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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08874	An essay of the meanes hovv to make our trauailes, into forraine countries, the more profitable and honourable	Palmer, Thomas, Sir, 1540-1626.; Zwinger, Theodor, 1533-1588. Methodus apodemica.	1606 (1606)	STC 19156; ESTC S113921	84,643	147

that either haue enioyed long freedom or feele sensibly the hard yoke of bondage In a word such are the people of Ireland who not being accustomed to ciuility and obeisance spurne so much against the same For the Nobility spurn against subiection the Cōmons folow their Lords Leaders thorow want of ciuility Christian knowledge that keepeth euery man in officio The markes of liberty and freedome of people are riches ease both peculiar to the Grecians and English the Germanes abound in ease the Venetians procure their liberty by their riches These things cōcerning the freenesse of people The like in effect be considered of those people which are seruile namely whether they be seruiled thorow tyranny oppression or thorow depression keeping vnder violently both sorts being subiects of misery calamitie Of the first sort we heare of the Tartariās vnder their Cam for the whole State of all they haue standeth at his fancie to dispose of the word of whose mouth serueth for a sword to reuenge him of rebels and yet they reioyce thereat neither dare any man say This is mine or anothers neither can any man dwell other-where than his Lord assigneth him The Liuonians vnder the Duke of Muscouie are so seruile that they dare not but call him Tzar or King where none other nations doe the same Moreouer so seruile are the Muscouites that they call themselues the slaues of the Duke neither dare they sell anything before the Dukes officers haue surueyed the same Alike seruile are the people of Lithuania in so much as the officers of the Countrey may enter into any mans house and take their pleasure of any thing where no farmer dare come in the presence of this Lord without gifts or bribes So the Commons of Sweuia in times past were in great misery vpheld by their Princes and Nobilitie For all commodities passed and repassed thorowe their fingers Lastly such are those people whose ouer-rulers are Tyrants as the Turke generally thorow his Dominions the Pope ouer the Cleargie and many temporall States Nowe of the second sort of Seruile wee find the husbandmen and tenants of Italie who liue hardly and poorely to vphold the Gentlemen their Land-lords So liue the Boores vnder the Germane Nobilitie in greater miserie and subiection than the poorest person in this land Such are moreouer the Commons of a Nation where either ciuill warres or omission of good and holesome lawes reigne Such of late time were the Boores of the Low Countries and Pesants of France so finally are al those Commons whose Nobility like Solons great flies breake thorow the net of the Lawe and where the Prince is remisse in gouernment Now the markes of seruile people are hereby gathered namely Pouertie and Want and excessiue paines-taking and moyling to gaine their liuing Such were the Irish such are the Moores It now remaines to shew what vse a Trauailer shall make hereby First by these the loyaltie and vnsteadinesse of Subiects are discouered then their constancie and reuolting humor vpon occasions profered And lastly who are to be trusted for friends and who feared for enemies These being instruments for the Politician to plot vpon and therefore I will be sparing in the discourse The third thing that discouereth the nature of the people is for our Trauailer to consider whether the people of a Nation or State bee Religious or Profane These wordes must be restrained considering Religiousnesse is properly taken for the godly exercise of that profession without Idolatrie or superstition the which is true Religion All other shewes are shadowes irreligious and not substantiall professions In like sort may it be said of Profanenesse which is of those people who leauing the pathe of mans dutie toward God wander in the field or wildernesse of error either through ignorance presumption or imperfectiō Wherefore that our Trauailer may not bee put to plunge the words in this place implie a larger vnderstanding For by religious people is meant such as are passing deuoute and zealous in religion be they Christian Heathen or Antichistian So likewise by prophane people I conceiue Libertines Atheistes and politicke religious people who oppose themselues against the superstitious and deuout practise of godlinesse as temporizers aud epicureall worldlings In this first sense most Nations in the world at this day are haue been euer deuoute and religious some in the truth as the true people of Israell and all such Christian people as of the certaintie of the Scriptures and worde of God do serue the Lord as hee commaundeth reiecting humane traditions and superstitiousnesse as prophanenesse politique and damnable Heereupon rose that worthie custome of the Nobilitie of Poland whensoeuer the Gospell was a reading in their Churches To draw out their swords signifying that they were readie to defend the truth thereof if any durst oppugne the same And hence no doubt at the first sprang our custome heere in England of standing on our feete and rising vp when the Articles of our faith either are a reading or during the reading of the Gospell thereby expressing that by this wee will stand and abide against the world and other like ceremonies which superstitiō I feare hath corrupted Heereupon are the Saxons noted to bee verie deuout but withall opinionatiue So are the Bohemians deuout and zealous withall Moreouer some are religious in idolatrie as were the Egyptians the Assyrians Philistines and those vncircumcised people that worshipped strange GODS Such are at this day the barbarous people of the East and West Indies that worship the vgly shapes of Diuels of the Sunne Moone Starres of the Elements of other Creatures Others there are deuout in superstitiō as the Turkes and Persians who with much deuotion are trained vp vnder the policie of their Prophets Mahomet and Haly. Lastly there are some blinded wonderfully in Idolatrie superstition such are the Popelings and those that goe vnder the name of Catholickes but abusiuely The which religious proceeding is so hatefull to those that follow the Greeke Church but singularly to the Muscouites that if any of their Nation bee but reputed to haue spoken with a Latine or Romane it behooueth him to bee purged before hee shall bee intertained and receiued to partake of the Communion for they accompt such polluted The verie like may a Trauailer consider of the people which be profane such as the Epicures and Temporizers are that florish singularly in Italie And according as it hath beene reported of the Normans in times past that they cared little for any of Gods seruice So the Romanes profanenesse and contempt of vertue euerie Nation is full of Like as it hath beene spoken of the Cicilians that they regard no man whilest they themselues are in prosperitie Thus a Trauailer may referre vnto his proper head the nature of the people concerning religiousnesse or profanenesse the which may in generalitie and in particular