A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand.
- Louis Moréri
- Date:
- 1705
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![IbbitisT Authority always to be taken Upon Trufl, fince we are certain he u not infallible ; for infiance; He tells us Jofephus reports, That at our Saviour s Crucifixion, there was a Choice heard out of the Holy of Holies, Let us remove hence ; when his plain from jofephus that he does not fix this Prodigy at the time of our Saviour s Pafiion, but at the lafl Siege of Jc- rufalem, which happened Forty Tears after. Macer Hiero- lex. Eulcbius De Vita Conftantini, lib. 5. Auguft de Civ. Dei, lib. 18. See Sibylls in Engl. Morery, Vol II. Van Dalen De Oraculis Diftertat. II. * ACT, (of Faith J a Pompous fort of Punifti- inent, being the lad part of the Procefs of the Inquifition in the Church of Rome: ’Twas formerly call’d a general Sermon or Dilcouric upon Faith, where a great many Perlons charg'd with Mifperfuafions in Religion, loine- tiines to the Number of a Hundred or Two Hundred, are forc’d to appear in a foil of a publick Procelfion, Habited in a frightful manner, and condemn’d to leve- ral Pennances, and fometimes to Capital Punilh- ments. Now to m ’ke this A6I of Faith more l'oleinn and frequented, the Inquifitor pitches upon a Sunday or • lome Feftival: And the Day being given out by the Bi- lhop’s or Inquifitor’s Order, all the Parilli Prielts of the City or Place where the Solemnity is kept take occalion after Sermon to tell the People, That in fuch a Church the Inquifitor will make a general Dilcourle upon the Subject of Faith; that all People who go thither w ill have the Benefit of the ulual Indulgence of Forty Days, and that there will be no other Preaching in any other Church m the City upon that Day. Thele Parilh Prielts rake care to give the lame Notice to Religious Houfes, where they commonly have Sermons, acquainting the Superiors, That in regard the Inquifitor will make a general Sermon upon Faith in fuch a Church, that there¬ fore they lhculd omit Preaching in their relpeCtivc Mo- nalteries, and that every Superior llrould fend Four or Two Fryars, as he thinks proper, to be prefent at Sermon, and at the giving of Sentence. Now if any obftinate or relaps’d Heretick is to be deliver’d over to the Civil Magiftratc, the Bifhop and Inquifitor lend word to the BayiifF or Sheriff of the Place, to be ready with his Poffe at inch a Day and Hour, at luch a Place, to receive a certain Here.ick from the Inquifition Court; and that up¬ on the lame Day, or the Morning before, he lhould take care to notify the Execution all the Town over by the publick Cryer. In molt of the Inquifition Courts, efpe- cially in Spain, they have a Cultom to bring Faggots of Brambles to the Stake the Day before the A cl 0) Faith. The Day before the Execution likewile, the Prifoners have their Head and Beards fhaven: And upon the Morning of this Religious Affile, all the Malefactors are drels’d in the Habit of their Procelfion. They have all a Black Veit, with Breeches on down to their Heels, and without any thing either on their Head or Feet, excepting that fometimes notorious Ralcals have a lcan- dalous iort of Miter on, as a Punilhinent for being guilty of falle Witnefs in lome horrid manner. Thole who are convicted of Herely, and penitent for’t, or ftrongly iiilpeCtcd of Herely, have a Monkilh fort of Frock, commonly call’d a Sambenito, ol a Saffron co¬ lour, and with a Red St. Andrews Crofs before and be¬ hind ; the reff, whole Faults are letter, are only in Black; each of them have a fmothered Torch put into their Hands, and a Rope about their Neck: But thofe who are condemned to the Stake have a Samarr on, which I lira 11 deferibe under that Article. Things being thus far carry’d on, the Prifoners are permitted to fit down upon the Ground to expert their farther Doom : Thole %vho are to be burnt are order’d into a neighbour¬ ing Apartment, Confettors being lent to ’em to convert them, and prepare ’em for Death. About Four in the Morning tire Servants of the Inquifition give Bread and Figs to all the Prifoners, and about the Sun-rifing, at the Toll of the Cathedral great Bell, all thofe who under¬ take to lee the Prifoners forth coming at the end of the Procellion meet in the Inquifition Hall. And Matters being thus prepar’d, the Inquifitor feats himtelf near the Gate of the Inquifition, where the Remitter of the Office reads over the Names of their MalefaCfors, beginning fir 11 with thole whole Crimes are final left, and ending with thofe who are charg’d deepeft : And here the Pri¬ foners go out all one by one, each of ’em having an Undertaker, who is their Security that they fhall not flip off in the Procelfion, in which the Dominicans go firft, bccaulc the Head of their Order was the Contriver of the Inquifition j the Colours of the Inquifition are likeivife carry’d fifing., After thefe Fryars, thb Prifo¬ ners follow with their Bayi: ’the idler Criminals have a Crucifix brought after ’em, and when they have gone to the end of their Walk, thofe condemn’d to tile Fire are brought out. Thofe who efcape the Execution of the Stake are abfolv’d with certain Ceremonies, and re¬ concil’d to the Church, having firft been beaten with Rods. The Execution at the Stake being over, thole who are penitent and reconcil’d arc carry’d back to Pri- fon, and the next day, being brotight into the Inquifi¬ tor’s Con fiftory, they are adfoomlh’d’td go carefully through the Pcnnance enjoyn’d them, and lo all lent off to the Place of their refpeCiive Sentences. Thole who are condemn’d to the Galleys are guarded off to the Ci¬ vil Magiftratfes Gaol ; fomc of them are -whipt through the High-ftreets of the Town ; lome are order’d to wear a Sambenito, cither every day, or elle upon Sundays and Holydays. At Goa, thele unhappy Per ions, before they arc releas’d, are inftru&ed in the DoClrine and Ceremo¬ nies of the Church of Rome: After which, they have a Schedule or Paper of the Particularities of their Pcn¬ nance given to ’em ; and here they are all fvhorn to Si¬ lence, never to difeover any thing which they have laid, Icon or heard at Table, or any other Place in the Inquifition. * Ludovicus A'Paramo de Orig. & Prog. Ojficii S. Inquifitionis lib. 1. tit. 2. cap.5. Num. 9, 10, ii. Engl. Morery Vol. I. Article Inquifition. ACIJNA (Chrijhpher de J a Spanifih ]efuit, born at Bourgos in the Year 1597. After having ftudy'd for fomc Years in the Society, he was fent into America to aflift in the Converfion of the Kingdom of Chili and Peru, and was made Profeflor in Pra6tie.il Divinity. He return’d to Spain in 1640, and gave the King his Mailer an Account of the Commilfion he had receiv’d, to exa¬ mine the River of the Amazons: 1 he next Year he publish'd a Relation concerning this River at Madrid. He avas afterwards made Qualificator of the Inquifition, and then let Sail again foTthe W.efir-Indics. He was at Lima when Father Sotuell publish'd his Library ol Je- fuit Authors at Rome in 1675. The Relation ol Acu¬ na is Entituled, Nuevo de Scrubimiento del Gran Rio d‘ las Amazonas. The Author was Ten Months together up¬ on this River, and had Orders to inform hunfelf ex¬ actly which way the King of Spain could make the Na¬ vigation of it eafic and profitable : For this purpolc he Embark’d at Ouito with Peter Texeira in February 1639, not arriving at Para till December following. i is thought, that the Revolution ill Portugal, which made the Spaniards lole Brazil, and the Colony of Para, at the Mouth of the River of the Amazons, w'as the rea- lon why this Jeliiit’s Narrative was lupprefs’d: For now, fince the Spaniards could make no ule on’t, they wrere afraid it ihould fall into the Hands of tire Portu- gueze. This made the Copies To very icarce, that thole w'ho publish'd a French Tranllation of it at Paris gave out, that there were but Two Originals extant. Mon- fieur d'Gomberville turn’d it into' French, tacking a long Diflertation to it: Both Acuna's Relation, and Gomber- ville’s Addition, arc very wrell worth the reading.* Jour¬ nal d'Paris. Hifioire de Chevreau. Boyle DiSlion. Hifior. &c. *A D A, Daughter to Hecatommus, and Sifter of Ar¬ temi fia Queen of Caria, marry’d her own Brother Idrietus, and Reign’d with him in Caria after the Death of Arte¬ mi fia, who Surviv’d her Husband Maufolus. but two Years. Idriaus Reign’d Seven Years, and left no Iflue; His Reli6f, after Four Years Reign, was Dethron’d by Pexodarus, her younger Brother, who, to Support him-' felf in his Ufurpation, made an Alliance with Oromo- bates a Perfian Lord, to whom he marry’d his Daughter. This Ladies Name was Ada too, and her Mother w as Aphnes, Daughter of Synnifis King of Capadocia. Oron- tabates Succeeded his Father-in-Law in the Kingdom a- bout Six Years after his Marriage^ and held out Haltcar- naffus again!! Alexander the Great. The Revolutions which happen’d in Alia about this time prov’d fortunate to Ada ; She beg’d the Protection of this Conqueror a - gainft the Ulurper, put the Town Alinda, lhll in her Pofldfiony into his Hands, and promis’d to do her beft to make him Mailer of a great many more. Alexander us’d her very well, fettled her in her firft Station, and made her Miftrels, of all Caria, after he had Liken the Tow’n Halicarnafjus. She imagin’d that llie liad lliewn her Acknowledgments in no improper way, in making him a Prelent of all forts of Entertainment for his Table, particularly Venifon-Pafties, Sweet-Meats, and other curious Pithes, with the beft Cooks in her Khig- D doat„](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30457750_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
