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A37219	A memorial for the learned, or, Miscellany of choice collections from most eminent authors in history, philosophy, physick, and heraldry / by J.D., Gent.	J. D., Gent.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1686 (1686)	Wing D38; ESTC R18713	93,900	252

Food or drink Wine or strong Drink immoderately or fast much or be given to much musing all which draw Vapours to the Head it endangereth the Child to become Lunatick or of imperfect Memory And I make the same Judgement of Tobacco often taken by the Mother It is reported That the Heart of any 978. Of helping Courage and Ingenuity bold Animal worn near the Heart comforteth the Heart and increaseth Audacity As also the Heart of any witty Beast worn near the Head helpeth the Wit of which Beasts the chief are The Ape Fox Lion and the Cock with several others Take a piece of Lard with the Skin on 997. Exper. How infallibly to take away Warts and rub the Warts all over with the Fat-side then nail the piece of Lard any where with the Fat towards the Sun full South and they will certainly wear away in a short time AN EPITOME OF VULGAR ERRORS CHAP. I. Of the Causes of Common Errors THE first and Father-cause of Common Error is the common Infirmity of humane Nature which may well be excused in us by the depravity of those Parts whose Traductions were pure in our first Parents who committed the first and greatest Error Yea his Error is so much the greater in that he is supposed by some to have been the wisest Man that ever was and as others have conceived he was not ignorant of the Fall of the Angels and had thereby Example and Punishment to deter him But Man was not only deceivable in his Integrity but the Angels of Light in all their Clarity He that said he would be like the Highest did err if in some way he conceived himself so already whereby vainly attempting not only Insolencies but Impossibilities he deceived himself as low as Hell In brief there is nothing infallible but God who cannot possibly err CHAP. II. A further Illustration of the same BEing thus deluded before the Fall it is no wonder if their Conceptions were deceitful and could scarce speak without an Error after For what is very remarkable and what few have as yet observed in the Relations of Scripture before the Flood there is but one Speech delivered by Man wherein there is not an erroneous Conception the Pen of Moses having recorded but six The first that of Adam when upon the Expostulation of God he replied I heard thy Voice in the Garden and because I was naked I hid my self In which Reply there is a capital Error in infringing the Omnisciency and essential Ubiquity of his Maker who as he created all things so is he beyond and in them all The second is that Speech of Adam unto God The Woman whom thou gavest me to be with me she gave me of the Tree and I did eat Wherein there is involved a very impious Error in accusing his Maker of his Transgression as if he had said If thou hadst not given me a Woman I had not been deceived The third was that of Eve The Serpent beguiled me and I did eat In which Reply there is an erroneous translating her Offence upon another to excuse the Fact much more upon the suggestion of a Beast which was before in the strictest terms prohibited by her God The fourth was that Speech of Cain upon the demand of God Where is thy Brother and he said I know not In which Negation beside the open Impudence there was implied a notable Error for returning a Lye unto his Maker and denying the Omnisciency of God The Answer of Satan in the case of Job had more of Truth Wisdom and Reverence than this Whence comest thou Satan and he said From compass●●g the Earth The fifth is another Reply of Cain upon the denouncement of his Curse My Iniqiry is greater than can be forgiven The Assertion was not only desperate but the Conceit erroneous overthrowing that glorious Attribute of God his Mercy and conceiving the sin of Murder impardonable The last Speech was that of Lamech I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt If Cain he avenged seven-fold truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold Now herein there seems to be a very erroneous Illation concluding a regular Protection from a single example he despaired of God's mercy in the same Fact where this presumed it though the sin was less the error was as great Thus may we perceive how weakly our Fathers did err before the Flood how continually and upon common discourse they fell upon Errors after it is therefore no wonder we have been erroneous ever since CHAP. III. Of the second Cause of popular Errors the erroneous disposition of the People HAving thus declared the infallible Nature of Man even from his first Production we have beheld the general Cause of Error But as for popular Errors they are more nearly founded upon an erroneous Inclination of the People the sensitive quality most prevailing upon vulgar Capacities Thus they conceive the Earth to be far bigger than the Sun the fixed Stars lesser than the Moon their Figures plain and their Spaces from the Earth equi-distant for thus their Sense informeth them And their individual Imperfections being great they are moreover enlarged by their Aggregation and being erroneous in their single Numbers once hudled together they will be Error it self By this means Thudas an Impostor was able to lead away 4000 in the Wilderness and the Delusions of Mahomet almost a fourth part of Mankind Now how far they may be kept in Ignorance there is a great example in the People of Rome who never knew the true and proper Name of their own City for beside that common Appellation received by the Citizens it had a proper and secret Name concealed from them lest the Name thereof being discovered unto their Enemies their Penates and patronal Gods might be called forth by Charms and Incantations For according to the Tradition of Magicians the tutelary Spirits will not remove at common Appellations but at the proper Names of things whereunto they are Protectors CHAP. IV. Of the nearer and more immediate Causes of popular Errors both in wiser and common sort Misapprehension Fallacy or false Deduction Credulity Supinity Adherence unto Antiquity Tradition and Authority THE first is a Mistake or a Mis-conception of things either in their first Apprehensions or secondary Relations So Eve mistook the Commandment either from the immediate Injunction of God or the secondary Relation of her Husband Thus began the Conceit of Centaurs in the mistake of first Beholders as is declared by Servius When some young Thessalians on Horse-back were beheld afar off while their Horses watered they were conceived by the first Spectators to be but one Animal and answerable hereunto have their Pictures been drawn ever since Next there is the Fallacy of Equivocation and Amphibology which conclude from the ambiguity of one Word or the ambiguous Syntaxis of many put together By this way many Errors crept in and perverted the Doctrine of Pythagoras whilst men received his

ever shall strictly examine both Extreams will easily perceive there is not only Obscurity in its end but its beginning that as its Period is inscrutable so is its Nativity indeterminable For first The Histories of the Gentiles afford us slender Satisfaction for some thereof and those the wisest amongst them are so far from determining its beginning that they opine and maintain it never had any at all as Epicurus and Aristotle declare Thus the Heathens afford us no satisfaction herein for the Account of their ancientest Records arise no higher than 95 years after the Flood Now what is delivered in holy Scripture is most likely to manifest the truth and what is set down in the sacred Chronology of Moses who distinctly sets down this Account But amongst the Christians this Account hath received many Interpretations and many have differed much herein But that which agreeth to most learned Men and most inquisitive herein is wherein ours was 1645 it is from the year of the World 7154 which Account they reckon by at Constantinople and by the Muscovite and many more Thus seeing the wide Dissent of mens Opinions the Hebrews not only dissenting from the Samaritans the Latins from the Greeks but every one from another Insomuch that all can be in the right it is impossible that any one is so not with assurance determinable The End of the Sixth Book The Seventh Book Concerning many Historical Tenents generally received and some deduced from the History of holy Scripture CHAP. I. Of the forbidden Fruit. THAT the forbidden Fruit of Paradise was an Apple is commonly believed and confirmed by Tradition and some from thence have derived the Latin word Malum because that Fruit was the first occasion of Evil wherein notwithstanding Determinations are presumptuous and many are of another belief for some have conceived it a Vine others a Fig. Again Some Fruits pass under the Name of Adam's Apples which in common acceptation admit not that Appellation described by Mathiolus to be a very fair Fruit and not unlike a Citron but somewhat rougher chopt and cranied vulgarly conceived the Marks of Adam's Teeth But yet we cannot from hence infer they were this Fruit in question no more than Arbor Vitae so called to obtain its Name from the Tree of Life in Paradise or Arbor Judae to be the fame which supplied the Gibbet unto Judas Again There is no Determination in the Text wherein is only particularized that it was the Fruit of a Tree good for Food and pleasant unto the Eye in which regards many excel the Apple and therefore learned Men do wisely conceive it inexplicable and Philo puts Determination unto Despair when he affirmeth the same kind of Fruit was never produced since Now the Ground or Reason that occasioned this expression by an Apple might be the Community of this Fruit and which is often taken for any other And to speak strictly in this Appellation they placed it more safely than any other for beside the great variety of Apples the word in Greek comprehendeth Oranges Lemmons Citrons Quinces and as Ruellius defineth 〈◊〉 Fruits as have no Stone within and a soft Covering without Since therefore after this Fruit Curiosity 〈◊〉 enquireth we shall surcease our Inquisition rather troubled that it was tasted than troubling our selves in its Decision Here many likewise strive to 〈◊〉 the species of the Serpent that deceived but to the same purpose CHAP. II. That a Man hath one Rib less than a Woman THAT a Man hath one Rib less than a Woman is a common Conceit derived from Genesis wherein it stands delivered that Eve was framed out of the Rib of Adam But this will not consist with Reason or Inspection for if we survey the Skeleton of both Sexes and therein the Compage of Bones we shall readily discover that Men and Women have 24 Ribs that is 12 on each side 7 greater annexed unto the Sternon and 〈◊〉 lesser which come short thereof CHAP. III. Of the Death of Aristotle THAT Aristotle drowned himself in Euripus as despairing to resolve the cause of its Reciprocation or Ebb and Flow 7 times a day with this Determination Si quidem ego non capio te tu capies me was the Assertion of learned Authors and is generally believed among us Now an Euripus is any Strait Fret or Channel of the Sea running between two Shores But to pass this over Diogenes Laertius tells us That being accused of Impiety he withdrew into Chalcis where drinking Poyson he died And Apollodorus That he died there of a natural Death in his 63d or great Climacterical year It is likewise false what is said of this Euripus of its Ebb and Flow 7 times a day for as we have it from very good Evidence it ebbeth and floweth by 6 hours as it doth at Venice Primus sapientiae gradus est falsa intelligere AN ABRIDGMENT OF HONOUR Priviledges due to Gentility FROM the word Gentil-homme or Gentleman unde Gentil-hombre which we received from the French for till the Normans we had it not we made out this word Gentleman which was before called Aedel But this word Generosus hath been in use Generosus amongst us but since the Time of Henry the Eighth since when it hath been constantly used for a Gentleman of what sort soever if he had no Title above it Some of the Priviledges to Gentlemen are these 1. In Crimes of equal Constitution His Punishment provided not capital a Gentleman shall be punished with more favour than a common Person 2. In giving Evidence he hath much Evidence the precedence as also in Elections by Vote 3. The Clow●● may not challenge a Combat Gentleman to Combat quia conditione impares Many others there he but it would be too tedious to insert them I refer the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sir John Fern his Glory of Generosi●● To the making of which Gentleman A compleat Gentleman perfect in his Blood was required a lineal descent of the part of his Fathers side from Atavus Abavus Proavus Avus and Pater And as much on the Mothers Line then he is not only a Gentleman of Blood perfect but of Ancestors too Of the Esquire THE division of these Dignities of Honour Titles of Honour by the addition of a Knight-Baronet is into 13 parts The first 5 only Noble as the Gentleman Esquire Knight-Batchelor Knight-Banneret and Knight-Baronet The other 8 Princely and are allowed Coronets as the Baron Viscount Earl Marquess Duke Prince King and Emperor The Esquire or Escuyer 〈◊〉 called in 〈◊〉 The Esquire Armiger but more anciently Scaliger 〈◊〉 the Office of bearing a Shield as 〈◊〉 upon a Knight and were 〈◊〉 ordinis Candidati in the Field Of these there are 4 sorts By 〈◊〉 by Birth by Dignity and by Office The Esquire by Creation are the Heralds By Creation and Serjeants at Arms and are sometimes made by Patent The King gives them a silver Spur from whence they