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A51759	The voyages & travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight wherein is set down the way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem, as also to the lands of the great Caan, and of Prestor John, to Inde, and divers other countries : together with many strange marvels therein.	Mandeville, John, Sir.; Jean, d'Outremeuse, 1338-ca. 1399.	1677 (1677)	Wing M415; ESTC R21151	84,811	129

Heaven And if they may find a Book with Gospels such as Missus est Angelus they do it great Worship and they fast one Moneth in the year and eat only a night and they keep them from their Wives but they that are sick are not constrained to it And their Book Alkaron speaketh of Jews and saith they are wicked people for they will not believe that Iesus Christ is of God Further they say that the Jews speak falsly of our Lady and her Son Iesus Christ in saying that they did not hang him on the Cross. Their Book Alkaron forbiddeth Murther and Theft and commandeth them to do so to others as they would have others do to them for the Sarasins believe so near our Naith that they are easily converted when men preach the Law of Iesus Christ. They say also that they know right well by their Prophesies that their Law of Mahomet shall fail as the Jews Law doth and that the Law of Christians shall last to the Worlds end And if a man ask them wherein they believe they say that they believe in God Almighty that is the Maker of Heaven and Earth all other things and without him is nothing done and at the day of Iudgment every man shall be rewarded after his deserving and that all things are truth that God spake by the mouth of his Prophets CHAP. XLV Yet further concerning Mahomet ALso Mahomet had writ in his Book Alkaron that every man should have two Wives or three or four but now they have nine and as many Lemmans as them liketh and it any of these Wives do wrong to their Husbands he may drive her out of his House and take in another but he must give part of his goods Moreover where men speak of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost they say that they are not three Persons but one God for their Book Alkaron speaketh not thereof nor of the Trinity but they say that God spake or else he was dumb and that God had a Ghost or else he was not alive They say Gods Word hath great strength and so saith their Alkaron and they say that Abraham and Moses were greatly in favour with God for they spake with him and Mahomet was a true Messenger of God and they have many good Articles of our Faith and some understand the Scriptures Prophets Gospels and the Bible for they have them written in their Language In their manner they know holy Writ but they understand it but after the Letter and so do the Iews for they understand it not Spiritually but after their Letter and therefore saith Saint Paul Litera occidit Spiritus autem vivificar that is the Letter killeth but the Spirit quickneth The Sarasins likewise say that the Jews are wicked for they keep not the Law of Moses which he gave them and also Christians are evil for they keep not the Commandments of the Gospel that Iesus Christ sent unto them And further I shall tell you what the Soldan told me upon day in his Chamber shutting out all other men as Lords Knights and others for he would speak with me in counsel and then he asked me how Christians governed themselves in our Country I answered him and said Right well thanks be to God but he said secretly nay for he said that our Priests made no force of Gods Service for they should give good example to men to do well and they give ill example and therefore when the people should go on the Holy days to Church to serve God they go to the Tavern to sin in gluttony both day and night eating and drinking as Beasts that wot not when they have enough He said also that there was much contention among Christians and one would defraud another and they were so proud that they wist not how to clothe them now short now long now strait now wide and of all fashions whereas they should be humble and meek giving their alms as Iesus Christ did in whom they believe He said also that they were so covetous that for a little money they would sell their children sisters or wives one man taking another mans wife and no man keeping his promise Therefore said he for their sins hath God given these Lands to our hands and not through our strength but all for your sins For we know certainly that while ye truly serve God he will help you so that no man shall win of you if that ye serve God as ye ought to do but while ye live so sinfully as ye do we have no dread of you for God will not help you And then I asked him how he knew the state of Christians in that manner and he said that he knew well the state both of Lords and of Commons by his Messengers which he sent through all the Countries as it were Merchants with precious Stones and other Merchandise to know the manner of every Country And then he did call again all the Lords into his Chamber to us and then shewed he unto me three persons that were great Lords of that Country who shewed unto me the manner of my Country and of all Christendom as though they had béen men born in the same parts and they spake French right well and the Soldan also and then I had great marbel of this slander of our Faith and so they that should be turned by our good examples to the Faith of Iesus Christ they are drawn away through our evil living and therefore it is no wonder if that they call us evil for they say truth but the Sarasins are true for they keep truly the Commandments of their Alkaron CHAP. XLVI Of the Birth of Mahomet ANd ye shall understand that Mahomet was born at Ithareb in Araby and his Father was a Painim and his Mother a Jew their names were Abdal and H●mna and they were but poor folk and he was first a poor drudge and kept horse and afterward he followed Merchandise And it befell sometime that Christians become Sarasins either through poverty simpleness or wickedness and therefore their Archbishop when he received them said Laelles ella Mahomet ros sella that is to say there is no God but one and Mahomet is his Messenger And seeing I have told you a part of their Law and their Customs Now I shall tell you of their Letters with their Names First they have for a almoy b bethat c cathi d delphy e ethoti f thy g gatophin h hecum i iochi k kathi l lothum m malach n nahalht o orthy p th●zui q zo●hii r ruchelat s chotimus t salathy v yrichom x m●z●r z z●l●phin johe-t●ncon these are the names Four Letters have they yet more for diversity of their Language forasmuch as they speak so in their throats as we have in our Language and speech in England Two Letters more they also have in their A. B. C. that is to say the which are called thrane and zawx CHAP. LVII

earth nor in water they thought that the body of Christ would have stunk therefore they made the piece that went from the Earth upwards of Cypress so that the smell of his Body should grieve no man that came by and that overtwart was made of Palm in signification of Victory and the Table wherein the Title was was made of Olive for it betokened peace as the Story of Noe witnesseth when the Dove brought the Branch of Olive it betokened peace made between God and Man And ye shall understand that the men that dwell beyond the Sea say that the piece of the Cross that was of Cypress was of the Tree that Adam eat the apple of for so they find written They say also that their Scripture saith that when Adam was sick he willed his Son Seth that he should go to Paradice and pray the Angel that kept Paradice that he would send him Oyl of the Tree of Mercy for to annoint him that he might have health and Seth went but the Angel would not let him come at the Gate but said unto him that he might not have of the Oyl of mercy but he gave him thrée kernels of the same Trée that his Father eat the Apple of and bad him as soon as his Father was dead that he should put those kernels under his tongue and bury him and he did so and of these three kernels sprang a tree and the Angel said when the trée bare fruit then should Adam be made whole And when Seth came again and found his Father dead he did with the kernels as the Angel commanded him of which came three trees whereof a Cross was made that bare good Fruit that is our Saviour Iesus Christ through whom Adam and all that came of him shall be delivered from everlasting death if it be not their own default This holy Cross had the Iews hid under the Earth in the Rock of the Mount Calvary and it lay there two hundred years and more as they say unto the time that St. Elene found it which St. Elene was the Daughter of Coel king of England and then was called Brittain and after married to Constantius first Consul and after Emperour of Rome who had by her issue Constantine the Great born in England and afterward Emperour of Rome which Constantine turned the name of Bizantium into Constantinople he reedified that City and made it the Monarchal Seat of all Europe and Asia minor Also the Cross was in length eight cubits and the piece that went overthwart was three cubits and ā half CHAP. II. Of the Islands of Greece At Constantinople is the Emperors Palace which is fair and richly built and therein is a place for Iusting made about with Stages that every man may well see without hindring of one another Vnder these Stages are vaulted Stables for the Emperors Horses and all the Pillars are of Marble Within the Church of St. Sophie an Emperor would have laid the body of his Father when he was dead and as they made the Grave they found a Body in the Earth and upon the Body lay a great Plate of fine Gold and thereupon was written in Hebrew Greek and Latin Letters these words Jesus Christus nascetur de Virgine Maria ego credo in eum that is Iesus Christ shall be born of the Virgin Mary and I believe in him And the date was that it lay in the Earth two hundred years before our Lord Iesus Christ was born and yet is that Plate in the Treasury of the Church and it is thought that Hermogenes the wise man writ it And although the men of that Country be Christians yet nevertheless they vary from our Faith for they say that the holy Ghost procéedeth not from the Son but from the Father only neither are they obedient to the Church of Rome nor to the Pope but they say that their Patriarchs have as much power there as the Pope hath at Rome And therefore Pope John the xxii sent Letters to them how that Christians should be all one and that they should be obedient to the Pope and among divers answers they sent him this for one Potentiam tuam summam circa subjectos tuos firmiter credimus Superbitatem tuam sustinere non possumus Avaritiam tuam satiare non intendimus Dominus tecum sit quia Dominus nobiscum est Vale. That is We believe well that thy power is great over thy Subjects We may not suffer thy pride We are not purposed to fulfill thy covetousness Our Lord be with thée for our Lord is with us Farewell Other answer might he not have of them And also they make their Sacrament of the Altar of tharf Bread because our Lord made it of tharf Bread when he made his Maundy and on Shrove-thursday make they their Bread in token of the Maundy and they dry it in the Sun and keep it all the year and give it to sick men And they make but one Vnction when they Christen children and they anoint no sick men also they say there is no purgatory and that souls shall have neither joy nor pain untill the day of Doom And they say that Fornication is no deadly sin but a kindly thing and that men and women should wed but once and whoso weddeth more than once their Children are Bastards and gotten in sin and their Priests also are Wedded and they say that Vsury or Simony is no deadly sin and they sell Benefices of the Church and so do men of other places but it is great pity for now Simony reigneth in the holy Church God amend it when his will is and they say that Lay-men should not sing Mass but on the Saturday and on the Sunday and they fast on the Saturday no time in the year unless it be Christmass or Easter-even And they suffer no man that is on this side the Greek sea to sing at their Altars and if it fall out that one do then they wash their Altar without tarrying with holy water and they say that there should be but one Mass said at one Altar in a day And they say that our Lord did never eat meat but he made a shew of eating And also they say that we sin deadly in shaving off our Beards for the Beard is a token of a man and a gift of our Lord and they say that we sin in eating Beasts that were forbidden in the old Law as Swine Hares and other Beasts And this they say that we sin in eating of Flesh on the day before Ashwednesday and in eating of Flesh on the Wednesday and when we eat Cheese or Eggs on the Friday and they curse all those that eat no flesh on the Saturday Also the Emperour of Constantinople maketh the Patriarchs Archbishops and Bishops and he giveth all the Dignities of Churches and depriveth them that are unworthy Although it be so that these touch not any way nevertheless they shall serve to shew a part of the Customs