'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.' [‎170] (211/1024)

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thcv fav Low-Mafs about noon,and then they Confefs and adminifterthe Sacnment;
But generally they ftay ’till Saturday, and then the Communicants after they have
Liv’d, are permitted to eat Fi(h,Eggs, Butter, Cyl, or any thing elfe except Fleft,
Upon Eafter day, by break of day, thePneft fays Low-Mafs,Confeffes, and Adtni n j.
Bers after which it is lawful to eat Fleth. But the^Beafts rouft be kill d upon Rafter,
day- and not fo much as upon Eafter-eve. They have four other Feaftsin the year,
wherein they obferve the fame Ceremony, eating neither Flefh, Ftfh, Eggs, Butter
nor Ovl for eight days: which four Feafts are Cbridmaf,the Afcenfionyhc Annunciating
and St. Georges. Before this laft Feaft they ftretch their devotion to the utmoft, f 0l
feme will faft three days, fome five, one after another.
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Of the ordination of their Priejihood ^ and their Aujleriks.
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Hen a Father defigns his Son to the Priefthood,he carries himtotb
Prieft who puts the Cope,op’n on both fides,about his Shoulders;
after which the Father and Mother take him home again. This
v T Ceremonv is repeated feven times in feveral years, accordingtotht
ve J 0 f the young Child, ’till he come to be of age to fay Mafs. If he be not i,
Wdfnr a Monk but for the Priefthood, after the fourth time of putting on the
ctaLieor op’nCo^they many him, for their Priefts marry once,butif,hat W
dye^ if they intend to marry again, they muft give over faying Mafs. The fix foil
Ceremonies beingover, when the Youth comes to the agb of 18 years,at ivhat lB
thevTre capable of faying Mafs, as well thofe who are defign d for Monks, as to
they are capa y 6 ntoceed to the feventh and laft Ceremony, which
mS be p«fornJd by an Archbiftiop or a Biftiop •, who invefts the young Pried with
all the Habits which the Priefts wear that fay Mafs. That being done, he goes»
*7 riut .r whic i, he is not to depart lor a whole year v during all which
time he is altogether employ’d in the fcrvice of the Church. The Prieft who is mi-
rvThmuft be five days after he has f.id Mafs before he returns home to eat or M
ot lye with his Wife. And as well the Monks as Priefts, when they intend tofjf
Mift again rnuft remain five days in the Church, without either going to bed t
touching any thing with their hands,unlefs it be the Spoon whete^withtky ea j
meat: not daring all the while tofpit or blow their nofes. The next fivedaysita
they have faid Mafs, though fuch days upon which they might oth ^
and Fith, they are oblig’d to feed upon nothing elfe but Eggs wi . f h ’ p y
Rice boyi’d with Water and Salt.The morning before they celebrate Mals.it the
have by chance fwallow’d a drop of Water, he muft not fay Mafs.
Their Aufterities. are fuch,that many of their Bilhops never eat Fldh ft
four times a years but more then that, when they come to be Archb.lho^h
live upon Pulfe. They have fix months and •Free days m a yea
Lent, ot particular Falls, which you pleafe to all them, =nd during all ths^
as well the Ecclefiaftical perfons as the Laity, feed only upon Bread, and ‘
Herbs which grow in their Gardens. There was an Armenian but v«f
ftttion was fo great, that he made his Horfe to faft with him, a ow g
little either to eat or drink for a whole week together. As for P
people, they only feed upon Pulfe, boyl d in Water and Salt: ^ f '^Oyhnaf
Lent, they are permitted no more then others, to eat euher wwbaf-
though they lay a dying,it is not lawful for them to eat Flelh upon thofe d 1 f ,
in that diet is forbidd’n. They may only eat Wall-nuts or Small-nuts, A ; ^
Piftaches, or fome fuch other Fruit that affords no Oyl i an d they h • ^ ^
liberty, to pound them, and put them among their Pulfe or their Ret >
them with Rice.
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