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A16282	The manners, lauues, and customes of all nations collected out of the best vvriters by Ioannes Boemus ... ; with many other things of the same argument, gathered out of the historie of Nicholas Damascen ; the like also out of the history of America, or Brasill, written by Iohn Lerius ; the faith, religion and manners of the Aethiopians, and the deploration of the people of Lappia, compiled by Damianus a ̀Goes ; with a short discourse of the Aethiopians, taken out of Ioseph Scaliger his seuenth booke de emendatione temporum ; written in Latin, and now newly translated into English, by Ed. Aston.; Omnium gentium mores, leges, et ritus. English. 1611	Boemus, Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Góis, Damião de, 1502-1574.; Nicolaus, of Damascus.; Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611. Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil.; Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609. De emendatione temporum.; Aston, Edward, b. 1573 or 4.	1611 (1611)	STC 3198.5; ESTC S102777	343,933	572

my owne part hath hitherto best contented my selfe and I trust hath beene most acceptable to God From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to mee in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my Prince whereof I haue some records in this presence as you our Treasurer well knew or if the eschewing the danger of mine enemies or the avoyding of the perrill of death whose messinger or rather a continuall watch-man the Princes indignation was no little time daily before mine eyes by whose meanes although I know or iustly may suspect yet I will not now vtter or if the whole cause were in my sister her selfe I will not now burthen her therewith because I will not charge the dead if any of these I say could haue drawne or diswaded mee from this kinde of life I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see mee but so constant haue I alwaies continued in this determination although my youth and wordes may seeme to some hardly to agree together yet is it most certaine and true that at this day I doe stand free from any other meaning that either I haue had in times past or haue at this present with which trade of life I am so throughly acquainted that I trust in God who hath hitherto therein preserued and led mee by the hand will not of his goodnesse suffer mee to goe alone For the other part the manner of your petition I doe well like and take it in verie good part because that it is simple and contayneth no lymitation of place or person if it had beene otherwise I must needs haue misliked it verie much and thought it in you a verie great presumption beeing vnfitting and altogither vnmeete for you to require them that may commaunde or those to appoint whose partes are to desire or such to binde and limit whose duties are to obey or to take vpon you to drawe my loue to your likings or to frame my will to your fantasie For a guerdon constrained and a guift freely giuen can neuer agree together Neuerthelesse if any one of you bee in suspect that whensoeuer it may please God to incline my heart to another kinde of life you may well assure your selues my meaning or resolution is not to doe or determine any thing wherewith the Realme may or shall haue iust cause to bee discontented or complaine of imposed iniurie And therefore put that cleane out of your heads and remooue such doubtfull thoughts for I doe assure you what credit my assurance may haue with you I cannot tell but what credit it shall deserue to haue the sequell shall declare I will neuer in that matter conclude any thing that shal be preiudiciall to the Realme for the benefit weale good and safetie whereof I will neuer shunne to spend my life And whomsoeuer my chance shal be to light vpon I trust he shal be such as shal be as carefull for the Realme and you I will not say as my selfe because I cannot so certainelie determine of any other but at the leastwise by my good will and desire hee shal be such as shal be as carefull for the preseruation of the Realme and you as my selfe And albeit it might please Almightie GOD to continue mee still in this minde to liue out of the estate of marriage yet is it not to bee feared but hee will so worke in my heart and in your wisdomes as good prouision by his helpe may bee made in conuenient whereby the Realme shall not remaine and stand destitute of an heire to succeed mee that may bee a fit Gouernour and peraduenture more beneficiall to the Realme and generality then such off-spring as may come of mee For though I bee neuer so carefull of your well doings and minde euer so to bee yet may issue growe out of kinde and become perhaps vngratious And in the end this shal be for mee verie sufficient that a marble stone shall declare that a maiden Queene hauing raigned and ruled such a long time liued and died a virgine And heere I end and take your comming vnto mee in good part and giue vnto you all eft-somes my hearty thankes more yet for your zeale and good meaning then for your petition And thus farre Stowe THIS good Queene ELIZABETH was the last of the Royall issue of King Henry the eight shee died without any issue her selfe and left the Kingdome vnto Iames King of Scotland and next heire to the crowne of England King Iames the first of that name since the Conquest by the death of Queene Elizabeth vnited the two famous Kingdomes of England and Scotland which had beene long deuided the crowne of England rightfully and linially descending vnto him from Margueret eldest daughter to Henry the seuenth and Elizabeth wife of the sayd Henry eldest daughter to Edward the fourth which Margueret was maried to Iames the fourth King of Scotland who had issue Iames the fifth father vnto Mary the last Queene of Scots who was mother vnto Iames the sixth King of Scotland and of great Britan France and Ireland the first To omit Ireland an Island vnder our Kings dominion the people wherof of late yeeres haue growne to more ciuility by conuersing with other nations and to speake something more in perticular of this Island as now it is wee may deuide the whole Island of Britanny into three partes that is to say England Wales and Scotland Scotland the North of this Island hauing for a long time beene a Kingdome of it selfe seuered and distinct from England is now by this happy vnion as I said before made one againe with England and both of them gouerned by one King and Monarch This Country in respect of England is very barren and mountanous and the Inhabitants especially the vulgar sort farre more rude and barbarous their language in effect is all one with the English the Northerne Scots excepted which speake and liue after the Irish fashion nor is their any difference in their religion but all causes and controuersies bee there determined by the ciuill law as in most other Countries for with our common lawes of England they are little acquainted Wales an other part of this Island and the proper habitation of the Britans expelled thither out of England by the Englishmen was gouerned by Princes of their owne bloud vntil the raigne of Henry the third who slue Lhewellen ap Griffith the last Prince of the British race vnited that Prouince vnto the Kingdome of England and forced the Inhabitants to sweare fealty and alleagiance vnto Edward of Carnaruan his eldest sonne whom hee made Prince of Wales After the decease of Edward the first this title of Prince of Wales lay dormant during all the raigne of Edward the Second and was againe reuiued by Edward the Third who created his sonne Edward surnamed the Blacke Prince Duke of Cornwall Earle of Chester and Prince of Wales and euer since hath this title beene duely conferred vnto the

matters touching both warre and peace amidst their banquets deeming their iudgements more acute and themselues more carefull at that time then at any other and more fit to vndergo any notable enterprise The people were plaine and simple without craft dissimulation or cunning and easily drawne to lay open and discouer the very secrets of their hearts They would call to mind the day after what they had done before considering of the matter more deliberatly when they knew not how to alter it shewing then what their intent was when they could not be deceiued They drunke a corrupt drinke made of barly in stead of wine but those which dwelt nere vnto great riuers had wine brought them out of other countries their meat was simple and grosse as wild apples new dow thicke milke or clottered Creame but their drinke was much more immoderate They delighted to behold and see young men naked amongst swords and speares and other militarie weapons belonging to warre and to see how finely and nimbly they could deliuer themselues out of the danger of them the often practise whereof made them skilful and their agilitie and skill was a great ornament vnto them They were so exceedingly giuen to dicing as when they had lost all that euer they had they would aduenture their owne liberties vppon one chance at dice and if they lost they would willingly become slaues and suffer themselues though neuer so strong and lustie to be bound and sold like beasts They diuided the yeare into Winter Spring and Sommer making no recknning of Autumne by reason of their scarcitie of wine and fruites In their Funerals they made little shew of sorrow by weeping and outward lamentations but the dolor and griefe of their hearts continued long and women onely bewayled the dead it being enough for men to remember them And these in times past were the customes of the Germaines and their manner of liuing But how much they bee altered from what they then were as well as other nations may bee gathered by this their present estate for now the whole state and condition of the Germaines consisteth of foure sortes of people the first sort or Order is the Clergie which be of two sorts likewise that is to say secular Priests and religious persons both of them beeing indowed with great and large rents reuenues and riches and held in great honour and estimation wirh the people both for that they offer sacrifice vnto God extoll the prayses of the Saynts and haue cure of soules as also for that they vnderstand the Scriptures and holy Writ bee able to interpret and expound them and leade a single life for those which haue not all these good parts in them are despised and contemned of the vulgar sort of people And euery order of religious persons haue their garments made of their owne fashion very decent and comely The secular or lay-Priestes weare loose Coates for the most part black or russet and linnen myters on their heads not very high crowned but sticking close about their eares And when they go abroad they cast about their neckes for decencies sake a broade lace either of silk or linnen which hangeth downe on each side their shoulders Vpon their shooes are pumps they weare Pantofles or Sandals putting them off euer when they come home Most of them liue very idlely bestowing little time in obtaining learning but spending all the after-noones in gaming and drinking The inferiour Priests if any one iniure them complaine vnto their Bishoppe and sometimes to the Court of Rome whereby they worke their owne security and condigne punishment is inflicted vpon the offenders The second estate or condition is of the Nobilitie wherof there bee many degrees as Princes Earles Barons and Knights which is the lowest degree of that Order the Princes excell all the other degrees as well in dignitie and bloud as in power and strength as hauing very large lands and ample possessions The Earles Barons and other Nobles liue dispersed abroade in the countrie some in one place some in another flowrishing like so many flowers in a greene field But that which is very strange worthy to be obserued in the Nobilitie is this that both Princes Earls acknowledge a soueraignty yeeld their obedience vnto the Emperor so oft as necessitie or the Emperour himselfe requireth it and yet the Knights say that they be exempted and that they will not serue any one nor suffer those which be vnder thē to serue but for wages and stipend yet notwithstanding they acknowledge and say that the Romaine Emperour is their Soueraigne Lord and Gouernor The Nobilitie in generall thinke it a great discredit vnto them and a blemish vnto their kindred and house to exercise merchandize or any mechanicall art or to take a wife from among the common people or that is their inferiour or to liue in a strange citty like towns-men for they skorning all company and commerce with cittizens liue freely with their wiues and families in stately castels strong holdes and beautifull pallaces situated some vppon mountaines some in woods and some in champion countries Some of the Nobles frequent the Courts of Kings and great Princes and follow the warres and some others liue at their owne houses vppon their Rents and reuenues They be much giuen to hunting affirming that by continuall custome and their auncient libertie they only are allowed to hunt and all other interdicted and depriued of that pleasure for for a priuate man to hunt either hares ro-buckes kids hynd-calues or stagges in some place is punished with the losse of his eyes and in some other places with the losse of his head but it is lawfull for euery one that can to take such wild beasts that be noysome and hurtfull Moreouer they fare daintily and be sumptuously cloathed as well men as women both at home and abroade beeing decked and adorned with gold siluer and silkes of sundry colours When they walke abroad they are attended with a troupe of their friends and familiars and they may easily be knowne and discerned from the common-people onely by their gate it is so graue and demure They neuer go farre from home but on horse-backe for to take a iourney on foot they account a great dishonor vnto them and a plaine demonstration of pouertie but if they stand in want of any thing they will straine courtesie to take it from others either priuily or by force They seldome go to law with any one for iniuries done vnto them but rather gather a troupe of their friends together and reuenge themselues either by fire sword or rapine therby compelling the wrong-doers to make what satisfaction they thinke good They be proude turbulent and couetous practising how to get Church-mens goods by deceit and wracking their slaues and clownes of the country with an vnrelenting authoritie It is almost incredible to be spoken how they vexe pill and poll those miserable and vnfortunate caytiues

round about with the Hyrcanian wood which with his high hilles incloseth and defends it on all sides like a naturall wall and through it runne Sala Thuberus Neccharus and the nauigable Riuer Moganus These Riuers passe by many wide and large Valleys vppon the bankes whereof on both sides be planted great store of vineyards which yeeld wines so rare and of so great worth as they be transported into other countries far remote The land is fertile enough and not sandy and ouergrowne with Fearne as Aeneas Syluius reporteth sauing that part of the countrie which is now called Norica or in some places neere vnto riuers It yeeldeth great increase of barley wheate and all other kind of graine and pulse and no one part of Germanie affoordeth so many and so great Onions Rape rootes and Rape stalkes as this doth besides about Babenburge grow such great store of Lycoras rootes as they be caried away by cart loades It is full of gallant medowes and goodly Orchards very populous and abounding with beasts there is much fishing by reason of the multitude of Riuers and better hunting for the great store and varietie of wild beasts for the Princes preserue them of purpose in woods and forests making them stables and dennes to lye in and to defend them from winters boysterous and cold stormes allowing them meate also if need be and no priuate man may be suffered to take or hunt any of these beasts The whole countrie of Franconia is vnder the dominion of fiue princes whereof two be secular or lay Princes that is to say the Burgraue of Norinburg and the Count Palatine of Rhene and the other three bee ecclesiasticall Gouernors to wit the Bishops of Babenburg Herbipolis and Magnus The Bishop of Herbipolis holdeth his Duke-dome by hauing a naked sword and an ensigne or flag placed before him vppon the altar while he is at Masse And the first day that he entreth into the Metrapolitan or chiefe cittie and taketh vppon him the Episcopall seate he is vsually attended with a great troupe of gallant and excellent hors-men and when he is admitted and entred into the cittie he lighteth off his horse in the very gate of the cittie and there disrobeth himselfe of his vppermost garment and putteth on a poore and base coate and girdeth himselfe about the wast with a cord and in this humble manner bare headed and bare handed he goeth vp into the pallace vnto the Canonicall or Regular Priests who after they haue done their fealtie vnto him exalt and install him in his seate but before his instalment hee is conducted to the picture of some deuout Bishop that is dead where he is seriously and earnestly admonished to follow and imitate his examples who being elected of a poore student did notwithstanding gouerne the State of the Church vprightly as it ought And none of the linage of either Dukes or Earles may possesse this Cathedrall sea but onely such as be of the inferior Order of Nobilitie not for that it is not sufficient to maintaine a Prince for the possessions and reuenues bee very large and great but because none may enioy the Bishoppricke but onely such as be canonicall or regular persons which are for the most part of the meanest degree of Nobilitie To be Bishoppe of Herbipolis is a title of maruellous great dignitie and honour and when a Bishop is new created the custome is that at his first entrance into his Bishoppricke he should progresse ouer all his dominion and visit all the townes and villages which pay him tyth and in euery towne he bringeth out into the streetes whole hogsheads of wine with dishes for euery one to drinke that will The Franconians do nothing differ from the rest of the Germanes either in their apparell or shape of their bodies They be very laborious and none of them giuen to idlenesse but the women as wel as men plant in vineyards and yet by reason of their pouertie they sell their wines and drink water themselues Beere they cannot indure nor will haue any brought vnto them yet in Herbipolis vpon fasting daies those which will drinke no wine may buy it in dockes and roades without the cittie to drinke in steade of water The people be insolent arrogant and proude contemning all others in respect of themselues and so much giuen to cauilling and brawling as no stranger can indure to stay with them vnlesse he can flatter and dissemble and behaue himselfe discreetly and soberly but those which can indure their floutes and taunts and pocket vp their iniuries with patience may safely dwell with them for such they account and esteeme honest and sufficient men and permit them to marry wiues and enter into consanguinitie with them by which meanes many Suevians Bavarians and Hassians do dwell and continue in Franconia They be very deuout and religiously giuen and yet subiect to two horrible and execrable vices which are swearing and filching for they will glorie and vaunt themselues in blasphemie and horrible prophanation and account stealing a thing honest commendable and lawful because long vsed as a custom They obserue many strange ceremonies which I wil here set downe for the more credit and better approbation of such things as be written and reported of them by strangers In the nights of those fiue dayes of Aduent which go immediatly before the day of our Lords Natiuitie all the children of the towne both men-children and women-children go vppe and downe the streetes from one house to another knocking and beating at euery ones doore wishing them a happie and prosperous new yeare and shewing them in a song that the birth-day of our Sauiour Christ is nigh approching and euery houshold giueth them either apples peares nuttes or money or some other thing that they can best spare But with what ioy and exultation the birth-day of our Sauiour Iesus Christ is solemnized in their churches both by Priests and lay-people may be vnderstood by this Ceremonie following for then they place vppon the Altar the image of a young child in representation of the new birth of the babe Iesus which done the young men and maydes daunce and hoppe round about the Altar and those which be married and old folkes sing a song or hymne which kind of ceremonie is not much vnlike to the triumph and exultation which as Poets faine was vsed by the Coribants in a caue in the mountaine Ida about the image of their god Iupiter In the Kalends of Ianuarie which by their computation is the beginning of the yere is a sollemne meeting of friends and kinsfolkes together who ioyning their hands and lifting them vp to heauen with one heart and consent pray for a prosperous and happie new yeare spending all that day in pleasant congratulation meriments and drinking Which done they send new yeares gifts to their friends which bee absent which gifts the Romaines in their Feastes dedicated to Saturne which were solemnized about that time

eldest sons of the Kings of England for the time being and now lastly and but lately by our dread soueraigne Lord King Iames vnto Henry Fredericke his eldest son the hopefull issue of a happie father borne certes as euidently appeareth in his minority to bee a perfect mirror of chiualry for the aduancement of our country and common wealth and the subuersion of his enemies The Inhabitants of Wales though they bee much improued yet do they not equall the English in ciuility nor their soile in fertility Their whole Country consisteth of twelue shires that is to say Anglesea Brecknocke Cardigan Carmarden Carnaruon Denbigh Flint Glamorgan Merionneth Mongomerry Pembroke and Radnor-shire and foure bishops Seas to wit the Bishopricke of Saint Dauids the Bishoppricke of Landaffe the Bishopprick of Bangor and the Bishoppricke of Saint Asaphe They haue a language peculiar to themselues yet do they liue vnder the self same lawes the Englishmen do but for because that part of the Island is far remote from London the Kings seat and chiefe tribunal of Iudgement where the lawes are executed and pleas heard for all the Realme and by reason of their different language the King by his commission maketh one of his nobles his deputy or lieutenant vnder him to rule in those parts and to see the peace maintained and Iustice ministred indifferently vnto all This gouernor is called the Lord president of Wales who for the ease and good of the country associate with one Iudge and diuers Iustices holdeth there his Tearmes and Sessions for the hearing and determining of causes within VVales and the Marches This Court is called the Court of the councell of the Marches of VVales the proceedings whereof are in a mixt manner betwixt our common law and ciuill law England accounting Cornwall for one though much differing in language is deuided into 41. parts which are called counties or shires the seuerall names whereof are these following viz. Berck-shire Bedford-shire Buckingham-shire Bishoppricke of Durham Cambridge-shire Cornwall Cumberland Cheshire Devon-shire Dorcet-shire Darby-shire Essex Glocester-shire Huntingdon-shire Hertford-shire Hereford-shire Hampt-shire Kent Lincolne-shire Lecester-shire Lancaster-shire Middle-sex Monmoth-shire Northumberland-shire North-folke Northampton-shire Nottingham-shire Oxford-shire Rutland-shire Richmond-shire Sussex Surrey Suffolke Somerset-shire Stafford-shire Shrop-shire Wilt-shire Westmore-land Worcester-shire Warwicke-shire Yorke-shire Euery shire is diuided either into Hundreds Lathes Rapes or Wapentakes and euery of those into sundry parishes and Constable-weekes and ouer euery shire is one principall gouernor called the Lieutenant of the shire and a Sheriffe to collect money due vnto the King and to account for the same in the Exchequer as also to execute his writs and processes and for the more particular peace of each seuerall part of the country there be ordained in euery Countie certaine of the worthiest and wisest sort of Gentlemen who are called Iustices or conseruators of the peace vnder whom high Constables Coroners petty cōstables headboroughs and tything-men haue euery one their seuerall offices England moreouer is diuided into two ecclesiasticall prouinces which are gouerned by two spirituall persons called Archb. to wit the Archb. of Canterbury who is primate and Metrapolitan of all England and the Archb. of Yorke and vnder these two Archb. are 26. Bishops that is to say 22. vnder the Archb. of Canterbury and 4. vnder the Archbishop of Yorke In the Prouince of Canterbury are these Diocesses bounded as followeth 1 2 The Diocesses of Canterbury and Rochester which haue vnder them all the County of Kent 3 The Diocesse of London which hath Essex Middlesex and a part of Hartford shire 4 The Diocesse of Chitchester which hath Sussex 5 The Diocesse of Winchester which hath Hamptshire Surrey and the Iles of Wight Gernsie and Iersey 6 The Diocesse of Salisbury which hath Wiltshire and Barkshire 7 The Diocesse of Excester which hath Deuonshire and Cornwall 8 The Diocesse of Bath and Wels which hath Somerset shire onely 9 The Diocesse of Glocester which hath Glocestershire 10 The Diocesse of Worcester which hath Worcester shire and a part of Warwicke shire 11 The Diocesse of Hereford which hath Herefordshire and a part of Shropshire 12 The Diocesse of Couentrie and Liechfield which hath Staffordshire Derbyshire and the rest of Warwickeshire with some part of Shropshire 13 The Diocesse of Lincolne which hath Lincolneshire Leicestershire Huntingtonshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire and the rest of Hartfordshire 14 The Diocesse of Ely which hath Cambridgeshire and the I le of Ely 15 The Diocesse of Norwich which hath Northfolke and Suffolke 16 The Diocesse of Oxford which hath Oxfordshire 17 The Diocesse of Peterborow which hath Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire 18 The Diocesse of Bristow which hath Dorcetshire And to these are added the foure Bishopprickes of WALES viz. 19 The Bishop of S. Dauids 20 The Bishop of Landaffe 21 The Bishop of Bangor 22 The Bishop of S. Asaph In the Prouince of Yorke are these foure Diocesses comprehended within these limits following viz. 1 The Diocesse of Yorke which hath Yorkeshire and Nottinghamshire 2 The Diocesse of Westchester which hath Chesshire Richmondshire a part of Flintshire and Denbighshire in Wales 3 The Diocesse of Duresme which hath the Bishoppricke of Duresme and Northumberland 4 The Diocesse of Carlile which hath Cumberland and Westmerland And to these are added the Bishoppricke of Sodor in the I le Mona The whole number of Parish Churches and impropriations in all these seueral Diocesses are reckened about 131209. Hauing thus diuided the whole kingdome of England into shires and Bishops seas it resteth to say something of the Citties and Corporations whereof there be so many and that so goodly and so well gouerned by sundry Orders of Officers as I thinke but few countries in Christendome go beyond it of all which London the Metrapolitan citty of the Iland is most famous both for the great concourse of strangers that continually flocke thither from all parts of the world some for merchandize some for manners as also for the conueniencie of the place being situated vpon the famous riuer of Thames beautified with rare sumptuous buildings both of Prince and Peeres who for the most part keepe their resiance in or neare vnto the same as being the only place of Parlament and holding of pleas for the whole Realme And for the great multitude of Students and practitioners in the lawes which there keepe their Termes of pleading foure times in the yeare which set together is about one quarter during which time the Iudges and all other Courts keepe their Courts and Sessions and at other times is vacation and ceasing from execution of the lawes These Iudges Sergeants and other Students and practitioners of all sorts haue their lodgings and dyets in 14. seuerall houses whereof two are only for Iudges and Sergeants and are therefore called the Sergeants Innes the next foure are the foure famous houses of Innes of Court the onely receptacle of Gentlemen students and Councellors the other eight