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Show e e T A General Defeription o it ettte e et s m-- afrer this manner : Bat the time o Mourning for other m ated {fometimes 1t lafts a year, otherwhiles b t three months, according as the ftand related or afte&ed to one another The legal time of Mourning for the-deat of the Emperour -or Emprefs formerly three'years 5 and this ou ward fhew of grief extended eve fyr thermoft Confines of the Empire But now with the Emperours ¢ Onfent hic 1s openly proclaimed, the months are tu ned into days, {o that at the pr fe they Mourn bur only one month for hi Death > but fill the extent reaches ove all his Dominions. ~ All the Funera Ceremonies are written jn 2 large Book whic thofe concerned perufe when a p rfon of quality dyes, whereby the kno how to order his Burial Asfoonthen as any Nobleman i D ad, the Son, or who is nex¢ relate t 1n blood, fignifies the {ame bya Boo to all his Kindred and Friends, upo third or fourthday, wherein the Mou ning is fet forthin the ufial terms the fame time the Corps is in hi th oftened, andplacedin the Hall or Ch er, whic 1s hung with White Linnen ; in the m ddle whereof is cre@ed an Altar, wher o 15 placed the incoffened Cadaver, w th the PortraiQure of the Deceafed 1Int this room come all the Kindred and Frie ds upon the third or fourth day, cla in Mourning, and bringing tothe Alea Incenfe, and Wax-lights, which onc lighted and burning, they tender thei refpets to the dead, in bowing an falling upon their kneés four times, a whil before burning a little Incenfe ove againft the Coffin and Pifture Whjle thefe Ceremonies are performin oae or two of the Sonsof the deceafed, ft nd on one fide of the Coffin in the White Mourning, with great modefty, an fhedding tears plentifully i fits the Mother, with the Daughters, and ot ers of the Relations, in Mournin alfo, but arefo referved in their mode of Lam ntation, thatthey have a Curtai drawn before them, that they cannot be feen In the Hall ftand two Trumpeters and at the great Gate of the Court within two rummers: Over the Gate hang upon a board, a long Scro l of Paper even to the ground, wherein i who itis that is deceafed, and what ke had d nein his life time for th benefit of his Countrey to be read fervice an It fometimes hapneth that fome Children will k ep their Parents Bodies incof fined three or four years in their Houfes, in ll that time being never offende with any {cents proceeding from the fame; which is rought to pafs by their extraordinary skill in Embalming, and clofing the Crevifes f the Coffin 5 .and fo lon as they keep them thus above ground, they f{et befor them meat and drink daily as they were living During all which time, the Sons take not their p fituponalong Bench covered with White: And as a obedient forrow, they {leep not upon beds, ut upon Matrafles of Straw fprea upon the Floor next to the Coffin ; abftaining like ife all that while from Flefh or any compound Meats, or drinking Wine, or u ing any Baths; and tha whichis yet more to be taken notice of, they for ear to accompany with thei Wives inany way of natural affe@ion And this for the generality is voluntary but what follows is forbidden, towit, they may not g to any publick Invitation abroad, nor fomuch as be feen in the Streets for {fo many occafions are {uch as to cal] them out of do rs, they are carried in a clofe Chair covered over with Mourning. Although formerl to the commendation of th Countrey thefe things were performed ; yeti this prefent Age, few or nonear found amongf them thatare { ftrictin the obf Upon the day appointed for the F neral, all the Friends meet, who are invite by another Book, to accompany th Corps of their Friend to his Grave Th {olemnity isordered and performe after-the {ame manner as the Cathol cks m};:k. thei |