MAID OF ORLEANS FESTIVAL

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legs. Others sayd it was the purity of the air about Orleans
whence the'citv has the name of Aurelia. But what influence
the air can have in this point is hardly explicable. Monsieur
Ogilvy more rationally informed me that he took it to be a
race and generation of peaple who transmitted it hæreditarly
to their posterity, for which 1 meit after a wery strong pre-
sum~tion-: I saw a mother lame, not only the daughters lame,
but in the,very same faschion that the mother and this I saw
.çonfirmed seweral tymes.

Just the morrow after my arrival was keipt very solemly
by the whole 'toune in remembrance and commemoration of
the valiant maid of Orleans, who, when the English had
reduced al France excepting only Orleans to their obedience,
and ware so fair for Orleans that they gained to the mids
of the bridge over Loyer, most couragiously animated the
citizens and beat them shamelesslie back for which wheii
the English got hir in their power they brunt hir at Roan
quick.

The ceremony we saw consisted of a procession partly
spiritual or Ecclesiastick, partly civil or Temporal. To make
tlie spirituall their was their all that swarm of grassopers
which we are fortold sould aschend out of the bottemlese pit
all these filthy frogs that we are fortold that beast that false
prophet sould cast out of his mouth, I mean that rable of
Religious orders within the body of that Apostolical and
Pseud-apostolicall Church of Rome. Only the Jesuits was
wanting the pride of whose hearts will not suffer them to
go in procession with the meaner orders. In order went the
Capuchines, then the inlinimes, which 9. orders tho they both
go under the name of Cordeliers by reason of that cord they
wear about their midle, on whilk cord they have hinging their
string of beads, to, the end of their string is hinging a litle
brazen crosse, tho also they be both in on habit, to wit long
broun gowns or coats coming doune to their feet, a cap of that
same coming furth long behind just like a Unicornes 'home,
tho the go both bar leged only instead of shoes having cloogs
of wood (hence when. I saw them in the winter 1 pitied them

1 Meil after, ie. met afterwitds.