[189] Tripe.

Their goosing irons they heat them not in the fire as we do; but hath a pretty device.  They make the body of the iron a great deall thicker then ours, which is boss,[190] and which opens at the hand, which boss they fil wt charcoall, which heats the bottom of the iron, which besydes that its very cleanly, they can not burn themselfes so readily, since the hands not hot.

    [190] Hollow.

They dry not out their linnens before the fire as we do:  they have a broad thing iust like a babret[191] on which we bak the cakes, only its of brass very clear, its stands on 4 right hight feet.  They take a choffer whiles of brass oftner lame,[192] filled wt charcoall, which they sett beneath the thing, on which they dry out their cloaths wery neitly.

    [191] Babret or bawbret or baikbred, kneading trough.

    [192] Earthenware.

We think fit to subioine heir a ridle or 2.  Your father got a child; your mother bore the same child and it was nether brother nor sister to you:  yourselfe.  A man married a woman which was so his wife, his daughter and his sister.  A man got his mother wt child of a lasse, which by that means was both his sister and his daughter, whom he afterwards not knowing married.

France thinkes it a good policy to height[193] the gold and silver of stranger nations, by that thinking to draw the money of al other nations to themselfes.  This gives occasion to that book we have sein called Declaration du Roy et nouveau reglement sur le faict des Monnoyes tant de France que estrangeres, donne par Lowis 13, an 1636.  This book at least hath 500 several peices gold and silver currant in France.  It specifies what each of them vieghs and what the King ordaines them to passe for.  First he showes us a great nombre of French peices of gold wt their shapes what they carry on both sydes:  then the gold of Navarre that passes:  then the Spanish and of Flanders, as the ducat and pistoles:  then of Portugal, as St. Estienne:  then the English Rosenoble passing for 10 livres 10 souse:  the noble Henry of England for 9 liv. 10 souse:  English Angelot for 7 livres:  the Scotes and English Jacobuses, which we call 14 pound peices, as also the Holland Ridres for 13 liv:  that Scots peice thats wt 2 swords thorow other, crouned the whol is 13, the halfe one 6 liv. 10 souse (it hath, salus populi est suprema lex):  the new Jacobus, which we cal the 20 shiling sterling peice, 12 fra:  then Flandres gold.  The Scotes croune of gold, which hath on the one syde_ Maria D.G.  Regina Scotorum_, passes for 4 livres 5 souse.[194] Then he hath the Popes money, which hath Peter and Paul on the one syde and the Keyes, the mitre and 3 flies on the other, some of it coined at Avignon, some at Rome.  Then the gold of Bologne, Milan, Venise, Florence, Parma, Avoye, Dombes, Orange, Besancon, Ferrare, Lucque, Sienne, Genes, Savoye, Geneve, wt that about the syde, lux oritur post tenebras:  Lorraine,