On the morning we went and hard the cure say Mass, wheir saw a thing we had not sien before, to wit in a corner of the Church having 4 or 5 rocks of tow, some tied wt red snoods, some wt blew.  On the sieng of this I was very sollicitous to know what it might mean.  Having made my selfe understood about it I was told that when any honest women died she might leive a rock full of tow to be hung up in the church as a symboll that they ware vertuous thrifty women.  This put me in mind of Dorcas whose coats and thrift the women showed to Paull after she was died.  Mass being ended I went and fell in discours with the Cure.  We was not long together when we fell hot be the ears:  first we was on the Jansenists opinion about Praedestination, which by a bull from the present Pope, Alex’r the 7, had bein a litle before condemned at Paris; then we fell in one frie wil, then one other things, as Purgatory, etc.; but I fand him a stubborn fellow, one woluntary blind.  We was in dispute above a hower and all in Latin:  in the tyme gathered about us neir the half of the parish, gazing on me as a fool and mad man that durst undertake to controlle their cure, every word of whose mouth, tho they understood it no more nor the stone in the wall did, they took for ane oracle, which minds me of the miserablenese and ignorantnese of the peasants of France above all other commonalty of the world; our beggars leading a better life then the most part of them do.

In our returning amongs the best merriments we had was my French, which moved us sewerall tymes to laughter; for I stood not on steeping stones to have assurance that it was right what I was to say, for if a man seek that, he sall never speak right, since he cannot get assurance at the wery first but most acquire it by use. 4 leagues from Orleans, we lighted at Gargeau[74] wt Maddle.[75] Ever after this Mademoiselle and I was wery great, which I know not whow the Mr. of Ogilvy took, I being of much shorter standing their in Orleans then he was.

    [74] Now Jargeau.

    [75] Mademoiselle.

Just the Sabath before my parting from Orleans began the Jesuits Logick and Ethick theses to be disputed:  the Mr. of Ogilvy and I went to hear, who bleetly[76] stayed at behind all almost; I, as give I had bein a person interested thrust into the wery first rank wheir at the distributor I demanded a pair of Theses, who civilly gave me a pair, against which tho I had not sein them till then, I durst have ventred a extemporary argument, give I had knowen their ceremonies they used in their disputing and proponing, which I fand litle differing from our oune mode.  The most part of the impugners ware of the religious orders; some of them very sharply, some tolerably and some pittifully.  The first that began was a Minim against a Logicall Thes[is] that was thus, Relatio et Terminus non distinguuntur.  The fellows argument was that usual one, quae separantur distinguuntur et haec, etc.; the Lad answered by a distinction, quae separantur per se verum:  per accidens, falsum; and so they went on.  The lad chanced to transmit a proposition one tyme:  the fellow in a drollery replied, si tu transmittas ego—­revocabo.  Thus have we dwelt enough on Orleans, its hy tyme for us to leeve it.