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A62155	The history of monastical conventions and military institutions, with a survey of the court of Rome, or, A description of the religious and military orders in Europe, Asia and Africa for above twelve hundred years being a brief account of their institution, confirmation, rules, habits, and manner of living ... together with a survey of the court of Rome &c. in all the great offices and officers ecclesiastical and civil dependant thereon ... with many other things worthy of note according to what has been recorded by candid authors of diverse nations ... / faithfully collected by J.S.	J. S.	1686 (1686)	Wing S66; ESTC R29342	74,584	216

to Children and afterwards promiscuously used by all the Communion till by Pope Julius 340. years after Christ it was forbidden but this Custom again revived Anno 580. but continued not longer it was interdicted by the third Synod of Baracara and so ceased till these Monks Anno 920. revived it In case any desire to be admitted into their Order they are brought to the Monastery and there washed clipped and shaved when as their old Clothes being stripped off they have new Cloathes put on and are thereupon admitted being enjoyned Piety Obedience Chastity Labour and Patience little differing from the Benedictines in their Rules and Orders as witness Peter Cluniacensis Bernard Sebelicus Cassander and others In or about the year 1030. as Sabelicus will have it one Romualdus of Ravenna observing St. Benets Rules not kept up to their Primitive strictness resolved upon erecting a new Order and layd his Foundation in the Field of Camaldulum whence the Monks of his Order took the name of Camaldulenses After this Foundation he erected a Monastery on the top of the Appenine Hills a place there being granted him for that purpose by Modulus who was induced thereto by a Dream representing Ladders reaching to Heaven on which he saw men in White Cloathing mounting upwards fancying he beheld the Ladders on those Hills and that it signified the climbing of devout Christians to Heaven by Faith And the better to fulfill this Vision Romualdus having built his Convent or Monastery gave his Monks White Hoods enjoining them silence unless in time of Divine Service and yet some to keep this Rule of Silence more exactly refuse to join with the rest chusing to pray by themselves Two days in a Week which they account their Fast they subsisted with Bread and Water only sitting bare-footed on the ground About half a mile from this Monastery are Wooden Crosses the boundaries of Women upon strict penalties least they approaching the Monks walks should tempt them to folly Subsequent to these are the Monks of Villa Vmbrosa or Shaddow-Valley called from thence Villasumbrenses and those were instituted by John Gualbert by birth a Florentine Anno 1060. as it is generally held who resolving to renounce the world came to this Valley where he found two Monks and there he builded himself an House of Board and his Pious manner of living soon spread his fame insomuch that not only the Layety flocked to visit him but many likewise of the Clergy And the Lady of that Soil being an Abbotess gave him not only that ground but other large Possessions and by the Monks that flocked to him being made Abbot he enjoyned them St. Benets Rules with additions that they should wear no other Cloaths but what they made of the Wool of such Sheep as should be brought up for their use in those Valleys and that they should burn Lights in the Dormitory and Chappel Nor did he only regard his own but made a reformation in divers Monasteries placing Provosts of his own election over them building divers Religious Places in Lombardy and elsewhere and for that and his pious way of living being Canonized his Order was confirmed by Pope Alexander the Second and Gregory the Seventh And those that would be further satisfied as to this Order may read Surius de vitis Sanctorum Volateran Sebelicus Antonius and others The Sylvestrini so called from Sylvester their Institutor walk much after the Rule and Habit of those Monks of Villa Vmbrosa or Shaddow-Valley taking their beginning in Italy in the Marquisate of Ancona The Grandimontenses according to Tradition were Instituted upon an unknown Voice uttering three times distinctly Grandi-Monte in a great Hall where one Peter then hearing it was advized by it to build a Monastery he being the Disciple and Successor to Stephen who Anno 1076. erected this Order on the Hill Muretum in Gascony and gave Rules little inconsistent with St. Benets though something was added of the Rules observed by the Canons-Regular of St. Austin's Monks and of his Eremites after which he wandred through divers Desarts wearing next his Skin a Coat of Mail his Bed was hard without Straw or Covering his Hands and Knees with often kneeling and bearing on the ground to kiss it were hard as horn This Order had an Abbot set over them by John the Second Bishop of Rome The Order of the Carthusians or Charter-Fryers were instituted by one Bruno and as Tradition goes on the following occasion viz. Bruno a Native of Collen and a Professor of Phylosophy in Paris about the year of Christ 1080. being present at the singing the Office for his Fellow-Professor deceased a man in no mean repute for his holy way of Living The dead Corps by the help of what power is uncertain raised it self upon the Bier and with a lamentable voice cried out I am in God's just Judgment Condemned which words were three several times distinctly repeated at which Bruno was in so great a consternation that if a man reputed so pious was lost what would become of Him and his Fellows the terror of which wrought so far in his mind that he concluded that there could be no safer way to prevent the like doom than by forsaking the world whereupon with six of his Fellows or Disciples he betook himself to a dark place overshadowed with Woods high Hills and Rocks inhabited before only by wild Beasts which he found out in the Province of Dolphini that place being called Carthusia from whence his Monks took their Denomination and there obtaining ground of Hugo Bishop of Grenoble they built a poor Monastery which Bishop afterward beholding their pious manner of Life became one of their Order By their Rules they should wear Sackcloth or a Hair-shirt next their Skin and over it a long loose White Cloth Coat and when they walk abroad a Hood and a Black Cloak over that and that the Lay Brothers wear a snort Coat reaching but to their Knees As for flesh by their Rule they eat none at all nor any fish unless given them their Bread is a great part Bran and their Drink Wine mingled with Water On Sunday and the fifth day of the Week Cheese and Eggs are their only fare on the third Pulse or Pot-hearbs on the second fourth and sixth they subsist on Bread and Water They eat but once a day and that apart every one preparing what he eats unless on Festival days and then they eat twice a day sitting all together at a Table and then they may talk together but at other times are enjoyned to keep silence every one being accommodated with a peculiar Cell in which he Reads Prayes and Meditates sometimes writing Books c. observing the Canonical hour but their Vespers and Mattins they keep in their Churches whence Women are excluded On the Saints days and Festival days they hear Mass nor go they abroad unless the Prior and Procurator and they not unless some urgent affairs require it relating to the

being a man of great Learning and Eminent for an Exemplary Life They wore Hoods and Girdles went with Staves and Scrips of Goat-Skins and some again especially those in Egypt wore no Shoes they served one another by turns and knew their places humbling themselves by washing each others Feet ever most devoutly observing the Sixth Ninth and Third hour for Prayer Nor were they admitted till they had given Ten days attendance without the Gate and patiently suffered the Indignities and Reproaches of the Gentiles then the Abbot read them a Lecture of Humility Patience Obedience Sobriety Submission Mortification Self-denial and Confession of their Infirmities then they received the Habit and remained a whole year under the strictest Discipline And if a dislike in that space hapned on either side they had free leave to take the Cloaths they brought and depart No Offences were connived at but on the contrary punished with publick Humiliation the offender after having acknowledged his Transgression lying flat on the ground till the Abbot commanded him to rise this was the punishment of small Offences but for greater greater punishments were awarded as Stripes and Expulsion At the Table to be taken off from idle Talk and vain Imaginations they were to attend to such portions of Scripture as were appointed to be read that so their minds might be fed as well as their Bodies The subjection of those Primitive Monasterys was in chief to the Bishop of the Diocess wherein they were scituate nor could they go abroad or any exceed their bounds without his leave And thus they lived in a happy contented estate despising worldly vanities in expectation of being rewarded in the world to come with lasting Joys which this cannot afford CHAP. III. A Discourse of the Institution of Nuns and their Monasteries what they Profess and how Received The Manner of Consecration of Monks and Nuns in the Primitive times and how they were Received THat Women were no less devout than Men in the Primitive Times it is wonderfully apparent not only in Holy Writ but in the writing of the Fathers Nor amongst others can we be ignorant of the memories of Eustochium Marcella Sophronia Principia and Paula who vowing Chastity and a contempt of worldly things betook themselves to a retired Life and in hopes to gain an immortal weight of Glory left their Parents Riches and large Possessions though in those times they were not kept to strictness but might return if they saw convenient but most of them being ravished with the contemplation of Holy Things Renounced all Converse unless with such as were their Companions and still imployed themselves in Holy Duties and Works of Compassion and Charity The first Nunnerys we find in the Writings of the Fathers that could be termed a Settlement for Religious Women were founded in the Reign of Constantine the Great when God gave his Church peace For in the storm of Persecution the Condition of the Christians was uncertain their places of Religious Worship obscure and remote from Cities and Towns nay in Caves and Desarts as I have already spoken And Religious Women for fear of being ravished in despite by the enemies of the Gospel rarely made a publick Profession of Chastity But when they found they might do it with safeguard of their Honour they made it their Glory and though born of Noble Parentage they applyed themselves in their recluses and retirements to study Modesty Frugality Patience Obedience Submission Silence and were enjoyned to go plain and neat in apparel not to converse with men nor to walk alone not to Bathe unless their Feet and Hands to Pray and Fast often to wash poor Peoples Feet in token of Humility not to be idle but rather Sing Pray Read hear or perform some curious Work with the Nedle or otherwise They were prohibited shaving by the Council of Gangra Can. 17. Though some of the Nuns in Egypt did cut their Hair And in the Reign of Jovinian because the lustful Donatists defloured divers Nuns it was made Capital for any man to marry or solicit a Nun and such married Couples were excommunicated by the Church had perpetual Imprisonment or were put to Death by the Civil Magistrate and the Marriage absolutely disanulled As for the Consecration of Monks in the Primitive Times the Monk after Prayers and Exhortation made by the Priest was signed with the Sign of the Cross and his Hair Cut or Shaven and being stripped the Monastical Habit put upon him and with other holy Men present was made partaker of the Divine Mysteries As for Nuns they were usually Consecrated by the Bishop or Priest who covered them with a Veil the Abbess or Abbotess upon pain of Excommunication not daring to attempt it Twenty five years of age were the years of Discretion then held for a Virgin to be Veiled but now Twelve is accounted a sufficient number The days for receiving the Veil and Consecration were Epiphany and Easter Eve or the Festival Days of the Apostles unless in case of death and then the Virgin to be Consecrated was usually presented to the Bishop in her Nuns Attire standing at the Altar with Musique and burning Tapers when putting on the Veil he used to express these words viz. Behold Daughter and forget thy People and thy Fathers House that the King may take pleasure in thy Beauty to which the people saying Amen the Veil is cast over her and the Religious Women and Virgins present Kiss and Embrace her after which the Bishop blessing her and praying for her she departs to her place to be instructed by her Seniors in good Works And thus much may suffice as to the Primitive Times c. Primitive we may call them because Christianity was then in a manner in its Infancy and the splendor of the Visible Church though in Devotion great was not so Apparent or Conspicuous as it afterward was by its increase of Riches Power and the multiplying of Religious Orders Wherefore to come nearer to our times I shall in the next place give you an account of the Original and Progress of the Benedictine Monks or Monks of the Order of St. Benedict or Benet and what other Orders sprung from them c. CHAP. IV. A View of the Order of the Benedictine Monks their Institution and manner of Living and Habit The Rules enjoyned them by St. Benet and the Council of Aquisgran or Aix with what relates to the Nuns of that Order and what to their Superiors c. BEnedict or Benet being born in Vmbra a Province or Country in Italy gave himself much to the Contemplation of Holy Things and not having such opportunity as he desired in popular places by reason of the continual Wars and Tumults he withdrew himself into the Desarts where he remained not so secretly but he was found out and followed by multitudes of people which made him leave his Solitude and go to Cassinium an ancient Town and there it was he prescribed Laws or Rules

and Odors after which the Penitentiaries put on him his ordinary Cloathing and over them the Vestments he was wont to celebrate Mass in and so lay him upon a Bier covered with Cloath of Gold on which are the Popes the Churches Arms under his Head they put a Pillow of the the same and two under his Feet and on them two Pontifical Hats and thus if he dies in the Night is it watched till the Morning by the Penitentiaries singing about it and then by them carried to the great Chappel the Sub-Deacons carrying the Cross before it and the Gentlemen of the Chappel sing Subvenite c. Whilst his Esquires bear many lighted Torches as his Family following and being in the Chappel the Penitentiaries sing Vespers and Vigils until the approach of the other Religious Orders After some time the Colledge of the Clergy and Convents of Friers come and singing Vigils sprinkle the Corps with Holy Water and cense it Then with many Torches before him is he carried to St. Peter's Church and there placed in the midst of it He remains two days that the People may see him and kiss his Hand Then is he carried again to the Chappel in the Night time and buried whilst great preparations are made to solemnize his Funeral In the Church a Hearse hung round with his Arms is erected Illuminated with Wax-Tapers Then the Messengers of the Roman Court give notice of the Day of Obsequies to all the Cardinals Prelates Ambassadors Officers c. and the Morrow following the Cardinals repair thither in their Mourning and take their places on Seats prepared for that purpose near the high Altar and so the rest as they are in Office and Dignity as well Prelates as inferiour Servants all in Mourning the latter placing themselves about the Herse Then the Celebration of the Obsequies is entered upon after the Funeral manner of the Roman Church On the first Day two hundred Masses are said and Alms bountifully distributed to Men and Women of several Religious Orders and a sermon in commendation of him is made and so continue to officiate till the ninth day on which an equal number of Masses with the first day are said and an exhortatory Sermon to encourage them to the Election of a new Bishop preached and so ends that Ceremony As soon as the Pope is dead the Cardinals send their Dispatches by the Consent of their Colledge to the several Princes Prelates and such as are dependant on the Roman See to signifie it useing the Apostolical Stile in calling the Princes Sons and the Prelates Brethren Also the Vice Chancellor upon the Death of the Pope takes away the Bulls wherewith the Apostolical Letters were Sealed from the Keepers and rases out the Pope's Name rendring it unfit for Sealing and redelivers the other part in a Linnen Bag taking great Care that no Letters pass in the Pope's Name after his Decease And thus much Reader have we thought fit to set down the which tho be so unhappy as not to prove beneficial to the Curious in letting them know what before they might be ignorant of yet at least it cannot prejudice or offend the impartial and unbiassed of the Age. 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