Chap. I. 
to the L E V A N 
ronfirmed by the Grand Viziers and Baiba’s of and the Novices, with the Lay-Brethren j but the Supe= 
thofe Countries, as the Grand Signior’s Deputies, from riors, though had in great Veneration, have little A u- 
whom they receive a Caftm. or Veil, at their Confir- thority, except in impofing fome trivial Penances •, for 
raZn They have feveral Archbiihops and Biihops they are afraid left by Severity the Monks ihould turn 
under them; -but they muft firft have been Caloyers, or Turks, as they have had many and therefore 
Monks and obferve their Rule during their Lives, their monaftick Difcipline is almoft loft ; yet they ftiil 
The Pr’iefts are regular, who are not married, and Se- retain the Prerogative of ftnppmg fuch Monks of their 
culars who marry 3. They admit of no Purgatory, Habit, who have been guilty of lom.e notorious Crimes^ 
bnt hold a third Place, where the BleiTed remain in Ex- and will not fubmit to their Rules. . ^ 
Df^ctation of the Day of Judgment, before which The ProfeiTed alfo take the fame Liberty to lay down 
Time though they believe not the Saints to be admit- their Habits when they pleafe, yet not without fome 
ted ihto Paradife, yet they pray to them to intercede Scandal to the others, and rendering themfelves con- 
fer them 4 They ufe leavened Bread in the Sacra- temptible ; however, upon their Repentance, and under- 
ment fuch as they commonly eat, and communicate going fome ftighc Penance, they are re-admittech Thefe 
in both Kinds, as well Laymen as Priefts, and Women 
and Children as Men, and condemn the Latins for de- 
priving the Laity of the Cup. 5. They have ^ouv Lents, 
but the firft, which begins fix Weeks before Eajter, and 
lafts till that Feaft, they keep moft ftridly, calling it 
the great and holy Faft ; for they eat nothing then 
profefs’d Monks, fo long as they are in the Convent, 
take care of the Fruit, Corn, Sheep, and other Things 
that belong to the Cloifter. The Novices and Lay- 
Brethren work in the Fields, and though they return 
ever fo weary from their Labours in the Evening, yet 
they muft attend at a long Prayer, and make many 
that halh Blood nor Oil, but only Herbs and Shellfifh, Genuflexions, which they call Netaniai, before they eat 
as the Cuttle-Fifti and Oifters. In the other three Lents, 
one of which is kept in Honour of the bleflfed Virgin, 
and the other of St. Peter and Sn Paul, they may eat 
Fifh and Oil. 
27. The Armenians keep their Lent ftriefter than the 
Greeks, for they eat no kind of Filh nor Oil, nor drink 
any Wine, but live only on Bread, Water, Herbs and 
Roots. Their Churches are like ours, except that the 
their Supper, or go to their Reft. Over all thefe Monks 
are placed Provincials, or Vifitors ; but inftead of re- 
forming the Abufes of the Monafteries, which fhould be 
their Bufinefs, they only gather up the Money which the 
Patriarch exads of them. And, indeed, thefe Vifitors 
come fo often, that they are miferably poor, and are 
become thereby ignorant and illiterate, becaufe the Time 
they ought to fpend in their Studies, they are forced to 
hic^h Altar is divided from the reft of the Church by employ in labouring for a Suftenance. 
a *wooden Partition with three Doors, which make a But, notwithftanding this general Poverty of the 
kind of San5ium SanUorum. They have no Images, but Monks, fome few Monafteries are fo well endow’d, and 
Piftures only They never kneel in their Churches, ^^keir Monks are fo rich, as to be able to raife great 
not fo much as at the Elevation of the Hoft, but lean Sums of fifty or fixty thoufand Crowns to purchafe the 
upon Crutches of which they have Abundance for that ■ Patriarchate, nay, fometimes before the Pofleflbr is dead, 
Purpofe. No’Man can be admitted into Priefts Or- (or Money. Their 
ders till he is full thirty Years old. Priefts are allow’d 
to marry but once in their Life-time, and that to a Vir- 
gin, who is alfo under an Obligation not to marry, if 
her Hufband dies. 
Their Mafs is much the fame in Subftance with that 
fecular Priefts, called by them, Cofmicoi lereis, are thus 
made : Firft they take their Tonfure upon them, i. e. 
are (haven on their Crowns the Breadth of one’s Hand, 
and are thus taken into the Service of the Church. Then 
after fome Months they are created Anaguofia^s, or Rea- 
of the Latins, fave that it is much longer, for it takes ders, becaufe it is their Bufinefs to read the Mattins, 
them five Hours in a Day to read it over only, which Pfalms, and fome other Things, which the Clerks ufe 
occafions fo many of the Clergy to omit it, that there to fing. When they have ferved the Church fome 
is fcarce any Place where it is regularly read, unlefs it Months in this Office, the Biffiop confers upon them 
be in Mount Athos and Neomagni, a City of the Hand Deacons Orders, and a Power of waiting at the Altar, 
of Scio, and in fome few well regulated Monafteries. and chanting the Epiftle, When they are Deacons, if 
Their whole Liturgy is divided into feven Books, i. they have a Mind to marry, they are allow’d to do it, 
Triodion, which contains the Office for Faft- Days. 2. provided they give Notice to the Bifhop of the Wo- 
Euchologion, which is a General Office for all Days, and man and her Abode, that he may enquire after her ; 
ali Occafions. 3. Paraclitifks, which contains all the for if (he be not chafte, wife, and handfome,^ (he is not 
Hymns. 4. Pentecafterion, which is the Service of the a fit Wife for a Pried, nor will the Bifhop luffer their 
Church from Eafler 40 Whitfuntide, 5. Meneon^ an Marriage. And, indeed, the Greeks ^ are fo ambitious 
Office belonging to each Month. 6. Horologion, the to bellow their Daughters on the Priefis, that if it be 
Service for afl the Canonical Hours for every Day. 7. known that a Pried defires to marry, all are forward to 
Antoloion, which comprehends all that ufes to be read in feek out the greateft Beauty for him, ^ as if they were to^ 
the ordinary Service of every Month throughout the confecrate it to God, and to court fuch Women they are 
whole Year. This Part of their Liturgy, they fay, difpenfed with in their Service, and, upon their Return 
every Pried ought to have, and it ought to lie in every into it, are made Priefts. 
Church ; but as to the reft the Length of them is fo 2^. The Under Minifters of the Greek Church are, 
tedious, and the Price fo great, that mioft of the Bifhops, i. Seruophylaces, or Sextons, who look after the con- 
Priefts, yea, even their Caloyers, never trouble them- fecrated Plate, and other Utenfils of the Church. 2. 
felves with them. The Colonarchai, who inform the Singers what Tune^ to 
28. Their Caloyers, or Monks, lead a very auftere fmg. 3. The Tyrroroij or Porters, who open and 
and exemplary Life. They make three Vows : i. Of (hut the Church Doors. 4. Tht Canidlapthi, who take 
renouncing the World. 2. Abftainingfrom Flefh; And, Care of the Tapers, of which they confume many. 
3. From Marriage ; which they very ftridly obferve, The Service of Greek Church is fiid leverai Times 
efpecially in the larger Monafteries of Mount Athos, a Day. In the Monafteries they rife at Midnight to 
Neomagni, Mount Sinai, St. Saha and Si. Michael perform a particular Form of Devotion, called A/lyo- 
Jerufalem, which are thofe that are bed governed. midUdn, and to prepare them for fome great Feftival, 
Their Food is the Produft of the Earth, and Fi(h, ex- they turn it into an Holonuhiion,^ or an All-night Service, 
cept on Faft- Days, when they will not eat any Thing After this they celebrate a Service at Break of Day, cal- 
that hath Life. Some of them, who are called led ; another at the firft Hour, called Protiora\ 
live only on the Fruits of the Earth, and to that End and fo again at the fecond Hour, called Tritiora ; and at 
leave their Cloifter to live on the Mountains, and never Nine o’Clock in the Morning, called Ektiora : Then 
return but on great Feftivals, to alfift at the publick follows the Ennati, the Liturgy, and the Eucharift at 
Service. All their Monks are divided into three Orders, Three o’Clock in the Afternoon, and Efperines, or 
viz. Sc. Bafil, Ehas, and St. Marcellus ; and in all of Evening-Service ; after which they ufe fome (light Ex- 
them they have three Sorts of Monks, Superiors or El- ercife till they go to Supper, and when that’s done, they 
ders, called Egoumenoi, the profeflTed and other Fathers, return .again to Church, to perform the Service called 
Apodipho^ 
