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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35310	The antient and present state of Muscovy containing a geographical, historical, and political account of all those nations and territories under the jurisdiction of the present czar : with sculptures and a new map / by J.C., M.D., Fellow of the Royal Society, and a member of the College of Physicians, London.	Crull, J. (Jodocus), d. 1713?	1698 (1698)	Wing C7424; Wing C7425; ESTC R2742	334,877	511

of the Stomach The Cellars of Persons of Quality are always well furnish'd with Hydromel or Mead Aqua vitae strong Beer Sack and other sorts of strong Wines for the Rhinish and French Wines are in no great esteem among them as being not strong enough They brew their strong Beer as we do in March and to keep it cool their Cellars not being vaulted during the Heat of the Summer they make a Bed of Ice and Snow mix'd tog●ther and then a Layer of Barrels upon them another Bed of Ice and then again a Row of Barrels which they cover with Straw and Planks which serves for a Vault They are very Splendid in their Cloaths and Equipage being attended by a great Number of Slaves all which however they do without any great Expence for asmuch as what Provisions they want for themselves and their Horses is brought from their Farms in the Country and as for those Slaves they entertain in the City they allow them Board-Wages but so scantily that they can scarce live upon it This is one of the chiefest Causes that so many Riots and Murthers are committed in the Streets of the City of Musco and that in Hay-making time the Roads leading to this City are so unsafe to travel there being about that time so great a Number of Slaves abroad working in the Fields Persons of Quality and the richest Merchants in Musco keep for this Reason a Guard in their Courts who watch all Night and are to knock every hour with a Stick upon a Board Their Interrments as many Knocks at a time as the Clock has struck Hours They are very Ceremonious in their Interrments No sooner is the sick Person departed but all the Kindred and Friends come and stand about the Body making most horrid Out-cries and Lamentations They ask him Why he would dye Whether he wanted Meat and Drink Whether he had not a Handsom Wife and such like Questions The next thing to be taken care of is to send a Present to the Priest to pray for the Soul of the deceased Party which he is to do Morning and Evening for six Weeks upon his Grave For tho' the Muscovites do not believe Purgatory yet they believe two different Places where the Soul retires till the Day of Judgment some they say abide in a pleasant Place where they enjoy the Conversation of Angels others in a dark Valley where they are pester'd with the Company of Devils They are of Opinion that by the Prayers of Priests and Monks the Souls may be delivered out of this Place of Misery and God's Wrath be appeased against the Day of Judgment For which reason also those that are able give frequent Alms during these six Weeks Before it be put into the Coffin which is made out of the Trunk of a Tree the Body is well wash'd the Shrowd or a clean Shirt put about it and a pair of new Shooes on the Feet with the Arms cross the Breast At the Funeral Solemnity Funeral Ceremonies the Priest goes first carrying the Image of that Saint which had been assigned the Deceased at his Baptism for his Patron Him follow four Virgins the next of Kin to the deceased who represent the Mourners and make most horrid Out-cries and Lamentations all in a Tune not unlike the wild Irish Then follows the Body carried by six Men upon their Shoulders the Kindred and Friends following the Body without any Order with Wax-Candles in their Hands whilst the Priest is singing certain Psalms they surround the Body and by their Incenses keep off the evil Spirits Being come to the Grave the Coffin is uncovered and the same Saint that was carried before the Procession is held over him the Priest in the mean while saying certain Prayers and repeating frequently these Words Lord look upon this Soul in Righteousness and the Widow continuing but how heartily is easie to be guess'd considering their Usage her former Lamentations Timming Dooshink Alas My Dear Why wouldst thou leave me thus And repeating the same questions we have mentioned before Then the Kindred and Friends take their last Farewel of the Deceased some kissing him some the Coffin and as soon as the Priest has put a Testimonial between his Fingers which is to serve him as a Pass for the other World the Coffin is shut up and put into the Grave with the Face towards the East The Kindred after having paid their Devotions to the Images return to the House where they drown their Sorrow in strong Liquor The Mourning is continued for forty Days after during which the Kindred are entertained at three several times viz. the third the ninth and twentieth Day and during this time of Mourning the Priest reads twice a day as we mentioned before the Psalms upon the Grave having a little Booth made up of Mats to shelter him from the Weather The Testimonial or Pass for his Admittance into the other World is signed by the Patriarch or Metropolitan of the Place and the Confessor who sells it according to the Ability of those that are to buy it This Testimonial runs thus We whose Names are hereunto subscribed the Patriarch or Metropolitan and Priest of the City of N. do Certifie by these Presents That the Bearer hereof hath always beha●ed himself and lived among us as became a good Christian professing the Greek Religion and tho he may have committed some Sins he hath Confessed the same whereupon he hath received Absolution and taken the Communion for the Remission of his Sins That he hath honoured God and his Saints that he hath not neglected his Prayers and hath Fasted on the Hours and Days appointed by the Church and that he hath always behaved himself towards me who am his Confessor in such a manner that I have no Reason to complain of him nor to deny him the Absolution of his Sins In witness whereof we have given him these Testimonials to the end That St. Peter upon sight of them may not deny him the opening of the Gate of Eternal Bliss CHAP. IX Of the Civil Government Laws and Justiciary Proceedings of the Muscovites THE State of Muscovy or its Political Government of which we are to treat in this Chapter is not only Monarchical but also Despotical or Absolute forasmuch as the Czar being sole and absolute Master over all his Subjects disposes without Controul of their Lives and Estates in the same manner as in most antient Times did the Kings of Assyria Media and Persia who governed their Subjects no otherwise than a Lord does his Slaves and as it is to this day in Turky where the Grand Seignior disposes of the Lives and Fortunes of his Subjects at pleasure The Czars of Muscovy possessed with so uncontrouled a Power as Hereditary Sovereigns of these vast Countreys we have given a short Description of in the foregoing Chapters that there is not a Knez or Lord so great in all these vast Dominions but who without Reluctancy confesses that

of Religion They pay their Venerations to the Virgin Mary the Evangelists the Apostles and an infinite number of other Saints not only as Intercessors but Co-operators of their Salvation for they pay to their Saints and Images all the Honours due to none but God Almighty There is never a Family so small in M●scovy but what has its Tutelar Saint's Image hung up against the Wall of the Chamber unto whom the ignorant People pay their daily Devotion and all the religious Instructions they give to their Children tends to no more than to stand with a great deal of Respect and to say their Prayers before those Images for the rest they place the utmost Excellency of their good Works which they believe meritorious in building of Monasteries and Churches and giving Alms. Those who intend to change their Religion and embrace the Muscovian are obliged to go for six Weeks into some Monastery or another where all the Instructions they receive is how to say their Prayers how to reverence their Saints and Images and how to make the Cross The whole Exercise of the Muscovian Religion may be reduced under these several Heads viz. Baptism Reading of the Word of God in their Churches going to Mass Praying to Saints and making Reverences before their Images Processions Pilgrimages Fastings Confession and Communion Baptism Their Baptism they look upon as the most necessary Point of Religion they acknowledge themselves conceived and born in Sin and that by Baptism they are regenerated and cleansed according to God's Institution from their original Impurity They baptize their Children as soon as they are born and unless they be too weak when they Baptize them at home but never in the same Room where the Mother lies they are carried to Church by the Godfather and Godmother where being met at the Door by the Priest he signs the Child with the Sign of the Cross in the Forehead and gives him the Benediction saying The Lord preserve thy coming in and thy going out Then they walk up together to the Font which stands in the middle of the Church cross which the Priest fastens nine lighted Wax-Candles delivered to him by the Godfathers whom he Incenses and Consecrates the Water with a great many Ceremonies Then the Procession begins about the Font the Clerk goes before with the Image of St. John being followed by the Godfathers with Wax-Candles in their Hands thus they go about it three times whilst the Priest Reads out of a Book The Procession being over the Godfathers give the Name of the Child to the Priest in Writing upon his Demand who puts it upon an Image which he holds upon the Child's Breast and after some short Prayers asks the God-fathers Whether the Child believes in God the Father Son and Holy Ghost Having answer'd Yes they all turn their Backs to the Font as a Sign of their Aversion to the three next following Questions to be asked by the Priest to ' wit Whether the Child forsakes the Devil Whether he forsakes his Angels Whether he forsakes his Works The Godfathers answering Yes distnctly to every Question and Spitting three times upon the Ground Then they face about again to the Font and being asked by the Priest whether they promise to bring up the Child in the true Greek Religion they advance with the Child nearer towards the Door for fear the Devil by whom they believe Children to be possess'd before Baptism should take up his Residence in the Church where he begins the Exorcism putting his Hands upon and blowing three times cross the Child with these Words Get out of this Child thou unclean Spirit and make way for the Holy Ghost Then returning to the Font he cuts off a little of the Childs Hair which he puts into a Book and having asked the God-fathers whether the Child was brought thither to be Baptized he takes him stark Naked into his Arms and dips him three times into the Water pronouncing the Words of the Sacrament in the mean while viz. I Baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Immediately after the Baptism he signs it with the sign of the Cross on the Forehead upon the Hands Breast and Back with a certain Oyl consecrated for that purpose and having put a corn of Salt in the Child's Mouth and a clean Shirt about him Thou art says he as clean and as clear from thy Original Sin as thy Shirt Then the Priest hangs ●bout his Neck a little Cross of Gold Silver or ●ead according to the Ability of the Parents with 〈◊〉 very strict Injunction to wear it all his life-time ●hich is observed with so much strictness by the Muscovites that they deny Christian Burial to such 〈◊〉 have it not about them at their last Exit out of his World The whole is concluded by the Priest's ●igning the Child a certain Saint whose Image he ●●livers to the God-father and charges him to take ●●ectual care that the Child as soon as he is come 〈◊〉 Years of Discretion may pay all due Reverence 〈◊〉 his Patron Lastly he takes his leave from the ●hild and God-fathers with a Kiss exhorting them 〈◊〉 mutual Love but to take heed of intermarry●g The Water wherein the Child is to be Baptized is never Warmed over the Fire though the Cold be never so excessive but they put it sometimes in some warm place or other to take off a little of the cold If two or more Children are to be Baptized at the same Font the Water is emptied so often as there are several Children to be Baptized it being their Opinion that the Water which is contaminated with the Original Sin of the first Child is not pure enough to cleanse the second or third from their Impurities Persons of Age who change their Religion and embrace the Muscovite Faith nay even Muscovites who having changed their Religion in another Country are willing to return to their own Communion must be first Re-baptized which is always done in a Brook or River where they are plunged over Head and Ears be it never so Cold nay they oftentimes break through the Ice to come at the Water In the same manner are treated those whom the Russians call Chaldeans who being look'd upon by them as Infidels and who during the time they commit their Extravagancies have withdrawn themselves from the Church must be reconciled to it by Re-baptization on Twelfth-day as that on which happened the Vocation of the Gentiles They are a Company of idle Vagabond Fellows who in Commemoration of Sadrach Mesack and Abednego that were cast into the Fire by the Command of Nebuchadn●●ar represent the Men that heated the Oven for which purpose pursuant to an Ancient Custom they get leave from the Patriarch to Disguise themselves and to run up and down the Streets with Fire-works from the Eighteenth Day of December till Twelve-tide During which time they commit great Insolencies exacting small Gifts from