The nauigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay Daulphinois, Lord of Arfeuile, chamberlaine and geographer ordinarie to the King of Fraunce conteining sundry singularities which the author hath there seene and obserued: deuided into foure bookes, with threescore figures, naturally set forth as well of men as women, according to the diuersitie of nations, their port, intreatie, apparrell, lawes, religion and maner of liuing, aswel in time of warre as peace: with diuers faire and memorable histories, happened in our time. Translated out of the French by T. Washington the younger.
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The nauigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay Daulphinois, Lord of Arfeuile, chamberlaine and geographer ordinarie to the King of Fraunce conteining sundry singularities which the author hath there seene and obserued: deuided into foure bookes, with threescore figures, naturally set forth as well of men as women, according to the diuersitie of nations, their port, intreatie, apparrell, lawes, religion and maner of liuing, aswel in time of warre as peace: with diuers faire and memorable histories, happened in our time. Translated out of the French by T. Washington the younger.
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Nicolay, Nicolas de, 1517-1583.
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Imprinted at London :: [At the cost of John Stell] by Thomas Dawson,
1585.
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"The nauigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay Daulphinois, Lord of Arfeuile, chamberlaine and geographer ordinarie to the King of Fraunce conteining sundry singularities which the author hath there seene and obserued: deuided into foure bookes, with threescore figures, naturally set forth as well of men as women, according to the diuersitie of nations, their port, intreatie, apparrell, lawes, religion and maner of liuing, aswel in time of warre as peace: with diuers faire and memorable histories, happened in our time. Translated out of the French by T. Washington the younger." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08239.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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The religion and maner of liuing of the an∣cient Armenians.
Chap. 18.
IN times past, the Armenians in theire lawes, customes & ma∣ner of liuing, did not much differ from the Medians, nor like∣wise in theire religion, wherin the most parte followed the er∣rour of the Persians, neuerthelesse the Persians worshippe one Goddesse onely called Tanais, vnto whom they builded in sun∣drie places, diuers temples, and dedicated vnto them not one∣ly their menne and woman seruants, but likewise their owne daughters of the most noble houses: their lawe being such as constrained them too put them foorth publikelye, and a long time vnto all commers, before they might be marryed, & there was none that for this matter woulde refuse too take them in marriage, which to contract, they dyd as followeth. The bride grome did cut of the tip of the right eare of the bride, and the bride of the left eare of her husband, & by this mutuall con∣sentment without any other ceremonie, was the marriage con¦tracted and obserued betweene them, and published to all the worlde. But when they would vowe any great & solemne oth,
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they tooke of the blood of their right eare, & so drunk it with wine, as is written in the nienth booke of Valerius Maximus. Iosephus in his first booke of the antiquitie of the Iewes, wri∣teth, that Otree the sonne of Aram, was he which first gaue the lawe and maner of liuing vnto the Armenians.