Volume 2
The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
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- 1733-1739
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Credit: The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Pope’s againft Heretics, 213. by ere&ing a Tribunal; that its Members ffiould be wholly dependant on the Court of Rome: Should be mean and infignifi- cant in outward Appearance, bound by no Ties of Blood, &c. ftiould be hard hearted, &r. ibid. Holy- Ahurfday, its Ceremony ; a Rattle ufed inftead of Bells, 19 Hop carried before Pope Pius II. with great Solemnity, in 1458, in his Journey to Mar.tua, 46. Before A- lexanderVi. Julius ll. Leo X. Clement VII. ibid. Car¬ ried in a prodigious Pomp before Gregory XIII. ibid. The Pope’s High-Treafurer had Bags fix’d on each Side of his Saddle ; throws Money to the People. A Sneer upon the Pope’s Grandeur, 47. How different from the Poverty of Chrift and his Diiviples. Mag¬ nificent Diels of the Pope, 48 Chief Officers of the Pope’s HoujLold. 175. The Major- Domo or Lord High-Steward, ibid. His Functions to fuper-intend the Apoftolical Palace. Matters of the Chamber, chief Cup-Bearer, the Scalco or Officer who fuper-intends thole who bring Meat upon the Pope’s Table, ibid. Piivy-Chamberlains, Matter of the Wardrobe, Chamberlain who diftributes the Agnus Dei: Their Functions. Privy Chaplains, 176. Chap¬ lains of the Guards and Grooms. Palets de Chambres, the Uffiers, Chamberlains without the Walls, ibid. Their Functions. Matter of the Stables, or of the Horfe, call’d Cr.valariz.zo, Harbingers and Deputy Harbingers, Grooms : Their Habits and Office. Other Officers, 177 John Hus, in what Manlier degraded : To make his Punifhment more ignominious, a Paper Mitre is put on his Head, on which three hideous Devils were painted ; then the degrading Prelates devote his Soul to all the Devils in Hell, 87 ] G NO IIANCE of the Priefts, antiently very grofs, ■* lome of them did not understand the Meaning of in nomine Patris, &c. 87. Merry Epigram on this Oc- cafion, N. . Impeachments of the Inquifition, 239. A Perfon impeach d four lèverai Ways. How fummoti d to appear before the Inquifitors. Advice to a Perfon impeach d. . Al- moft impoffible to elude the Search of the Pamiliars. ibid. If a Perfon breaks Prifon. very difficult to efcape out of Spain becaufe of the Hcrmandad, ibid'. A Per¬ fon impeach’d has no Afylum, 24°- Forlorn Condition of a Pei lbn impeach’d. How cruelly feiz’d, ibid. No Per- fon dares make Refiftance. Plow barbaroufly treated when in the Clutches of the Inquifition. The Pri- foner is exactly fearch’d. Several Perfons who have made away with themfelves in Prifon. Inquifitor and and his Officers fearch the Houfe of the Criminal. Every Thing feiz’d. Proi'ecution carried on vattly flow. Priions are dreadful. Dungeons under Ground, and ftink wretchedly ; Way to them frightful^ : Ever Gloomy. Prifoners fee no one ; It they freak to their Fellow-Prilbners, whipt with great Severity, 241. A very odd Invention by which the Perfons aie en¬ abled to hold a flow Converfe, 242. The Priioner is at laft told, he may be admitted to Audience. He appears before the Inquifitors. Quettions put to him. Familiars, how clofe they ftick to a Man’s Heeus, ib. When a Perfon is feiz’d a fecond.Time by the Inqui¬ fitors, 242. How treated. Inquifition vattly magni¬ ficent, tho’the Dungeons lo horrid, 244-. ^ a ^rl‘ loner refufes to take an Oath,' Sentence is immediate¬ ly pronounc’d, fuppofing him not a Chriftian, ibid. If he takes the Oath he is queftioned in numberlefs Circumttances, in order to entrap him. Hitherto lie neither knows his Crime nor his Acculers. Inquifi¬ tors enfnare Prifoners by a Promife of Pardon in cafe they make a Confeffion, ibid The Prifoner charged with many pretended Crimes. Villany of the Inquifi¬ tors, 245. Prifoner has a Counfellor which is only fpecious, he not being allow’d to do him any Service, ib. lie is never told the Names of his Acculers. The unhappy Wretch carried from the Dungeon to Audi¬ ence, and from Audience to Jail for feveral Years. Depofitions againft the Prifoner fltewn him. He may challenge his Witnefics, but muftfirtt guefs them, ibid. Rules obferv’d with regard to Witneffes, pradhfen by no other Tribunal; the horrid Barbarity in this cafe. Impediments of Marriage, viz• 1f- Error. 2d. Condition; 3d. Vows made in any religious Order, 113. On the Clandettine Marriages of Monks and Nuns, ibid Ath. Confanguinity. yh. Crimes. 6th. Difference of Reli¬ gion. pth. Force or Violence. Sth. Order, yth.Ties. loth. Decency. 11 th. Impotency. Some gay Reflec¬ tions cn this Head, ibid. Impotency imputed to Sor¬ cery, 114. A whimfica! Method of fafeinating a mar¬ ried Couple with a Wolf’s Pizzle, QPc. The Charm, how diffolved. Public Trial of a Perfon’s procrea¬ tive Ability : When finful to exercife it, ibid. Some farther Refle&ions on Impotency, 116 Indulgences, to what Pilgrims only granted, 178. Great Efficacy of them. Some Briefs wafli away ail Sins at * the Point of Death, by only pronouncing thrice the Name of Jefits and Mary. If a fick Perfon recovers, he may lend thefe Indulgences to a Friend. Whimfical Particulars on this Occafion, ibid. Inhumanity, Injuftice, and Cruelty of the Inqufition, 257. The Spaniards would give every Thing in the World to be rid of it. A great Happinels to have Religion preferv’d pure and unlpotted ; but there are no Countries where the Inhabitants are more diffolutc, than where the Inquifition is fettled, nor more Hypo¬ crites, ibid. The Inquifition occàfions this Ignorance anti Hypocrify, ibid. Even Kings liable to be prole- cuted by the Inquifitors. Henry III. excommunicated and depoled by Sixtus V. The Inquifition of Capile condemn the laft Will of Charles V. to the Flames. . . ... *5* Injupice committed in the Inquifition with regard to Per¬ fons accufed of Judaifin, from Dellon, 309. A new Chriftian, tho’ fincere, yet, when imprifoned, lofes all his Goods and Chattels. Is call'd to Audience. Quettions ask’d him ; is remanded to his Cell. Again call’d to Audience. Falfly accufed of judaizing. Exhorted to confcfs, and promiled a Pardon, given over to the fecnlar Arm. A Confeffor lent to him. Tortur’d and burnt if he pleads not guilty. If Innocent he mutt plead guilty, otherwife will be pu- nifh’d, ibid. Is order’d to guels at his Acculers, and to reveal his Accomplices. Folly of this. Perplexi¬ ty a Prifoner is under upon this Occafion. He is forced, aS it were, to accufe feveral innocent Perfons, who are often burnt, 310. Prifoners accufe one an¬ other. Injuftice of this. Goods and Chattels of all Prifoners who plead guilty confifcated. Tortur’d in¬ humanly. Prifoners when releafed by the Inquifitors, tho’ treated never fo barbaroufly, are yet obliged to publifh they were ufed with great Humanity, other- wife would be leized and burnt, 311. Multitudes of real Chriftians put to Death upon a falfe Accufatioti of their being Jews, which is plain, from their cal¬ ling upon Ciirilt in their dying Moments. Great In¬ juftice with regard to fuch as are accufed of Magic. Tho’ the King of Portugal allows Liberty of Con- fcience, yet the Inquifitors won’t permit it. In what Manner the Chriftian Religion is hindredfrom fpread- ing, 312. Notwithftanding there is a Jail-Delivery every two or three Years, yet two hundred or more Perfons are tried every Sellions, 313 Pope Innocent VI. publishes a Crufade againft fome Prin¬ ces, 215 Interdict, what, 8S Inquiption, difficult to write upon it impartially, 331. Founded by Perfons of great Sandfciry. Thole who prefide over it Men of Probity. But on the other Side vattly barbarous, ibid. Friars belonging to it af- fume an Authority over Kings and BilKops. A Re¬ flection on this. Founded in a great Meafure on hu¬ man Motives. This Tribunal applauded and con¬ demn’d by different Writers. M. De Limbircb's Book againft the Inquifition, to prove it is founded on Cruelty and Peri'ecution. Particulars of Mr. Lim- borch’s Work, 3 si- Inquifition, dreadful Cruelties of the Inquifition, 204. Inquifitors generally Monks. Formalities and Me¬ thods of Prolecution entirely new. Profecution here extends even beyond the Grave ; to the Afhes ot the Heretic. All natural Duties forbid by the Inquifitors ; a Wife mutt impeach her Husband, a bon his Father, 2°S lnquiptcrs, not inverted with fo much Power originally, Z14. Their Authority how limited a: firft ; after¬ wards enlarg’d; {till more by the Emperor Frede¬ rick. II. An obftinate Heretic order’d to be burnt, ibid In- (](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30457002_0002_0443.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
