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prince_n	create_v	king_n	wales_n	3,739	5	10.5982	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06471	Emblems of rarities: or Choyce observations out of worthy histories of many remarkable passages, and renowned actions of divers princes and severall nations With exquisite variety, and speciall collections of the natures of most sorts of creatures: delightfull and profitable to the minde. Collected by D.L.	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.	1636 (1636)	STC 16942; ESTC S108945	119,960	508

of certaine Abbies religious Houses or other spirituall lands whereof they shall alow a certaine stipend to the entertaining of a certaine number of religious persons in every religious house under him and for that benefit are sworne at the entring into the said Order alwayes to defend the Spirituality and maintaine the Clergy in their priviledges but how they keepe their Oath it is well seene in every place of their spirituall possessions and thereof my selfe have oftentimes had oeular experience for travailing in that Countrey and passing o●tentimes by goodly religious hou●ses I have sometimes for recre●ation having well tryed the courteous demeanor that commonly Religious men use towards strangers that come to view their houses entred into sundry of them where I have divers times beene sufficiently enformed by the religious how the King had given the rents and possessions of their houses to the Knights of his Order with the conditions already rehearsed which Knights allow them such bare exhibition that by reason it is not sufficient to entertaine the fourth part o● the number by them appoyn●ted almost all of them a● constrayned eyther to forsak● their houses and begge o● else there to starve throug● which occasion many go●● religious houses are of late fallen in decay for want of reparation trimming up and inhabiting and will do more and more without a redresse And this have I learned in divers Religious houses beside the common murmuring of the Clergy and so wee may see how these Knights called of the Holy Ghost for to defend and maintaine the spirituality doe under pretence thereof rob and prodigally wast the spirituall possessions so that it may seeme only to be a policy under the correction of better judgement put in the Kings head to diminish spirituall livings which in that Countrey are wonderful great and satisfie his prodigall minde in rewarding by that meanes his flatterers because through his exceeding lavishnesse hee is scarce able otherwise to reward them The Bishop of Rome considering what dismembring of Church-lands and decay of Gods service commeth through this Order in the Realme of France will not grant the confirmation thereof although the King hath beene instant for the same but notwithstanding the Popes misliking thereof the Order is maintained though to the great weakning of the Religion in that Countrey Yea at the last celebration thereof which was on New-yeares day even 1581 I saw three Bishops were admitted into that Order The Collar is of Flowers de lys and flames of Gold with a Crosse and a Dove on it pendant representing the Holy Ghost wrought in Orange-tauny Velvet garnished about with silver beames which the Knights of that Order weare upon their Cloakes before their heart Their robe is a blacke Velvet Mantle poudered with Lillies and flam●s of Gold and Silver None are admitted to this Order who cannot proove their Nobility by 3 descents at least The sixt Order is of the Bath brought first into England 1●99 by Henry the Fourth They are created at the Coronation of Kings and Queenes and the installation of the Princes of Wales Their duty is to defend true Religion Widdows Maids Orphans and to maintaine the Kings rights Of the Cannibals THe Cannibals are wilde people feeding uppon mans flesh which is a very sweete kinde of flesh If they get or finde any children within the age of 14 yeares they feede them and cram them as we doe Capons but those which are beyond 14 yeares of age they kill them out of hand devouring their hot guts immediately and the other parts of their bodies they salt and lay up as we doe poudred flesh they eaten women but keepe them onel● for the bearing of children 〈◊〉 we doe Hennes for egges If any for age is past childe bearing shee doth all drudge●ry like unto a bond-woman they have no houses but the erect many trees together and so combine them in the top that it serveth for lodging Their beds be made of Silke and Hey they have no Iron but they use bones instead of Iron they dresse their meate in earthen pots mingling the flesh of Parats Geese Ducks and mans flesh together They are now come to more civility then they had in times past Of the Lyon LYons live in many Countries in Affrica they have a cruell and terrible looke and thinne haires Pliny thinketh that his especiall valiancy is when his maine covereth his necke and shoulders In Affrica for the scarcity of waters many wilde beasts meete together at some one puddle where males and females of divers kindes use naturall conjunction whereof commeth monstrous yong Aristotle saith that the shee Lyon hath at her first generation five yong and that every year-after shee bringeth forth lesse by one untill shee waxe barren and that her yong are without shape or fashion about the bignesse of a Weasell Herodo●us and Gellius thinketh the contrary that shee bringeth forth one every yeare Democritus saith this beast onely is bred and brought forth with open eyes and that hee is given to little sleep as it may appeare because his tayle is often wagging as hee sleepeth The Male Lyon maketh urine like unto a Dogge which is strong in savour The Lyons drinke seldome they feed every other day after satiety they be without meat for 3 dayes they devoure such things as they can wholly they live long The Lyon only of al fierce and cruell beasts sheweth clemency towards the humble for hee spareth the prostrate and when he rageth he useth his violence rather against Men then Woemen He never uttereth his Force against infants and children but beeing driven with great Famine thereto His tayle is a note of his minde and stomacke as the eares bee in a horse for if his tayle stirreth not he is gentle and peaceable the which is a rare thing for he is most commonly angry He keepeth his desire of revenging long against any that hatve hurt him being wounded hee doth note and marke him that gave the wound and in a great multitude will invade him His bones are sound and not hollow whereof some write that out of his bones fire may be striken as out of stones and therefore sometimes he is so raging with anger and in such a burning heate that hee dyeth presently He is never exasperate or moved but either by famine or hurt This one thing is to be noted in so cruell a beast that wheeles runned about and empty Carts and the combes and singing of Cocks doth make him afraid but especially hee is afraide of fire Of the people called the Nigrites and others THere is a kinde of people nigh unto the confines of the west Arabians called Azanagi whose colour is betwixt blacke and ash-colour they live with Barley and Dates and Camels milke and because they are neare unto the Nigrits they feede sometimes upon divers kinde of pulse they be no great feeders for the scarcity of victuals maketh them to suffer and tollerate much famine The Portugals use merchandize