wt the other pensioners to a place wheir when all others went to the knees, to wit, when the Hosty came by, we might retire out of sight.  I retired not so far as they did, but boldly stood at a little distance that I aen might sy it the better.  This procession was on the 4 of June, a little after followed Sainct Barnabas day.  Then came mid-Summer even, on whiclk the papists put on bonfires for John Baptists nativity.  The day after, called S. Jeans day, was keiped holy by processions.

    [63] Plaidoyer, pleading, legal argument.

On the 1 of July was S. Pierres day, on which I heard a chanoin preach in S. Croy upon Piters confession, thou art the sone of the living God, very weill, only he endevored to have Pierre for the cheife of the Apostles because forsooth in the 10 of Mathew, wheir al the Apostles are named, he finds Piter formost.

That I might have a full survey of the toune I went up to the steeple of St. Croy, which truly is on of the hiest steeples I saw abroad; from it I had a full visy of the toune, which I fand to be of that bigness specified; then the sight of the country lying about Orleans, nothing can be pleasanter to the eye.  We saw also the forest of Orleans which environs the northren syde of the city as a halfe moon:  in it ar many wild beasts and particularly boors; one of which, in the tyme of wintage, give it chance to come out to the wineyards wheir they comit great outrages, the boors or peasants uses to gather to the number of 2000 or 3000 from all the adiacent contry wt dogs, axes and poles to kil the boor.

During my abode heir I went also to the Jesuits Colledge and discoursed wt the praefectus Jesuitarum, who earnestly enquiring of what Religion I was, for a long tyme I would give him no other answer but that I was religione christianus.  He pressing that he smeled I was a Calvinist, I replied that we regarded not these names of Calvin, Luther, Zuinglius, yea not their very persons, but in whow far they hold the truth.  After much discourse on indifferent matters, at our parting he desired me to search the spirits, etc.  I went and saw the Gardens of the Minims, the Jacbins, the Carthusians, and the Peres de l’Orat.[64]

    [64] Oratoire.

Many contrasts ha’es bein betwixt J.O. and I. laboring to defend presbytery and the procedures of the late tymes.  During my abode heir 2 moneths I attended the Sale de dance wt Mr. Schovaut as also Mr. le Berche, explaining some of the institutions to me.  John was my Mr. of language.

A part of the tyme that I was heir was also the Admiral of Holland, Obdams Sone, who wt the companions carried himselfe marvelously proud.  He and they feed themselfes so up wt the hoop of the victory that they praepared against the news sould come of the Engleshes being beat a great heap of punchions of wine wheir wt they intended to make merry, yea as I was informed to make Loyer run wt win.  But when the news came