[229] Lery or Leri, Jean de,
was a traveller and Protestant divine,
but
I do not find trace of such a work as this.
About the Bi-location of bodies, I would demand the Popelings, in the case wheirin a army is made up of one man replicate in 1000 places, whither he shall have the strenth of one man or 1000: if one be wounded or slain, if all the rest shal be wounded or slain: also whither he can be hot at Paris and cold at Edin’r, headed at Paris, hanged at Edin’r, dy at Paris, live in good health at Edin’r, wt infinite other alleaged by Lerees and others.
When he was at Poictiers a Gentleman accused of seweral murders and imprisoned escaped in womens cloaths about the gloaming, whom we saw passe thorow the street, giveng al ground of suspicion by the terror and amazement he was in; letting a scarf fal in on part, his napkin in another, his goun taille fell doune in a thrid. Yet none seazed on him. At the port of the toune he had a horse waiting for him on which he escaped.
A litle after that a Mareschal, or ferrier, or Smith felled on of his boyes at the Scotes Walk because he demanded money of him, escaped to Lusignan, wheir he was taken.
Just about the same tyme on a stormy, vindy night a rich Candlemakers (which office is not so dishonorable heir as wt us, their daughters wil be going in their satins) booth was broken up, 40 pistols, which he had receaved in payment just the day before, and which he had left in a box of the table, stollen. Persones wil do weill then to keip quiet any mony they have as weill as they can: according the tenor of my fathers letter.
On the day after Toussaint is a feste til noon called les Trespassez[230]. The papists prayes for their dead ancestres, over their graves mumbling so many paters and so many ave’es.
[230] Trepasses, All Souls.
They have a apple in France called pomme de Calvile, its all rid thorow to the wery heart, pomme blanche.
In case of fire in a toune the neirest bel, or the bel of that paroiche wheir it is, ringes.
In Octobre heir, tho reasonably sharp, they have upright[231] Summer weather, its so fair.
[231] Equivalent to ‘downright.’
Our peirs that growes at home are all out as delicious, vitness the carnock, as any we have eaten in France, tho they grow their in greater abondance. As to the Apples we most not conteste wt them, since beseids many brave sorts they have the pipin, which I conceive most be that they call Reynett, brought unto France from Italy by Queen Blanche, mother of St. Louis: it was first fund in Africk. The pomme Minion is better then any of ours: our Marican seimes to be a degenerat sort of it.


