Of the ceremonies they vse in doing sacrifice vnto their idols (which they hold as gods), and the names of them: of their beginnings, and at what time they shoulde make their sacrifices.
Their opinions of the immortalitie of the soule, of the heauen, of hell, of the manner of their funerals, and of their mourning apparel that euery one is bounde to weare, according as he is alianced unto the dead.
Of the lawes of the kingdome, and when and by whome they were made; and the punishment executed on those which violate the same, with manie other matters touching their good government and policie.
Manie herbals, or bookes of herbes, for phisitions, shewing how they should be applied to heale infirmities.
Many other bookes of phisicke and medicine, compiled by authors of that kingdome, of antiquitie and of late daies, containing in them the maner how to vse the sicke, and to heale them of their sicknes, and to make preseruatiues against all sicknesses and infirmities.
Of the properties of stones and mettals, and of things natural that haue vertue of themselues; and wherefore pearles, gold, and silver, and other metals, may serue for the vtility of man, comparing with the one and the other the vtilitie of euerie thing.
Of the nomber, and moouings of the heauens: of the planets and stars, and of their operations and particular influences.
Of such kingdomes and nations as they haue notice off, and of particular things that are in them.
Of the life and behauiour of such men, whom they holde for saints, where they lead their liues, and where they died and were buried.
The order howe to play at the tables, and at the chests, and how to make sports of legerdemaine and puppets.
Of musicke and songs, and who were the inuentors thereof.
Of the mathematicall sciences, and of arithmeticke, and rules how to use the same.
Of the effectes that the children doo make in their mothers wombs, and how they are euery moneth sustained, and of the good and bad times of their birth.
Of architecture, and all manner of buildings, with the bredth and length that euerie edifice ought to haue for his proportion.
Of the properties of good and bad ground, and tokens how to know them, and what seede they will beare euery yeare.