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son_n	brother_n	husband_n	wife_n	37,173	5	10.0330	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70258	Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.	G. H.; G. H. (G. Hussey); G. H. (G. Hooker)	1670 (1670)	Wing H2629A; Wing H3812; ESTC R178183	59,815	208

any that would withstand the fury of their insulting pride whereupon they out of the City came and entred the Romans Army like a flood and in their desperate madness all was overwhelmed that durst withstand them the Walls then could not be assaulted the enemies fearful Engines was then by them set on fire and bravely fighting they bravely made their enemies to retire The Battel done back go these hair-braind men and divide again and each becomes the others foe and then pell mell they go to it and begin to disorder and bring all things to confusion with fire their Corn and Victuals they consumed all their provision in a moment spoiled and wasted which if well kept might have lasted them many years upon which the Famine like a Tyrant roams and rages and makes all both Old and Young Rich and Poor to starve and dye with fleshless Anatomies This was a Plague of Plagues a Woe of Woes death on every side did inclose them this being their condition they knew not what to do to sally forth they durst not for then their lives they were sure to lose to stay within for want of food they starved out they could not go for the Gates were shut and strongly warded their throats were cut if any staid within so that if they stay or go or go or stay every way Destruction they are sure to meet with But of all torments hunger is the worst for that will burst through the stony Walls therefore these people having been with War Woe and want on every side beset do now begin to consult and strive how they might get to the Romans for there was their hopes that in their swords they should find more mercy then their still dying famisht state afforded them And indeed when man is opprest then is wit most sharpest and then wisdom amongst evils chuseth the least Now they knowing Vespasian for a noble Prince and one that did not glory in their Woe they thought it best to try his clemency and not with hunger and famine to die and therefore despairing of all hopes resolved with Ropes to slide down the Walls which a number of them did and fled to Titus who bemoaned the sadness of their condition and relieved and took them to his grace and favour Thus when all hopes failed they were by their foes preserved to the number of at least 40000. The City Souldiers searched every house where they thought any Victuals were conveyed and if they found any the owners were most certainly beaten for concealing it but if they saw a man look plump and fat his throat they would surely cut for they thought him too much pampered and too full fed they would therefore strike him dead to save meat and drink The Richest and Noblest that was born both of Men and Women gave all they had for one poor strike of Corn and hid themselves and it under the ground in some close Vault and there they would eat it under the ground unground if any could get flesh they would eat it raw Thus the weaker were over-awed and kept under by the stronger No respect of persons where hunger came natural affection was then banished then the Husband did his own Wife reject the Wife she snatches the meat from her Husband all pity from the Mother was exiled she from the Child tears and takes the Victuals the Child plays the thief with the Parents and steals the food though with grief the Parents pine away There was neither Free-man nor Bond-man Fathers nor Mothers Wives Husbands Masters Servants Brothers Sisters be it propinquity or strong affinity no Law or reason or rule could bear sway and indeed obeysance must be given where strength commands the pining Servant will not know his Master the Son will not shew his duty to his Father the Commons regardless to the Magistrate each for one and but for one he cared disordered like the cart before the horse force caused all respect to yield These Miscreants with vigilancy did watch where a door was locked or latched that they could spy for there they supposed the people were at meat and in their out-rage the doors they would beat open where entring if they found them feeding they would tear it in haste out of their throats half eaten and half uneaten these wretches would constrain the people to cast it up again they hauld them about the house by the ears to force them to bring out their Victuals which they supposed they had some by the Thumbs they hanged up and some by the Toes some had many blows others were pricked with Bodkins sadly were they tormented to reveal their meat when they had none to conceal and in truth all was fish that came into their net and all was food that could be got by fraud or force Grass Hay Barks Leaves of trees Cats and Dogs Frogs Worms Rats Mice Snails Flies and Maggots all stinking and contagious roots the covering of their Coaches Boots and Shoes and the dung of Fowls and Beasts were Feasts for these poor miserable starved wretches things loathsome to be named in time of plenty is now dainties among these starved distressed Jews This Famine run beyond all natures bounds as before I have hinted and confounded all Motherly-affection no compassion was there had to bloud or birth It forced a woman to kill her only Son she ript and dis-joynted him and dis-joynted him limb from limb she drest she roasted she broiled and boiled him she eat him she interr'd him in her womb his life by nature proceeded from her and she her self most unnaturally did feed upon him he was her flesh her bloud her bones and therefore she eating him her self her self made food No woe can equal her misery no grief can match her sad calamities the Souldiers they smelt the meat upon which they straitly assembled which when they saw they trembled and with staring hairs and ghastly looks were thereat so affrighted and amazed that thereupon they presently left the house This horrid action did more with them then any force of man could ever do for this sad sight over came them Oh then thou that dost live like a fatted Brawn and cramst thy guts as long as thou canst thou that dost eat and drink away thy time accounting it no crime for gluttony to be thy God thou that must have fowl of all sorts and hast the bowels of the Ocean searched to satisfie thy appetite and hast thy dainties from all parts and places near and remote and all to satisfie thy devouring throat whose pamper'd paunch never leaves to feed and quaff Think on Jerusalem perhaps it will move thee in the midst of thy Diet and riotous courses to a more temperate and sober demeanor And you brave Dames adorned with Jems and Jewels that must have Grewels and Caudles Conserves and Marchpanes that too in sundry shapes made as Castles Towers Horses Apes and Bears think on Jerusalem in the midst of all your glory and

totwards seventy miles Out of Scotlands General Description THis Nations Original by some hath been derived from Scota the supposed Daughter of the Egyptian King Pharaoh that nourished Moses who having marryed Gaithelus the son of Cecrops the Founder of Athens who first seating in Spain passed thence into Ireland and lastly into Scotland where his Wife Scota gave name to the Nation In this Country is the dark Wood Caledonia famous for the Wild White Bulls that therein were bred whose Manes were Lion-like thick and curled of nature fierce and cruel and so hateful to Mankind that they abhorred whatsoever was by them handled or breathed upon but because the flesh was pleasant and dainty to the mouth the whole race of them is extinguished It is Admirable the report that is given of this Country as to the plenty of Cattel Fish and Fowl there abiding fish so plentiful that men in some places for delight on Horse-back hunt Salmons with Spears and a certain Fowl which some call Soland-Geese spreading so thick in the Air that they even darken the Suns-light of whose flesh feathers and Oil the Inhabitants in some parts make great use and gain yea and even of fishes brought by them abundant provision for Diet as also of the sticks brought to make their Nests plentiful provision for fewel With these of Wonders might be spoken of the Natures of those two famous Loughs Lomand and Nessa the latter whereof never freezeth in Winter though never so extream and the Waters of the other most raging in the fairest and calmest weather wherein also floteth an Island that removeth from place to place as the wind forceth her spongeous and unfastned body In Buquhan upon the banks of Ratra is a Well whose trickling drops turn in Piramidy wise into hard stone and another near Edenbrough that floteth with Bitumen In Dee and Done besides the admired plenty of Salmons is found a Shell-fish called the Horse-Muscle where Pearls are engendred most precious for Physick and some of them so Orient that they give no place to the choicest The Western Islands lying scattered in the Deucalidonia Sea were anciently ruled by a King of their own whose maintenance was out of their common Coffers and the Regal Authority never continued in lineal succession for to prevent that their Kings were not permitted to have Wives of their own but might by their Laws accompany with other mens as the like Law was in the other parts of Scotland that the Virginity of all new Wives should be the Land-Lords prey till King Malcolme enacted that half a Mark should be paid for Redemption More North lie the Isles of Shetland where as Tzetzes fableth the Souls of good men are ferryed into those Elizian Fields that ever grow green but their fictions intended only that the vertuous Souls of the dead passed the uttermost bounds of earthly abode and attained to an over-pleasing repose and ever flourishing happiness which whether they borrowed from the Description of Paradise taken both for a fair Garden and the Souls happy rest is hard to define Out of the Description of Ireland THe Manners and Customs of the Wild Irish are thus set forth by Strabo The Inhabitants saith he of Ireland are more rude then the Britains they feed upon the flesh of men yea and think it a point of worth to eat their dead Parents wantonly they accompany with Women making no difference of other mens wives their own Sisters nor of their natural Mothers but of these things saith he we have no certain witness of sufficient credit Pomponius Mela recordeth that the Irish are uncivil ignorant of Vertues and void of Religion And Solinus affirmeth that after Victory they drink the bloud of the slain and besmear their own Faces therewith so given to War that the mother at the birth of a man-child feedeth the first meat into her Infants mouth upon the point of her Husbands sword and with heathenish imprecations wisheth that it may dye no otherwise then in War or by sword But from these ancient and barbarous manners we will come to the conditions of their middle time whom Giraldus Cambrensis describeth as followeth The Irish saith he are a strong and bold people Martial and Prodigal in War nimble stout and haughty of heart careless of life but greedy of glory courteous to strangers constant in Love light of belief impatient of injury given to fleshly lusts and in enmity implacable At the baptizing of their Infants their manner was not to dip their right arms into the water that so as they thought they might give a more deep and uncurable blow never calling them by the name of their Parents whilest they lived together but at their death took it upon them Their Women nursed not their Children they bare and they that nursed others did affect and love them much more than their own So much were they given to Fantastical conceits that they held it very ominous to give their Neighbours Fire upon May-day to eat an odd Egg endangered the death of their Horse And before they cast in their seed they sent salt into the field to hang up the shells in the roof was a preservative of the Chickens from the Kite to set up green boughs at their doors in the month of May increased their Kines Milk and to spit upon Cattel they held it good against Witchery whereof Ireland was full Superstitious Idolatry among the Wild Irish was common yielding divine honour unto the Moon after the change unto whom they both bowed their knees and made supplications and with a Loud Voice would thus speak unto that Planet We pray thee leave us in as good Estate as thou foundst us Wolves they did make as their God-sis terming them Chari Christ and so thought themselves preserved from their hurts the hoofs of dead Horses they accounted and held Sacred About childrens necks they hung the beginning of St. Johns Gospel a crooked nail of an Horse shooe or a piece of a wolves-skin and both the sucking Child and Nurse were girt with Girdles finely plated with Womans hair so far they wandred into the ways of errour in making these arms the strength of their healths Their Wives were many by reason of Divorcements and their Maids marryed at twelve years of Age whose Customs were to send to their lovers bracelets plated and curiously wrought of their own hair so far following Venus in the knots of these allurements The men wore Linnen shirts exceedingly large stained with Saffron the sleeves wide and hanging to their knees strait and short Trusses plated thick in the skirts their Breeches close to the thighs a short skeine hanging point down before and a Mantle most times cast over their heads The women wore their hair plated in curious manner hanging down their backs and shoulders from under foulden wreaths of fine Linnen rolled about their heads rather loding the wearer then delighting the beholder for as the one was most seemly so the other