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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

Steeples vse to erect the Crosse For then there was no new Moone day of there moneth Muharram but was the second day after the Iewish account and therefore the new Moone might then be seene But for the Friday it was obserued before Mahomets time as shall after be shewed Hee depriued a certaine Carpenters poore Orphans of their patrimonie and consecrated their House into a Temple This Citie being for most part inhabited with Iewes they asked a signe in confirmation of his Office He said That hee was not sent with miracles but denunciation of Armes heere and Hell hereafter and those which would not receiue his new Doctrine he expelled by force Being absolute Lord heere he aspired also to the Dominion of Mecca He sent thirtie Horse with Hanzeta to rob the Marchants trauelling thither but being then preuented hee sent foure yeeres after sixe hundred of his best Souldiers vnder Hugaida to assault Mecca but hee also was discomfited yet not desisting his enterprize seuen yeeres after he atchieued it and after eleuen battels entered and sacked the Towne and gaue the spoyle to his souldiers and for feare the neighbouring-Cities submitted themselues Mahomet here with encouraged assaulted the Persians and Aegyptians exchanging with those hee conquered his new Religion for their old wealth and libertie binding the Gouernours thereunto But now being old and through his intemperances weake and diseased also with the falling Sicknesse he coloured his often falling with pretext of Gabriels brightnesse and the vnsufferable splendour of his presence Hee was of meane stature large sinewes browne colour broad face with a cut lip and had one of his fore-teeth stricken out in one Expedition and in another his face wounded He had great head thinne haires long shankes not proportionable to his head He was of few words but deceitfull couetous and withall prodigall but of other mens goods and in deeds of lust equalling himselfe to fortie other men or as some say fiftie When hee was threescore and three yeeres of age he dyed of which he liued in trade of Marchandize thirtie eight and in the Caue two at Mecca ten in Medina thirteene He had commanded that they should not burie him for that on the third day after hee would ascend in bodie and soule into Heauen Meanewhile the Earth being poysoned with the stinke of his Carkasse they buryed him not at Mecca as some affirme but at Medina His Law in his life-time sustained many alterations Cellenus his Scribe writing what himselfe pleased and the seuerall parcels of the same being collected by Odmen one of his successours this Booke was thereupon called Alcaron that is a Summarie or Collection of Precepts Thus Mahomet aduantaged himselfe with the mutinous Rebels Fugitiues Vnthrifts Apostata-Iewes and hereticall Christians in that diseased State of the Empire the body wherof was afflicted on the East by the Persians on the West by the Gothes and other Barbarians and fretted within his owne bowels by intestine rebellions the Soule thereof being no lesse torne and rent by the Sects and Heresies of the Arians Donatists Nestorians Pelagians and others He fishing in these troubled waters set on foot his new Religion to bring light to the Gentiles and to mitigate to the Iewes and Christians the seueritie of the Law and Gospell But the Mahumetans themselues doe report otherwise fabling of this Fabler great matters as if hee had been the Promise and Hope of Nations and the most excellent personage of the World §. II. The Saracens storie of Mahomets life THey haue written a Booke of the generation of Mahomet to this effect The Booke of the generation of Mahomet the Messenger of God the Prayer and Saluation of God bee vpon him from Adam and Eue to the time when God brought him forth gracious perfect and fit for himselfe When as Kabachbar had learned out of the Scriptures and by Astrologie that this Prophet should be borne to the world hee heard That there was a man borne in Ieseras a Citie of Arabia hauing all such markes and tokens as hee had fore-seene by the Prophecies and his Art viz. A spot on his fore-head a print betweene his shoulders c. And to satisfie his desire hee went thither to see where finding those tokens fulfilled in young Mahomet hee thereupon expounded the darke mysterie of his farre-fetched Light learned of his Master Kabelmedi in this manner When Adam was newly created as he stood vp his braine shaked and made a noyse as the leaues doe which are shaken with the winde whereas Adam wondring GOD said vnto him The sound which thou hast heard is the signe of the Prophets and Messengers of my Commandements Take heed therefore that thou commit the Seed of Light onely to worthie Loynes and to a cleane Wombe And this Light of Mahomet that should be borne shined from the face of Adam as the Sun or Moone at the full And when hee had begotten Seth that Light passed instantly from the face of Adam into the face of Eue in so much that the birds of the Aire and beasts of the Earth wondred at her beautie Yea the Angels euery day saluted her and brought her odours out of Paradise till she brought forth Seth alone hauing before at euery burthen brought forth a brother and a sister Seth inherited this Light which remained betweene heauen and earth the Angels thereby ascending and descending vpon Seth and crying alwaies Reioyce thou Earth worthie of the Light of Mahomet on him be Prayer and Saluation of God Adam drawing neere to his end declared vnto him by his Testament the mysterie of that Light and the Genealogy of the Prophets Then descended Gabriel accompanied with threescore and ten thousand Angels bearing euery one of them a white leafe and a pen which signed the writing for the continuance of the order of the Propheticall generation Seth receiued this writing was cloathed with a double red garment shining as the Sunne as saft as the violet-flower From him it passed by succession to Noe and Sem then to Abraham at whose birth two lights from the East and West meeting in the middest lightned the whole world and the Angels were heard singing That it was the Light of the Prophet Mahomet who should be borne of his Seed whose Word should bee in the vertue of God This Light passed from Abraham to the face of Hagar being with childe and after to Ismael and God told him That the soule of Mahomet in the beginning of the Creation was mingled with his and that his name in Heauen should be Asmet in Earth Mahomet in Paradise Abualtrazim At this Sara grieued vntill three Angels comforted her with the promise of ISAAC From Ismael it remoued to Keidar his sonne who being indued with seuen Gifts married Nulia of the Land of Isaac but being warned by an Oracle he tooke to wife Algadira an Arabian and after by diuine warning carried the chest of this Light vnto Iacob Then was Hamel borne

That such parts of Armenia as the Saracens now possessed and the Tartars should recouer from them might returne to the Crowne of Armenia Mangu-Can answered after deliberation with his Nobles to the first That himselfe would bee a Christian and perswade other his subiects but force none thereunto and to the rest in order that his requests in all should be fulfilled and to that end hee would send his brother Haolon into those parts as is before alreadie shewed Thus was Mangu baptized by a Bishop then Chauncellor of Armenia and all his houshold and many Nobles of both sexes But before Ierusalem could bee recouered Mangu died and Cobila or Cublai Can succeeded in whose time M. Paulus was an eye-witnesse of the Tartarian proceedings who affirmeth That this Cublai exceeded in power not his predecessours onely but all the Kingdomes of Christians and Saracens although they were ioyned in one Before hee obtained the Soueraigntie hee shewed himselfe a valiant Souldier but after hee was Emperour hee neuer fought field but once against Naiam his vncle who was able out of the Prouinces wherein he gouerned to bring together foure hundred thousand Horse to whom Caidu should haue added a hundred thousand Horse more These both conspired against their Master and Lord Cublai but before their forces were ioyned Cublai stopping the passages that none might passe to carrie newes suddenly assembled within ten dayes iourney of Cambalu three hundred and threescore thousand Horse and an hundred thousand Footmen With this power riding day and night he came suddenly on his enemies and hauing first consulted with his Diuiners after their manner gaue the on-set and tooke Naiam prisoner whom hee strangled betwixt two Carpets lest the Earth should drinke or the Sunne should see the bloud of that imperiall family Naiam had beene secretly baptized and now also had the Crosse for his Banner which occasioned the Iewes and Saracens to scoffe at the Christians but Cublai vnderstanding hereof called them all before him and said that the Crosse would not helpe such wicked men as Naiam who was a Traitour to his Lord say yee not therefore that the GOD of the Christians is vniust to forsake his followers for hee is the chiefe Bountie and Iustice Cublai by his Captaines conquered the Kindomes of Mien Bengala Mangi c. HONDIVS his Map of TARTARIA TARTARIA CHAP. XII A Continuation of the Tartarian Historie and the question discussed whether Cathay and China be the same and the iourney of BENEDICT GOES by land from Labor §. I. Of the Tartarian Succession to our dayes AFter Cublai can succeeded Tamor Can sonne to Cingis the eldest sonne of Cublai in whose time Haithon which then liued saith That there were besides three great Tartarian Princes but subiect to the great Can Chap● which ruled in Turquestan who was able to bring into the field foure hundred thousand Horsemen armed Hotchtay in the Kingdome of Cumania who was able to arme six hundred thousand horsemen to the wars but not so resolute as the former Carbanda the third ruled in Tauris able to assemble an Army of three hundred thousand Horse well prouided And all these liued in the Westerne bounds of the Tartarian Empire euerie way inferiour in wealth and numbers to the Southerly and Easterly parts thereof Tarik Mircond a Persian in his Catalogue of the Cans or Tartarian Emperours calleth Cublai by a transposition of the syllables Vlaku For thus doth hee recite their names with the yeeres of their coronations Chinguis in the yeere of the Hegira 602. Otkay Khaon 626. Gayuk Khaon 643. Manchu Khaon 644. Vlaku Khaon 657. Haybkay Khaon 663. Hamed Khan or Nicudar Oglan 680. Argon Khon 683. Ganiaru Khon 690. Budukhan 693. Gazunkhan 694. Alyaptukhan 703. Sulton Abuzayd Bahader Khan 716. These from Cublai or Vlaku are the Cans or Vice-royes of Persia and those parts adioyning and not the great Cans themselues But of these and of Tamerlane and his issue wee haue before related at large in the fourth Persian Dynastie I haue seene the transcript of a letter sent by King Edward the Second written 1307. in the first yeere of his reigne October 16. to Diolgietus King of the Tartars against Mahomet and in behalfe of William Liddensis Episcopus and others to preach to his people But these Tartars it seemeth were of the neerer Mahumetans and not the great Can of Cathay Since Tamor Can we haue not so continued a Historie of their Empire and Emperours as before and yet wee haue had succeeding testimonies a long time of their State and Magnificence but neither so diligent obseruers nor so exact Writers as the former besides that their Histories seeme in some things more fabulous Of this later sort are Odoricus a Frier which liued three yeeres in the Emperors Court and trauelled as farre as Quinsay who died in the yeere 1331. Sir Iohn Mandeuile our Country-man spent many yeere in those Countries a few yeeres after Odoricus and writ the Historie of his Trauels in the reigne of Edward the third of England Echiant Can being then Emperour of the Tartars in which if many things seeme not worthy credit yet are they such as Odoricus or some others not of the worst Authors had before committed to writing and haply by others after his time in those dayes when Printing wanted foisted into his booke Once hee setteth downe the distances and passages of Countries so exactly as I thinke he could not then haue learned but by his owne Trauels After his time Nicholo di Conti a Venetian trauelled thorow India and Cathay after twentie fiue yeeres returning home and going to Eugenius the fourth then Pope to bee absolued because hee had denied the Christian Faith to saue his life his enioyned penance was truly to relate to Poggius tht Popes Secretarie his long peregrination This was in the yeere 1444. About the same time Iosafa Barbaro a Venetian in the yeere 1436. had learned of a Tartarian Embassadour which had beene at Cambalu and returning by Tana was entertained of the said Iosafa some particulars touching the great Cham and Cathay some part whereof he heard after confirmed by the mouth of Vsun-cassan the mightie Persian King in the yeere 1474. So that from the yeere 1246. thus farre we haue continued succession of the Cathayan Historie besides that which an Arabian hath written in this Historie of Tamerlane now extant in English §. II. The question discussed whether Cathay be the same with China I Am the more curious in naming these Authors lest any should thinke that which is written of this people to bee fabulous all these in a manner concurring in the most substantiall things and because many confound the Countries and affaires of China and Cathay The cause of both which opinions may bee because that in these last hundred yeeres and more in which more of the World then euer before hath been discouered yet nothing of moment is found out of this

Father of Lights himselfe thus conuinceth vs of darknesse Where is the way saith he where light dwelleth And By what way is the light parted And if we cannot conceiue that which is so euidently seene and without which nothing is seene and euident how inaccessible is that Light wherein the Light of this light dwelleth Euen this light is more then admirable life of the Earth ornament of the Heauens beautie and smile of the World eye to our Eyes ioy of our Hearts most common pure and perfect of visible creatures first borne of this World and endowed with a double portion of earthly and heauenly Inheritance shining in both which contayneth sustayneth gathereth seuereth purgeth perfecteth renueth and preserueth all things repelling dread expelling sorrow Shaking the wicked out of the Earth and lifting vp the hearts of the godly to looke for a greater and more glorious light greatest instrument of Nature resemblance of Grace Type of Glorie and bright Glasse of the Creators brightnesse This Light GOD made by his Word not vttered with sound of syllables nor that which in the beginning and therefore before the beginning was with GOD and was GOD but by his powerfull effecting calling things that were not as though they were and by his calling or willing causing them to be thereby signifying his will as plainly and effecting it as easily as a word is to a man That vncreated superessentiall light the eternall Trinitie commanded this light to bee and approued it as good both in it selfe and to the future Creatures and separated the same from darknesse which seemes a meere priuation and absence of light disposing them to succeed each other in the Hemisphere which by what motion or reuolution it was effected the three first dayes who can determine Fond it is to reason a facto ad fieri from the present order of constitution to the Principles of that institution of the Creatures whiles they were yet in making as Simplicius and other Philosophers may I terme them or Atheists haue absurdly done in this and other parts of the Creation And this was the first dayes Worke THE SECOND DAYES WORKE IN the second GOD said Let there bee a Firmament The word Rakiah translated Firmament signifieth expansum or expansionem a stretching out designing that vast and wide space wherein are the watery clouds here mentioned and those lights which follow in the fourteenth Verse by him placed in expanso howsoeuer some vnderstand it only of the Ayre The separating the waters vnder this Firmament from the waters aboue the Firmament some interprete of waters aboue the Heauens to refresh their exceeding heat or of I know not what Chrystaline Heauen some of spirituall substances whom Basil confuteth Origen after his wont Allegorically Most probable it seemeth that Moses intendeth the separation of those waters here below in their Elementarie Seat from those aboue vs in the clouds to which Dauid alluding saith Hee hath stretched out the Heauens like a Curten and laid the beames of his Chambers in the waters This separating of the waters is caused in the Ayrie Region by the Aethereall in which those forces are placed which thus exhale and captiuate these waters That matter before endued with lightning qualitie was now in this second day as it seemeth attenuated extended aboue and beyond that myrie heape of Earthywaters and both the Aether and Aire formed of the same first matter and not of a fift Essence which some haue deuised to establish the Heauens Eternitie both Twins of the Philosophers braines And wherein doe not these differ from each other touching the Celestiall Nature Roundnesse Motion Number Measure and other difficulties most of which are by some denyed Diuersitie of motions caused the Ancients to number eight Orbes Ptolemie on that ground numbred nine Alphonsus and Tebitius ten Copernicus finding another motion reuiued the opinion of Aristarchus Samius of the Earths mouing c. Others which therein dissent from him yet in respect of that fourth motion haue added an eleuenth Orbe which the Diuines make vp euen twelue by their Empyreall immoueable Heauen And many deny this assertion of Orbes supposing them to haue beene supposed rather for instructions sake then for any reall being And Moses here saith expansum as Dauid also calleth it a Curtaine which in such diuersitie of Orbes should rather haue beene spoken in the plurall number The Sidereus Nuncius of Galilaeus Galilaeus tels vs of foure new Planets Iupiters attendants obserued by the helpe of his Glasse which would multiply the number of Orbes further A better Glasse or neerer sight and site might perhaps find more Orbes and thus should we runne in Orbem in a Circular endlesse Maze of Opinions But I will not dispute this question or take it away by auerring the Starres animated or else moued by Intelligentiae A learned Ignorance shall better content me and for these varieties of motions I will with Lactantius ascribe them to GOD the Architect of Nature and Co-worker therewith by wayes Naturall but best knowne to himselfe Neither list I to dance after their Pipe which ascribe a Musicall harmonie to the Heauens THE THIRD DAYES WORKE ANd thus were the Aethereall and Ayrie parts of the World formed in the Third Day followeth the perfecting of the two lowest Elements Water and Earth which as yet were confused vntill that mightie Word of GOD did thus both diuorce and marry them compounding of them both this one Globe which he called Dry Land and Seas I call it a Globe with the Scriptures and the best Philosophers for which respect Numa built the Temple of Vesta round Neither yet is it absolutely round and a perfect Spheare but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rather Strabo affirmeth hauing saith Scaliger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 depressed Vallies extended Plaines swelling Hillockes high-mounting Mountaines long courses of Riuers and other varieties of Nature and Art which all in so huge a masse rather beautifie the roundnesse then take it away The Eclipse of the Moone later seene in the East then in the West the round shaddow of the Earth which darkeneth it the rising of the Sunne and Starres sooner in the East then West the vnequall eleuation of the Pole and the Northerne Constellations appearing to vs the Southerne continually depressed all these obseruing due proportions according to the difference of places and Countries yea the compassing of the Earth by many Mariners argue the round compasse thereof against Patritius his difformitie or that deformitie which other Philosophers haue ascribed thereto The equalitie or inequalitie of dayes according to the neerenesse or farrenesse from the Equinoctiall holding proportion as well by Sea as Land as doth also the eleuation of the Pole and not being longer wher 's a quarter of the World is Sea then if it were all Earth doe confute the

eighteene Cubits depth whereinto the water of Nilus is conueyed by a certaine sluce vnder the ground in the midst whereof is a Pillar marked also with eighteene Cubits to which Officers for the purpose resort daily from the seuenteenth of Iune to obserue the increase which if it amount to fifteene Cubits and there stay it doth portend fertilitie and how much ouer or vnder so much lesse abundance In the meane time the people deuoutly exercise Prayer and Almes-giuing And after the price of victuals especially of Corne is proportionably appointed for the whole yeere The Cities and Townes of Egypt whiles this inundation lasteth are so many Ilands Master Sandys writes that it begins to arise with the arising Sunne on the seuenteenth of Iune swelling by degrees till it mounts sometimes foure and twenty Cubits but that the vttermost Heretofore seuenteene was the most that it attayned to presented by that Image of Nilus hauing seuenteene children playing about it brought from hence by Vespasian and dedicated in his Temple of Peace still to bee seene in the Vatican at Rome That yeere when he was there it did rise at Cairo three and twentie Cubits about two miles aboue the Citie at the end of old Cairo in the beginning of August they cut the bankes for sooner it would destroy the vnreaped fruits the Bassa himselfe in person giuing the first stroke a world of people attending Boates or in Pauillions on the shoare with night triumphs and reioycings welcoming in the Riuer into the Land diuers dayes together The Bassa feasts three dayes in the Castle of Michias In the nights their many lights placed in buildings erected of purpose for this solemnity make a glorious shew These lights are said to succeed the Deuillish Sacrifices of a young Man and a Mayd wonted to be offered at this time to Osiris and Isis euery night they haue fire-workes Euery Turke of account hath a gallant Boat adorned with Streamers Chambers and the Lights artificially set to represent Castles Ships Houses or other formes in the day making Sea-fights others practising like exercises on land The soyle is sandy and vnprofitable the Riuer both moystening and manuring it Yea if there dye in Cairo fiue thousand of the plague the day before yet on the first of the Riuers increase the plague not only decreaseth but meerely ceaseth not one dying the day after which we haue elsewhere ascribed to the Sunnes entrance into Leo. The land is otherwise a very Desart as appeared two yeeres together when Cleopatra raigned Nilus not ouer-flowing and in Iosephs seuen yeeres of famine the Riuer being part of Pharaohs Dreame by which he stood and out of which the fat and leane Kine ascended And thus sayth Herodotus The Land of Egypt doth not onely owe the fertility but her selfe also vnto the slimy increase of Nilus for raine is a stranger in this Countrey seldome seene and yet oftner then welcome as vnwholesome to the Inhabitants Pharus by Homer mentioned farre off in the Sea is now adioyning to the Continent The mouthes or falls of Nilus numbred by the Prophet Esay and other in old times seuen and after Plinie who reckoneth the foure smaller eleuen are now as Willielmus Tyrius out of his owne search testifieth but foure or as other Writers but three worthy of consideration Rosetto Balbicina Damiata where the saltnesse of the earth and shels found in it may seeme to confirme Herodotus opinion that Nilus hath wonne it from the Sea which Goropius laboureth to confute Aristotle g doth not onely auerre the former opinion with Herodotus but addes that all the mouthes of Nilus except that of Canopus may seeme to be the labour of men and not naturall Channels to the Riuer HONDIVS his Map of Egypt AEGYPTUS §. II. The diuision of Aegypt and the great workes of their Ancient Pharaos EGypt was anciently diuided into Thebais Delta and the Region interiacent and these subdiuided into sixe and thirty Nomi which we call Shires whereof Tanete and Heliopolite were the assignement of Iacobs Family them called Goshen from whence Moses after conducted them into Canaan as Strabo also witnesseth The wealth of Egypt as it proceedeth from Nilus so is it much increased by the fit conueyance in the naturall and hand-laboured channels thereof Their haruest beginneth in Aprill and is threshed out in May. In this one Region were sometimes by Herodotus and Plinies report twenty thousand Cities Diodorus Siculus sayth eighteene thousand and in his time three thousand He also was told by the Egyptian Priests that it had beene gouerned about the space of eighteene hundred yeeres by the Gods and Heroes the last of whom was Orus after whom it was vnder Kings vntill his time the space almost of fifteene hundred yeeres To Herodotus they reported of three hundred and thirty Kings from Menas to Sesostris The Scripture whose Chronology conuinceth those lying Fables calleth their Kings by one generall name Pharao which some interprete a Sauiour Iosephus saith it signifieth authority and maketh ancient mention of them in the dayes of Abraham Some begin this Royall computation at Mizraim If our Berosus which Annius hath set forth were of authoritie hee telleth that Cham the sonne of Noah was by his father banished for particular abuse of himselfe and publike corruption of the World teaching and practising those vices which before had procured the Deluge as Sodomie Incest Buggerie and was therefore branded with the name Chemesenua that is Dishonest Cham in which the Egyptians followed him and reckoned him among their gods by the name of Saturne consecrated him a Citie called Chemmis The Psalmes of Dauid doe also thus intitle Egypt The land of Cham which name was retayned by the Egyptians themselues in Ieromes dayes Chemmis after Diodorus was hallowed to Pan and the word signifieth Pans Cit●●'s in Herodotus his time it was a great Towne in Thebais hauing in it a Temple of Perseus square and set round with Palme-trees with a huge porch of stone on which were two great statues and in it a Chappell with the Image of Perseus The Inhabitants want not their miraculous Legend of the Appatitions of their god and had a relique of his a sandale of two cubits which hee sometimes ware they celebrate festiuall games in his honour after the Greeke manner Herodotus also mentioneth an Iland called Chemmis with the Temple of Apollo in it Some say Thebes was called in their Holies Chemia or Chamia and all Egypt was sometime called Thebes Lucan saith the Egyptians were the first that had Temples but their Temples had no Images Their first Temples are reported to haue beene erected in the time of Osiris and Isis whose parents were Iupiter and Iuno children to Saturne and Rhea who succeeded Vulcan in this Kingdome They built a magnificent Temple to Iupiter and Iuno and two other golden Temples to Iupiter Coelestis and

age Some ascend aboue the Moone to call some heauenly Constellation and Influence into this Consistorie of Nature and there will I leaue them yea I will send them further to Him that hath reserued many secrets of Nature to himselfe and hath willed vs to content our selues with things reuealed As for secret things both in Heauen and Earth they belong to the Lord our God whose holy Name be blessed for euer for that he hath reuealed to vs things most necessary both for body and soule in the things of this life and that which is to come His incomprehensible Vnitie which the Angels with couered faces in their Holy Holy Holy-Hymnes resound and Laude in Trinitie hath pleased in this varietie to diuersifie his workes all seruing one humane nature infinitely multiplied in persons exceedingly varied in accidents that we also might serue that One-most God that the tawnie Moore blacke Negro duskie Libyan Ash-coloured Indian Oliue-coloured American should with the whiter Europaean become one sheep-fold vnder one Great Sheepheard till this mortalitie being swallowed vp of life wee may all bee one as Hee and the Father are one and all this varietie swallowed vp into an ineffable vnity only the Language of Canaan bee heard onely the Fathers name written in their foreheads the Lambes song in their mouthes the victorious Palmes in their hands their long Robes being made white in the bloud of the Lambe whom they follow whither soeuer He goeth filling Heauen and Earth with their euerlasting Halleluiahs without any more distinction of Colour Nation Language Sexe Condition all may be One in him that is One and only blessed for euer Amen RELATIONS OF THE REGIONS AND RELIGIONS IN AFRICA OF AETHIOPIA AND THE AFRICAN ILANDS AND OF THEIR RELIGIONS THE SEVENTH BOOKE CHAP. I. Of Aethiopia Superior and the Antiquities thereof §. I. Of the name and diuision of Aethiopia OVt of Nubia we needed neither Palinurus helpe nor Charon to set vs on the Aethiopian Territory the Sea is farre distant and the Riuer Nilus which parteth them whether loth to mixe his fresh waters with the Seas saltnesse or fearing to fall downe those dreadfull Cataracts or dreading the multitude of Pits which the Egyptians make in his way to intrap him heere sheweth his vnwillingnesse to passe further forward and distracted with these passions hath almost lost his Channell diffusing himselfe in such lingering and heartlesse manner as Man and Beast dare here insult on his Waters and I also haue aduentured to take the aduantage of these shallowes and wade ouer into this anciently renowmed Aethiopia The name Aehiopia came from Aethiops the sonne of Vulcan before it had beene called Aetheria and after that Atlantia Lydiat deriueth Aethiopia of Ai and Thebets the Land of or beyond Thebais which was called Aegyptus Superior next to Aethiopia Chytraeus saith it is deriued of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 splendeo and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 visus of the Sunnes burning presence Two Aethiopia's are found in Africke as Plinie witnesseth out of Homer so ancient is the diuision the Easterne and Westerne And this partition is by some still followed as namely by Osorius Others diuide the same into the Asiatike and African Author hereof is Herodotus in his Pocyhimnia which reckoneth two sorts of Aethiopians in Xerxes huge Armie the Easterne mustered vnder the Indian Standards the other of Africa by themselues differing from the former in Language and their curled haire Eusebius mentioneth Aethiopians neere the Riuer Indus And to let passe Pausanias his search among the Seres or Philostratus at Ganges for some Asian Aethiopians the Scriptures seeme to mention an Aethiopia in Asia For Cush the sonne of Cham of whom Iosephus saith the Aethiopians called themselues and were called by others Chusaei was Author not onely of the Aethiopians in Africa but of many peoples of Arabia also in Asia as Moses relateth And hence perhaps it was that Miriam and Aaron contended with Moses for his Wife Zippora because she was an Aethiopian And yet was she a Midianite but called an Aethiopian in respect of the neighbour-hood which Midian had to Aethiopia Orientalis as Vatablus obserueth out of the Iewish Writers or for that Midian is also assigned to Aethiopia taken in a larger sense as saith Genebrard Iunius saith because the Midianites dwelt in that Region which was assigned to Cush Aethicus in his Cosmography affirmeth that Tygris burieth it selfe and runneth vnder ground in Aethiopia which Simlerus interpreteth of Arabia for otherwise Tygris washeth no part of Africa Saint Augustine affirmeth that the Region Northwards from the Red Sea and so euen to India was called Aethiopia Orientalis This distinction is still acknowledged by later Writers And therefore it is needlesse to fetch Moses a Wife out of Aethiopia beneath Egypt to interpret that place For so Iosephus as wee shall after see telleth of a Wife which Moses in his prosperitie before his flight married from thence This obseruation is very necessary because the Scriptures often mention Aethiopia when no part of Africa can be vnderstood as Genes 2.13 where one of the Riuers of Paradise is said to compasse the whole Land of Cush or Aethiopia And so in other places Cush or Aethiopia Learned Iunius obserueth that Cush is either a proper name as Genes 10. or common to the people that came of him it is also a name attributed to the three Arabia's to the two African Aethiopia's and to all the Southerne tract by the Persian Gulfe Leauing that Asian Aethiopia which already wee haue handled vnder other names wee will now proceed in our African iourney where we find in Ptolemie not so exact description thereof as in later Geographers being then in the greatest part vnknowne Maginus maketh Aethiopia to containe two of those seuen parts whereinto he diuideth Africa one of which he calleth Aethiopia Superior and Interior which for the most part is subiect vnto the Christian Prince called in Europe Priest or Prester Iohn the other Inferior and Exterior is all that Southerly part of Africa which was not knowne to the Ancients This doth not altogether agree with Homers diuision whose Geographie Strabo hath so largely trauersed and admired For how could Homer or any in his time attaine to the knowledge of those remote parts Neither yet may we reiect that renowmed Poet seeing this partition may serue vs now in the better discouerie of places where we may reckon all that to the Westerly Aethiopia which from Guinea stretcheth to the Cape of Good Hope and thence to the Red Sea Northwards to the Easterly Nilus and a line from the head thereof vnto the aforesaid Cape being the Arbiter in this diuision But to let passe this curiositie in caruing when all is like to be eaten we will begin at Aethiopia vnder Egypt and so take the Countries

like is noted in the East Indies at the Hils of Balegate where that Ridge parteth Winter and Summer in the same neernesse to the Sunne at the same time and a few miles distant The Raines in the Hils are cause why they call it Winter and the deawes or mysts in the Plaines so that when the Raines fall most in the Hils it is cleere weather in the Plaines and when the deaw falleth in the Plaines it is cleere on the Hils and thus it commeth to passe that a man may trauell from Winter to Summer in one day hauing Winter to wash him in the morning and ere night a cleere and dry Summer to scorch him Yea in some places sayth Alexandro Vrsino within sixe miles space both heate and cold are intolerable and enough to kill any man From Saint Helen to Copiapo it neuer raineth which Coast extends forty miles in some places fiftie in breadth and twelue hundred leagues in length §. II. Of the first Inhabitants their Quippos Arts Marriages ABout the point of Saint Helena in Peru they tell that sometimes there liued Giants of huge stature which came thither in Boates the compasse of their knee was as much as of another mans middle they were hated of the people because that vsing their women they killed them and did the same to the men for other causes These Giants were addicted to Sodomie and therefore as the Indians report were destroyed with fire from Heauen Whether this be true or no in those parts are found huge and Giantlike bones Cieza writes that Iohn di Holmos at Porto Vicio digged and found teeth three fingers broad and foure long Contrariwise in the Valley of Chincha they haue a Tradition that the Progenitors of the present Inhabitants destroyed the natiue people which were not aboue two Cubits high and possessed their roomes in testimonie whereof they alledge also that bone-argument Concerning the Indians conceit of their own originall we haue mentioned their opinion of a floud and the repeopling of the World by them which came out of a Caue They haue another Legend that all men being drowned there came out of the great Lake Titicaca one Virococha which stayed in Traguanaco where at this day is to bee seene the ruines of very ancient and strange buildings and from thence came to Cusco and so beganne Mankinde to multiply They shew in the same Lake a small Iland where they faine that the Sunne hid himselfe and so was preserued and for this reason they made great Sacrifices vnto him in this place both of Sheepe and Men. They held this place sacred and the Inguas built there a Temple to the Sunne and placed there Women and Priests with great treasures Some learned men are of opinion that all which the Indians make mention of is not aboue foure hundred yeeres which may bee imputed to their want of writing In stead of writing they vsed their Quippos These Quippos are Memorials or Registers made of cords in which there are diuers knots and colours signifying diuers things these were their Bookes of Histories of Lawes Ceremonies and accounts of their affaires There were officers appointed to keepe them called Quipocamayos which were bound to giue account of things as Notaries and Registers They had according to the diuersitie of businesse sundry cords and branches in every of which were so many knots little and great and strings tyed to them some red some greene and in such varietie that euen as wee deriue an infinite number of words from the Letters of the Alphabet so doe they from these kinds and colours And at this day they will keepe account exactly with them I did see sayth Acosta a handfull of these strings wherein an Indian woman did carrie as it were written a generall confession of all her life and thereby confessed herselfe as well as I could haue done in written paper with strings for the circumstances of the sinnes They haue also certaine wheeles of small stones by meanes whereof they learne all they desire by heart Thus you shall see them learne the Pater-noster Creed and the rest and for this purpose they haue many of these wheeles in their Church-yards They haue another kinde of Quippos with grains of Mays with which they wil cast hard accounts which might trouble a good Arithmetician with his Pen in the Diuisions They were no lesse wittie if not more in things whereto they apply themselues then the men of these parts They taught their young children all Arts necessary to the life of men euery one learning what was needfull for his person and family and not appropriating himselfe to one profession as with vs one is a Tayler another a Weauer or of other Trade Euery man was his owne Weauer Carpenter Husbandman and the like But in other Arts more for ornament then necessitie they had Gold-smiths Painters Potters and Weauers of curious workes for Noblemen and so of the rest No man might change the fashion vsed in his owne Countrey when hee went into another that all might be knowne of what Countrey they were For their Marriages they had many Wiues but one was principall which was wedded with Solemnitie and that in this sort The Bridegroome went to the Brides House and put Ottoya which was an open Shooe on her foot this if shee were a Mayd was of wooll otherwise of Reeds and this done he led her thence with him If she committed Adulterie shee was punished with death when the Husband dyed shee carried a mourning Weed of blacke a yeere after and might not marry in that time which befell not the other Wiues The Ingua himselfe with his own hand gaue this woman to his Gouernours and Captaines and the Gouernours assembled all the young men and Mayds in one place of the Citie where they gaue to euery one his Wife with the aforesaid Ceremonie in putting on the Ottoya the other Wiues did serue and honour this None might marry with his Mother Daughter Grandmother or Grand-childe and Yapangui the Father of Guaynacapa was the first Ingua that married his Sister and confirmed his fact by a Decree that the Inguas might doe it commanding his owne children to doe it permitting the Noblemen also to marrie their Sisters by the Father side Other Incest and Murther Theft and Adulterie were punished with death Such as had done good seruice in warre were rewarded with Lands Armes Titles of honour and Marriage in the Inguas Linage They had Chasquis or Posts in Peru which were to carrie tidings or Letters for which purpose they had houses a league and a halfe asunder and running each man to the next they would runne fifty leagues in a day and night §. III. The Regall Rites Rights Workes and of RVMINAGVI and ALVARADO WHen the Ingua was dead his lawfull heire borne of his chiefe Wife succeeded And if the King had a legitimate Brother he first inherited and then the Sonne of the first Hee

and established a new King or Emperour named Char Spinon Sonne to the Emperour of Cafan transferring on him his stile and Crowne with the authority incident but crowning him without any solemnitie or consent of Peeres Hee causeth his Subiects to addresse their persons sutes and affaires to him in his name all Priuiledges Charters and Writings to be called in and new to be granted in this Emperours Name and vnder his Seale in his name are all Court pleadings Coynes Customes Fines Reuenues for the maintenance of his House Officers and Seruants Hee sits in Maiesty and is lyable to all debts and matters concerning his Treasury The old Emperour and his Sonnes prostrate themselues and his Bishops Nobility and Officers are caused to do the like Embassadors also to resort to him which some refused and he further married him to the Daughter of a Prime Prince of the bloud Royall named Kneaz Misthisloskoie Now would the old Emperour take no notice of debts owing in his time Letters Patents and Priuiledges of Townes and Monasteries are made voyd States of Inheritance for want of confirmation and other things are at a stand His Clergy Nobility and Commons for remedy hereof after a yeeres discontinuance must petition Iuan Vassilewich that hee will bee pleased to resume the Crowne and Gouernment vpon many conditions and authenticall instruments confirmed by Act of Parliament in a very solemne new Inauguration Hee being content infinite Gifts and Presents of worth were sought to bestow on him his old debts and former incumbrances discharged Now he is againe inuested in statu quo prius regrants Priuiledges to Townes Monasteries Noblemen and Merchants vpon new compositions whence a portion is made for his Neece daughter to Knez Andrew his late Brother who in iealousie as was thought of the peoples loue to him was made away in pledging the Emperour in a Cup of Mead which he had drunke to him This his daughter was married to Hartique Magnus Brother to Frederike King of Denmarke borne before his Father Christianus Duke of Holst was elected King of that Countrey To pacifie dissention betwixt them King Frederike was content to exchange for the Dukedome of Holst all his Townes Castles and Lands during his life which hee had in Liesland This Emperour makes vp the Match and marries them in Mosco giues him in dowre with his Neece Elona all the interest he had in the Townes and Castles conquered by him in Liuonia establishing him therein and stiling him Corall that is King Magnus giues him a hundred good Horse well furnished 200000. Robles in Gold Siluer Plate Iewels and rich apparell with liberall gifts to all his Followers sends 2000. horse to see this King and Queene setled in their estates at the City of Dorp But in steed of expected amity wars follow from Denmarke and Swethia those two Kings ioyning with Stephanus that valiant King of Poland who not long after got from him the Narue and besieged Plescoue The Dane and Swethen are also competitors with him in certaine Territorites on the North Coast Wardhouse Cola Sollauersca V●rsague c. Put him from his Customes and Trafficke there offering also to debarre the English Merchants in their passage for fishing on those Coasts and trading with them at Saint Nicholas and Colmogro The Emperour notwithstanding these incursions sends for all his Nobles and Gentlemens fairest daughters Virgins thorow his Kingdome out of whom hee chuseth a wife for himselfe and another for his eldest Sonne Charewich Iuane Her name was Nastacia daughter to Iuan Sherimitten a Viouod of a good Family The Emperour liueth in feare daily discouers Treasons and spends much time in torturing and execution One Knez Pheodor Curakin Gouernour of Wendon in Liuonia when King Stephanus came to besiege it and found drunke as was pretended was stripped naked layd in a Cart whipped thorow the Musco with sixe whips of Wire which cut his backe belly and bowels to death Iuan Chiglicone was hanged naked by the heeles on a Gibbet the skin and flesh of his body from top to toe cut off and minced with Kniues by small gobbets Foure Pallarinkes were Executioners one of which thrusting his Knife too farre it seemes purposing to dispatch him was presently had to a blocke and that hand cut off whereof not well seared he dyed the next day Many other were knocked on the head and cast into the Pooles and Lakes at Slobida their flesh fed on by ouer-growne Carpes Pikes other fish whose fat was such that hardly any thing else could be seene on them Knez Boris Telupa a great Fauourite was set on a long sharpe stake entring at his fundament and comming out at his necke on which he languished fifteene houres and spake vnto his Mother the Dutchesse which was brought to behold that wofull spectacle after which sight she was giuen to a hundred Gunners of his Guard which one after another defiled her to death Her body swolne and lying naked in the field open to the view of all which passed by hee commanded his Huntsmen to bring their hungry Hounds to deuoure her flesh and bones dragged vp and downe The Emperour at this fight said such as I fauour I haue honoured and to such as bee Traytors I will doe thus I could enumerate many more like Obiects but I forbeare his chiefe exercise being to deuise and execute new torture especially on his Nobility best beloued of his Subiects But his estate still growing daily more dangerous he enquired of Elizius Bomelius Doctor of Physicke a rare Mathematician or Magician and of others of Queene Elizabeths yeeres and what hopes there might be if he should be a Suter vnto her for himselfe notwithstanding that he had three wiues then liuing and many Kings could not preuaile in that Sute Presently he puts his last wife into a Nunnery and thinking to make England in case of extremitie his safest refuge built and prepared many goodly Barkes large Boats or Barges at Vologda and brought his richest Treasure thither to be embarked in the same to passe downe the Riuer Dwina and so into England by the English ships vpon a sudden leauing his eldest Sonne Charrewich Iuan to gouerne and pacifie his so troubled estate To this purpose hee experimented a rare proiect which increased his treasure and hatred together He cals for the principall Priors Abbats Archimandrites and Egomens of the richest Monasteries of his Kingdome which were very many and told them that what he had to say was best knowne vnto themselues He had spent the most part of his time wits vigor and youth in warfaring for their wealth and safetie who had receiued increase by that which had exhausted his treasure and safetie by his danger from forreine Enemies and disloyall practisers nor could hee or they longer subsist without assistance Their Prayers preuailed not whether for his their or his peoples sinnes supply out of their infinite abundance must bee the

Hegira Siahir the Persian tooke Ancyra from the Romans and the I le of Rhodes captiuing the Inhabitants In the second Cosroes Sonne of Hormisda persecuted all which contradicted his Religion thorow his Kingdom imposing grieuous tributes and destroying all the Temples of Syria and Mesopotamia carrying away all their Gold Siluer and goods euen to the Marble into his Countrey In the third yeere Siahriar besieged Constantinople but departed frustrate The same yeere Cosroes oppressed the Ruhans and caused them to forsake the Orthodoxe Sect and to become Iacobites For his Physician named Ionan a Iacobite perswaded him that so long as they were Orthodoxe ● they would incline to the Romans He therefore decreed that they should either bee slaine or else become Iacobites which they all did In the fift yeere of the Hegira Cosroes was depriued by his Subiects for his tyrannies after he had reigned thirty eight yeere and his Sonne K●bad set in his place called also Syroes the Sonne of Mary Daughter of Mauritius the Roman Emperour which carried himselfe well and was renowmed for Iustice but after eight moneths Raigne he and most of his people perished by Pestilence His Sonne Ardsijr succeeded and after fiue moneths was slaine In the sixt yeere Siahriar not of the Royall race obtained the Persian Souereigntie whereupon a woman of Royall bloud laid wait and slue him when he had raigned two and twentie dayes Cosroes Nephew of Hormisda succeeded who after three monethes was slaine at Chorosan After him Turana Daughter of Cosroes raigned a yeere and halfe In the fourth yeere of the Hegira Siahriar had subiected himselfe to Heraclius because Cosroes on some complaints had written to Marzuban to entrap and kill both him and his Sonne the Commander of the Armie which Letter and Carrier being intercepted by Heraclius and by him presented to Siahriar he and the other Captaines subiected themselues to Heraclius who thereupon inuaded Persia and writ to Chacan King of Harari to helpe him with forty thousand Horsemen promising him his Daughter in marriage Thus Heraclius preuayled in Syria Egypt and Armenia against the Cities and forces of the Persians there Cosroes made Marzuban called also Zurabhar his Generall who marched into the Prouince of Mausil Heraclius had at Ruha three hundred thousand Horsemen and from the tract of the Harari forty thousand were comming to him which stayed in the Prouince of Aderbigiana by his command till hee came thither Hauing subdued Armenia he went to Niniue Zurabhar and hee fought a great battell and the Persians had the worse aboue fiue hundred thousand of them being slaine with Zurabhar himselfe Hereupon Cosroes forsooke Machura and Medaijn Cities presently possessed by Heraclius and burned enioying the Kings treasures After this Syroes Sonne of Cosroes got out of Prison and slaying his Father succeeded him as before is related Heraclius came to the Village Themanin which Noah of holy memory builded after he passed out of the Arke and that he might see the place of the Arke he ascended the mountaine Giudi which is high ouer all those lands Thence he passed into Amida where Syroes made peace with him conditioning to restore to the Romans all which his Father had taken from them Heraclius returned to Ruha and commanded the Christians to returne from the Iacobite Sect to the Orthodoxe which they did Ardsijr hauing succeeded Cosroes was slaine by Siahriar against whom Marzuban gathered forces and the Persians were diuided in two parts Siahriar was slaine and Cosroes succeeded and when he was slaine Turana to whom Giasiansed Sonne of Cosroes his Vncle succeeded who being deposed Azurmis daughter of Cosroes obtayned which after a yeere and foure moneths was poysoned Perchozad Sonne of Cosroes succeeded and was shortly slaine In the seuenth of the Hegira the Sunne was so ecclipsed that the Stars were seene by day Abubecr the Iust or Abdalla Sonne of Otsman Abucahaf Sonne of Amir Sonne of Omar Sonne of Caab His mothers name was Asma daughter of Sachar Sonne of Amir Sonne of Omar Sonne of Caab He was created Chalifa the same day on which the Prophet dyed The men of Medina assembled to inaugurate Saad Sonne of Obad one of themselues and some of them said let vs haue an Emperour of vs and make you an Emperour of you O Fugitiues But when Abubecr of happy memory had praysd God and celebrated he said to them O men of Medina take whether of these you will and laid hold on Omar and Abuobeid But with multiplied cries and words Omar said to Abubecr stretch forth thy hand that we may sweare fealty to thee which hee did and both the Medina men and fugitiues sware to him Ali only and the Hasiemites excepted which would not by striking of the hand approue his Empire which yet at last seeing themselues forsaken they did The same yeere Heg. 11. the Arabians rebelled and some refused to pay tribute and Museilema the false Prophet prospered Taliha also the Sonne of Chowailet said he was a Prophet and was followed by the Asedites Newes came also of the death of Aswad Ibsua a false Prophet which was Abubecr his first victory He chased also the Absites and Dibans and returned to Medina Hee sent to warre against the Rebels and deliuered eleuen Banners for eleuen Tract Chalid Sonne of Walid was sent against Taliba and his Complices the Gatfanites Taijtes and Asedites and ouercame them Thegiagis also daughter of Harith professed herselfe this yeere a Prophetesse amongst the Taalabites and went to Museilema and was married to him but when she had staid with him three dayes she returned home Abubecr sent Ikirma Sonne of Abugiabl against Museilema with others They met in Iaman The Muslims were forty thousand which had the worse at first but after preuayled and slue Museilema with ten thousand of his followers the rest returned to Islamisme He sent Alau against the Rebells of Bahrain who chased them forced some to returne and slue those which continued in their Apostasie Alau passed also the Sea and slue all the Inhabitants of Darina In the twelfth yeere Abubecr writ to Chalid to goe to Irac who made a peace with them and the Inhabitants of Sawad on condition of tribute which was the first tribute brought to Medina He fought many battels and slue a great multitude of Infidels and got innumerable spoyles In the the thirteenth yeere Abubecr sent forces into Syria and sent Amir into Palaestina Iesid and others into Balcaa and the higher Syria and Chalid Sonne of Said to Teimaa Chalid fought a battell in Syria with Mahan a Roman Commander and chased him to Damascus where the Romans in the Sapphire Valley slue his Sonne with many others Abubecr sent Muaui with fresh supplies and made Chalid Sonne of Walid ouer the Souldiers in Syria and commanded him to goe from Irac thither which hee did with nine thousand This yeere Bosra was taken the first of the Cities in Syria The same yeere died Abubecr of happy

to him and receiued the same Light in which succeeded Thebicht Hamiessa Adeth Aduve Adne Machar Nizar Musar Aliez Madraca Horeima Knieua Anofra Melic Falhrem Luie Galiben Kab Murran Cudai Abdamenef Hesim a man by diuine testimonie free of all vncleannesse To him did all Kings offer their daughters in marriage and among the rest Constantine which he refused and married Seline the daughter of Zeit and had by her Abdalmutalib whose Light caused raine in drought To him an Elephant postrated himselfe and said with mans voice Saluation be on you and on the Light that shineth out of your Reines Dignitie Fame Honor and Victorie bee on you and that there should proceede from him a King greater then all the Kings of the earth Another time as hee slept on the stone which was placed by Abraham in his Oratorie at Mecca hee dreamed of a chaine reaching East and West and to Heauen and to the Depth which was presently conuerted into a flourishing hearb Noe and Abraham presented themselues interpreters of this Dreame Abdalla his sonne the father of Mahomet had a Tutor giuen vnto him to defend him from his enemies who seemed a man but was none Hee was preserued from the lying in waite of the Iewes by threescore and ten Angels which seemed Men. Hee wedded Ermina and therefore two hundred Women perished for his loue some hanging some burning themselues When the prescribed time was come in the moneth Dulheia on a Fryday-night GOD bad Ariduvan to open the gates of Paradise that the innermost of his secret might be manifested for it pleaseth mee saith hee this night to transport the Light of my Prophet from the reines of Abdalla into the wombe of Ermina and that it come into the world This being done as Abdalla the Iudge and Lord of the Arabians went into the house of Prayer hee perceiued a great light to lighten from his house vp toward Heauen and presently dyed On the twelfth day of Rab on a Tuseday Mahomet was borne circumcised and all frolik And then all Idolls fell and became blacke All Kingdomes were destroyed and not one stood vp-right Lucifer was cast into the bottome of the Sea and in fortie dayes could not get out and then called his fellowes and told them that Mahomet was borne with the power of the sword who would take away all their power The same also GOD caused to bee proclaimed in Heauen and Earth His mother said that she was deliuered of him without paine and Angelicall Birds came to nourish the child and a man clothed in white presented him with three keyes like to Pearles which he tooke the key of Victorie the key of the Lawes and the key of Prophecie And after came three persons with shining faces presenting him a Cauldron of Emeralds with foure handles which Mahomet accepted as a signe of his rule ouer all the world The Birds Clouds Windes Angels contended for the nourishment of the childe But the cause was determined by heauenly voice affirming That hee should not bee taken from the hands of men An Asse almost famished worshipped him and receiuing him on her backe became Herald to this new Prophet with mans voyce proclaiming the worthinesse of her Carriage Three men carried him vp into a Mountaine of which one opened him from the breast vnto the Nauell and washed his entrailes with snow the second cleaued his heart in the middest and took out of it a black graine saying That it was the portion of the Deuill The third made him whole againe Seraphin nourished him three yeeres and Gabriel nine and twentie who gaue vnto him in the fortieth yeere of his age the Law and carried him to Heauen This his iourney is related by Frier Richard sometimes a studient in the Vniuersitie of Baldach Chapter 14. and in his life Gabriel with threescore and ten paire of wings came to Mahomet in the chamber of Aissa his best beloued wife and said That GOD would haue him to visit him where he is and brought with him the beast Elmparac or Alborach of nature betweene a Mule and an Asse This beast told Mahomet That hee would not take him on his backe till he had prayed to God for him His steps were as farre as one could see so that in the twinkling of an eye hee had brought Mahomet to Ierusalem Then Gabriel with his girdle tyed the beast to a Rocke and carried Mahomet on his shoulders into heauen where he knocked and the Porter opened Here Mahomet saw troupes of Angels and prayed twice on his knees for them and amongst the rest old Father Adam reioycing for such a Sonne and commending him to his prayers Then hee brought him to the second Heauen which was a iourney of fiue hundred yeeres and so forth on to the seauenth Heauen Heere hee saw the Angelicall people euery of which was a thousand times greater then the World and euery of them had threescore and ten thousand heads and euery head three-score and tenne thousand mouthes and euery mouth seuenteene hundred tongues praysing God in seuen hundred thousand Languages And he saw one Angell weeping and he asked the cause who answered That he was Sinne And Mahomet prayed for him Then Gabriel commended him to another Angell and he to another and so forth in order till he came before GOD and his Throne Then GOD whose face was couered with threescore and ten thousand cloathes of light and from whom Mahomet stood two stones cast below touched him with his hand the coldnesse whereof pierced to the marrow of his back-bone And GOD said I haue imposed on thee and on thy people Prayers When hee was returned as farre as the fourth Heauen Moses counselled him to returne back to obtaine case vnto the people which could not beare so many praiers which he did oftentimes till there remained but few thus returning to his Elmparac he rod backe to his house at Mecca All this was done in the tenth part of the night But when he was requested to doe thus much in the peoples sight he answered Praysed be GOD I am a Man and an Apostle The Booke Asear saith Bellonius telleth further That in this iourney Mahomet heard a womans voice crying Mahomet Mahomet but hee held his peace Afterwards another called him but he gaue no answere Mahomet asked the Angell who they were He answered That the one was shee which published the Iewes Law and if hee had answered her all his Disciples should haue beene Iewes the other was shee which deliuered the Gospell whom if he had answered all his followers had beene Christians The said Booke telleth That GOD gaue him a fiue-fold priuiledge First that he should bee the highest creature in heauen or earth Secondly the most execellent of the sonnes of Adam Thirdly an vniuersall Redeemer Fourthly skilfull in all languages Fifthly that the spoiles of Warres should be giuen him Gabriel after saith that Booke carryed him to Hell to see the secrets thereof and the