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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00400	A discourse of the nauigation which the Portugales doe make to the realmes and prouinces of the east partes of the worlde and of the knowledge that growes by them of the great thinges, which are in the dominions of China. Written by Barnardine of Escalanta, of the realme of Galisia priest. Translated out of Spanish into English, by Iohn Frampton.; Discurso de la navegacion que los portugueses hazen à los reinos y provincias del Oriente. English	Escalante, Bernardino de, 16th cent.; Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.	1579 (1579)	STC 10529; ESTC S101702	64,782	94

Emperours verie seldome times they lacke successours The first child that is born of any of his diuerse wiues is of force inheritor of the Realme to the rest of the children after they are maried there is appointed to them Cities wherein they shall liue priuately where they are prouided of all thinges that are needfull for them according to their degrees with expresse commandement that they go not forth of them nor euermore after to come at the Court vpon paine of losse of theyr liues And when in olde time the kings maried their sonnes they made a solemne banquet vnto all the knightes and principall Lordes of his Court and did commaunde to carie with them their sonnes and daughters richly apparaled and trimmed and in this congregation came the Princes where all the Ladies were ioyned in companie and there they choose for their wiues such as to them seemed best and fayrest and the yong women did the like of the yong men but nowe they marie themselues with those of theyr owne kindred This same selfe rigor that is vsed of shetting them vp all the rest of the kinges kindred doe suffer the like being resident for the most part in the Citie of Cansi with commandement that some do neuer go forth of their houses too auoyde all manner of occasion and suspicion of alteration The dwelling houses where these Princes dwell are verie great for within them they haue all the pleasure and contentmēt that is to be thought aswell of Gardens Orchards Pondes of fish of diuerse sortes as also of Parks where they haue diuerse kinde of deare and foule such as may be had in Mountaines and Riuers all compassed about with walles which maketh more compasse than a great towne And as they vnderstand in nothing else but in making much of them selues they are commonly fat of good conditions peaceable and liberall with straungers They giue themselues much to Musicke wherewithall they passe the time and in other quiet exercises The gouernours and the kings officers are bound to visite them in all their festiuall dayes and if they ride along by their doores on horse backe they alight downe and if they be caried in Chaires they descend downe also and they passe by making little noyse as men that make no shew of their authoritie nor ordinarie pompe as they are accustomed to doe And for this cause they haue their gates of these houses painted with red oker bycause they shal be knowne There is not in all this Realme any Lorde that hath subiects or iuristdiction or other title than of an Off●…eer which is the most honourable title they haue and it doth signifie in their language as much as if we in our language should say Lord and knight It is gotten by studie and sufficiencie in the lawes of the Realme and by worthinesse in the field and by particular seruice made too the king or to the common wealth Those with are chosē for the lawes of y realm ▪ for men of warre are extolled according to the desertes that euerie one doe ▪ vntill they come to bee Presidents and gouernours of the Prouinces and ▪ generall Captaines in the Sea ▪ and in the lande and they are occupied also in other offices of the house and Court of this Prince and to be of the kings councell which is the highest office that is Those which they make sufficient in learning they choose in this maner The king doth sende euerie three yeares a Chaen which is as one should say a Iudge of residence to euerie Prouince that hee may visite the gouernours and officers thereof And this visitation being ended hee dooth commaund that in the chiefe Citie there be ioyned the most learned studentes of the most Cities of that iurisdiction with the most learned lawiers and of most authoritie they are all examined and such as they fynde sufficient they doe graduate with much solemnitie and with great ceremonies making themselues merie in these feastes certaine dayes with much musicke daunces Comedies and banquets where withall hee sendeth them to the Court that they may receyue the signes of men of lawe which are certaine Coyfes with eares and also hat●…es and broade and long gyrdles and there they remaine vntill their letters patients of their Offices be giuen them And such as are made for the warres first they choose the Captaines generall exalting the valtauntest souldiers with honourable profitable roomes for they do not let to esteeme all such as doe valiantly and to rewarde them with great liberalitie increasing theyr giftes according to theyr deserts The rest of the Offices are giuen by the king himsefe but these rise no higher in degree but to haue this title of Captaine generall for to enioy many liberties freedomes and gaine which is an ordinarie thing to such This Prince seldome or neuer goeth forth of his Palace for the conseruation of his greatnes and the authoritie of his estate but when hee goeth to the warres or do remoue with his court And he hath within the compasse of his house all the pleasures and pastimes that may bee deuised for the content of mankinde and the lodginges of his sonnes and kinsfolkes are so great as it is before sayd whereof the Maiestie and greatnesse of his house may be imagined And that it is not to bee marueyled that it is so great as some doe say the Citie of Paquin is where he is resident for the most part by reason of the greate warres hee hath with the Tartarres that in one day from Sunne to Sunne a man cannot ride from one gate to another And besides his Palace the houses are verie great which apperteine to those of his Counsell and the rest of his gouernours and captaynes and of manie other men of lawe that are alwayes resident in the court The same is sayde by the Citie of Manquin where in olde time the kinges were accustomed to dwell and haue theyr Courte by reason it was set in a fruitfull soyle freshe and calme And in remembraunce that he hath beene continually resident there they haue in that Citie in the house of the treasurer of the kings rentes in that Prouince a table of Golde wherein is written the name of the king that then reigned couered with a riche Curteine and they goe to it and reuerence it as though it were the king himselfe And so all the Officers and Lawyers and chiefe Gouernours are bounde to drawe the Curteine aside in all festiuall dayes that is in the time of the newe Moones which amongest them is the first day of the Moneth And in the rest of the Prouinces there are other Tables like to this but they go not to them to make anie reuerence but when they doe discouer them whereby you may vnderstand●… the veneration that they giue to their prince And they giue him title of the Lorde of the worlde and the Sonne of heauen The seruants and suche

officers and the rest is distributed for the prouision of the Cities for to encrease his reuenues The Barkes wherein the gouernors and the officers do saile in haue their couerings high and theyr cabans verie well wrought and gilded both without and within with theyr windowes casementes adorned with fine shewes And the Barkes of the officers of lower degree are well neare built after the same maner and with as much gallantnesse There are so many Barkes of the one sort and of the other that they say commonly that theyr King maye make a bridge vpon Barkes that will reach from China to Malaca which is fiue hundreth leages distant The xi Chapter sheweth of the letters cyphers and figures of the people of China and of their studyes in generall THe people of China haue nō number of letters in their A B C for all that they write is by figures signifying the heauen which they call Guant by one onely figure which is this And the king which they cal Bontai which is this And in like order the earth the Sea and the rest of the Elaments and names vsing more than fiue thousande ciphers or figures different one from the other which they make verie readily I saw a China doe it and I requested him to write certaine names and he shewed to me the numbers that they doe account withall and they were easie to vnderstand and to summe and rest any maner of account by Arithmetike by them as well as by those of our ciphers they make the lines throughout both aboue and beneath verie equall and wich great order beginning contrarie to vs After the self same order they haue in their impression which they vsed many yeares before it was vsed in Europe Of their printed bookes which doeth treate of theyr Histories there were two of those bookes in the power of the most excellent Queene of Portugale the Ladie Katherine that now liueth And that which seemeth most to be marueyled at is that they speaking different languages in the most part of theyr Prouinces and the one vnderstande not the other by speache more than the Gascoines doe vnderstande the Valencianos yet generally they vnderstande one another by wryting for one maner of figure or cipher doth serue euerie one of them and to signifie to them any maner of name And although they declare one to another of them any worde that is straunge yet they vnderstande that it is the selfe same thing bycause they see plainely that it doeth signifie a Citie which is this and some doe call it Leombi and others Fu the one and the other doe vnderstand that it is to be vn ▪ derstoode a Citie and the like followeth in all other names And in this sort they talke one with another in writing those of Lapaon and Ilandes of the Lechios and the Realme of Guachinchina without vnderstanding anie woorde the one with another when they speake In all Cities the king hath generall Schooles at his owne cost and to them doe come an infinite number of Scholers to be taught A Frier named Gaspar de la Cruz being a religious mā of Portingale of the order of Saint Dominicke that was in that Countrey in the Citie of Canton and that wrote plentifully the things he saw and that which happened to him in the voyage sayeth that they teach in these their Schooles onely the lawes of the Realme and no other science But there bee some learned men that haue knowledge of the course of the heauens wherby they know the Eclipses of the Sunne and of the Moone and these teach to particular parsones of their owne free wil. And Iohn de Barros doeth say that beside the teaching of their owne lawes they also teach naturall Philosophie and that they be great Astrologers which he knoweth by relation of others and by a booke they brought him from thence of the scituation of the Countrey with a Commentarie vpon the same after the maner of an Itinerary with a Mappe or Carde Geographicall made by the sayde people of the China wherein is mention made of one wall which beginneth from the Citie of Ocoioy and standeth betweene two verie high mountaines euen like vnto a way passage or gate that passeth through that whole Region which doth runne from fortie three to fortie flue degrees from the West to the East and vntill it meete with another great hill which runneth out into the Easterly Seas after the maner of a head lande or Cape and seemeth to be in length more then two hundreth leagues which the kinges in times past did commaunde too buylde for to defende the incursions of the Tartares from his Countrey their auncient mortall enemies And all those Mountaines Rivers Cities and Townes with theyr names which Carde or Mappe did answere well to the booke after the maner as they vse there is after three sortes that is by stature league and iourney and wee vse the like And the first and least distance they call Lij which haue so much space as in a plaine grounde and a calme day the voyce of a man may be heard and ten of these Li●…s doe make one Pu which doe answere little more then a leage of ours of Spaine and ten Pues do make a dayes iourney which they cal Ichan And it is not to be marueyled that they do not scituate the distance of the lande with degrees answering too the celestial Orbe seeing that at the time of Ptolome it was not vsed of the Geographers notwithstanding that hee sayth they haue this vse in their Oroscopos when they vse their Astrologie The king doeth sende to these Scholers euerie yeare visitors to examine the students to see and vnderstand if they profite in learning And those which are able and learne wel they honor with woordes of commendation and do animate them that they go forwarde in theyr studie offering them to increase theyr liuings and those which do not profite in learning they commaunde to be put into Prison and they whip them and when they are altogither vnprofitable they dispatch them away euery three yeares The visitors vse this kinde of examination when they come to take residence of the Iudges and the Kinges Officers and they bring power and authoritie to graduate such as are able men and of sufficient knowledge in the lawe which is to make them sufficient for to serue the king in Offec●…s and gouernements as it is more at large declared in an other Chapter following The xii Chapter sheweth howe that of all this great Realme of China one onely Prince is King and Lorde and of his Councell and Maiestie of his house and Court. AL this great Realme is subiect to one onely king and monarche which doeth gouerne reigne in it And there doth succeede in the Realme from fathers to sonnes and for lacke of them it goeth to the next in kinred but as they marry manie wiues according to the maner of the Turkish