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A65093	The works of the famous antiquary, Polidore Virgil containing the original of all arts, sciences, mysteries, orders, rites, and ceremonies, both ecclesiastical and civil : a work useful for all divines, historians, lawyers, and all artificers / compendiously English't by John [i.e. Thomas] Langley.; De rerum inventoribus. English	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.	1663 (1663)	Wing V596; ESTC R28374	121,672	340

The Crouch or Crosse Friers began about the year of our Lord 1215. by the device of Syracus Bishop of Jerusalem which shewed Helen mother of Constantine where the Crosse lay hid and in memorial of the Cross he caused this brotherhood and Colledge of Friers to bear the Cross and yet they never knew what the Cross weighed in their bodies or in their hearts and forasmuch as they were sore wasted Innocentius the third renewed the Religion CHAP. IV. Black and Grey-Fryers the Trinity-order● Brigidians Jesuits new Hermites and Bonhomes ABout the time of Innocentius the third arose two famous founders of two superstitious Sects I mean Dominick the Spaniard and Francis the Italian of the Country of Vmbria Dominick at the first was a Canon but because he could not suffer to have a superiour and was also weary of the Cloyster he invented a new fraternity named Dominicans Black-Fryers or Fryers-Preachers because they had the charge to preach the Gospel without mixture of any Pharisaical leven The new guise of their Vesture made innocent Innocentius to wonder But Honorius the third by his Bull honourably admitted them the year of our Lord 1220 and Gregory the 9th put the matter all out of doubt canonized Dominick and by his Bull under Lead allowed him for a Saint Frances that was first of the Friers Augustines thinking that sect not to be sufficiently furnished with Hypocrisie began a new trade of living in the Mount Appenninus in a place named commonly Laverna doubtless a ground worthy for such a foundation as was beside the Word of God it was set up in the time of Honorius aforesaid They were named Minoribes of the humility and lowliness of heart that they should have but that was smally regarded and farthest from their study Two years after the year of our Lord God 1229 Francis was sanctified by Gregory and made a Saint Francisoans afterward fell at contention for the rules of their profession They that failed somewhat of the unperfect perfection of them retained the name of Minorites still the other entituled themselves Observants more worthy to be called Obstinate The latter fellows were brought in●o England by King Edward the 4th and were greatly inhanced by the famous Prince King Henry the 7th At the same time was Clara the Virgin Countrey-woman to Saint Francis which was a great Foundress of Nuns of the same Rule that Francis gave his Covent of them sprung the bastard Penitencers in the dayes of John the 22 and the year of our Lord 1315. The Order of the Trinity under Innocentius was begun by John Matta and Felix Anachorita in France in the County of Meldine Then also was founded or else not long after in the time of Martin the fourth the Religion of Virgins or Servants by one Philip of Florencia a Physitian and Benedict the 11th confirmed it in the year of our Lord 385. The Order of Brigidians was instituted by Brigidia a Widow that was Princess of Sueta under Vrban the 5th in the year of our Lord 1370 it was as well of men as women albeit they dwelt severally by themselves The Family of Jesuits was the Invention of Johannes Columbinus in the City of Senes in the time of the same Urban the year of our Lord 1368 they were no Priests nor consecrated persons but were men of the lay sort given and addicted to prayer and had the name of Jesuits because that name of Jesus should be often in their mouth they be much like to our Beads-men in England The Sect of new Hermites began in Urbin a City in Italy in the Countrey of Umbria where Polidore Virgil was born and was the device of one Petrus an Hetrurian and they had in the same City a goodly Hospitall or Guild-Hall The Bonhomes were instituted in England by Edmund son of Richard Earl of Cornwall which was brother to Henry the third and was elected King of the Romans and heir apparent to the Empire by the principal Electors about the year of our Lord 1257. The speciall head place of that Religion was Astrige where the noble King Henry the eighth hath now a goodly Palace This Edmund brought the bloud of our Saviour as it was said into the Realm CHAP. V. The original of sacred Knights and white sect WHilest the City of Jerusalem before our Christian men had conquered it in the year of our Lord 1099 was in subjection to the Saracens the Latine Christians that lived there tributaries purchased a licence to build near unto the Holy Sepulchre dwelling houses and among other they made an Hospital of our Lady to receive the strange Pilgrims and appointed a Provost to entertain them This was in Silvester the first his time the year of our Lord three hundred twenty and four and renewed the year of Christ one thousand three hundred ninety and seven in the time of Celestine the third Bishop of Rome After the pattern of this house was devised a like house of Virgins in memorial of Mary Magdalen to receive the Women that resorted thither It began in the 2d Vrbanes dayes the year of our Lord 1099. Notwithstanding because the multitude of Latine Pilgrimes waxed very great they builded three Hospitals of Saint John Baptist as some say Albeit some think it was of John Eleemosinarius that was the Patriarch of Alexandria in the reign of the Emperour Phocas This Sect one Gerardus adorned with a white Cross in a black vesture grand Captain of these Knights was Ramundus when Clement the fifth had the See of Rome about the year of our Lord 1310 yet some affirm that the beginning of them was in the 3d Alexanders dayes the year of Christ one thousand one hundred seventy and nine and they be called of the order of Saint John or Knights of the Rhodes because they won the Rhodes from the Turks which afterwards they lost again in January in the year of our Salvation one thousand five hundred twenty three albeit they did long defend it manfully The Temples order was begun in Gelasius the second his dayes in the year of Christs Incarnation one thousand one hundred twenty and eight by Hugo Paganus and Gaufridus de sancto Alexandro they were named Templers because they kept in a part of the buildings near to the Temple they kept Bernardus rule in their living But Clement the fifth deposed them partly for that they renounced the Faith and conspired with the Turks and partly for other notable crimes The order of Teutonicks or Dutch Lords began in Jerusalem by a Dutch man whose name is not known Their office was to fight against the enemies of Christs Cross it began in the dayes of Clement the third the year of Christs incarnation 1190. Petrus Ferdinandus a Spaniard began the order of Saint James Knights that lived after St Austins rule under Alexander the third and in the year of our Lord one thousand one hundred and sixty in the same

of his Harmony delighted and mollified the gross hearts and rude minds of men it was feigned that he made the wild beasts as Lyons and Tygres to follow him and the praisings of god's valiant powers and deeds of Arms of Lords were used to be sung with Lutes at the royall Feasts as Iompas in Virgil and Demodocus in Homer bear witnesse The Finders of Musick as Pliny supposeth was Amphion the son of Jupiter by Antiope The Grecians ascribe the finding of it to Diodorus Eusebius saith That Zephus and Amphion which were in Cadmus's dayes invented Musick Solinus contendeth that the study of this Art came out of Crete and was perceived by the ringing and shrill sound of Brasse and so brought and traduced into numbers and measures Polybius affirmeth That it came from the Arcadians which have an exceeding mind to that Science And Diodorus writeth That Mercury found Concords of singing Albeit it is like that these onely were the first setters out of it in Greece of late time for Josephus telleth That Tubulcain an Hebrew the son of Lamech which was many Ages before them used much to sing to the Psaltery and Lute notwithstanding who was first procurer of it and when it was found it is yet uncertain For it seemeth to have been given of nature to mankind at the beginning for a speciall remedy to mitigate the cruell pains wherein man is plunged for a child new-born ceaseth its crying at the singing and lulling of his Nurse In all kind of labours singing is comfortable the Gally-man the Plow-man the Carter the Carrier ease the tediousnesse of their labour and journey with carollings and whistling yea the brute beasts be delighted with songs and noises as Mules with bells Horses with trumpets and shalmes are of a fiercer stomack to their appointed Ministery And of whom think ye learned the Birds their diversity of tunes Who taught the Nightingale such sundry notes Doubtlesse even nature was of this agreeable Harmony the onely Schoolmistresse But the Egyptians did forbid their young folks learning of Musick because it seduceth and maketh effeminate the hardy courage of men And Ephorus saith It was ordained to delude and deceive men Nevertheless Socrates wa● not ashamed in his old age to learn to play on the Harp And Themistocles because he refused the Harp at a Banquet was reckoned unlearned The Priests of Mars in Rome talled Salii sung verses about the City And especially the great Prophet David which sung the Mysteries of God in Meter frequented singing CHAP. XII Who Invented Musical Instruments and brought them into Italy IT is said that Mercury found the Harp first For as he walked by the River Nilus after an ebbe he found a Tortoise all withered and nothing remaining but the sinews which as he fortuned to strike on them made a certain sound and after the pattern of that he fashioned an Harp and according to the three times of the year Summer Winter and Spring he put to it three strings a treble a base and a mean This Instrument he gave to Apollo and Apollo delivered it to Orpheus some think Amphion found it I find that the Harp had seven strings to resemble the seven daughters of Atlas whereof Maia Mercury his Mother was one And then after that were two other put to to represent the nine Muses Some re●er the originall of the Harp and Pipe to Apollo for his Image in Delos as they say hath in the right hand a bow and in the left hand the goddesses of favour Whereof one hath a Harp another a Shalm the third a Pipe Shalms were at the beginning made of Cranes legs and after of great reeds Dardamus Trezemius used first to play and sing with them Pan an heathenish God found the Pipe of small Reed first to solace his love Eusebius saith Cybele found it and some suppose it was Apollo Timarias played on the Harp or Lute first without Ditty and Amphion sung first to the Lute but the Harp was found before by Tubal and fashioned like the Greek letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hermophilus first distributed the pulse and beating of the Veins to certain measures of Musick And the Prophet David found divers instruments as Regals and Nebles The Troglodites found the Dulcimers Pises Terrenes found the brazen Trumpet which the Terrenes footmen used in their warres some think it was Tirreus or Dirceus an Athenian For when the Lacedemonians made war against the Messenians and the wars were long endured they had answer of Apollo that if they would win the field they should have a Captain of Athens And the Athenians in despite sent to them one Dyrceus a lame and one ey'd fellow and all out of shame yet they received him and used his counsell and he taught them to play on Trumpets which were so fearfull to the Athenians by reason of the strangeness of the noise that they fled forthwith and so they obtained Victory Moses the valiant Captain of the Hebrews found the Trumpet and made it of Silver The Arcadians did first bring all Musicall Instruments into Italy where before that time they used onely Mountainous Pipes Thucidides writeth that the Lacedemonians used first in war Shalms Clarions and Rebecks to the intent that when they were ready to the wars by such playing they might better keep array The Romans footmen joyned Drumslades with Trumpets Haliattes King of the Lidians had in the battell against the Milesians Pipers and Fidlers playing together the Grecians as they went to war had Lutes going before them to govern their pace all other Countries as we do now used trumpets in battel CHAP. XIII The beginning of Philosophy THe Science of Philosophy which Tully calleth the Study of Wisdome Searcher out of Vertue Expulser of Vice according to divers opinions was brought out of Barbary into Greece For it 's said That in Persia the Magitians for so they called their wise men were excellent in knowledg in Assyria the Chaldees in India the Gymnosophists having their name because they went naked had their part of wisdome of which faction one Budas was chief In France the Druides in Phenice Ochus in Thrace Xamolxis and Orpheus in Libya Atlas The Egyptians say That Vulcanus the son of Nilus found the first principles of Philosophy Laertius writeth That Philosophy began in Greece where Museus and Linus were first learned men but Eusebius saith That Philosophy like as all other Sciences sprung among the Hebrews and of them the Greek Philosophers which were a thousand years after Moses learned all their knowledg The name of Philosophy was not used among them till the time of Pythagoras for he called himself a Philosopher and the study of wisdom Philosophy whereas formerly it was named Wisdome and