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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

with great honor and religion it would seeme to be done directly against the will and commandement of him who had rather that heauen and earth should perish then his word especially seeing Christ himselfe came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it wherfore we obserue that day not in imitation of the Iewes but at the bidding of our Lord Iesus Christ his holy Apostles the grace of which Iewes is translated vnto vs Christians And vpon this sabbath day Lent excepted wee euer eate flesh which vse is not obserued in the kingdome of Bernagues and Tygri Mahon the naturall people of which two kingdomes by an ancient custome eat flesh vpon the sabbath daies and Sundaies in Lent now wee celebrate the Lords day as other Christians do in memory of Christs resurrection but we know that the Sabbath day is to be obserued and kept holy by the books of the law and not by the Gospell and yet notwithstanding we be not ignorant that the Gospel is the end of the Law and of the Prophets And vpon these two daies we beleeue that the soules of the godly departed which remaine in Purgatorie bee not there tormented which rest God hath granted vnto those soules vpon these most holy daies vntill the end of their punishments due for their offences in this world being determined they be deliuered thence for the diminishing of which paines and to extenuate shorten the time of their punishments we beleeue that almes deedes done for the dead be very profitable vnto those souls which liue in purgatory To the remission of which soules the Patriarke giueth no Indulgence for that we beleeue doth belong vnto God only and to the constitution of the time of their punishment neither doth the Patriark allow any daies for Indulgēces By the reading of the Gospel we be only bound to keep 6. precepts which Christ explaned with his owne mouth I was an hungred saith he and you gaue me to eate I was thirstie and you gaue me to drink I was a stranger you tooke me in naked and you clothed me sicke and you visited me I was in prison and you came vnto me Which words Christ will onely pronounce in the day of Iudgement because the law as Paul witnesseth sheweth vnto vs our sins which law Christ Iesus excepted no one can keepe And Paul also saith that we be all borne in sinne for the transgression of our mother Eua and for her curse and malediction and the same Paul further saith that wee die through Adam and liue through Christ which Christ of his aboundant mercy hath giuē vnto vs these six precepts to the end that we might be saued when hee shall come in his Maiesty to Iudge both the quick the dead by which words and commandements in that fearefull and terrible day of Iudgment hee will pronounce and shew vnto the good euerlasting glory and to the wicked fire and eternall damnation And wee reckon but only fiue deadly sinnes as they terme them which wee gather out of the last Chapter of the Reuelation where it is sayd For without shal be dogs and inchanters and whoremongers and murtherers and idolaters and whosoeuer loueth or maketh lies It is ordained by the holy Apostles in their bookes of councels that it is lawful for the Clergy to mary after they haue attained to some knowledge in diuinity and being once maried they be receiued into the order of priests into the which order none is admitted before hee accomplish the age of 30. yeeres neithey bee any bastards by any meanes allowed to enter into that most holy order these orders be giuen by no other but by the Patriarch onely where the first wife of a Bishop or Clercke or Deacon is dead it is not lawful for them to mary an other vnlesse the Patriarch dispence therewith which sometimes for a publike good is granted to great men nor is it lawful for them to keepe a concubine vnlesse they wil refuse and put themselues frō saying seruice which if they once do they may neuer after meddle in ministring diuine matters and this is obserued so strictly that those priests which haue beene twise married dare neuer take in their hands so much as a candle that is consecrated to the Church and if any Bishop or Deacon be found to haue any bastard child hee is depriued from all his benefices and from his holy orders his gods if he decease without lawful heires come vnto Prestor Iohn and not to the Patriarch and the warrant that we haue that our priests may marry is taken out of Saint Paul who had rather that both Clergy and Laity should marry then burne And he also saith that a bishop ought to be the husband of one wife and that he should be sober and irreprehensible and in like manner would he haue Deacons and further that Ecclesiasticall persons should haue their proper wiues by lawfull marriage euen as secular people haue but Munckes mary not at all and both Lay men and Clergy haue but one wife a peece and matrimony is not contracted before the gates of the holy Church but in the priuate houses of those that beare most sway at the bridall wee haue haue also receiued from the ordinance of the Apostles that if a priest bee found in addultery or committing manslaughter or theft or bearing false witnesse he shal be depriued and put from his holy orders and punished like other malefactors againe by the institution of those Apostles if any person either Ecclesiastical or Lay doe lie with his wife or bee polluted in sleepe hee commeth not into the Church for the space of foure and twenty houres after nor is it lawfull for menstruous women to come into the Church vnlesse vpon the seuenth day after their sicknesse and then to haue all their garments throughly washed which they wore during the time of their monthly disease and they themselues purged from all filth A woman also that bringeth forth a man child must not come into the Church till after the fortith day and if she brought forth a woman child then shee must not come into the Church till after the eighteeth day This is our custome founded vpon the ancient law and also vpon the Apostolicke law which lawes ordinances and precepts wee obserue as diligently in al points as possible may bee Moreouer we bee prohibited that neither swine nor dogs nor other such beasts shall enter into our Churches Also wee may not goe to the Church but bare footed neither is it lawfull for vs to laugh walke or talke of prophane matters in the Church nor once there to spit hawke or him because the Churches of Aethiopia bee not like vnto that land where the people of Israell did eate the Paschall lambe departing from Egipt in which place God commanded them to eate it with their shooes on and girded with their girdles by reason of the pollution of the earth but they bee like vnto Mount

they had a very prouident care and extraordinary regard for doing any thing that should be a touch or debasement to their stockes or against their honours holding it a staine and pollution to their bloud to marry with women of other nations or with any inferior to themselues and indeuouring their vttermost to make themselues a people proper and naturall without mixture of other nations and onely like vnto themselues whereof insued that though the number of them were great yet in their externall habites in the stature and proportion of their bodies and collour of their haire they were almost all alike The Saxons were deuided into foure sorts or differences of people which were noble men freemen libertines that is such as had beene slaues and obtained their freedome and manumission and bound-men or slaues and to the end that each of these orders might remaine in his owne Estate it was established by a law that no man of one estate should marry or take to wife a woman of an other but that the Nobility should match with nobility the free-men with free-men the manumitted with those which were manumitted and the slaues with slaues the penalty for the transgressing of which law was present death They had many good and holesome lawes for the punishment of malefactors They were vpright in condition sincere in life and of vncorrupted and irreprehensible manners doing nothing but what was profitable honest and agreeable to the lawes of nature all which had beene sufficient for their saluations if withall they had knowne and beleeued in the true and euerliuing God But they were great Idolaters worshipping trees and fountaines of water but more especially a huge stock of wood set vp an end which they accounted for a god calling it in their language Irminsaul that is to say a vniuersall and generall piller or colume whereby all other things are sustained held vp Mercury also they obserued and honoured as a god offring vnto him vpon certain daies humaine sacrifices nor did they hold it fit or lowable by reason of the great dignity and diuinity of their gods to include them in Temples and Churches nor to figure them in the proportion of men but they consecrated vnto them woods groues calling them after their names and they neuer perused those secret and misticall places but with great deuotion and reuerence Witchcraft and socery was much in practice amongst them Their manner of taking aduise whether a thing were to bee done or not done was thus first they would cut from a fruite tree diuers little sprigs or young sprouts marking and distinguishing them each from other with certaine notes or differences and so cast them sodainely and at aduentures vpon a white garment And then if the consultation were general for them al the priest if priuate the goodman of the house-hold lifting vp his eyes towards heauen and praying to their gods taketh vp those branches one by one and layeth them downe againe three sundrie times and euer as hee taketh them vp he expoundeth and interpreteth what is to be done according to the note or imprese written vpon them and then if the priest or good men of the house forbid it to bee done they aduise no more of the matter that day but if they allow it the people were so stronge of beleefe as they would put the proiect in practise what euer they euent proued they gathered and coniectured of many things by the chirping and flying of birds and oftentimes made experiment of forewarnings and admonitions of horses which to presage of things to come were nourished and kept in those woods and groues dedicated to their gods These horses were white and neuer did any manner of worke and beeing coupled together and set before the holy Chariot they were attended and followed either by the priest the King or chiefe ruler of the city who diligently marcked and obserued their neying whynying and stoming and this manner of prediction or foreshewing of things to come was of all others in greatest credit and estimation both by the Princes priests and people for they held them to bee the ministers of the gods and partakers of their diuine councels They vsed also an other sort of sooth-saying or witchcraft whereby to know aforehand what successe they should haue in the warres which was in this manner when they tooke a captiue of any nation against whom the waged battaile they compelled him to fight with one of their owne people and as the victory went betwixt them two so would they iudge of the insuing warres The Emperour Charles the Great was the first that by continuall warres compelled this impious people to admit the Christian religion which both they and all other Germaines doe now most religiously adore In Saxonie be many sumptuous and Princely palaces and magnificent and stately Temples Churches and Monasteries as one in Alberstandium consecrated to our blessed Ladie whereinto neuer entreth any prophane or vnhallowed person but onely such as bee professed in Religion and to the seruice of God except vpon Ashwednesday and then is there one of the people brought into the Church who must euer bee such a one as in the eye of the world is of most wicked and abhominable life and conuersation this man beeing brought into the Church all in blacke and his head couered is placed where hee may heare masse which beeing duely solemnised hee is cast out of the Temple and inforced to wander vp and downe the citie bare-footed all the time of Lent visiting all the Churches one after an other during which time he is maintained by the priests and by them brought againe into the Church vpon Easter-day where hauing first an almes giuen him which he offerreth with great deuotion to the Church after the consecration of the oyle he is expiated and hallowed by the whole Clergie and so dismissed This man they commonly called Adam comparing him for his innocency vnto Adam our first father and founder who was voide of all sinne and by him they suppose their city to be purged and purified The soile of Saxony is very fruitfull of all things but wine and hath diuers mines of siluer and basse toward Gosleria and in many places besides be brine-pits and fountaines of salt water whereof they make a fine white and most delicate sault which yeeldeth them a large commodity yeerely They haue great store of barley and wheate whereof they make very fine white bread and a kinde of ale or beere to supply the want of wine which they drinke so immoderatly and out of measure as when they bee at their feasts and bankettings and that their ordinary cups and drinking glasses will not hold sufficient for them to carouse at one draught those which doe giue attendance at the table will set before them a great paile full of that drinke with a dish in it wishing euery one to bee their owne skinkers and so to drinke what they please and

whether we go into their villages or marches or that they approch neere vnto our castels or bulwarkes they vrgently seeeke to get of vs some of these buttons offering vs their fruites and other commodities in exchange and oftentimes they will vrge vs for them with these glauering words Mair Deagat-orem amabe mauroubi that is to say You are a good French-man giue vs some bracelets of your glasse buttons In like manner do they importunatly require of vs combes which they call Guap or Kuap glasses also which they call Araua and other such like trinckets wherein they take great delight But aboue all things this seemeth most strange that although their bodies armes thighes and legges bee not distinguished with diuers colors like men and that they vse not those ornaments of fethers yet could wee neuer intreate them to put on any clothes made of that curled cloth or smocks though we oftentimes offered them for they persisted in that stubbornenesse from the which I thinke they be not yet reclaimed alledging for excuse the auncient receiued customes of all the borderers For all of them vse when they come neere any waters or riuers to fall downe and to take vp water with their hands to wash their heads and oftentimes like duckes they will plunge and diue into the water tenne times in one day and then to put off their garments so oftentimes in the day would bee very troublesome vnto them an excellent and goodly reason sure yet must wee needes allow it for wee could nothing alter or disswade them by disputing with them for so great a delight is nakednesse vnto them that not onely the free Tovovpinambaltian women which liued vppon the Continent would thus stubbornely reiect all apparell but the captiues also and slaues which wee bought of them and which we vsed as villaines and drudges to defend our castels could not bee restrained but would euery night before they slept put off their smockes and all their other apparel and wander naked vp and down the Iland To conclude if the power were in themselues either to take or leaue their garments for wee could hardly force them to put them on by beating they had rather indure the heate of the Sunne and hurt their armes and sholders with carrying stones and earth naked then to put on any clothes And thus much is sufficient to speake of the ornaments bracelets and all the other compleat attire of the American women and therefore without any further Epilogue to my speech I leaue it for euery one to conceiue of as to him seemeth good will in this place adde a word or two of the bigger sort of children those which be three or foure yeares of age and which they commonly call Canomi mitri for in these we were much delighted they be fatter of their bodies of a whiter bone then any children with holes in their lips their haires of their heads shorne round and their bodies oftentimes painted And in this manner they would come dancing by flockes to meet vs when we came to their villages And for to haue vs giue them some things they would often repeate these flattering words Covtovassat amaebe pinda that is good fellow giue mee these hookes and if they obtained of vs what they desired as oftentimes they did and that wee threw some tenne or twelue little hookes vppon the sand they would striue and scramble for them and greatly exult and reioyce and lying along vpon the ground would scrape in the earth like Conneys which was no little pleasure vnto vs Finally although I diligently perused and marked those barbarous people for a whole yeare together wherein I liued amongst them so as I might conceiue in my minde a certaine Idea or proportion of them yet I say by reason of their diuerse gestures and behauiours vtterly different from ours it is a very difficult matter to expresse their true proportion either in writing or painting but if any one couet to inioy the full pleasure of them I could wish him to goe into America himselfe But perhaps you will say it is more then one dayes iourney that is truth indeed and therefore I will not perswade any one to enterprise the matter ouer rashly But before I conclude my speach I must say something to answere those that either thinke or write that the often familiarity with those barbarous naked people and especially with the women is a great prouocation to lust and lasciuiousnesse I say therefore that although at the first sight that nakednesse may iustly bee accounted the nourishment of concupiscence yet notwithstanding as experience hath made manifest it is most true that men by that vnciuill and vncomely nakednesse are not so much as stirred in their mindes to lust so as I dare presume to affirme that gallant and gorgeous attire painted beauties counterfeit haire crisped and frisled lockes those great and costly rayles which women weare so artificially folded and wreathed those lawne gorgets loose and flaggering garments and such other like where-with our women doe so busily falsify and counterfet them-selues are more hurtfull and dangerous then the nakednesse of those barbarous women although in beauty they bee nothing inferiour vnto them so as if it were lawfull for others obseruing a decorum to follow their fashions I could alledge very substantiall reasons to make good my opinion and refute all arguments that can bee obiected for proofe of the contrary But not to dwell longer vpon this matter I referre mee to the testimonie of those which sayled with mee into Brasilia and which haue beheld both the one and the other yet would I not haue my words wrested to that sence as though I any wayes approoued that nakednesse against the authority of the holy Scripture which saith that Adam and Eua perceiuing they were naked after their sinne were ashamed for I detest the heresie of those which hauing violated the law of nature not well obserued in this case of those wretched and miserable Americans doe their vttermost indeuours to bring in this wicked and beastly custome But what I haue sayd touching these rude people tendeth to no other end but that it may appeare that we are no lesse faultie who condemning them that goe naked without regarde of shamefastnesse doe our selues offend as greeuously in the contrary to wit in sumptuous and gorgious apparell And now hauing described the externall habit and trimming of the Barbarians it will not breake square or order to say some-thing in this place of their manner of dyet And this is chiefly to bee noted that although they neither sowe nor haue any kinde of corne or graine nor plant any Vines yet notwithstanding as I haue often found true by experience doe they liue most finely and daintily though they bee vtterly destitute of bread and wine for they haue two sorts of rootes the one called Aypi the other Manyot both of which waxe so exceedingly within three or foure moneths that they will bee