CONVENT AT MARMOUSTIER

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up my host and wt the French I had, demanded him, taking
up the leg, what part of the pullet that might be, hé wt a
deal of oaths and execrations would have made me believe
it was the legs of a pullet, but his face bewrayed his cause
then I eated civilly the rest of my pullet and left the legs
to him such damned cheats be all the French.

Having bein a day at Blois 1 took boat for Tours in
new company againe, of some Frenchmen, a Almand and a
Dutchman; wt whom I had again to do vindicating my
prince as the most j ust prince in the world in all his pro-
cedures wt the Hollandez. The fellow behaved himselfe wery
proudly. Betuixt Blois and Tours we saw Amboise, which is
in estime especially by reason of its casle. As we was wtin
halfe a league of Tours by the carelesnese of the matelots and
a litle pir of wind that rose we fell upon a fixt mill in the
river, so that the boat ran a hazard of being broken to peices,
but we wan of, only 3 or 4 dales in hir covert was torn of.
Arriving at Tours about 3 a cloack we all tooke another boat
to carry us about a league from the city to sie a convent of
the Benedictines (Marmoustier) a very stupendious peice give
ended. It hath also a very beautifull church, many of the
pillars of it being of marble, others of alabastre, and that of
sundry coleurs, some red, some white, etc.: whence on the
entry theirs a prohibition hung up interdicting all from
engraving their name or any other thing on the pillars, least of
deforming them. One of the fathers of the order came and did
let us sy the relicts of the church which ware the first relicts
I saw neir at hand I having sien some at a distance carried
in processions at Orleans. Their we saw the heart of Bene-
dictus, the founder of their order, enclosed in a crystall and
besett wt diamonds most curiously. We of our company, being
6, ware all of the Religion, whence we had no great respects
for the relict, but their ware' som others their that ware
papists who forsooth bit 1 to sit doune on their knees and
kist. At which I could not contein my selfe from laughing.
Their saw we also a great number of old relicts of one St.
~rartin. They had his scull enclosed (give his scull and not

1 Were obliged.