[122] their = there are.

Plumes are in wery great abondance heir, and that of many sorts.  We have bein offered the quatrain, thats 26 of plumes, wery like that we call the whitecorne, tho’ not so big, for 2 deniers or a double, thats for 8 penies the 100; and they sel them cheaper.

Great is the diversity amongs peirs their.  Mr. Daille hath told me that at least theirs 700 several sorts of peirs that grows in France, al distinguasble be the tast.  We ourselfes have sien great diversity.  Theirs a wery delicious sort of poir they call the poir de Rosette, because in eating it ye seime as give ye ware smelling a rose.  They have also among the best of the peirs poir de Monsieur, and de Madame.  They have the poir de piss, the poir blanchette (which comes wery neir our safron peer we have at home), and trompe valet, a excelent peir, so called because to look to ye would not think it worth anything, whence the valets or servants, who comes to seik good peirs to their masters, unless they be all the better versed, will not readily buy it, whence it cheats them.  They distinguise their peires into poirs de l’este de l’automne, and de l’yver, amongs whilk theirs some thats not eatable til pais or pasque.

In the gazetts or news books (which every friday we get from the Fullions[123] or Bernardines at their Convent, such correspondence does the orders of the country keip wt thess at Paris), we heard newes passing at home.  The place they bring it from they terme it Barwick, on the borders of Scotland.  We heard that the 29 of May, our Soverains birth day, was solemly keipt by the Magistrates of Edinburgh and the wholle toune.  At another tyme we heard of a act of our privy counsill, inhibiting all trafic whatsoever wt any of the places infected wt the plague.  In another we heard of a breach some pirates made in on our Northren Iles, setting some houses on fire; on whilk our privy counsell by a act layd on a taxation on the kingdome, to be employed in the war against the Hollanders, ordaining it to be lifted wtin the 5 years coming.

    [123] Fullions, Feuillants, ’Nom de religieux reformes de l’ordre de
        Citeaux, appeles en France feuillants, et en Italie reformes de
        St. Bernard...  Etym., Notre-Dame de Feuillans, devenue en 1573 le
        chef de la congregation de la plus etroite observation de Citeaux
        ... en Latin, Beata Maria fuliensis, fulium dicta a nemore
        cognomine, aujourd’hui Bastide des Feuillants, Haute Garonne.’—­
        Littre, Dict. s.v.