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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

and the Residence of the Metropolitan of the Greek Churches in those Parts Bialacerkievia Corsun Constantinow Bar Cirkassi Czehrin Kudack Jampol Braclovia upon the River Bog Winnicza Human Czernihow Pereaslaw Lubnie Pawolocz Chwastow all of them fortified within these Fifty Years besides which there is scarce a Town or Village but what has something like a Fortification or at least a Ditch which was intended and serves them for a Fence against the Incursions of the Tartars The Peasants of the Vkraine Slavery of the Peasant● as well as of several other neighbouring Provinces are absolute Slaves being obliged to work both with their Horses and Hands three or four Days in the Week for their Lords Besides which they are forc'd to allow them a certain Share out of all their Corn and Fruit the Tenth of all their Muttons Swine and Fruits and to carry Wood to their Landlords Houses and to do several other Services But the worst of all was that before the last Wars the Noblemen used to farm out their Revenues here to the Jews who exacted these Services from the Country People with the greatest Rigour imaginable and had also monopolized the Brewing of Beer and Distilling of Aqua vitae This occasioned them to join so frequently with the Cosacks and to dispute so desperately their Liberty against the Nobility who in Consert with the Jews were the Occasion of these many Revolts and forced them at last to seek for an end of their Misery among Foreigners The Cosacks are generally tall strong and well-set Character of the ●os●cks but especially very active they are Liberal even to Profuseness putting no great value upon Riches but are great lovers of their Liberty which they look upon as a thing inestimable they are Indefatigable hardy and brave but great Drunkards and Treacherous Their Employment is Hunting and Fishing besides which they apply themselves both to Agriculture and the War They have also a particular way of making Salt-Petre great Quantities of which are carried to Dantzick and from thence transported chiefly by the Dutch into other Parts The Cosacks have a certain Distemper common with the Poles Plica Polonica by the Physicians called Plica Polonica as being peculiar to that Nation which in their Language they call Goschest Those that are attacqu'd by this Evil lose all upon a sudden the Use of their Limbs and are tortured with most horrible Pains all over their Body which commonly continues for a whole Year after which a Sweat coming which continues for a whole Night but especially in the Head their Hair is the next Morning all twisted together into one knotty Lock which has a very nauseous Smell from whence some attribute the first Use of Hair-Powder to the Poles but in a few days after they are cured both of their Lameness and Pain but the Knot and the Smell remain for ever for if they cut it off the Remnants of the Humour which purges it self that way through the Pores of the Head falls upon the Eyes and makes them blind This Distemper is as familiar in Poland as the Itch in some Countries and what is worse is very Infectious It is sometimes like the Venereal Disease communicated by Coition there having been Instances that Children have brought this Distemper with them into the World but as they grow up it decreases by degrees and never returns afterwards It is look'd upon among them as incurable except it be by changing the Air which must be done by going into another Country The Cause of this Distemper seems to proceed from the great quantity of Arsenical Mines which are in Poland and communicate their poysonous quality to the Waters and consequently to their Body which seems the more probable because abundance of their Horses are troubled with the same Distemper and have such a Knot either in their Manes or foretop of which if there be the least part cut off the Horse either dies runs mad or becomes blind and lame I have been very credibly inform'd that tho' the Poles look upon this Evil as incurable several Foreigners travelling in those Parts have cured it with good Success by the same Method and Remedies which are made use of in the Venereal Distemper which seems sufficiently probable for several Reasons not to be alledged here where our Scope is directed to History and not to Physick The Language of the Cosacks is a Dialect of the Polish Tongue Their Language and R●ligion as the Polish is a Dialect of the Sclavonian But that of the Cosacks is much more smooth and full of Diminutives which render it very agreeable The Cosacks themselves profess the Greek Religion in the same manner as it was established in Muscovy in the Year 942 by Vlodomir or Wolodomir Prince of Russia but the greatest part of the Nobility of the Vkraine are either Roman Catholicks or else Lutherans or Calvinists Within these Hundred and twenty Years the Greek Churches in these Parts as well as in Muscovy acknowledged the Patriarch of Constantinople for their Head But the Grand Dukes of Muscovy having set up a Patriarch of their own chusing the Greek Bishops in these parts not long after to wit in the Year 1595 sent two Deputies to Rome who in the Name of the Greek Churches of Black Russia did represent to the Pope in the Presence of many Cardinals a Confession of Faith conformable to the Council of Trent reserving only to themselves the Liberty of the Ceremonies practised in the Greek Church after its Union with the Latin at the Council of Florence but they did afterwards retract and acknowledged for their Ecclesiastical Head a Metropolitan of their own who for some time resided at Kiovia CHAP. VIII Of the Language Habit Manners and Customs of the Muscovites and of their Marriages Oeconomies and Interrments THE Muscovian Language is a Dialect of the Sclavonian Their Language as well as the Polish so that he who understands either of these two cannot be at any great Loss for the Muscovian The Sclavonian being the Mother-Tongue of a great many Dialects is in great esteem among the Russians their Bible and such few other Books as they have concerning any Sciences being not only writ in the Sclavonian Tongue but also those among the Muscovites who pretend to any Degree of Learning above the rest always affect to make use of some Sclavonian Words in their Writing and Sheech tho' in the Muscovian Dialect which indeed among all the rest comes the nearest to the Sclavonian having not the least Affinity with the Greek except that in their Liturgy there are some Words borrowed from thence which however are not used any where else Their Character is that alone wherein they have any Communion with the Greeks but they have not only much alter'd and transform'd but also considerably augmented them so that their Alphabet consists of Thirty eight Letters in Number which I thought superfluous to insert here since Mr. Ludolph in

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