'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎91] (130/1024)

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Chap VIII. 0/Monfieur Ta v ern iE r.
In the Eucharift they make ufe ot Meal or Flow’r, kneaded up with Wine and
Oyl: For, fay they, the Body of Chrift being compos’d of the two principal parts,
Flelh and Blood, the Flow’r and the Wine do moft perfedly reprefent them s
behdes, that Chrift athis Supper made ufe of Wine only, and not of Water. They
add Oyl, to figniiie the benefit we receive by his favour of the Sacrament, and to
put us in mind of our Love and Charity towards God and our Neighbour. To
make this Wine, they take Grapes dry’d in the Sun, which they call in their Lan
guage Zebibes, and calling Water upon them, let them fteep for fo long a time.
The fame Wine they ufe for the Confecration of the Cup. They make ufe of
Raifins, in regard they are more eafie to be had than Wines the Perfians, e(pe-
cially the Arabians, under whofe Government they live, not permitting, nor indeed
allowing them the ufe of it. Of all people that follow the Law of Mahomet, there
are nonefo oppofite to other Religions, as thefe Perfians and Arabians about T>al(ara*
The words of their Confecration, are no other than certain long Prayers, which
they make to praife and thank God, at the fame time bleffing the Bread and Wine,
never making mention of his Body and Blood s which they fay is not at all neceffary,
becaufe God knows their , intentions. After all the Ceremonies are ended, the
Prieft takes the Bread, and having eaten fome of it, diftributes the reft to the
People.
As to their Bilhops and Priefts, when any one dyes, who has a Son, they choofc
him in his place s and if he have no Son, they take the next a-kin that is moft
capable and beft inftru^ed in their Religion/ . They that make the Ele&ion, fay
feveral Prayers over him that is ele&ed. If he be aBiftiop, after he is receiv’d, and
that he go about to Ordain others, he ought to faft fix days, during which time
he continually repeats certain Prayers over him that is to be ordain’d Prieft, who
alfb for his part fafts and prays all the faid time. And whereas I fay the Father
fuccedes the Son, it is to be obferv’d, that among the Cbriftians in thofe Parts,
both Bifhops and Priefts marry, as do the reft of the people * only if their firft Wife
dye, they cannot marry another unlefs (he be a Virgin. Moreover, they that are
admitted > to Ecclefiaftical Fundfion, muft be of the race of Biftiops or Priefts *, and
their Mothers muft have been always Virgins when they were marry’d. All their
BHhops and’Priefts wear their Hair long, and a little Crofs wrought with a
Needle.
When there is any Wedding to be, the kindred and perfons invited go toge
ther with the Bridegroom, to the Houfe where the Bride lives. Thither comes
the Bifhop alfo, and approaching the Bride, who is fitting under a Canopy, he
asks her if (he be a Virgin. If (he anfwer that (he is fo, he makes her confirm it
by an Oath. After which he returns to the Guefts, and fends his Wife with foipe
other skilful Women to make an infpedion. If they find her to be a Virgim the
Biftiop’s Wife returns and makes Oath of it y and then they all go to the River,
where the Bkhop re-baptizes the Couple to be marry 5 d. Then they return toward
the Houfe, and making a flop before they come quite near it, the Bridgroom takes
the Bride by the Hand, and leads her feven times from the Company to the Houfe,
the Bilhop following them every time, and reading certain Prayers. After that
they go into the Houfe, and the Bride and Bridegroom place themfelves under the
Canopy, where they fet their Shoulders one againft another, and the Bifhop reads
again, caufingthem to lay their Heads together three times. Then op’ning aBookof
Divination, and looking for the moft fortunate day to confummate the Marriage,
he tells them of it. But if the Biftiop’s Wife do not find the Bride to be a Virgin,
the Bifhop can proceed no farther, fo that if the young Man have (fill a mind, he
muft go to fome meaner Prieft to perform the Ceremony. Which is the reafon
that the people take it for a great difhonour to be marry’d by any other than the
Biftiops i for when a Prieft marries, ’tis an infallible fign that the Bride was no Virgin.
The Priefts alfo, in regard they take it to be a great Sin for a Woman to marry
not being a Virgin, they never marry any fuch but by conftraint, and to avoid
enfuing inconveniencies j for fbmetimes in defpite they will turn Mahometans* The
reafon of the Infpedtion is, that the Husbands may not be deceiv’d, and to keep the
young Girls in awe.
As to what they believe touching the Creation of the World, they fay, that the
Angel Gabriel undertaking to create the World according to the command which
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