reckoned among the Wonders of the World His daughter and brother made two other odious therefore to the Egyptians who will not once name them This was hollow the other solid They did it sayth

the Day which the Lord hath made wee will reioyce and bee glad in it And now I see a better sight then all my Pilgrimage could yeeld Christian Churches without Heathenish Iewish or Antichristian pollutions a Royall King truely entituled Defender of the Faith a Learned Clergie wise and Honourable Counsellers peaceable and loyall Commons in a word England presents it selfe to mine eyes representing to my mind a Map of Heauen and Earth in the freedome of Bodie and Soule yea where our subiection and seruice is Freedome which I haue not else-where found in all my Perambulation of the World I feele my selfe herewith rauished and in a ioyfull extasie cannot but crie out It is good for vs to bee heere in the true Church and Suburbs of the true Heauen Heere then Reader let me rest me till I see whether thy kind acceptation of this will make mee willing to accept another and neerer but harder European Pilgrimage Trin-vni Deo gloria TWO RELATIONS ONE OF THE NORTHEASTERNE PARTS EXTRACTED OVT OF SIR IEROME HORSEY KNIGHT HIS many yeeres obseruations and experience in his frequent and Honourable Employments to and from the Muscouite Emperours and the adioyning PRINCES THE OTHER OF THE SOVTHEASTERNE Parts viz. GOLCHONDA and other adiacent Kingdomes within the Bay of Bengala Written by Mr. William Methold MOLLIA CVM DVRIS LONDON Printed by William Stansby for Henry Fetherstone and are to bee sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose 1626. To the Reader REader I here present vnto thee in a later seruice that which deserued a fitter place in another Worke and which I had sought with much industrie before without successe I am ashamed againe to tell thee with what little effect my Russian labours for Intelligence were seconded but since my PILGRIMES published Sir Ierome Horseys kindnesse offered me without seeking better Intelligence then any others could haue giuen for the times of Iuan and Feodore with the politike preparations of Boris vnto the Muscouian Empire a Story whereof I was so much more desirous to publish because our Age if euer so short a time in any Age or any State can hardly parallel the like practises of humane Policies to couetous cruell ambitious ends ended in the Authours and Actors owne Tragedies God taking the wise in their craftinesse and iustly spoyling the vniust spoylers of their spoyles liues states yea rooting out their whole Families the greatnesse and glory whereof they had sought to aduance by such wicked courses and withall punishing the wickednes of the people by so frequent forreigne Inuasions and intestine Combustions that wee may out of others euils learne this good Discite iustitiam moniti the true vse of all Historie I had out of Alexander Gwagninus Paulus Oderbornius and others collected some Relations of Iuan Vasiliwich and his Sonnes but those could see but the out-sides of things and giue vs but huskes shels and rumours which often are vncertaine sometimes false but here wee present an Eye-witnesse which tooke not vp Newes on trust by wonted Bils and Tales of Exchange but was admitted vnto the Mysteries of that State in the Historie of the Imperiall Acts written in their Records and in his owne personall and honourable Employments betwixt Queene Elizabeth of glorious Memory and the Russian Emperours And indeed want of the Languages of remote Regions hath hatched many imperfect Histories the blind leading the blind into errour wherein as I haue euer loued truth so was I glad to rectifie our Russian Relations by opportunitie of so worthy a Guide whose Papers had before furnished Doctor Fletcher with the best peeces of his Intelligence Euen here also I was straitned in time the Presse pursuing me so fast that I had not leisure to transcribe at large the Authours Danish Polish and Germane Relations nor to adde forme or beauty from Arte and perhaps this natiue nakednesse in a Iournall or Trauelling Method will be to some most acceptable The Author and matter addes better lustre to the Worke then my words can the one so full of varietie and weight the other an experienced and Religious Knight employed in many and honourable Seruices of State and honouring the Name and Family of the Horseys with his Acts Arts and good Parts Who had long since also dedicated this Worke to that Honourable Patriote Sir Francis Walsingham Now for Master Methold I had spared some of Frederikes Balbies and Fitches Relations if these had comne in time which so many times I had both by messages and in person sought and by reason of the Authours absence or businesses was frustrate But the Reader will finde his labour and cost recompensed in the Rarities of matter and stile also trauelling beyond the wonted pace of a Merchant-Traueller The Relation is correspondent to the Subiect it entreates of a Mine of Diamants and is a Mine of Diamants it selfe Gemmes may bee put on after the whole bodie so I call my former large Worke is attired and after that full repast as Indian Drugs vsed in second Seruices it will second thee with a new and refresh thee with a fresh Indian appetite and present vnto thee like Spectacles after great Feasts such a muster of Indian Elements affaires men arts Religions customes and other varieties as before we were not able to bring on our Stage Vale fruere EXTRACTS OVT OF SIR IEROME HORSEYS OBSERVATIONS IN SEVENTEENE YEERES TRAVELS AND EXPERIENCE IN RVSSIA AND OTHER COVNTRIES ADIOYNING Hauing before seene FRANCE and the Low Countries by Sir EDWARD HORSEYS meanes and in the company and charge of Master William Mericke Agent for the Company I Arriued in Muscouia A. 1573. and hauing some smack in the Greeke by affinity thereof in short space attained the ready knowledge of their vulgar speech the Sclauonian Tongue the most copious elegant Language of the World with some small difference of Dialect comming neere the Polish Lettois and Transyluanian and all those Countries adiacent being vsed by Merchants in Turkie also Persia in India I read their Chronicles written and kept in secret by a great Prince of that Country Knez Misthislofskie who out of his loue and fauour imparted vnto mee many secrets obserued in the memory of his fourescore yeeres time of the nature and gouernment of that State To omit things of former ages Vasily Andreowich hauing enlarged his Dominions vpon the Pole and Swethen and specially on the Crimme Tartars left his people strong and rich his Countries diuided into foure parts and two Sonnes the eldest of fiue yeeres called Volica Knez Iuan Vasilliwich which reigned after him the other of two yeeres Duke of Vaga Iuan grew vp comely in person indued with excellent gifts At twelue yeeres age he married Nastacia Romanoua which became so wise and vertuous that she was much loued and feared a long time carrying the whole sway Her Husband being young and riotous she ruled with admirable wisdome so that he