JOURNAL OF JOHN LAUDER

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for going bar leged on the other hand, when I saw them in
the summer I pitied them that they ware necessitat by the
first institution of their orders never to quate their gounes
which cannot be but to hot for them yea, never to suffer any
linnen only wooll to come neirest their skine), notwithstanding
of this its easy to distinguish them by the Clerical Tonsure,
you sall never find a capuchin but wt a very liberall bard for
the Minime he most not have any. Again in their diet and
other such things they differ much the Minime most renounce
for ever the eating of fleche, their only food is 6shes and roots;
hence Erasmus calles them fischy men (homines piscosos).
Not so wt the Capuchines. Their be also many other differ-
ences that tyme most discover to me. Thir 2 orders our
Bucanan means when he names nodoaa canabe cincto.q.l To
returne to our purpose their came also the Dominicans or
Jacobins, which are but one order having 2 names then came
the Chartereus or Carthusians both which go in a long white
playding robe. Only the Jacobins hood is black the Car-
thusians is white then followed the Franciscans, who now are
called RecoIlects because being al banished France by reason
of their turbulency and intromitting wt the state (of which
wery stamp they seim to have bein in the tyme of our James
the 5, when he caused Buchanan writ his Franciscani against
them) by the præ\'alent faction the Pope had in France then,
they were all recalled, so that France held them not so weil out
as Venice do'es the Jesuits. Then came the Peres de rOratere,
who goes allmost in the same very habit wt the Jesuits.
Then cames the Augustines wt their white coat and a black
gown above, after them came the moncks of the order of St.
Bennet or the Benedictin friers, who goes in a white coat
indeed, but above it he wears a black cloak to his heels, wt the
Jesuits he wears also a hat as they do. Then came the
chanoins of the Church of Sainct Croix in their white surplices
above their black gounes and their 4 nooked caps. Tymc
sould feel me ere l could nombair over all orders, but thir ware
the most princiPlll1, each of which had their oune crosse wt
the crucifix carried by one of their order. This much for the

1 At line 19 of Buchanan's Fraruis~arrrrs is this passage
'0 sanctum festumque diem cum cannabe cinctus
Obrasumque caput duro velante cucullo,' etc.