JOURNAL OF JOHN LAUDER

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to say against it yet they caused the wals of his house to be
hung wt publick hingings that belonged to the toune. For to
sy the procession I went 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 littlé distance that 1 aen
might sy it the better. 1.11is procession was on the 4 of June,
a little after followed Sainct Barnabas day. Then came mid-
Summer even, on whic1k the papists put on bonfires for John
Baptists nativity. 1.'he day after, called S. Jeans day, was
keiped holy by processions.

On the 1 of July was S. Pierres day, on w hich 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 lliathew, wheir al the Apostles are uamed, he finds
Piter formost.

That I might hav e a full survey of the toune 1 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 v isy of
the toune, which 1 fand to be of that bigness specified
then the sight of the country lying about Orleans, nothing
can be ple~anter to the eye. ~Ve saw also the forest of
Orleans which env irons 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 winey ards wheir they comit great outrages, the
boors or heasants uses to gather to the number of ~000 or
3000 from all the adiacent contry wt dogs, axes and poles to
kil the boor.

During my abode heir 1 went nlso to thè Jesuits Colledge
and discoursed wt the 1)refectus Jesuitarum, who earnestly
enquiring of what Iteligion 1 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 rebarded 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 scarch the spirits, etc. I went and saw