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A14341	An abridgement of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergile conteignyng the deuisers and firste finders out as well of artes, ministeries, feactes & ciuill ordinaunces, as of rites, and ceremonies, commo[n]ly vsed in the churche: and the originall beginnyng of the same. Co[m]pendiously gathered by Thomas Langley; De rerum inventoribus. English. Abridgments	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581. aut	1546 (1546)	STC 24656; ESTC S107600	129,908	356

and beast Albeit I cā rather take it to be an imitacion of y e olde Romayne feastes whiche thrise in the yere had sacrifices for the prosperous successe of their corne one Vinalia for their wynes the other Robigalia for all their grayne least it should be mildued The third Floralia for all their fruites These vayne superstitious old bishoppes of Rome turned to a godly vse and trāsposed their feastyng into fastyng that the rather at the contemplacion of oure praiers and fasting God might prosper the increse of al the fruites to the sustentacion of his creatures The .iiii. Chapiter ¶ Watches were turned into fastes fastyng of Fridaies and Wednesdaies namyng the daies of the weke in sundry wise IT was the maner from the begynnyng of oure christen faith that for so much as it pleased our sauioure to be borne in the night priestes dyd ryse in the nighte season and song the houres canonical otherwyse named the Matyus the laye people was accustomed on those sainctes euens that were any solemne feastes to watch at the tombes of Martyr spraiyng and singyng holy psalmes Which thing the testimony of Plinie doeth well approue wher he writeth in a pistle to Traiane how that much nomber of people was slaine in whom he could neuer espye any faulte sauyng that afore daye at certayne tymes and feastes they arose and song of cōmendacion of Christ whom they called God But as tyme is corrupter of al thynges worldely in processe as deuocion beganne to abate in stead of hymnes they song dissolute balades praier was turned into wanton daliaunce The youth went about lyght amorous companye the eldest personnes practised baudry women were not ashamed to geue them selues to be corrupted in al kynd of whordome Vpō this occasion the olde fathers seyng least it myght growe to a further in conuenience turned the Vigilles into fastyng dayes Notwithstandyng the priestes vsed their ordinarye tymes of seruyse as they were wont to do and suche feastes were called by the name of Vigilles and obserued with no lesse reuerence then the faste of Lent This remedy was prouided after sainct Hieromes tyme whiche died the yere of oure Lorde cccc.xxii when Bonifacius the seconde was bishoppe of the sea of Rome The lyke custome was also obserued among the Egyptians whiche on the euens of theyr hyghe feastes fasted and after thei had slepte thei offered a cowe all suche night sacrifices and obseruances for like causes wer by a perpetuall lawe in Grece abrogated by Diagundas a Thebane The faste of wednesdaie and Fridaie was cōmaunded by the fathers bicause on the one daie Christ was crucified and on the wednesdaie Iudas purposed in his minde to betray him as Apolonius the eloquent oratoure supposed Siluester the first bishoppe of Rome abhorryng the memorial of the vain Gentile godes decreed that the daies of the weke whiche had afore the names titles of the Sonne Moone Mars Mercury Iupiter Venus and Saturne should be called the first second third fourth fifth sixte seuenth ferie in semblable maner as the Iewes coumpted their daies frō the Sabboth daie He did also call y e firste ferie Dominicus dies that we name Sonday and called Saturday Sabbatum of the olde holy daie and rest of the Hebrues al these thynges wer dooen at the sute of Constantine then Emperour Albeit the Apostles afore that tyme had consecrated the Sondaie to the Lorde bicause that daie he rose from death the Iewes Sabboth was turned into it as maie appere by the decree of Pius that ordained the Easter to bee kepte on the Sundaie and therfore I thynke Siluester did but onely renewe thesame acte of the Sundaie It was the inuencion of the Egiptians y t the daies wer firste named after the seuen planetes as Diodorus recordeth Sācte Gregory was the authour that neither fleshe nor any thyng that hath affinitee with it as chese milke butter egges should bee eaten on suche daies as were fasted Wee haue also a maner vsage of hallowyng the table and meate afore wee bee set that begonnen of the imitacion of Christ whiche vsed thesame fashiō ouer the fiue loues in the wildernesse and at Emaus also he did insemblable wise consecrate the table in the presence of his disciples so was the fourme of saiyng grace after supper taken like wise of the custome that Christe commonly kept at his suppers The maner to reade apart of the Bible at dyner tyme hath been of long continuance and did proceade of the Godly doctryne that Christe instructed his disciples in at all tymes but namely at his last supper wherein he treated of y e perfecciō of al y e misteries of our religiō And thus our fathers to kepe in memory suche an holsom instituciō did bryng in this maner of readyng the scripture at meate or meale tyme. ❧ The .v. Chapiter ¶ The originall of holy daies Paschall candelles birthe daies LYKE as the Iewes had in their law whiche was but onely a shadawe of thynges too come holy daies appoyncted for the execucion of the misteries of their religion whom thei in one generall terme named Sabboth dais of the rest and vacasiō that thei had from bodely labours semblably our fathers haue ordaigned festiuall daies in the new testament wherein Christen men all profane businesses and eiuil maters laied aparte might wholy apply and bend themselfes to Godly and spirituall meditacions As the perusyng and readyng of scriptures heryng of deuoute sermons renderyng honor to God by sacrificyng praiyng and well dooyng bee woorkes fete and conuenient for the holy daie and also reuerencyng the memoriall of sainctes on suche daies as bee assigned to that purpose is on the holy daie laudable For oblacion is onely due to God as Paule Barnabas did openly testifie at Listra For whē he had commaunded by the power of the worde of God that the man whiche was lame from his mothers wombe should arise and walke the people for wonder and maruaile of the miracle would haue dooen sacrifice to them but thei renting their clothes departed out of the prese and with sharpe woordes rebuked their enterprise as a thyng vnmete to bee dooen to any mortall man or worldly creature Firste of all the feaste of Easter was instituted by y e Apostles and prescribed by Pius the first to be solemnised on the Sondaie Afterward as it chaunsed that alteracion of that matter arose Victor that was bishop of Rome aboute the hundred nynetie and sixe yere of our lord decreed that it should altogether bee kepte and celebrated on the Sondaie frō the fourtene daie of the firste moneth that was Marche vntill y e .xxii of the same least our ordre coumpte should agree with the Iewes whiche kept it somewhat soner then that appoyntemente speaketh of albeeit many foreyne bishoppes at the firste refused that cōstitucion bicause thei thought it not out of

to these monthes Ianuary August Decēber euery of them .ii. daies And to April Iune Septēber Nouēber he gaue to eche of thē one day In this maner Iulius Caesar accōplished y e yere perfectely accordyng to the course of the sunne of the .vi. houres euery .iiii. yere amoūteth a day whiche causeth leape yere as we cal it in latine it is named bissextus because euery forth yere we coūte twyse the .vi. calend of Marche ¶ The monthes haue their name because they measure the space and course of the Moone Thus the yere hath .xii. monthes wherof April Iune Septēber and Nouēber haue .xxx. daies all y e rest hath .xxxi. dayes sauyng February whiche hath but xxviii in the yere be .lii. wekes and a day Daies there be CCC.lxv .vi. houres The calendes nones ides hath theyr appellacions of y e maner of rekenyng of the Romaynes Calēdes were named of callyng for at euery chaūge the chiefe rular of y e sacrifices called rex sacrificulus called to an assēbly in the Capitoly or place of Rome all them of the coūtree and sheweth thē theyr festiual daies and what it was lawful to do y e monthe The Nones had y e name because thei were the .ix. day frō the ides whiche ides be y e midde daies of euery mōth and had theyr appellacion of the Hetruscanes terme iduare that signifieth to deuide or seperate in y e middes This fashion of countyng the month endured to the CCCC.l. yeare of the cytie was kepte secrete among the byshops of theyr religion tyl y e tyme that C. Slauius P. Sulpitius Auerrio and P. Sempronius Sophullongus then beyng Consuls against the mynde of the Senatours disclosed al theyr solemne feates published thē in a table that eueri man might haue perseueraunce of them The Prime wherby we fynde the coniunction of the moue and all mouable feastes as Lent Easter Whytsondaye with other lyke was inuented by the great clarke sainct Barnarde ¶ The .v. Chapiter ¶ Who ordeyned the houres dyals clockes deuidyng the day and night HOVRES whiche beyng in nōber xxiiii accomplishe the space of a day night were so named of the sōne whiche in the Egyptians language is called horus They at the fyrst were appointed but twelue of this occasyon Hermes Trismegistus perceiuyng a certayne beast consecrated to theyr God Serapis to make water or pisse .xii. tymes in the day of equall distāce supposed therfore that y e day ought to be deuided into .xii. houres This nōber dyd continue long but afterwarde y t day parted in .xxiiii. houres Anaximene● a Milesian found in Lacedemony the fyrst dyal that declareth the houres by y e shadow of the Gnomon It was long afore they were vsed in Rome for as Plinie writeth in the .xii. tables there was onely rehersed the risyng goyng doune of the sunne a fewe yeares after Noone or midday was added whiche the Bedel or common crier dyd denounce This was but onely on cleare daies when they might perceyue the course altitude of the sōne The fyrst dyal was set vp on a pyller openly whiche stode behynd the cōmon pulpite or barre called rostra at y e cost of M. Valerius Messala then Consuls in the fyrst battail Punike The water dial was vsed fyrst in Rome by P. Scipio Nasica y e ix c yere of the cytie to deuide y e houres of the day night Albeit it was inuēted by C●esibius of Alexandria Afterwarde clockes made of metall were inuented by subtyl wittes and sād dials were imagined whose authours be yet vnknowen In some places the clockes strike .xxiiii. houres by order in other some as in the West partes of the worlde it smiteth twyse in the day .xii. houres in suche order that the .xii. houre is at noone and at midnight whiche is more cōmodiouse for the rekeners then the other The daies whiche be rekened in sundry wyse of diuerse nacions began in Egypt where the yere monthes were also deuised they take all the space from midnight to midnight for one day and the Romaynes vsed the same maner For as Plutarche writeth the sūne risyng is the beginnyng of all affayres functions the night is a tyme of counselyng apparaunce and they had assigned to euery houre a sōdry ministry as Martial in his Epigramme declareth The day vvas deuided in sundry vvise That euery hour had a seueral office The .ii. first serued for salutacion The third for lavvyers alteracion Tvvo next vvere spente in labours diuersly The sixt men might them selfes rest quietly The seuenth of vvorkes vvas resolution The eight vvas for vvrestlers and in conclusion The nynth vvas limitted for mennes repast And so furth the other of time vvas made no vvast ¶ The Babilonians called the space betwene the Sunne risynges a day The Atheniens named all that was betwene the goynges doune a daye The Vmbrians counte theyr day fro noone to noone but cōmonly the day is called the space from mornyng tyl night The night was diuided into iiii watches whereof euerye one as Hierom wytnesseth conteyned thre houres The .vi. Chapiter ¶ Who set furth bookes fyrst or made a library Printyng paper parchement arte of memory BOOKES whiche cōteyne the monumentes of ingeniouse wyttes and be a regestre of all valiaunt prowesse in Grece were fyrst published as Laertius thinketh by Anaxagoras as Gellius sayeth it was Pisistratus that made the fyrst booke exhibited it to be redde openly Notwithstandyng Iosephus declareth y t the Hebrues and priestes of Egypte and Chaldee set furth bookes fyrst The Atheniens seriously multiplied y e nōbre of bookes whiche Xerxes caried frō thence into Persie Seleucus kyng of Macedony caused them many yeres after to be conueighed to Athens again After that Ptolomeus kyng of Egypt gathered together vii C.M. bookes whiche were all brent in the former battaile of Alexandria Neuertheles Strabo recordeth that Aristotle dyd institute the fyrst lybrary and left it to Theophrast his disciple taught the kynges of Egypte howe they should order theyr lybrary Theophrast left it to Meleus of him Scepsis receyued it There was also a lybrarye at Pargamus verye auncient In Rome Asinius Pollio had the fyrste lybrarye whiche was occasyon that good wyttes emploied great and graue study in learnyng to the ample furtheraunce and commoditee of the common wealth of the cytie There be at this day many in Italy but the most famouse is the liberary whiche Frederike Feltrius duke of Vrbine dyd cause to be edified Truely the cōmodite of lyberaries is right profitable and necessary but in cōparison of the craft of Printyng it is nothyng both because one manne may Prynte more in one day then many men in many yeres could write And also it preserueth bothe Greke Latine auctours fro the daūger of corrupcion It was found in Germany at Magunce