An abridgement of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergile conteignyng the deuisers and firste finders out as well of artes, ministeries, feactes & ciuill ordinaunces, as of rites, and ceremonies, commo[n]ly vsed in the churche: and the originall beginnyng of the same. Co[m]pendiously gathered by Thomas Langley

❧The .x. Chapiter. ¶Who founde the Carpenters craft, and instrumentes of thesame, Vesselles of diuerse measures.

* 1.1OAEDALVS, after the mynde of Plinie, firste inuented the art of Carpentrie, with these instrumentes fo¦lowyng, the Sawe, Chippe axe,* 1.2 and Plū∣line, wherby the euenes of the Squa¦res bee tried whither thei batter or hang ouer, the Augore, or Wymble, and Glewe to ioyne bordes togither. The Squire, the Line, the Shaue, the Pricker or Punche were deuised by Theodor a Samian. Notwithstan∣dyng Ouide writeth, that Talus Dae¦dalus sister sonne inuented bothe the Compasse,* 1.3 & also fashioned the Saw

after the patron of the backe bone of a fishe:* 1.4 or as Diodorus saieth by the exāple of the chawe bone of a serpent he founde also the Shaue, & for suche benefites, as he did shewe & bestowe to the vse and profite of men, he was highly commended:* 1.5 but Daedalus en∣uiyng that a boye beyng but his prē∣tise should excell his master, cast hym doune out of a towre (as Ouide wit∣nesseth) and slewe hym. Pythagoras a Samian diuised also another maner of rule or Squire, then this that wee vse commonly, fitte for all maner of buildynges as Victruuius declareth in the .ix. booke.* 1.6 Penthesilea quene of Amazons is reported to haue found the Axe. Albeit I thinke the inuenciō of this arte is more worthy to bee re∣ferred either to the Hebrues, whiche occupied suche artes afore Daedalus tyme and in specially in makyng of the tabernacle whiche was curiousli wroughte, or els to the Tyrians, that were in that faculty farre aboue the Hebrues.* 1.7 For whiche cause Salomō wrote to the kyng of Tyre for worke men to buylde the temple. Makyng of hollowe vesselles as Barelles or

hoggesheddes Speusippus imagined vesselles of Osiare or wicker as bas∣kettes,* 1.8 hāpers with suche like Ceres did first diuise as Seruius writeth.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Carpentars arte.
• * 1.2

  Sawe. Chippe Axe. Plomlyne. Wymble. Glewe. Squire. Lyne. Shaue.
• * 1.3

  Compasse.
• * 1.4

  How y^e sawe was founde.
• * 1.5

  Dedalus slewe his neuewe for enuie.

  Pythagoras rule.
• * 1.6

  Penthesilia. Axe.
• * 1.7

  Tyrians wer connyng car∣pentars.
• * 1.8

  Barelles. Speusippus Baskettes. Ceres.