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Apodipho, or, the Service of the Night, which in the 
Romijh Church is called the Complines. 
The Minifters of Churches follow the Example of 
the Monks as near as poffible, fo that in all Churches, 
be they rich or poor, there is every Day performed the 
Hagia Koinoma, or Celebration of the Eucharift, and 
fome Churches more than once, but at different Altars. 
None of thefe Ceremonies or Ufages are performed in 
Conformity to the Church of Rome, for they abominate 
both them and all their Cufloms, and if a Latin Pried 
fliould fay Mafsat any of their Altars, they would wafh 
them as polluted. At the Clofe of every Lhurjday they 
excommunicate the Pope and all the Bifhops, and 
damn them as fo many Eiereticks and Schifmaticks. 
They have fo great a Number of Holidays, that there 
is no Day in the Year but is confecrated to fome Saint ; 
but thofe they have in greateft Veneration, are, befides 
the Feafbs of Chrift and his Apoflles, the Invention and 
Exaltation of the Holy Crofs, in September i the Feafl 
of St. Demetrius in Odloher ; St. John Chryfoftom, and the 
Virgin^s Entrance into the Temple in November ; St. 
cholas, St. Spiridion, and St. Ignatius, in December ; the 
Feafl: of St. Bajtl, St. Anthony, St. Athanafius, St. Cyril, 
St. Gregory Nazianzen, and Chrifl’s Baptifm, in Janu- 
ary St. Sifneon^s meeting with Jefus and St. Blafnis in 
February *, the forty Martyrs in March •, St. George in 
April St. Athanafms, Conftantine the Great and Helena, 
and the Invention of St. John Baptiji*s Head in May ; 
St. Marinus, Elias the Prophet, St. Parafaua and St. 
Pantaleon in July, Chrifl’s Transfiguration, the Death 
of the Virgin Mary, and the Beheading of St. John Bap-^ 
tijl in Augujt. 
j On thefe Days they read in the Church the Life and 
A6lions of thefe Saints in the vulgar Tongue, out of 
their Synaxarion, or Martyrology, and conclude the 
Service with the Diflribution of the Eucharifi ; and ge- 
nerally the People, who come to hear, bring an Offer- 
ing of Bread, Wine, Oil, Tapers, and the like, for the 
Ufe of the Priefis, and give liberally to the Poor, even 
beyond their Abilities. They celebrate Eajler, which 
they call, ayaa-tcta-'n^ov, e, the Paffover of the Re- 
furredion, with great Demonflrations of Joy. By the 
Laws of their Church, they are obliged to confefs them- 
felves four Times a Year, but not fo particularly as the 
Church of Rome requires, and after they have done fome 
PenanCe, or promifed, they are abfolved in Form of a 
Prayer : Let thy Sins be forgiven. 
They look upon Baptifm as indifpenfibly neceflfary 
for Salvation ; and though they baptife not till eight 
Days are pafs’d after the Birth, unlefs in Cafe of Ne- 
ceffity 5 yet, when a Child is in Danger, they allow 
Laicks of both Sexes to baptife, becaufe they dare not 
hope well for Children w’ho die unbaptifed. They re- 
baptife Hereticks and Apoflates, when they repent and 
defire to come into their Church. Among the former 
they reckon the Papifts : They have a great Averfion 
to Images in Baffo-Relievo, and fay, the Papifts imitate 
the Heathens in the Ufe of them, but the Pidures of 
Chrift and the Saints they account holy, and pay a Re- 
verence to them, and to that End fet them up in their 
Churches on their Feftivals. 
30. They condemn all the Weftern Chriftians for eat- 
ing Things ftrangled, and account them Hereticks for 
fo doing. They follow the Dodrines of the ancient 
Fathers, and the Canons even of the firft General Coun- 
cils, very exadly, and think all others of no Force. 
The Lurks make them pay very fevere Capitations for 
their Religion Sake, and which is worfe to them, take 
their Children from them often by Force, to edu- 
cate them in the Mahometa^i Faith, and make them 
Jchoglans. Though they have many Churches, yet they 
are obliged to take great Care to keep them in Repair, 
tor Fear they fliould have no Churches at all, for the 
very rarely will fuffer them to rebuild them, if 
they tall j but they are allow’d to repair them. In their 
Churches they have a Candleftick which holds three 
Candles, by which, they fay, is reprefented the Holy 
Prinity ; and another two, which fignify the two Na- 
tures in Chrift. Their Sacerdotal Veftments have alfo 
the like Myfteries. In giving the Bleffing, they make 
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the Sign of the Crofs from the Right to the Left, con- 
trary to the Latins. 
Maids fliew not themfelves before they are married, 
even to their Relations, and therefore go not to Church 
for Fear of being feen. They are married by a Prieft, 
and give a Ring like the Latins, but take Godfathers 
and Godmothers, which they do not. The Bride and 
Bridegroom being come before the Papa or Prieft, he 
fays fome Prayers over them, while the Godfathers and 
Godmothers hold a Garland of Flowers, mix’d with 
Orpine, over their Heads, and a Pall over it. The Fa- 
ther and Mother of the Bride give her j and when 
Prayers are done, the Bride and Bridegroom drirtk to 
one another, and the Glafs being given to the Prieft, 
he merrily drinks it off, and then breaking the Glafs, 
fays. So may^ this Bridegroom break the Virginity of the 
Bride. Their other Rites are like thofe of the Latin 
Church. 
Their ordinary Way of Living is much like the 
Turks, only they are more wicked, for they are cove- 
tous, perfidious, treacherous. Sodomites, revengeful to 
the higheft Degree, very fuperftitious, and great Hy- 
pocrites, for which Qualities they are fo much defpifed 
by the Turks, that they do not value them though they 
turn Mahometans. They are greater Enemies to the 
Papifts than the Turks are, and none would hinder 
them from being Mafters of Turkey more than they, 
if Providence Ihould fo favour them to recover what 
the Turks hold in Europe. Their Women are beauti- 
ful, but a little too fat, and moft of them very proud. 
31. The Jews in Turkey ufe the fame Habits with the 
Turks, only may not wear green, or a white Turbant, or 
red Vefts, and fo are obliged to wear their Meftes, Pa- 
bouches and Caps, which are lliaped like an Hat, of 
a Violet Colour only. Their Religion is contained m 
the Old Te^fame 7 ^t and Talmud. As to their Manners, 
they are great Cheats in all Places, and their only Con- 
trivances are to vex both Chriftians ?ind. Turks with their 
Taxes and Tricks, which is the Reafon they are hated 
and defpifed in all Places. All the Jews and Male 
Chriftians, which are fubjedl to the Grand Signior, pay 
the Karadge yearly, which is a Tribute of four Piaftres 
and an half, beginning to pay it about nine Years old 5 
but the Chriftian Priefts and Monks are exempted from 
it, and fo are the Jewifh Rahhds \ the Women alfo 
paying Nothing. This Tax brings in a great Revenue 
to the Grand Signior, and no body can avoid it by 
changing their Habitation, for at whatever Place they 
come in their Travels, xlnCix Karadge is demanded, and 
if they have paid it in any other Place, they muft fliew 
their Acquittance, and if they can’t produce one, they 
muft pay it, and take a Note or Acquittance to ferve 
them in other Places ; but fuch as are not Subjects to 
the Grand Signior, do not pay this Tribute, and to 
fliew that they wear an Hat, and have a Certificate of 
their Abode from a Conful. 
32. The Accounts already given from the Works of 
the moft authentick Authors that have been publiflied, 
cannot fail of entertaining as well as inftrutfting the 
Reader ; but, perhaps, it may not be amifs to make 
fome Additions to thefe, from Materials of another Na- 
ture ; fuch as the Informations of thofe who have re- 
fided long in the Dominions of the Grand Signior, and 
Books written in or tranflated from the Oriental Lan- 
ouages. To render thefe Remarks of the more Ufe, 
By keeping them in a certain Method, we will, as near 
as may be, purfue that which in the Courfe of this 
Sedlion has been already laid down. The Drels or 
Cloathing of the Turks, though it appears odd and 
uncooth to us, is neverthelefs founded upon Reafon, 
and for that very Caufe is not much affedled by Fafhion ; 
as they have Nothing of Levity in their Nature, |b 
there is Nothing can give Men a graver Appearance 
than the Eajtern Habit ; and in refpedl to all the Ufes 
of Cloathing in a Climate like theirs, it will be found, 
that it anfwers them perfedlly well. By changing the 
Scuff of which their Robes are made, from Silk to 
Cloth, and from plain Cloth to Cloth lined with Furrs, 
the Change of Seafons is provided againft. Their Ha- 
bit agrees likewife with their Manner of Living, they 
