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A16282	The manners, lauues, and customes of all nations collected out of the best vvriters by Ioannes Boemus ... ; with many other things of the same argument, gathered out of the historie of Nicholas Damascen ; the like also out of the history of America, or Brasill, written by Iohn Lerius ; the faith, religion and manners of the Aethiopians, and the deploration of the people of Lappia, compiled by Damianus a ̀Goes ; with a short discourse of the Aethiopians, taken out of Ioseph Scaliger his seuenth booke de emendatione temporum ; written in Latin, and now newly translated into English, by Ed. Aston.; Omnium gentium mores, leges, et ritus. English. 1611	Boemus, Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Góis, Damião de, 1502-1574.; Nicolaus, of Damascus.; Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611. Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil.; Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609. De emendatione temporum.; Aston, Edward, b. 1573 or 4.	1611 (1611)	STC 3198.5; ESTC S102777	343,933	572

execute those offices of the court the women likewise by the commandement and decree of the same Maqueda be circumcised shee being induced therevnto by this reason that euen as men haue a fore-skinne that couereth their yards in like manner haue women a certaine kernelly flesh which is called Nympha arysing vp in the middle of their priuy partes which is very fit to take the character of circumcision and this is done both to males and females vpon the eight day and after circumcision the men children be baptised vpon the fortieth day and the women children vpon the eighteeth day vnlesse any sicknesse or infirmity hapneth which may cause it to bee done sooner but if any children be baptised before the time appointed it is not lawfull to giue them sucke of their mothers milke but onely of their nurses vntill their mothers bee purified and the water wherein they bee baptised is consecrated and blessed with exorcismes and that very same day wherein children bee baptised they receiue the blessed bodie of our Lord in a little forme of bread wee receiued baptisme almost before all other Christians from the Eunuch of Candace Queene of Aethiopia whose name was Indich as it is said in the Acts of the Apostles which together with circumcision which wee had at that time as before is sayd wee obserue most holily and Christian like and by Gods assistance euer shall obserue nor doe we obserue or admit of any thing but of those onely which are expressed in the law and the prophets and in the Gospell and in the bookes of the councels of the Apostles and if wee receiue any things besides those they bee onely obserued for the time for that they seeme to appertaine to the gouernment and peace of the Church and that without any bond of sinne Wherefore our circumcision is not vncleane but the law and grace is giuen to our father Abraham which hee receiued of God as a signe not that either he or his children should be saued through circumcision but that the children of Abraham should be known from other nations And that which is inwardly vnderstood by the signe or mistery of circumcision wee doe highly obserue that is that wee may bee circumcised in our hearts neither doe wee boast of circumcision nor therefore thinke our selues more noble then other Christians nor more acceptable vnto God with whom is no acception of persons as Paul saith who also sheweth vs that wee bee not saued through circumcision but by faith because in Christ Iesus neither circumcision nor the cutting off the foreskinne preualeth but the new creature but Paul preached not to destroy the law but to establish it who was also baptised and beeing of the seed of Beniamin hee also circumcised Tymothy who was become a Christian his mother beeing an Hebrew and his father a Gentile knowing that God doth iustifie circumcision by faith and the fore-skinne by faith and as he himselfe was made all to all that hee might saue all To the Iewes hee was as a Iew that thereby hee might winne the Iewes and to those which were vnder the law hee was as one vnder the law although hee was not vnder the law to the end hee might gaine those which were vnder the lawe and to those which were without the law hee was as one without the law although hee was not without the law of GOD but vnder the law of Christ that hee might get those which were without the law and hee became weake that hee might gaine those which were weake which he did to shew that we bee saued not by circumcision but by faith And therefore when he preached to the Hebrewes hee spake vnto them in diuers speeches like an Hebrew saying God heretofore spake many waies and in many manners to our fathers in the prophets shewing vnto them out of the same prophets that Christ was of the seed of Dauid after the flesh Moreouer he preached vnto them that Christ was with our fathers in the tents in the Desert and that he led them into the Land of promise by the hand of Iosua And Paul also testifieth in the same place that Christ was the chiefe of priests and that hee entred into a new tent which is the Sanctum sanctorum The holy of holies and that with the sacrifice of his bodie and bloud hee abolished the bloud of goates and bulles whereby none that killeth them shall bee iustified and so hee spake sundry waies to the Iewes and also suffering himselfe to bee worshipped of his people by many ceremonies in a holy and vncorrupted faith Moreouer those children with vs bee accounted halfe Christians which here I vnderstand in the Romane Church bee called Paganes who because they die without baptisme ought to bee called halfe Christians because they be children of the sanctified bloud of parents baptised and of the holy Ghost and of the bloud of our Lord Iesus Christ by which three Testimonies all Christians bee so reputed because there bee three things which giue testimony in earth the spirite water and bloud as Saint Iohn witnesseth in his first canonicall Epistle the Gospell also saith a good tree bringeth forth good fruite and an euill tree bringeth forth euill fruite and therefore the children of Christians are not like vnto the children of the Gentiles and of the Iewes and of the Moores which bee withered trees without any fruit but the Christians bee elected in their mothers wombes as holy Ieremias the prophet and Saint Iohn Baptist were Furthermore the children of Christian women are elected and consecrated by the communication and imparting of the body bloud of our Lord Iesus Christ for when women great with child do take the most blessed body of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ the infant in the wombe receiuing nutriment is thereby sanctified for euen as the child in the mothers wombe conceiueth either sorrow or ioy according as the mother is affected so also is it nourished by the mothers norishment and as our Lord saith in his holy Ghospell if any one eate my body and drinke my bloud hee shall not tast of eternall death and againe if any one eate of my body and drinke my bloud hee shall remaine with mee and Paul the teacher of the Gentiles saith the vnbeleeuing husband is iustified by the beleeuing wife the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified by the beleeuing husband otherwise your children should be vncleane but now they bee sanctified which if it bee so that the children of an vnbeleeuing mother bee sanctified by the saithfulnesse of the father then be they much more holy that bee borne of faithfull fathers and mothers for which cause it is farre more holy to call children before they bee christned halfe Christians then Pagans and the Apostles also haue said in their bookes of councels that al which beleeue and be not baptised may iustly bee termed halfe Christians who also say in the said bookes if Iew Moore or Gentile will receiue the faith hee is

country fertill and fruitfull Egypt of many is accounted amongst the number of Ilands The riuer Nylus so deuiding it that it proportioneth the whole country into a triangular forme insomuch that of many it is called Delta for the resemblance it hath vnto that Greeke letter The Egiptians were the first that fained the names of twelue gods they erected Altars Idols and Temples and figured liuing creatures in stones all which things doe plainely argue that they had their originall from the Aethiopians who were the first Authors of all these things as Diodorus Siculus is of opinion Their women were wonte in times past to doe businesse abroad to keepe tauernes and victualling houses and to take charge of buying and selling and the men to knit within the walles of the citty they bearing burthens vpon their heads and the women vppon their shoulders the women to pisse standing and the men sitting all of them for the most part ryoting and banquetting abroad in open wayes and exonerating and disburdening their bellyes at home No woman there taketh vppon her the order of Priest-hood of any god or goddesse They enter not into religion to any of their gods one by one but in companies of whom one is their Bishoppe or head and hee beeing dead his sonne is elected in his steede The male children ayde and succour theyr parents by the custome of their country freely and willingly and daughters are forced to doe it if they bee vnwilling The fashion of most men in funerall exequies is to rend the hayres off theyr heads and to suffer their beards to growe vncutte but the Aegyptians did let their lockes growe long and shaue their beards short they kneaded theyr Dowe with theyr feete and made morter with their hands Theyr custome was as the Greekes were of opinion to circumcise them-selues and their children they write theyr letters from the right hand to the left and men wore two garments the women but one they had two sorts of letters the one prophane the other holy but both of them deriued from the Aethiopians The Priests shaued their bodyes euery third day least they should hap to bee polluted with any filthe when they did sacrifice they wore paper shooes and linnen vestiments euer new washed and alleagded that they were circumcised for no other cause but for cleanlinesse sake for that it is better to bee cleane then comely The Aegyptians sowed no Beanes nor would eate any that grew in other countries and their Priests were precisely prohibited the sight of them as beeing an vncleane kinde of graine The Priests washed them-selues in colde water thrise in the day time and twise in the night The heads of their oblations they eate not but cursing them with bitter execrations eyther sould them to strange Marchants factors or if none would buy them they would throw them into the riuer of Nylus their sacrifices were with oxen and calues that were very cleane It was not lawfull for the women to doe sacrifice no though they were consecrated to their God Isis They liued of meate made of a certaine corne which they call Wheate and drinke wine made of Barley for grapes there are none growing in that country They eate raw fish dried at the Sunne and some powdred in brine and birds also but altogether rawe but the richer sort feed vpon Quailes and Duckes When many are assembled together at meat and that they be arose from dinner or supper one of them caryeth about vpon a little Beere or Chest the picture of a dead body eyther made of wood or else much resembling a dead corpes in painting and workmanship of a cubite or two cubits long and shewing it vnto euery one of the guests saith vnto them In your drinkings and meriments behold this spectacle for such shall you bee when you are dead Yong people bow and giue place to their elders when they meete them in the way and arise from their seates to such as come to them wherein they agree with the Lacedemonians Those which incounter in the wayes salute one another with congee below the knee They are clothed as I haue said with linnen garments fringed about the legges which they call Cassilirae ouer which they we are a little short white garment like a cloake as it were cast ouer the other for wollen garments are so contemned as they are neither worne in temples nor serue for winding sheetes Now because all those famous men which haue heeretofore excelled in any one kinde of learning or mystery and which haue constituted and left behinde them lawes and ordinances for other nations to liue by went first vnto the Aegyptians to learne their manners lawes and wisdome in which they excelled all nations of the earth as Orpheus and after him Homer Musaeus Melampodes Dedalus Licurgus the Spartane Solon the Athenian Plato the Philosopher Pythagoras of Samos and Zamolzis his disciple Eudoxus also the Mathematitian Democritus of the cittie of Abdera Inopides of Chios Moses the Hebrew and many others as the Aegiptian Priests make bragges are contained in their sacred bookes I thinke it very conuenient to spend some little time further in describing the manner of liuing of the Aegiptians that it may bee knowne what one or more things euery one of those worthy men haue taken from the Aegyptians and transported into other countries for as Phillippus Beroaldus writeth vpon Apuleus Asse there be many things translated from the religion of the Aegiptians into the Christian religion as the linnen vestments the shauing of Priests crownes the turning about in the Altar the sacrificiall pompe the pleasant tuning notes of musick adorations prayers and many other more like ceremonies The Egiptian Kings as Diodorus Siculus writeth in his second booke were not so licencious as other Kings whose will standeth for a law but followed the institutions and lawes of the country both in gathering money and in their life and conuersations There was none of any seruile condition whether hee were bought with money or borne in that country that was admitted to waite and attend vpon the King nor any other but onely the sonnes of the worthiest Priests and those aboue the age of twenty yeares and excelling others in learning to the end that the King beeing mooued at the sight of his seruants both day and night attending vpon his person should commit nothing vnfit to be done by a King for seldome doe the rich and mighty men become euill if they want ministers to foster them in their euill desires There were certaine howers appointed euery day and night wherein by the permission of their lawe the King might confer with others The King at his rising receaueth all the letters and supplications that bee sent or brought vnto him and then pausing and considering a while what is to be don he giueth answer to euery suter in order as they came so as all things bee done in their due

all of gold and their speeres be poynted and their quiuers trimmed with Brasse for of Iron and siluer they haue no vse Euery one hath his wife and they accompany with women openly which is vsed by no other Scythians but onely they if they be iustly accounted Scythians for when any one there lusteth after another woman he hangeth his quiuer at his chariot and lyeth with her without shame The people haue no time prefixt them how long they shal liue but when one waxeth old his friends assemble together and sacrifice him with certaine sheepe and boiling the flesh together make a banket thereof And this kind of death they account most blessed but they eat none which die by any disease but bury them in the ground esteeming them damn●● because they could not be sacrificed They neither sow nor plant any thing but liue of beasts and of fishes which the riuer Araxis affoords abundantly their vsuall drinke is milk Of the gods they worship only the Sun to whom they sacrifice horses thinking it fit to sacrifice a beast of the greatest speede to a starre of the swiftest course The people called Seres in Scythia of all others liue most curteously and quietly among thēselues they auoid the company of all other men but themselues and despise the intercourse of merchandize with other countries for their merchants haue no communication for buying and selling with strange Merchants but onely set downe a price vpon their goods and deliuer them by racke of eye without buying any thing of others with thē is neither whore adulterer nor theefe brought to triall neither is any man there put to death at any time but the feare of their lawes with thē is of more force then the constellatiō of their natiuities They inhabit in the very beginning of the world and that they may the better liue chastly they be neither afflicted with canker or corruption nor with haile or pestilence When a woman is conceiued with child no man requireth her company nor till she be purified no one eateth vncleane flesh they know no sacrifices and all men iudge of themselues according to iustice and right wherefore they be not chastised with such punishments as are inflicted vpon men for their offences but liuing a long space yeeld vp their breaths without sicknesse The Tauro-Scythians so called of the hill Taurus about which they dwel sacrifice al those which suffer ship wrack vnto a virgin which they worship as a goddesse as also all the Greeks which be brought thither in this manner After they haue finished their praiers they cut off his head whom they meane to sacrifice and as some say throw his truncke head-long downe a Rocke for their Temple is scituated vpon a steepe Rocke which done they naile the head vpon a crosse or gybbet Some agreeing that their heads bee fastned to a crosse as is said doe notwithstanding deny that their bodies be throwne head-long down a Rocke but affirme that they bury them in the grownd The spirit or goddesse to whom they doe-sacrifice they terme to be Iphigenia the daughter of Agamemnon Euery one likewise cutteth off the heads of his enemies which he taketh in the warres and carrieth them home to his house and fixing them vpon poles setteth them vpon the highest part of his house and for the most part vpon the funnel of the chimney and the reason why they set them so high is for that they say the heads be the keepers and watchmen ouer the whole house these people liue by rapine and stealth and by the wars The Agathirsi be a very exquisit and well addorned people their garments for the most part be of gold Their women bee common to them all so as they be all cosins and kinsfolke one to an other there is neither enuy nor strife amongst them but in their liuing they much resemble the Thracians The Neury vse the Scythian customes these in the Summer before Darius expedition were constrained for the multitude of serpents which ingendred in their soile to alter their seate they perswades themselues so firmely as they will sweare it to bee true that for certaine daies euery yeere they become Wolues and againe after a while returne into their former habite and shapes The Anthropophagi that it is to say eaters of mans flesh vse the most sauage and rudest manners of all men they haue neither lawes nor ordinances to liue vnder they exercise themselues about cattel there garments be like the Scythians and they haue a language proper to themselues The Melanchlaeni goe all of them in blacke attire which is the cause they be so called and as many of them as feed onely on humaine flesh liue after the manner of the Scythians The Budini be a great and populous nation there Bodies be redish or yelowish and their eyes gray like Cats The City Gelon the people whereof be called Gelloni is the chiefe city of their Nation They solemnised certaine feasts euery third yeere in honour of Bacchus They were once Greekes but being remoued from thence they seated themselues in this Country and their language they now vse is a mixt speech betwixt the Scythian and Greeke tonge The Budini differ from the Gelloni both in life and language for the Budini being borne in the Country breed vp cattel and eate such fruites and herbes as the coūtry naturally produceth but the Gellony excercysing husbandry liue vpon corne and plant orchards gardens be nothing like the Budini either in collour or countenance The country is wel stored with trees out of a great and huge poole which they haue they take Ottors Beuers many other wild beasts of whose skins they make themselues clothes The Lyrcae line only by hunting which is on this manner they clime vp into the tops of trees which be very plentiful in that country and there lie in waite for wild beasts each huntsman hath his dog and his horse which be taught to couch down low vpon their bellies the better to intrappe the wild beast and after hee which is in the tree top hath spied the beast and stroke him with a darte hee leaueth the tree and pursueth him on horse-backe with his dogge vntill hee haue taken him The Argyphaei inhabite vnder the bottoms of high hils they bee a kind of people that bee balde from their birthes both men and women they haue flat nostrells a great chinne and a speech peculiar to themselues They be apparelled like the Scythians and liue by fruites of trees little caring for cattell whereof they haue no great store They lodge vnder trees and in the Winter-time they weare white caps but none in the Sommer There is none that will wronge them for they bee accounted a sacred people possessing no weapons of defence They determine such controuersies as arise amongst their neighbours and whosoeuer flyeth vnto them is in safety The Issedones were reported to vse this