Several papers given forth the heads of which are contained in the following table / by George Fox.

Severall Queries to know who were the first setters up of many In∣ventions and practices that are now used.

WHo was the first Man or the first Councell, or King or Pope, that set up Colledges and Universities to make Ministers, and in what year?

Who was the first Pope or King, that set up Tythes or Gleab-lands, and Ester-reckonings, and Midsummer-dues, and mortuaries, and in what year?

Who was the first King or Counsell, or Queen, that set up all these Holy-dayes, as Candlemas, Michelmas, Christ∣mas,

and Lammas, Peters day, Maries day, and All-Saints day, &c. Who was the first that set up these things, and all other holy dayes which is set down in the Almanack, who was the first that set up these things, and in what year were they set up, and where lived he that was the Author of them.

Who was the first Pope, King or Queen that set up the Steeple-house and Chancels, and Vesteries, and what was his name, and where lived he, and in what year were they set up, that they were turned to be a Church?

Who was the first Man, King or Queen, that set up Preaching by an hour-glasse, and in what year?

Who was the first Pope, King or Queen, that set up the Surplace, and that their Ministers should go in black Coats, and in what year?

Who was the first Man, King or Queen, that set up preaching by an hour-glasse, and in what year?

Who was the first Man, Pope, King, or Queen, that set up Preaching over the dead, and funerall Sermons for ten shillings more or lesse as they can get it, and in what year?

Who was the first Man, King, Queen, or Bishop, that gave the names to the old Masse-house, which ye call a Church, to be a Temple, or a Church, and in what year?

Who was the first Man, King, Queen or Bishop, that first set up swearing among Christians, and in what year?

Who was the first Man, King, Queen, or Bishop, that set up doffing of Hats, and in what year?

Who was the first King, Queen, Bishop, or Pope, that said men should pray with two Caps, and with their Hats off of their head, and then their heads not covered when the Hat was of, and in what year?

Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that first set up sprinkling of infants, and in what year?

Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that first set up singing of Davids Psalmes in meeter, and in what year?

Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that men∣tioned

these several orders in their Universities, as Chan∣cellor, and vice Chancellor, Doctors of Divinity, and Bachelors of Divinity, Doctors of Physick, Masters of Art, and Bachelors of Art, &c. and in what year?

Who was the first Man, Pope, or Bishop, that gave the names of Doctors, and Masters, and Bachelors, seeing we do not read Master Paul, Master Peter, nor Doctor Paul, Doctor Peter, &c?

Who was the first King, Bishop, Pope, that set up the seven Arts, and Sciences, as Grammar, Logick, &c.

Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that set up Hebrew, Greek, and Latin to be the Originall, and in what year?

Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that set up Images and Pictures, and that men should bow down to them, and in what year?

Who was the first Man, Pope, King, or Queen, that set up the Crosses, and ordained them which now are set up in the Steeple-houses, Flags, Ships, Money, Maces, Seals, and other things, and in your Markets, and in what year?

Who was the first Bishop, King, or Queen, that set up Clerks to say Amen, and turning the Hour-glasse, and hanging the Pulpit, and in what year?

Who was the first Bishop, Pope, King, or Queen, that set up the seven Sacraments, and after that the two Sacra∣ments, and who gave that name Sacrament, and in what year?

Who was the first Bishop, King, Queen or Pope, that set up Bells, and Chimes, and ringing of Bells in their severall orders, and Christening of their Bells, and hol∣lowing their ground, and making it holier then another place, who was the first Author of these things, and in what year.

Who was the first Pope, King, Bishop, that set up Railes, Altars, Fonts, Holy water, and kneeling at Altars and Sacraments, and in what year

Who was the first Pope or Bishop that said every knee should bow, when Jesus was named, he doth not say that

every knee shall bow when his name is named, but at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow; there is a difference, to bow at the Name, and to bow when he is named.

Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, that set up Augmentations, or Stipends, and in what year?

Who was the first King, Queen, Bishop, or Pope, that set up, that men should be seven years, or fourteen years more or lesse at the Universities before they should be Mi∣nisters, or Doctors of Divinity, or whether or no these have not been all since the dayes of the Apostles, and who was the first setter up of these things, and in what year?

And who was the first setter up of Masse and Common-prayer book, and in what year?

And who was the first setter up of Nunneries, and all the Tribes that is among the Papists, as, white Fryers, black Fryers, gray Fryers, and all their orders, &c. And in what year were they set up, and who was the setter up of the first day to be the Sabboth day, and in what year?

And who was the first setter up and giver of all these names that the dayes of the week are called by, as Sunday, and Munday, and Teusday, and Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday, and Satterday, and in what year were they set up?

And who was the first setter up that men should read so many Chapters, and then sing a Psalm, and then Pray, and then take a Text, and then Preach, who was the first set∣ter up of this manner of doing, and in what year?

And who was the first setter up of all these Parish-Teach∣ers, and Parishes, and giving them the names of Vicars, and Curates, and Priests and Clerks, &c?

And who was the setter up that the Pope, King or Queen, should have the tenth of the Tenths, or the tythe of the Tythes, and in what year were they first set up?

And who was the first setter up that men should wear gold and costly aray, and Feathers, and all this costly at∣tire, seeing the Apostle saith, not wearing of gold nor cost∣ly apparel, therefore who is the first Author of these things since the dayes of the Apostles among the Christians?

And who was the first setter up of Organs, and of paint∣ing of windows, and in what year?

Who was the first Bishop, Pope, King or Queen that set up Churching of women for money, and marying for money, and in what year?

Who was the first setter up of all these playes, May-games and cards at Christmas, and in what year?

And who was the first that said the Scriptures is the Word of God, seeing the Scriptures sayes, God is the Word; and who was the first that said, Hebrew, Greek and Latin, is the Original, and the four Books, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John the Gospel, who was the first setter up of all these and in what year?

And who was the first King Bishop or Queen, that was the first that began to persecute for Religion sake a∣mong the Christians, and who was the first Christian that persecuted, seeing the Apostles said, they warred not with flesh and blood, their weapons were Spiritual?

And who was the first that began to persecute men about their Church, about their Ministry, about the Prophets, Apostles, and Christs words, and who was the first setter up of prisons for them, Inquisitions, Racks and Tortures, and in what year?

Who was the first that began to banish Christians that had the name of Christians themselves, was he a King, was she a Queen, was he a Bishop, was he a Pope, and in what year lived he, seeing Christ said love your Enemies; who was the first King, Queen or Bishop that taught people to say good-even, or good-morrow, and that wo∣men should make courtesies, and men should make legs, bring the Author, and in what year?

And who was the first King, or Queen, or Bishop that tollerated wearing of Rings, Gold lace, Ribbonds, Brac∣lets, Iewels, Beads, spotting their Faces, painting of them, who was the first Author of these since the dayes of the Apostles, amongst the Christians, and in what year?

Who was the first Author, King, Bishop, Queen, that people should go in black, that which they call mourning

at the death of any man, and in what year?

Who was the first King, Queen, or Bishop, or Pope, that set up that Chistians should beat themselves with a rope tied about them, got up since the dayes of the Apostles?

And who was the first King, Queen, Bishop, or Pope, that set up that men and women should pray with beads, and that outward candles should burn night and day, and in what year?

And who was it that set up a set maintenance by com∣pulsion, a maintenance for a Ministry, and from such as they do not teach, and in what year have they got up since the dayes of the Apostles?

Who was the first setter up of Ecclesiasticall Courts, and Promooters, and the Ecclesiasticall Judges, and in what year have they got up?

Who was the first King, Queen, Bishop, or Pope, that first set up Marrying with a Ring, and sprinkling Infants with the signe of the Crosse?

Who was the first King, Queen, Bishop, or Pope, that gave the name of Saints to Steeple-houses, and in what year?

Who was the first in Christendom, that set up consecra∣tions, that said Bread and Wine was the Body and Blood of Christ, which they call transubstantiation, and in what year?

Who was the first that set up prisons, and kindled fires, since the dayes of the Apostles amongst the Christians?

Who was the first that held up the wicked fist, and caus∣ed the smoak amongst the Christians, and who are the Frogs and Locusts spoken of in the Revelations, and hath not this smoak and this bottomlesse pit come up since the dayes of the Apostles, that persecuting murdering power, &c?

G. F.

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