ran al out of the kirk, yet considering that he was a godly man and that it would be a sin to leive his corps unburied they meit the nixt day.  They ware not weill meet, when he cried again, iusto dei indicio indicatus sum; when they came again the 3d tyme, at which he cried, justo dei iudicio condemnatus sum.  This seimed wery strange to all, yet it produced no such effects in any as in our Soger, who was present al the tymes:  it occasioned enexpressible disquietment of spirit, and he fell a raisoning, If such a man who was knowen to be of so blamlesse a conversation, who was so observant of al his dueties to God be dammed, hath not obtained mercy, oh what wil word of[187] the who hath lead so vicious a life, thinks thou that thou will be able to reach the height that that man wan to, no.  At last considering that company and the tongue ware great occasions to sin he resolves to institute a order who sould have converse wt none and whom all discourse should be prohibited save onlie when they meet one another, thir 2 words Memento Mori.  For this effect he fel in scrutiny of a place wheir they might be friest from company, and pitched upon a rocky, desolate, unhabited place not far from Grenoble (about 3 leagues), wheir they founded their first Convent, which bears the name of Chartrouse, and is to be sein at this day.  Notwtstanding that their first institution bears that they stay far from the converse of men, yet (which also may be observed in the primitive Monachisme) they are creeping into the most frequented cities.  Vitness their spatious Convent, neir halfe a mile about, at Paris.

    [187] What will become of thee.  Compare German, werden,
        geworden.

These of the Religion at Poictiers from St. Michel to Paise[188] they have no preaching the Sabath afternoone.

    [188] Pasch, Easter.

Its not leasum for a man or woman of the Religion to marry wt a Papist; which if they do, they most come and make a publick confession of the fault and of the scandal they have given by such a marriage before the whole church.  Experience hes learned them to use it wery sparingly and meekly, for when they would have put it in execution on som they have lost them, they choosing rather to turne papists then do it.  We are not so strick in this point as they are; for wt us licet sed non expedit cum non omne quod liceat honestum sit.

Out of the same fear of loosing them they use wery sparingly the dart of excommunication except against such as lives al the more scandoulously.  The protestants in speaking of their Religion before papists they dare not terme it otherwise then pretendue Reformee.

We have eaten panches[189] heir, which we finding drest in a different sort from ours but better, we informed ourselfe of it thus:  they keip them not intier as we do, but cuts them into peices as big as a man wil take in his mouth at once, then puts them in a frying pan wt a considerable lump of butter, having fryed them a good space, they put in vineger, a litle salt and some spice; this is all.