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A43178	The western wonder, or, O Brazeel, an inchanted island discovered with a relation of two ship-wracks in a dreadful sea-storm in that discovery : to which is added, a description of a place, called, Montecapernia, relating the nature of the people, their qualities, humours, fashions, religions, &c.	Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?	1674 (1674)	Wing H1277; ESTC R19459	18,770	45

to no manner of Industry Husbandry or any other useful improvement which partly occasions the barrenness of the Countrey so much to appear that otherwise by active spirits might easily evince the contrary for though they have many Hills Mountains and Boggs yet have they matchless rich Vallies It may be conjectured their sloathfulness may in part be occasioned by their ignorance some of the indifferent sort being brought up to read and by the pretence of Centility scorning a Trade never heed the farther improvement of their Fortunes or understandings till the Father dyes and the Elder Brother possess the Estate They are a People generally envious especially of the rise of their Neighbours naturally pragmatical and inquisitive after others affairs and alwayes blabbing and telling Tales and so litigious that they are ready to go to Law if they see their Neighbours Horse put his head over their Hedge or his Goose at their Barns-door The Women are infected with the like quarrelsom humour I have seen two Women about some trivial matter fall together by the ears the Men took each others part one Neighbour seconded one and the next another till they had engaged two thirds of the Town in the quarrel and none of them knew for what they fought or how the fray began and to be revenged the more of one another they sent the next opportunity for process in Battery Trespass Scaadal and I know not what and then to Law they went for they love it above any thing when they had spent their money they were forced to put it to a Reference and then are at another charge in Treating the Arbitrators and their Friends who having feasted themselves leave the business as they found it And yet this great charge and trouble will not dissuade them from following these litigious courses but are never at quiet but when they have some suit or other depending their Lawyers taking notice of the temper of the People promote the differences in humouring their fancies by which means they continually drain their pocket and this is one great cause of their general poverty The Commonalty are extremely awed by their Superiours in such sort a Tenant fears as much to speak against a Lord of the Mannor or their next powerful Neighbour as wiser men would dread to speak Treason against a Prince under whose Allegiance be lives and hath sworn to And I have heard say that some of them will swear and forswear any thing that may tend to the benefit of that Landlord from whom he hath any dependance and think it no great crime Many notorious Vices are among them which they look upon to be things of another complexion and this I believe proceeds from their ignorance in Religion and that ignorance is occasioned by their Superiours who in these latter years have ingrost to themselves all Church-lands and allowance for the Clergy In several places it is so small that six such portions will scarcely keep a single man alive I knew one that had to the value of but Eighteen shillings English money per Annum to officiate in Divine Service on the Sabbath day and therefore all the rest of the Week he was forc'd to Thatch Thresh or wrought otherwayes for Three pence a day The next thing we shall Treat of is the particular parts of Worship in their Religion And first for Baptism they generally do carry the Child to the Church as soon as born if the Church be near where at the Font the Child is named by the Godfathers and Godmothers with a short Ceremony all whose Christian names with the Parents are conjoyned which if wrote at length would blot more paper than the Titles of the Grand Seignior The Women are of a very strong constitution the midling sort hardly keeping their Beds three dayes at a lying in and the fourth day will give no quarter to the groaning Ale fight the fifth and it may be go to Church the sixth with the mark of the Lord of Northumberland's Arms under the Callicoe Hood which they wear for a Kerchief Their Marriages are made like bargains of old like a Pig in a poke unseen for the Parents meet over a Cup of nappy Ale where making some bargain for Wheat Oats or any other necessary thing they want at last strike up a match between their Son and Daughter this serves instead of wooing by which means the first meeting is seldom till the Man comes to fetch the Woman to Church attended with a Rabble of all the Relations who must out of pure love not be sober that whole Week and then the next Sunday attend them to Church again and there ends the Ceremony They have no scruples in their Marriages as I could hear of for the nearest of Kin often intermarries with the other one man frequently marrying two Sisters c. Their Burials retain something of the Relicts of Popish Ceremony for next Night after the decease of the person every Friend Neighbour and Relation comes to his House and brings each a Candle and a Gun of Ale where this jovial Crew light up their Lights making a good Fire and then drink remembrances of the dead till some of them lose their own and for want of Feet stand in need as much of Bearers home as the Corps to the Grave When the time comes to carry it out which is within three or four dayes after the decease of the person the Priest in his Surplice walks before the Guests round the Corps all confusedly and the Corps in the middle being near the Church the Men put off their Hats and then Men and Women fet up together such a hideous cry that I can resemble it to nothing more proper than to that drowning Men make when the Ship is sinking This they continue till they come to the Church where the Priest in his own Language reads a little Service And here observe the policy of the Priest for having no certain Fee allowed for Burials but by custom receives the free-will-offering of the next of Kin and Friends to the deceased he will be sure for fear he lose any of the Guests to stop in the midst of the Service and leaying his Book open stands with his face directly against the Corps by which dumb signs the People knowing his mind they make their offering The first of Kin goes to the Communion-Table and throws down his Benevolence perhaps a Six-pence if he be a Brother or so near a Relation The rest by Pence or Two-pence do so increase the Parsons stock that it may amount to Three or four shillings After this he goes on merrily with the remaining part of the Divine Service and having finisht it away to the Ale-house where he is sure to have his charge born for that day Another strange passage they have at their Burials which I had almost omitted that is they first give wheaten Loaves to the Poor and as the Corps stands at the door on a Bier the