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The strange and prodigious religions, customs and manners of sundry nations containing I. their ridiculous rites and ceremonies in the worship of their several deities, II. the various changes of the Jewish religion ... , III. the rise and growth of Mahometanism ... , IV. the schisms and heresies in the Christian church being an account of ... Adamites, Muggletonians &c. all intermingled with pleasant relations of the fantastical rites both of the ancients and moderns in the celebration of their marriages and solemnizations of their funerals &c / by R.D.
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R. B., 1632?-1725?
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to others as they met them did but cry Jews and they were presently beaten down without having any liberty or leisure to answer for themselves The Magistrates were not so hardy as to oppose themselves against the fury of the People so that in three days the Cut-throats killed above two thousand Jewish Persons The King understanding the News of this horrible hurley-burley was extreamly wrath and suddenly dispatched away Jaques Almida and Jaques Lopez with full power to punish so great Offences who caused a great number of the Seditious to be executed The Fryars that had lift up the Cross and animated the People to Murder were degraded and afterwards hanged and burn'd The Magistrates that had been slack to repress this Riot were some put out of Office and others fined The City was also disfranchised of many Priviledges and Honours CXXXVIII In the Year 1572. was the bloody Parisian Matins wherein was spilt so much Christian Blood that it flowed through the Streets like Rain-water in great abundance and this Butchery of Men Women and Children continued so long that the principal Rivers of the Kingdom were seen covered with murdered Bodies and their streams so dried and stain'd with humane Blood that they who dwelt far from the place where this Barbarons Act was committed abhorred the Waters of those Rivers and refused to use either it or to eat of the Fish taken therein for a long time after This tragedy was thus cunningly plotted A Peace was made with the Protestants for assurance whereof a Marriage was solemnized between Henry of Navarr chief of the Protestant party and Margaret the King's Sister At this wedding there assembled the Prince of Conde the Admiral Coligne and divers others of chief note but there was not so much Wine drank as Blood shed at it At midnight the Watch-bell rung the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde are taken Prisoners the Admiral murdered in his Bed and thirty thousand at the least of the most potent men of the Religion sent by the way of the red Sea to find the nearest passage to the land of Canaan CXXXIX In the year 1311. and in the time of Pope Clement the fifth all the order of the Knights Templers being condemned at the Council of Vienna and adjudged to die Philip the Fair King of France urged by the Pope and out of a covetuous desire of store of Confiscations gave way for men to charge them with Crimes and so these innocents were put to death The great master of the order together with two other of the principal Persons one whereof was Brother to the Dolphin of Viennais were publickly burnt together CXL The Massacre of French Protestants at Merandol and Chabriers happened in the year 1544. the instrument of it being Minier the President of Aix for having condemned this poor People of Heresy he mustered up a small Army and set fire on the Villages they of Merandol seeing the flame with their Wives and Children flew into the Woods but were there butchered or sent to the Galleys One Boy they took placed him against a Tree and shot him to death with Calivers Twenty five which had hid themselves in a Cave were in part stifled in part burnt In Chabriers they so inhumanely dealt with the young Wives and Maids that most of them died immediately after the men and Women were put to the Sword the Children were re-baptized eight hundred men were murdered in a Cave and forty men put together in an old Barn and burnt yea such was the cruelty of these Souldiers to these poor Women that when some of them had clambered to the top of the Barn with an intent to leap down the Souldiers beat them back again with their Pikes CXLI King Ethelred the younger Son of Edgar and half Brother of Edward the second injoyed the Crown unquietly which he got unjustly Oppressed and broken by the Danes he was fain to buy his peace of them of the yearly Tribute of ten thousand pounds inhaunced to forty thousand pounds within a short time after Which Monies were raised upon the Subjects by the name of Danegelt Weary of this Exaction he plotted warily with his Subjects to kill all the Danes as they slept in their Beds which accordingly was put in execution on St. Brices night November 13. Anno 1012. CXLII But to divert the reader after so sad an entertainment as is this mournful subject it will not be improper to give him a prospect of the divers Customs of several Nations in the Universe The Custom of the Ethiopians is not to punish any Subject with death though he is condemned but one of the Lictors is sent to the Malefactor with the sign of Death carried before him which received the Criminal goes home and puts himself to death To change death into banishment is held unlawful and it is said that when one had received the sign of death and had intentions to fly out of Ethiopia his Mother being apprehensive of it fastened her Girdle about his Neek and he not offering to resist her with his hands lest he should thereby fasten a reproach upon his Family was strangled by her CXLIII In the greater India in the Kingdom of Var in which St. Thomas is said to be slain and buried he amongst them who is to undergo a Capital Punishment begs of the King that he may rather dye in honour of some God than an inglorious death by the hands of the Hang-man If the King in mercy grant him it by his Kindred with great Joy he is led through the City with mighty Pomp he is placed in a Chair with sharp Knives all hung about his Neck When he comes to the place of Execution with a loud voice he affirms he will dye in honour of this or that God then taking one of the Knives he wounds himself where he pleases then a second then a third till his strength fail and so he is honourably burn'd by his Friends CXLIV The Spartans when they brought home with them any Friends or Guests shewing them the Doors they used to say Not a Word that is spoken passes out here Plutarch also tells us that by the Institution of Lycurgus when they invited any to feast with them he who was the elder stood at the door of the dining Room and pointing to it said to all that entred Nothing that is spoken passes these doors to be told abroad expressing thereby that all the Guests had a full freedom and liberty to speak without any constraint upon them The same Spartans in those Feasts of theirs that are called Phiditiae have their Prefects or Stewards who bring in two or three of the Helotes that is their Slaves drunk and intoxicate with Wine and expose them publickly in that posture to their Youth that they may see what it is to be drunk and that by their unseemly and uncomely Behaviour they might be brought into a detestation of that Vice and to a love of Temperance