have not wherewithal to pay the Carage, (the Annual Tribute imposed by the Mahometan Prince;) otherwise, necessity would force them to become Mahometans; and they, their Wives and Children, would be sold; which the Grand Patriarch labours all he can no prevent. M. Tavern. l. 1. c. 3.
Protestants.
Fox thus reports of Bishop Hooper: —Twice I was at his Palace at Worcester, where, in his Com∣mon-Hall, I saw a Table spread with good store of Meat, and beset full of Beggars, and poor Folk; and I asking his Servants what it meant; they told me, That every day their Lord and Master's manner was, to have customably to Dinner, a cer∣tain number of poor Folk, of the said City, by course, who were served by four at a Mess, with whole and wholesom Meats; and when they were served (being before examined by him, or his De∣puties, of the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, and the Articles of their Faith) then he himself sat down to Dinner, and not before. Fox Mar.
Chinese.
In Quinsay, in a walled Park belonging to a Mo∣nastery, the Monks fed 4000 living Creatures, of divers kinds, out of their Charity to the Souls of Noble Men, which (they believed) were entered into the Bodies of these Creatures. Rosse.