Its a very pleasant place they say, situate on a river just like the Clin heir; they call it the Endre.

Heir taught the renouned Cuiacius,[150] whom they call their yet[151] but a drunken fellow.  His daughter was the arrantest whore in Bourges.  Its not above 4 or 5 years since she died, whence I coniecture she might be comed to good years or she died.

    [150] Jacques Cujas, eminent jurist, 1522-1590.

    [151] i.e. ‘still speak of there as.’

This university is famous for many others learned men, as Douell,[152] Hotoman,[153] Duarene,[154] Vulteius, etc.

    [152] Possibly Douat, author of Une centaines d’anagrammes. 
        Paris, 1647.

    [153] Francois Hotman, celebrated jurist, 1524-1590.

    [154] Francois Duaren, jurist, 1509-1559.

The posterity of the poor Waldenses are to be sein stil in Piedmont, Merindol, and the rest of Savoy, as also of the Albigenses in Carcasson, Beziers and other places of Narbon.  They are never 10 years in quietness and eas wtout some persecution stirred against, whence they are so stript of all their goods and being that they are necessitate to implore almes of the protestant churches of France.  About 12 years ago a contribution was gathered for them, which amounted to neir 400,000 livres, which was not ill.

The principall trafick of Geneva is in all goldsmiths work.  The best montres of France are made their, so that in all places of France they demand Geneva montres, and strangers if they come to Geneva they buy usually 3 or 4 to distribute amongs their friends when their are at home.

In the mor southren provences of France to my admiration I fand they had and eated upright[155] cheries 2 tymes of the year, end of May and beginning of June, a little after which they are ordinar wt ourselfes, and also again in Octobre.  On a day at the beginning of that moneth at dinner Mr. Daille profered to make me eat of novelties, wheiron he demanded me what fruits I eated in the beginning of the year.  I replied I had eaten asparagus, cherries and strawberries.  You sall eat of cherries yet, said he, and wt that we got a plate full of parfait cherries, tho they had not so natural a tast as the others, by reason of the cold season, and the want of warmness which the others enioy.  They had bein but gathered that same day; they are a sort of bigaro;[156] when the others are ripe they are not yet flourished.

    [155] Perhaps standard.  Compare ‘upright bur,’ Jamieson’s Dict.

    [156] Bigarade is a bitter orange.  This may mean a bitter cherry.

The most usuall names that women are baptized wt heir be Elizabeth, Radegonde, Susanne, Marguerite and Madleine.  The familiar denomination they give the Elizabeths is babie, thus they call J. Ogilvies daughter at Orleans; that for Marguerite is Gotton, thus they call Madame Daille and hir litle daughter.  Thess of the religion, usually gives ther daughters names out of the bible, as Sarah, Rachel, Leah, etc.  They have also a way of deducing women names out of the mens, as from Charles, Charlotte, from Lowis, Lowisse, from Paul, Pauline, from Jean, Jeane.  Thir be much more frequent amongs the baser sort then the gentility, just as it is wt the names of Bessie, Barbary, Alison and others wt us.