In parties appealls heir from a inferior to a superior, if it appear that they ware justly condemned, and that they have wrongously and rashly appealed, they condeime them unto a fine called heir Amende, which the Judge temperes according to the ability of the persones and nature of the businesse:  the fine its converted ether to the use of the poor or the repairing of the palais.

The Jurisdiction of thess they call Consuls in France is to decide controversies arising betuixt marchand and marchand.  Their power is such that their sentence is wtout appeall, and they may ordaine him whom they find in the wrong to execute the samen wtin the space of 24 howers, which give they feill to do they may incarcerate them.  Thus J. Ogilvie at Orleans.

Even the wery papists heir punisheth greivously the sine of blasphemy and horrid swearing.  Mr. Daille saw him selfe at Bordeaux a procureurs clerk for his incorrigibleness in his horrid swearing after many reproofes get his tongue boored thorow wt a hot iron.

The present bischop of Poictiers is a reasonable, learned man, they say.  On a tyme a preist came to gett collation from him, the bischop, according to the custome, demanding of him if he know Latin, if he had learned his Rhetorick, read his philosophy, studied the scooll Divinity and the Canon Law, etc., the preist replied quau copois,[142], which in the Dialect of bas Poictou (which differes from that they speak in Gascoigne, from that in Limosin, from that in Bretagne, tho all 4 be but bastard French) signifies une peu.  The bischop thought it a very doulld[143] answer, and that he bit to be but a ignorant fellow.  He begines to try him on some of them, but try him wheir he will he findes him better wersed then himselfe.  Thus he dismissed him wt a ample commendation; and severall preists, efter hearing of this, when he demanded if they had studied sick and sick things, they ware sure to reply cacopois.  He never examined them further, crying, go your wayes, go your wayes, they that answers cacopois are weill qualified.

    [142] Perhaps quelque peu.

    [143] Stupid, from doule, a fool.

We have sein sewerall English Books translated in French, as the Practise of Piety, the late kings [Greek:  eikon basilikae], Sidneyes Arcadia, wt others.

We have sein the plume whilk they dry and make the plumdamy[144] of.

    [144] Dried plum, prune.

The habit of the Carmelites is just opposite to that of the Jacobines,[145] who goe wt a long white robe beneath and a black above.  The Carmes wt a black beneath and a white above.  The Augustines are all in black, the Fullions all in white.

    [145] Jacobins, Dominicans, so called from the church of St. Jacques in
        Paris, granted to the order, near which they built their convent. 
        The convent gave its name to the club of the Jacobins at the
        French Revolution, which had its quarters there.