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A13830	The Spanish Mandeuile of miracles. Or The garden of curious flowers VVherin are handled sundry points of humanity, philosophy, diuinitie, and geography, beautified with many strange and pleasant histories. First written in Spanish, by Anthonio De Torquemeda, and out of that tongue translated into English. It was dedicated by the author, to the right honourable and reuerent prelate, Don Diego Sarmento de soto Maior, Bishop of Astorga. &c. It is deuided into sixe treatises, composed in manner of a dialogue, as in the next page shall appeare.; Jardin de flores curiosas. English	Torquemada, Antonio de, fl. 1553-1570.; Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.; Walker, Ferdinand.	1600 (1600)	STC 24135; ESTC S118471	275,568	332

THE SPANISH MANDEuile of Miracles OR The Garden of curious Flowers VVherin are handled sundry points of Humanity Philosophy Diuinitie and Geography beautified with many strange and pleasant Histories First written in Spanish by Anthonio De Torquemeda and out of that tongue translated into English It was dedicated by the Author to the Right honourable and reuerent Prelate Don Diego Sarmento de soto Maior Bishop of Astorga c. It is deuided into sixe Treatises composed in manner of a Dialogue as in the next page shall appeare AT LONDON Printed by I. R. for Edmund Matts and are to be solde at his shop at the signe of the hand and Plow in Fleet-streete 1600. A Table of the Contents of the sixe Treatises contayned in this Booke IN the first are contained many thinges woorthy of admiration which Nature hath wrought and daily worketh in men contrarie to her common and ordinary course of operation with other curiosities strange and delightfull The second containeth certaine properties vertues of Springs Riuers and Lakes with some opinions touching terrestriall Paradise and the foure Riuers that issue out from thence Withall in what parts of the world our Christian beleefe is professed The third entreateth of Uisions Fancies Spirits Ghosts Hags Enchaunters Witches and Familiars With diuers strange matters which haue happened delightfull and not lesse necessarie to be knowne The fourth discourseth what Fortune Chaunce is wherin they differ what lucke felicitie happines and destenie is and what the influence of the heauenly Bodyes import whether they are the causes or no of diuers mischances that happen in the world touching besides many other learned and curious poynts The fifth is a description of the Septentrionall Countries which are neere and vnder the North-pole and of the lengthning and shortning of the dayes and nights till they come to be sixe monthes long apeece and of the different rising and setting of the Sunne frō that it is heere with vs with other things pleasant and woorthy to be knowne The sixth containeth sundry wonderfull things that are in the Septentrionall Regions worthy of admiration To the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Sackuile Knight Baron of Buckhurst Lorde high Treasurer of Englande Lieuetenaunt of her Highnes within the County of Suffex most worthy Chauncelor of the Uniuersitie of Oxenford Knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of her Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsell LIfting mine eyes vp from out the low humble valley of my obscure fortunes vp to that bright shining eminent hill of Honour on which the fauour of her Maiesty the noblenes of your birth your many excellent vertues haue seated you I cannot Right honorable and my most singuler good Lord but lay a sharpe and rigorous censure vpon my own presumption that being though bounde to this flourishing Kingdome for my education yet a stranger borne and to your Lordship meerely vnknowne haue thus boldly aduentured to presse into your presence and to craue your honourable patronage to a worke whereof howe soeuer it deserue I cannot to my selfe challenge any prayse It was the first labour of a worthie Gentleman of your Lordships Countrey of Sussex one that doth much loue and honour you who did it for his exercise in the Spanish tongue and keeping it by him many yeeres as iudging it vtterly vnwoorthy of his owne name did lately bestowe the same vpon me with expresse charge howsoeuer I should dispose thereof to conceale all mention of him wherin I should haue doone both him and my selfe too much wrong in obeying him him in depriuing him of his deserued prayse for so worthy a worke my selfe in arrogating vnto me the glory of this discourse to the well handling of which in such exquisite manner as he hath done it I know my owne forces altogether weake and insufficient VVith all humblenes therefore I beseech your Lordshippe to vouchsafe your noble name for a protection of this my bold endeuour and with your accustomed gentlenes to pardon this rash attempt proceeding whollie from an infinite and vehement desire I haue to doe you all possible honour and seruice that the poorenes of my capacity or fortune can stretch vnto I beseech the Almightie to blesse your Lordship and my honorable good Lady with all your noble familie with all happinesse honor and length of life that you may long remaine a strong and happy piller of this glorious Common-wealth vnder the blessed gouernment of her most sacred Maiesty whom God long preserue London this 23. of Aprill 1600. Your Lordships most humble and deuoted Ferdinando Valker To the right VVorshipfull my vvorthy and esteemed Friende Lewes Lewkenor Esquire one of the honorable band of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pensioners in ordinarie THE famous Architect of Greece weary of his constrained abode in the Court of the Crotish tyrant finding all other endeuours vaine for his escape composed at length with singuler excellence of Arte two payre of artificiall winges made with borrowed feathers of sundry sorts which when he had cunning lie ioyned together vvith waxe hee fastened one payre of them to his owne body and another to his sonnes and so bequeating both himselfe and his sonne to the ayre began to take his flight but the audacious courage of the youth presuming to approach neere vnto the glorious rayes of the Sunne the waxe melted his feathers dissolued and he by his memorable fall and folly gaue name to the Seas wherin he perrished The case is mine and I cannot worthy Maister Lewkenor but with a great fordooming of my selfe attende the like or a greater downefall For hauing long striued beyond my forces to creepe out of the lothsome Caue of ingratitude wherein I haue so long lyen obscured and knowing all my owne abilities too weake to carry me thence I haue at length with these feathers which I haue borrowed frō you endeuoured to make my flight But I feare me much that my ill composition of them and my too much aduenturous presuming to flie with them being not myne owne shall no sooner appeare before the brightnesse of such a iudgement as yours but that all my tackling wil faile and my selfe be vnrelieuably throwne downe into the incurable gulfe of confusion ignorance and disgrace Onely my chiefest hope and comfort is that your gentle and alwayes best construing disposition to which onely I appeale will not entertaine the hardest conceite of thys my bolde and strange attempt Receaue therefore gentle Maister Lewkenor this poore Treatise hauing so many long yeeres lien obscured among your wast papers and lately by your cruell sentence condemned to the fire now with a milder conceit vnder your protection For though you thinke it vnworthy of the worlds view as beeing the fruite and exercise of your youngest yeeres yet I assure you it hath passed the censure of graue and learned iudgements and receiued excellent allowance thorough whose encouragements I haue presumed to giue it life and no longer to depriue the

it freeze and become more hard and cleare vsing the same in certaine warlike pastimes they haue in steede of a Castell of lyme or stone one troupe entereth there-into to defende the same and another bideth without to besiege assault or surprize it and this in most solemne sort with all engines stratagems and manners of vvarfare great prices being ordained for those that shall obtayne the conquest besides the tryumph wherein the conquerours doe glory ouer the vanquished Who so amongst them is found to be fearefull or not forward in executing that which he is commaunded is by his companions stuft full of Snow vnder his garments and somtimes tumbled starke naked in great heapes of the same enuring them therby better to abide hardnes another time These Septentrionall Lands haue many Lakes and standing waters of great largenes som of the which are a hundred miles long These are at somtimes so frozen that they trauaile ouer them both a foote and horsebacke In the Countries of East and Westgothland there are Lakes vpon which great troupes of horsmen meete and runne for wagers their horses are in such sort shod that they sildome slide or fall in time of warre they skirmish often vpon these frozen Lakes yea and sometimes fight maine battailes vpon them At sundry seasons they hold vpō them also certaine Faires to which there resorteth a great concourse of strange Nations the beginning of which custome was ordained as saith Iohn Archbishoppe of Vpsala Predicessour to Olaus by a Queene of Swethland called Disa who being a woman of great wisedome commaunded her Subiects on a certaine yeere in which her dominions were afflicted with extreame dearth scarsity of graines to goe vnto the bordering Regions carrying with them such merchandize as their Country yeelded and to bring with them in exchange thereof Corne and graine withall to publish franchize to all such as should bring thither any victual to be sold where-vpon many strangers repairing thither at such time and season as the Lake was frozen she appointed them that place for holding of their Faire from which time till this day that custome hath continued Northward of these Regions there are many great and meruailous Lakes such as scarcely the like are to be found in any other part of the world that is peopled of which leauing apart one that is neere the Pole is called the white Lake which is in maner an other Caspian Sea yeelding great commodities of fowle and fish to the adioyning Prouinces part of the same reaching out euen to the Muscouites There are in the Regions of Bothnia Lakes of 300. 400. miles long where there is such quantity of fish taken that if they could conueniently be carried about they would serue for prouision to halfe the world Thereby also are many other notable Lakes of which the three most famous are as the Authors write Vener Meler and Veher Vener containeth in length 130. miles which are about 44. leagues as much in breadth within it it hath sundry Ilands well peopled with Citties Townes and Fortresses Churches and Monasteries for all those three Lakes are in Country of Christians though we haue heere little notice of them Into this Lake enter 24. deepe Riuers all which haue but one only issue which maketh so terrible a noyse amongst certayne Rocks falling from one to another that it is heard by night six or seauen leagues of making deafe those that dwell neere there abouts so that it is sayd there are certaine little Villages and Cottages thereby the enhabitants of which are all deafe They call the issue of these Riuers in their Country language Frolletta which is as much to say as the deuils head The second Lake called Meler is betweene Gothland and Swethland hath in the shore thereof many mynerals of mettals both of siluer and others the treasures gathered out of which enricheth greatly the Kinges of those Countries The third also called Veher aboundeth in mines on the North side thereof The waters thereof are so pure cleare that casting there-into an egge or a white stone you may see it lye in the bottome though it be very deep as well as though there were no water betweene Within this Lake are many peopled Ilands in one of which wherin are two great Parish Churches Olaus writeth that there happened a thing very meruailous and strange There liued in this Iland saith hee a man called Catyllus so famous in the Art of Negromancie that in the whole worlde his like was scarcely to be found Hee had a Scholler called Gilbertus whom hee had in that wicked Science so deepely instructed that hee dared so farre presume as to contend with him being his Maister yea and in som things seeme to surpasse him at which shamelesse ingratitude of his Catyllus taking great indignation as alwayes Maisters vse to reserue vnto themselues certaine secrete points with onely wordes and charmes without other band fetter or prison he bound him in an instant both body hands and feete in such sort that he could not wag himselfe in which plight he conuayed him into a deepe Caue vnder one of the Churches of the same Iland where he remaineth till this day according to the common opinion is alwayes liuing Thither vsed darly to resort many not only of that Country people but strangers also to see him and to demaund questions of him They entred with many Torches and Lanternes and with a clew of threed of which they fasten one end to the dore whereat they enter vnwiding the same still as they goe for the better assurance of finding their way out the Caue being full of many deepe pits crooked turnings and corners But at length because the moisture dampish cold thereof with a lothsome stench besides anoyed so much those that entred that some of them came out halfe dead they made a law that on greeuous paine none of the Countrimen should frō that time forward resort nor enter into that Caue neither giue counsaile aide or assistance to strangers which for curiosities sake shold atempt the same LV. This is without doubt the worke of the deuil who the same Gilbertꝰ dying perchance presently entered into his putrified stinking carkasse abusing the people aunswered to their demands For though the force of enchauntments be great yet can they not preserue life any longer then the time fixed appointed by God AN. You haue reason and in truth it seemeth that the deuill is there more lose and at greater liberty then in other parts so that som wil say the principall habitation of deuils to be in the North according to the authority of holy Scripture All euill shal come discouer it selfe from the Aquilon Zachary Chap. 2. crieth ho ho flie from the land of the Aquilon howbeit that these authorties are vnderstoode cōmonly in that Antichrist shal come from those parts whose like was neuer in persecuting the people of