May 23 sti vet. June 2 sti. no. 1645. John Bargraue

On the day and yeare aboue written, (I (being May 23, Fryday Gouernor to 2 young gentle-men, viz MrMr. Alexander Chapman, and MrMr. John Richards, hauing likewise wthwith mee a Companion of theirs MrMr. John Raymond my nephew) tooke Sea at Douer abowt 8 at night in the packet boate, haueing some Germans, English and Scots aboard wthwith vs, by reason of a Scottish Leard that came ouer, wee had a Conuey wthwith vs by the Admiralls appoyntment, caled the Speedy=-post: a smale vessell of some 10 per of Owrdnance, wchwhich we lost before morning, the wind being Easterly. Abowt 2 in the morning wee came to an anker at Sharlees poynt, a league or more from Cales; and about 7 in the morning wee wayed anker and went in to the Harbor, and so on shore at Cales, \\\ where hauing first our portmantles opened and searched, wee were had to the Maiors howse whoe being not within, we went and Cales tooke up our Inn Au Lion D'argent. On Saturday I saw the Duke of Orleans, Generall to the ffFrench army, consisting of neere vpon 40000 men (as there I was told) he was then going owt to the army not being aboue 8 leagues off: many of his souldiers were in the towne neere vpon 100 waggons of amunition as many mules laden, wthwith seuerall troopes of horse and galantry, and yet I found the towne very quiet. This This day being Whitsonday eaue, we went to the great Church where was a solemne [  ] Pentecoste. procession and good musick. On the Sunday morning wee went thither againe, and on the after noone wee went to see, the first the Nunnerie and its chappell, then the Monasterie of the Franciscan Fryers. One of them (wchwhich cold speake English but no Latine) treated vs courteously, and wnwhen wee were in, he first locked the doore after vs, and then he shewed vs the library, hall, chappel, conclaue and dormitories, wchwhich are hard places to sleepe on wthwithowt any bedding, but only a bedsted wthwith girts and canuess. thayThay goe wthwith haire next to theire skinn, and bare footed except on the soale. theThe whole place was darke and meane except a hansom walke in the garden, theire whole number he saide was but 17 but that there was 30000 of that order in the Christian world.

Then wee went to another Conuent caled the minorites, vulgarly minums wchwhich is an Order of another StSaint ffFrancis ie. StSaint Francis de Pole. Wee being in the Chappell, One of the order (an auncient man) being sweeping of it, came to mee and spake french, but I answered him in Latine, (hauing not as yet the french Language) he replyed in Latine that I was welcome. Then I demaunded whether it was not lawfull for vs to see theire Colledge, then he locked the dore and Carryed vs through a vestry into the Cloisters, and so all ouer the howse, in theire Conclaue there he told mee that once a weeke at the leaste, euery one of the (being but 14) were bound bound to come priuately and before a picture there of StSt. Fran: de Pole to confess theire sinns, and aske pardon.

The other orderorders are bound to touch no mony, nor eate any thing but what is giuen them, and thay them selues begg abowt and theire habitation meane. This last order Hath some indowment, (but smale as he told mee) may take as much mony as you will giue, Eate plentifully but yet only of the fish, and theire habitation hath some beauty and theire lodgings are good and easie. He of the Capuchion order spake somewhat disgracefully of this other order, saying thay were weake, and not \\\ strengthned to endure enough for Christs sake: at his beds feete stood a picture which I taking it to be StSt. Francis, he told me no but that is was a brother which was beatified some 60 yeares agoe, and he esteemed him as his peculiar sainct.

The minorite I spake wthwith was a scholler, and a preist, speaking very ready Latine, he saide thay eate no flesh, nor eggs, nor butter, but hauing but smale meanes thay might take mony, so I gaue him that kept the dore 8 sous for wchwhich he was very thankefull: he told me that StSt. Francis de Pole liued but abowt 100 yeares since and so vp and told mee of many miracles that hee did, all wchwhich are in new pictures in the hall. This man spake something disgracefully of the other order, saying thay were not learned but ignorant men, and did many things indiferentely through theire ignoraunce.

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On the 28 of Aug. I went to visit Father I visited the Jesuits. 28 Aug. Carew the English, and Father Sproud the Scottish Jesuite, Young Mr Rickad Sr Peter Rickads sonn of Kent in England being my companion: thay had vs vp into the library (wch is the topp of theire high building) there wee fell vpon seuerall points. Thay saide those of the church of England were Jouinians because thay not onely preferd marriage before virginety, but allsoe abhord virginety and the vowing of it; Then Father Sproud tooke downe a peece of St Hierom and turn'd to his first booke against Iouiniā where he shewed me St Hieroms words wch onely amounted to this, that he preferred virginety before wedlocke, to if it cold be faithfully kept: I told him that St Paule saide so too, and so did I too: But I cold finde nowhere either in St Paule or Antiquity that made for the vowing of virginety, because it is the guift of god and not in the powre of Man: Hee wold not beleeue that wee were only against the vow but allso against virginety it selfe, especially in preists, vppon wch I cited him the 32 Article of our Church, wch is that a Preist 25 Or any other Christian may or may not not marry as they shall iudge it best to serue serue to godliness.

Then wee fell vppon transubstantiation, Then to the vse of reliques and Images, Then to Inuocation of saintes, &t, Vpon which thay tooke downe Gwalteri Chronologiā, And owt of that booke thay wold maintaine all theire tenets, commending the booke exceedingly, and saying yt it neuer was nor cold be answered by the Protestants. I answered, that a booke of that nature, it being a chronologie ought well to be examined before it be credited, and to examine such a booke wold require a greate deale of time, and therefore Gwalters authority preuailed nothing wth mee more then the Authority of Functius the Cronologer did wth them, whoe denieth, and Indeauoreth to Prooue by the course of time, that St Peter neuer was at Rome And then how shold the Pope be his sucsessor.

The greate bell then rang to a procession wch caused me to aske them whether that bell did not call thē, and so wee might be some hindrance to thē, thay said no, thay were not tyed to goe to processions, and indeed I neuer saw thē or the Pere Orators at any Procession: I had a desire to see the procession and so tooke my leaue. Thay are exceeding courtious.

Feb. 18. being Sunday, One Monsr Christien an Alman, and an Hugonot, Gouerner to The Hugonots or reformes Tēpleak Mr Crauen an English young gentleman went wth mee and Mr Richards vnto Bion some 2 miles (or little more) frō Orleans, where the Hugonots or Reformes (The Papists call them Hugonots, Thay call them selues the reformed) Haue a meeting place, wch thay call Temple: The place is like a gentile barn smale barne, wth 3 or 4 little glass windowes, no steeples, nor bels, nor Communion table or Alter, nor font, nor pewes nor anything like a Church but a pulpit, a little raysed wth 3 stepps. There are formes all in the middle for the women, and seats round abowt for the men: with 67 On L long seate parted frō the rest For the Ministers and the Elders. The number of peple there was abowt 300, some of condition and quality, there being 2 coaches and 4 or 5 Caroches. The Order of seruice was Thus.

First an old man in a blewish purple suit (in the place of our clarke) reade a chapter owt of St Mathew. Then he sett a psalme (wch are turned into verse wth noates to them as ours are but of another tone) after that he read the cōmandements naming the 20 chapter of Exodus where thay are written. that donn The Minister came owt of a little dore wch goeth in to a kinde of study. Hee went into the Deske or pulpet. There first he reade a prayer owt of a little book that he hellheld in his hand (standing vpright the people some standing some kneeling and none sitting) Then he sett a psalme, wch being sang he made a very short prayer of his owne concluding wth the Lords prayer Then named his Text being Rom. 6 chap 1 vers. Que dirons nous donc⸮ demourerons nous en peché a fin que grace abonde⸮ Ainsi n'aduienne. He spake as violently aginst the Papists and as plainly as one cold speake, wth to much action and vehemence in the whole course of his sermon, speaking so very fast that I cold not vnderstand him but some times wn his fury was ouer.

He was a young spruce young man, about 4 or 5 and twenty yeares of age: his habit black being a wide sleeued gotuff goune (like the bachelors of art at Cambrige, only it had a little rounde cape) like such as the Aduocats were in France, faced with silke, his he [ ] had very long hare, and on his hatt (wch was on his heade all sermon) long black broade ribonds, so that he did not looke like a Puritan but like a blade. His sermon (for all that I cold vnderstand) was more words then matter, more of action and voice then of solid substance and reason. In diuerse things he iustly accused (I thinke) the Papists but he rayused some arguments for thē wch he did not thoroughly answere. His sermon Ended. heHe reade another prayer owt of the forme of prayer in the little booke, putting in his prayer for the Duke of Orleans and his Lady and family: for the mayer and Esthenies of the City &t then ended with the Lords prayer, then sett a psalme wch Theire Christning of a child donn there was a childe to be Christned, This young minister was godfather so he came owt of the deske, and another minister went vp (a grauer man abowt 40 yeares of age) On the side of the deske is a shelfe, on which all the

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Sermon time there stood a siluer yewer full of water and a towell laide ouer it. There was first a long prayer or two read. A seruant maid broth in the child (being all alone) and youe hauing a fine cloath ouer it and on the face a noasegay, shee gaue the childe to a gentle woman that was Godmother, and the godmother gaue it to the minister that was godfather, whoe hellheld it (the godmother standing by) all the time of prayers before the deske. The prayers being ended the minister came owt of the deske and one of The elders powred wate into his hand (as mutch as his hand cold hold) wch hee powred on the childs face naming the childe saying Je vous baptise au nom Dede Dieu le pere le fils et le sprit Sainct, Amen. And so the baptisme ended wthowt any other prayers. Then the younger man went into the deske and repeated the beleefe and saying a prayer concluding wth Pere nostre, He gaue the blessing, and so wee parted.

There were a cople asked for the bands Bands of matrimony asked. of Matrymonie wch is the same with ours in England and so likewise in the Church of Rome.

In the midst of the latter prayer that he read he put in some petitions for a woman that was sick wch desired the prayers of the congregation