Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

Of Armenia. chap. 5.

ARmenia hath the name of Armenus, the companion of Iason of Thessali, y^e which whē he had left king Iason, he ga∣thered together the folke y^t were sparpled abroad & tooke Armenia, & called it after his owne name, as Isi. saith li. 15. This is the land of Ararath, into y^e which Senna∣cheribs sons fled when they had flame him in his praiers in y^e temple of his own God, as the story telleth li. P••e.pri. And y^e mount, vpon the which Noes ship rested after the floud, is called Ararath: and this Armenie is set betwéene mount Taurus & caucasi, & stretcheth frō Capadocia, to y^e sea Caspium. And hath on y^e North side y^e Mountains Ceraunos, of y^e which y^e ri∣uer Tigris ariseth, as Isi. saith. There is two Armenias, y^e ouer & the neather. And ther is two Pannonia, & in either of them is oft found wōders, & things wōderfully shapen: But there, wher y^e land of Arme∣nie toucheth y^e brinks & brime, of Tigris & of Eufrates, it is most fruitful w^t herbs, corne, woods, & fruit. But it is full of di∣uers kinds of wild beasts and cruell, and

Serpents and Adders, as Isidore say∣eth. And Plinius speaketh much heereof libro. 2.

(* 1.1Armenia, the name of two Regi∣ons. Maior and Minor•• Armenia maior hath on the North, Colehis, Iberia, and Albania on the West parte Capadocia: on the East part of the Hircan sea: on the South Mesopotamia: & the moun∣taine Taurus, Armenia minor hath on the North and West part CAPPADUCIA, on the East, the noble riuer Euphra∣tes, and Armenia minor, on the South parte the mountaine Taurus. The Ar∣menians were christened of late yeares, but now they be subiect to the Turkes, Latines, and Grecians: They haue one great Bishoppe, whom they call Catho∣licum, they kéepe holy neyther the Na∣tiuitie of Christ, nor his Baptisme, say∣eng, hee néeded not to be purged nor clen∣sed of sinne. Also they take from all Sa∣craments the vertue to conferre grace: They est-soones baptise those that 〈…〉〈…〉•• from the church of the Latines to them, sayeng, that they bée not of the Catho∣lyke sayth. They say that no man may bée christened, vnlesse he receiue the Sa∣crament of the Altar, and that infants néede not to be baptised, affirming that in them is no originall sinne: That the holy Ghost proceedeth of the Father, and not of the Sonne. That the Sacrament of the Altar maye not bee consecrate of bread cleane without leauen. Also in the consecration they put no water to wine: Moreouer, they saye that the receiuing of the Sacrament profiteth onelye the bo∣dye: That when Christ descended into hell, he led with him all the soules y^t were there: That matrimony is no Sacramēt, and may be dissolued at the will of the man or woman: That Christ did rise the Saterdaye after good Fridaye: all these are saide to be their opinions, & are condemned as errours by sundrye coun∣sells.)

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